Before time
began, before space began, bliss was.
Consciousness was. Consciousness became
an idea. The idea became an intention. Consciousness banged the universe into being
and time began, space was created and the game was on. Consciousness expanded.
Eons of time
passed as the young universe ballooned, suns coalesced and planets formed. Life arose and began its long road of
evolution. All of these differentiations
were local vibratory tunings of unitary consciousness as the great tapestry
unrolled. The universe and the abundance
of forms that make it up are elaborations, articulations and permutations of
the one eternal consciousness. They are
all patterns of vibration. They are
generated out of sheer delight, a bravura outpouring of orchestrated, exuberant
bliss, the joy of creative self expression.
And so it continues.
Absolute
stillness has not existed since time began.
All that is is vibratory in nature.
One so-called “thing” differs from the next only in its frequency of vibration. A rock vibrates at a lower frequency than a
plant. A plant vibrates at a lower
frequency than an animal. Each
representative of each “kingdom”, mineral, vegetable and animal vibrates within
a certain band of frequencies. There can
be individual variations within the band.
Within the animal kingdom, humans are capable of the broadest variation
of vibratory level. Depending on a
human’s mentality, he or she may vibrate at the level of an earthworm or of an
angel or at any point in between.
Humans are
the most self conscious of animals.
Humans are conscious that they are conscious. Humans are learning that they can change
their level of consciousness. They can
change their vibratory rate. When their
vibratory rate is changed, the individual’s experience of life is changed. Perceptually, they live in a different
world. This world-changing is open to
choice. Humans may decide upon the
nature of the world they choose to live in.
They have always had this ability but few realized that they did.
It is time to
tell a story about human life.
The primal
consciousness that some of us call “God” had an idea. It wanted to experience love. Love is like tennis, it takes two. So God banged out a universe and time
began. Eventually, consciousness was
manifested in organisms and, finally, in humans. Consciousness has always been unitary. There is only one but this one can be
playful. It can play hide and seek with itself to experience the pleasure of
reunion. It creates characters from
itself and plays are performed so the characters can experience all of the
emotions. It is like an author acting all
of the parts of his own play. At the end
of each play, the characters forget the play by dying out of it. In the green room, the spirits of all of the
characters remember the play and what they have learned from it. They concoct another script based on what
they wish to experience and to learn.
They switch roles to accomplish that.
The father might become the baby girl and the mother, the mean uncle. Then, they lapse into forgetfulness and get
born into the new play. Now, remember
that all of the “characters” are really the One. This One is the recipient of all of the
experiences enjoyed by all of the “characters”.
That is the whole point of the game.
It has been going on for eons and it is still fun. (Some deities have a
weird sense of humor.)
You and I are
two of the characters in this repertory company. We have chosen the circumstances of our lives
to benefit our own spiritual evolution.
In other words, we have set up the stage or playing table to rig the
game in favor of our having the experiences that we desire. Once we have been born into the game, we have
free will and the ability to create our own reality within the context of the
rigged game. This is all being done in
benevolence. Remember that we chose
it. There are no victims although some
do play villains. It is all done in love
although the whole process may be incomprehensible to humans. It can be, and often is, a horror show. It is for me, too.
Obviously,
this story is a myth. A myth is a
teaching story. Its purpose is to
communicate principals and broad ideas in ways that the listener can
comprehend. It is told in a
cartoon-simple way to dramatize truths.
In a literal sense, it is not true.
In the metaphorical sense, it is.
The ideas to take away from it are these: The universe consists of consciousness. This one single field of consciousness
manifests as patterns of vibration. The
patterns of vibration are perceived by humans as a world of solid objects and
entities. Humans are conscious of being
conscious. In this, “they are made in
the image of God”. Consciousness can
evolve which means it can grow into greater complexity and subtlety.
There is an
intention toward the evolution of consciousness at the heart of the
universe. Evolved consciousness is
marked by the realization that there is only one and that that one is love
which is experienced as bliss. Before
the beginning, there was bliss. The end
game is bliss as the universe crunches back into stillness. It is a grand adventure that stretches from
simple to simple. But here is the
difference. The child, in her innocence,
is simple. The sage, through her carefully observed
experience, attains simplicity. We call the simplicity of the sage
“wisdom”.
The purpose
of creation is the evolution of God.
