Excerpts from CWG Weekly
Bulletins 379-381
On “Life’s Gifts and
Tragedies” (by N.D.Walsch)
[From Bulletin 379:]
There
is no such thing as `time,' therefore the Being that You Are takes All Forms At
Once. It is merely a question of which Form you are paying attention to,
which Form you are choosing to experience, in that part of Always that you call
Now.
The Formulation of Brahman that called itself the people in
This is all part of a holy process that CwG calls "God godding", or,
if you please, Brahman Being. Being what? Being everything.
All at once. Being life. Being death. Being good. Being bad. Being fast, being slow; being up, being down;
being big, being small; being male, being female; being all of It. Being, literally, All Of ItSelf All At Once.
Phew. Okaaaay...
So what does that mean about how we, here and now, are experiencing life? You
tell me.
No, I mean that literally. You tell me. By your thoughts, your words, and your
actions, you tell me, every day of your life, what that means. You are also
telling yourself. You are literally telling your own mind what to think about
all this. You're doing it right now. Watch yourself. You are reading this, and
you are telling your own Mind what to think about what you're reading. Or, you
are saying to yourself, "I just don't know what to think."
Translation: Nothing has any meaning save the meaning you give it.
Now, let me say here that I embrace the Upanishadic tradition and teaching of
Atman---the Soul; a part of us that lives forever, retaining its Essence and
dropping its Individual Expression of that Essence during Samadhi (Oneness with
the All), then picking up its Individual Expression again, then dropping it
again, over and over through all Eternity in a Divine Rhythm that perpetuates
Perpetuity Itself.
I embrace the notion that the purpose of it all is to allow God to know Itself in its own experience, as I have said before. This is
done through the process of Individual Souls evolving and experiencing more and
more of what they Always Are. I believe that Souls pick and create the Right
and Perfect circumstances allowing them to do this.
To put all this simply, some Souls "die" and some Souls
"live" because it is perfect for them to do that in that portion of All
Time that they call Right Here, Right Now. When they "die" they
realize that they have not "died" at all, but continue living
forever. Then they decide (after reemerging from the moment of Samadhi) what
aspect of Who They Are they wish next to experience---either as their "old
self" (the person they were before they "died") or as a new and
other self (the concept known as reincarnation as another individual being).
Explaining this further, I understand that souls have the ability to return to
the Timeline of Forever Always at any point, in any Form they wish---including
the Form they just left behind. Put simply, you can live as the "you"
that you imagine your Self to be again and again, experiencing Life in a
hundred thousand different moments in a hundred thousand different ways, until
you have experienced and expressed the Self in this particular Form at the
level of absolute Divinity. And even then you can keep coming back to
experience that as long as you wish.
Or...you can come back in another Form (i.e., as another person) and experience
Life in that Form as many times as you wish. You ultimately realize that you
are Life in All Forms All The Time. You are Always
All, and you are
In other words, you are God, godding.
[From Bulletin 380:]
We must […] consider Life's
Four Fundamental Questions from the standpoint of the Mind AND the Soul, not
the Mind alone. How to do that---how to
"access
the Soul"---is explored in When Everything Changes, Change Everything. […]
When considered from this
expanded perspective (that is, the perspective of the Mind and Soul looking at
Life together), I answer those four questions
this way:
1. Who am I?
I am an Individuation of
Divinity. I am a Singularization of The Singularity. I am God, manifested in
physical form in this present lifetime as a human
being named Neale.
2. Where am I?
I am in the Realm of the
Physical (as opposed to the Realm of the Spiritual).
3. Why am I where I am?
I am in this Realm in order
to express and experience what I know my Self to be when I am in the Realm of
the Spiritual. The Realm of the Spiritual is
also known as the Realm of Knowing. The Realm of the
Physical is also known as the Realm of Experiencing. I have entered this
Realm---this place within
the
I am being all that God is.
This may take (and, indeed, does take) more than one lifetime.
4. What do I choose to do
about that?
Knowing where I am and why, I
now choose to use this particular lifetime to experience as much of my Self, to
express as much of the essence of Who I Am,
as I can. In order to do this, I must first know Who I
Am. So the first part of my journey here on earth has been devoted to the
process of remembering
my True Identity, and the second part has been devoted
to the process of expressing that Identity. […]
Accepting our True Identity
is not easy because, as I said earlier, it flies in the face of everything we
have been taught and everything we have experienced.
The second is true because
everything we have experienced is based upon everything we have been taught.
Our job, then, is to
"undo" the teachings. We must say to our fathers and mothers, and to
all those who have taught us about this life, "you
are wrong.
You have been mistaken. It is
not like what you think it is like. You are not who you think you are. I am not
who you told me I am."
Only then can we begin to
make some sense out of life. Only then can we comprehend Life's gifts and
Life's tragedies. Only then can we
Understand that, in truth,
there are no "tragedies"; that the idea of "tragedy" itself
is a mistaken notion, because we do not live in a runaway Universe,
an out-of-control environment. In fact, the opposite is
true. We live in a place (the Realm of Physicality) where everything makes
perfect sense, and is
perfectly manifested, to produce the next perfect opportunity
for Divinity to express and experience Itself as Perfection Itself.
When we understand this, we
walk the earth as a Master. We perceive things as The Buddha did. We embrace
"tragedy" as The Christ did (as an opportunity---yes,
the perfect opportunity---for "salvation" of
the Self, and, by example, of the whole human race). We see deeply into life as
The Prophet did.
Now it's important that I
define what I mean by the word "salvation" as I have used it above. I
am not talking about salvation as in "saving the soul from
everlasting damnation." There is no such thing as everlasting
damnation. I am talking about salvation from not knowing and experiencing Who
You Really
Are, and therefore living a
life that has nothing to do with that, and which, in turn, must then
necessarily contain and include a great deal of suffering.
Suffering is never the result
of pain. Suffering is the result of a misunderstanding of what is going on.
Many mothers giving birth, for instance, do not
"suffer"
from the pain of childbirth, but, indeed, rejoice in it even as they experience
it, for they realize Who They Are and What They Are Doing Here.
So, too, was it with Jesus,
who understood that, metaphorically, he was "giving birth" to a new
kind of humanity. As was The Buddha, who taught us about
the end of suffering. Life, he said, is suffering...only
because we don't understand Life. Life is suffering not because that's what
Life intrinsically
is...but because we do not comprehend what Life
intrinsically is. When we do, suffering dissolves, and is no more.
Now this whole series began
with a question: Why do some people suffer and die,
and some people not? The answer to the first part of that question, in
metaphysical terms, is that some people "suffer" because
they do not understand why things are happening the way they are happening. The
answer to the
second part of that question is that no people
"die." Death is not possible, given Who and
What You Are.
When you understand this, you
say, along with masters who have said it before: "Death, where is thy
sting?" You do not fear death, nor do you fear life.
Nor do you mourn the death of
others as a "tragedy," but, rather, see death as a turn in the path
on every individual Soul's journey; a turn that is perfectly
designed to lead that Soul to exactly where it wishes to go
next, as its own evolutionary process continues.
This is another way of saying
that nothing can happen to the individual Soul that is not perfectly placed
within the life and experience of that Soul,
and, thus, agreed to by the Soul Itself.
And THIS is another way of
repeating the extraordinary wisdom of Conversations with God when it said:
"There are no victims and no villains."
Suddenly, Life begins to make
sense. We begin to realize that there is a Larger Process in place of which we
have lost sight. Something Bigger is going
on. The Soul of the individual, as well as the
Collective Soul of humanity, is continually birthing itself anew in every
moment. It is becoming. It is
evolving. And...like that candle
flame we talked about last week...it is changing form even as it is expressing
what it is "now."
A flame is never the same
from one nano-second to the next. The nature of a flame itself is that it
"destroys" itself, it burns itself up, even
as it is
"being"
What It Is. Can a flame be said to be suffering because it is extinguishing
itself even as it illumins? Each illumination of the flame is the result
of its own "burning up." Is the burning up,
then, less perfect than the illumination?
You now understand "Life
Gifts and Life's Tragedies," and can, at last, make some sense of it all.
[From Bulletin 381:]
This is another thing that it is important to remember. We are not only
"evolving" our Selves, we are
"evolving" the entire human race. What we
are doing, we are doing not only for us, but
for every other living member
of our species. What we are going through, we
are going through not only
for us, but for all other people. We are
creating "memes," we are
producing data, we are sending information into
the pool of collective
consciousness from which every sentient being
extracts its knowingness.
[…]
For now, let me end this three-part series
with this observation:
Everything "bad" that is occurring---from the earthquake in
terrible explosion in the mine in
Process by which All of Life evolves. I know
that it is very difficult to
see that "silver lining" when you are
one of the people whose husband or
wife or child died in one of those
tragedies...and so I also want to talk
next week or in future weeks just ahead about
the process of grieving, and
how that can be affected and facilitated by
moving to higher and higher
levels of spiritual awareness.