Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Your Real Nature Prior to Manifestation, Part Three

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FROM A SITE VISITOR: [Received 22 March 2008] A woman in my office sent me a copy of what you wrote today. When I read the words from the woman who said she’d never been anything but Waynes wife, I froze I felt paralized. I got a chill because I’ve felt the same way since my husband passed. You helped her in a retreat but I can’t get off work to come there. I feel like my life has been on hold since his funeral and that has been years ago. I go through the motions, but I do not feel like I am even there. I want peace. I had to get a job and I got busy with work and church but here I am years later and nothing has changed. I have read some other things from you but I can’t begin to understnd what youre talking about but if you helped her I figure its worth asking. Can you help me?

F.: Your Real Nature precedes the false nature that is mistakenly considered real as a result of programming and conditioning and enculturation and domestication. On some level, You know that Real Nature, but most persons will seldom understand it.

Instead, they will be driven by their false nature, and in the process, the agendas of false personas will drive persons into a state of misery wherein the assumed identities will make demands and will have desires that will never be met consistently;

will suffer fear as a result of wanting a temporary identity to last forever while sensing on some level that it cannot; will be co-dependent with the “others” who are required for the illusion of any persona to be sustained; and will vacillate between states of seeming happiness and supposed misery as false identities come and go.

To consider the Real Nature which few persons will ever understand, compare that pre-manifestation state to an adult whose earliest memories are limited to events that happened after the age of three. Would that adult even consider the possibility that years one through three did not happen, relative speaking, because there is no memory of them? Of course not.

Similarly, you slept last night and then awoke this morning. When you awoke, you again became aware of the fact that you are. Yet you are also aware of the fact that you were even prior to awakening.

And even if you were not aware of the consciousness during that sleep state, you can understand that the consciousness was present. It saw to it that your heart pumped blood, that your lungs circulated air, and that the brain oversaw all of the other bodily functionings.

Whether awakening from sleep or considering the pre-memory years of ages one to three, it is not questioned at all that there was an existence prior to the memories from age three onward or from the period prior to awakening this morning.

Such is also the case with THAT Which You Truly Are: there is no memory of any pre-manifestation existence because there was no “one” to experience those events, but that does not mean that such an existence was not fact. Nor does it mean that you cannot understand that/THAT.

To answer such question as “Who (What) Am I, Really?” and “Where did I come from?” and “How did I come into being?” you are invited to contemplate this question: where were you in the days prior to conception?

If the manifestation unfolded in a spontaneous fashion in alignment with Your Real Nature rather than aligned with the lies and self-deceit and images and phoniness of persons who are taking their false nature to be real, then how could the peace possibly be interrupted by the comings and goings of bogus roles that are assumed by persons or assigned by cultures that are filled with persons who think that they are awake when they are really asleep and dreaming? Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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