I Love You Just Because

"I love you just because
I love you just because
Just because I do, my darlin'

Emotions more than words can help me say
I love you, baby, just because you're you
Just because you're you" Just Because, Anita Baker

I have a crush on this guy I've been seeing on the bus for the last month or so. We've been getting on at the same time. I've been doing my best to catch the same bus each day for obvious reasons. (wink)

This morning I thought he'd missed the bus and turned my attention elsewhere. Then I saw he had got on after all. He looked so cute in his woolly hat. He sat a few seats in front of me and was oblivious to the doting looks I was giving him. Nor did he notice I was sitting behind me.

I have never spoken to him. He's smiled at me a few times and I have smiled back. One day last week he even sat beside me. I felt like a school girl all excited that my crush was right beside me. Why do I have this crush on a man who probably has no idea how I feel? No reason. Would I go out with him if he asked me out? That's the strange thing. It's not a love wanting to be with the other, it's a love that is content to love from a distance. I have no desire to have a relationship with him. I love him just because.

I have had other types of crushes that I have wanted to develop into relationships, but this is different. My crush for the man on the bus is like an opportunity to love because it feels good.

But why him? I see many guys each day, why him? I have to admit I have no idea why. I just do.

I have a feeling I shall soon be changing my bus route which will mean I might never see him again. Will that change anything? No. I will always have a crush on him.

This type of love is how I believe Source loves. It's a "just because" love. It's a love that wants nothing back but loving for the sake of love. Some days I wake up and hear the inner voice telling me how much I am loved. Imagine having someone in your head telling you how wonderful you are? This morning the voice told me over and over again how much I was loved. I thought to myself, "wow, someone has a crush on me too."

Having a crush on someone feels wonderful. But knowing someone has a crush on me is superb!

I love you all just because.

Enocia

Being Formless Self- Collapsing Forms Visualisation

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." (Genesis 1: 1-2)

Here's a lovely visualisation that came to mind yesterday, which I'm going to have fun with from time to time.

I am sitting in a chair in the living room. I suddenly notice the walls of the room melting away. Everything in the room has vanished. The house is gone. There is no street, no cars, no neighbours, nothing. The whole world has disappeared. Come to think of it, the whole universe has gone. I'm in complete darkness.

I feel buoyant as if I'm floating in space. Do I still have a body? Nope, my body has disappeared. Now this is really odd. I don't have a body and yet I am aware I exist. How can this be?

Where am I?
I am here. I am here.
Here, where?
Here, everywhere.

I am a formless weightless blob that is all present and very much aware of itself. I am all alone. I am awareness and I am all alone. Wow this is wonderful! I am freedom. I am being. I am bliss. I am eternity. I am.

Suddenly I'm back in the living room sitting on the same chair. Hey, my body is back in form. That's odd. Very odd. Was that a dream? Am I dreaming now? Let me close my eyes for a few seconds. Hello, I am timeless awareness again. OK, let's see what happens when I open my eyes. I'm aware of having a body in time and space and separated from the furniture. I can see houses and cars outside so my neighbours exist. I alternate between states: timeless and time/space. Cool!

Hey, how come it feels like I am the same in both states? In the realm of time and space I am aware that I am Enocia. In the realm of timelessness, I am aware that I am Enocia. Aha, I know! My awareness is nothing more than my perspective of formless Self. My awareness is my own personal take of eternity. So when I seem to be in a reality of forms, I must remember that I am still the one formless Self expressing mySelf. No matter what is going on I am the formless Self.

Let's say I'm in a crowded room. There are two ways I can choose to see myself. I can see myself as separate from other people; this perception of self immediately limits me to an identity of physicality. Or, I can treat my visible form as a perspective of the infinite formless Self. As the formless Self I no longer confined to time and space. As formless Self, there is only me passing myself off as others; there is only one formless Self.

The spiritual path for me is about remembering that at every moment I am the formless Self. I have always and will always be formless Self. I am sometimes distracted by forms and the senses which give me a false sense of self that I am the physical body in time and space; and that I am separate from all. When I am distracted I act like a mortal. This Collapsing Forms Visualisation is a reminder that all exists within formless Self. Take everything away and you are left with formless Self, therefore, formless Self is the only real and my true identity. Whenever there is a temptation to see myself as finite self, I simply collapse forms to nothing and be me - formless Self.

How does this realisation work out in practice?

When you are formless Self you are infinity and eternal. You can't be infinite and finite at the same time; just like you can't feel fear and love at the same time. When I am infinity whatever experience is passing off as finite has no reality. Let's say I suddenly feel pain. That is false identification with the limited form. I can quickly overturn this feeling by collapsing my world into formlessness: by visualising myself as awareness. The pain disappears into the nothing that it is.

I believe this visualisation is a shortcut method of being the void that is formless Self. Just collapse all forms and be the formless, for all forms are nothing but formless Self in disguise.

I am Formless Self.

All my love,
Enocia

For previous articles see Vector8 writings

The Answers are Everywhere

I haven't been to the cinema in a long while. I tend to watch old movies on television. Yet I like to keep up to date with what is going on at the movies, which actor is playing what role. I noticed recently a poster for two movies out: one starring Barbara Streisand and another with Brad Pitt et al. They might be interesting movies to watch; if not, at least to read about.

I've also noticed a poster for the British actress, Jill Halfpenny, marketing her new role in the stage musical show, Chicago. I've seen Chicago at the theatre, which I think is excellent. Good on you Jill for landing that role! Will be interesting to read about her.

I'm on my way into town on the bus. It's a long bus ride and I'm settling into either falling asleep or falling asleep. A man behind says, "excuse me, would you like a magazine?"
"Er, yes please," I say.
"Here you go," he says. "Have a good read."

On the cover of the magazine are pictures of Jill, Barbara and Brad Pitt with reference to his latest movie. I spend my bus journey reading about the movies and about Barbara Streisand's perspective on her latest role and about Jill Halfpenny.

Isn't it wonderful how you only need to have the intent and Source arranges a situation where the need is met?

After I finished reading the magazine I left it on the seat. There must be someone else out there who is just as curious about Brad Pitt et al.

As for me, I feel so much happier now that my desire has been fulfilled. (smile)

With love,
Enocia

The Mortal is Immortal

I wrote in a previous article that man is Spirit Man but he is dreaming he is a natural man/mortal, who can go through pain and suffering. Many of us have been programmed since birth to take on various beliefs about life in order to be able to survive in this world. We are constantly looking for a cause of our suffering. Is it my thought that created this? Who do I blame? My social conditioning, my past life, what? Blame is irrelevant. The one Self that is Spirit having life is uncaused. In Him all that is good exists for eternity without beginning and end. As I am one with Self I am also uncaused. Therefore, my life has to follow the same pattern as Self.

Over the years, I have trained in many of the healing modalities in search of a cure for myself. The method that has worked for me has been realising that I am Spirit.

When I first started studying the book Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, I soon had the opportunity to put what I had been studying into practice. I scalded my finger while cooking. At first the finger was red and very painful. My beliefs/programming dictated that I should put the finger in cold water. Then I remembered who I am. I declared "I am Spirit." The finger stopped hurting and the redness disappeared. I was both a mortal and immortal in the same body: I was the natural man programmed to act in one way and the Spirit Man realising her identity which erased the effects.

Realising one is Spirit is one thing, but there is the tendency to blame one's thoughts or beliefs as the cause of one's experiences. For instance, last summer on one of my walks, I was stung by nettles. While I didn't accept I was responsible, I still apportioned blame to mortal programming in me which caused the redness and swelling. I was able to reverse the effects and my hand was healed. (For the full story see If It's Not Love, It's Not Real). That was my level of understanding at the time. Now I realise there is no cause in Spirit. I live in an uncaused universe that is Love, therefore Love can only be Love. I'm sure if my hand was to brush against nettles now I will have no reaction.

It is so easy to apportion blame. What were you thinking before this happened? Maybe there are negative energies around you. Maybe this or maybe that. I say there is no cause. Life is Love in manifestation.

You are feeling sick. No cause. The Uncaused is all there is.
You are in lack. No cause. The Uncaused is all there is.
You are depressed. No cause. The Uncaused is all there is.

Imagine a world where we stop blaming beliefs and society, we stop judging others, we stop judging ourselves, and simply say "there is no cause." No matter what our beliefs and programming, there is no cause. The Uncaused is all there is. The Uncaused is eternal, infinity, love, truth, freedom, abundance, harmony and Good. We trust in the Uncaused to manifest a reality that is all Good

I am Spirit living in an uncaused universe. All there is is Love. No matter what is happening around me I blame no one. I simply affirm that there is no cause; meaning the uncaused eternal Spirit is the substance of the universe and what is of the uncaused is eternally good. What is not of the Spirit is a nothing, like the nettle reaction disappearing into a nothing.

I know this Reality exists now. Call it forth. Right where you are is Spirit. You could act like a mortal or you could be Spirit. What do you choose to be?

I am Spirit,
Enocia

Related article: The Uncaused

For other articles see Vector8 writings

Spirit Man, Natural Man and Gifts of the Spirit

"There was something formless and perfect
before the universe was born.
It is serene. Empty.
Solitary. Unchanging.
Infinite. Eternally present.
It is the mother of the universe.
For lack of a better name,
I call it the Tao.

It flows through all things,
inside and outside, and returns
to the origin of all things." Tao Te Ching, 25

"There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven." (1 Corinthians 15: 44-47)

Imagine if a drop of water in the ocean was to start asking questions about what it is and where it came from. Would that question arise? A drop of water is meaningless in the ocean. Only when a drop is separated from the ocean does it appear as a drop of water. How is a drop of water made manifest? How do you know that the ocean appears to consist of numberless drops of water? By dipping your hand in the ocean and watching them drip from your fingers. If you never dipped your hand in the ocean, would you ever be aware of drops of water? Does a drop of water have existence outside the ocean? Even if the drop had some kind of existence, does it change the nature of the ocean?

What I'm trying to say is that the formless Self/Tao is like the ocean. The question "who am I?" is irrelevant when you are Self. To ask the question is to create a false self outside of Self. Having a false self (or separate self) outside of Self will not change what already is. Self is complete and perfect. My knowledge or ignorance of Self will not change the nature of Self. Just like drops of water will not change the truth that the ocean is.

Self-realisation is acknowledging my identity as the One unchanging Self. Put another way, it is about realising that before the universe was, I am. There is no longer a need to ask "who am I?" There is no need to ask what my part in the plan is. I already know because I am Self. I only need to be who I am.

My actions are the movement of Self. When I am being myself I am being Self. We tend to think that when one has "negative" experiences you are separated from Self; and when we feel connected to Self we have positive experiences, whatever that is. Can this be true when Self is ever present? Surely Self is the same yesterday, today and forever.

"When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." (Isaiah 43: 2)

Isaiah is saying Self is always present no matter where you are or what you're doing, even if it might seem to be something "negative" as humans define negativity.

OK, so I now have the benefit of hindsight. I now know that when I, the personality who thought she had a separate self, was going through pain and suffering, Self was ever present. Is this new information useful? Does it change what I went through in the past? Of course it does. I now have a different perspective. I know that my real identity, Self, was/is untouched by human suffering because Self is incorruptible Spirit.

Paul has written "There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body." Spirit Man is the entire universe in form. Spirit Man has a "spiritual body." There appears to be a natural man who lives in a universe with a "natural body," or is there?

Let's go back to the pain and suffering I experienced in the past, who went through the experience of suffering? It was natural man going through those experiences. Spirit Man was untouched by suffering because He can only express what is like HimSelf. What is not of the Self is nothing; it did not happen.

How can something not happen when I have the scars to prove it? That is because you experienced life as the natural man who goes through disease, suffering, and pain because he believes them to be real. Natural man is programmed with the beliefs that man needs to eat, breathe and sleep in order to survive. Natural man believes the same food that makes him healthy will give him allergies or make him ill. Natural man believes he is his body, emotions and thoughts. Natural man believes his circumstances change according to what he thinks, feels or believes which manifests in his body as sickness or health. Natural man is no more real than the drop of water out of the ocean; or the self believing it had a different identity to the one Self.

Whatever is experienced as a separate self from Self doesn't exist. No matter what the situation, if it was experienced under the belief that you are operating with your own identity as a natural man, it doesn't exist. It never happened.

How can you be so sure of this? I can only speak from experience. When I was a child and involved in a car accident a voice, as clear as day, told me that what I was experiencing wasn't happening - it was all a dream. The voice was the totality of Self. If I had accepted what Self had told me as truth, I would have got up from the ground unaffected, as if the accident had never happened. Unfortunately, I was under the delusion that I was natural man experiencing an accident, which resulted in me having injuries and scars. Nevertheless, the way events unfolded left me in no doubt about the oneness of Self. (see Accident or Omnipresence at Work?)

I have spoken about Spirit Man versus natural man. In truth there is no natural man. Natural man is simply Spirit Man dreaming he is natural man. Natural man is Spirit Man dreaming he's a drop of water in the ocean when he is already the ocean. Natural man is Spirit Man forgetting he is the totality of Self. When one is "awake" one realises he is and always is Spirit Man. Spirit Man realises that natural man is a figment of the imagination.

The purpose of life, therefore, is to live as Spirit Man, which is undivided, whole and perfect. Spirit Man is Self: the ocean that has no awareness of drops of water. Thus, what is experienced as Self has to be like Self - eternal, beauty, truth, love, peace, abundance, freedom, infinity. What is not like Self, that is of natural man, is erased as if it never happened.

But natural man tries to convince Spirit Man that he is the real man. Natural man resists because he fears annihilation. It has never occurred to natural man that he is not losing anything but being who he actually is. It has never occurred to natural man that he is Spirit Man. Natural man will do all he can to assert his false identity. Spirit Man does not need to defend Himself against a nothing. As far as Spirit Man is concerned there is only Self. With persistence that your identity is Spirit/Self, natural man gives way and surrenders to his real identity as Infinite Self.

So I've realised that I am Spirit Man, how come what I created in ignorance have not been erased? How come my life hasn't miraculously been transformed? It is You as Spirit Man who needs to do the erasing. Huh? You, Spirit Man, know that what you created because you believed yourself to be natural man is not real, right? For Spirit Man reality to be made manifest, you Spirit Man have to be who you are.

Your life is a gift. If your life isn't going according to plan then you need to let the real life come into existence. To achieve this you have to be yourself. Being yourself is your purpose in life; it is your gift to humanity. You give yourself ideas about how to stay true to yourself. You are your own guide. You witness life transformed around you to one of joy, love, peace, freedom, truth, harmony and abundance. You witness what is not of Spirit erased as the nothing they are. As you remain true to Self and be yourself, you help to raise the "vibration" of earth, which is lifted to that of Spirit. You trust in yourSelf.

And another thing - you NEVER force your way on others who are not receptive. You trust that all is perfect as perfection is.

When Self is formless He is Spirit.
When Self is in form, He is Spirit Man.

I am Spirit Man,
Enocia

To Have All Give All

The principle of giving has now become very popular among the collective consciousness of humanity. There are even tax incentives to encourage people to donate money to charities. There are many shops now with a "buy one get one free" policy. Giving works on the principle that what you give away is increased and returns multiplied as in tithing 10% of your income which is multiplied. This is not the type of giving I am referring to in this article. "To have all give all" is a spiritual principle that has a deeper meaning beyond tithing.

I have recently been experimenting with signing my articles off as "EJ" instead of "Enocia" out of wanting to be more anonymous, if that is at all possible. I even considered making "EJ" my nom de plume. A friend who reads my blog left the following comments yesterday:

"I've noticed lately you are signing your posts as EJ. Please! go back to Enocia. It is much stronger. It is much more you.
They may be hundreds of EJ. But I know only one Enocia."

I could very easily have been offended and respond that how I sign my name is my business but I knew she was right. Not in terms of "Enocia" being me but I realised there was a bigger issue at stake. Enocia is not my birth name but the name I was inspired to choose after I was "born again" of the Spirit. Enocia also represents Vector8, which is the consciousness of Perfection. Perhaps one day I'll write more about Vector8.

The Journals represent how I apply spiritual principles and live as Truth and yet I am also aware that the website is not just about me but about us. The articles are copyrighted to indicate that I am the channel, but really anyone could have had these experiences and written these articles. Thus, my stories are our stories. My ideas are our ideas. There is only the one Source after all.

I am also aware that using a name that represents Vector8 is what Jesus means by the following:

"He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." (Matthew 10: 39)

In other words, to have all you have to give all including a name. Giving up my life means that my identity is not just confined to me but I am all. I don't just have my family, everyone is my family. My friends are not just people I know, everyone is my friend, though I may not consciously have met or spoken to everyone. My home is not just the UK, everywhere is my home. My name is not just my name but it belongs to everyone. What I write is not just for me but for everyone.

"The Master has no mind of her own.
She works with the mind of the people."Tao Te Ching, 49

When you have all it means you've effectively got access to Infinity. You are Infinity.

You are going for a walk and know that Infinity is taking the walk, can you get tired?
If you are a writer and know that Infinity is who you are, can you be stuck for ideas?
If you are Infinity can you ever be in lack?
Can Infinity be sick?
Can Infinity ever age?
Can Infinity cease to exist?

To live as Spirit is to give up all sense of personal identity and will and take on the Will of Infinity. It doesn't mean you won't have your own preferences and choices but you'll find what you love everybody will love, and it will therefore be in superabundance.

I want to thank you dear friend for reminding me that to have all I must give all. I am happy to be Enocia.

I am Infinity,
Enocia

For previous writings see Vector8 writings

The Realm of No Thoughts

"Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit." (Zechariah 4: 6)

"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." (John 6: 63)

I'm on a long walk. It's a bitterly cold evening, or so it would seem. I feel my hands getting colder and colder. I could put them in my pockets or wear my gloves but I prefer to try an experiment. Or rather, I'm being guided to try an experiment. What if I were to walk in silence and treat the lashing wind as nothing but thought forms? I am reminded of a few lines from the wonderful Psalm 46:

"The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." (Psalm 46: 6; 10)

The cold wind is the heathen raging. When the silence utters His voice, the earth (all thought forms) melt. In the Silence one is exalted; "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." There are no thoughts in Ultimate Reality. There are no thoughts in Spirit. Everything we behold as forms are Spirit in manifestation. When you experience forms for what they are with no thoughts, when you judge nothing, you have stepped into a reality that is pure Spirit.

As I feel the winds whipping my face I remain in silence. The wind loses its texture and its form. I stop feeling sensations. I cannot be sure whether I am hot or cold, I am neither. My hands that were frozen have changed form. The best way to describe them is they've thawed out and yet they are neither hot nor cold.

As I walk in silence I realise that I as Spirit don't care whether I walk for hours or days. It really doesn't matter as walking is as walking does. All is Spirit. I walk for an hour before I arrive at the bus station. I examine my hands again. There is a glow to them; and they feel softer and smoother as if I've applied moisturising cream.

I have another realisation. What makes people age and feel tired are their thoughts. People believe inspired and uplifting thoughts or reading inspirational writings can make you feel powerful. This is only true if the words are received in the Spirit of silence. When you read in silence the original intention behind the words come to life. Why? Because everything comes from the silence. The Silence is Life. At times the intent is lost by language and interpretations. But reading in silence without trying to make sense of what is being read is the equivalent of being in silence. In silence you are able to communicate perfectly as what you are reading is total. It is like seeing every angle of a problem. When you attempt to put silence into words you end up getting parts of the answer instead of the whole. Thus, when one reads in silence one receives the entirety of the teachings of Spirit sans beliefs, sans emotions, sans interpretations. You are reading with your whole being. You are Being.

To "be exalted in the earth" one experiences the world in silence. You observe the world in silence. Whether you are experiencing the weather it is in silence. For the weather is nothing but thoughts of humanity and consensus beliefs about temperature. If I can experience cold as neither hot nor cold, then climatic conditions are nothing but beliefs.

You realise that you've been living in Reality all along. It's simply a matter of shifting perspective:

From a perspective of beliefs, thoughts and power games to one of Spirit and Silence.
From thinking and analysing to being open and listening in the Silence.
From feelings and sensations to awareness as the Silence.
From reacting to situations to accepting situations as they are in Silence.
From belief to understanding in Silence.
From doing to being.

Life is Spirit and Spirit is experienced as the Silence.

I am Silence,
Enocia

Related article: What is Guidance?

Why You Must Be Born Again - A Metaphor

In the Gospel of John in the Bible, it is written that Jesus is approached by a Rabbi called Nicodemus who wants to discuss the miracles he's witnessed Jesus perform. Jesus says to him:

"Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." (John 3: 3)

What does Jesus mean by being "born again?" And why is it necessary?

As babies, each of us is living as the Spirit, the Presence that is without doctrines and beliefs. Babies are one with the Presence like a drop of water is one with the vast ocean. As babies grow up they are indoctrinated into the world of appearances and, before you know it, the child has absorbed worldly beliefs about his identity. The child believes he has a separate self from the one Self/Spirit/Presence. To be the unlimited Spirit, one needs to reawaken to the Spirit or be "born again." Being born again has nothing to do with religion. It is about awakening to the truth of the one loving Presence that is within and without. When you are conscious of the Presence, It is animated so it can work through you. You then realise that this Presence/Spirit is your real unlimited Self.

In the discussion, Nicodemus is confused about what being born again means.

"Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? 5: Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6: That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." (John 3: 4-6)

Who can blame Nicodemus for his lack of understanding? As humans, we experience birth and death, which is a fleshly existence. You can continue to experience birth and death for many lives and never be aware of the Presence. Just because you're no longer in a human form, you have passed away from the human experience, doesn't mean you're "born again." You could have just replaced one dream realm for another. To be "born of the Spirit" is being born again. It is the true purpose of life: to live in reality as the Spirit. When one is born again, it matters not where you find yourself as you will always be living as the Presence.

I had an experience two days ago which I believe is a metaphor for being born again.

A friend emailed me to say he was going to be at a particular bookshop and maybe he'll see me later. I emailed him that I might see him. It was obviously a tentative arrangement. That evening, I went to the bookshop and looked out for him but he wasn't there. I thought to myself, what's the point of getting attached to one friend when there are always so many new friends to meet. I decided to relax in the coffee area. A young woman came in with a baby. I listened to the baby gurgling away. He reminded me of the jazz singer, Louis Armstrong. I chuckled to myself. The baby was doing his own rendition of What A Wonderful World.

Soon the baby started crying. His mother tried to pacify him by breast-feeding, dandling, putting him on the floor, giving him a dummy, but nothing seemed to work. He just got more upset. All eyes were on the mother. The baby's cries attracted a member of staff, possibly the manager. She asked the mother what was wrong. The mother said she didn't know what was wrong but she assured the manager she was leaving shortly. Did she want hot water for the baby? The mother said no. Did she want her to carry the baby? The mother said no.

I knew there is only one Presence of Love that wants the best for everyone concerned. I knew the baby was perfectly OK. As soon as the manager had left I went over to the mother. I asked if I could help and offered to carry the baby. She agreed. I carried him and he stopped crying. He touched my face and lips. He was such a cute baby. I kissed his damp red cheeks and commended him on his lovely voice. I pointed out to him various sections of the bookshop. I took him to a woman sitting close by and she played with him. She fanned his face which he seemed to enjoy. When she left, I took the baby to another customer who played with him. Then I sat down next to his mother with the baby on my lap. He played with his mother's mobile phone and promptly put it in his mouth. He grabbed the menu and put that in his mouth. He was completely at peace.

His mother commended me on being so good with him, and asked if I had kids. I said I didn't have any. She said I had a magic touch. I felt it was time to return the baby to his mother. It was good timing because his father arrived. They'd been waiting for him. They left shortly after. While I never did catch up with my friend that evening, I made some lovely new friends.

Now, the above experience is a metaphor for the Spirit being awakened. You see the Spirit is ever present. If you're not aware of it, it doesn't change the truth that it is present, though ignorance might make the Spirit appear to be dormant. Man will go through life in ignorance: being happy one minute and sad the next, as is the nature of duality. When someone is aware of the Presence anyone who is receptive benefits.

If I wasn't aware of the Presence I probably would have been disturbed by the baby's cries or I might have left.

I was aware that the Presence is all Good and wants the best for everyone. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't my intention to bring peace to the bookshop as I already knew peace is. But for some reason I was inspired to help. I also knew that for the Presence to be of any benefit, one has to be receptive. While the baby was probably receptive, his mother was not. She was too busy trying the old tried and tested ways of baby care i.e. feeding, checking if he needed changing, cuddling or whatever. The moment she was open to other ideas I was able to help. I know nothing about babies, but I know the Presence of Love is all there is. All I needed to do was be the Presence of Love. In other words, I let the Silence/Presence work through me and the baby was calm which helped his mother, the rest of the customers and the shop staff.

When one is with an individual who is living as the Presence, you feel energised or you see the individual as magnetic, charismatic, peaceful, loving, magical or there is an aura about her. This means you're receptive to the Presence. Receptivity might lead you to be as curious as Nicodemus: you want to know what makes one individual have such presence. Since there is only the One Presence, curiousity awakens you to the Presence who will then teach you in a way that is right for you.

The Spirit is ever present. Just because an individual is aware of the Presence doesn't mean she is always able to bring peace and love to all. She may have an impact on someone living in America while her family will not reap any benefits. It's all about whether people are receptive or not, otherwise the world would be transformed in an instant. The Presence will never force Its ways on you.

While an individual's realisation of the Presence might benefit those who are receptive, in order to enjoy lasting benefits of bliss, love and to "see the kingdom of God" you must be born again. It is your desire to know the Presence that awakens the Presence. No one can awaken the Presence for you but you.

When Spirit is in form, one is "born again."
When Spirit is in form one is aware of the Presence.
When Spirit is in form one is the Presence.

Let me reiterate that to be born again has nothing to do with religion; it is a realisation of one's identity as the Presence of Love. You could choose to realise the Presence by following a religion or not.

One day you find yourself at a bookshop and you hear a baby crying. You are inspired to pacify the baby. The baby's mother believes you have the magic touch. Of course you have the "magic touch," you are the Presence.

I am Spirit,
Enocia

A World of Silence

"The Tao is infinite, eternal.
Why is it eternal?
It was never born;
thus it can never die.
Why is it infinite?
It has no desires for itself;
thus it is present for all beings." (Tao Te Ching, Written by Lao-tzu From a translation by S. Mitchell)

Inner Silence is showing me the difference between life as silence and life as having thoughts.

It seems like one can either create with thoughts i.e.dreaming events into place or you can be the silence. I believe we are not meant to think at all. The silence is man's true nature. Man fell from grace at the first thought.

Most people create by having the object or result in thought. According to the realm of cause and effects, like attracts like. Your thoughts attracts similar situations by synchronicity and before you know it you've created the situation. But there is no guarantee that that situation is for your highest good or it's not another empty dream. Still that's the normal way of creating.

Then there is Silence, a space of no thoughts, emotions and feelings, a space that knows nothing of cause and effects that exists outside of it.

Yesterday, before starting my journey home, I thought about what buses I needed. While I was thinking I saw myself getting into the first bus, getting off, catching another bus and waiting at the last stop for my final bus. The vision happened in an instant. If I followed this vision, it would mean taking a different route than I would have, not that I thought it would make much of a difference. I arrived at the bus station and sure enough the bus I had seen in my vision was already there so I got on. When I got off this bus there were several choices. The choice was made, the bus I'd seen again in my vision arrived so I got on. There was a bit of a delay for my last bus to arrive. I knew there was no cause to the delay, and where there is no cause, there is no delay, so I rested in silence.

Rewind. The night before I spoke to my mother about a friend I'd made on my bus travels and how I hadn't seen him for a while.

While I waited for my "delayed" bus, who should I see in another bus but the same friend I'd thought of the night before! I was too slow on the uptake to attract his attention, but at least I did see him. So there was no delay, I was in the flow of events according to my previous intention; no intention is ever lost in Silence.

What strikes me about how the Silence works is that the Silence is the intent and the events manifested. The Silence is of course Self. Self gives me a preview of events...well not a preview as such but shows me what has already happened. All I need do is follow Its trail.

Other ways Self works is She tells me what I should write about. I am often woken up in the middle of the night with the full article in my head which I run through. I also see myself writing it. I know it is already done. When I get to type it out I am only going through the motions, doing what has already been done, if this makes any sense.

I'm also guided as to what to post on websites and what to write on emails. I know when something is not of Self when it involves me thinking. This is when I let it go.

The other day I was editing an article when the computer crashed and didn't save it. It also got stuck. I thought "there is no cause" therefore the computer is not stuck. I was about to press ctrl-alt-delete and switch it off when the computer came back on. I went back to the article on the website and discovered it had been edited. I had obviously done it as formless Self. I guess it makes no difference whether I act as Self in form or formless Self. As my friend would say "it's much of a muchness." (smile)

It's wonderful to live as Silence and let things happen without thought. All I need to remember is that there is no cause. I watch the world without thoughts. I let feelings pass through with no thoughts.

Hmmm! A thoughtless world? A world of silence? Sounds good to me.

I am Silence,
Enocia

The Uncaused Self

"Everything comes from Intelligence. There is nothing but Unity; there is nothing but Freedom; there is nothing but Completeness; there is nothing but Totality." (The Science of Mind, by Ernest Holmes)

I have written in previous articles about the uncaused being. How can one live as the uncaused being? By realising that one's identity is the uncaused being and that there is nothing but the uncaused reality.

The uncaused being is Self. Self is not the self in myself. The uncaused, formless, Self has no beginning or end, It is ever-existing and knows nothing of cause or effect, time or space. The unconditioned Self is, therefore, not attached to anyone or thing. Self is consciousness. Self is also known as Presence.

We "live and move and have our being" in omnipresent Self. If you're one who looks for a tangible presence then you will not be aware of the presence of Self. Self is Spirit, thus, It cannot be experienced with the senses.

Because Self is everywhere, It is sometimes regarded as either the One or the "Us." Whether you think of Self as the One or "Us," Self cannot be divided. Self is always experienced in its fulness: One or Us.

While we as humans think of ourselves as having a self, in truth, there is no self. There is only the unconditioned, formless Self. Some may experience Self as a presence (though not discernible to the senses), but Self is not a possession that you can claim as yours. On the other hand, the totality of Self is yours, mine, and ours; for there is nothing but Self.

There have been many Masters who have realised that reality is Self. The biblical Jesus is an example. Jesus was expressing the totality of Self. He may have been more aware about his identity as Self than others but he is no more Self than you or I. Each of us is the totality of Self. Each of us might experience Self in our own unique ways but Self is always Self.

Let's take love as another example. There seems to be many expressions of love according to the individual's interpretation. No matter how one expresses love, it doesn't change the truth - the totality of love is always present. You cannot express a portion of Love because the nature of love is eternal, timeless, infinite and undivided; it's either all or nothing. You are either expressing love or you are dreaming.

The first time I experienced the Self in its totality was after being involved in a car accident. For a moment I was Consciousness, not a part of consciousness but Consciousness in its entirety. (see Accident or Omnipresence at Work?) I have since realised Self in inner silence. In silence, I am uncaused Being.

It makes no difference to Self what is going on in the human realm. A murderer might be regarded as having a low level of consciousness, while a saint might be regarded as being at a higher level of consciousness. As the uncaused Self, both levels of consciousness are irrelevant.

"The Lord is everywhere
And always perfect:
What does He care for man's sin
Or the righteousness of man?" ("Bhagavad Gita - The Song of God" translated by Swami Prabhavananda & Christopher Isherwood)

You are either being the Self or you are being not-Self. What is not of the uncaused Self is of no consequence; it is a nothing. You could be the most generous individual but if it is not Self expressing through you, your actions are nothing. When Jesus was called "good" his response was:

"Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God." (Luke 18: 19)

If you are not expressing Self you are dreaming.

To be the uncaused Self one has to let go of the idea that there is a self apart from Self. For generations, man has competed against Self, rejected Self, or been completely unaware of Self. Man's ignorance has not changed the truth nor will it ever change the truth: Self is.

Man can create new theories and doctrines about what Self is but it will not change the truth: Self is.

Being something other than the Self reminds me of the different breeds of dogs and cats. Man has created many pedigrees of dogs and some of these new creations can hardly move with the same grace and playfulness as their "ancestors." Yet these breeds are considered by some to be beautiful and entered into competitions. Just as I was writing this a headline in a newspaper was brought to my awareness about a breed of dog costing £1,000 each.

Some might argue that the breeders must have got their ideas from somewhere. It is possible the emergence of these pedigrees is man's search for perfection. Man is aware at a deep level that perfection is his true nature. In the world of mortals there is birth and death, health and sickness, beginning and end. In the eternal is immortality. Perfection is eternal. Can perfection be found in the temporal? I think not. Mortals' idea of perfection is not Self's idea of perfection, for while mortals strive for perfection, Self is Perfection.

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD." (Isaiah 55: 8)

It is also written in the scriptures:

"Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." (Psalm 16: 11)

When one realises that there is only the Uncaused Self, the Presence is both life and the "path of life." When Self is the "path" there is only one narrow way home; you are already home. Whether the experience is the same for everyone I can't say as we are all unique in our ways. All I can say is that if you find your ways are no longer like your old ways, don't panic. Relax. You're not going mad. You're simply in your right mind.

Life is Uncaused Self.

I am Uncaused Self,
Enocia

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Healing by Declaring "No Cause"

I have been focused recently on the principle of "no cause," which reveals that there is no cause and effect. In the realm of God which is the uncaused that has no beginning or end, everything is. On the other hand, you could be living in a caused universe of time/space, cause and effects, birth and death, and mortal beliefs.

I knew the uncaused to be true at an intellectual level. I was even being pushed from "within" to realise the uncaused as truth. I stalled for time as I knew it would blow so many of my theories apart. But I didn't have a choice in the matter and I've accepted the truth, in my world at least, that "there is no cause." (I have attached previous articles which will give readers an idea of the thought processes behind it).

There's nothing like having an opportunity to apply a principle in "real life." Before I give you details, a digression.

It's all very well talking about oneness, we are all one, only one exists etc, but there is a catch to this idea. I know I am one with all life and yet if I'm not careful I am prone to the beliefs within mind: the "good" the "bad" and the "ugly." While I have been protecting myself by trusting that Love is all there is, there have still been times when I've been caught out by the ebb of human emotions and beliefs.

Take yesterday for instance. A student asks me to help her to print out her spreadsheet on Excel so it will all show on one page. I try my best to help her. I can feel she's getting stressed about it because she says it's a college project. (I know the feeling about leaving things till the last minute). I can feel her emotions as a burning sensation on my forehead. I back off and suggest she asks the librarian, beside I don't have much time. She receives the help she needs, my head is sorted and it's all hunky-dory. See, I was so at one with her, I felt what she was going through. Not good.

Last night I was waiting for my last bus home when the world suddenly went black. Well my eyesight went and I knew it was the first symptom of a migraine. I couldn't see far enough to determine when my bus was coming but I trusted other people were waiting for the same bus. I managed to get on the right bus and walked the rest of the 10 minute journey home unaided. I figured I would wait till I arrived home before doing any healing. In the meantime, I amused myself seeing the world as shadows and glimmers of lights.

When I arrived home I told my mother I could feel a migraine coming on. She said she had been watching a news item about migraine sufferers. I went to sit down quietly. My mother has learned that her ways are not my ways so she left me to it. In thought I declared: "there is no cause." Previous symptoms have meant losing all meaning of the world. This time I could understand what the documentary my mother was watching was about. I even gave myself some mathematical problems to solve which I was able to. I opened my eyes and saw that my vision was back to normal. Another symptom was that I would get a stomach upset. I went to the kitchen and made a sandwich and a cup of tea. I ate them and felt OK. The final stage is the actual headache. While I felt a slight thud on my right temple it was nothing like it used to be. It felt rather like my body going through an old programme but fast running out of steam. I knew I was already healed. I had an early night and a good night's sleep.

For the last two days there have been news items on migraine sufferers. They reckon they've found a cure for migraine. To find a cure they have to find a cause, naturally. They say migraine sufferers have a small hole in their hearts which directs excess blood to the brain. The experts intend to block the hole with some implant. Yeah right. Maybe I should volunteer as a guinea pig. Wouldn't it be a hoot if they open my heart only to find nothing but Duracell batteries. There has to be a cause for my heartbeat, right? Hahaha!

Anyway, this is the problem with oneness. I've been writing about migraine and there is stuff going round about migraine from the materialist perspective. Previously, when I had a migraine I was healed by realising I am Energy. While my method of healing seemed different from the medical method of surgery and pills, there was no real difference between us. What do I mean? We both believed there was a cause to the migraine. I believed some causes were my thoughts, excess energy or picking up on someone's symptoms. The medical cause is that there is a fault in one's heart. So you see, there was always a cause.

But the breakthrough for me has been that there is no cause. Where there is no cause I can have no migraine. To explain it another way, when nothing causes a migraine it can only mean that the migraine is an illusion, a nothing. Once the migraine is recognised as nothing, it becomes a nothing = no migraine.

There is no cause to illness
There is no cause to aging
There is no cause to pain
There is no cause to suffering
There is no cause to lack
There is no cause to death
There is no cause

I know that my life is the uncaused and what the uncaused never created is nothing. The migraine doesn't exist in the uncaused reality therefore it is a nothing. Now it makes no difference being at one with all because I am no longer affected by it. I live in a causeless realm.

I wonder whether this idea will catch on? I daresay it's too much of a leap of faith. We appear to be living in a physical universe so people continue to look for physical causes or a cause for a physical universe. I watched a hospital drama the other night. A couple who are Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to let their new-born baby have a blood transfusion because of their religious beliefs. The doctor argues that God has given man the idea for the use of technology. The hospital gets a child order from the courts and they do the transfusion. The couple are devastated.

Is God responsible for medicine? That depends on your God, doesn't it? If your God is a God of cause and effect then of course God is responsible for medicine and technology.

The God I know is uncaused. The God I know has no idea about medicine and technology as it is Uncaused Spirit. You could argue that all is Spirit. If all is Spirit then there won't be any need for medicine. Those who have realised their identity as Spirit do not need hospitals.

I have found that it is not enough for me to realise that I am Spirit, I have to realise that I am uncaused. Spirit knows no cause and effects. Spirit is.

So I don't expect people are going to get excited about this idea of "no cause." Where would doctors be if everyone went round declaring "no cause." As for me, I am under a new management, that of "no cause."

I am Uncaused,
Enocia

Related articles:There is No Cause, The Uncaused, Nothing But Leaves

A Fun Spiritual Practice

"When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male will not be male and the female not be female, when you make eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in the place of a hand, and a foot in the place of a foot, and an image in the place of an image, then shall you enter the Kingdom." (Jesus, Gospel of Thomas)

They say "the journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step." Hmmm! I'm not sure about that. I say the journey of a thousand miles starts and ends with the one step.

For the adventurous, here's a fun experiment that has a spiritual principle behind it.

When you walk, count your steps but instead of counting in the usual way i.e. ascending order, count starting from 1 and ending at 1. In other words, every step is your first step. Confused? Don't be. You see, when you take each step as the same, it means you're always at the same "point of perfection." You are already at the beginning and end. You are unchanging.

This might freak you out at first especially if you see time as moving. The mind will argue that it is illogical. Persist by counting and treating every step as your first step. After a while the little mind will give up trying to rationalise and keep quiet.

It's a sure fun way to climb up stairs without getting tired because you're not actually moving. Well you are but the mind that likes to analyse stuff doesn't know that, does it?

This is like a walking meditation but it's more fun.

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Enocia

Nothing But Leaves

It seems to me that we have two selves: the real Self versus the false self. The real Self is the ever-existing, uncaused, formless Self of all. When you are identifying yourself as this Self, life is harmonious. You feel love for all and life is effortless. It’s as if you can move mountains.

The false self has a beginning and an end. This false self gives you the impression that it cares about you, and that it wants the best for you. Yet, you are locked in conflicts. With the false self, you have difficulties acknowledging the other as being part of the one Self. As far as the false self is concerned, you have your own self and the other person has his.

In truth, the false self doesn't exist but only seems to exist because one is hypnotised into believing it is real. The false self is rather like a stage hypnotist convincing his audience that they are experiencing whatever he has suggested. Through hypnotic suggestions, you experience pain and suffering as real. While you're busy having these experiences you are distracted from your true self. A stage hypnotist wakes up his audience from the delusion. When you're having a nightmare you can wake up and realise the events are not real. To wake up and stay awake to the truth that there is no other self than the real self is what the spiritual path is about.

Yesterday I took a trip down memory lane. I fancied going for a bus ride just because. I ended up in a part of London I lived in for five years. I had visions of myself in different parts of the town. At first I felt sadness then I dismissed it. There's nothing to be sad about. Why have regrets over senseless actions that made a lot of sense at the time? They are nothing. Regrets are like dead leaves falling off a tree. Love is the only thing that is meaningful. Love is the only real.

I'm reminded of when Carlos Castaneda wakes up to the totality of Self. He jumps into an abyss and finds himself still alive back in his apartment. He reflects upon his life:

"I was a warrior-traveler. Only energetic facts were meaningful for me. All the rest were trimmings that had no importance at all. (The Active Side of Infinity, by Carlos Castaneda, p. 269)

I can so relate to Castaneda's perspective. Only that which pertains to the Real has any meaning or reality. That which is of the false self is not only meaningless but has no reality. The false self is nothing as it doesn't actually exist.

But things seem to persist. The false self seems to be all around in the many appearances and behaviours. How can something be unreal when it seems so real and in your face? How can the unreal be so painful? In order for the false self to cease to have existence one needs to stop identifying with it. If someone told you that nothing was chasing you, would you run? Why be afraid of nothing? Identify only with the real Self that is uncaused, unborn-undying, infinite and eternal. The real Self transforms into nothing anything that is unlike Itself.

The following story about Jesus comes from the King James version of the bible.

"And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.

And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. (Mark 11: 13-14; 20-25)

There is another version of this story as told in Matthew thus:

"And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!

Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. (Matthew 21: 19: 22)

I've heard these stories used as demonstrations of the power of words and intent. I've also interpreted it in a similar way. There is something about the words "he found nothing but leaves" I find intriguing. If the time wasn't ready for the fruits, why not leave the tree alone? Why make it a point to wither the tree unless the writer is trying to point out a hidden message.

I want to focus on the leaves. A tree with no fruits when someone needs them is useless. Could it be that the state of "nothing but leaves" is a description of the false self? The false self is passing itself of as something when it is nothing. The false self hypnotises one to believe false sensations and appearances are real. The false self is "nothing but leaves." One can therefore dismiss it as the nothing that it is and let the nothing wither away, as the tree does in the above stories, into nothing; let the condition become a nothing in the human sense. Prayer now takes on a new meaning. Prayer is the acknowledgement of the real Self as the only real. When one has unwavering faith in one's true identity, the power of the uncaused, formless Self withers away that which is unlike Itself into nothing. Jesus was speaking as this formless Self.

There is only One Self, the formless, uncaused, ever-existing Self. Anything passing itself off as the Self is nothing but leaves.

I am Self,
Enocia

Love is Real in any Dream

In the book "The Active Side of Infinity," Castaneda has to go through a breaking point. As his teacher, Don Juan explains:

"[..]What I mean is that at a given moment the continuity of their [sorcerers'] lives has to break in order for inner silence to set in and become an active part of their structures."

Don Juan advises Castaneda that in order to arrive at a "breaking point" he must let go of his "personal history." Infinity must be his only point of reference. Castaneda is very reluctant to let go of his friends. Don Juan tells him he can no longer be his teacher.

Castaneda resumes his old life. He soon realises he can no longer live as his old self. Gradually, he starts growing through a process of ego or "person" death, when he lets go of his "personal history" until it makes no difference to him whether he's with someone or alone. Castaneda gets involved in a business venture but after a while regrets his decision and he feels trapped.

One day, out of the blue, Don Juan, pays him a visit, even though Don Juan doesn't know Castaneda's current address. Don Juan has made the journey from inner silence. He advises Carlos to dissolve his business as it is getting in the way of his freedom. He should then meet him in a town in Mexico in one hour. Castaneda is puzzled how he's expected to dissolve his business and travel from Los Angeles to Mexico in an hour. Don Juan tells him to do as he has suggested and the answer will come.

Castaneda sets the dissolution of his business in motion, which takes him longer than an hour. In despair that he has not been able to make the appointment, he retreats into inner silence. He falls asleep. He has a dream that he's at the town Don Juan had suggested where he finds Don Juan waiting for him. They go for a stroll around the town and it all feels very real to him. Castaneda wonders whether it is a dream.

"Don Juan laughed, shaking his head. He had definitely read my thoughts. "You're not in a mere dream," he said, "but who am I to tell you that? You'll know it yourself someday - that there are no dreams from inner silence - because you'll choose to know it."" ("The Active Side of Infinity" by Carlos Castaneda, p.114)

I also have been going through a "breaking point" process when inner silence is taking over.

Yesterday on the bus I noticed a man carrying a Jack Russell puppy. He was so adorable. I wished I could stroke him but they were out of reach. The inner voice asked me why I didn't get a pet. I said I didn't want a pet but it would be nice to stroke that puppy. The opportunity did not present itself.

Last night I had a dream. A man appeared with 6 puppies of different breeds. Each puppy wanted to be stroked and petted. I let them all lick my face and they felt so lovely. Then a parrot (or cockatoo) appeared and sat on my arm. He said "hello." He snuggled by me for a cuddle. The parrot (or cockatoo) gave me a proverbial peck on my right cheek then he flew off. In another dream, a brown snake brushed right by me. People in the dream wondered why the snake didn't bite me. With its hood flared up, the snake looked back at me, as if he'd heard their comments. I felt so much love from that snake. Then a tiger came by to play and he was very friendly.

When I woke up I wondered about those dreams whether they were actual dreams. The love I felt from those animals were so real. Then I remembered Don Juan's words that there were no dreams in inner silence. What difference does it make whether I stroke a dog on the bus or in my dream. The feeling was just as real and as intense. Perhaps, it is because the walls have broken down; there is no longer any difference between this realm and my dream. They are all one and the same.

I'm also aware that not all dreams are real. Last night I had another dream where I saw my mother standing beside me and we both watched a woman weeping in bed. I had no idea who the woman was and why she was weeping. Then I woke up. I then realised that the sound of weeping was no other than my mother snoring in her bedroom.

I have come to realise that love is real whether you are dreaming in sleep or dreaming awake; while illusion is always an illusion in any dream.

I am Love,
Enocia

The Uncaused

In a dialogue, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi is asked:

"Is not all this, the universe and all that takes place therein, the result of Ishwara's (God's will) and if so why should God will thus?"

Bhagavan: "God has no purpose. He is not fettered by any action. The world's activities cannot affect him. Let us take the analogies of the sun and space to make this clear. The sun rises without any desire, purpose, or effort. But directly the sun rises, numerous activities take place on this earth. The lens placed in its rays produce fire in its focus; the bud of the lotus blossoms, water evaporates, and every living object on earth enters upon, maintains, and finally drops its activity. But the sun is not affected by all such laws, has no purpose, and is, merely a witness. So it is with God. Again take the case of space or ether. Earth, water, fire and air are all in it, and have their motions and modifications therein. Yet none of these affects ether or space. The same is the case with God. God has no desire or purpose in his acts of creation, maintenance, destruction, withdrawal and salvation, to which beings (jivas) are subjected. As beings (jivas) reap the fruit of their acts in accordance with His laws (the laws of karma etc) the responsibility of such fruit is theirs, not God's. God is not affected or bound by any acts." ("The Teachers of One" by Paula Marvelly, p. 277)

Yesterday on my bus journey, I was startled out of my sleep by some commotion outside. There were fire engine trucks, police cars and ambulances. There was smoke coming from a building. As I had no interest in looking for a cause, I went back to sleep.

On another bus journey, I heard a young girl, about 16, discussing her legs. She told her friend that her legs only had 50% of the usual muscles compared to her friend's, and that they will gradually deteriorate until she can no longer walk, unless she has an operation. She said her specialist has offered to help with a new operation but she wasn't prepared to be used as their guinea pig. She was seeing her life as strictly cause and effect. She had a physical cause with a physical effect.

It would seem that within the realm of cause and effects there are various causes. If you are materially minded, you see reality as physical and all causes are physical or material. Then there are those who see the universe as composed of light, therefore the cause is light. There are those who see the universe as composed of ideas therefore idea is the cause. To put it another way, if someone has a problem/effect, the cause depends on the individual's paradigm: material, light or ideas/thoughts/beliefs.

But then you realise there is another reality beyond that of cause and effects - the ever-existing, ever-present infinite uncaused reality.

I know that the uncaused cannot change its nature as the ever-existing immortal, just as the sun is not affected by what we do as humans. I don't, however, accept the idea of a state of pure consciousness that one can meditate upon and feel good about that has no practical use. Otherwise I might as well go meditate in a cave forever. I believe that for the uncaused consciousness to be of any use, man has to "lift" himself/surrender to that consciousness. How? By realising he is uncaused now. Man does not have a dual nature i.e. cause and uncaused/soul and spirit. Man has only one nature: uncaused Spirit.

How can one live as the uncaused Spirit? By judging nothing as having a cause, no matter what. See the world/universe as uncaused. See all things as uncaused.

The girl on the bus discussing her legs? There is no cause.
The fire? There is no cause.
The man who has just smiled at me? There is no cause.

If there is no cause to anything, how come people and things seem to exist? They exist because this is how things are in the uncaused. Things come and go. It is the great cosmic illusion. Of course this way of seeing may seem senseless to one who is accustomed to finding causes. It may be difficult to accept someone walking by you as uncaused. He was born, wasn't he? Yes he was born but he is uncaused. This is the tricky part of the illusion. The moment you are sucked into appearances, you try to find the cause. Where did this come from? Where did this go?

It is written in the scriptures:

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." (Genesis 1: 1-3)

This suggests that everything has already existed as formless, empty yet full of infinite ideas of forms, symbolised as "heaven and the earth," that are always present. The scriptures suggests that light brought about the formless into forms but light is what started the illusion in the first place. With light comes the idea of creation and a cause to creation. Perhaps the writer was working on the premise that the universe has a beginning and ending and therefore must have been created. Where there is creation there must be a cause. This illusion gives rise to two universes/paradigms: the caused and the uncaused. The uncaused is very much aware of the caused; while the caused is totally oblivious of the uncaused. The caused believes it is reality and the uncaused knows it is Reality. How to resolve this dilemma? The uncaused lets the caused get on with it. Why do you think people pray and pray but they don't get the desired results? There appears to be no God to prevent catastrophic events like the recent Tsunami disaster. On the contrary, people are getting the desired results for the caused universe can only create a God of cause and effects. So their creator seems to be creating according to beliefs.

In truth, the universe is and always is uncaused, i.e. it has no beginning or end. The uncaused is the only reality whether it is appearing as the manifest universe or not; it is the uncaused Spirit having life. It is NEVER created. Therefore, nothing around us has any cause, nor does my life have a cause. My body is the ever-existing infinite. How can the ever-existing have been born of a woman? One has to be an illusion and it is my birthday. To put it another way, the only cause of all that I am is the uncaused. Since there is only the uncaused, I must also be uncaused.

The uncaused was/is never created; neither was/am I created.
The uncaused is incorruptible; I am incorruptible.
The uncaused is changeless; I am changeless.

My perception of the world is that of a universe with infinite rabbits appearing and disappearing from underneath the uncaused magician's sleeve. I have no idea how this is done, nor do I care to speculate.

In "The Active Side of Infinity" Castaneda goes on a journey with his teacher Don Juan, which takes place within inner silence. Castaneda tries to figure out how they travelled from one place to the next in an instant.

"You're wasting your time," don Juan said, laughing. "I guarantee you that you will never know how we got from the house to the Yaqui town, and from the Yaqui town to the railroad station, and from the railroad station to the house. There was a break in the continuity of time. That is what inner silence does."

He [Don Juan] patiently explained to me that the interruption of that flow of continuity that makes the world understandable to us is sorcery." (The Active Side of Infinity, by Carlos Castaneda, p. 186)

To speculate on how the uncaused is uncaused is pointless. As Don Juan teaches Castaneda, I can only practise being in inner silence, which is the uncaused.

All things are uncaused. That's about all I know or care about.

I am the Uncaused,
Enocia

Senseless Figures

I've read several of Carlos Castaneda's books about the teachings of Don Juan, and I have found them very useful. My absolute favourite is "The Active Side of Infinity," where Carlos is advised by his teacher, Don Juan Matus, to recapitulate memorable stories in his life that "touches every one of us human beings." The book is a collection of stories that anyone can appreciate because they are universal stories of humanity, some haunting, and others very funny. The stories are about the journey of a sorcerer, a similar journey I'm on. I love how Don Juan's defines sorcery:

"To be a sorcerer," don Juan continued, "doesn't mean to practice witchcraft, or to work to affect people, or to be possessed by demons. To be a sorcerer means to reach a level of awareness that makes inconceivable things available. The term 'sorcery' is inadequate to express what sorcerers do, and so is the term 'shamanism.' The actions of sorcerers are exclusively in the realm of the abstract, the impersonal. Sorcerers struggle to reach a goal that has nothing to do with the quests of an average man. Sorcerers' aspirations are to reach infinity, and to be conscious of it." (The Active Side of Infinity, p. 69)

There is a particular story when Carlos' friend recommends that he visits a prostitute called Madame Ludmilla. Carlos describes Madame Ludmilla "as in her well-lived late forties." Her speciality is dancing in front of a mirror, where she twirls round and round to a "haunting melody." Carlos describes his reactions to watching the woman's movements: "Some despair and loneliness that I didn't know existed in me came to the surface from the depths of my being, and made me get up and run out of the room, down the stairs like a madman, out of the building, into the street." (p.24) Carlos relates the story to his teacher. Don Juan agrees that this story must be included in his collection because everyone can relate to it:

"You see, like Madame Ludmilla, every one of us, young and old alike, is making figures in front of a mirror in one way or another. Tally what you know about people. Think of any human being on this earth, and you will know, without the shadow of a doubt, that no matter who they are, or what they think of themselves, or what they do, the result of their actions is always the same: senseless figures in front of a mirror." (The Active Side of Infinity, by Carlos Castaneda, p.25)

"Senseless figures in front of a mirror" is like having a dream that makes so much sense in your dream but when you wake up, it is meaningless. It is like inviting a friend round for dinner. She turns up at the agreed time and rings your door bell. You open the door and, instead of letting her in, you ask her what she wants.

"What do you mean? You invited me to dinner, remember?"
"Oh yes, I did."
"Are you going to let me in?"
"No."
"Stop messing about and let me in."
"Why should I?"
"Because you invited me to dinner."
"I'm not going to let you in. Sorry. Goodbye." And you slam the door in your friend's face.

Your friend is baffled and upset by your behaviour. She decides it's a practical joke. Any moment now she thinks you are going to open the door, let her in and, while you eat dinner, you will have a laugh about it. She soon realises you means business. In your reality, your action makes perfect sense; but to your friend, you've completely lost the plot.

You feel sick and you want the illness to go away, right? What do you do? You're in a quandary. Part of you really wants to be free of this illness but the other part of you can't help but make more out of the nothingness of an illness so you can have something to get rid of, or even write about. You go to see a man or woman in a white coat to have your illness confirmed. S/he examines you with her equipments or comes up with a cause based on your story. It's senseless, but isn't that how we live as humans?

Majority of the jobs humans have created are of the "senseless figures" variety. The law, medicine, education, science, to name but a few, are based on the belief that humans need to be taught and they are not to be trusted. Humans experience internal and external conflicts. All because we continue to dream up new illnesses, theories and beliefs to define ourselves. Ooops. There I go finding a cause to madness. I should know better than this. (smile) Maybe I should stop using the word "because" just because...(LOL!)

If you have resigned yourself to living with "senseless figures" your world makes a lot of sense to you. "Ignorance is bliss." Why would you want to be anything different when people around you are behaving just like you? Why would you want to question what your doctor says when you know he is right? When someone comes up with a different idea that challenges your world view, you laugh at her. You believe she is the one who has gone barmy.

Is there an alternative? You might think about exploring what it means to be the un-conflicted self but that is not an easy option either. Anyone serious about self-realisation knows that one surrenders the self for Self. One lets go of personal will for Will. It means going against the grain of what everyone believes. You soon realise you're the only one among your family and contemporaries who is interested in this approach. People think you're nuts. I wonder how many "awake" people are locked away in asylums?

If you are like Carlos Castaneda who has been drawn into the world of sorcery, you start to realise that everything you believed to be true is senseless. Carlos is an academic and is used to interpreting the world from a linear perspective. Then he is taught by Don Juan who has a different "cognitive system." The sorcerer's perspective is threatening his whole way of life. Carlos tries to integrate the two paradigms but this is impossible. He has to let one go. In Castaneda's books you see how Carlos is gradually drawn into the sorcerers' cognitive system. The process involves dying to the ego or "person." This involves letting go of his friends and family who are his points of reference. As Don Juan puts it "Sorcerers have only one point of reference: infinity." (ibid, p. 106) When Infinity takes over, according to Don Juan,

"That is the moment when sorcerers return to the true nature of man. [..]The old sorcerers also called it total freedom. It is the moment when man the slave becomes man the free being, capable of feats of perception that defy our linear imagination." (ibid, p. 104-105)

The spiritual path for me is about realising that it is the energy body, one's unique Spirit identity, that is being expressed as life; the old life of self releases you or you release it.

It is written in the scriptures:

"For many are called, but few are chosen." (Matthew 22: 14)

I interpret this as we are all already free as freedom is our nature. But to live as Spirit we have to die to the ego, or realise the ego as nothing. How many people are prepared to go through the discipline of surrendering self for Self? How many people are interested in the Truth of reality? How many people are willing to stick to the truth even if it means being ridiculed? Don Juan again:

"How can you ask your fellow men to go through those rigors of discipline? They'll laugh and make fun of you, and the more aggressive ones will beat the shit out of you." (ibid, p.221)

People would rather continue to experience "senseless figures." Oh well, it's what freewill is all about, isn't it? We are all supposed to create our own realities. I choose to make Infinity my only point of reference. I end with another quote from "The Active Side of Infinity."

"Infinity chooses," he [don Juan] said. "The art of the warrior-traveler is to have the ability to move with the slightest insinuation, the art of acquiescing to every command of infinity. For this, a warrior-traveler needs prowess, strength, and above everything else, sobriety. All these three put together give, as a result, elegance." (ibid, p. 182)

I am Infinity,
Enocia

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In a Causeless Realm

“For infinity, the only worthwhile enterprise of a warrior is freedom. Any other enterprise is fraudulent.” (Don Juan, The Active Side of Infinity by Carlos Castaneda)

“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” (Hebrews 13: 8)

In Ultimate Reality there is no cause and effect because Source Reality has no beginning or end. It is consciousness, that which is forever, is now and without end. In other words, all things simply are.

Ultimate Reality is like being invited to a feast. Everybody is invited to this feast. The host has taken special care to have everyone's needs and preferences met. One's needs and preferences are the equivalent of what makes one unique, yet everyone is equal. All everyone need do is show up.

Now, when I say "all things simply are" I mean only what is of Reality - that is of love, truth, beauty, perfection, harmony, peace, freedom and infinity. As it is written:

"Creation is the sum of all God's Thoughts, in number infinite, and everywhere without all limit. Only love creates, and only like itself. There was no time when all that it created was not there. Nor will there be a time when anything that it created suffers any loss. Forever and forever are God's Thoughts exactly as they were and as they are, unchanged through time and after time is done." (A Course in Miracles)

What is of Ultimate Reality is always in harmony with all for Ultimate Reality cannot be in a battle against Itself. If there is no harmony it is not of Ultimate Reality.

Let's take the recent Tsunami disaster. I read recently, in a newspaper, a list of how much some celebrities have donated to the fund. It's as if it's become a competition to see who will donate the most. How did other people's misery come to this? From this disaster there are going to be many jobs created all claiming they are doing their part to help the victims. There are those who are even saying the disaster happened to teach people about love and how to love one another, which is totally unfounded since in Ultimate Reality, all there is is love. No matter how well-meaning people's intentions are about the Tsunami victims, it will not change the truth that Love is. Even if the manifest universe was to vanish overnight, it will not change the truth that Love is.

The One that is Love is experiencing life as us. Thus, life is unveiling what already exists as formless Reality i.e. love, truth, abundance, peace, freedom and harmony. My part of the plan is to unfold my uniqueness in how I know, feel and experience love. I do this through my love of writing. I don't have to create anything, I just need to be willing to play my part. Everything has already been prepared: the ideas, the computers, the web-blogs and the Internet. All I need do is show up.

Let me give you an example of how Reality unfolds effortlessly. Two days ago I woke up with the song, I Feel Pretty, in my head, which is from the musical West Side Story. Later, I went to the library and I was waiting to use a computer. I picked up Good Housekeeping magazine on the shelf behind me and flicked idly through it.

Earlier, I had been mulling over the idea of the state of no-thoughts/inner silence I've experienced during migraines, which is slightly different from the silence I have in meditation or consciously cultivate. When I have a migraine I lose all sense of who I am as a personality, I only know that I exist. If you were to ask me to work out what 1 + 1 is, I wouldn't know how. I wouldn't even know what the numbers meant. Fortunately, I have learned how to be in that state while still going about my day to day affairs. I have had a migraine and not remembering who my personality is while trying to get home. I have still managed to get home though.

As I flicked through the magazine pages, I came across an article about a man who once had a headache and lost his memory. Now he experiences everything as new. He hasn't forgotten his wife though, he knows that he loves her, but he has no memory of their life together. While the experts claim he had some brain disease, I recognised it immediately as the same experience I have had. Fortunately for me, it didn't go that far. I can now alternate states; thoughtless and thought though the thoughtless is where one would find freedom. The man is already free but he doesn't realise it. (The article is an extract from a book his wife has written called "Forever Today" by Deborah Wearing).

So it would seem I had picked up the magazine at random but it wasn't the case. All was unfolding perfectly. I was standing at the right place and waiting was the right thing for me to be doing at that time. The magazine was brought to my awareness so I would pick it up and find the exact article I was interested in. I even emailed the writer of the article so I could share my experiences with her.

I was so inspired by the article I went into town to see if I could have a closer look at the book or consider buying it at some point. The bookshop didn't have it in stock. I sat down to re-read the magazine article. Then I read an article about things people do while they are dating which made me long for the romantic times I shared with an ex-boyfriend. A man sat beside me reading but I was engrossed in the book I was reading. Then I heard a man singing the song I Feel Pretty. I was amazed. I mentioned to the man beside me that I had been singing the very same song earlier. I found him fun and interesting to talk to. Now get this. The day before, after watching a documentary presented by the magician Derren Brown, it had inspired me to write an article called The Problem With Belief which I posted at his forum. My new friend told me he met Derren Brown a few weeks ago. I got on so well with this man I ended up going out for a meal with him that evening. (See the article There is No Cause).

So as you can see my day started with a kind of preview of things to come. When I heard that man singing the same song, it was as if he was confirming to me that I was "on the beam" as my dear friend would say. This is my reality of the Causeless Realm. Everything is.

It is possible to live in the Causeless Realm while still having an experience as human. However, I need to be alert because one can very easily be deceived by those who live in other realities. Just a few hours ago I was waiting for a bus. A woman beside me complained about how long the bus was taking to arrive. I was tempted to start wondering about the cause of the delay but I simply affirmed that there was no cause. I live in a Causeless Realm. The bus arrived shortly.

When one is drawn into the mortal realm of cause/effect you attract all the dross that comes with it, the fear and uncertainty, conflicting beliefs and lies that go with it. While you might appear to be happy and successful within the mortal realm, if what you are doing is not about expressing freedom, as Don Juan puts it, "Any other enterprise is fraudulent." You might know how to change your world by changing your beliefs, it still doesn't get you out of that world. Within the Causeless Realm, there is no need to change anything. You only need to be the Love that you are and watch as that which is uniquely you is expressed as you. I am reminded of what St Paul has written:

"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8: 38-39)

In other words, no false beliefs, doctrines, or theories can separate me from the truth of Ultimate Reality that only Love is real.

Within the Causeless Realm, everything has already been prepared. All I need do is show up and have fun.

I am Causeless,
Enocia

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There is No Cause

"Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal." Science and Health

For the last two weeks I've been hearing the Inner Voice telling me to let go of the idea of a cause. I know this intellectually that there can be no cause in Ultimate Reality. I believe I've been putting off exploring the idea because I know it will turn my whole world upside down. At the same time I know this idea holds an important clue to areas where I believe I've been "stuck." Still, there's only one way to deal with these types of situations - procrastinate. Actually, I've been mulling over the idea. (smile)

Two days ago, I was inspired to pick up a book I have been aware of for ages but never read called "I Am That: Talks With Sri Nisargadatta" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, et al. I opened a page at random and it was again reminding me that there is no cause. Bugger! Maybe it's about time I took this idea seriously. It's going to be fun exploring this idea.

It's this morning. When I arrive at the bus station I notice my bus leaving. Great! The next one soon arrives. Miles down the road, we are stuck in a traffic jam. I notice the bus I missed earlier is about three buses ahead of us. I can see myself already at my destination so I know there is no traffic jam, though there appears to be one. I wonder what the cause of the traffic jam is? The moment I have the thought I dismiss it. Why should there be a cause? There is no cause.

Yesterday evening at another bookshop I read an article called "Things you haven't done since you were dating...(but might be worth doing again)" in February's issue of Good Housekeeping magazine. I went through the lists and mentally ticked off all the things I did with my last boyfriend while we were dating, including of course the hugs, snogs and going on "long walks together whatever the weather." I thought about how much I missed that part of being in an intimate relationship. Hey presto a guy sits besides me. Soon we are chatting and having a laugh. We end up going for a meal. He asks me if I would like to go for a bus ride. Giving that I spend most of my life on buses, I jumped at the opportunity. We also went for a lovely walk holding hands, hugging and just enjoying each other other's company. I had got exactly what I was thinking of - a romantic evening with a lovely man.

Did we get together because of the longing I felt after reading that article? Was the article the cause and the brief interlude the effect? Would we have connected without my longing? It may very well be the case.

Returning to my bus journey this morning. As I pondered over the idea that there is no cause, the traffic jam melted away. In the mortal realm there was obviously a cause to the traffic jam - there were men working on the road. It would seem that in the mortal realm of duality, there is always a cause. To change something one has to root out the cause. But in Ultimate Reality there is no cause. Everything just is. What really happened when I realised there was no cause to the traffic jam? It meant there cannot be a traffic jam when nothing is causing it. If nothing is causing something then nothing is the result i.e. 0+0=0. Nothingness is then manifested as no traffic.

If I had continued with the thought that there was a cause to the traffic, I would be trying to delete the cause in thought; trying to create an alternate reality that has no traffic; or trying to speed events so that the effect disappeared quickly. In other words, I would be acting like a mortal.

I've got into the habit of believing that there is always a cause. Think of the freedom of not having a cause. Let's take a recurring illness or condition one could have. If you think of it as having a cause then you naturally want to root out the cause. The cause could be hereditary, in your belief system, a past life or wherever. But when you realise there is no cause, there cannot be an effect. The condition is therefore a nothing and so it is in appearance.

Surely there has to be a cause? Would I exist if there wasn't a first cause commonly called God or Source? I say Source is causeless. In order for there to be a cause there has to be an effect. For there to be a beginning there has to be an end. Source is beginningless and endless. Therefore, there is no cause or effect in Source. Cause and effect manifests in the mortal realm as birth/death; beginning/end; sickness/health; all forms of duality that makes man mortal. Source is immortal.

But how can one attract a relationship or experience without a cause? In the mortal realm of cause and effect one's desire or intention is always the beginning and the effect is the desire unfolding in time and space. But an intention in causeless Ultimate Reality has no beginning or end. Therefore, it rises out of Source and does a dance for however long. I have some friends that seem to drift in and out of my life. I haven't made a conscious decision to end these friendships, the relationships continue even though I don't see them from one year to the next. I might meet up with some of them after a few years or I might never see them again in this human experience. But in my heart we are forever friends.

There have been other friendships that have been cause and effect types. They were in my life at a particular time when I had a particular belief or had a particular desire. When I let go of that particular belief the friendship dissolved of its own accord.

It seems that when something has a cause one has a set mind about what is expected. The effect is a situation that has an ending. That is the nature of cause and effect. On the other hand, when a situation is experienced as causeless, it emerges from a Source that has no beginning or end. Such a relationship is unlimited and the people involved have freedom to be.

{I am aware of course that we are all one in Spirit and that all friendships in Ultimate Reality are eternal. The friendships I'm discussing here are human experiences).

As a being without beginning and end I can live every moment as unlimited and timeless. I can also use the same idea of "no cause" to deal with situations I have interpreted previously as restricting. An illness, for instance, can only have a reality if it has a cause. When I give it no cause, or that its cause is nothing, the result is there is nothing. And this nothing appears as the equivalent human experience - nothing.

I wonder why I have been resisting exploring the idea of "no cause." What has been the cause of my resistance? Er...nothing.

I am Causeless,
Enocia

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Why One Should Never Judge

My mother has had the flu. I've given her the option that I could give her healing, you know be a channel for Energy, but she's having none of it. She prefers to use the old tried and tested remedies that her friends have recommended. Curious. I've noticed that the more remarkable healings I am experiencing for myself through Energy, the more she's shying away from me practising on her. I respect her decision.

Day by day she's grown worse and I hear her coughing. I would so like to offer her help the way I know how but I have to respect her choices. She says she aches all over, but she doggedly takes her cough mixtures, ginger and honey and lemon remedy. The only snag is when she coughs at night, I end up being woken up, which is disturbing my sleep pattern. Fortunately, I have been using those opportunities to retreat into inner silence, so it's not all bad.

Yesterday I offered healing again but she wasn't keen on the idea. I went out on my usual gallivanting, as my mother would put it. I ended up in a bookshop and browsing as per usual. Then I noticed that someone had dropped an almost new packet of sweets. It was one of those honey, lemon and eucalyptus type that people use to help them with colds and coughs. Come to think of it, I'm sure my mother usually sucks that particular brand to help with her cough. I thanked the source, picked them up and put them in my bag.

Later I gave my mother the sweets. She said she'd been thinking of buying some the next day because she believed they would help her. Universal Energy obviously heard her cry. Isn't it interesting how my mother's needs were taken care of? Universal Energy doesn't judge but gives according to one's belief.

Last night before going to bed I prayed that I would be able to sleep without having my sleep disturbed by my mother's coughing. I went into a deep sleep. After what seemed like hours of sleep, I woke up but it was only 3 am. I listened in for my mother but I couldn't hear anything. I went back to sleep. I heard her coughing this morning. I checked the time. It was time to get up.

I asked my mother how she was feeling. She said she must be getting better as she didn't cough all night until this morning. Interesting. All the same, she's off to her doctor's this morning.

As tempting as it is to want to help, I know I should let people live their lives according to their beliefs. If Universal Energy doesn't judge, why should I?

I am Energy,
Enocia

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The Problem with Belief

"Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization. This mental fermentation has begun, and will continue until all errors of belief yield to understanding. Belief is changeable, but spiritual understanding is changeless." Science and Health, by Mary Baker Eddy

Last night I watched a documentary on television called Derren Brown: Messiah "Derren goes undercover in America in an attempt to raise questions about the validity of certain religious and spiritual belief systems." Derren Brown: Messiah. His purpose is to get experts in various fields in spirituality to endorse him as a professional based purely on his performance. Derren insists he has no psychic powers whatsoever. All he's going to be doing is pretending to be one. If the experts ask him if it's a trick he will confess.

In one experiment, Derren is with a group of psychic experts. One psychic goes into another room and draws pictures while he tries to figure out what the pictures are. He gets them right. The psychics are convinced Derren has psychic powers.

In another situation he is with a group of atheists and manages to convince them to believe in God. In another example he meets up with a world renowned expert in alien abductions. Derren tells her he also has been abducted by aliens. The effect of the alien encounter means he's now able to make medical diagnoses. He accurately diagnoses an illness the expert had and her current situation. The expert is so impressed she wants to recommend his work to others.

The experiment that made me chuckle was when Derren gave an esoteric expert an equipment that was supposed to be a "dream catcher." The woman is advised to sleep with the equipment for several days. Derren makes a great show of putting electrode pads on his forehead so he can read the dreams in the equipment. He gets her dreams right. The pads reminded me of ones they use in hospitals when people are undergoing operations.

Derren had made it clear at the beginning of the documentary that his intention was not to criticise people's beliefs but he was raising questions about beliefs. The documentary certainly challenged what beliefs are. If someone can believe in a doctrine purely on another's performance, how can you be sure what you believe is real? If Derren can make atheists believe in God just because of clever mind-control techniques, how can one be sure there is a God? How stable are one's beliefs?

Does this mean one shouldn't have beliefs? That is impossible. Without a belief that I can walk, or there is a force walking me, I wouldn't be able to walk. I guess people don't fly because they have got so used to believing that humans can walk only or fly in a plane, unless you are a Superhero. But is this strictly true? Surely if you can fly in your dreams, which I have, it means humans can fly. Perhaps people don't fly in this reality because they haven't seen it happen enough to convince them it is possible.

Everyone believes in something. If you are not believing in something, you are afraid of something. To be afraid of something is to belief in what you don't want to happen, which means you do believe. I think it's a matter of discipline and where you put your faith. If your belief is not harming anyone and it works for you, that's OK, isn't it? What difference does it make whether you believe in God or in yourself? As long as you believe in something for we all believe in something, right?

I think the issues Derren Brown's documentary raised was the danger in believing in a doctrine, principle or power without testing it out to be true. Anyone who is adept at mind-control can convince you to see the world their way. Advertisers, the world of medicine, nutrition and many more are continually telling people what to believe; and these beliefs influence how people live their lives.

If one cannot be sure about what to believe, surely there has to be a belief that is unshakable, a truth that is unchanging. I personally have gone through many beliefs. I have documented many stories in my journals illustrating how I have had different experiences based on my belief at the time. After a while it got tedious. I needed to have something that would stay the same regardless. For me this truth is the state of inner silence or stillness which is unshakable. I know nothing can take that away from me. It is this Stillness I go to to nourish me when I'm feeling out of sorts, to heal me, to give me inspiration or to just be. Is it a belief? Maybe or maybe not. I only know that I have experienced it and continue to experience this stillness; and for me it is very real.

So the Derren Brown documentary is an interesting one indeed. It is either going to shake people out of their complacency, particularly those who accept things at face value; or it will make no difference at all to others. Beliefs give people a sense of security. They are not going to let go of them easily if they can help it.

I always enjoy Derren Brown's programmes. They are insightful, interesting and always fun.

With love,
Enocia

Related articles: Self-Belief, How I Conquered Fear with Belief, Playing With Beliefs and Do Beliefs Matter?

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What is the Real Purpose of the Spiritual Path?

"He [Don Juan] had described the energy body to me countless times, saying that it was a conglomerate of energy fields, the mirror image of the conglomerate of energy fields that makes up the physical body when it is seen as energy that flows in the universe. He had said that it was smaller, more compact, and of heavier appearance than the luminous sphere of the physical body.

Don Juan had explained that the body and the energy body were two conglomerates of energy fields compressed together by some strange agglutinizing force. He had emphasized to no end that the force that binds that group of energy fields together was, according to the sorcerers of ancient Mexico, the most mysterious force in the universe. His personal estimation was that it was the pure essence of the entire cosmos, the sum total of everything there is.

Don Juan had said that by means of discipline it is possible for anyone to bring the energy body closer to the physical body. Normally, the distance between the two is enormous. Once the energy body is within a certain range, which varies for each of us individually, anyone, through discipline, can forge it into the exact replica of their physical body - that is to say, a three-dimensional solid being. [...] By the same token, through the same processes of discipline, anyone can forge their three-dimensional, solid physical body to be a perfect replica of their energy body - that is to say, an ethereal charge of energy invisible to the human eye, as all energy is. (The Active Side of Infinity by Carlos Castaneda)

What is my purpose? Did I design this life before incarnating in this body? If I did, to what end?

What is the real purpose of being on a spiritual path? Is it simply about realising that one's identity is not confined to the human experience?

I realise I am Spirit. So what? How is this information useful? It will help you live a more abundant life. So I live a life where everything falls into place. I am happy and wealthy and wise. So what?

I can manipulate energy, so what? I can move mountains, so what? There are people who have powers but without purpose these powers are meaningless. You are simply a human being with extra gadgets.

In the original version of the movie, The Matrix, Neo is given insights into the nature of reality. He realises he has been living in a Matrix, a system that controls how people think and behave. Neo is persuaded to join in the crusade to free humanity from the control of the Matrix. At first, Neo finds the Matrix agents tough opponents. Then he is killed in a fight. Trinity's love helps him resurrect. When Neo "wakes up" he finds he no longer needs to dodge bullets. He is now omnipotent and uses his inner power, the Light within to vanquish his opponents.

Neo's resurrection can be read in two ways. First, from a literal perspective. In this case, Neo's resurrection is nothing special. There are now many documented cases of people who have been pronounced clinically dead and have been resurrected. They return with tales of other realities. Some even find they have developed or awakened latent psychic powers.

The second way Neo's resurrection can be read is that he has died to his old self and been "born-again" in Spirit where he is now awake to his true nature. He no longer needs to do battle in the old way. He brings Light to all. This interpretation would be perfectly reasonable if there were no other Matrix movies. Alas, in Matrix 2 and 3, we go behind the scenes of Neo's real home, Zion, where we find the locals in a battle to protect their Edenic planet. If Neo was a true saviour, would he be involved in another battle? Is the Light not always the Light? It's interesting to note that in Zion, Neo and his friends have no psychic powers.

I believe in the Matrix movies, Neo, Morpheus, Trinity and others are only humans who have mastered the Matrix. They've realised that when one is free from the Matrix, one can achieve feats others think are impossible. But they are still humans who are fearful in another realm. Still, the team in the Matrix mean well; they want to save humanity from the Matrix. Just like there are many teachers and prophets right now who are bent on saving humanity from itself.

Last night, I saw the movie, Big Trouble in Little China. It stars Kurt Russell as an "An All-American trucker [who] gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown." It is basically a martial arts spoof which I found rather amusing. There are these men for whom energy is child’s play, who use their powers to kill their opponents, and to control others. This film is an example of how you can be a Master of Energy and yet have no compassion for others. As St Paul puts it:

"And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing." (1 Corinthians 13: 2)

So I can heal myself and others by the power of thought, so what? So I can manifest new realities by realising that Spirit is all there is. So what? What is the point of these realisations?

I believe the real purpose is for me to live as Spirit Man, the real me that is pure Spirit/Energy, the me that is always the same, the me that was never born nor can She ever die.

I have had dreams, for instance, where I have been flying or moving at the speed of thought. Yet this hasn't been possible in my waking reality. I am like Neo free in one Matrix yet fighting to survive in another reality. Surely, real freedom is that you are free wherever you are. The only way I believe this type of freedom can be achieved is when the Energy body is in control. As Don Juan puts it: "through the same processes of discipline, anyone can forge their three-dimensional, solid physical body to be a perfect replica of their energy body." (Active Side of Infinity)

So now it starts to make sense why being on the spiritual path is an absolute necessity. Now it makes sense why I have had the experiences I have had because I, as the Spirit Self, designed my life that way. I didn't design my life so I could learn about love and forgiveness. I designed my life and body so I would have no other choice but to revert to my real Self as Energy. Only then is true freedom achieved.

I believe nothing is more important than being on the spiritual path which gives one freedom. As Don Juan has indicated in the excerpts above, with discipline one can make the Energy counterpart the only body.

I find spiritual practice to be an ongoing discipline of keeping my attention on the Light, and it is a lot of fun. I have written elsewhere thus:

The good news is there are other ways to remain focused on the Light. By doing what you love; by staying in the present; and by being in silence.

When you are doing what you love, there is no space in mind to imagine fearful thoughts.

When your focus is 100% on what you are doing, you're in the present. Your mind doesn't have time or the opportunity to wander and imagine fearful thoughts.

When you are in silence there is no mind to create fearful thoughts.

Where there are no thoughts to create fearful realities, Source is manifested as experiences in Its own image and likeness. Seeing Reality As It Is - In Practice

I believe my real purpose is to make what is hidden be known - to live as Spirit Man. As it is written in the scriptures:

"I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness." (Psalm 17: 15)

What is the real purpose of the spiritual path? Freedom. That, in my opinion, is the only purpose of life.

I am Freedom,
Enocia

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Seeing Reality As It Is - In Practice

In the last article Seeing Reality As It Is, I wrote that I see Reality as Energy which is what I focus on. I pay no attention to forms which are mere effects.

How can this principle be put into practise in our everyday reality?

By realising that everything is energy. All that I experience through the senses as solid are energetic forms. All energetic forms are effects. By this I mean they are thought projections. This computer I'm typing on now was once an idea only. Now it's a solid idea or energetic form. The process of bringing this computer into form, the materials used, are nothing but energy forms. Just because they go through the long-winded process of production doesn't mean that that process is the only way a computer can take form. It could very easily be projected instantly as a thought form.

This computer is an effect. We know that technology is moving so fast that computers are quickly out of date. That's the nature of effects, forever changing. Why focus on that which is forever changing and are only effects? If you see your mirror image with an outfit you don't like, you wouldn't ask the mirror image to change its outfit, would you? You, the one in front of the mirror, have to change your outfit and this is reflected back at you in the mirror.

I understand people mean well by wanting to find out the truth of what is going in the world. Why bother? The world is only an effect.

You want the truth, focus on the Source of Truth.
You want peace in the world, focus on the Source of Peace.
You want love, focus on the Source of Love.
You want supply, focus on the Source of Supply.

Does this mean you don't help others who are in dire situations? That depends on the individual. I have no judgments on what people should do or shouldn't do. I only say focus on the Source. My experience has been when I focus on Source, things around me change to reflect Source Reality.

Just because I focus on Source doesn't mean things are always perfect. Far from it! It's an ongoing process I find of seeing things in a different way. Every moment is another opportunity for the world of effects to tempt you into believing they are real. Every moment is another opportunity to focus on Source. Some people might argue that they don't have time to focus on Source when they need to work etc. I say there is no greater priority than keeping one's eyes on the Light/Source. The good news is there are other ways to remain focused on the Light. By doing what you love; by staying in the present; and by being in silence.

When you are doing what you love, there is no space in mind to imagine fearful thoughts.

When your focus is 100% on what you are doing, you're in the present. Your mind doesn't have time or the opportunity to wander and imagine fearful thoughts.

When you are in silence there is no mind to create fearful thoughts.

Where there are no thoughts to create fearful realities, Source is manifested as experiences in Its own image and likeness.

When I keep my eyes on Source, It pervades all of my experiences.

I see Reality as it is.
I focus only on Reality.

I am Reality,
Enocia

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Seeing Reality As It Is

"Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law." (Psalm 119: 18)

It's another morning. I'm staring at my face in the bathroom mirror. What do I see? The same face. It hasn't changed. If it had I wouldn't be seeing those tiny moles on my neck. Surely Perfection can do a lot better than this mug (face)?

What I'm seeing is the past. I'm seeing a face from my memory. It is a face of habit. It is a face of faces past. What if I woke up tomorrow and my face had drastically transformed to such an extent that I couldn't recognise it? I'll probably think I've woken up in another reality or I am dreaming, again.

On the one hand, I want my face to retain a recognisable visage. On the other hand, retaining this visage doesn't allow for a new face to emerge. It's not that I want a face that looks so different that it freaks me out, not forgetting my family and friends, but a face that is the image and likeness of perfection. I mean I wish to look like the real me.

Saying that, I'm aware that my physical body has changed. I saw my older brother the other day. He hadn't seen me for some time. He said I was looking even younger. What was my secret? I said it was due to Source, not me.

There is a template that this body and face is based on. The template is analogous to the mould people use to bake biscuits. You can create hundreds of biscuits from the one mould. Some biscuits turn out as exact replicas while others do not. In the same way, there is a perfect template that is a guide for this body. This template is my unique personality and body that is already perfect. I also call this template my Energy Light Body. This template exists in Mind. The substance of Mind is Universal Energy. My body is a projection of Mind, therefore, my physical body is visible energy.

What happens when a body appears imperfect or varies from the perfect template? Let's say a gingerbread man biscuit loses an arm during the baking process. Is it the fault of the mould? No. Something happened during the baking process to make the biscuit lose its arm.

Mind and the template are innately perfect. The template/Energy Light Body is one with Mind. Can perfect Mind project what it is not? No. There must be something going wrong. It must be the way Mind is interpreted.

Let's return to the gingerbread man that hasn't got an arm. You examine the mould and see that the mould is perfect. You also notice that the other gingerbread biscuits are perfect replicas of the mould. So you pay no attention to the faulty gingerbread man which is an anomaly. You can choose to eat the biscuit, give it away or throw it away. Your decision will not change the fact that the mould is always perfect.

It's another morning. Before I look at myself in the mirror I look at my Energy Light Body instead. In my mind's eye, I see myself as pure white light. Aha! Now I see my perfect self. I look at my visible energy body/physical body in the mirror. Hmmm! Right now, this visible energy body is not a complete image and likeness of my Energy Light Body. No matter. I can see my Energy Light Body as perfect light; that's all that matters. It is what I give my attention to.

I read an interesting story about healing in the book "Jesus Christ Heals" by Charles Fillmore. This woman had a mole. Her daughter was giving her healing by realising the truth that there was only one Mind, the Christ Mind appearing as her. She was advised to pay no attention to the mole. Because she had stopped giving the mole attention/energy, it withered away and disappeared. About a year ago, a mole appeared around my stomach. It started bleeding. I decided to pay it no further attention. It eventually vanished.

My physical body/visible energy body is only a memory version of my Energy Light Body. What happens when I give attention to the physical body? Attention is nothing but energy: "where attention goes energy flows." When I give attention to my physical body, I am making the visible energy body more tangible, therefore, the scars or moles are bound to stay put because I'm effectively giving them more energy. However, when I focus only on my Energy Light Body as reality, this is what is magnified. My Energy Light Body projects an image of itself as my visible physical/energy body that people see as human.

It doesn't matter what my physical body looks like at any one time, just like it doesn't matter whether the gingerbread biscuit has lost an arm. The main thing is to focus on Reality, my Energy Light Body. I leave all visible energetic forms alone as they are mere effects that are constantly changing.

Reality is Energy.
Reality is my Energy Light body.
I see Reality as it is.
I focus only on Reality.

I am Energy,
Enocia

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New Year's Resolutions

Have you made your new year's resolutions yet? Why not? If you have, have you stuck to them?

We're currently being bombarded with ads reminding people to give up smoking, to make non-smoking a resolution; while smoking manufacturers promoting their anti-smoking products rub their hands with glee. Suckers!

What about the ads for dieting. You've over-indulged over the Christmas holidays so it's time to go on a diet. Another new year's resolution.

And isn't it time you joined the gym? Better still - you know that gym membership you made last year? Make it your resolution to make use of your membership.

Every morning, I see a lovely woman at my bus stop with her two young kids. She's been trying to get her kids to school on time for months now. Yesterday, she told me her new year's resolution is to get them to school on time but the bus drove just right by as she was crossing the road. I didn't expect to see her this morning as I was later than usual. She was there with her daughter. She'd missed her bus again.

That's the thing about resolutions, they are hit and miss. If left to the mind's devices it will let you do the same old same old...until you hand your life over to a "higher Force."

For the last two days I've woken up late, not because of a resolution, but because I've been forgetting to ask Source to wake me up and She's been letting me sleep on. Do I have to do everything around here? I'm learning that with everything I must ask first.

My new year's resolution is...ah forget it. I only need to remember to ask Source.

Have a wonderful year whatever your resolutions.

Love Enocia

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What is Rapport?

"Rapport is the quality of harmony, recognition and mutual acceptance that exists between people when they are at ease with one another and where communication is occurring easily." NLP & Rapport

"I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight." (Isaiah 45: 2)

A while back I studied Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP which is a psycho-therapeutic system that gives insight into who you are, why you think the way you do, why you behave the way you do, and how you can be the best you can.

According to NLP research, every one has their unique way of interpreting the world. Some people are very visually orientated, some are kinaesthetic and others are more auditory. Generally, most people are a combination of all three of these internal senses and more. NLP is big on learning how to build rapport with others. Rapport is a way of helping people communicate effectively no matter what people's preferred communication styles are. Someone who has the greatest rapport will get on with a lot more people.

The bottom line is that rapport is about finding common ground with others. We tend to find relationships with loved ones a lot easier than strangers because we haven't taken the time to find the commonality between us. NLP gives people techniques in order that "similarities are emphasised and the differences are minimised." Another word for Rapport is Love but you won't hear people using the word "Love" in a business environment. (smile)

While I found NLP techniques to build and use Rapport useful, I believe there is another way where Rapport is automatic. Rapport already exists between everyone. Rapport is in the silence. Rapport is the Universal Energy "in whom we live and move and have our being." Rapport is what unites all life forms and species. Rapport has always existed and will always exist.

I only need to be aware of Rapport's presence and trust in It to go before me preparing the way. Rapport is not something I need to do, cultivate or think about consciously. Rapport is my omnipresent invisible presence that makes life so much easier because It is ever present. All I need do is have the intention and trust Rapport, who is already there doing what needs to be done in order for this intention to come into fruition.

Rapport makes my body work in harmony, symmetry and in synchrony.

Rapport makes me write what is helpful for me and that others might find useful.

Rapport prepares the way so that when I meet someone new I already have common ground with the individual; and I even use the right words.

Rapport opens the way for new business opportunities.

Rapport makes me act when necessary so that I'm always in the right situation at the right time.

Rapport is what makes dangerous animals appear tame around some people because It makes them peaceful.

Rapport is harmony in all ways.

It is my experience that Rapport is already present. All I need to do is trust.

I am Rapport,
Enocia

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Pretty Woman

"For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matthew 16: 26)

Last night, I saw the movie Pretty Woman again. It is about an "emotionless successful businessman" who picks up a prostitute and the relationship that develops between them.

At one level the movie can be read as a modern Cinderella fairy tale where a woman living in a desperate situation (hooker) is rescued by her Prince Charming (millionaire). On another level, this movie is about Love.

Edward, played by Richard Gere, is a businessman who specialises in taking over companies, breaking them apart and selling them off in small pieces. This process has made him very wealthy and yet he's not happy. Vivian, played by Julia Roberts, is a hooker who has sex for money. Edward asks Vivian to be his escort for the week while he's in town. Edward discovers they are both very similar. As he puts it "we both screw people for money." As the week progresses they grow to appreciate each other's qualities. Edward's attitude towards his job changes. He finds he is no longer interested in taking over his rival's company, even though he's very close to achieving his objective. Edward decides he would rather become a partner with his associate and help make the company a lot more successful. What changed? Love happened.

The ego, also known as the carnal or mortal mind, is portrayed in this movie as that which breaks up and sabotages itself. This mind doesn't understand harmony. It's idea of love is to possess and what it possesses it has to destroy. Edward and Vivian are ruled by the ego. As they get to know each other, they become appreciative of each other. Vivian doesn't believe in herself. Edward encourages her that she could be so much more. While Vivian reminds Edward that there is more to life than work. At the end of their week, Edward still wants to continue seeing Vivian. He suggests that he gets her an apartment where they can meet in future. Vivian doesn't think it's a good idea. She's been given an insight into another life, the realm where all things are possible, and she wants it all. Either Edward wants to share his life with her or not. Edward surrenders to Love. At the end of the movie when Edward reenacts Vivian's fairy tale of knight in shining armour rescuing her, Edward asks her what happens after he's saved her. Vivian responds that she saves him right back.

It's interesting how many people think Pretty Woman is a fairy tale and this kind of situation is not likely to happen in "real life." A prostitute ending up with a business man? Please! When I first saw it for the first time years ago I also thought this story was a fairy tale and not likely to happen. I've changed my mind about it. Now I know that the Love portrayed in Pretty Woman is "real life;" any other type of love is the fairy tale.

I see Pretty Woman as a perfect demonstration of surrendering to Love. When we allow Love to express through us Love removes the need to self-destruct and attack others. With Love there is no longer a need for defence. With Love everybody wins. With Love there is only wholeness.

Highly recommended. Great soundtrack!

With love,
Enocia

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The Father and I are One

"And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me." (John 12: 45)

"I and my Father are one."

"Everything comes from Intelligence. There is nothing but Unity; there is nothing but Freedom; there is nothing but Completeness; there is nothing but Totality." (Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes)

For me, waking up to Reality is an ongoing process of discovery. It started off with the simple question: Who am I? The question started me on a "quest" of trying to figure out what I'm doing here. Am I playing at being human? Am I indeed here? If I'm not here, where am I?

The following have been my findings.

There is only the One Energy appearing as forms or behind the scenes as the formless. No matter what appearances suggest, it is the One Formless Universal Energy appearing.

Universal Energy is Universal as well as specific. By "specific" I mean I am an individualised "son/daughter" Energy and the Father/Mother Principle is the Universal Energy. It's like a foetus starting with one cell that multiplies and eventually becomes the many organs, yet the Source is one and the same.

Universal Energy is infinite and infinity cannot be divided. And yet, Universal Energy gives the appearances of being in parts. No matter whether these parts are appearing as human or whatever, the part is always the same, Universal Energy. My individual presence as Enocia is the out-picturing of the Infinite Universal Energy. Therefore, when you see me you are seeing the Infinite Universal Energy.

When one realises one's identity as Universal Energy, then the Energy is experienced in its Totality. One experiences harmony in all aspects of one's life.

When Universal Energy is experienced as dual, when one interprets Universal Energy as good/bad energy; light/darkness; hot/cold or other beliefs then it is only natural that Universal Energy will appear as experiences that are dual. Dual experiences are not the image and likeness of the Harmonious Universal Energy but it is Universal Energy's nature to act in accordance with the intention directing it, whether you experience them as "good" or "bad."

How does realising one's identity as Energy work in practical experience? If you've ever seen the movie, Terminator 2 the Terminator is composed of liquid metal. In order for the Terminator to impersonate another, he reverts to Source, the formless liquid metal, which transforms into whoever he is impersonating. If he wishes to simulate a simple object like a knife, he makes his hand formless then the formless becomes the knife.

I believe I am like this formless liquid metal, but as Energy. To become formless energy, all I need do is acknowledge my identity as Universal Energy i.e. the Father/Mother and Son principle are One. I am then the formless energy which is whole and in total unity with all. Provided there are no thoughts to the contrary, wholeness is expressed as harmonious experiences.

Experiences are like a kaleidoscope changing all the time, while the Universal Energy remains the same - formless. It is therefore necessary to live in a constant state of awareness as Universe Energy.

I've been on a "quest" trying to understand who I am and I've come back full circle. "I am Energy, Universal Energy." Does this statement remind you of someone? No? OK I'll tell you, it reminds me of the following: "My name is Bond, James Bond." (smile)

I am Energy - Universal Energy (but you can call me UE),
Enocia

Related articles see When Life Imitates Mosaic Art and A Demonstration of Omnipresence

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Virtual Reality Cannot Harm You!

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." (Ecclesiastes 7: 29)

The wonderful thing about being human is freewill. We are free to think. We are free to experience life how we choose. This way we can work out through our actions what experiences are useful for us and what are not. Unfortunately, the same freedom has come at a price.

Humans believe they can use their imaginations to create new realities. I have written in an article Creation is a Reaction to What Already Is that I do not create anything. Everything of value already exists in Reality. What do I mean by "everything of value?" I mean whatever that is meant to express harmony, abundance and freedom. I believe the process of life is letting the formless ideas of harmony, abundance and freedom express as forms. But when I try to create what does not already exist, I am reacting to Reality. In other words, what I create will be that which does not exist in Reality, that which is not an expression of harmony, abundance and freedom. Yet those creations will seem very much real.

Let's take an example of what I mean by creations. There are all those lovely murder mystery books. My mother is a big fan of Agatha Christie so when I was growing up I consumed them like food. I made friends with the detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. I still watch these murder mysteries when they are shown on television. Now in a Reality of Harmony, is there any murder? My understanding is that Harmony will not express anything unlike itself. Yet there is murder in mind, i.e. fiction, people's lives etc. We wouldn't have the police or the legal professions if there wasn't murder in mind. Who created murder?

Murder is a human invention. They are simply realities that humans have created to experience what they consider to be life. These created realities are the equivalent of going into a bookshop where there are so many genres such as sci-fi, fantasies, westerns, horrors, to name but a few. If you wish to experience a reality of horror, pick up a novel and you're there. Now these realities are very much real within the writer's mind and the one reading the novel, though this reality is only a virtual reality. It would seem that when the reader has finished reading the book he can walk away without giving the book a second thought. Or can he?

What the reader doesn't realise is virtual realities persist. Virtual realities interpenetrate and take on different forms. Virtual realities are commonly known as mortal mind, carnal mind or race mind. There are virtual realities about health, nutrition, politics, education...the list is endless. There's no point trying to distinguish one virtual reality from another just because one seems to be in a book or another in a movie. The human experience is filled with virtual realities. It is these virtual realities that create/simulate the murders, mayhem and destructions I see around. I say "simulate" because no one is ever killed. The observer of a simulation may think the ones killed have ceased to exist, but they are still alive. They've simply entered into another virtual reality.

How do you stop these inventions/virtual realities and simulations? I'll answer this with another question. What are you going to do if someone tells you that if you go out Goldfinger is going to kill you. (Goldfinger is a Bond villain from the Ian Fleming novel, "Goldfinger"). Will you take the person seriously? Of course not! You're bound to laugh. Goldfinger has a lot of power in the book (or movie) and wants to rule the world, like all Bond villains, until Bond kills him. But Goldfinger has no power in Reality. Why not treat what is not of Harmony like a fictional character, for a fictional character has no power. If a fictional character has power in your eyes, this can only mean one thing - you are living in the same reality as the fictional character.

My view is this, if what I am experiencing or observing is not of Harmony, it is a virtual reality. I'm not fooled that a virtual reality is real just because it's not in a book, a newspaper or in a movie. They are all virtual realities.

How can one tell the difference between virtual reality and Reality? I see Reality as very simple. Reality is Harmony.When people are experiencing harmony they get on. This is commonly referred to as love. Harmony can only be harmonious and cannot fight against itself otherwise it will be called dis-harmony. (Get it? Dissing Harmony). Haha!

I travel on buses a lot and I have travelled in many virtual realities in my time. Hehe! I was on the bus yesterday with a driver that was very harmonious. Some passengers got on and tried to buy tickets off the driver. The driver told them they needed to get their tickets beforehand and they should get off at the next bus stop. One complained that other passengers were on the bus and they didn't have tickets. Why should they have to get off the bus and get tickets? What did the driver do? When he arrived at the next stop, he got off the bus, showed the passengers how to get their tickets and then allowed them back on the bus. Later another couple and their kids got on without buying a ticket. The driver advised them to get their ticket from the machine while he waited for them. Throughout the journey the driver was whistling the Christmas carol Ding Dong Merrily on High. Here was a driver who was in harmony.

No one wants to suffer or be in bondage to anything or anyone. Everyone wants to be free. In a world of harmony, events arrange themselves in accordance with harmony. Because harmony takes care of everyone's needs, no one need be in bondage to anyone. Where there is Love there is freedom.

I believe life is simple. You're either living a life that is harmonious and you will express harmony in all ways, or you are living in a virtual reality. Virtual reality tries to simulate harmony but cannot because it doesn't know how to. Virtual reality only knows how to create that which doesn't already exist and that which is not like Harmony.

Virtual reality has no power to hurt you unless you are living in a virtual reality.

I am Harmony,
Enocia

Related Articles: Do We Create Our Own Realities? and No Power in Nature

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