Spiritual Roots

You Are God Also!

As a child, I disliked going to #church on Sundays; but then I guess a lot of children do, having to keep quiet, stop fidgeting, sit still, stand up, sit down, get on your knees, stand up, sit down . . .You had to keep this bobbing up and down, up for what felt like an age before you could escape the gloomy, musty smelling interior of the church. My mother told me that one Sunday, in the silence that descends as worshippers lay their Bibles down on the benches and knelt to pray, I unwittingly announced to the whole congregation in sheer frustration, "Mummy, WH-Y-Y-Y did you bring us here?!" Apparently, I repeated the question with increasing irritation and a bit of a hum rolled round the church as my Mother tried to shush me up and get me to kneel for #prayers.

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The Baobab tree's unique appearance gives the impression that it is upside down with its roots reaching for the heavens! Photo by Sergey Zhesterey on Unsplash

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Not too long after that, going to church became a thing of the past and Sundays for a seven year old and her sisters became wonderful days of standing by the gate to make sure we did not miss the Wall's ice-cream van, reading our weekly World of Wonder and other science and general knowledge magazines for kids, and splitting our sides over the antics of the characters in our Harold Hare comics!

Things did not improve with the weekly compulsory #Bible Knowledge class in high school and it did not take me long to start questioning everything in the Book! Okay, the Ten Commandments . . . well there was no mincing of words there, but the rest! And then Oh Lord! The Lord Jesus Christ! Loaves and fish! Walk on water! Water to wine! Oh yeah! Yet he couldn't pull a couple of stunners out of his bag of tricks to put an end to all the troubles and sufferings, experienced under Roman domination and under other groups and individuals that were oppressing the people; nor could he save himself from being crucified! And when it came to communicating with the #Creator, I totally rejected the need to go through an intermediary in the form of a priest. What made a priest any better or more qualified than I to speak to #God - and about my own business too?! You came to realize that the church officials, with their unending hierarchies, were no better than anybody else, with their wickednesses, their intolerance, their hypocrisy and, in the case of missionaries, the greed and rank racism that they (and their governments) practised left and right, whilst preaching how God created all of us, how we were all equal in the sight of God, how God loved all of us, cared for all of us and how we were to emulate that love. It was bizarre how in the sight of man, none of God's ideals held true! How none of His ideals were instilled in or inherited by His children!!!! And this bizarre situation still holds true today.

In the end, I found the Bible, particularly the New Testament and the explanations given, so irritating and confusing that I decided to put the whole thing to one side and went in search of some other way of understanding the spiritual side of life - and so discovered New Age philosophies, Out On A Limb by Shirley Maclaine, the wonderful Seth books by Jane Roberts and finally, the Crimson Circle, where I knew immediately that I had found my spiritual home here on Earth. (Aaah! Just in case you are wondering, the Christ problem did not go away! But that's the subject of my next blog!)

Along the way, I learned about reincarnation - living many lifetimes in order to create, to experience, to grow and to evolve. I learned that I Am, in the simplest form, a TRINITY: the Me, i.e. the physical Soul Aspect living life here on Earth as an individual person; the Myself, i.e. my Higher Self or Oversoul, that higher Aspect that is the repository of all the wisdom distilled from our human life experiences, and the I, i.e. my I AM Presence (my God Spark) that Spark of pure Creator #Consciousness that sits within and yet encompasses the Human Being and that makes it possible for all Beings to have eternal life. I also learned that the Human has great leeway in creating their own reality based on the choices the individual Human Being makes, but that in truth, these choices and their subsequent experiences have to align with those of the Higher Aspects of you as TRINITY, in order for them to result in real spiritual growth and evolution for the Human.

Well, this was where I was at when I wrote the first version of this article in 2013. It is now 2021 and during the intervening years, as my awareness grew, I gradually, if somewhat painfully, came to realise that everything that happens to you in life has a meaning and serves a purpose and that on the celestial plane you yourself, in collaboration with others, set up the events, the dramas and the melodramas that play out in your life and in their life, that enable you and everyone else involved to acquire wisdom or settle karmic issues, often on several levels simultaneously. As such - and this was and still is the hardest to come to terms with - you are never a victim. You are never a victim whether of circumstance or of anyone. You are involved in a particular piece of #drama because you have chosen to be involved in it for your own reasons. Now, whether a myriad repeats of the same role in the same drama always promote your spiritual growth, or whether some merely serve as an excuse for a person to continue playing the game of powerlessness and of being a victim - so beloved by us humans! - is where the importance of one's increasing awareness and the growth and maturity of one's consciousness, one's wisdom, comes into play - and leads us to the subject of #Enlightenment aka #Ascension or Realization.

So what is Enlightenment? It is when a Human Being's consciousness attains a depth of wisdom and maturity, through their experiences of life on Earth, that it enables them to more fully integrate with their I AM Presence and Higher Self, making it possible for the Human to have unimpeded access to the practically limitless information and wisdom that these #Divine Aspects embody. As a result, a Human Being comes to consciously realize, understand and accept that they are God Also and a conscious Co-creator of life, Creation, the Universe, Gaia Mother Earth and the world, with God The Creator The Eternal Infinite Living Void of Consciousness.

Humans apparently normally attain this level of integration with their Higher Aspects at the point of, or following, their death here on Earth, as up until now it has ordinarily been beyond the capacity of the physical human mind and body to cope with the results of such an integration while on third-dimensional earth - with the exception of a very few, like the Ascended Master Kuthumi Lal Singh. However, what makes Enlightenment of special significance at this most important and pivotal time in human history is that the many who are committed to working with and within the New Consciousness Energies, through whatever framework they choose, and who desire and give themselves permission to do so, can now experience Enlightenment while remaining in the physical body and continue to live on Earth as Enlightened Embodied Masters; Embodied Enlightened Masters able to serve by casting their light to illuminate the Divine potentials available to all Beings - potentials that include being able to live a life of freedom, ease and grace, love and joy, abundance, beauty and balance, wisdom and sovereignty.

This is particularly important now with the development and increasing dominance of #Artificial #Intelligence in our lives and the potential for Humans to lose control of this powerful technology and how it is used and how it operates in our lives, leading to devastating consequences. Divine Archetypal Consciousness Principles - or Truths, as I also like to call them - of Love, Truth and Compassion, Beauty, Goodness and Service, and #Freedom, Wisdom, Creative Power and #Sovereignty, all have an important role to play in ensuring that Artificial Intelligence and any and all other forms of technology, systems, structures, processes, regulations and laws exist purely to serve the Human Being, and not as is the case today where Humanity is being forced more and more to serve #technology and its systems, structures, processes, regulations and laws.

And so it was that, finally, the spiritual side of life began to make sense to me. Oh, it did not all happen all at once. As I stated earlier, it has taken me years to understand important things about the spiritual side of life; years to understand messages and information from My TRINITY that I have received on my own, or through a few first-class channellers; years for their relevance and significance to come to light as events and experiences unfolded in my life and in the world.

But then again, I have come to realise just how appropriate the pace and timing of my understanding of things have been and continue to be; and how, therefore, I did not fail in fulfilling various important missions that I was meant to fulfil in this lifetime. In truth, the experience of Enlightenment is a life-long journey of self-discovery, discovery, realization, understanding, acceptance, allowing, experiencing, growing and evolving.

And so I remain deeply committed to the alternative #spiritual path. Yes, there are some who have somehow narrowed their 'New Age' beliefs and focus down to a mind-numbing and paralyzing preoccupation with being rescued from a destroyed and dying #Earth by all-powerful aliens in their flying machines. #Dystopia is now all the rage! However, I am happy to say that for many others, our 'New Age' beliefs have evolved and given way to focussing on allowing and enabling the experiencing of Embodied Enlightenment - the grand realisation that as a Human Being, you are God Also.