Healing and counseling sessions
Seeking higher consciousness
September 2011
Contents:
- The material world is unreal?
- Pure awareness
- Is God's love unconditional?
- Our God is consuming fire
- Being I AM vs. being whatever I want to be
- God More vs. false more
- How to enter the kingdom of God
- The role of Matter/Mother
- Purifying our garments
1. The material world is unreal?
Many people today are seeking to raise their consciousness – they are called spiritual seekers. They are looking for the ultimate state of enlightenment, or wisdom, where they would feel whole and complete, peaceful and blissful, not affected by the problems of the world. It is considered that the more peaceful and non-attached the person can stay in challenging circumstances, the higher their consciousness.
This resulted in many spiritual seekers trying to control and even numb their feelings, because it is impossible to block only negative emotions while freely expressing positive ones, such as love and compassion. One theory that justifies cutting off of emotions is that nothing in the material realm is ultimately real, so we shouldn't take it seriously. There is no point in stressing over "unreality", so instead of facing the issue, we escape into the so-called pure consciousness, or pure awareness, where none of those problems exist.
What is pure awareness? It is when you believe there is no right or wrong, no good and evil, no God's Laws to obey, and that you are allowed to do whatever you want to with absolutely no consequences, i.e. that God will unconditionally love you regardless.
It is called "pure" because it is free from any restrictions, even moral and ethical ones. Whatever might restrict your freedom of "I will be who I will be" is seen a false belief and something to cast out. Absolute freedom of everything, including the truth of Christ, is the mark of pure awareness.
It is a carte blanche for the self-will of the ego, which doesn't want to accept the Christ as the Way, the Truth and the Life. Instead, it elevates the so-called Conscious You, a mind-based identity which describes itself as "aware". Gautama Buddha, when asked who he was, answered "I am awake". These people on the contrary are not awake because they seek to circumvent the fundamental spiritual (i.e. God's) laws and be a law unto themselves. This shows their pride, selfishness and spiritual blindness – far from enlightenment of the Buddha.
3. Is God's love unconditional?
One of the key New Age teachings is that God loves us unconditionally, no matter what we do. It is true that God doesn't see us as miserable sinners but as his beloved children. But he still doesn't love our sin, but that which is pure and good in us - the Christ in us.
In the Old Testament it is written that God hates sin, which means that he is not indifferent towards what we do. Jesus Christ showed us his love when he fed the hungry, healed the sick, raised the dead, forgave the sinners, and finally let himself be crucified for us. But he also showed indignation toward the prideful scribes and Pharisees, whom he rebuked on many occasions. He also showed what he thinks of the carnal mindedness and greed when he overturned the money changers' tables in the temple.
God isn't unconditionally loving, but loves what is real in us, i.e. what is aligned with the Christ. Pride, rebellion, carnal-mindedness, selfishness… all that he doesn't like. False teachers who promote pure awareness and unconditional love portray a different picture of God: an indifferent God, who just observes whatever is happening to us (and the world), lets us experiment with sin and harm ourselves without caring to warn us, and who heartlessly watches as we suffer the consequences of our wrong choices – to which he didn't say they were wrong because there is no right or wrong for that "God."
This is the false image of God, portrayed by the teachers of pure awareness. Their God is "aware", but not discerning; he has the mind, but not the heart. On the contrary, true God – who revealed himself through his Son Jesus Christ – is compassionate and loves with discernment (i.e. he loves virtue and judges sin with righteous judgment).
Furthermore, the Bible says that our God is consuming fire (Heb 12:29). God is a spiritual fire that consumes all that is unreal, i.e. different from himself and Christ perfection. For a time he allows us to create imperfections, shielding us from our own karma in hope we would learn and choose better. This is the period of God's Mercy. But the time comes when the karma descends if we haven't repented and changed our ways. God's Mercy is not infinite and the time comes when Justice needs to be meted out.
It is not God punishing us, but allowing us to feel the consequences of our wrong actions ("as you sow, so shall you reap") – since we don't want to give them up.
5. Being I AM vs. being whatever I want to be
Many people feel constrained in their being and expression. They would want to live freely but they worry what others will say. They are controlled by their family and society and try to fit in the mold. But they want freedom! And that's a legitimate desire. But what is true freedom and what is our true being? While wanting freedom, some people get into slavery of drugs or promiscuity. That's not Being, quite the opposite. True freedom can only be found in Being I AM, i.e. being the Christ created in the image and likeness of the Creator. That is our true self.
Conscious You – the identity based on pure awareness, without the Christ – is a false identity. Conscious You says "I will be who I will be" because God gave me free will. It says that God doesn't set any standard or right and wrong, he lets us experiment, and that's the whole purpose of life: to experiment (even with things God has forbidden), to learn from it and "grow in consciousness."
This is a distortion of truth because although God gave us free will, he also set instructions, commandments if you will, that keep us on the right course and are meant for our protection. He doesn't want us to experiment with just anything, because otherwise he would have said "do as you please". But he didn't.
And that's because he knows certain things are harmful and can prevent or stall our spiritual growth. A loving parent wouldn't allow their kid to freely push their fingers into the electricity socket, because that's dangerous. God told us what is dangerous and that we shouldn't do it. It is for our own protection.
So the Conscious You idea that God doesn't set any standard or any guidance is a lie. A parent who doesn't care would behave like that, but not a loving parent.
Conscious You feels limited by God's Laws because it loves his ego more than God. That's why it sets itself above the Christ – which is the true standard of righteousness – and proclaims its own standard "I will be who I will be": This is the same as the Satanist motto "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law".
Many spiritual people realize that God wants us to be happy and have an abundant life (It is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom, Luke 12:32). However, too often they forget what the kingdom means. It doesn't necessarily mean material riches, good health and worldly success, but oneness with the Father, loving God with all our heart, soul and mind, which then is awarded by the Father's indwelling presence in us and the Holy Spirit upon us (and possibly with good health and material abundance as well).
Jesus said in the same paragraph (Luke 12:29-31): "Seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind…. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you." Many people seek things of the world first, they want material abundance and they learn the secrets of "manifesting".
In doing that, they don't have a personal relationship with the Father, like Jesus did, but they see God as a universal source of energy which they need to tap into. When they press the right button, milk and honey will start flowing. But that's not how it works. That is, it might work like that with lower spirits, who will even help you achieve some of those material goals, but you will have to pay a price and end up with spirits possession.
God is not just a universal source of energy, just a field to "tap into". God is personal, same as Jesus was personal. God blesses us ("draws nigh to us") only when we draw nigh to him. There needs to be a relationship of love and trust, of gratitude and humility, like with a Father we love and respect.
We need to change and stop being selfish in order to enter the kingdom. That's why Jesus said "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God" (Mark 10:25) If we care for worldly riches and recognition, if we care for anything more than God, it will prevent our entry into the kingdom.
False teachers promise you the false more – fulfillment of all your desires, even if they aren't the right desires. Desire for more closeness with God, or to express more of our true self, is a legitimate desire. But a desire of our ego or carnal mind – for more sensual pleasure, or more money, or fame, is a false desire. God isn't here to fulfill our false desires but he will gladly fulfill our true desires. He will bless us as we give our life to him completely.
7. How to enter the kingdom of God
We cannot save ourselves through our mind. We cannot just say "I am God", or "I am my True Self", while there hasn't been a surrender in the heart. Unless we say, as Virgin Mary did: Be it unto me according to thy Word, we are not being our True Self. Only such love and faith that Mary possessed can take us to the kingdom.
Otherwise, what we think is the kingdom of God and a "direct experience of God", as some call it, will be a false realm. It might even feel good to our senses and we might even have certain spiritual phenomena, enabled by dark spirits, but it won't be the reality of God. We will believe the Holy Spirit is upon us, while it will be a foul spirit.
Conscious You and pure awareness cannot take us to the kingdom because they deny what God is and what Christ is. They portray a false God and present a path to enter a false kingdom. The gate to the false kingdom is broad: you can do whatever you want to do and be whatever you want to be, with no regard for God's Laws. The gate to the true kingdom is narrow – you need to walk the path of the Christ, which is a narrow path, but the only one that leads to true bliss and eternal life.
Going back to the beginning, how unreal is the material world? Only parts of it are unreal, those which were created by man's fallen consciousness. Those parts will be ultimately consumed by God's consuming fire, since there is no God reality in them, they aren't created from Christ consciousness.
The material realm is the realm of the Mother, which should be the mirror of the Spirit – as Above, so below. Father and Mother, Spirit and Matter, present Divine Duality, yin and yang. Those who disregard matter as inferior and unreal, and something that needs to be cast off, are false teachers. They teach you to escape into pure awareness, instead of facing challenges and purifying your soul, i.e. your four lower bodies, with the help of the Christ.
Mother Mary is a representative of the Divine Mother. She and the Father are one. She is pure and worthy and real – she weaved her wedding garment which guarantees her eternal life, by the side of Lord Jesus Christ. She is an example for all of us of how to be the Mother and the handmaiden of the Lord.
Mother provides form and structure, she is the polarity of the formless Spirit which wants to express itself in matter. True Father doesn't think he is superior to the Mother, because they are two facets of One God – never separated, never one without the other. Without matter, the Spirit would be unexpressed, unrealized. Therefore self-realization is only possible in matter, by bringing matter in oneness with the Spirit, i.e. our soul in oneness with our I AM Presence, which is our God Self.
This is called Being I AM, our Being our True Self – being here below all that we are Above. We can do it only by walking the path of Christ, surrendering to God's Will (out of love not fear), and purifying our garments (our sense of identity, our thoughts, feelings and actions) to reflect the perfection of Christ – the image and likeness in which God created us.
Raising the lesser vibrations of lust, greed, selfishness, pride… into love, purity, peace, forgiveness, charity… is our task here on earth. It cannot be done mentally, by commanding ourselves to feel positive feelings, or by escaping from feelings in "pure awareness". It can be done only by surrendering the lesser feelings to God. It happens through the heart that loves God more, not the mind. This is the difference between the true path of Christ and the false path of the Conscious You.
