Appeal to a Higher Authority

[Liara Covert]

People do not always have faith in their own internal voice of wisdom. They may not be ready or may not choose to listen. The soul is forever ready for awakening. The mind need only catch up with the reality that is and always has been.

In truth, every person is privy to experience that teaches them their own lives are not really chaotic or unmanageable. You are not meant to get attached to concepts or mindsets that are really just obsolete ideas about who you thought you were. Its not about who you represent, who you feel you belong to, your temporary affiliation or some function you had intended to serve. Remove external labels. Every human being is energy in the process of transforming. What is it you desire to know?

To appeal to a Higher Authority is to be willing to connect with the universal Source, whatever that means to you. This takes shape in sensations, appears in dreams, symbols and mental mapping. Even metaphors remind you what you already know. Energy stretches you. Energy teaches you. Energy is you. The Higher Authority is within not without. You are connected to everything, everywhere. Listen to the echos that reverberrate back. Share selflessly. Empower and be empowered.

In essence, the Higher Authority you seek is soul. It is where you connect heaven, Earth and everything in between. It is where you retrieve the information you require at a given moment, but nothing more. Why complicate things? Existence is as simple as you choose. Higher Authority reiterates this in formless states and makes you who you are. Learning unconditional slef-love and acceptance is a key reason you incarnate here and now. What's next is completely up to you.

[Jon Zuck]

Loved that story, James!

[Liara Covert]

James, that story is timeless. Thanks for sharing. I have heard it before, but I taste it again as if for the first time. Views of time and space are illusions. To stop wearing a watch and detach from apparent time constraints transforms everything. When a person changes a mindset, this influences the nature of his choices, perception and experience. Each choice creates consequences, regardless of whether a person is aware of the choices and repercussions.

[James Souttar]

Liara, my friend Dominic recently wrote this on his weblog:

“30 years ago i thought that i would get ‘enlightened’ any moment; i had no idea of the infinite depth of ‘any moment’. There is still a sense of doership, but I can see that the grace of any moment is its virginity - it is simply a happening.........”

I was there with him 30 years ago – we were both young spiritual seekers under the direction of an extraordinary teacher, and I shared his apprehension then. After 30 years of going our own ways, I found him again on the web this last winter, and found this comment on his weblog.

i had no idea of the infinite depth of ‘any moment’

That’s the thing. Neither of us had. And still I am in awe of this.

Yes, spirituality is fundamentally simple, as easy as...

An economist went out for a walk in the country, deep in thought. But as he strode along, he found that God, the Almighty, Creator of the Worlds, was speaking to him.

“Ask me something”, said God.

“Okay”, said the economist. “I’ve heard that what is for us a hundred years is for you only a moment. Is this so?”

“Yes!” replied God. “Ask me something else”.

“Okay”, said the economist. “Does this apply to other things as well? For instance, would what is to you only a penny be billions of pounds in our money?”

“Indeed”, said God. “But ask something of me, not just a question but a request.”

“Okay”, said the economist. “Can you give me a penny?”

“Bother!” said God. “Got no change on me. Just wait a moment...”

[Liara Covert]

Mark, the truth of experience is only felt. One does not skip stages of awareness. It cannot be truly grasped second-hand. One perspective is the point of physical existence is to stop falling victim to the bait of ego. Whenever something is said that triggers internal resistance, it makes sense to examine the root cause. This raises the issue of fear. One might ask, 'fear of what?' To recognize fear is an illusion created by ego is a step toward transcending it. The unconscious mind waits patiently for you to "awaken" to the illusion of fear. To choose to let go of ego is to choose to surrender to energy flow and what is. (Notice I don't say "control the ego" because with control, the ego is still present. It's the letting go of ego that is the goal). Expectations are ego-based. Ego is not the real you. Sometimes words do not adequately translate reality.

[Mark Walter]

One of the problems with simply 'letting go' is uncertainty. We wonder 'what is going to happen to me' or 'what does it feel like?' This sense of not knowing causes us to hesitate, or to pull back even when we are on the very edge of letting go. In some cases we pull back because we are expecting some earth shattering experience when, in fact, it is a very natural experience.

Another problem is that most of our models for letting go are people we read about. We have little to no experience being around people who can demonstrate what letting go actually looks, sounds and feels like. In particular, we have very few people who are living from and in a genuinely deep place. What we DO have are people who represent depth, but it is either an artificial representation or a relative depth, a notch or two deeper than the average person. That's not real depth. That's like saying you are an auto mechanic after you've sat in the repair shop for a day waiting on your car. In that case, you might have a little more exposure to the terminology, smells and sounds of a shop, but you sure don't have depth. So unfortunately, some of our models are not all that deep; they are usurpers of the real thing.

In many instances, we end up with expectations of what the real thing feels like based on these kinds of 'models'. Our expectations may not be at all accurate. This makes it all the more important that when we actually touch and experience the real thing, that we are as honest and rigorous as possible in representing what it is. We should not be representing what it is not as what it is.