Archive for May, 2004

Karma — more of the illusion

In my early teens when I started actively exploring various spiritual paths and texts I came across the idea of Karma. On one level it rang true for me, in that I could see how it was so. Yet deep inside I also felt that it was being misinterpreted and portrayed. In more recent years I started to see what this was all about—from within my experience.

Many people who start exploring ’spirituality’ start coming across ideas about reincarnation and karma. These ideas, from within the perspective of the Dream we are collectively creating, do have some basis of truth (little ‘t’ as in ‘truth’ within the dream/illusion). From the the standpoint of the Dream yes, we do reincarnate and experience many lives. From the standpoint of the Dream, yes we do experience what is referred to as ’cause and effect’ a.k.a. Karma. Also from this same standpoint there is the implication that you and I are spread out across time and are creating situations (in the past) that victimise and attack us now and in the future. What an ego trip that one is!!

Yes, all that is seemingly true from within the dream that the ego-mind has created.

NO it is complete nonsense from the Vision that God has of You and I and this World within our mind.

What is referred to as ‘my Karma’ is ALL HERE NOW. It is being created and destroyed in a billionth of a second every moment. It is not some ‘bad and heavy shit I got up to in the past when I was the ‘dastardly King Agatha’ or ‘Lord Maldek of Darkness’ that is now and in the future coming back to haunt me. That is simply a story that ego is telling and projection and spreading out over this other projection it has, called ‘time’.

Karma is all here now. It is created and retributed in each and every moment. It is created each moment that I forget who and what “I AM”. The effect of this is instant. The effect is that I experience separation from that which I AM and that experience brings forth the illusion of pain and the illusion of being separate from God and hence absent of Love. It starts right now. It ends right now. It doesn’t even take that long.

I meet people (including myself ‘once upon a time’ - stuck within time) who get very caught up worrying about their karma, or justifying their present misery with their karma and this sense of “Oh well, this is just my karma from the past that I am now clearing up through these miseries”. This is simply victim consciousness spread out over time and involuted so that one is now victim of oneself. The collective ego then has the arrogance to turn around and in much of the “New Age” talk that’s buzzing around it says “We are not victims. The bad things that happen to us are the result of our deeds in the past. These were our choices and now we experience the effect of those choices. Hence we are not victims. We are simply learning our lessons”. So here we are (some of us) turning what has to be one of the more insidious ‘victim’ trips (insidious because it comes in a nice spiritual package) into the explanation for why the whole victim mentality isn’t real. Can you see how mixed up that is? Can you see how deeply controlling this is? How limiting?

Karma, at the very most, can be equated to the decision I am making right here in this moment and the effect of that decision on what I perceive to be ‘me’ here within this fragment of the Dream. It’s all very instantaneous and right Here Now. So very much so that I am having trouble spreading it out across the space on this page—which takes ‘time’—in order to explain what I mean.

The main thing I wish to impress upon your beautiful heart is that You Are Free. You are only bound by karma if you in this moment maintain that you are. You will only maintain that you could possibly be bound up in Karma if you are seeing this world through guilty eyes—which is all human eyes for they are a product/projection of the ego, along with the rest of the body. The moment you step outside of Time and into the Vision of God then you will see that this great big guilt trip the ego appears to be caught up in was only that—an ‘appearance’ and nothing real.

May the truth set you free.

Jonathan

The Apocalypse is NOW

The Apocalypse talked about in the bible is happening right now.
What it does not mention the bible is just what the “Apocalypse” actually is.

The definition of the word Apocalypse (as found at www.dictionary.com) is:
“A prophetic disclosure; a revelation”.
“Apocalypse, uncovering, revelation”

There are also the more commonly thought of definitions but these are all the rubbish ones religion have programmed into us so that we fear the very things that is meant to set us free.
If you look at the origins of the word itself we can see what this word really means as opposed to what we mislead ourselves into thinking it meant:
“Middle English Apocalipse, from Late Latin Apocalypsis, from Greek apokalupsis, revelation, Apocalypse, from apokaluptein, to uncover : apo-, apo- + kaluptein, to cover; see kel-1 in Indo-European Roots.”

The Greek name for the Book Of Revelations (in the bible) is “Apocalypse”.

So, what I see in this is that the time of the apocalypse (gosh I’m having a hard time remembering the spelling of that each time I write it) is the time of Revelation… the time of Uncovering.

What is being “uncovered”?

The TRUTH.

The ‘Time of the Apocalypse’ as refered to in the Bibile is the time when the truth is uncovered and all those that have tried to remain ignorant and keep ourselves ignorant of the Truth wil have no choice but to let go of their grip on a false sense of reality.

That time is right now.

Right now I am seeing a huge amount of shake up happening outwardly and inwardly within the various illusionary power structures (both material ones and spiritual ones) that have had a grip on human consciousness. They have only had this grip because we have collective created that reality. The collective ego-mind has, until now, been dreaming a dreaming where all are controlled and there is no way out.

The collective ego-mind is now starting to dream a dream that includes people being able to have relatively easy access to Truth both within themselves and hence outside in the world. This is a new dream that has been increasingly coming into manifestation over some decades now. This new collective dream includes a way out and it includes the breaking down of the old external power-based thought-forms and roles that we had co-created previously in the world. Externally and internally (for the two can not be seperated) I am seeing a lot of change take place. I think that anyone who looks around at the world today, and within themselves, will recognise what I am talking about.

There is a lot of shake-up happening. This will quite likely result in a degree of apparent choas. It doesn’t have to, but I suspect that because many are still hanging on to the old dream it is going to, at the apparent level, take a little ‘force’ to pry open their hands which so firmly grip the old ways.

This is a great time, as far as the illusion of time goes. Now is the perfect time.
“NOW” IS THE PERFECT TIME. Do you get it?
I hope so.

Welcome to the Apocalypse.

With love,

Jonathan