Last Updated on December 11, 2011
Here are some beautiful insights sent to me by an old friend. Below that I include the response that arose to these words.
Dear Jonathan
Claudia directed me to your website some time ago and I have been thinking about communicating with you for a while, but it is only now that I have been directed within to make this contact. I would like to offer you some new perspectives on the things that you talk about…not to replace them but hopefully to expand on them. I am fully aware of the truth that exists in your words but I am also aware of additional truth that does not seem to be represented there. I hope you will open your heart and mind to my words and that a beautiful dialogue can emerge from the sharing of different internal experiences.
I am going to attempt keeping this as simple as possible—yet already as I write I am aware of how complicated the human ego-mind has become and hence it will invariably complicate things when you read my simple explanation of the illusion.
My concern is that you may have created a closed circle where anything I say will automatically be written off as ‘complication from the human ego-mind’. That would be unfortunate. The truth is that I have been studying the ‘illusion’ for 30 years now and the very first spiritual knowledge that I received was exactly that which you speak about. I fully understood it to the extent that anyone can who has had glimpses of the state but is not fully living it and who has given so much of her life to the study of it. I have also had 30 years to work through the various levels of my own human ego-mind and while I don’t claim to be free of every limitation, I certainly have come far enough to know what I create as my own illusion and what is true knowledge that has come to me from God and through my own experience.
The thing is, the moment I understood the existence of the state of being that you promote, there was nothing in the universe that I wanted more. I devoted my every breath to its attainment. If God wanted me to be living in that state, there would be no way that I couldn’t be…I completely surrendered to God’s will and kept the goal in my heart and mind perpetually. I strived, worked, and used everything in the ‘illusion’ as a doorway to the divine.
When the time came for my enlightenment, no one could have been more surprised than me by what I got. It was not the enlightenment that you speak of, or that I learned from my spiritual teachers, research and studies. It was an enlightenment of a different kind. Over a period of 3 years, I was shown the conception of the human spirit and the meeting point of the divine and the human. I was shown why the creation happened, its purpose and goal. I was shown God as Father and God as Mother and the understanding of the difference between women and men when it came to spiritual purpose and experience. And most importantly I was shown that those who attained the enlightenment that you speak of, but who have not also fully embraced what you call ‘illusion’ have not realized God’s purpose in creation. In other words, the purpose is the full unity of both the Divine (Father) and the Human (Mother). To return fully to the Father without having fully embraced Mother returns one to the original state without having dealt with the inherent problems that were the motivating force for the creation in the first place. After three years I was sent out into the world to share my knowledge. As you can imagine, it hasn’t been easy!
As I begin to speak about the difference between male and female spirituality, I would like to emphasize that I am not a fervent feminist. I can’t be because I am too aware of the natural differences between the two. I never felt the need to join the feminist movement because I grew up in a house where my mother was the dominant one in the family and seemingly the most capable, so I grew up believing I could be or do anything I wanted to. It was already a part of who I was and I didn’t have to fight for it. While it’s true that I have little tolerance for inequality between the sexes (or inequality of any kind) I, in no way, see ‘equality’ as ‘sameness’. In their struggle to become on equal social ground with men, women often gave up their femininity to take on masculine qualities in order to be accepted and/or became anti-men. Perhaps it was the only way to gain ground in a world where ‘male’ was more valued than ‘female’. For me, both are absolutely essential to the ultimate purpose of the creation and both must be valued for the part that they play.
I speak about all of this for a couple of reasons. First of all, I want to be sure that you understand that I come to the things that I’m saying, not because of some ‘human ego-mind’ stuff around feminism etc. It wasn’t that much a part of my consciousness before all of this was revealed to me. Secondly, this is all very important because ‘as it is in heaven, so it is on earth’. I believe you said something to this effect yourself. Well, first of all, let’s establish that there is ‘male’ and ‘female’ on the earth and that there is, therefore, ‘male’ and ‘female’ within God. Also, in the same way that the feminine has been socially suppressed and undervalued on the earth so has the Divine Feminine been suppressed, hidden and undervalued in the consciousness of the world. She is also in a state of separation from her Beloved. Our work is to bring the reunion of Mother and Father. The state of enlightenment that you live and describe is the natural masculine state of spirituality. However, women must live another kind of enlightenment and the two must ultimately come together to create the birth of the fullness of God within the realms of time and space.
I could write for hours on this topic and be nowhere close to a conclusion so I’ll just finish this email with one more thought and leave the rest for future discussions. Think about Love. Before the creation, Love was. But love wasn’t experienced. Experience only exists within the realms of time and space …it is only through “other” that love can move. It must be given and received in order for it to be felt. In God before the creation, Love existed as potential but remained unexpressed…it couldn’t move because there was no where for it to move. All was oneness. It’s like sitting in a hot bath…if you sit very still you become one with the hot water, you no longer experience it as ‘hot’. Move an arm and a leg and ‘hot’ can now be experienced. It is through motion…it is through the relativity of time and space that experience comes into being.
Love expressed in the world, therefore, is real. It is God’s Love in motion, being expressed. The problem, of course, is that if time and space become the medium through which Love can be expressed, it also becomes the medium for Separation. As long as Love is moving, there is Unity. But should something interfere with the flow of Love, it becomes the experience of Separation . This is not illusion, any more than Love expressed is illusion. It is God unexpressed becoming God expressed. If the potential for Love existed within Unmanifest Pure Oneness, then the potential for Separation and everything that is associated with it also existed within Unmanifest Oneness. Time and space, love and separation…these are all aspects of God expressed…these are Mother.
I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Blessings
Debbie
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