There now. I have
explained it all for you. Life. How it works. Its very reason and purpose.
How else can I serve you?
There's nothing
more I could ask. I am filled with thanks for this incredible dialogue.
It's been so far-reaching, so encompassing. And, as I look at my original
questions, I see we've covered the first five- having to do with life and
relationships, money, and careers, and health. I had more questions on
that original list, as you know, but somehow these discussions make those
questions seem irrelevant.
Yes. Still, you've
asked them. Let's just quickly answer the remainder of them, one by one.
Now that we're moving this rapidly through the material-
-What
material?-
The material I
brought you here to expose you to- now that we're moving this rapidly
though the material, let's just take those remaining questions and deal
with them quickly.
6. What is the
karmic lesson I'm supposed to be learning here? What am I trying to
master?
You are learning
nothing here. You have nothing to learn. You have only to remember. That
is, re-member Me.
What are you trying
to master? You are trying to master mastering itself.
7. Is there such a thing as reincarnation? How many
past lives have I had? What was I in them? Is "karmic debt" a reality?
It is difficult to
believe there is still a question about this. I find it hard to imagine.
There have been so many reports from thoroughly reliable sources of past
life experiences. Some of these people have brought back strikingly
detailed descriptions of events, and such completely verifiable data as to
eliminate any possibility that they were making it up or had contrived to
somehow deceive researchers and loved ones.
You have had
647
past
lives, since you insist on being exact. This is your 648th. You were
everything in them. A king, a queen, a serf. A teacher, a student,
a master. A male, a female. A warrior, a pacifist. A hero, a coward. A
killer, a savior. A sage, a fool. You have been all of it!
No, there is no such
thing as karmic debt- not in the sense that you mean in this question. A
debt is something that must or should be repaid. You are not obligated
to do anything.
Still, there are
certain things that you want to do; choose to experience.
And some of these choices hinge on- the desire for them has been created
by- what you have experienced before.
That is as close as
words can come to this thing you call karma.
If karma is the
innate desire to be better, to be bigger, to evolve and to grow, and to
look at past events and experiences as a measure of that, then, yes, karma
does exist.
But it does not
require anything. Nothing is ever
required. You are, as always you have ever been, a being of free choice.
8. I sometimes feel very psychic. Is there such a thing
as being psychic? Am I that? Are people who claim to be psychic
"trafficking with the devil"?
Yes, there is such a
thing as being psychic. You are that. Everyone is that.
There is not a person who does not have what you call psychic ability,
there are only people who do not use it.
Using psychic ability
is nothing more than using your sixth sense.
Obviously, this is
not "trafficking with the devil," or I would not have given this
sense to you. And, of course, there is no devil with whom to
traffic.
Someday- perhaps in
Book Two- I'll explain to you exactly how psychic energy and psychic
ability works.
There is going
to be a Book Two?
Yes. But let's finish
this one first,
9. Is it okay
to take money for doing good? If I choose to do healing work in the world-
God's work- can I do that and become financially abundant, too? Or are the
two mutually exclusive?
I've already covered
this.
10. Is sex okay? C'mon- what is the real story behind
this human experience? Is sex purely for procreation, as some religions
say? Is true holiness and enlightenment achieved through denial- or
transmutation- of the sexual energy? Is it okay to have sex without love?
Is just the physical sensation of it okay enough as a reason?
Of course sex is
"okay." Again, if I didn't want you to play certain games, I wouldn't have
given you the toys. Do you give your children things you don't want them
to play with?
Play with sex.
Play with it! It's wonderful fun. Why, it's just about the
most fun you can have with your body, if you're talking of strictly
physical experiences alone.
But for goodness
sake, don't destroy sexual innocence and pleasure and the purity of the
fun, the joy, by misusing sex. Don't use it for power, or hidden purpose;
for ego gratification or domination; for any purpose other than the purest
joy and the highest ecstasy, given and shared- which is love, and
love recreated- which is new life! Have I not chosen a delicious
way to make more of you?
With regard to
denial, I have dealt with that before. Nothing holy has ever been achieved
through denial. Yet desires change as even larger realities are
glimpsed. It is not unusual, therefore, for people to simply desire
less, or even no, sexual activity- or, for that matter, any of a
number of activities of the body. For some, the activities of the soul
become foremost- and by far the more pleasurable.
Each to his own,
without judgment- that is the motto.
The end of your
question is answered this way: You don't need to have a reason for
anything. Just because.
Be the cause of your
experience.
Remember, experience
produces concept of Self, conception produces creation, creation produces
experience.
You want to
experience yourself as a person who has sex without love? Go ahead! You'lI
do that until you don't want to anymore. And the only thing that will-
that could ever- cause you to stop this, or any, behavior, is your
newly emerging thought about Who You Are.
It's as simple- and
as complex- as that.
11. Why did You
make sex so good, so spectacular, so powerful a human experience if all we
are to do is stay away from it as much as we can? What gives? For that
matter, why are all fun things either "immoral, illegal, or fattening"?
I've answered the end
of this question too, with what I've just said. All fun things are not
immoral, illegal, or fattening. Your
life is, however, an interesting exercise in defining what fun
is.
To some, "fun" means
sensations of the body. To others, "fun" may be something entirely
different. It all depends on who you think you are, and what you are doing
here.
There is much more to
be said about sex than is being said here but nothing more essential than
this: sex is joy, and many of you have made sex everything else
but.
Sex is sacred, too-
yes. But joy and sacredness do mix (they are, in fact, the same
thing), and many of you think they do not.
Your attitudes about
sex form a microcosm of your attitudes about life. Life should be a joy, a
celebration, and it has become an experience of fear, anxiety, "not
enough-ness," envy, rage, and tragedy. The same can be said about sex.
You have repressed
sex, even as you have repressed life, rather than fully Self expressing,
with abandon and joy.
You have shamed sex,
even as you have shamed life, calling it evil and wicked, rather than the
highest gift and the greatest pleasure.
Before you protest
that you have not shamed life, look at your collective attitudes about it.
Four-fifths of the world's people consider life a trial, a tribulation, a
time of testing, a karmic debt that must be paid, a school with harsh
lessons that must be learned, and, in general, an experience to be endured
while awaiting the real joy, which is after death.
It is a shame
that so many of you think this way. Small wonder you have applied
shame to the very act which creates life.
The energy which
underscores sex is the energy which underscores life; which is
life! The feeling of attraction and the intense and often urgent
desire to move toward each other, to become one, is the essential
dynamic of all that lives. I have built it into everything. It is inbred,
inherent, inside All That is.
The moral codes,
religious constrictions, social taboos, and emotional conventions you have
placed around sex (and, by the way, around love- and all of life) have
made it virtually impossible for you to ce/ebrate your being.
From the beginning of
time all man has ever wanted is to love and be loved. And from the
beginning of time man has done everything in his power to make it
impossible to do that. Sex is an extraordinary expression of love- love of
another, love of Self, love of life. You ought to therefore
love it! (And you do- you just can't tell anyone you do; you
don't dare show how much you love it, or you'll be called a
pervert. Yet this is the idea that is perverted.)
In our next book, we
shall look at sex much more closely; explore its dynamics in greater
detail, for this is an experience and an issue of sweeping implications on
a global scale.
For now- and for you,
personally- simply know this: I have given you nothing shameful, least
of all your very body, and its functions. There is no need to hide your
body or its functions- nor your love of them, and of each other.
Your television
programs think nothing of showing naked violence, but shrink from showing
naked love. Your whole society reflects that priority.
12. Is there life on other planets? Have we been
visited by it? Are we being observed now? Will we see evidence-
irrevocable and indisputable- of
extraterrestrial life in our lifetime? Does each form of life have its own God? Are You
the God of it all?
Yes to the first
part. Yes to the second. Yes to the third. I cannot answer the fourth
part, since that would require Me to predict the future- something I am
not going to do.
We will, however,
talk a great deal more about this thing called the future in Book Two-and
we'll talk about extraterrestrial life and the nature(s) of God in Book
Three.
Ohmigosh.
There's going to be a Book Three?
Let me outline the
plan here.
Book One is to
contain basic truths, primary understandings, and address essential
personal matters and issues.
Book Two is to
contain more far-reaching truths, grander understandings, and address
global matters and issues.
Book Three is to
contain the largest truths you are now capable of understanding, and
address universal matters and issues- matters being dealt with by all the
beings of the universe.
I see. This is
an order?
No. If you can ask
that question you have under- stood nothing in this book.
You have chosen
to do this work- and you have been chosen. The circle is
complete.
Do you
understand?
Yes.
13. Will utopia ever come to the planet Earth? Will
God ever show Himself to Earth's people, as promised? Is there such a
thing as the Second Coming? Will there ever be an end of the world- or an
apocalypse, as prophesied in the Bible? Is there a one true religion? If
so, which one?
That's a book in
itself, and will comprise much of Volume Three. I've kept this opening
volume limited to more personal matters, more practical issues. I'll move
to larger questions and matters of global and universal implication in
succeeding installments.
Is that it? Is
that all for now? Are we to speak no more here?
You miss me already?
I do! This has been fun! Are we quitting now?
You need a little
rest. And your readers need a rest, too. There's a lot here to absorb. A
lot to wrestle with. A lot to ponder. Take some time off. Reflect on this.
Ponder it.
Do not feel
abandoned. I am always with you. If you have questions- day-to-day
questions- as I know you do even now, and will continue to- know that you
can call on Me to answer them. You do not need the form of this book.
This is not the only
way I speak to you. Listen to Me in the truth of your soul. Listen to Me
in the feelings of your heart. Listen to Me in the quiet of your mind.
Hear Me, everywhere.
Whenever you have a question, simply know that I have answered it
already. Then open your eyes to your world. My response could be in
an article already published. In the sermon already written and about to
be delivered. In the movie now being made. In the song just yesterday
composed. In the words about to be said by a loved one. In the heart of a
new friend about to be made.
My Truth is in the
whisper of the wind, the babble of the brook, the crack of the thunder,
the tap of the rain.
It is the feel of the
earth, the fragrance of the lily, the warmth of the sun, the pull of the
moon.
My Truth- and your
surest help in time of need- is as awesome as the night sky, and as
simply, incontro- vertibly, trustful as a baby's gurgle.
It is as loud as a
pounding heartbeat- and as quiet as a breath taken in unity with Me.
I will not leave you,
I cannot leave you, for you are My creation and My product, My
daughter and My son, My purpose and My...
Self.
Call on Me,
therefore, wherever and whenever you are separate from the peace that I
am.
I will be there.
With Truth.
And Light.
And Love.
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