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Enlightenment Now
Exploring the Spiritual
Nature of Reality
by Owen Waters
A 7-Part Course
Enlightenment is the divine birthright of all people. Now, you can discover the way the universe works all the way from the first spark of Creation through to your ultimate human destiny as a self-empowered, enlightened human being.
This course provides the tools that can transform your life into a truly wonderful experience!
Part 1 - Spiritual Metaphysics
Welcome to the 7-part course, Enlightenment Now!
Enlightenment is a goal of all people, whether they realize it or not! If it’s not a conscious goal, then it’s an unconscious goal because enlightenment is something we are designed to achieve along the way to the ultimate stage of fulfillment.
The meaning of the word enlightenment is, literally, to add light to something. By adding light to your understanding of the nature of reality, you can gain an uncanny ability to master the challenges of life.
Once a person realizes that there is a spiritual dimension to reality, life’s mysteries are more easily explained. The workings of the universe are, in essence, simplicity itself. In fact, when you come to understand how this reality was created, it all boils down to one big, “Aha!”
Once you know the basic spiritual principles, life becomes remarkably easy because then it all makes sense! These basic principles add to your existing knowledge and your existing faith in the spiritual dimension of life.
As a dedicated spiritual researcher, I have come to realize that a new version of the science of metaphysics is needed as the bridge that will bring spirituality and science together. Let’s face it, the division between science and spirituality has gone on far too long. Today, people are becoming more enlightened and they expect spiritual teachings to explain the mysteries of the cosmos, just as they expect science to explain a lot more than just nuts-and-bolts materialism!
The meaning of the word metaphysics is the study of the nature of that which is beyond the physical. It is a science that deals with the mundane as well as with higher consciousness. Spirituality focuses on higher consciousness, but often relies on faith alone, without the support of the knowledge provided by metaphysics.
My focus has always been on the spiritual aspects of metaphysics so, in 2005, I decided to put the two words together and began using the term, spiritual metaphysics. This gives definition to a field of study that brings the light of understanding to spirituality and goes beyond basic metaphysics.
An all-inclusive definition of Spiritual Metaphysics has to include the ultimate consciousness which is behind all of Creation:
Spiritual Metaphysics defines the nature of reality based upon the all-pervasive consciousness which is behind Creation and all of its manifestations.
In this 7-week course, we will look closely at the all-pervasive consciousness which is behind Creation. We will see how Creation was achieved and learn new ways to apply this knowledge to our own lives.
We will see why change is so rampant in the world today, why everything seems to be speeding up, and how to apply that insight into gaining mastery of the emerging New Reality.
Next, we will examine the cosmic scale of Creation and see what that means to our perception of the nature of God. Now that humanity has abandoned the idea that the Earth is the center of the universe, we are ready to appreciate the vastness of Creation and therefore the scale of its Creator. More importantly, we will also see why, paradoxically, this brings us closer to the presence of God than ever.
Part 2 - The Conscious Universe
In Part 1, Spiritual Metaphysics was defined as the study of the nature of reality based upon the all-pervasive consciousness which is behind Creation and all of its manifestations.
Everything in existence is composed of 100% consciousness. It may seem like a solid, physical world. It certainly acts like one. Once in a while, I am reminded of just how solid it is when I bump into something!
However, if you consult a book on general physics, it will point out that matter is actually composed of energy particles. That doesn’t sound so solid after all. It also raises the question, “What is energy?” To find the answer to that, you have to go beyond today’s physics and into the realm of spiritual metaphysics.
Energy is compressed consciousness.
Just like everything in the universe, energy is 100% consciousness. It has to be, because the Creator had nothing else to work with besides consciousness. Therefore, the material world, with its apparent solidity, was created from compressed consciousness.
Going back to the very beginning of the universe, Infinite Being was stirred by its initial motivation to go into action and create a way to see itself from an infinite number of viewpoints.
Infinite Being – the perfect, unchanging Absolute or Godhead – then formed an aspect of itself that we call the Creator. This aspect was charged with a mission to take action and create what we now know as the universe. The problem was, how to achieve Creation using nothing but consciousness.
It can’t be achieved by simply swirling consciousness around inside a doughnut-shaped shell of a universe. What was needed was a way to separate original consciousness into two complementary aspects and then have them interact with each other in a productive manner.
An example of an interplay of energies is the production of light. Light energy manifests when electricity and magnetism are intertwined at a certain frequency and then projected across the universe.
It’s not hard to imagine that our physical bodies are a form of solidified sunlight. It’s rather like the Jedi master Yoda said in the original Star Wars trilogy:
“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.”
Indeed, our physical bodies are made of luminous energies and our non-physical souls are even more luminous examples of the works of the Creator.
It’s little wonder that yogi masters have referred to physical reality as “the great illusion” because it simply isn’t what it seems. You could go even further and realize that this world of solidified consciousness is really a dream world created in the mind of God and not just this world, but the entire universe.
The scale of Creation is staggering. Knowing, as we do today, that we live in a huge cosmos filled with trillions of suns and planets, how do we relate to a Creator which, by definition, has to be greater in size than its creation? Whatever happened to the old, familiar idea of God in the sky? How do we relate to a God that is bigger than we can possibly imagine?
The answer lies in the traditional, but little-understood, concept of “the three O’s.” It’s a concept I was taught as a child in Sunday School, that God is Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient. The all-powerful part goes without saying, but it’s the all-present and all-knowing parts that point the way to the answer to this quandary.
The consciousness of Infinite Being, courtesy of its Creator aspect, is present in every molecule and every subatomic particle in existence. It is present and aware in every part of your body, mind and soul. Every molecule of your body is an aspect of the Creator, looking at life from its own unique point of view.
Not only is every molecule in existence part of the consciousness of Infinite Being, we, as humans, have the added faculty of self-awareness. We were created to act as self-empowered individuals who, like actors upon the stage of life, experience the effects of our own decisions and actions.
The analogy of life as a theater filled with actors is quite appropriate. In the fabricated-reality world seen in the movie “The Matrix,” the lead character Neo woke up to the fact that his limitations were largely self-imposed and that his mind could be developed to rise above them. We, too, find ourselves in a world filled with many kinds of apparent limitations, many of which are not as solid as they seem.
Materialistic science claims that you are an accident of biological evolution. In truth, you are so much more: You are an aspect of the Creator, looking at life from your own unique point of view. You are an aspect of the omnipresent awareness of Infinite Being.
You don’t have to look outside of yourself for God because God is within you!
As you experience life through your eyes and ears and senses, you are Infinite Being, acting through yet another viewpoint of the infinite variety of life. Every fiber of your body is Infinite Being, every dream that you manifest is Infinite Being in action, every tear of joy that you shed in the finer experiences of life is a tear shed by Infinite Being in its form as you.
You can be closer to God than ever before when you realize that every part of your body, mind and spirit is God. Even in this strange world where we appear to be separate from everyone else, the conscious awareness of the presence of God is a mere thought away.
Next, we’ll see how we reflect the abilities of the Creator by examining our inbuilt, creative power.
Part 3 - Long Live God!
(Parts 1 and 2 can be found here)
“God is dead. Long live God!”
It is a centuries-old European tradition that, when a King died, he was promptly replaced by his successor so that no vacuum of power came into existence. In the streets, the people heard both items of news at the same time, that the old king was dead and the new king had been crowned. They would then voice their support for the new king by shouting,
“The king is dead. Long live the king!”
In Part 2 of this course, we noted the fading away of the old image of God above us in the sky due to the growing awareness of the enormous size of the universe. After all, for the universe to be filled with the Creator’s omnipresent consciousness, the Creator has to be greater in size than the Creation.
It has taken time to let go of the general belief that we on Earth are the center of all Creation. Fortunately, while the old concept of God in the sky has faded away, the new concept of God within brings us so much closer to the Creator and all of Creation. It is therefore fair to say, “Long live the new, expanded concept of God!”
We are aspects of the one Creator, as are all things in existence. Better yet, as human beings, we are endowed with self-awareness, with the curiosity to learn new things, and also with one especially undervalued faculty – imagination.
The expression, “It’s only your imagination,” is one that belittles your greatest faculty. The true situation is revealed in another expression; “We were made in the image of God.” The word “image” here does not mean “looks like.” After all, it would be hard to envisage a Creator larger than its creation – the universe – having two arms and two legs. The word “image” really means that we were created in the imagination of the Creator.
Imagination is your one creative faculty.
It is imagination – the application of consciousness in a creative direction – which laid the plans for this entire universe. In Part 2 of this course, it was said that, for Creation to succeed, there had to be a way to separate original consciousness into two complementary aspects and then have them interact with each other.
Those two aspects were the principles of pure thought and pure feeling. As humans, this idea of thought separate from feeling can be difficult to grasp because, in our experience, thoughts and feelings are always intertwined. Step back, for a moment, from your human experience, move into the realm of the abstract, and look at the original Law of Creation:
Creation = Thought + Feeling + Action
Think of pure, original Thought as imagination, intellect or intention. Think of it as a concept similar to the plans that an architect makes for a great building.
Then, think of pure, original Feeling as the energy that preserves and protects life, or the energy that makes things grow. It is related to the human concept of attention, because ideas grow as they receive your attention.
In cosmic terms, pure thought is the force of expansion that makes the universe continue to grow. Pure feeling is the counter-balancing force of contraction that holds the speed of that expansion down to a controlled, pre-determined rate.
If you were to equate the Law of Creation to a human analogy, you could say that the Divine Father and the Divine Mother work in complementary action to create and preserve the universe. In the Christian tradition, these concepts are called the Father and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit or Divine Mother aspect of Creation fills the universe with the divine love that holds the universe together and provides the energy for the growth of all forms of life.
Now, if someone tells you that love is in the air, now you can reply knowingly, “Yes, it is!” You just have to reach out and touch the love of that aspect of the Creator to know that you are made from love and that you are loved, now and for all time.
As humans, we have inherited the power to create. Granted, our field of influence is human-size instead of universe-size, but the principle remains the same.
In the human realm, the Law of Creation is best stated in this form:
Creation = Intention + Attention + Action
And that is the key to creating a better life!
Next week, we will discuss the keys to making this formula work successfully and effectively. Until then...
Part 4 - How to Create a Better Life
(Parts 1-3 can be found here)
You can create anything you want in your life. For a start, how about true happiness, vibrant wellness, and profound spiritual awakening? Anything that you desire and can imagine will manifest in your life provided you follow the rules of the Law of Creation:
Creation = Intention + Attention + Action
The Law of Creation itself looks simple enough but people often misinterpret it and meet with disappointment instead of the success that can so easily be theirs. The Law of Creation was powerful enough to create the universe, so you can be certain that it can also create any new conditions that you desire in your life.
Imagination is the greatest power in the universe because it creates everything. It is your God-given creative faculty. With it, you can reach your greatest potential and fill your life with an amazing sense of achievement.
People labor under the misapprehension that they are bound by circumstances. This is merely an appearance. The reality is that your creative faculty holds incredible power over your circumstances. Once you appreciate your inbuilt transformative ability, that power is yours to wield and your life will immediately change for the better.
Imagination gives you the power to engineer entire new realities that develop your life’s potential to the maximum. You should be free to achieve everything that you are capable of achieving. Using your imagination to create new realities is a solid feat of design engineering, not something vague in a realm of non-reality.
Circumstances can easily be changed by the creative power of imagination, applied with intent and energy so that a desired new reality materializes into existence. In order to express this creative capability, you need to attend to every part of the Law of Creation:
Creation = Intention + Attention + Action
Intention
After deciding upon a desired goal, you need to imagine what that goal will look like once it is made manifest. Imagine yourself experiencing the end result. Do not imagine the process that leads up to the end result as the universe will find the shortest route in its own way, just as water always finds its own particular route from the hills to lower ground.
Attention
Then, add the feeling part of the formula. This is the energy that gives life to the intention. This is where you feel the excitement of what it is like to be a part of that manifested goal. Imagine how it feels to experience that new reality. Catch the mood in order to fully immerse yourself in that new reality. To be in balance, the feeling part of this exercise should receive as much focus and energy as the creative-thought part. Energize the feelings that will come with your experience of the end result.
Action
Finally, there is the Action part of the formula. Even though the process of creation will facilitate the manifestation of your intention, you still have to take the series of actions that will lead to the manifestation of the desired goal. You are the physical agent through which the power of the new creation will transform your circumstances.
Making It All Work
The key to success is to allow your soul or superconscious mind to orchestrate the circumstances leading up to the manifestation of your desire. Helping behind the scenes is what the soul part of you does anyway. That part of you has an expanded view of your reality, of your possibilities, and it has complete communication with all other souls in existence. When you want something organized behind the scenes, your soul is the part of you that will achieve this with ease and elegance.
There is a gestation time in which you need to let go of the idea from your conscious mind and let things begin to be organized by your soul consciousness in the background. After inner gestation, ideas will begin to come to mind about possible ways to move toward your goal. These intuitive ideas will flash into your mind, often two or three times in one day so that your conscious mind gets the message.
Make sure that your desired goal has a practical way to come into manifestation. Most unsuccessful attempts at creating more financial abundance fail in this, the action stage. For example, if a person wanted extra income but did nothing to increase the value of their services, then they’ve blocked the way for its manifestation. There is no magic wand that will compel people to overpay another person.
A free market pays what a person is worth, so the answer to your finding more abundance is to manifest ways that make you worth more to other people. You can either expand your skills or use the skills you already possess to serve more people. Either way, use the process of creating a better reality to transform the dream into a reality.
Use the process of creating a better reality. Use the power of intention to create the desired effect, then get ready to watch the universe adapt to your new vision of who you are. Turn your visualization over to your soul consciousness to find the best path to success, and doors will open easily in your path towards improving your value to others.
How to Make Successful Decisions
Sometimes, along the path towards your goal, you find yourself faced with two or more possibilities and you have to choose one of them. How will you know what steps to take and when? Fortunately, you have an inner compass which always points in the right direction.
Every time you think of your desired new reality, ask yourself what course of action fills you with the most inner joy. What is the most exciting thing you could do now to bring you closer to that goal?
Inner joy comes from your soul and, when you detect more joy in the idea of taking Course of Action A rather than Course of Action B, then you have detected a stronger alignment with your soul awareness relating to Course of Action A.
The most joyful idea at any moment is the next step in your journey towards your self-made destiny.
Inner joy is the compass towards your heart’s desire.
Part 5 - The Secret of Personal Magnetism
(Parts 1-4 can be found here)
Healthy relationships are critical to people’s happiness and yet, most people are not aware of the energetics of attraction. People of good heart are drawn to you primarily, not by some combination of your physical features, but by the personal magnetism that radiates from your heart.
When people open their hearts to unselfish, unconditional love, a whole new world of possibilities opens. This is heart-centered awareness. Rather than spending effort avoiding the selfishness of others, they spend time making sure that the way they choose to serve society is done in the best way possible. When people can trust others to treat each other with love and respect rather than as competitors, then everyone gains.
As heart-centered awareness grows and blooms within society, people’s primary focus will shift away from service to self and towards service to others. When it does, the world will transform out of all recognition.
But you don’t have to wait for all of society to catch up. In both your personal and professional dealings with people, you have a reputation, and it is fed by word-of-mouth recommendation. Build your reputation as someone who tends to give more than is expected of them, and you will find yourself becoming increasingly popular in both your business and personal lives. People respond to heartfelt action and, as they say, “What goes around comes around.”
Action and reaction are opposite and equal in all types of thought and action. Your heartfelt action, by automatic reaction, will create a heartfelt reality among you and the people who are attracted to your energy. When you operate mainly out of a heart-centered frequency, you will notice that people are attracted to you in all aspects of your life. Friends, lovers, professional associates, and everyone will be attracted to your magnetic personality.
Personal magnetism has been one of the great mysteries of life simply because, in the past, so few people have operated from that heart-centered frequency of awareness on a routine basis. However, it’s really no secret. It’s just one of those common-sense facts of life.
The secret of personal magnetism is that the more you unconditionally love people, the more they love you.
You don’t have to make a big deal out of it. You don’t have to stand there like some transmitter beacon, radiating huge amounts of heart energy. Perhaps top stage performers do, but you don’t. You can be very quiet about it and everyone will be quietly drawn to you. Everyone of a similar nature, that is. Everyone who appreciates kindness and a truly warm, genuine smile.
In other words, you’ll attract the very best of friends.
There’s nothing more attractive than a warm smile from a person who quietly radiates a sense of unconditional love for themselves and all others.
Part 6 - The Global Shift to
Higher Consciousness
(Parts 1-5 can be found here)
A day is coming when the Earth will rise in the heavens vibrationally. This beautiful Mother Earth will experience an increase in the frequency of all matter in a quantum leap that takes her, us, and everything in the world to a higher plane of existence.
We have been experiencing a gradual rise in the frequency of all physical matter since the 1960’s, when the Earth was imbued with the cosmic energies which will eventually culminate in the main event of The Shift. The increasing rate of change that we have been experiencing in the world is symptomatic of the increasing presence of these cosmic energies in the human realm.
The Shift is the greatest evolutionary leap in the history of humankind. It is the spiritual and creative awakening of humanity. In the emerging New Reality consciousness, we experience new vistas of awareness, new levels of creativity, and follow our hearts to make our own meaningful contributions towards the betterment of the world.
There are specific stages in the evolution of the humanity, both at the individual and societal level. You can tell that these stages are encoded into the design of the human experience because they correspond exactly to the main chakras or energy centers in the subtle anatomy of each human.
As you will see in the diagram, the root and the crown chakras are singular energy centers while the other five chakras are dual in nature, having both front and back faces.
Stages in the Current Development of Society
Stage Chakra face Characteristic Expression
1 Root chakra Instinctual. Personal survival
2 Sex chakra – front Emotional-receptive Clans
3 Sex chakra – back Emotional-active Courage
4 Solar plexus front Intellectual-receptive Ordered purpose
5 Solar plexus back Intellectual-active Achievement
6 Heart chakra front Holistic-receptive Caring community
7 Heart chakra back Holistic-active Responsible freedom
8 Throat chakra front Creative-receptive Intuitive development
In the earliest days of Stone Age experience, the individual drive for basic survival in stage 1 gave way to the gathering of clans for mutual protection. Once safety was established, stage 3 emerged where the more adventurous people went exploring far and wide to find better opportunities for their clans.
As the ethic of courage developed, so did conflict and disorder among the young and the restless. Stage 4 emerged as the solution – an era where natural leaders rose into position to maintain an ordered sense of purpose. Rules were made, which were to be followed for the good of the whole.
As people settled into this era of feudal society, the foundation for stage 5 and the Age of Reason was slowly being prepared. Ordered purpose is one thing, the foremost thinkers began to say, but how long are you supposed to wait for the promised rewards of obeying orders?
The dawning of intellectual reasoning brought greater vistas of human possibility than before. The application of intellect brought forth new inventions and new ways of catering to the needs of society. The spreading waves of initiative and opportunity led onwards to the Industrial Revolution, which transformed the all-pervasive peasant class into wage-earners of comparative prosperity.
Today, the stage 5 era of self-serving intellect is drawing to a close as the new, heart-centered consciousness emerges. More than one in five adults today have stepped into stage 6 consciousness and beyond.
When a person begins to explore heart-centered consciousness, they typically develop environmental awareness. As more people do this, increasing pressures are applied to contain the polluting side-effects of rampant industrial growth and to introduce long-term sustainability. Stage 6 is where the vistas of awareness expand yet again to include issues that are important for the greater good of society.
Stage 7 is of particular significance because it is the first stage of spiritual awareness. While stage 6 allowed people to acclimatize to the feel of holistic, heart-centered consciousness, stage 7 springs this potential into action. With this holistic-active chakra, people learn how to express the all-inclusive vision of the heart and start to make a real difference in the world. While the sixth chakra face in stage 6 is heartfelt, the seventh chakra face is heart-powered.
Stage 8 is where a connection to soul consciousness begins to be established and intuitive development brings inner guidance and wisdom to the fore. This is the leading edge of spiritual development today and, thanks to the continually increasing frequency of The Shift, this level of consciousness is becoming more accessible all the time.
Today’s Most Powerful Spiritual Path
During these rapidly changing times, the most powerful spiritual path is one of spiritual action rather than slow and passive development. The universal Law of Karma states that all action, including spiritual action, causes an equal reaction. With Karma Yoga – the path of spiritual action – you don’t just seek spiritual upliftment within yourself and stop there. Instead, you create a cycle of action and reaction by attracting inspirational energy into yourself and then sending it out to heal the world. The universal law guarantees that you will receive spiritual upliftment in return, but something even more important happens as well. By opening your heart to heal the world, your act of unselfish service elevates your consciousness in a way that is more certain that any other spiritual path today.
The Shift is rapidly transforming humanity into new heights of awareness and spiritual empowerment, but time is running out. Millions of people have yet to re-awaken to their spiritual purpose in life. Many of them are fence-sitters, stuck in the hypnotic trance that passes for life today and waiting for a nudge, for any kind of help to make it into the New Reality.
The Shift needs your help! You can make a huge difference in helping other spiritual seekers to awaken. Perform the World Healing Technique correctly, then watch the reaction that comes back to you over the days that follow.
Try it and see! You will be amazed.
Part 7 - Unprecedented Spiritual Growth
(Parts 1-6 can be found here)
The main event of The Shift will occur when the Earth makes a significant rise in frequency, carrying us into a more subtle level of physical existence. At the same time, those in the afterlife will be risen to a higher frequency of existence, as in the Biblical prediction that, “the dead shall be risen.”
People will be aware that the physical world has changed. They will notice that colors are brighter, sounds have a deeper dimension, the sky looks different, the stars are brighter, and telepathy is a lot easier to achieve. This will be the start of life in a less dense physical reality. For spiritual seekers, what happens next is the really exciting part.
Higher states of consciousness will become even easier to achieve when you have a physical body which, like all matter, will be made up of less dense physical matter than before. Extended forays into soul consciousness and its joyful state of beingness will become popular as the new frontier of exploration. Body and spirit will work hand in hand for rapid evolution and transformation.
As your consciousness continues to rise, so too will the frequency of your physical body. You will be able to explore even higher realms of vibratory existence. As you do, your life span will extend, making still more progress possible while in the same physical body. A great push for higher potential will emerge among spiritual seekers simply because the floodgates of progress will be wide open as, indeed, they already are today.
Never before in the history of humanity have we faced such enormous potential for advancement and spiritual progress as we do today. If you acquire one life-enhancing new habit right now, it should be to take advantage of every opportunity for spiritual development because the results can be phenomenal.
Every step that you take today – from spiritual study to healing to creating a better world – will be a giant leap in your personal evolution. Never before has such progress been possible in such a short period of time.
At our Recommended Reading page there are many suggestions for classic spiritual metaphysics books that deliver a wonderfully expanded view of life and the universe:
www.infinitebeing.com/reading.htm
Exploring the Spiritual
Nature of Reality
by Owen Waters
A 7-Part Course
Enlightenment is the divine birthright of all people. Now, you can discover the way the universe works all the way from the first spark of Creation through to your ultimate human destiny as a self-empowered, enlightened human being.
This course provides the tools that can transform your life into a truly wonderful experience!
Part 1 - Spiritual Metaphysics
Welcome to the 7-part course, Enlightenment Now!
Enlightenment is a goal of all people, whether they realize it or not! If it’s not a conscious goal, then it’s an unconscious goal because enlightenment is something we are designed to achieve along the way to the ultimate stage of fulfillment.
The meaning of the word enlightenment is, literally, to add light to something. By adding light to your understanding of the nature of reality, you can gain an uncanny ability to master the challenges of life.
Once a person realizes that there is a spiritual dimension to reality, life’s mysteries are more easily explained. The workings of the universe are, in essence, simplicity itself. In fact, when you come to understand how this reality was created, it all boils down to one big, “Aha!”
Once you know the basic spiritual principles, life becomes remarkably easy because then it all makes sense! These basic principles add to your existing knowledge and your existing faith in the spiritual dimension of life.
As a dedicated spiritual researcher, I have come to realize that a new version of the science of metaphysics is needed as the bridge that will bring spirituality and science together. Let’s face it, the division between science and spirituality has gone on far too long. Today, people are becoming more enlightened and they expect spiritual teachings to explain the mysteries of the cosmos, just as they expect science to explain a lot more than just nuts-and-bolts materialism!
The meaning of the word metaphysics is the study of the nature of that which is beyond the physical. It is a science that deals with the mundane as well as with higher consciousness. Spirituality focuses on higher consciousness, but often relies on faith alone, without the support of the knowledge provided by metaphysics.
My focus has always been on the spiritual aspects of metaphysics so, in 2005, I decided to put the two words together and began using the term, spiritual metaphysics. This gives definition to a field of study that brings the light of understanding to spirituality and goes beyond basic metaphysics.
An all-inclusive definition of Spiritual Metaphysics has to include the ultimate consciousness which is behind all of Creation:
Spiritual Metaphysics defines the nature of reality based upon the all-pervasive consciousness which is behind Creation and all of its manifestations.
In this 7-week course, we will look closely at the all-pervasive consciousness which is behind Creation. We will see how Creation was achieved and learn new ways to apply this knowledge to our own lives.
We will see why change is so rampant in the world today, why everything seems to be speeding up, and how to apply that insight into gaining mastery of the emerging New Reality.
Next, we will examine the cosmic scale of Creation and see what that means to our perception of the nature of God. Now that humanity has abandoned the idea that the Earth is the center of the universe, we are ready to appreciate the vastness of Creation and therefore the scale of its Creator. More importantly, we will also see why, paradoxically, this brings us closer to the presence of God than ever.
Part 2 - The Conscious Universe
In Part 1, Spiritual Metaphysics was defined as the study of the nature of reality based upon the all-pervasive consciousness which is behind Creation and all of its manifestations.
Everything in existence is composed of 100% consciousness. It may seem like a solid, physical world. It certainly acts like one. Once in a while, I am reminded of just how solid it is when I bump into something!
However, if you consult a book on general physics, it will point out that matter is actually composed of energy particles. That doesn’t sound so solid after all. It also raises the question, “What is energy?” To find the answer to that, you have to go beyond today’s physics and into the realm of spiritual metaphysics.
Energy is compressed consciousness.
Just like everything in the universe, energy is 100% consciousness. It has to be, because the Creator had nothing else to work with besides consciousness. Therefore, the material world, with its apparent solidity, was created from compressed consciousness.
Going back to the very beginning of the universe, Infinite Being was stirred by its initial motivation to go into action and create a way to see itself from an infinite number of viewpoints.
Infinite Being – the perfect, unchanging Absolute or Godhead – then formed an aspect of itself that we call the Creator. This aspect was charged with a mission to take action and create what we now know as the universe. The problem was, how to achieve Creation using nothing but consciousness.
It can’t be achieved by simply swirling consciousness around inside a doughnut-shaped shell of a universe. What was needed was a way to separate original consciousness into two complementary aspects and then have them interact with each other in a productive manner.
An example of an interplay of energies is the production of light. Light energy manifests when electricity and magnetism are intertwined at a certain frequency and then projected across the universe.
It’s not hard to imagine that our physical bodies are a form of solidified sunlight. It’s rather like the Jedi master Yoda said in the original Star Wars trilogy:
“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.”
Indeed, our physical bodies are made of luminous energies and our non-physical souls are even more luminous examples of the works of the Creator.
It’s little wonder that yogi masters have referred to physical reality as “the great illusion” because it simply isn’t what it seems. You could go even further and realize that this world of solidified consciousness is really a dream world created in the mind of God and not just this world, but the entire universe.
The scale of Creation is staggering. Knowing, as we do today, that we live in a huge cosmos filled with trillions of suns and planets, how do we relate to a Creator which, by definition, has to be greater in size than its creation? Whatever happened to the old, familiar idea of God in the sky? How do we relate to a God that is bigger than we can possibly imagine?
The answer lies in the traditional, but little-understood, concept of “the three O’s.” It’s a concept I was taught as a child in Sunday School, that God is Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient. The all-powerful part goes without saying, but it’s the all-present and all-knowing parts that point the way to the answer to this quandary.
The consciousness of Infinite Being, courtesy of its Creator aspect, is present in every molecule and every subatomic particle in existence. It is present and aware in every part of your body, mind and soul. Every molecule of your body is an aspect of the Creator, looking at life from its own unique point of view.
Not only is every molecule in existence part of the consciousness of Infinite Being, we, as humans, have the added faculty of self-awareness. We were created to act as self-empowered individuals who, like actors upon the stage of life, experience the effects of our own decisions and actions.
The analogy of life as a theater filled with actors is quite appropriate. In the fabricated-reality world seen in the movie “The Matrix,” the lead character Neo woke up to the fact that his limitations were largely self-imposed and that his mind could be developed to rise above them. We, too, find ourselves in a world filled with many kinds of apparent limitations, many of which are not as solid as they seem.
Materialistic science claims that you are an accident of biological evolution. In truth, you are so much more: You are an aspect of the Creator, looking at life from your own unique point of view. You are an aspect of the omnipresent awareness of Infinite Being.
You don’t have to look outside of yourself for God because God is within you!
As you experience life through your eyes and ears and senses, you are Infinite Being, acting through yet another viewpoint of the infinite variety of life. Every fiber of your body is Infinite Being, every dream that you manifest is Infinite Being in action, every tear of joy that you shed in the finer experiences of life is a tear shed by Infinite Being in its form as you.
You can be closer to God than ever before when you realize that every part of your body, mind and spirit is God. Even in this strange world where we appear to be separate from everyone else, the conscious awareness of the presence of God is a mere thought away.
Next, we’ll see how we reflect the abilities of the Creator by examining our inbuilt, creative power.
Part 3 - Long Live God!
(Parts 1 and 2 can be found here)
“God is dead. Long live God!”
It is a centuries-old European tradition that, when a King died, he was promptly replaced by his successor so that no vacuum of power came into existence. In the streets, the people heard both items of news at the same time, that the old king was dead and the new king had been crowned. They would then voice their support for the new king by shouting,
“The king is dead. Long live the king!”
In Part 2 of this course, we noted the fading away of the old image of God above us in the sky due to the growing awareness of the enormous size of the universe. After all, for the universe to be filled with the Creator’s omnipresent consciousness, the Creator has to be greater in size than the Creation.
It has taken time to let go of the general belief that we on Earth are the center of all Creation. Fortunately, while the old concept of God in the sky has faded away, the new concept of God within brings us so much closer to the Creator and all of Creation. It is therefore fair to say, “Long live the new, expanded concept of God!”
We are aspects of the one Creator, as are all things in existence. Better yet, as human beings, we are endowed with self-awareness, with the curiosity to learn new things, and also with one especially undervalued faculty – imagination.
The expression, “It’s only your imagination,” is one that belittles your greatest faculty. The true situation is revealed in another expression; “We were made in the image of God.” The word “image” here does not mean “looks like.” After all, it would be hard to envisage a Creator larger than its creation – the universe – having two arms and two legs. The word “image” really means that we were created in the imagination of the Creator.
Imagination is your one creative faculty.
It is imagination – the application of consciousness in a creative direction – which laid the plans for this entire universe. In Part 2 of this course, it was said that, for Creation to succeed, there had to be a way to separate original consciousness into two complementary aspects and then have them interact with each other.
Those two aspects were the principles of pure thought and pure feeling. As humans, this idea of thought separate from feeling can be difficult to grasp because, in our experience, thoughts and feelings are always intertwined. Step back, for a moment, from your human experience, move into the realm of the abstract, and look at the original Law of Creation:
Creation = Thought + Feeling + Action
Think of pure, original Thought as imagination, intellect or intention. Think of it as a concept similar to the plans that an architect makes for a great building.
Then, think of pure, original Feeling as the energy that preserves and protects life, or the energy that makes things grow. It is related to the human concept of attention, because ideas grow as they receive your attention.
In cosmic terms, pure thought is the force of expansion that makes the universe continue to grow. Pure feeling is the counter-balancing force of contraction that holds the speed of that expansion down to a controlled, pre-determined rate.
If you were to equate the Law of Creation to a human analogy, you could say that the Divine Father and the Divine Mother work in complementary action to create and preserve the universe. In the Christian tradition, these concepts are called the Father and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit or Divine Mother aspect of Creation fills the universe with the divine love that holds the universe together and provides the energy for the growth of all forms of life.
Now, if someone tells you that love is in the air, now you can reply knowingly, “Yes, it is!” You just have to reach out and touch the love of that aspect of the Creator to know that you are made from love and that you are loved, now and for all time.
As humans, we have inherited the power to create. Granted, our field of influence is human-size instead of universe-size, but the principle remains the same.
In the human realm, the Law of Creation is best stated in this form:
Creation = Intention + Attention + Action
And that is the key to creating a better life!
Next week, we will discuss the keys to making this formula work successfully and effectively. Until then...
Part 4 - How to Create a Better Life
(Parts 1-3 can be found here)
You can create anything you want in your life. For a start, how about true happiness, vibrant wellness, and profound spiritual awakening? Anything that you desire and can imagine will manifest in your life provided you follow the rules of the Law of Creation:
Creation = Intention + Attention + Action
The Law of Creation itself looks simple enough but people often misinterpret it and meet with disappointment instead of the success that can so easily be theirs. The Law of Creation was powerful enough to create the universe, so you can be certain that it can also create any new conditions that you desire in your life.
Imagination is the greatest power in the universe because it creates everything. It is your God-given creative faculty. With it, you can reach your greatest potential and fill your life with an amazing sense of achievement.
People labor under the misapprehension that they are bound by circumstances. This is merely an appearance. The reality is that your creative faculty holds incredible power over your circumstances. Once you appreciate your inbuilt transformative ability, that power is yours to wield and your life will immediately change for the better.
Imagination gives you the power to engineer entire new realities that develop your life’s potential to the maximum. You should be free to achieve everything that you are capable of achieving. Using your imagination to create new realities is a solid feat of design engineering, not something vague in a realm of non-reality.
Circumstances can easily be changed by the creative power of imagination, applied with intent and energy so that a desired new reality materializes into existence. In order to express this creative capability, you need to attend to every part of the Law of Creation:
Creation = Intention + Attention + Action
Intention
After deciding upon a desired goal, you need to imagine what that goal will look like once it is made manifest. Imagine yourself experiencing the end result. Do not imagine the process that leads up to the end result as the universe will find the shortest route in its own way, just as water always finds its own particular route from the hills to lower ground.
Attention
Then, add the feeling part of the formula. This is the energy that gives life to the intention. This is where you feel the excitement of what it is like to be a part of that manifested goal. Imagine how it feels to experience that new reality. Catch the mood in order to fully immerse yourself in that new reality. To be in balance, the feeling part of this exercise should receive as much focus and energy as the creative-thought part. Energize the feelings that will come with your experience of the end result.
Action
Finally, there is the Action part of the formula. Even though the process of creation will facilitate the manifestation of your intention, you still have to take the series of actions that will lead to the manifestation of the desired goal. You are the physical agent through which the power of the new creation will transform your circumstances.
Making It All Work
The key to success is to allow your soul or superconscious mind to orchestrate the circumstances leading up to the manifestation of your desire. Helping behind the scenes is what the soul part of you does anyway. That part of you has an expanded view of your reality, of your possibilities, and it has complete communication with all other souls in existence. When you want something organized behind the scenes, your soul is the part of you that will achieve this with ease and elegance.
There is a gestation time in which you need to let go of the idea from your conscious mind and let things begin to be organized by your soul consciousness in the background. After inner gestation, ideas will begin to come to mind about possible ways to move toward your goal. These intuitive ideas will flash into your mind, often two or three times in one day so that your conscious mind gets the message.
Make sure that your desired goal has a practical way to come into manifestation. Most unsuccessful attempts at creating more financial abundance fail in this, the action stage. For example, if a person wanted extra income but did nothing to increase the value of their services, then they’ve blocked the way for its manifestation. There is no magic wand that will compel people to overpay another person.
A free market pays what a person is worth, so the answer to your finding more abundance is to manifest ways that make you worth more to other people. You can either expand your skills or use the skills you already possess to serve more people. Either way, use the process of creating a better reality to transform the dream into a reality.
Use the process of creating a better reality. Use the power of intention to create the desired effect, then get ready to watch the universe adapt to your new vision of who you are. Turn your visualization over to your soul consciousness to find the best path to success, and doors will open easily in your path towards improving your value to others.
How to Make Successful Decisions
Sometimes, along the path towards your goal, you find yourself faced with two or more possibilities and you have to choose one of them. How will you know what steps to take and when? Fortunately, you have an inner compass which always points in the right direction.
Every time you think of your desired new reality, ask yourself what course of action fills you with the most inner joy. What is the most exciting thing you could do now to bring you closer to that goal?
Inner joy comes from your soul and, when you detect more joy in the idea of taking Course of Action A rather than Course of Action B, then you have detected a stronger alignment with your soul awareness relating to Course of Action A.
The most joyful idea at any moment is the next step in your journey towards your self-made destiny.
Inner joy is the compass towards your heart’s desire.
Part 5 - The Secret of Personal Magnetism
(Parts 1-4 can be found here)
Healthy relationships are critical to people’s happiness and yet, most people are not aware of the energetics of attraction. People of good heart are drawn to you primarily, not by some combination of your physical features, but by the personal magnetism that radiates from your heart.
When people open their hearts to unselfish, unconditional love, a whole new world of possibilities opens. This is heart-centered awareness. Rather than spending effort avoiding the selfishness of others, they spend time making sure that the way they choose to serve society is done in the best way possible. When people can trust others to treat each other with love and respect rather than as competitors, then everyone gains.
As heart-centered awareness grows and blooms within society, people’s primary focus will shift away from service to self and towards service to others. When it does, the world will transform out of all recognition.
But you don’t have to wait for all of society to catch up. In both your personal and professional dealings with people, you have a reputation, and it is fed by word-of-mouth recommendation. Build your reputation as someone who tends to give more than is expected of them, and you will find yourself becoming increasingly popular in both your business and personal lives. People respond to heartfelt action and, as they say, “What goes around comes around.”
Action and reaction are opposite and equal in all types of thought and action. Your heartfelt action, by automatic reaction, will create a heartfelt reality among you and the people who are attracted to your energy. When you operate mainly out of a heart-centered frequency, you will notice that people are attracted to you in all aspects of your life. Friends, lovers, professional associates, and everyone will be attracted to your magnetic personality.
Personal magnetism has been one of the great mysteries of life simply because, in the past, so few people have operated from that heart-centered frequency of awareness on a routine basis. However, it’s really no secret. It’s just one of those common-sense facts of life.
The secret of personal magnetism is that the more you unconditionally love people, the more they love you.
You don’t have to make a big deal out of it. You don’t have to stand there like some transmitter beacon, radiating huge amounts of heart energy. Perhaps top stage performers do, but you don’t. You can be very quiet about it and everyone will be quietly drawn to you. Everyone of a similar nature, that is. Everyone who appreciates kindness and a truly warm, genuine smile.
In other words, you’ll attract the very best of friends.
There’s nothing more attractive than a warm smile from a person who quietly radiates a sense of unconditional love for themselves and all others.
Part 6 - The Global Shift to
Higher Consciousness
(Parts 1-5 can be found here)
A day is coming when the Earth will rise in the heavens vibrationally. This beautiful Mother Earth will experience an increase in the frequency of all matter in a quantum leap that takes her, us, and everything in the world to a higher plane of existence.
We have been experiencing a gradual rise in the frequency of all physical matter since the 1960’s, when the Earth was imbued with the cosmic energies which will eventually culminate in the main event of The Shift. The increasing rate of change that we have been experiencing in the world is symptomatic of the increasing presence of these cosmic energies in the human realm.
The Shift is the greatest evolutionary leap in the history of humankind. It is the spiritual and creative awakening of humanity. In the emerging New Reality consciousness, we experience new vistas of awareness, new levels of creativity, and follow our hearts to make our own meaningful contributions towards the betterment of the world.
There are specific stages in the evolution of the humanity, both at the individual and societal level. You can tell that these stages are encoded into the design of the human experience because they correspond exactly to the main chakras or energy centers in the subtle anatomy of each human.
As you will see in the diagram, the root and the crown chakras are singular energy centers while the other five chakras are dual in nature, having both front and back faces.
Stages in the Current Development of Society
Stage Chakra face Characteristic Expression
1 Root chakra Instinctual. Personal survival
2 Sex chakra – front Emotional-receptive Clans
3 Sex chakra – back Emotional-active Courage
4 Solar plexus front Intellectual-receptive Ordered purpose
5 Solar plexus back Intellectual-active Achievement
6 Heart chakra front Holistic-receptive Caring community
7 Heart chakra back Holistic-active Responsible freedom
8 Throat chakra front Creative-receptive Intuitive development
In the earliest days of Stone Age experience, the individual drive for basic survival in stage 1 gave way to the gathering of clans for mutual protection. Once safety was established, stage 3 emerged where the more adventurous people went exploring far and wide to find better opportunities for their clans.
As the ethic of courage developed, so did conflict and disorder among the young and the restless. Stage 4 emerged as the solution – an era where natural leaders rose into position to maintain an ordered sense of purpose. Rules were made, which were to be followed for the good of the whole.
As people settled into this era of feudal society, the foundation for stage 5 and the Age of Reason was slowly being prepared. Ordered purpose is one thing, the foremost thinkers began to say, but how long are you supposed to wait for the promised rewards of obeying orders?
The dawning of intellectual reasoning brought greater vistas of human possibility than before. The application of intellect brought forth new inventions and new ways of catering to the needs of society. The spreading waves of initiative and opportunity led onwards to the Industrial Revolution, which transformed the all-pervasive peasant class into wage-earners of comparative prosperity.
Today, the stage 5 era of self-serving intellect is drawing to a close as the new, heart-centered consciousness emerges. More than one in five adults today have stepped into stage 6 consciousness and beyond.
When a person begins to explore heart-centered consciousness, they typically develop environmental awareness. As more people do this, increasing pressures are applied to contain the polluting side-effects of rampant industrial growth and to introduce long-term sustainability. Stage 6 is where the vistas of awareness expand yet again to include issues that are important for the greater good of society.
Stage 7 is of particular significance because it is the first stage of spiritual awareness. While stage 6 allowed people to acclimatize to the feel of holistic, heart-centered consciousness, stage 7 springs this potential into action. With this holistic-active chakra, people learn how to express the all-inclusive vision of the heart and start to make a real difference in the world. While the sixth chakra face in stage 6 is heartfelt, the seventh chakra face is heart-powered.
Stage 8 is where a connection to soul consciousness begins to be established and intuitive development brings inner guidance and wisdom to the fore. This is the leading edge of spiritual development today and, thanks to the continually increasing frequency of The Shift, this level of consciousness is becoming more accessible all the time.
Today’s Most Powerful Spiritual Path
During these rapidly changing times, the most powerful spiritual path is one of spiritual action rather than slow and passive development. The universal Law of Karma states that all action, including spiritual action, causes an equal reaction. With Karma Yoga – the path of spiritual action – you don’t just seek spiritual upliftment within yourself and stop there. Instead, you create a cycle of action and reaction by attracting inspirational energy into yourself and then sending it out to heal the world. The universal law guarantees that you will receive spiritual upliftment in return, but something even more important happens as well. By opening your heart to heal the world, your act of unselfish service elevates your consciousness in a way that is more certain that any other spiritual path today.
The Shift is rapidly transforming humanity into new heights of awareness and spiritual empowerment, but time is running out. Millions of people have yet to re-awaken to their spiritual purpose in life. Many of them are fence-sitters, stuck in the hypnotic trance that passes for life today and waiting for a nudge, for any kind of help to make it into the New Reality.
The Shift needs your help! You can make a huge difference in helping other spiritual seekers to awaken. Perform the World Healing Technique correctly, then watch the reaction that comes back to you over the days that follow.
Try it and see! You will be amazed.
Part 7 - Unprecedented Spiritual Growth
(Parts 1-6 can be found here)
The main event of The Shift will occur when the Earth makes a significant rise in frequency, carrying us into a more subtle level of physical existence. At the same time, those in the afterlife will be risen to a higher frequency of existence, as in the Biblical prediction that, “the dead shall be risen.”
People will be aware that the physical world has changed. They will notice that colors are brighter, sounds have a deeper dimension, the sky looks different, the stars are brighter, and telepathy is a lot easier to achieve. This will be the start of life in a less dense physical reality. For spiritual seekers, what happens next is the really exciting part.
Higher states of consciousness will become even easier to achieve when you have a physical body which, like all matter, will be made up of less dense physical matter than before. Extended forays into soul consciousness and its joyful state of beingness will become popular as the new frontier of exploration. Body and spirit will work hand in hand for rapid evolution and transformation.
As your consciousness continues to rise, so too will the frequency of your physical body. You will be able to explore even higher realms of vibratory existence. As you do, your life span will extend, making still more progress possible while in the same physical body. A great push for higher potential will emerge among spiritual seekers simply because the floodgates of progress will be wide open as, indeed, they already are today.
Never before in the history of humanity have we faced such enormous potential for advancement and spiritual progress as we do today. If you acquire one life-enhancing new habit right now, it should be to take advantage of every opportunity for spiritual development because the results can be phenomenal.
Every step that you take today – from spiritual study to healing to creating a better world – will be a giant leap in your personal evolution. Never before has such progress been possible in such a short period of time.
At our Recommended Reading page there are many suggestions for classic spiritual metaphysics books that deliver a wonderfully expanded view of life and the universe:
www.infinitebeing.com/reading.htm