Enter the Silence and Find Your Self

Holy Week always has been a big question mark for me because of the feelings and angst it brings up in me and the age-old question: "Is God really a Being who will order any of His children to be put to death because he wanted a blood sacrifice to "save" mankind and free it from sin?

My logical mind has never been able to comprehend this, and my feeling heart refuses to believe that the Creator of this and zillions of other universes, would ever need a blood sacrifice to appease his anger. Sorry, no explanation in the world in that direction will ever make any sense to me. And so I reject it always. 

Think about this: Would any normal human being give up a child to be slaughtered for a greater good? No. Never. Because there is no greater good in this theory and level of thinking at all. These are interpretations birthed by an institution a very long time ago as a means of control over the people.  Unfortunately, this narrative is so entrenched into the very DNA of humans, it is something that may not ever disappear from history. 

We are no longer living in an old, ancient, rigid, iron-age period. We have the opportunity to change what this week means for us. We are living in very different times now.  It's a time in Humanity's history when all the old belief systems have to be questioned and dismantled. The Light of Truth is shining on the deepest darkness the world over. The physical eyes see only nightmares, bad dreams, and illusions. Most people are focused on the world as a means to not think about the real issues of the Soul and Spirit. It is unnatural and the Light will enter the mind of everyone in good time.

Think about this. Why is the world what it is today if the goal of Jesus's death was to save mankind? Shouldn't we be living in Paradise by now?

Jesus suffered in SILENCE. Seek to know why. 

All answers come in silence alone. They come in silence - when you are silent. You can sit in a church, temple, or prayer hall that is silent, but if your brain is doing cartwheels and your mind is busy scanning the world, holding conferences with other chattering minds, then you do not get to hear the Voice of The Spirit within. 

Unless we enter the silence, we will never know Christ Consciousness. And if we do not have a real Christed experience, we cannot tell anybody how to live, and who to worship, and what path they should follow. That is not our job. The only conversion that is truly valid is the conversion of oneself from the small, limited self to one that is our Higher Self. Jesus said "Be the Light" and "Let your light so shine before men that they may SEE your good works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven."

When Jesus was being persecuted, beaten, tortured, abused, He was silent. I don't know why exactly, but that is for me to ask within my heart. 

"It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven 

without entering into ourselves." 

- St Teresa of Avila

With Best Wishes,

Lavina Olive Jain

What Is The New World All About?

Sometime in 2019, I purchased a book titled "Spiritual Philosophy for the New World" by John Randolph Price which is a "60-day Non-Human Program to Rise Above the Ego".  I was very enthusiastic about this whole idea and wondered much about the "non-human" thing.  I wasn't surprised to discover I was far from ready to begin such a process - like, way too far! I enjoyed reading the introduction though, highlighting and underlining as I read along, but sadly that was as far as I could go. However, that book never left my mind. It was filed away in some secret corner of my subconscious mind awaiting retrieval when the most appropriate time presented itself. 

It seems like that retrieval time presented itself yesterday. I couldn't stop thinking about this title and decided to delve right back into it once again.

It's now a little over a year since the 2020 lockdown. That's what I like to call it. "2020 lockdown". I don't wish to give it any more importance than it deserves. It was happening. It still is happening leaving in its wake much disaster and death the world over. And it will be happening till it stops happening. Till then, the existence of the viral will be forcing us to view life from different vantage points and perspectives. Mental health is a very real problem. Unfortunately, we have no choice but to find the courage, strength, and energy to wake up, stand up and take new ongoing action steps for change. Becoming "woke" is only the beginning of seeing the reality of the world presently. Awakening is what is required to follow the "woke" process. Hopefully, humanity will reap some very good lessons from the present world scenario and understand very deeply that Change is the only way forward.  Speaking of "change" I would like to share precisely three paragraphs from this book that has stayed with me since 2019.

EXCERPTS FROM "SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY FOR THE NEW WORLD"

INTRODUCTION

In 1988, hundreds of men and women around the world volunteered for an experiment in consciousness. For sixty days they were asked to live in another Dimension. Their assignment was to work in the laboratory of mind to achieve a new attitude of harmlessness and a deeper understanding of cause and effect, and then to move into the energies and vibrations of the Fourth Dimension - not as human beings but as Spiritual Beings of Light. After a period of assimilation, they were to return in consciousness to "this world" and perform their mighty works of creative expression in the third dimensional plane of materiality.

What began as a sixty-day experiment became a lifetime commitment, for the new understanding unequivocally documented the Ancient Truth that consciousness is cause and everything in the physical world is an effect of consciousness - individual and collective. The participants in this "Non-Human Program" - which is the theme for this book  - began to realize, perhaps as never before, that it is impossible to heal a third-dimensional effect with a third-dimensional consciousness. Temporary relief may be evidenced, but in time the fake plaster will fall and the old wall of scarcity, devastation, fear, and futility will again be visible. The key, therefore, is to be in this world but not of it - and not to be "not of it" means to rise into that already-fully present state of consciousness called Divine Individualism and from there to extend the Light of Reality into the world of shadows. This is what I am asking of all who have caught the vision and who are speaking the word for peace to come forth in every mind, for love to flow forth from every heart, for forgiveness to reign in every soul, and for understanding to be the common bond.

The Winds of Change. Throughout the world today men and women are experiencing a shifting of values and the breaking up of the old forms, and they are stirred to action in a great array of causes. The vision of freedom and peace has inspired millions to throw off their shackles in a new spirit of independence. And the continuing storm of overpopulation, pollution, land erosion, deforestation and shrinking water levels has united people in a powerful new wave of activism to combat projected natural disasters, food scarcities, famine, and economic depression."

- End of Excerpts -

It's a long journey from hereon, but personally, I don't think we have the luxury of not choosing to awaken. It is not going to be comfortable for a very long time because the Earth is undoing and purging herself of the deep darkness and negativity that has completely overshadowed us. As the author of the book says: "There is a massive, humanly-created, highly charged band of negative energy within the race mind that is continually projecting itself into the consciousness of individual men and women. There is "evil" that the religionists speak of and even those on the spiritual path are susceptible to it."

That should give us something to ponder on and think about how we want to experience life.  Take heart, all is well even though it appears quite to the contrary. The road ahead is paved with blessings and Spirit's Grace and Light.

Peace. Aum. 

Lavina Olive Jain