Messages – from where, from whom?

September 9th, 2007 | by gene |

I’ve been thinking about this part for a couple days. On September 3, I talked a lot about truth. I specifically talked about how we know what messages we get from, well, anywhere, can be determined to be “truth, or messages from “God”, because, of course, any message which lacks truth is not from God but from another source. What other sources are there? Quite a few as it turns out, lol. But they are all human. And, we humans, surprisingly, aren’t always as truthful as we could be.

On my main site, I introduced you to my inner voice, my other “half” so to speak, my guide, and my love, jenna. When I first talked about her to the CWG discussion group at Spiritweb, I was still in my “grasshopper”(for you fans of David Carradine’s wonderful show Kung Fu from decades past and which was full of eternal wisdom) days of learning, remembering, the whole, what I call esoteric, experience was very new to me then. I’d only known Jenna AS Jenna for less than two years, I’d only had books 1 and 2 for about 16 months, when I told the list about my inner voice. I was honest, I told them I had no way to know if she was me, not me, or something else entirely. Someone there said that guides could not lie to us, if you asked one directly they had to tell you the truth, that person said the question to ask was, “are you from the light”. So, I did ask, exactly that, and Jen’s response was, and has always been, “I AM the Light”. I’ve not figured out a way to close my posts here, yet, with a signature file, the way I do with emails, I have closed every mail I’ve written in the last 9 1/2 years with this quote:

If today brings even one choice your way,
Choose to be a Bringer of the Light. :^) gene

For me, that means making a daily choice to live in the Light of truth. That was what I wrote about on 9/3, how to discern which messages WERE truth, and which were from a lesser source. So I quoted from book 1, this bit from page 5:

“The challenge is one of discernment. The difficulty is knowing the difference between messages from God and data from other sources. Discrimination is a simple matter with the application of a basic rule:

Mine is always your Highest Thought, your Clearest Word, your Grandest Feeling. Anything less is from another source. Now the task of differentiation becomes easy, for it should not be difficult even for the beginning student to identify the Highest, the Clearest, and the Grandest.

Yet will I give you these guidelines:

The Highest thought is always a thought that contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest feeling is that feeling which you call love.

Joy, truth, love.

These three are interchangeable, and one always follows the other. It matters not in which order they are placed.

Having with these guidelines determined which messages are Mine and which have come from another source, the only question remaining is whether My messages will be heeded.”

Yes, it IS worth reading again, giggle. I don’t think it can be read too often. Far too many come to us with messages they allege to be from God, including our very own President Bush. But those messages do not meet the standard God sets on page 5. One does not discern that they contain joy, truth or love. And so may be, must be, disregarded as from a lesser source. For example, Osama bin Laden’s last message – did that contain the necessary elements to be heeded as a message he received from God? By whatever name we call Him/Her, God, Allah, Jehovah, even Jesus, the message MUST be one of love or it is NOT from our Creator. I’ve talked about the feeling I had in those moments in the presence of the light at 7, and the globes at 15 and 46. And I can tell you that if a message does not evoke in me some sense of THAT love, I don’t consider it divine, but something far less than that.

So, then that leads me back to what I want to talk about tonight about messages. They do not come in but one form, not necessarily a voice within. God is clear about this in book 1, too. In fact, on page 6, He says:

“My messages will come in a hundred forms, at a thousand moments, across a million years. You cannot miss them if you truly listen. You cannot ignore them once truly heard. Thus will our communication begin in earnest. For in the past you have only talked to Me, beseeching Me. Yet now can I talk back to you, even as I am doing here.”

Neale then asks, How can I know this communication is from God? How do I know this is not my own imagination?

Believe me, I have had this thought too. This is my own deepest struggle. But for me here, 9 1/2 years after God put book 1 in my hands, 11 years after Jenna introduced herself to me, in response to MY call, I STILL am, in faith. God was right, you cannot ignore the messages once you have truly heard them. They will NOT leave you alone. She, Jenna, will NOT leave me alone. I have tried, at times, to ignore, to move away, and at most, she will go quiet for a bit, but she NEVER leaves me. She cannot, she will not. It is the same with God. We are NOT alone. We have NEVER been alone. It is the illusion of our relative universe that we are alone, but even in our darkest moments, our guide, our God, is with us. That they do not alter the course of our lives, is because it is OUR life, and ours alone to alter, or not, as we choose. This is the gift God has given us in creating this universe, this experience for our evolution as His/Her (okay that gets annoying, I will use mostly the male descriptor hence, but I want to be clear that God is not “simply” male, He/She is complete in one entity, as are WE, when we are home) children. We KNOW what we are when we are home by having this experience of knowing what we are NOT while we are here. We can appreciate perfect love there because we have our experience of something less than that here. Sometimes, something horribly less than that. Now I need another quote, yes, there will be many of those, especially in this first year of this blog, this too will evolve over time, but the stage for that has to be set, and it is in me that THIS is how I must do that. So many people have not been exposed to books 1 and 2 and it is important that what is in them become common knowledge. Why? Because they are the blueprint for our next evolutionary advance as a species. Are they perfect? No. Neale received them through his own filter but I tell you that 90% of what is in them IS gospel and God’s own truth. Do I “know” what parts are not? Yes, but I get THAT from within, from Jenna. When we come to something like that, I’ll state my disagreement, and that will be in matter of degree for the most part. For ALL of us, those books have personal messages, that WE will see as we read them, I’ve been through both books many times, in excess of 20 and I tell you that EACH time I see something I did not see in any previous reading. We “get” the message when we are ready to hear it. That is the beauty of the books AND of God’s communications with us. There is no such thing as stale. :^)

So, from page 6, in response to Neale’s question above, God responds: ” What would be the difference” Do you not see that I could just as easily work through your imagination as anything else? I will bring you the EXACT right thoughts, words, or feelings, at any given moment, suited precisely to the purpose at hand, using one device, or several. You will know these words are from Me because you, of your own accord, have never spoken so clearly. Had you already spoken so clearly on these questions, you would not be asking them.”

Neale then asks: To whom does God communicate? Are there special people? Are their special times?

God responds: “All people are special, and all moments are golden. There is no person and there is no time one more special than another. Many people choose to believe that God communicates in special ways and only with special people. This removes the mass of the people from hearing My message, much less receiving, (which is another matter), and allows them to take someone else’s word for everything. You don’t have to listen to Me, for you’ve already decided that others have heard from Me on every subject, and you have them to listen to. By listening to what other people think they have heard Me say, you don’t have to think at all. This is the biggest reason for most people turning from My messages on a personal level. If you acknowledge that you are receiving My messages directly, then you are responsible for interpreting them. It is far safer and much easier to accept the interpretation of others (even others who have lived 2,000 years ago) than to seek to interpret the message you may very well be receiving in this moment now. Yet I invite you to a new form of communication with God. A two-way communication. In truth, it is you who have invited Me. For I have come to you, in this form, right now, in answer to your call.

That is how Jenna came to me. In answer to MY call. She was there all along, waiting for me to call her out, to ask her WHO she was. And, thank God, she has not shut up since, giggle. I can be a very difficult guy, lol. But she never has any trouble with me at all, though I have given, or tried to, her trouble, she has NEVER been anything but softness, love, truth and joy within me. No matter MY own state, hers never changes. Not in the slightest. It is quite disconcerting, to be honest, to be really upset about something, and to have her be always her, calm and loving. Sometimes we humans do NOT want calm and loving, but nothing has ever caused her to be less than what she is. That alone is enough to justify my faith in her. She is what I cannot myself be. At least not perfectly, not nearly often enough. I would be as her, were I able, and I look forward to the day when I can be, even if it is not until I am home with her again. This is why I do not fear death. I KNOW where I am going, I KNOW I am going home, I know we are ALL going home. There is such comfort in that knowing. Certainly the process of that transition can be disconcerting, to say the least, but ultimate outcome is not in doubt, for any of us, not even Osama bin Laden. Or, George W. Bush, who, in some parts of the world, is considered a bigger, meaner, devil than Osama is in this part of the world. We ALL go home. No exceptions. Why? How? Because there is NO other place to go. We’ll talk more about that another time. For now though, I want to come back to messages.

Book 1, page 58: The last paragraph, and the last quote for today too, I didn’t say the last word, that is mine, giggle, and it follows immediately. God says: “So go ahead now. Ask Me anything. Anything. I will contrive to bring you the answer. The whole universe will I use to do this. So be on the lookout. This book is far from My only tool. You may ask a question, then put this book down. But watch. Listen. The words to the next song you hear. The information in the next article you read. The story line of the next movie you watch. The chance utterance of the next person you meet. Or the whisper of the next river, the next ocean, the next breeze that caresses you ear – all these devices are mine; all these avenues are open to Me, I will speak to you if you will listen. I will come to you if you invite Me. I will show you then that I have always been there, All ways.

So – my point tonight in writing this to you, is that, God’s truth is everywhere you look. You need only see it there, hear it there. Jenna does not talk to me only from within. There are things she knows I see every day. I am not a believer in astrology, I find the whole idea more than a little silly, but there is one place I read a horoscope every day, since I was 17 or so, just for the heck of it. I don’t expect any of that to come true. And mostly? It doesn’t. But for the past 11 years, since she made herself known to me “officially”, I have found a line of inspiration, almost daily, in that particular horoscope. Not having anything to do with predicting my future, but reminding me of something I need to re-member, something she wants me to SEE, from a different perspective. God uses every vehicle available to talk to and with us. So does my Jenna. The responsibility for seeing, hearing, and interpreting those messages are mine alone. I decide what meaning they have for me. And what, if anything, I do with each bit of wisdom I come across. And I use the test He gave us in the beginning of book 1 for discerning which messages are His or Hers, and which are from a lesser source. If the message does not evoke in me a feeling of love, of joy, or of truth, I know the message is not from my Higher Power, but from someone else, who often has an agenda that does not match my own. My agenda? I want this world to be filled with love, truth and joy. I want us to stop killing each other. I want us to set aside our differences. I want us to set aside our human-created religions, those institutions created that one small group of people might exercise power over another large group of people by telling them God told them to have them kill or hate another group because of their color, or their clothing, or where they live or what they eat. I want this planet to become the paradise it could be were we to give up warlike ways and turn to love as the answer to every question. Were we able to set aside our greed and avarice and tell ourselves that we only need pile our money and possessions up so high, until we can say, I have enough to care for myself and my family for as long as I live, and now I can turn my attention, my talents and my fortune to helping those who can not help themselves. Those in that group that Hubert Humphrey talked about which I wrote about it my post on Health Care – those in the dawn of life, in the twilight of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. At some time, we have to God-like enough to say, I have enough, and I want to give back now.

We have to overcome our greed and our fear of being taken advantage of and stop worrying about government programs designed to help others. We have to realize that we did not get where we are by ourselves, and we have to learn to love reaching out to give others a hand up. If that sometimes begins with a handout? So what? There is enough here for all of us. There IS. In a post down the road a bit, I’ll talk about that too. God addresses the idea raised by Neale, that if we made things so easy, if we guarantee a basic living stipend, housing, food and clothing to all, all of the time, that there would be some who would never do more than that, just take and contribute nothing. Well, yes, there will be some like that. So what? The vast majority of us would NEVER be satisfied with that sort of meager existence. We would continue on building, growing, learning, evolving, stretching ourselves and reaching for the stars because it is in the VAST majority of us to do exactly that. If some come here to do less, to show the rest of us what we are NOT, that we wish to be more than that, then they do us a favor by being willing to be that example of what we do not wish, ourselves, to be. They should be thanked for being that example for us. And in another life, perhaps we will return the favor and be that example for them. There is enough time for all of us to be everything. And we can be, we will be, as I talked about time the other day, we ARE already, ALL of that. Everyone gets a turn at everything. We are ALL children of our Creator, and we all have every chance to be all that we wish to be. I’ve not said this yet, but, am going to say it here for the first time, I think, giggle. This IS my first trip to relativity, and it will be my last in this form as well, always before it has been Jen who came, and me who did for her, what she does for me now, and we’ll go back to that pattern after this ride is over. Probably. That is what SHE tells me, giggle. I think we’ll have that discussion when I get back home. But I have no reason to disbelieve her, I have no memory of past lives, because I have had none, not here. And I have to say I am truly impressed by this experience. There are large parts of it I haven’t liked much, don’t like much, but I do have the opportunity to choose my responses to those parts. I’m grateful for that. Grateful I was given this opportunity. I hope you, all of you, can feel that gratitude too. In your darkest hours, I hope you seek the truth within. Because within that truth, you will find hope. We ARE love, we come FROM love, and we go back to that love. We are in a game we cannot lose. So let us not act like losers, especially not sore ones. Lets join hands and turn this world into the dream so many have expressed so eloquently about it. Lets make Earth, Eden. We can you know. So, lets do that. much love, :^) gene

If today brings even one choice your way,
Choose to be a Bringer of the Light. :^) gene

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