What’s really important is the way the people relate to the Divine in their hearts. By “the Divine” we mean God, and celestial beings of all kinds. The quality of every relationship depends on our primary orientation to the Beloved. 

The Divine is more than a source of boons, protection, powers, or troubles, which is how most people relate to God and heavenly beings. That orientation doesn’t allow for a truly satisfying relationship with Divinity.

Love is the REAL answer for the success of every relationship. Every relationship rises or falls on the way we relate, on the attitudes and feelings of heart. The relationship to God/celestial beings is no exception.

This article is to encourage people to relate to God and celestial beings with sincere love. When we do that, we unlock the huge potential of those relationships (just as love unlocks the potential of human relationships).

Heaven is filled with real beings. And those beings don’t exist just to be sources of information about the afterlife, the mysteries of the universe, the realms of heaven, and the like. The heavenly entities I have met don’t just have wisdom, they have hearts.  Yes, and they love. Really love. With supreme loyalty.

Friends, I’ll tell you truly: though the agents of heaven love to guide and heal, they love to love most of all. And they would much prefer to be real friends to people on earth. Yes! Friends to people like you and me.

I ask you to take this seriously. You know by now I’m not a woo-woo new age type. I’m a very down-to-earth fellow, and I tell it like it is. So believe me when I say, people can establish actual relationships with that which is beyond this world. Read what I have written here, and look at the evidence I’ve collected for this blog. It should be obvious, if you see and feel the videos presented here, that I, for one, have done exactly that. You can, too.

The informative relationship

It’s not that celestial beings are unheard of these days. Many of them are well-known, and even have big “followings.” All of these are popular in the new age:

• Advice and information from ascended masters

• Goddess worship

• Avatar worship (Jesus/Buddha/Krishna/Mohammed, etc).

• Listening to the Still Small Voice.

Many people have learned certain information from these heavenly sources that was, at least to some degree, helpful, or even enlightening. And certainly, many have received useful guidance through the Still Small Voice. But one thing that’s obvious is this: usually, in relationship terms, none of those arrangements are very close.

So, while many people these days “believe in angels” and are familiar with a variety of celestial beings, few people know the reality of relationship to agents of heaven. We look at heavenly beings narrowly, as sources of information, or even of healing. But we don’t recognize much of their reality, their being, their heart. It’s almost like when a woman complains, “You just want me for one thing. You don’t see the real me!” The main difference is, the agents of heaven don’t tend to complain.

When considered in its efficacy, functionality, and fullness as a relationship, the mere provision of information is both limited and limiting. Relationship is weak if it includes very little of the beings who are “relating” in such minimal ways. Surely, when it comes to the relationship between humanity and Divinity, the opportunity exists for something much greater, and much more satisfying all around. How about a close relationship, built upon heart exchange, love exchange, not just data exchange, and not just begging for this or that favor. We need a higher quality of contact if we are to satisfy the heart of any of the participants involved. 

Angels are people too

But people automatically tend to rule out relationships with heavenly beings. Not only do the celestials seem to be more challenging to contact than our human associates, but they also seem to be “out of our league.” It just doesn’t occur to us that relationship with them is really even an option.

In humanity’s defense, it’s true that the agents of heaven are subtle. They lack bodies. It can be difficult for them to punch into this world clearly enough to deliver a clear, direct, unmodified communication.

But think of it this way: Just because beings are subtle, it doesn’t mean they don’t have any heart. And it doesn’t mean they don’t deserve love.

• Just because an entity is refined doesn’t mean that it’s impersonal, much less heartless.

• Just because an entity is refined doesn’t mean it doesn’t love you personally.

• Just because an entity is refined doesn’t mean you can’t love it personally, in such a way as to benefit both of you.

Being a celestial being is, in some respects, like being a black man. How can you hold that against him? He can’t help it; that’s the way he was born!

“Why does my color black make me a lesser man?”

            — Stevie Wonder

Similarly, if a being is refined, that’s the way it is. It doesn’t mean you can’t love it and it can’t love you. You shouldn’t count it out, like the guy who doesn’t dare ask a certain woman out because he thinks she’s too beautiful. That story has a very sad ending, because they both end up sitting home alone. Nobody asks her out, because everyone’s intimidated by her. What a terrible irony! What a total waste!

Love
that’s my heartache
my heartful.
I’ve got love and
I’ve got time.
They party down
and after the bashes
they call me to clean up.
And I do,
again and again.
But I’m a live-in at heart
not a temporary.
My dreams are like the dreams of any other
Kelly Girl:
a permanent position.

What I want people to consider is the possibility of sincere, heartfelt relationship between humanity and Divinity, in various forms. The reality is, there are many other things besides information that can be communicated between heaven and earth. The real stuff, the better stuff, is less about brain, and more about heart.




Showing the invisible

When I speak of a closer walk with God, I know whereof I speak. Divinity and Divine agents have come to me, not as sources of data, or even as sources of personal guidance, but as love, in the spirit of friendship, intimacy, close relationship. Clearly, that is not mediumship in the ordinary sense, as it is ordinarily employed. Nor is it the typical estranged relationship of religious tradition (in which God is conceived as a great-but-distant God; and man is conceived as a lowly creature who is unworthy to relate to God closely, in intimate terms). It is the expression of relationship, not simply the provision of information. It is an exchange of heart. This, I seek to show, to clarify, to encourage.




But things of spirit are invisible to the eye. How do you show heart? The heart of all relationships is unseen. In one sense, that’s wonderful news, because it means that you don’t need a medium — you just need a heart — to give your heart; to speak from your heart.  When you do that, the Heart of All will always listen. And there — the relationship IS.

But at the same time, there is a need to show what is possible, to help those who are ignorant or skeptical about what is possible. So the challenge is, how can we substantiate things of spirit on the earth plane without some sort of external evidence, some appearance? That’s where it helps for spiritual agencies to communicate in human bodies.

Bringing Divine love into manifestation (and into relationship)

I invite you to look at these videos. In them, my wife, Asha, and my friend, Mati, are communicating Divinity to me and to others. It IS truly amazing. Yet certainly, if you open yourself and feel, you’ll realize that what you are seeing is REAL.



What you will see and hear on the videos is a real being from “another” world—one of several with whom I have relationships. And you will experience that this is something very different than the usual channeled messages. The most important difference is this: the heavenly being is quite obviously loving here, on this plane, through a physical body. You will feel not just the transmission of wisdom, but the exchange of  love.





And you will notice that the love is not just impersonal — agape-like — but actually quite personal. And that, friends, is something I encourage you to deeply consider. Consider the possibility that you can have a unique, personal, soul-satisfying relationship with agents of heaven.





So, if you will permit me to do so, I will begin to introduce you to the wonderful possibility of relationship between heaven and earth.




Real relationships can happen

We all want a close relationship to anyone we love—heavenly beings included! And what about the desire of God and heavenly agents to love us personally? They feel the same! For those mutual wishes to be fulfilled, we need to acknowledge the heart of Divinity and the heart of humanity as one Heart, and the desire of man and God as one common desire.

What interests heaven greatly is substantial relationship — with people. People like you and me. All of us. After all, in the context of relationship, there is huge upside potential. Not only can information be given, but love can be exchanged, and true intimacy can be established. And in the ongoing relationship, there can be an unlimited ongoing unfolding revelation of the beauty and scope of being.



And the agents of heaven can be great friends, best you can imagine. That’s because great friendship begins where egotism ends, right?



May the Truth be known! The heavenly agents love you. They can, they do, and they will. Here are God’s own words:

This is My express purpose — to propose to My Loves, My little loves, great loves, this marriage. We HAVE this marriage, but it awaits acceptance by all the ones — the majority of each one. There is a face of love that I yearn for and know in commitment to Me, in willingness to surrender to the love that I am, and to be directed by My living guidance. As it is, no one has the express purpose that I have, to know Me, to be with Me. There is one here, Christ, who knew Me so well, he embodied Me in all his activities. This then is the way to live with Me, and this is what I propose to all of My children, My ones.

But if you want to explore the living potential of relations with heavenly agents, you must take them seriously. You must be genuinely open. Then — and only then — you can find out for yourself.

God will, if we will

God will enter far into the human condition. But how can God really effectively come here and satisfy our heart, if we will not embrace God? We have a necessary role in it, so it’s us who needs a good talking to. God is not the one that needs convincing. We must give the agents of heaven a chance, by opening our hearts to them.

Do heavenly beings feel out of reach to you? Any angelic form has a purity that really isn’t touchable in the world, and still be what it really is. But they are not beyond the reach of love. Communication is vastly improved by openness, and by the kind of attunement that, generally, only love provides. Love closes the distance; love erases the sense of difference. Only because we’ve held back have we failed to make the connection, and prove it to ourselves. Let yourself feel the love you have that belongs to them, and all will be proven.

Realize that you are worthy to be loved by, and to love, that which is of heaven. Hold out your hand to the most beautiful beings of heaven, and don’t be surprised if they take it, because they WILL.




Invitation

I implore you to open yourself to those who are of heaven. Any name who you know and love, call on them. They will answer you in an instantly. They will bless you, and be with you. Love and guide you. Your job is only to love them back. Such is relationship.

Everybody knows that blame and shame are negative, destructive activities. But apparently, we don’t know it good enough, because virtually everybody still goes into blame and shame at times.

When we know blame and shame are truly negative and destructive, why do we still indulge? Well, the embarrassing truth is, at the point in time when we point the finger of blame or shame, we actually think blame or shame offers us advantages, things we WANT.

Why we go into blame

Why do we want to blame? Part of our reason to blame is to avoid shame: It’s easier to avoid shame when our lives are not “our fault.” Pride is part of it, too — not wanting to be wrong — or to admit it when we are. And then there’s attachment — not wanting to change what we’re doing, even if it’s hurting us and others.

Blame lets us “look good” even when we feel bad — or so we think. Blame asserts that our troubles are all an effect of external causes: what others have done to us, unfortunate circumstances, etc. Blame lets us believe that our reactions are entirely caused by what that thing or that person is doing to us. And blame assures us that whatever evasive or tactical action we’re taking, no matter how negative it may be, is justified, appropriate, and perhaps even unavoidable, because of what’s happening to us. We may even hope that some of our evasive or strategic actions will teach a lesson to the people we’re blaming. (For example: “If they don’t appreciate that I’m ________, then what I’ll do is  ________ — and that’ll teach them!”)

Now obviously, that’s all ego-talk and ego-goals, right? Blame. Running away. Vengeance. These, typically, are the concerns of the ego: Number one, who is causing my problems? Number two, how can I escape the problems they are causing me? And number three, how can I punish those who are causing my problems? Blame answers all those questions in ways the ego likes.

Blame is our blank check. The disturbing events, our reactions to them, and the strategic actions that follow — none of it’s our responsibility. We blame it all on the world, and the people in it. Ego loves it!

Why we go into shame

What about shame? As strange as it may sound, shame, too, is loved by the ego. The ego claims, “Shame is good for me.” Here’s the logic behind that:

Ego mind reasons, “Shame causes turnarounds. And through turnarounds, shame facilitates redemption. If I am ashamed of what I’ve done, I’ll turn around and be redeemed, resurrected, thanks to the experience of guilt and shame. That’s how shame helps me.”

Thinking that way, ego encourages us to feel ashamed when we’ve done something that didn’t live up to our standards, or got us in trouble, or let someone else down. So, despite the obvious fact that, when we’re in it, shame looks and feels like a bottomless black hole, ego wants us to believe there’s a light at the end of that tunnel. It tries to convince us that shame is equivalent to caring, conscientiousness, repentance. If we buy that view, we jump right in.

Getting more realistic about blame and shame

Our relationship to blame and shame is paradoxical, or perhaps perverse. We all know that blame and shame aren’t good for us, but we indulge in blame and shame anyway. And, although the results may be consistently bad, we may be so habituated to shame and blame, we’re like a goldfish who doesn’t notice the water.

Apparently, before we will really give up shame and blame, we need a larger perspective, a deeper understanding. How do we get this deeper understanding? From a deeper, more honest, more thorough look at our own experience, and the experience of those around us.

We evidently think we know what blame and shame cause. But too often, as we’ve just explained, we tend to think that blame and shame bring about good results, results we want. That attracts us — and may even addict us — to blame and shame. To break that vicious cycle, we need to look at what blame and shame really cause, not just what we (superficially) think they cause.

What blame and shame really cause

For example, imagine a person goes into withdrawal and depression in their marriage, or in their relationships with their friends. Maybe they withdraw from the whole world, and God too. Surely, if that happens, the reason is blame, or shame, or a combination of both.

That behavior pattern known as withdrawal is thought to have many effects that are, from the ego’s perspective, desirable. For example:

• Solitude: “My withdrawal gives me space.”

• Revenge: “My withdrawal hurts others, and because it hurts them, it pays back those who have hurt me.”

The list goes on and on.

But as I’ve said, the real question is, “What does this behavior REALLY cause? Let’s look at that:

Supposition 1. “My withdrawal gives me space.”

Reality 1. That could be true, but while a little space is healthy, too much space creates alienation and dysfunction. We generally go overboard on withdrawal when we withdraw because of blame or shame.

And, what about the spirit of withdrawal? Doesn’t the spirit of withdrawal determine the effects of it? If we withdraw in a spirit of blame or shame, we are stewing ourselves in a toxic brew. Then we feel worse as a result, not better.

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Supposition 2. “My withdrawal hurts others, and because it hurts them, it pays back those who have hurt me.”

Reality 2. That, too, could be true, although it is also possible people will feel relieved to be rid of a blaming person.

But lets say we succeed in hurting them. How much good does it really do to invest our energy in the intention to punish other people? Will it really encourage them to relate to us, in the future, in a truly good spirit? Not likely!

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We’ve just had a taste of some of the real effects of shame and blame, depression and withdrawal, on the people in our lives — and on ourselves too. Now, to generalize what we’ve learned, and nail down our gains in understanding, let’s quickly review:

We think our behavior is causing A, but it’s really causing B. What we think is we’re going to get some healthy space, or inflict some healthy vengeance. We’re going to do all these beautiful/harmful things that we, as egos, are so happy with. That’s A, our intended effect.

But what it’s really causing is B — not the intended effect, but the actual effect. We’re not getting space, we're getting alienated. We may get revenge, but no real satisfaction. Those are the real effects, not the postulated effects.

Look at the whole picture

So you see, in practice, the reality is far less rosy than the theory. None of the predicted benefits of shame and blame come true. That’s because the results that our ego mind thinks will be so wonderful are far from the total picture. The whole picture is the real effects of what we’re doing (as opposed to the effects we hope and think we’d create).

We need courage and strength of character to be willing to deal with the whole picture. But what do we have to lose? We and our friends are already suffering the real effects of what we do, whether we look at the whole picture or not. That’s a sobering thought!

Here’s the thing: Cluelessness means pain all around. So if we’re serious about our smile, we’re truly much better off facing the real effects of blame and shame. When we do, we are strongly motivated to change. And indeed, we see it as a matter of integrity to change. Now, that kind of motivation is wonderful to have. It opens the door to liberation.

What really causes blame and shame

Once we’ve seen what shame and blame really cause, we have plenty of motivation to avoid shame and blame. But we are so used to thinking that circumstances and other people cause our life to be what it is. And those things are totally out of our control. How do we actually break those deeply ingrained habits? Here again, we need a larger perspective and a deeper understanding to get free.

We evidently think we know what causes our life to be what it is. But as long as we feel victimized by causes outside of us, we’re stuck with all our habitual patterns of reaction and action. To break that vicious cycle, we need to look at what really causes our life to be what it is, not just what we (superficially) think is the cause.

When we investigate honestly, we find that the most powerful “causes” we experience — in our lives, and of our lives — are not external. In fact, the main causes are these: what we ourselves are thinking; how we ourselves are reacting; and what we ourselves are doing in reaction and response.

NOTE: When we speak of effects in our lives, and on our lives, we’re talking about primary effects. It’s also true that other people do affect us to some degree — and so do external circumstances; but external factors affect us much less than we affect ourselves. The obvious conclusion is this: Circumstances and other people do create our lives — but not half as much as WE do.

“How would you feel if . . .” 

Now beware of this common pitfall: We are likely, at least at first, to admit that our thoughts and actions affect us deeply, while still tending to feel our thoughts and actions are downstream effects of what happens to us. In that case, we think of our own powerful creative forces — our thoughts and actions — merely as inevitable RESULTS of the events of our lives. We’re still stuck thinking this way: “He did this, and therefore, I reacted.” And: “This circumstance arose in my life, and therefore I did this.” And, “Of course I did that. How would you feel if . . . ?” What do those statements imply? They imply that we had no choice — no choice but to react as we did to a particular experience. The experience “made us” feel what we felt, and it made us think what we thought.

There is tremendous danger in assigning too much cause to external sources. The danger is precisely this: we lose control of what really is creating our lives. First of all, we displace far too much responsibility onto others. And second of all, we disregard the tremendous power of our free will choices of thought and action. To break old patterns requires us to use our God-given powers, not give them away, or throw them away. We need a more responsible approach if we are to exercise control over our lives.

The unsung powers of interpretation

If we look even more deeply at this matter of causation, we will find that the real cause of what we did is not so much what happened as how we interpreted what happened. Here’s the proof of that assertion: Two people can have the same experience and interpret it differently. Thereafter, their lives will follow different routes, each according to his or her interpretation.

Consider this: Some Viet Nam vets are living in mental hospitals for the rest of their lives. Another group of Viet Nam vets are semi-functional. And a third group are fully functional, even highly functional. Now listen: All those vets lived through the same basic nightmare, but each of those groups interpreted the experience differently. That’s why the three groups got different results.

The same observation can be made in much more ordinary circumstances. I know two identical twins who were raised by the same parents, went to the same school, and in fact did nearly everything together from infancy to college. They were both prom queens, school officers, and valedictorians.

Yet those two girls grew up to be very different. That is largely because they had different ways of interpreting things. Now look: The differences in their interpretations created different reactions, responses, actions. The things each of them felt, thought, and did became primary causes in their lives. Consequently, through their different interpretations, different lives were caused by each of them.

Once again, I’m not denying that what happens to us has an impact. I’m only acknowledging that what happens doesn’t have as much impact as how we interpret what happens. So, where our destinies are concerned, what happens is important, but how we interpret what happens is far more important. It has much more impact.

And I’m not denying that our actions have an impact. What we do counts plenty. But the question is, what really causes what we’re doing? Our actions do not result as much from “this bad thing happened in my life” as from how we interpret those things. That principle is clearly demonstrated in the two examples I just gave: the story about the Viet Nam vets, and the story about the twins.

That principle is also clearly demonstrated in the trend lines of our own personal lives. With enough courage, honesty, and integrity, we can recognize that when we screw up, there’s a familiar pattern involved, and it goes like this:

1. Something happened

2. We interpreted it a certain way — a very negative, irresponsible way. (And, to be exact about it, the word “irresponsible” refers either to blame or shame.)

3. On the basis of that interpretation, we thought and acted in ways that created bad trouble for ourselves.

Our choices are extremely powerful, so negative choices of interpretation, thought and action will always bring negative results. Now: Are we honest enough to look at that? If so, we can use interpretation differently — staying away from blame and shame — to regain control over our lives, and over our personal destinies.

Creating our destiny through interpretation

To understand the tremendous power of interpretation is very good news. It’s empowering to see how much control we have over our lives through our choices of interpretation. And, if we are willing to look at it, this is even more empowering:

We’re creating MOST of what happens by the way we’re interpreting EVERYTHING that happens.

We are already exercising powerful control over our lives, whether we know it or not, and whether we admit it or not — because we are always interpreting what happens to us. That means our “interpretation muscles” are plenty strong. All we need to do to positively change our destiny is to consciously flex those muscles in positive ways.

The responsibility connection

Now we’ve come to understand that our destiny is under our control. We even understand that it always has been under our control — through the way we’ve exercised our powers of interpretation.

QUESTION: So why have we always thought our destiny was out of our control?

ANSWER: Because we want to think that way.

QUESTION: And why do we want to think that our destiny is out of our control?

ANSWER: Simple: Because we’re unwilling to control it. We don’t want the responsibility that entails. And that turns out to be the biggest payoff of blame and shame: When it’s not “our fault” what happens, it’s not our job to create it, or fix it.

Finally we understand the real role of shame and blame in our lives. We employ shame and blame to avoid true responsibility. Shame and blame both get us out of things. When we go into shame, we get to substitute self-loathing for right adaptation. When we go into blame, we get to substitute other-loathing for right adaptation.

We even use shame and blame to make it look like we’re being responsible when we’re not — not really.

The ego’s idea of lame responsibility (that is, irresponsible responsibility)

For any person who would like to avoid true responsibility, shame provides an easy way out. This way out even looks virtuous, although it is far from it. The “responsible” path evoked by shame is to disappear from the lives of others — presumably, to avoid hurting them. For example, you’ve probably heard this one (maybe even said it):

"Oh, you don’t want to be with me! You have no idea how bad I can be."

The idea is: “I will protect my loved ones from me by abandoning them.” How “considerate”!

How many relationships never even had a chance because of this logic? Millions. And what about existing relationships? How many dads have used “responsibility” to justify leaving their families in shame? Millions. How many women have dismissed themselves from intimacy in this same pseudo-responsible spirit? Again, millions.

In the case of those disappearing dads, their shame-based reaction was to abandon the people they love — people for whom they were supposed to be responsible. Yes, many of them did it because, in theory, they didn’t want to inflict their woes on their family. And they thought of that as a choice of integrity. But the kids whose fathers left never seem to agree. They always complain bitterly about being abandoned. “Where was Dad?” they say. “Dad was a coward. Dad left us in the lurch, because he couldn’t handle his shit.”

Let’s talk about real responsibility. Is Dad being truly responsible in leaving his family, because he is ashamed of his own uncontrolled negative tendencies? Of course not! Is it really true that his most positive possible contribution to their lives is to “get lost”? Hardly! If he honestly considered what his “compassionate withdrawal” really causes, maybe he’d strap it on, stick around, and do what it takes to not be mean, insensitive, and hurtful.

And, is Tiffany taking real responsibility when she says, “Justin, you don’t want me. If you go with me, you’re gonna regret it.” No! Obviously, Tiffany is not going to love Justin. That, in itself, is sad. But sadder yet is the fact that, like those runaway dads, Tiffany is interpreting abandoning Justin as loving him. That’s her concept of responsibility? That sucks. How limited! How whimsical!

Just look at the real results of whim-driven abandonment disguised as responsibility. Look where it leads. It leads to loneliness. It leads to despair. It leads to dysfunction. It leads, basically, to hell.

All of that is on the downside of the balance. Why do we go there? Needless to say, we must place tremendous value on the other side of the scale. The upside of a whimsical life, as judged by the ego, is the avoidance of true and effective responsibility.

True responsibility

So then, what IS true responsibility?

1. Not just thinking about what caused this, but what really caused this. True responsibility is admitting that primarily, our own interpretations determine the quality of our lives.

2. Not just thinking about what this causes, but what this really causes. True responsibility is acknowledging the negative results we ourselves have created with our negative interpretations.

3. Acting accordingly: True responsibility is being willing to control the real causes in our life, to stop and correct our real negative results, and to consistently create real positive results instead.

The fastest growth possible comes from relating to mentors and people of higher consciousness. Asha speaks about that in this talk. (video, 18 minutes)








Asha: We are interested in talking about higher consciousness, and your relationship to higher consciousness. And you need to understand, higher consciousness is not just the bright air, the bright mind, the ever-present God that you feel. You see?

If you want a relationship with higher consciousness, you have to understand, it is very purposeful. It has a strong purpose. If you want a relationship with higher consciousness, what you get with that is higher consciousness will get to work immediately on destroying your ego. And then it will get to work on working through you. Immediately and from then onwards, it always does this.

If you want a conscious and living relationship with higher consciousness, you must accept this. You cannot be hyper-controlling. You cannot be small or attached to what you think, or what you believe, or what you believe your life is or should be. You are immediately open and free, if you want a relationship to higher consciousness in any form.

We bring this up for two reasons:

One, you already relate to higher consciousness directly as God. You all have a growing desire for a relationship with God, yes? You will realize that until you are willing to meet higher consciousness in the way that has been described here, you cannot have a living relationship with God that is satisfactory.

Two, you already relate to higher consciousness through your elders. And as higher consciousness, elders are also very purposeful, very strong on purpose. David in particular is very strong on purpose. The minute you relate to him, he will get to work on ridding you of your ego, and then he will get to work on working with you, for the purposes of higher consciousness. Yes?

And once again, to be truly and appropriately involved in that process, one cannot be attached to one’s ideas. One cannot be small, or hyper-controlling. None of that. One must prefer freedom from smallness.

Making a choice

Here’s what you do: You make a choice. You do choose, so you must choose. But I am not asking you to make a choice now — I am only asking you to understand the choice now. Then you can make the choice as you wish, you see?

Here is the choice for you to make: On one hand, you can choose to live in relationship to higher consciousness. In doing so, you choose openness, freedom, and non-attachment to what you think your life is, or what your ideas are. Or, on the other hand, you can choose mortal existence as it is presently known on the planet. In that existence, you are directing a life in a certain way by knowing this and that, by having this and that small purpose, and by putting your feet firmly on the ground whenever you would be pulled this way or that. Strong on direction, and yet not as effective.

Faith and trust

To have the right relationship to higher consciousness, one must have faith. Faith, you see? The ego has ideas that suggest it would be unhappy living properly in relation to higher consciousness. That idea is subconscious, many times. But the ego fears that it wouldn’t get what it wants, or that it would be pushed beyond its limits, or any of these things, that things would not work. It thinks that higher consciousness is too spontaneous, perhaps.

The true spirit is very intentional. Higher consciousness is very intentional. Therefore, if you want a relationship to higher consciousness in any form, you have to see it is very intentional, and you have to see that there is a great wisdom behind what it does. You have to trust it.

At first, you trust by taking a step into the unknown, a step into that which you don’t trust. You trust that way at first, and it is good. And then, after that, when you’re done trusting experimentally, and you get to throw away your ego, then you really trust. Then you have the kind of trust that is not taking a step into that which is perhaps frightening, or perhaps tentative for you. Do you see?

At the heart of this, rightness is. You know that. And if you are aligned with the rightness that is higher consciousness, then you simply do what is right, what your soul knows is right. At times, you are aware when something inside you is putting its feet down and refusing to move. You are aware when you are attached to your ideas, and you let go. At such times, you reconsider everything in the light of truth, with your heart open. That is the right way.

Your nature is free

When you are in relationship to God, the nature of you is free. In reality, your nature is forever free. It is not, by nature, stuck, rigid, or on a track. Your lives could be completely different if you are willing to have this position, or non-position, you see. This is freedom.

Your lives could be better than you realize. What the ego thinks about it is that there is trouble there, that things will be lost. But that is not the case. When you embrace this true freedom, you will realize these things.

The opportunity to live in relationship to higher consciousness

You have in your lives an enormous amount of higher consciousness, which you chose to be around, you see. And you have the opportunity to live in this relationship to higher consciousness. For now, in this space right now, the important thing is to see that as it is. Don’t worry about whether you feel you can completely get on the bandwagon right now, but see it as it is. Make sure that you do. Make sure that you do not see it as the ego sees it, because if you see it through the eyes of ego reactions, or fears in general, or ideas about yourself, then you are not seeing it. Then you are trapped in a very painful mortal existence compared to what your true life should be.

Have faith in the truth of what I have just described to you. Have faith in what your life should be. Have faith in what your heart knows life should feel like.

Individual destiny results from the purposes chosen

And then remember what I explained — that consciousness is purposeful. This is important to know if you want a living relationship with higher consciousness in any form. This is particularly pertinent now, as your elders are back with you, and higher consciousness is in your life more again. And you have the opportunity to live in this relationship to higher consciousness.

And it is always good for you to understand these things, and make conscious decisions, as this will determine your life experience.

This blog was taken from a recent talk given to the LLF resident members. Although I've made it into an article, it still has a lot of the flavor of the original talk. To share that flavor more fully with you, I've included three video clips from the talk, for those who would enjoy them.

Nowadays we hear a lot of messages from God and celestial beings that come through channels, but those messages don’t show the beauty of God — the beauty of Divine PERSONALITY. God is not just a “data source.” I want to show the world how beautiful, indescribable, touching, sweet, a personal relationship to God is. Because human beings respond to heart, to beauty, to love. I want to show the beauty of Divine personality to encourage people to WANT to relate to God personally, if they wish to. And believe me, many people WANT to. After all, human beings are persons, and it is natural for persons to relate personally. So let’s look at this . . .

Heaven as a data source

The strange thing is that the ways people relate to the God and agents of heaven tend to be so very impersonal. Through books, ascended masters, mentors — and last but not least — channeling. For example, people ask Heaven specific questions, like this: “Is the world really coming to an end? If so, will the end of the world be around 2010? Yes or no? A or B?” And Heaven gets to say, “B.”

What if you go broader in questioning? Then the next round will be more like an essay question: “Well, what’s your opinion of the chances of the world ending?” With that, Heaven gets to put a little bit more personality into the essay. But still, it ends there: “Oh, thanks for the essay. Very good. Catch you next time.”

Although an open-ended question gives the agents of heaven more of an opportunity than a multiple guess, it’s not much more, because it is still all about the data. I mean, you don’t get to know the operator when you say, “What’s the phone number of this certain business in Tallahassee?” You just get the number. You don’t get their personality. And you don’t have the relationship with that personality.

Look: It is understandable to be curious about many things. But there is a limitation in relating to heaven primarily by seeking information: You can’t squeeze a personality through a multiple-choice question on a quiz, or even the answer to an essay question. Do you really want to know God personally? If so . . .


Now, I am big on the fact that information has done us tons of good. Information is a good thing. Asking questions is a good thing. Getting answers from Heaven is a very good and necessary thing. But there are dimensions of life that information alone, and the exchange of information, can’t fill in. Like the hollow leg people have for love. And the desire to have intimacy. Certain things can’t be completed that way. 

Impersonal God, personal God

A lot of people these days do worship a personal God, but even so, they have the idea of a God who lives in a distant heaven. You see examples of that kind of God-worship everywhere. It is not very intimate.

There’s not enough love and closeness in a long-distance relationship.

When people yearn for more closeness with God, usually the next step from a distant personal God is that they get to experience a beautiful, yet impersonal God. That means, God as a lightness, a brightness; beautiful space, light, freedom. It means God as a field of pure Divine being.

Devotion to an impersonal God can reach levels of deep, deep, deep intimacy, even without personality. And, it keeps emotional feeling to a manageable level. Such are the benefits of impersonal conceptions of the Higher Power. So the worship of an impersonal God — as light, as emptiness, whatever — has become very popular. 

When we think of Divine Light, we often think about it as an abstraction. But is it necessarily abstract, impersonal? A loving person gives light. God is love, remember? The light of God is a love light.

When I was a yogi, I meditated on oceans of light, and in oceans of light. Believe me, that light was lovely. You could feel it. You could fall in love with it. And I believe it was Supremely beautiful because it was love.

The Response that the light itself was, and the Hand that ran the light, and the Eye from which the light emanated in heaven — all that was dear, somehow. And you could feel it, even as a yogi who worshipped the impersonal God — God in the abstract. 

We can relate to God’s light as an abstraction if we want, but God is love, and love is light. I want people to see, there is a personality behind that light. It is a love light. My desire is to show God as personal as well as impersonal, or transpersonal. God as endearing, God as beautiful — God as cute, even — for those who can respond to heart, for those who can respond to love, for those who can respond to beauty, true beauty.

The Self-endearing God

No matter how much of an abstraction you make of God, God is lovable, endearing, dear. It’s like, certain minerals phosphoresce; they are self-luminous. Similarly, God is Self-beautiful, Self-dear. It is dear from its Self. 

And, if God can be shown to be Self-dear, if God can be vindicated, then humanity is vindicated. Because man is God. God is the I of all. So in showing that God is Self-dear, we will prove that man is also Self-dear, because we will see in God the DNA of humanity — if we see God as God would be manifest through any agency such as personality. 

For example, look at Krishna — how Krishna got all the girls around the countryside playing His flute. The pied piper, Krishna, beloved of all. What a tremendous Divine play! What endearingness! God is Self-dear. Oh yes!

People need to know, not only is God not the God of the Old Testament, God is also not the God of the New Testament, or the newer testament called New Age philosophy — in which God is love, as an abstraction. Meaningless. Distant. Not personifiable. Not lovable in the true sense of that which is Self-endearing, Self-dear, true, I. 

I want to share with humanity the knowledge that God is love, way beyond what people mean when they say, as hip New Age people, “God is love.” They have no idea how lovely the love of God is.  I want to help people know this. I want to help that vision enter into their minds, and stick in their heart. I want them to see that Hand that reaches out of everywhere to embrace them, touch them. That personalizes the experience of God. 

Be yourself with God




And all you got to do, if you want to find out what God is, really, is be yourself with God. And God will be Itself back.

Have no illusions about what that means. You are love. Don’t be silly. Don’t go to God pretending you are as you are not — which is, “Oh I’m a slime bag from Slimensack.” Oh, get a grip, okay? You are not actually that. It’s fun. It’s a good lila. You can carry that on to thirty percent. But in reality you’ve got to be somewhat honest, at least — which is “I love you.” And “I am love,” in the sense of knowing. Not making some kind of proud, stupid, intellectual declaration, “Oh, I am love. David said I’m love.” Or, “I’m gonna boldly be love.” No. You are actually love. know it, so that you can approach God as a lover, credibly, as you are, in effect, and in truth.

Go out there and love God, boldly. Be a fool. Fools rush in. Be that kind of fool that God loves. You know you love fools. God also loves fools, because God loves you. You are God. You all have the same taste. Be a fool. You see? Love God as the fool that you are, and God will love you back as the fool that God is. A lover is a fool indeed. You see? Be that kind of beautiful. Make a fool of yourself for God’s sake.

You have no idea how boring it is to be God. It’s like, people put together a presentation. They get out a canned prayer. They practically memorize it; they do actually memorize it. Can you imagine? Put yourself in God’s shoes for just a second. Somebody comes to you with a memorized speech! “Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come.” Oh God! You see? What would you think? You could say, “This is very endearing; this is very well-intentioned.” And all of those things would be absolutely true. But at the same time, you know there’s much more to that person than a rehearsed speech. 

Kids, don't try this at home! No. Go ahead and try it. Be you. But do know that you’re love, and that you love what you love, and that you love God. Do recognize that your inherent cuteness is one of your very good attributes, because you are a chip off the old Block. And therefore, you are cute as a bug’s ear. So, if you’ve got it, flaunt it. “Don’t hide your light under a bushel basket.” That’s what Christ said. You see? Use your stuff on God. Why not?

Think about it. Look what a girl will do to get a rich husband! She uses every bit of her shit on him. Hey, isn’t God as good as a rich husband? Get out your shit. Try your stuff out! It can’t hurt. God is quite flexible in thinking. You need to be more flexible. Go to your room and try out different shit. See what happens. You can’t lose.

Try things! Like a thief, trying to crack a safe. The little tumblers in the lock go clickity clickity click. Like the kids at Lourdes: somehow they hit the winning combination in the slot machine, and then all of a sudden there’s the Virgin Mary, hanging in the air above the fountain at Lourdes. They got the magic number! They must have been out there trying some shit. Got the right number.

You’re God’s kid





You’ve got to just try shit! You know. One of these days you’ll drag God in on it. You put the right shit on the hook, throw it in; one time you’ll reel God right in. You don’t know. The important thing is to be out there trying shit. Be in the game. Everybody appreciates a player. See? You can’t count yourself out. You’re God’s kid! It’s insane! You try to count yourself out of your own family, your own genetics, your own identity, your own reality, your own parenthood, your own family-hood. You see? How’s that possible? How can a Smith not be a Smith? How can a little Godette, or Goder not be a Goder or Godette? It’s impossible!!

God’s going to get a real chuckle, sitting there eating popcorn, watching your show, and realizing, “My God! Look at that! That’s My shit! My kid is doing My little thing.” You see? It’s like God recognizes that shit. You’re a chip off the old block. You’re not alien. You’re not different. You’re not less or worse. You’re the chip off the old damn block! How could you be less or worse? You see ? It just doesn’t compute. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Straight down. Right at the root.

It’s amazing the way you are. You are possessed of these attributes. You are playing with a full deck. Sure, there are about a billion things that you can’t do, that you don’t know yet, that are beyond your present abilities. And guess what? None of them are key. You got all the key stuff now. The key stuff. Heaven didn’t put you down here without a Swiss Army knife. They didn’t send you out ill-equipped. Honestly! This is very important.

There is stuff that can be done that’s cool. Like, some people can teleport from here to there. They can be there in a twinkling. They can be there yesterday, maybe, in some circles! “So what!” You can say this with impunity. “So what! I am a child of God — just as much as that teleporting one. I am not less.”

You’re playing with a full deck. You have the stuff. You’re not going to get the stuff later. That’s not it! You could, if you want, deny that you have the stuff now, and you could deny it tomorrow, and you could deny it till next week. And then next week you could admit that you have the stuff. But you would not have gotten the stuff next week. You would have simply, next week, got willing to admit that you had the stuff. That’s all that could happen. You would not have gotten it in that sense of not had it. You have it now.

Endear yourself to God





If you’ve got it, flaunt it. What else have you got that would be endearing or otherwise Divine? Do the puja! Do the do!

The angels are very impressed by this speech. Ha! They are very excited, in anticipation of us actually doing the do. They haven’t seen a show like that for days! They think you’re going to go there and do the do. They’re going, “Oh, my God! Let’s get some popcorn. We got to see this! This is going to be unbelievable! They’re going to win hearts. They’re going to do the do.”

Oh, yeah. It’s huge. You have this power of cuteness, of endearingness. You are dear, inherently dear, to God! You know. You have a face that not only a mother could love, but a dad could also love. Show it.

Endear yourself to God. God is a fool for a fool. “I am the devotee of My devotee,” says Krishna, the cutest of the cute. “I am the devotee of My devotee.” A fool’s fool.

Think about it: “What more do I need, I’m fully equipped! All I’ve got to do is strut my stuff. Do the do!” And if that doesn’t get to God, I have no idea what could possibly, ever, ever get to God.