Ask: Is surrender a precondition for staying in Spirit?

          “Since duality counts for just about everything here there is no surprise at the ego/spirit split. However, the ego’s dominance in the world remains strong and will always fight for its recognition and position. Spirit stands silently still and waits for recognition. In this world, few souls have recognized it. Do you feel that surrender plays a part in the shift and continuous surrender a precondition to staying there?” – ESA

 

What I have been trying to convey in my articles lately is that what is occurring in consciousness is this play of dark and Light, of ego and Spirit, and that it is predetermined. It is an expression, a depiction over time, of the moment of the idea of not-God arising and its simultaneous undoing by God’s All-encompassing nature. So, there is nothing here making a choice, there is nothing here to take the posture of “surrender.” All sense of choice is ego’s delusion that the person is occurring apart from the whole of consciousness, is autonomous, and is therefore real.


What feels like “surrender” is a moment when ego recedes and Spirit advances in a seemingly singular consciousness. A person, which is merely an expression of consciousness, then says they feel they have made the choice to surrender to God. But whether that sense of surrender remains is determined by ego continuing to fade from the center of consciousness or continuing as the center of consciousness. And this is determined by the unfolding story of time and consciousness, that moment of the idea of not-God arising and being simultaneously undone—the Atonement—not by an autonomous decision of any singular consciousness.


A sense of surrender, even surrendering ego, is an ego posture. When Spirit is fully here, ego is gone, so there is nothing to take such a posture. So, if there is a sense of surrender, ego is still around and surrendering is how it interprets Spirit’s predominance in consciousness at the moment. Notice how ego’s interpretation makes it about ego! 

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Comments

Anonymous said…
Thank you ESA for your question and thank you Liz for helping us see the trees are part of the forest where the ego would have us not "see the trees [at all] for the forest".
8:08 AM
Witness to Peace said…
Perfect - thankyou Liz
12:39 PM
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