The Loving Experience of Truth Has Not Changed

          My recent articles in which I explained how pure love and peace have been deflated for me from a god to simply what is, has had some readers and clients confused. Mostly, they want to know if what I am saying is that what they have been experiencing as a comforting presence, love, or guidance is not real. On the contrary, I am saying it is very real. It is what is! Your experiences are genuine and I am only attempting to bring them down to, I hope, make them feel closer, more accessible, and more comfortable, by explaining that what you have been experiencing is simply what consciousness is, rather than from a distant, lofty, powerful authority. Loving, peaceful truth is so ordinary and natural and here it does not need to be inflated into a god with an elaborate story or explanation.

Some tell me that what I now call “pure consciousness” is what they have always meant by the labels God or Christ Consciousness. And that is fine. Call it whatever you want. Be guided by your own experiences, use your own labels and symbols. My experience was that pure love and peace are right here, too, but I discovered that those labels (God, Christ, Spirit) and elaborate explanation for them were ego. As ego falls away, they have gone with it, deflating all sense of loftiness or specialness for what is.

Certainly, pure consciousness is nothing to be worshipped or idolized or to feel you must earn or achieve or attain or be worthy of. Like A Course in Miracles says, love is here, you don’t have to seek for it, you only must find your obstacles (ego) to it. By sharing my experience of deflation, I am suggesting an examination of the connotations for you of words like God, Christ, Jesus, and Holy Spirit. Do they help you understand that pure love and peace are right here or do they make them feel special, distant, hard to attain? What if love and peace were not something special but were as natural and ordinary as breathing is for the body? (Closer than breathing, as Joel Goldsmith said.)

I am not suggesting that reaching love and peace should be easy for you simply because I tell you how close they are. If ego is still the center of your consciousness, love and peace will feel distant. But what I am saying is that distance is an illusion. Ego’s interference does not make them distant, only makes them seem distant. And you probably catch more glimpses than you know, but they are so ordinary that you don’t realize it. The grand mystical experiences that people expect and/or want are made dramatic by ego. Ego slips a bit so that love and peace are revealed. This would be a quiet event except ego gloms on and bloats it into something intense, something special. The truth gets lost in the fireworks and ego’s subsequent lament that it is gone.

Another example of how ego’s bloating turned the truth into something special here is I used to separate out experiences like comfort or guidance from what I called the Holy Spirit (or just Spirit) from, say, an intuition about something that was about to occur. I thought the love that I felt was from God through God’s Holy Spirit into consciousness and foreseeing, sensing, intuiting were merely moments of tuning into the greater consciousness. Now I know it was all the same. The love and guidance, as well as the intuiting, etc. were all moments when the greater consciousness rose toward my conscious awareness into my subconscious (sensing, not fully seeing) or conscious awareness (fully experiencing, seeing clearly). It was just that the love and peace were pure consciousness.

All difficulty, all elaboration, all distance-making when it comes to truth—everpresent love and peace—is ego. Elaborate labels do not make the truth seem distant, but they can indicate that you feel the truth is distant. Whatever you call the truth, it is simple and right here.

 

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