Imagine the Success of Everything

I cannot help you with your particular job, but perhaps I can help you with your work. Work being what you do psychologically. With so much psychic phenomena documented, it shouldn't surprise anyone that the world is imagination based. Consciousness is the whole of it. Your job, therefore, is subject to your work, your psychological work. It is subject to your mental attitudes, how you feel about it, your intentions and plans, how you apply yourself, etc.; i.e., to your IMAGINATION.

I am a fan of Neville Goddard's discussions about such work. Neville was from a poor but proud family in Barbados. He wound up literally penniless in New York during the Great Depression. He learned some things about the Bible about the time his family had a big turn around in Barbados. He put them together and had a big revelation (they did not necessarily happen at the same time, but he did see their association in nature). On the island, one of his brothers would daily pass a large concern which had a sign with its owner's name on it. When his brother would see the sign, he consistently imagined it being his family's name, Goddard, on it. That is how he saw it.

The business came up for sale, and of course he had not a plug nickle to put toward buying it. Another businessman wanted it, but if the sellers knew he was interested, they would demand a high price. Knowing the Goddard's to be trustworthy and honest, he offered to loan Neville's brother the money to buy the place and repay the loan by running the business. The Goddard's were on their way to becoming one of the wealthiest families on the island.

Neville, in New York, learned that the world is subject to imagination, and that God is imagination itself. Just as his brother had imagined his name onto the sign in Barbados, Neville imagined himself onto Barbados. He had told his Bible teacher that, after a long absence, he wanted to visit his island home of Barbados. "You are in Bardos," his teacher said. "I am in Barbados?" he asked incredulously. "Yes, you are in Barbados, and you went there first class!"

Long story short: Neville found out that it was true: an imagined end becomes physical reality. We do it all the time -- we just don't recognize it. We don't associate the end we are experiencing with the thoughts we had before it. In truth, what we think does not become a thought in the past; it proceeds into the future to become our experience. We shine our light, as it were, and then it becomes seen. Capiche? This is one of God's ways of talking with us: "This is what you are." (Expletive deleted.)

God is not a shining guy sitting in a big chair. "It" is That Which Is Conscious. The universe, including us, is that consciousness manifest. Everything is the imagination, the consciousness of That Which Is Conscious, and thus is That Which Is Conscious. God is all -- everything.

It is there and here. One thing, but 'here' is Son to 'there', the Father. What do we do? We do what It does: It calls what is not formed as though it were, and what is not formed becomes formed. THAT is what we are doing with our thoughts and beliefs and fears and angers and rejections and . . . . We call, and they become manifest. This is actually quantum physics 101.

So we need to learn to live in the end that is right. To see it and believe it and expect it and receive it. Everything according to the Golden Rule, and with Grace and Love.

Here are some youtube videos about Neville's "technique":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IazuqgBuv9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UzP1MUNjdY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0EoZ5mPOmY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruYLzByrCeg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMY4YBLnHys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IW6aNmroNQ

Ouspensky-Neville Goddard Observations, And My Two Cents

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post, “Return as Twenty-Something: Will Researches And Ruminates Revision”:

Comment:

Neville surely knew Ouspensky's concept of Recurrence. From the chapter on Eternal Recurrence in Ouspensky's A New Model of the Universe:

Evolution, i.e. improvement, must come from the past. It is not enough to evolve in the future, even if this were possible. We cannot leave behind us the sins of our past. We must not forget that nothing disappears. Everything is eternal. Everything that has been is still in existence. The whole history of humanity is "the history of crime", and the material for this history continually grows. We cannot go far forward with such a past as ours. The past still exists, and it gives and will give its results, creating new and ever new crimes. Evil begets evil. In order to destroy the evil-consequence it is necessary to destroy the evil-cause. If the cause of the evil lies in the past, it is useless to look for it in the present. And man must go back, seek for and destroy the causes of evil, however far back they may lie. It is only in this idea that a hint of the possibility of a general evolution can be found.

From Neville Goddard's The Law and the Promise:

Man and his past are one continuous structure. This structure contains all of the facts which have been conserved and still operate below the threshold of his surface mind. For him it is merely history. For him it seems unalterable — a dead and firmly fixed past. But for itself, it is living — it is part of the living age. He cannot leave behind him the mistakes of the past, for nothing disappears. Everything that has been is still in existence. The past still exists, and it gives — and still gives — its results. Man must go back in memory, seek for and destroy the causes of evil, however far back they lie. This going into the past and replaying a scene of the past in imagination as it ought to have been played the first time, I call revision — and revision results in repeal.

Changing your life means changing the past. The causes of any present evil are the unrevised scenes of the past. The past and the present form the whole structure of man; they are carrying all of its contents with it. Any alteration of content will result in an alteration in the present and future.

Live nobly — so that mind can store a past well worthy of recall. Should you fail to do so, remember, the first act of correction or cure is always — "revise."

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Thank you, Anonymous. Neville’s Ouspensky-ish comment comes in The Law and the Promise after his discussion of a woman long plagued by pain from a childhood accident (p.19). Having learned of the process of revision, she in imagination uncreated the accident by revising the memory. To her new memory, it had nor occurred. Her chronic pain, caused by the long-passed crime against her, ceased.

I disagree with Ouspensky and Neville's take on it. Recurrence as I understand it is the manifestation of our condition. Our condition is the compilation of all of our experience. When I encountered God in the baptism in the Holy Spirit, I was as weighed down as much as a man may be with crime and sin -- my whole life! I found a way to wholly and completely humble myself and surrender, submit to God. I nothinged myself, and waited for his directions. He said, "Remember this, and it is all right." THAT experience voided all the other, prior crimes and sins. I was forgiven. Carte blanche, tabla rasa, or whatever you want to call it -- I had a blank slate. Yes, YHWH brings to mind things that need to be revisited and repented of, revised. I don't have to go hunting for them. When they arise, I bring them under that grace. God's grace is enough. My name for it is 'Jesus'.

Go Both Directions, Ulli

-----Original Message-----

Hi Dan,
Thank you very much for your writing about the Lord's Prayer, that puts all in another light.
Do you have a tip for me, how to leave more the thought to be material or that this outer world is a fact (it is not, I know that, but sometimes it seems so real!)
Thanks so much vor answering
Ulli (Ulrike from Germany)
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Hello, Ulli.

Thank you for writing. I am happy to assist you. I read your question this morning (my time). I thought I understood it sufficiently to answer it, but now I am not sure. I used to teach English as a second language, so I want to show you my problem in understanding your question. Please help me. What do you mean by, "to leave more the thought to be material or that this outer world is a fact"? I am not sure which way we are going. Are you using 'leave' for 'believe' - "how to believe more the thought to be material"? If so, I can understand the first part. But then the second part would be "how to believe more . . . that this outer world is a fact." The two thoughts contradict one another.

Maybe you want more of the first - the thought to be material, and to leave the idea that this world is a fact. But then the third part (in parentheses) contradicts BOTH those ideas without indicating which you are talking about. This makes it very hard to answer.

But I do have a tip for you: All is Intelligence, the Intelligence of the Ineffable, IN STATES WITHOUT REFERENCE TO TIME. All states exist from the Beginning. They are fact -- all of them -- but they are not manifest in YOUR PRESENT REALITY. The illusion of them is real, "fact," when its quantum structure is your present reality. Hard stuff hurts. To change it, whether past or future, with conviction and intensity experience the objective, present reality of the state you desire (read Psalm 37:4 again - your desire needs to be Its desire). Neville instructs to do this as you are floating away from your physically present reality into sleep. In those moments, YOU physically be aware in your desired state. Go prepared: know what the state you want is. What would that state be like? What small thing would indicate that you are really in that state as your present reality? Experience it OBJECTIVELY. As a REAL thing, as the illusion which is now (in your subjective mind) your physically present quantum structure. I.e., you imagine it, which is creation, and fall asleep in it. Then you wait for God.

It is Intelligence, the Intelligence of the Ineffable, the Kingdom of God. That's what WE are! Develop intensity to imagine concretely, objectively. It does exist! His Intelligence becomes REAL. EVERYTHING is Its Intelligence. Intelligence learns and becomes. Here and now. It is not by remote control, where He thinks and there is an effect in the distance where we are. THIS IS ITS THINKING, ITS INTELLIGENCE MANIFEST. Give It time for natural order, but in the meantime know that your desired state truly exists, too.

If I have completely missed what you are asking, please restate it more clearly, and I will try again.

Dan Steele

PS: In rereading your inquiry, I see the possibility that "to leave more the thought to be material or that this outer world is a fact" might be one question with a parallel "clarifying" restatement. Sorry I missed it. Same answer applies.
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Thanks so much for answering ...
I do not wanna live longer with the idea, that I am in a material world, because all is Illusion. Nothing is real.
You answered my question and I love Neville, also Lanyon, Cady, Williams,,,,,
Through them I could understand Neville much more better....

Thank you...
Ulli

What God Commissions To Be Done CAN Be Achieved

The Book of Romans is already a tough read. I was told by Dr. Ray Shelton (Professor, Melodyland School of Theology) that a theologian's Bible will automatically, by wear, fall open to Romans 5:12. He did his whole doctoral dissertation on it, and showed that the King James translation is understood 180 degrees from what it actually says: we do not die because we sin, we sin because we are dead.

So anyway, I was reading the Book of Romans in Victor Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic, and came upon a useful idea. Romans 4:21, which please let me introduce using Psalm 37:1-11:

"1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. 3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. 4 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. 6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. 7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. 9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace" (emphasis mine).

Evildoers, workers of iniquity, and the wicked are our flesh thoughts, the influence of the outer man. The world of those thoughts will be cut down, eliminated. You, the INNER MAN, trust in Jesus, the goodness of God's nature in YHWH, his action, and do good. Delight in Him AS AN OBJECTIVE REALITY (this is what Romans is about), and He will give you the desires you sense in your heart. & etc.. What desire God gives you is your commission, no? Maybe you can only pray it through, but you are to put forth the effort.

I read in Alexander’s Romans 4:21, "And he (Abraham before he was named Abraham) upheld that what Allaha (God) commissioned him to do could be achieved" (parentheses mine). Faith. At this point, Abram believed unto righteousness. WHAT was belief unto righteousness? That what Allaha (God) commissioned him to do could be achieved. Where do you get your commission to do anything? God gives you the desires of your heart--his desires in your heart for you to manifest: "I want you to do this." THOSE desires, your commission, can be achieved. Inherit the earth. Believe it.

A Shout Out To Maria For Her Help

Being two points below an idiot, I appreciate any help I can get. Maria has repeatedly offered proofreading suggestions for my typing faux pas, for which I am eternally grateful:

-----Original Message-----
From: Maria Paula
To: imagicworldview
Sent: Fri, Aug 16, 2019 9:07 pm
Subject: Fat fingers

Hey Dan,

The Cosmic Love of the Conscii is quite good!

Was there a fat finger moment here?:
“I have called these brings of pure consciousness, for lack of a better word, conscii.”

Beings?

I hope this is helpful and not annoying.

Sincerely,
Maria
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Maria,

Never annoying, and much appreciated. Not fat fingers. You know that the word processor sometimes puts in its own suggestion rather than what is typed. I should carefully proofread knowing that, but scan for misspelled words instead of wrong words. No excuse.

But I am honestly delighted with the word, wrong as it may be. I will change it, but "these brings of consciousness"--what an insightfully descriptive phrase, accidental or not. By conscii I mean individual units of the Divine Consciousness, that which each of these beings brings with it. They are the Divine Presence manifest, “brings” of Divinity. Of course we all are, but they KNOW it and speak FOR it.

Thank you so much for reading and the heads up,
Dan Steele

A Little Miracle Of Speaking With No Mouth, Hearing With No Ears

I frequently refer back to my most significant miracle: hearing God's voice audibly in my brain. Yes, receiving the Holy Spirit was a biggie, as was personally WATCHING my shorter arm grow out, the healing of my hyper-extended back, and my shoulder when I simply and sincerely recognized of the Intelligence everything IS, "You can heal me." Its answer was . . . my shoulder was healed that very instant!!

Hearing God's voice manifest directly in my brain, though, is my biggest biggie. I tell people; they roll their eyes and say, "Yeah, uh-huh," and figure I imagined it or am making it up. 'Deluded' comes to their minds.

I'll tell you why it is my biggest. I was at a Sunday morning worship service, sitting in a rocking chair alone in the back corner. This was at the House of Praise in Kaimuki, Oahu, a personal home used as a commune. In what turned out to be a vision, I saw Jesus scourged, going into shock carrying his cross, and laid on his torn-up back on the cross. I was in great emotional turmoil, much as I was when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit, as I saw Jesus so suffering for me. As a spike was laid to his palm to be driven in, Jesus rolled his face toward me and said, looking directly to me, "Come unto me."

I have written about this several times, but noticed last night something I had hitherto failed to notice: it started as a heard sound. What I mean by that is, well, let me explain it a little more. In that I heard Jesus speak to me directly and AUDIBLY at the exact moment he did in my imagination, this meant that he was monitoring what I was imagining and was fully conscious of it. That he was probably causing the imagination I was having. That I was an insignificant, unemployed idiot living in a pickup truck on an island in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean was not lost on me.

I heard his voice as I might hear you speaking to me from across a dinner table, or sitting next to you. It wasn't an imaginary voice. I speak to myself in my mind all the time. I have voices in my imagination and OF my imagination. It was not one of those. It was distinct and physical apart from anything of 'me'. I have always been aware that the voice that manifested in the hearing lobe of my brain where I hear things did not come through either ear. It manifested as a physically heard sound directly in the nerves where I process physically heard sounds, without getting there through the nerves that get physically heard sounds there from the ears. It went from Him straight to manifestation in the brain as empirical, physical sound. It was to me actual, factual, tangible, and historical.

What I realized last night was that it sprang into existence in my brain as a HEARD sound. Is there a message in that itself? Had Jesus as God imagined not that I could or would hear him, but that I HAD heard him? Hmm.

Be Ye Perfect. Practice Makes Perfect. God Is Perfect. God Practices. Practice.

A little reminder to myself.

Two Evolutions: We Are Conscious Beings Inside Of Physical Beings

Physical evolution is but an imagic depiction of spiritual evolution. We are conscious beings inside physical beings. Kind of taking a ride (sorry, hope I’m not crowding you, friend). We both are evolving: the physical guy through my wife’s and my children, and maybe my refrigerator; and me through the ride. A bunch of other lives, both physical and spiritual, influence my evolution, too. Especially by my reaction to them.

Interestingly, our coming to know this indicates that we are nearing a stage of spiritual evolution; i.e., graduation to a higher state. That’s why Jesus said at the end of his life, “To this I was destined” (Alexander; stated as "For this you destined me" in his Story of Jesus). There are a lot of people who do not and are not going to take interest in this anytime soon. Yet millions of people afar off suddenly receive exposure to this knowledge and pursue it unto the next state.

Hearing about it does not guarantee anything, of course. It is the doers who prepare themselves for ascension. Of course, doing has absolutely nothing to do with supporting scam artist ministers or ministries. It is the actual ministry of Truth one does — love, pray, do good, teach, etc.; i.e., submission to God and assumption — that leads to evolution. Darwin’s Galapagos Islands are a nice imagic metaphor. Land animals had to swim a lot in order to survive, and evolved to swim. Swim. What were Moses, Gautama, Jesus, and Neville doing when they evolved? Do that.

Hmm. Physical evolution is horizontal, and spiritual evolution is vertical. It's almost like we were the focal point of some kind of pattern or something, someplace special to evolve in.

Religion and the Gospel of Vertical Evolution: Symbols of the Open Door

I proposed that a late evolution of life from matter might have affected the quantum field's beginning, turning the universe's hitherto sterile history into a previously fertile, life-popping-up-everywhere history (i.e., the End changed the Beginning). I also proposed that this process was imagic of the life and development of the Ineffable Being and Its consciousness. When I speak of recurrence, this short-lag imagic manifestation/replication of reality is what I am referring to.

Pursuing the original Mosaic religion confirmed and verified in the New Testament, I suggested that certain consciousnesses (developed to very high spiritual levels in the nearly 10 billion year interim between the Big Bang and the formation of the sun and earth) religiously serve the late-evolved First Life which converted the universe, on the quantum level, from sterile to its present propensity to life and increase. I.e., the First Life became the "Kingdom" of God. Enjoy your salt and remember this is speculative and hypothetical.

One might assume from this that the First Life opened the door to vertical evolution; that nothing could become alive until the First life achieved it, which action crystallized everything else's ability to achieve it. In a word, no. The door to vertical evolution, from lifeless to living, was and is always open. The door has always been open to that which meets its conditions. The First Life obviously must have. Buddha wasn't just sitting under a tree; he was working on the conditions. The Jesus-guy at the end of the Season of Grace appeared to Peter and John at the Sea of Galilee because he had met them. Perhaps Neville Goddard, having received the Promise, met them as well. The veil of the Temple, the one to the Holy of Holies, is rent.

My point in this is that the evolution of the Bible is VERTICAL. The evolution of Darwin is horizontal. It is vertical evolution we are vying for. It's "Come to me, all you mourners and carriers of burdens, and I shall give you peace" (Matthew 11:28 Alexander). Moses, being only the germ of the Gospel, could not cross into the Promised Land. All of his generation has to die. It is Joshua, the Jesus of YHWH, who must take us into the next stage of evolution, the Promised Land. We are to pursue God to the becoming LITERALLY like Him. Biologic evolution is just a sign of this; it is imagic.

It all says that the door is open. Hatch, that is. The portal to a higher or lower level is a hatch. "Up the hatch, mateys!" Jesus did not invent the hatch, he only announced it was open to people who had forgotten it. It was the subject in Moses' talk with God in Exodus chapter three: "I AM THAT 'I AM'" ("I am becoming that . . ."). The original religion of Moses is what we want. The New Testament affirmed "this of that is right." Prayer, study, lovingkindness, goodness, caring, faith, teaching, giving -- this is the "work" unto evolution, as we become that. “Repent, and believe the Gospel,” means, Come on, WAKEUP!

The First Life And The Conscii Are One

I have an imagic world view. I believe that everything here has better than a one-to-one correspondence to something like it there. I say better than one-to-one because there is no "here" or "there." Everything "here" IS the thing "there" manifest.

I have suggested that IMAGICALLY there was a First Life evolved from the prebiotic sterileness of the Big Bang which altered the quantum-level makeup of the universe from its sterile barrenness to a propensity to live. The quantum-level propensity to live IS the remains of the First Life. Everything that lives is the First Life's remains, also. The First Life, the conscii, angels, ourselves, and everything else are one thing. A unit. We all have perfect correspondence to something somehow like us beyond the quantum reality in the makeup of the Ineffable. We are not just the Ineffable's project; we are Its Being.

I have to assume that as we perfectly manifest the Ineffable, the Ineffable must have in eternities past been a sterile barrenness Itself. From that, It has evolved into the power of pure consciousness, the imagination of existence. The manifestation of that is our destiny, because we are the Ineffable evolving. The Ineffable's evolution is like our evolution, which is imagic of it: WE AREN'T DONE YET!! "It doth not yet appear what we shall be."

We cannot evolve into ducks by waddling around and quacking. But we can evolve into better beings by incorporating the nature of higher beings into our practice. "The kingdom of God has to do with attitudes," taught Professor John Messer at Melodyland School of Theology. The kingdom has to do with being right; i.e., like it, like God. What God is like is right. Right for us, because He is our Source. His nature is our destiny.

We cannot make ourselves invisible, infinite, or omniscient, but He can. By virtue of being Him, we already are. It is His prerogative to bump us up to that knowledge in the Judgment: "And whereas He consecrated for human beings to die one season, and after their death, one judgment, likewise also the Messiah offered Himself one season, through His [human] Essence He obliterated the sins of many, so as in the second season those who held onto Him would see themselves alive without their sins" (Hebrews 9:27-28 Alexander). We can make ourselves ready, waddle and quack like Him because we are Him. That's what the Law is about.

This follows the principle of recurrence: What we prove ourselves to be, we become manifest:

"However, love your enemies and do good by them, and perform duties for them, and do not disappoint people* (cut a human [being's] hope), and your recompense will be great. And you shall be the children of the Most High, who heals the evil person and the sinner. Be thus merciful as your Father is also merciful.
Do not judge and do not bring judgment. Do not oppress and do not condemn. Release and you shall be released. Give, and it shall be given to you, through a fine strainer, and shaken and poured overflowing, for you* (into [the sack] by your side), For by the measure that you measure, it shall be measured onto you" (Luke 6:35-38 Alexander).

By the Judgment, the evolution to the second season, we find ourselves alive without our sins (sins being our being unlike Him in anything we do). The Ineffable Source and Its manifestation - Imagination, the First Life, the conscii, and ourselves are one, and are becoming one-er.

Cosmic Love of the Conscii

I have proposed that the first live thing ever to evolve from matter effectively gave its own life in changing the quantum makeup of the universe (as it was before the first life evolved) from life-less to life-prone. One minute the bus was empty, the next minute the bus was full. The sterile past was suddenly full of fossils (I owe the idea of built-in antiquity to Professor Ron Wright of Melodyland School of Theology). Before there was this planet for fossils to be on, there were approximately ten billion years of evolution-prone matter becoming kajillions of trillions of quadrillions of civilizations throughout the universe who developed over billions of years and evolved into spirit-level beings. I have called these beings evolved into pure consciousness, for lack of a better word, conscii. Conscii would have worked out for themselves that their lives could only be possible for the sacrifice of the first life which altered the quantum universe.

I am speculating. This is all hypothetical, conjecture.

Although the first being effectively gave its own life by making the sterile universe before it fertile, THE FIRST LIFE'S NATURE OF FERTILITY REMAINS THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE. THAT is the mind blower. The First Life's quantum-level alteration receded naturally into the past, altering that, and now proceeds forward from the Big Bang as the nature of increase within the makeup of the universe.

Might this nature of increase be 'Jethro,' the Excellence of God Moses inquired of, even the Kingdom of God Jesus preached? --Even the principle of increase in the nature of God that we call 'Jesus'? Did I happen to mention that I am speculating, and that this is all hypothetical? Keep a block of salt handy.

Anyway, the conscii have figured out that surrendering one's life to the greater good of increase, as the First Life did, is key to one's own evolution. That is their religion, and guiding us from the darkness of our amnesiac ignorance to the evolution of our inner nature to the increase of pure consciousness is their religious practice. For the Kingdom is here, in this darkness, e'er near our realization of it. Getting us out of our darkness is their mission. They sacrifice their being in light to minister to us for the sake of the sacrifice, the loving heart, of the First Life - the Worthy One. Did I mention that a large part of this is hypothetical; that I am speculating?

I am a student of theology -- I hear what I want to hear. This applies to the songs that I hear. When the Beach Boys' "Help Me Rhonda" is on the radio, I hear, "Help me Jesus, help help me Jesus, help me Jesus, yeah, get him (the Devil) out of my heart." It's weird, but it works for me. Almost all songs I listen to get turned to spiritual and/or symbolic correspondences. A song I have been listening to recently, while I've been contemplating possibility of for-real conscii, is "Cosmic Love" by Florence and the Machine. Florence says, "drunk and struggling, it came to me and was written in about ten minutes." How do you spell 'inspiration'? I think the conscii may be responsible for all the weird connections and coincidences that occur when we are learning something spiritually significant. You know, like when you are idly thinking about something in the Bible, and then your pastor teaches about it, and you visit a station on the radio you never listen to, but they teach on the subject, and then it comes up in your Bible study, and so on. It's a pony! Ride it to revelation. God - the conscii - are trying to get you to understand something.

When I hear "Cosmic Love" (below; I think the best version of this spiritual is Kala Scarpinski and her fellow musicians at the O'Keefe Music Foundation in Ohio), I hear the conscii singing a hymn to the sacrifice of the First Life. Realizing as a higher-evolved being that the First Life gave its opportunity to ever live to spawn them is "A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes." This comprehension caused me intense grief -- you died for me! “My” life is actually yours. The brilliance of your sacrifice has replaced every other care I have - "I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind."

The stars of success and wealth and every good thing I might have gained as a higher-evolved being have all lost their value to me. I only see Your glory; nothing else rises to match the brilliance of your sacrifice - "The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out, You left me in the dark. No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight, in the shadow of your heart."

Blind to every other wealth in existence, I know your nature of increase is here. In it, You remain. Increase is your heartbeat. But what is this? Man. Your increase is hid to him. Yet your grace is his life, so I do as you do, as you did for me: I became man - "And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat; I tried to find the sound. But then it stopped, till I was in the darkness, so darkness I became."

Even as a man, I am still me. Your light is still in me; futility and affliction make me seek your increase. Increase! There is ascension to your nature. You, First Life, are here. You, Glory, are here in darkness, the ignorance. In Grace. So I, like you, bear life and love to these - "I took the stars from my eyes, and then I made a map; and knew that somehow I could find my way back. Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too, so I stayed in the darkness with you."

Cosmic Love

[Verse 1]
A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them
And now it's left me blind

[Chorus]
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

[Verse 2]
And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat
I tried to find the sound
But then it stopped, till I was in the darkness
So darkness I became

[Chorus]
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

[Bridge]
I took the stars from my eyes, and then I made a map
And knew that somehow I could find my way back
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too
So I stayed in the darkness with you

[Chorus]
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

--Florence Welch and Isabella Summers
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Well, that's how I hear music. A lot of songs have spiritual inspiration and translation. "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog" sounds like my inner man speaking to the flesh consciousness. And no, please do not ask me to interpret this song or that. Do it yourself, and let God speak to you.

If the conscii - angels - are real, what they are is our destiny. So maybe we ought to start modeling our religion after theirs.

I Am Increase

Just caught another light on Exodus 3:14's "I AM THAT 'I AM'":

In So Many Things To Consider 11: The Religion Of The Conscii And The Evolved God, I said, "These evolved-to-the-next-stage beings would know that they owe their existence to that first-evolved life which gave its life that we might live. And I am proposing here that THAT IS THEIR RELIGION. Thus the Conscii -- countless megajillions of them -- are ministering spirits, angels of the grace and glory of the First Life. We call upon God, they answer. Their God is the First Life's information of life broadcast through the quantum entanglement to the singularity making all life possible. From the First Life comes all increase. That power to increase is the kingdom of God, the Jethro, 'His Excellence' Moses was interested in: 'What is that?' 'We are that,' the Conscii believe. And we are, too."

Again, "From the First Life comes all increase. That power to increase is the kingdom of God, the Jethro, 'His Excellence' Moses was interested in: 'What is that?' 'We are that,' the Conscii believe. And we are, too." We, along with the conscii, are the increase in the universe made possible by the First Life. Hence OUR consciousness, which is God, answers, "I am that 'I am.'" When you ask yourself, "What am I?" you can answer, "I am Increase, the increase of the First Life broadcast into the universe making all increase - evolution to life and to spirit - possible." Might that also be, "I am the Kingdom of God"?

So Many Things To Consider 11: The Religion Of The Conscii And The Evolved God

I am expanding on the idea that "It's all Evolution." In So Many Things To Consider 3: Quantum Reformation Of The Past To The Elimination Of The Future, I mention the Conscii, a HYPOTHETICAL people, or rather myriads of individual consciousnesses, evolved to a state of awareness of godhood. That state is also our destiny. Key to the existence of the Conscii is the quantum-level information of the potential to evolve from matter to life in the singularity that Bigly Banged. My thought on this is that IN OUR FUTURE (i.e., the future of the universe), sterile, lifeless, prebiotic chemical interactions actually form a working cellular structure that evolves from lifeless matter to life. The First Life. It could happen anywhere in the universe and at any feasible time.

That creature's step from lifeless to life ON THE QUANTUM LEVEL (and I have absolutely no idea if it could or would work this way) would crystallize the rest of the quantum particle kingdom to the possibility of life formation among them ALL THE WAY BACK IN TIME TO THE SINGULARITY BEFORE THE BIG BANG. All of quantum reality would thus "learn" its potential for life, for the nature of increase, and carry that information forth FROM THE BIG BANG IN THE PAST.

No, I've never done acid. The thing is, by so informing the beginning of the universe of the potential of life, the much later to-life-evolved creature which created the change in the universe EFFECTIVELY ELIMINATED ITSELF. A cell, evolved from prebiotic to living, made the ultimate, selfless, noble sacrifice THAT ALL MIGHT LIVE.

Yes, I am stretching, but we have in the Bible angels and councils of gods and works before e'er the earth was formed before the possibility of life evolving unless it was retroactive. If it was retroactive, then in the ten billion years of the Bang before the sun and earth were formed, countless kajillions of quadrillions of civilizations could exist on planets for billions of years evolving to states of spiritual awareness we call "God."

And the next thing is that these evolved-to-the-next-stage beings would know that they owe their existence to that first-evolved life which gave its life that we might live. And I am proposing here that THAT IS THEIR RELIGION. Thus the Conscii -- countless megajillions of them -- are ministering spirits, angels of the grace and glory of the First Life. We call upon God, they answer. Their God is the First Life's information of life broadcast through the quantum entanglement to the singularity making all life possible. From the First Life comes all increase. That power to increase is the kingdom of God, the Jethro, "His Excellence" Moses was interested in: "What is that?" "We are that," the Conscii believe. And we are, too.

PS: Conscii are the people in on a conspiracy, i.e., the ones who are aware. One of them might even have become born of a literal virgin during the Season of Grace, a work of their religion, to present the Word of YHWH that leads to evolution -- "Jesus," i.e., the PRINCIPLE of pure benevolence. But there is a real problem with the word 'conscii': Latin declensions! I am open to suggestions for a word of innumerable consciousnesses (besides 'angels').

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Dan Steele