Notes from Neale…
 

     We were discussing States of Being here in this space last week — and I
was, as well, in a retreat center just outside the village of Rilland, a little
less than two hours drive from Amsterdam, in The Netherlands last weekend, where
we finished our final Extended Tour of Europe.
     We will no doubt return to Europe in the years ahead, but never again will
there be a three or four or five week tour, as we have been doing now for many
years. More likely, we may fly over for a one-off event, or, at the most, a few
days to do two or three events tightly scheduled. So we bid goodbye to the days
of Extended Tours on the Continent (we’ve been doing it now for the past 14
years), with my gratitude for the warm reception we have always received there.
(Once again this year the tour was wonderful, with 1,200 attending our talk in
Oslo, just under 1,100 in Paris, and capacity crowds in all the other lecture
halls along the way. The spiritual renewal retreats in Norway, Germany, Austria,
and Holland were likewise attended by many, and I have been inspired by the very
real interest shown by Europeans all across the Continent in the messages of
Conversations with God and the new-form spirituality that is emerging from
them.)
     Part of that New Spirituality is captured in what I have come to call The
WECCE Technology, from the acronym for the latest CwG book, When Everything
Changes, Change Everything.
     That technology is a marvelous combination of modern day psychology and
contemporary spirituality, and includes the Mechanics of the Mind and the System
of the Soul. The WECCE book — which has just been released in Europe in
several languages and which was released in the U.S. at the end of May (and rose
immediately to the New York Times Bestseller List) — tells us that the
many changes with which people are now being confronted all over the world can
best be negotiated with a combination of Mind and Soul wisdom.
     The book describes in detail how the Mind works to analyze and respond to
events, but also explains the limitations of the Mind’s process — chiefly, the
limitations of its data bank — and explores how we can all expand that data
bank by opening our Mind to the perspective of the Soul.
     This is done by embracing a State of Being — and that brings us to
exactly where we left off last week…
     What WECCE tells us is that Perspective creates Perception, Perception
creates Belief, Belief creates Behavior, Behavior creates Experience…and
Experience creates our Reality. Yet what creates Perspective? The Soul’s
Perspective, that is.
     Being.
     It is "beingness" that brings one to the Soul’s Perspective, through the
route of Consciousness and Awareness. For from Beingness does Consciousness
emerge, and Consciousness gives birth to Awareness.
     (If we have lost you here, all of this is explained in wonderful detail in
When Everything Changes, Change Everything.)
     The trick, however, is to get to the place of Pure Being.
     There are many pathways to Being. Meditation is one of them. Prayer in
another. Focusing on the Now is a third. Intentioned choice is a fourth.
     Let us look here at Intentioned Choice.
     It is possible for human beings to intentionally choose a State of Being.
This is accomplished merely by deciding to do so. Yet before we explore how this
is done (the process itself is really quite simple), let’s make sure that
everyone knows what we are talking about when we use terms like "States of
Being."
     A State of Being has nothing to do with what one is doing in any given
moment, and everything to do with how one is doing it. A State of Being
is an aspect of Divinity Itself. Or it could be all aspects at once (as
demonstrated by the greatest spiritual masters, such as (according to their
followers) Buddha, Moses, Christ, Muhammad, and others through the centuries).
     And example of a State of Being is Happiness. Another would be Patience. Or
Compassion. Or Peace. Or — perhaps the most obvious one — Love, which might
be said to include all of the above and more.
     You cannot do Happiness. You cannot do Patience. You cannot do
Compassion, Peace, or Love. You can only be these things as you are doing
whatever you are doing.
     Yet how does one "be" these things through Intentioned Choice?
     Using this avenue, One uses the Mind to instruct the Mind to ignore
or override the Mind. What one actually ignores or overrides is the
Mind’s constant chatter, its constant judgments (arising from Past Data), its
old conditioning. The Mind tells the Mind what to think, how to feel, and when
and where to do this.
     This approach requires commitment and discipline — the marks of every
true spiritual master and every serious student of spiritual mastery.
     And we will discuss more about all of this next week.
 

     We are really a repressed society in the United States. We really are. And
there are times when people in the U.S might find it embarrassing. Like now.
     News reports tell us that some folks in Florida are complaining about a
sculpture of a nude family outside a shopping center west of Delray Beach.
"Parents of children who attend a nearby elementary school say the bronze statue
is inappropriate, and the PTA president e-mailed parents asking them to
complain," a story by the Associated Press said.
     "The sculpture is by artist Itzik Asher and titled "Journey to the New." It
is supposed to represent the journey of Russian and Ethiopian Jews from their
homes to Israel. It was previously displayed at other locations in the area,"
the AP story said.
     The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that Asher’s sculptures have
drawn criticism before, the AP said. "In 1995, the Boca Raton City Council made
him cover the private parts of several of his sculptures with cardboard fig
leaves. The leaves were later removed," the Associated Press said.
     Obviously, not many parents from Delray Beach have been to Italy.
Specifically, Florence. There, statues of humans nude can be found in public
squares all over the place. Anyone who is squeamish about the human body has
better be prepared to walk around with a blindfold on. And if parents don’t want
their children seeing such things, if they truly think the human body publicly
displayed to be "inappropriate," they had better keep their offspring out of
Italy and away from The Louvre in Paris — and, while they’re at it, distant
from most of Europe.
     What is the matter with us, do you think? Are we really that uptight as a
people? Is our whole culture in the United States really that repressed, that
embarrassed about how God made us?
     I am just flabbergasted at news story like this. My, oh my, what a long way
we have to go. What a long, long way.

 

     There was a wonderful
question in the ASK NEALE section of my personal website (www.nealedonaldwalsch.com)
this week, and I wanted to include it here, in this week’s Bulletin, because I
want everyone to see this exchange…because it is so typical of the kinds of
interactions that CwG readers sometimes have with others. So, here is that
exchange…
     Dear Neale Donald Walsch…When I am discussing my beliefs with others,
that are centered around the CwG teachings, I find it very difficult to get the
point across that there is no separation between us and God, or each other.
People have a very hard time accepting that, and I am finding it increasingly
challenging to explain it in a matter which makes sense. Although I have read
the books many times, and it makes perfect sense to me, is there an easier way
to help others see this alternative view? Thank you kindly, Andrea
     My Dear Andrea…Here is what I tell people:
     Every religion on the earth has agreed on one thing. All have agreed that
God is the All In All, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.
     If God is, indeed, the All In All, then WE would have to NOT be part of the
All for us to not be part of God.
     God and We are One for the wonderfully obvious reason that there is nothing
that God Is Not.
     Then I share with people my observation that Separation Theology is what
has damaged the people of the earth so deeply. I invite them to read What God
Wants…an extraordinary little book that invites an exciting exploration of the
True Nature of God.
     A Separation Theology is a theology that says God is "over there" and we
are "over here" — separate from each other, and that it is our job to find our
way back "over there" so that we can be once more Home with God. I invite people
to then read Home With God, another remarkable book.
     I tell people that Separation Theology produces, inevitably, a Separation
Psychology, which produces a Separation Cosmology, which produces a Separation
Sociology, with produces a Separation Pathology…resulting in pathological
behaviors of self-destruction upon the earth.
     I ask people: What in Life do you see as not being infused with God? The
stars, the heavens? Nature? The beauty of flowers, the majesty of eagles? Where
do you see God missing? Could it be only in the mirror?

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