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Living as a Spiritual Being

T.L.C.       So please tell me more about living as a spiritual being.

Big D     When you acknowledge the God within, ask for its guidance, and then commit yourself to following the wisdom of that God within, He and She will always tell you the truth — even when the truth is uncomfortable.   You will always be guided and cared for and loved and have anything else you could ever desire.[1]

            If you listen to the still small voice within with the intent of using it to guide your life, your actions will based on love, on shared joy, on harmony with Sacred Mother Earth, on mutual respect for everyone else’s person and property, and on freedom for everyone.   Allowing others to be who and what they are will become a way of life.   Outside behavioral authorities, including churches and police-enforcement, will become completely unnecessary.   Many people who are already listening to the God-Self within are still attending their regular churches, but they do so out of love and not out of duty.

T.L.C.       Why do you say listening to yourself is a connection to God?

Big D     Because each time you sit quietly and really go into the void that transcends what we call time and space, you attain a greater identity with the invisible consciousness that animates the universe.   Each time you go into the void, you come face to face with the same God that Jesus, Mohammed, Moses and Buddha also faced.

T.L.C.       It can’t be that simple.

Big D     Oh, but it is!   The problem, over the centuries, has been that those who proclaimed themselves to be in control have attempted to limit the right to personally and directly access God[2]* to a very select few.   Everyone else who professed to have, or were even suspected of having, this forbidden Divine access was ostracized, condemned, drowned, burned at the stake, banished, or otherwise disposed of.

            Even today, when someone publicly says that each and every one of you is a Divine Being having a human experience, they get weird looks and sideways glances as if they were escapees from a loony bin.   Because such talk is so far away from currently accepted beliefs, it shocks many people.

            When I say that anybody can come face to face with the same God that Jesus, Mohammed, Moses and Buddha faced, I mean anybody.   This is not an exclusive club.

T.L.C.       So why don’t people contact with their inner God?

Big D     They all do — all day long — every day.   Your feelings are a direct communication back to you from the God-Self within.

T.L.C.       Are you sure you aren’t kidding me?   It can’t really be that simple.

Big D     That’s exactly what you’ve been programmed to think.   Remember, the Universe is a huge copy machine that gives us a physical manifestation of our dominant thoughts, beliefs, and feelings, so if you believe that it can’t be that simple, then, for you, it can’t be that simple.   For those who believe that it’s that simple — it’s that simple!

            As a society, most of you bought the party line that says, “We are not to trust ourselves, and we are not to trust our own feelings.”   Instead of trusting yourselves, you have been programmed to be sheep, to do what everyone else does and to rely on the external authority figures to tell you how to live your lives.   This is the major problem with those who follow the anti-abortion promoters.   They simply don’t trust themselves, and they don’t question authority.

            The followers are told they have an either/or, black or white choice.   Here’s the typical party-line story, paraphrased: “Either choose the demonic spirituality peddled by those who spout New-Age thinking and go the hell forever, or do as we tell you to do.   If you honor God and honor the Christian Bible, as interpreted by us, then, and only then, will you get to go the heaven to be with Jesus forever.”

T.L.C.       Yes, that’s definitely a black or white choice. 

Big D     I assure you, your life is much bigger than that.   It’s filled with infinite possibilities, tremendous opportunities, and glorious choices.   When you begin to trust yourself, you’ll find the Bible a fascinating book.   The words of Jesus will come to life in your heart.   He will step down off the fundamentalist’s throne of unreachable uniqueness and become a fellow traveler on spaceship Earth.   He will shift into a role model, a “way-shower,” who has already mastered what each human seeks to be.   His words will spark the fire of the God-Mastery which now lies hidden in each of your hearts.   And it is not what He did that will be your role model, it will be the way He did it, and thus the mastery of love which will come forth from your hearts will be absolutely unique to each and every one of you.  

T.L.C.       Now that’s blasphemy if I ever heard it.

Big D     If living as a God rather than a sheep is blasphemous, then so be it.   Did Jesus not say, “Anything I can do you can do and more?”

T.L.C.       Yes.

Big D     So, if you believe in the Bible, you can live as a God or as a sheep.   It’s a free will choice, you know.

T.L.C.       It is?   Says who?

Big D     Says you, my fellow God-being.

T.L.C.       I do?

Big D     Only if you say so.

I scratch my head for a moment and just look at him.   He smiles and continues to speak.

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This book is actually an interview with an Angel of Light whose mission is to expose "The Dark Side"  for what it is.   He/She shines the God-Light of Love, Inclusion, and Oneness into the pit of illusion, separation, darkness, anger, and fear.

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T.L.C.    You mean just a few thousand feet above the Earth's surface?    

Big D    That's where birds fly, isn't it?  

T.L.C.    So this whole religious thing is about money?    To a certain degree, everything is.   Money is survival.   Money is another name for goods and services.   Money is another way of saying  food, clothing, shelter.   Beyond that, money is another word for all the pleasantries of life that money can buy.

John 6:48   "I am the bread of life."

Matthew 26:27   "As they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed [it] and broke [it] and gave  [it] to the disciples and said,  Take, eat, his is my body."

Matthew 26:27   "And took he  the cup, and gave thanks, and gave [it] to them, saying, drink ye all of it."

Matthew 26:27   "For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."

You might note the language used in Matthew 27:50 describing  the moment of Jesus' death:    "Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yeilded up the ghost."

Quote from Edward R. Morrow  "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty."

Add:  Where is heaven?

T.L.C.    Big D, tell me, where is heaven?  1:20 

Big D    According to Genesis 1:20 in the Christian Bible, it's in the Firmament above the clouds where birds fly.   

T.L.C.    You mean just a few thousand feet above the Earth's surface?    

Big D    That's where birds fly, isn't it?  

T.L.C.    Yes.   

Big D    Then that's where heaven is.    Here's the Bible;  read it for yourself.   It's in Genesis 1:20  

I just held the book, unopened.

T.L.C.    So the last time I was on an airplane, I was in heaven?   

Big D    According to the Bible in your hand, yup.   

T.L.C.    It didn't feel like heaven.   

Big D    Unless, perhaps you went up there to enter the mile-high club.   

T.L.C.    What does sex have to do with this?  Is getting laid at an elevation above 5,280 feet any better than at ground level?   

Big D    Perhaps you should interview the astronauts and ask them.    Jesus was conceived in heaven and look what it did for him.  

T.L.C.   Bid D, you know damned well that Jesus' mastery was a matter of paternity not elevation.   I want to know  where is heaven now?  

Big D    Last time I checked, it was in the hearts, minds, and souls of those who understood how the universe functions.    

T.L.C.    Let me ask this again.   Where is Christian Heaven?   

Big D    Where ever the Christians say it is.   

T.L.C.    You're talking Universal Spirituality principles.   What I'm asking is:  Where is fundamentalist-Christian Heaven?

Big D    Where ever the fundamentalist Christians say it is.   

T.L.C.    They don't ever mention where it is.   

Big D    You mean they've lost heaven, too?  

T.L.C.    Come on, Big D, stop smart-assing me and answer the question.

Big D    There isn't any answer except to say that  fundamentalist Christian heaven is wherever they say it is.   The Fundamentalist Christians claim that the Bible is the literal word of God, so heaven must be in the Firmament above the clouds where birds fly.   

T.L.C.    That doesn't make any sense.

Big D    So what's new?  

T.L.C.    I give up.   let me ask a different question.    Was Jesus a virgin all his life?   

Big D   Rabbi's of his era traditionally were not celibate.  But whether or not Jesus was a virgin is irrelevant.   For Christian theology to work, he had to be.  

T.L.C.    Why?   

Big D   Because succession in those days was a function of family inheritance, just like British royalty is today.   Keeping Jesus a virgin derailed the question of authority and lineage.   With genealogical succession neatly out of the way, apostolic succession was not open to question.    Early church leaders simply declared that authority was handed down from one church elder to the next and that lineage started with the apostles.

T.L.C.    But they couldn't keep Jesus a virgin if he wasn't.   

Big D   No, but they could alter and/or destroy records and murder any possible heirs and then simply claim ownership of Jesus'  legacy.   

T.L.C.    Did they do that?   

Big D   Historically, there's no way to clearly tell what they did or didn't do because there are no records of any kind discussing this issue.  The best we can do, at this time and with no records, is to ask:  "Would they do anything like that?"  and then make an evaluation of the likelihood that they did or didn't.   Perhaps the story of the library of Alexandria will give you a hint.***Link  

***Link   Until the chapter dealing with this issue is on line, readers are directed to the book excerpts on this topic on our pro-truth.net website.    Could the Christian Bible Have Been Distorted?   at:   http://www.pro-truth.net/73-bible-and-abortion.html
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T.L.C.    If Jesus didn't "dunk his donut,"  did He ever "spank Frank?"   

Big D   Now who's getting us off on a smart-ass tangent?   

T.L.C.    Big D,  you should listen to you own  your own words:  "People tend to take on the behavior patterns  of those they associate with."

Big D   Touché!    You Got me.    Perhaps Jesus was a bit wiser than Bill Clinton and simple declared his private and personal life off limits to public scrutiny.  

T.L.C.    Ok, then let's talk about   ________  .

So you're saying that the church leaders got to control of the church by declaring that authority was handed down from one church leader to the next.

 according to the whims of church leaders.    and not the heirs of Jesus.   

Add:   Liars come to believe their own lies.

Big D    If they can truthfully answer yes to all the following questions,  then they shouldn’t look elsewhere or change their ways.   Ask them if their beliefs are working for them.   Invite them to ask and answer these questions:  

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            It's also  in perfect harmony with Universal Spirituality,***ps-154-3  which is an approach that honors respects and appreciates God in a non-anthropomorphic form.***ps-154-5     Universal Spirituality Players  very often experience a strong  sense of oneness with God, and at the same time, feel a deep humility and gratitude.   They say the humility and gratitude come from being at one with something so magnificent, so grand, and so loving that it defies understanding.

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Prime factors in relationship compatibility:

Money

Religion

Sex

Communication --  Visual    Auditory    Kinesthetic 

Passion for something outside of self

Add:   Liars come to believe their own lies.

Suppose they started plugging that story into the minds of innocent, defenseless little children before their minds were mature enough to question the story.   

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