 Dear Friends,
Like many of you, every night, just before we go to sleep, we try to tune in to higher powers, offering up our gratitude, and also our daily concerns, and placing ourselves under their protection and guidance.
Until recently, though, it has always seemed easier for us to ask angels and other higher beings for their help, than it has been to ask the Source – the highest ‘being’ of all. Somehow, the Source has often seemed rather far away and indefinable, whereas it’s much easier for us to imagine angels and other higher beings, because we can personify them.
Why don’t we personify the Source, or the Divine? After all, some people do. Well, we don’t, because for us, the Source, or God, is the label we give to ‘the highest ????? there is’ – not just an origin, but the ultimate origin, not just good, but the ultimate good – and, because the Source is ‘ultimate’, it is, by definition, beyond the human conceptual framework. And there's only one way for us human beings to go outside our conceptual framework, and that's to be, to experience, rather than to think or to know. The moment we start attaching concepts to this ‘ultimate Thing’, we drag it down to our level, and then we're no longer in touch with the ultimate Thing itself, but only with our conception of it.
So, suppose we want to address our prayers to the Ultimate Itself. How do we do that, if we can't do it by thinking, conceptualising or verbalising? Well, we've found that it's not at all as difficult as it sounds. In fact, it's literally as easy as breathing! Just try this: 1. Be very still. 2. Be aware of the air all around you, and moving through you as you breathe (in many ancient languages, the words for air, breath and spirit were the same or very similar). 3. Be aware that, pervading you and the air you are breathing so gently in and out, is the Ultimate Itself...... It really is there. Nearer than hands and feet......
Our Father-Mother who is in heaven........
If you just do that quietly for a few moments, you will experience what our Father-Mother really is. You will experience where heaven is. And you will experience – as an inward, inalienable possession – that all your prayers are already answered. You are cared for in the most intimate, infinite way. And notice what happens then. In response to that profound experience, the essence of the Lord's Prayer, the real meaning behind all those words you were made to garble at school, pours out of your soul just as those incredible notes pour out of the throat of a blackbird – without thought, without intent, just by being.
We have come to the conclusion that – in addition to accepting and working with the help of higher beings – this practice is just about the most healing thing we can do, not only for ourselves but for everyone, and for the whole planet.
More and more authors are saying that time is running out. They say that there are forces which, in their fear and ignorance, are seeking to denature our sacred Earth and its inhabitants so that they can control and exploit us without hindrance.
We can easily slip through the fingers of these forces, and carry the whole Earth with us, but only if we act. In every little choice that's put before us, we need to be utterly diligent in choosing whatever will best serve the Oneness. But, first and foremost, we need to fulfil the task we have come here to do as quickly as possible.
What task is that? The task of connecting consciously to our higher, divine Self and thus raising our collective vibration. Where higher vibrations prevail, lower vibrations cannot. It's as simple as that. And what's the quickest way to raise our vibrations? To go straight to the Boss! To go beyond and above the limitations of our conceptual framework, straight to the unlimited Source, as described above, or by any other means that feels right to us. So, in the immortal words of Star Trek: ‘Beam us up, Scottie!’
With much love from all of us.
Geoff, Ann, Martyn, Jackie, Jacqueline, Eileen, Sarah, Regina, Irina, Penny, Belinda, Catherine, Richard, Brian, Phil, Alison, Mary, Derek, Eddie, Jon, Sam & Pat
Text & photographs © Cygnus Books 23-Jul-2003
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