Chapter 78. If Only We Could All Remember.
December 6, 2014
I’m not trying to change the entire world—just mine.
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Remember.
Remember is a strange word to me. I say strange, because it’s one of those words that at first glance seems so obviously simple by definition—to recall. Yet, when I stop and break down the components of the word, to me, it takes on a much deeper, spiritual meaning—to bring back together—a meaning that I’m sure the vast majority of people would never think about.
But if they did, it just might change their world.
Imagine for a moment, a world where you cared for and loved EVERY person just like they were your brother or sister—a part of your family, a piece of your flesh. What if they were as close to being a part of you, as you are to yourself? Each person, another piece of a puzzle that fits you perfectly and takes you a little closer toward completing a much bigger picture of yourself.
What if all it took, was for each of us to remember.
What started me down this path of thinking was my viewpoint regarding spirituality—that when it comes to being spiritual, there really isn’t much for us to learn—what it requires is for each of us to remember what we already know—what has always existed in our heart and in our soul. It’s an idea I hold based on my belief that spiritual knowledge is an inherent part of our energy, it always has been a part of us, and it always will be forever. It’s simply our task to bring it back into our consciousness.
With that thought in mind, I began thinking about all the great thinkers throughout the history of time; individuals like Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Galileo, the list goes on and on. Individuals whose “genius” was in their unique, influential “first thoughts” that had a most incredible impact on our world. And I found myself not able to comprehend how it could be possible for any human being to have such a radically profound first thought. I mean, the vast majority of us learn from passed down knowledge, information that is presented to us through teachers, our parents and elders, those more knowledgeable, or through our own experiences. But to simply have a knowledge and then be able to prove it after it had never existed, is simply mind-boggling to me.
Unless the knowledge always existed—in all of us—and the genius was simply their individual, special ability, or gift, to remember what they already knew.
When presenting their knowledge, they always began with a theory.
Here’s mine.
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Imagine a beginning, a creation, that was void of everything but a Divine energy, an essence, a being—God. And within that essence and energy was complete knowledge. The answers to everything. The power to know all and the power to create all—contained in the light of the spirit. It was whole and it was perfect.
Now imagine that energy exploding to create the Universe we know and all that which we do not know—everything that existed in the beginning, in the Divine, is now part of the “DNA” of the Universe—including each of us. As such, we ALL are a piece of that one energy. We all are from the same source. The same beginning. The same perfection. Within each one of us there exists all the knowledge, power, energy and spirit that is God.
To be a member, is to be part of a group.
I believe we all were members of a very singular group that once was whole, but now is fragmented only through our own individuality. And while the energy, power, and light of the spirit most definitely still exists in all of us and in all living things as it did in the beginning, it no longer is perfect (although it has the potential to be). The problem is that a great number of people see themselves only as individuals, separate from the whole and from the membership that was our beginning. Their view of life is one of strictly “I am” rather than “we are.” The fact that we are physically individuals and have the ability to say “I am” does not make us separate from each other. Quite to the contrary—we still are all part of one energy and all have the light of that spirit within us. For some it shines brighter than for others. For those, “I am” means I am a part of you.
Many continually search for signs of God externally because of a belief that the Divine is as separate from us as we are from each other, when in reality, the truth is, we are not separate at all—we are all part of the same beginning. We all are one.
When we allow ourselves to see each other only as individuals, we lose sight of the Divine that is in all of us—and we deny ourselves the energy that knows no race or religion.
As long as there continues to be a belief of separateness, and that a connection does not exist between all beings, we can never achieve a complete re-membering of what it was to once be whole or the realization of God.The answer to finding God will come through the re-membering by each one of us that God is in each one of us—and that God IS each one of us.
If only we could all re-member.
More to come.
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