​In these uneasy times, we may be discovering comforts through a diverse range of activities and and practices of wellbeing and self-care, reading, contemplation, and prayer. We could say that there is an Identity process in progress.
The darkness has become deeper.
Something has been hollowed out.
Nature can feel darker and emptier, which can feel painful.
Nature no longer reveals to us God's presence.
This challenges us to a new task, to participate in a new way of living and relating, in order to find and fill what is incomplete. The human being is called to join in a new activity to find and become complete as a Self - and not just in a particular place or particular group or relationship, but to connect to a new way of Thinking, that can enable Nature to become filled again, with divine presence.
Like many children who are born innocent, I had a natural sense for wonder and awe for people and places, my given culture, and then world cultures, and then in my responses to artworks, music, people, and places in nature. However, there was no encounter as an opportunity for Change, that enabled me to know and truly know myself; a way that included the art of God.
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All sorts of practices, self-help strategies, therapists, and workshops offered ways of going straight to bliss; straight to peace or relaxation, or offered ways of medicating an illness, transcending the body, or forcing emotions to rise up that worked to 'purge' something, or offered ways of going backwards to past or idealised ways of living and being.
Whilst these ways offered temporary glimpses of healing of a one-sided 'comfortable' sense of self, they were not enabling an encounter that would lead to recognise the richness of our wholeness, as being connected to each other; to everyone. It was as if I did not know what completeness was, and so I continued on trusting my intuition; even when I dedicated 15 years to a career in corporate banking. Likewise, money was lovely to have and spend on things, but it did not bring me to a recognition of my self as a whole being, participating with Life in a truly real and loving way.
Everything I had lived up until the encounter, had been an illusion. There was a darkness; a feeling of being lost and alone, and a stage of egotism and anti-social tendencies too. ​
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The separation and differentiation that people are feeling from God, with each other, and with the beings of the Earth, is part of our search for wholeness. We may meet times of anxiety, fear, hatred, othering, and doubt - as a way of shedding 'given' identities to know the origin of the Self, that can enable relational Love that is universal, (and includes the many identities we also have). To try to accept and trust the wiser part of our universe, as bringing us a way to grow, can be a starting point for us, though it can feel difficult, painful and uncomfortable at times.
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Through our encounters with each other, that may initially feel confronting, we can steadily become conscious of the questions we had asked ourselves that had inspired the search and the changes, leading to a search to know the Self as Oneness - to make known - we are each a drop of the Divine "I" - that we are truly One.
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Since "the Mystery of Golgotha", the human soul can reach the divine wisdom of warmth; of love; of embodiment, to know oneself as a divine and human being of warmth, universal love, and unconditional altruism. So, to learn how to close our eyes to the sense world and to go within, we can go within - to go to the spiritual place from which we come from - to meet the warm, radiant, shining, compassionate, divine human, in whom we all have our origin - and eternity. We can know the reality of grace being revealed through our earthly biographical lives.
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Where we used to have to escape the body to reach eternity, bliss, enlightenment, is now available to us - through His passion suffering, and death. The heart of the universe is a being who is in the heart of the Earth. He carries our true divine essence and he can show us the historical plane, through which we can transform from lead to gold; from coal to diamond.
Through His story of Change, we can longingly turn to find Him and courageously discover His Divine Presence, within each of us.
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Every time I have asked "Are you there?" He has shown himself to be there with me, and with you. Where two people are gathered, in an encounter of learning, His presence is available as medicine in our age. Millions of people have felt comforted by a special experience enabling them to get to know themselves better. Like a sun in its spiritual reality, we need to ask, How does Light come into being? It comes from the outpouring of its substance that we can to work to take in.
As a result of our earthly ego it assumes it must take from others, or protect myself from other forces around me. When we meet this other light being, we feel whole and I an live in self-giving without holding anything back. Here I meet my divine true being taken up in freedom - in faith - in trust of each other as Individuals and as a connected Unity striving for goodness in humility, through the Heart.
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I look forward to accompanying your discoveries through self-knowledge.
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Nisha​​
