01-31-2012, 01:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-31-2012, 01:16 PM by Steppingfeet.)
During the first half of my twenties I spent considerable time steeping myself in not only the Law of One material, but even more so the larger body of work generated by L/L Research, namely the conscious channeling of Confederation sources. I would sit into the night reading transcript after transcript, soaking my mind in the information’s gentle, Creator-focused influence.
During that process I excerpted hundreds of passages from Q’uo and organized them topically according to the basic outline of principles I saw repeated again and again in the Confederation message.
During the latter half of my twenties I fell out of the habit as my appetite for spiritually oriented information moved into other associated and congruent realms of thought. This Bring4th thread regarding “faith” prompted me to open the folder with my topically organized Q’uo excerpts. Peering into that folder, I wiped the dust off the collection on faith, the one I had named “Intelligent Infinity.doc”. I spent time reading it this morning with somewhat watery eyes. Over the intervening years I had lost touch with the beauty of Q’uo and, what I consider, the purity and positivity of the message.
In their and the instrument’s own poetic, eloquent way, they speak to the seeker lost, seemingly, within the physical illusion, and inspire a vision of the seeker’s true estate in oneness with all. I felt that all the learning which had occurred over the years on my path (what little has occurred) was affirmed and corroborated in Q’uo’s words. This is especially moving to me, because Q’uo, in bulk, is that material which formed the structure and framework of my seeking in the first portion of my path. To leave it for so long and to then return full circle to realize its beauty and truth from a new, hopefully more evolved vantage point is poignant for me.
So, with all that said, I’m attaching a collection of Q’uo excerpts that I compiled on “faith”. Included in the document are a few inserts I think I gathered from Carla’s own words while reading AWH. (“A Wanderer’s Handbook”) None of the excerpts are linked to the transcript from which they were taken as that wasn’t important to me at the time.
Intelligent Infinity.doc (Size: 186 KB / Downloads: 6)
While reading Q’uo’s thoughts on faith, I forgot how often they refer to the image of the seeker desperately clinging to the branch along the cliffside, with a tiger above and a tiger below and an abyss beneath. The act of faith in this image being the seeker’s release of the branch and the free-falling into mid-air.
This to me suggests that faith is a consciousness which transcends the ordinary mind. In so doing, it refuses to deal with the illusion on the illusion’s own terms, and the illusion’s own internal logic. Where the illusion says be afraid, or cling to your mortal physical body, or there is danger around you, or there is reason to worry and be anxious, faith responds otherwise. Without basis in reason or linear thought or logic which would be comprehensible to the illusion-bound intellect, the faithful entity chucks everything to the wind, releases the branch, and leaps. Leaps into… nothing. Into that which is perceived as a “nothing” to the ordinary mode of perceptions. And upon doing, the entity of faith discovers that, as the Confederation suggests again and again, there is something there in mid-air. There is security. There is purpose. There is true identity.
I love the image of “mid-air”, because it illustrates quite aptly the position of faith. There is nothing to hold onto. There is no defining oneself with reference to objects within, and ideas born of, the illusion. There is no, “I am this or that career”, “I am this or that gender”, “I have this or that talent”, “I have this or that relationship with this person or group of people”, etc. There is only a self-luminous, irreducible, free, unbound, fully present, time-less and space-less I AM. In other words, Being. In other words, Eternity. In other words, Infinity. In other words, Non-Duality: that which moves beyond all categories of thought and activity.
As I had written in my previous post in this thread, faith informs and modifies the illusion. Simply existing in this state – without directing faith toward a particular goal or outcome – faith saturates the personality, cleaning its muddy windows which obscure the Creator from shining through and which impede the Creator from melodically playing the individual self as the musician would the instrument.
How does simply resting in faith achieve this? Not that I have the chops to describe this, and perhaps not that it can be described, but this faith is a knowing which allows the entity to release fear, release desire, and release the need to control. It is these illusory energies (fear, desire, control) that, in my opinion, constitute the opaque, separate entity. So in releasing these qualities of fear, desire, and control, you are releasing the separate individual in the embrace of who you already are.
Again there is the relationship of the illusory, individual entity, and the Creator – the Ground of Being. Faith, then, is that conduit, doorway, or gateway through which the entity returns home to its source within; through which flows infinite consciousness into the finite, temporal consciousness, modifying and uplifting the latter so that it “becomes”, in a sense, the former.
That’s enough out of me for today. Sorry for the long-winded nature of my ramblings.
With love, Gary
During that process I excerpted hundreds of passages from Q’uo and organized them topically according to the basic outline of principles I saw repeated again and again in the Confederation message.
During the latter half of my twenties I fell out of the habit as my appetite for spiritually oriented information moved into other associated and congruent realms of thought. This Bring4th thread regarding “faith” prompted me to open the folder with my topically organized Q’uo excerpts. Peering into that folder, I wiped the dust off the collection on faith, the one I had named “Intelligent Infinity.doc”. I spent time reading it this morning with somewhat watery eyes. Over the intervening years I had lost touch with the beauty of Q’uo and, what I consider, the purity and positivity of the message.
In their and the instrument’s own poetic, eloquent way, they speak to the seeker lost, seemingly, within the physical illusion, and inspire a vision of the seeker’s true estate in oneness with all. I felt that all the learning which had occurred over the years on my path (what little has occurred) was affirmed and corroborated in Q’uo’s words. This is especially moving to me, because Q’uo, in bulk, is that material which formed the structure and framework of my seeking in the first portion of my path. To leave it for so long and to then return full circle to realize its beauty and truth from a new, hopefully more evolved vantage point is poignant for me.
So, with all that said, I’m attaching a collection of Q’uo excerpts that I compiled on “faith”. Included in the document are a few inserts I think I gathered from Carla’s own words while reading AWH. (“A Wanderer’s Handbook”) None of the excerpts are linked to the transcript from which they were taken as that wasn’t important to me at the time.
Intelligent Infinity.doc (Size: 186 KB / Downloads: 6)
While reading Q’uo’s thoughts on faith, I forgot how often they refer to the image of the seeker desperately clinging to the branch along the cliffside, with a tiger above and a tiger below and an abyss beneath. The act of faith in this image being the seeker’s release of the branch and the free-falling into mid-air.
This to me suggests that faith is a consciousness which transcends the ordinary mind. In so doing, it refuses to deal with the illusion on the illusion’s own terms, and the illusion’s own internal logic. Where the illusion says be afraid, or cling to your mortal physical body, or there is danger around you, or there is reason to worry and be anxious, faith responds otherwise. Without basis in reason or linear thought or logic which would be comprehensible to the illusion-bound intellect, the faithful entity chucks everything to the wind, releases the branch, and leaps. Leaps into… nothing. Into that which is perceived as a “nothing” to the ordinary mode of perceptions. And upon doing, the entity of faith discovers that, as the Confederation suggests again and again, there is something there in mid-air. There is security. There is purpose. There is true identity.
I love the image of “mid-air”, because it illustrates quite aptly the position of faith. There is nothing to hold onto. There is no defining oneself with reference to objects within, and ideas born of, the illusion. There is no, “I am this or that career”, “I am this or that gender”, “I have this or that talent”, “I have this or that relationship with this person or group of people”, etc. There is only a self-luminous, irreducible, free, unbound, fully present, time-less and space-less I AM. In other words, Being. In other words, Eternity. In other words, Infinity. In other words, Non-Duality: that which moves beyond all categories of thought and activity.
Quote:Q’uo says: “…you as a spirit must turn it, and must go through that door into self-forgiveness and awareness of infinite redemption and newness, a resting place for all eternity.” And, “…yet the more time that you spend in this room with the deep mind the more you shall flower as an entity.”
As I had written in my previous post in this thread, faith informs and modifies the illusion. Simply existing in this state – without directing faith toward a particular goal or outcome – faith saturates the personality, cleaning its muddy windows which obscure the Creator from shining through and which impede the Creator from melodically playing the individual self as the musician would the instrument.
How does simply resting in faith achieve this? Not that I have the chops to describe this, and perhaps not that it can be described, but this faith is a knowing which allows the entity to release fear, release desire, and release the need to control. It is these illusory energies (fear, desire, control) that, in my opinion, constitute the opaque, separate entity. So in releasing these qualities of fear, desire, and control, you are releasing the separate individual in the embrace of who you already are.
Quote:Q’uo says: “To the Creator, you are always in paradise, but each of you is in an illusion which decries the apparent inaccuracy of our previous statement, and it is only by faith that you may feel that love, that acceptance, that forgiveness and that support. It is only by faith that you may continue standing when you feel that life has cut you off at the knees. It is only by faith that you can stay alive when you feel that your life is not worth the living.”
Again there is the relationship of the illusory, individual entity, and the Creator – the Ground of Being. Faith, then, is that conduit, doorway, or gateway through which the entity returns home to its source within; through which flows infinite consciousness into the finite, temporal consciousness, modifying and uplifting the latter so that it “becomes”, in a sense, the former.
That’s enough out of me for today. Sorry for the long-winded nature of my ramblings.
With love, Gary
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi
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