Mid-Year Resolutions

The year 2014 is exactly half over. So we are precisely half a year away from 2015 New Year's resolutions. But I just came upon these suggested resolutions in one of the Seth Books. And I don't want to wait six month to put them into practice.

One of Seth's main messages is that we, right here and now, have the power to make any changes that we want in our lives. No matter where we currently find ourselves, we have the full ability to creatively implement solutions for whatever conditions we face.

Seth teaches that events in our lives, before they become real in our physical world, are first formed in an inner, highly creative reality he calls "Framework 2".

He describes a process in which no random occurrences happen to us. The days of our lives are the direct results of what we first create in our "Framework 2" dimension. If we focus on fear, failure, joy, success, health, illness or whatever in our daily thoughts, our "Framework 2" energy will make these thoughts become real in our physical experience sooner or later.

Seth suggests that we focus on the following four "resolutions" often and make them a daily, constant habit in order to create a life experience that we want.

One: I will approve of myself, my characteristics, my abilities, my likes and dislikes, my inclinations and disinclinations, realizing that these form my unique individuality. They are given me for a reason.

Two: I will approve of and rejoice in my accomplishments and I will be as vigorous in listing these -- as rigorous in remembering them -- as I have ever been in remembering and enumerating my failures or lacks of accomplishment.

Three: I will remember the creative framework of existence, in which I have my being. Therefore the possibilities, potentials, seeming miracles, and joyful spontaneity of Framework 2 will be in my mind, so the doors to creative living are open.

Four: I will realize that the future is a probability. In terms of ordinary experience, nothing exists there yet. It is virgin territory, planted by my feelings and thoughts in the present. Therefore I will plant accomplishments and successes, and I will do this by remembering that nothing can exist in the future that I do not want to be there.

The Jesus Story

It is difficult to know what actually happened historically at the time of the birth of Christianity.

But my interpretation of the lessons that we were intended to take away are different from mainstream beliefs, these 2000 years later.

My understanding of the main teaching of Christianity today is that God the Father sent his Son Jesus Christ to earth to die so our sins could be forgiven.

My version of the lessons from the Jesus story is much different. I believe that the intended lessons are that there is no death and there are no sins.

The point of the story of Jesus' death is that he did not die. He came back.

And I believe that he did not die to save us from our sins. I believe that the lesson for us is that there were no sins to begin with.

The ideas that death is final and that man is basically flawed were invented by us.

The concepts of good and evil were invented by us.

Any guilt we are carrying around from sins we may have committed is pointless. The ones who have not forgiven us for our failures are ourselves.

It appears to me that as a culture, we are slowly and subconsciously releasing our fear of death. When I was young, I remember that funerals were awful events. The mourners dressed in black and wept bitterly. But now it often happens that the family and friends hold services that are more like celebrations of the loved one's life. They remember the fun and happy times together.

We have far to go to understand that death is just a changing of seasons. But it appears that we have taken the first few steps.

I do not see the same movement toward releasing our rigid concepts of good and evil. We still have terrible fears of evil and try to contain it in prisons and control it in our own behaviors.

Evil cannot touch us because it is an illusion. Death is an illusion.

We are like children who fear the monsters in the closet. They are imaginary.

We are safe.

The Story of Adam and Eve

I am not a student of the Bible but I don't see why that should stand in the way of me expressing my beliefs about its stories.

This is my understanding of the story as believed by many Christians: God forbad Adam and Eve to eat of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. But Satan, as the serpent, tricked them into eating. Thus, Adam and Eve gained the Knowledge of Good and Evil and their God, being angry that they disobeyed, evicted them from the Garden of Eden as punishment.

This is the Cosmic Grandpa interpretation of the story: As primitive man, we found ourselves in a world where no value judgements existed. We accepted our world as we found it. There was no concept of good and evil. Our intuitive nature connected us to the vast cosmos and we knew we were an eternal part of the infinite multi-dimensional universe.

Then over earth time, our intellects developed and became dominent and we separated from our intuitive understanding of our cosmic connection. Our intuitive nature withered. We intellectually began to assign values to various aspects of our world. To each other. To everything we encountered.

No diety forbad us to develop in this direction and no satan tempted us. It was a direction we decided to explore as a race.

But it is a direction that has separated us from the understanding of who we really are.

In the bible story, we were instructed not to go there. But we chose to go anyway. So now we find ourselves in a world where fear, anxiety, anger and revenge all invade our lives eventhough they are illusions. Our justice system that assigns blame and guilt is an illusion. Good and evil are illusions. We created them ourselves. Yet we see them as universal values.

We no longer live in the beautiful garden.

But all we have to do to return there is to realize that the Knowledge of Good and Evil was created by us. It will decay along with the rest of our physical world in time.

We are. We are who we are. We will be who we are forever. There is no good or evil. We have no value. We just are.

The understanding of this reality will return us to the garden.

Let us meet up there now.

Gravity

Gravity is a scientific phenomenon that we all understand. The concept gets a little heavy when applied to solar systems and Einstein's description of the curvature of spacetime. But it is perfectly clear to us all who walk on the earth, regardless of our religious or non-religious faiths. We are confident that we will not suddenly float into the air.

I believe that there is another natural force like gravity, or possibly it is another aspect of gravity itself, so far untested by science. This other gravity operates daily in our lives and it is as natural to us as walking down a road.

This other force works to attract certain people, events, thoughts and emotions into our lives as naturally and reliably as our known scientific gravity.

Without an awareness of this force, we seem to be at the mercy of random good or bad luck as we move through our lives. If a frightening event happens near us, like a robbery or a shooting or an auto accident, we become anxious that it could have been we or our family who were the victims.

In fact, we did not attract that specific event into our lives, no matter how near to us or far away from us it happened. Others attracted it. For their own private reasons.

Without an awareness of this force, we think we need to put certain protections in place to keep us safe. Gun control for example. We make laws and attempt to control events. But I believe these efforts are as ineffective as if we passed laws to control gravity.

Without an awareness of this force, we seem to encounter other people in a random fashion. It seems that those who grow to be significant to us, like spouses, close friends, or even difficult, antagonistic people, come into our lives by chance. But I believe that this same force attracts them so powerfully that nothing can get in the way of it happening.

In fact, many of us can remember the exact moment when a certain significant person entered our lives. There was a spark of awareness. A sudden surprising familiarity.

This force keeps us safe. No random danger can come to us. Nothing happens in our lives that we are not somehow responsible for.

We create our reality. If we see something in our world that we don't want, we have the power to change it.

Our daily thoughts and feelings electromagnetically activate this force.

We have the power to attract anything we want.

Life is a big learning lab for us to experiment with this concept.

Let's see what we can attract.