How All Grief Can Be Healed
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Notes from Neale
The CwG Reader
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Notes from Neale...
My dear friends...
Last week I offered here what I called Advice #1 on Grief: Let it out. Find a friend, go to your pastor, minister, rabbi or ulama, check out a grief-and-loss counselor, get to an emotional support group...find someone with whom to let it out.
This week---Advice #2: spiritual healing for a wounded heart.
In the extraordinary final dialogue in the CwG Cosmology, HOME WITH GOD in a Life That Never Ends, God gifts us with the spiritual basis for healing after the death of a loved one. These come in the form of what are called The 18 Remembrances. Among them...
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• You are the cause of your own death.
This is always true, no matter where, or how you die.
• Death is never a tragedy. It is always a gift.
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• The timing and the circumstances of death
are always perfect.
These insights into the nature and the process of death open us to a whole new understanding of the experience, causing us to notice that we have been holding it in our reality in an entirely distorted way.
Death is not something that happens to us, but through us.
Actually, it is not something that happens at all, in the commonly held definition of the word among people of the earth. Death is simply a movement from one level of existence and everlasting life to another. It is a gliding from the Realm of Experiencing to the Realm of Being. From that realm we will move into the Realm of Knowing, and then, back to the Realm of Experiencing once again, in a never-ending and always joyful cycle of expressing Divinity.
This cycle may not seem "joyful" to all who are experiencing it, but that is because of their point of view; of their perspective. Were they to embrace the perspective of the Soul, they would (as CwG points it) "see the perfection."
All things happen in their perfect order, at their perfect time, in their perfect way. There is, in fact, nothing but perfection playing itself out in the Universe. Do you know how it is possible to know that? Because it is happening.
Unless we are in the Universe run by an out-of-control God, Who has nothing to say about, and no impact on, the events of our day-to-day, we can depend on the fact that if something is happening, it is the Will of God. And if it is the Will of God, it is for our own highest good.
This includes our own death-or the death of a dearly loved one.
Yet how can "tragic" events be for our own good?
Taken from the Soul's perspective, all things that occur, occur because it is perfect that they do so. And this is because the Soul knows and understands the Overall Agenda of the Totality of Your Being (that Essence which you call "You").
It is important to understand that You came here (to the earth, I mean) to undertake a particular mission. You are not here by chance, nor are the circumstances of your birth or any aspect of your life as it proceeds the product of chance. Rather, the Universe and every element in it (including every element experiencing Life as an adventure here on earth) is a constant expression of All That Is in All The Ways There Are in All The Moments That Exist in the Always of Forevermore.
We are God, "godding." We are Divinity, expressing. We are Singularizations of the Singularity, knowing our Selves in our own experience.
When we understand this, we never again grieve for another-no matter how tragic or "unnecessary" the death, no matter how "unfair" or unexpected the circumstance. Indeed, we celebrate, knowing that the Soul of our Beloved is likewise celebrating, and now experiencing Its Continuation Day, having chosen and perfectly created the moment and the way of Its transformation from the physical to the nonphysical.
We may mourn our loss, but we will not grieve theirs, for they will have lost nothing and gained everything.
Next week: But why is Life so difficult if everything, including our own death, is chosen?
Love and Hugs,
Neale.
A FINAL CHANCE FOR 2010
A lot of people who have read Conversations with God and find it impacting their life in wonderfully positive ways often find it challenging to explain to others-such as concerned family and friends-just what they've "gotten themselves into."
Many folks have written to us through the years saying "I wish there was some easy way to gather the essential elements of this material and help me to explain it clearly to others."
Well, that's what the Conversations with God Foundation's CwG DEEP STUDY PROGRAM is all about. For three highly concentrated days a tiny handful of participants (never more than 30, usually less than 20) sit down together with CwG author Neale Donald Walsch and question the heck out of him, exploring and discussing every major message in CwG, and hearing directly from Neale how to most effectively talk about it.
This remarkable event is clearly not for everyone. It is also perfect, however, for those who feel benefited by this material and wish to share it with others, perhaps in a study group as its facilitator, perhaps in a workshop as its presenter, perhaps in a lecture or informal talk as its source.
If you feel called to bring the CwG message forward in your sphere of influence, and want to make sure you know how to most effectively present what you are talking about, this unique program is for you.
The next CwG Deep Study session will be May 10, 11, 12. Neale offers this program only once or twice a year, so if this feels like something you would like to do, it would be good to call now to get more information about it or to register for one of the few places left.
Call Will Richardson, educational programs registrar, at 352-442-2244. He'll have all the information you need. You may also go to www.cwg.org and check the retreat schedule for more information and to register if you choose.
The CwG Reader
Further explorations of the Conversations with God material from the author
Neale Donald Walsch through the years has given hundreds of talks and written scores of articles revolving around the messages he received in his Conversations with God. Now, every seven days, we will present in this space a transcript or reprint of those presentations. We invite you to Copy and Save each one of them, creating a personal a collection of contemporary and uplifting spiritual thought which you may reference at any time. We hope you will find this a constant source of insight and inspiration.
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This week's offering: An exchange of emails between Neale and a reader on March 19, 2005 about what some have called the process of ascension.
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Dear Neale...I have been reading a lot about the "Ascension" process lately and I am a bit confused. First of all, I don't believe that you've written anything about this process in any of your books. Does this mean that it really isn't going to happen to us humans? The thing that bothers me most about what I've read is that it is often mentioned how we are going to ascend to the 5th dimension and it talks a lot about the "higher realms." Yet, it also says that we are moving out of the time and space continuum and duality. How could this be if we're moving to a "higher" realm? I'd sure appreciate it if you could address this process. I'm sure that it will help others beside me. Thank you, and many blessings for the wonderful work you are doing.
Michael
Dear Michael...The place that exists outside of the space/time continuum is what we would call, in human language, a "higher realm." There is a difficulty with communication through words. Words are the least reliable form of communication. Thoughts are the next least reliable, because most people's thoughts are based on their past experience, not on what is happening right here, right now. Feelings are the language of the soul. If you want to know your truth about something, look to how you are feeling about it.
The so-called "higher realm" that exists outside of the space/time continuum can only be fully described by exploring your feelings about it -- and this is a singular experience. It cannot be done in plural. It is like joy. Try to describe "joy" to someone. It is almost impossible. How big is it? How wide is it? How long or short is it? How warm or cold is it? Sometimes joy feels warm all over. Sometimes it feels like cold tingles up and down your body. So how "warm" is joy? How cold is it? What size is it, what temperature?
You see, one cannot describe it in human physical terms. You have to feel it. And the feeling cannot be described. It is, quite literally, "indescribable joy." All this talk of you ascending to a higher realm is nothing more than a collection of words to clumsily describe a raising, or ascending, of consciousness. It is consciousness raising. It is when you move in consciousness to a new place, a place outside the physical limitations and experiences of your bodily reality.
This can be done at any time, and many masters have done it without moving their bodies at all. Most people think that "ascension" means that the body literally lifts off the earth and "ascends into heaven." That is one way you can do it, but it is far from the only way -- and it is the most difficult way, because it requires that you drag your physical body along with you.
Your body is yours, it is not You. The "you" that ascends is not your body, unless you choose to take your physical body with you -- but why would you do that? You have no need for your body at all. It is merely a tool through which you can create and achieve a greater and grander experience of Who You Really Are. Once you have achieved that experience, your body becomes unnecessary, pointless. Like any tool with which you are finished, you can put it down. You are not this tool. You have a body, but you are not the body that you have.
True masters are those who can leave their body at will. The part of them that is Who They Really Are simply exits the body, leaving it lying there, or sitting there, doing its own thing, taking care of itself through the ongoing operation of the perfect mechanism that is its biological system. The heart beats, the lungs expand and contract, blood circulates...the mechanism functions perfectly, working like a clock, or like a well-tuned automobile. You do not have to be in your car for it to keep running. You can step outside of your car and just let the motor run. The car does not need you to run. It runs by itself. But it does need you to steer it, to tell it where to go.
Your body is a vehicle, moving you through the world at the level of gross physicality in order to provide you with experiences that are only available to you at that level. These experiences create a context within which your mind can begin to hold the larger reality of your True Identity. Once you experience your True Identity, your body becomes virtually useless in terms of your own journey. You can get out of the car. You're there. You're arrived. Then you will begin to use your body as a vehicle through which you may carry others to a direct experience of who they really are. Suddenly your body has a use again! And it is the greatest use of all. It is the purpose for which it was invented.
In other words, once you achieve a certain level of awareness, you will use your life here on this earth to lead others to that place of awareness -- to carry others back home, back to a full knowing of their True Identity. You will wake other people up.
Soon, you will seek to do this for the Whole Humanity. Nothing else will matter. Nothing else will seem the least bit important, least of all the concerns of your own body, or its once-selfish, now-forgotten needs or satisfy-me-now indulgences. You will experience yourself needing nothing. You will find yourself yearning for nothing. Certainly nothing that only the physical realm can provide you.
At this point you will be "in this world, but not of it." And, while you will continue to remain with your body, and to enjoy it, you will enjoy it and use it in an entirely different way. You will use it to bring others pleasure. To bring others joy. To bring others peace and love and safety and security and wisdom and clarity and awareness and the experience of Oneness. You will use it to bring others Home.
Imagine having sex like this. Just imagine it.
I bring this up because sexual expression is one of the great joys of being physical. But you have not known true joy, I promise you, until you have had a sexual experience in which you use your body as I have described above. Then you will take what you have experienced and thread it through the fabric of your entire life. Sex will no longer be an experience limited to intercourse. It will become Synergistic Energy eXchange -- true SEX -- which is the exchange of the essence of Who We Are with each other in a way that brings all of us back to ourselves and to the knowing of our Oneness with all others and with all of Life.
During your stay here on earth you will "ascend into heaven" many times, your consciousness leaving your body frequently, during meditation, during dreams, even, eventually, in a fully waking state, as I have described here. Your daily life will contain many moments in which you move in and out of a state of higher consciousness, from which you will perform many wonders. I am in such a state right now as I perform the wonder of giving you this answer. This reply to you could not have emerged from me had I not "ascended" to the level of consciousness wherein this answer resides.
Do you understand?
When you expand your awareness of your True Identify you will exit your small self, your localized self, and move in consciousness to your Universal Self at will. Often will you do this. You will exit and return, leave and come back, ascend and descend, sometimes for extended periods, sometimes for the instant moment, moving between realms effortlessly. And when you do this, my wonderful friend, the kinds of questions you've asked me here will disappear.
Now you may say, that sounds wonderful! How can I get there? How can I get to that place of awareness? And the answer is astonishingly simple.
Take someone else there.
When you understand this, that will be all that your life will be about.
I send you love and hugs....neale.
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The Calendar
A look at events at which Neale Donald Walsch will share the message of Conversations with God in the weeks ahead. You can learn more about the work of the ReCreation Foundation at these events...and on its official website, www.cwg.org, as well.
NOTE: Not all events are sponsored by the ReCreation Foundation, but because all of the events move forward the message of Conversations with God, which is the mission of the Foundation, the Foundation is pleased to inform you of them.
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Three days of intense study of the major points of CwG Ashland Oregon Contact: Will at 352-442-2244 - will@cwg.org |
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands Contact: +31 653 294 701 - Thom.Schouten@heartmedia.nl |
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