The Key To The Mind ...

It’s easy to falsely validate fears if you use the same literature for validation that introduced the fear to you in the first place. To investigate the things you question by that method will always yield the same result, making things seem true, no matter how the data is spun. The only way to find out if something metaphysical or spiritual is true would be to question it through meditation. The only way to visit a non-physical realm, while using a physical body, is through the mind, via a deep sleep state, coma, or near-death-experience, or meditation where the conscious mind is relaxed enough not to reject new intuitions. It will be during the meditative state that the subconscious can apply new data, since the cognitive areas of the conscious mind that have been trained to reject such information, will be subdued or even paralyzed, temporarily. 

If you are new to meditation, it is not a magic trick or witch doctor voodoo. It is a non-invasive, peaceful way to put your thinking mind to sleep, while continuing to be aware of your surroundings. The subconscious part of your mind is where all of your core beliefs are retained. The conscious part of your mind is where those core beliefs are processed and put into practice. The subconscious mind is simply a storehouse; it does not decide what data will be kept there. It simply retains. The conscious mind is the guardian of the subconscious and rejects or accepts new data based off of the information already stored in the subconscious.

That is why religious beliefs are so hard to shake or disbelieve as an adult. Those stories, whether of Heaven or Hell, were embedded in most of us as children when our subconscious minds were fresh, containing no previous data on the subject of religion. We accepted it because the conscious mind already had a few things programmed. First, we trusted the ones unconditionally that gave us the information, and we had no other data to compare what we were being told to. 

We had no reason not to believe it. But as adults, when we are given new data that the conscious mind determines is a contradiction to the current data stored in the subconscious, the data is rejected as false. The only way to reprogram your subconscious is to circumvent the conscious, since the conscious mind only knows what is given it from some other source.

Let me remind you – the conscious brain does not create new thought. It is a processor. The conscious brain formulates, calculates, processes, re-processes, re-directs and evaluates all new data against stored data. However, the conscious mind does not store information; it only processes. Hence, whatever is retained in the subconscious is what you will believe. That is why no matter what an adult is told, and no matter how convincing the evidence is, they will not believe it unless it does not clash with current standards of belief.

So, in order to learn to control your mental processes, it helps to know where all new spiritual data comes from; and that is the Soul. The Soul feeds everything you will ever need to know straight through your mind and into the subconscious. Your Soul has the override key to bypass the conscious guardian, and the conscious mind is none the wiser. The conscious then pulls the new data from the storehouse as if it has always been there and considers it true.

At that point, you can hear a spiritual speaker, see a book about the Soul, or even have someone tell you that Hell isn’t real, and your conscious mind will be accepting of it. The only clash will be that there is still the older data that was planted there when you were a child that contradicts the new data. This confuses the conscious mind because of the conflict, but because your Soul personally implanted the new data, it too is trusted, making your journey to explore and expand your mind even that much easier; which was the plan of your Soul all along, once more revealing that the Soul is in charge and can always have its way. Why do you think you are reading this now?

Now you may ask how one erases the original data if you do not want it in your storehouse any longer. Think of it in terms of a hard drive in a computer. The best way to overwrite old material is to continuously record new material over it. Do this again and again until the old stuff is a distant memory. Overwrite it until it no longer feels true for you. You will not have to force the overwrite, because when the Soul is making a change, all of the new material you need for the process will automatically pour through you.

You will notice the same happenings will continue to arrive on the scene in your life. A song with a specific message will be everywhere, or television shows will be covering a certain topic that will seem to come out of nowhere. Or perhaps, people will come into your life with all of the tools you need to accomplish that one thing that keeps popping up. An unaware mind will believe these happenings to be coincidence; this will be the case until the realization comes that there are no coincidences, and that your life is happening very much on purpose.

Just Be You ...

It is alright if you don't yet know what your purpose in life is, because your Soul does. This knowledge of the Soul is kept from the physical mind so that the experiences to be had remain unfiltered by the uncertainty and fear that has been built into the mind.

There is nothing that the Soul does not know; it is not subject to the limited view of the body - but this news is not shared with your physical brain because the purity of the experiences would change.

Even though your mind is left in the dark, do not worry. There is nothing you need to pursue in order to figure out what your purpose is. Life will pursue you, if you allow it.

May I remind you that you absolutely cannot stop life from happening. Even if you sit on a couch in complete ignorance of the world around you, life will still come for you. Just because your brain is unaware of a purpose, does not mean the world is void of you.

The best thing you can do in this unaware moment is to simply be yourself. That is, whoever you feel that you are at your core, just keep being that. I don't mean you should keep being a student, a lawyer or a housewife. Those are just titles. Who you are is what you feel when you take all of the descriptions away. Be That!

And keep being that because life is coming for you. It always has been and always will be.

Trust me, your Spirit knows precisely what it is doing, although your physical mind does not. If you trust nothing else, trust that your Spirit is taking you right where your next, grandest experience will be. After all, if you can't trust you - who can you trust?

- JB Lewis

No Need To Fight Against Violence

I hardly watch the news, but when I do, there is usually some tragedy happening, like a bombing of children, or the genocide of a race of people. Whenever the media interviews witnesses, they always speak of how they just don’t understand why such things have to happen. Their human minds simply cannot fathom the purpose behind it all. That is because they have not yet begun to live through the consciousness of the Spirit; they are still only postulating their world with the limited data that has been planted in their physical mind. My daughter mentioned to me that two kids she met wanted to start a chain letter advocating World Peace. But as I considered the state of the world, I could see that fighting for peace would not yield peace.

The reason is this:

We do not have world peace because people do not actually want it. If they did, we would have it. As a population, we can have whatever we wish. There is no one to stop us if we truly desired peace. If violent leaders announced they would be peaceful and not start wars from now on, which people would rise up and say, "We will not let you be peaceful!" No one would. We are not forced to be violent, we choose to be. After all, we create destruction and there is no one stopping that.

This is our world; we are a global community and no one Lords over us from the moon making us behave certain ways; it is us alone. Sure, there are those that want peace; however, a peaceful person cannot force someone who wants war, chaos and violence to act otherwise. If we "force" someone to do something then we are no longer peaceful, we are forceful. If we fight against those who are already fighting, that just puts the entire world at war.

So what can you do if you are angry or bothered about the unrest and violence of the globe? 

First, let us look at these marvelous words:

"You don't Have a Soul.

You Are a Soul.

You Have a body."

- C.S. Lewis

So, knowing that all of us are first Souls, we know that we are divine and perfect in our nature, and that the things we do with our bodies do not reflect who we really are. Even the most insane, obscene or violent things we do, are just experiences we, as souls, want to accomplish. To accept this idea, you first have to believe that your Soul can see the outcome to every choice it makes in advance, because nothing is invisible or unknown to the Soul; which rules out anything happening by mistake, accident, happenstance or luck.

That means that, all things that violent people do, are done because they wanted the outcome of it, and nothing a peaceful person does can change that. There is no possible way to thwart the will of another Soul. Naturally, peaceful people can lock up violent people in an attempt to control them, and that makes peace lovers feel better. But even that hasn't overthrown the will of the violent person, for the Spirit that is directing its body to do violent things could already see that the outcome would be imprisonment. The Soul was not taken by surprise. Being locked up or put to death as a result of its actions was an outcome that the Soul accepted when it first decided to do violent things with its body.

Remember, the human mind only knows what it is given by the Spirit. The body is a slave to the Spirit. You know this is true because, when the Soul relinquishes the body, the body cannot decide to get up and continue to live. The body cannot make a decision to leave the morgue and go buy a car. The body responds solely to the Spirit's demands. The body and human mind are the tools the Spirit uses to create experience. The body is temporary and turns to dust, therefore cannot be judged for its part in the experiences. The Soul is a Divine being of Light; and since light cannot separate from itself, and was created by the Source of All Light, judgment of the light cannot occur, lest the Creator judges Itself.

In essence, then, protesting against violence is not necessary. You should only engage in a fight against something if it is an experience you wish to have, having already let go of the outcome. Just keep in mind that we are all having our own experiences for our own reasons, and you cannot force your beliefs or desires upon others. And know that everything that is happening, no matter how much it offends, hurts, scares, angers, or destroys you - it is all happening perfectly.

The Community of All That IS

I can remember being told throughout my life that in order to be accepted by God, I had to first accept the son of God, which is taught to be Jesus. In religion, Jesus is the only known son of God. But in spirituality, we know that everyone is a son and a daughter of God. Not because God is a man and impregnated, by supernatural means, a plethora of virgins, but because there is but One Supra Consciousness that delegates levels of itself into subordinate consciousnesses for the purpose of self discovery.

The paradox of saying that God is the sons and daughters of Itself, makes sense because God is all there is; or in other words, God is One Spirit with many levels of awareness about itself as a whole, so that every point of view can be achieved from a seemingly outside perspective.

Every level of knowing is represented in the whole of God. This is true even with those who do not believe in God at all. Naturally, there is nothing wrong with not believing in God or a Creator. There is no punishment in this. The non-believer will still end up, after separating from the body, in the same place the most devout Christian or other believer will end up. This is because we are already in the place we will end up, as I talked about earlier.

The belief in God or not is irrelevant to everything. In fact, it is the non-believer in traditional religion or the atheist that is closer to the truth, for God is not the God the vast majority believes it to be. Of course, to proclaim that there is no Creator is unreasonable since even a non-believer can see that something exists. They know this because they are standing on the Earth; they are using a body; they can see that things are created. They just have no idea who or what created it so they resort to absurdity.

However, they are correct when they say that the current illustrated version of God does not exist. Let me just say first that we can create whatever portrait of God we wish and it will not matter. Spirit will continue to be Spirit no matter what we consider it to be, but to claim it as the ultimate truth and then persecute others for not believing in your truth, extremely limits ones consciousness.

There is no one person that is God. God is simply an idea that describes a much larger conception. People call the name of God and instantly think of a person, since all of us have names that describe us. And since we all appear to be individual, and since someone told us that we were created in the image of God, whenever someone says the word God, the mind believes it to be the representation of the single, most powerful being that ever dug a canyon, filled an ocean or painted a sky blue.

But in reality, the word God falls short of just how grand everything we cannot see really is. It would actually be more accurate to say that God is more closely related to a community, rather than a single being. God, to put it as simply as possible, is comprised of everything that has ever existed and that ever will exist. And it all exists right now, as a community, operating together in perfect synchronicity.

As far as a name for the Creator goes, it could be changed to Jim, or Bob, or Francine, or Jennifer. The name absolutely does not matter, and it absolutely does not describe things as they really are. That is why the best vernacular to speak of God is – I Am That I Am.

How To Open Yourself To The Messages of God

There is a way to know things about the Cosmos that others will find impossible to grasp. First, know that a mind full of doubt and hesitation will never see all of the wonders you are designed to see. All doubt must be removed; that means ALL doubt, no matter what the topic is. When all doubt regarding your life and Spirit is gone, fear will also leave since fear is the creator of doubt.
You may then wonder, if you lose doubt, what thought will replace it. You will replace it with All Knowing. 

But how can you suddenly Know everything?  This is not the same as having your brain contain all knowledge at once. This knowing happens from having an absolute trust of yourself. With absolute trust, you are opening your physical mind to every bit of data that exists in the Universe. Trusting yourself completely means that no matter what intuition you receive or what message you feel pass through your consciousness, you will trust it with all that you are; you will then know that your spirit will never lie to or misguide you. You will trust your own mind and the thoughts that pass through it more than you trust your spouse, children and closest confidant. This is the mind set you must have to be in an All Knowing state of being.

This unrestricted, unconditional trust of yourself will allow you to see what you have never seen before because you will have removed the fear and doubt filters. You will know things that you could only describe as God sent. You will not require outside, physical proof because things will be revealed to you in a way that leaves no further questions.

You will try your best to convey your New messages to others but they will not believe you; primarily because they have not yet let go of their doubt and fear of what they still consider to be the unknown.
 
How do you shed your doubt and fear?

The simplest way is to let go of all outcomes. Let go of your debt worries. Let go of your job or school worries. Release yourself absolutely from the need to know how any one event will turn out; let it be and trust everything that is happening in your life right now will benefit you somehow. You do not have to see the ending to know you will be fine. Every event will have an outcome, but know this - the outcome will be neutral. It will be neither good nor bad. It will be you that interprets the outcome as good or bad. The occurring event is not "out to get you" so let it go and accept it.
Let go of all religious outcomes of Heaven and Hell and everything you think you know about God. 

Start from scratch. 

Do not worry, your previous conceptions of Heaven, Hell and God will still be available to you should you desire to re-infect your mind with it. When you can let go of what you currently hold as truth, and Be Completely Okay with letting it go, and not fearing any punishment from God as an outcome, will you truly be able to see all of the glorious things that await you. 

(excerpt from Living In Consciousness)
JB Lewis