The Teachings of Spirit

The “killed” is an idea in the mind reinforced by your own willingness to believe in the “killer.” The “killer” is judgment. Belief in judgment is belief in a mirage, for judgment only sees what isn’t and judges it as true and unworthy. Even when judgment judges as beautiful, it chooses the perception of unworthy, for beautiful and unworthy are two sides of the same idea of judgment. This is the idea of duality and “choose between.” The idea of “choose between” is an exciting experience created out of illusion, for in reality there is nothing to “choose between.” There is only the flow.

The way to let go of the “killed” is to see only the flow, to feel only the flow and to desire to be only the flow. In desiring to be only the flow, you let go of the idea of being independent. You let go of the idea of “choose between” and you choose to only be. Choosing only to be is a great gift to your brothers, because the flow that you are comes from them, through you and is returned to them. By choosing to be the flow as you are, you choose to teach your brothers that their creation is beautiful. In choosing to teach this without judgment or duality, you choose to teach you what you truly are, not apart from your brothers, but in conjunction with them. This is a celebration of truth and joining that outlasts any idea that says something different can exist to “choose between.”

Be the love by being what you are as you are now. Allow it. Love it. See it as a gift from your brothers. In accepting this gift you accept the truth of you. In accepting you, you accept them as one with you.

Question: I’d like to learn more about the flow. It seems very helpful in opening me up to non-judgment. What would you share with me?

Answer: The flow isn’t just an idea. It is a fact. It is reality. Nothing happens or is experienced outside the flow. Nothing is independent. Nothing can be done differently than how the flow would have it done. Options do not exist outside the reality of the flow, and any option chosen within the flow is of the flow. Being of the flow, it is of perfect oneness and made in complete agreement. In this way, it is beyond the possibility of judgment. All judgment imagines independent options from outside the flow.

The flow is most useful to you right now as a means of seeing clearly that you are only perfect love. You judge yourself whenever you feel you are less than perfect, when you feel you are not the perfect expression of love. A state that is not perfect love created through perfect oneness cannot exist. It is literally impossible. Every moment is perfection. You, as you perceive yourself, are the perfect result of every perfect moment.

Experience at the level of effect is only experience. It is not reality. But experience cannot be judged separate from reality since experience exists within the mind of reality. If experience is judged, reality is judged also. You cannot judge the creation without judging the creator. You cannot judge your self without judging the totality of your Self, which is God. Here lays the root of all fear.

With this said, focus on the flow. Keep your mind today, in every moment, aware of the flow that is. Want only the flow and you want only reality. Immerse yourself in gratitude within the awareness of the flow, and you accept yourself (and your brothers) as the echo of the reality that you are.

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Question: With the teaching of the flow in mind, I’d like to ask about choice. You said that in reality there is nothing to “choose between.” There is only the flow. You also refer to “any option chosen within the flow.” Are there options? Are there choices? And if there are, doesn’t that create room for error and judgment?

Answer: Right now you are slipping into seeing yourself as independent, and this will lead to judgment and a sense of unworthiness. It is not at all helpful to see yourself in this way, which is why I’ve asked you to remain focused on the flow.

There are no options separate from the flow, and you cannot make an independent decision at any time. Independence does not exist. But within the mind of reality there are multiple vibrational forces in affect. These vibrational forces are cause, which work together to create effect.

Question: Is there a choice in vibration?

Answer: There is always a choice in vibration, and the choice you make in vibration collides in unison with the totality of vibrational choice, and an option comes into being. This option is a decision, which will be carried out within experience unless a vibrational change occurs. If a vibrational change does occur, a new option will be presented and that is the option that will be experienced.

Vibrational energies can change in any moment, and the effect is change in flow. No change can occur in vibration without a change in effect.

Question: So at the level of practicality, how does this work?

Answer: A shift in perception or a shift in how you choose to experience an event is a shift in vibration. This creates a shift in flow. In other words, you and others will react differently based on a different vibrational flow.

Question: So my choice in perception affects others?

Answer: Yes, since there are no others. There is only flow. Everyone in every moment is acting at their vibrational level in perfect harmony with the total vibrational flow. Nothing is ever “out of whack.” Each instant is completely perfect. Each action and each personality is a perfect outcome of the flow.

Question: So there really are no choices beyond a choice in perception, but a choice in perception affects the vibrational flow resulting in what seems to be a different option.

Answer: Yes, but the current option is the result of the current flow. A different option cannot truly exist now. Each moment is perfect. It cannot be different. It cannot be truly judged.

To learn this is to learn everything. Your only choice is your choice in how to see (or feel), but this choice has an effect on everything you experience. It cannot be different from this.

My friends,

Much love,
Laurent

Light is a very real force. Darkness is not. Even that which seems to be darkness is shared or extended through light. This is important for you to remember, not as a trigger for guilt, but as a matter of realization. Only light is real, so only light is in affect at any time. This is your power. This is your strength. This is how you will find your freedom. You will discover your freedom right where it already is, in the power and strength of light.

Darkness is only light transmuted through a filter. It is nothing more than this. In this way, it is still light. It may seem that this knowledge isn’t helpful, but that is only true when this knowledge is viewed through the filter that isn’t light. Without the filter, the answer shines as light and it is this light that shines brighter than the attraction to the filter.

Begin to see all darkness as light. Notice the strength of darkness and realize this is the power of light. Hold to this idea as the grip of darkness seems to grow stronger and stronger on your mind. Remember that the true strength of this grip is the strength of light.

As you focus on the darkness as light, you begin to realize the force of your own power. You begin to feel the reality of your own strength. As you come to know yourself as strength and power, you begin to see yourself as you truly are. This is important, because then you are not seeing yourself as victim. Seeing yourself as victim is a lie and it is this lie that keeps you feeling trapped. You must unlearn this lie by looking directly at what you are, acknowledging your strength in realization and gratitude and honesty. See the darkness as light and see clearly who you are.

The filter that transmutes the light to darkness is carefully constructed to hide the light, but hiding light is not stopping it. Hiding comes from the disguise. Light cannot be stopped. As you see the light…the force and strength of the light even as it is disguised as darkness…you begin to shift the focus of your mind. Shifting the focus from the filter and disguises of the filter to the strength and power of the light is the exact shift that undoes the filter. For believing that the light is darkness is the primary component that makes up the falseness of the filter. By undoing the primary component through focus, the idea of the filter must collapse.

Here is how you undo the filter through focus. It is simple, but it must be accomplished through you. It is your decision to see that leads you to put away the filter and step clearly into the light as the only way to see.

Here is how:

Notice the current idea of darkness in the mind. Notice the intensity of the idea. Notice how it colors your vision, blocks your love and creates pain that you can hardly bear. Notice every aspect of its strength and shift your focus from the idea, from the thought, from the judgment to the strength. Look only at the strength and power that grips your mind now, and realize this is the strength and power of light. This, which you are feeling right now, is the complete undeniable strength of light transmuted through a filter of darkness. Feel yourself shift from the voices of the filter to full focus on the power of the light. Dive into the power by feeling with appreciation the absolute strength of what it is. Let go of everything but the realization of the power and know this power is light.

As you practice appreciating the power, your shift of focus will grow strong. You will use what seem to be attacks by the dark to realize only the strength and power of light. As you realize this strength, it will strengthen you. Your awareness of the power as light will expand in the mind. As it expands, any idea that the power is not you will die, for you will become the power and the strength. As the power and strength becomes in you and you become within the power and strength, the light shall become as an extension to your own arm. When you feel this extension, you will use it to extend the light to your whole body, to your heart and to your mind. As strength and power is seen as only light, only light shall be seen.

Strength and power remains as light and light is all there is to be seen, experienced and known. This is your freedom. This is your truth. This is what is happening in you now. You need only choose to see it to see that it is true. You are saved through seeing the beauty of that which you are.

Holy Spirit: There are two kinds of meditation. (You might say three if we include that which you call prayer, but even prayer can be put into the two categories of meditation so let’s stay with just two categories.)

One kind of meditation is listening to Me, which can also be called feeling Me or knowing Me. The other kind of meditation is creative meditation. One is total surrender; the other is utilizing the power of Self. Both kinds of meditation have a purpose. I would like to discuss the usefulness of each now.

Listening to Me is useful because it is not listening to ego. When you listen to Me or feel Me you listen to your right mind, which is the mind that knows what you are. Following the guidance of the right mind is always useful, especially when you are still confused about your truth. I recommend listening to Me at every opportunity now. Go into your heart and feel Me. It only takes a moment. Ask Me questions and expect the answer to appear. Let your heart’s desire be that you shall know Me, and you shall.

Creative meditation seems led by you. This may be a prayer where you ask for what you want, visualization or guided meditation designed to induce a specific effect. Creative meditation can be useful in that it teaches what you are, but it can also be used without teaching this lesson if you are totally unaware of what you are.

I recommend creative meditation used in conjunction with listening meditation. Start first by finding stillness and moving awareness into the heart. Seek nothing but to know Me, and I shall rise within your awareness. Once you are present with Me, let desire rise within you. Do not create the desire from your thinking. This is a time of stillness and listening. Let the desire rise from a place of rest. As desire rises, trust it is given from a place of guidance. Take that desire into creative meditation. You may pray for it or visualize it or feel gratitude for the gift you know is given. As you use creative meditation with listening, you are creating that which comes from the true desire of your heart.

Do not worry about the ‘rules’ of creative meditation. Do not fear doing it wrong or miscreating. Simply trust that which is given during listening and remember it is from your right mind. Trust what comes when you are in the stillness, realizing your closeness to Me without the efforting of the thinking mind. Do not judge or question that which is given. Judgment may seem like reason, but it is ego. Stop with what is given. Trust what comes in the moment, and you shall see that where you place your trust is well-founded. You place your trust with knowing, which is beyond the judgment of the thinking mind.

Holy Spirit: What scares you at the level of experience? What idea do you fear the most? Pick one or two. It is not helpful to work on too many things at once, so pick one or two key fears and prepare to let go of those fears now.

Letting go of fear is conscious work. It will take vigilance and attention on your part. Vigilance and attention are an offspring of willingness, so it is especially helpful to focus on your willingness to heal your most common or most fearful fears.

The ego will try to block healing. It may tell you that you are guilty for picking fears that represent the level of the world. Let this obstacle go. I tell you, everything in the world is representative of a deeper fear in the mind. The leaf, or experience-level fear, is directly linked to its root. If you keep this in mind as you heal your most instinctive fears, you will also have confidence that you are healing the root. In this way, the entire plant is transformed and springs up through the soil anew.

As I have said, pick one or two strong fears. To heal these fears, we are going to give them special attention now. We do this by being willing in freedom and innocence to give this special attention, knowing the special attention is a stepping stone to total healing. Hold confidence in this thought.

First, be alert to chosen fears when they arise in the mind. Remember your desire to heal these fears now. Let go of the image in the mind that is fearful and replace it with another image or idea that brings you joy. You will know which image to replace the old image with. Do not doubt yourself or judge yourself for your selection. Instead, dwell joyfully on your newly selected image realizing that this image is a symbol for the healing of fear.

The healing of fear is all that you need now. When fear is healed, you will Know they Self without fear. In this knowledge are all things possible. In this knowledge is all joy possible.

See yourself as one in learning. You are picking one or two fears in order to learn, one step at a time, that there is nothing to fear. Be a good student. Focus on your key fears by dreaming joyfully about the image that replaces them. Be like a kid and play freely with the image. Be not concerned about the specific outcome. Know that the outcome will be perfect joy and freedom from fear. Know this deeply in your heart, trust yourself, trust your visioning and let go of your fear. Your rewards shall be great indeed.

Holy Spirit: Gratitude is a powerful force. Gratitude is much more powerful within your universe than most people realize, although many are beginning to recognize its benefits. Gratitude is an energy field…an energy field of extension. Anything you feel gratitude for extends or becomes more within your awareness. What most people don’t seem to realize is that gratitude is a constant energy field. It doesn’t come and go as you feel the feelings of gratitude. Gratitude is a natural aspect of the Son of God. You are always in an “attitude of gratitude” and extending that which you are grateful for now.

You are grateful for that which your mind dwells on. It may seem to dwell in fear or worry, anger or resentment, hopefulness or hopelessness, but if the mind dwells on it, it dwells in gratitude.

This is a useful way for you to see today. Stop many times throughout your day, as often as you remember, and ask yourself what you are feeling gratitude for now. Simply observe where the mind dwells. Observe the emotions that accompany the thoughts. Then remember that you are in a mindset of gratitude. Ask if that which you are thinking and that which you are feeling is that which you truly feel grateful for. If not, it is a simple shift of mind to shift into that for which you truly are grateful. The shift is more than a shift in feelings. It is a shift in power. It is a shift in experience. It is a shift in everything that you desire to shift now.

Blessings upon you today. Remember that you are in gratitude always.

Question: Holy Spirit, why was the mind busy criticizing details in last night’s movie?

Answer: You criticized the movie because it was filled with messages that were helpful to you, and you wanted to resist these messages. It was the desire not to know they Self which fueled the criticism. It is always this desire that fuels criticism and resistance of every kind. The way to overcome resistance is willingness. The way to transcend criticism is the desire to learn, the desire to listen, and the desire to open up to Self.

A good way to watch a movie is with pen and paper. Be eager to hear messages that are most helpful to you. Pray and ask to see these messages and recognize them, and then write them down as they come. This is a simple exercise that will switch the mind from the mode of criticism…the mode of resistance…to willingness and an eagerness to learn. In this way, every film becomes a reward…a gem from Heaven.

This is only an exercise. It is an exercise in perspective. The perspective gained is that of seeing only that which is truly helpful. As this perspective is gained and seen as truly valuable, the perspective naturally translates to all things and to all situations. When this perspective is the only perspective you hold as you view the world, the world becomes a map toward awakening. Everything within the world becomes guidance, and that which isn’t guidance becomes unimportant and fades so that it isn’t seen.

Take this message now and practice it remembering your willingness…indeed, remembering your eagerness to awaken to yourself.

This message is for the two of you. That which you criticize the most, whatever it may be, is that which is most helpful to you. Choose to lay aside your criticism and ask that you may see anew, with eyes that are aligned with eagerness…that is, the true willingness of your heart.

Question: Holy Spirit, I am looking at people I criticize and trying to see how they are most helpful to me. I am feeling strong resistance. Can you help?

Answer: Spend more time letting go of your resistance by getting in touch with what you truly want. Switch your mind fully into the heart, into only that desire, and then the answer you seek shall be clear. Remember what you want above all else. Remember it fully and completely.

Let go of the temptation to think the answer. This answer will not come from your thinking because thinking is the mechanism of separation. Thinking separates you from that which you think about.

Question: I have been able to see one person that I criticize differently, and I know the new perspective came from you. It would not have come from my thinking. Thank you. But as I went to look at the next person, I found my resistance is way too strong. I feel like I want to jump out of my skin. What shall I do?

Answer: Always choose to be gentle with yourself in love. There is no other way to awaken to the love that you are. Be willing to take this slow. The person you are thinking of offers many answers. You will resist seeing her differently because there is more to see in her. Take the idea of her into your day…even your week or your month…but hold gently to the idea of seeing her differently without the intellect. When you have built up the willingness, the seeing will come. When one has much to teach you, what they offer may come to you over many realizations through a lot of willingness and through consistent desire to awaken above all else.

Take a break now and do something that will make you feel more relaxed. Do not hide in a frantic activity of distraction. Breathe and choose an activity of restfulness. It is time to let resistance die and let willingness expand within the mind.

You must stop seeing each other as persons. You are not persons. You are ideas. And some of those ideas are true, which represent your truth. But some of those ideas are false ideas that hide your truth. You are here to shed the false ideas so only the true ideas are manifest in form. This is what you are to do together, and you can only do this now if you choose to do this together in a partnership that represents your oneness.

Yin and Yang are a good symbol for you now…the male and the female that fit together to make one. But remember that it is the male and female that are illusion. Only the oneness matters. Only the oneness is.

As you use this symbol of male and female, you will be tempted to step into roles. Avoid these roles. They come from the idea of persons and will only strengthen the person-thought in the mind. Laurent is not a man and you are not a woman. You are ideas in one mind. Keep focused on oneness. It is one mind, not two, that is healed through you. That which is in you is in him, and that which is in him is in you. As you heal the masculine ideas in him, they are healed in you also. The feminine fears are healed in him as they are healed in you.

Together these fears, which we shall call masculine and feminine, the killer and the killed, rise up to be healed as two sides of the same idea. The idea is that of not-oneness. Not-oneness is the illusion you believe or you could not fear. As you face your fears together in partnership, without any avoidance of these fears, it is your oneness that will rise to transcend them. Fears must be transcended when they are faced as one, because oneness is real and the fears are not. Therefore, when the light of oneness shines on fear, it is fear that must disappear.

You and Laurent must work on your oneness. Learn to see how you fit together in purpose. As you do this, your fears will most certainly rise, but do not let your attention shift to your fears. Remain firmly fixed on your oneness, your inseparability, which is your truth and your strength.