Ego
game No. 2: The
ultimate survival game
A
discourse by Jesus
NOTE:
This teaching was given on March 21, 2007, after the NEW
DIRECTION was implemented.
The story of Doctor Frankenstein was inspired by the Ascended Host in
order to illustrate one of the fundamental properties of the ego. The
plot is simple, namely that a doctor – with seemingly benign motives
– stitches together dead body parts and infuses them with life.
Yet once the creature has received a form of life, it displays a survival
instinct that makes it willing to kill anyone standing in its way, even
its own creator. Because the doctor is unwilling to deal with his creation,
he eventually perishes—as does the creature.
This is the basic characteristic of your ego. You took “dead”
ideas, meaning ideas and beliefs that sprang from the consciousness
of anti-christ, and put them together into a coherent whole. You then
used your creative abilities to infuse them with a form of life so that
your “creature” could fulfill the role of making most decisions
for you, thus – seemingly – setting the conscious self free
from the responsibility of making decisions.
Yet what you thought was created to serve you, took on a life of its
own, and now it wants to control every aspect of your life. Furthermore,
it has a ferocious survival instinct and will do anything to stay alive—even
if you decide that you no longer want it. In its most primitive form,
the ego is willing to do anything to stay alive, even to the point of
killing people that oppose it. In fact, the ego is even willing to kill
you, and it is unable to see that this will lead to its own destruction.
To the ego, the ultimate cause is its own survival, and no price is
too high to pay in order to ensure its survival.
The ego will literally do anything that it believes is necessary in
order to ensure its own survival. And when you compare this to my previous
teaching that the ego is born out or your separation from God, you can
see the dangerous cocktail. As I explained, everything is created from
God’s being—without him was not anything made that was made.
Thus, the connecting link between all self-aware beings is God. When
you know that you are part of God’s being, you also know that
other people are part of God’s being, and thus you know, in a
very fundamental way, that if you hurt others, you also hurt yourself.
As I said:
And the King shall
answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have
done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it
unto me. (Matthew 25:40)
It is truly only when you
acknowledge that you have some connection to God that you can follow
my commandment to do unto others what you want them to do to you. That
is why people who identify with their egos are unwilling to follow this
command and even look at is as a primitive or weak statement.
Because the ego is born from your separation from God, it inevitably
sees itself as completely separate from other people. Thus, the ego
believes it can hurt others without harming itself, and this is what
gives rise to the most primitive of all ego games, namely that of ultimate
physical survival.
Physical survival leading to spiritual death
In previous discourses, I described the conscious
self as being able to identify itself as anything it chooses. The
same is true for the ego. I have compared the ego to a forest, and the
kind of trees you put into the forest will determine the ego’s
behavior. When a person sinks to the absolute lowest level of human
awareness, the ego of that person identifies itself with and as the
physical body. Thus, the survival and preservation of the physical body
becomes the most important goal for the ego. The person will do anything
to attain that goal, including killing anyone who is perceived as a
threat to the survival of the body.
In previous discourses, I compared the ego to the operating system of
a computer. What actually happens when people come to identify with
their physical bodies is that the computer program of the ego merges
with the computer program that is built into the physical body. The
human body/brain is – as most modern people realize – a
very complex mechanism. Many scientists believe all aspects of human
consciousness is the result of the physical processes in the brain and
nervous system. And while this is incorrect, it is to some degree understandable
that scientists can reach this conclusion. The brain and nervous system
are truly so complex that they give rise to many thoughts and feelings.
In fact, for people who have forgotten their spiritual identity and
have come to identify themselves with and as a physical body, virtually
all of their thoughts and feelings are produced by the brain and nervous
system receiving and to some degree modifying impulses from the mass
consciousness.
So when the ego merges with the “body computer,” the computer
programs built into the physical body come to dominate the computer
of the ego. And it should not be difficult to see that the programs
of the physical body are entirely centered around the survival of the
body. This is not to say that this is necessarily wrong or evil. I am
not agreeing with the traditional view of many religious people –
including many Christians – that the body is evil. A lion is not
evil, it simply does what it needs to do in order to survive. Likewise,
the body will do what it needs to do in order to survive. The problem
is, of course, that the body computer is not actually able to think.
It has only physical life, but no spiritual life. It has no self-awareness
and consequently no way to distinguish between right and wrong. Thus,
it has no ethical or moral concerns, and it is incapable of reasoning
that what it thinks is necessary for its survival might be “wrong”
or have long-term consequences for the entity that inhabits the body,
namely you. The result is the creation of an ego-game that is programmed
to do anything to ensure the short-term and long-term survival of the
physical body.
Throughout history, this ego game has taken on many different forms.
As an example, consider that during medieval times, most men traveled
with a sword. The slightest provocation would be seen as a threat to
the person’s honor, and the result would be a duel to the death.
Numerous people were killed over something that was not an actual physical
threat but only a perceived threat. Yet it became a physical threat
because of the tradition of settling disputes with a duel. Other obvious
examples are how people will kill others in order to steal food or other
property. And this often leads those who have something worth stealing
to build a pattern of automatically killing those who are seen as real
or potential threats to their property.
Taking this to a greater scale, we see war as an example of how some
soldiers will become perfect killing machines. They automatically kill
any enemy solider without even considering any moral or ethical implications.
We see a similar tendency in organized crime, even the popular movie
image of the crime boss who will kill anyone who threatens the survival
of his empire—which he identifies as an extension of his body.
On an even greater scale, entire nations or civilizations can create
their version of the survival game. They build the image that other
nations are a threat, and they are willing to use whatever weapons or
methods are available in order to secure victory. This can be extended
to building the image that a particular race or ethnic group is a threat
to the survival of another group or nation. Hitler’s genocide
against the Jews is an obvious example of the ultimate survival game
taken to the extreme. Yet the Allied bombing campaign against civilian
targets in German cities shows that no nation is immune to this game.
Another aspect of this game is that the long-term survival of the physical
body requires propagation, and when the ego takes this to the extreme,
you get rape. On an even larger scale, you get the many forms of suppression
of women, which is fueled by the male ego’s perceived need for
the long-term survival of the physical body. This makes it necessary
that women are available to fill what the male ego perceives as their
main role, namely to be available for propagation.
Rising above physical survival
Obviously, I could continue indefinitely to give examples of how this
particular ego game has led to incredible atrocities. This game is behind
most of the atrocities seen in history, with the perpetrators often
feeling that they had to destroy the “enemy” in order to
ensure their own survival. It is the old adage, “It was him or
me!”
I trust most spiritual seekers clearly see the primitive nature of this
game. The reason why you can see this is that most spiritual seekers
– and certainly most of the people open to this website –
have risen above the most primitive ego-game. In fact, I start out describing
the most primitive ego game specifically to help you see that you have
already risen above some of the ego’s games. Surely, you would
not indiscriminately kill anyone you perceived as a threat, and hopefully
you would not kill anyone no matter what the situation. This is a clear
sign that you have already started separating the conscious self from
complete identification with the ego. It is by continuing this process
that you will eventually win the victory of attaining the Christ consciousness.
Yet in order to complete the process, you need to consciously understand
how you can separate yourself from the ego. Doing this unconsciously
is a good first step, but becoming a mature spiritual student requires
that you come to a conscious awareness and understanding of the spiritual
path and what it entails. You can only climb so high on the path without
conscious awareness. To reach the higher levels, you must begin to see
exactly how the ego seeks to hide behind the trees in the forest.
So how can a person begin the process of overcoming the most primitive
ego game and rise from functioning as a mere animal to becoming a spiritual
being in a physical body? Well, the core of the process is that the
conscious self of the person must begin to realize that it is more than
the body and then more than the ego. However, when a person is fully
identified with the ego and when that person’s ego is fully identified
with the physical body, there is little possibility of reaching that
person with a spiritual message of any kind. Thus, many people literally
will be awakened only by having their physical bodies killed over and
over again, until it begins to dawn on the conscious self that it is
not the body. This happens because a violent death will burn a scar
in the person's soul that will carry over as – often partially
subconscious – memories in succeeding lives, giving the person
a memory that it can survive the death of the body.
As I explain throughout this website, the material universe acts as
a kind of mirror that reflects back physical circumstances that correspond
to your state of consciousness. So when you identify yourself with and
as the body – and become trapped in the game of ensuring the survival
of the body – you will enter a state of consciousness where you
are constantly looking for threats to the body. The subconscious message
you are sending out is that you live in a world where everything is
a potential threat, and thus the universe obediently reflects back to
you physical circumstances in which you encounter such threats. For
example, many people involved with gangs or organized crime have precipitated
a situation where they are under constant threat—and all of the
people involved are simply playing their roles in the collective drama
they have created through their individual minds. They have gravitated
together because of their similar states of mind, and now they are threatening
each other in order to outplay their internal conflicts.
My point is that the ultimate survival game will cause people to precipitate
physical circumstances in which they are likely to have their bodies
killed. When you seek to save your life, you will lose it, as I said
2,000 years ago. This is actually a safety mechanism, whereby the universe
outplays people’s states of mind, so they can receive opportunities
for overcoming them. When a person has been killed enough times, the
conscious self of that person will – in between embodiments –
begin to realize one of two things:
The person comes into its
next embodiment with a sense that it is more than the body or that it
no longer wants to fight other people. And this is the beginning of
an upward spiral. As the conscious self of the person – often
over many embodiments – disassociates itself more and more from
the body and the material world, the person will come into embodiment
with a conscious awareness that it has a longing for something beyond
this world. This can then cause the person to find a spiritual teaching
and begin a conscious path toward greater understanding.
Obviously, as a spiritual teacher, I would love to see people awaken
from the ultimate survival game without having to be killed numerous
times, but unfortunately that is not a likely scenario. Most people
who get trapped in this game can only grow out of it when the school
of hard knock has given them so many knocks that they begin to think
there must be a better way. Some people literally have to be hit on
one cheek many times before they begin to realize that until you start
turning the other cheek, the blows will keep coming. The reason being
that the universe is simply mirroring back what you are sending out,
so you are creating the blows—even though other people execute
them.
Turning the other cheek as the only way to break the
survival game
As I said, the ego is simply a computer, and it will mindlessly continue
to fight the external enemy, never realizing that it is the consciousness
of thinking there is an enemy that creates or precipitates the enemy.
Thus, it is only the conscious self of a person who has the awareness
to be able to think and reason that if it starts turning the other cheek,
then the universe will eventually stop sending the enemy. Yet for this
to happen, the conscious self must awaken and decide to take back its
responsibility for making decisions. And, of course, it was the conscious
self’s denial of this responsibility that created the ego and
then created the slide toward the ultimate survival game.
Before a person can fully leave the ultimate survival game behind, the
person’s conscious self must be willing to acknowledge that it
creates its own reality. It must come to understand that the universe
truly is a mirror, and therefore the physical conditions it faces will
never change until it changes its consciousness. And in order to begin
this process, the conscious self must – consciously – override
the programming of the ego. The ego will blindly fight the external
enemy, and in a sense having such an enemy can become the ultimate excuse
for not taking responsibility for your life. When the conscious self
identifies itself with the ego, it will reason that as long as there
is an external enemy, it has to focus all of its awareness on fighting
the enemy, so there is no time or attention for taking responsibility
and changing your consciousness. A soldier who is in the midst of a
battle is not very open to working on his psychological issues. Surviving
by destroying the enemy takes precedence over anything else.
I trust people open to this website can see how this becomes a catch-22.
You create the outer enemy through your state of consciousness. And
once the outer enemy is there, the existence of the enemy becomes an
excuse for not taking a look at your state of consciousness. It is the
perfect excuse for focusing on the splinter in the eye of another and
refusing to look at the beam in your own eye. Obviously, the outer enemy
will not go away until you change your state of consciousness so that
you can turn the other cheek to the blows coming from the enemy.
Do you now begin to see the deeper understanding behind my command to
turn the other cheek? I am fully aware that most people could not understand
that command 2,000 years ago, and most still do not understand it. But
many are ready to understand that because they have – for many
lifetimes – been in a state of consciousness of fighting outer
enemies – there is only one way to break that pattern. They MUST
stop fighting the outer enemies and allow themselves to be hit on one
cheek—and then deliberately turn the other cheek without striking
back.
Only by doing this can they send a new message into the cosmic mirror,
the message that they no longer want to fight an external enemy. And
when this has been done enough times – and you might remember
that I told my disciples to forgive seventy times seven – the
old pattern – created over many lifetimes – will be broken
and the universe will now reflect back physical circumstances that correspond
to your new state of consciousness. Even though many people are still
trapped in the ultimate survival game, you will no longer encounter
them and will be able to live at a higher level even though you are
still on this planet.
More subtle versions of the survival game
As I explain elsewhere,
there are four levels of this world, corresponding to four levels of
your mind. The lowest level is the physical level, corresponding to
your subconscious and conscious minds. The next level up is the emotional,
which obviously corresponds to your feelings. After that comes the mental
level, which corresponds to your thoughts, but specifically higher thoughts
of reason and logic. Finally, we have the etheric or identity level,
which corresponds to your sense of identity, meaning how you see yourself,
God and the world.
So far, I have talked about the survival game as a purely physical phenomenon,
relating to the survival of the body and causing people to be willing
to physically kill others in order to ensure their own survival. Yet
the survival game also has a version on each of the higher levels, and
we will look at each version. As we go up from the physical level, we
go toward deeper layers, toward the underlying causes of the survival
game. We can then begin to see that even the physical game is not entirely
physical. In many cases, people will kill only when they are influenced
by very strong emotions, such as fear or anger. And such emotions spring
from certain beliefs that again come from the person’s sense of
identity.
The next step up from the physical level is the emotional, and there
is a blurred line between people who are caught in the physical survival
game and those who are in the emotional survival game. Obviously, if
you are at war and an enemy solider comes at you with a gun, your life
is physically threatened. Yet many of the people who are trapped in
the survival game will kill others when they are not actually threatened
but feel that they are threatened. Some will indiscriminately kill those
who make them angry or trigger their fear of death.
Most of the civilized world has risen to a level of consciousness where
physically killing someone is seen as unacceptable behavior. Therefore,
there are many people who have risen above the physical survival game
in the sense that they will not automatically kill those who seem to
threaten them. Yet many of these people have simply put a restriction
on their physical behavior without actually resolving the psychological
issues that drive that behavior. In other words, they are still driven
by violent and unresolved emotions, and if they become really afraid
or really angry, they can no longer restrain their physical behavior
and they will then kill someone in a fit of passion.
Yet there are also many people who have come to the point where even
intense rage or fear will not trigger the response of physically killing
someone. Nevertheless, these people are still willing to kill someone
emotionally.
Killing with psychic energy
It is of continuous amazement to the Ascended Host that modern civilization
knows the scientific fact that everything is energy, yet people have
not been willing to acknowledge the philosophical consequences of this.
If your emotional and mental state can have – as has been proven
over an over again – an effect on your physical health –
either making you sick or preventing you from recovering – then
it follows that other people’s thoughts and feeling can have an
effect on you—and vice versa.
As explained elsewhere,
your body is surrounded by an energy field that is connected to your
mind. Therefore, this energy field can potentially be invaded by the
energy impulses produced by other people’s thoughts and feelings.
In fact, it is possible to commit psychic murder by producing such intense
waves of psychic energy that it can cause another person to become ill
or experience an accident. Thus, there are people who are so trapped
in the emotional version of the survival game that they will –
usually without being consciously aware of it – actually seek
to kill someone emotionally by sending intense anger at them.
There are also those who seek to control others through their emotions,
and this game is an extension of the survival game. You seek to control
others in order to prevent them from becoming a threat. For example,
many people seek to control those closest to them through guilt, by
making others feel obligated to take care of their needs. Some have
managed to permanently manipulate their supposed “loved ones”
into never going beyond certain boundaries—because if they did,
the person in control would feel threatened. There are innumerable specific
versions of such control games.
There is also a version of the emotional survival game that has the
aim of stirring up other people’s emotions so that the manipulator
can steal their spiritual energy. When a person sinks into the deeper
layers of the duality consciousness, that person can no longer receive
spiritual light directly from his or her I
AM Presence. This light is necessary for a person’s survival,
so now the person has to steal energy, or light, from a person who is
still receiving it from above. This can be done by manipulating other
people’s emotions, for example by making them angry. When you
misqualify energy in anger, other people can literally steal your light
and use it to survive at their – lower – level of consciousness.
There are people who are so adept at this emotional survival game that
they are literally energy vampires who routinely milk certain people
by stirring up their emotions. As an example consider how someone will
seek to draw you into an argument that continues until the person suddenly
seems to have had enough, and the argument is over. The reason being
that the person has had his or her fill of energy and will now leave
you alone until the next “feeding time.”
In short, if you recognize that you are regularly taken over by very
strong emotions – especially anger and fear that stem from feeling
threatened by others – you should recognize that you have not
yet risen above the emotional version of the survival game. Another
thing to watch out for is that you find it difficult to deal with a
situation where other people display strong emotions. There are people
who think they have their emotions under control, but they have simply
learned to suppress them. Yet in certain situations, their emotions
will be stirred, and this is a sign that you are not at peace. You then
need to use tools to get greater
clarity, including the many forms of therapy available today, and
use Mother
Mary’s rosaries to resolve the energies and beliefs that cause
you to be trapped in the game of emotional survival.
The mental survival game
At the mental level, we are dealing with ideas and beliefs, for example
your religious beliefs. History is filled with examples of how people
can be willing to physically kill others because of an idea. If you
think that your religion is the only true one and that the devil is
opposing it through other people, you might be willing to kill those
people, even though they obviously do not threaten you physically. The
same, of course, can be the case for people with strong political beliefs,
such as the leaders of certain communist and fascist countries.
Behind the willingness to kill over an idea is the belief that the end
can justify the means. This belief has been used to justify any number
of atrocities, including many subtle versions, where people have felt
they were fighting for a just cause and that this justified killing
others. You can find any number of examples where people have justified
the killing of others by thinking that the survival of their idea was
more important than the lives of other people. Even democracy was born
in bloodshed. However, behind this is the illusion that killing others
was the only way to make their idea survive. Yet look at the example
I attempted to set with my mission. I told people to not resist evil
and to turn the other cheek. And I demonstrated that I was not willing
to kill others but was willing to let them kill me—which actually
ensured the survival of the idea I came to promote.
I am fully aware that many Christians have felt that ensuring the survival
of their version of Christianity justified the killing of others. But
can you seriously believe that – given the teachings and example
just described – I am in approval of such behavior? The simple
fact is that the idea that the end can justify the means springs from
the consciousness of anti-christ. This state of mind is based on separation,
which makes it possible to separate the end and the means, thus saying
that in order to accomplish a greater good it is justified to use means
that would otherwise be seen as wrong. In the Christ mind no such separation
is possible, and thus it is never acceptable to use means that are in
violation of God’s law, such as the command that thou shalt not
kill. Yet in the Christ mind you can see peaceful ways to promote your
idea, ways that are simply obscured for people trapped in the duality
of anti-christ. Thus, such people think the only way to ensure the survival
of their idea is to use violence.
Again, modern civilization makes it unacceptable for many people to
physically kill those who oppose your beliefs. Therefore, many people
have restrained the actual physical attempts to kill others over ideas.
Yet as is the case with emotions, your thoughts are also energy impulses
that can be sent like arrows into the minds – energy fields –
of other people. Thus, there are many people who are engaged in a mental
survival game that makes them feel threatened by anyone who opposes
or ignores the beliefs that they consider the absolute and infallible
truth.
There are many people who see themselves as being good, loving and peaceful
people because they think they would never physically kill someone else.
This might actually be true, but many of these people are simply unwilling
to admit that they are engaged in a battle to kill the beliefs of others.
Some aggressively seek to convince others that their beliefs are wrong,
and some are even willing to destroy another person’s belief in
anything in order to defend their own beliefs. For example, you see
many scientifically minded people who are deliberately and aggressively
trying to destroy other people’s belief in religion—any
religion. Yet you also see religious people who are trying to destroy
the beliefs of people from other religions.
Such “mental warfare” may take the form of verbal arguments,
yet for people trapped in the survival game, there is often an underlying
aggressive intent. These people are – sometimes knowingly and
sometimes without being aware of it – sending certain thoughts
into the subconscious minds of others for the purpose of weakening their
minds. This form of aggressive mental suggestion can often confuse people
so they cannot concentrate or clarify their thoughts and therefore are
not effective in a debate (many politicians and media people are very
adept at this form of black magic). Yet their is also a mental version
of the attempt to steal energy from other people. This is done by forcing
them to doubt their beliefs, which then makes them engage in feelings
such as fear or anger, causing them to misqualify energy that other
people can steal.
I am not here saying that there is anything wrong with taking a stand
for what you believe in. Yet there is a very subtle distinction that
must be made. God has given ALL people free will, so another person
has a right to believe whatever he or she wants. You have a right to
believe what you want, and you have a right to seek to convince
another person of your beliefs. Yet if you do this from the underlying
sense of either being threatened or feeling superior, it is inevitable
that you will engage in a subtle or overt attempt to force the other
person into accepting your beliefs. And this aggressive mental suggestion
is a clear violation of the Law of Free Will—meaning that you
will make karma for doing so, no matter how benign you think your intentions
are.
The real distinction here is whether you are seeking to convince others
out of a personal need to protect your own – fragile – beliefs
that you feel are threatened (only beliefs that are fragile can be threatened),
or whether you are you coming from a genuine desire to help other people
make the best possible choices? Are you seeking to enlighten others
so they can make better choices – setting them free to make whatever
choices they want – or are you seeking to force them into agreeing
with you because this fills your need for security, meaning survival?
How do you know whether you are trapped in the mental survival game?
Ask yourself these questions:
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Do you feel threatened
when other people question or disagree with your beliefs or your
belief system? Upward of 90 percent of the spiritual and religious
people on this planet feel this way about their spiritual/religious
belief system.
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Do you constantly find
yourself in situations where you have to defend your beliefs or
where you are attacking the beliefs of others? Are you engaged in
– perhaps consumed by – a dualistic struggle against
other people’s beliefs?
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Do you feel you are
on a mission to convert others and that your efforts have epic importance
in the cosmic battle between good and evil?
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Do you feel that your
belief system is the only true one or the superior one and that
other people will not be saved unless they accept your belief system?
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Do you become very insistent,
perhaps even aggressive, in defending your belief system?
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Do you lapse into strong
negative emotions when you feel your belief system is threatened?
All negative emotions spring from fear. Anger is simply a disguised
attempt to destroy the threat that causes the fear.
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How far are you willing
to go to refute the arguments of other people? Are you willing to
destroy their beliefs in the process?
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Do you feel other people
would be better off if they let you tell them what to believe?
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Do you fear that some
revelation could undermine or threaten your beliefs?
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Can you identify a tendency
to push aside or explain away any questions or doubts concerning
your belief system? Do you perhaps react with indifference, meaning
that you have numbed yourself as a non-aggressive way to ensure
the survival of your beliefs—if you don’t feel anything,
you can’t feel threatened.
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Is your spiritual and
religious world view based on something outer, something in this
world, such as a specific religion, doctrine or even a guru? Do
you fear that if serious doubt was raised about your religion, scripture
or guru, your spiritual world view could collapse?
- Does your belief system
give you a sense of security—a feeling that you are saved by
belonging to this belief system? Can you begin to see that as long
as your sense of security is based on a belief system in this world,
it can – and will – be threatened? The reason being that
it is a house built on sand.
The only way to rise above
the sense that your beliefs are threatened is to go within and establish
a direct connection to your I AM Presence. You can be truly at peace
only when you have replaced outer beliefs with inner knowing of who
you really are—for your thoughts are only the products of your
sense of identity. The factor that determines whether you are on the
strait and narrow path that leads to eternal life or whether you are
on the broad way that leads to destruction is how you identify yourself.
In a sense, the physical, emotional and mental survival games are simply
attempts to defend your ego-based sense of identity. Do you accept the
sense of identity that the ego has built for you or do you accept the
identity with which you were created? Is your identity based on the
things of this world or is it beyond this world?
The identity survival game
As revealed to Moses, the name of God is “I AM.” Thus, the
ultimate way to take the Lord’s name in vain is to attach a concept
to the word “I AM” that limits your identity to anything
in this world. Consider how people use the words “I am.”
I am a man, I am a woman, I am a Jew, I am a Black person, I am a Christian,
I am a Buddhist, I am an American, I am a Frenchman, I am a doctor,
I am a farmer, I am this, I am that. All of these “I am”
statements reveal that the vast majority of the people on this planet
have built a sense of identity that is defined by the outer divisions
and characteristics of this world.
Yet all of these worldly identities are mortal, and they must die before
you can enter the kingdom of God. This is what I expressed as clearly
as I could in this statement:
For whosoever will
save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for
my sake shall find it. (Matthew 16:25)
The life that you shall lose
is the sense of identity that is based on this world. Only by losing
this sense of life, only by letting your worldly sense of identity die,
will you find the eternal life of the Christ consciousness—where
you identify yourself as a spiritual being, as a son or daughter of
God. Because Christianity became a sectarian religion – rather
than the universal spiritual movement I intended – the word “Christ”
has a sectarian ring. Yet it was originally a universal term, intended
to indicate something that is entirely beyond this world.
So many people call themselves Christians, and they think they are the
only ones who will be allowed to enter heaven. Yet the stark reality
is that there are no Christians in heaven—at least not according
to the definition of “Christian” used on Earth. In heaven
there are only beings who have permanently risen above the consciousness
of duality, the consciousness of anti-christ. And how can you do this?
You can do so only by leaving all earthly, dualistic identities behind—by
letting them die. So if you identify yourself as a Christian –
defined in opposition to non-christians – that dualistic identity
will prevent you from entering heaven.
Who are you then? You are a co-creator
with your God, and you are here to have dominion over the Earth—rather
than allowing the Earth to have dominion over you by causing you to
define your identity based on worldly divisions. There are no Christians
in Heaven, for in heaven you find only Christed beings. There are no
Christians in heaven—only Christs.
A Christed being has risen above all worldly sense of identity, for
any worldly sense of identity will create a chasm between your conscious
self and your I
AM Presence. This chasm will prevent you from developing the correct,
Christ-like identity that I described when I exclaimed, “I and
my father are one” (John 10:30). As a Christed being, you no longer
identify yourself based on any characteristics on Earth. You identify
yourself as an individualization of, as an extension of, your Creator
and you know you are here to bring the life and the truth of God into
this world—you are here to be the light of the world.
Take note of the subtle distinction here—a distinction that cannot
be grasped by the ego. The ego seeks to maintain a separate sense of
identity according to which you are an independent being that is separated
from God and can therefore do whatever you want. You are a law unto
yourself instead of being an expression of God’s law. It is this
separate, dualistic identity that needs to die before you can reclaim
your true identity as a co-creator with God.
The ego will never be able to let this identity die, and it will forever
seek to come up with ultimate and infallible arguments for why you should
not let that identity die. It will seek to make you believe that if
your worldly identity dies, YOU will die. As long as you believe in
these arguments, you are trapped in the ultimate survival game—the
survival of the separate, dualistic sense of identity that is based
on the illusions and the lies of anti-christ. Therefore, you are –
literally – one of the living dead, those who are dead in
a spiritual sense because they do not have the true, spiritual life
of Christ in them. You are seeking to ensure the survival of an identity
that is entirely based on an illusion and therefore can never survive
in the long run.
You are engaged in the impossible quest of seeking to make the mortal
identity immortal and you believe the ego—who sees the Living
Christ as the enemy who has come to destroy it. And truly, the Living
Christ HAS come to destroy the ego so that you can become free from
the illusion that you are a mortal identity defined by this world. The
Christ is come to help you reclaim your true identity as an immortal
spiritual being. And that is why those who seek to save their –
mortal – lives will lose those lives, whereas those who are willing
to let their mortal selves dies in order to be reborn into a new spiritual
identity will find eternal life in their new Christlike identity. We
can also say that seeking to defend your mortal identity is an all-consuming
task that literally eats up your life and prevents you from having the
abundant life on Earth. So by defending the ego’s sense of life,
you lose both the abundant life on Earth and the eternal life beyond
Earth.
Can you see the irony that the harder you hold on to life, the more
sure you are of losing it? The only way to truly hold on to life is
to let go of everything in this world. Can you see that I told people
this 2,000 years ago, but very few have understood my message:
59 And he said
unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go
and bury my father.
60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou
and preach the kingdom of God.
61 And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first
go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow,
and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. (Luke, Chapter
9)
It is time for me to have
a return harvest on my sowings on Earth. Will you be one of those who
are willing to give up the mortal life in order to follow me into the
abundant life?
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