I help you raise money or give you some publicity?”
Mother Teresa replied, “No, Pat, there is nothing that you need do. My cause is not about publicity, and it is not about money. It is about something much higher than that.”
Pat persisted, saying, “Isn’t there anything I can do for you? I feel so helpless.”
Mother Teresa’s response was, “If you really want to do something, Pat, tomorrow morning get up at four A.M. and go out on the streets of Phoenix. Find someone living there who believes that he is alone, and convince him that he is not. That is what you can do.” This is a true statesperson, giving of herself each and every day.
When we help others to know that they are not alone, that they too have a divine spirit within them regardless of the circumstances of their lives, we move to a higher self that provides us with a sense of peace and purpose unavailable in the athlete and warrior experiences. It is here that we might recall the words of Mother Teresa: “I see Jesus Christ every day in all of his distressing disguises.”
There is one stage even higher than the statesperson. The fourth stage is where I have been carefully leading you on this journey of awareness development.
THE SPIRIT
When you enter this stage of life, regardless of your age or position, you recognize your truest essence, the highest self. When you know your highest self, you are on your way to becoming a co-creator of your entire world, learning to manage the circumstances of your life and participating with assurance in the act of creation. You literally become a manifester.
The spirit stage of life is characterized by an awareness that this place called earth is not your home. You know that you are not an athlete, a warrior, or even a statesperson, but that you are an infinite, limitless, immortal, universal and eternal energy temporarily residing in a body. You know that nothing dies, that everything is an energy that is constantly changing.
As a soul with a body you are passionately drawn to your inner world. You leave fears behind and start to experience a kind of detachment from this physical plane. You become an observer of your world and you move into other dimensions of consciousness. This inner infinite energy is not just in you, it is in all things and all people who are alive now and have ever lived. You begin to know this intimately.
In order to evolve beyond the earth plane, you need to learn to leave it at will by finding the source of this infinite energy that is responsible for filling your lungs, beating your heart, growing your hair and making it possible for you to read the words on this page. You the physical being are not growing your hair, your nature is doing that for you. The energy that is you is handling all of the details. That spirit that is you is not contained by the physical domain at all. It has no boundaries, no form, no limits to its outer edges. You are aware of the real source of your life, even though you have been conditioned to believe otherwise.
When you reach this level, you are in the space I think of as being in this world, but not of this world.
This energy that is you, call it what you will—spirit, soul—can never die and has never died in the past. Most people think of the spiritual world as a future occurrence that they will know after death. Most of us have been taught that the highest self is something that you cannot know as long as you are trapped in a body on this planet. However, the spirit is now. It is in you in this moment, and the energy is not something that you will ultimately come to know but is what you are here and now.
The unseen energy that was once in Shakespeare or Picasso or Galileo, or any human form, is also available to all of us. That is because the spirit energy does not die, it simply changes form.
Even though our rational left-brain mind has been trained to believe that when a person dies his spirit is gone, the truth is that you cannot destroy energy. Your highest self is the spirit presently within you. The energy that was Picasso was not his body, nor was the energy that was Shakespeare his body. It was the inner feelings and the creative genius that took the form of a body and a creation on canvas or paper. That has never died. It can’t die because it has no boundaries, no beginning, no end, no physical characteristics that we call form.
That energy is within you. If you want to know it, you can tune into it, and when you do, you leave the limitations of this earth plane and enter a dimension of limitlessness that allows you to create and attract to you whatever it is that you want or need on this journey.
At this level you loosen your emotional attachment to what you view as your reality. This detachment is followed by a knowing that the observer within you who is always noticing your surroundings and your thoughts is in reality the source of your physical world. This awareness, along with your willingness to enter this domain, is the beginning of learning to attract to yourself that which you desire and need while you are in a physical body.
Up to this point, you probably have been unable to loosen your attachment to the material world. You may believe that there is no other world. If so, you have actually abandoned your divine capability, which is the cause of the sensory world you so assiduously embrace. Gaining the awareness that you have a higher self that is universal and eternal will lead you to gaining access to that world more freely and to participating in the act of manifesting your heart’s desire.
THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN
Consider for a moment the world of form that you see around you, including your body. What is the cause of all that you observe? Contemplate who it is that observes and notices all of the “stuff.” Who is that invisible “I” inside all of the tubes, bones, arteries and skin that are your physical form? To know yourself authentically, you must understand that everything that you notice around you was and is caused by something in the world of the unseen. That something is the world of the spirit.
When you look at a giant oak tree, ask yourself what caused that tree to become what it is. It started from a tiny acorn, a seedling that grew into a mighty tree. Your logical, rational mind says that there must be something resembling “treeness” within that acorn. But when you open the acorn you find nothing resembling a tree. All you find is a mass of brown stuff, quiet dust. If you further examine the brown stuff that makes up the acorn, you will find smaller shreds of brown stuff, until ultimately you discover distinctly “acornish” molecules. Then you find atoms, then electrons, then subatomic particles, until you finally go as small as is possible with a microscope at full magnification. Here you will find that there are no particles, but waves of energy that mysteriously come and go.
Your conclusion will be that the acorn and the tree itself have a creator that is unseen, immeasurable and called by those of us who need to classify such things the spirit or soul. The source of all therefore is no-thing, since it is not in the dimension of the measurable.
This unseen world that is the source of the world of the seen is also the cause of you. Observe yourself scientifically and you will discover that you are not your creation. If you did not create yourself, what was it that created you?
We can go back to conception and explain creation as one drop of human protoplasm colliding with another, resulting in your appearance in the form of a tiny speck that grew into the body that is you today. But, if you delve further into those drops of human protoplasm and turn up the magnification on the microscope, and if you do the same with the speck that was your first experience of form, you discover the same truth that described the acorn. In the beginning is energy, energy that has no dimensions, energy that is not in the visible world. This is our original self. It is a potentiality, not an object. A “future pull,” if you will, that is a potential to become a something and no-thing more.
