Divine Birthright
Reclaimed
by Gail E.
Steuart
& Barry
Blumstein
While we focus much of our
attention on the "afterlife", we often fail to consider the "beforelife" in
gaining a more comprehensive perspective and understanding of our life
experience. It is during the period before being born into this world that we
placed within our Soul the purpose for our life -- what is that
purpose?
To gain the infinite perspective
on our life's purpose, let's go back to the beginning. It was in the beginning
(so to speak, because God really always was) that our beloved Creator so greatly
loved who He/She is, that who we are came forth into individual identity. Since
we originated in the embrace of the emotion of love, the purpose of our Divine
existence, therefore, is to continue in this experience of embracing emotional
feelings. This we are all doing in a grand manner.
Since we originated in the essence
of infinite and unconditional love of self, you may be wondering, then, "How did
we end up stuck in this experience of life as a struggle?"
I asked that same question when I
was in the Presence during my near-death experience. What I was immediately
shown was a scene that looked like an individual giving a presentation to a huge
audience on a very large frozen lake, or more like a lake of smooth
glass.
The individual giving the
presentation was making an argument for his contention that he had devised a way
by which those in the audience could accelerate their evolution. To demonstrate
and prove his theory, he gave two examples. The first was what I viewed as a
vehicle like a car. When the vehicle attempted to move on the smooth surface, it
spun its wheels and was moving very slowly.
When sand or grit was placed under
the wheels, creating FRICTION, the vehicle moved forward much faster. The second
example was to imagine (because it had never occurred before) that when you
attempted to move forward, you now encountered RESISTANCE -- a force pushing
against you, holding you back. What do you do now? You have to PUSH HARDER! The
theory was that if you push harder, you will then MOVE FORWARD
FASTER.
Have you ever considered that our
struggles in life seem to embody the elements of FRICTION and RESISTANCE? Have
you ever heard the expression, "no pain-no gain"?
We who now struggle upon this
Earth were those in that audience who agreed with the above presentation on that
fateful day so long ago. None of us could have possibly imagined what would
really occur! We must always keep in mind that our beloved Creator remembers
that we had only the best of intentions -- desiring to accelerate our evolution
so that we could return sooner to our Divine source.
The way that we became stuck in
this experience of life as a struggle can be described in a breath, although the
reversal of the process is another story. The fatal error we made, and continue
to make to this day, is in viewing the emotional components of our struggle with
judgment. Although it is true that the emotional feelings which are always
associated with our struggles; frustration, resentment, anger, fear, etc., etc.,
etc., in the experience of them, FEEL TERRIBLE. The fatal mistake we make is to
judge them to BE TERRIBLE.
We then become faced with the
dilemma of understanding what it means to have within us what we have judged to
be terrible feelings. The rational mind can come up with only two explanations
for it -- we must have either done something terrible in the past, or, even
worse, we must be terrible! Regardless as to which of these two incorrect
conclusions we choose to adopt, the response is always the same -- we get down
on ourselves. Judging ourselves to be not good, because we do not feel good,
only results in further limiting and restricting the happiness that we allow to
come into our lives. We then judge these more limited feelings we've just
created and get down on ourselves even more. This is the downhill spiral that
has led to our present predicament.
The old adages, "look before you
leap" and "live and learn" are great truths that certainly apply here. If we
could not learn from the looking, as this experience of approaching life as a
struggle was nowhere to be seen at the time, then we had to learn from the
leaping. In this respect, experience was the only real teacher. Living and
learning always has us in the classroom of life. When we learn our lesson, we go
on to the next one. If we fail to learn our lesson, we take the class over
again, and, perhaps, over again…
Consider what happens when we find
that weeds are growing in our lawn. Imagine how frustrating it would be for
someone whose vision and understanding did not extend beneath the surface of the
lawn. All that they knew to do was struggle over and over again to remove the
weeds when they came up. If they mowed the lawn and got rid of the weeds, the
lawn would look great-for awhile. However, since the root of the problem is
still beneath the surface, what's going to happen? The weeds will come back! The
solution to "lawn karma" is to remove the root of the problem.
Our new and correct understanding
of the Emotional System is that our emotional feelings are at the root of our
experiences in life. Emotional feelings really come first, and they then result
in a corresponding event occurring in our environment! With this expanded
awareness, our life experience makes ever more clear to us the cause and effect
relationship between the feelings we emotionally embrace and what we then
manifest in our life.
Our world still views this
relationship backwards and thinks that our emotional feelings are a result of
what first occurs in our environment; consequently, we have not been able to
make as much progress as we would like in the transformation of our
world.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to be
able to choose what we place in our hearts with the same care that we choose
what we place in our mouths. Effecting this shift in the quality of emotions we
choose to experience, from the painful to the joyful, will then result in a
corresponding shift into a greater unfolding of happiness in our lives and in
our world.
It is appropriate at this point in
our evolution, as we are now fast approaching another major crossroads in our
lives, that we once again consider the choice we made so long ago. How do we
feel about it now? Do we wish to continue struggling with resistance and
friction in our lives, and problems in our world, or has our experience finally
taught us that the argument that seemed so reasonable on that lake of glass was
really not true.
This is how we will make our
decision -- it's just like eating a meal. When we sit down to have our meal
we're hungry and desire the food, just as we once desired the struggle. At some
point in our meal, we become satisfied that we've had enough, and lose our
appetite. Have we come to the point yet where we've lost our appetite for the
struggle in life?
©1999 Gail E. Steuart & Barry
Blumstein
Recommended book:
Themes of Illumination: Opening to God Within -- 52 Weeks of Divine Contemplations (Paperback)
by Rev. Louisa A. Dyer M.A.
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About The
Authors
Gail E. Steuart and Barry Blumstein are
a married couple living in Tucson, Arizona. Their training program originated as
a teaching received in a near-death experience in 1969. It was fifteen years in
the development stage, and has been presented in Tucson and nationally since
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