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core of human experience, all the awareness that has been attained
by awakened individuals in the past, is available to the intellect.
The intellect can connect with that, draw upon it, speak with
inspiration from it.
The words in themselves can be inspiring to the mind; one can intellectually
resonate with statements which seem true, and that can
be encouraging and instructive. But we have had
very inspiring words, scriptures, teachings with us for much of human
history and they have not radically changed human existence,
they have not brought the human being to the place where it can
be as Life, The Consciousness.
Coming into the Natural State, my awareness was that Life was moving
towards a living expression, something that would be tangible, touchable,
accessible, and not just words. My knowing was that
this awareness must be lived, otherwise the words are just empty
sounds. The physical existence needs a physical example, because
often physical existence is overridden by conditional thinking,
consensus reality; in other words the body is ignored. That
is where scriptures and teachings have come up short: the truth
has remained intellectual. The possibility has to be brought
into pure physical existence; the words need to manifest as form.
Few individuals have successfully done that. Many can
talk a good line, but they do not exemplify in their day-to-day
life what they speak.
Words can inspire the intellect to achieve a certain awareness,
but it usually involves the idea that "I can do this myself."
Inspiring words that do not come from living expression generally
bring focus on the self, the personality.
Ultimately, the only way to know whether a person is a living expression
is to look directly at the person's life. If their life
is a shambles, if there is a large gap between what they say
and what they do, if they have addictions or resistance
to Life, if they are isolating themselves--those are dead giveaways
that their words are simply coming from the intellect. Their
message can still inspire people, but it usually fosters
a belief that "I am the authority, I am the power, I don't
need a teacher, I don't need help from anyone." In a
sense that can be good, because there has been so much dependence
on false teachers, false gurus, but at the same time it throws a
person into a self-centered, "me first" attitude that
is destroying the planet right now.
When words come from a place of practical application, when the
words that are spoken are also being lived,the message has a different
kind of impact on people. There will be something in the message
with which the physical body can resonate. When a teacher
is not walking the talk, the body knows it is just talk; the body
senses that, and so the body may not pay much attention to it.
The intellect may be very inspired and excited by the message, but
the body knows it is just words. On the other hand, when the
words are being lived, when the words come directly from consistently
embracing Life as this physical existence, the body can sense
that; the body can feel a new possibility, and, if it is not overridden
by beliefs of the intellect, the body can even begin to move
into that possibility.
We have had some beautiful scriptures and teachers in the past that
have given wonderful information for human existence, but none of
that has really changed the world to what it can be. The information
has remained mostly intellectual. The Consciousness is
expressing itself as this physical existence, and words have little
meaning unless they are true to this expression.
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