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Reflections on Physical Immortality
from Unification
by Mystic Life
The following three sections are
from Reflections on Physical Immortality in the book Unification. The
sections available in the book not included here are titled:
Limitless Reality, Immortality Helps Our Quality of Life, Benefits of
Immortality, Gratitude Brings Inner Peace, Alignment of Spirit, Mind, and Body,
An Alternative to Death, Living in the Now, Resistance to Immortality, Intimate
Relationships, Infinite Sexuality, Conscious Self-Programming, The Secret to
Physical Immortality, The Death Penalty, Being One and Separate, Be Yourself,
Timeless Children, Not Leaving, A Sense of Impending Doom, A Trusting
Relationship with God, Forgive to Enhance Life, Accept Your Life.
Why I Wrote This
I'm unsure how much of this book is from “me” and how much
of it “came through me." Ultimately, all true information arises from the
same source so any distinction is somewhat arbitrary.
Many books have supposedly been channeled from other sources. Of these books,
many contradict each other. So how do you know what information is true? One
method, which I recommend, is to quiet your mind and listen to the wisdom of
your body. This is a challenge, as you will have to undo many years of media
intake, judgments and illusions. However, it can and must be done if we are to
experience life with clarity.
I have often asked myself, "What is the purpose behind writing? Is it to
make money? Be famous? Help me feel less insecure about my ideas?" While an
element of truth exists behind all these thoughts, writing is not necessarily
the best way to make money, fame is less appealing than when I was younger, and
I'm relatively secure in my beliefs.
One purpose behind writing is to exchange energy. Honest writing is a strong
representation of who one is at that time. A common human tendency is to search
for someone else’s ideas with which we resonate entirely. This seeking seems
to stem, in part, from a lingering sense of inadequacy leftover from being a
dependent child. During childhood, most children are taught that their parents
know them better than they know themselves. It seems that many people never feel
like an adult because they are not comfortable with that kind of power. If we
are not comfortable with such power it is extremely easy to give that power
away. A common self-devaluing behavior is to turn our self-concept over to
another person so that love feels conditional and we remain feeling like
children. It is important to become self-determining. One powerful form of
self-determination is the ability to consciously remain in your body as long as
you choose.
As a seeming paradox, without believing our body is our identity, we can create
a situation in which our body may serve our spirit indefinitely in the process
of communication. There is much left for us to learn in this realm. Therefore,
much needs to be communicated. I believe the goal of our learning is to find
greater joy in our existence, to release our fears and to discover our essence,
which is love.
Our core being is more expansive than our body. However, our bodies are
important during this time since they enable us to relate to each other and
mutually evolve towards the goal of healing.
If we are mindful and aware, we need not unconsciously destroy our bodies.
Eventually what we now call death can simply be experienced as a form of gentle,
desirable transformation. At this point, what we call death will no longer be
associated with sadness because our time in this form will be fully satiated.
However, before this time, we have much to learn about being alive. We desire
the complete satiation of our experience in this form, wanting to know
unconditional love and master our potential abilities. We have a great deal of
positive living, healing, and evolving to do; we need not be fixated upon death.
Living fully in love and seeing beyond the illusion of fear is our birthright
which me must claim.
The various ideas presented in this book reinforce each other to form a cohesive
perspective from which other realizations may arise. I believe this perspective
will resonate as truth in the minds of many others. I offer this book with the
intention of bringing us closer to ourselves.
Eternal Being
Human beings can live as long as we would like to live. This
has always been true, but it is now easier than ever due to our higher levels of
awareness. We are born with the vague recollection of this truth and know that
we need not settle for a life in which death against our will is a necessity.
Nevertheless, the ego resists, and we have lived as if this life was a
depressing process of decay.
We resist the idea that we can live forever and the core of this resistance is
guilt. Therefore, we believe we should die. On some subtle level we may feel
guilty for driving a car which pollutes the air, or not rinsing out a can that
could be recycled. We know how the planet works as a closed system; we know what
helps it and what hurts it. Because we have this knowledge, not doing what we
think we "should" do may lead to conscious or semiconscious guilt. We
know we could live without a car, yet we enjoy long road trips. We may feel we
should recycle, yet sometimes throw a can away while in public instead of
carrying it around so we may take it to a recycling bin.
We need not be guilty. Guilt is self-destructive and does nothing to help the
planet, another person, or ourselves. Air quality in major cities is poor, but
our bodies are strong enough to endure until efficient vehicles become more
widely utilized. Our landfills can handle the waste that they are accumulating.
Not everything is perfect but it is okay. Our only challenge is to accept that
we are safe.
Feeling safe is a difficult accomplishment for many of us who were raised by the
mass media. A constant barrage of images of violence and despair has literally
brainwashed the masses into seeing the world as a terrifying place. This
negative intake becomes a form of addiction so severe that enjoying a quiet
Sunday afternoon without drama becomes difficult for many people. We walk around
with an underlying feeling of impending disaster and utilize distractions to
escape the overwhelming horror of impending death.
Humans are capable of creating a world in which life is indefinitely
sustainable. This is difficult to accept because death has been so fully
accepted as a necessary outcome of life. Nevertheless, our souls have
experienced enough death and we are ready for a beautiful manifestation of a
life filled with love and abundance. Sensing this possibility makes what we see
around us more painful than ever to accept. As we remember more fully our
potential (by tapping into our subconscious pre-birth memory of limitless
manifesting), our behavior will reflect that which we know.
Our behavior will change easily when we recognize that eternal life is ours if
we allow ourselves to believe it is real. First, let me mention a possible
outcome. The Celestine Prophecy describes what will eventually happen...the end
of the cycle of birth and death. We will continue to gain more control over our
ability to manifest as we choose, and we will become unbound by the current
limitations of the physical body in time and space. We will be able to transport
ourselves with our minds, and travel between dimensions without the restrictions
of the current system of dying and being reborn. Collectively, our souls have
received enough lessons in the insanity of violence, death, and
self-destruction. We will continue to vibrate at higher and higher frequencies
until we are able to attain the freedom of light. It is important to visualize
the outcome of becoming immortal so that we have some idea as to where we are
headed.
A question some may have is "What is so great about living?" This
comes from the current malaise that is associated with the current "Great
Undoing." Our levels of vibration are increasing and we are shaking off
behaviors that no longer work. We have less tolerance for incompatible jobs and
relationships. We have the desire to be our true selves and recognize that this
particular cycle is qualitatively different from any others we have experienced.
Our evolution is exponentially increasing as we turn from organized religion and
embrace individual paths. This growth and change takes an incredible amount of
responsibility, which has been avoided in previous generations. Our history has
been one of blaming others, resulting in interpersonal chaos, wars, and
attempted genocide.
We are now beginning to recognize that we are all one, and that we create our
own reality with the power of our thoughts and attention. Though war continues,
we are more sensitive to violence and less tolerant of brutality. We are tired
of hurting each other; we are ready to heal on both individual and global
levels.
As our behavior reflects that which we are remembering, we will see around us a
world of miracles, allowing ourselves to be guided by synchronicity, and finding
that a spiritual path requires living a life of joy. We will no longer let fear
and restriction guide our relationships, or work at jobs that are not a full
expression of who we are. We will not allow ourselves to settle for less than we
deserve, resulting in a world that we will not want to leave via death. We will
want to continue to explore as we always have, but it will be through physical
and spiritual exploration of the cosmos. The Universe is boundless without,
boundless within. We may feel bored sometimes, however, that is only because we
are not taking on or taking in new lessons. The lessons are boundless, though
infinity confounds the ego. Yet, before the ego can begin to minimize its role
in one’s path it must be confused. Confusion is good because this leads to
questioning the mainstream lessons we have absorbed.
Many forms of spiritual philosophy glorify death. Our spirit after death is
unbounded and free; we experience no pain and we are supposedly more connected
with God in this form.
Nevertheless, we are free here on Earth, and pain is only a result of the
undoing of past lessons. We wanted these lessons in pain so a future of freedom
could contrast with that which it is not. In other words, we do not appreciate
day without night, or warmth without cold. Some people use this same logic to
justify the necessity of death. They state that without death we would not
appreciate life. Nevertheless, our souls know death so well that we no longer
need to experience it to appreciate or understand life. There are greater
lessons ahead. We are tired of continued lessons in love over fear and
understanding over ignorance because we already know it is true. We are ready to
create a world founded in love. It need not feel like tedious work; simple
awareness of these concepts will lead to a natural behavioral implementation.
We will begin to experience love without conditions. To experience this most
healing, powerful experience, we will practice giving unconditional love to each
other. We will replace jealousy with its opposite, compersion, the experience of
pleasure when a loved one loves another. We will stop seeing sexual ownership as
a natural expression of love, and in doing so, feel less of a compulsion to have
"affairs." Affairs are a natural outcome of the concept that what you
resist, persists. Anything that we are told is inherently wrong becomes
appealing to the inquisitive souls of this manifestation because we know there
is no objective right or wrong. Our deepest tendency is towards truth. Our
socialization has taught us to misrepresent our sexual feelings, not allowing
our love partners to know who we truly are. We have been more likely to
experience unconditional love with friends than with lovers because friends have
been better able to accept all aspects of each other, while lovers have been
limited by the fear associated with ownership. Often, jealousy is viewed as an
outcome of loving, yet love and fear are not compatible.
If we are spending energy on the fear of losing love we are not experiencing the
love that is present in the moment. Unconditional love is actually a redundant
phrase. There is no "conditional love" because a condition arises from
fear. Unconditional love enables physical immortality because the soul craves
limitless expression of its true essence. On a core level we would rather die
than have to compromise who we are in order to receive what is described as
love. Nevertheless, we have hung on because of our ability to sense the
potential of unconditional love. In giving it to others, we experience it
ourselves.
We must be able to visualize a life without limits to manifest it in our
personal reality. Overcoming the guilt that makes us believe we don't deserve to
live is a necessity. We are all here to manifest love. Our challenge is to clean
up all our unfinished business to make way for a more beautiful future. We are
already vibrating at a higher frequency and find it more difficult to settle for
less than love, less than personal congruence. We are becoming more aware of
synchronicity as a guide. We are becoming more aware of our innate psychic
abilities as a source of understanding others and ourselves. We may be likened
to babies with complex tools that we have yet to understand. Nevertheless, the
information is available. The great influx of spiritual literature contains
threads of wisdom. When you sort through the hyperbole, listen to your body.
What fits for you? You will begin to see threads of understanding that all stem
from the following simple wisdom:
Love is the answer. At one point in our past the ego chose fear. We can choose
love again.
When we understand this underlying truth, all else begins to make sense. Life is
ultimately limitless; although the ego can create limitations, we sense that we
want nothing less than to be as powerful as God. Again, we may convince
ourselves that this is wrong, that this is disrespectful to God, but remember
this: a true master always wants his or her student to surpass him or her. This
enables evolution. God wants to give us the freedom to expand the concept of
God. If God were to create us to be inherently incapable of creative abilities,
God's experience would be limited. God would simply be splitting God’s essence
into familiar components. The Universe is limitless, as is God. There is no
limitation to how powerful we may become.
Initial Challenges
I have found that beginning to embrace the philosophy of
physical immortality brought up many initial challenges. You may have a
completely different experience than I did, but I will summarize some of my
experiences here.
A realization that came up for me is that life is often somewhat of a challenge
whereas death is relatively easy. It's almost as if we're socialized to spend
all of our time work-work-working towards something, while keeping ourselves
distracted and exhausted to the point where we can't consider death. When
contemplating physical immortality it's natural to also contemplate mortality.
Because there is so much ugliness in the illusory world, it's normal to question
whether or not it's worth sticking around. My deepest truth is that we are
evolving spiritually, and that each generation will as a whole do a better job
of eliminating the hatred of the past. Nevertheless, the idea of being around
forever seems to bring up contemplation on whether or not we really want to be
here.
I have also found that it's normal to feel very isolated. Not many people
question death. I've been blessed with many open-minded people in my life who
hear my ideas without judgment; many people are not so lucky. My hope is that
this book may serve as a resource for people who feel alone in their belief that
we can stay as long as we would like without decaying.
Additionally, I’ve discovered that the thought of physical immortality brings
up many relationship issues. We used to think of a relationship as something one
does with one other person for about 40-50 years before facing death
("hopefully" dying together, making things easier, emotionally). I now
find that the way we handle intimacy is limitless, which opens up all kinds of
possibilities, while at the same time leaving us feeling less secure. I believe
that we are our own "soul mate," and that how we handle intimacy with
others has largely been a function of our culture's socialization.
Another phenomenon that has occurred as a result of realizing physical
immortality is that my relationship with time is changing. When I’m living
from a place of pure belief, I don't feel pressured to get all of my life's
accomplishments achieved quickly. Nevertheless, I have had a hard time breaking
the habit of "staying busy" (which seems to arise from my socialized
belief that my work justifies my existence).
These
works (and the other 21 sections from Reflections on Physical Immortality not included here) appear in
Unification
by
Mystic Life.
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