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by mistral » Sun May 10, 2009 6:01 pm
Yes, we can observe our self. I know we always say there is only One Self, but that Self expresses in infinite ways, that Self is not limited to how many ‘senses of self’ It wants to express as. So, in that case, that we have two selves, sort of like a self that seems real and the Self that is Real and Eternal. We make the observation that we can make the observation of our self. Yes. So it goes something like this, we have the one who believes he is 'Joe Schmo' with a certain job and certain status, and a wife, and so many kids, and a history and all those labels that 'make up' Joe. This Joe thinks he is really Joe.
But then one day his life starts to fall apart and all those labels that Joe honesty believed in, they begin to fall off of him. He loses his job, his wife leaves him, the kids get messed up and Joe is now embarrassed by them and he finds out his dad was not really his dad.
Well, now poor Joe is falling apart. He is falling apart because that self he believed himself to be is not a very substantial self, he feels he is losing himself. But it turns out to be a very dear and special self, a serving-its-purpose-self, because it is this ‘less than forever’ Joe that leads Joe to find his Eternal and Infinite Real Identity.
All that was 'not Joe' has caused him to go on a spiritual search, yes, a learning search, a search that wants nothing else but to know what is real, who he is, and what the world is all about.
That part of Joe is not the Real Joe, but it is the path, the life line, the very special love he is graced with, an ego-self-Joe. It is that ‘old man’ self that takes Joe up the Mountain to find the Hand of God and that ‘lowly-unhappy-miserable’ self is actually the gift that leads Joe to an inkling, a glimmer of his True Identity.
Joe has found His Self and He can Stand Alone as Light of His True Self. Now Joe is very capable of being both Joe's the Higher Real Self that is free and unbound and yet Joe is still being pea brain Joe that is here in the body, wondering how to find a job. But now Joe is not afraid, not so worried, he can carry himself with Light and Joy and Passion through the good times and the bad.
Yes, Joe finds out he is Both; we are in the world of time-space-objective and we still have to pay taxes. And he uses both selves at once. This creates a sort of synergy that makes him a Third Joe, a combination of both. The Holy Trinity may be the One that Joe is found.
And Now being Three, Joe is now in this Marvelous Flow where Joe is full of passion and love and wonder and he even finds that he can sing, so he goes to little coffee house late one night and he sings his heart out and everyone loves him, and he sings songs of Beauty and Love that fills the audience with Grace and they go home and they are changed a bit for the better. Because his Light and Truth are shining full beam, Joe is doing a fine job. Joe has found the Divine Balance where in he is still 'old Joe' in so many ways; he is still here in his material world of time, the struggles do not subside much, but he is Happy, he is Passionate, he is Alive with The Grace of God. Joe has found the Truth of Who He Really Is, and so he lives Both at the same time, giving to his world his Love, and giving to God what is God's.
Joe is living in the Objective world and Knows The Subjective Truth and he is balanced between both, learning more and more everyday, ready willing and enthused to learn all he can about his Real Identity, and then, like Moses, bringing that Information back down the Mountain, singing his songs so that others might learn also.
Much Love, Mistral
