YOU ARE AS AN ACTOR

YOU ARE AS AN ACTOR

Everything we experience in our lives, has culminated into what we are at this present moment. All that we have seen, heard, smelled, tasted, and touched; has formed our opinion of what and who we are. But all of these things, are someone else's opinions, Truth's, Lies, etc. that we have experienced. But remember, the most important part of all of this - we are NOT our experiences. We are the WITNESS to the experiences. We are the one experiencing, NOT the actual experience. 

For example, when you go to a movie theatre, everything that is taking place on the screen is an illusion. It's an image ... a projection of what appears to be form. But if you turn around and look behind you, everything that you are watching from the screen is projecting from the bright white light coming from within the projection booth. In this way, we as Light beings - Spirit - are projecting into matter/form from within ... to without. Our thoughts, calculate and ultimately conclude this process into a decision. Then, the decision leads to a belief. This belief can be Truth, or deception. True, or a lie. But we have made a decision to believe it. To “decide,” literally means to “cut-off.”

Most of us believe our lives are what we see on the movie screen (the projection), rather than the projector ... the point of origin. The Actors, the events on the screen, the screenwriters, producers, editors ... they are all YOU projecting outwards into form ... as you experience YOUR Life. You are as the Actor in a play. Life is the stage. You write the script. Remember that the word “personality” comes to us from the Latin word “persona” which literally means “the mask of an Actor.” So, your personality, is an Actor. It isn't really you. 

When we take ownership of our experiences, we actually become the experience. This is an error in thinking. If you make an error, you are NOT the error. You are the one experiencing the error - the WITNESS, or Observer. If you accept the error as actually being you ... then you accept yourself as being flawed. This is when we begin to feel guilt and fear. These “experiences” are our teachers in Life. These experiences we witness, teach us lessons that are intended fo us to know in order to evolve and involve as better humans and to elevate to a higher level of consciousness. 

When you drive your car, you are not the car but you are having an experience as the driver. You are witnessing and observing events from within the car. In life, your body is your vehicle for the driver (your Soul / Higher Self /Spirit) to sojourn in a foreign land/form. We are in Earth School, and we are all students. Except that in Earth School, we are given a test first, then we learn (and re-member) our lessons.

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM. 

THE PROJECTIONIST

THE PROJECTIONIST

We all know what it's like to sit in a movie theatre and watch a film. All eyes front and center to the screen, and the sound is all around us. The fascinating thing about this experience is that it's not a fluid event. What we see on the screen is a series of motion pictures. Still shots in rapid succession. Hence, the short name of Movie rather than Moving Picture. 

Our brain works exactly the same way. It captures a series of still images, sends these images to the brain, and they get distributed and filed as needed. We'll get back to this in a moment ... but I want to turn your attention to the back of the theatre. That hole in the wall with the bright white light projecting towards the screen. You see ... that is US. In our lives, we are projecting the movie of our life onto the screen. From the world of Spirit, into the world of Matter. We are the aperture for the universe. 

We are the light of the world. We project from WITHIN, all that is created WITHOUT. We are co-creators in this vast Universe. Remember, the definition of “Universe” is “ALL existing matter and space considered as a WHOLE; the cosmos.” There are no individuals, nor are there any individual “things.” All is one, One is ALL. You and I are not separate, we are interconnected through both the seen and the unseen realms. This is fact, and science. 

Your light projecting into this world, is your personal passion play. Your experience. You manifest whatever your thoughts choose to bring to Life. You are not your body, you are not your experiences ... just like the movie theatre ... you are the Watcher, the Witness ... the Observer. You are observing your own creation. And it's all happening inside your head. You can never get out of your head because that is where all your physical sensory activity is experienced. What you perceive to be the “outside world” is really in your head. All of it. And you are projecting it into this reality. Even your body, is INSIDE your head. 

Now back to the filing system of images that we talked about earlier. These images are seen as they are. And they are unable to be seen as a non-image. In other words ... if you see a man walking, your brain register images of a man walking. It cannot create an image of a man NOT walking. There is no red circle with a white line through it when it comes to Mind. The man is either walking, or he is doing something else. The Mind cannot graphically represent an image of a man NOT walking. Therefore, we must always be aware of what the Mind receives from our physical senses. 

Our subconscious Mind is our Divine Feminine ... the Creator of our reality. If we think or say “I will NOT drink sodas today,” then the Mind can only hear “sodas today” ... and so you will drink sodas. It does not comprehend concepts such as won't, don't, can't, etc. It can only manifest from positive phase images or thoughts. So instead, you can think or say “I WILL drink water today,” and so you will. This, the subconscious Mind can understand. The default is set up that way. I obviously cannot draw a picture of a man NOT riding a bicycle. He is either riding it, or he is doing something else. 

We must remain aware of our thoughts, because these thoughts will manifest as our physical reality ... and we will share this reality with everyone else. We are the light projecting into this realm from the realm of Spirit/consciousness. Each of us an integral individualized element of the whole (Holy) Universe interconnected and co-creating everything in the world. That's quite a huge responsibility. Mind your Mind. Be responsible with your thoughts. Thoughts are things (thinks), and they affect everyone.

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM.

FESTERING ON THE PAST

FESTERING ON THE PAST

Have you met people or know people in your Life who fester about things, over and over again? They just can't let it go. Day in and day out, the same issues come up. Days go by, months, years, decades, and yet they still fester on things of the past. They sometimes speak in third party references. Blaming “they” even if “they” are standing in the room with them at that time.

For some reason, they believe they can go back and change things, rather than moving forward with change. Most of the time, they also blame others for things they should be taking responsibility for instead. It always seems to be somebody else's fault. They always look for someone else to pin the guilt on. In some ways, this is a form of “Projection.” This term is used in psychology to describe someone who blames somebody else for something they are already doing. Thus, avoiding responsibility for the process and outcome. 

The Truth of the matter is, we must all be responsible for our own decisions. We must be responsible for the effect of what we allow the cause to be. We cannot make someone else do something they don't want to do. We cannot effect change upon someone else. we can't inflict our own personal desires upon someone else. Change occurs within. Within ourself only. We have a massive power within us to change everything ... with US. Our world. Not someone else's. 

When you attend a concert, it's up to each individual musician to tune their instrument before the performance. If everyone does their part, harmony and beautiful orchestration will ensue. If one performer is out of tune, the whole orchestra loses it's harmony. But the violinist cannot tune the tympani, and the xylophonist cannot tune the classical guitar. These are personal responsibilities that cannot be accomplished by "other."

Now keep the orchestra example in mind. The performer who festers, will continue to gripe and complain about the violinist having been out of tune. They will fester and complain during the concert, after the concert, a month later, a year later ... and perhaps for the rest of their life. They'll look back in the ego-mind records and say “I'm not the one who played out of tune way back in 1984. If you hadn't done that, we may have had a better review.”

The reviews 20 or 30 years ago are dead. The reviews yesterday are dead. They cannot be unwritten or changed. They are what they are. So the average person forgives the incident, and says how do we keep this from happening again. The one who festers keep beating the dead horse expecting it to get up and run. They can't let it go. They become septic and toxic. The baggage load is immense. But it is the one who festers, that has to put it down. It is their decision. And if they don't do it, friends and family will begin to separate from them, and they will wonder why. 

No one wants to keep hearing the same story over and over again about how so and so screwed me. Or about my miserable childhood, or about Bob and Mary's dinner party where the food made everyone sick. All of these things are part of Life's experiences, and the more Life we bring to them, the more they keep living. Things that we resist, will continue to persist. The harder I push someone, the harder they push back. This is “friction” and it is immutable Law. 

Stop festering. Let it go. It cannot be changed backwards, it can only be changed forwards. The past has passed, the future doesn't exist yet, and all we have is NOW. Put down the weapons, put down the guilt, put down the fear, put down the negative thinking and actions. Festering like this is unforgiveness. And it is no different than drinking poison, and expecting the other person to die. 

Just a thought ... 

~Justin Taylor, ORDM., OCP., DM.