Every day, everyone of us is awakening to choices we make unconsciously. As a result of those choices, religion calls it free will, our days and our lives are filled with all sorts of emotions: emotions which bring us either catastrophic or ecstatic feelings. And somewhere in that mix is the dreadful lifestyle of an unfeeling, apathetic, and meaningless existence. Unknowingly, there are colliding forces pressing in on each of us, and humanity as a whole is walking a fault line whose pressures are building ever dangerously.
How long will the individuals that inhabit this planet continue to see the symptoms are not truly SEE?
The very fabric of our life is unraveling and the symptoms have labels we call: terrorism, economic imbalances, consumerism, bigotry, intolerance, selfishness, ambition, separation, and so on, and so on. We’ve been called numerous times to sacrifice for this and for that to try and stem this unknown feeling of dread- loss of identity. But the sacrifice isn’t primarily of our egos (God knows that needs some big-time adjustments), bodies, or hearts.
We need to ditch our ILLUSIONS!
An illusion is seeing-believing something that’s not real, or this definition: the perception of something objectively existing in such a way as to cause misinterpretation of its actual nature. I can only speak of the religious traditions to which I am joined, but of that I say we have way too many! I believe that Neale Donald Walsh heard correctly, “You have me all wrong” (the words he heard from God).
And when you think of it, losing our ILLUSIONS is losing nothing real : with the possibilities of gaining that which is true- our real selves! The “I” that I am! Or as Walter Starcke said recently, the “We of Me“. It’s bringing together that which is in heaven, here on earth”, or “as above, so below”, or the “microcosm reflecting the macrocosm”.
We will begin to see the realities of John 14:12 when we look beyond the veil of the obvious, the trivial, the physical, and the mundane, and see the spiritual realm that’s not so much observed “out there” as it is “in here“. Too much of our days identity is predicated on external circumstances. We are suffering from a crisis of consciousness: a lack of Christ consciousness (the mind of the Christ).
Llewellyn Vaughn Lee put it this way, “We must let go of many patterns and ways of relating so that we are able to embrace a new way of being and living together. The old must fall apart to reveal the new. And we must above all LOVE, and become aware that there is no power greater than that.”
Greater love has no man than………… You know the rest of it. Now, let’s embrace and model it.
It’s the only true option! It’s even better than ecstasy! 
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