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And you can come back an infinite number of times in any particular lifetime.
Or you can go on, you can say you know what I feel complete, I feel good about that experience,
I want to now move in to the experience of spirituality and I am not going to return to
that particular incarnation or expression. So it depends on how complete
you feel. If you feel complete, remember what I said to you about three lessons back
that enlightenment is defined as completion. Completion is a sense or a feeling
that for that particular expression, for that particular moment, for that particular out
picturing of divinity, I feel complete. And so you go on, back in to the realm of spirituality.
Or if you don't feel complete you know I just, I want to say a few more things or
clean it up with my son or work out this issue. Whatever it is or overcome that particular proclivity
that I had. I never really solved my own issue of impatience or whatever it might be.
You want to use that lifetime to finish, than God says, the universe says, life says, no problem.
And just like that you're back in to your physicality and you have an opportunity to finish
what you would like to finish. And you will say to people, I had a - you're ready now -
near death experience. By the way if you think I am making this up, talk to people, talk to doctors.
If you have a good long talk with a doctor who has been in practice for a number
of years, he will tell you that he has met patients who swear to you that they died and
came back if you please and that they had a near death experience. So this is very,
very common experience among people and not unusual to be talking in these terms as we
look at the three phases of death. This is all part of our final lesson here,
which is called re-unification so that you can understand intellectually what we are talking
about here. I want to also conclude this lesson by taking a look at the five attitudes of God
because if we are going to really seriously consider re-unification as a possibility that is if
we're going to seriously consider that it's possible for us to live life as God we should
at least take a passing glance at the five attitudes of Godliness which were given to
us in Conversations with God. What a miracle it was for me to receive
these descriptions of God from God, God describing itself to me in human terms
using human characteristics and emotions so that I could really grasp and understand. So
God said look, I m always joyful what would it be like for you to be always joyful. Well you
know what it is understandable that God would be always joyful, but what would God not be joyful about.
I mean, God is everything, the All in All, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
There is nothing that God wants, needs, requires or demands. Who wouldn't be joyful in those
conditions? So for me to live my life as God, I would also embrace the notion of being
eternally joyful. That means that I would be happy with whatever is, whatever
is occurring. That I would be eternally joyful no matter what. Yes it's a very
high level of mastery, but you know what, I actually know a couple of people in my life who live like that.
One is a lady named Byron Katie who I have come to know and I adore her. Katie wrote a book
she calls herself by her last name. Katie wrote a book as you may know called Loving
What Is I referred to before in this course. And Katie really lives that. That is she steps
into an expression of self where she is eternally joyful or if not eternally joyful
she is accepting. She is constantly accepting which is by the way the third of the
characteristics of God. God is always joyful, loving and accepting. So Katie is eternally accepting,
she lives this way I don't, she does, and I agnowledge her mastery in that regard.
Accepting of whatever is going on, she calls it whatever is, that is. I call it the is-ness and that is how
one stays in the place of being joyful. That one is in a sense okay with whatever is.
I said that I knew two people who live that way. Eckhart Tolle is another one and I have
had the pleasure of knowing Eckhart. And he I also could observe lives in that place of
totally okay-ness, totally okay-ness with right now. He calls it the power of now.
And that's Eckhart's formula that's his way of staying totally joyful. By staying totally
here on this plane of experience, not back there in yesterday, not out there in tomorrow,
but right here, right now. And so for Eckhart the tool that has worked for him is to stay
present in the moment of now. In the eternal moment of now and not worry about what might
have been, what could have been or what is going to be in the past or future, but just
be in the present. And when you are in the present the present becomes a present from God.
That is it becomes a gift of indefinable proportions. And you are constantly joyful,
the first characteristic of God. The second characteristic of God is that God is also
loving, always loving. And there would be no reason for God not to be loving because
God is constantly joyful. So God, this is important, and if you want to step into your
life as God you really need to know this, you really need to kind of get it.
God is internally loving which means that God is never un-loving or hateful or angry or upset
or anything but loving. This I know runs counter to the teaching of many of the world's great
religions which insist That there are times when God is not loving; God is angry; God
is disappointed or hurt or upset or even if you please, vengeful
or as religions would say God is not vengeful God is simply just. God is a just God. So religion would argue
that the word vengeful is not fair, that the word we need to use is God is just, like a
judge in a courtroom when a judge says guilty 30 days, the judge is not vengeful, but he
simply is administering justice. Okay fair enough I am not going to argue the point.
but the real question is can God become angry, can God become angry enough to cause
you to experience everlasting damnation in the internal fires of endless suffering that
we are calling hell. Is that what a loving God would do? Well even that is being preached
by some religions. Some religious would say yes that's the epitome of love.
The epitome of love is to minister justice even if it's hurtful or harmful to that person and the old saying that this hurts
me more than it hurts you. Well I m sorry, that's not the understanding that God has
given me of who and what God is. God has said to me that God is eternally loving and would
only do what love would do and love would never cause pain or suffering to another,
not even in the name of justice. Not even in the name of justice would you deliberately
hurt and cause endless suffering to another living being.
One who loves in that way is obviously eternally accepting. The third of the five attitudes of Godliness.
So God is accepting, that is embracing unconditionally
acceptance is an unconditional embracing of what is true, of what is so. So that God is loving,
joyful and accepting. And we are invited to be accepting, loving and joyful as well
as we experience ourselves stepping in to our life as God.