November 8, 2012

• Extraterrestrials

• Chaos and order

• God is both Creator and Created

• Quantum theory and interconnectedness

• All that exists is alive

• Every thought and action affects everything else

God, who is the Creator of All That Is, surrounds each of you with love and true caring presence.

So often we speak about spiritual growth, spiritual understanding, the way to live your human lives, but we’d like you to understand more about God. There is much in society that attempts to clothe God in a kind of exalted human reality. It is this characterization of God that is often seen as the only reality. You as human beings speak of God as “he” or “she” or “mother” or “father” or some combination that has human characteristics. The truth about God is that all of those concepts, all of those adornments have a sense of rightness to them.

Since human beings have sought an understanding of who they are and where they live, there has always been the practice of describing God with human-like powers —the power of love, the power of anger, the power of revenge, the power of judgment, the power to be vindictive—for these are all components of the human reality, and humans generally do not seek an understanding of God that is totally devoid of the limitation of human characteristics. But in the attempt to understand God, these characteristics are all that most human beings can use as a frame of reference to grasp the concept of some greater power than themselves. In that labeling that takes place, the truth is that there is love, there is support, there is a care for what has been created. There is a kind of mechanism that is behind virtually all that exists.

Your scientists spend great effort in search of the elements of life, the origins of the universe, the relationship between time and space, what it means to be part of a continuum of energy. God is a part of all that is being sought after for greater understanding, but it is also true that what human beings are consciously aware of is but a small component of the totality that is God.

We have referred to other life-forms beyond what is known and understood by human beings. Those other life-forms are not forms that resemble human beings. There are no Martians. There are no extraterrestrials that can be identified by human beings as being extraterrestrial. The entertainment industry comes up with many exciting visions of life beyond the forms that you know, some of those life-forms being beneficial while others are offered as destructive or threatening.

What God has created is far beyond your abilities to depict, to describe. Your thoughts turn to other life-forms as being capable of anger, as being constituted with a nervous system that is closely related to that of human beings. The most obscure form of life that exists on earth is closer to human character, to human characteristics, than other forms of life created by God that exist in realms of reality beyond your awareness. The human consciousness of what lies close by is only an infinitesimal portion of all that belongs to the creation of God. As an understanding evolves, and with the view that is achieved being wider than what is currently available, this is nevertheless a small step toward from the totality of what exists.

What God has created is not chaos but order, but in understanding the order of that creativity, it may appear at times most chaotic. If you exist within the oceans, then you are aware of life around you within that ocean. Human life is aware of the rhythm of the tides, the relationship of the tides to the moon, the relationship of the earth to other planets. But creatures who live solely in the ocean are aware only of what is in the ocean, although they are affected by what lies beyond that environment.

So it is with your own understanding of what God creates. You live, as it were, in the ocean, but we, your guides, are able to grasp more completely what lies beyond the ocean and why your ocean behaves as it does. To creatures of the sea, the ocean may be most chaotic, but from your perspective the ocean follows what you refer to as “natural laws.” What you observe seems often filled with chaos and strife, suffering, but behind what seems to you to be chaotic is an order. There is a logic, there is a reasoning that is operating in God’s creation.

God is love, but God is not a humanlike figure that sits above the creation and somehow lords over it. God is the energy that was the source of creation, but God is also all that has been created. We say to you, “Each of you is sacred.” So many times we emphasize the sacredness of human beings, the sacredness of all that exists. That sacredness is because all that exists together comprises God. God is both the creator and the created. You are a part of what has created everything, and you are a part of that everything. There is no break in this logic, for what has been created belongs to what the Creator is. There is complete unity to everything. There is no boundary. There is no point beyond which nothing exists. There is no point beyond which God does not create, for all is God and all is created by God.

In the study of quantum theory, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, the concept of quantum refers to an interconnectedness of everything, and it is in its way a kind of description of God. You pray to God, you pray in thanksgiving, you pray in supplication. In praying, you are connecting yourselves to All That Is, for you are acknowledging your place in All That Is. You are therefore acknowledging your place in God and God’s place in you. There is no distinction in terms of location. You are not here and someone else is there. You are all here. You are all together.

There is no past or future. It is all the same. Nothing separates the future from the past or the present. You think in terms of time, just as the creatures of the sea respond to the chaos that may exist in a portion of that sea. But you are still absolutely belonging to the same place, the same time.

We, your guides, are not separated from you in any way. We are you! You are us! We are all God! God is all of us! We speak of unity. We speak of the oneness of all that exists. That oneness is God. There is an energy that exists among nonhuman life- forms, for all that exists is alive. Everything that you are aware of has a life. The elements of the earth have a life. You understand something of that when you study electrons, when you study nuclear activity. Everything has energy. That energy creates. That energy unites. That energy supports. That energy promotes energy. Good promotes good. Light expands. We have said darkness does not expand. Light expands for light has energy, and the natural laws of energy require an expansion, require a motion, require a transfer, an exchange. All are related.

God therefore is not just a figure. It is not a single force. God is All. When you pray to God, you are acknowledging All, not just a father figure, a mother figure, but All. Because you are connected through this energy, anything you do has an impact on everything else. When you are consumed by positive, constructive loving thoughts, you expand that benefit to all. When you are consumed by negative thoughts, negative energy, energy that is not supportive and uplifting, that energy has an impact on all that exists.

You wonder about the evolution of faith, the evolution of spirit awareness—is there more intensity? The answer is that intensity, that focus on what is truly permanent, spirit, is always constant. It is only your particular awareness that changes. To put it in human terms, the power of good is always there. The power of good is always present. You can choose to feel connected to that power of good or you can choose to reject it. But that goodness, that spiritual energy, is always present.

Is there greater awareness? Yes, there is greater awareness, for there is an increasing understanding of the connectedness with All. And as that understanding evolves, the awareness of oneness serves to help each of you to understand the importance of each other, the value of each other. The reality of spiritual guides, by whatever name they may be called, the reality of a God force, a Spirit Center—human beings are growing in their openness to this reality.

The power of God in human life is not increasing. The acknowledgment of that power, however, grows continually, and as it grows, as your awareness of your belonging to All That Is increases, you become more loving. It is not a skill to become more loving. It is not a task. It is merely the natural occurrence that comes from your acknowledgment that all are one. There is no other alternative when you accept this total oneness, for how can you be filled with hate and resentment toward what it is that you all are?

You only hate, you only resent that which you have no understanding of. You may find yourself, quote, “hating someone else,” but that is only because you don’t see yourself as being the same as another. The hate, aggressiveness, the jealousy, guilt, pride—all of these characteristics that are so human emphasize not the unity of all but the differences between individuals, the differences between concepts of morality, the differences between understandings of who God is, the differences that you perceive in the value of human life. Those differences are made by humans. Those differences are part of the human experience, but they are not ultimately the truth.

We say you are where you need to be. You are part of the totality of All That Is. There is no other place for you, and for that reason you are where you need to be because that is the only place that exists. You are your neighbor. You are your friends. You are your colleagues. You are those who are complete strangers to you. You are your extended family—past, present, and future. You are everything! You are the rock. You are the rain. You are the air. You are the elements of the earth. You are the elements of your universe. You are the elements of all that exists.

When you seek understanding of how you should behave, the answer is simple —you acknowledge that you and all that you seek are the same. There is nothing which truly separates you. That is what you do. You acknowledge who you are, and when you acknowledge who you are truly, what you do is immaterial. It is just some additional piece of clothing, but it is only a small part of reality. It is only a small part of what God is.

Who are you? You are God! Who is God? You—personally, collectively, philosophically, in every possible way, the answer is you!

Human awareness of God evolves. It evolves because you are light, and light expands. Your awareness expands. Your ability to see a connection between who you are and what you see expands.

We, your guides, are part of this growth. We are a part of your evolution of awareness. We are a part of God because we are a part of you.

You must find comfort in one another, for in so doing, you are receiving God’s comfort. Find peace in another, and you will see God’s peace. Find ways of being loving, and you will truly know the reality of being God.

You are illuminated, you are warmed and nourished as you connect to All That Is, and you are blessed in that nourishment. You are blessed in your vision. And you are blessed in your connection to all that God is.

Amen.