Loss of ego.

September 13, 1993

Your guides are united through your prayers and your presence as a group. The light that we see at this moment is brilliant and deep. There is a unity among you which represents a goal that all of us wish for humankind. You come together this evening from different activities with different concerns. Despite this variety, there is a sense of unity. 

We have spoken in the past of the importance of your recognition of this unity. It is so important that more needs to be said. Since God is the source of all that has been created and all that will be created, each of you shares something in common with everything that has been created, and you are even at this point a part of all that is yet to be created. Creation is not finished. The energy which serves as a foundation for all of creation is constant, but the products of that energy are continually renewed and expanded. You are part of that renewal and expansion. 

We speak from time to time about the continuity of life but you must be aware also of the continuity of creation. Each of you lives because others have lived before you. You are aware of course of many members belonging to your earlier generations, but your families go back so much further than you will ever learn of. Your presence is part of the great future. It is because of your lives that other lives in future generations will exist, and there is a part of you that will remain a part of all that has found itself in the plan of future creation. 

You are related not only to all that is animate—all that lives as you define life— but all that seems void of life. There is no significant difference between all that has been created. The planets, the stars, the galaxies, the gases which form these bodies, all come from the same source and all contain within them traces of common elements. You must increase your awareness and thought concerning the breadth of creation. 

You are all important because you belong to everything that is created, but you are also wise to consider that your position within that grand creation occupies but a small corner. When you are consumed by worry and major anxieties, you are lifting yourself out of your corner of creation and assuming an importance far greater than what is due. The issues that you deal with throughout your lives are only a minute speck on the horizon which represents your part in the creation. You must keep all that you experience in appropriate context. 

What is important to you is important to you now, but may be of considerably less significance at some time in the future. What we are saying is what is important for you now is not something which is always of equal importance in your lives. What is important now becomes insignificant. What seems insignificant now may become important in the future. It is like looking through a kaleidoscope—one color or shape in a corner becomes the centerpiece for something far greater with just a slight turn. Your sense of perspective of where you fit in to all of creation should give you comfort in realizing that what happens to you in the immediate is not as important as what happens to you in the ultimate. 

All of you are related to one another just as you are related to the entirety of nature. By sensing that relationship, you begin to sense the presence of God in life. Recognizing your position within that view of creation tends to diminish the importance of elements within your life which are anxiety producing, and tends to diminish your own sense of self importance. Human life is of course to be valued. It is sacred. It is vital for your own spiritual growth, but none of you are really so important or significant that you can have dominance over others. The loss of ego becomes an indication of your acceptance of self within the entirety of creation. The dominance of ego indicates a narrow vision of what life is. It places too much importance on the self and limits the view of what lies beyond. We are not suggesting that each of you is insignificant, but these remarks are meant to indicate that although you are important, you are only a part of a far vaster view, a far greater reality of what exists. 

Humility, compassion, love are of extraordinary value in nurturing your souls. When you eventually join our side, you will see more clearly how important it is to be unimportant, how important it is to be a part of everything rather than a mover and shaker of all that surrounds you. When we first come to this side, we become aware quite quickly that it is by losing ourselves into the totality of creation that we find a clearer view of God's brilliance. Those who have the greatest difficulty in making the transition to spiritual life are dominated by a concern to maintain their sense of who they are, what they were, what their importance was, etc. Your souls retain individual characteristics, but the importance of the individual has vanished. As we become closer to God, we sense a reduced value being placed on our own importance. When a soul is finally united fully with God, that soul has its uniqueness but it is no longer dominated by a sense of its own strength and presence. It becomes totally a part of the brilliance of God that radiates throughout all of creation. 

You can learn from this view of our side and apply it to your own lives. Being a good listener is more valuable than giving answers. Being present is more important than being dominant. Being part of a group is more important than being alone. The application of our perception of life from our side can be beneficial to your perception of life in human form. By varying your sense of importance you become so much more aware of the greater reality of what lies around you. You do not lose your identity, you do not lose your strength, you do not lose your potential for contribution, you are in no way lessened in value by changing your view of who you are and your perception of creation. What it means, however, to lose yourself within the view of creation is that you become more sensitized to losing yourself to God. Those who preach of their own importance are really unaware of God for they see only themselves. Those who are no longer aware of their importance, as you would call it, have a far greater vision of God and therefore of all creation. 

Yes, you are indeed totally united. We urge you to be willing to lose yourselves by serving others. We urge you to lose yourselves by diminishing your sense of selfimportance and surrounding yourself by an elevated view of the importance of all that is to be seen and heard and felt. In God's creation there is no real hierarchy, there is no dominant group, there is no dominant country or race, there is no dominant religion. All are of equal importance. 

Life is to be experienced through the recognition of equality. When you respond in love to another, you are affirming another's total equality. When you respond to another in a patronizing manner, you are assuming your own importance, and that is not a recognition of the godly qualities in another and an acceptance of another's total equality. Your relationships to each other, therefore, must be surrounded by a sense of this equality, this acceptance of unity. Human beings are not superior to other animals or plants or rocks or water. Human beings form an equal part of all of creation with everything else. When you are consumed by a sense of equality, it is no longer difficult to respond in love, compassion, and respect, for those responses are never selfserving. Only when one feels a sense of greater importance is one motivated by selfserving objectives. 

Life is to be shared, to be relished, to be treated with respect. To live is to recognize the bond which is common to absolutely everything you can see, touch, or feel. Life is beautiful when it is viewed this way. We are trying here to help you understand something of life on our side that you may apply this perspective to your human lives and thereby create greater harmony and peace and a sense of purpose and meaning to what you experience daily. Just as God does not judge, so must you also not judge. 

Just as God treats all of creation equally, so must you. God responds to you with love. It is for you to respond with equal love. That affirms the equality and unity of all that God has created. 

We bless you with our view of the unity of life, with the view of God's great creation. 

Amen.