The Light of God's Love

Michael ends his book with a description of how God loves us unconditionally.

"You can't offend the Divine One; its very nature is light, love, compassion, protection, giving. You can't make it stop loving you.  Its just like the sun.  You can't make the sun stop shining on you; you can only choose not to look at it.  The moment you look, you'll see it's there."


This message is in contrast to what many of us have grown up hearing, that God is a judgmental and vengeful God.  It is also contrary to how we view ourselves, often harshly and critically. 

I feel a great sense of comfort recognizing that I have been created and am being sustained by a loving, compassionate, protective God.  This helps me to let go of the psyche and all of its related fears. 
In order to do so, we need to be willing to accept whatever is showing up in our lives, including the negative and uncomfortable feelings.  It has become so clear to me that there is no avoiding inner discomfort.  Life will unfold as life will unfold.  I can either fight it or watch the psyche ride the waves of life while I rest in the awareness of myself as the observer. And maybe then, we will experience what others who have walked this path have experienced:

"tremendous love, Spirit and light waking up inside of them.  They felt that there was nothing coming in through their sense that was higher than what was already going on inside." (T.U.S., p. 175)

Love surrounds us, unfolds us, protects us and guides us.  All we have to do is let go.

(We have reached the end of the book but I will continue to blog about this material.  I will focus on both the book and Michael's CDs.)

a higher awareness

“What does it mean to drift up?  You don’t feel as much anger, fear or self-consciousness… You don’t close or get tight as often.  Things still happen that you don’t want to happen, but they don’t seem to touch you as much.  They can’t reach back to where you are because you’ve drifted behind the part of you that reacts to things.  These are actual experiences, not merely something you were told about.  It’s just what naturally happens when you let go of the lower vibrations of your being.  You drift in and up to the deeper vibrations.” (T.U.S., p. 174)

As Michael talks about so often throughout his book, this path towards higher levels of consciousness is about letting go of the personal self and all of it's reactions, expectations...  We notice what the psyche is saying but we do not pay attention.  It is not a matter of changing what the psyche is saying (the psyche will always be rattling on about something, usually something that is wrong in your life), it is about noticing what the psyche is saying and then letting it go.  

The part of this process that I resist the most is allowing myself to experience the unwanted feelings.  My initial reaction is often to avoid or distract myself from the feelings or to try to fix the situation so that the feelings go away.  To truly be on this path we must be willing to face our feelings and the thoughts that accompany them. 

Michael suggests letting go of the personal self and putting your awareness on the highest state that you can imagine, knowing that you are much more than what the limited psyche is saying and allowing the magnificence that you are to unfold! 

     

the loving eyes of God

In the last chapter of The Untethered Soul Michael discusses the idea that God looks upon us with unconditionally loving eyes. 

Those who have gone beyond the personal self describe it as a "divine, unconditional, selfless love...the state you attain when you drift into Spirit." (T.U.S., p. 179).  Despite what many of us have been taught, there is no judging with God.  To describe God's unconditional love, Michael uses the analogy of the sun shining down on us.  Just as the sun does not shine more brightly on a saint than it does on a sinner, neither does God. 

It is through letting go of the lower vibrations, the personal self that one finds the way to this place of no judgment.  I've come to recognize that this path is not about spiritualizing the ego, it is about transcending it.  A friend reminded me yesterday that there is no self.  My psyche does not necessarily enjoy hearing this.  My psyche would prefer to transform the personal self into a higher or more spiritual expression of itself (e.g., witness my way right into my God self with an emphsis on MY)...but that is not what Michael has been talking about.  Instead this path toward God is about letting go of the self, letting go of any attachment to one's identity and recognizing that there is only God expressing itself in a myriad of ways.

How lovely it would be to join the great saints and masters who have embodied this truth, letting go of judgment and seeing through the loving eyes of God.

surrender

Recently I became anxious about a situation with some guys who were putting a new floor in my living room.  Instead of listening to the neurotic roommate for advice about how to proceed, I decided to witness and release (i.e., let go).  As soon as I did I became clear about how to proceed and I was no longer sucked in to the emotion of the situation.  This really is the way to do life.  Letting go over and over again, all day long…the big situations and the little ones too. 

The alternative is to listen to the mind and try to figure it all out that way.  Think back to Michael’s analogy about the roommate: imagine what it would be like if you took all of your thoughts and reactions and had a person follow you around all day long saying those thoughts to you out loud.  You would probably think that person was crazy or at the very least pretty unstable.  Well that is the same person that you go to for advice when you try to think your way through a situation.

Instead I will choose to surrender difficult situations to God and then wait for guidance.  Not only will I experience more clarity, but transformation will begin to happen.

“What happens to one who walks this path toward God …To understand this, imagine what would happen if you started feeling tremendous love for all creatures, for every plant, for every animal, and for all the beauties of nature.  Imagine if every child seemed like your own and every person you saw looked like a beautiful flower…”  (T.U.S., p. 176) 

This is a welcomed alternative to living a life of judgment and fear, always trying to make things go my way so that I can avoid the inner disturbance of the psyche.   I surrender the psyche with all of its limitations and I open myself to God’s will for my life.  And so it is.