THE INTERNAL CHURCH - GOD ACTED.

COMPASSION AND CREATIVITY.

ILLUSIONS THAT LIMIT US.

HOW WE LOSE OUR NATURAL SENSE OF SELF.

WORDS AS CAGES, WORDS AS WINGS.

INTRODUCING DEOGENICS - SPIRITUAL TOOLS.

ACCEPTING GOD'S PRESENCE.

RECOMMENDED LINKS.

We began collecting memories at birth as a guide to the world we found ourselves in. They were survival tools that were meant to be guides, maps, how-to books, etc..

However, something happened that began to alter our sense of Self and our connectedness with the Universe. When we heard descriptions and evaluations of ourselves from other people, sentences beginning with, "You are..", "You should  ", etc., we were hearing and recording other people's versions of ourselves. And the versions they gave us were heavily influenced by their life experiences, cultural influences, their successes and disappointments, their education, biases and so on.

Even our own parents who loved us had only their own life experiences and understanding of life to draw upon. Like other people, they too were influenced by their life experiences, cultural influences, their successes and disappointments, their education, biases and so on. Even with the best of intentions most of them could not help but shape you into their own image to some degree.

Because we were young and did not understand what was happening, we accepted much of what we were told and the way we were treated. Our spontaneous joy of life and awareness of who and what we were gradually dimmed. 

We began to evaluate our own thoughts, feelings and actions in accordance with other people's models which were stored away in our memory files.

As time passed we became diminished into the small scale "I" that functions as our self on a daily basis. We began to act out our lives as if we really were like what we had been told. Our original sense of  Self became superseded by the view through the filters and old files stored in memory.

An ancient symbol of Self is a clear mirror. It is free to reflect whatever it faces. Its surface is never sullied by anything it reflects. If that mirror were conscious it would know it is different from what it reflects. You as Self are conscious and you can know you are not what is reflected in the old memory files and stored emotional records. You can KNOW that you are and always have been a creative, spiritual being with the capacity to nudge the world closer to a heaven on earth than a place of unnecessary suffering.

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