Raj Editorial - from A Way of Life Issue 13.1   |   Text View

I met God!  Yes, it really happened - stuck at a petrol station somewhere in the California desert jammed between two vehicles which prevented me from moving.  Of course, I didn't know it at the time, it was only while lying in bed this morning and replaying the events in my mind of those last few days in America that I came to see what is occurring for me and why I am having these experiences.   And like all this 'stuff' - in the moment that I start to explore, the door opens and there it is.  I had a huge awakening as I realized where God is.

So, did I engage God immediately?  No!  I even let that opportunity slip through my fingers.   Now I am given another opportunity and the chance to reflect.  I am not letting this one go. 

You see, what actually happened was that while trapped - literally immobilized, I received a phone call from a very good friend wanting help and support and in that moment I was not willing to join him in the fullness of Love and Consciousness.  Oh, I spoke the words and yet even as I did so I realized that I did not engage him. I was not 100% present for him and I could hear in his voice that whether aware consciously or not, he knew.

Having thought about this and why I chose to be distant - and I acknowledge that it was  a choice I made, I realize that I was in judgment around what he was doing that didn't feel right for me.  However, that cannot be a reason to not be Present with someone.  I started to explore other relationships and look at friends who have chosen to 'drift' off into other teachings and paths and I realize that many of my friends are doing things that I probably have no desire to engage in myself or have no interest in, yet if I am honest about the quality of experience they are having - I can see it in their faces and in their voices, they are in JOY, they are having FUN, they are fully PRESENT.  Now these are GOD QUALITIES.  This means that no matter what the circumstances, the thing that is engaging them and the quality of their engagement is providing them with the opportunity to meet God.

Now I realize that GOD resides in the OPPORTUNTY - each and every opportunity that is presented to me/us.  No matter what it is - if I engage with love and passion I am in the Grace Stream, I have opened to God.  When I am in the opposite space, deny the opportunity I have shut God out.  It is never about what you do - it is HOW YOU DO IT.   For example, I have a friend who has discovered the healing that occurs through tantric practices and when he talks and share about this facet he simply lights up.  God is quite obviously shining through him.  When another friend recently had a baby, her joy was so obvious to all.  Another friend is engaged with Cancer and through that opportunity has discovered through cleansing and juicing a new joy and vitality that has literally knocked years off his appearance.  He brims with life.  If God is Life then each of these friends is finding That One in their experience in their own Opportunity.

As I reflect back over that last week in America and I can see my own Joy - meeting with a Science of Mind church minister and his wife in Monterey, being offered the opportunity to assist in cooking Thanksgiving Dinner, joining 45 incredibly open and welcoming men who are so aligned and engaged to the experience of God regardless of their physical circumstances at the prison in San Luis Obispo.  Among all these Opportunities I found my own Joy and they all think it was something special in me.  Well, it was and it was in the Opportunity to engage with them that brought that Joy, that connection to God to the surface in me.

Returning home I discovered another Opportunity and this time with no reluctance I dove straight in - since reading Jeshua's words in the Way of Heart - "To bring a million people to Christ Consciousness", I have been motivated to devoting my life to this end.  The Journal, the work I do, every moment of my life is given over to being of Service - that is, I have discovered already, is where my Joy is.  The Opportunity was when a friend who shares a similar desire offered me the funding to create my dream, a website that would bring together the Teachers for God in a Movement with a common goal - to extend the Good, the Holy, and the Beautiful.  Unity is critical and a dedicated point of focus in the form of a website as a collective gathering place is required to assist those seeking to discover more - to reveal the vast array of facets that are represented by the teachers of CHRIST MIND throughout the World. And so with no excuses left and the doorway beckoning me I jumped through and today, as I write the dream has become reality.  Have a look at www.christconsciousnessonline.com

There is nothing new about CHRIST MIND - it has been around forever, in truth long before the one called Jesus became synonymous with the word CHRIST. The name represents a State of Being, not a person. It is the consciousness in which the Son of God was created, it is the term for your true nature and it is Who You Are.

Jeshua/Jesus came to this world for the purpose of embodying Christ Consciousness in this dimension so that the Way would be opened to us all and He succeeded. It is a Way of Living in the world to which we are all invited, with no exceptions. This growing website introduces the many Teachers and Way-showers who live the Truth of Christ and who share that Way with those whose destiny it is to come to this Path. Ones who have said, "YES" to God in their Opportunity.

I realize that the change of name of the Journal which occurred exactly a year ago was the beginning of this shift - The Opportunity once again opening for me. The excitement I feel - that deep bubbling Joy that I have come to know is God working through me, the space wherein obstacles do not materialize and others are drawn to the concept.  Quite simply, it's delicious!!

The Opportunities come in so many ways.  The key is to always say, "YES".  Anything less is fear.  It is not even necessary to act upon The Opportunity, just to abide in the spaciousness of Allowance and watch as Holy Spirit unfolds the manifestation for you, in perfection.  It is not you or I doing it.  It is God.  I must let go of the need to 'have to do something', that is not my job, my role is to be OPEN and willing to allow the Opportunity to birth through me.    Why this has not been obvious is now a surprise.  I truly have no excuse, I have all the evidence I need in Bali Outreach - Karuna Bali.  As I watch Opportunity after Opportunity being presented - God showing up - and each one just unfolds and all that is required to make it happen manifests in perfection.  I need do nothing!

I see how I have always tried to make opportunities into a business when the actual opportunity is not a business, just Holy Spirit seeking to create, to birth something through me.  Many, indeed most of 'my' projects that come into manifestation go nowhere, in my previous (yesterday) consciousness I thought that I had to make them work - now I realize the foolishness of that thought pattern - it is just ego tugging on my chain.  Each Opportunity is just for me, to grow me and to open me and to give me the chance to be Creation.  It's never about someone else.  If there is a benefit for another Holy Spirit will bring it about - I know now how I must let go of all my attachments to making anything mean something.  Time to stop once and for all evaluating 'my' success based on results and outcome.

As this Journal is put to bed, I return from the most amazing adventure - four weeks in India - I gave myself fully and with the intention to be completely at the 'mercy' of Holy Spirit.  Complete Allowance, complete Openness, it was completely delicious.  What a time we had.  A glimmer of that is highlighted in the article further in the Journal, but here I want to personally acknowledge my guide and teacher, the One that brought me to this experience…….SWAMI PARMANADA

A huge "THANK YOU" to you Swami who not only made this journey possible, but through your own greatness and allowance manifested the perfection of interaction for us with so many great Gurus and Masters - I feel as though I have been on a journey to and with Masters of the Far East!  I honour you for your generosity, your teachings, your integrity and willingness to correct a misrepresentation or incorrect thought and for your unstinting good nature, delightful humour and forthrightness.  You represent for me a perfect example of how life is meant to be lived.  I know that my experience in India will have lasting effect and unfolding which has propelled me much deeper in consciousness and for that I am so profoundly grateful to you.

Love and Blessings,

Raj



...for so long I have said that I wanted to God is there to be met in every moment, I see and feel God in my willingness to open to each opportunity and to engage.  What this means to me is that CREATION occurs when I AM present.  Creation is God and it only requires my little bit of willingness to come to the surface.  Every time I shy away or hold myself in reluctance or negativity or fear from something that may occur, I stop the FLOW.  I am completely and utterly the one who makes the choice.  And knowing all this I wonder how I will choose to embrace fully every opportunity - the chance to God today.  I'll let you know!

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