He aquí el último capítulo del libro ALMA DESPERTADA. Espero que os sea provechoso.
Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that ‘something else’ he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending. For those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He is that Something Else. —PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA
10. DIVINE ESSENCE
AWAKENING TO LOVE
You are eternal, individuated at an unknown moment in time to experience human life from a single vantage point. Long forgotten, you were crafted from the same substance as the Creator Source who brought you to life. From that moment eons ago, you have circulated through countless lifetimes in both physical and astral realms.
Teilhard de Chardin reminds us that we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. This is not merely a flip of phrase. It is a profound acknowledgement that the very core of our existence is first and foremost spiritual, and that human life is a vehicle for spiritual growth.
Your soul’s mission through its myriad incarnations is to awaken to your divine essence. This is the driving force behind your many forays into earthly life. Each incarnation affords many opportunities to accomplish this. The limitless nature of eternity affords endless chances for growth—to learn, to heal, to balance, to serve, and through these, ultimately—to awaken to your divine essence.
In the realm of free will, there is no one way or timeline for this awakening. Each is free to choose the path and the timing. Once the soul has accomplished its mission, it is able to move beyond the interlife, what the Hindu saint Sri Yukteswar labeled the ordinary astral Universe, and enter the higher heavenly realms.
What we’ve come to understand about the soul is that this journey is anything but haphazard. The stories shared here have illustrated time and again how the soul readies itself for an upcoming lifetime by developing a plan for the life ahead. You have seen that these plans were deliberative and purposeful. Goals were incrementally achieved. Turmoil and upheaval were embraced as the pain of previous lifetimes faded.
We have seen through the shared stories how beliefs shape how you feel, and ultimately how you behave. Beliefs, feelings, or behaviors that are out of balance are impediments to awakening. As such, they provide rich opportunities for spiritual growth. Bringing resolution and balance to these can take many lifetimes. Paradoxical challenges are often the way.
Soul growth is driven by the need to master love and is expedited by deepening your capacity for love. This is facilitated and hindered by the fact that we spend most of our lives deeply embedded in relationships. Those we have met in prior chapters have shown us how the wisdom, healing, and balance sought is embedded in relationship challenges. Loved ones and others play major roles in the unfolding of soul plans, including when they have agreed to be cast as villains.
Through its victories and setbacks over time, the soul begins to develop love and compassion for others. Often after struggling for many lifetimes, it develops love and compassion for itself. In the process, it is deepening its capacity for love.
As the soul’s capacity for love grows, it remembers its divine essence, forgotten and obscured so long ago. As it masters love, it opens the way for a full awakening to its divinity. Doing so opens the arms of God for a full embrace in the love, joy, and bliss that has awaited your remembrance.
What does it take to realize that you are divine and deserve self-love and compassion? For many, the first impulse was prompted by despair.
It was triggered by the anguish caused by the loss of a loved one through death, separation, estrangement, or abandonment. It was brought about by the lack of forgiveness of self or others for acts or inactions. It was caused by an inability to overcome doubt or accept oneself. It was an outgrowth of a low self-esteem. Or it was a natural by-product of an inability to prioritize and care for self.
Finally, it is the culmination of consciously accepting that you are a spiritual being having a human experience that ultimately leads you onto your spiritual path.
Growth has been achieved by those you have met in the previous chapters. They have accomplished this by beginning to overcome the challenges that have caused them great pain. Motivated by suffering and a desire to be free of life challenges, they journeyed through timelessness for understanding and healing. In the process, they have gained insights and wisdom. They uncovered the ideas, feelings, and behaviors that needed to be brought into balance.
It would be wrong to claim instantaneous success. No multi-hour session, series of sessions, or magic solution mitigates past suffering. Yet, for all of them, their pain has eased, their journey forward has been clarified, and their mission to awaken their divine essence has been affirmed. Each of them benefited from the wisdom and encouragement so generously shared from the higher realms. Each of them is more motivated, knowing that they are destined for success.
Awakening to your divinity is guaranteed to all, regardless of whether you are in a hurry or whether you are taking your time, enjoying the many distractions of earthly life. Regardless of the pace, you are in the process of heading back to re-emergence with the Creator Source.
As you move further along your spiritual path, you begin to have glimmers of the bliss that awaits full realization. Even once this milestone has been reached, you may not yet have learned, healed, or balanced all that you embedded in your soul’s plan for this lifetime. The final push for this full realization includes tying up loose ends. But by this point in your eternal journey, as you get closer to Home, you begin to reap the rewards of your long voyage back. You are awakening to love, your soul’s destiny.
WHISPERS FROM ETERNITY
Among the hundreds I have regressed in my practice have been a handful of very advanced souls. It was an honor to engage with their higher selves and the higher beings who counsel and guide them.
Interestingly, none of them hinted or declared that this was their final incarnation. Like others, who might wish that this is their final lifetime, each of them was focused on engaging fully in life and ensuring that they were fulfilling their soul’s purpose.
What does distinguish them from others is the importance of their spiritual life and practice, which in each case is reflected in the peace and joy that they radiate. It is their spiritual practice that is their ballast. Through meditation and prayer, they are deepening their connection to the Divine, which remains strong even during moments of tumult.
In the selections that follow, you will hear the higher beings who have whispered from eternity to coax them on as they make the final push to the ineffable joy that awaits us all.
ADVIK
Advik is 73 years old. A year ago, his wife of 50 years died. Raised without religion, when he turned 50, he joined a temple. Several years later, he began to take his meditation practice more seriously. As a result, over time, he has reached deep states of bliss and peace.
He scheduled a session to explore what additional spiritual lessons he has yet to learn.
Once in trance, he finds himself in a nondescript space. He perceives diffused light centered in the space that disappears quickly, along with figures that were moving about. His attention is then drawn to a source of crystal-clear light which moves to the top of his head. Bathed in the light, he shares that this is akin to his experience in deep meditation.
The scene shifts, and Advik finds himself in a beautiful garden and settles onto a bench.
I am a body of crystal-clear light. It has an amorphous form that is similar to my earthly body. White light is emanating outward from my body.
I am no longer in the garden. I am in another world. It feels familiar, I have been here before. I come to visit sometimes. Now, the scene is changing again. It’s very soothing. I am rising-up toward a light that is above me.
I feel like pure soul, going toward the Creator—the ultimate Divine. The light is becoming bigger and brighter. There is not one source-point of light, it is everywhere.
The light wants me to know that I am ready to merge with it, but there is some unfinished business that I must attend to. I am supposed to help mankind. I am being told that my presence is needed in the world. As my energy radiates out, it is helping balance other energies on earth. I am serving as an energetic anchor point.
I am told that there is nothing else I need to do. Just be.
The energy that is radiating out is intelligent enough to know where it needs to go.
I have the sense that other beings have joined me. They have come to give me blessings.
They are done now, some of them have disappeared.
There is a shift in the session, and information about a prior life flows.
I have had several hundred lifetimes on earth. I have incarnated elsewhere, but earth is my favorite. I love the atmosphere here. One of my favorite lifetimes was in India in the 1700s. I lived in an ashram and spent my time meditating.
The shift created an opportunity to ask the singular question that Advik hoped he would get answered during the session. It pertained to what he considers his exaggerated emotional reaction to seeing animals lying dead in the road.
The question shifts his attention to a lifetime in Asia in 1430. He is a leader in the Kahn dynasty.
I am riding a white horse, leading a huge army of men on horseback. I am feared. I am protected by metallic plates hanging on the front and back of my torso. My head is also covered with metal.
We are the aggressors. Many people are dying. I have killed many people and animals in this and earlier lives as a warrior. There was a time that I enjoyed killing, but now I consider it my duty. It is a necessity. I don’t have guilt, but I don’t like being so feared.
I have no friends, but there is a woman waiting for me back home. It feels like we have been together for a long time, although it has not been too long because I am often on a military campaign. She doesn’t fear me.
We move ahead to the last day of the warrior’s life.
I have been wounded. I am surrounded by my troops. I know that I am dying. It is an honorable death. I am telling my men, I did my duty, do yours.
Advik describes seeing himself float up and out of his body.
I am riding on a beam of light, moving up. My fears have evaporated. I have finished an aspect of life and can turn my attention toward my spiritual growth.
I have no personal regrets. I do wish the wars might have ended sooner. It was my decision to continue conquering territory and people.
I can see from this perspective that it was not about conquering. It was about overcoming my aggressive inclinations. My aggressive tendencies needed to be dissipated. My soul intended for me to come to understand the futility of war. This is a lesson that I could not learn in the abstract. Each soul must learn and reconcile it through their experience and actions.
I now understand the futility of all of the warfare. That lesson enables me to help other people in the future.
In lives to come, I will need to balance this, including spending more time dedicated to spiritual growth. I incurred a karmic debt to the many people I killed. In the future, I will work to balance that by serving those souls.
Advik’s session illustrates that human incarnations provide endless opportunities for serving others and for learning, healing, and balancing actions taken in prior lives. In his case, his soul plan includes service to humanity in a manner that allows him to balance the karmic debt he incurred in his warrior lifetimes.
His experience is a reminder to all of us that mastery of love of self and others may be slow and incremental, but our success is assured.
Even for an advanced soul, there remains work to do. For him, radiating his energy is helping to balance other energies on earth.
His journey into the astral realm has provided a taste of what awaits all, a return to the Creator Source. Nothing can equate with the rapture of embrace in the light and the love that is everywhere.
Each of us is on a parallel journey with many unknowns. Like Advik, our path may be windy and cycle through hundreds of lives. What is known is that having individuated into separate morsels of the Creator eons ago, we are destined to reemerge with the Source.
In the next instance, we meet Norina, who, like Advik, is tying up loose ends, and while doing so, is deepening her capacity for love.
NORINA
Norina is a 64-year-old acupuncturist. She is intuitively gifted and finds this enhances her diagnostic abilities. Despite its obvious benefit for her patients, she keeps this acuity hidden from her more traditional circle of friends and extended family.
Her transpersonal journey was an outgrowth of her interest in metaphysics and not scheduled to address any specific life issue.
Once in trance, she finds herself on a rocky surface on the periphery of a smoldering volcano. Her form is pure energy. She is at the gateway to another reality, at a moment within no time.
She is welcomed by an energy being that refers to itself as One and offers this introduction.
I am the awareness Norina channels sometimes, but there are others.
I’m from everywhere. I have singularity, but am all one. I have come to earth at the beginning when the earth was in its early formation. I come here to relax and remember. It’s comforting here. I have come to remember possibilities. There are all kinds of choices, infinite possibilities.
One elaborates on what is guiding the exploration today, and in general.
Today’s experience for Norina is about her remembering that she is part of the One, to feel the totality. Within creation, nothing is impossible. We need to remember who we are and where we come from. The experiences that people have on earth are illusions.
I have come today to tell her to just be.
Those on earth are in the process of shedding layers of outdated crust as part of the ascension process. Progress is being made on this aspect. As the process accelerates, it will be easier to live, ideas will flow more freely, boundaries will be broken, and healing will increase.
The ascension process is healing perceived separation. People will realize that they are not separate from the One. Beings choose to experience separateness. It is a choice which begins the journey back to oneness.
The One responds to a question about the seeming paradox of the journey outward into separateness, only to begin the journey back to oneness.
It’s a manifestation of creation, to see where it leads, with the hope that it comes back.
Those who choose to incarnate on earth are choosing an adventure in this realm. To do so, they are steeped in the illusion of separateness. Through the choices of many to experience this adventure, the earth’s ascension is facilitated. It’s kind of like bees in a hive. Everybody has their job because they are part of the hive.
Prayer, benevolence, laughter, and love move the ascension process along.
The mention of love redirects the One’s teachings.
Love is energy. Love is glue. It is the space between everything. When we recognize that space, we experience the feeling of love. All you need is love.
Love is a source of creation.
The One offered a beautiful analogy to make sure that this point was understood. The image of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam that adorns the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is brought to focus.
Look at the hand. It does everything physical. It is an instrument of physical creation. You move your hands in limitless fashions to do limitless things. It delivers. In the same way, you are instruments of creation.
Everything is in our hands. The Universe is in our hands, creation, love.
Norina uses her hands in her work. They are the instruments of healing. The hand is the instrument of human touch. It connects you to the source of love, which is one of the reasons it is so essential.
Norina’s healing will be easier over time. She needs to help people to understand that struggles don’t need to happen. People shouldn’t trivialize their experiences, but at the same time, they should not struggle with them.
The One was emphatic that the best thing that earth’s inhabitants can do is to remember that they have chosen to experience an earthly adventure. They have donned an illusion akin to a costume worn by a character in a play. It’s also important to recall that as the writer, director, star, and casting director of that play, you have chosen the costume that best fits the script, theme, and moral of your play.
It may seem irreverent to share that when the session ended, Norina and I laughed uncontrollably for minutes. Certainly not at the material that was shared, but at the challenge of conversing with the highest level of consciousness that had identified itself as the One. Even in her deep trance, Norina could sense the communication gap that we were experiencing. Our human limitations don’t automatically evaporate just because we are able to traverse higher dimensions.
As the person posing the questions, I was mindful throughout the session that the One found some of the questions I posed difficult to answer and others ridiculous. At many points, there were long periods of silence, which the One would later note was so an answer could be expressed in a way that might be understood by humans. Conversely, some of the One’s answers were incomprehensible, even with lots of probing for clarification.
People experience their journeys through the astral realm in many different ways. Even when there is the familiarity of return, the difference between the realms does not dissipate. Awareness is split between here and there, two different worlds, two different realities. Most of those who make or facilitate these journeys agree that the insights, wisdom, and healing achieved make the challenge more than worthwhile.
Finally, we are introduced to Nadir. You will see from his experience the reward that awaits the full expression of our divine essence. For certain, the journey is long and arduous. But equally certain is the richness of sublime love, joy, and bliss that awaits.
NADIR
Nadir is a 55-year-old chemist who migrated to the United States following a war in his homeland. Currently engaged, he was married previously but has no children. He is passionate about science and poetry. He has an inexplicable facility for automatic writing.
He scheduled his session in hopes of deepening his understanding of the meaning of life and to allay some of his doubts.
Once hypnotized, he finds himself floating in the darkness.
I don’t have a body. There are countless stars and some redness. I am beyond the earth and its Universe. I am in the emptiness. That's where everything is. I've been there before. It’s familiar… It is home.
I'm relaxed. There are no worries here. Nothing to doubt or fret about! Everything is just so beautiful. I must remember that I can dissipate my doubt and worries by looking up at the stars. They are divine sparkles, and they pulsate within.
I have returned to be reminded that there is nothing to worry about. I have been longing to remember. Everything is perfect. It's always been like that.
After a few minutes luxuriating in the emptiness, Nadir is greeted by the Guardian of the Gate at one of the access points to the vastness of the higher realms.
She has come with a reminder for Nadir and all who journey to awaken to our divine essence.
You come down to earth in disguise. You are like secret agents. It's just fun sometimes, just to enjoy it. It's all been planned by the vastness.
But earthly life is just like being in a play in which you play a role. Just play the roles. Put yourself in the role and just enjoy. It's like crossing a river to experience the other side, and then you return.
Remember that it is just a journey.
Sometimes you forget the fun part as you experience the contrast between pain and love. You have to know the pain to experience the love. Contrast is your teacher. Sometimes you even begin to attach to the pain, accepting it. But you must remember that the experience of pain and heartache is just for experience.
The journey, including the illusion, is for the sake of love. It's all about love, it's never without love.
It is hard for some people to experience the love of the vastness. They turn away.
They see their shadow and they mistake it for the light. Imagine that you turn your back to the sun, and you think what you see is the light. When you turn around and look at the sun, the shadows disappear automatically. Everything is light.
On earth, you struggle. You choose to turn away from the light. It's neither good nor bad. It’s a choice to be turned around, to have a different experience. You get scared when you see the shadow. Some of you start running in the other direction. All you have to do to end the struggle is stop and turn back. That's all you have to do.
There is no inherent darkness, there is always light present. Darkness is an illusion. Turning away from the light creates the perception of darkness. But just like seeing the sun, if you turn around you will see that the light was always there.
There are those who temporarily turn toward the darkness. You call them evil. That too is a choice. It’s just the experience. They go on ignoring their essence until they are done with that experience and remember that they too are of the light.
It's just life, but the journey pleases you. There's no wrong and right.
The Guardian of the Gate reminds us about our connection to the oneness that is sometimes forgotten.
Humans have to feel separate to realize that they're not. They have never been separate. Each and every one is everything. The ocean is in the drop and the drop is in the ocean.
Even when the surface of the ocean is turbulent, it becomes very still as you go deep. Just dive deep below the turbulence of life. You will find that life is like the ocean. The turbulence was superficial, it’s another illusion.
Everyone is always connected, even when they are not aware of the connection. No one is disconnected. There is always a connection, there was never no connection. Everyone is connected as one in this dance of life.
Those who feel disconnected just have to look at the stars to know that they are connected. We are all one. There was never a separation.
The Guardian of the Gate shifts focus to what lies beyond the gate.
The gate is an access point to higher realms. Nadir has gone through the gate to travel to the higher realms. He has learned to dive deep into the stillness. Those journeys have inspired the love captured in his poetry and his passion for science. Like the great ones before him, he is dedicated to the greater knowledge.
No one can go through the gate until they are ready. You have to be prepared. You have to be the same vibration to travel beyond the gate.
The Absolute is beyond the gate. It's beyond everything. Sometimes you sense its beauty. It radiates everywhere, the beauty radiates everywhere. It's all about love, it is all love.
It's the center of all centers. Everything revolves around it, like bubbles on top of the bubbles on top of the bubbles.
We are always moving toward the center. It is everywhere, and it is within each of us.
The Guardian of the Gate urged us to remember that we are on a journey, a journey to awaken soul.
The journey is all about love, unconditional love. Love has no opposite. Life has no opposite. Birth and death are opposites, but life has no opposite, there's only life and love.
You have to know the pain to experience the love, contrast is your teacher.
Love is the outflow of energy from the Absolute. The soul is a singular outflow of this universal love. And life is an experience of the outflow of universal love. All of it is the expression of the divine love of the Absolute.
Yours is the journey to awaken soul—the return voyage to the Absolute. It’s a long journey, one you can delay but not abandon. We are all traveling at different speeds and traveling somewhat different paths. But what we share in common is the certainty that God, the deepest expression of love, awaits to welcome us back with open arms. This is the soul’s destiny!
MESSAGE TO READERS
I hope you enjoyed reading Alma Despertada and found inspiration to guide discovery of your soul’s plan for this lifetime.
As you read throughout, understanding your soul’s intention for this lifetime will help you to heal and balance unresolved matters, to deepen self-love and compassion and promote spiritual growth. If you would like to explore your soul’s eternal journey on you own, I have created a hypnotically guided spiritual regression mp3, available for free download at www.JoanneSelinske.com.
If you believe the wisdom shared in Alma Despertada has value, I encourage you to share these ideas with your friends and family. To facilitate this, I have created an Alma Despertada Reading Group Guide, available for free download at www.JoanneSelinske.com.
For those of you who love to read, libraries have been a rich resource. For others, they are a lifeline to the world. Their value promoting a thoughtful and knowledgeable citizenry can’t be overstated. If you agree, I encourage you to ask your local library to carry this book. This small act will help the energy and insights contained in Alma Despertada to ripple out, touching lives and changing the world one mind at a time.
I welcome your thoughts about the book and hope that you stay in touch at www.JoanneSelinske.com.
Heartfelt wishes for the joy and peace that awaits the realization of your soul’s plan for this lifetime.
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