2 June 2008

PAH: It is quite some time since I received this question. I have felt tentative about embarking on an answer that would presume to know how God sees. Even though the answer would be filtering through from a higher source, it is still my limited consciousness that does the filtering!

The following is therefore how I see when allowing guidance from my inner teachers (who once revealed themselves to me as my "Mentors in God's Love") to come forth.

I believe we are here on Earth to experience physicality in all its forms and to bring Spirit (the highest consciousness to which we have access at any one time) into Body.

So we could say that we are here to practise breathing spirit into matter - perhaps to learn the Creator's trade, as co-creators. As Jesus once said, anything He can do we will also come to do.

As small children we do this naturally, without thinking or reflecting. We come with an inborn ability to see behind the facades of physical life, behind the "masks" of our parents and others - especially when they are hiding truths. We "breathe spirit" into our dolls who became living playmates, just as we see and communicate with spirit playmates who are unseen to most grown-ups. Our "make-believe" friends are just as real to us as our physical companions.

As we grow in consciousness - i.e. when we become more self-conscious and aware that our earlier unseen friends cause distrust or even fear in our surroundings - we often gradually lose the spontaneous connection to Spirit and our homes in other dimensions. We begin to learn that there are earthly authorities whom we must listen to and obey, and then rebel against.

And as we reach puberty we dive head-first into the rediscovered pleasures and mysteries of physicality and sexuality.

At some point in our adult life, if we have not retained our childhood visioning, we often begin to reconnect with our spiritual heritage. Perhaps through established religion or, more commonly at the present stage in our evolution, through an inner spiritual awakening and sense of there being something missing in our material lives. Through a meeting with someone who touches our heart in new ways where physicality is only part of the experience. Or when learning meditation. Or experiences in nature - at the top of a mountain, deep in a forest or by the ocean. We may not always consider it a spiritual experience, but we often feel touched by something deeper and more meaningful than our day-to-day existence.

As the elders of our communities we can, if we choose, return to our childhood knowing while retaining the experience of our long lives. We can consciously mesh the freedom of spirit with the apparent limitations of the body and in the process come to realize that it was ever so. We come full circle.

So our role is perhaps first and foremost to bring the seeming disparities of our physical and spiritual natures into harmony, into oneness within our own consciousness. And by so doing we inspire others to do the same and to find their own unique paths, as we find ours. While playing in the process. Playing at being co-creators. Playing and exploring our sexuality. Playing music and song. Playing in virtual realities. Playing in scientific endeavours. Playing with the children. Playing just for the sake of it.

And as we explore our consciousness while still in the body, and our body while growing in consciousness, we bring comfort to each other. By just being with each other and listening with our heart. By weeping together if we feel touched. By laughing together when we can see the "divine comedy" and even the madness of it all. By encouraging each other to remember what we have known all along but have just buried beneath the stresses and demands of daily life. By reminding each other of our heritage - our greatest gift.

Bless you!