The Oblivion of Non-Realization
"Entropy?"
"Yeah. Entropy has a lot to do with the creative process. But before we get into those scientific details, I want to set you up with some more philosophy. I'll read another section from Conversations With God." I stopped on the footpath again. "We'll start with the idea of subjective morality."
A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.
It isn't?
"Rightness" or "wrongness" is not an intrinsic condition, it is a subjective judgment in a personal value system. By your subjective judgments do you create your Self — by your personal values do you determine and demonstrate Who You Are.
The world exists exactly as it is so that you may make these judgments. If the world existed in perfect condition, your life process of Self creation would be terminated. It would end. A lawyer's career would end tomorrow were there no more litigation. A doctor's career would end tomorrow were there no more illness. A philosopher's career would end tomorrow were there no more questions.
And God's career would end tomorrow were there no more problems!
Precisely. You have put it perfectly. We, all of us, would be through creating were there nothing more to create. We, all of us, have a vested interest in keeping the game going. Much as we all say we would like to solve all the problems, we dare not solve all the problems, or there will be nothing left for us to do.
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Are you saying the world will always have problems? Are you saying that you actually want it that way?
I am saying that the world exists the way it exists — just as a snowflake exists the way it exists — quite by design. You have created it that way — just as you have created your life exactly as it is.
I want what you want. The day you really want an end to hunger, there will be no more hunger. I have given you all the resources with which to do that. You have all the tools with which to make that choice. You have not made it. Not because you cannot make it. The world could end world hunger tomorrow. You choose not to make it.
You claim that there are good reasons that 40,000 people a day must die of hunger. There are no good reasons. Yet at a time when you say you can do nothing to stop 40,000 people a day from dying of hunger, you bring 50,000 people a day into your world to begin a new life. And this you call love. This you call God's plan. It is a plan which totally lacks logic or reason, to say nothing of compassion.
I am showing you in stark terms that the world exists the way it exists because you have chosen for it to. You are systematically destroying your own environment, then pointing to so-called natural disasters as evidence of God's cruel hoax, or Nature's harsh ways. You have played the hoax on yourself, and it is your ways which are cruel.
Nothing, nothing is more gentle than Nature. And nothing, nothing has been more cruel to Nature than man. Yet you step aside from all involvement in this; deny all responsibility. It is not your fault, you say, and in this you are right. It is not a question of fault, it is a matter of choice.
You can choose to end the destruction of your rainforests tomorrow. You can choose to stop depleting the protective layer hovering over your planet. You can choose to discontinue the ongoing onslaught of your earth's ingenious ecosystem. You can seek to put the snowflake back together — or at least to halt its inexorable melting — but will you do it? You can similarly end all war tomorrow. Simply. Easily. All it takes — all it has ever taken — is for all of you to agree. Yet if you cannot all agree on something as basically simple as ending the killing of each other, how can you call upon the heavens with shaking fist to put your life in order?
I will do nothing for you that you will not do for your Self. That is the law and the prophets.
Neale Donald Walsch
"I love that line!" I said. "I will do nothing for you that you will not do for your Self. It's just brilliant."
The world is in the condition it is in because of you, and the choices you have made — or failed to make.
(Not to decide is to decide.)
The Earth is in the shape it's in because of you, and the choices you have made — or failed to make.
Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made — or failed to make.
But I did not choose to get hit by that truck! I did not choose to get mugged by that robber, or raped by that maniac. People could say that. There are people in the world who could say that.
You are all at root cause for the conditions which exist which create in the robber the desire, or the perceived need, to steal. You have all created the consciousness which makes rape possible. It is when you see in yourself that which caused the crime that you begin, at last, to heal the condition from which it sprang.
Feed your hungry, give dignity to your poor. Grant opportunity to your less fortunate. End the prejudice which keeps masses huddled and angry, with little promise of a better tomorrow. Put away your pointless taboos and restrictions upon sexual energy — rather, help others to truly understand its wonder, and to channel it properly. Do these things and you will go a long way toward ending robbery and rape forever.
As for the so-called "accident" — the truck coming around the bend, the brick falling from the sky — learn to greet each such incident as a small part of a larger mosaic.
Neale Donald Walsch
I turned to Zac. "What does that remind you of? A small part of a larger mosaic?"
"A hologram?" he guessed.
"I was actually thinking about electrons in a plasma. Their movements appear random and disordered until you zoom out and notice that trillions of electrons are performing a coordinated dance together. It's as if their movements are a smaller part of a larger mosaic."
"Oh yeah. That's Bohm's idea that there is no such thing as true disorder — just deeply hidden order."
"Yep!" I said as I launched back into reading.
You have come here to work out an individual plan for your own salvation. Yet salvation does not mean saving yourself from the snares of the devil. There is no such thing as the devil, and hell does not exist. You are saving yourself from the oblivion of non-realization.
Neale Donald Walsch
I smiled again. "You are saving yourself from the oblivion of non-realization. This God guy is brilliant! To never realize your dreams, or experience the grandest version of yourself — that is torture. To never even try to save yourself from oblivion. To never experience who you really are — the kindest and most generous and funniest and loveliest version of yourself; the grandest vision that you have for your own life. To never reach out your hand and help another person realize the grandest version of themselves. To never help someone less fortunate see the brilliance of their own potential. To never believe in all those beautiful visions of the future you have floating around in your imagination; all those things you want to do; all your big plans. That is oblivion. That is regret. And regret is self-inflicted hell."
You cannot lose in this battle. You cannot fail. Thus it is not a battle at all, but simply a process. Yet if you do not know this, you will see it as a constant struggle. You may even believe in the struggle long enough to create a whole religion around it. This religion will teach that struggle is the point of it all. This is a false teaching. It is in not struggling that the process proceeds. It is in surrendering that the victory is won.
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All that is required is to know this. For you are the creator of your reality, and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which you think it will.
Neale Donald Walsch
I looked at Zac. "It's that last part you need to remember — and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which you think it will."
You think it into being. This is the first step in creation. God the Father is thought. Your thought is the parent which gives birth to all things.
This is one of the laws we are to remember.
Yes.
Can you tell me others?
I have told you others. I've told you them all, since the beginning of time. Over and over have I told you them. Teacher after teacher have I sent you. You do not listen to my teachers. You kill them.
But why? Why do we kill the holiest among us? We kill them or dishonour them, which is the same thing. Why?
Because they stand against every thought you have that would deny Me. And deny Me you must if you are to deny your Self.
Why would I want to deny You, or me?
Because you are afraid. And because My promises are too good to be true. Because you cannot accept the grandest Truth. And so you must reduce yourself to a spirituality which teaches fear and dependence and intolerance, rather than love and power and acceptance.
You are filled with fear - and your biggest fear is that My biggest promise might be life's biggest lie. And so you create the biggest fantasy you can to defend yourself against this: You claim that any promise which gives you the power, and guarantees you the love, of God must be the false promise of the devil. God would never make such a promise, you tell yourself, only the devil would - to tempt you into denying God's true identity as the fearsome, judgmental, jealous, vengeful, and punishing entity of entities.
Even though this description better fits the definition of a devil (if there were one), you have assigned devilish characteristics to God in order to convince yourself not to accept the God-like promises of your Creator, or the God-like qualities of the Self.
Such is the power of fear.
I am trying to let go of my fear. Will You tell me - again - more of the laws?
The First Law is that you can be, do, and have whatever you can imagine. The Second Law is that you attract what you fear.
Neale Donald Walsch