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I want to talk tonight about truth

How we know what is and isn’t truth, I mean. People claim God speaks to no one, well, except for a handful of ministers, priests, heads of state and, apparently, the odd terrorist or two. Those people, who say they hear God, tell us what he says. And expect us to accept their word as gospel given. Well, they’re wrong about all that. God talks to everyone, all the time, we have just been conditioned to believe that we, the rest of us, are somehow not worthy of direct communication with the same entity who created us all. So we listen to them tell us what he wants us to do and we, many of us, never stop to question why our creator would only speak to a relative handful of his/her children. What parent is like that? Well, what normal parent is like that? Not many, you know? And neither is ours.

So, tonight, I want to quote a good bit from CWG, book 1. Just to shake up the mix a little, giggle. Neale asked, on page 2 of book 1: How does God talk, and to whom? And God, responded through him, “I talk to everyone. All the time. The question is not to whom do I talk, but who listens?”. Now, we need pause and think about that for a moment. Who listens? Well, where we would listen? I mean, what channel? The answer to that is we need only listen in the very last place we’d think to, within, that small still voice within. That voice is IN all of us, all the time, we are just so conditioned to get our guidance from religious, political or business leaders, that we never think to listen in the only place we can ever truly hear his voice, within ourselves. We are not alone in there, we have never been. You know of my own voice, Jenna, well, she represents him in a way, and there is not a sentient soul here who does not have such a voice. It is HEARING that voice, and trusting it, that we have a problem with.

Neale and God continue their communication on page 3: Neale asked God to expand on that statement, and God replied, ” First, lets exchange the word talk with the word communicate. It’s a much better word, a much fuller, more accurate one. When we try to speak to each other, Me to you, you to Me, we are immediately constricted by the unbelievable limitation of words. For this reason, I do not communicate by words alone. In fact, rarely do I do so. My most common form of communication is through feeling. Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what’s true for you about something, look to how you are feeling about it… I also communicate with thought. Thought and feelings are not the same, although they can occur at the same time. In communicating with thought, I often use images and pictures. For this reason, thoughts are more effective than mere words as tools of communication. In addition to feelings and thoughts, I also use the vehicle of experience as a grand communicator. And finally, when feelings and thoughts and experience all fail, I use words. Words are really the least effective communicator. They are most open to misinterpretation, most often misunderstood. And why is that? It is because of what words are. Words are mere utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not truth. They are not the real thing. Words may help you understand something. Experience allows you to know. Yet there are some things you cannot experience. So I have given you other tools of knowing. And these are called feelings. And so too, thoughts.

Now the supreme irony here is that you have all placed so much importance on the Word of God, and so little on the experience.

In fact, you place so little value on experience, that when what you experience of God differs from what you’ve heard of God, you automatically discard the experience and own the words, when it should be just the other way around… Many words have been uttered others, in My name. Many thoughts and many feelings have been sponsored by cause not of My direct creation. Many experiences result from these.”

Yes, says gene, that would be war, famine, intolerance, hatred, separation, division, us versus them. All taught us by men, and now women, of God, all utterances not given in His name but in their own and for their own purposes.

“The challenge is one of discernment. The difficulty is knowing the difference between messages from God and data from other sources. Discrimination is a simple matter with the application of a basic rule:

Mine is always your Highest Thought, your Clearest Word, your Grandest Feeling. Anything less is from another source. Now the task of differentiation becomes easy, for it should not be difficult even for the beginning student to identify the Highest, the Clearest, and the Grandest.

Yet will I give you these guidelines:

The Highest thought is always a thought that contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest feeling is that feeling which you call love.

Joy, truth, love.

These three are interchangeable, and one always follows the other. It matters not in which order they are placed.

Having with these guidelines determined which messages are Mine and which have come from another source, the only question remaining is whether My messages will be heeded.”

Okay, enough with the quotations for tonight. Interesting though, huh? And not that difficult. When someone tells what God wants you to do, do not own those words. Apply against them, those three tests. Are they words of love? Are they words of truth? Are they words of joy? If they are not, then they are someone’s message alright, but they are not God’s message. When your leaders tell you things that do not pass those tests, do not accept what you are being told as God’s will for you, or for anyone else. When your leaders tell you God wants you to hate someone else in some other country. They are not telling you the truth. When your leaders tell that God wants you to hate someone who loves differently than you do, they are not telling you the truth. When your leaders tell you it is right, and God’s will, that taxes be cut and education be curtailed, that children must go without health care and basic needs because of mistakes their parents have made, they are not telling you the truth. When someone tells you that it is right to not help those less fortunate, that they must pull themselves up by their bootstraps, as the teller insists he/she has done, they are not telling you the truth. Those who say such things, who believe that they got what they have on their own are not telling you the truth. The truth is none of us get to where we are in life on our own. Not one. We are a species that lives in communities, and we take care of each other in that way. We have always provided for each other, we have always been unwilling to see a neighbor suffer without lending a hand. We did not rise to the top of corporations by ourselves and on our own merits, we got there with help, lots of it, from parents, teachers, mentors, friends and opportunities that presented themselves by virtue of our station in life, our good fortune in having been born into a privileged society or family, or country, but we most certainly did not do so without help.

Some of us, get to the top by standing on the shoulders of those with lesser abilities, or lesser opportunities. Some of us think it perfectly natural, and their God-given right that they should earn more in a day than do their employees in a year. Some of us have the temerity to call that God’s will. When, in truth, it is nothing more than their own greed, their own avarice, their own selfishness, they are trying to pass off on the rest of us as God’s will. Book 1 will go on to talk about this in much more detail, and Book 2 offers a blueprint to a place we could actually call a civilization. We aren’t there yet. We are barely out of our caves. And we have not yet stopped throwing rocks at each other. We have not yet learned that having a thing, whatever that might be, that comes at the cost of another is not worth having. We are taught as children what sharing means, but that lesson doesn’t get past 6th grade for most of us. And we forget it so rapidly as adults that it is as if we never learned it at all. How can one person just a multi million dollar salary knowing that the employees whose labor provide it can’t afford health care? How can a corporation, a non-person, made of real persons who comprise its governing board, decide to stop hiring full time workers so that it can save money, and then give it to themselves, by not providing basic benefits to those part time workers like sick days, vacation days and basic health care? How do people who think like that live with themselves? The same way the pharisees and scribes of Christ’s day did. They persuade themselves that it is God’s will. I tell you here, now, tonight, this is NOT the will of God, this is the will of small, selfish people. We have a long way to go before we can call ourselves children of God. We can start by applying those three simple tests to every action we take and every action that is taken by our leaders, religious, political and business, and when those actions taken do not meet the test? We call them wrong. We say so. We challenge the status quo. We insist on fair treatment for ALL people, not just some. God did not create just some of us. He created ALL of us, and all of us must share in the bounty and beauty of this world fairly. When we accomplish that, when we learn to love all people as ourselves, we will be on our way to becoming a true civilization. And THAT is truth. much love, :^) gene