A small change in the itinerary, :^)

November 12th, 2007 | by gene |

I’ve had a request – to not exactly change anything but to shift gears for a bit, a request I am going to honor. Jen’s asked me to go through book 2 with her this week, re-read it, re-member it, before I say much about social change, let alone social justice. So I’m going to do that but I’m going to chatter some along the way.

One of the things I’ve talked about previously, from an idea in Book 1, is the idea about whether we wish to be the cause of our life or the effect of it. That is in connection with, conjunction with, the choices we make each day in how we live our lives, as creators or reactors. So, what I’m going to do here tonight, is talk about, quote a hatsful of nuggets from early on in Book 2. Things, I’ve known but not thought about for some time, it is important to re-acquaint ourselves with our souls from time to time, lest they feel unappreciated, lol.

So: God asks Neale on page 18 to look at two words that really define the human experience.

REACTIVE
CREATIVE

And, He says, “Notice they are the same word. Only the “C” has been moved! When you “C” things correctly, you become Creative, rather than Reactive.”

They go on to have a conversation we will come back to in time, but I want to skip a bit ahead to an exchange that has always left me a little breathless. And still does. Neale has been telling God that it is hard to be without God’s guidance and God is explaining that we never are. On page 24 of book 2, Neale says, well, he can’t be carrying around a yellow pad and pen all the time, which is how they were communicating as Neale wrote the books, and God says, well, if THAT was all you had to do, to be in constant touch with Me, woud you not do it? And Neale says, “Well, yes, of course.

God responds: “…I am with you always. I don’t live in the pen. I live in you.”

Neale: “That is true isn’t it…I mean, I can really believe that, can’t I?”

God responds: “Of course you can believe it. it’s what I’ve been asking you to believe from the beginning. It’s what ever Master, including Jesus, has said to you. It is the central teaching. It it the ultimate truth.
I am with you always, even unto the end of time.
Do you believe this?”

Neale: “Yes, now I do. More than ever, I mean.”

God responds: “Good. Then use Me. If it works for you to get out a pad and a pen…then, take out a pad and a pen. More often. Every day. Every hour, if you have to.
Get close to Me. Get close to Me! Do What you can. Do what you have to do. Do what it takes.
Say a rosary. Kiss a stone. Bow to the East. Chant a chant. Swing a pendulum. Test a muscle.
Or write a book.
Do what it takes.
Each of you has your own construction. Each you has understood Me – created Me – in your own way.
To some of you I am a man. To some of you I am a woman. To some, I am both. To some, I am neither.
To some of you I am pure energy. To some, the ultimate feeling, which you call love. And some of you have no idea what I am. You simply know that I AM.
And so it is.
I AM.
I am the wind which rustles your hair. I am the sun which warms your body. I am the rain which dances on your face. I am the smell of flowers in the air, and I am the flowers which send their fragrance upward. I am the air which carries the fragrance.
I am the beginning of your first thought. I am the end of your last. I am the idea which sparked your most brilliant moment. I am the glory of its fulfillment. I am the feeling which fueled the most loving thing you ever did. I am the part of you which yearns for that feeling again and again.
Whatever works for you, whatever makes it happen – whatever ritual, ceremony, demonstration, meditation, thought, song, word or action it takes for you to “reconnect” – do this.
Do this in remembrance of Me.”

Then, a bit further on, Neale and God have another exchange. And it is this exchange that describes what I felt in the presence of the white and golden globes as well as anything in either book, so I want to close this movement into Book 2, with this piece. They have been talking about humanity’s propensity to do terrible things and not blame God, as the creator of all things, but rather human inventions, like the devil, to make God less than He is, but creating a way for His expressed will for us, the full experience of His love in every moment, to not take place though He has willed it be so, and to excuse this lack by blaming other actors. So let’s pick up at the bottom of page 39, with Neale saying: “I didn’t say You can’t control the devil. You can control everything. You’re God! It’s just that you choose not to. You allow the devil to tempt us, to try to win our souls.”

God says: “But why? Why would I do that If I don’t want to have you not return to me?”

Neale: Because you want us to come to you out of choice, not because there is no choice. You set up Heaven and Hell so there could be a choice. So we act out of choosing and out of simply following a path because there is no other.”

God say: “I can see how you’ve come to this idea. That’s how I’ve set it up in your world, and so think that’s how it must be in Mine.
In your reality, good cannot exist without bad. So you believe it must be the same in Mine.
Yet I tell you this: There is no “bad” where I am. And there is no Evil. There is only the All of Everything. The Oneness. And the Awareness, the Experience, of that.
Mine is the Realm of the Absolute, where One thing does not exist in relationship to Another, but quite independent of anything.
Mine is the place where All there Is is Love.

We’ll come back to this again. And again. And probably yet again. Because, as I talked about the lights on the main site, THIS is precisely the feeling, the words I was searching for to describe the feeling I had as those lights emerged from me. There was NO fear, no anger, nothing really at all, but this overwhelming sense of wholeness, of LOVE. Of peace, warm, safe, complete. I glimpsed where God is in those moments. That’s why the main site exists. To tell people that, just that. To let them know that THIS is not all there is, that there is another place to which we are all indelibly and permanently connected, from which we came and to which we will ALL certainly return. Home. The place where Love is all there is. THAT is our ultimate truth. That there are things to do here is undeniable, else we would not be here, but we need not FEAR our creator, we need not heed those who would teach us through various religions that ours is an angry God, a jealous God, one would condemn us for eternity if we do not manage to stumble onto the one “true” path, the one “true” religion and recognize it as such. God takes religion to task rather severely in Book 2. Those of you who have read book 1, might think He did there, but that was scratching the surface, giggle.

He begins book 2 with these words on page 4 as He and Neale talk about the upcoming work and He says: “Except that in this book I’ll bring up some subjects myself, without you asking. I didn’t do much of that in the first book, as you know.”

Neale: “Yes. Why are you adding that twist here?”.

God: “Because this book is being written at My request. I asked you here – as you’ve pointed out. The first book was a project you started by yourself.
With the first book you had an agenda. With this book, you have no agenda, except to do My will.”

Neale: “Yes, that’s correct.”

God: “That, Neale, is a very good place to be. I hope you – and others – will go to that place often.:

Neale: “But I thought Your Will was my will. How can I not do Your will if it’s the same as mine?”

God: ” That is an intricate question – and not a bad place at all for us to begin this dialogue.”

That is where WE will pick the conversation back up. Or you may yourself if have Book 2. God does indeed have an agenda in Book 2 and He proposes multiple solutions to multiple social conditions – solutions that could be enacted, practically immediately. Reasonable, wise, humane and loving. Could we, should we, expect less of He who lives in a place where Love is all there is? And who considers that place our home as much as His? No. We shouldn’t. Which doesn’t mean some of His ideas aren’t are a hard sell. But that is only because so many of us have learned to live with hardened hearts. When we let our hard hearts soak, just a little while, in love, anything becomes possible. And there is no objection, no obstacle that God has not considered in proposing His ideas for what we might do to avert the coming global warming crisis, the religious wars we are now engaged in around the world and the overwhelming poverty and hunger that holds so many of our brothers and sisters in abject slavery, generational poverty exists across the world. There is enough here to take care of that, to see to it that everyone’s basic needs are met and that all have an opportunity to find and use their talents in ways that enhance and strengthen us all. It IS possible. It WILL come. It IS worth working for.

So I’m going to insert here, just one graphic and then ask just one, maybe two questions about it. This is a list of worldwide military spending, please note that the number is 1100 BILLION dollars. That the rest of the world COMBINED spends 500 billion dollars and that we, the United States, spend 623 BILLION dollars all by our lonesome, with the next closest country coming in at 65 billion dollars – China, we spend 10 times MORE than China. What POSSIBLE reason could there be to outspend the rest of the ENTIRE world, of what can we be SO afraid? And why? With a few, very small changes, and agreements we could change the world overnight, by redirecting some of those funds, not only in our country, but in all countries. It is THAT about which we are going to be talking as I move through book 2 over the next couple weeks and discuss the ideas God laid out for Neale more than 10 years – the latest editions of book 2 contain an updated forward noting the events of 9/11, but the proposals God made 8 years before that to Neale are as rock solid now as they were then. I hope you will look forward to this conversation as much as I am. For me it is like greeting an old friend, giggle, for most of you it will be new, probably. What I do know for certain is that it is doable, reasonable, and timely. We may never make this place “feel” like “home – where Love is all there is”, but we CAN try. much love, :^) gene

I also want to note that I only copied in countries that spend at least a billion – the rest of the list, indeed this whole graphic is at: World Military Spending

World Wide Military Expenditures
Country	Military expenditures – dollar figure	Budget Period
World	$1100 billion	2004 est. [see Note 4]
Rest-of-World [all but USA]	$500 billion	2004 est. [see Note 4]
United States	$623 billion	FY08 budget [see Note 6]
China	$65.0 billion	2004 [see Note 1]
Russia	$50.0 billion	[see Note 5]
France	$45.0 billion	2005
United Kingdom	$42.8 billion	2005 est.
Japan	$41.75 billion	2007
Germany	$35.1 billion	2003
Italy	$28.2 billion	2003
South Korea	$21.1 billion	2003 est.
India	$19.0 billion	2005 est.
Saudi Arabia	$18.0 billion	2005 est.
Australia	$16.9 billion	2006
Turkey	$12.2 billion	2003
Brazil	$9.9 billion	2005 est.
Spain	$9.9 billion	2003
Canada	$9.8 billion	2003
Israel	$9.4 billion	FY06 [see Note 7]
Netherlands	$9.4 billion	2004
Taiwan	$7.9 billion	2005 est.
Mexico	$6.1 billion	2005 est.
Greece	$5.9 billion	2004
Singapore	$5.6 billion	2005
Sweden	$5.5 billion	2005 est.
North Korea	$5.0 billion	FY02
Iran	$4.3 billion	2003 est.
Pakistan	$4.3 billion	2005 est.
Belgium	$4.0 billion	2003
Norway	$4.0 billion	2003
Chile	$3.9 billion	2005 est.
Colombia	$3.5 billion	2005
Poland	$3.5 billion	2002
Portugal	$3.5 billion	2003
South Africa	$3.5 billion	2005 est.
Denmark	$3.3 billion	2003
Vietnam	$3.2 billion	2005
Algeria	$3.0 billion	2005 est.
Kuwait	$3.0 billion	2005 est. [see Note 2]
United Arab Emirates	$2.7 billion	2005
Egypt	$2.5 billion	2005
Malaysia	$2.5 billion	2005
Switzerland	$2.5 billion	2005 est.
Morocco	$2.3 billion	2005 est.
Czech Republic	$2.2 billion	2004
Qatar	$2.2 billion	2005
Thailand	$2.0 billion	2005
Angola	$2.0 billion	2005 est.
Finland	$1.8 billion	FY98/99
Argentina	$1.8 billion	2005
Venezuela	$1.6 billion	2005 est.
Austria	$1.5 billion	FY01/02
Romania	$1.5 billion	2005
Jordan	$1.4 billion	2005 est.
Indonesia	$1.3 billion	2004
Iraq	$1.3 billion	2005 est.
Hungary	$1.1 billion	2002 est.
New Zealand	$1.1 billion	2005 est.
Bangladesh	$1.0 billion	2005 est.