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"Isness, not
people, is the genuine authority for individual action."
William Samuel
Dear Friends of William
Samuel,
It is time for me to post
the Spring Journal Notes from William Samuel. We are having
a gorgeous Spring here in
How Glorious It is that
God's Immutable Perfection can and does by-pass
the 'human limited view' and just keeps right on Being The
Fullness of Immutable Infinitude It Is.
As we are bombarded with
the a noisy gongs and clanging cymbals from the left,
from the right, from the middle (it's all one end to other
the same 'swath of cloth') I am going to try to keep out of
the mayhem... I will do my best to keep myself from
'jumping in the stew' thinking I can do something to make the
'stew' better....Ha! After all these years, I DO know better than
that...but the magnetic pull 'human scene' sometimes still tugs
at me...
So, I think I have found
the perfect selection from William's work that is suitable for me
and perhaps for all of us who are interested in seeing all the
commotion going on 'out there' from The Higher View, the Correct
Viewing position. This piece is called "A Course of
Action", I have sent it along here as an attachment.
I am always amazed ( but
I should not be) that the things that were going on in the 1960's
are still going on today (collectively 'mortal mind' 'the old
man' has not as yet made the Full Turn Around or final
letting go).
Website access:
http://williamsamuel.com/03-17-09-jn-asd-course.htm
This one is also very good for today: http://williamsamuel.com/03-17-09-jn-asd-fear.htm
And this one: http://williamsamuel.com/03-17-09-jn-asd-unpossessed.htm
I continue to find Bill's
prophetic words to be astounding and essential to hear. If
you are interested in what is really going on in our world at a
metaphysical level Bill writes about it in his book
"The Child Within Us Lives! A Synthesis of Science, Religion
and Metaphysics" Read the introductory pages:
http://williamsamuel.com/01-03-08-cw-popcorn.htm
Excellent
explanation.
Let me add one little
thing here that might be helpful in understanding this stuff
about "The Child". I recently heard some quantum
physicist saying that they have found an energy field that
is pure information, it is an all knowing intelligence,
light and power....the beautiful thing is this; he called it
"Grace". How Wonderful is that! Now science
is calling this Infinite Field of Intelligence
"Grace"...Very Nice!
Well, this
"Grace" is The Divine Mind, it is the Divine
Intelligence that is accessible to all of us because It is the
Essence of The Awareness and Life we are and It is the
Real of us, within us.....this field of intelligence or
"Grace" that has been discovered is the same as
"The Child" that Bill is writing about in his book
"The Child Within Us Lives! A Synthesis of Science, Religion
and Metaphysics".
In at least
four sayings, some from the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus refers
to those who will find the kingdom as "children."
Enjoy and do write me if
you need anything, or just to share your heart or mind,
I am here, Sandy Jones
P.S. My personal email
address has changed to: sandy@ojaimail.com
However, I can ALWAYS be
reached at sandy@williamsamuel.com
The Awareness of Self-Discovery by William Samuel
pp. 169 – 177
A COURSE OF ACTION IN THE MIDST OF TURMOIL
Reader, the following is an essay of urgency pertaining to the
events of the day and “what to do”
concerning them. I have been urged from within to get it written,
but it has not been easy to find
the words. Even after many revisions I am aware it barely touches
the hem of the Light I have been
given to see and tell about.
The seed is Here, however—the gist. The discerning Heart,
the Single Eye, will find it and
ascertain its significance relative to the great crunch soon to
be brought to bear against the
established ideas of the world—all of them—religious,
educational, political, monetary, social, et
al—awesome events perhaps, but nothing to be frightened
of, nothing that can harm Identity.
As simple, unjudging Awareness, we can watch it all with wonder
and excitement like children
standing on a high peak surveying the pounding surf below.
The storm passes and the earth is
refreshed. The Real remains untouched.
The honest action of our daily experience appears to be a quiet
middle ground, a delicate balance.
Consider, for instance, the cautious balance between not
yielding and not contending—or not
contending and not yielding.
In the human scheme of things, the refusal to yield to something
we have come to perceive as a
false authority is accompanied by the world’s moral demand
to do battle with that authority and set
it straight—always for the idealistic benefit of others, of
course. Such action is the product of
human “education” and has become the intuitive reflex
of a society geared to “progress.” But there
is another course of action open to us wherein we quietly refuse
to yield to any authority but the
Divine, yet remain careful (for our own peace and the benefit
of the world) not to overstep that
refusal thence to begin contending with the binding, confining
false authority.
Of course, the world holds this course in grand contempt. Even
the world’s metaphysicians, by and
large, attempt to rectify appearances, but our tangible freedom
in daily experience will never be
found outside this delicate balance between not yielding and not
contending.
No, we do not cow before the supposed power of images, signs and
symbols, that have no power; we do
not act as floor mats nor yield ourselves servants to obey the
appearances of the world and its
sundry enslaving ideas. But neither do we take those actions that
constitute a battle with the
world’s pseudo-authority. When this delicate point is
perceived and lived (and lived!) our vision
of war, rebellion and personal inharmony is ended.
BY WAY OF EXPLANATION
A growing portion of my correspondence concerns itself as
follows: (1) “Our children (or
grandchildren) are anti-establishment, anti-adult, anti-social
and contemptuous of nearly
everything conventional. All they are for are mind-changing
drugs. What am I to do?” (2) “My
organization (school, business, church, body) is woefully caught
up in the dictatorial emptiness of
old conditioned thinking and would attempt to enslave me thereby.
What am I to do, pull up stakes
or battle for an improvement in my organization?”
As appearances go, our response to the second question has given
rise to the appearances that
motivate the first. The answer to the one is the answer to the
other—but that answer does not exist
out there with rebellious society and its destructive actions,
nor with the recalcitrant,
dictatorial organizations so many would like to see reorganized
to fit a new pattern. It has
altogether to do with this action the reader is right
here—no one else and nowhere else. One does
not have to “pull up stakes” or “battle for an
improvement.” There is yet another course of action,
a barely seen center ground upon which one may stand and find
himself having cleared up both
situations for himself at once. As this action-WE-are stops its
battle with its “out there,” we see
the meaning behind the world’s turmoil and see it without
fear or loss of equanimity.
For me it has been helpful to learn the hard lesson that
challenging the pseudo-powers of the world
does not mean a battle. To challenge the authority of a power
that is not God is to stand firm on
the single ground of God’s omnipotence, therein discovering
the powerlessness of the
pseudo-authority—and finding it in the first hand language
of my own experience.
To battle with the pseudo-authority in either action or argument
is to give it (in my own
experience) the very power it does not possess outside my belief
that it is a power to overcome,
change, heal or, as I am some times tempted, paste in the mouth
with a tomato—as if there could be
a power besides God! Even then, the battle is with a
belief—a personal determination that a power
besides God exists capable of binding us and doing us in.
The faltering heart, the swollen joints, the fractious groups and
warring nations are the evidence
of that fictitious belief. To see the end of the mischief
“there,” we end the contention with our
own images “here.” Reader, you see this?
It is not the people in our world who must do this. Rather, this
consciousness that “includes”
those people does it first, then we see our mirrored Self-images
doing likewise. We be the lifted
up, pristine Awareness smiling at itself here and find ourselves
living the Christ of our Self
perceived. Self-inclusive universe smiling back from the mirror.
The images of perception, whether they be institutions, people or
feelings, are not the masters of
the consciousness (Life) reading these words. Rather,
institutions, people, feelings have their
apparent existence because ISNESS (God) is aware as this
awareness we are. Dominion resides where
this one exists. To be dictated to by a false authority is to
yield oneself servant thereof and
sleep enslaved. To let our own images lead us around by the nose
just because “they say” thus and
so is as senseless as the television set that trembles in fear
that one of its images will smash
the picture tube. We question the basic authority of the
slavemaster by understanding the reasons
for its appearance in our affairs.
~~~~~~~~
Yes, lest we be fooled and find ourselves adding to the
picture’s agony rather than seeing the
naught of it, we awaken to the narrow pathway between the
challenge of external authority that
would bind us, and doing battle with it. The present rebellion of
certain groups within “society”
will stop its senseless destructiveness and come out from its
subverting, perverting nastiness only
as this awareness-being-I ends its own contention with its
included images. Within the cause-effect
arena of mental manipulation, the appearance of a society being
ripped apart by guilt-ridden groups
demanding freedom is the inevitable consequence of our own vain
effort at mental
manipulation—attempts to elevate a mistaken sense of Self
up to a Perfection that is already All.
He who would try to improve the world, spoils it, as Laotse said.
The time is ripe to stand fast as the witness of the ALLNESS we
know to be the Fact of existence.
We pull in the insensate reins of contention here-as-I-within
before we can understand why our
images appear to be going off half cocked in all directions. We
live and act the Christ-Comforter
we are to our own perception of existence first.
We do not save our world by doing battle with it, tearing it
down, burning it up, creating doubt or
suspicion, undermining it, healing it, manipulating it or
trying to resign from it via a letter of
resignation or drugs. We “save” it by seeing it as it
is, seeing ourselves as we are, and
acknowledging ISNESS to be the basis for all that is, has been,
or could be.
WHERE THE AUTHORITY IS
God, the reality being this single and only AWARENESS I AM, is
the authority that blooms the bud,
scatters the seed and flashes its Cosmic Light around the
universe. This authority has never been
vested in a human organization, be it a body with organs, a
scientific institution, a financial
institution, a marriage institution or a smother church.
Furthermore, none of us has ever been
unfaithful to this Divine Authority being Identity, nor
“lapsed from the faith.” How, in God’s
allness, can Identity lapse from Itself?
Undoubtedly, organizations (even as the body) perform
legitimate, worthwhile services, but those
services are abrogated to whatever extent we give the
organization power to enslave its members or
to whatever extent we claim a position of superiority or
inferiority for our own appearances of
organization or views of Reality.
Isness, not people, is the genuine authority for individual
action. The consciousness that reads
these words stands as its own self-evident proof of being,
Deity’s awareness of existence. Its
relationship to Being is not governed by the man-made laws of any
intermediary, no matter how
correctly (Divinely) authorized it is or professes to be. The
communion between Reality and this
consciousness-we-are is not now, and has never been, routed
through any external church,
philosophy, system, leader, ritual, institution or book—to
include the Bible. Intercourse with
Reality is direct, as direct as Allness is ever its own sameness.
Enlightenment, the “mysterious
agreement,” is between IS and AM, the single ONE,
Self-evident to and as this Awareness-I-am. My
proof of this fact is the Light I live as, and see enlightening
my Experience.
When this is understood, we find our Light appearing on the scene
via books, institutions, friends
and strangers at every turn of the road—and we know when
that appearing is our own Within
disclosing Itself to us in the language of the moment.
The “authority of the organization,” whatever its
appearing, resides in That being THIS
consciousness. That which presents itself as
intermediary—pope, church, institution, society,
bible or canon of ancient law—exists powerlessly in
“us” (Me) as images of this awareness-I-am.
“SO WHAT DO I DO ABOUT MEMBERSHIP IN MY COLLEGE (OR CHURCH
OR BUSINESS OR WORLD)?”
The Golden Thread of the Absolute exists. We know because we have
found it. We feel, know and see
the Fact of Singleness—evidence of God’s ALLNESS. We
who discern the Thread are come as the savior
of our own appearing, the Christ to the Experience we are.
As I see it now, it makes no difference whether we are inside an
organization or outside it,
provided we do not feel a sense of restriction. Even then,
cutting ourselves away does not mean we
will find the restriction gone. It is the sense of being an
identity capable of being restricted
that appears to me as a “me” bound by an ailing body,
oppressive organization or a flat pocketbook.
The axe at the root has to do with this one’s position, not
the “Church’s.” Identity is a matter of
SELF determination and in the end, no organization, not even
the body, can prevent the discovery.
Therefore, I do not presume to tell anyone whether he should join
an organization or leave one. We
each follow what seems the Heart-directed course of action. For
myself, I once thought the wisteria
vine was the most beautiful of all the flowers in the garden. As
a gardener, I worked with my
wisteria to the exclusion of all else and awakened one day
entangled, no longer free to follow the
sunlight outside the shadows. For me (though not necessarily for
thee) it seemed wise to come out
and be separate from that clinging vine because I could neither
speak nor write of my own
self-unfoldments without violating rules to which I had willingly
agreed. So I cut myself away from
the organizational rules and found the more distant purview of
the wisteria lovelier than ever!
More: I found the beauty of the orchid! I found the larkspur, the
rose, the dandelion, the
sassafras root and the wild woodland outside the regulated
boundary of the garden!
Every flower in the garden is ME and I take my nectar from any
book or blossom I see I be at the
moment. Only those organizations that permit such freedom can
survive.
In all fairness I must point out again that my entanglement
with the wisteria of old theology was
not the wisteria’s fault. A vine is a vine—neither
good, bad, right nor wrong—but who can make
wisteria into heather or a dandelion into a rose? If there
isn’t enough shade beneath the pine, we
sit under an oak, but we don’t cut down the pine nor strip
it of its limbs. Its shade may be quite
enough for the tufted titmouse, the bushy-tailed squirrel or the
mercenary who thinks that tree is
the only tree capable of dropping an “apple” in his
lap.
~~~~~~~~
Which is easier: to play the role of a great crusading contender
doing impossible (and miserable)
battle with society and its organizations, or to stop playing
that role and rest in the happy
Already? For myself, I prefer to let pine trees be pine trees and
wisteria vines be wisteria vines.
If, in blaming the vine for my own entanglement, I should succeed
in pulling it up by the roots,
what will I have to show for it except a hernia, a sore back and
the sight of a wrecked society
ripped apart by excessive zealousness?
God’s Phoenix of ALREADY does not have to rise from the
ruins of a shattered society. It will
appear to, of course, but those who know the forthright way of
the middle ground—of the already
Infinite—will not be troubled as the dream’s last
soliloquy is sounded, as the curtain falls with a
crash and the mortal arc lights give way to the Light of the
Eternal, sunshine of the Real.
~~~~~~~~
The Awareness of Self-Discovery, by William Samuel, may
be ordered from Sandy Jones at
http://williamsamuel.com/booktitles.html