Printed
in the Conscious Creation Journal
August 1998, Issue 1
Religion
I - Part 1 of 3
Perspectives from Universal Intelligence
as expressed through Michele Mayama
[Within
this transcript, the questions placed in the boxes are being asked
by a group of session participants.]
"Welcome
and thank you for inviting us to be present with you. We understood
that there was a topic so we did our best to go find authority,
those who would speak well on this subject. This is, as we understand
it, an interactive evening taking on the purpose of religion, the
purpose of a systemization of spiritual thought. We will attempt
to give some perspective on this with a bit of background, but are
very open to interactions and questions as we go. If there is something
that you do not understand or if you wish further clarification,
please ask. We will also invite other questions beyond the topic
if you so wish after we pursue this for a little while. So, shall
we begin?"
"Each
of you has had some experience with some religion in the earth which
has been your guide for spiritual thoughts at one time or another.
The intent within any system of thought, whether it be Hindu, Catholic,
Lutheran, or Buddhist, is to organize an awareness into a framework
so that the conscious mind in this plane of mental understanding
of things can be comprehended, can be spoken about, can be communicated.
However, the intent of those who brought those thoughts in originally
was never to keep the system of thoughts rigid or crystallized,
but to bring an avenue, a way, a step-by-step progression to those
who have lost their way, have lost awareness or consciousness of
a transcendent being, a transcendent self. Religion was an attempt
to guide the consciousness back to awareness."
"Jesus,
Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna, all of the major avatars and great beings
and teachers have come embodying the awareness. They spoke to those
who noticed the awareness in them, who were drawn to their presence,
who felt at peace when they were in their midst, who felt and experienced
healing, wholeness. They felt more wholeness in their midst and
they kept asking questions; "What does this mean? How do we become
like you? How did you get this way?", etc., and these beings would
teach. They would begin to bring their awareness into forms that
could be understood by the consciousness of the time, whenever and
wherever they would happen to embody."
"Usually
after they left, or even at times while they were still around,
ones recorded their experiences, recorded what they said, recorded
their personal experiences and what they drew out of that. Those
became bodies of thought and were usually put down either in an
oral tradition or then later in a written tradition. They formed
beliefs, and people then learned those beliefs and taught others,
forming a religion. Religion is actually not so different than other
systems of thought including science or technology, science being
one where there is another thought that begins to be brought into
form and taught to others by those who consider themselves knowledgeable."
"Now,
what happens in the breakdown is that if one studies the system
of thought without embodying the awareness, there is a separation
and then what begins to happen is crystallization of the thought.
That then separates the person's experience from what is being transmitted."
"You
all can perhaps remember two things. One, what a personal experience
feels like where you are lifted beyond your every day spots and
every day experiences to a personal experience of transcendence
or a personal experience of awareness where there is something beyond
what you can describe. That is what religion has been originally
for, that is it's intent. How many of you have that experience during
an organized or religious ceremony or service, or teaching? Anyone
have an experience like that, a transcendence experience doing such?"
| I had one experience at the funeral of my uncle. We
were gathered afterward in his home with family and I had
an experience or feeling that I had never experienced before,
the best way I guess I can put it is that there was another
presence in the room and it was there momentarily, but it
was definitely there. |
"Yes,
that is an experience of what is beyond the typical framework, your
perceptual field, and it says that there is more than what is perceived
in the physical human field. What often has happened is that the experiences
of transcendence have been separated out of religion and people have
begun to search for them in different ways. Those who seek them oftentimes
seek through drugs and sometimes through alcohol as a means of filling
a hunger, a desire, a longing for some kind of direct personal knowing
of that transcendent God experience. The religions that have been
crystallized thought have been passed down or taught by those who
have limited experience with transcendence themselves, but they know
the teachings, the body of language, and that is what they teach.
That is why other means have begun to be introduced in this last hundred
years, and more and more so in the last ten years, as this age seeks
to fulfill its longing, this longing that is not fulfilled in all
of that which has been tried. Everyone has tried in some form
or fashion to fill the emptiness, to make the self at ease. If it
does not happen through what is tried, be it different forms of work
or different forms of drugs, or different forms of activities, then
there is an unsatisfied longing."
"A
part of an entire generation was born to set into motion this unfulfilled
longing, and they are pursuing it. Many of them are doing so under
meditation, looking at Eastern religion, looking at different avenues
of spirituality, and when there is a need the universe responds.
Channeling, or other forms of direct experience have begun to be
more and more and more opened into the human experience. Actually,
it is very old. Every ancient tradition and every primitive tradition
has had some form of channeling, some form of direct transmission
of energy. If it is not always specifically in words, sometimes
it is just that energy. Shamans, medicine people, and other oracles
in different traditions have had the ability to open to receive
directly and then pass it on for the benefit of the whole, for the
benefit of the community, for the benefit of those who are leading
communities. Even those who are in government often consulted their
oracles. Your forefathers in this Western world who were part of
the Masons had at their disposal those who were guides in the mystery
school that they studied. That was not so long ago and yet now there
is a greater hunger and a greater longing."
"Many
of the religions have truth encoded within them. Truth is not that
which you can comprehend and keep in a box, however. Has anyone
ever succeeded in keeping truth in a box? Not likely. Not really.
They might have tried."
| There is an attempt to do that, usually for an ulterior
motive. |
"Yes, because that would give them some authority and power. But,
it does not succeed because truth is ever present and it is always
given in a direct experience. It is not something that you can take
from another and say "Now I know the truth", because you will not
feel it. You will only be repeating something that someone else has
said and there will be an emptiness within the self after a while.
You will want to know what is this that is being sought and what is
the direct awareness, direct experience, of something that is more
than the human limited self has perceived through the senses."
| Are you saying that in reality organized religion has essentially
codified this search for a higher awareness, but also personified
it in such a way that a god, or a Buddha, or an Allah actually
exist? Or are they simply devices by which organized
religion is able to maintain focus? |
"There
is one God, one Source of all. In order to relate into the human experience,
the Source has taken on certain personifications, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed,
etc. This gave an ability to bring transcendent experience to relate
directly and bring the codification in directly. Putting that into,
in a sense, a personalized guide has ultimately limited people's direct
experience. It may help in the beginning steps of the search, however,
because ones like to be able to relate to something familiar, something
that is like them. If it is like you in some way, if you have a picture
of God that is God the Father, you relate to it from the human place."
"However,
the direct experience of transcendence is beyond any description
of that. It is beyond a personification. It is usually indescribable,
but very present, very real, and there are intuitive senses through
the heart that pick up things that you don't always directly see,
but you know. Those senses are what are your channels, your capacities
for direct personal experience. Love is the closest thing human
beings experience to transcendence. When you open your hearts in
love to another or you sit together in harmony or in peace, you
are having a transcendent experience. Oftentimes it's attached to
a person, or being with a person, or focused on a person, but it
is still transcendent. That is the closest avenue. So when we assist
one in this plane, we open greater amounts of love and assist ones
to relax into it, for that sets a certain field of energy which
makes personal experience of the transcendent more possible. We
don't control it, we can't, but each one opens and then it begins
to open to them."
| Are the codifications specified as religious institutions
so that they can be in some measure presented as truth, but
they may not be truth or at least they are hindrances to conceiving
truth? |
"It depends,
truly it depends, on who presents the teaching. Do you remember Pope
John XXIII? He carried a transcendent persona and he meditated, he
prayed. He had direct experience of the transcendence and people knew
that. He brought to earth that which he knew to be what he felt, and
he felt that it was his directive from this connection to breathe
some life into the codes, to shift things. His presence brought the
energy through, not so much his words. His words assisted ones to
comprehend what he was doing by being who he was."
"Jesus
did the same thing. His presence brought the energy into the experience
of others who then experienced something more than they had experienced
before. His words assisted them to understand what was happening.
It is when you attach to the words rather than opening to the experience
and the presence that things start to get boxed. Do you see? It's
not to say that many of the words don't, in a sense, form a matrix
that assist ones to understand aspects of much of the order of the
universe, but there is no system that is complete. There cannot
be. So if you stop with the system, you limit. There is always a
limit."
| I think I experience that transcendence often when I'm working.
Will I find a teacher who will help me learn to be able to
call on that more often? |
"We can
say that there are those who exist in the earth plane who have embodied
the energy of this transcendence who can be of assistance to you and
they are qualified to "teach", although it is not that they teach
anything to you because you are the one who is opening to the transcendence
yourself. You are calling it in and you use others to assist you whose
presence is already embodied, who set the energy field long enough
for you to expand your capacity so that you might do the same. Do
you understand the difference between that and a "teacher" who you
perceive as giving it to you?"
| Yes, but where will I find such a person? |
"They
are here and you can open to that in your vicinity and ask. It shows
up. All you do is ask. That is one of the very basic things that religions
don't teach you very well, is that you always have a direct connection.
Whether you experience it or not you always have a direct connection
to this transcendence and this universe that is quite vast. All you
have to do is ask for anything you desire or need and then open to
a limitless possible range of how it can be brought to you into your
experience."
| It strikes me that, at least on this plane, this human plane,
the various organizations and codifications of the church
attempt to control our daily lives, and keep us -- through
these codifications -- from seeking the direct line to transcending
this plane. It's actually a prevention and not a facilitation,
which may not be what they were designed to do originally,
but that they have actually come full circle and been more
of a barrier. My question is to have you comment on
that and then to comment on how is it then that religious
faith can be utilized if in fact prevention of the transcendent
experience is the result? |
"That
is an excellent question. First, humans have been evolving. If you
look at your last two hundred years and compare that to what was in
the middle ages, and compare that to earlier times, there has been
an evolution of the capacity of mind to comprehend, to apply, to create,
etc. In the earlier times, ones could not utilize the mind in the
same way. They did not have the capacity in a mental sense to think
beyond the survival of their own body and their own community. There
was a need for structure in some ways. A need to structure community.
A need to structure those whose basic energy needs were survival.
And so, the churches, the different churches and different traditions
served a structuring role as well as a codification for behavior.
They didn't have therapy and psychologists back then, do you see?
There was a codification for behavior, for community, how to behave
with each other."
"That
has evolved and has been rapidly evolving in the last one hundred
years, and so the codifications have outlived their purpose, and
what is now taking place is that ones are waking up. They're starting
to say, 'Well why should I follow this if my being, my conscience,
my intuition says I should do this, do something different.' Then
there is a struggle that happens because ones have been faithful
to the religion, the code, that one is brought up in. And yet more
and more are saying, 'I have to follow what I sense within', or
there is a denial of self that hurts, creates pain and struggle.
So more and more are doing such. When some continue to attempt to
hold the codes and even rigidify them further, there is a sense
of contraction that happens because there is fear. Whenever there
is fear underneath something there is contraction, a holding, and
wanting to keep people in control or keep yourself in control because
of the fear. What is happening is that this is growing beyond the
control of many because as more and more are evolving this consciousness
in the body it is going out into the wavelengths of the collective
consciousness so there is more and more openness. Faith, pure faith,
can serve this if the faith is not faith in the code, but faith
in the Source. They are faithful to that which leads them, that
which loves them, that which heals them, that which gives them hope.
But sometimes there is an attachment to the form, the religion,
the priest, the church, the minister or whatever as a means of having
something familiar again, do you see? But pure faith is not to the
form but to the transcendent, the Source."
| We are often taught that it is to the form, the code. |
"Yes,
that is misleading."
| I feel that I have been a victim of that codification and
control power. I'm Catholic, grew up Catholic, and was
raised under all those encyclicals and different types of
teachings that did not even allow the possibility to question
those, and I felt that it did not appeal to me intellectually
or did not rest well with my heart in terms of what I felt.
I think that what you have indicated seems to suggest that
there is change going on now. The theologians are coming
together and they seem to be attempting to dispel a lot of
those things that I felt were in my way, and I think the questioning
of the virgin birth, the questioning of meat on Friday has
gone by, but those kinds of things were really to me matters
of control. I may have more problems with my Baltimore
Catechism days, but I guess I really feel some relief that
these things are changing and I guess it's my hope that it
will continue to change so that we are not divided or separated
children of god. I was just wondering, does that seem
to fit in with what is happening in terms of what you were
previously talking about, that there will be a wholesome,
more global picture of what god is all about, and a turning
away of these codes? |
"Yes."
| I think Pope John XXIII was a light, but he's about the
only light that I can see in that long history of the church.
Another participant; and he flickered out much too soon. |
"This
time is about bringing the light alive in many, not just one or another.
This time is about fulfilling the longing in the heart for that direct
embodiment connection experience, and to bring that about worldwide,
eventually. This will not happen all at once, but you are evolving
toward that understanding where one sees that there is one family,
one great body with many manifestations of that body or one great
being with many forms to express through. Do you see? One heart. And
yet ones may begin to see how each religion, each code held a sort
of place in the whole. When that can be seen and appreciated, then
there is not so much fighting that a particular religion is better
and the way, and this one is not the way and we have to convert and
save you, or your way is wrong and ours is right and then the wars.
Do you see that comes from that?"
"Those
who have great need for code or structure or control also have great
fear. Do you see? The way to heal fear is with love. Great love
will heal great fear, and it isn't perhaps the love that lets somebody
walk all over you, that is not the love we speak of. It is the love
that provides, goes to the level where the fear is, and begins to
access what is the basic need at that place of fear. Every place
there is fear there is a lack somehow, or an incompleteness of that
ones evolution or a loss experienced in that place, or a wound."
| Do you understand how I feel that I have been controlled?
And how that has stopped me from releasing and being able
to reach that level of love and spirit that is not encumbered,
where there is no potential for guilt? |
"Yes,
we understand, and that which is your path as it is now is to choose,
as you have been. Make choices for yourself based on your heart and
your heart's longing and your heart's desire. The process is to release
that which has been limiting. Release the beliefs, the structures,
the emotions that have been attached to those structures, whether
it be anger or any other guilt, or any feelings that have been attached
to those beliefs and structures. Acknowledge them, recognize them,
name them, and then begin to choose to release them. Open to another
experience, open to love. Ask for assistance to do that, for there
are many who are waking up like you are. There are many who realize
that these have been codes and beliefs and systems that have meant
to confine and control you rather than serve you and serve your highest
good."
| Is there any specific approach that I might use? Because
it's embedded in my psyche and I've been working on it, but
I have not been able to separate that early indoctrination
from my mind and my heart. It's all confused.
But I know where I want to be. I need to shake that past without
denying any spiritual purpose. |
"What
is helpful is to do some form of regression or healing to the child
aspect of you where the codes were put in. Do you see? Connect to
that child with your more adult conscious awareness. Begin to tell
him, be with him as another voice. Connect to him. See him, feel him,
let him feel whatever he felt. It is also helpful to connect to the
child who was free beyond those codes. That, depending on whatever
age, had spontaneous impulses and spontaneous experiences be they
in nature or directly with spirit or with others. Because of the nature
of the divine child, that is natural. So, connecting to the child
and then being a voice to that child to say 'These things are not
all true. Do not take them in. Release them. Listen to something else
that might serve you better. Listen to your heart.' In fact, sometimes
it is good to say to the child, 'I would like to learn from you, who
you are, what your natural state is, and what your dreams are, what
your longings are, what your awareness is'. That is a step to connect
to what is more natural, more real within you. Once you get more and
more of that sense of realness, of core, of source, of divine within
you, it becomes easier to say 'This no longer serves me. No'."
| Can we expect the appearance of another great teacher like
Jesus or Mohammed or Buddha? |
"This
is an age where that which has been predicted is the return of the
Christ consciousness. Most people have expected one being to come.
Well, if you want to use the word one in terms of the oneness of consciousness,
that is true. The great teacher is arising, not coming down. It is
arising up from within the human forms that are present. It is the
awakening of the Christ-being consciousness that is the second coming
of this time. As that proceeds, you will meet great ones, great beings
in the eyes and bodies of those that you previously knew as every
day people, because these ones are awakening, arising from within
the hidden places that they have been kept. You will also gradually
in time see great beings that have not been embodied for some time
walking among you, but they will not walk among you until they can
walk among you as equals, without being made into another God and
then another religion. Do you see the danger?"
| I'm concerned about the role that religion has played in
the evolution of our cultures and the growing self-absorption
of members of this culture and the loss of community.
I also see that we've given little more than platitudes toward
improving the human condition. I think religion or organized
religion has played a major role separating us rather than
bringing us together, and I'd like your comment on that and
what you think it is that's going to happen in a world of
cynics, where many of us feel that we are part of a dying
culture, a dying civilization. |
"Some
things must pass away so that others might be born. When the codes
and the structures that are very much a part of your religions, governments,
and systems of thought are all put together they form what you would
call your civilization, and they have become limiting. They no longer
serve the evolutionary plan for the earth. So they in all likelihood
will pass away or change or be changed, many of them, because they
cannot survive. They cannot exist when they no longer serve for a
period of time. What is happening, however, is through the individuals
who are choosing love instead of fear, who are choosing to trust themselves
and their guidance from within their hearts and acting on that rather
than only on what you 'should' do from outside, these ones will bring
love into the places where there is need. Then there will begin to
be a revolution of love from the individuals acting in harmony, but
not needing a code or a law to act in harmony. They act in harmony
because they are all part of one great consciousness. So they act
in synchronization. Someone has coined the term synochracy as another
form of government to come which is not the government that is a democracy,
but that which is a synchronized motion that begins to take place
when enough people are in touch with their own inner system and that
is connected to the great system, the great order of the universe.
Then there is harmony. Then there is peace. Then there is that which
moves without being crystallized. It flows into experience and then
releases. If the form is no longer serving, it's released. Then there
is openness for more to come in. That is what begins to feel good."
"The
more you trust what feels to be in harmony, feels to be serving
what is needed, and less what people think should happen, then there
is a sort of revolution. That is happening in quiet ways, but you
can see the outcomes of it everywhere. There are structures in South
Africa, Russia, and in the various Arab countries that were quite
strong and are now softening. There is much that is taking place
that cannot be present any more. They are going through destructive
phases while another sense of self and being forms with a greater
harmony of community. And sometimes, as you have seen, when disaster
strikes there is often a bringing together of people in love to
assist each other. Sometimes there are such acts of nature in order
to do that."
This
is the end of Part 1 of 3 of this transcript. Part 2 will appear
in the October Issue. Here's a short preview from the upcoming
section:
"No.
We do not have forces that would be polarized or in duality where
we are. There is at this level only a sense of what is the direct
impulse of the Source or Creator that desires to be manifested in
various forms or levels. We receive the impulse of the Creator and
then bring it into form that can be, in a computer sense, downloaded,
so that you can receive it and then implement it. We do not have
opposition where we are. That is the human plane and the astral
plane just beyond you. These two planes have duality, they have
time and space, they have polarizations of black and white and all
of that which is the good and bad, etc. That is a dynamic force
that you evolve through, but that is not our experience. Some of
us have been there in your experience in duality in different times.
So we have reference to it, but it does not form our view. In fact,
we know that you experience it, but how we see you is as a form
of light that has a sort of container that we don't experience ourselves.
We see the form of light that you are with a sort of container.
We don't see specifically your human features the way you see each
other."
©1998,
Lightsmith. Printed in the August 1998 Issue of the Conscious
Creation Journal. (Feel free to duplicate this article for personal
use - please include this copyright notice.) http://www.consciouscreation.com/
Michele
Mayama is a channel for the Earth Mother and Universal Intelligence.
She shares these powerful transformative energies with individuals
and groups, and through publications and the internet. For monthly
channelings and commentary on the web, see www.lightsmith.com.
For more information or phone sessions she can be contacted at (651)
224-8239 or by e-mail at michele@lightsmith.com.
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