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There is no life-force “in” the universe. Rather, the universe is the life-force. Life is much, much more than the wriggling, breathing, growing process that your physical scientists have defined as living. Vegetable life is different from your own, and therefore you do not respect the plant kingdom as you properly should. Mineral life is another magnitude different from your own, and therefore you do not even acknowledge it. The constant play of the life-force throughout the “empty” reaches of the universe is so vastly different from your own that you do not even suspect its existence. Everything, everywhere, including each atom of physical matter, each pulse of electromagnetic energy, each thought generated by conscious existence, is alive. And in this living, we are all together: the One Life is living us all.
Living is also being conscious. Consciousness is much, much more than the responding to stimulus that is examined by your physical sciences. Vegetable consciousness is so different from your own that almost no one considers plants to be conscious at all. Some of your recent experiments have demonstrated clearly that plants are not only conscious but in communication with each other and other forms of life, such as humans. You continue to deny this because the range of your own conscious selves is so narrow that you do not even recognize your own communication on these more subtle levels. Do not despair; you can become aware of the activities of your larger consciousness. When you will let yourselves see and understand, you will recognize the conscious communi-cations among the plants, and the water, and the soil and minerals, even the sunlight and the atoms of the wind. Eventually, the commonality that is all these things will grow in your awareness. This consciousness we are is but our manifestation of the One consciousness, being conscious in so many delightful and intertwined ways. The One is infinitely present, and creative, and supportive, and our consciousness is the most direct path to being aware of our part—and totality—in that Oneness.
Even the energies that link the multitudinous and diverse aspects of the universe are alive, and conscious, and in constant communication. Gravity need not be a mystery to you; it is the expression of an intimate relatedness among mutually participating physical bodies. All things are related because all things are buds on the same tree. The relatedness is expressed in many ways, only one of which is the energy relationship of gravity. It is a conscious expression of the Unity. Professor Einstein realized that among the highest expressions of our individual reasoning minds is the realization of the relatedness, the unity of matter, energy, and mind.
There are energies much more subtle than gravity and the electromagnetic spectrum. Your physical bodies are totally dependent upon their constant interaction with the “energy body” which permeates every cell and fiber. Only now are your doctors even becoming aware of the existence of this wonderful intermediate mechanism. Your mind uses this energy transducer to maintain the constant connection to the sun, the air, the earth, all the consciously organized forces of the universe. It is the mechanism by which your consciousness creates your physical body, just as the larger Consciousness creates the larger Universe. All is One, and at some level each is aware of its identity with all “others”.
It is important for you to realize the relatedness. There is no more important object of all human evolution, and culture, and education, and science, than for you, the individual, personal ego, to re-cognize that you are not separate. What happens in your life is totally dependent upon what happens in all other aspects of all other lives in your environment, which ultimately includes the entire universe, seen and unseen. What happens in your life is a function of your consciousness and that is not separate from your larger Consciousness as the people, and trees, and animals, even the mountains and rivers and wind around you.
The American Indian peoples were actually much more advanced in this realization than your “educated” society. They understood the connectedness, and the necessity for considering the larger effects of one’s thoughts and actions upon the wider life that is ours. They could see the world, in their mind, from the point of view of the elk, or the beaver, or the river, or the rainbow. This is closer to “God-Consciousness” by far than the isolating, specializing, dissecting approach of western science. The American Indian vision has all but died—been murdered, actually—but it is not too late for a re-cognition of its truth and value. Your society desperately needs a balance, a spiritual support, and it can be found very close at hand, as always. You have gained knowledge, and that is as it should be. But in seeking knowledge you have often overlooked wisdom.
If you can develop an awareness of the relatedness of all things, you will be able to see the value of an act or event that feeds more than your own selfish ego. When you make judgments that something is good or bad, it is almost always with reference to your own comfort, or ease, or convenience. Looking back, you will almost invariably find that you learned and grew most as a result of events you had considered to be “bad”. Looking at the larger effects upon your larger understanding, you find that many events judged “bad for me” are actually the ones which benefit the group or the environment as a whole. If you can abandon entirely the process of judging “good for me” and “bad for me”, then you will be able to see the benefit that every act or event can have for someone, or something, somewhere. This creation is, after all, perfect, and if we can see beyond our own selves, we will become constantly aware of the perfection that is here, now. Is this not desirable, to thus be able to experience the Kingdom of Heaven which is ours, even now?
For most of us, the realization requires much experience through many, many cycles. There is a grand purpose involved in the taking on of material form, and the lessons must be learned completely and with care. Most of us will live other physical lives after this one, and almost all of us have lived before. To know the details is merely a pursuit of curiosity; the understanding gained is with us always, in our larger Selves. Our God-awareness grows quietly but steadily, until we shall dwell always in the light and have learned the lessons of the material world. The next step, of course, is service, in fostering everywhere the manifesting and subsequent understanding of the One.