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we are painting a painting we have to experiment with a colour, shape or form before we are certain as to what we will do, so it is that the creative effort, in which we are all participating, requires that we experiment with the notion of separation. And the only true way to experiment with such a thing is to experience it. We’ve all been experimenting with and experiencing duality ever since—through our contractual agreement to take on this duality trance state in which we fully see ourselves as separate from the Divine. Once we get to the end of that experiment, we will have fully experienced it to its ultimate conclusion—Oneness. At that point, form or substance will know itself as Divine, the creation of planet Earth will be complete and we will await our next adventure. If all of that is true, then our ideas about
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suffering and either avoiding or coping with life’s difficulties are only a part of the duality trance state in which we all live. There is an entirely different reality occurring on another level, which the duality trance state does not encompass in its limited scope. And if that is true, than it seems that it is possible for any one of us at any time to break out of that trance state and see ourselves as Divine Beings, not only One with the entire Universe, but with Divine essence itself. What would this then mean about life’s difficulties? What would it mean about good and bad? Such a shift in awareness would convince us that there is no such thing as good or
absolutely nothing in the face of such enormous and profound gifts. The dualistic version of life is reductionist at best and, at worst, utter blindness. If we can begin
What if we only agreed to be put into that duality trance state because we were in a co-creative effort with the Divine to bring form into full awareness of its essential divine nature?
bad, that this split-consciousness was only a part of the duality trance state. This would in turn mean that we cannot experience anything that is not a profound gift from and to the soul—or the essential Divine Self. In the real world, there is no good or bad, there is only profound, amazing life energy giving itself life energy. And this reality is always co-occurring parallel to and as a co-creative part of the duality trance state. Here’s how that works. Let’s say that I
came here in this incarnation to learn that I have the ability to love unconditionally. First, let’s clarify that the ‘I’ here is not my soul. My soul already knows that it loves unconditionally. Rather it is the sense of myself as form, separate from the Divine, which must learn—and in this lifetime I came to learn that I have the capacity to love unconditionally. Each time the part of me, which defines itself separate from the Divine, comes here, the soul intends for it to learn something small or large about its essential divine nature. This time, its unconditional love. But I’m born into a family in which my parents are distant, cold and abusive. Well,
then to look for the gift behind every event, person, place, thing, circumstance and loss, as well as those found in all of the wonders of living—such as falling in love, having babies, experiencing the power and presence of nature and other exciting adventures—then we are well on our way to taking the blindfold off, to see clearly who we truly are.
Andrea Mathews is the author of The Law Of Attraction: The Soul’s Answer To Why It Isn’t Working And How it Can and of Restoring My Soul: A Workbook for Finding and Living
the Authentic Self, as well as several published articles and poems. An Inspirational and Motivational speaker, she is also the host of the popular international radio show called Authentic Living. And she is a psychotherapist, with over 30 years’ experience, working and living in America.
Andrea will be speaking with Elizabeth Jewell, Editor of LivingNow, on the free webinar, LivingNow Live, on Wednesday, 24th August, at 7.30pm Australian EST. Log in to
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we say, that makes no sense, how could we learn unconditional love from that? Suppose after experiencing my distant, cold, abusive parents, I continually get attracted to distant, cold and abusive lovers, whom I love with all of my heart, but from whom I must eventually separate because the relationships are too toxic. I might look at this as profoundly sad evidence that I should give up on relationships. Or, if I am looking at it from the soul perspective, I might see that not only do I feel a deep and profound love for my parents regardless of their maltreatment, but I also feel the same kind of love for my lovers. Yes, I had to leave them. Why? Because I also love myself unconditionally. Now, I can clearly see that I got the gift all of these loving souls came to give me. For, behind their blindness, was a soul intending to give them the gift they came here to get, and to give to everyone else around them the gifts of soul intention. I guess it’s possible that they could have given me the same gift by showing me unconditional love. But I doubt it. Indeed, it was the very conditions they presented that made me finally aware that they were providing me an opportunity to receive my gift of unconditional love. And now that I have received it, I am free to go on to love and be loved unconditionally. Our little versions of good and mean
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