A New View                                 By Sandy Jones

Life is clearly here, awareness is clearly always Here. Life, Awareness, Isness, is the Source without a source. I say God and Life are one in the Same One. I have no problem with this statement.

Actually, God is all there is....and there is nothing else but God and God's Awareness. God is the very Awareness that is Aware right now, right now. There is no other awareness here.

This Life, this very presence that is aware right now is 'My True Identity'. I am not the body, I am not the form, I am not even 'inside' this body. I am not the possessor of this awareness. I am this Awareness that is aware of every body and everybody, including this body called 'Sandy'.

God and God's Awareness are One. There is no other. There is no personal little 'me' possessor of Awareness. The Awareness that is present and being is not possessed by 'someone'...It is All... It 'belongs' to God and there is no other outside of God's Living Presence.. Awareness is God's freedom....no 'other' can touch This Freedom of Beingness.....It is unlimited, unbound, immutable, untouched and always present.

Catherine of Sienna said it perfectly well; one day after a period of introspective prayer and grand enlightenment suddenly she arose and said, "My me is God.... Nor do I see any other me but my God himself."

Look at it this way, if you have any doubts; we cannot deny that we are aware, whether we us a capitol "A" or small 'a', we are aware. Whether I say "I am aware" or whether I say "I am not aware" Awareness is awareness no matter how you slice it.

It is remarkable thing because It is Here all the time, you cannot get away from awareness. . Try as you might, there is no getting away from It. Now I'd say That fact is Omnipotence. This very fact I would and could call Omnipresence in all Its glory.

Everything going on here in life is happening within Awareness. It cannot exist in any other way.

No one can deny that they are aware, even the atheist.

Now I sometimes get these insights that perhaps we are actually all participating in a play, a story.

It is the same story for everyone. It is the story of Siddhartha or perhaps The Prodigal Son, or the Garden of Eden...its been told in endless amounts of ways; same story..

The story of Life Itself is our journey to find our True Self.

Once upon a time we lived in the Perfect Meadow (The Matrix, The Infinite Field of Possibilities, Heaven, Zero Point Field). But we didn't realize it was the Perfect Meadow, we couldn't see that we were living on God's Holy Ground, we didn't realize we were in the best place ever; our Fathers Blessed House. So, as young folk tend to do, we left home looking for something more, off to see the world we went.

Out of the Meadow we went, at least in our own minds, but not really in fact.

But in thinking we had left the Meadow, the world became mighty unsettling and very dark, we began to believe we had let go of God's hand. We began to feel lost and things came to feel more and more real to us as we went deeper into the 'journey of other lands'.

In fact we never left the Meadow....but, little did we know.....

Tese 'other lands' served us well. It took the long journey into 'what is not Truth' to have us realize that what we had was perfect.

Then we let go the dream and dreamer goes with it....we return back to our Perfect Meadow, we go home to God's House again....The House, The Meadow that we never left.

In that turn around we see the journey into other lands was just a dream, an imaginary journey, a story being told. We look up from the book and see we are still Here in God's House. Here we are, all is well, all is alright, we never left Home at all. Blessed Life, Perfect Love.

But the dream is necessary. It makes us grateful for what we have always been. We find Joy in knowing we know. We can only know for certain what 'we had' when its gone. We can only know God and God's Love by finding out how 'bad' it is when we think we have lost that Love.

It's always that way with us....we don't know how good it was until its gone.

Its the old idiom the 'grass is always greener' story.....we leave the perfect place thinking we can find something better, only to find out we were in the perfect place.....Like Dorthy from The Wizard of Oz found out "There's no place like home"

This world experience is really not 'outside of God's Love'; never out side of His Light and Living Presence, we just think-believe it is....that is what some call the 'dream'.

But the 'dream' serves its purpose; we have to believe that the time-space-life-death experiences are real in order that it 'works it's magic'....It gets us to realize the Pefection we had in Heaven...then, when we turn around, it is like we are 'born again'....Life is Beautiful.

Life Itself is the The Divine Discipline. It is Real Love that allows us to learn for our selves through our own personal experiences.

As my friend William Samuel said "Hasn't this always been the case? Even the student who is learning the multiplication tables only seems to be going outside to books and teachers, but when the tables are learned it is an inside job, a very personal and intimate action within. You know when this happens! The heart knows and says Now I understand." Yes, Bill, it is exactly like that!

Remember, just like Siddhartha and The Prodigal Son, we eventually find the Truth of who we are always have been and always will be. At that moment, we find ourselves Home once again. Where, in fact, we see we never really left at all.

It begins with Trust. It is all, at first, a matter a faith and trust. But that faith and trust will work its wonders for you, honest it will.