Perfect Time For A Trip
Winter. The time of the year for cold, snow, wind, ice and sleet. It’s the perfect time for a trip. A trip inside that is. Winter – time to go inside to the inner you. The you that longs to reside in the true reality of the Kingdom of God within. Forget Disneyworld, the Yucatan, Paris or Bora Bora. To take a trip within yourself is a trip you will never, ever forget. You will never want to forget it.
It is a trip that may initially trouble you but will subsequently astonish and amaze you. After taking this trip you will palm slap yourself and say “Why? Why did I not go here before this?” Perhaps best of all, it is a trip that will not cost you so much as one penny of your money. The only cost to you will be your time.
Free From Outside Distractions
Winter is a perfect time to go on your journey. During the cold and snow of winter, the distractions are removed that “good weather” throws at you. Hiking, picnics, barbeques, sports activities, swimming, boating, gardening, bicycling, etc., etc., etc. During the cold of winter, your desire is to stay within the warmth of the indoors. Rather than throw away this ultra valuable time watching tv or tik tok videos, you have the golden opportunity to move your life in the direction of greater fulfillment, joy and inner peace.
If you prefer to watch reruns of Gilligan’s Island, so be it. Say hi to the Skipper and Mr. and Mrs. Howell for me. It is always your choice. You are sovereign. The Light of creation that created you has gifted you with that choice. Choose wisely. Choose successfully.
Where Reality Begins
You may now say, “So what’s the big deal about going deep unto your inner self? Sounds like a bunch of baloney to me.” The big deal that you mention is really a big, big deal. For deep within, after you depart your surface consciousness, is the subconscious. The subconscious is where all the action is. It is your portal to manifesting your reality. It is where “reality” begins. Your subconscious is your connection to the Kingdom of God.
When you are able to leave your outer consciousness – with all its fears and doubts and bias and misbeliefs – and travel inside to your subconscious, you are in the glorious world of conscious manifesting. When your subconscious perceives that you believe that you already have the object of your desire, manifestation begins. Sometimes quickly. Sometimes slowly. As long as you maintain your faith however, your desired reality is in the process of being formed.
Go Beyond The Threshold
The threshold of your outer consciousness is what your senses are able to perceive. What you can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. Your emotions. The memories that you carry within you from all of your life experiences. The laws of nature and science such as gravity and thermodynamics. The people with whom you interact throughout your lifetime. These all encompass your outer consciousness. They are the threshold of what your outer consciousness is able to process and perceive.
Winter is a good time to take that journey into the inner consciousness of you. This journey takes you beyond the threshold of your outer consciousness. In the beginning of your journey, you will get glimpses of the Kingdom of God within you, the Kingdom that has always been within you. The more that you journey there, the longer looks you will be able to get. It is a Kingdom from which emanates Eternal Light, Eternal Truth, Eternal Love, Eternal Peace. You will begin to feel the beautiful peace and the real power that inhabits this Kingdom. You will be able to “go beyond the threshold”.
You Can And You Should
So you may say, ” I’m not some illumined master from some cave in Tibet. How the hell am I supposed to journey within myself as you say. Kinda sounds like some sort of mumbo-jumbo”. The answer to that is simple yet hard. Ask, seek, knock. Keep on asking until you are answered. Continue seeking until you find. Persist in knocking until the door is opened. Simple because anyone, anywhere, under any conditions can do it. Hard because you are conditioned by the outer circumstances and societal pressures to look upon the outer and not the inner.
Going within to the Kingdom of God within you requires true desire, commitment and belief. The gospel of Thomas states, “That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves”. If you really want to, you can. You can and you should. In the Kingdom of God within is the knowledge that you have been searching for. Your eyes will be magically opened. You will see the folly of placing your trust in outer circumstances. You will be strong with the power and centered in the peace of the Kingdom of God.
How?
Find a quiet place free from distractions. Your bedroom. The bathroom. Up in the attic or down in the basement. Out in your car or out in the park. If you really want to, you will find such a place. Close your eyes. Stop thinking about everything under the sun. As you will probably find this difficult, just focus on one word over and over again until your mind calms down. I like to use the word “God” or the phrase “Jesus Christ is King”. When your mind finally calms down, just breathe. Then ask, seek, knock.
Ask for guidance and direction in your life. Seek the truth of your existence. Knock on the door of the Kingdom with resolute earnestness Be like that persistent, almost obnoxious door to door salesman who just won’t stop knocking on your door. If your intention is sincere, you will receive response to your asking. You will receive guidance. You however, are a sovereign being. You are the one to make the choice of acting on divine guidance or refusing to act on said guidance. The choice is always yours.
As A Mirror Reflects
You look in a mirror, maybe in your bedroom or in your bathroom. Maybe you like what you see. Maybe you don’t. Damn, another visible nose hair that you clip off. A long hair or a stain on your shirt or blouse. You need a haircut or you really like the haircut you just got. Whether you like what you see in the mirror or dislike it, either way it is not the doing of the mirror. The mirror simply reflects back to you what you are at that moment in time. That Now moment. Changing the mirror or the position of the mirror do absolutely nothing with regard to reflecting back to you what you are at that moment in time.
So it is with the circumstances of life. They are a mirror. They reflect back to you what is going on with regard to your inner self. If you manifest money or possessions or earthly direction over other humans ( a corporate or government leader) and you do not reside in the Kingdom of God, you are in poverty. If you manifest money or possessions or earthly direction over other humans and you experience the peace, the light, the love, the power of the Kingdom of God within you, you are rich beyond measure.
Thomas
From the gospel of Thomas again, “the kingdom is inside you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living father. But if you will not know yourselves, you will dwell in poverty and it will be you who are that poverty.”
The Foundation And The Structure
When the builder of a house commences with carrying out the house blueprints, before building the house, a foundation for the house must be put in place. A house foundation is a necessary part of any house. It serves to provide a secure base for the structural stability of the house. Without a solid foundation, the structure will collapse under its own weight.
Thus it is with manifesting your reality. First, you need to go within yourself, examine yourself honestly and drop your fears and doubts. Then receive guidance from the general contractor (God) and use the power of faith, feeling and imaginative belief. That is your foundation. Then, the actual prayer technique that you employ, is the building the structure of the house itself on top of the foundation.
Using a manifesting “recipe” or specific prayer technique, without having a solid and secure foundation in place, is using words without any real power. Whether you say the words of your prayer technique aloud or silently in your mind, without a foundation they are impotent.
Foundation and Structure. Male and Female. Yin and Yang. Foundation needs the structure and the structure needs the foundation.
Conscious Manifesting Begins Here
Manifesting your desired reality is not some hocus-pocus game. Just say the special words and presto, your desired reality appears. It is a way of life that leads to the Eternal Light. When you nurture and build your faith, your inner imaginative belief, that is where conscious manifesting begins. You are placing your very existence on a foundation of truth.
Ultimate Source created you, created all humans, with the ability to imagine and create. You are a child of God. When you go inside to your inner true self, the scales begin to fall from your eyes. You begin to actually see ultimate reality. It is similar to what occurred in the movie “They Live”. When the hero put on the special sunglasses, he was able to see the true reality of the world around him. Go within. Travel to the Kingdom of God within you. It is your true destiny.
Conceive. Believe. Receive.