Lazarus, Come Forth

If we enter an awareness of oneness in any situation we’re facing, if we stop begging, waiting, hoping, exporting the saving power, and all this, we find that the pain of separation (from whatever we want) and the longing for fulfillment are one and the same as the Intelligence that can manifest that fulfillment.

Let me say this again, as it bears repeating:

Desire itself is proof of the presence and engagement of that Intelligence that can fulfill the desire, as long as we’re not believing in separateness.

Time is a persistent consideration in Particle life, as we all seem to like to remember, but maybe this is an indication of the extent to which our resolve is weak.

When Jesus calls Lazarus from the tomb, he doesn’t say, “Lazarus, come forth in twenty or thirty minutes.” He doesn’t say, “Lazarus, come forth soon.” He says, “Lazarus, come forth.”

This is remarkable and instructional. In thus directing the “dead” Lazarus, Jesus reveals something about spiritual authority in general: His words assume Lazarus to be alive. 

He doesn’t say “Lazarus, come back to life.” This is so important. 

He expects Lazarus to act as a living man would and could.

Time considerations don’t enter into it. How could there be time in Oneness?

This consciousness of Oneness, as the starting and ending point, is so different from using consciousness to try to crate a job or more money or the right partner or anything else. 

It’s meditative rather than premeditative, a resting in the miracle of longing that puts us on good terms with the universe. 

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What would it mean to really get the truth that every longing can be trusted, because in a reality of Oneness, the longing is its own fulfillment?

What would shift on the side of consciousness in that place where consciousness and events commingle? 

Might not one’s slightest wish come true, better than one expected, since each wish would be recognized as the Field being oneself? 

Don’t try to grasp this logically or intellectually; it has to be lived. 

The awareness of Oneness is fulfillment. “Lazarus, come forth.” You see, it’s done.

Three words that contain the whole teaching.

Is time itself (the time it takes for outer manifestation) anything more than a manifestation of our doubt, of our readiness to go running back to the belief in separateness?

You may be sitting there, in the laboratory maze of your life, running into walls, hopping over various electric grids, pushing little levers in the hope of getting a food pellet, pushing them with great urgency because you’re hungry, heart aching, waiting—again or still.

And in this, it would be easy to miss something astounding—that within the hunger and the aching and the waiting hide assumptions dyed through and through in the color of separateness, assumptions that, seen from a spiritual point of view, are in one sense utterly self- defeating. 

But if you forget the maze and the pellet, and look that in the eye, everything changes, and you’re set free, and nourished at every turn.

How to make the leap across the dream-chasm of separateness to the reality of a Oneness within which every longing is fulfilled for the simple reason that the longing itself is recognized as evidence of fulfillment? 

How to catch time in the act of hypnotizing us into believing that our heart’s desire is one thing and its fulfillment another? 

As long as we believe in this dream, we are fated to go from loss to loss, to wait for the right job, to pray to a fantasy god rather than open our eyes to the stunning truth that in the miracle of our longing, our prayers already have been answered. 

When we catch on to this, every prayer becomes a decree—a “Lazarus, come forth,”— and we see as with new eyes that everything we have always wanted or could ever want has been given to us in who we are.

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On Creating “Events” 

What we call “the event” is actually a gateway to numerous alternate versions of that event. In all cases, the event mirrors and is caused and sustained by our stance toward it. This is reverse causality, from the Particle point of view.

Therefore:

The event seems unmovable only because our stance has become unmovable.

The event seems impervious to change because our willfulness is locked on “the event”; the intractability we feel and ascribe to the event as something inherent actually is nothing but our own rigidity, resistance, judgment, and so on.

The event will not, cannot change as long as we continue reacting to it in the old way, because “the event” is already formed out of the stance that then shows up, seemingly, as the reaction to the event.

We allowed ourselves to be drawn through the gateway into a certain form of the event that seemed convincing. This is called “being taken in by appearances.”

Therefore:

Especially in a crisis, it’s imperative to hold to a fluid, accepting, unresisting stance long enough to pass through the gateway of “the event” into an alternate version (reality).

As we practice this, the event shapeshifts seamlessly into the alternate version (reality). No version of any event can persist without a corresponding consciousness requiring it.

Therefore:

The event in itself may be regarded as an opportunity, nothing more, for consciousness to come home to itself as the creative source.

The event is a gateway, and need not be given importance at the level of its form, which is highly fluid, as long as the corresponding stance doesn’t lock onto it and fix it in place.

A shift in identity carries us through the gate of the event at a different angle, as it were, altering the event into a new, perhaps opposite form.

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To illustrate:

Breaking up with a partner can be regarded as evidence of separateness, conflict, loss—or as a catalyst, a trigger for inner confrontation and transcending to greater self- solidarity that sets the event on a reality path leading to meaningful contact and reconciliation, or something even better.

There is nothing inherent in the breaking up that requires the outcome to be defined by loss.

So, it’s not just that the event itself has variants, but also that each version of the event comes complete with unique past and future unfoldings.

The determining factor is always the consciousness manifesting the event as such, which means entering the gate of the event as it does and so being mirrored by the event.

There is no work whatsoever to be done on “the event.” All work must be done on the side of consciousness as it enters the gate.

Nothing is impossible.

All realities can manifest.

All things are real.

We change our consciousness in relation to a given event, and the event must change.

Hardness of will is mirrored as hardness, softness of will as softness. Love is an irresistible force.

Acceptance and nonresistance manifest as the best possible outcome for all, without fail.

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source: field project dot net