Have you ever thought to ask yourself:
What do I want more than anything else in All That Is?
I use All That Is because it includes everything we know and don’t know, consciously. Why limit our answers to the material world?
The following stream-of-consciousness excerpt from Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love explains why I asked myself this question and the answer I got in return. The answer may surprise you as much as it did me! (To read the whole story, click on the title, which is linked to the article.)
As I continue my journey toward Clearlake Highlands in the afterglow of my Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love, I ask myself, Why me? What did I do to deserve this amazing experience? I roll this question around in my mind and travel back in time to a point two years earlier. At home alone, I’m sitting at my desk wondering what to do next and start feeling sorry for myself as I think about all the times I’ve tried and failed to achieve my greatest goal in life, changing the world for the better.
What can be more exciting, or worth doing, than changing ourselves and the world for the better? What can offer more hope when the future of mankind looks so dark?
As a child, I was unhappy with life. In my world, people didn’t treat each other very well and I didn’t like that. I knew I had two choices. I could either withdraw from life or do something about it. I chose to do something about it! Specifically, although I couldn’t put it into words at the time, I wanted to help create more love, truth and joy in the world. I knew I was asking a lot of myself but, hey, what’s life without a challenge? It seemed to me that trying to change the world for the better was preferable to giving up.
I had decided to climb Mt. Everest but here I was, in my early forties, still stuck in the foothills with too little time and too little money to do more than maintain the bare necessities of life. My salad dressing business after college was a failure, my several attempts at multilevel marketing failed, and here I was, still working full time driving buses for a living, even though I liked my job. In a moment of supreme frustration, I threw my arms up in the air and asked the universe, What do I want more than anything else in All That Is?
In response, a clear male voice, about six inches in front of my forehead, said, “LOVE!”
Despite my surprise, I shouted, that’s it! More than anything else in All That Is, I want love – I want to give love and I want to receive love, unconditional love! In a flash of insight, I realized everything I had ever done in life was for love. I was either responding to love or the promise of it, or reacting to a lack of it. When I felt or acted badly, it was because I felt unloved and unappreciated for who I was and what I was doing.
As a young person I felt great anger and frustration because I found it so hard to love myself and others. Many of the people around me seemed petty, mean, critical, insincere and vindictive most of the time, like me! It didn’t occur to me we might all suffer from the same problem, a cultural mandate to make value judgments, to constantly compare ourselves and one another to outside standards of being and performance. We even compared ourselves to one another, and still do. It was and is the kind of behavior that leads to conflict, anger, fear, resentment, violence and contempt. Unwittingly, many of us become Master Fault-Finders and a source of pain and anguish to ourselves and others. It is a behavior or reaction pattern that is as common today as it was yesterday.
For better or worse, we live in a fear-based value-judgment world of right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and punishment. It is a world of external values and in this world unconditional love is an ideal, not a reality. Out of learned fear and distrust of ourselves and one another we place conditions on almost everything we do. As parents, teachers and civil authorities we tell each other, whether spoken or unspoken ”Act ‘good’ (by my definition) and I will reward you. Act ‘bad’ and I will punish you.”
By treating ourselves as little more than mindless masses of protoplasm that need to be poked and prodded into pre-defined patterns of order and behavior, it’s no wonder we find it so hard to like ourselves, let alone love ourselves. Our current belief system lacks imagination and appreciation for who we really are and what we are capable of becoming. We can and must change that!
As Pogo, an old comic strip character created by Walt Kelly, once said: “We have met the enemy (and savior, I might add)… and he is us.”
Even though it took two years to gain alignment, the universe gave me what I wanted, an Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love!
Excerpt # 2 from Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love – also stream-of consciousness:
Near the top of Mt. St. Helena, the rain has become a downpour with water, driven by powerful gusts of wind, sheeting across the road. Pausing my experience for a moment, I wonder if Michele is aware of the amazing drama playing itself out in the invisible and timeless world of possibilities around us. My question remains unanswered so I return to the business at hand. This time, if I’m able to make contact with the wall of energy, I’ll stay with it until I know what it is. Wham! It’s still there and again I have the same intense emotional reaction. This time, though, I stand my ground. I refuse to budge one inch and, suddenly, I’m inside the energy!
After waiting to see if anything bad is going to happen, I ask, what are you?
“This is the energy of unconditional love,” says a deep, soothing male voice that seems to come from every point within the energy field.
Wow, I sob even harder now because I know it’s true. That’s why I burst into tears every time I touch it with my mind! Intuitively, I must have known all along what it was but, intellectually, I didn’t have a clue.
What I do now completely astounds me but seems perfectly natural under the circumstances – I open up. I utterly and spontaneously open my life and being to this loving Energy. And just as quickly, I begin to shut down as feelings of vulnerability and shame fill my mind. It suddenly occurs to me that every thought and feeling I’ve ever had and every act I’ve ever considered or committed is exposed to view and I can’t bear the thought.
Sensing my anxiety, the Voice of Unconditional Love says: “Nothing you can ever say or do can keep you from being loved unconditionally.”
Both shocked and relieved by this unconditional acceptance, I cry even harder. I’ve never experienced this kind of love before, at least, not in human terms! As I experience it now, I know there’s nothing I have to do to earn it. Just being is enough! Here, unlike the human world, there are no demands, no expectations, and no pre-conditions to satisfy before you can receive love. It’s simply here to experience and enjoy!
Literally bathing in this loving energy, I wonder if the anger, misperceptions and imagined sins of my past will wash away forever. I use this moment to imagine they will, if not forever, at least for awhile. Even if it’s just the beginning of the end for these negative thoughts and feelings, that’s good enough for me!
As my love begins to flow, I find myself joyfully wanting to perform miracles for this Loving Energy, to honor it for the loving regard in which it holds me. A superman in this alternate reality, I’m able to perform feats of magic and strength that are impossible to perform in the physical world. Then I stop to think about how important it is for me to fulfill my own unique potential as a human being here on earth. Suddenly, I “know” that the Energy of Unconditional Love is home, my real home! It is my birth place or point of origin as a living soul, and my ultimate destination.
As I ponder my thoughts about the nature of Unconditional Love, I remember it’s more than just a “place” – it’s a state of mind and being. I can create and experience it wherever I am, no matter what I’m doing!
With an almost imperceptible shift in consciousness, I find myself standing naked in the middle of a dimly lit room with golden, metallic walls. The walls are separate and meet at sharp 90 degree angles like most earthly rooms. Realizing that the energy of separation and hard angles doesn’t fit my mood or the soft golden glow of the walls; I reshape them with the power of my mind. I make the separate walls coalesce into one continuous, smoothly curving wall, including the angles between the floor and ceiling.
I’m not satisfied until the room looks and feels like the inside of a large womb.
When I stop to admire my handiwork, the air in front of my face begins to crackle and pop with dark, exploding points of energy. Suddenly, the dark points turn into golden rays, which shoot out to form an oval frame of shimmering, radiating light. Materializing within this amazingly beautiful frame is the face of a man with long brown hair and a beard. Before my eyes become completely lost in his, I notice his serene, Christ-like features.
As He looks through my eyes and into my soul, He says, “Roger, you’re delightful, just the way you are!”
Oh my God, here I go again! The impact of His kind face and loving words starts me on a new round of intense sobbing. Strangely though, while the Outer me sobs, the Inner me calmly reaches out and lifts the bottom edge of the energy field that surrounds us. Gently raising it above my head, I look out across the sloping fields and vineyards of Calistoga lying at the foot of Mt. St. Helena. The Christ-like Entity is now standing on a grassy knoll a short distance from me. Raising His arms, I watch as He sends waves of loving energy rippling out across the earth and into the universe. Like air over hot pavement, the energy ripples and expands outward in all directions. I know it is meant to include everyone and everything in All That Is.
Send the healing energy of Unconditional Love out into the world every day!
Is my Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love and that of others (See: Jay’s Story and share your own), a message to all of us? Do we all need to connect with this energy to heal ourselves and this planet for future generations? I think so and I know many of you do too.
At our current level of development, we have hypnotized ourselves into believing “we’re only human, we’re basically bad, we can’t trust ourselves” and “life is about survival of the fittest, eat or be eaten, kill or be killed.” We’ve almost completely forgotten who we really are. It’s time to wake up and remember who we are long enough to make a course correction. What better way to do that than reminding ourselves that Love is the light and the way?
What kind of energy do you send out into the world? What is your basic Feeling Tone?
The challenges of life can undo anyone and corrupt their basic good intent. When I asked myself what my basic energy or Feeling Tone was, the words that came back to describe it were anger, fear, resentment and contempt. It modified over time as I grew in understanding.
While my primary Feeling Tone or Spiritual Signature was made up of fear, anger, resentment and contempt, it was modified by feelings of love and compassion. The anger, fear, resentment and contempt I felt was reserved for bullies and abusive authorities of all kinds, people who felt they had a right to tell me what to do and who to be, without asking me, and people who took advantage of others with force, lies and deceit. My love and compassion was reserved for those who were oppressed and abused by those in power.
For many years I felt justified (righteous) in my angry beliefs. But then, I began to realize my energy was part of the problem! It perpetuated the conditions I wanted to eliminate. Like a radio tower broadcasting a program signal, my basic Feeling Tone was continuously sending out negative energy, which could affect everyone within range. It affected the way I felt around people and how I reacted them. It also affected the way others felt and reacted around me.
When it occurred to me I was unconsciously broadcasting negative energy out into the world, whether anyone deserved it or not, I felt awful. That’s not fair, I thought!
This revelation made me ask: what kind of person do I want to be and what kind of world do I want to live in? The answer was simple. I wanted to live in a world that was more loving, truthful and joyful and I wanted to be the kind of person who reflected that kind of energy out into the world. I suspect many of us do. And the only way to create that kind of change in the world is to become it!
Seth: To Condemn Others is to Condemn Yourself
“While man’s works may often certainly appear destructive, you must not blame man’s intent, nor must you ever make the error of confusing man with his works.
For many well-intentioned artists, with the best of intentions, produce at times shoddy works of art, all the more disappointing and deplorable to them because of the initial goodness of their intent.
Their lack of knowledge and techniques and methods then become quite plain (clear). By concentrating too deeply upon the world of newspapers and the negative reports of man’s actions, it is truly easy to lose sight of what I tell you (louder) is each man’s and each woman’s basic good intent.
That (good) intent may be confused – poorly executed, tangled amid conflicts of beliefs, strangled by the bloody hands of murders-and wars-and yet no man or woman ever loses it.
That represents the hope of the species, and it has ever remained lit, like a bright light within each member of the species; and that good intent is handed down through the generations. It is far more potent, that illumination, than any hates or national grudges that may also be passed along.
It is imperative for any peace of mind that you believe in the existence of man’s innate good intent.
Now: Make distinction in your mind between man and man’s works. Argue all you want against his works, as you read in your newspapers of errors, stupidities, treachery or war…
…To identify man with his poorest works is to purposefully seek out the mars, the mistakes, of a fine artist, and then to condemn him.
To do this is to condemn yourselves personally.”
From Session 799, The Nature of the Psyche – It’s Human Expression, A Seth book by Jane Roberts
How can we send the healing energy of Unconditional Love out into the world? Here are some suggestions:
- Spend time every day thinking about the Energy of Unconditional Love and what it means. Remember what Unconditional Love says: “Nothing you can ever say or do can keep you from being loved unconditionally.” It also says: “You’re delightful, just the way you are!” Take time to feel the energy behind these words.
- Remind yourself every day that more than anything else in All That Is, you want to love and be loved unconditionally. You can do this any time of the day or night in quiet moments no matter where you are or what you’re doing. I usually do this exercise when I lie in bed at night, and it never fails to make my abdominal muscles tighten and my body, shake. What’s happening to my body when this happens? I think good things are happening!
- Practice understanding and forgiveness. Remind yourself every day that everyone is basically good and doing the best they can with what they know, even though, with more effort and imagination, they can, and will understand more and do better. Review your past relationships and experiences in the light of understanding and forgiveness. Forgive others for their behavior and apologize for yours. Know that all of you were doing the best you could with what you knew at the time. Practice understanding and forgiveness on yourself for any pain or injury you’ve brought upon yourself out of anger, fear, ignorance or hate. Practice understanding and forgiveness on your parents, brothers, sisters and friends. Work up to more distant and complex relationships as you experience success with those relationships closest to you. Read: The Healing Power of Forgiveness. It’s an account of how I made peace with my parents after many years of anger and rejection.
- Practice appreciation. Stop making value judgments by comparing people, including yourself, to outside standards of being and performance, and stop comparing people to each other, including you. Each one of us, every “thing”, is uniquely different from any other. Remember all the wonderful inventions we constantly create to make life more comfortable and safe. Remember how good we are, how much we do and how well we do it despite the demands and expectations of life . Remember how challenging life is for all of us! Develop the habit of looking at life through other people’s eyes. Learn to appreciate and celebrate the beauty, magic and wonder of all life. It’s part of learning and growing as spirit in flesh.
- Create affirmations. Make a list of love-related affirmations you can repeat every day, or buy a computer program (Dream Manifestation Wizard is a great one) to design and play your affirmations as often as you like. Here are some examples of affirmations you can use: I love myself unconditionally. I love you unconditionally (“you” is everyone outside you). I love us unconditionally. I am loved unconditionally and I am unconditionally loving. I love All That Is unconditionally. Over time, what you affirm will become your reality.
- Visualization. Send the healing Energy of Unconditional Love out into the world and beyond like the Christ-like personality in my vision. Develop the power of your imagination. It is as much a part of who you are as your intellect.
- Finally, take love out into the world with you. At work or play, remember that we are basically good, not bad. Remember, there is no right or wrong, good or bad – there just IS. There is what works for us and what works against us. Remember, we are doing the best we can with what we know, and we’ll get better as we learn and understand more. Remember, we all want to be loved and valued, and there is a form of energy in All That Is that loves us all without condition. Create a more loving, truthful and joyful reality by projecting love into the world, not fear or other negative emotions.
Six beliefs that will lead to better understanding and change the world for the better:
- We are both one AND separate. (While uniquely individual, we are all made of the same stuff as the universe – units of consciousness or Energetic Awareness condensed into form and substance.)
- We are not only the products of creation, we are creation itself!
- We create reality from the thoughts we accept as belief, attitude, value and expectation.
- We are not evil - we are learning how to use energy to create a pleasing reality.
- How we define ourselves and the world around us forms our intent, which in turn, forms our reality.
- As we think, we create. Change what we think and we change what we create!
Together, in body and spirit, we can change ourselves and the world for the better. Practice these exercises individually or in groups. As more of us learn to love ourselves and others – to send love out into the world, instead of fear, anger and hate - we will see change we cannot now imagine.
Have fun as you play with the Energy of Unconditional Love and create change in yourself and the world. Unlike many things in life, it won’t kill you and it won’t cost you a dime!
In love and peace,
Pete (Roger A. “Pete” Peterson) – http://realtalkworld.com and http://realitycreationproject.com
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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What do you want more than anything else in All That Is? When I asked myself this question, as you already know, the answer that came back was, “Love!” More than anything else in All That is, I realized I wanted to give and receive love, unconditional love.
Even before I wrote this article, I tried to bring the Energy of Unconditional Love into my life by composing affirmations and remembering what it felt like to be surrounded by it in my vision on Mt. St. Helena. To some extent it worked. My abdominal muscles would contract and relax involuntarily and the rest of my body would occasionally spasm as well. But from a practical standpoint, what was the point? Besides having this energy affect me body and mind, how else could it help matters, I wondered?
This morning, I figured out how the Energy of Unconditional Love could help me in everyday, practical terms. First, I learned that the best way to summon this energy is to repeat the question: what do I want more than anything else in All That Is? This question (questing, intent) directly connects me to the answer. In effect, it turns on the light of love, or sense of oneness and peace with everyone and every thing. By bringing my problems or challenges into the light of unconditional love, I come up with more loving ways to resolve them. Is this the secret to Oprah Winfrey’s great success? Does she relate to people from the light of Unconditional Love, in as much as a human being who is subject to pain, illness, injury, suffering and death, can? I’ll bet she does, even though she may not know it consciously, which is why so many of us love her and find her so fascinating to watch!
On the other hand, suppose we decide “money” is the solution to all life’s problems and challenges? How does that work for us? Answering this question is easy because there are examples all around us of what happens when we think money is the solution to all life’s problems. More often than not, money doesn’t connect us, it separates us. When we value money more than love, we will sell our souls to the highest bidder. Some of us will kill for money while others will lie, cheat and steal for it. Some of us work so hard for money; the rest of our lives goes to hell in a hand basket.
Experiment, play with the Energy of Unconditional Love. Bring your questions, problems and challenges into the Light of Unconditional Love. Bring people and social issues into the Light and watch what happens. It’s a miracle! And who is creating that miracle? You are! By consciously bringing life’s challenges into the Light of Unconditional Love you create peace and heal the fabric of oneness that connects us all.
Am I religious? Not in the sense I identify with any formal religion. I don’t go to church or volunteer in the community on any regular basis. My wife and I do give as much money as we can to worthy causes. What I spend my time doing is trying to understand who we are, what reality is and what the purpose of life is. It is the best way I can think of to change myself and the world for the better. In essence, I want to do the best job I can of being me! If anything I do helps others, all the better.
Love is the Light and the Way!
Love, Pete
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