Consciousness is Causative

God is the Creative Principle, infinite, eternal, omnipresent, without beginning and without ending. Personally, I find it difficult to think about God AND a universe. To me, it is all one. In that same way, cause and effect are one. Just one. Amazingly, one. God, then, as the creative principle, is the cause and effect. The problem and the answer are one.

Without consciousness, we have no awareness, no knowledge. You'll remember that Descartes said: "I think, therefore, I am." Without consciousness, we would be unaware that we exist!
Understanding God as consciousness allows us to understand this universe as consciousness formed. Once we have that understanding--God as the causative principle of our universe--we can know that universal consciosuness is ever producing and reproducing. It's just like orange trees, continuously producing and reproducing oranges. It's what it does!

It is not creating, but unfolding. Years ago in seminars, I would say:

"If you don't like the movie that is playing, don't attack the screen. Change the reel."

People were constantly ready to attack what they did not like in their lives and assign causes to their misery or misfortune. They particularly like to play the "If only..." game:

If only I had money...
If only I had an education..
If only I had a relationship...
If only I caught a break in this life...
If only my parents were ....

They yelled, cried, screamed and flailed at life, often putting the face of some person on it which seemed to make it more focused to them.

"It is unfair, wrong, awful! I have been mistreated. I don't deserve this."

Did that stance help them? Of course not. They didn't like the movie of their life, so, they attacked the screen. Our "life projector" can only project what's on the reel--our consciousness. It was the reel that needs changing.

One of my favorite spiritual teachers, Joel Goldsmith, wrote:

"Consciousness is always unfolding itself and disclosing itself to us in infinite form, in infinite ways, in infinite varieties. ...Today our consciousness is unfolding and disclosing itself in every new way, in every new form, and always increasing abundantly."

Consciousness is awareness. It's not thinking, not mental activity, not holding thoughts. It is awareness, it is as Ernest Holmes wrote:

"We should take the highest thought we have, and attempt to enlarge on this consciousness until it embraces a more vital concept of Reality. Consciousness in this sense means an inner embodiment of ideas. If one wishes to demonstrate prosperity, he must first have a consciousness of prosperity; if he wishes health, he must embody the idea of health. This is more than faith; it is the knowledge that we dealing with Law. While a certain consciousness may be mechanically induced, of course, the more spontaneity put into the mechanical word, the more power the word must have. ...Each maintains a stream of consciousness in the One Mind, and anyone contacting this stream may objectify it....the individual stream of consciousness is always omnipresent..."

Consciousness is causative. It is our consciousness that contains the entire universe. It becomes the law unto our world. The moment we can consciously feel and realize the presence of God, we have the quality of being that removes all belief of erroneous conditions in our lives. This changes everything!

Many blessings,
Rhoberta

Rhoberta Shaler, PhD
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Can you REALLY "let go?"

Would the world stop turning if I gave up my illusion of control?

That's a big question with two important parts: my illusion and my control. Do I actually believe that I am in control of all that goes on here called my life? I think of the many goal-setting workshops I gave in the 80's, so clear that there was a process that could regulate my behavior. Even then, I only paid it lip service in my own life because it did not seem right. Now, I laugh when I think of it. Intuitively, I think I knew that all my planning was simply time-consuming behavior the outcome of which I could not be attached to. But, it gave me the illusion of doing something, at least!

You might have had that experience, too. Please understand that I have no issue with myself or others having goals. I simply consider them to be what I think might be next or best. Not rules. Not formulae. Not "must-haves." And, able to be let go of in an instant!

I've been in seminars and workshops where the supposed sage on the stage demanded that crystal clear goals be created with objectives, action plans and tasks, separated and at the ready as an arsenal for blasting through anything unlike achievement. In fact, it was suggested that you might just be choosing failure if that arsenal was not intact! Perhaps you have experienced something similar.

In our book, SOUL SOLITUDE: Taking Time for Our Souls to Catch Up, we say that surrender is one of the four most important steps in a soul-driven life. That's not a sometimes kind of surrender. It's a bigtime, all-the-time kind of surrender. Are you willing to live surrendered in God? What do you understand by that question? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Many blessings,
Rhoberta

Rhoberta Shaler, PhD
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Dr. Shaler is the author of nine books and is the Founder of www.SowPeace.com