Non-Judgment Day Is Coming : Are You Ready?

by Mutchler, David

• ISBN13: 9781452544748
• ISBN10: 1452544743
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-26
• Publisher: Textstream

Summary

We live in an age when growing numbers of people are more willing to call themselves "spiritual" rather than "religious." This is because millions of people are not finding answers that fulfill them in their traditional religious beliefs. Indeed, a historic low of only forty - eight percent of Americans think that religion can answer most or all of today's problems. Based on a new way of thinking about the biblical tale of the first two humans' original sin, Non-Judgment Day Is Coming: Are You Ready? provides a new and unique spiritual perspective that explains how: You can find happiness and peace in your life, starting now You alone can play a significant role in bringing about world peace The world need not end in a final day of judgment There is a real way to achieve peace on earth You can hasten the change you wish to see in yourself and in the world We can actualize the love that binds us all together as one You only need to learn and apply one simple practice to make it all happen In this book, you will find the understanding-and the necessary tools-to bring each of these goals to fruition in your life.

Excerpts

Who Are We Really?   Most people ask themselves at some point in their lives, “Who am I?” “Why am I here?” and “Where am I going?” To offer the answer to each of these questions is the aim of most philosophies and of all religions—though their answers, of course, vary greatly. One approach is to ask, “Are we Spiritual beings having a physical experience or physical beings having a Spiritual experience?” My own answer is, “Neither. We are Spiritual beings having an ego experience. ”   But what does this mean?   Spirit is the energy that powers the world. It is derived from the Latin words “spiritus,” meaning “breath,” and “spirare,” which means “to breathe.” And, indeed, the energy of Spirit is what brings us fully to life at birth when we breathe our first; it is also what leaves our physical bodies when we breathe our last. Like breath, Spirit is intangible and so defies exact description. It cannot be comprehended logically or conceptually. It can only be known by experiencing it at the feeling level. Anything that could possibly be said about it is, at best, like a road sign that helps point the way.   In other words, we are born of the energy we call Spirit. Spirit is the vital principle or animating force believed to be in all living things. It is an energy source that brings us all into being, which makes us all one. Its nature is happiness, joy, and peace of mind. Ego, on the other hand, means “I.” It is who we think we are—how each of us defines him- or herself as a being. As previously discussed, ego is born in our experience of separateness early in life.   This universal sense of separation is emotionally stressful because, again, it causes us to feel insecure, small, inferior, irrelevant, and unimportant. Since, in early childhood, we survive in this context of unconscious emotional turmoil, ego concludes that we must stay in turmoil to survive. Keeping us feeling dissatisfied and in misery, then, is ego’s primary goal. Our emotional struggles can take the form of a generalized angst, a chronic emotional ache that ranges from disappointment to suffering, periodic bouts of acute and intense emotional pain, or some combination of the three.   In other words, ego decided early in our lives that since it was born in emotional stress and survived while hurting, therefore we must continue to hurt in order to survive . Hence, ego’s task is to make us hurt emotionally. The necessity for this emotional struggle is something we each allowed unconsciously as a child; we were unable at the time to choose differently. It is how we defined ourselves as separate entities—beings who must feel emotionally pained to survive.   ~   In the beginning, ego is a tiny unconscious seed. But it takes root and grows because it is reinforced so often and in so many ways in our most formative years, from birth to approximately ten years old. By the time we reach adulthood, ego has already begun to have a major impact on our lives. It profoundly influences our emotions, our behavior, and most major decisions we make: choices related to education, spouse or partner, career, children, and so on.   Based on the decisions we make, every individual carves out his or her unique and winding path through life. But one thing is certain for every human being: your pathway will sooner or later—and repeatedly—lead you directly to your own version of emotional dissatisfaction, discomfort, unrest, or suffering. Why? Again, because unconsciously, ego concluded long ago that, for the sake of its own survival, we must continue to hurt.   Remember, survival is the strongest instinct of every living thing. This is true of the ego as well. Our definition of ourselves—separate beings who are therefore destined to experience emotional pain in varying degrees—will do whatever it takes to survive also. And this means it must try to keep us in emotional pain.   The specifics of each person’s hurt are different because everyone’s life takes its own unique twists and turns. However, THAT we will hurt—in varying degrees and density—is the same for everyone. Our egos make it so. Around and around it goes, ego leading us all—individually and collectively—to emotional pain in one way or another. This is called “ego consciousness”—a prison that most people live in until death, without escape.   ~   To sum this up in terms of the myth, we are all born of the Spirit in the edenicgardenofPure Consciousness. But the serpent (ego) lies waiting. Early in life, because we’re unaware of the great tree of life, we are left to choose to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil instead. As a result, we have fallen from the state of Pure Consciousness into the world of ego, a repository for discontentment, anguish, and suffering. Having partaken of the fruit of the tree of self-judgment and judgment of others, we have become mostly blinded to Spirit. We have believed that our self-reflective ability is limited to ego consciousness. But once we achieve Spirit Consciousness, the scales fall from our eyes. We see with absolute clarity and in a very real way that, living in ego consciousness, we have been living in hell.   Of course, we can read and accept intellectually that all this is so. But to understand it most deeply and fully, we must experience Spirit in all of its fullness. And when we do—when we enter the world of Spirit—a major, if subtle, shift occurs internally. We feel Spirit shining through us, and we see it shining through others as well. Wherever we are and whatever we’re doing, joy and peace will illumine our lives.   This, then, is our destiny as human beings: to become conscious that we are more than ego, that we are not of necessity stuck in the pain that the knowledge of good and evil causes, and that we are meant to live, love, and be happy.