Adonai - Living in the Light - Newsletters 2005

Newsletter, Issue 17, May 2005

1. What is the energy of May 2005
2. Illusion, delusion, perception, deception
3. Spirit's Jokes with me - I see it ergo it's true
4. Why do I call perceptions "the illusion of reality"?
5. A poem

What is the energy of May 2005

May 2005 is associated with the energy of the number 12.
It is the number of a fully finished cycle like the 12 months of a year, the 12 hours of the day and of the night, the 12 astrological signs and so on. In the Tarot it is represented by the card of "The Hanged Man", the principle of Surrender, and Breaking old Patterns.

It it also called a master number, or the "meeting with the master".
From the Kabballa we learn, that 12 is the product of 3 and 4, which are representing the connection between Spirit and Matter. 12 is God's power of creation expressed and manifested in space and time.

An earthly cycle (or a special bond between Spirit and Matter) has finished, and it is time to turn things up-side down, in order to gain a new perspective and overcome old limits. Only a fool acts over and over again in the same manner expecting different results. This month's energy invites us to "turn around", "look from the other end", or to "turn it up-side down", offering the opportunity by doing so to break old patterns and make a distinct difference.
Many things aren't what they look like.

Let's play with some words

Past, presence and future are illusions, even though persistent.

~ ALbert Einstein

An illusion is a distortion of a sensory perception. Each of the human senses can be deceived by illusions. An Illusion is a perception of something objectively existing in such a way as to cause misinterpretation of its actual nature.

From Late Latin illusion-, illusio, action of mocking, from illudere to mock at, from in- + ludere to play, mock

A delusion is commonly defined as a false belief, and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception.

Perception is the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting, and organizing sensory information. A mental or physical sensation interpreted in the light of experience.

Deception is providing intentionally misleading information to others. (Magicians are masters of deception)

Spirit's Jokes with me
"I see it ergo it's true"

After a non-stop ride from Denver to Los Angeles, Russell and I stopped at Venice Beach. Neither one of us had visited the boardwalk before. And even though the day was almost over, we could find a café, which still had the chairs and tables out and served us our first coffee on the beach.

Silently we sat across from each other at the table; I was looking south along the boardwalk and Russell was looking north along the boardwalk.

I was in a child's state of mind: WOW, beautiful, awesome, I am here, YEAH, little me in LA at Venice Beach! Palm trees in the evening fog, the sound of the black ocean, and the few streetlights created the most mysterious and most wonderful atmospheric sensations. I was excited, I was in love with what I saw, and felt, and heard, and my heart was pounding in sheer lust to be.

My perception guided me for some moments into the illusion of heaven on earth.

Russell was in a typical adult's state of mind: yuck, dangerously dark, where in the world am I? The fog disabled his controlling view, his mind was on high alert and in protective mode, and he expected monsters and danger behind every palm tree.

His perception guided him for some moments into the illusion of hell on earth.

We were sitting in the same city, at the same location, at the same table, yet living in completely different realities.

I just observed a loving couple, hugging, kissing and playfully chasing each other, as Russell boldly interrupted the silence: "Have you seen this? Gee. They are trying to kill each other. Look. Just look! They fight. Shall we call the police? Shall I jump over there and interfere? Look now!"

I turned my head, but was unwilling to leave my place of bliss. All I could see were two men in a heavy discussion, and few seconds later they left the boardwalk in two different directions.

Wow! Speak about "instant reality creation"!

If I wouldn't have been so stubborn in my wild desire and effort to experience the beauty, God only knows what kind of reality the two of us would have created?

We tried to talk about this incident.
I acknowledged my illusion as well as his illusion of reality, and both perceptions were possibilities to me, whereby the final perception remains always a matter of choice.

Russell disagreed and was completely convinced that his perception was not just a perception per se but simply the truth, which he saw with his own eyes and heard with his own ears.

Well, and that is what is called a classic delusion, which he summarized as: "The boardwalk is really dangerous at night. Lots of strange folks are hanging out here." And so this was his final deception, which he freely shared with the head nodding waiter.

Not only that he ignored my perception, but also he searched for confirmation of his own view of reality -- and guess what happens when you search for confirmation…?

__________________________.

Of course.

It's over and over again the same, almost boring to repeat, but what you send out is what you receive back. You send out fear and you will receive fearful situations. You send out bliss and you will receive blissful situations.

Russell had only one reality at hand. Nothing to choose from.

But if you understand that your perceptions create your personal illusion of reality, and that each and everyone else has perceptions and illusions of their own reality too, then you are free from the trap of delusions and the required deceptions thereof in the effort to confirm and prove it right.

If everything can be seen as relative, if you can see two different realities existing simultaneously through the experience of two different people, then there is no need to be proven right or wrong.

You perceive it this way, and I perceive it that way. This is it. There ain't no more to say.

All that’s left is to choose. In every moment of contrary perceptions and descriptions of reality we can ask ourselves: "In which kind of reality creation would I rather wish to live?"

Why do I call perceptions "the illusion of reality"?

The search for the ultimate stuff of the universe
ends with the discovery
that there isn't any.
If there is any ultimate stuff of the universe,
it is pure energy.
Subatomic particles are not "made of" energy,
they are energy.

~ Albert Einstein

All there is is energy.
Matter is illusion.
The so-called reality is the grand illusion.

~ Angela :-)

YOU are a thinking center in original substance, and the thoughts of original substance have creative power; whatever is formed in its thought and held as a thought-form must come into existence as a visible and so-called material form, and a thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not.

This is a fact that you should impress upon your understanding - that a thought held in thinking substance is a real thing; a form, and has actual existence, although it is not visible to you.
You internally take the form in which you think of yourself; and you surround yourself with the invisible forms of those things with which you associate in your thoughts.

If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mind until it becomes a definite thought-form; and if your practices are not such as to separate you from God, the thing you want will come to you in material form.
It must do so in obedience to the law by which the universe was created.

Make no thought-form of yourself in connection with disease or sickness, but form a conception of health. Make a thought-form of yourself as strong and hearty and perfectly well; impress this thought-form on creative intelligence, and if your practices are not in violation of the laws by which the physical body is built, your thought-form will become manifest in your flesh. This also is certain; it comes by obedience to law.

Make a thought-form of yourself, as you desire to be, and set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

~ Wallace D. Wattles
from the book "The Science of Being Great"

A Poem

When Time stands still

Time stands still when you look through an open window.
Life is busy. We are always on the go.
You think of the past and moments of fleeting happiness.
But these experiences do not count any less.
We are all on a divinely inspired journey.
Open your eyes so you can truly see.
Look to God, rather than fleeting moments from the past.
It is the divine experiences that will truly last.

Much Love and Light in Oneness,
Angela

There is no "truth hammered in stone".
The only truth you can rely on is the truth in your own heart.