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The Radical Happiness Newsletter
August
19, 2007
This
is the first issue of the Radical Happiness Newsletter. It offers
inspiration and support for waking up out of the egoic state of
consciousness and living from divine essence. It goes out once a month
and contains articles about spiritual awakening, embodiment (living the
Truth),
healing conditioning, spiritual relationship, finding true happiness,
and other related topics and questions that readers would like
addressed. It also announces events and new
publications. Please submit your ideas for topics and any questions to
gina@radicalhappiness.com. In
this first issue, creating your reality
is addressed as well as a question about channeling and Advaita.
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Who Creates Your Reality? by Theo
You
are an expression of the divine Self, and it creates through you in
two ways: It inspires and moves you, as much as you allow it to, to
create the reality it intends for you, and it also allows your egoic
self to create the reality it chooses. So, two things are going on in
any moment: the divine Self, or essence, is attempting to move you
according to its intentions, and the egoic self is attempting to move
you according to its desires, beliefs, and other conditioning. In any
moment, you have the freedom to choose whether to follow the ego or
essence.
The egoic self has quite an advantage because you are programmed to
believe that you are this self. Furthermore, you are programmed to
belief that its beliefs and desires are yours and that they are true
and useful guides for how to live your life. This set up leads to lots
of learning and growth for the character that is living this life, and
the divine Self created the egoic self and the programming to do
exactly this. Your programming is designed to bring the divine Self a
unique experience because every person has entirely different
programming and therefore is bound to have entirely different
experiences.
The Self is having this experience through you because it is its way of
playing, exploring, and expanding itself. It experiences life through
you, and it affects life through you as well. It shapes life according
to the type of experience it wishes to have through you, and it
accomplishes this through your intuition and by inspiring you to act
and move in particular ways. When you are not following your thoughts,
you discover that you still speak and act in the world. Your thoughts
don’t determine all of your speech and actions, although they
do
determine most of them when you are identified with the egoic self.
When you are identified with essence, your speech and actions come from
essence, not the egoic self, and that creates a very different life and
experience than when you follow your thoughts.
Thoughts are powerful creators of reality. What you think and believe
often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. For instance, if you think
you are competent, you will feel confident when you are faced with a
task, and this will help you behave competently. You will be determined
to prove that you are competent because that is your self image. On the
other hand, if you believe you are not competent, you will not feel
confident, and this lack of confidence will undermine your will to be
competent. People don’t like to have their beliefs proven
false,
even negative beliefs, so they would rather prove them true than change
them.
Although your thoughts are powerful, they are only one aspect of your
reality and of what is creating your reality. Other people’s
thoughts and actions also affect your reality, and you have only so
much influence over these. More importantly, essence is guiding your
life, and it affects your reality in any number of ways. Primarily, it
affects it through your intuition and through inspiring you to take
action. You act according to your intuition and according to how you
are spontaneously moved, which is often in contradiction to your
thoughts and beliefs. So, thoughts are by no means the only creators of
your reality. The Self is also influencing other people’s
actions
and choices in the same way. Many forces are at work in the creation of
your reality: your will, other people’s will, and the
Self’s will.
The Self is an active participant in life. It didn’t create
you
separate from it and leave you to create whatever you wish. The Self
co-exists within you along with the egoic self, which is really just
the sense that you are an individual separate from other creations and
from the Self. In reality, there is no separation between you and
others and between you and the Self because the Self has manifested all
of it and lives through all of it. It is playing in third dimensional
reality by creating this character that you think of as you and by
inspiring and moving this character to act in certain ways. It is
ever-present and active in your life.
You co-create your reality with the Self. You co-create by choosing to
follow your desires and thoughts or by choosing to follow your
intuition and the spontaneous movement of the Self as it lives through
you. All the while, everyone else has this same freedom of choice, and
this creates a very unpredictable but delightfully chaotic set of
circumstances for the Self (and you) to enjoy.
Question
from a reader: Why
don’t Advaita teachers ever talk about things like channeling
and
astrology? It’s confusing to me that you do. If
it’s all
One, then who is there to channel? Why channel?
Theo:
Everything that is, is an
expression of the Oneness. This includes not only the third dimension
and those who reside there but every other dimension. We, as an
individuated aspect of Oneness in the sixth dimension, are part of the
Illusion, just as your individuated self in the third dimension is. In
truth, we are no more separate from the Oneness or from you than you
are, but from the perspective of the Illusion, it appears that there
are individuals interacting with each other. We interact with you from
this level, and we interact with others on other levels. You interact
with those on your level, but you also interact with others on other
levels, particularly when you are asleep. The third dimension and your
planet are not the only dimension nor the only planet with intelligent
life. The Oneness has created more diversity than you can ever imagine.
Your dimension and planet have a great deal of suffering going on.
Fortunately, the Oneness has designed into the Illusion the possibility
of evolution and freedom from suffering. Those who have moved beyond
certain misunderstandings that cause suffering are helping those who
haven’t yet moved beyond them. This is how the Oneness helps
itself evolve. Spiritual teachers in your dimension are playing this
role, and some of us in other dimensions are doing our part as well.
Many of you may be disillusioned with channeling. That is
understandable. Not every being communicating with you through channels
is very wise or very helpful. In fact, some are doing a disservice to
your world, but that is no reason to throw the baby out with the
bathwater, so to speak. Truth is truth, and if it comes through a
person or through a nonphysical being from another dimension, why would
it matter? We offer ourselves in service to your evolution and are
grateful for the opportunity, for we have been human and understand the
difficulties of this.
Just as spiritual teachers assist you in waking up, so do we. It is the
way the Oneness brings about evolution toward love and the rediscovery
of itself. Although we are part of the Illusion, we also know ourselves
as the Oneness very clearly. We are merely playing our part in the
return to Oneness. We are assisting you to wake up out of the Illusion
and recognize your true nature as Oneness. We can show you how your
mind interferes with this and with true happiness and fulfillment. We
can help you navigate from identification with the ego to living in
alignment with essence. That is why we are speaking through this
channel at this time. Until you know yourself as Oneness, you may need
some help to discover this. Once you know yourself fully as this, our
job is over.
Note
from Gina: I’ve been
a channel since 1986, but I stopped channeling for five years following
an awakening in 1999 because I had no use for it. I didn’t
have
any questions to ask because my “problems”
disappeared when
I stopped listening to the mind. Then one day my husband, Nirmala,
suggested that I share my ability to communicate with Theo with others
because it had been so helpful to me in bringing me to awakening. Theo
had been my inner guru. After making contact with Theo
again, I began doing consultations
for others with the intent of helping them awaken. That is how I use
channeling today, and it doesn’t seem at all incompatible
with
being awake or with the philosophy of Advaita. Those who
don’t
communicate with other realms may not understand the role that other
realms play in our evolution or recognize the value of what they offer
us. To me, these realms are as real or more real than the physical
plane, and my experience with Theo has been only beneficial. So, it is
natural for me to offer what I offer in this form.
Note: Theo is a collective consciousness on the mid-causal plane and a
teacher for earth..
Calendar
2007
September
2, Scottsdale, AZ 11-5; Intensive with Nirmala and Gina, call (480)
241-4325
October 6-13, Sedona, AZ; 5-day Retreat with Nirmala and Gina, call
(928) 282-5770
October 14, Scottsdale, AZ
11-5; Intensive with Nirmala and Gina, call (480) 241-4325
November 1-4, Boston, MA; Satsang with
Theo through Gina Lake, call (401) 578-5505.
December 2, Scottsdale, AZ
11-5; Intensive with Nirmala and Gina, call (480) 241-4325
For more information about these events, please see the Calendar page
at www.radicalhappiness.com.
For
information about consultations, to order any of Gina’s
books, to read excerpts, to download Radiance: Experiencing Divine
Presence for free, or to listen to free recordings of
channeled satsang, please visit
www.radicalhappiness.com.
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