This section is from the "Divinity, The Choice of God" book, by Jeffrey Edwin Edelheit.
Spiritual Awakening - the unseen yet always felt. Spirit to me has been my library of time and my connection with that part of me that has been elusive yet always present. It has always had me being aware of the presence of two realities.
I can remember when I was around eight or nine, I was walking home from school looked up to the sky and knew there was much more to life than I was seeing. It took more than 30 years later to realize what I was really sensing. There was not a magic pill that I had taken or a secretive course on spirituality, it was life and my time had come to awaken. I had no idea that I was even in survival and had not awakened fully. It got to the point where I felt like a Karmic Wasteland for not knowing. When in fact I was being blessed with the laws of Divinity. The very elements of perfection at work. This is true for all of us. Had I been fully awakened. I would have denied myself the circumstances needed to make me a better me. You cannot force the time elements set by nature and God. The very laws of Divinity is the state of perfection in action. It all started in the very beginning of the creation of life. When we do try and force time, somewhere, somehow, someway it will spring back and we will be served a reminder of who is really in control.
Awareness is what we all are working towards. To be aware of what we are aware of and then to be able to accept what we are aware of and allow the details to follow later.
Steps of Learning is what we have experienced from the second we were conceived. From the time we were a child we would explore our surroundings, first by feeling, then hearing, sight and touch. Just like watching a child at a park running around trying to experience as much as they can and in the process learning what brings joy and what does not. Going to the junglegym and start to climb one level at time.
Each year that we go back to the park we get an extreme sense of accomplishment as we find ourselves able to climb higher and higher. The same with the swings or going to the deeper end of the pool. The higher we climb or deeper we go within our surrounding the more of the world we get to see and experience.
As we get older, we find that the world becomes bigger and bigger until at some point some of us become overwhelmed and lose sight of what is real and what is not. Things around us continue to present themselves as guideposts, like health issues, emotional unrest, questions that never seem to be answered, relationships that can only go so far, and just feeling as if we are strangers within our self and the world around.
In order to find a way to exist or integrate we seek stop gap measures to help us move through these feelings. We find ourselves being open to the influences that surround us and we choose the ones that gives us what we feel we need the most, for that moment in time.
Before long we can find ourselves living with obsessions, becoming immersed within different religious groups and spiritual teachings, and sometimes finding comfort in drugs and alcohol. All of these and more being used as outlets to bring us home by the experiences that the situations provided. At some point in time, we realize that it is taking a tremendous amount of effort and energy to continue to support these experiences. The moment we see that this experience is no longer valid for our growth, and we also declare our willingness to have it change, everything comes to an immediate halt and the circumstances surrounding us begin to change.
But do not declare this unless you are truly willing to face the changes that will be forthcoming. There will not be a map or letter of understanding clearing showing you what the end result may or may not be. This is where trust comes in. You have to let go and trust God, the Universe and the Process. At the same time you will start to have conscious responsibility for your own actions and responses. Above all else is the scarey part. Not knowing and being awakened and aware, the true and ultimate step of finding the self.
Our Universe in its basic nature, elements exist and do exactly what they are suppose to do without the benefit of thought. The elements of the universe do their perfect work as they were created to do so. The universe will always be in a constant state of growth and forever expanding. At different times of this growth some parts take a lead position and become key elements of a new universal creation. As this new creation evolves the role of these elements will change.
So what we may see today as a dead asteroid may at one time been a key part of forming a new planet. And now it just gets to be. Every element of the universe has without question a purpose and without it there cannot be a whole.
The Earth is continuing to be our birthright. It is here as our teacher, mentor, benefactor and provider of the key elements of our physical life. Everything we could ever need has already been provided. Whether we choose to see or not it is still here. Our Earth does not wake up each morning and says "what a great day for a stroll around the sun, moon would you like to join me?". No our Earth just continued to be and evolved as it is mean to. What changes is not the pathway of the earth but the variables that we have chosen to bring to her. It is part of our lesson on creation and learning how to be at one with nature and natural occurrences. When we add pollutants to the air, the subsequent shift in the weather pattern is a natural occurrence based on the variable we have added. Nature is automatic. It is perfect and reacts immediately to the elements that it interacts with. Positive or negative the reaction is automatic and immediate. The elements brought together begin their process of interaction. The Earth itself was created with a perfect sense of balance and inner knowing that it will always be in a constant state of change. When we create and the basic elements of nature are not realized but utilized and changed to fit our needs, the delicate balance of nature is immediately broken. An example is when we use trees that are for medicinal purposes to make exotic furniture, the balance is broken and an essential part of what is provided, by Nature for our well-being, become eliminated. By making furniture instead of medicine we changed the course of nature by preventing it from doing its perfect work. Another example would be the destruction of plants, native animal life and native cultures as we attempted to prove who is the master and set the standard to what is to be considered civilized. In truth, Nature in its natural habitats is the most balance and civilized form of life man will ever know. When you take a totally civilized and balance culture, as nature is, and try and improve upon it, you have created a natural disaster. The second we do any action to reverse any imbalance nature begins the process to heal. It is immediate, we may not physically see the results but think of it as eliminating one or more elements that created a situation. The situation cannot continue as it was prior to the removal or adding of those elements.
 
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