The Awakened Self

The purpose of this book is to discover again who we are and where we are. The benefits include reconnecting with the physical oneness that permeates and becomes our physical body, so that we can recognize that we are more than what is limited by our skin.

We will not find ourselves until we find the four-dimensional kingdom of purity. Our identity is more than three-dimensional, and as long as we try to find ourselves within a three-dimensional concept, we will find only a piece of the truth, leaving us unsatisfied and unsettled. We are, at a minimum, four-dimensional beings.

If we can accept the notion that we choose what we believe, the following prayer becomes available: "Creator of my soul, reveal to my heart that which I am to believe so that I will have a working relationship with you."

This simple prayer creates the environment for an active awareness of the awakeness of everything and everyone around us, including our ascended brothers and sisters. An interactive relationship with our creator includes one with all who are filled with pure love.

The breakthrough of our consciousness occurs the moment we recognize the grace of all of nature around us. We recognize that we are not our thoughts or even that which is having thoughts, and we ask ourselves, "What am I?"

Living "by the grace of God" cannot be understood or realized until we see the gracefulness of nature around us. The ego brain cannot, and will never be able to, live by grace.

The glory of the tree, showing grace and beauty, is the mind of that tree.

It is not that which descends into the mind of man that is our glory. It is that mind that surrenders to the ascending nature that is our self-realization, and we say to our creator, "You are all that I am, and all that I will ever be." There is no further prayer while living in our three-dimensional landscape.

When we enter into our quiet time, when the earth is fully grounded of all of our thoughts, and the water and waterways are fully grounded of all energies, and our body experiences its intended purity, and the oneness and the compassion that is the default condition of the emptied mind, we see the compassion and the love in the millions of smiles, in the millions of kind gestures, in the inextinguishable spark of love that every parent has for every child and every friend has for their companion. We surrender ourselves completely to the identity of that emptiness.

Have we found the voice of silence, the all-vision before vision, the all-knowledge before knowledge, the all-compassion of being? Have we found our four-dimensional identity?

When we learn to identify with our true nature, we are so taken by the greatness that we find ourselves willing to leave our bodies. We identify ourselves with the oneness of all life and the universe, while also maintaining our identity as a witness and active member of humanity. We find that we are both free and with purpose. We identify with a place so pure and so perfect that compassion, love, kindness, and beauty penetrate everything.