Question:

Can you help me?

I have spent my adult life, 30 years, searching for answers.

I have read many books and have had many teachers that really helped to clarify this game we play called life. I recently finished reading "The Journey" and felt an incredible connection to my higher self, delighting at how I constructed my own personal journey to experience the human, and feeling incredibly moved by the perfection of the construction.

As part of that construction I have been entertaining a series of thoughts that perplex and disturb me quite deeply. I have been thinking about how we disguise who we really are and how we have done such a great job of it. In fact I have done it so well that as I search for "The Truth," what I am finding is that there are as many truths as there are minds. And I am concluding that what is true simply depends upon our beliefs and perspectives. Our lives have as much meaning as we wish to give them. If we are the creators of our own reality, then in relative existence, anything can be true as long as you believe it. So many teachings, so many philosophies, each of them equally valid.

This leads me to think that perhaps there is no "The Truth." When all is said and done, aren't The Universal Principles, just a belief. What makes them any more real than any other "figment of our imagination." It's just a matter of choosing whether I believe it or not. After all, we've done such a great job of hiding our origins. And of course, even that makes the assumption that there really is a "big picture."

All of this has my mind spinning so that I don't know what to think anymore. There is a part of me that still would like to believe (think and feel), that there is order and intelligence in the Universe, and all is unfolding just the way it should. And perhaps what I am experiencing now is just a normal by-product of tapping into the infinite. That being the case, wouldn't it be better to nurture a belief that brings me peace, joy, and happiness? The answer to that seems obvious, and yet when I wrote the word "nurture" I could hear my ego self whisper, "manufacture," thus giving it a pejorative spin.

I would appreciate any support you can give me.

 

Answer:

There are truths that are true for everyone, and there are truths we make up. The latter are what we know as beliefs. We create beliefs to hide the truth.

The truth is very powerful; when we open ourselves to feel the truth we feel the power it contains. Beliefs act as disguises for the truth and for our power diminishing our awareness of the truth and of our power.

When we are ready to reverse the process, we remove the disguises, accept the power and expand our awareness of the truth. Your elaborate musings about what is true is a request for support for what you know is true. This request for clarity has drawn to you the information you are seeking. When you are ready to open to the truth, you will attract support for that process.

For me that support came in the form of a spiritual coach to guide me through the ingenious ways I have hidden my power and kept it hidden.

I suggest that you reread THE JOURNEY keeping in mind the significant difference between belief and truth. Notice the feeling qualities of each. When you feel uncomfortable, you have located a place you have hidden power.

You are exploring opening to what you know is true: that you are the Power and Presence of God, right here and right now. You will know when you are ready to commit to that opening process. When you are ready, the support will be there.