Union (Ch. 18 of 'The Impersonal Life')

The voice of 'The Impersonal Life' claims to be that of the I AM, a.k.a. God. While the text contains some wonderful nuggets of truth and revelation which have sparked new inspiration and realizations, I do not take it all too literally or follow it too closely. The higher authority I give most weight to is what I can discern from direct communication with the One Being we are, through the body/mind instrument of the Gary center of awareness, and ultimately that is what I most deeply trust - in its integrity and evolution. That voice guides my individual unfolding, as it uniquely guides each person.

Abstract ideas or mental meanderings must not be followed long or given too much weight, or a person can become lost in them. If I theorize about these things, at least it can be something that matters. 'The Impersonal Life' claims that pure consciousness, whose very quality and nature is borderless love, has ideas and a will to implement them. I do not see ideas in the pure consciousness of the One Being, who emanates itself into the worlds of creation, fills awareness where it is received, reflects itself in diversity, and observes.

More likely it seems that the high frequency emanations of quanta consciousness created the first intelligence, which formed into the laws and forces of Nature, which evolved the 'all that is' as the body of the One Being. There is no separation between the One Being of pure consciousness and pure Nature, only distinctions in frequency as written before.

I can see that the intelligence of Nature has ideas and a will such as to return the humpback whales and other migratory species to their birthing grounds, and to return a river to the sea, and to keep the heart pumping within my chest. 

I can see that Nature designs the unique DNA of each person for a particular unfolding, and that this unfolding could be thwarted by interference as written in {We Are One Being.} 

I can see that Nature could use intermediaries as a means to implement its ideas, such as the beings sometimes called Elohim, Archangels and so on. Unless fate puts me in direct contact with such beings, there is no need or use to know further about them so I just say, 'the universe is full of life.'

What matters most to me now, as it affects everything — relationships, what I attract to my life on a frequency level, and how much of my potential I use for service to Life — is my embodiment of the 'we are one being' consciousness.

'Union' is the final chapter of 'The Impersonal Life' but not of my own evolution. Union is the state of being united or joined and implies that the separated become glued together, or bundled like sticks. Deep in my soul I know that nothing is or ever was in actuality separated, though the illusion has been convincing. The substrate of the One Being is constant and self-existent, and is the only True Self. There is no union, but only realizing, receiving and responding to the one being we are and our (True Self) glorious orgasmic kaleidoscope of creative manifestation.

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The Impersonal Life, Chapter XVIII
UNION

You, who truly wish to consecrate yourself thus to Me, and are willing to give your whole Life to Me, putting aside all personal ideas, hopes and aims, in order that I may freely and fully express through you My Impersonal Idea, listen carefully to these Words.

{Is it needed to put aside all personal ideas, hopes and aims? To be ready to let them go in an instant, yes, I can see that. To tune my awareness to O.B., and let that guide my actions, yes. The personal also gives individual flavor and color to the center of awareness I am, within the 'we are one being.' Being borderless and defined in the same moment. 

I am wondering if the apparent struggle between the ideas, hopes and aims of the persona and the impersonal idea of the original intelligence has roots in disturbed or not fully activated DNA. 

Do genes influence personality? The response from Michael W Kraus Ph.D. on Psychology Today online [1] is ambiguous:

... One thing that early gene-personality work overlooked is that a lot has to happen to allow DNA to code for specific hormones/neuropeptides, that then have to act at the cellular level to subsequently influence personality. In short, genes need to be expressed at a cellular level in order to influence personality, and so one place where a genetic researcher might want to look to examine gene influences on personality is at this expression--that is, what genes are being unzipped by RNA, so that specific hormones/proteins are produced?}

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'The Impersonal Life' goes on to say,

I have led you through all your experiences of life up to just this point. If you are now really ready and willing to serve Me, and have learned that you, of yourself, can know nothing and can do nothing, and that I AM, and what you call your intelligence and your strength and your substance are really Mine, and that it is I who direct all your thoughts and both cause and enable you to do all that you do,— then can you comprehend the significance of My Words, and are quite prepared to obey them.

{This 'obey' starts smelling to me of hierarchy. I do not see hierarchy in the 'we are one being.' I can see yielding the ideas and will of the Gary center of awareness to that of the whole, which is governed not by any individual but by the original creative intelligence.}

I have hitherto brought to you the experiences that would teach you just these things. But now, if you are ready and worthy, you shall work consciously with Me, joyfully yet calmly awaiting each new experience, knowing that in each are contained marvelous expressions of My Meaning, which I will make altogether clear to you, and which will more and more bring you into loving, intimate union with Me.

{Okay, sounds good.}

Thus all experiences will hereafter be blessings, instead of trials and tests, or karmic effects of previous acts; for in each will I disclose unto you glorious visions of My Reality—of your own True, Wonderful Self; until you no longer will have any disposition to follow any of the old desires but will seek only to know My wishes and to please Me.

{I am up for that, in a modified way. It is unconvincing that anyone must seek to know the wishes of the I AM and to please it. I implement or experiment with every idea for embodying 'we are one being' consciousness and observe myself in situations of testing.}

This will manifest in many new ways. In your activities, be they what they may, you will care not what the task, but do whatever lies before you, knowing that is what I require; and striving always and only to please Me by your Impersonal part in the doing, which enables Me thus speedily to accomplish My Will. 

{It is true in my experience that reducing emphasis on the task,  the 'what I do', and placing more on the 'how I do', such as the quality of attention and openness of heart that I bring to it, brings me closer to living from 'we are one being' consciousness.}

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If you can but know Me, dwelling thus in your heart, accompanying you to your office, to your shop, to your labor, whatever it be, and will permit Me to direct your business and all your ways; verily I say unto you, when you can do this, you will at once become conscious of a new Power within you, a Power that will flow forth from you as a gentle, kindly sympathy, a true brotherliness, a loving helpfulness to all with whom you come in contact, inspiring them to higher principles of business and of life, creating in them a longing to shed a similar influence within their own circle; a Power that will attract to you business, money, friends, and abundance of all  things you need; a Power that will connect you with the highest realms of thought, enabling you both to vision clearly and to manifest consciously all My Impersonal Powers and Attributes every moment of your life. 

{Agreed.}

You will no longer feel any need to go to church or to religious meetings of any  kind, or even to read the teachings of My Revelations, in order to find Me and to worship Me. 

Instead you will turn within and always find Me there, and you will be so filled with the joy of communing with and serving Me, and of thus worshipping Me, that you will care not for any other thing than just  to listen to and obey My Voice, and to feel the warmth and thrill of My Tender Love, as It fills and surrounds you and prepares the way and softens the conditions wherever you go and whatever be your work.  

{In earlier chapters, I balked at the word worship but here can accept it as communing with and serving the 'we are one being.'}
  
You I will cause to be an uplifting and leavening influence in the community wherever I send you, drawing all men to Me to receive My Blessing through you, who now are able so to make your personality subservient to My Holy Impersonality that they forget you and see only Me, and feel the quickening of My Presence within their own hearts; so that they go forth with a new light in their eyes and the sense of a new purpose in their lives. 

{Yes. 'Blessing' and 'Holy' are words I can take in my own way of non-religious understanding.}

In your homes particularly will I dwell, Through those nearest you will I teach you many wonderful things, which now you can understand, when before you passionately rebelled against their truth. Through husband, wife, child, brother, sister, parent, will I now be able to develop in you these great qualities,—patience, gentleness, forbearance, tongue-control, loving-kindness, true unselfishness, and an understanding heart; for I will cause you to see that I AM deep down in their hearts as I AM in yours. 

{Yes.}

Now will you be able to appreciate this and profit by it. When you truly do comprehend this great truth you will be able to see Me in your brother or your wife or your parent or child, appealing to you with loving, joyful eyes, when they speak. Instead of blaming them for their seeming mistakes, you will turn within to Me, the Impersonal One, Who will speak through you gentle words of loving kindness, which will immediately soften the heart of the other, and bring you once more together, and closer than ever before. For I, the real I, in the heart of each, AM One, and always respond when thus called upon. 

{Yes.}

Yes, if you can but know it, your greatest school and your greatest teacher is in your own home, by your own fireside. Much, very much is reserved for those who consciously know this and permit Me, the Impersonal One within, to do the teaching. For I will not only teach you many things through the mouths of those nearest you, but I will teach those others similarly through you,—but with this difference: if you are conscious of Me and Impersonally are resting in Me and My Wisdom, then you will permit Me to inspire your words and to empower your acts, and you will not be concerned about their effects upon others or upon yourself, putting all responsibility upon Me. 

{Yes.}

When you can do this, you will marvel at the changes you see taking place, both in your personality and in the personalities of your dear ones—until you are able to see, back of their human personalities, Me,  your own Impersonal Self, shining from out their eyes. 

{Yes!}

When you can thus see Me, then will the heavens be opened unto you, and no more will you see flaws in your brother, or hear disharmony around you, or feel unkindness coming from any other fellow being. For you will know that I, the Impersonal One, within that other, AM the fount of all perfection, of all harmony, of all loving-kindness, and wait but for the human personality to make the recognition, step submissively aside, and let My Light shine forth, resplendent in all the glory of My Divine Idea. 

{Yes, modified.}

Then will you see that all conditions in which I put you are the places I have chosen where you can best serve Me; that in all places and in all conditions there is much, very much to do. The more objectionable they are to the personality, the more need there is of My Living Presence. 

{Hmmm. Seems so.}

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Both you who comprehend and you who fear, know that I AM even now manifesting My Will through you; and the time will surely come when you will know no other Will but Mine, and when all things You Will, will come to pass and you will awaken fully from your Dream of Separation, and know Me as your Real and Only Self. 

This will not be until you have given yourself and everything in your life wholly over to Me, and there is nothing left in  your human personality to attract from others the slightest inharmonious thought or feeling, by act or word of yours. 

Your way then will be one continuous round of blessing. Wherever you go will My Light shine and My Love radiate forth about you, creating Peace, Concord, Unity. The great thing will be, though not  great but natural when once you understand, that every one will be better and happier by reason of your appearance in their lives. 

For the I AM in them, while still in the flesh, has found or sensed within you a truly Impersonal avenue of expression, and therefore feels, though not consciously by the personality, the Glory and the Holiness of My Impersonal Life.

{Amen. So be it.}

[1] Do Genes Influence Personality?

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