Wingmakers on Enlightenment Aug 22/05

Each soul on Earth is exploring in a physical body new ways of experiencing life. Through this process of discovery, each of us is developing a deeper level of understanding and _expression of our divine essence. This divine essence is the fullest _expression of the soul, and most closely exemplifies the Divine's capabilities therein.

Divine essence is a level of divine awareness that was "seeded" within each soul when it was initially conceived by the Divine. Divine essence is also the natural state of the soul that has removed itself from the controlling aspects of hierarchical belief systems through the complete awakening of its indwelling divine intention. All souls are in various stages of the enlightenment experience, and each soul is destined to achieve the level of awareness of divine essence as it fully awakens the divine intention within.

The self-enlightenment experience is initiated by the realization that you are capable of direct access to the Divine. This is the realization that the wisdom of the Divine is discovered deep within your own soul. In other words, your body, complete with its physical, mental, and emotional capabilities, is not the repository of your divine intention. Nor is your mind able to reach out and access this liberating aspiration — this glorious freedom to connect with All That Is. It is your soul that is the harbor of your divine essence. And it is your soul that is the vehicle of access to the awakening of your divine intention, which allows the enlightenment experience to unfold through the integration of your body, mind, heart, and soul.

The self-enlightenment experience triggers the realization that perceived reality is the Divine personified in the form of individual preferences. Thus when your indwelling divine intention is fully awakened, divine reality and your perception of reality become inseparable as the wind and the air. This confluence is only completely realized through the full enlightenment experience, which is unlike anything known within human experience.

There have been those upon the Earth who have ventured into the shallows of this boundless ocean. Some have called it ascension; others have attributed names like illumination, nirvana, and cosmic consciousness. While these experiences are profound by human standards, they are only the initial stirrings of divine essence as it becomes increasingly adept at touching and awakening the remote edges of its existence. What most would define as the ultimate bliss is merely an impression of their divine essence whispering to its outposts of form and nudging them to look within to the roots of existence, and to unite with the formless and limitless Divine Intelligence that pervades all.

The full enlightenment experience is far beyond the scope of the human drama, much like the stars in the sky are beyond the touch of Earth. We can see the stars with our human eyes, but we will never touch them with our human hands. Similarly, we can dimly foresee the full enlightenment experience as humans, but we cannot experience it through being human. It is accessed through the wholeness of the soul, for it is only in wholeness that the soul's divine intention and its catalytic effect of divine perception can be fully experienced.

This level of wholeness is attained only when the individual consciousness has separated from time and is able to view its existence in timelessness. Nevertheless, the human stage of existence is essential in facilitating the self-enlightenment experience and causing it to trigger — like a metamorphosis — the integration of your formful identities into divine essence.

Self-enlightenment is the next stage of perception and _expression for your soul. It is initiated when you choose to design your life based upon principles that are symbolic of the Divine. As you become increasingly responsive to the Divine, you naturally gravitate towards life principles that symbolically express the formative principles of divine creation.

The below principles are divine templates of creation. They are designed to help you experience life from the perspective of divine essence. They are principles that construct opportunities for the integration of your formless and formful identities. They are bridges through which you can access the experience of wholeness by perceiving with your divine essence.

There are wide ranges of expressions that can induce the self-enlightenment experience and liberate the soul from external controls. Inasmuch as these expressions can vary, the intent of the expressions is quite narrowly defined as the intent to expand into a state of integration whereby all aspects of your conscious self become increasingly aligned with your divine essence.

There are three particular life principles that help to align your perspective with the perspective of divine essence and thus facilitate the self-enlightenment experience.

They are:

1) Seeing the Divine in all 2) Nurturance of life 3) Gratitude

When you apply these principles, a deeper meaning will be revealed to the seemingly random events of your life experience — both in the universal and personal contexts.

Seeing the Divine in All

This is the principle that the Divine is present and can be seen everywhere and in all manifestations of life. It is interwoven in all things like a mosaic whose pieces adhere to the same wall, and are thus unified. However, it is not the picture that unifies the mosaic, but the wall upon which its pieces adhere. Similarly, the Divine paints a picture so diverse and seemingly unrelated that there appears to be no unification. Yet it is not the outward manifestations that unify. It is the inward center of divine energy upon which the pieces of diversity are layered that unifies all life.

This centerpiece of energy is the collective storehouse of all life within the universe. It is the Divine which invests itself in all forms through the projection of its Divine Intelligence into all manifestations of life. Thus, Divine Intelligence — acting as an extension of the Divine — is the unifying energy that is the "wall" upon which all the pieces of life's mosaic adhere.

Seeing the Divine in all is the principle that all manifestations of life convey an _expression of All That Is. It does not matter how far the unifying energy has been distorted or corrupted; the Divine can be observed. It is the action of perceiving the unification of energy even when the outward manifestations appear random, distorted, unrelated, or chaotic. It is the realization that life flows from one divine energy source that links all to One and one to All.

When every manifestation of life can be genuinely perceived as a fragmentary _expression of All That Is, the vibration of equality that underlies all life becomes perceptible to you. You realize that life initially emerges as an extension of the Divine, and then, as an individuated energy frequency invested within a form. It vibrates, in its pure, timeless state, precisely the same for all manifestations of life. This is the common ground that all life shares. This is the tone or vibration of equality that can be observed within all life forms that unifies all expressions of diversity to the very foundation of existence. If you are able to look upon any and all forms of life with the outlook of equality, then you are seeing the Divine in all.

While this may seem like an abstract concept, it is actualized through the practice of looking for the outward and inward manifestations of the Divine. In a very real sense, you expect to observe the workings of Divine Intelligence in every facet of your experience.

The principle of seeing the Divine in all is the unassailable expectation that everything is in its rightful position, performing its rightful function, and serving its purpose to activate the fullest _expression of its life in the present moment. It is the outlook that all life is in a state of optimal realization and experience regardless of condition or circumstance. It is the perception that life is perfect in its _expression because it flows from perfection, and that no matter how divergent its manifestations are, all life is an extension of the Divine.

In light of the obvious turmoil and destruction that accompanies life on Earth, this is an outlook or perception that may seem naive. How can life — in all its forms and expressions — be perceived as optimal or perfect? This is the great paradox of life, and it cannot be reconciled with your mental or emotional capabilities. It can only be understood in the context of the soul, which is deathless, timeless, and limitless. Paradoxes exist because the human drama is too limited in scope and scale to allow a perception of wholeness to illuminate how the pieces of the puzzle are unified in perfect relation.

The human drama is circumscribed by the dimensions of time and space and the elements of energy and matter. It is played out upon the stages of survival and dysfunctional behavior because of the methods of controlling information and manipulating conditions used by those operating within the hierarchical paradigm. The soul within the human body is largely unexpressed and underutilized in this human drama, and therefore, life's apparent perversions and imperfections are seen in isolation as impediments to perfection rather than perfection itself.

Life is perfect in its resolve to expand and express an intelligence that is limitless. This is the fundamental purpose of life in all its diverse manifestations.

The presence of the Divine expressing itself as a vibration of equality can be seen in all things. Sensory input derived from the human body is limited to frequencies in specific ranges that only convey an echo of this divine vibration. The divine resonance of all life is understood only through deliberate and focused contemplation of the equality inherent in all things, and through the ability to penetrate beyond the image of a thing to the origin of the image. Calling forth the divine perceptions of the soul within your own being is the ideal method to access a lasting sensitivity to the divine vibration. This is how you can develop the ability to see the Divine in all.

It is not only that the Divine is found within you and within every individual manifestation of life; it is also in itself the wholeness of all life. Thus, this principle calls for seeing the Divine in all its diverse forms of manifestation, as well as in the wholeness of life itself.

These insights stimulate a new sensory system beyond the five senses that rule the physical world. These new senses are an outgrowth of the awakening of your divine intention. They are manifestations of the first stage of the self-enlightenment experience. With this new perceptual ability, you will be capable of sensing not only the presence of the Divine, but also the timeless divine essence that is within all life.

Nurturance of Life

Life, in this definition, is an individual's sovereign reality. It is subjective and impressionable. Life is the wholeness of experience flowing past the individual's field of perception in the present moment. There is never a closure to life, nor a final chapter written. It is eternal, not only in the abstract sense of never ending or beginning, but also in the real sense that life is ever expanding in order to express Divine Intelligence in all realities within the universe.

Nurturance of life is the principle whereby an individual is in alignment with the natural expansion of intelligence inherent within all life. This alignment enhances the life energy that flows past the individual with the clear intent of gentle support. It is the action of opening to the highest motive in all people and in all life and supporting the flow of this highest intention towards its ultimate _expression. In so doing, the action is performed without judgment, analysis, or attachment to outcome. It involves simply nurturing the highest energy that flows from all people and all beings, and thus supporting their fullest _expression of life.

This is a departure from the normal perception that nurturing support can only be granted when others are in alignment with your personal will and desires. When, instead, you view everything in your life as an integrated energy flowing as an _expression of ever-expanding Divine Intelligence, all life is honored as an extension of the Divine. In this context, there is no energy that is misdirected or unworthy of support and nurturance. While this may seem contrary to the evidence of abusive energy upon the Earth, even energy that is laden with "evil intent" is nevertheless energy that is flowing outward in search of a higher _expression.

All people and all forms of life can be nurtured and supported to their highest _expression. This is the fundamental action of this principle. It is greatly facilitated by the intention to perceive the original motive and ultimate _expression of life energy as it passes through your field of awareness.

Energy is an element of life that is so subtly interwoven with form that it is one, in much the same manner as space and time are inextricably linked in union. Energy is a motive. It is intelligent beyond the mind's ability to reason. While it is a force that can be subject to applications that deny its highest _expression, energy is always imbuing life with the motive to expand and evolve.

Life energy is always in a state of becoming. It is never static or regressive in its natural state. You are very capable of nurturing this natural expansion of energy to forge new channels of _expression and experience. In fact, it is your primary purpose to expand the life energy that encircles your personal reality, and to transform it to new levels of _expression that more clearly reflect the perspective of divine essence.

There are many specific actions that can be taken to nurture life. Each soul is, in a sense, programmed within its divine intention to transform energy through a tremendous variety of means. Working through your body, your soul is able to collect and store energy and redirect its purpose or application. This transformation of energy can occur on both personal and universal levels of _expression. That is, within an individual's field of awareness, energy can be transformed to conform to a vision of personal welfare, or aligned with a vision of universal welfare and goodwill.

One of the best methods to transform energy is through one's belief system. All beliefs have energy systems that act like birthing chambers for the manifestation of beliefs. Within these energy systems are currents that direct life experience. Your soul is aware of these currents either consciously or unconsciously and allows them to carry you into the realm of experience that exemplifies your core belief system.

By cultivating beliefs that expand and transform energy, you are able to engage energy systems that are nurturing to life in all its myriad forms. When your beliefs are clearly defined as intentions — as preferred states of being — your life energy engages fully in the present moment. Your energy system becomes inseparable from your being and woven into your spirit like a thread of light. Clarity of intention is essential to engaging the energy system of your core beliefs, and to allowing the nurturance of life to prevail in all activities.

So again, the nurturance of life is essential to both personal and collective realities within the universe, which contains all realities that are interlinked like threads of an infinitely expanding fabric. Thus, as you awaken to your creative power to transform life energy and enhance it with the clear intent of gentle support, you become a beacon of the Divine and the architect of a new paradigm based upon the intention to nurture all life in the universe.

Gratitude

This principle is based on the understanding that the universe represents a collective intelligence that can be personalized as a single Universal Soul — a composite _expression of the Divine. Thus, in this model of inference, there are only two souls in the entire cosmos: the individual soul and the Universal Soul. Inasmuch as the individual is impressionable and constantly changing to adapt to new information, so is the Universal Soul, which is a dynamic, living template of potential energies and experiences that are coherent and as knowable as a friend's personality and behavior.

The Universal Soul is responsive to the individual soul and its beliefs and perceptions. It is like a composite omni-personality that is imbued with Divine Intelligence and responds to the perceptions and belief systems of the individual like a pool of water mirrors the image that overshadows it.

Everyone is indeed, at their innermost core, an enlightened soul that can transform themselves into an instrument of divine essence. However, this self-enlightenment is dependent on whether the individual chooses to project an image of divine essence upon the "mirror" of the Universal Soul, or to project a lesser image that is a distortion of its essential state of being.

The principle of gratitude is primarily concerned with consciously designing your self-image through an appreciation of the Universal Soul's supportive mirror. In other words, the Universal Soul is a partner in shaping reality's _expression in your life. If you choose to project an enlightened image upon the mirror of the Universal Soul, reality gradually becomes an internal process of creation that is increasingly free of external controls and conditions.

This process involves an interchange of supportive energy between the individual and the Universal Soul. This energy is best applied through an appreciation of how perfect and exacting the interchange occurs in every moment of life. If you are aware — or at least interested in having the awareness — of how perfectly the Divine, as expressed in the form of the Universal Soul, supports your sovereign reality, there is a powerful and natural sense of gratitude that flows from you to the Divine. It is this wellspring of gratitude that opens the channel of support from the Divine to the individual and establishes a collaboration of purpose to transform the individual soul into a pure _expression of divine essence.

It is principally gratitude — which arises naturally through appreciation of how the relationship between the individual and the Universal Soul operates — that opens you to connection with your divine essence, and to your eventual transformation into the state of perception and _expression of divine essence. The relationship of the individual with the Universal Soul is essential to cultivate and nurture, because this relationship, more than anything else, determines how accepting each individual is of life's myriad forms and manifestations.

When you accept changes in your sovereign reality as the shifting persona of the Universal Soul, you live in greater harmony with life itself. Life becomes an exchange of energy between you and the Universal Soul that is allowed to play out without judgment, and is experienced without fear. This is the underlying meaning of unconditional love: to experience life in all its manifestations as a single, unified intelligence that responds perfectly to the projected image of each soul.

It is for this reason that when you project gratitude, regardless of circumstance or condition, life becomes increasingly supportive in opening you to further awakening your indwelling divine intention. This feeling of gratitude coupled with the mental concept of appreciation is expressed like an invisible message in all directions and at all times. In this particular context, gratitude is the overarching motive behind all forms of _expression to which humanity aspires.

Every breath, every word, every touch, every thought, every thing is centered on expressing this sense of gratitude; a gratitude that you are sovereign and supported by a Universal Soul that expresses itself through all forms and manifestations of intelligence with the sole objective of creating the ideal reality to fully awaken your divine intention and transform your entire being into divine essence. It is this specific form of gratitude that accelerates the awakening of your divine intention and its inherent ability to integrate your body, mind, heart, and soul, and to transform them to the state of perception and _expression of divine essence.

Time is the primary factor that distorts this otherwise clear connection between the individual and the Divine. Time establishes separation of experience. This creates doubt in the Divine's system of fairness and overarching purpose. This doubt, in turn, creates fear that the universe is not a mirror but rather a chaotic, whimsical energy. Time intervenes to create pockets of despair, hopelessness, and abandonment. However, it is these very "pockets" that often motivate awakening the divine intention of your soul, as they cause you to seek a more intimate and harmonious relationship with the Divine.

When you are aligned with divine essence and live from this perspective as part of an ever-unfolding reality, you attract a natural state of harmony. This does not necessarily mean that your life is without problems or discomforts; rather it signifies a perception that there is an integral purpose in what life reveals. In other words, natural harmony perceives that life experience is meaningful to the extent that you are aligned with your divine essence. When your personal reality flows in alignment with divine essence, you create lasting joy and inner peace.

Gratitude is an essential facet of love that opens you to acknowledge the role of the Universal Soul and to redefine your purpose as a supportive extension of the Divine, rather than the whimsical outreach of fate or the exacting reaction of a mechanical, detached universe. Establishing a relationship with the universe through the outflow of gratitude also attracts life experience that is transformative — experience that is richly devoted to uncovering life's deepest meaning and most formative purpose.

The Emergence of Divine Essence

Through the ongoing application of these life principles, Divine Intelligence increasingly permeates your soul, and your soul becomes the identity of your entire being. Thus, identity is transformed, and in the wake of this transformation, divine essence unifies your being with your soul, and your soul with Divine Intelligence. It is this unification and shift of identity that is the explicit purpose in expressing the principles of self-enlightenment. If there is any other intention or objective, these principles will remain misunderstood and their catalytic powers will remain dormant.

It is the perspective of divine essence that all life is pure love in its fullest _expression, and that in this single concept, all life is conceived and forever exists. This becomes the core belief from which all other beliefs arise. And as these beliefs expand outward, this core belief system emerges with a clear intent of supporting a fundamental perspective of seeing, nurturing, and appreciating the universe as the divine cradle from which all life is created and evolves.

These life principles are merely symbols represented in words and served to you as a potential recipe to stir awake the embers of light that tirelessly burn within. There are no specific techniques or rituals that are required to invoke the power of these principles. They are simply perspectives. In a real sense, they are intentions that attract experience that expands consciousness. They do not provide quick fixes or instant realizations. They are amplifiers of personal will and intention that clarify how one lives. Their transformative power is contained exclusively in the intent of their application.

Through these principles of self-enlightenment, you can become a master of empowering your deeper self. In the past, boundaries were set, secrets were kept, and your light was subdued, simply because your perception of external, hierarchical controls created in you fear of the unknown and of the mystical practices of self-enlightened souls.

Now, if you choose to apply these life principles with clear intent, you have the tools to accelerate the emergence of divine essence within you. Thus, you can feel the perspective, insights, and empowered abilities of your divine essence to create new realms of possibility and shape them as learning adventures that liberate and expand your consciousness. This is the underlying purpose of these principles, and perhaps the best reason to explore them.

This is the first of a two-part essay

Shifting Paradigms by WingMakers

Wingmakers Shifting Paradigms Aug 23/05

The wisdom of our own spiritual essence is the destination that beckons us inward toward the reality of the Divine. In all of the wanderings of human consciousness away from the Divine, humankind has virtually eliminated its compelling features through the misapplication of the logical mind, and through the persistent belief in the language of limitation that flows from the external controls of hierarchical belief systems.

The Divine, hidden behind language, has gradually become "illuminated" by the prophets of the world, and yet in so doing, has taken on the limiting images of language, thus diluting the pure _expression of its compelling features. Language can be a purveyor of limitation. It can become the pawn of tyranny and entrapment. Virtually all people on Earth desire to preserve a dependence upon a hierarchy that stretches between the individual and the Divine. It is this hierarchy that utilizes language as a form of structural limitation, though in relative terms, it can appear to be liberating and empowering.

The Divine dances outside of the constructs of any language. It is complete within itself, and has a singular purpose of demonstrating the collective potential of all life within the universe. It is the archetype of perfection. It is the standard bearer of each soul's innate design and ultimate destiny. The essence of the Divine is so far beyond mental conception that humanity’s tendency is to resort to the language of externals — and ultimately the hierarchy — to define it.

The Hierarchy

The hierarchy, through the purveyance of a paradigm focused on evolution and saviorship, has attempted to guide the development of everyone in the world. The direct connection between the individual and the Divine has been subtly undermined through layers of limiting language, belief system manipulation, and ritual controls designed by the hierarchy to intervene between the spiritual essence of souls and their divine source.

Each individual can come to know themselves to be free of all forms of external dependence. This is not to imply that one should not trust others or band together in alliances of friendship and community. It is simply a reminder that relative truth is constantly shifting in the hands of those who desire to control. And even though their motives may be of good will, it is still a form of control. When the hierarchy withholds information, its interpretive centers for relative truth are positioned to acquire and maintain power rather than dispensing the empowerment of divine equality.

There are so many layers of relative truth that if you listen to the language of the external world, you will likely abandon your own power in favor of the proclamation of the hierarchy’s language. Language is seductive both to the ego's drive for power and control, and to the mind's inclination to surrender to, and believe in, the language of externals.

The hierarchy can lure the unsuspecting into believing in images and ideas — real or imagined — for the sake of holding individuals in bondage to a lesser truth. It can thus cause individuals to support the hierarchy even when it no longer serves their purpose.

There are individuals who are destined to demonstrate the truth of divine equality among all souls. The time is fast approaching when the veils of control at all levels of the hierarchy will be rendered obsolete by these souls, who are destined to strip away the veils and allow enlightened power to prevail over hierarchical power.

It will become the fundamental purpose of the hierarchy to slowly remove these barriers to equality in such a way that the hierarchy appears to be the savior of consciousness rather than a detour from the road to expanded consciousness. Yet there are those present who will ensure that the curtain falls swiftly for all who are willing to skirt the hierarchy's tangled pathways, and who embrace their own divinity as enlightened expressions of the Divine.

The hierarchy represents diverse interests, perceptions of reality, and motives of action. It is this diversity that can cause the hierarchy to become ineffective in leading individuals to awareness of their divine equality. Yet this diversity is also what permits it to attract and initially awaken such a breadth of individuals to their spiritual energies and intuitive centers. Nevertheless, the hierarchy has trapped itself in vested specialization and in the limiting aspects of diversity that prevent it from evolving from an arduous ladder of evolution to a joyous river of light that is aligned with the purpose of empowering all souls to divine equality.

The Evolution/Saviorship Paradigm

The saviorship concept results from feelings of inadequacy that constantly surge within the mass consciousness of humanity through the genetic mind. These feelings are related to the fragmentation of individuals, and their consequent inability to fully grasp their holistic perspective, to reach into their divine origins, and to accept their divine equality with all. Thus ensues the seemingly endless search to be saved from the inadequacy and insecurity that result from the fragmentation of your being.

The motive to evolve consciousness derives from the feeling of being less than whole, and in particular, the feeling of being disconnected from the Divine due to imperfect judgment caused by the fragmentation of your being. It is through these feelings that the fragmentation perpetuates itself and is passed into the genetic mind, which is the shared foundation of humanity. The collective genetic mind of humanity is the single most powerful component of the hierarchy. It is formed by the very conditions of living in a three-dimensional, five-sensory context that is all consuming.

When the soul initially enters a human body at birth, it is immediately fragmented into a physical, emotional, and mental spectrum of perception and _expression. >From that day forward the soul is carefully conditioned to adapt into, and navigate within the three-dimensional, five-sensory context of the Earth. In effect, the soul purposely fragments its consciousness in order to experience separation from wholeness.

In this state of separation, the soul has handicapped itself for the purpose of gaining new experience and a deeper understanding of the primal blueprint or grand vision of the Divine. Through this deeper understanding, the soul one day will, through the human body, transform this three-dimensional reality into a self-aware, integrated component of the universe. This magnificent and purposeful endeavor produces the urge within you to seek out your wholeness and re-experience your divine connection to All That Is.

This search, in large measure, is the fuel that drives the individual to seek out and explore the evolution/saviorship paradigm. It provides the individual with the motivation to seek help and guidance from a specific subgroup of the hierarchy, and in so doing, develop a sense of belonging and unity. It is this very sense of belonging and unity that helps to catalyze a growing awareness of the underlying union between the individual being, divine essence, Divine Intelligence, and All That Is.

This is why the evolution/saviorship paradigm is essential as a component of the grand experiment. It is the stage whereby people develop a sense of unity and belonging, a sense of relationship to some grand and encompassing vision. This is also why the hierarchy nurtures saviors who point toward a greater vision. It is why feelings of inadequacy and insecurity are developed and nurtured by the hierarchy. This can actually facilitate the unification of all people, which in turn, facilitates the unification of humanity with the Divine.

Spiritual leaders are able to peer deeply beneath the surface reality of life and experience how intricately connected every life form is, and how this composite of life is intelligent far beyond an individual's capability to both perceive and express. Spiritual leaders can thus interpret reality through their personal abilities to perceive and express life's dimensional depth and limitless intelligence. Yet no one is able to articulate life's full dimensional depth and breadth with the tools of language. They can only, at best, describe their interpretation or their impressions.

All people are, in varying degrees, able to peer beneath the surface reality of life and perceive and express their personal interpretations of the universe. They require only time and intention to develop their own interpretations. And this is precisely what many of the great spiritual leaders have taught. Life's deeper meaning is not an absolute to be experienced by the chosen few, but an evolving, dynamic intelligence that wears as many faces as there are life forms. No group or people has the exclusive portal into the universe by which the Divine expresses itself in all its majesty. The portal is shared with all, because the Divine is within all things.

The great spiritual leaders of Earth have all, in their own way, interpreted the universe and humanity's role therein. In so doing, their interpretations, because they were articulated with authority and depth of insight, became a target of debate among various subgroups of the hierarchy. This debate and inquiry process created a polarity of belief. A sympathetic constituency emerged to defend and embellish their particular leader's interpretation, while everyone else held it in contempt of previously held beliefs.

This peculiar method of creating a religion that is fixated on a savior's or a prophet's interpretation of the universe is unique to those who are exploring the evolution/saviorship paradigm. The spiritual leaders that are recognized as great prophets or saviors each produced a vision of the universe beyond what was currently defined by the hierarchy. They created a new portal into the universe and were willing to share their vision at the expense of debate and probable ridicule.

These men and women were the gateways for humanity to explore new facets of itself, to engage a part of its oversoul or collective consciousness that was essential at that particular time in its evolutionary cycle. But the leader's interpretations became interpreted and confined by followers who desired to create a religion or sect. Thus, their vision quietly receded into the hands of the hierarchy where it became devitalized by the very fact that it was connected to a massive structure that both protected and promoted it.

Divine Intelligence is connected to individuals and not organizations. Thus, the hierarchy is unconnected to Divine Intelligence in a vital and dynamic way. The hierarchy is connected to its own collective desire to help, to serve, and to perform a function that allows the use of power to drive toward the vision of its leaders. In itself, this is not wrong or misguided. It is all part of the primal blueprint that orchestrates the unfolding of consciousness from divine wholeness to sovereign soul, and sovereign soul to collective wholeness. This is the spiral of integration that breeds wholeness and cascading beauty within the universe.

What the hierarchy has loosely labeled as Spirit comes as close as any word to the symbol of Divine Intelligence. Divine Intelligence inhabits all realities as an extension of the Divine. It is the emissary of the Divine that interweaves with the hierarchy as its counterbalance. Divine Intelligence is the factor of integrity and alignment, which ensures that the hierarchy is serving its purpose within the primal blueprint. Divine Intelligence is, in effect, the "scientist" who oversees the grand experiment. It establishes the criteria, selects the variables, monitors the results, and evaluates the alternative outcomes in the laboratory of time and space.

The Grand Experiment

The grand experiment is the ongoing transformation and expansion of Divine Intelligence through all souls in all dimensions of existence. It is the purpose of the grand experiment to test alternative paradigms to determine, with some certainty, the paradigm that is best able to unify consciousness without impinging on the sovereignty of the individuated soul. The grand experiment is composed of many distinct stages that interlink, leading to the great mystery. Most of these different stages are being simultaneously played out within the time-space universe in order to prepare the universe for the impending expansion of divine consciousness into all forms and dimensions of existence.

In the case of the Earth, a stage of existence is emerging that promotes the clear connection of individual consciousness to the compelling features of the Divine without the intervention of a hierarchy. This is when the fables and myths of history step into the light and become known as they were originally intended. This is the time when language will be transformed into a new form of communication that exhibits the compelling features of the Divine in an artistry of energy and vibration that breaks down all barriers of control.

It is time to recognize that the hierarchy extends throughout the cosmos to the very borders of discovery. It has branches that extend from every star system and from every known dimension. Virtually all life forms are "leaves" of this vast cosmological tree. This constitutes the grand indoctrination of species, spirits, planets, and stars as they each evolve through the branches of the tree. Thus, the hierarchy is an assemblage of externals that desire to invest their energies in support of a subgroup that has nested somewhere within this greatest of all manifest structures. Service is the operational motive of the hierarchy, and in most cases, this translates into the concept of saviorship and the teacher/student ordering of the universe.

The hierarchy is composed of all souls of all motives that have linked their energies into subgroups. These subgroups are independent branches of the vast, cosmological tree that encompasses all things that appear to be separate from the Divine. The roots of the tree are bound in the soil of genetic memory and subconscious instincts. At the base of the tree the first branches sprout. They are the oldest, representing the native religions of the species. The middle branches are the orthodox religions and institutions, while the upper branches represent contemporary belief systems that are newly emerging throughout the universe. The whole tree, in this definition, is the hierarchy, and its seed was initially conceived, planted, and nurtured by Divine Intelligence for the purpose of stimulating the grand experiment.

This is the experiment of comparing self-enlightenment with evolution. Evolution is the arduous and ongoing process of shifting positions within the hierarchy — always assessing your present position in relation to a new one that beckons you. Self-enlightenment begins simply with the recognition that rather than the interdependent ways of the evolution/saviorship relationship, there are accelerated, independent pathways that bypass the hierarchy leading to self-enlightenment, and that these new pathways can be accessed through direct experience of the tone or vibration of equality that is present within all souls.

This tone or vibration is not what is commonly referred to as the music of the spheres or the vibration of Spirit moving through the universe in resonance to divine intention. It is rather a vibration that holds together the three principles of the self-enlightenment experience: seeing the Divine in all, nurturance of life, and gratitude. The application of these life principles disengages a soul from the controlling elements of the hierarchy.

Free Will

How can the hierarchy act as an interpretive center of truth without manipulating souls, and thus obscuring their free will? The grand experiment was designed with free will as its primary method of obtaining authentic information that can be used to expand Divine Intelligence into all dimensions of existence. Free will is the thread of authenticity that imbues value in the various tests within the grand experiment. The hierarchy or any other external structure never jeopardizes free will. Only the soul can choose its reality. This is the fundamental principle of free will.

Free will is not obscured simply because a soul is presented with alternative realities or relative truths that delay its realization of divine equality. It is the choice of the soul to invest itself in external accounts of reality, instead of delving within its own resources and creating a reality that is sovereign. The value of free will is always expanding as you move towards self-enlightenment, and in like manner, is always diminishing as you move towards external dependence. The choice between self-enlightenment and external dependence is the basis of free will, and there is no structure or external source that can eliminate this basic choice. It is an inward choice that, regardless of outward circumstance, is incapable of being denied by anything external.

The universe encompasses all dimensions, and therefore, all realities are contained therein. In this incomprehensible diversity, each soul is presented with structures that define its free will in terms of its relationship to the Divine. Each of these structures varies in latitude of choice, but each is connected into the superstructure of the hierarchy. The structureless reality of Divine Intelligence is where free will was initially conceived. This principle was woven into the physical world as the thread of authenticity. It's influence is determined by the soul's recognition of its own wholeness in relation to the Divine.

When souls are unknowing of their wholeness, structure occurs as a form of self-imposed security. Through this ongoing development of a structured and ordered universe, souls define their borders — their limits — through the _expression of their insecurity. They become only pieces of their wholeness, and like shards of glass from a beautiful vase they bear little resemblance to their aggregate beauty. If the soul is seen as fragmented into its component parts, its comprehension of free will is limited to that which the hierarchy circumscribes. If, however, the soul is clearly known to be a conscious collective, realizing its sovereign wholeness, the principle of free will is a form of structure that becomes unnecessary, like a fire on a summer day.

If you were to perceive the origin of your existence, you would undoubtedly see how vast the soul is. If you could pierce through the veils that cover your destiny, you would understand how much vaster you will become. Between these two points of existence — origin and destiny — the soul is always the vibrant container of Divine Intelligence. It has willingly allowed itself to explore the time-space universe as an outpost of the Divine. Therefore, while the hierarchy may obscure the soul's comprehension of its wholeness, it is the soul who has surrendered, by choice, to listen to the language of limitation, the proclamations of externals, and to become seduced by the evolution/saviorship paradigm.

Why has the hierarchy not provided the alternative paradigm of self-enlightenment and enabled the soul to make a choice, and in so doing, truly exercise its free will? It is because the hierarchy, like most souls, is not aware of its wholeness. Its fragments, or subgroups, are often obsessed with boundaries. Where there are boundaries that define and limit, there is also structure. Where there is deeply ingrained structure there is a pervasive belief that self-enlightenment is impossible. Naturally, the time-space universe conforms to the matrix of belief projection, so the very concept of self-enlightenment has largely been removed from the hierarchy's reality.

Thus, the hierarchy is unable to even conceptualize the self-enlightenment paradigm with any precision, let alone inform the soul that alternatives exist which issue from Divine Intelligence. The hierarchy is not responsible for this condition, each soul is. The paradigm of Divine Intelligence is primal. It existed before the hierarchy. It is the soul that has chosen to explore the hierarchy's paradigm for the purpose of participating in the grand experiment and assisting in the emergence of a synthesis paradigm. The hierarchy is quite benign as a manipulative force, and merely represents a key ingredient to the recipe of wholeness that is transforming the soul to reach beyond its role as a vibrant container of Divine Intelligence, and to become a bridgeway in the expansion of the Divine into the physical world.

The Descent of the Divine into the World

There is an ancient belief, born of the hierarchy, in a great future ascension from the physical world into divine reality, and that humans of love will accompany this ascension process. However, it is actually the Divine that is expanding to encompass the physical world with the purpose of aligning all souls to a synthesis paradigm. Divine Intelligence is stripping away the veils that hide the essential meaning of the soul in the physical world. As this progresses, the soul increasingly realizes its divine equality with all, and its many facets become increasingly aligned, allowing for an ever-fuller _expression of its enlightened perspective.

This self-enlightenment of the soul is the pathway into wholeness. It is the recognition that the soul is a composite of forms and the formless that is unified in one energy, one consciousness. When the fragments are aligned and interconnected, the soul becomes the instrument that facilitates this divine expansion. Thus, the soul does not ascend from the physical world, but rather coalesces into a state of wholeness whereby its enlightened _expression can assist in the expansion, or in a different context, the descent of the Divine into the world.

Ascension is often construed as the natural outcome of evolution. In this view, all planetary systems and species are evolving to the point where they ascend from limitation, and eventually, the reality of the physical world will somehow fold into the Divine and cease to exist. It is actually quite the opposite. The Divine is descending. It is inclusive of all things, and it is divine intention to expand, not retreat. The soul transforms to wholeness within the cradle of the physical world, and in so doing, becomes a catalyst to the Divine's intention to expand.

Can you see the perfection of this primal blueprint? Can you feel the shifting of the matrix from which your reality is cast? Can you not also understand that you, as a human being, consist of formless and formful identities that are individuated as a single point of pure energy, yet live in many places on many dimensions simultaneously? Only within the soul is the place of transformation discovered, where the formless self can enter and commune with its various outposts of form. The formless is the eternal watcher who lives beyond the veil of form and comprehension, and draws forth the wisdom of time from the well of planets. It is the point of origin from whence Divine Intelligence flows.

The eternal watcher, sometimes alluded to as the higher self or deeper self, is the only real interpretive center for the soul. It is the only stable guidance system that can propel the soul to its wholeness. Thus, the soul is composed of both the formless identity of Divine Intelligence and the formful identity of densified energy. While the formless is one, the formful is divested in many fragments of _expression that isolate its consciousness as islands of perception and _expression. This condition results in the soul's inability to recognize its vast and glorious nature of existence.

Having been born in a human body, your soul is largely silent and unmoving. It appears like a fleeting whisper of gladness that touches you like a mountain wind. It is quiet like a deep ocean. Yet, your soul is coming forward into the world as a harbinger of divine expansion. It is beginning to make its divine essence known. Many now feel the shadow of their soul as it approaches. They consign all forms of definition to this "shadow," seldom believing it to be the torchbearer of their total selfhood. Here is where all the vows of faithfulness, all the ceremonies of love, and all the feelings of hope can be centered and given over to the divine essence that we each are.

The primary reason that the hierarchy's evolution/saviorship paradigm is so compelling is because the soul has become fragmented in how it perceives its total selfhood. The eternal watcher that lives through the human being is elusive to the time-space conditioned mind, yet it is the mind that attempts to reach out and touch this subtle vibration of divine equality that is forever kindled by Divine Intelligence. However, the mind is too conditioned and disempowered to realize the total scope of the soul that exists beyond the shadows of intuition. It is for this reason that humanity is exploring the evolution/saviorship paradigm. Most humans have little or no conception of their wholeness, and require a savior and the acclimation process of evolution to bring them security and happiness.

It is a natural condition of evolving groups to have a desire, implanted by the hierarchy, to be saved and to be a savior. This condition results in the teacher/student ordering of reality. It is a building block of evolution and the very essence of the hierarchy's structural existence. The saviorship drama is an _expression of souls that are preoccupied with the evolutionary process, and it is not confined to a religious context, but indeed applies to all facets of one's life.

As there are relative truths, there are relative freedoms. If you are evolving through the hierarchical process, you gain an ever-increasing sense of freedom, yet you are still controlled by external forces through language, thought forms, frequencies of color and sound, and the seemingly indelible artifacts of the genetic mind. Each of these elements can cause you to rely upon the hierarchy as it overlays a sense of inequality between you and your divinity. The underlying equation of the evolutionary process is: human being + hierarchy = God connection. In the case of the self-enlightenment process, it is: soul + Divine Intelligence = divine equality.

Divine Intelligence, though it generally manifests as the vibration of equality, is subject to the will of the Divine. And as divine intention changes through the various stages of the grand experiment, Divine Intelligence is also changing its form of manifestation. This change is occurring now within the worlds of time and space because Divine Intelligence is beginning to set the stage for the integration of the two primary paradigms (evolution/saviorship and self-enlightenment) within the grand experiment.

The Synthesis Paradigm

The time has come to integrate the dominant paradigm of the hierarchy (evolution/saviorship) with the paradigm of Divine Intelligence (self-enlightenment). This integration can only be achieved at the level of the soul. It cannot occur within the context of a human body or an aspect of the hierarchy. Only the soul — the wholeness of interdimensional enlightenment imbued with Divine Intelligence — can facilitate and fully experience the integration of these two paradigms.

This form of integration occurs when the soul fully explores the two paradigms and develops a synthesis paradigm that positions saviorship as an internal role of the soul to "save" itself, and not rely upon externals to perform this liberating task. This act of self-sufficiency begins to integrate the saviorship idea with self-realization. The next step is to integrate the time-based incremental model of progress of the evolutionary paradigm with the realization-based model of the self-enlightenment paradigm. This is done when the soul is thoroughly convinced that experience and utilization of its wholeness can only occur when it is detached from the various structures of the hierarchy.

When the soul assumes its role of personal liberation, it does not mean that the hierarchy is to be shunned or avoided. The hierarchy is a wondrous instrument. It is symbolic of the body of the Divine, enabling it to submerge within the physical world similar to how the human body allows the soul to function outside of Divine Intelligence. The hierarchy is a vehicle of enlightenment even when it acts to suppress information and keep groups in obedience to its controlling hand. It is part of the ancient formula that prepares a new world for the synthesis paradigm and eventually leads to membership in the greater universe.

The combination of self-saviorship and detachment from the hierarchy initiates the synthesis paradigm into manifestation. The synthesis paradigm is the next outcome of the grand experiment, and in certain vibrational fields of the multidimensional universe, there are souls who are indeed experiencing this stage of the experiment as forerunners of the soul model of divine individuation.

These souls are specifically called to transmit this future experience into communication symbols and life principles that facilitate the bridging of the two paradigms. Beyond the initial design and construction of these "bridges," these souls will remain largely unknown. If they were to do anything more, they would rapidly become a fixture of the hierarchy and their contributions would become compromised.

These self-enlightened souls are not present in the physical world to be formal teachers. They are present to be catalysts and designers. They are present to ensure that Divine Intelligence is allowed to balance the dominant force of the hierarchy and its evolution/saviorship paradigm. They will not create a new belief system. Instead, they will focus on developing new communication symbols through various art forms that facilitate the soul's detachment from the controlling aspects of the hierarchy. These souls will also demonstrate the natural ease of interweaving the two primary strands of existence into a synthesis paradigm.

In the advancing epoch of human development, new pathways beyond the synthesis paradigm will be collectively designed so that a new hierarchy can be constructed that is consciously fashioned from Divine Intelligence information. This new hierarchy will be cast from the knowledge gained from the grand experiments of the time-space universe, and the cosmic cycle will regenerate itself into a new field of vibration and existence. This new paradigm resists definition. Words are completely inadequate to describe even the shadowy outlines of this new form of existence that is emerging from out of the synthesis paradigm in future time.

There are souls who will be transforming the time-space universe from ladders of consciousness to inclusions of the Divine. In other words, divine reality will be extended into the physical world, and all life forms herein will experience this extension through a new hierarchical structure that is completely aligned with Divine Intelligence. What some call "heaven on earth" is merely the echo of a realization of this impending future time. What is actually bearing down on the time-space universe is the expansion of the Divine through the accessibility of Divine Intelligence information to all souls regardless of form or structure.

When this accessibility is complete and each soul's indwelling divine intention is fully awakened, all souls will be part of a new cosmological structure. This new structure will invoke the next paradigm, which is already being developed by Divine Intelligence and self-enlightened souls. What is being set in motion now in the physical world is the initial preparation for these paradigm shifts. More specifically, upon the Earth, these paradigms will be simultaneously played out over the next epoch of time. As always, it will be the choice of the soul as to which paradigm they embrace as reality.

These various paradigms generally occur in a predetermined sequence, but not necessarily in a predetermined timeframe. The sequence of the divine expansion is: Divine Intelligence creation of a new reality; the ongoing development of a soul constructed hierarchy to act as the superstructure of the new creation; the emergence from the hierarchy of a dominant paradigm — in this case, the evolution/saviorship paradigm; the introduction of the Divine Intelligence paradigm — in this case, the self-enlightenment paradigm; the intermixing of these two paradigms to form a synthesis paradigm of divine equality; and finally, divine expansion to the inclusion of all dimensions and souls.

When this sequencing of the primal blueprint is achieved, the process, with all that has been learned by Divine Intelligence, will be reconfigured, and a new element of the primal blueprint will be revealed that is unknown at this stage even by Divine Intelligence. The time required to fulfill the complete cycle is undetermined, but it is reasonable to expect that its completion is yet so distant in time that to attach measurement would simply be a feeble attempt at estimating the unknowable.

Let there be no mistake, however, that the fulfillment of the primal blueprint is indeed the direction all souls are traveling. While souls of all levels are bestowed free will within their own realities, they are not, as aspects of the Divine, given free will to choose their ultimate destiny. The origin of all souls is Divine Intelligence, and it is Divine Intelligence that determines destiny as well. Yet souls are provided a tremendous latitude of choices to propel themselves from origin to destiny, and to reemerge as expanded manifestations of the Divine with a transformed vision of their own identity.

All of the highest imaginings of humanity are yet unaware of the deepest foundation of the primal blueprint. We have sought the upper reaches of the building, yet remain unaware of the foundation's design. It is here, at the very core of existence that Divine Intelligence is bursting forth with its creative energy, and is simultaneously reintegrating with its equality of enlightenment. It is here that equality is realized, not in the lofty places of relative truth lodged in the hierarchy, but rather in the deepest part of the foundational plan of life's origins and destiny, where time rejoins itself into timelessness. The origin and destiny of existence is the tone of equality in life. Listen for this tone — this frequency of vibration — and follow it back into the very foundation from whence all things arise and return.

Consider these words as symbols only. Remember that language can be a tool of limitation. Feeling is an antidote of limitation that permits humanity to leap over the boundaries of the logical mind and witness first hand the wordless power of collective energy individuated. Feel the truth that stands behind the symbols, and tap into this energy force that reaches out for you. Know it as a tone or vibration — a resonance that waits for you around every corner in which your life will turn. It is a beacon of the divine vibration gathering itself into the form of language in order to usher you to a place from which you can experience the formless tone of equality — the bypass of limitation. It is the primal language of Divine Intelligence that bestows to you the freedom to generate your deepest beauty in the _expression of your highest truth.

This is the second of a two-part essay

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