THE FALL FROM GRACE

We awake in Christ's body

As Christ awakens our bodies

Symeon, the New Theologian

But that blessed state doesn't last long.

We lose touch with Godness
And learn quickly

To become, instead, like our parents,

Then others we love,
Trying to mould our selves into what we think they want us to be.

We get on with the business 

Of being human.
We forget what we are.

How we feel about this sellout, however,
Depends on what we believe life is all about.
I have found that...

All the great lessons and adventures in life arise because

We're experiencing everything

From within a False Self.
Without a false self we'd experience no dramas,
Or comedies for that matter.
No entertainment.
When was the last time you saw a fictional play, TV show or movie,
Where nothing happened to ruffle the waters?
Where nothing went wrong?
Where nobody got themselves into trouble?
Without perturbation, the entertainment industry would go broke.
Even Snow White had her problems!
Imagine, if you can, the Bible without any hairy bits.

Limitation and resistance are illusions we buy into.
Like actors, we suspend our disbelief in strife
In order to experience something we couldn't otherwise get.
It's why we came here --
Heaven got boring.

But there comes a time when enough limitation is enough;
Not just because we can't take it any more,
But perhaps also because we created these conflicts and separations we've got,
So that we could transmute them.
Maybe this game has a purpose after all!

By now, we already know "limited"
And what its consequences feel like.
Inside out.
There comes a time to grow up.
Is it your time yet?

When you're ready,
Keep be-littling your self

But notice, too,

How limitless you are.
Both......
The limitless experiencing limits,
(Just for a while.
Just for the hell of it.)
Got it?

Now notice what you've been suffering about --
What's just happened with it?