The Coming Upheaval

The Mayan and Hopi calendars, Nostradamus’ predictions, and the prophecies encoded on the walls of the Great Pyramid of Egypt reveal that we are at an ending point in human history when great astrological changes will occur in the cosmos. Some believe this means that the human race is destined to sustain tremendous losses, and may even become extinct. I believe we are on the verge of a major shift in the human experience, but it doesn’t have to be a destructive one. It is frightening to see the polar ice caps melting, the increase in terrorism around the globe, the humanitarian crises, and the collapse of our banking systems. There are days when it seems the whole world is falling apart and going mad. But we hold the key to changing our destiny. We can awaken to the signs that we have to change the way we live and evolve.

God not only wants us to survive, God wants us to return the earth to a state of paradise. To do that, we have to understand that we exist in two separate realities at once, the visible, physical world of the senses, and the invisible, metaphysical world of the Divine.

Divine Reality

Our minds are wonderful tools for understanding the world, but we use them in a very limited way. We’ve convinced ourselves that the world of our senses, where we suffer pain and illness and watch our bodies grow old is the only reality, but it isn’t. There’s a larger reality that operates according a very different set of rules; it is the realm of God.

To help us understand the two worlds, visible and invisible, man-made and divine, God gave us two sides of the brain. The left hemisphere is involved in most of our thinking and reasoning while the right is the seat of intuition and the area where dreams are created. Our left brain understands the world of the senses, while our right brain allows us to perceive that there’s more to reality than we can see, hear, feel, smell, or touch. Each of the two worlds, man-made and divine, has its own set of rules. We’ve all woken up from a vivid dream and wondered how our minds could have created such a strange story. Dreams defy the rules of logic, which are laws of our ordinary reality. When we dream, we might be able to fly or be suddenly transported from a mountaintop to a city bus. In our dreams, someone who died long ago may be alive or we may find that we are small children again. Whatever happens in the dream world seems to make perfect sense until we awaken. The realm of dreams is a very different reality. We live according to its rules when we are there, and we return to the laws of the physical world in the morning when we open our eyes.

In our everyday lives, we follow many rules that make perfect sense to us and seem to provide us with order and security. When we encounter the laws of the divine reality, we can become confused because these Principles often contradict our man-made laws, perceptions, and recipes for success and happiness. How can we attract what we desire (which is the promise of the Eternal Principle of Attraction) without working hard to achieve it? How are we supposed to believe that our lives are filled with riches (which is true, according to the Eternal Principle of Abundance) when we struggle to pay our bills? How can we love our enemies (which we must do according to the Law of Love) and, instead of judging and punishing them, forgive them (which we must do, according to the Law of Karma and the Law of Love)?

The Eternal Principles, or divine laws, confuse us because we don’t understand them. We were taught the rules of this world: Don’t steal or you will be punished, hard work and perseverance always pay off in success and happiness, and so on. Because we are ignorant of the divine laws, we are blind to the realm of God. We feel lost, alienated, and disconnected from the Sacred. We fear death and suffering and want desperately to believe that if we do everything right, playing by the rules we’ve created, we’ll be okay. Then a crisis comes along and it’s like an earthquake beneath our feet. We lose our sense of security.

To make the world a less frightening and unpredictable place, we’ve invented rules, religions, dogma, and laws to protect ourselves. These laws seem to work fairly well much of the time, but they create a world that is far inferior to the paradise we could be living in, if only we would operate in alignment with the sacred Eternal Principles. We have to stop thinking that we can do a better job of organizing reality and creating harmony and beauty than God can!

If we knew about the divine laws, and obeyed them, using them as the basis of our man-made laws, we could change our reality. We could end the terrible suffering in the world, and let go of the fear that our short, human existence is the only one we’ll ever experience. We would see that we are all eternal souls taking human form for a brief time, and that our spiritual selves are our real selves. We’d understand that heaven, the world of God, is our true home.

We have to bridge the gap between the visible world and the invisible world in order to bring the light of divinity into our everyday reality. When Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand,” he didn’t mean that we would die and go up to the clouds where angels play harps. He meant that we can begin to pull aside the veil between this world and the other world, and allow paradise to infuse our lives like sunshine streaming through a window.

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