Resolving Opposites
by Barry Carter
Here is a quote on structure from Love Without End - Jesus Speaks:
"Structure is
an organizational factor in the universe, although a secondary and
derivative one. It is love which first brings order out of chaos, but
structure implements the durable patterns of orderly arrangement. Love
built your home; structure holds the walls in place. Love built your
nation, structure administers it. Love determines the parameters of
right conduct, structure formulates the laws which enforce it. Like the
mind, structure is good if it serves, and tyrannical if it dominates
inflexibly, never submitting to the revisions of love.
"Structure represents the predictable, agreed upon patterns of
existence which start with simple forms and build to complex ones. It
is the patterning which causes the differences of potential, and holds
organizational formulas in place. For example, structure is what makes
the difference between steam, water, and ice even though the
ingredients are the same. But structure is not the 'will' which
determines whether H20 will become steam or ice. That is determined by
harmonic adaptations to the environment (love).
"All structure is derivative summarization, and is subject to
revision, suspension, or development. You might say that structure is
the conservational imprint which allows desirable creations to be
stabilized, retained, and combined into larger aggregates of form and
matter. Structure is what holds things in place.
"Laid upon this gridwork are many mind-generated patterns and
structural models used by man for control. There are no 'sacred
designs' which preceded reality. This idea has been invented to make
you afraid to revise or to dispense with unworkable structures, and to
give structures dominance over you."
Many of the problems that we deal with in the world can be traced to
the structures that we have created and empowered to act on our behalf.
We create these structures, empower them and then they take on a life
of their own. The structures we created become our masters instead of
our servants as we originally intended.
Lao Tzu wrote:
When
people lost sight of the way to live
Came codes of love and honesty,
Learning came, charity came,
Hypocrisy took charge;
When differences weakened family ties
Came benevolent fathers and dutiful
sons;
And when lands were disrupted and
misgoverned
Came ministers commended as loyal.
When we loose confidence in our ability to manifest what we need,
we build structures to provide for these needs. These structures can be
buildings or they can be institutions like corporations, governments or
religions. Out of our fear we build these structures so that they will
endure without change to provide that which we no longer believe we can
provide for ourselves.
One of the primary characteristics of life is change. Structure is
created to resist change. When we think of changing structure we often
think in terms of creating new structures to change the old. This often
results in two structures battling for control with living things being
the losers.
We saw this when a constitutional structure was created to overcome
royal and religious structures. Now we are seeing corporate structures
working to take over the constitutional structure. All of these
structures ended up being suppressive.
At a certain point, many of the social and economic structures we have
built take on a sort of life of their own. They seek to perpetuate
themselves by cornering the market on certain of our needs. When these
structures get very large and powerful a few of them may try to totally
control our access to food, energy, health care, shelter, clothing or
free choice.
Structure typically uses certain tactics to gain and maintain control.
Limitation and control of necessary resources is one of these tactics.
By controlling necessities for life, structure can gain control over
us. Thus if a structure controls our access to food, energy, health
care, shelter, clothing or free choice that structure can effectively
control us. On the other hand, the more we are in control of our own
source of supply in these areas the less power we will be giving to
structure.
Some scientific and religious structures would prefer to have us
believe that the nature of God, the universe and everything is
essentially structured and changeless. The structure of science tells
us that immutable physical laws control our lives and that scientific
structure is necessary to bring us the benefits of food, health and
energy. The structure of religion tells us that we must believe only in
one version of one book and that the religious structure (church) must
mediate any connection we might want to develop with God, the universe
and everything. Both structures foster these beliefs in order to obtain
and maintain control.
Corporate structures tend to try to control us (their "consumers") by
threatening to take away those things which they provide and which they
have taught us that we cannot provide for ourselves. Structures use
fear as their greatest ally.
As corporate, governmental and religious structures grow very large and
powerful they tend to loose track of the other needs of the people they
were built to serve. They also tend to maximize short term "profit" by
"mining" resources without consideration of sustainability. Supply
lines tend to get longer, more interdependent and more fragile.
Our food supply capability is a good example of this. The small, local,
family farm has given way to large, distant corporate farms. These
large farms are much more dependent on petroleum for running equipment
and for shipping food to the distant consumer. As nearby petroleum is
"mined" out, the supply lines for it grow longer and more difficult to
support and defend. The large corporate farms also become more and more
dependent on chemical poisons and fertilizers to maintain production
levels because they have depleted ("mined") the mineral productivity of
the soil.
As nearby soil is depleted we must go further and further to find
productive land. This same scenario has been repeated over and over by
every city-based civilization in the past. At some point the supply
lines and profit margins are stretched so thin that the smallest
disruption can bring the entire structure to the ground. We saw
something like this happen with the airline industry after 9-11.
Structure is not alive and can become hostile to life. All of the
world's great spiritual teachers have opposed existing structures and
suggested ways to change them. They say that we do not need to believe
that we are dependent on structures to supply our needs. We should not
serve structure; structure should serve us.
So, if building new structures is not the best way to bring about
change in old structures what are some good ways? The best way is to
connect directly with God, the universe and everything. Spiritual folks
call this connection LOVE, scientists call it quantum coherence or
quantum non-locality. Regardless of what it is called the process
involves improving our connection to All That Is.
You can read more of my thoughts on this at:
and:
In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God.
John 1:1
Then the word was spoken -- in other words, became distinct from God.
A "word" is vibration. Vibration implies here and there -- duality. All
of the world is a manifestation of this vibration.
When you throw a pebble in a pond you will see ripples. If you vibrate
sand on a plate you will get patterns like the patterns in the video at:
The patterns are evidence of standing waves in the vibration. Some
modern physicists postulate that all matter is just the nodes of
intersection between various standing waves in the quantum foam. I
believe that these standing wave patterns in the consciousness-energy
of spirit generate all physical structure.
Quantum foam has also been called the aether and the zero
point. I
think that it is probably the Adamantine particles that Jesus spoke of
in Love Without End - Jesus Speaks (LWE). The adamantine
particles sound a lot like the particles described by
Charles Leadbeater in 1906. You can read his description at:
A modern physicist named Stephen Phillips suggests that the bubbles in
consciousness that Leadbeater described are equivalent to quantum foam
and the koilon are the equivalent to super strings.
Several ORMUS researchers have used these concepts in their theories
about the nature of ORMUS.
The great physicist David Bohm, suggested that the physical world has a
non-physical (spirit) template. He called this template the "implicate
order". Beyond the implicate order he postulated that there is a "super
implicate order" which is the intelligence that creates the patterns of
the template.
According to the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus said:
"This heaven shall pass away and the one above it shall pass away, and
the dead are not alive and the living shall not die. In the days when
you devoured the dead you made it alive; when you come into light, what
will you do? On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you
have become two, what will you do?"
"This heaven" would be the structure of the physical world. "pass away"
means that it is not permanent or unchanging. As Jesus says in LWE:
"Structure
is an organizational factor in the universe, although a secondary and
derivative one. It is love which first brings order out of chaos, but
structure implements the durable patterns of orderly arrangement. Love
built your home; structure holds the walls in place. Love built your
nation, structure administers it. Love determines the parameters of
right conduct, structure formulates the laws which enforce it. Like the
mind, structure is good if it serves, and tyrannical if it dominates
inflexibly, never submitting to the revisions of love."
Both this heaven (physical reality) and the one above it (the implicate
order) are patterns that are subject to the revisions of love. When we
"swallow" the belief that structure (the nearest thing there is to
changeless death) has power over us it is like we have invested
structure with life.
Also, when we invest in the concepts of duality, like love and fear as
opposites, we have "become two". Jeshua says this in LWE:
"Once you internalize structure, your life will be driven by two
powers: Love and fear! But you can't serve both . . . although most
people try.
"Does this mean that love and fear are opposites?"
"As I have told you before, love has
no opposites, for it is the divine solvent which ends duality. Love can
be a choice, however, and so it has alternatives."
"What's the difference between an opposite and an alternative?"
"An alternative is just another
possibility upon which you have chosen not to focus. Therefore, its
effect on your life is minimal or nonexistent. The children of God
extend creation through their choices and by their viewpoints of
reality. Thus alternatives are inevitable.
"You see, fasting is an alternative
to eating. Both can be experienced, but not simultaneously. You might
have viewed them as opposites, because they are the product of choices.
They do not oppose each other or empower a polarity. Actually, one
erases the other. Alternatives are the product of free will and the
fact that you are given choices to make. Alternatives are life
empowering and life changing.
and:
"The
subject of opposites could not exist without structure. What you
perceive as opposites is just an apparency within a limited field of
perception. If you saw the whole picture, the polarity would dissolve.
Opposites are really just broken circles for which you do not see the
connecting link.
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"This is true of all 'opposites,
'even technical ones." He looked toward my paint pallet and made a
reference to the colors I was using. "Black seems to be the opposite of
white because it is the ultimate in absorption while white is the
ultimate in reflectance. In actuality, however, this spectrum extends
beyond black and white. Black proceeds to dark transparency, as white
proceeds to light transparency, and both eventually arrive at total
clarity. The circle is therefore complete.
"All opposites can be resolved by the
connecting link which restores their circle. To institute them as a
polarity is an agenda of ignorance and self-serving structure. Love is
the ultimate connection, and in the presence of love, other connections
are easy to find. In its absence, many needed connections may be
obscured for eons. Love ends duality, thus it has no opposites.
"Love has no polarity, but when you
have chosen alternatives to it, the structures which replace love are
full of opposites. Fear is a common emotion of those whose lives are
driven by structure, for structure is mortal and always in peril.
Hatred is a common attitude of those whose lives are vested in
structure or conquered by it. Hatred is just a defense against the
return of love.
"Love opposes nothing, but conquers
all. Love is in the world but not of it! Fear and hatred, and the evils
which come from them, are all derivative. Love is primary. Love existed
before the universe, and most certainly before the structures of the
world. In the beginning there was no evil, fear, or hatred. There was
only One Love, One Body of Potential, and One Spirit. As manifestations
began to take shape, free will was extended to every aspect of love, to
be life, to experience life, to fulfill its potential, and to know
itself as love. There was even the choice to deny its own nature, if
that should be desired. From this last choice all the 'weeds' of peril
have sprung. LWE
We hear those who serve structure saying things like "You are either
with us or against us". This kind of dualistic or binary thinking is at
the core of all separation between people. Binary thinking is at the
core of "judging others".
Jesus said:
"Judge
not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall
be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you
again." Matthew 7:1-2
Binary thinking is built into our language. It is the very essence of
words and logic. Lao Tzu said this about dualistic thinking:
People through
finding something beautiful
Think something else unbeautiful,
Through finding one man fit
Judge another unfit.
Life and death, though stemming from each other, seem to conflict
as stages of change,
Difficult and easy as phases of achievement,
Long and short as measures of contrast,
High and low as degrees of relation;
But, since the varying of tones gives music to a voice
And what is is the was of what shall be,
The sanest man
Sets up no deed,
Lays down no law,
Takes everything that happens as it comes,
As something to animate, not to appropriate,
To earn, not to own,
To accept naturally without self-importance:
If you never assume importance
You never lose it.
Existence is beyond the power of words
To define:
Terms may be used
But are none of them absolute.
In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words,
Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface,
The core and the surface
Are essentially the same,
Words making them seem different
Only to express appearance.
If name be needed, wonder names them both:
From wonder into wonder
Existence opens.
Beliefs are structures and books are structures. Both are perpetuated
by words and either/or (binary) thinking. Yet it is possible to see the
message of unity that shines through all of the scriptures of the world.
"When
structure interprets the Bible, it does so to perpetuate its illusions.
When love reads the Bible, it does so to penetrate illusion and arrive
at the truth." LWE
"Unity is the instrument of all
goodness. Division is the instrument of all evil." LWE
Though Jesus would seem to be equating belief structures and the
division that they can create with evil, I don't think he is saying
that structure is inherently evil. The problem comes when we worship
structure as a master rather than using it to serve love.
"Structure
creates the illusion that your life has been cut into segments of time
and space or suspended elsewhere in improbable situations. Only the
dominance of structure can ever separate you from the totality of who
you are. The power of the Holy Spirit is that it can shatter the
illusion of separation and restore the soul to its simple wholeness. In
the presence of the Holy Spirit, you are one with your Creator, and all
that you are is rejoined in personal integrity. Wholeness is Holy,
wholeness is healing. That is the essence of all miracles physical,
mental, financial, and social. Whatever has been torn apart comes back
together into a state of wholeness. Love supports wholeness, and
wholeness supports love. Through that common bond, love can heal
anything."
"On the other hand, it is the nature
of structure to cut your life into pieces and then set one part against
another. Would you have that for your master?"
"The source of human suffering
is separation from God, from the love that you are, and from an
understanding of how love commands the universe. In a state of
separation, however, the most grievous mistake is the one of serving
structure. As a master, structure is cruel, divisive, and treasonous.
In a state of separation, structure will always seek to master you, but
ironically when wholeness is restored structure becomes a humble and
willing servant. LWE
We perpetuate the power of fear and structure by supporting it with our
beliefs and by focusing our attention on it. If we put our attention on
what we love instead, those structures that we fear will fade away on
their own. I think that this is what Jesus was talking about in the
Sermon on the Mount when he said:
"Consider
the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they
spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the
grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the
oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
"Therefore take no thought,
saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal
shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:)
for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all
these things shall be added unto you." Matthew 6:28-33
To me this means that same thing as the Persian mystic Rumi meant when
he wrote:
"For
sixty years I have been forgetful, every minute, but not for a second
has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed."
Abundance flows toward us when we forget to think of those things we
fear or hate.
It is the same as what Emmet Fox wrote in "The
Golden Key":
"All
you have to do is this: Stop thinking about the difficulty, whatever it
is, and think about God instead. This is the complete rule, and if only
you will do this, the trouble, whatever it is, will disappear."
I think that this is what Jesus was saying in LWE when he first
mentioned structure:
"The
seventh day has been greatly misinterpreted to mean that the Creator
retired. Nothing could be further from the truth. The true meaning is
that He creates, maintains, loves, and assists by BEING, not by DOING.
Resting, not retiring! If you would be like your Father, you will learn
the secret of commanding life through BEING LOVE. As you attain that
ability you will rise above structure. The seventh day is a celebration
of your Creator's supremacy over structure. Whenever you take it unto
yourself, you harmonize with that principle. Whenever you extend it to
others, you are liberating the world from its prison."
Here is another way of saying it:
Abraham:
Fear is the feeling sensation that is present within you when you have
both a desire and a belief that contradicts it. Fear is a response to
the state of your vibration. You are a vibrational being, and every
moment offering a signal. Your vibration could be called thought, it
could be called memory, it could be called fantasy, it could be called
imagination, it could be called Energy. In other words, your vibration
could be called, "As I stand in my now, and I think about the present,
or I think about the future, or I think about the past -- all of that
is thought. Whatever it is I'm perceiving is causing me to offer a
vibration, and that vibration is being answered or matched by
All-That-Is.
So when I feel fear, what it always
means is, I am offering a thought that you might call desire and a
thought that you might call belief that are contradictory. The presence
of fear always means the presence of resistance. The presence of
resistance always means not allowing the Energy of desire to flow
through me--always, without exception. Same with confusion; same with
vulnerability; same with anger; same with unworthiness; same with
guilt. All negative emotions mean the same thing. You just call them
different things because they play out differently in your experience
-- but they all mean the same thing.
The vibration of fear is usually a
very strong vibration, which usually means there is the presence of a
very strong desire within you. Often, when you feel fear, it is because
you have a belief that contradicts basic elements that are natural to
you. Your natural instinct, from your broadest Nonphysical perspective,
is to know your power. Fear is a vibration when you feel powerless.
Your natural instinctual Nonphysical vibration is to know your
worthiness, know your rightness, know your value. And the feeling of
fear is always when you are contradicting that thought.
We would want you to say, "Quite a bit
of the time I feel fearful or vulnerable or limited, and what that
feeling means is: I'm in that moment holding a desire that contradicts
my past thought, or my beliefs..." Remember that a belief is just a
thought you keep thinking, it's just a habit of thought. It's just sort
of the way you've always thought it, and so it is the way you are now
thinking it.
And so, as you are feeling fear, all
it means is, "I've got a desire that my belief is not agreeing with.
Now, what thought feels better about this? I've got hold of this stick,
where my desire is here, my belief is here. What thought feels better?"
And as you just softly talk to yourself about that subject, reaching
for the thought that feels better, what happens is you shift the Energy.
It's like the teeter-totter on the
fulcrum, and it's clearly down here, and you would like it to be up
here. And so, you reach for the thought that feels better, and you
reach for the thought that feels better, and you reach for the thought
that feels better...and it doesn't look like anything's happening. And
then, all of a sudden, one more time, you reach for the thought that
feels better, and there it goes! The fear is gone without even knowing
it, just by reaching for the thought that feels better. There is so
much reward in just feeling better in your "now". Because, so often,
you're wanting to reach for the thought that feels better because,
"Whoop-de-doo, this is big time good fun!" In other words, "I want to
get there! I would like every effort to take me there. I would like
every thought that I think, and every time I go to a workshop, and
every time I make a little bit of effort, I would like it to take me
there!" And it's irritating that it doesn't take you there, to that
manifestation.
We want you to not get so hung up on
the manifestation, and start taking pleasure in the incremental relief.
Pleasure in the fact that this feels a little better. Pleasure in the
fact that you can actually, with your own will power and your own
determination, choose a thought that feels better.
It is Unnatural to Not Feel Good
We offer an analogy, about the cork
bobbing on the body of water. It's up here floating, floating,
floating. And in our analogy this cork is bobbing in the place of Pure
Positive Energy. When you take hold of the cork and hold it under the
water, that's what negative emotion is. You're not allowing the natural
quality of the cork, you're doing something that does not allow the
cork to do what it usually would do. You're holding it in an unnatural
place with your attention to this thought of something that you do not
want.
But when you withdraw your attention
from it, and you let go of the cork, it bobs right back up there. It is
natural for you to be in this pure positive place. It is unnatural for
you not to feel good. But what happens in your physical environment
where you've been trained by other humans who didn't feel so good
either, is that you've come to accept the way you feel as being the
natural way that you feel.
And now, through meditation, or
through consciously reaching for the better feeling, you set higher
standards. Until then it becomes consciously uncomfortable for you to
dip into the lower Energies. You will never be at a place where you
won't feel negative emotion. Nor would we ever want you to be at that
place, because that would be like shooting Novocain into your fingers
so that you don't feel anything hot or sharp. You say, "Well, it sure
is a lot better now that I can bang my hands on things. You know, I can
shut my hands in car doors and it doesn't even bother me any more. I
feel no pain." But it's not good for your fingers. Pretty soon you have
flat, little flabby hands flapping around. You've destroyed your hands,
even though it was painless.
And so, that's what that fear is. It's
sort of an acquiescence. It's submission to a vibration that's not
natural to who you really are. And you're awakening now to those higher
standards.
Take mood checks and ask yourself,
what is my mood? Well, I'm feeling fearful. And then ask yourself, well
overall, do I have reason to fear? And as you reach for the more
general statement, you recognize, you don't have anything to be fearful
about.
We think what you're doing is sort of
very specifically, channeling the worries of a larger mass
consciousness. You are susceptible to Energy. And so, for example, if
you were living in a retirement community where there were many people
who were feeling vulnerable about their money, or feeling worried about
what their future would provide, and you are sensitive to Energy, you
could very well be picking up on the consensus of the group around you,
even though it has nothing to do with who you are.
But you must have a little spattering
of that within you, or you could not be finding harmony with that
greater consensus. Every thought that has ever been thought exists. And
then, by Law of Attraction, those thoughts coalesce, so that there are
pockets of Thought Forms. And so, very often, just driving from city to
city, if you are sensitive to vibration, you can feel different
Energies in different cities. Well, what we are wanting you to do, is
get so good at setting your own Tone, that it doesn't matter what the
fluctuations of Energies are around you, you are always holding a
steady course.
From Abraham-Hicks Workshop
El Paso TX -- 2/12/00