The Maze

Everything about your overall experience is felt by a greater, overall experience. Your personal thoughts are your most significant, initial contribution to The Whole. I heard Alan Watts say something like this: “You say that what lies beneath your skin is your inside; that’s true. So, in the same way, what lies outside your skin is your outside.”

Of course, I am presently dialed into Alan Watts, and I was able to grasp the meaning of this statement instantly. It seems we often forget how much authority we have over our body and the condition of our body. Likewise, it seems we’ve almost completely forgotten how much influence we have on everything.

If you find that your body and your senses can and do absorb information from your environment, then it should not be difficult to imagine being able to influence that same environment by a process of reverse engineering. If you can absorb enough information to infer a blue sky, then your imagination could easily dab rain-filled clouds onto that same environmental canvas. You have that much authority.

There is a reason why we don’t always witness instant changes based on our hopes; we’ve simply forgotten that it works.

The fact that you are an actor in a play has escaped your memory completely. It was planned this way. Even as I write these words, I cannot believe them. This is an example of how impenetrable the partition is. As a game piece, if I knew I was being played, I’d abandon free will and wait for The Observer to move me into a winning position. What a disappointment this would be for The Game Creator. Every section of your life’s pathway has been designed with you in mind. The Creator, The Developer, The Author, wants you to succeed and that is the whole point. But you are designed to find the hacks. The times you fail to make it to the next level are there for your learning. You are to learn how to get through as a winner.

“Everything written down, was written for our learning, that we, through patience and comfort of what was written, might have hope.” Romans 15:4 MCV

Even the words I am writing are written so that you will have hope.

The whole idea, The Big Idea, is that you are here to win.

“I am glad, and I have written about this good news; and even my body will rest in hope. I won’t be left in hell. I won’t experience corruption. The Author has revealed the ways of my life; that I will be filled with joy.”  Acts 2: 26-28 MCV

The clues and the hardships are not there to hurt you; they are there to grow you and to help you to achieve the ultimate goal.

Life is a maze. You were placed at the entrance to the maze on the day you were born. Everything about this game – good and bad – is there for your advancement. The very first thing that happened to you was a total wipe. You were not fitted with awareness, but you were given an onboard processor, capable of navigation through the maze. The initial wipe and the onboard computer successfully create the illusion that nothing exists outside the maze. However, we sometimes feel we are being observed. We are.

There is a deeper truth to this; and it is the hardest part to believe: You designed and You developed this maze, for yourself. And as you work to find your way through this maze, the fact that You wiped your own memory of having created this challenge is exactly why the challenge works. You never meant to fail; and you won’t fail.

Let’s just consider a God at the very center of Creation. You may come to think of God as a man-like Being, with superior intelligence and ultimate power and authority. Or you may think of God by some other name; like Nature. You may feel certain that what I refer to as God is nothing more and nothing less than evolution, going through alternating ons and offs, choosing better results for each generation of every species of life. Each concept is acceptable and reasonable. In fact, the millions of unique concepts tend to come to the same, important conclusions. The key truth seems to be that All is One. However you get there, finding yourself as an expression of The All is the point I am trying to get to.

So as not to make this religious, I’ll use the term “Nature” for a moment. Nature wants success. Nature wants birds to fly and nature wants weeds to prosper and take over flowers. Nature wants flowers to overcome weeds and grow in spite of them. Nature wants moons to orbit planets and nature wants planets to orbit stars. Nature wants rivers to flow and obey gravity and nature wants water to overcome gravity to become a cloud. Nature wants stars to overtake their planets and nature wants new planets to form. Nature wants snakes and nature wants eagles who eat snakes. It is not difficult to imagine Nature as that which enjoys success, and that which creates environments where success occurs.

You are THAT. You are a snake and an eagle, a planet and a moon, a river and a cloud. It should be easy to see that you have been created for success. Your hope should be to succeed. In order for you to go along with nature, as planned, you should be looking for and finding ways to succeed.

Nature says,

“I know the thoughts that I think on your behalf; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then you can call upon me, and you shall pray to me, and I will listen to you. You’ll look for Me, and find Me when you search with all of your heart.” ~ Jerimiah 29: 11-13 MCV

In order for you to succeed, you have to accept the opposites. Water is a good example. Water can be ice; ice that stops a river. Water can be gas; gas which defies gravity. Water can be liquid; rain which obeys gravity and makes the river mightier; mighty enough to carve a path through the ice which was once the obstruction. Water, therefore, was never intended to fail.

All of Nature has been designed with this pattern of absolute winning in mind.