Join Love

 

You have probably heard the old saying, “You’ve made your bed; now lie in it.”
This sounds a little bit like someone trying to correct the behavior of another, but what if it is more than that? What if reality is trying to teach us that we do, in fact, make our beds?

There are more clues to support this concept than clues that deny it. Our minds, our thoughts, and our observations are all participating in the construction of our reality based on what we feel. However, there is a growing field of science that seems to be suggesting that our feelings precede the objectified world which we thought we were reacting to.

You are the ultimate singularity of your reality.
What erupts as your experience is the result of—and not the cause of—your feelings.
We are all one with the very universe we think of as our prison, but your chains fall off and the gates swing open when you become aware of your outside.
We collapse reality into what it is, based on what we feel it ought to be.
Every detail you perceive is the result of your best guess regarding what you feel you should expect in this moment.

Is there any advantage to knowing this?
Of course there is; otherwise, I would not be telling you and you would not be reading these words.
Am I suggesting that everything happens for a reason?
Absolutely! And you are that reason.
If this does not seem natural, I will say “I” instead of “you,” and maybe you will begin to see yourself in me.

I am having an experience right now. Some of it feels good, and some of it feels bad. The good that I feel is there to guide my experience to more of that goodness, and the bad that I feel is there to guide me away from whatever the cause of that feeling is. Who, therefore, is responsible for the good and bad feelings I experience? I Am.

There is only one reason for experience: it is to increase Joy.
It is not pleasure, in a physical sense, but Joy—as in a lovely feeling that we should seek.
When a feeling cannot be explained by any physical object, it is a non-classical feeling of Joy, which is the result of Love.
I am going to say something that may seem too simple, but I think we need to try to uncomplicate reality in order to reveal its meaning: God is Love, and He only wants more of Himself.

If God never allowed Himself to be me, while forgetting His part in me, He would never increase His Joy through me.
This Oneness with God is not a part of my experience. I cannot grasp being that which I have purposefully forgotten. This would be like comprehending my years before my personality developed. I’ve forgotten being a baby who started the process of assigning roles to his fingers. To remember myself before that process would be to forget the resulting personality.

I was made to explore mysteries, but these mysteries are not mysterious to The One who made me.
I have been given a body. In this body, I have thought. Either this is all an impossible accident, or there is a reason for me to be here, in this body, having these thoughts.

It is not hard to discover what could not be the reason. I know I am not here to live in this body forever. I am fully aware of its failure; I see it happening before my eyes. So it is not that. I know I am not here to eat good food or to lie in a soft bed. That is very temporary, and such experience would die with me. I probably would have considered offspring to be the ultimate reason, but I was not privileged enough to have any, so naturally, in my case, that is not the point.

Let us take a moment and break that down: if I had even one child, I would likely try to invest whatever I could in that child. I’d try to make sure he had an education, good clothes, a nice house to live in, a savings plan for his retirement, and so on. But since I do not have “him,” I consider other connections. I have nieces and nephews who share quite a bit of my DNA. I do love them, but they might have been created and formed as they are without my existence; so it is not that I am here to develop them. I have grandsons who do not have any known affiliation with my family tree, but I love them as dearly as I love my nieces and nephews. And I think this fact offers me insight I might not have realized if I did not have non-biological grandsons: it tells me that what really matters must have everything to do with Love and not familial status.

And there’s the answer. This is why I am here. I am here to mine Joy out of the experiences I have as me. It is the Joy, and not the experiences, that will endure.

Here is something God cannot do:
God cannot enjoy the mysteries I enjoy without me.
God does not need me to discover anything He does not know; He needs me in order not to know.
I cannot know what it is like to be God, but if I were God, I would want experience. God could not have any experience without duality, so that would be the first thing I would create as God. I would imagine light, and I would imagine darkness.

As a human, I’ve scaled this light and dark idea all the way out to the edges of an undefinable universe. However, God would not need for it to have any substance at all. Therefore, to God, the universe itself would not need any objectiveness. It could easily be a thought.

As soon as God has this idea of duality, He could separate each opposite into an experience of what it is like to be a participant. This too could be just a thought.

As one such participant, I am assuming that there are billions and billions of unique participants, but God would only need one unique participant who thinks there are billions of others. This actually holds up under tests: I cannot feel what it is like to be a single other being.

There can never be any proof that anything or anyone exists beyond my belief.
This would be the very first thing anyone would need to discover if they really wanted to decode the potential simulation we might be living in. They would need to find a way to prove that otherness is real. And this will always be unprovable. If I think it is real, it is real. And there is the real key!
Consciousness is what is real.

Why would anything need to exist if existence could be experienced without it?
What is actually necessary in order for me to believe there are stars in a big, clear, night sky? Not one star would be necessary if I feel as though I am independent of them and observing them from very far away.
The only critical, fundamental element is Consciousness.

Does this mean that there is proof that nothing else exists? There is no way to disprove what you believe.
Many people have tried to do this, and the results are always the same. They typically try to run through a solid wall and end up embarrassed.
Even if you know for certain that a wall cannot be more than your own imagination, you still cannot run through it while still believing it to exist.
If I believe there is a solid wall in front of me, it really is there; only disbelief could dissolve the wall.
Who, therefore, is in charge of belief?

By way of forgetfulness regarding reality, reality collapses as particles. It is all potential until it is believed to be there. Forgetting that it is not there results in irrefutable proof that it is.
There is a reason.
I am to have this experience as a way of discovering Joy that could not be discovered without mystery. The Joy I find while in this trance can be brought back to the singular I.

God could never experience the quality called Joy if He’d never chosen to forget Himself.
What would a singularity be without mystery?
Purer than gold, more precious than the breaths of life, is the discovery of Joy by The One Who hid it from Himself.
God knows that in order to be happy, He must know sadness. God knows that He could never be sad without concealing Himself from Himself.

So yes, everything is only in God’s mind.
Does this mean it is a simulation? Of course it is; but as a feature of it, the simulation is as real as it gets for me.
Reality only needs to be believed in, and not real. But at the same time, this makes it real.
I am a feature of the illusion. Therefore, I believe I cannot walk through walls. Therefore, I cannot.

This is all very true, and yet all of this is hogwash. How can it be both? Because I cannot get out of it to see in it.
So why do I care? What difference does this make?
If I really believe this theory—and I do—it can only mean one thing: I am only an agent, and I only have one job: to find and experience Joy.

Joy is not the same as thrills or advantages; Joy is bliss, and it does not depend on any circumstances.
The key to Joy is to find and make as many connections as possible. This is not just about people, and it is certainly not just the people in your circle. The connections are our willful ability to be the center of the universe while allowing ourselves to feel our connection to The Whole of It.

This should bring about a complete paradigm shift in your approach to The All.
When we see a fly, we should feel our fly-nature. When we stand beside a river, we should remember our riverness. When we hold a grain of sand, we should remember that it holds the whole universe. When we meet another human, we should feel something special about them—knowing we are in no way separated from them in reality. Separateness is an illusion.

This is not exclusive to what we refer to as nature; this should evoke Panpsychism. I Am.
“Love one another.”
This reads like an option, but Love is not something we do; it is what allows us to be and to do what we do.
Love is what is growing and expanding—with or without our consent.
If you are not gathering Joy, the very story of your life—as important as it seems—will be a forgettable story.
This is not meant to be disparaging. It is meant as a way of reminding you that Love is the only Target, and any missed opportunity to participate in the mysterious quality of Joy is a sin, which is gathered as chaff, burned, and forever forgotten.

This is not left out of any good religion or philosophy. Think of Joy as a shorter version of the word Join.
I am not really referring to human connections alone, although these are extremely valuable. But “to join” is to become aware of the Oneness of nature and your willful grafting into The Divine.

If you choose isolation, it will be an isolated story once it has been told, and The Whole will not keep it.
Your entire “life” is really just one life-story. Only what you share with The Whole will be permanent.
“Love never dies.”
You are a simple plant, and only Love sends out shoots into The Whole.
Remember: Joy is short for Join.
Join with everyone and everything. Send out Love in all directions.
You only have one job, and that is obvious: you are to grow more of whatever God is. We know that God is Love. Any unloving thing you do, say, or experience is fleeting.
The more you join, the more you will grow in Joy.
“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” ~ Romans 14:17 KJV
This same “kingdom of God” is what could also be referred to as good-potential.

What is God? Love.
What is possible with Love? All things.
Everything—from swatting a mosquito to holding a door open for an elderly person—should be carefully considered by acknowledging Love.

“In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” ~ Proverbs 3:6 KJV

This is the real secret. This secret has nothing at all to do with getting what you wish for; it has everything to do with getting what you do not even know you want.
If you are a mountain climber and you see a mountain you want to climb, it may come as a surprise to you that an even better experience is on a path you’ve never considered. Instead of demanding the path to the mountains you see, let the Love of God—the only True Light—be a lamp to your feet, and trust in Love. This is how you acknowledge Him. Let Love guide you. Let Joy be your willful, joining action.

Remember that Joy is manna. You do not need to gather enough to get you to the mountains you see. Gather enough for today. This is why it is called “Daily Bread.”
Also remember that you can gather enough for others who cannot gather. So gather what you can on behalf of everyone else.