Divine Virtues

I'm in the middle of a truly amazing seven-week online course entitled Awakening to the Spiritual Purpose of the Life You Planned before Birth by my former "life between lives" regression hypnotherapist Rob Schwartz and his wife Liesel Fricke.

What has touched my soul most deeply so far are what he called "divine virtues". They are those spiritual virtues from which each soul chooses a few to work on in each of its incarnations in this world. It attains these self-imposed assignments by planning life challenges before it incarnates into a physical body.

In one of the sessions we've had so far we participants were asked to identify our most significant life challenges and what divine virtues have been enhanced by each of the challenges and how much. I identified two professonal and private challenges I started to experience in October 2014 and November 2017 respectively.

To my dismay, I realized that the first challenge had little impact on any divine virtue, while the second awakened faith, confidence, peace and joy in particular. It's known that suffering is like an alarm clock in that if we ignore its sound, it will become louder and louder until we pay attention to it and wake up. This is exactly what happened to me with these two life challenges. The first could condemn me to social death, but I didn't wake up fully and fell asleep again after a while, while the second was so devastating that I woke up instanteneously and once for all.

In the session of the course we had this week we learned something even more amazing than divine virtues - the master virtues from which lead to other divine virtues. They are unconditional love, open-heartedness, attentiveness, acceptance and gratitude.

Since I started experiencing the second, devastating, life challenge about three and a half years ago, I have been working unconsciously at least on gratitude, then attentiveness. It's only rather recently that I've started experience a series of smaller-scale challenges of the same kind forcing me to learn acceptance and unconditional love the hard way. I'm waking up even further rather abruptly since this course started a few weeks ago and these smaller-scale challenges happen to have started to intensify in parallel.

The most recent of these challenges started last Friday and had a totally unexpected positive end this morning. I'm still filled with a deep sense of gratitude. I still need to experience more challenges in order to learn unconditional love, which according to my spirit guides is my top priority in this lifetime.

Language as a Double-Edged Sword

This is a daring attempt to explain the most fundamental limitation of language with this very limited tool.

"The words are no more than signposts. That to which they point is not to be found within the realm of thought but a dimension within yourself that is deeper, and infinitely vaster than thought." - Eckhart Tolle

"Language and words cannot possibly express what is inconceivable. Words are at the mercy of an egocentric empiricism. They find their foundation in the consciousness from which they arise and to which they return. The ego has its origins in a mental image: 'I am the body.'" - Jean Klein

Language is a double-edgd sword. It has both a blessing and a curse. Its blessing part must be apparent to everyone. The following passage by someone who is considered a leading linguist, which I stumbled upon last week, depicts both the blessing language brings to us and the contribution linguistics can make.

"Human language is a unique mental faculty emerged at some stage in the evolution of human species. It is the foundation for a variety of creative abilities humans possess, and forms the core of what is sometimes called 'the human capacity.' Since this ability is one that was bestowed upon humans by nature in the process of our evolution, it can be studied (with appropriate abstraction and idealization) as a natural phenomenon using the method developed in the natural sciences. In addition, since the ability to acquire and use human language is universally and uniquely bestowed on human beings, it forms, almost by definition, the core of the special characteristic that could be called 'human nature,' and, accordingly, linguistic research can make a rather fundamental contribution to the inquiry into 'human nature' in the humanities. Furthermore, by 'externalizing' an infinite array of linguistic expressions generated by the language capacity embedded in the human mind, language fulfills an important role in interaction with others (including 'communication'), and, as such, this social function can become the subject of social science research."

This otherwise eloquent passage seems to me rather one-sided and even naive as it ignores or isn't aware of the curse part of language. Language as a faithful servant of our mind, which in turn is supposed to be our servant, is what makes so many people remain trapped in their own mind-made prison. I've met few people who can't label in their mind people and things they meet not only for the first time but even for the second and more times instead of perceiving their presence as it is.

I wonder how many linguists are aware of this labeling function of language as they themselves like many other people must be labeling people and things unconsciously. The more conceptual labels we attach with language on people and things we meet, the more we distance ourselves from them and their essence.

The most problematic type of this conceptual labeling is the one targeted at ourselves. The majority of human beings seem so sure that they are their bodies, names, occupations, statuses, etc. Facebook, for example, is full of manifestations of such illusions ad nauseam. But the truth is that all these identities are nothing but illusions of the ego made by our mind through the intermediary of language. Who are we then? We are. Period.

Excerpts of a Long Message from "Loving Guides"

The following are excerpts of a long message about my present transmutation I received last week from my "loving guides":

"What you are hearing from your inner voice speaks only in two languages; that of fear or that of excitement (translated as love of self/Love) and you can be certain that the voice of excitement is your call. It may not always be the exact picture you have painted for yourself but nevertheless it is for you to understand that it is your emotions which are the energies of your divine voice speaking to you through and onto the physical body you wear. Fear blocks that voice and listens to the 3D world of what it is you 'should' do, should be and should pursue."

"You have listened to your excitement when you left behind something that did not fill your heart's calling and still hold no regrets as your job was quite valuable for you within a world that you no longer desire to struggle within. We say to you that never have you made a mistake in this lifetime for that is a 3D/fearful concept; you simply were asleep to who you are and what your life was about, meaning that almost all of your life you had no idea that there was so much more to your story than living a life of survival and struggle and most of the time you didn't even know you were living such a life; it was just the way it was supposed to be."

"Life was a series of events that the world and society told you was your 'correct' journey in this lifetime. Academia called you because you held a thirst for knowledge but we say you really held a craving for understanding and since there was no real standard or manner of learning or teaching 'understanding', knowledge and teaching and advancement in education was the path you chose. There was little excitement even in the knowledge you held and shared. But there is real excitement in your preferred plan to go forth and assist others to their waking/awareness."

"You heightened the fear within your life over time to its place of turning as each step along the way led you to the point of surrender. Not to anything outside yourself but the power that resides within that has only/always and still awaited/awaits your recognition."

"Your job in this lifetime is to hold a vibration within your body in activation to the vibration of love upon the planet. How do you do that and what does it feel like. You 'do that' by releasing through conscious recognition a history that no longer serves you; a history of fear that feels/felt like sadness and pain, shame and misunderstandings, unworthiness and all those emotions that are of a lower vibrational field that kept you from the love of yourself. All basic fear emotions no longer need belong to you."

"The platform for this new 'you' that is on the horizon is PEACE. Regardless of your situation on any given day, your 'job' and only job henceforth is to bring your body to a place of peace. It is more important than anything else in your life. When something appears uncomfortable or upsetting or brings you to fear, you can shift your vibration very quickly by bringing back upon you the vibration of peace. Like a magician you can shift your energy/vibration."

"You have felt in your intuitiveness that you almost 'must' teach and yet it was not fulfilling because what you taught was not of great excitement. It did not touch hearts and souls as that is what you came to do. You came to stand firm and solid in your vibration of love and joy and peace and excitement and you know without a doubt what it is you desire to do and bring forth into this world. So henceforth you need only follow your heart, your excitement, your knowing, and things will fall into place for you."

"Your first job, your most important job is to heighten your vibration at all times; bring yourself into a place of peace and joy through 'whatever' manner you choose you will see that your outer world MUST match it."

"We are so thrilled for this moment to touch you with our love and move you with our vibrational words. Our love for you is immeasurable and we are with you ALWAYS!!"

"Our hope for you is to feel this love we are, to enjoy this life you live, to laugh heartily as laughter and humor is one of the highest vibrations a human can hold within their body. Take care, our beloved. Be in peace as that is where you will feel us."