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What Is Life? -- A personal Perspective

The Big Question: I recall a childhood question that I began asking myself at about age five. I wondered:   "What could I possible have done that was so terrible?   I must have really screwed up big time.   What did I do to get myself banished to the crust of the Earth?   I don't belong here.    This family sucks. I want out of here."  

I'm saying this to you now using adult words, but the adult words clearly convey the feelings I've had since about age five.   This question has stayed with me all these years.   I now have some semblance of an answer.   Not the answer; not even a correct answer, definitely not a carved in stone answer; but an answer, non the less.   My answer has dramatically altered the way I now relate to life on Earth.   Let me share it with you.   

What Did I Do Wrong?   Nothing!   Nobody forced me to come to Earth.   Nobody even sent me here as punishment or for any other reason.   I chose to come.   I wanted to be here.   Why?   Because I am part of an orchestra that plays a Universal Symphony called "Harmony with Everything."   Because I love the feeling that comes with orchestrating that Universal music.   Because in a physical body, I can experience the ecstasy of harmony in ways that are impossible to experience in other forms of reality.   Instead of looking at life as a helpless victim, I now see myself as a co-creator of my persona reality -- a co-creator presently functioning within the contest of life on Earth in a human physical body.

Here's a Musical Orchestra Analogy?   Imagine sitting in the audience listening to beautiful music being created in the moment by an Earthly physical orchestra, or better yet, imagine yourself as part of that orchestra.   While the music fills your being, notice that you and everyone else in the orchestra are an equally important part of the experience.   Everybody has the same goal - to create beautiful music. While in the here-and-now moment of playing one's instrument, nothing else matters   While playing the music, everybody is in harmony with everyone else.   Everybody is both giving and receiving in every moment.   Everyone in the orchestra is there because, before they arrived, they chose to be a part of the orchestra.

Absent is the concept of (or the need to) damage a fellow players instrument, or to knock him or her down, or to steal his/her wallet, or break something simply to break it.   There's no corner cutting, no cheating, no making one's part bigger or someone else's part smaller.   The only competition is to play one's instrument better than was done in yesterday performance.   We'll get back to the orchestra in a moment.   In the mean time, let's look to the source of who and what we are.

We Are at Choice: We can play life as separate from Creator/God, separate from Sacred Mother Nature, and separate from each other, or we can play as an intimate part of the oneness of everything.

The Big Answer:   The evidence overwhelming says that you and I and everyone and everything else are all part of a grand, finely tuned, completely interactive, totally interdependent "Oneness."   Some of us call that God.   Some call it nature.   Some call it The Universe.   Some simply refer to this unknown and unknowable unity as "The Great Wow."   Whatever it is, it transcends thinking; it transcends our wildest imaginations   It is beyond thought.   And it just is.   The only thing we can say with any degree of certainty about that Oneness is that, whatever it is,  it has a very significant impact on us.  

In life on Earth, there are definite rules that must be acknowledged and adhered to.   For example, ignoring the law of gravity could be dangerous.   It could even be deadly.   There are many more subtle laws that also control our lives.    
Reference:  The Vibrating Universe
http://www.lifecoach4vip.com/trp72b-vibrating-universe.html#11

Yet we like to think of ourselves as free, but in reality we are free like the little child is free.   He/she can go anywhere as long as he/she stays in the back yard.   Some of the limits to our freedom include the following:   

Within the restrictions listed above we have a significant amount of freedom. At least in the United States, we can choose where to live, we can choose our occupation, our personal relationships, et cetera.

I am a teacher, a guide, one who shows the way,

I am one of the point men in our search for the truth.

I bring the awareness of the "Oneness of All that Is".

I bring that awareness to those who choose to know.

I bring love, acceptance, and compassion.

I teach the art of allowing.

I bring light, truth, and wisdom.

I bring self-awareness which is also spiritual awareness.

I am a role model.

I am an inspiration.

I bring hope and possibilities.

I bring opportunity.

I teach peace and harmony.

And above all, I am your mirror.  

Relating to "God":   The evidence indicates that whatever it is we call Creator/God does not need, desire, or require our worship.   The evidence indicates that life is not about begging a fickle angry superhuman being (who lives above the clouds of planet Earth) for favors or sacrificing and suffering to gain for access to a physical place in the sky called heaven.  

Instead, honor, respect, humility, gratitude and appreciation are the watch words.   I do as Jesus said, I go into my private place and there I connect to the Source of All. (Matthew 6:5-6   Paraphrased)   

Then come out of your private place and commune with others of like mind.   If you don't find an existing group in which you feel at home, then  create your own spiritual support group.   Go to your church if you like, but not as a worthless, inherently evil slime-ball, but rather as a fellow God-being desiring to commune with and play in harmony with your fellow God-beings.  

Create Community:   Pray together if you choose, but not as a bunch of losers begging a God above the clouds for favors, but rather as fellow players, fellow God-beings, choosing to co-create with and for each other and with that Oneness we commonly call God.   Sit quietly and direct Creator/God to tell you what this quote from the Christian Bible means.   "When two or more are gathered in my name I am there also."  (Matthew 18:20)  Does it mean that the energy of the Universe is there for you for the purpose of expressing love, mutual support and to co-create.   Or does it mean, lets get together to violate our neighbors and steal his property. 

What a War Hero Really Is:   Do you realize that on planet Earth, the war heros are those who are better at violence and killing than are the so-called bad guys   And by the way, there aren't and bad guys.   When was the last time you heard a hero say,  "I destroyed and enemy to day, but I didn't kill him, injure him, or destroy any of his property.   I didn't rape and murder his wife and daughters either.   I made him my friend.   

Oneness:   If we think of ourselves as separate from God, separate from nature, separate from each other, that's how we will experience life.   The evidence indicates that quite the opposite is true.  Here's the bottom line on how to play the game called  life:   Love Yourself, love your neighbor and love Creator/God, all with equal intensity for all three are one and the same thing. Loving one's self comes first because without self love, one is incapable of loving anyone or anything else.

OK, Now What?   We have gotten ourselves (as a global community) into serious trouble out of ignorance and  by misapplying the universal laws.   We have initiated major environmental changes  that are in the process of devastating our environment.   The sooner we wake up, the less painful the corrections will be, that is, assuming we wake up before the Runaway Global Climate Change becomes unstoppable.   But that's another story, perhaps for another time.