<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Lost Lessons: The Game]]></title><description><![CDATA[You must have the want & will to play The Game of Life to begin the search for the True-Truth.]]></description><link>https://lostlessons.substack.com/s/the-game</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PYTf!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fae28db0a-4261-4bf9-8c93-da1a42565f6f_480x480.png</url><title>The Lost Lessons: The Game</title><link>https://lostlessons.substack.com/s/the-game</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:42:41 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://lostlessons.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[MidwestRRT]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[midwestrrt@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[midwestrrt@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[GingerRRT]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[GingerRRT]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[midwestrrt@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[midwestrrt@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[GingerRRT]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Player Game Skills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thinking more with your heart mind or soul]]></description><link>https://lostlessons.substack.com/p/player-game-skills</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lostlessons.substack.com/p/player-game-skills</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[GingerRRT]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:54:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d01a8ada-2bce-4f66-a096-fbf0c90f38f2_777x650.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><h4><strong>By the disciplines of personality</strong></h4><ul><li><p>Knowledge of self, and</p></li><li><p>strengthening of will</p></li><li><p>Acceptance of self</p></li><li><p>forgiveness of self, and the</p></li><li><p>direction of the will</p></li></ul><p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; this is the path towards the disciplined personality.</strong></p><p>The heart of the discipline of the personality is threefold.</p><ul><li><p>One, know yourself.</p></li><li><p>Two, accept yourself.</p></li><li><p>Three, become the co-Creator.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Discipline, Discipline, Discipline</strong></p><p>Using the 4 agreements and provided tools and accumulated skills sets</p><h4><strong>This is the technique&#8230;.</strong></h4><p><strong>&#8230; The real way is through the Heart</strong></p><h2><strong>The Evolution of The Heart</strong></h2><p><strong>It is one of complete universality of love. Keeping an open heart. Giving without expectation of return</strong></p><p><strong>It STARTS with the 4 Agreements &amp; 5th Agreement</strong></p><p><strong>Go back to the Lost Lessons material</strong></p><p>Emotional education and emotional self control</p><p>Practice, Practice, Practice</p><p>Repeat, Repeat, Repeat</p><p>Keep trying in implementing your new knowledge</p><p>Then connecting and learning to <strong>Think</strong> from your deepest inner heart not your mind</p><p><strong>Learning to connect to you true self, your energy soul</strong></p><p><strong>Humble and Kind&#8230;.Tim McGraws song</strong></p><p><strong>The Golden Rule</strong></p><h2><strong>&#165;KEY&gt;~</strong></h2><p><strong>Learning from experiences or events negative or positive, what was your role in the outcome &amp; how can I improve so I won&#8217;t repeat it again(if it&#8217;s negative)</strong></p><h1><strong>&#163;</strong></h1><p><strong>The Short Answer- END</strong></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>And now for the rest of the story</strong></h3><h4>One one must 1st have the want or desire to search for the true-truth.</h4><p></p><p>When accomplished, renders one the most humble servant of all, transparent in personality and completely able to know and accept other-selves.</p><p>[...] To become the co-Creator is to become all that there is. There is then no personality in the sense with which the adept begins its learn/teaching. For the positive path, the discipline of the personality results, eventually, in the whole knowledge of the self in micro- and macrocosm, and in a finely tuned compassion and love which sees all things as love.</p><p>Acceptance of self, forgiveness of self, and the direction of the will: this is the path towards the disciplined personality. Your faculty of will is that which is powerful within you as co-Creator. You cannot ascribe to this faculty too much importance. Thus it must be carefully used and directed in service to others for those upon the positively oriented path.</p><p>To begin to master the concept of mental discipline it is necessary to examine the self. The polarity of your dimension must be internalized. Where you find patience within your mind you must consciously find the corresponding impatience and vice versa. Each thought that a being has, has in its turn an antithesis.</p><p>The disciplines of the mind involve, first of all, identifying both those things of which you approve and those things of which you disapprove within yourself, and then balancing each and every positive and negative charge with its equal. The mind contains all things. Therefore, you must discover this completeness within yourself.</p><h4><strong>The disciplines of personality, knowledge of self, and strengthening of will? This is technique. </strong></h4><h4><strong>This is not the heart.</strong></h4><p>Let us remember that we are all one. This is the great learning/teaching. In this unity lies love. This is a great learn/teaching. In this unity lies light. This is the fundamental teaching of all planes of existence in materialization. Unity, love, light, and joy; this is the heart of evolution of the spirit. Understanding, Realizing &amp; Knowing</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lostlessons.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://lostlessons.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h4><strong>The central work for a Player is to come ever more fully into the open heart. This is always the first priority.</strong></h4><p><strong>Upon this work of returning again and again to the open heart hangs the Game.</strong></p><ul><li><p>Keep the edge of appetite keen for the truth.</p></li><li><p>Call upon the energies of justice, fairness, beauty, truth and equality.</p></li><li><p>Bring to mind the qualities of compassion, mercy, hope and faith.</p></li></ul><p>Know that these are the elements upon which those who wish to serve cut their eyeteeth These are the structures&#8212;or beings, if you will, for they are living structure&#8212;that stand like sentinels along the path of light, through your body and through your spirit.</p><h4><strong>Will</strong></h4><p><strong>You are the Will of God. Do not accept anything else as your will, or you are denying what you are</strong></p><p>Your faculty of will is that which is powerful within you as co-Creator. You cannot ascribe to this faculty too much importance. Thus it must be carefully used and directed in service to others for those upon the positively oriented path.</p><p>There is great danger in the use of the will as the personality becomes stronger, for it may be used even subconsciously in ways reducing the polarity of the entity. We encourage you to release fear as it feels safe to you to do so and to replace that quite understandable emotion with faith.</p><p>[The will] is a vital key to the evolution of the mind/body/spirit complex.</p><p>[The will is the] great conduit to the Creator.</p><p>The human desire has the strongest and highest electricity, metaphysically speaking, which is available upon the planet Earth at this time.</p><p><strong>Thus, the will, the heart, and the soul of humankind is far more powerful than any problem, any disease, or any natural phenomenon.</strong></p><p>It is that energy that creates miracles, and it becomes more and more closely allied with those mysterious words of &#8220;faith&#8221; and &#8220;will.&#8221;</p><p><strong>Will&#8217;s strength = awareness of inner light and ability to tap the inner light.</strong> What is the inner light? Your heart of being. Your true nature.</p><p>So as you became aware of your &#8220;heart of being,&#8221; the very heart of who you are, you become aware of the will inherent in your being. You become aware of the Original Desire. This is manifested in your desire. Your thirst. Your focus. Your intensity. Your sheer perseverance and fidelity to the path over the years and the testings. The longer you keep true to the original desire to persist in seeking the One in the face of distraction, confusion, dissipations of energy, needed periods of rest, etc., the more that the inner light itself, the heart of your being, is developed and strengthened.</p><p><strong>Your faculty of will is that which is powerful within you as co-Creator. You cannot ascribe to this faculty too much importance.</strong> Thus it must be carefully used and directed in service to others for those upon the positively oriented path.</p><p>The idea of Divine Will is confused to you. You still think there is a God with a beard who would have you do this as opposed to that, or, prior ideas, that there is a God who will punish you for your poor choices.</p><p>When you align in the True Self, as the True Self, the alignment you hold is inclusive of will. Now, you have been gifted with will. You all have choice. But as will itself is lifted, in octave or vibration, you move to a level of alignment that exists beyond separation. You are no longer deciding in opposition to, but in agreement to your own true nature. Now, the escalation of vibration that you experience as you ascend has requirements. The True Self, as itself, is not encumbered by the choices of history, or your idea of what has to be, and the liberation you undergo is in some ways a peeling away of that which has vested you in denial of the Divine. In other ways, what it is is a transcendence of, a rising beyond, what was claimed in fear, or perhaps anointed by the collective as what you should expect or have be.</p><p>This idea must be understood, not as an act of will as you have known will, but an acquiescence of will to its true nature. Understand, again, that all things are of God or may be re-known as of God, and the denial of Divine Will, which you perceive to be outside yourself, is actually reclaimed by you when you know who you truly are.</p><p>Underline the word know. It, again, means realize. The realization of true nature, of your own true nature, comes in stages, lest you fear it, lest you decide to run. In fact, what you are doing is, ideally, reclaiming what has always been that perhaps you have denied, or, better still, re-deciding that who you have always been is not what you thought you were.</p><p>This re-decision is done as the small self, because it is his willingness, her agreement, to undergo this challenging journey of resurrection, regardless of outcome. Yes, we said this correctly&#8212;regardless of outcome. The caterpillar does not know, when it enters the cocoon, how it will emerge, and the process it undergoes is indeed challenging to the organism that claimed itself as caterpillar. The release of the mold of the cocoon itself emerges a butterfly in a translated state. It has been transformed by undergoing an alchemical process of becoming its True Self. Now, what this does not do is disregard what the caterpillar has been. The caterpillar was perfect in its prior state. But what has emerged, what is now announced as new, holds different properties. What crawled the earth now lifts above it. This is a teaching of faith, and what you undergo must be undergone in an awareness that the true nature of your being&#8212;underline true, and know what is true is always true&#8212;is of the Source of your being. Underline of. You are not separate from your Source, but in the lower octave, where the you and everyone else has invested in separation, you believe yourselves to be.</p><h4>Strengthening the Will</h4><p>Cultivating desire itself is a powerful way of developing the will. Desire is an energy that wants, that moves, that seeks its fulfillment. Whether in the desire to reach or the desire to be reached, the strength of any given desire will channel the will to fulfill itself and achieve its intended aim. This is why desire must be carefully, consciously cultivated and aimed toward serving others and seeking the One for those upon the positive path.</p><p>To use and strengthen the will, one must focus it. There is but one technique for this growing or nurturing of will and faith, and that is the focusing of the attention. The will may be &#8220;focused at any object or goal,&#8221; they say, but it is concentration, and desire for concentration, that collects the will&#8217;s power to be directed toward the chosen aim. It is thus a practicing of pure will by bringing the power of the will under the direction of the conscious mind.</p><p>Your faculty of will is that which is powerful within you as co-Creator. You cannot ascribe to this faculty too much importance. Thus it must be carefully used and directed in service to others for those upon the positively oriented path. There is great danger in the use of the will as the personality becomes stronger, for it may be used even subconsciously in ways reducing the polarity of the entity.</p><p>There is much that one can unpack here, starting with the personality becoming stronger. To polarize, an entity must consciously exercise its will and faith. Thus the self literally grows more powerful (able to embody and channel love/light) as it recognizes and taps its own capacity. As with muscles in the body, will is a faculty that is strengthened by repeatedly using and invoking it.</p><p>This is technique. This is not the heart. Let us examine the heart of evolution.</p><p>Let us remember that we are all one. This is the great learning/teaching. In this unity lies love. This is a great learn/teaching. In this unity lies light. This is the fundamental teaching of all planes of existence in materialization. Unity, love, light, and joy; this is the heart of evolution of the spirit.</p><p></p><div><hr></div><p></p><h4><strong>Faith, the 4th leg</strong></h4><p>In the discipline of the personality, we create a level of personhood which does not reach. If the three legs of personality are our minds, our emotions and our faculties of will, we neutralize the reaching of will by adding a fourth leg of spirituality or faith. Then we can sit squarely down upon our true beingness. We still are using our minds, emotions and will-power, but those are joined firmly to that faith that knows that all is well and that what is ours will come to us naturally as we offer our energies to the life of faith which we live from moment to moment and day to day.</p><p>For instance, the three-legged personality may be caught on money issues. Then it spends precious time reaching for more money. The four-legged personality, while working to pay the bills, will at the same time use the faculty of faith to affirm that there is enough money for what is needed today. Faith causes us to stop reaching and to settle joyfully into being exactly who and where we are.</p><p>What a treasure your hearts are when they love. I beg you to love. It does not matter that you do not love perfectly according to your own judgment. It does not matter that you do not love all the time. It matters that you see your inner state of love as the cornerstone of your existence, your seeking, and your destiny. For this universe is one thing and one thing only: it is love, the creative love, the One Original Thought of love. It is within your heart that this love is reproduced so that you become creative also.</p><p>Emotions are not understood well or given appropriate importance within your illusion, for each prides itself upon its rationality, its practicality, and its common sense. These functions are those given to your biocomputer, your brain, and these functions are extremely helpful in making choices, analyzing situations, and moving towards the spiritual by asking questions of this type.</p><p>However, there will not be enough energy for anyone to sustain a manifestation of service to others unless that entity is able to seek the Truth.</p><p>Not with the body&#8217;s brain but your soul your heart.</p><p>With Hope and faith, will, discipline</p><h4></h4><div><hr></div><p></p><h4><strong>Balance or Polarity</strong></h4><p><strong>The key to winning the Game of Life</strong></p><p>Let&#8217;s look at this concept from the most basic level.</p><p>What is polarity? In the study of magnets, which is where one becomes familiar with the concept of polarity in school, in nature, iron is generally not magnetized. Iron ore naturally contains many magnetic &#8220;crystallites&#8221;&#8212;tiny crystalline bodies within the rock whose magnetic moments, or tendencies to produce spin around an axis, almost always tend to cancel each other out.</p><p>However, if the iron comes in contact with an already polarized magnet of sufficient strength, the magnet causes those moments in the raw ore to line up so that they are all spinning in the same direction. That piece of iron is now magnetized.</p><p>This magnet has a dynamic nature. One end of it, the &#8220;north pole,&#8221; is positively polarized. The other end of the magnetized iron, its &#8220;south pole,&#8221; is negatively polarized. This magnet now has the power to do a certain kind of work, which is to magnetize other lumps of iron by coming into contact with them, or to act as a compass which will point to magnetic north when floated in water or balanced on a pivot, allowing it to swing freely.</p><p>The &#8220;crystallites&#8221; in our human &#8220;ore&#8221; are ethical choices. In the usual run of behavior, we make choices at random with respect to ethics. We are not born as naturally ethical beings, any more than iron ore is naturally created as a magnet. Until we understand right from wrong in some way, we will make choices which seem useful to us at the time but which have no overall consistency and follow no coherent plan.</p><p>So we as human beings do not develop any polarity or power to do work until we undertake our own ethical training and discipline.</p><h4><strong>Polarity and the Choice</strong></h4><p>When we begin to make consistent ethical choices, we line up the crystallites in our human ore and begin to develop the characteristics of a magnet, able to do work within our consciousnesses as we line up more and more of our personality along one consistent line of seeking.</p><p>As we consistently make ethical choices along one line of intent,</p><p>we also begin to radiate a metaphysical energy or power which expresses our ethical point of view. We can then, by our very being, act as a kind of magnet which helps others to become magnetized and polarized to make ethical choices also.</p><p>Another example of power being developed is seen in an automobile engine. Before you start your car, the car is immobile. When you turn the ignition key, the engine comes to life. Its internal combustion engine fires up. Air and fuel are sparked into tiny, controlled explosions within the cylinders of your car&#8217;s engine. The power generated by these explosions is directed to the crankshaft, which develops torque, or the tendency to cause rotation. The crankshaft begins to turn. The crankshaft transfers those moments of rotation to the axles to which it is connected. The turning motion is transferred through the axles to the wheels. The wheels turn and the car rolls forward. The car is now able to do work and get you where you want to go.</p><p>In terms of comparing ourselves to the way an automobile engine develops power, we can say that real-life situations which call for ethical choices are the fuel going into our engine. Our calling upon the higher ethical principles of the Gameboard supplies the air needed for combustion. An ethical response to an incoming situation fires up our engines. We develop personal power. As we make ethical choices consistently, we gather momentum along one line of service and increase our polarity.</p><p>Our human systems are like engines in that if we do not use the concept of polarity&#8212;of right and wrong&#8212;to fuel our choices, our choices will not produce any torque and, metaphysically speaking, we will not develop the power to roll our wheels forward. Making choices without using the principle of polarity leaves our engine&#8217;s cylinders sitting in a gravity well, dead and still. No progress can be made under these conditions.</p><p>When you treat someone the way you want to be treated, you are beginning to do ethically oriented work. You are polarizing towards the positive pole of your human ore which you want to magnetize. You are aligning with an ethical ideal, which is service to others.</p><p>The reason that this choice kicks your engine over is that you are seeing the other person as equal to you. You are giving the other person the same entitlement to respect, honor and decent treatment as you give to yourself. You are invoking the unitary nature of the Gameboard and lifting yourself off the flat gameboard.</p><p>This action takes discipline and conscious choice. It is often not an easy choice. The selfish choices of the personality is the usually the first choice. It often costs us something to consider the needs of others with compassion and respond to them as though they were our own needs.</p><p><strong>Such action is the essence of ethical behavior. When human beings decide to become ethical beings, and start making choices based on principles such as the Golden Rule, they become Players of the Game of Life.</strong></p><p>Simple right, Simple concept we all know.</p><p>We have all been taught this&#8230;</p><p></p><div><hr></div><h4><strong>It&#8217;s the balance or polarity between the Ego service to self and the Knowledge Thought System</strong></h4><p>The path of service to others as a path of forming and maintaining a positive attitude which informs all our decisions. The heart of this attitude is the awareness that the universe is an entirely unified, interactive and living being made of absolute love, of which each of us is a part.</p><p>As we weave our way through the decisions of our day, our attitude is oriented to seeing as broad a view of situations as possible, so that we can more accurately evaluate whether or not ethical principles need to be involved in our choices.</p><p>We have chances to make such choices every day.</p><p>A person is a &#8220;mind/body/spirit complex.&#8221; Notice, the body is the second part of the complex to be listed, not the first. The first or dominant part of the complex is the mind.</p><p>The body is the creature of the mind. What we feel physically is heavily influenced by our thoughts and emotions. Involved in the word, &#8220;mind,&#8221; are the emotions, feelings, intuitions, gut reactions and biases which inform our thoughts and delimit our ways of processing thought. If this extended mind, including our feelings and biases, is out of power, the physical body will not experience health, no matter how good the diet may be. The food we eat does not send power to these mental parts of our mind/body/spirit complex.</p><p>Our emotions, thoughts, intuitions and inspirations are fuelled by a more subtle kind of energy. When it comes to the deepest basis of health and well-being, these subtle energies are far more influential in creating wellness within us than food and drink.</p><p>What is this subtle energy and power source? We see evidence of that power every day when the sun shines in our part of the world.</p><p>This is the subtle energy as &#8220;the love and the light of the one infinite Creator.&#8221; The outward and visible symbol of the Creator&#8217;s love/light is the light of our Sun. This same love/light&#8217;s inward and invisible nature pours into our energy body in infinite supply.</p><p>Just as the Creator&#8217;s outward love/light, the sun, brings life to the plant world by offering it light for photosynthesis and the food its interactions with plants develops, the Creator&#8217;s inward love/light brings energy and vitality to our energy bodies.</p><p>The intellect&#8212;consciousness(mind) of the physical body&#8212;works well on the flat gameboard. But It does not really know how to use subconsciousness.</p><h4><strong>The mind of the physical body is our intellect</strong></h4><p>I do not use the word, intelligence, as when we call someone intelligent we tend to imply that they are using some degree of consciousness as well as their intellect. It may have many features in common with other people&#8217;s intellectual capacities but it remains unique to each of us.</p><p>We work our brains by focusing our will and steadying our attention on our chosen subject. Someone whose intellect is high is said to possess a powerful mind. The intellect uses its power like a bulldozer to push the subject at hand into an organization which makes logical sense. Its favorite tools are words. It writes its programs using the language of words.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>The mind of the energy body is subconsciousness</strong></h3><p>SubConsciousness can also be termed &#8220;the mind of the heart,&#8221; the &#8220;consciousness of spirit,&#8221; &#8220;cosmic awareness,&#8221; &#8220;Christ-consciousness&#8221; and &#8220;cosmic consciousness.&#8221; This is part of the unitary nature of the Gameboard. It writes its programs by concepts rather than by words. This intellect is our very own &#8220;bio-computer.&#8221;</p><p>Those who are relatively able to access subconsciousness within their daily lives are said to be inspired, blessed or gifted. It is as though the user of consciousness is touched by a more spacious point of view and given a higher degree of insight. This consciousness does not wield power in the same aggressive sense in which the intellectual mind wields power. Its inspirations come quietly into the asking heart.</p><p>SubConsciousness will not overwrite the programming of the intellectual mind unless asked to do so. This can occur in unusual circumstances which delete the normal intellectual functions and allow consciousness to be substituted as the default setting.</p><p>We all have access to this vibration of unconditional love; the vibration of Gods energy. It is the steady state of vibration for the entire creation. It is an ocean of creativity and insight into which we can enter when we have been able to balance and clear our lowest three energy centers.</p><p>We have a fair grasp of what our intellects can do. The intellect solves problems. It uses logic and expects to stick close to the facts of what the senses can ascertain and what the authorities, usually scientists, tell us is so. It is a good, competent tool as far as it goes. It is good to use the intellect when its powers of analysis and organization can help to solve a problem.</p><p>SubConsciousness is quite another kind of mind. Indeed, its basic nature is that of the soul or spirit within us. Insight, intuition, purified emotions, &#8220;knowing&#8221; or gnosis and inspiration are its hallmarks. Its power to inspire is limited only by our ability to take our intellects off-line and clear the way for access to this &#8220;mind of the heart&#8221; that we call consciousness is.</p><p>Our intellects will die when our bodies die. Our subconsciousness will not even break stride. This is the field, the energy of love(spirit) our true self, the inner heart or inner soul&#8230;.</p><p>SubConsciousness&#8212;the mind of the heart and soul&#8212;works well on the Gameboard. SubConsciousness can use the intellect, and we need both faculties working together in order to be an effective Player. We live in both worlds simultaneously as we play the Game of Life.</p><p>We need to be able to use both faculties and to integrate the two streams of information and thought as we go.</p><p>Play on the Gameboard starts on the gameboard of everyday, the commonplace events of our living being the incoming catalyst.</p><p>We receive this catalyst with our intellect and also with the surface emotions which are part of the response system of our physical bodies. We examine the catalyst. Much catalyst is ethically neutral.</p><p>Some catalyst is charged with the potential for making an ethical choice.</p><p>We as Players detect the incoming catalyst which involves an ethical decision. We toggle up to play on the &#8216;Gameboard&#8217; in our minds. We invite our subconsciousness to join our intellect or bio computer in the consideration of this catalyst. We use all the faculties of consciousness such as guidance, insight and intuition to find our way to the most informed ethical decision. We set our intention to offer our highest and best response. In doing so, our work on the Gameboard is done. Then we mentally toggle back down to the flat gameboard, where we express and manifest our response in the context of our everyday lives.</p><p>We want to help our energy bodies stay clear. Our energy bodies as a whole will stay most clear when we feel relaxed and unworried concerning the issues in our lives. Even if amazing amounts of catalyst are flying by, we are doing well, energetically speaking, if we can stay fearless, self-confident and trusting in the ultimate goodness of all that is occurring. Choosing this attitude or viewpoint of fearlessness is fundamental to being a Player.</p><p>There are sound reasons for choosing this attitude of trust, self- confidence and faith that all is well.</p><h3>Attitude = Energy</h3><ul><li><p>The first, most important, and most demanding portion is that the mind must know itself, because, subconsciousness is the microcosm of the universe. This knowing of the mind includes: discovering, accepting, and balancing the polarities within the self; discovering the completeness within the self; discovering, accepting, and balancing the understanding of completeness in other-selves. Discipline</p></li><li><p>The second part has to do with the disciplines of the body complexes, specifically the balance between love and wisdom in the use of the body in its natural functions. This knowing of the body includes: discovering, understanding, accepting, and balancing the polarities of the body, including how the feelings, biases, and emotions affect the self&#8217;s body complex; and then extending this understanding to the bodies of other-selves.</p></li><li><p>The third area is the spiritual, and in this area the first two disciplines are connected through the attainment of contact with intelligent infinity.</p></li></ul><p>The mind controls the body. With the mind single-pointed, balanced, and aware, the body comfortable in whatever biases and distortions make it appropriately balanced for that instrument, the instrument is then ready to proceed with the Great Work [of spirit].</p><p>The prerequisite for contacting intelligent infinity and learning to channel intelligent energy in order to heal is silence.</p><p>As we consistently make ethical choices along one line of intent, we also begin to radiate a metaphysical energy or power which expresses our ethical point of view.</p><p>We can then, by our very being, act as a kind of magnet which helps others to become magnetized and polarized to make ethical choices also. As we make ethical choices consistently, we gather momentum along one line of service and increase our polarity.</p><p>Our human systems are like engines in that if we do not use the concept of polarity&#8212;of right and wrong, love or fear&#8212;to fuel our choices, our choices will not produce any torque and, metaphysically speaking, we will not develop the power to roll our wheels forward. Making choices without using the principle of polarity leaves our engine&#8217;s cylinders sitting in a gravity well, dead and still. No progress can be made under these conditions.</p><p>Our parents and teachers believe that they have already taught us how to make the proper ethical choices. However, rather than get at the basic principles of ethical choice-making, they have tended to give us seemingly arbitrary sets of rules to follow. There is no attempt to explain why these points of behavior are appropriate. They are given as rules to follow blindly.</p><p>Probably the best rule is the golden rule&#8230;This action takes discipline and conscious choice. It is often not an easy choice. It often costs us something to consider the needs of others with compassion and respond to them as though they were our own needs.</p><h4>Such action is the essence of ethical behavior.</h4><p>So we have a choice-When human beings decide to become ethical beings, and start making choices based on principles such as the Golden Rule, they become Players of the Game of Life.</p><p>The light that you are perceives the light that is all things. It does not deny a man entrance to the Kingdom. It welcomes every man, every woman, every being, with open arms, because you have become the gateway to this manifestation. At this level of vibration, you are lifting what you encounter, not by choice, but by being. And because you cannot deny God in any form it shows in, there is no darkness to hide from, only darkness to be re-seen as of God.</p><h3></h3><div><hr></div><p></p><h3><strong>Balance</strong></h3><p>As one gazes into one&#8217;s prejudices and biases, one has the opportunity to attempt to balance them, to acknowledge the paradox, the opposite, and to see that they are two sides of one thing, that all is one, that there is no separation.</p><p>Now one may polarize and continue changing in any circumstance or condition.</p><p>We suggest that you see the balance and walk the middle road, using your discrimination after you have heard the ideas that are presented to you, not judging ahead or during the experience, but allowing each learning experience its own shape and space and color, allowing it to sink into that portion of the mind which is far more accurate, that portion of the mind which lies below the level of conscious thought.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Game Teammates]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s ONLY YOU, it&#8217;s your choice to play or not&#8230;]]></description><link>https://lostlessons.substack.com/p/game-teammates</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lostlessons.substack.com/p/game-teammates</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[GingerRRT]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:54:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e9116690-12e5-44dc-aa72-1558c47d638d_777x650.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3></h3><h4><strong>It&#8217;s ONLY YOU, it&#8217;s your choice to play or not&#8230;</strong></h4><p><strong>There are no rules or real skills, it&#8217;s unique to each individual in how one comes to having the will and acquiring the skills to play. Each player realizes the Truth in their own unique individual way.</strong></p><p><strong>This material may never be a part of your playing the Game.</strong></p><p><strong>This is just one of a multitude of ways to understanding, realizing and Knowing the Truth.</strong></p><p><strong>This material is really just a learning aid&#8230;.</strong></p><h3><strong>The Truth</strong></h3><p><strong>The truth is true, and nothing else is true</strong></p><p><strong>If you are reading this you must be open &amp; wanting to find the Truth</strong></p><p><strong>Truth needs no defense to make it true</strong></p><p>Appearances are shown to be unreal because they change. Always choose between truth and illusion; between what is there and what is not.</p><p>All perception or personal interpretation changes, thus it is only an illusion.</p><p><strong>Truth can only be known.</strong></p><p>Truth does not come and go nor shift nor change, in this appearance now and then in that, evading capture and escaping grasp.</p><p>It does not hide. It stands in open light, in obvious accessibility.</p><p>It is impossible that anyone could seek it truly, and would not succeed.</p><p><strong>Everything God created is the truth and only truth</strong></p><p>This is what is eternal. God has made you. You are eternal. It is this that makes it real, and keeps it separate from all appearances. It must transcend all form to be itself. Eternal means It cannot change. Reality is changeless. Truth is unchangeable. If the Truth cannot change, if It is permanent, if It is ever-present, then It is always reliable. There is nothing but stability and nothing but security. The Truth is faithful. Truth has no birth, evolution, or decay. Because the Truth is eternal and changeless</p><blockquote><p>Understanding, is simple. It is unitary. It is not logical. It is not intellectual. It is not necessary that you understand understanding. It is not necessary that anyone around you understand what you are understanding. </p><p>It&#8217;s simply Knowing.</p></blockquote><p>It is necessary only for you to seek the understanding of the true creation within, and this we will attempt to give you in a simple way.</p><p>With the intellect and with words, we can only approximate understanding to you. And your attempts to examine it on an intellectual level can only be a type of subterfuge, camouflage and misdirection.</p><p>You must not depend upon the tools of the physical illusion in order to build for yourself your bridge to eternity, for that which is of the illusion will vanish and be no more before you are able to cross that bridge.</p><p>Let go of the preconceptions which are embedded deep in your intellectual mind.</p><p>Perception is always based on history, memory. Based on past prescription. Only using your opinion, not knowing all the facts. Not seeing the true nature of &amp; supporting the whole person.</p><p>Allow yourself simply to seek, and then to have faith in the seeking. What you seek is simple. The creation is simple.</p><p>There is only one understanding, and that is that, the creation is one great being. The creation is you; the creation is me; the creation is all that ever was and ever will be. The creation, is the Creator. As you look into the eyes of another upon your planet, you are looking at the Creator. As he looks at you, he also is looking at the Creator.</p><p>If you may achieve this simple understanding, then and only then may you live in harmony with the understanding of the Creator, who created each portion of His creation in order that it may be of service to every other portion of the creation.</p><p>This is understanding. This is the simple understanding.</p><p></p><div><hr></div><h4><strong>Love</strong></h4><p>The pathway, is simply love, a total and universal love, expressed for all things and all peoples and demonstrated daily in his activities and thoughts. And then, everything is returned. And this love that he generates is reflected to him a thousand-fold. For this is the plan. This is the design. This is the gift of the Father.</p><p>It is so very simple.</p><p>For the Father is very simple.</p><p>He did not mean for his children to find it necessary to generate complexities in order to achieve the state of ecstasy that he designed for them.</p><p>It is only man on this planet that has become confused, and drifted away from this knowledge.</p><p>This knowledge is deep within you. It is part of you. It is part of everything that exists. Seek this knowledge within yourself. And then, go forth in your daily activities, demonstrating to your fellow man this knowledge, and it will be reflected one thousand-fold.</p><p>We each have resistance to being Love, on an ego level, and this is which defines us. It creates parameters and a structure that keeps you very safe.</p><p>You don&#8217;t see what&#8217;s beyond you unless you have to, and you don&#8217;t break out of the mold that you have been identified with unless you are forced to, and you are very happy in the small world that you have created, or you are miserable in the world you&#8217;ve created but you still don&#8217;t see how you are going to transform it. The transformation of you will result in a change of your experience. It happens. And as it happens, you transform your knowing, and the Knowing brings to you what you require to transform everything else.</p><ul><li><p>It is only necessary that the individual realize that he is a part of the creation, and that the creation is one single thing, and that in so being, he and all of his brothers and sisters throughout all space are one being. This realization will result in an ability to demonstrate only one reaction to anything. That reaction will be love.</p></li><li><p>Each individual must interpret the Universe for himself since he has to interpret It to himself. The Universe can interpret Itself for him only by interpreting Itself through him. God can give us only what we take, and the taking is the Self-Expression of God in us-not something other or different from God, not something which has succeeded in passing a dividing line, but itself is God.</p></li><li><p>Because the Truth is eternal and changeless, and because I exist, and because that which I am is It in me, it is self-evident that I am eternal. Such is the perception of immortality, deathlessness, and everlasting being. This is but another way of saying that God cannot die, that God is all there is, that God is the essence of my life and is my life; that I am an immortal and an eternal being now.</p></li><li><p>But since Truth is freedom, then a knowledge of Truth is freedom. To know the Truth is to be free. Truth and freedom are identical.</p></li><li><p>We arrive next at the perception of person, individuality, personality, and humanity, for again we may say, "I think, therefore I am." Also, our fellow man may say, "I think, therefore I am." The Allness of Truth delivers the message that, in a certain sense, each is All because of the indivisibility of Truth, and All is in each. Such is the mystery of individuality which the mask of personality but dimly reveals. The Truth, being All, means that each individual is forced to be Truth and nothing but Truth. Truth does not deny individuality, personality, or humanity. It affirms that each exists in his apparently separate star, maintaining an eternal, changeless, and perfect identity in the Allness of Good. Each is an individualized expression of the One.</p></li><li><p>The Allness of Truth, stated in the simplest manner, affirms that God is all there is. God never changes. God is in me. God is that which I am. God is in the Universe. God is the Universe.</p></li></ul><p><strong>The small self thinks, the True Self knows</strong></p><p></p><div><hr></div><p></p><h4><strong>Willingness&nbsp; to Change</strong></h4><p>One must be open to changing to a new thought system</p><p>Change is never easy when you are so invested in your old behavior and that behavior has been agreed upon by everybody as appropriate.</p><p>Forgiveness is the Holy Spirit&#8217;s great learning aid in bringing this thought reversal about.&nbsp;</p><p>Nothing conflicts in it&#8217;s one true law of Love, because what the Holy Spirit perceives is all one and the same. No more dreaming. No judgement. No anger. No attacking, no accusing, no defending of illusions. No conflict. Everyone who follows the world&#8217;s ego curriculum, and everyone here does follow it&#8230;&#8230;</p><p>Until he changes his mind.</p><p>Then teaching himself, to convince himself that he is what he is not. Herein is the purpose of the world.</p><p>The sum total of our mental and emotional reactions surrounds us with a field of thought which is operated upon by a larger field of Mind, Law, and Action. This is why you do not send out thoughts or hold them, or will or wish or concentrate when you give a treatment. You make a definite statement in this Universal field of Mind, which individualizes for the person, place, or thing you identify your statement with. Your treatment is an individualization of the Universal Mind, but the moment it is given it becomes a Universalization of the individual mind.</p><p>We are individual points in the Consciousness of God or the original Creative Spirit of the Universe. We are points where It thinks through us as us, or, as we say, God as man in man is man.</p><p>But the God that is in man is the same God that is Universal. There is no wall of separation, no barrier, no place where one begins and the other leaves off. All is One and One is All. The creativity of thought is not dependent upon the thinker. Only the choice of thinking is dependent upon the thinker. The creative activity of thought belongs to the Universe.</p><p>Our starting point is to recognize God at the center of our own being, to have faith in this Divine Presence within us, and to have an equal faith in the Divine in everyone else. We must come to see that God is the one eternal Presence in everyone and in everything, and we must learn to think from this basis. We all have a definite content of unconscious thinking, of unconscious expectation, of unconscious frustration and desire. This is just as much a part of the process of our thinking as the words we use consciously, and it is just as certain to be operated upon by the Law of Life. This we sometimes overlook. But if these things are true, then the first thing we must change is ourselves.</p><p>This is sometimes a long and arduous process, for a person does not change all of the patterns of his thought in a moment. Rather it takes place little by little, until gradually the old thought patterns become transformed into new ones by some inner alchemy of the mind, the operation of which we do not see but the manifestation of which we do experience. Because the True Self expresses in the infinite now, there is no yesterday to regret, no tomorrow to be worried about, no one telling you who you should be when you grow into who you should be, but instead you know the who that you are as eternal. To move beyond time is not to throw away the clock, ignore the tide or the moon, forget the days of the week. It is to choose something other&#8212;to be known anew beyond the system of time that has directed you to believe that your mortality is ascribed to it. Your mortality is ascribed to time. Now, indeed, you live forever. The body will not, but the Divine as you will be here in some form, in some trajectory, whether the body escorts it or not. Realization of the who that you are, the identity of the Divine Self, is the manifestation of the eternal self in a way that is known. Known means realized. It is not conjecture, then, nor is it theory.</p><p>The one who operates in peace claims peace in what she sees. The one who operates in love knows herself in love and will not deny love to anyone she meets or sees. She cannot. She is not choosing to love. She is agreeing to who she is, as an aspect of love.</p><p>Self-righteousness is always the small self. The True Self does not judge, because she comprehends the unique ability of each individual to learn through his or her creations. She is not the arbiter of justice. She does not seek to punish or defile. She has come in love, and in love is great power. The song that she sings or expresses as can indeed topple walls, reclaim all things, make all things new.</p><p><strong>Who taught you about the following</strong></p><h2><strong>&#165;KEY POINT&gt;~</strong></h2><p><strong>One needs to take charge of all the racing, changing thoughts in your mind. To&nbsp; take charge of who you are and who you want to be&#8230;&#8230;</strong></p><p><strong>A) one needs to START by loving yourself</strong></p><p><strong>B) Knowing yourself, your emotions and personal triggers</strong></p><p><strong>C) Understanding the Ego Thought System</strong></p><p><strong>D) Realizing there is an Alternative Thought System</strong></p><p><strong>E) Understanding the difference between Gods Love and Human Love</strong></p><p><strong>F) One needs practical everyday tools to improve communication skills &amp; emotional intelligence&#8230;.</strong></p><ul><li><p>Read the 4 Agreements and the 5th Agreement</p></li><li><p>Use the tools</p></li><li><p>Develop the associated skill sets and</p></li><li><p>practice, practice, practice&#8230;REPEAT, try you best</p></li><li><p>Like learning to ride a bike</p></li></ul><p><strong>G) The fact that we are all one with the universe and God. The real us is a small ball of eternal energy. We are all a part of God. God is all there is. The universe is spiritual in nature</strong></p><p><strong>H) To combine our wisdom with love and use it in all our thoughts, intentions &amp; desires</strong></p><p><strong>I) To change from the Ego thought system to the Knowledge Thought System</strong></p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; One must recombine your conscious mind with your unconscious mind&#8230;</p><ul><li><p>Merging your will with Gods will</p></li><li><p>Using your rational mind to gain wisdom and then</p></li><li><p>Changing your perception to change beliefs</p></li><li><p>Using Gods eyes not your temporary human, body&#8217;s eyes</p></li></ul><p><strong>Use the added Tool of Discernment</strong></p><p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; NOT Judgement</strong></p><p>No judgement on morality, making decisions without morality, that&#8217;s discernment.</p><p>They are one with God and you. So they act in ignorance. You ultimately see them as a brother or sister. Just with no judgement of morality. It may be wrong in our eyes, but it&#8217;s still up to God, not us&#8230;..</p><p>You don&#8217;t have to like them or associate with them. We still have to live in this world that we have agreed to.</p><p><strong>REMEMBER, none of thisnmakes you better then one who acts with the ego and it&#8217;s ignorance&#8230;..</strong></p><h1><strong>&#167;</strong></h1><p><strong>Start with the above then progress to more unlearning and learning old and new agreements or beliefs.</strong></p><p></p><div><hr></div><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lostlessons.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://lostlessons.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h4><strong>Belief</strong></h4><p><strong>Unlearning or Breaking old Agreements or Beliefs</strong></p><p>The law of life is belief. What do you believe about yourself, life, and the universe? It is done unto you, as you believe. Belief is a thought in your mind, which causes the power of your subconscious to be distributed into all phases of your life according to your thinking habits. The belief of your mind is simply the thought of your mind.</p><p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; The real purpose of this world is to correct your unbelief.</strong></p><p>You can never control the effects of fear yourself, because you made fear, and you believe in what you made.</p><p>In attitude, then, though not in content, you resemble your Creator, Who has perfect faith in His creations because He created them. Belief produces the acceptance of existence. That is why you can believe what no one else thinks is true. It is true for you because it was made by you. All aspects of fear are untrue because they do not exist at the creative level, and therefore do not exist at all. To whatever extent you are willing to submit your beliefs to this test, to that extent are your perceptions corrected.</p><p>In sorting out the false from the true, the miracle proceeds along these lines: Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, Then there is not perfect love. But: Only perfect love exists. If there is fear, It produces a state that does not exist. Believe this and you will be free. We emphasize application rather than theory, and experience rather than theology.</p><ul><li><p>The purpose is to train your mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world. This should help you generalize the lessons, so that you will understand that each of them is equally applicable to <strong>everyone</strong> and <strong>everything</strong> you see.</p></li><li><p>Transfer of training in true perception does not proceed as does transfer of the training of the world.</p></li></ul><p>Transition, you see, from one state of consciousness to another state of consciousness has requirements. And the release of the things that would anchor you to the old, bind you to the old, mandate that the old maintains itself, are the things that will now be brought to light.</p><ul><li><p>It will be the unlearning of old ways/habits that will be the most difficult. All of this will require effort on your part.</p></li><li><p>If TRUE perception has been achieved in connection with any person, situation or event, total transfer to everyone and everything is certain. The very nature of true perception is that it has no limits. It is the opposite of the way you see now.</p></li><li><p>On the other hand, one exception held apart from true perception makes its accomplishments anywhere impossible.</p></li></ul><p>Some of the ideas presented you will find hard to do at first, even actively resisting. You are merely asked to apply the ideas in your daily life. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you that they are true. Always try your best, then keep repeating it, till it becomes imbedded in your subconscious. After time, SEEING the results, you will come to realize and know the one true law of Love.</p><p>It is a process that changes the view of the self. It is because the thoughts you think you think appear as images that you do not recognize them as nothing. You think you think them, and so you think you see them. This is how your &#8220;seeing&#8221; was made. This is the function you have given your body&#8217;s eyes.</p><ul><li><p>It is not seeing.</p></li><li><p>It is image making.</p></li></ul><p>It takes the place of seeing, replacing vision with illusions.</p><p>You must learn to:</p><h4><strong>Think with your heart-mind, SEE with Gods vision, which is also your true selfs vision. When not in the human body it&#8217;s your true energy and who you really are and your true Knowing&#8230; The temporary body is just for learning and experiencing the 5 senses.</strong></h4>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Game ]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;Life isn&#8217;t a game about winning or losing.]]></description><link>https://lostlessons.substack.com/p/the-game-and-the-rules</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lostlessons.substack.com/p/the-game-and-the-rules</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[GingerRRT]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:54:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1a41f5ce-21ca-4ae0-b4de-84f136dd06ea_777x650.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Life isn&#8217;t a game about winning or losing.</em></p><p><em>Life is simply about playing and enjoying the game as much as possible</em>.&#8221; ~author unknown</p></blockquote><p></p><p><strong>The choice is when to play, as eventually we all will</strong></p><p>This is always the basic choice: to fear, or to love.</p><p>Choices made in fear separate; choices made in love unite.</p><p><strong>If you are here from a catalyst. That means you have the will and want&#8230; and this will just help direct you to achieve what you now want out of life.</strong></p><p>We create the story of our own life, the story of our family, the story of our community, the story of our country, the story of humanity, the story of the entire world. Every one of us has a story that we share, a message that we deliver to ourselves, and to everyone and everything around us. We are programmed to express ourselves. You are what you believe you are. Then the first question is: &#8220;What do you believe you are?&#8221; What do you want your story to be. You are the artist of your life, make it what you want it to be. You can paint whatever you want to paint; you can even copy another artist&#8217;s work &#8212; but what you express with your paintbrush is the way you see yourself, the way you see the entire reality.</p><p></p><p>The Game  is about aiding you to change over to Gods Knowledge Thought System. Plus&nbsp; trying to achieve the &#8220;<em><strong>Mastery of Intent&#8221; or &#8220;Mastery of Love</strong></em>&#8221; and the&nbsp; <em><strong>&#8220;Mastery of Transformation&#8221;&#8230;..</strong></em></p><p><strong>Once you have begun this journey you shall never arrive</strong></p><p></p><h4><strong>The Short Answer</strong></h4><p><strong>Stems from the question of Who am I</strong></p><p>Seeking your identity is of utmost importance to you at this time, your true identity that resides in every cell of your being and every part of the universe. This identity is one which you have carried with you throughout eons of what you call time and it is an identity that you shall continue to carry with you and that you shall continue to realize more and more fully as you evolve in your conscious awareness. It is an identity that is ever-expanding love. It is, at its core, love, which manifests in as many ways as can be imagined.</p><p>The realization of love at the core of your life, at the core of your identity, that is the key to your growth individually and as a people in your reality.</p><p>Each of you now seeks in your own way to know more fully that identity that is yours and how you uniquely manifest that which is love.</p><p>Seek to know more and more fully that central source of your self which is love. Seek and ye shall find.</p><p><strong>Ye shall find that it is an ever-expanding joy, an ever-expanding mystery.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h2>This Material can&#8217;t be Taught</h2><h2><strong>Beyond the 4 Agreements</strong></h2><p>Knowledge is beyond the goal we seek to teach within the framework of this material. These are teaching aids only. What you aim to attain, how you reach them, what they are, and what they offer you is uniquely up to you.</p><p>It is the decisions that are the outcome of your learning, <strong>they rest on what you have accepted as the truth of what you are, who you are and what your needs must be. </strong>You need to be reminded that you think a thousand choices are confronting you, when there is really only one to make. And even this but seems to be a choice. Do not confuse yourself with all the doubts that myriad decisions would induce.</p><ul><li><p>Choosing depends on learning</p></li><li><p>And the truth cannot be learned, but only realized or recognized and Known</p></li><li><p>In recognition its acceptance lies, and as it is accepted it is known</p></li></ul><blockquote><p>A lesson in simplicity with the fundamental teaching that <strong>truth is true</strong>. <strong>This is the hardest lesson you will ever learn, and in the end the only one.</strong></p><p><strong>First the readiness for Knowledge must be attained. Then the search will begin. And only then, is when you can begin to understand, realize and Know the Truth. </strong>Simplicity is very difficult for the ego mind.</p></blockquote><p>You may not like to read, or depending on your path this may not be part of how you learn. You may not have the interest in any of this ever.</p><h3><strong>The Game</strong></h3><p><strong>Won&#8217;t be played till later in life(if at all)</strong></p><p><strong>You must have the want &amp; the will to play The Game, to begin the search for Truth.</strong></p><p><strong>The CHOICE to play most likely will be from a catalyst or event in your life that will propel you to become a player in the Game. It may be traumatic in the physical or emotional sense but either way it will be emotional in the end, that will motivate you to realize this is what you must do. It may take several catalysts or none, you may never have the want or maybe you are the few that won&#8217;t have the need. (You might want to rethink, you are one of the few) All of us are human, with room for improvement.</strong></p><p>But mostly one needs the want&#8230;&#8230; <strong>Feeling the need to change.</strong></p><p>The Choice&#8230; What brings us to the moment of choice is our catalyst. And this material may not even be a small part of your journey.</p><h4><strong>This material can only point the way</strong></h4><p>The Game must be&#8230;.</p><p><strong>Experienced, Realized and Known</strong></p><p>We all take different paths and learn from different ways. Maybe you are well balanced and feel you don&#8217;t need this. That&#8217;s great, but that is also the few&#8230;&#8230;.</p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>These lessons are ones that can only be realized from experience and having the inner want from your soul. This is each persons own unique experience and you may or may not accomplish it in this lifetime. Some never see the need. Some have an easier time. Others, not so much.&#8221; Estimations of &lt; 10% of the population</strong></em></p><h4><em><strong>&#8220;We all hear the call, but few choose to answer it.</strong></em><strong>&#8221;</strong></h4><div><hr></div><blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Teach only love, for that is what you are.&#8221;</strong></p><p><strong>Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love.</strong></p></blockquote><ul><li><p>Nothing real can be threatened.</p></li><li><p>Nothing unreal exists.</p></li><li><p>Herein lies the peace of God.</p><p>Because your will is free, you can accept what has already happened at any time you choose, and only then will you realize that it was always there.</p></li></ul><p>As the material emphasizes, you are not free to choose the curriculum, or even the form in which you will learn it. You are free, however, to decide when you want to learn it. And as you accept it, it is already learned. </p><p>Only then it will it be worth your time to read any of this material of Beyond the 4 Agreements and Lost Lessons. Before that happens these words will most likely mean little to you.</p><p><strong>Our society&#8217;s training is directed toward achieving a goal in direct opposition of this material. The world trains for reliance on one&#8217;s judgment as the criterion for maturity and strength. A thought is in the mind. It can be then applied as mind directs it. </strong>But its origin is where it must be changed, if change occurs. Ideas do not leave their source. </p><h4>The emphasis this material has placed on that idea is due to its centrality in our attempts to change your mind about yourself&#8230;</h4><h3><strong>The Game</strong></h3><p>A man who sees all the poker hands. He then knows the game. It is but child&#8217;s play to gamble, for it is no risk. The other hands are known. The possibilities are known and the hand will be played correctly but with no interest.</p><p>In time/space and in [fourth density], the hands of all are open to the eye: the thoughts, the feelings, the troubles, all these may be seen. There is no deception and no desire for deception. Thus much may be accomplished in harmony but the mind/body/spirit gains little polarity from this interaction.</p><p>Let us re-examine this metaphor and multiply it into the longest poker game you can imagine, a lifetime. The cards are love, dislike, limitation, unhappiness, pleasure, etc. They are dealt and re-dealt and re-dealt continuously. You may, during this incarnation begin&#8212;and we stress begin&#8212;to know your own cards. You may begin to find the love within you. You may begin to balance your pleasure, your limitations, etc. However, your only indication of other-selves&#8217; cards is to look into the eyes.</p><p>You cannot remember your hand, their hands, perhaps even the rules of this game. This game can only be won by those who lose their cards in the melting influence of love; can only be won by those who lay their pleasures, their limitations, their all upon the table face up and say inwardly:</p><p>&#8220;All, all of you players, each other-self, whatever your hand, I love you.&#8221;</p><p>Love is more powerful than hatred; truth sets us free; forgiveness liberates both sides; unconditional love heals; courage empowers; and the essence of Divinity/Reality is peace.</p><h2><strong>&#165;KEY&gt;~ Point</strong></h2><p><strong>Important point is to learn how to open the heart and keep it open&#8230;</strong></p><h1><strong>&#167;</strong></h1><p><strong>This is the Real Game of Life: to know, to accept, to forgive, to balance, and to open the self in love. This cannot be done without the forgetting, for it would carry no weight in the life of the person</strong></p><p></p><h2><strong>&#165;KEY POINT&gt;~</strong></h2><h4><strong>BALANCE</strong></h4><p>How do you forge a road between the everyday of earning a living and one of love unconditionally given and received?</p><p><strong>Your everyday outer goals and dreams and your inner world goals and dreams.</strong></p><p>Each of you has part of the answer to that, for each of you is at work paving that road now with your thoughts, with your faith and with your doubts.</p><p><strong>Having fun. Living, Loving, Laughing</strong></p><h1><strong>&#167;</strong></h1><p></p><p>It is seeking and working towards the goal in&#8230;.</p><h2><strong>The Heart of Evolution</strong></h2><p>Let us remember that we are all one. This is the great learning/teaching. In this unity lies love.</p><p>In this unity lies light. This is the fundamental teaching of all planes of existence in materialization. Unity, love, light, and joy; this is the heart of evolution of the spirit.</p><p>To Realize, that we must become one mind with God or Love.</p><p>To overcome the Egos dominance.</p><p>Understanding, Realizing &amp; Knowing. To find the real you. The eternal you.</p><p>To think is not to know, and to know is to realize.</p><p><strong>The Game&#8217;s object is, in part, to discover that great, original Thought or Gods untapped energy of love within ourselves.</strong></p><p>The dogma of religion suggests that we cannot find that love within ourselves. However, as we learn to play the Game, we will find ourselves uncovering deeper and deeper levels of this love hidden within the folds of our everyday natures.</p><p><strong>Its many things&#8230;.</strong></p><p><strong>It&#8217;s knowing yourself. Controlling emotions, control of the ego, keeping your heart open, forgiving, having fun. Becoming like children again. To see we are all one and eternal, made of a loving energy.</strong></p><p><strong>How to actually live the Golden Rule. To live in love. Everything should be done in the energy of love or goodness. The real you</strong></p><p>One kind of miracle will be one of change of scenery and how your physical life will begin to alter through your perceptions of it.</p><p>Being open or aware that your biased opinion or interpretation may not be entirely correct &#8220;except to you.&#8221;</p><p>Becoming aware is the first step to this part of the miracle.</p><p>To have an experience of the Divine, in any way you may come to it, is highly useful to the progress of the soul. But the experience itself, unless there are fruits and benefits that can be seen and known, is simply an experience. To understand yourself as continually unfolding to greater levels of realization is to understand fully that everything in this universe is in movement, and you are no exception.</p><p>Your life is actually your lesson, because the lesson of the day is ever present for you&#8230;.</p><h4><strong>That is your Choice</strong></h4><p><strong>But 1st&#8230;. You must have the want or will. Then the search will begin</strong></p><p><strong>And only then, is when you can begin to understand, realize and Know the Truth.</strong></p><p><strong>It&#8217;s not something I can tell you to do.</strong></p><p>It will probably take a catalyst, some event in your life to motivate you into having the want. &#8216;Only through trials and tribulations does one come to understand the true nature of love, faith and hope. Only in this way does one understand that love is stronger than lack of love, than hell and death; that faith is stronger than doubt; that hope is stronger than despair; that good is stronger than evil.&#8217;</p><p><strong>None of this may interest you, that&#8217;s fine. Frankly most people won&#8217;t have an interest</strong></p><p>This material can only <strong>point</strong> the way. If or When you do, you will know. No one else.</p><h4><strong>The Game is an Inner Journey</strong></h4><p><strong>Realization itself takes you beyond the known. Realization itself claims you outside of the paradigm that the old has claimed you in.</strong></p><p><strong>Only When Realized is it Known - The Truth</strong></p><p>The meaning of life lies in communion with God. God is love, God is love, God is love, love, love</p><h3><strong>There are No Rules</strong></h3><p>We all learn differently and it might not happen in this lifetime, but in a future life.</p><p></p><h4><strong>The END of the Short Answer</strong></h4><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><div><hr></div><p></p><p>** Several words from several authors to describe God and/or the the part of us that doesn&#8217;t die:</p><p><strong>soul/spirit</strong>; <strong>divine spark in all of us..&nbsp; Love, Light, consciousness, Chi, source, vortex, unified field, creative source, life force- soul substance- creative substance, field of intention, Quantom field, zero point field, etc.... Divine Matrix... </strong>you have to sift through all the quacks and money grappers, to get to the one good point in some of the YouTube videos about learning how your body, mind and spirit works together, or emotional IQ!!!!</p><h3></h3><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Gameboard Rules</strong></h3><p>There is really no rules either as each person uniquely learns differently.</p><p><strong>It nots how you get there, it is THAT YOU get there.</strong></p><p>It helps you to become familiar with the rules of we call the Gameboard.</p><p>Throughout, I use the game and Gameboard to talk about spiritual seeking and making The Choice. I use the lower-case terms of game, gameboard and choice to talk about the choices we make within our flat-gameboard society(ego) without regard to spiritual values.</p><p>The Game of Life is about becoming an ethically motivated human being. About minimizing the Ego. The game of life with which we are already familiar is about getting by, amassing resources and taking care of our families. That lower-case gameboard inevitably brings us to spiritual crises. However, it does not furnish us with clear guidelines for choice.</p><p>This not a journey for the faint of heart. It asks you to examine your identity, your desires, and your domestications, and requires that you give up the &#8220;little self&#8221; that occupies so much of your everyday life. Your domestications are deeply ingrained. And because we become so attached to these parts of ourselves&#8212;so much so that we often think of them as the sum total of who we are&#8212;this process can create the exact psychological fear that you are working to eliminate.</p><p>Part of you is always aware of what you do not know; another part is learning and is quite disorganized; and another part has learned something recently and is resting and waiting to see what the next lesson may be.</p><p>We are complex people. However, enlightenment is essence in importance and your perception of enlightenment is the shadow of the reality of compassion. As you begin to widen your point of view, never rest, for there is always another refinement which may offer more beauty to your own consciousness of love.</p><p>And for you to reflect that consciousness, for you to seem enlightened, a light to those around, is a most helpful thing to wish.</p><p><strong>This material can lead to knowledge, but knowledge itself is still beyond the scope of our curriculum.</strong></p><p>Nor is there any need for us to try to speak of what must forever lie beyond words. We need remember only that whoever attains the real world, beyond which learning cannot go, will go beyond it, but in a different way.</p><p>Where learning ends there God begins, for learning ends before Him Who is complete where He begins, and where there is no end.</p><p>It is not for us to dwell on what cannot be attained. There is too much to learn.</p><p>In this dog-eat-dog outer world, it is very easy to become fearful and to spend energy attempting to stay safe and secure. Major security concerns on the flat gameboard of Life include life insurance, auto insurance, home insurance and the search for a job which offers a good pension. And there is nothing wrong with that. Our consensus reality advises responsible adults to be prudent. So does our value system, in that we wish to take responsibility for ourselves.</p><p>But I believe our success is gauged in how well we keep our hearts open and how willing we are to choose to act in a way that reflects our desire to serve the Creator and to serve our fellow beings with unconditional love.</p><h4><strong>One of balance or polarity</strong></h4><p>Our Earth culture cannot support these choices. We do not receive any signals from society which say that life is about abiding in unconditional love.</p><p><strong>And so living a life in faith is something which is left to the Player as a matter of choice.</strong></p><p></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>The Game of Life</strong></h3><h4><strong>Gameboard vs gameboard (Knowledge vs knowledge)</strong></h4><p>The mind of the heart and soul&#8212;works well on the Gameboard. SubConsciousness can use the intellect, or consciousness and we need both faculties working together in order to be an effective Player.</p><p>We live in both worlds simultaneously as we play the Game of Life. We need to be able to use both faculties and to integrate the two streams of information and thought as we go.</p><p>The picture of the Gameboard is of a unitary, interactive Creation where all of the parts are related and can influence each other according to natural paths of interaction between energy fields.</p><p>The position of the human being in the Game is that of a player. He is not a pawn or any other game piece. He is not tied to or bounded by the Board. He is sitting at the Gameboard, observing the flow of play and making his Choices as he makes his moves. Please note again that this is a holistic, multi-dimensional Gameboard, not a flat, two-dimensional one like a chess board.</p><p>Our gameboard, <strong>lower-case version</strong>, is life as we perceive it right now. The trick, in getting ready to play the Game of Life, is to decide to move to a position outside the regular flat gameboard itself, in order to see the Gameboard. We do this by an act of will.</p><h4><strong>Free Will on the Gameboard</strong></h4><p>The impact of beginning to grasp the actual nature of the nested illusions of experience is daunting and can constitute a time of adjustment in which the nature of the self is allowed to transform itself according to the ways of this free will that enters into the creation upon each level of development. The free will of yourself can barely be distinguished from the free will of that which is your higher self. The connections that each entity has with other aspects of an infinite being that is the self are unending, so that free will is, shall we say, that icon of deity which expresses the feminine, the ever-moving, the fructifying.</p><p>In general, we assume that we have freedom of choice. We work and live where we wish. We choose our mates and our interests freely. However, to a range of authorities from psychologists to scientists to religious figures, this seeming freedom is an illusion. Scientists classically assume that the world of nature operates according to fixed laws of behavior, adaptation and evolution. Psychologists follow closely behind with suggestions that our choices are genetically and culturally determined. We may think we have free will, they say, but in actuality we are acting according to our instincts, modified by the training of parents and other cultural authority figures and by the propagandizing and marketing forces of our corporations and the mass media.</p><p>Humans are weighed down by all the cultural information and biases they have learned. We must wake up from the cultural dream into which we were born. And when we humans do become aware that there is more to life than the culturally accepted channels of thinking, we start from scratch as to what we really know for sure. We are not questioning things within consensus reality like newspapers being delivered or the electricity being on. We are seeking a new, &#8220;outside the box&#8221; reality&#8212;a new view of the physical and spiritual world in which we live. We come to this deeper seeking process with empty hands. We lay down those cultural, religious and intellectual assumptions we have learned. We begin anew with the basic questions: What is really true? Who am I? What am I doing here? When an assumption is tested, what solution is found to work?</p><p>That realization that we have drunk in a lot of bad information during our childhoods is often our starting point in choosing to accelerate the pace of our spiritual and mental evolution. Before we begin to play the Game of Life, we consciously choose to know the truth for ourselves. We begin to build our own intelligence.</p><p>Breaking away from religious authority, we take personal responsibility for the process of our spiritual and ethical evolution. Breaking away from the scientific view, we claim to have as much of a higher or heavenly nature in our make-up as we do of the lower or earthly nature which is the study of science and psychology.</p><p>When we make that decision to seek the truth, we are knocking on the door of &#8220;spirit&#8221;. By spirit, we mean the whole range of spiritual guidance. Some people who are brought up as Christians think of spirit as the Holy Spirit or as Jesus the Christ. Some think of spirit as the world of nature. Some think of spirit as the hidden world of ghosts, &#8220;Ascended Masters&#8221; and inner-planes teachers.</p><p><strong>In our term, spirit, includes all of those meanings.</strong></p><p>The Holy Bible suggests that what we ask for, we shall receive and that when we knock, the door shall be opened. We target that conscious choice to seek as important. When we choose to begin the journey of seeking, we alert spirit that we are ready to become a player in the Game of Life.</p><p><strong>Free will is involved in the very first move.</strong> When we awaken to the desire to seek the truth of our being, we imitate the Creator&#8217;s decision and turn to free will. We choose to set out upon the Game of Life, which can also be termed the &#8220;seeking process&#8221; or &#8220;seeking the truth.&#8221;</p><p>Everything we see is actually made of energy. So regardless of whether we are considering unseen things such as ideas or forces, or manifest, physical things which have weight and form, we are talking about illusions. The only ultimately real thing in this Game is the Creator. We as players of the Game are little sparks of the Creator who are also choosing to know ourselves.</p><p>The first way the Creator links space and time creates a mismatch between space and time favoring time. That mismatch, called time/space, creates the inner planes. Other terms for the inner planes are the metaphysical worlds, the spirit worlds and the various levels of the subconscious mind. That is the place from which the Gameboard for the Game of Life is called by the seeker&#8217;s free will decision to seek outside the societal box for the truth.</p><p>The second way the Creator links space and time creates a mismatch between space and time favoring space. That mismatch is called space/time. This mismatch creates the physical world of our conscious experience. We have been playing the game of that little life within the parameters of that flat gameboard all of our lives. If we are attractive, wealthy, well-mated, well educated, have a good job or otherwise are seen to be successful at what we do, we are winning. If we are unattractive, poor, lack a good mate, are uneducated, do not have a good job or otherwise are seen to be a failure, we are losing that game on the flat board.</p><p>When we choose instead to play the Game we make life more interesting. We use the flat gameboard in order to collect material for The Game. Then we make our move on the Gameboard, which is found within the inner world of thought and choice. When that is done we can move back into our regular life and create moves on the flat board which are informed with the wisdom we have gleaned from playing the Game.</p><p>As seekers we merge these two realities, the spiritual reality of the inner and eternal life of our soul&#8217;s consciousness and the consensus reality of the outer and physical earth life and our bio-computer minds&#8217; awareness. We can live in both worlds at once. We are intended to do so.</p><h4><strong>Illusion on the Gameboard</strong></h4><p>When the infinite Creator wished to know Itself, Its great heart beat out the next creation with all of its densities and sub-densities and all of the patterns of those densities and creations. Time and space were invoked and that which before was immeasurable and unknowable became a series of illusions that, paradoxically, were to some degree knowable, and these shadows of knowing were much desired by the Creator. And each of these sparks and shadows became agents of the one infinite Creator, thoughts in and of themselves, thoughts rounded and centered in the one great original Thought which is Love.</p><p>However, in order to get a grip on the nature of the Gameboard, it is necessary to remember that the universe is one of vibration and motion, not solidity and rest. Some scientists still cling to the notion of &#8220;equilibrium,&#8221; which they think of as an infinitely persistent state. However, each piece of the universe is affecting each other part all the time and these vibrations never reach equilibrium during the billions of years while the creation itself proceeds through its densities.</p><h4><strong>Catalyst on the Gameboard</strong></h4><p>Play on the (spiritual) Gameboard starts on the flat gameboard of everyday, the commonplace events of our living being the incoming catalyst. We receive this catalyst with our intellect and also with the surface emotions which are part of the response system of our physical bodies. We examine the catalyst. Much catalyst is ethically neutral.</p><p>It is very difficult to think of the main and centrally constituent service to the one infinite Creator as that of being. And yet that is what you came to Earth to do. You came here to be yourself; to breath the air; to participate in the illusion of planet Earth; to go through each and every detail of receiving catalyst, responding to catalyst and moving through the periods of joy and suffering that this catalyst offers you.</p><p>And always your chief responsibility is to be yourself; to feel truly; to examine yourself as fully as you can and to know yourself to the very limit of your ability. You wish to know yourself not to judge yourself or to condemn yourself or to pat yourself on the back but simply to become aware of who you are.</p><h3><strong>Truth</strong></h3><p>This is not the flat gameboard of consensus reality. The Gameboard presents a far different picture of our world. On this larger, metaphysical Gameboard, we players are not caught within the illusions of consensus reality. Knowing that things are not what they seem, we release our eyes and ears from having to believe everything we see and hear.</p><p>This includes what we see and hear about ourselves. Who are we? Our parents have told us. Our teachers have told us. Whatever other important figures populated our world as children have also told us. Not only that, but also close friends, mates and other people have continued to define us as adults. And we can believe none of it, at least not to the extent that we allow these opinions to define who we are. To investigate who we are, we can rely on the always-available present moment and what it brings us from the illusion around us. This is one great thing about the Game of Life. You can play it anywhere! You take the Gameboard with you wherever you go, once you set it up in your deeper mind. Remember, the illusion is not literally real, but it does have real effects on us.</p><p><strong>We discover ourselves as we respond to incoming catalyst.</strong></p><p>In chemistry, a catalyst is a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a faster rate or under different conditions, as at a lower temperature, than otherwise possible. The catalytic agent is not, itself, necessarily involved in the chemical reaction. We get incoming catalyst all the time from the people and the events surrounding us.</p><p>Catalyst can be a simple thing which does not tell us about ourselves. When I sat down to write this morning, my physical catalyst was that the sun was still low enough in the sky that it was overly bright in my eyes. My response was to close the Venetian blinds in the upper half of one office window in order to rest my eyes from sun-strain. There was almost no emotion involved in this response to catalyst. A lot of things that happen to us have no power to move us emotionally. They are random, neutral catalyst.</p><p>Usually catalyst that is going to give us information about who we are is either positively or negatively emotionally charged. Positive catalyst tends to make us happy. Negative catalyst tends to make us unhappy. Perhaps someone cuts us off in traffic. We have to brake suddenly in order to avoid a collision. Do we curse the other driver? Or do we brake while thinking to ourselves, &#8220;Here&#8217;s some room for you, Buddy.&#8221;</p><p>Catalyst in and of itself is not remarkable. It is coming at us all the time. We share it, actually, on a deeper level than the conscious mind. We all know what the emotions of jealousy and envy, sloth and anger are. We as humans hold these emotions in common.</p><p>What shall we do with these emotions when their energy is activated within us by incoming catalyst? If our response is anger, do we immediately turn to the catalytic agent, probably another human being, and express that anger without regard for that person&#8217;s feelings? Do we turn anger inside, instead, and hone it to a fine edge&#8212;into a crafty, sweet revenge? Do we let it slide off of our backs without taking it in or caring about it? Or do we point the anger inside, targeting ourselves, and call ourselves unworthy? What do we do with this energy that our catalyst has generated?</p><p>It is a creation of energy. The choices we make about what the energy expenditures are absolutely crucial as we play the Game of Life. We have just so many seconds to live. We have just so many heartbeats before our environment changes and we drop our physical bodies. And in those times of our life&#8217;s heartbeats, we have just so many opportunities to feel, sense, think and choose how to respond. Each incoming bit of catalyst is a precious gift. Here, in this present moment, is a fully sufficient environment for playing the Game of Life.</p><p>Some catalyst is charged with the potential for making an ethical choice. We as Players detect the incoming catalyst which involves an ethical decision.&nbsp;</p><p>We invite our subconsciousness to join our intellect in the consideration of this catalyst. (Heart or soul)We use all the faculties of subconsciousness such as guidance, insight and intuition to find our way to the most informed ethical decision. We set our intention to offer our highest and best response. In doing so, our work on the Gameboard is done. Then we mentally toggle back down to the flat gameboard, where we express and manifest our response in the context of our everyday lives.</p><p>Because without our heart centers being open, we cannot access the subconsciousness that is our higher or metaphysical mind. Thinking with Gods sight and mind&#8230;.. Merging our will with Gods will, remembering who we are when not in the human body. When we awaken to the desire to seek the truth of our being, we imitate the Creator&#8217;s decision and turn to free will. We choose to set out upon the Game of Life, which can also be termed the &#8220;seeking process&#8221; or &#8220;seeking the truth.&#8221;</p><p>It is tricky to choose to seek the truth, because we have a lower faculty of choice which comes with our great-ape body. That great-ape body and mind come with a faculty of fake free will. Our bio-computer minds are able to make our choices&#8212;but only from a menu known to it! That is the fake part, because we do not know all the options. We are given only the things we have learned in school and church and at our parents&#8217; knees. We know how to live this life on the level of getting by. That is the usual game of life with a flat gameboard.</p><p>When a person delegates to a religion, to science or to cultural norms the power over his personal decisions, he is choosing to play the game, lower-case. A person can thread his way through the maze of dogma and get to the next level from that flat board, but it is harder to play the game when no logical thinking or questioning is allowed. That is the game you choose to play if you do not invoke the free will that comes from a higher source.</p><p>True free will is a characteristic stemming from the Creator. It is the principle by which the Creator chooses to know Itself. It generates the universe in which we live. When we use this higher faculty of free will, we are moving away from the flat gameboard and are setting up the enhanced Gameboard for a Game of Life.</p><p>This faculty of free will imports data from our spirit world sources of guidance into our subconscious minds. We call upon that higher faculty of free will as if it were an angel which has dwelt within us but which we have not yet recognized. Only by that inward reach to the faculty of true freedom of will can we catapult ourselves outside of the box and into a position above the mundane where we can, for the first time, begin to look at the gameboard without getting caught by the muddied emotions of the flat board.</p><h3><strong>Love and the Gameboard</strong></h3><p>Unconditional love, then, is a feature of the Gameboard, along with its unitary nature and its foundational free-will choice. We know that the Creator&#8217;s very nature, Its &#8220;I AM,&#8221; is unconditional love. We can count upon the Creator to love us unconditionally and absolutely. The Creator will not withdraw that love. It is fascinated to see how its creation will progress.</p><p>&nbsp; We, as a player of the Game of Life, have as our core vibration that same unconditional love. The Game&#8217;s object is, in part, to discover that great, original Thought or Love within ourselves. The dogma of religion suggests that we cannot find that love within ourselves. As we learn to play the Game, we will find ourselves uncovering deeper and deeper levels of this love hidden within the folds of our everyday natures.</p><h4><strong>Light</strong></h4><p><strong>Quantum physicists state that the material world is really variable fields or frequencies of energy. All energy is ultimately reducible to light.</strong></p><p>One more point about the search for the true self: The unitary nature of the creation and the essence of the Creator being unconditional love, it is logical to infer that the true self is made of the essence of unconditional love. We need to&nbsp; realize that we are sparks of the Creator and possessed of Its nature. We are Its love made visible. So is all of the rest of creation.</p><p>But how to discover that in an authentic way is the question! It is a real challenge. The Game of Life is a long game. It is a challenge to play it through, a challenge worthy of extreme sports, marathons or the Olympic games. It can be played, and played well, however, by anyone.</p><p>The principles are simple. Once these principles are understood, it is a matter of using the inner discipline of the true Player to become a metaphysical athlete. This all sounds pretty hard. And a challenge it is, indeed. It is a life&#8217;s work. But its rewards&#8212;graduation into a new life and adventures surpassing the imagination is worth it.</p><p>It&#8217;s to realize that we are sparks of the Creator and possessed of Its nature. We are its love made visible. So is all of the rest of creation.</p><p>But how to discover that in an authentic way is the question! It is a real challenge. The Game of Life is a long game. It is a challenge to play it through, a challenge worthy of extreme sports, marathons or the Olympic games. It can be played, and played well, however, by anyone.</p><p>The principles are simple. Once these principles are understood, it is a matter of using the inner discipline of the true Player to become a metaphysical athlete.</p><p>It is very difficult to think of the main and centrally constituent service to the one infinite Creator as that of being. And yet that is what you came to Earth to do. You came here to be yourself; to breath the air; to participate in the illusion of planet Earth; to go through each and every detail of receiving catalyst, responding to catalyst and moving through the periods of joy and suffering that this catalyst offers you.</p><p>And always your chief responsibility is to be yourself; to feel truly; to examine yourself as fully as you can and to know yourself to the very limit of your ability. You wish to know yourself not to judge yourself or to condemn yourself or to pat yourself on the back but simply to become aware of who you are.</p><h4></h4><div><hr></div><p></p><h3><strong>Polarity/Balance and the Choice</strong></h3><p><strong>Polarity on the Gameboard</strong></p><p>The seeker&#8217;s use of the concept of polarity in making choices in everyday life is what transforms the lower-case &#8220;game of life&#8221; into the upper-case, spiritually alive &#8220;Game of Life.&#8221; To minimize the Ego and service to self. Choice&#8230;..</p><p>It is the single most crucial detail concerning how the Gameboard works.</p><p><strong>It is the key to winning the Game of Life.</strong></p><p>The flat gameboard of life with which we are already familiar is about getting by, amassing resources and taking care of our families. That lower-case gameboard inevitably brings us to spiritual crises. However, it does not furnish us with clear guidelines for choice.</p><p>As we look at the rules affecting play on the Gameboard, we find that the Game is about making ethical choices according to our chosen polarity. Service to self or chosen to polarize in service to others. Making compassionate choices, offering loving words and creating thoughtful and generous ways of dealing with our world and the people we know.</p><p>Making choices skillfully is not simply an intellectual matter, though I wish it were sometimes! Making good choices is often not simple at all. The facts of a situation are not the whole of the situation. Our biases and presuppositions color the way we see things.</p><p>Our attitudes substantially and critically affect our perceptions.</p><p>We generally swim in a sea of sensation, multi-tasking as we go. Moments of choice often take us by surprise. This is because we are generally only partly attending to the present moment. We seldom meet this present moment of &#8220;now&#8221; with our full and undivided attention. Instead we are often thinking of what is next on our to-do list.</p><p>The principle of having compassion and consideration for others, just as you have compassion and consideration for yourself, is a solid tool to use in making ethical choices.</p><p>When you treat someone the way you want to be treated, you are beginning to do ethically oriented work. You are polarizing towards the positive pole of your human ore which you want to magnetize. You are aligning with an ethical ideal, which is service to others. You are giving the other person the same entitlement to respect, honor and decent treatment as you give to yourself. You are invoking the unitary nature of the Gameboard and lifting yourself off the flat gameboard.</p><p><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This action takes discipline and conscious choice.</strong></p><p>It is often not an easy choice. It often costs us something to consider the needs of others with compassion and respond to them as though they were our own needs. Such action is the essence of ethical behavior. When human beings decide to become ethical beings, and start making choices based on principles such as the Golden Rule, they become Players of the Game of Life.</p><h3><strong>The Service-to-Others Path of Polarity</strong></h3><p>What you have, in terms of your ability to serve at this time, is primarily your own deepening awareness of what it is to choose; what it is to choose so deeply that the rest of your life becomes a joy; what it is to choose so completely that there is no longer the need to spend time questioning whether faith is the answer, whether service is the answer or whether one particular kind of service is better than another.</p><p>&nbsp; When the choice for service to others has been made absolutely, there is a knowing that comes. It is a knowing that transcends planning. It is a knowing that includes the awareness that you really do not have control over anything but your own desires, your own will and your own persistence? We describe the path of service to others as a path of forming and maintaining a positive attitude which informs all our decisions. The heart of this attitude is the awareness that the universe is an entirely unified, interactive and living being made of absolute love, of which each of us is a part.</p><p>As we weave our way through the decisions of our day, our attitude is oriented to seeing as broad a view of situations as possible, so that we can more accurately evaluate whether or not ethical principles need to be involved in our choices.</p><p>We have chances to make such choices every day. When we are on the road, if we see that someone needs to enter the stream of traffic and we brake a bit and gesture the person in, we have just put ourselves out in order to be kind to another human being. This is a service-to-others choice. When we are in the store with a big cart full of groceries and we see someone with two items in their hands and wave them on ahead of us in line to pay, we have just put ourselves out in order to be kind to another human being. This is a positively polarized choice.</p><p>When we are at our dinner table and there is only one roll left in the basket, and we hand it around the table instead of grabbing it for ourselves, we know as we watch someone else take that roll that we have just put ourselves out in order to be kind to another human being. Being of service to others can be tricky. Take the example I offered just now about letting someone in, in traffic. It is not black and white. A savvy driver does not let anyone into the stream of traffic if the light ahead is green and there is a solid line of traffic behind him, as it will make too many people behind him on the road miss that green light. However when the light ahead is red, there is no way those behind you can move ahead anyway, so it is fine to let in other people.</p><p></p><div><hr></div><p></p><h3><strong>The Key is the Disciplines of the Personality</strong></h3><h4><strong>This is only the discipline</strong></h4><p>It&#8217;s about how your mind, body and spirit work. Getting a grip on our other lessons will help you to be a spiritual athlete as you come to the Gameboard each day.</p><p>Successful play on the Gameboard goes not to the swift but to the right-hearted. The Player runs a race with himself each day, seeking like the medieval knight for the Grail or spirit of truth, beauty and love which tells a story of the world aright and teaches our hearts to be wise and true.</p><p>Consciousness is the deepest part of all of our minds. And access to this common consciousness is necessary in order to play the Game of Life well. Without access to this infinite consciousness, we are coming to our Gameboard with faulty and incomplete information. We, as people, with our surface personalities awake and in control, always limit, color or shape consciousness by those attitudes and thoughts which constitute our prejudices and biases. Those are our &#8220;distortions.&#8221; We unconsciously see the world through the lenses of our basic assumptions and overall points of view.</p><p>Getting bad information is the natural condition of anyone who is not working with an opened heart. Of course we as Players would prefer not to get bad information. We therefore wish to open our hearts and keep them open, so the consciousness which dwells therein can inform us and broaden our points of view.</p><p><strong>Use disciplines of the personality and the 4 Agreements to seeking and working towards &#8230;.</strong></p><h2><strong>the goal</strong></h2><h3><strong>The Heart of Evolution</strong></h3><p>Let us remember that we are all one. This is the great learning/teaching. In this unity lies love.</p><p>In this unity lies light. This is the fundamental teaching of all planes of existence in materialization. Unity, love, light, and joy; this is the heart of evolution of the spirit.</p><p>To Realize, that we must become one mind with God or Love.</p><p>To overcome the Egos dominance.</p><p>Understanding, Realizing &amp; Knowing. To find the real you. The eternal you.</p><p>To think is not to know, and to know is to realize.</p><p><strong>Another Key is learning from our mistakes and success</strong></p><p>One doesn&#8217;t always have have a big catalyst but most will, take any event and see it as a way to improve on yourself.</p><p></p><p></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Belief</strong></h3><p>To learn what is &#8216;Beyond the 4 Agreements&#8217; requires willingness to question every value that you hold.</p><p>Not one can be kept hidden and obscure but it will jeopardize your learning. No belief is neutral.</p><p>Everyone has the power to dictate each decision you make. For a decision is a conclusion based on everything that you believe. It is the outcome of belief, and follows it as surely as does suffering follow guilt and freedom sinlessness.</p><p>There is no substitute for peace. What God creates has no alternative. The truth arises from what He knows. And your decisions come from your beliefs as certainly as all creation rose in His Mind because of what He knows.</p><p>God is, and in Him all created things must be eternal. Do you not see that otherwise He has an opposite, and fear would be as real as love?</p><p>Belief produces the acceptance of existence. That is why you can believe what no one else thinks is true. It is true for you because it was made by you.</p><p>The real purpose of this world is to correct your unbelief. To find the Truth of who you are. You will need to train your mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world.</p><p>It is a process that changes the view of the self. It is because the thoughts you think you think appear as images that you do not recognize them as nothing. You think you think them, and so you think you see them. This is how your &#8220;seeing&#8221; was made. This is the function you have given your body&#8217;s eyes. It is not seeing. It is image making. It takes the place of seeing, replacing vision with illusions.</p><p>You will need to SEE with your heart or soul. With the vision of Gods mind and yours. <strong>Training the mind, heart and will in the process.</strong></p><p><strong>Perfect love removes all fear from the soul. And brings peace and joy to the spirit. In the fulfilment of the Will of God Lies the power of the human soul.</strong></p><p>The Christ of Love, which supports and fills every heart; preach the Christ of Wisdom, which illuminates every mind; preach the Christ of Truth, which liberates and elevates the world.</p><p>The truth is given to you by God. If you imagine that you can separate the Master from God and God from the Master, you do not understand the laws. If the Master thinks he can do something outside God, he is on the wrong track. The only Master who teaches people is God. In order to do so, He takes on one form or another. This is what makes God sometimes visible and sometimes invisible.</p><p>It is the teaching of living nature which includes in itself all living power with which science concerns itself. It is the science of man, the science of what is rational in the world. It is the science of God, of love&#8230; to make love the basis of any and every belief. Love and brotherhood, that is the common basis.</p><p><strong>It is realizing God is everything unchangeable, manifesting as light in our minds, warmth in our hearts and strength in our wills.</strong></p><p>Our entire life has to be a constant effort to link ourselves to God, to be in constant contact with Divine Love, Divine Wisdom, Divine Truth, the Divine Spirit, the Divine Consciousness. These are living energies. Being in touch with them means feeling the bliss, happiness, power and rejuvenation which we desire.</p><p><strong>The door of your mind and heart should always be open to hear the voice of God, who says: &#8216;emerge from your old understanding, from your old life and enter the new.&#8217;</strong></p><h4><strong>The Seeker</strong></h4><ol><li><p>The first category of persons are those who simply work towards amassing wealth for themselves and are embittered by the mishaps of life.</p></li><li><p>2nd category of people look for sympathy and compassion; as soon as they find themselves suffering, or in difficulty, they become hesitant, succumbing to despair.</p></li><li><p>The third category &#8211; the just &#8211; are looking for respect; they are saddened by setbacks and sensitive to any insults to their personal dignity. They want to be respected for themselves and appreciated for their actions.</p></li><li><p>The disciple is the fourth stage of human development, the moment when the soul awakens to spiritual consciousness and begins to work for the good of the whole.</p></li></ol><p></p><h2><strong>Life is the Game</strong></h2><p><strong>Failure to learn is the one with a slumbering soul. The divine school of life gives you the knowledge to correct your past. The significance of this life is acquiring divine knowledge. Turning this into divine wisdom, merging your little will with Gods will and living in divine love</strong></p><p><strong>I.&nbsp; Knowledge without love makes people proud</strong></p><p><strong>II. Only Knowledge acquired by love is Real</strong></p><p><strong>Pierce The Ego Veil in Changing Polarity</strong></p><p>Suffering has vast utility, because it catalyzes the development of will and faith: the will to seek and the faith to trust in that which is beyond the veil, that which is not readily seen. On this side of the veil, we within the dream who suffer, who seek truth, who yearn to taste the nourishment of greater reality, seek to penetrate or pierce the veil.</p><p>We seek a source of meaning, identity, love, and light that is perceived to be outside the illusion, beyond or higher or deeper than our limited box. From the incarnate perspective, this piercing of the veil is an act of seeing farther, experiencing more, becoming greater&#8212;becoming, ultimately, the Creator.</p><p>From the larger standpoint, the individual who pierces and eventually dismantles the veil is not gaining, per se, but letting go of the fiction that it was something other than what it had been all along: the Creator. Even in the thickest darkness, the deepest pain, the moment seeming most utterly lost, the individual self was always an illusion, for it had been nothing more nor less than the One Creator&#8212;infinity in the dance of form.</p><p>It is only a veil that casts the individual upon a stage of separation. Its piercing and progressive lifting is that which provides we characters upon that stage the most sublime experience of revelation as we discover and rediscover who and what we already are.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>