JOHN MCINTOSH
Most prayer involves a request for what IS … to ‘change’ in some way. This is the deep sleeper’s way of communicating with what they believe is some ‘outside’ entity more powerful than they are. It usually involves some degree of ‘begging and/or bargaining’ … “Please God [by any name], take this burden from me” … or … “If only you will bring this about, I will never do [or I will do] __________again” – that sort of thing. These ones are steeped in the belief in separation and have yet to even suspect that the ONE they are praying to is ‘WHO’ They Really Are.
The Grand Dream most call reality is a projection on the screen of consciousness within the boundlessness of the ONE SELF YOU Really Are. There IS nothing but IT … appearing ‘as’ many. IT extends IT SELF ‘into’ ITs projected illusions and for a season ‘forgets’ WHO IT ‘is’ – thereby ‘fully’ experiencing them … like reading a book before seeing the movie. Being EMPTY with infinite potential, IT must have a canvas to express this potential in/on and the screen provides that.
Changes occur in the illusory worlds and universes that holographically manifest on that ‘changeless’ screen through INTENTIONS + ATTENTION [on them = focus] + PASSION [a deep and profound desire for results]. A PASSIONATE prayer for something ‘can’ therefore ‘seem’ to bring about what the one praying asked for. Recently, in the last 100 years, ‘Self Development’ has called this: ‘creating your own reality’ … and the formula is the same … and works, however it is certainly NOT real.
What IS happening, is that the slumbering ONE SELF, veiled as IT is behind layers of conditioning [attachments, expectations and identifications], is massaging the Grand Dream, slightly altering the ‘appearance’ of the inevitable ‘destiny’ that comes about ‘as a result of’ this conditioning – rearranging what will ‘definitely’ come about in a different way.
The most powerful prayer then is: “Thy will be done”. When spoken sincerely and in complete surrender, this emanates from one who has become Aware that EVERYTHING in the dream uses what IS ‘inevitable’ … and uses it to draw the slumbering ONE SELF back to the full Awareness ‘of’ IT SELF.
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SELF DISCOVERY books by John McIntosh
Everything in the great dream is destined to die to one-self.
What is happening in between, in the dream is influenced by the will of the many different conditionings, attachments and desires of the dreamers, which include the idear of “ you” and “ me”.
So lets enjoy the dream and the will in the dream rather than sitting in the waitingroom waiting for our destiny 💕