Latest post: Tuesday, January 10, 2012

To Holy Spirit or not to Holy Spirit - that is the question?

If the Holy Spirit speaks,

and no one is listening,

does the Holy Spirit even exist???!!

(No, just as god doesn’t exist for anyone until they cultivate the capacity in which god begins to be discerned.. Usually, the result of wanting to find a way out of suffering!!!)

First, Holy Spirit is a term that was unknown to Jeshua in his own time. The notion that HS is a part of something called the Trinity, and thus is an 'entity' of some sorts, would have been met by him with incredulity.... It’s simply a doctrine that evolved hundreds of years later, and in cultures not his own.... Highly influenced by Greek rationalism. If it weren’t for the political clout and ambition of Constantine, it would never have become an official dogma!!

Students of ACIM, WOM, etc are (whether they know it or not) highly influenced by the cultural dominion of Christianity, its languaging, perceptual models, etc. and it is this matrix into which TEACHING descends. ACIM makes it clear that the responsibility of any teacher is to "translate" truth effectively. IN The Jeshua Letters, He makes it clear he is using Judeo-Christian language because of what i shared above. (the wise teacher speaks the language of the student).

HS is not a distinct entity... It is the 'shem' (Aramaic), the purest emanation of the flow of intelligence/energy emanating from the Source/God. It doesn’t know anything of separation, ego, or fear. It is 'higher Mind', which is why Jeshua always describes it as being “immediate certainty and clarity, and always surprising” (it surprised the lower egoic/body-mind aspect).

We 'fear trusting it' only because we are identified with lower mind. In Eastern thought, what we call ego mind is just a twist on 'manas', or the organzing intelligence of the body-mind, while "buddhi" transcends it, and gives access to illuminated clarity and direction, flowing more purely from God. It safe to say buddhi, once awakened, is what Jeshua refers to in aramaic as the "shem", ie, Holy Spirit..the spirit that is already whole, and not fragmented by the contraction of fear/separation that is the key feature of egoic mind.

This is why the most powerful first step is to ... Take a breath, then feel relaxation dawn as we receive breath, and recognize we are breathed....a reduction of contraction of fear, that dissolves the turbulence fear causes in the brain-mind, and finally we can hear a "voice not our own"...that voice should never be taken as needing to be a literal voice inside the head (though it may manifest that way!) While this is good (we have transcended "our" voice, based in fear), its still mediated. HS/shem/buddhi is simple KNOWING and action that flows from that. Here we begin to taste directly that its always been truth...the need for a separate "I" has never existed, Life can be trusted and Reality directly experienced in Oneness with it.

Finally, we see the "I" is just a temporary collection of energy called bodymind that has no need or purpose in itself...it is conduit only, or in Jeshua's words, Servant. A piece of pipe doesn’t have to be defended, protected, get anything, or be noticed. No wonder awakening is the death of all egoic dreaming!!!!

In short, HS is the creative expression of "Gods Will" when finally we relax from the insanity of the contracted body-mind. This is why the doctrine of the trinity first began to arise, as beings began to discriminate the subtle nuances of the mystery of how God shows up....the "Son" is the manifestation in time and embodiment when that one "hears only" and "follows" the dynamic aspect of the holy spirit...is moved only by Spirit. Then, it got taken literally, became a dogma, etc.... The Trinity CAN be an illuminating contemplation on the extraordinary ineffable mystery we call God, or Reality.

And, certainly, healing is an overcoming of the "fractured fairytale" in which the body-mind/soul loses contact with its deeper ground of Being. FROM that place, describing ego until one is sick of it (ala ACIM) and re training the lost mind in the direction of suspending ones reliance on one’s own [insane] mind and hearing another level of intelligence, is extremely useful! Training wheels are needed, until they are needed no longer. But no one goes beyond the need of them until they submit to their need of them, first.

Philosophically, Zen begins by adopting a position of not speaking too much of what is difficult to speak well of, and recognizes the real need is to enter direct experience. In short, one methodology to assist waking is to starve the source of the problem: the mind itself!!! Another is to "feed" it, but with higher order propositions, analysis, concept. Both aim as a goal of reducing fear and its contraction so reality can be "entered". And both work, if the student sufficiently lets them work in a sustained way over enough time.

All teaching is more art than science. All truth more immediate and mystical rather than coherent propositions. But just this IS THE WHOLE POINT. As long as you are fused to lower mind, you will hope for salvation in the Ideas mind can generate. And there are some very higher order Ideas!!! But there is doorway to pass through, that of mysticism, into a realm of being beyond what mind can know. This dichotomy has existed in all religions, all spiritual systems, simply because it reflects a stage of evolution inherent in all human beings. As a whole, not enough of mankind has evolved past the lower mind, and (relatively speaking) far fewer operate from beyond normal mind!!!!

All the more reason to reach it, love it, and be lived from it..... for anyone who enters this Realm it is clear: HERE alone is the end of duality, and all its egoic suffering, the end of Identity as a separate self, the end of the fearful grip on the bodies survival.... and the only way to know what is beyond mind is to make the journey in ones own case.

Row, row, row your boat.....

into more of God,

and arise from the sorrowful ashes of what

is finally seen as mere illusion,

a bad dream,

a limitation freely imposed.....

Jayem

Comments (12 posted):

Craig Cumming on Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Thank you Jayem

beloved on Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Even though I know this is true, it sometimes helps me to think of some kindly father figure helping me with incredible wisdom when i get stuck. While I have been able to accept the awareness that the Holy Spirit was not a separate entity, sometimes that fantasy is still comforting.

Dale Chisholm on Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Dear Jayem. Thank you for this! Especislly liked " HS/shem buddi is simple KNOWING and action that flows from that."
When I read of the retreat on "palpable forgiveness" I didn't even have to ask for guidance, know the cost of getting there, etc.The spirit within actually jumped! I KNEW immediately it was the next step in "rowing my boat into more of God."





"rowing my boat into more of God".

Trey Johnson on Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Very interesting Jayem. Thank you. I've always kind of felt that the Holy Spirit was, in my own feeble human mind, similar to a Mother. So in my perception, we have Father God, Mother Shem (I call Her Grace), Mother Grace, and Son Yeshua. Three distinct energies but yet One in wholeness at the same time. The Shem (Grace) is the nurturer, the healer, the feminine. So when I exalt and lift up Yeshua through praise and worship, this pleases His Mother that I hold Her Beloved Son as so important in my life and in turn, Mother Grace shines down her blessings upon me. Isn't this what was meant when Yeshua says, "No one comes to the Father but through Me?" So like an upside down pyramid, the Son is on bottom and Father God and Mother Shem sit atop. We exalt and love the Son and this pleases His Father and Mother and the merging of these energies, which you so eloquently call Lord if I'm not mistaking, activates within me, allowing me to further develop into what I've always been destined to become...a Christ.
That's been my take on it. Like I said, a human feeble mind. That's what I have to work with for the time being :) Thanks again Jayem.
Peace be unto you.

.............. on Wednesday, January 11, 2012

I pray much differently than ever before, but I still pray, I still feel
Spirits comforting energies and reassurance. We are birthing Christ
forth from the manger of our own hearts. We are remembering and
becoming more at one ment. I am continually grateful.

Mary Ann on Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Jayem,
While i fully know that all of this is true, even probably most of "the very higher order Ideas" that you mention, i have still not passed through the "doorway" of mysticism "into the realm of being beyond what the mind can know", into "direct experience", and into "the deeper ground of Being". I know that this life is a "mere illusion, a bad dream", and i have no fear, but i don't know how to operate "from beyond the normal mind". Is what happens when you are channeling Jeshua? Any suggestions to those of us in my position?
Thank you.

Cassie on Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Thank you!

Magdalene Jaeckel on Thursday, January 12, 2012

Thank you for this article, Jahem. This greatest help for me is the beautiful prayer that I downloaded: "In the Name of". I listen to it and immerse myself in it every night before I go to sleep. It gives a profound feeling for the "Holy Spirit-Sophia-Shem. " I feel totally committed to teach only love. Yet I feel like Mary Ann. I can go very deeply into this meditation, yet I have not passed into "direct experience". But in my everyday life, I certainly feel guided in the decisions I make, and I ask for guidance every morning.

claire reck on Sunday, January 15, 2012

at the moment i am thinking: "there is soooo much to learn, so much to learn". when i read the above, it all makes sense. how can i cram it all in? then my thoughts go: "let it be, it will all come to me at the right time". thank you Jayem for everything.

Jesse Anderson on Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Clearest exposition of this I've yet seen. Thank you. I also like Rumi, who pointed me in this direction with: "The clear bead at the center changes everything. There are no edges to my loving now." That clear bead seems invisible until one has eyes to see. Jeshua's teachings (and so VERY much) those offered forth through you, Jayem, are like sparkling waters--or maybe lens wipes. Thank you again for these gifts:-)

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