Vernon Howard’s message is very clear, he says, we have it 100% backward. We think we know what is up when, in reality, it is down. He says, we have everything upside down (2-17-1979, S1). We want the explanation before the exploration, which is not the right order. We want people to explain the high life to us as we present are, which even if explained clearly, on our present level, we won’t and can’t receive the full message.
On our earthly level of thinking, we make a mess out of everything with false beliefs, wild imaginings, and unrealistic conclusions. In short, we confuse everything by trying to understand with a mind that is very limited. Exploring this mind and how it operates while in action, we reveal a higher mind within, an unexplored part. We see from ourselves, we have been using the wrong part of our minds to solve problems that we created.
So Vernon’s message is to go to work on ourselves so we can raise our level of being. You don’t need special equipment, nor particular dress, nor a seminar on loving your neighbor. You need only look within. It is hard and disturbing work. Disturbing to wrong parts we believe are us. But it is also freeing to who you really are, which is a person who is not weighed down by doctrine or crazy beliefs. The obsticals is the wrong beliefs that it can’t be that simple. It is.
You are completely free in this moment, you have no problems, you have nothing to prove or to be. You are everything you need. See this. “1st the exploration, then the explanation.” What a nice healthy message. If you do the work truth will explain everything to you.
Have you ever noticed how mankind has this tremendous potential for solving problems, but when it comes to things of the heart, he makes a total mess of everything? We have learned to put man on the moon, where there is no air or atmosphere, yet we fall like frail victims into states of rage and anger, very helplessly. Vernon Howard calls this a false feeling of life because it is so self-destructive. In society, mental sickness is on the rise, and the experts aren’t keeping up with the demand for turning this around. Nobody wants to look at it. Until we face what is wrong within (exploration), the real answers will elude us. But here is the beauty: an individual can set out on his own and not only find the real answers, but enjoy the beautiful inner states that result. You can separate from confused society and still live in it. You can live as a king or queen and get out of the thinking trap. Thinking yourself into madness.
Thanks. To go to work on our own mind is the best gift we could ever give to ourselves. A tough, beautiful adventure to the light of understanding.
Yes, “Be your own light.”
The constant work is simply realizing that I may be asleep in this moment, then to look around, to listen around, feeling my physical presence, which is much different than the state I was just in. The sound of the crickets, or the birds were not in my consciousness, and now they are. Nothing mystifying about that, only a more alive state to be in. The sleep bubble pops when we return to ourselves and to what is.
Unseen foreign thoughts that trigger an individual into feeling fearful, anxious, guilt ridden or desperate are only seemingly harmful. Those unbidden thoughts only seemingly have power over us, and only until they are revealed for what they really are; uninvited thoughts attempting to create an imposter self that then becomes the target of all the negativity deceptions and trickery of the outside world that has so far plagued mankind. This false sense of self is not what we truly are. We are the untouchable consciousness that can see that this false target is unreal and can see that this imposter self seeks to cover up our real nature. Our true nature is whole complete fulfilled content and at peace. That is why consciousness / spirit can never be touched by this fraudulent trickery.