There are man-made laws (approx. 300,000 federal laws, not counting state, county, and city laws), which you could break and get away with if no one saw you. All these thousands of laws have not stopped people from their criminality. Nothing really has changed. Criminals simply find ways to get around them. If you break the law and get caught, you could land yourself in prison. But, even if you are guilty, you might get a good lawyer who gets you off. You might get away with your law-breaking. Many do, as you know. This is the way it is on planet Earth.
But Cosmic Laws are much different. Justice is swift. Breaking the Cosmic law of goodness and decency instantly lands you in jail. Psychological jail. No lawyers, courts, bail, or postponements. Your mind becomes imprisoned, and the sentence is instantaneous. Cosmic Laws are totally different, for there is no escape from justice. Vernon Howard calls these mental criminals.
So, just the thought of revenge, hate, or jealousy is a punishable crime against myself. The sentence is a cloudy, uneasy mind that can find no rest, only distractions (self-imprisonment). It would be wise to investigate this to see if it is true. Only the man who is tired of torment and suffering (being in prison) will be interested. Allowing wrong thoughts into my mind is dangerous and unnecessary. Simple self-observation tells the real story. The goal is to live unafraid and free.
The biggest problem is that people have overwhelmingly convinced themselves they are already free and they are doing just fine. But we are not talking about finances or power over others. We are talking about that dreaded emptiness when there is no noise, no distractions, and no thrills. So they never know what could be, for what they now have is the same old lives every day, because this is what they have settled for. There is something more than what you now are. Your imagination cannot think about what is higher, but it is sure it can.
Vernon Howard says, “Don’t sneak around in life, afraid that someone might hurt your feelings. This is sleep and a self-crime. A wide-awake human cannot get their feelings hurt. Catch yourself acting like this and stop it. Don’t want to be a criminal anymore.”
Vernon’s “Practical Exercises for Inner Harmony, exercise 7, and exercise 12 , both connect with seeing Vernon’s mental criminal idea.
The only influence darkness has over a person is deception. At the heart of this deception, that which anchors it, is the illusion that there is an entity that is considered the ‘self’. A ‘self’ that needs to be protected, fed and or improved. This deception infers that what we truly are is not fully content, fulfilled and at peace as we are. It seemingly achieves this deception through a thought created ‘self’ that speaks to us in our heads pretending to be us and guiding us away from our true state of well being. All that is needed to defeat this illusion is for what we are, consciousness / spirit, to see this foreign influence for what it is, and by so doing neutralize its effects. Consciousness / spirit takes no effort or will, just interest and sincerity.
Good and clear post, Mr.Repp! If I believe in this or in that (whatever I believe) this inward action is a self in disguise, which I must see through or pay the price of being deluded. This Earth is thick with many, many, many other deluded humans, so it is easy to find someone to agree with my delusion. To keep him as my friend, I simply agree with his delusion. This is called, compromising. Mr K. said, You are your world, which fits in very nicely here. The level of the planet? Humans live in thought, never seeing there is more than mere thought.