TRIALS 2

p. 262-268

I want to thank Paul Selig for volunteering to be the voice for many of us, who would much rather bypass any talk about “Trials.”

Picking up where we left off: 

Something unexpected and difficult shows up in our lives:

“So suddenly you are faced in consciousness with a situation that you would fear, and you can go into fear, and you can go into victimhood, or you can go into anger, or you can go into anything, but that’s actually not going to sort you through the next stage of the requirement for your growth.”

Those last words are extremely important “the next stage of the requirement for your growth,” that is what we are all after. When we grow, when we learn, there are always “requirements” (things we need to do, to know, to accomplish that will allow us to go the next step). This is very obvious in school, riding a bicycle, essentially learning any skill. It is also true for our spiritual development. Why would we think the development of the soul here on Earth would follow a different pattern?

Paul freaks out again on p. 264, and the guides explain: 

“Okay, we want to talk about what just happened. Paul got worried because suddenly he was dealing with an informational system that challenges his own belief systems. And we are not telling him that it is okay to be evicted; we are only saying that people learn. And what people have to learn is that they are their consciousness and those things that they carry are not their consciousness. They are things that they hold to them and give importance to that ultimately will not be there in a hundred years.

Now we say trials with a real intent for the reader to understand the requirements of herself when she is contending with something like this. And something that challenges one’s belief systems must be dealt with in this text. When one is trying very hard to honor the possibility that they are the Christ, what happens when, in the middle of that, you lose your house, or your job, or your marriage collapses or your child is diagnosed with an illness, or you are? How do you contend with this? And that is what this chapter is about and that is why it must be included.”

Much of our resistance to “trails” comes from our attachment to the status quo, which is a ridiculous thing to become attached to because one moment it is there and the next one it is not. 

I know I can easily fall into victimhood in the midst of a perceived crisis, but what I am being offered here is the ability to respond differently. We are never trying to discount or ignore our human pain or emotions; we are learning how to handle them differently—to handle them from he perspective of a higher vibration.

“We must bring you back into your power and we must align you to your frequency in the Christ, in the reminding of who you are, in order to move you through it.

When you are in this place and you are able to contend with a trial at a high frequency, it becomes a learning experience and nothing more. It becomes an opportunity to create wonderful change.”

“The experiences of it, the things that happen to motivate change, are not always kind to the ego self or to the systems that have been created to protect it. So you understand this: When a trial occurs, everything that is encountered is about amassing an energy field that will create change, and that change will then provoke transformation to a higher level if this change is embarked on consciously and not in fear. Do you understand this? Everything can be made new in a positive way if you engage with it as consciousness, and as consciousness we mean, “I am the Word.”

“I am Word through that that I see before me.”

“I am Word through this situation.”

“I am Word through this trial.”

“I am Word through what I undergo.”

“I am now bringing the light to this situation.”

I was reading a book that gave me a bit of a different perspective on this. Instead of focusing on trails, the focus was on our unique role in this mysterious unfolding and evolving expression of complete and unconditional Love.

“With esoteric development, a growth in maturity produces a corresponding growth in responsibility, which makes one aware of having a certain role to fill in the human collectivity. Nearly everyone feels it at some point or another: each of us has the sense, however faint, that there is some unique purpose for which we have been called into being and which no one else can fill. A few know what this is from their earliest moments of awareness; for most of us, there is a long and often painful process of sorting out this essential purpose from whatever the world may try to force upon us. A Course in Miracles characterizes this unique role as the “special function”: “To each [the Holy Spirit] gives a special function in salvation he alone can fill; a part for only him. Nor is the plan complete until he finds his special function, and fulfills the part assigned to him. . . . The Holy Spirit needs your special function, that His may be fulfilled. Think not you lack a special value here. You wanted it, and it is given you.” The Course does not, and of course cannot, say what this special function is for any individual, except to stress that “the form is suited to your special needs, and to the special time and place in which you think you find yourself.”15 Nor can anyone else tell us what this is.”

Smoley, Richard (2013-01-08). Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition (Kindle Locations 4413-4419). Shambhala Publications. Kindle Edition. 

I will leave you with that one.

Much love, Peace,

Gerry