THE COSMIC CONNECTION AND THEORY OF UNIVERSAL FULFILLMENT

I've been anxious to arrive here because I think it might be the trickiest discussion yet. I keep imagining all the questions you'll be asking and my red-face if and when I can't answer them. But here's yet another idea that may or may not help. If I am to learn so I must teach, so I'm thinking its time to go to air. This is just an educated guess you realize, but it cuts both ways. I must admit I've had a fair go up until now. So have pity on me and don't expect too much. After all, I still have my own ego and karma to cope with.

Like you, I'm struggling through.

And besides, it should be the aim of all good teachers to make themselves redundant. But of course, there remains one brilliant exception – our very own big brother Jesus Christ.

Good teachers never die.They just transcend themselves.

If what I propose is correct, and the world we perceive is a thought projection, a mental construct, a story then everything in it is that too, including I might add, The Cosmic Connection and the Theory of Universal Fulfillment.

I warned you I had to make myself redundant.

This might seem to make an illusion of everything but that would be a mistake. Certainly the matter we think is solid isn't really what it seems to be at all, but never the less, in this physical dimension it is real enough to us. And that makes everyone of us vitally important. It makes us all special. It also means that we can never escape ourselves, that we are immortal.

Now if this is the case then what about the future?

Well you tell me.

Can the future take care of itself?

No, of course not.

So who's responsible?

You guessed it. We all are.

Now what's so revelationary about that?

Nothing really, except that it is our present thought patterns as much as our actions which are shaping the future. Every new thought, or set of thoughts, which predominates, is setting patterns for what will come. We are shaping our futures and our children's futures with every thought and decision we make today. Just think about that for a minute. Every unhealthy thought pattern we harbor is adding to the universal Karmic debt. Let me suggest that this is far worse than any transient economic debt that any God forsaken country on earth can foster. The black cloud of disunity spells catastrophe of cosmic proportions. Armageddon here we come. What we need is not banks full of money, pockets full of gold, bunkers full of bombs and agents of germ warfare, but cups overflowing with healthy thoughts to wallow in, get drunk on, positively sloshed. We'd all be as happy as you know what in what then wouldn't we?

Now all this sounds a bit unrealistic doesn't it? Well it would, wouldn't it? And just how long has it been since you experienced pure bliss? I find it hard to be serious because I'm so in love with life, the universe and everything. You see I have so much faith in Mankind that I know he will do well. He has too. He's experienced some major setbacks producing some rather ugly spin- offs, but somehow I know he'll come shining through.

Man will wake up to himself sooner or later. More than likely there's plenty more life in the old girl, Samsara yet, but the tide is turning, I can sense it. The Age of Aquarius is alive and well. Like the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the psycho/spiritual underground is set to triumph. With every new thought pattern we project a separate reality from everyone else, but provided it's a loving reality then who gives a damn? Eventually everyone will tag along because they will want to. Surely John Lennon knew it too when he wrote Imagine.

If the world as we know it is partly our own brainchild then our ideas have been both ingenious and diabolical. Even disease and death are mad ideas fit only for the scrap heap. This is not to say we can clean up our act overnight, but perhaps if we were all highly motivated we could do it in a flash.

It's not conversion that's needed, but education.

On the count of three everyone think love.

It sounds like the 60's all over again.

Is time getting shorter?

Perhaps we're nearing the end of the tape.

However this scenario is improbable, at least in the near future, but every little bit helps. If and when you come to grips with this theory it may disappoint you. I hope it doesn't, because it didn't disappoint me. You may not appreciate the idea of giving up your ego, your personal identity, your ambitions, your materialistic idols, your personal Gods, your job, home and family, but you really don't have to. Provided they represent or symbolize the Real you, the authentic you, they are part of what you are and part of your particular contribution to the universe. All you have to do is learn to recognize, over look, forgive your habitual thought patterns.

Worry less and love more.

To become like little children simply means to become trusting, that is, trusting of the universe, and the rewards will speak for themselves. Like many true believers that have gone before, I know that the end of time is worth waiting for.

If we are indeed extensions of the Cosmic Mind gone astray, then the way back to the Garden of Eden is not to be found on a map, or going backwards through time, but by going forwards. As we recognize and discard each mistaken memory we free ourselves from its tragic burden. Those that have forgiven themselves can easily find it in their hearts to forgive their brothers, and indeed it is a Karmic necessity, as Plato knew intuitively. And furthermore, as we are freed, we become peace-loving revolutionaries and freedom fighters, priests, artists, teachers, healers and philosophic friends rejoicing throughout the universe. And when at last the curtain rises on the New World, it won't be anything like it is now, but exactly what it was meant to be: the infinite number of fulfilling experiences and imaginings. Only then, will the destiny of the universe be fulfilled.

A single blade of grass,
when rudely picked from its comrades,
and resting in the palm of my hand,
mocks me as if to say,

" There's something terribly sad
about picking a blade of grass,
as though to choose it was
fair, or random or right.

Could it be the Sun designates it,
as it shines like a heavenly pointer
to our sins, our weaknesses and our deaths?"

But it's not for me to be the judge,
only to think and feel like
the wounded soldier, who, in battle,
falls and prays to God
for the burden of his brothers.

And then in sweet, pure earnestness whispers,
" I am not afraid,
for I know I am with Him."

Thank-you, and may God bless you all,

Love,

Your philosophic friend.