Life is experienced in the continual Now.

Last night, I had the great pleasure of attending a yearly end-of-year celebration at the warm and cozy home of Phyllis and Marc, where I reunited with a few good friends and met with a few more interesting and enlivening souls. I even got an offer to appear for an interview on a  tv show here in Manhattan; but I think I'll decline for now.

A well-known psychic felt compelled to share with me her slight sadness regarding my mediumship,  saying, "I can see where you go, but also that I can't go there; it's as if you're allowed to go through the door, but I 'm not." "Not yet, but you will be," I was able to answer with complete confidence. She asked me about reincarnation — as so many do — because she was worried that she would have to come back, and she didn't want to; "I'm over it and ready to get out of here and into the light!" I assured her she had no worries, for in spite of the mass collective race conscious belief in such things, such things have no basis in Reality. Tim brilliantly 'splains it all in the final chapter of The Risen, and it seems appropriate for this posting on the last calendar day of 2011 to offer some especially exquisite comments of his about "the pastime of reincarnation."

As well, Tim would like me to convey that there is also nothing to the belief  in being afraid of 2012. All the hoopla designed to engender and raise worry and fear is nothing but the attempts of the collective of ego-minds to exacerbate and escalate fear. Forget about the Mayans, forget about the low-level channelers who seek attention by posturing as if in some kind of wax museum of horrors; turn your spiritual eyes away from the shadows and instead, CONSCIOUSLY lift your thinking to the realm of higher-vibrating realms of light, where we, as Authentic Self, forever dwell in ever-present calmness, peacefulness, and serenity. If you are still so overwhelmed by the lack of being able to control your own mind to bring it to such a state of rest, he suggests you watch the scene in The Wizar of Oz where Glenda, the Good Witch of the North, laughs away the pathetic, vaporous threats of the bullying Witch of the West: "Oh, rubbish. You have no power here. Be gone, before some one drops a house on you, too!" (please note that the original publisher of this scene apparently likes to spell it as "wizzard" - we like it!)



Here are some key discernments from Tim's discourse on the pastime of reincarnation:

“Belief in survival in another body as a different life may be directly due to Authentic Self’s deeper knowledge that one does survive and arise in a new body—as Risen. This awareness is generally not explored sufficiently to allow for a following through to the correct conclusion. The conclusion would be that one does not start over in a new life in a different body but rather continues on with one’s single immortal life in limitless, infinite forms and relationships. This ‘one’ is just that—one—meaning it is all there is. And all is more than enough, isn’t it? So it appears we don’t get reborn backwards, which is yet another way of saying that we don’t return to do it again.

“Is this so hard to conceive? Those on earth are quite aware that the body they start out with is not the same body at the age of seven, twenty-one, or ninety-one. It’s not difficult to see that it is in continual fluctuation and never the same in any given moment. And yet it is also apparent that one is somehow still the same individual while this individuality expands and contracts, waxes and wanes, ever changing, ever responding to the Principle of Novelty.

“And so, I submit that the evidence strongly indicates that we cannot be re individuated again. We are our own birthday present. I like to say that with increased awareness we become our own presence. My observation is that there is never any need to go back to do it again, for the universe is infinite and never-ending and will provide me with unceasing opportunities, always new, fresh, and alive, to explore, learn, and expand my self-awareness on a continual basis. I don’t need to claim more than one life because my one life is enough. Because this one life is eternal it will always be more than enough, which is the core meaning of ‘abundance.’ Other individuals will perhaps come to different, even radical observations of their own.

“Clearly, we are reborn upon our transition, but this rebirth is always into a new world and a unique state of existence, not back into the old one. The old one no longer exists—life is experienced in the continual now. We develop and carry forward the template for our new life. We are the template, and a new world will simultaneously arise from us as we arise from it, as a direct result of how we lived our lives on earth or from wherever we are continuously transitioning. The more brilliantly we live—that is, the more light-filled—the more spectacular will our lives manifest as we transmute ever onward. There are no limits to brilliance except as self-imposed. But even that is an illusion, for there is no real limit to anything.

“The purpose of Earth, then, would be as the starting place for our birth as an individual. It provides us with an initial environment in which to begin to get a sense of the individuality that is ours forever, and nothing more than that. If this is truly the primary purpose of an earthly life, and if that life is eternal, then people could stop trying to make it anything more. They could ease up and enjoy the wonder of ever-growing consciousness, of ever-rising awareness of self. What freedom there is in that! Even if they could be reborn back onto the planet, they would never be able to learn all there is to know, no matter how many times they return—which some seem to believe is the absolute requirement for eventual de-planeting. As their time on the earth is, by default, limited in an earthly fashion, so then are the experiences within that time."

As a final reflection, remember to look down at your own ruby slippers, and know that not only is there no place like Home, but that you're already There Now.