Theresa:
The question that comes up today is: Can we ever be lost in consciousness?
Michael:
It’s an interesting question and it sort of takes me to the concept of consciousness being light-plane energy …that multi-interdimensional plane of light-energy, light energy grids, and those grids also while multidimensional also collapse down into pure light energy with no dimensionality at some point, into the oneness… And if we feel lost in consciousness, it’s that we don’t have the inter-connectivity of those grids of light-plane energy, and that is why at times we feel lost. And when we are not feeling interconnected in consciousness and those layers of light-plane energy… they’re like pancakes stacking up and collapsing down… like an accordion…like in a building…going up, one floor and the next floor, and you watch the building being built, goes up …so energy keeps creating itself from form to formless. And light-plane energy, when we feel we’re not interconnected, shows up on this life-plane as things appearing to be lost.
A good example is many of us have had that experience of losing our car keys. And we go and quest for them…we look under the sofa cushion; we look where they are supposed to be; the more we look, the more we are in the process of looking for the car keys, the further we are in consciousness from the allowingness of them to show up. So actually the process of looking creates that separation of reality of oneness and them showing up. And it’s often when we give up, you know Michael Beckwith says: Letting go from the get-go.When we let go of the process of looking, we are so frustrated, we let go. And when we let go, we sit down on the sofa and say: “I give up.” We look and they’re right there on the coffee table right in front of us. They were always right there.
It shows up in the letting go.
Theresa:
We are not seeing what is right before our very eyes, in a way, which is sort of a spiritual metaphor but you actually had a direct experience of losing and finding something recently, didn’t you?
Michael:
I did. I actually had an experience of losing a pair of sunglasses that I had an attachment to or so I thought. They were mine, they were important and they were valuable. And I immediately went to: there is no value, they’re not mine, and in letting go of the attachment of them coming back, I didn’t create for them to come back, I just held in consciousness that nothing is ever lost. And in holding that consciousness…they ended up coming back…in the letting go of the attachment…in letting go of the quest they showed up in that emptiness, and in that space of consciousness I held, they showed up in physical form. And we know that sunglasses are the same as levels of light-plane energy just manifesting as physical form. When we release our concept of separation, and the letting go of the lostness, the foundness shows up. And what is found is not the specific physical object of car keys or sunglasses – the space is found – we find the space of light-plane energy and in that space of light-plane energy fills into the form.
Theresa:
So really creating a space for the shift? Is that what you are saying?
Michael:
Allowing the space for the shift. And that shift allows us the reality that it’s not just on this life-plane that we are never disconnected, from anything we are always connected. But also on the light-plane energy form we are always connected, and that connectivity on that light-plane energy, which is truly consciousness, everything shows up in consciousness so it’s all there. Nothing is ever lost in consciousness. Sunglasses are a thought in consciousness. Nothing is ever lost. So you reconnect in consciousness in the light-plane energy, and it manifests in the life-plane energy with the foundness of what we thought was lost but was never truly lost. It was always truly there.
Theresa:
It’s an interesting play on words again isn’t it? The life-plane and the light-plane…I feel that is a topic for another day. In terms of finishing off this subject, was there anything in particular that you remember saying to someone when you were in that process of trying to locate your sunglasses?
Michael:
I do, actually. I was at a retreat and I was getting ready to leave. And I shared with someone in the retreat office that the illusion of the apparent loss of the sunglasses, and just leaving my address, and the description of the sunglasses, and I shared with her that part of the teachings of Science of Mind are not to be attached. To let go from the get go. It is our attachment that creates the illusion of separation. And so in releasing my attachment to the sunglasses, knowing they were never lost, but not demanding they come back to me, knowing that wherever they were is perfect, if someone else found them who would enjoy them more, I was okay with the enjoyment of those sunglasses being experienced by someone else. But in the releasing of the attachment, in the letting go of the attachment, that they had to be my sunglasses, my experience, I believe I became one with that light-plane energy. And in sharing that with this lady in the office, she was very intrigued. And she called me the following morning and said: “Your sunglasses are here.”And we talked about this very concept that nothing is ever lost and she said:
I guess this is a perfect demonstration of what you were sharing, that in letting go of the lostness, everything is already there.
It was a great example of merging the light-plane energies into one…and nothing is ever lost in consciousness. And therefore in holding clarity in consciousness we are never separated from anything or anyone.
Theresa: What I am actually feeling as you describe that experience is that your sunglasses became a teacher.
Michael: They became the teacher…interesting Theresa. And in taking off the sunglasses, which are in essence, shades or filters, something we put on; it’s a real lesson that when we take off our sunglasses, that lens, is when we’re not lost anymore, but we’re found…. So it’s finding the true vision by taking off the glasses, so it’s a perfect metaphor. Taking off the sunglasses, the darkness and allowing the light to be revealed.
Theresa:
Perfect. So on that note, it looks as though we are out of time.
Michael:
And there is no time.
Theresa:
Until next time.
Michael:
Namaste. Be well. Stay conscious.