Allen's Reflections - page two

The Irony in Followship

Irony: the incongruity between what is expected to be and WHAT ACTUALLY IS,
or a situation showing such incongruity.

Ironically, most humans on this planet are followers...
followers of doctrines, dogma, creeds, saviours, gods, gurus, redeemers, Messiahs, lords,
swamis, masters... you name it, and there's a human somewhere who's following it.

And if you're ever tempted to join them, first quietly ask yourself...

To where exactly am I following this person, this organization, this institution?
Where are they going? Do they really know where they're going?
And what if those I'm following are also just followers,
and are really just following someone else or some other institution?
And what if that someone else or that other institution
is also just following... etc... etc... etc?

Hmmm

Ah, but what if they're following someone really, REALLY great...
like the Buddha or Jesus for instance?
 The Buddha has hundreds of millions of followers, and Jesus even more.
You can't tell me that anyone needs to stop and think twice about joining those numbers.
After all, the Buddha and Jesus are the very way to salvation, to enlightenment, to God.

Are they?

 From the Buddha:
"Do not believe what you have heard.
Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations.
Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times.
Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage.
Do not believe in conjecture. Do not believe in authority or elders.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may".

From Jesus:
"Neither shall they say, Look here! or Look there!
for behold, the kingdom of God is within you."

Yes, but we can't possibly compare ourselves with Jesus...
What about all those miracles?

From Jesus:
"And greater works than these shall ye do."

Okay... but we can still depend on the Buddha to help us with...

From the Buddha:
"Do not depend on others. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
We ourselves must walk the path."

 But I do believe the Buddha when he said...

From the Buddha:
"Believe nothing no matter who said it,
no matter if I have said it."

And so forth and so on.
Whichever way you look at it, there's just no escaping the irony in followship...
WHAT ALL HUMANS ARE LOOKING FOR and expecting to find through followship,
IS WHAT IS LOOKING... IS WHAT THEY ACTUALLY ALREADY ARE.

There is never anything to find
because nothing is outside of God.
And each human is God.
Not just a fragment of God,
but the WHOLE of God.

 Heaven, Joy, Peace, Freedom, Miracles, Light, Love, God
are nowhere else... but within.
There is nothing to follow and nothing to find.
There is only awakening.

But unfortunately, that's the hard part.

"Iron-dogging" - coveting the past

I first came across the expression "iron-dogging" in a metaphysical/inspirational book I read many years ago by the late Florence Scovel Shinn - The Secret door to Success, originally published in 1940. Florence Shinn was very much of the old Emmet Fox / Norman Vincent Peale metaphysical school and was widely known and loved for many years as an artist and illustrator, metaphysician and lecturer. Her books are still in print after all this time and are now published together in one volume - The Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn, ISBN 0-671-68228-8.

Florence was always admonishing people to live in the power and perfection of the present - "to look with wonder at that which is before you", and to never covet the past because it would not be the same now as they remember it. She said that she personally knew people who lived so much in the past that they could only ever think about their happy childhood days... no skies have since been so blue, or grass so green. She tells the story of one particular friend who lived in a town when she was very young, and then moved away to another city. This friend always looked back longingly to the house she first lived in; to her it was a large, glamorous enchanted palace.

Many years later when she had grown up, this women had an opportunity to visit her old house. She was totally disillusioned. She found it small, stuffy and ugly... and in the overgrown front yard there was now a big unsightly statue of an iron dog. Her family now calls living in the past, "iron-dogging."

Florence tells the story of another woman's "iron-dogging." When this women was about sixteen, she met a very dashing and romantic young artist overseas. Although the romance didn't last, she talked about it a lot to the man she afterwards married.

Years went by and this very dashing and romantic young artist had now become very well-known. The woman heard that he was to have an exhibition of his work in her home town. She was filled with excitement and anticipation at the prospect of renewing their friendship. She went to his exhibition... and in walked a portly balding ageing businessman with no trace left of his dashing romantic youth! When she told her husband, all he said was, "iron-dogging."

In my own case, I've recently had reason to revisit the house that I grew up in - which is just a few minutes walk incidentally from the centre where both the Lightworker and Crimson Circle organizations have held their Sydney seminars - in the suburb of Crows Nest just north of the harbour. Although I don't covet or thirst for the past in any way whatsoever, including the properties I've owned and lived in, it was still nevertheless an 'interesting' experience. Although the property was still in reasonable shape, and making allowances for the fact that it's now used as a rental investment and thus without the owner's typical personal touch, it was still a little unsettling to see how very different it is now from how I remembered it. The best way I can describe it would be to say that the house was now completely heartless, soulless and loveless.

If I had of been one who lives in and covets the past - an "iron-dogger", then there's no doubt that this little revisit would have been quite a wake-up call.

The same applies to everything else from our past, and especially to our past relationships - our ex-wives, husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, relatives and lovers... and even our friendships. And while it's always nice to have fond memories, we seem to ever forget that this once 'significant other' is now no longer the person we used to know, or even looks like the person we used to know. Of course this also applies to ourselves, and especially to those of us on the New Energy awakening/enlightenment path where the gap between who we were and who we are now could only be measured in light years... if in fact who we were even exists now at all.

So while it's always nice to have fond memories, if we're always coveting those memories and forever "iron-dogging", then we would, as dear old Florence Shinn quite rightly said, "completely miss the magic and divinity of the present"... which, rather enigmatically, would have also been our future fond memories.

The only time that it's prudent to look forward to the past
is when we're rowing a boat.
~ Allen

All of time is but the mad belief that what is over is still here and now.
~ A Course in Miracles

That though the radiance which was once so bright,
be now forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back
the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower.
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
~ William Wordsworth

Allen's little chat with God

Allen. Hello, are you there God?

God. I'm always there.

Allen. Okay, then let me ask you a question. Why haven't you always helped me when I've asked you?

God. But I always have.

Allen. Well, you could have fooled me.

God. Only you can fool you.

Allen. Hmm. Okay then... so if you've always helped me as you say, then how come you haven't given me what you know I've always wanted more than anything? Isn't that what you're supposed to do?

God. And what is it that you've always wanted more than anything?

Allen. Come on now, I've asked you often enough.

God. Oh, you mean all the money?

Allen. Exactly! Where's all the money?

God. But I couldn't give you that... at least not up till now anyway.

Allen. Couldn't? What do you mean you couldn't? You mean you wouldn't.

God. No, I mean couldn't.

Allen. Ah, so you don't really give everybody what they want then.

God. I always give everybody what they want... not always what they ask for, but always what they really want.

Allen. Then why not me? Am I in your bad books or something?

God. I don't have any bad books... or any good books either for that matter.

Allen. I'm getting a little confused here. Just tell me why you couldn't give me all the money when you knew that's what I wanted more than anything in the world.

God. Because it wasn't.

Allen. It wasn't what?

God. It wasn't what you wanted more than anything in the world.

Allen. You must know something I don't.

God. I don't know anything that you don't.

Allen. I'm getting really confused now. So tell me, what was it that I 'supposedly' wanted more than anything else in the world?

God. What are you doing right now?

Allen. What! Right now? Right now I'm talking with you. You're not answering my question.

God. And you're writing it all down as we speak?

Allen. Typing it actually. I'm glad we're not talking too fast. Why are you asking me this?

God. And what are you going to do with it when we're finished talking?

Allen. Don't know, not really sure... come to think of it, I suppose I could put it on the website somewhere... if it ends up being interesting enough.

God. I think you should.

Allen. Put it on the website?

God. It might help somebody. You know, give some insight.

Allen. For God's sake!... oops, sorry about that... but how could this possibly help anybody?

God. Can't you see?

Allen. No.

God. Don't tell me your readers are brighter than you are.

Allen. Okay, so I'm having an off day. So just between you and me then, what was it that I could possibly have wanted more than the money?

God. What do you think it was?

Allen. I can't imagine.

God. It might be time for you to put these words on your website... you know, the website that would not exist had I given you what you thought you wanted more than anything else in the world.

Allen. So I wanted the website more than the money? I think you may have that back to front somehow.

God. What's the website really all about?

Allen. New Energy stuff.

God. Stuff?

Allen. You know, transition, change, awakening, ascension... all that sort of thing.

God. The sorts of things you've experienced yourself, you've gone through yourself?

Allen. I suppose... along with quite a few others.

God. Things that all the money in the world couldn't buy?

Allen. Hmm, that's true.

God. Things that somebody with great wealth would never dream of doing or be far too busy and distracted to ever have time to do?

Allen. Hmm... yes that's true too.

God. Well...

Allen. You're right... it's time to put this on the website. Is there anything else I need to add at this stage?

God. No.

Interesting Bible Quotes

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might
~ Ecclesiastes 9:10

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also
~ Luke 12:34

Happy are those who find wisdom, and those who get understanding,
for her income is better than silver, and her revenue better than gold
~ Proverbs 3:13-14

... as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich;
as having nothing, yet possessing everything
~ 2 Corinthians 6:10

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you...
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid
~ John 14:27

In quietness and in trust shall be your strength
~ Isaiah 30:15

Be strong, for the lord your God goes with you;
he will not fail you nor forsake you
~ Deuteronomy 31:6

And remember, I am with you always...
~ Matthew 28:20

Know ye not that you are The Temple of God,
and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in You?
~ 1 Corinthians 3:16

It makes you wonder how such clear and simple words
could have ever become so bastardized...
how God could have ended up in the sky somewhere
and only make him/herself present on Sundays in churches and temples.

But then, something had to be done...
 I mean we couldn't have humans running around the planet actually believing
that THEY WERE IN FACT The Temple of God, now could we.

The Clash between the old and The New
From Kryon with parenthesis (and etceteras) from Allen

So there will be those who will stay in the old energy calling themselves lightworkers [or gurus, masters, mystics, priests etcetera] and calling you “wrong”. They will not understand ascension status nor see the gifts that are available. The differences between the two of you will be obvious to anyone looking in from the outside. Those in the old energy who call themselves lightworkers [or gurus, masters, mystics, priests etcetera] will have lists of things that a person must do, and procedures [meditations, rituals, inductions, ceremonies, initiations etcetera] and agendas [often hidden] in order for anyone to have an enlightened energy within. The NEW ENERGY features Human Enablement and Power. There will be very little structure and no ego developed around any Human hierarchy [or angelic hierarchy] that must be adhered to. It will be obvious who is in the old and who is in the NEW ENERGY to anyone who compares them.

Beware of systems that require you to join and be and do [all sorts of special 'spiritual' things etcetera]. Instead, look for new ideas that have very little or no organization [or control] around them. These are the ones that will be of the NEW ENERGY – that provide for individual growth within a non-system that somehow has all the attributes of an organization without walls or rules or membership [or despots, doctrines, dogma, disciples, duplicity, drama, duality, deception, delusion... etcetera].

New Energy Definitions of duality's Big Three

Health: The natural state of being in the New Energy. Dis-ease, in effect, is the body language of our humanness in karmic lesson. There is no karma in the New Energy.

Wealth: What we are left with when we lose all our money.

Happiness: The duality-based subordinate of Joy, which is love in expression. If we were always 'happy' we wouldn't be a Lightworker, we'd be a game show host.

The New Testament & The New Energy

From The New Testament:

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth;
and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you.
 
So how does all this shape up now in the New Energy?

Ask, and it shall be given you. Sorry, not true at all. We do NOT always get what we ask for. It would be nice if we did, but it's clearly obvious that we don't... and as far as our spiritual growth/awakening is concerned, it's actually a divine blessing that we don't. However, we DO always get what we truly want and need - what is in our best and highest interest and in alignment with our level or state of consciousness... which, incidentally, is the TRUE law of attraction at work. 

Seek and ye shall find. True. Unfortunately though, most seekers don't seek hard or long enough. They tend to get stuck in duality... stuck in religions and philosophies, in old energy spiritual organizations and practices, in guru worship and followship, or in duality's popular old stand-by - the human potential movement.

Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Very true. But only if it's the right door, and then only when the timing is right.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you. Absolutely!!! But unfortunately, most humans seek the kingdom of God where the kingdom of God isn't... and never was and never will be.

"The Kingdom of God is Within You"
~ Yeshua ben Joseph (Jesus of Nazareth)

Don't let duality put you out of countenance

After you leave this website or leave a New Energy gathering, workshop or seminar somewhere, you will walk back into a duality-based world. You'll be bombarded with all the heaviness, all the contradictions, all the control-based power structures, all the economic, cultural, political and religious delusions, all the antiquated educational systems, all the dishonesty, corruption, greed and lack of integrity, all the struggle, confusion, dogma and fear, all the empty hype and glossy drama, all the know-alls and pretenders, all the ego, envy, arrogance and ignorance, all the hidden agendas and all the old energy spiritual BS.

Yes, there are a few exceptions here and there, but overall it's not a pretty picture.
 But don't let any of this put you out of countenance.
Rather, use your countenance, as Shakespeare says, to change it.

"O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; and that which would appear offence in us,
his countenance, like richest alchemy, will change to virtue and to worthiness."
~ William Shakespeare

And indeed, as a New Energy Divine Being, you're an alchemist of the highest order.
It is you who are changing not only planet Earth, but the entire Universe.

So never let duality rattle you. Remember...
duality is only illusion, and the illusion is very much in its final days.

No matter how yucky things are, always think of yourself as the butterfly...
It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes. 

I've looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all.
~ Joni Mitchell

And neither does anyone else Joni...
until they're out of duality's illusion and in the New Energy.