The Seer

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Recently, I was meditating on the words ascribed to St John who is believed by many to be a Jnani (a seer) as well as a Christian saint. You may remember he wrote: “God is love … ” and then added, “he that abides in love, abides in God and God in him.” (1 John 4:16)

To abide or dwell in love doesn’t mean for us, as a separate entity, to have constant love for some object or person, divine or otherwise. John wants us to see here that love — true love — is not something we have or do, but rather what we are in essence — already and always.

Consider what is the greatest ‘love’ of any sentient being. If he had the choice of possessing either all the wealth in the world or his ‘beingness’ or ‘consciousness’ (call it what you will), that which gives him the sense of being alive and present, and without which the body would be nothing but a cadaver, what would he choose? Obviously, without consciousness, all the wealth in the world would be of no use to him.

It is this conscious presence one loves more than anything else because without it, there is no universe, no anything! This therefore, is Presence-Love-God. And St John obviously had this in mind when he said, “God is love ….”

This conscious presence which makes us aware of this, here, now — the beingness of every sentient being on the earth — and indeed, the very soul of the entire universe, — this cannot be anything other than God.

It is clear that he meant that he (John) and He (God) were not different as pure subjectivity, but one in conscious awareness. And, therefore, he who is anchored in the conscious presence that is Love — that is God — abides in God and God in him.

The Love John speaks of here is love for the mere (or mysterious) fact of existence itself.

As Adyashanti says, It isn’t a love that is caused by anything. It isn’t based on whether one has a good day, or a good encounter, or a good feeling etc. In fact, it could be not such a good day, not such a good encounter, or not such a good feeling, and there will be still just as much love for it.

This is a love that loves to live this life because in life it is actually meeting itself moment to moment.

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Timothy Freke is an inspiring author and charismatic communicator living in the UK who gives his all to help participants taste the experience of spiritual enlivenment that the ancients call ‘gnosis’ and he calls ‘lucid living’. Lucid living is a natural state of awareness that spontaneously arises when we wake up from (or to) the collective dream we mistake for ‘real life’ and appreciate the mystery of existence.

Lucid living is a state of super-clarity in which it becomes obvious that, although we appear to be separate individuals, in reality we are one awareness which is dreaming itself to be everyone and everything. Lucid living is a beautiful experience of communion and compassion into which we dissolve when we see through the illusion of separateness and realise that all is one.

Tim has co-authored several significant books with Peter Ganduy and in their latest offering: “The Laughing Jesus”, Tim begins with words that get our attention straight away …

“Wake up!” he writes, “Rouse yourself from the collective coma you mistake for ‘real life’. See through the illusion of separateness and recognize that we are all essentially one.

Although we appear to be isolated individuals, in reality there is one awareness dreaming itself to be everyone and everything. This is our shared essential nature.

The simple secret to enjoying the dream we call ‘life’ is to wake up to oneness. Because, knowing you are one with all, you will find yourself in love with all. You will fall in love with living.”

For more info about Tim and the Alliance for Lucid LIving (ALL), go to: www.timothyfreke.com

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I died as a mineral and became a plant;
I died as a plant and rose to animal;
I died as animal and I was a man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as man to soar
With angels blest. But even from an angel
I must pass on: all except God must perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel soul,
I shall become what no mind ever conceived.

Jelaluddin Rumi ~ Sufi Poet and mystic, born 1207.

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Barberine: Listen! God is my witness that I’ll be content with the old chateau and the little land we possess, for all my life, if you would be pleased to stay there with me. I waken, go to the kitchen, to the poultry-yard, get your meals ready, go to church with you, read a page of a book, do some darning, and then fall asleep contented in your arms.

Ulric: What an angel you are!

Barberine: Yes, I’m an angel but I’m a woman angel! That is to say, if I had a pair of horses, we’d drive behind ‘them to mass. And I shouldn’t be sorry if my cap had gold braid and if my skirts were a trifle longer — to vex my neighbours!

From, Barberine, by Alfred De Musset