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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, everyone, Welcome to Spiritual Sunshine. Today we're diving into
the heart of spirituality, which is that you, no matter
your religion, beliefs or not beliefs, are connected with all
things that you are one with life itself, with Divinity,
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with providence, even how everything plays out. You are actually
a co creator with whatever you want to call the
Higher Power, whatever you want to call the universe. Besides
the universe, whatever you want to call spirit, you are
a co creator with that. And even the things that
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you haven't really enjoyed about life, you in a way
chose them so that you could level up you, in
a way your higher self, you could say, align things
so that you will bloom into something magnificent, which I'm
sure you've already started to do already. So thank you
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for joining us today at Spiritual Sunshine. We're gonna dive
into this topic and also take some time to reflect
on what it means to meditate, because I can't say
I'm the best meditator. I'm not. In fact, I'm someone
who struggles to really take some time out to meditate. Now.
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On the other hand, I find it really helpful the
idea that you can actually meditate at any moment we'll
talk more about that and maybe do a little exercise
with it, so stay tuned. This is where a lot
of channels would have an ad or something, or like
a splash page. We used to have a splash intro
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and outro and stuff. But you know, Spiritual Sunshine, we're
all about clarity here and just shining, So no splash
page day, just diving right into what it means to
be one with all things. This is something we bring
up a lot at Spiritual Sunshine because you know, in
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today's day and age, it's kind of hard to really
wrap our heads around all the different spiritualities, religions, viewpoints
that everyone has, the conspiracy theories, the actual conspiracies that
are coming out, the craziness and politics. Wherever you are,
I'm sure you have crazy politics whatever country, and especially
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here in the US, we definitely do. It's kind of
hard to wrap our heads around all these things. So
I find it really just peacegiving, really just a blessing
to understand that in a way, your higher self is
laying all of this out. Now. This is true in
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many traditions. They have different ways of putting it, so
it's something we should keep in mind that many traditions,
perhaps yours, perhaps mine, have described this in other ways
such as everything goes according to God's plan, one that
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some of us don't really like too much, but some
of us really fine, empowering one that also I think
it's something we can circle back to and maybe shed
some new light on that phrase later in this video.
Or you know, in our traditions, it could also be said, well,
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the Lord's providence is governing everything, or it alsers the
greater good in the end, it all serves a higher purpose.
In Swedenborgian circles, which is the denomination that spiritual sunshine,
this organization spiritual sunshine, not your spiritual sunshine, which is
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divine as well, but this organization calls from we are
part of a Swedenborgian denomination that believes that you should
think however you want, and all Swedenborgians should think however
they want. That's like the bottom, you know, this is
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like the foundation of the tradition despite it being a
Christian mystical tradition for most people, because Swedenborg, you know,
the obvious namesake of the tradition was a Christian mystic,
but a big part of his spirituality and teaching spirituality
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was to highlight whoever you are, whatever you call yourself,
you have your own beliefs, even if you pretend not
to have different beliefs than other people you know, or
you just don't think about it. But that's not really
having a belief. That's saying X y Z. Preacher gets
to tell me what to think and they're always right
or something which I do not recommend for anybody. So
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it's a big part of Swedenborg's ideas that not only
should you think however you want and really find truth
for yourself and lean into that and find love through
that truth, which is actually just your nature, but also
he believed people of all faiths are in heaven, connect
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to heaven, have Heaven and God and Divinity and Goddess
and the divine human, all the terms that he used
for God. Creatrix is one he used in Latin and
others as well, that that is within each of us.
And so no matter your tradition, if you live a
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good life or in it towards helping others in truth
in some way at least deep down, eventually you will
make your way to heaven after this life. And I
suspect he also believed that even those who go to
hell there's reincarnation eventually because of some things he wrote
early on about reincarnating. But you know, whether or not
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he believed that does not matter really in the end.
I do believe in reincarnation and that there's a journey
for each of us that you know, winds us up
in a heavenly paradise eventually. But his point still stands
that it has to be our natural state, that paradise
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that we find ourselves in eventually to really be heaven,
to really be everlasting and a place where we can
continue to grow and find our leading edge. It has
to reflect what's within us, because if we're evil within
and want to destroy everyone, we're just really in a
heavenly paradise. We're just pretending, right, We're not really being
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our true selves. We're not able to express ourselves. So
eventually we have to actually have that within for it
to really shine outside, and especially for us to see it,
because otherwise we won't even really see it. We could
be in heaven now, some say, but how would we know.
We have to become that heaven. So Swenborg was a
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big proponent of interfaith idealism, really interfaith, plurality, you know, pluralism,
whatever the terms are you want to use. I like
inter faith, because really he's trying to speak to something
that's at the core of many traditions. But whatever the
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word is, we can see that through that lens, that
God is shining through each of us. We can find
a reality where we have come to understand our true
will is God's will. And really we don't have to
build up the truth within ourselves or the love to
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really find God. That love is already there. We may
have to treat certain parts of our minds we're used
to taking seriously a little less seriously. We may have
to let some thoughts pass have their expression, maybe if
that's what happens, but let it go. We may have
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to do certain techniques to really brush off the dust
on our inner book of life, our inner divinity at
the core of that book of life, and that love
that really is our soul is the source of our spirit.
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But it's there, But it's there. And even if we
take a very scientific point of view on this, we
can come to see that all things are actually one
in the universe, are dissecting and separating and analyzing, which
you can do with anything pretty much infinitely. You know,
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even an atom you can do that. Mini levels down
and we haven't even come to the bottom of that.
I'm wearing a lot of rings today, so it's hitting
my chair, if you guys can hear that, I'm really
celebrating my marriage today. I am celebrating my marriage every day.
But you know, playing with the little one during the day,
you sometimes put on some fun things. I think I
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like this though, wearing all three. Yeah, so that aside,
we can come to see that all decisions, all of
what happens in the universe, even far away from us,
is a one that in fact, there had to be
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an entire universe for you to be the way you are.
This universe had to be the way it is pretty
much for this Sour system to be the way it is,
for our planet to be the way it is. I mean,
think about the infinite things that could change how it
is right every second, or even mean that there is
no human life on this planet. I mean it's mind
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blowing when you really dwell on it, and it really
highlights the beauty of living, of being. Now that's something
we can see in ourselves when we just let go
of the narration of the inner dialogue that can't help
but just tie into all the scripts that our minds
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have laid out over the years, all the trauma, bonding
and exposition, all the impressions from TV shows that really
don't have our best interests at heart most of the time.
You know, their producers, the higher ups especially, you know,
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so you know, whatever it is from our past that
is bringing out our thoughts, we really have to let
go of the thoughts, to really let go of those
things we don't really realize they're connected. We may think
we got over X, Y and Z, but we're still
ruminating in certain ways and reacting because of it, right
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and because of so many other things in our lives,
very differently than someone else might react. And even if
it's similar to a lot of people, you know, many
of us have anxiety, we have depression, We have a
lot of fear, especially with the news the way it
is today and every day nowadays. And so to really
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overcome that, if you're really serious about overcoming that fear,
that sense of disconnection, you have to I mean, it's
kind of obvious if you think about it. You have
to lean into an awareness of the connectedness of the
unity instead of the disparate seemingness, the division seemingness of everything.
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Easier said than done, right because it's reinforced. We're separate.
They have other ideas. They want to destroy this country.
They want to undermine this right that you have. They
want to control you, you know, and we can fill
that even just within a household, because people do want
to control what seems outside of them. They feel like
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they have no control over what threatens their interests they
think are their interests, but really our highest interest, the
most peace, the most satisfied faction will ever have, is
by finding the Sabbath day the peace at our core.
It's one thing I love about sweeten Or is he
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takes everything in the Bible and makes it a consistent
spiritual allegory, not just in the sense that, oh, you
can use it this way in this way. He's very consistent,
at least with his approach a lot oft of time. Anyway.
There's some caveats there we can get into one day.
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But more to the point, in the seven day creation story,
instead of taking that story literally, as a Christian mystical thinker,
once a well known scientist of his day. He took
it all allegorically for human progress. And you could think
of the seven days of creation a shortened version of
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the story of life, of all our lives, of us
here and into the afterlife, whatever you want to think
of it. Of all the Bible, even it starts off
the void with the waters, the darkened waters. But what
hovers over the water is God in our own lives,
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even in the darkness, sees this darkness, what sees this despair?
What sees these dark waters? Consciousness? The light of God.
The light of God hovers over the waters. Now this
isn't exactly how Sweetenmoor put it. He used other types
of terms and things. But bringing this more into how
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we might think of it today when we think of well,
what is our light? That's consciousness. That's what's always here,
least as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I'm never awake when I'm not awake. I'm never aware
when I'm not aware, you know. So it's the light
of God. All these things come into the light of God.
Even the worst person has this light.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Right. It says in the Bible and many other traditions
that God shines on all beings, that God shines to
all beings and ultimately through all beings. So the seven
day Creation story starts there, and then slowly you get
more life, more rejuvenation. And this is true for each
of us. You know, I'm sure if you're listening this
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far into this video, you've probably seen some ups and downs.
You know, it can be like a tree, right, a
little bit of here, a little bit of there, but
ultimately reaching towards the sunlight, reaching towards your inner life,
which you always have, right, But the mind doesn't know
that yet. The mind that we're seeing that we're seeing react.
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We get a sense of self that comes up, comes
down whatever we see, our thoughts that that's like the tree,
but the consciousness that sees it, this is the sun,
is the light. I mean, we connect light with awareness already, right,
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we connect light with consciousness in modern parlance. You know,
I see the light. Oh, I had a genius IDEA
light bulb coups off, right. I mean literally, when you
see something in your mind, it's kind of like lighting
up a room because without the light you couldn't see it.
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And so ultimately, the seventh Day Creation story is our
own eventual journey to the Sabbath. Day to the peace
of finding. Oh man, I've put things together. I feel
like a real person. Now that's the sixth day, right,
that's the sixth day. But letting that pride go, letting
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all the goodness of it go, and just finding the peace,
that's the seventh day, finding the piece of Hey, I'm
just here. You know, I seem to have some control
over things, but really a lot of luck was involved.
Oh my gosh. You know, let me tell you, a
lot of blessings, a lot of people helping a lot
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of people from the past. I mean, we wouldn't have
the infrastructure here in the US without slaves, I mean
literally without prisoners. You know, we don't think about those things.
We wouldn't have the infrastructure, We wouldn't have a lot
of the things that you know, if we really thought
about you might call socialism or communism or something like police.
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We all pay for them. They help everybody. That's and
yet people who don't like communal programs love police. So
it's you know, we're all full of hypocrisies. I am too,
We're all full of hypocrisies. But that light, that light
is just there. It sees those things that can connect
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dots sometimes. But when we get into all the trees,
you know, they can be dead. They can be dead
because we're not really living. They're not receiving the light.
We're too identified with the tree. We're too into what
it means to be the tree. We don't think we
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need other things. We're not receiving the light the way
we could be if we really acknowledged it, that that
is our very life, not receiving water the way we could.
In fact, the water the light can seem to bog
us down, can seem to destroy us. We can want
to hide, decay, go into the ground. But we don't
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wish that for anyone, let alone ourselves, right, And so
just saying, you know, it's as simple as just seeing that, Oh,
I am the light that shines on my mind. It's
always there, whether the mind likes something or doesn't. My
mind sees that I can settle more into that part
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of myself and less into the reactive things are going
bad part of myself. When I start to feel like
things are going a little shady, I don't need to.
This is something Michael Singer said in a podcast I
listened to recently. He's great, Michael Singer. Singer smelled like
or spelled smelled he might so I don't know what
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he smells like. I've never met him, but spelled like
singing Michael Singer. He's great, he said, you know, I
lost my try. He said, that's a good thing. Right,
Let's just let it go, right, Michael Singer would say,
just let these things go as they come up, because
otherwise we get bopped down when something starts to go weird.
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Feelings start to go weird, don't You don't have to
go and figure out where it's coming from. Oh is
this this fear? Is this anger? Because why why is
it anger? Oh, it's probably you probably already start thinking, oh,
it's probably because of this is happening and she's doing
this or he's doing that. Right, Our mind likes to
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run with these weird emotions and to bring us to
a place of non contentment, but letting it go as
it comes, letting it live. But letting it just live.
It's natural life, not it's you know, crank up the gas. Ah, man,
I hate when I'm angry. Well, I'm not going to
be angry because you know, I'm meditative right now, and
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so no anger and see these things. When we take
that approach where we're trying to control it, it just
gets worse, just gets worse and worse and worse. We're
not happy with anything that's going on. What's going on
outside we want to stop or change. It's going on inside,
we want to stop or change. That's the human condition today,
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that is our problem. And so we can overcome that
just by seeing everything's won. I am the light of God,
I'm consciousness, I'm love. Ultimately, that spiritual Sun is at
the core of every being that because it's life sweenborg
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and is visions of heavens, all these paradise is that
make one but different communities, different types of people, different
types of beings, aliens, and so on, at their core,
which also means at the highest point, because as you
go higher in heaven, according to him, that's going deeper
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within each of us, actually not just those in heaven,
but like deeper within each of us. And at that height,
at that core is the spiritual Sun, which is divine
love and divine wisdom and shines on all beings, even
those who decide to to make and stay decide to
make and stay in hell because this is the core
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and everything else is further out, So Heaven's further out,
get further and further out. I don't need to do
the whole cosmology, but some of you might be interested.
I'll do it quickly. You have the world of spirits
between heaven and Hell, which also leads directly to the
material realm, so that's kind of in between. We're interacted
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upon through both, you know, whether materially like you know,
in our bodies or spiritually, and then Hell below that
further out, further out. But a being in Hell, the
core is still Heaven is still what allows for anyone
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to live. Hell can't just live, it's not life. Someone
in a hell of state that's not living. The Lord
allows it so that we can grow. I mean, we
know it in our own lives. Why has Why have
hells come? Well, moments of hellish feelings and stuff come
because we overcome, we grow stronger. And in evolution it
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might have been, you know, in terms of earlier stages
of our development, it might have just been a really
hard winner, might have been something's hunting us. That's a hell.
We've probably felt pretty bad to be hunted, to lose
our children to whatever. But then we overcome that strength,
you know, whether it's through an amba overcoming the ravages
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of the ocean that allowed for all life on the earth,
or it's you overcoming the ravages of some past winter,
some past time allowed for you to bloom and for
you to empower others with wisdom, with your love, new insights,
or something that's going to become that even better, even
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more beautifully, even better than you could imagined. So that's
the purpose of it. But it can't live without the
heaven that allows for all more external things to live.
Heaven can't live without the spiritual Sun that allows more
external things to live. I mean, that's where all energy
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comes from. Just like in the solar system, all the
energy of the plants and things, for the most part,
you know, come from the Sun. Even the Earth coalescing
and making heat with at its core and other things.
It's because of you know, the Sun in a lot
of ways. So that's true within each of us, that light,
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that wholeness is there. I think that's a great relief.
I think that's awesome because trying to build up a
bunch of love and make sure I get the higher
place because I'm building building. Oh, I got to learn
get rid of all these things, and da da da, No,
it's actually just letting go in a way. The wisdom
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can just come. But more importantly, the love is there.
The love is there because it's coming from the sun.
And oh wait, the wisdom's there too, because that's the light.
The love is like the heat, the wisdom's like the light.
We don't have to build these things up. So let's
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end just by taking a moment, just letting go of
everything that comes, enjoying it when it comes, not fighting anything. Feelings, thoughts, sensations,
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noticing when we're judging ourselves or others' judging situation around
us or within us, just letting that go. Where does
it have to live so long? It's just the thought
just comes up. Noticing when our sense of identity is
wrapped up into something. That's why we're being pulled by it.
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Something's threatening our sense of identity, our goals for that
sense of identity. Oh I want to be more popular, reputable.
So if this thing goes wrong, then people are gonna
think this and oh my gosh, just noticing those things,
not fighting them, just being like, oh wait, this whole
sense of self I've built, it's just something I experience.
It's really just something I experience. Cool because I don't
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have to be in that experience all the time. In fact,
you can't be. It's always passing. Even when we're in trial,
feelings are passed. But now we're just taking a moment
to let them intentionally go a little more. When the
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feelings get weird, just letting it go, not going down
the rabbit hole weirdness of fear or whatever. And if
you do, just budding that go. It's so simple. It's
kind of crazy. But like the Sabbath day, like the
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seventh day of Creation, it's very simple. You're letting things
go on the Sabbath day, right, they tell you not
to do this, and not to do that, not to
do that, and oh, we make sure you're not working
at this. What's that about. It's symbolic because you're letting
things go, you're not working. You might work, it might
work a lot, you might actually find yourself just full
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of energy and just getting stuff done, but you're not
in a state of work, of trial, being outside of
that garden of eden that is your very nature. No
more trial to get something done, no more childbirth pains.
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And when they come up. It's a quick one. It's
a baby you carry, you love, they're having fun. It's
yourself that baby, that inner child. When it cries, you
just let it, let it just have its moment instead
of fighting it, instead of smothering it under the carpet,
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trying to brush it aside. It's living. Just let it
have its moment, let it go. This is something I
find very easy as a non meditator, but someone who
really finds a sense of meditation all the time, just
because I know it's it's better than not not doing it.
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It feels better. Not because it is like you know,
like money wise or anything like that, or you know,
just how people think of it. No, it's just feels better.
Why go into a bunch of tough situations and not
be meditative. You know life can be tough, But what
is meditation. It's just letting it go. Come coming up,
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letting go, something comes up, letting go. Christ told us
a turn within ourselves to see that heaven is within
us and in our midst. He used the term that
said both at the same time. The Vedic tradition says
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all of is a god, and there's many gods within
and one's this universe, one's this part of our earth,
part of our soul. Everything is like a hologram in
that tradition. Just like in science, we're finding so one.
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It's not meant to divide. It's actually saying, oh, there's
like levels of how divinity acts, and it's all just
this beautiful flow. And so today, I hope if you
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can take anything from this video, if you've made it
this far, which hats off to you, please subscribe like comment.
It's always great. I'll be sure to respond. I hope
you take away that you're the light, that you are
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one with everything, but also why you're one with everything? Spiritually,
what's the ideas behind it? And physically just we're one heat,
exchange gravity, the universe. Separating us from it is ignoring
everything that's happening, can't separate us from the universe. And
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more importantly, most importantly with that, just feeling that unity
because you're settling little more as I hope I am
into the piece of the light of God, of consciousness.
Thing we all share, cockroaches. My favorite example is some
of you know ants, probably Amiba's probably particles, even who knows,
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We don't know where consciousness comes from. It's a lot
of theories out there. Can go google it and that
you see that really, when it comes down to it,
like our mind, that kind of gets in the weeds
and we get too obsessive about thoughts and feelings. Our
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traditions can do the same, Our religions can do the same,
you know, those of us who hold other people to
the fire when it comes to certain lines of thinking.
You know, if it's not surgery, we can let it
go a little more, if it's not literally an incision,
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we can allow people a little freedom to find their
own way of thinking about things, because they're going to
do it anyway. Everyone's the surgeon of their own lives.
And unfortunately, you could say, or you know, beautifully, we're
all given a lot of power, and in terms of
our own lives, I mean, there's a lot of power
in terms of your own life. You have, right, and
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so today let's just double down on wanting that peace
that sabbath and knowing that we don't have to build
up to it, but more like, let things grow, let
things go, and we'll just find ourselves there, all right,
peace and go forth knowing that you are loved and
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are loved,
Hello, everyone, Welcome to Spiritual Sunshine. Today we're diving into
the heart of spirituality, which is that you, no matter
your religion, beliefs or not beliefs, are connected with all
things that you are one with life itself, with Divinity,
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with providence, even how everything plays out. You are actually
a co creator with whatever you want to call the
Higher Power, whatever you want to call the universe. Besides
the universe, whatever you want to call spirit, you are
a co creator with that. And even the things that
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you haven't really enjoyed about life, you in a way
chose them so that you could level up you, in
a way your higher self, you could say, align things
so that you will bloom into something magnificent, which I'm
sure you've already started to do already. So thank you
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for joining us today at Spiritual Sunshine. We're gonna dive
into this topic and also take some time to reflect
on what it means to meditate, because I can't say
I'm the best meditator. I'm not. In fact, I'm someone
who struggles to really take some time out to meditate. Now.
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On the other hand, I find it really helpful the
idea that you can actually meditate at any moment we'll
talk more about that and maybe do a little exercise
with it, so stay tuned. This is where a lot
of channels would have an ad or something, or like
a splash page. We used to have a splash intro
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and outro and stuff. But you know, Spiritual Sunshine, we're
all about clarity here and just shining, So no splash
page day, just diving right into what it means to
be one with all things. This is something we bring
up a lot at Spiritual Sunshine because you know, in
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today's day and age, it's kind of hard to really
wrap our heads around all the different spiritualities, religions, viewpoints
that everyone has, the conspiracy theories, the actual conspiracies that
are coming out, the craziness and politics. Wherever you are,
I'm sure you have crazy politics whatever country, and especially
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here in the US, we definitely do. It's kind of
hard to wrap our heads around all these things. So
I find it really just peacegiving, really just a blessing
to understand that in a way, your higher self is
laying all of this out. Now. This is true in
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many traditions. They have different ways of putting it, so
it's something we should keep in mind that many traditions,
perhaps yours, perhaps mine, have described this in other ways
such as everything goes according to God's plan, one that
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some of us don't really like too much, but some
of us really fine, empowering one that also I think
it's something we can circle back to and maybe shed
some new light on that phrase later in this video.
Or you know, in our traditions, it could also be said, well,
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the Lord's providence is governing everything, or it alsers the
greater good in the end, it all serves a higher purpose.
In Swedenborgian circles, which is the denomination that spiritual sunshine,
this organization spiritual sunshine, not your spiritual sunshine, which is
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divine as well, but this organization calls from we are
part of a Swedenborgian denomination that believes that you should
think however you want, and all Swedenborgians should think however
they want. That's like the bottom, you know, this is
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like the foundation of the tradition despite it being a
Christian mystical tradition for most people, because Swedenborg, you know,
the obvious namesake of the tradition was a Christian mystic,
but a big part of his spirituality and teaching spirituality
(04:49):
was to highlight whoever you are, whatever you call yourself,
you have your own beliefs, even if you pretend not
to have different beliefs than other people you know, or
you just don't think about it. But that's not really
having a belief. That's saying X y Z. Preacher gets
to tell me what to think and they're always right
or something which I do not recommend for anybody. So
(05:13):
it's a big part of Swedenborg's ideas that not only
should you think however you want and really find truth
for yourself and lean into that and find love through
that truth, which is actually just your nature, but also
he believed people of all faiths are in heaven, connect
(05:34):
to heaven, have Heaven and God and Divinity and Goddess
and the divine human, all the terms that he used
for God. Creatrix is one he used in Latin and
others as well, that that is within each of us.
And so no matter your tradition, if you live a
(05:58):
good life or in it towards helping others in truth
in some way at least deep down, eventually you will
make your way to heaven after this life. And I
suspect he also believed that even those who go to
hell there's reincarnation eventually because of some things he wrote
early on about reincarnating. But you know, whether or not
(06:21):
he believed that does not matter really in the end.
I do believe in reincarnation and that there's a journey
for each of us that you know, winds us up
in a heavenly paradise eventually. But his point still stands
that it has to be our natural state, that paradise
(06:43):
that we find ourselves in eventually to really be heaven,
to really be everlasting and a place where we can
continue to grow and find our leading edge. It has
to reflect what's within us, because if we're evil within
and want to destroy everyone, we're just really in a
heavenly paradise. We're just pretending, right, We're not really being
(07:04):
our true selves. We're not able to express ourselves. So
eventually we have to actually have that within for it
to really shine outside, and especially for us to see it,
because otherwise we won't even really see it. We could
be in heaven now, some say, but how would we know.
We have to become that heaven. So Swenborg was a
(07:27):
big proponent of interfaith idealism, really interfaith, plurality, you know, pluralism,
whatever the terms are you want to use. I like
inter faith, because really he's trying to speak to something
that's at the core of many traditions. But whatever the
(07:51):
word is, we can see that through that lens, that
God is shining through each of us. We can find
a reality where we have come to understand our true
will is God's will. And really we don't have to
build up the truth within ourselves or the love to
(08:13):
really find God. That love is already there. We may
have to treat certain parts of our minds we're used
to taking seriously a little less seriously. We may have
to let some thoughts pass have their expression, maybe if
that's what happens, but let it go. We may have
(08:36):
to do certain techniques to really brush off the dust
on our inner book of life, our inner divinity at
the core of that book of life, and that love
that really is our soul is the source of our spirit.
(08:57):
But it's there, But it's there. And even if we
take a very scientific point of view on this, we
can come to see that all things are actually one
in the universe, are dissecting and separating and analyzing, which
you can do with anything pretty much infinitely. You know,
(09:18):
even an atom you can do that. Mini levels down
and we haven't even come to the bottom of that.
I'm wearing a lot of rings today, so it's hitting
my chair, if you guys can hear that, I'm really
celebrating my marriage today. I am celebrating my marriage every day.
But you know, playing with the little one during the day,
you sometimes put on some fun things. I think I
(09:41):
like this though, wearing all three. Yeah, so that aside,
we can come to see that all decisions, all of
what happens in the universe, even far away from us,
is a one that in fact, there had to be
(10:02):
an entire universe for you to be the way you are.
This universe had to be the way it is pretty
much for this Sour system to be the way it is,
for our planet to be the way it is. I mean,
think about the infinite things that could change how it
is right every second, or even mean that there is
no human life on this planet. I mean it's mind
(10:25):
blowing when you really dwell on it, and it really
highlights the beauty of living, of being. Now that's something
we can see in ourselves when we just let go
of the narration of the inner dialogue that can't help
but just tie into all the scripts that our minds
(10:48):
have laid out over the years, all the trauma, bonding
and exposition, all the impressions from TV shows that really
don't have our best interests at heart most of the time.
You know, their producers, the higher ups especially, you know,
(11:10):
so you know, whatever it is from our past that
is bringing out our thoughts, we really have to let
go of the thoughts, to really let go of those
things we don't really realize they're connected. We may think
we got over X, Y and Z, but we're still
ruminating in certain ways and reacting because of it, right
(11:34):
and because of so many other things in our lives,
very differently than someone else might react. And even if
it's similar to a lot of people, you know, many
of us have anxiety, we have depression, We have a
lot of fear, especially with the news the way it
is today and every day nowadays. And so to really
(11:55):
overcome that, if you're really serious about overcoming that fear,
that sense of disconnection, you have to I mean, it's
kind of obvious if you think about it. You have
to lean into an awareness of the connectedness of the
unity instead of the disparate seemingness, the division seemingness of everything.
(12:19):
Easier said than done, right because it's reinforced. We're separate.
They have other ideas. They want to destroy this country.
They want to undermine this right that you have. They
want to control you, you know, and we can fill
that even just within a household, because people do want
to control what seems outside of them. They feel like
(12:40):
they have no control over what threatens their interests they
think are their interests, but really our highest interest, the
most peace, the most satisfied faction will ever have, is
by finding the Sabbath day the peace at our core.
It's one thing I love about sweeten Or is he
(13:02):
takes everything in the Bible and makes it a consistent
spiritual allegory, not just in the sense that, oh, you
can use it this way in this way. He's very consistent,
at least with his approach a lot oft of time. Anyway.
There's some caveats there we can get into one day.
(13:23):
But more to the point, in the seven day creation story,
instead of taking that story literally, as a Christian mystical thinker,
once a well known scientist of his day. He took
it all allegorically for human progress. And you could think
of the seven days of creation a shortened version of
(13:47):
the story of life, of all our lives, of us
here and into the afterlife, whatever you want to think
of it. Of all the Bible, even it starts off
the void with the waters, the darkened waters. But what
hovers over the water is God in our own lives,
(14:09):
even in the darkness, sees this darkness, what sees this despair?
What sees these dark waters? Consciousness? The light of God.
The light of God hovers over the waters. Now this
isn't exactly how Sweetenmoor put it. He used other types
of terms and things. But bringing this more into how
(14:29):
we might think of it today when we think of well,
what is our light? That's consciousness. That's what's always here,
least as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I'm never awake when I'm not awake. I'm never aware
when I'm not aware, you know. So it's the light
of God. All these things come into the light of God.
Even the worst person has this light.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Right. It says in the Bible and many other traditions
that God shines on all beings, that God shines to
all beings and ultimately through all beings. So the seven
day Creation story starts there, and then slowly you get
more life, more rejuvenation. And this is true for each
of us. You know, I'm sure if you're listening this
(15:12):
far into this video, you've probably seen some ups and downs.
You know, it can be like a tree, right, a
little bit of here, a little bit of there, but
ultimately reaching towards the sunlight, reaching towards your inner life,
which you always have, right, But the mind doesn't know
that yet. The mind that we're seeing that we're seeing react.
(15:36):
We get a sense of self that comes up, comes
down whatever we see, our thoughts that that's like the tree,
but the consciousness that sees it, this is the sun,
is the light. I mean, we connect light with awareness already, right,
(15:56):
we connect light with consciousness in modern parlance. You know,
I see the light. Oh, I had a genius IDEA
light bulb coups off, right. I mean literally, when you
see something in your mind, it's kind of like lighting
up a room because without the light you couldn't see it.
(16:16):
And so ultimately, the seventh Day Creation story is our
own eventual journey to the Sabbath. Day to the peace
of finding. Oh man, I've put things together. I feel
like a real person. Now that's the sixth day, right,
that's the sixth day. But letting that pride go, letting
(16:42):
all the goodness of it go, and just finding the peace,
that's the seventh day, finding the piece of Hey, I'm
just here. You know, I seem to have some control
over things, but really a lot of luck was involved.
Oh my gosh. You know, let me tell you, a
lot of blessings, a lot of people helping a lot
(17:06):
of people from the past. I mean, we wouldn't have
the infrastructure here in the US without slaves, I mean
literally without prisoners. You know, we don't think about those things.
We wouldn't have the infrastructure, We wouldn't have a lot
of the things that you know, if we really thought
about you might call socialism or communism or something like police.
(17:29):
We all pay for them. They help everybody. That's and
yet people who don't like communal programs love police. So
it's you know, we're all full of hypocrisies. I am too,
We're all full of hypocrisies. But that light, that light
is just there. It sees those things that can connect
(17:50):
dots sometimes. But when we get into all the trees,
you know, they can be dead. They can be dead
because we're not really living. They're not receiving the light.
We're too identified with the tree. We're too into what
it means to be the tree. We don't think we
(18:10):
need other things. We're not receiving the light the way
we could be if we really acknowledged it, that that
is our very life, not receiving water the way we could.
In fact, the water the light can seem to bog
us down, can seem to destroy us. We can want
to hide, decay, go into the ground. But we don't
(18:37):
wish that for anyone, let alone ourselves, right, And so
just saying, you know, it's as simple as just seeing that, Oh,
I am the light that shines on my mind. It's
always there, whether the mind likes something or doesn't. My
mind sees that I can settle more into that part
(18:58):
of myself and less into the reactive things are going
bad part of myself. When I start to feel like
things are going a little shady, I don't need to.
This is something Michael Singer said in a podcast I
listened to recently. He's great, Michael Singer. Singer smelled like
or spelled smelled he might so I don't know what
(19:18):
he smells like. I've never met him, but spelled like
singing Michael Singer. He's great, he said, you know, I
lost my try. He said, that's a good thing. Right,
Let's just let it go, right, Michael Singer would say,
just let these things go as they come up, because
otherwise we get bopped down when something starts to go weird.
(19:43):
Feelings start to go weird, don't You don't have to
go and figure out where it's coming from. Oh is
this this fear? Is this anger? Because why why is
it anger? Oh, it's probably you probably already start thinking, oh,
it's probably because of this is happening and she's doing
this or he's doing that. Right, Our mind likes to
(20:08):
run with these weird emotions and to bring us to
a place of non contentment, but letting it go as
it comes, letting it live. But letting it just live.
It's natural life, not it's you know, crank up the gas. Ah, man,
I hate when I'm angry. Well, I'm not going to
be angry because you know, I'm meditative right now, and
(20:31):
so no anger and see these things. When we take
that approach where we're trying to control it, it just
gets worse, just gets worse and worse and worse. We're
not happy with anything that's going on. What's going on
outside we want to stop or change. It's going on inside,
we want to stop or change. That's the human condition today,
(20:59):
that is our problem. And so we can overcome that
just by seeing everything's won. I am the light of God,
I'm consciousness, I'm love. Ultimately, that spiritual Sun is at
the core of every being that because it's life sweenborg
(21:19):
and is visions of heavens, all these paradise is that
make one but different communities, different types of people, different
types of beings, aliens, and so on, at their core,
which also means at the highest point, because as you
go higher in heaven, according to him, that's going deeper
(21:43):
within each of us, actually not just those in heaven,
but like deeper within each of us. And at that height,
at that core is the spiritual Sun, which is divine
love and divine wisdom and shines on all beings, even
those who decide to to make and stay decide to
make and stay in hell because this is the core
(22:06):
and everything else is further out, So Heaven's further out,
get further and further out. I don't need to do
the whole cosmology, but some of you might be interested.
I'll do it quickly. You have the world of spirits
between heaven and Hell, which also leads directly to the
material realm, so that's kind of in between. We're interacted
(22:28):
upon through both, you know, whether materially like you know,
in our bodies or spiritually, and then Hell below that
further out, further out. But a being in Hell, the
core is still Heaven is still what allows for anyone
(22:49):
to live. Hell can't just live, it's not life. Someone
in a hell of state that's not living. The Lord
allows it so that we can grow. I mean, we
know it in our own lives. Why has Why have
hells come? Well, moments of hellish feelings and stuff come
because we overcome, we grow stronger. And in evolution it
(23:13):
might have been, you know, in terms of earlier stages
of our development, it might have just been a really
hard winner, might have been something's hunting us. That's a hell.
We've probably felt pretty bad to be hunted, to lose
our children to whatever. But then we overcome that strength,
you know, whether it's through an amba overcoming the ravages
(23:37):
of the ocean that allowed for all life on the earth,
or it's you overcoming the ravages of some past winter,
some past time allowed for you to bloom and for
you to empower others with wisdom, with your love, new insights,
or something that's going to become that even better, even
(24:01):
more beautifully, even better than you could imagined. So that's
the purpose of it. But it can't live without the
heaven that allows for all more external things to live.
Heaven can't live without the spiritual Sun that allows more
external things to live. I mean, that's where all energy
(24:21):
comes from. Just like in the solar system, all the
energy of the plants and things, for the most part,
you know, come from the Sun. Even the Earth coalescing
and making heat with at its core and other things.
It's because of you know, the Sun in a lot
of ways. So that's true within each of us, that light,
(24:47):
that wholeness is there. I think that's a great relief.
I think that's awesome because trying to build up a
bunch of love and make sure I get the higher
place because I'm building building. Oh, I got to learn
get rid of all these things, and da da da, No,
it's actually just letting go in a way. The wisdom
(25:10):
can just come. But more importantly, the love is there.
The love is there because it's coming from the sun.
And oh wait, the wisdom's there too, because that's the light.
The love is like the heat, the wisdom's like the light.
We don't have to build these things up. So let's
(25:34):
end just by taking a moment, just letting go of
everything that comes, enjoying it when it comes, not fighting anything. Feelings, thoughts, sensations,
(25:54):
noticing when we're judging ourselves or others' judging situation around
us or within us, just letting that go. Where does
it have to live so long? It's just the thought
just comes up. Noticing when our sense of identity is
wrapped up into something. That's why we're being pulled by it.
(26:20):
Something's threatening our sense of identity, our goals for that
sense of identity. Oh I want to be more popular, reputable.
So if this thing goes wrong, then people are gonna
think this and oh my gosh, just noticing those things,
not fighting them, just being like, oh wait, this whole
sense of self I've built, it's just something I experience.
It's really just something I experience. Cool because I don't
(26:46):
have to be in that experience all the time. In fact,
you can't be. It's always passing. Even when we're in trial,
feelings are passed. But now we're just taking a moment
to let them intentionally go a little more. When the
(27:09):
feelings get weird, just letting it go, not going down
the rabbit hole weirdness of fear or whatever. And if
you do, just budding that go. It's so simple. It's
kind of crazy. But like the Sabbath day, like the
(27:30):
seventh day of Creation, it's very simple. You're letting things
go on the Sabbath day, right, they tell you not
to do this, and not to do that, not to
do that, and oh, we make sure you're not working
at this. What's that about. It's symbolic because you're letting
things go, you're not working. You might work, it might
work a lot, you might actually find yourself just full
(27:51):
of energy and just getting stuff done, but you're not
in a state of work, of trial, being outside of
that garden of eden that is your very nature. No
more trial to get something done, no more childbirth pains.
(28:14):
And when they come up. It's a quick one. It's
a baby you carry, you love, they're having fun. It's
yourself that baby, that inner child. When it cries, you
just let it, let it just have its moment instead
of fighting it, instead of smothering it under the carpet,
(28:37):
trying to brush it aside. It's living. Just let it
have its moment, let it go. This is something I
find very easy as a non meditator, but someone who
really finds a sense of meditation all the time, just
because I know it's it's better than not not doing it.
(29:04):
It feels better. Not because it is like you know,
like money wise or anything like that, or you know,
just how people think of it. No, it's just feels better.
Why go into a bunch of tough situations and not
be meditative. You know life can be tough, But what
is meditation. It's just letting it go. Come coming up,
(29:28):
letting go, something comes up, letting go. Christ told us
a turn within ourselves to see that heaven is within
us and in our midst. He used the term that
said both at the same time. The Vedic tradition says
(29:59):
all of is a god, and there's many gods within
and one's this universe, one's this part of our earth,
part of our soul. Everything is like a hologram in
that tradition. Just like in science, we're finding so one.
(30:23):
It's not meant to divide. It's actually saying, oh, there's
like levels of how divinity acts, and it's all just
this beautiful flow. And so today, I hope if you
(30:44):
can take anything from this video, if you've made it
this far, which hats off to you, please subscribe like comment.
It's always great. I'll be sure to respond. I hope
you take away that you're the light, that you are
(31:05):
one with everything, but also why you're one with everything? Spiritually,
what's the ideas behind it? And physically just we're one heat,
exchange gravity, the universe. Separating us from it is ignoring
everything that's happening, can't separate us from the universe. And
(31:30):
more importantly, most importantly with that, just feeling that unity
because you're settling little more as I hope I am
into the piece of the light of God, of consciousness.
Thing we all share, cockroaches. My favorite example is some
of you know ants, probably Amiba's probably particles, even who knows,
(31:56):
We don't know where consciousness comes from. It's a lot
of theories out there. Can go google it and that
you see that really, when it comes down to it,
like our mind, that kind of gets in the weeds
and we get too obsessive about thoughts and feelings. Our
(32:18):
traditions can do the same, Our religions can do the same,
you know, those of us who hold other people to
the fire when it comes to certain lines of thinking.
You know, if it's not surgery, we can let it
go a little more, if it's not literally an incision,
(32:43):
we can allow people a little freedom to find their
own way of thinking about things, because they're going to
do it anyway. Everyone's the surgeon of their own lives.
And unfortunately, you could say, or you know, beautifully, we're
all given a lot of power, and in terms of
our own lives, I mean, there's a lot of power
in terms of your own life. You have, right, and
(33:06):
so today let's just double down on wanting that peace
that sabbath and knowing that we don't have to build
up to it, but more like, let things grow, let
things go, and we'll just find ourselves there, all right,
peace and go forth knowing that you are loved and
(33:31):
are loved,
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