FACT 1: As each goose flaps its wings it creates an “uplift” for the birds that follow. By flying in a “V” formation, the whole flock adds 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew alone.
LESSON: People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.

FACT 2: When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of flying alone. It quickly moves back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird immediately in front of it.
LESSON: If we have as much sense as a goose we stay in formation with those headed where we want to go. We are willing to accept their help and give our help to others.

FACT 3: When the lead goose tires, it rotates back into formation and another goose flies to the point position.
LESSON: It pays to take turns doing the hard tasks and sharing leadership. As with geese, people are interdependent on each other’s skills, capabilities and unique arrangements of gifts, talents or resources.

FACT 4: The geese flying in formation honk to encourage those up front to keep up their speed.
LESSON: We need to make sure our honking is encouraging. In groups where there is encouragement, the production is much greater. The power of encouragement (to stand by one’s heart or core values and encourage the heart and core of others) is the quality of honking we seek.

FACT 5: When a goose gets sick, wounded or shot down, two geese drop out of formation and follow it to help and protect it. They stay with it until it dies or is able to fly again. Then, they launch out with another formation or catch up with the flock.
 LESSON: If we have as much sense as geese, we will stand by each other in difficult times as well as when we are strong.

Namaste!

— Stephan

There is no greater power than the power of love.
There is no greater happiness than the happiness experienced through love. We experience love when the individual ego ends and hearts unite as one. Love is the ultimate manifestation of ourselves as G-d.
It is time for us to build bridges of love and friendship.
In this way we will be able to realize a global family of unbounded love and peace.

~~ Stephan Gabriel

Excerpt from Conversations with G-d

So ‘G-d’ is a ‘collective’?

by Neale Donald Walsch
December 5, 2012

G-D: There is only One Soul, One Being, One Essence. Some of you call this
“G-d.” This Single Essence “individuates” Itself as Everything In The Universe—in other words, All That Is. This includes all the sentient beings, or what you have chosen to call souls.

Neale: So “G-d” is every soul that “is”?

G-D: Every soul that is now, ever was, and ever will be.

Neale: So G-d is a “collective?”

G-D: That’s the word I chose, because it comes closest in your language to describing how things are.

Neale: Not a single awesome being, but a collective?

G-D:  It doesn’t have to be one or the other. Think “outside the box”!

Neale: G-d is both? A single Awesome Being which is a collective of individualized parts?

G-D: Good! Very good!

Neale:  And why did the collective come to Earth?

G-D: To express itself in physicality. To know itself in its own experience. To be G-d. As I’ve already explained in detail in Book 1.

Neale:  You created us to be You?

G-D: We did, indeed. That is exactly why you were created.

Neale:  And humans were created by a collective?

G-D: Your own Bible said, “Let Us create man in Our image, and after Our likeness” before the translation was changed.

Life is the process through which G-d creates their self, and then experiences the creation. This process of creation is ongoing and eternal. It is happening all the “time.” Relativity and physicality are the tools with which G-d works. Pure energy (what you call spirit) is What G-d Is. This Essence is truly the Holy Spirit.

By a process through which energy becomes matter, spirit is embodied in physicality. This is done by the energy literally slowing itself down—changing its oscillation, or what you would call vibration.

That Which Is All does this in parts. That is, parts of the whole do this. These individuations of spirit are what you have chosen to call souls.

In truth, there is only One Soul, reshaping and reforming Itself. This might be called The Reformation. You are all G-ds In Formation. (G-d’s information! )

That is your contribution, and it is sufficient unto itself.

To put this simply, by taking physical form you have already done enough. I want, I need, nothing more. You have contributed to the common good. You have made it possible for that which is common—the One Common Element—to experience that which is good. Even you have written that G-d created the heavens and the Earth, and the animals who walk upon the land, and the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, and it was very good.

“Good” does not—cannot—exist experientially without its opposite. Therefore have you also created evil, which is the backward motion, or opposite direction, of good. It is the opposite of life—and so have you created what you call death.

Yet death does not exist in ultimate reality, but is merely a concoction, an invention, an imagined experience, through which life becomes more valued by you. Thus, “evil” is “live” spelled backward! So clever you are with language. You fold into it secret wisdoms that you do not even know are there.

Now when you understand this entire cosmology, you comprehend the great truth. You could then never demand of another being that it give you something in return for your sharing the resources and necessities of physical life.

Neale: As beautiful as that is, there are still some people who would call it communism.

G-D: If they wish to do so, then so be it. Yet I tell you this: Until your community of beings knows about being in community, you will never experience Holy Communion, and cannot know Who I Am.

The highly evolved cultures of the universe understand deeply all that I have explained here. In those cultures it would not be possible to fail to share. Nor would it be possible to think of “charging” increasingly exorbitant “prices” the more rare a necessity became. Only extremely primitive societies would do this. Only very primitive beings would see scarcity of that which is commonly needed as an opportunity for greater profits. “Supply and demand” does not drive the system of Highly Evolved Beings.

This is part of a system that humans claim contributes to their quality of life and to the common good. Yet, from the vantage point of a Highly Evolved Being, your system violates the common good, for it does not allow that which is good to be experienced in common.

Another distinguishing and fascinating feature of Highly Evolved Cultures is that within them there is no word or sound for, nor any way to communicate the meaning of, the concept of “yours” and “mine.” Personal possessives do not exist in their language, and, if one were to speak in earthly tongues, one could only use articles to describe things. Employing that convention, “my car” becomes “the car I am now with.” “My partner” or “my children” becomes “the partner” or “the children I am now with.”

The term “now with,” or “in the presence of,” is as close as your languages can come to describing what you would call “ownership,” or “possession.”

That which you are “in the presence of” becomes the Gift. These are the true “presents” of life.

Thus, in the language of highly evolved cultures, one could not even speak in terms of “my life,” but could only communicate “the life I am in the presence of.”

This is something akin to your speaking of being “in the presence of G-d.”

When you are in the presence of G-d (which you are, any time you are in the presence of each other), you would never think of keeping from G-d that which is G-d’s—meaning, any part of That Which Is. You would naturally share, and share equally, that which is G-d’s with any part of that which is G-d.

This is the spiritual understanding which undergirds the entire social, political, economic, and religious structures of all highly evolved cultures. This is the cosmology of all of life, and it is merely failure to observe this cosmology, to understand it and to live within it, which creates all of the discord of your experience on Earth.

 

We are ingenious at finding ways to separate ourselves from each other. We’ve  developed a highly complex system of judgment.

How’s that working for us?
I’m better, richer, more educated, fatter, skinnier, dependent, independent, spiritual, religious, than you are. I’m more evolved than you are. I have lighter skin than you do. I have darker skin than you do. My ancestry is better than yours. My culture is more artistic, civilized, peaceful, war-like, than yours.

Really?
If we are all G-d, how exactly are we better than one another? Or worse? Most of the conflicts we have with each other are based upon some idea of betterness, or correctness. My belief, or truth, is always more correct, and therefore better, than yours.

Really?
My argument here can be turned around, or even inside out: why is my concept of G-d, or of equality, better? Maybe these judgments’, these ways of separating ourselves, are good things. They make us feel good certainly. It’s always good to be better, right?

Really?
Isn’t just being G-d better than anything else could be? Or, is that just a lip service we have acquired that we don’t really believe? If thou art G-d than our personal and collective concepts of what is better, or what is worse, are washed out. Well, not completely. We believe that our belief, that being God, is better than their not being G-d. In fact, we believe that their belief is the root cause of all suffering.

Really?

REALLY!

Namaste!

— Stephan

A pantheist believes that everyone and everything is G-d. That means that you and I and your neighbors and friends: all of the inhabitants of Earth and the Universes, plus Nature, are G-d. How do the Ten Commandments stand in this environment?

1: I am the Lord your G-d: you will not have other G-ds before me.
There is only one G-d. Ourselves and Nature are expressions of that G-d, as indeed are the archetypal G-ds of all human cultures. So, the later half of the commandment is irrelevant: there are no other G-ds, there is only one.

2: You shall not take the name of the Lord your G-d in vain.
Which one? G-d has millions of names, depending on which aspect you are focusing on. So? You should not take anyone’s name in vain.

3: Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day.
This is easy since all days are holy and sacred to G-d.

4: Honor your Father and your Mother.
Indeed, you should do this. Your physical body was created from your Father’s seed and your Mother’s egg.

5: You will not kill.
This goes without saying. If you kill another person, or for that matter, commit violence toward another person, or an animal, you are killing yourself. You are killing G-d. This commandment also forbids the death penalty and war. Contrary to what some falsely believe, this commandment does not (and never has) applied to fetuses, embryos, blogospheres, blastulas, or anything else that is dependent upon it’s host, it’s Mother, for life.  All of the worlds holy books teach that the soul (or spirit, or Atman) inhabits the physical body when a newborn child takes it’s first breath outside the womb. The idea that a fetus is a person is a belief promoted by misogynists’ in order to take control of women’s bodies. Believing this is a gross sin.  

6: You will not commit adultery.
Adultery is defined as sex outside of marriage.  It doesn’t matter how many people you are married to, just don’t stray outside of your marital group. Monogamy is an unnatural condition. It is good and right for humans to gather in collectives of as many men and women as possible, and bear children and raise those children as progeny of the collective. 

7: You will not steal.
No argument here, but refusing to pay your taxes is stealing from the government that you have instituted to organize society.

8: You will not bear false witness against your neighbor.
This means that telling a lie (a falsehood) about your neighbor is the same as lying about G-d,  for G-d is you and your neighbor. It is telling a lie about yourself.

9: You will not desire your neighbor’s wife.
What about “You shall not desire your neighbor’s husband?”  This makes your wife/spouse a possession. But your wife/spouse is not your possession.  She/he is a free individual who is owned by his/her self. He/she is G-d just as you are G-d. G-d is not a misogynist, but this commandment makes him/her one.

10: You will not desire your neighbor’s possessions.
In other words, you shall never be jealous. That is what jealousy is: the desire for another persons stuff. Kabbalists wear a red string around their left hand to ward off such jealousy, which also known as the “evil eye.”

Namaste!

— Stephan Gabriel