Quote from ShoeshineBoy:
Now why do you accept this as a "proven" thing? Do you know what I'm asking? Did you read about it? Is it your conclusion based on something?
I don't own a bible anymore. All my references come from memory or alternate sources.
I have dowsed this out like most of my other stuff. I read things, people say things, I feel things. It get's the JohnnyK stamp of approval, and that's not easy.
Then, I present my findings in the most entertaining way I can. This one is a recent finding, so I can't say that I've proven it by entering the secret portal. Haven't consciously attempted with that much intent yet. But just finding it out is an accomplishment in itself.
If my findings are correct, this is the core issue...and all that matters. Everything else is beating around the bush.
What I am now just becoming aware of is how this has been completely missed, even though it is right there for you to see from your own approved reading material. And if you, a christian can miss this, how many more? From your comments, it's clear that you have missed it .
You have experienced a re-alignment toward Source that gave you some interesting feelings and a new attitude. The grass is greener, the sky is bluer, and you get the feeling your Home is elsewhere. And it's what binds you to fellow classmates in the school called Earth. You all decide to call this "born again", because the attitude change is so significant. But a consensus won't make an illusion a reality.
The illusion is that your existence begins in Earth's time/space paradigm. This hides from you your True Birth...the one you are having such a hard time dealing with. Let's call it birth trauma. This will be healed, but first lets understand it so you can percieve the place of innocence in your magnetic Heart once again.
There was a time before which you were, but there will never be a time after which you are not. There was a time when you were one and complete within the Source of Love. Love however decided to give you immortality as yourself and to grant you an identity of your own. It was a gift full of promise, opportunity and responsibility.
But so many of us, having no point of reference except the simplicity of a common light, experienced it as shock and interpreted the gift of life as separation. Many deeply wounded themselves by viewing it as rejection. And people have been structuring and dramatizing it as separation ever since. Structure then became a substitute source of security, and the traumatized have been obsessed with it ever since. A good example is my friend Green Flash who is obsessed with the structure ot the Catholic Church, which he regards as "mother Church".
So there was a tragic misconception. And many of the problems and pains suffered by humanity are a result of this original birth trauma. People are now torn between wanting to go Home, and fearing the loss of personal identity and freedom...wanting to stay apart, but fearing the perils of becoming lost.
To be born again, simply realize that you have been given eternal life in your own name. You will never be reabsorbed into collective anonymity. Your place within the one spirit is always honored, and there will never be a time when you are not. When you are able to comprehend the grandeur of that gift, you will be able to experience your birth anew, with ecstasy.
Obviously, doubts about "preexistence" will prevent you from being born again...which seems to be the motivation behind religion as structure. Like my friend Green Flash, you too find security in the structure of mother church. Your dependance, even on the Catholic Church is more than you wish to admit, but you have inherited most of the essential teachings which prevent you from being born again....preventing you from seeing the innocence that you were at your original birth, and have been ever since.
As I have mentioned before...the original sin was the creation of a fiction about yourself that you were not innocent, not love, not immortal. Ultimately this was a judgment about yourself and so judgment was the "sin". Meanwhile, your source has never seen you any other way, except as innocent. The last judgement will be against judgement itself...and it is YOU who will make this judgement.
Maybe now you can understand the importance of re-evaluating your opinions about yourself, about your innocence, about your immortality, about your identity as love...before you can locate the door to your True Heart...that magnetic vortex in the center of your chest. So you see, born again is not the end...it is the beginning...not the beginning of immortality (you already had that)...it is the beginning of the potential for experiencing a new quality of immortal life. That potential is mainly activated from within the True Heart, that magnetic vortex at the center of your chest.
In the age that's coming, there will be a great healing. And it is now soon. And it will lift mankind above the trauma of his original birth, revealing the truth of his being, and establishing his place of honor within the universe.
JohnnyK
