I would like to be so bold as to make a few suggestions regarding beliefs, which I hope will be helpful. When we approach life from the perspective of the dialectic, especially that of good and evil, we are in a losing situation. The problem is that the polarities have a tendency to stay in contention with one another as though in a battle.

There is what can be called a higher than highest good, words tend to be too limited to express the reality of that which transcends all polarities. That is the Source of Life, or we can say God if so inclined. That is an infinite unconditional singularity and has nothing to do with the polarities which are dual and conditional. (In the places I am overusing capital letters is an indication that I am referring to the transcendent aspect of the word.)

Since Christianity has so much influence in the west we can turn to Genesis and the allegory of the "incident" in the garden. You may eat from any tree except do not partake of the fruit of the tree of the science of good and evil; for the day that you do you will die. The science of good and evil is to judge between the polarities that one thing is better or worse than another; to desire something more or to desire it less. That is the losing game where ignorance and thus death can enter the picture. The reality is that everything is self fulfilling and that God has created all from the Fullness and Completeness of His own eternal Being. All that exists is God. There is actually nothing else except different appearances of that One Essence, which is pure Consciousness, pure Knowingness, the Witness and Substance of all created appearances.

This is the mystic's approach to life; that the Divine One became the many without ever leaving Hers, His, Its own Infinite Omnipresent nature of infinite Light, Bliss, Love and Peace.

This will signify that when we sense that we are being attacked that we have left the eternal field of Oneness and the Invulnerability of our own essential nature, which still persists in the original Garden; and we have given reality to something that has no existence of its own, the fantasy of death and separation. It has only the existence and energy that we give to it as individuals or as a collective with our unfounded beliefs and misinterpretations. But it has no foundation in Reality. For example there is no source of darkness, it cannot be found; it represents fear, ignorance and non-existence which is a misperception or misidentification of what is Real and Eternal. The Light shineth in the darkness and the darkness knoweth It not. The idea of combat or the necessity to fight is what the darkness wants because to engage with it in that way is to give it an energy of self existence. Turn on the light and the darkness cannot be found, it disappears automatically without further effort.

The answer to all of that is to correct the misperception by returning Home to our Source, the Light. And though we may think or believe or dream that we have left the Source, the Source has never left us. It dwells within us and all around us, thus It’s within easy reach. It’s ours for the asking; ask and you shall receive. However once we ask we need to listen for the response and listening is best while being silent and being attentive. This is best done from the heart for the analysis of the mind does not support Wholeness well in the beginning.

So, Michelle (and everyone else), you/we are turning on the light of our Being, our true essential nature. Do not hesitate to realize the power of the Light that you/we are accessing. It is Eternal, Unconquerable and Invulnerable. When we illuminate ourselves with this Light we are illuminating all of humanity simultaneously for separation and darkness are concepts that are unreal. Again they only have the energy that we lend to them. Now there are more details that can be helpful to the mind which likes to analyze to understand. I’ll think to cover some of those in an article a bit later which I can share later. I’m preparing to travel at the current time and am a little rushed.

Very pleased to see and thank you for your inspired article!!!!

I'll end with a quote that inspires me: Be the presence of Love that changes the world.