Theohumanity - Once Upon a Time

Theohumanity / Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time, there was You.

You were made of Love, You knew everything and everybody else was too, and You knew how to naturally express the Love that You were. This made life feel like it was a grand adventure in which everything You felt, saw, and did was just one celebration of Loving You-ness after another, where everything was connected in Love with everything else.

What happened? Where did You go?

As it turned out, where You went is related to why You went there.

The You that is Love didn't encounter enough Love outside of You in life, in the form of encountering a specific kind of very porous Love-consciousness in those around You, including your caregivers. Worn down and ragged as they were, their own Them's were also lost somewhere long before You encountered them. This wasn't their fault anymore than it was Yours losing Yours, because they encountered that same situation in their childhood too. Mostly everyone back to almost the beginning of time has, to one degree or another. That they loved You the best and only way they knew how to Love, despite having lost their own true Thems long before they became parents, is a tribute to and a proof of the Love of which all of Us are made.

So somewhere along the line, life betrayed You. You found that unlike trees and animals and stars, Your own species did not act as if they were made of Love and connected with everything else. In effect, somebody started doing something to You, or someone started not doing something with You, that made You not feel real to Yourself that way.

This hurt so much words are not big enough to capture it, even though You've almost completely forgotten how much agony You felt, because You had no other reality to compare it to. In fact, it hurt so much, You had to become someone else to deal with it, while the real You went way deep down on the inside to hide. And with that hiding came the loss of the awareness You were made of Love, like everything else.

In this way, You split Yourself to become this someone else, creating two you's, the You you were born as, and the new you You had to become to survive and cope with life. Since your caregivers and others around You were already into their second Them's, they unconsciously rewarded You for becoming this false second you, as that was all they could do given their own loss of original Them-ness. They didn't want You to suffer, so they innocently rewarded you for becoming the false you so you could get along in life in ways that made sense to them.

Whether You know this or not, You've been searching for your lost You and the Love it is made of ever since. No matter what else you think you're searching for, wealth, power, knowledge, fitness, success, a mate, enlightenment, or God, it's really been for your original You first. As You split Yourself into two, split-ness became your operating mechanism of living, even though you've never been taught how deeply this mechanism is unconscious to you.

All of what we have come to call evil is just a product of this splitness, the loss of our original Us's the real source of what we call evil. If you take the time to dig beneath all activity someone calls bad in yourself or others, you'll find always the hurt, agony, and betrayal of this loss of your original You and Your Love-essence.

Long ago, people were even more unaware of this splitness in themselves than they are now, which was why they thought there were such things as devils. As they looked to God as Source of their lost Them instead of in Themselves and to protect themselves against devils, they projected this splitness mechanism to the way they related to God.

Every religion or spiritual perspective ever invented, east or west, incorporates this artificial split, because they were all invented by people already unconsciously into deep Splitness in themselves. Their version of this was to split our humanness from our divinity. They do this by teaching that the only way back to the real You or Love or God is not to look for it inside or through your dualistic human self, but to find it outside of it in what they call heaven, paradise, enlightenment, understanding, or nirvana.

Why haven't you noticed how you've been taught in words that the kingdom of God is within you, but have always been taught in process to go looking for It without you instead? Literally.

You've been taught to feel guilty about, see the illusion of, transcend the negative aspects of, or avoid the use of certain body parts of, your human You-ness, all in the name of doing what religion or spirituality says God, Nonduality or Oneness wants: that you split yourself from your humanness or ego in order to 'get it.'

The only reason all religious and spiritual traditions have taught this split is because those of us who invented them were also unaware of their own invisible individual splitting mechanism they also had to create to deal with not encountering Love with their parents as an count-on-able expressive reality of Being when they were young.

We all forget we split ourselves because our second version of ourself makes sure we do. It does this to help us not hurt so much over Love's lack. So your false you is not bad. It was actually your first best friend, someone to make sure you didn't suffer so much. This means your false you Loves you. Since you're made of Love, this isn't surprising. Love just created your first defenses against the pain of Love's lack. Only Light can create a shadow.

This turned out to be a bigger challenge than your false you thought. To keep ahead of how much life continues to not serve your true Love nature, it became a Guardian to all the parts of you that kept trying to get Love and thus hurting, being anxious, angry, controlling, depressed, shamed, unworthy, or disconnected about it. And part of its guardianship is to use even good things, like ego, success, or spiritual seeking, as drugs to keep your suffering minimized.

Our false Us's have been so successful they now run all the secular, artistic, entertainment, academic, scientific, sports, philosophical, religious, and spiritual arenas of earth. And, because this false you Loves you so much and is so dedicated to minimizing your suffering, it will resist like crazy if you try to unhook from it and get back to your real You.

Not too long ago, some people began to realize rightly that mysticism and the way it split things contributed to our problems and didn't fix them. To fix things they thought religion exacerbated, they invented human-centered psychology with its new ways of looking at human life. But they made the mistake of thinking that because they were right in seeing religious or spiritual premises of life contributed to our problems, this meant that mystical and spiritual aspects of our lives were just projections of our problems and not real realities.

Because they did this, they just created another version of splitness, splitting You from the God-Love-Nature your real You is made of. To take its place, they taught that instead of being made of God and Love, you were just made of biological jello and brain chemicals.

As a result, their own false Them's made sure they made up principles of psychology that would only result in ineffective wrestling matches with the false you that still leaves it in charge. This happened because their false Them's made sure their principles only dealt with symptoms of the takeover of the false you, not in the original cause of You being hurt by not encountering enough of God-Love to validate that You were made of it too.

So splitting the real You into a false you has resulted in the twin tragedies of the human race. The religious-spiritual-mystical playout was the teaching that to find your real You, you had to split yourself from your humanness or marginalize it in some kind of negative way. And the psychological-intellectual-humanistic one was to split yourself from God to be your human self, and by only treating the symptoms that were by-products of your false you-ness. Both miss it from different angles while thinking their own view is the real answer.

Don't you think it's time we had a psychological paradigm and process that teaches that your real You is made of God-Love, heals causes and not just treats symptoms, and shows you how to finally regain your real Love-you by honoring the false you so much it finally trusts life and Love again and lets go of its mission to save you from suffering so much?

And don't you think it's time we had a spiritual paradigm and process that not only teaches but shows you how to find God is inside You, because you're made of God-Love and not original sin or original ignorance or original illusion, and that the way to It isn't in splitting you from your ego or humanness, but by abiding in both fully? By healing fear and not using the guilt of the west or the ego-transcendence of the east?

Then, because you'd found the lost You made of Love first, you'd be able to travel upstream and experience for yourself the living God that has lived as the Headwaters of your You-stream, and you could go for a swim. Even though no one ever taught you this, the only way to swim with the Living God is to first learn to swim with and as your original You.

You can't skip over finding the Love that is You and expect to find the Love that is God, because the former is just a smaller version of the latter. If you don't find Love in and as You, you'll never find the Love that is God. You are a part of God, you see, not apart from God. You can't split what has never been split and expect to get back to the Whole.

Since all religious tradition, east or west, teaches you the opposite, that you have to split yourself from your human you by condemning outright, to call it an illusion, or to give it up partially or wholly to ever find God or Enlightenment, all they've done is lead you to their version of a false god. Only when all of our false gods of life are dead and buried do we ever have a chance of encountering the Living God, which has nothing at all to do with belief, because It's too big to fit into the tiny belief-boxes we build in our heads about It. You'd know God Is, then, and wouldn't need to believe in It or any other version of It any longer. And that It wanted you to have your full humanness all along, and that It's been waiting for us to stop splitting ourselves as the way to get back to ourselves and It.

Psychology and spirituality then would never be at odds. Movement to be the real You, which is made of God-Love, would then be in showing you how to experience this as a Heart-lived-truth, and not just a Head-believed-in truth. You'd find You and God at the same time, because they're both back in your original You, Who is primarily made of emotion, and is only later secondarily expressed via thoughts, attitudes, flesh, and brain chemistry.

Such a way can now be considered by You, one which defines emotional and spiritual fitness much differently than any other traditional or new age psychological or spiritual path.

But not by seeking the Light, like you've been taught. That's like lighting a lantern to seek the day. The Light is now, has always been, and will always be, on. The only true way to know Self, God, and Love is to become hyper-conscious of the dark. And the dark is fear, not evil. The more dark fear you become conscious of, and then shown how to heal, the more Light that's always been in and all around You becomes experiencable by You. Making You one day able to go beyond enlightenment to Enheartenment, where you discover as a lived experience the true Divinity of your humanity and our common pathway in this heavenly world.

But certainly don't take my word for it. This book may help you can feel into all of this and validate some of these realities for yourself. If it begins to make sense to you in both head and heart, one day my real Me may have a chance to meet up with your real You.

If that happens, you'll remember how much more alike we all are than different.

All children of the same Parent.

All siblings made of Love, finding we all have the same root and the same destination.

I don't know about your You, but mine can't wait.

Daniel