I recently returned home from a retreat held in Vietnam where Serge Benhayon was presenting on “The Process of Evolution – The Living Sciences of Human Life.” It was an expansive topic and truly revelatory. It was presented that we are all part of a living science and Universal order where we can either choose to align with the evolutionary pull towards a one unifying way, working together in co-creation, or we can – by our own free will – choose to resist this natural pull.
Simply put, life in self-made creation (in contrast to co-creation) is one where we are immersed in all the attractions, distractions and emotional highs and lows of our physical life. It can be difficult to clearly see for our ‘vision’ is limited by the very consciousness or quality of our chosen thoughts and beliefs, which then become our life, and therefore our reality.
As my awareness continues to expand, more is unfolding and coming to light around this understanding.
I took this photo in Vietnam before the retreat officially began and it was reflecting to me all that was to unfold. In all its beauty, the lotus flower is still within the consciousness of creation.
It is however, often used to represent the state of liberation in Buddhist philosophy, rooted in the mud, while its flowers blossom well above the waterline, unaffected by the muddy waters of attachment. This was often seen as the final goal, but this is actually where it begins – the beginning of a Way of Living, free from the imprisonment of our self-made creation.
When I was young I felt like we were only being told part of the story of life; it just wasn’t right that we were born, we lived and we departed. I knew that there was much more to human life than that, and this led me to investigate many spiritual ideas and beliefs over many years. I believed at that time I was seeking to be liberated from this limited life, and to reach an enlightenment of some sort. I spent many hours in meditation trying to reach this elusive place of understanding I was seeking.
On reflection though, I question what did I want to be liberated from, and what or where to then?
It was not true liberation I was seeking, it was actually life I was looking to escape from; the harsh reality of what I felt overall was a loveless world, where we were living so much less than I knew to be possible.
In truth I was looking to re-connect with my Soul, and it is through the grace of my Soul’s light, and my loving dedication and acceptance of my responsibility, that I began to see clearly through the grand illusion I was held in, the deception of right and wrong, the highest ‘good’, and the illusion of false enlightenment.
What I didn’t see then was that we are all in this together and we can only truly evolve and be free of this way of life, with its limits of our self made creation, when we are working together towards our return to a one unified way of being. The tension we can often feel is because we don’t live this way, and we are constantly being pulled to this awareness while shattering the illusion of the individual separated life.
Our Soul is constantly communicating our oneness with us.
I was discussing this awareness with a friend of mine and she beautifully expressed it this way: “If we see a macadamia nut fallen from the tree we may crack the hard shell and experience the enjoyment of the taste of the nut, but if we stop at this, we are forgetting that single nut comes from a huge tree with many other nuts and the possibility is there for each to flourish into many more fruit bearing trees, ever expanding.”
In my experience trying to understand life and my place in the greater plan from a dimension that can only see its own creation was futile. This is why it never made complete sense to me, as I was caught in the web of it. It was like being in a lift and getting out on the fourth floor so to speak, and that becomes my reality, that’s all that I can see. However, as I stay open to the possibility, and now a knowing that there is a fifth floor and beyond, a greater awareness is unfolding, becoming available, and so much more is being revealed.
I have a new appreciation of the truth of ever expanding Evolution.
The Lotus flower now represents to me the liberation from the limits of self imposed creation and the beginning of an Age Old Way of Living, a One Unified Way in co-creation that is ever evolving – a way that is ours to choose.
By Victoria Picone
Further Reading:
~ The Kingly Body – Building a Connection With Your Soul
~ The Inner Voice: the Voice of the Soul
~ Spirit or Soul? Learning The Difference Through Serge Benhayon
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
“In my experience trying to understand life and my place in the greater plan from a dimension that can only see its own creation was futile.” Yes and I feel this is why so many people give up on life, turn to drugs alcohol and TV to numb themselves from feeling that deep within they know there has to be more to life than what our eyes allow us to see.
With Co-creation everything just seems to flow beautifully and be very simple and yet very powerful in its approach, in creation we reduce life and make it all about ourselves missing the connection to our Soul and to greater purpose.
Creation aims to keep us in separation of ourselves and others, Co-Creation unites us as one, and it is through that unity that we realise that we are all here to help one another.
Living a life of creation is total reductionism at it’s best. Whereas co-creation opens us up to the multidimensionality, we are naturally aligned to. What force must we be living with if it can ignore the call of the soul?
Victoria, that is a beautiful analogy. That lift has many storeys and we can keep going up.
I think in our essence it is innate in us to truly work together, to make our lives one of true co-operation and community, where all are held as the equals we are, and that there is a knowing or sense from our body of how to go about this rather than it being a utopian ideal or image to follow in our mind…
Yes it is not natural for us to go it alone and there are now the real issues with many people experiencing loneliness in our community because of the lack of connection with each other. It is our nature to support each other and work together.
Yes, as we live longer we are often lonely longer and the more electronic distractions we have the more we think we are managing our loneliness.
In a report I was listening to recently it was saying how many elderly people have only one friend, sometimes none. It really highlights the importance of community and sharing. Many live with the radio or TV on for companionship, which can never replace a loving gesture and connection from another.
We create by means of a movement that is disobedient to our divine essence. That is why it is a movement that comes with so much friction. Co-creation is frictionless. It is moving in space and just feeling the beauty of just being.
A movement of ease and grace and in alignment with out divinity will always be harmonious.
In co-creation we feel the pull of the all, in creation we are fully immersed in the attraction of the individual’s desire for experiences and identification.
The lotus flower has been used for all the wrong reasons as a symbol, as you point out. It is not the final flourishing (there is no final, Sanat Kumara continually expands) but only the beginning of sticking one’s head out above the gooey mess of creation.
To raise our head out of the mud and see things as they truly are and not as we might wish them to be is one thing, but to keep going and fully resurrect our whole body and being out of the swamp of creation does not only liberate us but all others who benefit from the reflection of what it means to extract yourself out of the mud and then jump back in so you can ‘swim like a fish in the sea and not get wet’. This is an age old esoteric teaching that is still very much alive and well today.
Even though our vision may be clearer when we see above the waterline, it is only when every last root we have in the mud is extracted we will be truly free of the illusion that we are free.
Victoria what you have shared here is huge and it feels so right
“It can be difficult to clearly see for our ‘vision’ is limited by the very consciousness or quality of our chosen thoughts and beliefs, which then become our life, and therefore our reality.”
I have changed so much since meeting Serge Benhayon, my reality before meeting him was to pretend I was coping with life, because when I looked around me it seemed to me we were all living in the same mess.
Now I understand that way of living was not it. My life is much simpler with less highs and lows much more even and actually joyful, never though I would ever say that!
My experience also Mary; there is joy in simplicity.
It is our soul that is constantly reminding us that there is another way to life, that we belong to a different order then the one we created here on this planet earth. And we all know this because we are all connected through soul that is of the same origin, but still choose from our free will to stay in this self created life instead.
Yes, we are all part of the One whole and with this awareness we know we are never not affecting the All by our choices and movements in life.
Yes Victoria, it all comes down to responsibility and to let go of the investment in this life of creation and of our individuality. Returning to soul is our way to go rather sooner than later and to start clearing the mess we have polluted life with from this ill choice.
To live in co-creation or in creation is our choice. While we are made to live with co-creation, as that is our nature, our current societies shows that we are not living that and instead for the majority of us, have chosen to live in creation, the self created way of life that clearly is demonstrating that it is not it when we look to all the atrocities that take place, and the illness and disease rates. So to me it is a good thing to become honest with this fact and consider to start living in co-creation instead.
” Simply put, life in self-made creation (in contrast to co-creation) is one where we are immersed in all the attractions, distractions and emotional highs and lows of our physical life. It can be difficult to clearly see for our ‘vision’ is limited by the very consciousness or quality of our chosen thoughts and beliefs, which then become our life, and therefore our reality. ”
Very simply put it must have been an awesome re-treat thank you.
To settle for a life that is ‘better’ we are capping our true potential and living at mercy of the world outside of us, rather than living a life that is truly free, by being ourselves, guided by our connection to Soul.
There is a pride in us about the self created life that think it is better and with that is withholding us from choosing to live in co-creation instead.
What a beautiful representation the lotus flower now is for you – which shows how our soul is drawn to constant expansion – it continues to pull us out of creation and all the complication that comes with it.
It is our movements in or out of alignment with our soulful light that choose what thoughts are coming through us. We are bodies of expression, instruments of light.
Seeking ‘liberation’ or ‘escaping life’ ? – the question every spiritual seeker needs to ask and answer before he can be sure where the search is taking them.
Well said Alexander – as the more we evolve the freer we become.
Yes a great question to ask. Being spiritually ‘liberated’… that is free of the spirits waywardness is not found in any search. There can be no escaping oneself and what is needed to address in our steps away from embracing in full who we are, it is rather an inward movement and re connection to all that is.
The symbol of the lotus flower beautifully brought to life not by knowledge but by your personal exploration and understanding and thus in the unfoldment of embodiment through the livingness of its truth.
How do we know again what we have chosen to not know anymore? We have tricked ourselves into a perfect set-up, we are the perpetrator of our victim-hood; it would be funny if it wasn´t so devastating and the greatest perversion imaginable. It is the cause for the state of the world, the difficulty and at times seeming impossibility to change for the true better that we actually long for, while holding onto the investments that result in the misery. Along comes the Ageless Wisdom and offers us the steps out of the mud, exposing the mud for what it is, and reflecting what we have left behind and can return back to: co-creation.
Exactly Alex, how do we know, or why do we not want to know ? It requires honesty and a willingness to admit we are in the mud before we can begin to extract ourselves, and we have every support to do so thanks to those that have walked this path before us.
It is impossible to marvel at the geometric beauty and symmetry of the spider’s web when we are caught in it. So too is it in life when we get so absorbed by a certain way of living that is fed by our own desires and all we can create for ourselves, that we no longer see the beauty we are and are from, nor that which has ensnared us to not live it.
and step by step we extract ourselves from the ensnarement when we are willing to see through this web of deception.
Yes, step away from it without beating at it as then it would ensnare us even harder.
I love your analogies Victoria. The Macadamia nut showing that we are part of something much bigger that offers and inspires others to see this too, and getting off the lift on the 4th floor showing how limiting we allow ourselves to be when we choose to think this is as far as we can go, and all that we survey is all that life has for us, and …”The Lotus flower now represents to me the liberation from the limits of self imposed creation and the beginning of an Age Old Way of Living, a One Unified Way in co-creation that is ever evolving – a way that is ours to choose.” Knowing this is only the beginning as we release ourselves from the shackles of creation and set ourselves free to explore the vastness that is offered on the 5th floor through the Ageless Wisdom and understanding what it means to live in a One Unified Way.
Yes and in truth we are returning, as you say a releasing of all that has held us captive or blind to the truth of our oneness.
With so much war, aggression, abuse and corruption on all levels it is easy to see why people (including myself) have looked to meditation as a way to escape it all. However, Serge Benhayon has taught us all how it is possible to live within this current global strife and not allow it to effect us negatively if we simply stay connected with our bodily movements in everything we do and observe life while knowing we can read and understand what lies behind our actions.
Observation is such a key that allows us to read and understand the broader picture of life, and our responsibility in this. Our connection and presence with the body truly supports us to see clearly.
‘It was not true liberation I was seeking, it was actually life I was looking to escape from’ when I read this, I thought of the countless times I used meditation to escape from the world and shut everything out. Did it make life any better? No, if anything it made it worse because as soon as I opened my eyes it was still there staring at my face.
Its only when I started to connect with myself I could feel the difference and then it became apparent meditation was about me connecting to me and who I am with the world.
I see the world differently and my purpose is to reflect this to whoever is open to it.
Yes, I once had a friend ask me how meditating for hours a day truly helped humanity and I never forgot that, it exposed the self indulgence that meditation can be if used to escape. One can connect in a moment.
“a way that is ours to choose” There is a Divine freedom and a responsibility in the choices we make in the way we live that affects not only ourselves but also everyone and everything around us.
Our Soul is in constant communication with us and in that we have to understand that life is so much more that the three dimensional life we all together think life is and this communication from our Soul is proof of that. When we all do come to this understanding, the idea of life being only three dimensional will come to an end and the multi dimensionallity of life will become our normal way.
Yes and we go around and around and around again until we are prepared to see outside of the bubble of our own making. As more awareness is allowed so does our view become more encompassing of the all we are a part of.
And as we open up to more awareness, we also allow ourselves to feel the grandness and love that is inside us, all around us and beyond.
” It can be difficult to clearly see for our ‘vision’ is limited by the very consciousness or quality of our chosen thoughts and beliefs, which then become our life, and therefore our reality. ” This is very true and then we make a picture of how things should be for us personally ,our family or friends. Or we are given pictures to live up to or tin plates and we then fill in the rest to our flavour , but there is no free choice in this process so no evolution just creating more of the same just difference colours and flavours but evolving no where just going around in circles.
It becomes clear how it is we reduce ourselves through the ‘pictures’ we hang onto. We circle around and around and the stage has been set. There is not space for expansion if we do not shift the setting.
Co-creation is feeling the all and wholeheartedly dipping all toes in, the whole body, with no self (individuality), responding and then giving it your personal all. Because there is a physical body, I personally sometimes feel limited by the pain or discomfort in my body and self (individuality) comes in. I roll over and not bring my all or self-criticise how I have been because of my pain. Feeling the all is sometimes too much to feel.
By feeling the all, and by tenderly moving in honouring the pain or discomfort is responding to how to reimprint a way that is with the body in movement and action. It’s more supportive this way then to go into individuality to ‘try’ and deal with it or work out the pain. By continually feeling and tenderly holding my body in the love that is the all I am given how to be with the all.
We need to have our feet on the ground – to live fully in the realm we are in, but also move with the understanding and wisdom held within us that we are universal, divine beings of Light enhoused in a physical body. This way we can fully honour our incarnation whilst at the same time not get invested in it.
We get hurt when we invest and attach, to things, concepts or people.
The analogy you give of a specific floor and that being our reality captures it so clearly, we’re actually part of a larger building but immersed in the world of our floor forgetting that floor 4 is built on top of others and provides support for those above, so in fact it’s all interconnected; this has two aspects, we are so much more than we allow, not just a floor but a building and who knows what in a wider context, and everything we do impacts that wider world, so what goes on in our floor affects all. This is the craziness of how we live in creation enhoused in co-creation and we will never see beyond creation (our floor) unless we’re willing to be aware of the wider co-creation.
I have ended up back at this article again today reading it again. We are unaware of how our perception of how things are and our movement in this then controls how and what we see. Like the article presents, I remember being young and then at different points in my life where I realised there was more to what was going on or where I had the feeling of this is not it. It was like at those points when you question your head would come up to look around to find the next thing to see if that was ‘it’. I had no time or didn’t make the choice to truly feel anything it was more just bouncing between things. When I truly stopped then Universal Medicine came up and from there I can now see that by what I allow, how I choose to be and move, this ‘controls’ or more dictates what then I can see in my next movement. Rush around and you blank a lot, while hold yourself and be aware of each movement and more and more of the veil is lifted.
I guess creation wants to limit our quest for a true life to that which may be comfortable but still within its bounds. The fact that life could be even greater is rarely considered but much less sought and even resisted.
Yes it takes a realignment to be able to see through creations ways; we can limit what is available to us when we settle for less than we truly are.
I love the fact that it is not about ‘the New Age’ but rather that it is about re-discovering an ‘Age Old Way’ of living. The re-descovery simply says to us that we already know it and it is about coming back to what we already know rather than having to learn something totally new.
There is something so familiar with just getting out on the 4th floor and closing our eyes to anything that tells us there is more. It doesn’t challenge us except, there is a constant tension that there is more. The tension only eases when you allow yourself to see, feel and live aware that there is so much more to us and to life than what we have created.
Yes, there is actually such a joyful expansion in this, and it is very natural to feel the pull to be more of us. Everything in life is ever-expanding and evolving and we are part of that too.
Creation seems like the pinnacle when we are choosing to live unaware and unawakened to infinite magnificence and majesty of co-creation.
I loved the analogy of the lift and getting out at a certain floor and that is all you see. It makes complete sense to many things and how I have seen time and time again things feel out of place but accepting them as ‘well that’s just how life is’ etc in place of realising that you may have just caught a glimpse that you are just on one floor of what is a multi story building and you open up to the possibility that you have been sold only one floor. The openness to the possibilities of what you are truly seeing is a great way to stay open to other ‘floors’ otherwise you are sold deep and never will you choose to see anything other then where you stand.
Our nature is ever expanding and when we surrender to this fact we begin to see what we have often felt… that in truth cannot be framed. We are multidimensional beings.
This is true and we are that powerful that we are able to bring ourselves from “multidimensional” to a dimension like we are saying about only being on one floor of a “multidimensional” building. It takes a lot of work and energy to make something so grand so small but we do it and it hurts us, it hurts us all. When we say “surrender” this is an action to let go of all that focus to make us small and allow ourselves to naturally grow or expand back to the truth of who we are. Not the perceived truth in our dimension but the truth of the grandness.
Liberation and escape may sound like synonyms but they are not. Both are meant to leave something behind. Yet, the path of truth has no escape in its menu. There is no way to escape the energy you are choosing to align to.
True Eduardo. On the ‘path of truth’ we are returning.
The tension we feel is the knowing that there is more to life but this knowing is less confirmed and completely scattered in amongst the bombardments we see and also feel in daily life.
Yes and there will always be a tension when we are living against our nature, which is always calling us back to our oneness.
Thank you for sharing the macadamia nut story… This is beautiful capturing the big picture beyond what we just immediately see in front of our eyes.
When separated from our soul we feel separated to everyone, when we connect to our soul we are connected to all by the innate love that resides within.
How true and simple it can be. We are unified by nature.
Yes, it is exhausting to keep convincing ourselves that creation is ‘it’. Building an awareness of what we are aligning to, is it drama, distraction and complication, or could we align to simple, honest and true? I have found that simply asking the question gives me an opportunity to detach from the grasp of creation.
It is like we are squashing ourselves into this box and telling ourselves it is our reality when there is no way it is, no way it could be, yet we keep telling ourselves it is. We are multidimensional beings and without knowing that we will always feel a tension.
Yes the tension we can feel is because we do know, we know we are much more than we may have been living or see around us being lived. We know what isn’t love and truth because we know what love and truth is.
And that is where the beating up and the blame has to stop – because we are from love and truth so to not live that is a constant choice to live something else which is what has become familiar…groundhog day!
There is so much to be inspired by when we let ourselves be, with eyes and hearts open to receiving.
Creation is so alluring, I guess it’s designed that way to make sure we don’t bother to look past our individual worlds. But as the awareness grows and we begin to question what life is all about, the cracks become exposed and we start to feel just how deep a mess we have got ourselves into.
It may be ‘self’ sustaining, as in keeping the self or individuality entertained, yet as we are seeing it is not sustaining in truth… we are part of a collective and our nature is to move as one.
The beauty of nature is here to reflect to us the wonders and the magic of God, that also resides in us, but creation is not our true home it is our class room where in we learn to return to who we truly are so that we all can arise out of here to our next plane of life.
Yes, there is beauty in it and it serves its purpose, yet it is not our resting place. We are on our evolutionarily path back home.
I have always found the Lotus flower interesting, almost too perfect, a little fake looking but it also reminder me of a movie set or a make believe world, I was not aware of the Buddhist meaning and like the spin you have put on the new meaning. I definitely feel the tension from the natural pull and sadly that is because I resist it so often but there comes a time of everyone, when our soul communicates to us through our body and the pain of pulling away forces a type of surrender. I am hoping to learn this alignment before my soul has to step in and give me a wake up call.
It’s so easy to see ourselves as having escaped and being above the mud when we consider the lotus flower, it’s beautiful, it’s above the fray but that’s only the start … it’s still part of the mud and until we’re willing to see beyond creation as you note here Victoria, we are still caught in it. It’s about being willing to keep going to let go creation and understand that life if broader and wider than we can sometimes see, it’s about evolution and always being willing to take that next step back to the truth of our soul.
I love the image of the lotus flower being just the beginning of our awakening from the illusion, not the end.
When I don’t live in connection to this deeper part of me life becomes somewhat of a struggle, when I do connect back to this- life becomes more simple, more beautiful and I am able to see more.
We are here to return to who we truly are and then to get out of here. The irony is that the only way we can do this is to commit even more deeply to life and ourselves.
If we are aiming for enlightenment and to rise above the trials of day to day life, we are further diving into the illusion of creation and so that is our reality. It is no wonder then that there is so much despair and given-upness in the world, for we are trying to ‘fix’ something that cannot be fixed – get to somewhere which is just a different place in the same creation that we are trying to fix or escape from.
It is easy to stop at the beauty, amazing though it is, but if it’s part of the creation and we just stop there we miss out on the wider piece, like you say Victoria, it’s like seeing that nut and failing to understand that it can become a tree and beget many more. It’s the starting point and if we’re willing and open to go beyond that and understand that we are in effect on the same floor but that there’s others and a wider building we begin the true journey of coming back to co-creation where we are all from.
Nature is an absolutely awesome reflection of the beauty that we hold within, and the reflections are there like blessings and reminders that confirm of all we are. This is our nature.
And so it is, that the choice is always ours. A beautiful sharing Victoria, thank you.
“we can either choose to align with the evolutionary pull towards a one unifying way, working together in co-creation, or we can – by our own free will – choose to resist this natural pull”.
Considered in this light, the thought of ‘creating’ something becomes repugnant, self-indulgent. What value is there in losing oneself in a ‘creative process’ that is purely for recognition of some kind? Co-creating – creating in conjunction with one’s soul and the divine for a purpose other than the meeting of a personal whim – now that feels different and super-evolving for everyone.
Agree Victoria, and asking the question what is the purpose can be illuminating.
The world we have created today is messy with emotions and reactions which can prevent us from seeing beyond that overwhelm and clearly understanding the futility that we are merely going around and around and indulging in.
Working together life becomes so much easier. I have noticed recently how I have been allowing an openess and willing to express what was coming up for me. This hasn’t always been the case as there was a stubborn attitude to ‘go it alone’ but what I realised was how invaluable it is to connect and share with another allowing for connection or for want of a better word intimacy into my life.
I’ve always had a sense that the world wasn’t right and that there was something really missing with how we all related to eachother. I knew there was another way and I knew that simply accepting that the world ‘wasn’t perfect’ was just an excuse that allowed us to continue in what I now know as creation.
Such a depth in what you have shared with us and it represents the depth of which is on offer to us as a human race – which is a key learning of what I have learned from the presentations of Universal Medicine.
There is so much more to life that what we have been sold/told.
‘It can be difficult to clearly see for our ‘vision’ is limited by the very consciousness or quality of our chosen thoughts and beliefs, which then become our life, and therefore our reality.’ When we are willing to see and feel this truth about our quality and that we have a choice, our body can open up, what our purpose is can become clear and this is ‘the beginning of an Age Old Way of Living, a One Unified Way in co-creation that is ever evolving – a way that is ours to choose.’
The reductionism of life as most of us live it leaves us running empty and in need of habitual crutches to fill the void. But, those patterns and bahaviours will never quell the insatiable thirst – only reconnecting to the truth, the wholeness of our being and understanding life as energy will bring through the fullness we so desperately seek.
Beautifully said Rachael.
yes the ‘eternal unsettlement’ and the longing for something more… communion with the divine has long been voiced through the ages, yet often we have not seen that it is we who are standing in the way of that reunion.
The trick seems to be being 100% in the world and committed AND simultaneously recognising we are not of it.
When we live with the light of the soul, creation automatically becomes co-creation.
Beautifully said Victoria.
‘It was not true liberation I was seeking, it was actually life I was looking to escape from;’ I can so relate to this and can see this so clearly now although for many years I too was looking for enlightenment and to better myself and make the world a better place. It is no coincidence that when I started to deeply question the difference between soul and spirit and to choose a way to be in life that was very simple and founded on a gentle breath that I met Serge Benhayon and the teachings and modalities that are presented by Universal Medicine. Far from being the end of the road this is ‘the beginning of an Age Old Way of Living, a One Unified Way in co-creation that is ever evolving – a way that is ours to choose.’
“It was not true liberation I was seeking, it was actually life I was looking to escape from”. This, I feel, applies to the vast majority of people at present seeking liberation, it certainly did for me. Discovering that evolution is found through renouncing creation for co-creation as presented by Serge Benhayon and The Way of The Livingness I now know that I truly am on the Path of Evolution while before there always felt to be something missing.
…and in the renouncing of creation, as you put it, for co-creation, we in fact are more engaged in life and with one another knowing there is a purpose in our coming together and evolving way.
I find the analogy of the lift so apt. If we only go up and down up to the same floor we will start to believe that that is all there is. Especially if we have something to do with creating it and making sure that there are no signposts to tell us otherwise! This is where those among us who have actually travelled a bit further than the floor we have travelled to come in. It is a pure joy, immensely inspiring and a true gift to hear and witness Serge Benhayon who by example express that there is far more.
Having felt the love and support of being one with all others, I know that there is no other way to be. When I picture a group of people taking each other’s hand and holding each other – their reflection of the love and strength this brings is beautiful. There is no other true way of being. Thank you Victoria for bringing this expansive, loving and connecting blog.
Thank God for Serge Benhayon who has inspired me to look deeper and expose past hurts and attachments to discontinue glorifying the individual. The more surrender of the old controlling ways, the more open The Way to return to a one unified way of being.
“…we can only truly evolve and be free of this way of life, with its limits of our self made creation, when we are working together towards our return to a one unified way of being. The tension we can often feel is because we don’t live this way, and we are constantly being pulled to this awareness while shattering the illusion of the individual separated life”.
‘a way that is ours to choose’ yes it is Victoria. I love that image of the macadamia tree you share, how if we see the nut but ignore the wider context of where it comes from (the tree), we miss so much and so it is indeed with us, we develop and evolve but always within the context of the wider world of God, humanity and the Universe around us, We evolve and expand together.
When our movements, our expression is aligned to the greater whole we are a part of we expand and evolve together. Yes monicag2 we live in a multidimensional world and are reminded of this everyday if we are open to seeing that.
Thank you for a great sharing Victoria. To co-create with God is what we are meant to do to grow ourselves out of this predicament we find ourselves in here now in this World and back to where we truly belong.
Life tricks us in many different fronts telling us, you have made it!!! Congratulations!! These, however, are not real final destinations but only one step in a path of permanent unfoldment back to God. The problem is that they make us believe that this is it or that this is as far as we can go or that the direction. to keep growing is the wrong one. The result is the same, we plateau while convinced that we made it.
To understand how we can be ‘tricked’ by life we need to see it for what it is, to not let ourselves become enmeshed within it, while being fully committed in life. We pass through life on our return.. it is not our settling place or true home. All the while though there is so much to appreciate and enjoy along the way.
I love the analogy of the macadamia nut and creation. Simply asking if we live just for ourselves and momentary pleasure or to expand and grow for and with everyone which ultimately brings eternal joy?
There is no end or cap on how much we can evolve, for there is always more love to express, but where we all differ is in our choices of the pace we choose to travel in our return journey to our Soul.
Thank you for exploring the difference between escaping and true liberation. I too spent years trying to escape into meditation and other spiritual pursuits that only buried my awareness and discontent deeper. i love the Universal Medicine retreats because they offer the opportunity to feel and experience the expansiveness of co-creation and liberation from the trap of creation with its myriad of enticing but empty ways to stay stuck in the rut of trying to better my life at the expense of others. True liberation is when we release our self imposed shackles and accept the divinity of our inner essence.
The Universal Medicine ‘retreats’ offer quite the opposite to what we understand that word to mean; there is total commitment and engagement with others to the process of evolution. As you say they are very expansive.
‘Our Soul is constantly communicating our oneness with us.’ Yes and the more that we accept and embrace this the more opens up to us. As you so rightly point out when we are stuck in the mud of creation we are unable to pull back and feel the bigger picture but we still experience the tension of the pull towards evolution hence the greater and greater reliance on multiple distractions to try and ignore our Soul’s communication.
There is no way that we are just ‘born, we lived and we departed’. Just consider the ripples from one life… the impact on the world and all the people that we influence. We are part of the universe and there is no question that we impact on it in every way.
Thank you Victoria for bringing awareness to the struggle that we so often choose to live with, the tension of not living in connection to who we are in essence, and if we are willing to be honest it is this tension that drives us to seek to nullify it. Our Soul forever calling us to be in connection to the light of oneness. For when we surrender to the light we are within we know who we are, why we are here, and we are free to live, explore and evolve to be more of who we actually are. This is then just beginning of that which in truth has no end.
This is a key here Carola,” if we are willing to be honest it is this tension that drives us to seek to nullify it.” We all have a sensitivity that feels our disconnect and there are many distractions in the world to feed the numbing of the tension we can feel, yet it is natural to feel the tension of our separation and equally it is a call for us to return to the light of oneness, ‘the beginning of that which in truth has no end’.
Although making more conscious choices to return to the known divine and natural way of living, there are times that I can still choose to numb the ever-deepening awareness with some ill-choices. Fortunately, the pull is always there to expose the individual way of being and return to all that I am in truth.
“The tension we can often feel is because we don’t live this way, and we are constantly being pulled to this awareness while shattering the illusion of the individual separated life”.
Yes, the pull is always there for us to return to union and we can choose to react to it and further bury ourselves or see it as the gift it is, to bring us back to truth.
“… we can only truly evolve and be free of this way of life, with its limits of our self made creation, when we are working together towards our return to a one unified way of being.” Beautifully expressed Victoria. However the world seems intent on dividing and separating us all from each other and “my way is right” mentality, which is all about self.
We are multidimensional beings and though the mind may struggle with this the body feels the truth in every cell.
We don’t know what we don’t know, yet we can also choose to stay stuck in what we know and not be open to the possibility that there is life above the mud of the pond of the fourth floor. Thank you for this divine blog.
I too spent many years in a spiritual search – knowing there was more to life – but never found the answer in all the many courses I attended and the books I read. “In truth I was looking to re-connect with my Soul” Yes Victoria, though even then my understanding of the difference between spirit and soul wasn’t true back then. Attending retreats and courses presented by Serge Benhayon has led me to understand energy far more and to trust my inner knowing and awareness – when I am connected with my innermost.
Knowing that we are expressing units of light changes everything.
Exquistely expressed Victoria, you have said it all. We are so much more than what we can perceive at the human level until such a time that we attune our senses by way of true movement (moving in a way free of the imposition of all outer ideals, beliefs and images) and hence know the truth that we are in fact multidimensional beings of great light and love that have the opportunity to express this love through our physical forms.
Thank you for a very beautiful sharing Victoria – I love your analogies of how there is ever more in this multi-dimensional expanding Universe that we live in and not to be limited into thinking we have arrived just because we get off at one floor or have cracked one nut!
Sometimes I fantasise about having my blinkers on again as a bizarre “liberation”, wishing I couldn’t feel so much. The ignorance is bliss line comes to mind but when I consider more deeply, I realise you can’t un-know things and really why would I want to? The only option to get back to the ignorance is to numb yourself and I have done that already this lifetime and probably many others and I know without a doubt it was a cop out.
From my experience we hold things in our bodies whether we are aware or not, so the sooner we reconnect to the true purpose of life, and wake up from our comforts, the faster you are able to start move through the issues that we have held onto for lifetimes; now who wants bliss, when they can have this, no issues and pure joy.
Yes once we know, and we do know… we cannot un-know. even if we try to cover, numb and pretend we are one-dimensional. It’s an exposing saying ‘ignorance is bliss’; that if we live without a responsibility towards ourselves or others that it is somehow blissful.
I know that too Victoria, that feeling from young that there is more to life, a greater order and cycles we belong to and are part of as we can clearly observe by our day’s and nights and the revolutions around the sun that brings us to the same place every year again and again. The purpose of this grander order and cycles we can only observe when we let go our idea that we have control over our life and in that control continuously create to prove ourselves to be right such as: ‘you see, we are improving’, when we have developed a better solution we think will ease the suffering we experience in this life of creation but in that we are constantly fooling ourselves as we have to better and better the solutions over and over continuously so.
Yes and in the ‘improving’ or bettering there is feeling we are getting somewhere, when in fact evolution is not a lineal movement rather an expansion.
Exactly Victoria, the universe is about expansion not about improving or making anything better as it is already in perfect order, it only expands its particles, and in that, making more space divine.
I have realised how much our belief in right and wrong holds us back from truth, because when we are caught up in the right or wrong we have an investment into how something should be, when the truth is just the truth.
hear hear Sally and so immeasurably and incomparably vaster, grander and more simple than any right or wrong.
Thank you Victoria, your blog inspires me to appreciate what is possible in our world dominated by creation. It shows we can choose to blossom just like the lotus flowers above the muddy waters. Our path is always to evolve back to God by choosing co-creation as you’ve so beautifully shared.
Our interconnectedness is so evident when give pause to consider how we are all governed and affected by the universal rhythms and cycles we are in and share, and the fact that we breath the same air and essentially feel the same love within us. We may assume that we are separate, however in every way we are intrinsically connected with everything and every ONE around us.
Amazing Victoria, I love your blog and your comment. When I am connected to myself I feel what you expressed here very strongly.
That is so very true Victoria and very lovely to feel when we allow ourselves to do so. Strangely it is not the reality that most currently live or are consciously aware of yet, but it will be one day.
I too am finding the concept of co-creation to slowly set in, but getting myself out of the way has been an ongoing obstacle. Often forgetting that there isn’t just me to consider, that there is a much much wider net – humanity- out there that is affected by every single choice I make.
Yes I am sure many relate to this Elodie, we can have an awareness about life and that allows us to see more, yet it is the living of that awareness day to day, with our every choice that makes the difference. If it is coming through us, from within, it is for all of us.
” I believed at that time I was seeking to be liberated from this limited life, and to reach an enlightenment of some sort.”
This is how I too lived. Without stopping to feel how sad I was in life. What a lie we have been fed. Knowing there was more to life, yet looking upon it as something to take us out of the life we were in. Until Universal Medicine, nothing suggested that how I was living was the cause of how I felt in life. That there is no magic that fixes all the wrongs in my life. Instead there is responsibility and the choice to be the person navigating my life, with the joy I feel, not the person that life pulls into its whirlwind and spits me out at the end.
It makes basic sense that we are not individuals carving out our own lives, to be lived according to our rules and desires. That doesn’t work, as we have seen repeated many times. We are part of a bigger plan that is to support us to get out of creation and bring us to co creation where we all reconnect to the oneness we are all originally from and responsibly choosing to return to.
It is very true that re-connecting to our Soul is only the beginning for us to truly live who we are, through which the light we are is understood and realised as the oneness we are all equally from. There is no end point to reach, for our Souls are the forever expression of the magic of God light.
Thank you Victoria for a beautiful sharing, I too have tried to fix the problems with the same creation consciousness that caused it in the first place, and getting only more of the same until understanding that it is me who needs to change “we can only truly evolve and be free of this way of life, with its limits of our self made creation, when we are working together towards our return to a one unified way of being”
This has been a great learning for me also Jill – that to ‘fix’ what is broken or solve a seeming problem we need to step out of the energy that has caused it to be there in the first place. We cannot find true solutions from the same pool of consciousness that created them. True healing can only come from returning to love and allowing the quality of this love to impulse our every move.
Victoria, I love the analogy of the floors in a building and how easy it is to think the floor we’re on it is, and forget, there’s one above and one below, it captures so clearly the bind we can get ourselves in when we do not step back and see the larger or bird’s eye view, that there is more than we can see and know. It cuts any arrogance we may have, and brings a humility to us as we learn to see and understand that there is more and it’s unfolding the more we accept it and let go our limited ways of seeing.
Yes monicag2, and from that bird’s eye view we can begin to truly ‘fly’… although it is not a outward movement as such, rather an inward movement of surrender and connection to that ever expansiveness.
“we can only truly evolve and be free of this way of life, with its limits of our self made creation, when we are working together towards our return to a one unified way of being.” The teachings and revelations that are presented at Universal Medicine retreats are an inspiration to rediscover the truths of the Ageless Wisdom
It felt to me reading this, Victoria, like there was an opening of a very large door that we can all walk through together, back home.
When I read about the universal order, that immense natural flow like a powerful river, I wonder how we can possibly try to swim against the current. Why would we waste so much time and energy swimming against the flow, when we can simply surrender, be completely at ease and be carried along by the natural order.
Agree Fiona, we may try to swim against the tide, the natural flow of the universe, however in doing so we just delay or prolong the misery of being out of sync with the divine design and universal order that is governing us. The fight can only delay our return, and with the choice to let go we are supported by the true flow of life.
I feel you are spot on that many of us say that we seek liberation, but what we really seek is an escape from a world and way of living that is loveless and we know to be untrue. We want the rose colored glasses that will cushion us in life, when in reality we have to be in life, bringing the truth of divinity to all.
Stunning Victoria, a beautiful account of the way back for humanity. A one unified movement out of creation.
True evolution.
wow – you explore here the difference when we make life about do I evolve or not rather than what is good or not – a huge one to break and really comes with a sense of responsibility to our lives rather than just putting on a nice act.
The illusion of false enlightenment was a big one for me spending 20 odd years doing transcendental meditation and spiritual pursuits, which all the time was taking me further and further away from soul. The presentations by Serge Benhayon gave me a deep true understanding of evolution, creation and co creation with an awareness off those distractions and ways we choose to avoid evolution. What a turning point this was and how much life has changed.
The way I have come to see life is that investing in creation is like walking around with blinkers on – it’s a narrow view that does not reveal the fullness and grandness of all of us. Living in Co-creation is to take off those blinkers, revealing the gaudiness and rot that creation really is, and opening our view to the expansive magnificence of the Universe.
Our way has always been our way however through our endeavours into creation our way has warped into the tangledness of what life presently is. Life isn’t ugly our creations that we have laid within life are.
Much to our advantage the constant presence of nature is a calling card to come home, as are the signs from our body.
Thank goodness and thank God.
Thank you Victoria. I loved the analogy of the macadamia tree and I get the sense I have focused on a single nut for most of my life. Instead of feeling foolish I feel blessed by this truth as the expansion I can feel brings nothing but joy.
I too get the feeling that the single nut has become the focus for many Leonne. The fact that we can easily see that the truth is in the whole tree and how the nuts become the seeds for future trees already shows us that deep down we do know that we are all so much more.
Nature is constantly reflecting what is possible for us and the expansion that is our nature. Looking at the tree alone we have the trunk representing the solid foundation which allows our branches to grow, the leaves to form and the inner nuts to flourish… and then as you say Vicky the seeds are planted for future trees to be inspired, ever expanding. What a beautiful reflection for our lives.
The seeking outside of ourselves is an endless empty path to take and will only produce temporary relief. Only through true connection with our inner most and our equal brothers in co-creation our natural divine state will be felt.
The idea of creation and co-creation for most is unimaginable especially if we think that we in fact think when in co-creation we actually know that thoughts never come from us, but from the energy we align to. Both ways of living can be similar in their outplay, but very very different in their energetic quality
I embraced this new way of living called The Way of The Livingness as is presented by Serge Benyhayon,
and as a result I have changed so much and my life has transformed. Simply put, from a life of struggle and complication, life now flows effortless towards me as I have a strong willingness to learn and to let of my old indulging ways. I have observed how much support and love there is for me, all I have to do is say yes, yes to life and commit.
“The Lotus flower now represents to me the liberation from the limits of self imposed creation and the beginning of an Age Old Way of Living, a One Unified Way in co-creation that is ever evolving – a way that is ours to choose.” In love, joy, harmony and truth, our natural way of being that we can continually come back to with each choice.
Victoria I love how you have made reference to their being a 5th floor and beyond. If we live on the 1st floor and never even consider that there is a 4th, let alone a 5th, we are missing out on so much. We can think we are happy on the 1st floor but most of this ‘happiness’ could actually be described as a way of distracting and numbing ourselves from how much we miss the richness of those other floors. A beautiful analogy of life, our potential and ultimately our divinity.
That is true Vicky, why would we settle for this reductionism or ‘happiness’ when there is so much more available for us to access? Being open to the fact we are so much more than that we may have come to accept brings a true joy and purpose… a rediscovery of the enormity of the love and truth we are.
Very true Vicky. I have come to see happiness as comfort and it leaves me feeling restricted and on edge as it never lasts or truly heals the tension I feel. It is only through allowing myself to feel everything that I can be truly joyful.
Yes, God patiently waits for us with utmost love and understanding and never with judgment to make the choices back to who we truly are.
Very true steffihenn, we can never truly be satisfied when we make life all about us, we are in this together.
Thank you so much for the link Victoria, I remember reading this article ‘Can I align to the wisdom of my soul in a place like San Victorino’ and found it very supportive. Great for the opportunity to revisit this now.
This is beautiful Victoria. Things become difficult when we resist evolution and try to force our own short sighted way onto the natural rhythm that we could harmoniously live in. There is one unified way, everything else is swimming upstream in the mud.
Yes, well said Amanda, our natural rhythm is harmonious. Life does become difficult when we hold on to how we want it to be, our own creation, rather than surrender to a way that supports all of us, which is naturally evolutionary.
Well said Fumiyo “…enough is enough…” Creation sure is exhausting. To be in the flow of co-creation is our natural state, it certainly feels weightless as I live this way more and more.
‘…trying to understand life and my place in the greater plan from a dimension that can only see its own creation was futile.’ This is crucial in building understanding about the limitations of contemplation. It’s futile because we are so caught up in our own creation, so much a part of it and it a part of us, that we almost can’t conceive of anything different, anything more,anything grander than what we know or can imagine or choose from the currently available platform from which we do our fathoming.
To be willing to open to the possibility that there is more that what we may currently see or can access opens the door for more to be seen.
To study the human body it is easy to see that we are so much more than the physical. There is a natural flow and rhythm. Co-creation is about going with the flow of life rather than working against life.
That is cool, to consider the ripple effect before you put your toe in. That takes a choice to stop and make a choice about the quality of ripple right from the get go…until that is, there is a lived body of love, then every ripple you make leaves no one less it just washes everyone with the same quality it started with.
I love the beauty and joy of the Lotus flower Victoria. It shows us what is possible as we live in a world full of distractions and disharmony.
Yes me too Anne. The Lotus flower is a beautiful reflection of how we can live in this would and not be affected by it.
Beautifully expressed ginadunlop and bernadetteglass.
‘I began to see clearly through the grand illusion I was held in, the deception of right and wrong, the highest ‘good’, and the illusion of false enlightenment.’ It is so freeing, yet so confronting when we start to see through these illusions, especially when we can feel how what on the outside may look ‘good’ is quite clearly far from being true. I have recently started realising how the the falseness of ‘good’ actually feels worse than the obvious ‘bad’, and how it creates even more separation from God because without discerning the energy it can look pretty convincing from the outside.
‘Simply put, life in self-made creation (in contrast to co-creation) is one where we are immersed in all the attractions, distractions and emotional highs and lows of our physical life.’ When you are in it, it can be difficult to see that you are in it, because we keep feeding ourselves the same distractions over and over again. For me it was TV, alcohol, food, and emotions, left right and centre. Now my life is very different. There is still the odd distraction here and there, but the more of stillness and love I hold in my body, the less appealing the distractions become, and from then I started to understand what it’s like having heaven here on earth.
I agree Eleanor, it is not until we stop feeding the distractions that there is a space to truly see from a broader perspective. Everything is clearer when felt from the connection to the natural stillness we hold.
That is where, I feel, we get offered a key to getting out of the box we have locked ourselves in – by stopping the distractions to feel what is left in the space. Bringing honesty to that moment offers wisdom that can only come form inside, from God, and once felt, is near on impossible to ignore again. The simple return to being ourselves begins 🙂
yes, and everything is held within that space and has a depth of wisdom that we can access through our bodies from our re-connection to the natural stillness within.
I love what you share Eleanor, very beautifully and simply said and I agree. The more I hold the truth and connection to who I am in my body the less appealing the distractions are. In fact many fall away and are never missed.
It’s true Sandra and once they do fall away the thought of bringing them back in again no longer holds any appeal or attraction as there is simply no space or place for them.
I too Victoria, have been trapped in creation and the deception of right and wrong the highest good etc. Tied to the beliefs of creation, making life all about me, the individual. Where co-creation is all about responsibility , that every choice I make affects the all. That we are here to all evolve together, back to where we belong in harmony, love, joy, and truth, only in co-creation.
Very true Ariana, every little thought or thing we do affects everyone else in the whole world. If we are fuming with anger, wallowing in sadness, rejoicing in defeat of a competitor we leave a trail of pollution for others to wade through.
I agree Victoria, the world makes no sense to us as individuals, it makes very good sense that we are here to get along with each other, and then rejoin the harmony we once lived.
In my own experience I can understand why creation can be associated with ‘muddiness’ because for me, it’s been the thing that’s kept me ‘stuck’ in drama, control, reaction and complication. In learning to connect to co-creation, working with and as part of the universe, I have found this muddiness has started to clear as life becomes more about truth, clarity and responsibility.
That is beautiful elainearthy,”and this light certainly gets brighter the more responsibility I am willing to accept.
Thank you Victoria, I agree, it sounds to me like a fish swimming around in the ocean saying it is not a fish, when in fact it is in a sea of water and needs gills to breath. Humanity lives in a sea of energy and fails to feel that the reality is ‘we feel everything.’ All this is talk about creation. Co-creation on the other hand takes everything into consideration including the responsibility to life, which comes with an energetic quality as presented through Universal Medicine by Serge Benhayon.
‘Unimed Living’ website provides an awareness and depth about how true responsibility works. Visit. http://www.unimedliving.com
I love that macadamia analogy – it captures the essence of co-creation.
While on the Level 5 Sacred Esoteric Healing course I am really understanding on a deeper level what you have shared here Victoria. We live in the mud of ‘the real world’ but there is a tension because we understand that there IS life above the waterline and that is where we are to be living. But everything that is above the waterline is already within our bodies and is constantly being supplied to us via our soul. It’s like the more we let that out from us the water recedes bringing into our space and our world more of what is above, eventually we will all stand above the waterline again but never before have I had such a clear conscious understanding and symbolism of this (in this life at least!). Thank you.
When I am connected there is an inner knowing, a readiness to expand forever, when I get distracted by creating a goal or reaching an end point I am immediately limited.
Yes true for me too nicolesjardin, when I am connected and in my body there is more openness and spaciousness I feel within, and the communication of the ‘inner knowing’ more readily accessible.
Co-creation is about going with the flow of life rather than working against life. The reason for life is evolution, therefore anytime we are making decisions that delay us from taking the next step or dealing with something that’s holding us back, we are in creation and working against the natural flow of life and evolution.
Yes true Donna, it is a continual choice to re-connect with ourselves and the natural evolutionary process which pulls us back to unification, our oneness. Without this inner connection we can easily lose our way in a world that champions our achievements.
There is so much wisdom in your blog Victoria. I had to read it a couple of times to get a deeper sense of understanding around the huge illusion that we are living in. The symbolism of the lotus flower is just beautiful.
Absolutely Ariana, ‘Everything we do affects everyone without exception’. What a responsibility we have, right down to our thoughts, and what energy we allow to run us.
“What I didn’t see then was that we are all in this together and we can only truly evolve and be free of this way of life, with its limits of our self made creation, when we are working together towards our return to a one unified way of being.” I love this line and the feeling of having to come together as one again in harmony to be totally free from creation, that being issues, problems, struggle, hardship and sorrow. When nobody chooses these emotions they will simply cease to exist.
So simple and true, we have a choice in every moment and our choices are powerful.
Wow Victoria that I have to digest first – thank you so much for sharing your understanding of what you found out by living this great revelation: “The Lotus flower now represents to me the liberation from the limits of self imposed creation and the beginning of an Age Old Way of Living, a One Unified Way in co-creation that is ever evolving – a way that is ours to choose.” It is a bit confronting but also very inspiring and I have to admit that I am looking forward to go on my own journey to have a look inside myself what I can discover.
“Our Soul is constantly communicating our oneness with us.” This is so true and when we open our awareness to the love that we all are we can feel the brotherhood as we return together to who we truly are.
I agree Carmel, it is not always easy to see through the fog of our creations, our emotional highs and lows, and you raise an important question”where do our thoughts come from”? and what are we choosing to align ourselves with. There is a very different quality of energy running through us when we are in turmoil or when we are connected to our natural loving way, and to remember we do have a choice which source of energy we align ourselves with is key. Do we choose the lesser light of the spirit with all its self-entanglements, or do we align to our Soulful co-creative way?
Beautiful Ariana, everything we do matters… and has a ripple effect, affecting every one every thing. Living with this awareness and responsibility to self and others would change everything.
Yes there is a divine order and natural evolution when we work as one in co-creation. I was just considering Catherine, we are always co-creating with something in our lives whether that be for our own self interest or for all of us. The choice is ours to ‘involve’ or Evolve.
Yes so true Lee, we can know there is so much more to access and yet how easy it is to get distracted, entwined and swept along in our lives. The phrase, ‘being a fish in the water without getting wet’ comes to mind. One of the greatest keys as you say, is to remain truly connected to us, to know we are this love we equality share and are surrounded by.
Caroline, yes we all come from the one source and when seen from this light it exposes the lie that we can live harmoniously as separate individuals divided by race, culture, religion or nationality. God knows.. we know that is not working. We are all in this together.
I agree Nico van Haastrecht, it is difficult for the limiting mind to get a grasp of the grander ever expanding nature that we are…using the analogy, in this case we may need to take the elevator down from floor of the mind to the open floor of the embodied heart.
Yes Stephen G, if we were raised with the awareness that all we do, every choice we make has a ripple effect we would naturally bring more care and attention to how we express in all ways. Imagine if we could see the energy of our chosen thoughts in colour or sound it may reflect more obviously, although in truth we can always feel the quality and effects of our choices.
‘Do I truly surrender to the truth of the divine RIGHT NOW?’ could be the everyday (or every moment) mantra (reference point) to shine a light on who I am and be all that I am by divine right.
Is it infinite patience or is it infinite love?
There is more to life than meets the eye. You can’t help but feel people when you read this blog – it’s asking us to let go of the stories that hold us back – there is a true and grander purpose for us being here, one that is not about self or the individual but about people.
Yes I agree Gyl, there is more to life than meets the eye. We have held ourselves in distraction and contraction for aeons and to feel that life is about people and our connection to one another allows us to embrace one another and to let go of self, which as you say there is a ‘grander purpose’ than the lifetimes of seeking identification and recognition.
I had an impressing inspirational moment during a Chris James Workshop, when all the women sang together in a way that I have felt there were no borders between us any longer. I couldn’t feel if the tone came from my body or from the other women’s bodies, it was one tone. We supported each other very beautiful and strongly, for I started to sing in a way, I definitely weren’t able to before. But I was able to in union with all the other women and the tone came with absolute easiness and an innate power to be expressed from us all. I wasn’t exited about it although it was a deeply touching, life-changing moment, that brought tears of joy and a deep old memory to me. It was an experience that I felt in my body and it unfolds from there. This was an experience of co-creation to me. A marker I have now in my life.
How I love the simplicity of Truth… our head can keep us searching for eons whereas our inner heart within awaits our re-connection– in the moment of our choosing.
Hurts the head, doesn’t it…
When the truth of love, within, is so deeply and ever-beautiful. Could talk religion with you all day Alex Braun 🙂
That’s it Alex. It’s not an issue of trust, but our identification and oftentimes staunchly held attachment to what has felt familiar, ‘safe’ even – but in this we have the opportunity to ask: Have we truly surrendered to the truth of the divine, i.e. the truth of our own divinity – who we actually are…? Or would we rather remain unshackled and pretending that the Sun’s light doesn’t actually shine…
It is beautiful to realise that we are a part of this amazing, expanding creation. There was always this feeling of more and to begin to understand the grandness of it feels like the most wonderful connection.
Yes Amanda, and we cannot even really grasp the magnitude of the All
I love your comments emmadanchin. I have had the same experiences from Universal Medicine events and the undeniable beauty and grandness of these experiences accumulate over the years to this point where I look back and can see how far I have evolved. It is an unfolding process but one I would not miss for all the riches of creation. There is nothing in creation that compares to knowing myself as love and connecting to and embodying, albeit bit by bit, the ‘grand intelligence’.
Victoria such a powerfull and beautiful sharing – I enjoyed reading this article.There are many gems in this blog to reflect upon, this one stood out for me and is worth remembering -‘In truth I was looking to re-connect with my Soul, and it is through the grace of my Soul’s light, and my loving dedication and acceptance of my responsibility, that I began to see clearly through the grand illusion I was held in, the deception of right and wrong, the highest ‘good’, and the illusion of false enlightenment.’
I am not that thrilled with my new role at work but your comment Leonne – “No task is mundane if I make it about love first”, has brought me to an aha! moment. I started moving from a bit bored just sitting here, to appreciating the free time I have to write, to feeling the niggling pains in my body, to making this moment about love by adjusting my position and breathing and taking the time to self-love and writing a blog to share with humanity. Love is in the air!
That’s pretty cool jeannettegold!
Simone, thank you for sharing this. I feel the tension often and can go into ‘what is wrong easily’, and old long habit I am breaking down. Yet that tension is a gift, my friend reminding me that there is indeed more expansion and love. How could love stand still and not allow and be more love.
Thank you monicag2 – a lovely constellation that I received your reply in this moment. I can feel how easy it can be to go into overwhelm or anxiety instead of appreciating the tension. Because of my choices so far to stay small, hidden and comfortable in not being seen or have any attention, of course there may be a bit of tension when I start walking, talking and living in a way that says “Here I am” or even, “Look at how beautiful and glorious I am!”. Makes a lot of sense really!
Yes Kristy, it is crazy it can often take either death or disaster to disarm us and bring us back to love, the love we all truly want to be living, and even then it can be momentary and after the shock we pick up our shields and life continues on as usual.
The thing is we do have a choice to live that love …now.
I think that the point most of humanity is missing is that we have a choice. Could this be because we are not taught energy, we do not understand the choices on offer and all we are educated about is creation and all its trapping. If we understood energy, if we knew we were love I imaging a much different world indeed – a world of co-creation.
Thank God for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for reintroducing the Ageless Wisdom and energetic sciences to us and now with blogs like this Victoria we spread the word and support for all. Bring it on!
Victoria, you are basically exposing that in the end it is not a trust issue at all but simply our investment into and attachment to (our own) creation that gives us identification – holding on to exercising our ‘own’ will over surrendering to HIS will. That brings it back to making choices, not having issues as such.
Thank you Victoria, for sharing the differences between creation and true liberation (Co-Creation). It’s a whole other way to be in life.
This has been my ‘life experience’ to a ‘T’ since coming to the work of Universal Medicine Carmel. Life had many ups and downs, much emotionality, unfulfilled ‘need’ and the rest… It’s been truly miraculous how today, my experience of life is not that at all, but rather a consistent steadiness and experience of the deepest Joy.
As Alex has shared – there is definitely no more ‘rollercoaster’ but rather a Stillness felt within that holds me through whatever I may meet in my day.
Agreed Alex. It is undeniable that we all require a restoration of trust – any withdrawal from the world at all marks where we do not trust in others and in God, and offers us the opportunity to deal with and heal what has hurt us and led us to close the door on truly trusting ourselves – in life.
Yet there is a point where an absoluteness of God and the truth of one’s being is known. In this absoluteness, trust isn’t even in the equation. I’ve been feeling and observing a lot around this of late – where we know this absoluteness of His love, and yet seek to keep creating issues of mistrust, re-create hurts, seek ‘refuge’ with those we feel safe with, and the like… quite a grand distraction from fully standing in and claiming what is known so deeply within, and living life from that place of absoluteness.
“a comfortable resting place” indeed monicag2… How strongly, vehemently even, we seek for the ‘better’ life – to come to an ‘end point’ where we can let go in the sense of disconnecting from the world and our responsibility in it…
The thing is, as more of the way of co-creation is embraced – founded in the fact that we are ever held in the power of His Love – I’m finding that I am all the more COMMITTED in my life and to all aspects of it, in a way that is truly evolutionary. What has tethered me to finding a point I can rest in just keeps letting go and shedding – replaced by yet deeper and consistent levels of Joy in the knowing of ‘this being it’. We honour God by living life in full and not holding back from any part of it.
Victoria, what a gorgeous confirmation of living in ever increasing commitment to God, life, yourself and the all. And this is how we do honour God.
Yes Monica, and how beautiful to be coming to such a real and lived understanding and experience of this…
This is such a huge topic Victoria, and I deeply appreciate you sharing this and the deepening of the understanding of this that you have found, and no doubt continue to discover (or re-discover) within.
The whole notion of there being an ‘end point’ – a final liberation – to ‘get to’ just doesn’t make sense. For God’s Love has no end – how could Love have an ‘end point’? In living a committed way of relationship with our own Love, God’s Love, we forever deepen and expand in this.
Beautiful to sit with this truth again today Victoria. And connect within to the sense of the ‘ever-expanding’ within – it’s actually quite palpable and deeply discernible… How did we ever put a lid on such a natural connection to our divinity?
I agree Victoria, both huge and profound. ‘For God’s Love has no end’ – a TRUE never ending story!
I really relate to your blog Victoria because I was the queen of creation! I could come up with ideas and projects, even full blown global concepts by the minute, I could do it in my sleep. But these amazing ideas, even if designed to help others, to serve humanity, quite inexplicably defying reason never truly did. The thing I learned from Universal Medicine is that all of my ideas were actually self-serving in so much that they stemmed from a need for me to find a place in the world, to find something to do that defined my place in the world because I didn’t know who I am and what I am doing here. I was desperately trying to identify myself with what I do. This sounds ok in theory but the twist is that when I learned to deeply connect to me and the truth in my inner-heart – which I might add is often contrary to the common ways of the world – then magic happened. I stopped pushing and trying to be the creator and I learned to work more in harmony with the bigger picture, I learned the glory of Co-Creation. I am still learning, I have my L plates on but this is it, this is what I have always wanted and all it took was to get my self and all my attachments to my ideals, beliefs and identifications out of the way. Mind you I say ‘all’ it took, but 16 years later I am still working on it and I will continue to work on it for the rest of my life – because even an inkling of Co-Creation is that grand! Thank you Universal Medicine and thank you Victoria for co-creating the space for us all to share this game changing revelation.
Jeanette, this is a great example of how the illusion can trap us, with the ‘best’ and ‘good’ intentions of our own creations. As you say it sounds ok in theory but keeps us trapped in identification and blind to the bigger picture and harmony that is possible when we all truly work as one.
“In my experience trying to understand life and my place in the greater plan from a dimension that can only see its own creation was futile.” As our awareness and understanding of co-creation expands, we then discover a vastness beyond the fourth floor open up to us.
I consider my own self made creation before I was introduced to Universal Medicine, and know that I could not see the woods for the trees. Although so many of us know something is not right, we seek solutions or new distractions which are just another variety of creation. Thus we keep going round in circles chasing our own tail. It is only through returning to connection, brotherhood, and knowing our part in the whole picture that we start to see above the fog of creation.
Yes how true Fiona, it is only when we re- connect with our oneness, the place we all meet in equality, that we can truly begin to work in co-creation.
With awareness comes accountability. As we open up our awareness we begin to see that ‘everything’ matters and when we see this we begin to live not just for ourselves but for all of humanity and with this we move from creation to co creation.
Lovely Simone, I agree.. the tension is like a call from the Soul, reminding us this is not our resting place, and there is so much more of us to expand and unfold.
Your comment allows me to feel how every move I make, every thought I allow, effects the whole. What I also feel is that every word or expression I hold back affects the whole and leaves other less. This is a revelation and a big ouch for me, the selfishness of holding back.
This is the ultimate responsibility Ariana and often one that we would prefer not to know about, only because we all know the truth of this to our bones. It can be a painful realisation but a very important one nevertheless.
An exquisit blog Victoria. I can feel with what you have shared that there is nothing to attain or achieve, nowhere to get to just a deeper connection and understanding of who we all are and that we are so much more that we have ever thought.
Jennifer, quite the opposite really to what we are lead to believe, the notion that we attain and achieve to get someone but in truth it is an ever deepening surrender to all that we are and always have been.
“… life in self-made creation (in contrast to co-creation) is one where we are immersed in all the attractions, distractions and emotional highs and lows of our physical life. …” Signing up to this kind of existence is no longer for me, the evolutionary pull to where I came from is far greater than the pull to illusion. Although it still hurts me to see that many others still want the physical life and swear by it’s greatness.
Amazing to feel the beauty of what you share 1heart1love1earth – when we truly feel the profoundness of there being no destination we are in a constant state of allowing and accepting and appreciating our forever unfoldment and evolving lives.
That what is co-creation is endless, and you described it so beautifully thank you.
Great point made here, the Way of the Livingness has no end point or destination, we are not getting anywhere we are already everything and we are just returning. This is so unique and yet so simple and offers a level of equality that is unseen in this world. There is no better or worse its all about evolving together and in this individuality has no place.
This is exquisite Victoria. For a topic that is indeed huge, expansive and constantly evolving, you have made it very real and very relatable. Your deep love and Stillness is felt in every word. What a blessing to read.
I agree this is a powerful distinction that Victoria has made Golnaz, that retreating or escaping from the world has not helped us to evolve, whilst being engaged and committed to life, and connected to others in service helps us to evolve. “Our Soul is constantly communicating our oneness with us” – beautiful thank you Victoria.
Absolutely – we cannot evolve at all whilst isolated from the world because we need the reflection of others to show us where the evolution is sometimes… If we are isolated we simply compliment ourselves on how amazing we are without actually seeing we are incredibly self indulgent!
Great for each of us to feel how our ‘pursuits’ can in fact be a way to escape life, to not feel how it is to live in a worl where love and brotherhood is not our living way. It is true that the world is crazy and not healthy because of the way that we each live – in our own private creations or ‘idahos’. The way of the Soul however is a totally different life, experience and outcome – whereby we feel the fullness, depth and wisdom of our being, and how this – to use Victoria’s friends example – is from a greater ‘tree’ or consciousness to which we all are from.
As I read your blog Victoria, there is a strong recognition within me that the ‘loveless world’ we have been living in is loveless because we are not connected to the Love that we are. So much of life has become about seeking love out there rather than knowing it within ourselves. It is up to us to be the Love that we are and bring it to our lives rather than wallow in the emptiness and look hopefully (of hopelessly) to others. Great sharing thank you.
Very true richardmill363, our search for love in anything outside of ourselves will have us searching for eons over. It is up to us to reconnect to the love that we naturally are, and live that love.
Absolutely Victoria, the endless search for love outside of ourselves will one day be the grounds for many a comedy as more and more people start to turn their eyes inward and realise the love they are searching for was to be found within all along.
richardmills363 I think it should be up to our parents to let us know the game plan from the get go, to let us know that we are love and support and raise us to stay connected to our inner-hearts. It delights me no end to see the way Universal Medicine students have reclaimed themselves as love and now raise their children in this way. These children have a great chance of doing the same for their children and so on and thus the shift has begun. Go Universal Medicine and The Way of The Livingness!
Katinka, To live a life in creation is like commuting to work on an underground train, everyone has a similar objective and packed tightly in a large metal car. There is never any brotherhood of individuals just a momentary compression like water in a hose waiting to be released. We move but never really go anywhere.
Yes Alexis even saying the word creation feels stunted where as co-creation has a flow and expansiveness that rolls of the tongue beautifully.
I agree sjmatsonuk. Being in the orb is like being stuck in a lift all claustrophobic. The tragedy is that this is what we often choose when we say yes to the enticing lollies creation brings, tantalising and seducing us with alluring promises to make sure that me, myself and I will be very, very ok — until the lift no longer works that is.
It becomes suffocating in that confined space when we begin to feel the expansiveness of who we truly are, and when we break free of our own self limitations we can truly breath again, true inspiration. Phew!
Once we take on a belief or an expectation is can be hard to let it go, we no longer even realise it is something we have taken on and often we presume it to be just what is.
It speaks for me too Jonathan. In my experience wanting to escape from was coupled with looking at only the external to “fix” what was wrong. Nothing external was working so then I wanted escape. once I turned the focus inward and began making changes within myself, the desire to escape began to lessen.
This has also been my experience nikkimckee, when my attention was directed inward and I re-connected to love and truth that has always been, the outward pull in search for something more was over. There is an endless well of discovery and natural unfolding from within.
Beautiful Victoria. You’ve made it really clear the limitations we live under. I know in the past I have felt like there was more than 4 floors but no matter how I looked I couldn’t find any more. The knowing that there is more never went away entirely. But the concept that there are endless floors is something I am yet to live with. I may have discovered the next floor, but it is so easy to stop there and think that is it, or rest here because we made it. Expansion and evolution are continuous and there is always more.
I am still a bit hooked by the belief that there is a rest, a finish line, a having reached my goal, thats it. But then when I sit with these thoughts or wanting I can feel that this is not true, there is an inner knowing, a readiness to expand forever, and stopping to be more does not feel right.
I agree nikkimckee, the ever-expanding nature of evolution can be challenging for the mind, and as we stay open to the possibility there is, we are, so much more, we allow that natural unfolding of what we always knew to be.
Are we choosing to “to align with the evolutionary pull towards a one unifying way, working together in co-creation, or we can – by our own free will – choose to resist this natural pull” This is a profound question and your lift analogy expands it well choosing to limit ourselves to the fourth floor immersed in all the attractions and distractions , and emotional highs and lows and close down our awareness or choosing to embrace the possibility that there are floors beyond where we are, stay open and allow the evolutionary pull to forever expand our awareness.
That’s it Golnaz. God – and His Love – by their very nature can have no ‘end point’. There is always more to embrace – for we are His children, amazing beings capable of the deepest awareness, understanding and Love.
For me, it is in such a relationship with God that I can truly begin to understand the difference between creation and co-creation that Victoria has mentioned here – and that it is my choice to live in the knowing of His Love (co-creation with Him), or not (creation).
Understanding how co-creation works was one of the biggest teachings for me since I came to Universal Medicine. It is absolutely life changing! No big planning or worrying about the future anymore, just connecting to our soul and the deep wisdom of our body and everything will be given to us. Everything is already there, so that we can move towards it. It feels so absolutely relieving to me…
I agree evamariafoertsch. It has been massive for me to realise that the future is already written, already made, already waiting for us to make the choice. We can either choose to be in co-creation, to choose from love and responsibility or from desire and want and ultimately what will serve us. Theca choice is what then instructs our future.
evamariafoertsch you raise a very interesting point and a major question to consider – ‘how do we know truth, how do we discern what is creation and what is co-creation when the world is continuously offering us choices that are oh so enticing or oh so repugnant? That is the underlying premise of what we have been learning at Universal Medicine – How to discern where our thoughts are coming from, what is driving them and how to make true, loving choices.
Sounds easy? Well its not that easy and it takes a massive commitment but boy is it worth it. Universal Medicine has helped me immeasurably to understand all that I am feeling all of the time, to stop overriding it, to accept it, to honour it and to respond lovingly to it rather than react to it. I am still a work in progress but I the changes are already huge! I am so grateful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for helping me break a life long cycle of total confusion and reaction. To understand and to start to move from Creation to Co-Creation. Phew!
Exactly. Everything is already there. There is no need to struggle or fight, just a letting go and going with what we feel. There is no right or wrong – just different ways to learn the same thing.
Yes Emily, it`s all about choosing the true energy in each and every moment, then we know where to go and what is constellated for our future. No need to worry about anything and being looked after forever, isn`t that amazing?
I also agree the co-creation, creation thing is well worth understanding as it changes everything and explains so much. Oh how mankind has been kept in the dark for so long but now it’s time to wake up and live in light.
‘No big planning or worrying about the future any more’ What a relief, Evamariafoertsch. It’s magic that I have a rough plan, and life fills in the details!
Alex, I also feel that mistrust in the divine plan is a game of the spirit to keep us in creation. We all could completely let go and trust in our body that will let us feel where to go and what to do from a perspective in the future. We just need to align to what is already planned and constellated for us. Everything is already there. And only when we don`t trust in this huge truth, we go into creation.
Absolutely Monica, as Victoria states, “ a knowing that there is a fifth floor and beyond, a greater awareness is unfolding, becoming available, and so much more is being revealed.” If we do fall back having the awareness to make the choice to return, by jumping the cot!
Thank you Victoria, I love your comment about when we are not attached to the muddiness of creation this is just being the beginning. Life, joy, love and harmony begin with this detachment and connection with our soul and then we bring this back to the world and show others it is possible to live in a loving and harmonious way. Making earth a little more heavenly each day.
There is much that has been created to ‘advance’ mankind, but little that truly serves us. Imagine cars etc with no noxious emissions, medicine with no side effects, the internet with no cyber bullies or scams. Oh for some co- creation!
“Making the Earth a little more heavenly each day” – what a gorgeous statement. Step by step, little by little, we will return to Heavan on Earth.
I am still held in the deception that their is a right and wrong (not all the time thank goodness).At least now I am aware that I am in it and not in the illusion that I am not. This now affords me the opportunity to get out of this game.
Victoria I can relate to what you say when you express that “It was like being in a lift and getting out on the fourth floor so to speak, and that becomes my reality, that’s all that I can see. However, as I stay open to the possibility, and now a knowing that there is a fifth floor and beyond, a greater awareness is unfolding, becoming available, and so much more is being revealed.” When I was a drug addict that was all I knew my whole life revolved around scouring drugs, talking drugs, taking drugs, hanging out with other drug addicts and I could not fathom a different existence, this was the reality I had created until one day at my lowest of low I saw a woman ride by my window who looked healthy and happy and I decided that possibly I could make a different choice. Slowly I stepped out of that creation into another, a life of yoga and spiritual new age workshops which in truth was no better then the drug lifestyle in that I still felt disempowered and miserable even though I was physically healthier. For about 15 years this was my reality. Then I met Serge Benhayon and this afforded me a whole new awareness of what was possible, not that I am out of creation yet but at least I am aware that I am living in it and am evolving towards a life of co-creation where as before I just thought creation was life. Thank GOD for Serge Benhayon
marylouisemyers, your story is a great example of how we get played and how we may fool ourselves, by replacing one creation ‘drug life’, seen as ‘bad’, with another, ‘spiritual life’ seen as ‘good’. The spiritual illusion is much more ‘sophisticated’ and can be difficult to see through as it appears a lot ‘better’, and this exposes a deeper layer of the illusion at play. If we settle for a ‘better’ or even a ‘good’ life we may not ever question that there is so much more that we are part of, and we therefore remain imprisoned for literally ages, thinking as you say that creation is it. It doesn’t allow us to see we are everything we have been searching for and never will we find it in any outer pursuit. Serge Benhayon consistently pierces through the veils of illusion in a very practical way, reminding us that we ARE already, there is no place to get to rather an unfolding of us by our living way.
This is exactly what I needed to read today. Thank you Victoria for reminding me to feel the expansiveness of our evolution. It is so beautiful to feel that connection with everyone and to know that when we are in co-creation we are in harmony with evolution and so much more is open to us.
Yesterday I was in a busy city railway station at peak hour and realised I was running through as if I was not part of everything. I stopped and had in my thoughts,” we are all soulfull sparks of God, we are all love.” A rail attendant looked directly at me and gave me a huge smile. “You have a great day.” He said.
I felt the connections between us all are in every moment.
We are all in this together and we all must unite and connect with each other so we can all get out of here together
Spot on Joe, I love your short and sweet statement.
If we were all lead by the same thing, our inner heart, there would be no complexity. Beautiful.
After re-reading your blog Victoria, I find myself clearly understanding the Lotus flower and the many meanings it can share depending on your view of it. The ‘beginning’ is the entering of a way of life, The Livingness, in order to reach our most evolved state whereby eventually there is no flower needed to rise above the mud that’s not there.
That’s a fascinating point steffihenn. Even the greatest temporal achievements in creation don’t in fact even leave us satisfied for a long or prolonged period of time. Contrasting this feeling with the feeling of co-creation and co-creation leaves it for dust.
Absolutely alisonmoir. As a Secondary School Teacher I often ponder on how amazing will it be when the Ancient Wisdom is embodied in the curriculum and the awakening on masse begins to unfold. I agree that there are many people in the world that feel there is more to life. When I discuss topics with my students they too feel this but when they look out to the whole world living as it does it can be too big a task for them to see that there is another way of being and that they are incredibly powerful and can be a part of changing being stuck on the 3rd floor.
How awesome that these teens have a teacher who is open to there being more to life than what we’ve been so strongly sold, Tracy. The thing I found hardest about the world as I progressed through my teens, was how shut down everyone around me was to the fact that there is more to us and to life than we currently predominantly live by.
Yes I can see that in my students too Victoria. I can see they’re shutting down because everyone else around them is shutting down and they feel they’re existence is normal because that’s what everyone else is doing. Clearly what is out there isn’t working as so many students are depressed, over weight, already showing signs of physical pain in the body, anxious, disengaged, rampant drug and alcohol use and a long list of disregarding and loveless choices. When will we all begin to bring more love into the education and see that the current system is failing?
These are questions that need to be asked, and asked ongoingly for a long time to come Tracy. A system that fuels such rampant giving up on life is not a true system at all, for true systems are designed for PEOPLE, to support and hold people with all that they can be.
And as such monumental and desperately needed change begins to occur, we need to support those such as yourself Tracy, who remain committed to people and life AND in the system, for the forces that you come up against daily are intense. Hats off to you, and I trust that you know the power of the love that is behind you and with you and all those who are working as you do. For this is what will fuel the change, and inevitably, bring it about. For my part, you have my full support. Thank-you deeply.
Heart felt thank you for your lovely words Victoria. I can feel your support and that of many others. Yes the system is intense and the forces that arise are huge, but love, in time, will triumph, that I know for sure.
This is a delightful and expansive blog to read. I love how you have provided the metaphor of the lotus flower as a goal to rise above the illusion an attachment of daily life, and you have turned on their head the teachings and philosophies that run with a promise of an end goal propose. What we are about is far greater than that, it is not an end goal, but “the beginning of an Age Old Way of Living, a One Unified Way in co-creation that is ever evolving”.
Beautifully said Golnaz. I remember wanting to get to that ‘end point’ – but upon looking back today, I really just wanted ‘out’… It was a false notion of liberation, that only confirmed that I didn’t truly want to commit deeply in the living of God’s love in my life itself. To reconnect to the knowing that there is no ‘end’, and that His love is known, lived and ever expands in my everyday, is the greatest true foundation upon which to now stand.
And I am ever appreciative in the deepest way possible, for the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for supporting my own eyes and heart to open to this truth again.
Very true Danielle. There are so many hooks, tricks and illusions in the dimension that we are living in and it can be at times hard to break these ideals and beliefs down and to even know and understand that they aren’t coming from a co-creating source. However, we are always being reflected our choices and learning along the way to see the truth. Being open to an unfolding path of truth and evolution leads to understanding, knowing and living co-creation.
Agree alisonmoir, I also felt a tension throughout my life feeling that there was more and that this is not it and many others felt the same although it was rarely verbalised. As you say “one day the teachings of Universal Medicine will be our school, and the Ageless Wisdom will be our curriculum and for me this day can not come soon enough.” Those of us who are aware of this do not have to wait, as ‘this day’ is already here and we can live the Ageless Wisdom whenever we so choose!.
‘…the deception of right and wrong’ And deception it is! I only have to feel how separatist it feels if I go into this; or how mortifying it is if too I am wrong. Rather than being loving and understanding of myself and everyone. This unites and expands us all together, no space for anything but brotherhood.
I actually read it four times Katerina and each time got something new and powerful from it. I really began to feel the enormity of what was being said and how the future as a one unified race in co-creation was going to be something truly stupendous and amazing to be a part of. While we are still in the thick of this dimension I could really feel how it is possible to always choose to be in co-creation and to stay open to this awareness in all that you do.
I can relate to,
‘In my experience trying to understand life and my place in the greater plan from a dimension that can only see its own creation was futile.’
I have felt a lot of anguish around this situation and as you say it never makes sense. Staying open to the possibility that there is another way – a one unified way in co-creation that evolves all of humanity makes perfect sense to me.
Thank you for sharing the depth of wisdom in your blog, there is lots too ponder on. How beautiful is co-creation giving us constant opportunities to reflect and return as a whole. The magic of co-creation is forever evolving.
Victoria, thank you for your amazing blog, truly something to deeply feel into. It feels like we are willing to step so far, but there is so much more, we just need to trust that, which we already feel and know to be true.
I feel quite humbled reading this blog. I can feel that I have fully immersed myself in the “attractions, distractions and emotional highs and lows of physical life”. I can feel resistance to letting go of all of this and committing to a life lived in co creation. This blog also allows me to begin to feel how limitless and awe inspiring it is to live in co creation.
Well said Alexis. More comments like this are what the readers of this blog require!
This is great Victoria. And to end your blog with a bold and reachable statement like this is not only inspiring, but suprisingly practical: “…a One Unified Way in co-creation that is ever evolving – a way that is ours to choose”.
Yes Gayle, and when I’m choosing to slow down my evolution I’m choosing creation; the comfort (albeit not-so comfortable in my body) of the familiar individualised way of being rather than the glory of Brotherhood and the All. I’m starting to wake up to how harming this is.
“The Lotus flower now represents to me the liberation from the limits of self imposed creation and the beginning of an Age Old Way of Living, a One Unified Way in co-creation that is ever evolving – a way that is ours to choose”. Victoria, thank you for this insightful wisdom. I will never look at a lotus flower the same way again. It is now a flower to remind us of where we come from and the potential we have yet to fully embrace.
I can relate to the fact that my initial inner knowing of ‘life is more then this’ for a short while sent me on a path that was looking to escape the world I was living in. IN fact most of us do in varied ways but we seem to be missing the point that is, we are here together to find a way of live with each other, in the world we have created that will come from our soul. This is the freedom we are all seeking in one form or another and it can only be found in the connection with the one soul.
Alex I was feeling into what you said about the challenge of being asked to be really there and I could feel how I have seen and felt this in not only myself but so many others. It seems to result in a very fast and superficial way of being that keeps us always in the next moment and in the illusion we are getting somewhere and yet all it does in truth is keep us from dropping in to ourselves and be fully present and therewith fully responsible in every situation.
Thank you Victoria for sharing, the experience I had going to Serge’s presentation was a greater awareness too, and some knowledge came with it, but before anything else what was I could feel with my body, it felt like a great expansion!
We have to step outside our own picture to then be able to live in the world without attachment. Yes we never stop evolving, we just at times choose to slow it down.
Thank you Victoria, you have shared great wisdom here and a great reminder of the way we are governed by the cycles of the universe and it is our choice to align to it and co-create with all or resist it and indulge in emotional turmoil the choice is ours.
“This was often seen as the final goal, but this is actually where it begins – the beginning of a Way of Living, free from the imprisonment of our self-made creation.” This resonates so strongly with me as I was involved with Tibetan Buddhism for many years, and some of those years very intensely. It was presented that through the commitment of the Bodhisattva Vow one did not accept enlightenment for oneself until all sentient beings gained enlightenment. Initially this felt very true but after sometime the practice and ideal did not match for me for many reasons. The primary one was that I did not see how as a monk sitting on one’s bottom in a monastery or in solitary retreat could lead others to the release from suffering. Consequently viewing the flowering of the lotus as the beginning rather the ultimate goal makes so much sense.
Jonathan, if we were to wait until each and everyone of was to accept his own return to Soul before we accepted our own, and we were all waiting for each other, we would never truly evolve out of the creation cycle, and no one would be reflecting that it is actually possible. In truth if we do accept and claim our oneness we have claimed it for all of us, this feels to be true brotherhood.
Victoria the sharing of this revelation from the Vietnam Retreat is beautifully stated and full of wisdom and re-connection to all that we are in truth. I love the analogy of taking a lift from the 4th to 5th floor to expand your awareness and the Lotus flower having a deeper symbolic meaning –
“The Lotus flower now represents to me the liberation from the limits of self imposed creation and the beginning of an Age Old Way of Living, a One Unified Way in co-creation that is ever evolving – a way that is ours to choose”.
Lots to ponder on here Victoria, it asks of us all to consider life in a much deeper way and our true role in being part of evolution. I love the analogy of the macadamia nut, it brings into focus how we can either see our life as small and separated or in fact part of the bigger whole.
Victoria I Love what you share here, the understanding that we are a part of a wider larger whole when we choose to connect, that we are so much more as a deeper level or quality that we all were not living, but not really ever being aware of how to access this. That as you said , In truth I was looking to re-connect with my soul but continually caught up in creation, which included giving up. As we begin to live Soulfully, not hold back the expression we offer to the world, we have a huge responsibility to the world to reflect to everyone else a way of living everyone is searching for, our return to the absolute love we came from.
Beautiful, Victoria. I love how you have taken that age old symbol of enlightenment, the lotus flower emerging from the mud, and exposed both its limitations and its truth. yes, we do need to rise beyond our attachments to the sensory world of matter, thought and emotion. But, as you say, what then? Float away on a cloud? Nah..we are loving beings who know that our true way forward is in unity, the one unified way. Thank you for your awesome sharing, and very confirming, presentation of this absolute truth.
It feels like you are onto something here Coleen24 when you say after foregoing our attachments we ask, ‘What then..?’ We are so attached to our epicentres of creation that going to the next step to consider unity seems impossible! I would have thought it utopian too once-upon-a-time, however with the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom offered by Serge Benhayon, there is absolutely nothing utopian about it at all. We have just been comatose by the hedonistic existence that has become our normal. We are waking up and Victoria’s sharing here is of enormous support as we do so.
‘Free from the imprisonment of our self-made creation.’ knowing that every aspect of our life is a result of our choices is an awareness that I constantly come back to and learn from. It is such a freeing understanding.
I have come to understand the difference between creation and co-creation through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine too Victoria. In creation I am constantly trying to make something happen to fill some need or other in me. I can rattle off new ideas and project schemes in my sleep and if honest they are primarily based on serving me first and foremost even if I I think they are designed to serve others and there is always an element of struggle, lack of cohesion and often lead to dead ends. In co-creation the way the impulses (ideas) are realised feels completely different and the way the world, life and others magically constellate to support them is effortless, no trying, no pushing, no attachment to the outcome involved at all. Of course I have to do the work needed to bring these impulses to fruition but without the ‘trying’ it all just flows in its own time. Now that I have felt and know the difference I would choose co-creation any day.
Being in nature reminds me that I am part of something bigger and looking up at the stars always fills me with wonder and awe. Of course we are from something much grander than what we have made life to be.
I also catch myself every now and then aiming for a point or feeling like it will all be better when I finally deal with …… On reflection though, I realise this is a pattern of escape and not being fully present in my life.
When hear or read about creation or co-creation it is always a STOP moment to further reflect about the truth that each and every, thought, feeling or action is about the self or the understanding that we are part of a one unified universe in which everything, yes everything matters and affects the ALL. Thank you Victoria for sharing your wisdom and connection to the ALL – and for taking the lift to the 5th Floor!
‘When I was young I felt like we were only being told part of the story of life; it just wasn’t right that we were born, we lived and we departed. I knew that there was much more to human life than that…’. Me too – and I think many of us do, hence the seeking. The thing is, what we’re looking for lies within, but we’ve lacked the wherewithal to know how to to reconnect to the Ancient Wisdom we already know. Thank God for Serge Benhayon, who has re-presented it to us.
Victoria, the Buddha would be proud! What beautiful piece of writing. I love how you captured the essence of the Vietnam presentation and expanded on it… taking the nut and planting it wider for us all to enjoy and understand.
I love your analogy of the lotus flower Victoria, with the flower well above the mud and how raising yourself above the dirt is considered by many to be the final goal. In your explanation “but this is actually where it begins – the beginning of a Way of Living, free from the imprisonment of our self-made creation” we are taken to a much deeper awareness of how we can start to go the other way – well, well, well beyond and above the mud traversing through the infiniteness of what it means to live love and lovingly through our connection to God.
Victoria the subject of creation and co-creation were until recently something I had very little awareness of. I understood life to be life – we made our way through it and setup things that we had to do, get a good job, work etc.. etc.. yet there was always something missing and so the focus was on how do I create things to be better to fill that void. What I also came to understand is that the very gap was the fact of me being in creation, thinking I was the person in separation going through life without appreciating or taking the time to understand, let go of the control and allow myself to be in co-creation. In co-creation there is no trying to make things better, no trying to fix things. I found the retreat to be an equally profound experience and something that is still unfolding today.
I am in awe of the profound wisdom you are expressing in your writing, it is so lovely to read and it brings memories of ancient times… that connect me back to where we are from and where we are returning to. Thank you Victoria, for accessing that once again and allowing me to re-connect.
Yes Nicola, I indulged in the New Age looking to escape, but it did not help me out of my misery nor did it liberate me in any way. To make life about love is a most uncomfortable path at first, as everything that you have lived and which is not true shows its ugly head and wants to be addressed and lovingly renounced. And only if you have committed to that, you come to the state, that Victoria describes above, of the lotus flower standing above the mud. And this is where the true journey of love and connection to soul only begins.
It is always possible in what ever situation we are to get up from misery and reconnect to the bigger whole we are. Just by looking in the sky, feel the sun, see the stars and the endless universe. We all know deep inside thar there is more than just this life we may sometimes feel imprisoned in. I traveled a bit around the world and it is the same sky, the same sun an the same universe we all are looking at, though from different perspectives but still the same.
Beautifully expressed thank you Danna.
Very beautiful Zofia… and very true, the Soul is a deeply rich and fertile ground.
” This highlights our responsibility and how important it is as we begin to re-align to the truth of the love that we essentially are within, and begin to live Soulfully that we do not hold back our expression as we offer to the world” I feel like this is such a big statement for us all to stop and consider in detail, as so often we dis-empower ourselves that until we are living a particular way or are completely aligned to truth then we can’t express this to the world, and there is so much we are holding back, but like you say Carola we have such a huge responsibility to the world to reflect to everyone else a way of living that they too are searching for – and so it asks the question of ourselves, while on our journey back to ourselves are we really exercising our full potential of service to humanity?
Thank you Victoria for sharing so beautifully your insights into the nature of co-creation and that we here to support and evolve each other on our way back to the love we are.
It seems we have been caught up in our own lives and ourselves that we have forgotten that our natural state of being is to be connected with all. This Oneness is the under current pulse that we beat to.
Absolutely Natalie, and given Oneness ‘is the undercurrent pulse that we beat to,’ if we are not in rhythm with this pulse our lives and and world as a result will be discordant and lack true harmony.
What an amazing blog so clearly presented of truth about the co creation versus creation game we are all living with.This is brought to us to truly see bringing understanding and true love to humanity by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. It is from our oneness that we can live and evolve together and the retreats run annually provide the livingness of this way for our bodies to reclaim and embody deeply.They Are a gift for humanity always and beautiful to be part of and share together.Thank you Victoria
“life in self-made creation (in contrast to co-creation) is one where we are immersed in all the attractions, distractions and emotional highs and lows of our physical life. It can be difficult to clearly see for our ‘vision’ is limited by the very consciousness or quality of our chosen thoughts and beliefs, which then become our life, and therefore our reality.” Humanity is stubbornly rooted to this vision, invested and attached to all its complexities, but if we were to open up like the spreading lotus flower and make life about space not matter- then we begin to evolve out of the mud.
I very much relate to your comment about space lucindag. When we are held by a certain consciousness, belief, ideal or complexity there is density, no space at all. As we begin to let go of these there is a spaciousness that is created in our bodies for the light of our nature to shine through.
Yes beautifully said Marika, we live in a beautiful Universe that has much more in store for us once we have truly embodied our lessons here on Earth. We all have such a rich and divine heritage we have yet to fully appreciate.
“It was not true liberation I was seeking, it was actually life I was looking to escape from”. I too know this and can now see that is was such an individual pursuit, very selfish and completely lacking in brotherhood. Through Universal Medicine I have seen that the way for liberation is for us all working together, bringing true love to all that we do.
I really enjoyed your blog Victoria. It seems to me most people in this world are really looking out for number one, which is a far cry from us all being one. Your blog would maybe help people see or maybe cause a spark and ignite the fact that we aren’t going anywhere without everybody as one unified truth in co-creation.
Well said kevmchardy. There is nothing like people working together; one person doing something amazing is great, but when a group or community support each other and all stand as one it is a truly phenomenal thing to be a part of and witness.
… and all the while we are actually the ‘one’ and so is every- ‘one’ else. There can be no first or last in oneness simply different expressions of the whole.
I am lately wondering what makes me even think that I could do it on my own. There are over 6 billion (!!!!!) people around me. And even if I just look at the people close to me, it is quite obvious that we all have a very different life with very different expressions, yet we actually Love to be in each other’s company. This says to me that life is about people – first and foremost. And that we are to live and work together in a way that everyone is able to share their Glorious Love from their Soul. It is so still and full of dedication when working this way. Only look at how we all are being held on this planet. If I only but walk in the green, I can feel the enormous stillness that is holding everyone. If we but only could stop and feel this, we would have to admit that there’s more that meets the eye. Thank you Victoria.
Life is about people, such a simple statement Floris yet so true and easy to live. When I make life about other people then my life becomes simpler and more enjoyable. We are never meant to live in a little bubble or cave dwell. We are meant to be out amongst the world living with all in mind.
I felt a wonderful authority when I read this blog. And it was so simply and beautifully expressed, there is no complication when it comes to expressing from the ‘soul’ in ‘oneness’, thank you for sharing.
In developing my understanding of co-creation, I have been learning to get out of the way to do what needs to be dones. It is a much freer way to live than creation, which imprisons us behind all the self-motivated actions in which we heavily invest for their outcomes.
This is lovely what you have shared Jinya, the difference between Co-creation and creation. I was not even aware of Co-creation until this was presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. It is great to read this because what I can see is how I have been in creation (making it about myself) instead of Co-creation, making it about everyone, as you say this is a much freer way of living .. time to consciously change .. thank you.
Its true Sam, each piece of the picture helps me to understand the self made constraints I hold myself in and the effort that goes into sustaining those.
“Our Soul is constantly communicating our oneness with us.” The responses to your beautiful blog confirm this oneness Victoria. So many people are searching in so many places for answers to their lives – sporting prowess, academic success, spiritual enlightenment, environmental activism, being rich, being poor, – and our soul is saying “Make love your foundation, live in harmony, make life about everyone, get your hands dirty, let go of criticism, feelings of despair, embrace every opportunity for learning and evolving. Thank you for bringing your insights and wisdom about the all encompassing nature of co-creation.
Serge Benhayon has a way of presenting truth that always lovingly asks you to go one step further. I can choose to do so or not and either way I will not going to be judged.
Dean, what a great comment. Aside from many associated with Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, I cannot recall others living with us now ‘who see more to life than just being comfortable’ and fully commit to life in full. I have no doubt there are many living like this, just not publicly. It is powerful.
Yes gorgeous. The spirit is futile – it takes us no-where, it keeps us small. The Soul is ever-expanding and connects us to something much grander.
All my hairs were standing up reading your words Victoria – every cell in by body registering the expression of the energetic truth and the evolution that you words present. Thank you for re-imprinting what the Lotus flower reflects to us in truth. Very beautiful indeed.
This is a very powerful topic and one that has been addressed by many who have presented the ageless wisdom over time. Yet we seem to have buried ourselves further into the mud! To discuss this is the start of disentangling ourselves from the enthral of creation, to see our choices as either with and on behalf of us all as one, or driven by a need for individuality.
Simplicity will always expose the complexity our minds can at times be enthralled by.
“to see our choices as either with and on behalf of us all as one, or driven by a need for individuality.” Simple and true Fiona.
Your humour is a delight alan johnston, and yes the ‘lure’ of ‘my’ comfy life can be a hard ‘nut’ to crack… but worth all the love it takes.
I also love the beauty of nature Jo. Nature is such a powerful reflection, it can be a beautiful confirmation, a moment of grace, a gentle nudge or a big wake up call.
Yes 1heart1love1earth, there is a deep humbleness when the fog starts to clear and we see the enormity of the truth we are a part of, the arrogance of knowledge gets clearly exposed.
Well put victoria. Thank you for sharing about the lotus flower… It’s a beautiful representation. “It can be difficult to clearly see for our ‘vision’ is limited by the very consciousness or quality of our chosen thoughts and beliefs, which then become our life, and therefore our reality.” And that’s why we act the way we do, as we construct our life to be a certain way.. Usually not knowing anything else…because we don’t ‘see’ any other way.
Thank you for your article Victoria. Before coming to The Way of the Livingness I had been immersed in trying to create a better more comfortable life for myself, to escape the pain I felt deep within, but the way I felt about myself and others never really changed. The revelation that we are all in this together, equal brothers in love, who have the power in our choices to co-create with love has changed everything.
‘We are all in this together, equal brothers in love, who have the power in our choices to co-create with love’, absolutely 1timrobinson, well said.
It is within the seeking that we further separate from true self. I too got caught up for many years in the seeking, looking for enlightenment, thinking that it was something that I needed to obtain and was something outside of myself. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine present a different way, a way where the first port of call is a deep knowing that everything we are looking for is right inside of ourselves and that we can reconnect to this knowing through how we live. We don’t have to get anywhere or achieve anything, it is about shedding the ‘what is not’ so that we can feel more of who we truly are. But if we do not recognise first of all that we are divine, then we will always look outside of ourselves and the search continues.
Yes, the search outside of ourselves is an endless one, which can keep us distracted for eons. When we start with the truth of our natural divinity that never leaves us, there is a gradual unfolding as you say Donna of all we have taken on that does not reflect this loving expression in our lives.
I realised something after reading your blog Victoria about escaping the hurts of the world through meditation. The very common (and I speak from my own past experience) search for enlightenment in many spiritual traditions and ‘New Age’ pursuits exposes itself for not being in co-creation with God because it many times focuses on just the individual reaching some higher state of bliss without ever considering how that is really going to help all our fellow members of humanity. That seems to me to be quite a selfish pursuit, and I could also feel how I too had used meditation as a form of escape while reading this great piece by Victoria. Also, once that ‘bliss’ or higher consciousness is reached, in my experience, there was never really any mention of what to do with it in service to other people, as if that was the end of the line and pinnacle of our human experience. But the truth is that we are always being called to expand more and more, just like the Universe, and will always have opportunities to learn, grow, and evolve when we are open to developing our connection with our inner selves (our souls).
I like your explanation of self made creation as opposed to co creation – it makes a lot of sense.
I have been drawn to come back and read this again. How could I have thought creation was it!
Metaphorically stuck on the 3rd or 4th floor we are living a limited life Marika, and the sad thing is that we can get stuck there thinking we’ve made it and that is all there is and so we never get to make a connection with our soul and the so much more that is possible.
Such a great writing Victoria. I was never looking for enlightenment or any spiritual path, I was seeking distraction and escaping life through not truly committing to it, although I maintained the illusion to be very dedicated to humanity. It was this half heartedness that made me being bored of life and not getting the purpose. When I came across Universal Medicine I realized as you beautifully describe that “In truth I was looking to re-connect with my Soul, and it is through the grace of my Soul’s light, and my loving dedication and acceptance of my responsibility, that I began to see clearly through the grand illusion I was held in, the deception of right and wrong, the highest ‘good’, and the illusion of false enlightenment.”
Lovely analogy that we’re caught in the web of our own dimension, in that illusion of right and wrong, good and bad, success and suffering. It’s difficult to get perspective on where you’re at when you’re right in the middle of it. Hence the tension we experience from that constant pull to a deeper awareness that rocks the illusion we’re under.
Too true Nicola the only way out is to be committed and more loving. I have also realised that I don’t need to understand or work out why something is the way it is, acceptance and allowing are a huge part in being more loving. Letting go of wanting things to be a certain way, or look a certain way just allowing myself to be me, and know that that is enough is a revelation in itself.
Together we will step up, inspiring each other by setting a basis that everyone can build on. No effort needed, just showing all the power and love that each and everyone of us true is.
I love you highlight how we are ‘all in this together’. There is no place for competition only supporting one another. I have to admit l never used to want to truly support others -though I may have wanted to look ‘good’ and kind and be recognised for it! I was scared of being over taken, abandoned and left behind. I had a lot of false pride that I could survive without help and that held more cudos somehow.
Now I am more open to seeking support knowing there isn’t anything wrong with me. And I welcome being asked to be all that I am. Even if part of me sometimes struggles with that I know I can choose to let go of the struggle. When I do let go a greater awareness reveals that what I considered to be an issue is seen with a greater understanding in the bigger picture and magically dissolves.
“It was not true liberation I was seeking, it was actually life I was looking to escape from.” I love this line and one I can relate to. The symbol of the lotus flower and how you describe it is very powerful.
I love the macadamia nut analogy Victoria – why stop at celebrating and appreciating just one person or thing? When we are inspired by someone, or see something incredible we sometimes can come up with excuses why that one particular instance was ‘amazing’, and why it was superior to other day to day things. To give an example – if you see someone making a great presentation and not holding back at all in what they’re saying, should we congratulate and celebrate them, then make excuses why we are not like that – ‘they must be well educated’, ‘maybe they studies English in University’?…. OR, should we see that as an inspiration, and accept that we too have the power to do the same thing, in our own way.
Well said Alexis, and count me in for keeping my eyes open to seeing the ‘game’ on the way as I am guided by the pull back. I don’t want to miss anything. The tricks of how we got to think creation was ‘it’ need to be spotted and understood for them not to be pitfalls further down stream.
What a lot to take in here, I suspect it will be a blog that sits with me for much longer than I realise. To consider how much we run away from life and the bits we don’t want to see can be quite confronting and make us want to run even further away! Run into coping mechanism that can exacerbate the problem for years. The simpler choice seems to me to embrace co-creation and walk away from the self imposed restrictions of creation.
Who would want limiting when there is bountiful? Yet what if the greatest illusion of them all, the greatest hoodwink, is that we were led to believe that the creation part, the limiting part, was the bountiful side so we didn’t even know co- creation was even an option. Shocking but true.
Yes Zofia, I can feel the understanding in those words, co-creation never considers one person better than another, it feels like it offers us all a platform to stand on for us each to choose if we want to step onto it. The futileness of the spirit and the fertility of the soul…yum
I think a lot of life and New Age is based on trying to escape life – getting us out of here! That life is a kinda drudgery to be endured or lifted yourself from. And like you I have discovered through Universal Medicine is that the only way out, is to be fully in – fully committed to life! It’s been revolutionary really. I thought I was committed before but through the teachings of Universal Medicine it has taken it to a whole new level.
You have offered so much in this truly touching and profound article Victoria. Thank you for sharing your insights and for leaving me with much to ponder and appreciate.
Beautifully said Zofia…
Beautiful Victoria thank you, I love what you say… ‘In my experience trying to understand life and my place in the greater plan from a dimension that can only see its own creation was futile.’ There is so much revealed in this simple sentence about the way things really are, the fact of the Soul, of another dimension to us that if not connected with first, is not available to our awareness. Your words feel ancient… along with what you have shared.
Beautifully expressed Sammy, l feel the enormity of those simple things in nature. God Reflecting Evermore.
“A way that is ours to choose”, This stuck with me as it reminds us and gives back the power we feel striped of, that we always have a choice no matter how small in might be.
Wow, that’s a revelation. That takes the shine off it and exposes a way of trying to hide.
It took many Universal Medicine presentations for me to really accept what you have written here Victoria – “What I didn’t see then was that we are all in this together and we can only truly evolve and be free of this way of life, with its limits of our self made creation, when we are working together towards our return to a one unified way of being”. It is going to take all of us working together to learn to choose another way of living that is about love rather than self-interest. In order to do this my trust in myself and also in humanity needed to be restored and thanks to the support of Universal Medicine this has occurred.
Wow, that’s a revelation. That takes the shine off it and exposes a way of trying to hide.
It is hard to see at the beginning that we are all in this together. How are we ever going to get there when we have wars, greed and famine in the world. We all have our own issues to deal with, some worse than others, but it only takes one person to change and begin to connect to themselves that makes others want to change also and so it begins – change – and we are already in it.
I feel the same way Marika. We are all a part of a bigger picture.
Beautiful Victoria- I love the togetherness of this piece- that we are all here to support and evolve together.
Yes Kristy the grand potential of this togetherness is bound by a deep knowing that we are everything already.
Thank you for your reminder about tension. It is so easy to use tension as an excuse to be stuck and to use it like a bit of a battleground, when in truth it is there to remind us of how we are so much more, a constant pull to who we are and to where we are from. A very wise woman once said to me ‘you need to make friends with tension’ ~ such a huge revelation for me!
Beautiful Zofia…rich, fertile and ever-expanding.
This blog would need to be so much longer to really encapsulate what is being touched on here. It opens up so much. Co-creation is a difficult concept to understand when seen through the eyes of creation, and this is the illusion of life. We think that we are only human, and for many the realisation one day dawns on us that we are also spiritual – that we are more than just this flesh. However, this too, is part of the illusion of creation. For even that realisation is not the full encapsulation of who and what we truly are. And the only way to understand who we truly are is to learn once again to feel energy, and not just feel energy, but feel the quality of energy of life. What Serge Benhayon has brought forth is exactly this revelation. And whilst one can write on and surmise on what the difference between creation and co-creation is, or the difference between spirit and Soul, the truth is that these truths can only be discerned by feeling the quality of the energy of both. And this is what the true underlying purpose of the esoteric modalities is all about – giving us an opportunity to feel the quality of the Soul and the fire it represents.
It’s lovely to read how nature has shown and illustrated back the answer you were looking for from young. Something tangible for the intangible world we co-exist with.
I have no doubt too Marika, the 5th floor is absolutely there and heaven is where we are from in all its radiant beauty. Where I stumble is if I am standing on the 4th floor, when I look at the stars and I still have all the entrapments of creation around me I don’t always appreciate the 5th floor and all the amazingness it offers. This is my ongoing daily learning to be open to everything that is offered from the 5th floor so that co -creation becomes my daily way of living. My absolute love and appreciation goes out to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon for without them I would still be floundering in the quagmire of creation, trying to make sense of the mud I was stuck in.
I love the way you have written this Victoria. There is so much here to take in.
“In truth I was looking to re-connect with my Soul”, this is at the core of what I am sure most truly want, as we all know there must be something more otherwise why would we even begin to look? Perhaps not always knowing this specifically in the searching but knowing on some level nevertheless.
Victoria your words “we are all in this together” really resonate with me. This is the reason we react to others, feel empathy, sadness and hurt when we view another doing something that does not sit right. We are all connected and when we feel someone acting outside of the beauty we are it hurts. If we were not connected we would simply have no response in these situations.
I agree Toni but also by virtue of us all being in this together then whenever someone does something that we react to or get hurt by then there is always something for us to learn as by being in this together we are responsible entirely for our choices and the effect that they have on the world and humanity therefore the perspective to take when we react to something is what is about the way I am living that is effecting this person to behave in a particular way
Yes katechorley, Victoria’s blog makes us pull back from being so self centred to seeing the bigger picture and how ultimately we are all here to support each other.
I agree Leigh and lately I have really been aware of how we shop like this, how we just want to go out get what we need as quickly as we can, queue in the line holding ‘our goods’ and not speak or connect with anyone including the shop assistant. It is a set behaviour and feeling of ‘this is what I need, don’t bother me’. I realised one day how I was doing this so the next day made a conscious decision and effort not to be like this and connect with others and could feel the difference this made in my body.
I have found this as well in the shops that human connection can lift me out of a low point I may be experiencing. By acknowledging the people in the shops it takes away that ‘small gray world’ island. And being on the other side of the till at work it makes a difference when the person your serving uses your name or goes beyond the conversational boarders of ‘yes/no, would you like a carrier bag?’. There is a greater sense of it is natural to be together when we choose to live in such a way.
There is always more to see in life and that is something I have learned. The willingness has to be there though to see it or it is like having blinkers on. I would relate this to being a bit like going for a walk and looking at the ground the whole way, or instead taking the same walk with eyes wide open, being aware of every little aspect of life that is going on. There are many ways to look at life and it is our choice which way we choose.
Good point Stephen and I like the analogy. We have to choose to raise our eyes to see the beauty that is around us, no one is going to force it on us. Also, not everything we see when we look up is going to look very nice, kind, attractive, but we still have the choice to look up or down.
The willingness to see all that is there to be seen is very poignant for me today as I had an accident, a tiny one with no real damage so it would have been easy for me to right off what was being shown to me. But what was being shown was very profound and through being wiling to see it I can really chose what steps I make next. Without being willing to see we cannot truly evolve.
This is a really lovely way to put it Stephen. So much more there for us to be aware of if we lift our head, if we embrace the willingness to see and feel it.
“This was often seen as the final goal, but this is actually where it begins – the beginning of a Way of Living, free from the imprisonment of our self-made creation.” If we live towards a goal then we are forever capped and disengaged from the inner beauty and presence offered by every living moment, blinkered to the power & true wealth of brotherhood.
That is an excellent point lucindag and you gave captured it well… how living towards a goal actually precludes us from experiencing the natural presence and inner beauty of the living moment.
It’s so true Harry – not allowing ourselves to see a broader ~ or wider ~ or taller (!) perspective of our world is so limiting, and really not enjoyable. I love feeling myself as part of the Universe, and all the wonder it entails.
I love this analogy of the Lotus flower Victoria. To me it shows great strength, beauty and delicateness in growing out of the mud, and standing still within it, but able to see all that is below for what it truly is. Our evolutionary pull is a way with true harmony – with each other first, with our world and therefore with the Universe. Seeing ourselves as we are placed in the Universe ~ amongst all the other planets and stars, truly places things in perspective. And what a beautiful perspective it is.
Indeed Amelia, to see ourselves as grand as the grand night sky is a very beautiful and grand perspective and one that I can now feel is also actually very real.
I agree Sara I feel the truth of your words and know that this is for all to feel and see and know again. The Grandness of the.
It is wonderful to read this Victoria, ‘we are all part of a living science and Universal order where we can either choose to align with the evolutionary pull towards a one unifying way, working together in co-creation, or we can – by our own free will – choose to resist this natural pull.’ I can feel this in my life, that I can work and be in a way that is open, loving and considerate of the all or i can get caught up in emotions, rush, over think things and get caught up in issues and I can feel how this is then going against a one unifying way.
Victoria, your sharing and the symbolism of the ‘macadamia nut fallen from the tree’ is very powerful. It has allowed for this beautiful awareness of life and the truth of our presence in the cycle of life. We begin with the makings of all that is and the possibilities to grow this in connection with others. Co-creation is ever expanding and evolving. This blog has made me more aware of the magnificence of all that is possible, ‘Is’ existing and I feel very humbled to be a part of this.
I am sure many of us at some point in our lives feel that there is more; it has been how hundreds of people have allowed themselves to be open to what Universal Medicine presents, the difference between creation and co-creation- which you so beautifully capture here Victoria.
The difference between the physical and the soul shows me there is so much more than birth, life and death, and in that, our choices and how we live is key – choosing to be more aware that there is so much more than just the physical.
I know from my own experience that creation is a prison that is invisible, where the prisoner holds the key yet they are blind to it. They sense the freedom from the prison whenever they get some recognition for their creation, but they are soon back in the prison. The freedom felt is a sense of identity, in thinking they know themselves by what they do. But it is futile because nothing outside you can tell you who you are. Only you can because only you are you. The true key to freedom is knowing oneself by one’s essence by relationship that is afforded through the connection to the body. This will be what leads us back to co-creation. Because once we know who we truly are, there is nothing to prove and all the beauty to be expressed.
I love the notion of continually unfolding, finding more and more depth to ourselves and the world around us as we open up to the process of evolution. How grand is that!
I agreed Gilesch – we are only just touching the surface of our grandness once again.
I love what you share here Laura. Crunch time comes however if we are unwilling to look at those lessons life is teaching us and remain in denial. However there are times I am aware something has arrived for me to look at and I haven’t been able to choose differently because of the momentum I have been in. With this awareness however I can feel the resultant effects in my body and the effects of the choice I just made – this alone is enough for me to want to choose differently next time. Because life is not linear but cyclical I know that this opportunity will come around again and I know the next time I will be able to jump on and do what needs to be done. With no self bashing, this initial choice does not leave me full of regret like it once used to, but to step up filled with purpose and a deep desire to be responsible for my choices.
” However, as I stay open to the possibility, and now a knowing that there is a fifth floor and beyond, a greater awareness is unfolding, becoming available, and so much more is being revealed.” I love this Victoria – so much more can be open to us if we take off our blinkers as to ‘this is how life is’.
I agree Leonne, this is beautifully expressed and a topic I see as very important for us all. Given that creation is something that does not truly evolve us to where we are going highlights how amazing this subject is and how important it is to focus on how we are living our life in a way that allows us to see our patterns that make up our choices today which gives us space to makes changes.
I just love the fact that this blog exists. There is so much depth and truth here, and it brings forth a clarity that is so refreshing. The lotus flower blooming above the muddy waters is such a perfect symbol for the liberation that we feel when we reach this clarity and start to live it.
After a few thousands years of lotus flower stories, it’s great to finally hear one that describes the truth beyond the human spirit which until now has been described by most cultures, religions and societies as the absolute pinnacle of enlightenment… It’s not.
So well put Esther Andras, I agree. Humbleness is definitely a potent way to bring us back to the reality that we a mere grain of sand in the vastness of the Universe and we have the audacity to think we live on the only planet that supports intelligent life! Given the state of the world today, refugees dying in the oceans attempting to flee the devastation of war, the thriving trade in human trafficking and sex slaves, governmental corruption that ruins countries, illness and disease escalating everyday, we have to stop and ask ‘are we really the most intelligent species/planet out there?’ The teachings of Universal Medicine shines a light on all these gross inconsistencies and brings us the true understanding of the Universal Laws we are all bound by, because we cannot escape being a part of the Universe. These teachings restore the true purpose and meaning of life on earth, if we choose to be humble enough to pay attention, we will be able to truly resolve all these terrible woes, but that requires immense honesty, commitment and responsibility and the big question is ‘are we ready to take that step?’
‘It was not true liberation I was seeking, it was actually life I was looking to escape from.’ Ok Victoria, this is interesting and if we assume that often people look for spiritual ways like certain types of yoga or meditation, relaxation etc in order to cope better in life but actually are trying to escape the hardness of life brings a totally different understanding to what is truly happening. What if life could be lived by truly accepting that we can take full responsibility for it. Then we do not need to have long meditation times in order to find truth or to be able to cope with our lifes.
Humanity – we all are – longing for MORE and everyone is searching for it in the one or other direction. Some are looking for enlightenment, some for their ‘right partner’ and some for success in business. But as you say Victoria, as long as we are searching in the same place for an answer what brought us the missing, brought us the separation – we can not find our fulfillment. The place we have entered, the place of creation, is asking us at the entrance to give up on our connection to what we truly are and so we are condemned to missing us as long as we stay here. As hard as we may try to find us again, it has no prospects in this place, in this energy. To come back to us we have to leave this room, this fourth floor, collect back what we have given up and go for the fifth floor, as you said. There is no true enlighten, true relationship, true success found or to create in the level of creation. We can not create what we already are. We can just surrender to it.