1,046 thoughts on “Evolution is a U-Turn, Not a Ladder”

1. Coming back to the awareness and wonder of a small child while having the understanding of an adult is one of the nicest experiences in the world.

   1. So beautifully said Christoph.

2. The Way of the Livingness teaches us all that the way we really evolve is very different to which we used to think. It is a different type of movement.

   1. Much simpler. Much much simpler than I ever thought.

3. This whole ladder and attaining thing has such a lot of self and identification in it such as it was ME who did it. The complete opposite to true evolution and the RETURNING to the oneness that holds us ALL us equally glorious.

4. “When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.”

   This is absolute truth. We are not as free to ‘pick and choose’ from the smorgasbord of life as we think we are. We either align to the energy of love or we align to all that is not of this love and thus the many abuses that soon follow.

5. “Within the beliefs that surround yoga there are clear ranks of distinction, the top of the pile being God-like figures who are revered by everyone underneath them”.
   I attended a few yoga classes many years ago and felt the push of the class to always strive to do more amazing holding of postures and poses, but feeling little connection to anything except for hurting my body in ‘trying to’ keep up. Years later Esoteric `Yoga came into my life and it took a while to realise that there was nothing to achieve or attain, simply to surrender and be with myself and the re-connection to stillness within. Read more about Esoteric Yoga at http://www.unimedliving.com/yoga

   1. This is a great example Stephanie. If we see life as lineal then we introduce a beginning point and an end point and lose ourselves oscillating between A and B as we try to get to B and leave A behind. By doing this we miss out on the depth and richness on offer when we surrender to deeper and deeper levels of our multidimensionality that can then be brought through into our daily way of living. This approach eliminates ‘trying’ as we are not caught up in the illusion that we have to ‘get somewhere’ but are simply returning to something we already are that we may not yet expressing in full. Evolution game changer.

6. “When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.” I love this sentence. Its not something that we consider as we think that we can get away with liking only a portion of something, but we can become so imbedded in the whole consciousness without even realising.

7. The belief that one belief is better than another is a very evil belief, all beliefs poison the body.

8. I love this piece Alexis. In the temporal as well as the Esoteric community nothing is a ladder. It is very uncomfortable to just see the results tada, without the process which is a forever deepening, there is no right and wrong, just with what energy it is chosen. But only the end results mean little.

9. When we are young we think we are going to set the world on fire with our ideals and beliefs, and when it doesn’t work out we settle for what we believe is a better quality of life, yet do we ever truly stop and ask ourselves what quality we are truly living in?

   1. When we are very young we are completely free of all ideals, beliefs and images and our relationship with truth is a naturally intimate one but once those outside forces come in, we simply swap one belief for another and it is these scourges that interfere with our ability to both see and feel the truth.

10. Evolution is definitely a U-turn – as it unfolds as we turn back to us. No ladders to climb under the illusion that we are getting somewhere, going higher than everyone else, but a simple choice and commitment to turn within to reconnect with the wisdom that is naturally ours.

11. Great title Alexis – a big fat whopping great lie has been perpetuated by the belief that the top of the ladder is the pinnacle ‘to get to’ in order to evolve. Thank God, Universal Medicine presentations have shed a very bright light on this falsity.
    ‘Evolution is a U-Turn not a ladder’

12. Ideals and beliefs are so deeply ingrained within us, being accepted as normal and true – anyone who attempts to say otherwise, is usually reacted to with anger or denial, taking us further away from God every time.
    “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing”.

13. I find it interesting, this notion of physical positions or postures given in many yoga practises today that claim to assist a person to ascend. And I suppose the question to ask here is, what do we mean by ascend? And are we all meaning the same thing by using this word? For example, I know that in my practises of the past where I was seeking ascension, my real motivation was to escape from the responsibilities of life where I did not want step up to what was being asked of me and instead wanted the comfort of knowing that my path was somehow leading me towards a perceived heavenly place where there was no challenge. And I can see now how this was all actually a part of an illusionary path I had laid out for myself and the different spiritual practises that I chose were there to support this initial choice to disengage with the realities of life.

14. “The belief owned me; I was its puppet, its plaything, acting out the characteristics of the belief” – is spot on. We are no different to a puppet show, our strings are being pulled by one thing (images or what it should look like) or the divine, it is that simple.

15. This ‘belief’ package is a biggie and throughout my Indian upbringing I could feel it loudly within myself that this wasn’t it, it wasn’t me and at that time there was no one to support me that what I was feeling was truth banging at the door.

    I too am eternally grateful for this same man, Serge Benhayon for confirming what I had been feeling from a very young age was the truth banging at my door – we cannot ignore this forever.

16. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us.” This is beautiful Alexis. We are living in the beholding love of God even if we don’t believe it and yet when we do accept this the call to surrender into his arms is constantly there.

    1. Beautifully said Lucy.

17. So simply shared how our beliefs will try to distort the truth, but our bodies can never hide the truth. Until we choose our body’s awareness over our ideals and beliefs we will be on a path of illness, injury and disease.

18. I love coming back to this blog because it reminds me how deeply appreciative I am of the gift Serge Benhayon has given me and the impact that opportunity has had in my life and on those around me. I would be such a grumpy person, depressed, resentful, exhausted, oh, so many things. It feels yuk to talk about it because it makes it about me, and I realise that we have a responsibility to look after ourselves so we can get to work and change what we have accepted as normal – we have no time to waste.

19. When our way up the ladder to evolution is formed by the rungs of ideals and beliefs it leads nowhere but when our Way of evolution is to return to who we truly are we reconnect to the Love of God that supports us in every move we make.

20. What if the ladder is inwards not upwards, our minds get stuck in thinking that moving forwards is about the next thing we do, the next project or the next adventure but its actually about heading inwards and letting more of who we are out.

    1. Just then, when I read your comment Meg, I got the feeling that it’s a little like displacement, as in when we move in towards ourselves, the real us gets displaced out for all the world to see but when we are floundering outside of ourselves (searching for ourselves), then the real us stays buried inside.

21. There is no top to the ladder that we are climbing, the top is joined to the bottom, which makes it exactly the same as a hamster wheel!

22. Alexis, this is a deeply inspiring blog to read – I can relate to your words and trying to keep climbing up the ladder to ‘get somewhere’. What I have learnt from attending Serge Benhayon’s presentations is that this is a totally fallacy and big fat lie and it can be felt in my body now as I reconnect deeper to the truth within.
    “This is a U-Turn because it teaches us that we already know God, we just need to remove the impediments (and belief systems) that prevent us from feeling this connection in our bodies”.

23. I am sure when most of us think about evolution it is in a linear way, gaining things as we go. There is also an idea that by evolving we leave behind the cares of the world to sit on an enlightened fluffy cloud somewhere. I am now realising it is quite the opposite. We do a U-turn to come back to what we already are and already knew but have conveniently forgotten. We also turn around to support everyone else to wake up and see the ‘wrong way go back’ signs.

    1. Fiona despite the fact that I shared what I did in this blog, I have recently realised that I have fallen yet again for the belief that evolution is lineal, with my beliefs around food and eating. I bought into a way of thinking that made me believe that by not eating certain foods and by eating less amounts of food, I was a ‘more evolved person’. It came as quite a shock that I had been ‘got’ yet again by a consciousness that loves to keep us climbing the ladder away from the completeness of who we already are. And although food and the amount of food that we eat can also take us away from the completeness of who we already are, I have come to feel that in my body beliefs are equally as damaging.

       1. Wow Alexis – I love the honesty that you share with and the exposure of another layer of consciousness gripping us and fooling us to believe we have evolved.

24. ‘It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.’ So true Alexis, and we return to our true selves.

25. Before knowing Universal Medicine I knew there was sooo much more to life than what we see and currently live. The way we mostly see and are brought up is that (we are born, grow up, get married, have children, grow old and die and that is it). How we are living felt like a such a dead end to me. We are readily missing out a very large part of the purpose and why we are here in the first place and of course Truth. Where we were heading just felt wrong and although the trajectory still is pretty much going the same way, the tide is starting to turn towards true truth. ‘The physical poses themselves go from basic to advanced and so it went without saying that the ‘better’ you are at the physical yoga, then naturally the ‘higher up’ you were getting’. This is such an illusion and feels so horrible, and the goal of ‘enlightenment’, a false one distancing self from humanity and what is needed in this context, feels very similar to bliss. I love what you have shared here ‘It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.’

    1. Vicky ‘we are born, grow up, get married, have children, grow old and die’ is a belief that feels as advanced as believing that the world is flat! How much are we missing out on by holding such a limited belief?

       1. And defenders of that belief system would probably deal with you in the same way because it is such an affront to what they have always held as true. It is a sad reduction of our potential, so truly wonder-full to be able to lead by example that there is another way.

26. If we took away all the false beliefs we have about God including his judgement, his demands we be a certain way, his doctrines and his being someone unattainable who will always be greater than us, the world of God within each of us would open like a flower.

27. ‘When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.’ This is so true and one of the many very damaging aspects of signing up to any belief system. Feeling that there is some place that we need to get to has us constantly searching for the elusive goal rather than focussing on our relationship with ourself and our body.

28. Thank you Alex for a great sharing, it is amazing how powerful beliefs have on us when we accept them without question, one belief I choose to hang onto caused me to stay in an abusive relationship, this one I gave up sometime ago and from where I am today with an understanding of The Way of The Livingness little by little various beliefs are dropping away as I claim more of my connection to the divinity within me.

    1. There are no beliefs that can exist within the light of divinity, they shrivel up and die before even getting close.

29. Thank you Alexis this is so wonderful to read and U turn is the best way ever I have had it explained that we are just going back to what we left behind . ” I am eternally grateful to Serge Benhayon for returning to this knowing and for then lighting the way back for everyone else.” And thank you Serge Benhayon.

30. Great reminder Alexis about the fact that when we subscribe to one belief we subscribe to the whole package whether we like them all or not. It highlights how we are in effect modelling ourselves to certain roles when we subscribe to the beliefs of a doctor, or a nurse or a teacher etc. When we are truly ourselves and living from our heart then such beliefs no longer form our way.

    1. and what you have highlighted so beautifully Joshua is that unless we dictate from our inner most being then life will dictate for us.

31. I have recently deepened my understanding about this connection to God. I have felt that I have been held in his love regardless of my awareness of it. I am love, it is where I am from, it is who I am. I can choose to consider myself alone, but in truth I am not because I am held in this body of love. The more I embrace that the more I can feel I hold that awareness for more than just me just as someone has held it for me to feel it.

32. A brilliant blog Alexis, I too was trapped in the illusion of yoga and feeling that I was ‘going’ somewhere. No wonder I always felt empty and searching for more as there was no evolution offered by this journey at all, just a lot of push and drive keeping me further away from love and any true connection with others.

33. Understanding that every belief, behaviour, ideal, investment, picture etc I have taken on I purposely chose is helping me to see the bigger picture and in seeing the bigger picture I choose not to react but surrender and let them go. Through surrendering I can see the beliefs, behaviours etc clearly as I make a choice to be with myself.

34. What is interesting with nearly every modality on earth that is not practiced with Soul but from spirit is that the body is treated as a clear second to the whole process. You can end up with a battered body but all this serves to do is inhibit further any true Soul contact.

35. Evolution was definitely a U-turn for me… and that U-turn was meeting Serge Benhayon… Up until that point, I was on a rollercoaster that just went round and round… It seems exciting at first then it lost all appeal!

36. It is interesting how we all have bought at some point the idea that we were going somewhere and how much we can structure our life around this goal… of truly going nowhere.

    1. I agree Eduardo and it doesn’t matter if the signpost on the bottom of the ladder says ‘career’, ‘sporting accolade’, ‘musical achievement’, ‘beauty accomplishment’,’celebrity status’, the fact is that all ladders lead to the same place and that is away from ourselves.

37. I am not that surprised that you believed you could lift off the yoga mat one day – after all, you become able to stand on your head and put your body into an intricate posture after some practice, you would think that anything would be possible.

    1. Yes and you probably did leave your body behind as you aimed for higher and higher things on the ladder! Whenever I look back on some of my more absurd choices in life I rarely feel myself in my body but above my body or watching myself make the absurd decision that sounded or looked like such an experience or ‘fun’ at the time.

38. “When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.” This is such important information. I used to think i could cherry-pick when I attended various spiritual events – and ignore the bits that didn’t fit or with parts or I didn’t like. Understanding more about energy has shown me how very wrong I was.

39. Of course – any time I look at a baby it’s obvious to me that they have a deep connection to who they truly are and they express and honour what they feel without need for thought. A great reminder that evolution is simple and natural as we already have it all.

40. Understanding that it is a U turn we are making back to ourselves is where the empowerment lies. Not being better than anyone else or mastering something for the sake of recognition. We are all already everything, we just lost our way, and whilst that is no small thing, the reality is to get back to who we are, we need to chuck a U-y, we don’t need to kill ourselves striving to be something else.

    1. And unless we do ‘chuck a U-y’ then the scenery may distract us for a while but sooner or later we’re going to realise that we’re on an endless road to nowhere.

41. Getting somewhere and climbing the proverbial climbing ladder can give us a great sense of achievement. Perhaps it is that achievement that provides us with relief from the tension we have when it comes to evolution and at what pace we choose to evolve. A great distraction is to achieve as then we can pat ourselves on the back and convince ourselves we are getting somewhere. The only place we need to go is inwards.

42. ”When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want’. I can remember being in the illusion that when I attended workshops or new age events that I only took on what I felt was true and left the rest behind, not realising at the time that i had taken on the whole energy of what was being presented and the energy of the person presenting. Now that I am more aware of energy I know this to be a fact.

43. It’s interesting that Universal Medicine brings us back to the fact that we do know the truth already. Yet everything about the way the world is set up is a challenge to hold that which we know as truth and put it into action. I remember at 19 starting to do yoga every day. I would get up early and go out on the deck at my Mum and Dads place, everything fit, the sun sparkling on the pool, the quite, the time for me. My body felt strong but something was niggling away. I could feel the strength was changing me, it came with an arrogance that I did not remember signing up for. Also, my body begun to feel strangely weak and shaky after a session. Everything in “life” says yoga is good but my body wasn’t matching, It is great for you to write about how you found your way back to you and binned the invisible ladder.

44. Pretty much all of life is set up with this belief that we need to climb the ladder or get somewhere. It’s not just in yoga, it requires us to see through the falseness of this like you have presented to start to know ourselves more deeply from within.

45. ‘It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us’ so true Alexis. It is when I believe I am not enough and have to prove my worth that I think God is a belief. When I connect to me, to my body and move with myself, I know God.

46. What a great light you bring here, Alexis. Your understanding about your experience with Yoga is pure gold, as you uncover a lie in which many people still rely on, until they choose as you did, to let go the illusion and come back to the natural and forever available connection with God.

47. It is interesting the way that yoga has been bastardised from its true purpose and tainted with the glamour we see it done these days where it is about competition and comparison distracting people from feeling the opportunities that are presented all around in order to evolve back to the love of God that we are from.

    1. It was quite a shocking revelation for me to realise that for most of the years that I had been teaching yoga, I had been aiding and abetting people to disconnect from themselves rather than to connect to themselves and what’s even worse is that I believed that I myself was a very connected person! The depth that I erroneously believed that I was taking people to, was no deeper than some very misguided thrashing about on the surface.

       1. Until the truth is reflected to us we know no different because we have chosen to disconnect from the wisdom we all have access to when we live a connected and responsible life.

       2. Lucy I do wonder about that. I reckon it’s more accurate to say that we ‘consciously’ know no different but the fact of the matter is that deep down we are all the living truth and so there’s actually no way that we can’t know truth.

48. What you have expressed here Alexis is true and powerful;
    “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing”.

    1. Individually and collectively we are the body of God and yet individually and collectively we deny it.

49. Wow, it goes to show just how dis-harmonious our mind can be when it runs in dis-connection from our body…

    1. When our mind runs in dis-connection from our bodies then it can literally go anywhere and yet all of the places that it does go are actually the same place and that place is a place of separation from the truth.

50. Thanks Alexis, there are many beliefs that try to take us somewhere, such as “I’m not good enough” which means trying to be better or do better, instead of returning to and surrendering into the beautiful being we already are. I’d imagine there are foundational beliefs that act like tree trunks and have many other beliefs sprouting from them, and these result in all sorts of behaviours and choices that have a big impact on our health and wellbeing. It’s a great topic, I’ll be pondering on beliefs today!

    1. Melinda I am wondering if pondering on beliefs comes from the belief that we don’t actually know that all beliefs aren’t true?

51. Yes Elizabeth, there’s no skipping a step out, every single variation from God has to be looked at and addressed. We are held accountable for everything that we have set in motion and so yes we can act as if we simply don’t know or don’t care but this attitude changes nothing, there comes a point for all of us when we have to turn around and go back.

52. ”When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want’. This is not only true Alexis, but it is also worth noting that often that package also delivers much more than what you bargained for.

53. I thought that the more I did, the better I was and the more I was improving myself. However there is nothing to improve only everything to return to.

54. Saying yes to the pull of Evolution is simply having a willingness to be more loving, more understanding and more accepting of the light within ourselves.

    1. and in the realm of energetic truth there is no such thing as saying ‘no’ and so the question for us all to constantly consider is what are we saying ‘yes’ to?

55. What if our own evolution was just a returning to where we had already been before and that our life was just a re-connection to this divinity by stripping back all of the old patterns, behaviours, images and old hurts we had accumulated over our lifetimes? We are whole already we are just peeling back our old layers to reconnect to the amazingness that is there. Evolution is pretty cool.

    1. And the end is assured.

56. This has got to be one of the most ingrained beliefs that we invest in to date, that success and evolution is about climbing a ladder, increasing our intelligence, having a better job and even ‘evolving’ as a species to become more advanced and well adapted, but where is the QUALITY in all of this? Being a CEO, yoga instructor or athlete doesn’t automatically equate to joy, contentment or inspiration for others, but always introducing a greater level of love and respect into our lives certainly does.

57. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” This was a revelation to me Alexis, as Im not sure I had ever considered anything other than being on a straight path. Not that I ever saw an end to it, but I certainly wasn’t aware that in order to return to who we truly are, that we would have to walk back through our lives and heal all the hurts we had created for ourselves and done to others along the way. What an extraordinary time it has been and continues to be, knowing that by choosing to make a U turn, is to be open to what lies ahead and the endless opportunites that are presented to us for true healing.

58. It really is eye opening to see just how our beliefs and or images held can really blind us from the truth of life and our choices become cloudy. Letting go of these past values bring a greater awareness to the world around us and we can then make another choice to change our movements and integrate a truly supportive and loving way to move through life. Evolution is a set of rhythmical movements that keeps us learning and moving forward and that is a pretty spectacular way to be.

59. As they say what goes up must come down, everything eventually will need to be balanced. In this way the article maps out how we climb up an imaginary or a held belief that heaven is found by climbing a ladder into the sky. Some people have heaven accessed through yoga, others religion, others business, sport and the list goes on but at some point we all grab hold of something because we believe some part of it will make us better or get us somewhere. As the article states, “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” So we go nowhere and in fact return and in that way this is the ultimate belief or ladder we climb. That we aren’t something and need to achieve or find it when in fact everything is already with us we have just layered things or overlaid things or beliefs on top of it. I was one to buy into something or believe it on the basis I liked part of what was being said but you can’t cherry pick a part as this then blinds you to what else is truly there. The return makes so much more sense and in a world that never truly made sense The Way of The Livingness has stood like a beacon.

60. As a society we perceive success, development, growth, progress or evolution based on perfecting, bettering, dominating or advancing our physical world, our bodies included. A point reached or a point in the future to work towards is what we so often drive ourselves to see in hopes to achieve a state of supposed perfection, enlightenment, power. All the while within us all, are the answers to all that we seek. Through our connection to our essence, our Soul we realise we need not go anywhere, do anything, be anyone else, as within we are it all already. As you have wisely shared – ‘In our essence, we know God.’ When we look within to know ourselves, it is then we will also know God.

    1. and it is because ‘in our essence we know God’ that there are forces at work that are working tirelessly to keep us from our essence, so that our inevitable re-unification with God is delayed. And delayed it might be but prevented it can never be, we can never be separated from that which we are made of, we can only be temporarily distracted from realising our connection in full.

61. Oh how lovely it is to be reminded that I don’t have to TRY to get anywhere.

62. Yes I completely agree we all know God intimately for He lives within. Unimedpedia God: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-god.html provides lots of wonderful audio and quotes that reintroduce us to Him and ourselves.

63. There’s something to question about relying on physical fitness to be of good health. Question: Why do super fit cyclists die of heart attacks or brain tumours or cancer? Sure, our fitness is a big deal and we need bodies that are fit and alive. But, there is more going on that we are not allowing ourselves to be aware off, like energy, our emotions, how we love ourselves and each other… everything has an effect of everything.

64. ‘In our essence, we know God’, a beautiful simple truth that when lived changes everything.

65. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” The more I’m honest about my false beliefs the more space there is with-in to feel the presence of God with-in and around me. If I’m thinking up things about me or others in anyway then I’m choosing to put my connection with God on pause, my choice not his.

66. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” I spent so many years looking for and attempting to connect to God yet all that searching led me further away. As we are never apart it is in truth impossible to be further away but it seems so as all the searching creates beliefs that can make it all the more difficult to accept and embody the Truth.

67. Understanding that evolution is not an ‘outward’ or ‘upward’ movement but a path of return is no lesser a paradigm shift than acknowledging that the world is not flat but in fact round.

    1. It is for sure a shift in consciousness jstewart, one that comes with letting go and surrendering to how and who we are as we are, as clarified in the above comments

68. There is a tendency when presented with the esoteric to drive oneself to arise above one’s own struggle. The revelation, however, that evolution is a path of return, however, is one that assists to let go of such drive to need to aspire to be anything. And so, evolution, is not so much a path of striving, but a path of surrendering to who you truly are.

    1. Such a great point Adam and I am slowly learning to embrace my struggles because they hold the greatest opportunities for evolution.

       1. Yes, great points Adam & Alexis. Our struggles are our opportunities for greatest evolution and I am finding that the more I embrace them so my life increasingly becomes more fluid and joyful.

69. Thank you Alexis for a great blog on beliefs, our world is owned by belief systems, these are what run our bodies and make us think that this is who we are, such a great illusion, there is so much freedom to be found when they are seen for the falsity they are clearing the way for the truth of who we are to be lived.

70. Great sharing Alexis, as you say ‘This connection is found by looking within and not by seeking outside of us.’ We are brought up thinking we need to get somewhere, attain knowledge and then will have everything we want etc.. but what if it is all already within us and we are simply returning to it?

71. “When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.” – this is so true for so many things in life…for example if we subscribe to a Religion then we subscribe to its whole history including all the genocides etc…If we subscribe to a seemingly innocent video game, then we also subscribe to all the gaming industry background with its violence, coldness, porn and disconnection.
    We have so much yet to learn in discerning what lies behind the facades that are being presented with products and services and gatherings etc. Thankfully Universal Medicine has been key in supporting me to learn the difference in what is actually being presented behind the facades.

72. It is amazing how much we think we need to get somewhere or somehow attain enlightenment – when we have it all within and just need to surrender to it. We can see this when we are with children.

73. When we believe we are climbing up a ladder towards achievement we forget that the ladder is propped up and leaning against something and we do not question that something until we fall off the ladder and discover we weren’t going anywhere.

74. An awesome article. I was particularly taken by the way your body was exhausted to the point of stopping and that the yoga practices were contributing to this. Just how much in our lives is lived in the belief it is good for us, will make our lives better or enlighten us, when our body’s are aching with pain or exhaustion due to our beliefs and practices. A moment to stop for ourselves and begin to consider taking the u-turn back to what has always remained within. Our connection with God.

75. Oh those beliefs really get us bogged down…..one such belief that I have exposed recently is the belief that I took on from my parents which was; you have to work long and hard to make a living. Now I do not shy away from committing to work, but I find myself in a job that I have to work long hours to make a decent salary. This does not feel supportive and with this belief exposed I am looking for a new job.

76. It is amazing how we can take a belief and make it God like, and letting it consume our life and getting deeper and deeper into the illusion that this is utopia we have been searching for. When I read that you felt you could levitate, on paper it does sound crazy but when we become the belief we have created anything is possible.”When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want” so true this is why we should discern everything we choose to take on not just the bits that appeal to us.

77. Thank you for sharing Alexis how taken you were with your beliefs and how this clouded your connection to God and truth. It is amazing to feel the steps you took to re-connect back to truth and to feel the blessing that comes with letting go of all old beliefs and ideals that stop us from being truly loving.

78. Thank you Alexis for a great sharing, shinning light on beliefs that we have given our power to in the false hope of getting something but coming away empty. Beautiful for you to return to who you truly are and see through the futile holding onto belief systems.

79. Such a cool blog and a living example of someone who climbed up the yoga ladder only to find themselves broken and that all was not as it sounded it would be. It’s amazing and inspiring that you were able to find your way back to yourself, perhaps the very thing you were searching for with the yoga practice.

    1. Nick you’re right, I was searching for myself through my yoga practice but looking back, I think that I was constantly on the look out for me; at the time I even thought that my drug taking was part of my search.

80. So beautiful Alexis, thank you; what I was drawn to this morning was this absolute powerful truth;
    “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing”.

81. Two points really struck me Alexis, 1) that we don’t ever separate from God, that he is absolutely there and it is our beliefs that have us thinking we are separate and 2) that this life is about turning around, returning if you like to the truth that we are and always were. Doesn’t this just show us that we need not strive to be anything nor get anywhere but instead simply rediscover and surrender to that which we already know and are. Quite beautiful really.

82. I love this; I still live in a way where I think I have to get somewhere, to try, strive and achieve. But really I don’t have to. It’s about just being me. It’s already all there inside of me, it’s about coming back to my body – to inside of me, not going outside seeking answers in everybody else. That’s just giving my power away and creating an emptiness and lack of trust and strength in my own knowing and body.

83. As about everything, images of evolution rule us and we adapt to the one of our liking. The images jails us into a way of thinking and acting.

84. Over the years we build up these layers of falsities i.e beliefs, patterns of behaviours, addictions etc that keep out our true selves. As we learn to surrender to our own inner truth and connection to ourselves, these layers and hurts that separate us fall away. The beauty is in the choice to surrender to the truth of our connection and allowing the light of God shine from within.

85. Alexis, what you offer us here is huge, we are never separate from God, we choose to believe God is separate from us, and this is a big distinction – we are always with God, but do we choose to live and see it, and many of us have gotten lost in this. Often at times part of it is the pictures or beliefs we have about how things should be, and as you show when you buy into a belief you do get the whole package and not just the bits you like. So it’s great to hear your story and understand that we can unpick our beliefs and when we do, when we strip back we come back to the truth of who we are, so it’s never actually about taking on any belief, it’s about letting go and allowing what’s already innately there to shine through and out.

86. I loved these words Alexis ‘When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.’ A perfect example how we get hooked into something and we become what we believe when in truth that is not who we are.

87. “When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.” – this is something we often fail to realise, and so not always aware of it, we end up embracing the whole lot. No different to many religions and the many beautiful truths that lie in the bible for example, yet this comes laced with all the child molestation and disempowerment of the woman – you cannot have one without the other. So how then do we find a religion that is free of such dogma, indoctrination and manipulation? Not that easy in this world – though I can say I have been very blessed to come across The Way of The Livingness as a form of religion which totally allows me to be and is only ever there to support me to grow, express and evolve, and never at the expense of another. There is no dogma, no indoctrination and no manipulation – for I am free to walk away from it at any moment with no ostracisation nor judgement nor criticism. The Way of The Livingness is my religion today, and it is my responsibility to keep feeling each step of the way and embracing that which stands true to me and walk away if it does not (though with its track record so far, there is nothing in it that I would walk away from!)…

88. I love the knowing that we have everything already within us so that no searching is needed. I love the fact that we have an essence that is not spoilt by anything that happens to us and is always available for us to come back to. I love that we can start to come back to our true selves from a place where there is nothing wrong with us, we just need to discard the ideals and beliefs that we have taken on that have kept us away from knowing the truth.

89. The Way of The Livingness allows us to break through the illusion of life where we are constantly looking outside ourselves for the answers of life and our search for enlightenment, and presents us with the truth that it is through our connection to our inner heart and living from that quality of love and truth that we find ourselves for who we truly are.

90. Beautifully shared Alexis, I had a similar journey as you in that I practiced yoga relentlessly and became obsessed at perfecting my postures and hoping that I may reach some state of enlightenment as well along the way. It was pure illusion on my part as I was actually competing against others for recognition and acceptance – no enlightenment there. Meeting Serge Benhayon changed all that for me as well and I no longer needed to seek outside of myself for true love and wisdom, for it was within me always – I just needed to re-connect to this truth.

91. Evolution isn’t always about information and knowledge, sometimes it can just be as simple as saying a few simple words said with much genuine love, that we all evolve just by hearing them.

    1. Shami I couldn’t agree with you more. The other day someone passed the computer to me with such gentleness that I was reminded of my own innate gentleness. There were no words, no books and no learnt knowledge and yet such evolution was communicated.

92. “This connection is found by looking within and not by seeking outside of us.” It is the disconnection from our bodies that keeps us seeking the next rung on the ladder relentlessly trying and pursuing more. It is only when we stop and allow our body’s soft whispers or loud calls that we see just how much love and care is right there within us always. Thank you Alexis.

93. Thank you Alexis for a great sharing. I understand more clearly how evolution works..

94. ‘Looking back now, I can also see that I mistook the feeling of being very physically fit as a sign of being in genuine good health.’ – it is a common thing to see physical fitness as a sign of genuine good health, in fact it is a drive towards it, a push to make us think ‘that’s it’ – when really it can be a massive cover up of how disconnected and far from our true selves we truly are.

95. Even the ‘best-intended’ belief will be revealed as being a hindrance to what that belief pretends to aspire to, ie it is an obstacle to the very truth it is promising. The amount of beliefs we are bound by is enormous and it is layer by layer that we get aware of them and can discard them as the illusion they are.

96. “When we take on a belief, we take on a pre-selected set of characteristics that come with that belief. It comes as a bundle.” I like this. It makes it so clear that a belief is not just a belief but comes with a whole set of behaviours and very likely more beliefs. Nothing is to be taken lightly but chosen wisely, as everything has an impact and/or consequences.

97. As someone who practiced religiously meditated and practiced yoga under a guru, I really related to what you’ve written here, Alexis. When I reflect back on those three years, I can recall the many times I had overridden feelings of ‘uuuh, this doesn’t feel right’ – but that ladder climbing would blind me as I looked to get to the next rung. It’s only when/after I started having esoteric sessions and attending Serge’s courses that I began to listen to that ‘it doesn’t feel right’ voice – and moreover listen to what my body was saying. And I still do, every day. I’m definitely not perfect, but I’m enjoying the journey.

98. In a sense we can say that ‘enlightenment’ is found at the top of the ladder. But what is the nature of the light that has us so filled? The fact that we are standing on a ladder at all, albeit an illusionary one, and not seeing our movements as spherical (i.e. that we are returning unto the same point over and over again until we come back to and live the love that we are) shows the degree to which we have allowed ourselves to be ‘filled’ with a light that is false and deceiving by its very nature. That’s the thing with straight lines…we become so focussed on the end point we become blind to what happens along the way.

99. I love the way you write Alexis. The ‘ladder of evolution’ exposed for the bogus tool of ascension it masquerades as. Where happiness is a marker for the illusion we live under and not the true joy that is found when we return to the love that we already are.

100. I find this a fascinating subject, especially with how it has been presented by Alexis Stewart; to have a certain view of what evolution means and to believe that we are on that path if we live up to a set of criteria based on that belief. I suppose I always thought that if I was moving closer to an esteemed and higher source, or to nature, then I was evolving. But this just served to always make me feel inadequate, less-than-another, never quite achieving the desired mark. It is beautiful to feel and to experience now how no outer source actually has what I am looking for or need to evolve – that everything is inside of me and you equally, and all we ever really need to do is to turn within to the light there, and evolution takes place without too much fuss or bother, it just happens as it naturally would as we get on with the act of living.

101. How beautiful that you have through The Way of The Livingness, found the connection within what you were once seeking outside up the illusionary ladder. Having been on a similar drive for answers it’s lovely to be able to finally rest, empowered to know what you were searching for has been with you all along.

102. Woah! Our beliefs themselves create the separation! This is huge because it highlights that it is all about choice and not about trying to find anything out by doing or saying anything as these actions come after the belief itself.

103. “In our essence, we know God.” So simple and so true. When we look to organised religion, it is labeled with so many pictures and should’s and rules. But when we go within, to feel what we innately know, we don’t have to seek it outside of us, we just know.

104. ‘ I am eternally grateful to Serge Benhayon for returning to this knowing and for then lighting the way back for everyone else.’ Hear Hear Alexis now we can all return home to God, together.

105. I can feel the clarity and the breaking down of old ideals and beliefs in this sharing. The truth is so simple -we all know God in our essence but many of us have just been avoiding the reconnection.

106. I too felt like we were going somewhere, making our way up an invisible ladder. However the further along this path I travel the more I realise I am going home, back to myself more and more. Rather than go anywhere I am undoing all the going and doing!! No wonder I have been so tired 🙂

107. The key to true evolution is to surrender and accept, and not to strive.

     1. So very true Adam and on paper one would imagine that is was easy to simply surrender and accept but my knuckles are white with how hard I am still holding on to certain things. I know however that as I keep working on my ‘livingness’, with the support of Universal Medicine that slowly, slowly my grip is loosening and eventually I will simply fall back into the love that I am.

108. Imagine how different it would be if the world was run on the understanding that we are already everything and that we are on the path of return. This getting something, climbing the ladder, attaining, improving etc etc is totally ingrained into our whole consciousness and society – what a con!

     1. The crazy thing is that not only are we being lied to but we are lying to ourselves. When we stop and connect there is always a part of us that knows the truth, so one question we might pose is why do we lie to ourselves and each other and pretend we don’t!

     2. ‘What a con indeed’ and one of such epic proportions that few people realise the ramifications of the perpetual lie that we are all choosing to sustain. It’s time to come clean and when just a few people do then it will be harder for others to keep the facade going.

109. I was trying to ‘find myself’ for years and years in different shapes and forms but it wasn’t until I met Serge Benhayon that I stopped the pursuit. He made me feel that what I was looking for (myself) was already inside of me and I didn’t have to go anywhere to find it. These words I’m sure I’ve heard before but when Serge said it it felt like they landed in me in a way that made me listen.

110. I love your heading Alexis, Evolution is a u-turn not a ladder is a powerful reflection of how we climb the ladder of success and achievement based on external ideals and beliefs. Living a u-turn and returning to who we so naturally are, together and equally, provides and opportunity for expansion and evolution for humanity.

111. When we buy into beliefs we lose sense of who we are, ‘This belief lay like a canopy over my entire life. It infiltrated my thoughts and engineered my body to move in certain ways. The belief owned me; I was its puppet, its plaything, acting out the characteristics of the belief.’ It’s a bit like these beliefs completely take ownership over us.

112. Connecting with ourselves, with our essence, and nurturing this innermost instead of seeking on the outside makes far more sense to me now than being trapped to continually seek externally, ‘it is through our true connection with ourselves first, that we know also our connection to God.’

113. Jeannette I agree whole heartedly with what you have written and would add that in truth it is not possible to ever leave any-one behind, as we are all energetically linked. It’s the same as trying to go out for the day and leave your left foot behind!

114. Only one person can stand at the top of a ladder with all others being relegated to the rungs underneath. It is only when we understand that walking side by side, knowing that we are all in this together and we are all returning that evolution can truly occur. We cannot get ahead at the expense of another, nor leave anyone behind.

     1. Jeannette I agree whole heartedly with what you have written and would add that in truth it is not possible to ever leave any-one behind, as we are all energetically linked. It’s the same as trying to go out for the day and leave your left foot behind!

115. There is a quite damaging sense of superiority that comes with the idea of evolution as a journey forever upwards. It is what makes us think that we are superior to other forms of life and ignore the interconnected nature of the world.

116. I love the analogy of downloading a belief and the package it comes with. It could be likened to downloading a program on the computer. Once installed it is in the system and comes with everything the developers included. At times we don’t even know all the functions of a program or what they are capable of doing. This is much like a belief system that once taken on, comes with parts that we may not even know are influencing us, our thoughts and our movements every single day.

117. This says it all for me: “This connection is found by looking within and not by seeking outside of us.” All what we are looking for is already there, so why would it be something to climb up to? It can’t be, and it isn’t. If we make the choice to look at what we chose to coverup this inner knowing, we are only returning to our essence it is nothing new.

118. Alexis, this sentence is a powerful confirmation of what I now know to be true within my own connection to God. Serge Benhayon has been instrumental in this understanding and has inspired me (and many others) to expose and discard a plethora of outdated ideals and beliefs – and a willingness to continue with this as more arise to be be worked through. However confronting this may be at the time, the joy of the of the re-connection to God is beyond measure.
     “I have discovered that what lay underneath beliefs is truth and the truth is, we are born already knowing God unencumbered, but we layer over the top of our connection to this knowing – false ways of being, beliefs, ideas, practices, habits, behaviours, personality traits, pain etc., they serve to distort our connection with ourselves, and it is through our true connection with ourselves first, that we know also our connection to God”.

119. “The belief that I was climbing the ladder of evolution managed to cling onto me for all of 20 years. It gripped me so tightly that I was unable to feel the damage that my relentless yoga practice and deep lack of self-care were doing to me”

     Alexis, you bring a very honest account of the consciousness of Yoga as it is seen today. Over a few years, I attempted to join various yoga classes, as friends were marvelling at how super fit they were becoming and this would ‘be good’ for me. I found attempting the poses was excruciating on my body and after a few odd sessions I could not return to contorting my body any longer. There was a sense of failure as it was considered the ‘thing to be doing’, even though very competitive in flexibility and poses. Several years later I attended an Esoteric Yoga Class, the complete opposite of previous classes in that there were no postures or poses! How could this be possible – Yoga with mainly lying down, along with simple movements such as sitting up and bending a leg through the session. Esoteric Yoga, the Yoga of Stillness was the invitation to return to the innate stillness within, this continues to unfold and evolve, no ladder to climb, simply a choice to return deeper within, to re-connect with the divine essence which patiently awaits our return.

     1. Stephanie thanks for what you have shared regarding esoteric yoga, which is yoga in it’s intended form. A style of yoga that ultimately results in the dismantling of all ladders.

120. Great blog Alexis and I look forward to the sequel, you talk a lot about yoga and I would love to hear how your yoga practice has changed, as you let go of the beliefs and ideals around your previous experience of it and what that led to.

121. this apparently simple statement… that evolution is a U-turn and not a ladder is a most delightfully simple debunking of what seems to have sucked in an enormous percentage of the human race for a very long time… and it is in a simple article of a few hundred words… What extraordinary wisdom there is for us now to actually return to our true hearts.

122. For about a decade I walked the spiritual path, thinking I was improving who I am. Then I met Serge Benhayon, and a massive U-turn indeed occurred. I did not need to improve who I am, who I am is already love, I just needed to connect, which he showed me how to do in 15 minutes with the Gentle Breath Meditation. Miracle after miracle since then have now become normal.

123. I had the belief that exercise was good for you and your health, and that the more and harder I exercised the more the benefits, but unfortunately this was often at the expense of my body, which was often ignored and disregarded. I can relate with this Alexis, ‘I prided myself in my commitment to keeping myself very physically fit. I saw it as a strength, another rung mastered and an indication of the fact that I was getting somewhere.’ I am now learning to stay in and with my body, to listen, honour and respect its many messages, and I find this way of being the only way that makes complete sense as well as feeling beautiful.

124. I love this expose and metaphor – ‘evolution is a U-Turn not a Ladder’. It suggests that in true evolution we are never ‘lower down’ than others or superior because of our stance on the upward ladder, but rather we are all at our own point of evolution that makes us no less, or not better than anyone else.

125. Evolution is a U-turn, and absolute change in direction that flies in the face of what the spiritual new age promotes. Thank goodness for Universal Medicine presenting that way of living, for the U-turn is now known and available to all, should we want it.

126. I have spent most of my life trying not to get eaten, survival of the quickest is good but ask the mouse about the owl. Beliefs are a great place to hide like a school of fish, but whales swim in circles below and blow bubbles and then eat them all when they are concentrated. We just wear ourselves out trying to run with the pack. All of this energy we expended to get to where we have always been, is a bit nuts! When we just stop and look where we have come from, we will find what we have been looking for all along!

127. The distinction between being physically fit and true health and vitality is an interesting one, and a difference I feel we are a long way from mastering. It feels to me that being physically fit is about simply our physical body, our muscles and their productivity, but true health encompasses and considers every single part of our lives.

128. The idea of ‘survival of the fittest’ has lead to the concept that evolution is about competition, or being the last man standing. Evolution is about all of us, each and every one. It is not about besting another, or outwitting others. We do not evolve unless we all evolve, and our evolution is based upon not our physical prowess but upon the love that we express and the responsibility for expressing that love which we accept.

129. Wow what a wake up call in how we can get caught in the evolution being a linear path and yoga discipline which we think should get us to a state of bliss. Being caught in the ideas and beliefs of yoga as society sees it, rather than truly understanding the yoga from ageless wisdom.

130. We cannot get enlightened if we do not choose light as our companion while we move.

131. Could it be that yoga is a discipline that feeds a false version of ‘ascension’ while creating an outer layer of of bliss that feels like you are in a totally different place when in truth the only thing that happened is that the yoga movements only led to burying in the body the energies that could help us to feel that we are not exactly ascending until such time when they made their way up and we go down ?

132. Evolution is not a possession; it is a whole body choice.

133. One way or another, we all fall for “the illusion of ascension” where each one makes its own interpretation of what ascension means for each of us (economic progress, education progress, job career, etc.). Ascension, though, is a word that has a very specific meaning linked to leaving this plane of life in brotherhood.

     1. Fascinating isn’t it Eduardo how we have twisted the idea of ascension to mean us ascending the ladder by ourselves, at the expense of others, when the truth of it really means the point at which we have supported every single person to evolve to the same point and therefore ready to leave this plane of life.

134. It is interesting how we create our own stories about how evolution feels like so we can convince ourselves that we are indeed moving forward. The point is that evolution, a movement, does not a priori assumes where to move as in a physical object. Evolution is about how you move and how the way you move help you to face all the situations that constellated for you to evolve.

135. I love the title of this blog ‘Evolution is a U-Turn, Not a Ladder’ We are not headed up and out further from ourselves but reawakening to who we already are.

136. We can strive to climb “the ladder” or we can take a u-turn and return to ourselves.

137. Thank you Alexis, this blog sure does pack a punch!

138. Serge Benhayon presents the same wisdom that Patanjali also presented thousands of years ago, just with different words and delivery to match our times. We are already, each of us, a Son of God, we just have to see clearly and remove all that gets in the way of our knowing – as you say Alexis, ‘remove the impediments’ that prevent us from knowing this and we will feel and know once again who we truly are. If we are in a fog without realising then we will not have any urge to find our way back. Thanks to Serge Benhayon shining the light on that fog we can start to see and clear it for ourselves and walk the steps back into the light of our true being.

139. There is a saying in politics, made famous by Benjamin Disraeli in the 19th Century about climbing the ‘greasy pole’. It gives this sense of an enormous amount of hard work, and always slipping back down (presumably as someone climbs over you). Yet when we simply return to being ourselves this game no longer works. No one can take that away from us, we do not have to strive for it… we simply have to express it.

140. Realising that evolution is not a linear development – climbing a ladder – but a return to who we truly and that we are already that, if we only allow ourselves to re-connect, is ‘mind-blowing’. The whole purpose and drive of how and why I live has changed. The whole experience of life takes on a completely different perspective, one that is so much more fulfilling and understandable.

141. Thanks Alexis for your sharing so clear and honest no holes bared. Many of us have been through the New Age Meditations, books, courses all manner of different modalities only to come out into the light again once, or if, we have been lucky enough to come across Serge Benhayons teaching of The Way of The Livingness. This then opens our eyes to the truth and all the rubbish gone before is purged over time from our bodies!

142. When we’re supported to truly connect with ourselves and appreciate what is already within us then whatever we’ve taken on that is actually a fake belief tends to stand out and we can see it for what it is… I too am eternally thankful to Serge Benhayon for the support he has provided me and many others with!

143. Thank you Alexis for highlighting the damage we cause to ourselves and others when we live by ideals and beliefs.
     I love what you express here, it is simple yet so profound;
     “This connection (to God) is found by looking within and not by seeking outside of us”

144. A great blog Alexis, and I love and relate with this Amanda, ‘The Way of The Livingness is my way, it is my journey back to who I truly am, not prescribed by anyone else. It is true evolution back to the soul.’ My choice too.

145. Briefs are always a full bundle. Whoever read’s all of that small print at the bottom of the contract? The nirvana promised is a great sales ploy to convince you to invest in something that can never be obtained and it is never the sellers fault if you don’t achieve it! God is never a belief outside us because he is always inside of all of us.

146. We are so out of rhythm with the Universe that we first of all have to go back to our true movement so we can express from the universal order. So, evolution is a u-turn back to who we truly are so we then can keep expanding in sync with the universe.

147. When we subscribe to beliefs, that is when we fall into giving our power away, we are no longer discerning beings, but beings following the plan of another. I know that from young the idea of our religion was to get into heaven by being good. We had teachers who told us it was impossible for us to be good because we were so bad to begin with that we did not know what good was. Good became synonymous with fear and being as quiet as possible, which is not really possible at all. No wonder so many people I know numb themselves instead of feeling what is truly going on. When I met Serge Benhayon, I was reluctant to join anything else, yet for the first time in years I felt like me. This is the massive difference between The Way of The Livingness and everything else, The Way of The Livingness is my way, it is my journey back to who I truly am, not prescribed by anyone else. It is true evolution back to the soul. Not striving for anything more than truth. It is something that I have within me.

     1. ‘The Way of The Livingness is my way, it is my journey back to who I truly am, not prescribed by anyone else. It is true evolution back to the soul. Not striving for anything more than truth. It is something that I have within me’, love it Amanda.

148. This blog really does bring home how we invest in ideals and beliefs and the extent of the harm and abuse that comes with that which we take on from outside of us. There is no doubt within me as I uncover the ideals and beliefs on my return to me that the connection I have with myself and therefore to God is deepening and expanding.

149. Classic comment – “I felt that I had things pretty much sorted and I took my happiness as evidence of my bogus ascension”. Great honest and ‘holds no punches’ piece of writing here Alexis about your experience with yoga and how your body showed you the way back to you. It shows how loving the body is – unconditionally so – even after we have been incredibly unloving with it.

150. Yes, evolution is a u-turn and not a ladder!

151. Thank you for spelling out so clearly how damaging it is when we subscribe to a belief system as it gets us hook, line and sinker; it is not just the bits that are okay and that we like or consciously subscribe to, it’s the whole package and it uses our physicality to leave its indelible imprint (until we discover Esoteric Healing that is).

152. Hello Alexis and I can relate to having a focus on a part of something that I like and thinking that I can just have ‘it’. As you say and its also my experience that once you say yes to a part, you get the whole thing. So it’s similar to buying a packet of biscuits and not eating the ones you don’t like, you still end up with all of them in you cupboard. Even though you physically can throw them out you look at the receipt and they still have cost you. Once we break life up into parts and not look at the whole thing we seem to be easily fooled, as you say this is the whole, “In our essence, we know God.
     This connection is found by looking within and not by seeking outside of us.”

153. Evolution is all about responsibility and never stops. The belief we will get somewhere is the deepest illusion we are in and prevents us from truly understanding the game we are playing here. Every day we can choose evolution or comfort and it is us who are holding the power in our choices.

     1. Rachel I particularly like your line ‘Evolution is all about responsibility and never stops’ as it really is in stark contrast to the idea of enlightenment which conveys itself as the ultimate resting point.

154. I have done many spiritual courses, workshops and sessions, all with the intention to better myself and to reach a point where life would be like a strawberry cake. Basically, it all evolved around me, myself and I. But this is not what life is about, nor is it about becoming enlightened (whatever that may be). Life is about people and being of service. It is about deepening your love and then being that love with everybody.

155. I had been caught in the games of snakes and ladders also. Yet to be know that actually the game is lost when we reach the top, as per the force achieved will be more difficult to renounce.

156. Brilliant Expose Alexis. I also fooled myself into believing that betterment of the physical body was related to evolution. And for me this included copious amounts of exercise, and a focus on diet – eating organic, or even going so far as a raw food diet, and then believing that I could be closer to God if I didn’t eat anything at all!
     These choices were so anti-evolutionary that they took me further away from my connection to myself and God than I had ever been!

157. We have been wrongly educated and indoctrinated with this ladder and looking out there concept. Every which way you look our belief systems are riddled with these lies that take us away from our true selves. In his book Time Space and all of us, Book 1 – Time, Serge Benhayon completely dismantles the lies about TIME as a lineal concept. Our whole life and way of thinking is based on time and even the way we look at time itself is as Serge puts it “one big fat lie”. That book is completely spectacular and a wonderful entry into dismantling some of these false and extremely harmful beliefs that serve to separate us from ourselves and our Divinity.

158. Thank you Alexis, I have learnt that evolution is actually surrendering to what is already there.

159. The idea of ascension in a lineal way, by virtue of ticking the boxes of what may be recognised as one making steps towards God, can make one position themselves as being better than another, judgmental towards others, or even aloof. The separateness that this lineal ladder ensues, leaves no room, or opportunity for the all encompassing love that we all naturally are to bring cohesion between people.

     1. Well said Johanne and not only that but often people on the ladder are only too pleased to knock a few off on their way up!

160. ‘We are born already knowing God unencumbered’ – A long time ago I overheard a very young child in church respond to a vicar’s words about the confirmation ceremony being about our commitment to get to know God, saying, ‘But that is silly, I already know him’.

161. ‘In our essence, we know God’ – To accept this truth, to live this truth calls out everything about the way we live, think, believe and live according to that truth and one cannot live with incongruence in the body – it feel ‘yukky’ and so a choice is made. It is as simple as that. We all have to take responsibility for the choices we make.

162. The description of the ascension to evolve, climbing the ladder speaks to me and my experiences of ways of bettering ourselves, which I have found takes away our humbleness and equalness with others. The yoga Alexis describes is something I have had small experiences of but always found it could contain a lot of arrogance, and I see no evolution when we live in this state.

163. Alexis, great to read your article again, this really stood out, ‘sinister when you consider that some ‘belief packages’ contain killing as part of their bundle.’ reading this helps me to understand why people kill in the name of religion or a belief system. I was very much into the yoga package for a long time and took on the belief that I would be a more dedicated and better student if I became more solitary, and so I began to disconnect from friends and family, this idea was very strong, I am free of this now and can see it for what it is – a separation to ourselves and others.

     1. R Wingrave the detail that you have shared about believing that you were a more dedicated student if you lead a solitary existence is a very romantic part of many beliefs to do with God and ascension, which is why many ashrams and monestaries are built on mountains. It also ties in with the belief that you higher up in altitude you get the closer to God you are. Jeez our beliefs are neanderthal ! I would venture to add that a solitary life has the potential to delay the return to God because it is a form of mummification. There’s nothing like the school run, shopping and work to really offer moment by moment reflections of who we are and who we are not.

164. You can wake up in the morning, see the sun rise, and spend the rest of the day chasing it across the sky, or you can simply take note of its passage, turn around and wait once again for its immanent rising in the east. You will have missed nothing by having done so. Life is cyclical – look around. It is only we who think that we need to fight this natural impulse and convince ourselves that we need to get somewhere.

165. Evolution is so often seen purely as a process of improvement or betterment, be that purely functional or on a spiritual level, rather than as a process of discarding what’s we’ve taken on that’s not really who we are and surrendering to the amazingness that we already are in our essence.

166. Learning to live with connection has been a bumpy road. Often questioning is this correct or am I doing this right, but this process of accepting true love, and with that is the acceptance of God, and a relationship with more than what is seen with the eyes, has been enormously humbling.

167. ‘Evolution is a ladder and not a U-turn’: now that breaks the belief that I grew up with. It’s still hard to consider the fact that we don’t need to evolve up a ladder but instead return back to who we are. That we actually already are wise. I was talking with someone I had just met yesterday about what we felt as kids and the natural knowing we had. U-turn it is.

     1. ‘Full steam back’ David.

168. ‘Evolution is a U-Turn, Not a Ladder.’ What a brilliant title! This is evolutionary as a stand alone sentence! Definitely worth having on T shirts, posters and plaques across the world.

169. I love your opening sentence Alexis “At the age of 8 I chose to separate from myself. The gap that I created between me and myself has been filled for most of my life with an array of debris that has masqueraded itself as life.” How extraordinary to be able to stop and observe this fact, to see that everything we usually call ‘life’ is just collateral damage caused by separating from who we truly are. I can remember the first time Serge Benhayon saying we just need to be ourselves and wondering what on earth that felt like and so began the task of clearing up the debris, dumping the beliefs, ideals and need for recognition and restoring my connection to me. Today life is celebration of my qualities, my love, my light, my care and stillness, I know who I am and you know who you are too. In this day and age, with so many distractions and opportunities to numb ourselves, poison and tarnish our inner glory, that is a magnificent achievement.

     1. ‘Today life is celebration of my qualities, my love, my light, my care and stillness’, Rowena how absolutely glorious.

170. The word Evolution does tend to make us think of the animal and plant kingdoms. It is what we are taught at school and other than being fed the idea that man has evolved from being neanderthal into ‘modern man’, this is all purely based on the physical aspects and doesn’t ever consider, at least to my knowledge, that true evolution is finding our path back to God. I certainly had never considered this until Serge Benhayon introduced it to me around 10 years ago and my understaning of evolution has completely changed as a result. We are so influenced by beliefs that we can get completley lost in them, and in doing so cut oursleves off from what is absolutely and divinely true.

     1. Sandra I agree that evolution has become, in so many people’s minds the progression of us as a species. We feel that as technology advances then so too do we and yet technology has nothing to do with advancing as a species, in fact it can be a sign of our demise if it becomes our sole focus, instead of the souls focus.

171. The powerful first paragraph of this blog exposes life for what it has become: A filler of the Gap that has come from the separation of our soul, of God and the divine origin we come from.

172. It is so true Alexis, I have never considered this before, but when it came to yoga, I definitely considered those who were more proficient at poses, particularly the yoga instructors, to therefore be more evolved. I recall once a ‘yoga guru-type’ joining a class to demonstrate his skill at holding certain mostly unattainable poses (by mere mortals!)… they were nothing short of physical feats, clearly practised at great length over many years. I recall feeling particularly ‘un-evolved’ that evening as I watched… and goodness knows how long I carried that having contributed to a sense of my own lack of advancement or enlightenment. Now I see it as nothing more that a circus act… meaningless in the greater scheme of things, but rather more dangerous in the illusion of enlightenment it reflects.

173. Your blog shows how we can drive ourselves very hard with the beliefs from the head, and misunderstandings of different teachings we hear. Feeling how different it is that evolution is a journey back to God, and as you say ‘ we are born already knowing God unencumbered’, there’s no push or drive with this, it feels very simple and true.

     1. Gill what just hit me when I read your comment stating that ‘beliefs are from the head’ was that the yoga belief is very cunning because it comes with the belief that people that do yoga are actually evolving via the body. I, like most yoga teachers will literally swear blind that they are the most connected people on the planet to their bodies, when all along they are amongst the most disconnected. It’s actually genius in some ways, albeit a very evil genius.

174. “I was not being Me, I was enacting a belief, as sincere as a game of charades.” It was not until I was presented with the understanding of energetic truth by Serge Benhayon did I realise I was living a charade.

175. Evolution for humans feels like getting parts right – we may get more experienced and more mature – while extremely important parts are not getting better. We may put on weight and we may have a sadness we can’t shake – we can call that evolution or see it as stagnation and realise there is more and possibly much more – like the u-turn described here.

176. Wow, that strive to reach enlightenment keeps us feeling like we are never enough, that there is always somewhere higher to get and that we are not it. How different is it to The Way of the Livingness in that it teaches us that we are already all we need to be and as you have shared, just a U-turn back to ourselves. No need to strive or try and be something that we are not – it really is that simple. Thank you for sharing Alexis, I loved reading about your experience.

177. Much of life teaches that progress is an ever-evolving upward spiral, we reach ever higher for the elusive ‘arrival.’ recognition or enlightenment. How much simpler to have the knowing realisation that there’s no-where to go except return to our source, the ever present, all encompassing Divinity that lives within all of us.

178. ‘It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing’. Thank you Alexis, this says so much, in few words.

179. “For a very long time I had a strong sense that I was ‘getting somewhere’ – I felt that I was slowly making my way up the invisible ladder of evolution.” I had this strong sense I was getting somewhere too, I had an investment in life, a belief that if I was successful I was going somewhere, I was climbing my ladder to a better life. It is amazing what beliefs we have that have no resemblance of truth but we hold onto them anyway. My understanding of evolution was to do with the animal and plant kingdom, and that we had progressed from Neanderthal man to who we are today, but I had never considered evolution to be my journey back to God. This I now know to be my absolute truth.

180. Alexis I love this blog. Since I first read it, although I have known and understood this concept since I heard Serge Benhayon first introduce it, I have now really got the enormity of what this actually means. By appreciating that we have created everything in our own lives, whether it is good or bad, and that when we truly start to evolve, we have to walk back through all of our own ‘creations’ it is possible to accept that however uncomfrotable it is, we are willing to take responsibility for what and how we have lived, and to then potentially reimprint our past. To me this is a most precious gift, and as I walk back through all my old hurts, I become more accepting, more loving and more humble to those that I meet along the way.

     1. Sandra what you have shared has really helped me to understand the subject in a much deeper way. Thank you.

181. I love the title of this blog. Making that u turn and walking back through everything we have laid down as a path to our ascension that has not been true is an uncomfortable journey. Meeting the beliefs that we have subscribed to and understanding the hold they have had on us is remarkable, literally remarkable as we re imprint our old loveless ways with a truth and love that is absolute.

     1. Elaine the detail that you have shared about what the u turn actually is, is awesome, thank you.

182. Alexis I absolutely love the truth you share in your blog. If we were left to our own devices we would all naturally rejoin our connection to being the Son of God!

183. “In our essence, we know God
     This connection is found by looking within and not by seeking outside of us.”. These are very powerful words. We just need to allow the connection and explore any beliefs we have that prevent that from happening. Ladders are best kept for what they are good for, climbing up to get onto a roof or to paint walls.

184. This makes absolute sense. Evolution is not about climbing a ladder or going to a point we haven’t been to before… it is simply – as expressed here – a ‘U-turn’ back to who we already are. And boy, oh boy, have we as a society moved a long way away from that to date!

185. The goals in life…yoga, science, professional life, raising children. Wherever we are is never it, but the elusive carrot keeps dangling tantalisingly just beyond the reach of our straining fingers. To stop reaching, just to come to rest and look at where we truly are – that is the greatest medicine there is. It marks the start point of a return journey, in all of its humbleness and simplicity.

186. Thank you Alexis for your very honest sharing on how you used to live and how much yoga practices heavily influenced your life. It is very humbling to be able to share with others that – what we once held as dear was actually something causing us a lot of harm and was crippling us. I have had the same experience with many other things believing that I was doing good or doing ‘what I’m supposed to do’ but crippling myself in the process. Our body never lies and so it is our bodies that truly let us know whether what we are doing is healing or harming. This is something I have learned through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.

187. ‘It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us.’ So true Alexis. It has never made sense to me that a God of Love would separate himself from his children. He might well let them go off and explore, have choices and indeed create beliefs – even that He does not exist. But I fully agree with what you share here. It is we who have created the idea that we are separate from Him and not that we have been cast out by Him. Well said.

188. It seems to me that inherent in the idea of belief is doubt. Beliefs have an element of uncertainty in them, otherwise they would not be beliefs they would be knowings. Is it possible that focusing our energy on belief systems actually distracts us from something deeper within us where we know rather than merely believe?

     1. ‘It seems to me that inherent in the idea of belief is doubt. Beliefs have an element of uncertainty in them, otherwise they would not be beliefs they would be knowings”, a pearl of wisdom that took me two reads to get but I love it Richard.

189. Some very wise teachers have shared with us consistently over the years that ‘the Kingdom of God is within you’. Maybe it is time to hear them and take this seriously.

190. I can fully relate to this sense of trying to get somewhere and have explored this a great deal over the past few years. It appears obvious that we have to get somewhere in life, after all just look at the state of humanity. At one time I studied ‘positive thinking’ and this was certainly preferable to the negative perceptions of myself and life I had taken on previously. But in truth I found myself in a whirl of affirmations, needing to continuously re-programme my mind and I was full of nervousness. This constant activity was part of that separation from who I truly am – which I feel as a beingness that just ‘is’ within me – and I am certain is within us all. Trying to get somewhere is like a trick that actually distracts us from being who we are. The difference is very marked and like you Alexis, I am filled with gratitude for Serge Benhayon for offering the reflection of this inner beingness for humanity.

191. We all choose our poison so to speak of what will give us the riches and glory of success or enlightenment whether it be sport, art, our careers or music, the list is endless. All of these options are ways we ‘think,’ we can make our way up the evolutionary ladder but the truth lies within us already. By looking outside of ourselves for answers we are separating from our one unified truth, that is already waiting for us to commit to who we are already. We are amazing from day one, its only when we leave ourselves and seek solace from outside that we see that we really didn’t have to go anywhere at all. The magic was right there in front of us the whole time. At least the door is always ajar for us to return anytime.

     1. Kelly I love the way that you have summed it up.

     2. Agree, very well summed up – how amazing are we already and to think that we need to go somewhere to be ‘better’ – now that’s crazy!

192. It is a false idea to think we are going up, and it is keeping us in the illusion that we have created. Often the path up is only taking us further away from this inner knowing of god, a knowing that is there from the word go, a knowing that we are only able to cover up through coming to the beliefs we were told to be true, as we didn’t see this truth we knew from when we are a baby reflected in the world around us.

193. Once thing I encountered from my brief stint with the Yoga world (yoga as the world currently knows it) was that it was full of glamour and competitiveness, comparison, ‘spiritual’ lingo without true understanding – and a lot of hard protected and self-absorbed people populating it.. Going off too India for months at a time with a ‘guru’, working out in the morning and hanging out at the cafes for the rest of the day. It did not make sense to me one bit how this was helping them or helping humanity. People can get just as lost in this world as in drugs, alcoholism, or intense work – once we have lost the truth of who we are and that connection with others, then no matter what we do, how successful, hardworking, popular, rich or ‘spiritually enlightened’ we are all playing the same game and lost in the same illusion as everyone else. The change starts from connecting within and from there the rest unfolds back towards truth no matter where we go.

194. Beautiful Alexis, It is we who have chosen to be ‘separate’ from God and run with all the stuff that we have created to fill our lives when deep down what we are truly missing is the reconnection to that which is always there holding us until we remember once more.

195. By introducing the ‘goal’ of levitation, the practise of Yoga is immediately sowing the seed of separation. It is exactly as most organised religions do. An un-ascendable ladder. Perfect for keeping us in subservience. Perfect for feeding the egos of those higher up. Those low down the ladder enjoy the fact that they have a path and a purpose and goal. Those higher up enjoy looking down. Whatever is going on is irrelevant – the point is that every single person in the system is looking outside of themselves. This is the crazy, massive, gigantic illusion that we are all bought in to. Happy, sad, rich, poor, tall, short, black, white….we are all looking outwards for the answers. Serge Benhayon’s teachings change everything…at the absolute core of it all. By inspiring us to do the U-turn, and realise that we all have it all already. And he does this by the way he lives – in absolute equality and harmony with every single one of his brothers on this earth. Zero judgement. Total patience. Through watching him and feeling the seeds of the same in myself, I know this to be the truth.

     1. Great point ottobathurst, whether you are at the top or the bottom of the ‘ladder’ there is something for everyone in keeping them seeking outside of themselves – what an illusion. The teachings of Serge Benhayon are a game changer in that there is no ‘ladder’, nowhere to get to, and that we are just returning to all that we already are.

196. Our bodies are the markers of truth and will expose any beliefs we have subscribed to in the end.

197. Beautiful, Alexis. Serge Benhayon helps us to see who we are so we can discard the myriad of beliefs about who we think we should be. Some of these beliefs are so ingrained that it takes the reflection of absolute love to expose them as not being true, so that we can then return to our naturally divine state of being.

198. We are yet to accept that we choose energy first which feeds our thoughts. Once we say yes to a source of energy in one area we it can enter us in another area and start feeding us thoughts which lead us to performing actions we perhaps would not normally do.

199. Such a great point that when we adopt a belief system we get the whole package, including some parts that we may not have bargained for or wished for, because we are saying yes to an energy that is behind the belief or that is feeding that belief.

200. Thank you for exposing such a widely held belief in society that we need to get somewhere to be someone! It occurs to me that this belief is rife everywhere from yoga to sport, to the workplace to material wealth. Seeing promotion and bigger and better as being the key to happiness in life is a common way to live. But this belief as you say is based on the premise that we are starting from a place where we are nothing which in my experience is not true because through the presentations of Universal Medicine I have discovered that I am already everything I need to be and I just have to allow it to be.

201. Thank you Alexis, this is a great blog to re-read, as you so clearly express and show how easy it is to fill the ‘gap’ , (the gap created when we step away from feeling that natural connection with love). with ideals and beliefs. And especially important to realise is ..”When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want…”

202. Evolution is a U-Turn, Not a Ladder – what an awesome title, and great blog to go with it. You have truly expressed what needed expressing and being made available to all, as I am sure many can relate and this blog can really assist to start making that U-turn back to who we are within 🙂

203. It is amazing that the body so often brings us back to truth…. one way or another many are brought back to themselves when their body can no longer take any more abuse and collapses, bringing about a crisis that often leads to deep self inquiry and a reconnection with the true self.

204. It is so easy to believe that what we are searching for is outside of us, and I spent years and lots of money doing this, as I’m sure did many others. My whole life changed the first time I heard Serge Benhayon present. He was presenting that everything is already inside of us, and all we have to do is reconnect. No need to search. Once you have the tools to do this the truth of it can be felt, and there is no turning back.

205. When you accept that you know God from the essence, or the core of who you are, then life actually starts to make sense, even this crazy intense mixed up life on earth where very little seems to make sense. Because with absolute re-connection you are able to see the intentions behind activity, and by this identify the quality of energetic sources that are dictating the outcomes and the processes playing out before you, and with this ability to see at such depths, it is actually far easier to understand, to trust and to love people.

206. Alexis, it is great what you have shared as most of us grow up thinking that we need to attain love rather than to re-connect to the love that we already are, As you say ‘This connection is found by looking within and not by seeking outside of us.’ It is a point worth remembering and puts a stop to the constant drive to be more.

207. Beautiful Alexis, You have really opened up a subject that needed expressing. Thank you. I can so relate to your story. The affect of images of what life must look like and buy into that package is so imprisoning and without self regard. The out come will always implode on itself at some stage.

208. Doug, I love your explanation of the difference between drive and purpose and I can feel how one brings a narrowing and a hardening and the other brings expansion.

     1. The body never lies, (unlike the mind).

209. I also wanted to add that I love you are still teaching yoga and did not react and pull way from this, I imagine your classes would offer truth to many that come to see you.

     1. Yes they do Sarah but the classes are a lot less popular. When I started to change the way that I taught people commented that they didn’t feel as good after the class, this was because I was supporting them to stay with themselves and actually feel how they were feeling, rather then support them to bury how they were feeling. Most people (and I know this well) are not ready to truly feel the consequences of their choices in their bodies.

210. Thank you for sharing your story with us, what I find so interesting about it all, is how good that type of belief systems looks from the outside. A fit yoga teacher with a zest for evolving,,,,most people would think that was awesome. I love that you expose the falseness in a culture that is what so many strive to achieve, the body doesn’t lie and what a gift that your body lead you back to you.

211. I completely agree Alexis that we are fooled with this lineal ladder attaining concept in all thing of life and Truth is not like that at all. You share that “In our essence, we know God” and I would add “in our essence, we are Divine” – we are already all that we are seeking and much more. So it is not about gaining anything, but about letting go of all that we are not.

212. What a brilliant article exposing the illusion of yoga and how beliefs and ideals can make us blind. Thank God for the body knowing truth and only able to go so far,

213. The thought that we are walking backwards towards what we already once where, rather than moving forward towards becoming something ‘grand’ sits at the heart of the beliefs that deliver a significant amount of activity, diligent effort, moments of bliss as you think you have broken through to a new level and the inevitable return to the humility that we are returning and need to nothing more than accept what we already are and be honest about those things we have substituted this with.

214. The whole illusion of life feels like we are on a ladder, going upward, learning at school, being told that we are young and have no experience, and that maturity will bring experience in life and we will learn more every decade. This teaching couldn’t be further from the truth, children have the innate connection to themselves that we have lost through life, and when appreciate the u turn, as you describe Alexis, we know we are going nowhere until we start to return to who we truly are.

     1. Most people die consciously knowing less than they did when they were born.

215. It’s great to read this article and see how we equate certain things as being “it” such as the physical fitness, how we are doing better or better than another, comparing ourselves against benchmarks. We have many illusions we live by and the greatest overall part of this illusion is that desire to seek outside ourselves for recognition and signs we are doing well. How different life can be when we stop measuring our worth by how we measure up, but instead know our worth as being an immovable power we are born with and always have within us. A power that no exam or competition can remove, and that we can live by if we make the choice to accept how grand we all are.

     1. Beautifully said.

216. The open honesty of this article shows me so clearly that ardent beliefs actually hold us off truth, and that for many it is our belief systems that complicate, confuse and keep us away from feeling what we innately know – that our connection and relationship with life and everyone is a natural state of being that we think/believe ourselves out of.

     1. Bingo!

217. What a great explanation of beliefs and what they come with, Alexis. Thank you very much. It explains so much. I also enjoyed reading about what doing yoga comes with, as I have always felt an air of superiority from those who were involved in yoga regularly. Now I understand why… everyone was climbing ‘the ladder’ thinking they were above other people on the ladder, or worse, those who weren’t even on the ladder at all! What you have shared and broken down here is really big and serves all who have the privilege of reading it.

     1. Oh Robyn your comment just brought with it a stab of pain when I read the words ‘ those who weren’t even on the ladder at all!’ as I was one of those people who thought that I was well and truly up the ladder when the majority of others were flailing around not even on the bottom rung! Oh my goodness, how tragic is that? Not only tragic but how harmful is the acute separation that I harboured!

        1. It is so great you are allowing yourself to feel the falseness of this area of your life, and in such detail. Good on you. And thank you for sharing so openly. I don’t feel an ounce of you wanting to hide any of this or twist it around to sound better than it is. This is what is needed from us all so we can discard all that is not true in our lives, so thank you for being someone who is willing to lead the way in this way of living.

218. Crawling out of the primordial soup to become the top species just gives a better view to look for something we are already, just forgot it on our way to the top. Beliefs are just the different mountains chose to climb.

219. Doug I think that often we confuse beliefs with truths and hold them up as actually being ‘good’ things to have in our life. We pass our beliefs onto our children, again thinking that we are passing on positive things that will support to shape them in a way that we believe is good for them and indeed they are shaped but in the same way that we have been molded by our beliefs. Unfortunately believing in beliefs relies on the belief in ‘right and wrong’ and ‘good and bad’ and so the whole thing sits on false foundations.

     1. Doug unfortunately we’ve become very adept at lying.

220. Great analogy of the ‘rungs of the ladder’ being an illusion. We don’t need to go up at all – just out . . .emanate and expand.

221. Alexis the title of your blog says it all. I was on a constant search to find a path of evolution, only to be stopped in my tracks when I first attended a Universal Medicine event. I can feel what you say about yoga, I attended classes in a few different styles and could feel that undercurrent of belief that it was a path to spiritual enlightenment. Because I did not like a lot of the physical moves I took it as a sign that I was not good enough. I can honestly say many of the moves forced me to push my body. However, I love the Esoteric Yoga as it is all about me honouring my body and accepting it wherever it is at – it asks me to move in a way the body feels to move, brings me back into my body and in so doing deepens my connection to the divine.

222. Having the awareness that Evolution is a U turn not a ladder comes the realisation that we have wasted so much time going backwards

     1. or is it that we have wasted so much time trying to go forwards?

223. “Looking back now, I can also see that I mistook the feeling of being very physically fit as a sign of being in genuine good health.” How we ‘look’ has now dominated what healthy means. It is not about vitality, how you feel each and every day, the spring in your step, the way in which we live. It is all about your physique, your body mass index and how buff you look, these are not the hall marks of good health.

224. It is incredible how we can override the body in what it is telling us because we are conforming to an ideal or belief, only to find out years later that this is the one thing that has brought our body to a point of exhaustion and dis-harmony. Even then we can push on and keep ignoring these signs until it becomes so serious that we are forced to stop and feel the way we have been living and what it is causing in the body.

225. We already know God. Our enemy in this was doubt. Faced with the onslaught of what people believe and what we are taught, we begin to doubt what we know; we begin to seek what they appear to know and then we embody the consciousness that comes as a whole package when we accept that knowing those things was better than our naturally knowing God.

226. I am realising that I still have some ideals and beliefs that I have been holding on to that is holding back evolution for myself and those around me. It is time to let these go.

227. Ideals and beliefs are definitely like climbing and falling from the ladder. To u-turn back to knowing God is within us and then there is no needing to know what is next, there is a flow that takes us to what is next.

228. ” …the belief that evolution works like a ladder…” is possibly very common, yet since having experienced Esoteric bodywork therapies, the feeling of expansion and connection within my body has shown me how evolution is like an equal movement in all directions getting fuller and fuller. Not going anywhere exactly, but expanding with a fullness of love and presence. An analogy is like the blowing up of a balloon that doesn’t pop, but just keeps on expanding.

229. Thank you for sharing this Alexis. I can feel the harm that comes with the beliefs that evolution is this never ending ladder that we need to climb, continually searching outside of ourselves for the next step, the next piece of the puzzle. The realisation that evolution, or life, is about a return to who we are, the U-turn, has completely changed my life. I now know that I am whole, complete within myself, and that I no longer need to search, rather, connect to that which is already within.

230. This is such a powerful truth Alexis “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” It feels like this absolute gem of wisdom and understanding should be shared with the world at the beginning or top of every media publication. There is such equality here for all that feels like no one can deny or if they try it will be very clear that they aren’t referring to God but a creation of their own ideals and beliefs.

     1. Well said Sandra.

231. Knowing we are all knowing and knowing of God and then looking at the sometimes very silly belief packages we take on, like that we are better when studying with this teacher in India, can a hover trough the living room etc. etc. makes it feel like we very well know what we are doing and are just distracting ourselves from this fact.

232. Alexis, I did the yoga route too, and the gym, and the spiritual pursuits…. getting caught up in what I thought was evolutionary but looking back realising all of it was anti-evolutionary, keeping me stuck in the miasma of illusion. There is a way out however, and that way out was Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, and it was there that I was presented with ~ ‘In essence we all know God’, and that God is inside of us all, and once we find the truth there is no more need to tie ourselves in knots, lift bench presses or climb ladders, all we need to do is look within and set ourselves on the path of return by doing that U-turn you speak of. And yes, you are absolutely right, true evolution is not somewhere in front of us along a linear path, it is something we can re-connect to right now if we make that choice.

233. Evolution as ‘survival of the fittest’ essentially says that life is all about function and negates the quality in the way we in which we live and express. Bringing genuine awareness and care back to the quality or energy in which we make our every move from is needed if we are to truly evolve.

     1. Yes Fiona – ‘survival of the fittest’ is also all about competition which is opposed to our natural way of being and therefore anything but truly evolutionary.

        1. It’s interesting Michael, that we use that phrase ‘‘survival of the fittest’ because from what I now know from my body, is what we actually mean is ‘survival of the least fit’, if we are using ‘fit’ to mean ‘truly fit for all of life’.

234. Alexis this is beautiful to share and know and an amazing turnaround to life from being told we are going somewhere constantly seeking and looking outside. The joy of coming home to who we truly are and the love we are inside our bodies and with us always is true evolution and allows our amazingness to be lived and enjoyed and is inspirational and a reflection for us all.

235. As you have described here Alexis, our movements determine how we are in life. What triggers something in us can be directly related to how we have moved in the lead up to that event, what thoughts were coming in that we allowed, how we move our body. When this happens and there is reaction, there is the opportunity to make other movements, this can help arrest the what is going on. This is still a work in progress for myself.

236. Spiritual ascension aside, most people tend to view life from the perspective of climbing a ladder, that is looking to improve and better their situations – whatever this is perceived to be. Grasping and then integrating the U-turn should perhaps not be reserved for spiritual seekers or it might be more apt to say the majority of the world are spiritual seekers and it is worth pausing to ask ourselves what it is we seek.

237. It is true and scary that as children we are not taught how to discern the entirety of the packages that come to us, in religion, in story books, in the class room lessons, on TV. We are expected to swallow the piece that we are shown and to ignore the rest, this leaves us open as adults to living with lies, living with blinkers on – only seeing what we want to see. Living with deception and half-truths. And then we wonder why the rates of depression in adults is so high, and rising to the point where medical systems are crushing under the weight of the social responsibility for caring for so many people disillusioned and lost in a world that promotes living with parts and pieces rather than seeing, questioning, and discerning.

238. ‘This is a U-Turn because it teaches us that we already know God, we just need to remove the impediments (and belief systems) that prevent us from feeling this connection in our bodies.’ and ‘It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.’ – these 2 quotes from your article stood out to me Alexis as they really highlight the fact that it is our beliefs that seperate us and when we begin to connect back to self (seeing this connection as our true return to knowing God) there can not be seperation, and that evolution is something that happens when we see that we all play a vital and equal part.

239. What a great understanding you share Alexis: “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” Humanity uses many beliefs that place God separate to ourselves. Call it yoga, or any other activity or habit that keeps us busy on the outside or in our minds and away from connecting to our essence. God is with-in us in our being 24/7 and never leaves us.

240. I love what you shared about the truth being there all along, lying underneath the beliefs, ideas, practice, habits, behaviours, etc… we may have distorted our connection but it is always there, waiting for us to remember that it is only a choice away.

241. “This belief lay like a canopy over my entire life. It infiltrated my thoughts and engineered my body to move in certain ways” this is such a great description of all ideals and beliefs they absolutely infiltrate our being driving us away from who we truly are. It is a choice we have to allow that to happen or to re-claim our true selves and be who we were born to be.

242. And those beliefs can be about anything. How I am a woman, studying and schooling, parenting, work – the list is endless really. No matter what it is we download the consciousness of it and become owned by it. Incredible stuff to ponder on really.

     1. Jennifer the alarming thing is, that beliefs, as you say can be about any-thing and indeed they are about pretty much every-thing, which means that they sit like an impounding latticework of restriction over the top of the natural order and flow of life, suffocating the very life out of life itself.

243. I love this blog Alexis. There is so much in here. I love your observations on beliefs and how they can essentially overtake our lives and how we cannot take on one belief and not the whole package that comes with that particular area. It’s a great thing to consider much more deeply.

244. “This belief lay like a canopy over my entire life. It infiltrated my thoughts and engineered my body to move in certain ways” – is a great description of what happens when we sell out to something or someone from our needs without discerning whether it actually feels true or not from our body. Thank you for this very honest and amazing contribution.

245. Alexis, I so relate to the invisible ladder and how we think we are doing well and evolving as we climb up it, only to discover how we have bought into the ideals and beliefs created to keep us away from knowing who we truly are and evolving from within.

246. “The belief owned me; I was its puppet, its plaything, acting out the characteristics of the belief. I was not being Me, I was enacting a belief, as sincere as a game of charades.” This expresses so succinctly how lost we become in the illusion of a belief.

247. It is interesting how we “paper” over our essence, our love and light. Your blog is exposing as to how we do this Alexis and as you say such a waste of time. The heading for this blog says it all really.

248. The constant chase to be better than you are is in everything – life is set up to make you feel like your not enough – either someone is prettier or more successful or more talented and the drive to be better can run you your whole life. However what I experienced was that whilst working in a elderly ward in a hospital, the things people held on to and remembered most was not their looks, or how successful their career was, it was their family and friends and how much they had loved and been loved in life. Perhaps we need to stop thinking we have to go somewhere and do something to be someone, and realise there is a kind of evolution and success to be had in growing as a person, in living a loving life and learning from the lessons life offers you

     1. Well said Rebecca – we would do well to re-evaluate that which we place importance on in our lives so as to realise the magic that is constantly available to us in living.

     2. Great point Rebecca we so often get caught up in the doing and forget to take the time to smell the roses and truly living and loving life and people rather than chasing material things and achievements.

        1. and it is the material things and achievements that turn to dust.

     3. Rebecca- this is superbly expressed. There is no greater life than having loved and been loved. So often though we want a huge amount of evidence to show we are loved before we are prepared to love and even then can put a tremendous amount of energy into refusing to love. Loving and being loved are natural partners when we take away the expectations we layer over it.

        1. I agree, true success to me is measured not in money, cars and the number of bedrooms in my house, but in the number of lives I have touched with my love, and the relationships I have built with myself and others.

249. I agree Elizabeth. You can’t subscribe to Catholicism for example and back it except for those bits of it you don’t like. If you subscribe to the church then you are subscribing to its historical practices of genocide and modern (and not so modern) allowance of sexual abuse on a grand scale, as well as separatism and prejudices against homosexuality, subjugation of women and so on. By participating you are saying ‘yes’ to all of it.

250. I am getting to feel Brendan that not only is it ‘somewhere that we already know’ but it is somewhere we already are.

251. I have never met anyone who got to the top of the ladder to tell me what was there, and yet I have met many who were devoted to climbing it. I can only assume therefore that it is a ladder to nowhere.

     1. Reminds me of trying to walk up an escalator the wrong way, such a waste of energy.

        1. Witty and true Michael.

     2. A ladder to nowhere, now that surely is a waste of time and effort yet many of us have spent lifetimes trying to climb that ladder.

252. I love the title of this blog. Even though I had not seen life as such for the most of my life until recently, ever since time began our life has always been about evolution, there has not been time when it was not about evolution. Just because I became aware of a concept of ‘evolution’ recently, it is not about going on an exciting journey of making myself a better person, it is about going back to a point before we came astray so that we can re-join what has never ceased to expand, and we have a lot to catch up on.

253. This is a great story to share, and one I have commonly heard from ex-yoga devotees. So much effort goes into chasing the goal of enlightenment (or the perfect yoga body) yet so many bodies end up broken from all the trying and chasing. I love the simple way you have shared the harm of beliefs and how they keep us climbing an illusory ladder to God, when in fact we are getting further away.

     1. Such a powerful realisation that we must come to in relation to any of the multitude of illusionary pursuits and tricks away from our true path back.

254. Alexis, I sometimes wondered in the past what was the energy driving these folk to believe their particular poses were ‘achieving’ a higher state – I always felt there was an air of arrogance of thinking coming at me that they were better than the rest of us, closer to God etc. – that is, that was the message I was getting from their sense of superiority that I was feeling. Now I can see that they were just as lost as I was, only a different flavour.
     Interesting isn’t it when one re-connects to who they know they are deep within. What a joyous reunion. How I do appreciate and love Serge Benhayon for reminding us how to re-unite with our essence.

255. Beautifully shared Alexis and well expressed in uncovering that, which blocks what is already there and available for us to all connect to.
     I too have allowed many images to get in the way of connecting back to that which I know and feel to be true within.
     The craziness of the whole game was, what I chose to falsely attach and identify with, was never successful at really covering up the deep pain and emptiness I felt in separating from loving myself and God. And so it happened that I kept reaching for more and more until such time that I chose to look within. And yes that was the moment I too did a U-turn and never looked back.

256. Alexis, you offer an important example of how we deviate from truth and become wayward and lost. Yoga postures and many fitness regimes are such deviations when they are not done from or for love. It is true we have a job to look after our bodies but our job is to look after our bodies so that love and divinity can be expressed through them. What this means for each of us is known from within our own bodies and it is not static; it continually requires adapting and honest review.

257. It was not until I stopped doing yoga postures and popular styles of yoga that I was more free to assess yoga with a clear mind- this is ironic considering I was convinced Yoga gave me a clear mind even though I was not free to question how unsuitable it is anatomically to put body weight on the neck in a headstand, or how being more flexible or better at the poses could equate to being more enlightened and spiritually advanced.

     1. It is ironic that you believed your mind was clearer doing yoga Deanne. That is the harm of beliefs, they keep us trapped in the fog of a false world, thinking we are in the real world. Your experience of the clarity you gained by stopping yoga is useful for us all, to assess any of our beliefs and how true they are for us.

     2. Headstands! My body still remembers holding headstands for ages and ignoring its pleading to come down, as I felt driven to hold it until the teacher said to come down. I actually took pride in the fact that I was still up when others were coming down! What on Earth did I think I was achieving?

258. Alexis what you have expressed here is ginormous. I too have fallen for the belief / picture / ideal / lie (whatever you want to call it) that to evolve, to develop, to grow, to be successful etc. involves the feeling of having a point, a goal to work towards. I realise now life is and always has been about receiving all that is there, from this point it becomes obvious what is needed to be done.

259. Absolutely Alexis and Mary, what Serge Benhayon presents is a simplicity that shares with everyone the deep understanding that of all humanity are the equal Son of God! “By reconnecting back to God I have reconnected back to humanity, by reconnecting back to humanity I have found it is impossible to hurt another human being.” Thank you Mary to me this is true love, which can only come from our Livingness or the way we are in all our expression and movements.
     For more on Serge Benhayon or another perspective go to;
     http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=SERGE+BENHAYON

260. Serge Benhayon is the first teacher and/or healing practitioner I’d ever met who did not hold himself above others. This felt, from the outset, at once completely natural and also astounding. Observing Serge for many years now, this has never changed – not one iota. Never have I seen him ‘take in’ energy from others who may seek to give themselves away – as the ‘traditional guru’ most certainly does. Not once, ever – and I’ve seen my share of ‘gurus’, I can tell you…
     For in his own lived way, he clearly knows the equalness that is inherent to the essence of us all as you’ve shared Alexis. There is no fight, nor climbing a ladder when one works with Serge, but simply the opportunity to recognise we also have the same Glory within.

     1. Beautifully said Victoria and very true, Serge Benhayon has no interest in being seen as a ‘guru’ and has never displayed any arrogance whatsoever. Serge Benhayon offers everyone equally true love and support this is deeply healing to all who know him and reminds us of our own beauty and divinity.

        1. Indeed Anna. And this is the healing – our own recognition and choice to reconnect with who we truly are is what allows our own healing, that is, the discarding of all that we’ve taken on that is not us in truth, and never was.

     2. Victoria I too have seen my ‘fair share of gurus’ and each and every one of them was late. They each made the crowd wait ages for them to ‘appear’ and then would waft in, amid a rather theatrical flurry of robes to bestow the lowly crowd with pearls of wisdom.

        1. Memories flood back Alexis… This includes those in ‘modern day garb’ who present in many self-development, health associated and new age circuits – still holding themselves higher up the ladder you’ve described, and willingly allowing others to place them on such a false pedestal, essentially giving away their power to them. It is well worth having our eyes well and truly open.

261. This is a powerful testimony to the truth so often shared by Serge Benhayon, a truth that continues to offer so much in terms of understanding and responsibility, i.e. that “the body is the marker of all truth”. How powerfully your body let you know Alexis, that what you were practising was taking you away from yourself, and to a false illusion of what it means to be ‘enlightened’.
     We all have such ‘drivers’ which push us into self-harm, sabotage and damage – led by beliefs such as you’ve so well described. To allow ourselves the true recognition of these drivers is an essential step – sometimes requiring much to break down before we actually ‘listen’, as you’ve shared. Surrounded by a world that tells us we need to be ‘more’, and that negates the fact that all we ever needed is within, this is understandable. And yet true change – for ourselves and for all – only occurs through the steps such as you have taken. Hats off for listening to your body, and coming home to the fact that there is another way Alexis. All the richness we have ever sought, is right here within, if we but allow ourselves the exquisiteness of surrendering to it.

     1. Absolutely Victoria. We do all have our own beliefs which drive us to act against our body, even when we think we are doing the right thing for our body, such as yoga or some forms of exercise. Reading your comment, I have realised that beliefs are actually the thing we use to negate the body, which can so clearly and simply tell us what is true for us if we listen. This is the gift of honesty our body brings and sometimes with it the necessary humbling of our spirit that thinks it has it all sorted.

        1. Well said Fiona. If we didn’t buy into or take on a belief that said something was ‘good’ or it ‘should be attained’, or ‘I need to do this to belong/prove myself’, etc. then the body’s voice would not be so negated as it is. How worthwhile then, is a willingness to question our beliefs, especially in light of the signals and messages our bodies feed back to us (constantly)… This applies in every area of our lives.

     2. Victoria I did listen to my body……………eventually. Unfortunately I ignored its initial whisperings, I covered my ears when it spoke a little louder, I drowned it out with distractions when it began to shout and then finally when it was bellowing in my ear, I said “Pardon, are you talking to me?

        1. I so appreciate your honesty here Alexis, for we do this in so very many ways. Are we willing to truly listen, and deeply so, to the voice of our body? It offers us the richest possibility for true connection, to the power of the love that we are, there is.

        2. I was in my twenties when I was instructing and presenting Hatha Yoga a few times a day and often seven days a week – what I noticed and found interesting was when I had a break and then returned I was more flexible- my bodies way of showing me the Hatha Yoga was making me tighter. So while my muscles were long and seemingly agile the muscles tissue was actually still stiff. I also came to realise no injury or tightness is actually released through stretching, at best I got short term relief but often a tight but stayed tight and just got longer – a deceptive form of muscle ‘relaxation’.

        3. Deanne how many things in life offer us ‘short term relief’ ?Stretching, wine, exercise, food, marijuana, TV, computer games, card games, reading novels, music………………..it seems that life as we currently know it is actually made up of pockets of short term relief strung together in order to make up our days. We, the collective sons of God have settled for lives that revolve around getting short term relief! Holy schmolly what a ridiculous situation to have chosen our way into! Time to choose our way out.

262. What you have shared here Alexis is deeply powerful, and empowering in the true sense of what this means. As you write of the ‘ladder to climb’ within the belief systems of the yoga consciousness (clearly hatha yoga dominated), it feels so intensely insidious – a ladder climbed in order to be ‘more’ and ‘better’ than others, in order to assert one’s rightful place in a spiritual hierarchy that feels completely false.
     For in this, is no equalness – the inherent truth you have shared, about our essence, when truly known, holds within it the fact that no one can ever be, any more or less than any other. We all have ‘it all’ inside of us, equally so. True teachers, such as Serge Benhayon, live and breathe by this fact.
     Thank-you for this blog. It breaks ground that well and truly deserves to be broken.

263. “and ‘bonus points’ were rewarded to those who studied yoga in India.” ha ha I can so relate to this – it’s actually an incredibly evil game we play and also arrogant as well, I fell for it and played it as well. The thing is we have created this, we are no-ones fools.

     1. Yes, I too have fallen for comparison in hundreds of ways – Alexis very astutely shared, silent ‘bonus points’; these are frequently exchanged in our communications and not just in Yoga circles either. I remember when I first moved to Sydney being asked all the time what high school I had gone to, the question was never intended to learn something about me but rather to know how to ‘peg’ me in the conversation and gauge whether I should be spoken up to or down to or if I should be considered ‘one of their own’. I grew up outside of Sydney so there was always a slight disappointment as this was based on the perceived pecking order and status of Sydney schools. Being a trained to teach yoga myself I understood the bonus points behind studying in India, it always had an undertone that you were never a real ‘yogi’ until you had studied Yoga in India. It’s the anti-thesis of Yoga, or more bluntly one aspect of the bastardization of yoga and the meaning of the word ‘yoga’ itself.

     2. As an outsider the bonus points for studying in India seems a bit ridiculous. Yet whatever beliefs we have all chosen to chase in order to fill our lives, also come with the same hierarchical ladders. They all keep us comparing with others and needing to keep striving to eventually ‘get there’ one day.

264. “In my mid-thirties I trained as a yoga teacher and it was at this point that I really started to get deeply into the illusion of ascension. There is much within the yoga consciousness that revolves around the idea of ‘moving up the ladder.’ In my experience there’s so much rubbish in the yoga consciousness, I can say that because I have been there and looking back at myself I was so lost at that time, so arrogant and up myself. The thing is I knew this – yet it’s ridiculous looking back – actually laughable, like what on earth was I doing allowing someone to stand on my body and hurting myself on so many levels, to get me into a so called ‘deeper’ yoga posture that would supposedly lead to enlightenment or transcending the physical body. I can absolutely say with my whole heart I would never do that again.

     1. Gyl what came to me having read your words ‘ so arrogant and up myself’ in relation to yoga, is that, that attitude of being ‘above others’ goes hand in hand with so many different causes that purport to ‘help the world in some way’, e.g. vegetarianism, social activism, women’s rights activists etc seem to be accompanied by an attitude of being better than another sector of society as well as separate from chunks of society. There can be no true benefit from any-thing that causes separation. The only true way to bring the world into Harmony is to remind it that we are all One Unified Consciousness.

265. “in fact I prided myself in my commitment to keeping myself very physically fit. I saw it as a strength, ” I used my physical strength, as a way of protecting myself and proving myself to men.

266. “Looking back now, I can also see that I mistook the feeling of being very physically fit as a sign of being in genuine good health.” I am a testament to the fact and an absolute authority that being physically super fit on the outside and looking the part does not equate with the mess the body can be in on the inside, and also mental and emotional health. I worked as personal trainer, fitness instructor and yoga teacher and to look at me I looked great, I was super fit, yet I was partying like nothing on earth, (not when I was teaching yoga, but still abusing my body in the sense of overdoing everything i felt and pushing it to extremes, being super hard with it) physiologically on the inside my body was a mess, it was far from being truly healthy and full of vitality, emotionally and mentally I was not in a good place either. I know for a fact I was not the only one who lived and looked like this, abusing our bodies and our health for the so called perfect body or fit body, is rife throughout this industry and life in fact as well.

267. The following words show clearly what happens for most people and that being in our essence is the only way to truly be . . . ‘we are born already knowing God unencumbered, but we layer over the top of our connection to this knowing – false ways of being, beliefs, ideas, practices, habits, behaviours, personality traits, pain etc., they serve to distort our connection with ourselves, and it is through our true connection with ourselves first, that we know also our connection to God. We forget altogether that once upon a time we knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that in our essence, we know God and this connection is found by looking within and not by seeking outside of us.’

268. Yes, Mary, our separation from ourselves and thus from God is the root cause of almost all the problems we have on earth. I love how you connected God to humanity and when we are not we are able to hurt another: “By reconnecting back to God I have reconnected back to humanity, by reconnecting back to humanity I have found it is impossible to hurt another human being.”

269. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us.” Such a powerful and truthful statement that I love coming back to everyday, to deepen my connection to God by honoring my body and taking care of it.

     1. It makes such a difference when you can feel this as a fact in your body. The smallness, tension and isolation when we separate and the vast holding love we are naturally part of when we return. Until I felt this, I had no awareness that it was completely my choice.

        1. Beautiful comment, Fiona, awareness is the first step in allowing ourselves to feel we each have a choice. A choice we continuously have to make.

270. “When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.“ And we don’t realize this when we subscribe to an ideal and once in, you are hooked. The signals your body gives get overwritten with this goal shining at the end of the tunnel.

271. “This belief lay like a canopy over my entire life. It infiltrated my thoughts and engineered my body to move in certain ways. The belief owned me; I was its puppet, its plaything, acting out the characteristics of the belief.” This goes for any belief, it grabs you and makes your body move in a certain way. Gone is the space and the freedom, no more truth, just being navigated to some narrow far reachable goal.

272. Alexia, this is a “no holds barred” expose on enlightenment and ascension consciousness. There is such an arrogance that goes along with it because it’s achieved through select activities, by select connections (gurus etc), and through select cultures (India) – it’s just a big indulgence of inequality and endorsed complication. The fact that we even believe levitation is part of it fully exposes the arrogance that enlightenment is not about love! A brilliant exposé Alexis, I look forward to reading this again many times to continue to clear this consciousness out of my own body.

     1. It is interesting that we are bombarded with beliefs and ideals about enlightenment needing to involve all these external factors and conditions, when the simple truth of the matter is that we can connect to God in an instant by breathing our own breath.

     2. Melinda Knights – you have nailed the falsity of this particular take on Yoga here. The word Yoga itself meaning Union refers to re-connection with ourselves, our soul and it also means unity with others – an aspect of Yoga that is often overlooked.

273. In the knowing that we all already know God in our essence – we are all the same. (No god-like figures looking down on those only capable of beginner yoga poses). What is different are our choices – our commitment to self-love and to deal with our ideals, belief, hurts and issues.

     1. Carmin , on reading the word ‘beginner’, it caused me to pause and consider quite what we mean by ‘beginner and advanced yoga’, when yoga is the re-connection back to ourselves. How misleading!

     2. I smiled when I read this Carmin as I have a similar silly quip- that when we get to the pearly gates of heaven no-one is going to be asking us if we can touch our toes. Many Yoga classes, however, insinuate this as there is so much emphasis placed on the postures..

274. There are so many awesome gems that you have shared in this blog Alexis and they relate to returning to re-connecting to our essence and by choosing ‘The Way of the Livingness’ to support us, if we are willing, it is possible for us to do this. “I have discovered that what lay underneath beliefs is truth and the truth is, we are born already knowing God unencumbered, but we layer over the top of our connection to this knowing – false ways of being,…”

275. Alexis, thank you for the clarity of your sharing. We do bury our knowing under beliefs , and once the blinkers are off we can see clearly how we let ourselves be fooled into many ways of being that are undermining our evolution. I too am very grateful that Serge Benhayon followed his true calling this lifetime and that humanity will forever benefit from his teachings of The Way of The Livingness and the wonderful books full of such wisdom we can read and connect back to ourselves and the way it is.

276. True, there is no one to blame. In fact if we stop looking for someone to blame (even if this someone is ourselves) we can start to deeply appreciate who we are and from there strip away everything that is not us.

277. So true, Doug. We are amazing already and just need to return to that. It is taking some of us a long time to get this truth!

     1. Anne that made me laugh at how absurd the whole thing is really!

278. It’s so common to think that we are doing ourselves good when we exercise hard or do yoga. But in fact you have shown here that you were in severe disregard, and the fact that your body ended up hardly being able to walk speaks volumes. We can drive ourselves so hard with beliefs, all the while covering up the beautiful connection with God we can find right at the centre of us that means we don’t have to go anywhere or drive to do anything. Yes, we need to take care of our bodies, but in a loving gentle way and not the grueling way that we have believed it needs to be.

279. I love the feeling of a U-turn, simply turning around and going back the way we have come to return home.

280. It is rather good news to find out that we already are all that we could be and we really just need to remember and discard that which is not us – opinions, habits, emotions, other people’s emotions and so on. When we find out what is really going on the news is terrible – what is really going on is not good – but the other news is that remedy is easier and more powerful than I ever imagined.

     1. I second that Christoph.

281. “…This connection is found by looking within and not by us seeking outside of us…” This is the ‘U-turn’ and a turn well worth taking

282. Knowing that we can never be disconnected to God or the energy that gives us life and is love is fundamental to then understanding that God gives us free will to choose which energy we will connect to – the one that is innately within our inner-heart or the other that uses and thinks with the head and sees the body as the creator of our ills. Yes, Alexis those thoughts that come from beliefs, ideals and behaviour patterns are the result of not wanting to accept that our body is our intelligence. Our body is desperately endeavouring to awaken us to this fact by giving us pain to alert us to listen and feel its messages and disregard most of the information that comes from our ‘thinking’ mind.

283. Reading your blog has reminded me that there is so much non-sense out there. I bought into heaps of ill beliefs too and they got me nowhere although I was desperately hoping or wanting for them to get me somewhere at the time, anywhere, just away from me and where I was in my life! Thank Goodness for Serge Benhayon. He helped me feel and see all the illusions that were not me and like you take a u-turn back to true evolution. No ladders here just Truth and Love 💕

     1. Yes, Vicky it is amazing how most of us deny that there is anything of life after death and in doing so we avoid any responsibility of how we are living now. We are returning and there is no stopping us even in our delay!

284. So true, Doug. That dead end path of blame for the way things are in our life seems sometimes to be the entire point of the illusion.

     1. Blame could be seen as just another ‘ladder to climb’, couldn’t it – one which many of us have been very adept at climbing. A ladder that, being part of the illusionary ‘ascension’ and attainment of something outside of ourselves, as exposed so well by Alexis, serves us not – unless we wish to perpetuate our separation from the richness that lives, and has always lived within.

        1. True, Victoria. There is an aim with blame, to lift ourselves up by bringing another down. It is feeling like we are going up because those around us are getting pushed down.

     2. Exactly Naren. And so we climb this ladder – seeking to further our blame, and keep the source of our own misery outside of ourselves. Until that is, until we get rid of the ladder altogether, and instead step into the realm of responsibility.

        1. And in that realm there is no one who is lesser than us, or is less responsible. There is equality in the responsibility for the care of the world that we choose to live in, and not a single one of us has a greater or lesser place in their contribution to that.

     3. Sure Doug, but it’s important to remember that we’re the ones paying the subscription.

     4. Your words are music to my ears Naren. Amen to to equal responsibility and the innate equalness we all truly stand in.

        1. Recognising that equality in our responsibility completely and utterly debases the culture of blame so prevalent in the world.

285. The body is the marker of all truth, and through the belief of having a strong and fit body I also chose to ignore what was going on. There is no where to go except within to find true connection to the divine and find the love that we are.

     1. Yes, Susan. It is only by connecting to what we are feeling with our body that we can begin to release ourselves from the control that we give to our mind. The choice to reclaim our inner heart begins with the connection to what we feel.

        1. Yes, Naren. It is only when we feel how battered our bodies have become by the strength of our minds dominating over them, that we can relinquish this control and learn to listen to the true counsel of the inner heart.

        2. Very true, Janet. And for some of us it can take a long time for us to even get to the point where we feel just how battered we have become. But once that is felt and we listen to the love that we have within, we are given the opportunity to reconnect with our dearest friend: ourselves.

286. This is an empowering point to realise Doug, well said. As when we are willing to be honest that we are the part responsible for creating this illusion, we can then begin to be aware of the choices we are making, in every moment, and return to living the truth of who we are, living from our essence, the way we all were born to live.

     1. Agreed Carola, we chose our way into this mess, we have to choose our way out. There is no other way.

287. There is so much wisdom shared in this brilliant expose Alexis, thank you. It is so true that our connection to God, our essence is never truly lost, it is only us that thinks that it resides elsewhere other than within ourselves. When we choose to seek identification through what we do we separate from the Oneness of all that we are and know, our essence, our connection to God, and as such give our power away to the beliefs and ideas that drives us to continue our senseless search outside ourselves for the Light that we already are within. Evolution is not something we need to seek to achieve as it is offered to us every moment of every day though the way we choose to live if we are willing to be aware of these opportunities and surrender to the truth. As evolution is a return to being All that we already are.

288. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” This is a fabulous truism.

     1. That is awesome, Jonathan!

     2. When you look at it that way Jonathan, it’s unbelievable that we have been stuck in this false belief for so long, its like being locked out of your house when the keys are in your pocket the whole time.

     3. A beautiful comment to read and ponder on retiring to bed – thank you for selecting and highlighting this Jonathan.

289. I have a few friends who are really caught up in the ideals and beliefs of the yoga conciousness and I understand as I was once too. It is important that we talk about these things, with no judgement but so as others may see and understand what is really going on.

     1. With Yoga becoming a popular practice in childcare centres, primary schools and high schools, it is very relevant to discuss Yoga, especially since the practice diminishes self-esteem, while it might inflate the esteem of a few that can put their legs behind their head, everybody else is left feeling ‘less than’, incompetent and as if they are the problem and not the practice itself. I have even been told by adults that they would hide up the back of a Yoga class because they did not feel good enough.

        1. Oh I know exactly what you are saying here Deanne and the more we talk about things, the more things can be exposed.

290. Thanks for sharing this Alexis, as I started to read it I remembered how I had started doing yoga every day and had at a couple of points in my life intended to do yoga teacher training, but somehow events in life had come along and got in the way and on reflecting on this, I say thank you and appreciate that somehow I knew that it was not the way to evolution.

291. Great point Doug, no need to blame or be ashamed, just simply accepting what we have chosen and love ourselves enough to commence our journey of returning to the amazingness.

     1. Great point Doug, this lesser version of love is affecting us all in every detail of life.

292. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” This is very true. I now understand why I always said I did not ‘believe’ in God, it has nothing to do with believing, it’s nothing less than a knowing.

     1. And this knowing in us is natural, yet we fight against it.

293. Just the title alone of this blog is revelatory and offers the possibility of a huge paradigm shift in the way that we approach life.

     1. Well said Fiona. The title on its own offers us a stop moment to consider our own beliefs about evolution. A great first step in the ‘U turn’ to evolution.

294. I admire your ability to know when you separated from yourself Alexis. This level of self-awareness is really inspiring as it proves that we are all all knowing by virtue of having a body and being alive. Yet, we can easily switch off and play dumb to the fact that we know, to the point of not remembering our childhood or our teenage years let alone our past lives! The more we want to know, the more we do know will be revealed.

295. Alexis it is great that you have shared here the illusion we can get ourselves into of what evolution or progression looks like. As you say many of us are convinced this is an uphill endeavour making us more qualified than others, but really, it is about equality. Returning back to who we are and that 8 year old you separated from. How humble is it to know this, and to see how we live as way to come back to us rather than seek what is outside.

     1. Lovely Hannah. When I feel into how I bought into what ‘evolution’ was and thought that I had to get from A to Z but only ever felt I made it up to D and that I was never really going to get there, it really is a wonder that I wasn’t more given up than I was! To know that we already are everything we need to be, that we can’t help it as it is a given fact, and that we only simply need to allow it to come through- was a huge revelation for me. Phew! No more trying!

        1. ‘Trying’ is a huge condition of what we misconceive as evolution. You are right in that to try is to almost push ourselves when there is no need for this at all. We’ve invested a lot of time and energy into a myth of an uphill battle when as you say here michelle819 – all we need to do is allow.

        2. Hvmorden when we are already made up of God’s particles then what could we possibly be ‘trying’ to do? Put like this really highlights the fact that any amount of trying is, as Adam said, akin to climbing a ‘ladder to no where’. We are all already there, there is no where we need to go, we simply need to stop trying to go somewhere because it is the ‘trying to get somewhere’ that is taking us away from being exactly where we want to be already. We never left Home, we just thought we did.

        3. Absolutely Alexis – it seems like we ‘try’ because we can ‘prove’ and in proving ourselves, we make ourselves more than another – essentially – to try is to be individual, to be separate when we are al the same. So to try is our resistance to accept equality and brothehrood.

        4. If we were to take off our goggles of distortion then we would see that trying to be separate from one another is like a piece of the ocean wanting to be separate from itself.

296. “In our essence, we know God” we truly do and I feel this absoluteness, Alexis, so it is no wonder that everything in this world is to make sure we are not in our essence and unaware that God exists. Knowing we are returning to and not going anywhere is something that is not taught anywhere except Universal Medicine…. No ladder to climb, nothing to achieve, no need for success, just a returning to who we truly are ..a Son of God.

     1. Very true alisonmoir, no one ever taught me that we are returning to our Divinity before coming to Universal Medicine.

297. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.”
     This is tremendously stilling and confirming sentence, if we truly allow these words in.

     1. Agreed Judith – how incredible that it is all here, within each of us. The love and wisdom of God lives and shines through the eyes of everyone, it’s just up to us to choose to see it.

     2. I agree Judith. This one sentence, if there is a willingness to receive it, delivers the truth of why we as a humanity are existing in such loveless turmoil and also delivers the truth of who we truly are and what is truly possible for us all to live – the sacredness of our innately Divine way.

     3. Absolutely stilling Judith. And exposing, if we are in any resistance at all to the stillness within, in which we know God immanent without question.

     4. Absolutely Judith it is in our stillness the confirmation to the knowing that God is never separate from us.

298. “My body tried repeatedly to let me know how it felt but my beliefs were so ingrained that they kept me motoring along at the same breakneck speed every day.” I was caught in the believe that sport was good for me even if I my body tried to let me know that this believe is not good for him. Alexis it is so terrifying that such a believe made us so numb for what was really going on.

     1. I would not use the word terrifying but it actually is because of the level of harm we do to ourselves and others when we numb ourselves.

     2. Yes it is truly shocking how much we override what we truly know by a mindset we hold and how that causes so much damage to the body, which we then ignore. I remember practicing yoga as a beginner and my teacher recommended to my class that we join a yoga workshop by another teacher she was inspired by. I went along and I remember watching him do some poses as a warm up before the class started. He did all these bendy ones, but it looked like it was such an effort and that he had to push his body so hard putting it into positions that felt unnatural to it, that I remember clocking the expression on my face as I watched. This was also clocked by my yoga teacher and I overheard her talking about it to him later. I think she had clocked it as awe, although from my perspective is was definitely one of “really?” and probably “horror”! Guess what? In spite of all of that I still attended the class, over riding what I had seen and truly knew believing the issues in my body and the tight bits and un-supple bits could be fixed with a bit of stretching!!

        1. Harsh lessons Michelle, but ones that we can all relate to. We are inculcated from young with the notion that we have to follow instructs from outside of us – rather than confirming what we feel from our own bodies and the richness of knowing they offer us. And so we ‘follow’, we try to keep up, we think we ‘should’ do this or that… in so very many areas of life.
           Until, we actually stop to feel and acknowledge the truth that we have known all along within ourselves – that we needn’t mindlessly ‘follow’ or ‘keep up’ with anyone or anything. There is an essence within that once reconnected to, lets us know what is true for us and what is not, and our bodies can most definitely show us (if we listen). Thank goodness for the return to this knowing, as Alexis has shared…

        2. Absolutely Victoria. We teach our young not to talk back, not to express what they are truly feeling in favour of what we want to hear and to do as they are told. It really is no wonder that we fall for this conditioning and abandon that inner wisdom that we know. When we learn to trust that inner wisdom and can withstand the reaction from others to this and hold true to it then absolutely its amazing to live life this way!

        3. Beautifully said Michelle. Our education and societal conditioning hits us at most every angle, telling us to negate and abandon (as you say) our inner wisdom. Is it any wonder we become such willing puppets?
           Until, that is, we make the choice to return to what we’ve known within all along – and value it to the bone (and then some)…

        4. Lovely Victoria – “to value to the bone (and then some)” our innate wisdom is an utter game changer. However the words “game changer” doesn’t do justice, unless you have experienced it, to the understanding of what happens to your life, relationships, work etc., when we live from the radar of this inner knowing.

        5. That’s it Michelle. It’s not until we really begin to reconnect to our innate knowing that we start to see how much our life – and our response to life – changes… This is ongoing, but the ‘game’ most certainly does change. Not so long ago, I wouldn’t have understood just how powerfully things could change, and really what this could mean either… but the change is tremendous, along with the realisation that we needn’t perpetuate ourselves as ‘products of a system’ that doesn’t support us to be all that we truly are.

        6. Beautiful Victoria. yes my ‘response’ to life and to challenges continue to evolve and deepen, so much so that when anything negative happens my first response is to always clock in with myself and ask what my part is in this and what there is to learn in that moment. This is incredibly empowering. If there is something for me to nominate for another then I am increasingly willing to voice without judgment and not get caught up in an emotional spin of a possible reaction. The ‘game’ of life has definitely changed for me – a tremendous change that allows me to observe and not absorb in many, many more areas of my life, if not all.

        7. Ah Michelle how refreshing to read your comment, having just got in from work where I allowed myself to get side swiped by a situation because I reasoned with my head that I ‘had a right to react the way that I did’, rather than listen to my body that was telling me that ‘reaction is reaction’. I shall be more prepared next time.

        8. This is significant Michelle and Victoria -‘We are inculcated from young with the notion that we have to follow instructs from outside of us…..’ Today I instruct movement, exercises and Esoteric Yoga and observe this strong tendency in adults to jump to attention and to wait for instructions without regard for their body. It is alarming actually the level of nervous tension and fear of standing out if not keeping up or doing the wrong thing that emotionally stable and intelligent adults are at the mercy of, it is so strongly instilled that even with encouragement these patterns are not easily broken. Listening and honouring our bodies first and foremost is like learning to crawl and then walk again. Esoteric Yoga is most powerful for this.

     3. I practised and taught a physical yoga practice and like Alexis I was sustained by thoughts and gave lip service to listening to the body while ignoring the simple messages my body was giving me. In particular, I disliked the back bends (bending and arching backwards) but did them believing they were ‘good for me’.

        1. How many things did I do believing they were good for me? Because I was supposedly flexible my yoga teacher pushed too hard and I tore a leg muscle. This, together with my attendance at Universal Medicine workshops made me question why things that are meant ‘to be good’ do so much harm?

        2. Patricia how many people have suffered in silence as their yoga teacher stood on their body parts in order to get the person into a deeper stretch? There are many elements of yoga that weave into another harmful belief and that is the good old ‘pain is a pathway to progress’ belief. In pondering all of this, I have come to the conclusion that we, as a race of beings’ have actually gone quite mad!

        3. Quite incredible how easily we override the messages of the body because we have subscribed to a belief system that tells us something is good for us.

        4. This really highlights how owned we are by a consciousness. For me it was sitting on a floor cross legged. I really struggled with this, but persevered anyway as my goal was to be able to do this so that my knees could nearly touch the ground. But my body was saying…”go and get a chair”

        5. Jennifer the ridiculousness of what you have shared (and I have hundreds of examples myself) made me think of ‘Invasion of the body snatchers’, beliefs literally take us over and have us behaving in the most atrocious ways that are totally alien to our true way of being.

        6. Agreed, Jennifer. I have seen many people struggle to sit in this position unnecessarily, but it was not until I was lovingly supported to question the ‘good’ of this kind of yoga was I free to sit in a chair and feel no less for it. There is much extreme hip opening in many popular forms of Yoga, these can put strain on the tendons and muscles in an area of the body that, at the end of the day, is more important to have stable and sound rather than compromised by weakened muscles, tendons and ligaments. Another way to look at it is if your normal day to day activity is compromised because you can’t sit cross-legged – it’s unlikely.

        7. Deanne on reading your line ‘ free to sit in a chair and feel no less for it’ caused me to recall all the times that I, or those that were in my class would not seek the support of an extra cushion or blanket as they equated extra support as ‘being less’ rather than what it was, which was loving support for the body.

299. Alexis your following insight is important to know: “When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.” I for myself always thought that I am able to choose the parts I want and now I know that this believe was part of the package I subscribe too – very cunning.

     1. Yes, it is important to understand what we are subscribing to when we adopt a belief or strive for an ideal. By going against the truth of who we are, we have to continually bring in a false force which affects our entire state of being.

     2. It is very cunning esteraltmiks. It makes me think of deciding to not be part of the Catholic Church anymore when I was eighteen years old. I could not be part of an institution with a history of enormous abuse and a condemnation of homosexuality.

     3. How liberating – in the true sense of the word – it is, to come back to ourselves, after being so ‘owned’ by a belief, or indeed a whole consciousness laden with beliefs. This is the true meaning of ‘enlightenment’ – no big deal, just simply the innate knowing, and return, to the light of our essence, that was always there within, all along…

     4. I love that quote too esteraltmiks, I love how Alexis has really explored and exposed this in her blog to highlight the craziness of whole packages that we actually take in.

300. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us.” I like this quote very much Alexis as is showed very simple that we are nearer to God as our belief system try to make us believe.

     1. I like the quote too as I have noticed how easily I can think it is divinity that leaves me and I am waiting for it or ‘that feeling’ to come back rather than divinity being something that I leave or I return to. The quote goes very well with the analogy of the ladder and the U-turn.

301. A brilliant expose of the madness and devastation of searching outside of ourselves for ‘answers’ when everything we need lies in our connection and relationship with ourselves and then, as an absolutely natural expansion, with God.

     1. Beautifully summed up Matilda. When we allow ourselves to be moved by our deep connection to our essence, to God we realise that all our questions of who we are and what is needed next are instantly answered and known.

        1. Indeed, Carola. That connection is one that asks nothing of us, it requires no payment in either money or effort. It does not need to be earned, it does not need to be sought after. Our connection to God is our connection to ourselves.

        2. Well said Matilda, Carola and Naren. Our connection to God is innate, but my, how we’ve constructed such complexity and falsity to fool ourselves that it is something to be attained.

     2. So beautifully shared, God asks nothing of us, we just need to connect to our true essence and trust our own knowing, then all the answers lie in front of us.

     3. The simplicity of this is pure Gold and yet we can find it so difficult to connect to this natural beauty that we are. When we keep looking inwards and it all starts to become a lot more clearer and simpler. This gives us space to allow all of our Glory from God to be in every moment.

302. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.”

     Alexis, I can really relate to what you have shared here. My beliefs were based on the teachings of the Catholic church and I certainly did not feel connected to God. Once I shed those beliefs I was truly able to feel God who had been with me all along.

     1. I can totally relate to what both of you have shared here. When I was a child, even though I went to church, I still felt very connected to God not really having absorbed the teachings of the church at that stage. As I grew I didn’t really get all the teachings and thought this was my fault and so disconnected. What I did get though was that I wasn’t good enough, was “bad”, could never be like God and never would be, but that I could still try and indeed it was expected of me to try!!! Yes take away this false belief with the absolute knowing from my body that I am God’s equal because I am of him, then I am opened up to the all that is and all that I am and there is the realisation that it has always been there!

        1. There are some interesting words that I remember from my Catholic education ‘we are made in God’s image’ but we are also not worthy to be the sons of God. The trouble with the tenant ‘ we are made in the image of God’ is people consider the lower aspects of human nature to be God’s image and hence it becomes okay to treat each other poorly and then default to the false comfort of being made in God’s image.

        2. Yes there are a number of anomalies with the Catholic teachings and things that simply didn’t ever make sense to me. Whilst I never reduced God to the lower aspects of human nature I could never really get why we were less than him if we “were made in his image”, but your response just goes to show how we will manipulate anything so as to not step up and be responsible!

        3. That’s a really interesting point Deanne, that we can pass off abusive behaviour as still being within the body of God, there is such lack of responsibility in this so the blame can shifted for the mess we have got ourselves in.

     2. “How can we be separate from what makes up our cells? Impossible”, oh so practical Ariana.

     3. ‘How can we be separate from what makes up our cells? Impossible.’ There can be no argument with that Ariana. Simple and beautiful.

     4. Me too Anne. I did not feel connected to God either, but at the same time I somehow knew that God was everywhere, including within me and I never lost that knowing. Through Serge Benhayon’s presentations the penny dropped, so to speak. That a relationship with God has nothing to do with whether I had a belief, but simply in how I lived everyday. God really is in the detail.

        1. Love it Jennifer ‘God really is in the detail’.

303. I love the tile of this blog “Evolution is a u turn not a ladder.” Climbing a ladder is something that when you consider a ladder it feel like a real chore done in isolation heading into the unknown. A U turn feels like we review the steps that brought us to where we are and reimprint our livingness as we returning to the truth we already know.

304. The blogs on appreciation feel particularly powerful for me, as there is much in allowing for others to appreciate me and therefore opening up to people in general. Appreciating others helps this process and makes it about the All instead of about individuals including myself. Thank you Esther.

305. ‘Serge Benhayon found his way back to this knowing and he now teaches others the way back through ‘The Way of The Livingness.’ This is a U-Turn because it teaches us that we already know God, we just need to remove the impediments (and belief systems) that prevent us from feeling this connection in our bodies.’ I really loved these lines Alexis as it is absolutely a returning to knowing who we are and what Serge Benhayon teaches us is to see through the illusion of what we have lived and to know that it is those beliefs that stop us from living our truth in full.

306. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us”, this is so ever so power full. If god is with us through every moment in the day, than it is impossible to not see the truth of who we are in any situation.

307. This is very beautiful and super powerful “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” It sounds so simple and, in truth, it is, yet we don’t allow ourselves to see it – we can’t see the forest for the trees.

308. This notion of thinking that I am a happy person is a tricky one for sure Alexis. The misery we can hold onto while living to an image of life of what it should be and what this can do to our bodies, leaves the harm of exercise in its shadows.

309. Thank you Alexis for a great blog, on a subject that has formed and moulded our lives away from the true essence of who we truly are. I look back now, on the beliefs I once held, in amazement, at how believing certain beliefs caused me to live in such a self abusing way. Back then I didn’t feel like I had a choice, now I am thankful to Serge, who has shown us, that the way we have lived has been our choices and to have a different life all we need to do is make choices that come from self love instead of self abuse.

310. Yes Marika, “with truth there is simplicity, equality and a level of deep self-care” and when we live in this union with ourselves and others we are living in yoga.

311. Your blog says it all Alexis and I love the title – Evolution is a U turn – we are all so locked on full forward!

312. Another very powerful blog Gill and one of many stand outs highlighted for me was “When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.”

313. “the truth is, we are born already knowing God unencumbered..” In this line I feel the absolute purity, innocence and deep, timeless, innate wisdom of every newborn baby. It’s immensely powerful to recognise.

314. It is nearly impossible to come through the societies that we have created without some form of belief package influencing the way you see the world and your place in it. Often, we do not even question these beliefs no matter how kooky they sound, because they form our understanding of the world. Or more precisely, and as Alexis has written about here, our beliefs are what we wish the world to be, often so we do not have to accept that we are responsible for the way it actually is.

     1. I agree Naren we needed to create our belief systems to survive in the world we lived in as that was all we had at the time. We now know truth the Serge Benhayon and the Teaching of the Ageless Wisdom so we can discard how ideals, belief and picture we created to cushion the pain of our hurts.

315. Subscription to a belief comes with a free download of images. It is amazing how these images then hold us so firmly – we aspire to them and do not doubt them. We are so held – of which we have no idea.

     1. The source of the images and thoughts that fill our minds require careful discerning. Too many thoughts are derived from a source that are not from a connected body. I like your comment Nikki of a “free download”.

     2. Love this Nikki. A classic example of the entrapment that follows on from a ‘subscription to a belief’ that ‘comes with a free download of images’. A hook that hold us in the illusion by feeding us choices, including one that has believing we have a free range of things to choose from. When if fact we are far from choosing what is true as anything from outside of ourselves, away from our connection to our essence is a movement away from living who we truly are.

     3. or are we just pretending that we have no idea? We’re the consciousness of God, we know every-thing.

        1. Great point Alexis. We pretend we have no idea.

316. I realised in reading your blog that I still believe that evolution, and most of life for that matter, is about climbing a ladder. The more we progress, the higher up the ladder we go – so I have thought. It’s an image I’ve had about what life, success and evolution means.

     1. And isn’t it with this awareness, Nikki, that there is an opportunity to review any belief we have held unquestioningly and what its impact has been on our choices and behaviours?

        1. Yes, it’s a beautiful thing when we allow awareness as then we can reassess. The reassessment can have quite an impact as so many of our unquestioned beliefs impact our behaviours and way of living substantially. It is as though a brick has been removed from our foundation.

     2. Yes Nikki, same for me, this image is so ingrained, it takes a quite bit to knock it out of the way.

     3. Nikki it is a belief that is entrenched within the majority of people. I have felt it in myself with my involvement within Universal Medicine. I have a concept that certain people are ‘higher’ than me and that there are certain steps that I must take in order to climb up to where they are. If I simply dropped this belief and surrendered into the consciousness of God that is within all of us then in that moment I would have access to the Heavens. However the crucial step is to change our movements, as it is the quality of our movements that keep our thoughts (which include our beliefs) repeatedly streaming through us. Change our movements and we change our thoughts and eliminate all beliefs, as there are no beliefs in truth.

     4. It is perhaps underestimated how much of life we make about climbing a ladder, in the sense that we often look at our lives, pick out what is wrong and then look to solve and fix the perceived problem, the consciousness being ‘improvement’ or ‘betterment’. The more yardsticks, or images, we collect the more we gauge and measure what the next rung on the ladder will be.

        1. Deanne it is only very recently that I have realised that I still have the ladder to nowhere in my mind and it exists within my view of esoteric life. Now how crazy is that? The esoteric, meaning innermost, and indeed being the same and of equal amount within us all and yet I grade myself and others as to where on the ‘esoteric ladder’ I perceive them to be, based on what? Based on imaginings and false beliefs. Seriously how insidious is this ladder?

317. Having just returned from the Universal Medicine Retreat at Lennox Head, the title of this blog “Evolution is a U-Turn, Not a Ladder” is even more profound. One of the key points I took from the retreat was that evolution is absolutely not about moving forward, but rather about retracing our steps back to where we originally came from, addressing all that we left unfinished or askew on our original “adventure”.

318. This need to get somewhere, really is one of my greatest obstacles and it is a hard one to let go of.

     1. This is the same for me also Judith. Thinking there is somewhere to get to and continually working towards getting there is and has been a driving force in my life. The notion that I have everything I need right here is quite confronting and exposing. It is much easier to have an external distraction and drive that I can focus on. Realising I have it all here is challenging as then what will I do?

        1. Yes Nikki, it is interesting how we want to let go and relax and be more at ease with us and life but then when this is on offer we actually are not so comfortable to go there.

        2. Recognising the comfort in creating and being in problems is quite life changing!

        3. Judith I have felt this too. Recently I woke up on the first day of a 10 day holiday only to feel the same anxiousness in my body as I have when I am at home and have heaps to do! It really showed me that I am the source of my own anxiousness.

     2. It is definitely one of the tricky ones, isn’t it Judith? The need to feel that we are growing and therefore progressing usually is translated as moving upward or towards some kind of goal. Letting go of that concept means that I have to accept that I actually already have everything that I need to be everything that I am.

     3. Yes Doug, this is a pattern that is very familiar to me. It truly is a lack of committing to life – to everything that needs to be done and adhered to during my day, either I try to rush it to get it done to have some time off or I delay it as you share and then “run out of time” and start to play catch up. It is when I truly enjoy what needs to be done giving it my all that I never run out of time or lack commitment as the next chore will get the same fullness of me as the previous one and therefore I will enjoy myself just as much.

319. It is so easy to aspire to something outside of ourselves and believe that we will ‘get somewhere’ because of it. All the while we are simply being taken further and further away from our inner truth and our inner knowing. What a set up! It is the ultimate way to keep us lost and ‘seeking’ and keeps us from claiming our inner power.

320. “When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.” This is so true, and the energy of what we have chosen runs through our body and manipulates our choices. While we choose to align to a particular belief system we are not free.

     1. We are not free and on the physical human level we have no idea of what we have signed up to. We signed a contract that did not disclose the fine print.

     2. Absolutely, Rebecca. I catch myself wanting to ‘cherry pick’ from belief systems thinking I can hold onto a bit but not have anything to do with the rest. This is total illusion. Once I have bought into any belief system I am ‘in’ the whole package.

321. This blog makes me think of when we search here, there and everywhere for our car keys, only to realise that they have been on our back pocket the whole time. Once we stop and really feel what we have within us, the striving can cease.

     1. Your comment Janet made me realise the anxiety and panic we can go into when searching for the car keys. Searching for something outside of myself creates a tension and panic as how do we know we will find it? Where is it? In contrast, when we know we have the car keys we have settlement and walk with a confidence knowing we have what we need.

        1. Well said Nikki and great example Janet, when we know we already have everything we need with us there is no reason to go into anxiousness, all we need to do is sit back and allow ourselves to explore all the treasures that we have got and that are available to us.

322. Thank you Alexis for this clear and sound exposé about the true purpose of human life. We are here on earth to evolve, and that is something we all understood already, only we where lost in the direction we had to take. We do not have to descend or climb any ladder, we only have to look inside and return and reconnect to our inner-hearts were everything we are looking for is waiting for us to be rediscovered.

323. Clearly more often than we don’t Brendan… as the escalating levels of illness and disease attest to. While a few clearly do say yes to evolution with a little more vigour than others, it would seem to still be way short of what is possible for the vast majority, if not all.

324. ‘It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing’. Such power of change held in these lines. You can’t help but question what other beliefs do we hold that keep us from living truth.

325. Alexis, what you have shared could be shocking to some to even concede and a complete game changer for many others. We hold our beliefs like pieces of gold that no one can touch. Which is crazy when we discover that these pieces of gold turn to dust when touched by truth.

326. ‘When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.’
     This is a truth that is very eye opening, something that is possibly never considered when we choose an activity, religion or anything we participate in. We may think we are picking and choosing the bits that we like and suit us but whether we realise or not we are aligning to the lot. It’s all energy. It would be like going to a polluted place and think there’ll be pockets of untainted air waiting just for us that we can pick and choose to breath

327. This blog encapsulates in one page with great aplomb a trick many of us have fallen for. The ideals around the path of evolution are thick, including the fact that we will likely never get there, or as you have so well described, that we are even going somewhere. Evolution is a U-turn indeed, returning to a place within that we all already know very well.

     1. I can now see that how I used to live, a life in disconnection with the grander picture we all are part of and led by taken on ideals and beliefs, images of how life should be but never turned out to be true, was indeed a trick. A trick of my mind to make me belief that i was going somewhere and that kept me trying other directions anytime I walked into a dead end and by doing so, loosing more and more my connection with my inner self, there where the true source for resurrection is residing.

     2. Tis correct Heather. The ‘end-of-the-rainbow’ notion that there is some kind of out-of-reach goal, is the perfect trick to keep us rooted to the path and constantly looking outside of ourselves.

        1. Yes Otto, it is the “carrot” dangling in front of us that we can never reach that keeps us going, when we remove it we are like a donkey, stubbornly standing on the spot, as we have no incentive to go anywhere. At this point it takes a shift within to listen to the inner calling that will change our movement forward.

328. To be child like and just be and feel our way makes so much more sense than pushing, with images in minds that help drive us to exhaustion. I feel our connection to God has always been strong from birth, and only weakened by our disconnection to ourselves especially when we hold to the falsity of ideals and beliefs that seperate us as one people or race.

     1. Life lights up when I connect to the childlike innocence you speak of Greg

329. You have revealed to us an amazing unfolding from belief to an inner knowing that we hold in our essence. I have been realising recently that so many times in my life the Ageless Wisdom has been presented to me while I clung on tightly to the beliefs and that I have allowed to rule my life. As I let go of the beliefs the innate trust that I know God and all that he is, is coming back to me and allowing me to be and know that I am enough.

330. Like you Alexis, I too am grateful to our friends who introduced us to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. At the time it was challenging because I was so hooked into the yoga consciousness and the package of beliefs that it came with. Over the years I have come to realise that those beliefs which I fed into have held me back from expressing the truth of who I am and it has been incredible process of letting them go and returning to the loveliness and beauty of the real me.

     1. Yoga has a particularly sinister set of ideals as it combines the “ladder of getting somewhere”, with the idea that you have to get better (than those around you), and uses the idea that if you punish the body enough you will get to that goal (where you know you will be better than others)! The result is a false arrogance, taking people away from the loveliness of who they already are (without any yoga)!

331. Our most profound realisations come to us when we surrender, and the truth is revealed before us. What this points to is that our life is actually not about evolution, as much as it about realisation – realisation of our own innate divinity. If it was about evolution, we would be rewarded with insight every time we strove to be more, instead of being met by exhaustion, emptiness, and the hollow emptiness of achievement that drives us to need to know more.

     1. The more I strived, the worse it got Adam. Almost all personal development is based on the ideal if you work really, really hard you will get somewhere. But when you get there, whether that be with a relationship, more money, or a fitter body, the emptiness is still there. So it reveals, getting a better life doesn’t bring what we are all looking for.

        1. That is so true Adam and Heather, it is my experience too, and to simply surrender is tricky as it is not a doing, so it needs a completely different approach that requires a shift in the quality we move in. So as long as we hold onto our old ways it won’t happen, I can say that from experience too.

     2. Adam I love your comment as it reveals very simple how our believes are numbing and making us blind.

332. Thank you Alexis for the powerful reminder that we do not need to ‘get anywhere’. What relief for the body to no longer be striving and driven to the point of exhaustion. And what joy to re-discover that everything we have ever longed for lives deep within us.

     1. What a different world and quality of life everyone would have if this truth was taught to us when we young. That we have everything we will ever need with us, that there is a stupendous love we all come from and innately are made of, and that God is always holding us in His enormous Love. This unequivocal fact and truth has been twisted and bastardised by institutionalised divisions that reduce this knowing to an opinion that can be offset by another: separation and division being our way of life today. Not having that steady confirmation from young of what we know within means we stop trusting it; the inner world isn’t valued, it’s all about what we can attain, do, be good at, better at that gets us the approval and semblance of love we seek.
        The world’s problems are not complicated to solve. When seen through the eyes of the soul they are simple – the obvious and natural result of mankind twisting and reducing its natural essence to something it is naturally not.

        1. Pure poetry Katerina ‘The world’s problems are not complicated to solve. When seen through the eyes of the soul they are simple’.

333. In my past I had an inner mood like ‘God has left me’, what allowed me to give up as well, only to realize by choosing responsibility again that God was and is always with me, waiting for me to re-connect and then…playing together again.

334. ‘It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us.’ So very true and when times get tough it is worth remembering and reminding ourselves of this fact.

     1. What a beautiful sentence.

335. Ladders need to be leant against buildings. And this strikes me as a revealing analogy. The ladders that we climb are leaning against the structural belief systems of family, religion, gender, nationality etc…Knock down these buildings and the ladders wouldn’t have anything to lean on and would then perhaps be seen for the illusionary pursuits that they are?

     1. Wisdom of the ages from you Otto, our ladders lean against many seemingly acceptable foundations that in truth are not foundations at all, but shifting sands keeping us away from the simple truth that what we seek is within.

        1. I would say that they are more than just foundations Heather. The problem is that they are great big fortresses – of inequality, separation, division and a total lack of harmony – which therefore promote the use of ladders in the first place. Without these, why climb anywhere when we are all equal and all can see that we have it all already.

     2. Very well said Otto – these buildings represent all that we are not. Are we willing to knock them down? To break the illusion once and for all? Choice is ours.

336. Our reconnection to heaven – to our natural, connected selves – is definitely a journey of return rather than a linear progression. We are returning to what we know. The illusion of the linear walk is that we are actually getting somewhere when in fact we are walking further away.

     1. Exactly Victoria. if we are already everything, then even one step, is one step away.

337. Ladders feature heavily as symbols for ‘getting somewhere’ – up (we usually don’t want to know about the ‘down’). We climb the corporate ladder, advance our tokens in a game of snakes and ladders, take a spiritual journey (a ladder to enlightenment as explained here). Yet how often do we scale such heights only return to the bottom and do it all over again? We go ’round and ’round in this respect too.

338. ‘When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.’ This expands on the above: we don’t only get the physical aspect of yoga, we get the spiritual as well. We are purchasing the entire consciousness.

339. ‘I lived with intense pain and extreme exhaustion for years until, eventually, my body broke down: it literally stopped going.’ Wow, what this comment alone says about the physical effects of yoga is immense. Yet it is heralded as a wonderful, beneficial therapy. Add to this the spiritual beliefs yoga practitioners are downloading and we have what Alexis describes here – an accumulation of poisons that lead to eventual breakdown.

     1. …and unfortunately, unless presented with another way (like Alexis was), many do not look to this as the cause or contributor for the body breaking down; but instead look to any other excuse or possible explanation that does not bring them to account, or to a point of responsibility for their choices to follow something without discernment.

     2. Yes that stood out for me too Victoria. Not only with yoga but with many other things in life like studying or exercising, we take on a belief packet and live by that, ignoring our own body, because in the packet is also contained that hurt is good or that it is the way to get to a better place: the goal, the diploma, the degree, the super slim body, or levitation as in this blog.

340. What this blog beautiful exposes is the lineally way of thinking we as humans have adhered too. This life line of achieving certain points in our life is a the expense of our health. Particularly when we have a ladder at work that we are desperate to climb. We once thought the world was flat until it was proven it was round so at some point we must realise that living in a lineal way is not true evolution and honouring our innate divine quality within is the key to true evolution.

     1. Great to remind us of that gigantic falsity that we once fell for. But it appears that we didn’t learn from it – as this blog so eloquently exposes, we are still blindly climbing ladders as if there is something at the top.

        1. There is a stubbornness in us in the fact that we are not learning from the experiences we have. As all the ideals and beliefs we live with always fail at any moment in life, but instead of stopping and questioning ourselves for why they failed, we again will find another image to chase after in order to better our lives and continue to blindly climbing the ladders instead.

        2. Yes Otto, until we each realize that this latter is not really a latter as it never stops, and so – it explains us that we are in a cycle that never ends – until we come back to the love we are, and still we than live in cycles – never a line. To make a cycle a line is like trying to turn a bird in a pig. Its not possible only in their illusionary mind.

     2. I love what you offer here Natalie, to see life as a return (spherical) rather than a ladder to climb takes us back to the knowing that true evolution comes from returning to who we are and never about climbing towards something else. The more I connect to the Ageless Wisdom teachings the more I know this is a truth we all deeply know and deeply appreciate the fact that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are showing us the way it truly is.

341. It is a real matter, this simple ladders shows us bare and naked that we have or are perceiving a way of life that is not actually real.. Yet, we are under a believe that it is. Tricky really, once this is being pondered on. As, nothing scares more, then being fed a lie – and from then on perceiving and being under the held believe that it is the truth – so all of the sudden this lie becomes reality. This simply illustrates that we are under the laws of energy, and that we receive energy every single moment, and so we can choose an energy that limits our spirit or allows our spirit to be more open and truly free.

     1. Yes Danna, we have tricked ourselves by not choosing to reconnect to our inner-hearts, there where our connection with our soul resides, our true source and connection with the grandness that we all are.

        1. What comes to mind Nico, is that by your saying, it exposes us that we actually know very well how to connect , and as you shared, we have chosen deliberately not to connect to our hearts (where our soul resides). This then also explains to us why our world is not only in agony, but in truth resistance of the love that is papalble on earth and in every heart (and soul) we meet. Therefore we could also name the game of life, the game of resisting. The one and only fire that connects us all, is our Soul.

     2. Danna the lies start so young. Even at school most of us have the image of ladders. Kids ‘move up’ to more advanced classes, those who are more popular are higher up the ladder and those who are better at sport are already a couple of rungs ahead, as are those who are better looking. Many kids get the feeling of where they are on ‘the ladder of life’ at school.

        1. Yes, and so it makes sense, as from this same intelligence(which is not in truth intelligence when it comes down to love) teaches us , educate our young to contain and continue within the system .. instead of jumping out and truly explore what intelligence is. As this the not true form of intelligence is keeping us narrow and only capable of ‘that much’ whilst true intelligence is opening up the floor to explore more truth, more love and more harmony in expression. Hard to choose? Well, actually it is very simple. The only thing that might make it hard, is the form vastness of resistance we have chosen so far. But if we heal this, which we do by our choices if they are true, we heal the path of resistance in our live and make them open and growth again.. Were all the plants, flowers and trees can grow again.. instead of fall.

342. Life is not linear but spherical so ladders would not work too well if this is the case.

     1. Ha ha, yes! It would be more accurate to use the symbol of a ladder joined at each end, like a ring… or a hamster wheel, if we turn it on its side. It would amply illustrate the dilemma we find ourselves in.

     2. !!! All kinds of funny images in my mind of Marx Brother-esque characters trying to hold on to upside down, curving ladders. What we have bought in to, and are desperately holding on to, is as farcical as those movies.

343. I was never into yoga but loved all kinds of spiritual theories about this destination of enlightenment that could be reached, hoping that one day it would descend upon me if I was lucky enough! I now realise that by living in a way that is true for the body leads to an awareness that opens one up to seeing more of what life really is about.

344. Serge Benhayon has enabled us to see the true meaning of Evolution. There is no where to get to and life is not about ‘bettering’, as in using the law of attraction to get what we want.
     No, it is about defeating the illusion of who ‘we’ are really and having the tools to live in a way that allows us to realize our Divinity. It is powerful when the truth reveals a way to live in simplicity and constant access to divine love and intelligence.

     1. Emma it is super powerful when we allow the truth to reveal a way of living that is undeniably the only way to live with Divinity as our impulse. Here we can only have true evolution and a returning to where we originally came from. Serge Benhayon has been the guiding light on this return and there is much work to be done, letting go of our illusion and surrendering to our Divinity. Powerful indeed.

345. I was also on the search for enlightenment, doing lots of yoga and meditation; it was something that was always over there or reserved for the select few, but never did I realise it was within me all along and all I had to do was accept it and live it. The other thing that was really obvious was that there was always a feeling of those who were superior because they had been doing it longer or had committed more, so therefore they must know more or better than me. It was not until I become a student of the Livingness that I was able to embody my equalness, a very precious gift indeed that we all deserve to realize.

346. It is a U Turn because we re-visit each of the moments in our lives when we have made ill-choices; they come back to us to re-imprint with our love and presence so that we can live complete, in the fullness of who we really are.

     1. Exactly Emma, life is the re-tracing of our steps back to the beginning and when we get back to the start we will recognize it as if we’ve never left, which is astounding when you consider that most of the 7.5 billion people in the world would swear blind that they don’t know if there is anything other than the life that they perceive is in front of them!

        1. Deep down we all know but we live in a trance, buoyed along by all of our distractions and indulgences, not wanting to live the responsibility that is always knocking at our door.

347. Yes, there is no winners and losers in evolution as we will all get there in the end.

     1. Kate If only we realised that we are all already there, it’s just that we’re pretending we’re not.

348. Far too often Brendan and thankfully our bodies eventually tell us this.

349. I love how you describe evolution as a U-Turn Alexis, like a journey where we have taken the wrong street, a long way back, and in fact, all we need to do now is return back. Every ladder we encounter in life is actually leading us further and further astray. For, after all, it’s not about us ‘getting higher’ or more advanced at all. It’s really a big, big game like snakes and ladders, to stop us from seeing that ‘u’ are the one who’s choice it was to turn and go driving off in this crazy way in the first place.

     1. Spot on Joseph. We pulled our front doors shut behind us, loaded our cars full of baggage and then drove off in search of home!

350. It’s funny Alexis that you talk about levitation and the fact that you were half expecting it to happen one day. I can relate very much with things I was told would or might happen, that looking back, I can only laugh at the ridiculousness, but really it’s not funny to see how ‘taken’ we can be by the package of consciousness we have aligned ourselves to… unable to see how crazy some parts are and the fact even as a whole it can never come close to delivering it’s promises of salvation. Since when does being able to levitate solve anything for us as a humanity, even if we could all do it!

     1. Millions of people floating above their yoga mats, completely absorbed in themselves. Crazy idea when you put it that way Jenny.

        1. Yes… and yet we pursue it as though it will be an ultimate achievement in life! Not only does it not solve anything or evolve anything, it doesn’t help us pay bills, sort disharmonious relationship, office politics or financial hardship…

     2. Part of us knows that this movement is possible, but not in the physical form, but from a deep knowing, yet we are unable to feel where from exactly, so we get easily tricked by the consciousness.

        1. Very true Matthew, it’s not that levitation is not possible, however if it were, it would not be because we had participated in a weekend workshop, or psyched ourselves into some sort of trance. If we could indeed evolve ourselves to a point where levitation was possible, we might in fact be quite enlightened. In that state however we’d also be highly unlikely to ‘show off’ such a skill as what would be the benefit to mankind to see someone do such a thing, just for the sake of it.

     3. Ahahah Jenny I love it – it is so true levitation would not solve anything – it is a bit strange that so many people believe that this would change their lives or the world but I have to admit I was caught in the believe that doing a lot sport is healthy for my body even if my body tried to tell me differently.

        1. Yes that’s very true esteraltmiks, I have been caught up in many pursuits in my time too… none quite as ridiculous as levitation as a sign of enlightenment… but all equally as unlikely to offer anything truly evolutionary.

     4. Great point Jenny and Alexis. I remember reading about things such as levitation years ago, and very much ‘wanting’ to be able to attain such a feat – it was presented as an ultimate kind of mastery over form… Pales in comparison to the greatness of love that is there within our hearts, and how this can be lived, doesn’t it…
        Love has real world relevance – our relationships, our communication, our care and concern for each other are all founded upon the love we allow to flow in and through us. Connecting with the love we all hold is what truly changes our world.
        Raising my butt off a hard meditation stool or platform for a few minutes, even if possible, strikes me today as a party trick with no relevance to life – other than to say that we don’t want to truly partake in it.

        1. Yes perfectly said Victoria.. levitation is akin to a ‘party trick’ with no relevance to real life. It has naught to do with love, or the development of skills that support us to live more harmoniously, to know ourselves more deeply from the essence of who we are, or to live and express more of ourselves in the world. As you say so aptly, it has no real world relevance.

        2. Ain’t it the truth Jenny! And so liberating to see it so today, as opposed to the illusion I once held, that simply accepted this as one more thing ‘more’ I needed to be, rather than confirming the richness that already lay within.

     5. My list of ridiculousness is pretty long and when I review them they all have one thing in common- they were based on an ideal, a mental construct, a belief designed to negate and over-ride the natural intelligence of my body. It was the only through the ideal that I was able to apply myself and if I could not adhere to it then I was always the problem and rarely would I question the ideal. With an understanding of energy afforded to me by Serge Benhayon this all makes a lot of sense now.

        1. Yes exactly well said Deanne, all these things we pursue are based on an ideal or belief… and it is true that when we don’t manage to achieve what we set out to, we are the problem, not the pursuit nor the promise inherent in the pursuit.

        2. Jenny as you so rightly say ‘and it is true that when we don’t manage to achieve what we set out to, we are the problem, not the pursuit nor the promise inherent in the pursuit’, which in turn leads to the compounding of beliefs in our bodies to do with things like ‘not being good enough’, ‘always failing’, ‘being fat’, ‘being unlovable’, so many harmful beliefs that we lug around like albatrosses around the neck.

        3. Yes Alexis, it’s like the old well known cake adverts… ‘layer upon layer…’ as now we not only have to address the fact we have given ourselves to some false path, but also the way we feel about ourselves for having done so.

351. Evolution is a U-turn , not a ladder – an ever appropriate title. As we return we discover it was our innate selves that we left in the first place, hence retrurning to what we always knew, that we are the Sons of God.

     1. We’re returning to the start not going to the finish.

352. Climbing a ladder is a tricky task that is usually done in isolation and when you reach the top you are on your own. The path of return is definitely not done in isolation and can only be achieved through connection with self and others and you are never alone.

     1. Yes Nicole, it literally turns everything we have believed to be true around, and by doing a u turn we face and meet what we have lived, so we are never alone when we consider that our evolution is in fact a u turn rather than a one way street or climbing a ladder.

        1. We are only ever retracing our steps the more responsibility we have for ourselves and how we are with others the less mess there is left to wade through next time.

     2. Well said Nicole – climbing the ladder creates further separation, hence can never be evolutionary.

     3. Yes, the more we ‘improve’ the further we are away from whom we truly are. Once we make being who we truly are a priority, we can acquire skills and knowledge as needed and it doesn’t lead us away from who we are. Just improving ourselves is an escape from ourselves.

     4. Powerful point nicolesjardin the truth path of return is one where no-one is left behind and we each and all play our part. That is true evolution.

     5. Great point Nicole!

     6. Beautiful nicolesjardin and very true.

     7. Beautifully said Nicole. The consciousness of attainment in hatha yoga as Alexis describes, does not feel to equate to true ‘union’ (the meaning of ‘yoga’) at all. There is an attainment sought for self – evidenced by the competitive nature of many of these practices and the ‘pecking order’ of gurus (again, a bastardised word…).

        1. It applies to so many of consciousness we willing hand our power to, all at the expense of ourselves and brotherhood.

        2. Absolutely Nicole. There are just so many constructs that ask us to buy into a falsity that is in denial of the fact of our true equality.

        3. Victoria I feel it is even more sinister than that. Those constructs exist purely with the intention of distracting us from our true equality as the consciousness that seeks to deceive us knows all too well that once we reconnect to the truth of who we are then the game is over.

        4. Well said Alexis. We are owned by such beliefs, until we choose not to be.

353. Very often. Could nearly say the whole world does.

     1. Agreed Emily and most of those who don’t choose comfort, would if they could.

        1. Comfort looks different for us all. Even the not-so-comfortable life styles have comfort in them.

        2. Stellar point Emily, in fact discomfort can be the comfort! How sneaky is that!

354. I love how you unpacked beliefs Alexis.. It’s wise to know and assess what is coming with your package, and what you are selling into.
     I found it interesting to hear what yoga was like also. Now, I’m assuming the yoga you do is super different – more part of the whole, and connected with God.

     1. Yep Emily the yoga that I teach today bears no resemblance to how I used to teach yoga. One was an ‘away from’ and the other is a ‘back to’.

        1. Gorgeous Alexis. how awesome for everyone that attends too 🙂

355. The state of the world is in rapid decline and far from any evolutionary steps as far as I can witness. Abuse is occurring everywhere, in homes and on the street and in every country, characterised by the amount of domestic violence, road rage, accidents and bashings. Patience and understanding seem to be non-existent. How many more people have to suffer until we recognise that as a global family we have gone too far.

356. “I saw enlightenment as being the moment when you reached the very top of the ladder” its so interesting reading your blog and reflecting on the point about reaching the top of the ladder. Whilst I was not myself thinking about being enlightened I always held the image of a ladder, the image of reaching a point where everything was perfect and I had to do nothing at all. That I now understand was one of the biggest traps in life, it meant I never appreciated the moment and always hid from real commitment to work – after-all if my picture of reaching the top, evolving was doing nothing and being given everything then the path I would walk was actually not back to myself, not a u-turn, but further away from me. I am only just starting to understand the depth of entrapment that holding onto images has.

357. I used to make artwork which often featured ladders, I had a belief that they took us to a higher place. Of course they do, but when up a ladder I found that I was there on my own, seeing all the other people on their ladders hanging on for dear life and none of us able to truly connect with ourselves or each other in any meaningful way.

358. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us.” There are many beliefs that propose that God is separate from us and therefore unreachable, what a horrible illusion, keeping people submissive and tamed at the same time. There is great power and simplicity, and as someone wrote earlier, “settlement”, in knowing that God is and always has been within.

359. Alexis this is a brilliant blog showing us the enormous belief systems we have taken on and the real truth of evolution going back to who we are not a ladder to climb. These beliefs are so embedded in our bodies it takes time to see them for what they really are and the freeing feeling as we do to feel alive and more vital with each one outed. Now this is evolution in connection with our soul.

360. “I am eternally grateful to Serge Benhayon for returning to this knowing and for then lighting the way back for everyone else.” Yes, it is a truly amazing gift that Serge Benhayon has given humanity and the way is getting brighter by the day as more and more us walk in his footsteps.

361. The idea that enlightenment is something to be attained, a point one can finally reach is so far from the truth. If we chose to live simply as we truly are, we would have access to everything we need to know all the time anyway.

362. The yoga you describe Alexis actually feels very competitive, much like sport, or school or so many other things, we make it about competition and comparison which takes us away from appreciating our own qualities as we get caught in trying to be something to gain acceptance. It is great to consider that we don’t need to do this and that we are enough as we are.

363. Beautiful Susan, ‘we have layer upon layer of beliefs .. and underneath all of those layers, there is God.’ so simple, i love it, it shows how all of the searching outside of ourselves will never work.

364. Comfort, the ultimate denial of who we are and what we are here to do.

     1. Comfort. A snugly buggly muffled existence in No Mans Land.

        1. Great description Alexis!

365. Me too Jenny because I was doing intense yoga every day and was physically fit I thought I was great. I looked down on a woman who was living with me at the time because she was obsessed with studying and did no exercise. In hind sight we were a point of reflection for each other. I was obsessed with physical fitness and she was obsessed with studying, both were out of balance.

366. It is quite incredible how much we can be owned by a consciousness and be so unaware of how we are being played…. and yoga is just one of many consciousnesses – culture and religion are two very ingrained ones for example.

367. What a title – says it all really.

368. Love all that is in the title Alexis – Evolution is a U Turn – it is returning to who we truly are and clearing away all the debris we have accumulated that is not true.

369. Thank you Alexis for sharing. What stood out for me was when you described that subscribing to a belief you subscribe to the ‘whole’ belief not just the parts that suit us. So many examples are coming up for me right now of where this has played out for me.

370. Thank you Alexis for another amazing blog! I too can relate to the arrogance that comes from practicing yoga and thinking you are more ‘advanced’ that other people. It makes me shudder to think that that was where I too was not that long ago. Thankfully like you I have been able to see things more clearly and have shed much of this condescending consciousness. Just because we have not practiced yoga does not mean we are free of such arrogance though – this arrogance can come in other subtle ways such as a university education where we believe we are smarter than another. More examples abound, such as those who have high athletic performance, or even those who excel at school. None of these things actually makes us ‘better than’ or ‘more valuable’ as a human being. When you bring it back to a natural disaster such as a hurricane, a fire or a tsunami or flood, then suddenly it becomes about the connection we can have with each other as human beings, and it is not about what you have achieved in life – we are stripped of our identifications and faced with the humbleness of life and the essence and core of our true nature. So the question then becomes, how successful have we been in developing our relationship with our true essence rather than outside achievements? For in the end when we are at deaths door, we take no achievements with us, what comes with us is the depth of nurturing and love and care we have given ourselves first and from there for others.

371. Yes, we often pick and choose the parts that we are ‘comfortable’ with and do not challenge us or agree with our constructed beliefs.ie the ones that don’t call us to a deeper responsibility. There is no controlling truth though as truth simply is.

372. Great blog Alexis, so simple and sincere. Look at the way you now are able to break this down after being buried in a very different place. As you are saying we have no where to go but more simply “U-turn” back to where we already are. For me as a man, this alone took a huge weight of belief from my shoulders.

373. When I read your last line about thanking Serge, I had this image of those big signs on the highway “Stop, you are going in the wrong direction” and then I thought of Serge Benhayon and he is like that sign, standing ever so patiently and lovingly, presenting the truth of the Ageless Wisdom on a metaphoric side of a highway. The majority of the cars are on the highway, hurtling along ignoring the sign. And then every now and then a car breaks down near the sign and goes OK, what are you saying and then they can choose which direction they want to head in, and also some cars stop of their own choice because they realise that the direction they are going in, just leads them in the same direction which does not feel 100% right….even though they have driven that highway for years – something was missing. I am so grateful I pulled over and heard what this ‘sign’ had to say.

374. “Looking back now, I can also see that I mistook the feeling of being very physically fit as a sign of being in genuine good health”. True fitness and good health is when we are fit for life. Being fit for life encompasses fitness in all aspects of our live not just exercise. It encompasses all of our movements in every part of our day ie. fitness in our work, our relationships, to food, to how we pay our bills etc. For good health, we require fitness not in the traditional sense as we know it, but are vital in all aspects of our life.

     1. Donna it would be fantastic to read a whole article on what you have shared.

375. This is a stunning and enjoyable read Alexis, your authority and lightness jump off the page.

376. The ‘ladder’ analogy comes into other fields of life, for example, the ‘Corporate Ladder’ – it is deemed good to be ascending it and for women especially, to break through the ‘Glass Ceiling’. I have spent all my life looking for the perfect job when all the time the only job I needed to do was be me. From that foundation, any work I do can be deemed a ‘success’ if it is inspiring others to evolve.

     1. Well said Carmel it feels very freeing and empowering to know there is no ladder to climb and to enjoy my number 1 job – to just be me.

377. Yuk! Always, almost always? So true…how much easier does it appear to be to choose comfort over evolution? When we numb ourselves we don’t have to feel what is being asked of us.

     1. Yes Elodie, appear being the operative word… for there is absolutely nothing comfortable about being in comfort. If we said ‘comfortably numb’ that might come closer, numb to the misery of not living the fullness of who we are, and hence open to ongoing evolution.

     2. By choosing evolution more and more we can begin to recognise comfort as a tension, not our true way of being.

378. Alexis, that all makes perfect sense. I too have been treating evolution like a ladder, forever chasing the dangling carrot and buying into the beliefs that if I do x,y,z I will be a better person etc. It doesn’t work like that, for when we focus on ticking the boxes, we forget all together to stay connected with ourselves.

379. A really great blog Alexis that shows how harming it is if we’re aligned to something that isn’t true and how that is shown through the physical body. There is a belief that if you practice yoga you are healthy and fit and this is not the case. I used to experience injuries frequently in my shoulder from yoga because the poses would stretch my body to a point where a muscle would be strained and I would need to have a break from it so as to let my body repair.

380. This is very true –”when you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.” We often think however that we can pick and choose the parts we like, this occurs a lot with religious beliefs. A belief is an energetic package and energy does not work in parts. When we understand this we can understand how much responsibility there is in choosing what we choose.

381. I cried when reading these words “It was around this time that a friend introduced me to Serge Benhayon and the teachings of The Ageless Wisdom.”. To me this is a testimony of the True Love we are constantly held in. It’s up to us whether to choose that U-turn or not. The innerfight is only there as long as we fuel it. Right now I’m in the process of accepting that I am the one that chooses every choice. So I am the only one who’s Responsible for the outcome. This sounded always quite obvious to me, but when it comes from a belief (which in my case was (and is) the case), there’s a lot of hardness towards myself around it. To really surrender to my Precious Love and reflect from there on my ‘though’ belief systems is something I am still learning. But boy oh boy am I glad that me too chose The Way of the Livingness. Your blog shows us how damaging our beliefs systems are. Even if they may ‘sound’ loving from the outside, but if they don’t come with the energy of Love they are adding to separativeness, just as every other belief.

382. Absolutely Brendan. It is so much easier to stay in comfort than to make choices that will evolve us.

383. How we ever got from the glorious and joyful expansion that is genuine evolution to the belief that evolution is clambering up a ladder I find flabbergasting. Great to see the apparently innocent and neutral practices of yoga revealed as having this concept built in to their very fabric because most folk see yoga practice as a gentle way to exercise in the west!

384. Yes crazy Susan, when you put it like that it shows exactly what we have done in our desperate bid not to retrace our steps and go back inwards to feel who we really are and our connection to God. Those layers are there because we have sought this outside ourselves… perhaps we could also say that we’ve done this quite knowingly, if not always so consciously.

     1. Yes I agree Susan, although I wouldn’t always have said that. There are many layers of complexity we weave to ensure we are never left with the clarity of the true intentions behind our choices.

     2. Yep let’s all just keep pretending that we didn’t do it.

385. Thanks Alexis, so many great points you’ve made… it’s so true what you say about thinking physical fitness is somehow evolving us, that it’s some sort of pinnacle of success as a human being to achieve this. I didn’t realise that I held something similar to this throughout my younger years, and that I saw those who were unfit and particularly unhealthy (looking) as definitely behind the eight-ball. I too got to realise that these measures were far from anything resembling true evolution.

     1. Its so true Jenny and what becomes more apparent to me is just how much emphasis we place on our physical being as opposed to the quality of our energetic being. We are energy first, matter second so it makes sense that our real evolution lies in the energetic realm. When we focus on evolving the quality of our energy, that then manifests in our physical appearance. Thinking that just because we are fit we have evolved is not true if we neglect our energetic health in the process.

        1. Yes Rowenastewart, all emphasis is placed on the physical being really, in conventional medicine for sure, but also in most of the alternative medicines too. Universal Medicine was the first to introduce the fact of the Soul and the body as a vehicle for it’s expression hence a whole other level of understanding for what constitutes health.

     2. Agree and we are blinded by a so-called fit looking body having reduced ourselves so much to the physicality and the images going with this that we cannot even see if there is true vitality or not and we are shocked when sports people suddenly die of heart failure or suicide. On one hand we hold the body so high in its physical perfection and on the other hand we totally ignore it in its true capacity as the divine vehicle of expression capable of so much more than being in good shape.

        1. Spot on Rachelandras, I was once part of that illusion that the body’s physical fitness and tone was the main sign of vitality and health. It was definitely a conundrum that such people could drop dead of heart attacks or contract leukaemia and such things. I used to write it off as genetics, and hence bad luck really. Understanding that the body is a vehicle for expression by the Soul changed everything though and that thrashing the body to achieve greater physical feats is far from supportive or conducive to true vitality and health.

        2. Rachel most people still equate physical fitness with a healthy heart, not realising that the health of our heart is affected more by our ability to love and be loved than our ability to run a marathon.

        3. Yes rachelandras you are spot on, there is a real dichotomy in the way we revere the body and it’s performance ability, without regard for the level of abuse we put it through to achieve whatever feats we deem appropriate. Of course in this there is zero regard for the body as a vehicle for expression of something divine we can say comes from within us… and it is only through this relationship that anything resembling self-love is fostered.

     3. I was in my younger years very, very convinced that active, competitive sporting was actually good for me. I was proud on having a lot of muscles in my legs and that I was able to do 1/4 of a triathlon. I looked very fit, yet on the inside was constantly exhausted. A lot of drive to not having to be with my sensitivity. ‘To toughen up’ as nearly every boy did around me. We’re so lost if we aspire to the beliefs and ideals all around us. Much more lost than we are willing to admit, yet. I’m so glad for having been shown the Truth and can indeed say that evolution has everything to do with how loving we are with ourselves and the body that is carrying us. Without any perfectionism or goal to reach, just lovingly express more of who we are.

        1. Yes I can completely relate Floris, I spent many years exercising to have a body I thought was very healthy, more so because I wanted it to look a particular way, but still well and truly sold on that being super healthy. Like you I was pretty tired most of the time, and was plagued by all sorts of minor ailments as well throughout those years. By my standard of healthy and vital today, I was not even close to that.

        2. Isn’t that incredible Jenny, if we look back to those days and really were convinced that we were doing the ‘right’ thing!! The only right thing… and on top of that being very judgemental on others. That there wasn’t any clarity within ourselves or in others (also in the medical world) that couldn’t tell us any better. If I really ponder on it, it is showing us how dense the energy can be we are (were) held in. And if this is the case for back then, how would we look back in 10 or even 5 years time on the year 2016, writing this comment. To me this is a testimony to the fact that everything’s energy! And that only True Love can shift that. You can’t shift to a different consciousness with the same energy. That’s why so many people are stuck and find it really hard to change. Because the change comes from doing, rather than from being. WOW!

        3. I was the absolute opposite, I hated sport and didn’t do any of it. I was always slim and in good shape and believed I didn’t needed to do any exercise. I wasn’t even able to walk for a longer distance or climb the stairs without being totally out of breath. This was totally neglecting my body and I measured myself by my outer shape and not by my actual vitality. To be fit for life is so much more, than being in good shape, it is expressing and living vitality and joy every second of the day and being able to be absolutely committed to life and what needs to be done without getting exhausted.

        4. Yes Rachel, and what I’ve found that life’s actually feeding me back energy! It is so lovely to be so inter-connected with life that we’re actually feeding each other! The ultimate form of equalness, union and togetherness with life. The only thing that is required is surrendering to life and make sure that we have a body that is able to do so. This includes a way of maintaining the body physically, but in a very gentle and loving way. Not to gain energy, but to be able to let loving energy move through our body..

     4. Alex that’s a cracker of line ‘The moment we recognise ourselves to be of divine origin and the body being a vehicle of expression everything changes from doing and achieving to being and expressing’.

        1. Yes well said Alexis, it is interesting then to consider how much of our lives we spend NOT recognising ourselves as divine in origin, and hence no focus on the quality of being we are expressing. The closest most of us got, before being introduced to Universal Medicine in some way, was to do our best to be a ‘good’ person. In truth this isn’t actually close to the divinity we come from and are capable of expressing…

        2. Jenny you are right when you say ‘The closest most of us got, before being introduced to Universal Medicine in some way, was to do our best to be a ‘good’ person’, which, in itself, highlights what an absolute fiasco we’ve made of life. It’s the grimmest pantomime on Earth.

        3. Ha yes… a Grimm Fairytale if ever there was one!

386. ‘Looking back now, I can also see that I mistook the feeling of being very physically fit as a sign of being in genuine good health.’ Another illusion that looks and drive to be fit bring quality of life and connection with our essence – our true life connection to our purpose. There is no true connection when our mind drives our body. When our body leads we are communicating with the truth and can feel what true wellbeing is – our essence is naturally present.

     1. Interesting that we confuse connection with the body and its innate wisdom with sports, fitness, shapes and looks. So many people practice sports, yoga etc in the belief they would connect to and feel their bodies, and in some sense they do, but it falls very short of what an intimate relationship with our bodies truly delivers.

        1. Yes Alex, it is our disconnection that seeks the outer stimulation and an escape to what is being missed inside. And or , once connection is looked for from the outside, we set ourselves up to not find love, only temporally fix or relieve. As true connection can only be made from within.

        2. Alex you open up a huge area here when you say about there being ‘nowhere else to go’ if we are not connected to our Divinity. We are shut inside the defined parameters of what we have accepted about being human. We are subject to the many closed systems that govern us socially, historically, medically etc and it is becoming putrid in here. Acceptance of our Divinity, connection with the truth of our oneness with it, is certainly the game changer!

        3. True Alex, it leads us far away from the real connection to our body, that our body responds to.

        4. Great point Alex and I too would have argued till the cows came home that I was able to feel my body through exercise and yet I was actually ensuring that I never felt my body by exercising. That particular consciousness is a slippery bugger indeed!

     2. Yes as it is an image we have created of being fit an image that is measuring the human body and not the divine being. Divinity has no images. Fitness is a quality lived in our movements.

        1. I love this “Fitness is a quality lived in our movements.” The images of fitness hold us back from the true vitality felt from our quality of movements. Exercise with connection to our bodies is divine and is felt by our whole being.

        2. The consciousness of the fitness industry thus holds us reduced to the idea of just being biological beings called humans. No wonder we are left to improve as much as possible as there is nowhere else to go, a very linear and logical approach as long as you stay inside its defined limitations. The moment we recognise ourselves to be of divine origin and the body being a vehicle of expression everything changes from doing and achieving to being and expressing.

        3. Rachel that’s a cracker of a line ‘Fitness is a quality lived in our movements’ and I’d love to see what the front page of this ‘Fitness magazine’ would look like.

387. ‘It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us.’ I’m at ‘home base’ Alexis knowing that I dull my awareness of God and that God’s love IS who I am so how can I sensibly believe I could be separate? How this perception could ever occur is the deception I have subscribed to and it absolutely makes NO sense.

     1. The deception is very deep as you say bernadetteglass, everything we ever learned and prescribed to has to be turned on its head and re examined.. that we believe we are separate from God being the deepest ocean of deception.

        1. And only when we stop and question the futility of the way we are living and the individuality we are addicted to rosannabianchini, will the deceit be felt in full and we can then begin to understand that the depth of beauty and love that we crave has been right here all the time!

388. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” That feels so beautiful, Alexis, and how very true. I know that I really knew this when I was very young, but as I grew up, surrounded by all the ideals and beliefs of the family, and of society, I let that knowing go for many years. I am so thankful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine to be able to again connect to knowing God. I now know myself as a Son of God, and learning to connect more and more deeply to God, and through that to all of humanity.

389. I have heard from a couple of dedicated yoga teachers now how yoga brought them anything but true vitality and a healthy body. Considering that yoga is THE modality today that people turn to when searching for a healthier lifestyle it would be quite interesting to make a broad research about the true impact of yoga on the body and compare the evidence with the expected believes about it.

390. True Gabrielle – when we feel an inner emptiness the collective impulse is to look for something outside of us, not because the impulse feels true to us but because this is the reflection that we get from the world around us, that the ‘solution’ is to be found on the outside, that the hole we feel in ourselves can be filled – it being spiritual new age stuff, having a new baby, or climb a mountain, basically anything but re-connecting with who we already innately are.

391. When you look at it the whole ladder thing with people above others, it is such a lot of nonsense when all the true world teachers have presented that in our essence we are all equal, a fact that Serge Benhayon constantly reminds us of and that it is our choices that make us different and keep us separate.

     1. Assuming that we all have had the opportunity to at least once hear the message ‘that in our essence we are all equal’, some part of us must have received it as it resonates deeply with our inner knowing, but some other part seems to not truly listen or is hindered letting it in. I know from myself and also from others that there is quite a sticky fog that keeps me from simply accepting this truth hence I cannot be reminded often enough to finally bit by bit get rid of this fog so that the underlying truth more and more comes to the surface, a truth that once was buried and I dare to say by choice.

     2. yes, if we are all equal in essence then it makes sense that it is then all about the choices we make to how our life is going to be – simple.

        1. Kate reading your comment ‘we are all equal in essence’ really highlighted how ludicrous ladders are. Not only are we all equal in essence but in truth we are actually all the same ‘person’ or the ‘same collection of particles’, so if we are indeed all One, then who is it that’s going up the ladder and ‘who’ exactly are they leaving behind?

     3. Nonsense indeed. Non-sense. Which perfectly (as words always do) describes how we have to dull our senses to buy into this grand illusion. It is only through having non-sense, that we accept this nonsense.

392. “When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.” This is like not reading the small print in a contract.

393. With the worlds levels of exhaustion the way they are, is it time to stop and consider the possibility that this ladder climbing – the constant need to get higher, better and fast than other people is exhausting us and setting us up with a society where it is every man for himself.

     1. yes and the great irony is we actually never get anywhere, and we separate further from each other.

     2. The ladder and the bettering ourselves is feeding individuality and individuality does not let us live our true grandness as the divine beings we are.

        1. The only thing at the top of any ladder is illusion.

        2. So well said Alexis….there is only illusion that we can achieve by climbing the ladder and bettering ourselves.

394. This is an amazing blog simply presenting the truth that we all know God in connection inside us and he is our very essence. As we have denied this we but know it deep down we have taken on layers of beliefs and untruths to mask this over us with various beliefs that we choose to live by. True evolution is coming back to ourselves and not going somewhere out there lineal and unattainable, how simple freeing and beautiful this is.

395. I love the title of this blog… it says everything! “Evolution is a U-Turn, Not a Ladder” I have also looked at evolution as getting to the top of the ladder, but in the understanding that we have to turn round and go re-around brings awareness of cycles and the whole truth about the movement of evolution.

     1. Yes agree Rachel it does. The fact we do go around in cycles, as does all of nature we are ever offered an opportunity to continually expand. The quality of our movements is key as they also effect the movement of evolution ..the cycles within the cycles that all lead us back to the truth of ourselves.

     2. Exactly Rachel, taking the ladders and lines out of the equation we are bought back to the simple truth of our cyclical nature – we are here to evolve.

        1. A simple revelation for mankind: Have we ever seen a spider make a web on one line, flat? This, answers the question of why we are not living on linear level , but in cycles.. Just like the spider shows us. Nature, gots his hands in the gold, there were we at times do not realize. They are before us, until we come back to our innate essence of true power. But first our cycle back to our truth. It starts with simple things like this: a spiderweb.

396. For a time I attended yoga practice regularly, I looked to those ‘up the ladder’ as being better and got drawn into this concept of a guru. On the surface the yoga centre I visited seemed a harmonious and joyful place and I was caught up in this idea of wanting to do the next course and the next course. It was not until I got a little more involved and visited their ashram in India that I saw the disharmony and the truth of what was being lived. There was little joy in the organisation, more politics and conflict, the staff looked dispondent, pale and drained and the atmosphere felt heavy. It felt like a huge facade that was being presented whilst hiding the cracks beneath.

397. Alexis, I was caught on the same ladder as you, I would go to yoga classes regularly with the belief that I was climbing the ladder and even though deep down I knew what I was doing was not good for me I override this feeling for the sense of relief I would get at the end of each class.

     1. I never had the feeling of climbing a ladder having to better myself, but I lived in the belief of lineal evolution through the ages as I had a sense of “developing” from year to year and feeling so much more able to handle life with getting older. So there was a reliance on life experience and being able to handle life through experience which is basically the same consciousness as the ladder as it holds us captive in the belief that human life is about evolving as human beings and making ourselves into a better one.

        1. ‘So there was a reliance on life experience and being able to handle life through experience which is basically the same consciousness as the ladder as it holds us captive in the belief that human life is about evolving as human beings and making ourselves into a better one’, Wow Rachel that would be an invaluable subject for an article, as that consciousness is such a slippery one and has so many people (especially women) hooked in.

398. ‘We are born already knowing God unencumbered’, I strongly remember the connection I had with God as a child, it was there and it was beautiful. Over the years what I was told and what I felt did not marry up, the story of needing to go to a place of worship to be worthy of God’s love did not make sense and so I went in search of the truth in all sorts of strange places. When I heard Serge Benhayon talk about religion, I felt at last here is someone who knows what I know, that God cannot be pigeon wholed to different religions or buildings and that we can all choose to connect to God any time we choose.

399. I love your description of packages of ideals and beliefs being ‘bundles’ that come with their own characteristics and behaviours. This is so true. If we drop the belief the behaviour can go with it, and we are left free to move and behave in a way that is not dominated by the belief.

400. It is funny how much we can override the obvious when we are holing on to a belief, for me that was in the extreme level of physical fitness I attained, that came not with great wellbeing, but at the expense of my body and my ability to function. To be in peak physical fitness I compromised my ability to relate to others, I didn’t enjoy vitality as exhaustion was there in its place and so was disconnected from my body and by dint of that with everyone I came across. And yet all along I knew as you did Alexis that this wasn’t it, this was not what life is about, and that connecting with people brings a different kind of wellness and fitness, almost like a relationship fitness, where how well we interact with others is a great measure of how we are truly evolving.

401. Alexia, from reading your blog I can see that I still hold onto a sense of one day ‘getting there’ essentially achieving enlightenment and haven’t completely embraced the fact of ‘the U turn’ and that we are all already it, we just need to make the choice to return to that.

     1. Very well said Kate, I can feel how it is a very ingrained consciousness that sneaks in again and again and lets us jump constantly on the doing train. We have to do to get there. It is so beautiful to actually feel that evolution is a surrendering and that surrendering is a quality that impulses all the tasks that need to be done without being in the drive of the doing. The unfoldment is amazing and very humbling. We are so big and our grandness is endless.

        1. Rachel I totally agree that this consciousness slips in everywhere. When we do eventually end up on our own doorstep, we will find that we are already sitting on it!

     2. I agree Kate, this is the key to our return to who we are. As Alexis so beautifully writes in her blog: “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” It really is simply a matter of choice.

402. We spend a lifetime or times trying to become more than we already are because of the illusion that we have perceived as the truth, is the grass always greener on the other side of the fence? It’s time to stop sitting on the fence, remove it and see there are no boundaries.

403. Each of us hop on a bus of illusion not only feeling that ‘it is it’ but also that it’s better compared to other ones. There are many buses to choose from. They go to different places yet they have one thing in common; they allow each of us to ride in a direction where God will not be recognised or felt as we adapt to it, start making friends with other bus riders and start making it ours.

     1. The funny thing is that we think we are going somewhere on the bus. When really, we’re going around in circles – as many times as we care to ride.

404. The metaphor of the U-Turn is quite apt since in life we learn to walk frantically to nowhere thinking that we are going somewhere thanks to the package of beliefs that own us. This is our life until you realise this fact and change gears and direction. As you start walking back to God, you realise the packages you were carrying and how much they were in the steering wheel. Thus, you discover that who you thought was you, wasn’t.

405. The climbing up a ladder is always fraught with being separate to others… bettering self and being different and more superior. There were so many spiritual endeavours I tried that were about enlightenment, looking back on them now, it was like living in a make believe story that the people in it were somehow from a different existence than everyone else. I noticed for myself and with others that there was very little commitment and responsibilities to life. I agree Alexis, beliefs can create like a thick blanket over our very real and known truth of who we are.

     1. ‘The climbing up a ladder is always fraught with being separate to others’ I agree Aimee, and my experience has been that when we work together in harmony, everything flows beautifully and everybody ‘wins’.

     2. Aimee I love what you have shared about spiritual new age practices: ‘it was like living in a make believe story that the people in it were somehow from a different existence than everyone else’. It supported me to really feel how Serge Benhayon and the people that I have met through Universal Medicine feel the most real people in the world.

        1. Real, honest and committed and very much on the pulse of life and what is truly going on.

406. The fact that we identify evolution as moving up the ladder is a reflection that we know that evolution is related to movement in many ways. Yet, as we do not know quite get how it’s related we buy into ways of moving that are not true and do not help us to evolve.

     1. That is it Eduardo, we go along like sheep or cattle being herded by the societal ‘rule book’ for us only to realise that is not true evolution. Lets open our eyes and feel what is true before we go into a default mode of ‘everyone is doing it’ mode and follow suit. Our Evolution is in our Every Choice.

     2. It is a linear way of thinking to think we go up a ladder, this same counts for thinking that our week days are like a line up, and then when Monday follows (or somedays it is Sunday) we will begin a new week, and so the next line.. I once also believed that that was it, but I recently start to feel that this linear thought is simple an emotion, an illusion (creation by mind) , that is not real, to cover up – like you said Eduardo, the fact that we move and that we have many movements. This particular in cycles. So pretending we livin on a flat line, is denying who we are , and what we are capable of.

407. ‘Moving up the ladder’ has nothing to do with evolution but with the notion of progress; a notion that is pretty evil.

     1. Mmmmm … so well said Eduardo. Modern life is underpinned with this notion of progress. It says never stop, what you have is never enough, keep going, keep pushing and never think you have all that you will ever need right here, right now — within you. Progress is the never-ending pursuit of the outer to compensate for the missing inner life we walked away from in the first place. Skyscrapers replacing the magnitude of love and beauty we are all innately from — and are.

     2. ‘Progress’ with returning to the love that we are is great. ‘Progress’ with something that is not us will just deepen the ‘not us’.

     3. Ooh Eduardo you’ve got me wondering if all ‘progress’ as it’s generally understood, is in fact de-volution as it is always an ‘away from’?

408. Even our preferred practices that separate us from walking towards God in this life can be traced back to a Divine realisation we had somewhere, sometime.

     1. Yes… the illusion we have created is an attempt to replicate the divinity we actually seek to reconnect to.

        1. However, it is not a replicate, but a bastardisation.
           Original is always best I say; and in this case the true origins and meaning of yoga are so far removed from the modern day version we are sold… an alluring fake that actually looks and feels nothing like the real deal.

        2. Katerina what we have created is an atrocity. If we think that this bears any resemblance to where we’ve come from then we’re way more lost than most think.

409. I love the fact that it is never possible to be separate from God, the only possibility is that we feel separate because we have turned away and are under an illusion that God is separate to us. In one tiny moment this illusion can fall away and the truth is known.

     1. Hello Amanda and I loved this part from Alexis as well, “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” This is huge and yet so simply and beautifully written by Alexis, I loved the whole thing.

     2. Yes, it can be that simple Amanda… a choice made in one tiny moment is all it takes.

410. This is such an easy to read, smooth, funnily written blog and so revealing and challenging in a way that it assists me, not confronts me. When I went to the gym after reading this it was like gliding down a water slide, for the first time I chose the pace that my body felt to do cardio-training and I didn’t force to follow the rhythm that was recommended. It was just slightly slower that day, but – boy – what a difference it was.

411. Whether we call it enlightenment or not, I feel many of us think life is about getting somewhere, even just on a temporal level. It feels like to me that there is something within us that feels unsettled, that knows something is not quite right about the way we are, or even us being here in the first place.

     1. Yes true, and the unsettled feeling and need to search for anything shows we must know we are, and there is so much more to us.

     2. Fumiyo you are spot on and I would venture to say that the ‘unsettled’ feeling that we all live with comes from the fact that we all know that we are not living in a way that even resembles our true way of living and being.

412. A great point what you say about yoga being hierarchical according to how ‘advanced’ you are in executing challenging postures, showing their dedication and commitment – but to what, I did not question before.

413. Out of our inner emptiness we can easily buy the whole yoga package or any other package for that matter – images, aspirations, ideals and enlightenment. Only thing is that it doesn’t work like, as you have so clearly laid out. Thank you for your honesty.

     1. True Gabriele we can buy and be sold any of the myriad of ideas, beliefs and solutions offering salvation, none of which have anything to do with the Glory of us in our Essence.

        1. What could you possibly sell God?

414. ‘In our essence, we know God”- yes, deep within our inner heart we all know God and from our innermost we can connect to pure wisdom, joy, love and stillness.

415. So many of us have fallen for that illusion that we are going somewhere when all we are doing is returning to where we came from. When we understand this there is a settlement in our body.

     1. Yes Elizabeth and I still do, your comment is a beautiful reminder that we are not going anywhere, we are simply returning with no need to be anything other than ourselves.

     2. It is a completely different way to approach life from the perspective that there is actually nothing wrong with us.

        1. Yes agreed Abby, this approach is polar opposite to everything I came across in my forays into the spiritual new age. I spent all those years… probably 10 at least, feeling ‘not enough’ and quite desperately (at times) in need of fixing. Quite a contrast to a starting point that there is ‘actually nothing wrong with us’.

        2. So true Abby, as we are already everything

        3. Absolutely empowering and interestingly not our everyday normal. Everything we grow up with is around not being enough and needing to achieve something, the perfect set up to identify with being human and having to struggle. Descending from the grandness we all are has been the cause of needing evolution, so having to go back does not make us more evolved, just the ones who are returning.

     3. The U-turn analogy for evolution is so apt Elizabeth. It brings settlement in my body when I surrender to this truth! I know that I am returning not trying and becoming exhausted, climbing a ladder!

        1. Agreed Bernadette, by the truth that all we are here to be is who we truly are, immediately the notion of ladders used to get there become non sensical.

        2. Like the game ‘Snakes and Ladders’, we will inevitably fall from the height we have climbed to. There is no fall Giselle when we are being pulled forward in the direction of truth. Our bodies naturally respond.

        3. Giselle the truth that you so beautifully share ‘all we are here to be is who we truly are’, highlights the blindingly obvious fact that ladders can only ever lead us away from ourselves if we are already where we’re meant to be. It’s like leaving your house to go home!

     4. Very true, we have the mindset that we need to become someone, that we need to be filled with information, knowledge and experience, all the while all we need to do is connect back to ourselves and let our truth unfold and all is given to us.

     5. And yet, it can feel difficult to accept. So many images are thrown our way to help us buy in to the illusion, and we say yes to those because they lull us into a false sense of security.

     6. That is true Elizabeth, a settlement within describes it well and is a quality that replaces the unease of looking for anything outside of ourselves.

     7. Well said Elizabeth the settlement does not come from the reaching, doing and climbing the illusionary ladder, but from the surrendering to the fact that we are divine and that is where w are returning to. Taking the identification with being human out of the equation lets us live truthfully as human beings.

416. I really get Alexis how our beliefs configure our bodies and give us the thoughts and feelings and drive to invest in what we are choosing and believe that it is working and is good for us. It was not until clearly feeling the quality of stillness inside through Esoteric Yoga that I began to understand as you say, just how much those beliefs and ideals own us and how much harm this can cause in our bodies.

     1. Me too Simon, it is through a deeper connection with my body that I have felt how the energy of beliefs and ideals affect it. It is like an unnecessary dense load we carry that effect the amount of light that can naturally shine through our vehicles of expression. Esoteric Yoga has offered a very real and practical way to feel this in the body and also understand how in presence and connection to the quality of stillness we are able to release these impositions.

417. “When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.” And the irony is that there is a belief that we can pick and choose what parts of a package we want or will have, without energetically feeling that it comes as a whole, and the only choice is all or nothing.

418. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us.” Beautiful words to read first thing in the morning… an inspiration to take into our day – thank you Alexis.

     1. Yes Paula, those words are profound. God, the warmth of our divine connection is always there within us, it is us who choose to disconnect and create fabrications and untruths which we then go about thinking are real. We are a rather crazy species….

        1. It really exposes how simple life is truly and the unnecessary complexity we choose to avoid being and living the true fullness of our being. It calls us to a deeper responsibility.

        2. It does Victoria, I’ve bene pondering on that an amorous amount the last few days — and hours in fact! We have an enormous responsibility, having re-connected to a true way of life, we are custodians of this precious knowing that is in fact for all… and we have such a responsibility to bring it. I’ve realised how much I’ve been avoiding accepting this, what this truly means, and how then I’ll play small and sneaky here and there, to avoid the magnitude of this. But it’s sinking in now in a way it hasn’t before.

        3. Katerina that oh so familiar ‘small and sneaky’ way of behaving that cuts our light is one that is unfortunately our default setting, because if it were not, then we would all be glorious right now. I have noticed that I eat things to reduce my magnificence. I have noticed recently that when I have a real urgency to eat then it tends to be when I am particularly on fire! Crazy isn’t it?

419. Yes Alexis, there are many misconceptions in the world to make us believe we are going somewhere when all the while we are just falling deeper into the illusion. We become so numb to the fact that our personal belief becomes ‘it’ and the only way out of it is a huge stop to bring us back.

     1. Isn’t it incredible that these huge stops actually occur? How held in love are we, that we are given countless, endless, opportunities to realise the fact of the illusion. This to me shows how manipulative and actually very powerless the illusion is. And how strong and powerful we all actually are.

     2. Absolutely Matthew, and not only is it our personal beliefs but a collective belief, as the entire humanity is falling deeper and deeper into illusion. We are so blind we only see what we want to see. What level of disaster will it take to truly make us stop? Trump for president? Or an earthquake so huge that the world will never be the same again?

420. There was a time that I believed that enlightenment was my ticket out of this crazy world we live in. It was my escape route. We all recognise that our world does not reflect the truth of who we are and so it is understandable we may want out, but where does this leave us? Is it not our collective responsibility to re-connect and be and live that love we are here and now, as this is the only way we truly evolve. We are part of a bigger plan and it involves all of us to commit to playing our part within it.

     1. True Victoria, however common sense is so often not a part of the solutions we seek. Our irresponsibility blinds us to this fact.

     2. Yes Victoria, shutting the door and escaping, be it in our minds, at a mountain top monastery or in a yoga pose will never bring us more than temporary relief. The world will change when more and more of us reflect back to our fellow human beings that the love we are all desperately seeking often in the wrong places is within us, and when we connect to this and embody this truth, it shines through our body. Then it’s flattop everyone for they can see through a living example that life can be lived simply and beautifully…

421. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing” – STELLAR. It exposes how all beliefs are anti-evolution and in this stunt the true growth and advancing of humanity. What an indictment beliefs are.

     1. What an incredible line and statement. It shows that when we hold a belief it gets in the way of our evolution and the evolution of all others. Yet there does not need to be a hard fight for when the false belief is removed we instantly know the truth – a truth that has and is always there.

     2. Yes Zofia exactly… the implications are far and wide for choosing to live by beliefs and not from our inner knowing. It does beg the question why we would choose these beliefs, since somewhere in us we always know they are false.

     3. Not only false but all beliefs. Even the belief in God.

     4. This is so, so amazing. We are always in God’s love, we just cloud our awareness of this.

        1. Yep Karin and we have to ‘cloud our awareness of this’ 24/7 because if we dropped the belief that we are not already the consciousness of God, even for a nano second then the game would be up, so we’re all putting a lot of effort into not knowing! It’s no wonder we’re all so busy!

422. “through our true connection with ourselves first, we know also our connection to God” – this is true yoga or union. Completely beautiful statement of truth Alexis that i learn to be true through the practice of Esoteric Yoga, or stillness.

     1. Absolutely Zofia, through Esoteric Yoga and re-connecting to the quality of stillness within I have also come to know true yoga union.

     2. Me too Zofia. Such a powerful heavenly modality that is so simple. As a fanatic ex-‘yogee’ who would get high on fancy postures and headstands I remember feeling a big void underneath the momentary rah-rah glimpse of ‘I’ve made it up one more step of that ladder’ when I’d manage to get my body into yet another contorted position. Yoga has been bastardised to bring us what we are not; to think we are reaching enlightenment and evolution when in truth it is actually disconnecting us from our core and our essence. Our bodies become hardened and the trophy tool blocking our connection to truth and divinity and the fact that we are equal. True yoga returns our bodies back to being the tender vessels they are designed to be that lets God’s love run through and express.

423. Thank you Alexis, what a super insight into Yoga and some of the belief systems of yogis which I hadn’t been aware of. Yes, aside from yoga there are many beliefs in other similar practices and life itself that entangle to make it the case that such beliefs become not just reality for us, but our (perceived) truth, and yet your post exposes the untruth of such ‘truth’, because, and as you say what lies underneath any belief is always a true truth.

     1. I agree Zofia, I found this a great insight into yoga and it all makes sense. I once lived in a town where there was a big yoga following, there were definitely the ranks that you speak of and those who were more revered as the yoga teachers or dedicated students had an air of arrogance to them. They walked around the town separate to everyone and it was like they were looking down on others- in these actions there was an absence of love and not an open heart.

424. Brilliant blog Alexis, you so beautifully expose the consciousness of yoga as an evolutionary path. I too was caught with this one hook line and sinker. I spent many years striving and being willing to put my body through hours of strain with the belief I was getting somewhere… more evolved. I also was aiming for enlightenment at some future moment. How fortunate to have seen through this veil of illusion.
     We have it quite back to front, there is nowhere we need to go or more to be, rather become aware of all we have taken on in way of ideals and beliefs that gets in the way of seeing and knowing we are everything within already. What a game (spirits playgound) that keeps us searching so we don’t come to rest in the knowing we are one with God. Evolution is a ‘U-turn’ a reuniting with the truth and a co-creative way of living that involves us all.

425. I’ve lived my whole adult life and before as if I have to plan to make everything happen. Work hard to get good grades, work hard to make money, be the best girlfriend to get the best boyfriend etc. I was driven but I was driving myself into the ground. I see this still in my day and it’s unloving for everyone around me. I’m not reflecting love or understanding when in this energy.

     So how about I come back to me, make that U-turn, knowing I have things to do in my day but coming from me outwards where everything is all there waiting to unfound. Though this level of surrender and trust is unnerving (I can’t be like this at work what if I miss something I shouldn’t and mess up?) I can feel how destructive and unhealthy my need for things to be a certain way is. Essentially I’m fighting against God and the Universe and I am loved no matter what. How graceful, how powerful and how beautiful to allow myself to be held by God.

     1. Karin it feels like your hands are turning the wheel in order to make the U-turn.

426. Turning round and waking back over the paths we have walked, the choices we have made, seems the complete antithesis of evolution. But when I did my U-Turn I found a connection to God that I clearly saw I had walked away from in reaction to the reflection of a supposed connection to God I had found false in the many religions I had come across in my younger years. It was my voice to react and walk away but I forgot to turn around and instead climbed ladders, walls, mountains, anything to find that connection again. Looking within and not climbing or going anywhere has been the most wondrous point of evolution. I am in deep appreciation of all the reflections I now see in the eyes of so many who show me God is within.

     1. Beautiful Lucy, I couldn’t agree more. There are many beautiful reflections of our Godliness in the eyes of others.

427. Living life as if it were a linear progression creates such emptiness and loss. Constantly looking outside of ourselves for success or salvation or whatever it is we believe will fulfil us. Even in my 20s I was feeling a sense of what could have been!

     1. Revolving our life around climbing a ladder is nothing but a lonely track that has no end. Sure there may be people above or below you, but naught is the space for anyone walking together side by side.

        1. Giselle I love what you have shared ‘Sure there may be people above or below you, but naught is the space for anyone walking together side by side’ and to add that whenever we feel like we are on a ladder, there is an unspoken understanding that the intention is to get past those ‘above’ us, and to stay ‘above’ those that are below us!

428. Thank you Alexis, I have learnt a great deal from your blog. I did a little yoga through my life and I was always encouraged by people to do it to relax and stretch out my body, but I never really found the classes relaxing. The striving for poses and the philosophy chat each of the instructors gave just didn’t sit right so I never succeeded in being very good or very dedicated. I thought I had failed. I can see there was more that I was feeling that I just didn’t understand at the time.

429. Alexis this blog is awesome. What beliefs do I have that I want to hold onto in the belief that I can pick and choose the bits that suit me and pretend the unsavoury parts don’t come with it? As I contemplate this I can feel the tension between my knowing and my dishonesty, a dishonesty that keeps me from my connection with me and God.

     1. Yes Karin, it was a big wake up to me to understand that I can’t pick and choose the bits I like and expect to be unaffected by the bits I don’t… l’m particularly thinking of organised religions and some of my forays into aspects of Buddhism. Those forays yielded nothing I can look back on and say contributed to my evolution, only that I was deeper in the illusion that I was getting somewhere. It didn’t take much to wake up to the fact I wasn’t, and didn’t…

430. What a great blog, sharing this with such clarity and exposing what we allow to get in the way from our divine creation. It makes no sense what so ever to continue in a way that is keeping that separation from God. That there is no need for a church or a priest to guide you back – that we All have it within us and we only need to connect to it. Starting to open our eyes and be honest is the only way. Serge is a guiding light in how simple it really is and is consistently living this. 12 years I have had the pleasure of observing Serge and not once has he not been reflecting the Love that we Are and openly sharing how it can be.

431. Thank you Alexis and this sentence is a complete show stopper for me “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” How awesomely simple this is and how incredible it is to have such a beautiful role model as Serge Benhayon, holding the door open to God within and sharing The Way to re-connect unreservedly. Its true, evolution is not about climbing up anything, its about returning to who we truly are. The more we can let go of all our pre-determined ideas of what that looks like, the simpler it becomes to re-connect to the warmth of our essence and the love of God within, always there since the year dot just waiting quietly for us to return home.

432. Thank you for sharing this Alexis. Realising that evolution is actually returning to that which we are rather than going somewhere we have not already been is completely opposite to that which we are generally sold or led to believe in. This lineal evolution path keeps us searching outside of ourselves and distracted from the knowing that we are actually whole and complete; that everything we are searching for resides within.

433. This comment says it all simply and beautifully – ‘It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing’ – a reflection of the choices we make in life. It is ‘us’ that chose to separate, it is ‘us’ that ‘think’ our way to being better, it is ‘us’ that have chosen much less that what we all began with and the amazing love we all innately are. Thanks Alexis.

434. Wow, thank you for sharing this Alexis. It’s amazing how much we can override the signals we get from our body when we’re set in a certain belief about something.

435. Knowing and living the fact that we already know God because we are made of God’s particles and to claim and therefore live by this has made a significant difference to the way I live and communicate with all others as everything we are, we see or can touch has been made by the hand of God.

     1. Beautiful Susan, I can say something very similar… to understand God as I now do has made Him so much more accessible, tangible and real. I can now see l’ve had quite a relationship for many years and that it’s one of my strengths. Quite an about-turn after my first 40 years or so considering myself atheist by default. There was nothing tangible offered in anything I did prior to attending Universal Medicine events.

     2. Susan that’s such an incredible fact that you have shared ‘ we are made of God’s particles’.

436. Spiritual pursuits were something I invested in yet I was never really big on yoga. Although, spending time in India I did a few token yoga classes to get the full Indian experience and found that I returned to Australia with a sense of total arrogance about doing it! I pretty much considered myself a yogi even though I didn’t enjoy or get much out of the practice. Interesting, and it proves the point of not being able to select parts of belief systems, when we invest in ideals we get the whole package.

     1. I can very much relate to what you have shared here Rachael. I did not invest in any spiritual pursuits but I picked the so called cherries of normal life and believed that I could moderately drink alcohol, take drugs and party, when at the same time I was a dedicated worker, eating well and taking care of my body. But I was as much in the illusion and arrogance of controlling life as anybody else. We are not here to live our “personal project” or development we are here to serve as the part of the whole we are and we can only serve when we let go of the belief that we are individuals and that life is about picking an identity. We are equal Son’s of God and we don’t need a human identity, we just have to live the light we are in our human body on our way of return.

        1. Rachel your comment exposes what I have lived, a pursuit of personal development in which I did not consider others but believed that if I achieved personal perfection I would no longer be affected by the afflictions of others. It is not that I absorb the distress of others but that I understand we are all in this together, each with a part to play but never separate from the whole.

437. We can run the body with an energy that is not true to it for only so long until that fuel source begins to deaden the vitality that would otherwise be there with the correct and true fuel. Like filling a diesel with petrol! We can drive it until white smoke starts to bellow from the exhaust and only then do we know that the vehicle has been fuelled incorrectly, our bodies are the same.

     1. “The vehicle has been fuelled incorrectly…” = the vehicle has been fooled intentionally.

     2. I love this simple yet true analogy Rachael.

     3. Very well said Rachael. We know what the right fuel is for our bodies, yet we still pour in the opposite and wait for the white smoke to appear out of the exhaust or for the car to break down to stop and see the damage that is done by our choices. Many people live life on short trips of the wrong fuel – always having to fill up as the fuel isn’t efficient or allowing them to travel very far resulting in exhaustion. I wonder what it would look like to live consistently on the true fuel – I think we’d all find it much more effective and long lasting!

     4. Great analogy Rachael. And amazing to hear how Alexis’ body literally packed up. Most would consider her to be a bastion of health and well-being; yet here she is unable to even walk to the shops – messages don’t get much stronger than that! The truth is that we are all getting messages from our body every second of every day – invitations to live, breath and move in a different way. Yet how many of us listen? Why do we need it to get as bad as it did for Alexis before we stop and do a U turn? We are so deeply invested in the game and our bubbles that it is more comfortable to ignore the body than make the changes – until such time that the body is forced to deliver so much dis-comfort to us (in the form of illness, disease or physical malfunction) that we finally stop and listen. Thank God for our bodies – otherwise goodness knows what depths we would indulge to?!

        1. Otto not only were there messages from my body in the form of pain and restricted movement but I also had the image of myself laying down under tree, come into my head many times. I chose to ignore this image in the same way that I ignored my aches, pains and physical restrictions. In fact the tree that I always assumed to be the tree in the image was in the park that I used to power walk around!

        2. And yet now, if you were to lay under that same tree, you would marvel at the intricacies and order of nature (or something similarly cool). So glorious to hear and appreciate your movements and choices. Thank you for your sharing Alexis.

        3. You know what Otto, you are so right.

438. The higher we move on the ladder of spiritual enlightenment the further we move away from the inherent Godliness within.

     1. Well said Rachael it is either the spiritual ladder or the surrendering to the what is, knowing that we are already all.

        1. Beautifully said Rachel – evolution as surrendering to all that we already are, not striving to go somewhere or attain something.

439. ’My body tried repeatedly to let me know how it felt but my beliefs were so ingrained that they kept me motoring along at the same breakneck speed every day. I lived with intense pain and extreme exhaustion for years until, eventually, my body broke down: it literally stopped going.’ – Alexis, this could be transferred to any area in life – I certainly can very much relate to overriding what my body was telling me, to the extent that I totally crash landed. And even then I did not understand the demands I had put on my body and the affects of it, I just did not see that the choices I made in my day to day living had such an impact on my body. Serge Benhayons teachings have been not only life changing but literally life saving.

440. A great question to pose Brendan. Every moment, every interaction with someone or even ourselves, every word we speak or write could be an offering of evolution, or a choice to stay in where we are – in comfort. The choice is always ours. Do we actively choose in every moment for it to be about evolution, therefore making it at brotherhood and humanity, or do we choose for it to be about ourselves, keeping things small and staying comfortable? Serge Benhayon is an example of someone who makes everything about evolution and is beautiful reflection for us all to see of what is possible and where our future lies, if we choose evolution over comfort.

441. Exactly Alexis, re-move doubt, re-connect to our essence or Inner most, re-storing love, which is re-claiming our light and we realise the path of re-turn has always been our choice to re-joice in the divinity we never left. You-turn indeed, this could be likened to a ewe (U) leaving the flock finding it truly is a sheep not a lamb being led to the slaughter, so it can return to the flock not as mutton but as a fully re-claimed sheep who can re-flect that U-turn to those in the flock who by choice to not join the pack, but re-claim their own light so they can also do a U-turn.

442. Lots of gems in this blog Alexis – thank you. We can all, at some stage in our lives, relate to getting caught in the illusion that if we somehow just reach the next level, we will have the answers and life will be sweet from thereon. It can be difficult to admit that we have been fooled but the reality is that until we let go and are prepared to go back to basics to learn what self love is really about, we aren’t moving forward at all.

443. How complicated we can make it when choosing the belief we have a ladder or ladders to climb in an attempt to have our efforts rewarded. All the while with two feet on the ground the re-turn back to who we so naturally are awards us beyond measure every step of the way.

     1. Yes, agree…we invest an enormous amount of time in believing something that simply could not be further from the truth.

444. It has me baffled that each and every one of us began here on Earth knowing we were not separate to God, then too that we let this knowing go. Thankfully, all the while it doesn’t leave us but awaits our return to it.

445. Your words here Alexis, remind me of board games like snakes and ladders. And how we can sit around obsessed with the rules, winning and ‘beating everyone’ to the top spot. But the whole time you are playing this game, real life is going on. Birds are singing, babies are being born, Love is being made and warmth spoken. So isn’t it true that the game of beliefs is nothing more than a distraction and time filler from what we are here to actually do and the natural seamless union wel have with God too?

446. With yoga I found it really difficult to conceive it as being harmful to the body, when I did an experiment and asked my body what it felt like with Catholicism and yoga and then the gentle breath my whole being was heavy with catholicism, with yoga I had a sensation of being pushed backwards and with the gentle breath I felt still and expanded. It was all the confirmation I needed that yoga may look good and healthy but that there was something going on that was not true.

     1. Great sharing Vanessa, we had this experience with kids yoga. Our daughter was totally spinny and nervous before the class and after the class all the kids seemed to be super calm, but they were like numbed, as if something had been put around them and it was not a true stillness they achieved, but a momentary state of being “boozed” which was undone within minutes leaving the yoga class.

        1. How interesting rachelandras. Yoga promotes ‘bliss’ which is momentary until something comes along to upset this state of being, which really, is just a numbing as you’ve said.

        2. Rachel, I can relate to the “boozed’ feeling that I got from yoga, it was sleepy almost drunk state where everything felt in slow motion. I thought I felt calm and relaxed but now having done the Gentle Breath Meditation and Esoteric Yoga I know this was not a true state, but a soporific induced calmness that gave me a false marker to live by.

        3. Alison I agree with what you have shared. The numbed out relaxation at the end of a yoga class is no different to pulling a cone, just more sinister as at least when people pull a cone they aren’t under the illusion that it’s good for them.

        4. Yes Alexis much more sinister because yoga is very much revered and sought after, yet the harm I felt in my body from trying to go into a meditative state to hold some of the poses was often excruciatingly painful but I would try to do it because that was what you were meant to do. I feel there is more honesty in pulling a cone as you say they are not under the illusion it is good for them or will make them a better person.

        5. Fascinating observation thanks Rachelandras…

        6. This is really interesting, yoga is more a form of temporary relief and even though it can produce a feeling of calm the tension and ill momentum still lies underneath. So there can be no true healing offered.

     2. Loved the little experiment you did Vanessa. Thank you for sharing the power of discerning by connecting to ourselves and feeling energy.

447. I related the ideal of enlightenment to being elevated from the world, finally untouchable by the mundane dilemmas, emotions, complications etc, said simply, the ultimate way to escape human life by ascending above it. The Way of the Livingness is quite the opposite, it is commitment to life with all its aspects, it is embodiment of our divine nature by living life in full, it is stepping into the mundane without being mundane but bringing all we know God to be.

     1. Yes and in that we are in the middle of the struggle and yet not affected by it but instead offering a different way to be.

     2. I agree The Way of the Livingness is quite the opposite to the ideal of enlightenment, and having been acquainted with the ideal of enlightenment myself I have first hand experience that it is a withdrawing from life and the perfect way to not deal with life – it is definitely a de-evolving way to live.

        1. I like the seeming riddle that only by committing to human life in full we eventually liberate ourselves from it.

           The spiritual journey seeks to leave human life behind, to escape or overcome it and thereby gets lost deeper in the illusion. What a sham.

        2. Yes Alex so true the spiritual journey is a never ending one that does not, and never will lead us to the truth of who we are. “only by committing to human life in full we eventually liberate ourselves from it.”

     3. Alex, you are all so spot on when you share that ‘only by committing to human life in full we eventually liberate ourselves from it’, which is great because it is accessible to all equally so. It does not matter if we can’t get to a mountain in Nepal and sit wrapped in wet robes, using special techniques to dry the robes before dipping them in cold water again and repeating the process! Yep some people do this as a way of moving up the ladder. It’s so much more valuable to stay connected to our bodies in the self serve aisle of the supermarket!

448. I can so relate to thinking that exercise was making me stronger, fitter, faster, more nimble- all the the things that I associated with evolution, but which were actually just ways to fight harder. I am gradually beginning to let go of the beliefs I have held around evolution and what that actually feels and looks like.

     1. Very true Simone. Being ‘Better’ than others is not evolution, nor is being the ‘best’; but far from it. This is the antithesis of evolution.

        1. This is so true Kylie and Simon, the same goes for winning. There can’t be a winner without a loser.

        2. Abby, it’s a plain fact that you so rightly raise that ‘there can’t be a winner without a loser’ but we, as a society have built many false beliefs around losing. We say things like ‘it’s character building’ or ‘it promotes strength’. We justify it rather than remember the truth, which is that we are here to lift one another up to our highest potential and never, ever to make another feel less.

     2. I agree Simone, the more we discard those images and beliefs about being evolved = being better than others, we create more space in our bodies and our movements reflect the magnificence of the universe in every moment of our lives.

449. I also sometimes fall for the ladder, instead of the u turn, but as this mostly feels stressful and hard, I make a stop and expose the ideal I have fallen for.

     1. It’s such a great exposure this blog. Ladders, paths, journeys, careers, ambitions, promotions…we have bought in to this consciousness in so many different guises. It is literally everywhere. The simplicity of the “U turn” shatters the pride of the spirit and renders all our investments as nought. A massive, massive revelation.

        1. Absolutely Otto – life is full of illusionary ladders that we believe are taking us up in the world but we rarely stop to consider what this life at the top in reality truly looks like.

450. I loved this Alexis “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” This is something I completely relate to having turned my back on God centuries ago and now play a game of not thinking I am worthy of being one with him again, total illusion. We put all sorts of images and ideas in the way of our connection.

451. The title of your blog alone breaks down the biggest illusion we hold as human beings, that we are going somewhere, that life is about achieving things and that we leave things behind.

     1. Very true Esther. This is how life is set up right form the beginning. We all think we have to get somewhere and that when we get that job or get married or have children, whatever the picture, that we have made it. But it is always empty and hence we move on to the next thing and the next, never fulfilled by empty pictures and forever seeking what is already within.

     2. So true Esther. Life isn’t Lineal. We go around the sun.

452. ‘It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us.’ What a beautiful truth to hear and know, we are not separated from God we only think we are.

453. It looks like pretty much all the time Brendan. Your question asks us to reflect and take responsibility.

454. I love this line, ‘It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us.’ This is so true, no matter what we believe, God is always with us. We cannot only delay our return to God but cannot stop it.

     1. And God is always communicating with us in nature and through symbolism. When we open ourselves up to space, we see and feel the greatness of God and that we living in him.

     2. Yes that is quite a revelation chanly88… that we ‘can only delay our return to God, but cannot stop it’! This completely debases the notion that we are going somewhere… to heaven so-called, once we have atoned sufficiently for our sins and made ourselves model (good) citizens first.

455. I can relate with this blog. It is true that the conventional way of thinking is that we are moving up a ladder to evolve, however we are only returning to what we left behind a very long time ago. The ancient structures from the past pay testament to the fact.

     1. ‘We’ as the pride of creation just love to much the idea of being at the top of evolution looking down on everything else there is. To admit that we have lost the way and that our evolution in truth is a return home is quite a bitter pill for the pride swollen spirit who likes to believe that he has created himself a kingdom to rule.

        1. Alex, I feel the spirit has created a Kingdom to rule but it can be dismantled as easily as a film set.

        2. I can very much relate to this Alex, ‘‘We’ as the pride of creation just love to much the idea of being at the top of evolution looking down on everything else there is.’ I practiced and taught traditional yoga for a long time and felt that I was better and more evolved than others, this felt very separate, I was judgmental and it did not feel loving, esoteric yoga is very different, there is none of the arrogance and judgment, it is simply us reconnecting to our amazingness and moving with presence, to me this feels gentle and graceful and very simple – very different to how i used to feel with traditional yoga which was about pushing my body and getting ‘better’.

        3. So well said Alex, your comment reminds me of a childhood saying “I’m King of the Castle and you’re the dirty rascal.” Our spirits exalt in the illusion that we are at the top of the pile lording it over creation, yet in truth we are a long way from home and in order to return home, we have to walk back through everything we have used to keep our natural evolution at bay. Evolution is about returning to our divinity, which requires us to swallow our pride and admit that evolution is not based on material or physical improvements, but about resuming complete energetic responsibility, a fact our spirits desperately want to ignore because when we do so our wayward spirits have to align to the will of God and can no longer play at being King of anyone’s castle!

        4. Time to become king of our body or as Patanjali says “building the kingly body”, a body that can express our divine home here on Earth.

        5. “To admit that we have lost the way and that our evolution in truth is a return home is quite a bitter pill for the pride swollen spirit who likes to believe that he has created himself a kingdom to rule.” Well said Alex and could it be that this is why we are constantly looking for a sugar-coating!

        6. Haha, yes or a reward, a crown, applause, basically anything that confirms our doing and purpose of existence as a spirit.

     2. Very wise Luke, so true… we are kidding ourselves if we think we have evolved from the ancient days of Egyptian times when the pyramids were built, for example. Technology and so-called civilisation as we have it today do not equal evolution. Just look at the state of our younger generations and that is as plain as day.

        1. Agree Jenny, and to champion technological advances when people are suffering, war is still a solution and families are breaking down left, right and centre is a mistake in itself

        2. Exactly Luke, and the fact we do not think and talk like this is equally astounding… it ought to be our every headline, newspaper article, topic of conversation until it is made true. Instead we go for the next and the next and the next solution, of which war is a great example, and the more and more gadgets, technology etc to numb and distract ourselves from the reality of the misery we live in daily.

        3. I recently studied a cardiac course it was astounding the amount of resources that go into developing new treatments. With the appropriate health care intervention most people would survive very acute illness.

        4. Exactly… we look in every possible direction and throw billions of dollars at anything other than the simple truth of the matter.

     3. Yes this same can also be said for education. Those who go to University where once seen as brighter yet there is much wisdom found in the simplicity of life.

        1. Great point MW, those who have degrees are generally seen as higher up the ladder than those who left school at 18. Our whole society has been founded on ladders!

456. Reading this I though of the game snakes and ladders and realised when you climb ladders you do need to watch out for snakes and things that can bring you down, whereas evolution lies in not playing the game.

     1. Love it Abby, it is a great image to behold. Diligently climbing the ladders to make sure we win the game, whiles cursing the snakes and setbacks, that keep us stuck on the board for longer than we need to. As you point out, it is a game that we don’t even need to play.

        1. This is very true Joel. We focus on the snakes and the setbacks, which keeps us distracted from realising the game that we are playing is actually not necessary or evolutionary. Instead it keeps us moving around a board or up a ladder rather than truly looking at our lives and the way we live.

        2. Love how you have brought in the focus on the snakes…walking around in tenter hooks not wanting to make a wrong step…when as you say each step takes us up…just the easy way of the hard way.

        3. Well said Joel. And we celebrate taking the ‘easy way’ by avoiding the snakes and traps, but fail to see that the game itself is choosing the hard way, and that there is a much simpler method of evolution.

        4. Absolutely susie and evolution is played on the same board without any snakes or ladders.

        5. And often the so called ‘set backs’ that we perceive are actually signs to bring us back and show us that possibly we are on the wrong track, yet when we are invested in a picture or outcome we don’t want to see this.

        6. So true, we curse the set back rather than listen to the message it is sending us.

     2. …. and in evolution we have 360% vision and a lot more space. 🙂

     3. Love this Abby. No more game playing or trying to win- at everyone’s expense. Just returning to who we truly are- and have been all along. Nowhere to get to. So no more ladders – or snakes!

     4. Love it Abby, perfect analogy!

     5. Love this comment Abby. How often do we get stuck on the board thinking the game is all there is?

     6. Great comment Abby and great replies. A superb analogy. And a brilliant revelation. It isn’t until we stop playing the game that we understand the game that we have all been playing.

     7. That’s such a great analogy Abby which I will bring to mind whenever I catch myself playing the game.

     8. Agreed Abby, evolution is not a game where you win over another – it is a constant movement of our divine nature and the reflection that is offered to others to inspire them to be themselves.

457. For some time I have also been hooked by the yoga consciousness and I was also on my way to enlightenment. I had gathered quite some beliefs around this state of being, constantly thinking that I had to do things, better myself to achieve like you say a state of flying off and be forever without thoughts, issues and problems. In other words: I was numbing myself and not committing to life. I know now there is no such thing as enlightenment and that there is nowhere to go. Life is about commitment and responsibility and being part of it. My yoga mat was my escape but not anymore, as I love being in life.

     1. I too used yoga as a means to escape and numb, all under the pretense that I was getting closer to enlightenment, closer to God. I can see now just how far off the mark I was and how the practise of yoga has been so bastardised from its true meaning of union. Yes, the teachers in yoga classes used the word union, but never once did I feel the true quality of yoga (union) until I came across Esoteric Yoga.

        1. Same for me Donna, since doing the esoteric yoga, so much has changed for me. This is the only true form of yoga where I get to experience and feel what true union is. After all the other yoga’s I did, it was quite a challenge at start, but now after some years, I absolutely love it.

        2. It is the quality that makes all the difference, I agree Donna Giannotis,

     2. That’s awesome Mariette. You’re really exposing the truth here. You used your mat to ‘escape’, to get to bliss, enlightenment, whatever which is not real it’s so outside of you. But now you’re choosing to commit to life, all of the time, not just when you allocate an hour to it, it’s awesome.

     3. Its interesting the same can be said for religion- those who are so called at the ‘top’ are perceived to be closer to God, however when we consider current events where there has been a lot of covering up of child abuse- this is not the actions of someone who is aware, wise or representing Love.
        God would never separate and distinguish one over others so when churches are set up with this belief there is something off kilter to the truth.

        1. There is something very off kilter to the truth. There is no such thing as being closer or further away from God. How is that possible when God is everywhere and within all of us. It is pure arrogance when we think we are at the top of anything in life.

        2. MW again great point. Most people would see the Pope or the Dalai Lama as being closer to God and right off their chances of getting a glimpse. Could it be that the ladders within religion are actually the very things that have kept people from truly knowing God?

458. It is indeed a huge, life-turning-upside-down revelation to realise that God is within and has been all along. We have only self-created the fog to obscure our awareness of this. And this means we have nothing we need to gain outside of us, we cannot be incomplete, and nothing less that equals to every other being including God.

     1. I just start allowing myself to feel the possibility to live in a way with all the everyday intricacies and feeling complete, not seeking any gratification, stimulation, identification… just being content, complete, fullfilled.

        That is quite a stop moment.

        When have I ever not tried to achieve something no matter how subtle or unconscious it was?

        Feeling complete, being complete – and expanding that fullness. Being with God.

        1. Beautiful Alex, it is believing we are incomplete that makes us seek outside and climb false ladders, and when we think we are at the top, fall off! Knowing we are already complete in any given moment feels spherical, warm, and loving, and needs no seeking for anything. It is in the knowing.

        2. So true ‘seeking’ actually would be the process of re-devoloping the awareness of our innate knowing.

        3. There is no seeking when we know. I don’t have to seek whether I am a woman or not because I know I am. I also know that I am the consciousness of God but I’m pretending that I don’t, which causes me to seek. Funny old game isn’t it!

        4. Alex this is gorgeous. I’m noticing the everyday small (not so small) thoughts of I’ll just do this to achieve the tick that ticks it off my list of to dos. So very different to being in the fullness of space that connects us all.

        5. When feeling the fullness it becomes quite obvious how much we have allowed the ‘everyday small’ to dominate us, actually we have bought into it when we made it our normal. To bring the fullness into the everydayness is a game changer, a r-evolution like no other.

        6. Wow Alex, what an exercise… thanks for sharing, l’m going to try that out myself.

        7. Just gorgeous Alex, reading your comment brought me straight back after reading some very heady pieces of information earlier. It’s amazing how everything and all of us have an enormous influence on each other — the reading material I was going through earlier had clearly been written with haste and a bit of overwhelm, and I could feel that as I was reading it — and taking some of it on. I then ready your comment and dropped and stopped, I re-connected with me — the power of reflection.

        8. In feeling complete we know God is within us and all that is required is for us to surrender and move in a way that we express heaven on earth.

        9. Literally ‘Walking with God’.

     2. True Annie C, this self created fog is all that is obscuring the truth from us. Once we clear this it is easy to see that it all lies within not outside of us – no more searching required.

     3. To realise this is to come to all that we have always known but as you say have chosen to do whatever it takes to be unaware of the fact. The choice is based on our willingness to be responsible. Hence the u-turn is the way back, the choice to be responsible and to know the fact of our inherent connection to God.

     4. I agree Annie, it is a life changing feeling to know that God is within. It puts a stop to the outward search, the pursuit to acquire knowledge and truth. We have everything we could ever possibly want within we just have to realise and appreciate this fact. The journey becomes one of discarding rather than attaining.

     5. It’s gorgeous really- knowing that we don’t need to be anything more then who we already are. Just continue to return to our godly roots.

     6. Yes it is quite something Annie, to consider God as being accessible is one thing, but to find Him within is almost incomprehensible AND to feel ourselves equal to Him, well that is yet another mammoth shift for the vast majority.

     7. Annie, it is truly different to know and feel that God is in us and not only belief it is so. Then love is in us as well and we do not need to seek it outside. Like Alex has shared, this is a different way of living.

     8. Gorgeously expressed Annie.. “we have nothing we need to gain outside of us, we cannot be incomplete, and nothing less that equals to every other being including God.” I’m letting these worlds deeply sink into my body and accept them one billion percent.

459. Living life as if evolution is a ladder really is a game when shared as you’ve done here Alexis. Like the part of beliefs being like a game of charades, we don’t always verbally agree to them but silently (sometimes loudly) carry them out at the expense of silencing our true expression which is not to dance around the subject but to express clearly for all to understand, sense and feel.

460. ‘It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.’ Stunning Alexis – a statement that empowers us to let go of our false beliefs and return to who we all equally are.

     1. Oh my God, have we been tricked into believing we would find God, enlightenment, paradise, salvation or simply relief from life´s misery by believing into whatever image we try to live up to. We had ‘it’ all, betrayed it for an image and try to get back to it by images, but ‘it’ is image free – God just is.

        1. I love your comment Alex. We have so been tricked, but time and time again and we keep falling for it. Winning, being first, having the biggest, being the fastest, the smartest or the best looking, all at the expense of our body, but most of all to each other and the whole of humanity. It is the world’s biggest catastrophe.

        2. It seems we seek to know ourselves by being different, special, individual and that of course can only be at the expense of ALL OF US as one humanity. Instead of identifying ourselves by our differences how about recognizing the similarities that connect us, the common denominators that are so much more profound in their very essence than anything that fosters separation.

        3. Well said Alex – yes, the images are the constant thing that we see and imagine, and time after time these trick and betray us to remain lesser than who we are, Sons of God equally so.

        4. It only dawned on me what it actually means that the Inner Heart (Soul) holds no ideals or beliefs, i.e. images, something we can not ‘imagine’ but can get a sense of and eventually experience by way of living – it literally pulls away the veil of illusion that is woven from innumerable images.

     2. Such a beautiful understanding Alexis has offered, thank you for highlighting this point Eva. What I get from this is that there’s nothing wrong with us, we are not broken or in need of saving, we have simply put blocks in the way of our innate knowing that we are already everything with the all. We’ve used the blocks as a distraction and persevere to seek the very thing we have blocked… Love.. God.. Connection.

        1. Yes Rachel. We are far from broken, though sometimes we act like it in order to avoid or delay taking responsibility.

     3. Agreed Eva. This is a power-packed blog!

     4. Yes there is beautiful simplicity in realising it is us that walks away from God, whilst God is always there, lovingly waiting for our return.

     5. Well pointed out, Eva. My false belief was formed by years of Catholic schooling and living in the deeply religious Southern US. God was powerful, feared, required prayers for communication, etc. Reading this blog and the many comments is helping me to further realise I had held – and probably still hold – onto these false beliefs. A very empowering read.

461. I love the way you write Alexis. This simple truth is incredibly profound. When we see evolution as a ladder life is narrow and difficult, there is someone above us, someone below us, we are always measuring our worth and the worth of others by the ‘rung’ we have reached and there’s always a chance we will fall off! We can all make a U turn together from wherever we stand.

     1. The title of this blog says it all really! Such a beautiful and beckoning analogy! Thank you Alexis

     2. We can all make a U turn. I just love this and not a chance of falling off, just taking responsibility Leonne.

     3. So true Leonne… “We can all make a U turn together from wherever we stand.” It is simply a choice – remain an individual, or join in brotherhood – a far more loving and joyful way of living – and it’s evolving for everyone!

        1. or is it the other way round Paula……remain in Brotherhood and not choose individualism?

462. “….we are born already knowing God unencumbered” what a web of intricate complication we have self-created to deny this fact indeed the beauty of the U turn means we get to see the involution nature of this false path.

     1. Yes this line was a pearler amongst many for me today…and I recalled being with a young child many years ago and they had been given a book as a present and we were reading it together and enjoying the beautiful illustrations. At one point the child said that one of the characters looked like God, and this was before my time with Universal Medicine and connecting to the fact that we are all born knowing God (in fact we are the Son of God), and I was blown away by this comment because the book had nothing to do with God and the child’s parents were not religious and the child had not started kindy/school. And I was like wow, how and why did you say God???? I now know that we are born knowing God unencumbered as this blog so beautifully states and that this child showed me on that day. We know God innately. It then just gets very complicated later in life to avoid that fact.

463. “This belief lay like a canopy over my entire life. It infiltrated my thoughts and engineered my body to move in certain ways. The belief owned me; I was its puppet, its plaything, acting out the characteristics of the belief.” Brilliantly described Alexis, taking a belief and undressing both its mental and physical hold was for me the point at which I saw for myself that all that Serge Benhayon presents about energy makes absolute sense.

464. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing”. Awesome Alexis, what appreciation for the nature of this being a U turn; for in this we are constantly confirmed on the path back home.

465. Alexis, I love your sharing here and the understanding you bring with it … At our essence we know God and it’s only our false beliefs which keep us away from living and being that knowing – this is huge and turns most of our spiritual searching on it’s head. Like you I have believed that I am ascending and the more work I put in the higher I’ll go and I’ve been comfortable with that, and now I’m learning it’s about letting go, turning back to me for the truth it is even since finding The Way of The Livingness, while I’ve let go of many beliefs which have changed my life beyond compare, there’s been a part of me that’s held onto the idea of evolution being about working hard, putting in effort and moving up. This is not true and the antithesis of what The Way of The Livingness presents and indeed nothing there has pandered to or fed those beliefs. What I’m finding now is how my previously held beliefs have coloured the truth and measured how much I’m willing to live that truth so there’s a new level of seeing and understanding those beliefs I still hold which are not me and not love; and the beauty is I can do this because I am held in love and I now know and feel that in my body. Beliefs are very insidious and the more we let them go the more we are us living the God we have always known.

     1. Agree and well expressed Monica, yes, and to add, the more beliefs one discards, the more one sees in the spaciousness of space and clarity of truth, the many more beliefs and images that are there underneath. As you clear rubbish.. more rubbish is spotted and seen (!) Continuing to clear beliefs is to live freely and the Way of The Livingness – it is the way to be with God, and everyone else. And it is the most enjoyable and harmonious lifestyle to treasure.

        1. Equally well said Zofia, and I love your analogy ‘As you clear rubbish.. more rubbish is spotted and seen…’ This is so true, stuff I never wanted to see in the past is now super clear and more is lovingly revealed everyday.

        2. Great point, Zofia, the more you clear beliefs, the more you can see those underneath, and yes it’s like turning up the lights, you see more dust in those corners that’s always been there but you’ve been ignoring, so it is with beliefs! But it’s worth it as each one we let go brings us closer to living more of the love we are.

     2. Monica if only we simply surrendered to the God that we already are.

        1. That is just beautiful Alexis, pure gold .. to surrender to the God we already are.

466. Seeking outside of ourselves for something that is already there within is ludicrous. It is like looking everywhere for your sunglasses when you are already wearing them.

     1. Ha ha what a great analogy. I am constantly searching for my glasses only to find them where I left them and yes, sometimes that is on my head! Clearly such a transferable lesson for life!

     2. Yes, Donna, it is absolutely ludicrous (love this word) how dedicated and committed we are to seeking for everything outside of ourselves – thanks to Serge Benhayon’s presentations, it has been possible to change the focus to that which is (and always has been) true within and change the outer fixation.

467. The belief systems that we take on and bury ourselves in are a sure way to keep us from knowing the simple truth that we do already know God.

     1. It is interesting when we want to avoid truth we simply lace it with complications and dramas because in simplicity and stillness truth is undeniable.

468. Dear Alexis, we have indeed walked very similar paths. I too was lost in trying to achieve enlightenment through yoga and never missed a day of practise for over a decade. I would climb on my mat thinking that I was going somewhere, mainly to heaven. That was until I was diagnosed with breast cancer and then I started to question, if each day I was getting closer to enlightenment, then why the breast cancer? This sobered me up fairly quickly, I fell down my so called ladder of enlightenment and thankfully and eventually came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, which offered me the answers I had always been looking for. I simply had to stop looking outside of myself and come to know that which lies within.

469. Beautifully written Alexis, in a clear and concise way. I understand fully what you are saying about Evolution being a ” U turn not a ladder” So many of us get caught up in looking outside of ourselves instead of inside where the true answers lie.

     1. Could it be that we have been caught up in the many illusions of life for such a long time that we have forgotten where truth resides? So, to have someone remind us is a blessing.

470. Beautifully outlined, Alexis, how the Yoga consciousness hooks us. Whilst we think we become better and better we actually place more layers on top of our natural ability to be equal.

     1. As it is with everything we are striving for with the belief we have to get somewhere, we add layers and layers of unnecessary baggage.

     2. “Whilst we think we become better and better, we actually place more layers on top of our natural ability to be equal” – so true Felix, and this applies to any consciousness we subscribe to – yoga, sport, the corporate world…

471. “it is through our true connection with ourselves first, that we know also our connection to God.” Therefore our connection to God, is a reminder of where we are from – and beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are in fact far more than this world would have us think.

472. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us.” This is a wonderfully earth shattering revelation Alexis. I used to believe that there was no tangible way God could be on earth, that God or enlightenment was for the very few and that I would not ‘achieve’ this. In this I fell hook, line and sinker for the belief that God is ‘out there’, separate from me, something unreachable and most certainly intangible. I now know from the teachings of Universal Medicine and the practice of Esoteric Yoga that God is not separate, that God is within us all and very much accessible through the most tangible of things: our bodies.

     1. Agree rosannabianchini, our bodies are the key to accessing God, the universe, people, humanity and hence our collective salvation.

        1. Zofia it is because of what you share ‘our bodies are the key to accessing God’ that life is intentionally set up to take us away from our bodies.

        2. This is one to really sit with Zofia, the connection to God through the body… and to people. The ‘people part’ in your sentence stopped me to appreciate how much we communicate by our body and how our every move and intonation (if the body can make sound..which it must at a certain level because it vibrates:)) has an effect on others, we can access, enjoy, be intimate, share God with one another, with our bodies.

473. ‘When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.’ So true Alexis and thank you for spelling out just how damaging beliefs are and how, once subscribed to, they own us. We have to re-wind and choose truth in order to let go of the insidiousness of the many beliefs we have been owned by in order to start healing the harm we have chosen to inflict on ourselves.

474. Alexis you really hit the nail on the head here showing how we can have a certain view of something that might not necessarily be the truth. As you shared, for evolution to be a ‘ladder’ and reach an ultimate point rather than an expansion. it’s funny – I recently hired someone to join our company, and he was very eager to know about progression. He wanted to know what the levels were within the company and when they would happen. So we sat down and I shred with him that perhaps progression isn’t upwards but also outwards, and that there were areas that he might really grab hold of and want to focus on and that is progression in itself. He sat with this and then called me a few days later and said that he loved this idea that progression could be outwards, and that he had never looked at it this way before and he would love to work for us. It was really interesting to see how much be appreciated looking at things differently.

475. Alexis, I love the clarity of this blog. We know God. Remove the belief, and he is there.

476. Alexis like you i also thought evolution was a ladder, somewhere you go to, that you have to reach, a point that you struggle with and eventually attain. Yet in that we ignore the fact we are returning back to everything we already are. I love the simplicity of the fact we are doing a U Turn!

477. I love what you’ve shared in your blog Alexis about evolution not being a ladder-climb UP, but rather a full U-Turn back to ourselves. Focusing on reaching higher and getting to a point where we are enlightened or are better than the rest of humanity is an ideal and illusion. We are not here to individually climb up a ladder and try to support humanity by yelling from the top, we are here to walk TOGETHER and lead everyone to eventually recognise and live the love that’s available to them on the ground floor, not just at the top.

478. There is so much to comment upon in every paragraph of this blog Alexis!
     The canopy of beliefs you write of is truly palpable – I can actually feel the cloying, harming nature that beliefs have imprinted in and through my body – the horror being, that this has been of my /our own choosing through a lack of awareness at the time, to be pulled in and fooled so deeply by this illusion. More work on beliefs to be done!
     “This belief lay like a canopy over my entire life. It infiltrated my thoughts and engineered my body to move in certain ways. The belief owned me; I was its puppet, its plaything, acting out the characteristics of the belief”.

479. How poignant this is Alexis – we are taught from an earl age how important it is to achieve in order to be someone of note and we have to constantly push and strive to always be more, which is then never enough and the cycle continues to keep ‘climbing the ladder’ of success – from owning commercial goods, exam results, university degrees, bigger and better houses (the list is endless).
     “For a very long time I had a strong sense that I was ‘getting somewhere’ – I felt that I was slowly making my way up the invisible ladder of evolution”.

480. I am still chuckling and laughing from the playful way you have written the paragraph about levitation in your ‘Enlightenment package’ Alexis. It is also great that you have exposed a deeper understanding is necessary to reveal that on the other side of the coin is another face, the sinister face of evil and harm that is active whilst we are bound up in the illusion of ideals and beliefs that are accepted as the normal way to live, but hold us so far away from the truth of our natural living.
     “One of the components of the ‘Belief in Enlightenment’ package is levitation, and as I had brought the whole package, I was under the illusion that it was very possible that one day I would lift clean off my yoga mat and hover in the air effortlessly. I find it both funny and sinister at the same time. Funny that I thought that any moment I was going to hover over the mantelpiece, and sinister when you consider that some ‘belief packages’ contain killing as part of their bundle”.

481. A very powerful Blog Alexis exposing how detrimental and deeply harming our investment in ideals and beliefs are to our physical body. The illusion is so ‘thick and heavy-duty’ that we believe the ideals and beliefs to be true, until we stop to truly listen to what our body has been communicating to us for a very long time and in our arrogance, choose to ignore it.

482. Wow Alexis, it is great to read this article, I also took on the yoga package and before I knew it was praying to various hindu gods, and repeating mantras, when I had only gone along for the yoga – so yes I can see how we do not get to chose parts, that we download all of it.

483. The ladder you speak of, be it to enlightenment or physical fitness, in business or knowledge, is super sinister – it is the belief that you are not enough and must work very hard to be something – and that it is your position on the ladder to where ever you are going that determines your worth.

484. It never ceases to inspire me how our bodies no matter what shape or form constantly bring us back to listening/feeling. Those ‘STOP’ moments/days/months/years cannot but (eventually), bring us back to feeling and looking at our lived choices/beliefs that, so distract us from our connection with ourselves. Such wisdom you have shared with us all Alexis thank you.

485. Having meditated for many years and practised yoga for six years only to find that I was physically in pain having injured my knees during an intensive yoga weekend retreat, which took three years before I stopped limping. Since attending Universal Medicine presentations I no longer practise that type of meditation and yoga as I can see now how withdrawn from life I had become. It seems to me now that that chasing the ideal of enlightenment is detrimental to our mental and physical health.

     1. I agree, Julie – and have had a similar experience. Pushing through my pain barrier just to sit with my legs crossed. Ouch! Over time I felt dulled down, a shadow of the real me. Today, on the back of the UniMed presentations, I’ve chosen to live in a different way. An enlightening experience you could say!

486. Great blog Alexis, thank you. Having come to the work of Universal Medicine, I so agree that connection is found by looking within, not outside of us.

487. There is so much focus on how we look, its no wonder that being and looking physically fit is revered. I fell for this one too. It is an illusion though since I never had a feeling of peace and there was a struggle to keep pushing myself to do more physically demanding sports. The exercise was a temporary distraction, but whenever I stopped, the feeling of unease would return. When I stopped focusing on obtaining something outside of myself, my path of return started, and by that I mean the start of connecting back to myself.

488. “It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.” And many false beliefs there may be, but once removed the simplicity of God and All we know is right there and always has been. Thank you Alexis

489. Enlightenment is one of those in your head objectives. It’s like waving your right hand vigorously in front of you and asking everyone to look at your left hand, misdirection! Is this not the same thing we do with beliefs to keep us from looking and feeling who we truly are?

490. I love this part about wanting to reach the top of the ascension ladder for the veil of illusion to be lifted, because at one point I too was desperately reaching for that myself. I remember just wanting the veil to lift because I felt so much misery, and there was this idea that once you ascend the pain goes away. But the reality is that the more aware I have become over these past few years the more pain I have actually experienced, because it was the illusion itself that was stopping me from seeing the truth – the truth that we are all equal, that we are all essentially deeply loving, and yet very very few of us on this earth choose to live this way.
     However this pain is not a misery, and I would never go back and sink myself in to the illusionary ways of my past for anything, because I now know that as I become more aware, this is shared with everyone I know and meet, and so I am, in no small part, making a contribution to the great awareness that awaits for us all.

     1. Beautiful Shami, I agree in appreciating how far we have come in our way back to living more naturally who we are, as each hurt is felt and let go of, and belief by belief disposed of as our awareness expands ever more.

491. Alexis, a great piece of writing which exposes how our ideals do not allow us to feel the truth. This is shocking, because we do not know how many ideals and beliefs we carry. The only way out is to feel our bodies and the signals they are giving to us.

492. I love this blog as it can feel so exhausting to always have to get somewhere unknown when in fact we are already there and know everything as well but we have walked away from that ourselves. The only thing we have to do is knowing this and walk back to what we already are. This is so much more empowering than not knowing where you are going in the sort of empty space of the future.

493. the truth is that the belief systems that are there in place are so far from the truth, as the words also say for me, believing is in truth nothing, you anly see that there is something but are holding on to your own ideas. In which the way of the Livingness is so different, it teaches what we already know, no believes, but a remembering of this true connection, and coming back to it.

494. Thank you Alexis. Reading your blog about believing that dedication to yoga would take you up the ladder to enlightenment felt very similar to a fixed belief in conventional religion where, if you are good enough you will be rewarded with enlightenment. “When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want.” So you are supporting aspects of the belief system that you know are wrong. Universal Medicine presents the true meaning of religion through The Way of The Livingness that through living in connection to the essence of true love of the inner-heart we feel and evolve our way to return to the light we all came from.

495. Once again the body eventually dispels any untruth and lets us know the illusion and harm caused by buying into any ideals and beliefs what ever they may be. Sure the body is a marvellous machine and can cope with a lot of abuse, but it appears more and more by the growing rate of illness and disease that so many of us are’t catching the early warning signs from the body as we carry on with our ideals and beliefs until we are brought to a major stop.Wouldn’t it be great if we were all taught to listen to the body from an early age so that so much of our grief would be avoided.

     1. Why do we abuse this machine though Kev? Would we abuse our car, or a delicate appliance, or power tool – doing something with it that is not appropriate?

     2. That was my thought too Kevin when I read Alexis great blog….how amazing is the body that the more entrenched we get in our ways the more the body will tell us, by grinding us to a halt. We then have a choice what we do carry on and become ill or stop and look at what is really going on. What I love is when we get to this place we are given everything to do a U turn, we just have to be willing to read the signs. I agree Kevin if we were taught this from an early age so many of our ailments would not exist and our whole way of looking at what true health and wellbeing would change.

     3. Yes it would be great if we were taught how to live life in connection with our bodies. Instead we are educated to perform, to compete, to try, to achieve and create a life for ourselves when all along true joy, success, contentment, love all of this is naturally realised through our connection with our body, simple.

        1. Yes Abby, thank God for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for bringing us this simple truth so we can then live it and feel the joy of being in connection with our body and the love and care this brings to our every movement and by living this it becomes evident to everyone we meet that there is another way.

        2. Abby I got to feel from your comment how we drill joy, love, harmony and stillness out of our children’s bodies and replace it with all manor of debris.

     4. It would be amazing to have us taught to be aware of listening to our bodies cues, that all is not well, but in most schools today there is such a pressure to be in school no matter how ill – so their attendance figures are within the 95% ratio the government deems important that children are actively taught – to override the body communicating that all is not well. Then we need to take it to the next step and look at how we are living that brings about the ill in the first place. Today my daughter was sharing that her friend was off school with a cold and she said “she has not been caring of herself…. when I get a cold it’s because I haven’t been wearing slippers” … wow, I thought how awesome that she is linking a deeper cause of responsibility early on in life.

        1. My how the Government can get it so wrong. the pressure put on kids these days is bound to back fire and there will be more absentees later on and when they reach the work force the sick days needed will cost the individual, companies and the country a fortune. All the more reason to be taught to listen to our bodies.

        2. This is gorgeous Vanessa – what loving reflections for self care are in your living way at home and family for your young daughter to be linking a deeper cause of responsibility in this way.
           “she has not been caring of herself…. when I get a cold it’s because I haven’t been wearing slippers”

     5. Well said Kevin – the forever fight against our true selves creates deeper and deeper barriers between us, we fall deeper for the separation, the individualisation, which in turn is the sure path to illness and disease.

     6. So true kevmchardy… our bodies live with the consequences of our every choice, and consequently have much wisdom to share with us – if we choose to listen to them.

496. Thanks Alexis , I particularly like this part ” It is not possible to ever be separate from God, it is only possible to have the belief that God is separate from us. Take away the false belief and we return to this knowing.”
     The simplicity of our connection to God , a knowing .

     1. I agree Greg, I loved this line too. How much work can go into denying this fact.

     2. Take away all the pictures, and we are simply left with the fact that it is our choice to move as one with the all, or in separation to it.

497. Thanks Alexis for totally blowing the lid on the illusion that by tying your body in knots you can rise up some imaginary ladder to enlightenment, possibly even levitate, ( has anybody actually seen anyone levitate?)when in truth enlightenment is not something we find out there but is found when we connect to ourselves without a lotus position in sight.

     1. I suspect Kev it only happens in the dark of night when you are on your own and no mobile phone are available for a selfie.
        Seriously though if we are not tying ourselves in physical knots we are doing it mentally and emotionally with career progression. Sure, no one calls it enlightenment, but it is the chief style of advancement the world is going for.

     2. I used to teach yoga and my goal was to be able to get into lotus. The more I tried the more I developed painful hip joints. Before ‘getting there’ I decided to stop since it was causing me more and more pain, but I did push through it for some months. I now no longer do that kind of yoga because it doesn’t make sense that exercise should hurt my body. Thank goodness my common sense kicked in.

     3. Yes Kevin, what a relief to know that enlightenment is as simple as reconnection to ourselves, with no awkward poses or attempts to levitate required! 😉

498. This is an incredible description of the grip of a belief and how it effects us as deeply down to how we move our bodies.This belief lay like a canopy over my entire life. It infiltrated my thoughts and engineered my body to move in certain ways. “The belief owned me; I was its puppet, its plaything, acting out the characteristics of the belief.”

499. lt is amazing and revealing how this can also apply to top-end athletes. You just wouldn’t know it to look at them from the outside, other examples are ballet dancers, models and footy players.”Looking back now, I can also see that I mistook the feeling of being very physically fit as a sign of being in genuine good health.” We must do the necessary tests to really know true results.

     1. Try intellect in there Irena. You think an athlete’s body is hard? Try cracking through the tough shell of pride of a smart person. Worst bit is they sometimes don’t care about genuine good health as a reflection of how that smartness is working out for them.

     2. So true Irena! When I worked as a sports massage therapist I went for a job with a ballet company, they have so many injuries and part of the work was to ensure they could dance that night. I couldn’t do it, I know I would have been saying rest your body, it is clearly in great pain! There are so many warning signs professional athletes push through to fulfill their obligation or to satisfy their hunger for their sport that harms their body in the long run. Injury is the only way the majority of us actually get honest about how we are running our bodies.

     3. Fitness is not true health, I agree. Many top athletes have very low vitality and push their bodies mercilessly.

        1. I tend to agree with you Gabriele. Sport is intense these days, always outdoing each other to be better than the next, very dangerous indeed for many reasons.

500. Thank you for presenting this Alexis – it’s very difficult when we are so entrenched in our ideals and beliefs to understand that they’re not the way and that we’re not living truth. It’s often only when we incur a stop such as you experienced that we truly start to question what we’re doing and why and that maybe there’s another way of living and that is to live from our inner heart.

501. Yes. We ALL already know God.

502. The craftiness of a spirit and its grip on individualisation make anything out to be far more complicated than what it is, desperate to try proving its point. We are having to ‘evolve’ whilst the rest of the Universe simply keeps expanding. Evolution is a humble step back into what it truly is. It is a realignment.

     1. Yes evolution is a realignment back to Truth.

        1. Our absolute necessity and responsibility.

        2. Oh I love how you’ve expressed that Helen, “evolution is a realignment back to Truth” – so simple!

        3. Yes an alignment to the quality of energy in our movements, as everything else evolved from that.

     2. Nicely said Fumiyo. “It is a realignment”

     3. Well said, evolution means getting back on a track that we stepped away from to take a very long and most arduous detour.

     4. So simple Fumiyo.

503. Thank you Alexis.
     This concept that you mention here ‘Looking back now, I can also see that I mistook the feeling of being very physically fit as a sign of being in genuine good health.’ I notice as a very common misconception in society. I have often said that because it is believed so widely that those who have fallen for this mistruth are more lost than the obese person who knows they have a problem. By society making things common and normal we tend to think it is true, forgetting to listen to the wisdom of our bodies.

     1. This is very true Johanna – there is a common belief and arrogant attitude that the extremely fit person is better off than the obese, with no mentioning of the disharmonious quality a super fit person may be living with.

     2. It’s true Johanna, exercise can be addictive from the high and then the need to repeat it, yet slowly increasing the force on the body to attain the same high. The body can become extremely hardened and unable to truly relax and let go and this can affect physiological functioning as well as moodiness, like any addiction. This notion of fitness is important to expose and no there is no such thing as a healthy addiction!

     3. Very true Johanna, supremacy and bullying directly or indirectly is a part of every class and every race. All is energy and that is the underlining marker of truth.

504. I enjoy the title of this blog Alexis, as it makes very clear that for our evolution we have to return on our tracks and not to go forward at all. We have lived as Sons of God before, in true connection with the universe, with God and with the all, all names for one and the same, to which each of us human beings equally belong to. In contrast to returning to who we already are is going forward in fact involution as it bring us only further away from our true origins, further away from God for which we are all so desperately looking for.

     1. I have felt this most on a esoteric healing table where I have felt the enormity of the universe and how I pulse in and with the universe, not as an ideology but as a felt experience in my body.

        1. And that, Vanessa, an experience we have felt in our body, is a marker of truth that will remain there forever for us to return to would we ever get lost in our everyday’s business. and that is not an ideology created by the mind but something of true existence that is felt in the flesh and we know it is there.

        2. Beautiful Nico and Vanessa.. and it is the most humbling thing to feel, that we we pulse in and and with the universe, that our body is art of the universe and that we are here as its caretakers to let the universe speak through it. All the glory in the universe in there, and not one part of it is glorified in the bastardised meaning of that word.

        3. Gloriously expressed Katerina.

        4. Yes, wonder-fully expressed Katerina .. the wonders of The Universe are felt in the body just like your words have described and felt – true expression goes from one side of the universe to the other. It is truly magnificent and the question must be asked, who or what wants to control this otherwise?

     2. What makes me laugh is where do we actually think we’re going to? Is it the idea Heaven is somewhere beyond the clouds that give rise ( 😉 ) to the crazy notion if we continuing climbing one day we’ll find ourselves in front of those pearly gates, and hence worthy (‘God-willing’) of entering?

        1. As you describe it Giselle makes it even more laughable, that we have to climb, to put effort in arriving at this point. So we have worked hard whole our lives and put all our effort into this pursuit and at the and it turns out that the gates are simply closed or that there are no gates at all and we are on a dead end, that it is all a falsity we have bought into. The more simple way is to come to the realisation that It is just a matter of walking our way back, which is much easier by the way as we are on a descending track, the way back that will bring us back to our origins.

        2. Nico we shall remember God in our bodies, not our minds.

     3. Yes Nico I pondered this too. Is moving forward in fact involution and evolution a spheric cycle of return to that which we are already?

505. It seems crazy that we are eternally connected to God for He is eternally with us all of the time yet we only feel disconnected to Him simply by the belief we hold about Him being separate from us in the first place. Ludicrous actually! There is no need to find anything, just simply reconnect as it is and always has been with us in the first place

     1. Yes very true Joshua and it shows both the power that we give to beliefs to not feel this truth and also the deep evil a belief package holds. A simple belief can hold us off from knowing the absolute truth that we know God and cannot be but connected with him as we are his Sons, which means God is within us at all times. The point is that it is always a choice to align to a belief.

        1. Absolutely Lieke and it takes a lot of honesty and a huge humbleness to swallow this pill of truth. The fact that we have been fooling ourselves all along when it is just so simple and always has been. Just look at how many have died in so called ‘God’s name’ which was based entirely on a belief not the truth of love

        2. Yes Joshua, a bitter pill to swallow it is but it is from there equally very simple to let go as God does not judge and we do not have to pay penance either. We only need to come back into our hearts.

     2. We certainly will not find him at the top of a ladder! We have made God in our image Joshua…demanding, critical, making ladders we must climb (and from I have seen a few snakes thrown in to the bargain). This is not God and says nothing about his nature, but a lot about ours.
        I suspect it is a big deal to let go of a ladder that we have poured so much into climbing. Down we must go, step by step in the return to the beauty we are…feet on the ground, and nowhere to go but deep inside.

        1. Well said Rachel. At least it is easier to go down (back) than it is to go up!

     3. Agreed Joshua, absolutely ludicrous! As we begin to wake up to this crazy belief and realise the whopping (bad) joke it is, our U-turn can begin, and bit by bit, belief by belief our detangling from the lie can commence.

     4. Very clearly and succinctly expressed Joshua. It is so true that, ‘There is no need to find anything, just simply reconnect,’ yet our investment in the beliefs we hold are so strong that it does not feel simple. As you say, ludicrous.

     5. Yes Joshua… the truth is there before us, it is only when we ignore that truth, forget it and think ourselves not enough because we have disconnected from ourselves and the truth of what we know in the first place that we seek to fill up the empty spaces and look for God in all the wrong places and try and climb up the ladder to get somewhere — only to fall off and hurt ourselves in the process. It is the crazy merry-go-round that goes around and around until we stop within ourselves and realise that the journey back home is inwards and never outside of us.

        1. Well said Katerina.. and when we do fall off and hurt ourselves we blame the world but never look at how we have lived and what we have chosen in the first place that brought such a correction to us.

     6. I agree and was experiencing that right now believing that I was NOT connected, and I have nothing to give. That is impossible. I just have to open my mouth with the intention to not harm myself or another knowing that everything I do bring has enormous power ie. if I am not harming energetically all trust must be placed in me – AMEN (as a patient said to me recently).

        1. As you say Rik, we can believe we are not connected, but choosing to be aware of our connection with our soul and each other is in itself a choice. The belief then is a trick, and as you say is simply not possible

     7. Wherever we go there we are. We can run circles around the world, climb ladders, achieve achieve achieve, but we will always feel an emptiness without connecting to ourselves. Amazing that the answer is always within. And within you will find God. Well said, Joshua.

506. thanks Alexis for sharing such truth and wisdom. “When you download a belief you subscribe to the whole package, you don’t choose the parts you want” – wow!

     1. How true is this line…we imagine we can cherry pick this bit over here and that bit over there, discard all the inconvenient and horrible bits.
        I became a yoga teacher and fascinated with Iyengar. When I discovered that he hit and abused students, well it became very hard to push aside. It was in fact the beginning of the end for me…sign of a rot I had been trying to ignore in my excitement about what I believed to be highly evolutionary obsession with detail…
        6 months later I never practiced yoga again.

     2. Yes, a truth we human beings do not like to hear nor accept as we like to pick and choose.

     3. Yes and double wow ..”I was not being Me, I was enacting a belief, as sincere as a game of charades.”

        1. Yes Irena, it is a game within a game, so who is being played… we are every time.

     4. Yes that struck me as very important too Beverly to pay attention to and I can see transfers to everything, including religions.

     5. Yes Beverly, when we subscribe to a belief we are owned by it in full, we cannot pick and choose the more “favourable” bits.

        1. Hannah, as people are subscribing to the whole package that then asks us to consider what people are subscribing to when they join any religion.

     6. Completely agreed – and with that whole package comes an awareness, a wisdom.

507. Thanks for an awesome blog Alexis, exposing the deeply entrenched belief that evolution is not about moving forward linearly, but instead returning deeply within where God resides and is known.

     1. Yes Loretta, it is a deeply entrenched belief that to evolve as a human being we have to transcend from this plane of life, to climb the ladder so to say. But it is actually much simpler and less scary for people with fear of heights, as the love of God already resides deep within us as being the forever connection we have with the origin we come from and belong to. Returning to that place is true evolution while climbing the ladder is involution.

        1. I love your humour Nico, and I am glad evolution is a u-turn and not some achievement up in the clouds as I prefer staying steadily on the ground.

        2. That is indeed the best way to do Ester, to stand with our both feet on the ground and walk in the reality that our lives here on earth are. Escaping in the illusions created by the mind mind, walking with your head in the clouds, does takes us away of the reality we live in and keeps us on this place of existence we actually do not belong, as is so clearly shown by all the atrocities that do occur because of the life we have created in separation from God the co-creater of the all.

        3. l agree Nico and the way we mislead ourselves is by..” we are born already knowing God unencumbered, but we layer over the top of our connection to this knowing – false ways of being, beliefs, ideas, practices, habits, behaviours, personality traits, pain etc., they serve to distort our connection with ourselves, and it is through our true connection with ourselves first, that we know also our connection to God.”

        4. Nico so gorgeously expressed, I now smile as I feel and understand more clearly from how you’ve expressed it .. the ladder is involution, so any ideas I have about going up are false, so no heights or platforms needed, and yes very helpful for any of those scared of heights, and also it means we don’t need to carry any ladders around, all that’s needed is us going back into us, so much simpler.

        5. Returning to a way of living where love is our basis is actually very simple but we have made it complicated to hide this fact. It requires us to be honest about the fact that we have by choice introduced these complications and false images we living with. All to hide the fact that we have once chosen to step away form our true origins, which is from love, and have created an existence void of this love we now so desperately crave for.

     2. Absolutely Loretta. That place that lay waiting for us to surrender to all we truly are.

     3. Yes, evolution is definitely not linear (contrary to what I used to think!), but rather a continuing and constant cycle of our return to within…

        1. Life without an ounce of struggle, but in fact joy, simplicity and surrender is evolution. It is not the uphill climb as we have reinterpreted it to be.

     4. Yes returning simply and effortlessly like a new born baby.

     5. This completely changes our perspective when we view God as internal as opposed to external; that the knowledge and wisdom of the universe resides within rather than a search outside of ourself.

        1. Yes Lee, that alone is a massive revelation for most, if not all, and the distinction that it is accessible from within might be needed as well in understanding that our bodies are vehicles for expression of this wisdom, not the source of it.

        2. Agreed Lee, it is interesting how we have been made to believe that we must search outside ourselves and sacrifice our bodies in order to evolve and then feel we are better off than others, this arrogance is very destructive and far away from the simplicity and love of coming home to the love that we are within us all.

     6. Exactly Loretta, we can get so caught up in trying to “get some where” and ascend in some form – it could be yoga for some or climbing the “corporate ladder” for others. However when we are run by this way of “doing” we avoid returning to that deep connection you speak of.

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