by Ben Gilberti, H.W.,M.
 
Chapter 18 ~  The Most Dangerous Idea in the World
 
"What you are saying is dangerous. You must explain it more carefully, because otherwise some may use it to justify an indulgence in license, and do all manner of things that may be hurtful to themselves, or to others, or to society; or even worse, some may use it to justify a desire to flee from the world rather than engage in it."
 
Please understand that my reply to this will appear harsh only because it will confront you with fears that, although they are fears about nothing, remain barriers to your spiritual emergence as long as they remain hidden. It's a very, very delicate operation to coax someone to confront their fears. But you ask a question that cannot be answered any other way. Just keep in mind as you read that my purpose is not to frighten you, but to enable you to nothingize fears that are creating the appearance of confinement in your life.
 
Fleeing from the world can never work, because the world is exactly as you created it to be. You will only create another world that appears just as perilous and painful as the one you fled. Why? Because you are terrified of the idea of relating to the world always as if it were never, never, never anything but God.
 
To open yourself up to absolutely everything you experience of the world as you would open up to God Himself. Admit it. The idea is more than a little terrifying. There is always that threshold of terror, that wall of fire, that all Major Mystics allude to.
 
This is the real reason why the full impact of God being all there is hasn't dawned on you completely yet. This is why you hold yourself back from realizing its full impact. Not because you can't. But because you are terrified of what that would really be like.
 
It's even possible that you have been avoiding even thinking about what that would really be like. What would it be like to be loving and trusting everything you encountered in your world as if it were God Himself in His entirety. It's just way, way, way too much. So you have to take it slow.
 
There's nothing wrong with taking it slow, but if you want to speed it up then you will have to look at what it is that you are afraid of. You are afraid that there is danger in the world. You are afraid that there is sin (or license), and the possibility of injury or harm to be both inflicted and received. You are afraid that you might be in jeopardy of both inflicting injury and being victim to it, either of which would be a very ugly place to be.
 
The belief in something other than God is so powerful and so pervasive. Why, you just can't walk out the door and walk around loving God all day long. Even if you could pull it off, they would lock you up or make you a saint. It's too extreme. It's not practical. And practical means making proper provisions for possibilities of evil; like food, clothing, shelter, money, insurance policies, investments and technology. Why, if anyone were to simply turn around and ignore ALL of that, they would put him in a mental institution. It's all far, far too extreme.
 
So you settle in to your "safe" and familiar cocoon and make a game out of the extent to which you can conjure up a miraculous healing here and there, like fireworks in the night, as long as it stays fairly dark, so that you don't have to see what we are so terrified of.
 
It's like the old "trust" game when you would close your eyes and fall back and "trust" your friends to catch you. This whole God Realization thing is very much like that. You would have to put our entire life into freefall and trust nothing at all but God, if you were to walk out the door and relate to absolutely every aspect of that world as you would relate to God Himself. And even if you threw yourself into God's arms in total surrender, in a radiant ecstasy of trust, the fruits would be so extraordinary that you would live as "The Word Made Flesh" or "Emmanuel" (God with us). It's too much.
 
But what is it about all those luminous Major Mystics anyway? Isn't it simply a matter of the fact that evil disappears wherever they go? And why would evil disappear wherever they go? Quite simple really. They simply KNOW that EVIL DOES NOT EXIST! ONLY GOD EXISTS!! Yes, sometimes we almost have to shout it to ourselves when we find that here we have all over again created another "reality" of duality.
 
For all of us duality dreamers, the most dangerous idea in the world is the idea that there is no such thing as danger. The idea that there is no such thing as danger, is only dangerous, however, to the mind that still believes in duality. If that mind de-conditions itself from believing in duality, it will then be the transparency for the knowledge that only God is, only God, ONLY God; no evil, not even the teeniest, tiniest bit of evil, none, not now, not ever.
 
There is no danger and there never, ever has been or will be any danger anywhere. That's the truth. That's the way it is. Everything else is pure, unadulterated, absolute FANTASY with absolutely no reality to it in any fashion whatsoever. That's what those Major Mystics know. But they don't just "know" it. They've thrown their entire selves into it in a total freefall. And consequently wherever they go, "evil disappears" and all us dreamers are amazed at the "miracles" and "healings" that appear to be connected to them.
 
You know, it wouldn't be very much fun to play that trust game when you were a kid, if every time you closed your eyes and were to fall back into the arms that you're supposed to completely trust your friends to provide, you instead swung around as you fell, "just in case" those friends of yours don't come through. We keep fantasizing about the freefall, and even fancy ourselves doing it here and there. But we always swing around just before we would hit that floor just in case God doesn't come through. We only rarely set it up so that we depend on God and God alone. We still pretty well take care of ourselves. And since that's the practical and responsible thing to do, we can feel practical and responsible instead of feeling afraid.
 
The Truth, however, is that there is nothing to be afraid of, there never was, nor will there ever be. There's only God. It's not an easy pill to swallow! But that's only because it's so hard for us to accept that there really IS nothing to be afraid of. The more we think about what we would do if we really did believe it was that way, the more we frighten ourselves: "Someone could feel perfectly justified jumping off a building, or even blowing up the building, because nothing he ever does could ever alter the fact that God is always all there is."
 
We don't trust the world to be totally God to that extent. We are not willing to go into that much freefall. "But what if the person doesn't really know God, and in throwing caution to the wind ends up becoming one of the destitute homeless people." It gets even more frightening when it dawns on us that Jesus, too, was a "destitute homeless person."
 
We can't cushion the ride from fear all the way through. Ask Babaji to be your teacher and he will ask you to jump off the Himalayan cliff on which you meet. Then, after your fellow disciples collect your broken body and Babaji "miraculously heals" it, you'll be ready for the lessons that lie ahead. The fears have to be confronted to be nothingized. Running from our fears and deceiving ourselves with some intellectual nothingization exercises, naturally will not work.
 
But we can't push anyone into confronting their fears. People don't like to be pushed off cliffs. They can be advanced Infinite Way students too and they still don't like to be pushed off cliffs. And yet, if they trusted God completely they wouldn't have any problem with it at all. It's very, very clear that we do not trust God THAT much. That's the ONLY reason we don't like to be pushed off cliffs. We're afraid of danger. We're afraid of something other than God.
 
You might think, "But really now, you keep on like this, and no one is going to listen to you, and worse than that people will shun you as a madman." But you see that is just more evidence of how frightened people really are. People are simply afraid of the truth. And there is no way to realize the truth without confronting those fears and nothingizing them.
 
You already know there is no danger, no evil, nothing but God. You're practically blue in the face for knowing it so hard. Now you have to welcome all those hidden feelings into that knowing. Don't run from what you fear in order to avoid the feeling of fear. Be courageous. Admit the fear. Acknowledge it. Let go of all of your resistance to it. Feel it without labeling it good or bad. And then nothingize it.
 
There may be those who will feel obliged to say: "These are deranged, unsafe, dangerous, unsound, maniacal, anarchist, and radical ideas that can only lead to tragedy."
 
But there will also be those who will no longer run from the fear, who will more and more go into freefall, who will begin to trust the world more and more to be what it always has been and always will be -- God.
 

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