I Am God Wisdom and Revelation from Mystical Consciousness

      

By John C. Robinson

A New World   I left the frenzied world of identity, time, and story, of achievement and performance. That world no longer exists for me. I can be reminded of it, but like a flash of light on the retina, the trace rapidly fades and I return again to the Garden. Here there is no war, strife, or urgency. My awareness abides in silence, stillness, peace, beauty, and love. We change the world by waking up. Will you join me? And bring someone with you.     God Lives in Your Depths   In the depths of your consciousness, God waits for you to discover  your true Self. This is an actual experience. You are much more than you think.       Introduction             Mystical consciousness has been my spiritual practice for decades. In an intentional, thought-free state of heightened awareness, I sense God’s ambient presence and consciousness all around me. I enter a state of divinely-infused unity. Here I find peace, joy, and love. I also receive insights and revelations about God’s nature and how our absorption in it transforms our lived experience. In my 75th year, I took a sabbatical from professional activities to deepen this immersion. I wanted to fully imbibe the mystical life I had written about for a quarter century. Not only did I remain in its thrall, I began writing mystical poetry.   Writing from Mystical Consciousness             What’s it like to write in mystical consciousness? Picture an old monk sitting at a table before an ancient, sacred, and softly-glowing manuscript. The manuscript must be handled thoughtfully, gently, reverently. In the shadowy quiet of his hermitage, illuminated by a single candle, the monk merges his consciousness with the all-pervading Presence. Holding a quill pen just dipped in ink, he awaits inspiration for the next line of sacred poetry, a line proffered from the transcendent consciousness now infusing his own. I am like this aging monk. Working alone in hallowed space, I write from the deep sanctity of spirit.              But there is more. When he is finished, the old monk looks out the window into the radiant, dancing beauty of nature, offering a vivid contrast to the rich dark tones of his room. He steps out into the light of Creation. This, too, is part of my practice, for after writing, I venture out with my dog, Oona, into nature’s shimmering, now-enchanted wonderland to witness, in spell-binding awe, neighbors’ yards overflowing with vibrant colors of the latest rhododendron, hydrangea, and dogwood blossoms, along a road sheltered by tall whispering pines with quivering birches, all highlighted by the sparkling waters of the Puget Sound that surround our island home. Soil, bushes, ferns, and grasses tease me with complex fragrances, luring me further in the mystery of the world. Like the Tarot’s Fool, I wave happily at each passing walker, loving everyone I meet. Then, while Oona enjoys a new scent on our path, I stand still, mesmerized before Creation’s latest greatest show, joy swelling my heart. Finally, resting on a bench, I am overcome with gratitude for the generous and sublime gifts of nature’s sacred incarnation. In this way, my life begins anew each day.     Poetry of the Mystic’s Vision              Some people approach the divine through scripture, others through ideas, beliefs, and intuitions. The mystic seeks direct experience of the divine to explore its perceptual, emotional, and metaphysical nature and implications. For the mystic, the entire universe is conscious and alive, saturated by an all-encompassing, eternal and loving Presence. In its sacred and timeless consciousness, God becomes Creation itself. Those who awaken from the ego-driven, patriarchal dream of reality discover who and where they really are: divine humans in a divine world. As poetry is the voice of soul, mystical poetry is the voice of spirit awakening perception to an altogether transfigured world, a vision embraced by Rumi, Kabir, Hafez, Whitman and so many other poets who leave poetic footprints of a perennial wisdom that is ecstatic, liberating, and radically hopeful.   Opening to the Transformational Power of Mystical Poetry             Poetry written in mystical consciousness carries spiritual energy in its words and revelations. It awakens the same states, perceptions, and realizations in the reader. Each becomes a mystic in their own way. To accelerate this awakening, I encourage people to read mystical poetry aloud, discuss them with friends, find new depths of meaning through repeated readings, and use selected lines as mantras, prayers, or themes for contemplation. Approaching the verses with a still and silent mind allows God’s consciousness to permeate the reader’s, and soon poetry becomes a personal workshop for mystical realization.             While some mystical realizations may seem surprising or contrary to accepted beliefs, it’s important to resist skepticism, analysis or intellectual judgments that can undermine the intended awakening. Yes, many of these spiritual realizations may seem radical, but they are mystical revelations nonetheless and arise from the same timeless, eternal, universal, and sacred dimension of consciousness available to all of us, waiting patiently to awaken our divinity! Mystics have described this transcendent realm over countless millennia. Arguing with its revelations only means delaying their transformational power. Decades from now, when a new kind of spirituality has evolved, these realizations will seem obvious. For now, humanity is still learning how to experience God directly.   What It Means to Experience God             It is difficult to experience God if we see the self as separate, small or inconsequential, and God as distant, judgmental or inscrutable. By awakening our God-nature, we can experience the full power and possibilities of divine joy, love, compassion, and revelation. Projecting this power onto a fantasy of God “out there” leaves us waiting for the imagined “other” to act, inadvertently blocking our experience of own true nature, for the divine is who we already are! And by the way, becoming God is not what popular culture thinks or imagines, for no one becomes the all-power Biblical version. Rather, when the idea of me dissolves in mystical consciousness, what’s left is God. The mystics have been telling us this for eons. With social masks removed, I am God and so are you.             One last thing. I could have used other words for God, like Spirit, Beloved, One, Cosmic Consciousness, Mystery, and Higher Power, but when I do, people often say, “Don’t you mean God?” But more importantly, each of these words speaks to a facet of the divine, while the term God seems to me to be big enough to hold them all. And, despite its baggage, it has long been the traditional term used by Western Civilization. Be assured, however, its use here is not meant to imply gender, patriarchal authority, or specific religion. And it is definitely not meant to be just an abstract idea. Always feel free to substitute whatever word for God feels sacred to you.    You Are Invited into the Garden of Transformational Poetry             I left the world of compulsive doing to recite poetry in the luminous Garden of divine being. I invite you to join me there. Listen, the songbirds are singing sacred verse. Come visit me at https://www.johnrobinson.org and sample the inspired poetry of I Am God: Wisdom and Revelation from Mystical Consciousness.   I Am God by John C. Robinson is available from https://www.o-books.com or from wherever books are sold.   BOOK LINK:   https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/o-books/our-books/i-am-god