Excerpt from The JESUS TRILOGY Choice and Will Love and Surrender Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality GINA LAKE Copyright © 2014 by Gina Lake. All rights reserved. For more books and excerpts: http://www.radicalhappiness.com Gina Lake's Page on Amazon: http://amzn.to/18f3Ozz To Purchase The Jesus Trilogy on Amazon: Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B00OT67LOY Paperback: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1502752727 CONTENTS Three Books Choice and Will Chapter 1: Chapter 2: Chapter 3: Chapter 4: Chapter 5: Chapter 6: Chapter 7: Chapter 8: The Gift of Free Will The Unexamined Life The Small Will The Software The Chooser Nothing to Choose The Truth Living the Truth 1 Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality Chapter 1: The Illusory Reality Chapter 2: The Ego’s Reality Chapter 3: How Beliefs About Yourself Affect Your Reality Chapter 4: How Beliefs About Others Affect Your Reality Chapter 5: The Past, the Future, and Now Chapter 6: A Belief That Takes You Beyond Beliefs Love and Surrender Chapter 1: Chapter 2: Chapter 3: Chapter 4: Chapter 5: Chapter 6: What Is Surrendered Surrendering the “I” Surrendering Fear Surrendering “I Want” Surrendering Knowing Surrendering to Love in Relationships PREFACE I, who am known to you as Jesus the Christ, have dictated this trilogy of books for your freedom and enlightenment, and more are forthcoming. They were given in the order in which they appear in this volume, but they can be read in any order. As for who “I” am, I am the same “I am” that is within each of you. That was my message when I was alive two thousand years ago, and that is my message to you today. The man you knew as Jesus exists today in the dimension from which I am communicating. However, I am no longer a man or even a human, but spirit, as you are as well and as you will know yourself to be after you leave this earth. From the dimension where I exist, I am guiding the planet and am with all who pray to me, because I so deeply love the human race and the earth. Please understand that, although you knew me as a man who lived in ancient times, the body and personality I had then was merely a costume, just as your own body is a temporary costume. I am not bound to the persona of Jesus of Nazareth, although I often assume this persona when appearing or speaking to people, to 2 comply with their expectations. I exist with some individuality in this dimension but no set persona or personality. Some may find this heretical, but so be it. The man you knew as Jesus also exists today within each of you in spirit. The consciousness that is behind all life is no different than your own. They are one and the same. Your being is meant to shine as gloriously as I was said to have shone on resurrection day. Resurrection is a metaphor for what is possible within every human being. You are divine. My purpose is to bring you this very good news: You are divine and, now more than ever before in history, it is possible to realize your divinity, which is to say your loving and peaceful nature. Through simple awareness, inquiry, and a willingness to see the truth, you can become free of all that causes you to suffer and free to create the life you wish to live, which is the life the Father wishes for you as well. You are meant to be happy, and the willingness to explore and expose the false and limiting beliefs that keep you suffering and imprisoned is the key to your divinity and to everything you need to be happy. I am speaking to you through this author because she has the ability to transmit my words and because she has been devoted to me in many lifetimes as a religious person. However, you do not have to be religious or devoted to me to benefit from these teachings. You simply need to be open to investigating the mystery of who you are. I have not used Christian terminology in particular, because I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim or a Hindu, nor do I belong to any other religion or sect. I represent and have always represented the Consciousness within you. I reflected the Love that you are so that you could know it within you. That was my purpose. I did not come to be worshipped but to show you the way to love and worship all of life. Some will call this message new age, but there is nothing new about it. It is the message of everyone who has realized Christ Consciousness within themselves, which you will do one day as well, if you haven’t already. Please do not put a label on this message, as any label only causes separation, and my intent is to unite, not separate. My message was always one of peace, not separation, and this is my message now. Peace on earth will not come from seeing yourself as a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, or anything else, but by seeing yourself as you truly are, as I see you and know you, as the Father sees and knows you. When you can see the face of God in your neighbor and love and care for your neighbor as you would yourself, then peace will come to earth. Any belief that interferes with that must go. It is time now to live in harmony with each other. Some may say that these teachings are not the same as the ones I gave long ago. But these teachings are the ones I would give today if I were alive, and they are in words that I might use today. In the past, my voice and language was the voice and language of those times. For now, this is the voice and language I am choosing to use. 3 In the past, my teachings had to be couched in parables, but today they can be plainly spoken. The world is a very different place, and the culture you live in is a very different one. More importantly, consciousness has evolved and is finally ready for these words. In the past, these teachings were for the few who might benefit. Now many can gain from them. So I offer them to all who are willing to consider them. May they carry you more speedily to the peace and love you so long for and deserve. Excerpt from Chapter 1 of Choice and Will The Gift of Free Will You have been given the gift of free will. This gift requires one thing: consciousness. By consciousness, I mean awareness of the possibility of choice. Without this awareness, human beings would not be very different from animals, who function and survive primarily through instinct and other conditioning. Similarly, if you are not aware that you have a choice and if you don’t exercise it, you also will function mostly according to your instincts and conditioning. Human beings, like animals, are born with software, to use a metaphor, which largely determines how they respond to life. This software is designed to optimize survival but not other things essential to human beings, such as love, peace, happiness, and fulfillment. In fact, this software often interferes with achieving happiness and fulfillment. This software is primitive, although it has some functionality. It is useful in its proper domain, which is survival, but ineffectual and even counterproductive outside that domain. For instance, if you see a forest fire, this software motivates you to flee from the fire. However, when faced with the stresses of modern life, that same programming might cause you to flee your responsibilities or behave badly in your relationships. Fight or flight is a functional response only for issues related to survival. Fear is useful in responding to immediate threats to physical safety. It is not useful in dealing with the ordinary demands, including survival issues, of modern life, when fear is counterproductive. If you rely on your software to determine your responses to nonlife-threatening circumstances, they will be governed by the primitive, programmed, part of yourself, which is often called the ego. The ego is the software that gives you the sense that you are “in here,” inside your body, and everything else is “out there,” outside of and separate from you. The ego makes you feel alone and vulnerable to harm from others and life in general. You feel like “it’s me against the world.” The ego also makes it seem like you are your body and your mind. It seems like who you are is the body and the thinker of the thoughts that go through your mind. 4 However, this is hardly an adequate description of who you are. Your body and your mind are “yours,” after all, so who is this you to which the body and mind belong? While something experiences the body and something experiences thinking, there is actually nobody who is thinking those thoughts. Thinking is happening, but it isn’t happening to somebody or being done by somebody. You cannot find a who that thinking is happening to. It is just happening. If you argue, “Well, I am thinking,” then who is this I? You cannot find it. It is just a concept of I. It is just a thought about I. This truth is a bit obscure, but you can discover the truth for yourself by simply looking to see if there is someone in there who is thinking and by looking to see where your thoughts come from. When you investigate, you discover that who you think you are is not as tangible as you may have believed. The ego, or the programmed self, creates a sense of self and an identity from the thoughts about yourself. The sense of self created by the ego is often called the false self to distinguish it from your true nature. It is false because it doesn’t actually exist beyond thoughts about yourself. All the false self is, is thoughts about yourself. These thoughts tell you who you are, and you declare this to others: “I do not like green eggs and ham!” People rarely question their thoughts, where they come from, and if they are even true. They accept their mind’s description of themselves and hone this description daily with new information: “I do so like green eggs and ham.” (from the popular children’s book, Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss) This description of yourself is always changing to fit new information and experiences, but who is it that updates this information? Are you even aware of your ideas about yourself being updated? And do you always agree with the description? Who is it that can even observe this process? It seems that there is someone or something shaping the description and someone or something who is aware of this description and can agree or disagree with it. That’s interesting. Which one are you? It is as if there is a computer taking in information, processing it, and updating your self-images, like updates to your software. In fact, that is what the brain is. It is a computer that stores, processes, and accesses information. The information that goes into this computer comes from many different sources, which is why the information is sometimes contradictory and might even be false. The brain records information, but it does not have the wisdom to evaluate it: garbage in, garbage out, as the saying goes. When the brain does evaluate information, it does so based on other stored information. This process can hardly pass as wisdom, although it often does. Fortunately, something else does have wisdom, although what that is, is rather mysterious. So what is going on here? The brain stores and processes information, but you are much more than this computer-mind, aren’t you? Isn’t it more likely that you are what is able to be aware of and bring wisdom to the information your brain and other brains have processed? 5 This ability to be conscious of and think about thoughts distinguishes human beings from animals, whose ability to do this is rudimentary. And this is where free will comes in. You not only have the ability to be conscious of your thoughts—your software—but also the ability to choose what you think, that is, what you believe and how you define yourself! Moreover, you have the ability to choose how you will respond to your thoughts. In other words, unlike animals, you can override your software if you choose. This allows human beings to evolve by leaps and bounds, far beyond the ability that any other creature has to evolve. Through this amazing ability to choose, you become a co-creator with Life. Free will makes it possible for you to co-create with Life! What an amazing gift that is! You get to try your hand at shaping life alongside Life itself. There is little in life that is quite as exhilarating and fun as creating. Your ability to create, including make art, tell stories, compose music, write books, produce machines and new products, build institutions, uncover new information, develop technology, design and engineer structures, and discover new medicines, sets you apart from the rest of creation. The ability to override and operate beyond your instincts and the rest of your software—this gift of free will—is responsible for so many wonderful creations. Free will also allows you to become a destroyer of life. Free will even allows that. It allows you to destroy life, destroy love, destroy peace, and destroy your happiness. It allows you to be hateful, make war, be greedy, damage your environment, and be afraid. It allows you to make choices that lead to terrible outcomes. So free will comes at a cost: To enjoy the benefits of it, you will also suffer the effects until you learn to use your will more wisely. From the standpoint of the Infinite, because the Infinite honors free will and because it gave you this gift, no choice is ever considered wrong or bad. However, some choices lead to better outcomes than others. So to say that there are no wrong choices does not mean that there are not paths that are best not taken. But it is often difficult to know this about a choice beforehand. Through trial and error, you discover what is true and not true for you, what is beneficial and wise, and what is not. And even so-called bad or unpleasant outcomes can be appreciated for the inner gifts they bestow, such as courage, perseverance, wisdom, strength, patience, and compassion. The benevolence of life is such that no matter what you choose, that choice will contribute to your evolution. Suffering ensures that, and this is how it works: Evolution has a certain trajectory: It goes toward love. If your choices take you away from love, you suffer. That suffering will inevitably put you back on course. You get to choose, of course, how long that will take. Because suffering serves a purpose in pointing you toward Home, even suffering is a gift. Every choice either celebrates life and furthers creation or shows you the unworthiness of that choice and, in so doing, furthers your understanding. 6 The choices that lead to suffering always teach you something—usually a number of things. You may not realize what you have learned or be able to put that into words, but through every choice you make, life teaches you—it changes you. The choices that lead to the most suffering often reap the most gifts, the greatest learning. What is learned by suffering? At the very least, compassion. That is no small thing and not likely to be learned through other means. Empathy and compassion are only the beginning, however, for they naturally, although not immediately, flower into a desire to relieve suffering in others. Everyone who finds joy in serving others has no doubt suffered greatly in this lifetime or in others. Service is love, is it not? Love is identification with another as one’s own self. Giving to others as you would like to be given to naturally flows from this identification with others. Love is one of the sweetest fruits of suffering. Furthermore, if the experience of suffering is investigated, it will reveal the real cause of suffering, and that wisdom is an immeasurably valuable prize. The seeds of freedom are within the very thing that seems to imprison. Love is inescapable. If you fail to love, you feel the pain of a closed heart. That suffering underlines the importance of love, and so you seek love. That seeking eventually leads to finding love—to learning to love. Through every little act of love, you make your way Home. Whatever you choose, even choosing not to love, moves you closer to love and ultimately to your enlightenment. You cannot help but become enlightened. With every act of love, you become lighter, more filled with light, as the darkness is cast out. What is this darkness? It is ignorance of the Light: ignoring the Light while giving attention to something else. The darkness is nothing, really. It doesn’t exist but is merely the seeming absence of something that does exist: Light. What is Light? Light is another word for Love, for the energy of and behind all life. There is nothing but Light. It is the substance, the underlying ground of being, of which the universe—creation—is composed and from which everything is born. The only thing that can obscure the Light is acknowledging something else instead. This is a choice, of course. You are free to choose to acknowledge the truth of your unity with all creation or to acknowledge the sense of separateness, fear, and alienation, which are the byproducts of your software. Ignorance is believing that your software accurately represents the truth about who you are and about reality. Enlightenment is knowing the truth about who you are and about reality—and living that truth. Most human beings are in a prison of sorts. It is a prison created by seeing themselves and life as their thoughts describe, without realizing that their thoughts do not accurately represent reality. People who live in this prison do not question their thoughts and are not even particularly aware of them. They respond to their thoughts as if under a spell, as if commanded to follow them, as if they have no free will. They 7 are like puppets, with their software pulling the strings, asleep to life, asleep to reality. They are living an unexamined life. This creates a hell on earth, because the software is not simply stored information; it is corrupted with lies, fear, selfishness, and limiting beliefs. The software keeps people prisoners of their own fear, prisoners of lies, and prisoners of their own base emotions. There is little chance of happiness for those who respond so unthinkingly to their software, only suffering. Many remain imprisoned, angry, feeling victimized, and blaming others for their pain without realizing that they are their own jailor and their own persecutor. Their own minds are the cause of their pain and ill-doing! Suffering will eventually lead to their release but often not until they have brought more suffering to themselves and others. This would be a sorry state if there were no keys to this prison. The key is, in fact, free will. Free will allows people to stay in prison if they are choosing that, however unconscious that choice might be, and free will offers the possibility of freedom. The software is not even the problem, as some aspects of it are useful. The problem is not realizing the software’s limitations and believing it can do more than it was designed to do. Expecting your software to be capable of defining you and providing a philosophy by which to create a happy, peaceful, and loving life is like expecting your computer to be able to do those things for you. Looking to your thoughts for how to live your life is not much better than asking one of those Magic 8 fortunetelling balls that you had as a child what to do. Computers are not wise; they only store and process information. Your thoughts are not wise; they only reflect the information that you and others have acquired. Information is useful in its proper place, but information is not enough to guide you in this vast mystery called life. You are so much more than the information stored in your brains and so much more than what your thoughts tell you that you are. And yet, the software is so often what is running people’s lives. It is taken as the master when it is only a servant. The situation is made worse because the software promulgates and maintains the ego’s perspective, which is one of fear, lack, and self-centeredness. That is where the great deception and the suffering begin. The ego paints a picture of reality that is far from reality. It presents a philosophy or perspective that is anti-life and anti-love. When you follow such a philosophy, it has to lead to suffering, because how else will you discover the falseness of those beliefs and return to love? This situation is remedied by using your free will to see that the software is only software and that something else is available to guide life. You use your will to wake up from the domination of the programming, and then you use your will to make more conscious choices about what you will believe, how you will behave, and what you will do. 8 An enlightened being is one who is free from the limitations of the software, who creates life according to another will than the programming, a greater will: Thy will. When the programming of the puppet-self is no longer allowed to dominate and shape life, what is left is simply Life living itself. When that happens, only Thy will remains. When only Thy will remains, very little sense of having a will exists, only choosing that happens naturally without any conflict, confusion, or suffering, since those were merely byproducts of the software. ABOUT the AUTHOR Gina Lake is the author of over twenty books about awakening to one’s true nature, including From Stress to Stillness, Trusting Life, Embracing the Now, Radical Happiness, Choosing Love, All Grace, A Heroic Life, In the World but Not of It, and The Jesus Trilogy. She is also a gifted intuitive with a master's degree in counseling psychology and over twenty-five years’ experience supporting people in their spiritual growth. Her website offers information about her books, audiobooks, and online courses as well as free ebooks, book excerpts, a monthly newsletter, a blog, and audio and video recordings: http://www.RadicalHappiness.com Newsletter: Sign up for Gina Lake's Radical Happiness monthly newsletter and be one of the first to learn of Gina's new releases. For signing up, you will receive a free ebook by Gina and announcements of special events and offers. Your address will never be shared and you can unsubscribe at any time. 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Drawing from the wisdom traditions, psychology, mindfulness meditation, New Thought, and the author’s own experience as a spiritual teacher and counselor, From Stress to Stillness offers many practices and suggestions that will lead to greater peace and equanimity, even in a busy and stress-filled world. Buy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CM18OOY Embracing the Now: Finding Peace and Happiness in What Is. The Now—this moment—is the true source of happiness and peace and the key to living a fulfilled and meaningful life. Embracing the Now is a collection of essays that can serve as daily reminders of the deepest truths. Full of clear insight and wisdom, Embracing the Now explains how the mind keeps us from being in the moment, how to move into the Now and stay there, and what living from the Now is like. It also explains how to overcome stumbling blocks to being in the Now, such as fears, doubts, misunderstandings, judgments, distrust of life, desires, and other conditioned ideas that are behind human suffering. Buy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001S2PRVG Radical Happiness: A Guide to Awakening provides the keys to experiencing the happiness that is ever-present and not dependent on circumstances. This happiness doesn’t come from getting what you want, but from wanting what is here now. It comes from realizing that who you think you are is not who you really are. This is a radical perspective! Radical Happiness describes the nature of the egoic state of consciousness and how it interferes with happiness, what awakening and enlightenment are, and how to live in the world after awakening. Buy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001SERWRQ Trusting Life: Overcoming the Fear and Beliefs That Block Peace and Happiness. Fear and distrust keep us from living the life we were meant to live, and they are the greatest hurdles to seeing the truth about life—that it is good, abundant, 10 supportive, and potentially joyous. Trusting Life is a deep exploration into the mystery of who we are, why we suffer, why we don’t trust life, and how to become more trusting. It offers evidence that life is trustworthy and tools for overcoming the fear and beliefs that keep us from falling in love with life. Buy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005D1CGHG In the World but Not of It: New Teachings from Jesus on Embodying the Divine: From the Introduction, by Jesus: “I came to show you the beauty of your own soul and what is possible as a human. I came to show you that it is possible to be both human and divine, to be love incarnate. You are equally both. You walk with one foot in the world of form and another in the Formless. This mysterious duality within your being is what this book is about.” This book is another in a series of books dictated to Gina Lake by Jesus. Buy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E2ZYWES All Grace: New Teachings from Jesus on the Truth About Life. Grace is the mysterious and unseen movement of God upon creation, which is motivated by love and indistinct from love. All Grace was given to Gina Lake by Jesus and represents his wisdom and understanding of life. It is about the magnificent and incomprehensible force behind life, which created life, sustains it, and operates within it as you and me and all of creation. All Grace is full of profound and life-changing truth. Buy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N6Y3CBW Choosing Love: Moving from Ego to Essence in Relationships. Having a truly meaningful relationship requires choosing love over our conditioning, that is, our ideas, fantasies, desires, images, and beliefs. Choosing Love describes how to move beyond conditioning, judgment, anger, romantic illusions, and differences to the experience of love and Oneness with another. It explains how to drop into the core of our Being, where Oneness and love exist, and how to be with others from there. Buy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JASQD2W The Jesus Trilogy. In this trilogy by Jesus, are three jewels, each shining in its own way and illuminating the same truth: You are not only human but divine, and you are meant to flourish and love one another. In words that are for today, Jesus speaks intimately and directly to the reader of the secrets to peace, love, and happiness. He explains the deepest of all mysteries: who you are and how you can live as he taught long ago. The three books in The Jesus Trilogy were dictated to Gina Lake by Jesus and 11 include Choice and Will, Love and Surrender, and Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality. Each of the books in the trilogy is also available individually and can be read in any order. Buy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OT67LOY A Heroic Life: New Teachings from Jesus on the Human Journey. The hero’s journey—this human life—is a search for the greatest treasure of all: the gifts of your true nature. These gifts are your birthright, but they have been hidden from you, kept from you by the dragon: the ego. These gifts are the wisdom, love, peace, courage, strength, and joy that reside at your core. A Heroic Life shows you how to overcome the ego’s false beliefs and face the ego’s fears. It provides you with both a perspective and a map to help you successfully and happily navigate life’s challenges and live heroically. This book is another in a series of books dictated to Gina Lake by Jesus. Buy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WFG2B4A Living in the Now: How to Live as the Spiritual Being That You Are. The 99 essays in Living in the Now will help you realize your true nature and live as that. They answer many questions raised by the spiritual search and offer wisdom on subjects such as fear, anger, happiness, aging, boredom, desire, patience, faith, forgiveness, acceptance, love, commitment, hope, purpose, meaning, meditation, being present, emotions, trusting life, trusting your Heart, and many other deep subjects. These essays will help you become more conscious, present, happy, loving, grateful, at peace, and fulfilled. Each essay stands on its own and can be used for daily contemplation. Buy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004GEAP88 Being Happy (Even When You Don’t Get What You Want): The Truth About Manifesting and Desires will help you discriminate between your Heart’s desires and the ego’s and to relate to the ego’s desires in a way that reduces suffering and increases joy. By pointing out the myths about desire that keep us tied to our ego’s desires and the suffering they cause, Being Happy (Even When You Don't Get What You Want) will help you be happy regardless of your desires and whether you are attaining them. So it is also about spiritual freedom, or liberation, which comes from following the Heart, our deepest desires, instead of the ego’s desires. It is about becoming a lover of life rather than a desirer. Buy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001S2PNV0 12 Return to Essence: How to Be in the Flow and Fulfill Your Life’s Purpose describes how to get into the flow and stay there and how to live life from there. Being in the flow and not being in the flow are two very different states. One is dominated by the ego-driven mind, which is the cause of suffering, while the other is the domain of Essence, the Divine within each of us. We are meant to live in the flow. The flow is the experience of Essence—our true self—as it lives life through us and fulfills its purpose for this life. Buy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001SN7LHS Getting Free: Moving Beyond Negativity and Limiting Beliefs. Freedom from your conditioning is possible, but the mind is a formidable opponent to freedom. To be free requires a new way of thinking or, rather, not thinking. To a large extent, healing our conditioning involves changing our relationship to our mind and discovering who we really are. Getting Free will help you do that. It will also help you reprogram your mind; clear negative thoughts and self-images; use meditation, prayer, forgiveness, and gratitude; work with spiritual forces to assist healing and clear negativity; and heal entrenched issues from the past. Buy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001T4YUDE Ten Teachings for One World: Wisdom from Mother Mary is a message from Mother Mary to her beloved children on earth. The teachings are intended to bring us into closer contact with the peace and love that is our divine nature, which has the ability to transform our hearts and our world. Mother Mary’s gentle wisdom will inspire and assist you in awakening to the magnificent being that you are. Buy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EKXULUC For more information, please visit: http://www.RadicalHappiness.com/books 13
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