It was a clear, crisp fall day when my family and I arrived at the site of our church retreat. We arrived late as we had a few unexpected delays after work, but we were there! I had been looking forward to getting together with this particular group of friends for quite some time. I knew them to be a people who were actively seeking relationship with the Divine, and there was great power when they got together.
We walked in to the middle of the opening service. The group was sitting in meditative silence, listening to soft, worshipful music when we arrived. I could feel the power as soon as I walked in the door. I knew they would be sitting this way for quite some time, so I immediately sat down allowed myself to be drawn into meditation.
I had been learning a new technique to get inside my heart and expand my being so I could better experience the energies around me. As I sat in this silent state with people around me all seeking the same thing, I allowed the power of the group to assist my personal journey.
I calmed myself, focused on my breathing and my heartbeat, and pictured my spirit totally centered in my heart. I then allowed my spirit to expand itself to the confines of the room...the retreat center...the county I was in...the state of Georgia...the United States...the continent...the hemisphere...the whole earth...and then I allowed my being to expand infinitely in all directions without limit.
The place I arrived at was totally unexpected, but infinitely profound. It's a place I have since begun to call Oneness because everything was present. I found myself exploring the world in very intimate ways. Absolutely everything I had ever known about in this lifetime, and everything I never knew existed, lived in this place. I explored the Mona Lisa and the Taj Mahal. I became one tiny blade of grass, and I enjoyed the happiness it felt at its contribution to the earth. I felt the energies of people and animals and emotions. It surprised me to discover that all emotions--even the ones we consider negative like hate and sadness--were present here. The truly odd thing was that those emotions we consider negative were not negative in this place of Oneness. The overall feeling was one of happiness and joy.
Perhaps the most profound experience for me in this place of Oneness was my experience with money. In this life, I have felt very separate from money. Consequently, I have not had very much of it. In the place of Oneness, I understood that I am one with everything, and money is part of everything. I am not separate from money! I felt the frequency of money so powerfully I could feel it communicating with me. I could feel its sadness at my perception that I was separate from it. I felt that it loved me and wanted to be part of my life but we had been kept apart because I my perception of separateness. Yes, these are rather strange thoughts to be thinking, but the rules of Oneness are vastly different from the rules we believe to exist here on planet Earth.
In the years since, I have gone back to this place as frequently as I could, although never as powerfully as I did that profound weekend. My initial experience was definitely assisted by the power of the group of people I was with, who had all come together for the single purpose of relationship.
I believe each one of us can tap into that same power, although the more of us that come together in united purpose, the greater our ability to change the course of the planet for the better. This is exactly why I begin my monthly online radio shows with a meditation. It is my goal to not only go to this place of Oneness myself, but I also desire to help others attain this as well. There is so much information, wisdom and truth we can access from Oneness!!! For me, it is a much better and more profound way to live.
In the chaos that surrounds us, I encourage you to seek out this place of Oneness for yourself. Not only will it change your life, but the lives of all those you come into contact with will be infinitely changed is you learn to express your most beautiful, divine self!!!
~CSE
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