Heavenletters

I do not see anything in what you are saying, Jochen, as disagreeing with what I am saying. (If you did disagree, that is all good too, but here I think we totally agree.) We both struggle with the same or similar uncertainties and hold slightly different angles from which we approach them.

I am going to try to paraphrase what I take as the gist of what you are saying. I’m sure you will forgive any inaccuracy.

We come from similar backgrounds (or so I surmise). As you say it, we come from “a path of (seeming) total powerlessness.” This may be a bit of an overstatement, but at least a strong feeling of powerlessness. I think this is true, though, of most everyone. We were raised in what I would call a traditional worldview based on scientific materialism. The assumptions of this view are that the world can be analyzed and reduced down to the level of the most basic and fundamental particles and forces. It is assumed that everything can then be explained on the actions of these basic ingredients. Of course, even consciousness is seen in this view as an epiphenomenon of human neuronal function. We were taught to work hard in our studies and our physical labor. The promise was that through this effort we would be rewarded with material success and the accolades of society. One of the Heavenletters addresses this and characterized this worldview as providing very little true reward for an enormous amount of effort. Certainly in my experience I would agree with that assessment since true satisfaction and fulfillment does not arise from wealth nor honors, or at least the rewards are quite fleeting.

If I understand rightly what you are talking about when you describe the many modern teachings that tell us how to simply bypass counterproductive intentions, I have to agree that I struggle with these also. What I have in mind are teachings such as Napoleon Hill’s book and the popular movie “The Secret.” It is my observation that such approaches work for a few people but something in my mind, like yours, says “No!” to imagining and feeling a goal that we know doesn’t now exist.

I totally agree with you that the Heavenletters provide a worldview that is “special and incomparably precious.” This view of reality, and of our source of power, is much more sophisticated than anything I have read previously with the possible exception of certain passages in the New Testament of which the letters share much. This worldview, to me, turns our traditional assumptions on their head, describing the material world as illusion and a non-material realm (Heaven) as the true reality. By learning to apprehend this spiritual plane (listening to out heart), we learn the true meaning of what we experience on the physical plane.

As I’ve said in earlier comments, I also struggle with this viewpoint. I think the main reason I struggle is because it goes against much of what I have directly experienced as true in the past. It seems like we must be a little insane to give up as untrue what we have always known to be reliably accurate. Two things, though, encourage me to stay on this path and work toward this new awareness. One is the powerful, deep feeling of resonance I feel in my heart as I read the letters. The other is experiencing the results of applying what you have described as the “disarmingly gentle” suggestions the letters contain and feeling my confidence build as I feel my life changing for the better.

Discussions like this are yet another blessing…..Chuck