Lesson 1 – Introduction
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” Steve Jobs
Introduction
You have just completed an introductory mini-course that precedes this one. Completion of that course is required before you can enter this one. The mini-course was designed to help motivate you to become interested in The Arc of Creation Course.
I’m making the mini-course available to everyone, including those who haven’t enrolled in the Arc Of Creation Course. It provides a brief sample lesson format and a view into how I share this knowledge.
With the information in the Arc of Creation course, you will gain access to the knowledge you need to answer all three key questions. When you complete this course, you will need to choose one of two possible results:
1. Either continue to operate as you were conditioned to do
—OR—
2. Commit to becoming WHO YOU CAME HERE TO BE using the knowledge and information I share in this course.
The people who can make this necessary change in their lives will be the ones who are supported well in the future. The Daily Visualization Exercise will be accessible to course members by clicking the first link at the top of the paid course page. You will need to perform this exercise without fail every day for about one year to gain permanent and positive improvement of your mental and emotional coefficients. This is a serious commitment and one that I don’t take lightly. You must do this to progress and form a solid balance in your life to become who you came to be.
Those who can’t make this change will be part of the group that experiences maximum pain and suffering. “The Turn” we’re all going through for the remainder of this century is unavoidable and will accelerate with time. We need to purge many people from the face of the Earth, and this is the only way we’ll survive. Right now, we have seven going on nine billion people, and the Earth can sustainably support less than 1 billion. People live a long time and put a significant “drag” on our resources, so an unfolding is necessary to reduce the excess so a reasonable number can survive. This is the way evolution strengthens itself when things get too “fat,” so to speak.
Join the positive change group and learn how to Become Who You Came Here To Be. This is the group of people that my knowledge base is focused upon.
People Don’t Know
Most people on Earth don’t know what they want in life. They float about aimlessly, letting external circumstances run their lives as their material desires pique their interests. Acquiring money and material possessions becomes all-consuming. What is human life all about anyway? Is the result of leading a successful life meant only for those who rise to the economic top of the heap? No. Not at all. Those who take that path are the ones who suffer the most, particularly when they lose their hard-earned possessions and attachments when they die.
We exist in a material world with a system of time and space that allows us to learn how to control our willpower. When we get it under control and push it to its limits, we will discover how much we can accomplish in the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual realms. It is not about how much we can accumulate for ourselves but about who we become and our value to society while we are on that path.
To me, a successful life is marked by the ability to coordinate physical accomplishments with divine or cosmic principles. Essentially, to become a responsible co-creator with the Force (I call The Purposiveness) that put this whole system together in the first place. What purpose is there in life if everything is lost upon death? Our physical accomplishments can live beyond our lifetime, but we cannot take them with us. So, what is it that genuinely has value beyond our current lifetime?
The only thing you can take with you upon death is the experience you gain while living your life in the physical world. That’s it! And, of course, that experience is governed by the law of karma.
You must realize that the pent-up reactions you’ve created from the various actions you’ve made during your lifetime must be resolved – some time and somewhere in the future. All energy gets resolved in this world, and we cannot escape that law of physics. If we could, our 3-dimensional world would collapse, and we wouldn’t exist. Since we do, this relationship is much more critical than most people think.
It is your life experience (hopefully more positive than negative) that you are to emphasize, maximize, and optimize. You can’t do much about the past. The more you focus correctly on creating positive future experiences, the more you are supported by The Purposiveness, and the greater will be your ultimate soul growth and true fulfillment while alive.
If you go off without direction instead, you will allow the material world and its lower-level sensory temptations to guide your life. However, life is not meant to be fulfilled using only your five senses. It is intended to be fulfilled through your accomplishments and co-creativity – your excellent achievements in work, relationships, and other tangible and intangible areas. Here, you can focus your energy positively and receive optimum fulfillment.
Your soul applauds your efforts when you make good choices before initiating the actions required to fulfill your accomplishments. When you don’t, you get whiplashed by the reactions to your poor actions. For every step made, there is an opposite and equal reaction somewhere and sometime in the future – guaranteed!
By reviewing the various concepts in this Arc of Creation Course, you will gain new insights into what makes you tick – what makes you satisfied and happy and what doesn’t. You must be faithful to yourself and adjust your life to focus on accomplishing positive desires while maximizing good experiences in the areas where your strengths lie. You should use these guideposts to find out what you came here to do, and this is the path you should follow.
Life Is Short
Your one severe limitation in this evolutionary process is that your life is very short, and one day, you will die. There is only so much time to go around, so be careful with your time! Use it wisely before it’s gone.
Are you here to become a spiritual being isolated from material physical desires and experiences presented to you during daily living? I don’t think so. Instead, it would be best to approach life from a position of balance – carefully balancing both the spiritual and physical worlds. Earth is a place to experience the material, so obviously, there is some advantage to being here in a physical body. Where you ultimately go upon death is unknown to us mortal beings. Still, I suspect it is where the spiritual plane exists and where we continue evolving and eventually resolve whatever we’ve experienced to head in a positive direction.
Here Is What I Learned
I spent many years exploring the spiritual world, and as I did, I was removed from everyday daily life and its sensory values, and I found that I no longer fit in with what was happening here on earth. I also discovered that I no longer needed a physical body (life was so much more than that). I realized my true home was not here on earth in this lifetime. It was somewhere else, in an undefinable place, but one that I could feel on a subtle level. With that realization, what would I do with the remainder of my time left on the earth when I no longer felt a part of what was going on? I’m still here, and that dilemma has become a real problem.
I eventually discovered that my life on this earth has a dual purpose – to help me learn about things I need to experience further to develop my consciousness and to help others who need to awaken to this possibility. I gradually accumulated a body of knowledge that I felt obligated to share. There was no rush since when I came up with it, it was not valued and would not have been attractive to sensory-driven people. I wasn’t sure if I would ever share this knowledge with anyone since the significant moments of change for the human race always come when people are experiencing tremendous pain and suffering – not when they are “fat and happy” as they were when I received this knowledge. Recent times and events, however, show me that it’s finally appropriate to share what I have and is now what I’m doing. The time I was waiting for is now!
My primary responsibility is to myself to further my growth. And, secondarily I need to be concerned about the growth of others since the opportunity to do so finally has presented itself. This concern and focus, however, doesn’t encompass all human beings. Instead, it is meant to touch just those capable of awakening to who they are. The beauty of this process is that when I am working with and helping other people do that, I am simultaneously gaining my most significant soul growth. Sometimes, these encounters are positive, and sometimes they are harmful. It doesn’t matter. Given enough time and by working with enough people, they all help and contribute to the furtherance of mankind and my own soul’s progression.
Another conclusion that I’ve realized over time is that to lead a spiritual life in a materially oriented physical world, everyone needs adequate financial independence. This allows them to accomplish goals and to isolate themselves from others who may have limited knowledge and who will hinder their progress. Most people are ignorant of life’s processes and cannot help you in any valuable way. They are scared when you try to change and hinder your progress. As I’ll share later in the Scale of Consciousness lesson, only about 2% of humanity can understand these insights. And not all 2% have fully awakened to themselves and expanded their inborn abilities.
So, What Does This Mean For You?
Protect yourself as best you can so that you can open up and follow your path with minimal external pressure and unnecessary control that has little to do with expressing Cosmic or Divine laws and their principles. Remove yourself from the old consciousness surrounding you and quietly try to make a change within your life without guidance or influence from other people. They will only try to keep you “in the fold.” Gradually, as your life positively changes, you can share how to do this with a few others. Just don’t try to do that initially when you first start. Keep your new direction quiet and to yourself.
Man’s laws are only that – man’s laws. They have yet to be developed through correct sensing, feeling, and knowing. They are only there as checks and balances to keep people “fat, dumb, and happy” while special interest groups further their material gain at the expense of others. That system needs to cease and will gradually self-destruct on its own. So leave it alone – it will collapse from its weight. Go in a completely different direction – positive and correct for your development. Worry about others later when you finally make lasting and positive changes within your own life.
This unfortunate influence that our current society has on us is well defined through the words of Albert Einstein, who said, “We see before us a huge community of producers, the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor – not by force, but on the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules.”
Your opportunity for change exists only when you realize that society as you know it isn’t real. It promotes an illusion that you have been conditioned to buy into almost without fail. You need to look at this and conclude that it is time for you to carve out your own correct and ideal life path to be honest about your destiny. It’s time to leave the group “think” behind and move in a new direction.
You must remove yourself from the illusionary world that has brainwashed you to accept what is promoted. Instead, you can re-enter it on your terms and for your benefit once you learn how to change or just completely side-step it. Also, please realize that with the knowledge you will gain through this course, you will be responsible for leading your life according to God’s rules (the rules and process set out by Purposiveness), not man’s. Misuse of this knowledge will not take you far. Using it correctly is an even more challenging task than you have had to bear before and will be a severe challenge. If possible, you’re here to experience this, and I fully support your efforts.
To Be In The World But Not Of The World
It’s much easier to accomplish your goals if you develop an adequate level of financial independence that allows you to create a structure that removes the majority of financial burdens from your path. Any other way of getting there is challenging and limiting since you will need money to survive in our current world. However, financial independence doesn’t have to mean you need a lot of money. Instead, learn how to be in the world without costing too much. Your needs should be simple, and your possessions should be limited to what you need to accomplish your goals, not what your insatiable sensory apparatus desires.
Very few of us can walk a pure spiritual path without some material power. We have commitments that require that we participate in daily life with others and help care for them. We could walk away from these responsibilities and find a quiet place, far out in the wilderness or some similar position, and spend the rest of our lives contemplating our Creator. But if that was our calling, why were we given these physical bodies and born into this particular country in the first place? Wouldn’t we avoid the opportunity to participate within the physical plane and gain maximum growth through correct responses? Unless your Life Path requires that you become a sage or a saint, a reasonable amount of money is one of the significant needs that must be dealt with to fulfill the remainder of your requirements for the rest of your life.
How much money is enough? That, of course, varies according to each individual’s life path. That is a requirement when developing a sound Life Plan – to concentrate on your need for money and get it firmly in control before you venture further. For some people, a small amount of money will be adequate to pursue their true Life Path. For others, a large amount may be required. But for all, removing debt entirely should be a common goal.
Please remember that money is a medium of exchange. It only represents the external energy you need to add to your internal energy to accomplish your goals. It doesn’t have to be used for selfish purposes. If it comes to you in large amounts, it will put you to the test to see if you can utilize it for what it truly represents – the opportunity to maximize the development of your soul through serving others.
Create Your Own Personal Summary
Read and re-read the information that I’m sharing with you. After you can contemplate it for a while, take a sheet of paper and write a summary of who you are right now, as you can best define it. Maybe you’ve already done this and can use that summary to get started. If you haven’t, condense your attempt as much as possible and put it into words, numbers, and symbols that include the bare essence of your findings.
By attempting to summarize this information in your own way, you will gradually assimilate it to create a condensed portrait of yourself – yet one filled with much personal meaning. This summary should reflect who you are right now. Who you should be to fulfill your destiny for being here on Earth is likely an entirely different you. You should review and rewrite this summary at the end of this course. I’m sure you will have changed. Much more is to come, and you’ll enjoy the positive increase when you practice the daily visualization exercise I provide. This course aims to help you find that “future” you and establish a plan for you to get there.
Over time, you should continue to come back to your Personal Summary and rework it with any new information that you might find important.
Gradually, as you continue through life and learn more about your true self, you should be able to add additional summarizing words, numbers, symbols, and expressions that further illustrate who you are and help you refine what you came here to become.
Even though there may be an underlying life path for everyone, we each have free will to decide if and when we will listen to the promptings of our soul and whether we will follow them. Because of this freedom, our options are constantly changing. As these options change, we need to be fluid enough to satisfy our heart’s desire and fulfill our destiny through many ways that will present themselves.
There is no right or wrong way to do this. As long as you learn to detach from the dictatorship of your conscious, rational, logical mind and its assertive focus on sensory gratification and instead allow Divine Will to interact with your own, you can take a delightful trip down the river of life. You will already be on your way when you release yourself from society’s prescribed belief system.
Remember, happiness, satisfaction, and true fulfillment come from the trip, not from getting there. So take your time and try to do things well.
In one of the following lessons in this course, I will ask you to complete a quiz to help determine how well your intuition currently works in your life. The goal of doing this is to assess your ability to become a visionary. It would help if you did that to make it through the highly challenging transitional period we will go through during the remainder of this century. Increasing and improving your intuitive capabilities is a critical accomplishment that every one of us must make, and what I would like you to focus on doing once you’ve gone through the lessons in this course.
Even if you do not test high on the visionary quiz, you can improve your score by adopting the insights you’ll learn in this course. This quiz provides a beginning inventory to find out where you’re at before any changes are made. There are no right or wrong answers, just a scale to improve your ability. Have fun taking this quiz. You can come back later as you work on yourself to retake it and to determine your new score.
Your Next Step
Before further expanding your understanding of yourself, you must answer the following: How Does The Universe Work and Why? You can figure out what you came here to do with your life with an excellent answer. Without that answer, you’ll be caught in a vicious loop, trying to understand Who You Currently Are but unable to change to Become Who You Need To Be.
So this is the proper order in which your three questions need to be answered:
1. How Does The Universe Work and Why?
2. What Did I Come Here To Do With My Life?
3. Who Am I Currently and, more importantly, Who Do I Need To Be To Fulfill What I Came Here To Do With My Life? That’s a critical question that depends on the above two answers and is one of the reasons I’m sharing how to do this.
This course is structured in such a way as to help you answer the above three critical questions in their necessary order. The lessons within this course’s first section help you define and understand The Universe so you can adequately answer all three crucial questions.