Living The Way of Mastery with Jason Amoroso
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Living The Way of Mastery with Jason Amoroso
Lesson 15: Accepting The Resurrection For Yourself
Lesson 15: Love or Fear - The Choice Is Yours
Section 4: Accepting The Resurrection For Yourself
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Can the choice between love and fear really reshape your life? Join us as we journey through the transformative power of embracing love over fear. We challenge the need for external validation and encourage you to recognize your true identity as the living Christ, free from societal constraints.
Inspired by profound teachings like A Course in Miracles and the psychological insights of Carl Jung, we explore how understanding our shadows can lead to personal rebirth and freedom. Discover how acknowledging your intrinsic worth and capacity for love can allow you to live authentically and celebrate your existence every day.
Our discussion takes a deep dive into dismantling the illusions of fear and judgment, revealing how these are mere constructs of our minds. We emphasize that love is the only reality, and loss is an illusion, inviting you to reclaim your peace by choosing love. Through this lens, we realize that our experiences are neutral and shaped by our perceptions, empowering us to transform our lives consciously. This episode is a guide to finding stillness amid mental clutter using practices like breathwork, helping you tune into your inner voice and reject the narratives of separation and victimhood.
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Hello and welcome back to my sixth attempt at this episode. My name is Jason Amoroso, your guide, friend and fellow student. And today we continue with Lesson 15, love or Fear. The choice is yours. And if that's all we said every single day love or fear what are you going to choose? Who are you going to be in each moment? That would be enough. But we're not just going to do that, we're going to dive into the final section of this lesson, section four accepting the resurrection for yourself.
Speaker 1:And this message was delivered, I think, during Easter time, and it obviously doesn't matter if you're listening at Easter time or not, or reading at Easter time, it's just all relevant to where we are. So let's begin. Jeshua says, upon this Easter, or whenever you read this, recognize that you have the power to celebrate and accept your resurrection as the living Christ by seeing beyond the boundaries of death, loss, fear, hurt, anger, projection and the perceptions upon which projection rests. You are the one you, in italics, you are the one who has been reborn when you choose to remember only loving thoughts. So just want to re-emphasize over and over again these themes that it's your choice. No one has the power to choose for you. You don't have to wait to be anointed by God, by Jesus, by your boss, by your significant other, by the world, that the number of followers you have. You don't have to wait to be anointed. You've already been anointed. You exist. So you have the power only you. The world doesn't. You have the power to choose, to remember only loving thoughts. No one can control your mind. They might try and influence you, but no one can get into your mind and operate you like. You are a robot. This is your pet, no matter what's happening in your world, no matter if you get diagnosed with cancer and everyone around you is doom and gloom. You don't have to agree with that. You don't have to feel the way they feel. You don't have to think the way they feel.
Speaker 1:You get to choose what your experience will be, as you are having a cancer experience. I know that's a very extreme example and it applies in any part of life. It could be the election A little bit less than half the people in the United States very upset after the results. A little bit more than half of the people in the United States very upset after the results. A little bit more than half of the people in the United States, probably excited or at least feeling something positive after the results. But it doesn't matter. You get to choose who you are going to be, regardless of what anyone else is thinking and feeling. This is your freedom, this is your power, so let us practice it, exercise it Upon this Easter or whenever you read this, recognize, meaning, re-know that you have the power to celebrate and accept your resurrection that word is in italics your resurrection.
Speaker 1:Jeshua is going to say Easter isn't about me, it's actually about you. But we want to celebrate. You know, and a lot of my experience I'm not saying I'm right, this is just my perception of a lot of religion is it's all about Jesus. He's the Savior, he's the special one, he's the Son of God and you're not. And then some branches of religion or Christianity go even more extreme. Like you're a sinner, he saved you from your sin and I'm not buying the specialness. And Jesus says don't make me special, I'm not special. These things and more you shall do. So you don't have to wait.
Speaker 1:You have the power to celebrate that you are the living Christ right now, not one day when you heal all your issues, one day when you feel a certain way. It doesn't matter how you feel. It doesn't matter if you judge yourself. You're still the living Christ. You're just masquerading or charading in a way that you're not, but a part of you knows who you are. A part of you is pretending to not know who you are. We're being invited to step into the truth of who we are if you want to.
Speaker 1:Some people want to still stay asleep or still pretend who they're not. If you're reading this, a part of you, a bigger part of you, wants to wake up to who you are and have that be your lived experience in your daily life. It doesn't matter if you do amazing things and you send rocket ships to space or you cure cancer, or you build a billion dollar business or you have a struggling business making $15,000 a year and you're poor and you're homeless. It doesn't matter what you're doing, your accomplishments or lack thereof in the world. You are the living Christ and you are not just worthy of love. That's what you are. You're not worthy, you're not unworthy. You are it and you can claim that for yourself, regardless of your station in life. This is the message of freedom and nothing, regardless of your station in life, nothing, can prevent you from expressing love, from being kind, from being generous, from standing and speaking your truth, for following your heart, for taking the risk, for making mistakes. Nothing can stop you from being fully human and fully in your love.
Speaker 1:At the same time, I'm going to share a great video here I found on Instagram. It's a clip from spiritual teacher Matt Kahn, which is saying this idea you don't have to wait to celebrate your existence, to celebrate life. You don't have to wait till you're healed. You don't have to wait till you get rid of all the stuff that you're working on Otherwise. Basically, you're saying I got to fix all this stuff until I celebrate and that day never comes. It never comes. We're always. If we're in a body, you're here to learn and to grow, so you have stuff. That's the whole point of being in earth school.
Speaker 2:Here's the spiritual delusion. Once I fix and clear all this stuff, then I'll celebrate. Here's the real truth. Until I start celebrating, I have all this crap to work on. So if you start celebrating now, with all the stuff, that's how you actually transmute it. And when enough of us are gathered in this planet, have entered the celebration, that's when something called an Earth is remembered as something or somewhere called heaven and we realize that earth was a big costume party. That happened in heaven. And if enough of us can join the celebration, all of heaven's highest attributes wake up in every human being and all of the lower attributes that keep us imagining we're less than or other than heaven begin to dissolve.
Speaker 1:So one of the ways you can celebrate and accept your resurrection, your rebirth as the living Christ, is by seeing beyond the boundaries of death and loss and fear and hurt. These boundaries feel like they're solid walls that are keeping us pent in or keeping us trapped or keeping us limited. Solid walls that are keeping us pent in or keeping us trapped or keeping us limited. They are seeming boundaries, they are illusions that we believe are real. So we it's like the elephant. I think the story is like the elephant, that when you tie an elephant's leg to a stake in the ground and it can only walk in a certain radius, and then once you take that stake out, the elephant won't leave that radius. It kind of thinks it's still penned in by the stake in the ground and tied to it. That's like us. We think we're in a prison, a cage, and trapped in it. Meanwhile the bars are an illusion, the cage, the door is open, we can leave at any time. There's lots of experiments with animals, I feel like, where they've done that same test kind of a thing, where it's like they restrict them and then they let them free but they don't go free because they're so used to being restricted Free your mind.
Speaker 1:Wasn't that Bob Marley's big thing? Free your mind. Isn't that what the Matrix is about? Free your mind. It doesn't matter if your body's in prison, like Nelson Mandela, for 20 plus years. Free your mind, and you are free because you are not the body. All right. So see beyond the boundaries, the seeming boundaries of death. Death cannot confine you.
Speaker 1:The part of you that believes that you're a body, that believes you're a nervous system and you're always on the lookout for threats, both physical threats, emotional threats, mental threats that part of you is afraid. It thinks it believes, it is convinced that you are, that you are a body. You are separate. You can die, you can be harmed when we pay attention and we feed that wolf. That part of us that thinks that we're, that we're in constant fight or flight mode, we're constantly looking for threats, we're constantly in survival mode. If we stop just giving all of that our focus and our attention and our validation and we start to shift to a different way of being, a different voice, the still small voice inside that says you are eternal, that you are not the body, that this world can't contain you, nor can it harm you, in truth, that there is more for you, even beyond this physical human experience. So be not afraid.
Speaker 1:You do not cease to exist when you die, of course, so many of that's like one of the deepest fears that we have that will, I guess, cease to exist. Or, in some cases, people believe that they'll go to hell and burn for eternity. Believe that they'll go to hell and burn for eternity. No, you are an eternity. You are a wave in the ocean of love. You are an aspect, an individuated expression of the source of all. That is this loving, intelligent, powerful energy, consciousness in expression. You do not cease to exist ever, and there's so many accounts of this.
Speaker 1:People who've had near-death experiences, the enlightened masters there's so many accounts of you are. You reside beyond the body. People who have had plant medicine journeys. People have had lsd experiences, all different kinds of experiences. Again, there's so many books dying to be me by ornita morjani is one I've shared many times. Uh, conversations with jerry and other people I thought were dead. I've had experiences where I Again, there's so many books Dying to be me by Anita Morjani is one I've shared many times Conversations with Jerry and other people I thought were dead.
Speaker 1:I've had experiences where I've worked with a healer, if you want to call her that. I mean, she's more than that, where she's literally had conversations with my brother, with me. My brother's been dead out of a body for I don't know three years and she's telling me things that no one else would know, that she couldn't know if she did a billion years of research on Google about my brother and me. She's having conversation, she's hearing him and sharing it with me. So can we just accept that I know a part of our brain is skeptical or doesn't want to believe or is afraid to believe?
Speaker 1:Can we just accept that we are eternal, the boundaries of death have no power over us, beyond the seeming boundaries of loss, that you can truly not lose anything? That is real? Only love is real, to quote A Course in Miracles, and only love is real and nothing real can be threatened and nothing unreal exists. Therein lies the peace of God. There is no such thing as loss in reality with a capital R In the human experience. Yes, we can lose money, we can lose limbs, we can lose a person in our life, but we don't actually lose the love. That is the essence of the thing. Ever If you had shared true love with someone and then they left, they died, they betrayed you, they just ran away. The love that you share with them is real. That stays, if you want it to stay.
Speaker 1:Fear false evidence appearing real. It's not real. It appears real and when we make it real again, it's like we react to something that we're creating in our own mind. So, by seeing beyond the seeming boundaries of death and loss and fear, they have no true substance to them. Anger, hurt, projection when we project our unresolved issues onto someone else, and the perceptions upon which projection rests.
Speaker 1:We talk about projection. Go back lesson three on the power of forgiveness. It'll tell you what projection is. Google it. The psychology of projection. It's where you put something. It's Carl Jung's work. It's where there's some unhealed aspect inside of you, some shadow self of you that you're ashamed of, that you don't want to feel, that you want to reject about yourself and instead of feeling it and bringing love and healing to it, we don't want to acknowledge it's inside. We don't want to feel that it's inside of us. We project it out and we make it put it on somebody else. That's what projection is. So this is, you see, beyond all of these things, and again, the last sentence of this paragraph in italics you are the one who has been reborn.
Speaker 1:When you choose to remember only loving thoughts, that doesn't mean you don't have a judgmental thought or a fearful thought pop in, it just means you don't attach to it, you don't recycle it over and over and over again, oh, judge, and we cling to these judgmental, these fearful thoughts, and then we judge ourselves for being judgmental. I'm not spiritual enough. If I was spiritual, I wouldn't have any judgment, would have any fear. I'm doing it wrong. I'm not enlightened yet, I'm not there yet, I'm not the christ yet because, you know, because I'm still not perfect. Like, give me a freaking. It's just that you don't attach to those thoughts anymore. Oh, there's a judgmental thought, there's a fearful thought. Do I want to keep telling that story? Do I want to keep experiencing that contraction? No, I look with innocence. I don't judge myself, I don't judge the thought. I just see, there it is there's a judgmental, fearful thought. I'm going to make a different choice, something that feels better. I'm going to choose to remember and I'm only going to reinforce loving thoughts. Boom, that simple. You're reborn as the living Christ. It's simple.
Speaker 1:We overcomplicate it so much because the ego thinks complication, you got to earn it, you got to prove it. It's got to be hard? No, not at all. Let it be simple. Next paragraph, jeshua says what, then, is the veil that seems to make it so difficult? It can only be this that you have accepted into your mind at some level that the world you see is real and that it holds a power to dictate to you whether you will feel peace or disturbance, love or judgment.
Speaker 1:This is always an illusion. This is what the mass media tries to do. This is what social media, this is what the world wants to do, which is have you react to it. Not a conscious response, but a reaction. We've been that person, like when we're kids or teenagers, and probably many of us as adults where you just needle someone, you just get under their skin. You know what pushes their buttons, probably a sibling or a friend and you just do it because you want to have the power of their reaction. Once they react to you needling them, teasing them, taunting them, getting under their skin and then they react you're like ooh, that feels good, I did that. Right. That's what the world is trying to do to you. Get you to have that. Give your power away to the other person, to the situation or event, and then you've given your power away and you're not in control anymore. So this is our opportunity to realize that every response we have, every perception we hold, every story we tell about the world, another person, it's all happening inside of us and we get to choose. We are not a victim to the world, no matter what is happening, because all events, all things are neutral. We experience the inner psychology, the inner belief system that we're holding, and then we experience it in the world. So what then? It feels like a veil, this shroud that comes over us, that seems to make it so difficult to choose only loving thoughts. And Jeshua was saying why does it feel and seem so difficult? It's because you've accepted at some level in your mind, in some subconscious, you've accepted, that the world you see is real, it is not real, and that the world holds the power to dictate to you whether you will feel peace or disturbance. Again, this is your point of power, this is your point of freedom. Nothing, no circumstance, no person, what they're saying or doing can dictate if you will be peace or you will be upset inside. We are so convinced that the other thing is bad. It's not good, they're bad, they're wrong. And I'm justified in my position. They're wrong. I'm justified in my judgment. I'm justified to be afraid. Look at all these things happening in the world. The world's going to shit in a handbag. Hell in a handbag. Shit in a basket I don't know whatever the phrase is. We're so justified to be afraid. And if you're not afraid or offended, you're not paying attention, right. And then there's that peer pressure to conform to the judgment, to fit in, to be upset along with everybody else. Who's upset. You can be at peace because you can see through all the illusions if you choose Love or judgment. It's always, always an illusion. Everything in the world, the world holds zero power. Everything in the world, the world holds zero power. You hold all the power.
Speaker 1:Jesuit continues. My question for you is would you be willing to surrender your illusions in order to remember the peace of God? The question is whether or not you will accept the atonement for yourself, the resurrection for yourself, and be determined to walk this earth as one who has arisen. Love it Laying out the challenge for us. Will you accept Mission impossible? Here's your mission. Will you accept? So Jeshua's question in a very loving but clear way is are you willing? All it takes is a little willingness. It doesn't have to be so effortful and hard. Are you just willing to let go, to surrender your illusions in order to remember the peace of God?
Speaker 1:Your ego is going to fight and hate that and think you're unsafe. If you do that, what might happen? If I surrender? What might happen? I'm going to be vulnerable and get opened up to harm and hurt and pain. That's what the ego is telling you. That's why it doesn't want you to surrender. It doesn't want to give up control. But on the other side of that is the peace of God, just shimmering, shining in your heart, just patiently waiting for you to say finally yes, I surrender. I give up trying to be the maker and the doer, I give up trying to think I know anything, what's best for me, even, and I'm going to surrender to you. I'm going to surrender my fears to you, god. I'm going to surrender this pain to you, god.
Speaker 1:I accept the atonement, the at-one-ment for myself. I receive it, I'm worthy of it. I want it more than I want control. I want it more than I'm afraid of feeling hurt. I accept the resurrection for myself. I am determined to walk this earth as one who has arisen. I'm determined to be one who is found. And I'm going to give up being the seeker, because I'm always seeking, seek and do not find. I'm determined to say I am who I am and I'm going to live this way.
Speaker 1:And, yes, you're not going to be perfect in it. But when that is your intention, every day it will grow more and more and more. And when you're not perfect in it, you know what's great about that. You know what's perfect about not being perfect. You get to forgive yourself. You get to have compassion for yourself. That's more practice. So you are perfect in it. You're becoming more and more awake and aware, determined. No matter what anyone else is saying or doing, no matter how convinced your ego, your fear is that a situation is unsafe or dangerous or not right, you still get to reside in love. You're determined to reside in love, get to reside in love. You're determined to reside in love, even if a part of you it's just a part of you can't see how you let the bigger part of you that has a greater desire for peace and love to show, to reveal to you, to reveal to you, and it may not come right away in the timing you want it to.
Speaker 1:It comes in the letting go. It comes in the still small voice when you're taking a shower, right before you're going to bed or right as you're waking up. It comes in the letting go. It comes in the still small voice when you're taking a shower, right before you're going to bed or right as you're waking up. It comes when you're going for a walk in nature. It comes when you're washing the dishes and not thinking. That's when the revelations can come. They can come at any time. It's not limited how they come.
Speaker 1:But when our mind is so cluttered and busy and thinking and analyzing and judging and evaluating and fearful, there's no space for us to hear the still small voice. It's so noisy inside, but the still small voice is always whispering to us, always speaking softly and gently words of love to us. It's the ego, the loud, the urgency, the anxiety, the fear that's shouting. You can't hear shit. That's why I love practices like Revelation. Breathwork Helps you get out of that noise of your head and drop into your heart and hear and listen. Sometimes traditional meditation it just makes it seem like our mind is even noisier and louder. Oh my God, I can't meditate because my mind is too busy. This doesn't work for me. It's so hard, it takes forever just to get some stillness. It's so hard, it takes forever just to get some stillness. But there's a lot of different practices that will help you be still and know that I am God in the midst of you.
Speaker 1:So last section for today. What does that mean? Jeshua says it means that you have chosen to awaken from the uselessness of separation, the uselessness of victimhood and the uselessness of weakness, and you have chosen to accept the empowerment of becoming responsible for this dimension of creation, the empowerment of deciding to walk the earth as the arisen Christ. Yes, we've been saying this over and over again, this is what gesture has been saying over and over again the empowerment to be empowered, to be, the power to be responsible for what you are creating in this dimension, not like the physical creations, the creations that start first in your intention, first in your thinking and your beliefs, and who you want to be, your actions, stem from your choice of consciousness. So choice of consciousness is first, it's the roots, it's the seed, and, as you water your choice in consciousness, what you're about, who you want to be what you want to focus on.
Speaker 1:I want to be the extension of love and form. I want to bring forth the good, the holy and the beautiful through me. I want to be the power of love wherever I am. That doesn't mean I get walked over, that doesn't mean I just allow people to abuse me. That's not loving myself.
Speaker 1:But I'm going to ask what does love look like in this situation? And then any action that I take the fruits of that action are from seeds of love. I'm not going to plant seeds of fear and doubt and judgment, because the fruits of that, even if it's a billion dollars, it's not that it's tainted, but it's got its foundation in fear and anger and lack and scarcity, so it's not going to last. The fruit comes from the seed. What seed are you planting? And Jeshua says you comes from the seed. What seed are you planting? And jesus says you awaken from the uselessness of separation. You see, it has no use, it has no purpose, it has no foundation to the ego. It might, but that's not real, it's not true. We know it's not lasting, we, we just know it in our bones.
Speaker 1:The uselessness of victimhood. Victimhood can feel so tempting, it can feel so good, like, oh yeah, I'm the victim. It's this sense. It's so weird because we don't feel empowered, but we feel this short-term sense of power, in a way Like I'm the victim, look, I'm right. Look, feel bad for me, look, it's not my fault. And we kind of get our get our rocks off, like I don't know if it's a dopamine hit, but like our ego is like, yes, when we play the victim, look, it's not my fault, yes, it's like, it's like we give ourselves an out.
Speaker 1:It's like playing the scapegoat. We don't have to take responsibility. We don't have to take responsibility. We don't have to do what seems like really hard work or impossible work to be the owner. We want to be the victim. It's easier, but we see the uselessness of that.
Speaker 1:It actually doesn't lead anywhere. It's like eating a bunch of junk food. It feels good in the moment, but you're not getting any real nourishment. And you can eat junk food in the short term and it's fine, but if you keep doing that over and over and over again, it's going to have a bad impact on your health At some point. Nourishment is the only thing that's going to support you.
Speaker 1:The uselessness of weakness, giving up these charades that were helpless, that were weak, that were powerless, that were at the mercy of the world. It's like it's useless, it doesn't lead anywhere, it doesn't last. You have chosen this is what you're stepping into to choose to accept the empowerment of becoming responsible for this dimension of creation. Look at your life. Where are you not being responsible? Where are you playing the victim To someone in your world, to some situation? Choose to make different choices. Be responsible for how you're seeing something, the story you're telling about it. That is your responsibility. Be responsible for how you're affirming yourself. Look in the mirror and say I love you three times every day. Do that every day. Just make it a habit.
Speaker 1:When you brush your teeth, look at yourself in the mirror and say I love you, I love you, I love you. When you wake up in the morning, say I love you, I love you, I love you. Look at yourself. Who are you affirming yourself to be? I and my Father are one. I am here. I've chosen to be here to learn, to grow and to extend the good, the holy and the beautiful. This is why I'm here. Whether I'm famous and doing it on a big stage or no one knows my name and it doesn't even freaking matter. I could be packing groceries at the local grocery store and I'm blessing every single person that I pass this through. My field of energy that could be hundreds, if not thousands, a day. My field of energy that could be hundreds, if not thousands, a day. And maybe, yeah, you're not living large and have millions in the bank, but you know who you are, you know what you're about. That's all that matters. You're not a victim to the world. You're not a victim to anyone or any situation or any circumstance. You get to choose. This is walking the earth as the arisen Christ and using your daily experience as your ashram. We're not here to be perfect. We're not here to get it right, quote, unquote or get it all done. No, we came to school to learn. So the things that trigger you, the situations that seem impossible or that you seem to be like at the mercy of or defeated by, or that are imposing their will on you, these are your opportunities to practice what we're learning. It's about practice that leads to mastery. It's not about changing your circumstance. So life is easy and you have all the abundance and all the love and it's perfect. That's not what this life is for. We're in the laboratory of being human. We're in the mess of it, to learn and to grow. You learn the theory in school, but then you got to go out into the real world to apply it in your life. That's what our life is, and so that's what this teaching is. It's the way of mastery, and it requires practice and practice and commitment and dedication, and that's why I love community and support we. We're doing it together. We're going to make mistakes together. We're going to get stuck in victimhood together. Then we're going to come out of it because we're going to remind each other of who we are. It's like a process. It's a process. Enjoy the journey. Sometimes we can be so quick to just want to get to the end, but the journey is how we grow. We all know this. No-transcript. Hold that belief and then maybe making new choices that feel uncomfortable at first, but they're more aligned with who you want to be and how you want to live your life. That's the work and it's great. We can have fun. Like Matt Kahn says, we can celebrate without having to be done. Enjoy the journey. Love you guys. Happy Easter, whatever time of the year it is. Love you guys. Have an amazing day.
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