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©1998 Michael Dooley (Amanda's brother).

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Quote on page 5 from Psalms 82:6.

There is a truth.

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ISBN 0-9642168-2-5

Not all that long ago,in the nether reaches of ad infinitum, thereformed a council of fearless explorers whohad become bored with perfection, infinity,and all the trappings so familiar to those whoart in heaven. Whatever it was they wanted,they got. However they wanted to changeit, they did. And whatever they wanted tobe, they became. Their existence had becomeso ... "same old, same old", that they hardlyfelt like the great adventurers they were. It

wasn't enough they agreed. So being theirown creators, they decided to invent a wholenew dimension for their reality.

Well new dimensions, even for theseadventurers, don't get invented all that of-ten, so you can imagine their excitement asthey began to explore the vast new possi-bilities that suddenly lay before them. Andthis dimension was especially cool, becauseit made possible, the previously unthinkableability, of being in just "one place"." with-out being "everywhere else" at once!

Of course they were really still "ev-erywhere else" at once, because they were"everywhere else", But now, they were ac-tually able to dim this awareness enough,to focus on a single "somewhere", But morethan they were inventing "somewheres",what they were really learning to do, mo-mentarily at least, was to completely blot-out "everywhere else" from their thinking.

N ow to you, this may all sound

pretty tame, but to them, it was revolution-ary stuff. You see, up until then, such "sepa-rations" from one another had been practi-cally "impossible" because they had all sim-ply been "One", a "Great Omniscient De-ity", or GOD.

True ... they were really still God inthis new dimension, because God can onlybe God, but it did allow them to have a to-tally unique perspective on their reality. Forinstance, each now had a secret pattern theycould follow to orchestrate their very ownmagic and experiments, in virtual secrecy.And instead of just "being" the cosmos inits entirety, now they could actually travelthrough it, from one "somewhere" to an-other.

Imagine ... after eons and eons of justkind of hanging out, now they actual hadplacesto go!

So much did they learn and refer tothis new dimension that it quickly became

known as the Secret Pattern Adventure forCreative Enlightenment, or SPACE forshort.

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The Gods were on a roll,and inspired by their burning desires, itdidn't take them long to realize that thisspace of theirs contained far more possibili-ties for adventure than even they haddreamed of. And best of all, they were be-ginning to see that this space, itself, couldbe filled! With what? With the only thingthat has ever existed, of course ... thought!

These Gods had long known of theabsolutely awesome powers of thought, but

they had never "thought about", what athought, itself, might look like ... or how itmight sound, or how it would feel, or smell,or taste ... until now. In space they werefinding that whenever they focused theirthinking and concentrated their thoughts,the energy sent out was actuallytrans formed.. . with shocking andspectacular results. Their thoughts, all ontheir lonesome, began to, like, "jell" ...Aghhh!! In other words, they came alive!

In space the Gods were finding thattheir thoughts could be big or small, greenor red, hard or soft, loud or quiet, whateverthey imagined. It was so easy, that itseemed too easy. But easy or not, it becameobvious that their thoughts only neededto be "thought-of" to take form and beprojected into this new dimension thatheld them!

Of course the Gods had used theirimagination before, but now, in space, a ma-

terialized thought could be examined fromthe outside-in, giving it a multidimensionalreality all its own. And "things" really gotrolling when, to their delight, they foundthey could Materialize Any Thought ThatExisted into Reality. So in no time at all(mostly because time had not yet been in-vented), MATTER began to fill their space.

Creativity soared among the Gods asthey dabbled first creating stars and planets,and then mountains and oceans. Everythingthey dreamed of came to life in an explo-sion oflight, color and sound that stretchedtheir imagination to the very edges of for-ever. It wasfantasticalfy exciting, except. ..except deep down inside, they knew thatsomething was missing: as spectacular astheir new worlds were, they themselves, theCreators of it all, remained on the outside,looking in.

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So the Gods began toponder how they could become part of themysterious, enchanting, material worldsthey had created, and in their wonderingthey asked, "If our matter is simplyoccu-pied space, and as God we are really every-where at once, hmmm ... could we possiblyexist in the very same space that holds ourmatter?"

Immediately they knew that theycould, and as they thought-it, they did it,

taking-up residence "inside" their matter,just as if it were a somewhere (by momen-tarily blotting-out "everywhere else" fromtheir thinking)!

To make "things" even more inter-esting, right about then, a new game was be-ing invented called "Hide and Seek", and ascould be predicted, the Gods scurried aboutin their excitement and hid themselves in-side their creations where they would notlikely be found. They Hid Under MatterAnimated in the Now, because "Now" wasstill all there was, and when they referred tothemselves hiding, they called it being HU-MAN.

It was a great idea, so great in fact,that no one was ever found! So despite theirjoy in having found a new game to play, theywere no longer aware of each other's dis-coveries.

This prompted a call to go out forthe need to Trace one another In Material

Existence; thus TIME was born (finally!).The games resumed, reunions were planned,and the fun really began ... until, that is, ev-eryone had pretty much "Been there, donethat!", as they liked to say.

Another idea was needed, and as God,it didn't take them long to have one. Whatif, they thought, we all ventured out to-gether, as matter, into the same space, at thesame time? WHOAI This idea was so monu-mental, so profound, so colossal... that it senta big bang booming throughout all creation,and has since been compared to the inven-tion of Light itself!

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Well, by now it should beobvious that these Gods weren't your nor-mal, everyday kind of Gods. They were cre-ative Adventurers on a mission: to have asmuch fun as could possibly be imagined.And to that end, as you well know, they'vebeen wildly successful; though they havemet-up with a few wrinkles that are stillbe-ing ironed out.

For instance, once time was invented,the Gods spent so much of it playing

amongst their creations, they began to fo-cus less and less on being "everywhere else".You see, after they all decided to ventureout into the same place, at the same time,together, they had so much fun there, theyended-up staying much longer than they'dever intended. And during their never-end-ing games of Hide and Seek, they stayed hu-man so long, not wanting to be found ofcourse, that they gradually forgot they werereally "everywhere else" too.

N ow, as if all that wasn't bad enough,they began bumping into one another'sthoughts and creations, and mixing themwith their own! And by then, with so manythoughts and things and humans roamingabout, it had become difficult telling oneapart from the other. All in all their exist-ence had become very unpredictable, withthe welcome exceptions of certain recurringobjects and events - those that had simplyreceived more attention (more thoughts)

than the others had. Not realizing this how-ever, they embraced these things for theirdependability. These, they thought, mustprove that some Realities, whether ofthoughts or things, are Expressed by All Life.Henceforth, these they labeled, with greatrelief, as REAL. Silly Gods!

Silly because they promptly set offlabeling everything they ever knew as eitherreal or unreal, warning each other not totrust the unreal, lest they be made a fool of.Oooh!

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Actually, without knowingany better, they had begun assembling thevery first belief system (some of whichremains within the very same space thatyou now reside). And all because a fewteeny, tiny, recurring thoughts had BecomeExamples of a Living Idea (because re-member, all thought is alive) Embracedas Fact.

You see, no thought or idea is more"right", or real, than another. Thoughts are

just thoughts. But when one thought isthought "enough", to the exclusion of oth-ers even, it begins to take on a consistency,momentum and reality all its own. Whichis fine and all, because that's what thoughtsdo, become things. The challenge, however,is remembering that there are always otherperspectives, or thoughts, than the onesyou've chosen to experience ... blah, blah,blah. Anyway, as time marched on, withtheir "facts", or beliefs, in tow, instead of"just being human", most began thinking ofthemselves as "just human beings".

Hypnotized by their beliefs and con-founded by their illusions, the Gods fell intoa deeper and deeper trance. In fact, so fardid they fall, that they began to feel trappedwithin their bodies and helpless among theircreations. No longer did they notice thatthey themselves were the ones crafting theobjects and events of their life, though thisdid not change, but instead they saw these

things as something to contend with.They had become so enraptured

with what they were doing that most hadeven forgotten they were really one GreatOmniscient Deity. Some were even be-ginning to Deny their earlier Understand-ings of how Matter Began, just asking fortrouble, and were starting to look prettyDUMB ... from here, that is.

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A direct result of theirdumbness led to their first taste of FEAR,which was felt whenever they Failed to Ex-perience the Actual Reality before them. Ascary thing they soon found out. No fun atall! And worse, a whole hoard of emotionssprang to life with their every misunder-standing. At first they a"ppeared slowly, eachfelt to the extent a truth, any truth, was be-ing misunderstood; but because so muchmore was being understood so much less,

they started experiencing their emotions somuch faster!

As we watched what was happeningwe were devastated. Never, in any reality,had such lofty Beings plunged into such greatdespair. Terror, sadness, anger, and guiltwere all rampant. It was almost too muchfor us to bear, not to mention what theyhad put themselves through, poor "things"!It was a travesty through and through ...until little by little there began a greathealing. Not from On High or any othersuch "place", though some still say it wasa Mystically Incited Reality AdjustmentConcealed by Loving Entities, but ahealing we now understand that hadtranspired from within. Life ministeringto life itself, a MIRACLE either way!

It turns out that the Gods were learn-ing from their emotions, and as they did, sodid we. For example, if FEAR stems fromthe Failure to Experience the Actual Real-

ity before you, then at least it serves as anunmistakable warning, to the one doing the"fearing", that their thinking has strayedfrom the truth. And though it seems forsome that the warning appears too late, itactually emerges in its exaggerated state, onlyafter other emotions served similar notice,but were ignored.

There was even more good newsabout these emotions. It turned out theycould be happy and warm too, or rambunc-tious and silly, and some were even wild andcrazy! And it was their passage through allthe emotions, happy and sad, they told uslater, that brought the "Illustrious Ones"their greatest achievement - inner PEACE,or an inner Pleasure Experienced by Accept-ing all Creation as it Exists. Mastered by sofew because it requires a deep understand-ing of the righteousness inherent in everyliving and nonliving "thing", all of the"time", in every "place" ... no matter what!

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Strange as this may sound,as life revealed unto life, and we watchedthe Gods with their learning, we noticedsomething that most there have not yet seenfor themselves: that as they believe, theybecome, and somewhere in-between believ-ing and becoming, without fail, they ACT.

You see, if they hold a thought longenough, they begin to move with it, and thismovement itself actually hastens the mate-rialization process profoundly, because it

emboldens their belief that success will beachieved - ultimately Actualizing, into Con-crete terms, their Thoughts!

From our perspective, everything"there" seems easy and obvious, but fromwhere they are, Space and Time must be theultimate mysteries. For instance, this pro-cess of "actualizing" is completely lost on somany of the humans in pursuit of "life'struths". These hardy souls actually placemore importance on whatthey do, than onwhy they do what they do - life after life af-ter life.

Some meditate quietly on cliffs ... asif they could get any closer to the angels thatalready rest upon their shoulders! Othersthink the path to "understanding" might befound by escaping "who they are" ... as if theanswers they seek could be found by hidingfrom their questions. And then there arethose who belittle, criticize and nit-pickthemselves to pieces ... as if concentrating on

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Strange as this may sound,as life revealed unto life, and we watchedthe Gods with their learning, we noticedsomething that most there have not yet seenfor themselves: that as they believe, theybecome, and somewhere in-between believ-ing and becoming, without fail, they ACT.

You see, if they hold a thought longenough, they begin to move with it, and thismovement itself actually hastens the mate-rialization process profoundly, because it

emboldens their belief that success will beachieved - ultimately Actualizing, into Con-crete terms, their Thoughts!

From our perspective, everything"there" seems easy and obvious, but fromwhere they are, Space and Time must be theultimate mysteries. For instance, this pro-cess of "actualizing" is completely lost on somany of the humans in pursuit of "life'struths". These hardy souls actually placemore importance on whatthey do, than onwhy they do what they do - life after life af-ter life.

Some meditate quietly on cliffs ... asif they could get any closer to the angels thatalready rest upon their shoulders! Othersthink the path to "understanding" might befound by escaping "who they are" ... as if theanswers they seek could be found by hidingfrom their questions. And then there arethose who belittle, criticize and nit-pickthemselves to pieces ... as if concentrating on

what's wrong will suddenly reveal all that'sright!

There's more, too. There are thosewho feel they should read the right stuff,talk the right stuff, eat the right stuff, or goto the right places, at the right times, withthe right people ... as if somebody else wasactually keeping track!

The only actions that matter, we'veseen, are those that follow beliefs, but thenthat's true of all actions, so the point worthnoting here, is that due to the"simultaneosity" of it all, shhhhh, the reverseis also true. By taking action towards a de-sired result, the belief that the result willsoon materialize is intensified, acceleratingits entry into Space and Time!

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By now, all forms ofawareness, from everywhere ever thoughtof, have heard about Space, Time, and thebrilliant Adventurers who created it all. Andthose who drop by for a look, are so as-tounded by what they find in this little cor-ner of creation, that they're changed forever.

It's not just the splendor of the plan-ets, nor the raging life that thrives uponthem, or even the bold, outrageous thoughtsthat continue to perpetuate it all. They're

left speechless, and are downright humbled,by the few who have returned from the ad-venture. By those who have actually foundthemselves amidst the games and learning,and in so doing have become far more thanthe sum of their experience, more than"who" they were when it all began.

These we call the "Illustrious Ones",whose glowing radiance and divine illumi-nation reflect an understanding rooted in theunshakable knowledge that all things andevents are born of thought (their own), thatall is good (if you believe in bad), and thatEverythingis God.

Only by losing themselves and serv-ing their illusions, could they then be drivenemotionally, by their burning desires, to re-claim and know the depths of their own di-vinity. And by deeply understanding thattheir very own thoughts, words and deeds,alone, determine what's "meant to be",they've reached such a state of supreme bliss

and all-knowingness that they've become theinspiration, and the ideal, that all who havemet them strive for.

Now having just shared all that, it isa bit amazing to us - not a problem mindyou, just amazing - that more have not joinedthe ranks of the Illustrious Ones. Certainlyto each his (or her) own; it's just that they'reall still so caught up in this most awesomeadventure of theirs, it seems they could re-ally care less about "everywhere else"!

Perhaps you understand them bet-ter... still, to us at least, it seems a shamethat such inexhaustible energy and creativegenius is being so thoroughly neglected. Ifthey could - and we assure you, they can -just for an instant, glimpse their greater re-ality, and see themselves as the omniscient,unlimited, fun-loving gladiators they've al-ways been, it would so radically change ev-erything! Not that they should "return".Heavens no. We just think that they might

Epilogue

Okay} okay - that waS'n]t S'Ofair. Weknew all alon9 that you Were 10S't Actually]We know a lot more about you than youmi9htthink ...

LiS'ten-up old friend] older than youcan even fathom. You Were the brave oneamon9 uS'.50 brave in fae-t that you kind ofleft uS'in your duS't You S'ee]none of uS'haveeVen tried 5pace and Time yeij on accountof wantin9 to S'ee hOW you turned out!

Really] you haven]t been 90ne for as'

lon9 as We like to joke} but before you leftWe a9reed to be your lifeline} your Angelssort of: just in case you ever called. We}vedone our part all ri9J..,tjand have been thereeach and every time you So mUCh as said}"OUCh!}; thou9h We did pitch the white}Winged costumes you made us Wear for your"Goin9 Somewhere}} party. Our point is this:You}ve done SUCh a ban9-up job} we}re allmore than a little anxious to get 90in9 withour turn> ... thou9h we}re afraid you}1I be an-9ry if We abandon our posts.

We}ve rationalized a bit and fi9urethat at your rate of pr09re»} you don}t re-ally need us any more. Besides} as it turnsout there}s really very little We can actuallydo for you here other than rant and ravefrom the llbleachers}~ .. you wouldn}t have itany other way} remember?

You understand} don}t you? What}smore} and We didn}t knoW this When you leftonce We be9in our oWn adventures} we}11re-

main in tOUCh} and within reaCh} at yours-li9htes-t call} thou9h cOl"IS"cious-lynone of us-will likely knoW jus-t What}s- 90in9 on.

Anyway} We made our decis-ion S-ometime a90} before you even be9an this- life-time} and have eaCh planned our Way intothe very s-ame Space and Time that you noWres-ide. In fac~ one of us-jus-t mi9ht be thatloud nei9hbor of yours-... ah-ha! And in cas-eyou Were be9innin9 to wondetj We als-o ar-ranged for your findin9 this- book throu9h the"s-imu/taneos-ityJJ We s-poke of earlier (wes-nuck into the future). You don}ts-till believein coincidence} do you?

50 that you don}t feel too put ou~ Wes-mu99/ed in the foiloWin9 excerpt from oneof the lllus-trious- One]s- lates-t memoirs-] tohopefully tip the s-cales- in your ques-t forunders-tandin9'

Adios- ami90] and until We meeta9ain]remember:

IILife is-not about hidin9 and s-eekin9}

nor is' it about lea rnin9 the thin9S' you've for-90iten - no, itJS' not even about remember-in9 them. !t'S' about BEING! BEING YOUR-SELF! You Were Born to Expand the InfiniteNature of God.

IILive only to be WhOyou noW are. Youare Creation'S' firS't and laS't hope to fill theS'hoeS'you alone can faS'hion, and eternity willpaH before thiS' chance will COme a9ain. Youare the dream of a le9ion before you WhOhave paHed on tJie torch of Space-TimeaWareneH S'othat your mere exiS'tence couldimmeaS'urably enrich All That IS', God. ByS'imply BEING} you will fulfill thiS' dream} cen-tered in the Here and Now Where all dreamS'Come true} all truthS' reS'ide} and underS'tand-in9 is' born.

IIYour S'acred heart waS' heWn at thedaWn of creation in a dance to celebratethe birth of forever. You can do no wron9.There are no lIS'houldS'l1 or lIS'houldn}tS'l1jII 0 't 11 II 11Lor. t b t b 0r'9n S' or wron9S'. lTe IS'no a ou eln9

happYI S"adl900d or bad. It/S" I)ot even abovtmakil)9 yovr dreamS" Come trvel that mvchis";I)evitable.

llThere is"ol)ly BEING. Eterl)al BEING.Il)eS"capable BEING. Yov are perfecij HiS"dOl)e. Yovr rare al)d preciovS" li9hij haS"1al)dwill forever morel illvmil)ate the worldS" yovcreate ... the worldS" that I)OWwait .. for yovrbleHed BEING!I

P.s.

We love yov.

P.P.S.

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