Introduction / Note:
When talking about these topics, the question of God inevitably arises. Source, Spark – the words most used in the book are synonyms for God. Therefore, we must touch on that topic as well. Nevertheless, I will try to express my views without imposing any religious direction, although I may have to touch a certain direction at some points, conveying my own experience. I have to be careful because I am aware that throughout history and in the present there have been and still are abuses of people’s trust. Thus, every religion has a counterweight, “believers” who abuse religion for selfish interests and even to kill dissenters. This led to the repulsion of a large number of people towards Christianity and Islam and Judaism and Buddhism. Therefore, I do not dare to emphasize any teaching, but I will try to agree on a common denominator, using mostly everyday terminology, not religious. Of course, everyone is welcome to participate, and I am by no means calling for anyone to stop believing in any personally chosen teaching. I only invite you to take into account everything we will say, then pass it through the filter of your experience and who you are, including your religious approach to life, and finally, with your conclusions, in further communication, to help upgrading of all topics. At the same time, as much as possible, to maintain a non-intimidating approach to the topics. I simply do not see any other way that can reconcile different approaches to God. Unfortunately, there have been many fanatical abuses and tragedies in “the name of God” throughout history. And aggressive religious approaches and obvious manipulations of believers were so promoted, the media put them in the foreground, that it almost overshadowed the essence, the good sides and sublime truths that are at the root of religion.
We agreed that many of the negative attitudes from the list persist because we do not know how to deal with them, nor do we clearly know how we allowed them to be formed, so in weakness, we allow them to continue to affect our lives. Therefore, in order to find a solution, we must go deeper into ourselves and know our inner feelings, resources. This also means facing what has been accumulated in us, right? However, it is not an easy process. If it was, we would have done it by now and we wouldn’t have the problems we normally have. The facing process is not easy because it requires:
- Strength – and we don’t have enough of it, because life’s circumstances exhaust us. Also, we are burdened by the accumulated burden in us that arose as a result of our wrong decisions we have made either consciously or unconsciously.
- A deeper understanding of our being, of our inner resources, feelings – and we don’t have enough of it either, because until now we haven’t had enough experience to live our deepest feelings, to completely surrender to them and be guided by them. We were guided mostly by reason, by mind, which tries to logically form an attitude towards life from the experiences we have experienced.
Considering that we do not yet have a clear picture of how to find the necessary strength within ourselves, nor how to achieve a deeper understanding of what sends signals within us, we tend to rely on the environment, looking for answers and strength from the outside. This is how we come to rely on other people. We ask them for help. However, mostly we come across people who are part of the same majority as we are, so they face the same problem as we do. We can get support, conversation, counseling from them. However, it is not enough, again for the reason that they are subject to the same pressures, as a result of which their solutions and assistance cannot be complete.
Yes, there are rare people who are strong enough to provide us with both strength and understanding as a whole, but in addition to being rare, they are also hard to find, precisely because they are in high demand. These are spiritualists, healers, truly proven sages. If we manage to reach them, they can sometimes help us. However, it cannot be a permanent solution, because even if we were to achieve instant wholeness, knowledge and understanding, we would not be able to retain it, with the existing faulty behavioral programs within us.
Everything indicates that we must look for the source of strength and knowledge in some other source, not in the people around us. In other words, relying on other people is not a complete, much less a permanent solution. Where then can be that complete and permanent source of energy (power) and knowledge (understanding)? Exactly where many books and sages tell us – in ourselves! However, we didn’t talk about it enough, we didn’t dedicate ourselves enough to raising awareness of that Source, so it seems distant to us.
It is true that there is the Source of strength, knowledge, creativity, and even life, which is the basis of all creation and which cannot dry up. From it came everything that lasts forever – the planet, natural processes, the universe, the galaxies… Therefore, if we would become aware of the truth of how exactly it is in us and how we are connected to it – we would receive a permanent Source and understanding and strength and solutions and much more else – both for the process of facing everything that has been accumulated in us, as well as for everything we do in life.
Nowadays, however, we often say that “there is no God”, when numerous negative events happen. In other words, we deny the existence of the Source. Even though we know deep down that it is not true and that there is some higher power that regulates everything, which is actually the Source, sometimes so much accumulates in us that it is easier for us to deny or accuse it. By denying God, we consequently accept that everything must be difficult, and that we are left to the destiny – some force that has no mercy, and that is, as we said, one of the negative attitudes from the list. And some other attitudes can also appear, when we “put away”, deny God. Therefore, negative attitudes towards life and doubt about the Source, about a higher power, about God arose. Consequently, there is also a doubt if we have any relationship with It at all. Furthermore, those doubts and that denial of God create a final distance between our life and the full capacity of possibilities within us which we can live personally and civilizationally. We can see that distance as a final, thick, dark curtain, which has descended upon the Source and suffocated Its light, preventing it from passing into our reality.
That’s why I want us, before entering deeper into the topics and steps of possible transformation, to first remove doubts and accept, both logically and cognitively, the existence of both the Source and the Spark within us. Without a foothold in that, no change can be of high quality and lasting. In a way, it is not even possible, because the strength for that revival comes to us from the Source. That’s why in the scheme that accompanies this book, this step is called the zero step, the prerequisite and the basis.
The root of creation – advanced intelligence – life force
Let’s start the topic by looking at the attitude of complete disbelief in the Source, God, a higher power… If there are really people who absolutely do not believe in the existence of a higher power, i.e. Source, which created everything, in that case, according to them, we ourselves are actually the creators of life. Turns out that way, doesn’t it? According to them, the human species as it is today, is the most superior form of life. However, this would mean that we are ignoring many facts.
Let’s first remember what is created around us, whose essential creation was not influenced by man: plants, domestic animals, trees, grass, forests, wild animals, rivers, mountains, clouds, rain, sky, sun, air, stars, comets … What’s next? The moon, the planets, the Milky Way galaxy, countless other galaxies… Is there more? Of course, it’s just hard to understand and unnecessary for this purpose. Let’s just mention the process of photosynthesis in plants, the abilities of animals that seem like a miracle to us humans (the functioning of bees is somehow the closest example of fascination to humans), then the principle of Divine proportion, gravity, lightning, the ionosphere and its laws, the arrangement of the Milky Way and awareness of it that if only one smallest parameter were disturbed, everything would collapse and possibly we would cease to exist! Now, was any of this man-made? Was any of this arranged by human intelligence, which today, not only by those who deny the Source, but unfortunately also in the media, is shown to be dominant? Of course it is not!
If someone dares to say that man created a plant, by planting it, watering it – let’s not lie ourselves. The basis of the plant is the seed. Human intelligence did not create it, nor did it create an instruction, a kind of DNA of the plant located in the seed, in which the principle by which the plant grows and develops is written. Even the water we water with, the nutrition of the plant… all of that is, in a word, from nature, from a non-human creation. Also, during development, the seed of a plant transforms the invisible energy/matter around us into a visible stem, root, leaves, flower and finally fruit. And that’s something we can’t quite explain with our minds. Science will of course give its own explanation, but it cannot be completely, radically explained how this conversion takes place. We certainly cannot appropriate it as our work.
Also, everything mentioned so far was created before the appearance of man – historically, and logically. It is another proof that human intelligence is not the creator of what keeps us alive (and nature with its creations and laws keeps us alive). Further proof is that we cannot understand the principles of nature. We came to the discovery of the smallest particle (quark), although we are not sure that it is an axiom either, but the process of energy conversion, then the code by which living beings develop, we cannot even approximately explain, let alone create it with our current intelligence and our properties and influence it. If we were the creators or the most intelligent species of life, we would have the ability and knowledge to do this today.
The proof from all this is that there is a far more developed intelligence, compared to the one that we as a human species currently possess. And considering that we cannot influence any of the aforementioned creations (not including GMOs, which have by no means proven to be exceptional), this means that there is also significantly more advanced creativity.
The ultimate proof of higher intelligence is that the planet Earth is just one tiny part of the universe. About 25×1012 Earth-sized planets can fit into our galaxy alone. Now extend that picture to countless galaxies and try to imagine the ratio of the size of our planet to the size of that space. We can’t comprehend all that, much less understand it, and certainly not create it. Conclusion: it would be very arrogant to say that we are the most intelligent species.
A far more advanced intelligence is the root of existence of everything we are and see around us. It can be said that this intelligence is actually the highest and most powerful form of life, because it creates life, nature, beings; it arranges mutual relations between everything created, gives meaning, affects everything that happens around us.
We are also in that chain of creation. We cannot fully understand ourselves either. Simplistically, we came from mom and dad, but the force that accompanied the development of the egg cell, growth, formation of shape, the way of nutrition during growth in the womb, the system of arrangement of organs, the algorithm of blood flow, flow of air and matter through the body, the development of small cells into larger ones (also the principle of transforming invisible energy/matter into tangible) – all this is not a consequence of our influence. Additionally, what can we say about consciousness, soul, spirit…? Even less we can understand and influence its creation.
Finally, not only did we not create all of the above, but we somehow degraded and even regressed everything, including ourselves. As it has already been shown somewhere, if the existence of the planet, from the moment of creation to the present moment, were to be packed into 24 hours, the human species’ stay on it is 77 seconds. During those 77 seconds, we created an unprecedented natural imbalance. This means that, at the current level of development, our intelligence is very low compared to the one that created the planet. In other words, once again it can be concluded that there is certainly a far greater intelligence, and therefore creation.
In the following text, and in the rest of the book in general, we will call that creation the Source, which it actually is – the Source of life, the Source of all existence.
Accepting that we come from Source
As we said, somewhere in the chain of all works of the Source, we are ourselves, i.e. man. Simply, if we look at all the other listed works of creation and all that is around us, we cannot deny that we ourselves were created from the same intelligence, by its force. How, when, why – these are too difficult questions at this moment, so for now, at least on a sensitive level, let’s just accept that we came from that Source. The answers to these questions will come. I assure you, you will get there!
Perhaps the most difficult thing is precisely this acceptance, on an emotional, cognitive level, from the depth of our being, that we came from that Source. If you may already have many doubts, disappointments, bad experiences that burden you and deny the Source, make an effort and isolate yourself somewhere alone. And then, in ways that are familiar to you by now, focus on your inner being. Be as calm as possible. We will also talk about methods for this, but for now, use your previous experience of concentration and calmness. And then, from that state, observe the presented logical series of proofs of the existence of the Source, i.e. creation, as well as everything that you have come to know as the truth outside of the book on these topics so far… If a feeling of certainty arises that you came from that Source, even though it cannot be fully explained in words, become one with that feeling. Consciously affirm it, like: “so yes, indeed we also belong to something greater, to that sublimity from which everything has become”. This acceptance is indescribably important for the meaning of our entire existence, which we will conclude together several times throughout the book.
And then, if you cognitively accepted that the Source initiated the existence of human civilization, including our own, we can logically conclude that there is also a particle of that Source in us, from where our development began. Just as in plants, and in every being that grows, there is that seed and within it the instruction of the Source itself for the development of that being. In that particle in us is our code, according to which we will develop; then the possibilities at our disposal – again, just like with in all other living beings. In the human body, it can be said that it is DNA. I state this more as a realization, a deep feeling and taking into account the explanation of science so far, even though that science still does not have precise data on how DNA works. However, even that incomplete explanation indicates how DNA determines our life, influences our life. On the other hand, we should also take into account the inactive parts of DNA, which the same science, due to lack of understanding, declared as junk, although nature never makes anything without a reason. It makes you think, if today we function only with that active part of DNA, how could we create works if those inactive parts were activated? What could our present look like? In that I see a great possibility and confirmation that we can achieve much more than what we as a human species achieve today.
In addition to observing the physical body, we can also talk about the source particle in us through the existence of the soul, which science also cannot explain, and we all cognitively know that it exists. We have no scientific explanation for its existence and origin, except that a person at the moment of death weighs 21 grams less (though, skeptics have their own opinion about these 21 grams as well). However, we have the experience of clergymen and people who have devoted themselves to nurturing the intangible part of our personality and existence – whatever religious, spiritual direction they belong to. We have a sufficiently pronounced personal experience, a deep feeling that sometimes an indescribable calmness, fulfillment, safety, a feeling for our life and at the same time a feeling for the people in our life come to us, somewhere from within. No matter how hard someone tries to reduce the above to a chemical reaction, there is a realization that such an explanation is not enough. There is that “something” in us from where deep feelings, optimism, life force come (regardless of the state in which we are physically). In the following I will mention more precisely that place, the soul, as the basis that testifies to the existence of the Source in us, because everything said has the characteristics of the Source – the same ineffability that accompanies all the good that the Source initiated, proven in the previous segments… In any case, however you look at things, if that particle of the Source exists in us (and it does), it is one tiny but very powerful Spark of all creation within us. We will call it and mention it in the future under the name of Spark.
Our connection with the Source – through Spark
The next logical conclusion, perhaps the most important for our liberation from the burden of everyday life and for the realization of the potential that we carry within us, is in the fact that, if there is a particle of the Source in us, i.e. Spark, then we are in contact with it absolutely every moment. It is the root of our creation, and just as the root is a part of the plant as long as the plant exists, so that root is constantly connected to our entire being, which also means with our life, with the reality we live with that being.
Furthermore, through Spark, we are in contact with the Source itself, because we have already concluded that Spark came from that Source. And just as we saw that we are connected to the Spark of our own creation, so our Spark is constantly connected to its own creator, the Source. Finally, if we look at that chain of connection: Source – Spark – our being – our life, we can conclude that we have direct contact with the overall force that created all life. When we grow up enough, when we are more mature and then show pure and sincere intention for it, everything that the Source carries inside, through the Spark in us, can be made known in its fullness through our life.
With a particle of the force of creation of all life in us, acting from it, we are given the opportunity to do the same wonderful and beautiful works of creation, which will build on everything that already exists for eons. Therefore, the enormous power of creation is found in ourselves, in that Spark, but only if we accept its existence and are in a harmonious relationship with ourselves, i.e. with that inner strength.
Of course, we have a lot to do, to release that power and creation, and at the same time to achieve the necessary harmony.