The God Experience

I was really excited. I'd received a call from someone who wanted me to speak at a gathering. I'd never done that before and my first thought was that I needed a nice outfit to wear. My car was not working ... which was a common occurrence ... and so I asked a dear friend if I might borrow hers just for the evening. She immediately said 'yes' but with an added warning. The gas gauge was not working. She thought it had plenty of gas but she wasn't absolutely sure. Be sure to check it, she warned.

Well, I was excited and had all the faith in the world that everything would be okay. Besides, I didn't know HOW to check it and so ... I didn't check it. Nervous about driving someone else's car, and with the warning hanging over my head, I headed into the falling twilight to find the perfect outfit.

Well, I found it! I walked into the first store in the mall, went directly to a clothes rack that was about 10 feet from the door, and found the perfect color, perfect size, perfect fit, perfect outfit! And to top it off, the price had been cut in half! Now, with that kind of miracle, how could anything go wrong?

It was almost winter and so darkness was falling fast. I had to drive through a section of town that was rumored to be the absolute worst. I'd grown up in this town and I knew for a fact that the rumor was justified. The neighborhood had "earned" its reputation.

I'm sure you've guessed by now ... the car began to sputter and a few seconds later it simply stopped. I felt my heart drop. I looked to my right at the cemetery! I looked to my left at the buildings with tangled weeds and drooping doors. I looked up at the darkness, which, without any sympathy at all, had swiftly fallen upon me. And then I looked at the possibilities of another miracle. They seemed faint, possibly non-existent. Shaking a little, but trying to maintain my belief that everything happened for a good reason, I stepped out of the car, preparing to walk until I found a gas station.

A car pulled up immediately. Was this the miracle I needed?

I bent over to smile at the driver. I am caucasian and five feet tall. (Female.) He was African American, big, tall, and strong-looking. He didn't smile back ... which was what worried me. But I decided that he was my miracle. I kept smiling and when he took his big hand and scraped all of the junk off of the filthy front seat onto the floor and gestured for me to get in, I did.

By now it was totally dark. He was silent in the darkness. I chattered nervously, explaining about the car. He remained silent. I began to worry. About seven blocks away, we came to a dimly lit service station. He pulled in and, still without speaking, stuck his hand in his pocket.

I gulped and cast my eyes heavenward, expecting to have a gun or knife suddenly at my throat..

He pulled his hand out and tossed a five dollar bill across the seat. I protested immediately. He insisted so aggressively, with something that sounded like a snarl, that I got nervous and took the money into the station to secure a gas can and some gas.

I was surprised when I came out and he was still there. I had thought that he'd probably had enough of my nervous chatter and had driven off, leaving me to walk the seven blocks back to the car. But he was there and I climbed tentatively back into his car.

"I'm sorry to be such a bother," I told him.

He didn't respond. He hadn't spoken once except for the snarl that was probably supposed to have been a sentence. We drove in silence back to where the car sat forlornly next to the cemetery. I reached for the door handle. His big hand reached out and grabbed my wrist. I was so stunned that I didn't know how to react. I simply waited silently to see what he was going to do.

"You know, bitch, you're one lucky broad," he snarled.

I stared at him. Wide-eyed and silent.

"When I saw ya gettin' out a that car I decided that I was gonna have me a piece a white meat. I was gonna rape ya, take ya out somewhere, kill ya, and leave ya there to rot."

By now I was finding it impossible to breathe. I simply stared at him, waiting to hear the rest.

"But you got God with ya. I could hear 'im. I could even smell 'im. He told me if I touched ya I'd regret it for eternity. You got God with ya and you don't know how lucky that makes ya. You're one lucky broad, that's all."

I stared at him, awestruck by what I had heard. I had been struck dumb by his words. I could feel the presence of God in the car with us now, though I hadn't been aware of that presence before. Probably because I'd been so nervous. I knew immediately that I was smack in the middle of an experience that would impact my life forever. I stared at him, doing my best to think of something to say that would express my gratitude to him. And I wanted something else as well. I wanted him to be forever touched by the moment, for the moment to change his life as I knew it was going to change mine.

He glared at me through the darkness. "What the hell ya waitin' for? Get the hell out a my car."

And so I did ...........

Another Piece of the Bigger Puzzle

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"Scoot Over, Shirley, I'm Coming Out On That Limb With You"

by
Lauren Zimmerman

(Originally published in "Voices For A New World"

Now published in "Moments of Mastery" publisher: nLight Press
www.nlightpress.com)

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Keeping in mind that I am someone very much like you, the reader, I give you the following information with the hope that your mental image of who we are and what we are all a part of will enlarge society's vision of reality and bring greater awareness and comfort to each of us, singly and as a whole.

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"The Other Side"

The all-encompassing Light, an entire world of it, beckoned to me. Without hesitation, I stepped into it. It enfolded me and I was comforted for the first time since I'd left it to take on this physical incarnation. The human part of me would have wept with relief. The spirit part of me, the part that was departing the Earth-plane, was matter-of-fact. Let's get on with the real stuff, I thought. I walked away from my physical shell without regret, confusion, or hesitation.

I was adrift within the body of Creation. All things were one. There were no separations or barriers. Imagine, if you will, containing your entire focus within one single cell of your body for 20-30-40 years. Suddenly you shift your focus and become aware of the rest of your cells and the space that surrounds them. Suddenly you realize that there is a massive part of yourself that you'd closed your eyes to all these years. You are not made up of one cell. You are made up of billions of cells. And now you have the opportunity to reacquaint with yourself. This is not something, someone, or some place that you need to get to know. This is the entirety of you that you'd known before and had merely forgotten. This is what the "death experience" was like for me %u2026 stepping into a remembering, an awareness, of the entirety of Creation and my part in it.

The Light and the Voice guided me. In peace, I followed. If you can imagine, it was like one cell freed from its designated place within your body, now floating freely through your blood stream. Passing other cells, floating by vital organs, marveling at the scenery of the reality beyond Earth and third dimension.

I floated, in pure Light, beyond the boundaries of Earth. Stars, solar systems, galaxies %u2026 they were miniscule and of little importance within the larger vision of things. The Light took me further, deeper, into existence until Earth and its Universe were invisible to me. I passed other universes, circles of them, sixteen to a circle. On the edge of existence, looking back, these circles of universes looked like strings of pearls. The Voice explained to me that, within each 'string,' the universes were connected and accessible to each other via what we now call 'black holes.' I couldn't count how many 'strings of pearls' there were. The vision was incredible and, in that instant, that memory re-visited, my life was changed irrevocably. (But, at the time, I didn't realize that I was returning to 'life,' this life.)

"For visionary purposes," the Voice advised me, "think of this existence you're viewing as a 'body.' The planets, solar systems, and universes are cells within the body. Everything else is the space that surrounds the cells that make up the body."

"It's rather like saying, 'I am within the body of God,' " I responded. I pointed to a 'string of pearls' and continued, "And so, if the body of God is, for visionary purposes, similar to the human anatomy, that 'string of pearls' is in the area of the left lung."

"Precisely."

I watched in silence as a thought formed and became a single, brilliant bullet of Light. It sped toward a region of universes and vanished into the darkness there. The body of God aligning and healing itself? Perhaps.

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As it was explained to me, the Truth comes to us in stages. As we assimilate and understand a layer, the next layer is peeled away for us to ruminate upon. Often these Truths are revealed in symbols, images, thoughts, and inspirations that the human brain can easily accept and interpret. I do my best to relay things exactly as I see and hear them, with the understanding that what is presented may be "stepped down" for easy interpretation inside this 3-D reality.

In addition, I have found that, if you receive a message or a vision and your mind/thoughts/interpretation cannot change that vision, it is representative of a Truth. This experience I've just described, and which I've re-visited at least one hundred times, to date, has not changed since 1974. Due to this unchanging vision of existence, it is necessary for me to attempt to incorporate it into other revelations that I receive. Sometimes I successfully integrate everything immediately. Sometimes I need to wait for the next revelation so as to understand where each piece of the puzzle fits.

Our reality is evolving quickly. I believe that we're being shown pieces of a huge 'puzzle,' for lack of a better description. Keeping an open mind and being willing to receive more insight and wisdom, no matter whether it seems to contradict something we already believe we know, allows us to evolve more quickly. Standing steadfastly on one piece of the puzzle (a Truth) creates a resistance to the next revelation (puzzle piece) and hinders the universal flow that we all seek.

The artwork here might help us to envision 'Universal Flow.' If we allow ourselves to use this image as a 'base,' we can see the oneness of all things. If all things in this existence are contained within a 'body,' there is no separation, just as there is not true separation within our own bodies. Using the imagery, we can also see that, if a thought is formed in 'the mind of God' it flows easily to the rest of the body %u2026 and vice versa. What this image implies/suggests is that there is nothing in the way of the 'flow' of all things within God/existence.

And so it seems as though, for whatever reason, it is my task to share what I've seen and heard throughout my 'ethereal wanderings,' as outlandish as some of these things might seem. Perhaps my experiences are pieces of the Truth or possibly only possibilities to stimulate your mind and mine. But, I believe that this is a piece of the puzzle and a step toward the coming revelations. May wisdom guide our footsteps and our thoughts.