Step 7: Understand Level Confusion

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We have mentioned this before and we should briefly mention it again here. A lot of suffering and ‘failure’ comes from level confusion. What are the levels again? They are Being, Thought, Word, Action, Physical Form (Body). When I say Body, I don’t just mean your body, I mean all physical things, including your body. Now, we saw how there is Cause and Effect as the prime law that runs the universe. Ok, now let us see what each level is.

Being is the First Cause. It is What Is and What Gives Life. If has always been and always will be and therefore did not result from anything, hence it is First Cause.

Thought is a Cause, the effect of Being. It is the next in power, that which extends and moves the Universe. Minds are connected and thoughts are shared as thought form but the sharing is not so apparent in the physical world. Thought creates form at a certain level.

Words, as you speak and share them, extend your thought into the physical world. This is the second level of creation. Words are a Cause, the effect of Thought. Words create form on a certain level.

Actions are the third level of creation. They put into place the mechanics by which thoughts are manifested here on earth and experienced. Actions are a Cause, an effect of Words and Thoughts. Actions create form in the final level.

Body is an effect. It is not a Cause. Repeat, it is never a Cause. It is always an effect. It is a tool to experience and communicate.

Level confusion comes when people use the wrong level for the wrong thing, when they identify with the wrong level, or when they have conflicts within the levels.

Conflicts arise when what you think conflicts with what you speak and what you do. The creation is obviously going to be retarded, un-understandable and fearful.

Wrong use arises when you use Body to create when it cannot create. People have too much faith in Body. Body here can represent anything from your own body, money, walls, clothes, or anything physical. Understand this: Body cannot create. Ever. Body was designed from the word go as a tool to experience and communicate. That is its role. But you say ‘then how come medicine cures and money pays rent?’ Watch again. Mind is always involved. Even when you take medicine after realizing you are sick you do so with cooperation from mind. The realization puts your mind at attention and the intention to get better gets into gear, and that on its own is very powerful. It is not purely the drugs that heal you. They trigger a lot, yes, and many chemical reactions and so forth happen in your body, sure. But mind is never far away, doing the creative work. The drugs, for the lack of a better word, activate healing through the body but from mind. Do you realize how powerful your mind is? It is always creating 24 hours a day, even as you sleep. It is eternal. It is not even confined by your body. Your brain is but not your mind. When you try to use Body to create, you experience frustration because you keep trying without getting results. Only when you engage mind do you get results.

Identification with body is another level confusion. You are your Self, in the image and likeness of The Source. When you think you are your mind or your body, you believe it, and this has the power to confine your power and belittle you. Your body and possessions are just communication and experience tools. They shall all come and go. When you identify with any of them, you shall feel little and create little. And when you ‘lose’ these things, you shall feel loss. Yet you need not identify with Body. What for? You create Body. You brought it forth. It is smaller than you are, it is your creation. When you confuse your identity and think you are your body or possessions, you make yourself smaller than that which you created, and because it is temporal and weak, you feel fear and lack. Another misidentificatio n comes in when you think you are your mind. The mind is a creation tool. You are bigger than it. You give it direction. When you think you are your mind, it takes over you and it has no direction. Its creations, when left on its own, are temporary and ego-controlled and hence fearful. When you think you are your mind, you identify with its ego-guided confusion and you become fearful because, as we saw, its creations when left on its own are temporary and will be ‘lost’ one day.

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