We’ve talked about it so many times, right? Your divine identity is always who you are, exactly as you are; it’s always right here, right now; and it’s always working 100% perfectly.
So let’s just pause and marvel for a moment, at this miracle of you and your ever-flowing divinity, your oneness with all that is.
Because your standard-issue human equipment package is actually an awe-inspiring example of sacred functionality. Your mind, body and spirit are divinely designed to work seamlessly together as one, functioning as a receiver/transmitter of pure holiness.
That’s what they’re for.
In this proper functioning, you are meant to know yourself not only as a connector between heaven and earth. When it’s all flowing properly, and divine light is streaming through you, AS you…you are a clear reflection of the universe itself. You naturally know your own limitlessness. Your own wholeness. Your own spotlessness.
And you know all of this while inhabiting your tangible physical form. You know all of this because you inhabit your tangible physical form.
Think of your physical/mental/spiritual self as being something like a beautiful chateau, kind of like this one in the photo. Just like you, it has density, solidity. Physicality and presence. Yet the sunlight streams through its structure unimpeded, and its full beauty is reflected in the still waters beneath.
When the whole mind/body/spirit setup is working correctly, that’s what’s meant to be going on. That’s what it’s designed to be. You, naturally knowing your own divine identity (and the divine identity of all others); you, communing with all that is; you, radiating the frequencies of heaven, in intimate co-creation with the ever-changing, kaleidoscopic world of form…all of this while being here, now, solidly present in a body.
That’s where we’re all heading. Back to knowing ourselves as the luminescent chateau.
This doesn’t mean life will be all ‘happily ever after’, by the way, despite the awesome house. You’ll still have highs and lows, ups and downs—because that’s the nature of the world of form. (In truth, that house in the photo probably has ongoing issues of damp rot. Just saying.)
It might even still be possible to experience wounds and traumas, in the love-based future. But the experience is bound to be very different from what it is now. Because, when bathed continuously and automatically in divine love-light, all damage heals cleanly and disappears, leaving no scars.
Having up-down experiences, in and of themselves, does not mean there is anything wrong. It’s only when divinity ceases to flow through your whole being, that these up-down experiences start to feel like problems.
But it’s not really the problems themselves that are the problem—it’s the missing love-light that’s no longer flowing through them.
When the divinity is flowing properly, up-downs are simply recognized as an inevitable part of existence in this world of form. And through the ups and the downs you will know yourself, beyond all doubt, as perfection personified.
Perfection having a shitty day, sometimes. Perfection making stupid mistakes that must be put right. But perfection nonetheless—exactly as you are.
The closing of the the gates
Somewhere along the way, those free-flowing openings in our mind/body/spirit structure were replaced by gates instead. Suddenly (or perhaps slowly, incrementally) we all lost the ability to receive divine input from heaven and earth.
We lost that effortless knowledge of who and what we really are; we also lost our intimate connection—our deep belonging—to the natural world which sustains and nourishes us.
So what happens when these gates—let’s call them Bill and Melinda, just for fun—shut off the divine flow?
The divine flow keeps going, obviously. Nothing and no one can stop it. The blockage can, however, stop our own experience of it. And that’s exactly what’s happened.
We no longer experience ourselves as we truly are. Instead, we only know life from the perspective of our solid, limited physical self, and the input we receive from the world of the senses—which are also mainly physical in nature. Ears. Nose. Eyes. Gut. Brain.
No more still, clear reflections of our own infinity. No more sacred sunshine lighting up everything it touches. Just dense physicality, and mental-emotional baggage piling up in the corners.
As that baggage accumulates, we slowly develop distorted behavioral patterns based upon all the unhealed scars. Which, of course, leads to more baggage, and more scars.
From our perspective now, lacking access to holiness and the knowledge of our own divinity, our problems are perceived as personal problems that need to be fixed. Not only that; it feels like we’re stuck inside this body, which has become our sole identity. Right?
When in reality, the body is a very important, yet very small component, within the incalculable vastness that is you. An incalculable vastness which is exactly the same as it’s always been:
Pristine. Sacred. Infinite. And gloriously perfect beyond comprehension or words.
Absolutely nothing about you has ever changed from all this, in truth. It’s all still 100% ongoing: Divine magnificence, uninterrupted.
But thanks to the downgrade of your mind/body/spirit’s electrical wiring—AKA the closing of the gates—what was once a free-flowing chateau, at one with the sunlight and the still waters beneath it, now seems more like an impregnable fortress, meant to keep you safe inside. And from inside the fortress, it feels like there’s no way out.
FEELS like. It only feels like there’s no way out.
The gateless gate
Since your divinity flows right on through them unimpeded, one might reasonably ask: Are the gates real or not?
The answer: Oh, definitely yes. They’re real.
And also: Definitely no. They’re absolutely not real.
It depends on where you’re viewing them from.
The gates are real, because the downgrade in your wiring is real. It exists, as an actual mental/spiritual/physical block. And yet, what that downgrade causes your senses to interpret about self and world, is not real.
As seen from inside the fortress, with mind, body and spirit reporting back only on what can be perceived through the body’s senses, we have no access to the felt experience, or the knowing, of divine truth. So it seems as if divine truth doesn’t exist, as our own real identity.
I don’t know about you, but for me that’s just not good enough. I want to know myself as I really am in truth. Like, on a permanent, ongoing basis.
So, how do we move beyond the fortress? By not approaching it that way. By not approaching it at all, in fact.
A leap of faith is what’s required: In my case, it’s a leap of fuck-this-I’m-a-radiant-chateau-in-truth-and-it’s-time-to-know-myself-as-that.
A leap of divine-love-is-way-more-powerful-than-any-gates-could-ever-be…all of this wrapped up in a big, sizzling thunderball of grace.
That kind of leap.
And the universe responds. How could it not? I’m made of it, it’s made of me. So it mirrors my leap back to me.
This kind of leap (even if felt only partially and briefly) can often be enough to lift us temporarily beyond our impaired wiring, and into the direct experience of our own true nature.
It puts us outside the fortress, looking back at the gates. And this is where that whole ‘gateless gate’ thing comes in:
Outside the confines of the fortress, you are immediately flooded once again with the eternally unbroken knowing of your own sovereign limitlessness. And from this divine perspective, you can clearly see the gates were never real. Not even slightly. Because they never stopped the totality of you, for even a moment.
And.
Something even more profound than this can start to happen, as those brief leaps accumulate: An incremental shift—a kind of subtle, gradual stirring in the depths of that silent reflecting pool.
A long dormant seed pod cracks open: A seed pod of the miraculous divine. And it quietly grows, all on its own, sending its slender shoots upward in search of the light.
It’s a soft, silent jailbreak from the inside out and the outside in—with no obstructions anywhere to stop it.
The gates and the gift of these times
Let’s talk about all of that piled up baggage for a minute.
In theory, you shouldn’t need to address any of it. When your sacred divine flow is restored, most of it will likely melt away on its own, like morning dew in the sunshine. And what’s left will undoubtedly be perceived very differently, in deep and abiding joy.
But by all means, if working on your stuff still feels relevant and helpful to you at this particular moment, then that’s certainly what you should be doing.
But keep in mind that the gates themselves are crumbling under their own weight, in these times. In fact, the whole fortress will likely undergo some kind of never-before-seen type of transmutation, on your way to something even more incredible than the splendid chateau you once were.
So the good news is, you don’t technically need to do a thing, in terms of working on yourself, OR circumventing the gates: Everything that is unlike love, will leave all by itself, in its own good time.
But if you’re impatient like me, and you don’t want to sit by and wait? Get that seed pod cracking. Be the softly growing miracle itself.
Because in these times…it’s finally time.