The journey of the soul is an endless one, with peace and joy and love as the destination–and with an ability to reach that destination in any moment.
Life goes on around us, and the temptation is to make it all very real. Yet the trick is to be “in this world, but not of it.” Observe it, and comment upon it, and even affect it if you choose, but do not believe in it as if it were Ultimate Reality, because it is not.
Yet why bother with it if it is all unreal? That is the question asked by every Student. The Master knows that it is in the Unreality that Reality may be experienced more fully than in Reality Itself–

just as in a darkened room, the light can be experienced more brilliantly. And so, the Unreality becomes a tool, a blessing, a gift from the Divine through which That Which Is Divine may experience Its Own Divinity.
We are encouraged, then, to interact with our world — this world of our own devise, this circumstance and situation of our own creation — in a way that allows us to express what we choose of Divinity to experience. We are invited to bring that experience through, in us, as us.
It is sometimes difficult, when you understand this, to become interested in the world, or engaged in it. If it all exists as a Contrasting Element — much like tracing dye used by the radiologist — then why get caught up in it at all? That is the same question asked earlier. Let me answer it a different way. The idea is to not get caught up in it. The idea is to move through the world creating, experiencing, and retaining your true identity — using the world as a tool with which to do so.
The world we live in is an illusion. (For more on this fascinating idea, read The Holographic Universe, by Michael Talbot.) The idea is to live with the Illusion, but not within it. That is, to use the illusion, much as a magician uses tricks to produce particular outcomes.
What we are living here is a case of mistaken identity. We think we are human beings…but that is just what the physical part of us is. The largest part of us is non-physical. The physical part of us is the tiniest part of us. We take this teenie-tiny part of us and move it through the physical world (which is also, as it happens, the tiniest part of Ultimate Reality) in such a way that we provide for ourselves the Right and Perfect people, places, and circumstances allowing us to announce and declare, express and experience, become and fulfill Who We Really Are.
There is so much more to say on all this. There is so much more to say. For now, allow me to respond to a blog reader who made this entry in the Comments Section here yesterday…

This is my very first time reading your blog and as much as I love you, your books and this site, I am disappointed. I never expected politics. I’m tired of politics. I’m bored with politics. If I want politics there are TOO many places I can go for that. Why are you giving your thought energy to Hillary’s behavior here? Like I said, love CWG, don’t love politics. XO
Posted by: Linda | May 26, 2008 8:12 AM

Well, Linda, here is why I am offering commentaries on politics here: CwG says, “Politics is your spirituality, demonstrated.” As long as we live with the illusion of life as we are co-creating it, we must not act as a magician who has forgotten his own tricks, but rather, as a magician who is making up new tricks as he goes along. In other words, we must create this illusory life as we wish it to be, if we wish it to be a reflection of our highest thoughts about who we are.
Politics is one way to do that. And, within the framework of our current illusion, this is a most important political year in the United States. Perhaps the most important ever. Certainly the most important in decades. The chance for us to create the experience that we call, in human terms, “happiness” for the largest number of people on the earth may well rest on how we play out the political game in the U.S. in the weeks and months ahead.
All any of us wants, when all is said and done, is happiness. That is our natural birthright, we feel, and we are right about that. The question is, within this Grand Illusion, what is the way to produce that? Politics is one way, for sure.

Having said all of that, I am enjoying the idea that the latest CwG book, Happier Than God, is bringing benefit to a great many people around the world. Published just two months ago, it has found a global audience, and the reviews of early readers have been spectacular. Here are three of them, posted recently at Amazon.com:
AWESOME!, May 8, 2008
By Michael Merritt “Redesigned” (United States)
I would recomend this book to everyone. I bought one for my friend and she turned her life around. It helped me a great deal. Buy this book. It is very easy to read and is full of information to help you with your journey in life.
Happier than God, May 20, 2008
By S. Montague (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
I thought it was beyond great. It answered so may question on the power of attraction. Not how it works but how the cycle works. If I am attracting the things I want and doing it right what happens after the thought. What does the universe send me. No more surprise or thinking I did it wrong or it does not work. Now that I know the cycle I can enjoy the process and flow with it.
Law of Attraction is only one Law operating in the Universe, May 11, 2008
By R. L. Farlam (Australia)
Walsch , in his effortlessly conversational style, clarifies confusion surounding all the hype about the law of Attraction from “The Secret” etc. Goes further to reveal & explain the other laws operating in the Universe & how by understanding these & working with them we can be open to embrace the happiness which is our birthright. Easy & enjoyable to read & truly enlightening.
I had to share those with you, because I am inspired and excited by them, and because I don’t want you to miss this wonderful book! And I’ll see you here tomorrow with a reader Q&A.