About "God Becomes Us" Several years ago, my spiritual teachers and guides asked me to share their highly personal and life-altering training and teachings. Primarily they asked I pass on a four-step letting go process which they considered central to their teachings: acknowledging, accepting, embracing, and letting go. God Becomes Us is my response to their request for me to record their teachings. Click here to listen to Eric read the introduction Ever since I learned about enlightenment, I've wanted to achieve it. Innocently, I thought, "wouldn't it be wonderful to live in the same state of mind and being that Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and so many great souls have achieved?" As you can imagine, this proved a daunting task for someone unschooled in the disciplines of daily prayer, meditation, yoga, forgiveness and the practice of unconditional love. I was lucky enough to meet a truly enlightened spiritual teacher in my hometown of Baltimore Maryland when I was just eighteen. Swami Shankarananda showed all who attended his church the commonalities among the disciplines of yoga, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and all spiritual paths. I received his guidance until I left Maryland in 1978. He is still there, working tirelessly with all. In the early 1980s, Guides and Masters appeared in my life and led me through an intimate, intense and magical five-year spiritual training period. Afterwards, I was asked to put it all down in a book. I felt unqualified as a writer, and embarrassed at the thought of publishing such personal material. However, after being ordained by the New Seminary in New York in 2000, I began writing God Becomes Us. Why does the book have to talk about Angels, Guides, and ETs? Perhaps it is like this. Our species is still in a primitive state, principally because we still desire to kill each other. We are like babies in a crib. We need nourishment and parenting or we are not going to survive. We also need help to get out of the crib. You might say many of us have managed to pull ourselves up the bars of our crib and peer out into the room beyond. It's a strange, new and very different world out there. There are beings out there who love us, who want to nurture us and help us grow - even to help us out of the crib when we are ready. Perhaps our "out-of-the-box" mystical experiences, which include contact with angels, spirit guides, extra-terrestrials and all manner of other experiences, are a reflection of the new world we are seeing. Soon we will venture into the room. We need help to leave the crib without hurting or killing ourselves. The universe is sending help in various ways - books, technology, teachers, enlightened masters, angels, guides, and even extra-terrestrials! Great souls who have lived among us remind us that our purpose now is to master unconditional love. To learn that, perhaps we would be wise to accept help in any form God sends it, and keep asking. As I have gotten closer to my spiritual goals, I hear over and over that God wants to express through each one of us -- to, in essence, become us. We were designed for this. It is our destiny. I hope by reading God Becomes Us , you'll understand more fully what that really means to you. Enjoy your journey! Eric |
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"This being human is a guest house Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently weep your house empty of furniture still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you our for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."
Rumi |
