“If you believe in death, then resurrection becomes the overcoming of death. If you believe in being in the Presence of a Creator then ascension has value for you. Now, perhaps this sounds very simple. And, that would be true because it is simple. But for the experience, the allowing of yourself to have these experiences dawn within your awareness, within your mind, you might depending upon how you describe yourself to yourself, experience that with great difficulty. I am referring to the idea that there is not something that dies and something that lives on. I am not talking about those concepts. I am talking about the idea that if something dies everything dies. But, if one thing does not die then nothing dies.”

It seems that I have to make a choice between life and death.

“Yes, because we are talking about laws. Life – Reality – follows laws. Illusion follows laws. Everything is lawful. The only question is: What law do you follow? The law of Life does not allow death. The law of death does not allow Life. They deny one another. And, if you think there is Life and there is death, then in your mind you are willing to consider that there are two things that oppose each other with equal force. That does not make sense to me. It does not make sense to me that, if there is Life Eternal that there would be such a thing as death. Now, when you take those ideas and you begin to address them with what you perceive, you have a contradiction.”

Can you expand on that?

“Perception brings about a contradiction. For perception can only bring into your awareness the law of death. Your perception does not bring in the set of laws that represent Life and what is eternal. It only brings to you the experiences of that that has a beginning and has an ending.”

But everything I perceive has an ending.

“That’s right. So let me ask you, “Things that fall apart, does that speak to you of Love? Things that are born and suffer and then die, what does that speak to you of? And this is what we perceive in this world. Perception cannot describe you. It describes an illusion. An illusion I am referring to, right, that has a beginning and has an ending. Reality is eternal.”

So, basically, you are speaking about the essence of all teachings?

“I speak about the essence of every teaching that has value and is associated with Truth. What I care about is what is the same about all religions? What is the same about all people? What is the Truth of Love and Light? What is the essence of Our Creator? What is it that we would really be like if we stopped playing games and trying to prove to other people that we are worthy of their love? How about if you just wanted to be in a relationship with Your Creator that was one that you could be happy with? Wouldn’t you find your relationships with other people to be happy also?”

So I have to look for a common denominator?

“Yes. The common denominator of Love would be the Source of Love. The Source to end all conflict would be the Source of Peace. Is not your Creator a loving and peaceful Creator? Then, wouldn’t any relationship be solved, or any problem solved, even in your world, even what you call the conflicts that happen in your world, that you call wars! There is a solution to everything that you perceive. Reality is the solution to an illusion. All of perception is an illusion. You have had this demonstrated in your world to you by those who have gone on before you.”

“The solution that I have found does not depend upon what you do in the illusion. It treats all aspects of an illusion exactly the same. And when the master of illusion shows up, it denies any reality to that master.”

Who is the master of illusion?

“You call it the ego. That is the thought patterning that constantly shows up in your mind, that encourages you to believe that the value of you is found in this world rather than telling you, ‘You are the solution to this world.’ Imagine if your value, your true value was: You are the solution to this world rather than that you are part of the problem that this world presents. But, if you listen to the ego you will be a part of the problem, because the master of illusion has the intent for you to die. It has the intent for you to believe in pain, suffering and death.”

That sounds like an apocalypse.

“Not necessarily. Perhaps you find your life missing the kind of happiness that you believe you deserve. You’re looking for: How can I make sense out of all of this? I have had enough pain and suffering. There has got to be another way! So whether you are a Muslim, whether you are a Christian, whether you are of no religion, whether your religion is science, it really does not matter. I take science for instance. Even science now has discovered quantum physics. And quantum has demonstrated that there is something that is not of the speed of light! It is not bound by time. In fact, it functions faster than the speed of light. And, as you are well aware of: the speed of light is how you measure time. So, if it is faster than the speed of light, it cannot be of time and space!”

Can you repeat that?

“There is something that is faster than time and space. And your scientists have recognized that. Right now, they don’t quite know what to do about it, because it denies your human, most brilliant scientists’ theories. His name was Einstein. And, without Einstein you would have to live. Because he taught you, if you go faster than the speed of light, you will die. And, now you know that it is not true. The Source of Life being Eternal is never going to be convinced that you are something that can die. How do you convince something that is eternal that you can die? So that is the dilemma that you find yourself in. You have a Source that is Eternal and yet you believe you are something that can die…! That is the reason why you feel that conflict that you really long to have resolved.”

Isn’t that the message of The Keys of Enoch, the Urantia book and A Course in Miracles?

“Yes and you also can pick up a lot of the science magazines today. You are in an Information Age. However, all the information you are getting is about the illusion! What I would like to present to you is the possibility that you can be in an Awakening Age where you tell everything, ‘I demand to know.’ You stop hiding and dying. You take control and stop holding images of yourself of being unable to experience what you want. You know what You deserve as a Creation of God. Can you feel that within you?”

I can see clearly that this world does not support that.

“Last night I watched the movie called Joan of Arc. To me it was very similar to the story of Jesus. She was willing to respond to help people and there was an attempt to stop her to the point where she was burned at the stake. And, the people that did it knew better but they chose against the path of love. Now, what is the difference between you and Joan of Arc or Jesus or Buddha?”

I don’t know.

“If there is a difference – that is what the illusion is. It is an illusion of differences. Now, it has got to be obvious to you at this point why those words will never be enough for you. If words were enough, I could say, “Okay everyone. The only Reality is Oneness. See? And, then you would just experience Oneness. But it’s not magic. It’s something that has to happen in your mind, where that idea is more valuable to you than your willingness to continue to experience the illusion of duality. It’s about willingness for the laws that you obey to be recognized as the laws of illusion, so that you don’t have to obey them any longer.”

Total anarchy?

“You will have to obey laws. God, Your Creator, Your Source is not lawless. He is lawful. God is full of law. God is only Love! And, if God is only Love, He must be true to the law of Love. And, that is where you find difficulty. If Your Source follows only the law of Love, then why are all these unloving things happening to you? And, then, you will hear things like I heard in the movie last night: Well, it’s not God, it’s men who do that. But let me ask you, ‘How can men do that if God creates only loving?’ That is impossible in association with an only loving God.”

But, if there is a God or a Source that is other than only loving, then there must be other things possible?

“However, you would not have any longer an eternal source. At that point your source would also have to know or experience a death of itself. So, what happened to the idea of eternal then? Then there is no such thing as eternal. But why do you have an idea of eternal if there is no such thing. So, there must be Something That is Eternal. So, then, somewhere there is a mistake being made. There is a mistake being made in your mind. With the association as to what is real and what is illusion.”

Rananda states that it is all about the choice that I make in my mind. He continues holding out his hands as if he weighs something, “What choice do I want to make? Let me see: a trillion euro or one euro? I just gave you a hypothetical decision to make, an idea. And, even with that idea you gave different value to the ideas. You gave a value to a trillion dollars. Maybe they were counterfeit and the other one was a coin.”

Rananda asks if I have ever been mistaken about something I have chosen. “Then you know what that is like. How about if you made a mistake in choosing the illusion to be reality for you? I know, that seems to be a bigger loss. Isn’t it? It is a bigger loss for you to admit to yourself that you made a mistake about what Reality is. Oh, I made a mistake. I left Heaven. Wound up in an illusion. That’s too big for you to really want to consider, isn’t it?

But how about if it was just a mistake? And, I am here to tell you that that’s all that it is. You have made the mistake to listen to the thought system of the master of illusion. In doing that you have become a master of illusions. Your divine right is to be a master of eternity, because of the nature of your Creator, Your Source, God, whatever labels or words you want to use. Whatever language you want to use. Whatever platform you want to talk about.”

Let’s talk about science.

“Yes. Scientists try to break atoms down further, but who cares? Every year you hear about someone who found something smaller. And then, they get a big prize and everything. So, their whole life is trying to find something smaller and smaller. I mean, you can’t find what doesn’t exist…! So, you have got to find something small.”

It sounds absurd.

“Anybody with any amount of recognition of how the mind works would know that you can’t keep cutting something in half and again in half and, finally get to nothing. Because you are always taking something that you are cutting in half. So, there is always a half of that something. No matter how small it is. Do you understand what I am saying? These are just concepts. These are just ideas in the mind that you use to confuse yourself because, what you really want is just the experience of Love.”

So Rananda, what have you come to offer us?

“Well, first of all, I have come to offer you what has happened to me that allows me to look at this world and recognize it has NO reality to it. None whatsoever. And, the other part of that experience was that I have been shown what reality is. I have been taken into that experience and have come back to share with you not what it is like, because you cannot use the language of the illusion for what it is like. The most that I can do with you is indicating to you: it is ours! We deserve to be a part of that Eternal Life. We were created to be a Part of That. Along the road we took a wrong turn. And we are suffering because of that.”

Rananda wants us to know that we don’t have to suffer any longer if we don’t want to. “You have all the power. The ego has none at all. It is just a thought system in your mind. If you don’t put the power together with that thought system it has none.”

So, the thought might still be there, but if I don’t give it the power it cannot manifest anything.

“Yes, you are the master of choice. So, I have come to encourage you to make the choices that will bring you happiness rather than continuing the path that is going to lead you to pain and suffering and death.”

It sounds exactly like the teaching that Buddha gave.

“It is the same teaching that Buddha gave. It is the same teaching that Jesus gave. I have come to tell you they are teaching the same thing. It is about the Love that you have that is intrinsic, that is basic to you in the relationship with your Creator.”

So I have been mistaken?

“Right. Even in your darkest hour, when you cry out for help, you want the help to come into the illusion and do something to the illusion. You want the eternal to enter into the illusion and do something to it! Your self-made self-identity struggles with the truth.”

I am an illusion.

“Yes, but the real You is ready to replace the illusionary identity. And, you are debating whether you really do or don’t want to be something that is going to die. And it doesn’t make sense. Does it?

So, I don’t care what religion, or no-religion anybody is involved in. All I want to know is: Do you want to know your Creator? Do you want to come into the Awareness of the essence of what Life is? And when I say Life, I do not mean a series of events that you can perceive and remember and talk about. I am talking about the essence of Life Itself. Does that excite you at all to experience Life Itself?”