puzzle piece 1:
DRIVING BACKWARD
For
this puzzle piece and all the others
I'll again and again read
God's
Page:
Turning backward
to face Creation
from the
beginning to the end.
From
Truth and Reality Class III
"One of the strongest advantages
in 'driving backward'
is this change of attitude,
from willy-nilly manifesting
based on false assumptions
of what you want ~
to careful consideration,
and even reverence
for what has already come into existence. "
From
Four
Steps to Wholeness
[This file has been radically updated
on March 28, 2005,
please open it to discover
the evolution of understanding]
"'Driving backward'
is a new practice
based on
an important understanding
which has been missing
from most spiritual wisdom
on Earth.
"I have described myself
as a traveler
who faces the past
as I 'drive backward'
in the present
toward the Void of the future.
"When you do the same,
we come into even better alignment and communication...
"As you stand here
on the solid ground
of the present,
facing the past,
you have the opportunity
to find and release
judgments
you've held against yourself
and others.
The release of judgments
is essential
before you will be able
to move
the
unseen guilt and blame
which bind
your magnetic essence
and cause you
to stay in denial
of your most difficult emotions."
From
"Should
I leave my husband for my own healing?"
"The path to wholeness
is really not a 'path' at all,
but rather a way of being."
"I've called it
'driving backwards'
to make the point
that your deepest interests
are best served
when you relinquish control,
or the illusion of control,
to a deeper inner guidance. "
"As you turn
away from the future
and look back upon your life
and your relationship,
you can reap
some very important benefits."
"First,
you can collect
into your heart
more of the learnings
and goodness
that you've accumulated
so far."
"Second,
you can more easily
be present here
in the eternal now,
trusting
and waiting for what's next, without the bother
of expectation or dread."
"Whatever is next will come,
and with it will be
another key to your healing.
When something happens
that a decision is appropriate,
the right choice will be clear."
"Third ..."
From "The Future"
"How can You drive backwards,
not looking to the future,
and at the same time
have a Plan that involves
our future evolution?
"As I consciously choose
to do this healing work
and face backwards,
and as I struggle
with my old patterns
of projecting myself into the future (a deep habit to break!),
I often am stumped
as to how to realize this.
Can You give some input here, please.
"Yes,
driving backward
is the most challenging part
of my advice to those spirits
who wish to evolve
and heal more quickly. "
"And there is a big difference between
getting visions
or seeing the plan,
and projecting yourself
into the future.
Your visions are an important part of your evolution.....
but future projecting
is an impediment
to healing into wholeness...
"... catch yourself
when you find yourself
projecting into the future
and ask,
'Do I know enough
about this situation
to find the healing in it,
and find my way through it
into wholeness?'
"... The answer here will be
to turn around
and let the future happen according to the plan,
because right now
the present moment
is calling you home.
"It is only in this moment now
that anything can be done anyway.
And the best view
of the moment
is not looking out from it
into the formless void
of the future.
The best view from here
is to look back
upon this moment
as the culmination
of all other moments.
"Look back from now
and realize
that this is
the farthest into the future anyone has ever been.
Right now
you're on top of all Creation.
Stay here with me now ...
"Healing happens,
and wholeness is coming."
By Moreta, August 24, 2000:
"Driving backward
has meant for me an openness
to live again experiences
that I had lived in the past,
but at that time I could not accept or understand completely.
"Sometimes I've done it
going back with memories
and feelings help,
that is driving backwards
in the inside.
"And also living and reenacting now,
in the outside,
under similar circumstances, experiences from the past
in a new way.
"Taking in the parts
I had left out before,
getting from the same experience new inputs, reactions,
knowledge and healing.
"And being able
to see the opportunity
to enter there from the outside, again to find out
what became trapped or denied.
"And make the space for it
right now,
to give expression and healing.
Another post to Godchannel Forum
By Anonymous, October 14, 2000
Learning to drive backward…,
it seems
that stopping
our compulsive looking
to the future
is the trick.
Just trusting that "all is well"
and not trying to plan for anything, and therefore
not worrying about
or fantasizing about
what may or may not happen
is a tremendous liberation.
It also has the effect
of focusing us
in the present moment,
with Body.
From
"Driving backward
brings me present"
"I have been gradually digesting Your
guidance about
"driving backwards"
through Creation.
"It really made me stop
and do a turn around
in my thinking about myself
and my world
and how I create,
especially the me that tends towards projecting into the future as a way to
accomplish things.
"The more I stayed with this
I began to see and understand how, like you said, God,
Creation is always happening
in the present moment,
and in my projecting
into the future
I really am missing
the wonder and magic of Now.
"...Turning around
and facing backward
is the same as 'going within',
in that it changes
your attention
from looking outward
toward the future
to looking inward
toward
where it has all come from.
"Since the present moment
is the farthest into the future anyone has been
in linear time,
you can be
completely on top of it all
when you turn backward
and face inward."
"And each time I repeat patterns,
especially ones
that don't feel good,
it is me choosing once again
to live and believe such realities. Why are some of these creations so hard
to change?
"They are difficult to change because it's hard to find them while facing forward.
"They are part of
where you're coming from,
and the first step is
to turn around
and begin
looking and feeling for them.
"This is the trouble
most people have
in making changes
in themselves,
first becoming aware
they have a pattern
that isn't helpful,
and realizing
it's their creation
and therefore
something they can change.
"... First
intend to change the pattern,
"second
align with me
in driving backward
and collect all the information
you can
about the pattern,
" third
release
any judgments
that support the pattern,
"and fourth
move the emotions
that have been held in check
by the pattern
or the judgments
that created it."
"As you can see,
this cannot be done
while facing forward. "
"What usually happens
in that case
is a new pattern is tried
in hope it will replace the old one,
but then the two patterns come
in competition with each other,
and of course the older and stronger pattern usually wins out."
"Just like in judgment
release
it's important to release
what has been in place
before attempting to replace it with what you want."
"I also see
how my future projections
are in many ways
fear avoidance,
where instead of
staying present with my fears
and helping them release
into whatever they need,
I rise above them
with my mental energies
and try to arrange
future situations
such that Fear won't exist.
"But I know now
this doesn't and hasn't worked
to really give me
the peace and joy I want.
"So, as you have suggested God,
I am turning myself around
and working my way
to the front of the bus with You.
"Your presence here
is reassuring to me,
especially because driving backwards is new to me
after so long efforting
to drive forwards.
"Yes, and like anything new
it takes a little practice
to get good at it.
"You are right to stay present with your fears
and anxieties."
"Of particular interest
are the feelings you get
driving backward,
not knowing,
where your life will take you."
"In driving backward
you're trusting
that you are going as quickly toward wholeness
as possible,
with no idea
of what that will look like
in terms you're familiar with,
like where you'll live,
your work,
money,
relationships, etc.
Fear of the loss of control
is very good
to experience
and move here."
"And I am beginning to get it
that using the present moment
to look back on
what I have created
is so valuable
for learning from experience
and thus guiding in new creations.
"I see
that so much energy is often spent on focusing on the future
without having fully digested and integrated the past
that a lot of mistakes are just repeated.
"In many ways
it makes life simpler and easier and more fulfilling
to drive backwards.
"And really, in a sense,
all the past is with me
in every present moment,
although much of it
in a denied state
because I haven't accepted it ~
and so the present moment
offers this amazing opportunity over and over again
to reclaim the parts of me
I have disconnected from
as I grow into greater wholeness.
"Your eagerness
and willingness
helps you
to get things quickly."
" And you realize
that your tendency has been
to lift out
of issues and situations
that would bog you down.
In driving backward
you now have the opportunity
to explore the bog
and retrieve the goodness
that had been overlooked before
in leaving too hastily.
This is very good work."
"One of the most important benefits of 'driving
backward' is
that you can trace
the causes of things
that have happened
from their
origins in the present ~
back down
through all that's been.
With the clear vision
of retrospection and without judgment,
you can find your own bumblings ~
and make corrections now, when it matters.
"Not by looking forward,
but only by looking back
can you determine
where you are and
how you've come to be here.
"In finding your way
to any specific future destination
it's not good enough to know simply where you are going.
You must also know
where you are now,
because this is
where the rest of your journey begins.
Driving backward
into the future
keeps your spirit together with the rest of you,
here in the eternal present."