‘Illusions’: Overcoming Negative Attachments and Embracing Joy

Remember life is an Illusion so don’t take it so seriously.

A few weeks ago as I was struggling with a blockage, during a message from another Being, Jesus popped in with a short message. He said, “Remember the discussion about cloud busting in the book “Illusions”. Sometimes a simple statement is all it takes to shift your energy and focus. This book, “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah” so long ago at the beginning of my journey had a great impact on shifting my perceptions.

Cloud busting refers to the concept of using our energy and focus to break up clouds, but that wasn’t really what Jesus was wanting me to remember. In the book, Don Shimoda was demonstrating this ability to Richard Bach. Don had easily dispersed a large cloud and it was now Richard’s turn to do so with a small cloud. Don had done his instantly and Richard struggled for several minutes before proudly seeing it disappear. He turns to Don expecting praise only to hear, “Amazing, your were so attached to it and still it disappeared for you.”

So why did Jesus want me to remember this and what did it have to do with my blockage? As I reread that part of the book, actually I reread the whole book, it was the statement of Don that followed. “Negative attachments Richard. If you really want to remove a cloud from your life you don’t make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it.”

THANK YOU JESUS! For all the struggle I had been putting myself through, in one little statement, Jesus had sent me to the source that had touched my life to find the wisdom I needed. He knew what would impact me the most. He might have given me the information in another way as the other Being was doing, but this had the greatest impact.

Beyond just that statement, to read the book again and remember on a new level that I created the world in which I live and the blockages and joy that I experience in this life of Illusion. If I don’t like what I am experiencing, change it.

My favorite quote: Dr. Wayne Dyer , “If you change the way you look at things. The things you look at change.”

If I don’t like the problem, blockage, situation or cloud in my life, don’t struggle so much the answer is within my to just switch my focus about how I see it and from what I don’t want to what I do want. It is getting attached to the negative or what we don’t want in life that causes us to struggle against it, instead of embracing and experiencing with joy what we do want.

Sometimes, even if we know something, we can still bring our understanding of it deeper into our consciousness. The example of this I like to use is if we tell a child a flame will burn them that is information. If they put their finger in the flame and get burnt that is knowledge. If they don’t put their finger in the flame every again that is wisdom. However, I have found in life there is another stage called mastery and freedom. This involves realizing that the flame can only burn us if we believe it can, if we know that the world we experience is an illusion of our creation, than the flame can be cool to the touch, and we have mastered the illusion.

A humorous example of this in the book is when Don Shimoda not only walks on water but swims in the earth, and breaths the water. The Illusion we call reality. “This world and everything in it, Illusion”. For most people this is an absurd concept, but when you are ready it will move from information, to knowledge, to wisdom and finally to mastery and freedom. A place of being without time, space and limits.

P.S. – I am not there yet, but I have remembered the way thanks to Jesus. Now I need to let go of the Illusion and embrace the possible.