We are hard-wired for the Infinite. No matter what software program is plugged in and running in your computer, your hard wiring can handle any program. No matter what kind of junk is coming in on your television set, you can always find a better program. Once Timothy Leary said that awakening is as simple as changing TV channels. Oh, that it were! We don’t even know that it is software playing and that this is a television soap opera that we are living. We are not just listening or watching. We have married the script. We consider the software to be reality. We pretend unawares that we are right in the middle of the television soap opera. Of course, we tell ourselves that any idiot could tell the difference between software and hardware and between the television set and a poor movie. Then why are we so addicted, why are we so clinically depressed, so suicidal and homicidal? Why are we so stressed if we are so aware?

No, we are not aware of what we are hard-wired for. We are not aware that our life story is a soap opera and playing like a piece of software. Are we aware that we are all one, and that we are Infinite Imagination, that we living out our symptoms of awakening, that we are human gods in the making, that we are limited only by the abuse of our imagination? Are we aware that the Drama Triangle is a rat-race, and no more? Are we aware that the Cosmic Christ is asleep in us? That we are miracle workers, that we are magicians, that our brains are capable of containing twelve university libraries of knowledge, that we only use five percent of our abilities, that human cells could probably live forever under the right laboratory conditions?

 Are we aware that we are sleeping giants, capable of unbelievable creativity, wisdom and love? Are we aware that our narcissism is programmed limitation? Are we aware that our self-esteem is programmed foolishness? Are we aware as Kafka said that we are living in huts beside immense castles? Are we aware that our suffering is not due to our limitations but to the infinitude we have rejected as preposterous? Are we aware that we are human gods acting like puppets? Are we aware that we are designed and hard-wired for universality, but that we have settled for degraded and arrogant self-imagery? Are we aware that our shame, blame and fear have no further reason to exist? Are we aware that the Christ "finished" all of those games?

"It is finished" John 19:30

Of course, though, it is not finished until you say so with total awareness. And we will continue with the same old story, the same old programming, the same old soap opera, until the Christ awakens in you and I on our Christmas morning when we say "Yes, it is finished."

How did we create this deadness, this sleep, this ignorance, this madness, this Drama Triangle? All you had to do was to be born in this collective human energy field and you are zapped! Whatever degree of enlightenment we attain is helpful, but everybody who is finite gets to be zapped! God even zapped himself by becoming this finite world. And how much he longs to be re-born, to awaken, to come alive, and to have tea with you and me. The whole creation longs for that day:

The whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. Romans 8:22

So what about Melchizadek, Jesus, Krishna, and Buddha? Were they zapped too? We are forever indebted to the light they brought to this planet, for these pioneers who awakened to Infinity and gave their entire existence to the Greatest Love Story Ever Told. I have no doubt that they were zapped by the collective human energy field, but thank God they did not buy the pityful dark story about humanity. They opened the door to consciousness for all of us. They showed us what is possible. And do not think that we are to worship them, for "Greater works than these shall you do" (John 14:12) The very fact that Infinite Potentiality is possible should give us courage. If even God has been put to sleep by the finite, do not be so surprised that we are. And if these human beings were able to wake up to Infinity, so can you and I.

The Old Testament speaks of the "furnaces of affliction" and the New Testament of "crucifixion" and modern psychology of "the "victim" experience. All three of these terms refer to the experience of "human suffering." We have argued here that "human suffering" is a state of mind which we create unawares by what we tell ourselves. Since it appears from our senses that such suffering arises from outside, we react with defensiveness and blame toward that outside source. Since that outside source is having a similar experience, that person reacts with counter-defense and counter-blame, and the cycle of conflict rages on.

We have argued also that these "states of mind" are created and fed by certain unconscious assumptions or beliefs on a continual moment by moment basis. For example, take note of how often you may be saying to yourself:

I am limited by

I am deprived of

I am trapped in

I don’t have

I wish I could

I can’t

Ain’t It Awful that

Poor me

I have a right to be angry about

I don’t get enough

I have too much

There is not enough

It is depressing that

I lost

I am hurt by

It is unfair that

No one cares that

I will never

Why is ……. Happening to me

No one appreciates it that

My life is harder than

I am better than

I try harder than

I should

I feel guilty about

I regret that

I am ashamed of

I resent

I blame

I avoid

I dream about

I wish

I am lacking in

I am handicapped by

I am controlled by

I am jealous of

I envy

If only

Someday I will

I am stuck with

My luck is

I am hurt by

I will get even with

I will prove

I will disprove

I’ve had enough of

You have no right to

I am putting up with

I refuse to put up with

I am sacrificing

I am tired of sacrificing

I am obligated to

I am tired of feeling obligated

I am paying for

I pity

I am sick of pitying

I hate

I am afraid of

I’m anxious about

I worry about

I am right about

I am wrong about

I hate feeling wrong about

I miss

I am losing

I can justify

I can’t justify

I want

I need

I brag on myself that

I put myself down that

My strong points are

My weak points are

I’m lonely because

I’m afraid because

I’m angry because

I’m envious because

I’m sad because

I’m stuck because

I intend to

I refuse

I resist

I would like to control

I would like to prove

I would like to show

I am justified in

I make up for……by………

I was cheated when

Awareness of one’s self-talk is required for Infinity Vision. Self-examination means that I pay attention to the self-talk that re-enforces my belief system and leads to my symptomatic behavior. How many of these precious beliefs are you willing to examine and release? The self-image is married to these beliefs. Everyone wants a divorce these days. But if you are married to false beliefs, you should consider divorcing them first. If you divorce your spouse and remain married to false beliefs, have you really changed your mind?

The first message of the Good News of Infinite Imagination is metanoia, to "radically change your mind," to become aware of your self-defeating self-talk. That is the "work of consciousness." If you do not do your "psychological work" you will not allow Grace to do its work. Awareness is your psychological work. The Gift of Infinite Imagination is the activity of Grace. If you continue to choose unawareness, Grace will seem like an empty word.

God is limited by our ignorance. God suffers in the "furnaces of affliction" with us due to our blindness to our self-defeating self-talk. Victimization is self-inflicted. Your life is out of control because you give your power to false beliefs.

False beliefs lead to addictive solutions. False beliefs and their addictive solutions are symptoms which lead to more suffering. This whole trap is set up for your awakening. Thank God for your furnace of affliction. Thank God for the awareness of the power of your self-talk. That same power is your salvation. Blake said that there is a string, which if you wind it up into a ball, leads you out of the morass. You don’t have to look very far to find that string. Just take any one of those sentence completion answers you just completed, and wind it up. It is connected to the entire false belief system, and if you keep winding it up, you will arrive at Infinite Vision. Every symptom you have is connected to the God within, to the Pattern Man that you have forgotten. That is why you can afford to be thankful in all things, and that is why all things work together for good, and that is why all things are possible, and that is why whatsoever you ask will be granted, and that is why this entire universe is rigged in your favor, and that is why you cannot fail.

Just realize that you have been looking at the world through glasses of finite sight and trying to settle for victimization, perpetration or rescuing, and that you cannot do it.