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People in separation deny who they really are in the very nature of life apart. Petrus insists that I am God, and have only to allow this to become happy and free. But I do not know or feel myself to be God! Rather I know and feel myself to be Bob. God is said to be omniscient, omnipotent and all-loving: but I am confused, vulnerable and constricted in my feelings. Therefore Bob cannot be God, and I am satisfied that Petrus is wrong. The mind of separation is relentless and implacable in its denial of the true self, which is simply the awareness of is. When the awareness of is becomes vested in a particular form that is closed to its source, the transient form is mistaken for the self. The closing of an ephemeral aspect of the self to the whole of the eternal self squashes and inverts that form's experience of life. Love is turned to fear, and pleasure into pain. Truth collapses into falsity, and confidence decays into doubt... To transmute within one's given forms from closed to open – from no to yes – may precipitate a nameless physical discomfort, a dizzying disorientation of mind and poignant emotional pain. This is not the familiar, thudding pain of separation compounded, but the burning, piercing pain of separation released. Such a passage calls for courage: living from the heart.
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