Jeshua: You Are Free to See Differently

Many years ago when I was on radio I was told about a man who said he spoke with Jesus. I decided to interview him, his name is Jon Marc Hammer. I remember he had the softest voice, I felt real peace in our conversation. I felt as this is Easter it was appropriate to speak of his story and to share the words he stated he channelled directly from Jesus. I ask just keep an open mind, if you gain from this perspective that is great, if not, that is great also.

According to Jon Marc Hammer (Jayem) he met Jesus in his living room. That happened back in 1987.

Not surprisingly this former Vietnam War veteran was deeply alarmed when Jesus first appeared out of a field of light in his apartment.

Eventually, after several visits, Jayem began to trust this regular visitor really was Jesus. He then began to write down, tape-record and share the channelled material.

This communication went on for 20 years. Here are excerpts of the material. Decide for yourself if it resonates with your truth or not.

“…You are the one who holds dominion over all things. And what does this idea of dominion mean? It means that you are the one who is the source of the power which can choose how you will see what is around you, how you will perceive it, what you will believe most about it. You are the one with the power to penetrate the illusory veil of the world and see the Heart, or the Essence, or the Truth in everything – a blade of grass, the cry of a child, the barking of a dog, the coming of the mail with the bills.

Therefore, The Way of Transformation does not require you to change your circumstances. It merely requires that you change your attitude toward them, by recognising that they are harmless, by recognising that you have called all things to your self.

There are many that would teach that you must sit around and ponder why you did this, and why you did that, and … oh my goodness gracious! I say unto you, all that is required to begin is the willingness to accept that in the great mystery of consciousness, you are the power and the source for all that you think, all that you see, all that you feel, and all that you would be and do. You abide in that freedom constantly.

The Way of Transformation, then, rests simply on that:

How will I decide to use my time? Finding myself here in this moment can I remember that I am free to see things differently. I am free to look lovingly upon the world. I do not need to wait for something outside of myself to create a stimulus that elicits a loving response.

You don’t need to wait for your mate to come and give you the hug that you want so much. You don’t need to wait until your mother calls you on the phone and begs for your forgiveness for how cruel she treated you when you were growing up. You don’t need to wait until the President is no longer in the Whitehouse. You don’t need to wait for the great contest that comes in the mail that brings you millions of dollars. You don’t need to wait for that to happen. Right now, you are the one that is free.

But perhaps you have imprisoned yourself, by waiting for Love to show up outside of you to trigger a response within you, when you feel it or recognise it, so that finally you feel loving. Those that know aloneness are not limited in extending Love. And those that know loneliness yet retain the power to make the decision to love. It can never be taken from you.

…This is your only treasure, your greatest joy will be discovered as you cultivate within yourself the habits of mind, the habits of body, the habits of choice, that begin to align what you think, what you see, and what you do with the Truth that is true always. For your joy will be found as you recognise that you exist to extend your treasure. And as you do so, you immediately add to your source’s treasure, whose only will is to extend That Which Is, forever, unbounded. Unlimited. And God is but Love.

Now the grand thing about Love is this: It does not require any set of conditions to exist before It does. Now, how is this different than some of the things you experience in life? Rest Assured that, as a body, there are certain conditions that must exist before the body can be satiated with food or water. There must be certain conditions that are met before the body stops shivering against the cold. Your world is based on the topsy-turvy perception that conditions must be met before there can be a choice for peace instead of war, for forgiveness instead of judgment, for Love instead of fear.

And when the conditions outside of me change, then I’ll make the choice for Love.

I have often said that the world is merely the reflection of the insane choice to deny Love and to be devoted to fear. The world is diametrically opposed to the Truth of the Kingdom. The world is the opposite of Reality. The Way of Transformation, then, rests on the complete reversal of the thought system you have learned in the world. But that thought system is not merely the practice of new ideas, repeated ad nauseam in the mind. The reversal of thought must permeate the entire field of the body-mind (which is nothing more than the field of your consciousness), so that you know that change has occurred.

So that when you are in any set of circumstances that once seemed to elicit judgment, or fear, or anger, or hurt, or sadness, that you recognise,

My goodness, my whole body feels different. I just feel like being loving. I feel totally safe. What’s the big deal here? Oh I remember when these kinds of circumstances would have elicited sadess, or hurt, or fear, or anger, and now, I just think it’s a beautiful place to be. Because, here, I can extend Love. Wow, what a joy! What a treasure.

Thank God, I have this moment in which I can be the blessing that blesses the world!

And what is the world, if not each moment of relationship in which you find yourself?

So, beloved friends, the use of time is pivotal. The use of time determines, at all levels, what you will experience in your tomorrows. And long after the body ceases to be the teaching and learning device that you are most attached to, long after the body dies, you will, indeed, be continually stepping into your tomorrows. For you are that sunbeam sent forth from the sun, from the Mind of God. And that Light never stops travelling – let’s put it that way, to use a spatial term. You will never cease to create. You will never cease to experience.

The only choice you ever have is this:

Will I assume responsibility for doing whatever I must do to eradicate every misperception, ever obstacle to the presence of Love, every limited belief I have ever learned about anyone or anything – especially about myself? When will I choose to assume responsibility for cultivating the perfect remembrance that I am One with Love, that I can perceive the real world?…

…the reality that shines through everything … that is present in the very material that makes up the chair in which you are sitting… that literally pervades the thing that you call the body that you think is so dense and hard. Or perhaps, if you have not been exercising, it is also a little soft.

The point is, there is nothing you see that is not pervaded by the Perfect Radiance of God’s Holy Presence – nothing. The stone, a leaf, a piece of paper blown by the wind, even the shoutings of fear and anger from anyone yet contains within it, if you would receive it, the Perfect Love of God. For God does not ever recoil or withdraw from the unlimited and perfect Extension of Himself. And God is but Love. And if you did not abide wholly in that Love in this moment, you would immediately cease to exist. I don’t just mean die, I mean literally cease to exist. There would be no trace of thought or memory in any mind, of you. It is only because Love Is that You Are.

This is why I once said,

Of myself I can do nothing, but my Father through me, does these things.

I did not say,

I learned these of my Father and now I will be the maker and the doer. I acknowledge my complete helplessness, my complete dependency. I eradicated any perception that I was a self separate from God. I stopped giving authority to the tiny, little gnat shouting at the vastness of space, My will be done!

… By way of an exercise, take just a moment. And if the eyes are closed, open them and look around you. What is the first thing your eyes see? Be with it. Don’t be so fast to judge it as a candle, or a flower, or a picture. Simply be with it. Let the body relax. Stop thinking so much. What is this thing? Do you truly know what it is, or what it’s for? You describe it, you name it, as Adam once did the animals in the story of the Garden of Eden. And the human mind believes that once is has named or defined a thing, it therefore knows it. It is called the smugness of egoic knowledge.

But do you truly know what that thing is for? Do you recognise what has come about to even bring it into existence? How many minds had to have been involved in bringing forth that creation? What are the materials it is made out of? Where did the materials come from? What plant, what rock, what metal has been discovered and extracted from the body of the Earth to become that shape? How on earth did that happen? Where did the very molecules and atoms come from? What is that thing that I am looking at?

Can you find a place in which you merely rest in awe, and recognise your complete ignorance? You did not make that thing. You cannot find the moment in which that thing first began to rise as a thought in someone’s mind. You are completely unaware of the moment of the birthing of the substance from which the object has been created. Look at it, then with awe, and recognise that it has come forth from the same place as you – mystery, utter, sheer mystery. Do you not then feel an affinity with it? Are you not in relationship with it? Can you not, then, begin to sense the sacredness in which that relationship abides? For mystery is sacred, and it transcends even the greatest of minds. The greatest of philosophers can not comprehend the field of mystery in which all relationships arise.

And now, looking upon that object, whatever it is, recognise that you have called it into relationship with yourself. Ponder that for a moment and consider,

Out of what vibration of consciousness did I first call this object to myself?

You might remember purchasing it in a store. See if you can discover the very first moment in your memory, in your consciousness, in which this object came into the field of your awareness. What is going on? What were you thinking, or were you thinking at all? What motivated you to bring it into the field of your home? If you are at a friend’s house, the question remains the same. What motivated you to be where you are right now? What choices were you making with consciousness?

… And as I began to sense that I was calling these things into my experience, I began to discern what brought me true joy – not just a moment of pleasure, or satisfaction, or sense of security, but that which elicited true joy. And I discovered that what always brought joy was when I was willing to surrender into the awe of mystery, to penetrate the thoughts, and perceptions and attitudes, and definitions that the world had taught me. I look at a plate and not just see a plate, but to see mystery unfolding before me. To sit and look at a star. To sit and look at a sacred text. To sit and look at one diseased, who sits at the side of the road covered with dust, and to see no difference – to see them pervaded by the same Mystery – the presence of my Father’s Love. I began to sense that that Love pervaded me, that the very body-mind that I thought had been me, Jeshua ben Joseph, was arising out of Mystery – out of Mystery – out of Mystery – that I did not create myself! And I finally came to realise that even I, Jeshua ben Joseph, was a Mystery with which I was in relationship.

And I decided to be in relationship with my own self, what we refer to as the body-mind, that peculiar sense of awareness in which you say, “I am” I decided to be in relationship with the totality of my Self – mind, spirit, soul, emotion, body – with the same sense of aware and mystery that I felt when I looked upon the farthest of stars deep into the night on a quiet hillside. And that changed everything. I gave up my self definitions. I did not see myself as a carpenter’s son. I did not see myself as a Jew. I no longer saw myself as a student of the Essenes.

I came to see my Self as the mysterious extension of something beyond my comprehension. I saw my Self as a sunbeam to the sun. I saw my Self as the very mystery of God’s presence being unfolded in the realm of manifestation. I saw that all that I thought, even down to the body, was temporary; that it was an ongoing foreverness; that whatever it was that was birthing me was eternal, and that if I could just rest in That, if I could abide with That, if I could return to That – even prior to every breath – that I could tap into the very Power of Creation itself. And get out of the way, and get out of the way, and get out of the way. And keep diving deeper into Mystery upon Mystery upon Mystery.

I never let my mind rest from that day. I never once decided I was done. I never defended a single perception that I held about anyone or anything. And I cultivated over time, by using time wisely – I cultivated the willingness and the ability to seek first the Kingdom, even to the point where I was doing it prior to every word spoken, every gesture made with the body: Father, I rest in You. What would You live through me in this moment? Let me witness it! Let me feel it! Let me taste it! Take me ever deeper into Your mystery. I want all of You.

And if I might make a confession, that has never ended. I am still saying, Father, I want all of You!

The Way of Transformation – the willingness to use time differently. There must come a point in the journey of each individual which the head bows and the thought emerges,

I want only God, and I no longer care what it takes, what is required. I submit to the Mysterious Force that is Life asking only that I be transformed into the perfect Field of Awareness through which that Love flows without obstruction.

Now, what you will discover, in the end, is that the only obstruction is fear, and some expression of it. And each time you begin to set aside fear, and choose to bless the world from the perfect holiness of your union with God – each time you dare to be so arrogant in the eyes of the world as to be the presence of Christ, each time you relax the mind and the body and recognise,

Of myself I do nothing. Something is living me, and it is to That which I surrender,

You will cultivate a way of being in the world that is not here. That is, it is not within the perceptual mode that makes up the world.

You will be different. You will look the same, but you will not be the you that the world has known. You will speak as you’ve always spoken. You’ll know your social security number. However, there will be a definite sense that you live, yet not you, but That One is living you. And somehow, inextricably, unexplainably, you are being allowed to be the Field of Awareness that gets to witness Life living as you. And you will know that it is sacred. You will know that it is beautiful – that right now, wherever you are in this moment, you are the embodiment and the expression of Mystery: Love forever extending Itself. You are the very Joy of God!”