The High Watch, a View of God's Unfolding Divine Plan

By Don Hutchison

A Dissemination of The Truth,

as reasonable an account as may be considered

from the limiting physical perspective.

Many of you have no doubt heard the phrase; "we are spiritual beings, having physical experiences." This takes some "out-side-the-box" thinking for most, even if they've heard it before, even if they think they understand it. The difficulty we have with grasping the depth of this truism lies in the fact we rely almost exclusively on our physical senses to provide all the information we need to form an opinion or view point about the world and the people around us. Additionally, we've been raised to think of "numero uno". Look out for number one first. Not that this common refrain is entirely misplaced, for it did have a valid place in our survival for many hundred-thousands of years. For the last two-thousand or so however, some have been trying to conform their way of thinking and behaving to the example and teaching of the Christ Spirit as manifested in Jesus. In fact, every culture of the world has a predominant theology suited to their general and specific spiritual goals and expectations. Each of these varied World Religions follow a "way-shower/saviour" whose doctrines and tenets, teachings and examples mirror those of Christ, or visa versa since some predate the advent of Christianity.

The correlation evidenced between diverse peoples with no related histories should come as no surprise to any who embrace the fundamental truth of; One God. Particularly, the occultist.

The primary reason followers of any faith and in this example, those who call themselves Christians, don't just adopt or become what is believed to be the ideal behaviour––the embodiment of unconditional love and the inclusiveness that defines "unconditional"––as lived and taught by Christ Jesus, is because we can't break the habit of putting ourselves––number one––first!

If it were easy to be "Christ-like" we, as the spiritual beings we are, would have no reason to go through the physical experiences provided us through reincarnation. We would not need to confine ourselves in the physical vehicles we put on each time we leave the freedom our realm of spirituality represents to reenter the restrictions imposed by the world of material thought. By way of our repeated embodiments at widely disparate times throughout history, under vastly different circumstances and cultures, in both male and female roles we learn the invaluable lessons only found in the material/physical world.

It is that very experience, and all the combined variables that it includes, which give us every opportunity to grow, advance as it were, spiritually, toward that ideal which will return us, as spiritual beings, back to the at-one-ment that identifies us as one with God!

We've got to drop the "what's in it for me?" attitude and accept one of selfless service. Again, if it were easy, we wouldn't need to be here. What's stopping us from doing the right thing, from putting everyone else first, from not thinking of our own needs? US, of course.

We are so fixated on our physical or worldly accomplishments, possessions, comforts, deeds and needs that we haven't taken the steps necessary to cultivate the insight to reveal our true Spiritual nature.

More importantly, why we're going from where we're at on our spiritual journey, to the point where we no longer need to return to the unnatural confinement of space and time in the physical world, will become more focused once our origins and spiritual goals are clear. How do we––as spiritual beings––get from here, to there?

Ready or not, that's next.

• Language: English
• Publisher: God
• Release date: Sep 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393354512

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To all who are ready to know where they are on their personal spiritual path,

and why

PREFACE

I AM AN OBSERVER. MY purpose is to chronicle, not to interact. This requires a sense of detachment that removes or minimizes the possibility of my contaminating the course of interaction being witnessed. Involving myself in any situation I’m chronicling would influence its direction of development, the significance of which is widely misun- derstood by any who aren’t aware of the role an observer plays in life’s proceedings.

Even some who are trained professionals in the observation of human nature and be- havior, may not be in a position to recognize an observer whose perspective is not so lim- ited by time and physical parameters as theirs, consequently judging them as unproduc- tive or lacking communication skills, when––by eternal standards of measure––judgment is not theirs, nor mine, to make. I struggle, as do many of us, not to pre-judge, so when acting in the role of the observer, I do not engage, I record.

The temptation to participate, to interact, to interject, is second nature. Suppress- ing that instinct may appear as indifference, when in fact the natural scheme of events is being allowed to proceed, to the mutual benefit of everyone under the umbrella of influ- ence produced as a result of the exchange. Watching the various details develop between participants is essential in regards to understanding the tenor each has assumed for them- selves, while mutually––if unwittingly––playing the roles of both teacher and student in the lesson at hand.

The clarity of every observation is limited by Time, because the entirety of its representation can not be wholly appreciated from within that frame of reference. It should go without saying, but all the turns on every path that have led each party to the current interaction they share, as well as the infinite repercussions that interaction creates, can not be documented by a single observer while in Time. It does serve to emphasize

however, that those Time imposed limitations in no way diminishes the significant bene- fits everyone reaps as a result of their involvement in any given event, only the complete and accurate chronicling of it.

Time is unique to the physical world. Everything physical is changing, varying if you will, from what it was (in the past) to what it will be (in the future). Our point of reference or focus is the present or, the Now. The physical documentation of physical activities, is by necessity achieved in the Now. This extremely narrow perspective de- mands that the observer take nothing for granted and remain unbiased, regardless of the content of subject matter at hand, or the context in which it is witnessed. We can’t afford to assume anything. Our understanding of what’s going on around us depends on that.

The only means of improving our comprehension of the observed––and thus our relating it to others (as you will find herein)––is to alter our personal perspective. Learning as much as possible about the events leading up to what is being witnessed in this Now affords the observer their clearest available understanding, not only to its documentation, but additionally, the possible directions all resulting consequences might consider attrac- tive. Such projections, if based solely on physical evidence, are of little value given the in- finite variables the physical world constantly entertains. Accuracy may be demonstrated though, through revelations whose origins are from a point outside the physical, in the timelessness of eternity where past, present and future are one! While in the physical ex- perience however, such inspirations are fleeting, and their accuracy is invariably open to interpretation. As one observer, this is mine. I present it to you, the reader, to use or not, to what ever degree and purpose you will.

Contents

Dedication iii

Preface v

PART I:

SOCIALIZATION

Chapter Page

One: THEN; EGO’S AWAKENING........................2

Two: SOCIALIZATION; THE ROOTS.....................9

Three: SOCIALIZATION FOR BEGINNERS.............23

Four: INTERMEDIATE SOCIALIZATION................33

Five: ADVANCED SOCIALIZATION.....................38

Chapter

PART  II:

FAITH

Six: NOW; WE ARE NOT ALONE........................54

Seven: FAITH; THE ROOTS..............................58

Eight: FAITH FOR BEGINNERS.........................63

Nine: INTERMEDIATE FAITH...........................68

Ten: ADVANCED FAITH.................................72

PART III:

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

Chapter Page

Eleven: NEXT; AT-ONE-MENT...........................86

Twelve: UNCONDITIONAL LOVE; THE ROOTS..........97

Thirteen: UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR BEGINNERS..102

Fourteen: INTERMEDIATE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE...110

Fifteen: ADVANCED UNCONDITIONAL LOVE..........128

Chapter

PART  IV:

TRUTH

Sixteen: FINALLY; UNDERSTANDING.................152

Seventeen: TRUTH; THE ROOTS.......................159

Eighteen: TRUTH FOR BEGINNERS...................165

Nineteen: INTERMEDIATE TRUTH....................170

Twenty: ADVANCED TRUTH..........................175

Epilogue...................................................201

- PART I -

SOCIALIZATION

CHAPTER ONE

- THEN -

EGOS’ AWAKENING

The recording of activities is an age old custom whose earliest examples may be cave drawings relating to hunting and foraging techniques and locations. Valuable lessons if a family or clan were expected to flourish from season to season or, for that matter, generation to generation. We might imagine that the one among them who proved best at comprehensively recording such information was an honored member of the group, re- garded with some degree of reverence, perhaps even considered in possession of qualities so incomprehensible to his peers that they seem magical. From the humble beginnings of an ability to diagram a day’s or season’s activities so all could understand what accounted for their successes and mistakes, evolved a talent capable of becoming the clan’s keeper of their history or lore. An individual with the vision to transcribe a three dimensional object into a two dimensional likeness displays a capacity of abstract thought necessary to make the vital connections witnessed in the day to day habits of creatures sharing their range of habitat. The behavioral instincts of wildlife surely would have piqued the curiosity of

these primitives, influencing every aspect of the relationship they had with their sur- roundings.

Instinct still ruled however and for good reason. Those were the days, after all,

where brute strength and reaction time, spelled the difference between hunting and being hunted. It would still be tens of thousands of years before our ancestors amounted to lit- tle more than prey themselves in that now long extinct food chain. That same survival instinct told them to hold on to what they had. Additionally, if they saw something they wanted, they took it if they could, setting the stage for what would come to be called pecking order. Its continuation from pack or herd, to clan was seamless because it still served the same purpose. Simply put, it worked. Before rules and laws, the strongest was the leader who had the most of everything, and did so until being usurped by the next strongest leader wannabe. The clan in the neighboring valley, by the way, was surviving by the same possession oriented mind-set, making the sudden appearance of any stranger a matter of immediate concern and suspicion.

Longevity speaks to the success of any practice and so we see that the order of authority is virtually unchanged in most species of animal today including, sadly, our- selves. The oldest habits are the most difficult to gain freedom from. Instinct laid the foundation for many of the behaviors, positive and negative, practiced still. Too often we act no more civilized than did the first branches on our family tree with regard to the feel- ing of being threatened, and its associated fear, when interacting with someone who ap- pears different than we are. Masking our fear with expressions of disdain and mounting a defense by way of character assassination, we’re in denial about the problem being our own insecurity and opt for a solution framed in anything from gossip to outright big- otry. While such scrutiny, and more, might have had a basis in protecting the hard fought for and carefully guarded stores relied upon by a closely knit clan twenty-thousand years ago, there is, despite its wide spread continued practice, no place for it in a world commu- nity. Its origins, however, are so deeply rooted in instinct we may not be entirely out

from under the spectre it represents, for another twenty-thousand years.

As the embryonic imagination began to supplant instinct in that brutish excuse for

a brain, it took ever so long for any evidence of its head-way to manifest in the lifestyle of these primitives. The trickle of original thought that would one day flow from so many creative minds into every corner of our lives, started its sojourn into the niches of our psyche at a rate that made glaciation seem supersonic. Still, advance it did from what must have been its earliest expression, vocalizations.

We witness an infinite variety of communication behaviors among most species of animals. Be assured all communicate, those we are unable to witness are simply outside our capacity to perceive in a physical sense. The most obvious of course are the songs, calls, chirps, rattles, growls and snorts, not to mention the elaborate vocabularies of body language, or posturing, we’ve come to accept as part of our rich natural surroundings. It seems the vast majority, perhaps as much as ninety-nine percent, of these examples of social intercourse are instinctive and no doubt survival based. Then, there are the excep- tions. It’s increasingly apparent that more than a few families of creatures demonstrate communication skills that can only be considered learned and in some cases, original!

Whales, for instance, teach their calves songs with connotations and dialects peculiar to their pod or family. Primates identify objects, places and each other with sounds clearly understood by members of their family group and, lest we forget; the very real success they’ve had in learning the basics of American Sign Language. If accurate, this in particular could represent the first evidence of true communication between species. Additionally,

the subjects involved in these efforts are alleged to have taught others of their kind the same things without being prompted to do so! The totality of this behavior, alluded to herein by but a few examples, increases at the same rate as our ability to understand it, which could lead us to the inference that; the probability of its commonality exceeds our understanding and is only realized as our comprehension of it improves.

Is what we’re seeing in this something of ourselves, when the first seed of imagi- nation germinated? To be sure, the conduct we are only beginning to grasp in others has

been playing some part in the nature of things long before we were players ourselves. If the primal utterances that stemmed from our beginnings led to a higher path, it’s because creative thought and the inroads it made on our neural network, helped each small succes- sive step viable. Supported by the roots of everything that came before us, a terminal node on that seedling sprouted a branch that flourished into what would be called Ego.

From that point on our ancestral tree, a new central and primary trunk diverged from what had been and grew toward recognizing Self! The world would never be the same! Imagination empowered Ego to separate us from the whole. We were no longer a part of, but apart from the family unit we had always been identified with.

Ego gave us personal choices we didn’t have before. This precursor, as it were, to independent thought and action was no doubt most confusing to these brutish minds largely because it meant exploring unfamiliar changes in themselves, not the least of which were emotions. Instinct had always satisfied what ever circumstances arose in their world, but its involuntariness started to get fuzzy around the edges when feelings got in the way. Life was no longer cut and dry. Shades of grey began clouding what was once purely black and white. The need to make decisions kept popping up. Survival for these hunter / gatherers was complex enough when the only requirements were to to eat and procreate. The stirrings that the onset of imagination were responsible for caused members of the clan, who were accustomed to following blindly, to question or, at least try to inject a suggestion of their own now and then.

As should be expected, an individualistic ego was commonly met with the wrath of his peers, who might not have yet experienced the same stirrings offered so selectively as an alternative to instinct. Most threatened perhaps would be the leader who was quick to interpret otherwise unexplainable actions, i.e. behavior out of character or hesitations to act, as a play for his position in the group. If the strongest one among them caught himself acting, instead of reacting instinctually, he too might be startled at the degree to

which his anger could be provoked, now generated by feelings instead of being an ex- pected measured reaction to circumstances. Should his authority be threatened, it may not be just the younger, healthier males doing so anymore. The autocracy of his command might slowly require more and more of his attention to suppress the curious confusion seeming to well up, with increasing frequency, at every turn. He might sense something wrong with his family, as well as himself. He wasn’t comfortable with this new uncer- tainty and lashed out at any provocateur so as not to appear weak under the increasing scrutiny of those followers whose eyes once avoided his, out of respect for his position.

As leader, his fledgling ego sated its growing appetite––while holding uncertainty and its telltale hesitancy at bay––on the fear he saw in the eyes of all who now dared challenge him. Experience was demonstrating, that of those emotions clouding his once clear, single minded view, fear could be his ally. He too knew its grip personally, for all had occasion to have been threatened by predators. The notion that others might exhibit the same response toward him, as they would when in mortal danger, endowed him with a sense of power enabling his role as leader to be set apart from his followers in a very dif- ferent way than had been the custom. Having then enjoyed the taste of being the object of fear, and with no concept of what lay ahead or reason to contemplate beyond his now, the Leader Ego set about cultivating that strength into an advantage capable of over- coming any future confrontations his limited imagination could foster. Once the use of, or more accurately, the abuse of fear was recognized and energized as a control, the path that leadership––or anyone else obsessing about their personal agenda––would choose, far more often than not, has since been forged as a means to an end throughout every page of history.

The shifting centers of consciousness, from the clan oriented group spirit to the soul that manifested as Ego, meant, from the physical perspective, going from a sense of belonging and the security inherent with being a part of the whole, to what must have felt

like, for the first time, being alone. That was exactly, after all, the physical manifestation of the spiritual event that separated us from the Oneness of our Creator’s Uncondi- tional Love, to become the innocent child empowered by His Grace, so that we may find our way back, through the choices exercised of our own free will. While in the physical and focused on the now though, the onset of that free will overwhelmed us with feel- ings of being different from those who once seemed so familiar. Consequently and seem- ingly contrary to the freedom our increasingly independent thought pattern should repre- sent, we subconsciously made every effort to offset our initial sensation of isolation, by seeking out others who were experiencing similar disorientation––if only in the increments

suggestive of trail and error––in order to fashion a fresh foundation from which to come to terms with the confusion wrought by all the self doubt our awakening had brought to

bear. From this seeking out then, as in any commonality or need to belong, grew a social behavior in people heretofore isolated––first in their oneness as a group, then in their freedom as individuals––by exploring the irony of Ego, using its recently realized freedom of choice, to establish relationships so soon after giving up the most intimate relationship of all, that of being One, and thus proving; freedom lies not in the longing to be apart from, nor in belonging to a part of, but in the choice to do so.

The apparent contradiction of giving up the unity of a group spirit (which all flora and fauna have in common with every other member of their specific species) for belong- ing to a unified group of individual spirits, only emphasized that the path to spiritual ad- vancement had to navigate through the emotional experiences unique to Ego. It is this transmigration of identity from group spirit to soul, initiating self-actualization through the exercise of free will, that commenced our personal spiritual quest. A journey of dis- covery and disappointment, ecstasy and heartbreak, expectation and fear, love and hate.

Lessons in living, giving, caring and sharing. Growing and learning as an individual through the opportunities that are not available to the blindly led members of a group who don’t

possess free will. Life experienced as an Ego would, out of necessity, lead us down paths that are not open to those living by instinct alone.

CHAPTER TWO

SOCIALIZATION: THE ROOTS

GIVEN THE SUSPICIONS instinct had instilled, we can imagine the difficulty in accept- ing a stranger as someone we might have something in common with. Those initial, crude social exchanges however, demonstrated a willingness to lower some long held barriers, if guardedly and briefly at first, to exercise interactions of mutual benefit. As is obvious to this day, trading did not––nor should we believe it was meant to––replace the practice of just taking what you wanted, but did represent a considerable improvement in the life span of those willing to forego hostilities as the only rule of encounter. These interac- tions, as we will see, eventually lead to more wide spread trade as well as the expansion of the clan / group unit, into tribes of families with shared interests and beliefs. Sharing in fact, was an integral part of these early efforts at socialization.

During their seasonal migrations our nomadic forebears would find ample oppor- tunity to be suspicious of, but also learn from and share with, people that don’t act the same way or speak the same language they do. The tribulations of coming to terms with that was at once both challenging and transforming. First encounters would be entered upon at different levels of intensity depending on the desired or expected outcome. For instance, if it seemed reasonable and beneficial to dominate or control the situation, that

stance was quickly assumed, if necessary, fought for and either won or lost. This would result in, of course, a pecking order whose observation would be expected at any future meeting of the same two groups, unless otherwise challenged. On the other hand, meeting a group of apparent equal size and strength, might afford an opportunity to awkwardly explore the possibility of a level playing field. If those encountered felt the same, fair exchanges might ensue, unless the precarious balance be upset by some infraction of be- havior, intended or otherwise, that made one or the other feel slighted in front of his fol- lowers, in which case; all bets were off while they proceeded to clear up any perceived misconception about a weakness in the other’s camp. If for no other reason, following this prescribed path of growth opened doors that would promote, if not demand, putting values on things, motivating these earliest travelers to look at their way of life differently than ever before.

Our sphere of influence was expanding. As a result, our behavior adapted to a de- gree of flexibility that might better meet the needs of a rapidly changing world. Everything we knew, and assumed was static, would take on new meaning––and value––when viewed through the eyes of those who were not only unfamiliar with it, but by not taking it for granted, might find it strangely curious or even desirable. While possessions were still re- garded largely as status, the notion that trading was less hazardous than fighting was be- ginning to gain a broader acceptance. Sadly, as is