Welcome to The Laughing Heart. Your opportunity to go deeper into what is most
essential and have a good time getting there. This is Errol Strider. I am
delighted to have you with me and tonight we're gonna probe into the human
condition creatively and straightforwardly. I don't know if that's a
word but anyway what I'd like to share with you on this episode of The Laughing
Heart is actually quite extraordinary. You may or may not know the artist Linda
Green. 1991 she had a visitation by none other than Jesus. Yes the very same
Jesus that many people adore and subscribe to. Although when he lived he
was referred to as Yeshua he came to her, believe it or not, to pose for a picture.
But that was just an excuse to be able to have these what it turns out to be
extraordinary conversations which ended up being published by Glenda. First in a
book called Love Without End and then in a second book called Keys of Yeshua.
Probably the most enlightened material I've ever read certainly up there. So I'd
like to share one of these keys. This one's called The River of Life and I
think you'll find it fascinating, profound, challenging and hopefully
enlightening. I've taken the liberty of narrating the piece myself but the
character is clearly Yeshua.
River of Life. Glenda begins. While discussing adamantine particles I
inquired about their place in the order of things. How was it that mass as we know
it suddenly appeared in primordial space? It arrived like a mutation within the
grand unmarked expanse of infinite potential. Yeshua. The answer lies in a
realm of existences beyond human consciousness. I can only show you with
metaphors. Human consciousness itself is a grand metaphor of existence. In the
beginning there was love and love existed in alternating rhythms of release and
self-knowing. In knowing itself love created a viewpoint and from that viewpoint
it created points to view. These points were all good and existed only because
love said that it was so. Love's interaction between its viewpoint and its
points to view defined both space and unity. Love knew this as spirit. As that
interaction progressed it created rhythm, energy and differences of potential. Love
knew this as life. All of this existed only because intention and thought
propelled love into the prospect of having an experience. Initially every
potential thought and action occurred in perfect synchronicity. Therefore its
reality existed at the speed of light. As love desired to have an experience a new
pattern of relationships was necessary, one that included points of random change and
finite passages of what is now called time. To accomplish this love entered a dialogue
with spirit and so life acquired a new tendency toward novel response. After all what is a
dialogue if the response is predetermined? The foundation for free will and choice was
created through this dialogue. Thus for the first time it was necessary for love to mark
the spots where life and spirit had emerged into manifestation. Wherever change occurred in
a field of equilibrium there would be mass. Love was adamant about this. Nothing must ever be
lost from spirit, regardless of the changes, distresses or arrangements that may unfold while
existence was having an experience. Thus you may call this emerging presence
adamantine, only a whisper, a trace at first. And yet it was the first appearance of substance
in the beginning of the universe as you know it. From this all matter was created, but to
understand this you must respect the essence of spirit, the love from which it sprang and
the river of life in which it flows. Glenda says, when he said this I knew that life as he
perceived it was not bound by the fragile and limited perimeters of organic substances
we normally call life. It was a sacred emission from God, much more powerful than any form
or structure could ever fully embody. I was yearning to no more. Yeshua. All knowledge
begins by observing relationships and patterns. Sub-atomic particles have no meaning as isolated
entities. They can be understood only as interconnections that result in observable events.
Patterns in this universe reveal the probabilities of interconnection, not the probabilities of
things. Life is not a collection of isolated objects, but a network of interconnected
and interdependent phenomena. The spirit of the earth may be fully known only through
ecological understanding. To understand anything in life, whether it be life on earth or life
eternal, one must recognize and respect relationships. It has been the tradition of classical science
to believe that in any complex system the behavior of the whole may be analyzed by examining the
properties of its separate parts. This is the process of analytical and deductive reasoning
that has created the picture of a linear universe comprised of rigid inert structures and dwindling
quantities of energy. As it will eventually be learned, there are no parts at all, merely
greater and greater refinements of pattern within a great system of life.
Every living being has intrinsic value to the whole rather than mechanistic function within
limited structures. Glenda asks, then is everything living? And what about the second law of
thermodynamics, which states that loss or dissipation of energy is inevitable in the
universe? Yeshua. There are both open and closed systems in the universe, which represent the
difference between life and death. Most inorganic matter functions within closed systems that
have stabilized around symmetrical actions and reactions. A closed system may only experience
change through tendencies toward disorder and loss of energy. However, alongside the closed
system is a living universe of open systems ever moving from disorder to order, thus increasing
in energy. Only as you shift your thinking from objects to relationships will you conquer
separation and harvest the power of life. To know this power is to know the experience
of caring. Just as you care for yourself without reservation or enforcement to do so, when
you extend that sense of caring to include all others, you will know the full measure
of being alive. Our fixed ideas, isolating boundaries and structures that decay result
in much human suffering. Out of ignorance, man divides the perceived world into separate
objects and categories of existence that he sees as fixed, but which are really ever-adjusting
aspects of life's fluid nature. Since organic life first appeared on earth, over 99% of
all species have served their purpose and have been absorbed into other or higher life
forms. The river of life ever widens its possibilities and increases the complexity
of its manifestations. At the foundation is simplicity. It may shock you to know that
all the world's bacteria have access to a single gene pool which has provided an immense
resource for adaptation and manifesting an array of breathtaking combinations and recombinations
for three billion years. Any bacterium at any time has the ability to use accessory genes
provided by other strains which permits it to function in ways its own DNA may not cover.
The global trading of genes through DNA recombinations provides for almost endless adaptation possibilities.
Therefore, what has been done to one has been done to all. Widespread use of antibacterial
agents is both futile and disastrous. Future life sciences and medicine will comprehend
the more effective use of agents to stimulate positive adaptation of bacteria resulting in
chains of supportive symbiosis. In the presence of love, these positive adaptations naturally
occur. In the presence of hatred and fear, negative and resistant strains of bacteria
are more likely. Life forms are ever changing and yet the basic chemistry of life remains
the same. Do not cling to forms that are passing, but seek for an understanding of life that
embraces and includes all possibilities. This is accomplished through integrating and expanding
patterns and relationships. In this way, you will see God as the creative power of life.
When I asked that you love one another, I was not just giving you a recipe for a human
fellowship. This is the doorway to life everlasting. Glenda continues, all struck as I was. He must
have caught my other thought, for I was also wondering, are we then just noodles floating
in cosmic soup? Yeshua. Unity and connections do not result in loss of individuality and
personal authority, nor does unity sanction careless or indiscriminate agreements which
could lower the quality of life. To the contrary, unity provides a fertile context in which rare
and unique creations may flower. I should have probably introduced it a little more. These
allamantine particles, according to these teachings, are the very most basic unit of mass that exists
in the universe. If you end up reading these books, you will find out more about them.
As a follow-up to that, I would like to share a piece that I wrote many years ago. It is called
Concerto. As a student of a book called the Uranchia Book, one of the premises in the
book, Concerning Art, is the following. The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to
foreshadow a higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought of eternity.
That is a mouthful. Yes, I get it. But it inspired me to write this piece called Concerto.
And while I wrote it many years ago, I have always wanted it to be put to music. And now, thanks to
AI, it has been accomplished. And I am very excited. It is a very complex, detailed piece in the
fact that it could be expressed in such a fascinating and complete way is really a tremendous experience.
Having said that, this is Concerto. I hope you found it at the very least intriguing, and maybe you might
want to check it out again. It is definitely worth reading. Let me know. I would be happy to
send it to you. In the meantime, this is May 24th and the day before Memorial Day. It is good to stop
and remember those who have gone before, especially those who have given their lives for a higher
purpose or cause, not just soldiers, but anyone at any time who has been willing to sacrifice for an
ideal for others, for something that was dear and close to their heart. At this time of great upheaval
and transition, it behooves us to step up and become willing, at the very least, if not committed, to bring about a
transformation that will help us move from a culture that continues to be at war with itself and begin to make the transition
to one that is characterized by peace. Of course, as Yeshua said, he didn't come to bring peace, but to bring a sword.
The way I interpret that is the sword is that which cuts away the ego self from the authentic self.
And here the ego self is defined as the part of the mind that defines itself by separation. Indeed, the whole notion that we are separate from one another
sets the stage upon which we conduct war, whether they're military war, economic war, domestic wars, all wars, are based upon the same false premise, the illusion of separation.
And going back to Yeshua in the books that I mentioned, what he shares at the very end is how who he was and what he represents and what he calls us to will bring an end to duality, the notion that we are separate.
And in fact, help us realize that we are all a part of one continuous, seamless existence and that any action or thought that is based upon separation, the fact that we are other is fundamentally an error.
But as we pursue that error, inevitably more error comes about and leads to so much of the destruction and unsettlement that we experience as humankind.
To help us make that transition and to have a deeper experience of how we are, one with the divine, for the last piece of this evening's program, I'm going to share with you another piece that I wrote many years ago called the divine lover.
Thank you for joining me.
Again, this is Errol Strider of The Laughing Heart.
You can reach me at the laughingsheart.org or email me at the laughingsheart.org at gmail.com.
I also have a sub stack, Errol Strider, and a YouTube channel.
We've been busy containing many videos of what I did with my spouse, Rochelle Strider, along with professional actors that I have directed in performing many of these pieces.
So I hope you'll take advantage of that and that we can hear from you and talk to you again soon.
Have a blessed time. Be good to yourselves.