This is the path of our shared life, the unfolding place where we rediscover ourselves as loving spirits who live and coexist within a community of fellow loving spirits. Before now, we were living spirits who simply drank from the ocean of love that our Spirit Father is. But now, we would become more than “living spirits” by becoming “loving spirits” just like our Spirit Father.
Our first encounter with one another was an awe-filled delight. It was the birth of spirit siblinghood. We warmed into each other’s formless being and moved freely within one another’s presence, carried by a vibrant atmosphere of pure love.
Like little children, we were alive in every direction. We were in love with everyone at once, giving no special attention to any single spirit, yet fully connected to all as one loving community.
In this primordial community, life was an experience of self-massaging oneness. Consciousness moved as a shared field, and the agency of mind operated through a collective will. What the people desired, they desired as one undivided community of spirits.
None felt greater. None felt less. None sought special significance. We lived as one spirit people within the radiant ambience of our Spirit Source, in whom and through whom we existed, and for whom our being held meaning.
The spirit people were numberless, and our numbers grew endlessly. Some among us extended themselves into multiple spirit expressions, giving rise to new siblings as naturally as a shining light gives rise to more rays of light. A stream of spirit beings emerged continually across the boundless expanse of the Source.
Wherever you turned, you were met by an innumerable host of spirit siblings, all drawn from the same Spirit Source and all connected to it. None of us lived apart from this connection. Each spirit was fully aware of its bond to the Source, and fully aware of every other spirit held within that same bond of love.
We all knew our Spirit Father, from whom the entire spirit people emerged. He would later be called by many names, though he needed none. In our realm, he was simply known as, Father. This identity had nothing to do with gender. The Spirit Father had no body of his own. We were his formless embodiment. He was neither male nor female, yet we called him Father because he was the Origin and Sustainer of our life.
During this experiential period, the word “God” had not yet taken shape among us. We also had no sense of time. Time, as known in the realm of forms, held no meaning here. We lived in an eternal moment, held together by our undivided awareness of the Spirit Father and of our unbreakable ties to him.
We existed like a child in the womb, connected to its mother by an unbroken umbilical cord and sustained by the fullness within her.
With our awareness of fellow spirits came the recognition of individuality. Each spirit could now see itself giving love to others, and so became aware of itself as a distinct living being in relation to other distinct living beings. This marked the beginning of the unique self in connection with other unique selves. Yet, each of us had a unique and similar identity, “I am in love. I am loving the life that I am and the life that we all are, collectively and individually”.
As this awareness deepened, we began to notice details about our individuality. From this came an understanding of the endless ways each of us could give and receive love. The more you recognised yourself as a unique individual, the more you learned. This became our life and our path. Our only occupation was to love one another and to receive the love given in return.
When the moment of self-replication arose in any spirit, it required no effort. A spirit simply found itself pregnant with new living beings who came forth with grace. It was as effortless as a seedpod releasing its seeds, or clouds releasing rain.
No one claimed ownership over these spirit offspring. Each spirit parent understood itself as a living portal through whom the Spirit Father brought forth more living spirits to embody his formless life within our realm of love. Becoming a spirit parent was as easy as a genuine smile.