Go Fish
by Guy Spiro

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There is the old saying: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. But there is a third, deeper level. Truly understand how fish, as well as everything else in the world, is manifested and you tap into the inexhaustible source of fish and feed the world.

I’ve written before that the belief in a limited world is the worst form of materialism. It is easy, however, to understand how this belief becomes so prevalent. When one sees the world in a strictly physical sense, then it logically follows that there is only so much of any one commodity. When it is used up, there is no more of it. Spend all of your money and you have no more to spend. If the physical is the ultimate reality, then there is a finite supply of all that is good and necessary for life. Fortunately, the physical is not the ultimate reality, but is, in fact, the least that is real.

Now, I am not saying that we should waste the world’s visible resources, continue to burn fossil fuel or pollute the environment in any way. Good stewardship requires that we find more intelligent means of providing the comforts of life. Our problem is that we have over-identified with the physical and forgotten its source. The physical world is the result of our limited vision. It is a dream that we have come to see as real. We believe that we are bound by its laws rather than it being formed by our consciousness.

The source of all is the One. The stuff of the universe is nothing more than variations of the emanations of the One. We are as lenses through which the energy of the One moves into a temporary formation of matter. As such, we have the ability to shape the material world. But we, by and large, have it backward. We see the world as our source and impress upon our consciousness what the world presents, rather than knowing that the source flows through us and our consciousness impresses conditions on the world.

As we learn and grow in consciousness, we begin to access the God part of ourselves. We identify with our higher self and come into contact with the source of all. We then find that there is no limit to the source of anything. By, in effect, pulling the energy down instead of up, or out of the world, we find that anything can be healed, expanded, increased or completed. Jesus is reported to have used this knowledge with the miracle of the loaves and the fishes. We can use it for anything. Go fish.