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Divine Warrior Training: Manifesting the Divine in Our World

Excerpt from Chapter 1: The Divine Game: A New Cosmology

We are the divine. Not just one of us, as someone with “delusions of grandeur” might believe. Not just some of us, as a fascist or racist or nationalist might believe. Not just those among us who we might consider “enlightened,” as some might believe. Not just certain nations, or certain parts of the world, or followers of certain religions as these collections of individuals might believe. Every one of us, and all of us, collectively, together with all that is created, are the divine.

The divine is you, and me, and the starving child in India, and the father dying of AIDS in Africa, and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and Jesus, and an “Islamic terrorist,” and our elected officials, and an unborn fetus, and a man scheduled to be executed. As far as the eye can see, and farther, all is the divine. We originate out of, live within, and return to the divine.

The divine as a pool of water

Imagine standing waist deep in a pool of water. Take your hand and make a splash. If you focus on just one drop of water that has left the pool of water, that is your life. Before you were splashed (born), you were part of the pool of water. For the time you are in the air, you perceive yourself as separate, something different and apart from not only the pool of water, but every other drop of water that has existed before, exists simultaneously with you, or will exist in the future. After the drop of water we are calling “you” falls back into the pool (dies), you return to the source from which you came. Before the splash, during the trajectory of the drop, and after returning to the pool, your essence is always water. The drop is always source in its essential form.

As humans, we have become fixated on “our own drop of water” to the exclusion of almost everything else. We compare “our drop” to “his drop” or “her drop.” We mourn when a drop does not successfully leave the water, and we mourn when a drop falls back into the water “too soon.” Many of us spend our lives trying to rediscover our connection to the water, and some of us even claim that we are drops of water and other drops of water do not belong to the water unless they agree to our rules. The pool of water has no rules and needs none. Human life is just a brief splash. If a human lives to be 100 years old, most of us consider that span to be a long life. The fact is, when a 100-year-long life is placed in the perspective of time, that 100-year-long life lasts a fraction of the time that a drop of water spends out of the pool.

The divine is a pool of water and each of us are particles of water, separated from the divine by evaporation or a splash, spending a brief amount of time in that state of separation, and always returning to our source. Our return to source is as inevitable and natural as a drop of water rising up out of the pool from a splash and falling back into the pool. Our return to source is as inevitable and natural as water particles evaporating from a source, only to collect together in a cloud and fall down as rain to then find their way back to source. Our illusion of separateness, which generates our forgetfulness, keeps us from seeing our place in the divine. We are never separate from the divine; we are never something apart from the divine. We are fashioned out of the stuff of the divine and never become anything less, except in our minds.