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    Choice and Will: New Teachings from Jesus
    Choice and Will: New Teachings from Jesus
    Choice and Will: New Teachings from Jesus
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    Choice and Will: New Teachings from Jesus

    By Gina Lake

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    Choice and Will explores the complex, mysterious, and important question of who or what chooses. The question is complex because there is more than one answer. It is mysterious because our nature is mysterious and because the answer may not be what you think. The question is important because our choices shape our reality and determine our experience of it. Choice and Will invites you to look deeply into the workings of your mind and heart and discover who you are, what you really want, and where you are going. The result of that investigation is bound to be greater mastery of your choices and, consequently, of your reality. Choice and Will was dictated to Gina Lake by Jesus and is part of a trilogy by Jesus, which is available in a single volume called The Jesus Trilogy.

    Note from the author: I receive the books from Jesus in the same way that Helen Schucman received A Course in Miracles ̧ which is also said to be dictated by Jesus, and which many others have received their writings, including St. Teresa of Avila, St. Hildegard of Bingen, Richard Bach, and Neale Donald Walsch. This method of receiving information is also called conscious channeling, but it is not mediumship in which the channel is unconscious and her body is used by an entity. Conscious channeling, or taking dictation, is a process of hearing words mentally and writing them down as they are heard, without any thought on my part. I can receive this communication anywhere. I don’t need to be in a meditative or trance state. All that is necessary is that I don’t think! When I’m receiving this dictation, it is as if Jesus is sitting in a chair next to me dictating the words, except that those words are heard mentally. I can ask questions during this dictation and receive answers, but the process works best when my own mind is completely set aside. Then the flow happens smoothly and rapidly and without interruption until a particular stopping place is reached.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGina Lake
    Release dateNov 24, 2013
    ISBN9781311114426
    Choice and Will: New Teachings from Jesus
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    Gina Lake

    Gina Lake has been a channel since 1986 and a nondual spiritual teacher since 1999, after having a spiritual awakening. She is also the author of over twenty-five books. She has a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and over thirty years’ experience supporting people in their spiritual growth.After a further spiritual deepening in 2012, Mother Mary, Jesus, and a circle of Ascended Masters made contact with her, and Jesus began dictating books through her. These teachings from Jesus are nondual (Oneness) teachings, based on universal truth, not on any religion. They are messages of love and peace and how to be an expression of that in your life.Then in 2017, at the request of Jesus, Gina and her husband, who is also a nondual spiritual teacher, began offering Christ Consciousness Transmissions to groups online in weekly meetings and monthly intensives. These energy transmissions are a direct current of love and healing that accelerate one’s spiritual evolution.Gina Lake’s website: http://www.RadicalHappiness.comYouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GinaLakeChannelingJesus

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      Choice and Will - Gina Lake

      CHOICE and WILL

      New Teachings from Jesus

      GINA LAKE

      http://www.RadicalHappiness.com

      This book and others by Gina Lake are also available in paperback.

      Cover photograph:

      © Falcon76 /iStockPhoto.com

      Copyright © 2013 by Gina Lake

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

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      Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: The Gift of Free Will

      Chapter 2: The Unexamined Life

      Chapter 3: The Small Will

      Chapter 4: The Software

      Chapter 5: The Chooser

      Chapter 6: Nothing to Choose

      Chapter 7: The Truth

      Chapter 8: Living the Truth

      About the Author

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      Introduction

      I, who am known to you as Jesus the Christ, am dictating this book for your freedom and enlightenment and will dictate more in the future. In this first book, we will explore the mystery of choice and will. In the spiritual journey from being imprisoned by your conditioning to being free, or fully enlightened, choice and will play a key role.

      The road to enlightenment is marked by an evolving relationship to the issue of choice and will. Where initially, one’s free will is subsumed by conditioning and people stray little from their conditioning, as spiritual evolution progresses, people learn to use their will in a way that increases their peace and happiness and lessens their suffering. With further progress, one’s free will becomes indistinguishable from divine will, or Thy will. At that point, it is difficult to talk about will at all, because choosing is effortless and just happens without a sense of choosing. What is there to choose against when there is no longer a personal will in conflict with divine will?

      Some of you may be interested in reading this because I, Jesus, have dictated it, while others may reject it for the same reason. However, the authorship is not the point. Choosing to believe or not believe that I am behind this book is not as significant as whether you choose to believe the words in it. That choice is much more important, because that choice could be transformative.

      You are here deciding whether or not to continue reading, so what will make that choice? What is choosing to continue even now and what will choose to continue or not in the next moment? And what might cause you to put the book down? A judgment? A belief? A conclusion? A feeling? Where did that come from, and is that a good guide for making your choice? Can you trust that? Do you trust that?

      What is the basis for your choices? How do you know what to choose? This is the mystery we will explore together. You have been given the great gift of free will. How will you use it? The answer to that question determines your experience of life.

      I have not used Christian terminology in particular, because I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim or a Hindu, nor do I belong to any other religion or sect. I represent and have always represented the Consciousness within you. I reflected the Love that you are so that you could know it within you. That was my purpose. I did not come to be worshipped but to show you the way to love and worship all of life.

      Some will call this message new age, but there is nothing new about it. It is the message of everyone who has realized Christ Consciousness within themselves, which you will do one day as well, if you haven’t already. Please do not put a label on this message, as any label only causes separation, and my intent is to unite, not separate.

      My message was always one of peace, not separation, and this is my message now. Peace on earth will not come from seeing yourself as a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, or anything else, but by seeing yourself as you truly are, as I see you and know you, as the Father sees and knows you. When you can see the face of God in your neighbor and love and care for your neighbor as you would yourself, then peace will come to earth. Any belief that interferes with that must go. It is time now to live in harmony with each other.

      Some may say that these teachings are not the same as the ones I gave long ago. But these teachings are the ones I would give today if I were alive, and they are in words that I might use today. In the past, my voice and language was the voice and language of those times. For now, this is the voice and language I am choosing to use.

      In the past, my teachings had to be couched in parables, but today they can be plainly spoken. The world is a very different place, and the culture you live in is a very different one. More importantly, consciousness has evolved and is finally ready for these words. In the past, these teachings were for the few who might benefit. Now many can gain from them. So I offer them to all who are willing to consider them. May they carry you more speedily to the peace and love you so long for and deserve.

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      Chapter 1: The Gift of Free Will

      You have been given the gift of free will. This gift requires one thing: consciousness. By consciousness, I mean awareness of the possibility of choice. Without this awareness, human beings would not be very different from animals, who function and survive primarily through instinct and other conditioning. Similarly, if you are not aware that you have a choice and if you don’t exercise it, you also will function mostly according to your instincts and conditioning.

      Human beings, like animals, are born with software, to use a metaphor, which largely determines how they respond to life. This software is designed to optimize survival but not other things essential to human beings, such as love, peace, happiness, and fulfillment. In fact, this software often interferes with achieving happiness and fulfillment.

      This software is primitive, although it has some functionality. It is useful in its proper domain, which is survival, but ineffectual and even counterproductive outside that domain. For instance, if you see a forest fire, this software motivates you to flee from the fire. However, when faced with the stresses of modern life, that same programming might cause you to flee your responsibilities or behave badly in your relationships. Fight or flight is a functional response only for issues related to survival.

      Fear is useful in responding to immediate threats to physical safety. It is not useful in dealing with the ordinary demands, including survival issues, of modern life, when fear is counterproductive. If you rely on your software to determine your responses to nonlife-threatening circumstances, your responses will be governed by the primitive, programmed, part of yourself, which is often called the ego.

      The ego is the software that

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