This week’s spiritual wisdom comes from psychotherapist and online columnist, Allen Roland. Dr. Roland is best known for his work on the Unified Field. More information on Dr. Roland and the Unified Field can be found on his blog.

THE UNIFIED FIELD

The basic underlying and uniting force of the universe is a psychic energy field of love and soul consciousness (the Unified Field), which lies not only beyond time and space but also beneath our deepest fears ~ and whose principle property is the universal urge to unite.

Finding the Unified Field was an act of surrender. Owning and proving it has been an act of courage. Initially, it was surrendering to and embracing an alone little boy within myself who always knew this truth. Then it was a slow process of finding the courage to stand alone, own my truth, and speak it, regardless of the risks.

Let me make this clear – every tenet of my Unified Field is based on my own personal experience and my experience with my clients. Which is why it took eight years for me to fully prove it, after I had written it, and which is why I no longer call it a theory.

What follows are the three basic tenets of the Unified Field.

Tenet One

The basic underlying force of the universe is a psychic energy field of universal love, within which gravitational and electromagnetic fields, the strong and weak forces in the atom, and all other forces of nature, including time and space, are merely conditions of state. Within this psychic realm of love, paranormal events such as clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition and near-death experiences are also conditions of state. The principal property of this field of love is its propensity to unite, complete, and fulfill all living beings within a constantly evolving loving plan. This field of love is the absolute constant of the universe in that within it, time and space do not exist. Thus, we are instantly joined with the past, present, and future of a universe which is in the process of uniting, completing, and fulfilling itself.

Tenet Two

The consciousness of the observer is the determining factor in being able to perceive the Unified Field, and the depth of one’s sensory experience is what determines this consciousness. In that regard, our most profound sensory experience is the total surrender to what is deepest within ourselves, that is, the surrender to love and a joyful state of soul consciousness — which is the awareness of an evolving loving plan and the taking of responsibility for one’s function within that plan. The Unified Field is therefore a state of soul consciousness. That state which limits or denies our perception of the Unified Field is ego consciousness.

Tenet Three

It would appear that the pain of not feeling loved for oneself and being seemingly separated from our original state of soul consciousness and the Unified Field is of such deep psychic proportions that, early in childhood, processes are triggered in the hypothalamus which result in a left brain imbalance and dominance as well as the denial, mistrust, and forgetting of our connection to the Unified Field and the love and joy and a state of soul consciousness deepest within us. It is from this dark tunnel of pain, aloneness, despair, and apparent death that the ego and ego consciousness is born — for survival and protection purposes only. As such, death or the idea of death, is an illusion measured by the limits of our consciousness.

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Think of the ego as a protective cocoon that is eventually meant to be shed. The Unified Field can be visualized as a grid of great luminosity joining all living beings within its energy field of love. The words of Longfellow would seem appropriate in describing this all-encompassing field or grid: “The thread of all sustaining beauty that runs through all and doth all unite.”

As a licensed therapist and Ph.D with well over 20,000 hours of experience dealing with people’s deepest fears and anxieties, I can unequivocally state that the experience of yielding to one’s deep and long repressed feelings of pain, alienation, aloneness and despair is almost always initially experienced as a dark tunnel of never-ending pain which leads to death and must be avoided at all costs. David Whyte’s classic poem “The Well Of Grief” comes to mind:

Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief ~ turning downward through its black water to the place we cannot breath ~ will never know the source from which we drink ~ the secret water, cold and clear ~ nor find in the darkness glimmering ~ the small round coins ~ thrown by those who wished for something else.

Time after time I have had people tell me from the depths of their despair that the pain they are experiencing will never end, that they will never get out of that well of grief and they will surely die.

None of them has died, for it is the ego and fear that gradually die while love, joy and a true sense of self emerge from hiding. It is no different than being pulled into a black hole in space, except that the black hole is within ourselves.

Just as Stephen Hawking has suggested that black holes may, in essence, become white holes at a point of singularity ~ so I am suggesting that at the end of that black well of despair within ourselves, we also reach a point of singularity . A point where all notions of time and space break down and we become one with a Unified Field of loveand a state of soul consciousness that exists beyond time and space.

Elizabeth Kubler Ross is correct when she wrote “Death may beviewed as the curtain between the existence we are conscious of and one that is hidden from us until we raise the curtain.” For we can raise that curtain now if we stop being controlled by fear and begin to trust the love that is deepest within ourselves.

A state of soul consciousness and our connection to the Unified Field lies deepest within us and ahead of us ~ and only our fear of death and the unknown stands in the way.

Once again, death, or the idea of death, appears to be an illusion measured by the limits of our consciousness. This would seem to explain why people who have had a near-death experience quite often no longer fear death but also have new values regarding love, gratitude, and the need to be in service.

Only the ego and ego consciousness stand in the way of this universal state oflove and soul consciousness and the path is always through doors of fear.