Today is the Day of the Dead, a celebration of family and friends who have passed.  Also known as All Souls Day, the festival has its roots in pre-Columbian cultures where rituals honoring ancestors occurred around this time of year.  I thought this would be a good day to explore the dichotomy of our human experience here on Earth vs. our true nature … Separation vs. Love and Oneness.

Separation from a loved one:  Grieving the loss of a loved one can leave us feeling abandoned and alone.  Our pain may lessen, but the separation is always there like a piece of ourselves is missing.  Even though we know they are finally peaceful in God’s embrace, the “unfairness of life” leaves us feeling hollow.

Separation from home:  It doesn’t make sense, but on some level, many of us can feel a sense of loneliness and longing for home that we can’t quite put our finger on.  Especially if our family of origin wasn’t the warm and fuzzy experience we know we deserve.  We may feel strongly that there is somewhere we truly belong, that spurs us to keep searching… never finding.

Separation from our true nature:  Even if we have found our footing in life, we are bombarded with societal mixed messages. Certain religions are bad, people living in another country are to be feared, an opposing political party is wrong, those making different gender and lifestyle choices are breaking some kind of rule … basically anyone who is different is somehow undesirable.

Dr. Wayne in a press interview entitled You Are God, said,

We’re all individualized expressions of God, of oneness. We do have personality differences. Everyone who has had more than one child knows that they come in with personalities. The moment they come in—some come in screaming, some sleep through that first night and stay peaceful the rest of their lives—you see the differences… We think that we’re separate from God, but we can’t be. We must be like what we came from, and we came from an infinite, loving, kind, beautiful Source. We’ve forgotten that.

For every act of evil in the world, there are a million acts of kindness. Basically, our nature is to love each other and care about each other, and most of us do that. Most of us have no quarrel with anybody who’s living on another side of the planet and who might have a different religious persuasion. It’s just these small minorities to the far right and the far left who get all of the news time and print space.  But we’re starting to look at a new way of being, and I know ultimately that it will triumph. I think it’s coming soon, too…

So, you have to recognize that God isn’t something outside of you—a cosmic bellboy to whom you pray in order to get this or that if you do the right things. Those kinds of understandings are all ego talk. Everybody—you, me, Osama bin Laden, Adolf Hitler—we all came from the same Source. Then we took on these egos and began to practice all kinds of things based in not having reverence for life, whereas that which is God has reverence for all life.

You came here with something to do. You are part of a universal consciousness, and there are no accidents in it. In your true essence—not the false self, not the ego part of you, but in the true essence of who you are—you are infinite and you have something very profound to accomplish while you’re here. Otherwise you wouldn’t be here.

We are eternal, our deceased loved ones are eternal, we are still connected through God the Creative Source.  All humans are special beloved and absolutely perfect children of God the Creative Source.  One part of us is here having a human experience and the other, our Higher Self, is with God. Therefore, we can create a different experience than the illusion that we are separate from God and separate from eachother.  We can be our true nature, which is truth, love and beauty.  We do this by consciously choosing every minute to be Love.  By doing this, we have completed our mission on this Earth which is being the brilliant Light of Love that we are.