In simple terms , this is called change. Yes, there’s that word again . . . change. That is what life is all about. Life nourishes life through the process of life itself, in which 
life changes its form a hundred million times in the blink of an eye, a million  million tim es 
in seconds, a billion  million times in a minute, and more times than Time itself can count in 
the time that has passed since counting began. Change for the worse  is literally impossible within the expression of energy that we call 
Life. That’s because L ife itself can fundamentally alter itself in only one direction: the 
direction that evolution requires; the direction that expansion demands, the direction that 
keeps it flourishing. Things can only change for the better, things can only improve, 
because “ improvement” is the only Nature of God. Put another way, God has no intention of doing Itself in. Life is God’s way of proving Itself to Itself. The process by which It does this is called 
Improvement. But wait a minute! Who even says there is a “God”? I do. But I am not using the word God as many other people do. I do not use the word to 
denote or describe a huge Super Being existing somewhere in the cosmos, exhibiting 
proclivities and tendencies, needs and desires, frustrations and emotions identical to t hose 
of humans. I am not talking about an Entity Divine who has needs that must be fulfilled or 
else, who presumably has a temper (or, at least, a determination to punish those who 
disobey), and who also has, presumably, a penis, and, presumably, fair skin , and, 
presumably, no wife, but One Son. This is not the God I am referring to when I use the word “God.”  I am referring to the Source of Supreme Intelligence manifesting itself as the Pure 
Energy that we call Life itself. I am referring to the Largest Manifestation of a System That 
Replicates Itself in Smaller and Smaller Versions through a Process That Empow ers the 
System Itself to Exist and to Expand. I am talking about the biggest undifferentiated stem 
cell in existence, from which life in all its forms emerges. Indeed, in my understanding and experience the words “God” and “Life” are 
interchangeable, and i n this equation evolution is the constant. It is the ever -present 
mandate of Life itself. It is the continual, the unending adjustment, adaptation, and 
alteration of All That Is. No adjustment, adaptation, or alteration contracts  Life, but can only 
expand  it. No adjustment, adaptation, or alteration diminishes  Life, but can only enhance  it. Life evolves to higher and higher levels of complexity. Life could not devolve  if it wanted 
to. It is incapable of doing that. Now, it is true that life can look like  it is devolving. Changes can look like  they are not “for 
the better.” But, in fact, change can only be for the better or it would not occur. All spiritual 
masters know this. That is why all spiritual masters teach, e ach in their own articulation . . . . . . judge not by appearances. Life is eternally functional, adaptable, and sustainable. These are the Basic Principles of 
Life, and they cannot be violated or rendered in any way inoperable, or Life would cease to 
be. All of this becomes much easier for people to comprehend with my simple substitution 
of the word God for the word Life. Suddenly, everything is made clear. God is eternally 
Functional, Adaptable, and Sustainable. These are the Basic Principles of God, and they 
cannot be violated or rendered in any way inoperable, or God would cease to be. When human beings embrace the extraordinary idea presented here, the process of 
change will be seen for what it is: the ultimate expression of Divinity Itself, sustaining Itself 
through adaptations that render Itself eternally magnificent. Change is an announcement of Life’s intention to go on. Change is the fundamental impulse 
of Life itself. Again I want to tell you that I don’t think that a lot of people see it this way. If they saw it 
this way they would heed the injunction of Christ, and “be not afraid.” Yet “ye of little faith” 
are afraid. Thus it was that Franklin Roosevelt was moved to say, “We have nothing to fear 
but fear itself.”  
I’m going to take that one step fu rther. I’m going to say . . . We have nothing to change but Change itself. Today I awakened quieter than God  
and stretched my Self toward the sky  
to caress the celestial bodies  
with the  
Body of God  All night long  
The Sun awaited my eyes. And now that they are upon Her  
She rises, as Divined as every siren  
every muse  
every  
Body of God. Even Ocean sways and rocks  
in gentle wait for me to wake  
even Moon  
even Sky  
even Silence  
Even Silence awaits the Awakening of my voice  
that will tenderly kiss Its body of sound s 
still 
in the Body of God. —‘The Body of God’  © 2009 Em Claire  18. THE SIXTH CHANGE  
I HOPE YOU HAVE  considered The Fifth Change carefully, and that, given the information 
and the insights you’ve received here, you feel that you can go ahead and embrace it , along 
with Changes One, Two, Three, and Four. I want to say that if there were one change on my list of nine that could do the work of 
all the others, Change #5  would be it. This is a change that can change the way change is 
experienced even as change is taking place. Isn’t that a change you would like to make? Sure it is. We’d all like to make a change like that at times such as the moment you are 
experiencing r ight now. Now I know that the way you’d  like to change things is to change the fact that anything 
changed at all! It may look as if you can be happy again only if you can change what 
happened . But here’s the news: that’s not going to make you happy. If kee ping things the way they were was going to keep things happy, what has just happened 
wouldn’t have happened. Now you might be able to put in place yet another  change, following the change that has 
just occurred, which could return things to something resembling  the way they were 
before, but they will never again be exactly the same —and you would not want them to be. Always remember this: you cannot change what’ s been changed, because that’s already in 
the past, but you can change the future, and that’s where your power lies. Your decision will be, do I want to change the future so that it duplicates my past? Or do 
I want to change the future so radically that it  looks nothing at all  like my past? In order to consider this carefully, you should be aware that change does not occur in a 
vacuum. Change does not take place in the universe for no reason. Change is not a random 
act. Change is an announcement that someth ing is not working. The change that has occurred in your life has happened because disharmony was 
present. When disharmony is present, life becomes dysfunctional —and that condition 
violates the first of the Basic Principles of Life (Life Is Functional, Ada ptable, and 
Sustainable) and invokes the second. Okay . . . now you might say, “If all things happen for the better . . . I mean, if that is really 
true  . . . then someone needs to tell me what in blazes God has in mind, because things sure 
don’t look any better to me!”  
I know that I’ll be hearing that a lot during the Changing Everything Workshop that 
we’re presenting in satellite TV “web casts” around the world, and in our twice -annual live, 
in-person retreats. And this leads us to . . . CHANGE #6:  
Change  your idea about why Change occurs  Even if you accept that all change happens for the better, you do not know why this new 
circumstance, situation, or condition is better. You don’t understand the nature of the 
improvement. That’s because the improvement m ay not have to do with exterior 
conditions, but with interior conditions. What you are not seeing is why  change occurs —
and who is causing it. When you see this and embrace it as your living truth, once again 
everything in your day -to-day experience will . . . well . . . change. So here comes another Actual Truth. Get ready. Are you ready? This is a tough one, so take a breath. Okay, here it comes . . . Change occurs because you want it to occur. Everything that changes changes at your direction. Whoa, that  sure doesn’t seem true! Why in the world would you want  to have happen 
what has just happened? No one in their right mind would choose that! Are you saying this (or screaming it) inside your head right now? Well, if you are you would be right. No one in th eir right mind would  choose something 
like this. The mind does not make these choices. The soul does. All of which gets us to the agenda  of the soul. First we established that you have  a soul, 
yes? Now we need to look at why . Why do you have a soul? What’s  its purpose? What’s its 
function? When you understand this (or freshly remember it), it will be very clear to you 
why you would choose the change you have chosen just now. Your soul’s agenda flows serenely with the larger energy of life itself. Life’s ene rgy 
always moves toward synergy, harmony, glorious expression, and expansion. It seeks an 
experience of itself, in fullness. When I add my own human language to this understanding I find myself saying that life’s 
energy always moves in the direction of wha t I call “love.” Love of self, love of others, and 
love of life. Your own individual energy moves in the same direction. Your soul and the “soul of the 
universe” desire, seek, and produce at all times the same thing. It is when your mind  gets in 
the way th at it seems as though it is not producing this, that something terrible has 
happened, and that you’re going in the wrong direction. I’m going to use an example now from Christian doctrine to illustrate what I am saying 
here. The New Testament tells us that  Jesus went with his disciples to a garden in a place 
called Gethsemane. There, he asked his followers to sit and wait for him and to pray. He, 
too, he said, was going to go off to pray, but by himself. And then, being alone, he felt a great heaviness come upon him, almost to the point 
where he could die. And he knew what lay ahead. And he called out to God, “Father! You 
can do anything! If there is any way that this can happen, remove this cup from my lips. . . . ”  
Here Jesus’ mind had gotten  involved, and he wanted a change of direction in the way 
things were going. But immediately his vibration was raised, through the sheer power of his will. “Yet not my will, but thine,” he said. And with those words his soul returned to 
alignment with the soul of the universe —or, if you please, with God. There is but One Soul, yet there are many expressions. These individuated aspects of the 
One Soul seek synergy, harmony, glorious expression, and expansion. This is another way 
of saying that life in all it s forms seeks the very same thing that Life itself seeks. How could 
it be any other way? Yet the soul and the mind are two different things. The “life form” that you have taken 
has both a soul and a mind (as well as a body), and it is in this triune totali ty that it fully 
equips itself to do what you came here —to physical life —to do. The job of the mind is to make sure that the body —your physical instrument, or tool —is 
kept safe, so that you may use it to do what you came here to do. The job of the soul is to 
make sure that the mind always knows what you came here to do, and does not get caught 
up in its own make -believe world. It is like getting caught up in a virtual reality on the Internet. I’m sure you must know 
that there are now entire “worlds” on the Internet into which you may enter, claim an 
identity, and live an entire “life” —growing up, finding love, creating a career, buying a 
home, having a family, experiencing success and becoming rich (or not) . . . you can actually 
produce an entire experience  of life in these virtual realities, interacting with others, 
entering into legal agreements —it’s all really quite detailed, sophisticated, and complex. And none of it is real . Obviously, not a single bit of it is really happening to You. It is only 
happen ing to the “you” that You created in that make -believe world. To your soul, physical life on the earth is very much the same thing. The trick is not to 
get “lost” in the make -believe world of your mind, but to use your body and your mind to do 
what your so ul came here to do. We are all doing that right now, but some people are doing it consciously and some are 
doing it unconsciously. That is, without knowing what they are doing. Now I know that some of this may be starting to sound a little bit far out, so maybe it 
would be a good time to just take a little rest here and just kind of “be with” all that’s been 
said. Try not to judge it or evaluate it. Just rest with it and let it be just what it is: merely an 
idea, one person’s concept; something for you t o consider. Okay? So, for now, would you 
like to  
Take a break? And when you’re ready, pick up the chapter at . . . A QUESTION OF BALANCE  
What happened to Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane is what happens to all of us. I love 
the fact that this story is in the Bible for that very reason. It gives us all hope if we know 
that even Jesus was having to deal with the balancing of his mind and his soul as part of the 
process by which he had the fullest experience of himself. That’s what we’re talking about here in  this conversation. I’m wanting to assist you in 
seeing that life is not exactly what you may think it is, and that there is a reason  that things 
are happening the way they are happening, and that you are not a victim  to this reason, but, 
rather, that you are at cause in the matter. This idea would be difficult for you to embrace unless you had a clear understanding of 
your true identity; of who you really are and why you are here on the earth in physical form 
and what life is really and truly all about. Absent such an understanding, none of life will make much sense. With  such an 
understanding, all of it  makes sense. And when it makes sense to you, you no longer have to 
suffer the pain and the frustration that you have known in your life so far. Changes can  
come along right and left (and they will), and they will not discombobulate you, or draw 
you into anger and sadness. You will have changed the way Change itself is experienced —
because you will have understood everything there is to understand about  Change , 
including that . . . All change is change for the better. Change occurs because you want it to occur. The mind rejects such notions, but the soul shouts them to high heaven. This is because 
the soul knows what the mind cannot comprehend. And this is beca use the mind comes 
from Past Data, while the soul comes from EverMoment. EverMoment  is my name for the moment of now. It is the only moment that ever is. There is no moment other than EverMoment —although we have created the illusion that 
there is. We’ve cr eated this illusion for a reason. The mind has broken down EverMoment into bits of information about life, called data . It has categorized these data (because that is its job). Your mind takes in data from what it 
experiences as something it calls “now” an d stores it in memory according to certain 
criteria. This is pretty effective and pretty efficient —except for one thing. Your mind has a 
very narrow view of “now.” Its perspective is extraordinarily limited. This is by design . If 
your mind took in all the data about everything all at once, and tried to process  it all at once, 
you would be able to make little sense out of it. That is because too much data is almost 
worse than no data at all. (Anyone who has gone into a restaurant to find a menu with 101 
item s knows this experience exactly.) In order to consider the data of EverMoment and make it useful (given what it is that 
you are here to do, which we are coming to), that data must be considered one piece at a 
time. Now this can be done rapidly —indeed, very  rapidly —but it still must be done 
sequentially. That is, one item at a time. And even in this, all items may not be considered, 
but some must be separated out, so that each item may be considered in and of itself. It is 
for this reason that the mind volun tarily assumes a limited perspective. You do this in your own life. If a time comes when you feel you are “on overwhelm,” you 
may well say in aggravation to those around you, “Wait a minute, wait a minute! One thing 
at a time!”  Your mind does this automati cally. Thus, its perspective is not one in which The Whole of things may be considered, but only a portion of The Whole. Again, this is quite by 
design. Your mind is a marvelous mechanism, as I have explained, AND . . . it is important that 
you understand exactly how it works, so that it may work for you and not against  you. Now . . . the fact that your mind holds a limited perspective does not mean that you do . This would only be true if you were only your mind. But you are more than that . And this is 
the crux of the whole point that I have come into your life right now to make. You are more  than your mind. You are also a soul. Indeed, this is the biggest part of you. I 
don’t want you to think that I am accusing you now of being small -minded (heh -heh), but,  
in fact, your mind is the smallest aspect of your individuated Self. Its perspective (one more 
time, for emphasis . . .) is very, very limited. The impact of this limitation is going to be 
made clear to you very, very shortly. The soul, on the other hand, is not limited in its perception. It knows everything, sees 
everything, understands everything, and has everything that the living entity you are could 
possible wish to have. It has these things because it is these things. It h as love because it is 
love. It has peace because it is peace. It has harmony because it is harmony. It has synergy 
because it is synergy. It has glorious expression because it is glorious expression. It has all 
these things and more. There is only one thin g it does not have. It does not have the 
experience  of them. That is where the rest of you comes in. Now we are getting down to the nub of it. Now we are getting down to the System of the 
Soul, and how it works. The soul operates on a system of Synergistic  Energy eXchange —or what we have 
abbreviated as S.E.X. All of life operates on such a system and is created by it. When energy 
is transferred, it is transformed. It then becomes energy in formation. This energy 
information is broken down by the mind, as I have already described, into bits of data. Now, in this conversation I have created the term EverMoment because I needed a word 
that is larger than Now. EverMoment contains more than what the mind  refers to as Now. EverMoment contains what the soul  calls N ow—which in mind -terms includes “yesterday,” 
“today,” and “tomorrow.”  
Now, the mind can gather all of the data that is presenting itself to us “today.” And it can 
recall in an instant all of the data is has stored about “yesterday.” But the one thing the 
mind cannot do is gather data about what it calls “tomorrow.” If it did, it would see that 
yesterday, today, and tomorrow are really Always. The mind’s inability to see the “future” 
as part of “now” is why we say it has a very limited perspective. The Syste m of the Soul is a system by which the individuated aspect of Divinity known 
as You can step back from what is Apparently True (based on the limited perspective of the 
mind) to see what is Actually True (based on the limitless viewpoint of the soul) for a 
period brief enough to not “unravel” the mind, but just long enough to open the mind to a 
larger perspective. We have all had such “flashes” of insight, such fleeting moments of total awareness, such 
glimpses of The All. During such moments a veil is lifte d and we move quite easily from 
Apparent Truth to Actual Truth. The purpose of such instaparency is to allow the mind to know that there is more data  out there than it may be aware of; unknown and 
unexperienced information regarding life. In truth, it is n ot really unknown and unexperienced, it is merely forgotten. The function 
of the soul is to help you remember all that you already know —but not too much, too fast, 
or it will “blow your mind.” That would do no good at all, because you need both your mind 
and your soul to move through life in a way that satisfies your reason for coming here. By allowing your mind to remember bits of Actual Truth that you have not experienced 
in this lifetime (and therefore do not have in your memory), the soul assists you wh en you 
are having any here -and-now experience that you are not understanding and enjoying. It 
gives you the ability to elevate your experience from Distorted Reality to Observed 
Reality —and then upward still, to Ultimate Reality. You should know that even Observed Reality is a very wonderful place to be. Most 
humans do not get there very often, and fewer manage to remain there very long. Living in 
the Observed Reality is, it turns out, a high state of being. In this state, we distort nothing, 
but see e verything for exactly what it is in human terms. This can remove us, a great deal of 
the time, from fear. The movement from Imagined Reality to Observed Reality is a big one. The shift from 
Observed Reality to Ultimate Reality is usually a much shorter ste p. When your 
consciousness resides in Ultimate Reality, the limited perspective of your mind expands 
beyond belief. I mean that literally. It expands beyond what you now believe, to a place where belief is 
no longer necessary, having been replaced by absol ute knowing. How long you can hold on 
to this perspective and still operate in your day -to-day life in the way that you must if you 
are to meet your life’s objective is the question. Those who do are “in this world, but not of 
it.” We see them as masters. We acknowledge them as avatars. We seek to follow their 
example. Yet until now we have not even known what they were doing, much less how they 
were doing it. That’s what this conversation is all about. Things will be different now, you know. Not the snows,  blanketing mountains in June. Not, “The frost came early” or “stayed late.”  
The kind of different  
that stains the soul. That leaves an Innocent dusted  
with  
every new color of God. _______  
Once you have seen deeply  
and been deeply seen  
you know that  
nothin g has ever, ever been as it seemed. That Your own reflection is  
every Christ, every Goddess, every Buddha, and Brahmin — 
put simply: the Everyone’s Heart. —‘Things Will Be Different Now’  © 2008 Em Claire  19. THE ETERNAL JOURNEY OF THE SOUL  
IN ORDER FOR YOU  to change your idea about why change occurs you will have to change 
your idea about who you are, where you are, why you are where you are, and what you are 
trying to do here. These are the ideas we have been circling around in this conversation for a whil e now. They are what I have called Life’s Four Fundamental Questions. Most people have never 
asked themselves these questions, much less answered them. I believe it is vitally 
important that you do so if you want to live a happy, fulfilling life, because t he answer to 
these questions could dramatically alter your perspective. It is also important to note that there are no single answers to these questions that are 
“right.” That is, however anyone answers these questions, their responses are “right.” In a 
world where “reality” is created and not observed, it is by definition true that everyone is 
right. I said a number of pretty important things there. May I review and expand on them just 
a little? I said that there are four basic questions that I believe all  people must ask themselves if 
they are to have a meaningful life. I said that it doesn’t matter how they answer them, their 
lives will become more meaningful for having done so. I implied that this is because reality 
is created and not observed. And final ly, I said that everyone is right about everything. These statements all have to do with one thing: perspective. And in the matter of 
changing everything when everything changes, perspective is the key. That is, I think, the largest message of this book. I ndeed, it may be its only message. In 
truth, the entire conversation we have been having could be reduced to these three words:  
PERSPECTIVE IS EVERYTHING  
If this is true, then if we want to change everything about the way we experience change 
in our lives the primary question becomes, How do we create, and then change, our 
perspective? This book has been an attempt to answer that question, first by exploring the 
Mechanics of the Mind, and now by looking deeply at the System of the Soul —and the 
journey upon which the soul has embarked. For too long, matters of the mind and matters of the soul have been separated. Many, 
many people have felt that the world of our physical reality is one thing and the world of 
our spiritual reality is another —something like the  individual person’s version of the 
separation of church and state. Yet in a world where everything is changing so rapidly all 
around us, we can no longer afford such a piecemeal approach to dealing with life. I have said here: when everything changes, cha nge everything. I have also said that if we 
are to negotiate our rapidly changing future, we must change the way we experience 
Change itself. I am now saying that in order for us to do that, we must adopt an integrative approach to 
the living of our lives. That is, we must understand —and function from the understanding —
that our spiritual vibrancy, insight, and experience are no less important to our here -and-
now on -the-ground expression of life than are our mental vibrancy, insight, and experience; 
that spi ritual and mental are not, in fact, separated, but act co -jointly as what I call the Total 
Being That Is You; and that the only reason we do not experience this (if, indeed, we do 
not) is that we do not know anything about it . No one has taken the time, in  our upbringing 
or in our later life, to tell us what is really going on here. Hold it. That’s a sweeping indictment and, in fact, it is not true. Many people have taken 
the time to explain life’s intricacies to humanity. It is I —and perhaps you —who have n ot 
taken the time to listen. Yet now we are both listening, because the events of our lives are 
demanding that we do so. We are being driven by the day -to-day circumstances of our 
existence to seek answers and approaches that can make life more functional,  more joyful, 
more rewarding, and, frankly, just make more sense. And so we come to a new, 
contemporary explanation such as this. I come to it and you come to it, and we are both 
welcome here. It is, literally, well  that we have come here. This is, perhaps , a good time for me to tell you how it is that I have come here, to this 
information, so that you may have a larger context within which to consider what I have 
been sharing with you. Perhaps you are aware that I have written a series of books under the t itle Conversations 
with God . These texts were based on my experience of having received data  from a source 
beyond my mind. I have called this source “God” because I believe there is a God, and that when She 
communicates with us, He does so in many ways, no t the least of which is in direct 
conversation/inspiration/explanation/revelation. The experience I had was so extraordinary that I wrote about it in a trio of books. And 
then I found that I could not stop writing, because the flow of what was “coming thro ugh” 
was not stopping, and I did not want to keep it all to myself. So, six more books followed the 
original trilogy. Six of those nine books made The New York Times  bestseller list, the first 
remaining on that list for 135 weeks. I’m not boasting here, I’ m sharing this with you to let you know that nearly eight million 
people have seen this material, in thirty -seven different languages —meaning that an 
enormous number of human beings are opening to alternate ways of conceptualizing life 
and experiencing and  expressing and creating  their current reality. You see, the CwG  
material is not intended to open people to my truth, it is intended to open them to their 
own. I’m also telling you this so that you can come to a realization that, no, you are not 
“crazy” fo r taking a serious look at life in the way we are doing here (multi -millions of 
others have done it), and no, you do not have to wade through the changes and the 
challenges in your life all by yourself. Now, fifteen years after my first dramatic experience  of God as a real presence in my life, 
the flashes of insight keep coming, the moments of awareness endlessly arrive, the 
glimpses of The All continue to materialize. And what these glimpses show me is that the 
glimpses themselves are being offered to ever yone. Everyone. It isn’t that there is one of us who is more “privileged” or more “special” or more “holy” 
or more “able” than everyone else to access wisdom and to be provided a direct connection 
with the Divine. There is no Chosen One. We are all able, we are all chosen , and the 
question is not, to whom does God talk? The question is, who listens ? Having said that, I want to very quickly add here that just because one is listening does 
not mean one is hearing everything in fullness; just because one is having a conversat ion 
with God all the time does not mean one is completely understanding  all the time, or 
interpreting without error  all the time, the information to which one has gained access. In my own case I have never claimed and would never assert that the messages I  have 
published are infallible or “God’s own truth.” I can only declare that I have done my best to 
transmit them as I have received them through my imperfect filter, and that even in the 
imperfect state in which I have understood and expressed them, they have brought me 
great benefit and an expanded awareness and a wonderfully enhanced experience of life. Yet as I share them with the public I invite —indeed, encourage —everyone to place them in 
the For What It’s Worth Department, and to turn inward to heed t heir own voice of 
awareness. Indeed, if my conversations with God experience has done anything, I hope that it has 
produced the outcome that more and more people everywhere are going within  to the 
Source of Wisdom and Truth that lies inside each of us. With that as the context, I want to invite you now to look at some more “stuff” for the For 
What It’s Worth Department —namely, Life’s Four Fundamental Questions. I consider this 
the most important exploration I ever took. But wait. It feels like a good time t o 
Take a breath, yes? When you’re ready, pick up this chapter at . . . YOUR ANSWERS, PLEASE . . . ? My life changed direction radically when I answered these questions:  
1. Who I am? 2. Where am I? 3. Why am I where I am? 4. What am I doing here? Actually, I did not answer these questions. I asked them . I went inside to the Source 
Within and posed these inquiries. Here are the answers I received:  
1. You are an Individuation of Divinity. There is only One Thing, and all things are part of 
the One Th ing That Is. Life is God, expressing Itself. You are a part of Life, therefore, you are a part of God. The only way this could not be true would be if Life and God were somehow 
separate. Such a thing is impossible. 2. You are in the Realm of the Physical, which is part of what you have called Heaven. The sadness is that you do not think that you are in heaven, and so your Imagined Reality is 
that you have to get there . In fact, there is nothing you have to do, nothing you have to be, 
and nowhere you have to  go to experience paradise. Merely look upward on a starry night, 
or outward over a foaming ocean, or toward the skyline at dusk or dawn, or, for that 
matter, into the eyes of your beloved. You are in heaven, and you are calling it something 
else, and you are acting as if it were something else, and so, of course, you have created it  as 
something else. The Realm of the Physical is one of three realms in the triune reality that you have called 
by various names, including heaven, paradise, nirvana, the afterl ife, the Kingdom of God, 
etc. The other two realms are: The Realm of the Spiritual and the Realm of the Spirisical 
(which is the point between the two). Think of this as a figure 8  on its side. The Total Being That Is You is on an eternal journey from th e Realm of the Spiritual to 
the Realm of the Physical and back again. The Realm of the Spirisical is at the cross point 
between the two. (This illustration was given to me as a simple visualization to assist my mind in holding 
data that cannot actually be visualized, it being outside the human experience. A figure 8 on 
its side is —not by coincidence —the international symbol for infinity .) In the Realm of the Spiritual everything exists in absolute form, whereas in the Realm of 
the Physical things exist in r elative form. In the Realm of the Spiritual all things are 
absolutely what they are. In the Realm of the Physical a thing is what it is relative to other 
things that are not what it is. Big and Small , therefore, do not exist in the Realm of the Spiritual, but only in the Realm 
of the Physical. Here  and There , likewise, do not exist in the Realm of the Spiritual, but only 
in the Realm of the Physical. As well, Now  and Then, Fast  and Slow, Male  and Female , Up and 
Down, Light  and Dark, Good  and Evil, Love  and Fear . . . none of these things exist in the 
Realm of the Spiritual, but only in the Realm of the Physical. In the Realm of the Spiritual it is always Here  and Now , and there is only Light  and Love . Thus, we could rename these realms, calling them . . . In the Realm of the Absolute you know absolutely everything, and you know it 
absolutely. Yet you cannot experience what you know, because there is nothing else. For 
instance, you can know  that are you Love, but you cannot experience yourself as Love, 
becau se there is nothing that is not Love. You can know  yourself as Light, but you cannot experience  yourself as Light, because 
there is nothing else but the Light. You can know yourself as Good, but you cannot experience  yourself as Good, because Evil 
does not exist. The formula is this:  
IN THE ABSENCE OF THAT WHICH YOU ARE NOT THAT WHICH YOU ARE IS NOT  
That is, it cannot be made real in your experience. You can know yourself conceptually , 
but you cannot know yourself experientially . You can conceive  of yourself in a particular 
way, but you cannot experience  yourself being that way  because there is nothin g else but 
That Which You Are. Here, then, is the Conundrum of God: How can God experience Itself? By not being God. Unless It was not God (that is, not the Totality of Itself), God could understand  Itself to be 
magnificent, but God could not experience  Itself being that . Again . . . why? Because there 
was nothing else but “magnificence” in the Realm of the Absolute. God could understand 
Itself to be enormous, endless, and timeless, yet these concepts had no meaning since there 
was nothing that was not “eno rmous,” “endless,” and “timeless.” God could understand 
Itself to be All Powerful, yet power could not be experienced in an environment in which 
there was nothing but absolute power in equal measure. Since God wished to Know Itself experientially  as well a s conceptually, God created a 
place in the Kingdom (or, if you will, in Ultimate Reality) where all that God Is could be 
experienced  as well as known. God did this by dividing Itself up  into a million ka -jillion different parts, or Aspects of 
Itself, with each of the Parts created in different sizes and shapes, colors and textures, 
speeds and sounds, and levels of visibility and invisibility. Then any Part of The Whole (that 
is, any Individuated Aspect of Divinity) could look back on The Whole from which It  
emerged and say, “Oh, my God, how magnificent Thou art!” All it would take would be for 
that particular Aspect to have sufficient consciousness (self -awareness) to do so. And so, after dividing Itself up into a million ka -jillion individual parts, God mer ely had 
to imbue some of those parts with sufficient consciousness to recognize (that is, re -cognize, 
or “know again”) Divinity when it was looking right at It. (Not all human beings have risen 
to that level of consciousness.) God put into place a system  by which Individuations of Itself 
could  rise to such a level, and that system was called evolution. This is the System of the Soul. You now know about the Mechanics of the Mind and the System of the Soul. There is 
more to learn, however, about this System —which you will do presently. We see, then, that the Realm of the Absolute (also known as the Realm of Spirituality) is 
where KNOWING everything takes place, and that the Realm of the Relative (also known as 
the Realm of the Physical) is where EXPERIENCING e verything takes place. It might be said, 
then, that souls come to the earth in order to gain a world of experience. We therefore can give the realms in the Kingdom of God yet another name . . . Whichever of the three labels you choose, you will be correc t. These names are 
interchangeable, and the various names have been given to us so that we might look at 
Ultimate Reality in whatever way makes the most sense to us, thus allowing us to 
comprehend the incomprehensible. But it was said that there is a third  realm  in the Kingdom (or in Ultimate Reality), do you 
remember? We said, at first, that there was the Realm of the Spiritual, the Realm of the 
Physical, and, at the cross point between them, the Realm of the Spirisical. Spirisical  is, of course, a word th at I simply made up, because there is no word currently 
in human language to indicate what this realm is all about. This realm is not a place where 
the other two realms combine, but rather, a space from which the other two realms emerge . It is difficult to  describe in human words the exact nature of this realm, but if we drop 
down to our third set of labels we perhaps can get close. In our third set of labels we called the realms of the Kingdom of God the Realm of 
Knowing and the Realm of Experiencing. The third realm, the realm at the cross point, 
might then be called the Realm of Being. Situated at the cross point of the figure 8, this is 
what you experience when you cross over . That is, when you move from the Realm of the 
Physical to the Realm of the Spir itual. This Middle Realm is where pure being  occurs. Yes? Are you getting it? Are you beginning to see a Larger Picture? Now you might ask, “What is that? What is pure being about?” My answer would be that 
in the space of pure being you both know and exper ience Who You Really Are. This 
knowing and experiencing simultaneously  is the experience for which God yearns. It is 
God’s greatest joy. It is the wonder of Divinity, fully known and fully expressed! It is 
nirvana. It is bliss. It is heaven. Yet heaven is not limited to this. The whole process  is heaven, and the wonder of the 
process is that the Total Being That You Are can be in nirvana, bliss, and absolute 
joyfulness at any point in the process. The cross point was simply created in order to ensure  
that each Individuated Aspect of Divinity would never be lost from the feeling, but would 
be guaranteed  nirvana, bliss, and absolute joyfulness. This is what you experience when you “cross over” at the moment of your “death” 
(which does not really exist) and at the moment of your rebirth (your next re -entry into the 
Realm of the Physical). You see, the Ultimate Reality is actually a circle. One rounded whole. The energy of life 
travels in this circle, through all eternity. It is the cycle of life. In the b eginning, God WAS 
this circle, in place AS the circle, complete. When God individuated Itself, it sent the 
individual Aspects of Divinity on a journey around the circle. So fast did these infinitesimal 
bits and pieces of God travel that they seemed to be e verywhere all the time. Like a tire 
spinning so fast that it seems like a solid circle not moving at all, so, too, the cycle of life 
replicated the Always Everywhere -ness of God by seeming to create a solid where there 
were really moving parts. By dividing  itself up into a million ka -jillion such parts, each part could look back upon 
The Whole and suddenly have a context within which to consider the magnificence of The 
Whole —and thus, to know God . Yet how could each of the Individuated Aspects also know 
Itself as God? That was the question! While each Individuation raced through the cycle of 
life, how would it know what it really was? Seeing the rest of It, would it know that It WAS 
the rest of it, in singular part? To know this, the Individuated Aspect woul d have to be able to experience the utter joy 
that was now God’s —for God, through the cycle of life, could now know and experience 
Itself simultaneously — and that was bliss, indeed. Yet how could it be guaranteed that each 
Individuation  would move into thi s bliss as well? Ah, there’s the twist. And so, in order to ensure this, the Circle that is God twisted itself 
to form a figure 8, reasoning that if at one point  both sides of the circle could touch, then the 
Totality of Being God could at that point be kn own and experienced by every one of God’s 
Individuations!!! Do you get it? Do you see it now??? Each Individuated Aspect of Divinity, traveling on its journey through the endless cycle 
of life, may both know and experience Itself as Who It Really Is at any place on that cycle. You can do this now, in any moment of your present lifetime. Others have d one it. Masters 
have done it. Masters are called “masters” because they have known themselves as God. Some of them have even called  themselves that. Yet when you call yourself Divine as you 
travel with those who do not know themselves as that, they are lia ble to be offended by you. They may even crucify you. They will surely disassociate from you, even as they long to 
be and experience what you are demonstrating. Do you get it? Do you see it now??? When you reach the Cross Over Point on your current cycle o f life, you will know the 
bliss and the joy of Being the Totality of Who You Are. And you will do a great deal more. You will decide  how you wish to expand that. You will choose  what you next  wish to know, 
experience, and Be —for life is a continual process  of recreating the Self. This is what God is up to! God is doing this through the reformation and the transformation of every aspect of 
Itself, one aspect at a time . You are, in fact, doing exactly that during every passage from 
realm to realm on the etern al Journey of the Soul. You just may not know it. When you do 
know it —when you are aware of who are you, where you are, and why you are here —you 
will then have evolved in consciousness sufficiently to do the work of God, and not just 
what appears  to be the  task of being human. This is what I have meant all along when I spoke to you earlier of the difference between 
the Apparent Truth and the Actual Truth. All of which brings us to the answers to 
Fundamental Questions #3 and #4:  
3. You are where you are beca use in the Realm of the Spiritual you can know absolutely 
who you are, but you cannot experience that in relative terms. And so, you venture into the 
Realm of the Physical so that you may gain a “world of experience.”  
4. What you are doing in the Realm of the Physical is using the tools and devices (which 
include your own body, by the way) that are only available in this realm to bring you the 
experience  of what you have decided, in the Realm of the Spirisical, that you wish to be, and 
that you then come to  know  your Self as in the Realm of the Spiritual. Creation and Re -creation of Self is a three -step process: Choosing, Knowing, 
Experiencing. You cannot experience what you do not know, and you cannot know what 
you do not choose to know. It is really quite simple, and the model is elegant in its design. This is the System of the Soul . This is who you are, where you are, why you are where you 
are, and what you are doing here. I Am That I Am  
and 
so much more:  
the Light, the Sound, the Living of God on the Grou nd. I could show you every feather in the Wing. Every color and hue. Every Beautiful thing. But 
I Am That I Am  
wants to  
LOVE  Whoever has not yet had it. Whatever has not yet known it. However Life’s not yet done it. _______  
There is still so much Loving,  
yet to be found,  
just 
Living God on the Ground. —‘I Am That I Am ’ © 2007 Em Claire  20. THE POWER OF PERSPECTIVE  
EVERYTHING  I HAVE  just told you is, of course, only my perspective. True, I gained this 
perspective from my conversation with God, but t hat makes it no more valid than any other 
person’s perspective. Your conversation while visiting the place of wisdom within you may 
produce an entirely different perspective. How is this possible if there is only One Truth? Is it possible because there is not only 
One Truth. All truth is subjective. The truth is not discovered, it is created. It is not 
observed, it is produced. Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science , holds an enormo us and powerful insight. It means that 
everyone sees a different truth, because everyone is creating what they see. Wow. Hold that  in your awareness for a while. Wow. In fact, let me say it again, so that you really get it. Science —not spirituality —tells u s 
that:  
NOTHING THAT IS OBSERVED IS UNAFFECTED BY THE OBSERVER  
Put another way: The place from which you are looking determines what you see. It seems that God is creating God’s Experience of Godliness . . . one Individuation at a 
time . Thus, there is no “ right answer” to Life’s Four Fundamental Questions. There is only 
the answer you give. Having said this, let me add that I firmly believe that some  answer must  be given if you 
seek to live a life that is nourishing, rewarding, taking you someplace , and pro viding you 
with the equipment to get there by changing any aspect of your life that you no longer find 
joyful —including your experience of Change itself. One of the beauties of life is that not only do we not all have to give the same answers to 
life’s most important questions, we also do not have to stick with the answers that we have 
given. We can change our mind  anytime that we wish! If, when everything changes, you wish to change everything, the first thing you may wish 
to change is your idea about why change occurs . This is Change #6 , and it is a life -altering, 
reality -shifting occurrence. My idea is that change occurs because of who you are and why you are here. I am saying that change occurs because you want it to occur. I am saying that you want it 
to occur because you are continually choosing the perfect people, places, and conditions 
with which to experience what you next s eek to experience as you move forward in the 
process of the evolution of your soul. I am saying that your life on earth is about much more than you may have ever dreamt. It is about deciding, creating, expressing, and experiencing Who You Really Are (as op posed to who you think you are), and it is about recreating yourself anew in every golden moment 
of Now in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about that. I am saying that you have the power to do this precisely because  of Who Yo u Are. I am 
saying that, given that you are an Individuated Aspect of Divinity Itself, you have the ability 
to create your own experience of life and, thus, your own reality. I am saying that you have an opportunity to do this every day of your life by usi ng the 
Mechanism of the Mind to decide how you wish to respond to, and thus experience, every 
single thing that happens to you, while using the System of the Soul to choose a perspective 
from which to respond. I am saying that perspective is everything. I am saying that only the System of the Soul can be wholly effective in creating your 
perspective, because only your soul knows all that is so about This Moment Now, and about 
all the moments in time, because only the soul spans  all the moments of time. I am saying that the mind alone cannot view the Present Moment with such an expanded 
awareness, because the mind is limited to Past Data as it analyzes the Present Moment, and 
try as it might, it cannot get out of that box —but that you can put into that box  the New 
Data of a larger perspective. (You are doing that right now, in the reading of this book.) I am saying that it is the job of the soul to provide the mind with this additional data, and 
that the part of you that is Divine is shameless! It will use a ny device, any tool, any event, 
any person, anything it has to , to wake you up, and only the soul knows what aspect of 
Divinity the Present Moment was designed to bring you an opportunity to express. I am saying that if you use the mind alone, without the collaboration of the soul, to 
respond to daily events, you will cut the Line of Causality in half, severely limiting your 
ability to respond in a way that reveals to you Who You Really Are —to say nothing of your 
ability to step into who you next wish to be . You will remember I’ve said that the mind has a very limited perspective. This is, I have 
hoped to make clear, quite by design. It is not a “handicap,” but an elegant schematic, 
allowing a limited physical device (the brain) to comprehend the unlimited m etaphysical 
expression that is Ultimate Reality. Your limited mind does this one piece of data at a time. If it took in all the data about all 
of life all of the time, it would not process the data accurately, and you would no doubt be 
judged to be, in the  clinical sense, out of your mind. Thus, in order to render the mind a 
useful tool, the Total Being That Is You has made sure that all that the Total Being knows 
and understands is fed to the mind in bits. Okay, that’s a lot to absorb. Before you are given  any more “bits” of data right now , 
perhaps we might stop here, if only for a moment, and  
Take a breath  
Good. Now, when you’re ready, let’s go on to . . . ENLARGING THE LINE OF CAUSALITY  
I have been referring here to a new identity, and I wonder if you’ve caught that. I have 
referred a number of times to the Total Being That Is You as if it were an entity unto 
itself —and, in a sense, it is. And this is something that you should know, because this 
awareness is at the core  of how to change everything when eve rything changes. The Total Being That Is You is both  the mind and the soul —as well as your body . It is the 
three -part being that you are now, have always been, and always will be. Body, Mind, and 
Spirit is the triumvirate. It is the Holy Trinity. It is You , with a capital Y. Now here is another bit of data about how to change everything: The process of life has 
nothing to do with learning. I know, I know . . . everyone says that “life is a school.” Well, maybe it is, but it is not a 
school where you are try ing to learn something you do not know. It is a school where you 
are given an opportunity to remember what you already  know. In the strictest sense you cannot learn anything at all, because you came here (to 
physical life) already knowing everything you ne eded to know to do what you came here to 
do. So your mind is about the task of creating experiences that allow you to “remember” 
what you came here to remember, so that you can experience what you came here to 
experience —and the part of your Total Being th at I am naming your soul is co -creating this 
experience with your mind and your body by joining the mind in calling forth the perfect 
people, places, and conditions that will allow you to do what you came to physical life to do: 
namely, evolve. You soul al so works in conjunction with the body and the mind to let you know that it is 
doing this, and how. It serves as guide, direction giver, helper, assistant, and as your 
Connector with the Divine. Your soul is your connection with God. God is your soul, writ large. Thus, your soul is a Small Part of God connected with the 
Totality of God. It knows exactly where your mind needs to go next in order to next 
remember what it needs to remember as your Total Being continues on the path that we 
have called evolution. Why do you suppose you’re reading this book? Earlier I said that I would explore with you how the limited perspective of the mind 
impacts your reality, and why it is therefore so very wise to spend some time each day  in 
communion with your soul, so that the soul and the mind may make the journey of d aily life 
together. Now you know. Now you understand. It is vital to spend some time each day connecting 
with your soul in some way in order to use the System of the Soul, for the soul brings to the 
mind a Larger Perspective, and perspective has great powe r. It is, in fact, the most powerful 
element in the process of reality creation. I wonder if you really heard that; if it had any impact on you. We’ve been saying so 
much, so fast, that sometimes it’s easy to miss the nuance of things. Let me say it again. Perspective is the most powerful element in the process of reality creation. Yes, yes, I’ve already made that point a number of times now. I am reminded of that old, 
old song that contained the lyric line: Kiss me once and kiss me twice, then kiss me once  
again. It’s been a long, long time . I want to change that to the Song of the Soul:  
Tell me once and tell me twice, then tell me once again. It’s been a long, long time. It’s been a long time since you were fully aware of Who and Why you are. It’s been a l ong 
time since you were in that place of Absolute Knowing. Years and years of Earth time have 
passed. And so I am telling you things here once, and twice, and then once again. For the 
time has come for you to fully remember. That is, for you to become a me mber once again  of 
the Body of God. This is a process of re -membering. You do this by raising your consciousness, thus expanding your awareness and waking 
up your mind, one bit of data at a time. How? Keep reading. I’m going to tell you. But first, 
here is  that last bit of data, being presented to you for the third time:  
Perspective is everything. Now since the mind has a very limited  perspective, it will not benefit you to insist on 
using the mind and only the mind  to understand life. Nevertheless, that is  what most people 
do. Very, very few people commune daily with their soul. When thinking deeply about life, 
they leave their soul out of it . Yet it is the soul, not the mind, that holds the Larger 
Perspective you need to fully comprehend life and, thus, to  change it. The soul tells us that it is perspective that creates perception, perception that creates 
belief, belief that creates behavior, behavior that creates events, events that create data, 
data that create truth, truth that creates thought, thought that creates emotion, emotion 
that creates experience, and experience that creates reality. Remember earlier when I referred to the Line of Causality? I presented it as this:  
event+data+truth+thought+emotion=experience=reality  
Now I want to tell yo u that I was presenting to you then only part of the line . I did not 
want to dump into the space too much data at once. I know that when I received this data, I 
could not have received it all in one download. I mean, I wouldn’t have “gotten” it. I would 
have said, “Too much, too much! Too much too soon. I’m outta here.”  
The One Soul knew that, and so I came to full awareness about the Line of Causality in 
two parts, and I thought I’d offer it to you in the same way. I hope that’s all right. . . . So . . . h ere is more of the data about that Line of Causality. The line is larger, and looks 
like this:  
perspective+perception+belief+behavior+event+ 
data+truth+thought+emotion=experience=reality  
I trust you can read that. What this longer, complete Line of Causali ty shows us is what 
comes before the event . What causes events  in our lives are the behaviors  of our lives. And what causes the 
behaviors of our lives are the beliefs  of our lives. And what causes the beliefs of our lives are the perceptions  of our lives. And what causes the perceptions of our lives are the 
perspectives  of our lives. And this is where the soul comes in. It is the soul  that can enlarge the perspective of the mind beyond the limitations of 
currently held data. The soul is able to do this beca use of the soul’s level of awareness. The 
soul’s awareness emerges from the soul’s level of consciousness. The soul’s consciousness 
emerges from the soul’s State of Being. That is, One with Everything, across all time and in 
every place. This is the Actual  Truth and the Ultimate Reality. You can experience this State of Being even while in your body, by any process you may 
wish to use (there are many) that allows you to sidestep your mind temporarily, placing 
you in immediate contact with your soul. Now we are going to present the Line of Causality as a vertical  line—for that is what it 
really is. When you finish with this exploration you will understand everything about 
causality . . . from top to bottom. Here is how it all works, here is the flow . . . BEING 
CONSCIOUSNESS  
AWARENESS  
PERSPECTIVE  
PERCEPTION  
BELIEF  
BEHAVIOR  
EVENT  
DATA  
TRUTH  
THOUGHT  
EMOTION  
EXPERIENCE  
REALITY  
From pure Being flows Consciousness, from Consciousness flows Awareness, from 
Awareness flows Perspective, from Perspective flows Percepti on, from Perception flows 
Belief, from Belief flows Behavior, from Behavior flows Events, from Events flow Data, from 
Data flow Truth, from Truth flows Thought, from Thought flows Emotion, from Emotion 
flows Experience, from Experience flows Reality. Of co urse, there are no straight lines in the Universe. Everything curves in on itself. Therefore, this line is all a circle, and if there is no interruption in this circular path, Being 
leads to Ultimate Reality, because that is the reality from which it emerg es. Everything takes place in the physical world in a “moment” that we call “time.” A bunch 
of these moments can be charted on a clock. It may help you to think of your soul as moving 
through this imaginary moment, working “around the clock” to bring you the r ichest 
experience of Who You Really Are. Each “hour” on the cosmic clock you move one step away from Being, in order that you 
may return there, knowing/experiencing it again. By the process described in the steps you 
see on this Time Clock, you create and recreate yourself anew as “time” passes. Finally, you 
reach “the eleventh hour.” This is when the way in which you “passed the time of day” plays 
its effect. Okay now, follow the “clock” with me now . . . if you do not remember the perspective 
with which y ou began (that is, the perspective of the soul), you could hold a perception that 
produces a belief that results in a behavior that manifests an event that creates data that 
leads to a truth that generates a thought that outpours an emotion that culminates  in an 
experience that causes you to wind up at the eleventh hour in a Distorted Reality. And so the question of the hour (so to speak) is: how can you remember the perspective 
with which you began? The answer is: by using the System of the Soul. The Mecha nics of 
the Mind will never get you there, for the simple reason that information about where you 
began is not stored in the mind. The mind only holds the data that it has gathered since it was biochemically mature 
enough to begin data -gathering activities. Therefore, the only stored data in the possession 
of your mind is data about your body’s physical adventure (both before and afte r birth, I 
might add). Any other data that may burst upon your present -moment awareness comes 
either from your body’s cells (its cellular memory, described earlier) or from your soul —
which knows and understands everything. That is why I advise you to go wi thin. For it is as Conversations with God  says: “if you do 
not go within, you go without.” I have been in touch with my own soul (as have many, many 
people the world over, using a wide variety of techniques; later I will offer you a detailed 
description of  ways in which you may do this) and it has been made very clear to me that 
there is only One Soul, of which my soul is a part, and that the System of the Soul is 
elegantly simple. This is the source from which I learned the reason that things change. To re peat:  
Change occurs because you want it to occur . Everything that changes, changes at your 
direction. You want it to occur because you are continually choosing the perfect people, 
places, and conditions with which to experience what you next seek to experi ence as you 
move forward in the process of the evolution of your soul. How does change move evolution forward? Your response  to the changes occurring in 
your life is your answer to that question. So this is how it all works:  
Life is always functional. When  any facet of it (any person, place, or thing) begins to skirt 
the edge of functionality, life detects this shift of energy at once and puts into place an 
adaptation. This adaptation assures that life remains sustainable. As life sustains itself 
through it s new, changed form, life becomes functional once again. The small part of life (God) that is You chooses  for things to change when the changes 
that are already (and always) occurring threaten to produce instability in the system. Your 
soul can detect the onset of system instability long before it can have any negative effect. That is its job. Sensing the onset of instability —like a child’s top whose spinning is slowing down —the 
soul awakens the mind, which then actively co -creates with the soul (and with a ll other 
energies in the system) whatever change (adaptation) will keep things spinning at 
optimum velocity. All of this is why I have said, Life is a process that informs life about life through the 
process of Life Itself. You are who you say you are, and  your experience is what you say it is. (This may be one of the greatest secrets of life.) Change #6  is about changing your idea about why change occurs. It calls upon you to 
embrace a new notion: that life’s changes are neither a rbitrary nor without rhyme or 
reason, but, rather, are very sophisticated adjustments in a very sophisticated system —the 
System of the Soul. You see, your soul is here on a mission. It did not just suddenly find itself here, nor did it 
place itself here wi thout purpose or reason, function or intent. It knows exactly what it is 
doing, and your mind and your body and the physical life all around you are the tools with 
which it (and every other soul) is doing that. Life conspires to bless us with an  
unrelentin g Grace . Who among us has not been touched by this generous hand,  
freeing us,  
one 
or many layers  
at a time? You are the lucky one  
who has known annihilation  
and then absorption  
back into the Love  
we seek. And it is you who knows  
that even as the soul -cry r ends your very chest,  
the whole of the Universe  
shakes  
with Love. In this place of All  
there is at long, long last  
no place  
left 
to fall. —‘Unrelenting Grace’  © 2006 Em Claire  21. THE SEVENTH CHANGE  
THIS BRINGS US TO  the next change in our list of nine —the change that moves the process of 
your soul’s evolution forward by focusing not only on what is happening right now, but also 
on what will be happening tomorrow. The System of the Soul is, you will remember, a system  of energies. These energies 
impact upon themselves. That is, their effect is circular. As it has so often been said: what 
goes around comes around. This is another way of saying that the Line of Causality is like that clock we used as an 
analogy earlier. It is the System of the Soul and the Mechanics of the Mind, linked. If you do not know they are linked, you will pay attention to one and not the other. You 
will walk around with your head in the clouds all the time (as my father worried that I was 
doing),  completely detached from your physical reality, or you will walk about with your 
nose to the grindstone all the time (as I did for a while when I overcompensated in 
response to my father), completely detached from your spiritual reality. Either way, you w ill create and experience, at the eleventh hour, a Distorted Reality, not 
the Ultimate Reality. You will find it difficult to jump even to the Observed Reality —which 
is too bad, because even Observed Reality is a very special place to be. The majority of 
people do not get there very often, and fewer people can manage to remain there very long. So living in the Observed Reality is a very high state of being. In this state, we distort 
nothing, but see everything for exactly what it is in human terms (if not i n spiritual terms). You are, essentially, pulled out of your “drama” and away from your Story.
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        In simple terms, this is called change. Yes, there’s that word again. change. That is what life is all about. Life nourishes life through the process of life itself, in which 
life changes its form a hundred million times in the blink of an eye, a million  million tim es 
in seconds, a billion  million times in a minute, and more times than Time itself can count in 
the time that has passed since counting began. Change for the worse  is literally impossible within the expression of energy that we call 
Life. That’s because L ife itself can fundamentally alter itself in only one direction: the 
direction that evolution requires; the direction that expansion demands, the direction that 
keeps it flourishing. Things can only change for the better, things can only improve, 
because “ improvement” is the only Nature of God. Put another way, God has no intention of doing Itself in. Life is God’s way of proving Itself to Itself. The process by which It does this is called 
Improvement. But wait a minute. Who even says there is a “God”. I do. But I am not using the word God as many other people do. I do not use the word to 
denote or describe a huge Super Being existing somewhere in the cosmos, exhibiting 
proclivities and tendencies, needs and desires, frustrations and emotions identical to t hose 
of humans. I am not talking about an Entity Divine who has needs that must be fulfilled or 
else, who presumably has a temper (or, at least, a determination to punish those who 
disobey), and who also has, presumably, a penis, and, presumably, fair skin, and, 
presumably, no wife, but One Son. This is not the God I am referring to when I use the word “God. ”  I am referring to the Source of Supreme Intelligence manifesting itself as the Pure 
Energy that we call Life itself. I am referring to the Largest Manifestation of a System That 
Replicates Itself in Smaller and Smaller Versions through a Process That Empow ers the 
System Itself to Exist and to Expand. I am talking about the biggest undifferentiated stem 
cell in existence, from which life in all its forms emerges. Indeed, in my understanding and experience the words “God” and “Life” are 
interchangeable, and i n this equation evolution is the constant. It is the ever -present 
mandate of Life itself. It is the continual, the unending adjustment, adaptation, and 
alteration of All That Is. No adjustment, adaptation, or alteration contracts  Life, but can only 
expand  it. No adjustment, adaptation, or alteration diminishes  Life, but can only enhance  it. Life evolves to higher and higher levels of complexity. Life could not devolve  if it wanted 
to. It is incapable of doing that. Now, it is true that life can look like  it is devolving. Changes can look like  they are not “for 
the better. ” But, in fact, change can only be for the better or it would not occur. All spiritual 
masters know this. That is why all spiritual masters teach, e ach in their own articulation. judge not by appearances. Life is eternally functional, adaptable, and sustainable. These are the Basic Principles of 
Life, and they cannot be violated or rendered in any way inoperable, or Life would cease to 
be. All of this becomes much easier for people to comprehend with my simple substitution 
of the word God for the word Life. Suddenly, everything is made clear. God is eternally 
Functional, Adaptable, and Sustainable. These are the Basic Principles of God, and they 
cannot be violated or rendered in any way inoperable, or God would cease to be. When human beings embrace the extraordinary idea presented here, the process of 
change will be seen for what it is: the ultimate expression of Divinity Itself, sustaining Itself 
through adaptations that render Itself eternally magnificent. Change is an announcement of Life’s intention to go on. Change is the fundamental impulse 
of Life itself. Again I want to tell you that I don’t think that a lot of people see it this way. If they saw it 
this way they would heed the injunction of Christ, and “be not afraid. ” Yet “ye of little faith” 
are afraid. Thus it was that Franklin Roosevelt was moved to say, “We have nothing to fear 
but fear itself. ”  
I’m going to take that one step fu rther. I’m going to say. We have nothing to change but Change itself. Today I awakened quieter than God  
and stretched my Self toward the sky  
to caress the celestial bodies  
with the  
Body of God  All night long  
The Sun awaited my eyes. And now that they are upon Her  
She rises, as Divined as every siren  
every muse  
every  
Body of God. Even Ocean sways and rocks  
in gentle wait for me to wake  
even Moon  
even Sky  
even Silence  
Even Silence awaits the Awakening of my voice  
that will tenderly kiss Its body of sound s 
still 
in the Body of God. —‘The Body of God’  © 2009 Em Claire  18. THE SIXTH CHANGE  
I HOPE YOU HAVE  considered The Fifth Change carefully, and that, given the information 
and the insights you’ve received here, you feel that you can go ahead and embrace it, along 
with Changes One, Two, Three, and Four. I want to say that if there were one change on my list of nine that could do the work of 
all the others, Change #5  would be it. This is a change that can change the way change is 
experienced even as change is taking place. Isn’t that a change you would like to make. Sure it is. We’d all like to make a change like that at times such as the moment you are 
experiencing r ight now. Now I know that the way you’d  like to change things is to change the fact that anything 
changed at all. It may look as if you can be happy again only if you can change what 
happened. But here’s the news: that’s not going to make you happy. If kee ping things the way they were was going to keep things happy, what has just happened 
wouldn’t have happened. Now you might be able to put in place yet another  change, following the change that has 
just occurred, which could return things to something resembling  the way they were 
before, but they will never again be exactly the same —and you would not want them to be. Always remember this: you cannot change what’ s been changed, because that’s already in 
the past, but you can change the future, and that’s where your power lies. Your decision will be, do I want to change the future so that it duplicates my past. Or do 
I want to change the future so radically that it  looks nothing at all  like my past. In order to consider this carefully, you should be aware that change does not occur in a 
vacuum. Change does not take place in the universe for no reason. Change is not a random 
act. Change is an announcement that someth ing is not working. The change that has occurred in your life has happened because disharmony was 
present. When disharmony is present, life becomes dysfunctional —and that condition 
violates the first of the Basic Principles of Life (Life Is Functional, Ada ptable, and 
Sustainable) and invokes the second. Okay. now you might say, “If all things happen for the better. I mean, if that is really 
true. then someone needs to tell me what in blazes God has in mind, because things sure 
don’t look any better to me. ”  
I know that I’ll be hearing that a lot during the Changing Everything Workshop that 
we’re presenting in satellite TV “web casts” around the world, and in our twice -annual live, 
in-person retreats. And this leads us to. CHANGE #6:  
Change  your idea about why Change occurs  Even if you accept that all change happens for the better, you do not know why this new 
circumstance, situation, or condition is better. You don’t understand the nature of the 
improvement. That’s because the improvement m ay not have to do with exterior 
conditions, but with interior conditions. What you are not seeing is why  change occurs —
and who is causing it. When you see this and embrace it as your living truth, once again 
everything in your day -to-day experience will. well.
The author does not use the term "God" to describe a huge Super Being with human-like qualities, but rather as the Source of Supreme Intelligence, manifesting as the Pure Energy of Life itself.
What is the author's definition of "God"?
No, life can only change for the better, as it is fundamentally bound to evolve and expand.
According to the author, can life change for the worse?
The author believes that there is no single "right" answer to life's fundamental questions, as all truth is subjective and created by the individual.
What is the author's view on the concept of a "God"?
The author states that the soul is not limited in its perception and understanding, and is responsible for guiding the mind and body to fulfill its purpose, which is to experience the magnificence of God.
What is the author's perspective on the purpose of the soul?
The author emphasizes that change is a fundamental impulse of life, and that it is an announcement of life's intention to continue.
What is the author's stance on the concept of "change"?