Table Of ContentA HEROIC LIFE
New Teachings from Jesus
on the Human Journey
Gina Lake
Endless Satsang Foundation
http://www.RadicalHappiness.com
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Copyright © 2015 by Gina Lake
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To the One in everyone.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: The World Is a Stage
Chapter 2: The Hero’s Perspective
Chapter 3: False Assumptions
Chapter 4: The Strengths of the Hero
Chapter 5: Navigating Challenges
Chapter 6: Mastering Negative Emotions
Chapter 7: The Hero’s Beliefs
Chapter 8: The Hero’s Destiny
Chapter 9: The Hero’s Lifestyle
About the Author
Preface
This is another in a series of books dictated to Gina Lake by the one you have
known as Jesus the Christ. I, Jesus, exist in another dimension and am
working with the earth and those devoted to me to bring about a much needed
transformation of consciousness. The work that I do would not be possible
without my connection to all of you who are dedicated to the message of love
and peace that I gave two thousand years ago. This connection allows me to
have an influence on individuals and the course of earth’s evolution.
There have always been those walking the earth who lived in a higher
state of consciousness than the rest of humanity. I was but one of them. They
came, as I did, to uplift humanity. Many people today are hungry for that
upliftment, to be closer to God, closer to their own godhood, their innate
goodness. The number of people who are capable of experiencing their
divinity in human form is greater than ever before, so those of us guiding the
planet feel hopeful that a new paradigm can be established on earth in which
every human being is respected, loved, and supported.
This heaven on earth will only be possible through the change of heart
that happens when people realize that their own minds have kept them
imprisoned in hatred and other negative emotions. This book is written to
bring about this realization and activate your divine nature so that you may
live together in love and peace and no longer harm each other and the planet.
This is an ambitious goal, and I do not attempt it alone, for there are
many like myself in other dimensions and in the body who share it. The
gentle woman taking down these words is one of them. Please know that I am
with every one of you who puts peace and love above all else. Your reading
this book is a statement of your intention for this. Peace!
Jesus, dictated to Gina Lake
April, 2015
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Note from the author: To avoid the awkwardness of having to use “hero or
heroine,” “he or she,” and “himself or herself,” I have chosen to use “hero”
throughout this book and to alternate genders with each chapter.
Chapter 1
The World Is a Stage
Every person is living out a destiny, a life that is designed especially for him
or her. And everyone has the opportunity to become the hero of his life. What
determines this is not intelligence, good looks, luck, or circumstances but a
capacity to view life and oneself within one’s life a certain way.
How you choose to see yourself and life determines your experience of
life and whether or not you become that hero. Your perspective is that
important. This book is about a perspective that makes it possible to be the
hero of your life. It is also about perspectives that produce the opposite so
that you can clearly see which ones do not work and reap only suffering,
discontentment, and unhappiness.
The hero has a perspective that works and one that can be cultivated by
anyone, and which, in fact, is cultivated by life itself. Life has a way of
pointing people to a perspective that brings contentment and peace. That
pointing is often accomplished through suffering: When your perspective is
incorrect and doesn’t match reality, you aren’t happy; when it is, you are
happy. Life shows you how to live by teaching you through suffering. So
ultimately, this book is about how to have a happy and fulfilled life.
Every character in a play has a perspective and a script to follow. If you
were in a play, you would immerse yourself in your character’s perspective,
follow your script, and experience what that character is destined to
experience. In real life, you are given a perspective and a script of sorts, but
you don’t have to stick with it. If you are scripted to play a victim or a
perpetrator, for instance, you can choose to play a hero instead. In real life,
you can improvise and alter the script as you go. Although you have a certain
destiny and a general script, your lives are not actually scripted.
What I mean by destiny is this: You are here for a reason, a purpose.
You are here to grow, learn, create, explore life, develop your talents, share
your gifts, and learn to love. This is the general curriculum of life, and each
person has his or her specific version of it—a more specific destiny. Each of
you learns and develops in a way that is unique to you, and that is your
specific destiny. Everyone accomplishes this general curriculum at his or her
own pace.
You are naturally motivated to develop yourselves, learn, grow, love,
create, and join with others. To not do these things would not be human. So
you cannot not do what you came here to do. You cannot not fulfill your
general destiny. The only question is whether you will enjoy your life and
flourish or go kicking and screaming through it. And why would anyone do
the latter? Indeed, it sounds absurd that anyone would resist growing,
learning, loving, creating, and developing oneself.
The explanation for this resistance to life is that something else has been
built into the human machinery besides these positive drives for learning and
expansion: an ego. You could say that the ego is the villain in the human
drama, since the ego provides the greatest challenge to human happiness. The
ego, which is driven by fear, greed, selfishness, and a sense of never having
enough, rails against reality, misperceives life, and thus makes poor choices,
which cause the suffering that is the grist for human evolution.
To overcome the trials of the human journey, you, the hero, must clear
away the ego’s misperceptions, see through its lies, and cultivate your innate
resources. Overcoming the challenges presented by the ego develops and
strengthens the hero. Eventually, over many lifetimes, the hero gains mastery
over the emotions and negative states generated by the ego, and he develops
wisdom, discernment, fearlessness, compassion, and kindness, among other
positive qualities. The physical challenges of life also accomplish this, but the
ego creates necessary internal challenges that equally hone the hero’s
character and make him all that he can be.
In dealing with difficulties, the hero is made strong and is reconnected
with his divine nature. Challenges draw forth and develop qualities of
character the hero didn’t know he had, which are the gifts hidden in the
challenge. Life’s trials test your (the ego’s) false identities, desires, and
beliefs and force you to face the ego’s fears, which is why the false self
cannot survive life’s challenges. The ego is the dragon within each of you,
which is eventually conquered through life’s trials.
The hero’s journey—this human life—is a search for and discovery of
the greatest treasure of all: the gifts of your true nature. These gifts are your
birthright, but they have been hidden from you, kept from you by the ego.
These gifts are the wisdom, love, peace, courage, strength, and joy that reside
at your core.
The ego, as I am using the word, is the programmed aspect of the human
being that causes you to feel separate, fearful, lacking, and at odds and in
competition with life and others. The ego is a sense of self that feels small,
limited, afraid, and combative. The ego is who you are programmed to
believe you are, and it is represented by the stream of thoughts that flows
through your mind on a nearly continual basis. This thought-stream is
primarily about yourself or about others in relation to you.
You need a sense of self to function in the world as an individual, and
for that, you can be grateful to the ego. However, you don’t need the stream
of thoughts about yourself, nor the ego’s negative and limiting definitions of
yourself, nor its opposition to the way things are.
Contrary to the ego’s perceptions, life is not supposed to be different
than the way it is. You are not lacking anything you need to be happy. You
do not need to be afraid of life. Life does not have to be a struggle. Life is not
