In 2016, I woke up in a very elevated state similar in some ways with my elevated states of consciousness that I experienced during my "enlightened mania" experience in 2015. The strong sense came over me again that life is unfolding perfectly and is a movie created, directed and experienced by God through each of us. Life is God's movie and it is already in the can. I felt a wonderful sense of peaceful bliss at the thought.
I got out of bed, dressed and got onto a bus to go to the Spit Bridge to join some friends for a hike. As I was driving, I received an email from Sharon giving me a link to online information about one of her favourite spiritual gurus; Paramahansa Yogananda. I explored the link to discover that "Life is God's movie" is one of his favourite metaphors.
Later that day, I listened to a teaching by Mooji. In the talk, he too used the metaphor. He said something along the lines of "It's all a movie. It's all just happening. Consciousness (God) is the great movie maker."
An hour or two later, an email arrived with a teaching from Scott Kiloby. In this teaching, Scott too used up the metaphor that life is a movie.
The next day, Sharon send me an email with a quote from Barry Long, a spiritual guru she admires. In it, he too used the metaphor that life is God's movie.
A couple of days later, I mentioned the "Life is God's movie" metaphor. Yogi said "Wow, I've just read a book that contains that metaphor." He lent me the book by Merlyn Swan. She uses the metaphor including the quote: "The film of life is already in the can and all I can do is view one frame at a time. I have no choice or free will. I am a character playing a role, dancing the divine dance, the way God wants. Independence and volition are part of the illusion." Merlyn Swan is a relatively unknown author and the chances for Yogi to be reading that book is very slim.
So, in short, I woke up with the express feeling and thought "Life is God's movie." Then in the space of only a few days, I came across this metaphor used expressly by 5 different spiritual teachers. There was an immense sense of wonder at the synchronicity. It felt very meaningful.
Since, then, I have researched this metaphor extensively and as of 2022, I am writing a book about it.
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