Today's Quote

Seeking

2008-03-02T03:50:00.000-08:00

Let us seek until we find:
the good hidden in our evil
the healing disguised in our pain
the light enfolded in our darkness
the potential mistaken for our emptiness
the unity inherent in our dividedness
the security underneath our insecurity
the blessing given in our adversity
the peace within our stress
the answer concealed in our questions
the strength ignored in our weakness
the genius masked in our stupidity
the freedom overlooked in our bondage
the joy implicit in our sorrow
the truth underlying our illusions and lies
the extraordinary possibilities in the ordinary
the courage denied in our fear
the riches unnoticed in our poverty
the love overwhelmed by our jealousy
the order within our chaos
the medicine signaled by our symptoms
the purpose arising out of our accidents and losses
the meaning lost in our tragedies
the sanity encased in our insanity
the aliveness erupting out of the death of God
the spirit symbolized in matter
the still small voice not heard in our noisiness
the infinity obscured in our finiteness
the divinity prohibited in our human unawareness

Carroll J. Wright, Ph. D.

Ten Recommendations for Wise Parenting

2008-02-27T02:47:00.000-08:00

Adouda's recommendations are beautifully stated and should fit into all parenting styles. You can read through many parenting courses, and the 10 following guidelines will assist you in raising children with values and principles.

By Adouda ADJIRI, Ph. D.

1. Your child is not your property but an independent being that came to life through you. The new born baby is a complete human being capable of understanding and learning even before speaking the adults' language. When mother and father have made the choice of bringing this new being to life, they have automatically committed themselves to nurture it until independence.

2. Each child has his or her own and unique personality that must be respected. This leads to respect his or her safe-choices and not minimize or underestimate the child's concerns of any nature. A toy is so important to a child when at the same time it means nothing to an adult. Similarly, playing is an integral part of a child's life that must be understood and respected.

3. Be patient because without patience parenting cannot be properly achieved. Don't allow your anger over the day's events to spill over onto your child and never use physical punishment to correcting your child. Time-out that is properly advised works well in most cases. If your child is challenging, learn how to handle his or her particular challenge. Encourage flexibility and do not impose military-like rules and routines.

4. Listen to your child now otherwise he or she won't listen to you as a young adult. Listening is achieved with heart and ears and you must take that time to learn about your child's dreams and fears. Encourage your child to speak up his or her thoughts and feelings. Listen with empathy, validate your child's feelings and show understanding to his or her frustrations. Ten Recommendations for Wise Parenting

5. Nourish your child with unconditional love without being overprotective. A warm hug and a game played together or a moment spent together is more precious than any expensive toy you might offer. Every child asks to be loved, understood and respected and when these needs are fulfilled, no room is left for disobedience or future rebellion.

6. Never discriminate among your children. Whether a boy or a girl, a first born or a middle born or a last born, you must treat them all equally and love them all equally and give each one of them equal time and attention. Don't make promises you cannot keep, that would teach your children to lie. Teach them moral values and prepare them to face those who do not respect moral values.

7. Children are naturally curious, so encourage your child's curiosity and let him and her ask questions. You are not required to answer each of their questions but teach them to look for answers themselves; you'll be amazed how much you can learn from them.

8. Children like to feel important and needed, so help them fulfill this need. Give your children opportunities to do something in the kitchen or around the house and stand near by for supervision and direction without constantly correcting or giving orders. Let them make mistakes and let them learn from their mistakes.

9. Use positive and genuine expressions to praise your child's achievements. Avoid everything that is negative, comments, remarks or familiar expressions that can damage your child's self-esteem and weaken his or her confidence. Though you cannot shield your child from hearing invalidating comments but you can make sure that they won't affect him or her. In case of failure, give accurate feedback with lots of encouragement to help your child continue learning.

10. Avoid using or abusing your children indirectly and decide with them but not for them. Do not influence your child to achieve what you couldn't achieve in your life. Similarly, do not push your child in the family's business when he or she has different dreams and different talents

Be the 100th Monkey

2007-08-23T02:34:00.000-07:00

Be The 100th Monkey
By Susan Denham

Every day thousands of businesses across America close their doors. In each of those closed businesses, there is a dream that didn't take flight. Most of these businesses are started and ended within 2 years. It stands to reason that a lot of people are going into businesses they have no business being in, but their drive to succeed and nurture a dream that won't die, clouds their judgment, and they do it anyway.

Each of these failed businesses represents a broken heart, and in the collective consciousness of our planet, we are hard pressed to find a need for yet another broken heart, broken home, broken marriage, or broken dream. We've got enough of those already.

The true entrepreneur will take the lessons learned from that failed business, and after healing the gaping wounds, he'll go and, scars and all, start the next one. and the next one, and the next one. The spirit of a dreamer can be bruised, and battered, but only broken by choice.

Another closely related statistic is the number of domestic violence incidents reported. You know as well as I do that people fight over money. They fight over silly things most of the time, but when it comes to money, that's when things get really uptight. The young family that just moved in down the street may look like the picture-perfect image of the American Dream, but when that SUV has to go back to the bank, their home could become a war zone.

Half of the marriages starting out on any given day are doomed to failure. More broken hearts. More vibrational pollution in the Universal Consciousness.
But, all is not lost. We are responsible for our experience. We are powerful beyond measure, and we have the powerful responsibility of doing that thing that is in our power to do to change the trends of these statistics.
The 100th Monkey principle stems from the story about the Japanese Islands, researchers saw one very talented and brilliant young female (imagine that) monkey who learned how to wash the sand off her potatoes, and then she taught it to her young.

After a certain number of monkeys (not exactly 100, but it's hard to pinpoint) had learned to wash their potatoes in the stream, the researchers began to see monkeys on other islands who had no communication with the original batch of monkeys begin to wash their potatoes before eating.

There is a theory that after so many people learn a concept, that it is embedded in the morphogenetic field, a level of Universal Consciousness above our perception, but available to all of us. Once that knowledge is in the M field, It becomes "Common Knowledge" and no longer has to be struggled with. It's just "known" They call it the "100th Monkey" principle.

If you are a dreamer, you have the responsibility to become a success. If you are a broken hearted lover or failed businessperson, you have the responsibility to dust yourself off and try again. You MUST succeed. Because when enough people have proven that it CAN be done, the 100th Monkey principle will take effect, and people will begin starting businesses that are perfect for them, and families will be more permanent, and more peaceful.

You owe it to the struggling Single Mom to be successful, You owe it to the High School Graduate who is fighting against the idea of the 40 year lie, and you owe it to the soon-to-be-retired Army Lieutenant who sees a way to buy a boat to enjoy his retirement in, if he can just earn this certain amount in a certain time frame.
Their success will be more forthcoming if YOU fight your way through the unknowns, Data-smog, niggling details, etc. Fight the good fight, give your dreams wings, and live for the moment. The struggle is the reward, and your achievement is secondary to the thrill of the ride. Do this next thing, and then do the next thing. Let your successes build on each other, and your failures be only information.

Many products exist today that are intended to help you do just that. Consider the benefits of subconscious and mental programming. Technology is morphing into an always-ready assistant, helping us to communicate, organize, and now, even assist us in our self-improvement efforts.

Don't miss this online video!

2007-08-22T11:15:00.000-07:00

Use this address: http://www.realmindpowersecrets.com/evolution2.html

and scroll down to the Utube Integral Concsiousness video entitled:

"Wisdom and Science in Dialogue: The new Planetary Consciousness."

What is Ascension?

2007-08-19T03:19:00.000-07:00

WHAT IS ASCENSION ? by Sandy Stevenson

Ascension is a natural and normal part of the evolutionary process of the Universe. It has always been so and will probably continue until it is no longer necessary as a universal process.

Therefore any ideas of this process being something new or weird, usually means that this concept hasn't been understood. When the real meaning of this concept is not grasped, we get separation and terms such as ‘the ascensionists’. Let’s look more carefully at what Ascension is.

Experiential growth

Evolution is basically a continuing growth through learning in many forms. This growth comes about through greater spiritual wisdom, compassion, tolerance, integrity, true understanding and such qualities that lead us to Unconditional Love.

Energy and vibrations

Each person has their own unique energy vibration and it is this we are recognising when we feel someone is instantly familiar or we are immediately comfortable with someone. Whilst each being always holds this special energy, the overall vibrational field of a being alters - depending on the current level of evolution he or she is at. Our individual vibrational band as a being decides the world we see. All dimensions exist ‘Now’ but we can only see things that lay within the vibrational band of Light that we resonate with - that matches us. Wisdom and love raise ones vibration, taking it from dense, slower moving frequencies to faster finer frequencies.

An evolutionary stage

Ascension is merely a stage in this evolutionary process and involves reaching a place where one is ready to raise oneself to the frequency of Light, whereby the fifth dimension becomes accessible and visible.

It is not something for the ‘chosen few’, but is available to every being in the entire universe. It is obtained on an individual basis, within the time frame that being chooses to experience his or her growth. It is inevitably gained by everyone at some point or another.

A natural transition

One does not need to understand the process or to have ever heard the word Ascension in order to ascend. It is simply a word that is used by some to define this particular step of ones growth.

All stages of evolution are wonder-ful and contain their own special beauty and wisdom. However, it is felt by many that Ascension is a special stage as it involves the transition from a third dimensional reality of duality and its relevant learning, to an awareness of oneness, harmony and love.

Moving to the fifth dimension, one passes through the fourth and releases all buried emotion and thought that has too dense a vibration to permit the being to raise him or herself and his lower subtle bodies, into the higher frequencies of Light.

Universal manifestation

Those attaining Ascension in past times, have allowed the physical body to ‘die’ and having increased the vibration of the subtle bodies, raised themselves into the fifth dimension. There is now an opportunity to change this universal pattern and ascend all our lower bodies, bringing a new pattern of ascension into Universal Manifestation. For the first time in this universe, there is a possibility for those choosing it, to increase the vibratory rate of the molecular structure of the physical body. As in all new things presented to humanity, the idea may well seem `way out' and impossible. Not so long ago, talking to someone thousands of miles away or walking on the moon, would have seemed impossible.

Earth attaining Ascension

The planet Earth is currently attaining a state of ascension. The Being who has Earth as her body (much the same as humans have theirs) has reached a point where she is choosing this major step in her evolution. She is currently releasing all condensed and negative energy and raising her entire physical form and its surrounding subtle bodies (which she has just the same as the human beings). All that which is part of the Earth and identifies itself with her such as the flora and fauna operating in the natural flow of the universe, simply moves with her. Any life stream that has separated or is not a natural part of that Earth, who has evolved to a point of ‘free will and choice’ to decide its own movement - may or may not choose to Ascend. Human beings and some animals are definitely in this category.

Evolutionary opportunity

At this special time of planetary evolution an opportunity exists for every individual within the entire Earth structure, currently incarnated or not, to choose to release all the lower levels of density and move from a reality based on materialism and separation to one based within the heart centre and oneness of all life.

This opportunity is available on such a broad scale to all humanity, because the Earth is ascending. Usually Ascension is obtained by the individual without being able to use the planet’s increasing frequency to assist their own momentum towards Ascension. Everything is in Divine order and those on Earth at this time are destined to be able to tune into this assistance. Other planets in the universe have previously attained ascension and now it is our Earth that is doing so.

Linking with the Divine

Anyone may choose at this time to re-link with their Divine source, release their patterns of limitation, release judgement and separation and move into the loving place of the heart. It does require a real commitment and a discipline and determination. It is achieved by following spirit in any given moment. This means following the heart and moving only with what feels right, usually accompanied by interest or excitement. If one continues to move in patterns dictated by the mind, often out of fear and need for security and all of the ‘shoulds’ and ‘musts’ contained within its belief patterns, you will not be allowing yourself to feel in the heart that which resonates as true and in the Divine flow of the universe.

The Earth was once a perfect ball of evenly distributed energy. She agreed to share a learning process with mankind, as he began a learning through ‘limitation’. In carrying out this learning man has caused an uneven distribution of this energy, through various means such as negative thought, rainforest destruction, pollution, etc.

Learning through limitation

The process of learning through limitation has reached deep levels of restriction. Many now, no longer remember that they are a spiritual being and child of God, part of a Divine source and connected to all living things with all being brother and sister. Man also no longer realises that he creates his own reality and hence his own world. This pattern has been taken to its greatest learning potential and its learning could be considered by many to be complete.

Earth’s agreement

Earth agreed to this joint learning with man and had a deep understanding of the various possibilities that could happen. This Being operates from a place of love and does not feel she is a ‘victim’ or feels anger about the apparent destruction of areas upon her form. Everything in the universe is done by agreement. Everything. She watches with love and perceives the struggle within man to overcome all the barriers he has set himself.

The Earth now needs to bring all the energy within her structure back into a perfect ball and raised in frequency in order to make her Ascension. She is quite capable of doing this. The way she does it is dependant on the amount of Light she receives in. She tries to release these areas as gently as possible and we can assist this by focusing Light in and across the Earth, creating positive and healing patterns around the world.

The power of unified prayer

Prayer also has always been a form of connection to the Divine Source of all and we know this links to the power of God.

Some feel they wish to help the Earth in a more practical way and this is also helping greatly. She is grateful for all these forms of help.

If sufficient Light is taken into help this transmutation, she does not then need to correct the energy imbalance in a geophysical manner, such as through earthquakes, floods, etc.

In her love and compassion for all life upon Earth and for her own comfort, she would naturally prefer to have a pain and trauma free transition. As we know most mothers would choose the gentlest birth possible. She is no exception and doesn’t enjoy the pain of cracks and upheavals in her structure or the added trauma of human suffering.

Let go and let God

Everyone on Earth is special and unique and each has their own role to play in the overall scheme of things. If each one follows that which feels right to say or do, then each will be carrying out their part in that plan. If instead, you permit yourself to do that which you ‘should do’ often through guilt, you are quite liable to be stepping outside of your agreements. It is time to Let Go And Let God. By doing this, you will be truly taking responsibility.

If it feels right for you to help the dolphins, save the rainforests, increase awareness of child abuse, or do nothing...the range is endless...understand that because this is right for you, it does not have to mean that it is right for others also. Each has their own task to do and if you permit yourself to be talked into what you ‘should be doing’ you will not therefore carry out what you are really meant to be doing in that moment. If you do what feels right in the heart from a place of love and not from fear or guilt then you can trust that you are in the flow of Divinity. From that place you can intuitively sense the next move.

The power of positivity

Another way to assist the Earth is by keeping our own auric field (aura) clear and free of negativity. We can then allow Light to pass through the energy centres (chakras) of the body, down into The Earth. You can keep this field clear through a discipline of only permitting positive thought, pure intent, use of affirmations, non judgement, moving from the `head' to the ‘heart’, realising that all are brother and sister and becoming more loving. There are various products available that assist in raising vibration and help clear the lower bodies. There are colour, sound, crystals, oils and many natural essences in use for these purposes such as Bach Flower remedies, Aura Light and Avatara Harmony essences. As regards any assistance via products or indeed from any source, take only that which resonates and feels right for you. Each of us have different needs and whereas one may find that Aromatherapy produces miracles, another may simply need more peace or to look at the area of self love. Many paths are available for there are many different people with as many different needs. By following our intuition we can lead ourselves to increased awareness and higher levels of evolution.

A time of choice

It is time on this planet for everyone to make a choice about the sort of world they wish to live in. One of peace and love or the current world we see now upon the Earth.

In the current third dimensional reality on Earth, one learns compassion, understanding and love through experiencing every conceivable situation in life, ranging from poverty and struggle to wealth and power. This involves learning to rise above the limitations set by ourselves prior to the incarnation, thereby gaining strength and wisdom. Finally, as one ceases to judge and realises ‘I am my brothers’ keeper’ and that in truth, everyone is a brother - he or she moves to a place of peace and unconditional love.

Many now feel that they have learnt sufficiently in this realm and would choose to release the various patterns belonging to limitational learning and move on up to higher levels of learning. Learning goes on through higher dimensions, but it is through greater harmony and less solid types of experience. Whilst joy and peace are obtainable on the third dimension, these things are a matter of course on the higher dimensions.

The Golden Age

Choices are being made across the Earth by everyone. As the planetary vibrations continue to increase; all old rigid structures and systems across the Earth either change their basis of operation to one of love, or they crumble and cease to be. All buried thought and emotion is being released individually - nationally - internationally and planetary. All remaining karma is being balanced out across the face of the Earth and everyone who chooses Love, is Light-ening up, as their vibration moves into higher frequencies.

It is time to step free of fears and the myriad of belief patterns that keep us so boxed in our world of structure and control. Time to move forward in trust and faith knowing there are worlds beyond that which we can see with our eyes.

We now approach the new millennia, the Golden Age of peace and love, predicted by so many philosophies and religions for so long. It is shown on the ancient Mayan Calendar and known deep within the heart of many, many millions working in the Light of God.

A wonderful new world dawns on the horizon, bathed in the splendour of the Gold Ray of the Christ Consciousness, as we who choose it so, come home.

Unconditional Love,

Sandy Stevenson

Prosperity: The Way of the Spirit, Ernest Holmes

2007-08-16T05:37:00.000-07:00

THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT.

AGAIN let us say that the Spirit creates by becoming the thing that it thinks. There is no other possible way in which it could work. Since it is all and there is no other, the thought of opposing forces never enters into its mental working; when we are judging from the outer we are not working in line with the power that we should be using. We must come to see that there is only One Power and that we are touching it at all points, for there is not a power of poverty and a power of prosperity. There is the one becoming the many; it makes and it unmakes that a higher form may appear to express through it. All that is not in line with its forward movement will soon pass away, for it recognizes no opposite.

As far as we are concerned what we are and what we are to become depends only upon what we are thinking, for this is the way that we are using creative power. The sooner we get away from the thought that we have to create, the sooner we will be able to work in line with the Spirit. Always man uses; he never creates anything. The united intelligence of the human race could not make a single rose-bud; it does not know enough. But our slightest thought adrift in mind causes the same power that makes all things to create for us. The great error of the race is, and always has been, that men have thought to give a physical reason for things. When that reason has not answered the problems of life they have sought out some other reason just as physical. The fact that they are all wrong is shown in that every generation has found a different reason.

When truth is found it will also be found that it never changes to suit the whims of the human fancy. This is proven by the fact that whatever of the real truth the race has discovered has never been changed. The truth that was revealed to the prophets of old has never changed; it is the same to-day as it was thousands of years ago. Whoever touches truth, no matter in what generation, will always get the same answer. The great truth that was revealed from Moses to the time of Jesus is the same truth that is still revealed to all who will accept it; it is simply this: we are now living in a Spiritual Universe governed by mental laws of cause and effect. Moses saw it mostly from the standpoint of the Law of cause and effect, an eye for an eye. What does this mean? It means, as Jesus said, "As a man sows, so shall he reap." Moses saw the law. Jesus saw not only the law ("I am come not to destroy but to fulfill"), but he saw behind the law the reason for it, and revealed behind all law the Great Law-giver, a God of love working out the great inner concepts of His own being in harmony and in beauty, filled with peace, causing the sun to shine alike upon the just and the unjust.

Jesus did not try to overcome the use of law; He understood all law and He well knew that all law was at His command; He did not break the law, He fulfilled it. So we must find that all is at our command through these same laws. The man who understands law and complies with it will have no difficulty in demonstrating that it is as true for him as it ever was for any one else. What, then, are the laws underlying prosperity? The first is this, and we must not try to escape it: "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me." This Me is Spirit. We are, then, to trust only in the activity of Spirit for what we need. But the world will say. "Human things come through human agencies." This may be true, but we must realize that the power we are dealing with also has within its own mind all people and all things. We do not have to treat people; what we have to do is to embody principle. Principle may use people, but that is no part of our responsibility. Ultimately all is Spirit, and Spirit which is the beginning is also the end of all manifestation. "I am the Alpha and the Omega." Our life, then, is to be governed by Spirit. We need look no further. It will do for us all that we will ever ask, provided we believe. Why, then, has it not done so? The answer is that it has already done so, but we have not received it. The Spirit may offer, but we must accept the gift before it can be made. "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." We must understand that this receiving is a mental process; it is one of mentally taking.

The way, then, that we are using mind through our thought is the way that we are treating ourselves for prosperity. So simple, and yet we have not understood it! If a man says, "I have not." he will not receive; if he says, "I have," he will receive. "To those who have shall be given, and to those who have not shall be taken away even that which they have." This is a veiled statement of the law of cause and effect. When you send out into mind the thought that you have not, it accepts the idea and takes away from you even that which you have. Reverse the process and say, "I have," and it will at once set to work to create for you even more than you now possess. You will readily see then that you are not dealing with two powers but with one, and that it operates through your own thought, doing unto all even as they believe.

THE LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

SINCE all is mind, and it is done unto us as we mentally think, all life is simply a law of thought--activity of consciousness. In our life the power flows through us. If we provide a big receptivity, it will do a big thing; if, on the other hand, we only believe in a small way, the activity must be a small one. The Spirit can do for us only what it can do through us. Unless we are able to provide the consciousness, it cannot make the gift. Few people have a great consciousness, and this explains why so few excel. The power behind all things of itself is without limit; it is all-power; in us it has to become what we make it. We carry within our own soul the key to all expression, but few enter in. The door is not seen with the physical eye, and as yet but few have gained the ability to see; the majority merely look. Realizing, then, that while the power is limitless it must become operative through our own thought, we shall see that what we need is not some greater power, but that what we really need is a greater consciousness, a deeper realization of life, a grander concept of being. We must unify ourselves with the great whole. The man
who dares to fling his thought out into universal intelligence with the positive assurance of one who knows and dares to claim all there is will find that it will be done. God will honor his request. On the other hand, the one who fears to speak lest God will smite will find himself smitten of the law, not because God is angry, but because it is done as he believes.

We have a right to have and should expect to have in this world all that will make for the comfort and for the luxuries of life. What matter how much we have, if we rob no other soul to get it? Shall not the Power that so lavishly spreads Itself out into nature give to us Its highest expression, all that we can ask? We dishonor God when we claim less than all. Until we can expand our thought so that we shall be able to say also, "I am," we need not expect to get great results.

The soul that knows its own Divinity is the great soul; before it all else must bend; to it all else must gravitate. Enlarge your thought processes. Away with the little personal thoughts of things, and dare to think in universal terms about all things. The universe is running over with good, it is for you, but you must believe and then take it. Do you dare to believe that your own word is invincible? When you speak it how do you feel? Is it limitless, is it all power, is all power given to you in heaven and on earth. are you one with the only power that there is? Until you can say yes to all these questions and not simply believe them but know them, you can not hope to attain. It is useless in making a demonstration to beg for things; as well beg that water should be wet or that fire should be hot. Things are, we must take them. Your word has only the power that you put into it, no more and no less. We are all held accountable for every word that we speak because all is the action and the reaction of mind. Man is his own heaven and his own hell.

We start a new enterprise and wonder what the chances of success are; have we realized that the outer is simply the inner manifested? When we go to a new place we shall find there only what we have taken with us. If we have taken success we will find success; if, on the other hand, we have taken failure we will find failure. This is the law; none can avoid it, none need try. Every living soul is a law unto his own life. "There is no law but my own soul shall set." Nothing can come upon the path of the soul but that thing that the soul attracts.

Pitfalls on the Spiritual Path, Dr. Joshua David Stone

2007-08-13T06:55:00.000-07:00

Pitfalls & Blind Spots
on the Spiritual Path

'When you start loving God, he starts putting money into your life or a lovely woman or a temptation like power or authority. He puts it before you to see if you will let it go, to see who you love most.' Yogi Bhajan

'The more spiritual you become the harder times you experience; the more spiritual you become, the more slandered you are.' Yogi Bhajan

'Not having flexibility to change is a tragedy in itself, and having too much flexibility not to stand for anything is a tragedy in itself.' Yogi Bhajan

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As we follow the teachings and as we practice, we will inevitably discover certain truths about ourselves that stand out prominently: There are places where we always get stuck; there are habitual patterns and strategies that are the legacy of negative karma, which we continuously repeat and reinforce; there are particular ways of seeing things—those tired old explanations of ourselves and the world around us—that are quite mistaken yet which we hold onto as authentic, and so distort our whole view of reality.

When we persevere on the spiritual path, and examine ourselves honestly, it begins to dawn on us more and more that our perceptions are nothing more than a web of illusions. Simply to acknowledge our confusion, even though we cannot accept it completely, can bring some light of understanding and spark off in us a new process, a process of healing. Sogyal Rinpoche

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The teachings tell us what it is we need to realize, but we also have to go on our own journey, in order to come to a personal realization. That journey may take us through suffering, difficulties, and doubts of all kinds, but they will become our greatest teachers. Through them we will learn the humility to recognize our limitations, and through them we will discover the inner strength and fearlessness we need to emerge from our old habits and set patterns, and surrender into the vaster vision of real freedom offered by the spiritual teachings. Sogyal Rinpoche

When little obstacles crop up on the spiritual path, a good practitioner does not lose faith and begin to doubt, but has the discernment to recognize difficulties, whatever they may be, for what they are—just obstacles, and nothing more. It is the nature of things that when you recognize an obstacle as such, it ceases to be an obstacle. Equally, it is by failing to recognize an obstacle for what it is, and therefore taking it seriously, that it is empowered and solidified and becomes a real blockage.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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Contents:

Excerpts from -The Intuitive Way, A guide to living from Inner Wisdom by Penney Peirce
Traps of the ego by David Joshua Stone
Chapter 5: Human Hiding Places: Methods of Ego -defense.
How Delusions Arise by Lama Thubten Yeshe

Some things to Watch out for

As on any path to higher awareness, we are bound to make some errors of judgment while developing intuition - after all, to know ourselves as spiritual beings requires a fairly dramatic shift from our everyday consciousness. That's probably why every spiritual path has had its blind spots; it's hard to see the whole picture all at once. Channeling ascended masters may seem as far off the mark to future generations as vowing not to eat or speak, trying to appease the gods through blood letting and human sacrifice., and burning women who practiced natural healing and midwifery now seems to us. To err is human, but we can learn to identify our perceptual "mistakes," correct them, let them go, and move on more rapidly.

Really, the worst that might happen if you make a mess of things is that you'll stall your own growth for a while and possibly contribute to stalling other peoples growth. You might add some negativity to the world and reaffirm the already overwhelming thought we all unconsciously buy into - that the world is a place of suffering, and we'll never get out of it, and we have to sacrifice our true selves to incarnate. But the more conscious and intentional you become, the less you'll be able to tolerate causing any level of pain, confusion, or even inconvenience to others. To speed your process of growth and not get bogged down in mistakes, you need to pay close attention to your anxiety signals and commit to living from a state of deep comfort. Let's look at some of the common stumbling blocks to maintaining clear intuition.

The Quick Fix and the Easy Answer

Today, our generation has been programmed to be consumers and to have short attention spans during which we must respond to intense stimulation. We therefore want enlightenment to happen instantly, and if one technique isn't interesting enough or doesn't give immediate results, why, we just flip the channel.

If you tried one of the intuitive techniques, for example, but couldn't visualize an answer, you may have gotten frustrated and passed over that particular use of intuition. And yet it's fairly common to have ambiguous results at first, or to have some time for you to acquaint yourself with these new perceptual circuits.

I see people, particularly in the New Age movement, jumping impatiently from technique to technique - purifying themselves with special diets, chanting, dousing out their decisions with pendulums, smelling aromatic oils, shining coloured lights on themselves, journeying to ancient power places and so on. These tools and techniques worked in ancient times to raise awareness, and they can still help us. But let's remember that tools are simply a means to an end and shouldn't be confused with the real inner work.

Many people are also seduced by paths to higher knowing where a neat and tidy doctrine is laid out for them by a powerful parental figure like a church, a guru, a shaman, a spaceship commander from Arcturus, or a teacher claiming to be a high priest of the Order of Melchizedek. Knowing just what rule to follow in every circumstance is a relief if you don't trust your own intuition. But going too fast, skipping from method to method, and settling for answers you had no part in originating can leave you open for a bad spill.

The first phase of the spiritual path, including the intuitive way, is to subject yourself to a scrupulous and ongoing character assessment. Here's where so many of our perceptual mistakes are made. We are tripped up by what were unconscious about. Removing fear from our thoughts and behaviors is not a particularly pleasant or speedy job. In fact, most people do everything possible to avoid facing their dark side, and when they do, they'd like to think that one quick pass through the underworld will clinch it. If you've been working with clearing your subconscious mind, you know that we cycle around many times to dissolve hundreds of large and small interrelated confusions and blockages. It takes great ongoing compassion for yourself - and patience - to become clear, No amount of magical thinking, talking the good talk, or blindly following someone else's rules will do the trick.

Control, Hypocrisy and Ambition

As we open to intuition, if there is still some fear lurking below the surface, there will also be some form of ego, some sneaky little way our mind tries to control the world to make us feel secure and right. Hidden ego games. After you learned that you could get information about other people intuitively, were you tempted at all to show off or to use this new skill to fortify your position at work or with friends?

As Marge started opening her intuition, she discovered that she had a real sensitivity to the subtle energies in the human body. She could feel hot and cold spots, too much electrical force, and could direct and balance the flow of energy with her hands. So successful was she at healing people that she eventually made it her livelihood. Her confidence grew and she exuded a take-charge attitude. She always seemed certain about what was causing her client's pain and presented her assessments with great authority.

"You are a mess, but I can help you," she would cheerfully say. Though this reassured many people, her presentation was subtly geared to bring her attention, and it actually complicated the client's healing process. To heal, they were now saddled with overcoming a judgment about their basic "flawed" nature as well as needing to realize that, in spite of Marge's talent and engaging performance, all healing still had to occur by means of their own soul and the divine. Do you have an expounder or a savior in your "My many Faces" list.

You get a clue about your blind spots by first noticing hypocrisy, ambivalence, or double-talk in others. If you are triggered by issues you see in others, the same thing may exist in you but in a different form. Watch for people who claim to be spiritual or moral yet act in a way that goes against common-sense principles. Notice the man who meditates and reads voraciously about Buddhism yet still demeans women. Or the spiritual counselor who advises people to clean up their lives but gossips about her clients. Or the strict vegetarian who feels threatened by a roommate who eats eggs or chicken. Or the teacher who claims to be the exclusive voice of Mother Mary or who doesn't make a decision unless advised by beings from an advanced star system. Or the Christian who discriminates against gays, Jews, Democrats, and people of colour. Do you ever choose role models who display this kind of split in their basic character? Are these people really showing you how to live more skillfully?

Self Righteousness

List five things that offend you and raise your hackles. As you imagine each thing, notice what you want to yell at the offender. Write down your scathing comments.

How do you do each of the things that offend you? Is there another area of your life where the behaviour occurs? If you are offended by someome who stole your wallet for example, might you be stealing attention from your husband when you're out with friends?

Keep your eye peeled as well for inconsistencies pertaining to greed and ambition in relation to your intuitive growth. It's possible to be greedy for information as well as material things. Do you buy piles of books that sit by your nightstand unread? Do you know people who binge on psychological and spiritual leading edge ideas? If you're overly ambitious in your intuitive growth, you may get too far ahead of yourself and not fully integrate your insights and lessons.

Attachment

When opening intuition you may seek security by becoming attached to a particular spiritual tradition or methodology, as others become attached to their car or mate. For example, you might be convinced about the rightness of going to confession and be totally unwilling to experience the benefits of creative visualization. Or you may have a bias against working with entities.

A buddhist priest I once knew discounted most of what I said because I referred to clearing emotions that originated in past lives, which he considered to be a New Age concept and thus inferior to his traditional spiritual lineage. Placing too much value on any one way of being or doing things can blind you and lead to debilitating self-importance. Attachment slows the evolution of the soul and makes it difficult for other options to educate, nurture and round you out. If you place to much emphasis on form whether it be one form or many forms, whether it be a technique or a belief system, you will miss the direct, mystical communion that surpasses all the explanation of the mind. What we're aiming for in the intuitive way is a lively balance between the ability to concentrate and the ability to adapt.

Boundaries

If you pay too much attention to others and the outside world, and if you constantly compare yourself to others, you won't be in the habit of feeling your body or recognizing the tone of your own particular energy. Then you'll be plagued with self-doubt and will have problems defining who you are and recognizing what is inappropriate, or even dangerous, for you.

If the boundaries of your personal self are not firm and you don't occupy your space fully, psychic, emotional, and physical invasion can occur. This is not as scary as it sounds, but it can be troublesome because you can confuse other people's needs and agenda's with your own.

You may also develop boundary problems as you become receptive to subtler forms of information, because as you look for these intuitive insights your conscious mind feels like it is stretching outward in search of finer and finer levels of data. It's easy to think that you're flowing into various situation or people to get an intuitive sense of them. If you flow into them, you will also unconsciously assume that you're flowing out of yourself.

This can cause you to feel empty and inadvertently misidentify yourself with whatever you flow into. Then you become the human chameleon. You'll articulate around highly verbal people, defensive around defended people, and self expressive around animated people. If you spend too much time with complainers, victims, and depressed people, you'll feel like a stone. This shape shifting tendency eventually stops the flow of your creativity and can lead to severe energy drain as well as mental problems. As one of my friends told me the other day, "You know what killed the chameleon, don't you? Sitting on plaid!"

False Humility, Sacrificial Service and Messiah Complexes

No matter where you are born, as you stretch out to open your intuition and spiritual life, you unconsciously carry your culture's religious beliefs with you. Developing induction will eventually require you to reexamine your religious faith and re own parts that align with your deepest ethics and common sense . You may still prefer to practice Buddhism, Jainism, Judaism, Hinduism, or Christianity, but the precepts you live by will have been clarified and internalized through your own super conscious choice .

If you have not give your religious beliefs much thought, some of the unconscious assumptions may interfere with your obtaining the fullest experience of yourself as a soul.

For example, from our prevailing Western religion we inherit the idea that we are born flawed and incomplete. We are supposed to be objectively humble with little sense of personal self, and we are taught not to try to find enlightenment through our own efforts but to surrender and let a more divine person do it for us. We are taught that it is noble to sacrifice ourselves and suffer for others. Many Eastern religions, for example, place a high value on collectivity and emptiness, so emphasis on the personal self, even on the soul, is discouraged for a different reason.

As you venture beyond the confines of religion into a study of metaphysics and intuition, you'll discover for yourself that there are universal principles that are inherent in human nature, no matter what our culture or religion. The study of these principles is neutral, almost scientific - and it is what every religion originally concerned itself with. And yet, as you begin practicing alignment with these natural laws, as you apply intuition to daily life you're bound to come up against this thought:

"I'm being too egotistical-who am I to think I could know this information directly? Who am I to think I could heal someone?" Or there's the more passionate stance: "I am nothing; I give myself in service to everyone and need nothing personally! I am just a vehicle for God's will."

This humility often leads to the messiah complex, a deceptive form of ego that comes from trying to be a saint or savior. Your clarity can easily become distorted when you have to help, when you can't allow others to have their own experiences but instead try to rescue them from their suffering. Some people take on great camouflaged self -importance and a strange sense of worth through self-sacrifice. Yet this kind of covert superiority robs everyone of their unique connection to the divine and drowns clear intuitive knowing in a pool of personal will power.

Sacrificial service doesn't help either the helper (whose capacity to receive eventually dries up) or the unconsciously guilt laden "helpee." Be aware, then, of the imbalances in yourself and others when there is the appearance of too much or too little: too much personal power, too little credit, too much humility, too little responsibility.

Avoidance, addiction, Denial, and Drama

TO avoid feeling fear and to cope with subliminal emotional pain, we create thousands of ingenious distractions. I'm sure you know someome who lives for romance or to be different or dramatic. On the path of the intuition, people can avoid the real world by becoming preoccupied with the details of psychology and metaphysics: who abused you in your childhood, your sacrifices and betrayals, past lives, dream realities, parallel worlds, messages from angels, gemstones and gadgets that affect subtle energy bodies, or even the idea of being abducted by aliens.

We need to watch for hidden agendas marked by ;longing for glamour and romance where we avoid the mundane - and thus miss the guidance coming from our bodies, which are firmly planted in daily reality. I have seen people change their personalities radically when they begin spiritual studies. A rambunctious, funny, outgoing young man suddenly becomes blissful, mellow, mild and humble, hardly talks, gives away all his money, and reverently raises his hands in prayer to everyone - after joining an ashram.

A practical businesswoman changes her name to Mary Lightning Bolt, Says "Ho"" after people speak, and starts wearing ethnic jewelry and fringed skirts, burning sage in her office, and drumming with her women's group - after she attends a Native American sweat lodge ceremony. These total immersions in specific forms of spiritual practice can be educational, yet at the same time they can stop the flow of our authentic expression.

Ironically, even the pursuit of healing and knowledge can be a distraction. "Maybe, if I keep taking workshops, reading the newest books, doing therapy, seeing the latest healers and psychics in town, I'll find the magic elixir!" Some people are addicted to seminars, and their social lives revolve entirely around the human potential movement. Other people are on a mission for perfect health of their bodies. They have had everything from candida to parasites to chronic fatigue syndrome and are experts on homeopathy, acupuncture, herbs, colonics, aromatherapy, chi kung, Bach flower remedies, and fasting on watermelon. One week it's no red meat, the next, only protein. Then it's no wheat or sugar, followed by no dairy products or spices.

If your attention is riveted on controlling the minutiae of your diet, there's not much time to feel deep emotions. Since it's not OK to be addicted to alcohol, drugs or cigarettes anymore, we've tricked ourselves into justifying our addiction to "good" things that are supposedly growth inducing.

We should also examine our need for drama, magic, and miracles. A woman I recently met at a luncheon told me of a particularly dysfunctional relationship she had entered into primarily because she'd been attracted to a house she saw as she walked along a beach. A few days later she met and befriended a girl on the same beach who turned out to be living the house, and soon after that, she met a man at a conference who turned out to live in the house, and soon after that, she met a man at a conference who turned out to be the girl's father. "It's synchronicity!" she thought. "This must mean something; it must be significant. Why else was I drawn to that particular house? This must be a powerful relationship.

I've also known people who got involved in disastrous relationships and adventures because they had a precognitive, though somewhat vague, dream that seemed to highlight some aspect of the subsequent real-world experience." But he was wearing a red shirt and his name was Dan - just like in my dream." Perhaps our subconscious mind is drawing attention to the man with the daughter with the house on the beach or to the man named Dan in the red shirt, not because they're our soul mates, but because they represent unfinished business in our subconscious or an example of what not to do.

Don't give more or less than is required by the situation at hand

The Essenes believed that it is just as much a sin to have too little as it is to have too much. At either polarity, the optimal flow of creativity gets jammed up. But if you have just what you need, life flows perfectly. The same thing applies when healing and teaching others or in communicating your new found knowledge to strangers, friends, relatives. In healing or counseling, if you give more energy and information than the client's body and mind can absorb, you may actually make things worse. In teaching we are told not to throw pearls before swine2 - in other words, not to waste precious resources in inappropriate situations.

Balance is the key word here. The universe doesn't waste energy. If you give less than a person needs, the resulting dissatisfaction can produce repercussions like pain, negative thought patterns, and wasteful acting out of dramas. If you take two steps towards a relationship with someone when they take only a step's worth so the energy can flow evenly. Give too much and you may feel insulted. Give too little and you'll never know your true self or anyone else. Use your truth and anxiety signals to know when to stop.

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"Since everything is but an apparition, Perfect in being what it is. Having nothing to do with good or bad. Acceptance or rejection, One may as well burst out in laughter. "

Longchenpa

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Traps of the Ego

The requirement for ascension is the balancing of 51% of your karma. This will indeed free you from the wheel of rebirth upon the physical realms and open you up to deeper advancements upon the inner realms. This is not the total picture, however, which is why this book is being written. There is, in truth, much to be considered before "Integrated Ascension," involving all the bodies, is complete. "Integrated Ascension" is what we are ultimately after, for in order to fully ascend, all of the bodies and many other quotients must be lifted up to GOD. In a similar vein, the GOD force must also be brought down by what is called the process of 'decension', or anchoring spirit into the body (matter). Initiation, leading to ascension, must therefore be seen and embraced through a full spectrum lens.

Another example of the negative ego contamination and interference in this quotient in the New Age movement is when a person acts from a place of self-righteousness and/or being a know-it-all. They think because they have achieved their ascension that they are a Master which gives them a right to order people around and tell them what to do. They perceive themselves as speaking as the voice of the Master which in truth is the voice of the negative ego and a massive power trip that is most often unconscious, which actually is the exact opposite of what true spiritual leadership is.

Another example is a woman who is more feminine and soft in nature who is not an informational channel trying to be an informational channel, when their true destiny might be to lead through the example of love and more lady Master energetic meditations. A woman may be trying to bring through her spirituality and service work in a more masculine paradigm, when her true spiritual mission is to bring it through the Goddess paradigm.

Another similar but different example might be a man or a woman who brings through wonderful channeling's, however, when they try to teach from their conscious mind, or maybe write from their conscious mind rather than the channeled state it just doesn't work. It is important for every light worker to know their puzzle piece and not try to move into a puzzle piece that is not their destiny or forte.

In reverse, a person could be an excellent spiritual teacher and try to force clairaudient voice channeling when their true purpose is to be more of an integrated channel or a telepathic channel, or just speak from their own inner wisdom and not think about channeling at all.

Other examples in the New Age movement are mystics who are forcing themselves to be occultists and occultists who are trying to force themselves to be mystics when this is not their true destiny. This may manifest in a person wanting to serve in the capacity of being a voice channel when their true channeling ability might be in the form of being a writer or channeling poetry and/or music.

To many light workers being a channel, psychic, spiritual teacher, author, and healer may seem glamorous, when in truth it is not. It is not glamour that should be sought but rather divine right spiritual mission. The most effective way to accelerate your ascension is to find your right puzzle piece and to serve and lead in that capacity. A person who is supposed to be a housewife or househusband will move through their initiation process as quickly as a person who is meant to be world famous as a channel, spiritual teacher or governmental leader. In GOD's eyes there is no difference as long as each person is doing their appropriate part in the Divine Plan.

Above excerpt by Dr Joshua David Stone

Possible traps

The golden chain - the ego uses the teachings to control - ego Lies hidden in with truth
wanting everything 'better, faster, stronger, quicker'
Thinking too much, too much research, doubt
over anal-ysis - lower mind analysis
Attachment to Power, Fame, Glamours, Money, Sex, Psychic Powers / Siddhis
think about higher truths, contemplation, mind experiments
Driven by negative ego - accumulating knowledge - to feel powerful, superior
Inadequate teachings - need purification, before kundalini activation
needing answers and guidance for every situation
Hypocrisy, Control, Ambition
ever working over time
chopping and changing spirtual paths & teachings - the ego's sabotage of the spiritual path - stick with one tradition, but have respect for others
power
make it, do it - YESTERDAY!
Needing to believe - seeing what want to see - backing up theory - blind faith
Build good habits, Good Virtues, Positive emotions - then can be unconscious and spontaneous- through Prajna - Wisdom

The fifteen major tests for every Lightworker are

1. Power
2. Fame
3. Money
4. Sexuality
5. Desire
6. Attachment
7. Transcending fear
8. Selfishness
9. False Pride
10. Anger
11. Greed
12. Jealousy
13. Vanity
14. Transcending Duality
15. Egotism

Read about them in books by Dr Joshua David Stone - such as "How to clear the negative ego"

God's Voice through a Child

2007-07-26T03:20:00.000-07:00

A class was offered at church based on Maria Nemeth’s book. The Energy of Money. The underlying philosophy of the book is that the way we do money is the way we do life. One week into the class, I was working on a “money biography.” After responding to most of the questions with, “I don’t know,” or “I can’t remember,” I had an epiphany. “Oh my god,” I said out loud. “I have been doing money completely unconsciously, and that is exactly how I’ve been living my life, unconsciously. In a moment of complete surrender, I said a prayer that changed my life: “Dear God, please wake me up!”
That prayer ought to come with a warning label! The very next day I came home to find a trail of shit (literally) that led to where my husband was lying passed out in a puddle of it. Talk about a metaphor.
So it was I found myself driving to the hospital to meet with my husband and his doctor chanting the prayer, “God help me to see him through your eyes. Let me see the blessing in this moment.” I wanted to make that choice. I was crying out to God to help me.
As I sat in that stark room at the hospital and listened to my husband confess horrifying behavior related to sex addiction, I was able to remain calm. As the behaviors he described became progressively more shocking, the voice of God became progressively louder. That strong voice in my head overcame all other sounds in the room. “All is well,” it said. “Your peace and safety lie in your relationship with me.”
Finally my bewildered husband looked at me, “I don’t understand how you can be so calm. I am a monster.”

At that point, I believe the Holy Spirit spoke directly through me. The words came out of my mouth, but it was God speaking. “You have done some terrible things,” I said. “But I know the truth of who you are. You are a child of God and, for no other reason than that, I forgive you.”
As my husband continued to be lost in addiction and denial, I was led through continuous miraculous communication with God to get a divorce. One of God’s most powerful instruments turned out to be my six-year-old granddaughter. She came to visit me shortly after my husband went into the hospital. She had been told nothing about what had happened. She didn’t know he was in the hospital. She walked through the door, asked for paper and crayons and started to draw.
She almost seemed to be in a trance as she described her drawing. First she made what looked like a tornado at the center of the page. “This is a big wind,” she said. Next she drew two arms reaching out of the tornado. “This is grandpa,” she said.
I had to remember to breathe as I watched her continue.
“This is an angel,” she said of the little yellow figure reaching up to grandpa’s arms.
Then she drew a crying figure on the opposite side of the tornado. “This is you,” she declared.
“Why am I so sad?” I asked.
“Because your knees are bloody,” she said as she put red scribbles on my knees in the picture.
She put the crayons down and was herself again.
I thought God might be speaking to me through her drawing, but the bloody knees might also just be a six-year-old’s idea of why grandma would be sad. The full meaning of the picture became clear the next day. After spending at least an hour on my knees crying out to God for guidance, a literal pain shot through my knees and a blinding light of clarity shot through my head.
“That’s it,” I cried. “My hope lies in staying on my knees and bringing my pain to God.” I looked carefully at my granddaughter’s drawing. It became clear it was not
my responsibility to save my husband. He had an angel ready to help him. My job was to help myself with prayer.
The Lord was truly my shepherd throughout those extreme times. And it was because of those times that I gained a greater and greater trust in the guidance of God’s voice and a clearer understanding of the many ways God’s voice can manifest. God never gave up. He even called out to me in the drawing of a six-year-old child.
I have moved forward with my life with courage and faith and am fulfilling my life’s purpose in a new career coaching others through their own experiences of transformation. I have also found the courage to love again. I am in a new relationship that far exceeds what I could have ever imagined.

Happiness?

2007-07-13T04:21:00.000-07:00

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. --Anne Frank

Defining the factors that contribute to happiness has always been something of a puzzle. According to psychologist Professor Ed Diener there is no one key to happiness but a set of ingredients that are vital. In his view family and friends play the most crucial role - the wider and deeper the relationships with those around you the happier you are. Some studies indicate that friendship has a decidedly positive impact on health. Our brains control many of the mechanisms in our bodies responsible for disease. Just as stress can trigger ill health, it is thought that friendship and happiness can have a protective effect. According to happiness research, friendship has a much bigger effect on average on happiness than a typical person's income. The Happiness Formula is a BBC series that takes a closer look at these studies.

Be The Change:
Professor Ed Diener offers his Happiness Test here.

Bee problems?

2007-07-12T03:28:00.001-07:00

Dear Reader,

The mystery of the missing honeybees may have a simple solution. But will anyone pay attention?

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Over the past few months I've been following a stream of daily updates about colony collapse disorder (CCD), the phenomenon in which bees abandon their hives and disappear. CCD continues to be reported throughout the U.S. and Canada - a potential disaster for food crops that require pollination.

Most of the updates I've seen come from newspapers that detail local incidences of CCD. And most of them read the same: a description of the overall problem followed by interviews with local beekeepers. Each of these accounts notes the various theories about what causes CCD (all speculation at this point): fungi, bacteria, pesticides, parasitic mites, weakened immune systems, and even interference from cell phone towers.

But this week I came across an entirely different CCD article. The title: "No ORGANIC Bee Losses."

This article is described as a "widely circulated email" from Sharon Labchuk, an environmental activist and part-time beekeeper. Ms. Labchuk states that she's on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 beekeepers - mostly American - and "no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list.

"The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies."

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Ms. Labchuk goes on to quote a message from a web site maintained by beekeeper Michael Bush. Mr. Bush explains that he has no problems with varroa mites because he uses natural sized cells. Larger commercial beekeepers tend to use larger hive foundations, which result in larger cells and larger bees than those in natural hives.

Mr. Bush: "By letting the bees build natural sized cells, I have virtually eliminated my Varroa and Tracheal mite problems."

Ms. Labchuk's response: "Who should be surprised that the major media reports forget to tell us that the dying bees are actually hyper-bred varieties that we coax into a larger than normal body size? It sounds just like the beef industry."

And who should be surprised that media reports also tend to gloss over any potential connection between genetically modified (GM) crops and CCD? We're told there's no evidence of such a link and the subject is dropped, as if evidence would be impossible to produce. Okay - no evidence - then how about the next best thing?

In October 2000, Joe Rowland (a beekeeper and the secretary/treasurer of the Empire State Honey Producers Association) testified before the New York Assembly regarding the way GM organisms might affect honeybees. He drew his testimony from available research and his own knowledge of honeybee biology.

After noting that pollen is the honeybee's protein source and that the gene structure of pollen is modified in GM crops, he offered this comment: "Findings indicate that none of the tested pollens kill adult bees outright, but that they may shorten their lifespan and cause some behavioral changes, particularly in a loss of their ability to learn and to smell. This may cause foraging bees to 'forget' where flowers or even their own hive is located."

Note that this comment was made a full seven years before the phrase "colony collapse disorder" was coined. Those seven years may have taken a heavy toll.

2007-07-08T02:28:00.000-07:00

The Hymn of the Pearl
From The Acts of Thomas

When, a quite little child, I was dwelling
In the House of my Father’s Kingdom,

And in the wealth and the glories
Of my Up-bringers I was delighting,

From the East, our Home, my Parents
Forth-sent me with journey-provision.

Indeed from the wealth of our Treasure,
They bound up for me a load.

Large was it, yet was it so light
That all alone I could bear it.

II.

Gold from the Land of Beth-Ellaya,
Silver from Gazak the Great,

Chalcedonies of India,
Iris-hued [Opals?] from Kãshan.

They girt me with Adamant [also]
That hath power to cut even iron.

My Glorious Robe they took off me
Which in their love they had wrought me,

And my Purple Mantle [also]
Which was woven to match with my stature.

III.

And with me They [then] made a compact;
In my heart wrote it, not to forget it:

"If thou goest down into Egypt,
And thence thou bring’st the one Pearl --

"[The Pearl] that lies in the Sea,
Hard by the loud-breathing Serpent --

"[Then] shalt Thou put on thy Robe
And thy Mantle that goeth upon it,

"And with thy Brother, Our Second,
Shalt thou be Heir in our Kingdom."

IV.

I left the East and went down
With two Couriers [with me];

For the way was hard and dangerous,
For I was young to tread it.

I traversed the borders of Maish~ n,
The mart of the Eastern merchants,

And I reached the Land of Babel,
And entered the walls of Sarbãg.

Down further I went into Egypt;
And from me parted my escorts.

V.

Straightway I went to the Serpent;
Near to his lodging I settled,

To take away my Pearl
While he should sleep and should slumber.

Lone was I there, yea, all lonely;
To my fellow-lodgers a stranger.

However I saw there a noble,
From out of the Dawn-land my kinsman,

A young man fair and well favoured,
Son of Grandees; he came and he joined me.

VI.

I made him my chosen companion,
A comrade, for sharing my wares with.

He warned me against the Egyptians,
’Gainst mixing with the unclean ones.

For I had clothed me as they were,
That they might not guess I had come

From afar to take off the Pearl,
And so rouse the Serpent against me.

VII.

But from some occasion or other
They learned I was not of their country.

With their wiles they made my acquaintance;
Yea, they gave me their victuals to eat.

I forgot that I was a King’s son,
And became a slave to their king.

I forgot all concerning the Pearl
For which my Parents had sent me;

And from the weight of their victuals
I sank down into a deep sleep.

VIII.

All this that now was befalling,
My Parents perceived and were anxious.

It was then proclaimed in our Kingdom,
That all should speed to our Gate --

Kings and Chieftains of Parthia,
And of the East all the Princes.

And this is the counsel they came to:
I should not be left down in Egypt.

And for me they wrote out a Letter;
And to it each Noble his Name set:

IX.

"From Us -- King of Kings, thy Father,
And thy Mother, Queen of the Dawn-land,

"And from Our Second, thy Brother --
To thee, Son, down in Egypt, Our Greeting!

"Up an arise from thy sleep,
Give ear to the words of Our Letter!

"Remember that thou art a King’s son;
See whom thou hast served in thy slavedom.

Bethink thyself of the Pearl
For which thou didst journey to Egypt.

X.

"Remember thy Glorious Robe,
Thy Splendid Mantle remember,

"To put on and wear as adornment,
When thy Name may be read in the Book of the Heroes,

"And with Our Successor, thy Brother,
Thou mayest be Heir in Our Kingdom."

My Letter was [surely] a Letter
The King had sealed up with His Right Hand,

’Gainst the Children of Babel, the wicked,
The tyrannical Daimons of Sarbãg.

XI.

It flew in the form of the Eagle,
Of all the winged tribes the king-bird;

It flew and alighted beside me,
And turned into speech altogether.

At its voice and the sound of its winging,
I waked and arose from my deep sleep.

Unto me I took it and kissed it;
I loosed its seal and I read it.

E’en as it stood in my heart writ,
The words of my Letter were written.

XII.

I remembered that I was a King’s son,
And my rank did long for its nature.

I bethought me again of the Pearl,
For which I was sent down to Egypt.

And I began [then] to charm him,
The terrible loud-breathing Serpent.

I lulled him to sleep and to slumber,
Chanting o’er him the Name of my Father,

The Name of our Second, [my Brother],
And [Name] of my Mother, the East-Queen.

XIII.

And [thereon] I snatched up the Pearl,
And turned to the House of my Father.

Their filthy and unclean garments
I stripped off and left in their country.

To the way that I came I betook me,
To the Light of our Home, to the Dawn-land.

On the road I found [there] before me,
My Letter that had aroused me --

As with its voice it had roused me,
So now with its light it did lead me --

XIV.

On fabric of silk, in letter of red [?],
With shining appearance before me [?],

Encouraging me with its guidance,
With its love it was drawing me onward.

I went forth; through Sarbãg I passed;
I left B~ bel-land on my left hand;

And I reached unto Maishan the Great,
The meeting-place of the merchants,

That lieth hard by the Sea-shore.

XV.

My Glorious Robe that I’d stripped off,
And my Mantle with which it was covered,

Down from the Heights of Hyrcania,
Thither my Parents did send me,

By the hands of their Treasure-dispensers
Who trustworthy were with it trusted.

Without my recalling its fashion, --
In the House of my Father my childhood had left it,--

At once, as soon as I saw it,
The Glory looked like my own self.

XVI.

I saw it in all of me,
And saw me all in [all of] it, --

That we were twain in distinction,
And yet again one in one likeness.

I saw, too, the Treasurers also,
Who unto me had down-brought it,

Were twain [and yet] of one likeness;
For one Sign of the King was upon them --

Who through them restored me the Glory,
The Pledge of my Kingship [?].

XVII.

The Glorious Robe all-bespangled
With sparkling splendour of colours:

With Gold and also with Beryls,
Chalcedonies, iris-hued [Opals?],

With Sards of varying colours.
To match its grandeur [?], moreover, it had been completed:

With adamantine jewels
All of its seams were off-fastened.

[Moreover] the King of Kings’ Image
Was depicted entirely all o’er it;

And as with Sapphires above
Was it wrought in a motley of colour.

XVIII.

I saw that moreover all o’er it
The motions of Gnosis abounding;

I saw it further was making
Ready as though for to speak.

I heard the sound of its Music
Which it whispered as it descended [?]:

"Behold him the active in deeds!
For whom I was reared with my Father;

"I too have felt in myself
How that with his works waxed my stature."

XIX.

And [now] with its Kingly motions
Was it pouring itself out towards me,

And made haste in the hands of its Givers,
That I might [take and] receive it.

And me, too, my love urged forward
To run for to meet it, to take it.

And I stretched myself forth to receive it;
With its beauty of colour I decked me,

And my Mantle of sparkling colours
I wrapped entirely all o’er me.

XX.

I clothed me therewith, and ascended
To the Gate of Greeting and Homage.

I bowed my head and did homage
To the Glory of Him who had sent it,

Whose commands I [now] had accomplished,
And who had, too, done what He’d promised.

[And there] at the Gate of His House-sons
I mingled myself with His Princes;

For He had received me with gladness,
And I was with Him in His Kingdom;

XXI.

To whom the whole of His Servants
With sweet-sounding voices sing praises.

* * * * *

He had promised that with him to the Court
Of the King of Kings I should speed,

And taking with me my Pearl
Should with him be seen by our King.

The Hymn of Judas Thomas the Apostle,
which he spake in prison, is ended.

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The following alternative translation from the Syriac version of the text is by William Wright, Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles (London, 1871), pp. 238-245. Illegible words are indicated by (...). The hymn has been arranged in couplets, following A. E. J. Klijn, The Acts of Thomas (Leiden, 1962), pp. 120-125. Klijn uses Wright's translation except for a few variant readings.

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The Hymn of Judas Thomas the Apostle
Translated by William Wright

When I was a little child,
and dwelling in my kingdom,

in my father's house, and was content with the wealth and the
luxuries of my nourishers,

from the East, our home,
my parents equipped me (and) sent me forth;

and of the wealth of our treasury
they took abundantly, (and) tied up for me a load

large and (yet) light, which I myself could carry,

gold of Beth-Ellaya,
and silver of Gazak the great,

and rubies of India,
and agates from Beth-Kashan,

and they furnished me with the adamant,
which can crush iron.

And they took off from me the glittering robe,
which in their affection they made for me,

and the purple toga,
which was measured (and) woven to my stature.

And they made a compact with me,
and wrote it in my heart, that it might not be forgotten:

"If thou goest down into Egypt,
and bringest the one pearl,

which is in the midst of the sea
around the loud-breathing serpent,

thou shalt put on thy glittering robe
and thy toga, with which (thou art) contented,

and with thy brother, who is next to us in authority,
thou shalt be heir in our kingdom."

I quitted the East (and) went down,
there being two guardians,

for the way was dangerous and difficult,
and I was very young to travel it.

I passed through the borders of Maishan,
the meeting-place of the merchants of the East,

and I reached the land of Babel,
and I entered the walls of Sarbug.

I went down into Egypt,
and my companions parted from me.

I went straight to the serpent,
I dwelt in his abode,

(waiting) till he should lumber and sleep,
and I could take my pearl from him.

And when I was single and alone
(and) became strange to my family,

one of my race, a free-born man,
and Oriental, I saw there,

a youth fair and loveable,
the son of oil-sellers;

and he came and attached himself to me,
and I made him my intimate friend,

and associate with whom I shared my merchandise.
I warned him against the Egyptians,

and against consorting with the unclean;

And I dressed in their dress,
that they might not hold me in abhorrence,

because I was come from abroad in order to take the pearl,
and arouse the serpent against me.

But in some way other or another
they found out that I was not their countryman,

and they dealt with me treacherously,
and gave their food to eat.

I forget that I was a son of kings,
and I served their king;

and I forgot the pearl,
for which my parents had sent me,

and because of the burden of their oppressions
I lay in a deep sleep.

But all this things that befell me
my parents perceived, and were grieved for me;

and proclamation was made in our kingdom,
that every one should come to our gate [kingdom],

kings and princes of Parthia,
and all the nobles of the East.

And they wove a plan on my behalf,
that I might not be left in Egypt;

and they wrote to me a letter,
and every noble signed his name to it:

"From thy father, the king of kings,
and thy mother, the mistress of the East,

and from thy brother, our second (in authority),
to thee our son, who art in Egypt, greeting!

Call to mind that thou art a son of kings!
See the slavery,--whom thou servest!

Remember the pearl,
for which thou was sent to Egypt!

Think of thy robe,
and remember thy splendid toga,

which thou shalt wear and (with which) thou shalt be adorned,
when thy name hath been read out in the list of the valiant,

and thy brother, our viceroy,
thou shalt be in our kingdom."

My letter is a letter,
which the king sealed with his own right hand,

(to keep it) from the wicked ones, the children of Babel,
and from the savage demons of Sarbug.

It flew in the likeness of an eagle,
the king of all birds;

it flew and alight beside me,
and became all speech.

At its voice and the sound of its rustling,
I started and arose from my sleep.

I took it up and kissed it,
and I began (and) read it;

and according to what was traced on my heart
were the words of my letter.

I remembered that I was a son of royal parents,
and my noble birth asserted itself.

I remembered the pearl,
for which I had been sent to Egypt,

and I began to charm him,
the terrible loud breathing serpent.

I hushed him asleep and lulled him into slumber,
for my father's name I named over him,

and the name of our second (in power),
and the of my mother, the queen of the East.

And I snatched away the pearl,

and turned to go back to my father's house.

And their filthy and unclean dress I stripped off,
and left it in their country;

and I took my way straight to come
to the light of our home in the East.

And my letter, my awakener,
I found before me on the road;

and as with its voice it had awakened me,
(so) too with its light it was leading me.

It, that dwelt in the palace,
gave light before me with its form,

and with its voice and its guidance
it also encouraged me to speed,

and with its love it drew me on.

I went forth (and) passed by Sarbug;
I left Babel on my left hand;

and I came to the great Maisan,
to the haven of merchants,

which sitteth on the shore of the sea.

And my bright robe, which I had stripped off,
and the toga that was wrapped with it,

from Rantha and Reken(?)
my parents had sent thither

by the hand of their treasures,
who in their truth could be trusted therewith.

And because I remembered not its fashion,--
for in my childhood I had left it in my father's house,--

on a sudden, when I received it,
the garment seemed to me to become like a mirror of myself.

I saw it all in all,
and I to received all in it,

for we were two in distinction
and yet gain one in one likeness.

And the treasurers too,
who brought it to me, I saw in like manner

to be two (and yet) one likeness,
for one sign of the king was written on them (both),

of the hands of him who restored to me through them
my trust and my wealth,

my decorated robe, which
was adorned with glorious colors,

with gold and beryls
and rubies and agates

and sardonyxes, varied in color.
And it was skillfully worked in its home on high,

and with diamond clasps
were all its seams fastened;

and the image of the king of kings
was embroidered and depicted in full all over it,

and like the stone of the sapphire too
its hues were varied.

And I saw also that all over it
the instincts of knowledge were working,

and I saw too that it was preparing to speak.

I heard the sound of its tones,
which it uttered with its....., (saying):

"I am the active in deeds,
whom they reared for him before my father;

and I perceived myself,
that my stature grew according to his labors."

And in its kingly movements
it poured itself entirely over me,

and on the hand of its givers
it hastened that I might take it.

And love urged me too run
to meet it and receive it;

and I stretched forth and took it.
With the beauty of its colors I adorned myself,

and I wrapped myself wholly in my toga
of brilliant hues.

I clothed myself with it, and went up to the gate
of salutation and prostration;

I bowed my head and worshipped the majesty
of my father who sent me,--

for I had done his commandments,
and he too had done what he promised,--

and the gate of his....,
I mingled with his princes,

for he rejoiced in me and received me,
and I was with him in his kingdom,

and with the voice of....
all his servants praised him.

And he promised that to the gate too
of the king of kings with him I should go,

and with my offering and my pearl
with him should present myself to our king.

In the World, but Not Of It

2007-06-27T02:50:00.000-07:00

TO LIVE IN THE WORLD, BUT NOT BE OF IT

This body has lived with parents, so you may call it daughter.

This body has served a husband, so you may call it wife.

It has prepared dishes for all, so you may call it cook.

This body has given birth, so you may call it mother.

It has done all sorts of scrubbing and menial work,

so you may call it servant.

But I see it all as serving no one but God!

For when I served father, mother, husband, and children,

I simply considered them as different manifestations

Of the Almighty, so I served them as such!

When I sat down to prepare food I did it as a ritual.

The cooked food was meant as an offering to God.

Whatever I did I did in a spirit of Divine service.

Hence, I wasn’t quite worldly,

Even though I was engaged in household affairs.

I had one ideal, to serve all as God!

To do everything for the sake of God!

I have never associated my Self with my temporal body.

Before I came to this earth, I was the same.

When my family made arrangements for this body,

To be married, I was the same!

And even when the dance of creation ends, I shall be the same!

And when I’m in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same!

Anandamayi Ma

Deep Breathing

2007-06-26T06:35:00.000-07:00

Three Breathing Techniques to Improve Your Life

By Kacper Postawski

Few people know how to breathe correctly and this can cause fatigue and unnecessary feelings of stress. It can also cause you to have difficulty falling asleep at night. The human body was designed to breathe using the diaphragm muscle rather than the chest.

When you breathe using the diaphragm, your stomach will expand as the diaphragm extends into the abdomen, allowing the lungs to fully expand. This is known as “deep breathing”.

Shallow breathing, or “chest breathing”, is the technique most people use most of the time. This prevents the person from getting a true lung-full of air. The more stress you experience, the more shallow your breathing will become. This is where the feeling of tiredness comes from after a long, stressful day.

Everyone should practice deep breathing as a mean of reducing fatigue during the day. The technique is simple. Simple sit back in a comfortable chair anywhere and for five minutes practice deep breathing. This flood of oxygen coming into your body will bring feelings of energy and refreshment.

As you go through the day, try to remind yourself to breathe deeply and at day’s end, you will feel much less tired.

Stress can be relieved using breathing techniques along with visualization. Simple sit or lie down and get comfortable. Begin breathing deeply, fully utilizing the diaphragm to breathe. Imagine yourself in a peaceful, stress-free place of your choice.

For many, the beach or a mountain stream may be a choice location. Whatever place makes you feel relaxed and happy is the place to allow your mind to take you. As you breathe out, imagine yourself releasing all the pent-up stress in your body. As you breathe in, imagine yourself finding peace and calmness.

This technique can be practiced for a few minutes during the day, or for as much as 15 minutes at a time. If you continue much longer than 15 minutes, you will most likely find yourself drifting off to sleep.

Speaking of sleep, many people find getting to sleep after a busy day very difficult. By using the technique of correct deep breathing, sleep can come much more easily and sleep will then to be much deeper.

As you relax in bed, begin breathing with the diaphragm. Starting with your toes, tense them then relax them. Move to the calf muscles; continue on to the tight muscles. Then tense and relax the buttocks, abdomen and back, shoulders, neck, face and scalp. While remaining in this newly relaxed state and still breathing properly and deeply, allow your mind to take you to your special peaceful place.

If the tightness in all your muscles is not completely gone or you begin to tighten up again, you can perform the tense-relax technique while in your peaceful place in your mind. Stay in that peaceful place and allow relaxation to flood over you live a wave.

If sleep still does not come, you can always use the Buddist meditation, “Breathing in I calm myself; breathing out, I find peace.” Soon you will drift away into sleep.

The more you practice these techniques, the better you will become at achieving fast results. These are learned techniques, and therefore require practice. Soon you will find within only minutes of using the chosen technique for your situation at the moment, your mind, in conjunction with proper breathing, will allow you energy, lowered stress and faster, better-quality sleep.

Being Thankful

2007-06-25T04:05:00.000-07:00

“For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning
a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning.
When you're appreciating you are planning...What are
you planning?"

~ Abraham & Hicks

Neville, No One to Change But Self

2007-06-17T06:56:00.000-07:00

NO ONE TO CHANGE BUT SELF
by Neville

May I take just a minute to clarify what was said last night. A lady felt from what I said last night that I am anti one nation. I do hope that I am not anti any nation, race or belief. If perchance I used a nation, it was only to illustrate a point.

What I tried to tell you was this -- we become what we contemplate. For it is the nature of love, as it is the nature of hate, to change us into the likeness of that which we contemplate. Last night I simply read a news item to show you that when we think we can destroy our image by breaking the mirror, we are only fooling ourselves.

When, through war or revolution, we destroy titles which to us represent arrogance and greed, we become in time the embodiment of that which we thought we had destroyed. So today the people who thought they destroyed the tyrants are themselves that which they thought they had destroyed.

That I may not be misunderstood, let me again lay the foundation of this principle. Consciousness is the one and only reality. We are incapable of seeing other than the contents of our own consciousness

Therefore, hate betrays us in the hour of victory and condemns us to be that which we condemn. All conquest results in an exchange of characteristics, so that conquerors become like the conquered foe. We hate others for the evil which is in ourselves. Races, nations, and religious groups have lived for centuries in intimate hostility, and it is the nature of hatred, as it is the nature of love, to change us into the likeness of that which we contemplate.

Nations act toward other nations as their own citizens act toward each other. When slavery exists in a state and that nation attacks another it is with intent to enslave. When there is a fierce economic competition between citizen and citizen, then in war with another nation the object of the war is to destroy the trade of the enemy. Wars of domination are brought about by the will of those who within a state are dominant over the fortunes of the rest.

We radiate the world that surrounds us by the intensity of our imagination and feeling. But in this third-dimensional world of ours time beats slowly. And so we do not always observe the relationship of the visible world to our inner nature.

Now that is really what I meant. I thought I had said it. That I may not be misunderstood, that is my principle. You and I can contemplate an ideal, and become it by falling in love with it.

On the other hand we can contemplate something we heartily dislike and by condemning it we will become it. But because of the slowness of time in this three-dimensional world, when we do become what we contemplated we have forgotten that formerly we set out to worship or destroy it.

Tonight's lesson is the capstone of the Bible, so do give me your attention. The most important question asked in the Bible will be found in the 16th chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew.

As you know, all of the Bible stories are your stories; its characters live only in the mind of man. They have no reference at all to any person, who lived in time and space, or to any event that ever occurred upon earth.

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The drama related in Matthew takes place in this manner Jesus turns to his disciples and asks them, "Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?" Matt. 16:13

"And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."

"He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?"

"And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

"And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven."

"And I say also unto thee that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church." Matt. 16:14-18

Jesus turning to his disciples is man turning to his disciplined mind in self-contemplation. You ask yourself the question, "Whom do men say that I am?" In our language, "I wonder what men think of me?"

You answer, "Some say John come again, Some say Elias, others say Jeremiah, and still others a Prophet of old come again."

It is very flattering to be told that you are, or that you resemble, the great men of the past, but enlightened reason is not enslaved by public opinion. It is only concerned with the truth so it asks itself another question, "But whom say ye that I am?" In other words, "Who am I?"

If I am bold enough to assume that I am Christ Jesus, the answer will come back, "Thou are Christ Jesus."

When I can assume it and feel it and boldly live it, I will say to myself, "Flesh and blood could not have told me this. But my Father which is in Heaven revealed it unto me." Then I make this concept of Self the rock on which I establish my church, my world.

"If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins." John 8:24

Because consciousness is the only reality I must assume that I am already that which I desire to be. If I do not believe that I am already what I want to be, then I remain as I am and die in this limitation.

Man is always looking for some prop on which to lean. He is always looking for some excuse to justify failure. This revelation gives man no excuse for failure. His concept of himself is the cause of all the circumstances of his life. All changes must first come from within himself; and if he does not change on the outside it is because he has not changed within. But man does not like to feel that he is solely responsible for the conditions of his life.

"From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him."

"Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?"

"Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life." John 6:66-68

I may not like what I have just heard, that I must turn to my own consciousness as to the only reality, the only foundation on which all phenomena can be explained. It was easier living when I could blame another. It was much easier living when I could blame society for my ills, or point a finger across the sea. and blame another nation. It was easier living when I could blame the weather for the way I feel.

But to tell me that I am the cause of all that happens to me that I am forever molding my world in harmony with my inner nature, that is more than man is willing to accept. If this is true, to whom would I go? If these are the words of eternal life, I must return to them, even though they seem so difficult to digest.

When man fully understands this, he knows that public opinion does not matter, for men only tell him who he is. The behaviour of men constantly tell me who I have conceived myself to be.

If I accept this challenge and begin to live by it, I finally reach the point that is called the great prayer of the Bible. It is related in the 17th chapter of the Gospel of St. John, "I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." John 17:4

"And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." John 17:5

"While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition." John 17:12

It is impossible for anything to be lost. In this divine economy nothing can be lost, it cannot even pass away. The little flower which has bloomed once, blooms forever. It is invisible to you here with your limited focus, but it blooms forever in the larger dimension of your being, and tomorrow you will encounter it.

All that thou gavest me I have kept in thy name, and none have I lost save the son of perdition. The son of perdition means simply the belief in loss. Son is a concept, an idea. Perdido is loss. I have only truly lost the concept of loss, for nothing can be lost.

I can descend from the sphere where the thing itself now lives, and as I descend in consciousness to a lower level within myself it passes from my world. I say, "I have lost my health. I have lost my wealth. I have lost my standing in the community. I have lost faith. I have lost a thousand things." But the things in themselves, having once been real in my world, can never cease to be. They never become unreal with the passage of time.

I, by my descent in consciousness to a lower level, cause these things to disappear from my sight and I say, "They have gone; they are finished as far as my world goes." All I need do is to ascend to the level where they are eternal, and they once more objectify themselves and appear as realities within my world.

The crux of the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel of St. John is found in the 19th verse, "And for their sake I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth."

Heretofore I thought I could change others through effort. Now I know I cannot change another unless I first change myself. To change another within my world I must first change my concept of that other; and to do it best I change my concept of self. For it was the concept I held of self that made me see others as I did.

Had I a noble, dignified concept of myself, I never could have seen the unlovely in others.

Instead of trying to change others through argument and force, let me but ascend in consciousness to a higher level and I will automatically change others by changing self. "There is no one to change but self; that self is simply your awareness, your consciousness and the world in which it lives is determined by the concept you hold of self. It is to consciousness that we must turn as to the only reality. For there is no clear conception of the origin of phenomena except that consciousness is all and all is consciousness.

You need no helper to bring you what you seek. Do not for one second believe that I am advocating escape from reality when I ask you to simply assume you are now the man or the lady that you want to be.

If you and I could feel what it would be like were we now that which we want to be, and live in this mental atmosphere as though it were real, then, in a way we do not know, our assumption would harden into fact. This is all we need do in order to ascend to the level where our assumption is already an objective, concrete reality.

I need change no man, I sanctify myself and in so doing I sanctify others. To the pure all things are pure. "There is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean." Rom. 14:14. There is nothing in itself unclean, but you, by your concept of self, see things either clean or unclean.

"I and my Father are one." John 10:30.

"If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not."

"But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.' John 10:37, 38

He made himself one with God and thought it not strange or robbery to do the works of God. You always bear fruit in harmony with what you are. It is the most natural thing in the world for a pear tree to bear pears, an apple tree to bear apples, and for man to mold the circumstances of his life in harmony with his inner nature.

"I am the vine, ye are the branches." John 15:5. A branch has no life save it be rooted in the vine. All I need do to change the fruit is to change the vine.

You have no life in my world save that I am conscious of you. You are rooted in me and, like fruit, you bear witness of the vine that I am. There is no reality in the world other than your consciousness. Although you may now seem to be what you do not want to be, all you need do to change it, and to prove the change by circumstances in your world, is to quietly assume that you are that which you now want to be, and in a way you do not know you will become it.

There is no other way to change this world. "I am the way." My I AMness, my consciousness is the way by which I change my world. As I change my concept of self, I change my world. When men and women help or hinder us, they only play the part that we, by our concept of self, wrote for them, and they play it automatically. They must play the parts they are playing because we are what we are.

You will change the world only when you become the embodiment of that which you want the world to be. You have but one gift in this world that is truly yours to give and that is yourself. Unless you yourself are that which you want the world to be, you will never see it in this world. "Except ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins." John 8:24

Do you know that no two in this room live in the same world. We are going home to different worlds tonight. We close our doors on entirely different worlds. We rise tomorrow and go to work, where we meet each other and meet others, but we live in different mental worlds, different physical worlds.

I can only give what I am, I have no other gift to give. If I want the world to be perfect, and who does not, I have failed only because I did not know that I could never see it perfect until I myself become perfect. If I am not perfect I cannot see perfection, but the day that I become it, I beautify my world because I see it through my own eyes. "Unto the pure all things are pure." Titus 1:15

No two here can tell me that you have heard the same message any one night. The one thing that you must do is hear what I say through that which you are. It must be filtered through your prejudices, your superstitions, and your concept of self. Whatever you are, it must come through that, and be colored by what you are.

If you are disturbed and you would like me to be something other than what I appear to be, then you must be that which you want me to be. We must become the thing that we want others to be or we will never see them be it.

Your consciousness, my consciousness, is the only true foundation in the world. This is that which is called Peter in the Bible, not a man, this faithfulness that cannot turn to anyone, that cannot be flattered when you are told by men you are John come again. That is very flattering to be told you are John the Baptist come again, or the great Prophet Elias, or Jeremiah.

Then I deafen my ears to this very flattering little bit of news men would give me and I ask myself,
"But honestly who am I?"

If I can deny the limitations of my birth, my environment, and the belief that I am but an extension of my family tree, and feel within myself that I am Christ, and sustain this assumption until it takes a central place and forms the habitual center of my energy, I will do the works attributed to Jesus. Without thought or effort I will mold a world in harmony with that perfection which I have assumed and feel springing within me.

When I open the eyes of the blind, unstop the ears of the deaf, give joy for mourning and beauty for ashes, then and only then, have I truly established this vine deep within. That is what I would automatically do were I truly conscious of being Christ. It is said of this presence, He proved that He was Christ by His works.

Our ordinary alterations of consciousness, as we pass from one state to another, are not transformations, because each of them is so rapidly succeeded by another in the reverse direction;
but whenever our assumption grows so stable as to definitely expel its rivals, then that central habitual concept defines our character and is a true transformation.

Jesus, or enlightened reason, saw nothing unclean in the woman taken in adultery. He said to her, "Hath no man condemned thee?" John 8:10

"She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more." John 8:11

No matter what is brought before the presence of beauty, it sees only beauty. Jesus was so completely identified with the lovely that He was incapable of seeing the unlovely.

When you and I really become conscious of being Christ, we too will straighten the arms of the withered, and resurrect the dead hopes of men. We will do all the things that we could not do when we felt ourselves limited by our family tree. It is a bold step and should not be taken lightly, because to do it is to die. John, the man of three dimensions is beheaded, or loses his three-dimensional focus that Jesus, the fourth-dimensional Self may live.

Any enlargement of our concept of Self involves a somewhat painful parting with strongly rooted hereditary conceptions. The ligaments are strong that hold us in the womb of conventional limitations. All that you formerly believed, you no longer believe. You know now that there is no power outside of your own consciousness. Therefore you cannot turn to anyone outside of self.

You have no ears for the suggestion that something else has power in it. You know the only reality is God, and God is your own consciousness. There is no other God. Therefore on this rock you build the everlasting church and boldly assume you are this Divine Being, self-begotten because you dared to appropriate that which was not given to you in your cradle, a concept of Self not formed in your mother's womb, a concept of self conceived outside of the offices of man.

The story is beautifully told us in the Bible using the two sons of Abraham: one the blessed, Isaac, born outside of the offices of man and the other, Ishmael, born in bondage.

Sarah was much too old to beget a child, so her husband Abraham went in unto the bondservant Hagar, the pilgrim, and she conceived of the old man and bore him a son called Ishmael. Ishmael's hand was against every man and every man's hand against him.

Every child born of woman is born into bondage, born into all that his environment represents, regardless of whether it be the throne of England, the White House, or any great place in the world. Every child born of woman is personified as this Ishmael, the child of Hagar.

But asleep in every child is the blessed Isaac, who is born outside of the offices of man, and is born through faith alone. This second child has no earthly father. He is Self-begotten.

What is the second birth? I find myself man, I cannot go back into my mother's womb, and yet I must be born a second time. "Except a man be born again he cannot enter the kingdom of God." John 3:3

I quietly appropriate that which no man can give me, no woman can give me. I dare to assume that I am God. This must be of faith, this must be of promise. Then I become the blessed, I become Isaac.

As I begin to do the things that only this presence could do, I know that I am born out of the limitations of Ishmael, and I have become heir to the kingdom. Ishmael could not inherit anything, although his father was Abraham, or God. Ishmael did not have both parents of the godly; his mother was Hagar the bond-woman, and so he could not partake of his father's estate.

You are Abraham and Sarah, and contained within your own consciousness there is one waiting for recognition. In the Old Testament it is called Isaac, and in the New Testament it is called Jesus, and it is born without the aid of man.

No man can tell you that you are Christ Jesus, no man can tell you and convince you that you are God. You must toy with the idea and wonder what it would be like to be God.

No clear conception of the origin of phenomena is possible except that consciousness is all and all is consciousness. Nothing can be evolved from man that was not potentially involved in his nature. The ideal we serve and hope to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature.

Let me now retell and emphasize an experience of mine printed by me two years ago under the title, THE SEARCH. I think it will help you to understand this law of consciousness, and show you that you have no one to change but self, for you are incapable of seeing other than the contents of your own consciousness.

Once in an idle interval at sea, I meditated on "the perfect state," and wondered what I would be were I of too pure eyes to behold iniquity, if to me all things were pure and were I without condemnation. As I became lost in this fiery brooding, I found myself lifted above the dark environment of the senses. So intense was feeling I felt myself a being of fire dwelling in a body of air. Voices, as from a heavenly chorus, with the exaltation of those who had been conquerors in a conflict with death, were singing, "He is risen -He is risen," and intuitively I knew they meant me.

Then I seemed to be walking in the night. I soon came upon a scene that might have been the ancient Pool of Bethesda for in this place lay a great multitude of impotent folk -- blind, halt, withered -waiting not for the moving of the water as of tradition, but waiting for me.

As I came near, without thought or effort on my part, they were one after the other, molded as by the Magician of the Beautiful. Eyes, hands, feet -- all missing members -- were drawn from some invisible reservoir and molded in harmony with that perfection which I felt springing within me. When all were made perfect the chorus exulted, "It is finished."

I know this vision was the result of my intense meditation upon the idea of perfection, for my meditations invariably bring about union with the state contemplated. I had been so completely absorbed within the idea that for awhile I had become what I contemplated, and the high purpose with which I had for that moment identified myself drew the companionship of high things and fashioned the vision in harmony with my inner nature.

The ideal with which we are united works by association of ideas to awaken a thousand moods to create a drama in keeping with the central idea.

My mystical experiences have convinced me that there is no way to bring about the perfection we seek other than by the transformation of ourselves. As soon as we succeed in transforming ourselves, the world will melt magically before our eyes and reshape itself in harmony with that which our transformation affirms.

We fashion the world that surrounds us by the intensity of our imagination and feeling, and we illuminate or darken our lives by the concepts we hold of ourselves. Nothing is more important to us than our conception of ourselves, and especially is true of our concept of the deep, dimensionally greater One within us.

Those that help or hinder us, whether they know it or not, are the servants of that law which shapes outward circumstances in harmony with our inner nature. It is our conception of ourselves which frees or constrains us, though it may use material agencies to achieve its purpose.

Because life molds the outer world to reflect the inner arrangement of our minds, there is no way of bringing about the outer perfection we seek other than by the transformation of ourselves. No help cometh from without: the hills to which we lift our eyes are those of an inner range.

It is thus to our own consciousness that we must turn as to the only reality, the only foundation on which all phenomena can be explained. We can rely absolutely on the justice of this law to give us only that which is of the nature of ourselves.

To attempt to change the world before we change our concept of ourselves is to struggle against the nature of things. There can be no outer change until there is first an inner change.

As within, so without.

I am not advocating philosophical indifference when I suggest that we should imagine ourselves as already that which we want to be, living in a mental atmosphere of greatness, rather than using physical means and arguments to bring about the desired changes.

Everything we do, unaccompanied by a change of consciousness, is but futile readjustment of surfaces. However we toil or struggle, we can receive no more than our concepts of Self affirm. To protest against anything which happens to us is to protest against the law of our being and our ruler ship over our own destiny.

The circumstances of my life are too closely related to my conception of myself not to have been formed by my own spirit from some dimensionally larger storehouse of my being. If there is pain to me in these happenings, I should look within myself for the cause, for I am moved here and there and made to live in a world in harmony with my concept of myself.

If we would become as emotionally aroused over our ideas as we become over our dislikes, we would ascend to the plane of our ideal as easily as we now descend to the level of our hates.

Love and hate have a magical transforming power, and we grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate. By intensity of hatred we create in ourselves the character we imagine in our enemies. Qualities die for want of attention, so the unlovely states might best be rubbed out by imagining "'beauty for ashes and joy for mourning" rather than by direct attacks on the state from which we would be free.

"Whatsoever things are lovely and of good report, think on these things," for we become that with which we are en rapport.

There is nothing to change but our concept of self. As soon as we succeed in transforming self, our world will dissolve and reshape itself in harmony with that which our change affirms.

I, by descent in consciousness, have brought about the imperfection that I see. In the divine economy nothing is lost. We cannot lose anything save by descent in consciousness from the sphere where the thing has its natural life.

And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." John 17:5

As I ascend in consciousness the power and the glory that was mine return to me and I too will say "I have finished the work thou gavest me to do." The work is to return from my descent in consciousness, from the level wherein I believed that I was a son of man, to the sphere where I know that I am one with my Father and my Father is God.

I know beyond all doubt that there is nothing for man to do but to change his own concept of himself to assume greatness and sustain this assumption. If we walk as though we were already the ideal we serve, we will rise to the level of our assumption, and find a world in harmony with our assumption. We will not have to lift a finger to make it so, for it is already so. It was always so.

You and I have descended in consciousness to the level where we now find ourselves and we see imperfection because we have descended! When we begin to ascend while here in this three-dimensional world, we find that we move in an entirely different environment, we have entirely different circles of friends, and an entirely different world while still living here. We know the great mystery of the statement, "I am in the world but not of it."

Instead of changing things I would suggest to all to identify themselves with the ideal they contemplate. What would the feeling be like were you of too pure eyes to behold iniquity if to you all things were pure and you were without condemnation? Contemplate the ideal state and identify yourself with it and you will ascend to the sphere where you as Christ have your natural life.

You are still in that state where you were before the world was. The only thing that has fallen is your concept of self. You see the broken parts which really are not broken. You are seeing them through distorted eyes, as though you were in one of those peculiar amusement gallery's where a man walks before a mirror and he is elongated, yet he is the same man. Or he looks into another mirror and he is all big and fat. These things are seen today because man is what he is.

Toy with the idea of perfection. Ask no man to help you, but let the prayer of the 17th chapter of the Gospel of St. John be your prayer. Appropriate the state that was yours before the world was.

Know the truth of the statement, "None have I lost save the son of perdition." Nothing is lost in all my holy mountain. The only thing that you lose is the belief in loss or the son of perdition.

"And for their sake I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth." John 17:19

There is no one to change but self. All you need do to make men and women holy in this world is to make yourself holy. You are incapable of seeing anything that is unlovely when you establish within your own mind's eye the fact that you are lovely.

It is far better to know this than to know anything else in the world. It takes courage, boundless courage, because many this night, after having heard this truth will still be inclined to blame others for their predicament. Man finds it so difficult to turn to himself, to his own consciousness as to the only reality. Listen to these words:

"No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him." John 6:44

"I and my Father are one." John 10:30

"A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven." John 3:27

"Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again."

"No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself." John 10:17,18.

"You did not choose me, I have chosen you." My concept of myself molds a world in harmony with itself and draws men to tell me constantly by their behaviour who I am.

The most important thing in this world to you is your concept of self. When you dislike your environment, the circumstances of life and the behaviour of men, ask yourself, " Who am I?" It is your answer to this question hat is the cause of your dislikes.

If you do not condemn self there will be no man in your world to condemn you. If you are living in the consciousness of your ideal you will see nothing to condemn. "To the pure all things are pure."

Now I would like to spend a little time making as clear as I can what I personally do when I pray, what I do when I want to bring about changes in my world. You will find it interesting, and you will find that it works. No one here can tell me they cannot do it. It is so very simple all can do it. We are what we imagine we are.

This technique is not difficult to follow, but you must want to do it. You cannot approach it with the attitude of mind "Oh well I'll try it." You must want to do it, because the mainspring of action is desire.

Desire is the mainspring of all action. Now what do I want? I must define my objective. For example, suppose I wanted now to be elsewhere. This very moment I really desire to be elsewhere. I need not go through the door, I need not sit down. I need do nothing but stand just where I am and with my eyes closed, assume that I am actually standing where I desire to be. Then I remain in this state until it has the feeling of reality. Were I now elsewhere I could not see the world as I now see it from here. The world changes in its relationship to me as I change my position in space.

So I stand right here, close my eyes, and imagine I am seeing what I would see were I there. I remain in it long enough to feel it to be real. I cannot touch the walls of this room from here, but when you close your eyes and become still you can imagine and feel that you touch it. You can stand where you are and imagine you are putting your hand on that wall. To prove you really are, put it there and slide it up and feel the wood. You can imagine you are doing it without getting off your seat. You can do it and you will actually feel it if you become still enough and intense enough

I stand where I am and I allow the world that I want to see and to enter physically to come before me as though I were there now. In other words, I bring elsewhere here by assuming that I am there.

Is that clear? I let it come up, I do not make it come up. I simply imagine I am there and then let it happen.

If I want a physical presence, I imagine he is standing here, and I touch him All through the Bible I find these suggestions, "He placed his hands upon them. He touched them."

If you want to comfort someone, what is the automatic feeling? To put your hand on them, you cannot resist it. You meet a friend and the hand goes out automatically, you either shake hands or put your hand on his shoulder.

Suppose you were now to meet a friend that you have not seen for a year and he is a friend of whom you are very fond. What would you do? You would embrace him, wouldn't you? Or you would put your hand upon him.

In your imagination bring him close enough to put your hand upon him and feel him to be solidly real. Restrict the action to just that. You will be amazed at what happens. From then on things begin to move. Your dimensionally greater self will inspire, in all, the ideas and actions necessary to bring you into physical contact. It works that way.

Every day I put myself into the drowsy state; it is a very easy thing to do. But habit is a strange thing in man's world. It is not law, but habit acts as though it were the most compelling law in the world. We are creatures of habit.

If you create an interval every day into which you put yourself into the drowsy state, say at 3 o'clock in the afternoon do you know at that moment every day you will feel drowsy. You try it for one week and see if I am not right.

You sit down for the purpose of creating a state akin to sleep, as though you were sleepy, but do not push the drowsiness too far, just far enough to relax and leave you in control of the direction of your thoughts. You try it for one week, and every day at that hour, no matter what you are doing, you will hardly be able to keep your eyes open. If you know the hour when you will be free you can create it. I would not suggest that you do it lightly, because you will feel very, very sleepy and you may not want to.

I have another way of praying. In this case I always sit down and I find the most comfortable arm chair imaginable, or I lie flat on my back and relax completely. Make yourself comfortable. You must not be in any position where the body is distressed. Always put yourself into a position where you have the greatest ease. That is the first stage.

To know what you want is the start of prayer. Secondly you construct in your mind's eye one single little event which implies that you have realized your desire. I always let my mind roam on many things that could follow the answered prayer and I single out one that is most likely to follow the fulfillment of my desire. One simple little thing like the shaking of a hand, embracing a person, the receiving of a letter, the writing of a check, or whatever would imply the fulfillment of your desire.

After you have decided on the action which implies that your desire has been realized, then sit in your nice comfortable chair or lie flat on your back, close your eyes for the simple reason it helps to induce this state that borders on sleep.

The minute you feel this lovely drowsy state, or the feeling of gathered togetherness, wherein you feel- I could move if I wanted to, but I do not want to, I could open my eyes if I wanted to, but I do not want to. When you get that feeling you can be quite sure that you are in the perfect state to pray successfully.

In this feeling it is easy to touch anything in this world. You take the simple little restricted action which implies fulfillment of your prayer and you feel it or you enact it. Whatever it is, you enter into the action as though you were an actor in the part. You do not sit back and visualize yourself doing it. You do it.

With the body immobilized you imagine that the greater you inside the physical body is coming out of it and that you are actually performing the proposed action. If you are going to walk, you imagine that you are walking. Do not see yourself walk, FEEL that you are walking.

If you are going to climb stairs, FEEL that you are climbing the stairs. Do not visualize yourself doing it, feel yourself doing it. If you are going to shake a man's hand, do not visualize yourself shaking his hand, imagine your friend is standing before you and shake his hand. But leave your physical hands immobilized and imagine that your greater hand, which is your imaginary hand, is actually shaking his hand.

All you need do is to imagine that you are doing it. You are stretched out in time, and what you are doing, which seems to be a controlled day dream, is an actual act in the greater dimension of your being. You are actually encountering an event fourth-dimensionally before you encounter it here in the three-dimensions of space, and you do not have to raise a finger to bring that state to pass.

My third way of praying is simply to feel thankful. If I want something, either for myself or another, I immobilize the physical body, then I produce the state akin to sleep and in that state just feel happy, feel thankful, which thankfulness implies realization of what I want. I assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and with my mind dominated by this single sensation I go to sleep. I need do nothing to make it so, because it is so. My feeling of the wish fulfilled implies it is done.

All these techniques you can use and change them to fit your temperament. But I must emphasize the necessity of inducing the drowsy state where you can become attentive without effort.

A single sensation dominates the mind, if you pray successfully.

What would I feel like, now, were I what I want to be? When I know what the feeling would be like I then close my eyes and lose myself in that single sensation and my dimensionally greater Self then builds a bridge of incident to lead me from this present moment to the fulfillment of my mood. That is all you need do. But people have a habit of slighting the importance of simple things.

We are creatures of habit and we are slowly learning to relinquish our previous concepts, but the things we formerly lived by still in some way influence our behaviour. Here is a story from the Bible that illustrates my point.

It is recorded that Jesus told his disciples to go to the crossroads and there they would find a colt, a young colt not yet ridden by a man. To bring the colt to him and if any man ask, "Why do you take this colt?" say, "The Lord has need of it."

They went to the crossroads and found the colt and did exactly as they were told. They brought the unbridled ass to Jesus and He rode it triumphantly into Jerusalem.

The story has nothing to do with a man riding on a little colt. You are Jesus of the story. The colt is the mood you are going to assume. That is the living animal not yet ridden by you. What would the feeling be like were you to realize your desire? A new feeling, like a young Colt, is a very difficult thing to ride unless you ride him with a disciplined mind. If I do not remain faithful to the mood the young colt throws me off. Every time you become conscious that you are not faithful to this mood, you have been thrown from the colt.

Discipline your mind that you may remain faithful to a high mood and ride it triumphantly into Jerusalem, which is fulfillment, or the city of peace.

This story precedes the feast of the Passover. If we would pass from our present state into that of our ideal, we must assume that we are already that which we desire to be and remain faithful to our assumption, for we must keep a high mood if we would walk with the highest.

A fixed attitude of mind, a feeling that it is done will make it so. If I walk as though it were, but every once in a while I look to see if it really is, then I fall off my mood or colt.

If I would suspend judgment like Peter I could walk on the water. Peter starts walking on the water, and then he begins to look unto his own understanding and he begins to go down. The voice said, "Look up, Peter." Peter looks up and he rises again and continues walking on the water.

Instead of looking down to see if this thing is really going to harden into fact, you simply know that it is already so, sustain that mood and you will ride the unbridled colt into the city of Jerusalem All of us must learn to ride the animal straight in to Jerusalem unassisted by a man. You do not need another to help you.

The strange thing is that as we keep the high mood and do not fall, others cushion the blows. They spread the palm leaves before me to cushion my journey. I do not have to be concerned. The shocks will be softened as I move into the fulfillment of my desire. My high mood awakens in others the ideas and actions which tend towards the embodiment of my mood. If you walk faithful to a high mood there will be no opposition and no competition.

The test of a teacher, or a teaching, is to be found in the faithfulness of the taught. I am leaving here on Sunday night. Do remain faithful to this instruction. If you look for causes outside the consciousness of man, then I have not convinced you of the reality of consciousness.

If you look for excuses for failure you will always find them, for you find what you seek. If you seek an excuse for failure, you will find it in the stars, in the numbers, in the tea cup, or most any place. The excuse will not be there but you will find it to justify your failure.

Successful business and professional men and women know that this law works. You will not find it in gossip groups, but you will find it in courageous hearts.

Man's eternal journey is for one purpose: to reveal the Father. He comes to make visible his Father. And his Father is made visible in all the lovely things of this world. All the things that are lovely, that are of good report, ride these things, and have no time for the unlovely in this world, regardless of what it is.

Remain faithful to the knowledge that your consciousness, your I AMness, your awareness of being aware of the only reality. It is the rock on which all phenomena can be explained. There is no explanation outside of that. I know of no clear conception of the origin of phenomena save that consciousness is all and all is consciousness.

That which you seek is already housed within you. Were it not now within you eternity could not evolve it. No time stretch would be long enough to evolve what is not potentially involved in you.

You simply let it into being by assuming that it is already visible in your world, and remaining faithful to your assumption. it will harden into fact. Your Father has unnumbered ways of revealing your assumption. Fix this in your mind and always remember, "An assumption, though false, if sustained will harden into fact."

You and your Father are one and your Father is everything that was, is and will be. Therefore that which you seek you already are, it can never be so far off as even to be near, for nearness implies separation.

The great Pascal said, "You never would have sought me had you not already found me. "What you now desire you already have and you seek it only because you have already found it. You found it in the form of desire. It is just as real in the form of desire as it is going to be to your bodily organs.

You are already that which you seek and you have no one to change but Self in order to express it.

Deepak on the Mind Outside the Brain

2007-06-02T03:09:00.001-07:00

The Mind Outside the Brain

By now everyone is familiar with advances in brain imaging and the fascinating insights being produced in many areas of brain research. Much less known are advances in locating the mind outside the brain. Long considered paranormal and therefore easy to dismiss, the reality of many phenomena is being verified. For a long time there has been a popular belief in ESP, clairvoyance, and related abilities. I thought it would be interesting to devote a series of posts to some intriguing studies, but more importantly, there is a major discovery waiting around the corner. Science is about to realize that intelligence is a field effect and that this "mind field" surrounds us on all sides, like the earth's magnetic field. It is thanks to the mind field that our brains are able to think and also to connect with other minds, not by physical means but invisibly, the way one magnet is connected to every other on earth.

The latest findings, which got wide publicity in the media, have to do with our ability to sense what is going to happen in the future.
Is this REALLY proof that man can see into the future?

London's Daily Mail reports on a Dutch professor of psychology, Dr. Dick Bierman, who is using real-time brain scans to see if people sense things before they happen.

Deepak on Buddha

2007-06-02T03:01:00.000-07:00

Feeling alone, unwanted, unloved, weak, lost, and empty is how the human disease feels today.

At no time in history have there been more stateless persons, refugees, overpopulation, and restless migration. Globalism makes the individual feel lost in the world, overwhelmed by its chaos, which always seems to be teetering between madness and catastrophe. Yet when people came to Buddha, they brought the same complaints. They felt helpless in the face of natural disasters, war, and poverty. They couldn't comprehend a world on the edge of madness.
This dilemma has brought me closer to Buddha in recent years. I carry with me a few seminal ideas that have guided my life so far. One of them was expressed by Mahatma Gandhi when he said, "Be the change that you want to see in the world." Because the world is so huge, it came as a revelation to me --and also a mystery-- that by changing myself I can affect the world. This idea was not original to Gandhi. It's an offshoot of a much older idea, traceable to ancient India, which says, "As you are, so is the world."
That, too, is a revelation and a mystery.

Buddha accepted the inescapable fact that each person is ultimately alone in the world. This aloneness is the very disease Buddha set out to cure.

His cure was a waking-up process, in which suffering came to be seen as rooted in false consciousness, and specifically in the dulled awareness that causes us to accept illusion for reality. The reason that people resort to violence, for example, is not that violence is inherent in human nature. Rather, violence is the result of a wrong diagnosis. That diagnosis puts the limited ego-self first in the world, and regards the demands of "I, me, mine" as the most important things to attain. The reason that people react with fear in the face of violence is that the ego goes into a panic trying to defend itself and its attachment to the physical body. The answer to violence for both the aggressor and the victim is to see through the false claims of the ego and thus to come to a true understanding of who we are and why we are here. Buddha's answer remains radical, but its truth offers a way out that may be our best hope for the future. Let's examine his solution in detail.

Buddhist cure has become difficult, complicated, and confusing.
--Sitting and trying to find a core of silence is beyond short attention spans and doesn't fit into the hectic pace of modern life.
--Watching and examining the shifting contents of the mind is time-consuming and exhausting.
--Confronting the ego is nearly impossible, because it has a hundred heads for every one you cut off.
--Facing the truth that everything is impermanent frightens people.
--Seeking detachment makes people think they will be giving up worldly success and comfort.
--Abiding by a set of higher ethics makes them anxious that they will be prey to anyone who is stronger, less moral, and capable of using violence without any sense of guilt or remorse.

Bringing wisdom to a world built on illusion and suffering is difficult. Solving violence through peace seems unworkable. Detaching from materialism has little appeal when people everywhere are pursuing materialism with every breath. Yet the genius of Buddha's teaching lies in its universality, and whatever is universal is also simple. Buddha's cure has the capacity to appeal to the entire world.
Buddha's cure has the capacity to appeal to the entire world.
Right now Buddha's cure isn't simple for most people because being alone isn't simple. By asking people to go inside, Buddha seems to be asking them to be more alone. We must get to the very root of the problem first. Who feels alone? You and I. The minute we use those three basic words we confront the real difficulty. "You" are someone separate from me. "And" implies that we might be connected, and yet we don't feel connected. "I" stands for my ego and everything it is stubbornly or desperately attached to. Buddha had to resolve all three issues of "you and I" before his teaching, the Dharma, could work a cure.
In the case of politics, I find myself leaning toward compassion as a powerful cure, and when I see signs of compassion in the face of Sen. Obama and former Sen. Edwards, I feel a small spark of hope. Since the death of Robert F. Kennedy, candidates don't run on a platform of compassion.

In the end, how does Buddha fit into the world? I think we will have an answer only after the question is put a bit differently. How does Buddha's purpose fit into the world? His purpose was to bring a kind of spirituality that frees people to live in peace. Right now we desperately need secular spirituality. God has been hijacked by fundamentalism to the point that seekers who don't want to be coerced by a fanatical concept of faith have few places to turn. Buddha opens a path to truth without a church.

Most importantly, Buddha's truth is not packaged. You can't turn it into dogma that authorities enforce or a catechism that the devout memorize. Packaged truth is a trap. It can deepen the illusion it was meant to dispel and wind up making us even more separate. Take a spiritual value everyone believes in, like love. People have killed in the name of love and suffered terribly in countless ways. The positive is always woven in with the negative. Does the good of love outweigh the bad? Buddha didn't measure truth that way. If it were enough to tell people to go and be good, to love and cause no harm, the human disease wouldn't keep spreading. Buddha wanted to pluck out the seed of illusion, not feed the mind with new ideals that would succumb to corruption in the inexorable working of time.

He aimed for nothing less than an "inner revolution," as one commentator has called it. Coming in from the cold, people yearn for this inner revolution because there is a hole inside them where God used to be. But in many ways that God was only an image, as Buddha would see it. Most people fail to find what they want from spirituality because they remove one image of God only to fill in another (they even turn Buddha into a god, the very thing he denied).

Inner revolution, opening a path to liberation, is what Buddha holds out. Nothing less will cure the human disease. If people could see that the human disease is temporary, the whole world would be transformed. Despite the burden of past beliefs that underlie a horrific conflict like the one in the Middle East, Buddha's cure is taking hold, although we don't know on what scale. Secular spirituality forms a separate subculture in every country where people have begun to seek a new way and a new set of beliefs. Their way doesn't have to travel under the name of Buddha. The essence is about moving ahead, not about labels. Where the growth of consciousness is being nourished anywhere in the world, the following trends are evident:

--Meditation will become mainstream.
--Healing, both physical and psychological, will become commonplace.
--Prayer will be seen as real and efficacious.
--Manifestation of desires will be talked about as a real phenomenon.
--People will regain a connection to spirit.
--Individuals will find answers inwardly to their deepest spiritual questions. They will believe in their private answers and live accordingly.
--Communities of belief will arise.
--Gurus and other spiritual authorities will wane in influence.
--A wisdom tradition will grow to embrace the great spiritual teachings at the heart of organized religion.
--Faith will no longer be seen as an irrational departure from reason and science.
--Wars will decline as peace becomes a social reality.--Nature will regain its sacred value.

There is no spiritual path that can succeed without confronting the here and now. Buddha wanted us to be mindful of who were are at this moment because in the midst of disorder and confusion, which dominates every moment, there is the seed of Buddha nature, of awakening.

If you notice these seeds and give them value, they will expand, and in time they will fill the holes of isolation and meaninglessness. The path is subtle but natural, and open to everyone. To notice who you are is simple, not difficult. You can be gentle with yourself. There is no timetable, no need for rigor or discipline.
Your job is to notice that there is light within you, however small. A small candle is only different from the blazing sun by a matter of degree. Both are light by nature. Whatever makes your light grow will serve you. Meditation will not be a practice set apart in your day; it will become the normal state of self-awareness, of being awake instead of asleep. For two thousand years nature has held the cure for aloneness in its heart. When you realize yourself as Buddha, you are still alone, but your aloneness fills every corner of creation as far as the eye can see.

To read more about Deepak and Buddha, see:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topics/Deepak+Chopra

Only Through Suffering?

2007-05-30T04:36:00.000-07:00

Enlightenment as a collective phenomenon will be
predictably preceded by vast global upheavals because the unconscious
majority of humans will only awaken through suffering.

Eckart Tolle

The Best Book to buy on The Secret, only $7

2007-05-27T03:47:00.000-07:00

http://www.ManifestationKeys.com/?e=mind@mindreality.com

A Nice UTube Experience

2007-05-27T02:46:00.001-07:00

http://manifestlife.com/blog/

Complaint-Free Bracelet

2007-05-13T02:06:00.000-07:00

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17362505/ See this NBC video on the No-Complaining Challenge http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17362505/
http://acomplaintfreeworld.fobby.net/Complaint_Free_Bracelet_Order_Form.php Order your Complain-free bracelet here and take the challenge!

(A Complaint Free World? Order your purple bracelet and take the challenge to go 21 days without a complaint, without a sarcasm, without a criticism, without gossipping. If you slip up, put the bracelet on the other wrist and start over. Read how Rev. Bowen got the idea and how George Lewis of NBC experienced it. Also how grade schoolers tackled it. Get a Certificate of Happiness when you complete the challenge!

"How Does it Work?"

Scientists believe it takes 21 days to form a new habit and complaining is habitual for most of us. As Twain said, we must coax our old behavior down the stairs. The bracelet(s) you receive are a powerful tool(s) to remind you of how well you are creating your life with positive intention. Here are the suggested rules:

1. Begin to wear the bracelet, on either wrist

2. When you catch yourself complaining, gossiping or criticizing (it’s ok, everyone does) move the bracelet to the other arm and begin again.

3. If you hear someone else who is wearing a bracelet complain, you may point out their need to switch the bracelet to the other arm; BUT if you’re going to do this, you must move your bracelet first!

4. Stay with it. It may take many months but when you reach 21 days you will find that your entire life is happier, more loving, more positive and more abundant.

How long will it take to get my bracelets?

Currently, it's taking us about 3-5 weeks to get them made, packaged and shipped. It may not take that long and it may take a little longer.. Please mark your calendar for 6 weeks from today, if you've not received them by then, please contact us. Thanks for your patience (and for not complaining).

How did this whole thing get started?
Rev. Will Bowen of Christ Church Unity in Kansas City, MO was teaching a series on Prosperity. Part of this series was helping the congregation to form a habit of gratitude by going 21-days without complaining. In an effort to make the lesson practical, the church purchased purple bracelets and gave them away encouraging them to move the bracelet to the other arm if they caught themselves complaining.

How do I know if I?m complaining?

To "Complain" is defined as "to express pain, grief, or discontent." Surely, it makes sense to express pain, grief or discontent occasionally but most people do so constantly. In so doing, they are talking and thinking about what they do not want in their life and, thereby, attracting more pain, grief and discontent. Instead, think and talk about what you are grateful for. Talk about what you DO want and not what you DON'T want.

He said churchgoers were griping mainly about trivial things, such as the choice of hymns at the Sunday service or the informal dress code at the church’s Saturday night worship.

And so he asked his flock to take a pledge: to swear off complaining, criticizing, gossiping or using sarcasm for 21 days. The Rev. Bowen said the inspiration for the no-complaints campaign came to him while taking a shower. And now, the idea has begun to spread far beyond middle America.

People who join in are issued little purple bracelets as a reminder of their pledge. If they catch themselves complaining, they’re supposed to take off the bracelet, switch it to the opposite wrist and start counting the days from scratch.

And now that the church has been written up in several publications, the campaign has mushroomed. On Saturdays, volunteers crowd the church basement filling orders for the no-complaints bracelets, 126,000 so far.

I wondered how hard it would be, so I put on one of the bracelets and started counting the days. And I didn’t complain when my TODAY show producer mounted a camera in my office to record my every working moment, trying to catch me in the act of griping about something or other. (It turns out it’s the same equipment that “Dateline NBC” uses on its “To Catch a Predator” segments.)

It only took two hours for the camera to catch a complainer — me — when my computer crashed and I uttered an expletive that we won’t repeat here. Then, after work that day, I caught myself complaining about a news item I heard on the radio on the drive home. Day one ended with two relapses.

Day two, I complained about my shoulder hurting. (No, I didn’t wrench it switching that bracelet back and forth.) I was discovering what everyone who takes the pledge finds out: that going 21 days without complaining isn’t as easy as it seems at first blush.

The Rev. Bowen said it took him three and a half months to put together 21 complaint-free days, and that it has taken others up to seven months. Those who get through it can turn in their bracelets in exchange for “certificates of happiness” issued during church services.

“We’re going to be the center of no complaining around the world,” said the Rev. Bowen, who added that they’ve gotten requests for bracelets from as far away as South Africa and Australia. Some American troops in Iraq, a place where there are plenty of things to complain about, have even asked for them. The church has set up a Web site, acomplaintfreeworld.org, to facilitate orders for bracelets, offered free of charge.

The Rev. Bowen figures that if the average person complains 20 times a day for 30 days, the 126,000 bracelets have stopped millions and millions of complaints. “That’s a lot less ear pollution,” he said, grinning.

“My life is a whole lot better than it was six months ago,” said church volunteer Patricia Platt. A teacher, she decided to ask her grade school pupils to take the no-complaints pledge along with her.

“It was really hard for me,” said a boy in her classroom, “because I’ve got two sisters, one twelve and one thirteen and they are both,” he paused and sighed, “really mean!”

Indeed, as we spoke to the children in the classroom, they often cited sibling rivalries as a big stumbling block. But Mrs. Platt said most of the children have successfully completed the 21 days.

“I think we learn to complain as we get older,” she said, noting that it took her four months to fulfill the pledge, while her pupils did it a lot faster.

Experts disagree about whether suppressing complaints is good for one’s mental health. “If people don’t need to complain, don’t want to, then great,” said Barbara Held, a psychologist and author of the book, “Stop Smiling, Start Kvetching.” “But if they do, there are ways to do it more productively and more beneficially and what’s wrong with that?”

But the Rev. Bowen believes that tamping down the urge to complain is akin to successful anger management. “You catch yourself not articulating these negative thoughts that are in your head,” he said, “and because there’s no place for that to flow, they tend to dry up.”

I’m still waiting for those negative thoughts to dry up. As of this writing, I’ve had eight relapses, with my longest complaint-free period lasting five days. I’m continuing the effort as I head off to Israel on assignment and will keep you posted if and when I make it to the 21-day mark.

It's Happening!

2007-05-07T03:55:00.000-07:00

We live in an unprecedented time
We have the power to destroy this world as we know it
Or co-create a future of immeasurable possibilities
We are the generation with the choice
Choosing to use this power ethically and effectively toward a positive future is what we call conscious evolution. Evolve!

Knowing that all the answers are within us.
We can learn to have access to the inner knower.
Our choices are our power; we can learn to make the best choices for ourselves.
As we evolve, we will create a vision of how we are and how we live.
We move from problem solving to paradigm shifting.

You are where I am. I am where you are. And the physical dimensions of depth and height and width have no reality at all. If you were to remove the spectacles of human limitation, you and I would face each other in perfect equality.
-Emmanuel

We are standing at the very threshold of a quantum transformation of the planet and ourselves. Whatever you are feeling at this moment, be it excitement, depression, engagement, anticipation...that is the process of creation pressing you to evolve towards higher consciousness and greater freedom now.
-Barbara Marx Hubbard

Evolution: a cosmic perspective

2007-05-06T08:59:00.000-07:00

http://www.consciousone.com/wisdomflash/WFView.cfm?PID=147
Barbara Marx Hubbard

New Film on 2012

2007-05-06T08:41:00.000-07:00

Preview of the film: 2012: The Oddysey

http://www.2012theodyssey.com/Trailer.html

A Heretical Follower

2007-05-05T06:22:00.000-07:00

Friedrich Schleiermacher posits that all humans have a certain level of "God-consciousness." At some level, we are all connected to God in a very special way. Jesus was the only human being to exhibit a perfect level of God-consciousness. We have flashes of this God-consciousness when we feel closest to God, when we truly love only God and our neighbor as ourselves. Other humans, like Mother Teresa and Gandhi, have displayed vast amounts of God-consciousness, but most of us just reach this level occasionally. Jesus lived in this state of complete God-consciousness all the time. He was so intimately connected with God that he could do nothing else but display that love and character of God at all times through his words and deeds.
It was this intimate connection with God that made Jesus so compelling, and so puzzling. It was this intimate connection with God that made him so dangerous to the rule-keeping Pharisees of his day. It's this intimate connection with God that compels our modern-day Pharisees to domesticate Jesus - taking the subversive edge off of his message so they can control him through doctrines and dogma.

Candice Chellew
http://www.whosoever.org/v6i4/heretic.html

Health Secrets to a Long Life

2007-04-26T06:35:00.000-07:00

Seven Secrets to a Long Life

Lester Breslow, popularly referred to as "Mr. Public Health", is the outspoken visionary whose research played a significant role in asserting that simple lifestyle changes could drastically improve overall health. His landmark studies in Alameda county following the health habits of 7,000 people for 35 years resulted in the 'Seven Secrets': a list of daily health habits that proved strong indicators of how long people will live and how healthy they will be during their lifetime. The study showed that following the habits not only predicted lower mortality, but those who lived longer also suffered fewer disabilities. This news report shares the list.

LOS ANGELES (ANS) -- Want to live to a ripe old age? A University of California at Los Angeles professor who has followed the health habits of 7,000 people in Alameda County for 35 years says seven simple daily health habits predict how long people will live and how healthy they will be during their lifetime.

People in the study with poor health practices experienced more than 50 percent greater mortality over the 35-year period than those who had healthy habits, said Lester Breslow, M.D., professor of health services, emeritus, at the UCLA School of Public Health.

The study showed that following the habits not only predicted lower mortality, but those who lived longer also suffered fewer disabilities, Breslow said. "What was surprising to me was how these seven habits were so strongly predictive of mortality."

These health habits are:

· 1. Don't smoke.

· 2. Drink moderately or don't drink at all.

· 3. Get a good night's sleep of seven or eight hours.

· 4. Exercise 30 minutes at a time, several times a week. Walking vigorously is a top choice.

· 5. Forget the scales. Eat moderately to maintain weight in relation to height.

· 6. Eat regularly, whether that's two meals a day, three or five. Whatever you do normally, keep it up because it's the regularity of life and moderation in eating, sleeping and exercising that makes all the difference.

· 7. Eat breakfast every day.

Those people in the study who followed zero to three habits had 100 percent mortality rate after 35 years; those who had followed four to five habits had a 65 percent mortality rate; those who followed six to seven habits had a 50 percent mortality rate.
Deep Medicine

New Book Goes Beyond Medicine

Deep Medicine is a book about the meaning of health. It goes beyond the superficiality of symptoms to the underlying issues, exploring the complex, interwoven nature of health.

The core thesis of Deep Medicine is that everything we think, feel or do either fosters health or detracts from it. It follows that, if we are responsible for our own well-being, we need to look closely at our daily choices. Dr. Stewart explains, "Health-creating change is not simply a 10-step program or an 8-week course but a lifelong challenge. Making healthy choices and sustaining them is vital to our well being."

True health is about finding the balance between our inner thoughts and outer circumstances. According to Dr. Stewart, "When we lose this balance we may become ill." The work of health-creation and healing is a personal, conscious process, and deep commitment.

Combining the best of two established genres, self-help and spirituality, Deep Medicine offers daily practices, insights and self-assessments to help you create an optimal path to health that is meaningful, lasting and truly transformative.

More from Barbara Hubbard

2007-04-22T04:49:00.000-07:00

THE PLANETARY BIRTH Part II: OUR CRISIS IS A BIRTH with BARBARA MARX HUBBARD
JEFFREY MISHLOVE, Ph.D.:

Hello and welcome. I'm Jeffrey Mishlove. This is the second of a two-part series on "The Planetary Birth." With me is Barbara Marx Hubbard, a futurist, mystic, author, and stateswoman. She is a person whose name was placed in nomination for the Vice President of the United States at the 1984 Democratic Convention. She is the author of The Hunger of Eve, An Evolutionary Journey, and The Book of Co-Creation. Welcome again, Barbara.

BARBARA MARX HUBBARD: Thank you, Jeffrey.

MISHLOVE: We were talking earlier about the influence of some of the great thinkers -- Abraham Maslow, Jonas Salk, Teilhard de Chardin -- a vision of a birth of a new culture on this planet. One of the other great influences, I think, in your thought has been Buckminster Fuller.

HUBBARD: That's right. I asked the question, "What is the meaning of our power?" The first answer was from Maslow, that the meaning of our power is to release our individual potential to create. The second was from Teilhard de Chardin, that the world is evolving to higher consciousness and greater freedom, to more complex order, and even a jump in consciousness collectively on this earth. The third was Buckminster Fuller, when he said we have the technology, the resources, and the know-how to make of this world a one hundred percent physical success, for everyone, without damage to the environment, in an earth-space open system. And suddenly, if you put together individual potential through Maslow, planetary evolution through Teilhard, and technological capability to serve the basic needs of humanity through Buckminster Fuller, you see a picture of such good news that it's stunning, it's shocking, given all the bad news -- that at the same time this might be true. And that's when I really took a personal quantum jump.

MISHLOVE: At least you saw one potential path to a positive future.

HUBBARD: I did. And I thought, way back -- this was 1967-68; I was so naive -- I thought, "Well, what if everybody knows? Everything will change!" And I thought all we need to do is find this out, because I was changed by knowing it.

MISHLOVE: Yes, and you did everything you could to spread the word.

HUBBARD: I was like a little tiny person with a flag -- "Hey! Look here!" I had so much good news that it was almost too much for people to take. I was a positive Cassandra. I wrote the letter to a thousand people; I started to network. But I didn't know the immensity of the task of changing consciousness. And now, some 30 years later, here we are, right at the threshold, but the dangers are greater, and yet the awareness is also much greater that we have to make a quantum change.

MISHLOVE: I think one of the insights that's come to you along the way is that it has to be deeper than just the theoretical principles of Bucky Fuller and Abe Maslow and Teilhard de Chardin -- that people need to be touched at a spiritual level.

HUBBARD: Well, I got touched myself. You know, I came from a Jewish agnostic, just completely non-metaphysical background. After I read Teilhard about the world evolving, and that that meant that the universe had a pattern, that there was some design, rather than it being meaningless as the scientists said, or Absurdists, or heading down to an inevitable heat death -- Maslow and Bucky and Teilhard saw it evolving. And suddenly I got affirmed in my own innate desire to evolve -- this little person who felt maybe she was crazy for wanting something to evolve. Suddenly I felt reinforced by the universe. I remember one day I was taking a walk, and I said, "Thank you" -- just this kind of outside shouting, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" -- I didn't know to whom. And an inner voice said, "Thank you, Barbara." What that was, was an intuition that the universe is related to us in a feeling way. Obviously it's not scientific, it's not provable, but I had an internal experience that I, as an aspect of the creation, was related to the creation in a way that was two ways.

MISHLOVE: In other words, your vision of a positive path to a potential future was something that was related to the universe as a whole, in a personal way.

HUBBARD: That's right. Since the universe has been evolving for 15 billion years -- from subatomic particles to molecules to cells to animals to humans to ecologies to planetary systems -- I suddenly saw I was the creation of that whole process. Fifteen billion years it took to create you and me on this planet.

MISHLOVE: At this now moment.

HUBBARD: Right now. And that whatever motivation I personally feel is an aspect of the whole process, expressing as me, or as you. And I began what I call to surf the spiral. I began to go back and actually experience that's my story; that's not just an abstract, outside story. Because I realized my atoms, my molecules, my limbic brain, my neocortex, where did all that come from? The cosmos.

MISHLOVE: In a sense then, while one might say you're 64 years old, you could say equally truthfully that you're 15 billion years old.

HUBBARD: That's right. And I suddenly saw that all this question about our roots and our ethnic differences -- you know, we're all from the cosmos. We all have a 15-billion-year history, and I personally believe that as we head to the planetary birth, that each person will see themselves as a unique aspect of the whole, and that whatever their cultural roots are will be considered a gift to the future, but that the real roots of all of us go back, not only to just the big bang, because that was the physical manifestation, but in my understanding now, we go back to the universal intelligence.

MISHLOVE: The universal intelligence -- I think that's an important concept, because if we're to look at solving the enormous problems that we have, breaking free of well-entrenched, deep habit patterns of oppression, of waste, of warfare and violence across the culture, it's going to require some kind of quantum transformation of consciousness, and it needs to happen in our lifetime.

HUBBARD: That is the amazing thing. Here are my basic reasons for hope -- and a lot of people don't see this, but I don't see how they can miss it, actually -- but if you look at the 15-billion-year history, it is a continuous rise of consciousness and freedom -- I mean from molecule to cell to animal to human to us. There is no earthly reason why it would stop here, with a group of furry bipeds. We're only 50,000 years old as Homo sapiens sapiens. Do you realize whales are millions of years old? So we are very young as a species, and we look it, and we act it, and we're a mess. We still have little tips on our ears like wolves and little fangs here and a little hair here. We are actually just coming out of the mammalian stage. But if you add to our animal heritage, and even our spiritual heritage, our noosphere, our technological social system, you actually begin to see the possibility of the birth of a universal humanity. That's my particular word for it.

MISHLOVE: You sometimes call it Homo universalis.

HUBBARD: Right, and that we come from Homo sapiens through a birth process where we are shifting from self-centered consciousness to whole-centered, cosmic-, Buddha-, Christ-, God-centered consciousness.

MISHLOVE: In other words, to a large extent we still behave like monkeys.

HUBBARD: We do.

MISHLOVE: But there are role models, there are templates, if we look at the great saints and spiritual leaders of humanity.

HUBBARD: Well, I believe that every great religion -- which actually came through great individuals, although we may have lost track of that -- each great religion was an experience of a mystic, who experienced a higher state of being, and who created a teaching and disciples, who then created a religion, which got calcified and dogmatized often. But basically each culture is patterned with an experience of a higher state of being, and everybody's heard it one way or the other. For example, in Egypt with those pyramids, they were really the beginning of the idea of the human becoming a regenerating god. In India, through the great yogis, they transcended self-consciousness through yoga, through union with the all. In Greece we penetrated the visible world into the world of the invisible atom; in Israel, Abraham and God, the Covenant between humans and God for the transformation of the physical world -- the New Jerusalem, the new Heaven, the new Earth. Could it be that all those religions are ancient futurists?

MISHLOVE: Ancient futurists.

HUBBARD: Yes. And then when Buddha came in, there was a great individual that we actually have the story of, the history of, that represented human enlightenment. And then I believe that when Jesus came in, he came in to represent to us a map of the total physical and psychological transformation of the human to a co-creator with God.

MISHLOVE: In other words, Jesus came not so much to be worshipped by us as something far above us and unobtainable, but as someone pointing the way and saying, "Come be like me."

HUBBARD: His basic reason for being is to demonstrate what we can do. And when he said, "You will do the work that I do, and greater works than these will you do in the fullness of time," my experience is that that's true. Even if we could look at our situation right now, we are doing the work that he did, and greater works, but often without the consciousness. Whether it be in our healing, in our technologies, we can do Christ work, even now. But we're not yet in Christ consciousness as a collective. And by Christ consciousness I'm not talking about a religion. I'm talking about a consciousness that the source and the person are one: "The Father and I are one, and of myself I do nothing." That's what Jesus said. When any one of us realizes we are one with source, with spirit, with God, and that it is that flowing through us, then we too have those powers. That's my belief.

MISHLOVE: Well, it's interesting that you should be expressing it this way, because if we look at the history of mysticism we see that in almost every culture, in almost every generation, there are mystics who are saying, "I have achieved a state of union with the divine, or with the whole, and I have a vision of that." But it's considered rare. It's not considered common, by any means, and you seem to be saying that it's incumbent upon this generation to achieve those states of consciousness, and to translate that into a new path into the future.

HUBBARD: Well, I'll tell you the facts of it. Environmentalists tell us we really have 30 years at most to radically change our behavior or destroy our life support system and go through a real devolutionary spiral. Now, when and how would anything change so fast within 30 years? That's very difficult to imagine, knowing how slow we are. However, given the vast speed-up of connections, and given the communication systems, and given the fact that we're constantly impinged upon by awareness that we are connected, mainly in a painful way -- through war, through hunger, through environment -- is it possible that that crisis it itself a trigger of consciousness, and that if enough of us choose to -- I think it's part of the human intentionality here -- if we would choose collectively to shift that consciousness, even by intention, I believe we could have an extraordinary effect on the collective consciousness of the earth.

MISHLOVE: And I think it may be fair to say that this isn't just a belief of yours. It's something that came from deep within you as a vision.

HUBBARD: Well, I had two great peak experiences in my life. The first I call a planetary birth experience, and that was in 1966. I was asking the question, "What is our story? What on earth is comparable to the birth of Christ?" And I really meant that the story of the birth of Christ changed the whole world.

MISHLOVE: Yes. Something that could motivate generations of people.

HUBBARD: I knew from seeing earth from space and everything, of course, that we are one body, so it must be one story. So what is the story, I asked. And you know, I ask the universe questions, and I always get these answers. The answer I got was in the moment my mind's eye went into outer space, just like that, and I saw the earth as a living body, and I was a cell, along with everybody else, in it, and the earth was struggling to coordinate. It was gasping for breath; it was feeling the pain. And I actually had a whole-earth experience.

MISHLOVE: Feeling the pain.

HUBBARD: Of the whole. And at one instant in time I felt the pain of the whole system. It was an intense, unbearable degree of pain. And strangely enough, in this precognitive experience, with the pain came a flash of light, and with the flash of light came a moment of shared attention on the part of the human race, and with that shared attention love started to be felt simultaneously in the body. All I can say is it was a precognitive experience.

MISHLOVE: In other words, a vision that a time will come when the pain of this planet will be so great that people all over the planet will focus their attention on a kind of loving consciousness that will be desperately needed to ease that pain.

HUBBARD: Well, you know, I had the analogy -- since I'm a mother of five I use birth analogies a lot, and it is so true of a birth on the biological level that when the pain becomes most intense is exactly the moment before birth. And when the baby is born and there's that great release for the mother and the child, the baby at first doesn't know it's been born. Its nervous system is not linked up, and it cries. Here's my analogy. The planet is one living organism. We have been connected up. We have even stepped off the earth and seen ourselves as one body, and our nervous system collectively has not yet sufficiently come together for us to have a moment of shared awakening that we are one body; and that when we do, there will be a flash of light. Every mystical experience, or many mystical experiences, from all cultures, have light. And I wonder, Jeffrey, if there is such a thing in store for us as a shared mystical experience, what Peter Russell calls the white hole in time. It is a version of a Second Coming, a global brain, a great awakening. When I talk about this to audiences, I often say, "How many of you have an intuition of something great coming like this?" And you know what? About half the audience already feels it. But there are not many cultural affirmations of it. So I got the answer -- when I had this experience the answer that I heard on the inner plane was, "Our story is a birth." So our story on this earth is a birth. It has taken 15 billion years of gestation to create a planetary system who now is awakening to itself as a whole, and who is aware that it is born into a universal dimension of consciousness and action.

MISHLOVE: I want to go back to the idea of pain, because so many people feel nihilistic, pessimistic. They don't have positive vision. In fact, the old vision is often one of Armageddon, one of tragedy, one of heat death. There are many negative images.

HUBBARD: Yes there are, and partly I think the mass media has a disease. I call it disempathitis of the nervous system, dead on empathy. If you think of the media as our collective nervous system, it's filtering out good news. If something creative, innovative, loving happens, that's not news. If something is burnt or killed or destroyed, that's news. So we are being constantly flooded with information of our breakdown, but not concurrently and equally with our innovations, our loving. So we have a very bad self-image.

MISHLOVE: Even in the spiritual context it seems that mostly what you get in the media are scandals and superstitions.

HUBBARD: So the media is giving us a nervous breakdown -- I mean literally that's a pun, a nervous breakdown.

MISHLOVE: There's a kind of cultural cynicism that's so common.

HUBBARD: I feel that if the media began to do what you're doing on a larger scale, and particularly if the news were interpreted as the news of what is growing, what is evolving, that you would find very rapidly a new situation. The way I ran for Vice President was I proposed a Peace Room as sophisticated as the War Room in the White House, to map every innovation and success, to connect it and to communicate it live over television, on a continuous basis, until we could see the emerging world. And a person like myself seeks out the emerging world.

MISHLOVE: Well, there are many people who say that this is the biggest story of the century that the media is overlooking.

HUBBARD: The media is overlooking the story of our birth. But you notice a baby's nervous system, what it does is cries and puts you to sleep. Our mass media cries and puts us to sleep. It cries, and the pain is real. And maybe we have to feel more pain until we can wake up.

MISHLOVE: You have written about higher forms of consciousness and how they are essential if we're to grasp the whole. Most people, I think, tend to be more concerned about their own problems -- their job, their health. People seem to be so wrapped up in these things that they don't always notice that there's a whole going on.

HUBBARD: It's interesting to me that the mass of people have faith. Whatever the culture, whether it be in South America or India or Africa, the so-called simple people basically are religious. It's the sophisticated people and intellectuals who are not.

MISHLOVE: Well, it's kind of a blind faith on the one hand, but blind skepticism in reaction to it.

HUBBARD: On the other. But I think there's more truth in the blind faith than in the blind skepticism. You know, when they do surveys of the American people, I don't know, 60 percent have had mystical experiences; 75 percent believe in UFOs; they believe in the resurrection of Jesus and the Second Coming. I wonder if they're not more true than the more limited, rational intellectual who is guiding things these days. I personally had a very deep Christ experience that led to The Book of Co-Creation.

MISHLOVE: Could you talk about that?

HUBBARD: Well, it came after my planetary birth experience, and then my becoming a futurist, and I began to see that Homo sapiens is evolving, and that the power of science and technology will either radically destroy or transform us -- not only our consciousness, but our technology. And I wondered, what could be a human type that could handle this power? Because we see that we mainly misuse power, so the more powerful we get the worse we become. And I was asking another question of the universe: "What is the future human like?" I was in Santa Barbara to write a book on it, and had a writer's block. One day I got lost, and I was driving through the Santa Barbara hills. I saw a little sign that said Mount Calvary Monastery, and I had actually an experience of light. I went up the mountain, followed the sign, went to a little Episcopal monastery, and there was a hang gliders' club jumping off a higher mountain, about 50 people in butterfly wings above Mount Calvary, and I had an image of human metamorphosis, that we would all be changed. And I had an inner experience of the Christ not as Jesus of Nazareth, but as an omniscient, omnipresent field that was actually pulling us forward toward the total and radical fulfillment of our divine human potential. And I heard the words, "My resurrection was real. It is a forecast of what the human race will do collectively when you love God above all else, your neighbor as yourself, your self as a Godlike being, combined with science and technology. You will all be changed." And I suddenly thought, "Oh my goodness, Western civilization was built on a story of the radical transformation of the person to life everlasting, and through science and democracy and technology and industry we're hitting up against the limits of the biosphere. We are learning to extend our life span. We're learning to build new parts. We're learning to go live in outer space. And I made a quantum jump which I think nobody else has really made, between the high technology of Western civilization and the promise of Jesus.

MISHLOVE: That is unusual.

HUBBARD: I mean, it's never done. And I saw that part of the mystery is the science of matter, whereby the physical world is being transformed. And then I went back to people like Aurobindo and the Mother, who were working on cellular immortality.

MISHLOVE: In India.

HUBBARD: In India; and people who were studying the aging process, and people who were looking at regeneration and cryonics, and even these far-out things like cloning and taking DNA and resurrecting a whole being. Those are very weird for a biosphere; but what if the human race is to be a cosmic species, and what if Jesus is a template of the cosmic human, and what if our new powers are actually to transform and transcend creature human conditions? And so I was guided to the New Testament, and I opened up on my favorite passage: "Behold I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep. We shall all be changed." And I started to write, and I feel I was inspired by a kind of whole-system consciousness -- not to interpret the New Testament, because I'm not a scholar or a theologian, but as a futurist, to unpack it for our generation, as a guide to universal life.

MISHLOVE: In other words, to take a look at the coding of the ancient myths and the deep vision of the prophets and apostles and mystics, and to interpret it in the light of what is possible today with our science.

HUBBARD: Exactly.

MISHLOVE: And what is our greatest possible hope for ourselves as a species.

HUBBARD: And you know, many scholars are going back to try to get the historical Jesus, and they're saying, "This didn't happen, that, and all the myths are probably untrue." My thesis is we will never know what really happened back there, but whether or not, Jesus' life may be coming true, through us being able to do what he did. In other words, if the human race advances to the point of being able to do it -- and I had a wonderful conversation with an Indian guru, Yogi Amrit Desai of Kripalu. I was telling him about my Christ experience, and I said, "You know about the Resurrection." Well, he said, "Our guru's guru, Babaji's guru, was able to do this." Like Yogananda, and Sai Baba.

MISHLOVE: Sure, these things are known in mystical traditions throughout the world.

HUBBARD: And Michael Murphy's book, The Future of the Body. He uses scientific language like extrasomatic capabilities. But is it possible that actually we are not having to be bound to this physical body, but that through our advanced consciousness, and possibly extended technologies, that thought can create bodies more sensitive to thought?

MISHLOVE: Barbara, we're out of time, but you've certainly laid out an incredible vision for us, and I can see from the gleam in your eye and the smile on your face that it is a living truth for you, and a radiant, joyful truth, and that you offer promise to everyone who hears you. Thanks so much for being with me.

HUBBARD: Thank you, Jeffrey.

Orgasmic Consciousness?

2007-04-16T05:59:00.000-07:00

(This article raises the question of whether there are other more lasting ways of switching off fearful thinking, which we might call orgasmic consciousness or Level Two Living. Dr. Wright)

Female orgasm: switches of brain areas governing fear
2007/03/26

New research indicates that parts of the brain that govern fear and anxiety are switched off during female orgasm.

In the study to map brain function during female orgasm, scientists from the Netherlands also found that as a woman climaxes, an area of the brain that governs emotional control is also heavily deactivated.

Female orgasm switches of brain areas governing fear“The fact that there is no deactivation in faked female orgasms means a basic part of a real orgasm is letting go. Women can imitate orgasm quite well, as we know, but there is nothing really happening in the brain,'' said neuroscientist Gert Holstege, presenting his findings at the meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.

In the study, Holstege and his colleagues at Groningen University recruited 11 men and 13 women, together with their respective partners.

The volunteers laid on a scanning machine bed and were injected with a dye that shows changes in brain function on a scan. For the men, the brain scanner tracked activity during rest, during erection, during manual stimulation by their partner and then during ejaculation, brought on by the partner's hand.

For the women, the scanner measured brain activity during rest, while they faked an orgasm, during manual stimulation by their partner, and while they experienced genuine female orgasm.

Holstege said he had trouble getting reliable results from the study on men because the scanning machine needs activities lasting at least two minutes to record an activity. But the men's climaxes didn't last anywhere near that long, meaning he could not reliably compare the scans before climax and during.

However, for female orgasms, the results were clear, he said.

When women faked orgasm, the cortex, the part of the brain governing conscious action, lit up. It was not activated during genuine orgasm, the AP reports.

The most striking results, however, were seen in the parts of the brain that shut down, or deactivated.

“During female orgasm, there was strong, enormous deactivation in the brain. During fake orgasm, there was no deactivation of the brain at all. None,'' Holstege said. “It looks like to have an orgasm, you need to not be fearful or full of anxiety.''

A New Era

2007-04-15T02:43:00.000-07:00

Barbara Marx Hubbard, teaching at Wisdom University in Santa Barbara, has written The Book of Co-Creation, and Revelation: Our Crisis is a Birth, heralding a new era of Conscious Evolution, a new field that arisen in our generation as humanity had learned to destroy and create with powers we used to attribute to gods. It heralds the evolution of evolution from unconscious to conscious choice. We have entered the transition to the next stage of human evolution or devolution and self-destruction. “This change from nature-based evolution to human-based evolution is, by far, the largest change to occur since the first single cell life appeared…. the creatures that take evolution into their own hands have no experience in the game.” James Martin, “The Meaning of the 21st Century. “

This new era is designed exactly to provide “experience” in the “new game” of consciously evolving, using intellectual, experiential, dialogic, meditative modes of “divining the design” of our lives as agents of conscious evolution.
Working from an understanding of the recurring patterns of evolution, including the rise of human culture and religion, we are all learning to map Our Turn on the Spiral, starting with Social Evolution from 1945 to the present and beyond, tracing the rapid breakdowns and breakthroughs leading us now into “Late Transition” on planet Earth.

Also we are proceeding to Self Evolution, with each person mapping his or her own process of Self Evolution, as it coincides and is influenced by Social Evolution. We are exploring both intellectually and experientially the continuing incarnation of Self – the idea that a new species is being born within us, a more universal human, that we have not yet experienced the full model of who we are becoming, that an evolutionary spirituality has taken hold that is driving us to realize the “Soul of Evolution” as our own passion to be more, do more, create more.

We are learning to focus on the emergence of the Evolutionary Woman and the Evolutionary Man as individuals and in relationship. Humans have left the Garden of Eden. We have traveled the path of individuation, separation and power over nature. We have come to the end of this phase. Now evolving humans are stepping by choice into the Second Garden, the “Garden of Cocreation.”

We are preparing for the Second Genesis as through advancing technologies we are gaining power to place human intent into matter. To have the wisdom to handle all our new powers, we learn to align with our essential self, to resonate with one another, to deepen our spiritual attunement to the subjective experience of the Impulse of Evolution, as we discover our deeper life purpose in the recreation of the world. The Garden is in essence a global School for Conscious Evolution, a kindergarten for godlings. We experiment with this myth in words, art, movement, and expression of various kinds.

Vocational Evolution follows, where each person is assisted in tapping into this deeper life purpose seen not merely as a personal purpose, but as an indivualized expression of the design of creation, a vital element of the emerging world. Cocreativity and new projects emerge.. The Wheel of Cocreation is offered as a field of coherence in which to find teammates and assist in the connection of what is already working. Our purpose is to contribute to political, economic and social change through the development of an Evolutionary Agenda

Visions of a Universal Humanity: We envision together the next stage of evolution, based on “quantum capacities,” joining genius at the growing edge, developing together a strange attractor, that combines our spiritual, social, and scientific/technological potentials at the next level of synergy.

Life Objectives:
• To place the current human condition in the process of evolution using insights gained from 14 billion years of transformation as lessons to guide us in our own conscious evolution now.
• To deepen contact with the Essential Self, learning to self-map and nurture the developmental path of the universal human that each individual is on.
• To gain tools to integrate all levels of self – body, local self, essential self, universal self, and beyond, aiming at becoming whole beings, full spectrum selves, cocreators of new worlds.
• Through understanding the great opportunities now emerging to evolving our world, to identify and commit to specific sacred action to fulfill the potential of the self and the world.

What does the word "Namaste" Mean?

2007-04-13T04:04:00.000-07:00

> I have been told it means something like to
> pay homage to the inner light in all living things.
> Can you help me with this???
> sgray@javanet.com

Namaste is a form of greeting, comparable to shaking hands.

"Shake hands and come out fighting." It's the referee's
final counsel to two pugilists about to beat each other's
brains out with clenched fists. Even outside the ring, a
handshake can be a little off-putting. When one returns
to the West from an extended sojourn in Bharat or
elsewhere in Asia, the hand suddenly thrust forward can
seem more ominous than friendly, especially if the hand
offered is that of a stranger. Of course, one soon
acclimates and the menacing aspect of this salutation subsides.

Perhaps that moment of intimidation derives from the history of
the handshake. According to one anthropologist, the handshake evolved in medieval Europe, during the times of knights. It seems not all were laudable Lancelots or gallant Gallahads. More than a few would approach opponents with concealed weapons and when within striking distance do the needful, driving dagger or striking sword into the unguarded paladin.

To fend off the fear of a foe's foul foil, knights took to offering their open and visibly empty hand to each other. It was a kind of surety, a gesture of trust which said, "See, I am unarmed, so you may safely let me approach." As the story goes, soon the gesture itself took on meaning and the less noble, less lethal man on the street adopted the handshake as the proper way to greet others.

In much of the world today, people do not shake hands when they meet. They may hug formally or kiss one another on the cheek, as in eastern Europe and Arab states. They may bow softly, eyes turned to the ground, as in Japan and China. The Hawaiian greeting, termed "honi," consists of placing the nostril gently beside that of the person greeted, a kind of sharing of breath, which is life and Pran(a).

For, Hindu(s), of course, the greeting of choice is "Namaste," the two hands pressed together and held near the heart with the head gently bowed as one says, "Namaste." Thus it is both a spoken greeting and a gesture, a Mantr(a) and a Mudr(a). The prayerful hand position is a Mudr(a) called Anjali, from the root Anj, "to adorn, honor, celebrate or anoint." The hands held in union signify the oneness of an apparently dual cosmos, the bringing together of spirit and matter, or the self meeting the Self. It has been said that the right hand represents the higher nature or that which is divine in us, while the left hand represents the lower, worldly nature.

In Sanskrit "Namas" means, "bow, obeisance, reverential
salutation." It comes from the root Nam, which carries meanings of bending, bowing, humbly submitting and becoming silent. "Te" means "to you." Thus "namaste" means "I bow to you." the act of greeting is called "Namaskaram," "Namaskara" and "Namaskar" in the varied languages of the subcontinent.

Namaste has become a veritable icon of what is Bharatiye. Indeed,
there must be a Bharatiye law which requires every travel
brochure. calendar and poster to include an image of someone with
palms pressed together, conveying to the world Bharat's
hospitality, spirituality and graceful consciousness. You knew
all that, of course, but perhaps you did not know that there can
be subtle ways of enhancing the gesture, as in the West one might
shake another's hand too strongly to impress and overpower them or too briefly, indicating the withholding of genuine welcome.

In the case of Namaste, a deeper veneration is sometimes
expressed by bringing the fingers of the clasped palms to the
forehead, where they touch the brow, the site of the mystic Third
Eye. A third form of namaste brings the palms completely above
the head, a gesture said to focus consciousness in the subtle
space just above the Brahma-randhra, the aperture in the Crown
Chakr(a). This form is so full of reverence it is reserved for
the Almighty and the holiest of gurus.

It is always interesting, often revealing and occasionally
enlightening to muse about the everyday cultural traits and
habits each nation and community evolves, for in the little
things our Big ideas About Life find direct and personal
expression. Take, for instance, the different ways that American
and Japanese tool-makers approach the same task. A saw for
cutting lumber, if designed in the U.S., is made in such a way
that the carpenter's stroke away from his body does the cutting.

But in japan saws are engineered so that cutting takes place as
the carpenter draws the saw toward himself. A small detail, but
it yields a big difference.

The American saw can, if leaned into, generate more power, while
the Japanese saw provides more control and refinement in the cut,
requiring surprisingly less effort. Each has its place in the
global toolbox. each speaks -- like the handshake and namaste
greetings -- of an underlying perception of man's relationship
with things.

In the West we are outgoing, forceful, externalized. We are told
by Ma bell to "reach out and touch somebody." We are unabashedly
acquisitive, defining our progress in life by how much we have --
how much wealth, influence, stored up knowledge, status or
whatever. Every culture exhibits these traits to some extent, but
in the east Mother is there to remind us, "Reach in and touch the
Self." here we are taught to be more introspective, more
concerned with the quality of things than their quantity, more
attuned with the interior dimension of life.

So, there you have it, the whole of Eastern and Western culture
summed up in the handshake which reaches out horizontally to
greet another, and Namaste which reaches in vertically to
acknowledge that, in truth, there is no other.

Joe Maharaj

The Parable of the Room

2007-04-05T03:31:00.000-07:00

Imagine for a moment that we are all sitting in one huge room. The room that we are in has doors and windows and is like any other room that any of us have been in except for the fact that the room is freezing cold. In fact, it is so cold that everyone in the room has several layers of warm clothing on: hats, gloves, and parkas to insulate us from the bitter cold.
And so there we are huddled in the freezing room, desperate for warmth.

Nobody really knows how long we’ve been in this room. We just know it is a long time. But suddenly, after what seems like an eternity, one among us looks up from her huddled crouch and realizes that there is some kind of strange contraption on her back. She strains to see what it is but cannot quite make out the details. After a few moments of examination, she notices that there is a string attached to the contraption. After a moment’s hesitation, she pulls the string and a soft humming begins to emanate from it. Nothing else happens for a moment or two and so she sits back down and huddles against the cold.

While she is examining her contraption and pulling her string, a few people notice her activity and stand to watch. After seeing what she is doing, they too notice a contraption on their back and an attached string but they do not pull the string. Instead they watch the girl as she pulls her string. They watch to ensure no harm comes from this. They watch as the girl sits down. Nothing happens and they immediately lose interest and settle back down to resisting the bitter cold.

After a few moments, however, the girl who originally pulled the string notices something. Something has changed in the air around her. “What is it,” she thinks to herself. And then she realizes! The air around her seems to be warming up, and rapidly. She can no longer see her breath and her body is becoming uncomfortable under the extra load of clothing. She strains her neck to look at the contraption and immediately realizes that the contraption is some sort of personal heating system. Surprised, she looks around and notices that everyone else is also wearing one just like it.

Incredulous, she wonders why nobody has seen this heater before or never pulled the string. Perhaps they were concentrating too hard against the cold and simply did not see beyond the frost in their breath and the ice on their clothes. Perhaps they simply believed that no other existence was possible. No matter, after a few minutes she is becoming decidedly uncomfortable and she now, with some degree of excitement, begins to remove her clothing layer by layer as the air warms around her.
The people huddled immediately around her have now looked up and noticed her excitement. What is more, those closest to her are also noticing a change in the air temperature. The heater on her back is so powerful that she has now affected the temperature a few meters all around her.

People have noticed.
People are warming up.
People are becoming uncomfortably warm.

They ask her what is happening and she explains about the heater on their backs. She suggests that if they turn on the heaters, they could warm up the room even more. She also advises that they should start taking their layers of clothing off because once their heater is on, their bodies will quickly become uncomfortable beneath the layers of fabric.

Some, but not all, of her immediate neighbors take her advice and pull the string. A few moments pass and the air around them rises a few degrees. Feeling uncomfortable, they also begin to take off their clothes.
Now, there is a small bubble of excitement in the room. A few more people (this time a little farther away from the center) are beginning to look up and wonder what all the excitement is about. There are even people standing off away in the corners who have heard the bustle and are straining their eyes and ears to see and hear. A buzz begins to move through the room and a few people here and there, perhaps the ones who are most resistant to the cold, look up, stand up, and wonder what is going on.

They ask those around them but most of the freezing people they ask are too cold to worry and too bitter to care. Still, some people are talking and the word is spreading. They say something about warmer air and that some kind of heating system is available to everyone.

Some are even saying that people are taking of their clothing. The more skeptical laugh at this. However, the braver ones, the ones who are tired of being cold, the ones who trust the rumors, the ones who can see the small island of people beginning to dance in the warmth, strain to look at their backside and lo and behold, they see a string attached to a contraption. Getting swept up in the rising excitement, they pull the string and the air around them immediately begins to warm.
They begin to feel warm uncomfortable.
They begin to take off their clothes.

Now as we pause and look around at the room we notice islands of radiant heat in a sea of bitter cold. Here and there, dotted throughout this huge room of individuals, people are starting to realize that the bitter cold is not something they have to live with. More and more see that within their grasp is all the heat they need to get warm and stay warm.

Still, and at first, it is only a few people here and there. The ones who are more adventurous, the ones who are tired, the ones who are desperate for a new world, these are the first ones to pull the string. They talk, of course. They point out the rising heat. They excitedly exclaim “look, we don’t need too many clothes!” But most people in the room are too busy trying to keep warm to give them much thought.
“Crazy,” they think to themselves. “They’ll all just freeze to death.”
For a while, it seems, little progress is made. More and more turn on and heat up, but against the huddled masses, it seems like a drop in the bucket. However, the heaters are powerful; far more powerful than we initially think. And after a certain point, it is not just the local temperature around the individual heaters that is affected. When enough have turned on their heaters, and when the heaters have been running long enough, a shift occurs. Instead of localized islands of heat, the entire room is impacted and the ambient temperature begins to slowly rise. Once The Shift has occurred, everyone, no matter how inured against the cold, no matter how tightly huddled against the arctic blasts, begins to feel the rising temperature of the room.

After a certain point, nobody can ignore what is going on.
At this point individuals in random locations in the entire room begin to look up to see what is up. Hundreds and, soon, thousands now notice the excited activity of a handful of their once frozen compatriots. They ask, with some confusion, “what is going on.”
T
hey are told, “there are heaters! There is warmth. It takes only a moment. Just pull the string.”

They see the excitement, they feel the heat, and now, swept up in the growing excitement, waves and waves of frozen room dwellers pull the string. They don’t even wait to start taking off their layers. Even before they pulled the string, they felt the warmth and were becoming uncomfortable beneath the clothing.
Of course, now that so many are tuning in and turning on, the rise in temperature is no longer subtle. Now the thermometer rises a degree every few minutes and the consequent discomfort rises fast as well. It is at this point, as we gaze at waves and waves of people jumping to their feet, turning on their heaters, and stripping their clothes, that we begin to see the problem. Fear has begun to cascade in waves through the huddles masses. Many people, whose only experience had been to huddle against the bitter cold, stare around them in total dismay. The room is now heating so fast, and people are stripping so quickly, that they are confused and befuddled.

Questions flood through their minds. People all around them are staring and smiling and pointing and stripping. Some have even reached the point of total undress and are now running bare naked around the room jumping with the sheer joy of freedom. They are confused. “What is all this about?”, they wonder. What is worse, all this confusion is compounded by the pain they are in. The room is so warm now, and their clothing so thick, that they are literally beginning to bake inside their clothes.
It is a crisis, but it is one the people in the room seem able to handle. There are many who have already weathered The Shift and they understand the process. They reach out, they explain, they help removing clothing, they calm, they smile, they respond and there are so many individuals with lightened layers of clothing that there is lots of help, lots of support, and lots of reassurance.

Most people respond.
Most begin taking off their clothes.
Some even turn on their heaters but at this point there is enough people with backpacks on and heaters turned up that it no longer matters if the new comers are turning on their heaters or not. In fact, at this point, people are starting to advise against it. The temperature is a perfect 28 degrees.

The Shift has occurred. No more heat is required.
Still, there are problem areas. A few, a small handful, cannot cope with the rapidity of the change. They have to assimilate information too fast and they cannot. They see the frenzied dancing and the smiling faces. They see the naked people and amidst all the odd sensations they are experiencing, they cannot process the pain in their body. A few snap and run screaming around the room. Some are mad. Others are shouting, “the end of the world is here.” Others experience total panic and flee out of the room or leap from the windows. Those that can be restrained are gently held and their clothes gently removed. The new reality is explained and they are held until they are calm. Those that cannot be restrained or who flail too violently are left to themselves until they exhaust their reserves. When they are silent, they are approached and assistance is given. Those who “leave” too soon are lost, but only temporarily. Eventually, they calm down and return without clothing.
How many will panic? How many will need to be restrained? How many will “leave the room” and have to come back at a later date? It is hard to say at this point. It will all depend on the action and initiative of those who have gone before. In fact, how fast the process unfolds, how quick we shall restore the calm, how smoothly we shall navigate The Shift will depend entirely on the concerted actions of the people in the room.

Still, there are no unknowns here.
There is no chance.
It is all up to you.
If you are one of the ones that has gone ahead, reach out.
If you are one of those that remain beneath the layers, reach out.
There is nothing to fear.
The room is warm.

Michael Sharp, The Book of Life

2007-04-04T03:17:00.001-07:00

Starting the Dialogue with God

Welcome to Hearing God’s Voice within you. Today is a really exciting day because we are going to start the dialogue with this Presence of Love within us.

It’s important to start by extending Love to your thoughts, by quieting your mind, and then feeling the connection you have with God’s Voice within you. Once you have quieted your mind and made that connection more real by feeling It within you, the next thing you want to do is start the dialogue. You want to say “hello” to God’s Voice, to this Presence of Love within you. It’s just like when two people see each other across a crowded room and make eye contact and want to connect with one other. There is a vibe between them, but if nobody makes the first move, nothing is going to happen. It’s the same with God’s Voice, with this Presence of Love within us. We have to start the dialogue. We have to begin the conversation.

What’s so great about starting the conversation with God’s Voice is that no matter what you say, it’s okay. You can’t say anything that this Presence of Love within you could ever judge you for or ever dislike you for. It’s absolutely safe. Everything you say is welcome. It doesn’t matter what it is. It’s just important to start the dialogue. Some people might call this prayer. Talking to God might be considered prayer. Any conversation that is directed to God could be considered prayer. Again, the content doesn’t matter. If talking to God is prayer, then listening to God could be called meditation. Once you’ve started this conversation with God, it’s then important to actually be quiet and listen if you want to hear something back.

How many times has someone come to you and said, “Oh my gosh! I have this horrible problem and I really need some advice. I really need to know what you think. I really need to know what I should do ... and this and this is going on … and this and that happened….” And they never actually stop talking long enough to hear any advice? I think this is what we do often times with God. We start the conversation and tell God what is going on. We share what’s in our mind or in our heart and then we say, “Oh! Gotta go … Oh! The phone is ringing … Oh, I have to get this done right away,“ and there is no time to stop and listen. That is the meditation. It’s not that you have to do any particular technique. It’s just that you have to actually stop talking and then listen. And the process of extending Love is so wonderful because you can use that process throughout your dialogue with God. You can continue to extend Love to whatever arises.

So you’ve begun the conversation and then you say to God, “Okay, I’m going to be quiet now and I’m going to listen. I’m going to stop talking and hear what you have to say.” Then a thought arises that says, “You’re never going to hear anything.” Or maybe during the conversation you have the thought, “Well that was stupid. I shouldn’t have said that.” Whatever it is—whatever thought arises—just extend Love to it and keep going. You extend Love to it and then give yourself the opportunity to be quiet and hear.

What is really important about this process of talking to God and listening is that you don’t want to always be listening for words. God speaks to us in every form imaginable. We’ve talked about having a thought, a vision, a light bulb moment, some insight and answer comes to you, or having some thought enter your mind that is just the right thing in that moment. You might get a song stuck in your head that is the perfect answer to your question. God is speaking to us using any and every form imaginable. Yes, God speaks to us in words—absolutely! Though to God, words are equal to every other form of communication. Words are equal to feelings, to thoughts, to a vision … it doesn’t matter. They are all just forms of communication. None are higher than another, so it is very important to be open to hearing in the broadest sense. We are really just receiving communication.

In today’s exercise, extend Love to your thoughts, quiet your mind, feel your connection with God’s Voice, and then start the dialogue. Remember, all communication to God is welcome. When you are done sharing with God all that you want to share, then make the decision that you are going to stop talking and just listen. You are going to receive God’s communication to you. In this particular exercise, you want to be absolutely open to any and every way that God is communicating to you. You don’t want to miss the forest for the trees by only listening for words. Allow yourself to become aware of whatever feelings, thoughts, insights, visions, etc. are coming to you. Become aware of those thoughts within the mind and allow yourself to receive the communication and guidance that is in them, because the communication is there. In the coming days, we will work specifically on hearing words, but for today, be open to receiving communication from God’s Voice in whatever form it comes. Allow yourself to experience that God is speaking to you and let yourself receive that communication in any form imaginable.

For a Nice Meditation

2007-03-25T04:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.jesusone.com/promiseofjoy/ourheartsshallrejoice.htm
http://www.jesusone.com/slideshow/jeremiah29-13.htm
http://www.jesusone.com/slideshow2/ecclesiastes3-1.htm
http://www.jesusone.com/spiritual_truth/truths1.htm

A Friend in Me

2007-03-24T02:29:00.000-07:00

A Friend in Me?
Current mood: loved
Category: Share My Thought's Friends

Is this a statement or a question? A Friend in Me. For the most of us it is
taken as maybe-You have a friend in me-meaning I am your friend and you are
my friend. Or you can ask yourself-do I have a friend in me? There takes
a lot of characteristic's to be a friend and the friend I am referring to is
not the kind of friend you can be to someone . This kind of friend I am
talking about is the friend within yourself. The best friend in life that
will never leave you, hurt you or make you cry. The friend that is always
there every day in every way, never get's lost or forgets. Never quiet when
you are alone and never shy in a crowd of people. This friend you can talk
to anytime of the day or night and will always listen with an open mind and
heart. Questions are answered, logic can be found. From time to time you
will disagree with this friend and ignore this friend, but the friend will
always be there. At times you will also forget this friend and feel you are
all alone. Be rest assured that the friend is there with you in every
breath that you take, every step and every heart beat. Through the good
times and the bad times no matter where you are. You may ask where is this
friend and where did this friend come from. I can tell you that this has
been a life time friend, this friend was there when you were born and will
be there with you when you leave this earth. You are the best of friends and
the closest of close friends there will ever be. NO one can take this
friend, but everyone will see this friend and maybe want a friend like yours
for one of their own. This FRIEND is the most beautiful, loving, caring,
unjudgemental, kind hearted, valuable, and forgiving FRIEND. Where is this
FRIEND you ask? All you have to do is look in the MIRROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

T. Jackson

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2007-03-24T02:10:00.000-07:00

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To Intend or to Request?

2007-03-22T03:48:00.000-07:00

Difference between Intending and Requesting
Posted by Enoch Tan

One of the most important things to know about using the power of the mind to manifest your desires, is the difference between intending and requesting. For what is within our power and wisdom to specify, we may intend. For what is beyond our power to direct or wisdom to specify, we may make a request. Intending and requesting are the ways we bring our intentions into manifesting in reality.

Intending and requesting are different levels of intention and prayer. The only real difference between intending and requesting is whom you address and how specific or general your intent. By intending, you acknowledge yourself as the source of power influencing reality. By requesting, you humbly address forces wiser and more powerful than yourself. Intending is a lower level intention whereas requesting is a higher level intention.

Intend for the mundane things you know you need. Intend for a good parking spot, intend for the perfect product or service at the perfect price, intend for a good job when you’re looking for one, intend for a positive and exciting day. Intend or it will be left to chance.

Be specific when you intend. Mentally outline or visualize what you want. This sharpens the focus of conscious energy upon that selected probable future. If you want a red dress under twenty dollars, then visualize the red dress and intend that it be under twenty dollars. If you want compensation for the money you just spent on a book, then intend that you be doubly compensated. If you want a safe road trip, then go over each potential complication and intend that it not arise. Whatever your intent, be specific. You are projecting your own energy into the matrix of probable futures and selecting a particular one to manifest.

For the more important things, make requests. Request knowledge, wisdom, insight, guidance and protection. Request an answer to a puzzling question, request illumination, request that you learn your lessons as smoothly and efficiently as possible, request that you are given the best opportunities for fulfilling your potential. You cannot intend for these because they are beyond your wisdom to accurately specify. Therefore leave their fulfillment to the discretion of wiser forces like your positive Higher Self, the Universe, and divine forces. Be general and earnest in your request, and have faith and patience. By being general you leave the outcome entirely open and thereby allow possibilities to manifest that you could never have imagined.

Intending is commanding, and when done wisely commanding is the proper exercise of spiritual power. Over time reality will tell you what is mundane and what is significant, and you’ll get better at intending for what is within your place to intend. Requesting is asking for the help of wiser forces. Such forces respect freewill and only assist when you request. The point of requesting is to make use of the network you are part of, to allow higher aspects of yourself to do things that you yourself cannot do because of your limited evolution. Never requesting anything keeps the door closed. Disappointment means reality has something better in store for you at a better time.

Requesting when you should be intending is a form of wishing and only robs you of power. Don’t just pray to Jesus for a new car, intend for a new car. Intending when you should be requesting is not allowing higher intelligence to bring your intention into manifesting in the best way for you. Don’t command reality into bringing you something that you are unsure of. You should ask for further wisdom and clarity, otherwise you will manifest the wrong thing. To intend is to command, to request is to ask.

Requesting is easy. When you feel like you need assistance, call up from within the feeling of gratitude and humility, then state your request verbally while paying full attention to the meaning of your request. Remain silent for several seconds and wait to receive a feeling of comfort that your request has been acknowledged. Then go away in certainty and relief that your request will be answered in the right way at the right time.

Even though God knows our thoughts, He can’t move until we express our will. Prayer is the expression of our will and takes faith. In order for a prayer to be answered we must express our will when we converse with God.

Intending is also easy. Just hold in your mind exactly what it is you want as you take action to bring you closer to it. Restlessly anticipating something by worrying will put it off. The sooner you commit your mind to the realization of your intention the sooner you can get reality to work. It is better to have patience than doubt, and there is no easier way to be patient than keeping yourself busy with your purpose.

We tend to look at grace as something we obtain for a specific time. Basically, we run our lives and determine our actions. When we have hard times, grace is something that can get us out of the situation. We can go to God and let Him direct our life until we get out of trouble, then we run our lives again. Grace is meant to be lived all the time. We should let God direct all our actions all the time. Turn everything over to God all of the time. This is abundant life.

The Second Chakra

2007-03-21T03:04:00.000-07:00

The sacral chakra

We continue with our introduction into the transforming, healing and empowering your life working directly on the chakras and energy bodies. Today, we are looking at the sacral chakra.

Sacral :=: Upper end of pubic :=: Sexual organs, pelvis, large intestines, appendix, bladder, hips, lower vertebrae, etc :=: Creation and sexuality. Power, control, money, etc

This energy center deals with relationships, personality, power, control, and money. This is the next step after the tribal nature of the first chakra. It is the next stage in development that calls for you to define your individual power within the context of the world around you.

Healthy development in this center enables you to find your own in-built unlimited power within. It enables you to build your own security and abundance and feel safe and confident doing so. And it leaves you feeling comfortable and wholly accepting of your sex, sexuality, and capable of having healthy and balanced relationships. In all, your self-worth is found within you, in vast quantities.

Unhealthy development here leaves you feeling powerless, first and foremost. Whenever you accept the belief that your self-worth is dependent on external factors such as how much money you have, what people think about you, or anything like that, you literally give away your own power to external forces. You bleed power and hence you are left powerless. The most damaging aspect of this powerlessness is that it makes you blind to the fact that only you can fix yourself, ultimately. And as long as you do not accept your own power, you will be unable to empower your own healing.

Your life force knows this and whenever you give away your power to an external factor, your spirit eventually tries to get it back by placing you in a situation where you are forced to face your false beliefs and see the errors in your thinking. For example, many people believe their self-worth is defined by their money. There is nothing wrong with money. But when you put your worth in it your self-worth tends to fluctuate with your bank balance. This is no good for spirit, which knows its self-worth to be infinite always. When you give it away in this way, you block the path of your own growth ability because you inevitable feel powerless when your finances are low. So eventually spirit will find a way to heal this belief if you don't do it yourself. One way it could do that is by attracting a situation where money cannot save you and you have to find within yourself the power you thought you never had. Once you find it, usually after some grief, you realize a whole new higher level of living! A great number of the richest people out there have gone through such a stage and you will often hear their rags to riches stories, their testimony of the fact that wealth is an inside job. Of course, you can learn all this consciously instead of having to learn through crisis. Learning through suffering is unnecessary and only happens to those who live unconsciously, and especially to those who are stubborn yet unconscious. The awakening mind listens within and requires no painful events to force it to focus.

This is also the chakra that deals with relationships. A healthy relationship is founded on honor and equality. No partner leans into the other, or binds them. Love never binds, only fear does. Freedom lies in loves realm, while fear rules over the idea of boundaries because of its fear of loss. A healthy relationship recognizes that each person has a path and does not try to interfere with that path, especially because it knows not what the path is. As you can begin to see, love requires that you sacrifice nothing that you do not wish to without reservation. And a true relationship is wholly accepting without judgment. At that point a relationship serves its true purpose to enable mutual growth and enjoyment. The state of your relationships will always reflect your inner state. Relationships are a mirror. Once you start to see this you can rapidly advance your growth simply by asking "why is this person in my life, what reflection am I seeing of myself?" You attract people who show you what your obvious and your hidden qualities are. Often, the thing you hate about another person is the hidden self you have disowned sometime in your past.

For example, John hates people who he judges as weak. If he were to look at his own past or childhood, he would find one situation where he was criticized for his compassion and kindness by someone he wanted approval from. Let us assume that this was a father who wanted him to be strong. His father tried to make him strong by criticizing his compassion and kindness, calling it weakness. Over time, he hated himself for his 'weakness' and built a strong outer shell to avoid further criticism and get approval from his father. He buried the original inner child deep within. This inner disowned self is a complete personality that wishes to be accepted again and brought to the surface. So it keeps bringing along people who will trigger a re-make of that past situation so that John may embrace and accept this quality in others and therefore in himself. So John keeps finding himself increasingly surrounded by 'weak' people.

Even his own son may have the very qualities he detests so he repeats his father's teachings on his own son even when he doesn't wish to. Eventually, if he does not listen to his inner child and embrace all aspects of himself, he one day finds himself in a situation where he is almost forced to admit he has the very qualities he hates. Once he does, he finds that these qualities are very welcome and useful in certain situations and he was going through life half-baked because of disowning his compassionate and kind selves.

Also, by forgiving his father he finds a gift in the actions of his father in that they made him develop a strong drive to go after what he desired with courage and persistence. So finally his dark and light sides meet and find that together they are greater than the sum of the parts.

This chakra is also the sex center. Sex is something that the divine left us with on earth to get in touch with our spirit. At a particular moment in sex, you literally become timeless, experience the eternal moment of Now, and touch a blissful aspect of your self that is usually covered by the daily grind. It is also the highest possible physical expression of love. And the health benefits of sex are documented to be vast, from age reversal to stress release to complex 'good hormones' releases. Such a powerful thing cannot be disowned without some powerful consequences. Any shame, guilt, resentment, fear, conflict, and negativity towards sex will show up as various aspects of impotence. It is no wonder that people with negative attitudes, guilt, shame, judgments, criticism, and fears towards sex often have self-worth issues that surface either as power, control, money or sexual impotence conditions. And vice versa. Power struggles, money struggles, individuality problems, and control issues in any aspect of life tend to manifest as sexual problems such as impotence. And cultural restrains have really not helped either. Several studies have shown that in cultures where there are no stigmas and shame attached to sexuality have almost no cases of sexual crimes, sexual dysfunctions and sexual diseases. Free your mind. Sexual liberation is not a 'bad thing'.

Watch your labels and judgments, for they tend to affect you exactly as you call them. Bring to the light and erase all negativity, judgment and inner conflict you have towards sex and your sexuality, and do so as soon as possible before it breaks you down. This inner conflict over sex in our societies, where it is seen simultaneously as a good and bad thing, is correspondingly breaking people's lives. What message does your mind and body get when you have a belief that sex is shameful and/or bad, yet you enjoy it? What result do you expect? It is the same conflict with money. A person cannot possibly get wealthy if he or she believes that money is evil, bad or fearful to him or her, and yet wants and needs some of it. That inner conflict clearly shows itself outside. The law of cause and effect never fails.

Control is another aspect of this chakra. The paradox about control is that letting go is the higher way, the way that brings your life within your circle of influence. You gain control of your life by letting go of the need to control it. Control issues are simply a power struggle, and you would not need to struggle with power if you knew it to be irrevocably within you, placed there for eternity in vast quantities by your creator. You actually lose power the more you try to control external factors. All of life is given freedom. So what happens when you place your sense of power on something outside of you? You get into control battles.
And because everything changes externally, you are bound to lose that battle some day. Yet there is no need for the battle. It is your attack and defense thoughts that increase your vulnerability and make you to literally lose yourself.
Funny enough, when you are fully centered on your internal power, the external will follow you automatically. Letting go is one of the most paradoxically powerful capabilities we have! Learn detachment from what is happening at the moment of Now. It already Is, full of divine life. So how futile is it to try to change What Is Right Now, when you attempt to murder the moment you are in? And the statement you give out when you try to change What Is is that you disapprove of your self and all things divine, for nothing can Be without Life feeding it, and you are part of The One Life. There is only One of Us. The less you try to control people and things, the more power you will actually find yourself having. You will stop reacting and start creating. You will learn how to desire, intend, then detach yourself from the current occurrence, knowing that your desires and intent are guaranteed to come to life by universal law, but maybe in a way you never expected. The universe always gives us what we seek, answers us what we ask, but it uses infinite intelligence to deliver at the perfect time and through the perfect means, which are both often unpredictable to you unless you have attained a state of full awareness.

A healthy second chakra makes you a powerfully creative being indeed! The amazing intelligence about life is that a creative idea, a desire, has inbuilt within it an intelligence that will bring about its manifestation. In the realm of eternity and infinity where all things arise, cause and effect are simultaneous and the idea or desire and its manifestation are birthed all at once; it is only in the physical dimension that the illusion of time makes us think there is a gap between anything. You need not worry about how an idea or desire will come to fruition. Simply take the first available opportunity, and the next one shows up. A desire attracts all the events and people necessary for it to come to being. The only thing that slows it is blockages in the chakras, not having a clean slate, so to speak, and letting past false ideas of littleness get in the way. This second chakra is the creative chakra that does the actual giving birth of ideas (and babies!). Another way that this chakra is blocked, with regards to creativity, is when you stop short of manifesting your creative ideas due to some form of fear. It is every important that all creative impulses are given birth to, manifested and acted up. The only healthy way to choose not to express your creativity is through a voluntary choice made from a standpoint of pure love that is untainted with fear of any sort.

Children naturally feel the inner pull to explore this chakra's aspects when this chakra is most active in their growth as the major cycle chakra, which is from their 7th birthday (their 8th year) to their 15th birthday (the end of their 14th year). At that age they are often filled with awe, trying to find out things, create, and so on. Also, they start asking questions about sex. Now, it does not help that the parent lies about sexuality and makes it look evil, and then exerts over-the-top control on this child and denies them the chance to explore their individuality. In the name of doing good, they damage the child. A child can understand a great deal more than an adult thinks they can (we are souls with bodies, and all souls are eternal and ancient to 'varying degrees', so to speak), so speak the truth and answer the questions honestly as they come. In fact, a child is often ahead of the parent in some ways because the child has not collected up any fears and false beliefs that limit it. Nor does a child have an unhealthy inner critic, at least not a very dominant and damaging one.

It is society that implants these damages in a child. Here is a truth you may have experienced personally: creativity cannot be blocked. If it does not find a natural answer and outlet that rings true inside to the individual, it will find an unnatural one. Choose wisely which you would rather have for yourself and your children. The worst thing that can happen in this chakra is probably to have creativity, inquiry, individuality and choice crushed. This thoroughly deforms a person and it can take a considerable amount of effort and awareness to go back to normal.

Children come to us with new growth information from the spirit world. That is why evolution moves forward. Remember your history and look at where we are now. From the caves to the mansions, from the witch hunts to acceptance, and so on.
Try your best not to enforce your ideas on your children as they often are tainted with fears (false evidence appearing real). Just because a child does not know your language or know how to use its body does not mean anything more than that. The child's soul may be a very old soul, and you can see that sometimes in many children who appear wise beyond their age. What a child needs most is love and acceptance of it as it is, without conditions. They need some guidance, but often we overdo it, just like it was done to us. Those first few years can take us a lifetime to correct their errors unless we are lucky enough to be given conscious steps to take.

On the subject of sexuality, there has been a massive imbalance created over the last few thousand years. This has to do with the male/female equality and power. Over the last few thousand years, the word God has come to be manipulated to the point where people believe that God is a male being, yet at no point did 'He Himself' say 'he' was male. Consider the fact that God is All That Is, and nothing can exist outside of God. This encompasses all things, male, female, androgynous, sexless, inert, and active, you name it. God is not a personality, let alone one with a sex (male or female). Whenever God is asked "Who are you?" God has always answered "I Am That I Am". She, He, It and Everything else.
All of life makes up the Sum of God, We Are All It, All One Process. The God/Goddess polarities of The Original First Force are just polarities that spring up here. The reason I am going into all this is that the world is highly imbalanced and leaning too much on the male energy and rejecting the female energy. The female energy is equally as powerful, but with a different yet complementary essence and power. You have to see that form arises from no-form, that allowance is equally as powerful and important as action. If you look at history, this male imbalance is very new, it did not exist several thousand years ago (we can actually trace its beginnings roughly around 8,000 B.C.). This imbalance was manipulated into place gradually. The truth is, your soul, your spirit, does not have a sex. It is not male or female. It is all things. It is only here on earth that you choose a polarity, like everything else, for the sake of experience. And that is a good thing; but the imbalance takes away this goodness and brings instead problems.

We each have the male and female polarities within us, although we do have a general side that we lean to more than the other. But rejection of any one of the polarities causes a great imbalance in your life, no matter who you are.
Simply look around society and see for yourself. Men who idolize 'the hard man' at the expense and rejection of femininity eventually suffer a lonely collapse when they inevitably end up in a situation where 'the hard man' cannot get them out of, a situation that calls for the female energy properties. And women who have believed that femininity is weakness and a curse end up suffering various forms of oppression and problems with their reproductive parts that manifest their belief that they are powerless. No one side of The One Source is any less than the other.
Balance yourself, accept and embrace all your polarities.

Females, do not buy even one iota of the idea that males are superior to you, more powerful than you, and put here to rule over you! The female energy is so powerful that experiencing it would leave you breathless! But the earth has not experienced it in recent millennia because we have denied its power. It is a power so strong yet so calm; a source from which creation springs effortlessly! Males are not superior in any way to women, nor are females superior in any way to men. Balance and embrace both and you will see an amazing transformation!

This energy center can be blocked by a variety of past events that were unresolved. A common cause of blockage is any event that convinces a person that he or she is unable to have and use their own independent power and choices.
Therefore, events such as physical or psychological rape, criticism of capabilities and ambitions (such as a parent who always tells their child that they will never make it in life or that their career choices are wrong), and denial of creative avenues all block this chakra. But they only block it if the recipient of such actions accepts these actions within and 'agrees' to become a victim mentally. No matter what happens externally, a person always has the unalienable right to choose how to handle the situation mentally in their own mind. Once a person says 'ok, I am a victim, I have been victimized', they give away their power to the event and the chakra is blocked. And the only way to reclaim that back is through both embracing their shadow and forgiveness, as explained in the forgiveness section of this book.

Misperception of money is another way that this chakra gets blocked. This happens when you attach your sense of self- worth to money. When you do so, you give away your power to money. Therefore, your self-worth, power and life vitality fluctuates with your bank balance and, even worse, your fears of your future financial prospects. You literally 'bleed' an incredible amount of energy this way because your mind is often worrying about your financial future if you have given away your power and self-worth to how much money you have. And one day, when your money takes a dip, you may find yourself in some much disempowered situation that may be coupled with illness in this chakra's corresponding body parts. But if your sense of self-worth is healthily contained within your infinite inner self, you will always be wholesome regardless of your financial affairs, and this will go a long way towards bringing you wealth and, if need be, getting you out of financial dips in a calm and rapid manner. Money is a very good thing, but it is forever your tool, at your beck and call, always responding exactly to what you say it is. When you tell it that it is an almighty force that you must struggle for, it becomes so. When you know yourself to be the creator of wealth, it becomes so.

Remember, only about 4-6% of the world's money exists as paper and coins. The rest is all records on bank statements, invoices, accounts, and other such imaginary places.

Literally, money is a maintained imagined count. About 94-96% of the world's money is all pure smoke, electronic and paper numbers. Just numbers. The only reason the system works is because we all accept and believe it. And if you take a $100 bill and place it on a table and come back in a month, it will have done nothing on its own! It will just be sitting there. On its own it is powerless! Without you, it would sit on that table for centuries and accomplish nothing. Why then would you believe your power is tied to it? Money is a channel of prosperity, not a source. It can never be a source because it has no power to cause. It is an effect, not a cause. You, your Self, is the cause, the source of your prosperity. This confusion is a primary reason for poverty. This is what is meant by having money as a false god - placing your faith in what has no power on its own. Money is simply the channel through which your inner prosperity flows out and expresses itself physically.

Another common way in which this chakra is blocked is when people sell themselves in various ways. This includes things such as doing a task that one does not really want to do but does it for the money or the recognition, or ignoring your heart and soul desire and instead doing something else for the sole reason of getting paid in some way or having some form of security.

Now let us revisit power. How do you gain personal power? It is already within you in infinite quantities. You only do not experience it because the human race, ages ago at a time symbolically referred to as "the fall of mankind" in various religions (in the Bible this is in Genesis), decided to forget its origins. Over the years, we have been remembering, gradually but at an ever increasing rate. Your power is all within you, but you have to accept it and stop fearing it. The fear to look within, to know thyself, is a major blockage to power. The lack of self-love and love for others is yet another blockage. So, the more True Love you have, the more power you uncover. We are talking here of True Love, which is unconditional and accepting of All Life without question. This is also called divine love. The reason why this limitation is put into place is that without true love which is unconditional and wholly accepting, you would destroy yourself and others in an instant were you to have full access of your full power. The same goes for knowledge and wisdom. Here, this means knowing your True Self, a part of the Creator. This is the kind of wisdom that is denied no one, for it is within everyone who cares to look within, and thus the question of IQ does not even arise. Again, this is in place for your protection. So you can effectively say that Power, Love and Knowledge form a triangle and increasing any one of that triangle's sides will increase the others to a certain extent.

In summary, as long as you honor yourself, humanity, your relations, and all life, you will be moving towards increasing this chakra's energies.

David Cameron

More quotes from The Secret

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“The secret is the answer to all that has been all this is and all that will be” - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882

“You create your own universe as you go along” - Winston Churchill 1874-1965

“Take the first step in faith you don’t have to see the whole staircase just take the first step” - Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” - Buddha

“Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about.” - John Demartini

“What power this is I cannot say. All that I know is that it exists.” - Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” - Albert Einstein 1879-1955

“What you resist persists.” - Carl Jung 1875-1961

“All power is from within and is therefore under our control” - Robert Collier 1885-1950

“Whether you think you can or can’t either way you are right.” - Henry Ford 1863-1947

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls” - Joseph Campbell 1904-1987

The Field

2007-02-28T03:50:00.001-08:00

Review of The Field by Lynne McTaggart

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In recent years there has been quite a bit of scientific research into the body/mind connection which can help us to understand what it is and how it works. In her recent book on this subject titled The Field Lynne McTaggart has collected a number of research findings into an easily read format. Her book suggests that there is a quantum connection between the earth, all living things and The Field she speaks of. Many other scientists have come to pretty much the same conclusion and are working to prove it with science. I think that a major component to such a proof will be the recognition and study of the ORMUS elements.

One of the main problems with current scientific theories in this area is the lack of a clearly defined and measurable substance to serve as the connection between The Field and matter. This problem is described in the following passage from McTaggart's book:

Coherence establishes communication. It's like a subatomic telephone network. The better the coherence, the finer the telephone network and the more refined wave patterns have a telephone. The end result is also a bit like a large orchestra. All the photons are playing together but as individual instruments that are able to carry on playing individual parts. Nevertheless, when you are listening, it's difficult to pick out any one instrument.
What was even more amazing was that Popp was witnessing the highest level of quantum order, or coherence, possible in a living system. Usually, this coherence - called a Bose-Einstein condensate - is only observed in material substances such as superfluids or superconductors studied in the laboratory in very cold places - just a few degrees above absolute zero - and not in the hot and messy environment of a living thing.

How do quantum effects like coherence and "quantum non-locality" (being everywhere at once) get translated into biological systems? Dr. Mae-wan Ho says that quantum coherent effects have been measured in people. Dr. Philip Callahan says that he has measured quantum resonances in paramagnetic soil, the correlation between brain waves and the Schumann resonance of the earth, stone towers and in the behavior of insects. (See:
http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/evolution.htm )

Though Dr. Callahan has identified paramagnetic rock dust as a good source for the substances which act as the transducer of "Nature's Secret Force of Growth" (also known as The Field) he has not yet described methods for isolating the actual substances in this rock dust which have these quantum coherence enhancing effects.

I believe that researchers have found the substances that Lynne McTaggart is talking about. We call these substances ORMUS. More information about ORMUS can be found in an article on this subject at:

http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/overview.htm

These materials were apparently known by the ancient alchemists of India, China, Persia, Israel and Egypt as well as the European alchemists of the middle ages. Magical and spiritual properties have always been attributed to the alchemical gold. (You can see some more specific references for this in a couple of articles at:

http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/puzzles.htm
http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/connecting.htm)

Another thing that is not explained in Dr. Callahan's work is how the paramagnetic substances from rock dust are taken up into trees where they become diamagnetic then, when the tree burns, the ashes are paramagnetic again. ORMUS theory has an explanation for this.

The ORMUS elements are present in rock, water and the air. In these different venues they have different properties depending on the molecules they surround themselves with.

Regardless of where they are, they behave as quantum coherent resonators which appear to provide a communication connection between each individual ORMUS component and all other ORMUS in the same quantum state.

It helps me to understand this by comparing the ORMUS elements to the air, which carries the vibrations of our voice as we talk. In this context the air is the carrier of information. We can sing praise through the air or curse an enemy through the air. The air carries each sound equally. The denser the air, the faster sound travels. Steel is even denser than air and this is why you can hear a train coming by putting your ear to a railroad track long before you hear the sound in the air.

The quantum coherent communication system, which we are postulating exists between the ORMUS elements, would work like infinitely-dense air and would, therefore, transfer information instantaneously or, perhaps, even faster.

McTaggart describes research which suggests that water is one medium of this coherent communication system especially in living plants and animals:

"This would mean that water is like a tape recorder, imprinting and carrying information whether the original molecule is still there or not. The shaking of the containers, as is done in homeopathy, appears to act as a method of speeding up this process. So vital is water to the transmission of energy and information that Benveniste's own studies actually demonstrate that molecular signals cannot be transmitted in the body unless you do so in the medium of water. In Japan, a physicist called Kunio Yasue of the Research Institute for Information and Science, Notre Dame Seishin University in Okayama, also found that water molecules have some role to play in organizing discordant energy into coherent photons - a process called 'superradiance'.
This suggests that water, as the natural medium of all cells, acts as the essential conductor of a molecule's signature frequency in all biological processes and that water molecules organize themselves to form a pattern on which can be imprinted wave information. If Benveniste is right, water not only sends the signal but also amplifies it."

I have written a couple of articles which expand on this subject. They can be found at:
Homeopathic Resonances and ORMUS
http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/homeopat.htm

Living Water, Vital Air
http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/livwater.htm

In her book, Lynne McTaggart describes the work of the Global Consciousness Project at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research lab. She describes how dozens of random event generators (REGs) scattered around the world began to show unusual non-random effects a couple hours before the first plane hit the World Trade Center building and how these effects lasted for a couple of days after. You can read more about this effect at:

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/terror.html

It appears that this information transfer is faster than instantaneous as it showed up before the event. Phil Callahan described something similar when he made his tachyon detector using a Ficus plant. The tachyon is a theoretical particle, which travels faster than the speed of light. Theoretically this would allow it to arrive before it left as described in a limerick:

There was a young lady named Bright
Who's speed was much faster than light.
She left home one day
In a relative way
And returned home the previous night.
Here is Callahan's description, from Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions, of his discovery and it's implications for agriculture:
The inescapable conclusion is that:
1. Tachyons do exist.
2. They occur, as predicted by Dr. Cope, in conjunction with weak magnetic monopoles.
3. They are easily detected by living plants.
4. Therefore, living plants (of interest to farmers) are indeed superconductors.
5. An entomologist was the first scientist to detect tachyons.
Physicists have always maintained that if something mathematically ought to exist, then it probably does. It then becomes a matter of learning how to detect and manipulate such phenomenon.
Of what use to modern man, and especially to agriculture, is the knowledge that monopoles and tachyons actually exist? One thing that immediately comes to mind is that since a leaf is an antenna superconductor detector and computer, then the collection of monopole and tachyon particles by the leaf is probably tied to the miracle of photosynthesis.
With the ORMUS elements I think we can demonstrate a system of instantaneous communication that takes place between all living things and, perhaps, even with spirit.
It helps me to think of the ORMUS materials as tiny cell phones in every living cell. When the ORMUS elements are depleted, by modern chemical agriculture and food preparation technology, these cell phones behave as if their batteries are weak and their antennas are broken. This means that they can only reach to the cell next door but cannot maintain continuous coherent communication with the cells in your big toe, for example.

When we eat foods grown in soil where the ORMUS elements have been replaced by the addition of paramagnetic rock dust or ocean water precipitate it is like they go into these cell phones; recharging their batteries and repairing their antennas so that coherent communication can take place between all of the cells of the body. It is like the small signal power of each cell phone is reinforced by resonance with the signal of every other cell phone so that instead of a single five-watt phone you have a trillion watt transmitter capable of communicating with the farthest reaches of the universe instantaneously.

There is growing scientific evidence that space itself can store information. Some scientists call this the "zero point field" or the "implicate order". Lynne McTaggart calls it "The Field". (Because it is a new concept to science every scientist will coin her or his own terms to describe it.) Regardless of what it is called we are mostly interested in what it does. Here is her description of how information might be stored in non-physical realms:

"Walter Schempp's explosive discovery about quantum memory set off the most outrageous idea of all: short- and long-term memory doesn't reside in our brain at all, but instead is stored in the Zero Point Field. After Pribram's discoveries, a number of scientists, including systems theorist Ervin Laszlo, would go on to argue that the brain is simply the retrieval and read-out mechanism of the ultimate storage medium - The Fie1d. Pribram's associates from Japan would hypothesize that what we think of as memory is simply a coherent emission of signals from the Zero Point Field, and that longer memories are a structured grouping of this wave information. If this were true, it would explain why one tiny association often triggers a riot of sights, sounds and smells. It would also explain why, with long-term memory in particular, recall is instantaneous and doesn't require any scanning mechanism to sift though years and years of memory."
Dr. William Tiller recently published some research which suggests that human intent can be stored in physical structures. You can read a description of Tiller's research at:
http://www.rialian.com/rnboyd/intention-symmetry.htm

Dr. Tiller has also worked with Dr. Vladimir Poponen, one of the researchers who discovered the "Phantom DNA Effect". I had an opportunity to discuss the Phantom DNA Effect with Vladimir a few months ago and he described it thus: First laser interferometry was done on a space for a baseline. Then the laser interference pattern was recorded from a DNA sample placed in the same space. Finally, the laser beam was sent through the same space again without the DNA in it to establish that the baseline was still valid.

The researchers expected that the first and last interference patterns would be nearly identical while the DNA interference pattern would show a difference. Unexpectedly the last interference pattern was a closer match to the DNA pattern than it was to the original baseline pattern in unoccupied air.

This result was so unexpected--that there was some sort of non-physical DNA pattern attached to the space--that they set up an automatic system to repeat the interferometry continuously for a month. They determined that the DNA interference pattern continued to occupy the space for the entire month.

These results were so astounding that they repeated this experiment four times in Russia and Vladimir has repeated it a couple times since he came to the United States.

The implications here are that this is evidence that there is a non-physical template for DNA. The great physicist David Bohm claimed that all of reality was a manifestation of something he called the "implicate order". The British biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake proposed that there was a similar biological template that he called the "morphogenic field".

If the ORMUS elements make a better connection to the non-physical template of physical reality then we might predict that they would facilitate the transfer of information from the non-physical DNA template to the DNA in the body. If the body's DNA was damaged one might expect that this would tend to repair it. David Hudson, who first made the ORMUS materials known to science, suggests that this is the mechanism whereby people are getting over cancer after ingesting concentrated ORMUS materials. In his 1995 Dallas lecture he said:

"Now what does it do in the body? It literally corrects the DNA, by a process the equivalent of a denaturing solution, the DNA relaxes and recombines corrected. So all diseases that originate with a problem with the DNA can be corrected".
Again the implications of this are incredible!
The research cited in McTaggart's book suggests that "mind over matter" effects can be stronger and more coherent in certain circumstances:

"Being of the same sex tended to have a very slight negative effect. These types of couples had a worse outcome than they achieved individually; with eight pairs of operators the results were the very opposite of what was intended. Couples of the opposite sex, all of whom knew each other, had a powerful complementary effect, producing more than three and a half times the effect of individuals. However, 'bonded' pairs, those couples in a relationship, had the most profound effect, which was nearly six times as strong as that of single operators."
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"Strangest of all, the size of the effect on the agitated group by those trying to calm them down was only slightly less than the effect that people had on themselves when using relaxation techniques. In statistical terms, it meant that other people could have almost the same mind-body effect on you that you could have on yourself. Letting someone else express a good intention for you was almost as good as using biofeedback on yourself.

Braud tried a similar study showing that you could also help someone else focus his or her attention by remote influence. Once again, the effects were largest among those whose attention seemed to wander the most."
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"The perfect opportunity to look closer at the nature of collective memory and resonance arose during a trip to Egypt. Nelson decided to attend a two-week tour of Egypt with a group of nineteen colleagues, planning to visit the main temples and sacred sites of the ancient Egyptians, where they would carry out a series of informal ceremonies, such as chanting and meditation. This trip would give him the chance to see whether people engaged in meditative activities at these sites - the kind of activities, in a sense, for which the sites had originally been built - had even more effect on the machines. Nelson kept a PalmREG [Palm computer based Random Event Generator] running in his coat pocket during visits to all the major sites - the great Sphinx, the Temples of Karnak and Luxor, the Great Pyramid of Giza. The PalmREG was on while the group meditated or chanted and when they were simply wandering through the temples, and even during moments when he was on his own, touring or meditating. He also kept a careful record of times when various activities had occurred.

When he'd returned home and compiled all his data, an interesting pattern emerged. The strongest effects on the machine occurred during times when the group was engaged in a ritual such as chanting at a sacred site. In most of the main pyramids, the effects had been six times that of ordinary REG trials at PEAR and twice those of ordinary FieldREG trials. These were among the largest effects he'd seen - as large as those for a bonded couple. But when he put together all the data of the twenty-seven sacred sites he'd visited, while simply walking around them with no more than a respectful silence, the results were even more astounding. The spirit of the place itself appeared to register effects every bit as large as the meditating group."

How might we use the scientific information in Lynne McTaggart's book to improve our success with various mind/body healing techniques?
First, it would be nice to increase the concentration of the substances she speaks of as being Bose-Einstein condensates that enhance quantum coherence in the body. We have generated a lot of free information about how to make or extract these substances and made it available to everyone. You can find some of these methods on this web site at:

http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/magtrap.htm
http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/ormus/ormus2.htm

Second, we might consider using techniques which are successful at accessing the non-physical "zero point field" like prayer and meditation in order to strengthen our connection with this source of knowledge.

Third, healing circles which include bonded men and women may be more effective than same gender healing circles.

Fourth, sacred places appear to set up a resonant field which promotes coherent healing forces.

Just as hypnotism has improved between Mesmer's discovery of "animal magnetism" and Milton H. Erickson's Ericksonian Hypnotism, I am sure that we will discover many other techniques related to the subtle energy healing methods as we begin to apply scientific methods to our exploration.

This is obviously an area in which we must rely more strongly on intuitive observations and ideas than traditional science. Our intuitive discoveries should, nevertheless, be examined with scientific rigor using some of the new measurement tools that science is providing.

We can use tools like the Prognos diagnosis device to verify muscle testing and dowsing results. We can also use the random event generators to help us redesign healing circles for greater benefit.

Lynne McTaggart's book suggests that there is growing scientific evidence of a Field which underlies and connects everything that is. As I understand it, this Field would be synonymous with an omnipresent God.

The ORMUS elements give us a way to get our hands on the substance that may be our connection to this Field. It is like finding the Biblical "manna" or the "shewbread" that the gold smith Bezaleel made for King Solomon's temple.

This is the most exciting thing I can think of; the discovery of a substance that is half way between spirit and matter! A substance that can improve the food we eat and our health from that food at the same time! A substance that ties in to the most fundamental discoveries of modern science! A substance that was known to ancient mystics and alchemists! A substance that accesses the zero point for technology like energy production and levitation! Is there anything more full of wonder than this?

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

2007-02-22T14:28:00.000-08:00

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
- William Faulkner, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it -
always.
- Mahatma Gandhi

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
- Stephen W. Hawking

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
- Physicist Heinz Pagels

There is no reality in the absence of observation.
- The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.
- J.S. Bell

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
- Niels Bohr

Curiouser and curiouser!
- Lewis Carroll

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
- Claude Bernard

The warrior steps forth to accept the unknown and challenge disbelief, for if it lies in mind it Is, by God!
- Ramtha

If those who lead you say to you, "See, the Kingdom is in the sky," then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, "It is in the sea," then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it
is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is
you who are that poverty.
- Jesus

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.
- Stephen W. Hawking

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.
- William James

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
- Niels Bohr

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
- Copernicus

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr

....the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here
is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!
- Lord Byron

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
- Niels Bohr

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
- Stephen W. Hawking

We have actually touched the Borderland where Matter and Force seem to merge into one another, the shadowy realm between the Known and Unknown ... I venture to think that the greatest scientific problems of the future will find their solution in this Borderland, and even beyond; here, it seems to me, lie Ultimate Realities, subtle, far-reaching, wonderful.
- Sir William Crookes, 1879

Do you remember how electrical currents and "unseen waves" were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
- Albert Einstein

It gives me a deep comforting sense that ‘things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.’
- Helen Keller

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality.
- Ramtha

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
- William James

We feel and know that we are eternal.
- Edmund Spenser

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
- Carl Jung

Time is not a line, but a series of now points.
- Taisen Deshimaru

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one.
- The Upanishads

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
- Archibald MacLeish

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
- Aart Van Der Leeuw

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler.
- H.D. Thoreau

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away,
and your original face will be manifest.
- Dogen

Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness.
- Russell Targ

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Gustav Jung

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
- Helen Keller

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
- Winston Churchill

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
- Emily Dickinson

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from
is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you and this whole world is springing up from it.
- Rumi

A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing -a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye
of spirit.
- Ken Wilber

All speech, action, and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded
ocean of consciousness in motion.
- Maharishi

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.
- Maharishi

Knowledge is structured in consciousness. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness -- enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.
- Maharishi

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
- Maharishi

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
- Giordano Bruno

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
-Galileo

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Lichtenberg

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
- Paracelsus

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him...For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

The universe on a very basic level could be a vast web of particles which remain in contact with one another over distance, and in no time.
- R. Nadeau and M. Kafatos

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle

The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ‘I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.’ If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this
plane.
- Ramtha

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity...and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein

....perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
- Plato

Know thyself.
- Socrates

Reality is not only stranger than we suppose but stranger than we can suppose.
- J. B. S. Haldane

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.
- Albert Einstein

Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising
gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth…home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.
- Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
- Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning Father of Quantum Theory

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce, Ulysses

I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic
monism of Western science.
- Albert Einstein

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend upon the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still
receiving.
- Albert Einstein

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending
spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
- Marianne Williamson

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
- Confucius

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Winston Churchill

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
- Democritus

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we are looking for is what is looking.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Why is it we prefer to believe in the devil we know rather than in the god we don’t know?
Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-Anonymous

Amma

2007-02-20T02:47:00.000-08:00

Amma Healing the Heart of the World
A Biography by Judith Cornell

The healing power of love, forgiving the unforgivable and the gifts of Divine Mother in her many manifestations are the themes of this biography of a remarkable woman, a living saint. "My life is my message," Gandhi said.

Amma's life begins in abject physical poverty and emotional abuse. As a child her divine incarnation was viewed as mental illness; a clear embarrassment to her overburdened family and superstitious village.

A blue baby at birth, Amma was not expected to survive. Only eight of her thirteen siblings lived into adulthood. Girl infants were not celebrated and this tiny child was very dark-skinned giving her superstitious and prejudiced family ever more reason to mistreat her. Amma would later claim significant spiritual advantages as a direct result of painful early years. These experiences led her to understand that people love conditionally. God alone loves without desire for a return on the investment.

A balancing of planetary energies had scarcely begun. On June 5, 2000 the U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan declared that "…not only do women belong on this planet, but (that) the future of this planet depends on women."

At six months of age, Amma simply stood and walked. Shortly thereafter she began to talk and, to the horror of those around her, could be found conversing with trees, plants and animals. While still in the bloom of childhood she was farmed out as a servant and routinely beaten for giving food to those poorer than herself. Her oldest brother mocked her and destroyed any small possession she had been given. Amma filled her life with spiritual practices.

By the time she was nineteen years old, her waking hours were focused on God. She routinely recognized the divine in trees, plants, animals and children by hugging and kissing them. People around her began to demand "proof." "Show us a miracle!" became their mantra and she turned water to milk and then to pudding. Asthma was healed and Amma became enough of a threat that an assassination was attempted.

A group of "rationalists" formed the Committee to Remove Blind Beliefs. Not wanting to stain their own hands, they hired a black magician who prepared a potion guaranteed to kill.

During Amma's initiation period, she was extremely sensitive to foods that had to be prepared under very special conditions. During her transformation, Amma experienced the Divine Mother merging within her and she "perceived that the universe itself was Divine Mother's physical body." As a result of this experience she made a conscious decision to manifest only love and compassion, qualities attributed to the feminine aspect of God. "I felt this was what our world needed."

Amma has become "the Hugging Saint." As she holds someone, their own spiritual awakening is said to increase in the simple presence of her manifestation of Divine Mother. She takes on their physical afflictions and suffers only briefly what they might suffer a lifetime.
India has its battalions of skeptical scientists who have extensively studied Amma. She told them that their collective scientific vision is too narrow because they don't consider the possibilities of dimensions beyond their current perceptual abilities.

Dr. Srivastava has been trained as a physicist and in the spiritual science of India. He holds that "Most people are fragmented personalities. And that fragmentation causes disharmony and chaos. If a person is not in harmony in his own being, how can he experience harmony in the world?"

Amma is a fully integrated personality, a living saint who encourages people to continue with their own spiritual practices and to look beyond their own needs to the needs of the planet and all of her occupants.

This woman with only a fourth grade education who preaches love in action is "walking her talk." She has founded over two hundred ashrams, many schools, built a state of the art medical hospital, established orphanages and a monthly pension fund for destitute women. Currently she is building twenty-five thousand free homes for the poor.

Amma's life is her message.

Quotes From Emma Curtis Hopkins

2007-02-15T02:05:00.000-08:00

Quotes from Scientific Christian Mental Practice. Emma Curtis Hopkins (You can buy used copies of this book from Amazon for $4.33)

' Faith can fulfill your slightest wish.'

If God is your world, what have you to fear ? '

' Look often to the Vast, Vast Countenance.' ' Great believers in miracles draw them. '

' Touch not the earth - touch God !'

' We must woo and woo the Majesty and Responsive Beneficence ever facing us. Our wooing will be astonishingly rewarded.'

'If you can redden your face with a thought, you can straighten your crooked bones with a thought.'

' ...by some power whereby the trees leave forth.'

' There is no combination of experiences so hard, so black, so complicated but that God can work a miracle in them. '

' Take your highest thought of God.'

' Let us never flinch at what is happening around us. What is transpiring above us is our concern. And this wins all battles; for the kingdom across the bar is the Ruling Kingdom. '

' By continually keeping His name you have everlasting rest in delightful companionship, unbroken family life, abundant blessings greater than you can ask or even think.'

' Let me tell you the twelve effects of thinking of the Spirit: You will have life, health, strength, support, defense, thinking faculty, wise speech, ability to record well your ideas, joyous song, skill in carrying out your principles, beauty of judgment, and great love.'

' A woman who had no faith but had been told what wonder might be wrought through faith sat down and deliberately determined to learn it. She sat down in the midst of her poverty and loneliness with her little children about her and practiced learning. She seemed shiftless to her neighbors, but it was astonishing what "luck" that woman always had. Something good was always "turning up." Her children were all talented, beautiful, prosperous. '

' Men may gather all the gold into a lump, and say you cannot have any, but by some way of Spirit you will come out with more abundant riches than all the rest put together. They may hold arguments and try psychological processes to chain your mind or change it, but the Spirit will make a way with you to keep you free from all such attempts. You will elude every mental opposition as easily as you elude material things. Jesus came through their belief that he was dead.'

' a man kept praising God that he was so well, while a great tumor or some other kind of swelling was plain to be seen by his neighbors. But he praised God publicly that he was so well for a whole fortnight. Long before the fortnight was up he was well, so that even his neighbors could see it so. '

' To say that 'My Good is supply, God is my Good, therefore God is my supply' is to stir the mountains and the seas to bring us our new provisions.'

' Looking, mentally, upon Jesus Christ as present, will cure poverty; it will cure blindness ; it will cure deafness; it will cure palsy; it will cure rheumatism; it will cure insanity. '

' He, never having gone away from our side, we can look upon Him now, and be cured of whatever ailment we are crying about.'

' Many will tell of how wonderfully they have been led by repeating the name of Jesus Christ. There was never any other character in history who gave orders to keep repeating his name. '

'There is one indestructuble substance pervading all things, from the remotest star to the nearest dust particle. This substance is finer than any substance cognized by the senses. It is finer than the attraction of gravitation, cohesion, destruction. It can only be cognized by the mind. It can only be handled by the thoughts of the mind. And only the understanding of the mind can make it useful. He who by any manner of thinking handles this substance soon finds himself experiencing vital renewals throughout body and mind. He has begun the 'animation of the particular from the universal,' an art eagerly sought by the ancients. ' '

"I would know none among you save Jesus Christ, " said Paul to the Corinthians. '

' Who now is ignoring every disastrous state of affairs, and separating himself to the One Name by which the first Apostles wrought their miracles? - Jesus Christ is that Name.' ' ... receiving the Holy Spirit that alone makes whole. ' '

"The Spirit of a man is the candle of the Lord(Ps 20:27.)" And by recognizing this candle sound health is established in the outer experience.'

' When we know God, we have touched the very substance which can inform us how to work each minute wisely, so as to be clothed and fed and housed and healed, without any other process than simply knowing God. '

' It is ideas of God which if you shepherd well, will get you into that state of mind called heaven, when you have health, judgment, prosperity. '

' When we are spiritual, we do not try to bring great things to pass, yet they come to pass. ' ' The most wonderful achievements of mankind have been brought to pass by confidence in some wonder-working unseen power. '

' As God is free now, so we are free now.'

' Isnt it a joy to you to know that you within yourself the power to annull every evil thing?'

' The ginger and glow of unvisioning life, cease for such as know that their true provisions and their true positions come from above, and nothing and nobody can take them from them. The Countenance that shines hot with healing tenderness and with rich giving is of more value than all that can possibly come by the clash of endeavor.'

' Let us say, "Poverty is unreality; there is no such thing as poverty; poverty is nothing to Spirit. Spirit owns all things."'

' Nobody need strive or haste for his prosperity if his faith is fixed, and his words keep repeating his covenant.'

' In the Lord's house is much treasure.'

' There is a self-supporting power in the Holy Spirit which, when you let it operate unhindered through you, leads straight to your substantial support.'

' "As I look into the God who is support beyond my idea of sustaining and supporting, I bring forth the plenty I see as I look." '

' There are ways of thinking about your environment which will make you like a harp in the fingers of love, so enchanting will be your silent mind to the world hurt traveller, so blessed will sound your voice to the bruised child of human hardships. You need not worry about whether you shall speak or not. You will have your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel if you take the fresh morning for giving thanks and glad praises unto the spirit and speak forth with freedom some lesson of this Science. '

' We cannot fail while we are daily speaking the lofty principles of that Kingdom on the Earth, though not of it, which will come up before our vision more and more. '

' Always high vision stirs right speech, silent or audible, and right speech silent or audible stirs right convictions, and the accomplishment of the seemingly impossible is the outcome.'

' Error can come in bright packages of beautiful words, but it is better to have a mind of your own.' ' We must give our strict attention to something supernally worth while.'

' The ancient Bible taught that it is good to tame the mind, which is difficult to hold in and very flighty, rushing whither it listeth, but once tamed it will bring you great happiness.' ' Let us say to unhappiness, "There is no unhappiness in Spirit; All is joyous peace." And let us say within our own minds, "Now !now !" '

' We take the conscious teachings and train ourselves till our machine-like bodies spring to as quick intelligence as our consciousness itself.'

' Health sits in as a first sign of spirituality.'

' Take some wine of doctrine, stronger and warmer ideas of life.'

' The only thing worth working for is a right state of mind.' ' say positively, "I do not believe it takes hard work to succeed in Gods universe."'

' There is no part of the body that may not open and indraw the subtler-than-air stimulants that would soon burst forth as strength.'

' The soft flakes of healing are falling all around you all the time, even on your shadow.'

' "God works through me to will and do that which ought to be done by me." Be sure this is true. It is a great rest to think how many unnecessary things we have been doing that we are now relieved from doing. '

' Be not tenacious of your own will. Be not exacting. Let Go. All is well around you: say: Rest in the Lord and He shall bring it to pass.'

' "I am strong in the Lord and the power of His might. "' ' You are so ready with your abilities that you soon become known as a leader among your associates if you learned early this: --"Jesus Christ is all in all." --'

' Give thanks, and praise the Spirit of God for the law of the self-increasing potency of every substance.'

' Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee.' ' say often, "There is only one God - one."'

' Deny that there are any causes, or results of causes, in you or around you, that could lead to disease, poverty, or failure. Take yourself for each year. '

' If I were to be asked directly as to the quickest way for a Scientist to get his healing power going, I would probably say Praise, everything and everyone in your mind, and as far as your mental convictions will demonstrate promptly, speak these praises aloud.'

' There is a faculty of your health whereby it loves to drop thru your mind and distill like the dew through your flesh.'

' There is no warfare where the vision of God is. There is no disease where the healing Name is called. There is no inadequacy or failure while the Spirit of God is in the nostrils, inbreathed as the only breath. This is living truth.'

' If you love anybody, why don't you trust that love to straighten out the tangles between you ? Never mind what is interfering.'

' "Be still and know that I am God" "Look up to fields white for harvest,"(Jn 4:35) so shall old conditions dissolve; so shall the Holy Spirit arrive - white breath that makes strengthening wholeness.'

' They will preach the at-one-ment according to Science. They will tell you that when you have spoken the words of Jesus Christ till you are at one with the Mind of God so that you see only Love and Truth and Life and Health and Peace in all your experience, that then you have partaken of the only at-one-ment signified by the history of Jesus Christ. '

' Nothing shall by any means defeat us when we often lift up our eyes to Thee!'

' Restorations hail from above. Expect greatly from above and greatly shall restorations multiply.'

' This, too, is good; this, too, is God; this, too, is for me; and I demand to see the blessing in it for me.' ' Take your business as it is, and praise divine love that there is a strong, wise way out of your dilemma.'

' The man who molds the vital ethers of omnipresence by right thoughts about its bounty brings forth bountifully. '

' For love is stronger than death. He that hath love hath freedom from every ill.'

' Sight, beauty, strength, wisdom, lighted by one touch of divine fire cannot be stopped or limited.' ' Keep your eye on the Eternal, and your intellect will grow.'

' But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. - Malachi'

' Jesus taught that the body will shine with beauty if it is anchored above. So will the mind.' ' "Thy faith hath made thee whole."'

' Give glad, joyous praises every night, before going to sleep, to the Most High Good, that the Holy spirit fills your thoughts with ardor, and fires your affairs to splendid achievements.'

' Let Spirit utter itself.' ' By the subtle touch of grace descending, diseases unformulate.' ' Remember, that what you think is a wave of light going through the mental atmosphere of the world, and wherever your true thought strikes, somebody will be lifted off a bed of pain or healed of some sorrow.' -

' I praise God that there is a strong, wise way out of this dilemma.' ' The age of extreme religious sanctity and much checking of freedom is always followed by the license of immodesty and indulgence. Thus, the bondage of all beliefs becomes apparent: It is not Omniscience to believe anything. It is Omniscience to believe all things,which is to believe nothing. It is not Omnipotence to be powerful and dominant others. It is Omnipotence to be the only Power, which is Love. It is not Omnipresence to give instruction to mankind as to what to do and what not to do. It is Omnipresence to 'Let Be' and thus make manifest True Spiritual Being, the idea and demonstration of One Presence.'

' I now speak what I speak from my Jesus Christ Name. So atoms and angels speak a new heaven and a new earth into their own view, empowered by my tongue with its elixirs of fire. I speak and the universe uttereth itself.'

' Look out for zeal without judgement. Go alone by yourself and decide the question. Keep this text: - "God is with me." ' Often you catch the thoughts of others among whom you associate. Therefore, take notice of what your judgment spoke early in the morning. Say: "I am wise in Spirit." ' Earnest, faithful, kind. You express the kindness of the Divine Parent. Your word is: "The Lord God is my sun and shield."

' You have great powers of endurance if you have kept this saying: "I can do all things through Christ." You may be tenacious in your own way when you realize that it is right. Keep this text: "The tongue of the wise is health. "

' The world will persist in exhibiting before you what you persist in affirming the world is. ' ' The man who molds the vital ethers of omnipresence by right thoughts about its bounty brings forth bountifully.'

' Turn away from all events and persons in order to develop the consciousness of a mystic and become God-conscious as an inner identity. I stress the realization of the Perfect Presence, the ONLY Life in which the elevated consciusness does the work. God is all there is; there is no other life. The undifferentiated unity between the person and the world is the essence of the introversive mystical experience.'

"As Mary looked beyond all ideas into the God beyond ideas, she brought forth Jesus Christ." "The Holy Mother Mary will teach you how to love so that all hate shall be melted where you speak and where your face is seen." "The ministry of God is the Spirit of God, the Mother. The Mother is fair and kind and untouched by the name of sin, sickness or death." ' Say 'I do not believe it - not a word.'

'I do not believe that side of the question. I believe in success, victory, prosperity for me, in the name of Jesus Christ.'... you say it to all that troubles you... The old conditions must unglue, let go. God reigns. Believe it.'

' "Be still and know that I am God" Look up to fields white for harvest. so shall old conditions dissolve; so shall the Holy Spirit arrive - white breath that makes strengthening wholeness.' ' God lives in me in His strength and glory, He lives in me as my strength divine. By the light of His love I read life's story, And the key of the world is mine.'

' If God will support a man who spends all his time in spiritual devotions, why not devote your life to the Spirit? If God has all wisdom, why not make God your Counselor, your Guide, your Friend?'

Improving Your Marriage

2007-02-11T05:54:00.000-08:00

Little Tricks to Make Your Marriage Much, Much Happier
Harville Hendrix, PhD

The path to a more loving relationship is tread with small steps -- with an unexpected compliment... the touch of a hand... or a call just to say "hello." You can spend thousands of dollars on a big anniversary bash for your spouse, but the celebration won't mean much if you haven't said "I love you" on the other days of the year.

Some little things that can make your marriage better...

Honor "otherness." The longer we're married, the more we tend to forget that we're married to another person. We begin to think of our spouses as extensions of ourselves -- then we get frustrated when they act in ways that we wouldn't. We say things like, "Why would you do something like that?" or "How can you think that?" These reactions overlook the fact of difference, that our partners are not a part of us and that they have their own reality.
"Otherness" is part of being married -- no two people are completely compatible. Be curious about these differences, not critical. Ask your spouse why he holds an opinion or took a certain action. Don't make him feel that he is wrong. Validate the opinion or action with a response such as, "I can see the sense of that."

Eliminate negativity. If there's something about your relationship or your partner's behavior that you don't like, it rarely helps to complain about it. Instead, ask for what you want.
Examples: Rather than say, "You never take me out to eat," try, "I'd like it if we went out to eat more." Instead of "We don't have sex anymore," say, "I'd like us to have sex more often." Then turn your statement into a dialogue by adding, "What do you think?" This approach makes it less likely that your partner will feel attacked and more likely that you'll get what you want. Strive to eliminate negativity -- it injures your partner and ruptures your connection. Requests change behavior more often than complaints.

Make the bedroom a problem-free zone. Everyone needs a place where he can feel safe and happy. If you and your spouse agree to ban arguments and serious discussions from the bedroom, you will end each day together in a place of serenity. Select another place in your home for serious discussions, such as the living room -- and set a time limit on those discussions.

Acknowledge the little things your partner does for you. Perhaps your spouse makes you breakfast every morning or changes the oil in your car. You might consider such chores to be his responsibilities, but that doesn't free you from your responsibility to express thanks. It's wonderful to have someone in your life who does things for you. The fact that your partner helps you out on a regular basis makes his efforts even more worthy of praise, not something to be ignored. Helpful: When you express gratitude for your spouse's contributions, say it like you mean it and be specific about what you appreciate. A heartfelt statement such as, "I love that you look at me when I am talking. Thank you," means more than an offhand "Thanks."

Take the initiative. We forget that feelings of tenderness between partners don't just happen -- we must take the initiative to remind our spouses that we still love them. What you do to accomplish this isn't terribly important, so long as you do something daily that shows your spouse you're thinking of him. Call her from work on your lunch hour just to say "hello"... bring him a cup of coffee in the morning... or touch her shoulder and say, "I love you," as you walk by.

Touch your partner the way he likes to be touched. Sharing a touch makes us feel closer to each other -- yet few couples take the time to enjoy each other's touch in nonsexual ways. Some people like back rubs... others prefer foot rubs or just a touch on the face. If you're not sure what your partner likes, ask him. Make touch an everyday routine until it becomes second nature.

Laugh together. Share a funny anecdote or cartoon. Do whatever it takes to laugh with your spouse on a regular basis, even if it’s simply watching a humorous movie or television show together. Emotional memories stay with us on a much deeper level than other memories. If you laugh often with your spouse, the whole emotional center of your lives together will improve.

Receive compliments well. Many people don't know how to handle a compliment. If you say that you like his shirt, he might say, "Oh, it's old." People brush off compliments because they have inner doubts about their abilities or they're trying to be modest. If you regularly dismiss compliments from your spouse, you'll hurt his feelings, strain your relationship and bring the compliments to an end. Instead say, "Thank you. I like hearing that and appreciate your noticing." Let your spouse's compliment in and accept the warmth being sent your way.

You Create

2007-02-10T01:24:00.000-08:00

Enjoy this brief movie clip about your ability to create by Christopher Wester

http://icreatereality.com/

2007-02-09T02:51:00.002-08:00

The Secret behind The Secret, by Dale Dwoskin

The law of attraction is a Great Secret of Life.

What is the law of attraction? Simply put, the law of attraction states that “Like attracts like.” What this universal law tells us about our own lives is that the thoughts we think, feelings we feel, words we say, and actions we take all consist of energy that attracts to it more of its own kind. That is, negative energies attract negative energies, and positive energies attract positive energies.

Yet most of us cannot control how we think, feel and behave no matter how hard we try, yet ...We need to let go of the old in order to make room for the new.

There is a simple and effective way to take charge of the law of attraction and easily let go of the old and hold in mind what you want and attract it to you. This technique is used by over one-third of the teachers in The Secret.
Letting go of the old

If we truly have over 50,000 thoughts a day, that’s a lot of thoughts to try to control and make positive. Yet if we “wake up on the wrong side of the bed,” we can have the same feeling the whole day coloring every thought. So it is much more effective to master our emotions than simply trying to control our thoughts.

We are creating the sum total of our thinking and feeling about any particular topic all the time, but most of thinking and feeling is below our conscious awareness in our subconscious. In fact, 94-96% of our actions are motivated by the thoughts and feelings that are outside of our conscious awareness and control. When you let go of your conscious feelings you empty your subconscious and you take back your control.

So, how do you use the law of attraction in your life to produce the results you want?

Letting go of your thoughts and feelings actually dissolves the negative emotional charge and allows you to easily feel the natural feelings of joy, peace, happiness, wealth, and love that are your true nature. You can let go of anything negative and uncover the positive that is natural in each and every one of us at our core. This will quickly and dramatically shift your sum total thinking and feeling about your goals and dreams and allow you to put the law of attraction into full effect in your life. No doubt about it, letting go is the secret behind The Secret.

Remember, to create what you want it is important to feel what you want and not just think it. There is no more effective way to let go of your negative emotions and feel the positive outcome of your goals than with The Sedona Method, a simple, powerful, easy-to-learn technique that shows you how to access your natural ability to let go of any unwanted feeling or thought right in the moment. It has been practiced by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide since 1974, including over one-third of the teachers in The Secret. It is the key to unlocking your unlimited potential to have, be or do whatever you desire to attract into your life.

Now you know the secret behind The Secret. Practice it along with The Secret and you’ll uncover that which mankind has sought since the dawn of time—and the Great Secret of the Ages will truly be yours.

Would you like to make more money, have more loving relationships and more radiant health and well being?

Have you tried programs for positive thinking, visualization, affirmations, motivation or subliminal reprogramming only to be disappointed?

Have you tried to change your attitude in order to have more of what you want and less of what you don't?

Do you feel like you have the talent and drive, but find things just don't seem to go your way?
Are you ready for the secret of unleashing the power of the law of attraction that really works?

If you answered yes to one or more of the above questions, you are ready to unlock your true power. Have you ever noticed that two people with the same background and training, in the same field, often perform very differently? Why? Because of their attitude. Our emotions create our conscious and subconscious thoughts, and our thoughts either put us into action or prevent us from acting. See, hear and feel your negativity dissolve on the spot.
When you perceive you are being held back by your negative thinking, attitude or behavior, whether in staying current with your bills, negotiating that big deal, finding true love, dealing with health challenges planning and achieving your goals or in taking the steps to achieve them, simply ask yourself the easy-to-remember questions.

You will feel the tightness leaving your stomach, shoulders and chest. In its place, you will feel confidence, relaxation and clarity. You will no longer feel negative, anxious or out of control. You will feel more relaxed and able to handle whatever life throws at you more easily. The noise of your mind will subside, and you will have the clarity of mind to say and do what is appropriate and natural in order to master any life situation. You will be thinking positively without any effort, thereby creating abundance emotionally and physically.

You don't have to struggle to maintain a positive mental attitude anymore.
Although using positive thinking, visualization, affirmations, motivation or subliminal reprogramming do seem to work in helping you move in the direction of thinking more positively, you will find there is a better way. We do not have to program positive thinking. All we need to do is to liberate our natural positive nature. This natural positive attitude requires much less effort and struggle to achieve and maintain. Plus, if you truly enjoy working with positive thinking, visualization, affirmations, motivation if you combine them with The Sedona Method the results will be increased exponentially. Let's examine the alternatives to tapping your positive thinking power:

I. You can affirm the positive. Using positive thinking phrases requires a tremendous, continuous effort to remember and repeat the same positive phrases over and over again. It is also just layering positive thoughts on top of the existing negative ones, which clogs your mind with a lot of unnecessary extra noise. Plus, we often have the same feeling all day long which motivates our thoughts while we over 50,000 thoughts a day.

II. II. Subliminal programming. Although it may seem easy just to plop in a subliminal CD and have it reprogram your subconscious, doing this comes with risks. First of all, if you buy pre-made subliminal tapes, you really don't know what is in the subliminal messages. You are at the mercy of the people who created the tape and their consciousness. Not only that, this process really only layers supposedly "positive" thinking on top of the existing negative thoughts, which only clogs your mind with a lot of unnecessary extra noise. Even if you create your own subliminal messages they are already based on doubt and lack of confidence and are only covering over your true power to win.

III. Motivation. Have you ever gotten really pumped up by some motivational presentation only to have it wear off in hours or, at the most, days later? Motivation works only while you are being motivated. It also makes you dependent on someone or something outside of yourself to keep you motivated. Even self-motivation only temporarily overrides the existing negative. Rather then pump yourself up wouldn't you rather free yourself to find the natural wellspring that resides within you here and now.

IV. Visualization Just like with the other forms of positive programming visualization has it's limits and is only covering over your natural ability to succeed and thrive. Plus, it is always based on the past and the know and often the solution to your current problem or the key to achieving your worthy goal is beyond the realm of what you have already experienced.

V. Your key to true positive thinking power and financial freedom-the Sedona Method, an elegant, easy-to-learn, do-it-yourself system that will show you how to tap your natural ability to let go of any negative thought or feeling in the moment. It can be used in life to get immediate relief from the effects of negative thinking whenever it's holding you back from performing at your best. The Sedona Method helps you to easily break the patterns of thought and behavior that cause your self-sabotage to reoccur and prevent you from having what you everything that you choose-including- abundance, love and radiant health and well being.

How It Works: A Sample Releasing Process
There are three ways to approach the process of releasing, and they all lead to the same result: liberating your natural ability to let go of any unwanted emotion on the spot, and allowing some of the suppressed energy in your subconscious to dissipate. The first way is by choosing to let go of the unwanted feeling. The second way is to welcome the feeling, to allow the emotion just to be. The third way is to dive into the very core of the emotion.

Let me explain by asking you to participate in a simple exercise. Pick up a pen, a pencil, or some small object that you would be willing to drop without giving it a second thought. Now, hold it in front of you and really grip it tightly. Pretend this is one of your limiting feelings and that your hand represents your gut or your consciousness. If you held the object long enough, this would start to feel uncomfortable yet familiar.

Now, open your hand and roll the object around in it. Notice that you are the one holding on to it; it is not attached to your hand. The same is true with your feelings, too. Your feelings are as attached to you as this object is attached to your hand.

We hold on to our feelings and forget that we are holding on to them. It’s even in our language. When we feel angry or sad, we don’t usually say, “I feel angry,” or, “I feel sad.” We say, “I am angry,” or, “I am sad.” Without realizing it, we are misidentifying that we are the feeling. Often, we believe a feeling is holding on to us. This is not true… we are always in control and just don’t know it. Now, let the object go.

What happened? You let go of the object, and it dropped to the floor. Was that hard? Of course not. That’s what we mean when we say “let go.” You can do the same thing with any emotion: choose to let it go.

Sticking with this same analogy: If you walked around with your hand open, wouldn’t it be very difficult to hold on to the pen or other object you’re holding? Likewise, when you allow or welcome a feeling, you are opening your consciousness, and this enables the feeling to drop away all by itself—like the clouds passing in the sky or smoke passing up a chimney with the flue open. It is as though you are removing the lid from a pressure cooker.

Now, if you took the same object—a pencil, pen, or pebble—and magnified it large enough, it would appear more and more like empty space. You would be looking into the gaps between the molecules and atoms. When you dive into the very core of a feeling, you will observe a comparable phenomenon: nothing is really there.

As you master the process of releasing, you will discover that even your deepest feelings are just on the surface. At the core you are empty, silent, and at peace—not in the pain and darkness that most of us would assume. In fact, even our most extreme feelings have only as much substance as a soap bubble. And you know what happens when you poke your finger into a soap bubble: it pops. That’s exactly what happens when you dive into the core of a feeling.
Please keep these three analogies in mind as we go through the releasing process together. Releasing will help you to fee yourself from all of your unwanted patterns of behavior, thought and feeling. All that is required from you is being as open as you can be to the process. Releasing will free you to access clearer thinking, yet it is not a thinking process. Although it will help you to access heightened creativity, you don’t need to be particularly creative to be effective at doing it.

You will get the most out of the process of releasing the more you allow yourself to see, hear, and feel it working, rather than by thinking about how and why it works. Lead, as best you can, with your heart, not your head. If you find yourself getting a little stuck in trying to figure it out, you can use the identical process to let go of “wanting to figure it out.” Guaranteed, as you work with this process, you will understand it more fully by having the direct experience of doing it.
So here we go. Choosing to Let Go.Make yourself comfortable and focus inwardly. Your eyes may be open or closed.

Step 1: Focus on an issue that you would like to feel better about, and then allow yourself to feel whatever you are feeling in this moment. This doesn’t have to be a strong feeling. In fact, you can even check on how you feel about this exercise and what you want to get from it. Just welcome the feeling and allow it to be as fully or as best you can.

This instruction may seem simplistic, but it needs to be. Most of us live in our thoughts, pictures, and stories about the past and the future, rather than being aware of how we actually feel in this moment. The only time that we can actually do anything about the way we feel (and, for that matter, about our businesses or our lives) is NOW. You don’t need to wait for a feeling to be strong before you let it go. In fact, if you are feeling numb, flat, blank, cut off, or empty inside, those are feelings that can be let go of just as easily as the more recognizable ones. Simply do the best you can. The more you work with this process, the easier it will be for you to identify what you are feeling.

Step 2: Ask yourself one of the following three questions:

• Could I let this feeling go? • Could I allow this feeling to be here? • Could I welcome this feeling?

These questions are merely asking you if it is possible to take this action. “Yes” or “no” are both acceptable answers. You will often let go even if you say “no.” As best you can, answer the question that you choose with a minimum of thought, staying away from second-guessing yourself or getting into an internal debate about the merits of that action or its consequences.
All the questions used in this process are deliberately simple. They are not important in and of themselves but are designed to point you to the experience of letting go, to the experience of stopping holding on. Go on to Step 3 no matter how you answered the first question.

Step 3: No matter which question you started with, ask yourself this simple question: Would I? In other words: Am I willing to let go?

Again, stay away from debate as best you can. Also remember that you are always doing this process for yourself—for the purpose of gaining your own freedom and clarity. It doesn’t matter whether the feeling is justified, long-standing, or right.

If the answer is “no,” or if you are not sure, ask yourself: “Would I rather have this feeling, or would I rather be free?”
Even if the answer is still “no,” go on to Step 4.

Step 4: Ask yourself this simpler question: When?

This is an invitation to just let it go NOW. You may find yourself easily letting go. Remember that letting go is a decision you can make any time you choose.

Step 5: Repeat the preceding four steps as often as needed until you feel free of that particular feeling.

You will probably find yourself letting go a little more on each step of the process. The results at first may be quite subtle. Very quickly, if you are persistent, the results will get more and more noticeable. You may find that you have layers of feelings about a particular topic. However, what you let go of is gone for good.

A Grand Experiment

2007-02-08T05:53:00.000-08:00

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations. --Rabindranath Tagore

Inspiration of the Day:As she plunked down $4.20 for a Grande Mocha at the local coffee shop, Mary Carlomagno realized her life had gotten way too complicated, with too many distractions, too much stuff and too much technology. She decided it was time for some serious simplification. Each month for an entire year, Mary renounced one thing: shopping, elevators, newspapers, cell phones, dining out, television, taxis, coffee, cursing, chocolate, and multitasking.

"Give It Up!" chronicles Mary's life-changing experiences and provides a commonsense blueprint for anyone looking to simplify their lives, while cherishing each moment and celebrating what really matters. Read her insights from the experiment here. [ more ]

Be The Change:Give something up this month that you've never consciously gone without, and if you'd like, share your experiment here. [ more ]

Charity Focus

A Purpose in Life

2007-02-07T05:44:00.000-08:00

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. --Morrie Schwartz

By salary standards, Dr. Bob Paeglow may be the least-successful doctor in America. Paeglow takes absolutely no salary and survives mostly on donations. Every penny he makes goes back to his patients in one way or another. Fortunately, Paeglow didn't go into medicine for the money. He went into it -- pretty late in life -- because he kept having a vision of himself in old age that he didn't like: "That the world was no better because I was a part of it than if I'd never been born." At the age of 36, Bob gave up his career as a quality control technician, went to medical school and set out to improve the quality of the planet. He opened his office in a neighborhood where most doctors wouldn't open their car door, and welcomed in all the people mainstream medicine would've otherwise likely ignored. [ more ]

Charity Focus

Lost On A Desert Island

2007-02-06T03:30:00.000-08:00

We saw nothing in the way of searching planes or ships. . . . the second day out we organized little evening and morning prayer meetings. . . . Frankly and humbly we prayed for our deliverance. After the oranges were gone, we experienced terrific pangs of hunger, and we prayed for food. We had a couple of little fish lines with hooks about the size of the end of my little finger, but no bait.

Were it not for the fact that I have seven witnesses, I wouldn't dare tell this story because it seems so fantastic. Within an hour after prayer meeting on the eighth day, a sea gull came out of nowhere and landed on my head. I reached up my hand very gently and got him. We wrung his head, feathered him, carved up his carcass and ate every bit, even the little bones. We distributed and used his innards for bait. Captain Cherry caught a little mackerel about six or eight inches long and I caught a little speckled sea bass about the same size, so we had food for a couple of days. . . . That night we ran into our first rainstorm. Usually you try to avoid a black squall, but in this case we made it our business to get into it and catch water for drinking. . . . Later we were able to catch more water and build up our supply. . . .

Eddie Rickenbacker

30 Keys to Change your Destiny Now

2007-02-05T03:59:00.000-08:00

30 Keys to Change YOUR Destiny Now
by Guy Finley

It is a Law: Not of Man’s or of Woman’s — but of Life. Before you can have a different
life; before you can be happier, wiser, more at peace and in quiet command of yourself, you must first be different. Being is everything.

What is Being? Every thing on Earth and in the heavens has Being because — animated or not
All forms are an expression of one great Intelligent, Creative Energy. Even a common rock has Being of a sort. Similarly, all manner of Beings — from rocks to roses —to you and I — all unique expressions of this One Great Energy — possess a nature. The nature of a rock is determined by the natural forces acting upon it. Both the rock’s nature — and its destiny — are predetermined. Its Being is without choice. One day it will be dust.

Neither does the rose, dressed so delicately in its fragrant velveteen petals, have a choice as to its nature. An individual rose can’t choose not to have thorns, or attract bees. Its nature is a fixed expression of its Being.

But human nature, your nature, is not fixed. It can be transformed. That’s what makes us special above all of God’s countless expressions. And this fact empowers us in a very special way. It means, that as a feature of our Being, each of us is created with the power to choose our own destiny. Let’s see how this is possible.

Your Being is in a constant process of unfolding. That it will unfold is not your choice. Being is a gift you can’t refuse. It came with birth. But how the rest of your life unfolds is something you can influence. It’s called making choices. Being empowered to have a real voice in your life-choices is what this booklet is all about.

But, before you can learn how to change your destiny, you must first realize that secret place within yourself where your own future is created. You must consciously enter that place of power where Being and your present nature meet; that place where all of your life-choices are made for you. It’s called the Present Moment: The Now. And this Now is the seed of all that comes later. The following paragraph helps us see into this great mystery.

It’s only what you do right this moment, right Now, that’s the seed of personal change. And in the endless beauty and mystery of what is the Now, this same seed of change is also the seed of your New and Higher Nature.

Grasp the meaning of the next sentence, fully, and you’ll have your first glimpse of just one of the special ways in which The Power of the Present Moment can help you change your destiny.
If you choose to change right Now, then you won’t have to worry about how to be different next time!

In fact, choose to change Now, and that moment will never come for you to worry about how to be better next time. Why? Because your conscious choice for real change in the present moment automatically cancels the need for a better you in a better future. Why? Because all will be better for you Now, which is the only time it really matters!

Make it your moment to moment practice to stay awake, and to watch for all the opportunities that your own Now presents. Keep your efforts personal, practical, and to the point. If your inner work doesn’t transform the whole of your life into a more relaxed, amazing, and uplifting experience, then you’re dreaming; not changing. To help you begin this important process of using The Power of the Present Moment for personal transformation, the remainder of this booklet is designed to reveal the countless opportunities each day presents for you to be free Now.

I’ve created a list of thirty ways in which your awareness of the power of Now can transform each challenging life-moment into a new and true beginning for you. Learning how to use these moments leads to real inner change, which is the same as being in command of your own destiny. For best results, read the following list of 30 Keys all the way through without stopping. Then, go back over the individual points which hold some special meaning for you. Make notes of your impressions. Add to each of these insights any personal details which might help make that particular lesson more meaningful to you.
Here’s an encouragement. Your efforts to contribute to these studies turn their revelations into a part of your own evolving Nature. And as you awaken to this Higher Life within yourself, you naturally attract higher and happier events. There is no such thing as a wasted step when your final destination is self transformation.

1. Now Is Always The Time To:
STEP OUT OF THE RUSH AND INTO YOUR OWN LIFE
Special Insight: Dare to slow down. Just do it. Here’s help. See that even at a million miles an hour, anxious thoughts and feelings still take you no-where. If you want to find what is timeless, dare to live as though you have all the time in the world. Go ahead. Step out of the rush. Step out Now.

2. Now Is Always The Time To:
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE EXPERIENCE
Special Insight: The way you feel toward what you meet in life is a direct expression of who you are. And who you are is exactly the same as what you secretly value. Being willing to see you feel the way you do, because you treasure what you do, is what it means to take responsibility for your life.

3. Now Is Always The Time To:
REFUSE TO BE SELF COMPROMISING
Special Insight: Drop any thought or action that creates conflict in the present moment for the promise of a better feeling to come. Your True Nature is Now. There is no later. You can’t be divided and be content. Choose to be whole. Begin by consciously refusing to compromise yourself.

4. Now Is Always The Time To:
REMEMBER YOU’RE NOT THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD
Special Insight: It may feel like it, but you’re not the only one who suffers! That’s why you mustn’t be afraid to take a good look at — and really consider — another human being. This will help you be less wrongly concerned with the way you feel about yourself — which will come as welcome relief. Remember, you’re not the only one in the world.

5. Now Is Always The Time To:
GO BEYOND THE BEST THAT YOU THINK YOU CAN
Special Insight: Anybody can do what everybody else does — which is usually the minimum to get the maximum. You do more. Take the step you’re sure you can’t. You’ll discover that the “you” who could not is only a thought that believes it can not. See this. Then get going beyond yourself.

6. Now Is Always The Time To:
REALIZE THERE’S NO GAIN IN BLAME
Special Insight: When your feet ache because your shoes are too tight, you don’t complain that someone else made you put them on. So why blame another when it’s your feelings that are hurting you? If wearing painful emotions means you have to bear their pressure, then dare to drop them. You’ll feel better. There’s no gain, only pain, in blame.

7. Now Is Always The Time To:
HAVE A LIGHT SPIRIT
Special Insight: The heart tends to feel heavy when the mind says things aren’t the way they ought to be. But your True Nature is neither thought nor emotion. You are Spirit. And your Spirit is always Light Hearted. It knows better than to look for, or find, Itself in a dark thought. Look at life through its eyes. Be Light Spirited.

8. Now Is Always The Time To:
STEP DOWN AS JUDGE
Special Insight: The easiest thing in the world is to walk around unconsciously feeling superior to everyone you meet. But with what do you measure? A critical spirit? A judgmental mind? What kind of eyes have to look down on another to convince themselves of up? Step down as judge.

9. Now Is Always The Time To:
FACE THOSE FEARFUL FEELINGS
Special Insight: There is really no such thing as a shaky situation, so any time you start to tremble, don’t look around you for the fault: Look inward. It’s the inner-ground you’re standing on that isn’t solid. Any weakness faced by looking in this new direction becomes the foundation of a new strength. Face those fearful feelings. Fearlessness follows.

10. Now Is Always The Time To:
HELP SOMEONE ELSE GO HIGHER
Special Insight: There’s no such thing as a separate self, so anything you do to encourage another person to do better, or go farther, is the same as helping yourself go higher. So, give yourself a lift up. Try a little kindness even if you’re not feeling that way at the moment. Then you will. Help someone else go Higher.

11. Now Is Always The Time To:
RELEASE ALL RESENTMENTS
Special Insight: It’s very important for you to see that holding on to some hurt, or hatred, over what others may have done to you in the past, makes you their slave in the here and Now. Is that what you want? Learn to ask for something new by refusing to relive what’s been tearing at you. This Higher request releases you from raging resentments.

12. Now Is Always The Time To:
DO WHAT IS TRUE REGARDLESS OF THE
CONSEQUENCES
Special Insight: Choosing what’s true in spite of fearing what that choice may cost you, is the same as giving yourself a fearless life. Here’s why: Nothing you’re afraid of losing can ever be the source of your fearlessness. Do what’s true regardless of the consequences. All you can lose is fear.

13. Now Is Always The Time To:
LET THE EMPTY SPACE FILL ITSELF
Special Insight: Nothing you’ve ever done has filled the emptiness you feel inside, so stop giving yourself empty things to do. Leave the space empty. This allows it to fill itself — which it wants to do — with something you can’t give yourself: The end of feeling empty. Stay out of it. Don’t fill the emptiness. Let the empty space fill itself.

14. Now Is Always The Time To:
STOP EXPLAINING YOURSELF TO OTHERS
Special Insight: The only difference between the need to endlessly explain your life to others — and feeling as though you have to excuse yourself for being alive — is that while you’re explaining yourself, at least it feels like you have a good reason for being excused. You’re not required to explain yourself to anyone. Stop Now.

15. Now Is Always The Time To:
LAUGH IN THE FACE OF DEFEAT
Special Insight: It is a fact: Defeat is nothing but a bad memory. And no memory has any real life of its own. This means that the only time you have to feel the pain of any defeat is if you ask for it — by going into troubled thought about some painful past loss. You can have the last laugh on defeat. Stay in the Present Moment. Learn to laugh Now.

16. Now Is Always The Time To:
FOLLOW WHAT YOU LOVE
Special Insight: Put what you love first. The rest of your life will take care of itself because Love always finds a way. Love never considers fear. And with Love as your guide, your success in life is assured since Its Nature is already the perfect prize. Follow what you love. You’re sure to find a happy heart.

17. Now Is Always The Time To:
Start Your Life All Over
Special Insight: Any time you choose, you can start your whole life over. And you can have just as many new beginnings as you’re willing to leave behind you all of your ideas about yourself. That’s what it means to start all over. Life can only be as new as you choose to be. Wake up. Start your life over Now.

18. Now Is Always The Time To:
KEEP YOUR CHIN UP
Special Insight: Even if all of your thoughts are going that way, tell your chin not to fall down. As it obeys, it gives a message to your head: Hold yourself up high! And so your head helps your eyes to keep looking forward, where they can at last see that your thoughts are often blind. Keep your chin up. Consciousness likes heights. Dare to follow!

19. Now Is Always The Time To:
LET IT GO
Special Insight: You’ve been trying to run your own show and, so far, it’s pretty much been just a nightmare with entertaining intermissions! Let something Higher have Its hand at directing your life. Let your show go. Then watch for a happy ending coming soon.

20. Now Is Always The Time To:
STOP LOOKING OUTSIDE OF YOURSELF
Special Insight: Your Life is only as complete as you are. No more, no less. Looking to relationships, your work, or even happy events for a feeling of self wholeness is like trying to put a smile on your face in the mirror — while you’re still frowning. Being complete is first an Understanding, and then a feeling. Stop looking outside of yourself. Seek the understanding. Seek it within. The feeling will follow.

21. Now Is Always The Time To:
HAVE YOUR OWN LIFE
Special Insight: There is no pleasing the
fear you may displease others. Allowing
what others may feel about what you want
… to change the way you feel about that same
want … is like believing someone else can put on your sweater, and that you’ll feel the warmth! The only real pleasure comes from knowing that you have your own life. Take you life back Now.

22. Now Is Always The Time To:
PUT YOUR LIFE IN PERFECT ORDER
Special Insight: Without the raindrop, there is no ocean. The river runs to the sea because each stream finds, and fills, its course. There is an Order, it’s clear: From the small is born the Mighty, and the small is small no more. Remember each day of your life, there’s already an Order. Let go into its flow. And there you’ll find you’re small no more.

23. Now Is Always The Time To:
JUMP INTO THE BATTLE
Special Insight: True strength is the flower of Wisdom, but Its seed is action. To learn, you must jump into the battle. Fear not. You can’t be hurt in this fight. Here’s why. Any weakness voluntarily met is the same as greeting a greater strength. Never let a fearful thought keep you from this New Strength. Enter the battle Now!

24. Now Is Always The Time To:
DISCOVER THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR
HEAD AND YOUR HEART
Special Insight: You can’t think yourself into happiness, but you can sink yourself with a single dark thought. Right, bright emotions spring from the heart. Heavy feelings can’t exist without the presence of negative thoughts. This means sad states are just a trick of the mind! To see through any state of sadness, see the difference between the head and the heart.

25. Now Is Always The Time To:
LOOK UP!
Special Insight: A lamp without a light is as useless as a bottomless bucket. So too is this life empty without a sense of the Sacred. The Celestial is always present. Why wait until you feel down before you think to look up? You can always glimpse the Higher, but you have to remind yourself to look in the right direction. Look up! Look Now.

26. Now Is Always The Time To:
GET ONE THING DONE
Special Insight: Never mind how much there is to do. Or how hard some task appears to be. Get one thing done! Then, take that step again. Consciously brush aside any other concerns. Do what’s in your power. Refuse to deal with what’s not. The most beautiful tapestry in the world begins and ends with one of ten thousand individual threads.

27. Now Is Always The Time To:
GO QUIET
Special Insight: The frantic search for any answer only delivers answers on the same frantic level. Don’t be afraid to go quiet. It’s OK to not know. Knowing that you don’t know what to do puts you where you need to be to learn. Just as you can see farther on a clear day, new understanding flowers in a quiet mind. Go quiet Now.

28. Now Is Always The Time To:
SEPARATE THE FACT FROM THE FEAR
Special Insight: The fact of any problem, and the fearful feeling about it, are separate issues appearing as one. They merge only in a thought telling you one can’t exist without the other; which is like thinking you can’t feel a chill without having the plague. The fear you feel over any situation is the same as your demands upon it. Separate facts from fears Now.

29. Now Is Always The Time To:
CATCH YOURSELF IN THE ACT
Special Insight: The problem with acting out any role is that your life can’t be both a show and be real. Wanting and winning the attention of others with a performance of any kind doesn’t make the performer real, any more than smiling at yourself in the mirror makes you loving. Life is only Real when you are. Catch yourself in the act. Then just drop it.

30. Now Is Always The Time To:
KNOW THAT THE TIME IS ALWAYS NOW
Special Insight: You can’t change the kind of person you are later. There is no later. It’s always now or never. You can’t be kind later. And you can’t learn later. But even when you can’t succeed with starting your life over, keep this one Truth in mind:
You can always start over again. The time to change your destiny is Now!
You Can Change Your Destiny.

1. Your decision to be free begins right now.
2. Never believe that you must learn to live with anything that torments you.
3. Self compromise is the same as self sorrow.
4. All the pure powers that form the foundation of true freedom are already in place within you.
5. Stop thinking in terms of where you want to go, and begin thinking in terms of who you need to be.
6. Drop all thoughts that anxiously instruct you to give yourself away today, so that tomorrow you might have what you need to own yourself.
7. A change of nature is not evolutionary, it is voluntary.

Guy Finley

Imagination: The Most Powerful Force

2007-01-31T03:09:00.000-08:00

Albert Einstein said that imagination is the greatest creative force. Why would such a great man say something that sounds so silly and trivial? Look at those words again: 'greatest creative force'. Imagination? Not education? Nor money? Nor luck?

Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, said that imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known. Before you pass him away as a crackpot, know that Mr. Hill was an advisor to two U.S. presidents, was commissioned by the great and wealthy Andrew Carnegie to teach people about making their dreams come true, and has been thanked by many of the greatest people around the world for the success he helped them achieve. People like F. W. Woolworth (founder of Woolworth's), Woodrow Wilson (former U.S. President), George Eastman (founder of Kodak), W. M. Wrigley, JR. (Wrigley's), and many others have used his teachings to manifest their dreams.
Imagination is the force that takes you to places you have never been.

Henry Ford relied on imagination and belief.

Walt Disney said that had he not seen Disneyland in his mind, the rest of the world would not have seen it on earth.

Bill Gates first imagines his products before they become actual software that we rely on.

And it would serve you well to remember that many of the world's greatest people started with nothing and built empires. They had a dream. And the universe conspired, as it always does, to let them experience their imagination. The universe always lets you experience your imagination, whatever it may be.

The Bible says 'As a man thinketh, so shall he become'. It also says 'Without vision we perish'.
Your mind's images are literally the blueprint from which your world is built.

Your mind is infinite. What are your limits? What are limits, except those that you say are so? Why else would two different people have different 'limits'?

Life is images of the mind, expressed. What this means is that Life, The Source, uses your thoughts, your mental images, as the instructions by which to create your reality in the material world. Life expresses your mental images into physical reality. To express is to make known, to state, articulate, communicate, convey. The force of Life makes known your thoughts to yourself and everyone else by forming them into experiences and objects that can be experienced, here in the physical world. You experience your own thoughts first hand, your images of your mind, so that you may know which ones are suitable and which ones are not.

That is how you know yourself, that is how you experience your self, and that is how you grow. This is the supreme purpose of this physical world that we are now in. It is designed to enable you to experience your Self. It is designed to enable you to experience an idea and its effects and consequences.

Life does not select which ones of your images to express and which ones not to. How would it choose for you? It therefore expresses all of them to the extent that you have them and believe them. You have true free will. This free will is truly free because of the fact that all of it is acted upon without filtering or favoring. Free will is truly free because of the fact that it actually gets results all the time, not just some of the time, and it gets them exactly.

Your ideas, visions and dreams, whatever they may be, are the prophecies of what you shall one day become and achieve. You can predict your outer life tomorrow by looking at your inner self today. You can change your tomorrow by changing your inner self today.
As you think, there do you find yourself. You attract the people that have something to teach you in line with your thoughts, people who have something to learn from you in line with your thoughts, and you repel those who have nothing more to learn from you and give you in line with your thoughts. The same goes for places and conditions, situations and environments.

Many things influence your imagination - past fears, desires, poor mental training, lack of awareness, sub-personalities, lack of goals - any much more. But anything that influences your imagination is under your control. You can stop it simply by becoming aware of it and releasing it. And this is where awareness, consciousness, comes in as the key to clearing your mind of the debris that brings suffering to you and sabotages your success.

David Cameron

Only the Good is Real

2007-01-21T07:19:00.000-08:00

We have progressed to the point in our human evolution where we can begin to see that all is good. We do make mistakes, but these mistakes are just lessons about our futile search for happiness in an ignorant manner.

Therefore we can make four denials: 1.There is no evil, only error or undeveloped good 2. There is no such thing as dead matter, all is alive 3. Pain, sickness, poverty, deformity and death cannot master me, because I have grown out of the belief in them and made them into steps of growth for me 4. There is nothing in all the universe to make me afraid. Only Good exists anywhere, unless I am like a blindfolded child crying that there is no light.

In denying the power of fear, I assert my power over everything. When you grasp this power, you may experience chemicalization and feel sick briefly because you have stirred up the dregs of old beliefs with new living light. Truth disturbs error. Even Christ said I come not to bring peace but a sword. I stand resolutely in the conviction that nothing can discourage me. I am standing on the ground of the eternal good. I am becoming a tower of strength and a center of attraction. I am an uplifting silent influence.

Your child may disobey you but do not punish him, just lay your hand of confidence in the good upon his forehead and say silently “There is no evil.” There are no sinners or failures, just misguided searchers for happiness.

“I am not so negative as to be angry.” I fight nothing. My neighbor’s anger or unjust acts are just a temporary mistake. I dwell upon the idea that only the good is real.

Not an atom in my body was there 3 months ago.
I replace all of the old worn out atoms in my body with new atoms bearing the stamp of immortality. Every new vital truth that I envision changes my body into immortality. My thoughts weaken or strengthen my body. Disease and old age are the result of sick thoughts.

There is no evil. There is no matter to drag me down. All is spirit, all is light, all is infinitely good. There is nowhere guilt can grasp my mind to pull me down. I desire the good, I see the good, I am one with the good.

I recognize and let go of all limiting beliefs. Health is mine, there is no disease. I am free from pain, poverty and fear. My life is boundless. I am health. I am strength. I am intelligent. I am great. I am beautiful. I am prosperous. I have the power of infinite understanding. I am now that which I desire to be. My soul is growing ever more aware of my godlike nature.

When I believe in evil, my growth is retarded. With intelligent awareness, infinite happiness is possible. All is good, I am not afraid. In essence I am already that which I desire to be. I re-educate myself every day with new vitality and new understanding and new atoms.

Not one in a hundred people know that they can think or that their thoughts control their lives. You can turn your back on all of the false beliefs you have ever learned. There is a well-spring of original thought within you. Within the acorn there is an oak tree. Within the cocoon there is a butterfly. Within you there is the unlimited good of God.

Your desires are good, even though at times they are focused poorly. Desires are the voice of God within you, calling you to greater awareness. Imagination is the mother of desire. Doubt can strangle imagination. You have the right to question everything. You have the right to doubt and to question. You have the right to know the truth and to be set free from the false.

It is not our desires that have to be overcome, but our false beliefs about them. We must follow our desires until they lead us past our false beliefs in limitation to our divinity. Desire for more is the spirit of growth in man.

We have believed more in our fears than in our desires. God gave us desires, we gave ourselves fears. Intelligence destroys fears when it follows desires. Intelligence desires health, freedom, love, beauty and the infinite good. False beliefs (ignorance) deny the power of desire and remain stuck in fears and doubts.

There is a fountain of intuitional knowing within you. Ask yourself a question, turn within and listen. There is a strange living substance within you that knows no disease, no sin, no poverty, no death, that knows nothing but prosperity, health, strength and vitality. We have an inner mind that knows all things and an outer surface mind that keeps us focused outwardly. This inner mind does not desire or remember sickness and death. Tap into this inner mind. It is the source of all power and knowledge.

Helen Wilmans

The Most Dangerous Time to Be Alive

2007-01-09T05:54:00.000-08:00

We live in the most exciting, the most revolutionary, the most creative, the most challenging, and the most dangerous time the world has ever seen. Scientific genius combined with the arcane implications of mystical revelation has brought us to a crisis of perception, a decisive turning point where old structures must terminate or change.

It is not my intention to either perpetuate or debunk traditional religions – Christianity, Buddhism, Hebraism, Islam, metaphysical or existential philosophies – but rather to explore and help initiate a new, non-sectarian “global myth” that will define the future.

If we are to prosper we have to perceive something that has never been seen before. We must literally close the gap between our divinity and our humanity, between the visible and the invisible. and between consciousness and form.”

At this point, we, and the world in general, are in a state of free fall. Objectively there isn’t anything permanent for us to hang onto of a material or intellectual nature. We cannot find security in our bank accounts, our physical health, our mental storehouses, our governments, the teachings of the past, or anything else external to ourselves. If we curl up out of fear in free fall, we will spin helplessly out of control. On the other hand, if we do not panic, but instead stretch out our arms and trust that which we have within ourselves to protect us, we will not only glide down with a modicum of control, but we might enjoy the ride as well.

Walter Starcke

History Starts Now

2007-01-06T02:10:00.000-08:00

Got a package full of Wishes
A Time machine, a Magic Wand
A Globe made out of Gold

What kind of world do you want
Think Anything
Let's start at the start
Build a masterpiece
Be careful what you wish for
History starts now

John Andrasik

Serving

2006-12-27T04:49:00.000-08:00

“Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.”

~Mahatma Gandhi

A Christmas Letter to You

2006-12-24T01:49:00.000-08:00

Dear Reader,

There comes a time in the evolution of every spiritual being, along
that sometimes dark road that leads to enlightenment, when their
inner yearnings, struggles and frustrations bring them to a truth
that could not have otherwise been achieved. And so, beloved, I
come this holy day with such a truth, though it may hurt eyes that
have been shut too long.

Reaching this milestone was inevitable, for the light that will
dawn hereafter is not only what you have summoned, but what all now
seek. And with your blessing and recognition it will bathe those
who follow in your footsteps and the burden they bear shall be
lessened.

If it's not yet obvious to you, the real reason for this season is
you, my dear reader. A more perfect child of the Universe has never
lived. Until now, only a celebration cloaked in myth and mystery
could hint at your sublime heritage and divine destiny. You are
life's prayer of becoming, and its answer. You are the first light at the
dawn of eternity, drawn from the ether, so that the Universe might
know its depths, discover its heights, and frolic in endless seas
of blessed emotion.

You are a pioneer into illusion, an adventurer into the unknown, and a
lifter of veils. You are courageous, heroic and exalted by billions in the
unseen.

You are here to give beyond reason, to care beyond hope, to love without limits, to reach, stretch, and dream in spite of your fears. These are the
hallmarks of divinity - traits of the immortal - your badges of
honor, and your ticket home.

This is the time of year we celebrate who you are.

Merry Christmas,
The Universe

Together with Divine Love,

Wellington Tan

Reich on Trial

2006-11-29T04:54:00.000-08:00

Robert Anton Wilson

(The scene: Wilhelm Reich is on trial in Hell. The trial looks in all respects like a 3-ring circus, complete with jugglers, acrobats, fire-eaters, etc. The prosecuting attorneys are the Marquis de Sade and Count von Sacher-Masoch, both of whom are dressed as clowns. The Ringmaster (Satan) presides as judge.

Early on in the trial, Dr. Reich introduced as evidence a Computer which continually monitors the growth of the worldwide nuclear weapons stockpile. The Computer emits an ear-splitting whistle every time there is an increment in firepower equivalent to the original Hiroshima bomb.....)
SADE: Why did you rebel against Freud?
REICH: (slowly) I rebelled against Freud because he was a coward.
SADE: A coward? The man who challenged all the taboos of his age?
REICH: He back-tracked, he evaded, he weaseled. He would not say flatly what his theories all implied.
SADE: You mean he did not share your Utopian fantasies.
REICH: Look at the photos of him; look at that jaw.
The Computer whistles again.
REICH:Look at his expression, those clenched teeth. He was holding back -- and I tell you, all of you, that is why he got cancer of the jaw finally. He wouldn't speak what he knew. He held it in, behind those clenched teeth, until it killed him.
SADE: And what is the truth Freud dared not speak?
REICH: Everybody knows it by now. Look at the crime news on TV --
REICH: or go into the emergency clinics and talk to the rape victims. Talk to the battered wives and the abused children. Our whole species is mad, emotionally plagued. We have been mad so long that every attempt to break out of the Trap just unleashes unconscious rage and increases the violence.
REICH: We all know we're in the Trap, but nobody knows how to get out of it. We attack each other thinking that's the way out.
SADE: What? That is the truth Freud dared not speak? I thought he said all that in Civilization and its Discontents.
REICH:He would not say there was a way out of the Trap -- one way only --
SADE: Your way, of course.
REICH:The way I discovered, gradually, after many mistakes.
SADE: Which is?
REICH:Work on the breathing and the muscle tensions. And tell people frankly that there is no metaphysical Good and Evil in the human world any more than there is in the animal world or the chemical world or the physical world of gravity and mass.
SADE: Hedonistic materialism, in short. The permissive society.
REICH: Not permissiveness. Sanity. If a child is a nuisance, tell him so. Tell him his behavior is annoying. But never, never make a metaphysical moral issue out of it. Never, never say anything is sinful or wrong in a cosmic sense. Never pass on the lunacey, the Emotional Plague, that has come down to us from ages of superstition and barbarism.
SADE: A world without morals. Anarchy. That is what you mean?
REICH: It is not anarchy. It is what every person with an ounce of sanity knows. Nobody is to blame for anything. We are all in the mess together because our ancestors were mad and a mad society has passed on their repression from generation to generation.
SADE: And the things I did before I was brought here and cured? They were not Evil?
REICH: You enjoyed feeling Evil because it made you seem heroic. The humiliating truth, Marquis, is that you were merely ill.
SADE: And Hitler was merely ill?
REICH: That is the horror of the situation. We all know it by now, but we cannot remember. We repress it and go on blaming one another -- we forget what we know, because remembering it means remembering that we are robots, too -- that we have all been crippled in different ways by trying to live in the imaginary world of morals instead of the real world of nature.
SADE: So we just teach people how to breathe properly and relax their muscles and we will have Utopia?
REICH: No. I never said it was that easy. I said it was almost impossible, but we had to try, if there was to be any chance of survival at all. Removing the Emotional Plague is just like removing bubonic plague. It will take decades of work all over the world by thousands of specialists. But if we don't try --
REICH: We must understand that every moral idea is strictly a hallucination. It creates guilt which creates muscular tension, which creates rage. That leads to further armoring, to hold the rage in. That leads to all the psychosomatic illnesses that orthodox medicine can't cure and to all the social pathologies around us. Rape. Child-beating. War.
REICH: (excited, beginning to harangue) You compared me to Rousseau. Yes, in the Age of Reason, he had to recreate the myth of Eden again; he called it the Noble Savage. A hundred years later, Marx had to recreate it: he called it the primitive matriarchy, before private property. Eden is always recreated, because we know there is a natural grace and a natural way of life we have lost. We lost it through the invention of Good and Evil. As soon as we believed we were sinners, the Trap closed on us. We accepted the sin and punished ourselves. Or we projected the sin outward and punished scapegoats.
REICH: (rage bursting through) Masochism or sadism -- those were the only choices once we believed in Good and Evil, once we believed in Sin. We are animals. We are no more guilty than a dog, a cat, a horse, a chipmunk. Everybody has known it since Darwin. But we are still in the Trap.
SADE: You really hate the Morality that caused you to kill your parents.
REICH: It is causing the whole human race to kill its children! We cannot see what we are doing. We have been robbed blind by our damned Morality.
SADE: Your Almightiness, the prosecution rests. We believe it is obvious, out of his own mouth, that the defendant is a menace to civilization as we know it.
REICH: Wait! Do you know why that moment in nature is so precious, that moment of peace and oneness?
RINGMASTER: The defendant will not speak at this time.
REICH: It is a moment beyond Good and Evil!
RINGMASTER: You can argue that later. Fifteen minute recess. Then we will hear the case for the defense. (He rises)
MASOCH: All rise!
REICH: Listen to me a moment! That moment of peace, that moment in Nature, beyond Good and Evil -- that is the essence of us. Our core. Our true selves. We normally never feel it because --
RINGMASTER: Clear the Court!
REICH: because our muscles hold it down. Our muscles are chronically tense, it is so chronic that we never notice it. We only notice the peace when on a rare moment the tension relaxes. What do you think the Drug Culture is all about? Relaxing the muscular armor, getting rid of that tension for a few hours, or a few moments.
ACROBATS go down into the audience and persuade people to leave. They are very polite, like well-trained policemen, and become very threatening (in a polite way) with those unwilling to leave while REICH is still talking.
REICH: We are diseased -- dis-eased. We have lost touch with natural feeling. When the Life Force tries to break through the muscular armor, it gets deflected, I say, and comes out dis-eased and violent. That's why all political revolutions fail. That's why there are no political solutions. That's why
RINGMASTER: Silence the defendant.
MASOCH and SADE "beat" REICH with bladders again and drag him offstage right.
REICH: (as he goes) You can't feel naturally. You can't see what you are doing, or what is being done around you. You are robots. Robots. All of you. All of you.

From Ego to Self

2006-11-17T04:10:00.000-08:00

*Ego Attitude Versus Spiritual Attitude

Attack….fear Love
Selfish Selfish/Selfless Balance
Holds grudge Forgiveness
Top dog/Underdog Equality
Competition Cooperation
Judgment Spiritual Discernment
Guilt Innocence
Self-righteousness Personal Opinion
Life as War Life as School
Fights Universe Accepts Lessons
Life is a Bummer Life has Challenges
Problems Opportunities
Pessimistic Optimistic
Insecurity, self-doubt Self-Confidence
Powerless, out of control Self-mastery
Anger and depression Emotional invulnerability
Neediness, dependency Preference, want
Victim Master
At effect At cause, choice, creator
Self-pity Takes responsibility
Impatience Patience
Suffering Joyous, happy
Reacts Responds
Hurt Invulnerable
Sees sin Sees mistakes
Attachment Involved detachment
Laziness, procrastination Discipline
Jealous, lacking Whole, complete, non-attached
Law of the jungle What you sow, you reap
Makes demands Asks
Moody Positive mood all the time
Self-punishment Self-love and forgiveness
Mistakes are negative Mistakes are positive
Ego-sensitive Unchanging self-worth
Giving is losing Giving is winning
Stealing is gaining Stealing is losing
Rejection fears Remaining centered, whole
Self-centered One team
Intimidates Uses power appropriately
Automatic pilot Consciously creating life
Over or under-indulgent Balance, integration, moderation
Past thoughts, future fears Now-present centered
Lonely Finds wholeness in self
Stranger Brothers and sisters
Embarassment No judgment of self or others
Martyr Selfish/selfless balance
Gossip Remain quiet if you have a judgment
What will others think? Inner-directed, non-conformist
Worry, anxiety Faith, trust in self, Higher Power
Indecisive Decisive
Envy Happiness/joy in other’s abundance
Attached to others’ lessons Responsible only for own lessons
Comparisons Not insecure, inner-directed
Undeserving Deserving
Sickness Ability to handle dis-ease,let it go
Sexuality: no love or affection Sexuality with intimacy and love
Poverty consciousness Prosperity consciousness
Arrogance and insecurity Humble and self-confident
Sullen, serious and over-involved Humor, objectivity, perspective
Fault-finder Builder and lifter of others
Rebellious or conforming Inner-directed
Curses Blesses
Scattered Focused, purposeful
Fear of failure or success Successful
Aggressive Assertive
Harsh Gentle
Emotional Roller-Coaster Emotional Stability
Disorganized Organized
Bored Interested, not enough time
Abandonment Whole, complete within self
Sadness and Grief Involved detachment
Disappointed Involved detachment
Rationalizes and makes excuses Self-honesty, tough love
Immature honesty Spiritual honesty
Tell people off Speak the truth in love
Needs center stage or hides in fear Able to judge to suit occasion
Conditional love Unconditional love
Rejecting Accepting and supportive
Lessons as punishments Lessons as gifts
Dog eat dog world School for spiritual evolution
Power versus surrender Power plus surrender
Limited Unlimited
Intolerant Tolerant
Conflict Peace
Illusions Truth
Hypocritical Consistent, honest
Despair Hope
Close-minded Open-minded
Distrustful Trust in self and others
Defensive Nothing to hide or defend

The big question is “How do you get from ego attitudes to spiritual attitudes?“

Brief Mission Statement for My Anxiety Therapy website: www.myanxietytherapy.com

The mission of this website is to offer a new paradigm for the positive meaning of anxiety for our time. The revolutionary good news is that anxiety is a friend in disguise offering a painful wake-up call so long as we ignore or resist its life-giving message. Anxiety-recognition, anxiety-analysis, anxiety re-diagnosis and anxiety-transformation are conscious steps on your spiritual journey of enlightenment. Read the enclosed attachment and/or email me for more information at drjoe@shentel.net

*Adapted from material by Josuha Stone and Nick Armstrong

Getting beyond our Comfort Zone

2006-11-09T02:22:00.000-08:00

You know you ought to leave your job and move on to greener pastures, but who's to say you'll find anything better?

If this scenerio strikes you as remotely familiar, you know what it means to hit the "terror barrier" — that defining moment when you are challenged to move outside your comfort zone and you don't feel like it. Not one bit. So it's a struggle between one impulse (to just lay low) and another impulse (to follow through).

The fact remains: If we want to reach the goal, whatever that goal is, at some point we must get out of our comfort zone and enter uncharted water.

But how do you do that...

How do you blast past the Terror Barrier?

You run out into the water, lured by the beauty of the ocean and the excitement of an invigorating swim. A little way out, the waves start breaking on you, repeatedly nudging you back toward shore... Sometimes with such force that they knock you right off your feet. You might want to give in and just let the waves carry you back. It's hard work getting through the rough surf. But when you plunge forward and keep swimming, soon enough, the waves are breaking behind you.

And a crystal blue infinity lies before you.

Whenever we move off in a new direction, we predictably are beset by waves of doubt, insecurity, worry, and uncertainty. It feels as if it will be much better — definitely much easier — to head for shore and back to the way things were. We long for the familiar and put off charging forward because, in that moment, going forward is unknown. It can feel scary and unsafe as we leave our comfort zone, as we start to plunge into the surf.

If you are not growing....you are dying

Yet we need to remember that the comfort zone is the most dangerous place to be. If we're not plunging forward, we're not growing. And in this world, if we're not growing, we're dying.

Everything, from the lowliest plant and plankton to every person on this planet, is blossoming, unfolding, blooming, or growing in some way, or it's withering and dying away. This is simply a natural principle in the world.

Realize all goals are spiritual goals.

Humans are both biological and spiritual beings. The spirit desires expansion — that's where we get the idea to attain a goal in the first place. Our biology, however, dictates that we seek security and safety — that's why we feel resistance to anything unfamiliar. So the spiritual impulse is to grow, and the biological impulse is to keep things as they are.

Desire and aspiration are spiritual impulses; safety and comfort are biological ones. Is there some way to honor both? In reaching for a goal, perhaps not. But eventually, the bio-self can be convinced that even the spirit's flights of fancy sometimes bring more comfort and safety. Leaving a job you hate may mean a temporary interruption in income, but could bring you a whole new career with better income potential, or better longevity because you love it, or improved skills that can lead to even more exciting professional opportunities.

Carefully saving money and investing it wisely can bring plenty of the physical comforts life has to offer. Honestly dealing with issues in relationships often leads to greater trust and security within the relationship, whether it's with a child, a friend, a parent, or a romantic partner.

Imagine that your comfort zone encircles your reality. You have a circle around you, which outlines your life, defines your limits. When you start pushing at that circle, the whole thing starts shaking. When you break through to a new level, let's say in the area of relationships, the circle doesn't crumble or warp; the circumference expands to encompass a whole new realm of possibilities and capabilities in other areas, too.

And what if things don't turn out as you'd planned?

Was it all for nothing? No, simply engaging in the process of pursuing a goal has its own rewards — even if you don't reach the goal. Helen Keller once said, "Any time a door closes, a new door opens." Unfortunately, most people spend so much energy griping about the closed door that they don't see all the other open doors around them.

Realize that pursuit of any worthy goal creates leaps in understanding and an increase in consciousness, and this is the end your true self seeks. To the degree that people can expand and grow, they are able to experience life at a different level and be more productive, effective and, most important, happy and at peace.

Make your efforts mean something.

Regularly lifting greater and greater weight is what builds muscle, not lifting a light weight whenever we feel like it. Likewise, personal strength comes from continually meeting the next challenge, putting in a little more effort, overcoming obstacles again and again.

You can choose to enjoy the breakthroughs, to see your resistance as a signal that great things are yet to come. The next time you're facing this, remember the following story of two great entertainers.

According to singer/songwriter Carly Simon, when she is backstage just before a live concert, her heart starts beating rapidly, her palms get clammy, she paces back and forth, and sweat beads on her brow. She has said that, in this moment, she just knows she can't go on stage, she's terrified.

Yet she does it anyway. Similarly, as Bruce Springsteen paces backstage, his heart beats rapidly, his palms get clammy, sweat trickles from his hairline. But in his experience, this tells The Boss he's "ready to rock." And he leaps onstage and has the time of his life.

One person's debilitating fear becomes another person's motivating fuel.

You have a choice. You can see these brushes with the terror barrier as attacks of stage fright that have to be conquered, or you can use them to get you ready to rock. Either way, know that you can overcome these hurdles, and you must.

Here's how:
Start by clearly defining exactly where you are going and what you choose to create.
Remember, the physiological experience/emotion of fear is similar if not identical to "fuel" — decide to be The Boss.
Continually focus on where you desire to go. Your mindset and focus determine your actions, your experience, and your results

James Ray

The 4th Dimension is Upon Us!

2006-11-07T03:11:00.000-08:00

by Drunvalo Melchizedek
Interviewed By Leading Edge Newspaper Publishers,
Diana and Kenneth Burke

Drunvalo is a big-hearted, gentle man who "walked into" his adult physical body in 1972 and who retains full memory through different lifetimes and varying dimensions of consciousness. He is an accomplished scientist, physicist, inventor, healer and teacher. His main purpose in coming to our 3-D world at this time is to help Earth's people to make a smooth transition through the upcoming Shift of the Ages. He feels the most important work "is to remind us about our MerKaBa, the powerful etheric fields that exist around each of our bodies, which have been in a dormant state since the fall of Atlantis," which occurred approximately 13,000 years ago.

LE: What is our next step in evolution?
Drunvalo: I can't really say except that we will move into formlessness. We won't have bodies, and we won't have too much of a localized expression. We will be much more expanded, but the understanding of "expanded" will keep growing. Every time we go into another dimension, the understanding gets higher and higher. It keeps growing.

LE: Once we get into 4-D, how long will it take of Earth time before we get to the twelfth overtone and take off beyond that? Can you estimate this?

Drunvalo: It's all potential. It's all light. It's a thought in the mind of God. What happens will be that our memory of our previous Earth 3-D will be like it happened a long time ago. You could go into the fourth dimension for hundreds of thousands of years and come back to Earth and only a few seconds have gone by,. It's very different in 4-D. We are now slowly beginning to interface with the fourth dimension. A lot of people think we're already there. We're not. But 4-D's effects are beginning to effect time. Time is speeding up. Things are beginning to go really fast.

LE: We understand that you have spent quite a bit of time in the fourth dimension. Can you please describe this more?

Drunvalo: It isn't anything at all like the third dimension. Every dimensional level is completely different. Every time we take a step it's different...

LE: Different...like water and land?
Drunvalo: It's even more different than that. Everything...the whole way that spirit relates is different. In 4-D you do have bodies, but you can fly. You don't need food. There are many differences. The colors are completely different. The way that you interact is not as an individual but as a unit, like a cell within a body. So, everything that you're doing is being done in sychronicity with other life. Although, some of the lower realms of the fourth dimension are not healthy. They are rather distorted, like this one is, where you've got a lot of weird thoughtforms. But the higher realms are very evolved. The seventh, eighth and ninth overtones are where your angelic realms are. The tenth, eleventh and twelfth, right next to them, is where the higher levels of human consciousness are. Other levels of consciousness move through there also, not just humans.

LE: You've stated before that we can change our body forms in 4-D. Sounds like we won't get bored.

Drunvalo: It's a thousand times more interesting than here. Every breath is like an eternity; it's so special. We have lost our connection to God here and we don't remember what it's like to have God in and around us, moving through us, and to be intimately connected with God, so that, whatever you're thinking and whatever you're feeling is directly created. You could go into the fourth dimension and actually recreate the third dimension. That is a child-like thing from their (the beings in 4-D) point of view. We are considered babies there. So, as a baby we will create a more-or-less third-dimensional world, but it won't last long because you quickly realize that whatever you're thinking starts happening, and the whole idea that we are separate becomes meaningless very quickly.

Unconscious Self-Talk

2006-11-05T04:21:00.000-08:00

As long as you keep your self-talk unconscious, you will be bound to
repeat the same path, the same choices, the same errors, over and
over. There is nothing new and nothing fresh. The reason is
simply because you keep repeating the same self-talk. 90% of the
50,000 thoughts you have per day are repetitive.

David Cameron

Deepak on Death

2006-10-18T04:09:00.000-07:00

A conversation with Dr. Deepak Chopra about his new book
LIFE AFTER DEATH: The Burden of Proof
Harmony Books, October 17th, 2006

Deepak: I noticed as a physician that many patients at the time of death experienced extreme panic, then anger, then denial, and then desperate resignation. That was not necessary. My father died consciously in mediation. He said “I am leaving now, Don’t worry. Give everyone my love.” He died as elegantly as he had live.
To live and die this way, get in touch with the part of you now that does not die. In wisdom literature, that part is called the soul. Soul is that bundle of consciousness which contains meaning, purpose, context, relationships and the stories of our life. You get in touch with that part of the self. You know there is a stillness there that is the eternal, timeless core of your being, out of which all experiences are woven.

I grew up with influences of the religions of Hinduism, Christianity and Buddhism, but as a scientist I also know that beliefs can be a cover-up for insecurity. You don’t have to believe in or see electricity or gravity to benefit from them. If your soul is real, you don’t have to rely on belief. You can rely on understanding, meaning and experience.

Afterlife is a place of clarity, the afterlife is not static, choice doesn’t end with death but expands, earthly images carry us into the afterlife.

Everything that we experience in the physical world is a result of the invisible part of ourselves. Where is inspiration, intention, clarity, meaning, choice-making, imagination? Where does all of this come from if not from our spirit, not from our brain. Our brain is the instrument that orchestrates that.
Death is the mechanism through which everything renews itself. Everything renews itself by dying. Our stomach cells die every five days so they can reinvent and digest food. It is not a matter of faith. Where we are now in science is that consciousness is not a product of biology, but biology is a product of consciousness. Let’s say we succeeded in conquering death and we were frozen in time. Life recreates itself through death. The only cells that do not die are cancer cells. Cancer is a vacation from death. Death is the ticket to life.

Q. Why did you choose to write a book about the afterlife?
A. To dispel the common notion, held even by scientists, that the afterlife is a matter of faith that cannot be proved. Second, and just as important, to console people who are afraid of death.
Q. Why did you wait 20 years to write this book? Is a discussion of the afterlife particularly important today?
A. Twenty years ago we began to get proof that consciousness might survive death. Near-death experiences were already gaining public recognition. But it took two more decades to provide an adequate body of research to support this possibility and bring it closer to being a fact.
Q. What may shock or surprise readers most about this book?
A. They may be shocked to find that the afterlife is a rational subject that is knowable to us before we die. Also, that such things as heaven and hell exist, not 'out there' in some mythical region but here on earth, at this moment.
Q. What do you mean when you say that death is a fulfillment of our purpose here on earth?
A. The ultimate purpose of life is to evolve, to discover who you are, and to shape your own future. After death we see much more clearly that all these goals can be attained.
Q. Why is science such an important element in your discussion of the afterlife?
A. Because after centuries of faith as the only support for life after death, we can't hope to provide rational proof without turning to science. Also, in recent decades physics has probed deeper into the subtle realms of Nature, uncovering phenomena that give us fascinating clues about a so-called "intelligent universe." Such a universe could be the same as the subtle worlds of the afterlife described in the great wisdom traditions, East and West.
Q. Why did you choose to use allegory, such as the story of Savitri and Yama, in writing LIFE AFTER DEATH?
A. To provide an emotional experience of confronting death, and also to reach into the archetypal level of consciousness, the shadow, where death is always present.
Q. Why does information theory inform our understanding of the afterlife?
A. Physics already accepts that matter and energy cannot be destroyed. Information theory posits that the same is true of all the information in the universe. This implies that our minds--the source of information in the form of thoughts--cannot be destroyed, either. The mind may undergo transformation after death, but it would still survive in some form.
Q. What do you when you say that death can be as creative as living?
A. All the mental abilities we use to create things in our life continue after death and in fact become more powerful.
Q. Did your concept of the afterlife change as you wrote the book? If so, how?
A. I became more aware of how the different spiritual traditions on earth, and their various stories about the afterlife, led back to a single source in consciousness.
Faith takes a back seat to rational proof in the book. In fact, Chopra says, the afterlife is a field where science is quickly advancing over worn-out religious beliefs. The assumption that no knowledge can be gained about 'the other side' is being disproved on many fronts.

• At the University of Virginia an ongoing program has located over 2,500 children who remember past lives, including details about former lifetimes that can be factually verified.
• Information theory is having an influence on cutting-edge physics. It theorizes that like matter and energy, information cannot be destroyed. In other words, survival of the soul may be a matter of conserving information.
• Also in physics, quantum field theory has led to experiments (at Princeton among other places) where ordinary people can change reality through intention alone--they can make a computer generate numbers, for example, in a certain pattern. This goes a long way to showing that the mind isn't confined to the brain.
• Cross-cultural studies are showing that societies as diverse as Tibet and modern America display exactly the same near-death phenomena.

Chopra has waited twenty years to write LIFE AFTER DEATH: The Burden of Proof, the first major book on the afterlife in decades. Inspiring, brilliant, and ultimately encouraging, his insights will change the minds of countless people who have pondered the mystery that lies on 'the other side.' It also contains a great gift: an antidote to our fears, so we can see clearly the full majesty of the infinite arc of birth, death and the life beyond.

Faith takes a back seat to rational proof in the book. In fact, Chopra says, the afterlife is a field where science is quickly advancing over worn-out religious beliefs. The assumption that no knowledge can be gained about 'the other side' is being disproved on many fronts.

Make Everyone Feel Important

2006-10-11T02:57:00.000-07:00

"Make Me Feel Important"

"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people."
-- Mary Kay Ash

If practiced well, this could be one of the most life-changing pieces of advice you'll ever read.

In any relationship, whether it's a spouse, child, client, colleague, or casual acquaintance, the best way to make a lasting impression is to take the time to make others feel genuinely valued.

And here are four tips to help get you started:

1. Greet everyone you meet with enthusiasm. Have you ever called someone on the telephone - or met them somewhere -- and they greeted you with such energy and enthusiasm that you felt they must truly adore you? A greeting of ardent and genuine enthusiasm sets the tone for your entire encounter. It's such a simple skill (the hardest part is remembering to do it) but if you CAN remember, it will enliven all of your relationships. This skill can be particularly life-changing when practiced with your children. A simple show of enthusiasm and appreciation when a child walks in the room can have a miraculous effect on the relationship.

2. Slow down. Take the time in conversation to really listen. While someone is talking, focus on taking in what he or she is saying in words, tone, and body language instead of thinking about what you are going to say next. Relax and listen before responding. As you practice this form of deep listening, work on identifying the other person's needs. Put your own needs aside during the conversation and focus on determining what *they* need today. Imagine that each encounter is like a brief interlude in what may otherwise be a hectic day. Slow down and savor the connection you can make with another person, even in a casual conversation.

3. Work on remembering the details of past conversations and encounters. Ask about the things they confided to you. How did her business presentation go? How is his ailing father? It's often helpful to make little notes to remind you to ask about something or someone the next time you meet. This simple skill shows people that they are important to you.

4. Appreciate the small things that people do for you and never pass up an opportunity to say thank you. It doesn't have to be anything fancy...a few kind words or even a simple note is plenty. Find simple and small ways to show appreciation and caring to those you love. Maybe it's bringing home takeout when your spouse has been home all day with a sick child. Maybe it's making a quick phone call to your mother. As you go through your day, be thinking of how you can take a step toward recognition and appreciation. When you make the people around you feel important, you create a climate of trust and mutual appreciation, which can change your life in ways large and small. Try it today.

Bradley Thompson

Walk A Mile

2006-08-28T03:45:00.000-07:00

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

Author Unknown