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My Peace Zone: The Most Valuable Real Estate on the Planet

2009-12-21T05:18:00.001-05:00

My Peace Zone: The Most Valuable Real Estate on the Planet

Carroll J. Wright, Ph.D.

This place we have now is not imagination. This is not grief or joy. Not a judging state, nor an elation or sadness. Those come and go. This is the presence that doesn’t. What else could human beings want? When grapes turn to wine, they’re wanting This. When the nightssky pours by, its really a crowd of beggars, and they all want some of This! This that we are now created the body, cell by cell, like bees building a honeycomb. The human body and the universe grew from This, not This from the universe and the human body.
Rumi

What is the most valuable piece of real estate on the planet?

What is the most valuable piece of real estate on the planet today? Is it Manhattan, or the Riviera? In the world of consensual reality, perhaps; in the world of non-consensual reality, no. I want to propose to you that you are the potential owner of the most valuable non-consensual piece of real estate on the planet, and that you may not know it.
This most valuable piece of real estate has certain qualities about it so that you could, with proper attention, recognize it and claim it as your own. I am arguing that this real estate is real, that it is recognizable and that you do have access to it, but you may have overlooked it, probably, at least 98% of the time.

The piece of real estate I am talking about is more valuable than a mile square piece of land such as Manhattan, although less tangible. Tangibility is not the only criteria for value. This intangible real estate is located somewhere in the region of your body and consciousness. If you study the anatomy of it, you might have trouble locating it, although one early scientist, Rene Descartes, said that it could be located through the pineal gland. This invaluable piece of real estate came with you but you didn’t notice it because of its intangibility. Some real estate is more like intellectual property, such as a song you wrote or a concept you developed. Or like what is called noospheric property on the internet. We are talking here about metaphysical property.

No one is really squabbling over this particular asset because very few know where it is or how to tap its riches. I want you to explore with me the location of this most valuable piece of real estate in existence. I maintain that this place exists and that its existence is denoted by brainwaves. The brain waves called "Alpha" were the first discovered around 1908, by an Austrian psychiatrist named Hans Berger, who began to measure Alpha/Theta brain waves as a state of mind.[1] A “state” is a place, isn’t it, even if it is a state of mind? I am not saying that the brain is the most valuable piece of real estate in the non-consensual world. Alpha/Theta waves do not measure the brain itself, but a particular quality of brain waves created by the mind through the brain.

For something to be valuable it has to be valued. Even though this particular real estate is the most valuable, it may be the least valued by most people. So this value is not because of its popularity but because of its inherent nature. This particular kind of property will never be the most agreed upon value because (1) it is intangible, and (2) because it is something that you must explore and discover, and (3) because it is something you choose to make valuable by and to yourself. The value of this particular place is not discoverable by anyone else. Each person has to become a Columbus and discover for himself his own most valuable real estate on the planet.

This particular real estate is not valuable because of its scarcity, like most other things of value. There is no scarcity about this particular piece of real estate. Nor can you obtain this real estate through a purchase because it cannot be bought or sold. This kind of property can only be ignored or claimed. Claiming this property does not mean that it has to be recorded in the courthouse. Nor is it something that you can show off like a new house or a new car.

You can’t say that this piece of property costs $430 million dollars or something, because it is a gift. Its value is to you and secondarily to those around you. Whoever discovers this property will not die a pauper. This particular property makes anyone rich. This property is not owned because of an inheritance from one’s family. This kind of inheritance is for everyone for the taking. The value of this property is due to its universality, and yet also to its uniqueness. This is the only kind of property in the world which is both universal and uniquely personal. I hope that I have built up your interest and suspense so that you wondering what this property is, why it is so valuable, where it is located and how to acquire it. The acquisition of this property depends entirely upon your willingness or unwillingness, your awareness or ignorance. It does not depend on factors such as those involved with the acquisition of physical properties: money, timing, and availability.

However, you do need to know that it exists, what its characteristics are, how to find it, and how to claim it permanently, which is the purpose of this article.

This metaphysical property is a place through which we can access and enter the Fourth Dimension. In other times it may have been called the Heart or the Soul. Media-wise, it may be called Stargate or the Land of Oz. Scientifically it has been called the Alpha/Theta rhythm, autogenics, or nonlocal intelligence. For our purposes here, we call this place our Alpha/Theta Space. This Alpha/Theta Space can be measured with brain-wave instruments and it vibrates at around 7-13 waves per second, which is at about half the rate of our normal state of mind, which is called Beta, which vibrates at 14 and above. The Alpha/Theta Space is considered to be the way we function in the right hemisphere of the brain, symbolic of our more feminine side: our creativity, our intuition, our imagination. I define the Alpha/Theta Space as the place where we enter into the realm of infinite potentiality and perfect awareness.

Hans Berger discovered that Alpha/Theta waves were uncommon in anxious people, and that if an anxious person did have a few Alpha/Theta waves, they were smaller than usual (a weaker signal with less amplitude). After he published his findings in 1918, interest in electrical waves in the brain spread rapidly around the world. Early scientists mapped out the different types of brain waves (Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta, and Gamma), and began to do psychophysical studies on the "natural reactivity" of these brain waves to sensory stimulation. None of these early investigators (pre-1962) ever imagined that people could learn voluntary control of their own brain waves, which were thought to be exclusively an autonomic function. Since the early discovery by Hans Berger, hundreds of scientists have researched brain waves, along with the application of this knowledge to kinesiology and biofeedback. Kinesiologists have located and defined several EEG brain wave cycles which look like this:

In addition to these five classical brain wave states, there is also GAMMA[2], the range of which extends from 30 Hertz up into the hundredths of hertz, a state of hyperawareness.
In sleep we go to Alpha/Thetaland every night and even deeper, but if we go much deeper we fall asleep. The Alpha/Theta State is wakeful alertness without thought. In other words, the ego and all of its usual fear-based control functions are set aside. I believe that this state of relaxation, peacefulness, serenity, creativity, openness, clarity, calmness, and receptivity is the doorway to the Fourth Dimension of infinite potentiality and unlimited possibilities. Alpha/Theta has been called relaxation, serenity, prayer, meditation, the pause that refreshes. It is wordless prayer, silence, and receptive awareness.[3]

To begin to get in touch with this most valuable place, recall a time when you were walking in the woods or watching a sunset (nature functions at 8 waves per second).[4] Recall a time when you felt that all is right with the world for no particular reason. Recall a time when you waked in the middle of the night and felt very calm and relaxed, with no worries on your mind. Recall a time when you forgave yourself or someone else and the relief and calmness that followed. Imagine the stillness in the center of a cyclone. Recall the moment after an orgasm. Recall the hypnogogic and the hypnopompic states of drowsiness just before falling asleep or just after awakening. Recall the calm feeling when listening to classical music. Recall the quieting energy of petting your cat or dog, or holding a sleeping baby. Recall riding down a peaceful country road, or feeling full after a nice meal. Recall a time when you felt worshipful, thankful, surrendered to the divine will. These experiences may help you to recognize what the Alpha/Theta State feels like, although not nearly as deeply as you are capable of through conscious practice.

You don’t have to go on vacation, get a raise, score, win someone’s approval and love, get even, retire or win the state tournament to relax. 9.7 minutes from now your can be in heavenly relaxation, without being attached to anything, indebted to anyone, or fearful of it being taken away from you. You don’t need to get drunk, get high on drugs, take medication, win a battle, be right, or wait until you die. Whatever your external situation, or wherever you are, you can access this marvelous experience without cost, without sacrifice, without a prescription, without obligation, without side affects, without anyone’s permission or agreement. It is free, it is available, it is invaluable, it is healing, it is empowering, it is sacred, it is renewing. This experience does not depend on labels, and is not owned by science, religion, philosophy or any monopoly. The entire universal data bank is available here to you. All of God’s wisdom can be accessed here.

Every desire or dream you ever had is merely a poor reflection of your memory of this place in your deepest consciousness. Its what you have been searching for everywhere in the external world, and disappointed that you have found so little, so briefly, and so costly. This Alpha/Theta Space is the door through which you came from the Source.

Inventors, song writers, painters, artists, writers, hypnotists, healers, and other inspired persons draw upon this channel or portal, often unaware of its wider purpose. I am recommending that this Alpha/Theta Space become your background music, so to speak. Whatever you are doing in the foreground, this Alpha/Theta Space can be playing in the background, and can be accessed at any moment, even in an emergency. In order for this to happen, however, (1) you have to become aware of its existence, its texture, and its presence as foreground, (2) you have to take risks to discover this property, and (3) you have to practice using it. If you want to become an Olympic champion, a scientist, an accomplished artist or musician, a web designer, a physician, or even a decent bowler, you have to practice. You have to have talent, training and practice for anything worthwhile. This particular experience crosses all fields of human endeavor.

Having a name for this valuable place will help us to identify it, so I am calling it the Place of Peace or the Alpha/Theta Space. You may name it the Peaceful Valley, Paradise Found, the Clear Calm Place, the God Space, the Field of Infinite Good, My Healing Place, or any other name that feels right to you. One client of mine calls her Alpha/Theta Space by the name of “My Haven”. The important thing is that you discover this level of awareness and practice it often. If you jump from sleep (theta) to ordinary wakefulness (beta), you could whiz right past this invaluable Alpha/Theta State experience.

We have called this Peace Place by many awful names in the past such as the void, the emptiness, the lonely place, the desert, boredom, isolation, disillusionment, etc. We have failed to recognize the value of this deep silent place. However, Blaise Pascal, a mathematician in the 16 century made this cogent observation: All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. And Franz Kafka went even further: It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait ,just be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will roll at your feet.

You can induce the Alpha/Theta State by doing several things (1) close your eyes, unless you are driving or in public (2) raise the focus of your eyes about 20-40 degrees above the horizon (3) take10 slow deep breaths, following the in and out breaths with your awareness (4) hum the Om[5] sound 10 times if that is appropriate (5) touch the index finger and thumb of your left hand together which will act as a signal to slow down, calm down, relax, breathe slowly, deeply and consciously. (6) Say to yourself “I am now in my God Space of absolute peace” (7) “I let go of all attachments, all resistances, all judgments and all opinions. There is nothing to fear here. This is the place of infinite possibilities and choices. All power, all love, all wisdom and all peace surround me. Here I experience surrender, trust, receptivity and renewal. Here I am born again. Here I am open to receive guidance, refreshment, renewal, and creative inspiration. I am resting. I am being healed. I am my real self. I have nothing to hide, nothing to protect, nothing to fear, nothing to prove.”

Are you willing to give 9.7 minutes per day (1% of your waking time) to anchor your Place of Peace? Considering that the average person gives 2-4 hours a day to television basically for the ego’s sake, can’t we give 9.7 minutes for the sake of our True Self? If you don’t anchor it now, you won’t be able to when you are in an emergency because you won’t even think of it, much less be proficient in locating it and using it. That 9.7 minutes per day will make all the rest of your time more useful and efficient. You will save earthly time by investing 9.7 minutes in this Eternity experience. Once you have anchored this place, you can go there any time for a minute or two, and later on it will become background music playing no matter what is going on in the foreground. You will become a person of peace, a healer with true spiritual power. You will understand what Jesus meant when he said “I give you my peace, not as the world giveth, ” because the world cannot give you the true power of peace.

As I write this on Christmas Eve, 2004, I can feel more clearly what the carols mean when they say “Silent Night, Holy Night” and “Peace on earth, good will to men.” I notice that the only two things that can keep us out of this Alpha/Theta State are our attachments and resistances. Just look and see what you are attached to and resistant about. Whatever that is, release it and you will be free to enter your Alpha/Theta State.
The Place of Peace is a timeless state where everything seems slow, but where things go fast, and where you make choices quickly - because there's a real absence of toxic emotions and other symptoms of disease, not just the physical ones but also the emotional and mental ones. This calm, clear place is an absence of pathology and immune dysfunction. When you’re in this deep silent space, you’re asymptomatic. The Alpha/Theta Space is a state, a context, a function…deeper than feelings or behavior. Feelings and behavior are indicators or symptoms of what state you are in. The Alpha/Theta State is a state of immunity, security, invulnerability, and reality. If there is not calmness and relaxation, something is wrong , there is some toxity and stress, something is spiritually abnormal.
In this Place of Peace you can turn any symptom into a symbol, any negative into a positive, any deficit into an asset, any problem into an opportunity, any hurt into healing, any question into an answer, any bondage into a choice, any loss into a gain, any fear into courage, any hatred into thanksgiving. All of these alchemical powers come with the knowledge of, and residence in, that Place of Peace. You don’t have to live in the chaos and insanity of egoland any longer. The Alpha/Theta is where Grace lives.

Payoffs and Costs Inquiry

To help you access your Place of Peace, you can do your psychological homework by analyzing the anxious mindset that usually controls our everyday beta functioning. Find out what your attachments and resistances are. Notice your fears, your symptoms, your problems, and you will find that every symptom, illness, or problem has both a payoff and a cost. We may say that we do not want a certain condition or problem, but that is not entirely true. We may not want the cost of the problem, but we do want the payoff. We may not want the pain, inconvenience, embarrassment or guilt for having the problem, but we unwittingly caused ourselves this problem for some good reason. Find out your paradox about this condition. Just relieving the symptom without addressing its cause is ineffective. That is why we say that we have mis-diagnosis and mis-treatment.

First, investigate.
Make a list of ten to twenty of the Costs of your condition, illness, symptom (it hurts, it keeps me from________, it means I have to go to the doctor, it costs money, it takes up my time, etc)

Once you have completed the Costs or disadvantages, then make an equally long list (ten to twenty) of the Payoffs or advantages of this condition.

It may take several attempts in some cases to make the list complete, but if you only do the Costs, then it will do no good.

If you can’t do this, you might as well forget the rest of this healing procedure. You might as well do what you usually do: complain, avoid, deny, get busy, see the doctor, blame someone else, take pills, get drunk, engage in other addictive solutions, go to bed, suffer through it, or hope for no repeat.

After you have completed the Investigative part of your healing work, proceed then to the second part, the Healing Action Protocol below.

Healing Action Protocol

While you are in your Alpha/Theta Space, investigate your attachments and resistances with the following Investigative Questions. Then take the following Positive Healing Actions.

Investigative questions:

Do I have ________________ (illness, sickness, virus, pain, stress) in any of my energy fields (conscious, subconscious, unconscious, etheric, aura, etc) or memories?

Positive Healing Actions:

I cancel___________________________in all of my energy fields
I let go of___________________________ in all of my energy fields
I release___________________________ in all of my energy fields
I remove___________________________ in all of my energy fields
I transform___________________________ in all of my energy fields

Investigative questions:

I am attached to the idea that________________
I am assuming that_______________________
I expect_________________________________
I am frustrated with the idea that_____________________
I am worried about_______________________________
I am anxious or fearful about the idea that____________________________
I am struggling with the idea that___________________________________
I am struggling with the conflict about______________________________
I resist the idea that___________________________________________

Positive Healing Actions:

What would my life be like if
I cancelled___________________________ in all of my energy fields
I let go of___________________________ in all of my energy fields
I released___________________________ in all of my energy fields
I removed___________________________ in all of my energy fields
I transformed___________________________ in all of my energy fields

If you do not feel relief from your condition or symptom, or if it recurs, repeat this procedure until you do. Three things have to happen here: (1) You have to see the condition and its cause, (2) you have to see and release your attachment and resistance, and (3) you have to get into the Alpha/Theta Space where the release can be made. This is scientific prayer and spiritual healing.

Once you have released this symptom and its payoffs, you have added more clarity to your Place of Peace. Then you can, if you wish, begin to imagine, visualize, request and choose other wants, wishes and goals. It is ineffective not to do your clearing and healing work first, however. The reason for this is that you have already embraced self-defeating programs which would offset any positive goals which are overlaid on top of such original fear-based programming.

As I have outlined in my previous writing, there are three rather general fear-based beliefs which seem to be involved in all ego level functioning: (1) the belief that “ I am alone” (2) the belief that “I am lacking” and (3) the belief that “I am stuck.” Unless these universally hypnotic programs are made conscious and released, we will continue to be a victim thereof, and it will be impossible not to have attachments and resistances. And then our goals, prayers and healing will be severely retarded and repetitive.

On a daily basis in our communications with people, seeking agreement is the main way that we try to attain the Alpha/Theta State. The problem is that usually in our communication with others, we go about trying to making agreements by dominance or submission. Honest real agreement is a rarity. Superficial agreement is typical. Superficial agreement is usually a win/lose proposition. To reach real agreement, each party has to give up their control agendas, their attachments and resistances, and play win/win. Failing this, our agreements usually do not get beyond our ego comfort zone level. Communication fails because at this superficial level, opinions and fears rule. Trying to build a comfort zone based upon superficial agreements and appeasement doesn’t work. On the beta level of the worldly mind there are thousands of opposites and opinions thereabout . Opposing survival strategies are at stake and conflict with one another and arguments ensue. We don’t like arguments and disagreements and so we seek superficial agreements, through either dominance or submissiveness, which later go sour and explode. Superficial agreement is the major way that people generally seek to reach a state of contentment or the ego comfort zone. Election debates are a prime example of trying to force agreement and the stress which results.

In beta level communication, agreement is often superficial and conflict can emerge any minute. Circumstances and other people are necessary components in the comfort zone level of ego functioning. In the Alpha/Theta Space, circumstances and other people are not determinative. In this Place of Peace you connect with yourself, God and the true Self of all others, but this agreement is more difficult to articulate. Internal agreement or consistency is an individual accomplishment. Alpha/Theta State agreement is the secret to inner power, wisdom and unconditional love. Consensus reality is not necessary in the Alpha/Theta State. Consensus reality is the matrix, the human way of perceiving, and that is why its comfort zone is so shaky and actually confining. You rarely find yourself or the truth in the comfort zone of consensus reality. When this type of agreement and communication utterly fails, and it will eventually, then we are ready for a New Discovery. We are ready to search in seriousness for the Peace. Eventually we become battle-weary in the world of opposites and begin to seek our sacred Self.

I invite you to join me in learning to discern the difference between the ego comfort zone and the Place of Peace. You may have received the idea that the place of peace and contentment exists, but you must find it for yourself if you would be healthy, wealthy and wise. Whatever you call this place, it will have to be your own personal discovery. No one can give it to you and no one can take it from you. I can give you some clues but you will have to verify them through your own conscious experience. I believe that the Alpha/Theta State is the entry way to our Source, to our original home. Beta stress is the exile we are now experiencing, a condition is which we are not at home.

And so, the Alpha/Theta State is a “paradise lost” for which we unwittingly search in various symptomatic and symbolic ways throughout out lives. There is no doubt in my mind that this is why people around the world move to the beaches and mountains to live and to retire. The unconscious search for the Alpha/Theta State is why we have such strong desires for vacations, and why we take mind-altering drugs in between. That is also why we are so addicted to every imaginable form of self-comforting substance and activity. All of these methods have their flaws and shortcomings, and these failures keep us motivated to find the real and enduring. 2004 has been a real icon breaker in this respect because of all of the floods, hurricanes and now the Tsunami earthquake destroying the beaches and island cities in many countries.

And so the search for the real comfort zone rages on in our unconscious outward searching ways.

Let us recall Yogananda’s poem and make just a few changes:

Where Shall We Hide the Truth From Man?

"Where shall we hide the truth (zone of peace) from man?"
The gods all cried when he was made.
"How can we guard our secret now?"
They asked each other most afraid.

"Hide it in the earth; he will mine it.
Hide it on a mountain; he will climb it.
Even in the sea he will find it.
Where shall we hide the truth (zone of peace) from man?"

Quite beside themselves, they cried:
"This little guy will take our throne.
We have made him far too smart
Not to claim our heaven home

Hide it in matter, he'll analyze it.
Hide it in the water, he'll crystallize it.
Even in hell, he'll surmise it.
Where shall we hide the truth (zone of peace) from man?"

They thought of stars in outer space
Or in the nature of a tree,
But they knew that man could solve
Each and every mystery.

"Hide it in the wind, he'll pursue it.
Hide it in an act, he will do it.
Even in an atom, he will view it.
Where shall we hide the truth (zone of peace) from man?"

Then they solved the mystery
Of how the frightened gods should win.
The wisest said, "Let's take the truth (zone of peace)
And hide it deep inside of him.

Hide it in his heart, he will doubt it
Hide it in his soul, he'll live without it
Even if we should reveal and shout it,
He won't believe the truth (zone of peace) is within him."

Mystics from all cultures, philosophies and religions have explored this dimension in their own prayers, worship and mediation practices.
This Zone of Peace was researched in the 20th century in terms of hypnosis, Transcendental Meditation, Silva Mind Control, altered states of consciousness, autogenics, progressive relaxation, paranormal psychology, Christian Science, the human potential movement, Arnold Mindell, Bayard Barnes’ Immunics, Greg Braden, and many others.

Many pioneers throughout history have contributed to our beginning understanding about the prime importance of this gift of the gods. I believe that this research has not reached its zenith by any means.

I sense that this God-Space within us is the source of all inspiration, creativity, healing, and wisdom. Certainly in such a time of pandemic health problems, environmental disasters, and rising health costs, spiritual healing will emerge as an unexpected plus for disillusioned human beings. But until this science is fully developed, only the adventurous and open-minded will risk the plunge necessary for true and total self-healing and enrichment. Symptoms, suffering, and a sense of mission are the chief motivators for such radical personal responsibility and spirituality.

If you are interested in further study in this area, please consult my websites www.spiritualpsychotherapy.net and www.myspiritualpsychotherapy.com If you find that you need further coaching in applying this healing method to yourself, please contact me at drjoe@shentel.net

Attachment or Resistance

"Suffering is exclusively the result of attachment or resistance, it is a sign of lacking readiness to go on, to flow with life."
Nisargadatta Maharaj

Ordinarily in our beta state we are attached or resistant. Attachment or resistance keep us out of our Place of Peace. Any time that you are uptight or upset, take a look and you will see that you are either attached to something or resistant toward something. If you let go of that attachment or that resistance (fear), you will experience the peace that moves you toward Alpha/Theta (peace).

You can either attach to everything or detach from everything, either one will get you to Alpha/Theta. But if you attach to some things and are resistant to others, you are not in Alpha/Theta or in peace. You can love everything totally and get there, or you can let go of everything, and get there, but you can’t mix the two and get there. What you already have in typical beta functioning is the messy mixture of attachment versus resistance, good versus evil. The most potent approach is to unconditionally love whatever is happening, and if you fail and get stuck in some judgment, forgive it, let it go. That will get you into the clear, calm place of peace.

Transpersonal psychotherapy helps us heal the blocking problem, which is our attachment to our ego or false self.
Charles L. Whitfield, M.D.

Nick Bunick, In God’s Truth, suggests the following forgiveness exercise which you can use to forgive and experience your Alpha/Theta State:

If there has ever been a time in your life when you expressed anger, and thought that you hurt another person, now is the time to forgive yourself and release that thought

If there has ever been a time in your life when you thought your took advantage of another, now is the time to release that mark on your soul, and forgive yourself

If there has ever been a time in your life when you criticized another and thought that you caused them pain, now is the time to forgive and release that critical thought

If there has ever been a time in your life when you showed a lack of patience toward another and in so doing left a judgment on your self, forgive that judgment

If there has ever been a time in your life when you committed an act of selfishness toward another, and thought that you hurt that other person, forgive yourself.

If there has ever been a time in your life when you were rude to another, forgive your rude judgments.

If there has ever been a time in your life when you acted with prejudice and caused another to stumble, forgive and release that prejudice.

If there has ever been a time in your life when you deceived another, and you saw that you caused it caused heartache to that other, forgive yourself.

If there has ever been a time in your life when you showed indifference and ungratefulness to another, forgive yourself now.

If there has ever been a time in your life when you showed fear and not courage, forgive your fearfulness

If there has ever been a time in your life when you were greedy, forgive that greediness
and release it from your mind and soul

If there has ever been a time in your life when you refused to be generous to someone, forgive yourself now of that stinginess.

Perhaps now is the time to release and forgive all of the hurt, blame, anger, and poisonous hatred that you may be feeling toward another for something they did or neglected to do. As you release all of your negativity toward others, you are also released from that same negativity toward yourself. Have you released all of the attachments and resistances which inhibit your peace, love, wisdom, health, abundance, power and creativity? Look and see, and if not, let them go now. Hum the Sha-lom until there is a release. If you can’t let it go now, practice coming back to your Alpha/Theta State until the release does occur. In the meantime, don’t feed the hurt and anger, unless you want them to grow. Remember that you are an infinite spiritual being and that you are not a victim of anything or anyone except your own thinking.

EGO FOOD

We either feed the ego or we feed the true self. We feed either war or peace. We stick ourselves further into beta or we release ourselves more and more into Alpha/Theta. Look and see how you feed your ego. What is your favorite ego food? How do you feed your story, your illusions, your false self? Do you keep incessantly busy? Do you play “Poor Me” or “Ain’t It Awful”? Do you judge, complain and criticize? Do you indulge yourself in some addictive behavior? Do you overeat, overspend, over-excite yourself?

Unwittingly, we have been building and feeding our ego story for years and starving ourselves spiritually. Living unconsciously is feeding the ego. The only way we can feed ourselves spiritually is by conscious choice. Otherwise, it isn’t going to happen. The ego is a creature of habit, an emotional robot. The ego is a trance, a matrix. The ego is programmed up to 99%.

Are you taking responsibility for your spiritual awareness? How do you do that? What I am proposing here is that you can choose to be spiritually aware while you are driving, while you are eating, while your are working, while you are talking with people, while you are playing, and while you are sleeping. Spiritual awareness is not something you do just while reading a spiritual book, meditating, or saying a prayer. If God is all there is, then you can choose to be aware of God and Self at all times. Paul talked about ceaseless prayer. Certainly that does not mean talking ceaselessly. To me it means a kind of awareness, a sense of intimacy, a state of being. Through practice, we can begin to live in the Alpha/Theta State more regularly and continuously.

Self-Testing

Self-testing is a method of finding out if you are in Alpha/Theta and getting things done while in Alpha/Theta. How do you self-test? Breathe deeply a few times and relax. Place your hands loosely in your lap. Wait for a slight body signal, twitch, movement, temperature change, feeling, etc. This signal means “yes.” No signal means “no.”

Self-testing is a part of awareness. Ask yourself “Am I in Alpha/Theta” and wait for a response. Am I in touch with God? Test it. Shall I try to fix the sink? Test it. Are my lost keys in the house? Test it. Can this cold be healed? Test it. Is this choice appropriate? Test it. Is there another choice? Test it. Shall I use this next 10 minutes calling John? Test it. Is my immune system totally healthy? Test it. If not, say: I remove any pathologies from my immune system. Are they gone? Test it. Is this activity just ego food? Test it. Do I need to forgive someone or something? Test it. If so, I forgive this person, this thought, this judgment. Is it gone? Test it. I let go of my attachment to…….Is it gone? Test it. I let go of my fear of……..Is it gone? Test it. I let go of my ………virus. Is it gone? Test it. I remove my………..cancer. Is it gone? I remove my diabetes. Is it gone? Test it. I let go of my belief in scarcity. Is it gone? Test it. I let go of my anger or my jealousy. Is it gone? Test it.

Our chronic ego condition which we call “normality” is a low grade state of conflict and tension. We hardly recognize that the ego is in an assumed conflict with God and the Self until some incident occurs. We are usually made aware of this chronic condition by some remark or event of offense by another person. Some person or type of person is the trigger which suddenly lands us in a state of anxiety. This person should be thanked because otherwise we might never be given the opportunity to become aware of our condition. The counsel to “love your enemy” now becomes meaningful. Greedy people annoy me because they mirror my own denied greediness. I am thankful to them for reminding me that I still believe in lack.

Some quotes from Rumi are appropriate here:

Essence is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery emptiness is what you soul wants.
Rumi

For sixty years I have been forgetful every moment, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed. I deserve nothing. Today I recognize that I am the guest the mystics talk about. UI play this living music for my Host. Everything today is for the Host.
Rumi

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes back in another form. The child weaned from mother’s milk now drinks wine and honey mixed.
Rumi

God is the secret of human beings and human beings are the secret of God
Sufi Saying

When we talk about God, it is like a school of fish discussing the possible existence of the sea!
Rumi

Be the Source, not the result
Rumi

Gamble everything for love. If you’re a true human being. If not. Leave this gathering.
Rumi

Those who don’t feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don’t drink dawn like a cup of spring water, or take in sunset like a supper, those who don’t want to change, let them sleep
Rumi

You’ve gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine.
Taste this. It won’t make you wild. Its fire. Give up, if you don’t understand by this time that your living is firewood.
Rumi

We have no idea what we are.
Rumi

What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we’re afraid of our own immortality
Rumi
In 1989, Peniston and Kulkosky reported a stunning research result in which stage 4 alcoholism (with a long-term history of treatment failure) was essentially fully remediated in some Vietnam veterans by a treatment program which included Alpha/Theta training as a primary component. This result was so incredible that initially it was given essentially no credence by the scientific community. What is most striking is the fact that these early results have held up in follow-up over the subsequent ten years, which takes us up to the present. The work has also been replicated in a number of other studies, and has been extended to other drugs of choice. Together, these results are giving rise to a reappraisal of Alpha/Theta training, now called Alpha/Theta-theta training because of the inclusion of even lower frequencies in the reward, namely the theta region of frequencies (4-8 Hertz).
It has become clear that this work is best seen as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which was sustaining the addiction in these particular Vietnam veterans. But the word treatment is inappropriate. The person undergoing the feedback is the only active agent in everything that happens in biofeedback! There really is no treatment here. Rather, what is accomplished is that the person is guided to a comfortable, comforting state of his body-mind in which true healing the healing of psychic wounds can take place. Biofeedback training simply aided in movement toward that healing opportunity.

Emma Curtis Hopkins speaks of claiming your “noble city” (perhaps similar to the Alpha State) by opening the 12 gates of your mind:
1. There is good for me. My good is my God, my life, my truth, my love, my substance, my intelligence, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient.
2. There is no mixture of evil in my good. There is no opposition to my God as material conditions of any kind. There is no absence of life, substance, intelligence. There is nothing to hate. There is no presence of sin, sickness or death in my world, where God is the only presence and power and wisdom.
3. God is all. God is the omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient good, as life, truth, love, substance, intelligence. I am my own idea of God, and I live and move and have my being according to my idea of God. I am spirit, mind, like my God, and shed abroad wisdom, strength, holiness. My God works through me to will and to do that which ought to be done by me. I am governed by the true God and am kept from sin, from suffering for sin, and I cannot fear, sin, sickness, or death.
4. I do believe that the true God is now working with me and through me and by me and for me, to make me a living demonstration of omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient goodness.
5. As spirit I can preach the gospel, heal the sick, cast out demons, raise the dead.
6. I understand the secret of instantaneous demonstration.
7. I hold no accusations against the people of God. I do not believe in lustful passions or sensual appetites. I believe that all these are the hunger and thirst after righteousness, given a false name.
8. I do not accuse the people of God of deceiving each other or of being deceived. There is no opposition to truth.
9. I do not accuse the people of God of being sinners. It is true that all things were made by the true God and now are very good.
10. I do not believe in a mixture of good and evil in the universe. I stand to my confidence that all is good. All is good in truth. According to my faith so it is now unto me and unto those about me.
11. I can not admit that there is any foolishness or ignorance or weakness or old age failure in omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. There is but one mind, and that is God—one substance, and that is God.
12. The white soul of every creature stands out ransomed from sin, death, and sorrow by words of truth. The whole world is awake to righteousness. Time is no more. All is well now.

Hopkins summarizes that this truth was lived by Jesus Christ. This is the truth Jesus Christ still lives. This is the truth everlasting. Do you not know that this truth is Jesus Christ in you? Do you not know that when you speak this truth, it is Jesus Christ opening the gates of glory for your world? The kingdom of God is within us all now.

Make Alpha/Theta Your Top Priority
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We choose our priorities, by default or by conscious awareness. But why, if we knew about Alpha/Theta, would we not choose Alpha/Theta first, in every case? Otherwise, we just react according to the ego’s programming and “reasoning.”

The clue to our need for Alpha/Theta is any kind of concern, worry, indecision, fear or upset. “I am never upset for the reason I think” is the watchword we must use. We are always upset because of either attachment or resistance, which keeps us out of Alpha/Theta, and can be perceived as a call to utilize Alpha/Theta. Attachment Analysis and Resistance Analysis reveal what we are upset about. It is either what we like or dislike, want or don’t want, desire or fear, cling to or avoid.

Look and see what belief you are attached to or resistant toward. Then you can decide if you want to continue your distress or let go of its cause. If you decide to let go of the culprit belief, you can enter into the Place of Peace. That is, if you want to make the best decision, if you want to make the healthiest choice, if you want divine guidance, if you want to see all of your possibilities, if you want to arouse your potentialities. When you go through the process of letting go of whatever keeps you attached or resistant, you move closer to Alpha/Theta, the place of infinite possibilities.

We have at last reached the point in human evolution where science and spirituality have conjointly identified and defined what we may call a location where Eternity touches time, where the Infinite touches the finite, where the Unlimited touches the finite, where the Unconditional touches the conditional. This place is denoted by a dramatic change in the brain wave pattern, a noticeable sense of relaxation, a calmness and clarity of perception, a feeling of being present, an absence of stress and pressure. With practice, some practitioners are able to move to the Alpha/Theta/theta border, where there is an even greater access to creativity, healing, insight, guidance, and a new quality of energy.

Perhaps then if there is a science of prayer, a science of healing, a science of decision-making, a science of possibilities, this is it. Perhaps this place is as far as science can go, but it is a launching pad, a place where knowledge meets mystery, where the known meets the unknown. Not my will but thine be done.

This experience we have now is not imagination. This is not grief or joy. Not a judging state, or an elation or sadness. Those come and go. This is the presence that doesn’t. What else could human beings want? When grapes turn to wine, they’re wanting This. When the nightssky pours by, its really a crowd of beggars, and they all want some of This! This that we are now created the body, cell by cell, like bees building a honeycomb. The human body and the universe grew from This, not This from the universe and the human body.
Rumi
Some of the more mystical disciplines have named this place the cave of the heart. Popular slang says to be cool, be mellow, chill out.

Cues to the Alpha/Theta State Experience

Breathing Cues
Try this Alpha/Theta Brain Waves Exercise:
Step 1: Take a deep breath and hold it.
Step 2: Sense your heartbeat without your hands.
Do step 1 & 2 again, only know – 3 heartbeats between each exhalation/inhalation.
Once you feel a calm...quiet tranquil state...That’s The Alpha/Theta Brain wave state! Congratulations! Your mind power is enhanced, you can learn faster and do many other things more efficiently and effectively. .
In summation...The brain is a powerful tool. It pays to learn how to use it. The human mind is a bridge to the infinite power of your most fundamental spiritual resources. Practicing entering the Alpha State can connect you with God’s power to heal your diseases, and connect you with wisdom and creativity.
Sometimes I like to call my Place of Peace by the name of HereNow. It is more like cyberspace, a radio station frequency, an email address, or virtual reality than it is like a physical location. HereNow is where the finite touches the infinite, where Eternity engages with time. The Alpha/Theta State may well be one of the chief entrances to HereNow, or the Eternal in time. The brain is the physical location, the mind is the spiritual force, and the Alpha/Theta brain wave is the virtual reality place located between the two. The Alpha/Theta Space is the Stargate through which you enter a different dimension, the dimension of the infinite. The brain is a 3-D phenomena (time, space and matter), the Alpha/Theta State is a 4-D phenomena (metaphysical), and the infinite world is 5-D and beyond. 4-D may register in the Gamma brain wave range of 40 to 200 Hz, and 5-D may not register at all.

HereNow is a name I like for the Alpha/Theta Space. HereNow means Alpha/Theta is always here and now; it is where the finite touches the infinite. Alpha/Theta was contacted in ancient times partially by the structure of the temple or pyramid in which altars of worship were contained. I visited one Lutheran church in Northridge California which was an exact copy of the shape of the Egyptian pyramids. This shape created the Alpha/Theta experience just by walking into the church. Certain types of structures, prayers, worship, music, and scripture arouse and encourage entrance into the Alpha/Theta state.

I am the owner of the most valuable piece of real estate on the planet for me. This value is not merely monetary, but includes every conceivable human value, including finances, emotions, mindset, security, health, happiness, creativity and pleasure.

Three steps in the Alpha/Theta experience: psychological analysis, meditative preparation and spiritual awareness practice.

Several things I do to enhance my Alpha/Theta experience:

1. I have several CD’s that induce the Alpha/Theta awareness, and I play these at home and in the car, as background and foreground because they infiltrate the atmosphere and set a tone for my optimal functioning. 2. I try to reduce the amount of junk noise, junk food and junk thinking in my daily diet. 3. When I am feeling drawn towards some self-comforting addictive solution, I switch to the Alpha/Theta experience, realizing that is what I really want anyway. Once I have reached the stage of peaceful Alpha/Theta awareness, then I get clear on my real agenda. I focus upon the things that I need to do or to realize. I do my healing of myself and others. I set goals. I seek inspiration. I say “I and my father are one” and “My father doeth the work.” In my Alpha/Theta State I say “God is my health, God is my peace, God is my power, God is my truth, God is my prosperity, God is my security, God is my provision, God is my prosperity, God is my security, God is my provision, God is my creativity, and God is my pleasure.”

I remind myself of the fact that there are infinite possibilities here, coupled with infinite potentialities. I set no limits. I cling to no desires or resistances. In this Alpha/Theta State, I transform boredom into interest. I transform fear into courage, anxiety into peace, loneliness into solitude, codependency into oneness in God. I affirm that nothing can defeat me, discourage me, weaken me, deter me, distract me, hurt me. I affirm that I am immune to every disease, infection, allergy and fear. I affirm that I am overflowing with energy, time, peace, love, and purpose. There is provision of and abundance of whatever I need or want. In this mindset, I am taught by the Holy Spirit, nurtured by the Holy Spirit, empowered by the Holy Spirit, guided by the Holy Spirit, supported by the Holy Spirit in all that I think, say and do, in all of my work and play. I do not have to worry about what others do or do not do. God is working through me to do what I need to do, am designed to do, and am called to do.

A Holy Man on the Beach

The following website http://www.invinciblemusic.com/Gregorian_Chant_1.htm features a beach scene with waves breaking visually and sound-wise, with Gregorian chants. Click on the free recording located at this web address as a meditation background for this visualization.

Imagine that you are at the beach. You are relaxing, enjoying the sound of the waves with the sound of chanting in the background. You relax deeply into this feast of sound and beauty. You breathe in the calmness, rhythm, and warmth of this peaceful experience. Looking far up the beach you see a figure walking along the water’s edge, moving slowly toward you. You see that this figure is Jesus. As he draws closer, you silently welcome his presence. You feel a lightness and peacefulness surrounding you as he sits down beside you, facing the sea. The aura of his presence fills the area. You sense a soft glowing golden ball of light in the center of your forehead. This golden light slowly expands throughout your body. You relax more and more deeply into the healing power of this glowing light. Now the light expands again to include the entire beach scene. You relax even more deeply into this living light. The words “ My peace I give unto you” take you more and more deeply into relaxation and contentment. Allow yourself to bask in this peacefulness for as long as it lasts.

"People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

· Just for today, do not anger
· Just for today, do not worry
· Just for today, honor yourself, your parents, your children, your teachers and elders
· Just for today, live life gratefully
· Just for today, devote yourself to your work and earn your living honestly
Be sure to read and thoroughly digest: “Sonic Bloom” athttp://www.sonicbloom.com/creationillustrated2003.htm
Also read about Masura Emoto http://www.whatthebleep.com/crystals/ and the effect of music or sound on water, of which the body is about 70%
For your meditative preparation, go to http://www.theuniversel.net/lessons/media.cfm?Selected=Media&SelectedID=52&CFID=155093&CFTOKEN=32352924
And listen to

Nathan and Joseph We Shall Be Healed Rustavi Choir Gregorian Chant
Sirin Choir Russian Chants
Andrew Lloyd Webber Pie Jesu
Allegri Miserere
Ludwig von Beethoven: 4th Piano Concerto
Lama Gyurmé: Lama's Chant

What Do You Want?

A most important question for obtaining the Alpha/Theta State and its healing power is to ask “What do you want?” Make a list of all that you want, a longer list than you have ever dared to make before. A list of 25 wants, or maybe even 50 or 100. Don’t limit yourself to being practical or realistic. List all your wants whether they seem attainable or not. Be sure you don’t just list or settle for what you think you should want, or that you are allowed to desire. Now relax. Don’t let your mind begin to complain because you don’t have them. Just enjoy recognizing these wants and admitting them to yourself.

Now, what do all of these desires amount to? Can you reduce all these wantings to one most basic want? Take your time. What do all of these wants really amount to? . Now when you reach that point of realizing what that one most basic want is, notice how you feel. Now you are possibly in the Alpha/Theta State. You are probably entering into the state of spiritual awareness and selfhood. In this state all of these wants are becoming yours because you are now entering the state of unlimited, timeless, awareness. The only things that block you from this unlimited, timeless state are any fearful, toxic, or confused attachments or resistances. You can let go of these, remove them, cast them out, by clearly and boldly saying “I remove this ……(condition) now, I let go of this……(problem) now, I release myself from this……(virus or allergy) now.”
One of the most powerful statements of such release is “In the name of the peace of Jesus Christ, I forgive this……, I let go of this…….I claim this…….I affirm that…….
Do a self-test and see if you get a confirmation.
The Toxicity of Attachments
Whatever you are attached to, addicted to, clinging to, dependent upon, compulsively drawn toward, or in love with…..is a finite representation or symptom of, an invisible essence. Whatever finite thing or relationship you think you want, need, or desire, it is symbolic of the infinite. That finite attachment must be released and transformed into its infinite essence. As a finite attachment, it eventually becomes binding, limiting, frustrating and toxic, and it appears in the body and social environment as a symptom. Anxiety is the chief symptom in human experience. If the anxiety symptom is not addressed and used for personal transformation, it then becomes more physical. Look at the physical problems in your body and environment and you will see how this anxiety has become somatized, physicalized, and socialized: your car breaks down, your child gets the flu, the IRS calls you, an uncle dies, your dog gets run over, your team loses, you lose your cell phone, your printer won’t work, bad weather causes work loss, a check bounces, someone rear-ends you, etc, etc, etc. All of the negativity and confusion in our consciousness, unless cleared up, produces concrete effects in our environment, body and experience. Likewise, positivity in our consciousness, unless interrupted, produces health, wealth, wisdom and flow in our daily experience. Wouldn’t it be worth our time and effort to discover and practice the conscious and regular use of our Alpha Zone?

The biblical understanding of Shalom, the Hebrew word for peace, is more than the absence of conflict but everything that makes for people's highest good. It works toward hope and wholeness in which people individually and collectively experience health, prosperity, security, oneness with nature, and spiritual renewal.

Am I saying this is the only way? I have no intention to even suggest that we can limit God.
But I will say that the ego is a copycat of the real thing, and this is called hypocrisy. You can mimic the real thing in beta, but in Alpha/Theta mimicking is not necessary. Peace in beta is more like peace-versus-war; peace in alpha has no opposite. Serenity is a very high vibratory state of being. Without serenity, contentment and ecstasy will not occur on any
consistent basis. In the ego story it is war-versus-peace, and pleasure-versus-pain.

The body is 70-75% water. Water crystals are shaped by sound, thoughts, pictures and pollution, as Dr. Masaru Emoto has demonstrated. Proper sound and nutrients double the productivity of crops, according to Don Carlson. The body requires 80% alkaline, but the following things incite acid: stress and worry, sugar, nicotine, caffeine, prescription drugs, smoking, drinking, junk food, street drugs, soda pop, smog, carbon dioxide, noise, lack of sleep, etc. Certain foods, herbs, fruit juices, and essential oils produce more oxygen, alkaline and balance in the body’s immune system. Oxygen from exercise and proper breathing put a positive spin on the body’s water and alkaline content. Alkaline water filtering systems also put a positive spin on the body’s cells. Reference a picture of how plants respond to classical music.

Acid-Alkaline Balance: Key Indicator of Healthby G. Kumar
The average 20th century diet, stress, lifestyle and environment produce far more acid than is healthy. The human body is alkaline by design and acidic by function, which means that your body's health is dependent upon it being alkaline.
The original source of stress is known as a stressor. Most of the stressors in today’s society (cigarette smoke, alcohol, stress, junk food, coffee, sodas, pharmaceuticals, sugar, meat) all produce an acid state in the body. All cancerous states are acid states of long duration. Maximum health is in an alkaline body.
Research indicates that 90% of our general population is far too acidic, which leads to a variety of negative health effects. Over time, being acidic is the main cause of degenerative diseases and aging. If you have an acidic body, you become mentally and physically exhausted, and you lose the radiance and shine of skin and hair.
The effects of having an alkaline body:
1) we are calm and collected 2) we have high energy level 3) our sleep patterns are deep 4) we have less colds and flu than normal 5) the immune system is fortified 6) the body has good absorption/assimilation/digestion.
Foods either leave an acid ash or an alkaline ash. Grains, sugar, dairy, animal or vegetarian protein and oils yield an acid ash while fruits, sea vegetables, vegetables, quality water and herbs yield an alkaline ash You should consume 20% of your food daily, by weight from the acid ash-forming foods and 80% , from the alkaline ash-forming foods.
Your pH (short for 'potential of Hydrogen') levels are a measure of the relative acidity or alkalinity of a solution. It is measured on a scale from 1 (extremely acidic) to 14 (extremely alkaline) with 7.0 being neutral. The middle of this line is 7, neutral. Quality water has a pH of 7 and you should maintain this level. It is ideal to incorporate 2 glasses of lime juice along with the 8-12 glasses of water which is taken daily . A diet of 80% alkaline ash foods is ideal. We have to maintain this ratio - 80% alkalinity and 20% acidity for optimum health.
About the author:G Kumar is an astrologer, writer and programmer of http://www.astrologiavedica.com.
http://healingdeva.com/acid.htm

Whatever you put before peace destroys it. Whatever we put before the Place of Peace creates attachment and resistance, along with immunity-reducing acid. Put peace first and everything else second, or you will be into the peace-and-war opposites. The peace we are speaking about here has no opposite, only the appearance of an opposite. War, even though it is not real, affects the body, which is not real either, in the ultimate sense.

Seek first the Kingdom of Peace, the Place of Serenity and Calm, and all other things will be added unto you. The courageous Christ, the God-man, is the man of peace, the bridge between the finite and the infinite. Each one of us must become that because that is what we are. We are either ego or Christ, there is no other choice. Ego is unreal, Christ is real. So we have no reason to be ashamed of the Christ that we are, unless we prefer fantasy to reality. Of course, up until now that is what we have all done. We have been into peace-and-war; it is time that we choose the Place of Peace. Peace-versus-war is no choice at all, it is par for the course, it is and always has been, the status quo. The ego is a war-versus-peace machine.

The picture below is a photo of a molecule of water that reflected Japanese folk dance music.

Tap water in Shinagawa, Tokyo.
Same tap water with "Chi, Soul and Spirit" of 500 people.

Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of Messages from Water, has been able to further our understanding about water's caring and compassionate connection with us. By freezing water and taking pictures of the frozen water crystals that form, Dr. Emoto has been able to confirm his theory that while pure water becomes pure crystal, contaminated water may not crystallize at all or not as beautifully.
The implications of Dr. Emoto's work are profound and life-changing. For example, in one experiment, Dr. Emoto wrote to 500 instructors from all over Japan. He told them that he would be placing a cup of ordinary tap water on his desk at a specific date and time. He asked them to transmit their feelings to that water-to send "chi and soul" of love and the wish that the water should become clean. The before and after pictures (shown above) are truly remarkable. As you can see, the "before" photo of the tap water is a mess, whereas the "after" photo shows a gorgeous crystal. This is an amazing finding since the 500 people were not even in the same room, nor even in the same city. This demonstrates that people's thoughts can be gathered no matter how far apart they are. It confirms the power of thought and prayer and further suggests that perhaps we can purify ordinary tap water through our conscious thought and words.
Distilled water labelled "Do It".
Distilled water labelled "Let's Do It".
Dr. Emoto has further determined that the intention of words chosen are also extremely important. In another experiment he took a sample of distilled water, which he divided into two glass bottles. He pasted a typed paper on one bottle with the Japanese words, "Do It". On the other bottle he pasted the Japanese words, "Let's Do It". He left these words overnight and in the morning he froze the water and took the pictures of the crystals. As you can see in the photos above, the results were again quite dramatic. The more commanding words, "Do It", were clearly not responded to in as positive a way by the water as the more encouraging words, "Let's Do It". This suggests that we may wish to pay more attention to the way that we talk to each other and especially to our children.
Based upon these and many of his other equally dramatic findings with water, Dr. Emoto has several recommendations for creating a more peaceful life. For example, he suggests that we say words of appreciation, that we give greetings with a smile, that we pray and that we say blessings at meal time over our food and water. Furthermore, Dr. Emoto encourages us to take an early morning walk to awaken our immune system and to talk to and love nature. In addition, by walking on the ground in our bare feet, Dr. Emoto believes that we can eliminate the electromagnetic waves and static electricity that our bodies have accumulated. He also encourages us to review things in the shoes of others and to not accumulate negative feelings. Of course Dr. Emoto also recommends that we drink high-quality water. He feels that the best kind of water is when it tastes good and sweet.
Breathing is a kind of self-care ritual that you can do quickly, quietly, privately, anywhere, any time.

Deep, abdominal breathing is among the most powerful stress-reduction techniques ever devised. Used properly, it’s as effective as Valium and a whole lot faster. It only takes five or six deep breaths to begin reversing a tension spiral.

Psychiatrist Johannes Schultz used that simple fact to develop one of the most effective stress-reduction methods ever conceived. He found that by merely imagining your arms and legs becoming heavy, you could release most of your body’s tension and achieve a deep calm. The image of heaviness sends a message to your muscles to relax and let go.
In Autogenic Breathing, you use your imagination to create feelings of warmth and heaviness in your limbs. Let your mind travel to the warm beach, where the weight of the sand gently pressing on your arms and legs calms you and relaxes every muscle in your body.
Begin by taking some slow, deep breaths. Let them go way down into your abdomen. Allow the feeling of relaxation to deepen with each breath.
Now imagine you’re at the beach. You can see the seagulls wheeling overhead and you can hear their calls. The waves are rolling up the sand. The surf roars and then grows quiet, rushing in and then receding. Let yourself be lulled by the roar...quiet... roar of the waves.
Now feel the warm sand. Imagine it pleasantly covering your body. Feel the weight of the sand as it covers your arms and legs. Feel the comfort of its warmth. Warm and heavy. Let the feelings deepen for a while, clearly imagining the sand on your arms and legs. Warm and heavy.

The Highest Vibratory Frequency on the Planet

We all have available to us - within - a direct channel to the Highest Vibrational Frequency Range within The Illusion. That highest range involves consciousness of the Glory of ONENESS. It is called Cosmic Consciousness. It is called Christ Consciousness.
Robert Burney

I have no doubt that Jesus carries the highest vibratory frequency of any being on the planet. His life, his miracles, his teachings, his resurrection, and his power to uplift the entire mass of humanity are demonstrations of the unparalleled consciousness that he achieved. And if it is true that he has the highest energy frequency, why don’t we just go directly to that level? In the last few years there are more and more studies, biographies, paintings, revelations, and stories about his appearances among people of many cultures, nations and individuals. He has become the Cosmic Christ to a degree and in a manner that no one would have suspected a few decades ago. Aspects of his greatness and character are still streaming into the consciousness of the planet. By connecting up with his energy frequency, you and I may be able to move upscale in our energy signatures and consciousness achievements. David Hawkins has shown in his work that each person has a chronic energy vibratory level[6] at which he typically functions. When anyone joins with the energy frequency of the Cosmic Christ, he or she can move upscale toward his achievement level of !000. This article is dedicated to help us enter into the Alpha/Theta State and to achieve the highest frequency possible while there.

Jesus, in my opinion, was the most important Master Teacher in the history of humankind. The reason he was so important was that he taught Love. He carried the message of a Loving God-Force. Jesus was a perfect Spiritual Being, a direct extension/manifestation from the ONENESS that is the God / Goddess Energy, having a human experience - just as we all are perfect Spiritual Beings having a human experience
Robert Burney

Black and white thinking of the type that occurs in our ego-programmed beta state mocks or mimics true spirituality in a manner that Jesus labeled as the Pharisee or hypocrisy mentality. Much of Jesus teaching was about how to discern between truth and its counterfeits.

The name and significance of Jesus Christ carries great metaphysical power because of the importance of the message of Love carried by this Master Teacher. People who are not practicing discernment and still viewing life from a black and white perspective, often resonate with the Truth of Love symbolized by Jesus and don't know how to separate the feeling of connection and Love associated with Christ Consciousness from the distortions and lies that became a part of Christianity because it was a state religion being used by governments - beginning with Rome - to control and manipulate the masses
Robert Burney

A goal of transpersonal psychotherapy is Christ consciousness…anything less than enlightenment, Christ consciousness or the kingdom of Heaven is “off the mark.” Transpersonal psychotherapy helps us heal the blocking problem, which is our attachment to our ego or false self.
Charles L. Whitfield, M.D.

What A Course in Miracles teaches us about peace:

Opposites must be brought together, not kept apart
Christ would bring peace to everyone, but how can he do this except through you.
You could accept peace now for everyone , and offer them perfect freedom from all illusions because you heard His voice.
Conflict and peace are opposites.
It is through us that peace will come
You will first dream of peace, and then awaken to it
Peace is the greatest enemy of the ego because, according to its interpretation of reality, war is the guarantee of its survival
The peace that already lies deeply within, must expand, and flow across the obstacles you place before it
The first obstacle that peace must flow across is your desire to get rid of it. The second obstacle is that the body is valuable for what it offers..
The third obstacle is the attraction of death. The fourth obstacle is the fear of God.
You were at peace until you asked for special favor
You cannot find peace outside of you
You who want peace can only find it by complete forgiveness
If you want peace, you must give it
Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself
In peace you needed nothing and asked for nothing
There is no substitute for peace
The teacher of peace will never abandon you
Mistake not peace for truce, nor compromise for the escape from conflict
When a situation is devoted wholly to truth, peace is inevitable
The means of ware are not the means of peace, and what the warlike would remember is not love
Do you not think the world needs peace as much as you do?
The opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opposite. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
Peace will be yours because His peace still flows to you from Him Whose will is peace.

[1] Also the earth itself has a resonance or “heartbeat” of 7.8 cycles per second which a German physicist, W. O. Schumann, first detected in 1954.

[2] The Alpha/Theta Door can lead into the heightened states of awareness which have been described as Gamma. Here is an example of some of those heightened states:
35 Hz Awakening of mid-chakras; balance of chakras; 55 Hz: Tantric Yoga; stimulates the kundalini; 63 Hz: Astral projection; 70 Hz: Mental & Astral projection; 80 Hz: Awareness & control of right direction; 83 Hz: Third eye opening for some people: 90 Hz: Good feelings; security, well-being, balancing; 105 Hz: Overall view of complete situation; 108 Hz: Total knowing; 120-500 Hz: P.S.I.; Moving of objects, changing matter; transmutation.

[3] To sample how you may enhance your reading, please go to
http://www.invinciblemusic.com/Gregorian_Chant_1.htm , click on the Gregorian chant (NEW!! - Gregorian Chants with Sound of Nature Movie (1 hour) - FREE! (High-Speed Internet)
give it a few seconds to load, and then return to your reading, with the chant playing in the background.

[4] What is the Schumann Resonance?It refers to the region of extremely low frequencies that exist between the ionosphere above the earth and the earth’s surface. A German named Schumann in the 1950’s discovered it. The resonance frequency of 7.83Hz lies on the border line between the Alpha/Theta waves and the theta waves of the human mind. It is the same as light, which travels 7.8 cycles per second around the earth. It is said that all living things on the earth including humans are under the influence of the Schumann Resonance to maintain the basic rhythm of life.

[5] To assist you in practicing the Om sound, you may go to the following website: http://www.thepurplepeople.com/meditation/om1.html, and scroll down to the Eternal Om or the Omniscient Om and look just beneath the CD jacket cover and click on “Listen to a selection” It may take a minute or two to load up on your Real Player, but it is worth it. Once it plays through the short selection, you may hit the little green button and have it replayed over and over.

The Universal Free Energy Project

2008-05-25T09:16:00.000-04:00

The Universal Free Energy Project

Have you heard of it? You soon will. I picked it up in the air waves and gave it a name. But it’s not mine, its ours.

This revolutionary new idea is exactly and precisely on time. Memorial Day, 2008. What are we going to remember? It’s time to remember all of the men and women who died on the battlefields of the world for freedom. What could be more appropriate than to dedicate this Memorial Day to them and call it the birthday of the Universal Free Energy Project.

What did the world’s soldiers die for? They died for the end of war. They died for freedom. They died for a better way of life. They died that we might live fully. They died for God. They died for a worthy cause.

But what they died for is up to us.

Did they die for more wars, for more slavery, for more hostility, for more dividedness, for more debt, for more poverty, for more fear, for more planet abuse?

Young men have always died for the same thing: freedom. Are we free yet? Are we free of fear? Are we free of debt? Are we free of the burden of work? Are we free of hostility and greed?

They died for the same thing that another young man named Jesus died for. He was given the title of the “Christ” for his sacrifice, and this “Christ” is going to return. This “Christ” will come again. This “Christ” is going to make the deaths of other young soldiers worthwhile. This “Christ” is going to make any more war unnecessary.

This young soldier named Jesus made us a promise “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”

Is there any such “truth” that will set us free today? Free of high gas prices? Free of poor health care? Free of overwhelming taxes? Free of the threat of more wars? Free of the threat of global warming? Free of poverty, disease and starvation?

Is there any such “truth”? Is there any such freedom? I have been told there is. It is called the Universal Free Energy Project.

What is this “Christ” that is going to return soon? I have a radical proposal: this “Christ” that is going to return will be in the form of a project of humanity: the Universal Free Energy Project. Habitat was free housing. Universal Free Energy will be free energy. Then we can talk about Universal Free Health Care.

The Universal Free Energy Project is an idea whose time has come.

On this website we honor all of the soldiers who ever died for freedom. We will honor them by saying that we “get it.” We will envision a living memorial dedicated to them: the Universal Free Energy Project.

They will all return as the “Christ.” They will assist us in this Project. Just think of it! Thousands of these young men from the other side will join with us on this side to forge a joint project for the redemption of mankind.

We will be redeemed from our helplessness and fearfulness. War will end because its cause will be gone: the belief in lack. We have suffered all throughout history from cognition deficiency (Maslow). It is time to end Cognition Deficiency. It can be done in one grand vision: The Universal Free Energy Project!

What is this Project that could end Deficiency Cognition and the war for power and control?

I invite you to help me “define” this Project. It will take all of us to do it. This Project is so huge that it will take the most talented, the most gifted, the most willing, the most cooperative, and the most dedicated to do it. Even the skeptical, the greedy, the hostile, and the resistant will be needed.

Everyone today is concerned about controlling the arms race and nuclear power. Good. We should be concerned. But what is the point of the arms race? Safety? Power? Control? Greed? Fear? Security?

The real point of the arms race is the control of energy. Yet by building nuclear arms we are defeating the control of energy. Imagine what would happen if we dedicated the money being used for national security and the arms race to the Universal Free Energy Project.

WE don’t need to control energy, we need to make its free use available to every human being. The internet is free. We did it. Energy is free. We can do it also.

Even God doesn’t want control. God is a giver. All that he does is give energy. The entire universe runs on free energy. You don’t pay for sun, rain, air, or even oil. It is all given. Hydrogen is everywhere. Hydrogen is free. Magnetism is everywhere. Magnetism is free. Sunlight is everywhere. Sunlight is free. The wind and tides are everywhere, and they are free.

Deficiency Cognition has warped our view of this universe and its purpose. What if there were no fears of deficiency and lack? What if everyone could just give and receive freely and enjoy? Would the world economies not work better if they were based on Universal Free Energy?

Every human problem, every human addiction, every human power struggle, every human illness, every human pain, and every human hostility since the beginning of time was based upon one simple belief; lack. The Universal Free Energy Project addresses that one fault directly. If you and I were aware of the reality of Universal Free Energy, the entire world would change.

You can start today. Universal Free Energy is a fact. It is the only reality. Let go of the Fantasy of Lack. We can embrace Universal Free Energy right now. We don’t have to wait 100 years or even until 2012. It is here now (Tolle).

The Universal Free Energy Project, however, would be a conscious choice, embraced and pursued by humanity as a whole.

From the Secret

2008-05-08T06:56:00.000-04:00

http://thesecret.tv/planet-earth/

The Cracked Jar

2008-05-08T06:23:00.000-04:00

An Indian legend tells of a man who carried water to his village every day, in two large jars tied to the ends of a wooden pole, which he balanced on his back.

One of the jars was older than the other, and had some small cracks; every time the man covered the distance to his house, half of the water was lost.

For two years, the man made the same journey. The younger jar was always very proud of its performance, safe in the knowledge that it was up to the mission it had been made for, while the other jar was mortified with shame at only fulfilling half of its allotted task, even though it knew that those cracks were the result of many years hard work.

It was so ashamed that one day, while the man got ready to fetch water from the well, it decided to speak to him:

- I want to apologize, but because of the many years of service, you are only able to deliver half of my load, and quench half of the thirst which awaits you at your home.

The man smiled, and said:

- When we return, observe carefully the path.

And so it did. And the jar noticed that, on its side, many flowers and plants grew.

- See how nature is more lovely on your side? - commented the man. - I always knew you were cracked, and decided to make use of this fact. I planted flowers and vegetables, and you have always watered them. I have picked many roses to decorate my house with, I have fed my children with lettuce, cabbage and onions. If you were not as you are, how could I have done that?

“All of us, at some point, grow old and start to acquire other qualities. We can always make the most of each one of these new qualities and obtain a good result.”

BeyondAnanda

2008-05-06T08:06:00.000-04:00

The Internet is Still in its Infancy

2008-05-04T16:28:00.000-04:00

What is Love to a 4-5 year old?

2008-03-26T05:12:00.000-04:00

Subject: What Love Means to a 4-8 year old

What Love means to a 4-8 year old ....
Slow down for three minutes to read this. It is so worth it. Touching words from the mouth of babes.

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does love mean?'

The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined See what you think:

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'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore.
So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.'

Rebecca- age 8

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'When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different.
You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.'

Billy - age 4

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'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.'

Karl - age 5

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'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.'

Chrissy - age 6

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'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.'

Terri - age 4

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'Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.'

Danny - age 7

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'Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more.
My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss'

Emily - age 8

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'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.'

Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)

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'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,'

Nikka - age 6
(we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)

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'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.'

Noelle - age 7

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'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.'

Tommy - age 6

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'During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.

He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.'

Cindy - age 8

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'My mommy loves me more than anybody
You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.'

Clare - age 6

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'Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.'

Elaine-age 5

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'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.'

Chris - age 7

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'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.'

Mary Ann - age 4

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'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.'

Lauren - age 4

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'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.' (what an image)

Karen - age 7

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'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross.'

Mark - age 6

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'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.'

Jessica - age 8

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And the final one

The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.

Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,

'Nothing, I just helped him cry'

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When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need. Take 60 seconds and give this a shot! All you do is simply say the following small prayer for the person who sent you this.

Heavenly Father, please bless all my friends in whatever it is that You know they may be needing this day! And may their life be full of Your peace, prosperity and power as he/she seeks to have a closer relationship with You. Amen.

Then send it on to five other people, including the one who sent it to you. Within hours you caused a multitude of people to pray for other people. Then sit back and watch the power of God work in your life.

P. S. Five is good, but more is better.

The New Message

2008-03-09T17:39:00.000-04:00

The New Message

Jesus said that there were many things he could not tell us at that time. Only now in the 20th and 21st centuries can he tell us the whole truth. We didn’t even have the ability or the words to grasp and contain what was on Level Two. And the developmental level of his listeners and scribes racheted down what he said to their own level, and so it has always been.

Now ten things have occurred which enable us to begin to comprehend the magnitude of the message of the Great Masters.

Event # 1: the atomic bomb blast in 1945 showed us the power of the invisible world, the atom. Before that we had no way to comprehend what power was.

Event # 2: The invention of the printing press in the 13th century and recently the appearance of television, computers, the internet and cell phone technology, has made possible worldwide instant communication.

Event # 3: The discovery of the Dead Scrolls in the late 1940’s heralded a broadened understanding of Christ’s message through such documents as the Gospel of Thomas. In these documents were found a much deeper meaning of spirituality than we had ever imagined before.

Event # 4: In the late 1960’s a new scripture appeared called A Course in Miracles, a scripture dictated in clear modern English without interpreters, language barriers, tedious copying and continuous editing. This sacred document was not turned over to any church or ecclesiastical body for any religious or political purpose, but stands on its own clear and free until this day. The author of this document was Jesus, and the purpose of it was to correct and expand on his original teachings to an audience who were capable of listening. It was a universal message about human identity addressed to all of the nations, cultures and religions of the world.

Event # 5: it is now being revealed that in 2012, the second coming of the cosmic Christ will usher in the transition of humanity, as well as the earth itself, into the fifth dimension. Nothing of this magnitude has ever happened in the history of the world since the Big Bang. This enormous leap in evolution is just about upon us.

Event # 6 points to the importance of discovery, signaled by the discovery of America in the 15th century, the venture into outer space in the mid-1900’s, and the discovery of UFO evidence in the later 1900’s. Until these discoveries, the world was very small.

Event # 7 was the revelation and discovery of a map of human consciousness, which was outlined, tested and integrated by David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. over the past 30 years. This invaluable map provides a scientific energy scale calibration of all of the major states of consciousness from the lowest negative to the highest positive levels.

Event # 8 is the advent of a new form of scientific inquiry made possible by Einstein, Bohr, Hawking and other physicists who broke through the bonds of classical reason-bound thinking about the world as a machine.

Event # 9 is the recent public announcement of The Secret. The Secret presupposes a new understanding of the role of anxiety and all of its associated symptoms in the transformation of Level One experiences into Level Two awareness. The Secret will now be known to the masses, not even primarily for the acquisition of abundance, but for the discovery of the creative power of our shared godhood. Neville Goddard, Emma Curtis Hopkins, Ernest Holmes and other consciousness pioneers and visionaries have laid the groundwork for the emergence of The Secret. Oprah and Tolle’s worldwide classes in consciousness are expanding the awareness of the masses into the Power of Presence.

Event #10 is the upcoming discovery of Universal Free Energy which will make possible peace on earth. The groundwork for this discovery has been laid already by the Iraq War, the manipulation of oil resources, and the unrelenting work of scientists in many fields. We will either move into Universal Free Energy or the world economy will be dashed to pieces on the rock of energy greed. This shattering of the world economy may be the only thing that will allow the emergence of Universal Free Energy and World Peace. The World-Ego may have to go bust in order for God-Peace to emerge.

The Homeless Man

2008-02-16T06:11:00.000-05:00

The Homeless Man

It was a cold winter's day that Sunday. The parking lot to the church was filling up quickly. I noticed as got out of my car fellow church members were whispering among themselves as they walked in the church.

As I got closer I saw a man leaned up against the wall outside the church. He was almost laying down as if he was asleep. He had on a long trench coat that was almost in shreds and a hat topped his head, pulled down so you could not see his face. He wore shoes that looked 30 years old, too small for his feet, with holes all over them, his toes stuck out.

I assumed this man was homeless, and asleep, so I walked on by through the doors of the church.
We all fellowshipped for a few minutes, and someone brought up the man laying outside. People snickered and gossiped but no one bothered to ask him to come in, including me.

A few moments later church began. We all waited for the Preacher to take his place and to give us the Word, when the doors to the church opened.

In came the homeless man walking down the aisle with his head down. People gasped and whispered and made faces. He made his way down the aisle and up onto the pulpit where he took off his hat and coat. My heart sank. There stood our preacher ...he was the "homeless man".

No one said a word. The preacher took his Bible and laid it on his stand. "Folks, I don't think I have to tell you what I am preaching about today."

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What Is Enlightenment

2008-02-15T06:24:00.000-05:00

Enlightenment as Conscious Metamorphosis:

"The material contained herein is representational of the thinking of a new mindedness. It is an absolutely enlightened order of thought. Face it, the human race is finally going to have look squarely at the idea of atonement or resurrection or a dramatic shift in self-identity or whatever else you call it." Master Teacher

The Necessity for the Transformation

Since the beginning of time, human consciousness has been misguidedly directed by its own continuous perception of fear, conflict, suffering, and death. The fundamental dilemma of objective perception is that we perceive something outside of ourselves and therefore are caught in a continuing posture of defense/attack. We seem caught in an eternal loop where as individuals or as a species, we react to one problem or crisis and then on to another. In this scenario, the avoidance of death alone appears to be the major purpose of life. Until now we have had to be content with band-aid solutions, the proverbial rearranging of the deck chairs on the Titanic. Until now, we have watched how solutions always lead to more problems or merely to the change of their form.

Certainly there must be another manner to employ the passionate energy of the human race than to constantly engage in conflict, revenge, war, and suffering! There must be another way to be!

A Course In Miracles asks us to look again:

"The separated ones have invented many 'cures' for what they believe to be the 'ills of the world.' But the one thing they do not do is to question the reality of the problem. Yet its effects cannot be cured because the problem is not real."

Have you ever really questioned the underlying assumption of your own reality? Have you ever considered the consequences of the quantum revolution to you personally? ( click here to listen to excerpts of the Quantum Awakening CD)

What if there is no reality except the meaning you personally give to anything? Stop one moment and realize that you have no “proof” of any existence here except the perception and interpretation of your own mind. Every conclusion you have ever drawn, every observation you ever made, every person you ever met, every word you’ve ever read, every sensation you’ve ever experienced, every interpretation, all “facts”, are only your idea of them. Nothing has reality outside of you.

"The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. But though it is no more than that, it is not less. Therefore, to you it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause. And that is why order of difficulty in miracles is meaningless. Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy. Nothing perceived without it means anything. And where there is no meaning, there is chaos." A Course In Miracles, Chapter 21
In the unprecedented condition of fear and anxiety that besets much of Mankind at this place in time, an uncompromisingly true idea offers inevitable and immediate deliverance. As Teachers of A Course In Miracles, we welcome an opportunity to reveal to the world that there is available, right here and now, a mind-training of continuing moments of giving and forgiving each other, that does indeed lead, through a very real physical, mental, and emotional transformation of ourselves, to a recognition that each of us are a Whole part of the Creative Reality of All That There Is.

We are certain in our hearts and minds that this new understanding of a True Universal Relationship must and will bring bright innovative solutions to the often devastating problems of aggregate human existence that have beset Mankind since the beginning of time.

"The opposite of love is fear, but what is All-Encompassing can have no opposite.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God."

Welcome to the transformational masterpiece of A Course In Miracles!

The Goal of Awakening Is Enlightenment

"True light that makes true vision possible is not the light the body's eyes behold. It is a state of mind that has become so unified that darkness cannot be perceived at all. And thus what is the same is seen as one, while what is not the same remains unnoticed, for it is not there.

This is the light that shows no opposites, and vision, being healed, has power to heal. This is the light that brings your peace of mind to other minds, to share it and be glad that they are one with you and with themselves. This is the light that heals because it brings single perception, based upon one frame of reference, from which one meaning comes." A Course In Miracles, Lesson 108

Drawn from the deep recesses of the mind through the wisdom of a moment of inner listening to the Voice for God, is an experience A Course In Miracles calls a “Holy Instant”. It lies past the doctrinal debates of established religion, beyond the conceptual controversy, at the core of every scientific discovery, at the heart of every theology. It is simply a purity of spiritual experience that is the essence of all religion.

In this experience lies the intimacy of true communication, the healing essence of love, the creativity of the mind, the converting nature of unifying thought, and the recognition of the Oneness of Creation. It is this experience of the singularity of peace for which humanity yearns. It extends beyond all religious boundaries and yet is derived from an action of stillness that enlightened teachers have always taught.

The Course In Miracles is presenting a thought system espoused by Jesus, but which extends beyond all religious boundaries. It was promoted by Socrates, delighted in by the masters of all eastern and western religious traditions, and, is advocated, perhaps unknowingly, by present day quantum physicists in the recognition of the unreality of observed form.

Every great quantum discovery points to it. Neils Bohr tells us that the “fuzzy and nebulous world of the atom only sharpens into concrete reality when an observation is made”. From Einstein’s theory of relativity where time is relative to the observer, to Wheeler’s self-observing universe, it is clear that the world you see is a product of your own mind. No one argues the fact of it…that is, not until it comes to their own personal experience. What if I am totally responsible for the world I see?

"The time has come on earth for the maturing and emergence of individuals with genuinely expanded ranges of consciousness/mind. Historically humans have described these individuals as masters or avatars or adepts or initiates or even saviors or man/gods. The accelerated evolution or even revolution of mind now in progress on the planet involves the metamorphosis of what can be termed later-day masters.

Not incidentally, the original model for all master teachers in regard to individual transformation to spiritual man or Son of Godship or God-manhood is Master Brother Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Not only is he the model but indeed, his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5) is the original catechism of the methods to be used to bring about the mind and body transformation of every apparently separated consciousness, to the true conception of self as singular universal truth. Obviously all the method of salvation you could ever, ever need is the practice of “Resist not evil.” This must lead to totally unqualified forgiveness which is finally the simple recognition that nothing real could ever be threatened nor could it be separated from everything, which is what God and truth is.

If it is true then, that this knowledge of a single identity that is eternal happiness and peace can only be gained through a spiritual maturation or mind transformation, whose mind is it that must change? Listen to me now. I say to you with unqualified certainty that the individual consciousness that finally brought and will bring eternal happiness, peace and love to mankind is and was yours. It could never have happened in any other fashion. As one of these later-day masters, I am absolutely certain of your divine brotherhood and saviorship. Literally, as master of your thoughts you are master of the world. Only through your resurrection of mind can the world be saved from the illusion of fear and annihilation."

Master Teacher
Endeavor Academy Online

Be Thyself

2008-02-05T11:39:00.000-05:00

"It will be a marvellous thing - the true personality of man - when we see it. It will grow naturally and simply, flower-like, or as a tree grows. It will not be at discord. It will never argue or dispute. It will not prove things. It will know everything. And yet it will not busy itself about knowledge. It will have wisdom. Its value will not be measured by material things. It will have nothing. And yet it will have everything, and whatever one takes from it, it will still have, so rich will it be. It will not be always meddling with others, or asking them to be like itself. It will love them because they will be different. And yet, while it will not meddle with others, it will help all, as a beautiful thing helps us by being what it is. The personality of man will be very wonderful. It will be as wonderful as the personality of a child.

In its development it will be assisted by Christianity, if men desire that; but if men do not desire that, it will develop none the less surely. For it will not worry itself about the past, nor care whether things happened or did not happen. Nor will it admit any laws but its own laws; nor any authority but its own authority. Yet it will love those who sought to intensify it, and speak often of them. And of these Christ was one. "Know Thyself" was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, "Be Thyself" shall be written. And the message of Christ to man was simply "Be Thyself." That is the secret of Christ."

Oscar Wilde

A Tribute to Dr. John Lilly

2008-01-30T06:41:00.000-05:00

In Loving Memory of John Cunningham Lilly, M.D

January 6, 1915-September 30, 2001

Dr. John C. Lilly died on September 30th, 2001, in Los Angeles, of heart failure. Dr. Lilly was best known for his work with dolphins and interspecies communication, his development of the isolation tank, and his research into altered states of consciousness. The main characters in two popular films, The Day of the Dolphin and Altered States, were based on Dr. Lilly.

Born January 6, l915, in Saint Paul, Minnesota to Rachel and Richard Lilly, Lilly was educated at St. Paul Academy, California Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College Medical School, and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. During WWII, he conducted high altitude research at the Johnson Foundation for Medical Physics. After the war, he trained as a psychoanalyst.

While a Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service, Lilly worked at the National Institutes of Health, where he developed the isolation tank, which came to be known as the "Lilly tank". In l959, he established the Communication Research Institute in the U.S. Virgin Islands to study the vocalizations of Bottlenose dolphins. The work later continued in San Francisco under the aegis of the JANUS Project. He also established the Human Dolphin Foundation, and worked with Samadhi Tank company to help popularize the isolation tank experience.

From the late sixties until he retired to Hawaii in l992, Dr. Lilly worked from his home lab in Malibu, California. He traveled extensively, teaching and lecturing at academic institutions, international conferences, and growth centers like Esalen, where he was a long-standing artist in residence.

Dr. Lilly published over one hundred and twenty-five scientific papers, relating to his work in various fields, including Respiratory Physiology, Neurophysics, Neurophysiology, Psychiatry, interspecies communication, and the nature of consciousness and the self. He also published nineteen popular books, including the influential Man and Dolphin, 1961; The Dolphin in History (with Ashley Montagu), 1963; The Mind of the Dolphin, 1967; Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments, 1972, 1987; The Center of the Cyclone, 1972, 1987; The Dyadic Cyclone (with Toni Lilly), 1976; Lilly on Dolphins, Humans of the Sea, 1975, a revised edition of two previously published books, Man and Dolphin, The Mind of the Dolphin, and The Dolphin in History, a lecture; Simulations of God: The Science of Belief, 1974; The Deep Selp: Isolation Tank Relaxation, 1976; The Scientist, a Novel Autobiography, 1978, 2nd. ed. 1988; Communication Between Man and Dolphin: The Possibilty of Talking with Other Species, 1978, 1988; In the Province of the Mind (with Francis Jeffrey); John Lilly So Far, by Francis Jeffrey (with John C. Lilly, M.D., Ph.D.) 1990; and Tanks for the Memories, Floatation Tank Talks, by Dr. John C. Lilly and E.J. Gold, 1995.

An unparalleled scientific visionary and explorer, Dr. Lilly has made significant contributions to psychology, brain research, computer theory, medicine, ethics, and interspecies communication. His concepts, inventions, publications, and articulated explorations have dramatically enhanced the quality of contemporary global culture. His work with dolphins and whales created a global awareness that lead to the enactment of the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972. Today, Dr. Lilly is considered the father of dolphin researchers.

In the 1940s, Dr. Lilly invented new types of capacitance manometers to aid in researches of human metabolism, and invented gas concentration and flow meters to study respiration, gas mixing, and pressure and altitude. In the '40s and '50s, Dr. Lilly was on the cutting edge of Neuroscience. He was the first to map the brain of chimpanzees, in the process inventing the "Lilly Wave": an electrical pulse that could be used to stimulate the chimp's brain without any damage. He also developed the twenty-five channel EEG moving relief maps of the electrical activity in the brain and dynamic iconic displays for researching pulse shapes and electrodes. His brain mapping with acoustic, motor, and travelling waves predated today's state of the art by fifty years. His research in electronic brain stimulation, dreams, schizophrenia, and the neurophysiology of motivation - involving the identification of punishment and reward systems -- were published in a number of psychiatric journals.

In conducting his brain research, Dr. Lilly developed an interest in large brain systems. This led him to work with dolphin communication. In the process he invented various spectral analyzers and hydro-phones, and pioneered the use of minicomputers with real time programming and original software.

While working at the National Institutes of Health on isolation, solitude and confinement, he invented the floatation tank, a tool to maximally isolate sensory stimulation to "better understand what the mind does without exterior influence. NASA and other important organization have used his research into sensory isolation. After ten years of tank research, and while still in the employ of NIMH, he was given the responsibility to experiment with LSD in the tank. The results of that study were reported and published by that institute in his classic treatise, Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer. Like all his research, this was eventually made available to the public. Dr. Lilly considered this documentation his most original work. This is where he first published his famous statement, "In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits"

Dr. Lilly's last physician remarked with awe that John Lilly is the only person he knows of whose least accomplishment was becoming a Medical Doctor.

He has sown the seeds of several future scientific revolutions. Dr. Lilly leaves us with the possibility of a theory of internal realities. He developed the hardware/software model of the human brain/mind decades before the computer became a popular metaphor for the human brain. He worked towards a recognition of possibilities for solid state intelligence and planetary consciousness. He explored and theorized about the potential importance of Einstein, Podalski, Rosen, (PDR) and Bell's Theorem in quantum computers and teleportation. He initiated worldwide efforts at interspecies communications with large-brained dolphins, advocating United Nations protection and representation for the "Cetacean Nation."

Devoted to a philosophical quest for the nature of reality and mind, Dr. Lilly pursued a brilliant academic career among the scientific leaders of the day. He has lived in the company of associates and intimates including Nobel physicists Richard Feynman and Robert Milliken, philosophers Buckminster Fuller, Aldous Huxley, and Alan Watts, psychotherapy pioneers R.D. Laing, Fritz Perls, and Oscar Janiger, eclectic spiritual and psychological interpreters Oscar Ichazo, Baba Ram Dass, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, and a host of luminaries, inventors, political figures, writers, and Hollywood celebrities.

One of the twentieth century's foremost scientific pioneers John Lilly has been a relentless adventurer whose persona as "student of the unexpected" has resulted in astonishing insights into what it means to be a human being in an ever more mysterious universe.

We are trying to republish all his books, and with your financial support, we can, so email for information on how to show your support to get his work out to the rest of the world!

Got a Minute?

2008-01-24T05:13:00.000-05:00

http://www.shiftinaction.com/discover/videos/presentations

Have you got a minute for a meditation? These one minute videos will give your day an energy jolt of inspiration. Don't miss these!

Your Anxiety Complex

2008-01-20T15:55:00.000-05:00

Your Anxiety Complex

Everyone on the planet has an anxiety complex, which we usually call stress. The cause of this anxiety is unknown. Anxiety is an emotional, mental, physical and social dis-ease or condition. Until you understand the cause and purpose of anxiety you will continue to “act out” its hidden agenda.

We are almost totally ignorant of the nature, cause, and meaning of anxiety, and therefore we become its victim. It does zilch good to blame anyone, including yourself, for your anxiety or ignorance about it. If we understood the nature, cause, faces and meaning of anxiety, our problems would be over because we would be self-aware. Anxiety means that we are not aware. Anxiety is a sign of our ignorance. Your anxiety dilemma is designed to become the means of your salvation.

1. What is the Universal Human Symptom shared by all human beings on this planet? The one human problem that we have all inherited and suffer from?
2. What is the most common name for this symptom?
3. What is the single hidden cause of this one Universal Human Symptom?
4. Why is it that we don’t know that we have this disease?
5. What are the consequences of our ignorance about this human condition or problem?
6. In what forms does this symptom appear in human experience?
7. What are some of the common “remedies” for this disease?
8. Why don’t they work?
9. What are you anxious about? How do you try to hide, repress and deceive about your anxiety neurosis?
10. What are your friends and family anxious about that is identical to what you are anxious about?
11. How do they handle, hide, repress and project their anxiety that is similar to or different from your methods?

If you cannot answer these questions accurately and clearly for yourself, you should be in Radical Spiritual Psychotherapy. Why? Because you are in trouble. You don’t even know Psychology 101, and you are not even out of high school spiritually.

This material should be taught in every high school, college, university, graduate school, textbook, physician’s training, and in all psychotherapy sessions. If you can’t answer these fundamental questions, you are in trouble health-wise, financial-wise, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, mentally and relationship-wise. You are screwed. You had better run and not walk to get started if you want to be free of your ignorance and victimhood.

It is not my intention to insult you, but rather to make you aware that you are already insulted. Your belief system is based upon sheer ignorance and embarrassing self-deception if you don’t know the cause, meaning and beneficial purpose of your anxiety.

How could you possibly be driven and controlled by anxiety every day and not know any more its true cause? Are you ignorant about your ignorance? How smart is that, for a genius! An ignorant genius is an oxymoron. Are you oxymoronic about your anxiety?

Forgive? Hell - No!

2008-01-09T05:07:00.000-05:00

The Razor's Edge Newsletter
For People Who Live Life in the Pursuit of Excellence

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"Forgive? – Hell – No!”
by Peter Ragnar

It was about ten years ago, as I remember. The sky was a crisp blue. The leaves were fluttering in a gentle breeze. The shafts of sunlight made them appear as dancers in dresses of gold, red, orange, and green. The day was peaceful and serene until I saw him.

When he saw me, he ran with gun in hand. I knew where he was headed so I took a short cut and was waiting for him on the top of the rise. His breathing was labored and loud as he climbed out of the brush. His face paled with fear when he saw me. Not so much from my physical presence – for he appeared bigger, younger, and more muscular than myself. He was afraid because he knew he was wrong.

There had been a number of dead bears found with their paws cut off, teeth pulled out, and bellies cut open, just left rotting in the forest. These wasted bears had been slaughtered just for their gall bladders and a few souvenirs. You can just imagine burly men with yellow teeth bragging in a bar about their bear tooth necklace. However, no one dared utter a word about the $2,500 they got for the gall bladder. It seems that folks in China and elsewhere were willing to pay that much for what was believed to be an aphrodisiac. There was a very dangerous black market at work--so dangerous that these desperate men had shot at park rangers, game wardens, my wife, and me.

“You’ve got a might fast pair
of legs there young man....”

...I said as I extended my arm to help pull him up the hill. Suspicious, he hesitated for a moment. But he then cautiously accepted my hand.

“I was just seeing if I could spot some deer…”

I broke off his excuse, “Where is your gun?”

“Oh, I don’t have any gun,” he replied.

I knew he must have hidden it. Now the game warden would be waiting and watching for his return to retrieve it, which was highly unlikely now that I had caught him.

“You don’t need to explain your actions. Here, I would like to share a story with you. Once, a man saw two mice going down a path together. The odd thing was they were both holding a straw, a single straw held between the two of them in their mouths. Well, the man picked up a rock and thoughtlessly hurled it at the mice. He ended up killing just one."

Now, here’s the interesting part…
As I touched the bear poacher on the shoulder I continued, “The surviving mouse began running in circles while still holding the straw in its mouth. The man, now curious about the strange behavior, picked up the mouse and was shocked to tears at what he saw. The surviving mouse was blind! At that moment, you could say in a twinkling of an eye – the man was transformed.

What if someone, say a buddy of yours, shot and killed one of your dogs? Would you forgive them?”

His face flushed as he blurted out, “Forgive? Hell no!”

“What if it was by accident,” I asked.

“Well, then it would be different.”

“Accidents happen when we don’t understand the gravity of our actions. When we are unconscious of the consequences of our behavior we harm living things. Son--every bear, deer, and bird is as precious to me as your dogs are to you. I hope I’m not wrong, but I do not think you are a bad person anymore than the man who killed the mouse. So, I forgive you for being here. Just promise me you’ll think about my little story and not return.”

He looked down at the ground. When he raised his head, he shook my hand and softly said, “Thank you.”

Why did I forgive him? I first forgave him for myself. Who of us enjoys a sleepless night, turning and twisting in restless resentment over a real or perceived wrong? I choose forgiveness because I also choose mental and physical health. It is the resentments, the anger, the regrets, which become the cancer of the soul and body. Cancer is a disease of anger and fearful imaginings.

All emotions that are not colored by love are toxic.

If you carry an unforgiving attitude to sleep with you, you’re programming your subconscious to create disease. It will poison an otherwise sweet disposition, ruin your personality, and increase your rate of aging. So, from the standpoint of rational self interest – cultivate forgiveness.

The purpose of forgiveness is threefold.

1. To create healthy human relationships
2. To bolster integrity and honesty of others
3. To alleviate negative subconscious

To become a noble human, to actually make a difference with your life, to become that one improved human unit, you must practice forgiveness. Forgiveness requires total detachment from negative past events. If you can step aside from the failures of others, you’ll walk in the light of day.

I do not doubt the courage this takes. Nor do I doubt the healing it creates.

Forgiveness isn’t easy when we want to cry, “Hell, no!” But as I see it that is the price we pay to become human.

In the words of Mark Twain, “Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

Forgive? Yes – Forever!

Much Love and Success,
Peter Ragner

You've heard of "Eat This; Not That..."

2007-12-25T16:48:00.000-05:00

How about--

Think This...........Not that

I can....................... I can’t
I will...................... I won’t
Yes......................... No
Something is lacking........ Life is abundant
It’s possible............... It’s impossible
What could go right......... What could go wrong
What I want................. What I don’t want
Win/win..................... Win/lose
Pro-active.................. Reactive
How blessed I am............ Poor Me
Ain’t life grand............ Ain’t It Awful
I have choices.............. I’m stuck
The Infinite Good........... Good-versus-evil
It happened for a reason.... Coincidence
I’m responsible............. Someone is to blame
I create.................... Things just happen
The past is a judgment...... You can’t change the past
Imagination is power........ Imagination is fantasy
The universe is for me...... The universe doesn’t care
All things work together.... I have to be in control
I have time................. There is not enough time
Look for the Good........... Watch your back
Choosing to let go.......... Having to be in control
Love........................ Fear
Peace is my choice.......... War is inevitable
Expect miracles............. Expect the worst
God is in me................ Who knows where God is
I am free................... I’m cornered
My thoughts come true....... My thoughts don’t matter
I have no enemies........... Only fools trust

God is My Infinite Good

2007-12-19T07:03:00.000-05:00

GOD IS MY INFINITE GOOD

God is my provider, there is no lack

God is my companion; I am never alone

God is my power; weakness is imaginary

God is my health; no ill can befall me

God is my freedom, nothing can bind me

God is my peace; no anger can control me

God is my certainty; insecurity is only a belief

God is my success; I cannot fail

God is my truth; appearances do not deceive me

God is my light; shadows do not frighten me

God is my ecstasy; pain and pleasure come and go

God is love; fear is not real

God is my infinite partner; I am not a victim

God is my intelligence; everything happens for a reason

God is my contentment; complaining is gone

God is my vision; I have spiritual sight

God is my science; I belong to the quantum universe

God is my patience; everything is on time

God is my home; infinite good is present everywhere

God is my forgiveness; criticism and blame are useless

God is my comfort; pain is dissolving

God is my great mystery; I don’t have to know it all

God is my awareness; my brainwashing is evaporating

God is my source; I am free from inferiority or superiority

God is my life; death is a fantasy

God is the source of all of my desires; I seek to understand them

God is the object of my desires; I am not in want

God is one with my true Self: I and my Father are one

God is my potentiality; nothing is impossible

God is my infinite good; all the rest is just a story of good and evil

Desire--the word of God

2007-12-03T07:15:00.000-05:00

Desire—The Word of God
By Neville
“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereunto I sent it.”
God speaks to you through the medium of your basic desires. Your basic desires are words of promise or prophecies that contain within themselves the plan and power of expression.

By basic desire is meant your real objective. Secondary desires deal with the manner of realization. God, your I AM, speaks to you, the conditioned conscious state, through your basic desires. Secondary desires or ways of expression are the secrets of your I AM, the all wise Father; Your Father, I AM, reveals the first and the last—“I am the beginning and the end,: but never does He reveal the middle or secret of His ways; that is, the first is revealed as the word, your basic desire. The last is its fulfillment—the word made flesh. The second or middle (the plan of unfoldment) is never revealed to man but remains forever the Father’s secret.

“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book, and if may shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life.”
The words of prophecy spoken of in the book of Revelation are your basic desires which must not be further conditioned. Man is constantly adding to and taking from these words. Not knowing that the basic desire contains the plan and power of expression man is always compromising and complicating his desires. Here is an illustration of what man does to the word of prophecy—his desires.

Man desires freedom from his limitation or problem. The first thing he does after he defines his objective is to condition it upon something else. He begins to speculate on the manner of acquiring it. Not knowing that the thing desires has a way of expression all its own he starts planning how he is going to get it, thereby adding to the word of God. If, on the other hand, he has no plan or conception as to the fulfillment of his desire, then he compromises his desire by modifying it. He feels that if will be satisfied with less than his basic desire, then he might have a better chance of realizing it. In so doing, he takes from the word of God. Individuals and nations alike are constantly violating this law of their desire by plotting and planning the realization of their ambitions; they thereby add to the word of prophecy, or they compromise with their ideals, thus taking from the word of God. The inevitable result is death and plagues or failure and frustration as promised for such violations.

God speaks to man only through the medium of his basic desires. Your desires are determined by your concept of yourself. Of themselves they are neither good nor evil. “I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus Christ that there is nothing unclean of itself but to him that seeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.” Your desires are the natural and automatic result of your present conception of yourself. God, your unconditioned consciousness, is impersonal and no respecter of persons. Your unconditioned consciousness, God, gives to your conditioned consciousness, man, through the medium of your desires that which your conditioned state (your present conception of yourself) believes it needs.

As long as you remain in your present conscious state so long will you continue desiring that which you now desire. Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the nature of your desires.

Desires are states of consciousness seeking embodiment. They are formed by man’s consciousness and can easily be expressed by the man who has conceived them. Desires are expressed when the man who has conceived them assumes the attitude of mind that would be his if the states desired were already expressed. Now because desires regardless of their nature can be easily expressed by fixed attitudes of mind, a word of warning must be given to those who have not yet realized the oneness of life, and who do not know the fundamental truth that consciousness is God, the one and only reality. This warning was given to man in the famous Golden Rule—“Do unto others that which you would have them do unto you.”
You may desire something for yourself or you may desire for another. If your desire concerns another, make sure that the thing desired is acceptable to that other. The reason for this warning is that your consciousness is God, the giver of all gifts. Therefore, that which you feel to be true of another is a gift you have given to him. The gift that is accepted returns to the giver. Be very sure then that you would love to possess this gift yourself for if you fix a belief within yourself as true of another and he does not accept this state as true of himself, this unaccepted gift will embody itself within your world. Always hear and accept as true of others that which you would desire for yourself. In so doing, you are building the kingdom of heaven on earth. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is based upon this law. Only accept such states as true of others that you would willingly accept as true of yourself that you may constantly create heaven on earth. Your heaven is defined by the state of consciousness in which you live, which state is made up of all that you accept as true of yourself and true of others. Your immediate environment is defined by your conception of yourself plus your convictions regarding others which have not been accepted by them.
Your conception of another which is not his conception of himself is a gift returned to you.

Suggestions, like propaganda, are boomerangs unless they are accepted by those to whom they are sent. The nature of the gift is determined by your conception of yourself plus the unaccepted gifts you offered others. Make no mistake about this; law is no respecter of persons. Discover the law of self-expression and live by it; then you will be free. With this understanding of the law, define your desire; know exactly what you want; make certain that it is desirable and acceptable.

The wise and disciplined man sees no barrier to the realization of his desire; he sees nothing to destroy. With a fixed attitude of mind he recognizes that the thing desired is already fully expressed, for he knows that a fixed subjective state has ways and means of expressing itself of which no man knows. “Before they ask I have answered.” “I have ways ye know not of.” “My ways are past finding out.”

The undisciplined man, on the other hand, constantly sees opposition to the fulfillment of his desire, and because of this frustration he forms desires of destruction which he firmly believes must be expressed before his basic desire can be realized. When man discovers this one law of consciousness he will understand the great wisdom of the Golden Rule and so he will live by it and prove to himself that the kingdom of heaven is on earth.
You will realize why you should “Do unto others that which you would have them do unto you.” You will know why you should live by this Golden Rule because you will discover that it is just good common sense to do so since the rule is based upon life’s changeless law and is no respecter of persons. Consciousness is the one and only reality. The world and all that is within it are states of consciousness objectified. Your world is defined by your conception of yourself plus your conception of others which are not their conceptions of themselves.

The story of the Passover is to help you turn your back on the limitations of the present and pass over into a better and freer state. The suggestion to “Follow the man with the pitcher of water” was given to the disciples to guide them to the last supper or the feast of the Passover. The man with the pitcher of water is the eleventh disciple, Simon of Canaan, the disciplined quality of mind which hears only dignified, noble and kindly states. The mind that is disciplined to hear only the good feasts upon good states and so embodies the good on earth. If you, too, would attend the last supper –the great feast of the Passover then follow this man. Assume the attitude of mind symbolized as the “man with the pitcher of water” and you will live in a world that is really heaven on earth. The feast of the Passover is the secret of changing your consciousness. You turn your attention from your present conception of yourself and assume the consciousness of being that which you want to be, thereby passing from one state to another.

Question Reversal

2007-10-28T05:59:00.000-04:00

Question Reversal

Do you know what most people are doing in their lives?
Asking lousy questions!
Questions like:
• Why am I such a loser?
• Why can’t I do anything right?
• How come I don’t have enough money?
• Why is there never enough time?
• How come I’m so fat?
• Why did I marry the wrong person?
• Why can’t I find the love of my life?
• Why is there always more month at the end of the money?
Do you know what happens when you ask lousy questions?

You get….

Lousy answers!
• Why am I so bad at math?
* Why do I always get in trouble and my little brother doesn’t?
* Why do you always pick on me?
* Why can’t I ever find my homework?
* Why am I so broke all of the time?
* Why can’t I lose weight?

The mind has an automatic search function which finds answers to whatever questions you are asking, whether they are negative or positive.

Go through this list of questions and check those you would like to meditate on and have come true

______* Why am I so organized?
______* Why is it easy for me to concentrate in class?
______* Why do I love school?
______* Why do I get such great grades?
• ______Why are students so helpful?
• ______Why do I love my job so much?
• ______Why do I have such engaging lessons that require little prep?
• ______Why do my students listen to and follow directions the first time?
And here are some to transform the teaching profession (and a lot of other jobs too):
______Why do I get paid so well?
______Why is my work appreciated and acknowledged?
______Why am I so respected?
______Why do I love my job?
______ Why do I appreciate my teachers and my classes?
______ “Why am I so rich?”

______ “Why do I have so much?”

______ “Why is it so easy for me to lose weight and be happy?”

______ Why am I so capable at sports?

_______ Why do I love art and music so much?

_______ Why do I find friends everywhere I turn?

______Why am I so attractive?
______Why do clothes fit so well on my body?
______Why do I like my looks?
______Why am I pretty?
______Why am I so feminine?
______Why am I so masculine?
______Why am I happy with the way I look?
______Why do I like my eyes?
______Why do I love my thighs?
______Why am I so attracted to healthy foods?
______Why do I feel strong?
______Why am I happy with myself?
______ Why do I find it so easy to fall asleep and sleep soundly?
______ Why do I find it so easy to trust God?
______ Why do I joyfully allow God to work in my life?
______ Why do I easily know that God is here for me?
______ Why do I easily see and know God desires for me to lead an abundant life no matter what is happening?
______ Why do I execute flawlessly in the stock market?
______ Why is it so easy for me to receive joyfully from God, others, and the stock market?
______ Why is it so easy for me to carefreely laugh?
______ Why do I easily have great courage and trust God will see me through every single thing in my life?
______ Why do I easily praise God in everything?
______ Why do I easily get back up ONE MORE TIME?
______ Why is it so easy to be a winner?
______ Why do I always easily have more than enough money for all my bills, living, debts, to give, save, make my money work hard to produce more?
______ Why do I easily speak praise from my lips genuinely?
______ Why is it so easy for me to smile no matter what?
______ Why do I easily have patience?
______Why is it so easy to have a strong spirit?
______ Why do I easily see how God is working in me, around me, and in others ?
______ Why do I find it so easy to keep my focus on God in EVERYTHING?
______ Why do I easily see God’s blessing, goodness, mercy, kindness showered on me?
______ Why is it so easy for me to see God’s plan for my life?
______ Why am I so easily encouraged?
______ Why is it so easy for me to consistently eat small meals with the right macronutrient ratios throughout the day EVERY day consistently?
______ Why is it so easy for me to get 7-8 hrs of good, quality sleep EVERY night?
______ Why is it so easy for me to have and maintain peace in my life?
______ Why is it so easy for me to have great strength in all areas of my life?
______ Why is it so easy for me to drink water throughout the day every day?
______ Why is it so easy for me to get adequate exercise for my body EVERY day?
______ Why is it so easy for me to receive God’s goodness & blessings in my life?
______ Why do I so easily attract financial prosperity and organization into my life?
______ Why do I so easily attract the right people into my life to empower me to greater heights to reach my full potential?
______ Why do I so easily attract healthy-minded people into my life?
______ Why do I so easily attract extraordinary circumstances into my life every single day?
______ Why does God so easily bless my life with amazing miracles daily?
______ Why is it so easy for me to just trust God as a child trusts without fear or apprehension?
______ Why is it so easy for me to see things as they are and act promptly?
______ Why is it so easy to change and develop good, healthy, strong habits for life?
______ Why is it so easy for me to be able to discern between intuitiveness and feelings?
______ Why is it so easy for me to quickly act appropriately with regards to my intuitiveness?
______ Why is it so easy for me to obey God promptly in joy?
______ Why is it so easy for me to joyfully overcome obstacles in my way?
______ Why is is so easy for me to do the next right thing?
______ Why is it that my path opens easily in front of me leading to good choices and right decisions?
______ Why is it that I easily maintain numerous customers?
______ Why is it that all my customers are happy with their new homes and the transactions and me?
______ Why is it that my current personal mess just easily clears up and is handled to my satisfaction?
______ Why is it so easy to advertise my business?
______ Why is it so easy for me to keep my stomach calm?
______ Why is it so easy for me to concentrate when I need to.
______ Why is it so easy for me to bring plenty of money through my job to the household?
______ Why is it so easy for my photography project to proceed and end well.
______ Why is it that I am so easily able to be stay calm even in the midst of crisis?
______ Why is it so easy for me to get my goals done?
______ Why is it so easy for me to reorganize my office?
______Why is it I work with customers so easily and that I know just what needs to be done and said.
______ Why is it that working on this photo project comes to me so easily and I know the things I need to know to do it.
______ Why is it that I have easily started doing other things for my new boss as well.
______ Why is it I so easily stay so happy and confident.
______ Why is it that I easily have 5 new customers a week?
______ Why is it so easy for me to see opportunities in every situation in life?
______ Why do I find so much joy in managing challenging situations?
______ Why is it so easy for me to laugh carefreely every day?
______ Why is it so easy for me to truly feel I deserve to have great wealth?
______ Why do I so easily attract abundance & prosperity in my life?
______ Why am I so in love with life?
______ Why is it easy for me to love people just where they are at?
______ Why do I appreciate the differences of others with a smile on my face and in my heart?
______ Why do I easily see how many gifts God provides me every single day throughout the day?
______ Why does money flow to me so easily?
______ Why is my heart always so joyful?
______ Why is it so easy for me to allow God to be my strength and joy in all circumstances?
______ Why is it so easy for me to be direct to people, setting appropriate boundaries in a firm, but respectful way?
______ Why is my voice so melodic and harmonious?
______ Why is it so easy for me to live courageously, without fear?
______ Why am I such a wonderful role model to my children of a godly woman whose heart is after God’s and passionately lives life all the time?
______ Why do I so easily exude love appropriately to each person I have influence with?
______ Why do people who meet me or know me love me so much appropriately?
______ Why is it so easy for me to daily nurture my relationship with God in an intimate way?
______ Why do I just enjoy and savor the precious moments God gives me?
______ Why do I find it so easy to bless those who have less than good intentions for me?
______ Why is it so easy for me to attract the right men into my life at any given time?
______ Why do I love my friendships with other women?
______ Why can I dance like no one’s watching?
______ Why is it so easy for me to listen and love others in the way they need it?
______ Why is it so easy for me to be patient with those who may challenge me in this area and find peace & joy in that?
______ Why do I always remain calm, clearminded in my stock trading?
______ Why am I so organized & methodical in my trading?
______ Why is it I easily see & understand the things I need to see to be a phenomenal trader?
______ Why do I easily execute my trading plan?
______ Why do I have such excellent trading plans that produce phenomenal profits consistently?
______ Why is it so easy for me to make profitable trades in the market?
______ Why is it so easy for me to be continually organized?
______ Why is it so easy for me to balance my checkbook?
______ Why do I love keeping my finances organized?
______ Why do I easily love to manage my time well?
______ Why do I find it so easy to be efficient in my work?
______ Why do I always have great energy throughout the whole day?
______ Why does my wallet always have lots of money in it?
______ Why is it so easy to pay all my bills before they are due?
______ Why is it so easy to have no debts?
______ Why does money easily flow to me and lots of it?
______ Why do I love receiving lots and lots of money?
______ Why do I easily see opportunities abounding everywhere?
______ Why do I find it so easy to remain calm & cool?
______ Why do I always easily respond to challenging situations with grace & finesse?
______ Why do I love to think and speak positive, encouraging words to myself and others?
______ Why is it so easy to have self-control over my sexual desires?
______ Why do I feel so incredibly loved and accepted?
______ Why do I find it easy to manage all my trades well?
______ Why do I find it so easy to make money in the stock market?
______ Why do I find it easy to integrate exercise into my schedule every day?
______ Why do I find it easy to remember to drink water throughout the day?
______ Why do I find it so easy to remember to stretch throughout the day?
______ Why is it so easy for me to be consistent with my eating, drinking water, sleep?
______ Why is it so easy for me to get enough good quality sleep every night such that I would not need naps?
______ Why is it so easy for me to address challenging situations appropriately?
______ Why do I have such great favor with everyone I deal with?
______ Why does the IRS want to give me such great favor?
______ Why is it so easy to manage my money & finances?
______ Why is it so easy to be balanced in life, but be able to live passionately?
______ Why is it that every day every thing I do is easier.
______ Why is it so easy for my kitchen to stay so very clean?
______ Why is it so easy to have so many new customers calling me for a new house or investment property?
______ Why is it so easy for me to network with other people?
______ Why is it so easy for me to pray daily?
______ Why is it so easy for me to put God first in my life?
______ Why is it so easy to love everyone?
______Why is it so easy to be organized?
______ Why is it so easy to get large pay checks?
______ Why is it I am so joyfully and thankfully prosperous?
______ Why is it so easy to return library books to the library on time?
______ Why is it I am so healthy?
______ Why is it that all of my real estate transactions close so easily, smoothly and on time?
______ Why is it that real estate comes so easily to me?
______ Why is it so easy for me to know where I am heading when it comes to my career?
______ Why is it so easy to make good decisions for myself?
______Why is it so easy for me to make good career decisions?
______ Why is it so easy to have lots of listings?
______ Why is it so easy to keep my house so neat?
______ Why is it that all my jobs come so easy to me?
______ Why is it so easy for me to have another house under contract?
______ Why is it so easy for me to learn the commercial side of my business?
______ Why is it so easy for me to find a job that I really want to do?
______ Why is it so easy to maintain so many little jobs here and there?
______ Why is it so easy to get a good nights sleep and not feel tired?
______ Why is it so easy to have the money I need for groceries?
______ Why is it so easy to have the money I need to pay bills?
______ Why is it so easy to get the repairs around the house done and have the money to do them?
______ Why is it so easy to be happy even through life’s trials?
______ Why is it so easy for me trust God?
______ Why is it so easy to say my prayers daily?
______ Why is it so easy to be thankful and have an attitude of gratitude daily?
______ Why is it so easy to say what is on my mind in a nice way?
______ Why is it so easy for me to stand up for myself and my needs?
______ Why is it so easy for me to attract customers that are serious and have the ability to buy?
______ why is it so easy for me to help others in times of need?
______ Why is it so easy for me to keep my home work area neat and organized?
______ Why is it so easy to walk the dogs daily?
______ Why is it so easy for me to be productive consistently?
______ Why is it so easy for me to take short breaks in my work and get back to working afterwards?
______ Why is it so easy for me to have patience in the important things I do?
______ Why is it so easy for me to be consistent in eating small, balanced meals every 3 hrs throughout the day?
______ Why is it so easy for me to be positive in challenging situations?
______ Why is it so easy for me to let go and trust God?
______ Why is it so easy for me to meet self-imposed deadlines?
______ Why is it so easy for me to keep well-hydrated with good filtered water throughout the day?
______ Why is it so easy for me to have good boundaries with people?
______ Why is it so easy for me to be appropriately loving and kind to myself and others?
______ Why is it so easy for me to be joyous in challenging times?
______ Why is it so easy for me to live in humility while God greatly increases prosperity in my life?
______ Why is it so easy for me to graciously receive from others?
______ Why is it so easy for me to express my needs to others?
______ Why is it so easy for me to see the piles of papers I need to address joyfully and see them as little piles?
______ Why is it so easy for me to just step out and trust God in my finances?
______ Why is it I easily attract wonderful people in my life who love life, have good boundaries, love who they are in a healthy way?
______ Why is it I easily attract godly Christ-centered strong Christian single men in my life whom I can be great friends with (and possibly lead to more if it’s God’s will)?
______Why is it I easily attract healthy balanced people in my life?
______ Why is it I easily attract vibrant entrepreneurs in my life whom want to share about their successes?
______ Why is it so easy for me to have self-control with my thoughts and emotions, and direct them to God?
______ Why is it so easy for me to allow others to love on me?
______ Why is it so easy for me to get back up again?
______ Why is it my head feels so wonderful, light, and clear?
______ Why is it so easy for me to see opportunities abound everywhere?
______ Why is it so easy to feel so supported and loved?
______ Why is it I have a great amount of peace in my circumstances?
______ Why is it so easy for me to praise God for these many opportunities He allows in the challenges of my life?
______ Why is it so easy for me to graciously and readily accept other people’s help?
______ Why is it so easy for me to express my needs?
______ Why is it so easy to simply ask for help?
______ Why is it so easy to make phone calls to clarify & resolve situations?
______Why do I joyfully wake up every morning being glad I’m alive?
______ Why do I have great peace in the direction my marriage is headed?
______ Why is it so easy for me to be so positive, uplifting, and inspiring?
______ Why do I find the positive in all situations?
______ Why is it so easy to laugh?
______ Why do I love being so social?
______Why is it I find favor wherever I go with whomever I deal with?
______ Why is it the countenance on my face is so beautiful and carefree?
______ Why do I find it so easy to be so organized?
______ Why do I find it so easy to address things and situations immediately without delay?
______ Why do I find it so easy to be a wonderful mommy to my kids?
______ Why do I find it so easy to relax?
______ Why is it so easy to have a balanced body from all physical aspects?
______ Why do I find my emotional state to be inspirational and strong?
______ Why do I love to have fun?
______ Why is it so easy for me to make lots of money consistently in the stock market?
______ Why is it so easy for me be transparent?
______ Why is it so easy for me to manage my time well?
______ Why do I find it so easy to feel empowered?
______ Why does God bless me so abundantly in an extraordinary way?
______ Why do I find it so easy to truly live life?
______Why is it so easy for me dance like no one is watching?
______ Why is it so easy for me to have healthy habits that will allow me to have a very sculpted, lean, curvacous, healthy, vibrant, young body?
______Why is it so easy for me to let go and trust God in all aspects of my life?
______Why do I find it so easy to have appropriate boundaries in my relationship that honor God?
______ Why do I love life so very much?
______ Why do I find it so easy to breathe deeply?
______ Why is it so easy for me to eat small balanced meals for my body that are healthy, simple and tasty on a daily basis?
______ Why do I find it so easy to remember to drink water throughout the day?
______ Why is it so easy for me to remember to stretch daily regularly?
______ Why is it so easy for me to get up on the inside everyday?
______ Why do I find it so easy to allow others to love on me?
______ Why do I just love to receive?
______Why does everything go in my favor?
______ Why do I attract extraordinary people into my life
______ Why do I love being so organized?
______Why do I love being so balanced?
______Why do I find joy in letting go?
______Why do I find it so easy to take responsibility for my success?
______Why do I see how much God loves me in so many amazing ways?

*From Noah St. John, Afformations and Doris, http://www.43things.com/people/progress/mdolls68/8520587

Complaints or Gratitude?

2007-10-20T09:08:00.000-04:00

Mattie Stepanek was one of former President Jimmy Carter’s best friends. President Carter was Mattie’s hero. A desperately physically ill young man, his dream was to meet Mr. Carter. He did. They became friends because of their shared commitment to peace. They even wrote a book together.

One of the hardest things about Mattie’s disease was breathing. Something he wrote puts life into immediate perspective.

If you have enough breath to complain,
then you have enough to be thankful for.

The next time you take a breath, which should be pretty soon, think before you speak. Were you about to complain? Why not skip it and go straight to gratitude?

Gratitude that you can breathe. Some people can’t.

Be serene,

Dr. Susan Corso

Radical Forgiveness Process

2007-10-01T06:32:00.000-04:00

I recently discovered a powerful forgiveness program that I want to recommend for all of you to participate in. It is designed to work miracles for anyone who wants change. Kind regards, Dr. Wright

http://www.radicalforgiveness.com/intro.asp

Open your website to the above address, scroll down to the third paragraph and click “Free Read” about Jill’s Story, and study it thoughtfully. Then scroll down in the left-hand column to “Register for Worksheet” and then fill in the Registered User Login. Fill in the entire Radical Forgiveness tutorial. Whatever you write in the tutorial is for no one to see but yourself and will be erased once you have completed the worksheet.

Context Reversal

2007-09-17T06:37:00.000-04:00

Context Reversal

How do you download a new program to replace the funky one you have now? The Infinite Good is the ultimate download program, because it includes infinite intelligence, infinite compassion, infinite freedom, infinite health, infinite love and infinite peace.

The Zero Limits field is what you have always been wanting but didn’t know where it was. Behind every word is infinite silence. Behind every sound is infinite silence. Behind every thought is infinite silence.

The Infinite Silence is God. When you reach this Silence, you are in the Zero Limits Field, the field of infinite potentiality. You thought you wanted noise, stuff, action, people, or attention, but what you wanted to experience was the Context in which all of this happens. You wanted to experience the Silence, the Void, the Zero Limits field, Consciousness Itself. When you don’t know that it is there or what it is, how would you recognize that it has always been there, and that you are one with it?

Just clear the stage. Stop the music. Turn off the TV. Relax. Be present. Dissolve into the Silence. Surrender to the Emptiness. Let go of all effort. Become the background. Now you are openness. Now you are at Ground Zero. Now you need nothing. You are one with it all. You are Space Itself. Things now happen inside of you. You are not what is happening, but the space in which all things are happening.

In the first case, you became the Observor.You step outside of your ego programming and observe the role you are playing. Now you have become the Field of Consciousness in which observation is made. First you observed the action. Now you are the Silence in which all action occurs. Just relax. You don’t need to do or be anything but Space Itself in which anything can happen and the Silence in which all sound occurs. You are now Background and not Foreground. You are the Peace that passeth understanding.

You are not the little boat, but the Sea in which the boat floats. You are not the jet but the Sky through which the jet flies. You are not the music but the Silence in which the music is playing. You are not the actors, but the Stage on which the drama is occurring. You are not a Body, but the Space in which the Body moves.

Now you have downloaded a reversal of context. Be Space. Be Silence. Be the Ocean. Be the Stage. Be the Sky. Now you are the Health in which the body swims. Now you are the Wisdom in which learning takes place. Now you are the Universe in which the planets move. Now you are the Silence in which all words are spoken.

I am the Sky in which the jets fly.
I am the Ocean in which the boats float.
I am the Clouds in which the rain exists.
I am the Silence in which all sounds are made.
I am the Rest in which all sleep occurs.
I am the Peace in which all joy arises.
I am the Health in which all healing happens.
I am the Source out of which all abundance flows.
I am the Alpha and the Omega.
I Am the field of Consciousness Itself.
There is nothing beyond or outside of me.
I encompass all things finite.
I am one with infinity itself.
I am the Imaginer, not the imagined.

Now you have experienced Context Reversal

What kind of world are you creating today?

2007-09-10T07:08:00.000-04:00

What kind of world are you creating today?

Oneness is the key to life. Ask yourself: Is everything one? Is it all energy? Is it all consciousness? Is it all God? Scripture says so. Science says so. What do you say? If all is one, then the whole world becomes new at your choice.

Can you even imagine a world without conflict, without division, without fear and terrorism, without rich versus poor, without good versus evil? Why choose any longer to live in such a world? Did you know that you choose the world you will live in today?

The world is created anew each day in your mind. You get to decide. If all is one, then you get to decide. You get to say if the world is all one or not. Its entirely up to you. You live in your consciousness. The world is an extension of your consciousness. You populate it. You inhabit it. You shape it. You control it. The world is your oyster.

Jesus looked everywhere and saw only the kingdom of heaven. “May the will of peace be done on earth as it is in heaven” is your rightful prayer. Peace on earth, good will to men” can be yours today.

You are a god. Whatsoever you ask is done. Bless everyone you see. You are an energy shaper. You are an energy master. Wherever you go, Johnny Appleseed, you are planting something. You have a Midas Touch. Energy flows as you determine. Energy follows thought. Energy follows your thought. Imagine 100% and it is done.

Cynics spread cynicism Doubters spread doubt. Lovers spread love. Wise men spread wisdom. Peacemakers spread peace. Wealth-givers spread wealth. Healers spread healing. Musicians spread the energy of their music. Artists spread the energy of their art. What are you spreading? What are you energizing? What kind of world are you creating today? You are creating. You are a creator. The only question is: What are you creating? It’s entirely up to you what the world is today.

Neville Revised

2007-08-30T09:31:00.000-04:00

God gave us two gifts: the gift of imagination and the gift of speech, use them properly and the whole world is yours.

Can you get even with someone? No. There is no one to get even with. We are all one.

The need to be right is the greatest disease of mankind

Pay no attention to what anyone says or thinks about you, because it is about them. They have to say what they are saying until they don’t have to.

Your world is your frozen inner speech. God only hears your inner speech and he answers its every request. Your outer world is the answer to your inner speech.

Everyone is seeking the same thing: the infinite good. We only fight over what the infinite good is and about who is right about their picture of the infinite good.

When you cease excusing yourself or anyone for life's experiences, and begin to rearrange the structure of your mind to feel your desire is fulfilled, you are walking on water.

There Shall be Showers of Blessing

2007-08-29T11:15:00.000-04:00

Dear Reader:

Do you want a shower of blessings today? Click on this website address, read the words of this old hymn, and listen to the music, while you visualize showers of blessing raining down on you and yours. Whether it be dollars, infinity signs, peace signs, or any memory of joy and prosperity that you can visualize. It doesn't get any better than this. Just try it.

http://junior.apk.net/~bmames/ht0047_.htm

17 Seconds from Your True Desires!

2007-08-27T10:17:00.000-04:00

17 Seconds From Your True Desires!
Quote by: Abraham-Hicks

"If you can hold a thought, just a simple thought, for 17 seconds, without contradicting it, another thought like it same shape, same
size, same vibration, same tone, by law of attraction another thought like it will come to it. And at precisely the 17 second point, these two thoughts will join one another, they coalesce and when they do that there is an energy that is expended, it is like a combustion point. And when these two thoughts join and combust, you can feel a measure of enthusiasm or interest bubbling within you. And in that moment of 17 seconds, these two thoughts that were same become one bigger, more evolved, faster vibrating thought.

Now, if you can stay focused on this subject that you have chosen for another 17 seconds, at the moment that you cross the 34 second mark that is just two times 17 this now more evolved thought will attract unto it and - in other words, the thoughts attract each other. Your thought draws another and the other thought draws it, thoughts that are same in nature come together. And at the 34 second mark these two more evolved thoughts do the same thing, they coalesce and there is another combustion point. At that point, these two thoughts become one, higher and faster in vibration. If you can maintain you attention to that now more evolved thought, at the 51 second mark which is just 3 times 17 there is another coalescing, another joining of thought and another combustion point. If you can hold that more evolved thought for another 17 seconds, the same thing happens and when you cross the 68 second mark, you have a combustion big enough to affect physical manifestation.
Just to get your attention we want to give you some physical comparison; 17 seconds of pure thought is equivalent to 2000 hours of action. If you are working a regular 40 hour a week job, that is about what you work in a year. 17 seconds equals 2000 action hours. If you can cross the 34 second mark, you can multiply your action by ten, 20.000 action hours. If you can cross the 51 second mark 3 times 17 you can multiply by ten again, a 200.000 action hour equivalent. If you can cross the 68 second mark - now that is just over a minute of pure con-contradicted, non-diluted thought it is equivalent to over 2 million action hours. Esther said: "Abraham, I believe you, but it sounds preposterous. I cannot fathom that kind of leverage".

And then Jerry and Esther purchased some commercial property over on the interstate, interstate 10, close to where they live in Texas. And there had been a high rise building built on that, partially constructed and the company went bankrupt and the building was demolished. And when Jerry and Esther purchased the land, it was a big pile of rubble. And the big trucks and the road graders came, and in two days time, carried this mountainous rubble of debris away. And as Esther stood watching it, she said to Jerry: "How long would that take Carlos to do?" Carlos is the lovely man who cleared their residential property with wheelbarrow and a shovel. And Jerry said: "In his lifetime, he could not make a dent in that". And Esther said: I understand THAT leverage. This is what Abraham is talking about. When you align your energies with the energies that create worlds, when you are no longer contradicting at your CORE, amazing things happen. Now 17 seconds doesn't sound like much, but as we watch you we see that most of you at about 8 begin your contradictory vibrations.

Most of you do not make it through a whole sentence without contradicting the vibration of your desire. People will say to us: "Abraham, I want more money, I am so tired of the struggle", that was about 1 second. "Abraham, I want so much to be well, I am frightened of this illness". You have been trained to be so objective that you keep shooting yourselves in the foot. It is a little bit like someone saying: "I want a cup of hot tea" and so they turn the fire on under their pot, and just before it boils they turn it off, and then they turn it on again, and just before it boils, they turn it off and then they turn it on again and then just before it boils they turn it off and then they say: "For 15 years, I have been trying to get some hot tea!" And we say: "Just leave it on, just leave it on a little longer".

If you could just resist the opposite knee jerk reaction, just a little longer, you will begin to get the sense of what we are talking about. The reason that it is difficult for you not to offer the contradictory thought so quickly, is because you have been trained to be objective, you have been trained to weigh the pros and the cons, the pluses and the minuses. You have been taught that this is balanced or even minded. And we say: You take it to an extreme, because contrast will prod you into your greater clarity of desire, that is really the reason of this physical format, we will talk about that in greater detail as it moves forward. Contrast is essential to decision, but once the decision is made, if you will turn your full attention to your decision and do your best to achieve a vibrational match with that decision in very short order, the Universe will go to work in helping you to achieve whatever it is that you are wanting.

We were talking with a woman on the telephone the other day about pure thought and she couldn't really understand what we were talking about. These are difficult concepts when you are accustomed to just thinking about whatever is flashed before you. In other words, most of you as you watch the television, it is much easier just to just observe what someone is offering to you rather than it is to close your eyes and offer your own projection of thought. And so we were wanting to assist her in holding 17 seconds of pure thought. She had three very important issues that were troubling her; financial issue and a health issue and a relationship issue. And we said to her; "Leave those issues aside for a while, because those issues you have practiced your negative thought about them so much, that as you now try to practice positive thought it is still a watered down sort of process.

We said to her: "Lets take three subjects that you do not already have a habit of negative thought about". Well, she couldn't think of any. We said: "Just three subjects, they do not have to be life changing subjects, just three subjects that are of interest, but you do not have a negative habit about". Well, she still couldn't think of anything so we said: "Lets talk about the subject of blue glass". She said: "What?!?" And we said: "Blue glass. You know, some of it is clear and you can see through it. Some of it is muted or frosted and you can't see through it. Sometimes it is made into beautiful chandeliers or beautiful windows, or beautiful vases. All kinds are made from this beautiful clear or frosted blue glass". And then we talked about feathers for 17 seconds and butterflies for 17 seconds.

And then the telephone call came to an end and Jerry and Esther were in California, they were in San Diego and so they went to La Hoya for lunch. And when they got out of the car, Jerry is walking down the street toward George's and Esther is walking into a shop and Jerry could not understand why she was taking a detour and Esther did not really understand it either, she just said: "Lets look in here". And so they went in and deep in the shop, Esther found a wall of the most amazing blue glass she had ever seen in her life. Shelf after shelf after shelf of amazing sculptures made of blue glass. Jerry did not understand why Esther was captivated by it because he had not heard the call an Esther did not make the correlation either. And they didn't buy anything, it wasn't appropriate for their house, it was just AMAZING blue glass!

They had lunch and went to the park and as they were entering the park, they were surrounded by a flurry of butterflies. Esther still did not make the correlation. And as they were leaving about 15 minutes later, a little boy, an oriental boy, looked to be about two or three years old, had found a little pigeons feather on the ground and he was holding it at his full extension of his arm running
toward Esther to show it to her. And it was not until then, that Esther realized that in less than one hour of ours spending 17 seconds together on those three subjects, that the Universe had managed to deliver in DRAMATIC FASHION all three subjects.

We encourage you to play this game AND we encourage you to play the game in threes. Because if you play it in one or two, you might be as Esther did and miss it altogether. If you will play this game just a little bit by taking subjects that are of slight interest, but most importantly, subjects that are pure because you have no contradictory thought about them the Universe will proof to you in two or three days time that it is utterly and absolutely and ALWAYS responsive to your vibration. But the reason you do not KNOW that the Universe is responsive to your vibration is because you are saying: "I want a new red car, but it is to expensive" and as the Universe is responding to both vibrations, you end up with no change what so ever. You are getting the sense of what we are talking about?

When you begin to offer your vibration purely, and you begin to see the Universe responding to it in other words, if you will just play this game for two or three days, two wonderful things will happen to you: The first is; you will show yourself you have the ability to hold your mind on something for 17 seconds. And if you can do it for the first 17, you can do it for the second and the third and the fourth. And the other thing that will happen is; you will give the opportunity to the
Universe to show you that it is utterly responsive to your vibration. You are going to learn that you really are a beaming energy that is being responded to. And it is going to give you a sense of control, it is going to give you a sense of being the deliberate creator that you really are.

Friends, that is why you are here! You are creators! But let us put that into very clear terms for you; you are creators MEANING you are focusers of ENERGY. If you do not have the ability to hold a thought, you cannot be a creator. You are not regurgitators, you did not come forth to just observe all over the place and vibrate all over the place. You came forth to direct energy! And by directing energy, you must HOLD the thought! Now, how do you know how you are doing, in other words, how do you know whether you are holding a thought or not? Well, you have to get sensitive to the way that you are feeling because you can actually feel the fluctuations of the vibrations within you. Your emotional guidance system, in other words, the way you FEEL is the way you know how you are doing!

Imagine a room fan, one of those well made, heavy, expensive, heavy duty room fans. And it is blowing air in your direction. And it is so well made that even though you can feel the stream of air blowing toward you, you can't hear it, is is barely making any sound at all. Now stick your pencil in the fan. Would cause quite a ruckus wouldn't it? Well that pencil in the fan, that is exactly what negative emotion is. When you introduce a lower, slower vibration into a higher faster vibration, you can feel the fluctuation of the energy. A pencil in the fan is an extreme example of a fluctuation of energy, but that is exactly what negative emotion is!

When you have a desire, when you have thought about something and you have brought yourself to a place of desire and then you conclude; I can't have that when you introduce that "I can't have it" thought to the higher faster frequency of desire, that disappointment or negative emotion is your pencil in the fan. It is you introducing a lower, slower vibration into a higher, faster frequency. You get the sense of what we are talking about?

As you begin to play with this have you ever noticed, have you ever known someone where as the longer you talked to them, the better you felt? It was just this friend, that when you got together, you always got feeling good. You got silly, you had fun have you ever been with anyone, usually it is when you are very young, usually about teenage years is when this all stops, you get together with that group of people and they are all in that happy vibration and you just play and play and play and play, until you just par lade into an higher and higher vibration, until you feel that there is nothing that you cannot do?

That is the feeling that we want you to reconnect with, we want you to understand that if you could just hold a thought, any thought, for 17 seconds, it is going to COMBUST and give you that energy sensation! And as you do this, as you begin to do it deliberately, and then you see the Universe responding, you become creative things, you begin to then step into the shoes that you intended when you decided to come forth! You said: " I will go forth into this sea of contrast, this blessed contrast and out of this contrast, it will be easy for me to come to a conclusion! And once I reach a conclusion, then all I have to do is hold my thought in a similar vibration to my conclusion and as I do that I will achieve a vibration outpouring that the Universe will match! I am creator, you said."

Abraham-Hicks

You are Enlightened Now

2007-08-22T09:15:00.000-04:00

The peace of God is shining in me now.

Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all.

Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well. The light came with you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your own. It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home.

This light can not be lost. Why wait to find it in the future, or believe it has been lost already, or was never there? It can so easily be looked upon that arguments which prove it is not there become ridiculous. Who can deny the presence of what he beholds in him? It is not difficult to look within, for there all vision starts. There is no sight, be it of dreams or from a truer Source, that is not but the shadow of the seen through inward vision. There perception starts, and there it ends. It has no source but this.

The peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. It pauses to caress each living thing, and leaves a blessing with it that remains forever and forever. What it gives must be eternal. It removes all thoughts of the ephemeral and valueless. It brings renewal to all tired hearts, and lights all vision as it passes by. All of its gifts are given everyone, and everyone unites in giving thanks to you who give, and you who have received.

The shining in your mind reminds the world of what it has forgotten, and the world restores the memory to you as well. From you salvation radiates with gifts beyond all measure, given and returned. To you, the giver of the gift, does God Himself give thanks. And in His blessing does the light in you shine brighter, adding to the gifts you have to offer to the world.

The peace of God can never be contained. Who recognizes it within himself must give it. And the means for giving it are in his understanding. He forgives because he recognized the truth in him. The peace of God is shining in you now, and in all living things. 6 In quietness is it acknowledged universally. For what your inward vision looks upon is your perception of the universe.

Sit quietly and close your eyes. The light within you is sufficient. It alone has power to give the gift of sight to you. Exclude the outer world, and let your thoughts fly to the peace within. They know the way. For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself.

These thoughts you think with Him. They recognize their home. And they point surely to their Source, Where God the Father and the Son are One. God's peace is shining on them, but they must remain with you as well, for they were born within your mind, as yours was born in God's. They lead you back to peace, from where they came but to remind you how you must return.

They heed your Father's Voice when you refuse to listen. And they urge you gently to accept His Word for what you are, instead of fantasies and shadows. They remind you that you are the co-creator of all things that live. For as the peace of God is shining in you, it must shine on them.

A Course In Miracles 188

Inquiry for Couples

2007-08-21T11:08:00.000-04:00

I am suggesting that all of my couples in therapy read this article together, alternating reading one sentence by the husband and the next by the wife. No comments should be allowed until the entire article is finished. After one or two readings of the entire article, a lot of light will begin to shine in your consciousness. If you get stumped, that’s okay. Keep asking for more understanding. Let me know how it goes. Kindly, Dr. Wright

If You Didn't Get it, Why not?

The big question regarding your last life crisis is: Did you get it? Why not?

The important question for your last therapy attempt to deal with anxiety is: Did you get it? Why not?

If all you got was relief from the last time you unsuccessfully manipulated something or someone, then you didn't get it.

If all you did was recover from the consequences of the last time you didn't get it, you didn't get it.

If you are still recurrently anxious, sick or depressed, you didn't get it

If you got your way, you didn't get it.

If your survival strategy worked, you didn't get it

If you won the power struggle, you didn't get it

If you are settling for less, you don't get it

If you felt you were the most clever, you didn't get it

If you just made some kind of New Year's resolutions, you didn't get it

If you are just trying harder, you didn't get it

If you are still after approval and appreciation, you didn't get it

If life is still going up and down, you didn't get it

If you still think marriage or divorce will fix it, you didn't get it

If you are still looking for the man or woman of your dreams, you didn't get it

If you think a better job is going to do it for you, you didn't get it

If all you did was confess your crime and serve your sentence, you didn't get it

If all you did was prove you're right, you didn't get it

If all you did was win the lottery, you didn't get it

If all you did was score, you didn't get it

If all you won was a gold medal at some Olympic contest, you didn't get it, only a symbol of it.

If you are up or down because your team or political party won or lost, you didn't get it

If you don't 100% love reality yet, you don't get it

If you are still championing some religious, political or soap box cause, you haven't gotten it

If you still have an axe to grind, you didn't get it

If you are not actively investigating your thinking, you won't get it

If you think you know how things should be, you haven't gotten it yet

If you are trying to deny, prevent or avoid the recurrence of something painful in your life, you won't get it

If you think there is something to resist or conquer, you won't get it

If you are still waiting for your luck to change, you won't get it

If you think your past or future holds the` key to success or failure, you won't get it

If all you did was get out of the dog house after your last fight, you didn't get it.

If you really think circumstance have power over you, you don't get it

If you think something or someone is making you a victim, you didn't get it

If you didn't get it, its not because of stupidity, but of ignorance

If you didn't get it, it is because you think you are merely human

If you think you can cure anxiety with pills or distraction, you won't get it

If you think anxiety is a problem or a coincidence, you won't get it

If you didn't get it, it is just because you think you don't have time or the intelligence to try to understand why. you didn't get it

If you think something else is more important than getting it, you won't get it.

If you are mad at me for saying you didn't get it, that is a sure sign you don't get it

If you haven't gotten it, it is because you don't know where it is

If you didn't get it, it is because you blamed the world and God for your sense of lack

If you didn't get it, it is because it went by too fast to see it

If you didn't get it, it is because you thought you didn't have it and you have to chase after it.

If you didn't get it, it isn't too late, everyone has to get it sooner or later

If you don't know what It is yet, maybe it's time to find out.

If you want it bad enough to ask, I will join you in making sure you get it

What will it cost you to get it? Your habitual way of thinking

What will it pay you? Everything you ever wanted

If you didn't get it yet, you will!
You may be wondering why the same old patterns keep repeating like a broken record, and why you didn't get it yet. You may be tired of the same old boring excuses and reactions. If you didn't get it the first time or the fifty-first time, , there is still another chance to get it.

Listen to the way Rumi puts it:

COME, whoever you are
COME, wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving
COME, this is not a caravan of despair
COME, it doesn't matter if you've broken your vows a thousand times
Still, COME
And yet again, COME!
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form. The child weaned from its mother's mild now drinks wine and honey mixed. God's joy[2] moves from unmarked box to unmarked box, from cell to cell. As rainwater, it goes down into the flowerbed. As roses, it comes up from the ground. Now it looks like a plate of rice and fish, now a cliff covered with vines, now a horse being saddled. It hides within these, till one day it cracks them open.
Rumi

Or, Isaiah:

"Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters. And you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk. Without money and without cost. Why do you want to spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance. Incline your ear and come to me. Listen, that you may live."

Its Ok if you didn't get it yet, we are all involved in the process of getting it, either unconsciously or consciously.

If you think you are unhappy because you haven't felt totally accepted, loved or appreciated, you just didn't get it yet.

If you don't already have it somewhere, how could you possibly get it?

If you think you've got it, you haven't

Forgetting (discounting) your dreams didn't help you to get it

If you still think that any experience in your life doesn't have a beneficial purpose and cause, you still don't get it

If you haven't found the meaning and purpose of your last crisis (large or small), you may not be aware there is anything to get

If you think there is anything you can satisfactorily control besides your thinking, you haven't got it yet.

If you are still justifying your behavior and defending your beliefs, you don't get it.

If you are still telling yourself the story that you are alone, lacking or trapped, you didn't get it

If you continue to think that you can get the results you want without questioning your story, you won't get it

If you think that God is out there somewhere, you aren't here either

If you didn't get it yet, are you ready to ask?

If you still think that money, sex, being right or consuming some substance will substitute for IT, you are kidding yourself

If you think dieting, exercise or physical exercise will do it, good luck!

If you think suicide or homicide will erase the pain of not getting it, you in for a surprise

If you think that accusing or punishing others for not giving you what you want will get it for you, you don't get it

If you think that trying to rescue people will save you from the pain of not knowing the truth about yourself, you haven't got it.

If you think you know yourself already, you don't get it

If you think that changing your body's conditions will be sufficient, you don't get it yet

If you think that changing the world is possible, you are wasting your time

If you think will power will get it, why hasn't it worked so far?

Where is the door to the lost treasure, the Holy Grail, the fountain of youth, the Shangri la, the kingdom of heaven, your peace of mind? Until you ask about that, you are not even close to getting it.

If you wondered whether you got it, you didn't

If you think getting it is anything besides a process of awakening, you didn't get it.

Getting it occurs when it gets you

If you thought you didn't get it yet, maybe that proves there is something to get

If you are not curious enough yet about the real cause of your anxiety and suffering, you're not ready to get it

Everyone is here to get it, but the secret to getting it is hidden underneath all of the secrets that didn't get it.

Getting it is realizing that everything you see, hear and believe is your story, including the world itself.

Unless you constantly and thoroughly question and investigate your story about reality and about yourself, you will never get it.

If and until you realize you are 99% brainwashed, you won't get it

Nothing is as it seems, do you get it?

Can you get it if you didn't do some particular crime or wrong that you were accused of and are being punished for? And suppose you are punishing someone else for a wrong they did or didn't do, can you still get it?

If you think the past is a closed book and can't be changed, you didn't get it yet.

If you think you lost everything, you didn't get it yet

If you think disappointment is the final word, you didn't get it yet

If you think aging, suffering, sickness, taxes or death is the final word, you didn't get it yet

If you wonder whether the good guys or the bad guys will win in the end, you didn't get it yet

If you are waiting on Armageddon or the rapture, you didn't get it yet

If you are waiting on your good, you didn't get it yet

If you think the body is sick, you didn't get it yet

If you think you can change someone else, you didn't get it yet

If you think you can hurt someone else or that someone else can hurt you, you didn't get it yet.

If you think someone can control you, you didn't get it yet

If you think fear or its consequences are real, you don't get it yet

If you think it is not okay not to get it, then you don't get it

If you think I am being evasive or secretive about getting it, then you don't get it

If you are still studying and scheming about how to make your usual strategy work, you don't get it.

If you want to get it, you had better study why your strategy isn't working rather that studying why it should be working.

The reason your strategy isn't working is because it isn't the truth, do you get it?

When you notice that your strategy doesn't work over 50% of the time, and it doesn't, why don't you get it?

If you don't understand why Plato said "Know thyself" you didn't get it

If you think the Christ is irrelevant to getting it, you don't get it

If you avoid yourself because you think you know yourself, you aren’t getting it

If you are still ignoring the real cause of your anger, grief, depression, anxiety jealousy or boredom, you don't get it

If you think victimizing others is going to un-victimize you, you didn't get it

If you think rescuing others is going to un-victimize you, you don’t get it

If you still think anything can substitute for self-knowledge, you didn't get it

If you think ignorance of the facts is bliss, you didn't get it

I am never upset (mad, frustrated, bored, depressed, argumentative, impulsive, acting out, judgmental, manipulative, or defensive) for the reason I think. Do you get that?

If you think you are superior or inferior, then you didn't get it.

If you think building up your self-esteem will get it, you don't get it

If you don't ask for much, you don't get much, get it?

If you think that there is anything else as important in life as getting it, you don't get it.

You don’t get it because you don’t think you have it, do you get it?

Switch to Ethanol Now

2007-08-19T05:21:00.000-04:00

Read this interesting transcript about how the U.S. (like Brazil) can switch now to ethanol, free ourselves from oil and the war machine, address world hunger and use our troops to bring peace to the world.

http://www.billyjack.com/index.php?menuID=Page&pid=158

Zingers from A Course in Miracles, Daan Dehn

2007-08-15T11:05:00.000-04:00

ZINGERS

"There is no middle ground in any aspect of salvation." [T561/604]
"Anger is never justified." [T593/638]
"You have one test...If you are wholly free of fear of any kind." [T276/297]
"You need offer only undivided attention." [T211/227]
"Now you need but to remember you need do nothing." [T363/389]
"Your task is not to seek for love...." [T315/338]
"The body no more dies than it can feel. It does nothing." [T389/418]
"...guilt is...the sole cause of pain in any form." [T591/635]
"The world you see does not exist." [T559/602]
"...eyes and ears are senses without sense." [T559/601]
"You are not sick and you cannot die." [T177/191]
"...the essential thing is learning that you do not know." [T275/296]
"The present is before time was...." [T234/252]
"What is joyful to you is painful to the ego...." [T124/134]
"...it is necessary to seek for what is false." [T315/338]
"This is an insane world...." [T251/271]
"...your mind is really a blank." [W16/16]
"Only very few can hear God's Voice at all...." [M30/31]
"Simplicity is very difficult for twisted minds." [T253/272]
"Who is the 'you' who are living in this world?" [T54/59]
"...you have no basis at all for ordering your thoughts." [T273/294]
"...you do not see anything that is really alive or really joyous." [W28/28]
"One illusion cherished...makes all truth meaningless...." [T439/472]
"The first step...is the undoing of the getting concept." [T99/107]
"There are no idle thoughts." [T27/31]
"There is no world!" [W237/243]
"All that you are asked to do is to make room for truth." [T419/449]
"Do you prefer that you be right or happy?" [T573/617]
"The past that you remember never was...." [T270/291]
"Your function...is only to decide against deciding what you want..." [T260/280]
"There is no life outside of Heaven." [T459/493]
"There is nothing outside you." [T358/384]
"A healed mind does not plan." [W246/253]
"Mistake not truce for peace...." [T461/496]
"Depression is an inevitable consequence of separation." [W63/63]
"To be alone is to be guilty." [T290/312]
"...to be with a body is not communication." [T297/319]
"Forget this world, forget this book...." [W350/360]
"Ownership is a dangerous concept if it is left to you." [T238/256]
"...there are no private thoughts." [W30/30]
"There is no point in trying to change the world." [W34/34]
"Ultimately space is as meaningless as time. Both are merely beliefs." [T11/14]
"Those who see themselves as whole make no demands." [W56/56]
"No one who lives in fear is really alive." [T30/35]
"...sickness is of the mind, and has nothing to do with the body." [M17/18]
"Love makes no comparisons." [W362/372]
"You do not know the meaning of anything you perceive." [T196/211]
"What is not love is murder." [T461/496]
"This course is easy just because it makes no compromise." [T460/495]
"There is no death, but there is a belief in death." [T46/51]
"The Atonement is a total commitment." [T17/20]

All quotes from A Course in Miracles ©1975,85,92 Foundation for Inner Peace
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More ZINGERS

"The truth is simple; it is one without an opposite." [T508/546]
"What you think you are is a belief to be undone." [W155/157]
"...self-esteem in ego terms must be delusional." [T53/58]
"Those you do not forgive you fear." [T393/422]
"You made this up." [T400/429]
"It is impossible to overestimate your brother's value." [T405/434]
"The world you see has nothing to do with reality." [W23/23]
"...be willing to give up the goals you have established for everything." [W38/38]
"There is no relationship between what is real and what you think is real." [W71/71]
"Your goal is to find out who you are." [W103/104]
"Who can dream of hatred and not fear God?" [W114/115]
"Salvation is our only need. There is no other purpose here...." [W116/117]
"...nothing outside yourself can hurt you, or disturb your peace...." [W118/119]
"Be not afraid to circumvent the voices of the world." [W187/190]
"Can you imagine what a state of mind without illusions is?" [W189/192]
"...His Word cannot be heard until your mind is quiet for a while." [W220/225]
"You do not understand forgiveness." [W222/227]
"Love is one. It has no separate parts and no degrees." [W225/230]
"Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds." [W240/247]
"...your life is not part of anything you see." [W272/279f]
"To mean you want the peace of God is to renounce all dreams." [W339/348]
"It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain." [W351/361]
"The thing you dread the most is your salvation." [W365/375]
"Partial Atonement is a meaningless idea...." [M53/55]
"To say, 'Of myself I can do nothing' is to gain all power." [M67/70]
"Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one." [M81/85]
"Jesus became what all of you must be." [M83/87]
"To overlook nothingness is merely to judge correctly." [T174/187]
"...the illusion of peace is not the condition in which truth can enter." [T342/367]
"Happiness must be constant,...." [T433/464]
"If you are joined, how could it be that you have private thoughts?" [T428/459]
"Perception is a choice and not a fact." [T425/456]
"...any brother with whom you have a limited relationship, you hate." [T421/451]
"...the retreat to death is not the end of conflict." [T390/418]
"...sin is the belief that your perception is unchangeable." [T377/405]
"Partial dedication is impossible." [T372/399]
"Heaven is not a place....It is merely an awareness of perfect oneness." [T359/384]
"...the present is forgiveness." [T332/357]
"You cannot really not let go what has already gone." [T324/348]
"You must choose between total freedom and total bondage." [T303/326]
"This world was over long ago." [T547/589]
"...the concept of size exists on a plane that is itself unreal." [T8/11]
"Spiritual vision literally cannot see error,...." [T18/22]
"Whenever you are afraid you are deceived." [T/19/22]
"...you do not guard your thoughts carefully enough." [T27/31]
"...ultimately no compromise is possible between everything and nothing." [T28/32]
"If you attack error in another, you will hurt yourself." [T37/41]
"All are called but few choose to listen." [T39/44]
"...the only meaningful prayer is for forgiveness,...." [T40/45]
"Sickness is a defense against the truth." [Lesson 136]
"..no one can be angry at a fact." [M43/44]

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...More Zingers

"Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes." [W347/357]
"In the world of scarcity, love has no meaning and peace is impossible." [T293/315]
"...nothing is difficult that is wholly desired." [T100/108]
"...you cannot be anywhere but in the Mind of God." [T166/179]
"The Second Coming is merely the return of sense." [T158/170]
"No one can serve contradicting goals and serve them well." [W413/423]
"Depression is isolation, and so it could not have been created." [T176/190]
"Do not see error. Do not make it real." [SOP9]
"All that you need to do is to step back and not to interfere." [SOP13]
"Listen and learn, and do not judge." [SOP14]
"The secret of true prayer is to forget the things you think you need." [SOP2]
"Prayer is an offering; a giving up of yourself to be at one with Love." [SOP2]
"All other goals are at the cost of God." [SOP6]
"Prayer for specifics always asks to have the past repeated in some way." [SOP7]
"...humility does not oppose." [SOP7]
"Only in someone else can you forgive yourself,...." [SOP10]
"God is ready now, but you are not." [T300/322]
"Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all." [W347/357]
"Salvation can be seen as nothing more than the escape from concepts." [T613/659]
"There is nothing that you cannot do." [W354/364]
"Inventiveness is wasted effort even in its most ingenious form." [T39/44]
"The ego is a contradiction." [T48/53]
"The mind that accepts attack cannot love." [T114/123]
"All confusion comes from not extending life,...." [T118/128]
"Reality cannot be partly appreciated." [T118/127]
"Confusion is not limited. If it occurs at all it will be total." [T523/562]
"...what we think we understand is but confusion born of error." [W356/366]
"...all the 'pleasures' of the world are nothing." [M32/33]
"...you are too confused to recognize your own hope." [T59/65]
"You...must first recognize that you are miserable and not happy." [T252/272]
"Joy is eternal." [T439/471]
"...the ego is totally confused and totally confusing." [T129/139]
"You cannot be faithful to two masters who ask conflicting things of you." [T327/351]
"Dreams are chaotic because they are governed by your conflicting wishes...." [T350/375]
"The images you make give rise to but conflicting goals...." [W343/352]
"Doubt is the result of conflicting wishes." [M22/23]
"...you must emerge from the conflict if you are to bring peace to other minds." [T30/34]
"Spirit has no levels, and all conflict arises from the concept of levels." [T37/42]
"Look at your life and see what the devil has made." [T45/50]
"The Kingdom of Heaven is you." [T54/60]
"Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not deciding at all." [T97/104]
"...only the conflict-free are whole." [T112/120]
"...if you want peace, you must give up the idea of conflict entirely...." [T116/125]
"You will never be able to exclude yourself from your thoughts." [T118/127]
"Only the special could have enemies...." [T465/500]
"...time is not involved and every problem can be answered now." [T533/574]
"Real choice is no illusion. But the world has none to offer. [T607/653]
"The world was made that problems could not be escaped." [T608/653]
"Without illusions conflict is impossible." [W128/130]
"Conflict is sleep, and peace awakening. Death is illusion; life, eternal truth." [W458/468]
"You are not weak, as is the image of yourself." [W343/352]
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ZINGERS ad infinitum

"Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based not on your selection." [T330/354]
"Let the dead and gone be peacefully forgotten." [T512/551]
"There is a place in you where this whole world has been forgotten...." [T570/614]
"You must learn that time is solely at your disposal...." [T168/181]
"Health is the result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly." [T146/157]
"...a slight twinge of annoyance is nothing but a veil drawn over intense fury." [W32/32]
"The world you see is but a judgment on yourself." [T400/430]
"Always has no direction." [T221/237]
"The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that." [T415/445]
"You are not the victim of the world you see because you invented it." [W49/49]
"The world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all." [W351/362]
"The body is outside you...." [T360/386]
"You cannot lay aside the obstacles to real vision without looking upon them...." [T204/220]
"Understand totally by understanding totality." [T120/129]
"You do not see." [T415/445]
"The special love relationship is an attempt to bring love into separation." [T315/338]
"Love is not special." [T247/265]
"...to believe in truth you do not have to do anything." [T200/215]
"...if you perceive but one need in yourself you will be healed." [T201/216]
"...fear and attack are inevitably associated." [T202/217]
"If you cannot hear the Voice for God, it is because you do not choose to listen." [T57/62]
"All things work together for good." [T59/65]
"Any thought system that confuses God and the body must be insane." [T60/66]
"The ego is nothing more than a part of your belief about yourself." [T61/67]
"The Holy Spirit knows that you both have everything and are everything." [T56/62]
"...to know your brother is to know God." [T62/69]
"Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right." [T63/69]
"...in the Kingdom there is no difference between having and being...." [T64/70]
"God is praised whenever any mind learns to be wholly helpful." [T65/71]
"Health is inner peace." [T15/18]
"[Love] has no secrets; nothing that it would keep apart and hide." [T407/436]
"Salvation is always ready and always there." [M6/7]
"You do not know the meaning of love, and that is your handicap." [T210/226]
"Ask for light and learn that you are light." [T131/141]
"Heal your brothers simply by accepting God for them." [T171/184]
"To believe a Son of God is sick is to worship the same idol he does." [T171/185]
"Reality can dawn only on an unclouded mind." [T174/187]
"'Laws of chaos' is a meaningless term." [T174/188]
"To sense is not to know." [W409/419]
"...all attitudes are ego-based." [T52/57]
"Body appetites are not physical in origin." [T53/58]
"Illusions are investments. They will last as long as you value them." [T118/127]
"The Son of God is you." [W105/106]

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Last of the Red Hot ZINGERS

"There is no partial healing." [SOP17]
"What is false cannot be partly true." [SOP17]
"God's teachers can have no regret on giving up the pleasures of the world." [M32/33]
"The Word of God has no exceptions." [M33/34]
"Everything in this world is little because it is a world made out of littleness...." [T285/306]
"You can wish for the impossible, but you can will only with God." [T125/134]
"It is not will for life but wish for death that is the motivation for this world." [T526/566]
"Why should the body be anything to you?" [T387/415]
"...to sacrifice the body is to sacrifice nothing...." [T305/328]
"If you believe you can be sick, you have placed other gods before Him." [T173/187]
"Oneness cannot be divided." [T174/187]
"Dreams disappear when light has come and you can see." [T232/249]
"To spirit getting is meaningless and giving is all." [T67/73]
"What guilt has wrought is ugly, fearful and very dangerous." [T323/347]
"What the body's eyes behold is only conflict." [M23/24]
"...your life is not a part of anything you see." [Lesson 151]
"The closed mind believes the future and the present will be the same." [T36/40]
"Certainty does not require action." [T36/41]
"If you attack error in another, you will hurt yourself." [T37/41]
"Your inheritance awaits only the recognition that you have been redeemed." [T209/225]
"Healing is a thought by which two minds perceive their oneness and become glad." [T66/73]
"Illusions are always illusions of differences." [M23/24]
"...only the mind is responsible for seeing." [M23/24]
"God is not the author of fear. You are." [T49/55]
"Salvation is not theoretical." [M61/65]
"Truth is so far beyond time that all of it happens at once." [T283/305]
"The world you see is an illusion of a world. God did not create it...." [M81/85]
"...the time will come when all things visible will have an end." [M81/85]
"...forgiveness looks past bodies." [M81/85]
"All differences among the Sons of God are temporary." [M8/9]
"No gift of Heaven has been more misunderstood than has forgiveness." [SOP9]
"Illusion recognized must disappear." [Lesson 187]
"There is no place for sacrifice in what has any value." [Lesson 187]
"The emphasis on beautiful structures is a sign of the fear of Atonement...." [T18/21]
"Delay is of the ego, because time is its concept." [T72/79]
"Only unwillingness to learn it could make such an easy lesson difficult." [T600/645]
[M83/87]
"A mind and body cannot both exist." [Lesson 96]
"Real choice is no illusion. But the world has none to offer." [T607/653]
"The world was made that problems could not be escaped." [T608/653]
"...love was never in the world of dreams." [T554/596]

ZINGERS Forever!

"...analyzing the motives of others is hazardous to you." [T200/215]
"What you think you are is a belief to be undone." [W155/157]
"Only in the world is the idea of an authority problem meaningful." [T46/51]
"The world is not left by death but by truth...." [T46/51]
"Nothing you have ever learned can help you understand the present...." [T276/297]
"Questioning illusions is the first step in undoing them." [T36/40]
"You were created only to create, neither to see nor do." [T252/271]
"The world has never been at all." [W315f/324]
"Spiritual vision literally cannot see error...." [T18/22]
"All healing is essentially the release from fear." [T19/23]
"Only the mind is capable of error." [T19/23]
"Physical illness represents a belief in magic." [T19/23]
"No belief is neutral." [T464/499]
"What God creates has no alternative." [T464/499]
"Only the special could have enemies...." [T465/500]
"Specialness is the great dictator of the wrong decisions." [T465/500]
"What you keep is lost to you." [T466/501]
"Never can there be peace among the different." [T466/502]
"Comparison must be an ego device, for love makes none." [T466/502]
"Pursuit of specialness is always at the cost of peace." [T467/502]
"You are not special." [T467/502]
"You need only recognize that everything you learned you do not want." [T276/297]
"The self you made is not the Son of God." [W159/161]
"Knowledge never involves comparisons." [T54/60]
"Remember that those who attack are poor." [T205/221]
"...it is but your thoughts that bring you fear...." [W365/375]
"Freedom from illusions lies only in not believing them." [T143/154]
"Unless you hurt yourself you could never suffer in any way...." [T184/199]
"Conflict is the root of all evil...." [184/199]
"All illusions are but one." [T509/547]
"That there is choice is an illusion." [T509/547]
"...no one in whom true forgiveness rests can suffer." [T528/569]
"Sickness is anger taken out upon the body...." [T560/603]
"You were not meant to suffer and to die." [W190/193]
"No one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision." [W274/281]
"...it is impossible that you be hurt except by your own thoughts...." [W365/375]
"The gentle have no pain. They cannot suffer." [M12/13]
"All that I do I do unto myself." [W385/395]
"Certainty does not require action." [T36/41]
"The ego is a confusion in identification." [T121/131]
"The sun and ocean are as nothing beside what you are." [T365/391]
"Love knows no bodies...." [T365/392]
"The body is not cured. It is merely recognized as what it is." [PPPP10]
"What is not love is murder." [T461/496]
"You will never learn how to make nothing everything." [T254/273]
"Experience - unlearned, untaught, unseen - is merely there." [W291/299]
"The dreamer of a dream is not awake, but does not know he sleeps." [T551/594]
"The truly given gift entails no loss." [W185/188]
"Salvation is no more than a reminder this world is not your home." [T493/530]
"Every mistake must be a call for love." [T377/404]
"You can and should deny any belief that error can hurt you." [T16/19]

all quotations from A Course in Miracles ©1975,85,92 Foundation for Inner Peace

http://www.miracles.org.nz/essays.htm

Thank you, Oprah, for the Story of Emmanuel

2007-07-31T08:42:00.000-04:00

Emmanuel was one of 4000 Lost Boys of the Sudan, and here is his story.

When Emmanuel was 8 years old, civil war broke out in his home country of Sudan. When his village was invaded and soldiers burned his home, Emmanuel escaped into the forest. All alone, Emmanuel hid for 13 days, surviving on wild fruits and stagnant rainwater. Fleeing the rebel soldiers, he joined 26,000 other desperate children—now known as the "lost boys." These children wandered for three months, walking 1,000 miles across the desert in search of safety.

Eventually, Emmanuel found his way to a refugee camp in Kenya, but suffered from nightmares of what he'd seen. "I'd seen friends shot right on the spot, friends being eaten by lions and hyenas," he says.

Then, in 1998, Emmanuel met a girl named Veronica in the Kenyan camp. "I was captivated and all I wanted to do is just stand there and just watch," he says. Emmanuel only spoke with Veronica for a moment before asking a man with a camera, who happened to be nearby, to take their picture. He promised the photographer a blessing if he would get him this picture. To Emmanuel's joy, the photographer actually returned to the camp and gave him the picture for free.

"Something inside of me just kept telling me, you better keep this picture. You better keep it. Keep it well." For the next six years, Emmanuel carried that photograph in his Bible for thousands of miles.

In 2001, Emmanuel came to America with only a shirt, a pair of pants, flip-flops, and what he called his "most important luggage"—his beloved picture of Veronica, which was tucked inside his Bible.

When Emmanuel was in the 1000 mile desert march, he had terrible nightmares about his companions dying and being eaten alive. He could only get rest when he slept with his Bible under his head.

He started school and a new life in North Carolina, eventually enrolling at the University of North Carolina, where he is pre-med student with a double major in biology and psychology.

Emmanuel remained in close contact with his friends, who had been dispersed around the world. "It's the way the immigration works. They were sending people there [to] Canada, the U.S. and also Australia," he says. "The embassy would come and pick you randomly."

One Christmas, he traveled to visit friends in Canada. When he walked into a church, he was shocked by what he saw. "When I opened the door, looking into the aisle, I saw Veronica. I thought I was dreaming," he says. "I was jumping over the benches and I was running towards her because I recognized her face. We just ran into each other."

When Emmanuel produced the photo he'd been carrying with him for so long, Veronica began to cry. "I was holding onto the picture hoping that I would one day see her. … I just knew in my heart that I would see Veronica one day," he says.

Sometimes Neville's teachings come alive. This is a supreme example. Emmanuel was comforting Oprah when she told him before the show that she had tried real hard to get a passport for Veronica to come. Then after the show Oprah quipped "And he thought I couldn't get a passport." Oprah knows the power of intention, doesn't she?

By the way, you know the meaning of the name "Emmanuel" don't you?

I am Job; you are Job

2007-07-27T09:24:00.000-04:00

If you understand the meaning of this talk by Neville, your life will be changed forever. Happy reading!

THE BOOK OF JOB
Lecture #207 - Neville 02/01/1963

Tonight we will speak on the Book of Job, possibly the most misquoted book in the world. I dare say all day long you use passages, and you aren't aware you are misquoting this Book of Job. For no one knows who wrote the book. It bears the title of its hero, as do so many books of the Bible: the Book of Joshua, Nehemiah, Ezra, Daniel, Ruth - so many bear the name of the hero of the volume. That is the Book of Job. The word "Job," so claim the famous scholars, by analysis means: "Where is my father?" You and I have heard it as "the persecuted one," but the central point of the narrative is that Job was completely innocent - not guilty of any offense, but simply the victim of the most cruel experiment by God. The very last chapter reveals that it was all by God. Some scholar along the way, or some scribe, inserted some little story in the first chapter which is suspect, because they couldn't believe that God could do that to man. So they claim that a pact was made between Satan and God, and God allowed Satan to do it: Satan the accuser, Satan the doubter. But Satan disappears in the very first chapter and never reappears. He does in the second chapter just for a moment, but he doesn't in the forty-two chapters thereafter, not even in the epilogue. And so we know that the cruel experiment was by God.

Now, you are Job, I am Job, the world is Job - the world of humanity. And to approach it as if it were an object lesson in patience - patience under stress, under trial - is to go astray at the very start. That is not the purpose of the story. I hope I can get it over to you as I see it. If I were to place it in the Bible, I would place it at the very end of the Old Testament, for it seems to lead right into the revelation of the New Testament. But I am not rewriting the Bible or rearranging it - but were I to place it, that is where I would put it. It simply leads right into the unfolding of the vision as we find it in the gospels and the epistles.

First, if you are not familiar with it, let me just tell you a few of the highlights of Job. The scene is laid in Edom and all the characters are Edomites, renowned for their wisdom, semi-nomads. Job, as the story tells us, was an upright and very rich Arab sheikh, owning thousands of sheep, thousands of camels, hundreds of she-asses and oxen, numbers of servants and ten children - seven boys and three perfectly beautiful girls. So we are told in the story. It's a prologue to tell us this much of the great hero who was Job.

Then come the four woes, based upon the pact between Satan and Jehovah. The first one comes in and announces the fact that the Sabeans came suddenly and slaughtered all the servants who were taking care of the sheep and took away all the sheep. While he was yet speaking, the second woe appeared and he said that they took away all the camels and slaughtered all the servants. Then comes the third woe: they took away all the oxen, the she-asses, and slaughtered all the servants. Then comes the fourth woe, that his children -all of them -were dining in the house of the oldest son, and while they were all together there came this mighty wind and crushed the four corners and the house collapsed and they were all killed, and he was the only one who escaped to come and bring the news to Job.

And Job rent his robe, shaved his head, threw himself upon the floor, and then said: "Naked I came into the world, naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return." Then he blamed himself - not for the act, but for having said: "Naked I came into the world and naked I shall return." He saw nothing to condemn in God, and so he did not see anything wrong that God had done.

And then, after the four woes, and everything is taken from him - all the children, all his possessions, everything - then starts the physical destruction of the man called Job, and it started with the boils. And that's when Satan disappears from the scene and all these things followed one after the other - the boils from the sole of his feet to the crown of his head. And then his wife said to him: "Are you still going to be honest about it? Your integrity is unshaken? Curse God and die." And he said to her: "You have spoken like a foolish woman. Shall God who gave us the good not give us the evil?" And so nothing came from his lips that could in any way be condemnation of God.

Then came his comforters. They're spoken of as "Job's comforters." There were three friends. They came to comfort Job. They heard of his plight. He lost everything, being the richest sheikh in all of Edom, and they couldn't recognize him, he was such a horrible-looking creature. When they saw him, they too rent their robes and sat with him for five days and five nights without speaking in mourning for their friend. Job breaks the silence and he breaks it with the claim that the very day should disappear from the calendar year. "Let the day perish wherein I was born and the night which said a male boy is conceived." And then he has this tirade against being brought into this world. He didn't ask to be brought, he was brought. And he finds himself now without any guilt and all these things happening to him. And after he makes the terrific defense of himself, then comes the first comforter, who doesn't comfort at all.

For he is trained - as Job was trained, as you and I are trained - to believe in divine justice. So we all believe in divine justice, in retribution. For we look at a person like a Hitler, who lived to the very last moment in his fifteen gloating years; or a Stalin, for his thirty-odd years - how they slaughtered millions. And what happened to Stalin? He died as you, as I will die - a little brain hemorrhage and in no time he was unconscious, after having slaughtered millions. Where is the retribution? Man wants retribution. Where is Stalin's retribution, where is Hitler's retribution, where is any tyrant's? They live just as we live - they live on the fat of the land, murdering unnumbered millions, and they simply die as we die. And so priesthoods will tell us they will have their day. God will punish them beyond the grave - or in some future embodiment, if you believe in reincarnation. How could you live and how long would you have to live to repay the debt of thirteen million, when you burned them alive and you slaughtered them - how long would you live?

And so they bring argument after argument after argument to persuade Job he, in some way had violated this code. Maybe in his youth, maybe in the past - and he can't think of what he has done. Maybe as a child, said he, some little infraction. But this is far beyond the proportion of anything I could have done, this judgment of God. What has he done to me now? This far transcends anything that any just judge would put upon me for anything I might have done in my youth. They still try to persuade him. And so, as the Father said: "Even- handed is the justice of God. Even-handed."

Then come the three comforters - who aren't comforters at all, like all of our friends. May I tell you: may you not have something physically wrong with you after having confessed you believe what I talk about. May you never be financially embarrassed after having once gone out on a limb and confessed to everyone you believe it. They will come like this Uriah Heap, and all will lament. "It shouldn't happen to you," they will say, "certainly not to you. You mean you who know that the states are real and all you need to do is to get into a state and the state blossoms in your world - and you?" These are the comforters of Job. And so they come to comfort Job.

And he said: "Merciful comforters you are, and so were I in your soul rather than in my soul I would not say to you what you said to me." But they persisted. Each had three chances to deflate him and each time that they tried he comes back with a direct answer. But he is so self-righteous. He showed all the things he did: he never turned away any infant, any fatherless child, any widow, any stranger from comfort, from shelter, from food. He was fabulously wealthy, but he never once turned away anyone in need. And he itemizes them all, all the way down. But he never understood what I hope you understand - which comes in the flower called the New Testament of "grace" - that no one in this world can build a way to God. You can't be good enough to earn coming into the presence of God - no man in the world. It comes by "grace," this strange elective love. And he calls us one by one. So he did not know there is no such thing in this world as divine justice. He didn't know it. The fathers didn't teach that. And they still - in all orthodoxy the world over - they teach and preach divine justice, retribution. And it isn't. There is no such thing!

My child - were I the father of one born demented, where not only the child but the mother suffers, I suffer, the brothers suffer, and the whole vast circle suffered - then should I suffer because of it? And that is divine justice? And you try to justify it by telling me that in some past embodiment he did this, that, and the other; that is why he is; and we were related in some strange way in the past and that is why today we all have fallen into the same net?

That was answered for us in the 9th [chapter] of John: "Master, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" The answer given: "Neither this man sinned or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him." No retribution whatsoever. There is something entirely different: that God as we now see him is the God of grace, the God of mercy. Were I pure I would never know that there was such a thing as a God of mercy. And God has consigned all men to disobedience that he may have mercy on all of them, that not one can crow and boast of his own purity.

So, to the very end Job is still giving arguments of his own self-righteousness - how good he is, how kind he has been, and all these things - that this thing should not have happened to him. And that's Job's arguments, while all these so-called comforters are still giving it back to him. And then at the very end he is demanding that God will appear. He wants to meet God, to confront him. He says: "I know he will slay me, I have no hope, but I will present my case to his face." And then he makes this statement: "This shall be my salvation. For the godless shall not stand before him, and so if I can so persuade him to see me, to present my case, then I stand before him, and only the pure in heart can stand before him. So if I stand before him, that is my salvation."

To the end, he still justified himself. He never heard of the great story of vicarious suffering, never heard of it. Or the author of the book never heard of it, for Job didn't write it. He is simply the hero of the narrative, of the story. So the very end, by demanding that you listen to my case, how righteous I am (he still believes - although it is not stated - he still believes in retribution and is demanding by his own self-righteousness that a verdict be brought in his favor because he is self-righteous) he feels he should be acquitted, that this thing should not go on as it has gone on for so long in his life. So you see: he has not yet abandoned the belief in retribution, though he denies it when the friends argue the point of retribution. The friends try to prove to him that he was wrong at some time in the past, because there is such a thing as divine justice, and therefore he could not possibly have these sores, and lose his kingdom, lose his family, lose everything - were it not that at some time he had earned this judgment.

And so he brings in his righteousness. And then comes the voice of God. For the first time God speaks. God refuses to answer all the arguments of the men. He refuses to answer the arguments and requests of Job. Job is fuming in his own self-righteousness, for in hell the only voice is the voice of self-righteousness. In heaven all is forgiven and the voice of heaven is complete forgiveness - complete forgiveness no matter what a man has ever done. In heaven the voice is complete forgiveness. In hell all is self-righteousness. He was in hell though walking on earth, as we are in hell if we are filled with self-righteousness.

Then God answers him out of the whirlwind. And may I tell you: it is a perfect expression: the "whirlwind." That is how he comes. When he comes, he comes through the medium of a whirlwind. You hear it and you feel it and you think it is the most frightening storm you have ever encountered, that any man could experience. When you hear it and you feel it, you'll know by the wind it's the whirlwind, then God is about to speak. Either you hear the words or you have the scene, and it begins to unfold the most fantastic vision, more real than this room now - when you hear the voice of the whirlwind. So God answered Job out of the whirlwind and he asked all the questions concerning creation. Where were you when I created the universe? He asked one question after the other, all pertaining to creativity, and Job cannot answer. And then God shows himself, he displays himself.

In the 42nd chapter he now repents and covers himself in ash when he sees how audacious he had been in the past demanding that God answer him. Then he said: "I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes see thee."

His religion, like our religion before the experience, was inherited. The oral traditions of the fathers and churches. And then I heard it, I didn't experience it, I only heard it. Mother told me and took me to church, and the minister or the rabbi told me - and so I heard it from seeming authority and so my religion was inherited. Thus I expected to find a different kind of a God - a God that man made in his own image down here, a God that he called a just God - an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I couldn't conceive of another kind of a God - of infinite love, where there is grace, that it doesn't matter what a man has ever done in this world - no, not even a Hitler or a Stalin. So everything in the world will be forgiven. "Though your sins be like scarlet they shall be white as snow." "And so I heard of thee with the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee."

Now Job turns to his friends, and Jehovah calls the friends and he tells them to sacrifice, because: "You lied about me. Everything you said of me was false and what Job said about me was true." Job's rebellion was against orthodoxy. His rebellion was against all ecclesiasticism, all rituals that said this is the way to God. He did them all, yet he suffered. He kept every law of the ancient church: he sacrificed, he did everything - and yet in the end he suffered as no man has suffered. And he knew it wasn't true. So he commended Job, for what he said of Jehovah was true, and what the righteous ones said of Jehovah was false. He made them sacrifice and told them to go to Job and ask Job to pray for them. If Job would pray for them, then they would be set free - it would depend upon Job. And Job prayed for his friends and his own captivity was lifted.

Now that is where you come in: to completely forget yourselves in the love of a friend who is in need. Without raising a finger, you lift him mentally out of one state and put him into another. No matter what he has been in the past, forget it and put him in another. He was only expressing in a state, he was never the state that he expressed. We condemned him thinking he was the state, but Job prayed for his friends, lifting them out of that state of self-righteousness and divine justice, and he saw them in the state of grace. It doesn't matter what they have ever done in the past. It is now what he sees them to be - and at that moment Job's captivity was lifted. And so the whole thing hinged upon man's ability to forgive.

We are told in the 13th [chapter] of Luke, when they came to him and said Pilate slaughtered the Galileans and mingled their blood with their sacrifices, he said to them: "Do you think that they were worse sinners than those who escaped? I tell you: no. Unless you repent you shall meet a like fate. Do you think that when the tower fell in Jerusalem and crushed eighteen that they were greater offenders than those it did not crush? I tell you: no. But unless you repent you shall meet a similar fate." So when you hear someone is hurt, don't gloat that God is getting even. God doesn't get even. If you hear of anyone being hurt tonight, don't gloat: "It serves him right." No retribution at all, not in this revelation.

Simply a man unknowingly falls into a state; falling into a state it could be a good state or an evil state, but he reaps the fruit of the state. He is neither good nor evil. So Blake said: "I do not consider either the just or the wicked to be in a Supreme State, but to be every one of them States which the Soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of Good and Evil when it leaves Paradise following the Serpent." Who's that serpent? God himself! For he consigned me, consigned you, every being in the world, to disobedience, and we left through disobedience, for he stated: "You shall not surely die." And who told me that? The serpent, and who is the serpent? Just a symbol of God himself.

So he told me I wouldn't die after first telling me if I ate a certain thing, did a certain thing, I would die. Then he tells me I will not really die, but my eyes will open and I will become as wise as the gods. And so he enticed me into disobeying him and so I left the state of innocence for a world of experience where I fall headlong into different states. After unnumbered experiences falling into states and redeeming myself from these states, he redeems me from it all and lifts me into a world completely subject to my imaginative power, where I completely awake. Here, I am in a state of sleep, so I don't know I am in a state and I think this is my very being.

Blake made the statement: "Do not let yourself be intimidated by the horrors of the world. Everything is ordered and correct and must fulfill its destiny in order to attain perfection. Seek this path and you will attain from your own Soul an even deeper perception of the eternal beauty of creation. You will attain an ever increasing release from that which now seems so sad and terrible." Not a thing to be judged in this world, not a thing to be condemned, only to be redeemed. So you and I play the part of redeeming individuals here, and at that moment of God's own good grace he lifts us out of the whole vast world of states. But until then we can redeem each other. You don't feel well? All right, I will persuade myself you have never felt better. I'll persuade myself you never felt better and to the degree I am persuaded I am pulling you out of one state into another. Don't try to pinpoint why he is not feeling well. It's a state. Don't try to pinpoint it and say it serves him right, I knew he was no good. Forget that! The being that was never any good at a certain time, you pull him out of that state into another, so that though his sins are like scarlet, because of you they become white as snow. And then you keep on redeeming people, one after the other. Regardless of how many times you fail, try it anyway and you pull them out.

Then one day when you least expect it, God will reveal himself to you and you will say: "I have heard of you. I really didn't know you existed. I believed and hoped you did, but I heard of you with the hearing of the ear - that is, the oral tradition. My teacher in school talked about you, and my father, the churches - all the people who believed in you talked about you, but now my eyes see you." It doesn't matter what the whole vast world will say. I see something entirely different. You are not at all what they told me you were. You are not a judge. There is no such thing as righteous judgment with you, no divine justice - only grace. "The law came through Moses but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." So, now I see. I don't have to be taught any more who you are. I see you. And then, may I tell you, he is going to embrace you, because when he asks you, he answers in you.

Now, what do I mean by vicarious suffering (mentioned earlier)? It is the most difficult concept in the world for man to grasp. Every time I have used it with someone who at the moment suffered, I invariably got the same reply. Someone said to me recently in San Francisco: "I am suffering. You said God suffers for me? Well, maybe he is suffering somewhere in eternity but I am in pain, I am suffering." I said: "What is his name?" "God" "No, that is not his name. His name is 'I AM.' Who is suffering?" "Well, I am. " "Good, that's God." "No God here, I am suffering."

It's the most impossible thing to get over to man, that man who seems to be alive, is alive only by reason of the fact that God became him - that God became man, that man become God. He sunk himself in man, that man could say: "I am," for that is God's name, and that all things are done by God to God, to individualize you, me, all of us. When in his eyes the work is done, after unnumbered ages of pain - it takes pain like putting gold in the raw state of ore into the furnace and bringing out molten gold, pure gold, nothing but pure gold. It takes heat, it takes fire. These are the furnaces of experience, and we are put into the world of experiences and brought out as pure gold. When we are brought out, in his presence we are just like him. "It does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know when he appears, we shall be like him." For we become what we behold. I must behold it to become it.

So, "I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear but now my eye sees thee." And as you see him you are stamped with the image of eternity. You are one with him, one with God, as God. It is he - doing it in you, in man, and when he has completed the task, we are told: "He who began a good work in me will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." He will bring it to completion. He initiated it and he will complete it. He took eternity and put it into this clay that is man, that is himself, and he works upon it, brings it out, and individualizes you. You become one like the being that created you.

That is the story of Job. It is the most glorious story, but I think if not the most misunderstood, it is not far from it. You and I have quoted it and we have misquoted it. We speak of the patience of Job. There was no patience of Job - he rebelled. We start from the very third chapter and it is a rebellion, and there are only forty-two chapters. The first is only an introduction, the prologue, and it starts in the second part of the second chapter where the prologue comes to an end. By then the four woes have been accomplished. The whole kingdom and his family are gone. Then come the sores on himself. The boils appear suddenly on the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. Now you find rebellion: "Let this day perish wherein I was born and the night that said a man, a male child, is conceived. Let it be so hidden that God cannot even find this day."

Job doesn't stop the rebellion until he hears the voice of Jehovah out of the whirlwind. That comes at the end of the great narrative. Then he repents. He repents and sees Him, for the first time really sees Him - a God of grace, a God of love. He sees why he went through what he did. It was his own voice in hell of self-righteousness.

If I can this night reflect upon any good thing I think was good that I did, that is self-righteousness. It doesn't earn me one little step towards where I am going. Do something because you want to do it, but to feel you are adding up and putting something in the bank for yourself - forget it. And so he was so good, he was so self-righteous, he never once turned anyone away from his place, no widows, no fatherless, no strangers. And he always abided by the law. He made all the sacrifices designated by the law. At the end of this special feast, Job not knowing what might have happened in the home of the individual brothers where the feast met today, each in a different home - he went and he sacrificed generously, that should they in any way have violated even in their inner will that which Jehovah designated, then he by his sacrifice would atone for them. So he atoned for his sins. He did everything that the law demanded. But still he broke out in all the boils and then he learned that you can't be good enough to earn God's gift. Self-righteousness is only the voice in hell. So you were right, Job: there is no such thing as divine justice, no retribution at all, none.

Did he not say: "O the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in their hands is my indignation"? [Is. 10:5] So I will use him, for I have made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

And so, just as I have planned it so shall it be, as I have purposed so shall it stand. I will not turn back - "[The anger of] the Lord will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days you will understand it clearly." (Jeremiah 23:20) Only in the latter days will he reveal himself. You will see that all the sufferings that you went through, the God of love put you through. Just like the great artists who are putting ore through the heat to extract the gold, he wasn't concerned about the heat, just extracting pure gold for his labor, for his work - any more than the great sculptor is concerned about the clay. And Job said: "You made me of clay, are you going to return me to the dust?" What does the potter think of the clay when he puts it through every form to fulfill his purpose or what he purposes for it? He isn't concerned. So you and I are the clay in the potter's hand and he is bringing us out into his own image.

I heard someone gloat in NYC when these lovely little children, in their early twenties and teens, on the eightieth-odd floor of the Empire State Building, and this plane came too low. He was simply showing off because they were warned time and again not to fly over NYC low, and here was this 102-story building plus this enormous antenna that goes way beyond that, and the chap coming through with one aboard, and two passengers that were not supposed to be there, showing what he could do, and he couldn't maneuver the plane. He went right into that building and he snuffed out the lives of something like thirty-four or forty young girls in a Catholic charity. And if someone, like this one who spoke to me, is anti-Catholic, he would then say that is what God did. Well you have to be silent, because they express complete stupidity. What can you do? If my daughter were among them and he said it, chances are he would be in the hospital. He could judge that God did that because he was against this charity work of some Catholic. These sweet little children, all Catholic, work in the organization (or maybe they were not all Catholic). And he dared to say that. They could have been a Jewish organization and some anti-Jew would have said the same thing, etc.

Here, this is the story of Job. There is no such thing as divine justice. We are all coming out, and when we all come to the end we will all see it and then we will understand. But don't tell me the six million Jews who were walked right into the furnaces of Germany, that that was divine justice. Job didn't see it, or the author of the book didn't see it. They did not understand the mystery of vicarious suffering, because the Father said it and then the three friends who came, they echoed it, and then he said, "Nonsense, it's a lie." That's what Job said.

But still in the last confession in the end when he rehearsed all of his good qualities, all of his virtues, expecting to be exonerated by this rehearsal of virtues, that surely an acquittal must be brought in that must be the only verdict that could be brought in. That was his last soliloquy. And then comes the voice and then he realizes that all the so-called good things that he did don't mean a thing in the eyes of God. God started it and God is going to complete it and God is working us into the image of himself. He has to put us through these experiences, but he has laid the foundation of infinite states. So when you see someone who is unlovely in the world by his actions, he is only expressing a state into which he has fallen, and chances are unwittingly. Not deliberately, but unknowingly and he has to occupy it while he is in it and then because he is alive he simply radiates it, it grows and bears the fruit of itself. So know that you can forgive every being by simply pulling him out. This is the supreme test of one's ability to forgive. To identify the one you would forgive with the ideal that so far he has failed to express. To the degree that you can become self-persuaded that he is that ideal, to that degree he will express it, and then you deliver him, you save him - you forgive him by putting him into another state altogether.

Job didn't see that. Job thought if he gave things and was kind and generous - but he did nothing to change them. The orphan remains an orphan, the widow remains the widow and they all remained as they were. They were fed from this generous table, but all remained what they were before they were fed. Don't let anyone remain what he was after you see his need. You see him differently - pull him out of his state and put him in another. Poor man, it is so easy to put your hand in your pocket and say: "Here's a dollar." It's so easy, but to see him gainfully employed and to persuade yourself that he is, that he really doesn't need that dollar, is difficult. If you give him the dollar, like Job you will recount your virtues: the day you once gave a man a dollar - he didn't earn it, you gave it. So He said: I the Lord, who gave from his hand the good, also gave the evil. Who gave it? And so I say: you can forgive forever.

It's fun giving, but it's far better if you still give to him by transforming him in your mind's eye and see him not in need. If men were not in need, what a balloon would be broken, starting with our government. Just imagine if they were not in need, for then their own claims to us, across the face of our country, and on radio and TV, how generous they are because they are giving balloons away. So, suppose we were not in need of balloons, what deflation of balloon personalities! If you meet someone on the street that really is in need of your dollar, switch it around that they are not in need of any of your dollars. And now you have the power, greater than the dollar, to take them from where they are and put them where they would like to be, in your mind's eye.

And now, in closing, when you read the book in the future, see the whole drama taking place in the mind of Job. It didn't take place between three friends and the fourth one who was brought in and Jehovah and all the others. The whole thing takes place in Job. This argument portrays Job himself as the accuser and the accused. So as you read it in the future, see only one being playing all the parts, and it is Job - you - and he is in conflict with himself, and at the very end he is integrated. He is torn apart between the one accusing him and the one defending his rights, but suddenly he becomes an integrated soul. At that moment of complete integration where there is no one but himself, he finds God. For God becomes him that he may become God, who is sunk in us. The confusion goes on until finally there is no other to whom we can turn.

The whole thing was contained within us, and at that moment of perfection he appears seemingly coming from without. He doesn't come from without at all, for when you look at him he looks just like you, and so you see, he really isn't coming from without. He appears to, but really he is coming from within and gives the appearance of coming from without that you may see what you look like. "I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes have seen Thee."

Q. What would have happened to Job if he had not prayed for his friends?

A. Then he would not have known concerning the state. He would not have known he was only in a state at any moment of time when he was complaining. He could deliver those from their state, but it wasn't Jehovah who did the praying. Jehovah said to them: "Ask Job to pray for you." So who is Jehovah? As Blake said: "When Jesus Christ arose from the dead he became Jehovah."

See the Bible through the eyes of Blake. In Blake's engravings, when the left foot is forward, he uses the devil. And in the state of love it becomes a man, but the foot becomes a cloven hoof. When God is speaking in the most marvelous way, the right foot is forward; the other place, the left foot is forward. The left foot is the state which is doubt. So the symbolism is perfect with Blake in his illustration. But for sheer beauty of English, read the book. What English! Carlyle said it is the greatest piece of literature of all time. Tennyson said of it: "It is the greatest poem ever written." Luther - who gave us a great religion when he broke away at the beginning of the reformation - claims it is the most magnificent book of all scripture. So, he makes extravagant claims for the Book of Job. But for sheer beauty of English read the book. You are Job. I am Job, and when you ask these things: "Why did it happen to me?" - not only physical things but the loss of a friend, loss of a child. What is more heart-breaking than a father who has raised a child and loved that child, and hopes he will transcend him in time, and will leave an estate for him - to go to the graveside and bury him? And he buries him, the same way Job lost his estate, lost everything, and his ten children all snuffed out. But the play is taking place in him. In the very last chapter, not only they all came in the very end after he was redeemed - his brothers and sisters, all of his friends of old came to sympathize and to comfort him for the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. His seven sons and his three daughters were there, yet in the first chapter they were dead. In the last chapter they were there.

Messages from Water

2007-07-12T08:25:00.000-04:00

Messages to You from Masaru Emoto

2005-09-04 Urgent Message from Masaru Emoto

A message for all the ‘water friends’ in the world

My thoughts in regards to the Hurricane ‘Katrina’:
We must learn more about water.

As I write this message on this day, September 4, 2005 (Japan Time), the aftermath of Hurricane ‘Katrina’ has worsened and is now predicted that ‘Katrina’ may have taken about 10,000 lives - my thoughts and prayers go out to all of those affected. In addition, for those of you who are, on a daily basis fighting death looming about, I would like to send my encouragement, “Please be patient, you will all be saved - you are all Americans.”

The tsunami that attacked the coast along the Indian Ocean late last year following the major earthquake that hit Indonesia was an unpredictable catastrophe. For the people in the developed world, the news about this crisis was a sad occurrence in a far away developing country.

However, Hurricane Katrina was something that was predicted and still ended up as a huge catastrophe - in the 21st century, where all technological advancement seemed to have reached its peak, and in a developed country such as the United States.

The above two major natural disasters occurred in a developed and developing country: at the different ends of the spectrum, and under predicted and unpredicted circumstances. However, the reason for all the death that occurred in these two instances was the same: water. What can be said I believe, is that whether it’s a developed or developing country or whether it was predictable or not, we, as a whole, are terribly ill equipped to handle this type of an emergency situation. I have researched as to why this has happened, and how we can prevent the reoccurrence of such tragedies and would like to share those thoughts with you here.

In the Japanese newspaper, ‘Yomiuri Shinbun’ (a daily newspaper which has a circulation of over 10 million and is the biggest in the world), the following article was reported on the 30th of December 2004.

Copyright (c) DigitalGlobe/HitachiSoft
http://hitachisoft.jp/fukkyushien/kalutara.html (in Japanese)

To my surprise, in the aerial picture of the tsunami that attacked the coast of Sri Lanka that accompanied this article, when looked closely, a figure that clearly resembles a dragon can be seen amongst the waves.

The title of the article: ‘The Rampage of the Dragon God”. In Japan, dragons have long been worshipped as the god for water. In other words, this article is expressing that the irony of the tragedy that hit the coast of Indonesia on the 26th of December, was a result of the God of water, the dragon, expressing its anger.

However, as a researcher of water, I felt that this expression was completely justified. What I mean by this is that water is essential for the sustenance of life; however, for how long have us humans been ignorant about water? Answer: Forever, and do not know anything about water. I don't think that it is an exaggeration when I say that people are really, ‘ignorant’ when it comes to water.

For instance, some of the questions are such things as: why can’t we survive even for a single day if we were denied of water; why do ice float in water (with other substances, the solid weight is heavier than its liquid form so will always sink to the bottom); why are there things such as surface tension (theory) and capillary phenomenon; why is water its heaviest when the temperature is at 39.2 degrees Fahrenheit; how can water dissolve anything; how can water change its state interchangeably from its solid, liquid and gas form? Although these questions can be answered scientifically, the root of the mystery has not been uncovered in an adequate fashion.

Speaking of humans, we are all composed of mostly water. When we are just a tiny fertilized egg, the water content is at 96 percent. A newborn has about 80 percent, and at the adult stage, we are composed of about 70 percent water. Therefore, it can be said that physically speaking, we are mostly water.

Despite these facts, we still do not know anything about water; thus meaning that we really do not understand who we really are. Although we no longer protest the fact that, ‘water is the source for all things’ (which was taught by the Greek philosopher, Thales, about 4000 years ago), and understand the importance of water, we really do not understand the essence of it.

The dragon, the God of water, probably wants to say, “You humans! When are you going to try to start understanding the essence of water, your birth mother? Contrary to this, all you do is not only ignore water but worse, pollute it! I am angry now….!”

As I have mentioned previously, although it seemed that technologically speaking, we have reached our peak (in development), if we do not understand the essence of water, can we really say that? The answer is a clear ‘NO’.

Then why are we so behind in the scientific knowledge surrounding water? That is because under the traditional measuring methods, water could not be measured. Why is this, I hear? Firstly, what I can say is that this is because water is actually not from this planet. NASA and the University of Hawaii reported this information in the month of May and August 1997. Simultaneously, both NASA and the crew from the University of Hawaii reported that all the water on Earth actually came from outer space in the form of ice comets.

The issue here is that although we were able to obtain such important information, no one really deduces from that point and take it seriously. This information was reported over 8 years ago; however, to my knowledge, I have not heard a single meeting of any sort to further understand the importance of this finding. How could this be? This is because if this finding was accepted, then all the theories that have been ‘discovered’ in modern science in the past will be nullified. This is particularly because if this theory is accepted as a fact, then it means that us humans really came from outer space. Furthermore, this forces our thinking to leave the parameter of science and then enter the realms of ‘God’ or other spiritual reasonings, which, is one of most despised thought process (or theory) by scientists.

I believe that the attitude towards this news was to ignore it for the time being and is better untouched. Therefore, the research in regards to water is taking the back seat, and the knowledge and skills needed to combat these natural disasters occurring around the globe is not adequately developed.

There was another pertinent information in the newspaper article that announced this finding by NASA. That is: “The ice comets are about 100 tons and about 10 million of them hit the earth every year. It can be predicted that this will continue for a long time as it has in the past since the birth of the planet Earth.”

If this is true, it is a major finding. In the distant future, this planet will be full of water and no land will remain. In that instance, many more water related disasters will occur around the globe. At the same time that this hurricane attacked the U.S., flooding started to occur in some of the European countries that were close to the Danube River. What’s more, due to the steady increase in global warming, the ice glaciers are melting on both ‘poles’, and is swallowing not only the uninhabited small islands but are starting to consume some of the islands where people already reside. What I can theorize is that this Earth is now acting like a ‘full’ sponge and can no longer absorb enough water to prevent flooding and other water related disasters from occurring. Furthermore, I am seriously worried that a part of this Earth will really be consumed by water and disappear, just like in the case of the continents, Mu and Atlantis.

There is a saying in Japanese: “Water is a reflection of your heart and soul.” In the past 11 years, I have been taking countless photographs –and the technique that is utilized to take these photographs was developed in a small family owned business without all the most up-to-date equipments. Therefore, in the beginning, it was truly a challenge to create a space that was conducive to taking crystal photos. However, it lead to the researchers understanding the importance of the photographer’s emotional state and the surrounding environment when the crystal pictures are taken. This means that the saying I have introduced to you in the beginning of this paragraph is true.

For example, the beauty of these crystals is vastly different when they are taken by either a photographer that is at peace or by someone that was aggravated. Yes, when the feeling of Love and Thanks’ was sent to the water, the crystal formation was at its best. On the other hand, ugly crystals formed when the feelings of, ‘You Make Me Sick. I Will Kill You.’ was sent towards the water.

Water crytal of water that was exposed
to a label 'Love & Thanks' Water crytal of water that was exposed
to a label 'You Make Me Sick. I Will Kill You'

I am confident that through my long years of research, I understand now that harmonious and positive energy creates beautiful hexagonal shaped crystals and not for all other negative energies.

‘Water is the reflection of your heart and soul.” Based on this information, it feels like the human population is currently being questioned about their way of living so far. Are modern day people living a life on a daily basis that is full of ‘Love and Thanks’ energy? The answer is obvious: no. On the contrary, we are all immersed in fear and resentment and living a life that is full of gluttony, over consumption and worries.

If so, then the water will reflect that as well. If we do not come together and lead a life full of ‘Love and Thanks’ energy, the water will retaliate furthermore and create water related havoc on this planet and may attack your city next.

To avoid such horrible atrocity to happen to you, and to offer aide in rescuing all the people who are currently being ‘bullied’, there are several things we can do. These are: to send ‘Love and Thanks’ to your nearby water; to think about what water means to you; realize that you are water; to feel that water is not only your parents but your siblings; and approach water with much more respect.

So let’s send our energies towards our nearby or local water and for all the water in the world. If we can all come together and send this positive energy into the universe, the fury of the dragon may cool down for a little while. This is because I believe that the ‘m’ in the energy equation of the late Einstein, ‘E = mc2’ is the number of people and the ‘c’, equals consciousness.

“Water, We Love You.”
“Water, We Thank You.”
“Water, We Respect You.”

September 4, 2005
Masaru Emoto

July Fourth Afterthoughts

2007-07-06T06:56:00.000-04:00

My Declaration of Spiritual Interdependence:
God is My Infinite Good

God is my provider, there is no lack
God is my companion; I am never alone
God is my power; weakness is imaginary
God is my health; no ill can befall me
God is my freedom, nothing can bind me
God is my presence; I do not live in the past or future
God is my peace; no anger can control me
God is my certainty; insecurity is only a belief
God is my success; I cannot fail
God is my truth; appearances do not deceive me
God is my light; shadows do not frighten me
God is my ecstasy; pains and pleasures come and go
God is love; fear is not real
God is my infinite partner; I cannot be a victim
God is my employer; I am never out of work
God is my intelligence; I learn from every “mistake”
God is my contentment; complaining is gone
God is my prosperity; nothing is missing
God is my vision; I have spiritual eyes
God is my patience; everything is on time
God is my home; I am never homeless
God is my forgiveness; blame and criticism are useless
God is my comfort; pain is dissolving
God is my great mystery; I don’t have to know it all
God is my lover; rejection is a myth
God is my awareness; my brainwashing is evaporating
God is our source; I am free from judging or being judged
God is my life; death is a fantasy
God is all I could desire; I am not in want
God is my unlimited potentiality; nothing is impossible unto me
God is my imagination; I create all of my experiences
God is my reality; nothing else exists
God is our oneness, we can all have what we want
God is my infinite good; all the rest is just a story of good and evil

Power Struggles

2007-07-04T09:50:00.000-04:00

Power Struggles

Superficially speaking, we can characterize most human communications as pleasant, indifferent, or stressful. Most of the problematic communications we have can be characterized as power struggles. Most power struggles can be broken down into fight-or-flight, or attack-and-defense thinking.
What this means is that we need to go one step deeper for any kind of resolution because none of these types of communication are satisfying, and typically they get us what we don’t want. Even if you “win”, you lose.

Going a step deeper we find that all communications are fear-based or love-based. Even more accurately we can say that most human thoughts and words are anxiously loving or lovingly anxious.

Once you recognize this meaning behind the power struggle, you can relax because both parties are on the same page. We are anxious whether we attack or defend. Recognizing mutual anxiety allows one to relax, be non-judgmental and allow love to enter the picture.

While an attack-and-defense kind of thinking may appear to be necessary or advantageous, it only adds more stress and dissatisfaction in the long run. You have a choice. You can realize that this type of fight-or-flight thinking which occurs in your mind is not necessary or helpful. You can choose rather to think of this conversation as lovingly anxious. Then you are in charge. You are no longer a victim of someone else’s speech. Both the bully and the coward are in need of being able to express love, but both may be afraid to love.

A third hidden factor in all power struggles is pain. Attach and defense both arise from pain. Face your own pain and realize how you have kept it alive. That will make all of your future conversations more relaxed and loving, because you understand the depths of things. Attack-and-defense are superficial reactions, and do not come from our spirituality. When you realize that people get trapped in their own pain perceptions and do not know how to get out, you can check to be sure you know how to forgive and transcend your own pain. This step then enables you to respond rather than react to others defensive behavior. You don’t need then to judge, avoid or change the other. You can be present with understanding. Then they will see themselves in a clear mirror and be able to see what they need and want to change. You then allow the process to continue without feeling you have to fix it right now. Its okay to leave things up in the air if you have done your homework on your half of it.

We are all anxious lovers, learning through many difficult experiences to be more loving than anxious. Anyone who presents us with that challenge is the “enemy” we need to be able to love, because that enemy lives within us.

Three Agreements

2007-07-03T05:17:00.000-04:00

Dear Ones: I received the following article from Lisa Nichols and I wanted to share it as a communication technique. Dr. Joe

To live fully the life you were given -- to celebrate the divine in you -- it is so important to step up and show the world your innermost soul.

But how?

How do you bare your innermost thoughts and expressions? How do you throw aside the security blanket that's tightly wrapped around and protecting you?

How do you share you with me?

You create what I call a "safe space" with a family member, friend, or coworker. With this person you make the following "three agreements," and then you have a conversation.

Agreement 1: No Judgment

We walk around judging each other, judging ourselves, and receiving judgment all the time. Agree that in this space with each other, there will be no judgment of the other.

And reserve all judgment of yourself, which means you will not beat yourself up for anything you've said or anything you've done. You'll just love yourself through the conversation.

Agreement 2: No Repercussions

What is said in this safe space stays there.
Never use anything said against the other later. If you do bring something up later, you bring it up only -- only -- to lift the other up.

Agreement 3: Unconditional Love

The key word here is "unconditional." While we may love each other and never stop loving each other, so often we stop "showing" each other love.

In this safe space you must agree that no matter what comes up, no matter what comes out, you continue to show the other unconditional love. That means you will not play "love take away."

Love take away is when we stop speaking to each other when we're in the same house...
Love take away is when we go behind closed doors, because the other person says something we disagree with... Love take away is when we make ourselves unavailable, because the other person is being unlovely and unlovable.

Unconditional love says love me when I'm "lovely" and love me when I'm "unlovely."
You may not like who I'm being in the
moment. And you may need to hold me
responsible... but don't stop loving me.

No judgment. No repercussions. Unconditional love.

Use these three agreements to take your relationships to the next level -- and to express your innermost soul! Let your divine light shine!

I love you,

Lisa Nichols

Three Propositions

2007-07-01T11:59:00.000-04:00

Neville Goddard, 1954

THREE PROPOSITIONS

Well, my first proposition is this one. The individual state of consciousness determines the conditions and the circumstances of his life. The second proposition is that man can select the state of consciousness with which he desires to be identified; and the third follows naturally--therefore, man can be what he wants to be.

If the first proposition is true that the individual's state of consciousness is the sole cause of the phenomena of his life, then the normal, natural question that is asked "Why doesn't he change it to a more desirable state if he could change it?"Well, that is not as easy as it appears.

Today we hope to give you a technique to make it easier but man finds it very hard to leave the things to which he has grown accustomed. We are all grown stuck in the habitual. It may seem strange but a very sordid cartoon appeared years ago, that is during the last war; you might have seen it, it came out in the
"New Yorker" and it was one by George Price. In it is one single little room, a sink piled high with unwashed dishes, plaster falling from the walls, and these two middle-aged people, she sitting on a chair reading a letter,
disheveled, matted hair, and he with torn clothes and feet stuck upon the table and socks exposing holes, and the caption of the picture is this. She is reading a letter fromher soldier son abroad: "He says he's homesick."
Now you should see the interior of this house--one room, completely disheveled-but the lad was homesick!

Now man finds it difficult to detach himself from the habitual; so this morning we have brought you these three propositions, and I hope I canmake it clear that you can with this knowledge apply it so that you can realize your every objective. It is the height of folly to expect changes to come about by the mere passage of time,
for that which requires a state of consciousness to produce its effect could not be effective without such a state of consciousness. So if I must be in the consciousness of the thing that I amseeking before I find it, then
the only thing to do is to acquire that state of consciousness. Most of us do not even know what we mean by state of consciousness. To those who are here for the first time it is simply meant by state of consciousness the sumtotal of all that a man believes and accepts and consents to as true.

Now it need not be true; it may be, but it need not be true, it could be false, it could be a half truth, it could be a lie, it could be a superstition, it could be a prejudice, but the sum total of all that a man believes constitutes his state of consciousness. It is the house in which he abides, and as long as he remains in that
house similar problems will confront him, the circumstances of life will remain the same. He may move physically across the ends of the earth but he will encounter similar conditions; he can't get away from the house in which he abides. The Bible speaks of these houses as mansions of the Lord, it speaks of them as
cities, it speaks of themas rooms, as upper rooms, all kinds ofwords are used to describe individual states of awareness. And the appeal in the Bible is always to move out and occupy the upper story, meaning to move up to a higher levelwithin one's self.

Now, if you do not know the state in which you abide, it's a very simple technique you may employ to discover that state: for the man dwelling in a state, and we all dwell in states, could easily discover the state by listening within himself and observing his own internal mental conversations, for the state is singing its own
song and it reveals itself in man's inner speech. If you will listen attentively and uncritically to what inwardly you are saying, you will discover the state. And it will not surprise you that things are as they are for you will hear within yourself the cause of the phenomena of life. So that what you are inwardly saying and doing is far nore important than what you outwardly know or seemingly outwardly express; so when a man knows what inwardly he is doing then he can change it. If you have never uncritically observed your reactions to life; if you are totally unaware of your subjective behavior, then you are unaware of the cause of the things in your
world. But if you become aware of the state, then you simply go about changing it.
Now here is a technique I have found most helpful and I find that it works like a miracle; anyone can do it. I know that some of you here possibly come from extreme orthodox walks of life and it may seem strange to you even to be here, but I assure you you are not alone, many of your leaders in the orthodox field seek an
audience with the speaker; many a rabbi has been in my home, many a priest, and many a Protestant leader.

Many of them. They come to my home for interpretations of the book that publicly they wouldn't dare give any interpretation other than the most extreme literal interpretation. So don't be surprised if you hear things here that might startle you; your leaders are startled; but this is a technique I have found most helpful.
First of all, man stands forever in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy, from which energy all things proceed but it follows definite patterns: it just doesn't move out of man and crystallize in things in some strange haphazard manner. It follows a definite track and the track it follows is laid down by the man himself
in his own internal conversations. So though man is called upon to change his thinking that he may change his world, for we are told "Be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind", man can't change his thinking unless
he changes his ideas for he thinks from his ideas. So if I would change and become transformed, I must lay new tracks and the tracks I lay are always laid down in my own internal conversation. So what am I saying
now when seemingly I am alone? I can sit in that chair, or stand here, or walk the streets and I can't stop talking. Man does not realize that he is talking, because he is never still enough to listen to the voice speaking within himself, but inwardly he is whispering what outwardly is taking place as conditions and circumstances.

Most of the things he whispers are negative in justifying his behavior. There is no need to justify. He is excusing delay or excusing failure, or he is arguing, or he is judging harshly or he is condemning. Many of us have secret affection for hurts: we don't want to be liked by certain people; we just wouldn't like it if they
liked us. We just don't want certain things to take place in our world even though they may bring a greater comfort and a greater satisfaction. Man has a peculiar, strange feeling, a little affection for the feeling of being unwanted or the feeling of being hurt, and he likes to talk about it. Well, try to pull that man out of that
habitual state: it would be just as difficult as to keep that soldier boy away from that sordid room; he goes back into the sordid rooms within himself. You don't see dishes unwashed within your self, but if you could only see the internal psychological state in which most of us abide, we would see a room far dirtier than the one that George Price illustrated in the "New Yorker" magazine. They are all unwashed plates within us: on the outside we wash thembut we are told in the Bible, we leave the inside unwashed and we become whited sepulchers.

Now, if I sincerely desire to change my world there is no one inmy world I need change but myself, so that I don't need to change you as an individual but I do need to change my attitude towards you. If you dislike me or if I think you dislike me, or if your behavior offends me, the cause of my offense is not in you and your
behavior but I must look for that cause within myself. Now if I seriously and I am honest about my search, I will find it and I will find that inwardly when I think of you it is never a pleasant conversation that I carry on with you. So let me sit down now and bring you before my mind's eye, and as I bring you before the mind's
eye let me imagine a conversation which would imply a radical change in my world; let me bring you up and change my attitude toward you by laying new tracks relative to you.

These tracks will then become the tracks across which this eternal energy will pour, an energy which is only thinking; moving across the tracks laid down inmy own inner conversations will result in changes in my outer world. Now, if I repeat the conversations and do it more often, then it becomes a habit and I will find that
when I am about my Father's business in the outer world I am inwardly through habit carrying on these changed and lovelier conversations. Now, a transformation of consciousness will definitely result in a change of environment and conditions. But I mean transformation of consciousness, I do not mean a slight alteration
of consciousness like a change ofmood.

It is nice to change a mood from some unlovely to a lovely, but I want a transformation and by transformation I mean that when one state into which I have moved and move so often that it becomes a habit and that state grows stable, so that it expels from my consciousness all of its rivals, then that central habitual state defines my character and really constitutes my new world. It spells out a transformation, but if I only do it a little bit and return to my former state, then I might have had a temporary lift but I will not notice radical changes in
my outer world. I will notice these changes in my outer world if inwardly I have truly changed. Then without effort onmy part I will find the outer world changing to correspond to the changes that took place withinme.

So you bear it in mind, I can't stress it too often, I can't give it too great importance, this wonderful thing called man's ability to talk within himself and without the aid of anyone in the world, sitting alone at home you can construct a sentence which would imply the fulfillment of the ideal; you can construct a sentence which would imply that a friend I blessed that she has realized her objective, that the thing you know she wants she has. So what would she say to you had she realized it? Well, you listen attentively as though you heard and
you will really hear if you are still enough you will hear as coming fromwithout what really you are whispering fromwithin yourself.

Man is this wonderful temple in which all the work takes place and the outer world is only a projection of the work done within himself. This, called present man, unfortunately is asleep. It is told us so beautifully in the Bible that Adam slept, in the second chapter ofGenesis. He was placed into a profound sleep from which he
has not been awakened. There is no reference in the Bible where Adam was ever awakened from his sleep but there is a reference where he awoke but not as Adam; he awoke as a second man called Christ Jesus. So in Christ they awake: in Adam all sleep, but a man who is totally unaware of the mental activity that goes on
within him is the one who sleeps as Adam: he doesn't know it. He walks with his eyes wide open, he may be a very important person in the world, he may be wealthy, he may be famous, he may have all the things that you admire, but if he is totally unaware of that mental activity which is the cause of the phenomena of his life,
that man is sound asleep and he is personified as Adam. And he will read his Bible and think it is a literal story; he will read where Adam was put to sleep and from
Adama rib was taken and a woman was formed called Eve, but when a man begins to awake he realizes that this symbolical Eve of the Bible is only his own emanation now called by the name of nature. And nature is his slave, and must fashion life about him as he fashions it within himself. But if he is asleep, he fashions it in
confusion, but he fashions it anyway, for he uses the very technique that his Father used to build a world. He uses speech, he uses inner talking, and that's how this whole vast world was brought into being; so he uses the same technique, he has speech and he has mind, but in the state of sleep he brings about strange
conditions, and he doesn't know he's the cause of the strange things round about him. As he begins to awake, then he awakes only as one being, he awakes as Christ Jesus and the being called Christ Jesus personified in our Gospels is simply the awakened, loving imagination.

Imaginative love where only love guides it is incapable of hearing anything but the lovely. When that being begins to awake he doesn't see things in pure objectivity, he sees everything subjectively related to himself. He is incapable of meeting a stranger; he may meet one for the first time but he knows it is not really a
stranger, that the man had no power to come into his world save he from within himself drew him. "No man comes unto me save I call him;" "No man takes away my life, I lay it downmyself": "You didn't choose me, I have chosen you". Though you seemingly come now for the first moment inmy life, you still didn't choose me,
I have chosen you. I see then every being subjectively related to myself. So in that state you become incapable of hurt, you've overcome all the violence that formerly you've expressed in the world when you were asleep. There is no condemnation to the sleeping man, he is dreaming confusion because he doesn't know who he is: but he begins to awake by such techniques as given you this morning.

If you take this technique and you try it consciously, for here I am appealing not to the passive mind that passively surrenders to appearances, I am appealing to the Christ in you which is the active conscious use of your lovely imagination. So when you sit down and you predetermine what you want to hear and you listen until you hear it, and you refuse to hear anything other than that, then you are using the one power in the world that awakens a man and you are using your lovely imagination, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory."

Here is a lady this past week; she has heard the story of revision; her husband calls her and it's a big deal, it runs into a fortune, he had sent off 600 feet of film to Acme and they've returned the film, only the first 300 were good. The second three were duds, as they call it, not a thing was on it, a complete blank. Yet they
were up against time, that 600 feet of filmhad to be on a plane headed for Chicago in the immediate present, less than twelve hours away, it had to be there, that was the contract, and 300 feet of film taken, no sound appeared, with the whole thing a blank. She sat down when her husband called her, desperately called her: she sat on the bed just where she had received the call, put the receiver up, and sat in the silence until she heard within herself that phone ringing and across that wire the same voice, but now not an anxious voice but a tender loving voice, which was her
husband, explaining that the whole thing had been resolved, they had found what seemingly they had lost forever. She sat in the silence for one hour and ten minutes, and there she listened and she listened until her whole body became still in hearing only what she wanted to hear. And an hour and ten minutes later while still in the silence the phone rang; it's her husband calling to say that Acme just called himto explain and excuse themselves, it was their mistake, they had found the missing 300 feet of film. And there was not a dud, it wasn't a blank, the whole thing was perfect.

Now the average person, not ,knowing this law of revision or even those knowing it, would have accepted as final the evidence of sense and receiving news that seemed so factual they would have gone into a stew, bawled out Acme and pulled all kinds of wires to correct it. But she heard and she acted upon it, and that's what I mean when I tell you that a little knowledge if you carry it out in action will be far more profitable than much knowledge which you neglect to carry out in action.

Others heard the art of revision: have you acted upon it? Did you last night allow the sun to descend upon your wrath? Did you sleep last night with any trouble, any vexation unresolved? Or did you last night truly go to bed having resolved every vexation and trouble of the day? All the little problems, each one must be
resolved, you rewrite the play. If you didn't rewrite yesterday's events and make them conform to the ideal you wish you had experienced, then you heard but you aren't a doer. And so you are told in the Bible, "Would that ye be doers of the word and not mere hearers only." For if you are a hearer and not a doer, then
you are like a man who sees his face in the glass and turns and straightway forgets what manner ofman he is. But if you are a doer and not a forgetful hearer, then you shall be blessed with the deed, for you will look into the law of liberty and you will liberate yourself and liberating yourself you shall be blessed with the deed.
For those of you who are Bible students and want to check it, read the Book of James. You will find that story in the first chapter of the Epistle of James, where he looks in and liberates himself--well she liberated herself by listening until she heard exactly what she wanted to hear, and she heard it one hour and tenminutes
later. Now the majority of people I say they would not have acted upon it: through habit they would have gone into a stew; they would have fumed and fretted, and that very day had he brought home the negative news that undoubtedly he would have, they both would have slept allowing the sun to descend upon their
wrath.

But now you know that there's not a thing on the outside to change, that first proposition is true, that the man's state of consciousness, which simply means all that he accepts, all that he believes, all that he consents to, that and that alone is the cause of the phenomena of his life. Man can change his state of consciousness
and therefore man can determine the conditions of his life. But the passage of time will not in itself do anything; time is only a facility for changes in experience but it cannot produce the change. It is simply that which allows changes to take place, but it can't produce them. Space gives us the facility for experience and
time for changes in experience, but of themselves they do nothing. We must operate the power, and so the individual if he doesn't become the operator then he willwait in vain.

So no one here this morning, in fact no one coming here through the year should ever allow himself to blame another, ever allow himself to justify failure, for he is only betraying his own lack of the use of this law. Anyone that you listen to who is complaining of a third party, he has no idea how he is betraying himself, he is
telling you of his own unwashed dishes within himself, but he doesn't know it. He thinks it is in the one that he is now judging, but as he talks to you listen attentively and see what must be washed within him and you aid
him.

In your own mind's eye rewrite that script that you heard and when you leave him just imagine you heard a more lovely conversation than the one you did hear. Just rewrite it for himand in some strange way lift him up within you, for that's your task; it's my task. We aren't here to condemn, we are here to redeem; having awakened we have found Christ in us as our own imagination and so our duty, as it is said Christ's duty is to do the will of him that sent me and the will of him
that sent me is that "Of all that he has givenme I should lose nothing", but I shall raise it up again and I raise it up by encountering someone and then finding him down I raise him up 'within myself '. I simply hear what I want to hear from him. Now my voice you are hearing this morning, you could take the tone, listen attentively and you will hear this tone within you; when you hear the tone within you, then put upon that tone the word that you want to hear and having put it upon it, listen and do not move until you hear this tone conveying these
words. But make them noble; don't take that tone and put upon it any word outside of the word which would imply a dignified, noble state, because you are not hurting anyone but self. If you take someone and you put words upon that tone or that voice, and the words do not imply a noble spirit, then you are only allowing that
being to be down within you, you are not really performing your duty.

So here this morning, believe these propositions and then having believed them, do something about it. Go out and take what we have told you concerning inner speech: it is truly the greatest of the arts. You listen and only hear what you want to hear. You take your imaginary hand and put it into the hand of a friend, the
imaginary hand of a friend, and there you congratulate him on his good fortune. If you want one to congratulate you, you allow yourself to be congratulated. You don't bend the head, you hold it high and accept the congratulation, and when you congratulate himimagine that he is fully conscious of the good that is
already his and he accepts that congratulation and make the contact real.

That is truly entering the kingdom of heaven, for you enter the kingdom and the kingdom is within you, it's not without, and you always enter the kingdom by a loving, knowing communion. You can enter the kingdom at every moment of time, ride the street car, ride the busses, and with all the talking and gossiping, you can enter the kingdom and bless a friend by just imagining the friend is with you and you are putting your hand into his and congratulating him on the good news you've heard concerning him, and listen as though he answered in kind, and in that moment you have actually blessed him. He may be a thousand miles away but from that
moment on things begin to stir within his world for you have brought about a change within the structure of his mind and every modification of the structure of a man's mind must result in corresponding outer changes.

So you bring about these lovely changes within you. Look at the testimonial--one you heard this morning; here is a pile of letters and this is really a tight, tight pile. It is one of the biggest piles I think that you have received here and this week's mail I can't begin to tell you what a thrill it is to receive, one after the other not begging for help anymore but giving praise and thanks for the principle that brought the help into their world. I can't tell you how many in the last two weeks have received an increase in income, increase of position, a better state of health; things happened because they did something about it. They were not just warming a seat here on Sunday morning and waiting for things to happen by association: they produced the thing by producing it first within themselves.
So here this appeals to men who are big enough to stand on their own feet: men who want spiritual meat and who have outgrown the milk given to sleeping man. So if you want the literal concept, you are still asleep and this really would not be the place to get it, for from this platform you are going to be given meat, spiritual
meat, for you must go out and do something about it.

If you have the greatest knowledge in the world concerning foods and you didn't eat, you would die of starvation, and so it's not the knowledge of it, it's the
application of it that counts.

July 17 at 7:11 A.M. EST: Fire The Grid!

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Be sure to read the amazing "Back From the Dead" story of Shelley Yates found today on my blog, Story for Today. Also join in for an hour of meditation and prayer on Tuesday morning, July 17, at 7:11 a.m., to participate in Shelley's "Fire the Grid" program to lift and restore the planet.

Meditation for Kids?

2007-06-28T11:32:00.000-04:00

Be sure to look at this online film about meditation and school kids!
http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/video/index.html

The Power of Creative Imagination

2007-06-27T06:49:00.000-04:00

Eight Agreements about How to Re-create your Future

1. You are an offspring of the infinite source and creator of the universe. Do you agree?
2. This Infinite Creator that we call God, imagined you into existence. Do you agree?
3. Since you are made in the likeness of this Infinite Creator, you also have a powerful creative imagination. Do you agree?
4. You are not always on a daily basis aware of the fact that you are a powerful creative force. Do you agree?
5. You are not fully aware that you have created your present set of circumstances, including what you want and don’t want. Do you agree?
6. Can you agree that your present crisis has happened for a good reason that you aren’t aware of right now?
7. Can you agree that you are willing to look for that reason, hidden in the painfulness of your present dilemma?
8. If you could re-imagine and re-create your circumstances by learning how the power of your imagination works, would you agree to go for that?

Three Kinds of Reasoning

There are three kinds of reason: the reasoning of the mind, the reasoning of the heart and the reasoning of the spirit. We know most about the reasons of the mind, because we rely most of the time on that. We know some things about the reasoning of the heart, because we have had some peak experiences there. We know least about the reasoning of the spirit,

When the reasoning of the mind fails us and the reasoning of the heart has become disillusioning, we can turn to the reasoning of the spirit. This choice may seem strange or miraculous because it is unfamiliar, but we cannot find what we want without going there.

When my client, Warren, found his spiritual reasoning awakening, he was able to say “I am not a black sheep and I don’t have to be a white sheep, and I won’t give up until I find a better choice.” Black sheep and white sheep are just labels or opinions about people who seem to disagree with us. We are all misinformed powerful creators who are not yet familiar with spiritual reasoning.
Sooner or later it becomes evident that the reasoning of the mind and the reasoning of the heart are falling short of what we really want, and we have to consciously develop our dormant power of imagination which we call the reasoning of the spirit. To our delight, we discover that the reasoning of the mind and the reasoning of the heart can then be useful in a different way which does hit the mark.

Once you activate your spiritual reasoning, you begin to see that everyone you meet is just an anxious lover like you are. You realize that many of the ineffective thoughts and communications you have been using in your mental and emotional reasoning were actually prompted by anxiety and judgments. You find out that you don’t really know this person or yourself at the level of spiritual reasoning. “I don’t know” becomes an okay place to be. It shows you are willing to learn. It’s a “let go and let God’ kind of experience. You begin to relax, your mind and heart expand, you begin to see more choices, and your powerful creative imagination begins to wake up. Your old self-limiting pattern no longer runs your life.
As long as our spiritual reasoning is dormant, we continue to tell ourselves the story that something is missing, that we could fail, or that we might be inadequate. This anxiety-ridden story sets us up to become angry victims who have to manipulate and control other people and/or circumstances to get what we want but do not have.

When we begin to awaken to the power of our creative imagination, we see that we are not abandoned, we are not lacking, and we are not trapped. New energy, light and love begin to flow as we learn to use our spiritual reasoning more consistently. Tendencies to be reactive, tired, sick or depressed begin to fall away. An expansive awareness begins to replace our habit-worn assumptions and responses. We think before we speak or act. We begin to take more responsibility for ourselves as we sense our connection to God, to nature and to everyone else. This connectedness has always been there but we did not sense it very often in our story of separateness and lack. Spiritual reasoning and awareness enable us to live in the present instead of the past or future. It begins to dawn on us that nothing is missing in life except awareness. We become like a magnet to which fulfilling experiences are drawn. We begin to realize that what we want is here already or that it just shows up synchronistically.

Walking on Water

2007-06-25T12:38:00.000-04:00

Can you walk on water? Can Chris Angel walk on water"
Take a look!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBQLq2VmZcA

Ask and You Shall receive

2007-06-16T08:31:00.000-04:00

The Scripture is very clear on the secret of how to manifest our desires:

Mark 4:8
And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

Luke 6:38
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again

Mark 11:23
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

Mark 11:24
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Mark 9:23
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

Mark 11:23
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

Matthew 21:21
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.

Luke 12:28-30
If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith? And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things

Ephesians 6:19
And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

Hebrews 4:16
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need

Hebrews 13:6
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

Matthew 4:4
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Matthew 12:36
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Matthew 21:22
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

Matthew 18:19
Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 14:7
Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.

Matthew 7:9
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

Matthew 6:8
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Matthew 7:7
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

“What have I said, what have I done, O all powerful human words!” William Blake

Fountain of Youth Exercises

2007-06-11T08:05:00.000-04:00

For an excellent brief set of renewing yogic exercises, click on the Tibetan Rites 1-5 and practice daily from this website:

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A Dangerous Book for Boys, Iggulden

2007-05-30T09:03:00.000-04:00

Every father of a boy should buy and read this book with his son...and more importantly, do this stuff!

You can buy this book for less than $20 by a British father, who says: we've become aware that the whole "health and safety" overprotective culture isn't doing our sons any favors. Boys need to learn about risk.

They need to fall off things occasionally, or--and this is the important bit--they'll take worse risks on their own. If we do away with challenging playgrounds and cancel school trips for fear of being sued, we don't end up with safer boys--we end up with them walking on train tracks. In the long run, it's not safe at all to keep our boys in the house with a Playstation. It's not good for their health or their safety.

You only have to push a boy on a swing to see how much enjoys the thrill of danger. It's hard-wired. Remove any opportunity to test his courage and they'll find ways to test themselves that will be seriously dangerous for everyone around them. I think of it like playing the lottery--someone has to say "Look, you won't win--and your children won't be hurt. Relax. It won't be you."

I think that's the core of the book's success. It isn't just a collection of things to do. The heroic stories alone are something we haven't had for too long. It isn't about climbing Everest, but it is an attitude, a philosophy for fathers and sons. Our institutions are too wrapped up in terror over being sued--so we have to do things with them ourselves. This book isn't a bad place to start.

What Everyone Wants

2007-05-29T07:52:00.000-04:00

What Everyone Wants: The Beloved

We are acting out our search for the divine father, divine mother and divine child archetypal awareness. No one can accept the dysfunctional imagery derived from parents, Hollywood and from our own contemporary Level One sensory input. The union of the trinity must somehow become real to us in our everyday experience. If he or she does not have a compatible and active mother-father archetypal imagery, the child cannot be born or live. Rather he will seek to rectify his dysfunctional imagination in thousands of anxiety-medicating ways. He will act out in ways that are symbolic of his own need to be re-born and live a second real life freely and spontaneously rather than fearfully and guiltily. .

If we are male, we assume the powerful phallic power of the father. If we are female, we assume the receptive transformative power of the womblike nurturing mother. Since we are both left-brained and right-brained, we have both archetypes alive within us. However, the overlays of our memories and societal imagery of Level One clouds over these God-given DNA archetypes.

What are our God-Given DNA Archetypes?

The mother, father and child archetypes are built into our genes. The union of these three basic archetypes is the Christ Archetype (which Jung called the Self). The Christ Archetype is the fundamental pattern of every human psyche. The Christ Archetype is written in our genes, into our DNA. The Christ or Self Archetype is inerasable, indelible, cannot be deleted, cannot be lost or stolen. The Christ Archetype is the pattern of the new man, the Universal Human, which we are all about to evolve and mutate into. If we don’t know the Christ within, we don’t know ourself.

The Christ Archetype is both personal and cosmic or universal. The personal Cosmic Christ archetype is the psychic component, the DNA Component, the pattern in us. Peter called this the hidden man of the heart. The Cosmic Christ incarnates in millions of different personal ways in individuals and groups. Krishna, Buddha and Jesus were incarnations of the Cosmic Christ Archetype. So was Lucifer, but he got it wrong, just as most of us pervert the pattern.

You aren’t sure if you got it wrong? Anxiety will tell you. Insofar as your personal incarnational behavior conflicts with your DNA Cosmic Christ archetype, you will be anxious and you will be symptomatic. Isn’t it good news to know when you are fooling yourself?

You can fool yourself some of the time, and you can fool others most of the time, but you can’t fool anxiety any of the time

What are the qualities of the Cosmic Christ archetype? Study the lives of the incarnated Christ archetypes and you will discover those qualities. Look at any person you admire most and you will find a Cosmic Christ quality there. It is our privilege to discover what these qualities are and to incarnate them.

If you admire science, is God not a scientist? If you admire love, is God not the Beloved? If you admire power, is God not omnipotent? If you admire creativity, is God not the creator? If you admire intelligence, is God not omniscient? If you admire freedom, does not Truth set us free? If you admire immortality, was not Jesus resurrected? If you admire peace, wasn’t Gandhi a man of peace? If you admire genius, wasn’t Einstein a man after God’s own thoughts? If you admire art, wasn’t Blake a visionary? If you admire music, wasn’t Beethoven listening to the cosmic sound-waves?

Each person’s mission in life is to incarnate or embody some quality of the Christ Archetype and to recognize and honor the other qualities of the universal pattern in our teammates.

Just as sunlight can be broken down through a prism into the rainbow, so the Christ Archetype has thousands of shades. Enjoy the process of finding a Christ quality in each person you meet, however hidden it may be. Whoever you meet is the Christ standing before you, awaiting recognition. Whoever you meet is an anxious lover just as you are.

Our task is to remember. What we want is to re-live this ancient memory. The Christ comes to revive that memory of the Divine Father and the Divine Mother. The Father is the Spirit, the Mother is creation. The father is above and within, the mother is below and without. Awareness of the universe and its source, then, allows the divine child to be born. Jesus united with the Father and the mother universe was birth-giving to his miraculous power. The Universe is our mother. It is what we call Matter. Matter is spirit in form. Every created thing is your life-giving mother. Mother Earth is a symbol of the divine mother.

In terms of a dream sequence, we must first dream of eating good food, a symbol of the Divine Mother presence. Secondly, we must dream of receiving a gift of plenty of money, the Divine Father presence. Third, we must dream of new clothing, which is symbolic of the birth of the Divine Child.

Power has been given to us, through the coming of the Holy Spirit. Love has been given to us through the mercy and forgiveness of the Father. Clothing has been given to us through our putting on the robe and new being of the Cosmic Christ.

People spend their whole lives trying to get enough food, money and clothing outwardly. Trying to get enough approval (mother) and support (father) to be free to live on Level Two.

The mother is form, the father is the energy within the form. You are never without either form or energy. The child is awareness. The mother is the universe, the father is the power source that runs the universe. The mother is seen (visible) , the father is not seen (invisible). The child is both seen and not seen. The child is the awareness of what the form and the energy mean.

If the child does not see the infinite goodness of the mother universe and its father energy, he does feel safe to be born, create, have adventures, cooperate, live freely and lovingly. Rather he will feel anxious, unnatural, out of sync, victimized, competitive, jealous and angry. He will feel out of touch with self, with the universe, with nature, with God, and especially with people. He will feel alone and isolated, victimized and stuck. He will feel that the whole world is conditional. He wants the unconditional but he cannot believe it exists.

He wants the awareness that there is a greater unconditional oneness than he currently understands. The Father/Mother/ Child unity does exist and that is what everyone wants to experience. This union exists on Level Two in actuality and on Level One symbolically.

The Single Cause of Human Suffering

2007-05-24T12:45:00.000-04:00

The Single Cause of Human Suffering

Every single thing in your life right now... in your bank account, in your relationships, in your health and fitness, intellectually, emotionally, spiritually... is your quantum creation. It's a direct measurement of where you've put your intention and attention. James Ray

People are literally starving for this knowledge, killing for this knowledge, barely surviving due to this lack of knowledge. Anxiety is directly due to the lack of this knowledge.

• What is the main cause of death? Illusion.
• What is the main cause of unhappiness and suffering? Illusion.
• What is the main cause of war? Illusion.
• What is the main cause of divorce? Illusion.
• What is the main cause of crime? Illusion.
• What is the main cause of illness? Illusion.
• What is the main cause of depression and suicide? Illusion
• What is the main cause of anxiety. worry, and fear? Illusion.

Our entire identity problem arises due to our attachment to Level One illusions and that is why our immune system and symptoms are subject to dysfunction.

World hunger, illiteracy, and addiction all arise from the single cause of illusion. All human suffering arises from the single illusion that we don’t have what we want.

The illusion that we are separate from God, from the universe, from each other, from nature and from abundance is the direct cause of suffering. It is astounding to even theorize that all human suffering arises from one common unsuspected source: illusion.

What is the illusion that produces all of these symptoms? The illusion is that we are separated from God, from the Infinite Good, from all that we want.

This sense of separation, deprivation and victimization is a natural consequence of Level One perception.

Someone said to me: God doesn’t give us more than we can handle! I said “You mean that God doesn’t give us more bad than we can handle. What about more good?”

Of all the probable causes of suffering, illusion is the worst and the best. The worst because it is hardest to see, and the best because it is the simplest to remedy.

The Good News is that all we have to do is wake up and see reality. The Bad News is that we are blind, deaf and dumb and don’t know it.

Why are We Angry?

The key question for the men of this world is why are we angry. The reply might be why shouldn’t we be angry! The problem is that only the first question will lead to the answer. This journey from the question to the answer, however, must pass through the anxiety barrier, similar to the gravity barrier astronauts must pass through to get to outer space. If we do not confront our anxiety barrier, we will not understand the source of our anger; rather we will spend our days justifying this anger and blaming various people and circumstances for it. All of the anger and violence that we see in the world is due to the unwillingness of the male to face the meaning of his anxiety barrier and to go through it, for only there will he find sufficient reason to give up the anger.

In brief, anger arises from frustrated desire. Anger arises from the belief that someone is depriving me of my good. Anger arises from the intention to make someone feel guilty for depriving me of my good. Anger arises from the illusion, the delusion, the false belief that I am not one with God , the Infinite Good. Anger arises from the lack of control that I feel when my wants are not met as I expect.

The Secret is that you can have whatever you consistently want for the good of all.

Anger would be justified if….

I were not a god
I were not infinitely blessed
I did not have awareness
If I were my ego
If I was or could be a victim
If I was truly ignorant of truth
If happiness was not my nature
If I were not free to choose
If anyone could hurt me
If I did not have unlimited resources, imagination and creativity
I could wake up from this nightmare right now
If God was not my banker and business partner
If the Divine Mother was not with me
If I was not being fed, supported, and guided every moment

But since none of life’s fearful illusions are true, there is no justification for any anger whatsoever and the so-called causes of violence and war have no basis in reality.

The illusions in which we are trapped on Level One are sufficient to explain the belief that we are angry victims. Only by going through the anxiety barrier of our illusions will we come to know that all things are possible, and that we have been confused and deceived. The chief illusion that keeps us locked into anger and violence is that we are not one with the Infinite Good. The five senses tell us that there is no such thing as the Infinite Good. When we deeply understand that love is the only way through the anxiety barrier to real peace, then shall war end.

So what is this anxiety barrier that keeps us locked into our suffering and anger so that we don’t claim our rightful place in the universe as co-creators with God? What is this anxiety barrier that keeps us attached to the belief that we have very limited choices, and that we are divided and victimized. This barrier acts like a veil over our eyes, keeping us in confusion and darkness. Even though the Buddha mind of clarity and the Christ mind of love have been given to us, we continue to be stuck in ignorance. The good news is that you are not separate, not deprived and not stuck. The awareness of God is our food and medicine.

The Purpose of War is Over

This Secret Knowledge is what we have been looking for in the wrong places for generations. The lack of this Secret Knowledge has kept us in wars, poverty, jealousy, self-pity, and depression.

How do you access this Secret Knowledge? Through anxiety-recognition. Face your fears! They are nothing but illusions! They hide your godhood! They hide the godhood of all of your associates!

There is no more basis for war. It was all an illusory solution to a problem that didn’t exist. Our sons and fathers died for illusory reasons, just as we have lived for such. Freedom is already ours. Their sacrifice seemed necessary and is appreciated, but let’s not justify our errors any further. Peace is closer than breathing. If we have to be warriors, let us be Peace Warriors.

No one has lived or died without reason, purpose and meaning. That reason, that purpose, and that meaning, however, still stands before us. It is not lost. Nothing has been lost.

All will be realized. We are the generation to realize the purpose of all generations! You want the sacrifice of the warriors of all 15,000 of our past wars to be meaningful? It is meaningful and we will all see why in this generation!

Have we lived and died for no reason? Absolutely not. We may have stumbled along, made colossal errors, committed violent acts, and even served time in prison, but nothing is lost. God is not mocked. all will be saved. Prisons doors will be opened, graves will yield up their dead, hell will come to an end. Poverty and starvation will end. All wrongs will be righted. Our grand and glorious purpose has no limitations. We have yet to see the glory of our God.

All that is asked is that we open our eyes and ears. Look and listen! The message will be clear. It will not be missed by anyone. It is not too late. This is the time of our realization. We have all gathered here at this propitious time for a glorious purpose…for the giant step of all mankind, for a liftoff into Universal Humanity, a new species, promised to us from the beginning. A New Jerusalem! The Tree of Life! The Second Coming of the Cosmic Christ! Not the 2008 elections, which would be just more of the same.

If this isn’t a stretch of our imagination, what is?

Of all the pessimists, I am the worst. Of all the optimists, I am the most extreme. Now be honest, isn’t this vision what you want?

Hellfire and brimstone havcn’t worked because they aren’t true, any more than war is true. The fear of death and punishment is not enough to change us. Violence has not worked. War has not worked. Fear has not worked. Only love and wisdom work. God is love and wisdom. We don’t have 1000 more lifetimes to learn the truth of this. The time is now. I do not permit one more pessimistic thought to dwell in my mind. I do not see another victim in my world. If Good is Infinite, how can I justify one more pessimistic thought?

The Gaia Project: 2012

Mr. Yang of Korea has written The Gaia Project: 2012 to aid us in preparing for the Great Change of 2012. Those who are ready for this inevitable fifth-dimensional graduation from earth will make the transition more easily than those who are still highly attached to the materialistic worldview. In his discussion of the Gaia Project, he brings some great insights into the purpose of earth in the galaxy as a school for learning about our spiritual nature.

But time is up and we are going to graduate, ready or not, in the near future. A crash course is now in order. We will be going through many catastrophes, social chaos, natural disasters, and upheavals, all for the highest purposes imaginable. We will soon be departing from Mother Earth in spaceships for various stars, dependent upon our achieved level of enlightenment.

We will be separating from thousands of years of reincarnating here. Reincarnation is now over. These changes cannot b stopped, changed or postponed, There will be no safe place on planet earth by which we can escape these changes. We are all going to be united with our Origin, our spiritual source. We will have new bodies geared to much higher frequencies. We will be involved in many cooperative world-building ventures.

Be sure to read Yang’s book. My website is devoted to methods of developing an expanded awareness by letting go our ego stories in preparation for this new world now descending upon us.

Meditate or Medicate!

2007-05-20T08:48:00.001-04:00

Meditate So you Don’t have to Medicate!

We medicate because we feel like victims. Meditation reveals (1) that you are one with it all, and (2) that the victim belief in separation is so anxiety-producing that you will either meditate or medicate. Which will you choose? Medication will keep you bound to the merry-go-round of the villain-victim-rescue wheel. Meditation will free you from any such delusions and illusions.

Medication keeps you on Level one; meditation releases you so that you can rise to Level Two. Medication dulls your awareness that you are not alone, that you are not deprived and that you are not stuck. Medication is designed to dull your anxiety-recognition and reinforces the belief that anxiety is a problem. When you meditate you come face to face with your anxiety directly, and you realize it is just a veil over consciousness. You face your own programming directly without the screen of daily dramas designed to mislead you into thinking that you are seeing reality. When you close your eyes, you see your drama directly, you see that it is a product of your own mind. You relax. How can you be a victim of mere thoughts!

Who is the Christ?

2007-05-13T06:21:00.000-04:00

In the East if someone says “God and I are one” , people respond “Good, its about time you finally realized that”. But in the West, we are shocked and clamor for the idiot to be put to death.

The story of Jesus and his mystery teaching about our divine identity and unity was complicated by the messianic expectation. For centuries people had looked for a world savior, for a messiah, for one who would end suppression and slavery. In the 6th century BC, many illumined ones had appeared: Zoroaster, Buddha, Mahavira. Lao Tsu, Confucius and Pythagoras.

By the first century, both Jews and Gentiles, including Virgil, were predicting the emergence of a world savior. Jesus struggled with this concept in his desert temptations, and emerged victorious after 40 days of sensory deprivation, when he said “Get thee behind me, Satan, my kingdom if not of this world!”

His kingdom would be the knowing that God dwells within each person. Other voices had joined him, as when Socrates came to fulfill the philosophical school of the Sophists and instead destroyed it with dialectical inquiry. Nietzsche came to fulfill a certain strain of classicism and reconstructed it beyond all recognition. Marx came to extend Hegel and instead turned him upside down. Jesus, the rabbi, came to fulfill the law and the prophets and proceeded to cause a schism that the world may never hear the end of.

Jesus taught that the indwelling God - as God-Son, Son of Man, Christ or Logos-- is the unique expression within us of the universal parent-being. Christos, or the anointed one, is the one who realizes who he or she really is. Like the Buddha, the Christ is the awakened one. Jesus concern with the indwelling of God is especially made clear in John and in the Gospel of Thomas where he said “ There is a light within a man of light and it lights the whole world. If he does not shine, he is in darkness. If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” The genius of every child must be brought forth. Children do not blossom not because of misbehavior but because they are not allowed to become who and what they are. Jesus goes on to say that he found people to be asleep and drunk. “I found them all drunk; I found none of them thirsty. They came empty and blind into this world, and would leave the same. But for the moment they are drunk. Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When you come to know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will realize you are sons of the living father. Until then, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.”

Jean Houston, Godseed.

Who Cares?

2007-05-13T05:46:00.000-04:00

So what some of you're friends and family don't
believe in your dreams!

Who cares?

So what if some people mock you for spending time
reading spiritual books, going to workshops, and trying out new things?

Who cares?

So what if some people think your success needs to happen
instantly because their life is all about instant
gratification.

Who cares?

So what if in the past you've made mistakes, you've quit on
yourself, you looked like a fool to some.

Who cares?

So what if you've made some bad business moves, followed the
wrong people, got bad advice.

Who cares?

So what if you thought you'd be further along towards your
goals by now.

Who cares!

Who cares!

Who cares!

None of that matters one bit.

Who cares about yesterday? Who cares about the past?

Your failures don't matter.

Your mistakes don't matter.

Your past doesn't matter.

What matters is what you're going to do with your future.

What will you do with your future? What will you start anew
today?

What is one thing you don't want to do today, but if you
did it would move your life or business forward?

What will you do with your greatness that demands to be
released?

What will you do with your natural strengths that beg to be
expressed?

What will you do with your inner courage that desires to
go straight through your fears?

Will you let your great inner worth and power stay asleep
or will you ignite the match called the fire within?

What will you do?

Who cares? If you do, that is all that matters!

Nothing to be Thankful For?

2007-05-07T08:59:00.000-04:00

Here are just a few interesting facts about your amazing human body for which you can be thankful:

• Your skin is your largest organ and the only one exposed to the elements.
• As a baby you had over 50% more bones than you do now.
• The majority of all your bones are in your hands and feet.
• All the blood that flows through your body is actually a liquid organ.
• The surface of your lungs is about the size of an average tennis court.
• You're made up of 100 trillion cells that do a variety of jobs.
• Standing on your head won't help you lose weight. Food still goes to your stomach.
• Your heart will beat about 3 billion times throughout your lifetime.

No one truly understands all of the many mysteries of the human body.

Consider all the other things your body does every 24 hours.

Responsibilities of the Human Body:

• Your heart beats 103,689 times.
• Your blood travels 168,000,000 miles.
• You breathe 23,040 times.
• You inhale 438 cubic feet of air.
• You eat 3 ½ pounds of food.
• You drink 2.9 pounds of liquid.
• You lose in weight 7.8 pounds of waste.
• You perspire 1.43 pints.
• You give off heat 85.6 degrees F.
• You turn in your sleep 25-35 times.
• You speak about 48,000 words.
• You move 750 major muscles.
• Your nails grow .000046 inch.
• Your hair grows .01714 inch.
• And you exercise 7,000,000 brain cells with each thought.

More!

2007-05-07T08:54:00.000-04:00

Our Inexhaustible Desire for More

We have an inexhaustible desire for more. We are greedy. We are self-centered. But that is only because we believe in a deficient universe, a withholding God, and a victim ego. Your desires for more, your greediness, and your self-centeredness are merely symbols of your unawareness of your infinity, your fullness, your wholeness, your oneness with all. If we were conscious, all sorrow, poverty, greed, hostility, war and anxiety would disappear immediately.

Use each frustrating anxious moment to awaken! That is what they are for! We are asleep, we are nightmaring, we are unconscious! Is it too much to be aware of reality? We are not aware of reality. We are only aware of our ego story projected out upon the world. What you see out there is what you believe inside! To change the world, change your thinking about the world. To change yourself, change your thinking about yourself. To find God, change your thinking about God. You will not find the universe, yourself, your other, or God without changing your mind to the Infinite Good awareness.

Why I am Hopeful, by Barbara Marx Hubbard

2007-05-07T06:42:00.000-04:00

http://www.evolve.org/pub/doc/media_inspirations.html#

Listen to this brief inspirational message from Barbara, which says: I am hopeful because of the nature of our universe, which is alive, connective, and constantly reorganizing itself. Whatever the mother universe is, we are. Let us pay attention to the universe and to oursselves. Let us notice that in the evolution of the universe there are a series of jumps. We are involved in one of the grandest jumps right now. These quantum changes will not stop here. The universe is evolving as us. We are not alone.

More on Barbara Marx Hubbard's vision of Humanity's Future

2007-05-06T10:59:00.000-04:00

http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/1996/August/10-0896.html

http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/1996/September/11-0996.html

The whole story of our birth unfolded, like a speeded-up film of the growth of a plant from bulb to bloom. I witnessed the life of our planet, from the quantum instant of its conception to the quantum instant of our collective awakening, of our birth as one body.

I felt myself tumbling through an evolutionary spiral. Each great quantum transformation was a turn on the spiral -- a radical leap to a new order of being. "I," the macrocosmic, universal I, the "I" that is "we," the "I" in each of us that was, is, and ever will be, experienced the whole story of creation as our story.

I felt the spiral unfold: the creation of the universe, the formation of the Earth, the appearance of single-celled life, of animal life, and of human life. Then we began to approach our own turn on the spiral. I saw the early religions in India, Egypt, Greece, Israel -- from Buddha to Christ -- as harbingers of the next stage of evolution. They demonstrated to us that we are higher beings, founders of the future. I saw the emergence of science as the great tool for understanding how nature works, so that we can evolve consciously with her. I saw democracy as the great liberator of human potential. I saw the explosion of the atomic bomb as the beginning of our collective labor pains. It was the signal that the Cosmic Child, humanity, could either kill itself by remaining in self-centered consciousness in the womb of Earth, or instead emancipate itself for universal consciousness and action.

The next turn on the spiral began, revealing the "synergy" of which Bucky Fuller wrote. The separate parts of humanity and Earth are coming together to form a whole that is greater than and unpredictable from the sum of its parts. Synergy feels like love, loving one another as ourselves. We are, in fact, one body! Our capacities as a whole are infinitely greater than when we are separate tribes and nations. Once our consciousness shifts from feeling separated to knowing that we are all members of one body, our vast technological genius begins to serve the growth of ourselves as one planet. And that consciousness shift can happen in the twinkling of an eye! In fact it is now happening in millions of us throughout the world.

Once our consciousness shifts collectively, of course we can restore the Earth. We can feed all people. We can control population growth. We can shift our military from "weaponry to livingry," as Bucky said. We can emancipate unique potential. We can! We can! We have the capacities to do it already, we just don't know that we can. The Cosmic Child can live. Our birth is natural. Yet we must know that we are being born, not dying, else we will not fully activate our new capacities before it is too late.

I saw the rockets as nature's seed pods of Earth-life bursting into the universe. I saw our mass media -- our planetary nervous system -- link up and report our growth, awakening all of humankind's members to their parts in the process of growth.

I realized that in the very same decade when we were learning to preserve our Earth and limit growth here, we were also stepping off the planet to begin the establishment of new worlds in space. At the same time we were also beginning to learn the language of DNA, the genetic code that designs bodies for this Earth.

We are becoming universal humans! We will have to change our bodies to live beyond this Earth for which they were designed. Naturally! New bodies will be essential in a radically new environment. Nature always creates new bodies for new consciousness, in order to transcend new frontiers: the fish, the bird, the hominids, Homo sapiens . . . and next, Homo universalis. We, too, shall evolve new bodies for new worlds, only this time it will be through conscious rather than unconscious evolution.

Astronautics, genetics, cybernetics, and nanotechnology (the ability to construct at the atomic level) are natural capacities of a universal species that is moving from its terrestrial to its universal phase. Furthermore, those powers are far too great to be contained by a biosphere, or in self-centered consciousness. They are meant for cosmic consciousness and universal action. For us to stay in this stage would be like a baby trying to remain in the birth canal. It would kill us all.

"Oh, my God!" I thought. This whole process is really the birth of a universal species. It is not a metaphor, it is an actuality. What we call "evolution" is actually an organic process that creates beings capable of evolving consciously. We are becoming conscious evolutionaries!

I saw humanity, at the next turn of the spiral, gaining the powers of co-evolution and co-creation, just as all our religions told us we would. ("Co-creation" means conscious co-operation with the process, direction, and purpose of evolution -- the implicate order of the cosmos: God.)

I saw, perhaps most fundamentally of all, that the vast effort of humanity to "be fruitful and multiply" would have to be curtailed in our generation. One more doubling of the world population will destroy our life support system. Our Mother will not support us if we continue to grow in numbers! We must stop. Where is this powerful prime energy to go? In a flash I saw it!

The energy of procreation is to be emancipated for co-creation, for chosen work, for vocation. The sexual drive to reproduce the species is now being transformed into the suprasexual drive to evolve the species. We desire to join, not only our genes but our genius, to evolve ourselves and our world. Sexuality and suprasexuality are about to merge in one great orgasmic effort to evolve!

What had happened in my own life, the search for meaningful work, was a natural extension of sexual energy. Imagine when the whole world turns on to its creative drive!

The so-called "population crisis" is a crisis of our planetary birth. The limits to growth on Earth shift us from procreation to co-creation. Creativity will be emancipated en masse. The passionate love of chosen work which Maslow discovered in all self-actualizing people is the next stage of sexuality. That's why it's going to happen! And we are going to love it as much as we love sex!

All of these thoughts flashed through my mind in a single gestalt, an integration of everything I knew. It was a kinesthetic experience of a natural set of events that is happening right now.

Then the technicolor movie stopped. It had lasted a few minutes at most. I stood alone upon the hill. Tears of joy were frozen upon my face, my heart was bursting with joy. Ask and it shall be given. Knock and doors will open. There was no outward sign of what had happened. Yet I knew it was real. It's happening now. I had seen with universal eyes. I ran home, the cold air searing my lungs and my face, to tell my children and my husband that I had to "go forth and tell the story of our birth."

Barbara Marx Hubbard

I too am Awakening

2007-05-05T08:28:00.000-04:00

I am the model for the new human. I was conceived consciously. I was born conscious. I was aware that I was a Son of God from childhood. I practiced conscious love. I chose consciously to be crucified. I consciously chose to materialize a new body more receptive to my intentions. You will do the same in the fullness of time, which is now. I resurrected and changed my body consciously and so will you. I ascended consciously and so will you. I now exist in total Christ-consciousness, which is a frequency band of awareness open to all who image themselves as me, whatever name they use.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

Buddha means awakened one. Buddha was not born awake, but he achieved it. Jesus was born awake. He stabilized and matured that awareness for all of us for all time. You and I would never know who we are were it not for such models as Buddha and Jesus. Jesus is the champion of consciousness, because he was Christed. He is what I am. He is what I am becoming. He is what I will be. I too am Christed. I am not fully aware of it yet, but that is my potential and my purpose.

We all have infinite potential. Discovering that potential is our purpose. Awakening from our programming is our task. Anxiety signals that we are not yet awake, that we do not yet see reality, that we are not yet conscious, that we are still seeing our programming, our conditioning, our trance state, our ego belief system. When we become conscious, we shall know that all is one, that our essence is eternal and unlimited. We shall be living on Level Two and grateful for everything on Level One. WE shall, as Katie says, love what is.

Must Read!

2007-05-04T09:02:00.000-04:00

The most important book to read this year is Barbara Marx Hubbard: Revelation which you can purchase as a used book now for less than $5.00 on Amazon

One Simple Act of Appreciation

2007-05-03T06:22:00.000-04:00

http://www.onesimpleact.com/

Click on this website and sign up to do one simple act today to several people!

This week we invite you to choose people to consciously "appreciate" in a way you don't normally do. Consider doing this to people you know you don't normally appreciate (friends, family members, your boss, a "cranky" co-worker). Find a time and way to appreciate them so they know you are serious and sincere. Pull this person aside and tell them in specific ways how much they mean to you, how much they inspire you, how much you care for them, how much you love them. For those people that it might be challenging to come up with reason you appreciate them... are usually the people who need it the most. Stretch yourself and find a way to make it work. It's an amazing experience.

We live in a world that is under-appreciated. I believe most people are starving for words of support, love and appreciation that they don't normally get. You will see some amazing responses when you perform this act, some might surprise you and touch you at a level you never thought possible. I can guarantee that it will touch the person you are giving it to. Make a commitment to do this for a certain number of people over the next week. It only takes a couple minutes. Login to you account and record this commitment and then consciously follow through with it. Let's see next week how many lives we touch!

One Simple Act - May 3rd, 2007

More on 2012

2007-05-01T09:33:00.000-04:00

Your Reality Map for 2012

We have been provided with a Reality Map (Level One & Level Two) for our enlightenment journey for the next five years. As far as we can determine, this journey will come to a major crossroads in 2012. It is expected that time and eternity will intersect at that time in a historical and trans-historical manner never seen before in history. Just type in 2012 on Google and do your own research about this pivotal event.

Among other sources of info about 2012, see Virgil Armstrong, http://www.2012.com.au/Site.A.html

Also see The Nostradamus Code, The Sanctus Germanus Prophecies, Michael P. Mau, PhD. Volume I: ; The Great Awakening, by Michael Shart; the Mayan Calender 2012 Ascension; the Nasa predictions about 2012: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012; The Why and How of the Mayan end date of 2012, John Major Jenkins, 1994: www.levity.com/eschaton/Why2012.html "Apocalypse 2012 - A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End." By Lawrence E. Joseph

First the bees, then us? Lots of sites are reporting that bees are disappearing, something like 40-60% in the US, with similar numbers in Europe. Many reports include a supposed quote from Albert Einstein - "If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left."

The problem could be due to bees not liking mobile phones interfering with their navigational abilities...

This is of interest to 2012 folk, because if all the bees disappeared in late 2008, that would match Einstein's prophecy with that of the ancient Mayans!

http://news.survive2012.com/2007/04/first-bees-then-us.html

Also see: "Apocalypse 2012 - A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End." By Lawrence E. Joseph

Desiderata

2007-05-01T08:17:00.000-04:00

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann

(Notice that 'desiderata' means 'desired things,' and that it appears to be a poem written from Level Two for living on Level One, Dr. Joe)

2007-05-01T06:09:00.000-04:00

More Masters of the Secret

2007-04-24T06:42:00.000-04:00

Be sure to sign up free for these online audio/video discussions by Masters of the Secret at this address:

http://www.mastersofthesecret.com/index.php?double_email=1

More About the Secret

2007-04-23T05:53:00.000-04:00

Hear Michael Beckwith interviewed on the news about The Secret:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j3qyb9sv28w

Are we Conscious?

2007-04-22T11:04:00.000-04:00

Becoming Conscious

I am realizing that I need not ever do anything again, not even shaving, without being aware that I am One with God. My question now is not “What is the Cause of Human Suffering?” but “How Can I Become Conscious at all times?”

If Level One is unconscious limited mediocre thinking, and Level Two is conscious unlimited blissful awareness, is there really any legitimate reason that I can’t be Bliss-Conscious at any and all times? When I realize that I am on Level Two, nothing can prevent it.

Have you ever asked yourself what would the world look like from Level Two? Becoming Conscious is our # One challenge, ability, opportunity and duty.

How can we say that we are probably 99% unconscious most of the time?

Because:
• We are unconscious of our unlimited nature
• We are unconscious of the Infinite Good
• We are unaware of our vast abundance
• We are unconscious of our ingenius mind
• We are unaware of our unity with everything
• We are unconscious of our unlimited creative capacity
• We are unaware of unconditional love
• We are unconscious of the Eternal Now
• We are unaware of absolute peace
• We are unconscious of our total freedom
• We are unaware of our unlimited power
• We are unconscious that we are one with God
• We are unaware that there is no need whatsoever for any stress, fear, anxiety, doubt, hostility or grief
• We are unaware that there are no unsolvable problems
• We are unaware that every single thing that has ever happened is for our benefit
• We are unaware that we are unconscious

Do you see why I say that we are 99% unconscious of the truth?

Are you conscious? Are you even aware that you are usually unconscious?
If the truth sets us free, are we aware of truth? Are we free of fears, anxieties, doubts, hostilities, manipulations, habits, judgments, and self-defense?

Are we assuming that we are not free? Are we assuming that we are limited? Are we assuming that we are conscious?

If we are unlimited beings, are we conscious or not? May we are just assuming that we are limited and vulnerable victims. Maybe all of our anxiety, pain, and suffering are due to the fact that we are not conscious.

Let’s turn it around. Let’s assume that we are unconscious gods, instead of conscious humans. We are not yet even conscious humans.

Can you accept as reality then that all suffering and unhappiness is caused by unawareness?

If unawareness is our primary problem, maybe we had better find out what consciousness means.

To me it is very interesting that Einstein said “What I want most in life is to know the thoughts of God.”

It is obvious to me that we have very little idea about what God’s thoughts are. Sometimes we act like we know God’s thoughts are, or that they are not important. If God is conscious and absolutely blissful, and we are not, then perhaps we had best re-consider. Maybe we are the ones who are not conscious and not blissful, and Einstein is right.

So the correct way to look at this might be: If we are not blissful, then we are not conscious. If we are not conscious, then it is no wonder we are victims of our habits of criticizing, complaining, nagging, blaming, threatening, punishing and bribing. Perhaps if we were conscious, we would be ecstatic, positive, optimistic, creative, free, powerful, unconditionally forgiving and kind, and aware of our unlimited abundance.

And if we were conscious, we would be able to shift into Level Two and be here now. We would not have to wait 20 more years of struggling to overcome all of our Level One mishaps and limitations one by one.

How to get to Level Two then would become as important as our next breath, our next meal, our next paycheck, our next orgasm. Unless we get to Level Two it is doubtful we will ever overcome our anxiety, our fears, our jealousies, our insecurities, our hostilities, our illnesses, our exhaustedness, our insomnia, and our tendencies to feel depressed.

We are destined to become Universal Humans in the next five years if we can become conscious. We are part of a crossover generation in which for the first time in 15 million years of evolution, it is possible for the masses to wake up. We can be the awakening generation, one by one. It begins by realizing we are not yet conscious. Far, far, from it. Can conscious people engage in wars, massacres, addictions or anxiety-ignorance?

Can you consciously take your next upset as an opportunity to wake up?

Please join me in learning how to become conscious and how to find our Level Two. If you don't agree that we are unconscious, write me. If you have found ways to get to Level Two, write me. drjoe@shentel.net

An Interview: Dr. Mishlove and Barbara Hubbard

2007-04-22T08:00:00.000-04:00

Barbara HUBBARD: 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.

Dr. 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.

Don't miss Today's Quote article about Barbara Hubbard

2007-04-22T07:51:00.000-04:00

Your Inner MapQuest

2007-04-20T06:26:00.000-04:00

There is a map from where you are to where you want to go, but you won’t find it on MapQuest. I love MapQuest, and I use it all the time, but it is all on Level One. The destination you want is not on Level One but is within.

To find out where you want to go, you have to first find out where you are. When you go to MapQuest, they first ask for your Starting Location and then for your Ending Location.

So, where is your Starting Location? In my Reality Map, we all start at the same Starting Location, which is Level One. We are all aiming at the same Ending Location, which is Level Two. We just didn’t know it until now. The interesting thing about this map is that it is all in present time, in the here and now. It has nothing to do with the future or with somewhere else. This map is different than MapQuest maps. This map is in you. It tells you that you can’t get what you want on Level One because it isn’t there! But it also tells you that it is all on Level Two and it is already yours!

The Universal Human

2007-04-20T06:04:00.000-04:00

The Universal Human

According to Barbara Marx Hubbard, a 21st century futurist and visionary, we are the crossover generation. For the first time since evolution began 14 billion years ago, we are the first humans privileged to move from homo sapiens to homo universalis as a conscious individual and collective choice. There have been a handful of enlightened mystics and masters throughout the ages, but never has the preparation and timing been right for the average person to understand and choose such a quantum leap in consciousness to Universal Human awareness.

Many factors, forces, technologies, leaders, and movements have set the stage and given us the opportunity to awaken to our infinite potential now in this lifetime. Barbara is one of many capable and talented voices echoing the announcement of this momentous occasion. Just at the time when we seem perched on the edge of planetary self-destruction, we can make the choice to shift perspectives from the time-bound ego outlook to the Essential Self vision of a new world. This mammoth paradigm shift is happening all over the globe as a grass roots movement under the banner of many different symbol systems. Whatever words are used, it is a new paradigm of universality, unity, infinite awareness, rebirth, inclusiveness, inner transformation, and peace.

All of our old systems are grist for the mill of this new birth of civilization. Nothing even remotely like this has ever happened before. All of our old thought forms and institutions are inadequate to hold the power of this new energy. Everything that has ever happened in human history will be useful but not determinative. Spontaneity and co-creativity mark this evolutionary leap in consciousness to a degree that is so dynamic that we can’t keep up with it. It changes by the minute and by the hour like a breathless and exciting adventure. None of our old concepts and habits hold a candle to this new life form. Change is its watchword. Dying and being reborn daily is its mark.

In my work, I am calling this shift Level Two Living. It’s not so important what it is called as what it is. My map of this mammoth consciousness shift shows us that Reality = Level One/anxiety/Level Two. We have been stuck in a Level One limited worldview since the beginning of time. Anxiety is a signal of this stuckness as well an invitation to move to our natural inheritance of unlimited Level Two awareness. All that we ever wanted and sought after in various outward forms on Level One is already available in our hidden Level Two Self. We have never known what our good is and where it is located. No one has to miss it this time, but if you are going to “get it” you have to put it first. Being stuck on Level One is our only human problem; finding Level Two is our only solution! Join me in this exciting adventure!

(For a sample of Barbara Marx Hubbard's visionary work, go to http://www.som.org/3library/interviews/hubbard.htm or
http://www.newlivingexpo.com/2007/html_files/sat_2.php)

Humanity Ascends

2007-04-15T06:23:00.000-04:00

Humanity Ascends
By Felicia M. Tomasko, September 21, 2006

The Foundation for Conscious Evolution’s New Film Series
by Felicia M. Tomasko

“I’m afraid I won’t live to see my youngest daughter’s children,” a friend lamented to me on the anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy. This was not out of concern for her health, but rather for the health of the planet — or, more accurately, for humanity. All a person needs to do to feel a sense of despair these days is turn on the news, open most newspapers, or log onto their homepage. We are constantly greeted with announcements of destruction, death, and societal and environmental degradation. But not everyone views our current situation as bleak and hopeless.

The same day that my friend was nearly in tears, I spoke with visionary author and teacher Barbara Marx Hubbard, cofounder and president of the Santa Barbara-based Foundation for Conscious Evolution. Through her individual work and the foundation, she hopes to inspire humanity’s ability to survive and thrive. She sees this time in history as a pivotal moment, when we have the opportunity to evolve — to engage in what she refers to as co-creation of a new world view.

To foster that, the foundation is producing a series of seven DVD programs, to be released during the next two years, titled Humanity Ascending. The first is Our Story, narrated and presented by Marx Hubbard herself. The program begins with the iconic image of an atomic explosion, which symbolizes for us the constant threat of annihilation that was unthinkable before the 20th century. According to Marx Hubbard, the threat has escalated since 9/11, which showed that “anyone who is disaffected and angry” can gain power. And what’s more frightening than even nuclear war is that, according to Marx Hubbard, “the world is aware that destruction could come from anywhere.”

But there is hope, and this is the vital message of Humanity Ascending. In Our Story, Marx Hubbard traces the process of 14 billion years’ evolution, from the proliferation of subatomic particles to the creation of human societies. In so doing, the film highlights our capacity to transcend our limits and realize our potential.

For Marx Hubbard, evolution isn’t quite as science has told us. “Material-based science has given us a limited view of evolution. It is purposeless, directionless, and meaningless, based on chance and necessity,” she explained. “I do not hold that view. There is another view emerging, that evolution is the process through which consciousness creates a universe of higher order.”

In this “process,” we have come to a crucial time, according to Barbara Marx Hubbard. “I look and see that we have come to the end of one phase of consciousness, one form of growth and behavior. Species face this all the time: the choice to learn to cooperate with ecological factors or go extinct. If we will survive, we must learn to cooperate.”

The impetus for this cooperation, according to Barbara, is the looming sense of destruction. And it’s about time someone focused on the shift, because, as Marx Hubbard explained, “We have university degrees and training programs in place to maintain the status quo, to train lawyers and stockbrokers, athletes and musicians, but few study how to evolve the planet.” For those brave souls ready to volunteer, Humanity Ascending outlines a curriculum.

Level One Cognitive Distortions

2007-04-12T09:05:00.000-04:00

You think I am exaggerating about cognitive distortions and Level One stressful thoughts? Consider this:

Fifteen Styles of Distorted Thinking

1. Filtering: You take the negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation.
2. Polarized Thinking:Things are black or white, good or bad. You have to be perfect or you're a failure. There is no middle ground.
3. Overgeneralization: You come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or piece of evidence. If something bad happens once you expect it to happen over and over
again.
4. Mind Reading: Without their saying so you know what people are feeling and why they act the way they do. In particular, you are able to divine how people are feeling toward you.
5. Catastrophizing: You expect disaster. You notice or hear about a problem and start "what ifs": What if tragedy strikes? What if it happens to you?
6. Personalization: Thinking that everything people do or say is some kind of reaction to you. You also compare yourself to others, trying to determine who's smarter, better looking, etc.
7. Control Fallacies: If you feel externally controlled, you see yourself as helpless, a victim of fate. The fallacy or internal control has you responsible for the pain and happiness of everyone around you.
8. Fallacy of Fairness: You feel resentful because you think you know what's fair but other pcople won't agree with you.
9. Blaming:You hold other people responsible for your pain, or take the other tack and blame yourself for every problem or reversal.
10. Shoulds:You have a list of ironclad rules about how you and other people should act. People whu break the rules anger you and you feel guilty if you violate the rules.
11. Emotional Reasoning:You believe that what you feel rnust be true - automatically. If you feel stupid and boring, then you must be stupid and boring.
12. Fallacy of Change: You expect that other people will change to suit you if you just pressure or cajole them enough. You need to change people because your hopes for happiness seem to depend entirely on them.
13. Global Labeling: You generalize one or two qualities into a negative globa1 judgment.
14. Being Right: You are continually on trial to prove that your opinions and actions are correct. Being wrong is unthinkable and you will go to any length to demonstrate your rightness.
15. Heaven's Reward Fallacy: You expect all your sacrifice and self-denial to payoff, as if there were someone keeping score. You feel bitter when the reward doesn't come.

Resource: Morgan Edwinson, MS

Hearing God's Voice to Fulfill Your Life's Purpose

2007-04-12T07:04:00.000-04:00

Did you sign up yet for your free 30-day audio program with David and Candice Doyle? Don't miss this one! You can visit their website and sign up for their free email program at: www.thevoiceforgod.com

How to Push Your Limits and Get out of Your Box!

2007-04-09T06:29:00.000-04:00

How to Push your Limits and Get out of your Box!

Stuck, bored, frustrated, having a mid-life crisis? You went for it and crashed? You didn’t go for it and just bogged down?

Level Two Living is the challenge for you to move toward the unknown, to break through your anxiety and into your unlimited creativity. You have been using and mis-using your infinite creativity unconsciously and routinely. You keep trying to break out of your habit box but you are afraid to?
First of all, you have to see the landscape you are operating in. Study up on Level One and Level Two mapping. To get anywhere you need to have a map of where you are, what your destination is, and how to get there.

Level Two is what you want: your Infinite Good. Right? But where is it? Do you even know that you are stuck on Level One and unconscious of Level Two?

My challenge to you is to help you find out where you are now (Level One) and to find out where you want to go, what you can do (Level Two), and how.
Level One can seem to take up all of your time in survival-activity, like work, chores, family, rest and relaxation. But it’s our attitude towards our day that counts. We can carry out Level One activities from Level Two if we “get it.”
Masters do that. We are all victims becoming Masters.

Victims do not see their unlimited potentials, only their limitations. Victims do not see the creative powerful meaning of anxiety. Masters use anxiety to remind themselves of what they want and how to plug into the Unlimited Universe. Masters use their ego dilemmas to uncover the Self. Masters turn every problem into an opportunity. Masters don’t ask why, but why not? Masters turn “don’t wants” and “don’t knows” into “wants” and “knows.” Masters ask themselves: is this all I want? Masters know that their source is allness.

You are a victim becoming a Master. Actually you are already a Level Two human god, but you don’t know it fully yet. Mastery is the process of moving from Level One egohood to Level Two godhood. Then you can live on Level Two while you carry on Level One activities.

Your attitude makes all of the difference in the world. When a god touches someone it is entirely different than when a frustrated ego touches someone. When a god says “hello” it carries an entirely different energy than when a victim says “hello”. When a god addresses a problem, it is entirely different than when an ego does.

When a Master looks at anything, he sees unlimited possibilities and choices. He sees no built-in limitations. He sees God offering him the universe. He sees new blessings trying to come into his opening mind. He knows that the universe is creative, open-ended, transformative, and caring.
Are you a Master? What map are you looking at? The map to nowhere? Or the map to everywhere? Come on. Your box is nothing but a limiting idea. Life is pushing your limits everyday. You are bigger than you can possibly know. Nothing is impossible.

Get Over It!

2007-04-06T05:53:00.000-04:00

Dirty Little Secrets?

How many secrets are left? Only One. All of our dirty little secrets amount to nothing. Of course, we guard them with our very lives, but they are nothing. There is only One Secret in the universe. The rest are as old as time itself.

Every secret that is kept in the skeleton’s closet is soon broadcast over the nightly news. on the internet, or in the latest water cooler gossip session. Why all of this embarrassment and secretiveness? It’s just ego stuff. There is not a single new secret or problem in mankind’s whole history. What is the worst it could be? Rape, murder, embezzlement, cheating, theft, psychosis, obesity, homosexuality, lying, psychosis, your prison record, rage, envy, villainy, hypocrisy? Ho hum. What else is new? These are all as old as Adam and Eve, and as recent as today’s Hollywood gossip column. You have lived thousands of lives and done it all. The only secret you haven’t discovered is the Big One.

There is only One Secret left. That is what we are here on earth to discover. You have to give up the sacred worship of your family secrets, your plots and schemes, your guilt, your isolation, your fear of discovery, your delicious little sexual habits, your addictions, the skeletons in your closet, your buried embarrassments, your secret humiliations and prides.

The only thing keeping you from The Huge Secret is your anxiety about your dirty little nothing secrets. Give them up. They are not worth one more minute of your time or energy. They are all that is keeping you from Bliss. Our sub-human opinions of yourself and others is all that keeps us from Godhood.

A million secrets could be exchanged for the Big One and you would forget them all. You wouldn’t care who knows because they were all substitutes for real knowledge. All of our whole million secrets are ho-hum. Not a one is worthy of you and that is why we try to hide them. But we never succeed.

Imagine your picture and the entire detailed story of your worst secrets on the front page of your hometown newspaper. Go and look. It is all there, about “someone else,” of course. But, face it, there is “no one else.” There are just us sub-level non-human robots walking around asleep. Men are as trees walking. No one is different from anyone else. Sorry. We are all stuck on Level One ego stuff. Give up all of this hypocritical innocence and guilt. It’s all that keeps you from yourself and your bliss. Forgiving is no big deal. You haven’t lost anything. You haven’t been degraded. You aren’t hurt. You can’t be. Just think of all of the millions of hours of regret, hiding, repressing and projecting your fake self upon others. None of it is true. It’s all just gossip.

You haven’t done all of this dirty little secret stuff? Yes, you have. If you have imagined it, you have done it to yourself and others. Get over it! It never happened. All of our fears and mis-imaginations are nothing new, but are as old as history. We can get over them. It’s not worth it, it’s all that stands between you and absolute bliss. All of your so-called imagined guilts and crimes were simply your desire for the good you believed you didn’t have.

Watch these U-Tube online movies for inspiration

2007-04-06T05:45:00.000-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpTDly90fTM&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA7MVRekRqQ&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVYNoNR6VUk&NR=1
incredible musician

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzJnHfs84ks&NR=1
the blink technique

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDu6PL-lzxQ&NR=1
the butterfly effect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySBaYMESb8o&NR=1
infinity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubkN5-JwV-8&mode=related&search= Life without violence

http://youtube.com/watch?v=phL0RLKL8bc
Don’t miss this Secret for your today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyIbKBHP0Ck&NR=1
What are you grateful for today?

The Parable of the Room

2007-04-05T06:34:00.000-04:00

Don't miss Today's Quote, by Michael Sharp

Peace Sign Miracle

2007-03-30T05:48:00.000-04:00

PICTURES OF THE MIRACLE!!!

News of the MIRACLE ON CAPITOL HILL is spreading like wildfire around the world. Many people feel that this is a sign from Heaven, perhaps indicating the critical nature of the present age and the need for peace. There is still no physical explanation for the peace sign that appeared overnight on the west lawn of the US Capitol, the same spot where James Twyman and others conducted a ceremony of peace commemorating the Season for Non-Violence. "The Children's Cloth of Many Colors," a mile long quilt made by children from around the world to express their longing for peace, had rested on the spot the previous day, and the next morning the miraculous sign appeared.

To see pictures of the peace sign please visit: www.emissaryoflight.com

For more information on the Children's Cloth, visit www.communitiesofpeace.org

MORE PEACE SIGNS APPEARING???

It has also been suggested that this could be the beginning of a worldwide movement where peace signs are constructed in significant places to bring continued awareness to the issues of global non-violence. A website is being prepared to share these photos, either man-made or miraculous, so please let us know if any appear.

Join James Twyman in Jerusalem for one of the most exciting peace gatherings in history!!!

Over 5000 people are coming together from throughout the world to wrap their arms around the Old City of Jerusalem on May 21, sending their prayers and light to help create peace in one of the most troubled spots in the world.

If you would like to join James in Israel for the event and a tour of the Holy Land, please visit his website at www.jamestwyman.com

This is proving to be even bigger than we expected. We are also designing an online component so millions more can join us online or in conference calls.

This is going to be known as "the hug felt around the world."

The Hooking-up Generation

2007-03-29T08:30:00.000-04:00

The Hooking-Up Generation

How is this “hooking-up” generation involved in the devolution and evolution of the soul? Are they closer to getting out of Level One or not? They see their “good” as hooking up, right? The sexual and the drug path is their good. They want a permanent high, right? They want a permanent high without pregnancy? They want a permanent high through the body? So, what else is new? That’s Level One since the beginning of time. It’s just more out in the open. It’s just right out there on MySpace, right? No shame, no embarrassment, just hooking-up. No secret. So will it run its course quicker?

Is that all you want: hooking up and getting high? The Forbidden has become Ordinary. Just drugs and sex, that’s all. So, what’s next? There is nowhere else to go? Just more sex and drugs? More sex and more drugs with more people, and that’s it?

So what are you, a hedonist? Oh, that’s right, you don’t have time to study philosophy and history. Too much sex and drugs to find out what’s behind it.

Is God a hedonist? Is God higher than you? Does God ever come down? Is God bliss? If God is bliss, why did he forbid sex and drugs? Aren’t sex and drugs the ultimate high? Maybe we should be born with a needle in our brains where the sex center is located. 24 hours a day orgasm, right? Sex on the brain, right? Is that forbidden? Stay away from the Tree of Knowledge! Are sex and drugs the ultimate knowledge? The ultimate bliss?

Then you mean that the God of bliss didn’t want you to have what he has? He gets to be high, but we don’t? Or, is there another reason? Sex and drugs are surely a strong temptation, but is there a drawback? Does God have more than sex and drugs He wants to offer?

What are the drawbacks about sex and drugs? Make a list. If sex and drugs are not forbidden routes to bliss, they may simply be lacking. If bliss is who you are, why do you need to be “hooking up” to get it? If the wars, crimes, illnesses, accidents and stress all down through history were about the lack of bliss, why haven’t we been able to figure it out?

Isn’t there a permanent hook-up without all of the risks, dangers, diseases, jealousies, losses, loneliness, expense, labeling, secretiveness, and constant need for more? Is that why it’s forbidden?

You are already hooked- up. You were born hooked-up. You just thought you were cut off, left out, excluded, rejected, and victimized. The drive behind hooking- up is ignorance and anxiety. Sex and drugs are your medicine, your substitute religion, your forbidden search for the good where you will only find symbols. You are not really a slut, a whore, a cheater, a sneak, a druggie, an alchie, an addict, a pimp, a gay, a straight, or a prostitute. All of our anxious searching is just ignorant preparation for Level Two. Anxiety, not sex and drugs, is your path to freedom. Why would a god need sex and drugs for self-medication? Why would a god be anxiety-driven and controlled?