tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85129639192545742362024-02-08T08:49:13.964-08:00I AM THE WORDSunday School Study group with Paul Selig's I Am the WordUNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-40265366531305096342015-10-26T08:37:00.000-07:002015-10-26T08:37:40.166-07:00CREATION 2&3<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;">One of the most powerful truths that keeps coming through to me is that: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>This transformation is happening now!</b></span> We probably will not see the results this lifetime, but to believe, truly believe and work from the idea that by raising our frequency we are raising the frequency of everyone around us is a truly remarkable thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am reminded of Jesus words to(doubting) Thomas; “Blessed are those who have not seen yet have believed..” I know we are a part of that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One theme that stand out here is HAVING A BODY.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Bodies are vehicles of consciousness and nothing more. ”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Paul had a discussion yesterday with a man who said, “I just want to leave my physical form.” And we said, “The physical form is where this needs to happen in.” And we want to explain what we meant.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“People, throughout time, who have engaged in deep spiritual work have disguised self-loathing of the physical body or physical experience with a desire to attune to the higher realms. People have used spiritual growth as a way of escaping their issues or their pain. Convents have been requiems for many, many years for people who did not need to engage in physical reality but preferred a life of contemplation and the mind, and that is fine. However, we are telling you now that the vibration that you are anchoring in is in physical form, which means only that your experience of it, your experience of higher dimensional reality and frequency, will be experienced through the physical form that you exist in.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So a huge part of the trip here is to work with the body, not as an illusion or something bad or weak, but as a vehicle for our learning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another piece from this section the book is about TIME.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For most people we live IN TIME, and time is the measure of change in the material world. We are not told to ignore that, but to realize that the world of time, the world of change is just a tiny piece of the picture. (and even though it is a tiny piece, we can do quite a bit of learning with it.)</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“The moment you say, “Yes.” The moment you say, “Yes.” The moment you say, “Yes.” We will say it again. The moment you say, “Yes,” with your soul, with your consciousness, with your being, with your consciousness as the vibration of Word.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The I love this next line: <b>“WELL, I’M NOT THERE YET.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That statement is a great example of the little self trying to define the bigger Self.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The little self is never there; the bigger Self is always there/here!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Do you want to be? Do you want to be on this path? If you do, you are worked with by us.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“I request that I am being served with the information and with the energies required for my shift in consciousness. I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“God bless you each as you journey forward. This has been an exciting experience for us to be able to give you this teaching. We are blessed in your creations. You must create the Word through your intention to resolve to become this light in choice.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“I am Word through my being. Word I am Word.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I am Word through my Christ consciousness. Word I am Word.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I am Word through my frequency. Word I am Word.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I am Word through my knowing of myself as Word.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you all for being a part of this continuing journey. I hope you can join us as we explore and experience the next book: THE BOOK OF LOVE AND CREATION.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“The following texts will be quite different. They will not draw on you as a character, nor will they assume you have any information on the subjects that you speak of prior to engaging with it. For this to occur, you have to become a cleaner channel, which means you must channel directly, and that will have to come through your willingness, through your belief, and through the identification of the Christ consciousness that is the teaching of this book.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">When you understand that you are, in fact, aligned to the Christ consciousness, that it is not just an ideal to be worked towards, you vibrate at that frequency. When you are vibrating at that frequency, we can work through you very directly. Right now we work through you very well, and we are grateful for the instrument that is your energy system, and we are grateful for the imagination that you were born with that allowed you to believe that this could even be possible.”</span></b></div>
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UNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-24687630414546310322015-10-09T13:23:00.001-07:002015-10-09T13:24:53.359-07:00LOVE INCARNATE 4; CREATION 1<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This last section of the chapter continues to reinforce the idea that all of us can be in and flow with the energy of LOVE INCARNATE. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The simple formula is "Word I am Word through the one I see before me." Again, be aware that we probably could say "Love I am Love through the one I see before me" but when I "Word" through someone or something I am literally forced to engage my conscious awareness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is <u>good</u> that the mind wants to know, "What does that mean?" 'Word I am Word" because then we have to answer that question instead of just rattling off some words. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The answer is (in its longer form) "I am claiming my birthright as a child of God to be the embodiment of love, and by doing so I have the right and the ability to send that love outward to all beings I come in contact with. I am doing this with willingness and intention and I am focusing fully on the individual before as an act of love."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is so easy to just speak the words without having much energy behind them. The challenge here is to express this love that you are with meaning and power. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“The miracle of this, in truth, is that you are beginning to see with eyes of Christ. You are beginning to see and experience the world with the wonder that you have acclimated to and the knowing that you have declared as your divine birthright. As you become love, you become in your awareness a vehicle for the higher frequencies to work with. And you will begin to find that you are led and directed and supported in those things that you need to do to support you, and this wonderful work will be made clear to you.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This does not mean that you are doing this work professionally. It may mean that you are riding in an elevator with someone who requires the light, or that you are teaching a student who, one day, will break through in consciousness in a way that will transform the planet, and you will have given him permission on an energetic level to remember who he is in frequency.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">You do not have to know what the benefits of the work will be in order to do it. In a funny way, it’s not your business. “I am Word through those before me </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“What you do is you bring energy to everyone there. You are not depleted because, as we have told you, you are the conduit, you are the vessel that the divine frequency inhabits, is, and works through:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“I Am that I Am. I Am that I Am. I Am that I Am.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Instead of getting into the whole “creating your own reality" stuff, which can get pretty sticky at times, the book emphasizes that the world we see and envision is the result of of many patterns of thought that have been going on for a long time. These patterns remain because we never think to question them. Kind of like the idea, “Well, that’s the way we’ve always done it.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What we are being challenged to do now is to look at our patterns of thought and consciously decide if we want to continue to believe that way. If we choose to continue to believe in the “old” way then our perception will remain where it was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Example: Let’s take the idea of what is referred to as “stewardship.” Biblically, man was given stewardship over all the earth and all the creatures of the earth. Up until recently that idea was interpreted as “Man is in charge of this planet and all its resources, and can do anything he/she wants with them.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today, however, for many people, stewardship now embodies a deep sense of reverence and responsibility towards this planet and all its inhabitants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As this thought process changes the whole picture changes as well.</span></div>
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UNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-9724924270312311882015-10-02T09:11:00.005-07:002015-10-02T09:11:44.999-07:00LOVE INCARNATE 3<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: normal;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“I am love with this one (or situation) I see before me. Word I am Word.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As the book reminds us—affirmations and prayers such as this “set in motion” the change in consciousness required. It is all process, a continuing enfoldment of our ability to Love.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Now “I am Love through the one before me” allows the love that is moving through you, that is as an aspect of the Creator incarnating as you, to be witnessed and expressed and received by the one you see before you. And if you have someone that you have had difficulties with, and you can truly experience them in love, “I am in love with this person,” you will then begin to feel the true gifts of the spiritual journey that you are on.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Earlier we said to you, if you could do this, many of your problems would vanish, and we are telling you that that is so. Because when you can achieve this level of consciousness, you can understand fully the level of manifestation that is yours, that is your heritage as a child of God. You are acting as the Creator, and you are loving as the Creator loves, without condition, you are love incarnate. “I love the man who hurt me” is not a personality construct. “I love the one who harmed my possessions,” “I love the one who left me behind” or “betrayed me” or “took my things.” You can do this through your consciousness.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">This is not la-la land. This is not let’s pretend that everything is wonderful. No, this is the deep realization that we have a</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">choice to behold everything and everyone in love or not. This choice does not come from the physical world or what happened to us in the physical world. It does not come from our emotional self which might still be attached to some feelings. This choice comes from the inner core of our being which is continually desires to affirm the truth. And so from the same place in Christian scripture that "I am the Word" comes from (John’s Gospel);</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“…what is available to you in manifestation will be wondrous to you when you understand that it can be created through your consciousness. What is created in love is eternal. Please understand this. What is created in love is an eternal frequency and the gift of love to another stays with them long after the encounter has gone. You can witness someone in their perfection and transform their consciousness. You can see yourself as perfect and transform your own. When you love someone else in a truthful way, the action of love, the frequency and vibration of love, is who you are. You are love incarnate when you love.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">As soon as I get out of my car to go to the grocery or some theory place like that, I open my willingness and pray, “Anyone who might need healing today in this place, let me be that instrument of love and light.” And then if I do not become too distracted by what I think I need, I will continue to affirm, “Word I am Word though all I see before me. Love I am love through all I see before me.” </span></b></div>
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UNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-25751941243949319642015-09-25T14:57:00.001-07:002015-09-25T14:58:32.005-07:00LOVE INCARNATE 2<span style="font-size: large;">p. 286-290</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As simple as this chapter sounds, it is quite challenging. We are being asked to view ourselves as LOVE. That's it. Not as our profession; not as any of our roles in life, not even as bodies, but as LOVE.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">That should be simple, right? All we have to do is to see ourselves as we really are. This is a choice--not about feelings so much, but a choice as to how we perceive ourselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“When you understand for a moment that you are right where you are supposed to be in your consciousness and that the circumstances around you are things that you have created to bring you to this place of consciousness, you can then change them. But the perfection that you find in this moment of awareness will be profound. “I am where I am. I see where I am. I am right where I am supposed to be” will liberate you to take change as the miracle that it is. You have opportunities to grow, as does everyone. And you are all where you are supposed to be given what you know, what you have had available to you, and what you have come here to learn.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The way a teacher friend of mine translates this is: "Instead of asking, "Why is this happening to me?" say, "This is happening <u>for</u> me. I might not understand why, but I have been given an opportunity to transform my thinking (raise my vibration) about this."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I am Love through the one before me, Love I am Love. Word I am Word through this intention.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is no necessity for many words here. If you can affirm, "I am love incarnate," and then, "I am love through the one I see before me (no matter who that is), you have graced yourself and he world!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We began to explore the idea in this book, and most spiritual literature, that when we are speaking of energies such as love, joy and peace, we are speaking much more deeply than the level of feelings and emotions. Unfortunately, we do not have an adequate vocabulary for these concepts, and so when we are working on understanding these energies on a spiritual level it is very easy to confuse the emotional and the spiritual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The book does an excellent job in redefining love as a spiritual force and to separate the spiritual experience from the emotional one.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“However, love is not a feeling. Love can be felt, but it is not a feeling. Love is a frequency. It is the action of God expressing himself through you as love.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As we examined this truth and how it affects us, we also explored other “feelings” some of which we might define as negative. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many times we are told we “should” not have these feelings. It is wrong to be angry or fearful or doubtful or even sad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now perhaps when I become fully in the flow of Love, none of these earthly feelings will affect me, but up until that time, how I feel or how I react to the stuff of life will be “grist for the mill” of my spiritual growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So we also experience sadness, grief, fear, joy, impatience, annoyance, peacefulness—all of which are part of the human condition. We do not usually have much of a choice about how we are feeling, but we do have a choice as to how we hold those feelings. We can hold them in self-judgment (which is not very helpful) or we can hold them as points of growth and deeper awareness of Self and our relationship with God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now that second choice is not always easy. It is much easier to try to distance ourselves from our “negative” feelings, but when I begin to realize that my feelings, even the ones that seem to be automatic, are my response to life situations, I can begin to work on transforming my responses.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“God’s love is unconditional. Understand this, please. It is unconditional. It is manifested as you, as an aspect of you, and if you want to believe that you can experience yourself as love, you can attune to it. But you have to do this through your intentions. So:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“I am now manifesting myself as the energy of love. I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But to have that working for us we need to go beyond words, because this is not about saying a quick prayer or mumbling some magic incantation. It is about a "change of heart" (what the word “repent” means). It means claiming this power within us and setting our willingness and intention to continually work out of this energy of love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So for me, until I am completely living in this consciousness of Word—"I am one with God; the love of God flows to me and through me; there is nothing that can separate me from that love; we are all one; there is no truth in any judgment; etc."—I need to work on being constantly aware of the Presence of God within you and me. And when I forget,when I lose it; when I fall asleep; I dedicate myself to returning to that awareness.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“So we will say it very simply. When you are in the Christ frequency, you are operating from a different level. You are actually working with a higher frequency that, in many ways, will move through that karma and transform it so that you’re not on a battleground with your past actions in repayment or in fear.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“If you can imagine that you are all on a forward path, every man, every woman, every being on this planet is moving forward regardless of what they may appear to present in form, you will understand that your destinies are for good. We say that you are all on your way to the Source. Everyone is on their way to the recognition of who they are as an aspect of the Creator. “Word I am Word through my knowing of myself as Word” is stating that. “I am knowing. I am an aspect of the Creator made manifest in form. I am Word through my knowing of myself as Word.”</span></b></div>
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UNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-52708713393770416102015-08-23T14:28:00.003-07:002015-08-23T14:30:03.986-07:00TRIALS 4<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">“On a consciousness level of frequency, you have been transformed by the energies that are operating here at a higher level </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; text-decoration: underline;">if you have given permission and engaged with the processes that we have suggested.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> Because they are actually designed to bring you to a higher frequency and to acclimate your field to the Christ vibration, which is, as we have said, what you truly are. Period.”</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ego would love to jump in here and suggest you are probably not doing this right. If you notice that kind of reaction or response, gently stop. It is not time to get into an argument with the ego, simply know, if you are reading this, you have already dedicated yourself to this work with willingness and invention. The energy and the transformations are taking place within you, whether you are conscious of them or not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is very different from the exercises we are used to. Here we do not really <span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">do</span> anything except be open to the energy flow that comes from the words and their meaning. Again—openness, willingness, intention—the rest will follow. That is what Jesus meant when he would say so often, “Your faith has made you whole.” There does not appear to be any activity, and there might not be any in the outside world, but the soul is very active in its openness and receptiveness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>“I am Word through my intention to acclimate my frequency to the highest level of consciousness available to me, to show me the way through my present circumstance. I affirm that I am being led by my soul’s destiny, by my own higher knowing, and by those guides and teachers who would help me as I grow and transform in wonderful ways. I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>“I set the intention as follows. I am Word through the situation that presents itself to me as an opportunity for change. I affirm that only good will come from this situation and that I am being led through it in a high way towards my perfect destiny. I align the situation to the higher frequencies through this constant affirmation: I am Word through this situation. Word I am Word.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was speaking to a newer member of the class who was asking about the language, “Word I am Word” and what that means. The first thing I mentioned was the prologue to John’s Gospel—“In the beginning was the Word, and that the language or “wording” allow us to identify with this power of creative consciousness within us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I sat with the question a little longer and became aware that when we say, “Word, I am Word…” this is spiritual shorthand for saying/praying: “I am claiming my power with the Oneness of the creative power and consciousness of Christ within me and I am directing that power to this person/place situation.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So if I am saying, “Word I am Word through the one I see before me.” That is shorthand for saying, "I am choosing to claim my power as a loving being/child of God to see this one before me in his/her perfection also as a child of God."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">OR if we are focusing on a situation. “Word I am Word with the situation before me” I am also saying: "I am claiming my power as a co-creator with God to learn whatever it is I need to learn from this situation. Through the power of love within me, I am willing to transform any fear, anger, or other negativity I might be holding. May any negativity be transformed into love and peace. May I continually know I am perfectly safe."</span></div>
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UNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-73679215805620595042015-08-22T18:12:00.000-07:002015-08-22T18:12:10.105-07:00TRIALS 3<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12px;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“…we want you to understand that the decisions that you make when you are in response to a crisis are the decisions that change the trajectory of your life and path. And most of you move immediately into fear when you are faced with circumstances that surprise you, unsettle you, and make you believe that your world is about to be challenged.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also think it is important that although we might be moving for an ideal here, that we do not deny or try to hide from the normal human feelings that arise for each one of us in the midst of crisis. Indeed, I think how we handle the feelings that arise are just as important as how we handle the crisis itself. And now that I say that I realize most of what we are being asked to handle <span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><u>are</u></span> the feelings that arise from a crisis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What follows in the book is a look at choices. I know that for much of my life my response to crises or triasls was quite reflexive. Like pushing a button—crisis-anger, fear, blame, avoidance, panic, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today all those same feelings are still here, but after the “knee jerk“ reaction, which I do not need to give in to, I have a choice. I can respond to the situation with love, openness to guidance, and willingness to learn. (even if I don't like it).</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“When you do this with the intention to acknowledge your power as a co-creator of your life, you stop being a victim. When you are not a victim, you have choice. When you are in choice, you are in your power and you are not frightened. And the trial, then, becomes a gift of change that is making itself known to you through your circumstances.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are not just speaking of doing something differently or simply responding differently to a crisis situation. We are speaking of becoming consciously aware of living in the frequency of fear/no choice OR living in the frequency of co-creative energy. In other words we are not just examining behavioral change. This teaching goes much deeper than that.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“This is not just about retraining your behavior. If you change the behavior but you do not change the consciousness that acts as the catalyst for the behavior, the behavior is really not changed.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are reminded that that we are not about “fixing” someone or something. Fixing is always about the past—trying to get something back to the way it was. First of all that can’t work, and secondly life circumstances are about learning not regression.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reminding us again of frequency and vibration—remember we are are holding and reading/or listening to a book here in the physical world, and that allows us to learn through our senses and intellect, BUT we are also being energized, guided, and taught on a level of frequency by the guides and teachers of this book. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“If you are very angry at somebody and you choose not to act on that anger, that is a benefit in many ways to you and to the party you are angry with. However, this is very different than unclogging the blockage that has required you to be in the system of anger to begin with. When you are unclogged, when that pattern that created that anger is no longer in service, you do not act from it because it is not there to act from. The memory of it may exist, but that is quite different than acting on something that is currently operational. Do you understand this?”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“So suddenly you are faced in consciousness with a situation that you would fear, and you can go into fear, and you can go into victimhood, or you can go into anger, or you can go into anything, but that’s actually not going to sort you through the next stage of the requirement for your growth.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those last words are extremely important “the next stage of the requirement for your growth,” that is what we are all after. When we grow, when we learn, there are always “requirements” (things we need to do, to know, to accomplish that will allow us to go the next step). This is very obvious in school, riding a bicycle, essentially learning any skill. It is also true for our spiritual development. Why would we think the development of the soul here on Earth would follow a different pattern?</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Okay, we want to talk about what just happened. Paul got worried because suddenly he was dealing with an informational system that challenges his own belief systems. And we are not telling him that it is okay to be evicted; we are only saying that people learn. And what people have to learn is that they are their consciousness and those things that they carry are not their consciousness. They are things that they hold to them and give importance to that ultimately will not be there in a hundred years.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Now we say trials with a real intent for the reader to understand the requirements of herself when she is contending with something like this. And something that challenges one’s belief systems must be dealt with in this text. When one is trying very hard to honor the possibility that they are the Christ, what happens when, in the middle of that, you lose your house, or your job, or your marriage collapses or your child is diagnosed with an illness, or you are? How do you contend with this? And that is what this chapter is about and that is why it must be included.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“The experiences of it, the things that happen to motivate change, are not always kind to the ego self or to the systems that have been created to protect it. So you understand this: When a trial occurs, everything that is encountered is about amassing an energy field that will create change, and that change will then provoke transformation to a higher level if this change is embarked on consciously and not in fear. Do you understand this? Everything can be made new in a positive way if you engage with it as consciousness, and as consciousness we mean, “I am the Word.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was reading a book that gave me a bit of a different perspective on this. Instead of focusing on trails, the focus was on our unique role in this mysterious unfolding and evolving expression of complete and unconditional Love.</span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">“With esoteric development, a growth in maturity produces a corresponding growth in responsibility, which makes one aware of having a certain role to fill in the human collectivity. Nearly everyone feels it at some point or another: each of us has the sense, however faint, that there is some unique purpose for which we have been called into being and which no one else can fill. A few know what this is from their earliest moments of awareness; for most of us, there is a long and often painful process of sorting out this essential purpose from whatever the world may try to force upon us. A Course in Miracles characterizes this unique role as the “special function”: “To each [the Holy Spirit] gives a special function in salvation he alone can fill; a part for only him. Nor is the plan complete until he finds his special function, and fulfills the part assigned to him. . . . The Holy Spirit needs your special function, that His may be fulfilled. Think not you lack a special value here. You wanted it, and it is given you.” The Course does not, and of course cannot, say what this special function is for any individual, except to stress that “the form is suited to your special needs, and to the special time and place in which you think you find yourself.”15 Nor can anyone else tell us what this is.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Smoley, Richard (2013-01-08). Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition (Kindle Locations 4413-4419). Shambhala Publications. Kindle Edition. </span></div>
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UNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-7439029270974175432015-07-27T18:23:00.001-07:002015-08-06T11:43:28.250-07:00TRIALS 1<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">
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<span style="font-size: large;">OK, we again dealing with one of those “create your own reality” things. This chapter continually reminds us that we create our own trials. ARRRRRRGH!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are a few points here I think would be worth exploring as we delve into this chapter. The first principle is IT IS OUR <u>SOUL</u> THAT IS CREATING and the soul only creates in order to grow. We might not be consciously aware of this principle all the time and it might not appeal to our emotions, and we are certainly not going to understand it all the time either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The simplistic metaphor I use is this: Imagine that before you take on a body, your soul, which is in line with Spirit, creates an agenda or curriculum which will guide it (and all other beings as well) in letting go of separateness and moving more and more in alignment with Oneness. So there are goals to be met and lessons to be learned on Planet Earth. How these goals are reached and how these lessons are presented are not set in stone, so the soul will seek out ways and means to get the job done. All of this is well beyond the comprehension of our intellect, and also well beyond our sense of earthly fairness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or take something present. Pretty soon I am going to be scheduled for knee surgery. Sure there are many lessons for me here, some of which are: I am not my body; take better care of myself; be patient; learn how to let people help me(as I hobble around for a while), etc. But at is only one small pice of this whole e deal. Think of how many other people are involved with this whole process, doctors, nurses, rehab specialists, other hospital staff, insurance companies, people who make knee replacements, people who make rehab equipment—all these people have families, they will all be making the effort to go to work each day, and each one of them has their own “stuff” to take care of. So even though I think I am the central character of my little play, thousands of people are learning their own lessons from this one little piece of life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let us remember this-- our soul has only One purpose, and that is to drop all illusions of separateness, and it will be forever insistent in its quest. So when we refuse or ignore a lesson in our path, it will come back again, perhaps more insistent than it was before. The process is neither a curse nor a blessing, it is just the way of things. For instance if I do not learn long division (or whatever they are teaching these days) in the third grade, as I progress in school it is going to become more and more difficult to “fake it,” and I am going to run into more and more difficulty with math until I finally take the plunge and learn it, but learn it I will, because it is necessary.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“What a trial really is is a set of circumstances that has been designed to light you up in order for you to dismantle the behaviors that created it to begin with. So if you have a certain kind of crisis in your life, you can put money on the fact that it may have been created by you, at a higher level, to move you beyond those issues that originally created it. We will tell you that when these things happen, your journey has an opportunity to take a jump-start. It really is like you can take a big leap forward.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Be at peace, and may all beings be at peace.</span></div>
UNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-60723836801378527552015-07-25T10:27:00.000-07:002015-07-27T14:31:17.004-07:00IN MY KNOWING 6-TRIALS<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found myself very much wanting to move on from “IN MY KNOWING.” I was, or I should say, my ego was exhausted with all this awareness. It’s much more comfortable being asleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But then I noticed the next chapter was TRIALS. “Oh no”, I thought, “not more problems!” I will get that in a few moments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The core substance of this last lesson in the KNOWING chapter is the meditation on. p. 256-258. I’m going to make a recording of that and attempt to embed a link on this blog site. If I cannot do that, I will have the meditation available on the Christ in Training site.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I am Word through my knowing of myself as Word.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“I am Word through my understanding of this information that I am now receiving. I am Word through my creations. I am Word through all that I see before me. I am Word through my willingness to know myself as who I am in truth. Word I am Word through this intention. I am Word. I am Word. I am Word. So be it.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">We will come to realize this is not about God testing us, it s more about how we begin to express what we have already been learning. I guess it is the difference between looking at life as being classroom or even a play ground rather than an obstacle course or a "valley of tears."</span></b></div>
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UNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-68832827704743409542015-07-15T13:35:00.000-07:002015-07-25T10:17:46.393-07:00I AM IN MY KNOWING 5<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was pondering this idea of "needing approval" and although it made perfect sense, it seemed somewhat limited. There are certainly areas in my life when/where I feel the need for approval, or the need for reassurance, or the need for confirmation, or the need for acceptance, or love or a reminder that I am OK, etc. So I think all these things are an aspect of what the book refers to as approval.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And why is that so important? Let's recall what we are about here--TO BE IN OUR KNOWING.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can tell when I am <span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">not</span> in my knowing--whenever I am in one of those needy places mentioned above. As the book states so beautifully: </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“The need to be approved of actually vanishes when you are in your knowing at the frequency that we speak of. And the reason is very simple. There is nothing to be gained from it. You are not looking for affirmation for yourself from outside of you because it’s not required. The well that is you is full. You do not need to have it from another source.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I am reminded this is a moment to moment awareness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I AM IN MY KNOWING--there are times when I am very aware of being in my knowing, and other times when I am lost in the consciousness of thinking that my knowing is not enough. And this is part of the human condition, for all of us. So when I become aware that I am being snotty, or impatient or angry or bitter, etc. I realize I am <u>not</u> in my knowing. I am not in my knowing of myself as being a child of God, unconditionally loved, etc. Now that is a extremely important awareness. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">I also must realize that if I observe another as being petty, bossy, selfish, etc. instead of judging or reacting I can be aware that, in this moment, they are not in their knowing (</span>the<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span>have<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> forgotten who they are), and I can pray they return to it. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I recall Ram Dass introducing a talk he was giving by saying, "I want you to realize we are all playing a game. The game is called 'I know, and you don't.' So I am up here and you are back there. But please remember it is only a game."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I might have different experiences than you, but we all have different experiences. Experiences contribute to our knowing, but my true knowing of who I am, who God is. Who we are together is an inside job, and we all participate in this awareness when we choose to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This whole piece is an exercise in AWARENESS OF MOTIVE. What moves me, motivates me; what are the values attached to my actions?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are challenged this coming week—and I will share in this challenge—to periodically check ourselves out as to why we are doing what we are doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So much of life is spent in “robot mode” when our only motivation is habit, conformity, and “herd” mentality. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is only by raising our consciousness, our awareness that we can also raise the frequency/vibration of our thoughts and actions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Letting go of our limiting ego consciousness is another way of looking at all this. One of the ways I can discover or explore my now neediness are the times when I can ask myself, “How much approval do I need?” and when the answer is “give me more” I can certainly know I am feeding the ego which has endless hunger. It’s like what Joh D. Rockefeller when asked “How much is enough money?” He replied, “Just a little bit more.”</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Approval, the need for approval outside of a teaching tool and outside of a way of gauging behavior on a moment-by-moment level, is actually not very helpful. “I want my teacher to approve of me when I do the math problem right,” is actually okay to the extent that it supports you in your learning. But it also creates a pattern of pleasing others so that your own information, and gathering of information, is done to appease an authority figure. Do you understand this? So while there are benefits, you are also placing into practice problems that will have to be contended with in the future.”</span></b></div>
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After he had journeyed,<br />
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And he was tired,<br />
He came upon an orange grove<br />
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And he lay in the cool,<br />
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And he asked, and he saw the tree above him, and the stars,<br />
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And the light, and the balance.<br />
And he saw magnificent perfection,<br />
Whereon he thought of himself in balance,<br />
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Just open your eyes,<br />
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The way it's always been.<br />
Just open your heart<br />
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And he thought of those he angered,<br />
For he was not a violent man,<br />
And he thought of those he hurt<br />
For he was not a cruel man<br />
And he thought of those he frightened<br />
For he was not an evil man,<br />
And he understood.<br />
He understood himself.<br />
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Upon this he saw that when he was of anger or knew hurt or felt fear,<br />
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And with his eye of compassion.<br />
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Just open your eyes,<br />
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Just open your mind<br />
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The way it's always been.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In exploring this Sunday's lesson, I found myself making a distinction between knowing/knowing that I know and literally CLAIMING my knowing. The claiming part is an active component to knowing that I think I had missed previously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am not sure how else to explain it, but claiming my knowing truly allows it to become an active part of me.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">There is a short but powerful and beautiful meditation on p. 247-248. The emphasis here is again on claiming your knowing as an integral part of who you are. It is moving from what we normally think of as ‘knowing’ to the experience of knowing, and that is what this work is all about— EXPERIENCE.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Imagine that you see a well, a deep well, and the water is rich and it is light and it is wonderful and it glimmers at the base of the well. And as the well rises, you reach into it with both your hands and you bring the water to your face. You drink from this well and you anoint yourself with the deep waters that have come to meet you.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">When you do this, you are simply claiming your own consciousness has risen to meet you in present time. It’s a simple illustration of calling to you the information you need on a level of consciousness to require your response to this information. And that means you can drink from your own information, you can be anointed in your own light, you can call to you the water of Christ that you need. Period.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, our old friend the ego comes along and throws a monkey wrench in the works (it’s just doing its job). “Are you sure you know?” “What if others know more or better than you do?” and on and on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unlike the soul which can be in its knowing, the ego lives in a constant state of worry and doubt. It is always looking for approval and affirmation and whatever it gets is never enough. Just a simple measurement here—when I am in my doubt, I am in the consciousness of my ego; when I am in my knowing I am in the consciousness of Spirit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You might recall when introducing us to the idea of being in your knowing, the guides directed Paul and us to travel to a time in our lives when there was no doubt we were in our knowing—e.g. “I know I am a good teacher.” “I know (this person) loves me. I know I love them.” “I know I love roses.” “ I know this sunset is beautiful.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whatever you would like to put in that space. Once you have a sense of your knowing, then you can pull in some other truths, and be with them in your knowing—“I know I am beloved by the Father.” “I know there have been times in my life when I have been consciously connected to the Christ Consciousness.” etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The the next step that we spoke about above—to claim your knowing—actively holds and expresses it as the truth for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I asked people to do a little homework this week. Simply to become aware of the times when you are in your knowing and the times when you are not (those times when you are experiencing yourself as being needy, seeking approval, etc.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This entire chapter is quite stretching. As per most of this book we are being asked to go beyond our usual boundaries and understanding. One the messages here is that most, if not all, of our boundaries are self-imposed limitations. I know they don’t <u>feel</u> self-imposed because most to them have been with us for so long we look at them as being natural.</span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I am knowing myself as a piece of the Creator. I am Word through this knowing. Word I am Word. I am knowing myself as a Divine Being. Word I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word. I am knowing my actions. I am knowing my needs. I am knowing the requirements for my growth. I am knowing what is needed to bring me to this next level of frequency and I am honoring my knowing every moment of every day. I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As with many passages in this book, this one paragraph sums everything up. This could be my prayer for many lifetimes (if I just take the time to remember it!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we are open to it, we are continually moving from from understanding to experience, because it is with experience we are truly in our knowing. Kind of like the difference between reading a book on swimming and being tossed in the water.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“I am willing to know what I am made of. I am willing to have an experience of it that is tangible to me on a physical level or on a level that is appropriate to my learning.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With this I need to pray that I am open the teaching/learning experiences that are coming to me—not to judge or compare. The ego is filled with drama and desire. Let it go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are also giving ourselves the opportunity to learn by experiencing the energy of others. I think I have already shared one of my favorite examples of being able to experience energy, but just on case you missed it!): imagine you are standing alone in an elevator and you close your eyes, put cotton in your ears, so essentially you have shut off your sensory input—notice though you would still be aware if someone else go on the elevator. You would know it even if you could not explain it. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">You experienced an energy moving into your energy field. Now take this a step further. I am sure there have been times in your life when you ave walked into a room or store and felt some really bad vibes, even though </span>there<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> was no obvious </span>reason<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> for those </span>sensations.<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> There have probably been other times when you have been with someone you are close to and even though there were no external indicators that this person was in distress, you still knew it.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In all of those situations and similar ones, you were in your knowing, and in your knowing about another person. So we are not stretching things too far by suggesting that we have this ability to a much greater degree than we have realized or admitted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now it is not about taking that energy on, but moreabout becoming aware of it is there. Many you who have practice some energetic forms of healing are aware this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is a wonderful older film called Resurrection, telling the true story of a woman who discovered she has miraculous healing power, but what she would do (because there was no instruction manual to go along with the gift) is that she would take on the illness herself and somehow release and transform it in her own body.—-that is NOT the way it needs to be done.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“So we will tell you this: We invite you now to go out to someplace where there are people and there is quiet. And this can be a restaurant. It can be a twelve-step meeting. It can be a class. It can be an office. It does not really matter. But we want you to be in your frequency in an expanded state. Feeling your frequency around you. And we want you to see the ones before you.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>You can choose one person if you wish. And you will see them. And you will invite yourself to begin to see them as frequency. </b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>You do not do this through effort, you do this through intention.</b></span><b> When you do this, of course, your eyes will be relaxing and you will be allowing the energies to make themselves known to you psychically through the third eye that we have decided is now going to be unblocked. You may first see a small field of energy vibrating very quickly around a part of the body, and then another. But you may see a large expanse of energy. Distance is supportive of this when you are first beginning to see. And seeing from a distance will allow you to relax your eyes, to unfocus them, to begin to experience the energy field of your subject.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">We would like you to do this once a day and see the differences as you begin to journey into this realm of understanding energy in a practical way. We are talking practically here. We want you to have an experience that you can lay claim to. Beyond deciding that the text is truthful, we have said to you again and again that this work must be experiential, so we want you to experience and that will align your knowing.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was both interested and fascinated by Victoria’s questions and the guide's answers, but what opened up for me was the awareness that there is so much more transpiring than just here on Planet Earth and the rest of the material world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We speak of three dimensions (or four if you want to include time); how much more is there????? many dimensions, many universes, many planes of existence, and we are a tiny part of this whole thing. That is both astounding and humbling.</span></div>
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UNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-56061892365238041992015-06-17T12:49:00.003-07:002015-06-17T12:49:42.627-07:00I AM IN MY KNOWING 2<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just a general reminder: all of the prayers/affirmations in this text, which are usually indented, are statements of truth that is happening NOW. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oftentimes we think of affirmations as being a thought, idea, quality or material thing we are desiring to manifest. In this book, all the subjects of affirmation already exist; we are affirming their truth when we say them out loud or to ourselves.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“I am one with my Creator and I am journeying to my place of unification with that consciousness. As I identify with that aspect of the self that is the Creator, I rise in frequency and the journey commences quickly.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Much of this chapter is about answering the question, “Who are you?” As I’ve mentioned many times before most of us are confronted with a similar question as children, “Who do you think you are?” Like most of you I was completely befuddled. I felt I was being accused of something, and I was not sure what it was, and I did not have a clue as to how to what kind of response to give. Today it would be wonderful to answer, “I am a holy child of God, unconditionally loved—-and so are you!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How you express God, love, the Christ through you is not dependent on your job or anything else. It is simply your willingness to express God though your being as a doctor or teacher or window washer. Doesn’t matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Something else I’ve said before, “The good news is you are not who you think you are.” You are not letting go of yourself so much as you rereleasing those forms, those lables, those old definitions that no longer serve you. And by doing so you can become more deeply aware of the truth of who you truly are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The practices that are encouraged here are about being in your knowing, and operating from that truth. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">We’ve looked at a few examples of what that means, but I realize the concept can still be a bit confusing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Very simply, if you are reading this, you are in your knowing. You “followed” your knowing to get here, you are in your knowing as you read this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, then you might ask, “When am I NOT in my knowing?” I guess the answer to that one is "You are always in your knowing, you are just not always aware of it.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That is what being Aware and affirming "I am in my knowing" is all about. When I affirm "I am in my knowing" I immediately go to a different place of awareness than my everyday consciousness.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“I am Word through my body. Word I am Word. I am Word through my vibration. Word I am Word. I am Word through my knowing of myself as Word.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Relinquishing the past involves many, many things, including a lack of response to those things that you believed that you would never have to let go of.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What works for me the best is being aware when the knee-jerk occurs—this reaction to life from fear, or guilt or some other sort of victimhood, and then consciously decide to do something different. For instance if I see or hear an angry person, my first unconscious response might be to feel my gut clinch and a desire to run. As soon as I become aware that internal reflexive response I can then remind myself this has nothing to do with me, and I can send that person love, light, peace. AND I can also consciously choose to leave that place if I desire to do so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As an introduction I would like to address two questions that came up Sunday, both of which are extremely important to this chapter. (Please be aware, these answers along with most of what is posted on this blog are a reflection of my own learning and consciousness at this time.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Question #1 “Is the kind of knowing that is referred to here the same as faith?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Somehow the idea of faith has gotten watered down over time. When we believe something or “take it on faith” we are usually agreeing to an idea that we would like to be true, want to be true, but have no real substantiation for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I believe faith is another way of knowing, a kind of knowing that goes beyond or deeper than the intellect, the emotions, and the material world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let me give an example. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let us suppose you are by yourself and you ask yourself the question, “Do I believe that I am loved?” I could go through whole check list, “Well, I got hug yesterday, he/she smiled at me, they told me that they loved me, etc.” and this all very nice, but it is not here right now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How do you know you are loved? Most of the time the answer will be, “I just know it!” and you are correct. You <span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">know</span> that it is true. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is not that you just have faith that it might be true, you <span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">know</span> it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ask again, “How do you know?” and you might reply, “Well I feel it in my gut, there is a part of me, in the depth of my being that responds with that knowing.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Question #2 Many spiritual books refer to the word feeling as being a way of knowing the truth. How does that work?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Again, there is a bit of a language lapse here. There are feelings and then there are <span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">feelings</span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Imagine what it would be like to base all of our actions and behaviors on how we feel emotionally. For example, I wake up and I’m angry because the alarm didn’t go off, then I feel happy because I smell coffee being made, then I’m annoyed because there are towels all over the bathroom floor, then I’m delighted because there is some hot water, then I’m annoyed because someone ate the last english muffin—and on and on. I am certainly feeling everything, but letting these feelings run my my life does not guide me very well or contribute to my growth and peace of mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Suppose I decided I was not going to work because I didn’t feel like it? (I would not have a job very long)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are also times when I don’t feel like loving myself or someone else, does that mean I don’t love them or shouldn’t love them or can’t love them? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course not. I can love you even if I don’t feel it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think that when spiritual authors use the word feeling they are referring to something much deeper than superficial emotions. Again, we do not have a descriptive language for this, but let’s explore a few examples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We can <b>feel</b> the Presence of God/of Love, can’t we? Now that is not a feeling in the emotional sense, but it is a <span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><b>knowing.</b></span> I can <b>have a sense</b> of what is the best thing for me to do right now; I can be <b>drawn to</b> a certain prayer or book. I can <b>know</b> that I am loved even if I do not feel it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So this is what I believe spiritual teachers are speaking of when they talk about feelings, and how they can guide us.</span></div>
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I would like to remind myself and all of us that when we come across a passage in the book in quotation marks (and usually indented towards the middl of that page) that these are affirmations of Truth. They are not simply statements of what we desire or what we would like, they are statements/prayers/affirmations of Reality and Truth—and with these books they manifest an energy and a power as well.</span></div>
UNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-35316325365201276552015-06-07T13:45:00.002-07:002015-06-07T13:45:45.373-07:00NAVIGATION 5<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Instead of trying to get rid of the dark, “bring in the light.” (p.213)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How simple and profound and how easily forgotten. So many of my struggles could be eliminated if I would remember that one. Bringing in the light is so much more helpful than trying to chase away the dark or endlessly spinning my wheels examining every negative thought that comes along.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then there is probably one of the most important piece of our journey—self- forgiveness:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“I am Word through my belief that I may now be forgiven for anything real and imagined. And I now allow that aspect of myself that believes that he is outside of the light to be embraced by the light and transformed in the light of the Creator. I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As the guides continually teach so lovingly—this work is about experience—and here we are being instructed about the experience of forgiveness, beginning with ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was reminded of something Marian Williamson teaches as a way of moving past negativity. Ask the question: “What thoughts am I thinking that God is not thinking?” and even more poignant, “What thoughts am I thinking <b>about myself</b> that God is not thinking.” </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“The more focused you are in your intention right now to become into alignment with your Christ Self, the more focus you have as a frequency and the higher you rise.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You are a beam of light—you are not a body, not a mind, not a jumble of feelings—you are so much more than all of that. I’d suggest practicing that one. I am a bean of light at Kroger’s; I am beam of light at work, I am a beam of light listening to music; I am a beam of light cleaning the toilet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We can continue to create and act out of a lower or a higher frequency, with our thinking our words, our actions. A great example of that is something similar to the the Buddhist recommendation for Right Speech—before saying anything ask yourself, “Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?” What quiet world it would be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the things I am so attracted to in this work is that it stays away from comparisons , judgment and arguments. So instead of suggesting that there is something wrong with a persona or an ego, or a limited sense of self, it suggests that this thinking and identification can change, be transformed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you know that you are transforming? That the work you are doing, the reading, the Sunday gatherings, are all contributing to your growth, and the transformation of the planet. I really believe that and I am so grateful to all of you for being part of this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In closing I would like to hare that marvelous line from the Crosby, Stills and Nash song <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Suite Judy Blue Eyes</span>: “Don’t let the past remind us of what we are not now.”</span></div>
UNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-2646474968952156522015-05-21T12:23:00.005-07:002015-05-21T12:23:53.305-07:00NAVIGATION 4<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the many reasons for attraction to works like this is not only do they offer wonderful and inspiring ideas, but they also offer spiritual experience—and this is what we all hunger for—it is what much of what traditional religion did not give us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Carl Jung went so far as to say, "One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.”</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“You are a vessel for spirit. You are precluded from that experience by the personality ego self, who decides what you should be for you. So that is the death, or the transition, that you are going to undertake. It’s going to be about the release of the false self to allow your own light as the Christ consciousness to manifest through you fully. This is joyful. This is a course of wonder for all of you. And it is a process of acclimation and decision, as we have thus far described to you. But death of the personality self at the level that we are discussing must be understood simply as a transitioning and a re-appropriation of who you think you are.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“To be the Christ means to be in the frequency of the Christ consciousness and to manifest the Self at that level. That is very, very different than deciding that you are the one doing this and that you can lay claim to that as a title at the exclusion of anybody else. When you do that, you are making yourself special and you are in your ego.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When our feeling/emotional self is aligned with our spiritual experience that can be a huge rush, a tremendous high, and I think that is a glorious thing. It is quite easy and seductive to become attached to the feelings, and when the feelings are not there, we can think the spiritual experience is not there either. We might think as Paul did that he “did something wrong” to lose the connection. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All of us have experienced times when we did not “feel” like loving someone, but we also realized that just because we didn’t feel like it, we could still love and be loving. We did not let our feelings get in the way of our ability to express our truth.</span></div>
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UNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-25846589555574576032015-05-16T07:35:00.001-07:002015-05-16T07:35:31.044-07:00NAVIGATION 3<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Energy does not leave, it only transforms,” or as ACIM puts it, "Ideas do not leave their source" both of which are other ways of stating “We are always in the presence of God, the presence of love.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Once you understand that your physical body will not be here one day in its present form but you will exist in another form again and again and again, you have a much easier time being here because you don’t have to hold on so tight. This is not your last meal. You don’t have to stuff yourself and grab from your neighbor and feast until you’re sick because there’s nothing else coming. You have thousands of years and more and more and more of existence before you.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It’s all learning. I’m going to share my own version of an older metaphor about life and it s meaning:</span></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: medium;">“You are the son of a loving father and you are asked if you would be willing to leave your country and explore a part of the unknown world so you could bring back what you discover to your father's kingdom. So you do; you volunteer to take this on, and you are reminded that the journey will be arduous and that there might be difficult times </span><span style="font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">of loss and confusion, </span>and<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> times when </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: medium;">you will even forget the purpose of your mission. Despite all of this you decide to go on this quest/this journey so that you can add to your father's glory. You will be the father's eyes and ears and what you bring back will be experience.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He replied, the purpose of life is: “To be the eyes and ears and heart and mind of the creator of the universe.” Isn’t that great?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also recalled when a master was asked what death is like, and he replied, “It is like taking off a shoe that is too tight.”</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“But there is a death of the ego self that we are going to address now because you might as well be prepared for what is to come. Now this is not a hard death, this is nothing terrible, nor is it even really a trial. It’s simply a matter of outgrowing a personality self that has believed it would be in control for the rest of your existence. It’s that simple.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this beautiful passage Kahlil Gibran offers his reflections on parents and children, a powerful bit of wisdom about letting go of our supposed roles in life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember when you were a child and some adult would inevitably ask, “Who do you think you are?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I never had an answer to that one (because the question was always asked in such a belligerent kind of way), but what would it have been like if I had replied, <b>“I am a Divine child of God, unconditionally loved, and so are you!”</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Now the vibration next to you is still vibrating at that frequency without the vocabulary or the focus or the exercises. But right now you have them. So when we speak of co-resonance and the individual change impacting the global change, it is really as follows: One person wakes up, the next person wakes up, they wake up ten, and a thousand, and on and on and on.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we pick up the challenge of spiritual growth, again with the tools of willingness and intention, all the stuff that might have been in our way comes into our consciousness to be healed, transformed or let go of.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This story from Aikido master Terry Dobson is one of my favorites because it shows how to bring about harmony by embracing conflict with compassion and understanding: The train clanked and rattled through the suburbs of Tokyo on a drowsy spring afternoon. Our car was comparatively empty, a few housewives with their kids in tow, some old folks going shopping. I gazed absently at the drab houses and dusty hedgerows. At one station the doors opened and suddenly the afternoon quiet was shattered by a man bellowing violent, incomprehensible curses. The man staggered into our car. He wore laborer’s clothing and he was big, drunk, and dirty. Screaming, he swung at a woman holding a baby. The blow sent her spinning into the laps of an elderly couple. It was a miracle the baby was unharmed. Terrified, the couple jumped up and scrambled toward the end of the car. The laborer aimed a kick at the retreating back of the old woman but missed as she scuttled to safety. This so enraged the drunk that he grabbed the metal pole in the center of the car and tried to wrench it out of its stanchion. I could see that one of his hands was cut and bleeding. The train lurched ahead, the passengers frozen with fear. I stood up. I was young then, some twenty years ago, and in pretty good shape. I had been putting in a solid eight hours of aikido training every day for the past three years. I liked to throw and grapple. I thought I was tough. The trouble was, my martial skill was untested in actual combat. As students of aikido, we were not allowed to fight. Aikido, my teacher had said again and again, is the art of reconciliation. Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection to the universe. If you try to dominate people, you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it. I listened to his words. I tried so hard. I even went so far as to cross the street to avoid the kids, the pinball punks who lounged around the train station. My forbearance exalted me. I was both tough and holy. In my heart, however, I wanted an absolutely legitimate opportunity whereby I might save the innocent by destroying the guilty. This is it, I said to myself, as I stood up. People are in danger. If I don’t do something fast, somebody will probably get hurt. Seeing me stand up the drunk recognized the chance to focus his rage. “Ah ha!” he roared. “A foreigner! You need a lesson in Japanese manners.” I held on lightly to the commuter strap overhead and gave him a slow look of disgust and dismissal. I planned to take this turkey apart but he had to make the first move. I wanted him mad so I pursed my lips and blew him an insolent kiss. “All right,” he hollered, “You’re going to get a lesson.” He gathered himself for a rush at me. A fraction of a second before he could move, someone shouted “Hey!” It was ear-splitting. I remember the strangely joyous, lilting quality of it as though you and a friend had been searching diligently for something and he had suddenly stumbled upon it—“ Hey!” I wheeled to my left, the drunk spun to his right. We both stared down at a little old Japanese man. He must have been well into his seventies, this tiny gentleman, sitting there immaculate in his kimono. He took no notice of me but beamed delightedly at the laborer as though he had a most important, most welcome secret to share. “Come here,” the old man said in an easy vernacular, beckoning to the drunk. “Come here and talk with me.” He waved his hand lightly. The big man followed as if on a string. He planted his feet belligerently in front of the old gentleman and roared above the clacking wheels. “Why the hell should I talk to you?” The drunk now had his back to me. If his elbow moved so much as a millimeter I’d drop him in his socks. The old man continued to beam at the laborer. “Whatcha been drinkin?” he asked, his eyes sparkling with interest. “I’ve been drinking sake,” the laborer bellowed back, “and it’s none of your business.” Flecks of spittle spattered the old man. “Oh, that’s wonderful,” the old man said, “absolutely wonderful. You see I love sake too. Every night me and my wife, she’s seventy-six you know, we warm up a little bottle of sake and we take it out in the garden and we sit on our old wooden bench and we watch the sun go down and we look to see how our persimmon tree is doing. My great-grandfather planted that tree and we worry about whether it will recover from those ice storms we had last winter. Our tree has done better than I expected though, especially when you consider the poor quality of the soil. It is gratifying to watch </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You and I are in training to become conscious, compassionate beings, in the truest and deepest sense. Become an instrument of joy, an instrument of equanimity, an instrument of presence, an instrument of love, an instrument of availability, and at the same moment absolutely quiet. Since we all spend so much time in our relationships, why not turn them into a yoga for getting free? Living a spiritual life is a strategy for working on yourself for the benefit of all beings. That’s another way of saying that the optimum thing you can do for someone else is to work on yourself —not out of some idealistic sense of altruism, but because getting to oneness for yourself means resolving your sense of separateness to where we’re all family. Use every situation you have with other people as a vehicle to work on yourself. See where you get stuck, where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the other stuff. Use your life experiences as your curriculum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, I screw up; I make mistakes; I make errors in judgement, and all of those can be called steps backward in they eyes of the world, but in this mysterious, remarkable journey of Spirit, we are always moving forward, learning, growing, evolving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>“The Christ that is within you, “Word I am Word” if you wish, the manifestation of this is coming into being.</b> How long it will take is up to you, because you have requirements for your growth. You each do. And this does not absolve you of any responsibility. In fact, it requires you to face yourself again and again and again and regard yourself as perfect, and a perfect creation of the Father, of the Universe, of the Christed Self made manifest. Because that will then enable you to transform, to release, to transmute those energies that impede this being from coming into being in its completeness.”</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“I am now standing on a street corner, and my own perfection is reflected back to me through all that I see. I am experiencing myself as my Perfected Self in consciousness. And what is reflected back at me is my own perfection. I have wisdom now available to me and I will ask myself what I need to know. I have understanding available to me and I will consciously connect to my understanding in a way that will give me the information and knowing that I require. I listen with new ears, as I understand the requirements for my own growth. I am Word through this intention, to know myself, to experience myself, as my Christed Self. Word I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A favorite cartoon of mine shows a man tied up in a straight jacket hanging from a tree and below him is a bearded guy serenely sitting and meditating. The caption reads; “What is the difference between mystic and psychotic?” “The mystic knows who <span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">not</span> to talk to.”</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“I am Word through my being. Word I am Word. I am Word through my consciousness. Word I am Word. I am Word through that which I perceive, that which I hear, that which I know, and that which I understand. I am Word. I am Word. I am Word. So be it.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For many years I have waited for change to happen. There was the Age of Aquarias, the Harmonic Conversion, the Hundredth Monkey, the end of the Mayan Calendar, and many other events in between, all of which seemed to promise huge shifts in consciousness and transformation. As far as I could tell nothing happened. I was the same old mess I always was, and the world was the same nutty place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So when I came across Paul and the guide’s books, I was slyly skeptical. In a very short time, however, I became aware there is an energy at work here that I had not consciously encountered before. I first became more hopeful, then ready to answer the challenge of working on myself and with spiritual help and guidance allow myself to be worked with. It continues to be an invigorating, stretching and lively journey. (And I thank you all for letting me travel with you!) I find it difficult to describe exactly what is different about all this, but I know it is real.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are now offered a choice again. We are participating in the expanded energy of healing and vibration, and by actively participating in the process we are also affecting everyone and everything around us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a constant and continual process. “Word I am Word through everything before me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, many of us are doing this, in the ways described in the book which not only shares the energy, but also a vocabulary and explanation to go with it.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“If you have one high frequency and you place it next to one that is lower, the lower frequency then sees that it can go higher and attempts to resonate with the higher, and that is what is actually happening here. We’re resonating at a high frequency. We’re bringing this frequency to you and saying, “Yes, you can have it. It’s here if you want it. Come on board, the view is much nicer from up here,” so then you climb aboard through these exercises.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not everyone is going to resonate with these books, but everyone who has the willingness and intention to grow and evolve is going to be part of this process, and eventually that means <b>everyone</b>. None of us knows what is going on inside of another and we are advised not to evaluate or judge by what we see on the outside. So let’s not waste our time and energy trying figure out someone else, or trying to evaluate the rest of the world, let’s focus on our own growth and transformation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Anything you want to explore or talk about, please leave comment on this blog site or ask/share in Sunday School).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This next section focuses on guides, spirit guides, or as I like to put it, “We are not alone in the process of growth, healing, and evolution.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do not want to minimize the nature or the power of the “invisible” help that is continually available to us, at the same time, I hold the intention to keep this work as understandable as possible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There continue to be times when I think of myself doing “baby steps” with this work—taking a few toddling, unsteady steps forward, then falling on my hooppy-doopy and getting back up again. (So any doubt or contradictions you see here are reflections of my own resistance and misunderstandings).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many of us grew up with the concept of a guardian angel, a spiritual/non-physical being who was assigned to us at birth to help keep us safe. As a child we might have thought of that protection simply took the form physical safety, and I certainly don’t discount that piece, but I also feel the guidance and protection was far greater than the material. But for many of us as well, our guardian angels went the way of Santa Claus and the easter Bunny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well now we are being introduced to this truth again in an adult sort of way. Just to make it a little simpler, I would suggest we all open our minds to recall an event or two when we experienced ourselves as being directed or guided in such a way that we knew the experience was beyond our thinking/rational mind, and perhaps even more than our ordinary intuition might lead us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would imagine all of us, since we are working past our doubts., fears, etc., can recall such times and be grateful for them. Well, now we are opening the door to a deeper realization of the loving entities that are part of this whole growing and evolutionary process of becoming the truth of who we are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’t’s no secret as we read this first book (and the others) that what we call the guides are revealing truth, guidance and information in a deeper and more profound way than we might have experienced in the past. I presume that we are all feeling and/or resonating to a deeper frequency of truth that we might have before. I think that is why all of us are here. Whether we feel it, know it, want it, or hope that it is here, all of these sensations are manifestations of our participating in a higher level of truth than we have in the past. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We did a meditation which was partly outlined on p. 187—88, and I recalled a saying from ACIM, which I will attempt to quote as closely as I can. (I was not able to find it on the book) “The ego tells us that if we are to real ourselves as we truly are that others would run away in horror, whereas the truth is they would be overcome by the Light.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again. But just as the hour-hand of the watch goes up to twelve and down to six, so, too, there is day and night, waking and sleeping, living and dying, summer and winter. You can't have any one of these without the other, because you wouldn't be able know what black is unless you had seen it side-by side with white, or white unless side-by side with black.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"In the same Way, there.are times when the world is, and times when it isn’t, for if the world went on and on without rest for ever and ever, it would get horribly tired of itself. It comes and it goes. Now you see it; now you don't. So because it doesn't get tired of itself, it always comes back again after it disappears. It's like your breath: it goes in and out, in and out, and if you try to hold it in all the time you feel terrible. It's also like the game of hide-and seek, because it's always fun to find new ways of hiding, and to seek for someone who doesn't always hide in tile same place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"God also likes to play hide-and-seek, but because there is nothing outside God, he has no one but himself to play with. But he gets over this difficulty by pretending that he is not himself. This is his way of hiding from himself, He pretends that he is you and I and all the people in the world, all the animals, all the plants, all the rocks, and all the stars. In this way he has strange and wonderful adventures, some of which are terible and frightening. But these are just like bad dreams, for when he wakes up they will disappear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Now when God plays hide and pretends that he is you and I, he does it so well that it takes him a long time to remember where and how he hid himself. But that's the whole fun of it—just what he wanted to do. He doesn't want to find himself too quickly, for that would spoil the game. That is why it is so difficult for you and me to find out we are God in disguise, pretending not to be himself. But when the game has gone on long enough, all of us will wake up, stop pretending, and remember that we are all one single Self—the God who is all that there is and who lives for ever and ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Of course, you must remember that God isn't shaped like a person. People have skins and there is always something outside our skins. If there weren't, we wouldn't know the difference between what is inside and outside our bodies. But God has no skin and no shape because there isn't any outside to him. The inside and the outside of God are the same. And though I have been talking about God as 'he' and not 'she,' God isn't a man or a woman. I didn't say ‘it’ because we usually say ‘it’ for things that aren't alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"God is the Self of the world, but you can't see God for the same reason that, without a mirror, you can't see your own eyes, and you certainly can't bite your own teeth or look inside your head. Your self is that cleverly hidden because it is God hiding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>“To see the soul of another man is a huge gift. To look into the eyes of a woman and see the perfection that she truly is is a magnificent moment. To lay the hands on a child in the knowing that child can be healed is a deep privilege in service to your Creator. We do not do this from a place of ego. We do this from a place of liberation of consciousness. And part of the liberation of consciousness is, of course, to realize how completely interconnected you all are as energy frequencies. You are a huge group of energy configurations tied together, bumping into one another in your perfection all the time. The illusion in the sepa<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">rateness of your Creator has manifested finally in the belief that you are separate from one another. And the first step towards realizing your unity with your Creator is to understand that all men are one.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A continuing reminder here: what this book and this chapter are all about is expanding our awareness beyond limitations. Those limitations could be self-imposed, such as , “Well all these psychic gifts or skills you are talking about are for people who are much more spiritually advanced" or a more subtle one is, “ I don’t really need/want that stuff.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We did not invent most of these self-imposed limitations, we usually took them on from other people and other learning that we have done. There are also many limitations that come from our heritage or cultural background, “The Irish are this" or that "Portuguese are like that” or that “Catholics think this way.” Take your pick. Our minds are full of that kind of useless trash. It’s worse than useless; it's harmful. Those limiting and separating kinds of ideas have put us in a box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would encourage us all to become more aware of our own little practices of awareness, making room for listening to the Spirit, and be aware that even if you do not have a specific form for entering into the quiet, your willingness and intention pave the way for your ability to listen and hear.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“I am now choosing to hear myself, to know myself, to communicate with myself in the higher frequencies. I know what I know and the fear-based voice is being replaced once and for all by the Higher Self, the Christed Self that knows who he is. I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.”</span></b></div>
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UNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-73983989824177295592015-04-01T18:28:00.001-07:002015-04-01T18:28:22.164-07:00IDENTIFYING AS WORD 3<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“To see the soul of another man is a huge gift. To look into the eyes of a woman and see the perfection that she truly is is a magnificent moment. To lay the hands on a child in the knowing that child can be healed is a deep privilege in service to your Creator.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Such a beautiful passage, and one that lets us know we have already used these skills, perhaps quite often, without thinking about it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As the book states this is not a book on psychism, it is a book abut claiming our inheritance and using all of the creative God-given skills we have for the betterment of ourselves and the world.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“The illusion in the separateness of your Creator has manifested finally in the belief that you are separate from one another.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We might usually look at this the other way around, and I guess it really doesn’t matter what we think comes first, just so we realize separateness is not the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There were Christian saints who would go into an ecstatic trance in saying the words “Our Father” and that is as far as they would get in saying the Lord’s Prayer. I’m not quite there yet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’m at the stage where I am intellectually aware of my Oneness with God, and that all of us are One also, but I am not living out of it yet. My bouts with judgment, self-centeredness, anger, fear are continuing reminders of where I need to go. So instead of dwelling on the negative, here is where the adage, “Work with what’s already working” comes in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Decide for yourself what are those times, those circumstances, those activities that allow you to experience Oneness and DO IT MORE!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Going back for a moment to the treatise on perfection that we began with: If you are perfect in a higher frequency and you can begin to accept this and make the decision, “Yes, I can accept this,” and then the second decision, “Yes, I am willing to believe that I can incorporate and inhabit the gifts of the spirit through my consciousness to develop the abilities of responding, and seeing and feeling frequency at a higher level,” then you will say, “I am ready for this.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">We are not making you supermen. We do not ascribe to that belief. We are saying you are already, you just forgot it. You forgot it. You forgot it. Period.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And the next step is <b>“for you as a culture is to begin to respond to yourselves as Divine Beings.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is where we are headed. As each one of us becomes willing our whole energy changes and we change or raise the energy/vibrational level of all beings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And anther key phrase here: <b>“You can support the transformation of your fellow through your own perfection.”</b> How about meditating on that one?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All of these skills and their practice are bringing us to a deeper awareness Oneness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It might have seemed a little bit freaky stepping into someone else’s skin and even being that person for a moment, but really we have done this one already as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was reminded of that overly used question a few years ago, “What would Jesus do?" and you could put any in there, Buddha, Mother Theresa, or your Saintly aunt Jane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Notice what you are doing here. You are not just thinking “What would….do?” You are literally stepping into their being and feeling or seeing as that other person would. You did that without thought, without effort, and you also probably received the information you required as well.</span></div>
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UNITY SUNDAY SCHOOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533439862854245869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512963919254574236.post-8707487412736449592015-03-26T17:41:00.002-07:002015-03-26T17:41:53.150-07:00IDENTIFYING AS WORD 2<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You have to say on a certain level that “I will allow myself to begin to experience my experience in a dimensional way that exceeds the limitations that I was told I was allowed to have.” When you say, “Yes,” to this, you actually unlock a door in perception, in the perception of other realms of experience. And they can begin to address you through your consciousness. p. 172</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a tough one for many of us. We have been taught to live in limitation, and we have also learned to define ourselves within limitation. If we perceive the world and other people as being unsafe, then we learned it is best to keep your head down. If you have a gift, keep it to yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My ego became all involved when the book started speaking of clairvoyance, etc. I had the ridiculous image of me wearing a robe and a turban on my head holding crystal ball. And then I began to thank how cool it would be to have those other gifts; then I ought, "Well they haven't manifested yet, maybe I’m doing something wrong." And,of course, I wound up getting myself tied up in knots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned,[</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(99, 30, 22); color: #631e16;">a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">] but have not love, I gain nothing."</span></div>
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