Spirit Quest Essay

SPIRIT QUEST ESSAY

A year ago I became very ill and I also developed narcolepsy. I had to make rapid changes in my life, resign from my job as a crisis nurse, and I was going to have to stop driving. My ex-husband and I had been friends for years. He extended an invitation for me to relocate from Virginia back to Minnesota and to house share with him. So I chose this option.

I left a career, a cottage that I had redone, friends, the ocean, mountains and so much more, so there were a lot of losses. No longer being able to drive was also a life changing event and a huge loss.

On the positive side, I was able to activate my retirement, I would be closer to my sons and grandchildren, and, I was going to be given a lot of time to pursue some things I had not had time for earlier in my life.

I had conversations with Amy Long regarding the seminary program and what courses to take. Finally I decided one of the courses would be Spirit Quest. I was going through losses, changes, and it would be a wonderful time to explore different coping methods, to further explore my own spiritual journey, and to also sort out old wounds, traumas, and or dysfunctional behaviors I had created a long this life journey. Since I was no longer going to be able to do many things I had done for so long, it was great time to set new goals based on the many changes and to explore what options I would now have to work with.

I had not realized how deeply the Spirit Quest Course would take me, how deeply I would journey to the past traumas of my life. I had not realized how I would learn to see how those traumas and the dysfunctional coping behaviors I had created were the dark shadows and the demons of my nightmares or how I would learn the new tools taught in this course in how to release what was no longer serving me or my spiritual journey.

One part of this course teaches how to use roses, how to create the image of a rose in our mind, then how to put an unwanted thought, memory, experience, negative energy, negativity that someone else was sending at me, and more, into that rose. Then you blow up the rose. The course also taught how to create grounding cords, which connect one with the earth, which can bring the grounding, healing, constant connection to our earth mother and all the strength and nurturing this will bring. We are also taught how to bring in the golden light from the sun into our space and energy.

These tools become the vehicle that a person can use to travel down those "memory lanes" of trauma, exploring the wounds, the traumas, hurts, or what ever dysfunction that a person may have on that journey. Soon the method becomes easier and easier to use.

As I traveled this path and used the roses, I began to notice how much more quickly I was able to really identify problems, how I was no longer afraid to see them, and how when I did find them, I could then make a choice what I wanted to do with that specific problem. Often that problem would go into a rose and I would explode the rose. I stayed grounded, then brought in the sun and light to heal that energy space, my heart, my child, my mind and emotions and most important, my spirit and or my relationship with my spirit.

As I journeyed these past 8 months through this course, I was also beginning to see how what I was learning affected my relationships and or challenges in the present in increasingly healthy ways. The more of the old dysfunctional behaviors and ways of reacting were being released, the less I needed to be reactive to what some one else was doing or saying, or with their behavior. My objectivity was increasing.

I was also losing the triggers that had been so much a part of my life. So often some thing would trigger a memory, a reaction, an emotion, and these things and their patterns were deeply ingrained in my life. In doing the releasing, the triggers were disappearing as well. Or if I was triggered, I could pop the event that had triggered me into a rose and then take the time to explore the event, then blow up the rose, and bring in the healing light and, of course, I would have stayed grounded with the grounding cord during all of this.

As all of this was occurring, I soon discovered how much easier it was becoming to remain calm when some one else was acting out or sending negativity my way. I was finding I had better sight and better protection, which increased my objectivity with that person or event. What I was learning helped me have clear and more rational thought, and an increased ability to not react, rather, to take the moment to explore what was really going on with that person. Often what was going on had nothing to do with me, other then I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and that person was looking for some thing to dump their anger or frustration on.

So it was becoming easier not to own the other person's reaction, not to react to their behavior, and it became easier to allow them the right to own their problem and reaction. With this skill increasing, it also became easier to, if I chose to do this, assist the person with calming, exploring what their real problem was, and then helping them explore options they could use to manage their problem in a more positive and healthy way.

In these past 8 months additional skills continued to build on the new skills I had been learning. Boundaries were also affected, the ability to create healthier boundaries, the ability to calmly set healthier boundaries, the ability to more clearly state my own needs and what was comfortable for me was increasing.

On the opposite side of this, was growing comfort in knowing the gift of compromise, of more calmly being able to see the other person's point of view or their needs. One example of this is my ex-husband likes more open spaces and does not like clutter. I loved clutter, had lots of collectables, books, art, etc. and had always had these things out about where I could see them.

This was a point of friction between my ex-husband and I in the beginning. Finally one day, I was able to really step into his shoes, understand his perspective, and then I was able to more clearly honor and respect his needs. I chose then to really de-clutter and to really make choices about what I could and needed to release from my life. I got rid of clothes, paintings, art work, books, and so much more. I took time with my things, my collectables, tried to find homes for things that I knew other people might need. I said goodby to so many things.

When it was all over, I discovered how much freer I felt, how it seemed a huge burden had been lifted off of me and how the tremendous chaos piece of my life was being diminished.

There is so much more to this course that I have not even touched on. I would encourage any one that is facing change, or facing the need to change, to explore this course and the many gifts and tools it brings.

At the end of these 8 months, there has been so much clearing on every level of my emotions, memory, spiritual, and even with the things in my physical environment. Clutter on any level comes between us and our Spirit, our Spirits, and the Creator.

The name "Spirit Quest" implies we are going on a search for our Spirit. Before I could go on a search, the course had me getting rid of things. I finally realized that all of those things had been blocking my view and connection with my Spirit. I did not need to go any further to search for my Spirit..........I just need to get rid of stuff.

I wish to thank Amy Long for creating this course and her willingness to share so much of herself, her own journey, and her life. This course has been a wonderful gift to me, my life, my Spirit, and, to those that are in my life and love me. Not only is it easier for me to be with them, it is now much easier for them to be with me.

Thank you for allowing me to share this with you.

Rev. Victoria Hogan

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Why do you Meditate?

Dear ULC, A few months ago, after meditating daily for over a decade without any clear purpose, I finally realized that when one goes into a state of meditation a defined purpose or a question in mind is essential. In meditation, simply focusing on your inner world is not a purpose in itself. You could ask to see who you truly are, or to seek a lasting connection to your Higher Power. These are purposes. Meditation without purpose is a waste of time like all other day-to-day activities; meditation without purpose cannot allow meaningfulness into your life. If this idea seems strange to you, then you are in the right place (reading this Ezine). If you already knew this, then my understanding may not advanced enough for you. Regardless, I have reprinted some article below that I felt may be helpful to all meditators--masters and beginners alike! Spiritual Meditation to Benefit Your Life Now Source: www.Spiritual-Awakening-Now.com Is it possible to discover if there is such a thing called God? If there is such a thing, is it possible for man to see it for himself? Have you ever pondered such a question? With our mind, can we awaken to the unknown? Truth being the unknown cannot be grasped by the intellect. The mind being trapped in the known has no means of reaching the unknown. So, I wonder is there a way to awaken to it at all. Not as a theory. But, actually in this life. To say you cannot without first probing into it for oneself has no meaning. You must look into it for yourself and not accept what another says. Not even what any religion has to say about it. After all, they could be wrong. When at once, you look into it, there is the realization that the conscious mind as self has no means of reaching into the unknown essence. So, what is one to do? The mind as self is the knower, which is the known. That which is the known is trapped in this life and has no relationship with the unknown. The thing is, can you live with the fact of not knowing? The fact of not knowing is such a beautiful thing. What happens when you really see that you have no means of ever knowing the unknown? Do you actually see it, breathe it, feel it completely that no matter what, you can never know, what is God? You have to see through the whole business of searching, not out of incompetence, but out of understanding. If you do not see this clearly, then ignorance will continue trying, regardless. However, to be wise, to be intelligent, is to see this, completely. You have to see the truth of this for oneself. If there is the slightest hint of thinking you can, then the fact is missed. If you do not see all this for yourself, in the shadows, there is the ego still seeking and not realizing that it is limited, trapped in knowledge and time. Therefore, man invented the idea of using something he calls meditation with the intent of stepping out of knowledge and psychological time. Is meditation something you can do, consciously? Are you meditating when you sit down, focusing your breath, and concentrating your mind? What is the entity that is meditating? Is it the self, the ego? Do you see where this is leading? In such meditation, there is the desire to attain and gain something. So, our desires of outward greed continue inwardly in the name of meditation. However, I wonder if this is really meditation. On the other hand, is meditation a completely different thing altogether? Let us see. At first, one may start out trying to meditate and perhaps you realize that it leads nowhere at all. A vicious circle of our thoughts entertaining itself trying to be religious. So, we must ask; is there something that is not mind-made or fabricated by man? I say there is. Actually, it comes when you begin to inquire into yourself. Questioning, probing, and inquiring into the idea of mind as self and thought. Go into it without the slightest desire of attaining or gaining anything from it. Can you do that? When you truly realize the mind as self has no means of reaching the unknown, something happens. An insight comes into being. That insight is the awakening of something the mind cannot touch, coerce, or awaken. This sacred thing, I call spiritual meditation, which comes without any provocation. Simply inquire into every aspect of your life. Then when you least expect it, there is this silent watchfulness that may come into your being. This spiritual meditation is not a thing of the mind. It is this wholeness of perception that transcends the mind as ego. Because spiritual meditation is sacred, it has the power to transform your whole life. Then you will truly know what it means to be religious. Then you will be truly holy. Adonis Alexander http://www.spiritual-awakening-now.com/index.html The next article is titled "Meditating at Work: A New Approach to Managing Overload," please read it here now: http://www.noetic.org/noetic/issue-nineteen-february/meditating-at-work/ And, the last article I would like to share with you: Meditation as a Tool for Stress Management Dr Hens Salye, considered the father of stress awareness defined stress as the rate of wear and tear within the body. He identified two types of stress; Eustress (positive or healthy stress and Distress (negative stress). Generally speaking, stress can be caused by our need to adapt physically, mentally and emotionally to a change. Media articles often talk about stress and the need to manage stress. The remedies suggested implicitly and often explicitly give stress a negative connotation. Changing economic times also put a strain on an individual's stress tolerance and resilience. Very often the pressures and demands between work and personal life become blurred with stress in one area of our life spilling into the other. However, not all stress is negative. At times stress can also be positive and healthy. The ideal situation is to have a healthy level of stress with which we can cope and which does not affect our normal activities and functions. Healthy stress means a healthy person. It's all about stress management. To manage stress, there are 3 fundamental requirements. Firstly, understand what triggers your stress mechanism. This means an honest introspection into the circumstances around you, understanding your personal trigger mechanism and your reactions. This understanding will enable you to mitigate the situations that create unhealthy stress by using the most appropriate stress management tools. Secondly, accept that stress is a part of modern life. We may not have control over our daily stressors but we do have control and choice over how we wish to respond. One useful tool for this is the SWOT analysis wherein you look at yourself and the environment. Think about yourself, and list what Strengths and Weaknesses you possess. Use your strengths to overcome situations and lessen the impact of your weaknesses. These are your internal factors over which you have control. Think about your Opportunities and Threats and list them. These are external factors over which you may or may not have control. Where you have control, action it, where you don't, think of ways to mitigate any harm to the health of your mind and body. Consider confronting the major stress triggers in your life and remind yourself that you and your Higher Self are stronger than any external problem stimuli, take action to reduce the impact of the stress trigger in your life. Once aware of the actual stressors we come to the third requirement – the coping skills required. No two people are the same and what works for one may not be as effective for another. The essential coping skills include healthy diet, adequate rest, time management, assertiveness training and an effective support system of family and friends. Yoga provides us with many coping skills for stress management. The one that I intend to focus on in this article is the use of meditation as a tool for stress management. Meditation can have different meanings for different people depending upon their level of exposure to it and their spiritual development. For some it is a method for relaxation to release their daily stress, for others it is a tool of yoga for enlightenment or a ritual of concentration to raise their awareness. In fact we all meditate at some point without even realising it. For example, when working on a time bound deadline, our focus is single-minded aimed at achieving the successful completion of the assignment. An artist who completes a painting is also meditating in bringing their imagination, feelings and emotions onto a canvas with colours. There are many types of meditation and there is no hard and fast rule as to the one that you can use. It comes down to choice and which technique works best for you. One can meditate without seed thought or engage in abstraction meditation where the goal is to go beyond the mind achieving a peaceful expanded state of consciousness. It is useful for very busy people and involves the use of special breathing techniques and sometimes chanting of specific words or mantras. Used for 5 to 15 minutes it can transform the agitated person to a state of calmness. In yoga, deepening concentration leads to meditation; when you reach a state of pure consciousness while still retaining your awareness of separation. This is what happens during transcendental meditation as well. Meditation is the seventh limb of Yoga where in the mind and body are transcended and total unity exists. While meditating on an object, be it a candle flame, mantra or even a statue, we repeatedly bring our mind back to the object of our concentration. The mind will wander in the beginning but with practice, you will learn to bring your thoughts under control. As a result you will also notice that your ability to concentrate improves in real life. Through this concentration, you remove the external environment and concentrating on one small object, are able to realise your true self. Practised regularly, meditation helps you to discover a sense of purpose and strength, making your thinking clearer and it is not surprising if you suddenly find some of your stressors disappearing. The small inconsequential matters are perceived as such and they lose their control over you, especially your mind. There are two easy techniques for yogic meditation which can be easily used in daily life. Vipasyana Dhyana or Breathing Meditation This technique is well known in yoga and Buddhism and requires concentrating the mind on the act of breathing without trying to influence it. To relax the mind, breathe normally and steadily through your nose. Ensure that your head, neck and trunk are in alignment. Be in a meditative state, and with eyes closed, focus the mind on the breathing. Once comfortable with this breathing, imagine with each inhalation that your body is filling up with divine energy or that the air is pure white and clean. With each exhalation, imagine that you are breathing out all the impurities, negative feelings, your weaknesses and stressors. Imagine that these shortcomings are being eliminated from your body when you exhale in the form of black air. Visualise that your body is becoming alive and radiant through this process. This meditation can be done in the garden surrounded by nature or even in the comfort of your own home. Light candles or incense to create an ambience to further the visualisation used in the breathing technique. You can also practice alternate nostril breathing or Pranayama using the same visualisation technique. Eyes closed, with posture as described above, use your right thumb to close the right nostril and your right ring finger on the left nostril to open or close the nostrils. Close the right nostril and exhale to empty your lungs and then inhale deeply to the count of 4. Close both nostrils and hold till a count of 8 and then keeping the left nostril closed, exhale from the right nostril. Now inhale through the right nostril and exhale from the left using this technique. One inhalation and one exhalation comprise a cycle and to get maximum benefit at least 15 cycles should be completed. Candle gazing This type of meditation is quite easy and better suited for those of us who find it hard to concentrate on a mantra or image as one can hold onto an after image of a bright flame with closed eyes. Place the candle at eye level at a distance of one meter in a dark and draught free room. Sit in a meditative posture with crossed legs with an erect spine. Keeping the eyes wide open and without blinking, gaze at the candle flame until the eyes become watery or tired. When the eyes are tired, gently close them keeping your inner gaze steady, visualize the object and meditate on it. Once the image vanishes, open the eyes and repeat the candle gazing. Please note that it is important that the eyes should be relaxed and no force should be applied otherwise a headache is possible. With practice, you will learn to ignore the irritation and watering of the eyes and the gaze will become steady making the mind single pointed. It is advisable to start this process slowly with say, 10 to 15 seconds at a stretch and with 3 repetitions at a sitting. As time progresses, the duration can be gradually increased by 10 seconds per week. One method of deepening this form of meditation is to visualize that you are breathing in and out the candle light. Feel a sense of purity and clarity infusing your mind and body and eliminating the stress that you have holed up inside yourself. Remaining still and focussing only on the candle flame stills your mind and with single pointed concentration you enter deep relaxing meditation. At the completion of the candle meditation, close your eyes and lie down for a few minutes to allow yourself to return to normal. About Vatsala Shukla, FCA (ICAEW), CLC (CCA) Vatsala Shukla is a Certifed Life Coach who specializes in Stress Management coaching which includes Time Management and Assertiveness Training. She is also a certified Peer Counsellor from the University of the West Indies. She calls her practice Karmically Coaching to indicate the relationship between the client and the coach who is a Karmic Ally. A FCA of ICAEW by qualification, Vatsala has over 20 years of international work experience in diverse globally respected audit/consulting firms, industry and as a business consultant. She has been coaching and mentoring professionals since 1991 within the work environment. The major part of her previous experience in career coaching, counselling and mentoring, revolved around stress and time management. Vatsala is an International Coach affiliated with the Certified Coaches Alliance in Canada and is working towards her Master SPIRIT LIFE Coach certification. She writes regularly on her blog www.karmically.blogspot.com on areas of Stress Management and provides coaching by telephone on various areas of stress and time management. Focus on only one thing at a time. Right here and now. Truth of Love, Jason PS You can expect to receive the next issue of this Ezine on May 18th. As always, you may access your Metaphysical Library here: http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/metaphysicalbonuses.html (please copy-and-paste this link into your browser if it is not clickable). Note: To read previous issues of this newsletter, please go to http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/metaphysicalezine.html, as the back-issues link provided below does not contain the latest issues of Metaphysical Mind. You are subscribed to Metaphysical Mind. The back issues are at the following URL... http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/Metaphysical_Mind-backissues.html If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing, please click on the following URL... http://whatismetaphysics.com/cgi-bin/mailout/mailmgr.cgi?us=LQ.21162597.25487364.ae7b1920f07b53ed1cbd1aa21e513829 (If the above URL is not a link, copy-and-paste the URL into your Web browser. That will confirm your removal.) 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[Metaphysical Mind] Divine Forgiveness

Dear ULC, Dear Reader, Thank-You for reading this issue of the Metaphysical Mind Ezine, guest-authored by Doug E. Holzmeier, which is on the topic of Radical Forgiveness. Before we begin, I would like to share some inspirational quotes with you: I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to, and wondering what life would have been like if I'd just been myself. --Brittany Renée Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way. --J. Michael Straczynski Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it. --Terry Goodkind Now on to the main event... Divine Forgiveness "Loving the unlovable and forgiving the unforgiveable is the Light that illuminates your hour of darkness." --Douglas E. Holzmeier "The chains of the unforgiven are carried by the unforgiving, those who withhold the key to conciliation." Forgiveness, as it has been written, is the gift you give yourself. The pain of the unforgiven pounds heaviest in the hearts of the unforgiving. If you allow yourself to look at even one soul as being unequal, you open the door to that one being you. As I mentioned in the previous chapter, everyone suffers pain and loss. When somebody throws you a ball of dissension you not only don't have to throw it back, you can simply allow it to fall to the ground. We need to start loving and forgiving each other, as it is not only the least we can do, it is the most we can do. "A person who celebrates misfortune invites it in for cake and ice cream." What you counter; you encounter. What you oppose will set up residency next door because the opposition to it resides in your mind. The key to freedom is found in forgiveness. Every day is a great day to present a pardon, if not in person, then in spirit. Pardon precedes peace. If you have ever wondered why there are nations who have been at odds, fighting for thousands of years, it is because neither has pardoned the other for real or imagined injustices. "There is no Peace without forgiveness." A person who attacks is trying to destroy what they don't love in themselves. You cannot love a person while judging them. You are the only one judging. You cannot worship God while holding contempt for your brother, because he was put here by God for you. Sentence yourself and your sister to Peace. "The mercy you share is the God you show." "The mercy you show is the God you share." When the saint and the sinner occupy the same place in your heart, you will occupy the same in God's. Not that we are ever not in God's heart, but you understand the sentiment. We all understand how hard it is to forgive sometimes. For prideful people, forgiveness seems like a concession. The only concession is to love. I guess that is what I am trying to say. Concede to love. Instead of holding on to hate, embrace love. Be merciful. "The day of your last judgment is the first day of your eternal pardon." If you are holding out for an apology, you are creating a vacuum in your mind or heart which you will fill with something less than love. Why compound the pain of a real or imagined injustice? You are picking at your own scab suggesting that the person who caused it is the only one who can heal it. God heals the cuts on your arm as well as the scars on your heart. Allow yourself to heal by loving yourself and accepting and embracing the divinity within. Hard to Say I'm Sorry I have had the privilege of meeting many of the top pop music performers of the past few decades. Some of the nicest people were the biggest stars like Elton John, Phil Collins, Celine Dion, Lionel Richie, Bob Seger, Amy Grant, Barry Manilow, Hall & Oates, and Pat Benatar. I also loved meeting Taylor Dayne, the group America, and Janis Ian, who all came to perform for my radio station in the 1990s while I was programming WKWK-FM. Janis gave our son, Daniel, a child's size guitar. Janis Ian is one of our most treasured artists. I highly encourage you to discover her rich catalog of amazing music. She has also written an incredible autobiography on the ups and downs of life in the music industry, Society's Child, which was the title of her 1967 hit single. I have also met or interviewed members of supergroups such as Journey, Chicago, Styx, Three Dog Night, and REO Speedwagon. These groups are presently missing important parts of their legacy. In 1997 I met Peter Cetera at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. He had a new album to promote. I asked him about the prospects of getting back with Chicago, and he said there had been some talk about a reunion for the 30th Anniversary tour, but it didn't materialize. A few months later, I was at the Star Lake Amphitheater with my friend, B.E. Taylor, who was opening for Chicago. During the Chicago meet & greet, I told the band I had talked with Peter in Cleveland and how he was disappointed that things didn't work out regarding the tour. Most of the band was complimentary of Peter, adding that they hadn't seen him in person since he left the band in the mid 1980s. There was a positive comment made about Peter's vocals on his latest album. I could see in the eyes of the founding members that they loved Peter. There was genuine affection present while we were speaking about the former lead vocalist on Chicago classics like If You Leave Me Now, You're the Inspiration, and Hard to Say I'm Sorry. I heard similar sentiments when speaking with Chuck Negron about Cory Wells and Danny Hutton of Three Dog Night; Dennis DeYoung; when discussing STYX; Steve Perry and Jonathan Cain of Journey fame; and Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon, talking of long time lead guitarist Gary Richrath. You could tell there was much love and affection for these former bands of brothers but a degree of vanity was overriding divinity causing separation and unresolved differences. As a fan of all of these bands, I hope there will come a day of reconciliation and brotherhood. Not to a compromise of principle, but as a concession to love. And know that I'll be first in line to buy a ticket to the show! "When you can look upon the happy man and are happier for having done so, even envy is acquiescent." There is a process called Radical Forgiveness. It is a book written by Colin C. Tipping. I learned about this in one of my religion classes. The idea is simply to stop parsing forgiveness and forgive. We all know about unconditional love, how about unconditional forgiveness? The gift of forgiveness isn't a gift at all if it comes with strings attached. We have to stop seeing others as impediments to our happiness and success. As long as you are placing your prospects for peace, love, and success in the hands and hearts of others, you make them the gatekeepers to your Miracles, when, of course, they all unfold from within us. You are responsible for the acceptance or rejection of God's abundance in all forms. You Are God's Best Idea! Receive forgiveness through forgiving. To learn more about forgiveness go to www.radicalforgiveness.com. The day you decide you have had enough suffering, you will have had enough…suffering. Forgive your divine family and accept your inner divinity and live the Undeniable Life. "Love and forgiveness, with condition, is but a crumb of cheese a top a trap. Unconditional love and forgiveness, sets you free." About the Author: Douglas E. Holzmeier (aka Doug Daniels) is a contemporary mystic who writes about the Law of Attraction and peace, love, and understanding on his blog, Twitter, and Facebook sites. His first book is You Are God's Best Idea! Divine Acceptations and Living the Undeniable Life. Doug has spent most his adult life working in the radio industry. Doug has been an on-air personality in Chicago, Illinois; Columbus, Ohio; Pensacola, Florida; Charleston, West Virginia; Rockford, Illinois; Wheeling, West Virginia; and Tri Cities, Washington, among others. As a program director, his stations have been nominated for Adult Contemporary Station of the Year honors three times. Doug is also available as a motivational speaker, life coach, and on his way to becoming an ordained minister. You can find Doug on the Internet at www.YouAreGodsBestIdea.com. (Audio version of book available for purchase at the website.) Forgive your Ancestors. Forgive your Family. Forgive your enemies and friends. Forgive God. Forgive Earth. Forgive Yourself. May you come to know Truth and Love through divine forgiveness, Jason PS The next issue will be sent to you on May 3rd, and the topic will be meditation. Again, thank you for reading :) As always, you may access your Metaphysical Library here: http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/metaphysicalbonuses.html (please copy-and-paste this link into your browser if it is not clickable). Note: To read previous issues of this newsletter, please go to http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/metaphysicalezine.html, as the back-issues link provided below does not contain the latest issues of Metaphysical Mind. You are subscribed to Metaphysical Mind. 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Dear ULC, I just sent you the 125th issue of the Metaphysical Mind Ezine on the topic of spiritual awakening a few hours ago. However, the most important link in that ezine, which appears three times, does not work! Although the URL is correct, the link will not work if you click on it. Therefore, to access this incredibly important message, please copy and paste the URL directly into your browser or click here: http://www.pfcn.net/Bulletins/requirements%20for%20innoculation%20of%20a%20new%20creation%20-%20revised1.pdf In case you did not receive my earlier email at all, you may access the latest issue in it's entirety on my website here: http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/great-transition-through-spiritual-awakening.html I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you, but I am very glad to be able to remind you about the importance of this essay (especially Section 3 from page 47 onwards). Please do not be discouraged if you do not understand the meaning, as it will become clearer (and more engaging) as you persevere in reading it. Again, I highly recommend you read this very important message regarding spiritual awakening, connecting to Source, and the truth about ascension here: http://www.pfcn.net/Bulletins/requirements%20for%20innoculation%20of%20a%20new%20creation%20-%20revised1.pdf Thank you for your valuable time and support, Jason PS The next issue will be on the topic of divine forgiveness, and you can expect to receive it on April 18th. As always, you may access your Metaphysical Library here: http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/metaphysicalbonuses.html (please copy-and-paste this link into your browser if it is not clickable). Note: To read previous issues of this newsletter, please go to http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/metaphysicalezine.html, as the back-issues link provided below does not contain the latest issues of Metaphysical Mind. You are subscribed to Metaphysical Mind. The back issues are at the following URL... http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/Metaphysical_Mind-backissues.html If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing, please click on the following URL... http://whatismetaphysics.com/cgi-bin/mailout/mailmgr.cgi?us=LQ.21161253.25487364.cd49673c158b602536046e97c01f5779 (If the above URL is not a link, copy-and-paste the URL into your Web browser. That will confirm your removal.) To change your e-mail address, please click on the following URL... http://whatismetaphysics.com/cgi-bin/mailout/mailmgr.cgi?ca=LQ.21161253.25487364.cd49673c158b602536046e97c01f5779 (If the above URL is not a link, copy-and-paste the URL into your Web browser. That will confirm your change.)

[Metaphysical Mind] Great Transitioning through Spiritual Awakening

Dear ULC, As you may know, global awakening is occurring throughout the framework of our existence. This process of re-connecting to spirit has been covered thoroughly by many spiritual leaders, many of whom (myself included) were misinformed or simply unable to access the Truth concerning this process of spiritual transition. We did our best to share the truth as we saw it. I created a blog in 2006 http://SpiritualNewEarth.blogspot.com that I actively posted to for about four years. I also self-published a book in 2007 titled "The Future of the New Earth: A New Vision for Your Reality" in an attempt to provide messages on the year 2012 and spiritual awakening to anyone seeking guidance in these times of great change. Both of these "new earth" resources are still full of excellent material on spiritual transformation and may be quite relevant to many people living here. However, over the past couple of years, I have found it increasingly difficult to effectively communicate these ideas on ascension and the new future clearly. I also came to believe that truth changes. Therefore, I recently took this book off the market (though I just realized that it is still available from the publisher: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/newearth), and I no longer actively promote it (i.e. the website I used to sell it at was taken down, and all links to it from my main free website WhatIsMetaphysics.com were deleted). As the gradual process of spiritual awakening progresses through 2012, however, truth and wisdom are now becoming accessible to all. We can now establish a direct connection with Source, and continue to grow beyond this plane of existence, as spiritual beings. As such, there is some very powerful material on the future of the new earth available, if you know where to find it. Since you are reading this issue of Metaphysical Mind you have found some! There is no doubt in my mind that this is the most important issue of this Ezine I have ever published. It will contain a lot of information, so please do not feel overwhelmed. Scan and read as you feel necessary and always be ready to come back to this material when you feel the need. Spiritual awakening is a choice, not an obligation. I am here to help support you in this process, as supporting others is part of this process for me. I could write on this topic at length, but I have a ton of information I want to make available to you...Again this is, in my opinion, the most important issue of Metaphysical Mind I have ever sent you, so please make the time to understand the information it contains. Let's begin! Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going. --Ayya Khema Why Does All That Is So Un-right Persist As It Does? Written on December 5th, 2011 Source: http://pfcn.net/Bulletins/Update-December-2011.pdf So many persist (understandably) from their human level of awareness to ask why, why why? Why isn't there a magic fix from the higher levels? Why does all this horror at the human level persist? Why, why, oh why? The real question is "why" persist in looking at everything from a personal, human-centric point of view? If that is all that is available, then that is all that will be seen or known. In other words, not much. Except for your own higher levels of being, at the higher levels, there is not a focus on the details of the human life, only the overall facilitation of movement toward the "greater learning" while a much greater process of corrections and new creation energies replace all that has been. From a human-centric point of view, this entire process seems like it is taking way too long. And thus those who are more spiritually aware and awakening will (understandably) at first be very "put out" that now that they are "getting the picture" why isn't everything changing in the human-Earth realm. One of the ending elements is to detach from identifying oneself as human. This is one of the most difficult since to one facet of your human awareness, this may be misunderstood as self-annihilation and to another facet of your awareness it does not. One way of resolving this seeming conflict (which is innately not a conflict) is for the subconscient facets of ones human level of self to become engaged, excited even at the prospect of being included in an expansive journey. Sometimes this is facilitated by rejecting all that is undesirable of the human realm, sometimes this is facilitated by the higher attractors of a freer and more expressive existence. Sometimes a bit of both. But this is one way of ending internal conflict and bringing ones human self into a higher level of internal unity or oneness. Thus the surrender to the higher processes becomes purely voluntary. There is the possibility that a minor fraction humans of this era will persist in physical form and with memories over the coming 5 or 20 years or more. As I have tried to state previously, this will be partly out of habit of the body to persist (survive) no matter what, and partly out of successfully bridging to the higher self and higher Oneness and from such an elevated awareness, continue on here a while longer purely as an act of total service and surrender. I would also anticipate that those who do, will find surprising sources of material and higher level support available. Others will be leaving, a small portion because they really are complete and are focused on the next levels of their development as spiritual beings, and a large portion will be leaving due to extreme changes in the planetary and human social environments. They will find help in the "transition zone" that continues to prepare for such an influx of formerly embodied human selfs and damaged higher self beings no longer tethered here to a human physical presence. -ASK To learn more about ascension and to gain a greater understanding of the self, there is an excellent (though somewhat lengthy) article from the same author as the short article above, beginning on page 7 here: http://pfcn.net/Bulletins/Update-September-2011.pdf The main essay I wish to share with you today may be read here: http://www.pfcn.net/Bulletins/requirements%20for%20innoculation%20of%20a%20new%20creation%20-%20revised1.pdf It was written by a man named Ray Minkler, and it contains many quotes from the same (highly reliable in my opinion) source (pfcn.net) that I am using throughout this ezine issue. I firmly believe that this article contains some of the greatest levels of truth. Please try to get through this article. Even if you do not understand some parts of it (especially in the beginning), simply keep on reading and it will probably become more clear, especially as you get to the end or even perhaps upon a second or third reading. The final section beginning on page 47 is the most important, though the other parts are highly interesting and informative. Again, I highly recommend you read this essay (even if you cannot comprehend most of it): http://www.pfcn.net/Bulletins/requirements%20for%20innoculation%20of%20a%20new%20creation%20-%20revised1.pdf Correction Energies and Ascension Written on February 9, 2012 Please read this short article here: http://newearthsummit.org/forum/index.php/topic,1161.msg5748.html#msg5748 Duality and Ascension Written on February 4, 2012 Source: http://www.pfcn.net/Bulletins/Update-Jan-Feb-2012.pdf In various articles of the recent years, we have tried to explain there are various options, various pathways, various new states of being. There is no "one and only" way to these changes. Likewise, there is not a single calendar date for these changes. As it is with a moving wave, it will initially touch some, then more, and eventually will include nearly everyone –over time. Now through 2013 is one major wave, then another approaching the years around 2017, and another later. Until the all have been washed by this wave. And not all will still be standing when the wave is seen to pass. It is of the utmost importance to have a "high attractor" to help guide your movement and to cultivate the same within, something that could be called "high affection" so as to be one within oneself as well. It serves no good to be repulsed and react against all that is so obviously wrong. That is easy to. After all, such a state of being and thinking is based upon duality and you will get caught up in conflict-polarity struggle until the day duality itself ends. Likewise, it serves no good to try to suppress or delete something of your human self, it is a part of your human self-awareness. Your sub-conscient self welcomes the day you are more complete and are ready to evolve further. -ASK Finally, I will share with you an article that provides a brief overview of the current situation regarding the great transition into a new earth. I have bolded certain parts of it to emphasize specific points made (i.e. the bolding was done by me, not the author)… Ascension, "Issues" with Higher Self, and the New Energies Written on December 24, 2011 Sources: http://newearthsummit.org/forum/index.php/topic,1349.msg5620.html#msg5620 http://newearthsummit.org/forum/index.php/topic,1349.msg5621.html#msg5621 http://www.pfcn.net/Bulletins/Update-Jan-Feb-2012.pdf The "higher self" or "soul being" is not some all-knowing, perfected entity. If it were, well, things would not be the way things are at the human level of earthly 3d density. One might regard the divine spark of Light as "perfect" but how is it operationalized? How is it "self-Realized"? By this I am referring to its actual conscious development, not the vagueness of unlimited potential. Unlimited potential may be the case, but it is only "potential" and not actualized. As above, so below, and vice versa. This is an important pattern concept to grasp. It is one of the ways in which I make direct comparisons between human 3d levels and higher vibrational states. It is not just a clever literary or didactic tool. It is a description of a genuine situation in which one could say the lower orders are derivatives and a reflection of the higher orders. This realm is one in which the Dark forces have long overlaid and interpenetrated themselves. The manifestations at the vibrational states closest to 3d density are directly connected to the "long momentum" of the initial problem that gave rise to a dark force and a "duality of separation" to begin with. While this original error was terminated and removed, it propagated a substantial portion of creational "space" and initially encapsulated the human-earth creational garden. Now the entirety of this realm is held and contained by the higher orders of creation to correct these levels of the problem. The human ego-personality is unfortunately heavily conditioned to seek blame and to shame. When one ceases to think as if "human" and think from a relatively higher level, new perspectives are gained. However, these perspectives are useless unless connected to genuine 3d density experience and learning that can lead to true Knowing. So your human embodiment is of greater value and importance, more so now than ever! And how you maintain or conduct yourself is matter of what is appropriate to your development and capacities. I have written before that there are some human selfs that are developing in surprising ways as nascent spiritual beings in their own right. But this is only possible when connected to the higher Oneness of true creation. The alternative is spiritual hubris and leads to the formation of a variation of the Dark error. This nascent "spiritual seed" ("you") may or may not retain a human body. This nascent "spiritual seed" may become a crucial element within its initial higher self/soul being. This nascent spiritual seed being, may or may not form new relationship with other beings. In all instances this must be in the context and in connection with the higher Oneness. So many higher self/soul beings suffered serious damage from their exposure to the fallen realm. This might be compared to varying capacities of different human bodies to tolerate varying levels [of] dangerous atomic radiations. This is one of the reasons that fragments of so many higher self/soul beings in effect littered the astral realms with ghosts of their human and other incarnations relative to Earth and other locales. Why were these larger beings so unaware, perhaps careless even in their actions? Why so sloppy in how they effected their human or other density planes projections? Rather than shame or blame and reject the higher spiritual Light by a human self that is barely awake yet, consider how circumstances of a fallen realm with myriad deceptions of virtual realities could cause such catastrophic chaos and how difficult it would be to cleanup the mess. This is all directly comparable to looking at how the human selfs carry on upon planet Earth – always under the influence of human, ET-alien, and higher dimensional dark forces. Today we see the end of this degenerated train of existence. It is no wonder that humans continue to live so wretchedly. But there is no shame or blame in this. It simply is the most likely outcome of a badly distorted situation. Now that you know this, the question becomes what will [you] do with this knowledge? Will it blossom into a higher spiritual gnosis that facilitates your own completions process? If so, then one will look back, as if in retrospect and know that whatever happened, the result was worth it all. Even if you also vow "never again!" The circumstances of the lower density levels and the upward rippling effects into the higher levels were not understood at the higher levels and repeatedly "agents" of the Light failed to return or failed to return a sufficient signal through which to convey the needed "intelligence" from which effective corrections could be formulated or configured. Likewise, one can see how higher self / soul beings lost their connections to their projections in 3d density without realizing that the effects of a human lifetime of impressions led to a type of semi-permanent astral existence that still retained a sense of "self". Likewise, with a damaged or severed connection to their human level projections, one could legitimately observe the extent of the "walking dead" among 7 billion animated humans. Throw into this mix the problem of dark entities running a human presence, remotely or directly through projecting something of themselves, and one can see what a mess things became. Rather than despair, consider that this is now better understood and the effects have been to help guide the correction energies here. Now we have a roughly 2 to 3 month period from now during which those who "volunteer" themselves to the higher light and correction energies will be in effect a self-selecting test bed. No matter how this works out, the results are essential to the next stage of the changes. The better the human self that is more spiritually, psychologically, physically prepared, the more ones capacity to take to these energies will be. There is no pass/fail grade. What is simply will be. But as an awakening spiritual self, each one here can play an active role in this process. If at times the energies are too much, back off a little and rest and reflect, then return with renewed capacity. This is not unlike intelligent physical exercise and not over-doing it, expecting miraculous results in one weekend! While I continue to explain that the results of this are not to be sought or found in the external human world, they are to be sought and found in your own higher level connections to these energies and higher Creation. Some may find that a direct connection through heart, mind, or the space between your "atomic cells" provides an additional conduit, perhaps this will be in addition to an improved connection with higher self/soul self as well. For each of us this is a unique situation with unique and ongoing changes. So again, the desired evidence of changes at the 3d level will be found in this intimate and highly expansive space of all of your own being in relation to true Creation. In each case it will be configured in unique ways, so do not presume or assume any formulaic or rigid model for this. Each will be unique and the combination of so many "uniquenesses" make for a more complete and greater whole. So all of Creation is calling Itself in, those soul beings and higher level beings are being enabled to call all of themselves in, and those projections as human or other that receive this signal can in turn participate in effect in their own "self rescue" in returning to their true spiritual "home". As above, so below. Stay in touch. Let us know how you are doing. -ASK Source: http://www.pfcn.net/Bulletins/Update-Jan-Feb-2012.pdf There is much more I was planning to include in this issue, but it is more important for you to make sure you take the time to go through the essay "Requirements for Innoculation of A New Creation" here:http://www.pfcn.net/Bulletins/requirements%20for%20innoculation%20of%20a%20new%20creation%20-%20revised1.pdf Thank you for helping me to awaken, Jason PS I apologize for the length of this email, but I want to share one final thought on miracles, to remind you about the beauty of creation and the possibility of a miraculous future for humanity: I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works. It's as if little miracles are everywhere. --Louise L Hay Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. --C.S. Lewis Impossible situations can become possible miracles. --Robert H, Schuller As always, you may access your Metaphysical Library here: http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/metaphysicalbonuses.html (please copy-and-paste this link into your browser if it is not clickable). Note: To read previous issues of this newsletter, please go to http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/metaphysicalezine.html, as the back-issues link provided below does not contain the latest issues of Metaphysical Mind. You are subscribed to Metaphysical Mind. The back issues are at the following URL... http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/Metaphysical_Mind-backissues.html If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing, please click on the following URL... http://whatismetaphysics.com/cgi-bin/mailout/mailmgr.cgi?us=LQ.21161238.25487364.aeeb73703da6a10cd2170d41f9d17884 (If the above URL is not a link, copy-and-paste the URL into your Web browser. That will confirm your removal.) 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[Metaphysical Mind] on Gratitude

Dear ULC, This "basic metaphysics" issue contains an overview of new age metaphysical philosophy--the topic of my website and this ezine. Simple Principles for Advanced Metaphysical Living written by Carl Nussbaum Original Source: Basic Metaphysics I spend a lot of time, driving myself crazy, trying to make some sense of life. In the end, I am an agnostic and believe the true meaning of life, if one even exists, is unknowable to anyone. A lot of people, religions and groups claim to know. They all have their beliefs, theories, opinions and realities. The only reality I believe in with any certainty is my own reality of uncertainty. Although I do not believe, with any certainty, any one theory, the following is something I wrote, which was inspired by my understanding of Metaphysics as explained to me by my spiritual guide, Susan Bog. Basically Metaphysics is about REMEMBERING. REMEMBERING that we are all infinite non-physical spiritual beings who have chosen to have a finite experience in physical bodies as human beings in order to experience soul growth, part of which is remembering that we are all spiritual beings. REMEMBERING that our reality is the manifestation of what we think, what we believe and what we give our attention to. REMEMBERING OUR DIVINITY Many of us have been taught for ages that God is a somber, fearsome, judgmental character that exists outside of our selves. But God is indeed none of these things. The God who judges, who intimidates, who persecutes, has never existed except in the minds of men. It is man who created a god that condemns some and exalts others. Know yourself. Look within, for that is where God exists. Each one of us has a soul. Your soul is your spiritual self, your nonphysical self, your higher self or your Divine self. It is impossible to be human without a soul. It is easy for us to experience or recognize our physical selves. It is harder to experience our nonphysical selves for all of us chose at birth to temporally block the memory of our Divine selves in order to experience soul growth or enlightenment. The sole purpose of life is soul growth. All pain and suffering is the result of unlearned spiritual lessons. All pain and suffering has purpose and meaning. Every life has purpose. Even the life of a child, born into third world misery and then dying young has meaning. In the end all pain and suffering aids in individual and global spiritual growth which will eventually get us all back to where we came from, Heaven. The real joy in life is remembering the truth, remembering, experiencing and appreciating our divinity. If you are having trouble getting in touch with or experiencing your spiritual self, here's a tip: When you are thinking things, saying things, believing things and doing things that make you feel good, then that's you being your Divine self. That's you being the self God intended you to be. There is only one commandment in Metaphysics. God commands you to be happy. The following is from the best-selling book "Eat Pray Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert: "Different schools of thought over the centuries have found different explanations for man's apparently inherently flawed state. Taoists call it imbalance, Buddhism calls it ignorance, Islam blames our misery on rebellion against God, and the Judeo-Christian tradition attributes all our suffering to original sin. Freudians say that unhappiness is the inevitable result to the clash between our natural drives and civilization's needs. The Yogis, however, say that human discontentment is a simple case of mistaken identity. We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character. We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme Self who is eternally at peace. That supreme Self is our true identity, universal and divine. Before you realize the truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in the exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: "You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not." THE CAUSE OF ALL EXPERIENCES It's your beliefs that cause your every experience. Most of us tend to believe everything we think. Our thoughts validate our beliefs about what we think is real. In Metaphysics thoughts not only validate one's beliefs about what is real, more importantly; thoughts are what created one's beliefs in the first place. You have been inundated all your life by commonly accepted, but flawed, belief systems. These beliefs have been the cause of your every life experience. Why? Energy follows attention to make physically real the focus of your attention. Whatever you give your attention to aids in its creation. To believe that it is normal to get sick is what allows ill health. You have the free will to think and believe whatever you personally choose. You are not tied or held to anyone else's beliefs about life, including those of all of humanity itself. You are a sovereign being. You are free to detach from common ways of thinking. You are free to release those beliefs that have been the cause of your common, unwanted experiences. You are free to replace your old beliefs in human illness, lack and accidents with new beliefs in your natural God-given states of health, abundance and Divine life-protection. This new empowered un-common thinking is what will set you free from life suffering. Life does not have to work in the common difficult way that it does no matter how many others continue to suffer because of their attachment to an outmoded belief-system. A belief is simply a habit of thought and easy to change, for it is not an integral part of who you are. It is only the habitual way of thinking that you are used to. Once you are aware that this old way is flawed, that it is the sole cause of all unwanted experiences you can then choose to think differently. Your normal, difficult experience of life is strictly the result of your unconscious attachment to the false belief-system of common life. Life is not meant to be difficult! You have complete command over your choice of thinking and believing. To effortlessly invalidate the entirety of life's inculcated common fear-based beliefs is to remember that your natural Divine states of being are automatic health, abundance, and life safety. Your new focus of attention to these automatic states is what will assure you an entirely new experience of life, devoid of suffering! Unlock from all group beliefs related to suffering, for suffering is no longer necessary. Step into your power by accepting your natural Divine states, by releasing your old flawed human-thinking states. Contribute your powerful new understanding of your Divine rights of life, which will not only upgrade your personal life to one of empowerment, but will exponentially help to make health, abundance, and safety a new common experience for all! THE TRUTH ABOUT DEPRESSION "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." – Buddha "Your life is what your thoughts make it." – Marcus Aurelius "Change your thoughts and you change your world." – Norman Vincent Peale Many people believe the reason they think depressing thoughts is because they FEEL depressed. The truth is they feel depressed because they THINK depressing thoughts. Rule your thoughts and you rule your life. Your feelings, good or bad, are the manifestation of your thoughts. Thoughts come first, then feelings. After you've tried everything else, diet, exercise, therapy, antidepressants, had your vitamin B12 levels checked, etc; you might try The Seven Second Rule. THE SEVEN SECOND RULE: Thought energy conversion into a physical experience begins after seven seconds. Hold a particular thought for more than seven seconds and you begin its physical creation process. There is a commonly accepted rule, drop food on the floor and you have five seconds to pick it up before it becomes contaminated. Think of all thoughts in this accepted way. If you think a negative thought quickly change it within seven seconds to a positive thought and you stop the manifestation of feeling bad. The trick is YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BELIEVE YOUR THOUGHTS! Just think them. If you think thoughts like "I am happy" (even if you are not) often enough, eventually those thoughts will manifest into happy feelings and YOU WILL be happy. Tell yourself you already are how it is you want to be. Here are some powerful what I like to call "I AM" affirmations. I am happy. I am healthy. I am wealthy and wise. I feel great. I look great. I am pain free, stress free and dept free. I am anxiety and fear free. I'm loving and kind. I am accepting and thankful. I am worthy and good. My all time favorite affirmation is "I feel magnificent". Don't be discouraged if at first your positive thoughts don't manifest as positive feelings. Be patient. Sometimes it takes more than seven seconds to reprogram a mind that suffers from a lifetime of habitual negative thinking. The more you tell your self that you are happy today contributes to your happiness tomorrow. According to a Harvard study one is happiest when one's mind is occupied with one's current activity. An idle mind goes negative by default. Never let your mind wander. Instead always fill it with positive thoughts. Be vigilant for it only takes seven seconds to start the downward spiral into the black hole of depression. The power ones gains over one's life when one can control their thoughts is nothing short of miraculous. PAY ATTENTION Randomly giving your attention to whatever is a low level of consciousness/awareness. Paying attention and choosing WHAT you give your attention to is a higher or expanded level of consciousness. If something in life causes us to feel miserable, it's up to us to do something about it. The solution however, is not always to get out of the situation. Sometimes it's simpler than that. We each have the ability to shift even something we love, into something we don't. How? Simply by focusing our attention on all the parts that we really don't like. Remember that EVERY situation has plus and minus aspects. The reason we love something is because we are looking at its good parts! What determines our experience is what we choose to look at, the positive or the negative aspects of things. CHOOSE to find the good parts, the parts you are glad about that really do benefit you. Overlook the minus parts. According to the Metaphysic's law of attraction "Energy Follows Attention", by placing your attention on or thinking about the negative aspects of something you are aiding in its creation, in its expansion. By placing your attention on or thinking about the positive aspects of something you are aiding in its creation, in its expansion. The truth is that you are always free to choose where you place your attention. You are always free to think positive or negative thoughts. It's up to you. DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY Life as we know it, which is based on fear, is an un-natural experience. The natural, intended, true experience of life is life, in which health, wealth, and safety are natural, automatic experiences. Humans think that to love is to worry. It is not. Worry is fear, which is the opposite vibration of Love. Worry is Love's opposite. Worry is the obstacle to automatic health, wealth, and safety. The root cause of worry is the responsibility in your life for your well-being. We are finally remembering that each of us has a higher self, a spiritual self, a Divine self, whose part it is, is to release you of responsibility for your well-being, through a conscious partnership with it. Your Human-self is the physical-counterpart to your Divine non-physical essence, an invisible but tangible presence within you, within your DNA, who awaits your memory of it in order to activate your personal Divine-Human partnership. Your Human goal now is to live within the state of Love by delegating responsibility to your Divine partner for your health, wealth, and safety. Once trusting in your higher or Divine self (God/Love) there is no reason to worry or fear anything. This trust relationship is the tangible means to maintain a state of Love (without worry), which is the conduit to automatic health, wealth, safety, and 100% life-support for living life on Earth. The goal now is to awaken, to remember and connect with your Divine partner, your literal Soul-mate, which will restore you to your natural state of Love. The Human emotion of Love is not only the conduit to your Divine Source energy; it also triggers your memory of it. The block to Love and thus the block to your Spiritual memory is called fear/worry, which is strictly the result of lack of information. The route to Love is Divine information. Divine information is within each of us. It's in our DNA. This is the time of the Grand Awakening in Human Consciousness. This is the time to remember your Divine Partner, who awaits your memory of it to activate its higher Divine assistance within your physical life. In Metaphysics there is only one commandment. God commands you to be happy. There is nothing more important in the universe than your happiness. SUMMARY There are two worlds, the physical and the non-physical. We each have a physical body and a non-physical soul. We each exist in both worlds simultaneously. We all chose to forget the non-physical world at birth in order to achieve soul growth. The sole purpose of life is soul growth. We all agreed to be who we are and to take on the roles we play in each other's lives to aid each other in soul growth. We are all each other's teachers and students here to learn our spiritual lessons. A measure of one's spiritual growth is one's level of happiness and one's ability to love and be loved! It seems now is the time for global spiritual awakening. Now is the time for us to remember what we chose to forget at birth. Now is the time for us to remember, get in touch with and experience our non-physical spiritual selves. YOU ARE PERFECT When you look in the mirror stop giving your (falsely perceived) flaws any attention. According to the law of attraction energy follows attention. So if you're giving your (falsely perceived) flaws any attention, you're aiding in their creation. When you look in the mirror do not give attention to or dwell on what you may see as flawed. Instead look yourself in the eye. Look into your own soul. See/sense your non-physical, awesome, perfect, beautiful spiritual self. You are flawless. This article was written by Carl Nussbaum. Carl is a computer repairman from the holy land of Berkeley, California. I hope you enjoyed his summary of some basic metaphysical teachings. Lastly, I would like to share with you something he wrote more recently... Today's Revelation By Carl Nussbaum Whilst on my walk this morning I was thinking about something someone once told me. They said something like "Carl, God doesn't know any more then you do. God doesn't have any more power then you. God is giving us all that he has to give. He is giving us all the knowledge and power that he has to offer. God is not keeping anything from us. At that moment the clouds parted and my God (also know as my higher self) spoke directly to me and said, "Carl, I am just as puzzled by my existence as you are by yours. I am just as uncertain about the meaning or purpose of my existence as you are about your meaning or purpose. I feel just as alone with my experience as you do with your experience." God told me just as he created us, we created him. We are equals. We are allies. We are eternal partners in trying to give meaning/purpose to all existence, God's and ours. We are each other's companion and never need to feel alone. Thanks for reading, learning, and growing with me, Jason PS Stay tuned...the next issue of the Metaphysical Mind Ezine goes out on April 3rd. That issue will be about the Great Transition through Spiritual Awakening. As always, you may access your Metaphysical Library here: http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/metaphysicalbonuses.html (please copy-and-paste this link into your browser if it is not clickable). 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[Metaphysical Mind] about The Two Minds

Dear ULC, Let's get straight into this issue's metaphysical writings by Co-a-Li who is guest-authoring this ezine for a second time. The Two Minds The affirmation of a divine life upon Earth in the immortal sense and in a moral existence can have no base unless we recognize the spirit and the soul which inhabits the vehicle or bodily vessel which is the robe of physical matter. First we must accept that our robe or garment is merely the outer shell which over time will disintegrate, but the inner spirit's light that is within our soul will never disintegrate as the light which holds the soul is infinite. But it is not enough just to recognize the outer garment one that we can perceive with our eyes, it is vital to recognize the inner light as without it the outer garment would not exist, both must be recognized as two parts of one whole. Matter is the configuration of the mind which the spirit needs to transcend itself, so it may experience many of the realms and dimensions of its creator. The physical universe is part of the external body of the divine consciousness of the creators light, so therefore we must accept the two forms of consciousness, spirit and matter, the outer and the inner, it is like two halves of the brain one representing logic, of the left side and the other representing the creativity and intuition of the right side. The person who is more of a materialist has an easier road as it is possible for these people to deny the spirit within and arrive at a more simple explanation that everything is matter and when matter disintegrates that is all it is nothing more. But with this form of rigidity it would be impossible for them to persist with it on a permanent basis because once the spirit leaves the mortal body of matter the only thing of recognition will be the self illusion of what they have denied and at this point they will see and understand how the spirit that is the main part of them and the soul which has carried all the memories of its life carries them on to the next stage of their journey into a higher sphere of consciousness. So by refusing to accept the divine light within their bodies of matter when on earth, they will also have problems adjusting to their astral or subtle bodies when the soul leaves its mortal robe. It is the mind of the self/ego which creates this duality an illusion which incorporates the five senses of matter it is the all most important factor of their being, but unknown to these people the spirit carries the self and all it has created and it is within the immortality of the spirit that the soul shows its memories of what the self has created once it leaves its mortal body. So therefore in these duality of contradictions the human mind cannot balance or have the satisfaction of inner peace in which to reach a reconciliation of both mind and spirit or matter and soul. This duality must traverse the degrees which the inner consciousness imposes upon us. It must bring together both the self/ego and the soul/spirit and unify the two as one. Only on complete union can all the multiform of all energies of consciousness come into existence and become harmonized to the manifold of human existence. It is the conflicting forces of duality which govern out thoughts and our desires and puts us in the wilderness of our true reality and it is only these conflicting thoughts that we are able to find the central truths of our existence which are here to symbolize the paths that have been chosen for us and us to fulfill them As human consciousness evolves, a new and comprehensive affirmation within the thought form of individual consciousness will become more prominent. This will unite both the inner and outer experiences to the fore of the individual being able to experience both. This will bring more self fulfillment in an integral human existence so each individual may experience part of the map of its destiny that the soul carries within it. It time maybe the whole human race might evolve to experience both sides of the coin as one whole. But at present most people only see one side of the coin, they have forgotten to flip the coin over and see that there is a different picture on the other side. For those who have developed their inner extra sensory powers of enlightenment. One can understand the unknowable behind all the manifestations which can extend itself to the knowledge of universal creation and the many realms and worlds which exist within such vast spaces of the meta-verse. There in the many universes are knowable realities well beyond the five senses of human perception, it is only through the development of the 6th sense and beyond that we can touch and understand about these higher realities and dimensions. It is the outer shell the logic of the material reality of which humans exists in that these higher creations can't be seen as the self/ego has put to many veils that hide the light so they constantly live within their own creation of reality and sometimes within their own darkness. All the various forms of materiality that our world on planet earth passes through from way back down the ages is constructed through the form of matter and the materialistic mind. But these come from a higher form of consciousness where the higher consciousness of the mind shifts itself and transcends itself to the lower mind which imposes itself on the individual. This can be in any form where action needs to take place such as ideas or any of the five senses which occur in what we perceive as reality. In human life we all make errors this is due to the duality of the human nature of its own consciousness, but by using only the self's desires we make far more errors than we should and create to ourselves only half truths which seems to make us stumble even more. This is due to the limitations of the self/ego by not letting go of old beliefs, old structures in our habits and it is through these habits and half truths that logic creates more illusions which in their turn creates more disguises. The self uses many disguises making the person think that it is the proper path in which to follow. The self/ego does not want to let go of the hold it has on the human thought form or its mind, or its desires, so many times it holds a promise that you are creating the right situations in your life but unknown to the person, only the soul/spirit has the right map in which you should follow. The mind of the self tempts us like holding a carrot in front of a donkey leading the way no matter how many obstacles it leads to instead of allowing the inner mind to lead you around the obstacles and not over them. To exist in duality of the physical and to understand the inner of the spiritual we must use both the inner mind and the outer mind in which all things pass through. Universal consciousness is the border line of truth and understanding and to reach that border we must let go of trusting the self and begin to surrender our wishes and desires and tune to our inner mind and listen. The more we try to attain reality through our systems of values using the physical, material, the intellect and the religious dogma of our culture the further away we go from understanding the true forms of creation and its creator. This is because the five senses cannot explain it, it cannot deem itself tangible and this escapes the grasp of the true thoughts of the inner consciousness within us, but by believing only in the values mentioned the human perception loses its grasp on a higher reality this then becomes unattainable and what is thought unattainable is thought by most not worth having. There is knowledge that cant be found through intellect or logic, but only in the higher realms where creation begins, there is knowledge with many forms of creation, but even to have a glimpse of such knowledge one must by pass the lure of the materialist formula, because the material of matter or the formula of the materialist gain is only a by product of its original creation. To those who want to gain insight to the higher knowledge or what is known as the unknowable must repress the ignorance of their perception and look beyond the five sense reality and the limitations of material existence. All higher knowledge that is part of us to some degree is within the soul/spirit of our being. It carries the power of universal knowledge the higher intelligence of universal source. Knowledge by whatever path it is followed tends to become one but with many variations, science now confirms that in the domain of matter there is some form of intelligence that passes between the atoms and cells in our body relaying information to each other. But what scientists don't realize is that the whole body in a network of information each relaying information to each other, this energy matrix comes from the blueprint of the ethereal/subtle body. All forms of creation within the cosmos comes from one huge gigantic consciousness split into various other consciousness in the various shapes and patterns of their energy formation,it is the vibrations and oscillations of the atoms that dance that make these patterns of energy consciousness and it is through these various forms of consciousness that carry their own thought form of intelligence which is linked to the whole structure of the universal mind that began creation in its entire universal form. Science one day will find that all forms of consciousness will be evident and will be in all essential matter it is something that is existent to the senses and is only a conceptual form of etheric substances. It is only an arbitrary distinction in thought that divides form and substance from all forms of energy consciousness. All matter expresses itself eventually as it is a formation of some unknown force which is seen as life. This unfathomed mystery begins to reveal itself as an obscure energy of sensibility imprisoned into material formation and it is only when the dividing force of ethereal substances comes between the mind of rationality and the mind of the unknown consciousness that it gives the human sense of duality. It is the gulf between the universal mind, life and matter that creates a three way unified force and until this is realized only then, can this triple form of consciousness be united as one whole and not be seen in its three way separateness. The energy that creates the world can be nothing else than pure collective universal consciousness which applies itself to all creation known to us on planet earth as life. So what is the work and result of this self involution? It is to actualize the mighty possibilities of this great multi force of triple divineness of the unknown energy of universal consciousness which creates a never ending cycle of life within the unbounded knowledge that the universal mind brings. It is this knowledge that every human being has within them, one in which the soul carries within its conscious memories, so that the universal consciousness can experience all that it creates. Science dreams of finding the elixir of life to find knowledge that is above the human mind of the brain and of space/time or four dimensional reality, but it will be only through the higher developed mind of universal consciousness in its true creativeness that can show mankind its infinite knowledge which can be applied through the working of what we call five sense realities and beyond. At present it is only the thought form of will and desire that makes mankind reach to achieve what he can do in the physical sense to use in the five senses as what is seen as pure material reality, with the image of the self/ego being the centre stage to achieve the evolution of the human race and of the growth of its planet. But even if we had the knowledge of the invisible worlds or realms of consciousness, there would be still be a limitation to how our perception of how our physical minds would interpret it as each concept of consciousness has a multitude of ways of projecting its unity of creation. There is a central point in cosmic knowledge and only a fraction of this point can be assessed by the consciousness that is within the human being and that consciousness has to be trained by either meditation or rigid discipline to quiet the mind so as to be able to tap into the higher realms of universal consciousness. It is not an easy thing to do, but if we all became aware of our inner consciousness and raised its vibration, then we would be able to access the knowledge that is there to help guide us to a higher evolved state of mind and state of awareness. It will be at this point that the two minds will come together and unite evolving the human species into a more spiritual being with a direct link from its own consciousness to that of the universal consciousness of its creator the Universal Mind via the Physical Mind creating the Two Minds. Coali writes spiritual articles to share and help people understand how to find for their own spiritual journey. To read more of her work, visit her website here: http://www.universalconsciousness.co.uk/index.html Universal Consciousness is still offering Spiritual Guidance free for those seeking their true spiritual role, until March 21st. In a world full of darkness, you are encouraged to harness this light of guidance being held for humanity, and offered to you at no cost, through Coaliann by sending her an email at universallight2@universallight2.plus.com Lastly, to read her first guest-authored issue on "The Physical Body and Universal Consciousness," go to: http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/physical-body-universal-consciousness.html Peace, Jason PS Stay tuned...the next issue of the Metaphysical Mind Ezine goes out on March 18th. That issue will contain simple principles for advanced metaphysical living. As always, you may access your Metaphysical Library here: http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/metaphysicalbonuses.html (please copy-and-paste this link into your browser if it is not clickable). Note: To read previous issues of this newsletter, please go to http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/metaphysicalezine.html, as the back-issues link provided below does not contain the latest issues of Metaphysical Mind. 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