Month: February 2022

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Hey, Wake Up – Here’s Your Key – Now Enter Your Dream

You Have Been Given The Power – The Power To See The Unseen

Let’s get right to it, time is precious. In scripture in Hebrews 11:1 is that eternal, beautiful truth as follows: Faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen (Holman Christian Standard Bible). Every human being ever born, even those with mental or physical challenges, has been gifted at birth with an amazing power. This power is called faith. Let’s go to a secular source, the Oxford Language dictionary, with regard to the definition of faith. Faith is defined as “complete trust or confidence in someone or something”. Thus, faith in God can be defined as complete trust or confidence in God. Continuing on in this vein, the word “complete” means one hundred percent, not even so much as a fraction of a percent missing. For example, you have complete confidence that the breath coming out of your mouth or nose is your breath and not the breath of your neighbor. That is not something that you believe. It is something that you know. Even though you cannot see or feel it yet, you have faith, you absolutely know that the next breath that comes out of your mouth or nose will be your breath and not your neighbor’s breath. You have faith that the breath coming out of your body is from your lungs. It is your breath.

So now let’s explore the words “faith in God”. Although God – Ultimate Intelligence, Original Source, I AM that I AM – is undefinable, we can identify a manifestation of the Divine in this dimension. The demonstration of the Divine is your awareness of being. What are you currently aware of being? Who are you currently aware of being? Are you aware of being poor, rich or somewhere in between? Are you aware of expressing good health or poor health or somewhere in between? And so on. What is real to you? What is natural to you? What can you see, feel, hear as real in your current life expression. Not in the outer circumstances or people around you but what can can see, feel, hear in your God-given Image-ination? What can you see, feel, hear on the inside. This is where you were gifted with the power to co-create with the Creator. Deep down, right down to your inner core, what is your current awareness of being? This is where you experience connection with Ultimate Intelligence and this is where you completely let go and allow Ultimate Intelligence to direct how and when your manifestation arrives. The skeptic will say, “Nonsense, if you cannot see it, it does not exist, it’s snake oil. Atheists manifest things in their lives all the time without a belief in any type of god.” To respectfully respond, I would say that deep down, the atheist has confidence in being able to accomplish what they set out to achieve. This, in fact, is an awareness of being and is the way all humans connect with God whether they are conscious of it or not.

Galatians 6:7 – God Is Not Mocked

What is blasphemy? From Wikipedia comes this – an insult that shows contempt, disrespect or lack of reverence concerning a deity or something holy or sacred. Blasphemy is a word that has been used by religious authorities down through the ages to identify and punish those with opposing views to the designated religious powers that be. In the European religious wars of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, the Protestants called the Catholics blasphemers and the Catholics called the Protestants blasphemers. Over thirty countries today have anti-blasphemy laws on the books where blasphemy is punishable by death.

In the movie, “Kingdom of Heaven”, the bishop of Jerusalem is portrayed as a particularly greasy and oily personality who is particularly interested in protecting his tookus. During a meeting of all the bigwigs at the king’s castle, a statement is made that totally contradicts the stated position of the bishop. Yeah, you guessed it. The first word out of the bishop’s mouth in response is “Blasphemy”. My son and I always get a chuckle out of it because it is so patently self-serving.

I don’t know about you but I think those who feel the need for anti-blasphemy laws are way off base. Is God some petulant gang leader wearing a dew rag who needs retribution when someone “disses” Him? I think not.

Going to scripture, in Galatians 6:7 it states, “Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (New International Version). And there it is. It is impossible to mock God. You simply cannot do it. In this dimension of existence that you live in called Earth, you are a sower and then subsequently you are a reaper. It is a very simple equation. To sow means to plant. To reap means to harvest. Every thought that you plant in your imagination leads to an act. The act leads to a habit. The habit leads to a character. A character leads to a destiny.

Every physical effect has a spiritual cause. I will repeat that – everything that happens in your world comes into being because of a spiritual cause. By the words spiritual cause, I don’t mean you have to say some prescribed prayer sanctioned by church authorities. A spiritual act can be something as simple as just sitting quietly and activating your Imagination. God cannot possibly be mocked. You will harvest whatever it is that you plant. Every time – all the time. If you plant corn, you are going to harvest corn, not tomatoes. Every physical event from start to finish comes about due to a spiritual cause.

The Only Thing Holding You Back Is ———- Y-O-U

Let’s play a fast game of Jeopardy.

Answer: Let go, just let go.

Question: If faith is the key that unlocks the door to a beautiful life, how do I get faith?

The key is already in your hands but you have to place it in the keyhole and turn the latch in order to unlock the door. Just let go of all the countless “yeah buts” and let events play out as directed by Divine Source. Dwell on God, who works through your awareness of being. There is either God or mammon, There is no sense in trying to keep one foot in each. It just doesn’t work. Do your part. Plant the seeds. Nurture them with your Imagination. Every single day, maybe twice a day, sit quietly and fully engage your Imagination to already be what you desire to be, to already have what you desire to have. There are several ways to do this. Scripting is one. Creating a “spiritual glow” with gratitude is another. Find the way that feels best to you and then bar the door against the inevitable arrival of the “excuses gang”.

OK, you have experienced some tough breaks and some rough times. You can believe me when I say so have I. You’ve been dealt some incredibly bad cards during the game of life. Every single minute of your life that you spend of your limited allotment of time feeling sorry for yourself is a horribly wasted minute of life. By feeling sorry for yourself, you succeed in holding yourself back. You have actually planted a rotten seed that you will subsequently harvest in the time ahead as rotten fruit. You will cry, “Why does everything always happen to me?” Refuse to allow the feeling sorry for yourself stuff to enter the living room of your house (your mind). Always be busy entertaining beautiful guests (your Imaginal desires) so that the “feeling sorry crowd” (of thoughts) cannot get past the velvet rope. Refuse to allow you to continue holding you back.

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Produce, Write, Direct and Star In A Movie

You Are A Movie Studio

When I was a kid growing up in the fifties and early to mid sixties, big screen movies were still the “main event” of filmed acting. Television was definitely encroaching on the domain of the movies but tv was still in its small screen, black and white only, tv antenna required, just three networks stage. The big movie studios – MGM, Warner Brothers, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Columbia – controlled over 90 % of movies produced and distributed. Today’s “big five” – Disney, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Brothers still hold about 75 % of the market. Many more movies today are made independently of the big movie studios. Many movies are going directly to streaming services and never make it to the big screen. Movie-making is an ever adapting industry.

Were you aware that Y-O-U are your own independent movie studio? Right now, you have the ability to “finance” a movie, write a movie screenplay, direct and star in your own movie. “Financing” your movie is 100 % guaranteed. As the producer you get to control every aspect of the movie. As the screenwriter, you get to create a script that fits in perfectly with the type of movie that you want to make. As director, you are entitled to oversee and guide all the actors in the movie. As the star of the movie, you get to display the full range of your acting skills and emotions.

What The Heck Is He Talking About?

By this point you are probably wondering what in the world I am talking about. There is no way in the world that you have the money and resources to make a movie. You say that you do not know the first thing about producing, screenwriting, directing and acting. I am going to go ahead and respectfully contradict you on all counts. You do possess the resources. You do know everything that you need to know about screenwriting, directing and acting. Read on.

First, your financing and resources as the producer come forth from your unlimited, inherent Imagination. Your Imagination has the ability to create any type of movie action that you choose. Your Imagination is the financing. Your budget is large, only restricted by the level of your faith. Everyone has access to Imagination but you have to make the free will choice to activate it.

Second, if you know how to read and write, that is all the skill you require to be the screenwriter for you movie. It is your movie. You get to choose whatever words you want the actors to say. You choose the scenario. What is it that you want in your life? Money? A relationship of some sort? Career Success? Good Health? The ability to help a loved one? Choose what you want. Imagine a scene or scenes that portray the successful receiving of your chosen desire. Does it involve just you or does your movie scene involve one or more other people? Just write down what you would be saying and what the other person or persons would be saying in the “real-ization” of your desire fulfilled. Put it in the form of a script.

I will present an example of a short two minute movie scene. Just make whatever words you choose words that you yourself BELIEVE with all your heart and mind.

You: I am so thankful that what I really wanted has finally come true in my life. I always knew it would happen and now it has.

Other Person: I have to admit that I thought you were really wasting your time with all this manifesting jazz. I was even kinda worried your were living in some sort of fantasy land. Even you have to admit that it didn’t look too good for you.

Third person: I’m guilty too. Don’t get me wrong – I am really happy for you that you got your breakthrough, I really am. But I hope you don’t down us for thinking that it wasn’t going to happen for you.

You: Are either of you familiar with the bible verse in Hebrews 11 about faith?

Second Person: Not really.

Third Person: Well I guess it’s something about faith.

You: It defines what faith is. It goes like this – Faith is the assurance of the unseen. Real simple. Let me give you the definition of the word “assurance”. It means certain to be achieved. Ya know, circumstances do not matter. Only state of being matters. By that I mean even though my outer eyes couldn’t see it, my inner eyes, my Imagination always saw it as clear as day. If you totally “have something on the inside” then, in due time, you are totally assured of it happening on the outside. The one big BUT is if you allow doubt to sneak in and rock the boat and throw it off course.

Thirdly, as director, you decide precisely how all three people in that scene play their roles. Pauses of speech, tone of speech, choice of feeling, etc.

Fourthly, as the star actor, you hear your voice, you feel the emotions, you hear and respond to the other actors lines, you feel the surroundings of where it takes place, you see all the accompanying “props” used in the scene. For example, if your desire is money, you look at the bank statement that confirms the money you are in possession of. If your desire is better health, you look at the hospital discharge report that confirms your healing. As an actor, use all of your senses to be in total union with your part.

When you completely feel something as real, and persist in that feeling, things definitely happen to materialize that feeling. One of the careers that I have had in this lifetime was that of an undercover operative. My “cover” in that endeavor was something that I got so “into” as far as my belief that it was real that after I proceeded to another career, it was in the industry that I had chosen as my cover.

An Honest To Goodness Real Life Example

In 2005, I started feeling knee pain in both knees. When I got a thorough orthopedic exam, the physician said that I would probably have to have knee replacement surgery within five years. I blew past 2010 but as the years progressed, he knees were slowly becoming more and more of a challenge. As 2022 arrived, I finally resolved to get at least one of the knees replaced at some point later this year after I finished manifesting some things in other areas of living. Although it is possible, and I have successfully done it, it is difficult to manifest many different desires simultaneously. So I decided to just keep it simple and uncomplicated. I did not do the “my knees feel like they did when I was twenty” movie. I choose to do the “my knees really feel better” movie. How this was going to come about I didn’t know and didn’t care. For about a month I just spent that golden two minutes a day living in my movie while I relaxed on the hydromassage chair at my local Planet Fitness. Halfway through that month I developed a bad toothache. I wear full dentures but my dentist advised me to keep my remaining tooth roots to maintain gum integrity. As he is now retired, I had to find a new dentist. After taking x-rays, she saw extensive infection of various tooth roots and recommended extracting all thirteen teeth stubs. She said the infection was releasing chemicals into the body that were detrimental to my health. My dental insurance covered 70 % while the dentist agreed to waive the 30 % co-pay, so I said “OK, let’s get them out.” One week she extracted six on the top and the next week she took out the seven on the bottom. Not more than 48 hours after the last of the infected teeth were removed, I was delighted to observe that my knees felt better then they have in quite a while. Both were still “bone-on-bone” but they definitely feel better. My assumption is that unknown to me, the release of chemicals from the underlying tooth infection was negatively affecting my knee joints. This past Saturday I was conversing with my son about how delighted I was that my knees felt better all of a sudden. It’s almost eerie how this manifesting stuff works. The two minute movie that was real to me in my Imagination had crystallized into my outer reality through my getting a toothache.

Circumstances do not matter. Only state of being matters.

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You Can’t Serve Two Masters – Make Your Choice

You Cannot Serve Both God and Mammon

I was recently in conversation with a friend when he suddenly made the statement, “Life is meaningless. I get up every day and do the same damn stuff every day – work, eat, shit, sleep, work, eat, shit, sleep and then one day I die.” For whatever reason, this statement got me to reflecting on the words of Jesus from the Sermon On The Mount – “No man can serve two masters: for he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon…….Seek ye first the kingdom of God.”

You cannot serve both God and mammon. They are diametrically opposed forces. One is within you, the other is outside of you.

How do you recognize the concept of God, the eternal I Am. Of course, the easy answer is that God is undefinable. Nevertheless, the answer to that question is very personal and differs from person to person. The author, Barbara Brown Taylor, puts forth an interesting answer – ” My own idea of God, as imperfect and evolving as it is, right now would be (this) – the glue that holds everything together, the consciousness that moves between all living things. When I use the word God, I do not envision a large person with two arms, two legs, a nose and two eyes. I envision instead, a presence so beyond my being, a presence that knows the stars by name and knows me by name as well, that is not here to be useful to me, that is not here to give me things as much as to ask me to give myself away for love. When I say I believe in God, I mean I trust. I trust the goodness of life, of being. I trust that beyond all reason. I trust that with my life. That’s what I mean by God.” The theologian Paul Tillich gave this definition – “God is not a being, God is being itself”. And from the Wall Street legend John Templeton, ” The wonderful substance of God flows in and through us and extends in every direction. There is no place we can go where we are not bathed in the infinite sea of this harmonizing glue of the universe”. Finally there is this from the mystic Neville Goddard regarding the nature of God – “I AM or the awareness of being is the only reality.”

So what is “mammon”? The traditional definition is money, wealth, riches. Researching the word mammon in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics comes the suggestion that the Aramaic word mamon was a loanword from Mishmaic Hebrew meaning money, wealth, possessions although there are indications that it may also have meant “that in which one trusts”. That is the core idea behind mammon – Putting your trust in your money, your investments, your real estate, your employer, your contacts, your education, your intelligence, your family, your friends, your skills, your charisma, your neighbors, your church, your…….well, you get the idea. Mammon is anything outside of the awareness of God.

Texas Hold ‘Em Poker

Have you ever watched The World Series of Poker on television? It is perhaps the best known of the many poker tournaments that are regularly scheduled on network and general audience cable tv. Sports networks such as ESPN have made it a staple of their television lineup. The popularity of the televised tournaments featuring the style of poker known as “Texas Hold ‘Em” surged when they began using hole card or lipstick cams to show the viewer at home the hole (turned down) cards. This engaged the viewer in devising strategy and decision-making during the game. One of the most dramatic events during a game takes place when one of the players decides to go “all-in” by pushing every last chip that they have into the pot. There is that suspenseful moment right before the last cards are dealt. At that point the player who went “all-in” either wins a huge pot or goes bust and has to leave the game.

In the statement, Ye cannot serve God and mammon, you are playing an ethereal game of Texas Hold ‘Em and you are going ‘all-in” on either serving God or mammon. The former choice earns you the biggest pot of them all, communion with God, while sadly the latter choice leaves you spiritually broke. Now this is not to say that you cannot serve God and manifest money as well. What it means however is, in everything, from wake-up to fall-asleep, where do you place your trust? Is your trust in your awareness of being or is it in anything outside of that. Seek first – Seek above all else – the Kingdom of God for from this Kingdom all good things come forth.

The Choice Is Yours

Emmet Fox, the eminent twentieth century author and lecturer, stated with crystal clarity in his essay, “The Golden Key” that every problem of any type can be dealt with effectively by dwelling on God instead of the problem. He envisioned centering your thoughts on God as a “golden key” accessible to everybody, everywhere that would unlock any closed door that you run into in life. If you are in communion with “The Harmonizing Glue of Everything” through employing your divine gift of Imagination, you are serving God. If you place your trust in any person, any group of people, any set of circumstances, any event, you are serving mammon. God is not some guy sitting up in the sky somewhere or on top of Mount Olympus. The Kingdom of God is within each and every one of us. Jesus told the stone cold truth. Manifest your chosen reality by just letting go and going “all-in” by trusting in the power of the Kingdom of God within you.

Step right up ladies and gentlemen and make your choice. You cannot serve both, it’s either God or mammon. One leads to a path of Universal Source, Universal Intelligence, Universal Power, Universal Peace, Universal Love. The other leads to a path of an extremely alluring yet ultimately deceptive dead end. It is your choice. It always has been and always will be until you draw your last breath and the show is over.

Conceive. Believe. Receive.

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Spiegel Im Spiegel – Escape To A World of Peace

Spiegel Im Spiegel ——- Mirror In The Mirror

I enjoy music. Many different types of music. There is something about musical sounds that are able to reach deep within a person and precipitate various feelings and emotions. Feelings of exuberance. Feelings of peace. Feelings of sadness. Feelings of beauty. Feelings of nostalgia. Feelings of happiness. Feelings of introspection. Feelings of high energy.

In 2018, after I retired at the age of sixty-five from a job that I was employed in for twenty years, I took some time off before embarking on subsequent employment. It was a wonderful respite period. One of the various activities that I engaged in was “surfing You Tube”. I used time that I had never had before to explore different videos, lectures, documentaries and musical performances. One day I happened upon a video performance of a piano and cello piece composed by an Estonian composer named Avro Part The piece is called Spiegel Im Spiegel and it is approximately ten minutes long. I was absolutely transfixed by its minimalist exquisite beauty. Since that time I estimate that I have listened to Spiegel Im Spiegel over a thousand times. Each time I listen to the piece of transcendent music, it is as if I am hearing it for the first time. One post in a blog I came across featured a link to a performance of Spiegel Im Spiegel. The written body of the blog post was simply the words “This is so beautiful” repeated twenty four times in six columns of four. And yeah, it is.

Spiegel Im Spiegel is translated as ‘mirror in the mirror”. This refers to an infinity mirror which produces an infinity of images reflected by parallel plane mirrors. It was originally written for piano and violin. Subsequent adaptations have substituted the violin with cello, viola, clarinet, flute, oboe, bassoon and trombone. Since 1996, it has been incorporated into twenty-six films and seventeen television productions.

Avro Part was born in 1935 in Estonia which was subsequently swallowed up by the Soviet Union. He attended Talinn Music Conservatory. In 1968 he reached a turning point in his life. He renounced all his previous techniques and compositions. For the next eight years he composed very little. He spent a great deal of time in study and contemplation and emerged in 1976 inventing a new musical compositional style called tintinnabuli. which means “the ringing of bells”. Spiegel Im Spiegel was composed in 1978.

A Ten Minute Float To Another Dimension

The reason I love this musical composition is that it allows me on a daily basis to escape the harshness and dissonance of this world. The initial strains of the cello always tend to start sending me in spirit to a different dimension – a dimension of contemplative peace and serenity. The flow of the music allows me to float – it is almost like a hypnotic effect. All the different events of my life, past, present, future, successes, mistakes, flow by like a meandering river. It is the experience of listening to time flowing through music. I am gently lifted out of this dimension and transported to a more ethereal dimension. I am always thankful afterward for the magical journey.

The piece was originally written for piano and violin but has been adapted to many other instruments. My personal favorite is the piano and cello. There is something about the sound of the cello that resonates with me. I wish I knew how to play the cello. I have taught myself how to play two musical instruments but I will die without learning how to play the cello. It is a difficult instrument to learn. I can however, enjoy listening to it. In Spiegel Im Spiegel the cello part is the breath of life and the piano part is the heart beating peacefully.

I have boxes and boxes of photographs from when I was growing up and when my children were growing up. Between now and the time of my death, I am going to get three large heavy-duty poster boards. I will paste representative photos on the three boards. I have already told my children not to bother saying any words over my body. Just put my casket in the grave plot next to my mother and brother. At the funeral home, before heading out to the cemetery, just set up the three poster boards and spend two or three minutes with each one while playing a recording of Spiegel Im Spiegel. Spend the last ten minutes with my dead body floating down memory lane and remembering “the good times”.

A Partner In Your Manifesting Journey

One of the big difficulties in manifesting your reality through a deliberate focusing of your thoughts is being able to discipline your mind to relax and calm down. This is an obstacle that I and many others encounter when engaging in manifesting efforts. Think of a jar of spring water into which you put an amount of dirt. If you leave the jar alone, the dirt will eventually settle to the bottom and the water will be clear unless you keep shaking the jar which will “muddy up” the water. In manifesting, it is essential that you are in a relaxed mode when you go about implementing your mental demonstration. Let all the intrusive thoughts “settle to the bottom”. Spiegel Im Spiegel can be your partner in your manifesting journey. The transcendent sound of this beautiful music can help get you in a receptive mode for imaging your desire as your now reality.

Children are particularly receptive to the calming effect of this piece of music. There is a story that I came across of a baby in a hospital ICU that responded miraculously to the continuous sound of this music after her parents placed it by her bed. Healing through music. Feel free to use one of the many versions of Spiegel Im Spiegel that are available on the internet. Play it in the background to help you create magic in your own life through the power of Imagination.