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Are They Geniuses or Just Good Listeners?

11/29/2017

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Are they Geniuses or Really Good Listeners?

As you peruse the biographies of individuals, the world would call the greatest of geniuses, you find a very interesting dynamic.  These individuals credited their amazing discoveries, inventions, poetry, music and ideas to either an inner guide or to their dreams.

Robert Louis Stevenson describing his inner guides said, “…and for the Little People, what shall I say they are but just my Brownies, God bless them!  Who do one-half my work while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood, do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do it for myself.”

Puccini stated, “…the music of Madam Butterfly was dictated to me by God; I was merely instrumental in putting it on paper and communicating it to the public.”

Goethe said of his writing of the novel, Werther, “I wrote the book almost unconsciously, like a somnambulist, and was amazed when I realized what I had done.”

William Blake said of his work, Milton, that “I have written this poem from immediate dictation, twelve or sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time, without premeditation, and even against my will.”

Richard Strauss, said, “While the ideas were flowing in upon me, the entire musical, measure by measure, it seemed to me that I was dictated to by two wholly different Omnipotent Entities…I was definitely conscious of being aided by more than an earthy Power, and it was responsive to my determined suggestions.”

Brahms said, “I have to be in a semi-trance condition to get such results – a condition when the conscious mind is in temporary abeyance, and the subconscious is in control.”

“The English poet Shelley declared that ‘One after another the greatest writers, poets and artists confirm the fact that their work comes to them from beyond the threshold of consciousness.’”

The 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded to Otto Loewi, who discovered and demonstrated that nerve impulses are both chemical and electrical in nature.  The experimental procedure to prove his theory came to him in a dream.

Rudyard Kipling stated that he had an ‘inner helper’ who he could get into contact with if he did not think consciously about reaching him but rather drifted toward him.

Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869 “…went to bed exhausted after struggling to conceptualize a way to categorize the elements of nature based upon their atomic weights.  He later said, ‘I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required.  Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.’”

Elias Howe worked for years to invent a lockstitch sewing machine.  For years his attempts were futile.  Due to a ‘nightmare,’ as he defined it, he was shown exactly how to build the device that he sought for so long.  “He dreamed he was captured by a tribe of savages who took him prisoner before their king.  ‘Elias Howe, ‘roared the monarch, I command you on pain of death to finish this machine at once.”  Within the dream he was given the answer that he needed.

According to the poet Keats, “the description of Apollo in the third book of my poem, Hyperion, came to me by chance or magic – to be, as it were, something given to me.”

Obviously the names I have mentioned have been recognized as great innovators, trail blazers and individuals of great genius.  They are recognized as great due to their contributions in their various fields.  But would they have been considered great if they had not made their discoveries, composed their music or written their books?  Perhaps and perhaps not!

There are hundreds of more examples of individuals who perceived through dreams, visions and help from within, information that has thrust them into the category of genius.  I am proposing that some of them were just great listeners.

In my late twenties after I would awake during the night from a dream I would hear poetry.  I keep a legal size pad next to my bed and without opening my eyes I would write down what I would hear.  Some of the poetry is 24 lines long.  I have never rewritten any words as they were dictated to me.  If you are curious you can find some of my poetry at www.lesscomplicated.net  I am fully aware of the two different entities that have given me the words as each has their own particular subject and style.

I also have over 5 thick books of dreams that I have recorded over the last 15 years.  I wish that I had kept my dream journals from my late twenties through late forties.  My dreams answered questions that I was pondering during the day; gave me commentary on the lives of people from the past or present; foretold future events and inspired me toward my healing work.

So, I am not just sharing stories of people from the past, I can tell you that all of this is possible. 

Some of the individuals that I mentioned were seeking the answer to some question while others stated that they weren’t particularly searching for anything but received information.  So, what about YOU!

Why not YOU!  I believe, although I am biased, that our group is very spiritual, loving, beautiful and talented.  If you have been with me for the last couple of years you know that I continue to share with you that all things are possible.  All things are possible and you don’t need gurus, special courses or secret symbols to achieve wonderful results.  So now I coming to you with an easy approach…how about just listening.

If you realize that this is possible then it will manifest for you.  You can place your question in your mind and now you know you will get the answer if you believe and just listen.  Hopefully you will now understand that if you weren’t meant to have this happen to you that you would not be reading my lines.  I am here to awaken this concept in YOU. 

Why not YOU?  Yes, your guides and dreamers will work with you.  In fact, they have always been working with you but you were not listening.  By the way, in my last post I mentioned about sitting quietly for twenty minutes during the day.  Just drifting off, relaxing and listening then will work for you.

With love, in love and through love to you.

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Don't Bite My Finger.  Look Where I am Posting.

11/26/2017

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“Don’t Bite My Finger.  Look Where I Am Pointing”

The inner secret of every mystery cult and the inner meaning of the words of every great teacher upon this plane has been to become aware of our highest potential, to understand that we can remember more of who we are.

There is another part of yourself that dwells just beyond your ordinary consciousness, some call it a supra-consciousness, an Overself or an Oversoul.

When we come into a life we are hypnotized from infancy by our environment and culture, into certain beliefs, attitudes, systems and practices that have been fostered upon us by individuals who have not had contact with this deeper aspect within themselves.

The reading of scripture or sacred texts, while enlightening and potentially empowering, is not a replacement for the actual practice of becoming in touch with this higher aspect within yourselves.

A famous neurophysiologist, Warren McCulloch was known to say, “Don’t bite my finger.  Look where I am pointing.”

While some people are stating that a wave of spiritual awareness has come to the earth plane in these last several years, I would ask, ‘what does the term spiritual awareness really mean?’

I would suggest that we are hypnotized by routines that we want to believe make us spiritual.  Attending places of worship for one day a week and then acting in manners that are contrary to what we read, is this acting in a spiritual manner?  In today’s world that appears to be little life in the documents that we label as our spiritual literature, the true life is only in our actions in resonance with the scriptural words.

As you become hypnotized by the political climate and religious figures who act contrary to the highest morality and teachings in sacred scripture, and you accept their actions because of who you think they are, you move further away from your own inner truth.  When you begin to make excuses for those who you follow in the religious, political and social areas, you move further away from your own center of knowing.

Every great teacher, philosopher and enlightened guide has pointed to the pathway of your going inside and having a direct contact with your Creator God.  Within you, you will find the answers that you seek and not from those who talk a good story but don’t walk their talk.

For me, spiritual awareness is the recognition of a spiritual realm that is the underpinning of this physical reality that we are experiencing.  Those enlightened individuals, who periodically come to the earth plane, and live lives as examples of the highest aspects of love, truth, beauty, compassion, brotherhood and selflessness show us what it means to have spiritual awareness.

Wearing a robe, holding a sacred book and preaching does not make one a spiritual or even an enlightened being.   How you talk, how you walk, how you act and the light that shines from your being is more of an indication of how close one is to that highest aspect that resides within themselves.  That light within you has a closer connection to your source than your physical consciousness has at this moment.

Some of you have commented how much you like the positive and loving aspects of my posts.  I have not discussed politics or discussed current events but continue to point out higher potentials and what more is possible.  It is in this vein that I am writing these words to you.

You are getting too involved with the drama of the show.  Instead of observing and recognizing there is a higher purpose for what is taking place at this time in the world, you have fallen into someone else’s script and become their actor.

We have come into the schoolroom to demonstrate how we use our creative energies.  We have been given the opportunity to demonstrate, love, compassion, truth, beauty, selflessness and to understand that everything, and that means everything on this planet, is interrelated.  Exemplary individuals, throughout history, have demonstrated to us the highest spiritual precepts we are capable of attaining.

You have the choice to do whatever you please; to think and act in every situation as you feel is necessary and true to your character.  This is free choice.  While the religious texts have not lost their examples and true meaning, we are beginning to lose sight of the spiritual essence behind the words.  Our modern interpreters do not really understand what they are talking about.  They are bending and twisting and interpreting based on their own limited understanding and beliefs.

The surest way to understanding is to go within the closet of your own being; make contact with your own innermost spiritual essence and break this hypnotic trance that seems to be so prevalent.  Might is not right, power is not truth and the one with the most money is not necessarily the one with the highest spiritual insight.

My love for you and purpose for writing this post is that you don’t listen to others because of who they say they are or what position they hold, but that you go within and recognize your own highest truth.  Does it make sense that your sacred book might say to love all people and treat all as you would like to be treated and yet an interpreter of that book casts away everyone that doesn’t believe as he or she does?  Trust yourself and know that the highest truth is within you and act within that truth.

Take some time for introspection.  Take some time to sit quietly and ask yourself are you acting at the highest and best that you know is possible?  Are you occupied so much with what is taking place in the world, that you can’t sit still for twenty minutes per day in quietude, without your mind reliving or planning discussions with friends and loved ones over why your politics are right and why your particular religion is the only outlet for God’s plan on earth?

Again, “Don’t bite my finger, but look where I am pointing.”  I love all of the modern conveniences and tools that we have at this time, but they are just that…tools.  Instead of having more time for the appreciation of the beauty, love and our kinship with all life, which is part of the Creation, we are more stressed, unhappy and locked into a life of having to pay for our tools.  How many people do you know, that you can say they are truly happy, content and in joy?

Don’t be hypnotized by other people’s political or religious beliefs; don’t succumb to the belief that only science can provide the truth; that modern conveniences mean you have attained your highest purpose on earth; and don’t give up your moral compass because someone you admire is off course and you need to justify that they are right.  Go within yourself and humbly wait in silence and you will feel a warmth and eventually a spiritual presence within a light, that will become your true guide, friend, teacher and Father/Mother.

At these times of great outer conflict, confusion and misunderstanding, there resides within yourself a place of peace, harmony, love, beauty and greater guidance.

With love, in love and through love.
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The Macrocosm and the Microcosm

11/19/2017

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The Macrocosm and the Microcosm

Thank you for your wonderful notes on messenger.  I am still around.

All things have their places and we sometimes forget that the Creator provides for all animals, plants and minerals.   While all elements have their own essences all things are tied together in the immense dance of life.

People carry within them a spark, a ray from the fire alter of the infinite. Within each of us is a ‘spiritual darkness of night’ an unseen field from which all of the real energy that supplies our existence pours forth.

Within this dark or unknown aspect within us are unexplored dimensions of matter, time and space.

Within this dark aspect of the unknown that provides energy that feeds us, is the same energy that feeds the stars for we have within us a ‘constellation of luminous points of tiny suns gleaming and glowing.’

If we could really see clearly and understand what we see, these luminous points of tiny glowing lights within us, is actually what we would call our spirit, a vast constellation of Divine Lights.

This spirit within, with all it magnificent patterns of suns, lights and patterns follows Divine laws and rules and there is a Divine Mathematics present that is a miniature reflection of the sky at night.

When we gaze outwards and see the stars in the sky we use our regular or ordinary vision, but if we gazed inward and looked at the dark sky within, we would also see an infinite number of constellations and patterns.  When you learn to look within you no longer wonder about the mystery without.

This is where the true meaning of the macrocosm and the microcosm originated.  This is why it was stated that the heavens and earth are in human beings.  Those who have learned to turn their gaze within understand that there exists a vast number of constellations.  Viewing within we see movable objects, spark suns, rotating, revolving, moving and supplying their energy to the planets, which they bring into generation and new form.

Just as the sky around us is filled with suns that we observe through a solar spectroscope, in each of us are stars and patterns that together “form the jewels of our spirit.”
Each sun we see in the sky above is an instrument for a purpose, each has around it planets which have been formed according to their needs and laws.  Each speck of light you see is a sun and has the potential of having planets as the Creation continues to move ever onward.  So each sun within Human Beings is capable of having a planetary family moving about it.

That is to say, that as people perfect themselves, acting from the highest of benevolent actions, a family of planets are formed within, mirroring the unfolding expression of one’s own life.

As the spirit of people comes from the energy beyond the stars, the soul of people comes from the planets.  The soul of our life is like a planetary system, moving around the matchless alter of our own great spiritual sun which resides within. If we could really examine what takes place in the sky around us, we would realize that what we call our one great sun consists of an infinite grouping of luminous ‘blazing units.’

All suns have their common life or common field and have come from a common source.  They all have an aspect of pro-creativity and when they become a blazing center of life, when they bring forth their highest essence from within, they then create their own planetary family around them.

Planets exist within space but still depend upon the light of their source sun, which they reflect.  The human soul reflects the light of the spirit because it is a reflector of life.  Most of us do not understand what is taking place and assume that what we are familiar with is the source of our life and light.  Our soul and ego are no more the source of our light then is a planet we might see, the source of the soft glow by which we see it.  We see it because of the reflection of light upon it.

Our soul is bathed in the light of our spirit, it does have a life, but it is not as complete and luminous as we would like to think.

The soul is between spirit and the body.  It is composed of substances that have their origin, like the origin of planets, in the common matter of things. But, the soul also receives into itself and disseminates a powerful energy from its spiritual sun.  The soul is the messenger of the spirit, it is an extension of the spirit.

The ancients said that the “soul receives from the body a certain heritage and it receives a certain heritage from the spirit.  The soul is that part of a person that contains within it, reason, intuition, emotion and the magical power of imagination.”

And thus the ancient admonition was always; know thyself, know thyself and know thyself.

Thank you for your kind, loving and beautiful thoughts on my previous post.

With love, in love and through love for your consideration.  Be beauty.
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Miracles are an Effect, the Cause of Which is Unknown

11/8/2017

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Miracles are an Effect, the Cause of Which is Unknown

One of the ancient teachers said that “Nature is an orderly creature unfolding according to fixed laws and maintaining patterns and sequences of absolute expectancy.”  This wise observer said that nature is seldom eccentric and seldom departs from her own rules.

The alchemists maintained that Nature does not work by miracles and neither do those things happening to people.  Miracles are an effect, the cause of which is unknown at a particular moment, but the cause must be equal in every respect to the effect which it produces.

Behind all healing is an absolute pattern of cause and effect and disease is a cause producing an effect in the same manner that the disease was an effect from a specific cause.

The wise seekers of the past were determined to recognize the absolute patterns of Universal Principles and thereby they we able to produce remedies compounded specifically to address situations that could eventually result in detrimental effects.

When we begin to administer medicinal remedies according to natural laws and realize that there are seasons and times for all things then we will begin to have a better understanding of how to address our health difficulties.  Perhaps we will understand in the future that even standard medications given at different times, not just once or twice per day, but at specific times according to planetary influences will have different effects.

Thousands of years ago there was a belief that a physician was a child of Nature and the task was to go where knowledge was and then to sit humbly in the presence of it.  Whether it be a humble peasant passing along remedies from even more ancient times, sitting in a field of herbs, plants and flowers or being open to divine signs within Nature, the wise ones garnered wisdom from all sources.

A person who would study the great book of Nature must travel the pages with his feet.  Those men and women of the past who accomplished great work were not afraid to change their entire philosophy the moment they found a truth that conflicted with their own opinion.  Today, we seem to be changing truths to conform to our opinions.

Nature’s religion is sustained forever by, “law, order, beauty, rhythm, harmony and integration.”  These can be recognized everywhere.  When we get locked into some dogma then a limitation is formed and we begin to restrict our thoughts and mind and then our observation becomes clouded as we attempt to have visible facts conform to our opinions.

As we depart from facts we go into speculation, we restrict our observations even more and perform a kind of chemistry in the mind losing observation of what is actually taking place.  As we begin to alter truths and facts we are like a branch cut from the life-sustaining energy of the trunk of a tree.
Eventually we lose ‘virtue, integrity, honor, intelligence and common sense.’  Yes, these attributes are all tied closely to truth.  For whenever a person cuts themselves off from the source, they separate themselves from the common stream of moral life energy.

“We will never battle our way to security at the expense of nature.”  Whenever we ravish nature, we begin our journey to our own destruction as we cut ourselves off from the creative and sustaining energies that sustain us in health and well-being.
As we achieve a high degree of actual wisdom, and not just opinions of ourselves and others, we will restore our natural born instincts and as “the instinct is purified, redeemed and finally perfected it becomes intuition.”

The macrocosm is the universe and a Great Being; the microcosm is human beings and the little universe. “Humans are a cosmic system, and within their natures miniature polarities exist for everything in the universe that exists outside and around them.”  When we truly understand ourselves, we will understand the world.

We only view surfaces of things and all we know of the Cosmos is through some degree of quality of observation.  Our faculty of physical perception cannot observe depths so we only learn “the trivia of the universe.”  We are limited and do not see the causes which are not visible, apparent or available to our physical senses.

This is why the ancient teachers stated, “Man and Woman are the useful key to the study of all things other than themselves.”

“All knowledge of universals gives us skills in particulars and all contemplation of particulars gives us intuitive recognition of universals.”  “In order to study the mysteries of space, we do not need to go out there; because there is no quality in space, in space, that is not in people.”

Human beings are “not separate, not superior, not fashioned apart but a part of Nature, an essential manifestation of the Universal, creative and generative process.”

“Following the Socratic idea, there are races living along the shores of air, as man lives along shores of the sea.  There is no break in the chain of lives and inter-relationships.  What we call a break is merely a limitation of human sensory perception.”

The earth supports many forms of life that we cannot see.  They may inhabit and occupy the same location as ourselves, but we never know them.  Life unfolds above human beings in orderly sequences of races, beings and creatures.  But our sensory perceptions are unable to observer them.

Is it no wonder that the three great admonitions on the temple were, Know Thyself, Know Thyself and Know Thyself?

Through your stimulation and activation of the foci or polarities within you, that is of beauty, unconditional love, truth, joy, appreciation and reverence, you open yourself up to receive all of the total energies of these aspects that exist throughout the cosmos and other dimensions.

With love, in love and through love to you.
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The Gumball Gift

11/7/2017

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The Gumball Gift
 
Although I have been very active in sports and have achieved national recognition while competing, I have never been very handy when it comes to anything mechanical or working with tools.
 
I have often tried to overcome my problem of being mechanically challenged but have not had great success over the years.  This seems rather strange since my father had so many abilities when it came to electrical and mechanical repairs.  My father was a master electrician (during the war he built aircraft engines), he could repair any type of automobile, small appliances and built tools that would help him repair mechanical machines.  It was not unusual that my father would buy a product and then immediately figure out a way that it could be improved.  Many times he would send suggestions into companies, and more often than not, the next company model included some of my father’s suggestions.
 
While I had hands like glue and never dropped passes in football, and I could shoot and make half-court baskets while sitting on my backside, when these same hands were holding some type of implement used for repairing, they became spastic. 
 
One of my more memorable experiences begin with my deciding to change the spark plugs on my 1969 VW bug.   It was nearing the first half of a football game on television and I thought I would go into the garage and change the spark plugs during half time.  No problem I imagined.  I started working and the first couple of plugs came out well and then the next one was a bit tight.  So, I figured I must need a bit more force.  It still was not coming out so then I just really forced it. Then everything moved easily because half of the spark plug was in the socket wrench while the other half was in the engine bloc.  I called over to my father to take a look, he just smiled!  Even he couldn’t help me.  So, it was off to the car agency and a nice whopping bill to bore the spark plug out of the engine block. Oh, yes, I didn’t see the rest of that football game.
 
I don’t know why I am constantly fooled by companies that advertise easy assembly on their products.   For me, there is no easy assembly.  I have tried a few products from Asia which stress they are easy assembly.  Never happens.  When I am finished, ends flop around, corners never meet and when I’m finished there is always some extra part lying around.
 
One Christmas I decided to buy and assembly a gumball machine for my brother.  I purchased it because it said easy assembly and no special tools were needed. Now how hard could it be to put together a gumball machine?  Here was a perfect opportunity to demonstrate to my brother that I could do something mechanical, if one would consider this as being mechanical?
 
My brother had followed in my father’s footsteps regarding his mechanical and repair ability so this meant a lot to me.  Although my brother Barry is a year and one half younger, he always was the leader when it came to experimentation.  I remember one day when my parents had gone on a little weekend trip, my brother mentioned to me that he wondered how the washing machine worked.  I told him that I didn’t have any idea.  I believe I was 16 and he was 14 and one half.  So, out he went to the garage with me following close behind.  The next thing I knew he had parts scattered all over the garage floor.  What I had, was my eyes bugging out of my head.  I didn’t have the slightest conception how to place it back together. 
 
In my early years I never seemed to be able to visualize or picture things clearly in my mind once they were taken apart.  I can see things are together when I am looking at them but when something is taken apart I don’t always seem to understand how the parts go together.  Later I would understand that I see subjectively and not objectively.  Barry did finally put everything back together before our parents returned, so and I was very relieved. 
 
Now after several decades of endless jokes from my brother and father, it was finally my time to show everyone that I could put something together.
 
After I thought I had finished piecing the gumball machine together, I did note that there were a couple of screws lying around.  I was hoping that these were extra parts!  I rapped up my brother’s Christmas gift using my go-to-form-fitting rapping material, the always reliable Reynolds Aluminum Foil.  Over the years I have utilized this rapping paper for all Christmas presents, birthday presents and I love you gifts, hey, it’s the best!
 
Christmas day arrived and I brought my completed project to my brother’s house.  The moment came when Barry was opening my special present and I was ready to hear him say, ‘I am proud of you Steve.’  Instead his first words were, ‘how do the gum balls get out of the machine?’  What a foolish question I thought.  Then I took a closer look at the gumball machine and I began to have that same question. 
 
Even though I couldn’t repair most things, I learned how to get things fixed.   After my parents moved to Sedona they would occasionally return and stay with me in Los Angeles.  I would leave any small appliance that needed repair, directly in the pathway where my father would be walking.  I left them in the hallway to the bathroom, on the kitchen table as well as my father’s favorite spot on the sofa in the television room.  My father just couldn’t stand something not moving smoothly or making noise.  He would fix appliances, doors, gates and anything that rotated but was not moving smoothly and quietly.
 
I remember him saying, ‘what is this toaster doing in the hallway’?  Or he would say, why is this device making noise?’ Off he would go to the garage.  You don’t need to be an expert in everything, you just need to know who to call, or where to place items, when you need something done. J
 
I have some terrific friends who do all types of construction, electric work and general repairs.  I will stand next to them and watch everything they do and just marvel at their ability.  When I tell them how lucky they are to be gifted to do these things, they always reply, ‘Steve, we all have different gifts, and when I listen to you talking and joking, I marvel at how uplifted and empowered I feel.’
 
I guess the moral of this is that you don’t always have to be an expert in all things in order to achieve your goals.  We can be lacking in one area but shine in so many others.
 
With love, in love and through love to you.

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Why Be Intimidated?  You Have More Wisdom Than You Imagine

11/4/2017

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Why Be Intimidated?  You Have More Wisdom than You Imagine

I have found it an interesting dynamic that some people are intimated when they meet me in the library.  This happens whether it is a social meeting or for consulting.

First question they ask is, ‘how many of these books have you read?’  After my response, some people become very quiet and say, ‘I really don’t believe I know as much as you do and my questions are going to be too mundane for you.’

My come-back to these statements is, it doesn’t matter how much someone has read, it is about how one is carrying themselves through life that is the most important.

Through the years I’ve met many people who quickly point out about themselves, I’m an expert in the Qabalah, I’m a Theosophist, I’m an Alchemist and so on.  They might follow with, I’ve been studying for twenty years or I was taught by the Grand Mucky Muck or I’m part of this Eastern lineage spanning thousands of years.

All of these experiences sound great, the questions are, is the individual putting what they’ve learned into practice?  What is the purpose for all of one’s studying, is it merely the acquisition of knowledge or wisdom or are these regimes meant to lead an individual into a more balanced, healthy and loving life while here on our planet?
We all know that we have experiences (lessons?) throughout our life, aren’t these philosophical and spiritual regimes supposed to assist us in facing, working through, learning and processing our experiences?  I believe they are tools for us to use in our life and just to be studying is not the end goal.

Perhaps it is a bit of ego that leads people to attach the title expert to themselves?

In my journeys I have met individuals who have claimed great knowledge yet they have a hard time functioning and being happy within their life.  They might have the knowledge that we are the fifth root race of the hyperbolic extension of the 25,000 year cycle of the XXX, which is very interesting, but this knowledge has not helped them interact with people in social situations or kept them mindful of the necessity for a healthy body.  I am merely stating my observation, I am not stating that every person who is aware of what root race we are, might act like this, but many do.

When I come across someone who states they don’t know anything about philosophy, but they appear to be living a balanced life; have a happy demeanor; are willing to give someone the shirt off their back without looking for something in return; doesn’t complain that the system is out to get them; they respect all different beliefs and you just feel good when you are around them; I believe they have ‘the goods.’

They didn’t need to read and study endless books on religion, philosophy or Spiritism, they live the philosophy that others study.

In my old building we would close during lunch time but I would stay and catch up with some work.  One day a woman knocked at the door and I decided to see what she wanted.  She told me she was from out of town, had limited time, and had heard that we had some interesting books.

She shared that she had come to Sedona to teach a weekend class on alchemy and some of her students were from out of state.  She handed me her business card which stated she was an Alchemical Princess.  I found this very interesting since I have never read this term, an Alchemical Princess, in any alchemical literature.  Although I did not have a lot of time, I did want to pursue this.

As we walked into the library she explained that she was an expert in alchemy and she was teaching her advanced class.  She stated her background was from having read and studied many ancient texts.  She was just about to name some books as we reached the alchemical section in the World Research Foundation library.  I told her that the books behind our chairs were alchemical books dating to the 1500s.

As she glanced at the titles and dates, she became very quiet.  I asked her which of these texts she might have read and she replied none of them.  She didn’t know that these books existed nor was she familiar with any of the famous alchemical authors.

I am not sharing this story to be critical but to prove a point.  After having taken a few courses from some other people, this person was claiming to be an expert in a field that she wasn’t even familiar with.  In my 45 plus years as a student, I have found this repeated very often in my travels.  Just because someone makes claims does not mean that they have ‘the goods.’

I have shared the lectern with individuals with a high profile in spiritual, esoteric and philosophical areas who have written a LOT of books.  When you interact with them on a personal level, you discover many of them talk and write a good story, but they don’t walk their talk.  Of course, not all of them, but many well-known speakers who you would immediately recognize.

Now, what do I mean by not walking their talk?  When I hear an individual lecture about love, peace, beauty and spiritual topics, I would assume, as we went out to lunch, that they would treat a waiter, waitress or cleaning person with respect and love just like they intimated in their lecture.  If a lecturer teaches about prosperity consciousness, and then tells me that their business is not making it, and they are in big trouble with suppliers, and about to ‘stiff’ them, I believe, in my opinion, that this person does not walk their talk.

If a lecturer speaks to an audience about facing situations in life with grace and ease, providing magic keys in their book to help someone stay calm and not get upset, I personally expect them to use it themselves when they are confronted with difficulties.

Now I am not speaking about a random event that might suddenly befall someone.  I am speaking of these 'teachers' I know who can’t face any situation without ‘their wheels coming off the tracks.’
All of this leads me back to my original statements regarding people who are living their lives in balance, harmony, love and beauty as a natural aspect of their journey in life.  I place more credence and have more respect for someone living like this, than all of the so-called experts and ‘well-read’ teachers who don’t live what they espouse.

Don’t ever be intimidated because someone presents credentials or claims that they have all of the answers or that they have the secret knowledge.  We are all students in the schoolroom and there are very few individuals who are physically here who are not learning on this plane.  Reading the lives of even some of the great teachers shows you that they also had their lessons to learn. The truth of someone's philosophy is how they handle each situation.

Pythagoras, the philosopher who coined the word philosopher, which meant a lover of wisdom, had the following to say about learning.  I’m paraphrasing here, ‘When I come across those I share with, I call them brother and sister.  When I come across those who impart wisdom to me, I call them mother and father.  When I come across those who depend upon me to help them grow, I call them son and daughter.’  At any time, the same person speaking several different sentences to us, can be our parent, sibling or child.
 
I enjoy sharing and learning from those people who demonstrate in their life, that they are healthy, loving, humorous, uplifting, generous and love rock and roll music from the 60s, then from the people who just talk or write about these things.
 
I am not saying that all the people who write books or teach courses on these subjects do not live their precepts, what I am saying is to observe, witness and intuit whether the individual walks the talk.  Too often people fall in love with their ‘teacher’ and begin making excuses for the ‘teachers’ less than positive behavior.  Personally, I hold anyone who states they are a ‘teacher’ to a higher standard than those who say they are a student.

Believe in yourself, trust yourself in what you know is right, and recognize that you are unique, special and are just as wise as some of the ‘teachers.’  Share your beautiful heart, open mind and humble spirit and you will be walking with the truly great ‘teachers’ of the past.

Thank you brothers and sisters for reading these lines.

With love, in love and through love to you.
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Are You the Leader of Your Gathering of Nations, A Gardener Or What?

11/3/2017

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Are You the Leader of Your Gathering of Nations, A Gardener, Or What?

Human Beings represent an orderly division of energy and we can find perhaps millions of different structures and life forms existing within the human body.

Each person represents a diversity of an infinite number of activities that take place within a human body.  There is so much going on beyond what we can visible see that it would be a good idea if we had a respect for the invisible activities that are taking place within ourselves.

If we are really in charge as we believe we are, we should attempt to understand what many of these subtle and almost invisible activities are; we should learn to intuit their actions; arbitrate and support them when needed.

Each of us represents a countless number of organisms that are growing up together within us and you need to maintain an equilibrium if you and all of your parts are going to operate at maximum efficiency.  We might say we need to ‘sign a treaty of peace, creating our own Gathering of Nations in order to form a unity of purpose.

People’s illnesses arise when their Gathering of Nations falls out of balance and the harmonic relationship between energy centers (nations) are destroyed or disrupted.  The remedy is to maintain an equilibrium or maintain a constant motion of energies to prevent any obstruction or closure of any of the energy centers.  Obstruction then disease move together.

As soon as one of the ‘nations’ is blocked, you have a major imbalance, which leads to a loss of vitality and eventually a loss of function.  Human beings can destroy the areas or fields, or nations, within themselves and as a result, communication is lost, support is lost and the Gathering of Nations begins to fall apart.

When we form mental blocks or attitudes, this closes the mental field through mental tension which leads to emotional fields being effected, which then leads to nations attached to our emotional fields becoming obstructed.

Mental, emotional or physical tension are precursors to failure of bodily functions.  All tension is essentially bad.  There is no such thing as righteous indignation.  Yes, perhaps you are right regarding a situation, but your body does not recognize you are right, only that you are tense.  Indecision causes a tension that has negative effects upon your Gathering of Nations.

In one’s emotional field, tensions come from confusion, hate, greed, jealousy and envy.  “All of these lock the emotional nature and affect the respiration and lock the air content of the body.”  “Every time we have a negative or destructive thought, we are setting up a private smog problem which is going to pollute every bit of the respiration process of the body, loading it with toxins.”

The moment tension arises in any of our fields (nations) we have a disturbance.  The other nations come to the defense of the troubled area and we have a disruption of the normal rhythm or interactions of the nations.  The disturbance can be likened to a storm center, if it becomes too intense and greater than the other nations can handle, we have a major physical disruption.

If one is to be considered as intelligent, than they should act as a leader or administrator of the nations of energy that they oversee.  There are all kinds of life existing within each of us comprised of animal, vegetable and mineral aspects.  Many of these nations or energy fields create recuperative processes because on their own they are intelligent and have a natural skill to repair damage.

Generally we do not have to concentrate or focus energy to make a broken bone mend, be we can stop it from knitting and healing properly by worrying.  We can stop activities from taking place through fear and this hampers the activities of our energy field.  While the bone might not have intelligence that we understand, the energy involved with the healing process does.

When we begin to have a depletion within some area of our life, our basic optimism falters and we lose our sense of security.  When we lose our sense of security that we can rectify a situation, then this leads to panic and panic leads to tension.

“We live in a cooperative universal commonwealth.  The food we eat, air we breathe, clothing we wear is taken from a plant or animal.  These are a part of the great pageantry of life.  We are in debt to everything that makes us live.”  We are in debt to every one of our nations, within our Gathering of Nations, no matter how small or large they might appear.

There is something in each of us that has a vibratory sympathy to an elm tree.  Something else in us that has a vibratory sympathy to a dandelion root.  There are substances outside of us that are suitable for the repairing of anything inside of us.
The efficacy of remedies lies in the compatibility of their vital energetic fields with different areas inside the human body.
For those of you who do not relate to the analogy of the Gathering of Nations, here is another analogy…

Our Spiritual Parents have fashioned an incredible garden that we call the human body.  The aspect of you that is reading these lines is the appointed gardener of your garden.  As the gardener you are expected to make sure that the soil, air, proper moisture and added nutrients are sufficient to allow the flowers, plants, trees and all of the other elements existing within the garden, mature to their highest and best state.  If you are diligent, you till the soil regularly and do not allow weeds to grow and choke other life supporting elements of the garden.

Have a wonderful day, evening, or beautiful sleep wherever you might be in the world.

With love, in love and through love to you.
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It's About One's Perspective and Objective

11/2/2017

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It’s About One’s Perspective and Objective

I received the following question on one of my posts…

“Steven my question is, once one gives of themselves as I always have, what about the people that so often have taken that for granted and were so inconsiderate, and took kindness for weakness. Please give me your opinion... I have been let down a good amount of times for giving?”

This is the only manner in which I can answer your question.  Everything depends on the reason why someone performs a task or provides help.  Are they expecting something back in return?  Do they need to have some acknowledgement for doing what was the correct and proper thing to do?

If a banana peel or some other slippery substance was lying on the ground, and someone would pass it, I believe one of three things might happen.  In my little scenario nobody else is around at the first moment the person has come across the object.

The first would be that a person might think, I don’t have time to stop and pick it up and since I made it safely, I don’t care.

The second scenario might be that someone thinks, I would like someone to recognize what I am doing by picking this dangerous object up and they will congratulate me in some manner.  So I will wait until I see someone coming and then they will see me pick it up.

The third scenario might be, that one picks it up immediately to make sure that nobody will get hurt, and just deposits it in a safe spot because they know it is the right thing to do.

This is my first response to your question. Your perspective and other people’s perspective is involved with what takes place in any situation.

Next we should factor in whether you have gone way out of your way to do something because you were asked to do it and the recipient just didn’t take the time to thank you properly because they are not the ‘thank you’ type of person.  In this case if this is a friend then you are well aware that you are not going to receive that ‘thank you’ from this person so why keep trying?

You asked for my opinion and I can only give you my experience.  I am a giver and everyone around me knows that.  I give because I enjoy supporting, enhancing, balancing and creating.  I give because I have lots to share and it is fun to assist, whether someone thanks me or not. I do tasks because I like to see them completed and I don’t stand on ceremony over who does what or how much. 

All who have worked with me or for me know that I don’t need to receive credit or recognition for what is done by any joint effort.  I saw something that I had some familiarity with and just did it.  This is how I have been for all of my teenage and adult life.  I just believe in providing service or help without any strings attached or needed.

This being said, I totally understand that every person has different needs and interacts with people in a variety of ways.  There is nothing wrong with wanting to be respected, acknowledged or properly compensated for actions that are taken in support for another person.  Responses and actions are based upon perspective, upbringing, awareness, and norms within certain groups.

I am familiar with several people who have told me that their boss or head of their family only acknowledges them when they do something wrong, according to their superior.  The giver could have accomplished the most unbelievable result and they don’t receive a thank you or any acknowledgement at all.  They are told, you should have accomplished that anyway!  If they perform the slightest thing in less than what was expected and they are chastised.

There are billions and billions of people and billions and billions of slightly different reactions that people will make in the same situation.

My suggestion would be to align yourself with people who appreciate beauty, love, and honesty and have a reverence for life.  People who smile, laugh and have fun.  I believe you will find a better reception for those things you’ve done to help someone else.

I hope this is helpful…it is only my opinion of course.

With love, in love and through love to all who read these lines.

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The Unlimited Supply

11/1/2017

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The Unlimited Supply
One should always give thanks for the unlimited supply that abounds and that is available for us to receive.

Most of us are bound by the barrier of what we see with our physical eye. The old philosophers taught that one must condition your mind toward the concept of unlimited supply. You must learn to break the barrier of limitation.

You must learn that you have what you want or need; not believe what you think you see. You receive what you see, you have access to all that you want.

Individuals in the past who have demonstrated so called miracles understood the concept that you must see your desire fulfilled and not see only what appears to you at the moment. The results, for those who understood this principle, manifested due to their expectation. When you learn to see plenty, using the vision of your higher awareness, then this vision will be fulfilled.

In our reality, that which is gazed upon is brought forth into our reality. If your gaze emanates from a greater vision, that to will also be brought forth.
You will manifest your desire, when you realize that it is possible, when you tap into the thought stream of unlimited supply that has been given to us upon this plane.

If you remember the movie, The Ten Commandments, Moses had come from the mountain and was speaking to the Pharaoh. In an early scene, Moses gave his brother his staff and had him place it on the floor. It turned into a white snake. The Pharaoh had his three servants place their staffs on the ground, they turned into three black snakes.

One interpretation of this event was that this example was to demonstrate that the energy of creating exists for all people. Intent and sure knowledge leads to manifestation. Continuing with the story, the white snake eventually swallowed the three black snakes. This was intended to show that the more positive intent supersedes a less positive intent.

Ancient teachers taught that by desiring to align yourself with the creativeness of the universe; by going within yourself and finding your own link, your own creative ability that those energies of the greater creativeness would then be added unto you.

All things are connected and are part of the one. When you conceive of yourself as being a part of the Great Light of love and creativeness, this light will intensify within you, and you will begin to radiate this same light. All of us can radiate the light because we are all of this light. Use your inner awareness to become aware of the light that shines within all things, including yourself; you are not given the light, you are the light.

There is no limitation to the light. By quickening the heart and heat of love that resides within you; by desiring to be of a helpful nature to others; by your desire to be a true steward to the planet and all life that resides upon it; by recognizing that all objects and forms contain the light of our Creator, then all things will become possible for you. You will recognize the unlimited supply that exists within the field of the Great Light and you will then manifest what you intend rather than what others just see.

To inspire and empower with love, in love and through love.


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