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.

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.

Life Within the Light?

The old philosophers believed that there were two ways to acquire knowledge.  Either through intuition or experience.

They believed that Intuition reveals things to us while experience tests us and provides impulses and urging for our further development.

Although we are aware when intuition comes to us, it is difficult to explain what its mechanism and substance is. 

Some old teachers used an analogy of Light to explain the substance or essence of intuition.  They explained that there are two kinds of light; a visible radiance that we call brightness and an invisible light we call darkness.  The belief was that darkness and light were fundamentally the same substance but different in degrees.

Light is a twofold being in that it contains quality and substance.  In thinking of the term darkness let’s use the term invisible as far as this explanation is concerned.  The dark light or invisible aspect of visible light is luminous to the soul and dark to our body.  The visible physical radiance is bright to our senses and dark to the soul.

The light we see contains energy that is necessary to support all the visible things we see.  The invisible aspect of light supports the invisible power and functions of humans including intuition. We might say that intuition is the capability of becoming attuned to the inside of light.  Now I don’t want this to become too complicated so let’s say that visible light is responsible for health and the invisible aspects contained within visible light causes wisdom.

“The light of:
Body – Gives strength, energy, growth and development.
Soul – Gives understanding
Mind – Gives wisdom
Spirit – Bestows truth.”  Now all of these aspects need nourishment which is contained within light.

The total burden of all energy that is needed is contained within every ray of visible light.  When we look at something we see either its objective physical form or we can perceive its inner light.  Everything that lives, lives in light.  Everything that exists, radiates light.  When we look upon something we can see the thing according to its outer characteristics or according to its inner nature.  “The heart has eyes as well as the body.  The mind has ears and all internal parts of people have equivalent senses of cognition.”

We see nature because of the light that shines upon it but we see the true life of nature because of the light that shines within it.  “Through observation we behold things lighted, by intuition we behold things self-luminous.

Outwardly we see only the reflection of light upon objects and life forms because they have become visible to our sight, but intuitively we can behold the inner light of all things.

Through reflected light we see shape, color, number and arrangement.  Through the inner light we can see goodness, beauty and integrity.

Continuing with the belief of some ancient teachers, the visible part of light is only a shadow or reflection of the invisible light which is truly the source of all life in the universe.  The universe in its totality is suspended in an infinite spiritual life-light.  All things exist within this light.  There is a sea of eternal light which some called the Luminous Nature of God.  Pythagoras stated, the body of God is composed of the substance of light.

Some teachers from the past taught that there are three suns within our solar system.  One is the physical sun we see, a second is a sun in the astral/psychic plane and the third is a spiritual sun.  These three suns bestow life to the worlds according to their own natures.  The physical sun warms and reveals bodies; the psychic sun nourishes the soul and the spiritual or root sun nourishes and sustains the spirit of all things.  The suns do not create the light but are the vehicles through which the light is projected.

The spiritual sun has to do with the divine nature of all things. The psychic or astral sun deals with ignorance and the physical sun dissipates the darkness we call crystallization.

Truth is a kind of light, when it shines another kind of darkness is dissipated.  “Truth is to darkness of ignorance, what sun is to the darkness of night.”

Our earth and all its life forms exist within a field of light, even at night.  This light is not affected by the alternation of day and night.  The light from the psychic and spiritual suns never ceases.  We are constantly surrounded and penetrated at all times by THE LIGHT.  We can never be further from or nearer to any essential principle that is necessary for our survival.  Like fish in water, we are not necessarily aware of what sustains our existence.

There is spiritual light, emotional light, mental light, vital light and physical light.  Energies and awareness are conveyed to each of these aspects from the light of the sun in which level or plane they are operating within.

“And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.”

May the light from your inner beauty, love, harmony and truth shine outward and illuminate your every step! 

With love, in love and through love to you.

A Little Journey
For the next week I will be on a little journey, within the journey, and won’t be near a computer. I won’t be able to post, but I will be able to send out waves of love to all of you...my beautiful, spiritual and enlightened FaceBook friends.
For the next week I hope you spontaneously experience or schedule as much LEFL as you can. Surround yourself with Laughter, Excitement, Fun and Love.
Upon the earth…
A little journey, you do make,
To help your Being, reach a more enlightened state,
A state of mind, is what it be,
Look behind the dross, to find the key,
Inside the Subtle One, watches your every move,
Its gentle urging, can help you improve,
Completion is, a state of mind,
Force won’t work, as you will find,
You’ll finally arrive, to a state of light,
Then you’ll awaken, from another earth night,
Two great paths, were your choice to walk,
One through insight, and one through talk. Steve
* * * * * * * *
The dross is burned, through your inspection,
Of this earthy world, which is a reflection,
You don the clothes, of this world,
For lessons to learn, which do unfurl,
Although some hurt, and seem quite real,
T’s just the illusion, which you feel,
So try to discern, what’s real to take,
And worry not, about the fake,
Look beneath, that which comes,
Is it illusion, or the spiritual from?
Dance the steps, which you must,
But realize the part, which will return to dust. Steven
With love, in love and through love to you.

Some More Thoughts Regarding Healing

In August 1995 I visited my parents’ home in Sedona with a friend. My friend touched her pinky finger to an iron and it immediately blistered and became very inflamed. As soon as it happened, everyone in the room turned to me and said, okay Steve, why don’t you see what you can do. I had been doing some healing work the previous ten years.

I have to admit I didn’t approach it in any serious manner but said okay. I walked over and touched her finger with my hand and in a few moments she said the pain was gone.

After another ten minutes she still had the blister and it was looking rather ‘nasty.’ My friend said, why can’t you do something about this blister? Something possessed me to pick up her hand and I breathed over her finger. Within several minutes the blister began to disappear and was soon gone.

I remember approaching the situation in a very light-hearted manner. I didn’t feel any pressure that I must make something happen, but I did have the desire to be of some help in the situation. I made two attempts to help a person who was having some difficulty.

The next day I asked my internal guidance about the experience and I received the following answer. The result took place due to the fact that I held the concept or viewpoint as though I was playing a game. In this situation and in other healing experiences, I should never place myself under pressure regarding how I would make something happen about or how it would come about but have some awareness that everything is possible.

My spiritual guidance went on to say, some important points for people to understand is, that one must have the knowledge that something can happen and they must know that there is a capability that something could happen but not to hold any personal responsibility that a healing must take place. The healer should be personally aware, in the moment, and desirous of being supportive. What separates healers is their ability to create the highest and best healing environment where the patient just knows that something will happen.

The resultant healing manifests from a change of state, brought about through the spiritual portion of the individual desiring to be healed, working through their endocrinology. This can happen instantaneously.

Approximately twenty years ago a Buddhist friend shared an investigation he conducted regarding the healing work of a Chinese master living in San Francisco. This master was a practitioner who worked with the arrangements of energies and patterns. My friend’s investigation concerned a woman in San Francisco who was opened up in several places during cancer surgery and it was discovered that she was covered head to toe with tumors. The doctors had little choice and closed her up and sent her home. They gave her morphine and hoped she would not suffer too long.
 
She contacted the Chinese master and he came to her home. He told her that certain things needed to be moved in her home. She needed to get different colors in the house. He then gave her a chip of wood and told her to place this chip in a particular spot in her home. She did what he told her.
 
Per his instructions, she rearranged the house, changed colors and left the chip where she was told. After some period of time, the largest tumor that the woman had, a stomach tumor that weighed close to ten pounds, as well as all the other tumors, all eventually disappeared without the woman changing anything else in her life.
 
Now in hypnosis we know that the hypnotist can change their subjects arm into a wooden post and change the post into a living plant and as such the subject will prune and water it as the hypnotist suggests. The energy that was behind the growth of the tumor was projected into the piece of wood. Not the tumor itself, but the energy behind the growth of the tumor! Hypnotizing a person, as well as reinforcing particular beliefs, can be accomplished in many different manners and it does not require that the individual has their eyes closed or even realizes they are being hypnotized.

The greater activities of how things are really accomplished, most of which we really don’t understand fully, are embodied within our own spirit, within our desire and within the focused purpose of an individual. It is important that an individual is willing to accept the responsibility for being healed. Yes, there is a responsibility and there must be an acceptance of a new identity, one that does not include the energy patterns that led to the dis-ease.
 
When someone becomes too involved with a particular situation then they become that situation. When someone is willing to give up being a ‘something’ then this will no longer be a part of their life. We are responsible for our manifestations. Our life and the way we live it is our biggest prayer for what we want to have happen.

Everything is malleable here on earth at this time. We are here to demonstrate how we manage our energies. If you are reading these words then it is your time to gently wake up to who you are and what you are capable of changing or manifesting. You are capable of so much more than you have imagined and when you wipe the sleepy out of your eye and you come to your real senses you will understand.

You don’t have to wait for someone to give you something that you don’t already possess. You don’t have to search for the answer because you are the answer. You don’t have to strain, push, be perfect or be more spiritual than you are. You are waking up now, because you are reading this, and as you come fully awake, everything is possible to the extent of your awareness.

I hope this has stimulated some thoughts regarding healing. Have a beautiful day and don’t forget to include some fun and laughter today. I love you.

With love, in love and through love to you.

Belief and the Healing Arts of Ancient Civilizations

Although we look back at some of the practices of the ancients and label them as superstitious, in the last 100 years some of the drugs that were used have been rediscovered and have proved to be of great value.
Today, we still use the snake symbol of Aesculapius.  In those ancient times as well as today, the doctor faces the problem of how to stimulate the recuperative powers of the patient into action.

In the temples of old, disciplines consisted of purification, temple-sleep, and various rest states.  Through reading the old inscriptions we learn that “bodily processes were aroused and focused through intensities of suggestion, through touching the patient, along with lifting the faith of one who was ill.”

Although we are talking about techniques used several thousand years ago, looking deeper we find that focusing on the ancient healing gods was meant to stimulate the body-mind relationship.  Hippocrates believed that the body and mind are a unity, and to affect one is to affect the other.  Today’s allopathic medicine takes more of the viewpoint of isolating the ‘one cause’ and prescribing the special remedy that will bring the solution.

Several Egyptian medical papyri coming from the twelfth dynasty, about 2,000 BC states that it was the duty of the pharaoh to maintain the health of their subjects.  “The ancient writer Maanetho wrote that King Athotis, of the First Dynasty of the Thinites, practiced healing and wrote anatomical works.”

Eventually all of the great medical centers were located at the chief capitals along the Nile, “These shrines were depositories of medical lore, and the success of these ancient traditions are confirmed by the lists of diseases and their cures.”

Clement wrote that there were forty-two Hermetic books at the temple at Hermopolis, of which six were medical texts giving formulas and remedies. “On the walls of sanctuaries wee inscriptions and tablets in commemoration of miraculous cures with statues and steles erected by former patients in grateful recognition of cures effected by the divinity.”

Now in those ancient times healing methods consisted of religious rites, ceremonies and special formulas which brought forth the mysterious, miraculous powers of deities and other supernatural beings.  The concept in those times was centered on the idea of expelling the unseen, malicious actions which caused disease.

The priest/doctor would make an examination and give the ceremonial form of diagnosis. “The patient would them make a formal statement regarding the problem.  I (patient’s name) am a sufferer with (naming the disease or problem).”

Treatments would then consist of” incantations, prayers and possibly giving of some remedy in conjunction with commands, spells, coaxing and threatening.  All of these had symbolic meaning which were meant to impress the mind of the patient.”

According to ancient writings, on some occasions the priest would put on a disguise and would appear to a patient as a god of the body part that was dis-eased, imitating the god in voice and gesture and utilizing relics to chase the evil spirits away.

Remedies were given to assist the spoken formulas.  “Time has proved the value of many of the modalities used at that time including, castor oil, aloe, mind, myrrh, copper, lead, salt, cedar, opium and other substances that are still in use today.”  It is interesting that, “it would appear that remedies used without the magical words were valueless or failed their full effect.”

We therefore come to the conclusion that the aspect of mind in the healing process was a strong consideration.  The Ebers Papyrus states in its opening line, “This is a book for healing all disease.” Further in the writings we find “…welcome remedy, welcome that which destoyest the trouble of this my heart and in these my limbs…the magic of Horus is victorious in the remedy.”

In the same Papyrus we read for an eye problem, “come ointment, come to the patient and take from him the water, the pus, the blood, the pain in the eye, the blindness, the flow of matter which are being worked there from the god of inflammations and of each kind of pain.”

In the ancient Greek writings we find they also believed in the power of the gods for healing.  They used rituals, hymns of praise, prayers and sacrifice.  The Greeks approached curing in two different manners, direct and indirect.

The direct method of healing was through the power of divine intervention through a sacred object, relic or through the medium of a priest who was acting as an intermediary for a particular healing god.  Healing occurred through laying on of hands and writings from those ancient times spoke of great cures from Aesculapius coming through a priest who was channeling this god.

The indirect cures were obtained following directions received through dreams and visions.  Fragments of records from shrines speak of cures due to applications of remedies given by gods through visions.  Therapies included mild purgatives, roots, herbs, diets, fasts, baths and rubbing ointments.

Dream temples were well-known in ancient Greece and it is obvious that psychology played a very important part in the healing process.  At Pergamon, patients were greeted by attendants who walked them through corridors, where steles and tablets mentioned great cures and healings that had taken place in the past. This was to get the patient properly prepared as they approached the god to offer prayer for their own personal healing.  At times they would touch a part of the statue of the god, while requesting help, and there are records of instantaneous healing taking place.

In the healing temples of ancient times an air of sanctity pervaded the temple and patients believed they were in a sacred spot.  In the dream temples the patient had no doubt that they would receive the answers to their difficulty, through their dreams that would come to them at night.  In the morning the dreams and visions would be interpreted by the priests who laid out directions for the treatment that would take place.  In the photo by Waterhouse we see the little girl relating her dream to the priests.

Whether it was the Egyptian, Greek or other Eastern Civilizations, they understood the importance of stimulating the patient’s own healing energies, which led to the miraculous cures which took place.

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

Love and Beauty are Always Near

A book written some time ago shared an angelic communication regarding seeing through the veil into the world of spirit…

“A living sense of unity with nature must be reached, till you can see yourself in every tree, in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every passing cloud, and realize that the manifold diversities which compose a valley or a garden or a wide panorama of mountain, sea and sky, are but expressions of the One Self which is in you, of which you are a part, by means of which you can pierce the external veil of beauty till it can hide from you no longer the vision of the self.”

“In addition to a deeper appreciation of the beauty of Nature, there must be that reverence for all forms and moods, for all her manifold expression, which springs from a recognition of the presence of the Divine of which these forms, moods and beauties are outward expression.”

Thoreau said, “It is not what you look at, but what you see.”

A sacred scripture shared, “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

When we think and act in beauty and truth, we become expressions of the harmonious forces that keep the universe in order.

Plato said, “The true order of going is to use the beauties of earth as steps along which one mounts upwards for the sake of that other beauty.”

The Walker of the Sky, “beholds things beyond the seas and stars; hears the language of the devas and comprehends it, and perceives what is passing in the mind of the ant.”

The All is in all, and all is in the All. Forged in thought it remains in thought. All is a part of the never ending song of the Creator. You are the Light that you seek. You are a child of the Light. You don’t find it, you are it.

As you allow the Greater Awareness that has been hidden from your view to resonate with the beauty and love that surrounds you, you will experience a new dimension of understanding. Let go and allow yourself to relax and trust that the Greater Awareness within you will melt the illusions that you have formed before your eyes. “It is not what you look at, but what you see.”

Just like Pegasus, you will fly,
Reaching heights within, an inner sky,
Traveling vast distance, while in starry flight,
You learn many lessons, during your night.
Listen closely, and have no fear,
Your own loving spirit friends, are always near,
Open your heart, so that your eyes will see clear, 
Then all the manifestations of the Creator, you will hold as quite dear.  Steve

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

Following the Course That Your Life Provides…
You Should Never Fear What Storms Arrive

From out of our library, I’ve chosen an interesting emblem from the 1600s. The emblem writer compared our journey through life as traveling over the sea.  I’ve modernized some the words for clarity...

“To the sea, this world may be compared,
For every person, who lives a life,
Is a pilot to a physical vessel there,
Some of little size or else a bigger frame.
Some, have their boat of their own life to guide,
Some of whole families who depend on their barge.

Some people govern whole townships and we may call this a little barge,
While others, rule great provinces, and they we may call captains of large ships.
Each has a course assigned to them as they enter their journey over the sea, they have their card, compass and due tack available for their journey,
And when each figures the course that they are on based upon those experiences that confront them,
They will accomplish all they have to do.

But many people leave the Care of their own course,
To judge or follow others, in their ways,
And, when their follies make their fortunes worse,
They curse the Destiny, which they should praise,
​
For, waves, and winds, and that oft-changing weather,
Which many blame as the cause of their losses, though they observe it not, helps bring together,
A greater Wisdom to be learned through this change of course; new hopes may manifest,
So what appears to thwart one’s way, may soon depart and lead to a more enlightening pathway.”

Through our journey we have found each other in Facebook. I ask that the winds of your life steer you toward the highest and best that you can achieve.

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

Sympathetic Resemblances

The doctrine of sympathetic resemblances is an ancient concept that had to do with the idea that growing things reveal through their structure and form their usefulness to people. Through their color, aroma and form plants revealed the physical condition and organ of the body that could be benefitted.

This concept reached a zenith as it was taught in Constantinople in the 1500s. A person did not have to be smart in the sense of book learning, because even simple people discovered the healing aspects of plants through using their instinct and intuition. Through the sensing of the design of the plant structure they discovered the organs that would be assisted through some part of the plant.

The development of spiritual insight was one of the cornerstones of the ancient mystery schools. Physicians were taught to search within themselves for the spiritual insight that would help them recognize the energies in plants.
Philosophers and scientists were taught to develop spiritual insight to recognize the geometric energy patterns throughout the cosmos.

Physicians and healers were instructed to sit quietly in a meadow, relax and with a prayerful heart open themselves up to the universal mysteries of health and well-being. A person who is humble and asks for greater wisdom begins to notice how some plants in the fields follow the motions of planets and other plants open their petals according to various moon phases. Still other plants follow the cycle of the sun.

The ancients knew that plants derive energy from two sources, the earth in which they grow and the atmosphere that surrounds them.

Why do some plants have red blossoms and other plants have different colored flowers? Why do some plants have distinctive fragrances and others do not have any odor? The nature of the plant determines what nutrients it will take up from the soil in which it lives. The plant converts the energy of the soil into its body and this energy is available for the possible use by people.

The ancients knew that energies from the atmosphere and heavenly bodies were also absorbed by plants. Various colored plants corresponded to the colors attributed to different heavenly bodies as well as spiritual entities.

Along with plants, minerals also absorb energies. Over hundreds of years miners realized that certain minerals went through the cycles of birth, growth, decrease and death. One mining family in Europe, the Fuggers, recognized that veins of gold and silver actually grew over several hundred years.

Different plants that would grow in the same soil would still take on different characteristics depending upon the nature of the plant. People are unique in the aspect that we can change our nature and thereby alter the nutrition that we can take within ourselves from vast energy centers that exist within the earth plane as well as the cosmos.

The mandrake with its root resembling the human body; the heart wart, the leaves resemble the human heart in shape; the tooth wart resembles the human tooth.  The clue and key of the plant is it’s;
Appearance
Nature
Function
The procedure the plant exemplifies

Within its leaf, berry and fruit, a plant bares some relationship of appearance to the medicinal value which it possesses.  You must search within yourself for the intuitive recognition to apperceive the energy field of the plant.  We all have this ability to perceive and intuit as a natural given ability, all of us!

When people establish within themselves the activities of acting always in the interest of the highest and best, the good and the beautiful, they open themselves up to greater avenues of wisdom and enlightenment. These greater energy centers bring an immediate strength and vitality because a person is now rooted within these energy fields and their nature allows for the absorption of these profound and healing energies.

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

Aligning to the Great Energy Fields

Several ancient teachers in various cultures held the concept that when people are thoughtful of the world, then the world would protect them. These wise individuals believed that when people labor for the common good of others, then the common good would labor for them.

An important concept held by some wise individuals from the past, was that a partnership must be created between a person’s physical body and the natural world that surrounds it, as well as between the physical body and the invisible energy fields that sustain the body’s existence. When a person is in balance and harmony with the great energy fields, there is a greater opportunity for longevity and health.
Living organisms, in all spheres, survive only on some nutrition that is suitable for them. Evil does not exist and cannot survive on good. Happiness does not survive if it is served misery and unhappiness. Conversely, misery cannot survive if happiness is the only nourishment that is present.

Most negative emotions and attitudes are fixations that must be nourished. If one stops the nourishment that is feeding a negative attitude, it will eventually whither and become dormant. “Almost every ailment and emotional attitude is already within people at all times. The ailments and negative attitudes become active only if they are fed with the energy necessary for their resurgence.”

From throughout the cosmos, great energy streams constantly surround and feed the organisms on the earth. From invisible centers, the great founts of energy pour forth to nourish and sustain life. People’s mental, emotional and physical illness arises when they fall out of balance and are not in harmony with these great energy centers.

When people close themselves off from the life sustaining energy streams, obstruction begins and there is a blockage of these natural energy flows which then produces a dis-ease. Obstruction and disease move together. It is paramount for people to keep themselves open and attuned to the highest and best nutritional energy that is available to them.

When a person hides or tries to conceal their true attitude and emotions, this leads to a chain reaction within their body. A person knows when they are acting in a kind or unkind manner. A person is aware when they are suspicious of everything and a person is aware of whether they are being generous or selfish towards other people.

An obstruction of energy is created when a person experiences regret or remorse for how they handled a particular situation when another part of themselves believes there was a better manner in which they might have acted. When there is this type of divergence within the self, there is a weakening within the energy system of the body. The gravest danger for people is too experience debility or weakness. “When debility is present, an individual becomes open to:

A reduction to their resistance to infection.
A reduction to resisting negativity.
It becomes easier to complain
It becomes easier to find fault
It becomes easier to be discouraged.
It becomes easier to be bitter.
It becomes easier to be antagonistic.”

When people are confronted by any type of depletion, their basic optimism suffers and they feel a loss of security. With a sense of a loss of security then people begin to panic. All of the aforementioned emotions takes place when we separate ourselves from the highest and best energy fields that are available to us. The ancient Greeks referred to the highest and most life-sustaining energy fields as; The One, The Good and the Beautiful.

We can align ourselves and gain support from the highest energy flows that are present and available, through our actions of maintaining “A Beautiful Heart, and Open Mind and a Humble Spirit.” The Life Energy from the Great Energy Fields never separates from us, we deprive ourselves from beneficial energy because we shut down and obstruct the energetic field receptors within ourselves, and this blocks the highest life forces from being received and distributed throughout our body.  These are some thoughts from ancient teachers.

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

A story of Faith and Love

In a book that was written in the early 1900s there is an interesting story regarding faith, love and healing.
The story goes on to say that a certain spring flowed near the city of Persepolis and the people referred to it as the Healing Fount.

The people in the surrounding area all believed that at a certain time of the year their deity would come down and place a strong virtue into the water and all the people who were sick would plunge into the water at that moment and would become well.

People who were blind, lame, deaf and having other infirmities would all gather waiting for the exact moment that the healing powers would be present.

A wise prophet standing and watching what was taking place asked someone near him, “Where does the healing virtue come from and if it comes from your deity, why is it blessed one day and then the next day has no power?  A deity of power could fill these waters full of healing virtue every day.”

The prophet went on to say, “Faith is the healing power of every drop of all the waters of this spring.  He who believes with all his heart that he will be made whole by washing in this fount will be made whole when he has washed, and he may wash at any time.”

Now the people hearing this made a tremendous rush to plunge into the water and they were healed.  The prophet watched the activity of the people and noticed a little child who was weak, faint and helpless, sitting all alone.  None of the people nearby attempted to help her into the healing fount because of their haste to heal themselves.

The prophet came up to the little girl and asked why she didn’t get up and go as quickly as possible to the fount to be healed.  The little girl responded, “I need not haste; the blessings of my Father in the sky are measured not in tiny cups; they never fail; their virtues are the same for evermore.  When those whose faith is weak must haste to wash for fear their faith will fail, have all been cured, those waters will be just as powerful for me.  Then I can go and stay a long, long time within the blessed waters of the spring.”

Then the wise prophet took the little girl and lifted her up and said, “Why wait for anything? The very air we breathe in filled with the balm of life.  Breathe in this balm of life in faith and be made well.  The little child breathed in the balm in faith and was well.”

It is a beautiful little story with deep meaning.  The waters of the fount are love and as an individual immerses themselves in the faith of the power of love they will find a healing taking place.  For those who only love in particular places, with particular people, at particular times, the power of love does take place according to their belief.  But the power of love is not located in just one place at one time.  Those who recognize that love is the glue holding all things together and it is because of love that everything was created into existence, you know that , “the healing fount of love is not a little pool; it is as wide as the spaces of the heavens.”
 
Love
Is not real love if it is based
   on any expectation.
In love the lover becomes
   one with the beloved.
There is no spiritual practice
   greater than love.
There is no law higher
   than love,
And there is no goal
   beyond love.
Maharaj Charan Singh Ji
 
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
Saint Augustine
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
Janos Arany
I encourage you to post your favorite quotes regarding love so that we might all enjoy and bask in the heat and warmth of love.  If you share this on your page see how many of your friends will post their favorite quotes on love.  Let’s heat up the atmosphere with love.
With love, in love and through love to you.  Enjoy your day.

What’s the Attraction

In 1948, a husband and wife research team conducted medical research utilizing magnetic fields. Eugene Barnothy, Ph.D., was a professor of physics in Budapest, and his wife Madeleine was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Medical Center.

For years they made significant biological discoveries using ISP "C" shaped permanent magnets. Placing young mice in small cages between the gaps of the magnets, they discovered they could completely stop the growth of animals using a magnetic field strength of 5500 Gauss.

Even after the growth development had stopped for six weeks, the female mice remained perfectly healthy, and after removal from the field were able to produce healthy offspring. Males, on the other hand, died after six weeks from being subjected to the same magnetic field strength.
Continuing with their theory that particular magnetic field strengths could reduce the growth of cells, the husband and wife team began researching a means of finding an effective cancer prevention or cure.

The effect of various magnetic fields continually showed an activity rate 50% higher in mice than normal. They found that various field strengths could retard growth and slow activity or accelerate growth and increase activity.

The couple and their associates noticed that the appearance of the treated animals was different than non-treated animals. Placing treated and non-treated mice side by side, the fur of the treated animal had a smooth, youthful appearance; in contrast, the untreated mouse of the same age showed signs of aging, with stripes in the fur and skin wrinkles.

Carrying on their research work, the couple inoculated several mice with cancer. In their first five cases, the animals completely recovered from the cancer when placed within a magnetic field measured in a particular Gauss strength.

The couple found that magnetic fields had the capability of bringing youth and extending life or retarding growth and shortening life spans. Magnetic fields had the capability of accelerating the growth of cancer as well as halting, reducing, and eliminating cancer tumors.  This depended upon the magnetic pole that was used.

In 1939, the Cancer Act was passed to prevent so-called quacks from taking advantage of desperate people. While protecting people it also had the effect of suppressing many potential cancer cures including the use of magnetism.

The difficulty with examining the effects of magnets on cancer, utilizing double-blind placebo controlled studies, is due to the fact that certain magnetic fields strengths could cause additional problems in the patients, and this brings ethical considerations.

At a time when the Barnothy couple could conduct a wide range of experiments, Madeleine used powerful 8000 Gauss electromagnets to see if she could control or eliminate solid tumors in mice. She found that certain types of cancer tumors could be eliminated while other types were unaffected by the field strengths she was using.

Madeleine Barnothy published several books describing the couple's work regarding the influence of magnetic fields on the body. The couple's work influenced many of the later magnetic researchers that would follow. The aspect of magnetic fields and cancer is important, but the influence that magnetic fields can have on the overall health of our body is even more important.

Another interesting team of researchers from the 1960s was Albert Roy Davis and Walter C. Rawls, Jr. “After several hundred research transplants of cancer to rats, rabbits, mice and other animals, it has been proven that the N Pole, the magnetic negative energy of the two poles and their separate energies, has slowed, controlled and arrested further development of the active cancer site.  Better than 90% of the cases so treated have shown a control and arrest of the cancer condition.”

The two researchers also found that when the applied the N pole magnetic energy to nerves, it acts to lower the sensitivity of the nerves as opposed to the S pole energies that increased the sensitivity to pain.
“Supersonic sound waves are waves that are very high in frequency.  When generated and amplified to a frequency of 30,000 C.P.S. (cycles per second) to 100,000 C.P.S., this energy can be concentrated to a point for removing tumors.  Tissues that have separated, as we find in eye difficulties, may be welded together.  Other delicate applications are possible, such as brain tumor removal without surgery.”

“We have spent more than 30 years of research in our laboratories and researched forms of natural energies and their effects on the life, will, mind and physical body of biological systems.”
“In research experiments with small and advanced animals and man, in the case of willing subjects we have found that the magnet’s NORTH POLE ONLY, when applied to the brain, can and will upgrade the senses of perception. (Don’t try this unless you read their book, “Magnetism and Its Effects on The Living System.)  Perception here is meant as the overall normal inborn senses of animals and man alike.” Never use the S pole of a magnet for this.
 
We are surrounded by magnetic fields and magnetic field pollution.  NASA reports that magnetic fields exist surrounding humans; the sun’s magnetic field encompasses our solar system and the magnetic field of the Milky Way encompasses everything within its sphere. The use of electromagnetic technologies in our life continues to expand at a tremendous rate, while our knowledge of how these products effect our body has lagged behind and may not be known for several decades.

The use of therapeutic magnets is more widespread today. I have had wonderful results with the 1000 Gauss band aid magnets. I have utilized these for soreness and strains from working out and provided them to some friends of mine who were professional athletes. I am also aware of various magnetic products used in sleeping covers.

One important discovery that has been made from most researchers is that subjecting the body to a continuous field is not necessarily the best influence on the body. Pulsed electro-magnetic fields appear to be more beneficial than static fields.

All best wishes for your day with love, in love and through love.

Precedent is not Principle and It Is Now YOUR TIME.

The picture is of Roger Bannister who ran the first sub 4-minute mile on May 6, 1954. So many people tried, and failed to break the four minute barrier before him, that many thought it was a physical impossibility to accomplish.

The precedent and hypothetical barrier was believed to be that no one could run a mile under four minutes. But after Bannister broke the record, it wasn’t long before several runners continued to lower that mark. Why was it that the best conditioned athletes in the world could not break this barrier until they became aware that someone else could? Although this was a story of a physical phenomenon, it carries into almost every phase of human existence. The precedent becomes the artificially constructed boundary.
P.P. Quimby, the father of the New Thought Movement, wrote an interesting comment in one of his notes that I am paraphrasing...

During the early years of animal magnetism and hypnosis, it was believed by every writer and practitioner, that it was impossible to magnetize a subject during an electrical storm. No one throughout the world was able to do it. During the period that Quimby experimented with hypnotism with his subject Lucius, despite remarkable exhibitions, Quimby could not place Lucius in a mesmeric trance in an electrical storm.

One day, during an exhibition in a crowded and well sound-proofed room, Quimby and Lucius put on their usual exhibition of what was possible under hypnosis. Upon finishing the exhibition, when the doors were opened, Quimby realized that everything had worked perfectly despite an ongoing electrical storm. It was due to this experience that Quimby reasoned that he had fallen for someone else’s belief. He vowed that he would only accept those facts that he could determine for himself.

In the opening paragraph of the Smithsonian Article in the February, 1944 edition, “The New Microscopes,” written by Dr. Seidel and Dr. Winter, regarding Royal R. Rife, “It is not only a reasonable supposition, but already, in one instance, a very successful and highly commendably achievement on the part of Dr. Royal Raymond Rife of San Diego, California, who, for many year, has built and worked with light microscopes which far surpass the theoretical limitations of the ordinary variety of instruments…”  How do you surpass a limitation?  Obviously it is not a limitation.  Precedent is not Principle.

On my previous post, Lap-reading, I was very gratified to read the wonderful and in-depth comments from many of you.  Your experiences were profound and encompassed many different countries, cultures and belief systems.  Some people expressed how challenges had opened up new vistas and experiences while others expressed how being in nature, being in tune with beauty and love led to profound illuminations.

I also read how some people believe that things are not as easy as we are making it, and it takes diligent work and time to reach particular states of awareness, and as you proceed in uplifting your awareness there are also less then positive influences that enter into your sphere of awareness. My response is since that is your belief, and that is your experience, so it is for you. It does not mean it is that way for everyone else.  So, one’s opinion is just that, their opinion.

In 1994 we were invited to participate on a national network show on NBC to discuss work that World Research Foundation was involved with.  The live broadcast was shown several days later, unfortunately O.J. Simpson was driving through the streets of Los Angeles, and instead of the show being broadcast throughout the country, the show was only shown in about 6 states.  Our foundation still received several thousand calls of which I took one from a woman in Kansas.

After a short discussion the woman asked me if I thought she should take chemotherapy for breast tumors that had been found during an examination at the University Of Kansas Cancer Center.  “The patient has a very nasty tumor…it measures 3 cm, has two lymph nodes involved at Level 1 and Level 2…I strongly suggest that she consider taking adjuvant chemotherapy….Some studies suggest beginning chemotherapy between two and eight weeks after a mastectomy…but given her tumor, I would feel uncomfortable waiting that long and feel that the patient is putting herself at risk.”

We spoke for some minutes and I told her I was not allowed to tell her what to do regarding her taking chemo because I was not a medical doctor.  Although I had never met her I told her that she was punishing herself for an event that she had done in her life, which I apprehended spiritually, and upon sharing it with her, she acknowledged feeling guilty about it.  In a letter she sent several weeks later, “…you spoke to me about my guilt and why I thought I was being punished (my words) and that I was well and cancer free.”  Yes, I told her during our phone conversation, that she was not being judged by her Creator, by me or by anyone but herself, and all her tumors were now gone.

In a letter sent to me several weeks after our phone call she said, “In the middle of my wondering if I was truly free of the cancer as you told me, the Cancer Center called and told me that they had again gone over the scans from a month earlier and actually had found more spots on the chest x-ray.  They had just now noticed them and asked me to come in again.  I said forget it!!”  “ A week later I heard a voice tell me that I must go and not be afraid there is true power in belief.”

“During the cat scan I looked up and saw a figure on the machine and it made me smile and I actually laughed out of happiness.” “That afternoon the cancer center called me with the results, they were puzzled but there were no signs of cancer anywhere in my body.”  “I know my writing skills are weak, but please do not hesitate to tell my story if it will inspire someone else.”

A woman, who attended a little gathering that I had spoken at, came up to me with her friend and said she had an inoperable cancer in her brain, as diagnosed at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center.  She said that she believed that I could help her.  I said fine, then your friend and I will see what we can do.  Her friend said, I’m not a healer, I replied, do you love your friend? We found an area with some carpeting and I had the woman lie down on the floor with her friend holding her hand.  I asked permission to touch her head.  I just lightly tapped her head one time and told her the tumor was gone.

One week later she wrote a card to me, “Steven, I have good news – the Peace, Love and Healing you gave me has brought me back into perfect health.  Steven words will never say how thankful I am.  I am now Cancer Free as related to me by a follow-up at U.C.L.A.”  I have had hundreds of experiences such as these over the last 40 years.

I am sharing this because I want you to realize all things are possible and to not get locked into the belief systems of medical specialists or a belief system forced upon you. Anything and everything works in healing. If the healer has the intent, desire and will, and the patient has the willingness to accept, then anything can be used for healing. Someone might be the greatest healer in the world; ‘but because of their unbelief, no mighty miracles occurred.’  J.R. Newton explaining his failures stated, ‘if they didn’t accept the love that I was sharing, than the disease or their ills remained.’ Things can happen instantaneously or ‘not be as easy as people think.’ It’s all a matter of belief.

Please don’t messenger me for healing as that is not the intention of my post. I will encourage you to turn your attention within and recognize yourself as a creator in all areas of your life.

My spirit guidance has encouraged me to share these stories so that I can tell you, that YOU have all the capabilities within you as I have within me.  YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH THE SAME THINGS WITH YOURSELF AND OTHERS IF YOU CHOOSE.  JUST REALIZE YOU CAN DO IT AND IT WILL BE DONE TO THE EXTENT OF YOUR WISDOM.  I am not speaking of the need to be or become more religious.  No long courses on learning how to heal and no magic gyrations, words or sounds are needed.  It is time for you to go direct to the creativeness within and surround your activity…

With love, in love and through love.