We recognize each other

Enlightenment

WE JUST “KNOW”
like a surfer instantly recognizes
a fellow surfer
or a business executive
recognizes her fellow traveler,
we know when a truly enlightened
person is in our midst.

They’re not imparting the same
level of awareness anymore:
it’s completely gone now as
they’ve categorically moved on.

Their hopes, ambitions, dreams
could not remain static as
deeper and ever deeper they go –
everyday to a brand new place,
ineffable in its resplendent wonder
full of healing love for all.

There is no la-la land in pure Spirit.
There’s Life … and Love … and Christ
… and God … and All that ever really was
including Jesus … and You … and I.

We recognize one another –
how could we not?
Freedom from mutable, material, mortal,
world mind is a much-coveted
vacation in eternity. #drrobinstarbuck

Nature of Messiah JSG

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

Well, you know if our human prayers were of any value or our human good thoughts, would parents ever lose a child? Would a child ever lose a parent? No, certainly not! We all have good thoughts for our children and our parents and our brothers and our sisters, we all pray for them. What good does it do? They still go their way until we rise above this belief that a good thought is a blessing and a bad thought is a cursing. Don’t ever believe either one of those.

There’s only one thing that’s a blessing and a power and that is God realized; that is a realization of the presence and power of God; that is an actual God contact. Why you and I could sit here from now until doomsday and talk about the wonderful light we could get in this room from electricity, and we could be in darkness. Why? Talking about electricity and light and how wonderful they are won’t do anything for us. We have to plug in, then we get the light. You can talk about God, you can think about God, you can pray to God – you can do anything you like and still be in darkness. It is only when you make your contact that you have God, present and power in your experience.

1955 Johannesburg Closed Class
Joel Goldsmith
702B : Nature of the Messiah Continued

The presence of God JSG

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

The presence of God is on the gallows;
the presence of God is on the battlefront
where death and destruction are
imminent; the presence of God is where
every accident occurs anywhere in the
world. The presence of God is in all
those places and circumstances, but the
presence of God is of no avail to anyone
except to those who are dwelling in the
conscious awareness of this truth. We
must abide from morning to night and
night to morning in this realization:
Where I am, God is. The presence of
God is closer to me than breathing; I
and my Father are inseparable and
indivisible because we are one. If I
mount up to heaven, I will find God, not hat I will find God in heaven, but I will
take God up to heaven. If I make my
bed in hell, I will find God, not because God is in hell, but because I will take
God with me; and if I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will find
God because where I am, God is, and
where God is, I am: we are inseparably
and indivisibly one. JSG (The Contemplative Life)

Finally really listening to Herb

Herb Fitch

I AM FINALLY LISTENING

“Gosh, I thought I was listening before!
I mean I knew you were a voice crying in the wilderness
But I really thought I was hearing you – receiving and responding to
Your message.
Now I realize I hadn’t heard a word of it.”

Don’t we all wish at times that someone would say the above to us?
They’re just not listening!!!
One of the greatest messages of all times, and the world yawns, puts the TV on mute, gets a libation and chew
Ready to “check out” Herb Fitch!
Then they’re irritated coz Herb’s talking slowly … and … deliberately!

“When I finally realized Herb Fitch is the real deal, I began to
PAY VERY STRICT ATTENTION !!
Omigoodness, did he say that?
And that! And that!
I began nodding in agreement to nearly every utterance.
Thank God he was speaking slowly – it gave me a few precious seconds to process
what he was actually saying!!!”

I sure wish I could hear the above from more of my buds
coz then I’d know they were
ACTUALLY GETTING THE MESSAGE !!
Herb Fitch’s message (including, of course, all of Joel Goldsmith’s teaching)
doesn’t pave the way for us to have a better life experience in this world.
It gets us … for the first time ever …
the hell OUT of this world – so deeply asleep in hypnotism –
Soooo deeeeeply a-snoooooze!

God is All

Q & A

Every error, every disease, every loss of harmony, is some gross misinterpretation of some truth, some actuality mis-seen, some spiritual idea misconceived. Although it never alters Truth, it sees Truth through the distorted lens of mortal thinking. But bear this firmly in mind, that it is nevertheless looking right at Truth and telling us a lie about it, telling us Truth is something else. Provided we are clear about this and we fully realize what we are doing, we can always look right at error, no matter what it seems to be, and say to ourselves, “Actually, that is God, for there is only God to see.” If we do this with clear understanding, we will be looking right through error and seeing God, seeing Truth that is actually there – seeing actual Truth that we are being told lies about. There is healing in this thought, but we must be careful that we realize that we are not calling error, God. We live in the mental atmosphere of the divine Mind; but misinterpreted, this atmosphere becomes an environment of mental suggestions which we translate into what appears to us to be material situations and objects.

God is All by Ronald Klette

Religion’s effect

Adequate research

Where in the world do people get the idea I hate the Bible?
The Bible is just a tool, people either use for religious/spiritual growth or control.
It tells the evolving story of the Jewish history, but only up to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70ad.
The Bible tells the story of a segment of humanity’s attempt to define themselves, and attempts to understand God.
But this is only Christianity’s story of Judaism.
The Bible is not even the Jewish story of Judaism.
The Bible is not your story, nor is it mine.
Our story is written on our hearts, our story is God’s kingdom within.
Forever uniting us with our creator and creation.
This was also Jesus’s story.

The Bible is a story closing the chapter on 4000 Jewish years of history’s religious successes and failures.
You can have the mosiac laws, the rituals, the guilt, suppression and oppression and everything else religion offers.
I will simply take Jesus’s story of love and acceptance from our Father, with No stipulations or demands.

Dan Shaffer

Religion – damned religion – is the culprit. It creeps into otherwise benign aspects of connecting with one’s Source. “Christianity”, “Bible”, “prayer”, “communion”, “meditation”, “God”, “worship”, “grace”, “praise”, “faith” all come under the rubric of ‘no longer entirely agreeable terminology’. The real bugaboo is religion, religion, religion. This organized control seeps into every misguided effort to guide and direct people’s thinking on such a profoundly intimate and personal topic.

RJS

True prayer

Answered Prayer!

True prayer has nothing to do with asking for or getting anything: “praying FOR” anything or for any reason is NOT correct because we ARE the very answer we would seek. Praising God is superfluous as God is IN us living AS us. There’s no separate entity whatsoever. Meditating on these – or other – truths, as well as being perfectly still are both forms of truly enlightened prayer.

drrobinstarbuck

Control over mind & body JSG

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

Our meditation will become easier once we realize that we can say to our mind, “Peace, be still.” Some of us have undoubtedly seen pictures, statues, or figures of Lao-tzu sitting on a horse backwards, not facing the horse’s head but his tail. The meaning of this is that Lao-tzu, the mystic, the man of God, has control of his senses. He does not need to hold reins; he does not need to look where he is going. He is in control of his senses and can forget the human element of control. He is a master and, being a master, he does not have to observe material laws by facing forward, holding the reins, or kicking the horse in the sides. He sits there and contemplates.
There are no masters except those who are in control of mind and body. And if they do not have that control, they are not masters. You and I are masters only as we can demonstrate that the mind and the body are under our dominion.

‘This body does not constitute me: this is a body which is an instrument for my use. I am in the Father, and the Father is in me. I am subject unto the Father; I do His will. I do the will of no man; I obey the will of no man. I look not to “man, whose breath is in his nostrils.”
I look not to the favor of princes. I and the Father are one, and I am subject only unto my Father because I do the will of my Father. I turn within and receive instruction and light from the Father.’

Life becomes a matter of introspection and withinness, letting infinite God, good, infinite consciousness, pour Itself through us, as us, without our having to take conscious thought, but always being obedient to its leading. When the Master was on the ship in the midst of a storm and commanded the sea to be still, he was not addressing a storm external to him. The storm was within him. A storm is a mental illusion, a mirage. It is not externalized, and no one can command it to be still. But we can say to the mind that is entertaining an illusion, “Peace, be still. My peace give I unto thee.”
When you want to meditate, say to your mind: “Peace, be still. My peace give I unto thee. The Christ-peace give I unto thee. I bring to thee peace from my Father.” As you find your body becoming unruly, do not be afraid to address the body, although actually it should not be necessary because the body is mind formed and if the mind is brought into stillness, the body will be still, just as by bringing the mind into stillness, the storm subsided.
When you learn there is an I, let I address your mind:

‘Peace, be still. The peace of God be upon thee. I live by the grace of God. I live by God’s government, and so, mind, be still. Peace be unto thee. My peace give I unto thee.’

It will not be long before the mind settles down into peace, because you have asserted your God-given dominion over your mind, not over anyone else’s mind.

J. S. Goldsmith: The Art of Spiritual Living. Chapter Three; The Peace-Be-Still of Spiritual Authority; Entering a New Dimension of Life; Kindle location: 934-961