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LET'S BEGIN WITH A PERSONAL STORY:
In late 1971 John began trying to meditate to help "solve" some personal relationship problems he was having at the time. While John (not yet a Reverend) was relaxing, trying to n meditate (how ever that was done), as he "let go" of all the "shoulds", he heard and saw the following words spelled out before his inner eye: "GOD is Alive and hiding in Eachoneofus"!
Then to his amazement, for weeks, he felt and thus had the inner knowing that, indeed, "God is Love". John was further amazed that this experience during meditation was above and beyond anything he had ever experienced in any church. Thus, started John's search for inner truth and his meeting the Old Chinese, quoted below. Less than two months after this experience, John was drawn to and met the Old Chinese.
WORDS FROM THE (Channeled) OLD CHINESE SAGE:
Spiritual development is the discovery of self
"You will not evolve from this plane by following a religion, creed, philosophy or guru, but by following the inner self, relaxing the subconscious and being a projection of the God Force; the higher self" ... the Christ or spirit of God within each one of us.
Meditation and your subconscious mind
"Usually meditation is not that which would connect you with your higher self or God Force. Discipline is meditation, like the emporer training his sholdiers. The higher self coming through is not meditation; it is a more uplifting and envolved experience. Meditation is centeringyour subconscious to allow you to replace those things you want to repklace with energy."
Opening to Spiritual Contact
There are many who say that meditation is key to spiritual contact. However, according to one of John's early Spiritual Teachers (The Old Chinese Sage called Chung Fu), "Disciplined relaxation, rather than meditation, is the first step. Meditation all too often puts you into religious worlds of structure and form. Relaxation allows your body to open. Relaxation in a disciplined way is most important (way) for you to find the God Force within you."
A PERSONAL NOTE:
Regular relaxation, at the same time and in the same place, may be a part of this disciplined relaxation. It worked for me, in 1971 and ocassionalloy since - when I disciplined myself! This is one way for you to approach your Spiritual Development. We use this diwscipline in our Spiritualist Circles! - Rev. John K.
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SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT & PSYCHIC AWARENESS
Your Expanding Consciousness is your personal "Big Bang"! (We all get a bang out of newness and freshness.)
The following are selections from “Jane Roberts PSYCHIC POLITICS”, an Aspect Psychology Book
Chapter 24, Stages of Consciousness (pp 311-325) ... Beginning at P 314
"Like many people, I’ve been afraid of by own greater reality. … In our society once you begin to glimpse the self’s greater and wider abilities and range then you’re afraid that the self that you knew earlier will be swept aside, shown to be inferior or somehow be annihilated. Instead, the ‘old self’ may be seen as only a glimmer of true selfhood."
STAGE 1 ... P 314
"The focus personality begins to initiate the expansion process and recognize the validity of unofficial information; as in startling dream, vision or conversion experience. Ouija or automatic writing, precognition and/or telepathic experiences, may be a part of this recognition. While these may seem to come at once, the focus personality has been casting about for some 'time', searching for a new creative expression and freedom from the restrictions that have previously limited its range."
STAGE 2 ... P 315
"The focus personality tries to continue its expansion while maintaining its previous orientation – and to correlate its unofficial information in terms of its religious and cultural beliefs. Many, at this stage, try to 'prove' that their sources exist, physically – even though they are psychological. And many will identify these internal sources of information as being outside of their own self and abilities. [such as with Angels, Devils, Masters, Ascended Masters, Saints and such]
Continuing on P 316
"… you possess these abilities … even if their clothing is symbolic." [As you are "made in His image"]
"In a way such experiences (visions, revelations and some trance personifications) are bigger than our ideas of what life and existence really are.
As we allow this natural creativity to emerge and flow we become better able to solve life’s challenges."
And on P 317
"The ready made symbols of religion and pseudoscience are probably helpful to many people, providing them with an orientation for inner activities, awarenesses and growth. To be free to grow, however, these processes need to be outside of organized religions, doctrines and dogmas.
These stages of growth, left alone and allowed to mature, will mirror the Aspects of the psyche being activated" [as the man Jesus did when he activated his Christ Light within].
STAGE 3
"This stage is “worlds away” from Stage 2, as the need for sacrifice and death only exist in stages 1 and 2 where arbitrary standards of the duality between self and not-self predominate. Thus, in religious terms this stage is usually called death of self or death of will and is truly a 'rebirth'."
P 318 continues ...
"This process of growth and expansion normally fluctuates between Stage 1 and Stage 2 for a while until it finally builds enough momentum to break through to Stage 3."
STAGE 4
"Graduation to this stage brings the awareness of a new self-country, much expanded beyond the individual self, in which the focus self realizes that the assumptions of the one-line [linear thinking] consciousness only apply to that level.
In our society, the consensus beliefs limit us to pre-Stage 1 which is in fact a prerequisite for the other stages, as it provides a sturdy physical foundation on which to build one’s own reality. All this is true, despite the fact that unofficial data that would show alternate patterns is discouraged." [Thus, we tend to see a certain “order” to life, even though there are many successful “alternate orders”, that are simply dismissed as “disorder”.]
cONTINUING ON P 319 …
"We do not allow ourselves to recognize such natural stages of change and growth. Yet a normal progression might very well lead to a new understanding of death and the independence of consciousness from our body-focus. Previously our psychological therapies have been devoted to returning the strays back into the folds of the official line [of Western; Judeo-Christian-Islamic beliefs and traditions]. These old beliefs and methods only served to reinforce the very psychological systems that retarded psychic growth; the development and expression of the psyche in its inner and outer relationships [that the prophets in our Western religious traditions knew so well].
… I think that these are natural stages, experienced to some degree by everyone. Beyond are states of ecstasy, almost impossible to sustain in normal living and the mark of a mystic state."
Continued from page 319 onto P 320
"Various stages of consciousness exist in which time and space do not apply—beyond concepts of good and evil where there are no contradictions. In other words, the conditions of their reality (and of the portions of the psyche to which they correspond) are different than our [every day] reality realities."
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