Source Seminars

Upon Awakening

Good Morning!

Yesterday was my 6 hour meditation and the after-morning is So Sweet!  I awaken in a deeper sense of Love for the ONE and I enjoy resting in that all-encompassing Embrace as long as possible.  Life is so simple; just me and my Beloved.  This is the Best Time to make resolutions to change my life!  It is patently obvious that the only indispenable is GOD...and that everything else is just an add-on at best....and a vicious distraction at worst.  It was laying in this early morning awareness that I was able to make the decision to give up sugar and artificial sugar substitutes for the 40 days of Lent.  You may smile at this...but it is no joking matter (well...of course, it IS.)  For the addict of whatever flavor...this first morning time is the time to take the Giant Step!  The worldly and material addiction has the least hold...the ego is in distant retreat as we have spent the night in the nectar of the ONE...albeit unconsciously.  I remember a grad once who told me he always knew he shouldn't be living with the woman he was living with when he woke up in the morning.   Yet, as the day passed his attachment rose up again to bind him.  He has been living with her for decades now!

I recommend, when you first awaken, your pursue the thread of Remembrance as far as if will take you!  I notice if I picture my Beloved Teachers, the Current will come back, even if It has already vanished.  Bask in that Sense of Great Love as long as you can.  I awaken very early...earlier than I ever intend.  Yet I use these "unexpected" minutes or hours, to Commune with the Great Love of my life.  Once you are so immersed, briefly consider what about your life is holding you back from even further spiritual immersion.  Choose something and rev up the motors of your Will.  You must not take a stand, or make a commitment, unless you are ready to keep it!   The ego will only use such broken promises against you.  In the Clarity of mornings with the ONE, gather your strength and forces, and build your arsenal of Will!  Then, when you are ready, make your assault upon the ego, with a 'take no prisoners' attitude.  Each morning, you can gather more strength to make it through the challenges the ego will present during the day.  As you keep your vow of change, you will see this strength reflecting brightly within you.  Habit becomes your friend instead of your enemy.

Beloved blog subscribers...you are very special to me.  That's why I have been phoning those of you for whom I have phone numbers.  Most of you are Source Seminars grads...and there are a few of you who have somehow snuck in a side door...and we are happy to have you!  This blog is for every seeking soul who might benefit from reading it...as it is just another seeker on our shared way who is scribing it.  If it has an impact it is because the Great Ones are using this hand...just a pencil of the ONE.

That being said, I choose to let of each of you know things most Source grads may already know.  We are Guided to greatly scale back on our Source trainings and focus on Level IV.  Our next two Journeys (March and June) will be our last, with the Part II in June being the final one.  We will have our last SuperAdvanced in April.  Why am I saying this?  In my reverie this morning I 'got' that there are some of you reading that might be meant to jump in here at the end.  Particularly those that have not taken Super.  Why?  Because Super is a prerequisite for Level IV...and we are making our final 'collection' for that incredible group.  It is true, we might offer something in future, yet Spirit has told me to present this as more Final than not!  If you have a longing for Completion of your long journey of lives than I do recommend you avail yourself of the opportunity to participate in Level IV.  You may not pick up on it for some time...yet by coming to Super you will open the door for that chance when it beckons.  I am seeing some of you in my mind's eye just now...and I am hoping you are hearing me!

A small aside with a chuckle.  Yesterday, at the long med, I noticed my body was putting up various shouts of pain and discomfort here and there.  I mentally chanted:
"That's just my body, that's not me.
I'm Inside, loving Thee!"
It helped...so I hope it may assist you sometime when you are presented with that uncomfortable situation.

I call out to my Comrades...let us join together and win this Battle of Life...each step of the way!  We have come for JOY and nothing less!  Let us melt into that Sacred Joy once again!

Loving you! k

Omnibus

Good Morning!

There are several threads running through my mind so that's why I am calling this Omnibus...I could drive all over the place!

When I went running yesterday, more of the chant came in, and I marveled at it's effect on the duration of my run.  Physically, my body was feeling "puny", once I started chanting it was as if the Energizer Bunny took over.  I will say, afterward my body was reflecting the over-run, so I guess I will keep that in mind next time!
More of the chant:
I am One with the Cosmic Sea
No more bubble, I am FREE!
I am One with the Cosmic Sea
No more bubble, I am FREE!
I am FREE!
I am FREE!
I am FREE!

The last 3 words morphed around quite a bit to:
I am HE! and I am One with Thee!  Even plagiarizing my Teacher with:
Blissful Spirit, I am HE!

Whatever was coming in was doing it's job...and I have that chant going in the background of my mind a good deal of the time.  This is REALLY helpful!  I also note that any Truthful, Positive, Powerful words following I AM have an amazing ability to transform Consciousness!

I went down to SD for what I thought was going to be a Catholic Mass in celebration of Fat Tuesday....Mardi Gras.  It turned out not to be Catholic and I observed something I take very reverentially taken quite irreverently.  This was a good experience for me because I saw the impact deep Reverence has on my Consciousness...and I treasure it all the more!

Mardi Gras meant that Lent begins today and I pondered what that would mean to me.  As a Catholic child, I chose something to "give up" for Lent as an offering and shared sacrifice with Christ before His experience of the Passion.  I have watched my attachment to sweet foods growing and I truly did not wish to give up ANYTHING.  My dear friend said she was giving up chocolate...and I respected her noble decision.  When I awoke today, laying in the Current, I knew I had to make a hard choice.  Sugar addiction is a reality in my life....I decided to give up sugar and artificial sugar substitutes for Lent.  Whew!  This was a toughie!  I got out of bed and went to FB and put just that on my status...so I wouldn't chicken out!  I knew if I committed to the 100 grads on FB, I would keep my pledge. O my!  Even now, I am shaking my head.  What have I done!!  :-)

When meditating in the dome, I noticed a sadness creeping over my heart.  Was it because the food/sugar hides those things I choose to avoid...and now I must confront them?  I think this is a very real possibility.  Also, the technique I was doing at the time clears blocks...and it was doing it's work as well.  More and more I am turning my life over to God and as this happens large ego structures will invariably tumble.  Obviously, this is sometimes painful. 

What I did find in my meditation was also deep TRUST.  I am moving into uncharted waters, yet I know my Beloved ONE is leading me there...and I TRUST the way is Guided by Love, and Love Alone!

Loving you! k

Thy Song flows through me

Good Sunday!

Church was terrific and the sermon very helpful.  When I got home though, somewhere along the line, I felt a bit lethargic and "off".  I decided to take Taj running along some unfamiliar trails.  We started out and since I was unclear where I was going exactly, we ended up skirting peoples' homes, crashing the golf course, along cement waterways, etc.  I thought, "I am never going find my way back...and there's no telling WHEN we'll get back, either."

We finally made it to a regular path and I began singing
May Thy Love Shine Forever on the Sanctuary of my Devotion
May I be able to Awaken Thy Love in All Hearts

Immediately, I started to run faster and lighter.  After a little while I realized that it would be nice to personalize my chanting so that it more specifically reflected my attitude and focus at the moment.  The sentiment above is incredible and it was written by my Teacher.  I was just in a different place at the moment.

I started singing:
Cosmic Consciousness is my Goal
Cosmic Consciousness for my Soul
Cosmic Consciousness is my Goal
Cosmic Consciousness for my Soul
For my Soul
For my Soul
For my Soul
For my Soul

Now THAT hit the nail on the head.  I could immediately feel the uplevel in my frequency and participation.  I prayed that God would add more to the chant.
Melting in Joy
No more little me
Melting in Joy
Everywhere Thee
Melting in Joy
No more little me
Melting in Joy
Everywhere Thee
Everywhere Thee
Everywhere Thee
Everywhere Thee

The chant concluded with:
Dissolving in Bliss
Through and through
Dissolving in Bliss
Only YOU YOU YOU
Dissolving in Bliss
Through and through
Dissolving in Bliss
Only YOU YOU YOU
YOU YOU YOU
YOU YOU YOU
YOU YOU YOU

As I sang I became more and more inebriated.  My eyes started closing and I began to interiorize.  Lost in the vibes, those golfing adjacent to me probably wondered as I ran by happily engrossed in my song.

I was running all over in new and strange places.  How would I know when to go back?  I wasn't going to retrace my steps...they had been too outlandish (literally.)  I asked God to let me know when to turnaround and arrive back at 2PM.

He did.  I glanced at my watch just as I made it back to the car: precisely 2PM!  Trust me, only God could've pulled that off!

What I share with you is that it makes an INCREDIBLE difference in whatever activity you may be doing, if you place your mind on the ONE.  Chanting is half the battle, my Teacher used to say, and today was absolute evidence of that.  My exercise time became God-saturated so I was able to fulfill my most important engagement, being with God, in tandem with accomplishing the exercise my body required.  The huge and amazing perk was that it also made running far easier and definitely much more bliss-permeated.

Make up your own song to accompany your activity and get the double payoff I just outlined.  I am happy for you to use mine as well, if that works for you.  It's not mine anyway...God wrote it.

Loving you! k

ARISE and WALK

Good Morning!

I usually blog after meditating...and no doubt deeper things probably come forward when I do.  Yet, this morning I just feel so good as a result of my 6 hour meditation yesterday,  I feel like sharing it with you!  I woke up in the Current with a beautiful mantra/song/response from Mass going through my head.  It's been there in the background of my thoughts for much of the last few days.  I heard it up at the little church in Idyllwild.  "Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.  Have mercy on us.  Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.  Grant us peace."  It isn't exactly my cosmology, I believe I also have my part to do in erasing my "sins" as well...yet it brings me great comfort as the frequency of Jesus is so high and those singing that refrain over hundreds of years have imbibed it with such devotion and love.  Believe me, having that sweet refrain in the background of my mind is far superior to what is usually clunking around!

You know I am on FB (Facebook) and it has been REALLY good for me.  In fact, yesterday, pre-meditation, in my status update, I said I would ask for Love to be sent out to ALL...and that's exactly what happened.  That was an amazing feeling, I'll tell you!

My friends on my FB are 99% Source Grads and it gives me such a connection with our grads whom I will always love and care about.  It also allows me to see how they keep making choices which do not reflect their true happiness.  No judgment here...just some sadness sometimes.  I choose for each of them to feel the great peace and happiness I feel this morning...so much so I chose to blog right away!

Why DO we keep reaching for another can of beer, or cookie, or sexual encounter, or party?  Why DO we keep occupying ourselves with a thousand outward frivolities when over and over they bring us no lasting peace?  It is graphic to read the status updates on FB and see this pattern of ego trickery.  For such it is...if any would just step back for a moment, or even read their status update history, they would see those choices in the cold, hard light of day.  They are not "regular" people...they have been to Source, have Awakened, have EXPERIENCED the ONE and the incomparable JOY the ONE gives. 

I love each of them,  I choose FREEDOM for each of them,  and I will KEEP CHOOSING so for them!  I will outpicture them REMEMBERING, and putting themselves in their meditation chairs twice daily, and reading from whatever spiritual fount they are choosing!!

They can fall a thousand times, and they still have a Soul that's going to rise up at some point, and take the reins of their lives, and make them beautiful, fulfilling, HAPPY!  I will keep whispering in their ears of the incomparable joys of Spirit, of the all desire-quenching waters of liquid peace that come from meditation, of the FRIEND and LOVER behind ALL friends and lovers, who is waiting so patiently (sometimes I think TOO patiently) to take them in THEIR ARMS and wipe away their tears FOREVER.

I love each of you and I say, to paraphrase Christ, "Take up your pallet...ARISE and WALK" for you too our BLESSED CHILDREN OF GOD!

Loving you ALWAYS, k (P.S. I do ask those of you who are not subscribed, to just DO IT! I pray for the blog subscribers/ and have been phoning them,  and I choose for you to be one of them!)

Two Things

Good Morning!

I have just completed my 6 hour meditation and two things were very clear to me which I choose to share with you.

First thing: Do you truly, I mean through and through, understand that God, the ONE, is ALL POWERFUL?  What this means to each of us is phenomenal!!  The great majority of us would NOT be able to do the necessary to free ourselves and reach Cosmic Consciousness.  That's just a fact.  If we were...it probably would take us a few more hundred thousand years to do it ;-).  HOWEVER....we have an incredible caveat!  This ALL Powerful God is also ALL LOVING!  When we cry out to the ONE for our Freedom, over and over again, with all the devotion of our imperfect hearts, this incredible BEING of LOVE cannot resist!  The ONE will come, or the ONE's minions, our Great Ones, will be sent to assist us EACH TIME WE ASK!  That's the catch....WE MUST REMEMBER TO ASK!  We can ask assistance for ALL KINDS OF THINGS!   We can ask assistance to hold our tempers, to choose food wisely, to keep the house clean, to be even-minded in ALL circumstances.   We can ask for assistance to meditate better...with deeper concentration and one-pointedness.   We can ask help to do our techniques properly and with depth.   I recall my Master said to pray this prayer (wordage approximate) before each meditation:  Assist me to do my meditation techniques deeply, correctly and well and remove ALL obstacles of delusion from my path (and I add) so I can come Home to Thee surely and swiftly in THIS VERY LIFETIME!

When I am meditating I mentally look over to what I have been calling "the apparatus" to my right...the rag-tag collection of body, mind, and ego.  It appears as a rusty assortment of clunky machinery.   I know that "apparatus" is always trying to block my way, and foil my attempts at escape from this prison house of mortality.  Then I remind myself I am NOT that...I am the beautiful, Sparkling Bit, underneath.  I KNOW God and the Great Ones will come to get me out from underneath that "machinery" and take me HOME to Their Loving Abode.  I just have to keep hollering that I'm stuck under there and I require Their help to get out!!!!   Now, you who are parents, is there one of you that wouldn't respond to your child's cry for help?  I didn't think so!  Well, our Heavenly Parents are far more loving than we are, more patient, more forgiving.  Just look at our track records, our histories, and that Truth is a no-brainer!

So, when I begin to feel hopeless, in despair, when I start "taking my inventory" and see endless black marks...I stop!  I remember.  "I", little ol' tiny "I"  does NOT have to be the author of my Freedom!  God and the Great Ones are ALL POWERFUL...and They CAN do it...IF I ASK FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE!!  Hey...this is big!  Stop wallowing, stop wondering, stop waiting!  Dust yourselves off, do your part, AND get those BIG GUNS behind you!!

Second thing: study your Teacher's Teachings.  If it's the Bible, I notice most of you are pretty good about reading It everyday.  Kudos to you!  Keep it up ;-).  If it's the SRF Lessons...I notice alot of you still have those in their sealed envelopes...as if they arrived in the mail yesterday!  So, one at a time, take them out, in proper order of course, and put them by your bedside.  Make a deal with yourself you will read at least one page nightly!  Dennis and I have begun studying one Lesson together daily and the impact has been AMAZING!  Hands on, IMMEDIATE assistance!  I have noticed this especially in my meditations...although I admit, I am presently studying my Kriya Lessons ;-).  However, I have NO DOUBT that whatever we study will be Spot On what we require in that moment, to live better, more harmonious, happier, and more successful lives! 

Whoever your Teachers are....wherever, whatever Their writings or words...start making them your own!!  Saturate your Consciousness with these Pearls of Truth and Divinity!  It will get to the point that those Words will come into your Consciousness just at the moment you require Them...regardless of what circumstances life has presented.  We are stuck in delusion's darkness, They are the Way-showers, Their Teachings are the Map!

I believe this is enough for today.  You take these "Two Things" to heart...act on them NOW, and you're going to be in "Fat City" (an old, positive expression from my generation! ;-) 

Loving you!! k

Become ONE with the ONE you LOVE.

Good Morning!

I awoke very early,and then I realized I was in the Current.  I hunkered down and stayed in It as long as I could, which was quite awhile.  Any random, worldly thought pulls one out, and keeping the body still and quiet is important.  I thought of John the Baptist, as I was just reading about His baptism of Jesus before I went to bed last night.  I really gave Him a soul call and His Presence was incredibly powerful and purifying.  You do realize these Great Ones can be Contemporaries of ours?  The only things keeping Them away from us, are our lack of devotion and intensity in our requests for Their Assistance. 

If we begin reading of the Saints, watching films of the Saints, talking about the Saints....They begin to infiltrate our lives...as do Their myriad Blessings and Comforts.  We never need be alone or lonely.  With a deep and sincere call from our hearts and souls, These Great Ones are ever ready to assist...and to Keep Us Company!

I was studying my Master's Teachings last night as well...as I have committed to do daily.  I noted that He spoke of the tremendous preparation necessary so that our bodies can withstand the High Voltage of tremendous Spiritual Inflow.  Yes, we must purify and prepare our bodies, minds, and souls.  I then realized that Keeping Company with one's Teachers is definitely a stellar way to "prepare".  Our Teachers have incredible frequency, and High Voltage Presence!  By "hanging out" with Them, Their frequency is continually pouring over us!  By holding Their appearance and attributes in our minds, and reflecting upon them, we are continually entraining Their Sacred Vibrations and Energies into our own sphere of Awareness and Life.   By constantly attuning ourselves with Them, we are drawing into ourselves the higher, finer, frequencies of Those in Constant Confluence with the INFINITE! 

Suddenly, the value of Keeping Company with my Gurus took on whole new meaning.  Not only would I be privy to Their consummate Wisdom and Guidance, and solaced and nurtured with Their Unconditional Love.  My bodies, physical/astral/causal, would actually be transformed bit by bit, to eventually become capable of taking "a million volts" as my Teacher has been wont to describe full Realization.

I invite you to see the value in keeping physical reminders of the Great Ones in your living and working space...that you might remember to Keep Company.  I recommend that you begin reading some words everyday written or spoken by these Divine Ones.  Fully immerse yourself in every possible way....and you will Become ONE with the ONE you Love!

Loving you, Keeping Company, k

Returning our Energy to the ONE, as the Author of ALL

Good Day....Yes, VERY Good Day!

God-Willing...and that's the WHOLE point, I will be able to convey what I "got" today in the dome.  I honestly believe those 3 prayers I keep repeating are beginning to work: Be Thou the ONLY ONE reigning on the throne of my Consciousness, O Divine Sculptor chisel my life according to THY design, Change NO circumstance in my life, CHANGE ME!

I realize all the things in my life, small and large, have led up to today and today's Aha's in the dome.  The last bit was a very long letter written by someone very dear to Den and I.  The request was made that we read it...as it was intended for the lost love of the same dear one.   I reflected on all the energy our dear friend had poured into that tome.  All this for a vanished earthly love.  I considered for a moment what the writer's state of Consciousness might be had they placed all that love, time, effort, energy at the feet of the Divine!  A huge LIGHT went on within me.  I observed all the energy, large and small, I have invested and continue to invest, in this material world.  Everything from thinking what I will have for lunch to worrying about the difficulties of a loved one.  I just "saw" it.  Each bit of energy we take from our SELF (for there is ONLY ONE SELF) and bind into anything external is torn from the very fabric of our Be-ing and separated from our WHOLE.  In other words, WE separate ourselves from the ONE we are, as we invest our time, energy, love, desires, into our bodies/minds/egos.  I never understood when the Bible said God was a jealous God!  God had to be First...foremost...in other words, SELFISH.  Today, I 'got' it...of course God is SELFISH...there IS ONLY ONE SELF!!  

I saw how I must retrieve every bit of my SELF so invested in the external, and return it to the ONE I AM!  This is what I meant when I prayed "Be Thou the ONLY ONE reigning on the throne of my Consciousness!"  I didn't quite understand it at the time...now I do.  That's why we must learn to control our thoughts...each thought is a bit of that ONE ENERGY that has separated itself!!  That is why those who have NO thoughts in meditation are in SUCH BLISS!  They have gathered all their scattered energies back to them SELVES and consequently experience that great SELF in Ecstasy!!

I hope this is beginning to make sense...as it was crystal clear when I was in the meditative state.  There is a 2nd part.  When the energy is retrieved and returned to the ONE...the ONLY ONE there actually is...it can become external once again...yet ONLY as a pure and perfect expression of the ONE and the ONE's WILL.  If it is expressed in such surrendered, self-less fashion, no ego taint is there...no karma either.  We recognize we are mere "pencils of God" as Mother Theresa said, and it is GOD ALONE that is doing the writing!

The creative power has been wrested away from the myopic ego and it's small self-centered vision and demands.  We 'pencils' become the conduits for the Creation of a world of peace and harmony that can only come from the ALL-SEEING Eye of Divine Order!  As we SURRENDER in LOVE to our Beloved MOTHER-FATHER-GOD we become the harbingers of the NEW AGE of ENLIGHTENMENT for which we have been praying!!

We must be vigilant...on a moment-to-moment, act by act basis (at least until being Higher-Powered becomes our True FIRST nature) we must ask from whence came the motive and intention of our "doing".  Is DIVINE WILL the Author of our works, large or small, or has the Terrible Trio, body/mind/ego, stepped in and taken control once again?

You understand...living this way, our MERGING in the ONE THAT IS ALL THERE IS, is approaching very quickly?  Today, I also clearly understood how powerful is our SUPPORT!  The ONE, the very Source of ALL Power and Perfection, is squarely on our side!  How can we fail when this Incomparable ONE is holding our INTENTION for us...by our surrender, prayer, and request!!  In addition, we have our own GREAT ONES, indeed all the saints and sages who have ever Loved AND FOUND GOD! They have Merged with the ONE...They are a perfect Arm of the Divine Will...when we ask Their Assistance, we have Great Power behind our prayers!

It has been told that our Final Freedom is obtained via 50% the Grace of God, 25% the assistance of our Teachers, leaving only 25% for us.  As we pull our energy back into the ONE, as we direct our life force and creation to be authored SOLELY by the ONE, we are moving very quickly HOME. 

Such joy I felt today at seeing this Divine Play...I hope you understood and join me on this RACE TO THE INFINITE!

Loving the ONE in you! k                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Re-Creation

Good Morning!

Dennis and I both felt so refreshed and "Re-Created" after the weekend at Inshallah.  We had entertained the idea of going to a local landmark hotel to celebrate Valentine's Day.  The cost was excessive and I suggested Inshallah instead.  I chose to serve a homemade Valentine's dinner at Inshallah so we only left once, for me to attend Mass.   As we trundled home from the mountains we both realized we felt far better than we would have if we had gone the other route.    What was the essential difference in the two possible weekends, however?  We had spent our time at Inshallah in spiritual reading, meaningful spiritual practice, and watching a spiritual movie.  We had truly "Re-Created" ourselves because we increased our frequency, moved our energies more within ourselves and away from the world, and rested in the silence of the forest.

On our way home, lost in the inner joy of contemplation, I realized how very, very happy I felt.  I reflected that our culture has pretty much lost the meaning of "recreation".  We transport ourselves and our families to "vacation spots" and pamper the senses, usually all five.  "Vacation"...vacating...spiritual awareness and energy.   How many of us truly feel "recreated", even rested, after such an experience of outer orientation?  When the senses are stimulated we feel more restless than restful and much of our energy has been lost in the outer.

It is possible that a number of you may not understand my predilection with the cultivation of inner Awareness and experience...indeed, I believe some of you may think I am renouncing life's pleasures and comforts.  In truth, I think most worldly people are the renunciants...renouncing an inner kingdom of Endless Bliss for the transitory baubles of the material world.   I challenge you doubters!  Check yourselves in for a weekend spiritual retreat.  The one I enjoy the most is conducted in silence, with ample periods of meditation on beautiful grounds near the ocean.  There are a few meaningful classes, but most of the time is spent alone, or in group silence with one's SELF.  After such an experience, I come away enriched, renewed, and AWAKE again!  I have truly rested and I am anchored in the inner serenity that equips me to well-meet the challenges of the external world.  Most of all I have been re-CONNECTED to the Truth of who I am...and feel again compelled to seek more ardently for the Pearl of Great Price...my own Oneness with the ONE.

If you are feeling dubious of the trade of outer excitements, activities, indulgences for the gifts of contemplative experience...at least give the latter a chance!  To do this, remove yourself from the world in retreat, and plunge all your mind, heart, and soul into the inner experience!  Practice silence, put only spiritual counsel and thoughts into your mind, and meditate as deeply and as much as you can.  Be alone or only with others similarly engaged.  I wager that if you spend an entire weekend thus, you will come away with clear understanding, and even more, a deep commitment to spiritual practice and priority.

I ask you not to judge the folly of spiritual one-pointedness until you allow yourself the deep experience of the rich gifts given to those who live thus.  The mind/body/ego will keep you distracted so they may live and rule you forever...get away from their sovereignty, even for a few days, and the veil of delusion covering your soul-eyes will fall.  Then you will choose true Re-Creation every chance you get!

Loving you, k

Magnificent Obsession

Inshallah

Good Sunday Morning!

I know I keep repeating myself AND Inshallah is such a special place.  I awoke in the night and was intensely with the ONE for two hours.  Reflecting on my life, and the nonsense with which I have consumed it, I again pleaded to be obsessed with none but The ONE.  I was very conscious of the "apparatus" of the body/mind/soul and when overcome with remorse at my many errors and flaws, I was ever reminded that such was NOT me but the 3 imposters.   I saw clearly that if I could extricate my Self from the stranglehold of the Terrible Trio and the countless insipid energy drains engineered by them, I could, nay WOULD, be free!   I understood how the rivulets of energy, both large and small, drained away from my Being in myriad ways and were sucking the LIFE from me....the beauteous LIFE I could have with the ONE. 

This isn't rocket science folks.  Each of us is tapped into Source. We can actually experience this when we Connect with the Current as described a few posts back.  If we take this Incredible Energy and externalize it in social interaction, preoccupation with sex and/or food, material acquisition, the quest for power, status, fame....we will have no juice left with which to merge with the ONE.  If you are wont to claim "I don't feel anything, receive anything when I meditate" I ask you...how much energy have you conserved to reverse inward during meditation and experience the Divine?  If you exhaust yourself on the world's playground, what do you expect?  Still. the ONE IS generous, and I have seen those who have dissipated much, still receive much from the ONE's Loving fount.  If you are desiring FULL Merging however, you must staunch most of this outward flow, as much as is possible and still retain your ability to live in this time and place, and offer it UP to the ONE.  Now you understand why the Yogis of the Himalayas live as they do!

I asked again and again to be OBSESSED with the ONE...instead of the foolishness that has occupied my  time.  What matters really, save this Divine RECOLLECTEDNESS, and the service of assisting others to experience it as well? 

Towards the end of this reverie I asked for Great Assistance and the ONE said "Have I not given you not one but TWO Incredible Teachers to assist you?  You must SATURATE yourself with Their Teachings and Their Guidance!"  Immediately I could feel Their Presence with me and the heartwarming Reality of Their Unconditional Love and Support.  I thought too of the other Great Ones in my line of Teachers, and the other saints to which I also pray daily.   The One's support and Their support have been totally present....it is my support that has been lacking!  I must obsess myself with the Most Magnificent of Obsessions...and leave the rest, but tinsel and trash, behind!

I lay there in the Palpable Presence of God and My Teachers and I knew any Guidance I requested would be spot on!  So I asked very specifically how I should invest my  24 hours each day.  This is Their Instruction for me...each of you would have your own specific to you.  Perhaps hearing mine will be of some use, however.

I am to formally meditate 4 hours daily as I have been, and then add a "mid-day" meditation of unspecified length.  "Mid-day" will vary according to when I complete the first 4.  It is to bring me back to formal Consciousness of the ONE mid-way through my day's activities.  Those in monastic life keep this schedule and it makes pure good sense!

I am to work with Source Seminars 3 hours which will include the blog when I have something worthy of which to write.  These hours are my service to the ONE in others...and any assistance this soul may bring to their Remembrance.

I am to spend an hour daily creating order in my home and 2 hours obtaining and/or preparing food.  I am to study my  Masters' Teachings specifically at least one half-hour daily.  I am to spend an hour on self-care (showering, etc.) and 7 hours on sleep until I can wisely reduce it to 6.  I am to spend an hour on exercise: body strengthening, aerobics, stretching.  This leaves me 4 hours free for miscellaneous errands and duties, recreation,  time with loved ones, etc.  This is living my Ideal Life and re-directing my Energy to What's REALLY Important. 

As I have observed both my own and others use of time....and our lost focus,  I see how much time we fritter away on the non-essential, that which most assuredly will NOT bring us to our most Cherished Goal: God-Realization.  I choose and ask Divine Assistance to become Obsessed with the Most Magnificent Obsession of all!

Loving you...Obsessed with the ONE, k

Lead me from the unreal to the REAL

Inshallah

Good Evening!

We are spending Valentine's Weekend at Inshallah and it has turned out to be one of the finest decisions we have made.  Hiking in as the snow is so deep, all is muffled silence and tranquility.  We were up late with all such an entry entails and the house, quite cold, encouraged staying under the cozy covers. 

I began my meditation late and God, in His incomparable kindness, gave me some information based on what He knew the day held in store for me.  The training room engenders such deep clarity in my meditations that it may be my favorite place to meditate of all.  Today was no exception.

I sat there struggling with thoughts that my own choice had put into my mind.  They were frivolous, inconsequential, utterly unimportant.  In other words...completely immersed in the UNREAL.   I recognized this and I endeavored to place myself squarely in the abode of my REAL Beingness...regarding the thoughts off to my right in the completely unreal domain of my body/mind/ego.  The training room cum meditation place makes everything so starkly graphic.  Why do I choose to live in that other world...which has trapped me in dreamland for countless incarnations?  I absorb myself in God Connection and the concomitant Fulfillment that such brings...and once again I Re-Commit!  

In tears, I plead with My Shining One, My  Teachers, and my Beloved Posse of Saints.  Please assist me to move from the Unreal to the Real, from Darkness to Light, from Desires to Contentment, from Restlessness to Peace, and from Death to Immortal Life in Thee! 

I live simply here...immersing myself in Holy reading...in the lives of the Great Ones and the Saints.  I meditate in the small, woodsy, Catholic Church for an hour before Mass.  By the time Mass begins I am ecstatically part of the Beauty and Passion of Christ.  Tears rolling down my face, every hymn and prayer takes me further into the Embrace of Christ's Love.  The sacrificial Eucharist and sip of Wine are taken tenderly, reverentially...how does life get any sweeter than this?

Tonight I read more of the Blessed Life of Christ and we will watch a film unfolding a key part of the Bible.  I know if I have thoughts at tomorrow's meditation, at least they will be God-centered.  I exhort myself, and you, if you share my desire for AWAKENING, to make simpler, more Spiritual choices.  I know what I put into this computer-mind is spit out again in dreams both in the sleep of the night AND the sleep of the day!  I see the activities I have chosen parading in my Consciousness when I sit to meditate.  Are they worthy of my time...especially this most sacred time of all?

I cannot expect to experience REALITY if I absorb myself in the UNREAL.  I must observe my Consciousness and determinedly place it, again and again, on the Treasure-house of the Shining ONE...where dust and moth DO NOT corrupt!

O Beloved Inshallah.  Your walls, and space and place so ALIVE with the AWAKENING of so many souls over the past decade.  Once again, LEAD ME FROM THE UNREAL TO THE REAL.

Loving you...praying for your continued AWAKENING, k