Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The I AM IS ONE!

 "Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!" 

John 8:58

  Just what does the “I AM IS ONE” mean? This means that there are not two Spirits, one that is yourself and one that is another. It means that there is not some great unknown power external to you which is motivated by an agenda inimical to your own, and who is poised to oppose you with overwhelming force, determined to crush you.

   There is only One Mind, One Motive, and One Power. Your conscious mind in all its movements is only the One Mind expressing itself as your own particular individuality. There are not two I AMs, but just ONE I AM.

   Whatever you can conceive the Great Universal Life Principle to be, that YOU ARE. You could never conceive the Great Original Originating and Sustaining Life Principle as poor, weak, sordid, miserable, jealous, angry, anxious, uncertain, or in any other way limited. You know this to be impossible.

   Because the I AM IS ONE, then what applies to the I AM equally applies to you, because you are in an individual microcosm precisely what the Universal I AM is in Macrocosm.

   To fully grasp the magnitude of the I AM in yourself, you must first learn to distinguish your true self from the mental and physical processes that you can physically observe as the instruments you use whenever you express yourself.

 Then you must learn that your true self controls these mental and physical instrumentalities. As you advance in this self-knowledge you will know that you are unlimited and that in your microcosmic world where you are the center, you are the very same overflowing “aliveness” that the Great Life Spirit is in the Universal Macrocosm. The I AM IS ONE!

   As the “I AM” who starts the series—“I AM, therefore, I can, therefore I will”—you have your head in heaven and your feet planted firmly on the ground. Operating from this Divine Perspective, you are a perfect Unity, having a range of ideas that far exceeds and transcends the tiny “Lilliputian” ideas that are limited by the requirements of day-to-day living.

   The requirements of each day are real while they last. So, since your manifested life can only be lived in the present moment, your task is to harmonize and synchronize your life of expression with your life of purpose. Thus, by realizing this in yourself, you will live a life of the highest purposes and fullest expression.

   This approach to living your highest and fullest life is the ultimate meaning of prayer. Prayer is not some foolish practice of attempting to change the Mind of Supreme Wisdom, but an intelligent seeking to embody that wisdom in your thoughts. The end of such true prayer is to more perfectly express that Supreme Wisdom when you express yourself.

   As you slowly grow into the habit of finding this Inspiring Presence within yourself, you will realize its forward motion in all your truly healthful mental actions. If you persist in your realization of this Inspiring Presence within you, it will become second nature to have all your plans, including their most trivial details, be washed in the “water” of Universal Intelligence.

   A great sense of peace and harmony—"at-oneness”—will overflow into your life, every dissonant chord of “noise” will be silenced, and you will find yourself controlling all things into the forms you desire. You can do this because you are One in Spirit, changed in your thinking, and aware of the deep knowledge of yourself.

Monday, December 30, 2024

You Are Already Complete!

 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;  Colossians 2:10

    One of the issues that has caused confusion among Black People of the I AM, in particular, is the errant religious notion that argues that you are not complete in yourself. This is a quiescent hold-over from your past enslavement that says you are not complete now, but if you do what you are told, you will be complete one day.

   Through a mistaken (ignorant) quiescent understanding of the Bible, many unaware theologians still teach the notion of your imperfection in books, sermons, and hymns.

   If you are to be successful in doing any work or achieving any goal, you must believe that you are a Whole Person concerning it. Your completed work is the outward manifestation of a corresponding inner completeness in yourself.

   This is true at all levels. When you believe that there are no conditions that you cannot master that stand between you and your completion of whatever you intend to accomplish, then you are complete for that thing.

   Your recognition of your completeness is the measure of what you can do. Accordingly, your knowledge of the fact of your completeness is of urgent importance. You must grasp two fundamental truths: 1) Spirit is Life, pure and simple; and 2) external things are the result of internal forces. You will not find it difficult to see why you are complete. To think otherwise is to believe that the All-Originating Power of the universe is either unable or unwilling to produce the complete expression of its own intention in the creation of human beings in its image and likeness. To believe that the All-Originating Spirit of God was unable to fulfill its own intention is a negation of its creative power. To believe it unwilling to do so is to slander that Great and Glorious Name.

   In forming humankind, the All-Originating Spirit of God must of necessity have produced a perfect work. Thus, your perception of yourself as imperfect can only be the result of your own ignorance of who you really are. So, your advance in transformation, expansion, and evolution is not a process of adding to yourself what you lack, but rather bringing out into action powers unused before that are already in existence within you. Because of false teaching which has impacted your view of yourself, you have always taken for granted that you are by nature defective in some of the most important faculties necessary to fit you to your environment.

   You are left, then, with the truth that you must seek these extraordinary powers within yourself. You are not to go outside yourself for these. They are yours by birthright. This is the Great Secret. You are not to go outside yourself to look for power. As soon as you do so, you will find, not power, but weakness. To seek strength from any outside source is to make an affirmation of your weakness, and by now, you know that road leads to slavery and Death.

   You are complete in yourself. If you fail to realize this fact, it is because you do not yet understand how far your self extends. You are One with the All-Originating Spirit of God. Everything that can be done at the Universal Macrocosmic Level, you can do at your individual microcosmic level.

   You know that the whole of anything consists of all of its parts, and not only some of them. Yet this is just what you do not seem to know about yourself. Every person, including yourself, is a specific, individualized concentration of the All-Originating Spirit of God into an individual consciousness.

Sunday, December 29, 2024

What Are You Going to Do Now?

 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.  Hebrews 6:4-6

    You now realize that the Life-Spirit you seek is at the core of your own Being. It is not above, below, or outside of you. With this understanding, you are on a new journey—a journey toward the infinite possibilities that await your coming.

   You are now part of a Living, Vibrant, New Order where old things are passing away, and new beginnings are taking their place. Learn to live in this new place, no matter how strange it seems. Becoming accustomed to your freedom will take time.

   So, what are you to do with this new awareness of your creative power? Are you to seek to invert it by using it to manipulate others, or to get people to do what you want? The answer is an emphatic “no.”

   Any attempt to invert your creative power to do good and channel it to unscrupulous and destructive ends will end in your own destruction. The same power of the Universal I AM within you will turn against you and destroy your localized individuality. Understand clearly that the knowledge you are gaining is subject to your living by a higher standard than those who lack this knowledge.

   There is a standard you must meet, and that standard is the Universal Law of Love. Put simply, that law requires that you do harm to no one, do good to all, and forgive yourself and others for wrongs committed against you.

   Thus, to hate yourself, do harm to yourself, or otherwise negate your own value, or refuse to forgive yourself is as great a sin as thinking, saying, and doing the same to others.

 Your Oneness with the All-Originating Spirit of God precludes you from consistently violating the Law of Love. If you habitually violate this universal law, and find no space to repent (change your mind), you are indeed crucifying the Son of God (Who includes Yourself!) afresh and bringing shame and denigration of the Name in which your own name is ensconced. Yours is not a thoughtless game of life to be played, but a thoughtful existence to live into. If you do not have the stomach to live such an existence, perhaps it would be better for you to return to your old life now.

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Your Time to Grow Up

  Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.  Philippians 4:8

    Your thought determines the quality of your actions. Consequently, it is free to direct itself to the highest principles that reproduce themselves in your outward acts. Such highly principled thinking and acting are in harmony with the great universal laws. Your principled alignment with these laws becomes one in purpose with the Universal Mind of the All-Originating Spirit of God.

   You will then begin to realize that you are no longer in bondage to the consequences of your former deeds, done in the time of your ignorance of your own creative power and of your relationship to the All-Originating Spirit of God.

   You will come to see the truth that you are the expression of the Universal Undifferentiated Spirit in differentiated individual personality. You are a free “partaker of the Divine nature.” As such, you are becoming more and more fully yourself with the potential to move toward greater expansion. This greater expansion will lead you to ever-widening perfection on an evolutionary trajectory of infinite possibilities.

   This knowledge is hidden to most people by design. Only those who desire to know the secrets of the kingdom of God get to know them. It is their desire that drives them forward. That is why Jesus spoke in parables and not in plain, understandable language.

   Remember your own development to this point. If you believed in God at all, you viewed God as external to you, who was opposed to you, and needed to be propitiated. Or you may have taken the view that God was neither for nor against you but required you to use your begging or cajoling skills to get God to give you whatever you needed.

   Now is the time for you to grow up. Your infantile beliefs about God carried over from your childhood, are due for a complete overhaul. Advance in your growth by thinking of yourself to be emancipated from bondage and freed to live free of fear and full of hope.

   Your freedom rests on a firmer foundation than the conventional interpretation of traditional religious dogmas. Rather, its roots are in the great laws of nature, which are sure and predictable.

   Further, your freedom is rooted in the unchangeable laws of Mind. That is why you must be presented with ideas that you can grasp and internalize. Only then can you have a personally satisfying basis to change your mental attitude from infantile to adult, from fear to faith, and from hate to love.

Friday, December 27, 2024

Your Life Must Be Motivated by Love

 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’  Matthew 7:21-23

   The dominant point that Jesus makes from verse 21 to verse 23 of the above text is that no one will emerge triumphant from the last judgment based on the right words or spectacular deeds of spiritual power. Only a life motivated by love and justice will prevail.

   This teaching of Jesus is a warning to, and wooing of, you. You have power within yourself to do mighty things. But if your motives are wrong, your power will be inverted—used as means and ends to deceive, manipulate, and otherwise lead people astray from the path of “aliveness” to achieve goals inimical to the ultimate well-being and evolution of humankind.

   In essence, saying good things to people to produce good things for yourself but bad things for them will produce bad things for you. Thus, to operate in duality—to refuse to be aligned in Oneness with the All-Originating Spirit of God—is to ensure that the personal, nonaligned power you wield will turn and destroy you.

   This is the ultimate teaching of Jesus regarding false prophets. You are a prophet by your having been created in the image and likeness of God. Whether you realize it or not, to prophesy is to tell forth or tell before it happens what will happen at a later time. Thus, every thought that you create and share with another related to what you intend to manifest in the future is a prophecy—your foretelling of a future event.

   The difference between a true and a false prophet is the difference between the former who is aligned in Oneness with the All-Originating Spirit of God and the latter who is not.

Thursday, December 26, 2024

You ARE the Center!

  “I and the Father are one.” John 10:30

   You ARE the center of your own universe! There is no way that you can get around this fact of life and reality of Spirit. The source of energy in your universe comes from you. Even the power you attempt to delegate to your environment is a manifestation of your own thoughts.

   Once you dare to live into your Oneness with the All-Originating Spirit of God, you will begin to realize that the Eternal Life Principle that flows through you is yours to externalize in any way you choose, so long as your motives are pure. It is from this place of power that you can and must control your world.

   Lean on your own Being as united and in Oneness with the All-Originating Spirit of God. This is your place of power, creativity, love, joy, and peace.

   Never take your current circumstances so seriously that you forget who you are. You are not the passive, acted-upon one: you are the energizing actor who creates, forms, and controls all that spins rapidly around your powerful nucleus.

   Accept your quintessential spiritual nature and you will function not in weakness, but in strength. Your personal experience of strength will come when you understand that every act you perform, which is motivated by love, is supported by the All-Originating Spirit of God with Whom you are in Oneness.

   At that point, you will discover that your control over things is part of the necessary order of the universe.

   The disorder that you have experienced in the past was a direct result of your refusal to accept that you were personally responsible for your life and all that you allowed into it.

   You must awaken from your dream state and take charge of your life. No longer can you blame others for your failure to be adequate within yourself. No longer can you make excuses for failing to rule your own world by making excuses and lying to yourself and others.

   Now that you understand your place and space in your world as the essential and powerful agent—aligned in Oneness with the All-Originating Spirit of God—you can never again—nor will you ever again—cede control of your world to any other. You are positioned to think better thoughts, do better things, grow fuller faster, and evolve to grow into the fifth estate of humankind more swiftly.

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

The Essential and the Incidental

   A major stumbling block that affects most people is confusing that which is a constant with that which is a variable—that which is essential from that which is merely incidental.

   That which is essential is the center, source, and acting agent of your life, while that which is incidental is that which is created, formed, or acted upon by the center. You are the center of your life and the acting agent within it. Therefore, you are absolutely essential. Without you, your world, and the “aliveness” within it becomes nonexistent.

   What you deal with or face in life is not essential: it is merely incidental. When you mentally conceive of what faces you—problems, puzzles, concerns, and worries—as essential, you relinquish your rightful role as the captain of your ship. Then you relegate yourself to become the oarsman who attempts to row the 1,000-ton vessel that is your life to shore all by yourself.

   In everything you do, there will always be two factors that confront you, and two major choices that you must make. In every case, you must decide and fix upon that which is essential and that which is incidental—that which is the constant center and source of action, and that which is the variable circumstance that is acted upon.

   Whichever of the two you choose to be essential, the other will automatically become the incidental. The variable, the incidental, is always present. So, too, is the essential always present. Confusing the two, however, takes all the “aliveness” out of life—its joy, hope, and steady equilibrium.

   You must keep in your mind—the center of your thought-life—that in your microcosmic world, you and only you, are the essential, the center, the source and only acting agent. All else is the variable, circumstantial, and purely incidental.

   Think into your Oneness with the All-Originating Spirit of God until you begin to understand that, because of your Oneness, you are essential. When you begin to live into what you have practiced thinking into, then you will exercise the creative and ruling power that has been bequeathed to you. On that great and glorious day that you will experience in your life, you will no longer believe that you are essential: you will know it!

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Spirit in Universal Macrocosm and Individual Microcosm

 “I and the Father are one.”  John 10:30

    There is an eternal connection between the Spirit in the Universal Macrocosm and the Spirit in the individual and particular microcosm.

   The source and inside of all things is Spirit. You are a reproduction in your individual self of the Intelligence and Love which rule the universe. Because of this reality, you can send out your thoughts to produce any effect you choose.

   By now you should have passed from the infantile conception of two opposing forces—good and evil—and have come to see that the duality you see around you is just the opposition (The Law of Polarity) of the inside and outside poles of a single unity. Under this essential unity, your thought has limitless creative power. It is free to go where no one else has gone before without fear of reprisal.

  Your mind’s own independent creative power can find its way out of the imprisonment that its previous ignorance of the Highest Law has caused.

   Your recognition of the Unity of the Spirit will ultimately result in your freedom of thought. You will no longer be tethered to your present inverted outside-only thinking.  You will be free to see things from the inside out.

   Thought always determines the quality of action, and when thought is free, it can direct itself to the highest principles that reproduce themselves in external actions. When your thoughts and actions harmonize with the great eternal laws and become one in purpose, they are in Unity with the Universal Mind.

  At that point, you will realize that you are no longer imprisoned by the consequences of your former thinking and behavior when you functioned in ignorance. You will begin to see yourself as the perfect expression of the Infinite Spirit in your individual personality. This will lead you to see yourself as “a partaker of Divine nature” without ever losing your identity.

Monday, December 23, 2024

Change Your Paradigm with the Power of Your Awareness

 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.  2 Corinthians 3:18

   You must become aware that your paradigm is a mental program that has almost exclusive control over your habitual behavior—and almost all of your behavior is habitual. But you cannot change your paradigm by fighting your existing reality. Change your paradigm by building a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

   The power of awareness will teach you that it is not who you are that holds you back: it is who you think you are not!

   There are two things you must be aware of to change your paradigm so that you can grow by expanding from the inside out. The first thing you need to be aware of is where you are now. The second thing you need to be aware of is where you are going. But if it is this simple, why are so many people stuck? So let us think a bit about why so many people are stuck.

   Paradigms and Cybernetics are both control systems and operate essentially on the same principle. Both systems maintain a definite course of action and will not deviate from the course that has been established. You must alter the paradigm if you desire to achieve improved results. Both companies and individuals have operating paradigms.

   Let me help you visualize in your mind how this works. Imagine with me that there is a circle in front of you. Now imagine that there is a horizontal line halfway down the circle. The top half represents your conscious mind, while the lower part is your unconscious. Your intellect or thinking mind is up in your conscious mind, while your paradigm, your habitual behavior is down below in your unconscious.

   Your conscious mind can choose what to accept or reject, and what to originate or create. Your unconscious can neither reject nor differentiate between real and imagined.

   You can shift your paradigm by understanding the Law of Vibration and obeying it. The Law of Vibration states that everything that exists is energy that vibrates at different frequencies. Solid substances that are visible to the naked eye vibrate at a much lower frequency than things you cannot see—like molecules and atoms.

   When you want anything that is not in your present reality, your spirit is vibrating at a higher frequency than that of the situation you may be currently in. As you hold that “want” in your conscious mind, the “want” and your want are vibrating at the same frequency. The result is that you are then attracted to what you want and what you want is attracted to you.

   The key that will shift your paradigm is increasing your level of awareness. The most direct route to increasing your awareness is effective education combined with professional coaching over a reasonable time. Everything you are seeking is seeking YOU!

Sunday, December 22, 2024

The Relationship Between What You Think and What You Receive

 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8

   The lesson you should learn from the relationship between what you think and what you receive is that there are no external limitations that can pull you down, hold you back, or deny your dream. Any limitation you have, you created in your own mind and in your own thoughts. You must come to understand that you alone are the master of your own future and the captain of your own soul. But it does you no good if you do not see yourself connected to the Spirit of God who created you as your source of supply for everything you want, need or desire in life.

   This means that you must realize that you were not just created in the image and likeness of God and left here to fend for yourself. You have never been left alone. The Originating All-Powerful Spirit of God has been with you from before you were born. He was there at your birth and He is with you right this instant.

   But for you to know and appreciate God’s presence with you, you must contemplate who you are in Him. This God-thought that you undertake does not require elaborate cultic ritual practice or religious observance of any kind. It simply requires you to think and meditate on the fact that the Spirit of God is with you, will never leave you or forsake you, and is available to you all the time.

   Your awareness of God’s presence with you will develop as you think thoughts about Him that confirm his presence with you. As you remember situations and circumstances that caused you to cry out for help and God helped you, acknowledge Him within yourself and express gratitude and thankfulness to Him. As you continue to remember, the awareness of God’s presence with you will grow and expand. 

Saturday, December 21, 2024

The Law of Change

  “You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” John 3:7-8

   The Law of Change—that changing yourself internally develops your character—is another Universal Law. What this really means is that you must go through a violent internal revolution that tears down all notions in your mind that put the love of money, the desire for power, and the need for self-actualization above meeting the needs of hurting people.

   The words of Jesus related to your need to be born again take on a political tone when you consider that you were born and steeped in Eurocentric capitalist thinking. The radical shift from a learned and inherited Eurocentric mindset to a born-again Universal Mindset involves cataclysmic change. This change does not come simply because you read books or attend lectures. Rather, the shift from selfishness to selflessness is a revolutionary internal change that is mediated by no less than the Holy Spirit of God who lives in you.

   You are not born again by choice in the same way that children who are born do not choose their ethnicity, parents or where they will live. The born-again experience is a God-directed and God-perfected process that comes to those who are the called and chosen ones for God’s purpose of creating only good in the world. Your desire to create only good is proof that you have already been chosen.

   Although you cannot influence or manipulate the Law of Change, you can attest to the material effects and results produced by it. The Law of Change is responsible for evolving selfish people into generous and giving people. It has influenced naturally arrogant and small-minded people to evolve into humble and open-minded people. It can also inspire you to care deeply about serving last, least, and lost people.

Friday, December 20, 2024

Today is a Good Creative Day

 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Genesis 1:4-5

    You will have a good creative day when you can look back over it and know that what you created today was good. There is always light—illumination—that shines in every good thing that you create. It leaves you feeling good, wholesome, and satisfied.

   There is no depression, anxiety or other dark emotion or feeling that accompanies your good creative day. The light you created is distinctly separate from the darkness that may be all around you.

   Just as the original creation took days to accomplish, so too will your creative work take time. But you can take pleasure every single day in producing every piece and part of the whole creation that will emerge after today.

   The creative movement that you began will keep you illuminated with hope, despite your present circumstances. Your decision to think, say, and do something good will always generate enough light for you to see, no matter how dark your outer world becomes.

   Because you have learned that you have the power to generate your own light by engaging in creative movement, you will never have to depend on anyone else’s light to do what you need to do for yourself and those you love.

   You are freer than you have ever imagined. You can make yourself happy. You are finding that you are the center of your own universe—a localized microcosm that is modeled on the Universal Macrocosm.

   As you keep your mind focused on the good, the beautiful, the noble, and the kind, you will notice that your thankfulness and gratitude for being alive will spring up as living water. 

Thursday, December 19, 2024

You and the All-Originating Spirit

  My writing today is not about religion, creed, or whether you have formulated a statement of your belief about God. My writing is meant to probe that stage of your development that allows you to know what you have personally come to realize in your own life about the relationship between you and the Divine.

   Are you one whose mind has thought it impossible to know anything about God, or to use that knowledge if you had it? If you are in that situation, your entire internal condition is one of confusion. You are at the primordial state where no spirit of order has begun to move upon the waters of chaos. Your elements of being are there, but they are disordered and neutralizing.

   Have you advanced to the stage where you realize that there is a ruling and organizing power, but beyond this you are ignorant of its power? Then the unknown seems to you a terror, naturally adverse. Your inner fear propels you to propitiate this external power, rather than to see it as the center of your own being.

   At every stage of your development, from lowest ignorance to highest intelligence, you are the exact reflection of the level you have reached in your perception of the Divine Nature and your relation to it.

   As you approach the full perception of Truth, the life principle within you will expand. Little by little, the things that you hold in your mind that bind and limit your growth will fall away. That is why you must be able to realize a symbol for a symbol and be able to penetrate the inner substance that it represents.

  The only true way to experience life is by consciously experiencing its “aliveness” in yourself and then endeavoring to translate that experience into terms that suggest an idea to others that becomes an understandable symbol to them.

   The nearer those you speak to have approached the actual experience of “aliveness,” the more transparent the symbol becomes. The farther they are from the experience, the thicker the veil that hides the meaning of the symbol from them.

   The object of sharing with others your own continually developing growth and awareness of the meaning of the symbols all around you is to move forward with a fuller translation of the symbols into clearer statements for which the symbols stand.

   The ultimate lesson to be learned is that symbols are merely symbols and not the very Truth itself.    

   There is enough indication from the outside of some things that give a fair sense of their inside. But this can never be the whole story. This outside-only approach is what the mentally lazy who cannot think for themselves use to suggest that all that can be known about the thing has already been made known. They also suggest that any further investigation of the thing will somehow destroy Truth.

   Their fallacious argument—based solely on sophistry and close-mindedness—reveals their ignorance of the very nature of Truth. Truth can never be destroyed! In addition, they show their ignorance of the Law of Growth, which everywhere—whether in macrocosmic space or microcosmic place—always pushes forward into unlimited forms of expression that are always expanding and never reaching an end anywhere.

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

The Laws of Polarity and Life

 There is an internal and external aspect to every created thing. There is more to everything than meets the naked eye. You cannot know anything that you do not examine and understand from inside and outside.

   Much of your difficulties and confusion come from your habit of accepting the externals of a thing as the true and absolute reality of that thing. Your refusal to go deeper into the thing to discover the internals of the thing causes you to remain ignorant of the true nature of the thing.

   The Law of Polarity teaches that there is always an opposite to everything: if there is an outside, there must of necessity be an inside. If there is a right, there must be a left. When you look at yourself and others only from the externals, you miss the substance of yourself and others that exists in the internals.

   Only by combining the external and internal of a thing can you learn the Truth of that thing. To learn the Truth of a thing is to Know the thing.

   So long as you focus simply on the appearance (external) of a thing, you can never make any progress in knowing anything. When you persist in viewing life and the things you encounter in life from a superficial (external) point of view, then you are making it impossible for yourself to grow. You are denying the principle of growth that is the root of all life—whether spiritual, intellectual, or material.

   What you see as the external part of things can only be the result of a reproductive principle hidden deep within the internal part of the things themselves.    

   The Law of Life teaches that all growth occurs from internal expansion at the center of things. This is the great principle that is the key to your understanding of life—on any plane and in any dimension. It is the key that opens the outer to the inner.

   Once the door to your understanding of the working of the Law of Life has been opened to you, then you are obligated to share with others that there is an inside and an outside to everything. Your life will become fuller and richer to the extent that you penetrate to the inner side of things and add to your learning the invisible essence of the thing from inside to the visible manifestation of that essence which is outside.

   Then and only then will you know the Truth of the thing, and that Truth will set you free to examine all things from inside and outside.

   Armed with this knowledge, you will come to see that everything is a symbol of that which is its inner being. All of Nature is a mysterious gallery of symbols that reveal great truths to those who have disciplined themselves to decipher them.

   Symbols are used to represent the nature and being of God. They are used again to speak of how human life is related to Divine Life. The entire character of your life is the result of what you genuinely believe about God and your relationship to Him.

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Think Yourself to Expansion

 The outside collective world around you is full of chaos, confusion, unrest, and upheaval, and it greatly impacts your own inside personal world. You cannot ignore the outside collective world and its problems and issues—they are real and call for your studied attention. At the same time, you cannot ignore your own inside personal world because it is more objective and real to you than the outside collective world.

   You must come to see in yourself the capacity to navigate, manage, and change for the betterment of the outside collective world around you. You can only do this by growing, knowing, and expanding yourself from the inside out. Only then will you discover the enormous power and limitless resources within yourself that you can use to positively affect change in the outside collective world.

   The only viable pathway to this achievement is to heighten your own awareness of the power that lies within your own personal inside world. When you learn how to harness that power to positively impact your outside world, you will be on your way to a fuller, richer, and more abundant life

   The only logical place to begin this process of looking within yourself to discover the enormous power that is within you is to think higher thoughts: to think in new, living, and creative ways, rather than in old, dead, and destructive ways. 

   My intention in writing this blog post is to help you think about yourself and your internal world in a new way—to see yourself from the All-Originating Spirit’s perspective of you as one worthy, loved, and ready to fulfill your destiny as a transformed, expanded and Spirit-evolved whole person. Your Life Assignment is to grow up into your wholeness. For only as a whole, person from the inside can you be part of the outside Divine Movement to change the world through self-confidence, Truth, Grace, and Love.

Monday, December 16, 2024

Use Your Creativity Now!

 If your job or your business has been negatively affected because of some catastrophic event, then it is time for you to think into what you can do to earn a living while helping people in need. Instead of worrying about how you will eat and pay your mortgage or rent when the government’s assistance runs out, spend the time to do some creative thinking on your own behalf.

   Begin by setting out 4 sheets of blank paper. On the 1st sheet, put down the answers to the following questions. What are the needs of the people around me? Can they get the personal or other equipment that they need? Is there a shopping, delivery, or other service that people need that I can supply? If I am computer savvy, is there a program I can develop that would help people during this difficult time? Write down the answers to other questions that you think of.

   Then, on the 2nd sheet of paper, move on to Brainstorming. List every idea that comes to your mind and do not reject any of them, no matter how crazy they may at first seem to you. Simply write down each idea so you will remember what you thought when you come back to it.

   Next, on the 3rd sheet of paper, list every skill, ability, talent, hobby, and everything you can think of that you enjoy doing.

   The object is not to make a decision but to pull from yourself every conceivable thing you can think of so that you have all the information you need to fill out your fourth sheet of paper.

   Use your 4th sheet of paper to match up as closely as you can every answer to questions from your 1st sheet with the ideas that you brainstormed on your 2nd sheet and the skills you have related to these on the 3rd sheet. Once you do this, you will discover that you have given yourself clues as to what direction you should take.

   Believe it or not, your subconscious mind has been waiting for this opportunity to reveal to you what you should be doing right now in this situation that will keep you alive and healthy in body, mind, and spirit.

   The answer to every question you have, the antidote to every fear you have, the way to your brightest future, and the tools you will need to get there are all within yourself. All you need to do is set up the conditions for your subconscious mind to reveal itself to your conscious mind. Jesus knew exactly what He was talking about when He said: “The kingdom of God is within you.” So, take His advice and seek first the kingdom of God that is within you, and everything else that you want and need will come to you. 

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Personal Expansion Principle Fundamentals-Part 3

 The third fundamental element of the Personal Expansion Principle that you must develop to lay a solid track record for success is to show initiative and leadership. You begin to do this when you decide to learn from past failures and to go above and beyond what people expect of you. But you complete the process by being self-directed and self-motivated to plan ahead and set your own goals within the context of your working environment without having been officially authorized or designated to do so.

   Now there are definite risks that surface when you show initiative and leadership, particularly when it is not an assignment that has been given to you by whoever is supposed to be your boss. If you work for an individual or company that is run top-down, you risk the possibility of being fired rather than promoted. If you decide that the risk is acceptable, then when you’re promoted you know you made the right decision. If your ability to show initiative and leadership causes you to be fired, then you know you were working for the wrong company. What separates successful people from those who are not is their ability to assume the risk of thinking and behaving like leaders, even when they are positioned as followers.

   The fourth fundamental element of the Personal Expansion Principle is that you must develop is to exhibit patience and self-control. This principle must be developed and nurtured because countless frustrations act as landmines on your road to success. To exhibit patience and self-control is to deactivate these landmines and allow you to continue unharmed by your own words and behaviors in times of stress.

   Your patience is extremely necessary when you’re dealing with people who either do not see the same goal or direction that you see or who see it and make serious efforts to derail the process of moving forward. Self-control keeps you from blurting out negative statements that will only make matters worse by closing off any opportunity for negotiation. What you will learn is that many people who seem self-confident, poised and in control of themselves are actually frightened and threatened by any change to their life’s routine. So, the thought of change—even for the better—brings out words and behaviors from them that would frustrate anyone who is not afraid or threatened by change.

   When you exhibit patience and self-control with people under these circumstances, you have the opportunity to address the core concerns that drive them in a non-threatening, empathetic manner. Many times, the resistance that people give to new ideas or pathways has more to do with their concerns about the impact on them than it does the merit, usefulness or even necessity of the change. In most cases, your ability to exhibit patience and self-control tends to calm people down and provide them the space to slowly open up so that their fears can be alleviated in a way that affirms their dignity and personhood.

   What should motivate you to exhibit patience and self-control is the reality that you need people to help you achieve your ultimate goal of personal expansion. When you exhibit patience and self-control and invest the necessary time in building the relationships with people that are required, you are investing in yourself and your own personal expansion.

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Personal Expansion Principle Fundamentals-Part 2

 The second fundamental element of the Personal Expansion Principle that you must master to complete a solid track record of accomplishment is your willingness to go above and beyond what people expect of you. It’s easier for you to learn from your failures than it is to do more than what you’re paid to do. Accordingly, the notion of productivity above and beyond the boundaries of requirement and payment received will not sit well with you unless you are determined to expand your being, thinking, and doing.

   This is so for several reasons. When you have operated under someone else’s rules and regulations, you are used to selling your time for money and you expect to make the most money in the least amount of time possible. Your “time for money” mindset is not a Personal Expansion Mindset because it misses the crucial point: your personal expansion has nothing to do with exchanging your time for someone else’s money, but everything to do with your personal creation of value that will benefit others.

   Another reason why you may not want to embrace the element that requires that you go above and beyond what people expect of you is that somehow you believe that you’re entitled to expand just because you showed up to work or otherwise function for someone else’s benefit. What you fail to realize is that everybody else in your same situation also showed up to do exactly what you’re doing—on time, and not late like you are as an employee or volunteer! News Flash: the person who creates their own life and future must work harder over longer hours, days, months, and years than she or he did as an employee or volunteer.

   A third reason you may not want to go above and beyond what people expect of you is that you haven’t yet been programmed to go the extra mile or distance yourself from those around you by the quality, quantity and content of your product or service. The one seeking personal expansion must strive to do the work, write the book, compose the music, sell the product or provide the service with ever-increasing skill and effectiveness. In short, only proactive, forward-looking, and resourceful people will attain the personal expansion they claim to be seeking.

   When you go above and beyond what people expect of you, you set yourself apart from most people. In fact, you place yourself in a position where you have few—if any—competitors! Having such a posture allows you to own what you do and take pride in it.

   Under these circumstances, the product or service you provide has personal meaning to you. Also, you seek to improve your own performance and look for ways to upgrade or otherwise improve the entire process of whatever it is in which you’re engaged. Your productive and attitudinal mindset change is unmistakably and immediately noticeable to your clients and customers. It sets you apart—even if no one else cares—because you feel better about what you’re doing and you’re no longer selling your time for money: you’re creating value greater than what you could ever receive in dollars and you are adding worth to yourself through your conscientious effort to do what you do to the best of your ability.

   Your will and determination to go above and beyond what people expect of you causes a radical change in your work ethic and your own sense of self-worth and appreciation of who you are as a productive person who is no longer alienated from the product or service you provide. This behavior of yours, over a consistent period, begins to earn you a reputation that will follow you wherever you go. This reputation is the bedrock of the solid track record that you have established that will lead you to your ultimate personal expansion.

Friday, December 13, 2024

Personal Expansion Principle Fundamentals-Part 1

 The Personal Expansion Principle (PEP) is not related to who you know, what you know, the economic climate, or luck. It is the result of a process of adhering to universal laws that have stood the test of time. This process of personal expansion includes learning and practicing 7 fundamental elements of the Personal Expansion Principle: 1) learn from past failures; 2) go above and beyond what people expect of you; 3) show initiative and leadership; 4) exhibit patience and self-control; 5) excel at cooperation; 6) respect and tolerate others; and 7) function with a positive attitude.

   The first of these fundamental elements of the Personal Expansion Principle that you must master is probably one of the most important lessons you must learn early in your quest for personal expansion. You will not begin to experience the personal expansion available to you if you do not learn from past failures.

   Failures will inevitably come to you along the road to your ultimate expansion. Indeed, they are the stepping stones to your expansion. You will never learn from your successes unless they were unforeseen and purely accidental—many successes have come from failures to achieve intended results. With this minor exception, you can only learn from your failures. If you can learn from your failures, that learning itself lays down a solid track record that will aid you in your continued expansion.

   Every expanded person has failed utterly at something. You must understand that part of the process of personal expansion is moving through failure without being discouraged or disheartened to the point of giving up on your dream. Personal Expansion is not for the faint of heart, the cowardly in spirit, or the proud. To expand in every area of your life, you must not be easily intimidated. You must be willing to strengthen yourself. You must fight your fears, admit mistakes, and add to your learning

   Be self-confident enough to take risks, but wise enough to assess the risks, consider the rewards, and then proceed. If you have done your homework properly, then when you fail you can pinpoint where you went wrong. You may have begun with the wrong assumptions, insufficient facts, or dependence on an unreliable source. Wherever you went wrong, whatever you miscalculated in the environment or whoever you misjudged, overvalued, or undervalued will become the lesson plan you use to learn, grow, and add to your store of wisdom. To learn from past failures is never to lose your boldness and self-assured status on the one hand, and always to gain humility and even more fearlessness on the other.

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Overlooking the Visible-Part 2

 The electronic theory explains how all matter is evolved from one homogeneous Original or Primary Substance. But this theory does not explain how motion originated to create or produce something different from the Original or Primary Substance from which the negatively and positively charged electricity particles came. It is here that the Universal Law of Cause and Effect comes in.

   The Law of Cause and Effect says that for every effect—whether motion, release of energy, a tree growing, or rain falling—there is a cause. Science is quite clear that living things can only come from—be caused by—living things. Only Life can give birth to life. Science is also clear that if anything is moving—whether that thing is animate or inanimate—its movement has been caused by someone or something.

   At the beginning of creation, the Original Cause of all things was Intelligent Spirit: God. What He used to set all things in motion was the creative process.

   Science understands that sound is transmitted through waves. Technically, in physics, mathematics and related fields, a wave is a disturbance—a change from a resting value—of one or more fields (physical quantities, represented by numbers that have a value for each point in space-time) such that the field values oscillate repeatedly about a stable resting value. So much for our technical discussion of waves because we are concerned only with what causes these vibrations or waves. We now know that sound is the cause of the effect of the waves generated by it.

   So what was the cause of the first sound at the beginning of creation? Are you saying it was the “Big Bang”? If so, Who or What caused the “Big Bang”? Whatever primordial substance there was at the beginning, had to have been created prior to going “Bang!” It could not have existed before it was created. And once created, it would have been in a state of inertia—unable to move in any way that would ultimately end up in a great “bang” collision.

   No. The Eternal Originator of all things was behind whatever “bang” there may have been, and His Voice, His Word, His Utterance caused what was inert to become ertia—energy.

   Now this energy is located everywhere in space-time and also in everything—animate and inanimate that is visible and invisible. In fact, it is the invisibility of energy with which we must be concerned, for it is the inside of everything, visible and invisible. And the Law of Polarity makes clear that if there is an inside, there must be an outside, in the same way that if there is an outside, there must be an inside.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Overlooking the Visible-Part 1

 Before there was anything anywhere at all, there was the Word. So, you must understand that the “beginning” that the first verse of Genesis speaks of is not the “beginning” of time as we know it, or the Word, Himself, but rather the “beginning” of the cosmos which we now inhabit. The Word was the Voice of God who was with God and existed as God. All the things that the Word made were made by the sound emanating from the Word—“Let there be”—after the Spirit of God moved or was in motion (Genesis 1:2-3).

   Only after the Word spoke—generated sound—did anything come into being that was not in being before the Word spoke. So, we must discuss what science has found to be the relationship between sound and first causes.

    To begin with, modern science acknowledges that every chemical atom is made up of particles of only one substance—the Original or Primary Substance—which seems to occupy all space-time. The specific identity of a given atom—whether it turns out to be iron, phosphorous, hydrogen, or some other substance—is a function of how many particles of negatively charged electricity revolve around a center of positively charged electricity, and the rate or speed at which they move. Thus, the number and speed of motion of these particles determine the nature and identity of the specific atom they form.

   Modern science also acknowledges that all material substance—inanimate matter as well as animate matter—has no inherent qualities or characteristics that distinguish one part of this Original Primary Substance from any other part of it. This is extremely significant. Out of this undifferentiated (all the same) Substance, particles are produced that are different from the very Substance that produced them. Their specific difference is that they possess negatively and positively charged energy.

   What I have just discussed is an electronic theory that explains how all matter has evolved from one homogeneous Original or Primary Substance. However, this theory does not explain how motion originated to create or produce something different from the Original or Primary Substance from which the negatively and positively charged electricity particles came. It is here that the Universal Law of Cause and Effect comes in.

   The Law of Cause and Effect says that for every effect—whether motion, release of energy, a tree growing, or rain falling—there is a cause. Science is quite clear that living things can only come from—be caused by—living things. Only Life can give birth to life. Science is also clear that if anything is moving—whether that thing is animate or inanimate—its movement has been caused by someone or something.

   At the beginning of creation, the Original Cause of all things was the Intelligent Spirit: God. What He used to set all things in motion was the creative process.

   Science understands that sound is transmitted through waves. Technically, in physics, mathematics, and related fields, a wave is a disturbance—a change from a resting value—of one or more fields (physical quantities, represented by numbers that have a value for each point in space-time) such that the field values oscillate repeatedly about a stable resting value. So much for our technical discussion of waves because we are concerned only with what causes these vibrations or waves, and we now know that sound is the cause of the effect of the waves generated by it.

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Quantum Physics Basics 3

 Some think scientists must just accept that quantum physics explains the material world in terms they find impossible to square with their experience in the larger, “apparent world.” Others think there must be some better, more intuitive theory out there that scientists have yet to discover.

   Even given all of the above, quantum theory has not been able to explain the second of the five fundamental forces of nature—gravity.

   Gravity remains the exclusive territory of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, a firmly non-quantum theory that does not even involve particles. Every intensive effort over the decades to bring gravity under the quantum umbrella and so explain all of the fundamental physics within one “theory of everything” has come to nothing.

   Meanwhile cosmological measurements indicate that over 95 percent of the universe consists of dark matter and dark energy, phenomena for which scientists have no current explanation within the “standard model,” and conundrums such as the extent of the role of quantum physics in life itself remain unexplained.

   What is known so far is that the “apparent world” is at some level quantum, but what is demonstrably clear is that quantum physics is by no means the last or best word about how the “apparent world” or the other worlds that I have not discussed—alternative universes or states of matter and being that quantum physics experiments allude to, or by implication, predict or confirm their existence.  

   If the quantum world behind our “apparent world” is not objective—i.e., it does not exist in isolation from our observation of it, but rather is influenced by our attempts to measure it—then the “apparent world” must not be objective to that same degree.

   This means not only that our engagement with the invisible quantum world influences how it behaves under certain circumstances, but also it means that our engagement with the visible “apparent world” influences how it behaves under certain circumstances.

   So, it must be said that if you cannot “see through and past” the visible all around you, it is extremely doubtful that you will have complete insight into the invisible world that is also all around you through strictly scientific means. You will need something more.

   You will have noticed that I left the elephant in the room undisturbed and unexplored—Spirit, the Original Cause of everything—without discussing Him. I will bring you back to the Alpha and Omega later.

   Suffice it to say that I have raised these challenges in quantum physics to lay the foundation for a fuller discussion of how you can take advantage of what quantum physics has taught you, and use that knowledge (or lack thereof) as a launching pad for initiating your own personal expansion as a human being, who has been called by God to be an ever-expanding, ever-evolving human being, in rank just slightly below that of angels…and so says the Scripture.

   

Monday, December 9, 2024

Quantum Physics Basics 2

 Over the past five decades or so three theories have been brought together in a catch-as-catch-can manner, known as the “standard model” of particle physics. Even though this model on close examination appears to be held together by spit and chewing gum, it turns out that until recently, it was the most accurate basic picture of how matter works that had ever been devised.  

   The “standard model” proved its worth in 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs boson, the particle that gives all other fundamental particles their mass, whose existence was predicted based on quantum field theories as far back as 1964.

   Conventional quantum field theories work well in describing the results of experiments at high-energy particle smashers such as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, where the Higgs was discovered, which probe matter at its smallest scales. (CERN is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory—an international scientific collaboration without parallel in its scale and ambition—located on the border between Switzerland and France.)

   CERN was established by international convention in the aftermath of the Second World War by the European Council for Nuclear Research and was originally intended to foster collaborative research into fundamental physics for peaceable purposes. Today, some 12,000 researchers from across the globe use its facilities each year, and it has been the scene of seminal scientific and technological breakthroughs—notably the World Wide Web, invented in 1989  within its doors to allow particle physicists to exchange data across borders.

   Despite these great scientific breakthroughs using quantum physics, some lesser problems still remain insoluble—e.g., how electrons move or do not move through a solid material and so make a material a metal, an insulator, or a semiconductor.

   The multiplied billions of interactions in these crowded environments require the development of what is called “effective field theories” that gloss over some of the gory details. The challenge quantum physicists face in constructing such theories explains why many important questions in solid-state physics remain unresolved—e.g., why at low temperatures some materials are superconductors that allow current without electrical resistance, and why scientists cannot find a way to get this to work at room temperature.

   Beyond these practical problems lies a huge quantum mystery. At a basic level, quantum physics predicts very strange things about how matter works that are completely at odds with how things seem to work in the “apparent world.”

   For example, quantum particles can behave like particles that are located in a single place; or they can act like waves, distributed all over space or in several places. How they appear seems to depend on how scientists choose to measure them, and before they are measured, they seem to have no definite properties at all. This leads to a fundamental insoluble problem related to the nature of basic reality itself.

   One example of this is the paradox of Schrödinger’s cat, in which, thanks to an uncertain quantum process, a cat is left dead and alive at the same time. Quantum particles also seem to be able to affect each other instantaneously even when they are far away from each other. This is called entanglement or, in a phrase coined by Einstein, who contributed to, but was quite critical of quantum theory, “spooky actions at a distance.”

   Even though these quantum powers are by no means completely understood, they are in fact the basis of emerging technologies such as ultra-secure quantum cryptography and ultra-powerful quantum computing.