Christmas

Christmas

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God with us. —
Matt. 1:23.

One of the most controversial statements in the New Testament concerns the virgin conception and subsequent birth of Jesus, a conception in which man had no part. It is recorded that a virgin conceived a son without the aid of man, then secretly and without effort gave birth to her conception. This is the foundation upon which all Christendom rests.

The Christian world is asked to believe this story, for man must believe the unbelievable to fully express the greatness that he is. Scientifically, man might be inclined to discard the whole Bible as untrue because his reason will not permit him to believe that the virgin birth is physiologically possible, but the Bible is a message of the soul and must be interpreted psychologically if man is to discover its true symbology. Man must see this story as a psychological drama rather than a statement of physical fact. In so doing he will discover the Bible to be based on a law which if self-applied will result in a manifested expression transcending his wildest dreams of accomplishment. To apply this law of self-expression, man must be schooled in the belief and disciplined to stand upon the platform that "all things are possible to God."

The outstanding dramatic dates of the New Testament, namely, the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus, were timed and dated to coincide with certain astronomical phenomena. The mystics who recorded this story noticed that at certain seasons of the year beneficial changes on earth coincided with astronomical changes above. In writing this psychological dramathey have personified the story of the soul as the biography of man. Using these cosmic changes, they have marked the birth and resurrection of Jesus to convey that the same beneficial changes take place psychologically in the consciousness of man as he follows the law.
 
Even to those who fail to understand it the story of Christmas is one of the most beautiful stories ever told. When unfolded in the light of its mystic symbology, it is revealed as the true birth of every manifestation in the world. 

This virgin birth is recorded as having taken place on December 25th or, as certain secret societies celebrate it, on Christmas Eve, at midnight of December 24th. Mystics established this date to mark the birth of Jesus because it was in keeping with the great earthly benefits this astronomical change signifies. The astronomical observations which prompted the authors of this drama to use these dates were all made in the northern hemisphere; so from an astronomical point of view the reverse would be true if seen from the southern latitudes. However, this story was recorded in the north and therefore was based on northern observation.

Man very early discovered that the sun played a most important part in his life, that without the sun physical life as he knew it could not be. So these most important dates in the story of the life of Jesus are based upon the position of the sun as seen from the earth in the northern latitudes. 

After the sun reaches its highest point in the heavens in June, it gradually falls southward, taking with it the life of the plant world so that by December almost all of nature has been stilled. Should the sun continue to fall southward, all nature would be stilled unto death. However, on December 25th, the sun begins its great move northward, bringing with it the promise of salvation and life anew for the world. Each day, as the sun rises higher in the heavens, man gains confidence in being saved from death by cold and starvation, for he knows that as it moves northward and crosses the equator all nature will rise again, will be resurrected from its long winter sleep.

Your Faith is your Fortune
Neville Goddard

Enemies of the Soul

Enemies of the Soul

So what takes us away from presence and remembrance? This is what we must observe in ourselves, for different types of people have different ways of abandoning their souls.

A big ego is not the same as a strong soul. The ego is more of a reaction to circumstances and conditions than an agent with independent will. The ego has little viability because it is more of an effect than a cause. It may have the strength of self-interest, but that same self-interest makes it vulnerable to a million disappointments and threats.

What are the signs of a weak soul? If we are dominated by the attractions of the world, bouncing among likes and dislikes, shifting from one sub-personality to another, from one intention to another, changing our mind constantly, living without a center, these are signs that our soul needs more substance.

In simple terms care of the soul is disengaging from the matrix – the false reality we are hypnotized to believe and conform to – and connecting to the true source of our being.

Human beings are extraordinarily suggestible. We tend to believe in a childlike way what we are told, what is repeated, and what those around us believe. In small, traditional communities and tribes this suggestibility may have been an advantage. More often than not, the wisdom of experience was passed from generation to generation. But as society became more complex and diversified into large, institutional religions, political parties, and empires, the sources of indoctrination became more sophisticated. In today’s fractured societies people can be manipulated and controlled by beliefs, opinions, symbols, and dogma manufactured by psycho-pathological individuals and secret societies that seek control and power.

What does it mean to “sell your soul’?

The preferred means of seduction are porneia (whatever distances us from our true nature) and anaesthesia (a defense against the imagined pain of waking up).

These rigid constructs then usurp presence and imagination, building a false reality; the feeling of being alone and vulnerable in an impersonal universe, or of being an imperfect soul striving to please a judgemental God, results in a persistent existential alienation. Through this day-to-day loneliness and fear we are manipulated into false security by those who seek to control us. They play upon the ego’s need to be with the tribe, the party, the ‘true’ religion.

Living Presence

Kabir Helminski

The Imprisoned Self

The Imprisoned Self

“To be what we are and to become what we are capable of being,” wrote Robert

Louis Stevenson, “is the only end of life.” But when we stultify our divine

birthright in manacles of mental and spiritual limitations, then we have no

alternative but stagnation and pain. As long as we are responsive solely to the

stimuli that impinge upon our senses from the outer world, we have no choice but

to be victims of every circumstance. Locked to the senses, we reel under each

stimulus, now aggressive, now afraid, now joyful, now sad, now seeking death,

now life, but always our inner serenity and equilibrium are in the hands of

something we neither understand nor control; and so we are puppets, pulled by

invisible and unknown strings, swirling in the maelstrom of life like scraps of

paper in the wind; and if perchance we garner knowledge enough to perceive our

helplessness, then we often are overcome with such depths of sadness as to

make effort against our bonds an almost unimaginable thing.

But the moment that we pause long enough in the headlong rush of life to see

that we are not moving in accord with or in response to our own decisions but

rather in reaction to the world around us, then we have taken the first step

toward freedom. Only one who knows his slavery can aspire to be free, just as

true freedom is possible only to one who has experienced chains. Our hates,

loves, fears, envies, aspirations, deceits are for the most part products of

circumstance, of false and limiting codes and mores—more often innate terrors of

mountains that are molehills; and the solution to all of them is to stand fore-

square before them, daring them to do their utmost, exposing them for what they

are, thus foreswearing allegiance to the cupidity of the deluding and blinding ego

which forever keeps us thinking we are greater than others and less than we truly

are.

The Magic in your Mind

U.S. Andersen

The Mask

The Mask

The surface mind or sense-self or ego is the villain of the play that is being

enacted on the human stage at present. Man as a form of life is sufficiently

evolved so as to understand his separateness and uniqueness. He looks in the

mirror and understands that the reflected animal is he. He is concerned with the

appearance and welfare of this animal and ponders its relationships with the

world and others. He does not truly understand what he is, only that he is

conscious and confined within a particular body, and the experience and

knowledge he acquires, together with his disposition as to their use, he labels “I,”

and thus he is deluded into calling a ghost by his own name.

Hidden behind this ghost, obscured by its struggles and fancies, is the Secret Self,

which even though hidden, ignored, or misunderstood, nevertheless moves all

things on the chessboard of life according to their natures and aspirations. We are

never ego or senseself. These are masks we don as we play at the parts we find

in life. What we truly are is not a changing thing, but is whole and entire, powerful and serene, limitless and eternal. It springs from the inexhaustible

source of life itself, and when we learn to identify ourselves with it, then we have

hitched a ride on a power so far beyond our tiny temporal selves that our lives

are changed in the most amazing manner. 

The Magic in your Mind

U.S. Andersen

Care of the Soul

Care of the Soul

In Sufism we understand the human being to be composed of three aspects; self, heart, and spirit. Self is the experience of our personal identity, including our thoughts and emotions. Heart is something deeper, experienced through an inner knowing, often with a quality of compassion, conscience, and love. It can ultimately lead to the recognition of the deepest part of ourselves – our innermost consciousness, or Spirit, the reflection of God within us.

If we simply say that soul is our inner being, then the quality of our inner being, or soul, is the result of the relationship between self and our innermost consciousness, Spirit. The self without the presence of spirit is merely ego, the false mask, which is governed by self-centered thoughts and emotions.

The more the self becomes infused with spirit, the more “soulful” it becomes. We use the words presence and remembrance to describe the conscious connection between self and Spirit. The more we live mindfully with presence, the more we remember God, and the more soulful we are, the more we drop the mask.

Care of the soul, then, is always the cultivation of presence and remembrance. Presence includes all the ways we mindfully attend to our lives

Soul is the child of the union of self and spirit. When this union has matured, the soul acquires substance and structure. That is why it is said in some teachings that we do not automatically have a soul; we must acquire one through our spiritual work.

Living Presence

Kabir Helminski

Ho’oponopon Hawaiian Mantra

Ho’oponopon Hawaiian Mantra

We are part of a whole.

Self Identity through Ho’oponopon is an updated version of an old Hawaiian problem-solving process that releases the memories or programs that we recorded in our sub-conscious.

These memories are activated by our thoughts. Our mind is a thinking machine. It thinks millions of thoughts a day, as well as our heart is a machine pulse. So we are conscious of a tiny portion of these millions of thoughts. When a thought comes to mind, even without us realizing it, it automatically activates a memory stored in our sub-conscious mind and then manifests itself as a problem. Problems are memories that recur throughout our lives. When we are conscious that we are 100% responsible for everything that we manifest in our lives, then we accept our problems as a chance to clean them from our lives. We can appeal to Divinity who knows our personal blueprint for healing of all thoughts and memories that are holding us back at this time.

I don’t need to know what is happening or feel guilty since I don’t know why I activated this memory that manifested itself as a problem in my life. When I try to solve my problems by myself, I may fail because I will turn once again to a memory of my past or my ancestors. When I allow the Divine Intelligence to solve this problem, the solution appears perfect. So, as I don’t know what is best for me, I allow the Divine Intelligence to give me the right answer…How?...Assuming that I am 100% responsible for everything that I manifest in my life, and wondering what is going on in me that I’m expressing this problem?...and say to myself…I love you…I’m sorry…Please forgive me…Thank you.

I LOVE YOU…because I know I’m part of the Devine and therefore perfect in every way.

I’m SORRY…that I have expressed this problem in my life, since I am 100% responsible for it.

PLEASE FORGIVE ME…I’m asking forgiveness to myself and so I will be releasing these memories that are causing me problems in my life.

THANK YOU…for this problem that has manifested itself in my life, so I have one more chance to clean it.

Thank you for this problem has been solved.

Repeating these words, which are the key words to reach the sub-conscious mind, we are releasing these painful memories that caused problems in our lives and the lives of people involved with this problem.

It is a matter of going beyond traditional means of accessing knowledge about ourselves.

Nobody can guess what your next thought will be, because thoughts come from your sub-conscious mind. So, as I don’t have control at all over what will be my next thought, I can act on them or not. Act means clear these programs and memories that manifest themselves as problems. If the intellect worked by itself, it may not resolve this problem, but end up only concealing it. But since any problem is a projection of our mind or memories or programs, they will come back in another season, as soon as they are activated again by our thinking. What we really want is to clean, delete, releasing these memories and programs.

When we say…”I love you”…”I’m sorry”…”Please forgive me”…”thank you”…to the Divinity that is in us. It neutralizes and erases those painful memories that were stored in our sub-conscious mind and transforms these energies into pure love.

I’m asking LOVE to rectify this error that is in me saying, “I’m sorry,” “please forgive me “for whatever is happening within me that is causing this problem.

We are all perfect. What is imperfect in us is our memories and programs stored in our sub-conscious mind that we share with other people. As soon as I clean and delete what is imperfect in me, automatically the other people involved with this issue will also have cleared these memories that are manifesting problems. What I have to do is be 100% responsible for everything that appears in my life.

Saying…”I love you”…”I’m sorry”…”please forgive me”…”thank you”…and let God or the Devine in you, or your Super-Conscious Mind or whatever you want to call it cancel these memories and programs. And then, what is best for you will appear in your life.

The physical is the expression of memories and inspirations taking place in the soul of self-identity. Change the state of self identity and the state of the physical world changes. When your soul experiences memories (replaying as problems), say to them mentally or silently: ‘I love you dear memories. I am grateful for the opportunity to free all of you and me.

‘I love you’ can be repeated quietly again and again. Memories never go on vacation or retire unless you retire them. ‘I love you’ can be used even if you are not conscious of problems.

By taking 100% responsibility for the creation of our reality,
and with sincere regret of what was created in ignorance (I’m sorry),
we petition to the Divine to uncreate it (please forgive me).
Out of the acceptance of forgiveness arises love (I love you)
for the Divine, for self and for others,
and gratitude (thank you) for the healing received.
Love and gratitude restore the alignment with our true nature.

Resources

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qoq75-DQm4

 http://www.gitesha.net/blog/hopono-mantra

The Hidden “I”

The Hidden “I”

To be conscious is to be conscious; there are not different kinds. The “I” that is in

your neighbour is the exact same “I” within you. It may appear to be different

through being attached to different sensory experience, but that is only because

it has allowed itself to be conditioned by such experience. In point of actual fact

consciousness is never the result of experience but the cause instead, and

wherever we find it, it is primarily aware of existing, of being “I.” There is only

one basic consciousness in all creation; it takes up its residence in all things,

appears to be different according to the things it enters into, but in essence is

never changed at all. It is intelligence, awareness, energy, power, creativeness,

the stuff from which all things are made. It is the alpha and omega of existence,

first cause; it is you.

“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of

one hidden stuff,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. He pierced the veil, perceived

behind the sense-enamoring dance of nature’s myriad forms the workings of the

one mind and one intelligence from which all life and aspiration spring. There can

be no inner peace or surety of action without this basic spiritual knowledge. The

man who lives isolated from the roots of his being has cut himself off from the

source of all power and dwells alone and without resource in a hostile and

threatening world. Let him once perceive the true nature of life and his

relationship to it and he soon sees that the world always reflects his thoughts

The Magic in your Mind

U.S. Andersen