Honoring the Beloved

                              Commitment to another is impossible without commitment first to self. 
                              Those who try to act in a selfless way are putting the cart before the horse. 
                              Embrace the self first and then you can go beyond it. It is the ultimate
                              surrender to the divine within.

                             The beloved comes into being with the commitment to self. 
                             He or she manifests outwardly as soon as that commitment is
                             trustworthy. Then the outer commitment and the inner one go together. 
                             In worshippnig the beloved, one worships the divine self that lives in
                             many bodies.  This is sacred relationship.  Few meet the beloved in this life
                             for few have learned to honor themselves and heal from the inside out. *  

Life is an awesome magical mystery tour, a rich and challenging adventure in which we draw to ourselves that which matches what and who we are.  Whatever is challenging us invites us to overcome an existing (and sometimes limiting) belief we have about ourselves.  Like the thorn in the lion's paw, those problems require us to find and remove the belief that's coloring our view of the situation.  Those very challenges are the mountains in our lives that we can move.

We've all internalized what others have said to us and how others have defined us.  If those limiting beliefs we hold are not helping us fill our lives with pure joy, love, abundance and enlightenment, we need to forgive them, cast them out. Often what we think someone has done to us, is really only a mirror of what we either believe we deserve or what we are also doing to another.  We are either mirroring someone else or they are mirroring us.

Much of our time is spent jousting with windmills, thinking we've been injured and are consequently victims when that feeling of injury is only our perspective, our interpretation and a thought we assigned to an action which we had also drawn to ourselves. All of us are being invited to change our perspectives of being victims of circumstances, take responsibility for those events and forgive ourselves (and those to whom we assign blame) for the less than desirable events that are sabotaging our joy.

All moderm psychology (and eastern spirituality) invites us to do a thorough and deep cleaning of our beliefs with the best cleansing agent known to mankind:  forgiveness. Only through forgiveness, expressed in our willingness to forgive the one whom we feel has injured us, that we are healed and empowered. 

Paul Ferrini, author of the above You Tube, is one of my favorite mystical teachers.  He has written the timeless Reflections of the Christ Mind series, which I love and hope will inspire you.  

Enjoy.

*The Silence of the Heart,  Paul Ferrini, p. 43-44.

A Wonderfully Wise Man

Everything in the universe constantly gives off an energy pattern

of a specific frequency that remains for all time

and can be read by those who know how. 

Every word, deed, and intention creates a permanent record. 

Every thought is known and recorded forever. 

There are no secrets; nothing is hidden, nor can it be. 

            Our spirits are naked in time for all to see -

everyone's life, finally, is accountable to the unvierse. *

- David R. Hawkins, M.D, Ph.D

The late David R. Hawkins was one of the world's most awakened, enlightened human beings in the good company of civilization's greatest mystics, saints and wisemen.  He left a considerable amount of information on consciousness rising and how a raised level of consciousness combined with your desired outcome, intention, actually causes that which is in your mind to materialize. 

By raising our consciousness level, we increase our power to attract our intentions into our lives.  Perhaps we always knew this, but the actual way to do it has eluded us or confused those who equated spiritual development with religion and thus were lost in the diverse methods promulgated by the many different world religions. 

Hawkins furthered the science of "applied kinesiology" as a means of determining the truthfulness and accuracy of a statement using muscle testing and a system of numbers from 1 - 1000.  He also used it as way of measuring levels of spiritual maturity (i.e. Hawkins himself was a 1000) It's a vast new science which measures an individual's level of  enlightenment using a "map of consciousness" which Hawkins developed.  This map helps those seeking to identify where they are on the consciousness rising scale and what is the next step. This method assists the spiritual seeker on the path to enlightenment. 

Hawkins' applied kinesiology identifies those who are destructive, harmful to life and those who are constructive, helpful. For example, those who are the least enlightened (and most destructive) are often immersed in heavy emotional turmoil or illness and are often angry, violent, selfish and untruthful and may score below 100 on Hawkins' map. Those who are loving and generous, patient and seeking enlightenment would show up higher on the scale at 500 or above.  Love's number is 500. Liberty, freedom and democracy score a 700 as does the United States' Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Abe Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.  We all land somewhere on that scale which is a powerful tool to help us grow up spiritually.  More information about this is in his book, Power vs. Force.

On this short You-Tube, whenever Hawkins mentions numbers he is referring to that scale.  His idea takes Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development and Eric Erickson's scale of behavioral evolution to a whole new level.  This is only a tiny sampling of Hawkins' wisdom. There is much more available at Amazon, Powell's books, your public library and on You-Tube. 

*  Power vs. Force, p. 149; (Hay House, 2002)