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Blind mountaineer Eric Weihanmeyer Credit: www.summitdaily.com

I wrote a little while ago that I was meditating and became aware that I felt happy and loving. I looked at the space within myself that seemed to be the source of these feelings.

The minute I did, I recognized that space as transformative love. (2) And that same minute, the love blossomed.

Instead of being the observer noticing a space within myself, the space became the whole of me and I found myself immersed in love. My awareness shifted from a loveless Third or Fourth-Dimensional space to a love-drenched Fifth-Dimensional space – for a bit.

I believe this has happened to me before. If I recall correctly, it did the first day I discovered bliss within myself (Sept. 27, 2015). I noticed some very elevated space in my consciousness and my awareness of it had the effect of triggering it to become the whole of my space, the whole of “me.” (2)

This recognition of an already-existing space is the action of awareness. I’d like to distinguish it from the action of the intellect and the action of the will. All three are functions of the soul; all three take place without tangible, visible action needing to occur in what we think of as the material world.

Awareness can reveal an action which may need to be done, but it’s the intellect that discerns what the best course of action is, and it’s the will that chooses and brings about that action.

Of the three, the actions of awareness and will probably need the least explanation. But I’d like to say a word about the intellect, discernment, or reflection.

The various orders and kingdoms are at different stages of evolution. As far as I know, and my knowledge here is limited, plants and animals are sentient beings: they feel pain, feel and respond to urges and instinctual drives, etc.

At some point, whether at the human level of existence or perhaps including animal species like whales, dolphins, dogs, and cats, reflective awareness arises. We find ourseves able to make objects of awareness.

We find that we can even make objects of awareness of ourself. As far as I know, a blade of grass can’t do that not can many of the less-evolved animals.

Most of my time is spent watching or observing my own internal processes. I’m making of myself an object of awareness and following my thoughts, feelings, and actions. Some sage once said we cannot become a knower of God without first becoming a knower of ourselves. (Later we find out that God and self are the same.)

Given that the purpose of life is to realize who we are at the very deepest levels of Reality, this ability to make an object of ourselves is a big forward step in the evolutionary journey.

Not only do we make an object of ourselves, but we “get the idea” of everything else in our world (including “God”) and “pass the message along.” The whole of the body of ideas we create we call our “culture.” Humanity are cultured animals.

Getting back to the three faculties of the soul, awareness is the action of the soul as observer. Reflection and determination are actions of the soul as participant.

All three are actions in consciousness alone, but different phases of it.

In its pristine form, awareness is simple rather than complex, bare rather than cloaked, open rather than closed.

I can’t really say that awareness is passive, inactive, because awareness dissolves knots in consciousness. That to me is an action.

But when I rest in my awareness, allowing my mind to fall silent, in that respect, bare, simple awareness is inactive.

Reflection (the action of the intellect) is consciousness purposefully weighing courses of action.

And will is consciousness in the driver’s seat, making decisions after reflection and operating the material mechanisms to produce action.

As I see it, this then is the mechanism of the soul on the 12 material planes by which it frames, chooses, and resolves to take action. Become aware, reflect, and take action. Become aware, reflect, and take action.

Footnotes

(1) Mike Quinsey, July 8, 2016, athttp://goldenageofgaia.com/2016/07/08/mike-quinsey-message-higher-self-18-16/.)

(2) I use the phrase “transformative love” to indicate love that is very much deeper than ordinary love. In ordinary love, if a competing feeling like jealousy or hatred arises, it sweeps ordinary love aside. In transformative love, it’s as if a space is cordoned off, let’s say ten feet out from me in all directions; love occupies that space and repels any attempts by feelings like jealousy and hatred to sweep it aside. Instead they’re swept aside.

Changing Our Mental Filters

Surrendering thoughts that are not of God means surrendering thoughts that are not of love. Each of us has a spiritual immune system—a system that exists to heal the injured psyche just as the physical immune system heals the physical body—but it takes conscious effort to activate its power. It’s not always easy to surrender our lovelessness, especially when we’re in emotional pain. Yet in order to heal, we must. Spiritual healing is work in the sense that it isn’t passive, but active. It is a medicine we co-create with God.

This medicine is a miracle. It is a shift from primary identification with the suffering self to identification with the spiritual self. This mental illumination lights the fire of God within us, a fire that will burn in time through every thought that causes us pain. It guides us to a reinterpretation of everything that has occurred in our lives, replacing a mental filter that ensures our pain with a mental filter that ensures our deliverance from pain. It does this by guiding us into the radicalism of forgiveness and love.

Miracles are thoughts, and thoughts produce everything. Thought is the level of cause; the world as we know it is the level of effect. A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love, changing an effect in our lives by changing the thinking that caused it.

Most of our suffering is due less to our circumstances than to our thoughts about them. In fact, the world is merely a projection of our thoughts. Everything we go through is filtered through either the mind of love or the mind of fear; love creates peace, and fear creates pain. Fear is not a thing in and of itself; rather, it is the absence of love. Since the thought system that dominates the world is one that repudiates love, it is a prison in which we are bound to suffer. The only way to escape our suffering is to rise above the thought system that creates it.

The pain we experience while living in this world should not be denied, of course, but it can be transcended. Miracle-minded thinking does not suppress our emotions; rather, it brings them up so we can place them on a path to true healing.

Healing occurs when we identify our painful feelings and then place them in His hands, praying that the thoughts which produced the feelings will be realigned with His. Releasing a situation to God means releasing our thoughts about it, that they might be changed on a causal level. That which is placed on the altar is then altered.

It would be a violation of our free will for God to rearrange our thoughts without our consciously having asked Him to do so, but once we ask, our prayers are answered.

Our suffering having been surrendered, an alchemical healing process begins immediately. Situations are miraculously transformed as our thoughts are divinely shifted. Where we’ve been holding on to bitterness, we are guided to the ways of forgiveness. Where we’ve been holding on to the past, we’re gently shown new possibilities in the present. Where our general outlook has been negative, we begin to see things through a more positive lens. The point is that once we are willing to see things differently— to conspire with a God who, in the words of A Course in Miracles, “outwits our self-hatred”—then the healing begins.

Your consciousness is illumined, at first perhaps just slightly, but the tiny crack of light you allowed into your mind will expand into a miraculous blaze. A softening in a relationship will become inevitable; every book that would help you falls at your feet; a friend who might have helpful insight just happens to call. Realizations about how your own behavior might have been different start to occur to you.

A spiritual perspective does not deny your pain, or any aspect of your human experience. It simply denies its power over you. It gives you the strength to endure when the tears are falling, and the power to invoke miracles that lie beyond.

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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING? 7/22/2016 9:04:11 PM
	Become Aware, Reflect, and Take Action July 21, 2016 by Steve Beckow Blind mountaineer Eric Weihanmeyer Credit: www.summitdaily.com I wrote a little while ago that I was meditating and became aware that I felt happy and loving. I looked at the space within myself that seemed to be the source of these feelings. The minute I did, I recognized that space as transformative love. (2) And that same minute, the love blossomed. Instead of being the observer noticing a space within myself, the space became the whole of me and I found myself immersed in love. My awareness shifted from a loveless Third or Fourth-Dimensional space to a love-drenched Fifth-Dimensional space – for a bit. I believe this has happened to me before. If I recall correctly, it did the first day I discovered bliss within myself (Sept. 27, 2015). I noticed some very elevated space in my consciousness and my awareness of it had the effect of triggering it to become the whole of my space, the whole of “me.” (2) This recognition of an already-existing space is the action of awareness. I’d like to distinguish it from the action of the intellect and the action of the will. All three are functions of the soul; all three take place without tangible, visible action needing to occur in what we think of as the material world. Awareness can reveal an action which may need to be done, but it’s the intellect that discerns what the best course of action is, and it’s the will that chooses and brings about that action. Of the three, the actions of awareness and will probably need the least explanation. But I’d like to say a word about the intellect, discernment, or reflection. The various orders and kingdoms are at different stages of evolution. As far as I know, and my knowledge here is limited, plants and animals are sentient beings: they feel pain, feel and respond to urges and instinctual drives, etc. At some point, whether at the human level of existence or perhaps including animal species like whales, dolphins, dogs, and cats, reflective awareness arises. We find ourseves able to make objects of awareness. We find that we can even make objects of awareness of ourself. As far as I know, a blade of grass can’t do that not can many of the less-evolved animals. Most of my time is spent watching or observing my own internal processes. I’m making of myself an object of awareness and following my thoughts, feelings, and actions. Some sage once said we cannot become a knower of God without first becoming a knower of ourselves. (Later we find out that God and self are the same.) Given that the purpose of life is to realize who we are at the very deepest levels of Reality, this ability to make an object of ourselves is a big forward step in the evolutionary journey. Not only do we make an object of ourselves, but we “get the idea” of everything else in our world (including “God”) and “pass the message along.” The whole of the body of ideas we create we call our “culture.” Humanity are cultured animals. Getting back to the three faculties of the soul, awareness is the action of the soul as observer. Reflection and determination are actions of the soul as participant. All three are actions in consciousness alone, but different phases of it. In its pristine form, awareness is simple rather than complex, bare rather than cloaked, open rather than closed. I can’t really say that awareness is passive, inactive, because awareness dissolves knots in consciousness. That to me is an action. But when I rest in my awareness, allowing my mind to fall silent, in that respect, bare, simple awareness is inactive. Reflection (the action of the intellect) is consciousness purposefully weighing courses of action. And will is consciousness in the driver’s seat, making decisions after reflection and operating the material mechanisms to produce action. As I see it, this then is the mechanism of the soul on the 12 material planes by which it frames, chooses, and resolves to take action. Become aware, reflect, and take action. Become aware, reflect, and take action. Footnotes (1) Mike Quinsey, July 8, 2016, athttp://goldenageofgaia.com/2016/07/08/mike-quinsey-message-higher-self-18-16/.) (2) I use the phrase “transformative love” to indicate love that is very much deeper than ordinary love. In ordinary love, if a competing feeling like jealousy or hatred arises, it sweeps ordinary love aside. In transformative love, it’s as if a space is cordoned off, let’s say ten feet out from me in all directions; love occupies that space and repels any attempts by feelings like jealousy and hatred to sweep it aside. Instead they’re swept aside. It isn’t possible to say what dimension transformative love is, because, like bliss and our natural (sahaja) state, transformative love is something we can go deeper and deeper into. Thus we can have a Fifth-Dimensional experience of it, or a Seventh-Dimensional experience, or a transcendent experience.
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING? 7/22/2016 9:08:32 PM
	The Very Thing Fri, 07/22/2016 - 09:10 If for one moment, you think your very existence is not Divine, think again. You were created from the very thing The Universe is made of…………The Divine. ~ Creator https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2016/07/22/the-very-thing/ Category: The Creator Writings
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING? 7/22/2016 9:10:48 PM
	Changing Our Mental Filters Posted on July 22, 2016by NewSunUnity Surrendering thoughts that are not of God means surrendering thoughts that are not of love. Each of us has a spiritual immune system—a system that exists to heal the injured psyche just as the physical immune system heals the physical body—but it takes conscious effort to activate its power. It’s not always easy to surrender our lovelessness, especially when we’re in emotional pain. Yet in order to heal, we must. Spiritual healing is work in the sense that it isn’t passive, but active. It is a medicine we co-create with God. This medicine is a miracle. It is a shift from primary identification with the suffering self to identification with the spiritual self. This mental illumination lights the fire of God within us, a fire that will burn in time through every thought that causes us pain. It guides us to a reinterpretation of everything that has occurred in our lives, replacing a mental filter that ensures our pain with a mental filter that ensures our deliverance from pain. It does this by guiding us into the radicalism of forgiveness and love. Miracles are thoughts, and thoughts produce everything. Thought is the level of cause; the world as we know it is the level of effect. A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love, changing an effect in our lives by changing the thinking that caused it. Most of our suffering is due less to our circumstances than to our thoughts about them. In fact, the world is merely a projection of our thoughts. Everything we go through is filtered through either the mind of love or the mind of fear; love creates peace, and fear creates pain. Fear is not a thing in and of itself; rather, it is the absence of love. Since the thought system that dominates the world is one that repudiates love, it is a prison in which we are bound to suffer. The only way to escape our suffering is to rise above the thought system that creates it. The pain we experience while living in this world should not be denied, of course, but it can be transcended. Miracle-minded thinking does not suppress our emotions; rather, it brings them up so we can place them on a path to true healing. Healing occurs when we identify our painful feelings and then place them in His hands, praying that the thoughts which produced the feelings will be realigned with His. Releasing a situation to God means releasing our thoughts about it, that they might be changed on a causal level. That which is placed on the altar is then altered. It would be a violation of our free will for God to rearrange our thoughts without our consciously having asked Him to do so, but once we ask, our prayers are answered. Our suffering having been surrendered, an alchemical healing process begins immediately. Situations are miraculously transformed as our thoughts are divinely shifted. Where we’ve been holding on to bitterness, we are guided to the ways of forgiveness. Where we’ve been holding on to the past, we’re gently shown new possibilities in the present. Where our general outlook has been negative, we begin to see things through a more positive lens. The point is that once we are willing to see things differently— to conspire with a God who, in the words of A Course in Miracles, “outwits our self-hatred”—then the healing begins. Your consciousness is illumined, at first perhaps just slightly, but the tiny crack of light you allowed into your mind will expand into a miraculous blaze. A softening in a relationship will become inevitable; every book that would help you falls at your feet; a friend who might have helpful insight just happens to call. Realizations about how your own behavior might have been different start to occur to you. A spiritual perspective does not deny your pain, or any aspect of your human experience. It simply denies its power over you. It gives you the strength to endure when the tears are falling, and the power to invoke miracles that lie beyond. » Source (newsununity.com)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING? 7/22/2016 9:17:48 PM
	GFP Newsletter - 7/21/2016 Submitted by will on Fri, 07/22/2016 - 00:48 The ego knows only disagreement, struggle, victory or defeat - as if there is no other way, as if there are only two ways: victory and defeat. For the ego certainly there are only two ways. But for a sensitive soul there is only one way - to understand whatever is true. It is not a question of me and you, it is not a question of somebody being defeated or victorious. The question is: What is the truth? -Rajneesh
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING? 7/22/2016 9:19:14 PM
	Daily Message ~ Friday July 22, 2016 Fri, 07/22/2016 - 06:10 Dear Ones, you can live your life in response to what energies you are exposed to, or you can choose the energy you wish to lead with on any given day. When you are a bringer of the love, a bringer of the peace, a bringer of the comfort, you are no longer picking up lower vibrating energies, you are transmuting them for the highest good of all, simply by showing up and embodying your energetic preference. ~Archangel Gabriel http://trinityesoterics.com/2016/07/22/daily-message-friday-july-22-2016/ Category: Trinity Esoterics
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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