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From time to time, I receive a note like

the one here offered, which rings true

but seems a bit too forceful or dogmatic.

So I tuck it away for another day, such

as today, when I feel the note needs

expressing.

 

I believe we (including me) who are

in the pursuit of a positive, personal,

and contemplative spirituality, do so

quietly, daintily, for fear of upsetting

those who would not understand

or approve.

 

Yet, if we are truly the tenders of the

garden, we need to realize our place

in this evolution of humankind and

all beingness. At one time, possibly,

the meek were to inherit the earth,

but this note below is in search of a

much stronger and more proactive

skill set.

 

SPIRITUAL WARRIORS/

TENDERS OF THE GARDEN

Let us be spiritual warriors, strong, solid,

fierce in our pursuits and undertakings, 

sincere, convinced, and undaunted in our

thoughts and actions, capable of great

tenderness, defenders of the right,

the worthy, the defensible, never

wavering from our pursuit of conscious

being evolved, living, pure, purposeful

intention.

 

Let us be spiritual warriors, fully prepared

to stand erect, allowing no one, no thought,

no misguided effort to counter our right

to be an individual, to be self-conceived,

to have a relationship with a living, vibrant

God: always a defender of any and all ways

to a life full of joy, peace, love, and happiness –

personal heaven on earth.

 

Let us be spiritual warriors, open to the

pursuit and implementation of our own

genuine, authentic life, our Soul based

destiny, the individual and communal

flowing of the evolution of humankind,

as well as all sentient beings –

as the tenders of the garden of life.

NOE BY G. 7.13.2017

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

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The Venture Out Affirmative Thought below

entered my mind one line at a time, and as

I transcribed I wondered where it was going

and what it meant.  

    As is my habit,  I copied the note and put

the copy on the kitchen table and delivered 

the original note to Ann with her tea.  

    As Ann was dressing and I was making my

usual P and J on a muffin, I glanced down

at the note and my mind fixed on the phrase 

"your inner magnificence.” 

    I thought to myself, what does the word

magnificence really mean? In what seemed 

like an instant this answer came into my

thoughts. 

 

        The magnificence is fully realizing, living,

        being, and touching your own Divinity -

        you and God living in full, complete,

        and purposeful, harmony.

 

    As I grabbed my journal and wrote

the definition down,  I thought it made

perfect sense, for truly what would be more

magnificent or enlightening than living

in complete purposefull harmony. 

    As I pondered,  I remembered that I had

once received Meditation Guidance

that I had titled Magnificence.

 

VENTURE OUT

Venture out beyond the confines of

    your day - today - joining  life as it pushes

the boundaries of what is anticipated

    or expected – edging your way

to a clearer and fuller understanding

    of your inner magnificence.

 

Venture out and discover the thought

    just forming on the horizon of

your consciousness – a new thought –

    a vibrant thought so compelling that

once created it cannot be abandoned

    but must be welcomed with open

arms into being.

 

Venture out into the light of fresh

    existence – endless possibilities –

wondrous potential knowing you

    within have the seed of greatness

growing – that you are the bloom

    of the infinite creation.

AT BY G. 3.16.2012

 

MAGNIFICENCE

Magnificence – see it in your life – understand

what this word means in terms of spiritual

growth and development. To be Magnificent

is to be beyond expectation, possibility, to

be God-like in your very nature.

 

Magnificence is magic in life, the purely Divine

in life waiting for your ability to conceive its

presence. Something magnificent is going to

happen if you are ready and able to accept

and receive it. It is Magnificence beyond

conception – so special – so profound that

it is beyond comprehension.

 

Living life as fully authentic – being who you

are and were meant to be; is Magnificence.

Being able to feel the love of God – understand

God’s place in your life; is Magnificence.

Moving beyond your ego and adopting the

qualities of God; is Magnificence.

 

Understand the connection of all humankind

as a combined force – a billion hands creating

a greater force for creative life; is Magnificence.

Fully loving all these hands; is Magnificence.

Looking into the face of life and seeing the Divine –

the Magnificence that exists and awaits you.

This is the pure spirit of God infused in your

life and the life of the whole of humankind –

the creative life of man.

 

Listen. Watch. Something Magnificent is

happening – in every moment of life –

learn to see it – feel it – be it. Love it.

NOE BY G. 9.28.2009 7:04 AM  

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

 

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Immersion - the act of immersing (dip or submerge)

someone or something in liquid, deep mental

involvement, baptism by immersing a person bodily.  

 

There are some words that are just more potent

than others, in both a secular and a spiritual sense,

immersion is one of them. Linked with the activity

of baptism and contemplation, it calls for total

commitment, seemingly disavowing any notion 

of being partially involved. 

 

As the note below conveys, in a spiritual sense,

there is no partial or half-living of our authentic

lives - being half authentic seems to be missing

the mark. Sometimes I need to remind myself 

that to obtain enlightenment, I must be fully

immersed in this spiritual pursuit, even if this

is not easy. 

 

At the core of any spiritual quest, there needs 

to be a Divine connection where we take the 

time to commune with God, Spirit, Source,

the Beloved, or whatever name you feel most

comfortable with using.

 

Although I believe that entering the silence while

meditating sets the stage for us to hear the voice

within our Souls whispering a message,  I also

realize that through the very act of living, our

Souls linked with the Divine convey the wisdom

we are intended to comprehend.

 

Let's all opt for full immersion today.

 

FULL IMMERSION

Today let us allow our lives to speak

    to us, providing gentle but useful

        direction as to the next step and

    the way forward – knowing within

        these moments of living a lesson

is revealed.

 

Today let us hear the voice within

    our Souls whispering a message so

        clear and significant, it resonates

            a warmth, an inner peace, beating

        out a rhythm of wisdom as our

hearts leap, and our feet dance.

 

Today let us understand no partial

    or half-living of our authentic lives

        will do; let us realize only full

    immersion will ease our hungry

        spirits wishing to make every

    moment count, every day a festival

of intended happiness enjoyed.

AT/POEM BY G. 5.28.2013

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

SCOPE - NOTE ON ENLIGHTENMENT INSPIRED BY THE FINDING GOD ON THE TRAIN STORY - QUEST FOR A POSITIVE, PERSONAL, AND CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY

 

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scope - (noun) 1. the extent of the area or

subject matter that something deals with

or to which it is relevant: 2. the opportunity

or possibility to do or deal with something:

(verb) 1. assess or investigate (something):

2. North American Informal – look at

something carefully. 

  

Daily living is all about making distinctions, 

differentiating the incoming stimuli, labeling

what is experienced, comparing  and contrasting

each stimulus, to identity, sort, and file it away

for current, or future action-based choices.

 

I often find myself focused on what I am attending

to at the moment in my life, rather than what might

be beyond it, creating it, or fostering it.

 

From time to time, I receive guidance, like the note 

featured here titled Scope, clearly urging me on to

expand my awareness, to stretch my spiritual field

of vision, to perceive beyond the simple reality

I live through and with each day.

 

For some of us, our current spiritual scope maybe

all we desire at the moment, our existing connection

with God fitting our actual needs, not requiring any

further stretching or expanding our perspective.

 

I guess the question requiring some attention

is primarily - what is our personal scope; that is,

what are we seeking to achieve with our spiritual

quest? And based on this answer, if we believe

it appears warranted, we can assess what type

of scope, adjustment needs to be considered.

Then perhaps, the note offered below, might

serve as a starting point or framework.

 

SCOPE

Scope is an essential aspect of the quest 

for a positive, personal spirituality.

Scope – the depth and breadth of any 

earnest pursuit of clarity or truth; a more

encompassing perspective; a more focused

intention, one allowing us to peer beyond

the limits of the periphery, stretching our

field of vision, our comprehension, the

elasticity of standard or expected conscious 

possibility, accepting full well the folly 

of material, concrete, solid; conscious and

aware no such a distinction exists; here now,

our scope is broader, blending the dimensions

of reality with imagination, secular with the

mystic, tangible with the forming and formless:

and now with this ever-broadening scope, we

begin to reveal the true nature of being,

the continual incorporation of all with all,

a borderless, boundaryless wash of watercolor,

where this is attached to that, as our scope

unravels the folly of distinction, separation, 

uniqueness – knowing only oneness, absolute

unity.

NOE By G. 5.31.2016

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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It is choice and free will - our ability to create

ourselves out of our desires - which often

underscores the complexity of being human,

of being alive.  We can conceive in our minds 

the full blossoming rose - wine red with petals

of silk - and we are astonished by the beauty

arriving from one seed. Or the squirrel, the star

of the brief note below, who knows the pure

pleasure of being a squirrel and offers us

a simple nut of wisdom.  

 

I wrote this note below for Ann on a sleepy Sunday

morning, looking out at the gray sky, the snow

on the lawn, the oak tree outside of our sunroom,

watching a squirrel navigate a nut along a long limb

and marveling at the simplicity and the complexity

of existence.  Almost like a Zen master, I jotted

down the following note without explanation,

leaving the mystery of its meaning to the reader.

 

 THE SQUIRREL 

Through the sunroom window

  I see a squirrel maneuver

the limb of the tree – 

  how wondrous –

the squirrel being exactly

what the squirrel should be –

  a squirrel.

How perfect the life of a squirrel –

never desiring to be anything else

but a squirrel and succeeding.

 

As you can see, the note is shorter in length than

my usual Affirmative Thought notes, which are

usually first written for Ann before I publish them

on the blog. When I presented Ann with the note

later that morning with her first tea of the day,

she read it and gave me a half-smile and a casual

thanks as she tossed it gently on the dresser.

She turned and said, “I guess you didn’t have much

to say? I said,  “perhaps more than is apparent."

Half joking I said – “I just receive the messages

from God, I don’t take responsibility for the length

or content.” Ann gave me a half-laugh.

 

Almost two weeks later I am having dinner with Ann

at a local Italian restaurant, the kind of place we all

go to get a quick meal close to home, and Ann is

talking about work and she says, “you know, I have

decided to be a squirrel - I am no longer going to

try to be a rabbit or a dog but just the squirrel

I was made to be.” I almost dropped my fork 

full of pasta, thoroughly surprised the squirrel

had surfaced again.

 

Ann admitted that when I gave her the Squirrel

note she had dismissed it, thinking that I was just

tired or did not feel like writing that morning,

but the image of the contented squirrel kept

appearing in her mind. As time went on, she

decided the squirrel was being what the squirrel

was meant to be - fully authentic, and that was

why the squirrel was so happy and succeeded.

 

Ann said she then decided she was going to live

her life asking a simple question – “I am a squirrel,

am I trying to be something else by doing this? 

Am I trying to be the rabbit someone would

like me to be?"  Ann said she had decided to commit 

herself to always being just a squirrel? For Ann, the

squirrel had become a symbol of the authentic Ann - 

the Ann she was meant to be.

 

In the end, I also learned a great deal from Ann and

the squirrel. I do believe in our souls – we are born

with a Divine spiritual instinct along with our genetic

predilections. When we know this Soul – this Divine

purpose  - our authentic purposeful life will shine –

we will discover the “Squirrel” in our hearts.

All we then need to do is ask Ann’s simple question –

are we being true to the squirrel we were meant to be?

 

WITH LOVE, G.  

 

NEW GROUND/FREE THE FIREFLIES - A NOTE ON ENLIGHTENMENT AND A SPIRITUAL POEM INSPIRED BY THE FINDING GOD ON THE TRAIN STORY - QUEST FOR A POSITIVE, PERSONAL, AND CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY

 

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Much of my spiritual life is spent listening,

and then it is occupied with interpreting

and understanding what is being conveyed.

At times, there appears to be a theme or

concept connecting what I am inspired to

write and record.

 

I received the Meditation Guidance

below titled New Ground.

 

NEW GROUND

We attach ourselves to the function of things,

to the sequence of things, to the process,

following the ritual required, hoping

to find structure, concreteness, and order

where only fluid change exists – eternity,

where only impermanence abides; today

let us release our grasp and allow the fiction

of control to ease, moving toward looser,

more spontaneous paradigms; mindful,

aware, stretching each moment by truly

being in it, engaged and ultimately unscripted,

a free-range being without role, egoless,

forsaking the comfort for new ground,

virgin, fertile - requiring the shedding

of repetitive being.

NOE BY G. 3.29.2017

 

I rarely ever receive guidance that

is not in some way personal or related

to my life. When I received this guidance,

I was drowning in my output, still

going strong writing the Finding God On

The Train Story - Notes On Enlightenment –

with well over seven hundred pages, still

seeing no end in sight.

 

I needed to step back and seek new ground.

This new ground, if fully embraced, would

require a radical shift in my consciousness:

most notable, the desire for permanence;

the need for control, the ability to just let go –

and the most difficult, at least for me,

choosing spontaneity over preparation. 

 

Being spontaneous rather than prepared,

almost beyond graduate business school

and professional conditioning to comprehend,

let alone actually do. My favorite phrase

underscores the challenge of this note

for me to live -

 

“ultimately unscripted,

                  a free-range being.”

 

The second offering below, Free The

Fireflies is an inspired poem from

a Sunday morning meditation.

 

FREE THE FIREFLIES

It is the ramifications of fierce expectations,

formed in off moments with fleeting desires

that limit and spoil our possibilities;

forever taking infinite possibilities,

truncating it, squeezing it

into our preconceived containers,

our goal-directed edict, our years

of misguided conditioning –

like fireflies jarred

on a summer night,

these bits of magnificence

lose illumination and darken,

only to fade from existence

and our grasp.

Let us endeavor to shed our forethought,

expecting less of ourselves, others,

and life itself -  learning to live, to be again.

POEM BY G. 4.30.2017

 

Again, a plea for more spontaneity,

as well as the elimination of expectation

and forethought, moving toward

the “shedding of repetitive being.”

Offering, for me, a rather radical

approach:

 

“expecting less of ourselves, others,

            and life itself.”

 

What I like most about these two notes,

is that they convey what has been

the spiritual wisdom of the ages for those

seeking enlightenment – expressed in

a more Soul-catching garb, difficult

for me to ignore or dismiss.    

 

In all of this, I was able to see a fresh

approach for my book with too many

pages.

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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They are forever free who renounce all selfish desire

and break away from the ego-cage of “I’, “me”, and

“mine” to be united with the Lord.

                 The Bhagavad Gita – Translated by Eknath Easwaran

 

Control of consciousness is not easily accomplished, if it were

we would have a world of peace and plenty. Instead it takes

great effort to navigate through our own thoughts, filtering

them and learning to listen to the constructive rather than 

destructive guidance.

 

Many would ask - how I am to know if I am listening to my

ego or my Divine guidance when my head is filled with an

endless loop of confusion? I would suggest writing down what

you are thinking and you will know in short order who is talking.

 

The domain of the ego is the missteps and sins of the past

and the fears and potential pitfalls of the future, or surprisingly

at times, the positive future possibilities if only we are able

to make a few major adjustments now.

 

By recording the endless loop of advice you will become aware

of a neurotic stream of consciousness working both positive

and negative reinforcement to mold your behavior. Notice

the ego does not function well when you start to meditate

and practice mindfulness and establish yourself in the present. 

 

I find myself most vulnerable to ego control and impact when

I am tired, frustrated, and/or disappointed with my life or when 

my defenses are not well fortified such as when waking up in the

morning. I often wake up to a series of major issues in my life

that my ego feels I have not properly addressed or attended

to along with a list of potential problems for the day.

 

In the past I have gotten caught up answering the "what if"

questions of my early morning interrogator, now instead

I usually Golden Key each asking for God to handle, focus 

on my breathing, and center my thinking on positive aspects 

of my life.  When not successful I get up and start my day. 

 

One such morning, Tuesday February 24, 2009 when I had

obviously not been successful with managing my ego, I was

offered the following meditation guidance during my morning

commute on the train to assist me with regaining my balance.

 

             Where Are You?

You are fighting a war with your negative mind centered

in the ego. You are back again rethinking, judging,

determining, and feeding perceptions and the pain-body.

You are in a pit and you need to mentally climb out and

find hope and enthusiasm.

 

If you are angry – scream. If you are sad then cry.

If you are confused seek clarity. You are no longer on

the path – you are filling up with fear and self-criticism

and you must return to love and self-acceptance.

 

Go inside and try to understand the emotions that

are leading you in this direction. Ask what it is that you

need, what is it that you want. Try to rest for with rest

comes strength. Be gentle with yourself and loving.

 

You do not need to meet others expectations – stop

trying to please and instead seek your own pleasure –

your own needs and wants. Rest and reflect. There is

no need for perfection. Accept the flow of energy and

look for enthusiasm. Move out of depression and into

the joy of enthusiasm.

NOE BY G. 2.24. 2009

 

It is obvious that I was not doing well on this morning

commute. As you can see this is definitely advice from

my spiritual mind, Divinely connected, not my ego. 

Notice the advice and its positive and loving guidance

trying to revive me and bring me back to life.

 

Meet Your Pain-Body

You will notice a reference to my “Pain-Body” – a term

introduced by Eckhart Tolle, spiritualist and best-selling

author of The Power Of Now and The New Earth who

I have referenced in Chapter Three of THE CRYSTAL PATH -

BOOK ONE OF THE FINDING GOD ON THE TRAIN STORY –

New Thought Yesterday and Today regarding his ground

breaking internet sessions with Oprah Winfrey.

This Chapter is available on the right hand side

of the blog.

 

The pain-body is the collective manifestation of all

the pain, misery, and sorrow a person has ever gone

through in their entire life. Added to this is the inherited

pain from a person’s culture and family. Using the Toltec

approach regarding the passing of the societal dream

we spoke of earlier, the Toltec’s would say that we have

learned to dream the dream of the collective pain

of our people, culture, religion, or nation. 

 

Tolle goes on to explain that our pain-body's exist just

beneath the surface of our consciousness and when

connected by the loss of hope, depression, or an intense

negative situation they literally move in to take over our

consciousness. 

 

The personality of the pain-body is all negative, misery

driven and feeds on increasing its store of pain rather

than lessening it. The pain-body in control is often like

the drunk in a bar looking for a fight who seems to enjoy

having the life kicked out of them. In fact pain-bodies 

are like pain vampires who thrive on more pain - gaining 

energy from destruction and as a result become stronger.

 

The amount of pain you are carrying depends on the amount

of pain you have been subjected to. Tolle says that when our

wonderful lover turns mean and cruel for no reason we are

meeting their pain-body. 

 

Having survived a difficult childhood I am extra cautious when my

pain-body surfaces and have been able to push it back down with

a good nights sleep. Ann says my entire facial expression changes,

my brow furrows; my smile disappears as all the world becomes

extremely negative and hopeless for me. Although I know when

I have slipped into my pain-body it takes focused positive mental

effort to get out. Ann and I can recognize each other’s pain-body

and when they surface we will cautiously tell the other that they 

have slipped into their pain-body.

 

I believe those who are clinically depressed or self-destructive have

been captured by their pain-body and cannot get out until it is too

late, when the crime or life destruction has taken place. I can only

imagine the amount of crime that is the direct responsibility of this

phenomenon with the Defense Attorney making a point that the

defendant was not himself or herself when committing the act.

 

Collectively whole nations have slipped into their collective 

pain-body and like Nazi Germany have used it to create hell on

earth. I implore you to get to know your pain-body and do everything

possible to keep it in check and diffuse it in your life.

 

To mange my pain-body I use the releasing technique I discussed

on my early posts outlined in the The Sedona Method by Hale 

Dwoskin. It is an excellent method for releasing your pain-body

or any unwanted emotion or feeling on a daily basis or when you

realize you are being impacted.

 

I also strongly encourage you to read Eckhart Tolle’s excellent

handling of this pain-body concept in his books The Power

Of Now and The New Earth.

 

Here is my poetic interpretation of my pain-body, which, I think

brings home the point and offers an approach for releasing it 

through positive thought and love. 

 

My Pain-Body

I struggle with the body of pain,

    the memories of agony, anxiety, grief,

fear and the cries of a lost child. 

     This pain-body is enormous -

built limb by limb, trauma by trauma,

    insult by insult,

into a sculpture of wailing moments,

    experienced not forgotten – 

 alive and hungry for more.

 

I have pretended that the pain-body

    does not exist, worked my

consciousness around it,

    carried out the tasks of life

while handling it

             like an overstuffed trunk.

The pain-body has never gone away – 

         it inflicts each breath

and like a parasite sucks joy and

    enthusiasm from all life.

 

All else is crowded into the corner

    while the pain-body expands –

day in day out –

    it deflates the consciousness,

distorts, warps - each moment

    demanding – this tapeworm

grows and feeds on the Soul.

 

It is time to deflate this illusion of

    past memories – step behind

the Wizard of Oz Pain-Body and

let my consciousness take charge –

    comfort the lost boy –

      and release this pain.

 

How do I proceed? Moving into the pain

only feeds the beast.

  I face the pain, accept it as a living

entity and focus on releasing it –

    piece-by-piece – chunk-by-chunk.

I will make it malleable through focusing

    on all things positive.

    I will lead with love and

kindness and release.

POEM - SPIRITUAL POEM  12.14.2007

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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I believe, much like the early Hindus, that we

move towards enlightenment when we move

towards a conscious state that is one with our

Divine Self. This is the primary focus of the

Meditation Note below, guiding us to allow

our Divine Self to evolve.

 

DIVINE SELF BLOOMING

The Divine Self, like an ocean of spirit within

your consciousness evolves, grows, matures –

connected and one with God – fully present –

the Spiritual Self – the Soul within. This is your

indwelling God – your perfect you, always

present in the mystery of infinite intelligence.

 

Open your mind and heart to this Divine Self,

allowing it access to your life and the freedom

to evolve into you. Enlightenment truly is the

Divine Self  becoming fully conscious, and with

ego in tow like an errant child – moving through

consciousness to claim its Divine right –

its perfect place.

 

Search no further than your heart, for here

is the sound and fury of your liberation –

your becoming – one connected and whole

in Source. Tear off the rags of physical form,

walking without armor – with eyes closed –

ego in check – moving to the essence

of your Soul – God within – God without.

 

This is the time to hold the crystal heart –

to see the Heartlight, realizing it has been

with you all along – the Divine Self, blooming. 

NOE BY G. 9.23.2010

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

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Inviolable – prohibiting violation; secure

from destruction, violence, infringement,

or desecration; 2. incapable of being violated;

incorruptible; unassailable.

 

Sanctity – holiness, saintliness, or godliness;

2. sacred or hallowed character; 3. a sacred

thing.

 

Within each of us is a spark of the Divine

consciousness, pure and purposeful,

protected by a natural inviolable sanctity,

a sanctuary of clarity, a place of holy

order, a haven from the mundane

to the unimaginable, the place that will

echo our rejoicing as well as soothe our

pleas for mercy - with only one purpose

in mind, to uplift and transform us,

to aid in our true becoming.

 

Our first step is and will forever be, to

move to what is real and manifested,

the now – choosing the here and now –

over the then of the past or the when

of the future, as the note below suggests.

 

NOW OVER THEN OR WHEN

Begin again – understanding endings,

beginnings are but constructions

of our minds, the waters of consciousness

flow vigorously through each of us,

as we celebrate what does not begin,

and mourn what does not end; instead,

be the truth, accept your place as a

conduit of the constant now; the past,

the future, mere ghosts, and premonitions

turning us away from each moment

unveiling: our Divinity waits for

us to comprehend the truth; so as

impermanence turns our moments

to a more pertinent, useful dust, choose

now over then or when, turn towards

the life now exposed, saying a peaceful

goodbye to what was, and a joyful hello

to what now is, knowing, all is well.

NOE BY G. 2.25.2016

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

 

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In the Meditation Note below titled Step Into The

Stream, the concept of giving yourself over to God,

is addressed as a poetic total immersion

in the stream of life. Frankly, I get about waist-high

and swim for shore. I sometimes wonder what would 

happen if I went in all the way.

 

STEP INTO THE STREAM

Step into the stream of life – feel the crystal

water – cool – soothing - wash your feet and legs –

understand the pleasure of life – all that has occurred

to bring this stream to you – lush – full – abundant.

 

Step deeper and lose the control you have built up

to guide you – feel the water wash and splash over

and onto your arms and chest and shoulders –

breathe deeply and trust the full spirit of God.

 

Quell the fear that surfaces – breathe deeply

and trust the full spirit of God. Move deeper,

step by step, until your face and mouth are

within the stream – fear not, for God is with you –

is you. See the world through open eyes beneath

the surface – wonder at the beauty –the depth –

the crystal water.

 

Fully within the stream, now open your mouth

and suck the water into your mouth – nostrils –

and fill your lungs with the clear fluid and substance

of God. Understand you do not choke but swallow

the clear stream until you are living and breathing

the pure water.

 

Feel the energy, the thrill, and the joy of life’s stream.

Become the stream, let go, and float with its current –

move with its flow. Be alive in its water – submerged –

but living. This is the wonder of oneness with God.

Step into the stream of life and live renewed – reborn –

refreshed. Step into the stream 

NOE/POEM BY G.  3.28.2009

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human

Understanding was published in 1690,

defining consciousness as “the perception

of what passes in a man’s own mind,”

establishing what would be the modern

concept of consciousness.  

 

Since Locke’s opening gambit, scientists,

philosophers, psychologists, and mystics

have studied and pondered “the perception,”

leaving us still no closer than Locke with a

comprehensive understanding of the origin

and full dimensions of human consciousness. 

 

Lately, I have been focused on consciousness -

praying and meditating, requesting additional

guidance and clarification, hoping to further

explore what is, at least for me, the backdrop

for our existence and the basis of God in

our lives.

 

I am especially interested in what the message

has defined as the levels of consciousness,

as I am planning to outline and share in

Part Four of the Finding God On The Train

Story – encompassing our “personal or

local consciousness,” which is incorporated

as a subset of the more comprehensive

“nonlocal collective consciousness” of all

sentient life, again a subset of  Divine

consciousness, comprising the first two

levels, as well as all life that has previously

existed.

 

My hope is to join the “consciousness

debate” by offering a more comprehensive

theory of consciousness based on my

guidance.  So, as demonstrated by the

meditation guidance below received one

morning last week, my request for

guidance on this subject is being

sporadically answered, and as received,

I will share.

 

VISTAS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Below the surface of being exists,

the underpinnings, the threads, and needles,

the substructure connecting allness to all else,

the energies, the particles, the bits, and the

pieces of viable existence, the base, the screen

on which, with which, reality manifests

and performs.

 

This is the sub-matter behind the matter,

the first thought preceding all thoughtful

connection, the conscious framework

we choose to consider reality a projection

upon a projection within our conscious

projection.

 

Realize the force of nature is in itself

the collective vision of billions of diverse

perspectives, an ingrained, hardwired

foundation expected to be, expected

to follow laws set in motion by an active God.

 

Consider and contemplate this interaction,

this mingling, this natural blueprint,

the vistas of consciousness, peering within

its marvels, miraculous flashes of light,

dwelling intently and deeply until the

props and fixtures are revealed, allowing

an awareness of the strings supporting

and holding in place this dimension,

these slivers of being give our world

form and function, mobility and energy,

purpose and proposition, as it flickers

in the projector's light.

NOE BY G. 11.5.2014 

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

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The past few weeks have been a blur,

literally, as we took turns as the patient,

first Ann, then me – were forced to realize

that flu vaccinations do not necessarily

mean you will not get the flu, although,

most likely, not the one you are protected

to resist, but instead, some genetically

unplanned for next of kin that has gone

under the radar.  

 

Although on the positive side, this medical

hiatus has proven supportive of spiritual

pursuits, especially prayer and meditation.

Given the extra time, attempting more

intensive meditation seemed to be a viable

option.

 

When I decide to, as I call it, go deeper,

I always prepare the way with prayer,

explaining what I am about to do and what

I want to accomplish. I ask for God’s assistance,

especially when dealing with the occasional

negative thoughts, images, memories, or

whatever might be unleashed.

 

When I did, I received the note below titled

Dive Deep– an example of what over the

past ten years of my quest, I have recorded

as inspired guidance and have termed

as Notes On Enlightenment (N.O.E.’s) -

to reflect that these are responses I receive

when I ask for God’s guidance. I consider them

inspired because I write down or transcribe,

what comes to me, word for word, without

editing. As the note below explains, most

mystics have conveyed, deep diving offers

its own spiritual treasure.

 

I close this post with a poem/prayer

titled, The Hum.

 

DIVE DEEP

In the vastness exists all things, all that was,

all that is, all that will ever be: allow it to flow

unchecked, go with its currents and tides,

allow the waves of awareness to wash over

you and through you; observe without judgment,

for in this place, qualifications, expectations,

judgments are needless, wasted energy –

observe and move on when unappealing or

distressing, languish if desired, dive deeper

if desired, for this is the basis of life itself in all

its vagaries, vicissitudes, the essence of passions,

of desires, of strivings, of successes, and of course,

of failures – hopeless or needless blunders – yet

more important – the reachings, the yearnings,

the outstretched hope for more: what lies ahead,

the next step, the possibility if only, if only all

things are aligned – and when they do or are –

the expression of unbridled joy – the hallelujah

of existence. Dive deep, dive often, and be

transformed.

NOE BY G. 2.6.2016

 

THE HUM

In your grasp, I am one,

    flesh made whole,

        Soul within a greater Soul,

            waiting, appeased by

nothing less than clear,

    complete immersion,

        to drown away this

            worldliness, this focus

on folly, to cleanse away

     this desirous appetite,

        left only with the hum

            of self-contained peace,

the original selfless

    Soul of pre-emergence,

        one, one, once more.

POEM/PRAYER BY G. 1.29.2016

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

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PIECES OF GOD 

Everywhere I go

there are little pieces of God,

by gathering them together,

perhaps I will see

the whole picture,

or at least,

like a puzzle partially

completed,

a rough outline will appear,

and I, with a little patience,

can imagine the rest.

POEM BY G. 3.26.2014

 

In my opinion, a key to a viable spiritual

quest requires the tenacity to find our 

unique perspective of God, which, in

the end may sync with a traditional concept,

or be something altogether distinctly

different, as indicated by the note below

titled, The Origin.

 

This Meditation Note is the answer to

my direct question, during meditation,

regarding the origin of God. Now, this

response may be impacted by an idea

I have been considering, or better put,

fixating on lately  – what if God-conscious-

ness was not the originator of all existence,

but evolved out of the very consciousness

of all existence - formed out of evolving life

itself. What if God is, basically, all existing

consciousness - plus, all awareness - plus,

everything awake - plus.  

 

THE ORIGIN 

I want to say - look beyond the horizons and

into the life, breath, and pulse of humankind.

Here, within exists the beat of a living God,

the anointed desires of all existence made

manifest by a single intention: this sliver

of purpose formed from a consciousness

combined to be something more than

the sum of its parts, a primal force realizing

random existents would not transmit a

greater destiny than mere being.

Here is the transcendence into an organized

being a conscious entity formed and fed

from the totality of each thought, sense,

feeling, aliveness, and, in turn, growing its

beingness, reaching out to foster well-

being of all nature, striving to navigate

the parts towards a more viable, pertinent,

and self-sustaining existence.

Here is the origin of everything awake. 

NOE BY G. 4.19.2014 

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

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Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273)

Poet and Founder of the Mawlawi Sufi Order

 

Ye who search of God, of God, pursue.

Ye need not search for God is you, is you!

Why seek ye something that was missing

ne’er?  Save you none is, but you are –

where, oh, where?

 

The desire to separate humankind from God,

and all sentient life, for that matter, becomes

more difficult as we explore the spiritual

concept of God as an expanding consciousness.

 

Although the quote from Rumi above demonstrates

what has been a popular esoteric mystical opinion -

we and God are one - the exoteric religious authorities

have, for the most part, considered this to be anathema,

heretical, often severely punished. 

 

This may be a reason why I usually sit on this type

of guidance – note that I recorded this guidance

below mid-July of 2013 – and have not returned to it,

until I rediscovered it this morning and felt ready

to delve into its meaning.

 

Usually, I would rather not offend the sensibilities

of those who cannot fathom or discuss this close

union of the Divine and humankind. Just so

happens that Ann, my wife, is firmly in this group.  

 

Yet, in truth, most of my spiritual work has been

finding and redefining a less supernatural, more

user-friendly God, one that might fit within our

modern perspective. I believe the note below is

proposing just such a conceptual framework.

Your thoughts?

 

ONE PRESENCE SHARED 

We and God are intertwined.

We and God are intermingled.

 

A shared consciousness, where our

consciousness exists within the limitless

consciousness of God, stretching

the space of all conscious existence –

we and God are one, God within,

God without – together, we and God –

the creator of all form (which exists as an

extension of our joint consciousness)

are intertwined.

 

Form is simply and totally a representation

of the creative thought of consciousness,

and, as such, has no innate power. Always

in matters of form, we must return to the

originator and the origination of our sense

experience – creative conscious thought.

 

Let us fully comprehend and grasp this

essential truth of comingled consciousness;

sharing the combined power of truly dual

conscious existence, expanding  our

consciousness and revealing the truth of

all existence, one presence shared. Seek

the point of origin in meditation, reflection,

and prayer.

 

Understand it is only through our personal

conscious connection with the world of form

that God can impact or interact or experience

the world of form. As God is a vehicle of our

expanded consciousness, we, you, me all

sentient life is a conduit for god to form

consciousness, for mutual, total, integrated

existence. Each sentient being is a conscious

receptor of and within tangible existence.

 

(If we do not open ourselves up to this God

connection, God cannot fully enter our world

except through grace.)

NOE BY G. 7.12.13 10:00 AM 

 

WITH LOVE, G.

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SLICE OF TIME 

This thin slice of time we now inhabit reveals

only the immediate moment, as we, in conscious

adaptation create a fuller, more multidimensional

perspective of past and present incorporated,

well on its way to an imagined future. With this

lens in place, we maneuver these settings

to comprehend this expression of existence.

 

Perhaps this present – this prelude to the future

is but a convergence of multi-moments, a sum

of probable alternatives that, in an infinitesimal,

momentary calculation forms a sort of sum over

history, an average of all possible scenarios,

to select and give us, as our best and most

suitable reality – our now.

 

Limited by our perception, we must

be aware that God’s perspective is fuller,

more inclusive but still impacted by the

complexity of multiple frameworks, alternatives

selected and abandoned, along with the power

of will and choice in every sentient participant

in this existence, so no static, fully framed

future can exist,  just an ocean of possibilities

waiting to be perceived, then combined,

and finally, to arrive as a slice of the present

time for us to live again.  

NOE BY G. 8.3.2018

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

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Horror, whether real or fictional, seems to surround us,

attracting our attention by its scope and intensity in the

news, or turned into entertainment; especially prominent

and graphics in the electronic games that occupy our time - 

as our chitchat focuses on the pleasure of  watching shows

featuring hardened criminals, homicidal maniacs, brutal

warriors, and a host of the living dead.

 

The note featured below opens with an instruction

to turn away from the horror. I do believe that in order

for us to evolve, on a personal basis or as the custodians

of existence on this planet, we must find the wherewithal

to refuse to participate in the perpetuation or promotion

of our existing culture of horror: replacing it instead with

one of wholeness, clarity, beauty, loving-kindness, and

sincerity.

 

TO ENGAGE

Turn away from the horror, the disappointments,

the pains of existence – move, instead, towards

the wholeness, the pure completeness of a life

capable and inspired.  Know you, and you alone,

hold the key to clear, unencumbered existence –

fresh life – forming, reforming, being a being

of wonder, a beam of pure transparent light –

know you carry the essence of all existence

within – so release the stumbling blocks and

reach, fully extended, to grasp, to engage what

waits before you – find the frame of reference,

hold it in consciousness, become the incubator

for clarity, sincerity, purposefulness, passionate

existence – open to be, to receive, to become,

and to engage fully in your destiny. 

NOE BY G. 9.1.2015

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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It is not what we see that hampers

our spiritual progress, it is the

antiquated lenses we peer through,

ground by our years of well-meaning

indoctrination, tinted by our concepts

and supposed truths, distorted by

even our epiphanies and peak experiences,

producing a cataract generating conglomeration,

fogging even the most obvious insights.

 

As the two poems offered here starting off

with The Livingness and Potent Breath to follow,

indicate, overcoming this perceptual malaise is

still, a challenge for me, as I work to see

fresh again, with infant eyes, my brain

erased.

 

THE LIVINGNESS

Existing within the livingness,

robust, pulsing with vitality,

energy destined for action,

the aliveness incorporates

a whole, a completeness,

with even beyond the present

in a panorama of beingness.

 

Leaves thick, lush with May

life float and shift on the

invisible wind, shade forms

shadow scenes across red

brick walls and greener dew

damp lawns, birds express,

machines holler repetitive

roars, here, now, within.

 

Perhaps I would be better

to see without words, constructs,

terms and terminology,

my brain erased, cleared, reset

and with infant's eyes peer into

the vastness of the whole me,

no distinctions, no borders,

just an all-inclusive everything.

POEM BY G. 5.29.2017

 

POTENT BREATH

I ask at times

    to dream aloud,

fluent and wide,

    unclasped by concepts,

constraints, former truths,

    stale dictums – free

of all that hampers

    my being, my seeing,

this pursuit of purposeful

    living.

 

Free of all these frameworks

    constructed over difficult

times, or even in moments

    of elation or triumph-

worthy then but now

    just laden with dust,

their inspiration clouding

    the skies of now –

let me turn the page

    moving on.

 

And when I do

    I breathe again,

clear, free, and fragrant –

    with deep breaths

now unhindered -

    the fresh and potent breath

overwhelms with its strength,

    vitality, and sweetness –

I am alive again!

POEM BY G. 4.22.2017

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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Morphic Resonance – the principle theoretical concept and hypothesis

of renown British biologist Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D.: who posited

that memory is inherent in all of nature; with natural systems,

such as termite colonies, or orchid plants, or apple trees, or insulin

molecules, or humanity as a whole, inheriting a collective memory

from all previous entities of their related system; available and

usable as a guide to enhance growth and development.

 

The establishment of our personal, individual existence, before

or after this earthly life, has been a point of much speculation

and conjecture.  As with all things spiritual, we tend to layer myth,

wishful thinking, and hopeful clairvoyance to come to our belief,

whether individually, or as an adherent of a specific religious

perspective.

As a true believer in the traditional view of heaven, my wife Ann

shudders when I talk this way. Even so, I feel it is essential that

we not just except a standard answer without questioning its

veracity, at least as it relates to our spiritual perspective.

My guidance, like the featured note, has repeatedly pointed

to not only an afterlife, but a before–life, with this all too brief

time in between, a place of fostered growth, an incubator

of sorts where our joint experiences are folded back into

consciousness, to be shared with those who are still

in the process of living.

It is not my purpose to dispel or disclaim your vision of the

afterlife, only to stimulate productive speculation for those

inclined, who, like me, may find themselves closer to the after

part than the before.

 

FOSTERED GROWTH

What exists beyond life, existed before life,

the presence, the essence, established as

fact and form, inhabiting all time frames,

all sequences presented as the possibility

to be engaged, offered for evolvement,

for enhancement, for becoming, in what

we conceive of as tangible life, to be allowed

fostered growth, creative blossoming,

experiential stretching; able to ascend

or pretend, or descend as occasioned,

and with this existential opportunity

a platform for emotional connection,

the extension for singular into plural

existence, forming a web of connection;

life integrated and tied together, using

free will to push the boundaries of possibility –

to grow life – establish potential, and

when fully exercised, to take this learning,

this insight, returning to where it originated,

to lasting consciousness, to share in morphic

resonance as needed, with all life becoming.

NOE BY G. 8.8.2016

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

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We, us, humankind, who forever exist as the

erupting force of viable life, let us know this:

from the very moment of first consciousness

our ancestors ripped at the light of the world

surrounding them, harnessing what was reachable

to create a more sustainable foundation going 

forward.

 

As we, in our lives now, add our footsteps to this

road, venturing onward, we must contribute, not

tentatively, but with our whole hearts, knowing

the very existence of future existence depends

upon the nurturing of this eruption.  

 

Let us each wade through the morass of our

unique lives, clearing away the lethargy, 

stretching to discover what sparks we might

ignite; what fountain of life we might inspire;

what wonder - personally and collectively

as a family of beings – we might erupt.   

 

LIFE ERUPTS

The road is crisp

       with becoming;

            worn bare and clean

         by the footsteps

               of the multitudes,  

                     who ventured onward,

                  with clear dreams

              and overwhelming hope,

           with faith as a shield,

      determined to reach,

              beyond the constraints

                   of nature, of God, of man,

               envisioning a life robust,

       enticing, fertile with possibility,

                just waiting for the planting

         of their souls, eager

               for the sweat of their effort,

                          knowing it is in this place –

               at this moment,

                                          life erupts.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     POEM BY G.  6.10.2016

 

SPARKING A FOUNTAIN OF YOU

Scintillate, being the spark of new life, flashing

forth the pure blessing and energy of being here,

alive, on earth, emitting the essence of you

becoming, share the exploding purpose of pure 

and worthy intention, a soul bursting with

possibilities – sparking arcs, connecting,

conjoined with life partners to create and

recreate now, fresh, patterns of presence,

existence. 

 

Scintillate, with each motion, movement, 

endeavor, shine forth the astounding wonder

of your individualized creation, share the sparks

of love, the creative genius, the uniqueness of your

offering, allowing passion and purpose to ignite 

and light the way, knowing the material and kindling

for this combustion resides within you, now, release

it now, protecting each eruption as each spark 

pierces the darkness until combined, a fountain

of light, of you, sustains us all.

NOE BYG. 6.22.2016

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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WONDER AT THE MAGIC OF INTENT                                               

Life is magical, amazing, and beyond what is hoped

for or conceived.

Feel and see the magic, the uniqueness of each person,

event, thought, item. Experience the magic in each moment –

how it connects and reflects your mood – your thoughts –

your emotions. 

The magic exists and comes from the orchestrated, creative

force of our collective intelligence, Divinely guided by Spirit.

See how it all fits in – a wondrous coincidence that is without

coincidence.

Nothing happens – it all flows from the magic of thought,

desires, and wants manifested into the world.

Feel the warmth and the light of the sun through the window

and wonder at the wisdom that manifested this spirit –

this ball of life giving energy. This is the magic –the magic

is everywhere – for like a magic trick –behind the magic

is Divine will directed by collective good intentions.

Wonder at the magic. The magic is rooted in your ability

to manifest our reality – to create it brick by brick and

have this reality unfold and interact with the reality

of others – and finally – be divinely intertwined

in the manifested reality of all life.

 

As you attract and bring the world to you, receive as

you believe, joining with the wills of others. Together

this magic comes together to create all life – a harmony

of cocreated existence. Look deep within the magic,

behind the curtain, in the hat, and you will see purposeful

reality – no coincidence – all related – all positive creative

force intent on evolving.

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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I know, intuitively, that if  I were to really believe – 

fully believe – I could literally move mountains,

heal myself, and manifest any desire into creation.  

But to fully,  Find Belief, as portrayed in the Meditation

Note below, overcome my doubt, and avoid the antics

of  my ego,  is a major undertaking at best, if not a

lifelong challenge. At  the time of this meditation,

health was a major worry and concern for me.

 

FIND BELIEF 

If you do not believe, it will not be. Without faith in God–

without a spirit of belief – and fully knowing what you

want will be received - then, there is no manifestation.

Foster, nurture and become belief itself. To become

well – and return to the full, pure physical form and

creation of God - you must believe it is possible.

 

Without belief, there is only doubt, fear, and imbalance.

To be well you must believe, well, with all your heart,

your Soul – expecting well and the return to the pure,

the clear crystal form of your authentic self.

 

Belief is not simple. The ego has a thousand reasons

why you will not obtain what you are wanting. Belief

is the enemy of the ego, which promotes logic and wants

you to believe that your world is out of control.

 

Believe - have faith – know that all you desire – health,

wealth, and an authentic life, has been delivered and

awaits for you to receive. Watch your ego that works

against receipt. Fully focus on love, acceptance, joy,

and abundance, then you will be prepared to receive.

Align your emotions and tune into the receipt and

you will receive.

 

Release your fear – for at times of poor health, fear

can be consuming. Believe in wellness and you will

be healed. Imagine only your healed whole state –

visualize –fantasize and experience the emotions

of wellness and you will receive.

 

Live by the light – the Heartlight.

WITH LOVE, G.

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When I receive a note like the one below,

I feel compelled to share its message.

I have, as many of you have, experienced

personal suffering in this life. Yet, even as

we are taken to our knees, as our tears

and words are mixed with a poignant – why,

we may realize that this is not a Divinely

directed event, it is simply the nature

of this life, we now live.

 

I have come to realize that God’s place

is not to ensure that I avoid this suffering,

but that I am supported in overcoming

it when it does occur. And although you may

wince at me saying this, I can only point

to the note below for what appears to be,

at least for me, my answer.  

 

THROUGH EVEN THIS

We are not new; we are not old,

we are eternal, fully connected

to an infinite source of life and being,

a spark of Divine purpose,  intention,

one of an infinite multitude of positive

becomings, never alone, always connected -

a vessel of God’s wonder made manifest.

 

Today, work to perceive this very connection,

for it is - there, even in the turmoil,

even in the suffering, even in the bewilderment –

it is there to support you, comfort you,

enfold you in love and strength and hope,

to dry the tears, to support you up and over

the madness that may, now, envelop you.

 

Let this day be the first day of your

overcoming, accepting what is, with the

understanding that you are not alone;

accept God’s hand, rise, stepping onward

and through even this.

NOE BY G. 1.2.2018

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

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NOTE OF TRUTH

Perhaps the solutions we seek in life are

within our grasp, there within us all along,

too exhausted after days of fierce wandering

to voice a plea for warranted attention, or

overcome by schemes and hapless strategies,

sounding mute against the ebb and flow

of internal dissension.

 

So let us again turn our gaze inside out,

refusing to be tricked by our own magic,

the ego’s slight of hand, delving into the

disorder of extinguished life for the note

of truth we so carelessly let slip from our

focus, to be crumpled underfoot waiting

for this day of atonement.

 

As we calm our shaking hands, flattening

out the message for earnest deciphering,

let us work to nobly approach this truth

with open arms and an accepting heart,

knowing time enough remains for even

this undertaking, and strength enough

will come forth to bolster even this quest,

if we have the courage to pursue it

undaunted. 

NOE BY G. 10.24.2013 

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

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As we have discussed,  the focus of the message

of  Finding God On The Train Story is that

we and God interact through a shared

consciousness, and as a result, as the note

below conveys  a “logical” outgrowth of 

this conceptual framework that we share:

a combined existence teamed to make

the most of our endeavors and our lives.

This, of course, is facilitated, and

the benefits of co-existence maximized

when we actually buy into this framework.

 

Likewise, this notion is built on

the premise that every living being has

an inner Divine nature and connection,

that even with flat-out negation,

this Divine connection cannot be turned

off or severed. Thus, the opportunity

for this inner Divinity to assist even

the totally lost in reclaiming their

redemption.

 

We, who believe in combined being,

are in a unique position to actually

cocreate with God our lives of joy,

peace, love, and happiness – heaven

on earth. Others, will benefit from

God’s close proximity and ability

to assist when possible.    

 

COMBINED BEING

The lasting partnership of total oneness

asks for only acceptance, a willingness

to be one with the enveloping consciousness

of the eternal spirit, open to its flow, its push

and pull of complete awareness.

 

This consciousness incubates and fosters

the individually perceived awareness,

seen by most, as distinct and separate.

Spirit is with you as the air you breathe

is with you, dislocation, separation is

untenable, impossible; yet many conjure

a distance between the created and

the creative force of all.

 

Understand that Spirit, the infinite

awareness, through the soul, provides

the framework for a lasting partnership

of combined being, able to live and

be a united unfolding presence, open

to engender form from well-intentioned

thought, to partner in the cocreative

wonder of living, being, becoming.

NOE BY G. 10.1.2014 10:00 AM 

 

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I am now preparing  to write a chapter titled,

at least for now, The Soul and God Consciousness - 

The Divinity Within. By utilizing what I have come

to term as a swarming approach, I go out and beat

the bushes of consciousness  reviewing everything

I have ever thought, read, overheard, or written

hoping to generate a swarm of ideas around

the concept or subject until the tumult of buzzing

thoughts lead to a way of viewing the subject that

is new and by chance, even enlightening.

 

This technique has enabled me to learn and grow

as I write and, in the end, discover  a finished

product that I had no inkling existed when I began. 

So let's begin the swarm with the meditation guidance

below titled The Power Of God  Consciousness.

I transcribed this on a sunny Sunday morning 

while meditating on my deck, and since I did not have

my journal with me I just jotted it down on a sheet

of blank paper, which I had intended to write in my

journal but never got around to it.

 

I like this note because it clearly outlines our

individual conscious connection with Universal  

Consciousness. Our Divine Consciousness is 

a functioning subset of God's consciousness.  

 

THE POWER OF UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS

God is Universal Consciousness.

I am Universal Consciousness.

We are Universal Consciousness.

 

Everything starts and finishes with the power

of Universal Consciousness formed from all the

the consciousness of each piece of sentient life alive

or that has ever lived. Your consciousness is

a connected subset of the universal - a contributor

and emissary – the hands and feet of this conscious

creation known as life.

 

When you meditate and move behind your egos

longings, indoctrination, conditioned thought

patterns, and the chaotic chatter of a mind yet

fully trained to move beyond the misconception

of  separate existence, you connect with

the consciousness of God – call it what you wish

universal, infinite – call it mind, intelligence,

or consciousness – it is within this purposeful

vehicle of creation that you are connected with,

submerged in, surrounded by, and one with God.

Here is the essence of positive creation.

 

Your task is to train your mind to live in harmony

with this connection, realize its existence, and stay

connected, allowing it to fully live with you and

cocreate with you. At this point, you will realize

the power of connected existence and move on

with others to reconceive this world – as one –

the next step in the evolution of consciousness.

This is the Divine plan, the inheritance of collective

conscious will evolving – becoming – pushing forward –

expanding the potential of all consciousness. 

NOE BY 8.14.11 8:15 AM (Divine Within)

 

After a review of the briefer Affirmative Thoughts

I write each day, I realized that this topic of the Divine

Self, Soul, or God within has been a frequent muse

over the years with more than thirty notes addressing

his subject. I would like to review these notes in my 

blog posts as part of this swarming approach. In the

note below the  heart within is your Soul or Divine

Self that may just carry the answers you are seeking. 

 

 WITHIN YOUR HEART

The answer you seek is not to be found

in the world but within your heart,  your Soul,

your Divine self  - moving into a position to thrive

and blossom – to come to full life after waiting 

patiently for so long.

 

The answer you seek is ready to be revealed

and waiting for you to be ready to receive –

to have the strength to shake off your fears

and walk into the light of its solution where

all you have sought waits for you to arrive.

 

The answer you seek when revealed and acted

upon will clear your mind of confusion,

energize your passions, and enable you to

live as you again. 

AT BY G. 4.28.2011

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

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WITHIN

It is all within us, heaven on earth,

love and wisdom, truth – unity – God,

everything we seek, all that we desire,

aspire to, stretch to obtain – the power

to heal ourselves as well as others;

the enlightenment; the transcendence;

the very infinity we struggle to comprehend;

all history; all evolution; the cosmos;

consciousness; all levels of comprehension; 

full and utter existence.

 

Yet, alongside this, is the murky,

the fearful, the anxiety, the suffering,

the hell unattended, the pain carried –

our own and that of our ancestors –

the chaos of wanton desire, our animal

natures, our monsters, our confusion,

our despair.

 

We must submerge ourselves deeply

within our conscious, subconscious,

and unconscious awareness; using

contemplation/prayer/meditation

to find our way; to find a way to order

our own “allness” for a more positive

existence, for our own being, for our

own becoming, for our own clear vision.

NOE BY G. 2.12.2017

 

It is often difficult for me to ascertain

which transpires first, a certain spiritual

obsession, or the daily message/guidance

that may have referenced the notion in

the first place; creating a sort of spiritual

“chicken or the egg” conundrum.

 

Two spiritual concepts have captured my

obsessive attention recently, both incited

initially, I think, by guidance received

during my daily meditations, and finally

morphing into the note offered above

titled Within.

 

First, is the very concept that we - as

individual, physical, spiritual beings -

are all-inclusive, a sort of mobile

hologram representing all that exists,

or has ever existed, within the cosmos - 

including God. Not a novel concept for 

New Thought adventurers, but one that

has suddenly stunned me, forcing me

beyond my reason-based comprehension,

into a vaster conceptual context.

 

I have, as of yet, been unable to fully

verbalize this clearly, but let me attempt

to express my swirling thoughts as the

following. 

 

We each, individually, contain the

creative life force that is necessary to

not only perceive the cosmos, and

through that perception establish

its existence, but also to use it as 

the multi-dimensional canvas upon

which, through which, we individually, 

as well as communally, create a work

of art so enormous, so momentous,

so profound, we, if aware, must

shutter at its magnificence.

 

Although I struggle here to convey its

essence, I know this gift of structured

existence demands our attention,

requires our comprehension, and

beseeches our skillful use. 

 

As the note above conveys, this power

within also includes our capability

for healing, started briskly with the

following simple declaration:

 

“the power to heal ourselves

                   as well as others”

 

Healing has been the other spiritual

concept that has occupied my thoughts

recently. And frankly, this power to

heal should not be a shock to me,

given that all of New Thought was

founded on this very idea of spiritual

healing.

 

So, I would like to share some of my

recent thoughts regarding healing,

with the understanding that this topic

deserves its own chapter in my book

(good idea!), or maybe its own book,

to ensure full coverage.

 

I will start with a controversial insight –

that is, healing, in my current thinking,

is determined by the faith of the person

who is being prayed for, not those who

are praying. What is important is that.

the prayed for person is aware of all the

wonderful loving, kind people who care

enough to pray; and it is here where

the larger the number of "prayers" stokes

the importance of the experience.

 

Likewise, recent research has shown

that the patient’s belief in the healing

medicine, elixir, placebo, operation,

procedure, potion, prayer, ceremony,

festival, statue, or sacred location;

as well as the patient’s belief in the

physician, healer, priest, shaman –

is most accentuated and beneficial

when the curing procedure is performed,

or offered, in a way that creates what

the patient will emotionally perceive

of as a “profound healing experience.”

 

To use modern healing practices as an

example, when we walk into a major

medical facility for a healing procedure:

our minds register the significance

of the facility, the doctors, the complex

healing equipment, the reputation

of both the medical staff and the hospital

as a healing entity: all of which enhances

our (the patient's) healing belief, as well

as our expectation of a curing experience -

actually fostering a positive medical

outcome by ensuring a “profound healing

experience.”

 

In other words, this healing experience –

its ambiance, its personal/spiritual

significance to the patient, even its

magical nature – coupled with the belief

the procedure will work, heightens

the overall possibility of actual healing.

 

So, what I am saying here, is that the

patient’s belief in the healing element

or process, when administered by what

is perceived of as respected authority

able to create the desired outcome – when

coupled with the potent demonstration

of a “profound healing experience,” not

only enhances the actual healing potential

of the patient, but may, in and of itself,

trigger a healing process within the patient.

 

This goes a long way to clarify why a

vast array of medical science-based 

research studies report actual, tangible,

healing results within their placebo

control groups. Perhaps the very protocol 

of the research study is triggering

the internal belief based healing system

of the test patients by providing this 

"profound healing experience." 

 

For example, a recent television advertisement

for an injection that reduces the number

of migraines for those who suffer from 

fifteen or more per month, offers an

explanation in small print at the bottom

of the screen, that those who received the

actual injection had nine to ten less

migraines per month on average, while

those who received the research placebo

injection experienced six to seven less

migraines monthly. This is what is known

as the Placebo Effect - actual healing from

a control substance or procedure that has

no actual therapeutic value.

 

It is easy to extrapolate that belief based

healing is a viable healing process, and

that we each could tap into, or benefit

from, respected spiritual healing experiences,

of course, as an adjunct to already respected

modern medical procedures.

 

I have been most impacted and excited by

the feature focus of the December 2016

issue of National Geographic – the cover

title exclaims The Healing Power Of Faith.

This insightful summary of healing research

titled Mind Over Matter, by Erik Vance,

with amazing photographs by Erika Larsen -

fully outlines this significant research

regarding faith-based healing. I have

shared a link to this article below:

 

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/12/healing-science-belief-placebo/

 

Thank you for allowing me to discuss

my two current obsessions. What makes

this spiritual quest so exciting is that the

wonder never leaves us without something

to mull over, and over, and over.  

 

WITH LOVE, G.

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I transcribed the Affirmative Thought below-titled 

Confusion Into Clarity late last week. which reminds

us all that confusion is a natural part of the solution

process - and from this confusion comes clarity.

 

Honestly, my confusion started with how to best

approach writing Chapter 12 of Finding God

On The Train Story which manifested itself

in four different approaches. The confusion

evolved into what I would call "turmoil" about 

the whole project - with me questioning

whether I have  lost the direction, or 

passion needed to go on.

 

These bouts are not new for me, and begin,

usually, when I find the "still small whispered

voice" very silent for a period of time -  periods

of draught, as I call them. After a long period

of prayer and meditation last week, I received

the Meditation Guidance below titled Storm

Of The Soul.

 

As a result, I am back on track, listening, and

working through my malaise. Of course, I would

like to pretend that I am above this sort of thing,

but it would not be true or realistic. 

 

I have paired these two messages because

they are related, seeming to address

a similar root solution - listening to our own

inner, guidance for direction. They also  

underscore the importance of confusion

and turmoil in our evolving and growing.

 

CONFUSION INTO CLARITY

Often we must enter into confusion

   in order to find clarity – experiencing

the conflicting thoughts and emotions –

  sifting through the endless fears

  and doubts – wishing for light as

we knock about in the darkness.

 

Often in the confusion, we must make

   our home for a while, knowing within

the cyclone - all potential approaches

   can be considered – all alternatives

   presented – all futures tried on

for size and evaluation – all emotions

            aired and given attention.

 

Often in the confusion we are

   strengthened – we awake again

to what is of value to our existence,

   wipe our tears, find our clarity,

then forge on toward our renewal.

AT BY G. 3.23.2011

  

 STORM OF THE SOUL

Listen to the turmoil – hear what it has to say

to you – understand its messages – decipher its

intent for it is a living thing waiting to be heard,

waiting for its turn, waiting for its ascension –

its anointing with the oil of your focus.

 

Listen to the turmoil – go within the mental

confusion, feel the cyclone of emotions and

desires swirl around and into your awareness.

This is a storm of the soul and it must be

experienced; assimilated, fully lived in order

to proceed on. Let it rage – accept its commotion

as a sign of deliverance, as a new beginning 

 forming in chaos.

 

Listen to the turmoil within – let it have its way

with you – let the ground of your consciousness

shake until it cracks, severs, and lets go of its 

 creation within – bursting forth a new vision –

a new thought – a new way of living and proceeding.

 

Listen to the turmoil within and it will make you

whole - complete – evolving your consciousness

to a clarity of being – a return to wholeness,

oneness, and tranquility. 

NOE BY G. 3.22.12 9:00AM

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

 

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Let us continue on with our discussion of the "Now"

and its central role in enlightenment. Jesus introduced

the world to loving kindness and a personal connection

to God, but Buddha introduced the world to mindfulness –

being completely alive in the present moment. I would

like to start with a Meditation Note that I feel combines

both approaches with a New Thought perspective that

we are most likely to find God and ourselves in the Now

 

PERFECT MOMENT NOW

Come to God in this moment – the perfect moment Now –

this moment coupled with each breath – clear – untarnished –

a clean seed for life to grow and develop. Hold this in your

mind - a portal – a connection to infinite Divine love –

Divine mind – and know this is where God is waiting –

in this perfect moment – this Now within each beat of your

heart and breath of your lungs.

 

Connect with this moment and savor its beauty – its texture –

its willingness to be cocreated into any joy, any emotion,

any experience you wish to create. Practice living in this

moment – mindful – and clear-minded of each sense,

each breath, each emotion.

 

Hold this jewel – this crystal perfection in your Soul and

look deeply into its reflection and you will see God –

the Divinity within you – smiling and ready to move

towards your heaven on earth. See the face of God

in the crystal jewel of this clear moment and stay

with it always.

 

The past is just a memory – disturbed – the future

a premise –equally distorted by a frightened mind –

only Now – in Now – with Now, will you truly find

the way and the light and the Divine. Seek not in

the tombs of the past or the dreams of the future –

seek only in the perfect moment – Now.

NOE BY G. 3.8.2010

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

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This week has been anything but peaceful

for me, yet I keep coming back to the thought

of peace. I believe the obtainment of peace is

at the center of enlightenment.

 

I also think my week has been a test to see 

if I can return to peace, even when my

physical world will not. In Science of Mind

magazine this month, I read a short but

wonderful quote from Ernest Holmes

the founder of Religious Science.

 

God is peace. We enter this peace

                in such degree

as we withdraw from confusion.

                   Words That Heal Today 

 

I was stunned by the line – God is peace.

To be at peace in our world it does seem

to take Divine power. So when we find

a way to stay in peace we find a way to

connect with God.

 

We simply need to make a conscious

decision to “withdrawal” from the

confusion. This is clearly the message

of the following Meditation Guidance.  

 

SURRENDER TO THE PEACE 

Surrender to the peace within your Soul and let

go of your struggle to God. Surrender and free

your tormented Soul – free yourself and touch

God’s out stretched hand. Release and breathe –

let peace move through every cell – every fiber

of your being. Know all is well and you are well.

 

Surrender to the Divine magic within you – strong –

courageous – powerful – loving. Surrender the

negative thoughts and negative emotions that

suck your strength and serenity. Feel the peace

flow though your veins –moving through your

nervous center – through the circulatory system.

Breathe in peace – breathe out surrender.

 

Today join hands with God and enter the world –

calm – strong – patient – loving – knowing that all

that happens was always meant to happen.

All that is – has always been – has been prepared.

 

Today with God move in peace, security, certainty

that all outcomes will be affirming and positive.

 

Today move with God in peace and harmony and

love and know all is well.

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

 

 

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I think all of us, at times, approach life

tentatively, like a shy child stepping onto

the stage for the first time, and it is exactly

this hesitant manner that slows our progress,

whittles away our confidence and leaves

us compromising rather than establishing

our well-earned success.

 

Having received the note below titled

Be Expansive, while meditating this morning,

I realize it is time for some self-reflection.  

I am not timid when it comes to pursuing the

larger than life idea/project/dream, but then

I often stuff it into a box that is much too

confining, eventually neutralizing the

idea/project/dream to ensure it is quote –

manageable, feasible, doable – and I am

often content to live within the confines

of this self-created box, even if the final

results are less than desired. Guess it is

time to free my cramped undertakings by 

letting each go free range. Thus, in my way,

testing the waters of being expansive.

 

BE EXPANSIVE

Allow the fresh ideas to flow today,

opening your consciousness to the vast

possibilities of this existence, be expansive,

shun the limitations real or perceived,

welcome the inspiration, the input,

the guidance available to enhance your

efforts, being bold in this exploration,

brainstorming with the fullness of infinite

intelligence – know you are the conduit

for the creative energy of God: so let

this force that propels all beingness incite

your imagination, let it set flame to your

wonder, embolden your claim to magnificence,

let it breathe the breath of the everlasting into

your perspective; as you grasp the throttle -

the thrust of life stretching to soar unhindered.

NOE BY G. 2.2.2017 8:00 AM

 

WITH LOVE, G.

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A PERSPECTIVE OF WHOLENESS

As you recuperate today, focus on sustaining

and maintaining a perspective of wholeness,

wellness, and regeneration that is complete

and total, reinforced by thoughts of oneness,

of perfect life intact – a vision of you as intended.

 

With each whole thought see through the illusion

of disturbance or less and into the truth of your

perfect creation, where the current condition

exists only as a misrepresentation, an anomaly

of sorts, to be overlooked or discarded, replaced

by oneness.

 

Today, realize fully, you have all that is needed

within to accomplish this transformation,

this reformation, through energized belief

and envisioning, allowing only the natural

thought of a complete and total presence to be

held, to be accurately maintained in consciousness.  

AT BY G. 1.9.2013

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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Since January of 2008, when I first transcribed

one of my earliest Divinely inspired notes of

guidance after meditating during  a commute

to Washington DC, titled The Crystal Path To

The Heartlight, I have realized “crystals” would

be a major component of the message, I would

be asked to convey. 

    To date, I have received notes about the crystal

path, the crystal self, crystal consciousness,

and this Meditation Guidance below titled 

The Crystal Light. Granted, I have read the

works of David Bohm, a former associate of

Einstein's, retired Professor of Theoretical

Physics, featuring his theory that the universe

is constructed on the same principles as the

hologram.

    The word hologram means "whole message,"

with Bohm proposing every particle of the

universe is composed of a hologram of the

entire universe, which as a whole makes up

what Bohm calls the Implicate Order - 

the enfolded universe.

    What is different, leading to my initial

hesitation to publish this note, is that it

clearly conveys our existence is a result 

of refracted light through a crystal.

    On the other hand, it does offer a fresh

approach to God consciousness, so here

goes. 

 

THE CRYSTAL LIGHT

We are living and existing in the crystal light

of God Consciousness, comprising the universe –

containing the universe itself – all matter –

all space within is refracted light illuminating

the creative intentions of God – we – you –

me all exist in this consciousness as creative

energy evolving, expressing, and becoming

more – expanding the nature of God.

    At the edges of the universe is the crystal nature

of God holding – growing – becoming – with

light streaming through this crystal fabric –

this hologram shell representing all life, all

matter, all space, all time - and within creating

what we see as the visible universe.

    All appears real to us in this three dimensional

illumination - as tangible, whole, hard, real.

Within, is the universe of holographic light –

each particle of all matter is a hologram

of the whole. Within, the creative forces

of God intention exist as if separate – distinct,

but are merely the individual elements of this

whole. Living holograms within – connected -

one particle of God’s dream.

NOE BY G. 11.3.2011

 

P.S. Each of us is a unique expression of God

desire, God potential - free to explore the

boundaries of life - to push the limits of

creation. Miniature Gods of sorts.

 

WITH LOVE, G.

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The circle has such a powerful spiritual and secular

sense to it - “the circle of life," the “circle will be

unbroken," or the Native American Indian’s focus

on “The Greater Circle,” as outlined in Michael 

Garrett’s book on the Cherokee Teachings for

Harmony and Balance, titled Walking On The Wind.

Garrett quotes the great Medicine Man, Black Elk,

who states:

 

You have noticed that everything an Indian

does is in a circle, and that is because the

Power of the World always works in circles…

 

In this featured Meditation Guidance, titled 

Circle Of Beauty, the unique spiritual nature

of the circle is touched upon, along with its 

connection to God and the soul.

 

CIRCLE OF BEAUTY 

The circle is the center of the Soul and all creation,

the symbol of all life, all being, of the completion

of all existence. The circle is strong but flexible

and, although it can be increased or reduced in

size, it always maintains an outside, an inside,

and the line separating the two.

 

Your life is like a circle with the essence of you 

within the circle surrounded by the world and 

God, which gives you form. God is also with you

within the circle and gives form to the circle as

the external ring.

 

The circle is perfect, beautiful, and sacred.

The circle is power.  The circle is peace.

The circle is a spiritual symbol and provides

the healing that is needed. Consider the 

strength of a ring; the circle cannot be pulled

apart end by end; it must be forced apart with 

great strength. Every cell of the circle has a

vested interest in its existence.

 

The circle of beauty is the circle of life, alive,

flourishing, creating, and becoming as God 

assists and supports - circles of healing,  

circles of prayer, circles of forgiveness, 

circles of faith, circles of love, circles of

magnificence – form these circles:

comprehend the circle, and you will

understand God.

NOE BY G. 6.12.2009 9:35 AM

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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Purposeful Action which, based on my guidance,

includes living an authentic life that reflects our

spiritual mission. I consider this a purposeful

life, or as the title of the Meditative Guidance

outlines below, a New Life. This Purposeful

Life or New Life is awakened life – enlightened

life.

 

NEW LIFE

Search out and move towards New Life –

regenerate a fresh and loving perspective

of this moment and all moments to come.

New Life is fresh, renewed, vibrant, whole

and free of ego dominance.

 

New Life is awakened like, enlightened life.

New Life is full and overflowing with potential,

creativity, and wonder.

 

Immerse yourself in New Life – a new existence

through God – full, abundant, and joyful. 

See the New Life as it manifests into being.

Each moment offers the opening for a move

to the New Life – you must free yourself

to see the New Life and move your spirit to it.

 

In the secular physical world of illusionary

action you fight for position when surrender

is required. New Life begins with the complete

acceptance of what is – fully non-resistant

of the current life.

 

The New Life waits – move to the power

of its momentum and grace.

NOE BY G. 8.28.2010

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

       

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A key to living an Authentic, Purposeful Life is

finding meaning in our lives. I believe on both

a spiritual and human plane life is a quest for

meaning – a search for purpose – an answer

to the “why” of existence and in the end, this

answer, is a catalyst for infusing a sense

of mission into living. This meaning and

the resulting mission allows us to obtain

the most from life.

 

FINDING MEANING

Life without meaning is like taking a journey without

a destination; it is pointless because you will never

know if you have arrived. Knowing where you are

going and why you want to go is essential to a 

purposeful life. Infusing meaning and purpose

into your existence breathes energy and power

into your life.

 

Evolving this purpose into a “mission” – a strategic

plan for living, one that you live with passion,

dedication and complete focus is the true elixir

of life. This strategic plan or mission or quest

will enable you to get the maximum from life

and provide you joy and happiness from just

living.

 

This meaning and mission can be spiritual or life

driven – when both are blended together the power

of your commitment will enable you to move 

mountains – cocreate and manifest all you need

to succeed. Finding meaning and creating a mission

to lead the way – will also provide you the feedback 

needed to adjust your efforts.

 

Authentic, Purposeful Life is built on establishing

a mission infused with meaning, passion, and

desire – a mission beyond yourself but of yourself. 

NOE G. 11.11.2010 7:00 AM

 

WITH LOVE, G.

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This week I am exploring the struggle, at least for

me, between “belief” and “fear”and feature some

Affirmative Thoughts and Meditation Notes that

I would like to share on these topics. I hope you

find them helpful.
 

My daily posts are all original and come, from

what I think of, as a number of inspired sources.

Most of the Affirmative Thoughts come from my

notes of love, or inspiration, I write for Ann each

morning. As I make her tea, I sit down and jot out

a quick note, in the few minutes while the tea brews. 

 

I try to focus on what may be happening in her life,

writing whatever comes to me without editing.

The notes have become more spiritual over the past

year. Ann loves the notes, looking forward to them

to start the day, so I rarely miss a morning. If we

are not together, I text the note to her. These are 

also turning out to be a good source of material

for the daily posts, although never intended to be.

 

Today’s post comes as a result of meditation  I have

had regarding a subject or topic. With nearly three

years commuting on the train, I have a large number

to choose from so they will usually not be hot off

the press.

 

I call these Meditation Notes and they come to me

when I ask for God’s guidance. I get a line or two

during the meditation and then reach for my journal,

and write out, in a stream of consciousness, without

editing.

 

The post below, resulting from a question I posed

to God to God during my morning meditation

on the train. In the spirit of the blog post theme

of the week, I thought I would get God’s up-to-date

guidance.

 

In deep meditation, as the train rumbled towards DC,

I asked, simply, “What is Belief,” and from the silence

my answer was - “Belief is Trust.” After a few more

questions I reached for my journal and wrote the

following note. I never really thought of belief as trust,

but after reading the passage, it makes prefect sense.

 

 BELIEF, TRUST, AND FAITH

Belief is trust – trust in God – trust in life – trust in yourself -

    trust in others - trust that you feel deeply, emotionally and fully.

    Belief centers on, knowing what you think and cocreate with

    God will manifest and become real. It is trust that positive

    consequences will result in the end, even if they are less

    than apparent now. Belief is trust in yourself, that you have

    the skills, abilities, and talents to actually make it happen.

 

Belief based in trust is the essence of faith. For to have faith

    you must suspend disbelief, fully trusting in the positive

    outcome. Faith is empowering and over powers any obstacle,

    challenge, or dis-ease that you are experiencing at this

    moment. Faith is truly, the “elixir of God,” and will intoxicate

    you with power, poise, and purpose. Faith will quiet your

    ego and fears, allowing you to securely take whatever leap

    of faith is required  at the moment.

 

In the end, fear is merely faith in negative consequences.

    Belief with trust is faith in the infinite, the ultimate, the

    always, and potential good that awaits.

           

 Trust in God! Trust in life! Trust in yourself and your

    faith will make you whole!

NOE BY G. 8.23.2021

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

 

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I believe each one of us, personally but also

collectively, are poised and capable to assist

our world’s evolution to a more cohesive,

functional, and much kinder, global family –

one where compassion and mutual respect

compel us all to reach out our hands in

cooperation, as our sights are set on creation,

rather than destruction.

 

The first step, based on my guidance, is for

each of us to enter “the Thickness” of

our mutual consciousness, armed with our

own personal imaginings of what this new

Earth might be like allowing our positive,

confident and constructive vision to create

a story so energized by our love and 

the belief that we change the very fabric

of the collective mind.

 

THE THICKNESS

Enter into the thickness of consciousness,

well aware of its aspects, its dimensions,

and its dilemmas – as you are fully immersed,

you are also dissolved, integrated, merged,

leaving boundaries unclear and destabilized –

for within separation, the distinction is self-

imposed, self-devised; all folding, sifting

into one thought, one essence, one perspective.

 

So, you must let go, give in, as you take in,

becoming one with the presence, whole,

vulnerable, attached, leaving behind what

was former existence; accepting the evidence

of expanded consciousness – one being

alive, afloat in the many, the multitudes –

here thought is the consensus, yet still,

perspectives, conflicts, and desires fail

to meld.

 

Realize that this journey, by its very nature,

is real - this quest requires preparation;

a strong heart, solid confidence in the

waves will bring all sorts of friends and foes,

personal or preconceived, to toss you about;

hopefully, in the end, emboldens you  

to break through and erupt into awareness.

Return frequently to the breath, prayer,

affirmations and God’s guidance and all

will be well, doable.

NOE BY G. 2.5.2016

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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torrent, noun. 1. a stream of water flowing

with great rapidity and violence. 2. a rushing,

violent, or abundant stream of anything.

3. a violent, tumultuous, or overwhelming flow.

 

We, the individual particles of humanity, 

on a macro level, flow torrentially; our streams 

of being inhabiting our earthly existence, 

stretching our sensibilities to become, to go 

beyond, to create, to evolve, to overcome

our propensity, our unbridled desire for

more of what is magnificent, as well as, 

potentially hazardous - our currents,

combined and solitary, create the great

ebb and flow, the tide of consciousness.

 

In essence, it is this torrent we must learn

to navigate, harnessing the very nature

of our natural momentum.

 

TORRENT

Nothing within our existence is stationary;

unchanging or static; rather, it is like a

spring torrent – rushing uncontained,

forming, then shifting, becoming again,

zestful, unhampered, or directed by what

was or what should be: and, so it is, with

each moment of life, appearing robust

then in pieces shattered, only to be restored,

formed, captured, and forgotten as swiftly

as it is generated profoundly once more;

and in this, with this torrent, we seek

to slow the pace, find a meaning, a common

thread, holding on for dear life, wishing for

stasis, when none exists, until, with reflection

and careful meditation, our pursuit of order

and control gives way to giving in, releasing,

an allowing, and we understand our place

in the motion and being of this torrent;

one not separate; contained; not impacted by –

we, the momentum rather than the moved.  

NOE BY G. 4.20.2016 

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

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NO NEED TO BE TIMID

There is no need to be timid when

you know you are on the right path –

when you have the right answer –

the solution that is needed  - instead

assert yourself and ensure you

have been heard.

 

There is no need to be timid when

you are ready and able to lead the way,

see clearly what needs to be accomplished

and have a plan for bringing it to life.

 

There is no need to be timid when

you have the answer – have the abilities

and skills to turn it into a viable solution –

without concern or fear of failure.

 

There is no need to be timid today,

so be prepared to move forward in

your preferred direction – pushing

past the confusion of others as you

improve life for all concerned.

AT BY G. 1.18.2012 

 

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Today, as I was preparing to begin my morning

ritual of spiritual reading and meditation, I decided

that I would reach into my archives of unpublished

Affirmative Thoughts and let the universe pick

the theme for today's post.  

 

I picked out the Affirmative Thought published

below titled Let Go And Let God. It is often

startling to see how the themes of the past are still

very much current today. I read it over and set it

aside to see what developed during my meditation.

 

A new addition to my morning devotion is to go

into one of my own journals, where I have

recorded the Meditation Guidance I received,

relating it to my life today.  I picked a journal

and opened it up to the Meditation Guidance below

titled The Way Has Been Prepared. 

 

I quickly realized that the randomly selected

Affirmative Thought and this Meditation Guidance

were related, with the  guidance presenting  

the problem and the thought offering the solution.

Both underscored my continuing challenge with 

this spiritual mission I have accepted and now live -

the feeling that I am often in this alone and have to

make it happen on my own.

 

I am grateful for the reminder that I need to dream

a better dream, have confidence in what I am doing,

trust in God that the way has truly been prepared,

and then to fully let go and let God. 

 

LET GO AND LET GOD

Today “let go and let God” releasing the reins

of control and asking God to assist with the

day-to-day issues you encounter – letting God

guide you and work through you, uncovering

the optimal solution for all involved.

 

Today “let go and let God,” asking God for

direction and listening for guidance in the

signs, sounds, events, and coincidences of

your life –watching as the doors open and

the opportunities are revealed.

 

Today “let go and let God,” surrendering the

need to go it alone and instead join forces

with your Divine assistance and begin again

to cocreate your peaceful existence, your

stress-free life, your heaven on earth.

Let Go And Let God!

AT  BY G. 7.26.2011

 

THE WAY HAS BEEN PREPARED

The dream you should be dreaming is one of strength,

one of courage, a dream reflecting your true nature –

your true potential. Cleanse and clear away the fear,

the doubt, the past mistakes, and replace it with the

joyous harmony of all that waits in possibility.

 

Know you have the power to dream this dream

for yourself and others, but instead,  you wallow

in the graveyard of the past, tossing the remains

around and looking for forgiveness. Know now,

today, and forever that you are and always have

been forgiven – forgive yourself. Learn to love

yourself more –completely - and then you will 

know what this means – what an expression

of love involves.

 

Stop working so hard at doing, and spend more

time dreaming, envisioning. Never attempt to force

the solution; instead, allow it to greet you when it

arrives. Your very actions spell disbelief – a lack

of trust in God’s effort on your behalf. Dream –

see it all, call it forth from your Soul, and

hear the guidance.

 

Find again the passion – the joy in simply being –

cocreating with God. Be willing to start small –

to fit into the future that waits and grow it with love,

passion, and enthusiasm. Offer your gifts, and they

will be received, trusting in God’s support and love.

The way has been prepared.

NOE BY G. 10.15.2011 7:00 AM 

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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FRUSTRATION’S RECONNAISSANCE

Frustration occurs when reality conflicts

with expectations, when outcomes fail to

materialize, when the hoped-for morphs

into the uncalled-for, when visions blur

and desires contend, reflecting the antithesis

of wishes, dreams, reflections, and even

prayers.

 

At these times, confusion and bewilderment

rage like a fire across a dry forest; dumbfounded

we assess our damage, berate our intelligence,

dismay at the research and apparent thinking

that has forged our choices, energized our

actions, only to result in heartfelt frustration.

 

Yet, does this turmoil not provide a message,

a spark of reconnaissance worthy of proper

reflection, perhaps even the gem of insight

required to shift our strategy, reformulate

our paradigm, clearing the way for a more

profitable and workable solution going

forward – a spark of genius.  

NOE BY G. 6.9.2018

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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From time to time, we must all ask ourselves

the question of whether we are diligently planting 

the seeds of positive, authentic life in our 

consciousness, preparing for the harvest of our 

abundance and prosperity.

  

I transcribed the guidance below as I struggled

with the recuperation from back surgery. 

At that time, I am sure I was not focused

on a harvest but rather on survival.  I did my

duty, recorded the note, and forgot about it in

my journal.

 

Last night, while working on the book,

I came across this note again titled Harvest

Of Life. I was transfixed by the note, and its

wonderful analogy, succinctly describing 

the consciousness work we all must do in

order to be fully authentic in this world. 

 

We are all growing and harvesting our

consciousness in every moment. If we

have planted the seeds of a positive life

in our minds, the results are ours to harvest -

prosperity, peace of mind, love, and happiness -

if not, we must return to our garden and plant

our precious seeds once more. For there is

always another moment to farm again. 

 

HARVEST OF LIFE - MEDITATION GUIDANCE

The harvest is ready to reap – full and lush

from tender toil – from loving care – strong

and healthy – ready to be the fruit of your

enjoyment – to fill your storage bins with

plenty for the long winter ahead.

 

Knowing this is the way – to plant a seed within

your creative thought - to care for it – water

and weed – watch it grow – protect it from

the ego and the opinions of others. Watch it

grow and visualize it as strong, healthy, and

prosperous – ready to be the substance of

real life and real form.

 

In the fields of your thought, you alone are

the farmer and you alone can ensure growth

by keeping thoughts of lack, not, and error

from impacting your creation – ruining your

work and destroying your harvest. You have

mastered the rules of growing form, and you

can bring your harvest to share and enjoy

with the world.

 

Understand - as you view the lush fruit of

your labor and the pure miracle of creation

unfolding,  you have been the artist of plenty,

and through your thoughts and patience,

will now feed yourself, your family, your

community, and the world.

 

Take the sickle in hand – prepare the laborers –

fill the trucks of life and enjoy the fruits of

your labor – the harvest of life.

NOE BY G. 9.4.2010 8:10 AM

 

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I would like to share some guidance

I received  in response to my morning

prayer and meditation session.

 

I was instructed to read the meditation

guidance below aloud until  I fully believed

it and incorporated it into my life. Now, as I

read it aloud I can still hear my ego exclaim -

"how could this be true - what about all

those things we need, what about this,

what about that ....?"

 

As I attempted to calm my ego I realize this

simple statement strikes truly at the heart

of enlightenment. If my enlightenment, my

heaven on earth requires this or that, it is

not true enlightenment - just the ego's

co-opting of the concept.

 

As I was struggling with this concept, I

read the following passage from Thich

Nhat Hanh, summing up again this

basic truth.

 

This spot where you sit is your own spot.

It is on this very spot and in this very

moment that you can become enlightened.

You don't have to sit beneath a special tree

in a distant land.

 

Enlightenment is truly available at any

moment, here, now, on this spot where God

and grace exists. This I feel is a basic spiritual

truth, which I understand and accept logically,

I just need to get my ego to cooperate.

 

Read the statement below out loud and see

what this or that your ego may be requiring,

before allowing you to attain enlightenment.  

 
 

RIGHT AND PERFECT NOW

My life is right and perfect now – no need for

alteration, rearrangement, or reconfiguration.

My life now is a blossom of intention, glorious

in its beauty, magnificent, lush, and fully

capable of offering all the happiness, all the

joy, all the peace, and love, I could ever desire.

 

Let me put an end to my striving and flourish

instead within the garden I now am blessed

to inhabit. Let me lift the vale of the ego’s

future living, open my eyes and heart and

mind to this very moment, this very now

where God and grace wait for my awakening.

Let me be fully alive in this moment now,

yearning only to touch its heaven on earth.

NOE BY G. 1.11.2013 9:05 AM

 

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I reach back to September of 2011 to feature

below a previously unpublished note titled

Envision Life. I feel this is a practice that I need

to master. Honestly, even after studying the greats

of New Thought mind control - Mulford, Atkinson,

Wattles, Larson, Neville, Troward, and Holmes,

to name but a few, I feel my talents in this area

are but remedial.

 

Many of us roll our eyes at the thought of actually

envisioning and attracting into our lives what

we want through strong intention and faith.

At the same time, we marvel at the greats who

have done just that to improve the world and

enrich their own lives. On the flip side, how

many of us spend our waking hours in constant

contemplation of scarcity, lack, suffering, and

loss, only to be taken down by our own focus.

 

It is time to use our cocreative powers to envision

a better life for ourselves and humankind. Yes,

if you think this is brainwashing you are correct,

but I assure the skeptic, after a true assessment

of our errant thought patterns, our brains may

truly benefit from a scrubbing. Chapter Eleven of

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the right hand sidebar of the blog as it is written,

titled Mind Control Approaches and Techniques,

covers the art of envisioning in-depth.

 

So, let us use our thoughts to sculpt and improve

our lives. To grab reality and mold it in our favor.

 

ENVISION LIFE

Think it, hear it, see it, touch it, be it

fully in your imagination to cocreate

your dreams through God’s infinite

love and power.

 

Imagine every detail, every aspect with

the fuel of your love and desire. Live

within your imaginings until it feels real

and becomes your reality.

 

Breathe in the life air of this new creation

until your envisioning  takes shape like a

sculptor’s art – caress its lines, memorize

its movement, fuel it with life – a living,

vibrant envisioning, clear and perfect in

its power.

 

Every moment you have, move back into

your envisioning, your imagining and

resume your life within, savor the sensual

experience and believe in its reality.

 

Never question, never doubt, only believe

in the possibility – envisioning until it takes

form in the reality of your life.

 

Envision through imagining the new life,

the new purpose, the new goals, never

doubting – only experiencing fully.  

 

Envision with love – strong desire –

feel the emotion – the happiness and joy

this vision gives you, until, it is completely

framed in the reality of form – given life

by your empowered, loving vision.

NOE BY G. 9.21.2011 7:15 AM

 

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I received a response to one of my posts on joy

that said I was trying much too hard to manifest

joy in my life. Is joy something we obtain or realize? 

This discussion brings me to a Meditation Note

titled Surrender. What if we were just to stop

seeking and surrender to the joy already existing

in our lives? To surrender connotes that we give

up internal and external struggles and trust in God.

I admit, I still have a way to go on this and my

meditation notes often reveal my need for guidance.

 

JOYFUL SURRENDER

Surrender to the flow of God even when it appears

counter intuitive. Surrender to the solution that has

been prepared for you – the positive outcome that

awaits. Trust in God to lead you through the challenge

and find a solution. Focus on this line and repeat it

to yourself as you struggle with your own mind.

 

I am whole and ready to receive

                                  the full grace of God!

 

Lift up your eyes unto God - let the burden slip away

and know that God is with you waiting for you to open

your mind to the possibility of a fearless life. Shake

the fear and move on for it is only a sign of lack of faith.

 

With each challenge find your mantra “I am whole”

and focus on this line as you turn the situation over

to God. All good awaits – do not be afraid or afflicted.

You are protected by your own strength and the

strength of God. Clear the way for the manifestation.

NOE BY G. 7.9.2021 

 

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When I get a chance, I like to present a meditation note

that actually occurs during the day of the post and reflects

my current mood - at times my triumphs, or at other times

my spiritual struggles. And I do struggle. Recently I have

been off, out of sync, as Ester Hicks and her group of

non-physical beings called Abraham would say, 

that I am paddling upstream rather than turning my boat

around and moving downstream with the flow of life.

 

I have done this enough to know when I am frustrated

with the pace of life;  I am just plain trying too hard.

So this morning, during my meditation, I received the 

following message, which I hope you will find helpful

if you ever need to find your way back. Know that, as

always, I am still working on it.

 

THE WAY BACK

Find your way back to peace, love, and joy for you

have lost your way to the fears and worries and

challenges created by the ego's desire to triumph.

Alter your approach and stop resisting what is,

reacting to each situation with strong negative

emotion.

 

Let go of your resistance, your frustration, your

need to make the outcome work, and simply do

what you are called to do. The rest will follow

as it is meant to follow.

 

Continue on and trust God that the way has

been prepared –  the cocreation is underway

and all things good and meaningful are on

the way in your life. 

 

Understand that your thoughts and negative

emotions are holding you back, your need

to please and be loved - to be perfect is

creating interference.

 

Simply approach each moment with peace

and with love to find the joy that waits for you.

Stop trying to maneuver with action and simply

maneuver with thought. Clear–loving thought -

expecting the best for others and yourself.

Breathe in peace – let out love – find joy. 

Only by letting go with love and visualizing

with love, will you progress.

 

Know all things are as they should be - even  

with your negative emotions impeding progress –

so let go – release – love.

NOE BY G. 6.19.2020

 

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In the New Thought spiritual world, a central focus is

the act of forgiveness. Almost all great spiritual leaders,

most notably Jesus, emphasize the cleansing and healing

power of forgiveness.  I have done a lot of forgiveness

work having grown up in an abusive environment and

I am getting better at forgiving others in my life.

 

What I do poorly at times is to forgive myself. Frankly,

all things considered I have not done all that much 

to deserve this to be an issue. But when I am lost

in my pain body as Eckhart Tolle describes it, I can

take great pleasure in  mugging myself for my past

misdeeds. This may be the reason I received this

guidance from God titled Forgive Yourself.

Based on this meditation note self forgiveness

clears the soul.

 

FORGIVE YOURSELF 

Forgive yourself for not being perfect – for not doing,

saying, acting, and thinking as you think you should

or as the controller in your mind wishes you to behave.

 

Forgive yourself for all the mistakes you have made

in the past – all the missteps – the wrong directions –

all the blunders that appear today to be so clear and

avoidable.

 

Forgive yourself for all the pain you have caused

yourself and others – the pain you have caused

your children and free yourself of the guilt and

turmoil.

 

Forgive yourself for the missed opportunities,

for the poor choices, for the things you have done

that if better thought out you would not have done.

 

Forgive yourself for all the evil that you think you

have created and/or caused and free yourself from

the anguish of these deeds.

 

Forgive yourself as God has forgiven you knowing

each step was essential for your growth and

understanding.

 

Forgive yourself and love yourself again – knowing

you have done your best and always had the best

intentions in mind.

 

Forgive yourself and release all the pain and

anguish now and forever.

 

Now breathe the fresh breath of a clear Soul.

NOE BY G. 7.16.2020

 

WITH LOVE, G.

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transfigure – verb – 1. to change

in outward form or appearance;

transform. 2. to change as to glorify

or exalt.

 

As you may know, my guidance often has 

suggested that the pursuit of a Divinely inspired,

positive, personal spirituality arrives with a not

so subtle expectation: an expectation that points

to a responsibility to use our gifts to transfigure

the Universal Consciousness of our world.  

 

I received the two inspired messages, both

presented here: Emissaries Of A New Vision

and Worthy Striving that follows. 

Both flush with further instructions on our

role as emissaries of a new vision, a new

way of being.

 

 EMISSARIES OF A NEW VISION

Today let us transfigure  

    our lives, our relationships,

    our ways of being,

knowing full well, we are

      prepared for more,

we the emissaries of a

     new vision of aliveness.

 

As we do, let us exalt what

    is authentic, praiseworthy -

    the characteristics

and traits of a higher living,

    a perfect way of being,

realizing this is our mission,

    our sacred offering.

 

As we create this vital

    reforming, this shift of

paradigm, as well as of action,

    know that we will encourage

a positive contagion, spreading

    joyously this new vision of hope,

prosperity, and evolution for

    all who seek it.

Let us begin!

        AT BY G. 4.5.2016

 

WORTHY STRIVING

This endeavor, this pursuit of a more capable

spirituality, a spirituality based on purpose and

empowerment, reaching within and beyond 

to formulate the appropriate steps needed

to enhance our own lives, as well as the potential

for all humanity, all sentient existence, must 

be our concentrated focus.

 

Our action, first and foremost, entails a

reframing of our vision, our imagination,

seeing a world beyond the limitations set

erroneously by both the spiritual and

the secular, while concomitantly being based

on a communal joining of hands, a shared

paradigm of possibility where there is no

striving too bold, no vision too outlandish.

 

This pursuit, steadfastly, must be a picture

of our potential to the extremes, our Soul-based

infinite nature, God-like and God-enhanced, 

tapping our true powers, our existing gifts often

untapped, neglected based on the advice of

the misdirected – allowing the formation, 

the rebirth of a pinnacle, a zenith, a worthy

striving.

NOE BY G. 4.12.2016

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

 

 

 

 

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In the Meditative Guidance below titled

Clarifying Your Intentions, I am asked 

how clearly I have thought them out.

 

Whenever possible I like to also suggest books

I have read that focus on the theme of the post.

One of my favorite books on this subject of  

“intention” is The Power Of Intention –

Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way

by Dr. Wayne W.Dyer.

 

This book is on its way to becoming a New

Thought classic and offers an exceptional

review of the essential benefit of clarifying

your intentions.

  

CLARIFY YOUR INTENTIONS

Clarify your intentions – what is it you want

to accomplish? What do you want to come

from this? Know that to move forward will

take risks on your part and require dedication

to the task and commitment to the goal. Clear

and well thought out intentions will guide you

and motivate you along the way.

 

Are you the teacher, are you the messenger,

or are you a spiritual explorer diving into

the mystery of the metaphysical world

to understand its vastness – its potential

for human growth? Or, are you all three;

messenger, teacher, and spiritual explorer

all combined in one individual effort.

 

The path is open and has been laid out

for you, but you will need to be thoroughly

committed to the plan. Prepare yourself

for the challenges of this engagement -

of this effort. Take time to build strength,

find peace, meditate, and practice. Do not

try to please all aspects of your life but keep

them in balance through focused attention.

 

Focus on your personal life and keep connected

and actively participating. Let the calm you feel

erase whatever stress you have and be a tool

moving forward. Know the destination and

the journey is easy. Clarify your alternatives

and move forward with confidence and joy. 

 

WITH LOVE, G.

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Here is a post straight from my meditation journals

titled Spontaneous Action with a focus on fully

realizing our intent and our authentic purpose in life.

 

SPONTANEOUS ACTION           

Let yourself act, move, feel, and think with spontaneous

action free from restriction, editing, and free from

rethinking. This spontaneous action connects you with

your authentic self and Divine presence.

 

Do not live and act to please others. Do not frame your

reality and desires to please your friends, associates,

boss, or lover. You must move in the direction you know

is right through clear, unedited thinking.

 

Spontaneous action is life in full motion – living by both

mind and body – fully conscious – fully aware –

within the complete flow of your natural self.

 

Spontaneous action is a free action – authentic action –

and as long as it does not hurt others or yourself it

is a viable response – an authentic response.

Look at how you currently respond and react to each

situation – are you guarded, censoring your true self

and feelings.

 

 Spontaneous action requires that you are in touch

with yourself, your wants, and your desires – living

and being fully yourself. In this way, you will move

forward and complete your life's purpose.

NOE BY G 1.6.2010

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

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Fear is a frequent theme, or topic, of my meditative

connections with God. Personally, fear often stands

in the way of my obtaining a full, abundant, and

authentic life.  The Meditation Note, below, clearly

outlines the many faces of fear, offering some

advice for moving beyond it.

 

DO NOT BE AFRAID

Fear will limit your progress towards enlightenment.

To be afraid – to fear - is your belief that you are not

aligned with God. In fear, you struggle and protect,

for fear is the ego’s tool to keep you away from Spirit.

Fear pulls you into a hard shell for protection – it

makes you see others as strangers and adversaries,  

instead of brothers.

 

Fear is a direct communication to God that you

do not believe the way will be prepared. Fear is 

the lack of faith. Fear comes from lack and not 

from abundance, hope, or trust. No love or

kindness can be emitted by fear - no soul

thrives or expands.

 

When fear is present you are always angry.

You are angry at what you are missing, should

have but don’t have, need but are not getting.

Fear makes you angry with yourself

and angry with the world for not providing.

  

Fear of not getting what you should have gotten,

fear of losing what you have, fear of what may

happen, and fear of life, all leading to anger,

because you are frustrated by your own

vulnerability.

 

You are angry because, if you actually obtained

the needed item or feeling,  you would not be

afraid. Many children are angry at their parents

for not protecting them from fear. With fear,

there can never be love, since creation cannot

move out of fear – fear is withdrawn, non-life,

and there can be no growth in fear.

 

Shed your fear, and begin to trust your faith

in God to connect and move you to your

enlightenment. Trust that these struggles are

lessons: and your being frustrated and angry

only moves you further away not closer. Have

faith in life’s positive intentions. Have faith

in the source, God, life energy - can only

have your best intentions at heart - guided by

empowering the best life for you.

 

You lack the faith to understand that there

is and always has been a reason for what happens

to you. Your thoughts provide the momentum and

direction – so what is created is in alignment with

your intentions and desires. Your negative, fear

based interpretation sets you on a negative path,

leading you away from the center of  love and

enlightenment.

 

Let go and focus your thoughts on believing and

receiving. Believe that what you need for an

authentic, aligned life, will be manifested.

Prepare for the receiving and fully incorporate

the future into your mind.

 

Prepare the way through love and not fear. God

will do God's part.

NOE BY G.

 

WITH LOVE, G.