A.R.E. Meeting for 11/18/24

Leader: Greg
 
Five joyous Cayce followers finished the 262 group readings on Cooperation. Next week we will decide whether to read Cayce’s bible study readings that parallel the Search for God topics, or start delving into the Search for God texts.
 
Experiment: Cultivate the ability to see the ridiculous and retain the ability to laugh. For know only in those God hath favored is there the ability to laugh, even when clouds of doubt arise, or when every form of disturbance arises. For remember the Master smiled, and laughed oft, even on the way to Gethsemane. (Edgar Cayce Reading 277-1)

A.R.E. Meeting for 11/11/24

Leader: Greg
 
All five were present at various times during the weekly meeting. We continued our studies of the 262 study group readings on cooperation. We read up to reading 262-5 on page 15. We enjoyed a guided portal activation meditation that opened our heart chakra.
 
Experiment: Pray and meditate that you may be a channel of blessings to others. This also becomes a blessing to self. Seek to know His way, and “As I am lifted up in thine consciousness, so will I be lifted in the consciousness of others.”

A.R.E. Meeting for 11/4/2024

Leader: Greg
 
Four faithful Cayce followers continued their studies in the 262 study group readings on cooperation. We read up to paragraph 17 on page 11 for reading 262-3.
 
Experiment: Each member of our group is to meditate on cooperation using the affirmation NOT MY WILL BUT THINE, O LORD, BE DONE IN AND THROUGH ME. LET ME EVER BE A CHANNEL OF BLESSINGS, TODAY, NOW, TO THOSE THAT I CONTACT, IN EVERY WAY. LET MY GOING IN, MINE COMING OUT BE IN ACCORD WITH THAT THOU WOULD HAVE ME DO, AND AS THE CALL COMES, "HERE AM I, SEND ME, USE ME!" It is hoped that each of us will obtain some guidance and understanding for ourselves and be a light to those outside our group (e.g., our country).

Cayce on Sex

 GERTRUDE CAYCE:

You will have before you the enquiring mind of [826], present in this room, and his desire to comply with the advice given him through these sources; that is, to "cleanse the minds of the moral and social relationships in sex."

Will you explain in detail the sex practices and sex thoughts of the people which are destructive, pointing out those which should be abolished, and others which should be substituted therefor.

Explain particularly with relation to adults over 20 years old, because by education and example they teach the young.

Point out those harmful factors about the moral and social relationships in sex and the remedies for them which should be dealt with in the book "A Timely Warning" which is present in this room.

You will answer the questions he will submit, as I ask them:

EDGAR CAYCE:

Yes, we have the enquiring mind of [826], also those desires of presenting the conditions as timely warnings for the young in this age and this experience.

As we find, in presenting what may be helpful in the educational way and manner, as we have indicated, the condition that exists in the present as related to the relationships in sex - or the greater cause for the lack of judgement, the lack of proper consideration, the lack of those things necessary to prevent the laxness and the practice of those conditions and experiences as related to same - is from the lack of education in the young before their teenage years!

For few there be who have the proper understanding, as we have indicated, of what the biological urge produces in the body!

Now whether such an education is to be undertaken in the home or in the school is the greater problem.

To be sure, there are conditions existent in relationship to many of the denominational activities religiously that prohibit, bar or prevent sufficient consideration of these problems in the public schools or even in the private schools.

And little has there been of the proper education of the mother, the father of those who need such instruction.

But these are the places to begin.

And the warnings as would be presented are not as to the practices of this or the manner of that, or the association of this or that in the adult life.

But there should be those precautions, understandings, relationships as to how and in what manner there becomes the biological urge; which through the proper training may become a pathological condition in the body of the individual.

For it is as from the beginning of puberty the essence of the Creative Forces or Energies within the body of the individual.

And if such forces are turned to those channels for the aggrandizement of selfish motives, or for the satisfying of that within the urge for the gratification of emotions, they become destructive; not only in the manner of the offspring [but] also in the very physical body of the offspring, as well as in the energies of the bodies so producing same.

These are the approaches that should be given as timely warnings to the mother, the father.

And as for the young these should be rather as the suggestions for the instructors the warnings to the parents as to the conversation of the nurse, the maid, or as to the exercisings of the children in their formative years - in whatever relationships there may be.

And then, as these grow and become a portion of the politic body for public education, there should be the greater stress laid upon the educations in these directions.

And not wait until they have reached or arrived at that position where they begin to study physiology, anatomy or hygiene.

But even in the formative years there should be the training in these directions, as a portion of the material things.

Even as the child studies its letters, let a portion of the instructions be in the care of the body, and more and more the stress upon the care in relation to the sex of the body and in the preservation of that as to its relationships to its Creator.

For it is through such factors, through such bodies of activity, that there may become a manifestation of the spiritual forces such as to bring into being those of one's own flesh and blood.

These are the approaches.

These are the conditions.

Do not begin halfway.

Do not begin after there has been already begun the practice of the conditions that make for destructive forces, or for the issue of the body to become as a burning within the very elements of the body itself - and to find expression in the gratifying of the emotions of the body!

For, to be sure, relationships in the sex are the exercising of the highest emotions in which a physical body may indulge.

And only in man is there found that such are used as that of destruction to the body-offspring!

This, then, is the approach; this is the manner.

Ready for questions.

(Q) Is monogamy the best form of home relationship?

(A) Let the teachings be rather toward the spiritual intent.

Whether it's monogamy, polygamy, or what not, let it be the answering of the spiritual within the individual!

But monogamy is the best, of course, as indicated from the Scripture itself - One - One!

For the union of one should ever be One.

(Q) Is marriage as we have it necessary and advisable?

(A) It is!

(Q) Should divorces be encouraged by making them easier to obtain?

(A) This depends upon first the education of the body.

Once united, once understood that the relationships are to be as one, less and less is there the necessity of such conditions.

Man may learn a great deal from a study of the goose in this direction.

Once it has mated, never is there a mating with any other - either the male or female, no matter how soon the destruction of the mate may occur - unless forced by man's intervention.

This does not indicate that this is the end, and should only remain as such.

For, as we have indicated, this is indicated by the name and the meaning of the name itself.

For this is the extreme.

Just as indicated in all of the animals - the fowl or those that have become the closer related to man, and man's intervention in their surroundings and their activities and their adaptabilities; in their natural state these are in the forms as their names indicate.

And from these man may learn many lessons; which was attempted in the beginning.

And yet, as we have indicated, in same he lost self in that he found that he could satisfy those emotions or gratify what might be builded as emotions from experience to experience.

Thus there were gradually brought on the various polygamous relationships that have existed throughout the ages in many periods.

And, as indicated in the lives of groups and nations, these become the stumblingblocks that are ever kept within the background - but that have made for the destructive influence that arose within the activities of such groups and nations, in such relationships.

Hence to begin, begin with the mind.

For, as we have said, to build the perfect relationship in any direction that there may be brought a union is to begin before the parents of such are born! in their own minds!

Hence to begin with the teenage, or at twenty, or at fifty, or with an older individual, is only to have the tail end of something!

And does not tend to be constructive at all!

Only does it become a form.

But begin with those when they are choosing their mate, see?

(Q) Should nudism be encouraged?

(A) That should be a matter of principle within the individuals as there is the training as to what is the purpose of those parts covered.

Nudism or clothing or what not, as we have oft indicated, should be rather the matter of the environ - and not a matter of moral principle in any sense!

(Q) Is the broadcasting of birth control information advantageous in improving the race?

(A) It is like shooting feathers at an eagle!

It's a move in the right direction, but that's about as much as might be said.

This should be rather the training of those that are in the positions of being the mothers and fathers of the nation, of the peoples!

What are the factors in the lives of those that broadcast such?

Look into those and ye may easily find the answer to your question.

Not all, but most are prompted by something that is lacking in their own make-up.

Who giveth the increase?

Man may plant, man may sow.

Man understanding, then, the varied activities of a given condition - through the education in the character of the soil, in the elements going to make up the body of that sought to be produced - prepares for same.

But who giveth the increase?

Who maketh for that which bringeth the returns?

Man in his preparation, or the source from which it arises?

So with the education, so with that which does the prompting, let it be from not that which is lacking in an urge, but rather from what is to be done by the individual with the urge!

See?

And leave the results with the Giver of Life!

For Life is of, and is, the Creative Force; it is that ye worship as God.

Those then that besmirch same by overindulgence besmirch that which is best within themselves.

And that should be the key to birth control or sex relations, or every phase of the relationships between the sons and the daughters of men - that would become the sons and daughters of God...

(Q) Is continence in marriage advisable except when mating to produce offspring?

(A) This should be, and is, as we have indicated in the matter of education, the outcome of the universal sources of supply of the individuals.

For some, yes; in other cases it would be very bad on the part of each, while in others it would be bad on one or the other, see?

There should be, then, rather the educating as to the purposes, and How - How that the force, the vitality, that goes for the gratifying of emotions may be centralized in creating - in the lives of others about the body in all its various phases - spiritual blessings.

(Q) Should men or women who do not have the opportunity to marry have sex relationships outside of marriage?

(A) This again is a matter of principle within the individual.

The sex organs, the sex demands of every individual, must be gratified in some manner as a portion of the biological urge within the individual.

These begin in the present with curiosity.

For it is as natural for there to be sexual relations between man and woman, when drawn together in their regular relations or activities, as it is for the flowers to bloom in the spring, or for the snows to come in the winter, when the atmospheric conditions are conducive or inducive to such conditions.

When a man or woman has chosen (for it must be choice, and is only by choice that one remains out of relationships with the opposite sex in marriage) - if it has chosen to not be in such relationships, then be true to the choice; or else it is to self a sin!

For that which one would pretend to be and isn't is indeed sin!

(Q) Should they raise children outside of marriage?

(A) It answers itself.

(Q) Would it be better for a woman, who desires to marry, to be one of two or more wives to a man in a home rather than to remain unmarried?

(A) This is again a matter of principle; or the urge within such conditions must be conformative to that set as the ideal.

In the education of individuals as regarding sex relationships, as in every other educational activity, there must be a standard or a rule to go by or an ideal state that has its inception not in the emotions of a physical body but from the spiritual ideal which has been set, which was set and given to man in his relation to the Creative Forces.

Then to ask or to seek or to advise or to give suggestions even, that it may be done outside of that, isn't being true to that as is presented.

We are through for the present.

826-6

 

A.R.E. Meeting for 10/28/24

Leader: Eric
 
Five Cayce fanatics went back to the Search for God material. The plan is to go through the 262 readings, the SFG lessons, and the Experiments book. We started with the Cooperation readings and read to paragraph 18 of reading 262-2, found on page 6 of the e-mailed PDF. We decided on the first Cooperation experiment in the Experiments book.
 
Experiment: Live with the awareness that what you are thinking is actually creating and is very real. At the end of each day, review your thought patterns. Record those that you feel were especially constructive or helpful. Without a sense of self-condemnation, record those that you feel were not consistent with your ideals.

A.R.E. Meeting for 10/21/24

Leader: Eric
 
Five evolved beings finished reading the book Before the Beginning by Eula Allen. Next week we will either go to The River of Time by Eula Allen, or back to the Search for God material.
 
Experiment: Cayce believed we are constantly faced with the choice between good and evil. His quote was “There is today, every day, set before thee good and evil, life and death—choose thou.” Be aware or conscious of choices this week that cause us to choose in this way.

A.R.E. Meeting for 10/14/24

Leader: Eric
 
Five sons and daughters of God continued with the reading of Before the Beginning by Eula Allen. We read up to the top of page 61. Our experiment is partially taken from a passage on page 58:
 
Experiment: Man did not descend from the monkey, but man has evolved, resuscitation, you see, from time to time…here a little, there a little, line upon line, and line and line upon line. Mull over how you have evolved in this incarnation. As an example, have the Cayce teachings helped you to evolve?