A.R.E. Meeting for 03/29/10

Leader: Nancy (for Cindi)
Reader: Eric

This week we started the chapter on "Desire." We will start the section titled "Spiritual Desires" next week.

The experiment is:

Be aware of how you are using your will and observe that by your choices you are strengthening certain desires. Try to make choices that will reinforce those desires which lead you closer to your ideal.

Example: Choose to take an evening walk rather than have dessert, etc.

Feel the Power of Affirmations

The following article was written by John Van Auken about the power of affirmations:

Of all the wonderful guidance to come through Edgar Cayce’s attunement to the Universal Consciousness, using an affirmation is unique. Affirmations can help us change our mind, mood, and health, and reach new levels of awareness and happiness. He gave over a hundred affirmations to people seeking physical, mental, or spiritual help.

From his perspective, an affirmation is an ideal structured in a potently suggestive statement. He instructed us to speak (aloud or silently) the affirmation, being sure to maintain a consciousness of the meaning of the words, and to speak it with a positive, expectant attitude, until the whole of our mental being was affected positively by the meaning. He suggested that the affirmation be repeated three to five times, but the goal was to achieve a "full, positive response" from the mental portion of our being. Try this. It works.

I have selected three of Cayce's affirmations, which are at the end of this article. The first one was intended to take hold of desires, needs, and attitudes that we all experience in life and move them to a higher, more universally attuned condition, resulting in greater harmony and happiness in our lives. After sharing this affirmation, Cayce sharply instructed the person to "leave it with Him" rather than to keep wondering and doubting in anxious waiting for immediate results. He wanted people to feel the power of the affirmation in their mental self and then let it go free. The reason for this, he explained, was that the "unseen forces" are more powerful than the seen and work in a special way. The unseen forces work best when we have faith in them, a demonstrated faith shown by allowing them to work their magical way through our bodies, minds, hearts, and lives. He said that the spirit of patience, expectancy, and contentment are fertile soil from which the unseen forces can bring forth their miracles.

The second affirmation was designed to help a person find the best way to be a channel of blessings to others. Cayce explained that the phrase "my going in and my coming out" (taken from Exodus 28:35) is speaking about going in to the Holy Place within us, where God meets with us, and coming out from the Holy Place to relationships with others and our outer work. The going in is mostly done during sleep, prayer, meditation, and moments of reflection and stillness.

The third affirmation was designed to connect us with what Cayce called "the Christ Consciousness," a state of mind and perspective that best channels the power of light and love into and through us -- an excellent state to experience.

I used the first affirmation and was amazed by its impact on me. Try one and send me your results.

"Let my desire and my needs be in Thy hands, Thou Maker, Creator of the universe and all the forces and powers therein! And may I conform my attitude, my purpose, my desire, to that Thou hast as an activity for me. (Now leave it with Him and go to work!)" --462-8

"Lord, here am I! Use Thou me in the ways as Thou knowest best. May my going in and my coming out always be acceptable in Thy sight, my Lord, my Strength, and my Redeemer." --2803-3

"Let that mind be in me that was in Him, who knew that of Himself He could do nothing, yet in the power of the light of the Father of all may we, may I, may all, come to know His love the better. Thy will, O Father, be done in me just now." --436-3

Edgar Cayce and the Kabbalah

John Van Auken discusses his recent book about the concepts in Kabbalah and how Edgar Cayce reaffirmed some of these concepts. The Kabbalah covers soul growth and deep insights to the presence of God in this reality (the ten emanations of God) and the four planes of existence, the seven heavens, the 22 channels of the creative energy, numerology, talisman, incantations, and magic. John said that personally, he "was fascinated by the descriptions of how one could make passage through dimensions of consciousness within themselves to actually connect with the emanations of the creator."

A.R.E. Meeting for 03/22/10

Leader: Nancy (for Cindi)
Reader: Sylvia

We finished the chapter "God, the Father, and His Manifestations in the Earth." Next week we will start the chapter on "Desire."

This coming week you pick your own experiment from the last four for the chapter we finished. In abbreviated form, these are:

1. Choose a temptation and act in a way that benefits are derived by the greater whole.

2. Try living your life as a recognition that you are Jesus' friend, not just an obedient servant.

3. Being sympathetic and supportive, widen your area of responsibility, and be supportive beyond your habit, and ask what you've learned.

4. Smile frequently, giving a hope and joy about life.

Rewriting Your Life Script

Barbara Lane from the A.R.E will be giving a workshop in Denver on May 8, 2010 called Rewriting Your Life Script: Hypnosis, Healing, and the Power of Your Mind.

For details, see this link.

A.R.E. Meeting for 03/15/10

Leader: Cindi
Reader: John

We welcome Gene Bagenstos who attended our meeting tonight for the first time. We made it through one more section in the chapter "God, the Father, and His Manifestations in the Earth." We will begin the section next week titled "We Are Manifestations of God."

Next week Nancy volunteered to take over for Cindi, who will be out the next two weeks.

Our experiment is:

Observe how you evaluate the greatness of others. Work at recognizing and reinforcing (or reflecting) greatness in the lives of ordinary people who give of themselves and love.

A.R.E. Meeting for 03/08/10

Leader: Cindi
Reader: Nancy

You can say we continued to make progress as we moved through one more section in the chapter "God, the Father, and His Manifestations in the Earth." We will begin the section next week titled "Perfect Manifestation in the Earth."

Our experiment is the next one (at our rate, we'll do them all):

Explore in your own life what it means to be patient and forgiving and yet still be able to 'be angry and sin not.' Act on anger instead of in anger.

A.R.E. Meeting for 03/01/10

Leader: Cindi
Reader: Greg

We moved through one more section in the chapter "God, the Father, and His Manifestations in the Earth." We will begin the section titled "The Manifestations of the Father in the Earth."

Our experiment is the next one:

Practice true consistency in your relationships to self, others and God. Consider the things you do repeatedly--by habit--and try to bring conscious awareness to them: awareness of how the things you are doing relate to the whole. For example, on my drive to work in the morning I will be more aware of people and places. I will be conscious of why I have chosen to go to the place of work which I do. I will be aware of the part I play in this rush-hour traffic and cooperate to help get people safely to work.