Greetings. Let's
welcome Connie and Donna who attended our meeting their first time tonight. It's good to welcome each of you. Our leader for the month of October is Bill Mitchell.
Last week and this week our lesson is on meditation, a
review for Book II of the meditation chapter.
We read and reviewed and discussed the I. Introduction to Meditation,
II. Meditation and Prayer, 2. Meditation
defined, 3. Will prayer answer for meditation? III. Preparation for Meditation,
The physical body, I. A knowledge, cleansing, and consecration of physical body
2. A study of the glands. B. The Mental
Body 1. The purging of self 2. Attunement of self to the Whole.
Last week and this week our choice of experiments is from
the book Experiments in A Search for God, keyed to ASFG, Book one, chapter one
on pages 10 and 11.
"Each individual entity, whether aware of same or
not, sets before self an ideal in the material world, in the mental world, in
the spiritual world." Edgar Cayce reading 1011-1.
If we set our ideal in spiritual principles, we have a source of direction stronger than any
outside force. Our decisions in life are based on a standard that comes from
within. The ideal becomes the
measure of how we choose to focus energy
and attention physically, mentally, spiritually. It is helpful to determine what our ideals
and life directions have been before actually choosing and holding up a
spiritual ideal for ourselves.
Even if you've never determined what your ideals are, it
will begin to be obvious to you if you complete the following exercise each day
for a week. Before going to bed, Write
down what you did, thought, or experienced that day that was valuable.
1) I was praised for the report I finished today.
2) I got 2 tickets to the play I've wanted to see
3) leisurely family time at dinner
4) good prayer and meditation intervals today.
The
patterns you recognize at weeks end show you the ideals you have been living.
Experiment (1) At
days end, write down what you thought, did, experienced the past 24 hours you
feel was especially valuable.
Experiment 2a) Since prayer is the concerted effort of
our physical consciousness to become attuned to the consciousness of the
creator, and; the first stage of meditation is the effort to awaken within the
conscious mind an awareness corresponding to the superconsciousness, then, we
can pray effectively and awaken and attune the consciousness mind to the divine
within.
Experiment 2b) As an activity separate from your
meditation period, each day have a
period of prayer. (Whatever form is meaningful to you that day--petitionary-gratitude,
confessional-forgiveness, praise--). A sincere-effective prayer practice can be
an invaluable aid to our meditation--to be able to hold in silence the
awakening and an attunement of the
conscious mind to the Divine, to the ideal, and then ultimately, to
transformation.
Gratefully yours,
Sylvia
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