Dear Friends,
Let's remember to send prayers of healing to Cindi, who
had her cataract surgery yesterday, and will be rehabilitating the next two
weeks. Let's send healing prayers as well to Eric, who was just not feeling as
well as he could.
Scott is our leader for April. He asked me to
lead instead this week only.
We had a good meeting and excellent discussion of Christ Consciousness. That is basically what Tom Baker, former
professor of theology in a Catholic seminary and currently a speaker for ARE's
national programs, introduced and described as the main idea in his presentation of "Awakening the Spiritual Master Within."
Tom Baker seemed amazed (as was I ) that another attendee
described herself as spiritually
neutral. She was given no spiritual teachings
or beliefs during her upbringing. She thought having no expectations, rules,
or teachings about either spirituality or religion was a
benefit to her in accepting God,
Universal Forces, The Holy Spirit, or whatever your understanding of GOD is. She had an experience at age 18 and knew
immediately that it was Universal Forces or God taking care of her needs and
protecting her. She was able to do so because of the absence of expectations
and religious beliefs. That made it so EASY for her to accept and know she
would always be taken care of and protected. Then some years later she had another spiritual experience. She was awakened during her sleep by
the tone of a crystal sounding. She had
built that sleeping room. She had put
everything in it. She knew there was NO
CRYSTAL in the room to ring or sound out. But she knew it was the affirmation of her benevolent
protector in that 2nd spiritual experience.
Among the first of the audience to speak up, a silver haired man told of being ill. He dreamed of a man with a particular
necklace in gold robes coming to him in his dream. (Sorry I heard only part of it, but I think he was hospitalized at the time of
the dream). Later when he saw a photo of
Edgar Cayce, he realized Edgar Cayce was
the same man with the necklace in a gold robe who had appeared to him earlier
in his dream!
Throughout the day the audience told of spiritual
experiences, of experiencing light, of descriptions of Christ Consciousness. Our discussion of Christ Consciousness included
remembering people in our lives expressing perfectly the Christ
Consciousness. One amazing mother of
five very active young men known for fighting and smashing birthday cakes at
parties they crashed if uninvited, always remained kind, calm, loving, patient,
soft spoken no matter what situations her son's life created.
Another wonderful example was a below average income
Sunday school teacher with a gift of capturing her pupils enthusiastic
attention for her Bible lesson with: I
will tell you a story even better than all your (popular story and comic and
movie hero s) current ones. She even
testified to a modern day miracle personally experienced. She told of having one lung removed and my LUNG GREW
BACK.
Another woman spoke of a quote she had in several places in her house. The quote came from someone she respected spiritually. It goes: What if nothing is wrong.
Who exemplified the Christ Consciousness in your
life? Have you experienced any modern
day miracles? I imagine most, if not
all, of us have.
We are working on the same experiment again this
week. I believe it is on page 34 of our Experiments book.
Most of us have trouble knowing what to do with our
anger. Then there are three good Cayce
quotes on anger. One is below.
Hold not malice,
though easily ye may at times be angry but sin not. Righteous wrath is a
virtue, as well as is patience for they must arise from the same influence, or
from the same motivation experience. Edgar Cayce reading # 2635-1
Experiment:
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.
I'm looking forward to seeing you Monday and hearing how
your experiment of using anger as a motivation to take action or to change a
situation versus merely expressing or even dumping anger on another. Or perhaps
you will want to tell us about your experience of the previous weeks
experiment.
In Loving Service,
Sylvia
