Hello Dear Friends,
In the 10 years
the Edgar Cayce A Search For God Study Group has been meeting at Ruth Holly
Library, tonight is the first time we have been turned away, and with no advance
notice due to a plumbing problem there. The sign on the door concluded the
library will reopen at 9 am tomorrow.
Four members
who arrived about the same time agreed not to let the appearance of an obstacle
block our intentions to work with the Edgar Cayce material, and to support each other in moving forward on our
individual paths of spiritual development. The one public table outdoors was
occupied, none of our vehicles accommodated our place to meet, and we located no out of sight tables around the corner of the building.
Greg reported that he located, but had to apply, to join an
A Search For God online study group on Facebook. He applied, was accepted, and in the
brief time he was able to have on the group ASFG page, he determined that it
has excellent information with both well written questions and well thought out
answers on this unique group page.
When Donna exclaimed that McDonalds is just
across the street, our quest for an
instantaneous place to meet was resolved. Scott got us a table in the back as quiet as a study room at the
library corner booth, and our delayed
meeting was comfortable and more enjoyable over food and drinks. Not only were we sharing our metaphysical, spiritual
leanings in common, surprisingly, our common experience of being rejected and
thrown off our typical comfortably sitting in the same chair in the same study
room came with an enhanced sense of closeness and camaraderie.
The discussion of metaphysics, of places and cultures
such as India, or Shamans of Peru, combine ayahuasca tree bark with something
else to create DMT. It has been described as a substance botanically similar to
the DMT produced by the pineal lighting
up. Drinking DMT can greatly increase
the light the pineal produces. Our unanswered question discussed what possibilities creating light in meditating Monks ashrams saw when there were
no physical lights in the room. No one
attempted to understand levitation out loud. Iowa, Transcendental Meditation, it's local teachers, the
Marharashi, his university in Iowa, living in a small town in Iowa of two thousand
plus can be like living in Mayberry and the movie partially filmed there based
on a true story of an older man with no drivers license driving his farm
tractor rig from Iowa across Wisconsin on his mission to connect with his son. The film, The Straight Story starred Sissy Spacek and Richard Farnsworth.
Our excellent exploration of spiritual and getting to
know us better personal experiences in the the ideal perfectly quiet space
provided for meditation after the library's quick refusal to accommodate us,
was interrupted by a waitress telling us that room was now closing, please move
to the other dining room.
Our reports
of the outcome of our week long experiments were very rewarding and fulfilling.
Those who embraced at intervals during each day were rewarded with not only a
genuine empowerment, but feelings that I am supported and being helped and God
is consistently with me, supporting me.
I will not be abandoned. Everyone who choose to explore a week of
asserting "I am a god" (little g ) experienced a greater sense of
being enabled by this new realization. Their intentions and goals were all
accomplished. The one who choose to watch what the mind is being fed (according to dietary rules) were also well rewarded. This one took the form of additional
time to use one's doing of what needs to be done versus too much time poorly used in
electronic media.
The meditation in the better populated music
playing room was described by one as the most challenging situation ever
attempted to meditate in for 45 years. We were able to incorporate the words of the louder and louder seeming
song, life is better with you, as a recognition that God's presence is
making life better, then along with the music and song, life is better with YOU
(God).
We read and chose to do the final experiment at the end
of the chapter, Destiny of the Mind. On page 67, it reads:
For a week take
special note of your dreams and note the precognitive process that is in many
dreams. You will find dreams that
predict the physical manifestation of things which you have set in motion at
the mental level. If these dreams of
physical events do not look favorable to you, work on changing your thought
patterns. Observe whether or not such a change in your thinking immediately
affects your dreams.
We'll be interested in learning from you next Monday what
your results are from working with this experiment. Unless you choose to work on any of the three
previous to this from last week.
After tonight's adventure of taking our ASFG to
MacDonalds, I can whole heartedly welcome an idea suggested by our friend among
a handful of creative ideas she presented to our group for keeping the meetings
appealing and fragrant and fresh for our renewal. This adventure enabled us to be flexible, to see how
wrong expectations of being in McDonalds an hour or two after the dinner hour
were. It pulled us closer mentally, into
a better sense of oneness, many, but, all one in one group.
From tonight s adventuresome ASFG, as seen by Sylvia
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