A.R.E. Meeting for 12/28/20

Leader: Scott

Experiment: Work on relating to others with kindness. Especially focus on speaking kindly. Record those instances where you were able to replace an impulse to speak harshly or thoughtlessly with kind words. Record as well, without a sense of condemnation, those instances where greater kindness than you expressed would have been helpful.

Affirmation: I choose words and thoughts that create love, joy, harmony and understanding. My words heal, and prosper others richly and abundantly.

Book: A Search for God, Book I, and the Experiments book keyed to ASFG, Book I

Seven spiritual beings converged in our Zoom room to meditate, pray for others, and discuss what we’d learned from our intentions to live our lesson this past week. Some had done both experiments. One reported that the results of the chosen experiment just happened after having chosen it; she decided to let go of a friend who wasn’t serving her, and did so. Significantly, she reported having willingness to ask God to take more control in her life a ways back; a vital part of learning to cooperate with God. Another also let something go: a resentment— in seeing both sides of a situation from an emotional view and another’s “personal values” view. Seeing two different perspectives changed an angry judgmental one to an accepting, allowing one. And then, a resentment was gone. A gift! All the results of either experiment were interesting. Several chose to change a habit pattern of negative thinking. One had written an affirmation last week to help replace negative thinking with more positive thoughts. It is shared with us, near the top of the page.

You are welcome to add or replace words that better fit your ideal thinking to say to yourself if you want to let those energy dissipating thoughts go. When one member realized following the news adds to negative thinking, it was said Hugh Lynn Cayce (deceased 1983) and other ARE members stopped watching scary movies and negative shows. Since then, news reporting has become darker, more energy draining to listeners, less accurate. It seeks to trigger viewers emotionally and can be deliberately untrue; “They lie to us,” at times another recognized.

To stay in the high vibrations of light received in meditation, as Hugh Lynn did, we can support our intentions to speak kindly and to relate to others kindly by choosing positive, inspiring, uplifting viewing/ reading materials and programs, and the company of positive thinkers! You know— live in the ideal world! 😊

We read the "Method of Obtaining Cooperation: section in A Search for God lesson one on Cooperation. Zoom time expired before we could discuss any of the methods of obtaining cooperation. We closed with the lovely 23rd Psalm.
 
Scott, thanks for leading our group and keeping us on topic. It’s no easy job. June is our leader in January 2021.
 
In Loving Oneness,
Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 12/21/20

Leader: Scott

Choose your preferred experiment this week:

1. Experiment - pg. 21 - Work on being sensitive to where others are in consciousness. Without compromising your own ideals, be willing to speak to others in their own language; show concern for the problems and questions in their own minds (not so much the questions you think they ought to be concerned about. ) Record the experiences in which you are able to be helpful to someone by meeting that individual at his or her own level.
2. Experiment - pg. 22 - Choose and write down a habit pattern that is especially of your own limited, ego self. Pray each day that as your real self you may let loose your involvement with that pattern. Cultivate an attitude of openness to his Healing for this part of your life. At the end of the day, record any situation during the day where you experienced losing this particular limited sense of self.

Eight beautiful souls attired in human bodies zoomed to our weekly meeting. We meditated and sent out with the blessed energy received in silence our prayers for light, love, healing, protection, prosperity, comfort, peace, and JOY to family, friends, people of the world seeking the light.

Our reports on last week’s experiments also provided asides of what went awry on a busy Monday, or with a kaput oven in midst of holiday baking. Tonight, three saw on the southwestern skyline around sunset the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. One person arrived early enough to possibly see a silhouette of one planet before seeing it light up a bit later with the other planet as well. One person saw Saturn’s rings. Another person shared that driving a good distance to Nebraska three years ago to see the solar eclipse was a “spiritual experience." Three were either satisfied or excited about their results of meditating hours with the ARE World Day of Prayer in North America, Europe and Asia.

The hours longer meditation plus the longer intervals of breathing techniques practiced as given by different leaders one after another led to a body feeling accelerated vibrations, highly energized, and stimulated, oxygenated bilateral frontal lobes; a new experience after only more than fifty years of regular mostly Cayce method meditation practice! The ARE keeps getting better and better! And each of two house cats were attracted to the high vibrational energy! Already staying in the meditation room most of the hours, one cat instead of sleeping near feet, crawled under the bedcovers to actually place a paw on the meditator’s leg. Why? In order to feel or draw from the high energy of the meditator? The cat didn’t answer.

Maintaining awareness that thought patterns were being created by our thoughts “inspired” change during last week’s experiment: Several people saw patterns they want to stop and replace with positive beneficial new ones.

We will receive an email with information on an understanding of Earth changes as shifting in yin/yang and crystalline energies balance, in this year of personal confrontation with our long ignored parts of self and subsequent path to potential transformation. It includes instruction on how one could add journaling to "know thyself," add physical movement or dance and sound in ritual to setting ideal or intent, to clearing, annual goal-action plan to better live ones spiritual ideal. Christina’s clearing and rituals are complex in contrast to the simplified 1 hour Unity’s annual practice of clearing out inappropriate unwanted junk in a burning bowl New Years Eve service. Good ideas recirculate, don’t they? Thanks for this gift for increased spiritual understand and practice!

One member was validated and reassured that one experience cannot define us, cannot limit us, nor measure our worth. There is no limit to our worth, to our talents and abilities we have developed over lifetimes. There are many we have not realized, cultivated, or allowed to surface in this lifetime.

Last year's future planning was our first group junk to throw out.

WE WILL MEET next Monday!
None of us are going on our typical holiday trips this year!

See you next Monday!

Merry 🎄🎁 Christmas

In Loving Oneness,
Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 12/14/20

 Leader: Scott

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.

Lesson I

Cooperation: Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren. I Peter 3:8

 Affirmation

Not my will but Thine, O lord, be done in me 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, my coming out be in accord with that Thou would have me do and as the call comes, "Here am I, send me, use me."

Seekers numbering six prayed for healing, peace and comfort, blessings, protection and prosperity after they meditated. Then we read the Introduction and Need for Cooperation sections of Lesson I.

If we are in accord with His will, we can attune ourselves to the highest spiritual force. If we open our minds, hearts, souls to serving others, we find and receive joy, peace, happiness in doing acts of kindness and service for others.

We discussed aging and the aged of 900, 365 years ago in Biblical times, mostly questioning how was it possible? Or even desirable?

It was noted that when one has limitations imposed on the physical for activities and accomplishments that brought our younger selves joy in doing and being able to do for others, decreases; life limitations of age can leave us bored and empty. Without a purpose, without goals. While planning to “just reject and refuse aging and ageism, “intending” doesn’t work as we expected it to when we were young. Why live the good life 80 years and 820 years of emptiness and boredom?

Sightings of both Yoda, 900 years life, too, and the mere 50 years old baby Mandelorian the same day led into these comments.

Then was it powers of a baby Madalorian that led into a discussion of whether the Law of One can be used with negative intent to inflict pain or kill just like it can be used to bring the rain or heal? While no one actively disagreed that “Law of One” can be used for healing and positive goals, in contrast, no one affirmed a statement made that this principle of manifesting through a Universal law of One is the same principle called voodoo “IF” used with intent to harm the person and a proxy. The Secret, Cayce’s “thoughts are creative—“see it working”, Unity’s or New Thought” manifesting, national big seller of hypnosis tapes explained it “think it, see it, feel it and it’s yours “ either become blessings of healing or curses depending upon the intent and application of the One law.

Our chosen experiment supports our ideal and can help us become better aware of what we are creating as we think and experience our emotions!

We will be ready to read “Method of obtaining cooperation” section in ASFG next week, and read on toward experiment two in our experiments book.

Happiest of Holidays!

Holidays as joyful as the child seen jumping up and down with excitement about the approaching holidays!!

In Loving Oneness,

Sylvia Raye

 

A.R.E. Meeting for 12/7/20

Leader: Cindi

Both Books:  A SFG and Experiments in ASFG, keyed to book I by Mark Thurston

Choice of 3 Experiments:

1. Choose a specific time and place for meditation. Keep it each day!

2. What people in your life do you think the least of? Write down the names. What parts in your life do you think the least of?Write down those parts. Work each day on treating these people and these parts of yourself AS YOU WOULD TREAT GOD. Pray for these individuals and parts of yourself each day,
3. Choose and write down “one” attitude, habit or physical condition which could be eliminated by conscious effort and which you feel “may” be a hinderance in your spiritual search. Then decide on a constructive attitude or way of behaving that could replace that hindering one (and write down the replacement). Work each day on manifesting that replacement attitude or behavior.

 
Cindi stepped in to volunteer leadership for tonight as our other volunteer leader needs time to care for a post op spouse, who is doing well. We began meditation and prayers, closed our chakras, and reported on how our work last week with our experiment went. One noticed a subtle difference. Another learned how important meditating at the same time each day can be. When the meditation time wasn’t kept, a later opportunity just didn’t happen. Benefits of keeping the same time, which include the body being ready for stillness, prompts one to meditate.
 
Seven souls looking for a better understanding of our Creator, read and discussed whether the seven experiences listed may all be experienced individually “in the Silence” or if experiences happen according to one’s level of development. No one knew that they are contingent on spiritual development. One thought of them as possibilities that an individual could experience several, or many, but it is probably unlikely anyone would experience 100% of them all. The long time meditators present had experienced some of the seven experiences, but no one reporting on having experienced all seven.
 
Experiences: 1. Sensation of bodily movement. 2. Coolness on forehead or head. 3. Sense of pulsation in lower spine. 4. vibration rising up thru the body to a sense of fullness in the head. If we reach a point of raising vibrations to the disseminating center, then our bodies may if properly used, bring healing to others. 5. Sensation to the eyes, an indication of healing. 6. A voice speaking is a manifestation of inner self's awakening of abilities to communicate, connect, associate with influences from without. 7. Finally, there is the passing into oneness with the Whole; experienced in feeling, sight, or voice.
 
We read the conclusion entirely. A strong desire to seek truth, with constant persistent effort to move forward, plus meditation is the safest way to know ourselves. Cayce explained the three-part Biblical temple is symbolic of ourselves, of our three levels of consciousness, our own Temple bodies, with points at each endocrine gland connecting physical body and the soul. Eccles. 12:6 refers these connections separating at our death. To find our God within our own hearts and consciousness, it recommended we purge ourselves of any hindrances to entering our temple's inner "holy of holies."
 
We begin Lesson I, Cooperation, under leadership from Scott next week.
 
In Loving Oneness,
Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 11/30/20

Leader: Greg Lenihan

Both books: A Search for God Book I
and Mark Thurston’s Experiments in a Search For God
 
Thank you Greg for a fine job leading this group, and serving an extra meeting time, the 5th Monday.
 
Experiment:
 
Use the “Prayer of Protection” given in the readings each time you meditate. (ASFG p. 17 or Experiments p. 14) Desire to experience and determine to realize the inner meaning of the prayer as you use it, not just going through the motions and saying it by rote.
 
Prayer of Protection
 
“As we open ourselves to the unseen forces that surround the throne of Grace, beauty, and might within ourselves, let us throw about ourselves the protection found in the thought of the Christ.” The book continues, “When our minds are on God, the Christ, who is our Ideal, we need not worry about destructive results.” ASFG, p.16, 55th Printing, Oct. 2012.
 
Eight souls gathered to set the ideal with an opening prayer, to discuss results of our last experiment performed thru a holiday week. One seeker went out to a Tibetan Arts and Crafts shop on the busiest street of the West Side shopping district and bought a Tibetan singing bowl. This was used for attunement to meditate. There are future plans to use it daily to take a recommended 10 minute rest break. Another member’s experiment followed recommendations in a Cayce reading recommending someone mediate with a Lapis Lazuli stone. Meditating with lapis in a chest pocket yielded an awareness of a stronger “sense of attunement.” ( Lapis lazuli is a semi precious stone,plentiful in Afghanistan— a softer stone of about 5 - 5.5 medium hardness, easily cut, sawed or broken, of the deep “Royal blue” (or blue color of “King Tuts” gold and blue striped funeral mask. Jewel quality Lapis Leis pure deep blue, or may have flecks of pyrite- also called “fools gold”, which is easily mistaken as a gold nugget especially when seen lying on the ground.)

 
Yet someone else felt more attuned using 7 omm sounds orally, one for each chakra. While speaking at a seminar in Denver years ago John Van Auken had said “omms should be felt in silence inwardly as vibrations.” This seeker needed to create audible omm sounds to feel an inner vibration, or sound lightly by
touch a Tibetan monk’s begging bowl; one that had been created with a prayer every time the metal was struck countless times to form and create the bowl.
  
We began reading in ASFG, on p. 14., C. The Spiritual body, 1. The soul
 
Through meditation we may unlock the door within between our physical and spiritual bodies and become aware of the spiritual forces within. Spiritual faculties of our souls, individual impressions within our physical senses limit and restraint. Through meditation we make possible the spiritual soul’s ever willing expression of its true relationship of with our Creator.
 

I. The Ideal
 
It is more important that our minds be free of resentments, vindictiveness, malice, greed, selfishness and hate than that we do a complex meditation. The ideal is what we meditate on, not fixate on. It is our attunement to the ideal that leads us into peacefulness, into stillness within, and the capacity to raise a higher state of spiritual consciousness. If the ideal is equivalent to the highest aspiration of service, a strong desire that the meeting with the inner self and God be unobstructed, there will be an increase in unity, in oneness, and inner feeling, a as instead of broken points of consciousness
 
II. The Forces
 
The attributes of God, which we come in contact with in meditation, are our soul qualities of the functions of God. We call these intuition or psychic or Universal Forces.
 
We find that holding the right ideal in meditation is when our problems are solved and that we see as obstacles become our stepping stones.
 
We discussed the paradoxical instructions to have an ideal and use an affirmation to raise our consciousness and meet our Creator but not to fixate on the ideal. We concluded it is focusing on the ideal for an attunement that awakens the desire to reach the highest awareness possible, the strong desire of the inner self that the way to oneness with God be open and unobstructed.
 
Other concerns discussed or mentioned as a call to prayer for are the rising suicide rates, large numbers of Covid-19 related deaths by starvation worldwide with potential for people dying by starvation to double, front lines health care workers repeatedly exposed and becoming infected with Covid-19, people and families experiencing grief and loss of family members, prayers and protection for families and loved ones.
 
Our leader for December is June!
 
In Loving Oneness,
Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 11/23/20

Book: A Search For God I, plus experiments book

Leader: Greg Lenihan

Experiment:  For your daily meditation period choose a specific aid for attunement or approach to preparation. Let it be something you have not regularly used before (chant, incense, exercise, music, method of cleansing, or abstinence from a particular activity). Complete this activity each day as part of your meditation period AND KEEP A RECORD of your experiences in using it.” (Capitals added)

In “A Search for God” book I we read,    “3. A study of vibrations.” We discussed vibrations and personal results of inhaling Apple brandy fumes from a charred oak keg, and the Cayce formula sold by Barr under a trade name “Inspirol” for breathing treatment. Users of these two Cayce treatments agreed they thought these helped them personally. One member present has tested positive for Covid -19; but is currently able to join us online tonight.

We also read "B. The Mental Body, 1. The purging of self."

We agreed upon an experiment for the week and wished each other “a Happy Thanksgiving.” November has 5 Mondays even with only 30 days, so Greg will lead us once more before turning leadership over to Scott. He has been contacted for affirmation he can lead us Monday, Dec. 7th, 2020.

    🍂🍁Happy Thanksgiving🍁🍂

In Loving Oneness,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 11/16/20

Leader: Greg

Experiment:

At the beginning of each meditation period take a few moments to become aware that there is consciousness within each cell of your body. Suggest to or ask your body to join the mind and spirit in this period of asking.

Zoom brought seven like-minded ASFG members together to read and discuss spiritual material based on answers to universal questions asked of Cayce in years past.

Silence supported a focus of minds on our group ideal of “Oneness” and prepared us for our opening prayer. We overcame quickly a technical difficulty and discussed results of our experiment this past week designed to give us insight on our ideal. We kept a record of daily activities at days end; to see our ideal shown by a pattern of activities we did regularly or more often. It was an interesting way of learning to know ourselves better from the activities pattern we recognized.

There was even a report on an experiment from two weeks ago, to “meditate three times and find within the answer to a question.” The member who got no answer that week why she’s been unable to sleep at night, quite often a lengthy time of insomnia, got her answer unexpectedly. It was in an article stating studies are being done on how neurotransmitters can obstruct or facilitate one’s sleep. This contrasts with years of being told by doctors to change her lifestyle and behaviors to cure insomnia, and inspires hope soon she will receive help her sleep regularly.

We read in the experiment’s book down to the bottom of page 13, where this week’s experiment begins, to its conclusion at the top of page 14. This section is rich in information from five readings about how powerful the awakened energies are and can be used either constructively, as in healing, or destructively.

“Does this technique of cleansing body and mind, or this tool, stimulate within me a greater desire to serve and know God?” It’s our responsibility to ask ourselves that question and determine the best ways of going within and awakening sacred energies for our own development.

A Study of the Glands

We discussed how we each experienced in meditation energies differently, and how they move through the body and spiritual centers or chakras. Their power can rock or rotate the body. When our will has stilled and focused the mind and body on the highest ideal, and we attune our selves to the Infinite, the body’s seven endocrine glands, connected to spiritual centers—chakras—attune to Universal Forces, and body, mind, and soul, even atoms within cells and cells themselves awaken to the Creator. The glands of reproduction can function like a motor, raising this Life Force through the gate of the cells of the Leydig located in the genitive center and upward through the chakras along the silver cord. The spiritual power continues on upward through the pineal gland, which is sitting down in and guarded by its “cup” of bone in the brain, before “running over” into the pituitary gland. If a pathological study of an individual, with an ideal attuned to the Creator, who had stimulated the pituitary in meditation for a 7 year cycle, that person would have become a “Light to the World.” Without the spiritual ideal, that person would become a “Frankenstein-like” monster.

In Loving Oneness,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting 11/9/20

 

Book: Experiments in a Search For God, Keyed to A Search for God, Book I.
 
Lesson: Meditation
 
Experiment this week: page 10 - Take time each day to write down that which you THOUGHT, DID, or EXPERIENCED during the past 24 hours which you feel was especially valuable.
 
Leader: Greg
 
Consensus was for five faithful souls to begin tonight's meeting meditating first and sending out love, light, prayers for others. We concluded our prayers with sending our energy downward to heal ourselves, as Cayce had recommended (and John Van Auken taught in a Denver seminar in years past). We recited the 23rd Psalm thus closing open chakras to end our prayer and meditation process.
 
ARE Facebook page daily noon meditations follow the Cayce method we are currently studying. One member is using these noon meditations as a cleansing, an attunement, to prepare for ten minutes daily in silence. Another member frequently uses a method Cayce recommended, the coiled serpent or kundalini meditation of raising consciousness. Be alert, the temptation to stay in the pleasurable energy can stop beginning meditators here, instead of raising consciousness. A third technique is to move the energy now high in consciousness and body downward to heal ourselves, too. This one didn't make it into print in the ASFG lesson.
 
This week we read in our experiments book, Chapter One through the 2nd experiment, page 10. Basically the one chosen last week of maintaining a positive focus as we prayed and meditated daily during the week. We did the experiment this week. A member noticed that consciously trying to keep thoughts upbeat in prayers and meditation had a holistic effect with the intent spilled over into communication.  Saying nothing replaced habitual expressions of just a bit of negativity two or three times during week past.
 
Experiment one of our experiments book describes an exercise Cayce recommended someone getting a reading do, to better understand how the patterns of his/her activities can actually help them determine their ideal. Daily recording life's events at the end of the day, meditating daily or awakening the superconsciousness combined helps to establish a feedback loop with ourselves as one member heard and understood it.
 
The three-step process we are learning is having an Ideal or an affirmation (or effectively praying), as a focus to awaken the physical consciousness to awareness of our ONENESS with GOD. Second step is preparation. Our third step then, once conscious of our oneness with creator, is holding this awareness of our oneness with God in the silence.
 
Our discussion of meditation went into how we can be miniature copies of the universe. One suggested, that the tan tien of our inner energy body (a Martial Arts Master's tan tien aligned with the earth's fiery core and chakra system could be like a copy of our solar system. Can a parallel be seen between the pituitary gland, the master gland, affecting and managing the other endocrine glands; and our solar system following the sun? But what does our Sun align with to lead our planets across the galaxy with no collisions with any stars? Is that that unknown connection of our sun like an aligned tan tien keeps the martial artist balanced on his feet despite fierce attacks to knock him down?

 
Comparing spiritual body's churches in the Revelation of our Bible or Chakras as Asian thought names them, led to the question, how many chakras do humans have? More than seven?  Zoom blocked any response or possible discussion Monday, sending us out from this meeting abruptly.

In Loving Oneness,
Sylvia

 

A.R.E. Meeting for 11/2/20

Leader: Greg

New book is “ASFG Book I” and accompanying “Experiments in a Search For God," keyed to A Search for God, Book I, by Mark Thurston. We completed Puryear’s Edgar Cayce Primer last week.

A moment of silence followed by reading of 1) ARE Vision /Ideal and 2) ARE Mission Statement helped set our intention for our group ideal: Oneness.

1) Global manifestation of Oneness and the Love of God and All people.

2) "To create opportunities for profound personal change in body, mind, and spirit through the wisdom found in the Edgar Cayce material."

As for as the experiment of searchers of truth, we learned if we weren’t motivated and enthusiastic to get it done two weeks ago, only one found motivation to do the experiment and is awaiting an answer for guidance sought, 1 forgot, 1 used 6 days to think of a question, if “automatons” are man-made robots and “were misused” by Atlanteans, and Jim Hightower author and columnist in Colorado Springs “Indy” weekly was accurate that automatons with AI will be here and start performing manufacturing jobs in about 15 years, “How could humans have mistreated these man-made “workers” of artificial intelligence?” How? What did they do to automatons that qualified as mistreatment? And four members didn’t do the experiment to confirm accuracy of guidance sought within by “..asking 3 times.”

We read the Introduction and learned the seekers in the original group in 1933 found an answer to a universal question for us throughout life. What is “truly valuable in thought, in activity, experience?” It is our own realization only from within and that supported by our knowledge of self in relation to to God and self to others. Meditation is a path to attain and trust this personal truth of our own life path of hope and seeking a better way.

We read definitions for prayer and meditation and discussed an illustration of prayer from Luke 18:10-14 . It clarifies differences in praying humbly, truly seeing self and praying from a sense of pride. Prayer is our intent to attune our consciousness to that of the Creator and attunement of our minds with spiritual forces in this world.

Meditation requires removal of any blocks (resentment, etc.) to the rising of the Creative Force and allowing it to nurture and strengthen our sensitive spiritual centers, attuning our mental, physical bodies to their relationship with their Maker. "In prayer we speak to God, while God speaks to us in true meditation."

We also discussed the difference in prognostication (Greek medical term- “foreseeing”) versus free will, when Cayce made some predictions, they were like "forewarnings" in that he also said if people changed, then the disastrous possibilities seen would not happen, if they developed and became more spiritual. And how accurate Cayce’s readings were.

A member named three prophecies for 1933, 1968, 1998 of the 20ish our “psychic diagnostician” was said to have made that never happened. While ARE realizes now a few published as “prophecies” were his personal dreams. And his son Huge Lynn wrote on "The Outer Limits of Edgar Cayce’s Power," because as many people as were helped by his information, he was wrong 10% of the time. People receiving the reading may not have had the support and true seeking Oneness of mind of family and friends enhancing Cayce’s work. He was leaving his body and going to his Source for the information. Unlike mediums and many who expected a human “guide” who died and crossed over could magically know more information dead than than they did alive. Yes, that’s another way for 10% more inaccuracies, for a total of 20% mistakes on average. 

Cayce refused to be just another medium, claiming his right to go to the source. Besides lack of group support for readings, sometimes the human Cayce just had a bad day. But his good days were 10% better accuracy compared to mediums. Also, Cayce lacked the ability to distinguish ideas-“thought forms”- he called them- from a record of an event in the God’s Book of Knowledge or the Akasha.

Our Experiment for Nov 3 to Nov. 9:

A member suggested we meditate and in so doing, see the positive, and affirm the good blessings in these times of change in our prayers. Petition for or hold a “good” vision of our petition, a cure, gratitude for first responders, doctors, nurses, etc. and thankfulness for those recovered, gratitude for abundance of medical resources, gratitude for the soon arrival of a vaccine! Seeing cooperation, oneness, unity, of our common purpose and goals, and so forth. The experiment is explained on bottom of page ten and upper half of page eleven of our experiments book, but without the positive quality and focus our group discussed explicitly and agreed to do this week.

Among prayer request for concerns are to pray for a strong immune system and immune response and protection of “Michelle” and “Chuck”, abundance of energy, calmness and peace, sense this is easy focus along with patience and strength for family members and parents challenged to be the school teacher, while performing an 8 hour job and doing the housekeeping all at once.

Next week we’ll begin on page 7, "Will prayer answer for meditation?"

We’ve missed you much to those not among the seven tonight!

In Loving Oneness,
Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 10/26/20

Leader: Sylvia

Seven members entered our Zoom meeting room tonight. We opened our meeting and our chakras in preparation for meditation. We listened to ARE s Vision/ Ideal being read to start:

Global manifestation of Oneness, and The Love Of God and All People.

And heard the ARE Mission Statement:

To create opportunities for profound personal change in body, mind, and spirit through the wisdom found in the Edgar Cayce material.

It was discussed whether each person felt or observed an effect from reading ARE's ideal and mission statement upon the quality of the meetings, or not, in the month of October. Or upon our daily attempts to live the lesson, i.e., in our experiments. Several noticed a bit, or felt some affect in living the lesson this month. One felt it enhanced the quality of discussions during the meetings. Members stayed on the spiritual ideas being discussed from the book. The ideal and mission statement was uplifting to one as if reading a prayer. It led one person to experience two emotional revelation with two insights about an older self that had remained hidden lifelong. 

We agreed to continue the practice of reading the ARE ideal and mission statement, with the majority accepting and allowing that it did no harm when no direct benefit was seen individually. 

This was our first month long trial of a proposal. Would weekly reminders to observe for any effects upon depth and quality of meetings have yielded different results among members whose minds slipped this trial during busy distraction filled weeks?

One member expressed a  personal need to meditate to start the meeting. Meditating with others is necessary to shift from high pressure, hurry of job and traffic, to a spiritual focus.

We meditated on becoming more aware that God is Love and thru His Love, made manifest in his Son, the Christ. We prayed for others, our absent members, and for other's healing.

Cindi lost to death two friends this week, Jerry and Glenn. Justice  is now home from intensive care at the hospital. This 11 year old girl we prayed for last week is no longer in a coma, is doing well, and eating well in her home.

We discussed our experiment of week past and agreed to repeat it for next week's experiment:

To receive guidance, ask a question and go within three times for an answer, as Cayce recommended.

One received an answer, as the still small voice spoke,  Honor the WILL;  Will  simultaneously lit up neon-blue light. But a question, should abortion be legal? It wasn't an issue in 5th century S. America nor 14th century Asia. Another child was an asset in those times. Just within versus an Akashic  record meditation may have yielded a confirmation or two, instead of not an issue for cultures of old.

Some of us were too busy or forgot the experiment. 

But two got unexpected results, an inspiration not just to prevent a health status from getting worse,  but why not try to use health information plus spiritual information to improve and increase physical condition and better vision of glaucoma diagnosed eye?  Castor oil in eyes is also a Cayce recommendation, too. Several days of castor oil dropped into the inner eye corner produced good results right away. Eyes feel better!

And we learned we can alkalize our bodies just breathing. Each morning take 30 very deep rhythmic inhalations and exhalations advocated by Wim Hof. 

The other member has been seeking guidance on too much noise too many hours, and was led to take 3-4 action steps. She came up with influential people willing to work toward upholding a neighborhood standard for quiet. An offender came to her home and apologized for all the noise. But the one apologizing cannot keep others in same household from defiantly making noise. Yet.

Typically meditating with Tesla lights, a member found three times of seeking right in line with his three times of meditation.

We read the Going Within section in The Edgar Cayce Primer. It referenced the New Testament scripture, John 16:9. Cayce said to trust in the Living God, the God found within when we set an ideal; live it. Thru daily practice, we discover  the pattern of the true self. And we finished our book when we finished discussing and reading A Little Leaven.

Three fourths of the world's population accept the philosophy of reincarnation. We are living with a magnitude of challenges, so many endless wars, economic and social strife, injustices. But.

We have a new covenant with our creator. And when we change and develop and grow spiritually by living our ideal, bit by bit, potentially we can become the small leaven, powerfully influencing ten other people by our newer higher vibrations, peaceful lifestyles of our new consciousness. They in turn can influence ten others to also know God, Maker of the universe and us all.

We have no concerns or worries about any negative controlling influences being slipped to us in flu vaccines. How do we know?  NOTHING outside of us is stronger that what is INSIDE of ourselves.

And pondered, given various prophets predictions, has Christ already reentered earth? Perhaps as soon as 1998? How would we even recognize him? Is he coming via reincarnation in a new body?  Or is the Christ state Jesus achieved, a state of consciousness, a new pattern of living to go back to our Divine Father? Or a consciousness many people being born after 2000 have or will attain? Many viewpoints.

Next month- new Leader- Greg

New Books-  A Search for God Book I  and Experiments in a Search for God, keyed to Book One by Mark Thurston, PHD.

In Oneness of Divine Love,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 10/19/20

Leader: Sylvia

Thank you for taking these three into your prayer time this week. (As per request for prayers from two members last night.) An opportunity missed at the time by some. Justice is receiving hospital care for more than one concerning diagnosis.

A time in silence shifted to ARE's ideal: Global Manifestation of Oneness and the Love of God and All people.

It brought to mind our own group ideal of Oneness.

ARE Mission Statement: To create opportunities for profound personal change in body, mind, and spirit through the wisdom found in the Edgar Cayce material.

Five faithful seekers found others had a good week experimenting with individual concepts of  spreading love or being channels of love. One exception was three not so good days, exacerbated by a high stress workplace combined with exhaustion of noise interrupted sleep. (Is what we resist, persists, a true saying? Will a mental focus on WHAT WE WANT for ourselves change our reality PROFOUNDLY?) are concepts also discussed. And knowing God is Love led a member to actually see a God is Love sign being carried by a homeless person.

Intending to live a loving week defined as love is accepting and allowing, this member realized toward week's end that  love can also be to find the beauty in others.

Another one saw in meditations the joyous, happy rose colored love going from the heart of God unto their own. This warmly joyous love was channeled to members and spread to others, heart to heart.

While we admitted none of us are actually as good in putting our ideas for spreading love into action as we would like to be, two members could maintain peace of mind and that connection to our loving nature by giving others the benefit of the doubt. 

Stressed, worried, rushing people just cannot seem to be also aware of their effects on us as we'd like them to be. But the times we can just keep the flow of goodwill, of love going, accepting, and allowing those others space to endure whatever they are so overtaken by; they can't even notice us here, is a powerful, preventive tactic for self protection.

Spreading love mentally through allowing and acceptance, acting in kind, considerate, understanding took all the patience we could muster at times. 

But wasn't having a good week, a positive week, seeing the best and the beauty in others so eye opening to our own sense of self, of faith, of knowing ourselves just a bit better? Priceless it was to your typist and especially just hearing us describe how we all could do it, at times patience-trying intenseness was required to just keep staying in that flow. Didn't we find it inspiring how our intention to spread love kept manifesting for all of us, and growing as we recognized it's not just me alone spreading love around, others are sharing it too. It's the beauty I see in others.

Our reader began on page 232 of subtitle, Turning Within, in the  Edgar Cayce Primer. We received profound truths first spoken by a deeply sleeping Cayce. Within, we gain understanding that morphs into knowing.

To find GOD, all must go within. To heal, all healing comes from that contact with Spirit (GOD) within. Going within, we come to know ourselves truly.

For guidance,  go within that temple in thine own body. Edgar and Hugh Lynn, as long as he lived (into the 80s) steered everyone away from mediums. It was a worldwide policy for ARE. Why?  A topic for lengthy discussion:

Paraphrased- in the Old Testament story the warrior King Saul was scolded by an annoyed Samuel to be called back by a medium. He was too busy to be interrupted for a soon to be known anyway, fact. This began a no medium contact standard for upcoming Bible students, apparently.

Getting information from a medium is comparable to reading a book versus seeing the movie. In reading the book, we get all the facts and can imagine the characters and story accordingly. While in the filmed version, someone else gives us their potentially a bit flawed version of the story. So the medium-movie version is not the enlightened, straight from our temple, truth or Akash, if you will.

It's hard, uncomfortable work learning to do what we have never done. To get there, to learn to access that needed information ourselves, we must grow in mental strength, in patience, consistency, either developing spiritual qualities such as faith, or enhancing and expanding these precious gifts, those soul nurturing qualities.

Have you ever paid a medium to get guidance on the same issue three times? No? Has any one of us medium using, guidance seeking people ever gone to three different mediums to confirm the truth of what the first and second one got? Not this typist either.

But that's what Cayce recommended. Ask three times. That's our experiment.

Whatever you'd like guidance on, go within to that Temple within thine own body and ask three times. 

So, let's pick our question, and take it within 3x as Cayce recommended. We can do this in three days, or three meditations! Shall we?

In Oneness of Divine Love,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 10/12/20

 Leader: Sylvia

Our group missed several members tonight who have attended quite a while and two who are inquirers. One is interested in reading our minutes while considering if this journey is right for them.

Loving spirits of nine enduring members brightened and uplifted our meeting.

We opened with an invocation, which in part sought light from the mind of God streaming into humanity's minds, love from the heart of God streaming into the hearts of humanity; and from the will of God, let the Purpose Masters know and serve, guide the small wills of humanity to let the plan of love and light work out on earth.

The ARE Vision/Ideal: Global manifestation of oneness, and the Love of God, and all people.

And the ARE Mission Statement: To create opportunities for profound personal change, in body, mind, and spirit through the wisdom found in the Edgar Cayce material.

This week's love experiment sprang out of our reading under the subtitle for this section, Our Search For God. Has any other author described love so many ways, perceptions, facets of God as we read tonight? God is love and love is God. God is all that is; and, all that is is GOD. God is love. Love is our very nature. God is love, our very being.

Experiment:

So this week we are finding out, what happens if we spread love around, as  channels of love?  Or another's perspective of the aforementioned is to love unconditionally.

Then, can we truly love others, unless we first love ourselves? We asked. Is it necessary to work with our shadow side? (As a Jung psychologist termed) info hidden from our awareness, at least until we do or say something out of character.  It also comes up in our dreams and meditations. We repress memories of behaviors we judge as wrong for our value system: anger, hatred, desires to act in anger, perhaps to hurt or harm, among many thoughts feel short of  joyous, rose energy love.  Some will use the Akashic Records Meditation to identify blocks to loving God, others, and self.

We discussed our results of several experiments suggested last week.

When our Zoom clock ran down, we had more proposals coming fast with no time to make a decision; just one group experiment agreed on. Several had experimented, but results reported where far fewer than is typical of these members. 

And this week (and last), several choose to go solo before a decision. We had numerous concepts what love is and under what conditions we can express love. Unconditionally, with personal Akashic Record info from our past, present, or future potential personal data.

Or must we root out unseen, unknown conditions, beliefs, thoughts qualifying people as unlovable, unworthy, despicable, or undeserving due to our negative emotions pressed deeply into our unconscious minds?

Perhaps experimentation will yield answers by next Monday.

Lovingly in Oneness,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 10/5/20

Leader: Sylvia

Early on in our meeting of seven Jesus seeking searchers this week past, it was said; paraphrasing Cayce, ....a group of people with many different ideas but one Ideal can achieve oneness. That’s how our meeting ended: With three suggestions for an experiment, but no decision on “one experiment.” Swept offline suddenly, we went electronically out of Zoom before discussion was complete.

Opening prayer, then leader read The ARE Vision/Ideal: “Global manifestation of Oneness, and the Love of God and All People.”

ARE Mission Statement: “To create opportunities for profound personal change in body, mind, and spirit through the wisdom found in the Edgar Cayce material”.

It was stated when suggested for consideration, “This proposed protocol would represent the ARE and ASFG material with the DIVINE INTEGRITY from which they were created.” “...If practiced, ASFG meetings could have wider and deeper focus on the quality of internal spiritual work and growth of attending members.”

ARE’s Vision/Ideal & Mission Statement were read aloud for the purpose of inquiring. Leader suggested we ask ourselves this month: How does this affect me? Reaction? Did Group members realize enhanced or greater focus on the quality of inner spiritual work & resulting personal growth?

The realization later came to me, “I quickly dismissed it with no serious thought. Our group itself wasn’t present, though individual members were. Avoiding the discomfort of any change at any cost of personal discomfort for me may not be what’s best for everyone in group.” So that’s why I’m suggesting we questioningly experiment this month.

We had our group meditation, too, and reported results of “...taking Jesus with us this week”. Five of seven appreciated Jesus, whereas two invited him along just to cooperate with our experiment. One’s trying week of challenges came with gratitude “Jesus was there with me” when really needed; and gratitude for a negative family member's Covid-19 test result!!!

Another saw Jesus back here among us today doing his work. Only this time He was doing healings on television, as he had done before—with same the polar opposite embracing acceptance or skeptical disbelief in his healings of people, and identical scorn and ridicule.

One seeker wanted to know and investigated why “Uncle Tom” had become an all time name-calling label judging someone as “weak”: “Oh, you are just an “Uncle Tom.” Untrue according to the read of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin." Words in this story painted a picture of anything but weakness. Turns out, Uncle Tom was a “Christ-like man” advocating for love and behaving and living as Jesus had done. He forgave his all his owners and their mean, mistreatment of him.

Someone else recognized Jesus in the actions of President Trump. Just as Jesus threw the money changers out of the Temple, our President has been as busy throwing out the undesirable and cleaning up our country.

“See Christ in All,” softly spoke the still, small voice accompanied by an inner vision of white light of blinding brilliance, in meditation some years ago. This directive came in response to the intention to find out “how to bring Peace on Earth.” The previous reports above triggered this unspoken treasured memory of your typist. 

One appreciated a delayed wedding anniversary trip and celebration despite Covid-19's Safer at Home. Appreciating Jesus also came with an insight about highly charged, potentially dangerous, risky topics of conversation, “I don’t have to take the bait to get in a conversation when I don’t want to be in.  

Of the two present without a current personal relationship with Jesus, one did realize an unidentified block now, in contrast to a joyous secure dependence and closeness to Jesus in childhood. A possibility for its removal. Put another way—awareness of a need to know self. But a week didn’t rekindle that intimate trust in the Jesus of their childhood.

We finished reading about Jesus who became the Christ and began the final Chapter, “Knowing Thyself.” Considering the implications of reincarnation and living lifetime after lifetime, the magnitude of spiritual work to attain “at-one-ment" or Oneness is vastly hard work.

Knowing the self is made more difficult by control of habits, addictions, compulsions. Additionally the powers of thoughts, fears, prejudices of others over us, do not allow us as ourselves to become wholly who we really are.

There is a oneness of all Force, stated in scripture, “Know Oh, Israel, The Lord Thy God is One.” We are asked "... to Love the Lord Thy God, with all thy heart, all thy mind, all thy Soul, and thy neighbor as thyself."

In experiences shared on getting to know oneself, a participant had used astrology, prayer, and free will to manage strengths and overcome personal weaknesses. This led to self acceptance by facing self, and sidestepping commonly used defenses of rejection or projection of ones weaknesses.

Another had worked previously at knowing self thru meditating on self for months. Seeing past mistakes became transformational with the realization that given the opportunity, “I would not make that same mistake again.”

EXPERIMENT:

With none chosen, can we in the “Oneness of our spiritual ideal, choose one of several ideas suggested to experiment? As Cayce said, ” ...it's possible to attain oneness among many people of different ideas with “one Ideal.”

In July we chose “Oneness” as a spiritual study group ideal. Which choice below might best led us individually to know ourselves better?

1. Practice “loving God with all our hearts, minds, and souls, and our neighbor as ourselves?”

2. Could we do something kind for someone this week that is out of the ordinary?

3. Learning to know ourselves from meditating upon self revelations found in the Akashic records? (Get answer to question about self this way)

Can we maintain our “Oneness” ideal experimentally if we are experimenting in different ways in knowing Self?

In Oneness,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 9/28/20

Leader: Eric

Electronics facilitated our connection in Oneness bringing two newer seekers  along with seven seasoned seekers of sacred truth and knowledge of spiritual matters into a Zoom meeting. 

A question on why we unexpectedly meditate was opportunity for chiming in to a discussion on benefits and results of meditation, aids to, preparation for, precautions for protection and direction.

Most important for meditation is to have a purpose, an Ideal for meditation. Without the guiding protection of that, we could invite ANYTHING in. Mischievous spirits, darkness desiring to use or dominate, etc. Cayce gave a Prayer of Protection often used by meditation leaders.

Meditation prepares us mentally and emotionally for our sacred study, for praying, attunes us to the Divine for healing work. It leads us into peace, new knowledge, at times insights, answers or guidance for current challenges.

Our Meditation lesson from either ASFG book gives physical preparations, head and neck exercises, and breathing exercises. Cayce said relax the body for meditation. (He further said in other readings to do the head and neck exercises to protect or improve hearing and vision, circulation (more frequently with increased reps). Even telling someone to do them while walking outdoors in fresh air and sunshine.)

The Our Father (Lords Prayer) is said to open our chakras to receive. Cayce pointed out which specific words specific chakras resonate to. Then we pray the 23rd Psalm to close each church or spiritual center that connects our spiritual body, our Soul, to our physical body.

You're right! We then meditated, prayed for others in turn around our circle.

We reported outcomes of our experiment attempting to create thought forms meditating on our Oneness with God, visualizing a line connecting us all.  Unexpectedly, awareness of The Oneness of all earth beings was awakened. We are all interrelated, interconnected, interdependent, we all have a place on earth's food chain of life. We have LOST ONE THIRD of the body mass of all our world's insects. Birds are dying off in mass because there are no insects for them to eat. 

Who knew a bee sting can activate a plant to bloom. How's that for an international bee meal ticket? It was asserted a bee withdrew its stinger from a gardener's  bee-pricked finger; yes, reversed action, upon receiving verbal reassurance of no harm intended the bee. Does that confirm or merely suggest bees have consciousness, too?

Interesting experiment results ranged from seeing cylindrical or circular forms with connecting lines to a central God, admissions of not having ....created any thought forms knowingly.  Another visualized group in one photograph cut into  puzzle pieces that fit into a circle of Oneness or ONE scene. Another saw aspen neuron like rays to everybody; while looking down upon a web of world connections- a Soul network. Another, a sensitive, was challenged by endless loud sounds and strong vibrations blasting out from a radio all week long. Don't people have any awareness of how they affect other people with noise?

Most importantly, reading Chapter 27, Jesus who became the Christ, starting on page 223 was just excellent. 

The WORD or GOD spoke creation into being. Do we believe our words have no power? Puryear wrote about the power of a word to invoke an entity, a spirit, a power. Jesus' identity is a quickener of consciousness. Jesus became the light of which all Souls are made! Jesus mediates between our consciousness of the DIVINE, God's fullness, GOD's forgiveness.

Discussion of one culture naming babies Jesus or not (perhaps seeing Jesus as the physical man their children might emulate), and the CHRIST as GOD, none of their babies were named CHRIST or CRISTOS, across several cultures. (St) Christopher is a more common choice baby name choice to inspire spiritual qualities for life.

JESUS is a Power Word for many, a word to speak to invite spirit, to invite to come to us as a guest. He will not enter uninvited. (Honoring 3rd dimensional FREE WILL- not interfering?) Power Words are invitations, invocations, sometimes spell casting words calling spirits, incarnate or discarnate, angelic beings possibly working with karmic Grace of a lesson.

If  we claim his claim Jesus promises, he will come to us, (too, as he once did in a vison to Cayce).

In reading 3528-1, Cayce described the pattern Jesus created for us in becoming the Christ, the path, the way back to our original estate in heaven with our Creator Father God. Jesus The CHRIST for All whether Jew, Hindu, Islamic  or what, Thy Elder Brother!

A dream of the Gramatron or JESUS was described. ( I didn't know the word Tetragrammaton either, it is a four letter word or the name (4 letters too sacred to speak Y H V H) given to Moses for GOD on Mount Sinai )

Experiment - Take Jesus into our lives this week, however we choose.

As a  POWER Word, claim his promises, invoke his presence?  However we choose to have a relationship or become ONE with our Elder Brother, our way shower.

Blessings in Oneness,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 9/21/20

Leader: Eric 

The Colorado Springs ARE Study Group's discussion of an experiment to do during this first autumn week, based on our reading tonight concluded with an unusual experiment.  To work with what Cayce described as thought forms and to use them in order to achieve group Oneness and unity! Here it is:

Create thought forms during meditation by seeing a line connecting us to each other in Oneness. How simple and easy is that to do? And better suited to a study group of well over the 8 Seekers present, who had great difficulty in finding good along with any evil in ourselves, others, or evil situations. We reported that when we tried this, we couldn't actually see or put an energetic block out there on anything by judging a situation, behavior, or ourselves, Evil. We see no evil.

Our observations were of people not being alert to their surroundings nor to others, of innocently making mistakes, or acting in less than an ideal manner. One member self identifies as an observer, seeing and thinking people in challenging, painful, troubling situations with problems are just living out their karma (learning a lesson as John Van Auken once described it). Karma is not God's punishment, but the loving grace of God gently letting us learn better.

One person also affirmed an e-mail sent us this week: A blind woman's caregiver husband died, forcing her to go live in a care center. She arrived enthusiastic about the tiny room. I love it. When questioned, she explained she'd long ago discovered happiness is a choice. She'd made up her mind before she got there she was going to be happy. And she joyously was.

Another had listened to a guest speaker on reincarnation on the weekend radio show Coast to Coast. Past life information had been accessed on why did a parent have to live 20 years in a wheelchair? The past life indicated the wheelchair bound parent had lived a life as a slave trader, and chaining his victims. Now his opportunity to learn better presented in the form of being chained to a wheel chair for 20 years. So interesting that the parent accepted it without complaint, self pity, nor resentment, and lived a happy life.

Finally a person in a relationship found circumstances transformed from mutual admiration to supervising & helping a young rebellious pupil to stay focused all day on online Covid-19 home schooling. But shifting back into mutual admiration appeared impossible. Remembering the agreement to see the good regardless of illusions of mistakes, evil, etc., the person then only spoke to the child of directions followed, appropriate behaviors. Mutual admiration quickly returned.  And bringing to mind an idea from childhood kids say,  Monkey see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Could it be evil is only an illusion? Like FEAR? False Evidence Appearing Real.

In a reading, Cayce told someone to seek out points of agreement and coordinate western religious teachings and eastern religious teachings. Because these are same in spirit. The Word, the Son, God in the physical earth plane is the same in Joshua, Melchizedek and Jesus who became the Christ. The same is in long awaited Maitria of Buddhists, the long expected Messiah of Jews or Adam, an incarnation of Jesus, the long anticipated return of Christians's Jesus.

Realize, accentuate, see, and understand this ONE, Universal GOD of all people everywhere.

One CHRIST Spirit in our all world's religions whether it's found in the East or West spiritual truths. Oneness. One Universal God for all nations in worldwide spiritual, religious thought. 

Bible references Cayce quoted making the point of ONENESS of Universal Forces were: 

Jesus words from John chapter 8: v. 58, Before Abraham, I am. Exodus chapter 39: v. 11, describing a cloud descending and Moses speaking to Joshua (earlier incarnation of Jesus).

Micah chapter 5: v. 2, ... out of ye shall He come...

John chapter 10: v. 34

Psalms 82: v6. 

He explained how the Word was One and became ONE with God. Seven of Jesus' lives in the Bible are mentioned in the surviving canonized books. He persevered in living a perfect life, in gaining in power, in becoming Jesus the perfect pattern. Attuning to that awareness of One God, God became incarnate. Thus creating a way back for us who left home. We fell so low in our vibratory rate, we could not remember we were Children of God, created to be companions to and co-creators with God, nor from where we fell. As co-creators, our thoughts physically hardened into thought forms creating bodies. There is NO SEPARATION.

In the first chapter of John, The Word is the Spirit that took up the Life of God.  ....You are Gods who must come to full obedience to the Law of Love.  Living the Fruits of the Spirit. In ministry to seekers of Spiritual Truth. Via Oneness consciousness? 

If our bodies are "thought forms," this led to conversation about illusions, and experimenting with intentional thought forms.

In Oneness,

Sylvia Raye