A.R.E. Meeting for 3/9/20

Precious and sweet is the time hearts and minds join together to express LOVE for Universal Forces in meditation. June provide two ideal meditation pieces of beautiful music enhancing our meditation experience. Prayers of gratitude were offered for the cohesive, cooperative effects the Covid 19 is requiring and creating among countries of the world as they MUST team up to protect the health of the people of earth. There were prayers for healing and other concerns.

We read the remainder of  meditation chapter  in the Cayce Primer and discussed it. We discussed how  incarcerated inmate John Sherman's painting (at the Cottonwood Arts Gallery show this month), is an expression of divine love and the divine feminine, while portraying personal growth and spiritual development. It is entitled "Pink Aura." Business discussed was whether we should have a visitation/social time at 6:30 pm so we can begin our weekly meetings at 7:00pm.

We talked about ways to support a much needed shelter for rehabilitation, like Bakhita Mountain Home for women impacted by human trafficking (not one place in Colorado). In 2018, there where 178 confirmed cases needing Bakhita Mountain Home services including trauma-based therapy in order to heal. A group of Franciscan and Benedictine sisters, female survivors of sex trafficking and lay women envisioned a home well suited to meet survivors needs. We can support remodeling and furnishing of the Home by donations or pledges set up online at http://BakhitaMountainHome.org/donate.

One member shared a personal story that began after she attended her first ASF group in Texas in 1971. Before long, she entered a bookstore, walked over to a shelf as if guided to the spot, purchased the first book her hands and eyes touched upon.  It was a book by Lobsang Rampa, which she then read.

Fifteen years later, in the Ballroom of the Golden, Colorado Holiday she listened to retired New York Metrpolitation Opera singer Shirley Rabb Winston help attendees see whether they could recognize a past life listening to music from ten different cultures of the world. Throughout the seminar, she watched raised hands of numerous people answer Shirley's question, yes, they liked music of that culture. All day the melodies were nice but none of it made a connection.

Near days end, Shirley played a shrill high pitched wailing sound and a slow drum beat. That ugly sound? Hardly music. Who likes this one? Shirley Winston asked the final time. How can I say I like this? She struggled with herself, and stopped smiling. That ugly sound is not music. Her hand went up as she realized she felt more joyous than she'd ever felt in her life. She surveyed the big room. Every person there agreed with her intellectually, only her yoga teacher's hand was up.

Shirley explained this sound is one of Tibetan monks marching in to evening prayers. Thirty years later, people from Nepal here were doing a Sound Healing Bowls fund raising tour for a school. Before we start we are going to give away a bowl. My heart jumped out across numerous rows of people in the theater to the stage. Then he announced she had the winning number. This bowl is not a healing bowl; this bowl is a begging bowl. It was made with a prayer every time the bowl was struck, he said, handing it to her.

Feeling guided to buy a book about a Tibetan monk, the highly emotional experience of extreme joy and happiness upon hearing Tibetan monks marching into evening prayers, while the conscious mind strongly disagreed, and my heart jumping in recognition a long way down the theater to the begging bowl on stage are three unquestionably convincing experiences that, yes I did live a life as a Tibetan monk. Far more indisputable than dreams, regressions, and readers telling me believable past lives. 

No experiment was chosen for this week.

Contemplatively yours,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 3/3/20

Four native born citizen dreamers joined together tonight at Ruth Holly Library  in meditation and prayers for Judy Overman, George, Jeff Herwitt, Ed Murphy, Paul Freiler. Let's remember these people in our prayers.

Cindi will type up and send out the excellent meditation she led us in last week on Loving God (our purpose for meditation), ourselves, and radiating out that love to others. This meditation was our experiment during the week just past.

Cindi shared just a gem from two pages of notes gathered while listening to the material on "Suffering" that Greg alerted us to. "Karma is the result of of A LACK OF COMPASSION."

"Understanding your Dreams," from listening to the tape June brought and played the first half of, provided a tremendous quantity of information given by Cayce. It emphasized the importance of being early to bed, so as to experience more dreams remembered during longer hours of REM producing sleep in the 7th and 8th or so hours, of having an intent of remembering and using, working with the dream and it's message to us. It gave half a dozen reasons we might want to remember our dreams. It also gave half a dozen ways we can approach understanding the dream's message and how to then apply the information from the dream message to the life we now live. It could be a dream pertaining to spiritual growth, health, finances, our personal problems/solutions, or whatever we requested a dream on.

Unique to the Cayce dream material may be the suggestion that we write down all of our personal reasons we might want to remember and apply a dream's information to our life. The people in our dreams may not be the people of our waking life, but symbols or aspects of ourselves. The message may be a direct statement of a problem solution, or a play on a word or symbol. We need to search for what is happening in our lives and how it pertains to the dream's message. A dream can give many points of view in solving a problem.   We need to recognize the problem or situation where the information given in our dream needs to be applied in our life.

For our experiment, as a group we decided to write on a dream journal page "...the reasons I want to remember my dreams."  Once we know the types of information dream's can give us, we can be more strongly motivated to remember our dreams. The tape suggested re-reading monthly our half dozens reasons we want to remember our dreams.

Next week we'll report on how our experiment went and listen to the remainder of the tape.

Sweet Happy Dreams,

Sylvia Raye