Leader: Eric
Hello Everyone,
It was so good to see the smiling faces of 11 seriously
searching spiritual seekers on one screen,
despite being located in various areas of our fair city, county, or
another one of our United States. Visually, we can definitely say we were the picture of one group.
Last month when Cindi was our leader, we talked about choosing an ideal; oneness was strongly favored. It had been stated we'd continue this discussion of our group having an ideal, and whether it should be only one word, whether other words should help us communicate this ASFG's definition and understanding of what oneness is. We might consider and discuss what oneness means to us, spiritually, mentally, and physically. How we will know whether or not we are moving or working toward oneness with each other individually and as a group? Should we complete it according to ARE or according to how the original group did ideals as shown by the chart Melanie gave us?
Reporting on our experiment of watching self go by, where we were watching for evil thoughts, emotions, actions, within ourselves, it was a challenge to own responsibility for our/my role in behaving judgmentally, mistakenly, wrongly, acting on negative emotions, or allowing a situation take emotional control of our thoughts or actions.
Our reports led to interesting discussions and enlightening perspectives on differences in discerning and sensibly concluding truths versus ignoring facts and details to decide our first, perhaps wrong, conclusion is the right one.
This led into the story of two girls feeling badly about judging a peer. Then their Grandmother pointed out they weren't judging, but deciding and weighing facts as to whether this peer is one to deepen their relationship into a friendship with, or not.
It's sensible to use a scale such as the Briggs-Meyers personality test for introversion-extroversion to better learn to understand and reach acceptance of personalities we work alongside.
Tonight we began reading chapter 27, Jesus who became the CHRIST, page 216 of Herb Puryear's book, The Edgar Cayce Primer.
Cayce recommended using a comparison study to understand
and accept that others have had experiences and gained knowledge we lack
without the same experience. Naturally their experience has led to far different
perceptions and conclusions. Both are worthy and important to understand truth.
However our human, finite minds can never comprehend and hold the complete
truth of Spirit? Cayce's universal outlook saw all humans as children of one
God, an all inclusive outlook on spiritual beings. We have backward, forward, and current eternal existence.
Our world's spiritual leaders are here for ALL humankind. Jesus is not just for Christians only, Gandhi is for ALL people, not just for Hindis, nor Buddha is NOT just for Buddhists but all spirits universally. Spiritual leaders are present for all souls: inclusive.
Our experiment is to discern whether we can look and see good in evil people, good in ourselves in evil experiences, or good in evil situations during the week. Is there any good in ourselves or others when our hearts, thoughts, and minds become dark and evil?
We never know whether a person apparently locked in an evil situation is simply in an out of control addiction only. In many cases our alcoholic we worry about missing the mark, being wrong, doing evil deeds in states of drunkeness, is the volunteer teacher for someone needing that lesson, that understanding.
Blessings from a good person.
Yet a doer of evil deeds, too.
In oneness,
Sylvia Raye
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