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