Tuesday, December 8, 2020

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

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