Leader:
John
Group
Ideal: Oneness - action: Affirm daily our oneness with each group member.
Book:
Experiments in a Search for God, keyed to Book I. Author: Mark Thurston.
Experiment:
Choose from the first three experiments, in chapter four, lesson, ”What is my
ideal?” These are on pages 37, 38, 39, and continuing on the top of page 40.
As
studious seekers came into our Sacred Space on Zoom at the new meeting time,
6:30 pm, one half hour earlier, conversation became a wellness check among
us. Postponed surgery recommended 5 years ago for an enduring childhood injury
has become cervical pain requiring medical intervention and a neck brace for
June.
Whatever
prompted the question, “Are ghosts real?”, lead to a discussion. "Yes, they
are." Cayce verified a battered wife’s comment, “When he’s been drinking, (and
beats me) it’s like he’s a completely different person.” “He
is. He’s possessed,” a sleeping Cayce replied. So we also said, some people in
their transition state may get stuck before completing it, due to sudden death
without the realization they have crossed over. Dead souls may linger to guide
and watch over a loved one, or may stay to indulge themselves further in an
addiction to drunkenness, or drugs. A dream that seemed as if a father’s
spirit, a man who had crossed over weeks earlier, was actually in his sleeping
son’s room might have been a brief ghost appearance. Or being awakened by a
“feeling” a dead spouse was standing beside a sleeping woman’s bed“ could have
been a ghost sighting. There are more ghost stories yet to be told about souls
who lost their way and may have died without an ideal. Or lost souls even who
have become ghosts now because of an ideal of loyalty and a life dedicated to
protecting others. For example, a now dead police officer has reportedly been
seen by people with higher sense perception, standing just behind a widow’s
left shoulder as if to provide her guidance and further protection. But when
seven of our eight members were present, our leader got us back on track.
We
then opened with prayer, meditation, sent out once again Universal Love, Light,
healing prayers for our group, ARE, souls seeking the light, suffering, needy,
ill or grieving people, our country and our world, sending out all envisioned
needed blessings.
This
meditation and circle of prayer is this writer’s most treasured, cherished
action we take in group oneness. To come together on a spiritual level, each
soul joining and becoming one in a group energy or power and like-mindedness, then
sending out to others that we have received for the healing and blessing of
people and our world is indescribable. However, it is so meaningful and precious
to be a part of. Thank you, group members, thank you God, for this time of
oneness❣️It is just indescribably
meaningful. In the Fall 2020, “Venture Inward,” an ARE member benefit magazine,
author Joy Scott, describes so well our experience, writing about how a group
can come together to tap the power of the Universal Mind and direct it toward a
common goal. I recommend this article to better understand how we individually,
and as a group with an Ideal of Oneness, can help our own transformational soul
growth or heal those country and world divides based on differences. Her
article on page 28 is entitled, “Seize the Moment, Create the World”.
Greg sent additional “Ideals” resources, the verbatim Cayce reading on Ideals,
the basis for this lesson; a Lora Little link, “Knowing and living your Ideals; a
link to information posted on our blog about Ideals when we last studied “What
is my Ideal?” Seeing hits on our blog via Zoom was interesting to see for
group non bloggers. He also has another 1988 pub. date resource for our meeting
of discussion questions and additional experiments, entitled
“Step by Step.” Eric emailed that PDF link to us.
Everyone
in our group was either able to recognize new troubles or pain in life can be
the birth into a new self as a result of setting an ideal; or to choose from
qualities of our concept of God, and working on manifesting during the week
several aspects our our personal concept of God. Reports on our experiment,
with our group doing at least half of them for every lesson in each experiments
chapter found us completely done with a quick reading of the short “Ideals”
lesson in our red book, but doing the final two experiments from “Know
Thyself,” while studying and reading, “What is my Ideal?” The
last lesson and final experiment on "Know Thyself" set the stage well for the
next lesson for determining a current ideal.
A
report of a belief “that every thought is God” appeared to manifest the
beginnings of that idea within 24 hours, and led into discussion a resource, a
link on manifesting being sent out to those of us who want it. It is a course
offered by Mitch Horowitz on three steps to manifesting based on Neville Goddard. 1. Desire 2. A relaxed
altered “hypnogogic” level of consciousness 3. Picture that desire fulfilled.
Another
question creating discussion and comments from most is, “What was your first
ideal? Has your ideal changed over the years?”
Someone
read an excellent, lengthy list of one word ideals. Love, Service, oneness,
Truth, Faith, and so on.
John
was thanked and shown our appreciation for leading us this month. Our leader
next month is Cindi!
In
Loving Oneness,
Sylvia
Raye
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