A.R.E. Meeting for 3/29/21

Leader: Cindi
 
Experiment 1: Select and write down an aspect of your life in the material world in which you find yourself desiring an increase (e.g., more free time, more friends, more appreciation from others). Then consider the “current” conditions and write down the ways in which you are challenged to grow by those conditions.
Example:
desire: more appreciation from others
Challenges:

(1) to know within myself the things that I’m doing that are worthwhile
(2) to do things out of love and not for praise from others
Each day for the next week work with meeting the challenge offered by the current conditions. Record experiences in which you were able to grow with what you have right now.
 
Experiment 2: Select an area of your life in which you wish to experience greater faith. If you have not already set ideals for that part of your life, be sure to do this before continuing with the experiment. (1) Write an affirmation for your mind to use in daily life. This affirmation should express the nature of your ideals and be used whenever necessary each day to awaken the experience of faith. (2) Each day have a period of reverie and imagination concerning the application of these ideals. (3) Also be sure to have daily prayer and meditation period. This is a specific threefold experiment from the readings that links our understanding of ideals to our experience of faith. Record any meaningful experiences that arise from the application of this approach.

Uplifting vibrations of Love and Light, and healing energies were sent out to others, according a Cayce recommended way of meditating. So began a meeting of minds seeking Truth in Oneness, starting with the Lord’s Prayer, and closing the meditation and time of healing and blessings with the 23rd Psalm, a favorite of son, Hugh Lynn Cayce.

Books: ASFG Book I and Experiments in ASFG, keyed to A Search for God, Book l.

Ideal: Oneness

Action: Affirm Oneness with group members daily

 
A knowledgeable long time ASFG member gently reminded our group we are just “reporting the spiritual essence gleaned” from working the experiment.” In three sentences” is what no one else remembered of guidelines for “when it’s your turn to lead the group,” put out years ago, available to this writer as early as 1971. Speaking of only the “spiritual reality encountered experimentally,” in just three sentences guides us to the make point of what we learned, and aides us in clear, easily understood communications. Sort of like a speeding bullet to the listener’s ears and mind, with no distracting side roads and rabbit holes to get lost in.
 
Five told of their encounters with Faith during this past week. Most received dreams, some recalled and helpful, some dreams gone with the first thought upon awakening. Feelings of having failed to open and strengthen the Faith within can appear if one uses the text book ideal of Faith. We reminded ourselves, the Ideal is that we aspire to. No one moved a mountain or walked on water last night, but Faith teachings of The Master of Masters inspired confidence in a possibility of us doing it with Faith. Can we walk on water with only faith, or is knowledge of universal laws a factor, too? That answer may present itself later.
 
We finished reading our lesson on Faith. We read “Where Faith Abounds,” and read through to the end of the chapter in ASFG. We read the last two experiments above, discussed Faith, and which experiments we’d do.
 
In Loving Oneness,
Sylvia Raye