Leader: Eric
Experiment
1. Choose a spiritual law of which you have rational knowledge, yet have not
known through experience. Write down that law in as clear and concise a way as
you can, (e. g., whatever you are willing to give to others will come back to
you). Each Day for at least a week pray for a deeper experience of the meaning
of that law and be open in your life for such experiences and awarenesses to
come. Record any occurrences which give you a greater “experiential”
understanding of this law.
2nd
Experiment: Choose one principle that you have been recommending to others that
they apply. Write down that teaching or principle (e. g., “we must be patient,”
a particular dietary regime). Each day for at least a week make an effort to
(1) refrain from telling others to apply this principle and (2) apply it to
your own life. Record instances where you are successful in this work!
Group Ideal: Oneness
Action: affirm our Oneness with each member daily.
Both ASFG Books, I and the experiments book, for Lesson on “Virtue and Understanding”.
Spirits
were brightened by uplifting thoughts within The Lord’s Prayer and Philippians,
Chapter 4, Verse 8, read aloud, at the opening of this meeting. The leader
allowed time for all to enter the Zoom space. Members set aside the meeting aides
suggestion to report in three sentences the Spiritual insight gained; instead
mostly we presented narratives of daily events, dreams, related to the
experiment. Six reported on experiment number one. We sought to gain understanding
by releasing into God’s care our concerns over a personal problem: a teams 2nd
week of their project at work being blocked by lack of a workable design;
relationship challenges; a lengthy unemployment period and a repetitive
annoyance of another’s behavior; 6 stumped and dumbfounded, professional
“software customer-service problem solvers” of situations customers encounter;
and feeling a lack of acceptance by others.
Three
seeker's outcomes are “in progress of being turned around,” one was answered by
a dream and a follow up confirmation dream that “greater self acceptance will
bring the greater acceptance sought from others;” and importantly, another had
two situations in God’s capable hands turned around. (1) Strong effort went
into thinking anything other than about the recurring again and again annoying
behavior. With no thoughts recreating it and empowering it, the behaviors
stopped! Easy to say, not easy to do. (2) The
undesirable, new part time job hours transformed into a full time new job with
acceptable, desirable hours just as this meeting was getting started! One
member’s understanding blended into him also seeing his different values in his
friends represented both their “purity” and his own “purity.” A unexpected
bonus of doing the the first experiment. Two
others saw purity in others, within others, and in children’s and pets’
innocence and behaviors. Particularly, one discovered, purity glowed in devoutly
lived marriages of couples following religious teachings and spiritual values
of purity, etc. Who has the wisdom to remove the distractions in the world in
their homes and to live even for an interval of 2weeks time free from the
distraction of touch? Who knows so doing creates the freedom to build
enthusiastically described, “ Beautiful, Soul to Soul relationships” with an
additional bonus of mental, emotional understandings. It is mates chosen
according to ideals, values, goals and practicing Hasidic teachings in their
marriages and homes. They happily remove the distractions of touch two weeks
each month, for the purity that leads to a relationship of Soul touching Soul,
of emotional understanding, of thoughtful knowledge of the purity of their
Beloved, that’s who.
Pre-meeting
conversation informed us it’s too uncomfortable to discuss personal Covid-19
related choices. Perhaps it’s the result of conflicting available information,
but it sets up tensions among us and splashes corrosive tendencies over upon
our Ideal of Oneness. We
agreed to avoid the topic of choices for how we individually choose to manage
our Covid-19 precautions.
A
knowledgeable member reminded us all, Cayce said that immunizations are
unnecessary for people who keep their bodies alkaline eating lettuce, carrots,
celery (80% alkaline foods to 20% acid reacting, meats and proteins, fats,
sugar and other white refined grains and food products, and “starches or
carbohydrates). All commentators agreed they experienced a physical change in
eating a daily meal of salad. It ranged from physically invincible, energized,
to feeling good.
Talk
about feeling good? At least two people affirmed the benefits of drinking
Ojibwa herbal tea, a years, if not centuries old, remedy of native peoples, and
herbalists. It’s available from Barr.com in
liquid or powder; or more economically available from Denver in herbal form.
The dry herbs can be boiled up into sufficient concentrate that can be diluted
and refrigerated for a two weeks supply.
Members
were zoomed out of our sacred space listening to sage advice of experience for
a motor trip to Arizona: “Detour from New Mexico highway 40”; its currently
undergoing repairs.
In
Loving Oneness,
Sylvia Raye
Action: affirm our Oneness with each member daily.
Sylvia Raye
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