Leader:
Eric
Group completed reading the lesson on Virtue and Understanding in both books. So doing, gives us three choices of experiments this week.
Experiment
1. Choose
an example from your own life of an experience of faith in which you feel
touched the purity of the soul (specific meditation experience, an especially
meaningful dream, an experience of deep love for another person). For at least
one or two minutes each day recall that experience and what you learned from
it. You
might want to have this recall period at the end of your daily meditation.
Allow the insights of that experience of faith to guide your understanding of
others for a week. Record your experiences of seeing the actions of others with
a greater degree of understanding.
Example:
experience through faith:
I once had a deep meditation experience in which I felt how everything I do is really an expression of my wanting greater wholeness.
experiences
during the week:
I was able to see the actions of others who usually irritate me as manifestations of their desire to be noticed, to be loved and feel whole.
Experiment
2. (Based on readings # 1776-1 and
2599-1)
Select one person whom you have had trouble loving or appreciating. Each day for a week, make a special effort for at least a week to see the good in that person. Let your thoughts, words, and actions express your desire to relate to that which is good in that person. Record your experiences.
Experiment
3. Choose
one life situation that you find yourself frequently despising and wishing that
you were free from. Write down (1) the situation and (2) constructive qualities
it challenges you to find within yourself despising this situation, say a short prayer
of praise to God for the opportunity to learn these constructive qualities.
Example:
situation: a physical impairment that limits my ability to function normally in life.
constructive
qualities challenged
to awaken: patience, trust in others
Ideal:
Oneness
Example:
experience through faith:
I once had a deep meditation experience in which I felt how everything I do is really an expression of my wanting greater wholeness.
I was able to see the actions of others who usually irritate me as manifestations of their desire to be noticed, to be loved and feel whole.
Select one person whom you have had trouble loving or appreciating. Each day for a week, make a special effort for at least a week to see the good in that person. Let your thoughts, words, and actions express your desire to relate to that which is good in that person. Record your experiences.
Example:
situation: a physical impairment that limits my ability to function normally in life.
Action: Affirm our oneness with each other daily
Six
now woke to our virtue of the ever existing purity within our souls, eager
to begin our 4th week of applying the lesson of Virture and Understanding. We
missed two: one listener and one absent soul tonight. Opening this Zoom sacred time of oneness with silence, our Lord’s Prayer, and then, we gave our
experiments reports. While Covid limited our interactions to be served by
others— all 6 were recipients of a service or gifts —of prizes from a
fundraiser, of a two vehicle transport, one of Reiki and 2 of prayers; of
tolerance and acceptance of atypical philosophical-spiritual beliefs and a
social outing invitation. One soul also had the opportunity to engage virtue
being tolerant and peaceful, yet aware of a coworkers lack luster full time
goofing-off on the job, still with full equal pay to actual productive
workers’ pay. The 2nd soul to do experiment #1 tolerantly maintained inner peace
despite incredible, polar opposite, program host beliefs and interests in UFO’s, ghosts, & Bigfoot sightings. Another host on Akashic Records described
Source as “Nature, Earth”, and advised “Let the world come to you!”
Our
Kundalini Meditation was new and different to some of us. We began our
preparation for meditation with prayer, head and neck exercises, breathing and
alternate breathing exercises. We were led to visualize grounding to the earth,
then to see the female energy of each chakra expanding as we visualized each
chakras energy color donut shape expanding with rising love and light from the
red root chakra up to the top purple blue chakra. Separately from
consciousness, we sent out our prayers of love, light, healing and protection,
peace and comfort to family, friends, ARE Study Group members, and
headquarters, worldwide ARE, for India’s peoples health and others.
One soul had to leave early to relay an update to her spouse with concerns for a
daughters health changes. We agreed to pray this week for a healthy leg for
Monica in Billings, Montana.
Reading the two final sections of book l, Virtue is a Defense, Understand is a Weapon; (for Truth) and The Effects of Virtue and Understanding on ourselves and others brought wisdom and insights. Even unspoken thoughts empowered by the omnipotent God within unkind, critical thoughts to hurt and harm others, or to heal, uplift and inspire the person thought of with love and positive intentions. Our prisons are filled with people whom scientists tell us believe they are “bad.” People feeling unconsciously critical thoughts, even unspoken, may move away from us physically, or might avoid future contact with “critical thinkers”.
Discussions included Anne Puryear’s books. Her excellent publication with new knowledge on suicide, “Stephen Lives,” was quite a timely gift informing a world nearly void of knowledge on suicide. Anne Puryear discovered she’d developed extra sensory perception and co-wrote her memoir with contributions from her deceased, reassuring son. Stephen Christopher affirmed the choice to suicide at 15 was solely his decision, others were not to blame and provided new information on “the beyond” as well.
Of course the creative power of our thoughts came up as did a story of an inexplicable, mysterious life event: A 100 year old woman delighted in telling of her birth in Kansas, “I was born during a cyclone (tornado). When the storm ended, the house I was born in was the only house still standing on the block.”
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