A.R.E. Meeting for 9/24/12

Leader: Martinaya
Reader: None

We discussed the Echo Bodine seminar in Denver on Saturday and had a heavy discussion on the experiment for the week, so we did not read further in the SFG book. That means we are still at the "How Faith is Developed" section in the Faith chapter.

The experiment for the week is:

As a step towards a deeper awareness of faith, try to awaken the consciousness that you are a timeless being--that all which you desire in spirtual unfoldment and fulfillment will come to you. If you have asked for something in His name and then find yourself doubting or impatient, use this affirmation in your daily life to re-orient your mind to faith: "As a spirtual being, I am forever. All I have asked in His name will be fulfilled." Record the situations in which you are able to use this affirmation in a helpful way.

The Health Tip of the Day (for today) at the ARE website has help for us in this regard:

"Keep optimistic. Pray often; seeing, feeling, asking, desiring, expecting help from Him; who is the way, the truth, the light. He faileth not those who keep His purposes." Edgar Cayce reading 2514-1

A.R.E. Meeting for 9/17/12

Leader: Martinaya
Reader: Marsha

We read one section in the chapter on "Faith" this week and discussed many personal experiences on the topic. Next week we will start at the section "How Faith is Developed."

The experiment for the week is:

Choose one thing in which you wish to experience greater faith (e.g., faith in God, faith in your own divine nature, faith in another specific person). First consider where your rational, intellectual mind has taken you in this desire. Perhaps you will find that this part of the mind has led you to a paradox or confusion; perhaps you will find that it has provided all the right answers and yet an inner eperience of faith is missing. Write down whatever it is your intellect tells you about this concern. Now allow yourself to move beyond just the intellect. Each day for a week be open for an experience of faith in this part of your life. Pray that you will be given whatever experience is best for you at this time. Listen to the promptings of your intuitive mind through your meditations, through your dreams, and by listening to and feeling your intuitive self in your daily activities. Record any of your experiences that may give you a deeper sense of what it means to live your faith in this specific area of your life.

A.R.E. Meeting for 9/10/12

Leader: Martinaya

Reader: Eric

We started the chapter on "Faith." We read the first section, and next week we will start at the second section: "Need of Faith."

The experiment for the week is:
Take the personal evaluation chart that was handed out this week that lists positive and negative attributes of the chakras and grade yourself.

As for our discussion on judgement, here is a Cayce quote: “It is well to judge things - it is bad to judge yourself or your fellow man.” Reading 3544-1.

A.R.E. Meeting for 8/27/12

Leader: Nancy
Reader: Greg

We finished the chapter on Ideals, and the next time we meet, we will begin with the chapter on Faith. (Remember, we don't meet next week because of Labor Day.)

The experiment for the week is:

Choose one of your mental or physical ideals which you have set. Each day be aware of instances in which others are able to manifest that ideal (e.g., if you choose "kindness" you would look for situations where others were expressing kindness). As you are aware of a person expressing the ideal, affirm that this quality is also within you or you would not have noticed him manifesting it. Record the person's name and the situation each time you complete this experiment.

A.R.E. Meeting for 8/20/12

Leader: Nancy
Reader: None

Only half the group was in attendance, so we discussed the qualities of ideals from our experiment last week, then listened to a recording of Harmon Bro talk about ideals. Following that we listened to a few minutes about ideals from the audio book "Channeling Your Higher Self." There was no reading from our books, so we are at the same point as last week. In the Search For God I book, we are at the section "Attaining the Ideal."

The experiment for the week is:

Be aware each day of the way in which others can influence your decisions. Do you have a tendency to go along with others to keep from having to face discord, even though it may not be consistent with what you know is best?

Each day of this week make a special effort to be sensitive to the opinions or desires of others, but then make you decisions based upon your ideals (even if it means standing alone). Record situations in which you were able to make decisions in this way.

A.R.E. Meeting for 8/13/12

Leader: Nancy

Reader: Nancy and Greg

In the Search For God I book, we started the chapter on "What is My Ideal?" and read up to the section "Attaining the Ideal."

The experiment for the week is:

Take time each day in prayer and meditation to ask youself this question: "What qualities make up the highest awareness that I would like to have directing my life?" Each day record the answers that come to your mind.

At the end of the week have a special quiet time in which you consider all of the qualities you have listed. Allow a state of awareness to emerge in your consciousness that would combine and integrate all these qualities. When you feel that you are in touch with this state of awareness, choose a word or short phrase to represent this state of consciousness, which is your spiritual ideal (e.g., "God," "oneness with Christ," "love").

A.R.E. Meeting for 8/6/12

Leader: Nancy
Reader: Greg

In the Search For God I book, we finished the chapter on "Know Thyself" and will start next week with the chapter on "What is My Ideal?"

For the experiment, pick one from the "Know Thyself" chapter.

We had a conversation on the reincarnation of animals. The following is from Reading 268-3, about a dog that was a lion in a previous incarnation:

27. Ready for questions.

28. (Q) In the experience before this present one, whose wife was Amy Armstrong? What nationality was she?

(A) English; and the wife of, or in association with, that one who is the entity's husband in the present [280]. Many were the battles between them for the associations of the entity, with the people of the period and the surroundings.

29. (Q) What was his name, her husband's name then? [Now [280]?]

(A) We haven't him except as in association with the entity here.

30. (Q) Where and how have I been formerly associated with the following: First, my husband [280]?

(A) Jamestown island, as called in the present.

31. (Q) My brother J. I. M.?

(A) In the same surroundings. Hence he is always battling for self!

32. (Q) My niece, [405]?

(A) In the Roman experience, when there were the associations in the household of Pompeathiolus.

33. (Q) My little dog, Mona?

(A) In the same experience.

34. (Q) In the Roman?

(A) The Roman.

35. (Q) Was she a dog then?

(A) A lion!

36. (Q) My sister [5559]?

(A) In the Atlantean experience.