A.R.E. Meeting for 6/11/18

Five of us met on June 11. We briefly discussed tapping and everyone's previous experience with tapping.

We listened to the CD with presenter Carol Look, LCSW, DCH, EFT Master discussing an Introduction to EFT/Meridian Tapping. It took about 60 minutes and included some beginning tapping sessions.

We began our ASFG portion of the meeting and meditated. We shared thoughts on the last experiment. We read the section "The Wisdom of Unselfish Desire" in the chapter on Desire. We read from the past experiments to the next experiment. Our experiment for the week is on page 48 : Replace desires to appear better than others. Try to hold in mind a deeper desire of the soul to know its equality with all other souls. Try to say something good about another. 

At the June 18 meeting we will hear Julie Schiffman speak on How our Emotions Affect Our Health: Case Studies in Meridian Tapping. In her talk Julie does a sequence on tapping to eliminate neck pain, tapping to eliminate hip pain and tapping to eliminate migraines. Again, we will have an abbreviated ASFG meeting the 2nd hour.

For the June 25 meeting I have chosen a talk by Brad Yates, Being the Change: Your Profound Impact On the World. This CD is very inspiring and discusses how tapping is being used worldwide. An abbreviated ASFG meeting will follow.

(Note: these CD's are from the 2010 World Summit collection that I have borrowed from a friend and are not mine to lend.)

However, have your cell phone charged and ready to record or bring in a micro-recorder if you want to try to record some of the tapping sessions to practice with later!!!!

I hope all of you will give Meridian Tapping a serious effort. In won't cost you anything but time and effort and the results may amaze you! I tap when I have trouble going to sleep.

Warning - if you tap while riding on a bus or in a restaurant, people may look at you funny, ha, ha!😜😆

Peacefully Yours, June

A.R.E. Meeting for 6/4/18

We met. We meditated. We read in A Search for God Book II. We read "Spiritual Desires" in the Desire chapter and discussed the reading.

We read in the accompanying Experiments in Practical Spirituality book, pages 46 - 47.

Our experiment on page 47 is: Be aware each day of how past desire patterns have created or led you to specific conditions which you count as blessings. Use this remembrance as an aid to keep a hopeful attitude toward the future fulfillment of spiritual desire you now hold.

We tried to focus on the ASFG lessons the first hour of our meeting and use the second hour to socialize and share our lives with one another.

I, June, am leading the meetings for the month of June. During our social hour, I distributed hand-outs on an Introduction and History of Meridian Tapping.

Meridian Tapping, to me, is one of the greatest health processes I've learned about since learning about massage in the 70s. I personally quit smoking without any withdrawal using Meridian Tapping in a form called EFT, the Emotional Freedom Technique.

 I am not a skilled teacher or trainer of Meridian Tapping, but an enthusiast. I gained the groups' permission to share some information during part of our June meetings. There are some books and e-books at the library on tapping. Barnes & Noble carries Nick Ortner's Tapping books and can order them. There are videos on YouTube showing the various tapping sequences. Nick Ortner made a video about Meridian Tapping back in 2007 or so. I have not seen it, but I'd like to. Nick and his sister, Jessica, and some friends have organized annual Tapping World Summits since about 2009. They just had the 2018 Tapping World Summit. You can go to www.TappingWorldSummit.com  for more information and to buy CD sets of the Summit which has various tapping professionals giving presentations.

At the June 11  ASFG meeting I will begin with sharing a CD with presenter Carol Look, LCSW, DCH, EFT Master discussing an Introduction to EFT/Meridian Tapping. It will take about 45 - 60 minutes and then we will proceed with an abbreviated regular ASFG meeting.

At the June 18 meeting we will hear Julie Schiffman speak on How our Emotions Affect Our Health: Case Studies in Meridian Tapping. In her talk Julie does a sequence on tapping to eliminate neck pain, tapping to eliminate hip pain and tapping to eliminate migraines. Again, we will have an abbreviated ASFG meeting the 2nd hour.

For the June 25 meeting I have chosen a talk by Brad Yates, Being the Change: Your Profound Impact On the World. This CD is very inspiring and discusses how tapping is being used worldwide. An abbreviated ASFG meeting will follow.

(Note: these CD's are from the 2010 World Summit collection that I have borrowed from a friend and are not mine to lend.)

Please join us to hear these speakers and/or search on your own for books, CD's, videos and trained Meridian Tapping or EFT teachers or practitioners and learn this very powerful and useful technique.

A.R.E. Meeting for 5/7/18

Hello All,

We had a good meeting with John leading. We discussed a thought to ponder; today's world conditions parallel many in the final years of Atlantis. There were the sons of Belial polarized against the followers of the Law of One. We are highly polarized. Us against them is perpetuated in our news.  We see self interests empowered and served.

We have already had twice as many earthquakes this year than we observed last year. We see the volcano in Hawaii erupting destructively on homes there.  We've had fires, floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes. We remember Cayce stating that our thoughts and emotions, wars or peacetime, both affect our earth quite differently.  At what point will conditions here begin to improve?

We read the corresponding lesson in our experiments book. We agreed our experiment is:

Observe how you evaluate the greatness of others. Work at recognizing and reinforcing (or reflecting) greatness in the lives of ordinary people who give of themselves and love.

We read the remainder of chapter III, God the Father and his manifestations. We closed the meeting praying the 23rd Psalm, then discussed this question: Is the Trinity one God, or is it  separated into The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit? Is the Advent of The Word, The Logos, God, the the form of Jesus a Story or a historical fact? If you missed this interesting discussion, you might have guessed various opinions were quite different.

We are looking forward to seeing you next Monday.

In Living Service,

Sylvia

A.R.E. Meeting for 4/30/18

Dear Friends,

Attendees were Eric, Sylvia, John and Scott. 

June will be our leader for the month of May.

We read pages 164 & 165 from A Search for God II. Sylvia shared how she thought Washington Carver exhibited Christ Consciousness during his life. We also discussed the concept of no space and time. 

The Experiment for next week:

Replace any thoughts that God may be punishing you or making you repay an old wrong, with the understanding that it is mankind that chooses the way of trial and suffering. Pick an area of your life where there tends to be some suffering on your part (physically, mentally, emotionally) and see if you can find some way to put that lesson into application through loving and serving others.

'Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things'

 - ROBERT BRAULT

Everyone have a blessed week!

Scott

A.R.E. Meeting for 4/23/18

Dear Friends,

Let's remember to send prayers of healing to Cindi, who had her cataract surgery yesterday, and will be rehabilitating the next two weeks. Let's send healing prayers as well to Eric, who was just not feeling as well as he could.

Scott is our leader for April. He asked me to lead instead this week only.

We had a good meeting and excellent discussion of Christ Consciousness. That is basically what Tom Baker, former professor of theology in a Catholic seminary and currently a speaker for ARE's national programs, introduced and described as the main idea in his presentation of "Awakening the Spiritual Master Within."

Tom Baker seemed amazed (as was I ) that another attendee described herself as spiritually neutral. She was given no spiritual teachings or beliefs during her upbringing. She thought having no expectations, rules, or teachings about either spirituality or religion was a benefit to her in accepting God, Universal Forces, The Holy Spirit, or whatever your understanding of GOD is. She had an experience at age 18 and knew immediately that it was Universal Forces or God taking care of her needs and protecting her. She was able to do so because of the absence of expectations and religious beliefs. That made it so EASY for her to accept and know she would always be taken care of and protected. Then some years later she had another spiritual experience. She was awakened during her sleep by the tone of a crystal sounding. She had built that sleeping room. She had put everything in it. She knew there was NO CRYSTAL in the room to ring or sound out. But she knew it was the affirmation of her benevolent protector in that 2nd spiritual experience. 

Among the first of the audience to speak up, a silver haired man told of being ill. He dreamed of a man with a particular necklace in gold robes coming to him in his dream. (Sorry  I heard only part of it, but I think he was hospitalized at the time of the dream).  Later when he saw a photo of Edgar Cayce, he realized  Edgar Cayce was the same man with the necklace in a gold robe who had appeared to him earlier in his dream!

Throughout the day the audience told of spiritual experiences, of experiencing light, of descriptions of Christ Consciousness. Our discussion of Christ Consciousness included remembering people in our lives expressing perfectly the Christ Consciousness.  One amazing mother of five very active young men known for fighting and smashing birthday cakes at parties they crashed if uninvited, always remained kind, calm, loving, patient, soft spoken no matter what situations her son's life created.

Another wonderful example was a below average income Sunday school teacher with a gift of capturing her pupils enthusiastic attention for her Bible lesson with: I will tell you a story even better than all your (popular story and comic and movie hero s) current ones. She even testified to  a modern day miracle  personally experienced. She told of having one lung removed and my LUNG GREW BACK.

Another woman spoke of a quote she had in several places in her house. The quote came from someone she respected spiritually. It goes: What if nothing is wrong.

Who exemplified the Christ Consciousness in your life?  Have you experienced any modern day miracles?  I imagine most, if not all, of us have.

We are working on the same experiment again this week.  I believe it is on page 34 of our Experiments book. 

Most of us have trouble knowing what to do with our anger.  Then there are three good Cayce quotes on anger. One is below.

Hold not malice, though easily ye may at times be angry but sin not. Righteous wrath is a virtue, as well as is patience for they must arise from the same influence, or from the same motivation experience. Edgar Cayce reading # 2635-1

Experiment:  Explore in your own life what it means to be patient and forgiving and yet still be able to be angry and sin not. Act ON anger instead of IN anger.

I'm looking forward to seeing you Monday and hearing how your experiment of using anger as a motivation to take action or to change a situation versus merely expressing or even dumping anger on another. Or perhaps you will want to tell us about your experience of the previous weeks experiment. 

In Loving Service,

Sylvia

A.R.E. Meeting for 4/9/18

Hello all

Attendees for April 9, 2018 meeting were John, Sylvia, Eric, June, and Scott.

We took turns reading from chapter 3: God, the Father, and His Manifestations in the Earth, pages 161 through 164. We had discussions as we read.

We discussed the assigned experiment: Make a list of the ways you see God. We also discussed ancient stone tablets and markers both of old and new and how they play in to the consciousness of today.

We read through to the next experiment on page 32:

Practice true consistency in your relationships to self, others in God. Consider the things you do repeatedly by habit and try to bring conscious awareness to them: aware of the purpose for which you are doing them and awareness of how the things you are doing relate to the whole. For example, on my drive to work in the morning I will be aware of people and places. I will be conscious of why I have chosen to go to the place of work which I do. I will be aware of the part I played in this rush hour traffic and cooperate to help get people safely to work. 

Scott is the leader for April.

Make a commitment to these goals and watch your destiny become your reality.

Everybody have a great week.

Sincerely, Scott

A.R.E. Meeting for 4/2/18

Attendees for the April 2, 2018 meeting were John, Sylvia, Cindi, Donna, Eric and Scott. I, Scott, am leader for April.

We discussed the assigned experiments.  1.  Spend 15 minutes before you go to bed on activities and attitudes helpful for sleep.

2. Spend a week paying attention to to your dream experiences.  3. Relate a specific dark, confusing, or suffering side of your life a new way.

We also discussed the various reasons we penalize people and why we send them to jail.

I read pages 29 - 32 in chapter III GOD THE FATHER, AND HIS MANIFESTATIONS IN THE EARTH.

Experiment Page 32:

Practice true consistency in your relationships to self, others and God. Consider the things you do repeatedly-- by habit-- and try to bring conscious awareness to them: awareness of purpose for which you are doing them and awareness of how things you are doing relate to the whole. For example, on my drive to work in the morning I will be aware of people and places. I will be conscious of why I have chosen to go to the place of work which I do. I will be aware of the part I play in this rush-hour traffic and cooperate to help get people safely to work.

Everyone have a great week,

Scott