A.R.E. Meeting for 3/9/20

Precious and sweet is the time hearts and minds join together to express LOVE for Universal Forces in meditation. June provide two ideal meditation pieces of beautiful music enhancing our meditation experience. Prayers of gratitude were offered for the cohesive, cooperative effects the Covid 19 is requiring and creating among countries of the world as they MUST team up to protect the health of the people of earth. There were prayers for healing and other concerns.

We read the remainder of  meditation chapter  in the Cayce Primer and discussed it. We discussed how  incarcerated inmate John Sherman's painting (at the Cottonwood Arts Gallery show this month), is an expression of divine love and the divine feminine, while portraying personal growth and spiritual development. It is entitled "Pink Aura." Business discussed was whether we should have a visitation/social time at 6:30 pm so we can begin our weekly meetings at 7:00pm.

We talked about ways to support a much needed shelter for rehabilitation, like Bakhita Mountain Home for women impacted by human trafficking (not one place in Colorado). In 2018, there where 178 confirmed cases needing Bakhita Mountain Home services including trauma-based therapy in order to heal. A group of Franciscan and Benedictine sisters, female survivors of sex trafficking and lay women envisioned a home well suited to meet survivors needs. We can support remodeling and furnishing of the Home by donations or pledges set up online at http://BakhitaMountainHome.org/donate.

One member shared a personal story that began after she attended her first ASF group in Texas in 1971. Before long, she entered a bookstore, walked over to a shelf as if guided to the spot, purchased the first book her hands and eyes touched upon.  It was a book by Lobsang Rampa, which she then read.

Fifteen years later, in the Ballroom of the Golden, Colorado Holiday she listened to retired New York Metrpolitation Opera singer Shirley Rabb Winston help attendees see whether they could recognize a past life listening to music from ten different cultures of the world. Throughout the seminar, she watched raised hands of numerous people answer Shirley's question, yes, they liked music of that culture. All day the melodies were nice but none of it made a connection.

Near days end, Shirley played a shrill high pitched wailing sound and a slow drum beat. That ugly sound? Hardly music. Who likes this one? Shirley Winston asked the final time. How can I say I like this? She struggled with herself, and stopped smiling. That ugly sound is not music. Her hand went up as she realized she felt more joyous than she'd ever felt in her life. She surveyed the big room. Every person there agreed with her intellectually, only her yoga teacher's hand was up.

Shirley explained this sound is one of Tibetan monks marching in to evening prayers. Thirty years later, people from Nepal here were doing a Sound Healing Bowls fund raising tour for a school. Before we start we are going to give away a bowl. My heart jumped out across numerous rows of people in the theater to the stage. Then he announced she had the winning number. This bowl is not a healing bowl; this bowl is a begging bowl. It was made with a prayer every time the bowl was struck, he said, handing it to her.

Feeling guided to buy a book about a Tibetan monk, the highly emotional experience of extreme joy and happiness upon hearing Tibetan monks marching into evening prayers, while the conscious mind strongly disagreed, and my heart jumping in recognition a long way down the theater to the begging bowl on stage are three unquestionably convincing experiences that, yes I did live a life as a Tibetan monk. Far more indisputable than dreams, regressions, and readers telling me believable past lives. 

No experiment was chosen for this week.

Contemplatively yours,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 3/3/20

Four native born citizen dreamers joined together tonight at Ruth Holly Library  in meditation and prayers for Judy Overman, George, Jeff Herwitt, Ed Murphy, Paul Freiler. Let's remember these people in our prayers.

Cindi will type up and send out the excellent meditation she led us in last week on Loving God (our purpose for meditation), ourselves, and radiating out that love to others. This meditation was our experiment during the week just past.

Cindi shared just a gem from two pages of notes gathered while listening to the material on "Suffering" that Greg alerted us to. "Karma is the result of of A LACK OF COMPASSION."

"Understanding your Dreams," from listening to the tape June brought and played the first half of, provided a tremendous quantity of information given by Cayce. It emphasized the importance of being early to bed, so as to experience more dreams remembered during longer hours of REM producing sleep in the 7th and 8th or so hours, of having an intent of remembering and using, working with the dream and it's message to us. It gave half a dozen reasons we might want to remember our dreams. It also gave half a dozen ways we can approach understanding the dream's message and how to then apply the information from the dream message to the life we now live. It could be a dream pertaining to spiritual growth, health, finances, our personal problems/solutions, or whatever we requested a dream on.

Unique to the Cayce dream material may be the suggestion that we write down all of our personal reasons we might want to remember and apply a dream's information to our life. The people in our dreams may not be the people of our waking life, but symbols or aspects of ourselves. The message may be a direct statement of a problem solution, or a play on a word or symbol. We need to search for what is happening in our lives and how it pertains to the dream's message. A dream can give many points of view in solving a problem.   We need to recognize the problem or situation where the information given in our dream needs to be applied in our life.

For our experiment, as a group we decided to write on a dream journal page "...the reasons I want to remember my dreams."  Once we know the types of information dream's can give us, we can be more strongly motivated to remember our dreams. The tape suggested re-reading monthly our half dozens reasons we want to remember our dreams.

Next week we'll report on how our experiment went and listen to the remainder of the tape.

Sweet Happy Dreams,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 2/24/20

The swirling waves of winds of the afternoon let, and it was a pleasant cold evening when five truth seeking souls came together at Ruth Holley Library. In opening the meeting, Cindi read a short 1/2 page article from an archaeology magazine describing cave paintings preserved 44 thousand years by coatings of uranium among others, as time protectively covered over them. An unusually high entrance to the cave also provided some protection. Most unexpected is the quality of the painting demonstrating that 44 thousand years ago all the principles of art were developed and known. Cave walls displayed part animal,  part human figures, some winged, and a spiritual essence.  Group members answered the question of how they saw this discovery. Was the artist painting spiritual language with the subjects shown, something else, or possibility the reality of man and animals in those years as mythology, and Cayce described, so unbelievably for the masses of people today?

Dreams were discussed and potential messages and meanings were sought.

Cindi also lead an excellent guided meditation on love, in three aspects: Loving GOD, others, and self as written in a Mark Thurston book.

We finished reading from the Edgar Cayce Primer the final four of Herb Puryear's seven points on meditation;  the Physiology, Preparation for Meditation, the Pattern and the Power, and finally, The Promises of Meditation.

#4. In physiology, physical, mental, spiritual, and emotions challenge one to bring these as well as other elements (such as food, sounds, odors) that could work against achieving a oneness of body and mind, allowing the points of the chakras to contact the endocrine glands to stream spirit thru the mental into physical. Or, from Infinite to finite.

#5. Preparation is an ongoing, continuous activity, of caring, nurturing, and nourishing the body, energy raising positive thinking to nourish our minds, and willingness to allow meditation to effect our entire lives. The Readings recommend a prayer of protection prior to each meditation experience. 

#6. The Pattern and the Power - when we select love as our Ideal, the pattern within is selected and awakened and the CHRIST power flows through us.   

#7. The Promises of Meditation - Meditation is a way to personalize the promises of our Bibles and to claim these promises personally for ourselves.  He is there whenever we call upon him.

Remembering the purpose of meditation is to love GOD, we chose to do the above meditation for our daily experiment.

In loving service,

Sylvia

A.R.E. Meeting for 2/17/20

A chilly winter night this is, but a good night to come together for discussion, meditation, and prayers for healing each other, and also prayers for our individual concerns. Then reading and more discussion in fulfilling our purpose as a group to support and uphold each other on our spiritual journeys.

I felt such gratitude that we were comfortable, warm and indoors, that we had taken that extra bit of effort on a colder night to be there. I also felt gratitude for the experience of the group energy, the presence of which added more depth and intensity and meaning to my Individual meditation experience. And I trust this was both a group and individual experience I'm attempting to describe.

Until I was back with the group, my soul group, I hadn't realized this is what I'd been missing.

We discussed the Radiac, how it's designed, and the energy smoothing or clearing it does, and how it is needed. Staff understand, are knowledgeable in part because of doing manufacturing of health appliances at Barr, and knowledgeable because a telephone sales clerk there also reads and studies the readings. He was excited that a Cayce inhalant formula sold by Barr is not only effective for viruses, but the clerk also believed this inhalant formula could also be effective stopping the potential  Coronavirus spread. An important discovery of a Meridian Experiment is that when one of the two groups were being treated, the healing results were greater in the treated group who also performed a service.

Following meditation, we read the Primer chapter 17, points #2 and completed reading point number #3. Briefly the 7 points describing meditation are:

#1 the purpose of Meditation is to love God, not to have particular experiences

#2 for the practice of meditation, we need to find the technique that relates to the purpose of life-becoming more loving. It is not the particular technique of our meditation practice, but in response to our own seeking and quality our our desire to seek God, that we do attune to him in our practice.

#3 phenomenology: we can and do have any variety of physical and mental experiences in meditation as we open and invite the Spirit of God to flow though us and transform us. A personal transformation, unconscious and too subtle for us to see, a changed life, is the outcome of a regular meditation practice. The phenomena of popping sounds in one's head or experiencing visions in the meditation at the moment, cannot reveal the transformation over the years of a meditative practice.  We have no experiment this week.

Checking the temperature this evening I see that yes, next week, beginning Monday, 24th, is the 4th Monday in February that snow is predicted once again.

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 1/27/20

Those of you who were unable to make it were missed by the three dedicated  to the study of Meditation at tonight's meeting. We discussed our previous experiment of writing our ideal out before sleep to direct our dream time to support us in working with our ideal. It was found to help.

We began  our next chapter in the Edgar Cayce Primer. We read a good definition of Meditation and the first of 7 key considerations:  Purpose  Of Meditating.

Next week we can begin reading consideration number 2, in the middle of page 142.

No experiment this week.

Reported with clearer vision,

Sylvia

A.R.E. Meeting for 1/13/20

Three feminine and two masculine souls studied and discussed dreams.  Before the meeting, a discussion on visual perceptions in electronics media occurred. It's interesting how 70 percentage of girls saw the image of a tennis shoe in pink & white colors while 30% , mostly males, saw the same picture as gray and aqua or turquoise colors. There was conversation on effects of vegan and vegetarian diets upon the body's performance, and health versus meat eating, extent of animals consciousness, and intuition. Conversation concluded with would an extremely hungry vegan without any vegetables available eat meat?

After meditation and healing prayers, we discussed the results of our experiment to "intend" to remember our dreams, or to "intend a type of dream" and write them down daily. Most  people recalled dreams and several had written down and shared a dream.

Cindi has a good method of interpreting dreams. She records the dream across the top of the page and draws three columns below her dream. In column 1 she lists all the nouns from the dream. For each noun, she writes the "first thought that noun brings to mind" in Column 2, similar to Freud's "Free Association " Method. She rewrites the dream in story form or the action of the dream without the nouns in column 3.

Now she goes for the  Dreams "State of the Union" message (of the Body, Mind, and Soul)  meaning by simplifying and condensing the dreams story into a few words to produce the dreams lesson, guidance, precognitive message, etc. She also recommends working with a noun or dream symbol by dialoging with a symbol. Why are you in my dream? What are you telling me? What is your purpose for being in my dreams and so forth.

We chose for an experiment to "work with our dreams" by first writing down our Ideal, then continue intending to dream, writing them down immediately upon awakening, and to work with our dreams.  Dr. Puryear emphasizes there is a difference in interpreting dreams versus WORKING WITH dreams. He suggests examining our dreams in relation to our ideal, with an attitude and willingness to work on every aspect of our lives. He has numerous ways to examine our dreams, in relation to its parts, in relation to our other dream images and messages, etc.

Perhaps most importantly, he recommends deciding upon and taking action, a constructive step toward our Ideal. 

Happy dream work,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 1/6/20

It was so good to see our group well enough and refreshed from holiday celebrations and well nourished by loved ones to be back together, with the exception of our faithful group minutes creator, scribe, research librarian, discussion contributor, Greg. We honored his absence with healing prayers for his wife as she adjusts to short and long range lens vision, the healing solution for cataracts. He is assisting her more in this and handicapping effects during her healing and recovery from a broken wrist and thumb surgery as well.

We are missing him, and John Linder who will be traveling the next 3 weeks and then also taking a sabbatical for a while.

Over candy coated nuts, gifted by Scott, a balance of three masculine and three feminine souls enjoyed discussions of the above and another's upcoming surgery. One member is lamenting the  warehousing care of an elderly parent, why assisted living was created, Intelligent Design, Mike Pompeo publicly denying in stating no that is not an actual law (accepted by legally educated people in USA). It's a political statement (therefore untrue), and the importance of researching multiple sources of information to determine for oneself the Truth, the facts;  one woman's relief in realizing her grandchildren do not need to be in Sunday School and church every Sunday to learn about the power of God, universal principles, and  how the temptations to gain personal power, poor emotional control can turn us to the dark side  from serving the light. This can be seen in the descent from the virgin birth of RaTa, through many incarnations to the lifetime of Bainbridge's serving darkness, via self indulgence, desires of personal gain, psychically cheating people in card games.

Hollywood well shows universal spiritual Truths, in Star Wars and other great films: The Jedi knight to Darth Vader is a fair parallel in that Bainbridge did one good life saving act. During an Indian attack, he slipped into the water, giving his place (and life) on their escape raft to save a woman. Darth Vader's final act saved his son's life. That soul of darkness, Bainbridge, next reincarnated as Edgar Cayce. Every person he read for was an amend to the recipient!  Shinning Great Light.

Finally Eric lead us to our opening prayer, meditation, recognition of white light and discussion of its appearance during meditation, healing prayers, and the study of the Dream chapter of the Edgar Cayce Primer.

June read the opening section, "Dreams - Scenes From The Sixth Sense" and Scott read the section, "The Dimensions of our Dreams." Naturally, dream information triggered dreams we wanted to and did share and discuss.

Next week, we begin our reading on page 135, "Working with versus interpreting our dreams."

We created an experiment to do this week.

1) Consciously intend to remember our dreams before sleep.

2) Have pen and dream journal or recorder at bedside.

3) With eyes closed, focus on recall of colors, places, feelings, people, and details before recording dream in words or sketches or recording.

4) Now we can relieve ourselves

5) Return to do free association to each symbol in the dream before consulting a dream universal symbols dictionary, because our brain is unique. Our experiences and values will give common symbols a different, unique meaning.

6) If you draw an interpretation blank, now consult that symbols dictionary, or your group.

7) Know that you can ask for a dream on whatever you desire to know! Personal guidance, financial investments guidance, healing guidance, etc.

As before our opening prayer, after our 23rd Psalm closure, a Tibetan monk's  begging bowl sounded, and our meeting ended.

--Sylvia