A.R.E. Meeting for 4/11/22

 Leader: Cindi

Five knowledge-hungry seekers met and completed the chapter God the Father and His Manifestations in the Earth, both in the SFG book and in the Experiments book. We also listened to a 20-minute recording with Judith Stevens and Elsie Sechrist holding a discussion on the chapter.
 
The last two experiments in the chapter are:
 
Experiment 1: In your efforts to be sympathetic and supportive of others—“to meet our fellow men in their own condition”—try to widen your circle of responsibility. What kind of person or problem do you avoid? Reach out and be supportive beyond the limit of what your habit or tendency would be. As a byproduct, what did you learn about yourself from having done this?
 
Experiment 2: Make it a discipline to smile frequently, communicating to others your sense of hope and joy about life. If there are times when you don’t feel like it, try smiling occasionally and see if the consciousness follows the action.

A.R.E. Meeting for 4/4/22

Leader: Cindi
 
Eventually, seven surrogate gods came together to study the SFG chapter God the Father and His Manifestations. Cindi started off the meeting by reading from Kryon, whom she found interesting after being brought up the week before by Sylvia. We then reviewed our experiments for the week.
 
In the SFG book we read the last section, “We Are Manifestations of God.” We then read the next two experiments:
 
Experiment 1: Select one area of your life in which you often feel tempted. It may be a temptation to act in a certain way or to hold particular thoughts or feelings. Try to look upon the situation as a way in which you are challenged: “Will you use the resources which you have available to benefit (or please) just yourself or yourself and others?” Then try to act in such a way that benefits are derived by the greater whole.
 
Example: When you feel tempted to eat more, consider how that resource can best be used to benefit the whole. If you are just going to eat to please yourself, then wait. However, if that food represents energy you need now in order to be about the work of living and serving others, then you have affirmed a purposefulness to your action.
 
Experiment 2: Try living your life as a recognition that you are Jesus’ friend, not just an obedient servant.
 
Example: Be a friend to someone who needs a friend. Offer to go for a walk, have lunch with or simply listen to someone.

Numerology

(Q) Are there books from which one may study numerology?

(A) NUMBERS of same! But best study as you would your own A.B.C's.

One - the all power.

Two - divided.

Three - the strength of One and the weakness of Two.

Four - the greater weakness in all its associations and powers.

Five - a change imminent, ever, in the activities of whatever influence with which it may be associated.

Six - the strength of a Three, with a helpful influence.

Seven - the spiritual forces that are activative or will be the activative influences in the associations of such an influence.

Eight - a money number.

Nine - the change.

Ten - back to One again.

These in their correlated influences as you will find in your own experience, and we will see these are but signs. Study in some of these, but turn most to the influence of the force of the One within self.”

- Edgar Cayce Reading 261-14

A.R.E. Meeting for 3/28/22

Leader: John
 
Six students attended our study group tonight. We thank John for closing out the month as the leader. Next month, Cindi is scheduled for that role.
 
We discussed our two experiments for last week. Sylvia happened to mention the learning she has been receiving from listening to Kryon at kryon.com. We then started in the Experiments book and read the next two:
 
Experiment 1: 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 determine what lesson it is teaching you. Then see if you can find some way to put that lesson into application through loving and serving others.
 
Experiment 2: 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.
 
In the SFG book, in the God the Father and His Manifestations chapter, we read one section: “Perfect Manifestations in the Earth.”
 
Prayers and healing go out to Cindi this week and after, who has some kind of growth on her left femur and will soon receive a bone scan.

A.R.E. Meeting for 3/21/22

Leader: John
 
Six sacred souls seeking attunement forged ahead in the chapter God, the Father, and His Manifestations in the Earth. We read the sections “God the Father” and “The Manifestations of the Father in the Earth.” Eric turned us on to a topic being discussed with a link to the circulating file FAIRIES, ELVES, ELEMENTALS, GNOMES. In the Experiments book, we read the next two experiments for the week:
 
Experiment 1: 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 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 play in this rush-hour traffic and cooperate to help get people safely to work.
 
Experiment 2: 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.

A.R.E. Meeting for 3/14/22

Leader: Group Combo (for John)
 
Five spiritual die-hards met to start the new chapter on God, the Father, and His Manifestations in the Earth. We read the chapter Introduction and the section “The Great Question.” Our experiment for this week is:
 
Experiment: Make a list of ways that you seek God (e.g., meditation, prayer, dreams, physical attunement procedures, reading material, giving to other people). Select a category which you realize has become rather rigid or habitual—that is, much of the spirit and creativity associated with it is now missing. Try a new way of form or procedure for seeking God in that area.

A.R.E. Meeting for 3/7/22

Leader: John
 
Five apodictic seekers met to examine our light and dark sides and judge our lives by results. We discussed the experiments from last week, and then finished the “Day and Night” chapter in both the SFG book and the Experiments book. Our experiment for this week is:
 
Experiment: Try relating to a specific dark, confusing or suffering side of your life in a new way. Nurture a sense of appreciation for difficult or confusing times. Try to step aside and observe things as part of a greater process and find yourself with more patience with others in their periods of darkness because you understand its role in the greater process.