Monday, August 31, 2020

A.R.E. Meeting for 8/31/20


Leader: Cindi

It was great to see everyone tonight.  Welcome, Kelly.
Tonight we read in The Edgar Cayce Primer, pages 211-213 in the chapter about good and evil.

Our experiment this week is to be aware of good and evil in our lives and/or note how we consciously turn away from evil.

We also discussed a group Ideal--something unattainable, but something we strive for.

We talked about striving to be aware of Oneness-with God, with each other, with all creation.  The discussion will continue next week, with Eric as the leader.

Peace and love to all,
Cindi

Monday, August 24, 2020

A.R.E. Meeting for 8/24/20

Leader: Cindi

Dear Friends,
Tonight we started reading Chapter 26 in the Edgar Cayce Primer, pages 209-211, about the confusing subject of good and evil.

We decided our experiment this week was to think about and meditate on an ideal for our group.

Kelly, I'm so sorry you weren't able to join tonight.  Sometimes Zoom meetings can be very frustrating. We hope you will want to join us next week.  Look for an email from Greg later in the week.  He will send the link for you to enter the zoom meeting.

Peace and love, 
Cindi

Monday, August 17, 2020

A.R.E. Meeting for 8/17/20

Leader: Cindi

It was good to see all of you, including Sylvia!

We read in The Edgar Cayce Primer from page 206 to 209, finishing chapter 25--Religion and Spirituality.

Feeling rushed in our time constraints on Zoom, we decided for our experiment this week to be loving and accepting in our thoughts and dealings with everyone, especially those who believe differently from us.

The 3 columns in the Ideals Chart that Melanie sent were:
1.  My spiritual ideal--"To Be"
2.  My mental attitudes--"To Think"
3.  My physical Activities--"To Do"


In peace and love,  Cindi

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

A.R.E. Meeting for 8/11/20

Leader: Cindi

We had 7 participants on Zoom last night. We prayed that Sylvia arrives safely in NJ and that Melanie feels better.  Also that Ana's headache improved during the meeting.  I'm sorry we forgot to ask.  Ana, good luck with your interview today.

In the book we began Chapter 25--Religion and Spirituality--and read from pgs 203 to 206.  Many of us have fallen away from the churches we grew up in.  But the readings indicate that form and structure are as important as spirit.  We saw form in our meetings, our meditation practices, yoga, etc.

We also discussed the Edgar Cayce 10-day challenge that was on Facebook about fear.  What is fear?  How can we cope with it?

For our experiment:  Be aware of your fears during the week.  In what situations do they manifest?  Note how you face your fears.  Do they hold you back?  Or are they as stepping stones?

Peace and blessings,
Cindi

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Eula Allen Glossary

From the book Before the Beginning by Eula Allen (c) 1963

GOD - Spirit

SPIRIT - Creative Energy

WILL - Gift of God. Individuality

SOUL - Spirt. Mind. Will

ENTITY - Soul, with all it has experienced from its inception by God. You.

SENSES - Awareness, used and developed through mind

IDEAL - Purpose held

KARMA - That built by the ideal, good or bad. Payments or debts

SPIRITUAL BODY - That image by God. Spiritual ideal

MENTAL BODY - Result of ideal held in mind

PHYSICAL BODY - Result of mind action in matter

PHYSIC - (adj.) Pertaining to soul forces active through mind
         (noun) A sensitive. One responsive to soul forces

TIME - Man's device for measuring his experiences  

Monday, August 3, 2020

A.R.E. Meeting for 8/3/20


Leader: Cindi

Great to see everyone tonight.  Scott, we missed you.

Because Greg set up our Zoom meeting for the first time, they gave us unlimited minutes, and so we ran even longer than we would at the library.  It gave us the opportunity to talk about our lives.

We finished reading chapter 24 on Christianity and the Occult.  Next week we'll begin Religion and Spirituality.  

Our experiment for this week, if I can word it right, is:
During your prayers and meditation time, visualize love and oneness, asking to be one with God's will.

We will also flood Ana's house, as well as her new neighbor, with light and peace. And also pray for safe travel for Sylvia's daughter and son-in-law, Sarah and Jeff, starting Friday.  And later in the week, Sylvia and Sarah and Jeff will caravan back to New Jersey.

One final note.  We are coming to the end of The Edgar Cayce Primer.  When we do finish, we will go back to  A Search for God, Book I. This is a heads up for Ana to obtain this book, as well as the companion book: Experiments in a Search for God, Book I.

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

A.R.E. Meeting for 7/27/20


This week four rejuvenating souls representing the Divine masculine and three rejuvenating souls representing the Divine feminine met virtually to discuss the results of their experimenting with an aspect of rejuvenation, read more of Cayce's perspective on it, and begin reading and discussing chapter twenty four of The Edgar Cayce Primer. 

Last week, mention of  the excellent meditation to start our meeting was omitted from these minutes, so this addendum corrects that: Our leader choose to lead us in a color breathing meditation which effectively clears and energizes each chakra.  Our leader guided us to imagine and breathe in red until we can actually see red internally with our mind's eye. Meditators then followed the leaders guidance though each of the seven chakras, breathing in its color as already described above; orange, golden yellow, grass green, blue, white of the crown chakra, and finally the purple indigo of the third eye chakra. This guided color breathing meditation was so very appropriate to bring to our study of rejuvenation as we prepared and attuned ourselves to send out our prayers of love and healing for those we have concerns.

We reported our individual results of meditating on our pineal, chosen as an experiment for this past week. Cayce answered someone, they  ...could avoid aging by keeping the keeping the pineal stimulated. We learned in addition to utilizing Tesla technology, one member lays an amethyst stone over his pituitary on his forehead while meditating on his pituitary. Another member had interesting results mentally tickling his pineal. We all found it was helpful to place our meditation focus on stimulating the pineal gland this past week.

We finished reading about the rejuvenation of the physical by maintaining a balance in the microcosmic level of the inner cells rotating atomic structure, resulting in healthy cells, healthy body. But on the  macrocosmic level of our individual body worlds; a healthy body also requires a balanced life: of one third of one's time sleeping, working, and having fun or recreating.

Which brings us to our experiment for this week: To focus on living our lives in this triad of balance, play, work, sleep. Does this experiment sound like more fun or what?

We had quite interesting discussions. Ra Ta's seven years long rejuvenation and regeneration was by giving up those things which had aged him, including aligning and attuning his chakras by listening to musicians on stringed and reed instruments play scales to him daily. But working totally on rejuvenation seven years has no appeal to today's instant coffee, instant gratification society.

But the source thru Cayce ever reminds us: Why do you want to live longer?   Or...what is Thy ideal? Reasons to live long varied, but dying prior to being disabled by aging was unanimous!

And the final word on rejuvenation?  Turn within, for thy body is indeed the Temple......Cayce went on to say....

The lively discussions and comments continued as our study took us into Chapter 24,  Edgar Cayce, Christianity and the Occult.

All of us have been challenged, and our spiritual beliefs or practices rejected as were those of Jesus and Cayce by religions authorities and practitioners. Ignorance of what Cayce's teachings and work were actually about, triggered repeatedly over centuries, from the Devil, or get rid of your A Search for God  book, it's of the Devil. Or our Bible study groups attack on reincarnation. Integrating our spiritual studies, beliefs and practices such as praying to Saints or to God challenges each of us. Why was reincarnation not included in books canonized into our Bible in the 5th Century?  If a fact, why did Judaism abandon teaching it as well?

Interesting that ARE press hard bound, typewritten vs. typeset, editions of their first books by Eula Allen, which sold for $3.00 each, if found anywhere today sell for $300.00. Charles Thomas Cayce and other sources have said ARE library has many out of print books such as those of Eula Allen, Violet Shelly, and Neil Clairemont. But Covid-19 quarantine or shut-down laws caused such a staff reduction, ARE Library is currently closed.

Discourse clarified the difference in what blasphemy is, may be mistakenly thought to be, and is not. Using God's name in anger as an expletive is not in vain, said one member. Rather, it is misuse of our oneness with omnipotent source GOD to empower our desire to suffer harm or death on another is true blasphemy. Good distinction!

Shall we all agree to keep rejuvenating joyfully, playfully, consistently and persistently?

Happily rejuvenated,
Sylvia Raye