A.R.E. Meeting for 11/23/20

Book: A Search For God I, plus experiments book

Leader: Greg Lenihan

Experiment:  For your daily meditation period choose a specific aid for attunement or approach to preparation. Let it be something you have not regularly used before (chant, incense, exercise, music, method of cleansing, or abstinence from a particular activity). Complete this activity each day as part of your meditation period AND KEEP A RECORD of your experiences in using it.” (Capitals added)

In “A Search for God” book I we read,    “3. A study of vibrations.” We discussed vibrations and personal results of inhaling Apple brandy fumes from a charred oak keg, and the Cayce formula sold by Barr under a trade name “Inspirol” for breathing treatment. Users of these two Cayce treatments agreed they thought these helped them personally. One member present has tested positive for Covid -19; but is currently able to join us online tonight.

We also read "B. The Mental Body, 1. The purging of self."

We agreed upon an experiment for the week and wished each other “a Happy Thanksgiving.” November has 5 Mondays even with only 30 days, so Greg will lead us once more before turning leadership over to Scott. He has been contacted for affirmation he can lead us Monday, Dec. 7th, 2020.

    🍂🍁Happy Thanksgiving🍁🍂

In Loving Oneness,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 11/16/20

Leader: Greg

Experiment:

At the beginning of each meditation period take a few moments to become aware that there is consciousness within each cell of your body. Suggest to or ask your body to join the mind and spirit in this period of asking.

Zoom brought seven like-minded ASFG members together to read and discuss spiritual material based on answers to universal questions asked of Cayce in years past.

Silence supported a focus of minds on our group ideal of “Oneness” and prepared us for our opening prayer. We overcame quickly a technical difficulty and discussed results of our experiment this past week designed to give us insight on our ideal. We kept a record of daily activities at days end; to see our ideal shown by a pattern of activities we did regularly or more often. It was an interesting way of learning to know ourselves better from the activities pattern we recognized.

There was even a report on an experiment from two weeks ago, to “meditate three times and find within the answer to a question.” The member who got no answer that week why she’s been unable to sleep at night, quite often a lengthy time of insomnia, got her answer unexpectedly. It was in an article stating studies are being done on how neurotransmitters can obstruct or facilitate one’s sleep. This contrasts with years of being told by doctors to change her lifestyle and behaviors to cure insomnia, and inspires hope soon she will receive help her sleep regularly.

We read in the experiment’s book down to the bottom of page 13, where this week’s experiment begins, to its conclusion at the top of page 14. This section is rich in information from five readings about how powerful the awakened energies are and can be used either constructively, as in healing, or destructively.

“Does this technique of cleansing body and mind, or this tool, stimulate within me a greater desire to serve and know God?” It’s our responsibility to ask ourselves that question and determine the best ways of going within and awakening sacred energies for our own development.

A Study of the Glands

We discussed how we each experienced in meditation energies differently, and how they move through the body and spiritual centers or chakras. Their power can rock or rotate the body. When our will has stilled and focused the mind and body on the highest ideal, and we attune our selves to the Infinite, the body’s seven endocrine glands, connected to spiritual centers—chakras—attune to Universal Forces, and body, mind, and soul, even atoms within cells and cells themselves awaken to the Creator. The glands of reproduction can function like a motor, raising this Life Force through the gate of the cells of the Leydig located in the genitive center and upward through the chakras along the silver cord. The spiritual power continues on upward through the pineal gland, which is sitting down in and guarded by its “cup” of bone in the brain, before “running over” into the pituitary gland. If a pathological study of an individual, with an ideal attuned to the Creator, who had stimulated the pituitary in meditation for a 7 year cycle, that person would have become a “Light to the World.” Without the spiritual ideal, that person would become a “Frankenstein-like” monster.

In Loving Oneness,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting 11/9/20

 

Book: Experiments in a Search For God, Keyed to A Search for God, Book I.
 
Lesson: Meditation
 
Experiment this week: page 10 - Take time each day to write down that which you THOUGHT, DID, or EXPERIENCED during the past 24 hours which you feel was especially valuable.
 
Leader: Greg
 
Consensus was for five faithful souls to begin tonight's meeting meditating first and sending out love, light, prayers for others. We concluded our prayers with sending our energy downward to heal ourselves, as Cayce had recommended (and John Van Auken taught in a Denver seminar in years past). We recited the 23rd Psalm thus closing open chakras to end our prayer and meditation process.
 
ARE Facebook page daily noon meditations follow the Cayce method we are currently studying. One member is using these noon meditations as a cleansing, an attunement, to prepare for ten minutes daily in silence. Another member frequently uses a method Cayce recommended, the coiled serpent or kundalini meditation of raising consciousness. Be alert, the temptation to stay in the pleasurable energy can stop beginning meditators here, instead of raising consciousness. A third technique is to move the energy now high in consciousness and body downward to heal ourselves, too. This one didn't make it into print in the ASFG lesson.
 
This week we read in our experiments book, Chapter One through the 2nd experiment, page 10. Basically the one chosen last week of maintaining a positive focus as we prayed and meditated daily during the week. We did the experiment this week. A member noticed that consciously trying to keep thoughts upbeat in prayers and meditation had a holistic effect with the intent spilled over into communication.  Saying nothing replaced habitual expressions of just a bit of negativity two or three times during week past.
 
Experiment one of our experiments book describes an exercise Cayce recommended someone getting a reading do, to better understand how the patterns of his/her activities can actually help them determine their ideal. Daily recording life's events at the end of the day, meditating daily or awakening the superconsciousness combined helps to establish a feedback loop with ourselves as one member heard and understood it.
 
The three-step process we are learning is having an Ideal or an affirmation (or effectively praying), as a focus to awaken the physical consciousness to awareness of our ONENESS with GOD. Second step is preparation. Our third step then, once conscious of our oneness with creator, is holding this awareness of our oneness with God in the silence.
 
Our discussion of meditation went into how we can be miniature copies of the universe. One suggested, that the tan tien of our inner energy body (a Martial Arts Master's tan tien aligned with the earth's fiery core and chakra system could be like a copy of our solar system. Can a parallel be seen between the pituitary gland, the master gland, affecting and managing the other endocrine glands; and our solar system following the sun? But what does our Sun align with to lead our planets across the galaxy with no collisions with any stars? Is that that unknown connection of our sun like an aligned tan tien keeps the martial artist balanced on his feet despite fierce attacks to knock him down?

 
Comparing spiritual body's churches in the Revelation of our Bible or Chakras as Asian thought names them, led to the question, how many chakras do humans have? More than seven?  Zoom blocked any response or possible discussion Monday, sending us out from this meeting abruptly.

In Loving Oneness,
Sylvia

 

A.R.E. Meeting for 11/2/20

Leader: Greg

New book is “ASFG Book I” and accompanying “Experiments in a Search For God," keyed to A Search for God, Book I, by Mark Thurston. We completed Puryear’s Edgar Cayce Primer last week.

A moment of silence followed by reading of 1) ARE Vision /Ideal and 2) ARE Mission Statement helped set our intention for our group ideal: Oneness.

1) Global manifestation of Oneness and the Love of God and All people.

2) "To create opportunities for profound personal change in body, mind, and spirit through the wisdom found in the Edgar Cayce material."

As for as the experiment of searchers of truth, we learned if we weren’t motivated and enthusiastic to get it done two weeks ago, only one found motivation to do the experiment and is awaiting an answer for guidance sought, 1 forgot, 1 used 6 days to think of a question, if “automatons” are man-made robots and “were misused” by Atlanteans, and Jim Hightower author and columnist in Colorado Springs “Indy” weekly was accurate that automatons with AI will be here and start performing manufacturing jobs in about 15 years, “How could humans have mistreated these man-made “workers” of artificial intelligence?” How? What did they do to automatons that qualified as mistreatment? And four members didn’t do the experiment to confirm accuracy of guidance sought within by “..asking 3 times.”

We read the Introduction and learned the seekers in the original group in 1933 found an answer to a universal question for us throughout life. What is “truly valuable in thought, in activity, experience?” It is our own realization only from within and that supported by our knowledge of self in relation to to God and self to others. Meditation is a path to attain and trust this personal truth of our own life path of hope and seeking a better way.

We read definitions for prayer and meditation and discussed an illustration of prayer from Luke 18:10-14 . It clarifies differences in praying humbly, truly seeing self and praying from a sense of pride. Prayer is our intent to attune our consciousness to that of the Creator and attunement of our minds with spiritual forces in this world.

Meditation requires removal of any blocks (resentment, etc.) to the rising of the Creative Force and allowing it to nurture and strengthen our sensitive spiritual centers, attuning our mental, physical bodies to their relationship with their Maker. "In prayer we speak to God, while God speaks to us in true meditation."

We also discussed the difference in prognostication (Greek medical term- “foreseeing”) versus free will, when Cayce made some predictions, they were like "forewarnings" in that he also said if people changed, then the disastrous possibilities seen would not happen, if they developed and became more spiritual. And how accurate Cayce’s readings were.

A member named three prophecies for 1933, 1968, 1998 of the 20ish our “psychic diagnostician” was said to have made that never happened. While ARE realizes now a few published as “prophecies” were his personal dreams. And his son Huge Lynn wrote on "The Outer Limits of Edgar Cayce’s Power," because as many people as were helped by his information, he was wrong 10% of the time. People receiving the reading may not have had the support and true seeking Oneness of mind of family and friends enhancing Cayce’s work. He was leaving his body and going to his Source for the information. Unlike mediums and many who expected a human “guide” who died and crossed over could magically know more information dead than than they did alive. Yes, that’s another way for 10% more inaccuracies, for a total of 20% mistakes on average. 

Cayce refused to be just another medium, claiming his right to go to the source. Besides lack of group support for readings, sometimes the human Cayce just had a bad day. But his good days were 10% better accuracy compared to mediums. Also, Cayce lacked the ability to distinguish ideas-“thought forms”- he called them- from a record of an event in the God’s Book of Knowledge or the Akasha.

Our Experiment for Nov 3 to Nov. 9:

A member suggested we meditate and in so doing, see the positive, and affirm the good blessings in these times of change in our prayers. Petition for or hold a “good” vision of our petition, a cure, gratitude for first responders, doctors, nurses, etc. and thankfulness for those recovered, gratitude for abundance of medical resources, gratitude for the soon arrival of a vaccine! Seeing cooperation, oneness, unity, of our common purpose and goals, and so forth. The experiment is explained on bottom of page ten and upper half of page eleven of our experiments book, but without the positive quality and focus our group discussed explicitly and agreed to do this week.

Among prayer request for concerns are to pray for a strong immune system and immune response and protection of “Michelle” and “Chuck”, abundance of energy, calmness and peace, sense this is easy focus along with patience and strength for family members and parents challenged to be the school teacher, while performing an 8 hour job and doing the housekeeping all at once.

Next week we’ll begin on page 7, "Will prayer answer for meditation?"

We’ve missed you much to those not among the seven tonight!

In Loving Oneness,
Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 10/26/20

Leader: Sylvia

Seven members entered our Zoom meeting room tonight. We opened our meeting and our chakras in preparation for meditation. We listened to ARE s Vision/ Ideal being read to start:

Global manifestation of Oneness, and The Love Of God and All People.

And heard the ARE Mission Statement:

To create opportunities for profound personal change in body, mind, and spirit through the wisdom found in the Edgar Cayce material.

It was discussed whether each person felt or observed an effect from reading ARE's ideal and mission statement upon the quality of the meetings, or not, in the month of October. Or upon our daily attempts to live the lesson, i.e., in our experiments. Several noticed a bit, or felt some affect in living the lesson this month. One felt it enhanced the quality of discussions during the meetings. Members stayed on the spiritual ideas being discussed from the book. The ideal and mission statement was uplifting to one as if reading a prayer. It led one person to experience two emotional revelation with two insights about an older self that had remained hidden lifelong. 

We agreed to continue the practice of reading the ARE ideal and mission statement, with the majority accepting and allowing that it did no harm when no direct benefit was seen individually. 

This was our first month long trial of a proposal. Would weekly reminders to observe for any effects upon depth and quality of meetings have yielded different results among members whose minds slipped this trial during busy distraction filled weeks?

One member expressed a  personal need to meditate to start the meeting. Meditating with others is necessary to shift from high pressure, hurry of job and traffic, to a spiritual focus.

We meditated on becoming more aware that God is Love and thru His Love, made manifest in his Son, the Christ. We prayed for others, our absent members, and for other's healing.

Cindi lost to death two friends this week, Jerry and Glenn. Justice  is now home from intensive care at the hospital. This 11 year old girl we prayed for last week is no longer in a coma, is doing well, and eating well in her home.

We discussed our experiment of week past and agreed to repeat it for next week's experiment:

To receive guidance, ask a question and go within three times for an answer, as Cayce recommended.

One received an answer, as the still small voice spoke,  Honor the WILL;  Will  simultaneously lit up neon-blue light. But a question, should abortion be legal? It wasn't an issue in 5th century S. America nor 14th century Asia. Another child was an asset in those times. Just within versus an Akashic  record meditation may have yielded a confirmation or two, instead of not an issue for cultures of old.

Some of us were too busy or forgot the experiment. 

But two got unexpected results, an inspiration not just to prevent a health status from getting worse,  but why not try to use health information plus spiritual information to improve and increase physical condition and better vision of glaucoma diagnosed eye?  Castor oil in eyes is also a Cayce recommendation, too. Several days of castor oil dropped into the inner eye corner produced good results right away. Eyes feel better!

And we learned we can alkalize our bodies just breathing. Each morning take 30 very deep rhythmic inhalations and exhalations advocated by Wim Hof. 

The other member has been seeking guidance on too much noise too many hours, and was led to take 3-4 action steps. She came up with influential people willing to work toward upholding a neighborhood standard for quiet. An offender came to her home and apologized for all the noise. But the one apologizing cannot keep others in same household from defiantly making noise. Yet.

Typically meditating with Tesla lights, a member found three times of seeking right in line with his three times of meditation.

We read the Going Within section in The Edgar Cayce Primer. It referenced the New Testament scripture, John 16:9. Cayce said to trust in the Living God, the God found within when we set an ideal; live it. Thru daily practice, we discover  the pattern of the true self. And we finished our book when we finished discussing and reading A Little Leaven.

Three fourths of the world's population accept the philosophy of reincarnation. We are living with a magnitude of challenges, so many endless wars, economic and social strife, injustices. But.

We have a new covenant with our creator. And when we change and develop and grow spiritually by living our ideal, bit by bit, potentially we can become the small leaven, powerfully influencing ten other people by our newer higher vibrations, peaceful lifestyles of our new consciousness. They in turn can influence ten others to also know God, Maker of the universe and us all.

We have no concerns or worries about any negative controlling influences being slipped to us in flu vaccines. How do we know?  NOTHING outside of us is stronger that what is INSIDE of ourselves.

And pondered, given various prophets predictions, has Christ already reentered earth? Perhaps as soon as 1998? How would we even recognize him? Is he coming via reincarnation in a new body?  Or is the Christ state Jesus achieved, a state of consciousness, a new pattern of living to go back to our Divine Father? Or a consciousness many people being born after 2000 have or will attain? Many viewpoints.

Next month- new Leader- Greg

New Books-  A Search for God Book I  and Experiments in a Search for God, keyed to Book One by Mark Thurston, PHD.

In Oneness of Divine Love,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 10/19/20

Leader: Sylvia

Thank you for taking these three into your prayer time this week. (As per request for prayers from two members last night.) An opportunity missed at the time by some. Justice is receiving hospital care for more than one concerning diagnosis.

A time in silence shifted to ARE's ideal: Global Manifestation of Oneness and the Love of God and All people.

It brought to mind our own group ideal of Oneness.

ARE Mission Statement: To create opportunities for profound personal change in body, mind, and spirit through the wisdom found in the Edgar Cayce material.

Five faithful seekers found others had a good week experimenting with individual concepts of  spreading love or being channels of love. One exception was three not so good days, exacerbated by a high stress workplace combined with exhaustion of noise interrupted sleep. (Is what we resist, persists, a true saying? Will a mental focus on WHAT WE WANT for ourselves change our reality PROFOUNDLY?) are concepts also discussed. And knowing God is Love led a member to actually see a God is Love sign being carried by a homeless person.

Intending to live a loving week defined as love is accepting and allowing, this member realized toward week's end that  love can also be to find the beauty in others.

Another one saw in meditations the joyous, happy rose colored love going from the heart of God unto their own. This warmly joyous love was channeled to members and spread to others, heart to heart.

While we admitted none of us are actually as good in putting our ideas for spreading love into action as we would like to be, two members could maintain peace of mind and that connection to our loving nature by giving others the benefit of the doubt. 

Stressed, worried, rushing people just cannot seem to be also aware of their effects on us as we'd like them to be. But the times we can just keep the flow of goodwill, of love going, accepting, and allowing those others space to endure whatever they are so overtaken by; they can't even notice us here, is a powerful, preventive tactic for self protection.

Spreading love mentally through allowing and acceptance, acting in kind, considerate, understanding took all the patience we could muster at times. 

But wasn't having a good week, a positive week, seeing the best and the beauty in others so eye opening to our own sense of self, of faith, of knowing ourselves just a bit better? Priceless it was to your typist and especially just hearing us describe how we all could do it, at times patience-trying intenseness was required to just keep staying in that flow. Didn't we find it inspiring how our intention to spread love kept manifesting for all of us, and growing as we recognized it's not just me alone spreading love around, others are sharing it too. It's the beauty I see in others.

Our reader began on page 232 of subtitle, Turning Within, in the  Edgar Cayce Primer. We received profound truths first spoken by a deeply sleeping Cayce. Within, we gain understanding that morphs into knowing.

To find GOD, all must go within. To heal, all healing comes from that contact with Spirit (GOD) within. Going within, we come to know ourselves truly.

For guidance,  go within that temple in thine own body. Edgar and Hugh Lynn, as long as he lived (into the 80s) steered everyone away from mediums. It was a worldwide policy for ARE. Why?  A topic for lengthy discussion:

Paraphrased- in the Old Testament story the warrior King Saul was scolded by an annoyed Samuel to be called back by a medium. He was too busy to be interrupted for a soon to be known anyway, fact. This began a no medium contact standard for upcoming Bible students, apparently.

Getting information from a medium is comparable to reading a book versus seeing the movie. In reading the book, we get all the facts and can imagine the characters and story accordingly. While in the filmed version, someone else gives us their potentially a bit flawed version of the story. So the medium-movie version is not the enlightened, straight from our temple, truth or Akash, if you will.

It's hard, uncomfortable work learning to do what we have never done. To get there, to learn to access that needed information ourselves, we must grow in mental strength, in patience, consistency, either developing spiritual qualities such as faith, or enhancing and expanding these precious gifts, those soul nurturing qualities.

Have you ever paid a medium to get guidance on the same issue three times? No? Has any one of us medium using, guidance seeking people ever gone to three different mediums to confirm the truth of what the first and second one got? Not this typist either.

But that's what Cayce recommended. Ask three times. That's our experiment.

Whatever you'd like guidance on, go within to that Temple within thine own body and ask three times. 

So, let's pick our question, and take it within 3x as Cayce recommended. We can do this in three days, or three meditations! Shall we?

In Oneness of Divine Love,

Sylvia Raye

A.R.E. Meeting for 10/12/20

 Leader: Sylvia

Our group missed several members tonight who have attended quite a while and two who are inquirers. One is interested in reading our minutes while considering if this journey is right for them.

Loving spirits of nine enduring members brightened and uplifted our meeting.

We opened with an invocation, which in part sought light from the mind of God streaming into humanity's minds, love from the heart of God streaming into the hearts of humanity; and from the will of God, let the Purpose Masters know and serve, guide the small wills of humanity to let the plan of love and light work out on earth.

The ARE Vision/Ideal: Global manifestation of oneness, and the Love of God, and all people.

And the ARE Mission Statement: To create opportunities for profound personal change, in body, mind, and spirit through the wisdom found in the Edgar Cayce material.

This week's love experiment sprang out of our reading under the subtitle for this section, Our Search For God. Has any other author described love so many ways, perceptions, facets of God as we read tonight? God is love and love is God. God is all that is; and, all that is is GOD. God is love. Love is our very nature. God is love, our very being.

Experiment:

So this week we are finding out, what happens if we spread love around, as  channels of love?  Or another's perspective of the aforementioned is to love unconditionally.

Then, can we truly love others, unless we first love ourselves? We asked. Is it necessary to work with our shadow side? (As a Jung psychologist termed) info hidden from our awareness, at least until we do or say something out of character.  It also comes up in our dreams and meditations. We repress memories of behaviors we judge as wrong for our value system: anger, hatred, desires to act in anger, perhaps to hurt or harm, among many thoughts feel short of  joyous, rose energy love.  Some will use the Akashic Records Meditation to identify blocks to loving God, others, and self.

We discussed our results of several experiments suggested last week.

When our Zoom clock ran down, we had more proposals coming fast with no time to make a decision; just one group experiment agreed on. Several had experimented, but results reported where far fewer than is typical of these members. 

And this week (and last), several choose to go solo before a decision. We had numerous concepts what love is and under what conditions we can express love. Unconditionally, with personal Akashic Record info from our past, present, or future potential personal data.

Or must we root out unseen, unknown conditions, beliefs, thoughts qualifying people as unlovable, unworthy, despicable, or undeserving due to our negative emotions pressed deeply into our unconscious minds?

Perhaps experimentation will yield answers by next Monday.

Lovingly in Oneness,

Sylvia Raye