When I first met Dr. Lane, My Teacher, I recall saying something about my age, which was 46. And I’ll always remember My Teacher’s response: “There’s no such thing as aging!” I Know inwardly that this is so because I Know we’re Spirit. As My Teacher has Taught me, anything other than focusing into Spirit/identifying mySelf as That is false identification. That includes identifying with the body, with the physical. As Dr. Lane has also Taught me, we’re all wearing the same thing: a body and that that body goes into the ground. The Spirit I am is Eternal. That’s Who I am; That’s Who we are. And we’re here to come to Know ourSelves as That. That’s It, folks! I chose to write this blog after an experience I recently had. I was getting my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine at a local pharmacy. After I received the shot, I was told to sit outside the room in a waiting area for 15 minutes to make sure all was OK before I could leave. As I walked towards this waiting area, the people there started waving at me. At first I kind of wondered what are they waving for? Then I realized that they were just “welcoming” me into this small group of people who had gathered post- and pre-shot. Kind of like a little vaccine club. So we chatted about the shot and one person suggested that I may want to wave my arms around to prevent the stiffness that can result from it. Then she raised her arms way up and started swinging them around, almost like an arm-driven wave dance. And she just kept swinging them and waving them from side to side to show me what she believed was best for me. I raised my arms and swung them, too. Then, later on, I realized something. That this small “get together” – and a similar one that had taken place after my first shot – was the first time other than in nursing homes that I had actually seen and been in the company of older people like this, chatting, smiling, advising each other, too. It was happening because the shot was being given at that time only to people over 65, mySelf included. Boy! was it fun. That woman waving her arms - I knew outwardly that she was what we call in this world “old”. But the experience I had inwardly was age-free. It was one of fun, of being with a Soul. Yes, I knew outwardly she was likely in her 90s and, perhaps, beyond that; and her arms were a mass of wrinkles and they were super-thin. It was as if that information registered someplace off in the distance and had no real effect on me. I Know we’re One Spirit. I know that the physical is an Opportunity to Lift and to Grow – the so-called “aging process” included. It’s part of God’s Plan, too. As My Teacher also Teaches, it’s no accident that one person is born this way and another that way. It’s all Love to help us move into that Oneness, Where we all in Reality live. And Where there is no such thing as aging. I believe that it was no mistake that they kept waving at me. And waving at me. On some level, I believe, they knew we were somehow in this life together as One. That this was a judgment-free zone. As an Initiate Of The Sound Current, I know that when I am Present/living as the Spirit I am, “others” pick up on It somehow. . It’s no accident, of course, that My Teacher Teaches that the best thing we Initiates can do for anyone is to be ourSelf. This reminds me of something else: for eleven years I was given the Honor and the Blessing of being of Loving Service by hosting the Magnificent Meditation For Health And Well-Being that is brought forward by Dr. Lane at nursing homes. It was in doing that that I fell in love with “old people”. Yes, we are One Spirit; and, as the Spirit I am, I recognize their wisdom; their vast experience; and, as I’ve shared with other people at these homes who also love “old people” what I believe is their ability to let go. So much had been given to them situation-wise – death of a loved one, often many times over; family stuff including children in jail or addicted to drugs; illness, you name it – that they had decided at some point(s) to start to let go and to let go some more. That was, I realize now, the foundation for the wisdom. And yes, the only person I’ve ever trusted outside of Dr. Lane, My Teacher, was the aunt of someone I was dating at the time. I trusted her with anything I had to say, no matter how “private.” She was wise; she had common sense. And, yes, outwardly, she was 96 and bed-bound. And, she just kept going even though she was losing her ability to move at all. Wow! She was to me amazing. At first she expressed dismay at “living this long” then she moved into acceptance of her situation. As a Soul I Know from My Teacher that like all Souls (with very rare exceptions) she was here on this planet to get her Learning. Yes, she will return for future embodiments until the Soul that was in the body that was this magnificent person chooses to use an embodiment for Its Purpose, Which is to come to Know ourSelves as Spirit, as Soul, Which is Who and What we are, period. This Opportunity to come to Know ourSelves is a rare and Precious One and It is here on this planet now through the Priceless Gift of Initiation Into The Sound Current. As My Teacher, the Sound Current Master Bringing Forth this Gift, Teaches, you never know when this Opportunity will come again!
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Something I’ve noticed about mySelf is that I need to learn to “think things through”. My Teacher has often asked me “did you think this through?” when I turn something in and there are errors when, for instance, I wait until the last minute; don’t make the effort to turn in the best work I possibly can.
The answer has often been, "No." As an Initiate Of The Sound Current On The Path of Soul Transcendence, the above is a "dead giveaway" that I've chosen into karma and into creating more of it. And I’m responsible for my creations. While the Path Of Soul Transcendence is Loving God, do I really want to come back another lifetime because I chose away from Giving this Blessing of Service to mySelf?” For me, “thinking things through” means “anticipating”. So if there is a Zoom call coming up and you are responsible for hosting the call, you make sure that all those on the call who don’t know how to use Zoom – or may not know - are trained beforehand. You do as many trainings as it takes for however long each takes. If a rehearsal is needed for the entire group, you arrange that, too. “Thinking things through” for me means doing “whatever it takes.” Whatever needs to be done is done. No “time or space” here. And doing it from a Loving Place of Giving to mySelf, and, as a byproduct, others. For example, I was asked by My BeLoved Teacher to assist a Fellow Initiate in learning to use Zoom before an upcoming weekend-long Event. I began by calling in the Light Of The Most High: “Lord, God, send me Your Light!” I placed the situation into the Light for the Highest Good; I asked the Lord, God for what I prefer, which is that everything be easy and effortless, etc. I had a Knowing right away that more than one Zoom training was needed and that it was easier all around if this Fellow Initiate stayed with me at my home during the Event to Focus better on the Flow of the Event for this Soul and, also, so that I could provide tech help if needed - or other help such as printing out Tools - instead of the Fellow Initiate’s taking the subway each day. This Fellow Initiate, I Knew, did not have a printer. I “thought things through”. I could easily have “sloughed it off” – words that My Teacher has used with me - by going with “no time” or “too busy”, with not even bringing up what I Knew to be True. Non-Initiates have not yet chosen the Beautiful Gift of Initiation Into The Sound Current On The Path Of Soul Transcendence and, therefore, do not have direct access to Spirit, but they can “think things through”, too. For instance, when my computer crashed I noticed that the company I called for tech support had “thought things through.” My call was taken right away (no waiting); the person who answered was well-trained (saving lots of “time” and energy for both of us); even the phone messages I heard on first dialing in were so short and to the point that I got where I needed to go right away. My example with my dear Fellow Initiate was one of Loving Service. It was also loving for that company to “think things through” to the end, the “end” user and make sure every single thing was handled. I’ve Learned that Loving Service is Excellence. Excellence is living from the Godpoint – and exercising Choice to “think things through” and to do whatever it takes. That means Surrendering my “agenda” in “time and space” to God’s Agenda – my will to God’s Will. To be in Alignment with God’s Will, I put my preference into the Light Of The Most High for the Highest Good. I Let Go. I Trust that the “situation” is handled; that the “situation” is God. Is Love. Is a Gift. I Allow mySelf to Ride the Sound Current/to Receive. I do this moment-to-moment. As My Teacher Teaches, I Trust, Allow, Receive. As My Teacher has Taught me, every moment that I choose away from Receiving is a death; and there are consequences. As an Initiate, I have Direct Knowing and I go with That; I get my next steps from Spirit (versus using the “mind”). As My Teacher has said, quoting the Unknown Poet, “Genius is the absence of thinking in the Presence of Thought.” I just do my part. That part, I’m still Learning, includes being Present and, yes, Choosing to “think things through” and to do whatever it takes. I wish This for all of us. Copyright 2021. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. For many of us the spread of the coronavirus has meant videoconferencing instead of in-person meetings and events. The Center For Religion And Advanced Spiritual Studies is no exception, having held Its Sacred annual RETREAT via Zoom.
As an Initiate, I Know that everything is brought forward for my Growth and Upliftment, Zoom included. And so it was, as I was being of Loving Service in preparation for this Blessed Event, that I was invited to a pre-Event Zoom training during which I was shown how to use “the raised hand” function, which results in a little yellow hand popping up near me on the video-conference screen. That way, My Teacher, Who Brings Forth this Sacred Event, is able to see who would like to say or share something. During this training, the very Loving Initiate in charge of this training, asked if we were all OK with “the raised hand”. The response was a chorus of “yes’s”!! I, however, was not OK with the hand function. I had tried it before this and couldn’t get that little yellow hand to leave the box where my face and upper body were on display on the screen. That hand just sat there. And even though, at that time, I had heard someone say that the hands just vanish on their own, I wasn’t comfortable. Nonetheless, I chose not to speak up. I did not speak up because I didn’t want to be the only one who didn’t know how to raise my little yellow hand. So I sat silent. I went “outside” of mySelf with the negativity - the fear; the pride; what others have to say. As an Initiate, however, I had a Knowing, a deep Knowing That was Present and It was that I needed to speak up about the hand. I also Knew that when Spirit tells me something it is often for far more than “me”; many times, it’s something that affects others as well as well as My BeLoved Teacher because what I run inside mySelf goes through My Teacher’s Consciousness! So I went with that Knowing, which I had during the training and requested a personal hand-training. But I did so later on after the training. Of course, that Knowing had stayed with me. I had chosen away from speaking up while still in the Meeting because I had allowed fear of doing so to rule. All I needed was to do Self-Talk to direct my basic selves - the part of me that brings forward my karmic patterns - to speak up and to reassure them that we’re fine and OK and safe and to use the Four Rules of Self-Talk in doing so. I also needed to use the Two-Part Release Technique inside mySelf like this: “Lord, God, send me your Light! Lord, God for the Highest Good please take anything that separates me from the Spirit I am from me now!” and tell mySelf, “(my name) it’s OK to let it go!” As I would Learn more deeply at RETREAT Itself, our job as Initiates is to be On Point, which means Practicing Eternal Vigilance moment-to-moment. The Initiate Who was of Loving Service in giving me these Zoom trainings responded right away; and there we were, on the day of the Event, testing that little yellow hand, which, as it turned out, didn’t work. Not in the way My BeLoved Teacher needed it to. Not at all! My Learning was this: Go with your Knowing! Speak up! And for me to improve, do Both right away! That seemingly simple “tech thing” was there for my Growth and Upliftment - and for That of others as well! For this Soul, the benefit was the far deeper Learning to speak up by using everything to Grow In Love for the Lord, God. Zoom Meetings included. Copyright 2021. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. About sixteen months ago I moved into a new apartment and, when I did, a friend of mine strongly recommended that I buy a particular vacuum cleaner. The friend also enthusiastically told me about a great “deal” this friend had gotten on it and that if I went online now, I could get the same one. The deal involved signing up for six “easy” monthly payments.
I quickly purchased the cleaner by way of the easy payments. Then a few things happened. First, I fell behind in the payments. Second, I shared my own enthusiasm for the new machine – it was the “hot, new” cordless one – with a Fellow Initiate who had also been cleaner-shopping. I was so excited about my newfound cordless vacuum that I urged my dear friend to stop by for a personal demonstration. My friend was Neutral and chose to simply ask questions about the machine and then to try it out. At first, I felt annoyed by all the questions because I was “caught” on taking it personally, as if she were making me wrong. And on my own “insistence” on being “right”. Once I let go, however, I immediately began in a day or so to do in-depth machine-related research mySelf and boy! did I discover a lot. As someone with dust and other allergies, I found out that I needed to avoid an “open bag” machine like this one in favor of one with a “closed bag”. I also realized that if other than dust were to be vacuumed up, an open container could potentially keep it in place instead of ultimately in the garbage. I recalled, too, that I had asked the company from which I had purchased it to please confirm that the machine had a HEPA filter – a safeguard for those with allergies – and that no matter how many times I had asked, the person had said “HEPA-style”. I had been so “caught” on pleasing my enthusiastic friends or perhaps being liked that I chose away from looking into it further. Then I recalled something else: when I had first used the machine, it had suddenly stopped working after 30 minutes or so and I was unable to finish vacuuming the apartment. I had eventually watched a YouTube video from which I learned that the machine has approximately 35 minutes or so of vacuuming time on its lowest speed and ten on “max”. Research also showed that the machine could be hard to use (“unwieldy”) and I recalled that when my dear friend had picked it up to do a round of vacuuming it had taken her for a ride across the room. Then, finally, I chose to read up on the machine in Consumer Reports hoping for a comprehensive “rundown” only to find out that the publication had stopped reviewing it because it didn’t meet its standards for review. Then I noticed a whole lot of them for sale on ebay; and that the company had set up a separate division to do nothing but resell the machines there. At first, post-research, I was stunned. How could this be? And isn’t this the hot new machine of the moment? The one “everyone” has? It was no accident that my dear friend had come over and asked those pertinent questions and done so Neutrally. She treated herSelf Lovingly and her family as well. And she chose to role-model Living in Integrity and Responsibility. It came to me pretty quickly after this visit, from a place of Integrity, that I needed to purchase a new machine that was the best for my health and for those who visit me, which included Initiates who have sensitivities as well. I didn’t care about the money at all. I knew I was Supplied. And so I did the “new machine” research I needed to do and bought the best possible one for my health and that of anyone who visits me. The store where I purchased it discounted it many times over and then insisted on delivering it to my home free of charge to make everything “easy” for me. But what came next truly surprised me. The first time I vacuumed with the new machine, I noticed that the floors were shining as never before. Glowing. And they stayed aglow as if this were a permanent gift to me versus a thin film appearing in a day. Of course, I felt better, too, as if my lungs were able to spread their wings. I Knew The Glow was the Glow of God. Once I had Lined up with mySelf, the outer cleaning mirrored the inner One. I Knew I was Worth it. Copyright 2021. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. 2/5/2021 Is Your Paycheck Your Protection Or Are You Allowing The Only Protection There Is?Read NowAs the coronavirus spread around the world, the government of this nation instituted a program to help businesses pay their workforces during this time of “crisis.” Often referred to as PPP – short for Paycheck Protection Program – it provided loans via the Small Business Administration.
And what a boon this PPP was! Companies applied in droves! They got their money! And, as a business owner, I was urged to apply by the many excited entrepreneurs with whom I regularly associate. When the program was first announced and the “urging” began, I chose away from applying because I do not have payroll (I work solo); I had already heard about all the time and energy it was taking to apply and I didn’t want to devote either as I didn’t want to take “time” away from the everyday doing of the work I do. I knew that the funding was a loan and I didn’t want a loan, knowing as I did that paying it back can be a “pain”. Then the PPP was extended beyond its June 30th date well into July and the “urging” began again! My accountant said I “had to do it”; explained how much money I would get (a lot!) and by when (the end of the week!). As for avoiding loans, the “chorus” of experts told me, basically, no worries! It will be forgiven. Just do these few things as instructed. None of which has anything to do with living Spiritually, Which is all there is. So when this “round two” began and I heard the big number and “instant” delivery date, part of me felt really excited. Wow! Money! and by Friday, too! I also Knew that something was “off”. I Knew that the excitement was what I referred to when I later spoke to My Teacher as “dancing basics.” The part of me that brings forward my karmic patterns was dancing up a storm! And, if I chose to identify with them, I’d go “out there” and “get” the “free money”. I’ll call a potential lender for the PPP – a bank, in this case – and get more information! I’ll speak to my accountant again and again on just what I need to do to have the loan forgiven for sure. Just do this and this. Easy! As an Initiate Of The Sound Current, though, I stop. I Know something is off. I get Present. I get help if I need it, which I did. I called My Teacher for Open Hour. Listening to My Teacher was Listening to mySelf! I Knew right way that I needed to stay in Integrity. I Knew that I didn’t have payroll even though the PPP itself said it was OK for solo entrepreneurs to apply. I went with my Knowing. I Knew that the portion of the lender/bank application that I had seen had asked that I certify that I had been seriously impacted by the coronavirus (words to that effect). I Knew this was not so. The SBA application asks for certification that the funds are needed “for the ongoing operations of Applicant.” Not so. My Teacher also reminded me that I would pay tax on the money if the loan is “forgiven” - something I had also chosen away from in round one – and easily forgotten until Open Hour! I Knew, too, that this was a loan and I don’t want more loans. I Knew, too, that even if dozens of people tell me it will be forgiven, I have no idea whether it will or it won’t; that what I was required to do to have it forgiven was not a clear action; it was a manipulation. I chose into Integrity Inherently with the Help of The Master. I had been dancing with my basics instead of “Dancing In My Soulness” in the Soul Body with God - as stated in a Satsang by Our Teacher. Being Present is the Protection and so is stopping when I feel “off” and getting Help from Our Teacher. The Focus is on Loving God. I was smart enough to get the Sacred Help and the Protection I needed when I felt “off” instead of just going with it. I Lovingly Suggest you do the same. *A Note: “Dancing In Your Soulness” is the Title of Tools For Living Free #138! Please give this Gift to yourSelves! Copyright 2021. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. My Teacher recently Instructed me to get clarification on personal relationships and situations - instead of creating stories about them inside mySelf. Following This Instruction has been life-changing. Let me give you the example of “storifying” that I had shared with My Teacher after which My Teacher gave me this Powerful Instruction! I recently created a story inside mySelf that someone didn’t like me. After all, I had texted this person about important Events and none of the texts had been answered. Thanks to My Teacher’s Instruction, I called the person; shared how I felt and found out that nothing of the sort was so. He liked me just fine; and, since then, all of my texts have been promptly answered. The texts had not been returned because he did not want to text back that he had chosen not to attend these Events. He now replies honestly. Here’s another example! I had done some work for someone – in this case, helping this person apply for an award, which he ultimately didn’t win. I then created an inner story that he was angry at me because he didn’t win. After all, ever since the winners were announced, my voicemail messages hadn’t been returned. As Instructed, I got clarification; and found out that no such thing was so. He had been traveling; didn’t care whether he won or not and wanted to continue to work together. I’ve also Learned that being Neutral is crucial in clarification. After My Teacher’s Clarification Instruction in the first paragraph of this blog, I was better able to clarify situations involving potential clients. In one such situation, I was asked to work on a project; I followed up as I had been instructed by that company but never heard back. This time, I simply called for clarification. I was fine either way - whether they preferred that I do the project or not. I also experienced that my choice into Neutrality freed them up. No need to “make nice” or “string me along”, as had happened before. The person I had called told me that they had chosen to handle the project in another way. I’ve Learned something else, too – that sharing my feelings by coming from an “I place”, as I’ve also been Taught by My Teacher, is important when getting clarification. A years-ago example has stayed with me. I had created a now-familiar story that someone was angry at me about some public relations work that I had done for them. At that time, My Teacher had Taught me “conflict resolution”. In this case, I had already “storified” but I got in there “right away” after My Teacher’s “conflict resolution” Instruction. I called the person and shared from an I place: “I feel like you’re angry at me regarding [situation].” Before the call, I had also called in the Light Of The Most High like this: “Lord, God, send me Your Light!”; I had put my preference into the Light Of The Most High for the Highest Good and, as Instructed re: conflict resolution, I was Present. I also Listened to the other person – without my usual interruptions. And I shared from a Place of Integrity as well. I recall that the person admitted that, yes, she had been annoyed and, that after we had neutrally discussed the situation, this person told me that she was referring some business to me. That “some business” has turned out to be at least half of the client base I have worked with since then. I’ve Learned as well that it takes courage to get clarification and that using the Two-Part Release Technique before and after clarification as often as necessary to let go of anything that separates me from the Spirit I am is important, too. So, too, basic selves – the part of me that brings forward my karmic patterns - love the blah, blah of the inner story. And my choice to create karma so that I keep reincarnating. The patterns brought forward by my basics – fear of “being yelled at”, for example - have no power unless I choose to identify with them. Self-Talk to direct and redirect my Focus into the action at hand and into Spirit is crucial in clarification, as I’ve Learned. I Know, too, that when I line up with My Teacher’s Instruction, I allow the Grace. That is, after all, What’s going on … the Lord, God is in the situation and is the situation. What had been “between” us – mySelf and the Souls in question – vanished once I Practiced the Instruction. The deeper Learning is, of course, that there never was separation or “conflict” to begin with – other than the separation within me “between” me and the Spirit I am because of the karma/negativity I chose to create and for which I am Responsible. We’re One Spirit! Copyright 2021. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. I’ve been reading Tools For Living Free #44 titled “Excuses, Excuses – Let’s Be Done With Them!” on a regular basis. The Title has stayed with me; I’ve recommended the Tool and the Talk from Which these excerpts are taken to numerous Fellow Initiates.
So, it’s likely no accident that, as I started to write this blog, what came to me was “choices, choice – Let’s Be Done With Them!” [ed’s note: These words “coming to me” and my reporting/writing that here does not mean that they are for use as a title for this blog.] It came to me because we are given so many choices with a lowercase “c” – want a new couch? There are thousands if not millions to choose from! A notebook? Oh, OK, there are big ones; itsy bitsy ones you can’t possibly take notes in; one-inch spines, two-inch spines, two-and-a-half inch spines …; all kinds of lines on the page or no lines, if that’s your preference. Our BeLoved Teacher gave a Satsang in which Our Teacher spoke of shopping for a bike. A beautiful, simple bike; likely high-quality; gets the job done getting from here to there locally when My Teacher is outside the city. This stayed with me because I recognized the experience – Our Teacher wants a simple, well-made bike – and then guess what? There are choices, choice, choices … this tire, that tire, that, this, this that. What I’ve discovered having spent hours and hours on Amazon.com as Covid-19 spread around the world is that boy! was I allowing mySelf to be a basic – unconsciously scrolling through a choice-a-rama: couches and news stories from outlet after outlet after outlet and lists of “specials” (read: discounts, deals) of all kinds that gave me nothing at all deal-wise other than a chance to live habitually. Boy! did I waste “time” and money, too! Then I gave up. I stopped shopping as a habitual action. And stopped doing things mentally because I knew that the mind loves to be busy – yes, this handlebar, that handlebar, that arm rest, no arm rest, velvet that fades, that doesn’t, then all the articles about whether it really does or not – I keep coming around and coming around. Literally what happens when I allow and create karma. As an Initiate Of The Sound Current On The Path Of Soul Transcendence, I’ve discovered that I Know better than that. As Our Teacher says in the Tool For Living Free #44 on Excuses, “I’ve been working with people for a long time and the common denominator of all these people who come to me - and when they get in trouble it is for one reason and one reason only – they didn’t listen to themSelves. They didn’t listen to the Spirit inside of them. And they overran it with their ego. They overran it with their ego.” So that’s what I have allowed, up until now – hours on my iPhone checking out whatever it is I was choosing – with a lowercase “c” - to check out unconsciously and boy! is the world going give me lots to check out, a real choice-a-rama. As My Teacher Teaches, the mind loves to create problems so it can then go and solve them. Boy! is finding that bike or that couch “difficult”! Yep! What a problem that floor lamp I needed upstairs was! Big problem! Looked at “zillions” online, lying on the couch at night. I Knew I wasn’t living as an Initiate. When I do That – live as an Initiate - however “mundane” the outer situation, I put each situation in to the Light Of The Most High (I did, eventually, with the lamp); asked the Lord, God for the Highest Good for what I prefer and listened to mySelf. I discovered over and over again that with Spirit, what seems like it takes three years when I choose - lowercase “c” - into the mind/ego takes about three minutes with Spirit. Easy. I’ve discovered that when I allow the “choiceness” of the mind to rule, nothing is “easy”. There is always a mountain to climb – and, I’ve discovered, too, that once the mountain gets higher and higher, I then start to procrastinate because who wants to climb that “high” – with a lowercase “h”? When I allow that unconscious Amazon.com “search thing” to kick in, I’ve literally “gone to sleep”. I’ve abdicated my Responsibility to Be Present. So that floor lamp just “showed up” by Magic – yes, by Way of the Magic Show That is Grace – and, as I’ve discovered living in Grace, it showed up when I wasn’t “looking for it” – it was just there one day. And, yes, as Spirit led me, the store I happened to walk into took nearly $100 off the price. This isn’t to say, of course, that one can’t Be Present and shop online and look at plenty of choices. However, with God comes Simple Solutions, I’ve found. The “price” I’ve paid, up until now, is the price of refusing to give up control. The serious cost(s) of allowing and creating karma. No choices, choices, choices. Only One choice – God. And let it go at That. All we need for sure. Copyright 2020. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. For a long time now, I’ve wanted to write a blogpost titled “Is Karma ‘Contagious’?” because I know it is.
I witness examples every day. All day every day. Often, it’s “cultural karma” – My Teacher has referred to this – and unless we’re Centered in Spirit, we can easily be busy choosing into it and spreading the contagion around. Take, for instance, something I see often: many women I know aren’t interested in what the world calls “a career” or in “building a career” – they want to stay home with their children or do something else altogether – but they buy into it [the negativity/karma] because that’s the status, the karma that’s floating around in the world in which we live. There’s no such thing as a female Soul or a male Soul, as The Teachings Teach us. These many women I know are at choice and the Only Real Choice is to Know ourSelves as Spirit, as Soul, which is Who and What we are. That’s our Purpose here on this plant, as My Teacher Teaches. I can pretty much always tell when someone is not true to him- or herSelf because that person’s voice changes as if they are out of tune with themSelves, out of alignment. At this time of the coronavirus, there’s plenty of negativity/karma being put out by the media; and lots of people are buying into it, choosing into it and spreading it around, creating even more karma. That’s how we end up in wars, as I’ve Learned from My Teacher. We create and persist in negativity – the hatred, hostility, violence, really - inside ourSelves and it manifests outwardly. As My Teacher Teaches, there is a magnetic quality to it and it is “catching” whether “inner” or “outer”; the basic selves - the part of us brings forward our karmic patterns - loves to belong. They love contagion. If we’re not fully conscious through Initiation Into The Sound Current, it’s a lot easier to choose into following along. As My Teacher has Taught, negativity is “violence” and that violence affects all Souls, including the One who created it. My Teacher has given the example of a friend’s mother who was angry at her sister and created cancer; and of negativity created in one country that creates hurricanes in another. When we create negatively the “action” takes place in the Inner Worlds; the violence we’ve created goes into the cosmic mirror and is reflected back to us and we take it as real, making it ever-so easy to spread it around and for others to “pick it up”. We choose into the karma, cultural and otherwise. [ed.’s note: As Our Teacher has stated karma on whatever scale is a reflection of individuals’ karma] When we’ve allowed this choice into karma, we’ve been “had” by our basic selves, as My Teacher has Taught me many times – unless we take Initiation and do our Spiritual Work exactly as Taught by Our Teacher, Which includes constantly educating our basic selves to “go down a new track(s)” by using the Four Rules of Self-Talk as Taught by Our Teacher in the Everyday Evolution I Class. Nevertheless, Initiate or non-Initiate, we are always at choice. We are That Important. The Lord, God has created a Perfect System where we have Free Will, Which means we are Responsible for our creations. This also makes us All-Powerful. As My Teacher Teaches we are the First Manifestation of the Lord, God, Which is the HU in HUman. We have dominion over all things, as My Teacher Teaches as well. In this Magnificent System, we are Loving Partners with the Lord, God in the Oneness of Spirit. We are Protected and Loved; the Choice into That is ours. My Teacher has also Taught me what stress is and it is apropos of this blogpost: stress is negativity/karma that is outside of me that I choose to take “inside.” That’s the contagion and I can choose into it – or I can be mySelf: at Peace and in Joy as the Spirit I am. My Teacher has Taught me something else that is crucial: that the negativity that we choose into and persist in is as toxic as any “virus”. My Teacher Instructed us on this in a revolutionary Talk titled “DIS-EASE: Creation? Creative? Conclusion? - A Participatory Satsang”. Here’s What My Teacher said, using the coronavirus as an example: “You can’t get within six feet of somebody because you may give them the virus or they may catch the virus but what about the negativity you run: the anger, the hurt, the pain, the resentment? That’s not catchable? … that’s not toxic? So another thing that needs to come out of this is the realization that negativity is just as toxic as any physical virus. …” As My Teacher said to me in an Open Hour, the semiweekly times each week when My Teacher is available for Spiritual Counseling: “Stay in the Loving.” I wish this for all of you. And for this magnificent planet that has been so Lovingly brought forward by the Lord, God as the One Place where, through Initiation Into The Sound Current, we have the Opportunity to Know ourSelves as Soul, as Spirit and to Love ourSelves and all Souls. Copyright 2020. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. Not long ago I was speaking with a Fellow Initiate about a Service Project that we had worked on together and this person told me that this Project had taken her “millions of hours” to do.
My response was “This didn’t take you millions of hours.” I also Knew that in the seven months or so since the Project had been completed that this person had mentioned to me several times that the Project had taken this person “millions of hours”. As an expert, up until now, in “look how much I’m doing!” Service-wise and in running a separation between Service or God’s Life and “my life” I now ask the question, what’s going on here? And I answer the question based on what I Know to be True. First, I Know that I’m Responsible for my creations and that when I create doing a whole lot or more than anyone else or “no time”, guess what? That’s what I get! I Know that the Project did not take “millions of hours” because for a good portion of It we either worked together or we were in regular touch. I don’t know exactly how many hours it took, however, because I did not keep count. As an Initiate, I Know that I am Responsible for creations away from Spirit that I choose to persist in. I have no idea what is going to happen but a Soul that I care about very much could end up with “millions of hours” of something to do for her Learning. What came up for me next is that I Know that in those midnight hour(s) when the two of us worked on this BeLoved Project we were having a blast! A blast! My Teacher helped me a lot during the Project Itself and the months after It in both Open Hour and private Sessions to stay with The Truth as I, too, often allowed mySelf to wander off into lie-lie-land, which was that I was “overwhelmed” when, in fact, I was having a blast. I also Know that as we worked on this Service Project together boy! were we fast! Only after My Teacher commented to me “how fast it went!” after one such “meeting” did I realize that my Service “partner” and I had taken either an hour or an hour-and-a-half to do what might have taken ten times that “in the world”. (I happen to work in the same general “field” that this Project was in, thus the “ten times” reference.) For me, It was a Spiritual zoomerama! I also Knew from my own inner and outer experiences doing Loving Service that My Teacher Brings Forward Projects that help to Bring Out talents/Gifts/skills that I have! The same was Brought Forward for this person is my observation, which was that she is a brilliant designer and if she were to Allow It and Receive It, she would be met by very lucrative Projects “in the world” that would take her next to no time. Both I and my Service “buddy”, whom I Love dearly, need to Be Present! As My Teacher Teaches, time and space is the “crucifixion”. The Focus is the Resurrection! Basic selves love this “time and space” stuff – how busy I/we are. As we’ve been well-Taught by Our Teacher, the mind loves to be busy so that it can create “problems” that we then have to go and solve. “Millions of hours” could be one such “problem” to “solve”. Do Self-Talk; reassure yourSelf that you’re OK (important, as My Teacher Taught me, when I am “overwhelmed”); give yourSelf encouragement/appreciate yourSelf for the Service you do; give yourSelf updates! Put everything in to the Light Of The Most High for the Highest Good, including conversations with others. Just because a person wants to identify with time doesn’t mean you need to follow suit. Use it to Lift! And then there’s attitude! “Attitude Equals Outcome”, as My Teacher writes and Teaches in The Money Workbook. Up until now, as noted, I’ve run separation between Service/“God’s Life” and “my life” until I chose not long ago to change my attitude towards a Service Project that I was Blessed to be given as a Gift from My Teacher. I shifted inside mySelf from “how much time it was taking” to all the Growth and Upliftment I am getting! I Chose to tell mySelf the Truth! Copyright 2020. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. In the Tools For Living Free titled “The Remedy To Fear”, Which is comprised of excerpts from the Talk “Are You Fearing And Tearing Or Caring And Sharing?” Given by My Teacher, Dr. Lane, Dr. Lane gives an example that has stayed with me over the years.
That example is of a person who graduated from college and had some student debt. As My Teacher explained in the Tool, “the amount most people would kill for – that it was very little compared to what so many kids graduate from college with.” In the example, the person goes on to tell herself that “one day I’m going to use this great education I got” and, in the meantime, rather than work as the attorney she so very much wants to be, she works as a paralegal creating more and more lack and limitation. As My Teacher says in this Tool, “Boy! How long do you have to sit in your (stuff) before you’ll move? And she was sitting in her fear. And the thing that I couldn’t understand is, okay, all she did is want to be an attorney. … OK, so she gets some more debt. And then through the course of her life she makes enough money to pay it back X amount of times. What’s the trouble? What’s the problem? So, on a rational, sane level it didn’t make any sense; particularly, as her debt was relatively low to start with.” This Talk of Spiritual Instruction came to me because, up until recently, I had “run” “stuff” about some debt I had, particularly the balance on one particular credit card. Then, one day I was on the phone with the credit card company asking them to lower the interest rate on the card. They had recently lowered it but for me it needed to be yet lower so I was calling again. As I explained the situation to the appropriate person at the credit card company, he said, “well, your balance is so tiny, do you know that the difference between the rate you would like to have and the one that’s available now is only around $10/month?” Tiny??? The balance is tiny???? I knew this was a reality check so I then asked, “What do you mean my balance is ‘tiny’?” to which he replied that all day long he speaks with people with far, far bigger balances and the amounts they pay each month really has an impact on them. In my case, he said, it really makes almost no difference at all. He then came up with a monthly payment that will work for me and also pay off the balance easily and effortlessly. “What’s the problem?” as My Teacher stated. There was no problem. Similarly, I allowed mySelf to get upset the other day – run my “stuff” - because I had been calling a particular government agency that is responsible for handling some things for me; and every time I had called they had given me the wrong information. For months. This time, I got upset. I was near tears. Then I did what I am recommending to all of you – I did a reality check but it wasn’t so much “conscious” as it was what I always do: call in twice a week for the twice-weekly Open Hours That My Teacher makes available That is this Precious Gift for personal Spiritual Counseling. So in this Open Hour My Teacher told me that My Teacher has also dealt with this particular agency and this is how it is, or just their way of doing things. Nothing personal. Let that attachment go! Reality check! No Problem. My Teacher also in another Open Hour gave me another quick reality check that worked wonders, too. I had been equally upset – creating karma - because I had had some dental pain and had just been told I needed root canal. Root canal???? Oh no!! In Open Hour, My Teacher told me that root canal isn’t nearly as “bad” as it’s made out to be. Not at all. So I dropped the fear; got Present. It really was “no problem”. And no pain. Moreover, that was years ago but I had another root canal recently and thanks to this Open Hour and the “reality check” that My Teacher so Lovingly made available, I was actually looking forward to it; during the procedure, I was singing along inside mySelf to the music playing on the sound system during the procedure. So that credit card “debt” was no problem. The government agency is doing nothing to me; I’m now simply going to my local office to handle what needs to be handled. And I actually enjoyed my time of root canal. No problem. All thanks to the reality checks that Open Hours provide for me. Call in! Check out what you are running! Is it so?? And get the Guidance you need along with the reality check, which for me is always let the negativity go! You are then able to be Present/Focus inside yourSelf! Copyright 2020. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. |
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