Category: Spiritual Writings

A Life Of Spiritual Mastery

“You must understand that you are powerful creators and that you create on many different levels of your being-ness. When something is not going according to plan, then you must recognize that there is a better plan, and you must resist the urge to get down on yourself for not making happen what you thought was the best-case scenario for yourself.

Trust that it is always a best-case scenario that you are living. Make the most out of what you do have and what opportunities do come your way, and relax about all the rest.

Relax and let go, surrender and go with the flow. These are concepts that you hear about all the time, but when it comes to your own life, you often think that you need to work harder, or try harder, or visualize harder.

But you do need to let go and trust, and know that the better is always coming because you are creating it as an aspect of Source Energy, and you would never deny yourself one of your creations.

Sometimes these creations don’t come in the timing you would prefer, and that just means you just need to relax even more, open up, accept, and focus on being the version of yourself you most want to be in those life circumstances, and that is the way to live a life of spiritual mastery.

We are the Arcturian Council, and we have enjoyed connecting with you.”

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The Answer To Every Problem

“Here is the answer to every problem that will confront you, today and tomorrow and throughout time.  In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God.  Your faith is placed in the most trivial and insane symbols; pills, money, ‘protective’ clothing, influence, being liked, knowing the ‘right’ people, and an endless list of forms of nothingness that you endow with magical powers.

All these things are your replacements for the Love of God.  All these things are cherished to ensure a body identification.  They are songs of praise to the ego.  Do not put your faith in the worthless.  It will not sustain you.

Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances.  It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace and safety.  it will transport you into a state of mind that nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God.”   A Course In Miracles – Workbook for Students, Lesson 50, 1-3.

“Think of the freedom in the recognition that you are not bound by all the strange and twisted laws you have set up to save you.  You really think that you could starve unless you have stacks of green paper strips and piles of metal discs.  You really think a small round pellet or some fluid pushed into your veins through a sharpened needle will ward off disease and death.  You really think you are alone unless another body is with you.

It is insanity that thinks these things.  You call them laws, and put them under different names in a long catalogue of rituals that have no use and serve no purpose.  You think you must obey the ‘laws’ of medicine, of economics, and of health.  You think: ‘Protect the body and you will be saved.’

These are not laws but madness.  The body is endangered by the mind that hurts itself.  The body’s suffering is a mask the mind holds up to hide what really suffers.  It would not understand the mind is its own enemy; that it attacks itself and wants to die. It is from this your ‘laws’ would save the body.  It is for this you think you are a body.

There are no laws except the laws of God.  It applies to everything that you have made in opposition to God’s Will.  Your magic has no meaning.  What it is meant to save does not exist.  Only what it is meant to hide will save you.  There are no laws but God’s.  Dismiss all foolish magical beliefs today (‘laws’ of nutrition, of immunization, of medication, friendship, of ‘good relationships, and reciprocity).  God’s laws forever give and never take.

Tell yourself: I am under no laws but God’s.”

A Course In Miracles – Workbook for Students, Lesson 76, 3 – 9.

 

No Room For Inequality

“And I want you to know, whatever your backgrounds, that there is no room for inequality in the spiritual world.  You are all of equal value; you are all of equal import in understanding the universe and in experiencing your lives.

A small female child is no less valuable in our eyes than the male president of a country.  We suggest you pay attention to that piece of information.

Many are under the illusion that they are more valuable because they are white males who are powerful and rich.  That is not the case.  Their experiences in their next incarnation may not be as pleasant as they hope.  Instead, they should use their power and influence to assist in educating and caring for the youngsters who do not fit into their description.

Their use of their awareness and influence will determine their next experience in the physical world.  If they are narrow-minded and convinced of their value over other beings, they will be given an experience to prove otherwise.  That is not a threat on our part, it is merely the way the system works.

We all get to experience everything.  We get to experience all of our delusions from both sides of the coin.  You get to be the one who is in charge of the delusion, and you get to be the one who is the victim of the delusion so that you can understand both aspects and come to a place of letting the delusion go completely.  That is the purpose of your incarnations:  It is to wake up, to let the dream go, and to realize that your misbeliefs are not who you are.

You are all divine aspects of God manifesting to see where you are mistaken, and it is in waking up that you are relieved of your burden of suffering.  It is in understanding that you are all the same, that you all deserve love, and care, and compassion, and that you are all on a difficult journey of awakening.  It is not easy for anyone to wake up in the three-dimensional plane.  It is a tricky place because it is laden with booby traps, which are your misunderstandings coming to life in the dream for you to see.”

Jesus: My Autobiography,  Tina Louise Spalding, pgs. 132 – 133.

Angels – Jane Roberts’ 1974 Seth Channeling

In one of Jane Roberts’ channelings, she was asked about angels.  Where did we get the idea that angels had wings?

Ҧ16 Angels have been represented in just this fashion.

¶17 At one time there were also species of birds, however, with high intelligence — this was before the period mentioned earlier.2 They were not humanoid; not, for example, people with wings.

They were large birds, with the capacity for dealing with concepts. They were social, could swim well (pause), and for some time could live on the water. They had songs of great beauty, and a most extensive vocabulary. They had talons. (Her eyes wide and dark, Jane held up her hands, fingers bent as though ready to grasp — or claw.)

When he was a cave dweller,3 man saw these birds often, particularly in cliffs by water. Many times the birds saved children from falling. Man identified with their easy flight up the cliffsides, and followed the sounds of their songs to safe clearings.

These memories turned into the angel images. In each case, in those times there was the greatest cooperation, on a global scale, between species.

Those who cooperated survived, but they did not think in terms of the survival of their own species alone — but, in time terms, of a greater living picture, or world inviolate, in which all survived.”

Your Parents – Jane Roberts’ Channelling Of Seth

“There is no past, present, and future.  These only appear to those who exist within three-dimensional reality.  Since I am no longer in it, I can perceive what you do not.  There is also a part of you that is not imprisoned within physical reality, and that part of you knows that there is only an Eternal Now.  The part of you who knows this is the whole self.”  The Seth Material, Jane Roberts, p. 163.

“As I explained earlier, the lives (in reincarnation) or the plays are happening at once.  Creativity and consciousness are never linear achievements.  In each life you choose and create your own settings or environments; and, in this one, you chose your parents and whatever childhood incidents that came within your experience. You wrote the script.”

In all cases, the decisions have been made ahead of time, as I told you.

The reincarnating personality enters the new fetus according to its own inclinations, desires, and characteristics, with some built-in safeguards… The process is gradual, individual, and determined by experiences in other lives.

If there is a strong relationship between the parents and the child-to-be, then the personality may enter at the point of conception if he is extremely anxious to rejoin them.  In these circumstances, when the personality attaches itself at conception, there is almost without exception strong past life connections between parents and child.

On occasion, long before conception takes place, the personality who will end up as the future child will visit that environment of both parents-to-be, drawn again.  This is quite natural.

You may have already decided, for example now, upon the circumstances of your next incarnation.  Although in your terms your new parents may be infants now, or in your scale of time not even born, the arrangements may still be made.”

Seth Speaks, Jane Roberts, p. 66, 220 – 223.

Do You Pick Your Parents Before Birth?

“Edgar Cayce said we pick our parents.  Before our birth, as we are planning our incarnation, we choose the parents who will be best for our purposes and mission in a particular incarnation.  When I speak around the country and mention this Cayce fact, I half expect some tumult: ‘What? How is that possible? Why would I pick them?’  I have also wondered about this concept. What I do with many of Cayce’s concepts is ask myself, If that were true, what would it imply?

As I look at my life now, I see how my choice of parents was critical. What I learned of psychology in childhood is key in my life now as a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and past-life regressionist.  My Catholic upbringing gave me an appreciation of faith and spirituality, which is my deepest connection with the Cayce readings, and my great grandmother’s influence set the stage for the Cayce work on all aspects of the unseen worlds.

But what about those with parents who don’t appear to be a clear-cut constructive choice?  A woman who came to me for a regression session last year began with this: ‘I’d like to believe I picked my parents, but they were drug addicts.  My father killed himself when I was 4, my mother was psychotic, my brother killed himself at 16, and I have battled depression, anxiety, and almost every addiction you can name.  So, let’s find out why I picked these people.’

Why would someone pick a situation to experience suffering? In trance, this woman was able to come into the presence of her guides and ask them why she chose her parents.  They communicated with her telepathically, and she relayed this message to me: ‘They are telling me that I really wanted to learn in this life, and they are telling me how much I have learned.  My life is an incredible success!’

I was reminded, once again, that the soul view is very different from the ego view.  The soul comes to work, while the ego wants a pina colada in Barbados!”

Excerpted from REFLECTIONS – “Peter Piper Picked His Parents” by Peter Woodbury, MSW, EdgarCayce.org.