Abraham gives this guidance: “Tell your story as you want it to be.” We tell a story about our lives. An old story. – Let me tell you what I think, what happened to me the other day. Let me tell you what I don’t like and why. Let me tell you how it is. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘reality’
The story we tell
Posted in Flashes, tagged Abraham, future, Hicks, reality, religion, spiritual path, story, Truth on July 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Creative invincibility
Posted in Flashes, tagged Abraham, beliefs, creating, reality on May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Creative invincibility, or creational invincibility. We humans have creational invincibility. Only my own beliefs and thoughts can stop me. Nothing else can. Creative invincibility. What a phrase.
The mirror of the Divine
Posted in Flashes, tagged Abraham, Buddha, feelings, freedom, Hicks, law of attraction, providence, reality, Swedenborg, thought on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Divine is far away. Out of my reach. Somewhere in heaven or in creation. Far way. Right? No. Words create this impression. By thinking about the Lord as the man Jesus Christ, I can get into the belief that he is far away. He lived 2000 years ago, after all. That’s far away. By [...]
Graceful wisdom
Posted in Flashes, tagged Abraham, criticism, Gospels, Hicks, reality, splinter, Swedenborg, Vortex on October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Most people who are in the midst of observing something unwanted in another person believe that if the unwanted condition were not there to be observed, they would not be observing it.” (The Vortex – Jerry and Esther Hicks) (Abraham) And that’s not true, in case you were wondering. Well, I am grateful for having [...]
Crystals and change
Posted in Flashes, tagged crystals, God, heaven, meaning, reality, spirit on September 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Something is good if it feels good. Right or wrong? “To the extent that celestial and spiritual forms of good are present in natural, worldly and bodily forms, the latter are good and are blessed.” (AC 1420) It is almost worth reading that line a couple of times. What does it mean? So physical objects [...]
Diamonds and dust
Posted in Flashes, tagged correspondence, life, providence, reality, understanding on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From the hot sheets (MIB) of current news: “Emeralds are part of North Carolina’s mineral claim to fame, though other places in the U.S. also are rich in gems. Maine mines have yielded aquamarine and amethyst, Montana bears sapphires, Idaho is known for star garnets, and Arkansas has diamonds.” (http://www.king5.com/news/Huge-emerald-pulled-from-North-Carolina-farm-101834798.html) In the Writings of Swedenborg [...]
The four emotions
Posted in Flashes, tagged anger, church, fear, healing, joy, love, reality, religion, sadness, spiritual growth on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We are alive and feel things. If we didn’t feel things, we wouldn’t be alive. Even if the feelings are unconscious. These are the four basic emotions that each person feels: 1. Fear 2. Anger 3. Sadness 4. Joy This means that I feel one of these, at least, every moment of the day. When [...]
Presence and omnipresence
Posted in The Sacred, tagged holiness, Lord, reality, Swedenborg, understanding on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(A section from my dissertation on “The Sacred”) Rev. Stephen D. Cole wrote a paper (presented to the Council of the Clergy in 2003) called The Presence of the Lord and Holy Fear, in which he looked into the question of where and when the Lord can be said to be present. The main question [...]
Our power
Posted in Flashes, tagged creation, presence, providence, reality on July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The Lord’s Divine Providence extends to the smallest details of a person’s life. For there is only a single source of life, the Lord, from whom we exist, live and act.” (NJHD 268) I don’t see this on a day to day basis. Even looking back at years past I cannot see this. Yes this [...]
Doing good
Posted in Flashes, tagged church, living right, reality, Truth on July 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Good is DONE to others. At your essence, you cannot do to others, for you are one with others. There is no you and others. At your essence, you are part of Universal consciousness. When you act consciously, your inner presence aligns with your outer purpose and whatever you do, no matter how small, is [...]
The Jesus stuff
Posted in Flashes, tagged death, God, Jesus Christ, Lord, reality, religion, Truth on June 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I am re-reading one the more amazing of the Near Death Experience accounts that exist. It is the book What Tom Sawyer Learned From Dying. The man was really called Tom Sawyer, and his NDE was long, detailed, and un-categorizable. Here’s a link to some extracts: http://www.neardeathsite.com/sawyer.php When Tom stood before the Light of God [...]
What is, is
Posted in Flashes, tagged God, living right, Lord, love, providence, reality on May 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When something happens I react to it from emotion and with judgments. Something bad happens, someone dies, an accident, a loss. But the bad is my reaction. Something good happens, a celebration, a graduation, a new beginning. But the good is also my reaction. So does that mean that good and evil are “subjective”? No, [...]
Our Own
Posted in Flashes, tagged attraction, reality on March 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The Word became flesh.” (John 1:14) I found the following paragraph illustrating ideas like hereditary evil, the proprium, and the law of heaven or how thought creates presence: “An idea seems plausible, the conscious received it, passed it on to the subconscious, where it was taken up by the sympathetic system and passed on to [...]
Finding Power
Posted in Flashes, tagged attraction, God, Lord, power, reality, understanding on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD As the waters cover the sea.” (Isaiah 11:9) I often feel my thoughts go in the direction of the reality of religion. How can religion be real, in the sense that it was real when the Lord walked on earth, in the sense that [...]
