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The Fire Within

The Phoenix“It’s right underneath your fingertips baby. That’s all you have to understand – everything is right underneath your fingers.”
-Ray Charles

That’s it! All of It! The joyous creativity of Spirit, of our soul, responds from within each of us to just where our creativity lies! For Ray Charles it’s from beneath his fingertips!

I know in this moment for each one of us that Spirit births from within each one here and now that mental equivalent of our desires, our demands, our dreams. In that inseparable place of the One, our creative arena, the medium within us, from which outpour our creative impulses, that right here, and right now is the perfect place for peace to begin. I see this Peace in every part and parcel, in every fiber of my being, and know the same exists not only within each one of us in this prayer, but in the extension of that One, all of humanity! I know this peace is perfect in every way, because It is the Peace from Love that is beyond all understanding. It is that Peace which extends from the Soul, from the God within each and every one of us and cries out to be heard. This Peace knows no borders, it knows no boundaries, it knows no ethnic, racial, language, or spatial differences as It comes from the Source. It comes from that universal field of potentiality we call Spirit.

I rejoice in the potential power of this idea, Peace. I am enheartened by the primal nature of this creation and I know this field of potentiality expands geometrically, taking into itself all the Love, and all the Joy, and all the Happiness that the ever expanding field of infinite possibility could absorb.
I smile blissfully with the gratitude of this knowing. I feel the warmth of this Peace we have brought into this field of potentiality, and I know I need only bask in Its warm glow, for the fire has already begun, and just as the Phoenix rises from the flames to be reborn, Eternal Peace rises from within each of us in this season to be born to and as us.

To this I simply say, Thank you Spirit.

and so it is.

rev jim

republished by the author from spiritinspires.com
#feedyourspirit  #Mysticsasmentors

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In Process

Caution-Work-In-Process-YellowIt’s a funny thing. I have never really believed in being “in process.”  I have always believed and lived by the idea that you do something until it doesn’t serve you anymore, and then move on to  something. more interesting and exotic maybe that works for you and for everyone around you. I have always been. very clear about my life and all the people in it, where I am in relation to them,and in relation to how my life unfolds. 

It’s always been very apparent to me, because there was always a feeling that I’ve had when one part of my life was complete and new chapter was beginning. This clarity always made it a pretty easy transition from the old place to the new. Whatever angst there might be over the change was always removed with my initial immersion into my new career, location or relationship. There was never a process, never a long intro that left me wondering if I was doing the right thing. I always jumped into life with both feet.

When I came to Science of Mind, I noticed that being “in process” seemed to be fairly common and in talking to different people I noticed that it was a convenient way of not moving into a new idea of one’s self. “Oh’ I’m working on that, but it is in process.” Some people I knew when I first came to the teaching are still “in process.”

But, you can’t experience that rush of new life, if you’re always in that state.  Last year I moved myself out of one fairly lucrative business and into another business just as I always had, but there has been one area of my life where I seem to be “in process” and I just realized I have been for over four years.

What’s up with that? Am I in denial? Oh crap! I just realized there are two areas.

So here I sit, a hypocrite. I’ve got some serious work to do to get to the place I want to be, and I can’t expect anyone else to do it for me, although I think that’s what I’m waiting to happen. And’ it’s obvious that’s not going to happen.

I need to heed my own words and just do it. Get off my butt, and make the moves I need to make. If they’re not right, that’s OK. I can always try again. That’s what life is all about. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

So, stay tuned and I’ll update you in the months to come.

~jts

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Stay tuned for good things. . .

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In case you haven’t heard, Spirit Education is going to be teaching some great courses here for you.

Whether you are looking for CEUs as a SOM Practitioner or just interested in working on your spiritual development, our teachers will have something you can grow your spiritual nature on. Dive deep into the writings of Jalāl ad-Dīn Rumi, the Persian Sufi mystic poet, or take a new look at your life by diving into the “Four Agreements” of don Miguel Ruiz.

We will be having courses for “Growing a healthy Center,” and an will have a weekly call-in study group on many different aspects of spirituality and spiritual practice.

I hope you are able to join us. You will find more information on the website at http://spirit-edu.com  #feedyourspirit  #Mysticsasmentors

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Prayer Works!

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet. . .
~ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Prayer Works!

prayerWe always talk about prayer, which is the backbone of our teaching, and talk about how effective it is. We tend sometimes to be almost elitist with our effectiveness claims. The bottom line is, Prayer Works!

Is the way we pray any better than anyone elses? Yes and no.

The way we pray is called “scientific,” in as much as it has specific steps that have been proven again and again. And, depending on what minister’s site you go to or what author’s book you read even that varies. Even our Centers for Spiritual Living’s official previous organizations put forth two different styles of Treatment/Prayer.  One was 5 step and the other, well a 5 and 7 step. It caused a brief stir until it was realized that the two additional steps were “understood” within the 5 step treatment.

But really, is any religion’s style of prayer better than another? Not if it’s from the heart and not if it’s not from a place of fear, lack, or desperation alone. If when we pray, we pray with a sense completion, put our demand to the universe knowing that our word is made manifest, however that may sound to you, the universe must respond. If on the other hand, your prayer is filled with doubt, and lost in a place of lack, then whether there are 5 steps or 55 steps, it will make no difference.

So, if Spiritual Mind Treatment/Affirmative Prayer is more effective, it is because the steps create an alignment within the pray-er and their God and the pray-er then steps a firm intention not to cure the illness or the lack, but to know the truth for themselves in the spiritual is the same Truth of themselves in the physical world. It is a positive affirmation of the faith and belief behind the word they seek to heal. To truly know that it is already done and accomplished is the highest form of faith. When the cripple stated to Jesus that if he could just touch “the hem of his garment” he knew he would be healed, he made a powerful statement of faith, not about Jesus as a healer, but of his own perfect, in the moment, faith, and so it was! And Jesus’ words were, “by your faith you are healed.”

On this day, know that your love and your faith are all you need to live abundantly. Believe and all else is added.

Namasté,

~rev jim