NASA photo of the Helix Nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope 

The Presence

by Emmet Fox
  God is the only Presence and the only Power.  God is fully present here with me, now.  God is the only real Presence - all the rest is but shadow.  God is perfect Good, and God is the cause only of perfect Good.  God never sends sickness, trouble, accident, temptation, nor death itself; nor does He authorize these things.  We bring them upon ourselves by our own wrong thinking.  God, Good, can cause only good.  The same fountain cannot send forth both sweet and bitter water.

  I am Divine Spirit.  I am the child of God.  In God I live and move and have my being; so I have not fear.  I am surrounded by the Peace of God and all is well.  I am not afraid of people; I am not afraid of things; I am not afraid of circumstances; I am not afraid of myself; for God is with me.  The Peace of God fills my soul, and I have no fear.  I dwell in the Presence of God, and no fear can touch me.  I am not afraid of the past; I am not afraid of the present; I am not afraid for the future; for God is with me.  The Eternal God is my dwelling place and underneath are the ever-lasting arms.  Nothing can ever touch me but the direct action of God Himself, and God is Love.

  God is Life; I understand that and I express it.
  God is Truth; I understand that and I express it.
  God is Divine Love; I understand that and I express it.

  I send out thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole universe:  to all trees and plants and growing things, to all beasts and birds and fishes, and to every man, woman and child on earth, without any distinction.  If anyone has ever injured me or done me any kind of harm, I fully and freely forgive him now, and the thing is done forever.  I loose him and let him go.  I am free and he is free.  It there is any burden of resentment in me I cast it upon the Christ within, and I go free.

  God is Infinite Wisdom, and that Wisdom is mine.  That Wisdom leads and guides me; so I shall not make mistakes.  Christ in me is a lamp unto my feet.  God is Infinite Life, and that Life is my supply; so I shall want for nothing.  God created me and He sustains me.  Divine Love has foreseen everything, and provided for everything.  One Mind, One Power, One Principle.  One God, One Law, One Element.  Closer is He than breathing, nearer than hands and feet.

  I am Divine Sprit, the Child of God, and in the presence of God I dwell forever.  I thank God for Perfect Harmony.

The Installation of the Eight Great

Revs. Doug LeBow, Sharon Earle, myself, Patrick Feren, Rita Andriello, Jamie Klein,
Gary Oltman and Barbara Oltman

On February 26, 2012, along with seven of my classmates, I was officially installed as the Arts Minister (though I have held the post for several months now) at the NoHo Arts Center for New Thought. We currently have a twice monthly workshop for actors, directors and writers where we "Bring the Creative Process into the creative process", produce theatrical productions, along with other media, and the visual arts.

As a minister, wherever that takes me, I see myself having the following job, which I pledge to uphold:


To provoke, inspire and empower my community and the world at large to optimize their greatest Good using the Divine Intelligence that is indwelling in each and every one,


To be Consciousness on Demand, knowing only the Truth for every one and every thing,


To live consciously, consistently and mindfully in the Truth,


And, as William Blake wrote....

To see a world in a grain of sand,

And heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour.

Rev. Jay Willick

Picasso's Don Quixote

- Is it mad to be consumed by one's romantic dreams?


- Is it mad to perceive the world with a reality that others cannot see?


- Is it mad to have impossible aspirations?


- Is it mad to doggedly pursue one's quest in life, despite one failure after another?


- Is it made to passionately defend chivalry in a world where that notion is long dead?


- Is it mad to cling unyieldingly to one's sense of honor, nobility, and purpose,
when everyone else laughs in derision?




Then perhaps more of the world should be so mad.

-Don Quixote

What street do you choose to live on? 

How does it affect the experiences in your life?

Click below for some clues:

I Am Receptive to My Good

PERCEPTIONS

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Occupy Your Mind

There has been a lot of talk lately about the 99 percent-ers and the 1 percent-ers in our country. It is an us vs. them dialogue culminating in a mostly peaceful demonstration and takeover of public parks, government building areas and schools, colleges and universities. It is a movement that is bringing up valid concerns of equality and fairness; and questioning the current concepts of community and patriotism that seem to prevail in our uneven, regressive and loophole abundant tax code that tends to favor the "rich" (at least in their pocketbook). It brings up the issues of government support of corporations, public entitlements and the entitlement feelings of the public and the business world. It raises, once again, the notion of the leanings toward and the liens produced in the U.S. and the world that are quickly propelling us into a corporatocracy (versus democracy). And, most importantly, it poses the question of "who's the boss around here?". 


There are feelings of powerlessness and a sense of loss at what We the People... has seemingly become to mean. Are we a society run by the people (IE: the individual person as a collective) or the persons (what has lately been defined as the corporate collective)? What seems to be left to those who feel disenfranchised (the people described as the 99 percent-ers) is the use of our most important right, according to the first amendment of the document this country was formed with and holds most sacred.  And that is being usurped by overzealous, fear driven politicians and police. Though I may applaud some of the tenets of this Occupy movement and those who have peacefully addressed the issues the government more often than not cannot or will not address, I must remind every member of this collective of their individual responsibilities to ThemSelves. Not to dissuade the discussion in the micro (the smaller, though mighty factual picture) but to add to it with the macro (the larger, Universal picture - what we in the New Thought Movement call the Truth).


In the macro (the Universal), the 99 percent rules over the 1 percent. It is a place where equality is not a matter bound by tax code or the lawmakers or the GDP or the whims of the stock marketeers and banksters. It is a matter of choice and decision - personal choice and decision. It is a place where outside situations hold no grasp we don't allow to take hold. It is a place, using the term as both a noun and  verb, that is controlled by no one and no thing but YourSelf. That place is your Mind.


In your Mind, you get to decide what affects you, effects you and how your perception of what is going on gets experienced in your life. In your Mind, you are the boss around here. Again, I don't say this to dissuade the discussion going on, but to add to it by releasing the victimhood mentality (a debilitating belief producing a lack-filled life, a "self-accepted hell on earth" [Raymond Charles Barker]) and embracing the Power that is in all of us. The Power of Decision.

What you place in your subconscious mind must appear as your experience. Your subconscious mind acts as a Law of Creation. You cannot think and feel negatively over a period of time and have positive situations maintained in your experience. 

Raymond Charles Barker from The Power of Decision

I encourage you to Occupy your Mind daily and consistently with the words, thoughts, feelings and beliefs equal to your greatest good. You get to decide what those are. Lose the pepper spray of fear, lack, shame, guilt and blame - it does you no good. It just brings you a painful experience even whilst you are taking a peaceful stand to be your best. Furthermore, it goes against what is Divine in you. These are not rose-colored glasses I am persuading you to wear, but the true and correct vision of who you are - the source of your Heaven.

You are the right person, in the right place,to create a right world for yourself.

All the resources of the Infinite are already yours.

Raymond Charles Barker

Occupy Your Mind




Namaste

The War is Over podcast

click for THE WAR IS OVER talk

A friend that I grew up with (Jay Oliver), lived in the same subdivision with,


had accompanied me at my sister's wedding and here shows God in Action 


as his soul seeps through his fingers in a divine musical delight. 


Over the Rainbow in the key of Heavenly!


Namaste!

Listening to Your Inner Voice

The inner voice - sometimes called intuition, inner monologue, self-talk, guiding whispers and many others - is a way to commune with your God Self. From it can come your genius and creativity in dealing with any and all matters with which you may be confronted. Unfortunately it also a way to commune with your most judgmental/critical human self and those utterances which represent “you’re not good enough” or are fear-driven. 

This voice may prod or protect, reveal or reflect, remind or reprimand, and simultaneously connect with both your Divine Self and that bloated nothingness that Emerson tells us to get out of our way.

Richard Carson in “Taming Your Gremlins” wrote these five pathways to listening to your inner voice: 

                                   

1. Check in with your heart
2. Connect with your body
3. Listen to your intuition
4. Notice your self-sabotage
5. Identify limiting beliefs.

Though I concur with all five, allow me to simplify this even more for you....

If what you hear is destructive, it is from your human ego, which includes such undesirable characters as:

the self-saboteur

Dr. Limiting Core Beliefs

the dreaded fear-based inner child

They do not serve you.

(the exception being that they may inform you of what you need to heal in your thinking patterns)

If what you hear is constructive, 

it is of the Divine and will serve you well.

(you probably want to make them a habit)

Notice I did not write positive or negative, but constructive and destructive. 

If you stay cognitive of those two simple distinctions, I know your inner voice will put you squarely on the path to your best life communing with your Best Self. As you actively, consciously, intentionally and mindfully speak the Truth in a Spiritual Mind Treatment, so too should you learn to do so with your inner voice (which when oft repeated can take on a similar power). 

Take with a grain of salt, or not at all, that which is destructive and invalidating of your True Self and listen/learn from what is constructive and affirming. You will restore balance and joy, rediscover passion and harmony, and enliven enthusiasm and vibrancy in all the corners of your life.

~Namaste!

MIND ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

Have you ever done a Google search of your name?

There is a theory that if you click back and forth from a Google search result to the site you wish to have higher in the Google ranking, you can increase the ranking of that site. The higher the ranking, the higher order that site sits on the Google search engine. The ranking of a site on Google is powered by an algorithm called The Page Rank, named after Google co-founder, Larry Page.

To paraphrase Wikipedia, The PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. Sounds simple, yes? Not so fast buster. Google also looks at more than the sheer volume of votes or links or clicks a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves important (have received many votes, links or clicks) weigh more heavily and help to make other pages important.

So it is not just the quantity, but the quality of that quantity that goes into the making of a highly ranked site on Google. Mr. Page defined his company as follows, "We stand alone in our focus on developing the perfect search engine that understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want."

Sound Familiar?

As it is with a website on Google, so too is it with a thought and, ultimately or
more importantly, with a belief in the workings of the Universe.

We manifest experiences by impressing beliefs into a Universal Google

(alternately termed as God / The Thing Itself / Source / Spirit....
or Subjective Mind / The Law / The Law of Cause and Effect).

What thoughts and beliefs are you clicking, linking and voting for to the Universal Google? You do this by these beliefs being present in your mind? The clue to theses beliefs lies in your experiences.

Are you experiencing lack or abundance in your life, ease or disease, prosperity or disparity, depression or vitality, or a combination of them all? The thoughts and beliefs you are feeding the Universal Google come from your Mind by means of your self-talk, your perceptions, your acceptance of the news (good or bad), what you give credence to in compliments and with criticism, in your subconscious, core beliefs, focused prayers, attitudes and feelings - anything you give weight to in your thoughts and beliefs. If it is showing up as bad or negative experiences or simply not enough first class experiences, worry not because.....

What thought has done, thought can undo.  

The mental patterns laid down in your subconscious 

throughout the ages can be consciously removed. 

                    This Thing Called You (Ernest Holmes)

In the New Thought Movement it is said that Principle (the Law, God, the Universal Intelligence...) holds no precedent. In other words:

Change your beliefs, change your life.

The Universe doesn't care what you did, thought or believed before today. It is listening to what you believe now, today, this instant and doing what needs to be done (the how) to manifest your desires into your experience  "Great," you may say, "but what can I do about my beliefs?"

To change the Google rankings of your mind:  

You must raise the beliefs which serve your greatest good
and

lower or dismantle the ones that no longer serve you 
or that you do not want

For the mathematical and SEO minded, I have come up with an algorithm of the workings of the Mind:

                                                                                                   (G+R)  

E =  CB x CUL [(R + U) D       ]

                                                               T+F           

Experience equals Core Beliefs divided by Thought plus Feeling 
multiplied by a Conscious Use of the Law
(one's Word using affirmative prayer or spiritual mind treatment)
which is Recognition of the Divine Power plus
a Unification with that Power times a Revelation and Declaration of desire
 multiplied to the power of Gratitude 
(acceptance of and thanksgiving for what has already been given) 
plus the Release (with full and complete faith in R+U)
of one's Word into the Law of Cause and Effect

      It is time to check in. I challenge you to go deep,  get in there and become aware of your thoughts and opinions, be brave and allow them to reveal themselves to you, decide your  requirements, stay mindful of your thoughts and beliefs and take decisive action on revising those thoughts and beliefs that no longer  work for you.

As long as you are thinking and feeling what you do not want,
your mind will continue to create your private self-accepted hell on earth.

                                       The Power of Decision (Raymond Charles Barker)

Got some of those thoughts, feelings and beliefs the Barker wrote about? There are many tools we can borrow from SEO experts on the internet to optimize our internal Mental Search Engine and website. For example:

1 - Reset cookies and cache, delete history

Lousy thoughts show up sometimes - okay, so what - just don't let them stick around. Reset and delete, then replace them with the thoughts that aren't so lousy.

    

2 - Blog / write articles / press releases / reply / comment

     Journal about what's going on. Do your Morning Pages, "Artist's Way" enthusiast.                  Putting it down on  paper may help you get a new perspective and reference to what
     is happening with your feelings. For many people it is a tool to delve into the core of their        beliefs, see them without the heat on it and thus be able to deal with it more objectively.          Others use journaling as a purging. There is also a journaling technique called clustering 
     or Mind Mapping  that some find, according to writing coach, Catherine Franz, "is a 
     powerful graphic technique that harnesses words, images, numbers, logic,  rhythm, color
     and spatial skills, Unlike linear notes, it allows your mind to work with expansion."  
     Google Tony Buzan for more information.  Meditation is another way to clear your mind 
     and see what thoughts flow in and out. It is also a way to let Source speak to you. I                have found that if the thought is destructive, it is flowing from the human ego (edging 
     God out), if the thought is creative, it is of the Divine or, to quote Rev. James Mellon,  
     "Entertaining God Only". To that...listen.

3 - Use Keywords / tags – choose words wisely

As you become mindful of your self-talk, you can work on optimizing the words you use, implanting them in your conscious and subconscious mind by consistent and conscious use, over and over again,till they stick. The words, thoughts, feelings and thus beliefs you have are mental habits that can be broken, changed and healed. This is not about using positive thinking or walking around with mental blinders on, you are optimizing your thinking. In your affirmative prayer or treatment work, allow these new optimized and personalized words to flow through and become a part of your vocabulary. Your greatest power lies in your conscious focused prayer work with thoughts, feelings and words that work for you.

Words are molds into which 
the creative substance of your consciousness flows. 

Words without meaning, 
while they may have some effect through constant repetition, 

cannot have the same effect that words with meaning have. 

Your words will have meaning in such degree
 as you actually feel that they are 

the activity of the Spirit within you.

                                                              This Thing Called You (Ernest Holmes)

So take a look at what you are putting into your search engine. Stay aware. Are they buzz words, old mantras, or affirmations that have turned dry or sour? Find fresh, meaningful, inspiring, heartfelt, precious, useful and Divinely inspired words that not only inspire you but empower and provoke you into mental and physical action. 

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

                                       Ayn Rand

Focus on the thoughts, focus on the words, focus on the feelings and focus on the beliefs that serve you. Your Power is within, work from there not from the outside results, effects or facts. There is a Power for Good in the Universe and you get to use it, start purposefully doing that now.  Remember:

ON YOUR COMPUTER

GOOGLE IS LISTENING

IN YOUR MIND

GOD / SOURCE / LIFE / BRAHMA / THE UNIVERSE
IS LISTENING

and

WAITING FOR YOUR ORDERS OF THE DAY

so

CLICK BACK AND FORTH

TO THE THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS THAT SERVE YOU

DO IT CONSCIOUSLY AND CONSISTENTLY

WHETHER YOU TYPE THEM IN

OR THINK THEM IN

USE YOUR MIND
THE POWER OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS

TO CALMLY,  SERENELY AND DECISIVELY
CHANGE YOUR BELIEFS

SEIZE YOUR THOUGHTS

AND EXPERIENCE WHAT YOU DESIRE IN YOUR LIFE NOW

SEIZE YOUR THOUGHTS
CHANGE YOUR BELIEFS
AND SEIZE THE DAY

CARPE DIEM

NAMASTE