"To plan ahead is good advice in your world, where you should and must control and direct where you have accepted responsibility. But the UNIVERSAL PLAN is in more appropriate hands. You will know all you need to know. Make no attempts to plan ahead in this respect." (ACIM: Introduction to Miracles ... unedited version)
A Course in Miracles, given to us by Jesus' holy spirit which is everywhere present, repeatedly states that all problems anyone perceives are really only one problem with one solution, and the only question is are we ready for the solution?
"You made the problem which God has answered. Ask yourselves, therefore, but one simple question; "Do I want the problem or do I want the answer?" Decide for the answer, and you will have it, for you will see it as it is, and it is yours already." (ACIM: Chap. 11, The Problem and the Answer)
But then deciding for the answer ... really, really, REALLY deciding for the answer ... is the same as praying for it, isn't it? And to pray for the answer is to pray for salvation, final once and for all time salvation from pain, fear, guilt, and death. Which means to pray for the savior to be born.
Christians (as well as adherents of other religions) may argue: "But the savior has already been born." And of course you can agree. The instant God gave the answer, the savior was born. But have you experienced the savior's birth in your own consciousness, in your awareness, in feelings powerfully felt deep inside yourself and extending out to the far reaches of the universe?
Because Christmas is about you, isn't it? It's about your salvation. It's about Christ being born again in you, wouldn't you say?
So the prayer for Christmas turns out to be your prayer for the one and only experience you have ever really wanted, your prayer for the one and only bridge to heaven. If put into words, it might be something like this:
Lesson 340
Be glad today! Be glad! There is no room for anything but joy and thanks today Our Father has redeemed His Son this day. Not one of us but will be saved today. Not one who will remain in fear, and none the Father will not gather to Himself, awake in Heaven in the Heart of Love.
Dear Carl,
I just wanted to tell you about an upcoming episode of Larry King Live
that I really think you will enjoy--TONIGHT, November 2, at 6:00 p.m. (PST).
(Check times in your area- especially overseas friends and family)
And...let others know about it, too, please.
On the show, Larry will be discussing how thinking positive thoughts and
changing your frame of reference can transform your life and business.
Several of my good friends are also going to be featured. Here is the line up for
the two shows:
John Assaraf www.onecoach.com
Bob Proctor www.bobproctor.com
JZ Knight www.ramtha.com
Rev Michael Beckwith www.agapelive.com
Dr. John DeMartini www.drdemartini.com
Guests on Part 2 (Nov. 16) are:
James Ray www.jamesray.com
Jack Canfield www.jackcanfield.com
Dr. Joe Vitale www.mrfire.com
George Pratt www.drgeorgepratt.com
Jayne Payne www.theintensiveprogram.com
Here's where we need your help...Share this news with everyone you know who
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And, if you like what you saw, then we encourage you to send a message to the
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to tell them you'd like to see more shows like this.
So get out your calendar and mark this down so you don't forget!
Part 1 to air November 2, at 6:00 p.m. (PST) Part 2 to air November 16, at 6:00 p.m. (PST)
Larry King Live airs on CNN at 6:00 p.m. (PST) and re-airs at 9:00 p.m. (PST) and 12 Midnight (PST).
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While I was watching the movie I was overwhelmed with emotion and was crying tears of gratitude for this amazing life I have created. I looked at my life and felt proud but then I started to feel sorrow for something that I felt was missing. I wanted a spiritual experience with a woman that I was crazy about, who connected with me on every level, and who wanted to be with me as much as I wanted to be with her.
My intention is to be in a committed monogamous relationship, which would encompass the chemistry I mentioned; and I felt I would be in this type of relationship soon. While watching the movie, I was in a conversation with God myself. Towards the end of the movie, I requested "Please, just give me a sign, a taste, a knowing that I will be in this beautiful sacred connection."
The movie finished and I fell asleep.
The next day, I got a mysterious call. "Hi. This is Christina."
"Christina who?" I asked. (I know many Christina's.) She excitedly said her last name, which I didn't catch. After about a minute, I finally said, "I still don't know who you are." She triggered my memory by recounting the fun way in which we first met and I was thrilled to talk to an amazing friend I hadn't heard from in three years.
Christina and I had met about five years ago. I had a crush on her, though I knew she was unavailable. We connected on so many levels, had amazing conversations about everything, and really understood each other. She would come over to my house and read "Conversations with God" to me. The book had a huge impact on her life, and on my life, and this created yet another bond we shared. All kinds of events occurred to enable us to be spontaneous -- both our agendas for that evening were cancelled. Of course we agreed to get together and watch the movie.
After the movie we went out for dinner. Then she dropped an interesting question: "Would you be interested in going up to my cottage?" I accepted the invitation.
Christina knew that this would be such a special experience for me. And since I like sharing my special life experiences, Christina suggested that I write about all of this in an upcoming newsletter. (So I do have her permission, and it has been edited by her.)
As we continued the two-and-a-half hour drive, Christina would be conscious of pointing-out visual things in nature for my benefit. I mentioned how I cannot see details in nature, and it is strange how most people can sit in nature for hours on end and be totally mesmerized by it, appreciating the beauty of life. I just get bored after ten minutes and want to do something else. I couldn't understand how people could be mesmerized by nature for such a long period of time. It was another fascinating onversation.
Christina knows that I can only see things very close, so when we got to the cottage, she gave me permission to look at her closely. I looked into her eyes, touched her face, and just sat there in the space of love with her for about ten minutes. After fifteen minutes, I started noticing very small details on her face that I hadn't noticed before. I asked her questions about the curves and wrinkles on her face, and complimented her on her beauty.
After twenty minutes, I started crying. I started to become present to how people could sit in nature for hours on end and be totally mesmerized, how they could notice all sorts of details that they couldn't notice before, how they could start seeing all the small intricacies of nature and start becoming present to source energy. I've had the experience of euphoria before, though usually through meditation. For the first time in my life, I started to have this experience of bliss become present simply through physical beauty.
I was really nervous. I've been with women before, but somehow this was totally different. I've been nervous before, but usually that goes away relatively quickly. I shared this with Christina as we cuddled and held each other. I explained that I was nervous more than at other times because of how deeply I felt the connection between us on so many levels. I said, "I love you. I love you because intellectually you challenge me. I love you because emotionally you connect with me. I love you because spiritually you already know me better than I know myself. I love you because sexually you are so sensual, soulful, and beautiful!"
Christina explained that this night was a fantasy she had since we had first met five years ago. I felt like I was continuing a conversation with God. Everything about the evening was so serendipitous and cosmic. Everything was just falling perfectly into place like a fairytale.
She invited me to join her in the shower or wait for her in bed. I gathered my thoughts and cleaned up the area as Christina went to shower. I didn't know whether I should join her or not. Several moments passed as I continued to consider what I should do. Since she still wasn't finished, I thought this was a sign from the universe that I should go in.
As I walked into the shower, I saw Christina's full naked body for the first time. Her wet hair was long and flowing down her back and she looked like a Goddess. The inviting smile she gave me as she looked my way had my heart just melt. Christina and I continued to have three hours of profound intimacy that neither of us had yet experienced. I was truly living the night of my dreams...
Christina lives in another country and is not able to be in a committed relationship right now because she is totally free and committed to herself. While that may seem strange to some, I choose to see it as a sign I asked God for, and therefore my own creation.
My conversation with God hasn't ended. I'm having a Conversation with God all the time. My thoughts are manifesting into my reality, and my reality is therefore a communication back from God to me.
My thoughts are what I say to God.
My reality is what God says to me.
As Neale Donald Walsch says, "We are all having a Conversation with God."
And to God (and to Christina) I say, "Thank you for the night of my life. Thank you for the life of my dreams."
"Conversations with God" is a monumental movie, setting the standard for inspirational entertainment. I've seen the movie three times already, and each time it has a deeper impact on me. I encourage you to go and watch the movie, and discover Your Conversation with God.
"On October 22, Conversations with God is going to open in theatres everywhere across the
-- Steven Simon, Producer & Director of "Conversations with God"
Love,
Danish Ahmed
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7PM How does one stay in touch with one's spirituality while engaged in day-to-day work activities? Every working day presents challenges to our composure, ethics and compassion. What practices, methods or insights help keep us grounded in our higher selves, oriented to our center, and bringing forth expressions of the divine in all our dealings?
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Dear David ,
It's nice to be writing you. I hope this email finds you well.
This past year, Candace and I conducted 76 workshops around the country teaching people how to hear God's Voice within them.
Because our curriculum was so effective at teaching people how to connect with the Holy Spirit within them, we have created an inspiring flash movie called The Voice for God that includes a FREE 30 day audio series designed to walk people through the same teachings we shared with you in person.
We are writing you because we want to make these teachings as widely available as possible and want to share this inspiring movie with you and your community. We think it's one of the most exciting, free offerings available anywhere for hearing God's Voice within, and there are absolutely no strings attached. People can download all of the audio lessons, or read and print out the transcripts. The curriculum is nearly identical to the one we presented in person this past year. Below is the announcement email we recently sent to our personal mailings list two days ago.
To watch the inspiring 3 minute flash movie now, please click here. We'd love to hear what you think about it. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Many blessings to you.
With love,
DavidPaul Doyle
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Thanks DavidPaul & Candace,
I just returned from my travels to Arhus, Denmark & Goteborg, Sweden, and my freind Alex showed me the movie this morning. Thanks for offering this movie and the free lessons to all the world.
Today Alex and Anna and I meet with Swedish filmaker Kay Pollak, who has been an ACIM student for many years and recently made: "As It IS In Heaven." He shares his book and a course on living happiness with many interested people here in Sweden.
Love & Blessings,
David
"We live in an explosion of spiritual writing. In addition to tons of recent books on Christian inspiration, there are breakthroughs in scholarship, archaeology, and an ocean of writings on meditation, the New Age, and Eastern religions. In the flood of information, it's only natural to wonder—What do I read? What will help me with something I don't already know? What will be forgotten in five years, and what will endure?
"Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now is a superb book already being hailed as a classic. . . "Dear David,
I don't know if you answer e-mail anymore but I could think of no one else to address this question to. I have been reading an interpretation of the New Testament and find it very confusing. Parts of it I find truly beautiful and moving but it seems to swing back to saying, over and over, that the world is a wonderful, valid expression of fun and curiosity and go ahead and enjoy it. I keep thinking, how can something that is nothing be wonderful, valid and enjoyable? Am I missing something here? Do you see the truth in what was written? I want to continue to try to understand what is written if it is truly helpful, but it seems to be clashing with some of what I'm reading in ACIM. I trust your discernment more than I trust my own, please tell me what you think. Love
Beloved One,
Thanks for writing. What you are experiencing is a good opportunity for discernment. A scribe or writer is limited in accuracy based on the depth of experience and consistency in making no exceptions to Truth. Writings, like those you refer to, are best used for one's own discernment. Yes, the world of perception is nothing and cannot be endowed with positive or negative attributes. The experience of Joy comes from releasing all attempts to understand, to fix, or enjoy specifics.
I am reminded of lesson 128, "The world I see holds nothing that I want." Your discernment is in alignment with this lesson, and I rejoice with you in the deepening of your awareness. Keep working directly with ACIM, and use other writngs as more opportunities for discernment. Salvation is no compromise of any kind.
Blessings of Love, David
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Dearly Beloved,
The best indicator of connection to God is how one feels, and this indicator is the best because it is not dependent on any particular "form outcome." A mind that looks to "form outcomes" is deceived and will not experience a lasting Peace. State of mind (how one feels) IS the outcome of which thought system one is aligned with (God or ego). Money is nothing, though if a mind believes in ego (belief in lack/reciprocity), money is endowed with false value.
The belief in lack/reciprocity is the belief in substitution, for the ego is the chosen "substitute" for Source, for God. The reason money seems valuable is because it seems to be highly exchangable for many "things" that meet illusory needs, whether they seem emotional,
physical, or spiritual. Like medicine, money is like a magic spell of the world that seems to make illusory problems disappear for awhile. Yet until the ego has been released entirely, the mind perceives needs and external means (false sources) to meet the perceived needs.
It all comes down to this: one must accept One Self as Changeless Divine Mind. The only step to this is realizing that the world cannot change, for it is an unreal effect of an unreal cause. They world CANNOT change. Asking for things to be different than they are is an impossible request.
Money, like all effects (images of the ego) is never a source. The meaningful request is a request to see the world differently (as an unreal effect of an unreal cause) and to thus accept the Fact that there is only One Source. God is the ONLY Source. The only question, problem or confusion is one of identity and has absolutely nothing to do with money. Trust would settle every problem now, for to trust is to be God dependent. The reversal of thought necessary to realize God dependence is a full 360 degree turn around, so to speak,
and this means the realization that there are no cause/effect relationships in this world that are true.
If all the images (including money) are effects, there is no cause or source to be found in this world. God is True Source and Christ the True Effect. Therefore the secret to true prayer is to forget the things you think you think and think you need by withdrawing faith in
the temporal and transitory. What is eternal is valuable, as what is of time is valueless by definition. With regard to this world, Purpose is the only "value" that can be given faith if you would be God dependent.
Giving and receiving are one. One always receives EXACTLY what one asks for. The problem or confusion one may seem to experience in perception comes about from the belief in "manifesting," which IS the belief in "time." Eternity does not manifest, Being One forever.
Manifesting is the belief that the Eternal can take form, that Infinity can become finite, that Spirit can enter matter. Awakening is the experience of forgiving the illusion of "manifesting," for What Identity Is is Spirit. Christ comes not into form, but Calls you "out of the world" to recognize your Self as Eternal Spirit.
Is there a willingness to release the idea of manifesting forever and experience Peace of Mind? This is the same as asking "Are you willing to accept your Self as God created You instead of trying to make yourself?" The belief in manifesting can be released for it is not
true. Spirit can and inevitably must be accepted, for It is true. The belief in linear time is a defense against the Holy Instant, for time is but a denial of Eternity.
Beloved Child of God, You have been released of the grievance of time and there is no delay in what Your thoughts create instantly and forever. The belief in time and manifesting is an unwillingness to accept the Instant Answer Now, and one can only receive what one is
willing to hear and see. When one asks for a sign or for an outcome or for an accountability for money donated, one asks amiss, for one is asking out of lack. When one has voluntarily released the beliefs in manifesting and time, one can then honestly ask: "God, what is
Your Will for me?" Prayer is always answered according to what the
mind is willing to receive. And in the deepest prayer of the heart you shall realize what is meant by the statement "My thoughts create eternally."
There is a difference between create and make, and a difference between extension and projection. Love creates, the ego makes. Love extends, the ego projects. In Love being and having are the same. To the ego, possession and having are the same and in a world of lack
what you get is what you have. How utterly impossible is manifesting/getting and how absolutely true is Creation/Giving. Reciprocity is a question of identity. Trust is the way out of the false belief in a worldly identity. It takes trust to change your mind so completely that you forget the concepts of time and manifesting forever. And happily it requires only willingness and not time.
If you drop the "thought process" entirely you make way for the Vision of Christ. If this be your desire, the world of unreal effects will be shown to be causeless and you will laugh at the thoughts that money or any image could be a real "source" or that the Holy Child of
God "needs" anything. One's real thoughts create eternally, yet no thoughts of the past or future are real thoughts. The Stillness of Now is the Answer.
The Holy Spirit will direct your thoughts and actions very specifically if you allow Him. Give all concepts of money and manifesting and time to Him to use for His Purpose, and they shall be removed from your Holy mind. For You are Wholly Mind, and nothing of the world can ever BE understood. Who You are IS the Meaning.
Love & Blessings,
David
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From a correspondance of the Holy Instant Christian Church--
Last month we showed that one's mind doing nothing allows extension of the miraculous state of being which Jesus tells us heals the sick, raises the dead, and lifts our world to light beyond belief ... a state of being available to all. We indicated that Jesus Christ's revelation for the 21st century, A Course in Miracles, does not teach us to do with our mind, but to UNdo our habits of mind. We experience unbelievable miracles by resting in trust and not engaging our mind whatsoever.
This month we will attempt to disengage one of the ego's greatest doing devices: question asking.
You might remember Yoda trying to teach Luke Skywalker in "Return of the Jedi." Luke needed to learn he already knows everything he needs to know in the now moment. He could not have come to experience his perfect now moment knowingness if he hadn't totally released the ego habit of asking questions. So in the movie we enjoyed scene after scene of Luke lapsing into his addiction of asking while Yoda again and again offers the same Jedi response: "No questions!"
Jesus Christ's Course puts it this way: "That is why the Holy Spirit never questions. His sole function is to undo the questionable and thus lead to certainty. The certain are perfectly calm, because they are not in doubt. They do not raise questions, because nothing questionable enters their minds. This holds them in perfect serenity, because this is what they share, knowing what they are." (ACIM Text Chap. 7)
You already know this, though maybe you still like to pretend you don't.
And therein lies the problem. Remember, the ego constantly tries to convince you that you are not who you really are. You are not really infinite mind who knows everything. You are not even a spiritual being who is automatically aware of everything you need to know to operate perfectly in the now moment. The ego wants you to pretend you have a minuscule little mind which really has no choice but to ask questions to learn things.
(Listen inside. What do you hear? If you hear a defense of asking questions, you may be more stuck than you think.)
From the Holy Spirit's way of seeing things, a so-called "human mind" addicted to asking questions is simply expressing arrogance, ultimately from a secret motive of hatred, since peace would have no reason whatsoever to ask:
"Attempt to solve no problems but within the Holy Instant's surety. For there the problem will be answered and resolved. Outside, there will be no solution, for there is no answer there that could be found. Nowhere outside a single, simple question is ever asked. The world can only ask a double question, with many answers, none of which will do. It does not ask a question to be answered, but only to restate its point of view. All questions asked within this world are but a way of looking, not a question asked. A question asked in hate cannot be answered, because it is an answer in itself. A double question asks and answers, both attesting the same thing, in different form." (ACIM Text Chapter 27)
To an advanced teacher of God it is obvious that question asking does not arise from any need to know. It is simply the insanity of ego raising its voice in the hopes that making enough noise heckling God will serve to mask its own confused state.
In the unedited version of the Course, Jesus tells Helen Schucman: "The ego is the questioning compartment in the post-separation psyche which man created for himself. It is capable of asking valid questions, but not of perceiving wholly valid answers, because these are cognitive, and cannot be perceived. The endless speculation about the meaning of mind has led to considerable confusion because the mind is confused. Only One-Mindedness is without confusion. A separate, or divided, mind MUST be confused. A divided mind is uncertain by definition. It has to be in conflict because it is out of accord with itself." (ACIM Text Chap. 3)
Notice the Course just gave the addict something to grasp onto for justifying the addiction to question asking: Christ's statement that the ego is capable of asking valid questions. But that's not the point of the above passage. Being capable has nothing to do with necessity. There is simply no need to ask questions thought up by the intellect, and in fact doing so is a delaying device of the ego.
In the Bible we read of the scribe who really grasped that his mind needed to quit questioning and focus only on God ... and Jesus indicates he will delay himself not much longer:
"And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after durst ask him any question." (Mark 12:34)
Those addicted to asking questions will also attempt to support their addictions using those portions of the Course which talk about allowing to be open to question that which we've always believed. "Questioning delusions is the first step in undoing them." But the questioning here referred to, impulses rising from deep within which undo rather than seek formulated answers, are a different kind of "questioning" than the addict's obsessive compulsion of the engaged intellect. Notice how in the unedited version Jesus directs Helen to put quotation marks around "questioning mind:"
"The 'questioning mind' perceives itself in time, and therefore looks for future answers. The unquestioning mind is closed merely because it believes the future and the present will be the same. This establishes an unchanged state, or stasis. This is usually an attempt to counteract an underlying fear that the future will be WORSE than the present, and this fear inhibits the tendency to question at all." (ACIM Text Chap. 3)
You might say there is questioning and there is asking questions ... and they are not the same. Asking questions is the ego's attempt to pretend it does not already know what is needed, while questioning is the act of turning within and "hearing" or "feeling" exactly what we really need to know any given moment. Turning within for answers without questions was Luke Skywalker's training and eventual mastery.
So our goal with this month's message is to take control of our mind and let this addiction be cured. We make a commitment to train ourselves as Luke Skywalker was trained by Yoda. We choose to watch our intellect, and when our intellect begins to ask a question which has no reason to be asked we say to it:
"Stop! Trust!
