Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Once you recognize a true desire you know the outcome is guaranteed.

Our daily meditations are ways of brainwashing ourselves from the ill effects of these pollutants in the mental climate of our culture. Through contemplative meditation, we seek clarity and understanding of reality, and the more we are able to know divine reality, the more we are immune to hypnotism and mind control and influencing. Hora
Formula for Demonstration
(A demonstration is answered prayer...
the manifestation of the Presence.
Power and Love of God)
Ask and ye shall receive,
Seek and ye shall find,
Knock and it shall
be opened unto you."
--Jesus

(*The formula is A S K . . . . . Mildred Mann)
Mildred was a student of Emmet Fox and the founder of the Society of Pragmatic Mysticism, based on the practice of the Presence of God in the everyday world. Dan's site includes her series of writings on the symbolic interpretation of the Bible.  Check it out:  www.hdbates.com .



Mildred Mann (1904 - 1971) had a gift for putting things simply. She defined treatment as
nothing more than a change in your thoughts, at any given moment, from negative ideas to positive ones. [By turning one's attention to a favorite affirmation, a Bible text, or whatever] the conscious mind is forced to think in a new way. And according to the degree of concentrative ability the person has, it will begin to impress the subconscious mind and change the emotion from fear to . . . peace. And then the outer picture, no matter what it is, will begin to change for the better. http://ppquimby.com/alan/socpm.htm

Her book Become What You Believe remains influential among non-denominational New Thought practitioners and adherents, especially the section in which she defines the "Seven Steps in Demonstration":

1.       Desire. Get a strong enthusiasm for that which you want in your life, a real longing for something which is not there now.
2.       Decision. Know definitely what it is that you want, what it is that you want to do or have, and be willing to pay in spiritual values.
3.       Ask. [When sure and enthusiastic] ask for it in simple, concise language. . . .
4.       Believe. Believe in the accomplishment with strong faith, consciously and subconsciously.
5.       Work. Work at it. . . a few minutes daily, seeing yourself in the finished picture. Never outline details, but rather see yourself enjoying the particular thing . . .
6.       Feel gratitude. Always remember to say, "Thank you, God," and begin to feel the gratitude in your heart. The most powerful prayer we can ever make is those three words, provided we really feel it.
7.       Feel expectancy. Train yourself to live in a state of happy expectancy. . . . Act it until it becomes part of you, as it must and will.
She summarizes:
Drop the problem, turn to God, and ask and claim your good. Stay turned in that direction, and you will have the secret of effective prayer.
She concludes the book with several "points to remember and think about":
YOU are Divine Spirit.
YOU are a child of God.
YOU have been given complete dominion over your life.
With God all things are possible.
You are never alone, for God is always with you.
Be positive in thought and word and deed.
Live up to the highest you know in all things.
See the Presence of God in your fellow man, particularly when you do not like him.
Give something of yourself in everything you do and to everyone you meet, particularly when you do not feel like it.
Meditate daily.
"In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength."--Isaiah 30:15
http://ppquimby.com/alan/effpr.htm


The most direct route to creating what you want is to focus your intention on your strongest desire, and then have the discipline to hold that intention without drifting into fear.
Before we can focus on our strongest desire we have to learn to listen. Spirit speaks to us through our desires. When we quiet our mind we are able to hear them. Desires may dart in and out of our awareness, but true desires always come back. They don't stay away for long.
At first the desire may feel overwhelming, unattainable, but by consistently bringing your attention back to the desire instead of following your fears, its fulfillment is guaranteed.
The next time a strong desire comes into your awareness do not be so quick to chase it away. Relax and let it stay awhile. Become familiar with it. See and feel the richness of this glorious unfolding.
If it's entering your consciousness, it's yours to claim. The longer you can stay with the desire the more graceful will be its manifestation. http://www.receiveyourlife.com
  The Equilibrium, the mathematics of success, was stated mathematically by John Nash
"Do what is good for the group and do not exclude yourself."
A version of the Nash equilibrium concept was first known to be used in 1838 by Antoine Augustin Cournot in his theory of oligopoly. In Cournot's theory, firms choose how much output to produce to maximize their own profit. However, the best output for one firm depends on the outputs of others. Strategic planning by oligopolists needs to take into account the likely responses of the other market participants.

Charlie Rose interviewed Bill Gates on 60 minutes. (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50151799n). I worked in IBM mainframe environments for over 25 years. And people liked to judge IBM and all the other computer hardware and software companies associated with the business. I was doing some work at IBM when it was announced they were selling their golf course in Markham. In the words of Morty Lefkoe,  to me it was only an event. To the employees it was quite something else. When PC’s started infiltrating companies, the user community embraced them. The IT departments pretty much viewed them as something not connected to IT and not their responsibility. Back in the 80’s you didn’t dare say anything different in an interview for a job. As Microsoft and Windows grew the judging grew, or maybe a suspicious nature grew. You might say we’ve been conditioned to judge, it doesn’t matter that these things and people benefited mankind. Today, mainframe and PC’s are an integral part of most companies. Embracing change is good. Walter Russell’s tribute to IBM seems oddly connected to Nash’s and Cournot's theories. Places, persons, and things are only symbols as Hora reminds us in Metapsychiatry.
You can’t judge companies any more than you can people. You just forgive and surrender your judgmental thoughts to a higher power.
Have you had Internet Explorer freeze up because of a script, maybe Firefox or Google Chrome for the same reason. Software companies are always re-writing or improving scripts.  ACIM mentions our scripts. Robin Duncan has some stuff on re-writing YOUR script. You use forgiveness.

The 60 Minutes episode reminded me of Initiatives of Change and Moral Re-Armament, although the past doesn’t equal the future. We can only remember that A Course in Miracles came about because Helen and Bill expressed the idea “There has to be a better way”.

But, as ACIM teaches: All healing is release from the past. That is why the Holy Spirit is the only healer. He teaches that the past does not exist, a fact which belongs to the sphere of knowledge, and which therefore no one in the world can know. It would indeed be impossible to be in the world with this knowledge. For the mind that knows this unequivocally knows also it dwells in eternity, and utilizes no perception at all. It therefore does not consider where it is, because the concept "where" does not mean anything to it. It knows that it is everywhere, just as it has everything, and forever. (13,IX) 
There is a place in you where there is perfect peace. There is a place in you where nothing is impossible. There is a place in you where the strength of God abides. Lesson 47

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