The Presence

 is silent and conveys a state of peace. It’s infinitely

Staying on the Beam

 Today most commercial flying is done on a radio beam. A directional beam is produced to guide the pilot to his destination, and as long as he keeps on this beam he knows that he is safe, even if he cannot see around him for fog, or get his bearings in any other way.

Manifesting?

I was listening to Jennifer Hadley (Jennifer Hadley - YouTube) and she made a comment how manifesting doesn’t exactly work.

I found old notes from Crystalinks on this @ 'The Celestine Prophecy', 'The Secret', 10 Insights to Manifesting.

As all is mind, and as we attract to us what we first become, until we learn to love we are not sending out love vibrations, and not until we send out love vibrations can we receive love in return. Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest S(hurtleff) Holmes [1919]

Ill will?

 “Stop hating each other and start being brothers the way the Great Spirit intended” Walking Buffalo

In 1909 Penn State was 'the most godless university in the country'. Mired in student strikes, class scraps, 'Hazing'_[1] and the supply of alcohol on the campus was plentiful. It was here that Frank Buchman found himself after accepting a job as YMCA Secretary. On 29 January 1908, Frank Buchman had sailed for Europe on the SS Moltke. While in Britain he discovered he had been nursing ill-will having been forced to resign a post earlier in October:

Pay it forward

is asking the beneficiary of a good deed to repay it to others instead of to the original benefactor.

 The concept is old, but the phrase may have been coined by Lily Hardy Hammond: "You don't pay love back; you pay it forward.", in her 1916 book In the Garden of Delight.

REMAKING A MAN

This blog links Tuesday, January 8, 2013 It is NOT "Who's Right" but "What's Right"
and
Friday, January 18, 2013 Be faithful to me and I will be faithful to you - The Emmanuel Movement

Rowland arrived in Zurich in May 1926 and was Carl Jung's patient for a considerable length of time. Jung ended up telling Rowland that he had never seen alcoholics of his type recover until they became willing to commit themselves to the spiritual life. Since Rowland was a typical alcoholic, however, it took him seven more years of denial and misery -- as he continued to refuse to take Jung's prescription seriously -- before he met Courtenay Baylor from the Emmanuel Movement and began seeking a spiritual solution to his alcoholism.

 Courtenay Baylor became Rowland Hazard's therapist in 1933, and continued to work with him through 1934. It was under the influence of Baylor's Emmanuel Movement therapy (with its combination of spirituality and simple lay therapy) that Hazard actually began to recover. Hazard was also attending Oxford Group meetings, but his family was paying Baylor to be his regular therapist.  Rowland joined the Oxford Group in February of 1934.  He took the Oxford Group Four Steps and started working with others.
In August 1934, of course, Hazard helped rescue Ebby Thacher from being committed to the Brattleboro Asylum, and three months later, in November 1934, Ebby visited Bill Wilson in his kitchen, in the famous scene recorded in the first chapter of the Big Book.

"Both Heaven and Hell are states of mind -- NOT places you go after you die!"

Reverend Ike ( 1935 — 2009) was an American minister and electronic evangelist based in New York City. He was best known for the slogan "You can't lose with the stuff I use!"

“Close your eyes and see green,” Reverend Ike would tell his 5,000 parishioners from a red-carpeted stage at the former Loew’s film palace on 175th Street in Washington Heights, the headquarters of his United Church Science of Living Institute.

God will help you, If you think of Mother's Prayers.

Another one of Captain Jack's poems (See Previous post >> Wednesday, April 29, 2009 @ Joy),
Mother's Prayers,
made a strong plea for abstinence:

Oh, my brother, do not drink it,
Think of all your mother said;
While upon her death-bed laying,
Or perhaps she is not dead;
Don't you kill her, then, I pray you,
She has got enough of cares,
Sign the pledge, and God will help you,
If you think of mother's prayers.

John Wallace "Captain Jack" Crawford (1847-1917) , known as "The Poet Scout", was an American Civil War veteran, an American Old West scout, and a poet of western lore. He was a scout for General George Crook and General Phil Sheridan, friend of Wild Bill Hickok and co-actor, performer and scout with William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill). In 1875 Jack was appointed as a Captain of the Black Hills Rangers of Dakota.

Be faithful to me and I will be faithful to you - The Emmanuel Movement

The Emmanuel Movement was a psychologically-based approach to religious healing introduced in 1906 as an outreach of the Emmanuel Church in Boston, Massachusetts. In practice, the religious element was de-emphasized and the primary modalities were individual and group therapy. Episcopal priests Elwood Worcester [1] and Samuel McComb [2] established a clinic at the church which lasted 23 years and offered both medical and psychological services. The primary long-term influence of the movement, however, was on the treatment of alcoholism.

[1]  Elwood Worcester (1862–1940) was the originator of the Emmanuel movement philosophy. He was raised in an educated middle-class family which fell into poverty as a result of business reversals and the death of Worcester's father. After high school, Worcester went to work at a railway claim-department office. One day, while alone in the office, he had an experience of the room filling with light and heard the words, "Be faithful to me and I will be faithful to you." After discussing the experience with his priest, Algernon Crapsey, he became convinced that he was called to the ministry. At the time he was supporting his family, but he later entered Columbia University on scholarship and earned a bachelor's degree with highest honors. Worcester, Elwood (Emmanuel Movement)

It is NOT "Who's Right" but "What's Right"

This blog developed after receiving an email from Gemma Stone with this quote:

Jung said, "It is a bewildering thing in human life that the thing that causes the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom."

Obviously his interests in “the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, synchronicity, The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI , a popular psychometric instrument), dream analysis and symbolization, Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, philosophy and the occult” are fascinating but the it was the references to Rowland Hazard III and the Oxford Group that caught my attention.

A Major Precursor To Radio Drama

Edgar White Burrill (1883 -_????) was a critic and lecturer on books and the literary scene who organized the 1920s Literary Vespers series held at Aeolian Hall and Town Hall. Burrill was a major precursor to radio drama with his dramatic radio readings during the 1920s and 1930s, and one of these readings led to a milestone in broadcasting.

He gave annual readings of Ida M. Tarbell's He Knew Lincoln on WJZ during the 1920s. His reading in 1923 inspired George Furness of the National Carbon Company to produce The Eveready Hour, the first commercially sponsored variety program in the history of broadcasting.
In 1925, he gave a recitation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline on radio with a musical background by Max Jacob's Chamber Symphony Orchestra which was broadcast on Tuesday, November 24, 1925, at 9 pm over WEAF, WEEI, WFI, WCAE, WGR, WWJ, WSAI, WTAG, WOC, WCCO and KSD.

 Cover of a vintage 1937 Easter program of the Buffalo Unity Society. It featured a guest lecture by leader of The Boston Home of Truth Miss Eleanor Mel. From the estate of noted author, spiritualist and leader of the Buffalo Unity Society Dr. Edgar White Burrill.

Denial

is a defense mechanism postulated by Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross used denial as the first of five stages in the psychology of a dying patient, and the idea has been extended to include the reactions of survivors to news of a death. (See The Power Of Hope To Cope With Dying by Cathleen Fanslow-Brunjes)

The concept of denial is particularly important to the study of addiction. The concept of denial is important in twelve-step programs, where the abandonment or reversal of denial forms the basis of the first, fourth, fifth, eighth and tenth steps.

These are the original Twelve Steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous:
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Other 12 Step Programs.
Debtors Anonymous http://www.debtorsanonymous.org/
Spenders Anonymous http://www.spenders.org/
Sexaholics Anonymous http://www.sa.org/
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous http://www.slaafws.org/
Drug Addicts Anonymous http://www.daausa.org/
Sex Workers Anonymous http://sexworkersanonymous.org/Home.html
Cocaine Anonymous http://www.ca.org/

Man is a child of a perfect God.

Emmet Fox (1886–1951) was a New Thought spiritual leader of the early 20th century, famous for his large Divine Science church services held in New York City during the Great Depression. A Minister, Author, Teacher, Healer and Mystic. Emmet Fox, probably more than any other New Thought leader has influenced more people simple because, in his day he attracted wider audiences than anyone else for longer periods of time.

Born in Ireland in 1886, he was educated in England, pursued his spiritual career mostly in the United States, and died in France in 1951. He discovered early that he had healing power, and from the time of his late teens studied New Thought. He came to know the prominent New Thought writer Thomas Troward. Fox attended the London meeting at which the International New Thought Alliance was organized in 1914. He gave his first New Thought talk in Mortimer Hall in London in 1928.
"Love is by far the most important thing of all", it is the golden gate of paradise. Pray for the understanding of Love, and meditate upon it daily. It casts out fear. It is the fulfilling of the law. Love is absolute invincible."
Soon he went to the United States, and in 1931 was selected to become the successor to the James Murray as the minister of New York's Church of the Healing Christ. Fox became immensely popular, and spoke to audiences in some of the largest halls in the city. He was ordained in the Divine Science branch of New Thought by Dr. Nona Brooks. This was the beginning of one of the most remarkable ministries in America. His Sunday morning lectures at the Hippodrome Theatre, the Manhattan Opera House and Carnegie Hall were attended by over 5000 people. His meditations were powerful and his sermons never lasted more than twenty minutes. He spoke to, and of God in the most personal and intimate terms.

Fox's secretary was the mother of one of the men who worked with Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder Bill Wilson, and partly as a result of this connection early AA groups often went to hear Fox. His writing, especially The Sermon on the Mount, became popular in AA.

"Sooner or later you will have to put God first in your life, God must become the only thing that really matters. It need not be and better not be the only thing in your life, but it must be the first thing.When that happens your life becomes simple, richer and infinitely more worthwhile."

He sought not to establish yet another religion, not to establish yet another set of religious doctrines, but to encourage individuals, whether they attend church or not, to develop their own creative power and to personally understand what God is, and what God is all about, and then to be able to relate that to their own lives. He had a talent to speak and write with great clarity, and in a very dynamic way. His message was simple and direct.

It is in "Sermon on the Mount" that he reveals a source of universal power that is rightly yours. Here he gives the keys to success in life by tapping into the realm of Infinite power. He teaches that man is a child of a perfect God.

The theme of his teachings is Life is Consciousness and we are what we think. He emphasized that if we want to change our life, we must change our thoughts first. We set forth our own destiny by our thoughts, words, and actions. That there is only one presence and power in the universe, God, all else is an illusion. 

“On Monday, August 13, 1951, the earthly sojourn of Dr. Emmet Fox came to a quiet end, in his beloved Paris, where he began the experience of which he had written to comfort uncounted thousands in his booklet Life After Death.

Seekers of Truth throughout the entire world will reverently pause to pay tribute to this noble soul whose life was marked with rich achievement. Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness will treasure his books for generations to come. His Sermon on the Mount has been carried by praying hands into every church. His Find and Use Your Inner Power has made the lives of millions brighter. When he wrote Make Your Life Worth While and Power through Constructive Thinking he left us clear and simple guideposts for Christian living.

In recent years it seems fitting that Dr Fox should take his work to Carnegie Hall, which had known the finest music. He brought to its time-honored halls the finest of thinking and Christly teaching. His rich humor and humble British dignity endeared him to thousands. His footprints are clearly established on the sands of time.

The metaphysical movement claims Emmet Fox as one of its greatest leaders. Although he was ordained to the Christ Ministry by the Reverend Nona L Brooks, co-founder of the Divine Science College in Denver, Colorado, and affiliated his New York work with this organisation, his ministry reflected his own marked individuality. With the authority that arises out of a deep spiritual understanding and conviction, he spoke the Word of God with clear certainty and unwavering faith. The greatest monuments left to honor him are the mended lives of men and women everywhere who have found peace of mind, health of body and purposeful living through his teaching.

Our hearts are deeply moved over the golden bowl that is broken, but our loving thoughts embrace the emerged Spirit that moves through timeless space in the Eternal Heart of God. Our gratitude and blessings reach out to our honored friend whom the hand of the Infinite Shepherd has anointed. In reverent faith we know that beyond the dim horizon of our vision his unseen lips still speak the words of God to a vaster congregation.” by Dr Fletcher Harding for the Science of Mind magazine

“Wholeness is a state of Being, not a condition.”
Dr Fletcher Harding

“The true spiritual teacher dedicates his strength to others and takes upon himself the psychic burdens of the race. He lays down his life in every earnest effort to lighten these burdens. Dr Emmet Fox carried a tremendous burden all his life. But ‘all that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own’, and in the end, the prayers of thousands attended and blessed him, not necessarily for return, but for progress. In the most immediate sense in which we can contact life, he is not dead. He walks abroad in all the changed and happier lives he touched. We all owe him much. We shall not soon see his like again.” Ervin Seale, the pastor of the Church of Truth, in New York City

New Thought, High Watch Farm and Alcoholics Anonymous

In 1939 the farm was bought and was operated by a philanthropist and heiress from the Winthrop and Stuyvesant families, Etheldred F. Folsom, who was a devotee of Emma Curtis Hopkins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Watch_Recovery_Center
 

Marty Mann, Bill and Lois Wilson made their first visit to Joy Farm on November 4, 1939 at the encouragement of Nona Wyman. Joy Farm, was then run by Ethelred Folsom who like to call herself Sister Francis. She was a remarkable woman whose generosity provided a home to all in need of healing and spiritual sustenance. Because her own beliefs aligned with the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, she offered the farm to Bill Wilson to carry out the work of AA. Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, established High Watch Farm in 1940 as the first 12 Step treatment center in the world.

Marty Mann would later describe their arrival, "There was something there, something that was really palpable that you could feel and every one of us felt it. To say that we fell in love with it, is not to use the right terminology at all. We were engulfed...What is at the Farm was already at the Farm before we ever found it. It found us, in my opinion." Bill W. is famously known for describing the spiritual atmosphere upon their arrival as being so thick, you could cut it with a knife.

Sister Francis was born into a well educated, affluent family with the given name of Ethelred Frances Folsom. She was most often called Sister Francis because of her affinity for the life and prayer of St. Francis. Sister Francis identified herself as a book illustrator and a landscape artist. Today, she is better known as a visionary and healer.

Sister Frances was born Etheldred Frances Folsom (1872 -1963) to

George Winthrop Folsom (1846-1915) and Frances Elizabeth Fuller (1848 – 1928).

Her siblings were       

Helen Stuyvesant ( 1868-1942)
George Winthrop (1869-1875)
William Fuller (1871-1875)
George (1875-1876)
Margaret Winthrop (1876-1946)
Maud Christine(1880-1947)
 Winifred (1882-????)
Georgette (1883-1972)
Frances Constance (1885-1967)

https://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/George-Winthrop-Folsom/p568114

Two interrelated themes stand out in Sister Francis’s life and writings:
practical service to those in need of healing, and,
the desire to let ’the real Christ self shine through’.

As she practiced healing, Sister Francis disagreed with the revivalist tenet of a man as a sinner. She wrote that it wasn't easy for good “to manifest when they all think themselves sinners. It makes me realize more than ever the necessity of getting away from the teaching of evil and sin and fastening our minds on being sons of God.” She chose to live day to day and express all the joy she could.

With a vision of creating a place of retreat for anyone in need of healing, Sister Francis purchased farmland in Kent, CT in 1926. She named it Joy Farm. Joy Farm’s oldest building, an 18th century farmhouse, was called the Mother House. Sister Francis designated one room for a chapel, providing both healing and worship services. The Mother House offered "love, companionship, comforting, pity and tenderness" to all who came. Today, this building remains the spiritual center of High Watch housing the Chapel and offering comfort to all in need of healing.

Sister Francis was a disciple of Emma Curtis Hopkins, the “teacher of Teachers”. Like Hopkins, Sister Francis believed the Highest to be found in the teachings of all religions. Her reading ranged from The Fellowship of Silence, to Cosmic Consciousness, to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Her books on Catholicism, meditation, yoga, mysticism, and spiritualism remain at High Watch today.

When Emma Curtis Hopkins died in 1925, her sister Estelle Carpenter, nee Estelle Curtis, inherited the rights to her writings. To ensure that Hopkins writings remained available to others, Estelle Carpenter along with New Thought disciples, Sister Francis and Morrison P. Helling, signed papers incorporating the Ministry of the High Watch at Joy Farm in 1928. The role of the Ministry was to preserve the writings of Emma Curtis Hopkins and provide a simple and rustic retreat for body and soul of those in need of spiritual sustenance. http://highwatchrecovery.com/