“Higher Shopping Service”

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I cannot save you more time than you will let Me, but if you are willing to try the Higher Shopping Service, which also covers lower-order necessities and even quite a number of whims within reason. I have very good use for the time we could save.

Desire is prayer.

If You Love God… by Joyce Meyer

There are three things of which the superior man stands in awe. He stands in awe of the ordinances of Heaven. He stands in awe of great men. He stands in awe of the words of sages. -- Confucian Canon, Confucianism

Do you love GOD? Say so here.

♥ Wholeness is the perceptual content of miracles. They thus correct, or atone for, the faulty perception of lack.
♥ ~  Principles of Miracles #41 ♥

The sculptor turns from the marble to his model in order to perfect his conception. We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding and chiseling thought. What is the model before mortal mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering? Have you accepted the mortal model? Are you reproducing it?

Reconciling the Irreconcilable.

The ego’s attempts to displace the (mind's) content unto the (body's) form.

What YOU see is what YOU get. II

Projection makes perception; the world you see is what you GAVE it, nothing more than that. The outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Perception is a RESULT, and not a cause.

"I AM responsible for what I see.
I CHOSE the feelings I experience, and I DECIDED ON the goal I would achieve.
And everything that SEEMS to happen TO me, I ASKED FOR and received as I had asked."

Spiritual messages telling him of his life work.

Andrew Jackson [“A. J.” or “Jackson”] Davis (1826 – 1910), American Spiritualist, was born at Blooming Grove, New York, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Robinson) Davis. The family moved to Poughkeepsie, New York when he was a boy. His father was an alcoholic; his mother died when he was still a boy. While a young man, he became an entranced seer and traveling medium, often psychically diagnosing illnesses of audience members, and publishing, in New York City, the contents of his cosmic revelations.
He had little education, though probably much more than he and his friends pretended. In 1843 he heard lectures in Poughkeepsie on animal magnetism, as the phenomena of hypnotism was then termed, and found that he had remarkable clairvoyant powers. In the following year he had, he said, spiritual messages telling him of his life work.
Davis was much influenced by Swedenborg and by the Shakers, who reprinted his panegyric praising Ann Lee in the official work, Sketch of Shakers and Shakerism (1884).
Edgar Allan Poe was inspired by Davis, whose lectures on mesmerism he had attended, in the writing of "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845)[1].
Davis in turn directly influenced self-proclaimed psychic Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) who adopted "trance diagnosis" and similar activities with few modifications from Davis's example.
The death experience of New Age and Spiritualist movements seems to have perpetuated from Davis.














Ego or Spirit?

[1]"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror. Poe uses particularly detailed descriptions and relatively high levels of gore in "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar".
Many readers thought the story to be a scientific report. Robert Collyer[2] wrote to Poe saying that he himself had performed a similar act to revive a man who had been pronounced dead (in truth, the man was actually a drunk sailor who was revived by a hot bath).
Elizabeth Barrett Browning[3] wrote to Poe about the story to commend him on his ability of

"making horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar"

[2]Robert Collyer (1823–1912) was an English-born American Unitarian clergyman.
[3] Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 –1861) was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death.

2012: The doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan, ideas

José Argüelles (1939- ) is a Mexican-American author, artist, and educator.
José Argüelles was involved in the Harmonic Convergence event of 1987 and wrote “ The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology”, published the same year. In The Mayan Factor Argüelles devises a complicated numerological system by combining elements taken from the pre-Columbian Maya calendar with the I Ching and other esoteric influences, interspersed with concepts drawn from modern sciences such as "genetic codes" and "galactic convergences".
The issue?As mathematician Michael Finley notes:
"Since the 365 day Maya haab makes no provision for leap years, its starting date in the Gregorian Calendar advances by one day every four years. The beginning of Argüelles' year is fixed to July 26. Thus his count of days departs from the haab as it was known to Maya scribes before the Spanish conquest. Argüelles claims that the Thirteen Moon Calendar is synchronized with the calendar round. Clearly, it is not."Predictions and prophecies are an interesting phenomenon over the last 30 years.
Nostradamus seems to have predicted an awful lot. But that’s always pointed out after something has already occurs. Cayce made similar unsubstantiated predictions.

Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan, ideas.
Most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya Indians say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials — such as one on the History Channel that mixes predictions from Nostradamus and the Maya and asks: "Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?"
There are other inscriptions at Maya sites for dates far beyond 2012 — including one that roughly translates into the year 4772.

144000 is a natural number. It has significance in several religious movements. In the Mayan calendar, a baktun is a period of 144,000 days. The only reason for the 2012 paranoia is that it's the end of one Buktun (395 years). This would be the first Baktun that's ticked over since we figured out the Mayan calendar that's all. There have been 12 previous Baktuns without incident.

Jose Huchim, Yucatan Maya archaeologist said “If I was Mayan and people asked what will happen in 2012, nobody would have any idea,” That the world is going to end? They would not believe me. They have more real concerns, like rains. ”

Despite the publicity generated by the 2012 date, Susan Milbrath, curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, stated that "We have no record or knowledge that [the Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012.
In other words 1618 was a turning point in their calendar. 2012 is. 2407 is.
And the Mayan calendar is good until 4772.
Now you just know there's going to be a lot of back peddling over this.



"The Open Book of Revelation," by Miriam Comer Johnson, of Divine Science. The results of a 3 part/22 class session on Revelation. { Interesting that 22/7 is PI, PI and the Bible. A curious enterprise indeed}
The book is esoteric in nature. The number 144,000 comes from 12 x 12,000 and 12,000 is the number of times we must "think a thought" before it becomes a habit! All of our "human beliefs" are going to eventually be "uprooted" (when we make the next step in our evolution from "human material" to spiritual substance - and this will happen when we live according to the law (= we are ONE with God). The 12 are the 12 tribes of Israel, each of which represents a faculty or power, e.g., Judah = faculty of praise; Reuben = faith; Gad = personal power; Asher = our happiness and blessedness; Nephtalim = our ability to mentally surrender the material for the spiritual; Manassas = our forgetfulness of the material; etc.
These faculties/powers/beliefs are not "sealed in the forehead" until they are joined with the power of LOVE and FELT. (Just as the Golden Key to manifestation/demonstration is FEELING the desire as it would be manifested - and then IT IS MANIFESTED. Ask, believing you have already received.) So, when the 12 powers are FELT and THOUGHT 12,000 times each, they become SEALED in the consciousness - and become the foundation of spiritual consciousness - and then we live from that spiritual consciousness, because our humanness falls away. The undoing of the ego in other words.

I remember reading the "Flower of Life" books talking about 2012, the "Bible Code" and Hebrews from the future going back to ancient Lemuria to change the course of history and make the world a better place. And wondering who decided that. And realizing that it was written at a time, long before the internet when it was hard to substantiate the information. People have their beliefs. Some people believe in Pleadians, others in Hathors.

Cognitive dissonance

Cognitive dissonance was first investigated by Leon Festinger and associates, arising out of a participant observation study of a cult which believed that the earth was going to be destroyed by a flood, and what happened to its members — particularly the really committed ones who had given up their homes and jobs to work for the cult — when the flood did not happen.

While fringe members were more inclined to recognize that they had made fools of themselves and to "put it down to experience", committed members were more likely to re-interpret the evidence to show that they were right all along (the earth was not destroyed because of the faithfulness of the cult members).


I found that fascinating. The date thing in 2000 was a fiasco that never happened. Anyone buy a portable generator they couldn't take back. Now the emphasis is on 2012 because of the Mayan Calendar. There's also a planetary alignment but one event has no bearing on the other.

I finished reading "Beneath The Pyramids" by Andrew Collins (ISBN-13 978-0-87604-571-8) . Excellent reading. Orion isn't the best match for aligning the pyramids to stars and no hidden chambers in the Sphinx, much to the chagrin of the New Agers. There are the remains of people from 10,500 BC (the Pyramids aren't that old) that have been found which I didn't know. No Fibonacci sequences in this book. It's a great book involving the mystery of ancient names, distant constellations and Edgar Cayce.