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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