NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

Most students of the Course are familiar with the New Year's resolution that comes at the end of Chapter 15, where Jesus says, "Make this year different by making it all the same," and Helen took those words down at New Year's. What I'd like to talk with you about this morning as we approach the New Year is a different kind of resolution.

Christmas, 1915

What shall I say of this Christmas?

It will be long before we shall wish one another “A Merry Christmas” again!

Sister Lily

Lily L. Allen (1867 – 1952) was an Irish author.

The true meaning of Christmas.

Christmas

Edited transcript of YouTube video presented by
Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

An interesting phenomenon of A Course in Miracles is that at different times during Helen's scribing of the Course it was during holiday seasons, particularly at Christmas, Easter, and New Year's. As Helen was scribing and these seasons approached, Jesus was integrating the major theme of whatever it was he was discussing, whether it was in the Workbook or the Text, and integrated this with symbolism of the season. For example, at the beginning of Chapter 20, one finds references to the Easter season, in fact the first section of Chapter 20 is "Holy Week." When it comes to Christmas, there are two places where this occurs. One is in the Workbook, Lesson 303, "The holy Christ is born in me today," and near the end of Chapter 15. I thought I would read one of the particularly lovely brief passages that relate to Christmas. It is Chapter 15, Section XI, paragraph 2:

"The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in darkness. See it not outside yourself, but shining in the Heaven within, and accept it as the sign the time of Christ has come."

The Course takes all the fun out of life – Parts 1 & 2

Part 1_Themes from "A Course in Miracles"

You are the dreamer of the world of dreams_Excerpt from "A Course in Mir...

GRATITUDE

Transcript of YouTube video by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

Today our theme will be gratitude since Thanksgiving is coming up in a few days. Gratitude is a major theme of the Course. Most of you are familiar with Lesson 195, "Love is the way I walk in gratitude." And gratitude goes hand in hand with humility which is another theme of the Course, frequently contrasted with arrogance. When we really feel grateful, there's a sense of humility, meaning that someone has helped us or someone has taught us something or someone has given us something that we feel grateful for.

The Beauty of Belonging to a Greater Being

She popularized the walk-in theory.

George Hunt Williamson (1926 – 1986), aka Michael d'Obrenovic and Brother Philip, was an American flying saucer contactee, channel, and metaphysical author who came to prominence in the 1950s.

AND I SHALL BE HEALED

I have always been familiar with the subject of spiritual healing, since my paternal grandparents

The Power of The Spoken Word

• ·         When you are discouraged, angry, or resentful, is the time to make a statement of Truth, in order to get out of the woods of despair and limitation, for "Whosoever calleth on the name of the Lord shall be delivered!" There is away out — "Reveal to me the way."

• ·         "Let me now express the Divine Idea in my mind, body and affairs." If you will impress the subconscious by repeating this statement you will be amazed at the changes which soon take place. You will be bombarded by new ideas and new ideals

HOW TO ENTER THE SILENCE

IN order to enter the SILENCE it is necessary to anchor human intelligence to a higher degree of consciousness.

Seeing Our Mental Pictures Through

Radiant Living emerged from the American-based philosophical movement New Thought. New Thought activist Phoebe Holmes travelled the world lecturing about Radiant Health Clubs. She apparently visited New Zealand in the 1920s and 1930s. https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/radiant-living/the-origins-of-radiant-living

THE PATHWAY TO SPIRITUAL MASTERY By Phoebe Marie Holmes

There are three things necessary to the realization of any desire:

I. The understanding that desire itself is God given, that it is the divine urge along higher paths.

How to Obtain Our Own

What is "Our Own"? "Our Own" is just what we create for ourselves. There is nothing higher for us than the things we know, but there are always increasing grades of knowing. —Julia Seton Sears, M.D.

The desire you image is the seed.

Hold this thought for supply:

"Since I am one with the only Presence,
 I cannot be separate from that which I desire."

The man who brought psychology out of the lavatory!

David Seabury, as many of you know, is an eminent psychologist, teacher and author. He was the first consulting psychologist in the country, I believe. He tells the story of being announced over the radio, in San Francisco some years ago. The announcer said,

She disentangles the snarls out of my mind.

… [William] James now undertook to raise money for a salary for Richard Hodgson, who was to be the paid secretary of the American Society for Psychical Research. In an effort to cure his intractable insomnia he tried a mind-cure doctor named

Dealing with Pain

THE MEANING OF ABSENT TREATMENT

The most effective method of healing or influencing the behavior of others consists in what is known as “the silent or absent treatment”.

When the subject is unaware, objectively, of the suggestion given him there is no possibility of him setting up an antagonistic belief. It is not necessary that the patient know, objectively, that anything is being done for him.

From what is known of the subjective and objective processes of reasoning, it is better that he should not know objectively of that which is being done for him. The more completely the objective mind is kept in ignorance of the suggestion, the better will the subjective mind perform its functions. The subject subconsciously accepts the suggestion and thinks he originates it, proving the truth of Spinoza’s dictum that we know not the causes that determine our actions.

RESURRECTION

by

NEVILLE GODDARD

The process of all healing is a definite, positive, mental attitude, an inner attitude, or a way of thinking, called faith. Healing is due to a confident expectancy, which acts as a powerful suggestion to the subconscious mind releasing its healing potency.

It is silly to accept something simply because the church said it,

or you read it in the Bible, or heard it from Neville. You must pursue the thought ceaselessly by questioning yourself. ~Neville

If you allow yourself to let go of the past, what is already over, and if you let go of your worries or anticipations for the future that is not there, you have a possibility of creating some space in your mind, some stillness if you want, where a spontaneous experience of the Love of God can take place. https://iwihub.com/2019/08/25/class-1-the-now-activities/

Ley Lines and Druids : There's fiction and there is fact.

In 1921, the English archaeologist Alfred Watkins proposed that the menhirs (single, isolated standing stones,)had been deliberately placed to align for miles across the British countryside as part of a linear network of prehistoric monuments he called ley lines.

The first step in awakening

You dwell in the secret place of the most High.
You don’t go there Sundays exclusively.
You are there morning, noon, and night.
You dwell, you live in the secret place of the most High.
You live and move and have your being in God,
if you realize that you yourself are invisible. (Joel S.Goldsmith)

There has only been God. And I am the Created of That. And the source of my being, the source of my reality, rests in surrender into That, and That alone. (Way of Mastery)

The first step in awakening,

STEPPING STONES TO PEACE

Ida C. Craddock (1857 –  1902) was a 19th-century American advocate of free speech and women's rights.

Babe of Bethlehem

Kneel before the Babe of Bethlehem. Accept the truth that the Kingdom of Heaven is for the lowly, the simple.

Why A Course in Miracles is not New Age

Kenneth Wapnick has maintained over the years that A Course in Miracles is not a New Age spirituality but rather has its intellectual roots in much earlier intellectual traditions, including the teachings of  Plato, Neoplatonism, and the higher teachings of Gnosticism. The following are excerpts from a letter Kenneth had sent to the Library of Congress sometime in the 1990’s, requesting that they no longer classify the Course and Kenneth’s books under the category New Age. Kenneth’s efforts were successful.

Law of Supply

The first law of giving is of the spirit world. Give to all you meet, or whose lives touch yours, of your prayers, your time, yourselves, your love, your thought.

Earth's Furies

In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer! I have overcome the world. John 16:33

Then you may ask why have you, My children, to have tribulation if I have overcome the world.

Complain Not—Laugh

Trust in Me. Do as I say each moment and all indeed shall be well. Follow out My commands:

The father of holistic medicine.

Dr. Herman Aaftink organized New Thought Seminars in the Canadian Rockies in Banff, Alberta. Outstanding New Thought authors’ participated such as Emma Smiley, Jack and Cornelia Addington, Joseph Murphy, Jack Holland, Sig and Janie Paulson, Johnnie Coleman to name a few.

David is in hiding within us.

Now, when you read the Bible, the characters of the Bible are not persons as we are, they are eternal states of consciousness through which you and I - the Immortal Being - we pass through these states. The end of it - the climax of it

METAPHYSICS BY EMMA CURTIS HOPKINS

  Have I any theory, or do I undertake to explain, how it is that the mind of one person affects the body of another so as to drive our disease?

What I experience is the effect of my desire.

Well-Being is a Skill. Richard J. Davidson
https://www.richardjdavidson.com/

The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers. Barbara Fredrickson

True attitude and right method are necessary;

What is the difference between a twin flame and soul mate?

Do not attach specialness to the concept of twin flame or soul mate.

NEW thought is new life.

Whatever the mind is set upon, or whatever it keeps most in view, that it is bringing to it, and the continual thought or imagining must at last take form and shape in the world of seen and tangible things.

"Be sure you are right, then keep it to yourself."

The actor cannot pretend. He must enter and become the part he has agreed to play. He cannot step upon the stage knowing he is a great actor who everyone recognizes. He must lose himself in the character by leaving his personality in the dressing room and entering the stage as the character he is to portray.” – Neville Goddard

From the first page of Esoteric Philosophy ~ Emma Curtis Hopkins

There    are    three    interpretations    given    to    Scripture   writings. These interpretations constitute the three great doctrines of men:

The purpose of meditation is ...

… There are some Hindu mystics, spiritual teachers, who still know the art of meditation,what its purpose is, how to achieve the harmonies through it, but they’re few. …The Occidental world never took up meditation, with the exception of the Quakers. Inmonasteries, convents, religious institutions, those of higher religious learning have alwaysknown some forms of meditation, prayer, communion, but it never went from them out to thepeople. So that, back in the last century, outside of the Quakers, there were very few in theOccidental world who knew or understood anything about meditation or even heard the word.With the beginning of Christian Science and later Unity,