Asking and Receiving

"Ask and ye shall have" sounds like something too easy and simple to be credible. But the disciple cannot "ask" in the mystic sense in which the word is used in this scripture, until he has attained the power of helping others.

Why is this? Has the statement too dogmatic a sound?

Enter into the silence each day at noon, see yourself as a center of Love's Light and Power and pour that Love out upon the world.

Joseph S(ieber) Benner (1872–1941) was an American author and spiritual automatic writer who used the pen name "anonymous". His most famous books are The Impersonal Life and The Way Out. Benner taught that Christ's proclaiming "I AM" indicated "the true spirit that resides in every human being."

Miracles and higher truths.

Vernon Howard

You need not strain and struggle to understand higher truths, you need only realize that you don't understand.  When you don't know something, and stick with that unknowing, there is no conflict.
And there is also the opening for understanding something higher. Conflict,pain, strain, falling downhill occurs when you don't understand something about life, but pretend that you do, grab your own solutions and call them higher answers.

Now, look at the amazing state of not knowing what to do with yourself and leaving it at that.  When you  don't know how to straighten out your life, when you have no idea of how to push away the worries of past and future, when you don't know that and stay with that, a fantastically marvelous miracle occurs.  And here it is:  What happens when you don't know and simply say, "I don't know," what happens is a falling away of falseness, of ridiculous effort, of vanity, of pretense.  When you are simply all alone with the fact that you don't know what to do about that difficulty, when you're all alone with that and don't fight to grab your own answer, the miracle occurs.  A spiritual change starts.

What happens

In “THE OPEN VISION - A STUDY OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA” BY HORATIO W. DRESSER, Ph.D.[1920], he writes”

A writer on spiritism, J. Arthur Hill, calls attention to the fact that spiritism in France is reincarnationist, while in England and the United States on the whole it is not. The reason in the case of France is found in the fact that an early writer on spiritism, Allan Kordec [1], taught reincarnation.

[1] Allan Kardec was Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail. Rivail used the name "Allan Kardec" allegedly after a spirit identified as Zefiro, whom he had been communicating with, told him about a previous incarnation of his as a Druid by that name. Rivail liked the name and decided to use it to keep his Spiritists writings separate from his work, basically books for high school students. On April 18, 1857 Rivail (signing himself "Allan Kardec") published his first book on Spiritism, The Spirits' Book, comprising a series of 1,018 answered questions exploring matters concerning the nature of spirits, the spirit world, and the relations between the spirit world and the material world.

In other words the whole spiritism thing on reincarnation was highly subjective.

According to theosophy, telepathy includes the projection of thought- forms" from one person to another. This projection involves the idea of etheric substance or force vibrating between human beings, as in wireless telegraphy.
My psychical state is always just my inner state, it does not travel.Your psychical state is just your inner state,it does not become an outer state. Granting the ability to read another's mind wittingly or unwittingly is intimately akin to the power known as clairvoyance or second sight. This power was originally attributed to persons in a mesmeric sleep by which they were supposed to discern objects concealed from sight or to see what happened at a distance. Mediums in a supposed trance were found to possess the same power. Some operators who experimented with mesmeric subjects found that they too had this power of interior vision, hence that the surrender to hypnosis or a trance was not necessary. Clairvoyance is in fact dependent on neither spirits nor exceptional mental states. It is simply perception at a distance when this inner seeing cannot be explained by reference to another mind, when not due to mere thought-transference. It may involve reading another's mind at a distance or the perceiving of distant events. It readily runs over into what we vaguely call the prophetical faculty or sixth sense. It may include visions, hence it readily leads to mysticism. But while some who are psychically inclined have the power to "see things" others merely feel or discern them without the seeing.

Dresser is just saying the power is within. So many misconceptions that fall away once you read Quimby and H. Dressers published works on Quimby. The REAL POWER has always been within.

Quimby’s mind did not lead him into the consideration of "auras" and "planes," besetting spirits and deterrent forces, because he was directly and steadily interested in the welfare of the sick. He did not dwell on or cultivate psychical power as such, because he was absorbed in using it for spiritual ends. His experience did not lead him into psychical bye-paths, because life was too full of opportunities to help people spiritually. Nevertheless, he was all the while using his own psychical powers or senses and growing in awareness of them. The views he adopted are deeply suggestive, because they indicate a straight way through the difficulties.

Do you want to test you psychic. Have a 3rd party write something and then place it in an envelope for you. Or go to the bank get 1 $100 or 2 $50’s and have the teller place them in an envelope. Then ask the psychic what the letter says or the serial number of the money.

I know someone who still won’t accept thought reading and goes to a psychic for info on relationships. This psychic has been married 7 times. I also know someone who still hasn’t removed her rings since her divorce so I suspect she’ll be alone for some time to come. You don’t have to write Dear Heloise or see a shrink to see that.

There is a lot of denial to come what with 2012 being much ado about nothing.

Perhaps a great goal for the upcoming year is to have an experience similar to Nona Brooks:

My whole being was completely flooded with a great light--
a light brighter than sunlight, brighter than any other light
I had ever seen!
It filled me!
It surrounded me!
I was conscious of nothing but that intense white light!

http://divinesciencechurch.org/dsfed//page3.php

The Good Life

Scott Nearing (1883 - 1983) was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and advocate of simple living [1].







Helen Knothe Nearing (1904-1995) and Scott Nearing (1883-1983) were well known American back-to-the-landers who wrote extensively about their experience living what they termed "the good life".




The Nearings began their simple life on an old farm on the foot of Stratton Mountain near Jamaica, Vermont in 1932, in the pit of the Great Depression. In 1952 they moved to Maine, ultimately settling on their "Forest Farm" at Cape Rosier (in the village of Harborside [2], within the town of Brooksville), where they lived until their deaths. Scott remained a thinker, writer, and lecturer on economics and social issues for many years. Their best known books (those which they wrote together) are Living the Good Life (published 1954) and Continuing the Good Life (1979). The first of these is often credited with being a major spur to the U.S. Back-to-the-land movement that began in the late 1960s.
Scott was a trained economist and former college professor (he had lost his position due to his socialist and pacifist beliefs, and his anti-war activism during World War I). He continued to tread the path of a social and political theorist. Helen had grown up in an economically comfortable family of Theosophists, and as a young woman had a romantic relationship with J. Krishnamurti. She was trained as a musician, and also had some brief experience in the factory work world before moving into the agrarian life with Scott.

[1]Simple living encompasses a number of different voluntary practices to simplify one's lifestyle. These may include reducing one's possessions or increasing self-sufficiency, for example. Simple living may be characterized by individuals being satisfied with what they need rather than want. Although asceticism generally promotes living simply and refraining from luxury and indulgence, not all proponents of simple living are ascetics. Simple living is distinct from those living in forced poverty, as it is a voluntary lifestyle choice.

Adherents may choose simple living for a variety of personal reasons, such as spirituality, health, increase in 'quality time' for family and friends, reducing personal ecological footprint, stress, personal taste or frugality. Simple living can also be a reaction to materialism and conspicuous consumption. Others cite socio-political goals aligned with the anti-consumerist movement, including conservation, degrowth, social justice, ethnic diversity and sustainable development.


[2] The Good Life Center is located at the last hand-built home of Helen and Scott Nearing, located in Harborside (Brooksville), Maine on five acres of forested land overlooking Spirit Cove.

2012, Ascension, ascended Lemurian masters under Mount Shasta and Planetary Alignments.

2012
By now, most people should know that on Dec. 21, 2012, the Mayan calendar will display the equivalent of a string of zeros, like the odometer turning over on your car, with the close of something like a millennium. In Maya calendrics, however, it's not the end of a thousand years. It's the end of Baktun 13. The Maya calendar was based on multiple cycles of time, and the baktun was one of them. A baktun is 144,000 days: a little more than 394 years. [1] [2][3][4]
[1] http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-guest.html
[2] http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/05/2012.html
[3] http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/03/2012-doomsday-theories-spring-from.html
[4] http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/03/2012-and-mayan-long-count-calendar.html


Ascension
Francis Bacon is believed to have undergone a physical Ascension without experiencing death (he then became the deity St. Germain) by members of various Ascended Master Teachings, a group of New Age religions based on Theosophy. They also believe numerous others have undergone Ascension; they are called the Ascended Masters and are worshipped in this group of religions. The leaders of these religions claim to be able to receive channeled messages from the Ascended Masters, which they then relay to their followers.
Guy Ballard[5] , who founded I AM [6], the first Ascended Master Teachings[7] religion, claimed he could teach people how to ascend to heaven without having to die. He accumulated over 1,000,000 followers in the 1930s. However, he died a normal death in 1939. The I AM movement and people adherent to later Ascended Master Teachings religions such as Elizabeth Clare Prophet [8] then redefined ascension as dying normally, but claimed that certain special people, such as her own husband Mark Prophet [9], were able to ascend to a higher heaven than the average person after they died, becoming an “ascended master” and receiving worship. [10]
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Ballard
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_AM_%28religion%29
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascended_Master_Teachings
[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Clare_Prophet
[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Prophet
[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_%28mystical%29


Ascended Lemurian Masters at Mount Shasta
This book is the source of the idea that there is a hidden sanctuary of ascended Lemurian masters under Mount Shasta . “A Dweller on Two Planets or The Dividing of the Way” written by Frederick S. Oliver.
Openly acknowledged as source material for many new age belief systems, including the "I AM" movement of Guy Ballard, the Lemurian Fellowship, Elizabeth Claire Prophet and Shirley MacLaine." [10][11][12][13]
[10] http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/dtp/index.htm
[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dweller_on_Two_Planets
[12] http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-am.html
[13] http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/08/atlantis-and-lemuria-craze-novelist.html


Planetary Alignments
In The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology, José Argüelles linked the 13-baktun period with an impalpable "beam" from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. According to Argüelles, the Maya knew when we entered this beam and when we would leave it, and set their 13-baktun cycle to mark our passage through it accordingly. The beam, he asserted, operates as "invisible galactic life threads" that link people, the planet, the Sun, and the center of the Galaxy. Neither Maya tradition nor modern astronomy supports a belief in any such beam. He used the phrase "the principle of harmonic resonance." And concluded that the planets are "orbiting harmonic gyroscopes" that “play a role in the coordination of the beam," which advances the development of anything with DNA. The year 2012, therefore, will bring a rosy version of the apocalypse.

So, in 1987 Argüelles and his followers predicted Aug. 16–17 of that year would bring a Maya-Galactic "Harmonic Convergence." That event turned into a global phenomenon, with thousands gathering at Earth’s “acupuncture points” to create a "synchronized and unified bio-electromagnetic collective battery. " Unfortunately, the date passed with nothing more than colourful newspaper stories and a satires. The power of suggestion. [13][14]
[13] http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-guest.html
[14] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Arg%C3%BCelles

Charles Webster Leadbeater

C(harles) W(ebster) Leadbeater (1854 –1934) was an influential member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator with J. I. Wedgwood of the Liberal Catholic Church. Originally a clergyman of the Church of England, his interest in spiritualism caused him to end his affiliation with the Church of England in favour of the Theosophical Society, where he became an associate of Annie Besant.
He became a high ranking officer of the Society, but resigned during 1906, after accusations that he had been engaging in mutual masturbation with teenage boys in his care. With Besant's assistance he was readmitted a few years later, and although similar rumours occurred throughout his career, Leadbeater's talents as a prolific author on occultism kept him an important presence in Theosophy until his death in 1934.