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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc. – “After Enlightenment, Then What?”
At this very moment there are many people throughout the world following many different spiritual paths, which they hope will bring them to what they believe is the very end of the spiritual rainbow—Enlightenment.
People traveling the various paths to Enlightenment feel that if they can achieve it, then they have achieved the Ultimate human experience. In its truest description, Enlightenment goes beyond intellectual comprehension of the experience. It is not about seeking God, speculating, or theologically theorizing about God or Ultimate Beingness. Enlightenment means the firsthand, intimate, mystical experience of God Presence or Oneness with the Universe. It is beingness with Ultimate Beingness itself—in the innermost center of consciousness, yet also to its universal outer reaches.
If what is being stated here is accurate, it would indeed seem that experiencing Enlightenment would be the end of a journey through countless lifetimes for the soul, which is the individualized expression of Ultimate Beingness, Consciousness, Spirit or God. What else is there? If, in the next moment, one would suddenly experience Enlightenment, would life come to an abrupt halt? Would one’s soul be swallowed up by an infinite field of light, with one’s physical body vanishing as a result?
The history of Enlightened people reads otherwise. Physical life continues on the outside, and to family, friends, and work associates, such persons outwardly look much the same: They don’t have visible auras around their heads. Outwardly, life seems to go on as it was—at least in the time right after the experience. They may speak of it to a few whom they feel would not think them mentally unbalanced. But, for the most part, they remain silent, knowing that few would believe, and, as such, it would be better left unsaid. The exception would be those very few souls whose life purpose would be to teach that such an experience of a Higher Ultimate Reality is possible.
So, what happens after Enlightenment for the others? In short, they become living energy expressions of the Experience. What this means is that their lives are under the influence of a Will higher than their personal wills—that consciously or unconsciously, each will feel that, as the Mind of Christ that was in Jesus expressed it, “I am about my Father’s business.” In this state of beingness, Enlightened persons go about their days expressing greater love and creativity in whatever they are involved in. Everything is done under Universal Influence, and even when one stumbles or appears to fail, one is being guided to a higher plateau of consciousness.
Each will do things better in life because of being so guided, although, again, this may not be evident in the worldly definition of success. Fame, fortune, notoriety, and worldly power are not sought after, for with Enlightenment such goals are seen as what they are: grand illusions of the personal ego and its constricted view of what life is.
Again, after Enlightenment a person’s outward life may seem little different to others: Family life will go on, sexuality will go on, sickness and health will go on, failure and success will go on. But inwardly, the personal ego is no longer in charge, for the person is marching to a different drummer, the drumbeat being orchestrated by the Ultimate Universal Life Presence—or God—to guide the soul’s path and this life.
Yes, there is life after Enlightenment—a very wonderful life; for in a short time after the experience or at some point in the person’s lifetime, each will become fully conscious and aware that his or her life is being fully Guided by Ultimate Beingness or God. The Awareness of this Intimacy of Consciousness with the Supreme is a great gift to one’s mind, peace to one’s soul, and love’s Ultimate Presence for one’s Spiritual Heart of Hearts.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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Text taken from Dr. Paul Leon Masters’ Book, “Mystical Insights: Knowing the Unknown,” Pgs. 149–151.
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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.
“Looking Back… Into the Future”
As life for every soul unfolds until it becomes one with conscious Awareness, the surface part of the mind waits in anticipation of what the future will be. Will there be improvements in finances, love, health, happiness? Or will things continue as they have been or—God forbid—will they worsen?
Many decades ago, a song that was popular had lyrics that went, “Whatever will be, will be / The future’s not ours to see / Que será, será.” The lyrics maintained that what will be—will be, suggesting that one had little power of what will be. Of course, this flies in the face of the personal human ego, which, to justify its existence, asserts that it does have the power, in and of itself, to mold or shape the future.
However, mystically speaking, we live in an illusion of time and space—a veritable cosmic house of smoke and mirrors. What to the five outer senses seems to be reality may be but a dim image of what is—or is not. Every time there seems to be a new event in a person’s life—be it a new year, new job, new house, new car, or new relationship—on the surface it may seem new, but in mystical reality it is old or even ancient if we give up the illusion of time.
It can be said that when we wonder about the future, we are, in mystical fact, looking back into the past. In piercing into reality, mystical Awareness knows that past, present, and future are one, just as when we yield the illusion of time, it is revealed that there is no separation between past, present, and future.
Many have used the phrase “the future is now,” which in one respect could be considered correct, but even more revealing would be the words “the future is past.” That may sound like an alarming thought to many because it may subtly suggest that humans cease in their efforts to improve the seeming future. The reality is that human attempts to improve things should go on because they are part of the seeming future (which is already the past). As an example, should one pray if what will be has already happened? It depends on one’s level of awareness. If more bound by the personal ego, the answer would be yes. If free of the personal ego’s illusions, the prayer might be spoken in such words as, “I give thanks to God’s Presence that God’s Will has been done.” It’s saying that however things have already turned out, they are for the best in the Eternal long run because they are in accordance with the Will of God for the Eternal Good of the Soul.
Candidly, the more we release our personal will to the will of God, the more we have the realization that the Eternal is in total and complete charge, and that human efforts to improve are only the playing out of a cosmic script on the stage of Eternal Life. The Eternal Director, or God, knows that the curtain has already come down and that all seeming future is already past.
Things simply cannot be left up to the devices of mortal awareness, because mortal awareness does not have the capacity to see the Whole picture. Only Universal Consciousness in Self-Contemplation can direct life so that there is life—at least as it is humanly perceived. Only the false sense of personal ego identity feels uncomfortable with glimpses of a Greater Reality. But when the false sense of self is diminished in one’s life, there comes a state of increased peace in one’s soul. Life goes on, but without the stresses of a personal ego identity placing pressures on the health of the body and the fulfillment of the soul. Life goes on with an awareness that a role is to be played in what already is the history of the past. To do well and bring about improvement is to be an integral part of a wonderful history that already is.
In basic teachings of New Thought Metaphysical Spirituality are the words, “I give thanks that it is already so—and so it is!” Such an affirmation is thought by some to make something so by saying it already is so. But the higher mystical truth is that whatever is affirmed is already past, not because an affirmation has made it so, but because God’s Will, knowing the greater good for the soul, made something so.
The Mind of God is not some blank slate where a mortal mind can impose its will without an awareness of the ramifications. Universal Consciousness or the Mind of God is always in charge of its own thoughts, whether they be images of galaxies, other dimensions or inhabitants, or human life forms.
Universal Consciousness or God has already worked out what we call human life in a much greater scheme of things. Every person has already awakened to the full Soul’s potential—a Oneness with God’s Presence, God’s Expression, God’s Will, and in such Oneness, God’s Love.
This is a future worth looking back into.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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Text taken from Dr. Paul Leon Masters’ Book, “Mystical Insights: Knowing the Unknown,” Pgs. 17–19.
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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.
“The Illusion of Co-Creating and the Reality of Aligned Co-Creating”
From traditional and fundamentalist dogma to metaphysical speculations, the basic belief has been that the Power of God can intervene in human affairs to somehow provide people with what they believe they need. A very large percentage of any organized or even non-organized religion has had such a belief as the foundation of its existence. In the most basic of terms, most human beings are attracted to some form of religion based on what they believe the religion can do for them in their present physical lives and as some assurance of a good experience in any afterlife. In effect, the religion—at least in a follower’s mind—acts as an intermediary between the follower and God. Reduced to its simplest description, people become part of a religion with the thought that through the religion of their choice, God will grant them their desires or prayers in this life and the afterlife.
When humans are very young, they look up to their physical parents to supply their needs. When they become adults—at least numbered in physical years—they turn to God to take over for their physical parents to supply their needs during their physical lifetime and in the life beyond the physical. In traditional religion God is prayed to—that is, asked, pleaded with, or begged—for something to be granted.
In more metaphysical spirituality, nothing is asked, but affirmed that in the mind of God, it is already theirs. In some of the more unaware attempts at metaphysical spirituality, people are taught that God or Universal Mind is like a magic genie that will do for them whatever the individual egos wish or command it to do. Then there is still another concept, which suggests that a person joins with God to co-create whatever the individual ego is seeking.
Now, there is the Reality that has not yet been mentioned—the mystical Reality that is aware that the personal ego does not know what is best for the soul. Only God or Universal Consciousness knows, and living life with the concept that the personal ego can petition Universal Mind or God to join in a process of co-creating is an illusion. God-Mind or Universal Mind will not enter into a co-creative process to provide anything just because the will of the personal ego so desires. Only when the Will of God or the Universe is served will any form of a co-creative process with a human being ever be entered into.
This Reality is that God-Mind places into human conscious awareness what it should do, want, or desire. In essence, human consciousness can agree to co-create with the Will of God—to align itself with the Universal Will, such that the Will of God or Spirit be done through the soul and its outward, physical form expression. Thus, what can be called Aligned Co-Creating refers to the soul in human form expression in alignment with Universal Will. In this way, the soul and its human form expression are working in harmony with the Universal Life process ad infinitum.
So–what to do?
Mystics who have achieved true Enlightenment or Union with God are fully aware that they live to do the Will of God. The needs of the personal ego are set aside, while the Will of God Consciousness and the role of the soul in God Consciousness take priority. The words from the Bible echo this truth: “Not my will (i.e., the will of the personal ego), but Thy will be done.”
Until one has experienced Enlightenment or mystical Oneness with God, every day maintain an awareness that “Thy Will, not mine be done.” When you pray, ask that God’s Will for your soul be made known to your conscious awareness. Pray for Divine God Guidance for your mind to be aligned with the Will of God for your soul. Every day seek to diminish the illusion of a personal ego identity and its will.
After Enlightenment, one should do the very same, for it will still take time for Universal Identity to be fully in charge while the personal ego struggles to retain its illusionary control.
And for those seeking an upgraded afterlife experience, the words from the Christ Mind that was in Jesus provide counsel: “Unless a man doeth the Will of the Father, he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” The kingdom of heaven is both a higher, heavenly, aware consciousness while still in physical life embodiment, as well as an afterlife heavenly environment.
Be in Aligned Co-Creating with Universal God-Mind and Spirit, and be one with the words, “on earth as it is in heaven.”
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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Text taken from Dr. Paul Leon Masters’ Book, “Mystical Insights: Knowing the Unknown,” Pgs. 152–154. Copyright © 2016 by the International Metaphysical Ministry.
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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.
“To Know Everything, Admit to Knowing Nothing”
There is nothing so ignorant as the personal ego in humans that believes it knows something or anything about the reality of life.
The personal ego is of itself a figment of the imagination built on limited physical sense perceptions that it exists or even has any reality. How can anything that is of itself a non-reality even begin to attempt to grasp the reality of what life really is, both on a Universal scale and miniaturized down to an individual?
The personal ego binds and restricts an understanding of life as a whole and an individual’s relationship to it. Oftentimes, one person, sensing that another person is deluding himself about something, will exclaim, “Get real!” But how can individuals actually get real, if what they have to work with—their personal egos—are unreal in and of themselves?
In the Bible there is the statement, “He who loses himself (i.e., the personal ego) for my sake (i.e., Universal Consciousness or God) finds himself (i.e., God, Self, Reality or Christ Self, Mind, or Consciousness of Christ).”
When a person has finally discarded the illusionary sense of the personal ego’s unreality, the consciousness is free to experience Universal Christ, Buddha, or Krishna awareness of the Reality of Life—the true relationship of individual human creation and existence to the greater totality of the Creational Process or the Will of God. Till such time, the mind or consciousness within the individual wanders amongst shadowy images within itself, believing that the images are reality and remaining unaware that to have shadows, there must be Light—the Light that to the mystic is the Light of Creation, or God.
If Truth be ultimately known, the world—or physical-plane earthly life—is but a mixture of shadows. Science, as it currently exists, is an attempt to classify and understand shadows rather than to search more directly into the Light Source—or Life Itself. Very few of today’s scientists are exceptions to this. Those few that are, are God-motivated from within themselves to discover the Ultimate First Cause.
To awaken to Universal Consciousness, where Ultimate Reality and one’s relationship to it can be known, necessitates the admission by one’s very Soul that the imaginary “I” or personal self knows nothing in regard to life and is speculating only on the meaning of shadows.
To know everything is to know the Universal Eternal Beingness of God. To know everything is to know one’s relationship to Everything—or God. To know one’s relationship to God is to know one’s soul’s purpose, or the reason for your being an individualized expression of God’s Presence. Only when a soul truly knows its reason for existing can the fulfillment of the soul be achieved, which, in truth, is God’s Will individualized.
Without such awareness—be it likened to Christ, Buddha, or Krishna—the mind remains a dimly lit room with choices and decisions about life based on shadowy speculations. When life is so founded, it is no wonder there is so much failure in the human experience to live in happiness and fulfillment.
It is not enough to acknowledge intellectually what is said here. That’s only a philosophical agreement, which still falls under the province of the personal ego. To know everything—God—you must admit to knowing nothing. The Christ Mind that was in Jesus alluded to this in the words, “Unless you become as little children (i.e. stripped of the personal ego’s intellect), you shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven (i.e. the Beingness of God Consciousness).”
The choice is to remain a shadowy figure or to step into the Light of one’s Light-Self. When ready, the Light will guide you unto Itself.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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Text taken from Dr. Paul Leon Masters’ Book, “Mystical Insights: Knowing the Unknown,” Pgs. 137–139.
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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.
“Time? A Mystical Perspective”
A person remembers the past and wonders about the future. An older person thinks how quickly time has passed, and that it seemed just yesterday—perhaps even a moment ago—that they were as young as the youth they see around them.
Yes, as the expression goes, time seems to “fly by”—but does it? On the other hand, people describing some great moment of inspiration have said or written that it was as if “time stood still.”
On this physical earth plane and dimension of existence, in order to have existence as a person perceives it with his or her outer senses, it is a world of opposites—and that includes what seems to appear as past and present.
With mystical awareness, there is the reality that past and present on this earth plane are opposites, but when one is in Universal Consciousness, God, Oneness, or Absolute Reality, there are no opposites. There is simply the Eternal Moment of Beingness—a singular moment of God’s Eternal Contemplation, “I AM.”
When the Christ Mind that was in Jesus spoke the words, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,” it expressed a great Truth of Beingness—that the beginning and end are one.
Stepping back and pausing in one’s mind long enough to escape the illusion of opposites brings the realization that if the beginning and ending are one, then there is no room for anything in between, or past or future—or time, as it is humanly perceived.
Hinduism expresses the world of earth plane existence as Maya—the great illusion. If time exists in this illusion, then time itself is an illusion.
With the advancement of technology, will the fascinating concept of time travel come to pass—or at least seem to? What would this really mean?
One could visit either the past(?) or speed ahead to the future(?). A person from the future(?) could visit today’s earth or the past(?). A person from today’s earth could visit the past(?) or the future(?). With mystical awareness there is the knowingness that the past and the future exist simultaneously as one Eternal Moment, and that in Reality, all stand still in the “peace that passeth all understanding”—that is, Universal Consciousness or God.
To discern the Truth of life despite the illusion is to become more and more aware of the Universal Consciousness or God within oneself, inspired by the only Reality that is—God’s Eternal Presence in the Eternal Moment of Now.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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Text taken from Dr. Paul Leon Masters’ Book, “Mystical Insights: Knowing the Unknown,” Pgs. 127–128.
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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc. – Simultaneous Dimensional Existence
We are many in one.
When the psalmist praised God, proclaiming himself “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139), he alluded to the mysteries of our beingness that mystics through the ages have discovered—that the reality of who and what we are is complex. Indeed, every human being is a microcosm of the macrocosmic Universe, both physical and nonphysical.
How complex is a person’s state of beingness? If a person had no idea of the inner physiology of the human body and suddenly viewed it for the first time, most assuredly there would be a sense of amazement. Consider then that there are still other levels of a person’s state of beingness that are just as complex, if not far more so.
Every day of human life most people go about their lives not thinking about the physiological workings of their bodies—simply accepting that their outer reflections in their mirrors reflect who they are. Only when people are not feeling well are they reminded that they are more than the outer image of themselves. So barring illness, most people go about their lives without an awareness of the intricacies taking place in the inner workings of their bodies.
Beyond the inner, physiological workings of the physical body, there exists the same lack of awareness about other levels of activity composing one’s beingness. What mystics through the ages have discovered is that a person’s beingness extends into other dimensions of existence, with a corresponding level of consciousness for each of those existences. In first encounters with such revelations, this can be startling.
As an illustration, most religions tell their followers that when they pass on from this physical world their souls will travel to heaven or some other after-death state. Yet, if the mystical truth be told, everyone already exists in an after-death or astral plane. We exist there all our physical lives, from the time we take our first physical breath—and yes, even before that. This other existence is another dimensional energy body that is a part of one of several dimensions that make up one’s beingness.
To add to this mystery of one’s beingness, conscious life activity exists at every level of one’s beingness. In the case of one’s astral or after-death body, an astral life is already being simultaneously lived. Passing on, or the ending of one’s physical life, is a shifting from physical awareness to astral awareness, and that awareness already exists and has been living an existence in the afterlife or astral world. The mystic experiences this revelation of beingness in meditation, when disassociated from physical sense perception and astral perception takes over. Almost everyone in our physical world has heard the expression, “living a double life.” Well, in the realms of beingness, everyone is living at least a double life.
Yet, realms of one’s dimensional existence do not end with simultaneous astral beingness. There are still higher realms of beingness in every human being. There are more ethereal realms of existence that simultaneously exist with these earthly and astral existences, where one’s beingness is more angelic or godlike—closer to the Source of life, Universal Mind, Consciousness, or Spirit that is God. Still further into one’s beingness are the Christ, Buddha, or Krishna states of conscious beingness, where the individual state of beingness and the Universal are in simultaneous existence.
Consider then that within every human being there are simultaneous states of existence that are active—predating human life, during human life, and beyond human life.
Only when the mental health sciences of today have developed to where they are aware of such simultaneous states of conscious activity can clinical evaluations of such occurrences as psychosis, split personality, and a whole host of other dysfunctions or mental ills be approached and treated from wisdom and true knowledge, rather than only from a limiting, behavioral science or scientific perspective.
On the more productive side, only when a human being is seen as part of a multidimensional state of beingness can greater productivity—can more of one’s innate God-given potential—be surfaced to our human conscious awareness. There are vast new frontiers of life existence to be explored, and how exciting to realize that they all already exist within one’s self.
Yes, you are many lives being lived simultaneously. The enormity of this reality of your beingness cannot be overstated.
One may then ask—if all this is true, what should I do?
- Live your life as you have, and God’s Presence within you will guide you.
- Meditate daily and constantly release the false sense of personal will and ego identity that dominates you—rather than God’s Presence—so a higher state of awareness will gradually begin guiding your awareness and life.
Eventually, whether in this physical lifetime or another, we become aware of the various states of our beingness; and through the Grace of God’s Presence, we integrate all levels into a harmonious working Wholeness of Beingness.
It is not impossible—for in Absolute Truth, all that will be, already is.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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Text taken from Dr. Paul Leon Masters’ Book, “Mystical Insights: Knowing the Unknown,” Pgs. 26–28.
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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc. – Universal God Beingness—An Expanded Mystical View
Simply put, when you look out at the physical Universe, you look into one level of Universal Mind Consciousness or the Mind of God. And, through the physical instruments of today’s science, the further out into the farthest reaches of the Universe you look, the deeper into your own consciousness you can enter.
The Biblical words, “as above, so below,” can be taken quite literally. It is a mystical reality that speaks the eternal truth that all life is One and the Same, and that ultimately there is but One Life everywhere present—be it in the vastness of what appears as outer space or in the more finite existence of a human. From the appearance of the tremendous mass of a star to the appearance of a pebble or a droplet of water, each comes from One Universal Life Consciousness manifesting as us all.
Referencing the Bible again, the words, “within Him, we live, move, and have our being,” have a profound literal meaning when understood mystically. Quite literally, all that exists, lives, moves, and has its beingness comes from within the Mind of God, just as all that is visible—both in the seen physical world and the unseen dimensional worlds—exists in the Mind of God or Universal Consciousness.
All forms of existence are thought-form images existing in the Universal Consciousness or the Mind of God. The physical dimension is but one level in the Mind of God or Universal Consciousness. Just as there are structures of human consciousness (such as the conscious level, the personal subconscious level, and the astral level), in similar fashion there exists multiple levels in the Mind of God or Universal Consciousness.
The often-spoken words, “man is made in the image and likeness of God,” are mystical clarification to this reality. The words “image and likeness of God” are not referring to the appearance of human form and shape, but rather to consciousness as the miniaturization of Universal Consciousness and its working structures or levels manifesting as human consciousness. As above, so below: the microcosm is a reflection of the macrocosm.
Just as a person is self-aware, so, too, the Universe is Self-Aware, but as an all-inclusive Universal Self. The Universe is existent on so many levels of Self-Awareness: planets as they travel in their orbits; thoughts circling around a central theme; or any physical existence in the physically perceived universe. All are thought processes within the Mind of God or Universal Consciousness. Just as in the human mind, where central themes of thought are born and then pass away, so, too, stars or what might be described as star themes come into existence and then pass away in the Thought Process of Universal Consciousness or the Mind of God.
The words of the psalmist, “you are fearfully and wonderfully made,” refers to a reality that can only be grasped by those who have taken the mystical voyage into their own consciousness.
What has all of this to do with the human life of anyone? Can such awareness of reality serve any practical purpose in the life of a human being?
Resoundingly—yes!
Life is a matter of awareness. The more aware we are, the more we are aware of what is taking place in our lives and, more importantly, our role—or soul’s purpose—within it. Meditation awakens one’s consciousness, and conscious awareness creates greater sensitivity to what is and what is not—both on a Universal scale and the individual’s role within it.
As individuals go through their days, it is to their practical advantage to be aware, for at least a few moments daily, of both who they are—a thought-form purpose according to the Will of God—and where they are—in the Thought Process of Universal Life Consciousness or the Mind of God. In such a state of awareness and recognition, access to God’s Guidance is not then a thing one seeks, but rather what one is a part of.
Therefore, live in Awareness of Greater Reality, that life may reflect such awareness to the glory and acknowledgment of God’s Mind, in whom all have been created.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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Text taken from Dr. Paul Leon Masters’ Book, “Mystical Insights: Knowing the Unknown,” Pgs. 143–145.
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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc. – War and Peace—Beyond This World?
All Truth is contained in the consciousness of all human beings. The Ultimate State of Consciousness or Beingness, which is God’s Presence, is deeply imbedded in everyone’s unconscious mind. Within the deeper memory levels of the mind are memories of the past as well as memories of the future, which—despite the illusion of time—have already happened.
Whatever has been—is. Whatever will be—already is. Within the mind or consciousness contained within every human being is a doorway into the past and entrance to the future, each of which already is.
The mind, in fact, contains many doorways or entrances into various levels of existence and even into other worlds. During the inner activity of a mind that is seeking God, a person may experience a large variety of contacts. For the most part, such contacts are with other dimensions of existence and, on lesser occasions, with the earthly dimension in the physical plane of outer space.
One who has achieved mystical awareness can even see or know certain realities, which to outer human sense perception might be classified by today’s clinicians as a mental or psychotic experience. However, what a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist might classify as a psychotic experience may be, to one of mystical awareness, a higher reality. It is no wonder, then, that in a relaxed ego state, an experience may surface from the deeper levels of the unconscious to the surface level, revealing activities beyond this earth—be it in the physical dimension or other realms.
With such glimpses into other worlds and their activities, the mystically aware mind becomes knowledgeable about what takes place beyond this earthly dimension. The physical universe is vast, and other dimensions also offer a variety of existences. Many parts of the physical universe and other dimensions are inhabited—from existences that are less aware than those on the physical Earth dimension to the highest ethereal forms of beingness.
Excluding the very highest dimensions of existence that are just a hairline beneath the existence of Universal Consciousness or God, there exists a vast array of beings living their lives in varying forms and environments. Some are similar in appearance to those on this physical earth, while others could only be said to be very unique in their appearance. Imagine for a moment what exotic or strange life forms one might encounter if one were to travel to the depths of the oceans on this planet, which has already been demonstrated by deep oceanic photography. If such strange life forms can exist on this planet in this dimension, does it not then make sense that life forms beyond what the human level of the mind can conceive of, also exist?
We live in an absolutely incredible Consciousness or Universal God Mind Reality. Yet, in spite of the tremendous variety of life forms, human existence does have something in common with those other life forms. Pleasure, pain, birth, death—all of the dualities present in the physical earth plane are also existent throughout the physical cosmos and in other planes of existence, as well. Why must duality exist? So we may have the illusion of seeming existence apart from the One Universal Life of God.
And yes, where there is duality, there is also the breeding ground for conflict—conflict between individual life forms and collective groupings of life forms. In truth, the proverbial “war between the forces of light and darkness” does exist throughout a very high percentage of the Universe.
The great psychologist, Carl Jung, once said there is hidden truth within mythology. Those mythological stories that have been accepted by many as only myth—the stories of wars even between the Gods or more awakened beings—may, in fact, have emerged from the unconscious realities of the myth creators to the surface level of their minds. These myths contain the truth that where there is variety, diversity, and duality, there is an environment conducive to conflict—whether it’s an altercation between individual life forms or collective groupings.
So, is there peace anywhere in this Universe, in either the seen or unseen dimensions? Yes and no. Just as it is in this physical earth dimension, there is a season for all things—a time for war and a time for peace—except for those life forms just beneath the Universal Consciousness of God. Those life forms can be described as Christ or Light Beings—God’s First Dimension of Beingness apart from Spirit. Here there is only peace, for all know themselves as one, with no illusion of duality leading to conflict and war—just One Universal Life simultaneously existing in forms barely distinguishable from the Light in which they reside and are.
Here on this physical earth plane there will never be permanent peace, only passing seasons—a dualistic existence with times of war and times of peace. If some feel an urging from within to seek peace, let them seek it within themselves by drawing closer to that urge, which is God’s Eternal Peace calling one to its Presence.
There is an idea expressed in Hindu scripture that proclaims that even the Gods on their high thrones in Heaven envy those on earth, for humans—through meditation—can travel beyond the dimensions of the Gods (which may be in a state of conflict) to the Ultimate God of All. In such an inner journey the human soul can rise above dimensions to that state of God Beingness the Bible describes as “the Peace that passes all understanding.” Only through finding and becoming united with the Collective Universal Soul, the Paramatman, or the Christ Presence within oneself can the Eternal Presence and Peace be found.
Remember that God’s Peace is closer to you than your next breath, and is always Present between your thoughts.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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Nothing in this universe is by chance. All that is taking place throughout the vastness of Universal Presence is interconnected in the most precise way to every soul on the physical earth plane. The life that everyone is leading is intertwined with this vast Universal Process within the Consciousness of God.
The incarnating of souls into various planes, dimensions, or physically perceived planets is part of the Universal Process, for the smallest particles of existence are as important to the functioning of Universal Life as is the Whole of Universal Life itself.
Again, nothing is by chance. The dimension and planet that a soul incarnates into—the parent souls that the soul physically incarnates through—are all by Divine Design. All souls incarnate precisely where they are supposed to—and through the vehicles of the physical parent souls that they are supposed to—whether seemingly to the advantage or disadvantage of the incarnating soul.
The process for the vast majority of incarnating souls is automatic; that is, they do not have a say in the choice of parents or environment they incarnate through and into. All is based on the energy frequencies of what stage of awareness to the Whole or God and the Will of the Universe that a soul is in.
Like a giant filtering machine, the Universal Process automatically directs the path into a new incarnation. Again, this involves the majority of souls incarnating into this physical, earth plane dimension. They have not awakened sufficiently to the Whole or God Consciousness to make the choice for themselves, and thus, the choice is made for them through the Universal energy frequency filtering Process.
Angry, hostile energy souls will incarnate where there is a greater likelihood of wars and conflicts. Peaceful souls will incarnate into areas where there is a more peaceful environment. This could be thought of as karma on a larger collective stage of incarnating souls. Collective or group incarnations are also part of the automatic filtering process that, in the language of this physical earth plane, is described as generational.
The only exceptions to the automatic filtering process are Universally Awakened Souls who are totally aware of the life that they are incarnating into, and are able to see and know how their lives will be lived before incarnation. They have the awakening sufficient enough to make the choice whether to incarnate or not.
Yet, this is not a personal choice. Because they are Universally Aware, they are part of Universal or God’s Will, and thus it is Universal or God’s Will that truly makes the choice. These Souls—totally in tune with the Spirit—choose the will of the Whole that they are part of.
For a Universally Awakened Soul, incarnating is for the purpose of helping souls who are not yet awakened to awaken, knowing that only a few are ready for total awakening, but at least the seeds for the blossoming of awakening can be planted in the soil of the mind to come to fruition in some future incarnation.
So it’s been through Eternity—to awaken the few and make ready the majority.
It can be described as incarnating in the grander scheme of things.
May your part be lived to its fullest!
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Many Lives, Many Loves: Have You Loved Someone Before?”
Has the thought ever occurred to you, “Have I loved this person in another lifetime?” If you are one of the two thirds of the world’s population that believes in reincarnation and the living of many lifetimes, you may very well have asked this question.
Nothing in life is by coincidence, although on the surface some things may appear to be simply by chance. There is a law of cause and effect that is constantly at work throughout nature, inclusive of meetings and relationships of a personal nature between two people.
It does not matter how short or how long the relationship turns out to be, whether it is measured in mere minutes or an entire lifetime. People meet people and fall in love with them, or at least imagine themselves to be in love. From a deeper spiritual perspective, what is actually taking place is the living out of a karmic tie between two people.
A karmic tie, carried over from one or more previous lifetimes, can be positive or negative. Positive would mean receiving the rewards of a positive relationship in this lifetime as a result of positive good existing between the two people in previous lifetimes. Negative would mean a need to improve a negative condition left over from previous lifetimes. Whether positive or negative, there is a law of karmic attraction that will draw you to one or more people in this lifetime, and they to you, because there is more to be lived out between you.
Examples of various types of love relationships and the meaning they have for the people involved might include a long-term relationship that is positive. This means that two people have reached a point of spiritual maturity with one another. This does not mean that either one or both souls have spiritually evolved or become enlightened, it simply means that they have perfected the goodness or trueness of love between them. There is, of course, another explanation, and that is that they are soul mates and have a spiritual closeness that can only be described as spiritual oneness.
Perhaps you find yourself in a long-term relationship that is very negative. This is generally a carryover of hostilities from previous lives. In such a relationship, there is a need for much spiritual growth. Negative, unresolved issues from previous lives must be dealt with. Often, an observer to such a relationship or marriage may not see any improvement. Yet, ever so subtly, in the unseen realm of the minds of both people, improvement is being made.
Carryover relationships from previous lifetimes are also an integral part of your soul’s purpose in this lifetime. There are people who encounter many loves, or at least imagined loves, in just one lifetime. Most such souls are older souls who have, through their sojourns of many lifetimes, encountered many souls with whom they have carryovers needing to be lived out in this lifetime. Not all souls with numerous relationships are old souls. There are also souls who don’t know who they are spiritually and are trying their hand at love with others who are equally spiritually immature. However, once they have an experience, positive or negative with another young soul, it will become a carryover to another lifetime. Hence, the karmic tie begins.
Once the karmic tie has begun, the carryover from one lifetime to the next may last over many lifetimes. Realize also that a carryover from previous lives is not just limited to a person with whom you fall in love. People all around you, who you interacted with in a previous life, may be present.
Did you ever pass someone in a crowded place and feel some connection with that person? This may be a carryover from a previous life, although not necessarily a personal relationship. The point is that there is a lot more to life and living through numerous lifetimes than at first seems apparent.
On a spiritual dimension, there is an infinite field of light shared by all souls. All that has ever been created was originally created in that light. All that has ever been continues in that light, for the light contains the cosmic memory of all souls. Within that cosmic memory there are certain souls with whom you have shared love. Through this form of visualization, you become aware of any soul with whom you may have had previous life contact, and with whom you now have physical contact in this lifetime. Once you are aware that there had been a previous life love, you may also become aware of whether this is a positive or negative carryover to this lifetime.
In the Mind of God, all the love that has ever been and ever will be exists. Recorded in the memory levels of God’s Mind are all the lovers that have ever loved. Think of God’s Mind as a cosmic love diary containing all of God’s Creations. As a portion of God’s Universal Mind is a portion of the innermost center of consciousness within you; you have access to the memories of love contained therein. Through meditation and right spiritual living, God makes you aware that another person may be someone with whom you shared love in a previous life.
For some, living out the positive or negative may be their soul’s purpose for incarnating in this lifetime. Part of the so-called magic of love in its initial stages can be, to a large extent, due to a previous history of love involvement. The older the soul, the more lifetimes lived, and thus, the greater the likelihood of coming into contact with at least several persons from previous lives with whom a person may have a karmic love tie.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Channeling God”
Note these words of Christ in the New Testament which contain a great mystical truth: “I speak to them, not in words of men, but in words of spirit.” Spirit, as Christ referred to it, meant God. In effect, he was saying that it was God speaking through him. The Jesus part of his personality, or his personal ego mind, was set aside so that God’s Presence or Spirit could speak directly through him.
In the latter part of the twentieth century, the practice of channeling became popular among many people. They would gather to hear words of wisdom spoken, supposedly, through higher beings; gods, goddesses, spirit guides, and angels. No matter which of these was the hypothetical source for the spoken channeling, all shared one common denominator, which was that all information came from an outside source. People seemingly received information from “something” outside their own minds.
Then, and up to the time of this writing, people doing the channeling had a shared belief; all claimed that what was being channeled was from a source other than God. This is easy to understand inasmuch as channelers, except perhaps for a few, claim to be mystics.
Mystics, however, are people who deem their contact with God to be the most important thing in their life. Because of this, they have no interest in spending time being a channel for angels, spirit guides, and so on. A true mystic comes to know that through contact with God, life’s mysteries and other information revealed by channelers of lesser sources come to their attention. In addition, and most importantly, a mystic comes to realize that over a course of time, through inner contact with God, they become channels for God.
When asked, a mystic will always give God or Universal Mind credit as being the source. Spiritual lecturers or teachers will present material that often is straight from the Source, or God, but will not reference God, unless asked. An audience will simply respond by believing that they are hearing from a very wise person, when in fact, the individual speaking may be hearing what is being said for the very first time, as they are spontaneously being used as a channel by God, or the Universal Mind or Spirit within.
The same can apply to a spiritual teacher who is writing about spiritual matters. God may take over the surface level of their consciousness, revealing to the writer great spiritual truths of which the writer was previously unaware. When these writings are read by another person, that person may simply think that the writer is spiritually brilliant, without realizing that the writer has channeled God onto paper.
Over the years, the personal part of my mind stood aside and listened in awe as God or universal consciousness spoke through me. Remember Jesus’ words from the New Testament, “Why call ye me good? It is not I but the Father who doeth these good works.”
Even Jesus, in his highly exalted spiritual consciousness, could not take credit for the pearls of great spiritual wisdom that poured from his lips. He knew it was God the Spirit, Universal Mind that was speaking through him. He was indeed channeling God.
The main point to note here is that channeling God is possible, and above all, that any man or woman who is genuinely and totally committed to God and the pursuit of God through mystical meditation can channel God. Jesus said, “Even greater things than I, you shall do.” So certainly, then, channeling God is possible
In the final analysis, there is but one Spirit, one universal life in this universe and throughout eternity manifesting as everyone. Is it not better, then, to contact the ultimate mind or God, rather than fragments of that mind, or individual entities, no matter how evolved they may seem to be? Of course it is
The truth of the matter is that if you channel God, the spiritual truth you channel is specific to your own spiritual needs. Information channeled by others may not be precise in regard to your own spiritual situation, and may be altered as it filters through the consciousness of the channeler.
Now, you must ask yourself, “Do I want to channel God?” This means not asking for the purpose of advertising and commercially claiming that you are channeling God, but rather so that you may learn firsthand from within you what information or knowledge God wants you to know that specifically pertains to your own life.
It should be pointed out that although information applies exactly to your particular life, it may also be of value to those with whom you have contact.
If you choose the mystical direction as your spiritual pathway in this life, and you are genuine, sincere and committed to the pursuit of God’s Presence, the time may come when, without warning, you will suddenly realize that you are channeling God, or that God’s wisdom, love, and even humor are coming through you.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Protecting Oneself from Negative Energy”
Every day of your life, you live in a world of energy. Whatever seems solid is, in actuality, a vibrating field of energy. From human beings and other life forms to even inanimate objects such as rocks, all are really a vibrating field of energy, including the very earth upon which we stand.
The human mind itself is not the brain, but a field of energy that utilizes the energy factors of the brain cells through which it functions. Ultimately, life is an interaction of energy fields, one upon another. Emotions and feelings are also energies. The energies of the body and mind are interactive with each other, hence, the enormous influence of the mind upon the condition or health of the body. In fact, all of life is interacting. A cosmic energy domino effect exists that affects the whole of the universe.
In this interaction of energies, both positive and negative energies exist. All human beings are constantly being affected by the energy factors with which they come in contact. These interactions produce either positive or negative effects on an individual, depending upon whether they come in contact with positive or negative energies.
In today’s world, there are a great many negative energies floating around the atmosphere. Although generally undetectable to the outer five senses, they can nonetheless be felt by anyone who has built up a sensitivity to perceive and feel energies in the air. This feeling can come from people, places, or objects. The air may seem to be filled with negative psychic energy, or, conversely, it may be filled with positive psychic energy.
If the energy is positive, there is nothing to do but to enjoy it and get pleasure from being a part of it, for remember, it is affecting the energy fields of your body and mind. If the energy is negative, then everything possible should be done to protect yourself from its influence. Because this is psychic energy, there is little you can do physically to safeguard yourself from its destructive influence. Most steps to protect yourself must take place on the same psychic level where the negative energy exists.
The main conductor of negative psychic energy on this planet comes from humankind itself in the form of emotions, such as anger, hate, jealousy, envy, greed, or revenge. These and other negative energies fill the psychic atmosphere in numerous locations in the world.
It is not just the physical weather that one walks through daily, but what could be termed psychic weather, as well. To simply ignore it is to be influenced by it. Attempting to ignore it or going into denial that it even exists is foolhardy. In this world—as it currently exists on a lower step of the evolutionary ladder of spiritual awareness—it must be addressed.
What numerous people today consider health-destroying stress is often brought about by not handling the pressure of negative energies on the nervous system of the body. Much of the spontaneous anger on today’s highways—described as road rage—is a result of people being caught up in the influence of negative psychic energy. Much of the general violence in society today can also find its source in people succumbing to the influence of negative psychic energy.
For example, at some time in your life have you overreacted with a negative outburst—at least momentarily—when something just seemed to overcome you? In most instances, this type of reaction is not necessarily the surfacing of repressed anger or frustration. Rather, it may be a reaction caused by being under the influence of the negative energy in the psychic atmosphere where the experience took place. Therefore, it is critical that dealing with the unseen, but often very real and present, influence of negative energy be a part of one’s knowledge.
Negative energy has far less of a chance to affect you if an abundance of positive energy is present—particularly higher consciousness energy. By meditating on God’s Presence, you lift the energy consciousness of both your body and your mind to the positive energy of higher consciousness. Daily meditation keeps your energy consciousness at a high level, so that even if some negative energy enters your general consciousness energy field, its effect will be minimal. Daily meditation practice also provides you with some assurance that you will be less susceptible to negative energy influences.
This does not mean that someone who meditates daily is free of negative energy influence. In fact, sometimes a person who meditates daily may be even more sensitive to the initial impact of negative energy on their system. However, once the initial impact is over with, the person will recuperate to a higher energy level because they are more in tune with the absolute positive energy, or God.
As a result of daily meditation, you are closer to the divine or universal part of your mind, or God. God, then, provides the peace of spirit to restore serenity to your nervous system. In addition, God provides you with intuitive wisdom, through which you may be guided as to what to do to outwardly counteract negative energy from the outer source where it is originating, as well as what to do to restore energy balance within your psycho-physical being.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Releasing What Is Holding You Back”
Most people today are living their lives stuck on hold. Is it any wonder that so many individuals seem so quick to anger and rage? This is because, as a wise person once phrased it, people are leading lives of “quiet desperation.”
There are, of course, many reasons why people would feel desperate and frustrated. However, the common denominator in almost all of these factors is that there is little, if any, improvement in their lives. A person seems to be held at a certain place in life and cannot seem to break free of it to move on. So many human beings lead lives that appear to be an endless repeat of the same misery, day in and day out. People will give you all sorts of reasons why they can’t seem to move on from where they currently are. Some of the reasons they give are lack of education, family responsibilities, health, lack of money, a personal relationship, and the like.
In reality, such a person’s plight is in their state of mind rather than their outer circumstances. It is the old and very true example of the pessimist seeing a glass half empty, while the optimist views the same glass as half full. In the pessimist’s consciousness they may indeed fear that they cannot release what is holding them back. Yet, the truth is that it is all a matter of consciousness or what they have accepted in their own mind.
The mental state of a person who looks upon their life pessimistically is ruled by the illusions of their personal ego. In such a frame of mind, there is an attitude of limitation, as these individuals view themselves as inadequate. This is why the reasons given previously, such as a lack of education, health, financial means, and so on, are accepted.
Even many people who study the deeper truth teachings of the spiritual reality of unlimited potential are held back because they have accepted those teachings intellectually, but not in their hearts or the very core of their being. That is why it states in the Book of Proverbs, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” It is more a question of what you really believe deep down in the heart of consciousness within you that really matters.
This is why deeper Eastern forms of meditation that allow you to actually experience spiritual reality should be such a vital part of life. Such experiences demonstrate to the conscious mind that it is part of a larger Universal Consciousness that is unlimited. Such inner experience proves to the conscious mind that a person has it literally within them—in their own mind—to be able to release themselves and move on to something better.
The main reason people don’t change is fear of the unknown, or the fear that if they do change, it might result in even greater negativity. Rather than risking what they see in their own mind as the possibility of things getting even worse, they choose to stay in their current misery. The fear of change is an integral part of the personal ego that has accepted limitation. Breaking out of the mental chains of the personal ego is all-important in being able to find release from any current frustration that seems to be holding you back.
Change is a natural spiritual law. As you go through life, being part of positive change on an ongoing basis is walking the spiritual steps, or moving with the flow of Universal Life, which is about moving with the mental rhythms of God’s mind, or being part of the consciousness of God. When your life becomes part of the flow of consciousness within God’s mind, you have the wisdom, will, and creativity of the universe supporting you in constantly moving beyond the relative present and whatever seems to be blocking you.
Contacting higher spiritual consciousness within yourself through meditation opens your conscious mind to being a part of the process of God’s mind. This gives you the mental perspective to see beyond the illusionary blockages of any present condition, so that you may travel an open mental road that is filled with opportunities.
The Presence of God at the innermost center of consciousness within you is ready at all times to step up to the conscious level of your mind and take over your life. Until the consciousness of God takes over the conscious level of your mind, you will continue to live under the directorship of your personal ego and its sense of limitation. Those limitations will give you a sense of inadequacy with which to face the present in your life, and thus will keep you held back from moving forward and progressing.
To totally release all sense of limitation caused by your personal ego, totally release your personal ego. It is your personal ego that gives birth to all ideas in your mind that would make you seem to be inadequate in moving forward. Release your entire personal ego, for it is all the components, or beliefs, of your personal ego that are holding you back.
Remember Christ’s words, “He who loses himself for my sake shall find himself.” The losing is the release of your personal ego, while the finding is the discovery of that part of your human nature where the soul and God are as one. Only when you feel limitations do you hesitate to move forward. Replace those limitations with the unlimited sense of God’s Presence within you, and you will find that you no longer wish to hang on to a negative safety net from your past.
Be thankful for the lessons learned that produced good in your life, but be ready to move on and apply such wisdom to new experiences. Know that the consciousness of God at the center of your mind wishes you to move forward, for movement and change are natural laws of life.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“You, God, Mind, and the Universe”
Knowing and living out the relationship between you, God, mind, and the universe is the very key to maximizing the potential in and out of your life. Every possibility of what can be done in and with your life lies in an awareness of the relationship and synthesis between you, God, mind, and the universe. In actuality, the synthesis already exists. It is a matter of having a conscious mind level of awareness that it exists, and placing yourself as a total unit of body, mind, and soul under the influence of the synthesis. Being aware of and living the synthesis is enlightenment at its zenith of practical application for life improvement.
Enlightenment is actually its own reward when one becomes aware of the profound cosmic mysteries of life as they relate to human life. Enlightenment can also produce tangible practical results in human life, greatly affecting health, relationships, career, income, and material needs, as well as other major concerns. It can have the greatest influence on having a positive self-image and self-esteem. If you can have an awareness of the relationship between you, God, mind, and the universe, and comprehend that there exists a cosmic oneness between all, then your comprehension of who and what you really are is magnified to cosmic proportions.
You see yourself in your own mind and consciousness in the same way that wise men, wise women, sages, seers, and mystics down through the ages saw themselves. An awareness of cosmic synthesis forms your foundation for selfhood. Infinity and eternity, as both concepts and realities, become familiar friends. Unfortunately, the majority of humankind today has little, if any, awareness or even remote intellectual or theological concept that a synthesis exists between oneself, God, mind, and the universe. For this reason, people have low self-esteem because they see their existence as small and trivial. Only the most basic forms of truth are grasped as some dogmatic form of religiosity.
Only when a person or soul has arrived at a place of cosmic awareness can the mind grasp or even begin to appreciate the magnitude of the Psalmist’s words, “You are fearfully and wonderfully made,” which directly allude to the synthesis of which we are speaking.
Meditation takes you beyond the boundaries of intellectual appreciation of the synthesis into the very center of inward comprehension. Meditation is the great revealer of profound truth. What seems to make sense intellectually is known through direct experience to be truth. Whether in one dramatic, all-encompassing meditation, or over a series of meditations, the truth that there is a relationship between you, God, your mind, and the universe is revealed. Through either direct mystical union with God, or through a series of less profound spiritual experiences in higher states of meditative consciousness, the truth of oneness and synthesis is revealed.
In the inner equation, you are regarded as the true self or real self—an individualized expression of God, as the God of the universe. Mind is all consciousness, and what is regarded as personal and universal is one.
The universe is thought of as the physical manifestation of universal mind, cosmic consciousness, or the consciousness of God. Like the physical human expression, which has its spiritual counterparts, so too, the physical universe, as a field of infinite consciousness, has its spiritual counterparts. Such spiritual counterparts are other dimensions of manifestation. When meditating over a period of time, some of these dimensions are revealed to the conscious human level of the mind, underscoring and highlighting the vastness to which each and every soul or person is a part, whether they are consciously aware of it or not.
Meditation opens your mind unto itself to find and discover that the mind is part of an endless consciousness of universal mind, or God’s thought activity on an infinite, eternal, and universal scale. Imagine that your mind is a circle within a circle, starting with your outermost conscious circle and ending in the innermost circle, or the presence of God at the center of your mind. Mind, then, may be thought of in two ways. In one way, mind may be thought of as universal mind, or God’s mind filling the entire universe, both physical and nonphysical. In the other way, mind may be thought of as a portion of universal mind existing at the center of consciousness within a human being. It is this center of the mind that one endeavors to reach through meditation when attempting to experience God’s presence.
The aim of meditation is to start at the conscious or outermost level of the mind and penetrate level within level until the center, or God level, is reached. There, within you—within your consciousness—is the very will, drive, and power that God used to create the entire universe. Every time you meditate and come into closer contact with the God level of your mind, the more of God’s will, drive, and power surfaces to your conscious level. There, it provides you with the motivation and spiritual inspiration you need to improve your life in some way and make that a physical reality.
In the Bible are the words, “With God all things are possible.” With the conscious awareness of the oneness between you, God, mind, and the universe, those words become a working reality.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Living a Meaningful and Fulfilling Life”
Is lasting happiness possible? From time immemorial, people have asked themselves this very important question concerning human nature and human life. The majority of people never find lasting happiness because, in a personal ego sense, most of them are living self-centered and self-absorbed lives.
Nearly all people try to find happiness through outside sources, such as another person, material possessions, a large income, power, and fame. At best, these individuals experience only fleeting moments of happiness; there is nothing in their lives that will provide lasting happiness.
Conversely, if you notice people who are not living self-absorbed lives, they appear to experience more prolonged periods of happiness. In the Biblical statement, “He who loseth himself for my sake, finds himself,” the self to be lost is the personal ego-self. Lose the personal ego-self, and your true self, or spiritual self—one with God—is there at the forefront of your consciousness. Your true self sees all of life from a spiritual standpoint or perspective.
Things that would make your personal ego unhappy are seen instead in the light of spiritual truth. Happiness is maintained even in difficult times, because everything is seen through a spiritual interpretation of the events taking place in your life. Living in such a light does not mean that you will never have problems. It is just that problems do not affect or diminish the lasting happiness that is an integral part of your life when the Light of God and your real self are present. Real, lasting happiness is a spiritual reality based upon spiritual realities and truth, rather than on any transient appearances, which have little, if any, lasting or permanent value.
Lasting happiness has as its central spiritual theme, living a meaningful and fulfilling life. Personal ego-self abandonment opens the mind to what is necessary to live a life of lasting happiness. When the mind is open and is not ego self-absorbed, there is a natural tendency to begin to think of others. Thinking and doing for others is the basic foundation for living a meaningful life. Live a meaningful life and you become, and are, fulfilled. Be fulfilled and you will experience lasting happiness.
Living a meaningful and fulfilling life also requires a synthesis of spirit, mind, and body working in harmony and balance on a daily basis. To feel whole and complete gives your life both meaning and fulfillment. Wholeness gives meaning because when you feel a synthesis or oneness between your body, mind, and spirit, it is as if God’s Consciousness—filled with meaning—and your consciousness share parts of what is meaningful in life. Take a few moments in your daily life to evaluate whether your state of mind is one that is conducive to achieving a state of synthesis, harmony, and balance between your body, mind, and spirit.
To live a meaningful and fulfilling life, the directorship of your mind should be turned over to Spirit, God, or Universal Mind. When Universal Mind is in charge, the personal mind is used to work towards a life filled with meaning. There is an old expression that states, “Let your conscience be your guide.” A more fitting expression for this subject would be, “Let your intuition be your guide.” Those who have studied both the mind and spirit recognize that the kind of meaning and fulfillment that produces lasting happiness does not come about as a result of reasoning or logical analysis, which are experiences of the intellect. Rather, it is the result of intuitive inspiration, brought about by God.
When God’s presence within you intuitively tells you what will give your life meaning, fulfillment, and thus lasting happiness, it can be taken as fact and lived out to your benefit and that of those around you. You will know if it is intuition from God because it will involve the good of others as well as yourself. Remember, living a meaningful, fulfilling life means helping others in some way.
Ultimately, to truly live a meaningful and fulfilling life you must live your soul’s purpose, as intuitively revealed to you through your inner contact with God. That purpose contains two elements: awareness and service. Awareness means that your soul has the opportunity to awaken more to God’s Presence. Service means doing something that will in some way be of service or help to others.
Ask yourself—particularly if you are not currently being of service to others—what God wants you to do. God will intuitively answer you. By then living out your life’s service, you will more readily lose your personal ego-self, which will cause you to awaken to God’s Presence within.
Serving God and serving others is the ultimate key to living a life that is meaningful and fulfilling. Look around you. Look for opportunities to be of service to God and to others. After all, it is an integral part of your soul’s purpose that you do so.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Universal Power Over Problems”
Problems are thought energies, and, as such, are subject to change when greater energy is applied to them. Problems originate in the thought energies of a person’s mind. Whatever problems you have had, or are currently having, are a direct result of thought energies in your mind.
Far back in time, ancient yogis correctly reasoned and intuitively discerned that there had to be one original energy in the universe from which all other energies came. They also correctly concluded that the greater energy—which they called prana—had power over all of the lesser energies.
The yogis further considered that the human mind level of energy is, therefore, subject to the ultimate energy, or prana. Prana exists within its lesser creations, and therefore is close at hand to exert an influence. This means that if the pranic energy can influence the problem level of a person’s thought energy, the problem will be solved, resolved or, most likely, outgrown. Outgrowing a problem simply means that you will rise to a higher level of consciousness, where these problems can be viewed from a higher vantage point of mind, which will make it more apparent as to what to do to remove them from your life.
Contacting pranic energy comes from contacting God within yourself. God is universal power. As such, the Spirit that is God is—and has—power over prana. Spirit and prana are two sides of the same universal coin, or manifestation of God’s Presence. Contact God and you contact the higher pranic power necessary to have power over your problems.
Keep in mind that all problems are temporary. Some may last for years, but they are still temporary. The only thing that is lasting is God. Why? Because God is the ultimate truth and the ultimate power. When you turn over your problems to God, you turn them over to the ultimate, absolute, most powerful presence in the universe. God’s eternal power is greater than any temporary problem you may be having, or will ever have.
When one is having a problem, the human inclination is to try to intellectualize or “reason it out.” When reason fails and the problem remains, then there definitely should be a turning over of the problem to the higher power of God. Even more preferable is to turn your entire life over to God, so that God’s higher power may reduce the number of problems in your life, by handling things in your life before they even have the opportunity of becoming problems in the first place. Remember that God’s Presence will far outlive, through eternity, any and all temporary problems in your life.
Not only is every problem you may have temporary, the amount of energy that it contains is very small when compared to the energy contained within infinity. Contact the God pranic Presence within you, and you contact infinite energy power. Never for a moment doubt the power of infinite energy to heal your problems. Imagine the vastness of the oceans versus one droplet of water. That does not even begin to compare with the power of infinite energy when brought to bear on the smallness of the problem energy within your mind. Because you are a creation of the infinite, live in the infinite, and have the infinite living in you, all the power of the infinite to heal your problem energy is yours!
When thinking about problem energies in your mind, think of them as darkened energies—black in a clear sky of your mind. Think that the clearness in the sky of your mind is originating from one infinite and eternal light that is both within you and at the same time infinitely surrounding you. Imagine that this light is the true beingness of your spiritual reality, and that in and through this light, you are—on an infinite and eternal level—forever one with God’s Presence.
In your meditation, visualize that the true God-light of your beingness is sublimating and transforming the dark problem energy in your mind into light. This is an inner alchemical transforming process that God’s Presence as a higher light power will do for you. You will begin to see your problem neutralize itself, and/or you may receive intuitive guidance as to how to cooperate with God on a physical level to resolve it.
No doubt about it, when you are in the midst of a problem, it is very hard to declare it an illusion. And yet, ultimately that is what it is! A problem is a passing temporary illusion of reality. By not thinking in this way, you give it a sense of permanency and thus power over you. If, on the other hand, you look at it as an illusion, you diminish its power over you.
Just realize that the only permanent and lasting reality is the Presence of God’s universal power within you, that can evolve you in consciousness far beyond the illusion of any problem. Problems come and go, while reality remains an eternal constant. Identify with God’s reality, and the illusions of a temporary problem will disappear from your life.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Telepathically Attracting Good”
Your mind has telepathic qualities that can affect your life for good or bad. The mind is a constant sending and receiving station of thought and feeling energies. Whatever you are thinking or feeling right now, and during every moment of your day throughout your life, is being telepathically broadcast to every single soul on earth—and beyond.
It is as though there is a portion of your unconscious mind that is telepathically linked to the unconscious mind of all souls everywhere. This is because, ultimately, there is but One Mind in the universe, and that Mind is Universal Mind, Infinite Intelligence, or the Mind of God.
Within all souls this Universal Mind exists, acting as a universal medium for the telepathic transportation of thought between all souls. It is as if someone on the other side of the earth is receiving your thoughts and you, in turn, theirs. We share our thoughts with all humanity by sharing in God’s thought process. The sharing of thought with all other souls on the planet does not mean that on a conscious level of the mind everyone else is aware of what you have been thinking.
However, some may be drawn, psychically or telepathically, to you—and you to them—according to the nature of your thinking or feeling.
What I have taught for decades, and have found to be a true, mental, spiritual law of the mind, is that like attracts like—first on the psychic or telepathic level. Whatever you are thinking or feeling is telepathically attracting others to you, and you to those who are thinking and feeling as you are.
Healthy people attract healthy people. Neurotic people attract neurotic people. Losers attract losers, and winners attract winners. Therefore, to telepathically attract good into your life, your thoughts and feelings should vibrate with the energies of goodness, positivity, confidence, success, love, and health.
As previously mentioned, the One Mind in all—God’s Mind—acts as a telepathic medium to telepathically exchange thoughts between people. This will take place whether or not a person meditates. It is simply an automatic factor in the laws and principles in the working of Universal Mind. Therefore, you may ask what difference can meditation make? And the answer is, an enormous and significant difference.
When you meditate, you get into and maintain closer contact with the greater unconscious part of your mind. A portion—the universal part—has awareness of what you have telepathically received. Part of what you have received has come from people with whom you are in contact in your physical life. You will thus be able to sense, and sometimes pick up, the general trend of their thinking.
This will provide you with intuitive direction as to how to interact with them. This can be especially helpful in matters dealing with your work or personal life. This can literally make the difference between having more good or more ill in your life. Meditating daily, then, can help you to be more aware of people already in your life, or those who may currently be entering it.
It should also be pointed out that daily meditation, especially on God’s Presence, acts as a power source to give greater energy to the thoughts and feelings you are telepathically transmitting. This causes people to respond to you telepathically, and thus, in physical life, to further enlarge or quicken the demonstration physically of your good.Remember, too, that prayer can also work effectively in telepathically increasing good in the lives of others, and in so doing, attract good into your life as a result. Every day you should take a few moments to telepathically send good and Godly thoughts to others. This can be to those you know, and better still, to all of humanity.
Godly thoughts can include the awakening to divine wisdom or the Presence of God within, as well as awakening to universal love, inner peace, fulfillment, contentment, and health—not just of the body, but of the mind and soul as well.
As you prayerfully send good and Godly thoughts to others, others in turn will respond with like thoughts that are good and Godly. Thus, as you pray forth good to others, so you receive good back in return—first telepathically, and then as part of your physical life’s experience, as the recipients of your prayers of good and goodness are drawn to you.
Always keep in mind that you are not only a sending station, but also a telepathic receiving station. If you are thinking and feeling positive and Godly thoughts, you are automatically protected to some extent, as the darkness of any negative thoughts from others finds it more difficult to penetrate the light of God within and surrounding you.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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Text for “Telepathically Attracting Good” taken from Dr. Paul Leon Masters’ “The Theocentric Way of Life,” Volume 4: Module 36.
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“Soul Mates”
There is a master plan to the Universe and all that transpires therein. That plan is as vast as the physical universe, and even far beyond, into other dimensions of existence. In fact, what takes place in the physical dimension is just the outer tip of the iceberg when compared to the vast complexity of creating and maintaining a universal order to all things.
Thus, there are innumerable mysteries involving existence, not the least of which is one’s spiritual relationship or connection to another human being. When we pursue this thought in regard to personal love relationships, we come to the often mysterious and intriguing subject of soul mates.
The very term “soul mate” implies a spiritual connection between two souls. The implication carried to its spiritual conclusion would also imply that these are two persons that God meant to be together. Taking this one step further, it could be considered that God created the two out of one.
In a mystical sense, there is but One Life in the Universe. In God’s creation of a soul, we can say that there is but One Universal Soul, whose body is Light, or God’s first begotten.
The Bible states that all things came forth from Light. This would mean that individual souls came forth from the Light in a higher spiritual realm before manifesting in physical form. To manifest and procreate on a physical dimension, each soul was divided into both male and female energy. Though separated, the energies still hold to common energy attraction, having originally come from being one, as one soul and one manifestation in an original higher realm of creation in the Universal Mind or Consciousness of God. Thus, if understood spiritually, the eternal quest to find one’s soul mate—consciously or even unconsciously—becomes the driving force behind love.
In the sense of shared values, lifestyle, and even physical appearance, the similarities in the natures of soul mates can be overwhelming. Their spiritual sense will be very much in tune, and on the lighter side, their laughter will closely resemble one another’s. All of this—appearance, laughter, similarity of spiritual understanding—is because they are originally from the same soul. The urge to love one another is the urge to literally reunite with one’s other half on physical, mental, and spiritual levels.
Once soul mates find each other, does this mean that they will stay together through eternity? The answer is that they must first be aware that they are soul mates, and that this is the most precious love—not only in this physical life, but throughout eternity. Acknowledging this, they must be willing to work together to triumph over any pressures and problems they encounter in physical life, realizing that they possess life’s most valuable gift.
If both of them do not experience this willingness, they could become so entangled in issues and stresses that they go their own way, thus losing the very essence of themselves. Some will realize the mistake that they have made and attempt to rectify it by encouraging reuniting. Others—either consciously or unconsciously—will get involved in different experiences or another relationship as an escape from the spiritual pain they feel inside.
This process of coming together, only to lose contact once again, could happen over many lifetimes, until both halves of the whole decide that they must stay together in this life and beyond, regardless of anything that may come their way!
As for finding your soul mate, meditation is the key—as it is with everything in life. By meditating daily on the Presence of God, you enter into that higher energy of Oneness and Light, which is God. As a result, you radiate Oneness. Oneness then becomes the primary vibratory energy in your thought waves on a psychic level, which attracts your soul mate to you.
In the case of soul mates, attraction is much deeper than any physical or mental attraction. It is something sensed on a spiritual level. The two people sense that they are already connected in some very deep spiritual way, for indeed they are. If indeed, the two souls are truly soul mates, it is not unusual for them to sense this, even on a first meeting.
Meditation also reveals that human beings are multi-dimensional; that is, you can simultaneously exist in several different dimensions. That means that if you have not already found your soul mate in this lifetime, there is a dimension where the two of you eternally exist. This continues when you are together on the physical plane, even if for some reason you become separated in the physical world.
If you feel you are currently separated from your soul mate, turn to God to find and retain your soul mate in this physical life and in the life hereafter. Only God, or one who is extremely aware and spiritually sensitive, can know the empty feeling of being separated from one’s true soul mate.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“How to Receive God’s Guidance”
You can receive God’s direct guidance in your life. While this thought may seem exaggerated to many, it is not. When the Psalmist said, “You are fearfully and wonderfully made,” one point being referred to was the inborn ability within the created to receive direct guidance from the Creator.
Some may question how this is possible because there are close to seven billion souls on the planet Earth, not to mention all the souls on other planets and in other dimensions in the Universe. A person may wonder how one Creator can access countless numbers of souls simultaneously. Consider this. If computer technology has advanced as far as it has in just a few short decades of human history, how much more can the creative intelligence or universal mind have progressed, having had eternity to work with?
If there are countless technological techniques in which human beings can communicate with central sources of information such as the internet, it stands to reason that an eternal creator could have long since created human and other species with which it could communicate.
At the time of this writing, it was often stated in the news that scientists were working toward the day when computer chips would be placed within the human body. If now, after a few short years, scientists are already at the point of synthesizing this computer technology with the human body, it is thus reasonable that the Creative Intelligence of the Universe, or God, would have created such an inborn communication with all souls or all of its creations.
So, when you consider your own life, never think that you are lost to God’s attention amongst the stars, galaxies, and other dimensions. Realize that you are just as in touch within yourself and in the inner reaches of your mind as anyone is or ever has been.
Through what I term divine technology, there is a built-in sending and receiving station within you and the energy frequencies of your body and mind, between yourself and your Creator, or God. Although this divine technology is quite complex, the practical usage of it is not. God created it in you and all others, and has kept it simple in how it operates, so that all people, if they open themselves to it, can receive guidance from God.
Seek to find God within yourself and be assured that God will find you. The method that brings you into direct contact with the divine technology that God placed in you is through meditation. Every time you meditate, you open yourself to receiving God’s guidance directly through an inwardly created energy frequency between yourself and the universal mind or God. In fact, every thought you think is received and recorded in the mind of God.
As an example, in recent times, it was revealed that current technology is recording everyone’s transactions on the internet. High numbers of transactions by huge numbers of people, all is being recorded. Thus, as stated earlier, if today’s technology could come such a long way in such a short time, how much more so has universal mind or God perfected a divine technology to receive, record, and in turn, give guidance to each of its creations, to you.
More than anything you can do to open yourself up to receiving God’s guidance from within is the practice of meditation. In fact, all other suggestions function to the degree that you take the time daily to meditate.
In the Bible it states, “In the beginning there was God, and God said ‘Let there be light,’ and from light all things came forth.” Light is the first begotten of creation of God or un-manifest Spirit. The light of creation lives within all created things. The human body, mind, and soul came forth from God’s light. God’s light, or the first begotten, or Christ Consciousness brings forth everything, including the divine technology inborn into the human body, mind, and soul.
The closer you feel and are in consciousness to God, the more you are able to receive God’s guidance. The deeper experiences of consciousness in meditation teach you of your inseparable oneness with God’s Spirit of universal consciousness. As you engage in your daily activities, be aware that you have a oneness with God. Be aware that the consciousness in your mind is a physical manifestation of the consciousness of Spirit, universal mind, or the mind of God. The consciousness within you is a portion of God’s mind, a connecting mind link between yourself and God through which you can receive Guidance.
God is not on a clock. God is eternity. God chooses the time that guidance is given to you. All guidance is instantaneous, and it is up to God as to when the guidance that was immediately given to you will be revealed to you at the conscious human level of your mind. What you should do, therefore, is to keep a constant mental vigil, because guidance may enter your conscious mind at any moment of any day, no matter where you are or what you may be doing.
Maintain an awareness of every thought passing through your mind at all times, as any thought could be the guidance from God that you are seeking. If it truly is guidance from God, intuitively, your mind will know it. It will be something you will recognize as originating in God.
Although meditation opens the inner doors of the mind to guidance, most guidance does not happen during meditation. The guidance is instantly given and then placed at a level of the unconscious mind where it will stay until the conscious mind is ready and prepared to at least listen to it or to receive it and act upon it. This is why you should take a few moments each day to enter into a quiet, reflective state of mind.
Such a state of mind places your personal ego aside so that God’s guidance may enter the conscious level of your mind. Don’t attempt to force anything to happen, or your personal ego will be in the way. Just be passive and allow thoughts to appear easily in your mind. Some of these thoughts can be God’s guidance.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Overcoming Negatives”
Eliminate all negatives from your mind and what do you have left? The answer is the Mind of God. God is the absolute positive thinker. There is nothing but God; therefore, God has nothing to fear or war with. God is in infinite control of what is and shall be. In God’s Allness, God is One, Whole and Complete.
As the human mind progresses through time, eventually it will reawaken to its own divine nature. The only thing blocking the mind from such inner revelation is that the mind of most people is generally overflowing with negatives. These negatives keep the ultimate nature of God Consciousness repressed or hidden under the negatives in the mind.
Rid yourself of all negatives and you will be in God Consciousness—One, Whole, Complete, and Positive. You should realize, therefore, that the elimination of negatives from your mind is far more than merely changing from a negative to a positive thinker.
If carried to its absolute, it is a spiritual transformation of changing from a negative thinker to God Consciousness, or the elimination of all negatives from your mind. Absolute positive thinking is when the God-like sense opens you to all of the divine attributes of God, such as Wisdom, Love, Creativity, Healing and all other divine virtues associated with the Mind and Spirit that is God.
It is only good sense and divine wisdom, therefore, to pursue the cleansing and clearing of your mind of all negatives. It is a way that opens your mind at its conscious level to the Universal Mind of God.
When Christ said, “The Father and I are one,” he was not only declaring his oneness with God, but also pointing out that every person has an innate oneness with God. The difference is that Christ did not repress this awareness under levels of negatives in his mind.
One of the great negatives in the mind of most people today is a lack of self-esteem. Most people do not think very highly of themselves. Others, who can be characterized as egotists, hide a lack of self-esteem behind a mask of what appears to be an overly aggressive confidence to shield the actual truth.
To be free of negatives associated with a lack of positive self-esteem, be sure that your self-esteem is founded upon permanent spiritual truth. The greatest spiritual truth on which you can found your self-esteem is that your innermost real self is eternally one with the Presence of God at the center of your mind.
Adopt a mental attitude of this great spiritual truth and live it, think it, and breathe it daily, as if it were your very life’s breath. By living in this manner on a daily basis, you will be invoking the divine positive energy of God within you to help you sublimate negative thought energies in the more surface layers of your mind—especially those associated with low self-worth or low self-esteem.
You have only one, true, lasting background: you come from God. You continue to live in God and God in you during this physical lifetime, and after this physical life. Everything else in your background in this physical life is but a temporary experience.
Whatever is temporary is not that which is lasting, and only that which is lasting is real. Your background from childhood, up to the present time, should never be a negative in your mind.
The world is full of souls who, from humble beginnings, rose to the top of their chosen career. The only thing that matters is how you perceive yourself now. Realize that you live in the Eternal Now. The Eternal Now, or God, is the only thing lasting and real, and therefore, you should identify with it rather than with anything that might be lacking in your temporary background.
Don’t entertain negative thoughts that you are a loser, whether in income, love, health, or whatever! Doing so creates a loser image. Once you have this image, you attract even more negatives in your life because you become like a telepathic sending station that is broadcasting out, “I am a loser!” This is then telepathically picked up by others who themselves are losers, and they are attracted to you to further the experience of negatives in your life.
Instead, identify yourself with God’s Presence, who successfully created and sustains life. Because of God’s success on a Universal life scale, you are immediately identified with the Mind, Wisdom and Creative power of the Universe. There is no room for a loser image in such a state of mind. Therefore, meditate daily and identify daily with the Creator of the Universe, and do away with all sense of a loser image!
Remember, too, that prayer—like meditation—reaches the personal level of the subconscious mind that is the mental storehouse of accumulated negatives throughout one’s life. Prayerfully affirming your oneness with God’s Ultimate Positive Presence also invokes the Power of God’s Light to dissolve and sublimate all negative thought energies into that Light. Take a few moments daily to affirm your oneness with God’s Presence within you to overcome negatives in your life.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Karma”
Karma has been linked in people’s minds to a common explanation for the good or the bad experienced in human life. The word karma itself simply means action. That action can be positive or negative. The acts of today create the fortune or misfortune of the future. The Bible’s words, “As you sow, so shall you reap,” could be the Biblical equivalent of karma.
It has been commonplace in society to say that if a person’s life is going well, it is because of good karma, and if their life is going badly, that person has bad karma. In understanding karma, you should be aware that you are the one who is in charge of creating either good or bad karma in your life. The exception to this is when you align yourself with God, in which case God will begin to remove or neutralize some of the bad karma you are carrying with you, as well as strengthen and/or give more power to the positive karma you have accumulated.
Karma can also be thought of as the law of cause and effect set into motion. The action you take on anything today will set into motion a series of events as a cause, which will bear good or bad tidings as the effect in the future.
The key is to get together with God in your own mind and consciousness to establish positive causes that will produce positive effects or good karma in your future life experience.
Karma is not limited to physical action. Karma may be the act of thought or an act of feeling. Christ once implied that a person does not have to perform a physical act, but the very thought of it is as good as having done the act. Thus, karma can often be created by thought and feeling actions, which, while not physical in and of themselves, can produce such psychic energy as to stimulate and produce physical effects. Never think that anyone can avoid the effects of their karma.
Sometimes in life, you may see a person who seems to be getting away with something. This was once pointed out to Christ, and he answered, “I say unto you that they already have their reward.” In other words, they have not escaped ill if they have been acting badly, for in the mind of God, they are already being placed in a position where at some time in the future, they will experience the consequences of their actions.
Often karma does not have to be experienced at some distant time in the future, but could even be on the same day. Most karma, for that matter, whether good or bad, is experienced in this present lifetime you are leading, rather than having you come back in another lifetime to experience either rewards or consequences.
Generally, the higher the soul, the more quickly the karmic effect is experienced, as higher souls have a greater inner sensitivity, which means they can register the effect of karmic action far more quickly than less evolved souls. Also, because there is more creative energy active in higher souls, the effect tends to be more quickly created and experienced.
The very best way to create good karma for yourself is to be as close to God as possible—to meditatively and prayerfully tune into God’s Presence. Tuning into God’s Presence causes you to experience the energies of higher consciousness within you that are part of the manifestation of God’s Goodness, Truth, and Rightness.
Having good karma diminishes the number of times you have to physically reincarnate. Eventually what is called the wheel of birth and rebirth is broken, where you have no physically binding karma to the physical plane that causes you to have to incarnate. Incarnation among karma-free souls is a matter of choice and is generally motivated by the desire to be of service to humanity.
It should be noted here that even if a soul is a higher soul and karma-free, the decision to incarnate—even by choice—could make them subject to karmic action once again. The most widely known case of this was Jesus’ incarnation by choice. Even though pure of karma, once he incarnated, as a result of this action, he had to endure the sufferings that he did. He freed himself of karma, when on the cross he said, “Forgive them Father; they know not what they do.”
As you conduct your daily activities, maintain an awareness of trying to think, feel, and act in a positive manner. Be aware that you are constantly creating the causes for good or bad karmic effects. Be aware that the good or bad karmic effects may be almost immediate, or may be years from now, or even in another lifetime. Remind yourself that what is going on within you, and what you are doing outwardly, are creating immediate or future karma. Whenever you feel tempted to do something wrong, call upon the Presence of God to strengthen you so that you will do what is right.
And remember, too, that a daily practice of meditation invokes the healing energies of God to neutralize, sublimate, and heal negative karmic energies within you, freeing you and your life from such karmic influence.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“God as Your Guru”
There is an expression out of India that goes, “When the chela, or student, is ready, the Guru, or teacher, shall appear.” Most people take this to mean that when a physical student has reached a point in their consciousness where they are open to receiving teachings of higher spiritual truth, or God-Realization, the spiritual teacher of higher truth, or enlightenment, will appear as a physical teacher in their life.
While there may indeed be times in your life when a spiritual teacher of truth may cross your path, the ultimate Guru, or teacher, is within you—within your own mind as the Presence of God at the center or nucleus of your mind.
A physical teacher who is real and sincere will instruct you that the only true Guru is God’s presence within you, which seeks to intuitively instruct you as to the living of your life and reaching enlightenment, or more specifically, reaching mystical union with God within yourself.
This is primarily accomplished by practicing meditation. A daily practice of meditation opens your conscious mind to the instructing higher-mind consciousness of God within you. Each day, meditate upon finding God’s consciousness within your own mind. This daily practice keeps increasing what I term a conscious pipeline between the God part of your mind and the surface, human level.
Day after day, sometimes gradually over a period of time, sometimes immediately, your conscious-mind level begins to assimilate a greater amount of intuitive guidance from the God center of consciousness within you. You realize that God is indeed your Guru as you think, sense, and feel the intuitive instruction that God is providing you. You realize that while physical Gurus can be helpful, you should have the innate presence of God within you to be your own Guru.
Most people’s identities are no more than the sum total of their outer physical world experiences and education. Since people are born into a neurotic and unaware society, their own identity becomes a composite of neurosis and lack of awareness. This consciousness is at the more surface levels of the human mind, repressing the divine mind, nature’s intelligence, or the mind of God, from flowing forth into the conscious level.
The divine mind, or God, wishes to teach the individual mind within all human beings how much love God has for you, by teaching and instructing you in the mysteries of life and the ways of the Spirit. As a person grows spiritually, they eventually come to the point where they recognize that the only True Guru, the lasting one, is God’s Presence within them.
There are very few exceptions, and it would be hard to find them unless you were tuned into the real Guru, or God within you. In that case, one would probably not need their guidance, as you would already be receiving guidance from God. If you can resist the temptation to seek answers about your life from such outside sources, your inside source will see this and begin to be your real Guru.
Christ advised, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and Heaven, and all things would be added to you.” This includes wisdom and knowledge of life’s mysteries, and how they directly relate to you regarding your life’s purpose, and your soul’s life purpose and mission.
The real Guru, or God, is the only presence that can instruct you in your quest for spiritual self-understanding and enlightenment. Each soul and mind is different in its needs according to where it stands on the spiritual ladder of life.
If God is your real Guru, and you turn to God continually, day in and day out, you will be guided and instructed in ways that are specifically in the best interests of you and your soul.
Deeper Eastern or mystical practices of meditation establish a contact between the personal level of your mind and the God level, or innermost center. With such contact, there is no reason to seek outside Gurus. The real Guru, or God within you, may intuitively direct you to outside sources, but typically throughout your life, this will happen infrequently.
Hunches, feelings, spontaneous and creative thoughts should be acted upon, once you have established God as your real Guru through meditation, prayer and other spiritual means. Wherever you are, whatever you may be doing, whomever you may be with, the God level of your mind is guiding and instructing the personal level of your mind in exactly what to do.
God is the creative force and consciousness of the Universe. The All that Is began as an idea in the mind of God, including planets, suns, galaxies, life forms. A portion of God’s mind, at the center of consciousness within you, is filled with creative ideas. Many of those creative ideas can be placed into your mind to prosper and heal you.
When you choose God as your real Guru, the personal level of your mind gains access to the vast storehouse of divine creative intelligence.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Living Life from Within”
When life is lived from within, there is so much more to see and be aware of in the world that physically surrounds you. Most people, however, live life from without. That is, they live life based only on input from their outer five senses.
Throughout the ages, individuals possessing inner wisdom discovered the betterment of living life from within themselves. Living life from within yourself means turning inward to an innate inner—or higher—consciousness. Christ referred to this higher consciousness as “The Kingdom of Heaven within.” He admonished people to “Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, and all things will be added unto you.”
What Christ was attempting to do was to enlighten people about their own inborn divinity. Once a relationship to one’s own divinity is established, an individual may then access the higher consciousness within. Accessing your own inner, higher, spiritual consciousness opens your conscious mind to greater awareness, intuitive spiritual guidance, creativity, and wisdom.
Over time, it becomes very apparent how valuable it is to live life from within, under the influence of a consciousness containing far more wisdom and awareness than your intellect, logic, or reasoning process.
Meditation literally opens the mental doorway of the mind to an infinite variety of higher consciousness experiences and energies. When you meditate, you go within and contact what is within you. These experiences and the energies associated with them can have a profound effect on the conscious physical life of an individual.
In reality, you are contacting the greater part of yourself—a reality that contains an enormous consciousness that is at your disposal, or, more aptly, you are at its disposal! The Biblical words, “Not my will, but Yours be done,” come to mind, for you are turning away from the personal ego-centered consciousness at the surface level of your mind, and letting your outer mind be under the direct influence of the higher consciousness within you. And what is that higher consciousness? It is varying manifestations of Universal Mind or God. Thus, it can be stated that living life from within is opening to and allowing Universal Mind or God to direct your life from within.
Meditation opens your inner senses to receive and be aware of inner sense impressions coming from Universal Mind or God. Through the practice of meditation, you become acutely attuned and sensitive to inner sense impressions influencing your outer human thought process. You definitely sense that you are under the influence of a higher consciousness from within yourself.
Through higher consciousness, the surface level of your mind is constantly open to receiving intuitive thought direction and success-producing creative ideas from God within yourself. When you are constantly receiving intuitive thought direction, you are indeed living from within.
You should try to self-program your mind to be constantly open to intuitive thought direction from within. How much more confident and positive people can be once they have correctly and unequivocally determined that they are indeed being divinely directed in life by the Presence of God within themselves.
Thoughts suddenly come into your mind without a logical buildup. Many of these thoughts will seem like inspirations—which they are. Living from within is acting upon those inspirations, knowing that they are inspired by God.
Along with responding to thoughts emerging from within yourself, you should also be sensitive to feelings arising from within. The feelings referred to here are not emotional feelings. Rather, they are feelings that seem to arise from deeper within yourself, as if coming from your very soul. They are subtle and tend to be directive. And—as with intuitive thought—directive feelings should be acted upon, as it is God that is trying to communicate with you from within yourself.
Living life from within gives you an intuitive, spiritual, sixth sense to be able to see through the veneer that veils the truth. It lets you see both the short-term and long-range effect of what is occurring in your life. And it provides you with a better perspective as to what decisions you should be making.
If you wish to live life as positively as possible, live it from within!
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Letting God Direct You”
Without a doubt, the greatest possible human experience is having direct mystical experience of God—to know that God does, indeed, exist, that God’s Presence is a reality, and contact with that reality is within you at the center of your mind.
Second only to this experience is the knowingness of having the daily companionship of God, in the form of God directing you as you engage in your daily activities. What greater advisor or counselor could you have than the Universal Mind of God directing you?
Throughout recorded history, wise men, sages, seers, saints, and mystics have benefited from receiving direct guidance from God. The wonderful reality is that you can be anyone, and receive the wisdom of the ages—past, present, and future—if you will but open yourself to God’s Inner Presence.
Most people do not open themselves to God because, unfortunately, the vast majority of them have not discovered the secret of God’s Presence. Once, however, a person gains knowledge that the Presence is within them, they should do everything possible to open their conscious mind to God’s All-knowing wisdom and direction.
Experiencing God directing you every day is magical. You can feel and often think the direction as it is given to you. Over a period of time, you realize how accurate and beneficial the direction is that you are receiving. You realize God’s love for you as God has graced you with direction in life.
You learn to pay close attention, and to heed your feelings, thoughts, hunches, and premonitions about people and conditions in your life. You also learn that when you ignore God’s intuitive direction, things do not go well for you, or don’t turn out as you had desired. Even from those experiences, however, you learn how very valuable God’s intuitive direction is to you and your life.
The process of letting God direct you begins most effectively in your daily practice of meditation. Every time you meditate, an inner pipeline of consciousness is opened wider. That pipeline connects the surface part of your mind’s mortal awareness with the awareness contained in Universal Mind or God. Day by day and year by year, this flow becomes larger and larger in a person’s life. As it grows, so, too, does the intuitive direction in life.
Nonetheless, there are some periods when intuitive direction is not as high. There may be times when, at least consciously, it does not seem to be functioning at all. This is what may be described as the “dark night of the soul.” These are generally periods of assimilation of previous phases of direction. It may also be that current outer life conditions have not reached a point where direction would make sense or be applicable.
When you meditate, you are letting God direct you. The very act of meditating automatically opens your conscious level of mind to God’s Mind. You don’t have to pray for direction, as your daily meditation places your mind in a mental position or atmosphere conducive to receiving direction.
Every time you are about to meditate, take a moment to think to yourself that as you meditate, you are opening your conscious mind wider and wider to God’s intuitive direction. As you receive intuitive direction during your daily activities, realize that the direction you are receiving is a direct result of the meditation you have been doing. Realize that God wants to guide you, and that you are letting God direct you by letting God into your conscious mind and feelings through meditation.
In today’s busy world, it is easy for a person’s mind to be filled with a wide assortment of thoughts passing through it. Affirming that your mind is open at all times to receive direction from the God Consciousness within you keeps you aware, and motivates you to closely monitor your thoughts and feelings.
The direction given to you—of even one thought—could change your entire life! As you engage in your daily activities, think of yourself as being totally open at the conscious level of your mind to receive divine direction. In addition, have an attitude that you are relying more on intuitive direction from God than on any other source, in regard to what you should be doing in your life. In this manner, you give importance to maintaining an openness of mind, because you are so dependent upon it, placing it as your primary source for decision-making in your life.
If you could empty your mind of all personal ego consciousness, you would still have consciousness. What would be left would be Universal Consciousness or the Mind of God operating totally through the surface or conscious level of your mind. Every thought would be a divine thought, for every thought would be God’s.
Affirming that you are constantly emptying yourself of your personal ego helps to rid yourself of personal ego material that is repressing your divine nature and its direction. Every moment you spend affirming the emptying yourself of personal ego also helps to clean out your mind, so that the practice of meditation also improves. And, as the practice of meditation improves, so, too, do you receive more divine direction.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Life’s Lessons”
As you go through life, stop periodically and ask yourself, “Am I learning life’s lessons?” For most people, life is like a physical cosmic plane workshop, ranging in human experience from great highs to great lows. What you learn or don’t learn from life’s experiences becomes the measure of your life. All experiences are part of a learning process, which translates itself spiritually into bringing forth the perfection of God into human form.
When the concept of reincarnation arises, you must ask what its purpose is. The answer given by most experts is that a soul keeps reincarnating until it gets it right. This means reincarnating until a soul has learned the lessons of human life sufficiently to have gained mastery over the human mind and soul, with such mastery manifesting as a Christ-like consciousness. As you learn through life’s experiences, you should arrive at a sense and understanding of life’s true concerns—a knowing of the real, main priorities in life.
Most people who have truly achieved spiritual self-mastery will say that their relationship to God is the foremost priority in life, with love a close second, and all else falling some distance behind. In the learning process, we gain understanding from the good and the bad. And sometimes that which poses as either “good” or “bad” in the immediate moment actually turns out, over a period of time, to be the opposite.
We learn over time that even in many of the most difficult experiences, there ends up being a silver lining or a spiritually positive reason that will help us with our learning process. We realize that there are two sides to everything as we attempt to discern the significance or meaning of what is happening to us in our lives.
Through all that most of us must go through in this learning, refining, and awakening process, if the lessons of life are truly being learned, we will maintain positivity and optimism, regardless of what is occurring. Each day, as you live your life, remind yourself to achieve and maintain balance. Most importantly, this is a balance between your inner spiritual life and your outward worldly life.
It means taking the time to meditate daily, regardless of how full your worldly schedule may be. It is realizing that you must have a balance of the inner and outer you. This balance is important because it first gives you the intuitive divine guidance necessary to improve your outer life.
At the same time, keeping a balance maintains and strengthens both your mental and spiritual health. Having a total balance includes taking the time for rest, recreation, and proper nutrition, which, if you’ve learned from life’s lessons, is necessary for your overall good health.
As you learn life’s lessons, you understand that your life can be far more satisfying if you learn to keep yourself spiritually centered as you engage in your daily activities. To help remain spiritually centered, take time to meditate on God’s Presence and the contacting of God’s Presence within you. This will train the outer layers or levels of your mind to live your life in constant remembrance that you are ultimately a spiritual being whose soul is eternally one with God’s Universal Mind and Spirit.
By being spiritually centered, you are more likely to be successful in your outer physical life, through having a mind that is trained to keep its mental focus. Remaining spiritually centered also helps in keeping your intuitive faculties open to the flow of consciousness between the innermost God level of your mind and the conscious human level. Keeping spiritually centered also stops you from allowing your attention to be diverted from productive to unproductive activities.
The very wise person learns that it is by the Grace of God that whatever is right in their life is so as a result of the Divine, rather than through their own man-made efforts. As Jesus once said, “It is not I but the Father in me who doeth the works.” And, of course, Jesus continually turned over his personal will to God’s Will, saying, “Not my will, but thy will be done.”
Life continually teaches the most hardened egoist that no matter how much personal will they exert in their life, that good is either achieved or maintained by Grace. To have learned life’s lessons, therefore, is to have learned that the good you experience in life, whether in love, income, good health, or creativity, is all by the Divine Grace of God.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Is It Love or Fantasy?”
St. Paul once commented that the greatest thing is love. He was expressing life’s greatest truism, for love is the most wonderful of all of life’s experiences. Indeed, even if a person had total wisdom, the conclusion derived from all that knowledge would be that of all things in life, love is the most important.
This is so, for in love we find the foremost of all Universal Truths—that there is but One Life in this Universe, and all manifestations are bonded or in union with the One Life that is God. Love is the experience of unity, and therefore, Universal Unity is Universal Love. This is why we can draw the conclusion, quite comfortably, that God is Love.
This also tells us why there is such a need to experience love in human beings. It is because love ultimately is a manifestation of the Greatest Truth and Presence in the Universe. With such a natural, innate compulsion to experience love in one’s life, it is no wonder that in man and woman’s often frantic search to find love, errors in judgment are made.
Like the proverbial moth drawn to a flame, men and women—driven for the need to have love in their lives—often make the wrong choices, whether in marriage or in a significant other. Enormous numbers of broken hearts and broken marriages attest to this fact. For this reason, it is critical to know and be able to discern whether a current relationship or a prospective one is love or fantasy.
If one considers the number or percentage of failed relationships and marriages, it can be concluded that the majority of relationships or marriages are not based on love, but rather, on fantasy. Anything that is real is lasting. Anything that is not real cannot stand the test of time and will come to an end. If all of this is true—and of course it is—then whether in a relationship or contemplating one, every human being must honestly answer this question to themselves: “Is it love or is it fantasy?”
The correct answer to this question will allow a person to make the necessary judgments and decisions as to how to respond in a current or prospective relationship, particularly if they are intuitively open to God’s inner guidance.
If you are meditating daily and have truly turned your life over to God, then the correct realization of whether it is love or fantasy will come into your awareness. Remember that real love begins on a spiritual level. God knows which soul is right to join with yours. If it is real love, then it is God that has brought your soul and that of another together.
This may be the first time, but the likelihood is that your soul’s relationship with another soul has existed many times—perhaps throughout eternity. If this is truly the case, you and the other person will sense it; it is positive, universal, soulmate karma at work between the two of you. This does not mean there will never be problems between the two of you, for problems are challenges that are meant to stimulate further spiritual growth and the love you have for each other.
To correctly discern whether you are experiencing real love, as opposed to fantasy, consider this: Fantasy is based on need. Real love is not.
The needs of fantasy include, but are not limited to, sexual desire, financial security, emotional security, acceptance, position in life, power, or fame. In other words, fantasy is based on what you can get from the other person.
Real love, on the other hand, is based on what you can give the other person, because you love them so deeply you feel it in the very depths of your soul. Fantasy is based on fleeting superficialities, while real love is founded by God on lasting reality.
The more you meditate, and the more you turn your life over to God, the more sensitive and aware you will be spiritually. The more spiritually sensitive and aware you are, the more you can sense what is in another person’s soul.
If you find beauty and light there instead of darkness, and have an appreciation for what you have found, then the chances that you have found real love are enormously improved. If you are in love with the inner beauty you have found in the other person, and they are in love with the inner beauty they have found in you, the likelihood is that it is real love and not fantasy. If this is a shared beauty, this is the basis for a lasting love—a love that will last beyond physical life and through all eternity.
Of course, the most wonderful sharing you can have with another person is the sharing of God. As described earlier, God is the very essence of Love. Real love is being able to share that Divine Love by first opening your heart to God, and then opening it to another person’s heart, which is occupied by God.
Finally, to even more clearly define whether it is love or fantasy in your mind, ask yourself this: “Who is my best friend?” If you can unequivocally answer that the other person is your best friend—and the best friend you’ve ever had—the chances are very favorable that you are experiencing real love rather than fantasy.
Being best friends means you are on the same mental and spiritual wavelength, where you are so in tune with each other you can almost finish each other’s sentences or thoughts. With your best friend there is a trusting freedom to think and be yourself. And things you would say to no one else, you would say to them.
That kind of trust is a spiritual trust. It is a sacred trust between two hearts, both containing God’s Presence. And that kind of trust is a true sign of real love.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“The Power of Commitment to God”
Your life can be better if you have a commitment to God. Those who have truly worked their way up to a more fulfilling and satisfactory life have had a commitment of some sort, whether to oneself or to another. Commitment helps to keep one focused until one has achieved the desired goal.
When people are committed to something, they maximize their effort of time and energy. Maximizing one’s effort increases the likelihood that results will be achieved. Many individuals who have been committed to achieving goals have done so without a conscious thought about God. Yet, unconsciously, through commitment, they have drawn upon God’s Presence and Resources to achieve what they have desired.
One might question, then, why one should even bother to consciously bring God into the premise of the power of commitment. The reasons are many. The primary factor is that what a person may be committed to may not be what is in their best interest, although it may appear to be on the surface.
Ultimately, at the center of the life of the body, mind, and soul of every individual, God’s Presence exists as our Real Life. God created us and lives within us to provide us with physical life and consciousness. Our soul is on an eternal path or voyage.
Every life has its purpose for being—a reason for each individual to live it. The life you are living right now is a gift from God. The outer you (ego) had absolutely nothing to do with your being here. It is the Innermost You or God’s Presence that has given you this life to live. God is the Ultimate, Real Life of your body, mind, and soul. God has a plan—a Divine Plan—for you in this lifetime. Grow close to God within you and you grow closer to the Plan.
If you make a commitment to God, then you bring forth more of God’s Divine Attributes of Wisdom, Creativity, Love, Healing, and Will to give you greater power to achieve your goals. Best of all, the goals that you will be achieving are God’s goals for your life, which means that real progress is being made by your soul.
Real progress is the fulfilling of your soul, where your soul feels and is in a state of fulfillment. Only when this is present is there any real happiness. For this reason, many people who were committed to achieving goals discovered that, upon fruition of those goals, there was no lasting happiness.
This is why there are so many outwardly successful individuals who, in spite of their external triumphs, turn to drugs, alcohol, and other escapisms. They try to mask or cover the emptiness that they still feel, even with their outer accomplishments.
It might be said, therefore, that without God, all victories in life are shallow achievements, greatly dulled by the heartache that the soul feels for its lack of fulfillment. For this reason, commitment should first be made to God in your life. There are appropriate words from the Bible that illustrate the above: “For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
Being committed to God is ultimately being committed to the Real Life of your body, mind, and soul, with which, in Reality, you are always One. You find that you lose illusions and gain perspective. You are fortified and nourished by God’s Spirit and Mind within you.
Your body is a vehicle through which your mind and soul seek to fulfill themselves. Your body could be thought of as a Divinely Ordained instrument through which God’s Will for your soul can be accomplished on this physical plane of existence.
Therefore, the body can be considered a physical manifestation of Spirit. The Bible affirms this in the words, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of the living God?” The body houses the Spirit, and if the mind and soul are committed to the Spirit, the body seeks to do the Will of the Spirit in this lifetime. Committing your body to God is committing your body to be used in the service of God for the Will of God.
This does not mean that you have to enter a monastery. The body can still express in earthly ways, such as in sports, lovemaking, and the like. It is simply that the ultimate use of the body and its energy is to be used to fulfill God’s Will for your life in terms of accomplishment—whether in commerce, the creative arts, sports, entertainment, healing, manual labor, or spirituality.
Everybody is given a certain allocation of energy at birth. How this allocation of energy is spent during one’s lifetime is what is important. If it is spent in commitment to God, the body’s energy will be well spent, for it will have fed one’s soul.
Committing the energy of your body to the Will of God harnesses the Power of God to maintain, restore, and regenerate your body throughout your life.
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“Keys to Immediate Happiness”
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everyone could have immediate happiness? Wouldn’t it be even more wonderful if that happiness would remain? The truth is that you—or anyone—can have immediate happiness that can be lasting, for it is a matter of consciousness.
Whoever first said that happiness is a state of mind was correct! If you are unhappy about yourself, your life, or anything for that matter, it is a change of consciousness that can turn despair and depression into happiness. You have the innate capacity to have a transforming consciousness—God—take over your mind, and immediately sublimate negative thought energy into positive, happy thought energy or consciousness.
Many psychologists estimate that at least 90% of your conscious thinking is being influenced more by what you have experienced in the past than what you are experiencing in the present moment. To be immediately happy, therefore, requires the release of all negativity from the memory levels of your mind.
To have immediate happiness, you must have an internal cleansing or psychic purification of all levels of your mind. This is accomplished by the natural healing intelligence, which is the Presence of God in your body, mind, and soul. Think about this for a moment: If you could make all the negativity or cause of unhappiness vanish from your mind, you would be left with only the positive energy of God’s Presence, or happiness energy.
Cleansing your mind by releasing all past negative thought energy is, therefore, essential in obtaining a state of consciousness that is God-filled, and thus, happiness-filled. In fact, begin to think that God is happiness! Every time you think about God, you think about happiness, consciously or unconsciously. Even if it is unconsciously, the outer effect on your mind is that of happiness, for you are contacting the ultimate source of happiness—God.
The past was but a second ago. So many people are psychically stuck in the past in their own minds, brooding about the past, as to what was, or what could have been if things had just worked out differently. The truth is that things did not turn out differently.
To continue to wallow in the past is a mental preoccupation that causes frustration and despair. To keep reliving what you consider past negativity is blocking your mind from feeling and experiencing your own innate God nature of happiness.
Each time you find yourself starting to wallow in the past, refuse to continue. Say to yourself, “I am open to immediate positive energy in the present, made possible through living in a state of higher God-self consciousness.”
Refuse is a very powerful word. Use it powerfully to deal with ridding yourself of negatives from the past. This leaves your mind open to experience immediate happiness from the Presence of God’s Consciousness within you.
When a person is experiencing the pressures of modern life, it is very difficult to feel happiness simultaneously with the stress. Pressure can be removed through peace. And there is no greater peace than—as the Bible states—“The peace that passeth all understanding.” That inner peace is God’s Presence within you. It can, therefore, be understood that God’s Presence is both peace and happiness. Thus, to the degree that you are experiencing God’s peace, you are similarly experiencing God’s happiness.
Another way to experience immediate or present happiness is by living a future happiness in your mind. By visualizing yourself in the future, experiencing the fulfillment of goals, you can mentally and emotionally—and sometimes even spiritually—experience future happiness immediately in the present moment of now.
Visualize—imagine in picture form—yourself actually experiencing what brings great happiness, deep down at the very core of your being. Consciously be aware of the immediate happiness you feel as you think and feel your experience.
Keeping focused on goals can also produce immediate happiness. The reason for this is that the achievement of your goals symbolizes fulfillment, and fulfillment symbolizes happiness in your mind. Whenever you are in need of happiness, concentrate and focus on your goals in life. Constantly turn over your personal will to the Will of God, so that God, and not your personal ego mind, is establishing which goals are right for you.
If God is establishing your goals through divine intuition, then the achievement of each goal will bring happiness to your very soul, and through your soul, to your mind and body as well. To free yourself to pursue your happiness-producing goals without restraint, turn over any adverse circumstances and conditions to God’s Inner Presence to deal with.
Finally, remember that meditation is the inner mental doorway that opens to God. The experience of God has been described by many as Absolute Bliss and Joy. When you take the time to meditate daily, you position yourself to receive God’s Presence, which is Absolute Happiness. For in experiencing God’s Presence, there is a state of Oneness with all of life. This state of Oneness, or Allness, is the Absolute feeling of Love. And there can be no greater happiness than Oneness with Absolute Love.
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“Spiritual Bonding with Another”
The deepest of all relationships that one can have with another person is spiritual. The coming together and bonding of two souls far exceeds the merger of minds and bodies. What is exchanged on a spiritual level can form a bond that can be eternal.
In fact, it may be that some people you have met in this lifetime, with whom you have felt a deep spiritual rapport, are souls with whom you spiritually bonded in previous lives. If such bonding can exist from one lifetime to another, it certainly underscores how very powerful a spiritual bond can be. Such spiritual bonds can be experienced between immediate family members, close friends, a spiritual student and teacher, and, most decisively, between a man and woman as lovers or spouses.
If you can form a spiritual bond between your soul and the soul of another, you greatly increase the chance that a personal relationship will last. That does not mean that forming a spiritual bond is an absolute guarantee that two people will live happily ever after. That is also a matter of how thoroughly each soul commits to the relationship, motivated by the love of one person’s soul for the soul of another.
True spiritual bonding with a commitment to the relationship will generally override the problems—both minor and major—that confront couples over time in their relationship. For anyone who is aware of how important spiritual bonding is to a relationship, it becomes a spiritual responsibility to discuss the idea and concept of spiritual bonding with their lover or spouse.
Of course, to be effective, such bonding must be agreed to and participated in by both parties. When real spiritual bonding has taken place between two people, it is as if the Universe or God is blessing the relationship. It is as though the God Presence within each person has become apparent to each individual as One Presence.
In actuality, by meditating daily on God’s Presence, you automatically form some degree of a spiritual bond with another. This is because the more you enter into the Presence of God within yourself—your True Life-Presence—the more you are entering into that very same True Life-Presence in a person with whom you share loving feelings. The God Presence in you both joins your souls together, creating a spiritual bond that is lasting.
There should be extensive communication about meditation, its practice, and the effect that daily meditation can have on increasing the spiritual bond between you and the person you love. The closer each of you comes to God’s Presence within, the closer your souls are—one to another.
Meditating in close physical proximity to each other can also further the bonding between the two of you. This is because there are unseen energy factors of thoughts, feelings and emotions that permeate the space between you. When you meditate in close physical proximity, your auric fields commingle, exchanging vital energies.
One of the most effective ways for couples to meditate together is to meditate back-to-back. Each one is leaning on or in touch with the other’s back, particularly along the spinal column, where key energies—both masculine and feminine—flow. This tends to cause a balancing of energies over a period of time, which could result in further spiritual bonding between the two souls.
Another method is to sit across a small table together, holding hands. Energies are engaged through the left hand holding the other’s right hand, and vice versa. In this way, there is a balancing of male and female energies between the two people, which promotes further spiritual bonding.
As the eyes are the windows of the soul, staring into each other’s eyes and attempting to see the soul energy in the other’s eyes—while holding hands—can further create a spiritual bond. At first, when doing this, either or both parties may begin to laugh as a result of being self-conscious. But, after a short time of doing this practice, each person should feel comfortable enough to truly search out and find the soul’s energies in one another’s eyes.
Above all the things you can give to another is the gift of your real spiritual nature. You give the sensitivity you feel spiritually about life, yourself, and the person you love. Opening your soul to another about what you really think and truly feel can magnify the spiritual bond between you.
Even in the realm of material gifts, try to select gifts that have some spiritual significance or symbolism you both understand and appreciate. Give of your time—especially quality time—when there are only the two of you, without the distractions of children, family, friends, coworkers, and the like. Find time for just the two of you, where you are able to reflect on life and one another.
Every day, in some way, something should be said or implied that conveys an appreciation of the other person. This can be a compliment on anything they have said, done, or, for even more bonding, on who and what they are. Above all, statements should be made as to how much the other person means to you. It doesn’t matter how many times you express your appreciation, even about the same thing. People love to hear loving words—often! Let that person in your life know how much your very soul appreciates them. Above all, let the other person know you appreciate them for what they really are, deep down within.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Transforming from Personal to Universal Identity”
In recent years, the world has advanced enormously in technology—like the proverbial snowball rolling downhill, building momentum as it goes. Outwardly, society is being transformed from what it once was to the extreme, fast pace of today. However, while the physical sciences are accelerating, human beings and their consciousness remain basically the same. This brings about the dilemma of greater technological power in the hands of unaware souls with frailty and the propensity for violence and inhumane acts.
The need for human transformation from base to higher consciousness has existed throughout the ages. However, at no time in human history has so much technology been available with the ability to destroy all of humanity in a matter of minutes. A few miscalculations on the part of the consciousness of a small number of people—or even one—could result in the annihilation of the entire human race.
As the human species, we can no longer simply sit back and consider the pursuit of transforming from personal consciousness to Universal Consciousness as merely the esoteric pursuit of a few. Not only does society need to collectively pursue this transformation of consciousness for survival, so too, does every individual require this conversion to survive the pressures of living in such a technologically advanced environment.
Both symbolically and literally, with every stride of technology there is a new energy in the air. Such energy currents—both in the physical and the psychic atmospheres—affect the physical, emotional, and mental energies of human beings.
The body and mind are energy fields that are subject to environmental energies. Such energies can cause a disturbance in the way that God and nature intended the body and mind to function for good physical and mental health. Only through a transformation from personal identity to Universal Identity can negative environmental energies be offset to leave a person with the energy freedom to continue to awaken and grow.
Identity and consciousness may be viewed here as one. Your sense of identity affects your consciousness and, in turn, consciousness affects your sense of identity. Consciousness is energy. Higher consciousness is higher energy. Higher energy has power over lower consciousness energy that comes about as a result of lower environmental consciousness.
In the history of every soul, from lifetime to lifetime, there must come a time when that soul will be ready to be transformed in consciousness from personal identity and conscious acts to Universal Identity and Consciousness. After all, this is why souls continue to reincarnate—to finally achieve Universal Identity and Consciousness.
Universal Identity can be defined as a state of mind in which your identity is considered or known to be one with Universal Mind, Universal Intelligence, or God. This does not mean that you are God in a human sense. It simply means that there is a part of your human mind that is one with Universal Mind. It also means that you base your sense of identity on this state of oneness and live and act accordingly.
A person who has truly experienced this transformation of identity lives and acts out their life with a good measure of divine manifestations of peace, love, and wisdom. Identity with the Universe is the lasting source of happiness and fulfillment for such souls on the earthly plane and beyond. It is that state of beingness necessary for the human psyche to remain healthy in the midst of rapidly advancing technology. The key to the transformation of identity is the inner exposure of the conscious mind to the higher or Divine Consciousness at the innermost center of the unconscious mind. In truth, your survival and the survival of the human race is in direct proportion to whether this transformation can take place soon enough.
The inner exposure to higher consciousness must become the number one priority of society. Yet, sadly, at the time of this writing, it is the last. What is perhaps needed is a repackaging, or a new mass motivation, to get people to realize that survival—both individually and collectively—is dependent upon the transformation from personal to Universal Identity and Consciousness.
Of all the things a person can do to transform their identity and consciousness from personal to Universal, the practice of meditation is the most important. In fact, meditation should be considered the most important activity of the day—day in and day out. Meditation keeps you in touch with the higher consciousness that is emanating from the innermost God level of your mind. Such higher consciousness contains energies of healing, love, creativity, and wisdom—all that you need to be a total, whole, and complete person, and live a fulfilling and meaningful life.
Think that higher consciousness exists within you, for it does. Think that your inner light gives you a heightened sense of awareness of people, places, and conditions all around you, for it does. Visualize yourself engaging in your daily activities filled with God’s Universal Light Presence. Visualize yourself talking and interacting with others with your body filled with light. Such visualizations will have both an immediate and long-term effect. The long-term effect will be a transforming of your identity and consciousness.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Release a Negative Past and Open to a Positive Present and Future”
Two thousand years ago, Jesus said, “The Kingdom of Heaven is here and now.” He did not say that this best of all worlds would arrive the next day, month, year, decade, century or eon of time into the future. He proclaimed that the promise of the best of life and living was right there and then; right now.
Two thousand years later, in the hustle and bustle of modern, contemporary cities and lifestyles, people hurry about daily, as if engaged in a race in which the winners take the grand prize. The rush is toward what can be, rather than what already is, which seems to lack an element that kindles the fires of a person’s soul.
Because of this, countless individuals in today’s world are merely going through the motions of living out their lives rather than actually living. What could have been appears to be merely a vague image in the wind, filled with the darkness of despair. For some people, it seems that the mental flickerings of what were a few bright moments in their past are all that remain. Even these, for the most part, left them with unconvincing vibrations. Their physical bodies may be present, but their minds linger in the past of “bygone days.” What is and can be are colored gray by their minds yielding their priorities to what has been.
Even individuals whose pressures in life demand immediate attention seem frozen as if caught in a weird time void. Although they have an idea of things that could be done to improve their lives, there is no enthusiasm to move ahead. It is almost as if the ideas, possibilities and concepts are there, but the enthusiasm and inspiration seem nowhere to be found.
The cause is the past; the effect is that the present and future cannot find a place to reside, take hold and grow into promise or the reality of anything better because the past dominates the corridors of a person’s mind. What could be a fertile imagination for the birth of wonderful new ideas that could inspire a person’s present and future may, instead, become a desolate wasteland when imagination is dulled into the belief that life’s past mistakes, errors or failures are the final reality.
The mind finds itself playing a morbid game with itself where failure, and all that it would, at least on the surface, seem to imply, rules over whatever aspirations to which the mind is inclined. The feelings, frustrations, letdowns, and hurts already known and experienced live on as today’s reality. They are of the past yet they continue in people’s todays and tomorrows.
Jesus’ words, “Know the truth and the truth shall set you free,” when related to one’s past, point to the truth that the understanding of certain principles can bring release. We must realize that clinging to past defense mechanisms, in an effort to guard against the present and future, have been and are part of temporary illusions that life has staged for us, from which to grow. The only thing that is real is the eternal, for it is not subject to change; it is and will always be.
To cling to the past, defending against the present and future, is a temporary state of mind, and therefore has no reality. The only thing that can be truly considered real is the unchanging eternal. The false or the lack of spiritual reality and truth about oneself keeps one bound to feeling the so-called mistakes or failures of the past, which were, however, actually stepping stones to learning and knowing greater truth, reality, beauty, wholeness, security, and love within one’s life.
Identify yourself with the spiritual presence, and you are a participant in an eternal day where the real you, one with God, is no longer affected by the temporary past. The Spirit exists beyond the personality level of the mind and is therefore not part of that which is affected by the personality. That is why mystics may sometimes say that our Spirit, true self, or spiritual reality can pass safely through fire, earth, wind and water, and be unaffected by the elements.
Simply put, the real you does not experience the pain of the past, because it exists beyond the human pain threshold. Your true spiritual self, one with God, is always in an eternal state of freedom where the beauty, wisdom and love of the Universe forever exist as an eternal now.
Human experience that is temporary, not lasting and therefore unreal, cannot reach you in, as the Bible describes it, “The state or place of the most high.” There is no need to live in darkness in your mind if you identify with the eternal as God’s Inner Light, illuminating your mind so that you may see life more clearly, and God’s place and role for you within it.
To release the false past, you must trust more in the future. Trust can be accomplished by exchanging the past, which fills the personality level of your mind, with the eternal or trust in God’s Presence within you. The temporary past was but an experience and not what you are. The eternal perfection is what you truly are.
Let go and yield your mind to that which is highest in yourself, and the Divine Light of God within you will dispel the darkness of a lingering past.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“The Silence of Absolute Love”
In a letter to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul expressed life’s goal in these words: “And now abide faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
Beyond human definitions of silence and love, there exists the realm of original Silence, Peace, and Love, where conflict and duality do not exist, and where all are in Ultimate Union with the One. Here, no words need to be spoken or thoughts responded to. Being in Absolute Love is to open oneself to Absolute Silence, Peace, Presence, or God.
In a world dominated with practical necessities, there can be nothing more practical than having a consciousness that is able to find an Absolute Silent Clarity of mind—so much at Peace, it can see through worldly confusion and duality to know what is truly necessary in this world.
This same state of Silent Clarity is one with Absolute Love, Peace, and Presence. This means that all practicalities, dualities, and conflicts can be, or are to be, met with a greeting of Absolute Love—not just for the good of one individual situation or one soul, but for the greater good of all beings, who are, in Truth, one with All.
Attaining such a state of Silence and Loving Presence provides all that is necessary to live in this earthly world and in worlds beyond—to live in Loving Silence, Peace, and pure Presence, where words are not necessary.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Extrasensory Contact with God”
The knowing and experiencing of God’s Presence is the greatest of all human experiences, as well as the most profound knowledge a person may possess. Down through recorded history, people have claimed to have experienced God’s Presence. Mystics through the centuries have had visions, which they say have either given them the fullness of God’s Presence experienced, or at least such inspired visionary glimpses of the divine as to suggest that the sum total of glimpses is the Presence of God. Experience of this kind is extrasensory in nature.
In an ordinary state of mind, the mind is only conscious of the outer five sense perceptions. The outer senses do not reveal God, except perhaps to a person who is witnessing beauty within nature, such as a glorious sunset or a beautiful flower, and associates the perceived beauty as having its source from God. To truly experience God, therefore, must be of an extrasensory nature.
Although God’s Presence is everywhere, in order to be perceived at its essence, one has to go beyond the ordinary perception of the five senses and experience God as a state of consciousness, or Universal Mind. This experience has been referred to by many names, including cosmic consciousness, Christ consciousness, and Samadhi. Although not always, it is usually experienced by a meditator who, in their heart, is longing to know God directly, or to experience the Ultimate Truth.
In our present age, it must be understood that such extrasensory experience of God is not just left to mystics of ages past. Know that the mystical experience of union with God and all of its subsequent benefits, both of a spiritual as well as practical nature, can be part of modern day human experience—indeed, of your experience! The Bible refers to aspiring to such an experience when it states, “Seek and you shall find. Ask and it shall be opened unto you.”
In the average person today, the human mind is a restless sea of mental energy. This activity is both as a result of conscious mental activity taking place at the moment, as well as energies of the memory level of the mind, along with psychic or telepathic levels of activity tied into the collective unconscious of humanity.
With so much activity, it is no wonder that the experience of the core of one’s being, or God, is covered up by the mental energy activities of other levels of the human mind. To experience the core, center, or nucleus of consciousness within you necessitates that the mind be stilled at its outermost levels, so a person may become aware of their innermost level of consciousness, or cosmic consciousness, or the Mind of God.
Stilling the mental energies of your mind requires relaxation and concentration, the two key or central necessities for entering into deeper forms of meditative consciousness, where such experience as extrasensory contact with God may take place.
In mystical union, you are one with what you are experiencing. In other words, you have a oneness of consciousness, or a total merger or union of identity. It is an “I am,” rather than an “I, thou” experience where you are one presence, and what you are perceiving is another presence.
In union with God, you, God, and the experience are one for however long the experience may last. For some, the experience may last only a moment, but for the person experiencing it, that moment will last an entire lifetime, with the knowing that God exists, and that ultimately there is a oneness with God on the innermost spiritual level of one’s being.
Meditation—particularly if practiced daily—is the key to having extrasensory contact with God that goes beyond the experience of union with God. If you are meditating daily, your conscious mind will be more open and receptive to receiving intuitive guidance from Universal Mind, or God.
The Bible states, “In my Father’s house are many mansions.” “Many mansions” refers to many different levels or states of consciousness within the Universal Mind. Each level of consciousness can be another dimension of existence. Every dimension of existence can be one of many heavenly states of mind within the Universal Mind.
Whatever you experience that could be described as heavenly or sacred is a part of God’s Allness manifested to you through a vision or images in extrasensory higher states of consciousness within yourself.
When God is truly your guide in life through real extrasensory contact, your life can be dramatically better than it would have been otherwise, where your conscious mind is basically on its own. Realize that you have the innate capacity to have extrasensory contact with God throughout your life!
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“How a Mystic Succeeds”
A true mystic lives in two different worlds simultaneously—the outer physical world, and an inner spiritual world occupied by the Presence of God. A mystic is a person who spends his or her life in pursuit of God’s Presence and Absolute Truth, which is one and the same as God’s Presence. Down through the ages, the primary method used to find God’s Presence has been meditation.
Once a mystic has either come close to, or actually experienced God’s Presence, there arises a different approach to success, and often a redefining of what success is. Success can encompass much more in its definition than merely physical or worldly success. A true mystic sees success as also including spiritual awakening, awareness, and enlightenment in one’s life.
A “wholeness of life” is more how a mystic would define success, and how he or she pursues it becomes the primary priority of life. Jesus encouraged his followers to “seek first the Kingdom of God and all else would be added to them.” The mystic seeks God’s Presence or inner mystical union with God for God’s sake alone, or for knowledge of God’s Presence.
In the process, an individual invokes the energy forces of their deeper unconscious mind en route to contacting God’s Presence at the center of their mind. When contact is made, from that point on a person is under divine influence or guidance, even though they may not, at times, choose to follow what God is prompting them to do to succeed in life. Remember always that God’s definition of success may vary widely from how the human mind conceives it.
To God, the measure for success is the achieving of a soul’s life purpose. To the mystic, the same definition of success also holds true, for the mystic seeks not only to know God directly through mystical means, but also to do God’s Will.
That means that ultimate success serves the soul as it makes its way through eternity, rather than to simply measure success by one lifetime. At the same time, as a mystic must also live in a more mundane world of paying one’s bills, outward or worldly success is part of the whole picture.
As a true mystic contacts God’s Presence through the practice of meditation, the attributes of God’s Universal Mind integrate with the mortal mind. Each time you meditate, the higher Universal Energies of God’s Mind travel into the human or conscious level of your mind.
What takes place is an integration of energies within you, of both mortal and immortal, personal and Universal. As this integration of energies occurs, the attributes of the divine—as energies—become a part of your conscious mind’s energies.
To bring about success, the key is to rely only on your inner oneness with God’s Spirit. Once you can clear your mind of other dependencies for your success, the Presence of God automatically takes over to bring you to success. It is as if you have totally let go, and knowing this, God enters your conscious mind with divine attributes to make it happen for you. True mystics, therefore, abandon the ego—giving it up to the Universal.
When this occurs, personal ego-based self-confidence is replaced with God-Self reliance to bring about success. When you put your trust in God as a true mystic would, you totally trust and have faith in the Ultimate Power in the Universe to bring success into your life, both inwardly and outwardly. Christ reflected on this truth when he said, “It is not I (the personal ego of Jesus), but the Father in me who doeth the works.”
The true mystic believes in the power of will. However, the will power of the human level of the mind is limited in its capacity, wisdom, and vision—the ability to see the whole picture in one’s life. Mystics know that by turning over their personal will to the Will of God for their life, they lose little, but gain a universe of possibilities.
The true mystic is also continually in motion. Many people do not succeed in life because they lack the personal ego-mind self-discipline to set themselves in motion. Especially in today’s fast-moving world, without being in motion a person falls behind and, therefore, does not succeed. The mystic knows that God is in Eternal Motion, and by proclaiming a Oneness with God’s Presence, he or she becomes an Eternal Self-Starter, constantly doing and thinking things that materialize success.
Finally, true mystics know that it only takes a single creative idea to change one’s entire life, and they know that such a creative idea is within them. Right now within you is a creative success idea that can vastly improve your life. By meditating and turning over your will to God’s Will, you do as the true mystic does: you remove the inner mental walls between the conscious level of your mind and the God-level of your mind, so creative ideas can rise to the surface of your conscious thinking, and so God can intuitively guide you to success in your life.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Self-Will versus Destiny”
On this earthly plane of existence, humanity exists in a Cosmic House of Mirrors. What seems to be reality is, in truth, but an illusion of limited five-sense perception. If one is to understand one’s own life, one must understand life itself. And to do this, a person must be able to discern what is real from that which is not.
Throughout recorded history the subject of will has played a significant role. The idea of exerting one’s personal will to make things happen in one’s life plays a major part in giving value or existence to the false sense of personal ego identity. Many books and commentaries have applauded the use of will power to accomplish goals in life. Exerting one’s will over others is often suggested as a means to an end. The world is filled with countless people who are going through the motions of pushing forth through life by what they believe is the power of their personal wills.
For a moment let’s suppose that some people believe that their self-wills are causing them to accomplish what they are in life. Of course, to have self-will necessitates basing one’s identity on a false sense of personal ego selfhood: A person is thought to be one self or identity, and others are seen to be different personal identities. Thinking in this fashion means that one’s mind is accepting that everyone is separate from one another.
Further, this mental acceptance of separateness causes division amongst people, which, in turn, opens the doorway to disagreements or conflicts. What this means, is that even if some individuals were successful—and crediting their successes to will power—they would still not be fulfilled or feel whole, in spite of their worldly measures of success, due to living in a state of separateness. Such persons would still feel a sense of lack or feel threatened by other separate selves—each using personal will to possibly dethrone the success.
In other words, the exertion of personal self-will, while seeming to produce results, is not really producing a lasting fulfillment and peace within a person’s soul, because of a sense of separateness. And, mystically, there is a reason for this: the personal ego identity does not really exist, except as an illusion of the outer senses. But more directly to the point, if the personal ego self does not exist, how then can something nonexistent produce a power that can be presented as a “doing” power known as will-power or self-will?
In mystical Reality there cannot be self-will, because there is no real personal self to generate it. So, if some people seem to produce results in life, but those results and will power are only an illusion, what else could be present to account for the strides or advances in one’s life?
Enter destiny.
Does the soul have a destiny, and is it really destiny rather than the illusion of self-will to which credit should be given?
Of course, destiny conjures up predestination. Predestination rightly suggests a future that is preordained, or, more specifically, a future that already is. To state it another way, in God’s Cosmic Clock of Time the future is preordained, because past, present, and future make up one singular moment of time.
In mystical Reality every soul has already lived successes, for which they mistakenly give credit to self-will.
In mystical or Absolute Reality there is but one Life in this Universe. Hence, any will that exists is the Will of One Universal Life, or God. Whatever good happens in life is by the Will or Grace of God. By worldly measure, whatever is the opposite of good is the result of separateness from one’s Source for Good—or God.
One may ask, then, why is it that so-called evil people with immense separateness and super-egotistical wills flourish by worldly standards? Actually, they have nothing to do with their successes. Certain souls have reached levels of consciousness where they need to experience extreme materialism, so that they may vanquish such cravings, allowing their souls to progress to higher spiritual states. These souls are also used as examples, demonstrating to other souls that material achievement on the physical plane will, in the final analysis, not bring fulfillment.
The Christ Mind that was in Jesus responded to this same question in the simple, yet profound words, “What profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?” The soul can be described as one’s spiritual connection to the Eternal, or God. Without such a connection, the soul becomes what could be described as a lost soul, roaming aimlessly through existence after existence, trying to use an imaginary will power or self-will to find lasting happiness, lasting fulfillment, and lasting peace—which remain illusive.
If all already is—and there is only the Will of God—why is all this illusion allowed to take place?
Because without the illusion of separate identities and the byproduct of self-will, the Universal One Life of God would remain One Life without creation—without human life or other forms of life. The One Life that is God creates the illusion of many lives or separate selves living within an illusion of time, and giving the appearance of being created at different times. Hence we have baby souls, old souls, and those in-between. Yet, in Reality, only One Life and One Moment of Eternal Time really exists. In the Eternal Maturity of God there is a purpose to it all.
In the dualities of separateness, love or oneness is highlighted as being far more valuable than separateness and the resultant loneliness. Evil based on extreme separateness further demonstrates the value of Goodness. It highlights the choice to be made in the human soul—the choice between darkness, separation, and destruction, or Light, Oneness, Love, and God. The futility of the illusion of self-will or will power yields itself to the Reality of Oneness and the Truth that, in the beginning—which is one and the same as the ending—there is only God’s Will; that the path of every created soul can, of Reality, lead to God’s Oneness, for in Absolute Reality it has never been separated from God. As alluded to in the Bible: “Within Him (or God), we live and move and have our being.”
In summation, there cannot be an opposition of self-will versus destiny, for self and its will do not really exist, and destiny is a future that already exists.
It is God’s Will to create the illusion and fill it with souls, so that each soul in the illusion might come to an awakening of the Eternal Moment and give acknowledgement of God’s Existence—that the One Life Allness of All in All may convey The Presence, “I AM THAT, THAT I AM.”
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Yin and Yang—Its Mystical Power and Presence in and beyond Physical Life”
Yin and yang is you—it’s me—it’s everyone. It is one of the most profound communication symbols of mystical reality upon which the whole of existence exists: it can demonstrate a healing goal sought after in oriental medicine, a philosophical concept to be contemplated, or a mystical symbol on which to meditate.
Yin and yang can indeed be a symbol of many things to many people. Visual symbols have been with mankind since the beginning of recorded history, yet the symbol of yin and yang has held people’s attention in a far greater way than other symbols—and for good reason. Most symbols communicate lesser truths, while the symbol of yin and yang communicates life itself.
For life, it symbolizes the manifest and the un-manifest—the un-manifesting darkness living within the manifesting white, or conversely, the manifesting white existing within the un-manifesting darkness. From a mystical point of view, it can be thought of as the manifesting light, or physical creation’s foundation, living within the un-manifesting darkness or Spirit.
Another way to perceive yin and yang is to view the manifesting light and un-manifesting Spirit as forever inseparable. In the words of the Christ Mind in Jesus, “The Father (or the un-manifested Spirit Consciousness) and I (or the manifesting physical creation) are One.”
To put it still another way, we see life manifesting within Spirit, and Spirit manifesting within created life. The Biblical phrase “within Him (meaning God or Universal Spirit Consciousness) we move, live, and have our being” describes humans living in what appears to be a physical universe, but which is, in truth, the physical perceptions of an un-manifest Universal Spirit Consciousness or God.
A symbol such as the yin and yang can be very powerful as a transmitting Energy when the symbol itself is physically viewed. The symbol can be viewed as a concentration object before closing one’s eyes and entering into a state of meditation. Whether hanging on a wall as a work of art, or as an object of art sitting on a table or shrine of some kind, contemplative viewing of the symbol can invoke an awakening in the unconscious, corresponding to its mystical meaning, even without meditating.
The appearance of the yin and yang symbol on clothing in recent years—especially on tee shirts—can be significant in its influence both to the wearer and to those who view it on the wearer. All symbols contain energy lines of force based on the appearance of the symbol. When worn, such energy interacts with the body, mind, and soul energies of the wearer—in this case stimulating the mystical truth within the unconscious. The registering or perception of this stimulation may or may not be apparent to the wearer, although, either way, the mystical and spiritual benefit is there. The same stimulation of mystical oneness between the manifest and the un-manifest can affect others who view this symbol being worn on someone else. Even when worn as smaller physical objects of jewelry, such as pendants or rings, the stimulus from the mystical energy can still be at work.
Let the symbol of yin and yang serve you—as it has for so many down through the ages—to awaken mystically, and as a harmonic representation of balancing, healing, and wholeness. The visual construction of the symbol invokes a harmonious energy balance in the body, mind, and soul respectively—an interplay and harmonic synthesis of the body with the mind, and the mind with the soul, as well as a visual stimulant in healing, wholeness, wellness, and in any practice of a holistic nature.
Ultimately, for the Universe itself to exist, there must be harmony and Oneness of interplay and relation between the manifesting and the un-manifesting. The symbol of yin and yang corresponds to this great mystical truth. In an Absolute Sense, the yin and yang symbol is saying, “I am in God, and God is in me.” There is no truth that is any higher in understanding one’s relationship between body, mind, soul, Universal Consciousness, Spirit, or God, for upon this one great mystical truth rests the entirety of physical and human existence.
Be—and live—in the balance of all that is yin and yang.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Real Love vs. Imagined Love”
Is it real love or is it imagined love? Have you ever asked yourself this question? Many people have, and numerous others are currently making this very same self-inquiry. The question may be asked under varying circumstances, such as when contemplating a new relationship, in the midst of a current relationship, or in retrospect, when reflecting on a previous relationship.
And why is this such an important question? The reason is that love, above all else in life, is the single most important source of happiness, apart only from one’s relationship to God.
So many relationships and marriages end because one or both partners could not distinguish real love from imagined love. Real love is from the heart—from the very soul of a person—and it is lasting. In all relationships there are disagreements and bumps in the road in communication, but in the case of real love, such dips in a relationship do not diminish the love. Real love can override any temporary negativity between two people.
Sometimes a separation gives both parties the time needed to study their respective feelings, and come to the realization that the love they have shared is lasting. Yet, even under these conditions, love, or the feeling of love, can be deceptive if two people have formed a bond not of love, but of co-dependency.
Co-dependency exists where the needs of the two individuals keep them clinging to one another in a pretense that they are in love, when in truth, their togetherness is based on a need. These needs can include finances, health, caretaking, sexuality, emotional companionship, children, security, and more.
When asking yourself if it is real love or imagined love, the first thing to ask is whether the relationship is filling one or more needs. Next, if your needs are not being fulfilled, ask yourself whether you would still wish to be with that person based solely on the feeling you have for them. By feeling, you might include loving the other person’s inner nature, such as their spirituality and goodness, their warmth and humor, and their sensitivity to the real values of life over and beyond superficialities.
In other words, do you really love that person for his or her “self?” If you cannot honestly answer that you love someone for what they are within, then you are probably experiencing imagined love rather than real love.
Short-term imagined relationships or marriages are generally brought on by temporary infatuation with a person’s appearance, their position in life, financial security, fame, or power. It could also have to do with your own loneliness, sexual hunger, and financial insecurity—that is, the need to be looked after or taken care of. None of these short-term fantasy needs has anything whatsoever to do with real love. In determining whether it is real love or imagined love, you must be totally and completely honest with yourself.
A person’s needs can manufacture an imagined love that passes itself off as real love. Numerous people delude themselves into believing that they are in love with someone, so that their needs may be met. This is very sad because it leads to the eventual breakup of a relationship or marriage. Perhaps the saddest part about it is the time spent in an imagined love that could have been spent experiencing real love.
On the other side of the coin, it might be that a person has to experience one or more imagined loves in their life to finally come to an understanding of what real love truly is. One way to avoid this dilemma of imagined love—something based on need rather than love—is to turn everything regarding your needs over to God.
Begin to think of God as the source for supplying your needs. Adopt an attitude that you look to God, not another person, to supply your needs. If a real relationship exists between you and God, then God will supply your needs, leaving you free from trying to fulfill those needs through another person.
Grow in spiritual maturity and realize that there is only one real need of the human soul, and that is the need for a relationship with your Creator. Being free of such needs gives you a state of mind and heart where you are truly able to see and discern whether yours is real love or simply imagined love.
In real love, two souls fall in love with each other, or in the case of soul mates, they are already in love with each other, as their love is eternal. The meeting of two physical bodies and two minds is secondary to an eternal source relationship that already exists. This is why, when real love is present, both people have an appreciation of the other person from within.
There is an appreciation of the beauty contained within another’s soul, for the beauty is a mirrored reflection of their own soul. For this reason, in real love there is a lasting feeling of oneness between people and their souls.
When you are with another person and you feel yourself seeing an inner beauty within that person with what can only be described as the eyes of your soul, then indeed, real love may be present.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Being Emotionally Mature”
So many people, so very many adults! As we travel through life, one thing becomes very apparent when observing people in general, and that is how few have actually become emotionally mature. Most, it seems, have never grown up emotionally. While their bodies may pose an adult image, juvenile childishness often remains hidden within, awaiting the next event in life that will summon this immaturity out into the light of day.
It appears that although the body grows and the years pass, very few individuals outgrow the immaturity of their adolescent years. Is it any wonder then that so many emotional clashes occur among so-called adults? Without having achieved emotional maturity, outbursts and arguments appear, resembling children on a playground who have lost control.
What a tragedy it is that the importance of developing into emotionally mature adults is not taught to children—even at a very young age—to plant the seeds that obtaining emotional maturity is one of the great goals of life, and to achieve it is truly an accomplishment worth seeking. What needs to be taught to our young people is making a virtue out of acquiring emotional maturity.
If, however, they slip past their youth and then, through their own inner reactions to outside events, realize that they are behaving in an emotionally immature manner, there must be the hope that they can turn it around and achieve emotional maturity.
The best and quickest way to acquire emotional maturity as an adult is spiritually—through attunement to God’s presence within oneself. Through God’s presence:
- Childish thoughts are replaced with wisdom.
- Childish outbursts are replaced with calmness.
- Childish denials are replaced with acceptance of responsibility.
- Childish moods are replaced with emotional consistency.
- Childish reactions are replaced with positive God-centered self-assurance.
As with everything in life, meditation opens the doors of the mind to healing, and God is the healer. It is God’s presence that is the ultimate maturity in the universe. This ageless presence of God, that has had eternity to become mature, is within you. Direct meditational contact with God’s presence within you actually puts you into the energy consciousness that is part of God’s eternal maturity. Such energy integrates itself as part of the surface levels of your mind. All of life is, after all, an exchange of energy.
Everything to which you might emotionally react is a field of energy. If, through meditation, your mind is filled with God’s emotional energy, then it will be that energy that will react in an emotionally mature way to whatever experience is taking place in your life. More than anything you can do, meditation is the best way to acquire emotional maturity, as well as universal or spiritual maturity.
Under the influence of the God consciousness within you, you will see what is taking place through God’s perspective. You will view and comprehend life’s events from a higher perspective. You will see things increasingly through the eyes of God, or see the whole picture and meaning of what occurs. Your reaction will be tempered by the influence of God’s eternal wisdom. Such a reaction will provide you with emotional maturity during challenging moments and times in your life.
The Bible says, “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, but when I became an adult, I put away childish things.” And so it should be in the life of every adult. There comes a time when one’s reaction to challenges must be tempered with maturity. Of course, this assumes that a person has matured! All too often, people fail to mature, regardless of their years.
To achieve this maturity in your reactions to life and its challenges, you must first be aware of the problem of controlling your emotional reactions. Upon such awareness, it is then best to let God heal the lack of emotional maturity. The best way to realize this is to release all childishness to God’s healing presence within you.
This should be done often, until one day, during an emotional challenge, you find that you are no longer reacting with childishness, but rather with the calmness and wisdom of a person who has achieved emotional maturity. Until such time, continue to affirm the release of all childishness to God’s presence within you.
God is with you, and working with you and through you. There is no need to revert to the dramas of emotional immaturity. You become a channel for solutions to whatever challenges life presents to you, and to those closest to you, toward whom you feel a sense of responsibility. You are free; you are emotionally mature!
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Mystical Power of Advanced Thinking”
What would it be like if a person were born into, and lived in, a world of advanced thinkers? What knowledge would such advanced thinkers have at their disposal? What would they value most in all of their highly developed thinking? Let us first define what is meant by advanced thinkers.
An advanced thinking society would be one where the discoveries of science and spirituality have merged, and people would see that they complement and add to one another. Mysticism itself would be considered a divine science, or science of the soul. Scientists and mystics would walk arm in arm, embracing the common truths revealed, and people would be taught from childhood the ancient mystical truths that are increasingly confirmed by science.
The primary mystical truth is that there is but One Life, One Mind, and One Spirit in the physical and other dimensional universes, manifesting itself as all human beings. This truth can be verified through practices of deeper forms of meditation and similar practices that tend to explore the depths of the psyche. Advanced thinkers would base their lives on this mystical truth and live their lives accordingly.
Recognizing but One Life/Mind/Spirit in the Universe, advanced thinkers would tend to be more compassionate, more forgiving, and more understanding of others, as well as of themselves. Such a society would, therefore, favor peace and goodwill between individuals, as well as between nations.
Anything based on the greatest of all mystical truths possesses the energy or dynamics to literally invoke the divine or mystical power from within. The reason for this is that when advanced thinkers think in the manner that there is but One Life/Mind/Spirit manifesting as us all, they are thinking as God thinks. The more you think as God thinks, the more you are one with God, which invokes God’s mystical power into your life. Mystical power can come to you in the form of intuitive guidance, creative ideas, inspiration, healing, and focused will. Through such divine attunement, advanced thinkers have more of God’s mystical power working in their lives, for the good of others as well as themselves.
The most important thing for you to understand is that although you were not born into a society of advanced thinkers, you, yourself, can be an advanced thinker—a beacon of light in this world that is filled with so much darkness of mind and soul. When Christ said, “Know the truth and the truth shall set you free,” he was referring directly to the one great truth of One Life/Mind/Spirit existing as all of us in the Universe.
Every time you meditate, to some degree you are integrating a portion of your unconscious mind into your conscious mind’s activity. This is bringing God’s advanced thinking process into your own conscious thinking process. The result is that you become—and are a part of—God’s advanced thinking. Because of this, you are an advanced thinker, able to see things more as they are, rather than what they seem to be.
Through the studies of Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and similar people, did you ever notice that they possessed compassion, understanding, and forgiveness for others? Each of them was an advanced thinker, who, in their own way, thought as the mind of the Infinite or Universal Mind would think. As a result, each was able to leave the world a far better place when they departed from it.
Advanced thinkers know that they are one with God’s Presence at all times. Wherever you are, whatever you may be doing, you are aware that a portion of Universal Mind or God is right there within you at the center of your mind. You understand that no matter what is taking place, God is right there with you, guiding and assisting you to understand, comprehend, and act with wisdom. This is especially true in your interactions with others and with society as a whole.
Having a spiritual attitude or outlook creates a surface or conscious state of mind that invokes God’s mystical power from the innermost center of consciousness within you. Keep in mind that mystical power is not power over others, for God grants the choice of free will. Rather, mystical power is power over yourself, the lesser part of your mind or personal ego from which you have advanced.
As an advanced thinker, you are very much aware that all human beings are intended to serve one another. An advanced thinker knows that if every soul gave service to other souls, everyone would be taken care of, and God’s love would be supremely manifested, or “The spirit made flesh,” as referred to in the Bible. As an advanced thinker, you are as much concerned about the welfare of others as you are concerned about your own welfare. Because of this, it is a natural part of your thinking to be on the alert as to how you might be of service to others. You are also aware that the greatest service you can provide is that of a spiritual way-shower.
An advanced thinker is not seeking demonstrations for the sake of demonstrating. Because an advanced thinker’s consciouness is so attuned mystically to the consciousness of God within, it is God who places the idea of what is needed in an advanced thinker’s mind, and proceeds to materialize it as a physical demonstration. Prayer, visualization, metaphysical treatment, and such, are then just the cooperation of the conscious mind with the Divine Universal Mind of God to make it so.
Only the Presence of God, having surfaced into your conscious thinking, can make you an advanced thinker. To be an advanced thinker, in meditation see the oneness with God’s Presence within yourself.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Improving Relationships with Others”
How a person interacts with others is often and undeniably a key factor in whether their life is succeeding or failing. Through decades of observing and counseling people, I have come to realize that it is not necessarily how bright one may be intellectually that assures success, but how one gets along with others. In a corporate atmosphere, this is often referred to as being a team player.
At times, this may present a dilemma for a spiritual and idealistic person, as what may often be good for a corporation may not be beneficial for the general public or consumer. Thus, one’s spiritual conscience—or God’s Presence—may rebel.
There is often a fine line between getting along and the inner need to do what you feel God is directing you to do, such as what you feel is right. Such decisions are not confined to those in the boardroom, but sift down to all levels of the workforce.
This is not restricted to one’s vocation, either, but may also find its way into social and family relationships. Indeed, wherever a relationship with one or more people exists, one may face challenges to maintain peace and harmony, while attempting to improve the relationship. Idealistically, we try not to go against our conscience—or the quiet whisperings of God within us— while simultaneously continuing to improve a relationship.
Often it is a matter of timing—knowing when or when not to say something. Sometimes it is not necessarily what you say, but how you say it. With a misspoken word, a longstanding relationship—even one of many years—can be jeopardized.
People are often sensitive to either positive or negative energy. Therefore, your interaction with them should be handled with the gentlest of care. On occasion, a person may cross your life’s path who will not reject you no matter what is said. As you know, however, this is the exception rather than the rule.
The spiritually aware person has a decided advantage in improving relationships with others through the techniques described here. As always, the main point is to get our personal ego-self out of the way, as the personal ego-self is usually that part of our nature that gets defensive and negative in its interactions with others.
Also requiring consideration is the need to choose wisely which individuals or groups of people with whom you desire to associate. Much grief can be avoided if you do not allow the “wrong” individuals or groups to become a part of your life. Conversely, much happiness can be gained in relationships with others if God is directing you in your choice of whom to let into your life.
Meditation allows you to be aware and sensitive to God and other people. The sensitivity you have to God’s mind within your own provides you with intuitive divine direction in choosing the right people with whom to associate, and how to interact positively with your choices.
Every time you enter meditation, you are improving your chances for bettering a relationship. The reason is that you are more divinely guided in what to say, when to say it, and how to say it. In essence, the more you open your mind to God, the more God’s mind opens you to the minds of others. The more open the minds of others are to you, the greater the opportunity to improve a relationship.
A daily practice of meditation brings you to a soul level of your own consciousness, which makes you more sensitive to the soul level of others. The soul level of the mind is that level where the soul’s purpose for this lifetime is known. By being sensitive to the soul level of others, you are sensitive to the soul’s purpose in others. The soul’s purpose of every individual fosters certain longings or needs that they come into this life to fulfill. By sensing the longings and needs of a person’s soul level of mind, you can better interact with them because you sense what you can say or do that could bring them the greatest happiness and fulfillment.
Difficulty can be defined as negative or disagreeable energy between you and another. Praying for the good of those with whom you are having difficulty sends out positive telepathic energy to them. It does not matter whether they are consciously aware of your praying for them or not, for telepathically your prayers for good are registered in their unconscious mind. By praying, you invoke the presence of God to improve in some way your relationship with them. The presence of God, which is within you, is the same presence of God that is within them. Thus, as you pray to the presence of God within yourself for their good, you are praying to the same presence of God within them.
Prayer is an effective energy and energy stimulant to bring about improvement between two souls inwardly, and therefore two souls outwardly. Keep in mind that when you are having difficulty with anyone, always pray for their good. In actuality, the more you pray for the good of others, the more good you receive in return.
The Bible suggests, “Be wise as a serpent and gentle as a dove.” In improving relationships with others, this connotes having the insight to interact positively, and to do so in a kind and easy manner. There are times when firmness and raising of one’s voice for emphasis is necessary to make a point. This is all right if it is implemented without the energy of anger or defensiveness. When done for a positive effect, it can improve a relationship, for the recipient intuitively knows it is utilized for their good.
The majority of the time, however, it is far better to use a combination of insight and gentleness in interactions with others. This makes those rare times when you do use firmness more effective, as the other person knows that you truly feel strongly about the idea you are conveying.
When God is speaking through someone, the person intuitively senses and knows that it is not their personal ego that is communicating. The words are too right, the timing and delivery too perfect, the love and understanding too correct. Stepping back in your own mind and letting God’s Universal Mind and Spirit take over is the wisest thing you can do to improve a relationship.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Principles of Successful Prayer”
Prayer can be successful if the principle underlying its practice is understood. Most people believe in the power of prayer. Thus, you could say that most people believe in a God or the agents of God—such as angels or minor deities—to make their prayers a reality.
When thinking of prayer, most people think of formalized prayer, such as when a person retreats alone, clasps their hands, or looks upward and begins asking. The truth is that people are praying all the time, for all thought is prayer.
The more specific thoughts about yourself or your life are held in your mind, the more they become a reality in your mind, thus energizing them into the same type of prayer as formalized, concentrated prayer. If you understand the principle described here, you will recognize that daily thinking is prayer.
The more you think about something, the more it becomes an inner part of you. It is a spiritual principle that one’s outer life is generally a reflection of one’s inner life. Jesus once said, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” By constant repetition in one’s thinking, you become those thoughts within your heart of hearts or the deepest recesses of consciousness within you. Therefore, the most important point to consider regarding praying successfully is being certain that your daily thinking is in accord or in harmony with what you are praying for.
As an example, if you have been experiencing ill health, you may have come to think of yourself over a period of time as a sickly person. Consciously or unconsciously, you carry the sickly person image around with you in your mind, twenty-four hours a day. This has become your daily prayer, whether you consciously realize it or not. It is as if every day, your thought-prayer affirms before God that you are a sickly person.
Whether you are aware of it or not, if this is going on daily, consider that when you take only a few minutes every now and then to pray for good health and healing, that prayer goes up against a sick-programming that has been your thought-prayer every day for twenty-four hours a day! It should be obvious, then, that if any form of prayer is to be successful you must first change your daily thinking to correspond with the positivity of your found-prayer times.
The more positive people are in their attitude and outlook about themselves and life in general, the more successful prayer will be. This is indeed what might be called the very first principle of prayer, because formal prayer is neutralized to a large extent without it. Positivity creates fertile mental soil through which God can work and bring successful results to your prayer.
Meditation, in essence, is wordless prayer. In its highest state, meditation is a union between the human mind and the Divine Mind of God. There is no need to communicate the needs of your prayer in words. Jesus attempted to explain this divine closeness to God when he said, “Your Father knoweth what you have need of before you ask.”
If a person has this inner closeness with God as a result of daily mental contact, formal prayer takes on an entirely different significance. Formal prayer, or prayer with the use of words, becomes not an asking by the conscious human level of the mind, but rather an agreement or attunement of one’s consciousness to the Will of God. This means that because of God’s great influence over your human consciousness as a result of meditational union, it is God that creates the prayer or the words that you use in your prayer.
It should be apparent that the great principle of successful prayer is regular meditation, preferably daily. To the truly spiritual person, meditation is as necessary as food, water, and the other vital necessities of life. Those who meditate on a daily basis are far more likely to pray successfully, because their prayers come from God, rather than from their human consciousness. Remember, God knows what you really have need of before you ask—“really” meaning that which is in accord with your soul’s purpose for this lifetime, which is what is best for you in the overall view and destiny of your life.
Reflect for a few moments on the fact that the same Presence that created the stars, planets, galaxies, and life forms is the power that is activated during real prayer, or the prayer placed in your mind by God. By taking time to contemplate the enormity of the power that is present to make your prayer a reality in the physical world, you increase the energy of faith in you, which mystics feel is identical to the Presence of God.
Remember the words of Jesus, “According to your faith, be it unto you.” In other words, to the degree that you are filled with faith is the degree that God’s Presence is active in manifesting your prayer.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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Text taken from Dr. Paul Leon Masters’ “The Theocentric Way of Life,” Volume 3: Module 20.
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“How to Survive Difficult Periods in Your Life”
You can survive difficult periods in your life. The probability is that you already have. Difficult periods in our lives seem to be a natural course of how life unfolds in the human panorama of events. These challenging phases may include health, income, career, family, friends, spouse, and love relationships.
In other words, just about anything of major concern may be affected. Your emotions during such periods can run from mild to deeply intense. If it is a truly difficult stage in your life, it is likely that the emotions you are experiencing are deep-seated.
Some demanding periods can be life-changing and challenging. A death or transition of someone you deeply love can provoke a devastatingly difficult phase. Similarly, divorce can be like a death to one’s way of life and can bring on an extremely hard interlude. The reality that one comes to know, as one goes through life, is that there will be difficult periods, but how will these hard times be handled or survived? When your emotions are taxed to the limit, which can set up a negative chain reaction affecting you in numerous ways, how do you best survive all that is taking place.?
You can survive in one of two ways. One avenue is by relying on your personal ego. Note that depending on your personal ego is placing a self-imposed limitation on yourself. Your personal ego is limited in its capacity to see you through your difficult period in the most positive manner possible.
The other option is to survive a difficult period by turning over what is happening entirely to God. A portion of God’s universal mind presence is within you at the center or nucleus of your mind. It wishes to help you because you are God’s Creation and, as such, are loved by God as a child of God.
As perhaps God has already been there for you during a rough stage in your lifetime, God is right there, within you, to help you through any current or future difficult periods. Yes, people have survived difficult times in their lives without seeking God’s Presence. But, when they do, there can be a weakness within the personal ego to use negative or unfavorable methods. These may include lying, deception, or manipulation to free themselves of the challenging situation.
On the other hand, if you rely on God’s presence, you will survive and overcome a trying circumstance with your soul still intact and unmarred by personal ego defects. Therefore, whether now or in the future, during any difficult period, turn to God’s presence within you.
Especially during challenging phases in your life, you should recognize the power, wisdom and will of God working through you. When you turn a stressful situation over to God’s presence within you for handling, you automatically begin to invoke God’s power, wisdom and will. Above all, you are invoking God’s love and healing, which are necessary to survive any tough times in your life in the most positive manner possible.
During difficult periods, recognize that the same presence and power that created the entire universe is at work within you and through you to bring closure and healing to the problems you are experiencing. Recognize that God’s divine wisdom knows what is best for you to survive in the most positive way. Recognize that where the personal ego-will might bend, break, or retreat, God’s Will can continue to work through you to carry you forward.
A daily practice of meditation can help you survive such energy-draining periods. Whatever mental, physical or emotional fatigue you may be feeling can be eliminated, or, at the very least, greatly reduced through a daily practice of meditation. Whenever you meditate, you tap into healing, renewing and regenerating energies of God’s presence at the deepest level of your mind.
Meditation greatly activates this self-contained natural energy within you to have that extra reserve of energy while surviving a difficult period. Meditation can also bring you into contact with what I call the peace center within the deepest levels of your mind. The Bible refers to this as “The peace that passeth all understanding.”
Such spiritual peace, frequently experienced during challenging phases in your life, can make an enormous difference for good in your survival. Meditation, in good times, can offer you so much, and therefore, should definitely be practiced during difficult times. When meditating in good times, you accelerate the good you are experiencing. In difficult times, you soften the harshness of any condition and quicken its conclusion.
Don’t get buried under an avalanche of negative thought energy memories during a difficult period. Realize that every thought, feeling and action can become a memory-energy in the personal subconscious memory level of the mind. If you allow negative energy to accumulate there, it will lengthen the duration of a negative cycle you may be experiencing.
You should, therefore, acquire and maintain the mental habit of continually releasing all negative experiences as they occur, or no more than a moment after they do! Do not allow such negative energy to recede into your subconscious mind to fester there. Remember that your survival during a difficult period is at stake. Therefore, monitor your thoughts, feelings and actions carefully, and take immediate action to neutralize the negative and its input on present and future cycles.
Of any good that may come out of every difficult period in your life, it should be that your personal relationship with God has been strengthened. Out of necessity, the conscious mind and heart draw inwardly closer to the divine mind and divinely loving heart of God within. As a result, you can make even greater strides in positive cycles every time they become activated in your life following a difficult period.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“Starting Anew: The Metaphysical Dynamics of Beginning a New Year”
The beginning of each New Year symbolizes the possibility of a new beginning or an improvement over what was. It can be a dream or a hope of what can be. To one who is intimately involved with one’s soul in a physical sense, it can be the anticipation that Divine Presence will somehow touch one’s life with increased blessings of some kind in the New Year.
To most people, a New Year does indeed present an opportunity for positive expectation, that somehow, in some way, the possibility exists that things will be better. In order for such dreams and wishes to become realities, the mind must adopt an attitude and state of consciousness that is expectant of improvement, both inwardly and outwardly, and willing to take the action necessary to give energy to one’s thoughts in the day-to-day world of one’s environment.
There are numerous factors that contribute to one finding oneself in a position of starting anew. Metaphysically, each new start symbolizes the karmic release from something that was necessary to one’s human life experience, and the need to progress to the next step of one’s personal soul evolution. This is very difficult for most people to do, since there is a human need to attempt to hold on to or cling to what has been. Starting anew, for many people, is only a last resort and something that they do not do cheerfully.
Resistance is psychologically understandable, as people may find themselves reacting internally to the fear of the unknown while clinging to the security that exists within the confines of familiarity. Starting anew encompasses many unanswered questions that threaten one’s sense of sameness. In the more surface human levels of the mind, the choice may be to leave well enough alone, even though what constitutes well enough may be far from what might be a necessary part of evolution.
To experience expansion and growth in a New Year, you must believe in your heart that you can. No surface, casual, simple wishing will make it so. The mind responds to the power of your belief because belief becomes faith when the basis of belief is enforced by a spiritual premise to give its possibility credence.
It requires a newness of spirit to sublimate the uncertainties of old patterns of thought into a new dynamic energy able to lift one beyond what has been to what can be. In short, the need is to be fueled by the fire of one’s own spirit or, more specifically, the Spirit that is the Presence of God within oneself.
The chains of psychological dependency to the past can melt away when contacted by the pure white heat of one’s own God-Spirit. An internal cleansing, as it were, takes place, to give newness to the mind, or, as the Bible states, “Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
The mind must concentrate its focus on the present and future, and not on the past and what has been. Along with a willingness to let go of the past, you must be more aware and conscious of your own Spiritual Reality. Concisely stated, you must grow. It is more likely for growth to come correctly and readily when you are aware of and using the God-Part of your mind.
You must consider yourself in a different position than you were in years past and regard the differences as positive, because with more living and experience, you have grown to be wiser and more aware than in the past. In order to confirm that you are a different person in a positive way, you will put your consciousness into action: make new choices and do new things that you did not take on in the past.
To activate this resolution, it is suggested that you look into yourself, into the God-Part of your mind, so that you may be intuitively guided to know what new directions, activities, thoughts, and decisions you should implement. The realization must be present in your mind that repeating identical lifestyle experiences of past years, without introducing anything new, will prevent you from truly starting a New Year in a way that will set positive dynamics into motion.
God’s Presence alone, within oneself, can reveal the purpose of one’s soul and the newness that must be its experience. This far supersedes the surface level of the mind. Such revelation does take place, whether in the twinkling of an eye or over a lengthy period so that further experience can occur. This enables the mind to comprehend that its real life is the presence and purpose of the soul, and that the soul is an individualized manifestation of the Spirit, or God. If we are to be rescued from a jail-like existence in our own mind, we must receive the inspiration of God from the sanctuary of our heart.
Ever-renewing newness is the nature of God-Presence. God as Infinity is constantly renewing all within Creation that, as the Bible states, “… live, move, and have their being” within God.
In your consciousness, you must firmly establish that you will let God guide you in doing new things and taking new directions. With faith that God will intuitively guide you, resolve within yourself that you will put into action those choices, directions, and activities that you have had an interest in doing, but for one reason or another, have not executed.
The closer that one is to God, the greater the possibility that the person’s soul will touch the Universal Spirit whose Nature, being part of constant renewal, will infuse the soul with the energy of its newness. It will thus translate that newness of Divine Energy into thought that is discernible to one’s conscious mind as an inspiration to enliven one’s sense of life and living to start anew.
Affirmation:
I recognize that my first priority as I start a New Year and throughout it is to seek God’s heavenly consciousness at the center of my mind, knowing that through such contact all else that I need will be added to me.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“The Sacredness of Silence”
There’s a Mystical expression that goes, “He who speaks more knows less, and he who speaks less knows more.” If one encounters religious zealots, they are very likely to speak at great length and volume about their beliefs. A person who is advanced in spiritual awareness knows to remain silent and let the zealot ramble on. With awareness, one knows that to try to enlighten such a person at that level of awareness would do no good. It would only end in a meaningless debate. There’s nothing to be gained. It is better to remain silent, being content to know that in some future lifetime every zealot will awaken to a much greater realization of spiritual truth.
All who have studied deeper forms of meditation—for the purpose of experiencing mystical union with God—do all they can to enter into the Silence of the Absolute. Only when the mind can be totally quieted can Absolute Presence be known. As long as thinking occupies the mind, God cannot. Thoughts and thinking are all activities of the false sense of personal ego identity. Even those thoughts that dwell on God are still part of personal ego consciousness. As long as the personal ego is active—even in the loftiest of ways—God’s Presence remains unknown.
Through the ages, Mystics of higher awareness have taught that personal ego thoughts have to be totally stilled so that God may be known. As a result, all kinds of systems have been developed to achieve such silence. Most systems revolve around what I described decades ago as the exhaustion principle—that is, exhaust the mind, so that the thinking process gives way to silence, where the sacredness of God’s Presence can be known. One example can be seen in an exhaustive dance where the dancers so deplete themselves that they collapse and the body/mind relationship (without the personal ego energy) takes over. In other words, exhaust the body, and you exhaust the personal ego level of the mind; and if consciousness remains, it is only the sacred silence of the Eternal, or God.
The Biblical words that express it all are, “Be still and know that I am God.” So many turn to God daily, seeking God’s Guidance or some form of Divine intervention in their lives, yet they cannot hear God’s Presence, for it is drowned out by the loudness of their thoughts. The Christ Mind that was in Jesus referred to this as “praying amiss.” Simply put, the more one prays using thought, the less one can hear the Voice of the Silence, or God. Candidly, the only time prayer makes a connection to God or Universal Presence is when the personal ego has exhausted itself or let go, and in letting go creates a consciousness void which is instantly filled with God’s Universal Presence. To the very heart of the matter, if a person never uttered a word of prayer, but simply became as silent as possible, Universal Presence or God would respond. In other words, a person does not have to ask. As expressed by the Christ Mind that was in Jesus—“Your Father knows what you have need of before you ask.”
In the Sacred Silence of God’s Universal Presence, all is already known—inclusive of all souls, both in the seen physical world and in the unseen world of other dimensions—for past, present, and future co-exist in one Eternal Moment of Time. And, it must be noted, that whatever a person would be moved to pray for will not be answered as a physical reality, if it is not what is best for the soul’s journey at any given moment of so-called time in the soul’s eternal journey.
If we wish to be more under the influence of the Universal Presence of God, may we speak less outwardly and listen more inwardly. There’s an expression that goes, “He is a man of few words.” When such a person is encountered, when the person does speak, in most instances the words are meaningful and insightful. When that person doesn’t speak—whether consciously aware of it or not—the silence opens some degree of receptivity to, and influence by, the knowingness of Universal God Presence.
Health is so very important. So please also note that one’s health can be greatly influenced by the Sacred Silence of God’s Presence. Whenever you begin to have a feeling that something is not right with the health of the body, you should become as quiet as possible. Granted, this may not always be possible if extreme pain or other discomfort is present, but as soon as it has diminished be as quiet and still as possible—both physically and mentally. If possible, enter a meditative state—even a light one will do. This will give greater presence for the Primal Energy of Universal God-Presence to work on adjusting all of the out-of-balance energy factors in your body and mind, thereby restoring those energy factors and improving health. When it comes to health and healing, indeed Silence is Golden, for it is the Sacred Silence of Universal God-Presence working to maintain or restore the health of one’s body.
Being quieter and more silent also allows the Power and Love of God’s Presence to be more easily experienced by others. Many years ago, I knew of a man who was married to a very bright and beautiful woman, who—in her enthusiasm for life—talked and talked to an extreme. One day, he asked her to engage in an experiment of not speaking for a few minutes. The wife became silent. After a few minutes the husband said to her, “When you are silent I feel an enlargement of your presence. I sense a greater beauty, power, and love emanating forth from you. I feel a greater sense of a wonderful you that I cannot sense when I’m concentrating on your words. I can be aware of the truer, deeper you, and it’s wonderful.” From that day forward the wife spoke less, because when she was silent, she too could sense a greater presence—the Sacred Silence of God’s Presence filling her soul.
Yes, whether it regards one’s health, a relationship, or, most importantly, one’s entire life, the Sacred Silence of God’s Universal Presence is there within all—awaiting the quieting of thoughts and thinking.
Be still then. Enter the Sacred Silence of God’s Presence and know the blessings of God’s Peace and Love.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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“How to Let God Re-create Your Life”
Miracle of miracles, God can re-create your life at any time that it is in need of re-creation. Whatever a person’s circumstances, no matter what conditions exist in one’s life, the presence of God working from within you can re-create your life. It is so imperative to know and always be aware of this reality.
If you are in a cycle where your life does not need to be re-created, that is fine. However, as night follows day and spring follows winter, it is only a matter of time before things may change to such a degree in your life that you are left with no choice other than to start your life anew.
In today’s modern life, with so many changes taking place at such a rapid pace, a person needs to have an anchor of solidarity when it comes to having to start some part of life, or all of it, all over again. If you are an employee, your job situation may now change several times during the course of your working years. If you are a business person, there is so much change transpiring in the economic world, you may have to start a new business a number of times. No one in a profession is immune, and most knowledgeable people today are acutely aware of this.
Yet, intellectual knowledge, in most cases, is not enough, especially if a person is faced with the need to start anew. In fact, many people currently live in high anxiety and tension, fearing what they would do if their jobs or businesses collapsed. Such underlying tension can create health problems, which can further complicate matters, should drastic change in one’s life be necessary.
Health, in and of itself, can have a major impact on a person’s life, necessitating a radical change of lifestyle, related to work or one’s personal life. And, when it comes to one’s personal life, how great the necessity can become for re-creating one’s life when faced with a romantic breakup, divorce, or the passing of one you dearly love.
The greater the mystical spiritual awareness during such times, the easier it is to re-create one’s life. When I say mystical, I mean the inner knowledge that a portion of God’s presence is within you at the innermost center or nucleus of consciousness in your mind, and that God’s presence wants to help you because you are God’s creation, and God, as your eternal parent, loves you.
This awareness not only gives you something to fall back on psychologically, but it is also a literal mystical fact of life that means that your life can be re-created by God, whether your financial life, love life, or whatever area needs to be re-created.
Whenever your life is deeply in need of remaking, trust God rather than your personal ego. Your personal ego can only see fragments of the total picture of your life and where it should go from here. God, however, can see the whole picture of what needs to be done in your life. When you try to figure out what to do using the intellect of personal ego, you are immediately limited in terms of knowing what is needed to reconstruct your life. When you turn it over to God, you can have complete trust that whatever should be done for your best long-term interests will be done.
Living in accordance with one’s personal will creates a state of mind where a person more or less attempts to force things to happen. Giving up your personal will to God’s will allows things to happen naturally. When you give up your personal will, you, in truth, give up the will of a false, illusionary identity. When you give up your personal will to God’s will, the Divine can more completely and quickly move to do what needs to be done to re-create your life.
Behind a backdrop of major changes is your soul’s true purpose for this lifetime. If you allow God to re-create your life for you, you are automatically working with your soul’s purpose. The fulfilling of your soul’s purpose at every re-creation of your life will give you lasting happiness. The reason is that only that which fulfills your soul’s purpose for this lifetime can provide you with happiness that endures.
When you attempt to re-create your life through your personal ego, you may entirely miss what it is that will bring you fulfillment and happiness along with adding to your soul’s journey through eternity. You should always consider yourself an Eternal Being and that your decisions in life should, therefore, be made by The Eternal Being, or God.
Every time you meditate, you open the conscious level of your mind more completely to the influence of God’s consciousness surfacing from the deeper levels of your mind. If you are meditating on a daily basis, you are constantly exposing the energies comprising your conscious mind to divine energies from God. Over a period of time, varying from individual to individual, a transformation of consciousness occurs.
The end result of this transformation is that your new consciousness is in attunement with how your mind should be operating in a re-created life. Thus, your daily meditation is a means through which God can bring about changes in your consciousness equal to the consciousness necessary for re-creating your life.
You will realize at a certain point of spiritual awareness that God is constantly re-creating your life. Most people think that God only re-creates for a limited duration, and when that is accomplished, withdraws until the next time your life needs to be re-created. The truth is that the re-creation of your life after major change is an ongoing process.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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Text taken from Dr. Paul Leon Masters’ “The Theocentric Way of Life,” Volume 3: Module 22.
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“Free Will or Predestiny”
Is your life one of free will or is it one of predestiny? Philosophers, theologians, and wise men, throughout all of time, have pondered this age-old question. If it were just fascinating metaphysical speculation, that would be one thing. But this question is far more than speculative musing. It is a critical issue concerning your life and the lives of everyone else. How you live your life can very definitely be influenced by whether you accept that you have been given free will by a creator, or God, or that God has you living a predestined life.
Most schools of theology will agree that humankind is given free will. Yet, at the same time, they will speak of messiahs, prophets and the like, who incarnated on this earth with definite predestined missions for humanity. Is it, then, that some have a predestiny, while others do not? Or is it that all people, even though they are not messiahs or prophets are also subject to living a life that is predestined?
In actuality, the truth of whether life is one of free will or predestiny may lie somewhere in between. A soul, as an example, may incarnate into the physical dimension of the planet Earth, and have free will within the geographical and cultural framework of the time in history during which the incarnation takes place. The soul can make choices or express free will within the boundaries of geography, culture and the time in history. While expressing free will and making choices, the soul must still do so within certain parameters.
Next, we enter into the realm of metaphysics and the karmic question. Is one’s present life based on the law of cause and effect as an outgrowth, reward or punishment of a previous life or lives?
Is it predestiny that some are born wealthy and others born poor? And some are born in countries that know long periods of peace and prosperity, while others are born in countries that are constant battlefields of war, destruction and poverty? Is it all just coincidence or is there a rhyme and reason to the cosmic drama that seems to engulf people’s lives?
Cause and effect is a universal law of life. Whatever is currently taking place is the effect brought about by a prior cause that put it into motion. Therefore, when you think about predestiny, it could be that everything taking place in your life, whether good or ill, is as a result of a prior cause. If this is the case, and it is, we can then say that everything in life is predestined and based on prior causes.
The main point to consider here is that nothing is coincidental. Everything is as a result of cause and effect. Because of the law of cause and effect, predestiny cannot be denied. There is a biblical truth that underscores the law of cause and effect that sets up predestiny, which says, “As you sow, so do you reap.” A person may have free will, but it will be operating within the boundaries determined by prior causes or predestiny.
The word Karma means action. The actions can be positive or negative. Whatever your actions today, whether they are physical, mental, emotional, psychical, or spiritual, they will result in a like-natured manifestation in your future. You are creating your own predestiny through the Law of Karma or, your present-day actions. If you are currently consciously causing hardship for others, you are creating a prior cause or negative Karma or predestiny of hardship in your future, whether in this lifetime before you leave it, or in a future lifetime.
Nothing is by coincidence; all is based on prior lifetime causes. All is carefully calculated according to divine mathematics, and nothing is left to chance. In the case of higher, more evolved souls, the decision-making is theirs. In the case of young, unaware souls, the decision is made for them based on prior causes and karma.
As the soul matures and grows into adulthood, the soul is predestined to be positive or negative, based on previous Karma. The exception to this is that a higher soul may be forgiving of a soul who acts negatively towards them, thus putting an end to a repetitive karmic go-around, lifetime after lifetime.
This is an important law of forgiveness that, if practiced often enough, minimizes and eventually eliminates conflicts with others. The only exception to this would be in the case of a high soul whose truths might antagonize those whose motives are questionable.
Every day, as you engage in the daily business of living, constantly be aware that you are creating a predestiny. Everything you are doing, every action is a prior cause that is creating your predestiny. Therefore, with free will, choose your actions carefully and wisely, physically, mentally, psychically and spiritually, for these are the building blocks of your future. This is where free will really does exist. For example, you have the free will to create your predestiny! This is how free will and predestiny divinely interact, and why both are needed to cause the soul to grow and awaken to its divine potential.
If you turn over your personal will to the will of God for your life, you will be intuitively guided by God as to how to exercise your free will in making right choices and decisions. If you are living a difficult lifetime, it will be made easier through God’s companionship. If you are living a wonderful life that seems to be filled with good karma, you will exercise free will by using your good fortune to help others.
In so doing, you are creating a positive predestiny in your future, whether in this lifetime, between lifetimes, or in another lifetime.
The ultimate truth is that both free will and predestiny co-exist, each complementing the life of humankind, as souls make their way through spiritual growth, awakening, and the enlightenment process that leads to their reuniting in the light of God.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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Text taken from Dr. Paul Leon Masters’ “The Theocentric Way of Life,” Volume 3: Module 17.
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“Holistic Spiritual Healing”
The word holistic has been described in numerous ways. When it pertains to the subject of healing, holistic is best defined as healing the whole person, whole signifying a trinity of the body, mind and spirit. It is the interaction between the body, mind and spirit that is the foundation of a holistic approach to spiritual healing.
With so much emphasis on natural healing, it is important to note that the absolute form of natural healing is holistic and spiritual. This reference is to the concept of an indwelling natural intelligence within the body that can maintain good health, and can restore good health when the body is in need of healing. What we are speaking about is an inner natural healing intelligence that has the innate wisdom to run the body and to heal it when it needs healing.
Your body is an energy field. The mind is also energy. In reality, your body is a body/mind energy field, or in an absolute sense, a field of mind energy. Mind energy is consciousness. Thus, your body could be described as a consciousness body or body of consciousness.
Your body of consciousness is everywhere from the top of your head down the length of your body to the soles of your feet. To the outer physical senses, your body appears to be made up of physical solids and liquids, but appearance is deceiving. What you are actually looking at are fields of energy or fields of mind energy appearing as flesh, bones, cells, internal organs, blood, and so on.
Your body consciousness is in a continual state of oneness with the universal consciousness of God. What this says is that your body consciousness is one with the consciousness of God and that this is a continual state. In an absolute sense, it is continual although at times, when there is the appearance of ill health, it will seem that something has interfered with the continuum. If the body is in full God consciousness, then good health will prevail.
If the body appears to be in need of healing, the healing must be the healing of consciousness, or bringing the human mind consciousness back in tune with the realization that the body’s consciousness is God’s consciousness that is whole, meaning healthy.
You should think of your body as having been made by God to express the perfection of God’s consciousness in human shape, form, matter, and density. Your mind should accept that the natural state of your body is in good health because it is the consciousness of God, having individualized into human form. Holistic spiritual healing is based on this truth, for example, all is God, inclusive of the whole of your body.
God’s consciousness can exist simultaneously on many different levels or manifestations, such as human consciousness and physical body form. In holistic spiritual healing, there is a chain of command in the healing process. Spirit or universal mind energy affects the human mind energy level, which in turn affects the body energy level.
The idea in holistic spiritual healing is to fill the human mind energy level with as much God energy consciousness as possible. The very presence of God’s consciousness energy in the human mind level produces the inner mind instruction necessary to restore health or to cause healing.
God’s consciousness informs the human mind level energies what to do, and the human mind level energies direct the energy rhythms and motions of the body to make the adjustments necessary in the energy factors underlying ailing parts of the body.
Each of the millions of cells of your body is a consciousness energy field. Each is, therefore, susceptible to the influence of energy consciousness. Every time you meditate, you surface more of God’s energy consciousness into the human mind level energy. The human mind level of energy consciousness then directs the energies of your body for health maintenance and for healing where necessary. Therefore, meditation truthfully can be thought of as the ultimate holistic spiritual healing process.
This is why people generally feel so much better after having meditated. It is because they are making more direct contact through the mind with the natural healing intelligence of God’s consciousness to adjust the energies of the body to bring relaxation, peace, rejuvenation and revitalization.
Holistically, spirit rules the mind, which in turn rules the body. Every cell of your body is a field of energy consciousness. God’s presence is a consciousness of light. Visualizing that cells are filled with God’s light energy consciousness affects the consciousness of cells.
As you visualize, make an attempt to image or imagine cells filled with God’s light energy. Believe that as this is happening, the energy factors of every cell are being adjusted precisely to the way that the energy should be working to have healing and health.
If there is a specific part of the body that is experiencing physical ill health, try to visualize the cells in that part of the body being healed by the healing consciousness of God’s light energy. Holistically, the whole is greater than its parts.
Dr. Paul Leon Masters
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Text taken from Dr. Paul Leon Masters’ “The Theocentric Way of Life,” Volume 3: Module 5.
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