The Value Of Concept In Spiritual Progression ~ Part II
by Ernest L. Norman
Every person does, from the time of death until the time of rebirth, live in some spiritual world, and to the materialist this is indeed a
very nebulous, gray and hazy world wherein he finds himself without his physical body, simply because he does not have the necessary forms of consciousness to maintain a conscious relationship with the spiritual world in which he finds himself; and all of his values of life are posed upon material values which no longer exist in the spiritual world about him. Consciousness to this degree, however, is fortunately not completely justified in all intents and purposes, for overshadowing any human being in this nether world of spiritual values is that Higher Superconsciousness, that spiritual cell or nucleus, which has been created in cyclic patterns by the Infinite Consciousness. (more…)
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Early Memories Of Ernest & Ruth Norman
Our Joining (Their First Meeting)
by Ruth Norman
It was a matter of a few days after leaving the desert (taking a house trailer with me) that I met Ernest at a Spiritualist church, one I had never attended before and where a convention was being held. One of the choicest bits of phenomena to us pertained to the three spiritual white-robed, white-haired and bearded, ancient, learned Ones who, as Ernest said, carried about with them huge books. These Ancients (denoting great wisdom) were seen psychically with Ernest during several years prior to this by other clairvoyants who often told him these books represented those which he would one day write. Earlier that very evening, Ernest said, a ‘sensitive’ told him, “Whenever you are ready, now you can start to write the books.” Ernest replied, “I’m ready.”
The Moderator & Uriel 1968 to 1970 (Please watch on Vimeo)
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How Science Supports Spirituality
by David Ash
When religion, shorn of its superstitions, traditions and unintelligent dogmas, shows its conformity with science, then there will be a great unifying, cleansing force in the world, which will sweep before it all wars, disagreements, discords and struggles, and then will mankind be united in the power of the love of God. ~Abdu’l-Baha
Yogis in ancient India probed the atom with their Siddhi powers and literally saw how energy forms mass; they saw quantum spin. David Ash, an unrecognized British scientist, has applied the yogic discovery to modern physics. The result is a self‐contained science that is so simple everyone can understand and spirituality is supported by the revolutionary theory as well. (more…)
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Life And Mind Among The Atoms
by William Walker Atkinson
To the majority of persons the title of this article would seem an absurdity. Not to speak of Inorganic “Mind,” the idea of “Life” in the Inorganic World would seem a ridiculous paradox to the “man on the street” who thinks of Substance as “dead,” lifeless and inert. And, to tell the truth, even Science has held this view until a comparatively recent period, laughing to scorn the old Occult Teaching that the Universe is Alive, and capable of Thinking. But the recent discoveries of modern Science has changed all this, and we no longer hear Science speaking of “dead Matter” or “blind Force”—it recognizes that these terms are meaningless, and that the dreams of the old Occultists are coming true. Science confronts a live and thinking Universe. She is dazzled by the sight, and would shade her eyes, fearing to see that which she feels must present itself to her vision when her eyes become accustomed to the sight. (more…)
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Eliminating The Static Of Fear From The Mind Radio
by Paramahansa Yogananda
Everything in the universe is composed of energy, or vibration. The vibration of words is, by extension, a grosser expression of the vibration of thoughts. The thoughts of all men are vibrating in the ether. Because thoughts have such a high vibratory rate, they have not yet been detected there, but it is fortunate that we do not know the thoughts of all men.
Through the instrumentality of radio, you can push a button and lo, you hear music and voices. If it were not for the intelligence in the ether, through which the radio waves travel to your receiving set, you might hear all the different broadcasts at once. God created the ether, and He planned that man would create radio and radio-wave vibrations which could be transmitted and received through this medium. Radio waves depend on the ether for transmission, and on electricity for amplification in broadcasting and receiving. The sounds of radio broadcasting are always present in the ether, but are inaudible to us without a radio instrument. The vibratory radio-waves represent thoughts that are being transmitted through space into any receiving set that is tuned in. (more…)
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Recalling Far Memory
by Joan Grant
I was twenty-nine before I managed to recover the technique of being able to relive an earlier incarnation in detail and as a deliberate exercise. Until then, my conviction that I had had many lifetimes before I was born of English parents, in London, on the 12th of April 1907, was based on disjointed episodes from seven previous lives, four male and three female. These episodes, although as natural as memories from more immediate yesterdays, are frustrating, because I could not fill in the gaps in continuity which would have linked them into coherent sequences.
That everyone else did not have even this small degree of far memory was so difficult to understand, that until I was eleven I presumed that other people’s reticence about their own long history was only another of the incomprehensible taboos that complicated an Edwardian childhood. I also thought that everyone else had second sight; for as grown-ups pretended not to see each other if they met while scuttling in dressing gowns to the bathroom, it seemed no more, and no less, illogical that they pretended to ignore anyone who did not happen to be conventionally clothed in a physical body. (more…)
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Illusions
by Richard Bach
1. There was a Master come unto the earth, born in the holy land of Indiana, raised in the mystical hills east of Fort Wayne.
2. The Master learned of this world in the public schools of Indiana, and as he grew, in his trade as a mechanic of automobiles.
3. But the Master had learnings from other lands and other schools, from other lives that he had lived. He remembered these, and remembering became wise and strong, so that others saw his strength and came to him for counsel.
4. The Master believed that he had power to help himself and all mankind, and as he believed so it was for him, so that others saw his power and came to him to be healed of their troubles and their many diseases.
5. The Master believed that it is well for any man to think upon himself as a son of God, and as he believed, so it was, and the shops and garages where he worked became crowded and jammed with those who sought his learning and his touch, and the streets outside with those who longed only that the shadow of his passing might fall upon them, and change their lives. (more…)
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Solitude
by James Allen
“Why idly seek from outward things
The answer inward silence brings?
Why climb the far-off hills with pain,
A nearer view of heaven to gain?
In lowliest depths of bosky dells
The hermit Contemplation dwells,
Whence, piercing heaven, with screened sight,
He sees at noon the stars, whose light
Shall glorify the coming night.”
Whittier.
“In the still hour when passion is at rest
Gather up stores of wisdom in thy breast.”
Wordsworth.
Man’s essential being is inward, invisible, spiritual, and as such it derives its life, strength, from within, not from without. Outward things are channels through which its energies are expended, but for renewal it must fall back on the inward silence. (more…)
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Venusian Messenger: Akhnaton
by Dana Howard
Supreme moments come to us, but supreme moments are fleeting. They must be captured at the peak of the tide woven into the fabric of the garment of the day else centuries may pass before conditions are ripe for them to come again. Supreme moments follow on the heels of prophesy.
When we piece together both facts and symbols we are reasonably assured that these intelligent ones from faraway planets have cast their influence over our earth many times in the past. But as DIANE said:
“THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE OF THE GREATER PLANETS HAVE BEEN PERMITTED TO COME TO BEINGS OF EARTH.”
Does this mean there are many Venusians among us, walking the streets of earth? (more…)
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What The World Owes The Dreamers
by Orison Swett Marden
Once when Emerson was in the company of men of affairs, who had been discussing railroads, stocks, and other business matters for some time, he said, “Gentlemen, now let us discuss real things for a while.”
Emerson was called “the dreamer of dreams,” because he had the prophetic vision that saw the world to be, the higher civilization to come. Tens of thousands of men and women stand today where he then stood almost alone.
Edison is a dreamer because he sees people half a century hence using and enjoying inventions, discoveries, and facilities which make the most advanced utilities of today seem very antiquated. His mind’s eye sees as curiosities in museums, fifty years hence, those mechanisms and devices which now seem so marvelous to us. Dreamers in this sense are true prophets. They see the civilization that will be, long before it arrives. (more…)
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The Dhammapada
Translation by F. Max Muller
The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures.
The Buddhist scholar and commentator Buddhaghosa explains that each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different occasion in response to a unique situation that had arisen in the life of the Buddha and his monastic community.
I. The Twin-Verses
1. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
2. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. (more…)
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The Physical vs Spiritual World
by Hilton Hotema
From the dawn of man there seems to have been a firm belief in the existence of a world that cannot be reached nor recognized by the physical senses and faculties.
No tribe of people has been too low in the scale of intelligence to entertain such a belief; and no race of men has been too high in the development of intelligence to reject it.
This fact constrains scholars to believe that such a word must exist; for they contend that man cannot even conceive of anything that is not nor cannot be. (more…)
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The Overcoming Of Self And Achieving Integrity
by James Allen
THE OVERCOMING OF SELF
Many people have very confused and erroneous ideas concerning the terms “the overcoming of self”, “the eradication of desire”, and “the annihilation of the personality.” Some (particularly the intellectual who are prone to theories) regard it as a metaphysical theory altogether apart from life and conduct; while others conclude that it is the crushing out of all life, energy and action, and the attempt to idealize stagnation and death. These errors and confusions, arising as they do in the minds of individuals, can only be removed by the individuals themselves; but perhaps it may make their removal a little less difficult (for those who are seeking Truth) by presenting the matter in another way. (more…)
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To Be Or Not To Be
by Ernest L Norman
Man has through the ages been duped by innumerable religious systems including Christianity 
which have all promised to those who believe, that some gods or master will someday pick them up in a basket, so to speak, and transport them to a land of plenty and eternal bliss. Such teachings and beliefs are not only fallacious but are also destructive.
Under the great universal principle of cosmic regeneration, all 
forms and substances must progressively evolve. From the inner plane the hydrogen atom evolves into the helium atom and finally into uranium; likewise in the same manner the human must progressively evolve. This is reincarnation. Unless this evolution is sustained progressively and constructively all past dispensations which are evil, selfish, malicious and negative (destructive), will remain as part of any human and in subsequent evolutions will snowball in effect to the point where the human becomes mentally and physically sick from any one or dozens of incurable conditions. (more…)
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Thrive II – This Is What It Takes
“THRIVE II – This Is What It Takes” brings viewers behind the scenes with the people and inventions that have the power to transform life for everyone.
Unpacking the strategies, the science, and the principles that underlie the most potent solutions in energy, health, consciousness, and non-coercive self-organizing, ‘THRIVE II’ brings compelling evidence that illustrates a new paradigm of science that Einstein was seeking, unveiling for the layperson an emerging coherent theory of the “Unified Field” and all that it implies. (more…)
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