"Knowing The Truth v. The Actual God Experience."
December 21st, 2017
Dear Friend,
The harmony of God, good, becomes evident when one is consistently aware of God actually being all that is, and all that is happening in individual and world experience.
Experiential meditation and silence achieves (is itself) the God experience.
"The earth [mind, body and world and all these constitute] is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof." Once this truth is not only known but lived as the one actuality, truth becomes naturally evident as the formation of earth without personal effort. The health, abundance, peace, harmony, purpose and joy of God as earth fulfills daily experience.
The first thing that is so very important to realize is that the experience we call "human, physical, material, worldly" is not, in itself, error; is not, in itself, wrong or evil.
In their unconditioned state, the forms of person, body and world are the
perfectly good and natural experience of "our" (human) current level of
awareness -- one of the "many mansions in my Father's house [one of the infinite degrees of awareness of God]."
Think. If the "human, worldly" experience, in itself, was error, untruthful, actually lacking in God, spirit and truth, the Master (who is pure God consciousness) could not have existed in it, nor be visible to its people.
Light (truth) does not exist in dark (error).
In the same way, if the body of man, and if things and conditions of the world were, in truth, evil (in other words, if error was an entity, an actual separate reality) the Master could not have brought forth their truth -- the countless "demonstrations" of health and healing, prosperity, love, harmony and peace in the world.
Dark (error) cannot exist in light (truth).
Many students are almost "afraid" of letting go of the personal sense and its attachment to the body and world, for pure God experience, in case what they love and treasure in the world disappears or is "taken from them," or they from it.
I remember this same fear as I was struggling to awaken. I did not , for many years, realize the cause of the struggle. It was a subtle fear of probable loss or of my being and world being taken from me that stopped me from truly letting go.
This belief is entirely unfounded and untrue.
You can let go of everything "human" and "material" this day, and in truly letting go, experience God this day as the health, harmony and wholeness of form.
Did
the multitudes healed, prospered, harmonized
and pacified in the Master's consciousness lose their corporeal sense of life, mind, body, family, home, business? No. There is no evidence in any scripture nor in decades of the healing experience to suggest
that opening an individual's awareness to truth takes them from
their world experience, from their loved ones, their homes, their businesses, their here-and-now lives.
Opening awareness to truth multiplies and magnifies the good -- the truth -- of world experience. "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. . . . I am come into this world, that they which see not might see."
John 10:10; 9:39
As we begin to live by and as our spiritual identity (God identity) everything of our experience heals, transforms and regenerates. The one Good that is becomes more evident as awareness opens to true identity. Mind, body, thing and condition become more lively, harmonious, abundant, peaceful, purposeful and joyous.
Our body heals, gains new strength, is filled with new vitality. We find ourselves driven from within with a new sense of purpose and more vigorous and fulfilling forms of expression.
Our family is protected and filled with the light and presence of God as health, love, success, freedom of being, true happiness. Our businesses and careers prosper. They attain new levels of success and achievement without personally striving for these, but simply as the natural unfolding, blossoming and fruitage of God being more fully realized as all-of-all.
That Which Is Not Truly Yours
What about that which is not truly you or yours? (meaning truly your fulfillment, that which is not "our own"?)
The things that are not our true fulfillment drop away. Never be afraid of this divine transformation. It is as natural as dark becoming light as the sun fills the earth. Everything of dark dissolves to reveal light, warmth and joy.
Realize that the very experience of your life transforming, and of some "old" or "untrue" (disharmonious, painful) relationships, things, conditions or activities and reliance dropping away is itself the new, transformed, and truthful "you" pushing through and becoming perfectly visible for the world to see and benefit by.
Realize this about your "this world" experience: you, your mind, body and world and everything everywhere in it and of it in its unconditioned state is already God, good. Health, wealth, love, harmony, peace, freedom of being and fulfillment of purpose -- these are the only reality; and that reality exists within and without. "The earth is full of the goodness of God.... The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.... The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord."
God is mind is formation -- the form (objective experience) of being, body and earth (see The 7 Spiritual Steps To Solving Any Problem for a deeper understanding of "God is mind is form").
It is because God is unconditioned and unconditional good that mind and formation (body, organ, function, activity, amount and earth itself) are "also " unconditioned and unconditionally good.
But this truth does our practical experience no good until we become consciously aware of it and live as and by it.
Why Is There Good and Bad Experience?
Why does worldly experience contain good and bad? Because humanity believes sense testimony to be reality.
In human sense or belief, we observe people, things and conditions and believe that they of themselves are real.
It is when we awaken and realize that only God is, that nothing exists but God no matter how it may appear to be, how it may appear to act, what amount or quality or condition seems to be ours at any moment -- and ignore these appearances as being nothing but belief-images -- that truth begins to open in us and good becomes evident.
In other words, in material belief we believe form to be an actuality in itself; we believe imagery to be real, and then get busy attempting to heal it, fix it or pacify it, harmonize it or prosper it. We attempt to be rid of bad and to gain or increase good.
This, of course, is not truth. Worse, truth cannot be brought to, or through, or work for that which is believed to be real.
Only God is; and it is when God alone is recognized as being (and allowed to be) the reality of all you are, God experience is infallibly evident throughout your mind, body and world.
The true God experience is unconditioned and unconditional good of all in you and of you -- all that your mind is, all that your body is, and all that your world is.
Because God is all, truly living by God experience infallibly evidences good and harmony throughout individual life.
The word "infallibly" is used authoritatively. God already and forever is. In the same way that water is wet, and so the water experience is infallibly wet, we have infallible God (good) throughout life when we truly live as and by God, rather than as and by humanity and materiality.
This true living as and by God -- experiential living -- is the one truthful identity.
You can be assured that when one truly turns to and lives by God, God is evident as the fulfillment of every branch of life.
Anything of life that, at the moment, is discordant, ill, lacking or limited loses the power to sustain itself in your experience. All non-truth dissolves or turns and destroys itself, to reveal good, harmony and wholeness.
But it takes letting-go of that which seems to be, and a true devotion to and trust in God itself as the only actual reality of life.
God Consciousness Is Itself Earthly God Form
"Earth as it is in heaven" is reality here and now. Nothing but God formation exists, but we have to be God consciousness in order to see God form. Nothing of God is hidden in the mind of God. The consciousness of God has only God in it, is only conscious of that which God is. It has no matter in it whatsoever, no "humanity, physicality, materiality" in it whatsoever. The consciousness of God has only God in it. "Have the mind that was also in Christ Jesus" -- a mind empty of personal sense, and filled with God alone.
Then the earthly forms are "as it is in heaven" -- the "image and likeness" of God as earth (as body, relationship, family, money, opportunity, success, peace and harmony).
God
consciousness (the mind that was also in Christ Jesus or Buddha
Gautama) does not deny humanity or earth, but enables the truth of
being and earth to become tangibly evident in every day experience.
Do you see therefore, that the consciousness of God is unattached and free of the belief in humanity, physicality, materiality, amount and condition as being real in and of its own self?
All of experience is real, but not in and of its own self.
It is God, infinity and omnipresence (because none else exists);
but if we observe any person, thing, amount or condition believing that
it of its own self is real, then we "shut God out" of our experience of
these.
In this way, realize that if God (unconditional good) seems to be lacking in any department of your life there is only one reason: some remaining material belief is blocking truth from being freely evident and experienced.
Always remember that the whole of God, truth and harmony, is everything you are and have this minute, and stands visibly all around you this minute.
Everything of your experience -- everything, without exception -- is whole and complete, healthy and vital, abundant and harmonious, purposeful and free, peaceful and fulfilled despite the way it may appear to you at this moment. "Judge not by the appearance."
God is finished, and because God is all, all is finished, whole and perfect. Nothing is actually out of place, lacking or limited, "needing" more of God to "become" whole and harmonious even though there is no denying it may, to sense, seem to be.
The one reason we do not freely and naturally see wholeness and completeness -- every he, she, it, amount and activity in our life -- is because of remaining belief. We still believe that that which we observe is real in and of its own self. We continue to make effort to be rid of its bad and to gain its good.
Dissolve remaining beliefs in the presence and practice of God awareness.
Every serious Miracle Self student (and every serious Infinite Way and Christian Science student) has enough knowledge of truth. Now we are given to devote ourselves to the actual God-as-all experience by dissolving remaining, stuck or stubborn beliefs that make it appear as if (to personal sense; to the believer) that God is needed to heal the body or multiply money, to prosper business or career or to open out new opportunity, to pacify discord, disagreement or war, to harmonize disharmonious conditions, or to bring understanding, love and union to relationships, neighbors, governments.
Realize now, that as you immerse yourself in the awareness of God, and as you devote more time each day to rest and spiritual receptivity, your senses are infused by the light and substance of God itself "shining through" as the healthy, abundant, harmonious forms of experience.
With space and receptivity made within (by emptying the senses of personal and material belief) the presence of God dissolves the fog of belief and reveals the image and likeness of itself as the good of all experience.
Let God Loose Within You
Make no mistake that when God is "let loose" within, belief and its false experience cannot stand, and harmony is quickly made evident throughout one's mind, body and world. "Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
You must be willing and ready to let go of stubborn belief, and be "empty" of self in all major ways (the ways that are at the moment blocking truth from the specific discordant aspects of your life).
The Willingness and Readiness Required
You must be truly ready to drop sufficient personal sense to live as and by the God experience rather than the human, intellectual, physical and material experience.
It
is impossible to hang onto the personal and material belief and have the God
experience too. It is either-or. But do you see that your true self is immeasurably more fulfilled, free and purposeful in every way, than your
untrue (human, material) self? God experience dissolves the clouds of untruth and reveals a greater degree of your true self, mind, body and world.
Who wants to hang onto lack and limitation, illness and insecurity when an infinity and omnipresence of life, love, wealth, harmony, success and purpose is at hand and freely available as we lifts into and live by the God experience?
Be ready and willing to drop more material belief than ever before, devote more hours of the day to God awareness and silent receptivity than ever before.
Devote at least three to four
hours daily to listening to classes, pondering the truth given us in each of our Monthly Letters, and to the actual experience of
feeling the presence of God "happening" within. Miracles of harmony and joy quickly and then consistently become evident as we adopt this way of God life.
Constantly work at being rid of "you" (the personal sense or belief of self) and filling yourself full to overflowing with palpable God awareness.
Experiencing
God as real life-form requires a spiritual
discipline, a firm guard against the belief and acceptance
of humanity, matter, amount and condition as being real in themselves, and a determination to allow truth to naturally "flow through"
on its own rather than making effort for it which you cannot and never need do. "Fear not, little flock, for it is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom."
It is by dropping belief in and effort toward that which seems to be needed, and by becoming a nothingness of personal self -- a transparency for God -- that God is experienced as the tangible harmony of life.
A Word About Belief
Truth is counter-intuitive, as is all God experience. As it says in the writings, "Spiritually healing any illness, disease, injury, dysfunction, deterioration, lack, limitation or insecurity is not what it seems to be, nor does it take place 'where' it seems to be needed."
Nothing believed to be, is. Even that which is believed to be God experience, isn't.
Do you see that? Look into your life and recall how many times you believed you had the God experience without then experiencing your needed harmony, health, wealth and peace.
It is not what is believed to be God, but what is actually evidenced as God that brings the full experience of God into one's life.
Make no mistake that when God is truly experienced, harmony and wholeness is quickly and infallibly evident -- just as quickly and infallibly as light is evident on earth when sunshine fills it each morning.
Experiencing God -- daily living as and by the God experience -- is all about deeply knowing that God is all that mind, body and world is, and then by constantly emptying out all personal self to "receive" (experience) God itself as mind, as body and as world.
Every grain of personal self you allow to be dissolved in and by the experienced presence of God within reveals more fulfillment throughout your here-and-now. "This world" becomes ever more evident as harmonious, whole, loving and peaceful "as it is in heaven [in truth]." The "image and likeness" of God becomes evermore infallibly evident.
When you grasp that God is already and fully present as the infinite forms of your life, and that the appearance of discord and disharmony is never what it seems to be but is simply a lack of spiritual awareness ("open his eyes that he may see"), then you are prepared, ready and able to have all remaining belief dissolved by the light of truth happening within, and to have harmony prevail throughout your life.
With abundant and joyous blessings,
Paul
P.S. Three new Miracle Self books are in the pipeline -- Awareness Itself, Infallible Healing, and Living The Miracle Self.
Drawn and expounded from recent classes, all three books provide the reader with profound clarity and practice. As I read the manuscripts and help prepare the books, I am astonished at the light each provides.
As the original classes were coming through I had not fully caught how brightly, clearly and profoundly the message of God as literal, visible all-of-all was being given us.
One of the greatest revelations the Miracle Self has been given is that of God's visibility. The belief in an intangible v. tangible, invisible v. visible, ethereal v. palpable God denies the truth of omnipresence.
God is one, infinite and omnipresent, the" same yesterday, today and forever." Therefore, what of God is intangible v. tangible, invisible v. visible, ethereal v. palpable?
Since the strong revelation of and subsequent classes on literal oneness -- of God (truth) being literally, as the Master gave us, "inside you and outside you" -- more and more students have "gotten it" and consequently have their good unfolding day by day.
These three new books present us with this truth so very clearly that I am almost tempted to say we do not need any more, nor any more classes. Reading, absorbing, meditating with and devoting silence time to the messages contained in the three titles should enable any individual of sufficient spiritual devotion to find the whole of truth, live it, and thereby behold the most wondrous and purposeful life unfold right where they are for the rest of time.
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