Sunday, December 4, 2022

Cosmic consciousness is a healing of separation.


Healing is the one ability everyone can develop and must develop if he is to be healed. Healing is the Holy Spirit’s form of communication in this world, and the only one He accepts. He recognizes no other, because He does not accept the ego’s confusion of mind and body. Minds can communicate, but they cannot hurt. T-7.V.3:1-4

A Course in Miracles (p. 254). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 


“Healing,” in the metaphysics of A Course In Miracles, means unification from the separation of ourselves from the Oneness of God. Undoing the separation is the ability that we can develop and share. This undoing the separation is a matter of the mind not the body.


In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to respect the interdependent web of existence which recognizes the whole which is greater than the sum of the parts.


Today it is suggested that we rise above our separate selves and join together in cosmic consciousness.


Saturday, December 3, 2022

Spiritual intelligence skill #1 - Self awareness: What makes you tick?

 

Question of the day for 12/03/22 - From where do we come when we are born?

 

Do our thoughts and actions match up?


Only minds communicate. Since the ego cannot obliterate the impulse to communicate because it is also the impulse to create, it can only teach you that the body can both communicate and create, and therefore does not need the mind. The ego thus tries to teach you that the body can act like the mind, and is therefore self-sufficient. Yet we have learned that behavior is not the level for either teaching or learning, since you can act in accordance with what you do not believe. To do this, however, will weaken you as a teacher and a learner because, as has been repeatedly emphasized, you teach what you do believe. An inconsistent lesson will be poorly taught and poorly learned. If you teach both sickness and healing, you are both a poor teacher and a poor learner. T-7.V.2:1-7

A Course in Miracles (pp. 253-254). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 


Do we walk the talk? Do we say what we mean and mean what we say? Do we communicate in ways that are authentic and genuine and sincere? Oftentimes we don’t. We present ourselves one way when we know our beliefs and perceptions are another. When we do this we call our behavior disingenuous, insincere, in plain terms, we don’t have our shit together.


In Unitarian Universalism some covenant together to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in our human relations. What does justice demand? Justice demands that we be honest, truthful, sincere, and genuine.


Today it is suggested that we watch our thoughts and actions and consider whether they match up.


Friday, December 2, 2022

Spiritual Intelligence Skill Four - Complexity of Inner Thought.


Life is not black and white but a lot of gray. The ego mind likes to dichotomize and play one off the other. We constantly double bind ourselves into believing that we have to choose one or the other alternative when there can be a third, fourth, and fifth way. The questions to be asked are: Can you hold contradictory ideas of the “right thing” in your mind simultaneously and perceive the larger system and context which allows other options? Can you make decisions in the face of uncertainty?

The conventional level of morality would have us choose between right and wrong but what is legally right is sometimes morally wrong and what is morally wrong is sometimes legally right, and the mature person can rise above the conventional level of norms and can apprehend the higher good and truth which is above legal and moral codes. This level of spiritual judgment is called “post conventional.”


In Unitarian Universalism, the fourth principle is the affirmation and promotion of the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. This search takes the seeker into the realm of complexity beyond the dichotomous world of simply right and wrong. Rather than black and white and compliance with some externally imposed moral code, the seeker is encouraged to rise above this code to apprehend the higher Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Jesus said “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.


Acknowledging the Divine Spark so it becomes manifest.


The body is nothing more than a framework for developing abilities, which is quite apart from what they are used for. That is a decision. The effects of the ego’s decision in this matter are so apparent that they need no elaboration, but the Holy Spirit’s decision to use the body only for communication has such a direct connection with healing that it does need clarification. The unhealed healer obviously does not understand his own vocation.T-7.V.1:1-4

A Course in Miracles (p. 253). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 


The second skill of twenty-one of Spiritual Intelligence in Cindy Wigglesworth’s model is understanding your life purpose. Why were you born and what is the purpose of your life are two of the most basic existential questions all conscious human beings consider.


The body is not the answer but is merely the temple of the Holy Spirit which resides in the mind and between minds not in bodies.The ego would have us focus exclusively on the body and ignore the mind but the Holy Spirit is latent, if not activated, in the mind of every human being. Once an individual becomes aware of the Divine Spark within themselves they yearn to connect with the Divine Spark in others and the Kingdom of God becomes consciously manifest in the world. This manifestation, consciously, of the Divine Spark of the Kingdom of God is a healing of the separation and our purpose in life to become One with Everything.


In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. This affirmation and promotion is focused on the minds and not the bodies of our fellow travelers.


Today it is suggested that we look for the Divine Spark in ourselves and in others and when it is recognized acknowledge it so that it can become consciously manifest.


Thursday, December 1, 2022

Salvation is when everybody loves everybody all the time.


Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, because that is where the laws of God operate truly, and they can operate only truly because they are the laws of truth. But seek this only, because you can find nothing else. There is nothing else. God is All in all in a very literal sense. All being is in Him Who is all Being. You are therefore in Him since your being is His. Healing is a way of forgetting the sense of danger the ego has induced in you, by not recognizing its existence in your brother. This strengthens the Holy Spirit in both of you, because it is a refusal to acknowledge fear. Love needs only this invitation. It comes freely to all the Sonship, being what the Sonship is. By your awakening to it, you are merely forgetting what you are not. This enables you to remember what you are. T-7.IV.7:1-12

A Course in Miracles (p. 253). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 


The passage above can best be read as poetry. Its meaning is rich and deep. The idea being presented is that God is all there is. The ego is an illusion. When you perceive the Divine Spark in yourself and the other, a great healing occurs and the Truth of our Ultimate being is realized. This is what some call “enlightenment.” Whatever this realization is called, the realization is a great blessing and an amazing grace.


In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. This inherent worth and dignity comes from God’s unconditional love for God’s creation. We are called by God to extend this unconditional love which we experience within outward to others.


Today it is suggested that we bypass our conditional loving and engage in unconditional loving for ourselves and each other. Salvation comes when everybody loves everybody all the time.


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