What is the process of searching one's life purpose called?

 

North American Unitarian Association is forming.

During the services today, Sunday, 12/04/22, Rev. Dr. Todd Eklof announced the formation of the North American Unitarian Association.

His sermon is worth listening to.

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.

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.

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.