In Your Words

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1. DAVID CHILSTROM - April 13, 2024 9:48 pm

   Dear John: (I’ve always wanted to say that 😉

   In “Being Incorporated”, you said “There’s no “me” over here and “my god being” over there.” Frankly, I’ve been a dualist for most of my life. After all, “I” have two distinct aspects; a human component and a being component. In the dualistic framework the human, from the instant of conception, is on an irreversible return trajectory back to the earth from which he sprang. Dust to dust and ashes to ashes. Meanwhile, the incarnate spirit, that has occupied a “tenement of clay” for a brief flash of eternity, returns to Paradise as if awakening from a troubled dream.

   But, I have come around to the view which John espoused, that this particular personification of spirit, with it’s unique pattern of human nature and nurture, embedded in a culture of American exceptionalism, abiding at this time when the archetypal themes of the ages are played out anew, is an inseparable aspect of the eternal one. There is no true self/false self dichotomy. There is, simply, the worker in the harvest field, bringing in the ripened sheaves of incarnate experience, the precious treasure of living, into the argosy of heaven.

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   • Bob Pierce - April 15, 2024 12:40 pm

     David Chilstrom wrote: “…an inseparable aspect of the eternal one.” Just seven words forming a powerful phrase describing angelic identity. A final distillation of the answers to every spiritual question any human mind and heart could ask. As this is known no further questioning is necessary. Heart and mind may rest.

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2. Peter Watson - February 7, 2024 8:29 am

   Thank you!
   This morning a friend asked if I had the rest of Martin’s poem, “Thus it is”; she had the first four lines.
   It was a delight to Google those lines and ‘accidentally’ — or ‘coincidentally’, from a spiritual-perspective at the crossover-point connecting our Lord’s thought as it attunes our personal differentiation of the Triune Ray — and to share your words.
   Again, thank you, and know that your Attunement Radiance is transmuting the substance of human-consciousness to Being-consciousness, far and wide by the light-and-easy levity of upliftment in our truth-of-love’s heavenly Ascencion-Process.

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3. David Barnes - January 30, 2024 8:20 pm

   For Bill Issacs

   Moving in meditation with you last Sunday opened vision and experience in a generative way for and through us all. Your approach to opening a consideration of the essential questions put forward in the new Divine Examination is ingenious, divinely clever, provocative and immediately relevant—spot on! The creative process you focused intensified a consciousness of metamorphosis now happening through all of us gathered, and through the Whole. All dimensions are pressed and catalyzed, called to come alive and participate as the compulsion of being, in cosmic stature, works from bottom up, from top down, and moves from within outward. Metamorphosis of the wasteland proceeds through generative action within the creative cycles that are primarily mine (and yours) to steward. This is a thrilling responsibility. As the “wound in the loins” is adequately healed one gets on with it, setting the lands in order in accord with cosmic ordinances in the fields of life to which I am called, with others, within the Whole. Together we move from the wasteland into the new land of the Garden experience gradually being restored to vision—right now becoming apparent—and calling for truly generative action from within a consciousness of the Holy City, within that Great Star that is our Home among the Stars. It is profoundly true, startling and wondrous to know that we have never been here before, in these specific atmospheres brought forth ever-new in the combinations of interwoven eternal cycles of creative and restorative action. We are moving deeper into a new and promised land, a previously invisible land, one that never really disappeared except in consciousness, and is now being restored to vision in the new heaven of experience. While the ordinances are eternal, our movement in this day is a new pioneering venture, and the means of implementation cannot be the same as previous methods gleaned from the historical record. “We may have confidence in the immensity which is bringing all this about.” This that we shared with you is a very subtle, kindly, and yet compelling, movement in consciousness, and much has already changed, inside and out, in the two days since this word was spoken. Thank you for leadership in this way Bill. db

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4. Christine Jonas - January 30, 2024 12:40 am

   Hi Bill, here is what I spoke last June when Allan and I presented at the Tone of Life. It reminded me of what you talked about on Sunday. I thought it bore repeating. I found this word it’s called “Yugen, it’s a Japanese word meaning “a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe.” “And as wondrous as Yugen is, it is still not the most transcendent feeling our species can achieve. There is a greater challenge, there is a greater pleasure. Beyond Yugen is the best feeling. Accomplish something. Improve our world. This is our greatest possible joy. Unleashed from dogma we dance a jig carefree along the cliffs edge of time, proud our dance is never hesitant, never cringing, offered boldly, honestly, joyfully, completely. Because that goal, that mission is the most beautiful dance of all.” This was a quote from the fellow who was describing Yugen.

   I love your thoughts and thought processes. Warmly always!

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