Week 7

Hi fellow Mystics,
I thank you all for all of your prayers and thoughtful graces this last week, Paul is doing much better, and will be in class on Tuesday.

Here are some questions to think on before class:

How do you feel about your own spiritual practices?

How do you maintain spiritual discipline without rigidity?

What do we mean when we talk about God's will?

When I yield to God's will, what am I surrendering to?

Homework for week 6

Hello fellow Mystics! Wonderful to see and hear all the growing mystisism in the group!
Here is the homework for week  #6
READ:
           The Way of the Mystic  Chapter 6
           The Essential Mystics    Chapter 4

ASSIGNMENT:
          Next wee bring a news article from a newspaper or magazine on a subject that requires compassion-      opening the heart and knowing the Truth at the same time.

PRACTICE:
          Daily meditation.
          Practice of the Presence.

Have fun!

Dark night of the Soul

"With one leap, Loves horse will carry you home, However black with obstacles the way may be" RUMI

Being yourself

I love this from the 7 paths to God:

There is an old Hadistic story about Rabbi Zuszya, who dies and goes to heaven. While reviewing his life, he explains to God that he had tried to be a wise as Solomon, as steadfast as David, and as brave as Moses. "That is al well and good," replies God, "But why didn't you try to be yourself?"


Rev. Kevin spoke to this in his last masterful service. About just being who you are, and knowing that that alone is enough. Many times we take on different persona to prove that we are enough, to fill the empty that we perceive as a hole, a deficit, a less than perfect. We then become the perfect "Mother, Father, Wife, Husband, Nurse, Teacher," and so on and so forth, filing the void in the attempt to be perfect and whole. If anything happens to change that perception, we are then lost, and we cling to the memory of what we were, of what we perceived as perfect and whole. The truth is that in the emptiness, in the hole, in the absence of anything, is everything. In this emptiness there is a Wholesome perfection, a stillness, a truth, that can never be deterred from. With this perception of wholeness without anything added, this acceptance of yourself just as you are, you then do not have the "need" to express as  the perfect "Mother, Father, Wife, Husband,"there is not need to fill the void. And as we hold this consciousness of wholeness, of perfection, we naturally express as all the persona's without a dependency placed on them. Without the dependencies placed on them, the persona's now depend on us.

I am a perfect "Mother, Father, Wife, Husband," because I am whole and perfect -vs- I am whole and perfect because I am a perfect "Mother, Father, Wife, Husband."

Homework for week 5

Hi Mystics, here is the homework for week 5. BTW wonderful class & mystical sharing.

Read:
        The Way of the Mystic     Chapter 5
        The Essential Mystics       Chapter 7

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT:
          "Dark night of the Soul" Thought paper ( no more than 250 words).
              Based upon the reading. Questions you might consider:

                            Is the darkness a necessary experience?
                            Do these ideas conflict with what we teach in Science of Mind?
                            How do you deal times of apparent darkness?
                            How would you like to deal with them?

PRACTICE:
               Daily meditation
               Practice of the Presence

Right time to meditate?

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

There's no right or wrong time to meditate. Each of us finds our most comfortable time of day, so don't try to do this on someone else's schedule. You can slip into the gap frequently if you take advantage of a two-minute stop at a traffic light, a pause in a meeting, a trip to the rest room, or the time you spend waiting for an appointment. - Dr. Wayne Dyer

Ernest Holmes Video

Here is the Ernest Holmes Video, it is 22 minutes long, so I encourage you to set some time aside and give yourself the gift of Ernest Holmes!  
                                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77BxrxHXhOA

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality

Hello fellow Mystics:

We are well into week four and I am happy to say that I am entering the mystical experience of Blogging!

This week we consider the mystical path of service and its many fruits of the spirit.

As you are going through the lessons keep in mind that you are an instrument of God in human affairs, and that true service is born out of the heart and not of obligation.


Continue with your daily meditation, and know that this blog is available for us to make connections and to communicate any revelations or insights that we are experiencing in consciousness.