With the world economic crisis dominating the news recently now is the perfect opportunity for spiritual students to get to work and bring into consciousness the truth about supply. How do we do this, and can we be effective on a global level?\u00a0 I think we can if we apply the healing principles we know to the appearance of instability around the world, and to the belief that in these hard times we must pull back and accept limitation.<\/p>\n
As always, we begin our work by contemplating the truth about God.\u00a0 What do we know of God and what constitutes the world in which we live?\u00a0 If we see the world as material, filled with people holding conflicting beliefs and ideas; a world rife with fear about what will happen next, a world of storms and draughts, famines and riots, and if we accept those appearances as real, we are hypnotized, and in that state will be unable to see the spiritual reality behind the worldly appearances.\u00a0 As we contemplate the nature of God we begin to dissolve the appearances that have been imbued with power and bring into consciousness the truth about the world, and the truth about life on this planet.<\/p>\n
In reminding ourselves about the nature of God two great pillars come to mind, oneness and omnipotence.\u00a0 To realize the oneness of God is to include all that exists as a manifestation of God \u2013 not necessarily in its appearance, but in its spiritual reality.\u00a0 God is the substance of all form.\u00a0 That is the truth.\u00a0 We can ask ourselves, \u201cAre we seeing the truth when we accept the appearances of good and evil, fear and greed?\u201d\u00a0 Is what we see in the struggles of this world an activity of God or are they projections of universal beliefs, concepts, and fears?\u00a0 As we answer these questions from our developed spiritual sense, we see that God does not function in the conceptual world.\u00a0 We realize that we will not solve world problems on the level of the problem.\u00a0 This kind of contemplation will move us away from the appearance and eventually toward stillness.\u00a0 We remind ourselves that God cannot be conceived humanly, so we don\u2019t try.\u00a0 We know that God is infinite and invisible, so we stop trying to put God in a conceptual box.\u00a0 We know that God has no opposite, and it dawns on us that there is nothing to change, nothing to fight, and nothing to do if we are going to dwell in the presence of God.\u00a0 We realize that this state of no-thing-ness is omnipotent.\u00a0 So here we are, in a state of oneness with all creation yet not identifying with any projection of the appearance world.\u00a0 This brings with it a state of stillness that is all-powerful.<\/p>\n
Now we are children of God, joint-heirs to all the heavenly riches.\u00a0 Without looking out to the appearance world, these riches come into our consciousness from the infinite invisible.\u00a0 They have always been within, but without a realization of oneness, we are unaware of them.\u00a0 And since these riches are spiritual, they are not confined to material concepts.\u00a0 They appear as our daily manna \u2013 the wisdom to make the right decision, the assurance that now is the only time and that future projections are illusions.\u00a0 Our true wealth is our conscious awareness of the presence of God, through which good manifests tangibly in our lives.\u00a0 So now where are we in the world?\u00a0 Markets may rise and fall but my supply is the outpouring of Grace that is an endless resource within.\u00a0 My work is about expressing my inner resources in love and compassion, not about earning a living.\u00a0 And the Source of this work is spiritual, not dependent upon any man.\u00a0 This is God\u2019s life and wherever I find myself is the place where Spirit can flow.\u00a0 I may be on the trading floor of Wall Street or serving food to the homeless.\u00a0 It is all the activity of God if I am in a state of oneness.\u00a0 My needs will always be met living this way.<\/p>\n
As we go deeper into our realization of oneness we go deeper into the nature of supply.\u00a0 The material concept of supply is that something comes to me, that supply is the fruit of my labors, or it might be an inheritance, or it might come in the form of gifts or charity.\u00a0 If we see supply as something that comes to us, whatever form it takes, it is a material concept, and we can lose it.\u00a0 When we shift our perspective and realize that supply is an activity of God, we take it out of the realm of duality and experience the consciousness of \u201cI have.\u201d\u00a0 The \u201cI have\u201d state of consciousness comes from a realization of oneness.\u00a0 It is the realization that giving and withholding do not exist in oneness.\u00a0 \u201cAll that the Father has is thine.\u201d\u00a0 It is that state of awareness that says, \u201cI have meat ye know not of.\u201d\u00a0 But there is a greater realization of supply that comes in the deep stillness where there is no sense of separation between you and God; there is only One.\u00a0 In that consciousness you realize you are<\/em> supply.\u00a0 You are the \u201cmeat, the bread and the wine\u201d because in seeing yourself you see that which is your substance, your alpha and omega, the completeness that constitutes creation.\u00a0 That is the state of now.\u00a0 There is no process in that consciousness, only realization.<\/p>\n How does this affect the world?\u00a0 If we go back to the principle of oneness, every individual realization of the presence of God is a universal spiritual activity.\u00a0 The realization takes place in individual consciousness but the activity of that realization breaks down universal hypnotic attraction to the appearances of this world.\u00a0 Someone, somewhere, at your moment of realization, may suddenly think the fear and craziness of human events so absurd that they lose their fear of the appearance world and gain a perspective into the spiritual.\u00a0 That loss of fear, or that disconnect to the appearance world opens the individual to spiritual reality.\u00a0 You may never know how your meditations touch the world, but be assured, every time you break through the hypnotism of material appearances \u2013 appearances that are sometimes good and sometimes evil but always erroneous \u2013 you participate in lifting human consciousness out of its limitations.<\/p>\n So here is your method for rising out of the hypnotism of financial limitations, whether it is personal, national or global.\u00a0 Begin by detaching yourself from the appearance.\u00a0 You do this by removing any person from the equation.\u00a0 If there is a person or situation you can blame for your problem \u2013 or your country\u2019s problem or the world\u2019s problem \u2013 you are enmeshed in the problem and won\u2019t be able to solve it spiritually.\u00a0 The way you impersonalize is by withdrawing judgment.\u00a0 You can judge no person culpable or responsible for what you or the country is experiencing if you want to be free of the current hypnotism.\u00a0 You can release your judgment and release the people you have judged through forgiveness.\u00a0 To experience the riches of your spiritual inheritance you cannot give power to any person, or condition, or situation that exists in the appearance realm.\u00a0 What you see in this world \u2013 the fear, the anger, and the blame \u2013 is limited to the belief that there is power in matter or material circumstance.\u00a0 So by forgiving, impersonalizing and withdrawing judgment from the appearance world you have withdrawn any power it might have over you.<\/p>\n Withdrawing power from the world of effect is the secret to maintaining your spiritual connection.\u00a0 We are hypnotized out of our true self by accepting power in material effect.\u00a0 You can\u2019t have power in matter and power in God.\u00a0 God is omnipotent, so if you are seeing power struggles in the world and accept them as real, you are hypnotized into living a lie.\u00a0 The moment you see through the lie you experience your developed spiritual consciousness.\u00a0 The less you react to worldly appearances the greater your detachment will be.\u00a0 Your perception of this world will be like an observer to a grand drama.\u00a0 You will see the fear, the anxiety, and the suffering as part of the drama, not part of life.\u00a0 The life you live is an activity of God; therefore all the characteristics of God flow through you.\u00a0 There is no fear in God, so you walk through the evils of this world fearlessly.\u00a0 There is no lack in God so you live an abundant life.\u00a0 There is no suffering in God, so every problem you face is resolved in peace and love.<\/p>\n This is the spiritual way of life; to be in the world but not of it.\u00a0 It requires your complete attention.\u00a0 The lazy are easily hypnotized, and if you find yourself accepting power in the belief of good and evil, your remedy is to step back, center yourself on God, and look the beast in the face without fear.\u00a0 Error once seen is two thirds destroyed and the other third destroys itself as long as you don\u2019t get into the battle.\u00a0 Your safety, your wealth, and your wellbeing are manifested in your life in proportion to your realization of the oneness of God.\u00a0 So go forth in quietness and confidence and be that consciousness of peace, wholeness, and abundance to yourself, to those in your life, to your country \u2013 indeed to the whole world.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the world economic crisis dominating the news recently now is the perfect opportunity for spiritual students to get to work and bring into consciousness the truth about supply. 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