The Seer

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How do we access peace? When we dwell in the realm of peace. In this very moment as you read this, come along with me …

Take a deep breath in…. and exhale…
Take another deep breath in… and exhale…
Connect with the silence and stillness within you
Feel the aliveness and inner body energy within your hands, your body
Return to the realm of peace that is always here for you
Stop reading for a moment, close your eyes and experience this peace

In this space we are abiding in presence, in consciousness, in love, in the Holy Spirit, in God. We return to the eternal abundance that is always there. We return to the Ultimate healer, doctor, therapist, financial advisor, and career counselor. We access the wisdom that knows the way.

by Brendon Lumgair

To practice accessing the peace within, you can watch Brendon’s free 10-minute meditation on YouTube.Click here to go to this meditation.

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I understand your deep concern for the “shrinking dollar” and the “embarrassing dilemma of a shocking governmental scandal.” You ask how one is to see these situations in the light of an “absolute Good that isn’t at all apparent” to you at the moment ….

Suppose we ponder along these lines: If false value has been put into human government and its money, what is wrong (or bad) with the appearing of false value going out of graven images?

In human terms, doesn’t the wrong way make the right increasingly clear? Or, obversely, would the incubator chick ever become conscious of the light he is continually bathed in if he never peeped outside into the darkness of night? And doesn’t the darkness of the cicada’s long sojourn in the earth allow a full consciousness of sunlight and color when it emerges?

It accomplishes nothing to make the metaphysical declaration that “liars and thieves have no place in God’s government” if we still condemn, and stand in terror of “the liars and thieves in human government.”

Why? Because that is talking one government while trying to live two. Is God ALL, or is there a “human imperfect” beside? Is human government illusion or is it the means by which Divine Government is made clear?

Seen in this light, one can actually stop attempting to live two governments, one “real” and one “unreal,” and see what is labeled “human government” as the Divine becoming known.

An extract from a 20th cent. letter by William (Bill) Samuel, author of: A Guide to Awareness and Tranquillity

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The following response to an inquirer, comes as close as I have yet been able to articulate to what I believe about “success” in the spiritual search:

“I think the key is intent. If a seeker’s intent is to become the Truth at all costs, then it will happen. All the reading and practices we involve ourselves with are useful only to the extent that they build intent. If a burning desire for enlightenment is not present, no amount of meditation and practices will help. If it is present, no meditation or practices are necessary.

Paradoxically, this burning desire for Truth can’t be a reaction against a life we object to and are dissatisfied with. It must be in conjunction with an immense gratitude for what we have been given, with a “surrender” that asks for no divine rescue or special mercies. When a person who wants Truth more than life falls in love with what is, it happens.”

by Bart Marshall

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Have you ever been guilty of looking at others your own age and thinking, surely I can’t look that old. Well….

My name is Alice Smith and I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist. I noticed his B.D.S. diploma, which bore his full name. Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, darkhaired boy with the same name had been in my high school class some
30-odd years ago. Could he be the same guy that I had a secret crush on, way back then?

Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate. After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Morgan Park High School.

‘Yes. Yes, I did. I’m a Mustang,’ he gleamed with pride.

‘When did you graduate?’ I asked.

He answered, ‘in 1975. Why do you ask?’

‘You were in my class!’, I exclaimed.

He looked at me closely.

Then, that ugly, old, bald, wrinkled, fat ass, gray-haired, decrepit son-of-a-bitch asked, ‘What did you teach ???’

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If this is to be a spiritual age, until being spiritual is ordinary, we ain’t there yet. Ah, being spiritually ordinary doesn’t mean what we usually think of as being spiritual — sweetness and light etc. In other words, we do not need to reinterpret the word “ordinary”, which means the natural order that is everywhere in all our lives. What we need is to re-interpret what it means to be “spiritual.”

You can’t be spiritual or not be spiritual. Everything is spiritual. Everything is consciousness appearing and consciousness is spiritual. Everything, even material things, reflects a quality of spirit, some useful, some wasteful, some healthy, some poisonous, some loving, some hateful.

We all pick up on and recognize the quality of spirit we encounter in others and in situations. However, there is an important difference between being unconsciously spiritual and being conscious of the spirit one represents (re-presents). To pray without ceasing is to be
consciously aware of the spirit you are expressing without ceasing.

When I say that we are not there yet until being spiritual is ordinary, I am saying that we have not gone beyond the belief in good and evil, in human judgments and egotism until we consciously recognize we are spiritual beings manifesting physical bodies.

When that happens we can look out on whatever is taking place in our lives and, without ignoring the problems we face, we can appreciate that there is a divine purpose in every experience. In other words, until we can look at life subjectively in terms of the quality of spirit appearing, we will never realize that the kingdom of heaven is actually right here right now.

Frankly, more and more, I have become increasingly hot under the collar by the practices, gatherings, and talks that make being spiritual seem other than ordinary. I know, for many years I gravitated to exercises that professed being avenues to the spiritual. Now I realize that being ordinary is “now” while seeking something different than ordinary life is future and is the denial of God’s omnipresence here and now.

Now I feel that anything, including mystical practices, that imply we should be something other than that which we are as human beings creates the very duality that mystical religions claim does not exist.

We hear a lot about the power of imagination. I’ve even written on it, but though imagination is how consciousness creates, it can also be dangerous. In imagining that you can become something you are not now being, you affirm that you are not already that, or even worthy of being it. Being happy with who we are replaces imagination with reality.

by Walter Starcke, author of It’s All God

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A man is learning to drive and is out in his instructor’s car with the instructor sitting beside him. He has had a few lessons and is beginning to feel more confident, so the instructor tells him to drive onto the freeway. He does so, but then it starts to rain.

The rain gets heavier, so the instructor tells him to put on the windscreen-wipers. The learner-driver turns them on, but because this is a new experience for him, he finds he is quite distracted by the wipers moving from side to side in front of him and soon the car begins to swerve from side to side on the freeway.

As they veer from side to side along the freeway, the cars behind them begin to sound their horns, so the driver says to the instructor, “I can’t control the car properly with this distraction in front of me, can we pull over and stop?”

The instructor says, “No, you can’t stop on the freeway — focus on the road.”

The driver says, “But I can’t, the windscreen-wipers are too much of a distraction.”

The instructor replied, “Just focus on the road.”

The driver then begins to plead with the instructor, “Please, can we just slow the wipers down a little?”

To which the instructor replied, “No, the rain is too heavy — focus on the road.”

The driver is still distracted by the mesmerizing wipers and struggling to keep control of the car, so he says to the instructor, “Then, can I please slow down and go into the slow lane?”

But the instructor says, “No, maintain your speed and focus on the road.”

The learner continued on eratically feeling very anxious and intimidated by the honking of the other cars and pleaded once more, “Please, please — let me get off the freeway or I may cause an accident.”

But the instructor again insists, “No, focus on the road.”

And what happens? After a while, focusing finally occurs and the swervng ceases. When focusing has taken place, it doesn’t matter whether the windscreen-wipers are on slow speed, medium speed, or high speed, because focusing on the road has now happened.

It is the same with this inquiry. You are saying, “My mind is too busy, there are too many things going on in my life … how can I stay in the Self?”

The instructor says, “You are the Self … focus on the Self.”

To read or hear the rest of this modern-day parablle by Mooji, >Click Here

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The first self about which to attain knowledge, is the secondary, essentially false, self which stands in the way, however useful it may be for many daily transactions. It must be set aside, made something which can be used or not used: not something which uses you. The way in which this is done is by self-observation: registering how and when this self is operating, and how it deceives.

Idries Shah

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I know the way you can get
If you have not had a drink from Love’s Hands.

That is why all the Great Ones speak of
The vital need
To keep remembering God,
So you will come to know and see Him
As being so Playful
And Wanting,
Just Wanting to help.

That is why Hafiz says:
Bring your cup near me.
For all I care about
Is quenching your thirst for freedom!

All a Sane man can ever care about
Is giving Love!

From: I Heard God Laughing. Renderings of Hafiz: by Daniel Ladinsky.

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An itinerant preacher arrived at an outback town in western Queensland and arranged to hold a service in the Mechanics Institute hall the following Sunday afternoon. Then the preacher set about inviting everyone in the area to his meeting. There hadn’t been any preaching in that town for as long as anyone could remember, so when the time came to start the service, the small hall was packed. The preacher climbed onto the platform, called for silence and asked if some one could play the piano so they could have some singing before he gave his message. A bloke who occasionally played the piano in the pub volunteered and the song books were handed out.

“All right,” said the preacher, lets begin with an old favourite, song number 4.”. “Sorry, Reverend.” Said the pianist, “I don’t know song number 4.” “That’s okay,” said the enthusiastic preacher, “we’ll just sing song number 27. Everybody knows that one.” The pianist squirmed a bit on his seat and said, “Sorry, Reverend. I can’t play song number 27.” The preacher, remaining good-natured, said, “don’t feel bad about it, we’ll just sing song number 34. Everybody learned that one when they were small children.” The pianist was really nervous by now and said, “Sorry Reverend, but I don’t know song 34 either.” Where upon, some one at the back shouted, “That pianist is an idiot!”

“Hold it!” exclaimed the preacher, “that wasn’t spoken in a spirit of love, I want that man who called the pianist an idiot to stand up.” No one stood. “If he won’t stand up, I want one of those sitting next to the man who called the pianist an idiot to stand up.” No one moved. After a brief period of complete silence, a little bloke halfway up the hall stood up and said, “Reverend, I didn’t call the pianist an idiot. And I’m not sitting next to the man who called the pianist an idiot. What I want to know is, why anyone would think that idiot is a pianist!“