Dear Sam,

 

The enclosed writing is not the one I had intended to pass on, I wrote that one on Friday morning (and several others as well). This was written yesterday morning after I had read the end of an article entitled the "Magnet of Life", in Lanyon's The Eyes of the Blind. Fact is, what I wrote on Friday was also inspired by an Lanyon piece on faith.

 

Seems that all I have to do during one of these inspirational/creative periods that I go through is be reading a "spiritually inspired book" and something will "strike me in the region of the heart" (although God would probably liken it to "hitting me over the head") and I'm off to the races.

 

The best way to describe the sense is that I get a "warm and melting" feeling in the region of the heart. There is also and accompanying "sense of rightness" about it that comes over me as well. Not so much that the thought that comes to me is logical and reasonable, which it always is, but that it "feels" logical and reasonable as well. Its almost as if an "inner chord" is struck and demands to be shared with others.

 

I might liken this "sense of rightness" as a perfect alignment of reason and intuition, or perhaps coming to a point of view or realization that is centered between the two and so transcends both. I've written on the idea before, in terms of an inner alignment of "head and heart", but in the context of consciously seeking that "middle ground" when one is "skewed" one way or the other. This as a means of determining what to do if you "think" you should do something, but don't "feel" it or "feel" you should do something, but don't "think it". The idea being, that if you "feel" something but are "uncomfortable" with it, that you should "think" about it to see if it "reasonable" as well. Granted, feeling is much deeper than thinking, but in those cases where you can find internal alignment or agreement, you can be sure you have made the right choice.

 

The ideal, of course, is to have a "sense of rightness", or, perhaps better yet, a "sense of goodness" (in statistics they have a test called a "goodness of fit" that comes very close to describing the idea) arise that includes an obvious sense of "goodness-heart" and "rightness-mind" when it arises. For in such cases, the certainty of what to do, arises in the same instant as the requirement to do it. That is, the recognition of a need and the means of its fulfillment arise mutually and simultaneously. There is no question and no doubt, no uncertainty, and therefore no decision. One just acts in accord with what arises; acts in perfect harmony with whatever happens to be going on around him from moment to moment.

 

And why, might you ask, is this not the natural state of human affairs? Because, human mind and thought are out of phase and alignment with the "real world", with whatever is going on "here and now" (the Eternal Here and Now, the only Kingdom of Heaven there ever was or ever will be). That is, thinking introduces a "time lag" that creates an imperfect awareness of ones environment, and so imperfect knowledge as to what one is to do in response to his surroundings from moment to moment. Quite simply, relative thought, mind and consciousness remove us from the Present Moment and substitute a "counterfeit reality" and with it a "counterfeit life".

 

Its as simple as not knowing what to do from moment to moment because I AM not really paying attention, I just "think" I AM. If you listen closely, you'll hear an echo, and that "echo or reflection" of life that goes on in you mind is false. And what I AM ultimately not present to is not just life, but God, for the only place God ever could, is or will be is Present, Here and Now. Seen in this context, "presence of mind" will beget the Presence of God, a "Consciousness of God's Presence", and so, alternately, "God Consciousness". Obviously the two must be One an the Same, and thus Equivalent. 

 

To be conscious of God, ones own consciousness must itself become boundless; this to contain, conceive and so comprehend his Infinite Being. Clearly "two into One" won't go. I, as a state of consciousness, must become one and whole, if I AM to know God's Infinite Oneness. In practical terms, that which I call my mind must cease to be divided against itself into two alternate states called "self and other"; I, as a relative state of consciousness, must become still and quite, cease the constant movement of attention from one thought to another and move to the center of my being (my I AM Consciousness; my fundamental sense of existence and being) and rest. For only when I return to and rest at the "Center of My Being" may I once again become aware of that aspect of my being that is already "done, complete and perfect" and has been since my conception in the "Mind of God".

 

Got a bit off the track (my intent was just an introductory note, and now I've written another piece) and have to close. TO BE CONTINUED... 

 

Spirit Fed & Spirit Led 

 

Love, Rich 

 

ps. If your interested, I've got a lot more to pass on from the last few days. Don't want another "data overload" though. Your choice. Will say that the thought of writing something for you was at the root of my inspiration on Friday. Also like to get together when you have a bit of free time.