CHAPTER 14

BEING SPIRITUAL, USING MEDITATION

THE MEETINGHOUSE OFFERS YOU A WAY TO MEDITATE ALONG WITH SOME MEDITATIONS TO PROMOTE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THIS ANCIENT ART OF BECALMING THE SOULGO WITH THE FLOW.

To Better Serve the Self, one must modernize old wisdom brought down to humans since the dawn of man. Assimilating the message below will prepare your mind for 21st century turbulence and uncertainty and becalm your body and soul.

There are those who are spiritual but not religious because their faith in traditional Christianity, or other religions, is full of questions that faith alone can not answer. We are offering you an introduction to a modern world view of spiritualism. First, it is a new use of the word - Spiritualism. Perhaps, someone will come up with a better name for it. It is not a cult or a religion; it is a way of thinking about being human and serving God by serving other humans while being happy about it.

It is: Being a part of the Light; Being a part of the Universe in a loving compassionate useful way. We urge you to try for more success in coping with the journey of life, Learn this 2lst century message about how to be with God while serving your fellow Man.

This is a Message from One who goes with the flow. First, becalm yourself. To prepare your mind for this experience, please, focus on the introduction, below, for a few minutes.

Try saying it over again a few times.

"I am flexible and flowing . . . I easily flow with change . . . Forgiveness, Understanding, Compassion Envelope My Spirit. . . I bend and flow with ease and all is well."

Perhaps, you will want to use this "flow saying" to comfort your "self" during your daily life now and in your future. Make a note of it, or, make it part of your download.

Now proceed with the reading. It will nurture One's Spirit. This is a message of enlightenment. See it as a Stream of Consciousness . . . Follow the Light . . .

Humans have now learned that a strong belief in almost any force for good is recognized as having health benefits. Those who do not believe there is a force for good in the universe are lacking. (Agnostic/Humanists tend to believe in something of their own choice rather than the dismal choice of being a nihilist.)

According to health givers, including allopathic physicians (western medicine), whether it is faith in God, or some benevolent Higher Power, such a strong belief has efficacious healing power.

There is an emerging paradigm of "Subtle Energy Medicine" that supplies modern spirits with rational support for using ancient practices such as: massage, acupuncture, prayer, hypnosis, meditation, along with herbal medicine, balanced nutrition, and so on.

Today, we recognize that the human cell wall is much more than a physical barrier with receptors designed to protect the cell's contents. The worn out world view of our body was the limiting belief promoted by the warrior-mentality. Then, the cell was seen as a castle with a moat to be defended. As the spirit of the nurturing feminine principles are coming into prominence, we are beginning to see that the cell wall is an interactive window. The cell membrane is so permeable that millions of ions flow into and out of the cell in nanoseconds.

These energies course through the body and mind in a way very similar to the ancient concepts of: Chinese chi & meridians, and also the Hindu's prana and chakras. American Indian shamans, and those of other primitive cultures, have never lost the fundamentals of this kind of knowledge of how the mind/body relates to the stars and the universe.

Until recently, Western Medicine researchers concentrated on how mood, cravings, responses to stress, and human behavior are mediated by hormones functioning with the neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine and endorphins, among others. Medicines and talk-therapy for depression have been developed based on such medical research. Clearly, the mind and body converse by way of hormones, neurotransmitters, chemicals and electromagnetic forces. We are discovering the mind/body energies are powerful resonating signal amplifiers, which allow the cell tomake appropriate responses. The body contains its own best pharmacy.

If someday, a way is found for the brain and neural system to actually experience God, first hand, (i.e., the force for good), then, simple belief and blind faith will become not necessary. We already know that we don't have to believe in gravity in order to experience gravity. Humans are gaining more understanding of the healing ways of nature and nurture.

The Way will probably be a somewhat scientific approach (If biofeedback is scientific) that blends our understanding of the unity of nature with the different levels of reality, (material, quantum, and virtual). Thereby the new paradigm will empower us to understand how the human brain/ body, particularly the nervous/endocrine systems work without the gaps of knowledge that we now fill-in with faith and belief.

Getting close to God through a true knowing would heal the fear of death. For it will confirm the existence of the soul, and provide us with an understanding of the ultimate meaning to life. When That Day Comes We Will Know With Certainty That: All Humans Have, In Common, These SEVEN Different Biological Responses.

1.. When we experience the primitive survival response fight/flight we know we need protection so we seek it from God. This primitive survival response is part of our evolved human nature. For many, a prayer-filled (meditative) response is simply more efficacious than depending solely on one's Self.

2. If we feel the need to react to a threat or opportunity, we pray for the Almighty to help us to control that event in our life thereby to reward us or, on the other hand, or heal us of our wrongdoing. Thus we have found that prayer expiates the unhealthy response of a guilt-ridden conscience. We see or feel God in our reactive responses in stories about: Job, Moses, Francis of Assisi, Ben Franklin, William Blake, Albert Einstein, and others.

3. Feeling peace inside, we experience the God Force as it provides peace of mind. We have found that the saints of various religions are worthy of study. Seeing our world through the eyes of Moses, Christ, Mohammed, Buddha, Gandhi, Lao Tse, enables us to better understand the value of meditation and contemplation. Thus we find we can access a good health-giving consciousness.

4. When our intuition responds better, we begin to understand ourselves better, and then we thank God (The Force) as our redeemer. We have learned that the ennobling spirit of gratitude is healthier than the arrogant conceit -"I did it my way" which seems to be the saying of a lonely warrior who needed the help of no one. We are healthier when we readily cry out for help in the face of overwhelming stress.

5. We are responding to God, the Creator of the Universe, when our own creative powers are synchronizing with the World as we feel it ought to be. The Book of Genesis is about the creative response.

6. When one has a Visionary Response we are in communication with the Infinite Mind. We are channeling God as the alchemist, miracle worker, and magician might do. This does not mean one is clairvoyant or more spiritual than others. It simply means one has opened a channel to the universal force for good. This is because one has a brain that, over time, developed that way, or, for some, one has gained that ability through practice or learning from others. The 35 miracles of Christ are for some the visionary response. Others have observed that it occur in their own life.

7. If you are in the Sacred Response mode then one is experiencing God, as the immeasurable potential of all that was, is, and will be. When Moses asks God for his name, God says, “I Am - that I am." Those who need the 73 names of God, or, other such descriptive labels in order to feel and see the Higher Power, are reaching to overcome their skepticism. They seek to know with the left side of the brain which is the rational mind. Such humans may never know (i.e., experience) that God is the force for good that is within humans. As the Kabbalist says, we may learn that we are God. Our role is to love, to experience the unity of consciousness, to know at the deepest level of our being that we are One Spirit in different guises.

These seven responses are characterized or imagined in all of the world religions. These responses correspond to levels of awareness and spiritual experience. The MeetingHouse through its links provides the opportunity to explore the many paths to God. We hope it will aid one and all to respect and tolerate the religions of others. In modern jargon, one may find that we are, "All on the same page!"

The Global Experience of the coming century ought to be for all humans to unite in the task of carefully conserving the myriad cultural heritages that embellish this planet Earth. We are in-transit to knowing a much changed Global Human Experience. The Spirit of God is our guiding Light as we search the Universe. May the Light Be With You.

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We hope the MeetingHouse has prepared the Way. As you read about God, Love, and Money we hope your mind compares how human imagination has perceived these quitedifferent creations, objects, or beliefs.

Submitted to One and All, By Dr. James R Cooper, Pastor MeetingHouse for Aspiring Spirits