 
## KNOWING

## THE SECRET

## REVEALING THE TRUTH

## Choose the Life You Want To Have

## Rosemary Christie

Knowing The Secret- Revealing The truth

Rosemary Christie

Rosemary Christie Copyright © 2009

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Table of Contents

Forward

Preface

Chapter One

The Science of Mind

Chapter Two

The Power of Life

Chapter Three

What The World Needs Is Love

Chapter Four

Mental Equivalent

Chapter Five

Ways To Raise Your Consciousness

Chapter Six

Transactional Analysis

Chapter Seven

Spiritual Mind Treatment

Chapter Eight

Spiritual Practitioner

Chapter Nine

Case Histories

Chapter Ten

Self-realization

Bibliography

Products

Contact

Science of Mind Teachers

### Dedication

I dedicate 'Knowing the Secret' to my wonderful children Stephen, Sharon, Shaun, David and Shavorne Louise. I thank them for their unconditional love.

### Acknowledgements

I thank my wonderful husband Keith for his patience while I was writing my book.

I thank Marilyn Benson for her tireless work editing my book.

I thank June Evens and Maryann Jones for proof reading my book.

I thank my Teacher and Mentor Dr. Thomas Sannar who taught me all I know about Science of Mind.

I thank Rev. Nancy Anderson for her love and compassion and for being there for me.

I thank Lynn Robertson, my spiritual friend, who inspired me to write my book.

I thank my brother Tom Bolton for his help and guidance throughout my life.

I thank Vince my lovely twin brother who stood by my side and shared his childhood with me.

One Force

Behind Cause

Intelligence entwined

God Mind

Universal birth

Evolutionary earth

Humankind knowing

God's sowing

Returning Oneness

Cosmic Consciousness

Of cause

One Force!

## Forward

Knowing the Secret explains how the Law of Attraction, featured in the ground breaking movie and book "The Secret" works. It is written for those searching for the missing pieces to the unfathomable TRUTH not mentioned in many "get rich quick" or positive thinking books.

If you suffer life's consequences and/or desire to improve your life then this is the book for you. You'll learn you're not a human being, but something much more powerful and you are not limited in any way. You can manifest health, wealth, happiness, wonderful relationships, and more!

### Preface

I have included a little about my childhood to allow the reader to understand that whatever happens to us in childhood doesn't have to hold us back in later years. Painful experiences can lead us to a much better life and in my case great spiritual knowledge. I do not hold any grievances or resentment for what happened

to me in my younger years and you will see why as the book transpires.

'Nobody knows the half of what went on for your mum.' These are words spoken to my daughter Sharon by a psychic medium fifty years after I was born. 'I have your mum's dad here and he says he's sorry, so very, very sorry. He didn't know it would cause her so much pain.'

I never liked to be near my father, he gave me the shudders. I always feared him. So it was a breath of fresh air hearing this message – not only confirming that 'something' had gone on between us, but to get an apology even though dad was in the Spirit World was music to my ears.

I was born prematurely in April, 1947, a twin to my brother Vincent. We were incubated for a while until we gained sufficient weight to be able to fend for ourselves. Unfortunately the crucial bonding period between mother and baby was delayed. Virtually from the first breath I took, my belief in rejection was established. For the first two years of our lives, my brother Vincent was ill and needed attention, so I was pushed aside, and as a young child I became further exposed to rejection.

When I was three years old my mother went into hospital on Boxing Day and I was left in my father's care. At this tender age, the sexual abuse started, although I had no memory of it until later years. Home life was grim. My parents continually argued and fought. Our house was like a battlefield. My elder brother Tom was severely punished for misdemeanors, and my twin and I often witnessed these assaults. To say my childhood years were unhappy is a gross understatement. Through these early experiences and many more as I grew to adolescence, I became emotionally disturbed. As a young child I would rock curled up in a ball. I would bang my head against the wall or bang my chin on the pavement until it bled. I never knew why I did these things.

During my adult life I had flashbacks; flashbacks to memories of past traumas coupled with terrifying feelings. I had a recurring flashback. I would see a man entering a dimly lit bedroom where I was lying in a bed and I was petrified. Another memory which came to light in my forties was when I was three years old. I was

telling my mother about my father sexually touching me. My mother shook me violently and flung me across the floor calling me 'a dirty, dirty bitch.' These repressed memories left me with a total lack of trust in people.

Throughout my life I had nightmares. I had a recurring one of a train or a house where I would be running around frantically trying to close the doors and the windows. I saw a man outside trying to get in. I would wake up screaming; sweat pouring from me, my heart beating rapidly, and feeling I was going insane. I understand now how the nightmare was symbolic of sexual abuse.

I had another recurring nightmare where I had buried a body in the wall of a house. I feared getting caught and would wake in sheer panic. The nightmare disappeared when I started meditating at the beginning of my healing process. At that point, I had the final one. In it the police discovered the buried body knowing I was the culprit, but said, 'You have suffered enough; you have served your sentence.'

On reflection, I think the body in the wall signified buried memories.

My childhood left me with psychological problems. When I visited anyone's house I hated asking for the toilet. I would sit bursting to go because I felt embarrassed. I always felt my body was dirty and I was sexually inhibited. I would see men with little girls and think the child was in danger of rape. I often felt suicidal.

I felt sentenced, sentenced for life, but in my case it was a sentence I was not prepared to go on serving!

I was a spiritually-minded child, always looking for the deeper meaning in my life and continually praying. This brought me great comfort and helped me survive where others may have ended up in mental institutions.

I suffered intermittent depression during my childhood years, although I didn't know at the time what it was. I felt exceptionally sad and lonely and had very low self esteem and thought I was so ugly. I would stop eating at Christmas-time and would feel nauseas, which went on into my adult life. My teenage years were painful, and I would cry continuously. I found relationships impossible because I was always insecure, and this caused me to be very jealous.

Eventually I married a man who could not support me emotionally, and my jealousy and insecurity ruined our relationship. This coupled with sexual hang-ups made my life unbearable!

In my mid-thirties, I was exceptionally stressed and suffered severe depression and panic attacks. But with five young children to cope with I knew I had to do something about my mental health. I searched desperately for help. I was not satisfied with orthodox treatments, and herbal remedies had proved expensive and did little for me.

Eventually through Divine guidance (I never ceased praying for help) I was pointed by my dear brother Tom towards meditation. I found it worked brilliantly, bringing me to a level of emotional normality, a feeling that had been alien to me since my birth.

This was the turning point in my life and meditation gave me strength and courage to do what I needed to do. I divorced my husband of eighteen years, which was a long time coming. However I was pleased we were able to remain friends. I held no ill feelings towards him and knew that my psychological hang-ups had caused my suffering.

Practicing meditation daily, which helped to raise my consciousness, started my search to find answers to the questions I had pondered since childhood such as 'What is God?' and 'Where is God?' I never thought God could be a man. It was my starting point towards Self-realization although I didn't know it then.

Like many people I could never understand how God could be in 'heaven,' aware of the atrocities that went on, yet do nothing about them. How God could let people suffer all over the planet in countries that experienced endless tragedy, through starvation and lack of water, also war crimes and violence, was a mystery to me. How could God let little children die of sickness? These and many more questions I needed answers to.

I started my search in a Spiritualist Church and came across a book called The Secret Doctrine of Jesus, by Helen Blavatsky. Reading Madam Blavatsky's teaching clarified the true teachings of Jesus. She pointed out what Jesus meant when he said, 'I and the Father are One;' that everything is One, thus All, including humankind and the entire universe is, Spirit.

Moving on in my search I studied Theosophy and regularly attended meetings. The meetings opened my eyes further; finally I was getting the answers I needed, confirming my thoughts that we are not human beings but Spiritual Beings. God and man are the two phases of the eternal life and consciousness that make up our wonderful universe.

Next I looked at the Rosicrucian movement and again it was in line with Theosophy; the universe is an Infinite Intelligence of the Supreme Being permeating everything.

A few years later I came across the book Autobiography of a Yogi by Swami Paramahansa Yogananda. I was enthralled by the intense love I felt reading this book as my heart opened. I was determined to meet a Spiritual Master, to have a Master of my own who could guide me. So I joined a group of people (although not of the same organization as Swami Yogananda) who meditated and were guided by a Master.

I decided to go to India to meet the Master in downtown Delhi. I quickly realized that my search was not going to materialize what I was looking for as I was surrounded by poverty and filth. I felt no love in India, just sadness for the poor and needy. However, I gained much from my stay as I returned home to appreciate the little things in life like my warm bed and a roof over my head, houses that were not crumbling, and people who were not lying in the gutters starving. England seemed like heaven on earth to me after this experience, and I appreciated everything I had taken for granted before.

Not long after I returned from India I reconnected with Carol, a friend from college, who I'd met when I was seventeen. We got chatting and she told me she attended a yoga class. I was intrigued so I joined her class. Eventually I became a Yoga Teacher, and was able to spread the word of the benefits of yoga and meditation. I enjoyed mixing with like-minded people, which was a blessing.

My journey towards Self-realization continued. I came across a guided relaxation audio cassette in a New Age shop in London which informed me that if I wanted to acquire something to improve my life, then I could do so by repeating an 'affirmation' over and over again in my mind. It also suggested that I should practice the relaxation every day for a month. The affirmation I chose was 'I am a very tidy person,' which I wasn't at the time. Well it worked, and after three days of practicing it, I was tidying up so easily, I could not believe it! From that experience I became very interested in the power of the 'word' and so went on to become a hypnotherapist and psychotherapist, helping myself and others use words to heal.

Listening one day to a Louise L. Hay audio cassette I found she had joined an organization called Science of Mind (S.O.M.). Louise is a remarkable lady who had healed herself of cancer by using positive words in prayer form. I searched for the Science of Mind organization through the Internet. I was not aware then that finding Science of Mind was going to lead me to a greater knowledge than I had ever anticipated and would prepare me in my final steps towards Self-realization. At that time, all I wanted to know was how affirmation and positive words brought about healing.

I took a course of lessons in S.O.M. with Doctor Thomas Sannar from California. It was through this course that I accumulated the final pieces to my well sought-after spiritual jigsaw puzzle. Here came all the answers to my questions: God is the Energy that lies within the heart of all creation, the Essence of all manifestation. This Energy is in everyone; in fact everything in the universe is Energy. There is only One, and we are all One in this Power. I remembered Theosophy and the Rosicrucian Society had said the same, but now I was really absorbing this Truth.

The 'basic teachings' of Science of Mind are the same as Jesus was teaching over 2000 years ago when he said, 'For truly I say unto you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it will move.'(Matthew 17-20)

From the words spoken by The Master Jesus, we understand that our own words spoken in the correct way can change our life overnight. Words can heal, repair relationships, and give us better health and more wealth if we want it. Whatever our heart desires can be sought with the right words placed into Mind.

Many books have been written on positive thinking, but this book is more than that. It puts the main concepts of Science of Mind into an easy-to-understand format. It also covers various disciplines that can help one have a better life and stop unnecessary suffering.

I had learned that the mind creates our reality, but I wanted to know 'how.' Unfortunately, the crucial' how' seems to be avoided in the many books I have read to date that relate to positive thinking. I feel it is essential that the rudiments are explained in order to give all those who seek to find a better tomorrow a clear insight and a set of guidelines to work with.

This book will help many. Those who are fortunate enough to go along to a Science of Mind meeting for the first time will find this book an easy introduction to the in-depth philosophy. It will help others who have read positive thinking books and/or have read, or seen the movie, 'The Secret,' get a greater insight. Finally, it will help everyone who is searching for the Truth about God and Its creation.

Throughout this book there are quotes, some from the Bible, but this philosophy does not require a religious way of life. If you are religious, this philosophy will work for you; if you're not religious it will work too. Science of Mind sees Jesus as an enlightened being; an individualization of God, and a Master who showed the Way.

### Chapter One

The Science of Mind

If you skipped the preface I suggest that you go back and read it before you start this chapter. It will give you a clearer insight into the philosophy being presented. I also suggest when reading the book that you take on board whatever you find acceptable and disregard the rest. Personally, I have found that reading a book a few times, particularly books related to spirituality enhances my understanding of the subject. It often brings to light something I'd overlooked at the first reading. In order to gain maximum benefit I'd like to suggest you do the same.

Ernest Holmes, an American philosopher born January 21st 1887, is the founder of Science of Mind and was heavily influenced by Mary Baker Eddy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Troward, and Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, all enlightened people of that era. Thomas Troward was an English Judge turned philosopher; the others were American philosophers and teachers.

Holmes wrote his first book, Creative Mind, in 1919 and in 1925 wrote The Science of Mind textbook, which led to the start of an organization which is branching

out throughout the world today covering many countries. The Science of Mind textbook is a study of Spirit, and can lead one to happiness, health, prosperity, and much more. Holmes died on April 7, 1960 in Los Angeles California leaving an organization that is at the heart of all positive-thinking associations today.

'The Secret,' a popular and respected movie and book on power of the mind, was inspired by many great thinkers, scientists, and philosophers including Ernest Holmes.

Holmes was a Metaphysician. Metaphysics is a scientific belief in invisible phenomena within the universe. There are many things that the eye cannot see. Electricity, for instance, lights our homes, runs our televisions and computers, and makes our lives so much easier than they were before electricity was discovered. However, we all know electricity can kill us if not used with care and attention. There is an invisible Energy that can help enhance our life too, if used wisely. However, like electricity if used foolishly and ignorantly, can lead to ill health, and eventually premature death.

So what is this Energy? It is Universal Energy. It happens to be the only Energy that exists. It is inside of and surrounds everything, from mineral, plant, and animal, to the human kingdom. Scientists have found through intense microscopic examination, that everything in our wonderful universe is created out of this One Energy. There is a wave-like substance that is at the heart of all that exists.

Science of Mind teaches that this Energy is a Consciousness, a CREATIVE Consciousness, also called Universal Consciousness. This Creative Consciousness is the Creator of all. Everything was created OUT OF this One Consciousness, NOT 'by' this Consciousness. As there is only One Energy, the ONE Energy could not have used some outside stimuli to create the Universe. Everything was created out of

the ONE and so is akin to the One. We live in a Spiritual Universe and all things are thought forms. Everything you see in the universe is an expression of a thought placed in Universal Consciousness.

In simple terms, a crude analogy may suffice. I have a glass container and take it to the ocean, but before I place it in the ocean it is devoid of moisture. Placed in

the ocean, it becomes as the ocean, containing all the minerals, compounds, and chemicals that the ocean contains, and so it is saturated and surrounded by

the ocean. In fact, it is miniscule ocean. Likewise, the Universal Energy is in all, surrounds all, and made all, out of Itself. Everything the Universal Consciousness creates is identical, in as much as the Essence of the Universal Consciousness which is Goodness and Perfection is in everything. It is said to be Goodness and Perfection because Universal Energy never made anything that wasn't good or perfect in the Universe.

The Energy is seen as a Macrocosm and the creation of the Energy such as mankind is seen as a microcosm. The Macrocosm is the larger, the microcosm is the smaller, however, both being of the same commodity. We are made out of perfection so our basic nature is perfection.

Something cannot be created from nothing, and in the beginning there was Energy. The Law of physics teaches that Energy can neither be destroyed nor

created; it has ALWAYS been, so we can safely say God created everything out of Itself has always existed, and this Energy can only create out of Itself.

The universe is one continuous Sea of Energy creating everything out of Itself.

For a Consciousness to create a universe and all that is in it, it has to be intelligent. Indeed mightily intelligent, for this Universal Consciousness created everything with great precision, mathematically and systematically as we know. So we can see that we are looking at a Mighty Intelligence, Intelligence superior to anything else. We can see that this Creator is a 'Conscious Intelligence that is Creative.'

To be Conscious, the Creative Consciousness has to be alive and has to be conscious of something, so there must have been a mechanism within Itself to be able to create (more about the mechanism later).

Science of Mind teaches the Universal Energy, the Universal Conscious Intelligence, is a Universal MIND. It teaches that all of creation coexists in It. This Universal Mind made everything out of Itself GOOD and PERFECT akin to Itself.

Here's another analogy. If I drew continuous pictures on a never-ending roll of paper, the pictures would be of the same commodity as the paper. That is, they would not be separate from the paper. The pictures might be called Mary, John, Eric, Tricia, house, tree, horse, elephant, book, or table, but these would only be names of pictures, their real name being 'paper.'

Likewise creation has names for all that exists, and all that exists is made out of the ONE commodity akin to our analogy of the paper. So everything has the Essence of the original commodity (Universal Creative Intelligence) and that includes humankind.

Getting back to the mechanism I spoke about earlier. As I said, there has to be a mechanism within the One to allow creation to take place. Science of Mind teaches that this mechanism is called Conscious Mind and Subconscious Mind. The Conscious part of the Mind decides on Its creation and the Subconscious creates it. Divine Mind decided to create the Universe and all that is in it.

Everyone and everything coexists in this One Mind, this Creative Intelligence. We all live in a Mind, we all think into a Mind, and we choose what we wish to create through the ONE Mind. We do not have a mind of our own. There is not your mind, or my mind, his mind, or her mind, just ONE MIND. Science has never found a mind in the human body, in an animal, or in a plant, yet all have a certain degree of intelligence.

We 'live' in a Universal Creative Intelligence which is a Mind, a Universal Conscious Intelligence that created all perfect. Science of Mind teaches the Conscious part of the Universal Mind is called Love and the Subconscious part of Universal Mind is called Law. All that Universal Mind gave birth to is Love. We are made out of Love, not sin as some religions teach.

Science of Mind teaches however, that we have a 'mental equivalent' a portion of the Mind, which is a container of our thoughts and beliefs which is 'held' in

the original Universal Mind. These thoughts and beliefs stem from the beginning of our many earthly sojourns from lifetime to lifetime.

From our mental equivalent we CHOOSE our life by our thoughts and beliefs and the original Mind creates our lifetime experiences through Subconscious Mind, through Law. Unfortunately, most people are ignorant that they are choosing their life, and they propagate unhappy lives by thinking negatively.

What is most disappointing is that Universal Mind cannot choose for us and cannot stop us from thinking negatively as Universal Mind does not have this capability. Universal Mind has no knowledge of bad since it only knows Good.

To clarify this point is to say a fig tree can only bear figs, and an apple tree, apples. So Universal Mind can only create what it sees as Perfect. It cannot differentiate between good and bad.

If you believe in poverty and sickness and constantly complain about health issues and/or lack of money, Universal Mind creates poverty and sickness for you. An example is the person who says, 'Money is of no interest to me, and I'd never win the Lotto; I've never won anything. Anyway, what would I do with millions of pounds? I would hate to have all that money' However, the same person constantly complains bitterly that they cannot pay their bills. If you believe in wealth, health, and happiness, then Universal Mind will create this for you too.

We have talked about two parts of Mind: Conscious and Subconscious, so now I want to explain about two LEVELS of Universal Mind. These are Higher – Mind and lower mind. They are both the Mind, as there is only one Mind. Higher - Mind is Love and all that is Good, Perfect and Whole. Lower mind contains all the experiences the human race, from the beginning of time, has had. These accumulated experiences are called 'race-consciousness.' I will be talking about race-consciousness later in the book.

Without going too deep, we need to know that all the beliefs that are negative are held in lower mind and are called 'Error.' All the beliefs held in Higher – Mind are positive and called 'Truth.' Error exhibits struggle, sickness, worry, hate, greed, resentment, anger, and condemnation to name but a few. Truth exhibits Love, Light, Beauty, Joy, Wisdom, Power, Peace and Life, these being the Essence of Higher - Mind.

Error thinking materialized because humankind did not enter life with an instruction book informing them that they are part of a Great Consciousness; that this Great Consciousness is their 'real nature' and that It creates whatever they believe. If we'd been blessed with this knowledge at birth, we would have lived a wonderful life. Instead we built our beliefs based on our experiences and so were ignorant of the Truth.

Humankind had negative thoughts which are 'error' thoughts such as 'Animals will kill me, plants will poison me. This is a wicked world. People are cruel and out

to get me.' Universal Mind created from their thoughts forms, everything they believed.

Humankind didn't know that they should always think positive thoughts i.e. 'I am guided to know what food to eat, and what animals I should stay away from. This is a wonderful world. People are loving and supportive.' If they had affirmed these positive statements into Universal Mind, Universal Mind, would have materialized a happy, safe life for them.

However, today people are waking up to the fact that thoughts and beliefs create their reality. They are waking up to the Truth that health, happiness, prosperity are theirs for the asking so long as they believe it. Are you waking up too? Are you ready for abundance, love and peace in your life? It's up to you. You can live in Higher - Mind and be supported by Higher - Mind or live in lower mind and be condemned to a life of misfortune and heartbreak as some people seem to be doing in our world today.

This book can lead you to the Truth and help you commit to a life of whatever your heart desires. You will find that most of the ideas that have been presented to you in this chapter are repeated throughout the book to enable you to 'embody' the Truth. You will learn how to ascend to Higher - Mind. You will learn how Science

of Mind can help you achieve your goals, helping you enrich your life in many ways.

Summary of the main ideas presented in this chapter.

Only Energy exists.

Energy created everything out of Itself.

The Energy is a Universal Mind; there is only this one Universal Mind.

We do not have a Mind of our own; we live in a Mind.

There are two parts of Universal Mind: Conscious and Subconscious.

Conscious Mind is Love. Subconscious Mind is Law.

Everything including humankind is made out of Love and is perfection.

There are two levels of Universal Mind: Higher and lower mind.

Higher - Mind is Love; lower mind is race consciousness.

Our thoughts are created through Universal Mind.

### Chapter Two

The Power of Life

Many names are given to the Energy, e.g., Power, Divine Power, God, Father, Divine Intelligence, Divine Consciousness, Creative Mind, Universal Mind, One Mind, Presence, Love, Law, Truth and the Unified Field to name but a few. The name neither adds nor takes away from this Energy for it is all that is Intelligent, good and perfect. It always has been and always will be. Do not be confused by the names attributed by me for the Energy, as many names will occur throughout the book; your only concern is that there is just ONE Energy and you are at liberty to name this Energy whatever feels right for you.

Energy is God that is within everything in the universe and surrounds everything in the universe. There is no place devoid of God. Neither is there God and something, there is just God. There is not you and God there is just God, the ONE Energy. When you can embody this Truth you'll have taken a massive leap in consciousness.

In this book you will find ways to strengthen your belief in the Truth and also find ways to raise your consciousness which in itself will enable you to embody this Truth.

Scientists have discovered that everything in the universe is composed of the same wave of Energy – from your table to your bed, from your bed to your motorcar, from your motorcar to your hammer, from your hammer to the human being. There is nothing in the universe that is not composed of this wave of Energy. This wave of Energy is 'causative' and creates an effect. God is Cause and Effect. The effect of God is creation; creation of everything seen and unseen.

We are one with this Energy and so have the same requisites as this Energy. All is God. Jesus said, 'Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me.' (John14:11) Jesus was stating a scientific fact that we are made 'out of' God not by God.

We are not human beings, but 'Spiritual Beings' having a human existence, living in a Spiritual Universe. Most believe that there is the Spirit World and there is

the material world, but what they don't realize is that the material world is Spirit too. The material world is the seen and it is the physical embodiment. The Spirit World is the metaphysical, the unseen. The material world is a world of Energy just as the Spirit World is a world of Energy. The only difference is the vibration (speed) of the Energy. The Spirit World is vibrating much faster than the material world and so we cannot see it. When a bicycle wheel is stationary, you can see the spokes, but when the wheel is turning very fast you cease to be able to see the spokes. It doesn't mean

that the spokes are not there, or are not real; it just means we cannot see them because they are moving at a faster rate. Earth is at a slower vibration than the world we ascend to when we leave the earth plane, hence as above so below. Both are worlds of Energy, just different vibrations.

God has two elements, 'Conscious and Subconscious.' God is the Universal Divine Mind. We are 'individualizations' of this One Mind. We are an individualization of God.

Here's a metaphor that may help. A pencil has two ends, the point of the pencil and other end of the pencil. When asked what is most important, the majority of people would say the point. I believe the correct answer is both ends are of equal importance. One could not exist without the other. God is at one end and we are the point at the other end. We are the choosers and God makes it possible. We are the point, in as much as we decide on our own creation, and God is the Energy behind our choice.

We go forth as God 'experiencing.' Each one of us goes forth into life having experiences for the ONE. Being an individualization of God, we are unique. There is not another person like us living. There is not another person who thinks exactly like us, or another person who perceives life exactly like us. Each one of us makes up the WHOLE.

If you examine the human body, you will see that it has many parts i.e. the skeletal, muscular, circulatory, nervous, endocrine, respiratory, reproductive, digestive, and excretory systems. Each system is made up of trillions of cells, so there are trillions of parts to our body. Likewise, God has uncountable parts allowing Its expression in the universe: as above so below.

We know Divine Mind is causative, meaning it is the Conscious Mind that chooses and the Subconscious Mind that creates effect. God goes forth ever moving, ever creating. So because we are created 'out of' Divine Mind, it makes sense we are causative too; we use One Mind to create our life using our thought; we go forth ever moving ever creating. There is not your mind, my mind, or God's mind, but Mind that is God. We are absorbed in and surrounded by the Divine Mind.

Here's another metaphor. Imagine a roll of never ending material and out of it various garments are designed. Each garment is composed of the original material, not separate from it but the same as it; each garment is an individual expression of the one roll. However, the roll of material is greater than the garments. 'For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.' (John

5:26)

God the Original Thinker creates all; we choose our life, not create it. The Divine Energy individualizes through the individual (each one of us) by expressing our own divine uniqueness.

We are God in manifestation; each and every one of us, from the richest to the poorest, from the best of us, to the worst of us. Jesus said, 'I have said, Ye are Gods; and all of you are children of the most High.' (Psalms 82:6) He also said, 'Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do to me.'(Matthew 25:40) This also means whatever you do to anyone you do to yourself, because we are one with everyone and everything.

We are an individualization of God having an experience upon the earth plane. When we know this Truth we will not have low self-esteem, low self-worth, or lack of confidence. We will go forth with our head held high knowing our oneness with the Divine. We will love everyone because of who they are. We will treat everyone with the respect they deserve whatever they have done to us. We will cease to condemn someone, but rather look to the Truth of the person and will honor the God in them.

Our thoughts and beliefs are acted upon by Universal Mind. The Universal Mind creates from our thought forms. Let's say we follow a very positive train of thought knowing who we are, so we have great faith in achieving. We have high self-esteem and we believe in ourselves. We never take no for an answer and are courageous and confident. When we desire something, our desire is fulfilled through God. God creates our choices bountifully. We will be using the Mind which is God in a very productive way, creating a wonderful life.

The other side of the coin is that if we don't know who we are we may have low self-esteem and believe in poverty, thinking that nothing works for us and that we are a failure; we may believe everyone is better than us and that we are trash. Then this train of thought placed into Universal Mind creates poverty for us. It also creates disappointments and failure in everything we do, and so our belief that we are trash is strengthened. The Universal Mind is not a decision maker; we make the choice; we are the choosers.

To imagine that Universal Mind would create the individual other than as a chooser having free will would be totally irrational; this would make us automatic rather than spontaneous. Universal Mind could not express uniquely in an automatic form.

If God chose one train of thought for the whole universe, then everyone would have the same experiences, and thus only one experience would be played out creating monotony. It would be a world of sameness, as there would be no variety, and life would be boring.

God is the Universal and we are the individual: as above so below. As with all realms of life there is a Law to be followed in order to avoid mayhem. Jesus knew the Law when he said, 'Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. (Galatians 6:7) Sow a thought, reap an action. Speak your word into Universal Mind and Universal Mind will create it for you.

Knowing we are part of God and that we live in Universal Mind, choosing our life by our thoughts, and that we're not at the mercy of fate, puts us in an extremely favorable position. When we have this knowledge, we can choose the life we want, rather than the one we don't want. We can choose to have a life of prosperity, a life of health, a life of abundance, or indeed we can choose to have the best relationship we could ever wish for.

Those who are ignorant of the Truth – that we are one with God and can choose our life – are at the mercy of race-consciousness, which is explained in Chapter four.

What we think of as 'our' mind is our mental equivalent, a build up of thought patterns we have carried from the beginning of our lifetime's sojourn. It is

a container of whatever we have continuously thought about and is held in Universal Mind. The mental equivalent vibrates and creates through Universal Mind - more on mental equivalents in Chapter Four.

God has no favorites. It is said that 'God is no respecter of persons.'(Acts 10:34) God creates whatever our thought pattern dictates. If we are a negative thinker, then we will lead a negative, painful life. It would be impossible for God to choose love for us if we are continuously in fear. God is Love and the only way we can feel this Love is to raise our consciousness to the level of Divine Love through speaking positive words into Universal Mind.

The responsibility lies with us; no one can change our mind and God never intervenes. God cannot intervene as God is a Creator. Whatever you ask for, God provides with Love.

Life lies open to me – rich, full, abundant . . . .I have only to open the portals of my soul and accept that which is ready to express through me. Today I fling these portals wide; today I am the instrument through which life flows. – Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind, www.bnpublishing.com

Ernest Holmes realized his oneness with God knowing he was an instrument of God through which life flows. He also knew that like everything in nature, life goes on and on multiplying, experiencing, living to its fullest. We have only to look at nature to see this Truth in action. We are no different from the beautiful plants, trees, and shrubs and we can become ablaze with beauty, displaying life in exquisite ways. And the way to achieve this is to know our Oneness with God, knowing we live in a Mind that creates whatever we choose, and that we are responsible for all that happens to us. In knowing this Truth we should realize the importance of thinking loving thoughts. When we know and practice this philosophy, we will be using life most creatively.

Summary of the main ideas presented in this chapter

Many names are given to Universal Energy.

Scientists discovered that everything in the universe is composed of the same wave of Energy.

Energy is within everything and surrounds everything in the universe.

We are one with this Energy, so we have the same requisites as this Energy.

There is not you and God, there is just God.

God is Cause and Effect. The effect of God is creation.

We are not human beings, but 'Spiritual Beings.'

We go forth as Spirit 'experiencing.'

God is a Universal Divine Mind. We are individualizations of this One Mind.

God, the Original Thinker, creates all. We choose our life, we don't create it.

God has no favorites; God creates whatever our thought pattern dictates.

Divine Mind is causative, so it makes sense that we are causative.

We have free will to choose a life we want.

### Chapter Three

What The World Needs Is Love

What the World needs is love. We all need love. The majority of us crave love. We cannot live without love. So what is love? Love is the Creator of everything. Love lives in all and surrounds all. Love is the Energy that keeps the universe working with great precision and creates everything seen and unseen. Love is the very Essence of your soul, the Energy that sustains you and keeps your whole system working. Love is God.

Why is it that some people have an internal yearning that causes bored empty feelings? These people search hard to fill that emptiness and think relationships will satisfy the yearning, but unfortunately they never do. The truth is these people have never found true love because they have never found the love inside themselves.

People use all sorts of things to fill the void, e.g., competition, education, and work to name but a few, but contentment evades them. Again they have drawn on external influences. For a short period of time they appear to be happy, but once the external influence is withdrawn, i.e., the loss of work, relationship, or money, happiness goes out the door, and once again the emptiness returns.

Drugs, alcohol, and food are frequently used to satisfy spiritual hunger, but these temporary fixes have no lasting benefit either, often causing destruction and even premature death.

People bury their heads in books or watch television just to take away feelings of emptiness, living in denial of this incessant feeling. They run around like scared cats all their lives frightened of being alone with themselves.

Another example is seen in many churches that are full of pious people who think they have found 'The way' but again are looking outside. Unfortunately some

of them lean on religion to the extent of it becoming a drug and are led to believe 'their' God will save them. Sadly, some religious people spend their lives behaving

in uncharitable ways; they can be frightened souls and often stressed souls who fear hell, yet live in it.

Jesus said, 'Know yourself and you will know the kingdom of God.' (From the Gospel of Thomas.) To know yourself you have to recognize the Divine spark within which is the embodiment of Love. This is the Love that fulfils us and shows us the Truth of who we really are. Love is not an emotion; it is Energy in its purest form, the Creator within. So what I am saying here is through recognition of the Divine, we are able to make contact with God, God within, which leads us from darkness to the light and enables us to create a perfect reality.

The word 'God' to some people denotes a person or a Power, while to others God is nothing more than a fairytale, made up to frighten the human race to behave themselves.

When I was a child, I thought if I was good I would go to heaven. I was brought up in a religion that believed that being good was the way to get to heaven. I was taught if I attended my church every week, confessed my sins regularly, and was a good girl, then the Kingdom of Heaven was guaranteed. However, I never felt good; I always felt bad; I thought I was a sinner.

I had a friend Pauline, and I worried she was not going to go to heaven when she died because she wasn't a Catholic. I worried about the people in the world who were doomed because they had not found the correct religion. I wondered why God didn't make everybody a Catholic so they wouldn't have to burn in hell.

Pauline had a baby sister Jayne, who was 18- months-old. I enjoyed looking after her and took her to church one Sunday afternoon where I baptized her with the holy water. I felt relieved knowing she would go to heaven because she had been baptized in the Catholic religion.

I spent many hours talking to Pauline about God hoping to convert her to Catholicism. I so wanted her to go to heaven. I was not always this holy, however, as at the tender age of eleven I contemplated selling my soul to the devil since I thought, and so believed, that God had let me down.

I was not very clever at mathematics, and one particular school day we had a exam. I didn't study for it, as I'd placed all my confidence in God to give me the right answers. When instructed, I turned the paper over, sitting smugly, waiting for the answers to come to me, which of course they didn't. I was severely reprimanded by the teacher for failing my exam. This shocked me and got me thinking: 'If God hasn't helped me, maybe the devil will.'

Another incident had a great impact on me. I was taking my Duke of Edinburgh Award at the age of eighteen and a group of us were to climb a mountain in Wales as part of the course. The trip was on a Sunday, and I was worried I would miss Mass. Missing Mass would be a mortal sin and one that could, if I died without confessing it, send me straight into the flames of hell's fire. I couldn't stand the thought of that!

There was a six a.m. Mass at a church about eight miles from where I lived. As there were no buses running, I got up very early setting out at four-thirty a.m. The walk was extremely tiring, but I thought God would be so proud of me!

Feeling good about myself, and holier than thou, I met up with the group after Mass and travelled to Wales. I felt very tired but was confident God would help me climb the mountain. The group proceeded with such vigor up the mountain, while I was left behind dragging my feet, tired and listless. I wondered how God could let me suffer when I had gone to Mass and the others hadn't. It was such a mystery to me!

From then on I stopped placing as much faith in God, yet remained in my religion for many years. I was afraid I would go to hell if I didn't. Going to Mass didn't make me a nicer person, or a good person, or even a likable person. It didn't remove the stress, and I hurt others as stressed people do. Like many others, I had a misconception of God, and when God let me down, as I thought God had, I blamed God for not living up to my expectations. I had blind faith and that was why I suffered. Catholicism knew nothing about creating our reality through Universal Mind. I believed God could create miracles if I asked. Unfortunately, I didn't know that to gain miracles, I had to believe I was worthy of them. I never felt worthy of anything, since I thought I was a sinner and God was in heaven watching and judging me. I feared that if I died there was a possibility I'd go straight to hell.

I believed that if I was good, i.e., walking eight miles to Mass on a Sunday morning and doing without my breakfast (one couldn't have food before Holy Communion since it would have been a mortal sin) God would be pleased and reward me with the strength to climb the mountain.

In later years I realized if I'd got up at seven o'clock instead of four o'clock, skipped Mass, and had a healthy breakfast, I would have had a God-filled fun day, instead of a tiring stressful one.

It wasn't until I was thirty-six-years-old and learned meditation that I started to question the reality of God. Through practicing meditation regularly, I became much healthier, happier, and nicer to be around. Yes nicer, and that came naturally. I didn't have to try to be nice, I was nice. I felt love for people; I cared about people's feelings. I wanted to help people and I did. I had searched for years longing to know God, and now I was getting to feel more loving and more like God. I finally had the courage to walk away from the religion that frightened me and caused me so much anxiety.

For years I meditated and searched for God eventually finding God right inside me. I realized God is the energy and is Love. I realized God is around me and within me and that I had never been alone. What a wonderful feeling I had and still have.

I realized God is not a servant and is not there to bow down to everyone's desires. God is not there to please some and not others. God is like the sunshine. It shines on all alike having no favorites. God doesn't love you more if you go to church, or if you blew yourself up killing innocent bystanders, or give you place in heaven for doing either.

God doesn't favor any religion, doesn't love one person more than another. God loves all equally, the beggar and the king, the murderer and the slave, the good, the bad, and the ugly. God is Love and cannot judge, cannot punish, cannot treat one better than another. If you suffer in any way it's through the Law of Attraction, made manifest by the power of thought: sow a thought, reap an action.

The biggest misconception in our world today is people believing that God is responsible for their life and their death, not realizing that God is Universal Mind that creates Love and all that is good. How can God who is perfect know something imperfect? If God did, then there would be two powers.

God is Light, and there is no such thing as darkness. Darkness has no substance, as it is only the absence of Light. When light is brought into a darkened room, the darkness subsides. You cannot bring dark into a room to make the room dark; you can only shut out light, therefore darkness is not reality.

God is all that is good. There is no such thing as bad, for bad is merely the absence of good. We are all created from good, so our innate nature is good. God is perfect health, so we are perfect health. There is no such thing as disease. Disease is when someone isn't at ease. God is the beginning of everything seen and unseen. God the Intelligence made everything at the beginning GOOD, in other words Perfect. Anything that is not good comes from 'error thoughts' these thoughts are not Truth.

Once you have grasped this Truth of Oneness, you can see that to heal anything is impossible, but to bring oneself back to Truth is a possibility. God cannot heal you directly because God knows nothing of healing. This is the reason why some are healed and others are not. We have already established God has no favorites.

God knows nothing of death. God's work is Life. It is humankind who believes we die, when in fact we cannot. We are God. We are eternal. God provided us with everything we need to live and continues to provide for our needs through Creative Mind.

If God could heal then an ever 'loving' God would have healed the people of the Black Death. In 1347 AD, the Black Death was one of the worst natural disasters in history; this great plague swept over Europe killing millions. If God's job was to heal, and/or to decide what happens to humans, God wouldn't have let millions suffer or 'allowed' the many other major disasters that have swept the earth through the ages take place.

God's work is creation. God goes on multiplying the heavens and the earth, and God multiplies through us. We choose, God creates, and God's work is perfect. The truth is that we are a part of God so it is obvious that we will be fed, clothed, and looked after. As long as we believe this Truth, then it is so.

Jesus knew the Truth when he said to his disciples, 'Therefore I tell you do not be anxious about your life . . . consider the birds, they neither sow nor reap . . . but God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds . . . Consider the lilies, how they grow, they never toil or spin . . .Oh you of little faith . . . do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried, your Father knows that you need them . . . instead seek his Kingdom and these things will be added to you.' (Luke 12-13-22-31)

'Seek God's Kingdom and these things will be added to you.' Know that God is Love, the Love inside you. Know that you live in God's Kingdom and so you live 'in' LOVE. Know God's Kingdom surrounds you and supports you. Know that God is a Mind that creates whatever you think about. Know if you keep positive in thought you will live a wonderful life. Know you can have anything you want in God's Kingdom by speaking your word in God. Know that without doubt God will supply your needs. This is Knowing the Secret.

Summary of the main ideas presented in this chapter.

God is not a servant and is not here to bow down to everyone's desires.

God doesn't favor any religion, doesn't love one person more than another.

God loves all equally, the beggar and the king, the murderer and the slave.

God is Love and cannot judge, cannot punish, cannot treat one better than another.

God is the Light, there is no darkness; darkness has no substance.

God is all that is good, there is no bad.

God is perfect health, there is no such thing as disease. Disease is when someone isn't at ease.

God cannot heal you because God knows nothing of healing.

God's work is creation; God goes on multiplying the heavens and the earth.

God multiplies through us.

We choose - God creates.

God is Love, the Love inside you.

### Chapter Four

### Mental Equivalent

'Whatever is truly embodied in Mind finds a corresponding objectification. We cannot demonstrate beyond our ability to provide a mental equivalent of our desire.' Ernest

Holmes, Science of Mind textbook, www. bnpublishing.com

Ernest Holmes describes mankind's portion of mind as a 'mental equivalent.'

The mental equivalent is seen as a container of thought, a container of one person's thought held in Mind – in Creative Mind. As stated before, there is not your mind,

or my mind, but God, the Mind. God is an Intelligent Consciousness Energy, a vital Force that created all out of Itself. As we journey from the beginning of our lifetime sojourn, we gather a mental equivalent which is our own unique blueprint of experience.

Reincarnation refers to our being born on earth many times, however, some people cannot accept the concept of reincarnation because it seems so weird to them. Others can accept the concept of more than one life without question. Little children at the age of three have been known to play an instrument to a high standard with no instruction. Is it possible they have achieved such expertise in this lifetime? In the world there are mathematical geniuses at the tender age of ten, also those who can speak five languages by the age of twelve. Scientists believe these children are super intelligent. However, I and many others firmly believe these wonderful talents have been brought forward from previous lives.

Hypnotic regression takes people back to other lifetimes. Many people have remembered experiences they have had in former lives. They can describe places they have never been to in this lifetime, finding out later they really do exist. They describe people who have been their parents, finding they have previously lived

by checking old death records.

Let's look at the word reincarnation. It is believed by some people that reincarnation means that we die and come back to another life. This could never be true, as how can something that is dead come back to life. The truth is we never die; we are energy beings that change form, from one form to another, taking off one coat and exchanging it for another. Think of a caterpillar which is covered in fur with many legs. The caterpillar goes into a 'meditative' state by surrounding itself in a hard cocoon taking the form of a chrysalis. It then goes through a period of metamorphosis, and after a certain amount of time the chrysalis sheds its hard outer shell and emerges as a beautiful butterfly.

Like the caterpillar, we too are changing form all the time. Look at yourself in a mirror; are you the same form as the baby that came into this world or the teenager of years ago? Are you the same form this year as you were last year? Are you the same form today as you were yesterday? The answer to these questions is of course you are not. We are changing form every minute. Why then is it impossible to realize that when we leave this life and the body dies (because the physical body is the 'only' thing that dies) the 'soul,' your 'energy counterpart,' continues? It's because the

soul is eternal. We are not the body; we are the soul. We are an energy consciousness that carries a mental equivalent of all the beliefs we have held since the beginning of time.

Our unique mental equivalent attracted us to this life, attracted us to our parents, to where we were born on earth, to the childhood where we had little say in what happened to us. Children can be seen as victims, and although some children have wonderful childhoods many children do not. Often people believe they are victims of their childhood experiences; they spend their lives in regret, hurt, and disappointment not to mention anger, resentment, and envy. All these feelings stop them from having a wonderful life.

I grew up thinking I was badly treated, and the belief that I was badly treated was ingrained in my mental equivalent thus creating more unhappiness for me. I had an unhappy childhood, and I had an unhappy marriage where once again I thought I was badly treated. For eighteen years I suffered with repressed anger which caused severe depression and panic attacks.

I had low self-esteem and low self-worth and I aged prematurely. The beliefs I held robbed me of my vital energy, God Energy. I was always fatigued and fearful, and I felt helpless. Yet my suffering was all of my own making. If I had known I lived in Universal Mind and It created whatever I believed, I would not have been in severe ignorance of the Truth. I would not have wasted years in the 'poor me' syndrome. I would have built a new life earlier with good, wholesome, positive thoughts.

I did not know I was a part of God. I did not know I was a Spiritual Being and could have a wonderful life. I certainly did not know my thoughts created my reality and that I could have turned things around and had a wonderful marriage just by having good thoughts about my husband instead of resentful ones. I dug my hole deeper and deeper, and he behaved just as I believed he would. If only people realized they attract their birth country, their parents, and their experiences from their mental equivalent, they'd see why their childhood and ongoing life works out the way it does.

We have not just begun this journey through life; some of us are very old souls who have journeyed through eons of time. We have gone through lifetime after lifetime and regrettably we have done wrong; we have hurt others not to mention ourselves.

Many people think that children are innocent and are shocked at the cruelties that blight their little lives. They see children as victims and cannot understand why they have to suffer. Now I am not suggesting that children should suffer, however, the point I want to make is that there is a reason children suffer, and if I could help any child who is suffering I most certainly would. Indeed it is the duty of all of us to support those who suffer.

It sounds harsh to say children attract the childhood they have, but it's the truth however difficult it may be to comprehend. Would we believe it is cruel if rapists, murderers and thieves came back to earth and suffered in some way? I do not think we would if we believed in reincarnation. Reincarnation helps us to put things right. If I hadn't suffered as a child, I would not be as happy as I am today. I would not have the spiritual knowledge I have gained. To me this knowledge is worth all the pain I suffered. I would not have been able to experience unconditional love, which is the greatest gift I have. I go about my life in peace and I enjoy that state. I have no resentment in me. I accept that I attracted my life, and my parents, and where I was born. Now I can live in heaven on earth, and that is worth all the pain.

I was in error. Sin is another word for error, and sin is the outcome of not knowing who and what we are. If we knew who we were, we would not sin and would not be in error. I was brought up to think I was a sinner, and in a way I was, because I was missing the mark of whom and what I was. Do not confuse the sin I talk about here with the sin the church proclaims as evil.

Let's suppose you're from another country where there have never been cars, highways, or traffic. You are given a car, and eventually through trial and error, you drive out onto the highway. You have no 'Highway Code' and are ignorant of the laws of the roadway. You stop because you have seen a superstore, but do not signal to the people behind you letting them know you are stopping, so they bang into your car wounding you. Your immediate thoughts are likely to be that there are bad people in this place.

You carry on with your journey and you turn right, again not signaling because you have never received instruction. Someone else crashes into the front of your car injuring you further. Again you think this is a bad place and maybe even people are out to get you. You continue your journey feeling more and more anxiety and fear building up inside you. You place these thoughts into your mental equivalent and Universal Mind creates more of what you've experienced. Your mental equivalent reads: 'This is a bad place where there are unkind and uncaring people; this is not a safe world.' But none of this is true. The truth is you didn't know how to drive safely because you didn't have any instructions. You are not a bad person and the other people are not bad either, you are just in error.

We started our life journey without knowing the Universal Law. We didn't know our thoughts created our reality and were made manifest through Universal Mind. Many lives would have been so much happier if we had known.

Knowing is of utmost importance – knowing who you are, that you are God and not some feeble person as some of us are led to believe. Knowing you are a chooser of your life and that you can create a wonderful life through using Universal Mind correctly puts you in control of your life. God created you as a perfect manifestation of the One and only Living Power.

We are the equivalent of our 'mental equivalent.' Our life is subject to our thinking and thus believing. We are a demonstration of our thoughts held in Universal Mind. If we are unhappy, then it is because we are in error. If we are poor, it's because 'we' believe in poverty. If we have ill health, it's because there is a belief held in our mental equivalent that causes it. To change our life we need to change our thinking and replace it with the opposite, erasing all limiting beliefs by looking at what we want, not at what we do not want.

Once you can comprehend the magnificence of yourself, everything in your life changes. Comprehending your magnificence comes about by a desire to change, a desire to know the Truth of who and what you are. Jesus said, 'Ask and you shall receive.' (John14:13-14) Believe you can change; believe you know the Truth of who and what you are. Believe in your own magnificence.

Some souls come into life and attract parents who are negative, which often causes the children to grow up negative too. When told to be more positive, they find it very hard because their mental equivalent has been negative for so long. However, their mental equivalent can be trained and changed. Once someone sees the error of their ways, they can work to change their train of thought.

It took many years of work to change my mental equivalent using a variety of tools along the way, but I never gave up. I persevered and went through many black nights of the soul with the knowledge that I was not just healing for this lifetime but for many lifetimes. Through many break-ups of relationships, through many nights spent alone in sheer desperation, I journeyed on knowing one day I would reap the rewards of my labor. And I did.

I was able to help others on a similar pathway to mine, and I understood their sufferings. I had walked in their shoes in one way or another. I had great love in my heart for them. I understood they had been in ignorance, and with the wonderful knowledge I had, I was able to help them transform themselves into loving souls. Vibrations of positive or negative 'energy thought' go out like a transmitter never seen but definitely heard by Universal Mind. These thoughts return to us, manifesting whatever we believe. When we leave this earth, we go to wherever our mental equivalent takes us. The mental equivalent is all that we take with us; it is our own unique consciousness held in Mind.

Jesus stated, 'In my Father's house are many mansions.' (John 14:1-3) There are many places in consciousness; indeed earth is a place in consciousness. Some souls return to the earth plane straight away taking on a new life form. We never die, only the physical body dies. We are not the body; we are energy manifesting a body and so our 'life-force' is God. We manifest many bodies on our spiritual journey. We are God living in a Spiritual Universe. Yet the majority of people are ignorant of this Truth. Our mental equivalent will return us to this earth and attract parents who vibrate at a wavelength conducive to our spiritual growth.

We attract our birth place (the country we are born in) and our life style once again, so it is imperative that we are constantly as positive in thought as possible in this lifetime. Unfortunately, there are many negative wave lengths of energy that keep us prisoner and in a state of hell for our whole lifetime, one of the worst being the victim syndrome.

Let's say you had a life of abuse and always felt like a victim. You condemned the abusers and felt sorry for yourself, not realizing that your mind creates your reality. Subsequently you never attempted to change your thoughts. The outcome is that after your death your consciousness, which is your life force, the real you, returns to another lifetime of abuse. That's how it works. It doesn't seem fair, but it is not about fairness, it is about Law. Knowing Divine Law is most important, that is, knowing that as you sow a thought you reap an action. If you think people have got it in for you they will upset and annoy you. If you think everything works fine for you then it will. We live in a Consciousness which creates whatever we think about.

Summary of the main ideas presented in this chapter.

The mental equivalent is a container of your thought.

Our unique mental equivalent attracted us to this life.

We are the equivalent of our 'mental equivalent.'

People attract their birth country, their parents, and their experiences from their mental equivalent.

Some of us are very old souls who have journeyed through eons of time.

Sin is another word for error, and sin is the outcome of not knowing who and what we are.

We started our life's journey without knowing the Universal Law.

We never die; only the physical body dies.

Our life is subject to our thinking and thus believing.

We are a demonstration of our thoughts held in Universal Mind.

If we are unhappy then it is because we are in error.

### Chapter Five

Ways to Raise Your Consciousness

If you want health and happiness and your dreams fulfilled it is important to raise your consciousness to the level of Higher - Mind. When I learned to meditate,

I automatically raised my Consciousness which set into motion the process of my healing. The healing didn't happen overnight; it happened through a spiritual process. Firstly, I started to think more positively, and this came natural to me. I didn't decide to be more positive and I didn't decide to become a nicer person, it just happened. I'd spent years wishing to be nicer, healthier, and happier, and when I started meditating, I experienced all the things I had been wishing for. Meditation led me towards various holistic healing practices that were crucial, since my traumatic childhood had left me with psychological problems.

One wonderful tool I came across was the 'Em Power-Disc.' It is an aluminum Disc which can be worn around your neck. I bought it from the Mind Body and Spirit Festival in Manchester England. It came with a manual which gave directions for me to connect me to my Higher Self. I believe that the connection to my Higher Self eventually led me to Science of Mind. I can recommend it to anyone who wants to raise their consciousness. You can contact the creator of the disc Coby Zvikler by going to YZvikler@aol.com and learn more about it.

Each practice and tool played their part and allowed me to heal. When I discovered Science of the Mind I learned the Truth of my being and began to feel good in my own skin. My self-esteem rocketed and best of all I gained self-love. I learned that I lived in One Creative Mind and I was an individualization of this One Mind. I realized that because I was created 'out of' one Mind, my true nature was goodness and not sin as I had been taught by Catholicism. I also learned that the past has no hold on me if I kept my thoughts positive and loving. I learned there was no such thing as fate and that we can direct our life in the direction we wish to go by Spiritual Mind Treatments. I learned how to compose a Spiritual Mind Treatment, which is a wonderful way to pray, since it raises consciousness incredibly. The prayers changed my life for the better. I felt in charge of my life and able to choose the life I wanted. I was able to heal all the lingering complaints and cease suffering. I will explain about Spiritual Mind Treatments in Chapter Seven.

Raising your consciousness takes work; it takes dedication and the decision that the mundane is no longer for you. It is this attitude that brings you to a place of equanimity.

What is astonishing and what people have missed, throughout the ages, in their religious teaching, is that which you are looking for, is the 'real' you, not something you are not, but something you already are. You are not looking to 'become' a superior being, you 'are' a superior being, and through raising your consciousness you merge with your Power-Self. That's how you eventually uncover the Truth about yourself. I did not become a better person; I just shed illusion and moved towards who I truly am. Meditation raises your consciousness by lifting you up to Higher - Mind, to that which is Truth. The process takes place by bypassing 'race-belief' and your mental equivalent and brings you into a state of grace. In grace you are in Truth, and in Truth you can live in heaven on earth.

If we could live in the moment all the time, we would certainly raise our consciousness, as we would be in constant meditation and would naturally be in Higher-Mind. There are many books written on the subject to help us achieve this feat.

Many years ago, in my early twenties, stressed out with five children in tow and a life that was so hurried I hardly had time to breathe, I met a remarkable lady. She was in her nineties and as bright as a twenty-year-old. I asked her what her secret was and she went on to tell me how she achieved such vigor.

'Whenever I am doing anything, for instance ironing, I watch what I am doing. I feel my hand holding the iron and watch myself as I gently glide the iron over the material. When I telephone anyone, I feel my finger as it touches each number, and I feel my hand holding the receiver. When I wash the dishes, I feel the warm water on my hands and each utensil as I wash them gently.' This lady had found the secret and her glowing face showed it. She had certainly found peace.

If you begin your journey to Truth by using daily meditation or relaxation, eventually you will be able to live in the moment more and more often, as it will become much easier to you. Living in the moment is the virtue of a relaxed, enlightened soul, a soul who is one with God. No more do you live in the past or the future for they hold no gain, because they are not real. The past is gone and the future is not yet here. You cannot change the past, and the future is not set in stone. Only the present moment rewards you, only the present moment is real.

Another way to raise your consciousness is to make affirmations. Affirmations are positive suggestions stated in the present tense. Any affirmation can be used if it is composed of positive words. For instance, love, light, and peace are three of the most powerful words you can use in affirmations. If you find yourself worrying or thinking negatively, or if you have some spare time, repeat the word 'Love' over and over in your mind. Say the word slowly. You do not need to have your eyes closed; you can be doing your daily chores while saying it. With repetition of this word you begin to relax, your energy rises making you feel happier. Repeating all three words together slowly, over and over brings many rewards.

An excellent affirmation process is 'Naming.' For instance, I say 'Who is Rosemary?' Then I say 'Rosemary is Light.' 'Who is Rosemary? Rosemary is Love.' 'Who is Rosemary? Rosemary is Peace.' This too is a very powerful process and very calming, and it brings you into a state of grace. Practice it for about ten minutes a few times a day while walking or doing your chores.

Here is a visualization and meditation technique that is very good. Sitting in a chair with eyes closed, feet on the floor and back straight, take a deep breath and sigh the air away. Imagine in front of you a large piece of silky material. You are running your hand up and down it very slowly. You breathe in on an upward stroke and breathe out on a downward stroke. Continue this process, and if your mind wanders away from the visualization, which it probably will do not worry as this is correct and part of the meditation process. As soon as your mind wanders and you realize you are thinking of something else, bring your mind back to the visualization and your breathing and carry on with the strokes. Practice this for twenty minutes.

There are endless methods of relaxation and you will find what is right for you. If you are exceptionally stressed, then Transcendental Meditation is excellent.

You will be taught to meditate on a one-to-one basis, and although it is expensive, it is worth the money, and the service you get is second to none. I recommend it for those who find they cannot teach themselves and so need guidance. You can find your nearest centre in the telephone book.

Blessing everything in sight is also a wonderful practice and raises your consciousness by bringing you into 'gratitude consciousness.' Look around you, and see all the wonderful things you have gathered. Be thankful. Say to all the pieces of furniture in your house, 'I love and bless you for being there for me.' Do the same to everyone you meet, from your nearest and dearest to the person who is not so dear. There is no need for them to hear you, and they will feel a loving vibration coming from you. Not only does this practice raise your consciousness, it raises the consciousness of those you bless. Being thankful attracts more goodness, because you are placing into Mind good thoughts which bring more of the same. Jesus knew this fact when he said, 'For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him it shall be taken away even that he hath.' (Matthew 13:12) Jesus realized if you are grateful for what you have, however meager your possessions, appreciation attracts accumulation, so appreciate everyone in your life, everything you have, and be thankful for it all.

'Judge not lest ye be judged.' (Matthew 7:1-5) Never sit in judgment of anyone. It is negative thinking. And do not sit in judgment of yourself either. Never say a thing about yourself that you do not want realized in your life. Negative thinking causes your energy to plummet; it lowers your vibration causing tiredness, tension, and toil. If you catch yourself criticizing, stop and silently say, 'I love and bless you.' These words will increase your energy. If you criticize yourself say, 'I love and approve of myself.' We never know the reason for another's behavior. Jesus said, 'Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.' (John 7-14)

What Jesus meant was do not judge from your limited perception but judge from Truth. Know that everyone is a personification of God and therefore Good.

Reading spiritual literature is another excellent way to raise your consciousness. Have you noticed how much more peaceful and/or loving you are feeling just reading these words. These words are positive and so raise your consciousness.

People are unaware that reading murder mysteries and the like lower their energy, causing problematic lives. Nothing could be more lethal to your soul than television Talk (Chat) Shows where people fight verbally, if not physically. The media are guilty of misconduct, because they cause misery by portraying war, crime, and violence daily, which is negative behavior. Each one of us adds to this type of viewing by criticizing the perpetrators, sometimes hating them. No wonder there is so much sadness and sickness in the world. If you believe the world is in a bad state, you will cause more of it. Whatever you put your mind on grows.

If the media publicized the good that is happening worldwide, then we would see better things happening. Globally wonderful things happen, and statistically there are more good people than bad. Many people help to make our world a better place. When newspapers and newsreels pass on positive information, then and only then will war, crime, and violence come to an end. It's our duty to stop the media from causing such misery. Stop buying the newspapers and stop watching the newsreels. The media would soon change their tune if we did that. They would be forced to portray a world of peace, happiness, and joy rather than disaster. With perseverance and dedication to halt their destruction by refusing to take part in this façade, we could make it happen.

We all have a mental equivalent; make yours a positive one. If you pollute yourself with worldwide problems, you'll attract problems of your own. If you join with the unhappy and the miserable, you'll vibrate at a lower frequency. If you desire a wonderful life, look at the wonderful things happening, and there are plenty of wonderful things going on.

If we were to take a survey of every street in the world I think we would find about one percent of people were not so nice. The rest are kind and loving people doing good deeds for others every day.

Look at your garden and see the miracles taking place; see how the little seeds have grown into an array of colorful flowers. You do not need to look far to find the wonderful which bring wonderful results to your door. Keep positive see everything as good even that which you think looks bad at the time. There is a saying, 'Out of bad comes good' and it's true.

Summary of the main ideas presented in this chapter

Raising your consciousness is important.

Raising your consciousness takes work; it takes dedication on your part.

Thinking positively raises your consciousness.

Meditation raises your consciousness by lifting you up to Higher - Mind.

A way to raise your consciousness is to state affirmations.

Blessing everything in sight raises your consciousness.

Never sit in judgment of anyone or yourself.

You are not looking to 'become' some superior being; you 'are' a superior being.

You do not need to look for love, you are Love.

If you pollute yourself with others' problems, you attract problems of your own.

Reading murder mysteries and watching newsreels lowers your vibration.

If you want to have a wonderful life, look towards the wonderful.

### Chapter Six

### Transactional Analysis

One of the most desired commodities is healing and millions worldwide visit physicians daily seeking relief from one illness or another. Pharmacies are inundated with people looking for a drug to take away their pain. Many people practice unorthodox healing methods having been disappointed with conventional treatments, however all of these people have one thing in common, and that is, they are not 'at ease.'

It isn't only health that needs healing; relationships need healing too, and this is one of the greatest healings needed because many people do not know how to relate correctly. If you can have harmonious relationships, then you will find there is not as much pain in your life either physically or mentally.

In most relationships, there is the 'power struggle' the 'I am right' syndrome.

Why is it so important to be right and why do people fight and argue in the name of righteousness? It's because they've never been taught to relate properly and do not know who and what they are, so they have to look after the 'little me,' that part of them that is three-years-old. Think about it: is there are a part of you that sulks when someone says or does something you do not like? Maybe there is a part of you that gets angry and vehemently returns the hurt the persecutor caused you. Is there a part of you that interferes by controlling people in the name of the Good Samaritan, becoming a nurturer? Finally is there a critical part of you that controls others by criticizing them and telling them what to do? I was guilty of all these.

Transactional Analysis (TA) is a philosophy founded by Dr. Eric Berne and began to be developed 1950s and has been evolving since. Dr. Eric Berne is well known for his book Games People Play.

Dr. Thomas A Harris, Dr. Berne's student and friend wrote the book, 'I'm OK-You're OK' in 1969 and brought the teachings to the forefront. TA can help you as it did me to relate in an Adult way. TA helps people recognize the various parts of their personality, giving them power to change situations and have better relationships.

Transactional Analysis is a theory that divides the personality into three parts: the Child, Parent and Adult. The Child and Parent are subdivided into Hurt and Happy Child and Nurturing and Critical Parent.

Transactional Analysis simply means 'analyzing transactions,' and every moment we are having transactions. The most common transaction is the internal one; the little voice inside us which says, 'I am silly, I am stupid, and, I shouldn't have done that.' Or maybe you hear, 'I did a very good job and I am proud of myself.' We need to know which part of us says the former and which part says the latter.

Many times we witness transactions between other people, but the most important transaction is the one we have with others. Transactional Analysis teaches that when two people share a personality type, i.e., two people are in Happy Child or two people are in Nurturing Parent; then harmony ensues. The following is a breakdown of the 'personality types' and the behavior of each. This knowledge will help you discover your most dominant parts.

A newborn has basic instincts: a need for food, warmth, shelter and love, so it needs 'support.' If support is given, the child develops Happy Child; if not given for one reason or another it develops Hurt Child. Separation for whatever reason from the child's mother can cause Hurt Child development.

The behavior of the Happy Child is fun-loving. It laughs, can act silly, plays games, tells jokes, and is with us until the day we die.

The Hurt Child is the VICTIM, being depressed, despondent, powerless, and guilty, crying and feeling very vulnerable, unable to cope with life's situations. It can accompany us until the day we die unless we recognize it. I believe Hurt Child behavior can lead to suicidal feelings or even suicide. Both Happy Child and Hurt Child behavior causes friction in relationships if the partner's personality type is different.

At approximately ten months old, the baby begins to develop Inner Parent by observation of parental behavior. The Inner Parent is divided into Critical Parent and Nurturing Parent.

If a baby's parents have critical behavior, for instance, the parent might say, 'Stop that whining! You are a stupid child! Oh you are a nuisance!' Or the infant sees the parents criticizing each other, i.e., 'Don't you dare walk in here with those dirty shoes on; get out, get out!' By the time the child is three years old, development of a Critical Parent could have developed showing the following behavior: The three-year-old snatches a toy from its playmate and pushes him/her over saying, 'This is mine and you can't have it!' 'Horrible child,' you might say. However the child has 'learned' this behavior.

If an infant has parents dominant in Nurturing Parent, it will see nurturing behavior such as, 'There, there darling, mummy will get you a nice drink. Here's a candy for being a good girl/boy.' By the time the child has reached three years, you may witness the following behavior. Maybe the child's friend has fallen over, so the child runs to his little friend saying, 'I will rub your knee.' 'What a delightful child,' you might add. However, this child is no more delightful than the other child is horrible. It has learned the behavior from its parent's personality. Both Nurturing Parent and Critical Parent are 'controlling' features of a person's personality and can cause friction in relationships.

So let's examine the Adult. The 'Adult' is the wisest part of the personality and sometimes never developed.

Here is a list of Adult conduct.

1. The Adult is non-judgmental.

2. The Adult sees the overall view.

3. The Adult has the power to change.

4. The Adult can change a situation spontaneously.

5. The Adult chooses to perceive situations in a positive way.

6. The Adult knows there is a solution to all problems.

7. The Adult is fearless.

8. The Adult can make choices.

9. The Adult loves unconditionally.

10. The Adult doesn't have to be perfect.

11. The Adult is truthful to itself and others.

12. The Adult is ego-less.

13. The Adult is positive in everything, in thought, word, and deed.

14. The Adult sees alternatives to every situation.

15. The Adult sees the good in everyone including itself.

16. The Adult does not have to prove anything to itself or others.

17. The Adult does not control itself or others.

18. The Adult allows others to be themselves.

19. The Adult is worthy of all good.

20. The Adult is at peace.

The Adult can be seen as 'Higher Self' behavior and can be accessed by raising your consciousness. I talked about ways to raise your consciousness in Chapter Five.

If you are not able to behave as the Adult then you are stuck in Hurt Child, Happy Child, Nurturing Parent, or Critical Parent and will never be able to have good relationships.

If you have developed the ADULT, you will be able to 'witness' your reactions rather than letting them take over. You will recognize which part of the personality you're in at any given moment and change it at will. When you're hurt or annoyed with someone, ask yourself, 'What would the Adult do?' We all have an inner Adult even if it is not developed. Listen for the answer and act on it. It works like magic!

The Adult is seldom developed in children. That is because parents are so busy being Critical or Nurturing Parent, or they are in Child, being Hurt or Happy Child that a child does not stand a chance. If a child has parents who are not in Adult, they behave in dysfunctional ways and so relationships are thwarted. Some people never develop their Adult, so how can they teach it to their children?

A parent who has developed Adult behavior uses the following phrases: 'How do you feel about this situation? What would you like to do? What do you think? Would you like a blue one or a red one?' Adults always give choices. If a child is having tantrums and the parent is strong in Adult, they would help the child deal with its emotions rather than stop the child's behavior through force or manipulation. They would help the child realize it has the power within itself to change situations. The Adult allows the child to make mistakes knowing that sometimes it is the only way it will learn. The Adult is aware of the bigger picture at all times.

To simplify the teachings, I'll use two characters: May and Maude. They have been on a shopping trip together. They are sitting on a park bench talking. The conversation starts with May saying, 'Dear me, Maude, the baked beans have gone up again in price. It's the dammed government's fault. They call themselves a 'Labor' government. It's a laugh!'

Maude says, 'I agree. It's never been the same since they got into Parliament. They should be shot!' Both are in Critical Parent and so feel understood by the other.

Let's take another look at the same scene only with both of them in a different part. May say's in a despondent tone, 'Oh Maude, the baked beans have gone up again in price and I don't know how I am going to cope with the price rises. Fred won't give me any more money and I am struggling as it is.'

Maude replies, 'It's the same for me. Tom took £20.00 out of my purse the other day without telling me. I daren't say anything because he will lose his temper.' Both are in the Hurt Child mode and so totally helpless, not a nice place to be. But they understand each other. This pair love moaning, and sit there with rounded shoulders playing the VICTIM.

Now let's see what happens in a different transaction. May say's to Maude, 'Oh Maude, the baked beans have gone up again in price. I don't know how I am going to cope and Fred won't give me any more money. I'm struggling as it is.'

Maude replies, in a judgmental tone, feeling superior, 'Oh May, you make me sick. Just tell him to give you more money or he can go and live somewhere else! Me, I wouldn't tolerate such behavior and you're stupid for putting up with him.'

So here we have May in Hurt Child and Maude in Critical Parent. They are not getting on very well and both feel frustrated with the other, especially May.

Let's look at another transaction. May say's to Maude, 'Oh Maude, the baked beans have gone up again in price. I don't know how I am going to cope and Fred won't give me any more money. I'm struggling as it is.'

Maude says in a compassionate tone and trying to make the situation right for her friend, 'Oh dear May, put this £20.00 in your purse. It will help you out a little.' May is in Hurt Child, Maude is in Nurturing Parent. May hasn't solved her problem, and Maude feels powerful having controlled the situation.

Finally we have the transaction that works. May say's to Maude, 'Oh Maude, the baked beans have gone up again in price and I don't know how I'm going to cope. Fred won't give me any more money and I am struggling as it is.'

Maude replies in wisdom and love. 'Oh dear, you're struggling are you?' May as you know is in Hurt Child, but here Maude is in Adult. She is supporting her friend, not trying to change the situation, not condemning anyone, but listening and repeating what May has said, showing she understands her friend's predicament. She trusts that May has the answer to her problem inside her.

May continues her conversation, 'Yes, and you know last week he gave one of the boys a black eye.'

'Did he really;' Maude say's, looking concerned at her friend's dilemma but still not offering advice.'

'Yes and the week before he went out with another woman!' 'What do you think you should do then?' asks Maude, knowing that the answer to May's trouble lay

inside her.

'I think I should go and see a councilor. I cannot go on like this,' says May. May has taken control; she feels stronger and supported by her friend. Being in Adult allows the other to come into Adult too.

Unless we're in Adult, we will not be able to have healthy relationships and lead a peaceful life. Neither will we be able to help others do the same.

I'm not saying we should never be in Child or Parent modes as they may always be there. However, with recognition, we can change from Happy or Hurt Child, Critical or Nurturing Parent to Adult behavior and stop the other behaviors from running our life. We don't have to get stuck in them for months, years, maybe even a lifetime as some people do. Believe me, even getting stuck in Happy Child can cause problems, because it can stop us from gaining the respect we deserve. Many people believe that being jolly all the time is the ultimate, but it's not. Being at peace is more favorable, and you can only achieve that in Adult.

So what are you dominant in? If you are often acting silly, telling jokes, teasing people, then you are strong in Happy Child. If you are most often feeling like the Victim, feeling depressed, despondent, taken for granted, unloved, and ridiculed, you are strong in Hurt Child. If you are bossy, critical of yourself or others, and often trying to control situations, you are in Critical Parent. If you are the nice guy always pleasing others, trying to help everyone, and trying to get people to like you, you are in Nurturing Parent.

Most people are a mixture of all of these. Stop reading for a moment and think about your personality. By analyzing your personality and the transactions you have with other people, you will be able to change and have better relationships. You will develop compassion for yourself and others, seeing that others are in different parts as well. You will be able to make choices about which personality part you want to be in. The remarkable thing is, as you change your behavior, the other person changes theirs towards you. You can make any relationship work with this knowledge.

Using this theory allows you to analyze day-to-day occurrences. Here's an example. Joan has noticed that her bank statement is incorrect. She feels despondent, hurt, and powerless because she is strong in Hurt Child. She goes to the bank and the following conversation takes place as Joan attempts to put the situation right.

'I looked at my bank statement and noticed that you have taken £20.00 out of my account,' Joan says despondently.

'Sit down over there,' says the Bank Clerk in Critical Parent. 'I will get someone to see to you.' She points to a seat in the corner of the room. Joan sits and waits. She notices others coming up to the desk and being attended to, but she says nothing and sits there for half an hour before she timidly returns to the desk.

'Could you sort this out for me please? I've been waiting a long time.' Joan's tears start to flow as the Bank Clerk realizes she had forgotten to mention the error to the person who deals with complaints. 'Why didn't you say something instead of sitting there all that time?' asks the Bank Clerk angrily in her Critical Parent voice. She feels frustrated with Joan. How different this situation would have been if Joan had been in Adult.

Let's look at Joan in Critical Parent and see what happens. Joan has noticed that her bank statement is incorrect. She feels angry, annoyed, and indignant because she is strong in Critical Parent. She storms up to the desk and says to the Bank Clerk, 'Look what some idiot has done. They have taken £20.00 out of my account.'

The Bank Clerk also strong in Critical Parent feels threatened. 'Don't go accusing this bank of taking money out of your account.

'Well if it's not sorted soon, I'll be taking my business elsewhere,' says Joan.

'Do that,' says the Bank Clerk and storms off. Nobody gets anywhere. They only get aggravated with each other, not at all a good relationship.

Now let's look at Adult behavior. Joan has noticed her bank statement is incorrect. She is upset and then angry: Hurt Child and then Critical Parent. As she is

strong in Adult, she recognizes the parts she went into. She decides to take control of the Hurt Child and Critical Parent by rationalizing her behavior and so getting straight into Adult mode by recognition. She goes to the bank feeling calm and relaxed, knowing that there must be some explanation. She produces her statement showing the Bank Clerk the error. 'Would you be kind enough to sort this out for me please? There seems to have been an incorrect withdrawal from my account.'

'Certainly madam,' says the Bank Clerk, as she sorts out Joan's problem. By being in Adult, both respect the other and the problem is soon rectified. Our behavior affects others. What we give out comes back to us. When we are strong in Adult, we can have excellent relationships. If you're suffering in any way, then you are in Hurt Child playing the victim. So take responsibility for yourself, because no one can make you unhappy, only you.

If you're strong in Happy Child, you will attract Critical or Nurturing Parent figures and your relationships will never be harmonious. No one can have an adult relationship with a child. If you're strong in Hurt Child, again you will attract people strong in Critical Parent. You will always feel victim, and again no one can have an adult relationship with a child. If you are strong in Critical Parent, you'll attract criticism and won't be liked. You will never get close to anyone. If you're strong in Nurturing Parent, you will attract users and subsequently feel resentful. If you're strong in ADULT, you will attract love, health, and happiness. What are you strong in? It's your choice.

Summary of the main ideas presented in this chapter.

Transactional Analysis (TA) is a philosophy founded by Dr. Eric Berne in the 1950s

Transactional Analysis simply means analyzing transactions.

There are three parts to the personality, Child, Parent and Adult

The personality is divided into Hurt Child, Happy Child, Nurturing Parent, Critical Parent and Adult.

The Adult can be seen as the Higher Self.

You can access the Adult through raising your consciousness.

If you have developed the Adult you will be able to witness your reactions rather than letting them take you over.

By analyzing your personality you will be able to be in charge and have better relationships.

If you're strong in ADULT, you will attract love, health, and happiness.

### Chapter Seven

### Spiritual Mind Treatment

Spiritual Mind Treatment is a method of prayer that raises your conscious awareness and perception to the highest level – the Unified Field of potentiality. You experience peacefulness and a knowing. You merge with the Presence and Creative Law. At this point the problem is dissolved into God-filled awareness. Your thinking and perception change and you experience LOVE.

Spiritual Mind Treatments are a form of prayer that Ernest Holmes, the founder of Science of Mind, put together to help people heal their lives and solve their problems. Holmes realized there was a spiritual process used by Jesus to heal the sick. He knew Jesus had great faith in God when he said, 'I and the Father are one.' (John 10:30) Holmes knew that we needed the same faith in God that Jesus had. However he knew, unlike Jesus we did not have the same faith in our Divinity. Holmes knew we had to 'believe' this Power was with us at all times, supporting us.

He discovered a process to build faith 'within a prayer' by communing with God and allowing oneself to be lifted up into Higher States of consciousness. Holmes knew we live in a Divine Mind, and Mind will create our choices if we speak in affirmative language. He put together a Five-Step-Treatment for all kinds of healing.

### Step 1: Recognition

We start our Spiritual Mind Treatment with recognition that there is One Life, and that Life is God. You can use any word you like to describe God. You do not need to use the word God if it doesn't feel right to you. We could use the word Power, Energy, Spirit, Infinite Mind, Universe, Buddha, Jesus, the One, Life Force, Light, or any other term.

' _I recognize there is a universal Power This Power created the universe and all that is in it. It is the only Life there is.'_

### Step 2: Unification

Unification – this step unifies us with God. It is our acceptance that this Power created us out of Itself and this Power surrounds us and is inside us, not somewhere far away. It created us as Good, as this Power could not create anything other than good. By fusing ourselves with this Power we acknowledge our birthright as Spiritual Beings.

' _I know I live in this Power, and this Power lives in me and it creates all my choices'_

### Step 3: Realization

Realization is the step where we state what we 'want' never what we don't want. For instance we wouldn't say, 'I don't want to be ill.' We wouldn't mention illness at all. Instead we would say that we are healthy and full of vitality. Another important aspect of realization is we should always use the 'present tense' because the Mind takes what we say literally. If we said, 'I 'will' be healthy,' then we would always be awaiting good health. If we said, 'I 'will' get better,' it will never happen. What we need to say is 'I am healthy and full of vitality.' We state what we want to create even if it is not true at this moment in time.

' _I am very healthy and full of vitality. Everything in life works for me. I am so happy to be alive.'_

### Step 4: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is the next step in Spiritual Mind Treatment and it is in thankfulness that we 'know' without doubt that our choices are manifested because we have placed them into Mind. It's like saying to John Smith, 'Take my car to the car wash. Thanks very much.' You thank him because you know it is John Smith's job to take cars to the car wash, and you know without doubt he will do this work for you. In the same way, you thank God, knowing your word has been spoken into Creative Mind and that it is Creative Mind's work to get it for you. You know it has been granted to you already, and so you are waiting for the manifestation in your life.

'Knowing that my word is spoken into Mind I am grateful for my health and vitality. I am grateful that everything works for me and that I am so happy to be alive.'

### Step 5: Letting go

Letting go is important, and if you do not let go, you will thwart the prayer. The chance of your chosen desire coming to you will be in vain. For example, if I order a meal in a restaurant, I don't think, 'Will I get it?' I know that my meal may take sometime, so I continue talking to my dinner companion. I don't shout, 'Are you sure you will be able to get it, waiter?' Of course not! I wait in pleasant anticipation. Likewise, think no more about your prayer. Do not give it a second thought. You know the philosophy, you have spoken your word into Mind, and God never fails you.

' _I let go knowing my word is spoken into Mind and so be it.'_

This is a shortened version of the Five-Step- Treatment, as I wanted to show you how easy it is. It's a way of supporting your life in the direction you want it to go. Treatments set the wheels in motion. They are like an engine that drives your vehicle in the direction you want to go. Five-Step-Treatments bring you in tune with God, raising your consciousness and lead to the realization of your dreams. Sometimes your dreams take time to materialize, and sometimes your dreams manifest almost instantly. The following poem may help you to remember the five steps.

I recognize God within,

I unify my soul connected to Him,

I realize the Truth and so it's created

I thank God,

Let go, and await it.

Spirit works in many ways, and it is not for us to worry about 'how' our dreams will be accomplished. Our work is to Treat for what we want and then let go 'knowing' we'll have whatever we have asked for, even if it seems an impossible task.

We are advised to look away from the condition or the reason for suffering. We are taught to look at the Truth, whether it is for ourselves or another. We look beyond what the eyes can see. We look to the very Essence of the soul, to the Spirit within. We look at perfection being the only Truth. We don't deny someone has suffering. We don't say it isn't happening, however, we do say it isn't real at the level of God Consciousness.

Raising your consciousness to the highest level reaches beyond suffering, reaches beyond disappointment, and reaches beyond living a lie. Raising your consciousness brings you into your God-Self that has always been and always will be. Once you can rise to the level of God, you can make a great difference in people's lives and in your own. You can take yourself and others soaring above the untruth by seeing God in yourself and them. That's the work, and that's how Jesus healed. Jesus knew his Oneness with the Divine, and the Christ was evident in Jesus to such an extent that he could walk on water, turn water into wine, multiply bread and fishes, and raise the dead.

Was he any different than us? No he wasn't. He was just conscious that he was One with God to such an extent that he knew when he spoke the word; it was not he that was speaking but the Father within that was speaking. This is the sort of faith that can move mountains. It can raise you to great heights, and it can raise others to the same great heights.

Many suffer as I did. It is a good starting point when you know beyond all doubt that your life isn't working as it should, that you are not happy; so you have a choice – do I sink or swim? Jesus said, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.' (Matthew 5-3) When we suffer and are poor in spirit, there is only one way to go and that is up. Up to the Higher States of Consciousness where God reigns. Up to the Truth, the real you, the everlasting you, the everlasting Power. This is your birthright. Claim it now, and when you claim it, you will be lifted up. The right book, the right person, the right situation, will lead you to the Truth about you. The process and steps to getting there are not for you to worry about. Your journey 'will' begin. It has already begun as you read this book. You must have had some yearning in you to be reading these words, and a little yearning is all that is needed. So rejoice that the journey has begun.

When I began my study of Science of Mind, I wrote a Treatment that my husband Keith and I would live in a warm sunny country, that we would live in a beautiful house with sea and mountain views, and that we would be happy for the rest of our lives. I framed the Five-Step-Treatment and put it on the dressing table, never believing it would materialize. Now and again I read it, but not very often, because I thought we would have to win the lotto to have such a life.

One day I was prompted to call a friend Diane whom I had not seen for years. I met up with her, and she told me that she and her husband Tony had an apartment in Cyprus. They invited us to come to Cyprus saying they would show us around the island. We couldn't miss such an offer, and upon arriving, we both fell in love with this beautiful country. We wanted to live in Cyprus, where the sun shone nearly every day. However the problem was money. We wondered how we could afford to buy a house there. We decided that if we sold our houses (we had a house each), we could afford a little one-bedroom apartment, so we returned to England to do just that.

Back in England we learned that houses were selling like hot cakes and prices had risen dramatically. We couldn't believe it, so we put our houses on the market.

My house took five days to sell and Keith's sold in just half an hour.

We visited Cyprus in March and we were living there in the August of the same year. MAGIC? No! God created it for us and we didn't see it coming. My Spiritual Mind Treatment had materialized in eighteen months. We bought a beautiful three-bedroom detached Villa with use of a swimming pool. And yes, with sea and mountain views!

Summary of the main ideas presented in this chapter.

Spiritual Mind healing doesn't look at the cause or the reason for sufferings; it looks at the Truth of the person.

Perfection is the only Truth.

Spiritual Mind Healing looks at the very Essence of the soul.

Spiritual Mind Healing doesn't deny the fact that someone is suffering.

Spiritual Mind healing looks to the God-Self that has always been and always will be.

Spiritual Mind Treatment is scientific.

Spiritual Mind Treatment works because you follow scientific steps.

There are five steps in a Treatment.

### Chapter Eight

### Spiritual Practitioner

After many years of studying Science of Mind, I decided to become a Science of Mind Practitioner. I knew that Jesus healed by faith, faith in God, but I didn't know how. Science of Mind taught me how.

When Jesus said, 'Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me.' (John 14;1) he was saying he was one with God. He also said 'Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also and greater works than these shall he do.' (John 14-12)

This meant if he could heal by saying, 'Get up and walk,' then I could do the same. Jesus knew he was a Spiritual Being. He knew his word was sufficient to heal, and I had learned this too.

Words have power. Words of Truth align you with your Power-Self. When you are in line with your Power-Self you become the Truth. There is only ONE. There is only Power. There is not you and me, not him and her, not cat and dog. There is only Power.

When I was about twelve years old I said to my friend Pauline, 'I think there is only me, and everything outside of me is there for my amusement.' She was flabbergasted as was I. I wondered where those words and knowledge had come from. It certainly had not come from the Catholic religion. And life certainly wasn't amusing to me at the time. I have learned since the knowledge had come from my Higher-Self, because over the years I have had many messages. One of them which had great impact upon me was, 'Conquer the mental and follow what you honor.' I took it to mean, Look after your mind with good positive thoughts and you will create your dreams.

When my mother died, I invited Pauline to the funeral. I had not seen her for many years. She said, 'Do you remember saying you thought there was only you and everything outside of you was there for your amusement?'

'Yes, fancy you remembering that,' I said, amazed. I didn't think she would have remembered, but like me she'd remembered the exact words. I smiled to myself because I'd realized, what I'd said was the TRUTH, but I didn't tell Pauline that.

There is only 'you.' You are an individualization of the One, as we all are. Going forth, experiencing your oneness. We are part of the Whole. Jesus knew the Truth. 'You' can say to a sick person as Jesus did, 'Get up and walk,' and with faith in the Word being placed into Mind they could. Why? Because, they are God and you are God. Their only problem is they have lost the Truth of who they are. God is not sick. God is not lame.

God is all there is. We have lost the Truth. We think we are limited. We think we are mortal. We think we are sick. Not true!

I became a Science of Mind Practitioner to help people realize their divinity. To help them realize they are not human beings but mighty Spiritual Beings living in a Spiritual Universe. We live in a Creative Consciousness that creates whatever we choose. We need to let go of limiting beliefs that cause ill health and heartache.

A Science of Mind Practitioner's know the Truth, that all is One; an individuality of One Divine Essence, and so perfect. They know it is not themselves (a mere mortal) that heals someone; but their own Power-Self that brings the other to the Truth of themselves. Sickness is an illusion, an illusion caused by ignorance.

God is all goodness, so everything that God created is perfect, because God created everything out of Itself.

Science of Mind Practitioners know that whatever problem they are presented with is not the problem. The problem is error thinking. They know by raising their consciousness it will raise the patients consciousness in the process, because we all live in One Mind. They ignore the so-called problem and look at the Truth. And the Truth is the patient is made in the image and likeness of God, so how can s/he be sick or unhappy in anyway.

The healing isn't accomplished by will-power to drive away ailments. It isn't a force of any kind. The healing is a lifting process, lifting the patient above error to the Truth.

Science of Mind Practitioners know that when their consciousness has risen God is living, thinking, and talking through them. They know the Power within them is not their own power (human) but God Power. They know that their work is easy, because all they have to do is realize their divinity and this brings about the healing.

Another concept of Science of Mind is, 'Causes and Conditions.' which came from the written work of Thomas Troward. He had a great impact on the

Science of Mind philosophy and the following ideas are taken from his Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science. We will come across the following phrases which will help you understand how sickness and problems are caused. 'First Cause', 'relative first cause', and 'secondary cause.' God is 'First Cause' because God created everything out of Itself. 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God' (King James Bible.)

God said the Word and from the Word conditions were created i.e. the earth and everything in it. All was made perfect because God's Word was perfect. We are a perfect condition that God created.

Because we were made out of God, we 'create' through God-Mind our own conditions. Our thought (word) is the 'cause' and our life circumstances (be it health or whatever) are the conditions.

If I choose to think, 'I have a perfect life,' then from that idea, a perfect life is created for me. In that way my perfect life has become a condition. This is relative first cause thinking. The name 'relative first cause' is used to differentiate the action of a 'person's individualized mind' from Universal First Cause Mind.

Let's say I have been a very positive person having relative first cause thinking. In other words my thoughts have been Truth and in line with God's way of thinking. However let's say my husband dies, and I think, 'I have been wronged. He shouldn't have died so young. This is a terrible thing to happen to me.' This way of thinking is secondary cause thinking (error) and, in turn, will cause a condition. I sink into race-consciousness and cut myself off from God. From this secondary cause way of thinking I am led to a negative condition. The condition may be a health problem, a problem with money, or a problem with others. My perfect life has vanished, I am unhappy. Everything seems to be going wrong. This is because the idea was a secondary cause thought of 'limitation.' These thoughts were not in line with First Cause, with God.

I keep creating from the conditions. I see more and more negative conditions happening because I'm causing it by thinking negatively. These secondary cause thoughts are not true (although they may seem true at the time) they are caused by lack of the truth. So how can I get back on track?

Let's return to my husband's demise. This time I think, 'I'll get over this. I'll make a new life for myself. Everything is fine. My husband has made his transition but life is eternal. I will miss the companionship but I turn to God within me and realize the possibility of a new and rich relationship in my life.' This is relative first cause thinking and will bring about a loving relationship which will be a good condition.

From this good condition, I have other thoughts. One of them is, 'Life is wonderful.' This is the Truth, because God never made anything that wasn't wonderful. So I will keep on creating more and more good conditions.

God never made anything imperfect, so believing everything is perfect is a relative first cause belief, and is Truth. Seeing imperfection is secondary cause belief and is not true.

This analogy may clarify my point. The sun always shines, and when night-time comes it's because 'we' the earth have moved away from the sun, not because the sun has gone out. The sun is always there so the sun is 'first cause.' The earth moving away from the sun is secondary cause. The sun has not left us, we have left the sun. So the former is the truth and the latter is untruth.

This is akin to health problems. Our natural inheritance is 'health' because God is health. Health is a condition and the Truth about us. Sickness is caused by having secondary cause thoughts. The patient believes s/he has a problem, but the Practitioner knows the patient has no problem, because the patient is perfect.

So the Practitioner has a 'relative first cause' belief which is Truth. The patient however has a secondary cause belief which is not truth. Any negative thought is secondary cause thinking.

We may think, 'S/he's out to get me. I hate her/him.' This type of thought moves us away from First Cause which is LOVE and our energy is lowered. The chemicals in our body may alter, the heart may race, and the blood pressure may rise all leading to ill health. Eventually the body can break down with arthritis, skin conditions, cancer, etc, sometimes causing premature death.

When we feel tired we may think, 'I don't feel well' and sure enough this thought is made manifest by Subconscious Mind, the Law. This is another way sickness is caused, by a secondary cause belief. The Truth is, we are well, we are healthy, and we are God in manifestation. So how can we be ill?

Whatever happens, we should always search for a First Cause reason. When someone is behaving badly towards us we could reason from the Adult: 'I know I create my reality so what is it I need to know? What do I need to change in me? What is this situation teaching me? Maybe I have to learn unconditional love. Maybe I need to work on my self-esteem. Maybe I need to assert myself. Maybe I need to cleanse my mind by the following exercise.'

I acquired the following idea on mental cleansing, from a book by Susan Jeffers – End the Struggle and Dance with Life. It certainly helped me. I have worked with this cleansing process for years.

Emotional feelings are energy, and energy needs to flow. If our energy doesn't flow we become stagnated. Stagnation leads to illness and/or other problems in our lives. When something is on your mind that will not go away, there are times you need to clear your mind especially when your thoughts are incessant.

We have a Higher Self and a lower self and it is important that we do not reject the lower self. It's all about balance. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) a renowned Psychotherapist realized this and talked about the 'Higher Self' and the 'shadow.' He said in one of his essays, 'A small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed. The shadow is very much a part of human nature.' A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity (1942 In East. p.286)

We need to listen to the lower part of us with the knowledge that what it thinks is error; however it is important that it is heard. It is important that you look after the Hurt Child and/or Critical Parent – the hurt parts of our personality.

Our personality is a 'vehicle' we travel in. It is not the real us, but we need it to live on earth. If you own a car and do not maintain it, it will break down and you will travel nowhere. Likewise, if we do not look after our lower self we will be in trouble.

Sometimes we need to listen to it and write the feelings down.

Using five sheets of paper head each one with one of these phrases;

I am hurt because. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I am sad because . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I am angry because . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I am frustrated because . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I am annoyed because. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

See if you can think of different feelings that I have not mentioned and put these on other sheets of paper. Every adverse situation will have responding feelings, so think of some that triggered negative feeling. Then it's time to brainstorm and write down whatever comes into your mind very quickly. For instance:

I am hurt because Janet said I looked tired.

I am hurt because Janet is always trying to get at me.

I am hurt because Janet doesn't like me.

I am hurt because Janet is always criticizing me.

You may fill the whole sheet of paper with your hurts. You may be shocked at what you write not realizing these thoughts were in your mind and heart.

When you have written down all your hurts, you might be angry too. You should then write:

I am angry that Janet dared to say I looked tired.

I am angry because Janet has the audacity to criticize me.

I am angry that Janet doesn't like me when I am nice to her.

So on and so on until you can think of nothing else. If your mind is still churning out negativity, it means you have to repeat the process over and over at a later time until your mind is clear. Once you have cleared your mind, go back over each sentence saying:

'I am hurt that Janet doesn't like me – but I will cope with it!'

Saying these words 'I will cope with it' puts you in the Adult, and the Inner child

feels protected and loved. After you have finished this exercise and the thoughts are no longer in your mind, remember this one important fact: you create your reality! Taking responsibility for your life is the most important step to health and happiness, and for the spiritually-minded people, enlightenment.

When you have cleared your mind of all the chatter, write a Spiritual Mind Treatment stating what you want to happen.

I know that all is Power. I am one with God. God is my real self. God is Love so I am Love. I know Janet and I get on very well. We are kind to each other and enjoy each other's friendship. I am thankful we have a lovely friendship and I let go knowing my word is spoken. And so be it.

When we see the Truth of conditions, we have a good life. When we see the untruth of conditions, we will have an unhappy life.

The good life is the Truth because it is what we were born to have; an unhappy life is untrue because God did not make unhappiness. So it makes sense that Truth has to win. The Truth has the power behind it, the untruth has no power.

I use the following 'Applied Kinesiology' (muscle testing) experiment with patients to demonstrate the power of the word. It proves that the Truth will strengthen their energy and the untruth will weaken it, causing sickness.

We are one with God; God is all that is TRUE, so we cut off our energy by lying. People do not realize that when their thoughts or words are not in line with Truth – with God, they tell lies and lose energy. They disconnect from their God-Self.

Get someone to stand in front of you with their dominant arm out to the side at shoulder level. Ask them to tell you their name three times. For instance, Mary will say, 'My name is Mary, my name is Mary, my name is Mary.'

Then ask Mary to hold her arm strong. Now try to push her arm down. You will not be able to, because the Spiritual Energy holds her arm strong. This statement is the Truth and it is in line with God, as God lives within her.

Now get her to lie to you about her name; have Mary say, 'My name is Fred' three times. Once again ask her to hold her arm strong and try to push it down. You'll find the arm is weak and easy to move. It has no power behind it, because this statement is an untruth.

Universal Mind knows the Truth of Itself. Mary has disconnected from the Source of her being; she has disconnected from God.

With this same experiment you will find that if someone thinks or says something that has caused them sadness or any negative emotion, you will be able to push their arm down easily. However, if they think or say something that has given them happiness you will not be able to push their arm down. The former and the latter show how sickness and health come about. Negative thoughts rob your system of power, and you become powerless because you have disconnected to God-Power. Positive thought empowers you because you align with your Power-Self.

My final experiment using the same Applied Kinesiology principle is to get Mary to say 'I 'am' Mary,' three times. Notice she is not saying that her name is Mary, but saying that she is Mary. There is a great difference! When she says, 'I am Mary,' her arm will be weak and easy to push down, because this is not true.

If Mary says 'I am Spirit, I am Spirit, I am Spirit,' you will not be able to push her arm down as she is united with the Truth about herself. You can get her to say 'I am God,' or 'I am the Light,' and all will work, because these words are the Truth about her.

You are not a human being; you are a Spiritual Being. You do not live in a physical world you live in a Spiritual World.

I spoke earlier about the Law: as you think so you become. Follow this law by resolving to improve your inner life. Watch what you are thinking. If it's a happy thought even if it is not true for you at the moment, it is true to God - Power.

Let's say you are going through a tough time and are short of money. Pretending you are wealthy could change the situation. Fantasize about what you are going to buy, act as if you have the money. Do you remember when you were a child how you would daydream about something you wanted from Santa Claus? Spend lots of time doing this. Fake it till you make it. Your energy will be high; you will be building a healthy mind. You will be in tune with the Divine, and then watch what happens.

If you do the opposite and think about poverty, you will be drained of energy. God knows nothing of poverty, so you will not be in tune with God-Mind. Things will inevitably get worse and worse.

Spiritual Mind Treatment is not praying to God 'up in heaven' and not praying for something you think God may or may not grant you. God is right inside of you. God is not someone who will grant someone a favor and reject someone else's plea. We live in God. God, the Universal Creative Consciousness, hears our every word, hears every petition we make, and acts on it. If you are definite about your prayer it will be answered. The Science of Mind Practitioner has faith, is definite about their prayer and uses it to make changes in consciousness.

Summary of the main ideas presented in this chapter.

A Science of Mind Practitioner knows whatever problem they are presented with is not the problem.

The Science of Mind Practitioner can raise the patient to Truth because we all live in One Mind.

A Science of Mind Practitioner knows Spirit is living, thinking, and talking through them.

A Science of Mind Practitioner does not look at the effect of a belief (the so-called problem) but looks at the Truth.

The Truth is we are all made in the image and likeness of God, so how can anyone be sick or unhappy in any way?

### Chapter Nine

### Case Histories

People visit Science of Mind Practitioner for many reasons. Some come along because their friend or family member has achieved results in the past. These people come along with faith which is always important. Other people come along because

they have been let down by other methods of healing and Science of Mind is the last resort. Some come because they have a belief in God, maybe the God in heaven and are surprised to realize God is within them.

Helen came to me suffering with a lower back problem. 'I have always had a bad back, and it is due to falling of a horse when I was nine,' Helen said with confidence in her sickness.

'Oh, this has been proved has it?' I said thinking that Helen had been diagnosed with some abnormality.

'No, the orthopedic surgeon couldn't find anything wrong with my back. The X-ray showed no damage.

'But I have suffered all my life and I 'know' there must be something wrong; it is getting so bad now it is unbearable.'

'Because you hurt your back Helen when you were nine, doesn't mean that you have to suffer with it all your life.' I told her.

Helen looked somewhat puzzled as I could see the false belief was impregnated in her mental equivalent. I could see that the 'belief' was the problem causing her pain.

'When we put our mind on pain Helen, it can get worse, and we can create more pain. Whatever we put our mind on grows; this is the law.' I knew I was going to have to explain about the way the mind works.

'You see Helen the body cannot be in pain.' She looked puzzled and I could see I was going to have to elaborate.

'Does your back hurt when you're asleep?' I asked.

'I don't think so. It only hurts when I'm awake.'

'It doesn't hurt when you're asleep because you do not have your 'mind' on it; it is your mind that causes the pain.' She still looked puzzled. I could see further

explanation was needed.

'If a person was dead, could they have a painful back?' I asked her.

'Of course not,' Helen said, laughing. Now she was getting the idea.

'A dead person isn't conscious you see. They don't have thoughts or beliefs.' It is the consciousness that has a belief in a painful back. Have you ever heard of someone having their limb amputated and they still experience pain in the area of the removed limb? This is because the pain is still in their mind, still in their energy system.'

I explained, 'Everything in the universe is Energy including you Helen, and we are made out of this One Energy – perfect, and that perfection is the Truth of us. The Energy is a Creative Mind and creates for us whatever we believe.

'I have watched the movie called 'The Secret', and I think I know what you're saying; that we create everything that happens to us. But I didn't know we all live in Energy', said Helen rather pleased with herself. She was half way there, she had learned about the 'Law of Attraction'' in The Secret.

'Because we all live in this One Energy, it is easy for me to lift myself up in consciousness, and in doing so I am able to lift you up in consciousness to the Truth

about yourself. Once there, I see you as your True-Self without pain in your back.'

'Do you believe in God or God, Helen?'

'Well, I was brought up a Catholic, although I don't practice my religion any more because I got lazy, but anyway I cannot believe God is a man.'

'Well Science of Mind sees God as the Energy, as Spirit that we live in and this Energy creates for us whatever we believe.'

'Oh, that sounds feasible,' Helen said, still not understanding completely. So I explained the philosophy in more depth. By the time I was ready to work with Helen she had a greater idea of how the Energy worked and was willing to have a Spiritual

Mind Treatment.

I knew it was okay to mention God in my Treatment because she would be comfortable with it. I explained that she didn't need to do anything other than close her eyes if she wished. I proceeded as follows:

'God is and God is all there is. God is the Essence of my soul, the Love that is present in all of life. I live in God as God lives in me, and I know I am an individualization of Gods perfection. I feel the Love of God pervading my body and soul freeing me from any chains of imperfection and bringing me closer and closer to the peace and tranquility of my True Self. I am immersed in the beauty of life and see only good operating as I go about my life loved by God within. My eyes see only healthy people who are growing in their Divinity, moving and flowing in the one and only stream of Consciousness. I see Helen as a part of God, so I know she's made of perfection too and is perfect. There is no belief in Helen to say otherwise and she knows her perfection. Helen has a very strong and healthy back. She is supple and agile and can move about with comfort and ease. She is supported in life just as her back supports her, and she moves through life peacefully. I am ever grateful for the gift of my word being spoken into Mind and for it materializing Helen's strong and healthy back. I let my Truth be manifested in the knowledge that my word has been spoken. And so be it.'

When I was finished Helen looked at me smiling. 'I have no pain,' she said and wriggled about in her chair. She sprang to her feet and walked briskly up and down the room. 'I cannot believe it,' she said.

'Never say those words 'I can't believe it.' When the words 'I can't believe it' are spoken into One-Mind, they could surely bring back the unwanted for you.'

'Well it's a miracle,' she said boldly.

'It's not a miracle,' I explained 'It's a 'Natural'. All these years you have been creating your painful back by an untrue belief. It's time to hold the belief that your back is flexible and strong,' I said, warning her to keep positive. Otherwise it could undo the work I had done.

Joyce was very negative and came with a complaint of insomnia. 'I haven't been able to sleep since my husband left me for that bitch Maureen. It's his fault I don't sleep – I hate him.'

I realized getting Joyce to understand that she creates her reality and that she needed to take responsibility for her life was going to be tricky in one session. I knew she would see this one day, and I kept this belief in my mind.

I explained to Joyce, 'I work with a process called Spiritual Mind Treatment whereby I could help you sleep. But you would need to practice relaxation everyday too, because it will relax you and make you feel more peaceful.' She agreed, so I gave her my CD 'Journey Back To Truth.' Then, I asked her, 'Do you believe in God?'

'No but I think there is' something' that created the world,' she said looking interested.

'There is a Power that created the universe and everything that's in it, including you and me. It's Energy and It created everything out of Itself,' I said, hoping I wasn't going too deep for her. She seemed okay with this explanation. 'I need to raise my mind up to this Energy, Joyce, which will help raise you up too. Then I will speak the Truth for you into this Energy.

'Oh', said Joyce looking puzzled. I could see Joyce wanted to get on with the session and wasn't very interested in my explanations. 'Should I close my eyes?'she asked looking a little nervous.

'If you want to,' I said smiling, hoping to calm her a little. I then went into Prayer.

' _I know there is only One Energy, One Divine Intelligence in the universe that exists because science has proved it. Science has found that everything is made out of this One Energy including all human beings. This Energy is made of Love and is peaceful at all times. This Energy is inside and around me and acts on my every word. I know that Joyce is made out of this One Energy and It is within her and around her. As Joyce is one with It, she is love and peace too. So she sleeps peacefully at night; as soon as her head touches the pillow she falls off to sleep. She awakes in the morning feeling refreshed and revitalized. I am so grateful Joyce sleeps well and wakes feeling refreshed, revitalized and peaceful. I let go, knowing my word has been spoken, and so be it.'_

Joyce opened her eyes and in bewilderment said, 'I felt very peaceful and calm. That's awesome. I have never felt like that before. What did you do to me?'

'I raised my consciousness to the Truth, which raised you to the Truth of you. The Truth of you is peace, and when we are peaceful we sleep well at night. If you practice the relaxation on my CD everyday, you will feel calm too, because the relaxation will raise your consciousness.'

Joyce returned the week after and told me, 'It's wonderful, Rosemary. As soon as my head touches the pillow I drop off to sleep. I did wake once or twice, but

I found it easy to go back to sleep, it's incredible. I've been using the CD everyday and I love it.'

'Would you like me to tell you a little more about the Energy and how it works?' I asked hoping she would say yes.

'Yes, I would like to hear more, because something wonderful is happening to me.'

'The Energy that created the earth and all that is in it is a Creative Consciousness that is alive, aware, and loving. It created everything out of Itself, not out of something else,' She looked puzzled, so I took a piece of paper and drew a circle and then drew circles within the circle. 'The little circles within the circle are the same as the larger circle only smaller; do you see? We are like a circle in the Energy-Field that created us; we have everything the Energy has. The Energy is Love, so we are love. The Energy is good, so we are good. The Energy is peace, so we are peace. It is peace that makes us sleep at night, and that is what you have been experiencing. The Energy is all perfect, all loving, and all powerful, so whatever It created must be the same too.'

'We were all made perfect, loving, and powerful?'

Joyce looked amazed.

'Yes that is our true nature. The Consciousness is a Mind, and it creates for us whatever we think about. If you think positive thoughts like, 'I sleep well at night,'

then that is what will happen. However, if you keep thinking that you cannot sleep at night, then that's what will happen. If you keep thinking you have been wronged by your ex-husband, then you will keep being wronged by others, because holding a belief in being wronged creates more misery. We create our own reality, so in a way you have created the split between your husband and yourself.'

'I did not create the breakup with Jim,' Joyce protested. 'He went off with that woman Maureen. 'I cannot accept what you are saying;' she was now going red in the face and looking very angry.

'Taking responsibility for our lives can take time, but until we can, we will always remain a victim, and that depletes our Spiritual-Energy, because the belief

is not in line with the Truth of who we really are.' I hoped one day she would see this.

Joyce eventually returned saying, 'I continued to practice your relaxation CD. I also read a book by Louise L Hay and now understand more about creating my own reality.'

I was so pleased for her. I explained, 'Joyce, because you practiced relaxation everyday, you entered higher states of consciousness, and that is why you can accept that you create your reality. That is why you were led to read Hay's book, You Can Heal Your Life. Your Higher Self led you to it.' I could see it was time to teach Joyce how to write a Spiritual Mind Treatment.

I asked her, 'What would you like to create, Joyce?'

'I'd like a relationship with someone who wouldn't reject me,' she replied.

I taught her the Five-Step-Treatment and suggested she write one for herself and that I would say one for her too. I didn't hear from Joyce for a long while, but one day she telephoned saying she was in a relationship with a lovely man and they were living together. I was not surprised, as I know the power of Mind. I was so happy for her and knew that she would remain happy because that was my prayer for her.

John visited me because he had lost his job in a factory as a maintenance man. He'd worked for this company for 25 years and had been made redundant. 'I couldn't believe it when I was summoned to the office and informed of the redundancy. I feel very resentful. It's been one thing or another all my life. I was married for ten years and then she dropped the bomb shell, telling me she didn't love me any more. She left me for another man. We had been happy together; that's what I thought. My life has been one disappointment after the other!'

'What is it you desire John, why have you decided to come and see me?'

'I heard from a friend you use a 'prayer' that can change situations. I would like a new Job. I am fifty years old and believe at my age employment is an impossibility. I have had two interviews already and got nowhere.'

'Do you believe the power of prayer can change conditions John?' I said because I knew faith was essential. If John was to achieve his desired employment he needed faith.'

'Well yes and no. When my wife left me I prayed to God she would come back but she didn't. But then I saw what you had achieved for my friend Elizabeth.

She was going through a rough time with money issues and she landed the best job you could have ever imagined.'

'There are different forms of prayer John. One is praying to God, who resides up in heaven, and wishing and praying for mercy; not knowing if he will or will not grant your wish. Another form of prayer is a Spiritual Mind Treatment which is a prayer of certainty. When we know God is not far away, but is a God that resides within us and around us, we have more faith. This is the belief Science of Mind holds and was a belief of Jesus when he said that I and the Father are one. Jesus was correct we are all One in God. This is the principle we work with John. We know without doubt God will act on our prayer with certainty.'

John looked very interested. 'That sounds more reasonable than a God in heaven; I could never grasp that philosophy.'

'Establishing faith in Spiritual Mind Treatments is absolutely essential John. Do you have faith that this form of prayer will work?'

'I have some faith it works because I witnessed my friend's outcome. It was a sheer miracle. She had been out of work for two years and then within two months of visiting you she found the job she loves. She went along to the interview knowing she would get it because you had prayed for her. There were one hundred and twenty applicants, but she got it.'

'Well John if you have a little faith that's good and you can borrow some of my faith too because I 'know' that my word spoken into Mind will produce results so long as we both remain confident. Confidence is essential!'

I had realized John had a belief in him that people let him down, so I proceeded with the prayer as follows:

There is only one Power and that is God. God resides within all and around all. God created all out of Itself. It created me out of Itself and created me in Its own image and likeness. I know that my word placed into God-Mind has produced positive results for John... I know John has no limiting beliefs that would thwart this prayer. I know he believes that age is no barrier for getting a job. He knows people are always supportive and would never let him down. He knows people like him and desire the best for him because that is his Truth. His Truth is that he is a very good worker and offers a good service to his employer. His positive interview and his reference from his former employer secured his new employment. His job came with an excellent salary. He is in full time employment doing the work he loves and enjoys a wonderful life. I am so grateful John has a wonderful job he enjoys. I am grateful that he believes he is a worthy person, that nobody would let down. I know my word is spoken and acted upon right now and I let go in certainty. And so be it.

John left feeling relaxed and confident. He telephoned me eventually and said he had secured an excellent job in a small factory making electric bikes. It was one of his friend's new enterprises and John was the first he considered for the position. John said that it just came out of the blue after a holiday. He'd returned home to find an email from his friend telling him about the employment.

The unexpected can happen as soon as the Word is placed in God-Mind. John didn't even know that his friend Alex was contemplating leaving his job in a hospital and venturing out on a new and wonderful career. The last time he'd met Alex, Alex was in deep depression; he hated his job as a Hospital Porter. So you see we never know what is just around the corner. Jesus said, 'Faith can move mountains,' and it is true. It certainly worked for John.

We can live a good life. We were born to be happy and were born to love. Life is the greatest gift anyone can have. We live in such a beautiful world and have everything at our fingertips to enjoy our life. It's up to us to decide whether we are going to have the best life ever. There is no fate. We create our life with every thought we think. Think loving thoughts and have a wonderful life. It's your choice!

Summary of the main ideas presented in this chapter.

When we put our mind on pain, it can get worse.

It is the consciousness that has a belief in pain.

Healing is not a miracle it's a 'Natural'.

Keeping positive after Treatment is important. Otherwise it could undo the healing.

The Practitioner raises their consciousness to the Truth, which raises the patient to Truth.

Spiritual Mind Treatment is a prayer of certainty.

### Chapter Ten

### Self-realization

One of the best known parables of Jesus is the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32) returning to the father. The Son, who left home forgetting his father and birthplace; became reckless and sinned, suffered, and spent the money the father had given him. Eventually, in sheer desperation, he returned to the father penniless and in great pain. The father welcomed him with open arms and took him back with such love.

Many of us have been on a long journey too, a journey through lifetimes of ignorance where we have hurt others with our selfishness and abuse. We have trodden the pathway of hate and deception. We have made many mistakes due to feeling lost, hopeless, and helpless. We have been imprisoned and have imprisoned others to a life of drudgery – all in the name of love. We have walked blindly in a life of total confusion, not knowing why we behave the way we do, taken over by animalistic behavior and suicidal passion, also taking away the right of others to grow into balanced humans beings. We have experienced it all; murdered, raped, and burned others at the stake in the name of religion, all to satisfy the torment we feel inside.

Some lifetimes may have been bittersweet, where we were treated like a gods and goddesses born with a silver spoon in our mouth, only to feel the pangs of separation as we lost our birth riches and had to strive in the wilderness without a friend to hold our hand.

Some of us reach a time in our life where we say, 'Enough is enough. What is life all about? Why are we here?' These questions open us to knowledge that has been hidden inside us for many lifetimes as we searched for the spiritual equation to stop this crucifixion and bring us back to our Father within.

As we reach out in desperation, we start our journey back to the Source of our being by gradually letting go of ignorance and stripping away the layers of untruth.

We close the door to relationships that once served us, which are holding us back on our journey. The pain has to be endured, but a glimmer of hope rests within our heart knowing that all will be well. We enter the black night of the soul where we are helped by Spirit and spurred on in never ending love.

Meeting soul-mates along life's path can be rewarding as we recognize the light within them and feel as if we have known them forever, which we probably have. We help each other grow, and then let go and allow them freedom to move to another level as we meet more friends along the way. We become less controlling and needy as we open to Spirit and let our light shine.

There are many ways to return to the Father as did the prodigal son. This chapter is dedicated to those searching for Self-realization. You still choose your life through the Mind, but your word when you reach Self-realization is LOVE. Your whole being is Love. When you are Self-realized, your happiness comes from within. You no longer need external stimuli to create happiness. You are now eternally happy.

Once you are Self-realized, you become one with the Power. This and only this should be the desire for anyone who wishes to attain perfect harmony in life. It's for those who are sick to death of constant suffering and want to look back over their life when it's nearing the end saying that it has all been worth while. The question now is; how can we commune with God and increase our Spiritual-Energy reaching Self-realization?

To raise your Spirit to its highest, you need to communicate with Spirit every moment. Talk to God as soon as you open your eyes, as soon as there is a space in your consciousness during the day, before going to sleep. And if you wake in the night talk to God some more. Talking to God will become a habit and start to come naturally to you. The more you talk to God, the more realized you become. At this point, when realization takes hold, your consciousness expands and God fills you with Its Presence. God will spiritualize your humanness.

Talking to God isn't pleading for something, but being grateful for all you have. Being grateful for your home, family, friends, and everything you are blessed with.

Talking to God is asking questions such as, 'What is my life's purpose? Why am I here? What should I do?'

When you listen in a meditative state you will hear God talk. The little voice inside you which says that all is fine, that you are loved. This is how you move closer to God. Build the friendship, build the relationship. This is the relationship you have had from the beginning of time, but have not recognized. This is the relationship that can never let you down.

A good way to raise your consciousness is to know the Truth of you. Work on this. Look in the mirror, into your own eyes and say, 'God and I are one.' Repeat this sentence going about your daily chores; before going to bed and upon awakening. Then look out into the world, look at the people you like, and best of all the people you don't like, or who don't like you. Repeat that they are one with God.

Look at the mineral kingdom and repeat, that this rock, stone, pebble, wall, whatever, is one with God. Go to the vegetable kingdom, the flowers, trees, grass, weeds, lettuce, and onions and again say, 'All are one with God.' Go to the animals and say that they are one with God. Look at the contents of your home, your bed, table, chairs, carpet, and say, 'All are one with God.' Look up to the starry sky, and know that this beautiful universe is one with God too.

Saturate your mind with the Truth of everything and your energy will rise. Your health will be good, your eyes will sparkle, and your face will glow. Nothing will seem the same again. You will have risen. You will be ready to serve humanity.

Once you are established in God, God takes over and knows your every wish. You do not wish or pray for the mundane to make you happy, because you are happy. Your needs come to you without wishing and praying; God flows through you on every level. God is bounty, God is plenty, and God is ever expanding, so how could you be left bereft without the things you need. No longer do you need to turn to anyone or anything for your sustenance only to be let down. You turn to the highest who cannot let you down. No more are you at the mercy of another who you rely on to give you love, because you are love. God is Love so you are love.

Dependency is a thing of the past. You are no longer in race-consciousness. You have risen above it, and whatever you need materializes. The mundane comes to you. If your refrigerator is too small and you need something larger, it comes to you.

You attract the new car if you need one, or want a bigger one, to go travelling with your family in comfort. The new house comes if you have outgrown your smaller one and there is not enough room for you to live comfortably. You never need to ask for that which you need. God knows your needs even before you do. These things don't come to you to make you happy, but come to you because they are essential to your completeness.

God is always multiplying. You only have to look at the universe to see this fact. Observe God's earth; it is always multiplying with the fruits of life. God is not stationary or stagnating. God goes forth every moment, ever beautifying the earth with its richness of flowers, trees, fruits, animals, and humans. It is God's nature to expand, so you will expand in everything, in every way.

When we rely on others, we are denying our rightful heritage, we are limiting ourselves and are at the mercy of race-consciousness, where luck, chance, disappointment, disapproval, jealousy, hate, revenge, and fear lay dormant awaiting your connection.

Relying on God for everything is lifting up to Life, Love, Light, Joy, Power, Peace, Beauty, and Wisdom, all of which are the qualities of God. Added to these are synchronicity, health, happiness, wealth, and abundance – a flowing to you of all that is good. If God is goodness, then you are goodness, and everyone you see is goodness. Seeing the goodness in others is essential.

Most of us want happiness for our family and friends and we make a grave mistake by interfering in their lives. We think we will make them happier by offering advice. By trying to empower them with our limited ideas of how 'we' think things should be often make things worse.

The only way to help others is to raise your consciousness to the highest. That's the greatest gift you can give them. Then look at the highest in them, the goodness, this automatically raises them to their highest – the highest they could possibly be. See God in them. See them as their God-Self, from the tramp in the street, to the beggar, the king, the murderer, and the drug addict. When you see God in everyone, you will be doing them the greatest favor. Not only will you be changing their consciousness, but you will be changing the consciousness of the world.

The following meditative technique can clear your mind of negativity and can help you raise your consciousness. It is taken from the book, 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle, it is an exceptional book that will send you soaring.

Close your eyes, take a deep breath, hold it for a moment or two, and breathe out very slowly. Now listen for the next thought. The strange thing is that when you 'listen' for a thought; you will find it's a long time coming. When a thought comes, let it go, and listen for the next thought again. Continue for about twenty minutes. It's a wonderful meditation and one that can speed up your evolution immensely. If practiced regularly, you will find that problems that bothered you cease.

You may not realize all of us are responsible for the world we see today. Every time you look at crime, devastation, wars and so called injustices, 'you' are digging the hole deeper. You are adding to the load, to the misery of the entire world. You are adding to the lowest consciousness, to race-consciousness, the untrue consciousness.

When I say 'untrue,' I am not denying it is going on at this level; no one could deny that. What I am saying is that it wouldn't be going on if everyone was raised to their highest. Who at the highest level would want to kill, or want to blow themselves up and everyone around them in the name of God, if they really knew God?

If people knew God was a part of them and was the Essence of their very soul, they wouldn't yearn for heaven above and think that suicide and killing innocent bystanders would get them there. Drug addicts wouldn't need their fix and steal and sometimes kill to get it. They would be happy in their God-given selves. The average person wouldn't need to hurt others to make themselves feel more powerful.

Power and greed are the infestation of the world we see today, but like all infestation, it can be brought back to Truth. Take for instance the infestation of a cut on your hand. Dirt has gone into the wound, and it has become infected. Is the infestation the truth of the skin? No it isn't, the truth of the skin is without blemish.

Likewise the Truth of our world is plenty for all. World Leaders have no need to be greedy and wield power over others to make them feel better. What World Leaders need is love. All they need is the Truth of who they are. Then they could bring the world to Truth by living a power-filled life.

Once we start seeing the Truth in ourselves and others, we will all grow in consciousness and see the Truth in the world. We are God made manifest, we are here to do the work of God. God is not our servant, but we are the servant of God. We are God's messengers here to help raise the consciousness of the world before it is too late.

Meditate on a world of people getting on with each other, people helping each other and loving each other. See a world of comradeship, people pulling together as ONE.

We are not limited. Nobody is limited, and we have a duty to raise ourselves up now. There are many ways to raise your consciousness and I have mentioned a few but the two that helped me most was 'daily' meditation and Spiritual Mind Treatments. They changed my life and led me to great healing and towards Self-realization.

You can read about Treatments in The Science of Mind textbook by Ernest Holmes. Or you can join a Group and learn more about Spiritual Mind Treatments.

The Science of Mind organization, Religious Science International, has centers all over the world. Look up your nearest center on the Internet.

Science of Mind is a way of life, a philosophy that works. If practiced diligently you will see your life becoming much brighter, your relationships much happier, feeling calmer, relaxed, and more confident. The list is endless! You may find, 'the peace of God which passeth all understanding. (Philippians 4:7) And when you have found the peace of God, you will have reached Self- realization, and experience a life of heaven on earth.

Here ends my little book. Thank you for reading it and thank you for being your God-given self! You can make changes, as I did. You can heal yourself. You can also heal the world! Namaste.

Summary of the main ideas presented in this chapter.

Once you are Self-realized, you become one with God and God with you.

To raise your Spirit to its highest, you need to talk to God every moment.

God will spiritualize your humanness.

The only way to help others is to raise your consciousness to the highest; that's the greatest gift you can give them.

Once we start seeing the Truth in ourselves and in others, we grow in consciousness.

The Truth of our world is plenty for all.

God is not our servant; we are the servant of God.

Become your True-self and all else will be added unto you.

We are God's messengers here to help raise the consciousness of the world.

### Bibliography

### The following books have provided me with ideas and inspiration.

Berne, Eric M. D.; Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships; Grove Press, New York (1964)

Goldsmith, Joel S.; Practicing the Presence: The Inspirational Guide to Regaining Meaning and a Sense of Purpose in Your Life (Paperback); HarperCollins New York (1991)

Harris M.D., Thomas; I'm-OK – You're OK; Arrow Books (1995)

Hay, Louise L.; You Can Heal Your Life; Hay House (1984)

Holmes, Ernest; How to Use Science of Mind; Science of Mind Publisher California. (2002)

Holmes, Ernest; The Science of Mind: A Philosophy, A Faith, A Way of Life; (Paperback) www.bnpublishing. com

Jeffers, Susan; End the Struggle and Dance with Life: How to Build Yourself Up

When the World Gets You Down; Hodder Mobius, New Ed edition (1997)

Tolle, Eckhart; The Power of NOW; Hodder and Stoughton (2001)

Thomas Troward. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science (1904)

The Bible: Authorized King James Version.

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### The Simple Truth of Science of Mind by Dr. Thomas Sannar

I have developed a series of Science of Mind classes that answers the questions below and more. It took me 35 years to find the answers but it won't take you that long. You can become fully liberated in three to four years of diligent study and application

Who are you?

Are you your physical body?

Where does your awareness come from?

Does it reside in your brain?

When your brain dies does your consciousness end?

Is there a difference between your brain and your mind?

Are you your emotions?

Where do your emotions come from?

Do they reside in your body?

When your body dies do your emotions stop?

Are you your thoughts?

What is it that thinks?

Where do your thoughts come from?

Do you create your thoughts or do they just appear?

Are you the thinker behind your thoughts?

Where does this thinker reside?

Where does this thinker reside when the body is gone?

Who are you when there is no body within which to express? Who?

The lessons are a step by step process and it begins with one simple and great idea. You've got to take complete dominion and responsibility for your life. You've got to give up all blame and judgment and say. 'The buck stops here. The buck stops with me.' Without the full commitment to this one idea you might as well go fly kites.

The second great idea is there is only One Energy that makes up everything in the universe and I mean everything. From the most loftily idea to the crudest emotion, from the stars and the planets to you and your body, it's just One Stuff vibrating at different levels and appearing as different things. And this Energy Stuff is intelligent because it knows how to change Itself into anything. We think with this Stuff, we see with it and what we think about and what we see is the same Stuff. Stuff thinks about Stuff, Stuff seeing Stuff. But it's not too dignified to call profound ideas like Spirit or Power, Stuff so we break it down into categories we can accept. We say everything is Spiritual. The material is the Spiritual vibrating at a level we can see.

This leads to the third great idea which is, you are responsible for everything that happens to you because you are creating the form for all the Stuff that is happening to you. (Either consciously or unconsciously)

That last parenthesis is really important because most people create their Stuff unconsciously and think its Stuff happening to them rather than the Truth that it's Stuff happening through them. The dignified way of saying this, is we live in a three-fold Spiritual Universe. There is Ultimate Spirit, which we call Presence unfolding through some interaction within Itself, which we call Law resulting in manifestation which we call body or effect. We see the stars and the planets but these things are the effect of the unfolding Spiritual Universe which we cannot see.

The fourth great idea is 'so above, so below.' 'As it is in the Universal so it is in the individual.' This means that the three-fold nature of the Spiritual Universe is also the three-fold nature of the individual. As Presence creates effect by the unfolding of Its consciousness, you and I create the effects in our lives by the unfolding of our awareness.

The fifth great idea is two simple words; 'We choose.' We can embody this great Creative Power of the universe and create our own destiny by the power of our choice or we can choose to do nothing but react to events chosen by others or by the consciousness of our planet. We can choose to be conscious co-creating winners or unconscious receiving victims.

The sixth great idea is that there is a Universal Mind which is the storehouse of every thought, every feeling, every impulse and every action that has ever been thoughts, felt, or acted upon since the beginning of time and you and I have access to it all because our individual mind is just one aspect of this Universal Mind. Most of the time we let these thoughts, feelings, impulses and actions think us, feel us or act us. The way it works is simple. Something happens which we perceive as outside of us. That 'outer event' becomes a trigger for some inner thought, feeling impulse that is stored in Mind. We react based on our programming. The result is, we continue to be slaves of the programming of the world or . . . . We can realize that all outer effect is the result of inner thought. We can choose not to be triggered by the outer effect or by any thought or emotion we attach to the outer effect and we can consciously choose a new loving and empowering action. This second way leads to freedom and liberation.

The seventh and final great idea is the Higher incorporates the lower. Life evolves from simple energy systems to more complex ones. The lower system is always lifted up and incorporated into the Higher system. The higher vibrations are continually calling you. 'Come up. Come up to where you belong. You lose nothing because all that you have is lifted up and transmuted into Love.

I can help you on your journey towards freedom and liberation, toward the achievement of your hearts desire but I have to tell you the truth. If you want it to work, you have to work it. There is no free lunch. To practice a real Spiritual teaching takes real commitment and discipline. How can you tell if this is really true and it will really work for you? Does what I have said speak to your soul? Do you feel the vibration of Truth? If so: take the next step and view our introductory class. Your life will be changed forever. Go to www. oneheart-onemind.org and check me out or email me and sign-up at dr.tom.sannar@gmail.com

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### Creative Consciousness

Where you and I are in consciousness determines the quality of our life experiences. That is the only thing that determines our way of life. If you would like to receive a daily email message to assist you in building the consciousness you desire, email me at anevelsez@yahoo.com and I will be glad to do so.

