Power of Love - Robert D. Waterman EdD, Karey C. Thorne MA

Power of Love (eBook)

The Ways and Means

Robert D. Waterman EdD, Karey C. Thorne MA (Autoren)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
300 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
978-1-6678-0160-5 (ISBN)

The many ways and means of the Power of Love is an essential foundation to all understanding and the unfolding of all mystery. Through it all, we keep in the presence, which is the embodiment of living love, as the agency of personal and planetary transformation. The intimate and safe atmosphere that arises in the participatory reading clears the way and opens the doors to the spiritual integrity of each of us. We are held and guided by the intrinsic cosmic will: love will have its way. (www.livinginthepresence.net)

This book is for the reader who has a sense that the adaptive response to these epic times is the power of love. Each element of the writing builds on the next, blending discourse with inner awakening, making available a truly transformational endeavor. For the reader who is new, yet drawn to practical spirituality, Power of Love builds the understanding and experience they need in a step by step way that is easy to apply. For the reader who has been at it a while, we have a way to sort out the chaff from the wheat and filter mental and metaphysical noise from the clear signal of foundational love. For the seasoned reader, who has had the fortune of good teachers and has done superb self-work, we provide refinement and an extended application of what they already know. Based on the Power of Love Mystery School, the three book sections reflect the three modules of the curriculum: Inner Teacher, Changing Beliefs, Cosmology. Finally, the Appendix is a journey into the power of dialogue as a force of transformation. With the right intention, the material in the book can be read, worked and experienced by you the reader as a transformative journey. You can be a reader/participant, as it were. If invited, the spiritual presence of the Power of Love Mystery School will collaborate with you as a living teacher, as you increasingly access the living and ancient mystery that you are. Each chapter resonates with higher consciousness in which the reader enters a learning experience of the reader, the author, and Spirit. Spirit is a big word and an even bigger reality, which includes each of us learning to live in a way that is fully responsive to the presence of Living Love, and the actualization of self into Soul Consciousness. The challenge, then, in translating the mystery school reality into a book requires an invitation to the reader to participate in the content of the book as transmission as well as information. The many ways and means of the Power of Love is an essential foundation to all understanding and the unfolding of all mystery. Through it all, we keep in the presence, which is the embodiment of living love, as the agency of personal and planetary transformation. The intimate and safe atmosphere that arises in the participatory reading clears the way and opens the doors to the spiritual integrity of each of us. We are held and guided by the intrinsic cosmic will: love will have its way. (www.livinginthepresence.net)

CHAPTER ONE

Keep it simple

With all creation, all critters, all minerals, all vegetation, all elements, and life on all dimensions, we change and evolve through a life experience that is exquisitely designed for this purpose. We are an unfolding mystery seeking complexity, seeking experience, yet some deep aspect of ourselves stays the same. The same place is the God place where love works incessantly and eternally to have its way, not by force, rather to finesse the cosmos. Keep it simple. The touchstone of meaning is love. In simplicity, we can access the complexity. The easiest way to know God is as an indescribable presence of universal love intimately accessible and everywhere present. The way to do this is to be simple: be present with what is and see what you notice. In this way, the “will of God” is simply: love will have its way. The way reveals itself to us each moment in presence. We are the agency of the finesse.

In the ever movement of this will, various things are propelling and advocating that we harness and rehabilitate our thwarted, yet implacable, drive to live fully and awaken spiritually. In the midst of dark narratives, we do things that activate and wake us up to that primordial place of holiness inside. We look for solace and meaning in the material world reflections and, by so doing, our inner faculties often sleep.

The ego invents itself out of the need to make sense of experience in this world. The ego, taken to itself, may substitute itself for holiness. We build our ego from a sense of self based on reflective material world templates that we think are permanent but actually are only temporary. Because of this, there has been a tradition that when you enter into spiritual work that you have to get rid of the ego. We’ve come to understand that this is false teaching because actually the ego is serving the soul. The ego is very intentional, purposeful and loyal. “Getting rid of” more accurately implies changing our relationship to the ego. Consider that the ego is middle management, not the board of directors. We grow our ego as a means of evolving in this world. As the surface self, the ego is the skin of eternity. Our skin is our continual encounter with the elements of the environment, which is often so sensually harsh or delightful that we are distracted from looking beneath the surface. However, it can protect us and facilitate healthy exchange with the environment, as skin does. The ego, as a servant, is a conduit of the soul.

Both Sides of the Fence

We exist in this creation in a way that whatever is unresolved within us appears as encounters in the world and the drama of life, thus being present with what is. In the dynamic of this, we seem to be alone, while being held and supported by intelligence that knows how to facilitate the inevitable transformation. On the deepest level that intelligence is loving, so really, it’s a false idea to be afraid of anything or be ashamed of anything. That’s like believing that you know more than you do when you really do know more than you do. Fear and shame are forms of information rather than identity. Clearly, we are not going to get this with our minds, but we have our ways of waking up and being smart. We have means of accessing the genius of our Soul and the higher field of love and intelligence that lives in the permeability of life.

The process of this book is to work with both sides of the fence and to learn how to work with ourselves, from the perspective of our ego and from our soul. Some of you have been working a long time with experiences in this life and have learned how to do that. Others may not be so familiar with the language or this way of working with yourself. You may have developed a common sense, practical approach to life. From the soul approach, we first become aware of another level of experience that’s more of an undersurface, in which we don’t realize how much we know while responding to a deeper knowing. There are things that we’ve been tracking through lifetimes that created a vast reservoir of wisdom. We begin to see that our challenges are both new and familiar, emerging from our unconscious and memories of doing this before. Through presence, vulnerability, and reflection, we can remember and simply begin to access the vast realities of the psyche, its shadows, and wisdom. We wake up.

Presence

As we develop a greater capacity to love ourselves and experience gratitude, in subtle ways at first, we begin to feel the presence of our higher self. In that presence, there’s a natural process that occurs that begins to integrate and line us up. If we’re pretty far out of line, we feel off. That is a good sign. When we can sense we are off, we know where to find our center. We notice that habits that compete with presence. Habits are conditioned unconscious responses to situations and circumstance that protect and preserve false beliefs about who we are, false ego states. Judgment is a favorite habit. We sense that something is going on that we don’t know about and we don’t understand. Instead of just being present with seeing what we notice, we judge. This is a form of protection. The irony is that we are protecting some belief or aspect of our selves that is not true. In our habit of protection, we decide to pretend that we do know by judging it, judging others or judging ourselves. When you think about that, it seems peculiar. There’s something that’s happening that you don’t know about and you pretend you do know about it by judging. Doesn’t that seem a bit pretentious? So, a straightforward beginning is admitting that you don’t know. When you have a disturbing feeling, instead of trying to get away from it, out of it, drugging it, or judging it, ask what’s going on with this? When you’re present with what is, it starts to transform itself. But that’s very difficult because we have this sense of control, the foundation of all addictions, where we think we have to control or manage it.

Most of his is letting go of the control. This is a discipline yet is not a forcing. We are referring to the self, which is a driving force of curiosity and creativity. Your self-judgments are all based on attempts to control something that you can’t control. It is our fear-based self that needs rules. Our love-based self knows the way.

In presence, we awaken as our higher self. Our high-self exists in a relationship to life that knows how to manage because it is on that level where universal management occurs. Universal management happens through a collaborative will that is guided by the directive that love will have its way. Our sense of time becomes more fluid. When we access that level, we then begin to learn how to use our life more to discover and fulfill, rather than fix. It’s better to take the viewpoint that there’s nothing to fix. Having said that, let’s be sensible about this. If you have a flat tire you have to fix the tire. You don’t have to change your consciousness to fix the tire. Well, some of us might. You have to fix the tire, so there’s that practical side. That is not what I’m talking about here. There is a certain level of mastery to fixing that has to do with things and inventions and technology on a practical level rather than an existential level. Regarding you and your process, that’s a matter of consciousness and learning how to build your relationships with consciousness. That is existential. Our awareness begins with a simple thing like a feeling comes in, like fear, a disturbance, a revulsion, or shame. There is a rich repertoire of positive and negative emotions. Why can’t we just stay with the positive and negative feelings and merely say, what is this? I like these, and I don’t like those unless you’re really twisted, and you seek to identify as the pain, fear or hate.

Our habit is to make complications by judging ourselves. Feelings are information, not identity. Consider, that the key is changing your relationship to fixing the tire. Fixing the tire is practical, not existential. If you have a backlog of pent-up emotion, the flat triggers us. We become the tire. The opportunity of the flat is to respond with trust and gratitude. The flat tire is coordinated with your life and in some synchronistic way is adjusting the flow of events and what you do with the opportunity to be vulnerable.

Information Versus Identity

One of the first practices is an awareness that feelings are information and not an identity. When I have a disease, I feel sick, rather than I am the sickness. Your journey through the plague does not make you the epidemic. Perhaps it is more like we are using the illness for some unknown purpose, for some more in-depth understanding, actualization or transformation. When we receive a diagnosis for disease, we need to be vigilant that we do not identify with the illness. This was one of Quimby’s most significant concerns that when we receive a diagnosis, we imagine it in a way as to promote the sickness. If you have a viewpoint that you are broken, it’s just a misunderstanding. You’ve identified with things that are not you but are there to assist you or give you information about what’s going on. When the negative feelings begin to arise, they are our helpers, and you want to be present with them and be truthful about what is. Ask yourself, am I identifying with this or am I just paying attention and inquiring about what the feeling is trying to tell me? Trying to understand what the feelings mean with your mind is just trying to manipulate them. The mind has its...

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.11.2021
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
ISBN-10	1-6678-0160-0 / 1667801600
ISBN-13	978-1-6678-0160-5 / 9781667801605

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