WHAT’S GOING ON?                                                               #125 FEBRUARY 2005

ALONG THE WAY:  

We live in that which we radiate.

THIS MONTH’S THOUGHT:  

In order to live free and happily we must sacrifice boredom.  It is not always an easy sacrifice.

SCIENCE OF MAN:  

(Lesson 29 continued)  “And for life he prays to that which is dead.  And for health calls upon that which is unprofitable.”  Do we, for health, call on all manner of drugs? Do we call on remedies?  Do we call on the horrible scope? Excuse me, the horoscope. Or do we look to X?  And do we need help or do we look to the Teaching that shows us where we are erring in our reporting to X?  Do we look for help from that which is weak? Or do we look for that which is real? That when applied, then everything works right.  And do we really need help? Or is that only an idea that we are the victims of some evil something that interfered with me? That was only a normal adaptation pointing that somewheres I was not fully aware. I was awake to certain facts, but certain ones were still not uncovered.  And man has as his non-ending job to be aware of what is day-by-day. It is not a chore.  It is not a struggle. It is to be divinely awake. To be ever alert. To be full of enthusiasm.  To be vitally interested. To be seeing relationships where one has never seen relationships before.  It is to be alive where formerly one was dead and accepted everything for granted. “And for a good journey, he petitions him that cannot walk”.  The wooden statue, or possibly, many other things one looks to a good journey, does one not?  What do you use, today, to be sure you have a good journey? Do you start out merely observing what is and let things be?  Or do we make some kind of effort to be sure it will be a non-disturbing journey, that there will be no second force? You know that’s what we would call a good journey, is one that didn’t have any second force. But I wonder if that really is a good journey.  Or is it only a journey where there was no second force and thus, I did not have too much of an opportunity to discover or to add to anything that would aid the evolving, the growth, the development of the spiritual body? “And for getting and for working and for the events of all things, he asks him that is unable to do anything”.  In other words one appeals to something that couldn’t do anything.  Only X does everything. You see, this is possibly our greatest blind spot and one in which we can spend very much time is observing that X does all the work.  When one is walking, it is interesting to watch X walk the feet. One is aware that one is not knowing the faintest idea of how to move muscles that brings about walking and maintain the balance of this jointed frame that has so many joints.  And here it stands erect and walks with the greatest of smoothness and grace. Who is walking? When one is eating, it is interesting to observe the food being taken into the mouth to be chewed, to be swallowed. And seeing that an Intelligence beyond anything of the awareness is doing it.  Awareness only sees what to do. Intelligence, Spirit, X, takes care of all the how. But we are quite prone to begin to give credit, honor, or shall we say worship, to pay homage to something that cannot be done. We are prone to say, ‘I can eat. I can drink water. I can walk. I can work. I can play the violin. I can play the piano,’ all of which, if one observes, that one sees one doesn’t have the faintest idea how it’s done.  And one is observing X, Spirit, at work.

So, suppose for our practical application this week that we observe, first in self, all the things that X does. You may type. You may be cooking a meal.  You may be walking. You may be driving an automobile. And observe all the motions that go on and realize that I, the awareness, is only seeing what to do and that something which we refer to as X, Spirit, some places referred to by other names, is doing the work.  This is beginning to recognize the presence of God. It is somewheres on the start of one realizing the union, or oneness with God. This may happen soon.  It may happen sometime later. But without being aware and ever paying attention to the greatest phenomena of all time, that Spirit is doing everything that I report to be doing.  I the observing awareness, sees a rock in the road when driving is going on.  And all of a sudden the car is turned, moved, maneuvered out of the way of the rock in one form or another, which one would never know.  And then watch something, the self, take credit for it right quick. ‘Boy, I really did that well. I missed that rock.’ And thousands of other things. But we would like to see X, Spirit, at work. We see that it does all the things that one reports as being true and of value.  What is and the value of what is. One is beginning to be possible to where one is serving X, Spirit, much more complete, much more fully. One is aware of the presence of Spirit. Now one is aware one is serving that presence. This is the approach to what is called faith. Faith is not something we can do.  We have said that it is something one experiences. And in beginning to apply what we are discussing here, not for ten minutes, not for ten hours, but day after day, observing X doing all the work. And that it does whatever one reports. And it does the very appropriate thing for what one sees as what is and what is the value of what is.  It always does that in accordance with it. You might review one of our early talks that we discussed a long time ago that tells something of the nature of X. It doesn’t say this is all, but it does discuss the nature of X. One thing being that X always does the appropriate thing for the information it receives from awareness as to what is and what is valuable or good about what is.  When one has done this for a while, one will experience faith. But you see one has been along quite a ways since some of the other experiences of experiencing confession and surrender and repentance. One could possibly, not suddenly justify something unexpectedly that one could some time ago. You see as one studies self, one has a tendency to be like Ecclesiastes. Begin to think one knows much and has wisdom.  But as one continues along one sees that mammon can trick him and overcome him quite often. This is when one begins to experience being humble, experiencing true humility. If one really studies self and observes it over a period of time, one certainly doesn’t have to try to be humble, one really is. One doesn’t have to try to be as a little child, one realizes one has been a little child all this time. So as we observe this, we will begin to experience faith. We keep a record and observe.  Many times we can’t write it down. But let’s write down enough to keep us aware of it and that all that is done is done by Spirit. That awareness can only see what. And that only Spirit knows how. It is the only one that can even move a finger. I, the awareness, may see it as desirable to wiggle a finger. Only X can wiggle the finger. And it will do it if awareness sees it’s desirable. The more one is aware, one is serving X by being a reporter of what is and what is good in what is. One is near to faith.

A STORY:  

I have evaluating “asleep/hypnotized’ and “awake/conscious.”  I was shocked and surprised to find that most of the time I am asleep.

What are the clues that bubbled to the surface as I was ready to see them?

Flossing the teeth is boring.  So the mind travels elsewhere to relieve this boredom.  An awake person would experience flossing, feel the floss, experience the movements necessary to reach the teeth and, in wonder, realize that Spirit was doing all the work.  

I hear a knock on the door.  I walk to the door and open it.  The mind has already raced ahead to the other side of the door.  I forget to experience walking, feel the carpet under the feet or fell the muscles move the body.  I open the door and fail to feel the cool touch of the doorknob and watch as the fingers miraculously turn the knob and open the door.  

Do I complain that I am being disturbed by thoughtless neighbor’s loud stereo?  Or do I realize that something magnificent within me transforms the sound waves into music the awareness can experience?

Incredible?  Yes, beyond my finite understanding.  Yet, I miss it all because I am hypnotized—asleep—somewhere off in the unlived future or the dead past.

I am learning to stop the mental noise and ask, “Where is the mind, night now?”

Someone said eternity has no beginning and no end, which is the NOW moment.  I am therefore missing the whole show because I fail to experience fully every moment.  The seconds tick by, never to be reclaimed and I am not present to savor the wonder of each ‘what is’.  I have lost it all if I am not awake and conscious.

“How does a man benefit if he gains the whole world and loses his soul in the process.  For is anything worth more than his soul?” (Mark 18:36)

No, nothing has more value than my inner state. I will cherish it. There is a price to pay for being a conscious living being.  It is practice. I will do the Work.

LITTLE AMERICA WORKSHOP 1974 – Dr. Bob Gibson

Life is somehow put together so that there is always some little resistance to our every little want  – called second force. So there is something you want to initiate and whatever it is you will always find there is a resistance to it, either active or passive.  Maybe I want to plant a garden and there is some hard dirt you have to plow up. You put the seed in and it’s got to have resistance because if you hang a seed in mid-air and spray water on it, it will make a sprout, but it won’t ever make a plant because it has no resistance of the soil.

Man has tried to rid himself of all second force.  We see any little resistance as a problem. But without this resistance we would all be in the form of some Jello that hasn’t been put in the fridge yet.  Without resistance we wouldn’t have any strength. You would have nothing. Man sees resistance as his greatest problem and he is always trying to overcome it.  Now you never overcome it, but you can adapt it to your use. You can see the value of it. There is always a second force. I see it as a friend. Without second force we would have no being.  It is the expression of a love of a divine Intelligence.

So, I’ve very thankful for second force.  There is a resistance to everything I start to do.  There is a resistance for the airplane to take off from the ground.  But if there were no resistance the plane would never leave the ground.

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You know you are living in 2005 when you pull up in your own driveway and you use your cell phone to see if anybody is home.