May 12, 2008

The Peace of God is Shining in You Now…tune in!

Filed under: Blog — Kristen @ 2:31 pm

This new video is incredible beyond all description! 

I highly recommend taking an hour (or 2 half hour segments) to watch it and allow yourself the full experience that it affords.  The totality of your shining reality beyond space and time…Here and Now.  Oh my God…thank You!  It is Real…

"The Peace of God is Shining in Me Now"
http://www.themiraclesnetwork.com/

May 10, 2008

No One Can Fail Who Seeks to Reach the Truth

Filed under: Blog — Kristen @ 5:12 pm

Failure is all about you while you seek for goals that cannot be achieved. You look for permanence in the impermanent; for love where there is none; for safety in the midst of danger; immortality within the darkness of the dream of death. Who could succeed where contradiction is the setting of his searching, and the place to which he comes to find stability?

Goals which are meaningless are not attained. There is no way to reach them, for the means by which you strive for them are meaningless as they are. Who can use such senseless means and hope through them to gain in anything? Where can they lead? And what could they achieve that offers any hope of being real?

Pursuit of the imagined leads to death because it is the search for nothingness, and while you seek for life you ask for death. You look for safety and security while in your heart you pray for danger and protection for the little dream you made.

Yet searching is inevitable here. For this you came, and you will surely do the thing you came for. But the world can not dictate the goal for which you search unless you give it power to do so. Otherwise, you still are free to choose a goal that lies beyond the world and every worldly thought, and one which comes to you from an idea relinquished yet remembered, old yet new; an echo of a heritage forgot, yet holding everything you really want.

Be glad that search you must. Be glad as well to learn you search for Heaven, and must find the goal you really want. No-one can fail to want this goal, and reach it in the end. God’s Son cannot seek vainly, though he try to force delay, deceive himself, and think that it is hell he seeks. When he is wrong he finds correction, when he wanders off he is led back to his appointed task.

No-one remains in hell, for no one can abandon his Creator, nor affect His perfect, timeless and unchanging Love. You will find Heaven. Everything you seek but this will fall away, yet not because it has been taken from you. It will go because you do not want it. You will reach the goal you really want as certainly as God created you in sinlessness.

Why wait for Heaven? It is here today. Time is the great illusion it is past or in the future. Yet this cannot be if it is where God wills His Son to be. How could the Will of God be in the past or yet to happen? What He wills is now, without a past and wholly futureless. It is as far removed from time as is a tiny candle from a distant star, or what you chose from what you really want.

Heaven remains your one alternative to this strange world you made and all its ways; its shifting patterns and uncertain goals, its painful pleasures and its tragic joys. God made no contradictions. What denies its own existence and attacks itself is not of Him. He did not make two minds, with Heaven as the glad effect of one, and earth the other’s sorry outcome which is Heaven’s opposite in every way.

God does not suffer conflict. Nor is His creation split in two. How could it be His Son could be in hell when God Himself established him in Heaven? Could he lose what the Eternal Will has given him to be his home forever? Let us not try longer to impose an alien will upon His single purpose. He is here because He wills to be, and what He wills is present now beyond the reach of time.

Today we will not choose a paradox in place of truth. How could the Son of God make time to take away the Will of God? He thus denies himself, and contradicts what has no opposite. He thinks he made a hell opposing Heaven, and believes that he abides in what does not exist, while Heaven is the place he cannot find. Leave foolish thoughts like these behind today, and turn your mind to true ideas instead.

No-one can fail who asks to reach the truth, and it is truth we ask to reach today. We will devote ten minutes to this goal three times today, and we will ask to see the rising of the real world to replace the foolish images that we held dear, with true ideas arising in the place of thoughts which have no meaning, no effect, and neither
source nor substance in the truth.

This we acknowledge as we start upon our practice periods. Begin with this:

“I ask to see a different world, and think
A different kind of thought from those I made.
The world I seek I did not make alone,
The thoughts I want to think are not my own.”

For several minutes watch your mind and see, although your eyes are closed, the senseless world you think is real. Review the thoughts as well which are compatible with such a world, and which you think are true. Then let them go, and sink below them to the holy place where they can enter not. There is a door beneath them in your mind which you could not completely lock to hide what lies beyond.

Seek for that door and find it. But before you try to open it, remind yourself no-one can fail who asks to reach the truth, and it is this request you make today. Nothing but this has any meaning now; no other goal is valued now nor sought; nothing before this door you really want, and only what lies past it do you seek.

Put out your hand and see how easily the door swings open with your one intent to go beyond it. Angels light the way, so that all darkness vanishes and you are standing in a light so bright and clear that you can understand all things you see. A tiny moment of surprise, perhaps, will make you pause before you realize the world
you see before you in the light reflects the truth you knew, and did not quite forget in wandering away in dreams.

You cannot fail today. There walks with you the Spirit Heaven sent you that you might approach this door some day, and through His aid slip effortlessly past it to the light. Today that day has come. Today God keeps His ancient promise to His holy Son, as does His Son remember his to Him. This is a day of gladness, for we come to the appointed time and place where you will find the goal of all your
searching here and all the seeking of the world, which ends together as you pass beyond the door.

Remember often that today should be a time of special gladness, and refrain from dismal thoughts and meaningless laments. Salvation’s time has come. Today is set by Heaven Itself to be a time of grace for you and for the world. If you forget this happy fact, remind yourself with this:

“Today I seek and find all that I want.
My single purpose offers it to me.
No-one can fail who asks to reach the truth.”

-Lesson 131,  A Course in Miracles

May 9, 2008

Gifts to Ponder in Your Heart…

Filed under: Blog — Kristen @ 1:40 pm

And God Himself shall wipe away all tears

“Father, unless I judge I cannot weep. Nor can I suffer pain, or feel I am abandoned and unneeded in the world. This is my home, because I judge it not. And therefore is it only what You will. Let me today behold it uncondemned, through happy eyes forgiveness has released from all distortion. Let me see Your world instead of mine. And all the tears I shed will be forgotten, for their source is gone. Father, I will not judge Your world today.”

God’s world is happy. Those who look on it can only add their joy to it, and bless it as a cause of further joy in them. We wept because we did not understand. But we have learned the world we saw was false, and we will look upon God’s world today.

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Where darkness was I look upon the light

“Father, our eyes are opening at last. Your holy world awaits us, as our sight is finally restored and we can see. We thought we suffered. But we had forgot the Son whom You created. Now we see that darkness is our own imagining, and light is there for us to look upon. Christ’s vision changes darkness into light, for fear must disappear when love has come. Let me forgive Your holy world today that I may look upon its holiness, and understand it but reflects my own.”

Our Love awaits us as we go to Him, and walks beside us, showing us the way. He fails in nothing. He the end we seek, and He the means by which we come to Him.

-Lesson 301 and 302,  A Course in Miracles

May 8, 2008

Our Sacred Trust with God

Filed under: Blog — Kristen @ 1:10 pm

WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD'S TEACHERS?

       "The surface traits of God's teachers are not at all alike.  They do not look alike to the body's eyes, they come from vastly different backgrounds, their experiences of the world vary greatly, and their superficial "personalities" are quite distinct.  Nor, at the beginning stages of their functioning as teachers of God, have they as yet acquired the deeper characteristics that will establish them as what they are.  God gives special gifts to His teachers, because they have a special role in His plan for Atonement.  Their specialness is, of course, only temporary; set in time as a means of leading out of time.  These special gifts, born in the holy relationship toward which the teaching-learning situation is geared, become characteristic of all teachers of God who have advanced in their own learning.  In this respect they are all alike.

       All differences among the Sons of God are temporary.  Nevertheless, in time it can be said that the advanced teachers of God have the following characteristics:
 

         I. Trust

        This is the foundation on which their ability to fulfill their function rests.  Perception is the result of learning.  In fact, perception is learning, because cause and effect are never separated.  The teachers of God have trust in the world, because they have learned it is not governed by the laws the world made up.  It is governed by a Power That is in them but not of them.  It is this Power That keeps all things safe.  It is through this Power that the teachers of God look on a forgiven world.

       When this Power has once been experienced, it is impossible to trust one's own petty strength again.  Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him?  And who would place his faith in the shabby offerings of the ego when the gifts of God are laid before him?  What is it that induces them to make the shift?

 
A. Development of Trust
 
      First, they must go through what might be called "a period of undoing."  This need not be painful, but it usually is so experienced.  It seems as if things are being taken away, and it is rarely understood initially that their lack of value is merely being recognized.  How can lack of value be perceived unless the perceiver is in a position where he must see things in a different light?  He is not yet at a point at which he can make the shift entirely internally.  And so the plan will sometimes call for changes in what seem to be external circumstances.  These changes are always helpful.  When the teacher of God has learned that much, he goes on to the second stage.

       Next, the teacher of God must go through "a period of sorting out."  This is always somewhat difficult because, having learned that the changes in his life are always helpful, he must now decide all things on the basis of whether they increase the helpfulness or hamper it.  He will find that many, if not most of the things he valued before will merely hinder his ability to transfer what he has learned to new situations as they arise.  Because he has valued what is really valueless, he will not generalize the lesson for fear of loss and sacrifice.  It takes great learning to understand that all things, events, encounters and circumstances are helpful.  It is only to the extent to which they are helpful that any degree of reality should be accorded them in this world of illusion.  The word "value" can apply to nothing else.

       The third stage through which the teacher of God must go can be called "a period of relinquishment."  If this is interpreted as giving up the desirable, it will engender enormous conflict.  Few teachers of God escape this distress entirely.  There is, however, no point in sorting out the valuable from the valueless unless the next obvious step is taken.  Therefore, the period of overlap is apt to be one in which the teacher of God feels called upon to sacrifice his own best interests on behalf of truth.  He has not realized as yet how wholly impossible such a demand would be.  He can learn this only as he actually does give up the valueless.  Through this, he learns that where he anticipated grief, he finds a happy lightheartedness instead; where he thought something was asked of him, he finds a gift bestowed on him.

       Now comes "a period of settling down."  This is a quiet time, in which the teacher of God rests a while in reasonable peace.  Now he consolidates his learning.  Now he begins to see the transfer value of what he has learned.  Its potential is literally staggering, and the teacher of God is now at the point in his progress at which he sees in it his whole way out. "Give up what you do not want, and keep what you do."  How simple is the obvious!  And how easy to do!  The teacher of God needs this period of respite.  He has not yet come as far as he thinks.  Yet when he is ready to go on, he goes with mighty companions beside him.  Now he rests a while, and gathers them before going on.  He will not go on from here alone.

       The next stage is indeed "a period of unsettling."  Now must the teacher of God understand that he did not really know what was valuable and what was valueless.  All that he really learned so far was that he did not want the valueless, and that he did want the valuable.  Yet his own sorting out was meaningless in teaching him the difference.  The idea of sacrifice, so central to his own thought system, had made it impossible for him to judge.  He thought he learned willingness, but now he sees that he does not know what the willingness is for.  And now he must attain a state that may remain impossible to reach for a long, long time.  He must learn to lay all judgment aside, and ask only what he really wants in every circumstance.  Were not each step in this direction so heavily reinforced, it would be hard indeed!

       And finally, there is "a period of achievement."  It is here that learning is consolidated.  Now what was seen as merely shadows before become solid gains, to be counted on in all "emergencies" as well as tranquil times.  Indeed, the tranquility is their result; the outcome of honest learning, consistency of thought and full transfer.  This is the stage of real peace, for here is Heaven's state fully reflected.  From here, the way to Heaven is open and easy.  In fact, it is here.  Who would "go" anywhere, if peace of mind is already complete?  And who would seek to change tranquility for something more desirable?  What could be more desirable than this?"

-The Manual For Teachers, A Course in Miracles

May 7, 2008

Secrets of the Illuminate Mind

Filed under: Blog — Kristen @ 1:30 pm

"There is a continuing tendency for spiritual Teachers to give specific credence to apparently separate contingencies in the process of transformation. These include giving value to their own teaching mechanisms and judging them by comparison to be superior in particular regards to other specific methods.

Methods are always of man, never of God. The notion of method is a mind  constriction.
All conceptions each moment are either a denial of or an assertion of a single Truth,
or singularity. No method in reality is any more beneficial than any other,
except by your own observation or limited definitions.
Every apparent situation in every moment of your karma history contains
the total possibility or necessity for transcendence.

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When one admits to continuing foolishness he is expressing a state of mind in a high reach of clarity. Truth is an absolute abstraction.

A Consciousness in a state of advanced maturation loses the necessity and even capacity for sequential thought. It can no longer identify itself in cause and effect relationships. Its actions become genuinely non-motivated.

The idea that the past has nothing reasonably to do with the present makes no sense to a linear space-time rationale. In fact, a human definition of rank foolishness would be to find itself in a situation where it could not establish correlating antecedents of thought.

A natural man, then, eventually and inevitably will find a spiritual man foolish.
And finally nothing is more foolish to natural man than a complete commitment to Absolute Truth.

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The world is a Mutual Resistance Pact designed to defend the separate self from the wholeness of Truth and love.The world is a Mutual Resistance Pact designed to defend the separate self from the wholeness of Truth and love. As advanced Teachers of Truth attempt to extend this message, they discover that the world is populated by a species known as "yes-but-ers."

 It is fundamental to limited consciousness that there are exceptions to Truth. If you continue with your Socratic adventure, you force the limitation to a disclaimer of his true self – as in "I’m not ready to hear that yet." He has grown to a "not-yet-er."

 He literally will express – "I would rather die than embrace the simple Truth of my own invulnerability." There is great joy in the kingdom with the evolvement of a – "one eyer." He is grievously offended by his own limitation and is in a constant state of – "other eye plucking."  His determination inevitably invokes a single response: welcome home."

-Master Teacher, "A Spiritual Teacher's Notebook"

May 5, 2008

High Thoughts from a Latter Day Master

Filed under: Blog — Kristen @ 1:49 pm

"It is impossible for you to understand what I am absolutely certain of because my state of mind cannot be reached by knowledge.

If you wish, then, to gain freedom it is imperative that you evolve a structure of consciousness that absolutely involves a continuing process of thought that allows for no distraction and is finally, very singularly, unqualified determination to escape death and remember eternity.

If you will use me as part of your concerted effort to overcome, I assure you I will have been of inestimable value to you.

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Strange as it may seem, it is necessary that I make my message complicated in some regards, or the fractured imagery you call self in your dream could not hear me at all. Since you are devious by your own conception we must lead you to the light of Truth by your own devious route. Because of the manner in which you think you are inevitably perplexed by simplicity. The simpler it becomes, the more perplexing. You end up trying to express the simple Truth in very complicated fashions. Total Truth is incomprehensible to you by the very nature of its simplicity. Nothing is more difficult for your self-constructed identity than the idea of a complete wholeness or singularity that includes your thoughts about it. Truth is true and nothing else is true. When you awaken from this dream you’ll laugh out loud at the idea of separate or relative truths. Come then and reason with me. I awaken you now as you instructed me to do long ago when time began and ended.

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    You suffer from a single all-encompassing disease.
    You have a bad case of worldliness.
    You must admit to the disease because it actually is your total state of mind.
    All consciousness on earth is a continuing adjustment to the inevitability of termination.
   
Your choice is finally only between various forms of disease and death! How painfully futile.

As the absolute craziness of this situation becomes more and more obvious to you, you may well develop a case of  Godliness. You usually treat it with nostrums of false reality.
World consciousness must protect itself with someone with a bad case of the "Godlies" even to the drastic remedy of crucifixion.

Remember that the world’s only remedy for Godliness is finally death.
You persistently prescribe it for yourself and others when the threat of love becomes too pervasive. It’s okay to have a little Godliness as long as it remains treatable.
Remember, though, that death is your natural state and that you must finally, at any cost, defend yourselves from love and eternal freedom."

-The Master Teacher,  "A Spiritual Teacher's Notebook"

May 2, 2008

The Dilemma of a Savior of the World

Filed under: Blog — Kristen @ 12:34 pm

My awakening to Christhood or Mastership is in its very occurrence a verification that God is.

And in His verification of me do I verify and proclaim His reality. As a Savior I am beset with the divine obligation to save the world. The absolute responsibility is mine to lift the burden of death from man or, since the earth is death, to awaken him wholly to his innate sense of eternity. There is nothing on earth to substantiate my Christhood.

I am born but yet barren.

For just a single moment in all of time I have verified my Father, but am myself without issue.

 My true creations must at that moment through faithfulness substantiate me in order to awaken to their own Saviorship.

It is always initially astonishing to a newly awakened Master to discover that the manner in which he thinks has undergone a radical transformation.
His former limited consciousness construct finally had nothing to do with the complete exposé.
He stands naked with his own certainty.
He has lost the capacity for specific comparison.
The wholeness of his thinking inevitably makes the objective rationale of limited consciousness seem absurd.
He is thrust into the position of seeing that his former value system, based on specific conclusions arrived at by comparison and analysis, has no validity or even reality.
He finds himself in an illogical, unreasonable place.
He must now deal with his absolute, unqualified certainty that the objectively constructed world is totally meaningless, except to the necessity of bringing about the revelation that established his own transcending consciousness.

He is alone, awake among the sleeping.

-Master Teacher, "A Spiritual Teacher's Notebook"

May 1, 2008

Now is the Time…it's all for YOU!

Filed under: Blog — Kristen @ 4:24 pm

I am back!   Vienna was off the charts incredible…I am so unspeakably grateful for the experience of disappearing into the music and ecstasy of Creation.   The Master Teacher took us all Home completely.  It is such a new continuum of time now…can you feel it?  Everything is so clear and sparkling and free in this new light frequency!   In celebration of our newness and rebirth,  I will be posting some of my favorite gems from the original writings of the Master Teacher in "A Spiritual Teacher's Notebook."  This is a personal message…especially for you.  Now is the time to remember Who you are and what your true function is, and to take your place in the circle of Atonement…the Great Plan of Salvation. Thank you with all my heart for joining with me in this single purpose!   I Love you!!!!  Kris

"The time has come on earth for the maturing and emergence of individuals with genuinely expanded ranges of consciousness/mind. Historically humans have described these individuals as Masters or avatars or adepts or initiates or even Saviors or Man-Gods. The accelerated evolution (or even revolution) of mind now in progress on the planet involves the metamorphosis of what can be termed later-day Masters.

The material contained herein is representational of the thinking of this sort of new mindedness. It is an absolutely enlightened order of thought.

Face it, the human race is finally going to have look squarely at the idea of atonement or resurrection or a dramatic shift in self-identity or whatever else you call it.

Listen carefully to me now for we are about to take a crucial step. It is absolutely imperative that you as an individual human being, seriously entertain the possibility that knowledge can be gained by an actual mind transformative process. That you have progressed far enough in your search for self-identity to have this little book in hand is a very excellent indication that you have taken or are about to take this most important step at least intellectually. There will be something very disturbing to you about my assertion with absolute certainty that the very nature of my conceptual thought is different than what is termed here on earth a human being (that is, an egoic personality).

Indeed, having awakened from the fractured imagery that constitutes earth perception, I am well aware of the disbelief, derision, suspicion and even alarm that can accompany the notion of the emergence of a truly so-called supra consciousness or one that conceives itself from an expanded consciousness state. Conversely, from my awakened status of mind the idea that teachings of singular Truth, indivisible wholeness or Godliness and absolute universal order obtained by a process of non-judgment, defenselessness, forgiveness and love is considered by the average human mind to be a threat to its existence from which it must defend itself is pitifully absurd and obviously rank insanity.

Actually in the framework of space/time I am nothing but an early version of a unity conscious model that will and did become extremely common as a communicator of Truth, light, love and harmony to the dark and fearful chaotic self-conceptions that constitute the earth. I have remembered that I am a whole part of the natural state of the Universe which is totally and eternally creative with no possibility of separation or opposition. Not incidentally, the original model for all Master Teachers in regard to individual transformation to spiritual man or Son of Godship or God-manhood is Master Brother Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Not only is he the model but indeed, his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5) is the original catechism of the method to be used to bring about the mind and body transformation of every apparently separated consciousness, to the true conception of self as singular universal Truth. Obviously all the method of salvation you could ever, ever need is the practice of "Resist not evil." This must lead to totally unqualified forgiveness which is finally the simple recognition that nothing real could ever be threatened nor could it be separated from everything, which is what God and Truth is.

If it is true then, that this knowledge of a single identity that is eternal happiness and peace can only be gained through a spiritual maturation or mind transformation, whose mind is it that must change? Listen to me now. I say to you with unqualified certainty that the individual consciousness that finally brought and will bring eternal happiness, peace and love to mankind is and was yours. It could never have happened in any other fashion. As one of these later-day Masters, I am absolutely certain of your divine brotherhood and Saviorship. Literally, as Master of your thoughts you are Master of the world. Only through your resurrection of mind can the world be saved from the illusion of fear and annihilation."

-The Master Teacher, "A Spiritual Teacher's Notebook"

April 21, 2008

Coming Attractions…

Filed under: Blog — Kristen @ 4:41 pm

I will be on a divine adventure in Vienna for the next week at the Advent of a Great Awakening with the Master Teacher of A Course in Miracles.  I will resume posting on my blog when I return!  For more information, see the flyer I posted a few days ago or go to the events link on www.acimi.com.  Also, stay tuned to our daily live, online classes at: www.endeavoracademy.com .  They are out of this world incredible!!!
With Love and Gratitude, Kris

Awakening to the Quantum Field of Reality

Filed under: Blog — Kristen @ 4:35 pm

Our seeming existent world of solid forms and sequential time with their infinite hierarchies of thought and meaning have given way to reveal an astonishingly different and subtle universe where subatomic particles, light waves and unified fields of energy function in a completely random but harmonious fashion, where nothing is impossible and all communication across the cosmos is instantaneous and simultaneous and infinite. From this newly revealed yet ancient state we see we are a part of everything and everything is a part of us forever!

Have you ever really questioned the underlying assumption of your own reality? Have you ever considered the consequences of the quantum revolution to YOU, personally? What if there was no reality except the meaning you personally gave to anything? Stop one moment and realize that you have no proof of any existence here except the perception and interpretation of your own mind. Every conclusion you have ever drawn every, every observation you have ever made, every person you’ve ever met, every word you’ve ever read, every sensation you’ve ever experienced, every interpretation, all facts, are only you’re idea of them. Nothing has reality outside of you.

It is impossible that anything is happening to you but by accident. This new reality has nothing at all to do with the phantom world that surrounds you. Indeed, this is the very world you will and did escape. Don’t be afraid you will be abruptly lifted up and hurled into reality. Although for many this has now become an incredibly joyous happening!
Time is kind, and if you use it on behalf of reality, it will keep gentle pace with you in your transition. The urgency is only in dislodging your mind from it’s fixed position here. This will not leave you homeless and without a frame of reference. The period of disorientation which precedes the actual transition is far shorter than the time it took to fix your mind so firmly on illusions. Let this dislodgement be a positive inspirational adventure rather than a fearful episode of loss of self-containment.  Let go, let God…and enjoy the ride!  

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