Ernie has lots of ideas, makes lots of mistakes, and is aging as all of us do to varying degrees- if we are lucky. My seventeen year old son didn’t get the “taken-for-granted” privilege of growing old as many don’t as well. His life ended somewhere in the sky, in a life flight helicopter, before reaching the hospital.
Ernie, Ralph, Don, and Joseph are just names we give to the human boides that we see. Something has to go on the birth certificates.
We are all but garments that the impersonal being called various names lives. Call this spiritual essence, God, Creator, I AM, or Allah and it’s the same. Our garments can be healed more often than not, if we’d but understand the process. My friend (Walter Starcke) that I visited Saturday sent me the following which I’ll just copy for you now and see you (at least write) tomorrow.
Spiritual healing is not superstition or the result of blind faith. It is what the word says, a “spiritual experience”. However, something or some idea, even imagination, has to precede the endeavor to heal. Ultimately it is the experience of spirit that heals, but the first step on this journey to spirit is to realize that nothing, no thing, is permanent. Obviously, there would be no need for a healing unless there was something, some object, that was dis-eased, broken, or out of order. Therefore, we begin by realizing that everyhing at the material level sooner or later crumbles, dissolves, or changes shape. Even rocks are impermenant. The spiritual significance of that fact is that it opens the door to the possibility of change.
In the old days women use to get what they called permanents. Well, that was a misnomer. Their hair would grow out; so their permanent wave was a passing wave. Next, nothing is permanent because it appears to be permanent for the time being – as existing in time. In other words, time would have to be other than now, a continuum. That kind of time does not exist. Following the realization that noting is permanent is the fiction of time. If nothing is permanent and time is a fiction thus healing can take place in an experience of now. One has to be out of now for good or evil to exist. One has to look to the past or imagine the future for duality to exist.
Now is where imagination takes place. Change takes place because of an altering of consciousness and imagination is the tool that activates the change. If one can accept that nothing is permanent, that things can be different now, and energizes that, with imagination raised to the level of experience, a new image, a harmonious image, can result. Ah, but there is a catch to watch out for. In the process, if a would be healer accepts that there is something, some objective condition, that needs to change they are imagining its existence and instead of changing it they reinforce it.
For a spiritual healing to take place the realization of the impermanence of a condition negates its image as a reality and the healer can subjectively image health, wholeness, harmony, right function, and completeness until those qualities are subjectively experienced and the old image is replaced with a new one that takes the form of what ever was desired.
Finally, the fact that no thing is permanent is the law that breaks the law. When we assume that a healing needs to take place we are affirming that a law of lack or disease is present, but when the law of impermanence is realized all other laws are set aside.Though no thing is permanent, existence does exist. What exists is consciousness, truth, spiritual being. If one can see something with their eyes, it does not exist. By that I mean that the visible scene is not the reality. It symbolizes reality, but it is not reality. The divine self is invisible except for those who can look at the visible and see the invisible. Again, when one can look at the appearance and imagine the spiritual reality that exists in the invisible it is once more proved that nothing is permanent and it is all God.
Thank you for sharing this. Imagination is the language or Channel of Spirit. I always appreciate reading things that help illuminate this aspect of awareness.
Excellent! I am reading “Immortal Man” at the present. What a eye-opener!
Neville was an awesome man.
Thank you for a lovely, uplifting post. If you read, ‘Could it be dementia? Losing your mind doesn’t mean losing your soul,’ you’ll find it says the same thing. As does the Bible! The apostle Paul talked about us living in ‘tents’ which we’ll exchange one day for the real bodies God has for us.
But just one thing. I lived for many years in the Middle East and you need to know that Allah is not the same as our God. Allah doesn’t have a Son, for instance, and his attributes are not at all like God’s.
Louise
I understand the many differences between Allah, Buddha, Yahweh, Mohammed, Zoroaster, I Am, Consciousness, etc. My point is that there is but ONE GOD regardless of what anyone calls that diety. Thanks for taking the time to reply.