I know! Yes there are some people that seemingly haven’t washed their hair in a week, but let’s not go there because I am focusing on what Walter Starcke called a spiritual bath: some call it a psychic bath. Psychic is really too much to handle for most Christians, so let’s stick with my more or less scientific title.

Okay? Are we good to go into the shark infested waters?

Let’s do a brief look at CLEANSING your CHAKRAS and COMBING your AURA! It won’t hurt. It’s nothing new!

Chakras are not physical objects that can be seen, but they are an integral part of our life force keeping our whole mind and body working together. Depending upon who you talk to there can be any number of these energy centers; however, the majority of people subscribe to seven: as I do

Chakras, first mentioned in the ancient Vedas, the Hindu books of knowledge, is the name given to the seven main energy centers of our body. They each have a different color. If you’re not familiar with them, I’m not going to be of help here. I simply want to suggest that a frequent CLEANSING can clear your ability to manipulate energy for better health.

I see it as akin to a chiropractic manipulation of your back bone.

Simply take your right hand (unless you’re a southpaw) and make a dozen circles counter clockwise over each of the seven centers

Our physical bodies are encapsulated and receive life through an etheric energy field that roughly follows the outline of our body. Simply move your hands from head to down about a foot or so from your body and then shake your hands once you’ve made it to your feet. This is a method of balancing energy that has been misdirected for a host of reasons, It’s called COMBING your aura.

If all of this is strange to you………..REPENT!

There’s more to the Christian or spiritual life than mantras, meditation, and praying: far more!

There’s an expression that even take that statement to a more sacred and practical level. It’s been said that if you want to get something done, ask someone who is BUSY. Of course this intimates that only a busy person can be counted on for action. It’s quite a culture we have built up in America.

The paradigm doesn’t stop with old age or retirement. No, not at all.

If you’ve had a couple of conversations with people who have reached the retirement age, you are apt to hear something like this. “I’m busier now than I ever was before I retired”. You see, being BUSY is looked upon in America particularly as a BADGE of HONOR!

I’ve gone through the identity crisis and survived!

Once known as the most productive (now called multi-tasker) person on the planet, my take great pride in mixing my day up with as many “quiet times” as I can. Go ahead, you can call them “doing nothing times”: not even thinking because thoughts are really dangerous. But, neither have I swung to the other side of the pendulum where I seek the Hindu concept of NO MIND!

We need a mind, we need time, and we need to ditch the badge of honor of BUSINESS!

We are also seeing way too many drive-by intuitive insights. What?

Everyone has some degree of insight, intuition, or prophetic residue to have a far greater grasp on things than we currently demonstrate. I am sure everyone has had an experience where you were just standing around minding your own business and BOOM! Out of nowhere you were hit with a prophetic word, an intuitive thought, a word of caution, a clairvoyant message.

And then it never happened again for a few months, maybe even years.

One would think that after a taste of such delicious events that we’d pursue whatever it was; however, we seemingly get caught up in the world, life, and things that the ego thinks are important. We have these spiritual gifts waiting to be opened. However, to grow such amazing gifts, we have to set the table. We have to prepare the soil of our life though intention, quietude and contemplation.

We have to prepare the rich soil of our being by adding the fertilizer of spirit, the water of the word, and the warmth of unconditional love.

Put it all together to be more than we are and WATCH OUT! The drive-by insights will become daily pronouncements.

Remember how angry you were when you discovered that Johnny could write on your beige walls as well, not to mention the white enamel doors?

But then Johnny began to grow up!

Instructions, admonishments, and reminders flooded from you to Johnny that he needs to COLOR THIS WAY. Stay within the lines, don’t go outside the lines, and use THESE COLORS only: for such-n-such. Such simply behavioral directions at such a young age don’t fade very quickly, if at all. Kathtyn Harwig writes, “All too soon children are taught to color between the lines, ignore the boogieman in the closet, and quit making things up.”

Such tension! What’s a child to do?

The child isn’t making things up. The child is seeing things the adults aren’t, and the child is coloring as their spirit directs and yet we say DON’T DO THAT! So, does the child follow their intuitive and playful freedom, or PLEASE THE PARENTS? Ah, what a conundrum. But we know what happens right?

It’s the same thing pattern when we become adults!

BELIEVE like this, DRESS like this, read the BOOKS we tell you to read, and don’t question what your pastor says. After all, he has been placed there to tell you what to do. Don’t you dare question (touch) the anointed: even if he’s not anointed! You been there, right? Don’t tell me you’re still there!

Where I am NOW, in regards to visitors to our community gathering, is so much different than where I used to be in a traditional church setting. I had a conversation with an ex-pastor not to long ago (he retired) and he could not believe, or I could not explain, my current concepts on VISITORS!

Let me attempt to relate this to you.

CONVENTIONAL CHURCH-
>The emphasis is on attracting visitors.
>Special parking spaces are provided close to the front door
>Converting people from their religion, or their denomination, or their church, to OURS is an important aspect of “church life”.
>Getting INFORMATION on the visitors (cards?) is a key
>Following up and making sure that they come back is job #1
>Making sure they have the right doctrine (ours of course) is Godly

LRC STYLE-
>We greet all visitors with great respect and cordiality
>We make visitors feel at home
>We encourage them to engage in our discussions without thrying to convert them to how it is we think and believe.
>We want to know how they see God and life without judging
>We hope they visit again but we don’t “go after them” in a methodical attempt to make them a part of our community

There’s nothing wrong with the “Conventional Way”. It is what it is. It’s just not the style of operation that we employ. Some of our visitors return infrequently. Some never return as they don’t feel called to our format of a Friday night discussion with open sharing and seemingly no “hard lines” on doctrine.

Most importantly of all though is the underlying philosophical paradigm that says church is about: gaining members, converting people to think as we do, and believing that SIZE is proof that God approves of the local church-community.

By the way, we meet every Tuesday and Friday at 7pm. Y’all come now- ya hear?

I KNOW that I am a victim of many things: no wait, that’s not true either. I’ve come to the place where I no longer see myself as a victim; however, we are living in a progressively growing victim society where entitlement and their program dominate our worldview. Lawsuit abuse has become all too common in our world. There are victims everywhere.

Lo and behold though I discover that I’ve become a VICTIM of TRUTH!

I’m not complaining- just surprised at the discovery.

Gina Lake puts it well where she writes, “You can’t desire to know the Truth. Instead, this desire CONSUMES you at a certain point, and YOU are its victim.” You see, the EGO, the “me” that I think I am, is not interested in Truth but the illusions of truth that it fills my mind with every moment. The ego is a very realistic illusion that wants nothing to do with truth.

Those who SEEK the Lord (the traditional statement) with all their heart and soul and forsake what the world might think, can get caught up in the Essence of the Spirit and before knowing it become enslaved (albeit slowly) to the Truth. I don’t know the degree to which I am being enslaved by the Truth; however, I do know it’s growing.

And I do love it so!!!!

Well, it does work, it is real, and we need to quit living in our LIMITED capacity. I’m talking about more than seeing auras or colors of the etheric body of others, or yourself in a mirror. Clairsentience is in the psi family of clairvoyance and clairaudience. I am more familiar with clairsentience, especially as it vibrates within me.

Our bodies are great antennas, but we need to learn to pick up the messages- vibrations.

Many years ago I began to notice a correlation between my right hand twitching and FEELING the spirit move within me. I’m not talking about a “Toronto Blessing” shaking and baking movement. Been there done that: very briefly. I also began to see the relationship between a weird muscle-movement in my left chest just before giving a prophetic word.

And then the best one!

Before something BAD was to happen or AS it was happening, my left leg, actually just my thigh would become COLD. It took some time for me to awaken to the cause-effect relationship on these and other bodily sensations. After all, our body pains tell us about a host of things in advance: why not spiritual things as well?

You game? Start paying attention to your body and the energy given off by others.

Do you believe that a person can touch something and as a result pick up the energy from the object and KNOW certain things about the individual or object?

Do you believe in the Bible? How about more specifically Acts 19:11-12? “God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.”

Psychometry is a cousin of the Acts 19:11-12 story.

Psychometry is energy transference: from an object (napkin) directly or indirectly through intermediaries. More specifically it is a form of extra-sensory perception characterized by the ability to make relevant associations from an object of unknown history, by making physical contact with that object.

I’ve taught it and our spiritual community has practiced it on several occasions. The last time we engaged in psychometry it involved eleven oak trees that are between 200 and 300 years old. People meditated, stood before the trees, touched the trees and read the massages. The messages weren’t as pertinent as the fact that multiple numbers of people got the same READ.

More than interesting?

Everything in the universe vibrates and we have a divine tuning fork within us that resonates with the Creator. When’s the last time you ATTUNED to that resonance? Would you know it if you did?

I guess I subconsciously came to that conclusion because they were always used together, like twins, especially when talking about the Christian Bible. There was a third “I” word that went with that trinity that went like this, “The Bible is the inerrant, infallible, and inspired word of God!

Don’t EVEN begin to question it lest the Devil get control of your mind!

It was only later that I discovered that the devil could come in many disguises and one of them was formal and traditional religion. You don’t easily break away from decades of indoctrination very easily. Your FRIENDS will of course help keep you in bondage with their peer pressure admonishments.

I am sure my friends were trying to be a friend!

Once a person sees the Bible (if you are a Christian) as a sacred book, written by men INSPIRED by God-Consciousness-Spirit, but not channeled by God, then a whole new world and relationship between the “me”, and the real ME opens up. I am INSPIRED by many things in the Bible, even though they are not FACTUAL; rather, metaphorical.

Just one example.

I am INSPIRED by the courageous acts of Moses leading his people out of Egypt, through the Red Sea (Reed Sea?), and round and round, and round the desert for 40 years. There are so many inspiring stories, metaphores, and allegories in his adventures…………that are totally NOT FACTUAL. But, if you NEED for them (and the Bible) to be TRUE, keep on trucking!

Just don’t make the words inspired and inerrant…………..synonyms!

Okay, enough already! Let’s make this simple. Psychologists tell us that there are two very simple TESTS to determine whether we love someone or something: Acceptance & Attention.

Acceptance:
Do you affirm life generally? In other words are you good with the now, good with the features you inherited, in good shape with your neighbors, and basically in love with life as it presently presents itself? Everything is God (some may not grasp that concept) so to NOT ACCEPT life is to not accept God?

Sound fair?

Well, not everyone sees it that way. Too many see things by comparison, judge, and of course then criticize. We should not be living in a dualistic world: an US versus THEM paradigm and mindset. Jesus modeled acceptance and when we do as well we are basically affirming out LOVE for the one who created them- God!

Attention:
What we FOCUS on we love. What we give our time and effort to we love. The rubber meets the road when we reveal how much time we spend in prayer, how much alone time in meditation just listening or being, and how much time we spend reading whatever sacred texts apply to this God that we serve.

Of course we objectify our subjective love of God by loving our neighbors, spending time in a spiritual community and serving….as Jesus did!