Podcasts about universal spirit

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My guest today is John Lawyer. And he has a story not many can tell. His journey has taken him from the battlefields of Kuwait, Baghdad and Kandahar to becoming a spiritualist and universalist. And if you are like me and you don't know what those last two things are, don't worry we will get there. Just know it's SLIGHLTY different than when he was winning a Bronze Star for counter-terrorism operations. "Be the hero for yourself. Our society doesn't really teach us to take care of ourselves necessarily. They teach us to kind of be the hero for other people, but be the hero for yourself." - John Lawyer Embark on a fascinating journey with John Lawyer, from military counterintelligence to spiritualist and universalist. As he navigates through the ups and downs of self-discovery, will he find the answers he's been searching for? Tune in to learn about his unique transformation and the unexpected challenges that lie ahead. In this episode, you will be able to: Discover John Lawyer's remarkable transformation from military to spiritualist. Embrace the significance of hard work and camaraderie in the military. Explore the universalism and spiritualism in John's personal journey. Create a supportive spiritual community through Kishar.org platform. Learn to stay positive and embrace individual uniqueness on your spiritual journey. With a focus on relentless positivity and the creation of a supportive community, John's story offers inspiration for individuals seeking transformation and spiritual guidance. The key moments in this episode are:00:00:01 - Introduction and Military Background 00:04:34 - Intense Work in the Military 00:06:07 - Breakdown and Recovery 00:07:13 - Universalism and Spiritualism 00:09:17 - Kishar.org and Future Plans Check out John's free community here: https://kishar.org/ Please support my sponsors! I know them all personally and can vouch for their integrity and quality. -For website design, graphic design, internet marketing, and more check out McWilliams Marketing at ⁠⁠http://www.McWilliamsmarketing.com ⁠⁠ -Use Patnaik Realty for ANY real estate needs you have. I mean anything! Residential, commercial, property management, investments, acquisitions. He does it all.  Call Teek at 256-694-0117 or e-mail him at Teek@PatnaikCo.com -Go Check out Valley Leadership Academy and please consider sponsoring their new building! ⁠⁠https://www.valleyleadershipacademy.org/⁠⁠ -And if you need some positive and encouraging support on your health and fitness journey, please join me at Relentless Positivity Fitness ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://fitandpositive.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/relentlesspositivity/message

Alara Vural is 1/2 Turkish, 1/2 British and 100% delightful. I'd listen to her read the phone book. She's missing her calling as a voiceover artist! We talk housework (she hates it), her local pub (she adores it) and marketing messaging (her SUPERPOWER). Then we talk about God, the Universal Spirit and connecting with all that. WOW!!! It's a LOT Y'ALL! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MK-Ultra mind control survivor, Cathy O'Brien, returns to Afacast to further explore the realignment of the collective mind with Universal Spirit. Cathy Obrien's heroic journey of escape & recovery from MK-Ultra mind control has become legendary, and a source of inspiration to thousands. Cathy''s autobiographical TRANCE Formation of America was the first documented account of government mind control practices. These same methodologies developed by the CIA MK-Ultra Project Monarch operation have been incrementally applied in varying degrees to the general population under the guise of education, entertainment and the curriculums of our most esteemed professions. In this second interview, we explore the ramifications of these covert programs on a systemic level, as evidenced by obviously orchestrated events contrary to the welfare of all Life within our Realm.  This transparently nefarious world theater has inspired a great awakening, but still too many perceive a dark agenda too pervasive and ominous to overcome.  Cathy's story is a testament to the inevitability of our final Exodus from those who wish to enslave through the strength of the human spirit and power of love. Show links: https://trance.movie

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In this three-part Podcast of the Prodigal Son, the father and the two sons are defined. The Farther being Universal Spirit and the two sons symbolically denote the two states of consciousness necessary to every individuality. We also address the application of the story and bring it down to our experiences. After each segment, three questions are posed to the listeners: · Segment One question defines “The Far Country” Why are we in want, and no none give to us but ourselves. · Segment Two questions emphasize the importance of stopping all self-condemnation and we must awaken to the truth of who we are. · Segment Three shows how the Father's house is always open and the fact that the Universe Holds Nothing Against Us. Man is a conscious, self-knowing mind, equipped with preference and choice he is an individual and can do as he chooses. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/taylorb49/message

In this three-part Podcast of the Prodigal Son, the father and the two sons are defined. The Farther being Universal Spirit and the two sons symbolically denote the two states of consciousness necessary to every individuality. We also address the application of the story and bring it down to our experiences. After each segment, three questions are posed to the listeners: · Segment One question defines “The Far Country” Why are we in want, and no none give to us but ourselves. · Segment Two questions emphasize the importance of stopping all self-condemnation and we must awaken to the truth of who we are. · Segment Three shows how the Father's house is always open and the fact that the Universe Holds Nothing Against Us. Man is a conscious, self-knowing mind, equipped with preference and choice he is an individual and can do as he chooses. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/taylorb49/message

In presenting the parable of the Prodigal Son to his listeners Jesus began by saying that the Father had two sons. The Father in the story is the Universal Spirit. Meaning that, as the son of God, man has the right to self-choice. This carries with it the possibility of apparent duality and the possibility of experiencing good and evil. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/taylorb49/message

In presenting the parable of the Prodigal Son to his listeners Jesus began by saying that the Father had two sons. The Father in the story is the Universal Spirit. Meaning that, as the son of God, man has the right to self-choice. This carries with it the possibility of apparent duality and the possibility of experiencing good and evil. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/taylorb49/message

I've been wanting to train in sexual, shamanic healing at the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA) for years. Today on Life is a Festival I discuss the my ISTA Level 1 training with two of my facilitators Ohad Pele & Jasmeen Hana. On the show we talk about temple arts and why a training like ISTA is so valuable. We discuss the practice of bringing life force to interrupt patterns and liberate sexual energy. We review the four stages of Shamanic Shadow Hunting and other techniques to bring consciousness to all areas of the body. We finish with how healing the erotic depolarizes us politically and the benefits and challenges of ISTA in the era of Me Too. The International School of Temple Arts works with spirituality and sexuality as two expressions of the life force. Their vision is a world where humans have a peaceful, delightful, shameless, fearless and loving relationship with their own bodies, sexuality, emotions, hearts, minds and spirit. Ohad Pele, a lead facilitator in ISTA, has been teaching Kabbalah, Sacred Sexuality and Conscious Relating for more than 30 years. A former traditional Kabbalist Rabbi in Jerusalem, he is well known as one of the most influential and radical spiritual teachers in Israel. Before joining ISTA Pele was heading “Neviah – the Hebraic Academy of Universal Spirit” in Tel Aviv. Pele is an artist, photographer and a song writer and author of the historical fiction "Kedesha - A timeless tale of a Love Priestess", Jasmeen Hana has studied Vipassana meditation, Ayurveda, kundalini yoga, plant medicine, and ancient Egyptian embodiment practices. She organizes and co-facilitates Kemetic/ African shamanic yoga teacher trainings in Luxor and offers Egyptian Mystery retreats, blue lotus ceremonies, facilitating with ISTA and holds a point at Highden Mystery School in New Zealand. Timestamps :12 - What are Temple Arts :15 - Jasmeen and Ohad's initiation to magic :22 - Why ISTA? :31 - Bringing life force to interrupt patterns and liberating sexual energy :37 - The four stages of Shamanic Shadow Hunting :50 - Bringing consciousness to all areas of the body :57 - The structure and facilitation of ISTA 1:05 - How healing the erotic depolarizes 1:12 - ISTA in the era of Me Too Links: ISTA Website: https://ista.life/ Pele Ohad: https://ista.life/profile/pele-ohad Ohad's books on Amazon: "Kedesha - A timeless tale of a Love Priestess", Kabbalah Love: https://www.kabalove.org/ Jasmeen Hana: https://www.egyptian-templearts.com/ Caitlyn Cook: https://ista.life/profile/caitlyn-cook Autobiography in Five Short Chapters: https://palousemindfulness.com/docs/autobio_5chapters.pdf Wheel of Consent - Betty Martin: https://bettymartin.org/videos/

In ep. 176 we look at the section "In The Beginning, Me" from Emmet Fox's classic work, Find and Use Your Inner Power. This episode we learn about the power of shifting our focus from a "me centered" point of view, the a "Universal Spirit centered" p.o.v. In this inspirational section we learn how we are connected to the Divine Creative Source and how that will help us MANIFEST our DREAMS and DESIRES. In addition to Fox's book we draw from Holme's The Hidden Power of the Bible and Charles Fillmore's Mysteries of Genesis. Start the weekend right with a POSITIVE and INSPIRING message from Dr. Emmet Fox! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cosmiceye/support

In ep. 171 is a look at the section "Shepherd Not Bellhop" from the amazing book Find and Use Your Inner Power by Emmet Fox. This is a special episode where we dive deeply into Psalm 23, "The Lord is my Shepherd..." of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and we look at it from a METAPHYSICAL point of view! We help guide you through some of the ideas in this Psalm and this section of Fox's text to HELP YOU TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE! We talk about the problems with "ordering" or "beseeching" Universal Spirit, HOW TO GET IN ALIGNMENT WITH YOUR DIVINE PURPOSE, how PSALM 23 relates to your life, what exactly a BELLHOP is, HOW "THE LORD IS YOUR SHEPHERD" and we even look at some other Bible passages to help us understand on a deeper level, and much MUCH more! Hosted by Jason Napolitano, author of If You Can Worry, You Can Meditate (available on Amazon and at CosmicEye.org) The Cosmic Eye show is a weekly metaphysical podcast where each week we talk about important spiritual books and ideas to help listeners positively transform their lives. We investigate spiritual, esoteric, and occult wisdom on a wide variety of figures such as Manly P. Hall, C.G. Jung, Israel Regardie, Marie Louise Von Franz, Pythagoras, Paul Foster Case, Vivekananda, Yogananda, and others. As well as subjects such as TAROT, Symbolism, Esoteric Christianity, Meditation, Eco-Spirituality, Yoga, Psychology, Mythology, Magick, New Thought, Men's Psychology, Shamanism, and Folk traditions. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cosmiceye/support

Sacred Sexuality Is A Living Temple & A Secret Gate To Divine Realms. “Sexuality is a secret gate to the Divine realms that is still unrecognised by most of humanity. In ancient Temples, sexuality was practiced as a key to open portals into other dimensions, but this knowledge was mostly forgotten. Sacred Sexuality is a living temple, where we can offer our egos on the altar, expand our consciousness, download visions, create magic, heal traumas and surrender deeply to Love itself”.  I had the pleasure of meeting Pele when attending Ista 1&2 sexual shamanic retreats. During the training, I wanted to capture the three facilitators to bring their inspiring visions, wisdom and intentions to you all you. Pele, a lead faculty in ISTA, has been teaching Kabbalah, Sacred Sexuality and Conscious Relating for more than 30 years. His life partner Dawn Cherie is a lead faculty in ISTA as well and many times they lead workshops together. Coming from a background of being a traditional Kabbalist Rabbi in Jerusalem, as well as an academic scholar and a community leader he is well known as one of the most influencing and radical spiritual teachers in Israel.
 Pele is also the author of the historical fiction "Kedesha - A timeless tale of a Love Priestess", a page turner that exposes the hidden conspiracy in ancient Jerusalem that had lead to the destruction of the Goddess Temples and formation of monotheistic text based religions. He also wrote a book about Lilith – the Wild-Dark Feminine Force, a revolutionary research on the sacred aspect of Lilith, which holds the secrets of healing human sexuality. In another book he explores the erotic concepts behind the ancient Temple of Jerusalem and the way this knowledge was used for meditations in the ancient Jewish mystery school of the Merkava.
 Before joining ISTA Pele was heading “Neviah – the Hebraic Academy of Universal Spirit” in Tel Aviv. Pele and Dawn are life partners since 2002 and co-founders of KabaLove — the school of Love in Kabbala. Pele is an artist, photographer and a song writer. His first album “Something out of Chaos” includes the Tantric song Mikdash that is dedicated to Yoni-Gazing rituals. His second album“Cosmic Snake” includes the songs “Captain Crazy” (lyrics by Bruce Lyon) and the infamous “Cosmic Snake”. More from Ohad Pele: * If you are LOVING my transmissions then please become a Patreon. You can choose the amount that feels true in your heart. It requires a lot of energy to produce this content and your support would be greatly received.

On this Christmas Day, we revisit a podcast that aired in our first season of podcasts, Life Gets Better Now, at Christmas time in 2015. Today the Christian world celebrates the birth of Jesus, but beyond the historical and religious Jesus, there is a Universal Spirit that he fully embodied; each of us can tap into that spiritual consciousness to some degree, no matter what our level of church affiliation or non- affiliation is. Let’s call it “Christ Consciousness.” It’s when you discover a space that is inside you, and you are inside it, where you remember what is so easy to forget: We are all One. In this moment of awareness, you feel encouragement, bliss, a desire to serve, blessing, thriving, unity. As John Lennon put it, Imagine all the people … living life in peace … you may say I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one. I hope one day you’ll join us, and the world will live as one. As winter’s darkness grows, it brings us the gift of knowing how much we love the light, and that we want to “be a light” for ourselves and for everyone else. Take some time amid the noise and bustle of the holiday week to cozy up with Mary and Erin as their conversation leads you down and in to find that quieter, deeper place of peace. The blessing of being in Christ Consciousness can happen in a moment. We wish that moment for you, whoever you are, wherever you are in your journey – Merry Christmas!

Meeting Peter Kent - Recounting Nov. 3, 2001 Today was one of those turns in the road that shapes the future.  I met a wonderful man and want to tell you all about him:   Dr. Peter A. Kent figment43@talkmatch.com  (727) 823-4814  no address is listed for this #  cell # (727) 742-1574  age:  58 Location: Saint Petersburg, Florida, United-States Hair: Salt and pepper gray Eyes: Hazel Height: 6 feet 0 inches / 182.9 cm Body Type: Athletic Languages: I'll tell you later Ethnicity: White / Caucasian Religion: Christian - Other Education: PhD / Post Doctoral Occupation: I'll tell you later Income: I'll tell you later Smoker: Don't Smoke Drinker: Drink Socially / Occasionally Status: Divorced Have Children: Yes, not living at home Want Children: Undecided   I'm looking for someone to spend time with on a frequent basis. My spirit will know her when we meet. I wish to be captivated by her face and frame; I want to be comforted by her judgment; I want to feel electricity when we touch; I wish to see depth in her eyes. I wish for her parents to have blessed her with a good upbringing; I wish that she love them very much and have a history of warmth from them. I want that she have joy in her heart, confidence on her face, sexuality in her movement, elegance in her serenity. I wish to feel power from her femininity, strength from her reverence. I want that she be capable of great love and I hope to be a blend of her character.   Me, I have a child's heart but the strength of many men. I have the character of experience and faith from many endeavors. I have ability to see the 'big picture'; I am a deep thinker. I have cried when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance yet I can muster courage in an instant. I pursue growth on a daily basis, I have a renaissance outlook. I wish to leave a mark that will benefit humanity; in this I am in development. I have been blessed by God with the power to help. I love the very young, the very old and the ill. I have great joy, kindness and sensitivity within; I wish to know love again.   Dear Peter Kent,  You make time for what is important.  I was so impressed with your profile that I wondered, if you wrote it yourself, or if you hired a marketing guru.  I liked that you spoke of things that are important, such as the relationships we have with our family.  I have been exceedingly blessed with a wonderful family.  My father was self employed most of his life and when he retired he came here to Easy Street to help me out by building the most incredible cages, complete with waterfalls, ponds and lots of things for busy cats to do.  He's been working here since 1996.  My mother was a legal secretary and then personnel manager for a large company for 19 years.  I kept trying to hire her away, but her loyalty was to her company until there was a huge split in the company that left her working for the wrong boss.  She then agreed to come work in my real estate business in 1998 and she makes my life so much easier now.  I can count on her good judgment and she treats the business like it was her own, so that gives me peace of mind that I didn't have for the first 15 years of my business.   Your description of your desire to make a difference and the knowledge that it is God who guides us through gives me confidence that you are the kind of man I would like very much to know.  For the cats, Carole   From Peter:  Carole, I wish to spend some time answering your considerate note.  Somehow, after having moved here three days ago, I thought today was Wednesday.   I am not that intense that I loose days, but I have been busy and juggling ideas in my head.  It is somewhat of a surprise to me that I could/would do that; I am laughing at myself somewhat.   Your description tells a little about you, mine is somewhat void of who I am, more of what I want.  I feel that who we are comes out in being together; I do not mean to say that I will be saying who I am, more of where I am.   Yes, I wrote that little bio.  I am a rather good writer at times.  One of the things I wish to do is write something worthwhile regarding health it will be in one of two areas regarding health, maybe both in separate works.   I am about three things professionally, a builder, a physician, I have been a professional pilot.  I did that first in my life, since I was a small child I wanted to fly airplanes, I love the extravagance of travel in a moments notice.  I have owned nine aircraft, I do not own one now, but I still think about building one or two or the more extravagant homebuilts, an industry that has taken over the small aircraft field, there are some exceptional ones.  Flying and aircraft were the fire in my life from when I was a small boy.  I have two degrees in aerospace engineering, 8760 hours of flight experience and an aircraft mechanics license.  Flying is something I have placed on the back burner in my to-do book.   While it used to be very exciting for me it pales compared to other more important projects.   What truly propels me in recent years is something Nelson Mandela stated some time back:  "It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.  We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are we not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small doesn't serve the world"   I had been a doer and shaker much of my life, some years back something happened that made me go inward, to look hard and long at who I was, vs who I thought I was.   I played small during this time.   I'll tell you more about things I want to do and how I will serve in a moment.  First I wish to tell you something else that is a big part of me, "the rest of the story" as the man says....   I have spent a great deal of passionate thinking over God, and what God is.  I have felt a tragedy that shook my very foundation and made me wonder more then, about the subject, and what I should do about it.   I stopped my productive life and went to Bible school in Ohio.  This was not a work of God, by any means.   I turned out to be a disaster, however, a tremendous learning experience in retrospect.   What I have learned is one must come to terms about God and what it is on his own.  It is not a matter of follow the leader, following the most charismatic preacher and his interpretation of the bible, rather strongly come to terms on what you believe and read the bible for the joy and truth within.  I have been a chiropractor for two of the most charismatic preachers in the Central and Southeastern US; I have come to know spirit, not from them, but on my own.   I know spirit and spirit has certain laws, one is truth the second is faith.  Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more that we know more that we have heard or read or studied - that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through is all.  Faith dares to go further than it can see.   Faith is the recognition that Spirit works in, as, and through each and all of us - through every person and every circumstance.  Faith is also and attitude that whatever happens serves a higher good, despite the appearances to the contrary.  What if you suddenly knew, with certainty, that a higher intelligence was working through you and everyone else for the highest good of humanity - that there is indeed a purpose for every pleasure and hardship.  As you live in the light of this law, it will transform your perception and experience on the world.  You'll begin to see every difficulty as a test in order to instruct you; you'll find lessons and opportunities in every challenge.  Faith is the opposite of reason.   Applying the Law of Faith is one of the most practical, reasonable, constructive things you can do to live an inspired life.  As one of nature's most delicate and vulnerable life forms, a flower's life is short and tenuous.  A careless footfall, a dry winter, or pounding rain can make a life-and-death difference to a delicate blossom.  And, yet, each morning it opens wide.  Flowers have much to teach us about faith.  When you cultivate the garden of faith in your own life, you will, like this flower, come alive in a new way.  Faith is not a commodity that you own or possess; it's the divine order that pervades all things, the light behind your eyes, the loving and mysterious intelligence that emanates from the center of creation.   Listen to the intuitive wisdom of your heart, where Spirit speaks.   So many people rely on books, teachers, scientists, psychics, oracles, or others to advise of direct them, or to validate their views.   Teachers and books have their value, and sources of guidance and inspiration may enter your life in different forms.  But never forget that the treasure is already inside you; others cannot give you anything you don't already have; they can only provide keys to your own inner wealth. So listen well to those who speak from experience and embrace wisdom where you find it, but always weigh external guidance against the wisdom of your own heart.   Faith is assuming that you always make the right choice.   Self-trust develops naturally, from your own direct experience; you learn to trust your body's instincts, your heart's intuition, and your mind's ability to access universal intelligence.   Like water, higher wisdom doesn't come as much from your brain as through it.  You aren't a vessel to be filled with facts; you're more like a radio receiver attuned to the universal intelligence operating throughout creation.  All you have to do is to listen and trust.   Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.  There is no absolute security except in absolute faith.  This doesn't mean that all circumstances will go your way or that divine justice is operating every time you injure or heal yourself.  All sorts of events, both beautiful and terrible, can happen in this world.  Our small mind cannot always see the bigger picture or know what is for our highest good. So despite the confusion and insecurity of life, when you can learn to live on faith, like the flower, trusting Spirit working according to a higher will beyond the reach of your mind, you'll see Spirit operating everywhere, in everyone and everything.   Faith involves the willingness to stretch yourself, make mistakes, and learn from them - in other words, to trust the process of your life.  The more you trust Spirit in this way, the more you will work with it directly as a living force in your life.   If you combine these strong truths with what Mandela stated you have the confidence to do something worthwhile.  I have seven college degrees, not because I wished to be a perpetual student, rather because I searched for knowledge, knowledge to change me for the better.  I worked full time each time I was in college, this last time as a builder, I built a church and a school in New Mexico over the past few years while going through a master's program in Oriental Medicine.  Why I did that is "another story",  however, I am glad that I did.   I once was at a place where money and 'things" where what I wanted for my family and myself.   I was making $50K per month in a personal injury practice as an orthopedist in  Orlando, and then my daughter shot herself.   Let me say that was a life changing event, one I am just now getting over; one does a lot of soul searching over something like that.  I gave up everything and I looked for God, but God is not in most men; most men are actors.  I am at a place now in life where I am back on course; willing to begin again and make a difference.   I have three very large things to do.  One is huge, two are very necessary.   I have high compassion, lots of courage and high intelligence.   I wish to change a couple of things done as wrong as they could be, currently, in medicine.  One is breast screening; mammography is flat wrong, unhealthy.   The second is the concept of the common cold, people are taught that we get ill from something external and that we need to counteract it with something to kill the foreign invader.   Some years ago, about 190 years I think, we adopted the germ theory of disease.   There was another theory at the same time, that germs were not the cause of disease, rather the result of disease.   I wish to show how with proper guidance this is the way small disease should be handled.  I can do that with the common cold, for which I will have to write a book and have a website with the armamentum to cure.   The book is in my head, there are four stages of the common cold, none of which should be handled with antibiotics.  Lastly, I have been working on an idea for the lay person to handle small dis-ease, the kind where the doctor says wait for it to get worse before we can do something about it.  I wish to make non-prescription herbal products from around the world (mostly from China) available on a website that is run by software that quantifies energetic changes in the body before the germ shows up.   I am currently doing this and have met with the FDA to know how to do it.  It needs only a slight bit more money infusion; it will not be long now.    This is the biggest deal I am working on.  It steps into the medical/legal arena; I have done my homework here.   Currently, I work as a building contractor.  I have an ad in the paper as (believe it or not) THE HOUSE DOCTOR, I take only smaller gravy jobs.  (I have three doctorate degrees).  Between being a professional pilot and going to chiropractic school in '78, I was a builder (of homes mostly).  I got one in Better Homes and Gardens in '78, in Ormond Beach. (My biggest commercial project was the UPS building in Daytona Beach)  I built over 130 homes in years past and am re-qualifying with the state of Florida in December.   Like you I am busy, unlike you, I am re-settling.   I am on fire with the things above, passionate to leave something worthwhile behind.   I appreciate who you are and compliment you on your success and your upbringing.  My best regards to your mom and dad.   One of my favorite words is serendipity.   I am glad to have made your acquaintance.   It would be nice to walk quietly with you. - Peter Kent   I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.    You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.

Open up to brand new possibilities, see information in fresh ways and leave the sad or painful stories behind! Once we realize our karmic ties go beyond the commonly referred to "past life" cycles, we can be liberated once and for all as humans "in-bodied" and our authentic rich and deep self can be truly revealed and harmonized with. Tracee very eloquently details how it starts with our self, then we can begin to relate in beautiful ways with the other and eventually with practice and open hearted living, we begin to touch and in dwell with Universal Spirit. Tracee has been helping guide and sharing her own spirit path with others for many years and we're honored to be able to dive in a little deeper to karmic ties and past effecting our present on this episode of Practicalsaint Talks :) thank you for watching and listening, to click thru the links to support your own spirit path visit www.essentialmind.me and purchase the limited time box set of the demon slayer series at www.beaslayer.comBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show (https://www.cash.app/$koleehemenway)

In ep. 66, show 4 of Emmet Fox Friday, we look at the idea of "Saluting the Christ in Him." We look at how taking a spiritual approach to a challenging situation with another person can dramatically alter the dynamic. Recognizing and saluting the Divinity within the other person can create peace and positivity in place of strife and negativity. Check out our latest episode to find out how to do this! Hosted by Jason Napolitano, author of If You Can Worry, You Can Meditate (available on Amazon and at CosmicEye.org) and Co-Hosted by Chris Sheridan author of Spirit in the Sky (available now on ChrisSheridan.com.) The Cosmic Eye show is a weekly metaphysical podcast where each week we talk about important spiritual books and ideas to help listeners positively transform their lives. We investigate spiritual, esoteric, and occult wisdom on a wide variety of figures such as Manly Hall, C.G. Jung, Israel Regardie, Crowley, Jordan Peterson, Alan Watts, Marie Louise Von Franz, Pythagoras, Paul Foster Case, Vivekananda, Yogananda, and others. As well as subjects such as Meditation, Yoga, Psychology, Mythology, Magick, New Thought, Men's Studies, Poetry, Art, Initiation, Ritual, Shamanism, and Folk traditions. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cosmiceye/support

Taizé, though Western European in origin, has sought to include people and traditions worldwide. They have sought to demonstrate this in the music and prayers where songs are sung in many languages, and have included chants and icons from the Eastern Orthodox tradition. The music emphasizes simple phrases repeated and sometimes also sung in canon. 1 Opening Words by Gordon Ritchie 0:00 2 Prelude “Jesus bleibet meine Freude” by J S Bach, sung by Chorealis 2:45 3 Kindling the Chalice: “Blessed is the Fire That Burns Deep in the Soul” by Eric A Heller-Wagner 5:22 4 Hymn 296 “O Ye Who Taste That Love Is Sweet” 6:05 5 Brother Roger and the creation of the Taizé tradition 7:50 6 Sharing Our Abundance 10:18 7 “From You I Receive, to You I Give” 13:12 8 Hymn 1034 “De Noche” 13:53 9 Prayer for Pentecost 16:49 10 Anthem “Ave verum corpus” by Mozart, sung by Chorealis 18:21 11 Reading “Psalm 23 for This Moment” by Kevin Tarsa, read by Karen Mills 20:43 12 Taizé Hymn “Confitemini Domino” sung by Chorealis 22:37 13 Reading “Blessed Are the Queer” by Helen Rose, read by Yvonne Mireau 25:42 14 Hymn 1047 “Nada Te Turbe” (sung in Spanish) 26:40 15 Reading “A Prayer for Our Earth” by Pope Francis, read by Jeff Bisanz 29:19 16 Anthem “Cherish the Earth” by Bob Hurd, revised text by Susan Ruttan, sung by Chorealis 30:43 17 “Universal Spirit of Love” by Dorothy May Emerson, read by Marilyn Gaa 33:09 18 Musical Reflection by Gordon Ritchie 34:57 19 Reading “A Native American Prayer” read by Robert Begg 38:13 20 Taizé Hymn “Laudate omnes gentes” sung by Chorealis 39:33 21 Affirmation “Love Is Our Greatest Purpose” by Jay E Abernathy, Jr 42:30 22 Hymn 10 “Immortal Love” 43:15 23 Closing Words “Teach us to look for you” by Fr. Austin Fleming, read by Karen Mills 45:22 24 Choral response “Alleluia, Amen” by Gordon Ritchie, sung by Chorealis 46:30 25 Blessing “Love Is Our Spirit” by Eric Williams 47:08 26 “Carry the Flame of Peace and Love” 47:33 The Unitarian Church of Edmonton is a liberal, multi-generational, religious community. We celebrate a rich mosaic of free-thinking, spiritually-questing individuals joined in common support and action. We welcome diversity including diversity of beliefs from divine believers to humanists, from pagans to atheists and agnostics. We believe in the compassion of the human heart, the warmth of community, the pursuit of justice and the search of meaning in our lives. We gather with gratitude on traditional Cree lands that are now a part of Treaty Six and shared by many nations. A treaty is an inheritance, a responsibility and a relationship. May we be good neighbours to one another, good stewards to our planet and good ancestors to our children. UCE - https://www.uce.ca/ Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/41659071349/ Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/UnitarianChurch/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/EdmUnitarian Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnitarianUCE Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/unitarianuce/ SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/user-189401827/

As long as there have been rational humans walking the earth, mankind’s greatest mystery has remained the same: what happens when we die? Moreover, as boomers, we know that one of the realities of age is the increasing awareness that life doesn’t go on forever. Whether it’s the loss of loved ones or the recognition of our own mortality, death becomes an ever-greater presence in our lives.                                                Therefore, it is with great appreciation that I host our guest on Feisty Side of Fifty Radio: Dr. Christopher Kerr. Dr. Kerr is the CEO and chief medical officer at Hospice Buffalo. By way of his work, Dr. Kerr has been documenting the dreams and visions of dying patients for years. And because of this research, Dr. Kerr has come to the realization that end of life can be—and usually is—a time of great spiritual and emotional awareness. He joins us to share accounts of these dreams and visions from his remarkable book, Death is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End. Whether you adhere to an organized religion, consider yourself an agnostic or believe in a Universal Spirit, you will want to listen to this extraordinary glimpse into the end of life experiences of hundreds of patients. Make sure you tune in for this one!

Today’s topic will be Bible study and on resource corner we will be talking about tardive dyskinesia today you will also hear a spirit music message playlist from myself

Greetings Starchild, I am your guide + host, Iris Rose Moon, her to guide & assist you in awakening the cosmic consciousness that lies in each & every one of us. Cosmic Consciousness is defined as: a larger reservoir of consciousness, found after the dissolution of the individual; collective consciousness; Akashic field, Universal Spirit; God. Throughout this podcast, I will be using several mediums to help explore + create cosmic understanding. Astrology will be first + foremost - the language of the stars can help us understand the energies that we have surrounding us - prompting us to live a more natural, & energetic lifestyle. When we have knowledge of the cosmos, we can best set up our life for success. Ie, getting married when Venus is in a strong position or double checking our itineraries when Mercury is retrograde. When we have knowledge of what energies are present, we are best able to use them to our advantage. Tarot will be another - the language of symbols + numerology. When we are aware of the symbols around us, we can understand the consciousness that surrounds us. Every day we are given the opportunity to connect to this Higher Consciousness - we just need to be aware. Reiki + Galactic Evolution - the language of energy & the body. Often times I will refer back to my energy practices - in which I believe we are capable of incredible feats because we are Galactic beings. These energy practices date back to Ancient Civilizations, where "Star People" were have said to help build + construct civilization. This is a big part of my practice - as I believe THEY are part of Cosmic Consciousness, too. Whatever your fancy is, I look forward to learning + expanding with you. I believe that as long as we start to Evolve in the Self, the rest will follow. As Evolution happens in the Self, others will join. Sometimes all it takes is to be a pillar for change + transformation. The light in me honors the light in you - namaste. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tworoseshealing/message

Inner Authority and CONFIDENCE Through Creative Self-Expression Welcome back to Her Rules Radio! I'm Alexandra Jamieson, your coach and host. Kate had a hidden, secret, second-self. Her Shadow.   Despite her success, Kate couldn’t shake the idea that women in her sales group were better than her: more sophisticated, better educated, more confident than she.    They were members of an “in-group” that she never felt invited to. She worked super hard to get her children accepted to groups and clubs and schools where they would “belong.” She always felt like an outsider at work events, school gatherings, and caught other moms giving her strange looks, and obsessed that they were judging her.   “Every time I hang out with other women at company events or conferences, I freeze up. I drink too much because I’m obsessed with how I look, always comparing myself to them.    And even though I’ve reached the Gold Circle and the top 10 people in sales at our company, I never feel like I’m good enough. I drink too much, eat too much, and can’t relax to make friends with people in a way that feels authentic. I just feel uncomfortable in myself.   It’s so weird, because I’m doing so well with my sales! People always comment on how authentic and easy-going I am in our business conversations, but when the attention turns to me in real opportunity for connection I get weird and start to feel anxious.” Freezing up is caused by an inner insecurity where we aren’t able to express ourselves fully and honestly.  Imagine you’re in front of a person or group of people whose opinion you care about.  They’re all looking at you.  Focus on how your body feels: do you feel physical signals like tightness, heart racing, sweating, or other feelings like you’re a deer in headlights?   In this moment, do you feel like you can express yourself, while feeling these feelings?   The insecurity, awkwardness, and anxiety kills our ability to connect with others, and our creative thinking shuts down. It makes us so obsessed with how others might judge us, that we can’t be authentically generous and become overly self-focused. Which makes us feel more alienated.   Through our coaching conversations, K realized she was keeping herself from these relationships. We practiced and K was able to approach a couple of the women in her company that she wanted to connect with.    She asked if they’d be interested in forming a women’s group within the company, so they could support each other. K told them about her inner anxiety and what she was working on with her coach, and they immediately opened up:    They had also been feeling disconnected and wanted to create stronger relationships at work, with her! In fact, they both looked up to her and hoped they could learn more from her about how she had become so successful!   K has misjudged them: she had become so self-obsessed and withholding that there wasn’t an opening for the other women to approach her. Both sides were wrong about each other. And by bravely, vulnerably opening up to them, they were able to begin a new way of being together.   Insecurity seems to have a life of its own.   Inside each of us is a hidden, secret, second-self. The Shadow.   All those feelings of inadequacy, fear, and self-doubt, are our inner shadow. It’s the part of us we try to hide. The part we fear we’ll be judged for, if anyone knew the truth. It’s everything about ourselves we don’t want to be, but fear we truly are.   It’s called The Shadow, because it follows us everywhere. It’s your dark side, your ego, Bitch Brain, low-vibration self, and id. It’s the grotesque Mr. Hyde to our respectable Dr. Jekyll.    Your shadow impacts how you see yourself. It doesn’t matter if others see you as successful, beautiful, brilliant, and wonderful: if your shadow says you’re a reject, a loser, too fat, too old, or too lame, that’s what you’re likely to believe about yourself.   The Shadow is our insecurity.  And it’s why insecurity is impossible to get rid of.   The only way to manage The Shadow is to integrate it.  AND, turn it into a source of strength.   This truth speaks to our most basic, shared human struggle: We all want to feel worthy, loveable, and capable.  But we are the only ones who see our shadow, and we feel ashamed.   We feel so disgusted by our inner truth, we turn away from The Shadow and look outside ourselves for something that makes us feel worthy, loveable, capable, and valuable.   So we look to others to validate us, approve of our work, our ideas, our selves.    It’s why we get obsessed with celebrities and influencers, or the woman in our field who has a social media following twice the size of our own:   We think that because others focus on this person, that she has been validated and approved of. And we focus on the “vanity metrics” of follower size,    Our need for acceptance causes us to buy things we don’t really want, follow career paths we don’t truly care about, create things that aren’t our true calling because they’ve been validated by likes.    The shadow is an innate part of the human being, but most of us are willfully blind to its existence. We hide our negative qualities, from ourselves and everyone else.    To hide we might criticize others in an effort to take the attention off of ourselves. We go through life with a false sense of superiority and a belief that while others act badly or destructively, we ourselves are wholly virtuous and always in the right. But we know it’s not true, because a part of us is always aware of The Shadow.   No amount of approval from others can make you feel whole or worthy.  Because no amount of outside validation can eliminate your inner Shadow. We can’t escape it, because it’s always there, lurking beneath the surface, hiding behind our outer appearance, making us feel a failure, embarrassed, and weak.    When you need validation from people and metrics outside yourself, you give them your power. They become your ruler.   No matter what you do, you are always seeking this validation, which causes you to edit your ideas, your truth, your uniqueness. It makes us twist ourselves and silence our voices in order to hide The Shadow from everyone around us.   So every time you get into a group of people, or start to reveal yourself, you freeze in an effort to hide The Shadow within. You get unfocused, confused, or stop your forward momentum with expressing yourself.   What healers and psychologists since Carl Jung have known is that the way to heal our relationship to The Shadow is to embrace it, integrate it, and learn from it.    Embrace The Shadow, and Unleash Your Creative Self-Expression (USCSE)   Think back to when you were a kid, and felt free to express yourself. Maybe it was creativity, play, movement, or imaginative self-expression. When we are small, until we experience the first traumas of life, we have a feeling of freedom in our bodies and have no Shadow to hide.   We are connected to the Universal Spirit of Creative Self-Expression.  We are filled with it when we’re young.  You see it in kids you know.   This Universal Spirit of Creative Self-Expression drives us to share who we are, what we think, and how we feel without filter, and uncaring of how others react, or what they might think about us. It causes us to share ourselves in a genuine, truthful way.    When you embody this Spirit, you speak and share yourself with clarity, depth, excitement, energy, and authenticity.    You become a channel, a conduit, for something greater, and Universally True.    We all feel it in different ways:  Writing, speaking, singing, dancing, painting.  Athletes get “in the zone.” Flow. Intuition. Creating. You’re speaking or acting from your deepest, truest self, because you are connected to this spirit, this energy, that we all have the ability to connect with.   As children we all naturally express ourselves from this Universal Spirit. As we grow into adults, we get injured, judged, and punished for our unique expression, and learn to hide it.   By the time we become teenagers we are obsessed with outside approval from our peers.    Then we have to hide anything about ourselves that might be judged as bad or weird.    And we use our hidden place to store all the things about ourselves that might, in any way, be unlikeable, unworthy, or unlovable.   So our inner, hidden self becomes a dumping ground, and we keep using our energy to hide within ourselves. Our least-favorite qualities become inextricably tied with who we truly are, down underneath all the outside show we put on for others.   And our Inner Truth turns into something we hate, The Shadow.    This means, dear one, that our Shadow holds the key to our true self, our inner authority and confidence, and our creative self-expression.   It takes powerful tools to unlock this gorgeous confidence.   The best tool I can share that I’ve used myself and with countless clients, is Creative Self-Expression.   Some examples:   #1 When I finally came clean and shared that I was eating meat again after being vegan for 10+ years, I had to face The Shadow that I was a fraud and a failure. The truth was, through sharing my evolution and new reality, that I was honoring my body, which I had been trying to control through food. In the social media firestorm that came next, I discovered a much bigger audience of people who wanted help in creating a healthy relationship with food and their bodies.   I felt honest and self-expressed. And my business grew.   #2 My client K applied for and won a coveted promotion that moved her family to Amsterdam.    #3 Other clients have worked with their shadow to realize that they were still trying to appease their parents through their current career track or presentation, and decided to stop hiding their message and passion. Building platforms, writing books, speaking out more often.   When we stop caring what people think of us, or how they’ll judge us, and begin to self-express more clearly and creatively, people are drawn to us. We become a magnet for clients and important relationships.    You are just one of the few who has bravely stepped up to integrate The Shadow.   “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.” (Carl Jung)   Once we become more aware of The Shadow in ourselves, we must honor it and find a way to integrate it into our life. It’s the Uncommon Path of Creative Leaders who Thrive. If we fail to do it, or continue to hide it (and hide from it), we become weak and scattered because we’re trying to serve our authentic self and hide our shadow, which dissipates our powers and energy. The shadow must become a part of one’s conscious personality.   Tap into your Inner Authority, through Creative Self-Expression.   Embrace your hidden self, knowing every single human being, even the greats you admire, has their own shadow they’re wrestling with.   Embrace it, and speak with it, knowing you are the only Inner Authority who matters.   TEXT: CREATRIX to 33444 To get on the early bird list for Creatrix 2020

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One of the greatest upsides of age is the growing urge many of us feel to focus more on the deeper aspects of life. To these ends, our guest, Agustin Fuentes, joins us to share all about his important and thought-provoking new book, Why We Believe. Agustin is a renowned Notre Dame anthropologist, a professor and an active public scientist and lecturer. He is also a highly sought-after blogger for several well-known publications including Psychology Today and The Huffington Post. And he is as a writer and explorer for National Geographic. Whether you adhere to an organized religion, consider yourself an agnostic or believe in a Universal Spirit, you will want to check out this extraordinary look into the reasons why we humans have an innate need to believe. Make sure to tune in for this one!

Jesus words were for all people because they all came from the pre-existent Universal Spirit of Christ who made the entire Universe, and everything and everyone in it is filled with this Spirit. As Jesus himself said several times, he himself had nothing to say. Listen as I explain why some of Jesus' words, for example John 14:6, are so badly misinterpreted by some. Guys, this isn't hype: this understanding can change your life!

In this episode, I had the honor of interviewing the Reverend Rick Romero, OSFoc. Father Rick is a priest with the Old Catholic Churches International.  Father Rick is also a Friar with the Order of St. Francis Old Catholic and is Vicar of Latino Affairs.  Since the age of nine, Father Rick has been a student of the Bible and has actively been in service of the church.  Born and raised as a Seventh-day Adventist, Father Rick attended Adventist schools until his sophomore year of college studies.  At the age of 17 Father Rick began directing church choirs and eventually became Professor of Music and Director of Choirs at an Adventist university in Mexico.  Father Rick conducted two concerts of Handel’s “Messiah” in Spanish at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City with the Mexico City Chamber Orchestra and the University Choir.  This was the first-ever performance of “Messiah” in the Spanish language at the Palacio. While in Mexico City, the choir also gave a live performance of the cantata “Jesus is Coming” on national television.  After returning to the United States, Father Rick continued to direct choirs at several churches of various denominations, ranging from Catholic and Protestant to Unitarian Universalist.  After 30 years of service as a church musician, in 2008 Father Rick enrolled at Sophia Divinity School, a seminary with the Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch.  In 2011 and 2012, Father Rick was ordained into the Diaconate and Priesthood by Bishop William Gameson of the Catholic Church of Jerusalem.  In 2012 Father Rick began a chartered ministry with the Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch.  He began a parish ministry, “Our Lady of the Roses,” which focused on social justice issues including prison ministries at Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “Tent City” and advocacy for universal health care.  Father Rick founded Universal Spirit Broadcasting Network in 2010, and he is the Executive Producer.  Universal Spirit Broadcasting Network, Incorporated is an educational, non-profit Colorado corporation that is a telecommunications organization dedicated to ecumenical ministries that celebrate all faiths based on the Universal Spirit of peace and love.  USBN features programs that are spiritual, educational, promote fine art, and highlight social justice issues.  USBN is currently producing “End Game,” a program of political and spiritual commentary.  USBN and “Convergent Streams” magazine are co-producing “The Unidos Voice” as an outreach to the spiritual community on social media.  Father Rick is a contributing editor of “Convergent Streams.” In this episode, We talked primarily about his social justice work, We talked about Universal Spirit Broadcasting, The Unidos Voice, and the Unidos Manifesto, along with the struggles of producing audio-visual content for the Independent Sacramental community. Links: Unidos Voice with Rev. Fr. Rick Romero. Unidos Voice with Rt. Rev. David Oliver Kling. Convergent Streams: The Premier ISM Magazine. This podcast is produced by The Community of Saint George (The Young Rite).

Dan Harrison is a Financial Therapist & Certified Financial Planner (CFP), who helps couples and families address the psychological and practical elements of money.Dan is pursuing his Registered Therapeutic Counsellor designation to become one of the few dually accredited CFP's and RTC's in Canada. He believes that financially free and emotionally connected families are the foundation for personal, familial and societal transformation.Along with helping transform lives, Dan is also the Co-Founder of SoGo, a platform for entrepreneurs looking to integrate social good into their businesses through strategy, mentorship, access to thought-leaders, and live events.Dan's perspective honors each person’s unique singularity, and he believes we are all inextricably connected to the collective consciousness and Universal Spirit. Dan’s wholistic perspective of wealth takes into account health, relationships, money, time, and purpose.In this episode, we discuss the importance of knowing your money story, ways to redefine your money mindset and narrative, letting go of guilt revolving money, improving your sales tactic as an entrepreneur, different perspectives on abundance, and much more.FOLLOW DAN:INSTA: @danharrisonconsultingWEBSITE: https://www.danharrisonconsulting.com/CONTACT TARA: INSTA: @tara.mont / @trustandthrive FACEBOOK: bit.ly/FBtaramontWEBSITE: www.tara-mont.comEMAIL: tara@tara-mont.com

Purna is the sanskrit word for fullness. It can also be translated as perfection. Join Phoebe and Keric as they chat about this essential quality of the Universal Spirit and how the two translations connect.

Happy Full Moon in Scorpio Fairy Family! Hope you have been manifesting! Just a few house keeping matters. First off, I've done some slight changes to my podcast name  and logo.  I'm still The Fairy Goddess, but I've decided to put Afro in front of the name.  Why? Because recently with all the new changes in my life and finding out more about my heritage I wanted to pay my ancestors respect. It is because of them that I started this podcast in the first place.  I am working more and more with sound energy and what that means on my journey now.   In short, without them, I am nothing.  Bless my #ancestors Universal Spirit. Let them know I have not forgotten them! Asé

This week's lessons on: We believe in the direct revelation of truth through the spiritual and intuitive nature of each person and that anyone may become a revealer of truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God. We believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God, operates through a Universal Mind, which is the Law of God; and that we are surrounded by this Creative Mind which receives the direct impress of our thought and acts upon it. We believe in the healing of the sick through the power of this Mind.

One of the greatest upsides of age is the growing urge many of us feel to focus more on the spiritual aspects of life. To these ends, our guest, August Turak, joins us to share the story behind his remarkable, award-winning book, Brother John: A Monk, a Pilgrim, and the Purpose of Life. The story surrounds a magical encounter on Christmas Eve that led the author, and his readers, to the redemptive power of an authentically purposeful life. Whether you adhere to an organized religion, consider yourself an agnostic or believe in a Universal Spirit, you’ll want to check out this extraordinary look into the purpose of life… so be sure to tune in for this one!

In this powerful interview, I speak with my dear friend and dynamo Celeste Rajczi about life and death, her own personal conscious evolution, how feeling everything is the key, and how at 22 years of age she has co-created a mission and business to empower young women to take permission of their lives and follow their true heart’s desire. This is the FIRST time I’ve interviewed someone for my podcast and the first time Celeste has been interviewed, but we had quite a bit of practice with our near weekly “Cacao & Conversation” meetings — a little tradition we created while living close to one another in San Marcos, Guatemala. The energy of those chats became electric and we knew we were on to something by “speaking our visions into existence” so we wanted to record our conversation and share it with you all. What I love about Celeste is how poised and articulate she is, expressing a wisdom beyond her years and really pointing to her fierce commitment to BE who she truly is. Here are some of the highlights: 4:00 Create an awareness of the patterns that aren’t serving you 4:25 Trust what you FEEL and really learn to listen to YOUR OWN INNER GUIDANCE 8:00 How TRAVEL helps you see greater POSSIBILITIES for living in the world 8:20 Celeste talks about how giving herself this time to SELF-REFLECT allowed the INNER CONVERSATION to begin. 12:40 How it’s selfish NOT to live your dreams because the people around you will never TRULY know who you REALLY are 18:50 How the COURAGE to be DISLIKED is the courage to be HAPPY 23:00 How her boldness allowed her to “step into UNKNOWN and meet what would greet her there” 29:00 Celeste points out the commonly held BELIEF or COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT that: “There is a way things are.” 29:30 How ENTREPRENEURS are FREEDOM SEEKERS think: what if it could be different? 30:00 “It’s OK not to know,” says Celeste. "Stay in the question. Stay in the curiosity.” 34:45 Redefining what spirituality is: “To be alive is to be spiritual.” 37:00 The importance of COMMUNITY and ACCOUNTABILITY to stay on the path 43:00 How if you’re depleted, you’re not giving to yourself! 48:00 How FEELING her FEELINGS (and starting a video diary) was SO important to process everything she went through during her own CONSCIOUS AWAKENING. 50:25 How the more she learned to love herself, the less scary her emotions became 50:39 how EVERYTHING WE FEAR IS A FEELING. We can learn to dance with our shadow through the darkness 55:55 Celeste talks about how witnessing her feelings and the thoughts that created them has empowered her beyond belief! 57:40 The importance of having LOVING COMPASSION toward ourselves 58:00 How feeling UNCOMFORTABLE is inevitable so you may as well feel uncomfortable on the path to your dreams! 58:21 How facing what’s not serving you will be uncomfortable but ultimately liberating Enjoy this enlightening conversation with entrepreneur, Life Coach, friend and colleague, Celeste Rajczi. A woman on a mission! Find her online: https://www.facebook.com/thegapyeargirls * Powered by 100% Organic Guatemalan Cacao and the Universal Spirit dwelling in each of us!

As long as there have been rational humans walking the earth, mankind’s greatest mystery has remained the same: is there life after life? Dr. Raymond Moody was the very first mainstream doctor to broach the subject in his groundbreaking work, Life After Life, published in 1975.  As a physician, Moody had long been interested in accounts of patients who had returned from a Near Death Experience (NDE) with stories of their journey to an afterlife. Lisa Smartt is the founder of the Final Words Project and author of Words at the Threshold. Lisa is a linguist and educator who is helping to unlock clues to understanding the mysterious language that is commonly spoken at the end of life.  These two incredible pioneers as well as other leaders in the field of “The Hereafter” are coming together to create The University of Heaven—and amazing new opportunity to learn more about the journey each of us will inevitable take. They are joining us to share all about it. Whether you adhere to an organized religion, consider yourself an agnostic or believe in a Universal Spirit, you’ll want to check out this extraordinary glimpse into the afterlife… so be sure to tune in for this one!

An alchemical and kabbalistic explanation of the ancient text by Paracelsus: Urim and Thummim shewed to be made by Art, and are the same with the Universal Spirit, corporate and fixed.

Christmas Eve, 7:00 PM Service.

Christmas Eve, 7:00 PM Service.

The Infinite Spirit (90.1) 8:0.1 BACK in eternity, when the Universal Father’s “first” infinite and absolute thought finds in the Eternal Son such a perfect and adequate word for its divine expression, there ensues the supreme desire of both the Thought-God and the Word-God for a universal and infinite agent of mutual expression and combined action. (90.2) 8:0.2 In the dawn of eternity both the Father and the Son become infinitely cognizant of their mutual interdependence, their eternal and absolute oneness; and therefore do they enter into an infinite and everlasting covenant of divine partnership. This never-ending compact is made for the execution of their united concepts throughout all of the circle of eternity; and ever since this eternity event the Father and the Son continue in this divine union. (90.3) 8:0.3 We are now face to face with the eternity origin of the Infinite Spirit, the Third Person of Deity. The very instant that God the Father and God the Son conjointly conceive an identical and infinite action — the execution of an absolute thought-plan — that very moment, the Infinite Spirit springs full-fledgedly into existence. (90.4) 8:0.4 In thus reciting the order of the origin of the Deities, I do so merely to enable you to think of their relationship. In reality they are all three existent from eternity; they are existential. They are without beginning or ending of days; they are co-ordinate, supreme, ultimate, absolute, and infinite. They are and always have been and ever shall be. And they are three distinctly individualized but eternally associated persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit. 1. The God of Action (90.5) 8:1.1 In the eternity of the past, upon the personalization of the Infinite Spirit the divine personality cycle becomes perfect and complete. The God of Action is existent, and the vast stage of space is set for the stupendous drama of creation — the universal adventure — the divine panorama of the eternal ages. (90.6) 8:1.2 The first act of the Infinite Spirit is the inspection and recognition of his divine parents, the Father-Father and the Mother-Son. He, the Spirit, unqualifiedly identifies both of them. He is fully cognizant of their separate personalities and infinite attributes as well as of their combined nature and united function. Next, voluntarily, with transcendent willingness and inspiring spontaneity, the Third Person of Deity, notwithstanding his equality with the First and Second Persons, pledges eternal loyalty to God the Father and acknowledges everlasting dependence upon God the Son. (90.7) 8:1.3 Inherent in the nature of this transaction and in mutual recognition of the personality independence of each and the executive union of all three, the cycle of eternity is established. The Paradise Trinity is existent. The stage of universal space is set for the manifold and never-ending panorama of the creative unfolding of the purpose of the Universal Father through the personality of the Eternal Son and by the execution of the God of Action, the executive agency for the reality performances of the Father-Son creator partnership. (91.1) 8:1.4 The God of Action functions and the dead vaults of space are astir. One billion perfect spheres flash into existence. Prior to this hypothetical eternity moment the space-energies inherent in Paradise are existent and potentially operative, but they have no actuality of being; neither can physical gravity be measured except by the reaction of material realities to its incessant pull. There is no material universe at this (assumed) eternally distant moment, but the very instant that one billion worlds materialize, there is in evidence gravity sufficient and adequate to hold them in the everlasting grasp of Paradise. (91.2) 8:1.5 There now flashes through the creation of the Gods the second form of energy, and this outflowing spirit is instantly grasped by the spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son. Thus the twofold gravity-embraced universe is touched with the energy of infinity and immersed in the spirit of divinity. In this way is the soil of life prepared for the consciousness of mind made manifest in the associated intelligence circuits of the Infinite Spirit. (91.3) 8:1.6 Upon these seeds of potential existence, diffused throughout the central creation of the Gods, the Father acts, and creature personality appears. Then does the presence of the Paradise Deities fill all organized space and begin effectively to draw all things and beings Paradiseward. (91.4) 8:1.7 The Infinite Spirit eternalizes concurrently with the birth of the Havona worlds, this central universe being created by him and with him and in him in obedience to the combined concepts and united wills of the Father and the Son. The Third Person deitizes by this very act of conjoint creation, and he thus forever becomes the Conjoint Creator. (91.5) 8:1.8 These are the grand and awful times of the creative expansion of the Father and the Son by, and in, the action of their conjoint associate and exclusive executive, the Third Source and Center. There exists no record of these stirring times. We have only the meager disclosures of the Infinite Spirit to substantiate these mighty transactions, and he merely verifies the fact that the central universe and all that pertains thereto eternalized simultaneously with his attainment of personality and conscious existence. (91.6) 8:1.9 In brief, the Infinite Spirit testifies that, since he is eternal, so also is the central universe eternal. And this is the traditional starting point of the history of the universe of universes. Absolutely nothing is known, and no records are in existence, regarding any event or transaction prior to this stupendous eruption of creative energy and administrative wisdom that crystallized the vast universe which exists, and so exquisitely functions, at the center of all things. Beyond this event lie the unsearchable transactions of eternity and the depths of infinity — absolute mystery. (91.7) 8:1.10 And we thus portray the sequential origin of the Third Source and Center as an interpretative condescension to the time-bound and space-conditioned mind of mortal creatures. The mind of man must have a starting point for the visualization of universe history, and I have been directed to provide this technique of approach to the historic concept of eternity. In the material mind, consistency demands a First Cause; therefore do we postulate the Universal Father as the First Source and the Absolute Center of all creation, at the same time instructing all creature minds that the Son and the Spirit are coeternal with the Father in all phases of universe history and in all realms of creative activity. And we do this without in any sense being disregardful of the reality and eternity of the Isle of Paradise and of the Unqualified, Universal, and Deity Absolutes. (92.1) 8:1.11 It is enough of a reach of the material mind of the children of time to conceive of the Father in eternity. We know that any child can best relate himself to reality by first mastering the relationships of the child-parent situation and then by enlarging this concept to embrace the family as a whole. Subsequently the growing mind of the child will be able to adjust to the concept of family relations, to relationships of the community, the race, and the world, and then to those of the universe, the superuniverse, even the universe of universes. 2. Nature of the Infinite Spirit (92.2) 8:2.1 The Conjoint Creator is from eternity and is wholly and without qualification one with the Universal Father and the Eternal Son. The Infinite Spirit reflects in perfection not only the nature of the Paradise Father but also the nature of the Original Son. (92.3) 8:2.2 The Third Source and Center is known by numerous titles: the Universal Spirit, the Supreme Guide, the Conjoint Creator, the Divine Executive, the Infinite Mind, the Spirit of Spirits, the Paradise Mother Spirit, the Conjoint Actor, the Final Co-ordinator, the Omnipresent Spirit, the Absolute Intelligence, the Divine Action; and on Urantia he is sometimes confused with the cosmic mind. (92.4) 8:2.3 It is altogether proper to denominate the Third Person of Deity the Infinite Spirit, for God is spirit. But material creatures who tend towards the error of viewing matter as basic reality and mind, together with spirit, as postulates rooted in matter, would better comprehend the Third Source and Center if he were called the Infinite Reality, the Universal Organizer, or the Personality Co-ordinator. (92.5) 8:2.4 The Infinite Spirit, as a universe revelation of divinity, is unsearchable and utterly beyond human comprehension. To sense the absoluteness of the Spirit, you need only contemplate the infinity of the Universal Father and stand in awe of the eternity of the Original Son. (92.6) 8:2.5 There is mystery indeed in the person of the Infinite Spirit but not so much as in the Father and the Son. Of all aspects of the Father’s nature, the Conjoint Creator most strikingly discloses his infinity. Even if the master universe eventually expands to infinity, the spirit presence, energy control, and mind potential of the Conjoint Actor will be found adequate to meet the demands of such a limitless creation. (92.7) 8:2.6 Though in every way sharing the perfection, the righteousness, and the love of the Universal Father, the Infinite Spirit inclines towards the mercy attributes of the Eternal Son, thus becoming the mercy minister of the Paradise Deities to the grand universe. Ever and always — universally and eternally — the Spirit is a mercy minister, for, as the divine Sons reveal the love of God, so the divine Spirit depicts the mercy of God. (93.1) 8:2.7 It is not possible that the Spirit could have more of goodness than the Father since all goodness takes origin in the Father, but in the acts of the Spirit we can the better comprehend such goodness. The Father’s faithfulness and the Son’s constancy are made very real to the spirit beings and the material creatures of the spheres by the loving ministry and ceaseless service of the personalities of the Infinite Spirit. (93.2) 8:2.8 The Conjoint Creator inherits all the Father’s beauty of thought and character of truth. And these sublime traits of divinity are co-ordinated in the near-supreme levels of the cosmic mind in subordination to the infinite and eternal wisdom of the unconditioned and limitless mind of the Third Source and Center. 3. Relation of the Spirit to the Father and the Son (93.3) 8:3.1 As the Eternal Son is the word expression of the “first” absolute and infinite thought of the Universal Father, so the Conjoint Actor is the perfect execution of the “first” completed creative concept or plan for combined action by the Father-Son personality partnership of absolute thought-word union. The Third Source and Center eternalizes concurrently with the central or fiat creation, and only this central creation is eternal in existence among universes. (93.4) 8:3.2 Since the personalization of the Third Source, the First Source no more personally participates in universe creation. The Universal Father delegates everything possible to his Eternal Son; likewise does the Eternal Son bestow all possible authority and power upon the Conjoint Creator. (93.5) 8:3.3 The Eternal Son and the Conjoint Creator have, as partners and through their co-ordinate personalities, planned and fashioned every post-Havona universe which has been brought into existence. The Spirit sustains the same personal relation to the Son in all subsequent creation that the Son sustains to the Father in the first and central creation. (93.6) 8:3.4 A Creator Son of the Eternal Son and a Creative Spirit of the Infinite Spirit created you and your universe; and while the Father in faithfulness upholds that which they have organized, it devolves upon this Universe Son and this Universe Spirit to foster and sustain their work as well as to minister to the creatures of their own making. (93.7) 8:3.5 The Infinite Spirit is the effective agent of the all-loving Father and the all-merciful Son for the execution of their conjoint project of drawing to themselves all truth-loving souls on all the worlds of time and space. The very instant the Eternal Son accepted his Father’s plan of perfection attainment for the creatures of the universes, the moment the ascension project became a Father-Son plan, that instant the Infinite Spirit became the conjoint administrator of the Father and the Son for the execution of their united and eternal purpose. And in so doing the Infinite Spirit pledged all his resources of divine presence and of spirit personalities to the Father and the Son; he has dedicated all to the stupendous plan of exalting surviving will creatures to the divine heights of Paradise perfection. (93.8) 8:3.6 The Infinite Spirit is a complete, exclusive, and universal revelation of the Universal Father and his Eternal Son. All knowledge of the Father-Son partnership must be had through the Infinite Spirit, the conjoint representative of the divine thought-word union. (93.9) 8:3.7 The Eternal Son is the only avenue of approach to the Universal Father, and the Infinite Spirit is the only means of attaining the Eternal Son. Only by the patient ministry of the Spirit are the ascendant beings of time able to discover the Son. (94.1) 8:3.8 At the center of all things the Infinite Spirit is the first of the Paradise Deities to be attained by the ascending pilgrims. The Third Person enshrouds the Second and the First Persons and therefore must always be first recognized by all who are candidates for presentation to the Son and his Father. (94.2) 8:3.9 And in many other ways does the Spirit equally represent and similarly serve the Father and the Son. 4. The Spirit of Divine Ministry (94.3) 8:4.1 Paralleling the physical universe wherein Paradise gravity holds all things together is the spiritual universe wherein the word of the Son interprets the thought of God and, when “made flesh,” demonstrates the loving mercy of the combined nature of the associated Creators. But in and through all this material and spiritual creation there is a vast stage whereon the Infinite Spirit and his spirit offspring show forth the combined mercy, patience, and everlasting affection of the divine parents towards the intelligent children of their co-operative devising and making. Everlasting ministry to mind is the essence of the Spirit’s divine character. And all the spirit offspring of the Conjoint Actor partake of this desire to minister, this divine urge to service. (94.4) 8:4.2 God is love, the Son is mercy, the Spirit is ministry — the ministry of divine love and endless mercy to all intelligent creation. The Spirit is the personification of the Father’s love and the Son’s mercy; in him are they eternally united for universal service. The Spirit is love applied to the creature creation, the combined love of the Father and the Son. (94.5) 8:4.3 On Urantia the Infinite Spirit is known as an omnipresent influence, a universal presence, but in Havona you shall know him as a personal presence of actual ministry. Here the ministry of the Paradise Spirit is the exemplary and inspiring pattern for each of his co-ordinate Spirits and subordinate personalities ministering to the created beings on the worlds of time and space. In this divine universe the Infinite Spirit fully participated in the seven transcendental appearances of the Eternal Son; likewise did he participate with the original Michael Son in the seven bestowals upon the circuits of Havona, thereby becoming the sympathetic and understanding spirit minister to every pilgrim of time traversing these perfect circles on high. (94.6) 8:4.4 When a Creator Son of God accepts the creatorship charge of responsibility for a projected local universe, the personalities of the Infinite Spirit pledge themselves as the tireless ministers of this Michael Son when he goes forth on his mission of creative adventure. Especially in the persons of the Creative Daughters, the local universe Mother Spirits, do we find the Infinite Spirit devoted to the task of fostering the ascension of the material creatures to higher and higher levels of spiritual attainment. And all this work of creature ministry is done in perfect harmony with the purposes, and in close association with the personalities, of the Creator Sons of these local universes. (94.7) 8:4.5 As the Sons of God are engaged in the gigantic task of revealing the Father’s personality of love to a universe, so is the Infinite Spirit dedicated to the unending ministry of revealing the combined love of the Father and the Son to the individual minds of all the children of each universe. In these local creations the Spirit does not come down to the material races in the likeness of mortal flesh as do certain of the Sons of God, but the Infinite Spirit and his co-ordinate Spirits do downstep themselves, do joyfully undergo an amazing series of divinity attenuations, until they appear as angels to stand by your side and guide you through the lowly paths of earthly existence. (95.1) 8:4.6 By this very diminishing series the Infinite Spirit does actually, and as a person, draw very near to every being of the animal-origin spheres. And all this the Spirit does without in the least invalidating his existence as the Third Person of Deity at the center of all things. (95.2) 8:4.7 The Conjoint Creator is truly and forever the great ministering personality, the universal mercy minister. To comprehend the ministry of the Spirit, ponder the truth that he is the combined portrayal of the Father’s unending love and of the Son’s eternal mercy. The Spirit’s ministry is not, however, restricted solely to the representation of the Eternal Son and the Universal Father. The Infinite Spirit also possesses the power to minister to the creatures of the realm in his own name and right; the Third Person is of divine dignity and also bestows the universal ministry of mercy in his own behalf. (95.3) 8:4.8 As man learns more of the loving and tireless ministry of the lower orders of the creature family of this Infinite Spirit, he will all the more admire and adore the transcendent nature and matchless character of this combined Action of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son. Indeed is this Spirit “the eyes of the Lord which are ever over the righteous” and “the divine ears which are ever open to their prayers.” 5. The Presence of God (95.4) 8:5.1 The outstanding attribute of the Infinite Spirit is omnipresence. Throughout all the universe of universes there is everywhere present this all-pervading spirit, which is so akin to the presence of a universal and divine mind. Both the Second Person and the Third Person of Deity are represented on all worlds by their ever-present spirits. (95.5) 8:5.2 The Father is infinite and is therefore limited only by volition. In the bestowal of Adjusters and in the encircuitment of personality, the Father acts alone, but in the contact of spirit forces with intelligent beings, he utilizes the spirits and personalities of the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit. He is at will spiritually present equally with the Son or with the Conjoint Actor; he is present with the Son and in the Spirit. The Father is most certainly everywhere present, and we discern his presence by and through any and all of these diverse but associated forces, influences, and presences. (95.6) 8:5.3 In your sacred writings the term Spirit of God seems to be used interchangeably to designate both the Infinite Spirit on Paradise and the Creative Spirit of your local universe. The Holy Spirit is the spiritual circuit of this Creative Daughter of the Paradise Infinite Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a circuit indigenous to each local universe and is confined to the spiritual realm of that creation; but the Infinite Spirit is omnipresent. (95.7) 8:5.4 There are many spiritual influences, and they are all as one. Even the work of the Thought Adjusters, though independent of all other influences, unvaryingly coincides with the spirit ministry of the combined influences of the Infinite Spirit and a local universe Mother Spirit. As these spiritual presences operate in the lives of Urantians, they cannot be segregated. In your minds and upon your souls they function as one spirit, notwithstanding their diverse origins. And as this united spiritual ministration is experienced, it becomes to you the influence of the Supreme, “who is ever able to keep you from failing and to present you blameless before your Father on high.” (96.1) 8:5.5 Ever remember that the Infinite Spirit is the Conjoint Actor; both the Father and the Son are functioning in and through him; he is present not only as himself but also as the Father and as the Son and as the Father-Son. In recognition of this and for many additional reasons the spirit presence of the Infinite Spirit is often referred to as “the spirit of God.” (96.2) 8:5.6 It would also be consistent to refer to the liaison of all spiritual ministry as the spirit of God, for such a liaison is truly the union of the spirits of God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit, and God the Sevenfold — even the spirit of God the Supreme. 6. Personality of the Infinite Spirit (96.3) 8:6.1 Do not allow the widespread bestowal and the far-flung distribution of the Third Source and Center to obscure or otherwise detract from the fact of his personality. The Infinite Spirit is a universe presence, an eternal action, a cosmic power, a holy influence, and a universal mind; he is all of these and infinitely more, but he is also a true and divine personality. (96.4) 8:6.2 The Infinite Spirit is a complete and perfect personality, the divine equal and co-ordinate of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son. The Conjoint Creator is just as real and visible to the higher intelligences of the universes as are the Father and the Son; indeed more so, for it is the Spirit whom all ascenders must attain before they may approach the Father through the Son. (96.5) 8:6.3 The Infinite Spirit, the Third Person of Deity, is possessed of all the attributes which you associate with personality. The Spirit is endowed with absolute mind: “The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.” The Spirit is endowed not only with mind but also with will. In the bestowal of his gifts it is recorded: “But all these works that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally and as he wills.” (96.6) 8:6.4 “The love of the Spirit” is real, as also are his sorrows; therefore “Grieve not the Spirit of God.” Whether we observe the Infinite Spirit as Paradise Deity or as a local universe Creative Spirit, we find that the Conjoint Creator is not only the Third Source and Center but also a divine person. This divine personality also reacts to the universe as a person. The Spirit speaks to you, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says.” “The Spirit himself makes intercession for you.” The Spirit exerts a direct and personal influence upon created beings, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” (96.7) 8:6.5 Even though we behold the phenomenon of the ministry of the Infinite Spirit to the remote worlds of the universe of universes, even though we envisage this same co-ordinating Deity acting in and through the untold legions of the manifold beings who take origin in the Third Source and Center, even though we recognize the omnipresence of the Spirit, nonetheless, we still affirm that this same Third Source and Center is a person, the Conjoint Creator of all things and all beings and all universes. (96.8) 8:6.6 In the administration of universes the Father, Son, and Spirit are perfectly and eternally interassociated. Though each is engaged in a personal ministry to all creation, all three are divinely and absolutely interlocked in a service of creation and control which forever makes them one. (97.1) 8:6.7 In the person of the Infinite Spirit the Father and the Son are mutually present, always and in unqualified perfection, for the Spirit is like the Father and like the Son, and also like the Father and the Son as they two are forever one. (97.2) 8:6.8 [Presented on Urantia by a Divine Counselor of Uversa commissioned by the Ancients of Days to portray the nature and work of the Infinite Spirit.]

The Universal Father* (21.1) 1:0.1 THE Universal Father is the God of all creation, the First Source and Center of all things and beings. First think of God as a creator, then as a controller, and lastly as an infinite upholder. The truth about the Universal Father had begun to dawn upon mankind when the prophet said: “You, God, are alone; there is none beside you. You have created the heaven and the heaven of heavens, with all their hosts; you preserve and control them. By the Sons of God were the universes made. The Creator covers himself with light as with a garment and stretches out the heavens as a curtain.” Only the concept of the Universal Father — one God in the place of many gods — enabled mortal man to comprehend the Father as divine creator and infinite controller. (21.2) 1:0.2 The myriads of planetary systems were all made to be eventually inhabited by many different types of intelligent creatures, beings who could know God, receive the divine affection, and love him in return. The universe of universes is the work of God and the dwelling place of his diverse creatures. “God created the heavens and formed the earth; he established the universe and created this world not in vain; he formed it to be inhabited.” (21.3) 1:0.3 The enlightened worlds all recognize and worship the Universal Father, the eternal maker and infinite upholder of all creation. The will creatures of universe upon universe have embarked upon the long, long Paradise journey, the fascinating struggle of the eternal adventure of attaining God the Father. The transcendent goal of the children of time is to find the eternal God, to comprehend the divine nature, to recognize the Universal Father. God-knowing creatures have only one supreme ambition, just one consuming desire, and that is to become, as they are in their spheres, like him as he is in his Paradise perfection of personality and in his universal sphere of righteous supremacy. From the Universal Father who inhabits eternity there has gone forth the supreme mandate, “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect.” In love and mercy the messengers of Paradise have carried this divine exhortation down through the ages and out through the universes, even to such lowly animal-origin creatures as the human races of Urantia. (22.1) 1:0.4 This magnificent and universal injunction to strive for the attainment of the perfection of divinity is the first duty, and should be the highest ambition, of all the struggling creature creation of the God of perfection. This possibility of the attainment of divine perfection is the final and certain destiny of all man’s eternal spiritual progress. (22.2) 1:0.5 Urantia mortals can hardly hope to be perfect in the infinite sense, but it is entirely possible for human beings, starting out as they do on this planet, to attain the supernal and divine goal which the infinite God has set for mortal man; and when they do achieve this destiny, they will, in all that pertains to self-realization and mind attainment, be just as replete in their sphere of divine perfection as God himself is in his sphere of infinity and eternity. Such perfection may not be universal in the material sense, unlimited in intellectual grasp, or final in spiritual experience, but it is final and complete in all finite aspects of divinity of will, perfection of personality motivation, and God-consciousness. (22.3) 1:0.6 This is the true meaning of that divine command, “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect,” which ever urges mortal man onward and beckons him inward in that long and fascinating struggle for the attainment of higher and higher levels of spiritual values and true universe meanings. This sublime search for the God of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the worlds of time and space. 1. The Father’s Name (22.4) 1:1.1 Of all the names by which God the Father is known throughout the universes, those which designate him as the First Source and the Universe Center are most often encountered. The First Father is known by various names in different universes and in different sectors of the same universe. The names which the creature assigns to the Creator are much dependent on the creature’s concept of the Creator. The First Source and Universe Center has never revealed himself by name, only by nature. If we believe that we are the children of this Creator, it is only natural that we should eventually call him Father. But this is the name of our own choosing, and it grows out of the recognition of our personal relationship with the First Source and Center. (22.5) 1:1.2 The Universal Father never imposes any form of arbitrary recognition, formal worship, or slavish service upon the intelligent will creatures of the universes. The evolutionary inhabitants of the worlds of time and space must of themselves — in their own hearts — recognize, love, and voluntarily worship him. The Creator refuses to coerce or compel the submission of the spiritual free wills of his material creatures. The affectionate dedication of the human will to the doing of the Father’s will is man’s choicest gift to God; in fact, such a consecration of creature will constitutes man’s only possible gift of true value to the Paradise Father. In God, man lives, moves, and has his being; there is nothing which man can give to God except this choosing to abide by the Father’s will, and such decisions, effected by the intelligent will creatures of the universes, constitute the reality of that true worship which is so satisfying to the love-dominated nature of the Creator Father. (22.6) 1:1.3 When you have once become truly God-conscious, after you really discover the majestic Creator and begin to experience the realization of the indwelling presence of the divine controller, then, in accordance with your enlightenment and in accordance with the manner and method by which the divine Sons reveal God, you will find a name for the Universal Father which will be adequately expressive of your concept of the First Great Source and Center. And so, on different worlds and in various universes, the Creator becomes known by numerous appellations, in spirit of relationship all meaning the same but, in words and symbols, each name standing for the degree, the depth, of his enthronement in the hearts of his creatures of any given realm. (23.1) 1:1.4 Near the center of the universe of universes, the Universal Father is generally known by names which may be regarded as meaning the First Source. Farther out in the universes of space, the terms employed to designate the Universal Father more often mean the Universal Center. Still farther out in the starry creation, he is known, as on the headquarters world of your local universe, as the First Creative Source and Divine Center. In one near-by constellation God is called the Father of Universes. In another, the Infinite Upholder, and to the east, the Divine Controller. He has also been designated the Father of Lights, the Gift of Life, and the All-powerful One. (23.2) 1:1.5 On those worlds where a Paradise Son has lived a bestowal life, God is generally known by some name indicative of personal relationship, tender affection, and fatherly devotion. On your constellation headquarters God is referred to as the Universal Father, and on different planets in your local system of inhabited worlds he is variously known as the Father of Fathers, the Paradise Father, the Havona Father, and the Spirit Father. Those who know God through the revelations of the bestowals of the Paradise Sons, eventually yield to the sentimental appeal of the touching relationship of the creature-Creator association and refer to God as “our Father.” (23.3) 1:1.6 On a planet of sex creatures, in a world where the impulses of parental emotion are inherent in the hearts of its intelligent beings, the term Father becomes a very expressive and appropriate name for the eternal God. He is best known, most universally acknowledged, on your planet, Urantia, by the name God. The name he is given is of little importance; the significant thing is that you should know him and aspire to be like him. Your prophets of old truly called him “the everlasting God” and referred to him as the one who “inhabits eternity.” 2. The Reality of God (23.4) 1:2.1 God is primal reality in the spirit world; God is the source of truth in the mind spheres; God overshadows all throughout the material realms. To all created intelligences God is a personality, and to the universe of universes he is the First Source and Center of eternal reality. God is neither manlike nor machinelike. The First Father is universal spirit, eternal truth, infinite reality, and father personality. (23.5) 1:2.2 The eternal God is infinitely more than reality idealized or the universe personalized. God is not simply the supreme desire of man, the mortal quest objectified. Neither is God merely a concept, the power-potential of righteousness. The Universal Father is not a synonym for nature, neither is he natural law personified. God is a transcendent reality, not merely man’s traditional concept of supreme values. God is not a psychological focalization of spiritual meanings, neither is he “the noblest work of man.” God may be any or all of these concepts in the minds of men, but he is more. He is a saving person and a loving Father to all who enjoy spiritual peace on earth, and who crave to experience personality survival in death. (24.1) 1:2.3 The actuality of the existence of God is demonstrated in human experience by the indwelling of the divine presence, the spirit Monitor sent from Paradise to live in the mortal mind of man and there to assist in evolving the immortal soul of eternal survival. The presence of this divine Adjuster in the human mind is disclosed by three experiential phenomena: (24.2) 1:2.4 1. The intellectual capacity for knowing God — God-consciousness. (24.3) 1:2.5 2. The spiritual urge to find God — God-seeking. (24.4) 1:2.6 3. The personality craving to be like God — the wholehearted desire to do the Father’s will. (24.5) 1:2.7 The existence of God can never be proved by scientific experiment or by the pure reason of logical deduction. God can be realized only in the realms of human experience; nevertheless, the true concept of the reality of God is reasonable to logic, plausible to philosophy, essential to religion, and indispensable to any hope of personality survival. (24.6) 1:2.8 Those who know God have experienced the fact of his presence; such God-knowing mortals hold in their personal experience the only positive proof of the existence of the living God which one human being can offer to another. The existence of God is utterly beyond all possibility of demonstration except for the contact between the God-consciousness of the human mind and the God-presence of the Thought Adjuster that indwells the mortal intellect and is bestowed upon man as the free gift of the Universal Father. (24.7) 1:2.9 In theory you may think of God as the Creator, and he is the personal creator of Paradise and the central universe of perfection, but the universes of time and space are all created and organized by the Paradise corps of the Creator Sons. The Universal Father is not the personal creator of the local universe of Nebadon; the universe in which you live is the creation of his Son Michael. Though the Father does not personally create the evolutionary universes, he does control them in many of their universal relationships and in certain of their manifestations of physical, mindal, and spiritual energies. God the Father is the personal creator of the Paradise universe and, in association with the Eternal Son, the creator of all other personal universe Creators. (24.8) 1:2.10 As a physical controller in the material universe of universes, the First Source and Center functions in the patterns of the eternal Isle of Paradise, and through this absolute gravity center the eternal God exercises cosmic overcontrol of the physical level equally in the central universe and throughout the universe of universes. As mind, God functions in the Deity of the Infinite Spirit; as spirit, God is manifest in the person of the Eternal Son and in the persons of the divine children of the Eternal Son. This interrelation of the First Source and Center with the co-ordinate Persons and Absolutes of Paradise does not in the least preclude the direct personal action of the Universal Father throughout all creation and on all levels thereof. Through the presence of his fragmentized spirit the Creator Father maintains immediate contact with his creature children and his created universes. 3. God is a Universal Spirit (25.1) 1:3.1 “God is spirit.” He is a universal spiritual presence. The Universal Father is an infinite spiritual reality; he is “the sovereign, eternal, immortal, invisible, and only true God.” Even though you are “the offspring of God,” you ought not to think that the Father is like yourselves in form and physique because you are said to be created “in his image” — indwelt by Mystery Monitors dispatched from the central abode of his eternal presence. Spirit beings are real, notwithstanding they are invisible to human eyes; even though they have not flesh and blood. (25.2) 1:3.2 Said the seer of old: “Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not; he passes on also, but I perceive him not.” We may constantly observe the works of God, we may be highly conscious of the material evidences of his majestic conduct, but rarely may we gaze upon the visible manifestation of his divinity, not even to behold the presence of his delegated spirit of human indwelling. (25.3) 1:3.3 The Universal Father is not invisible because he is hiding himself away from the lowly creatures of materialistic handicaps and limited spiritual endowments. The situation rather is: “You cannot see my face, for no mortal can see me and live.” No material man could behold the spirit God and preserve his mortal existence. The glory and the spiritual brilliance of the divine personality presence is impossible of approach by the lower groups of spirit beings or by any order of material personalities. The spiritual luminosity of the Father’s personal presence is a “light which no mortal man can approach; which no material creature has seen or can see.” But it is not necessary to see God with the eyes of the flesh in order to discern him by the faith-vision of the spiritualized mind. (25.4) 1:3.4 The spirit nature of the Universal Father is shared fully with his coexistent self, the Eternal Son of Paradise. Both the Father and the Son in like manner share the universal and eternal spirit fully and unreservedly with their conjoint personality co-ordinate, the Infinite Spirit. God’s spirit is, in and of himself, absolute; in the Son it is unqualified, in the Spirit, universal, and in and by all of them, infinite. (25.5) 1:3.5 God is a universal spirit; God is the universal person. The supreme personal reality of the finite creation is spirit; the ultimate reality of the personal cosmos is absonite spirit. Only the levels of infinity are absolute, and only on such levels is there finality of oneness between matter, mind, and spirit. (25.6) 1:3.6 In the universes God the Father is, in potential, the overcontroller of matter, mind, and spirit. Only by means of his far-flung personality circuit does God deal directly with the personalities of his vast creation of will creatures, but he is contactable (outside of Paradise) only in the presences of his fragmented entities, the will of God abroad in the universes. This Paradise spirit that indwells the minds of the mortals of time and there fosters the evolution of the immortal soul of the surviving creature is of the nature and divinity of the Universal Father. But the minds of such evolutionary creatures originate in the local universes and must gain divine perfection by achieving those experiential transformations of spiritual attainment which are the inevitable result of a creature’s choosing to do the will of the Father in heaven. (26.1) 1:3.7 In the inner experience of man, mind is joined to matter. Such material-linked minds cannot survive mortal death. The technique of survival is embraced in those adjustments of the human will and those transformations in the mortal mind whereby such a God-conscious intellect gradually becomes spirit taught and eventually spirit led. This evolution of the human mind from matter association to spirit union results in the transmutation of the potentially spirit phases of the mortal mind into the morontia realities of the immortal soul. Mortal mind subservient to matter is destined to become increasingly material and consequently to suffer eventual personality extinction; mind yielded to spirit is destined to become increasingly spiritual and ultimately to achieve oneness with the surviving and guiding divine spirit and in this way to attain survival and eternity of personality existence. (26.2) 1:3.8 I come forth from the Eternal, and I have repeatedly returned to the presence of the Universal Father. I know of the actuality and personality of the First Source and Center, the Eternal and Universal Father. I know that, while the great God is absolute, eternal, and infinite, he is also good, divine, and gracious. I know the truth of the great declarations: “God is spirit” and “God is love,” and these two attributes are most completely revealed to the universe in the Eternal Son. 4. The Mystery of God (26.3) 1:4.1 The infinity of the perfection of God is such that it eternally constitutes him mystery. And the greatest of all the unfathomable mysteries of God is the phenomenon of the divine indwelling of mortal minds. The manner in which the Universal Father sojourns with the creatures of time is the most profound of all universe mysteries; the divine presence in the mind of man is the mystery of mysteries. (26.4) 1:4.2 The physical bodies of mortals are “the temples of God.” Notwithstanding that the Sovereign Creator Sons come near the creatures of their inhabited worlds and “draw all men to themselves”; though they “stand at the door” of consciousness “and knock” and delight to come in to all who will “open the doors of their hearts”; although there does exist this intimate personal communion between the Creator Sons and their mortal creatures, nevertheless, mortal men have something from God himself which actually dwells within them; their bodies are the temples thereof. (26.5) 1:4.3 When you are through down here, when your course has been run in temporary form on earth, when your trial trip in the flesh is finished, when the dust that composes the mortal tabernacle “returns to the earth whence it came”; then, it is revealed, the indwelling “Spirit shall return to God who gave it.” There sojourns within each moral being of this planet a fragment of God, a part and parcel of divinity. It is not yet yours by right of possession, but it is designedly intended to be one with you if you survive the mortal existence. (26.6) 1:4.4 We are constantly confronted with this mystery of God; we are nonplused by the increasing unfolding of the endless panorama of the truth of his infinite goodness, endless mercy, matchless wisdom, and superb character. (26.7) 1:4.5 The divine mystery consists in the inherent difference which exists between the finite and the infinite, the temporal and the eternal, the time-space creature and the Universal Creator, the material and the spiritual, the imperfection of man and the perfection of Paradise Deity. The God of universal love unfailingly manifests himself to every one of his creatures up to the fullness of that creature’s capacity to spiritually grasp the qualities of divine truth, beauty, and goodness. (27.1) 1:4.6 To every spirit being and to every mortal creature in every sphere and on every world of the universe of universes, the Universal Father reveals all of his gracious and divine self that can be discerned or comprehended by such spirit beings and by such mortal creatures. God is no respecter of persons, either spiritual or material. The divine presence which any child of the universe enjoys at any given moment is limited only by the capacity of such a creature to receive and to discern the spirit actualities of the supermaterial world. (27.2) 1:4.7 As a reality in human spiritual experience God is not a mystery. But when an attempt is made to make plain the realities of the spirit world to the physical minds of the material order, mystery appears: mysteries so subtle and so profound that only the faith-grasp of the God-knowing mortal can achieve the philosophic miracle of the recognition of the Infinite by the finite, the discernment of the eternal God by the evolving mortals of the material worlds of time and space. 5. Personality of the Universal Father (27.3) 1:5.1 Do not permit the magnitude of God, his infinity, either to obscure or eclipse his personality. “He who planned the ear, shall he not hear? He who formed the eye, shall he not see?” The Universal Father is the acme of divine personality; he is the origin and destiny of personality throughout all creation. God is both infinite and personal; he is an infinite personality. The Father is truly a personality, notwithstanding that the infinity of his person places him forever beyond the full comprehension of material and finite beings. (27.4) 1:5.2 God is much more than a personality as personality is understood by the human mind; he is even far more than any possible concept of a superpersonality. But it is utterly futile to discuss such incomprehensible concepts of divine personality with the minds of material creatures whose maximum concept of the reality of being consists in the idea and ideal of personality. The material creature’s highest possible concept of the Universal Creator is embraced within the spiritual ideals of the exalted idea of divine personality. Therefore, although you may know that God must be much more than the human conception of personality, you equally well know that the Universal Father cannot possibly be anything less than an eternal, infinite, true, good, and beautiful personality. (27.5) 1:5.3 God is not hiding from any of his creatures. He is unapproachable to so many orders of beings only because he “dwells in a light which no material creature can approach.” The immensity and grandeur of the divine personality is beyond the grasp of the unperfected mind of evolutionary mortals. He “measures the waters in the hollow of his hand, measures a universe with the span of his hand. It is he who sits on the circle of the earth, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them out as a universe to dwell in.” “Lift up your eyes on high and behold who has created all these things, who brings out their worlds by number and calls them all by their names”; and so it is true that “the invisible things of God are partially understood by the things which are made.” Today, and as you are, you must discern the invisible Maker through his manifold and diverse creation, as well as through the revelation and ministration of his Sons and their numerous subordinates. (28.1) 1:5.4 Even though material mortals cannot see the person of God, they should rejoice in the assurance that he is a person; by faith accept the truth which portrays that the Universal Father so loved the world as to provide for the eternal spiritual progression of its lowly inhabitants; that he “delights in his children.” God is lacking in none of those superhuman and divine attributes which constitute a perfect, eternal, loving, and infinite Creator personality. (28.2) 1:5.5 In the local creations (excepting the personnel of the superuniverses) God has no personal or residential manifestation aside from the Paradise Creator Sons who are the fathers of the inhabited worlds and the sovereigns of the local universes. If the faith of the creature were perfect, he would assuredly know that when he had seen a Creator Son he had seen the Universal Father; in seeking for the Father, he would not ask nor expect to see other than the Son. Mortal man simply cannot see God until he achieves completed spirit transformation and actually attains Paradise. (28.3) 1:5.6 The natures of the Paradise Creator Sons do not encompass all the unqualified potentials of the universal absoluteness of the infinite nature of the First Great Source and Center, but the Universal Father is in every way divinely present in the Creator Sons. The Father and his Sons are one. These Paradise Sons of the order of Michael are perfect personalities, even the pattern for all local universe personality from that of the Bright and Morning Star down to the lowest human creature of progressing animal evolution. (28.4) 1:5.7 Without God and except for his great and central person, there would be no personality throughout all the vast universe of universes. God is personality. (28.5) 1:5.8 Notwithstanding that God is an eternal power, a majestic presence, a transcendent ideal, and a glorious spirit, though he is all these and infinitely more, nonetheless, he is truly and everlastingly a perfect Creator personality, a person who can “know and be known,” who can “love and be loved,” and one who can befriend us; while you can be known, as other humans have been known, as the friend of God. He is a real spirit and a spiritual reality. (28.6) 1:5.9 As we see the Universal Father revealed throughout his universe; as we discern him indwelling his myriads of creatures; as we behold him in the persons of his Sovereign Sons; as we continue to sense his divine presence here and there, near and afar, let us not doubt nor question his personality primacy. Notwithstanding all these far-flung distributions, he remains a true person and everlastingly maintains personal connection with the countless hosts of his creatures scattered throughout the universe of universes. (28.7) 1:5.10 The idea of the personality of the Universal Father is an enlarged and truer concept of God which has come to mankind chiefly through revelation. Reason, wisdom, and religious experience all infer and imply the personality of God, but they do not altogether validate it. Even the indwelling Thought Adjuster is prepersonal. The truth and maturity of any religion is directly proportional to its concept of the infinite personality of God and to its grasp of the absolute unity of Deity. The idea of a personal Deity becomes, then, the measure of religious maturity after religion has first formulated the concept of the unity of God. (29.1) 1:5.11 Primitive religion had many personal gods, and they were fashioned in the image of man. Revelation affirms the validity of the personality concept of God which is merely possible in the scientific postulate of a First Cause and is only provisionally suggested in the philosophic idea of Universal Unity. Only by personality approach can any person begin to comprehend the unity of God. To deny the personality of the First Source and Center leaves one only the choice of two philosophic dilemmas: materialism or pantheism. (29.2) 1:5.12 In the contemplation of Deity, the concept of personality must be divested of the idea of corporeality. A material body is not indispensable to personality in either man or God. The corporeality error is shown in both extremes of human philosophy. In materialism, since man loses his body at death, he ceases to exist as a personality; in pantheism, since God has no body, he is not, therefore, a person. The superhuman type of progressing personality functions in a union of mind and spirit. (29.3) 1:5.13 Personality is not simply an attribute of God; it rather stands for the totality of the co-ordinated infinite nature and the unified divine will which is exhibited in eternity and universality of perfect expression. Personality, in the supreme sense, is the revelation of God to the universe of universes. (29.4) 1:5.14 God, being eternal, universal, absolute, and infinite, does not grow in knowledge nor increase in wisdom. God does not acquire experience, as finite man might conjecture or comprehend, but he does, within the realms of his own eternal personality, enjoy those continuous expansions of self-realization which are in certain ways comparable to, and analogous with, the acquirement of new experience by the finite creatures of the evolutionary worlds. (29.5) 1:5.15 The absolute perfection of the infinite God would cause him to suffer the awful limitations of unqualified finality of perfectness were it not a fact that the Universal Father directly participates in the personality struggle of every imperfect soul in the wide universe who seeks, by divine aid, to ascend to the spiritually perfect worlds on high. This progressive experience of every spirit being and every mortal creature throughout the universe of universes is a part of the Father’s ever-expanding Deity-consciousness of the never-ending divine circle of ceaseless self-realization. (29.6) 1:5.16 It is literally true: “In all your afflictions he is afflicted.” “In all your triumphs he triumphs in and with you.” His prepersonal divine spirit is a real part of you. The Isle of Paradise responds to all the physical metamorphoses of the universe of universes; the Eternal Son includes all the spirit impulses of all creation; the Conjoint Actor encompasses all the mind expression of the expanding cosmos. The Universal Father realizes in the fullness of the divine consciousness all the individual experience of the progressive struggles of the expanding minds and the ascending spirits of every entity, being, and personality of the whole evolutionary creation of time and space. And all this is literally true, for “in Him we all live and move and have our being.” 6. Personality in the Universe (29.7) 1:6.1 Human personality is the time-space image-shadow cast by the divine Creator personality. And no actuality can ever be adequately comprehended by an examination of its shadow. Shadows should be interpreted in terms of the true substance. (30.1) 1:6.2 God is to science a cause, to philosophy an idea, to religion a person, even the loving heavenly Father. God is to the scientist a primal force, to the philosopher a hypothesis of unity, to the religionist a living spiritual experience. Man’s inadequate concept of the personality of the Universal Father can be improved only by man’s spiritual progress in the universe and will become truly adequate only when the pilgrims of time and space finally attain the divine embrace of the living God on Paradise. (30.2) 1:6.3 Never lose sight of the antipodal viewpoints of personality as it is conceived by God and man. Man views and comprehends personality, looking from the finite to the infinite; God looks from the infinite to the finite. Man possesses the lowest type of personality; God, the highest, even supreme, ultimate, and absolute. Therefore did the better concepts of the divine personality have patiently to await the appearance of improved ideas of human personality, especially the enhanced revelation of both human and divine personality in the Urantian bestowal life of Michael, the Creator Son. (30.3) 1:6.4 The prepersonal divine spirit which indwells the mortal mind carries, in its very presence, the valid proof of its actual existence, but the concept of the divine personality can be grasped only by the spiritual insight of genuine personal religious experience. Any person, human or divine, may be known and comprehended quite apart from the external reactions or the material presence of that person. (30.4) 1:6.5 Some degree of moral affinity and spiritual harmony is essential to friendship between two persons; a loving personality can hardly reveal himself to a loveless person. Even to approach the knowing of a divine personality, all of man’s personality endowments must be wholly consecrated to the effort; halfhearted, partial devotion will be unavailing. (30.5) 1:6.6 The more completely man understands himself and appreciates the personality values of his fellows, the more he will crave to know the Original Personality, and the more earnestly such a God-knowing human will strive to become like the Original Personality. You can argue over opinions about God, but experience with him and in him exists above and beyond all human controversy and mere intellectual logic. The God-knowing man describes his spiritual experiences, not to convince unbelievers, but for the edification and mutual satisfac

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