As we consciously travel our spiritual journey we seem to be presented with many dualities or obstacles that challenge our progress.These choices or obstacles appear conflicted between good and bad or helpful and not helpful causing stagnation/decline.
And I’ve found that the one that raises red flags of caution is when I’m feeling I ‘should‘ choose one pole over another!
I’ll ask myself why am I feeling anxious. Is it because subtle guilt is attached to mortal programming or is it fear? There’s a payoff of pleasure for a particular choice or fear of the alternative. It’s a want or not want thing.
Yet let us remember that our spiritual journey is all about Freedom, primarily freedom from the subconscious ego and its traits, programming and obligations. We can always suspend any choice until another opportunity presents itself with greater options.
Yet any choices that appear in duality can be resolved with a deep spiritual intent to use the FourSquare as guidance, using All Energy, Intelligence, Law and Love balanced in your choice. Then surrendering it to the Great Principle, knowing that things will workout according to the Great Law.
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
“It is through evolution of one’s own mind that knowledge is increased, and the more we throw the Light within ourselves, the clearer we see things without.”
Eugene Fersen, Science of Being.
This and all entries are for inspiration and encouragement to persevere on our conscious spiritual journey. And are shared with educational and humanitarian purposes. Yet each of us are responsible for our choices and only you can build to Harmony and Spirit.
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“We should try to develop the love of Beauty, which is at the foundation of our being.” Eugene Fersen
Even a novice photographer can capture the scenic beauty and power of Alaska on an iPad. And, there is more to it than meets the eye!
Summer doesn’t last long in Alaska, but it is beautiful, green with mild weather and swollen rivers and lakes from melting snow.
The states of water can be used to symbolize the states of mind.
Clear liquid water is in a state of fluidity and active movement, representing consciousness aware in the present moment.
Mind in the present moment is clear, calm and receptive. It better reflects our True, beautiful individual character and its unlimited quality, like the open sky.
However, if our mind is muddied and rippled by negative attitudes or harmful desires it symbolizes a troubled personality and life.
If mind is fixed, stubborn, opinionated without hope of change it is like ice, frozen like hell.
Water in a gaseous state represents the Higher, True Self. Pure Mind, a perfect complement to Divine Love. Our natural state. Beautiful.
If you think your life sucks at times, then it does. What most people don’t realize is that it sucks because we make it that way!
Our ego loves what is familiar and will keep coming back to the same emotions, even if they feel bad! Your emotions amply your thoughts, radiating out as your personality, body, and surrounding life conditions – in other words your reality.
You can lose a sense of your True Self and soul because of identification with illusionary feelings. The ego tries to overcome the confusion and emotional pain, by doing a lot of thinking about it, always trying to solve a problem it never can.
In this series we will discuss why your emotions shape your life, how to identify and benefit even by negative emotions, and how to center your emotional power for positive change.
Emotions manifest physically
It’s usually obvious when someone is angry. You may not actually see steam come out of their ears but: the rational part of the brain shuts down, the body tenses (tightening in the shoulders and chest), stress related hormones are released (such as adrenaline and cortisol), and the face gets red when the cardiovascular responses kick in.
Emotions release hormones related to the limbic system and chemicals in the brain and body …… and we can become addicted to these even if if they feel bad to us! We may not always be acutely aware of the emotions and physiological release of chemicals in our bodies, yet eventually we get a feeling. Our feelings, emotions, and attitudes are so tied together that we usually use these terms interchangeably.
Bodily Effects of Your Emotions
Your emotions can manifest in your life in precarious ways. People with an irritable disposition are 3 times more likely to have a heart attack than people who are less prone to temper tantrums. Plus, over time such high stress situations like anger can hamper the immune system, resulting in any number of illnesses.
Positive emotions like delight and gratitude also manifest in the body, reversing the effects of negative emotions, harmonizing and healing it. When you experience joy and love: the body relaxes, happiness chemicals are released (such as dopamine, oxytocin or endorphins) and sent to your heart.
Of course, matters of the heart are involved! We attract what we feel through our heart, the seat of Love and Magnetic Center of Attraction.
In those people who feel deep, abiding love there is a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, greater functioning of the immune system, and calmer, clearer thinking.
You Attract What You Feel – The Law of Attraction
Circling in negative thoughts about your feelings amplify them! You attract the same energy that you think about and feelbecause of the Law of Attraction (Love). You get what you put out there in the Universe.
So if you have a grumpy disposition then you attract more negative, low-frequency conditions, even if that is not what you desire.
The Law of Karma
The Law of Attraction and The Law of Karma, or Cause and Effect, work together. If you evaluate a situation negatively with dark thoughts and emotions you will be very tempted to act upon it, especially if you are unconscious of your motivation.
The Law of Karma is a compassionate universal law that works to help us get back to our natural state of harmony. You will have to face the same or similar life situation over and over again until you respond from a place of sincere love, consistently.
Emotional Empowerment
Thoughts are empowered to manifest physically as emotions and shape our physical reality; first, in our body, then our surroundings, then others around us and indeed the world.
Why do they have such power?
Because our emotions are empowered by our Soul! And, the dominating character of our Soul is Love. Love is our natural condition, but when Love is perverted in the subconscious ego by fearful thinking itt causes us, each of us, to suffer.
In the next study we will discuss simple ways to change your reality even when you are tempted by negative emotions!
In the hope You find Love close at hand, Portia SLB
Contact Universal Life Energy in the many various ways, The Star Exercise, Mental Contact, and conscious awareness of Being One with It. Universal Life Energy is the first physical manifestation of Source, the Great Principle, God. And when you feel It, you are directly contacting Source, which helps us connect with our Higher Self and the insights available to us.
With the Mental Contact we come to the present moment and experience what some call – Presence. In Presence there is no thinking, rather conscious awareness, observation. And insights and inspirations can come from our Higher Self. It’s a natural occurrence. And You are very capable of experiencing it, because You are a Universal Soul.
In the Mental Contact we are directly connecting with Source, Presence of Source, through Silence and by consciously contacting Universal Life Energy. We are deliberately contacting Source which helps us become conscious and aware of Truth …. and ….. of Harmony and Love.
When we contact Universal Life Energy we are allowing the Law of Attraction, Love, to work within us. The Truth quality of Universal Life Energy attracts like ….. It attracts Truth from within us ….. from our Higher Self and Superconsciousness ….. to come to the surface of our consciousness ….. when we are present and aware!
With conscious awareness of Truth we can choose Love. This leads us to our own strength, freedom and happiness.
Truth leads us to becoming conscious of the order of things according to Universal Law, according to the Universal Law of Spirit (The FourSquare), Law of Vibration, Law of Unity, and the Laws of Polarity, Rhythm, Gender and Cause and Effect. And we can make the most beneficial decisions for ourselves!
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
The Lightbearers’ Commandment simplifies how we can consciously align with Truth, Law:
“BE MAN – Express in every act of yours ALL ENERGY, INTELLIGENCE, TRUTH and LOVE; THUS LIVING ONLY WILL YOU LIVE; thus Living only will you live; thus acting only can you build to Freedom, Strength and Happiness in Life. This is your Problem: be this your Foremost Aim.”
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In the hope You find Love close at hand, Portia SLB
“When our Higher Self is overshadowing us, we never hesitate to do a thing, and we do it immediately.”
Eugene Fersen, Friend of Humanity, Spiritual Teacher and founder of Science of Being
The subconscious ego may be torn up and desperately distraught …. circles over and over in despair, depression, worry, and fear about the global and very personal issues we face now …… without finding any value in it at all. Yet, there is value in everything, including the present challenges.
Difficulties can challenge us to pause, ponder and contemplate …. to go within …… to seek joy and happiness. Isn’t it true that we seek strength, wisdom, freedom and harmony? Even the subconscious cries for freedom from misery. Urns for happiness. Pleads for strength and wisdom.
The subconscious ego wants to reject the way things are now, and would much rather focus on the future or the past without fully experiencing life now. Yet, it’s an opportunity missed. So many, many opportunities missed to consciously experience life. Gone.
If we view every challenge, every problem, every opposition ….. as an opportunity to find within us a greater response then …… we are encouraged to look within to find our sown strengths …… to rediscover our Soul’s Strength, Wisdom, Truth and Love.
Challenges can prompt us to pause, ponder, and become Silent …… and that’s when we are better able to look deep within and recognize our own Inner Real Self. We may find that we are in the moment fully ….. appreciating Life.
And there can be victory in our hearts ….. and this is a secret Love within us awakening ….. Unconditional Love and Joy.
Gratitude may arise for the awareness of what is happening. Not for the crisis, problem or opposition, rather gratitude for the awareness of serenity and love always being close at hand. Gratitude for the infinite opportunities in this moment. Gratitude for some higher conscious understanding, that may not be logical, rather something deeper and far reaching ….. life changing.
And we can know ….. that if we do fall when facing challenges, it is temporary because we have a deep drive within us to succeed in life. It may take a while and we can hit bottom. Yet, eventually we will, with the help of the Great Principle, find the courage to dust ourselves off and face life again ….. and this is a great gift of Unconditional Love.
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
“And there are those who walk the Divine Road. No human help do they expect. At first their steps are handicapped. They have to fight ill-will, and apathy, and ignorance, and fear….And by and by, slowly, step after step they climb, overcoming obstacles along the way, until easier and broader turns the path on which they move onward.”
Eugene Fersen, Science of Being, pages 305 and 306.
“Whenever we are inspired by beauty, we have taken a step towards Spiritual Vibrations.”
Eugene Fersen, Pearls of Wisdom, Volume 1, page 82.
When we see beauty in anything we are relating consciously to Love, for beauty is a quality of Love. Love elevates our level of consciousness and reality. We need love to refine ourselves.
We can find beauty in the simplest things, like a pansy. The name pansy is derived from the French pensee meaning ‘thought.’ While the Middle English name, viola, comes from ‘remembrance.’ Which ever name you use they both relate to the mind and consciousness.
Beauty brings Love to the forefront of our consciousness!
In the hope You find Love close at hand, Portia SLB
Karmic Effect becomes a cause for another cycle → Thought → …
These are the cycles, the rhythms of our lives.
We are emotional beings and our emotions power our thoughts and behaviors. One emotion can generate a thoushand thoughts. All those thoughts affect our behaviors and our reality. And with the Law of Rhythm we repeat history!
What we feel, think and how we behave, attracts like into our reality ….. in our bodies and health, our physical reality ….. family, work, society at large. and it’s cyclic because of the swing of the pendulum.
Like the waves of the ocean we ride the wave forward, then there’s an undertow drawing us backwards. When we are moving forward it is for our own benefit to take advantage of it and ride the wave forward with gusto! Enjoy it and put our full effort into whatever project we have in mind.
When we feel the undertow starting to come into play then it is an indication to slow, stand strong and refuse to be pulled backwards, mentally acknowledging that it has no power over us …… use negation. This period is beneficial because it gives you time to recharge, refocus and refine your objectives.
It’s simple
As we educate ourselves to understand the Laws of the Universe we can make conscious choices with our best interest in mind. It’s simple really – we empower ourselves through uplifting emotions and thoughts, and responsible behaviors.
The key is to BE CONSCIOUS with LOVE motivating us. If we aim for no harm to ourselves or others it helps harmonize us all. We flow in harmony with both the Laws of Cause and Effect, Karma and Rhythm.
In the hope You find Love close at hand, Portia SLB
“Our incarnations and reincarnations are determined by our activities here and there. That is we stay in the Beyond longer if our activities here have been constructive. And the same in the Beyond, if our activities are constructive we stay longer on Earth.”
“We should try to develop the love of Beauty, which is at the foundation of our being.” Eugene Fersen
It’s amazing how the beauty and power of Alaska can be captured on an iPad! Yet, it is also amazing that there is so much beauty in this world to enjoy. It out weights the dross. And, everything, everything – says something about our earthly condition. It speaks to us in deep and profound ways and all we have to do is be conscious and aware of it.
The Law of Analogy is such a powerful law to help us understand ourselves and of great benefit for those on a conscious spiritual journey. The law Itself is beautiful.
The different states of water can be used to symbolize the different states of mind. The liquid state is like the lively, discriminating consciousness, while the frozen state is like the fixed ideas, beliefs and habitual behavioral patterns of subconsciousness.
The subconscious freezes and imprisons the beauty and Love of Mind, dominating our emotions and behaviors with traits like irritability, worry, guilt or greed if we let it.
Being frozen is hell for us, because the Great Law says Life is constant vibration, change and gradual evolution.
Just like the way the sun can melt a 10,000 year old glacier in Glacier National Park so can unconditional Love of Universal Life Energy melt and change the frozen misconceptions of the subconscious.
We may think we don’t like change, but everything else about us says that we do. That’s an analogy that can help us be courageous in challenging situations!
There is a legend that when the European explorers first came to the Caribbean around 1491 the islanders could not see the sails of the ships as they were approaching. It wasn’t until the shamans pointed them out that they could conceive of them.
Karmic Vision
We tend to only to see what we believe we will see …. what we have conditioned ourselves to experience …. what we allow! Have you traveled the same route routinely day after day and passed a billboard or building and never noticed it …. I have and not until I became quiet inside …. did I appreciate the outside … did I appreciate the trees, grasses, wildlife, and yes …. buildings and billboards!
We’re creatures of habit …. even our perceptions of the world around us can become habitual …. we may notice a tree …. but miss the hawk sitting on a bare branch. We may may read words on the computer screen but overlook words that were repeated or mentally fill in words that missing. We can walk right past someone we know without noticing them. We can feel energies swirling around others, but not see thought-forms around them or their auras!
We can clear our Vision
We form karmic vision out of habit and the Law of Attraction. We tend to get stuck in illusionary thoughts and emotions attracting more of the same …. without being aware of the moment or even that we have a choice! Fortunately, someone else’s awareness can shake us awake and point to that thing we did not allow ourselves to see. But …. we must become quiet and peaceful within to have clear vision in the moment.
We forget to be conscious, quiet, open to the vastness of a clear state of mind, free of the domination of subconscious ego thoughts and emotions that have become habits …. of what we expect and relate to …. of what we are comfortable with.
We don’t know what we are missing …. what’s right there within our reach of experiencing in the moment …. because we are too preoccupied. And I can say that most of us miss opportunities to experience wonders that are there on the edge of our awareness …. if …. we are calm, conscious, alert and aware.
Even if someone else points to seeing something that we do not …. we still may not be able to see it! Is it logical that we must go within ourselves first to clear karmic, habitual vision? And then … be consciously willing and open to seeing that which we had not been open to?
When we allow the moment as it is …. quiet, ….alert, aware and observing what is …. thoughts of the past or future are silent. There are no worries, expectations or any habitual monkey chatter …. we do not assume from habit …. rather we observe independently. And this is when we can come to know ourselves and trust the moment …. all the while knowing we live in uncertain, ever changing moments. Our vision becomes clearer, taking in what is …. appreciating Now.
We become independent observers …. without blindly assuming what we are told to see or experience. Life becomes an adventure in the very mist of uncertainty …. and ….we can be soooo surprised by what comes within our field of vision! Within our field of awareness, experience, understanding and have compassion for it!
And clear vision is a great asset since we are not limited by blinding karmic vision. And from clear vision horizons open before us unlimited opportunities to be of service in the world!
In the hope you find Love close at hand, Portia SLB
“Independence or freedom is a great thing, but it must be properly understood. It can be based only on perfect Love. Then we will have the most ideal independence, and will recognize only our dependence on the Eternal.”
Eugen Fersen, Advanced Teachings In Science of Being, page 94.
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