Day 14: 40 Day Abundance -- As within so without

Through my consciousness of my Godself, the Christ within, as my Source, I draw into my mind and feeling nature the very substance of Spirit.  This substance is my supply, thus my consciousness of the Presence of God within me is my supply.

I'm going to confess right now that I do a lot of talking with Jesus.  I guess you could call Him the Christ within easily enough since the only way I access or process what he has to say back is through me but the truth is that I don't really think of Him that way. I think of Him as a person who is much more wise than I and who loves me completely and unconditionally and who I can consult about anything and who mostly knows the answers (if there are any).  

In some measure for religious scientists (of which I am one), this is heresy.  We are taught that there is no separation between me and God.  God is all there is.  Thus when I personify God and treat Him as if He were a person out there, a white man in the sky with a beard, I am separating myself from God.

Yet we are also taught that the innermost God and the outermost God are the same God.  Thus, it ultimately matters not whether I consult God within or God without.  For me, it gets even more complicated when I explain that I do not really consider Jesus the Christ as a God.  I consider Him the ultimate son of God.  I consider that when I am consulting Jesus I am consulting one of the most enlightened human beings about how to live and about how to please God.  The fact that Jesus also wore a meat suit means that He knows more about how to live as a human than God does.  Or, since that's kind of impossible, to put it another way, the way that God knows a lot of what He knows about being human comes from the wisdom of Jesus.

Plato quotes Socrates as saying, "the very essence of knowledge is self-knowledge" echoing the Greek's belief in the alchemical wisdom "as within so without."  To me, consulting the Christ within is the way to live better on the outside.  
*If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program

Day 13: 40 Day Abundance Meditations -- First Things First

 I am conscious of the Inner Presence as my lavish Abundance.  I am conscious of the constant activity of this Mind of infinite Prosperity.  Therefore, my consciousness is filled with the Light of Truth.*

My consciousness is filled with the Light of Truth.  First of all, Merry Christmas.  I think that's part of having my consciousness filled with the Light of Truth, acknowledging first things first.  In the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, one of the most important spiritual works of the 20th century, there is a prescription for a better life that begins "upon awakening, God, direct my thinking as I consider my plans for today. Let all my thoughts be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives."  It has been pointed out to me many times that it does not say after I have coffee and read the paper and check my email.

*If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program

Day 12: 40 Day Abundance Meditations -- Creativity

 I lift up my mind and heart to be aware, to understand, and to know that the Divine Presence, I AM is the Source and Substance of all my good.*

So every day when I write this I start out just sitting with it and having no idea what will come to me and what I will say.  However, because I have spent 51 years creating things (writing, acting, singing but also just talking, doing, planning, having relationships and being in the world), I have learned that when there are constraints, an intent and a focus, something will always come.  Whether it's a term paper, a thank you note or a painting, it comes.  And it comes in the right time frame and the right way.

So it is with this meditation:  if I understand that my source is within--the great I AM of me--then I'll be okay.  In other words, what is even more powerful than the fact that I can co-create anything I want to with Spirit is knowing, being aware that I can.  That's what protects me when I sit down to bang these out.  Even though my mind is a complete blank, I know based on previous experience that I will be protected that I am safe and that I will be taken care of.  That "knowingness" itself is abundance.

*If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program

Day 11: 40 Day Abundance Meditations -- Rabbit hangover

 God is lavish, unfailing Abundance, the rich omnipresent substance of the Universe.  This all-providing Source of infinite prosperity is individualized as me—the Reality of me.*

So this is Day 11 which means that it starts back on the first of the 10 meditations for the second cycle.  We will cycle through all ten meditations four times in these forty days.  I am in Buenos Aires now so that shows you how well it manifests.  On day one I was in Sacramento now I am in Argentina.  End of discussion.

Here in Buenos Aires there are still difficulties.   I woke up at 10am (5am pacific time) after having eaten rabbit at 10pm last night so the morning is slightly atypical.  You haven't lived until you have a rabbit hangover.  (It's like a chicken hangover only a bit more stringy.)  Within 10 minutes of waking up I was informed that we were all mobilizing within 15 minutes to go to a market.

I had planned to my meditation, prayer and contemplative time upon awakening.  The old me would have simply said, okay, I'll be ready right away.  The new me checked in with "the reality of me" and found that while I still had a lingering belief in the lack: as in, if I didn't mobilize right away I'd be a bad sister-in-law and also miss my ONLY chance to go to this market in Buenos Aires with a rabbit hangover!  I realized that I could actually find out where the market is, eat my breakfast and do complete my spiritual ablutions and still join them.

I communicated that (and that was fine), began my ablutions and then was called into an hourlong zany fun computer fest trying to book ferry tickets to Uruguay with my brother-in-law (who had been at it for 2 hours).  At noon some of the family left.  We succeeded in booking tickets at 12:30pm and then the rest left to join them for a tour of the National Theater.  I'd now been up for 2 1/2 hours and not meditated or prayed OR gone to the market or the National Theater OR shaken the rabbit hangover (burp, sigh).

So they left and I've been meditating one the nature of abundance within.  It's the knowledge that all is well despite any appearance to the contrary and while today might be my only chance to go to the National Theater or this huge market, it's also my only chance to meditate on the nature of abundance in an apartment in Buenos Aires.  I can make a different choice anytime and today I choose abundance (over rabbit).

*If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program

Day 10: 40 Day Abundance Meditations -- Inner Presence

I keep my mind and thoughts off “this world” and I place my entire focus on God within as the only cause of my prosperity.  I acknowledge the Inner Presence as the only activity in my financial affairs, as the substance of all things visible.  I place my faith in the Principle of Abundance in action within me.”*

This is about focussing within.  When I am focussed on my to do list and what I lack and what presents I need to buy and wrap and what the heck am I going to get for that teenager who only wants money but that's so unimaginative but maybe I should get what they really want...I can stop and breathe and focus within.  That is where my peace and my abundance comes from.  

*If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program