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July 22, 2024
CAN PEOPLE CHANGE?
William L. Ingram
The author of an award winning memoir: Finding Heaven In The Dark
CAN PEOPLE CHANGE?
"Do you believe people can change?" asked one character actor on TV.
“NO, I don’t believe people can change,” said the other character in the
T V program I was watching, “but I have seen it happen,” he added with a smile.
People can change for the better, but so few do. You know the ones I’m talking about. I was one of them. Our poor choices and bad decisions grind us down into a dark existence that only experiences temporary relief through escapes. We become bitter instead of better.
Some people just become addicted to their misery! They whine and complain but won’t take any real positive action to change and mature. People can and do change in a positive way but it often comes after or during a life altering event.
My own story in Finding Heaven In The Dark pivots around my virtual collapse in spirit and health at the end of my rebellious odyssey. Conditions forced me to see myself stripped of all pretense. I was naked emotionally and empty spiritually. Being humbled with a contrite heart and a teachable mind was the catalyst for change I needed. Whether you call it rebirth or awakened consciousness a vital connection with Divine Reality ( GOD) has taken place and your life will never be the same. That’s change you can believe in!
The “Be Still and Know…” Meditation Exercise I learned to practice prayerfully taught me to find the calming center within myself that works like a neutral zone, where objectivity and patience helped me realize the true purpose of life and forgiveness.
The “Be Still and Know…” Meditation Exercise I learned over 50 years ago is still helping people today. Here’s a link to The Foundation of Human Understanding:
https://www.fhu.com/meditation/
The author of an award winning memoir: Finding Heaven In The Dark
CAN PEOPLE CHANGE?
"Do you believe people can change?" asked one character actor on TV.
“NO, I don’t believe people can change,” said the other character in the
T V program I was watching, “but I have seen it happen,” he added with a smile.
People can change for the better, but so few do. You know the ones I’m talking about. I was one of them. Our poor choices and bad decisions grind us down into a dark existence that only experiences temporary relief through escapes. We become bitter instead of better.
Some people just become addicted to their misery! They whine and complain but won’t take any real positive action to change and mature. People can and do change in a positive way but it often comes after or during a life altering event.
My own story in Finding Heaven In The Dark pivots around my virtual collapse in spirit and health at the end of my rebellious odyssey. Conditions forced me to see myself stripped of all pretense. I was naked emotionally and empty spiritually. Being humbled with a contrite heart and a teachable mind was the catalyst for change I needed. Whether you call it rebirth or awakened consciousness a vital connection with Divine Reality ( GOD) has taken place and your life will never be the same. That’s change you can believe in!
The “Be Still and Know…” Meditation Exercise I learned to practice prayerfully taught me to find the calming center within myself that works like a neutral zone, where objectivity and patience helped me realize the true purpose of life and forgiveness.
The “Be Still and Know…” Meditation Exercise I learned over 50 years ago is still helping people today. Here’s a link to The Foundation of Human Understanding:
https://www.fhu.com/meditation/
THE KEY TO ALL SCRIPTURE
THE KEY TO LIFE, Part 3
Bill Donahue
I hope you can really take your time with this. Go over it several times. Something very special will be revealed.
In Greek mythology, the electro positions of the brain mind are divided into 5 symbolic stages.
I am speaking of our energy that rises from the base of
the spine to the pineal.
The Greeks who wrote the New Testament did not use
numbers to identify the stages upward.
This is how they identified the steps that you will take
as you go within and separate from thought.
These identified locations are activated during meditation.
These are places within you and me, and this is how the
Greek writers identified them.
1. EARTH :
The Lowest. Physical, brain, lower mind
2.WATER:
This is the second stage of consciousness achieved through meditation.
It is above the physical or lower mind.
3. AIR:
This is the next elevated stage achieved through meditation.
It is above water.
It is demonstrated by the lack of any thought.
4. FIRE:
This is the highest level of the brain mind achieved
through meditation.
It is above air.
It is demonstrated by a change of mind from its obsession with
traditional cultural concepts to a new attitude that flows in
harmony with all nature and rejects the violence and
competitiveness embodied in class warfare that victimized the poor, etc.
5. NEW MIND:
Achievement of Christ, Krishna, or Buddha, consciousness through meditation.
A new personality.
Keep in mind, all of this is within you and me.
Now, instead of trying to figure out what God was thinking.
Let us go into one of those rooms thousands of years ago.
Where people were sitting at a table writing this material
We call the Bible.
Let’s see if we can get into their heads.
Try to keep in mind that those who wrote these words were
conveying to us through various stories in scripture
the pathway to God. The pathway upward.
So, we go within ourselves and as Jesus said we
Separate from thought.
That is the first stage. EARTH.
Now in our meditation we will rise to the second stage,
which is water.
How does the scripture identify this movement?
It is in the story when Jesus walks on water!
Jesus walks on water. Yes within us!
Do you see? This was not speaking of wet water. This was
speaking of that 2nd stage of consciousness. As we rise
Into it, we meet Jesus walking on the water. The water
of the second stage. The water of new life.
Now something interesting happens in the scripture.
Peter asks Jesus to let him walk on water. And he does.
But he is distracted and looks down and begins to sink.
How many of us in meditation have been distracted by
thought, and we begin to sink back down?
Only by focusing on total nothingness. No thoughts!
Only then can we walk on that water of the second
Stage with the Christ.
And then we have to rise up to the third stage
Of consciousness. And what is that?
That is AIR
What does the scripture say?
We will rise to meet him in the air.
And so in our meditation, free from thought,
we rise to the third stage. We rise to meet Jesus in the air.
No we are not flying up into the sky. We are
rising in light consciousness. And the promise
is we will rise to meet Jesus in the air. Stage 3.
You see. None of this happens outside.
It all happens within us!
And so when they wrote the scripture they
had Jesus walking on water. The second stage.
Then they wrote about us rising to meet Jesus in
the air. In the third stage of consciousness.
That is why these stories were written. They were
written to bring us to our inner self, as Jesus said.
To bring us up from the lower carnal mind to the
higher Christ mind.
The writers knew we had to go into the water and
rise in the air. All within ourselves!
So there was no walking on wet water or flying
up into the sky. Instead, there was walking on
the inner water of life and rising up to the higher realms called AIR.
The stories in scripture all bring us back to this movement within ourselves.
And next we will come to the fourth stage FIRE.
You who have accepted this will now find that
Your meditation will take on a whole new meaning and feeling. In the water. In the air.
And together we will experience something we have dreamed of but never expected to touch.
Wonderful things will happen in this time of great change.
Deep within ourselves, walking on the water. Flying in the air.
And next comes the fire.
Exciting things to happen within all of us.
Bill Donahue
Bill's E BOOKS, DVD's AND FLASH DRIVES
http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/helping...
HIDDEN MEANINGS WEB SITE
www.hiddenmeanings.com
Bill Donahue
I hope you can really take your time with this. Go over it several times. Something very special will be revealed.
In Greek mythology, the electro positions of the brain mind are divided into 5 symbolic stages.
I am speaking of our energy that rises from the base of
the spine to the pineal.
The Greeks who wrote the New Testament did not use
numbers to identify the stages upward.
This is how they identified the steps that you will take
as you go within and separate from thought.
These identified locations are activated during meditation.
These are places within you and me, and this is how the
Greek writers identified them.
1. EARTH :
The Lowest. Physical, brain, lower mind
2.WATER:
This is the second stage of consciousness achieved through meditation.
It is above the physical or lower mind.
3. AIR:
This is the next elevated stage achieved through meditation.
It is above water.
It is demonstrated by the lack of any thought.
4. FIRE:
This is the highest level of the brain mind achieved
through meditation.
It is above air.
It is demonstrated by a change of mind from its obsession with
traditional cultural concepts to a new attitude that flows in
harmony with all nature and rejects the violence and
competitiveness embodied in class warfare that victimized the poor, etc.
5. NEW MIND:
Achievement of Christ, Krishna, or Buddha, consciousness through meditation.
A new personality.
Keep in mind, all of this is within you and me.
Now, instead of trying to figure out what God was thinking.
Let us go into one of those rooms thousands of years ago.
Where people were sitting at a table writing this material
We call the Bible.
Let’s see if we can get into their heads.
Try to keep in mind that those who wrote these words were
conveying to us through various stories in scripture
the pathway to God. The pathway upward.
So, we go within ourselves and as Jesus said we
Separate from thought.
That is the first stage. EARTH.
Now in our meditation we will rise to the second stage,
which is water.
How does the scripture identify this movement?
It is in the story when Jesus walks on water!
Jesus walks on water. Yes within us!
Do you see? This was not speaking of wet water. This was
speaking of that 2nd stage of consciousness. As we rise
Into it, we meet Jesus walking on the water. The water
of the second stage. The water of new life.
Now something interesting happens in the scripture.
Peter asks Jesus to let him walk on water. And he does.
But he is distracted and looks down and begins to sink.
How many of us in meditation have been distracted by
thought, and we begin to sink back down?
Only by focusing on total nothingness. No thoughts!
Only then can we walk on that water of the second
Stage with the Christ.
And then we have to rise up to the third stage
Of consciousness. And what is that?
That is AIR
What does the scripture say?
We will rise to meet him in the air.
And so in our meditation, free from thought,
we rise to the third stage. We rise to meet Jesus in the air.
No we are not flying up into the sky. We are
rising in light consciousness. And the promise
is we will rise to meet Jesus in the air. Stage 3.
You see. None of this happens outside.
It all happens within us!
And so when they wrote the scripture they
had Jesus walking on water. The second stage.
Then they wrote about us rising to meet Jesus in
the air. In the third stage of consciousness.
That is why these stories were written. They were
written to bring us to our inner self, as Jesus said.
To bring us up from the lower carnal mind to the
higher Christ mind.
The writers knew we had to go into the water and
rise in the air. All within ourselves!
So there was no walking on wet water or flying
up into the sky. Instead, there was walking on
the inner water of life and rising up to the higher realms called AIR.
The stories in scripture all bring us back to this movement within ourselves.
And next we will come to the fourth stage FIRE.
You who have accepted this will now find that
Your meditation will take on a whole new meaning and feeling. In the water. In the air.
And together we will experience something we have dreamed of but never expected to touch.
Wonderful things will happen in this time of great change.
Deep within ourselves, walking on the water. Flying in the air.
And next comes the fire.
Exciting things to happen within all of us.
Bill Donahue
Bill's E BOOKS, DVD's AND FLASH DRIVES
http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/helping...
HIDDEN MEANINGS WEB SITE
www.hiddenmeanings.com
WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT “FINDING HEAVEN IN THE DARK?”
Q – What is the significance of the title of your book?
A – Finding Heaven In The Dark is the perfect title and description of my personal odyssey. I know Heaven is a loaded word. It gets a strong response from most people. My meaning of the word Heaven is the potential of the Spirit in you that is clothed in your human nature. This Spirit within each of us is a superior bright knowledge, a light that reveals a path toward self-awareness and self-control. But only through a sincere and special stillness can you come into contact with this Light, the ‘Heaven’ of your potential within you.
About the book, Special Feature, The Author Speaks
A – Finding Heaven In The Dark is the perfect title and description of my personal odyssey. I know Heaven is a loaded word. It gets a strong response from most people. My meaning of the word Heaven is the potential of the Spirit in you that is clothed in your human nature. This Spirit within each of us is a superior bright knowledge, a light that reveals a path toward self-awareness and self-control. But only through a sincere and special stillness can you come into contact with this Light, the ‘Heaven’ of your potential within you.
About the book, Special Feature, The Author Speaks
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