In Episode 84, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way” by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 11) CHAP. 11 – The New Horizon: The Practitioner’s chapter; Universal mesmerism; harmony or discordant conditions - the entire human scene is a mesmeric suggestion, dream pictures having no reality or permanence; Does this world exist?; Above the sense life, there is a universe of Spirit; Feeling alienated, like strangers in a strange land; Fully immersed in the ‘game’ or ‘movie’... we have our experience; Shoot the screen or re-shoot the movie; Don Miguel Ruiz, ‘the domestication of the planet’, this mesmerism; Walking out of the darkened room - the allegory of Plato’s Cave; Why settle for shadows on the wall of the cave?; In proportion as our thought dwells on God - the greater the freedom from limitation; Ascension - rising above the experiences and conditions of this world; Meister Eckhart, “The Way of Paradox”; Breaking through consciousness; Grace comes in with precious glimpes of the knowing of the Divine Reality.

In Episode 83, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way” by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 11) CHAP. 11 – The New Horizon: The Practitioner’s chapter; Universal mesmerism; harmony or discordant conditions - the entire human scene is a mesmeric suggestion, dream pictures having no reality or permanence; Does this world exist?; Above the sense life, there is a universe of Spirit; Feeling alienated, like strangers in a strange land; Fully immersed in the ‘game’ or ‘movie’... we have our experience; Shoot the screen or re-shoot the movie; Don Miguel Ruiz, ‘the domestication of the planet’, this mesmerism; Walking out of the darkened room - the allegory of Plato’s Cave; Why settle for shadows on the wall of the cave?; In proportion as our thought dwells on God - the greater the freedom from limitation; Ascension - rising above the experiences and conditions of this world; Meister Eckhart, “The Way of Paradox”; Breaking through consciousness; Grace comes in with a precious glimpse of the knowledge of Divine Reality.

EP082 Show Notes

In Episode 82, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way” by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 9) CHAP. 9 - SUPPLY: Supply is not the orange on the tree, it is the infinite invisible behind; Individual consciousness - the Law of Supply unto you; Law is the activity of manifestation; If I believe in little, I receive little; Everything begins with an initiated idea (beginning of train of causation); Order is heaven’s first law - demand upon supply; “The law in these here parts”; I can’t be contemplating lack and manifesting abundance; the law is YES (prayerful consent); Cultivating the awareness of the presence of God; Don’t have to say what it (the manifestation unfolding) will look like; Being ‘unselfed’; Prayer and Meditation to come into fullness of our supply; The highest altitude of consciousness that I can manage; Is this selfish or is this a blessing to the world?; What is ‘trending’ in my consciousness and life right now? That’s what I’ll get more of.

In Episode 81, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way” by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 8). CHAP. 8 - Metaphysical Healing: Definition of healing - ‘healing is remembering who I am’; Healings are always in proportion to our understanding; “In proportion” to…; The “God” word, the “I Am” concepts as constraints - letting loose of concepts, to grasp a ‘healing consciousness’; Be in the verb rather than the concept, in the activity of “is”ness, attune to the mystery of life unfolding; Anchoring to concepts, or drifting in the “Is”ness; Creating an ‘interim’ God that we can relate to, releasing old ‘concept’ of God; Collapsing duality - the idea that God and I are separate; Being still -- not running after thoughts; Consent - saying ‘yes’ to the ‘is’ness; Centering prayer, contemplative prayer; Stone in a river - the stone is still even as the water moves; Giving myself permission to keep collapsing my idea of God; Releasing in order for ‘what is’ to be revealed; The Mind of God is the reality of us, best heard when the senses and reasoning mind are silent; The peace within becomes the harmony without; The train of causation begins with our idea, Divine Intelligence brings the invisible into the visible; Be willing, be receptive, be still.

In Episode 80, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way” by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 7). CHAP. 7 - Prayer: Prayer and meditation, chorus and verse of the same song; Nature of prayer, scientific prayer; Not penitent or beseeching a God ‘out there’, but praying to, from, through and AS God; the ‘Altitude’ of prayer - God in me, as me, is me; Affirming Truth, aligning human mind with higher mind; Prayer as a tool to bring us back to our Self; Centering prayer, Contemplative Outreach Chicago, mystical roots of prayer and meditation; Father Thomas Keeting; Consenting, choosing a sacred word or breath, allowing the Spirit; Gently return to your sacred word; ‘10,000 opportunities to return back to God’; Prayer is a discipline, a choice, intentional; Working with a tool makes you more adept with that tool; Moving into a ‘unitive’ consciousness and a sense of ‘being One’; Practicing Prayer so that ultimately false idea of self ‘gets out of the way’; Why do I have to seek it to become it? I AM IT; “All good already is… the recognition of this truth is answered prayer”.

In Episode 79, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way” by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 6). CHAP. 6 continued (“Meditation”): The promised land of peace; “What must we do to be saved from the ills and terrors of these present days?”; Let, let, let; Outer world conforming to the inner world of truth; Joel Goldsmith, Marine in the context of WWI and WWII; How to pray for your enemies; We all have our human experience and allowing it to inform how we chose to express in the world; Being in the world but not of it; Prayer is not an activity of the human mind; knowing God through the “Soul Faculties”; Prayer and Meditation - are they the same?; To ruminate and cogitate; Prayer and Meditation - just different movements of the same song; Different experience of the same song; Spiritual Mind Treatment - first step is Be still and know that I am God, and contemplate God; Step two - unification; Meditation for stilling the “Stream of Crazy Consciousness”; Intentional stillness and the discipline of learning to shut up; True prayer and meditation is the contemplation of God and God activities …; Being still has nothing to do with stopping thoughts, its about you not chasing after them; Being still is a receptivity, an allowing, CONSENTING to the Presence and action of “Is”ness; Centering prayer - returning to our ‘word’ or breath and saying yes, consenting once again to the Presence within us; PAUSE to realize the presence has gone before you.

In Episode 78, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way" by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 5). CHAPTERS 5 and 6: The Soul; Hidden in plain sight; Soul Powers; Defining success - expressing your Christ consciousness wherever you are at; Soul Consciousness from continuous turning within; Siddhartha - we are not necessarily being called to be ascetics sitting under the Bodhi tree; Seeking higher path, and what we have becomes more meaningful and more blessed; True reality is Spiritual; We are consciousness fulfilling itself and finding ‘all things added unto us’; Grasping or chasing down the spiritual consciousness within me; Meditation is the key, we can’t get it intellectually; Ceaseless prayer; One conscious God-breath is the beginning of our new birth; Be still and know; Moving into the experience; One foot on the dock, one foot on the boat -- the balance of human and ‘spiritual’ experience; We Are Messengers - Maybe It’s Okay; Maybe it’s okay if I’m not okay - polarity and not being separate; Rumi, The Guest House.

In Episode 77, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way" by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 4). CHAPTER 4: Charles Fillmore, ‘the quickening’ happens within… Goldsmith says it is ‘the realization of a presence always present…”; States and Stages of Consciousness, Spiral Dynamics, Ken Wilbur; It is a state of consciousness becomes visible as a person because of the finite concept we hold of God; Moses-Leader consciousness, Isaiah - Prophet consciousness, Jesus - Saving, Grace consciousness, Paul-Preacher/Teacher consciousness; Current consciousness in government; Lacking high consciousness, I stuff it; Be gentle with your self and more toward your True Self; Even though I judged, I can step back and recognize I am not the mistaken thought and feeling - and I can change it; mistaken thought = contrary to truth of who I am; See the evolution of consciousness evolving through our history; Everything has its place and time when it is arising in consciousness to be dealt with; Jesus said, ‘judge by righteous judgment; righteous = right usage of law; my job is not to change the world but to fix my perception of the world and let my true Mind lead me in authentic action.

In Episode 76, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way" by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 3). CHAPTERS 2-3: T.S. Eliot, “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time”; EGO = Edging God Out, or Expressing God Originally; Getting back to where we started in consciousness; Giving up the effort to ‘get’ and claim our true identity; Meditation as a too; Examining the ‘why’ of what we desire, what is the soul intention?; Peeling back the layers and making the gentle inner inquiry and work; Wayne Dyer, Real Magic, “Truly at the level of the absolute everything is perfect, whole, complete and included in that is your desire to do something about it”’; Soul yearning to contribute and express; Unfolding like a quilt to reveal what has been there all along; Two kinds of thought -

those that separate, those that unify; Evolving into ascension consciousness; The crucifixion on the mount of “Golgotha” (the “skull”) ie. dying to the intellect; Where are we getting our impressions from?; The how to - moving into quietness and a state of receptivity; Claiming dominion over ideas; Dominion wipes out human-hood and lifts up divinity; measuring spiritual unfoldment - what are you trying to improve? Changing cause, not effect; You don’t attempt to comb your hair by trying to reach into the mirror to manipulate your reflection (don’t try to change the condition, change the cause).

EP075 Show Notes

In Episode 75, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way" by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 2). CHAPTER 1 - Letting go/Transcending the desire for an improved human good and humanhood; John van Druten, the paradox; Planted in truth; Seek first the kingdom (human condition improves as a by-product); Jesus keeps saying don’t toil…; Rubber meets the road - go back to the aspects of Good; Turn your cheek - turning away from mortal picture - the cultivation of a spiritual sense; Receiving in the heart, intuitively; Feel differently; Thoreau and ‘moving our bloated nothingness out of the way’; Mental indigestion; Letting is not being passive, it is with full participation and presence; Letting go of the lower, letting in the Higher.