Natural Supply

Extended Dependence as Infants

  • There are shortcomings of using positive mental attitudes as a means of acquiring the things we desire. This affirmative approach, based on the law of attraction, advocates developing and attracting conditions of healing and prosperity through the practice of positive mental attitudes and the power of positive thinking. This approach is good as far as it goes.
  • Jesus warned against the practice of laying up earthly treasures where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal, regardless of the method of acquisition employed.
  • Yet, one of the most beautiful passages of scripture comes from Matthew’s account, with Jesus clearly stating that a genuine understanding of our spiritual heritage naturally translates into a life free of fear and material want; a condition already enjoyed by the birds of the air and the lilies of the field.
  • The quest for spiritual understanding can easily take a back seat to finding that elusive key to a restriction-free physical body and material environment.
  • It is our understanding and trust in the present and accessible spiritual domain, awaiting our recognition, that fulfills our material requirements; a state that brings to mind that carefree harmony between soul and body that we enjoyed in the womb.

Law of Attraction/Positive Thinking

  • There are shortcomings of using positive mental attitudes as a means of acquiring the things we desire. This affirmative approach, based on the law of attraction, advocates developing and attracting conditions of healing and prosperity through the practice of positive mental attitudes and the power of positive thinking. This approach is good as far as it goes.
  • Jesus warned against the practice of laying up earthly treasures where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal, regardless of the method of acquisition employed.
  • Yet, one of the most beautiful passages of scripture comes from Matthew’s account, with Jesus clearly stating that a genuine understanding of our spiritual heritage naturally translates into a life free of fear and material want; a condition already enjoyed by the birds of the air and the lilies of the field.
  • The quest for spiritual understanding can easily take a back seat to finding that elusive key to a restriction-free physical body and material environment.
  • It is our understanding and trust in the present and accessible spiritual domain, awaiting our recognition, that fulfills our material requirements; a state that brings to mind that carefree harmony between soul and body that we enjoyed in the womb.

Not God or Mammon

  • The notion of spiritual progress can become a set of blinders focused only on how adept we are at material demonstration. Rather than commit to actually entering this higher sphere, we often treat it as a means of drawing from a basket the goods we desire and solutions to the problems that confront us in this earthly endeavor.
  • The point we may miss in our quest for things is that, from our soul’s point of view, it has never been a question of God or mammon. God is one presence, one power expressing at all levels. Our needs are met at each level. Are we settling for just the visible aspect of available support, or do we seek an understanding of that unseen Source that sustains the soul?
  • Whether we’re idolizing a stone statue, a religious relic, or a pile of money there’s a difference between seeing an object as a source of power, and seeing it as a symbol or a reminder of that deeper reality that is the source of all power.
  • Seeing the symbol as the object of fulfillment is worshiping mammon. The symbol is an expression, an effect of the deeper reality. When our priority is to experience and understand at the spiritual level, then the material counterpart sheds its status as mammon.
  • The issue isn’t the material realm as the cause of our problems, but our belief that material things can deliver what only the soul can give.

Take No Thought

  • Jesus suggests a manifestation process that bypasses altogether all the wants and needs of the manufactured self-image. Rather than the self-image – with its fears, inadequacies, and limitations calling the consciousness-building shots – it is from the soul that our flow of instruction comes.
  • The self-image has hijacked this otherwise very natural flow that we see in play everywhere in nature.
  • Why would we, of far greater creative capacity than plants and animals, think of ourselves as being any less equipped than even the least of these?
  • As we begin to reopen the intuitive aspect of the imagination, new and spontaneous imagery is generated, possibly as mental pictures, but more likely as a deep and secure inner knowing that something transcending our normal thinking is beginning to emerge.
  • Our real adventure of contemplation, exploration and discovery on this earth truly begins with the conscious recovery of a soul-based perspective.

Conclusion

  • The most meaningful kinds of spiritual teachings are not those that tell us how to think, but those that confirm what we have thought and deeply felt in solitude, others have thought and felt as well.
  • Regardless of how many books you read or classes you take, your self-image will never evolve into what your soul already is. And your capacity to know your soul will never be any greater than it is right now. There are no natural barriers surrounding your soul. There’s nothing preventing you from fulfilling your reason for taking on this body and experiencing life on this planet.
  • We didn’t come here to wander aimlessly looking for something in people, places, and things that we don’t already have. What missing piece of your spiritual essence could this earth possibly hold?
  • The one thing that earth holds for you, and for me, is the life we intended to live when we made the choice to come here.

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