Contents:
Paranoia Process 1
Anatomy Of The Process 1
Preconceived Ideas 2
Gimme That Old-Time Orthonoia 3
Experience The Experience 4
The Insanity Of Paranoia 5
Paranoia Is Positive 7
The Metanoia Experience 7
Growing In The Problem 8
Fullfilling Generations Of Consciousness 9
Through The Age 10
The Deeper Experience 10
Experience For The Universal Purpose 11
Giving Things Power 12
Transmuting The Experience 12
The Power Of At-One-Ment 13
Finding At-One-Ment 14
Raising Our Consciousness 14
Poverty-Conscious Religion 15
Seeing God In All Things 16
Coming From Our True Identity 17
The Word Made Flesh 17
The Indestructible Truth 18
Being Transformed 18
Thinking With Spirit 19
Act From Our Reality 20
Our "Now’ Consciousness 20
A Shift In Perception 23
A New Focus 23
Rewriting Our Life Script 24
Understanding The Psychological Process 28
The Mechanics Of Miracles 31
This Is Our Destiny 37
God On Assignment 41
The Essence Of Pure Religion 42
God In Disguise: The Missing Part 43
Your God Frequency 44
Embracing Your Humanity, Struggling With Humanity 45
Embracing Ourselves 45
Knowing Our Humanity 46
The Purpose For Our Experience 46
Son Or Daughter Of God And Humanity
The Universal Connection 47
Identity As A Savior 47
Being Made Sin 48
Driven By A Fit Person 49
The Truth Shall Make Us Free 49
Our Mistake In Identity 50
The Humanity Of The Chosen 50
Salvation Unto God
Missing The Character 51
The Lowering Of The Creator 51
Understanding The Son Or Daughter 52
Holy Ground 53
Our Mis-Creation 53
Raising Our Divinity 53
Accepting Our Assignment The Unlikely Path 54
In The Likeness Of Sinful Flesh 55
In All Realms Of Humanity 55
Receiveing Our Totality 56
Coming In Your Own Name 57
The Order Of Life 57
Intended Order 57
The Human Being 57
The Angelic Order 58
The Animal Kingdom 58
The Call To Return 59
Our Responsibility 59
The Name Of God 62
Traditional Church View 62
Understanding The Name 63
The Essence Of The Name 63
Inside The Family 63
The Power Of Thought - Our Name Code 64
The Power Of Choice 65
Mass Thinking 65
Distorted Relationships 66
Formation Of The Belief System 66
Breaking The Patterns 67
The Way Out - The Escape Mentality 67
Embracing Is The Answer 67
Participate In Life 68
Go In Our Name 69
Coming From The Heart 71
Introduction 71
The Meaning Of Love 72
Human Love 72
God-Self 73
Interpretation Of Spirit 73
The Adventure Of Expression 74
VERSIONS OF THE GOD-SELF 74
Religious Control 75
Changing Our Thinking 75
The Band 76
The Love Risk 76
The Inventions Of Man In The World 76
The Call To Return 77
The Mystery Of The Double Soul 77
The Way Out 78
The Importance Of Getting Out 78
A Personal Journey 79
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Book Sample:
PARANOIA PROCESS
ANATOMY OF THE PROCESS
If you seem to be going through a time of mistrust,
disorganized thinking, and re-evaluation of beliefs, you could very
well be experiencing the paranoia process. What is this process, and
why must we pass through this dark upheaval on our way to at-one-ment?
In answer to that, I want to begin with a little background
concerning the development of words so we understand the evolution
of the meaning of this process.
Like everything else, the meanings of words have, through the
passage of time, taken on completely different meanings from their
original form. As their meanings change, many words have to be
redefined.
The word radical is a great example of a word that has changed
meaning over time. Today, a radical is someone who has extreme
politics or who carries out violent agendas such as bombings and
assassinations. But that's not what the word radical meant when it
came into the English language from the Latin word radix. It’s from
that Latin word radix that we get the English word radish, because
the word radix in Latin means root. We named that little vegetable a
radish, because it is a root/tuber plant.
In its original meaning, a radical is a person who wants to get to
the root of things. It is someone who doesn't judge by appearances
or by actions and effects, but is a person who says, “I know you did
that, but I'd like to understand, before I judge it, why you did
that." Jesus must have been radical, because He taught," Put the axe
to the root of the tree." If that's being radical, I too want to be
radical. In this sense, radical carries a higher, more positive
meaning than what it has come to mean today.
Now, let's look at the word religion. It can be divided into two
parts, the prefix re- and the rest of the word -ligion. The prefix
re- suggests the action of going back or doing something again.
Webster’s New World Dictionary derives the word religion from the
Latin word religio meaning the sense of right, or scruples, or
religion. However, it is the root of religio that is of greater
interest. Religio comes from the word religare, which means to bind
back. The word religare is a combination of two words: re- which we
know means going back or doing again and -ligare is to bind. We can
see from this, the word religion carries the meaning to bind back or
to bind again.
Yoke is another word that has been translated to mean “to harness or
bind” by those who are believers in the literalism of the Bible.
Yoke, however, as translated from the Aramaic as well as Sanskrit,
actually means to join (unite) – union with universal spirit. The
word yoke is the same Greek word used for yoga. The literalist use
of the word yoke (to bind),it is a digression from the word yoga (to
unite). Yoga has the definition of being joined. Feel the
difference? There is harshness when you say yoked together, bound
together, but when you say yoga, joined together, to which there is
softness to it. It's like the joining in a marriage. When Jesus
said, "Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me..." I believe He was
saying, join with Me and learn my way, (process.) Learn My yoga
-yoga meaning My process that unites body, mind and spirit together
again. "He who unites himself with the Lord is one spirit." (1 Cor.
6:17 KJV)
However, religion came along and took the meaning of yoga – join
together – and stepped it down to yoke, bind together. That is where
the word religion, to bind again, has its origin. Isn’t that what
religion has done? Hasn't it BOUND together masses of people in
consciousness through dogma?
In religion, we define God, and then from the premise of that
definition. Jesus was saying to the people that learning is not
something that binds, but rather something that eventually joins
them at the top. Religion binds us to itself at the very bottom with
its laws of dos and dont's.
PRECONCEIVED IDEAS
When I spoke about the word yoga recently, I could see the
defensiveness of those listening. The people were thinking, “I
didn't come here to hear about yoga! This is just too far out.”
I don't know much about yoga, but I do see how people are captured
by particular words. Some could not hear another thing I said
because I used the word yoga. Because of their preconceived
definitions of yoga, they could not glean the understanding and
truth contained in this word.
This is why some religious people become so difficult to communicate
with, so defensive, so argumentative. It is very difficult to sit
down and have an open-minded dialog. There is nothing, as far as
they're concerned, to talk about. If you, in any way, present
something a little new or different they take a defensive posture
because it challenges their belief system.
Within religion, spiritual evolvement is not allowed to happen
because the process is built upon a preconceived definition, or
doctrine. Any time we delve into an area which we ourselves have not
experienced yet try to define, it becomes detrimental to our
spiritual progress. This is what the word orthodox means: conforming
to established doctrine or opinion.
GIMME THAT OLD-TIME ORTHONOIA
Every person goes through three stages of consciousness on their way
to understanding Truth. The first stage is directly related to
orthodox belief. This stage is called Orthonoia, which represents
the state of mind of a commonly accepted set of external beliefs
imposed upon a person. This is what we started believing because it
is what our parents believed and it’s what they taught us to
believe. Orthodox consciousness is borrowed consciousness. No one
comes to these conclusions individually, through personal
enlightenment. These conclusions are received from somebody else. As
handed-down thinking. Because it references previous understanding
instead of present experience, it is dead thinking.
Consider this: denominations are not built by three or four million
individually enlightened people who have all come to a similar
wonderful revelation. In fact, great religions of the world can be
traced to the revelation of one person like…. Mary Baker Eddy,
Confucius, Mohammed, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith or Martin Luther
around whose personal revelation a denomination is built.
Do we understand that all denominations are built upon one person's
supposed encounter with God? Certainly not every follower has
experienced a similar encounter. Denominations were built on one
person's experience, even though most of the people in those
denominations today have never had the same experience. Most major
religions in the world are traced back to one person. This is not to
say that the people I’ve mentioned did not have valid spiritual
revelation or some kind of experience beyond the natural. I've come
to the conclusion that every one of them had a personal encounter
with what we call the divine, or else they could not be effective.
One person cannot affect hundreds of millions of people without some
spiritual substance to their teachings. Some spiritual revelations
such as Islam, Buddhism and Catholicism have survived for thousands
of years. A more recent example would be Swedenborg, an 18th century
thinker from Sweden. Churches built on his teachings still exist as
well as his books. People who still read and believe his writings
are dedicated to them even though they've never met the man. There's
got to be something to his teachings.
If I could sit down and talk to any one of the original thinkers
about what their message has become, we would probably discover the
current interpretation is not the same as their original experience
because people have taken the founder’s experience and organized it
into a belief system.
Here's a little story I heard concerning the devil and a friend who
were talking as they walked down the road one day. They looked up
and saw a man bend down, pick something up and put it in his pocket.
Nobody said anything at first, but finally, the friend said to the
devil, "Did you see what that guy did?" The devil said, " Oh yeah, I
saw him. He just picked up a piece of the truth." The friend
replied, "Aren’t you intimidated when somebody gets a hold of
Truth?" Then the devil said, “No, I've learned if I leave them
alone, they'll eventually organize it into a doctrine."
And that is exactly what has happened. The devil hasn't had to do a
thing to anybody. People take truth and re-work it so that it can be
organized to benefit the ego.
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