This is from a sharing John did at one of the Master’s of Spiritual Science classes.
Do you realize that you are not doing spiritual exercises? Spirit is doing them, and you get to participate as much as you can. How do you best do that? You make yourself available. How do you best make yourself available? By lining up all your energy and focusing all your energy on being available spiritually—which is to say inside—to bring your attention inside. Do you bring it to the hangnail on your toe? Maybe, although there are places of Spirit inside that are well beyond the hangnail. But you may have to deal with the hangnail in your awareness to get to the seat of the Soul.
So you might say to yourself, “Can I bypass the hangnail and have a moment with God?”
The hangnail might say, “Sorry, you’ve been putting this off far too long. You deal with this now.”
“Well,” you say, “that’s not convenient. This is when I’m going to be with God.”
The hangnail can insist, “No, now. You can’t ignore this. You’ve been ignoring, and that’s been an irresponsibility, which is being brought to your attention. Don’t ignore things like this, don’t put them off, because they’re going to hang you up.”
When you have your best intentions to go to God, you can sometimes be hung up on some silly thing that you ignored. You’ll be wondering, “Why don’t I have these beautiful inner experiences that I’ve had before?” You have levels of responsibility to take care of, and as you fulfill them, you go free. If you’ll take care of your 10 percent, there’s an opportunity for grace, which will allow things to be done for you spiritually even though you may not know it.
You’re powerful enough to put aside the burdens of this world. You’re big enough to overcome the gravity, the weight of it all. Sometimes it seems really weighty, like, “I could spend all my waking hours dealing with the burdens of it all.” Yes, you could. And that basically becomes hell. When all you’re doing is attempting to resolve what’s going on in this world, you’ll spend all your waking hours attempting to resolve it. But this world is not for you to resolve personally. It’s been resolved in the consciousness of the Christ, the Beloved, the One who’s anointed.
If you look at who you are beyond all the things that you’ve done and created, you are the one who goes free. You’re the one who walks away—if you’ll let it go.
Do it daily, so that in this day, you give it up, you let it go, you cast your burdens on the One who can take them. That’s a spiritual consciousness, the consciousness of the Beloved that you also claim. You’re claiming the overcoming so you can go free.
It’s important to do that every day, to have a moment when you cast your burdens upon the Spirit so that you go free. And it’s good to hold that moment, to sustain it. Your Spirit is then exercised instead of used to resolve the burdens of this world.
At some point, what you can carry as a Light force field into the world gets used up. The world can just zap whatever Light you’re carrying and use it. If you’re in constant contact with the source of Light, it’s no issue. The issue becomes, “How much can you transmit? What kind of conduit are you?” As much Light as you can contain will flow into the world. That’s the action of the Christ, and it’s so huge that it does it for all, fulfills all the burdens, all the negativity. That takes place because it’s already done and you can claim it. Claiming it is having the wit to know, “I don’t have to do this myself. I can invite Spirit to do it for me.”
During the day, just do that as a more or less continual process, and take some time during the day to make the connection so that you become a greater conduit of this for yourself. Eventually, if you’re going to do what we call Soul Transcendence, you’ll need to sustain it yourself, to hold the Light necessary to access the Soul.
How do you practice this? By loving it all, forgiving it all. That’s putting you in line to go. When you don’t love it all and you don’t forgive it all, then you’re basically holding yourself back. It’s your choice.
A Blessing of Restoration
Lord God, we give thanks that you have brought us together, each one of us, to this place of your restoration. We give thanks for our willingness to choose back, to take our place with our Soul. We recognize that this is a constant choice in this world, to choose back into the Spirit. So we openly, willingly choose the loving, choose the forgiving. And we ask your assistance right now to place this as a dedication, that we will sustain the focus of loving, that we will overcome all those things that try and test us in our judgments, in our resistance, in our forgetting that we are divine.
We ask for the gift of spiritual discernment, that we can see and know those things that are of Your will, bypassing what is unnecessary, letting go of what no longer serves us, holding understanding and acceptance toward all that we perceive is less than divine.
We ask Your blessing right now in the physical body to resonate through the nervous system toward right thought, right action, aligning the consciousness in the perfect pattern to do Your will and to put aside that which detours and distracts.
So we breathe in the energy that is balancing and harmonizing, and we breathe out what has been decayed, whatever has been a separation in the body, or any disturbance at any level.
Wash our minds clean of the memories of pain, violence, frustration, hurt. And let our minds see in that One who is anointed of Your Spirit that we can focus upon the goodness in all things, walk in peace toward all. And we begin this journey with ourselves.
Baruch Bashan.
