{"id":110479,"date":"2021-04-23T15:20:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T22:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=110479"},"modified":"2021-04-23T15:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T22:24:15","slug":"addictions-attachments-and-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/110479-addictions-attachments-and-forgiveness","title":{"rendered":"Addictions, Attachments and Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Everybody has some form of addiction.\u00a0 Even if it doesn\u2019t ruin your life, there is some form of attachment.\u00a0 Who amongst us doesn\u2019t have attachment?\u00a0 We all do.\u00a0 It goes with a body. Bodies have attachment.”<\/em> – John Morton <\/p>\n

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This article comes from a sharing session John Morton had with the DSS class\u00a0 (Doctor of Spiritual Science) in January 2021. Following the article is a prayer by John from his book, \u201cYou Are the Blessings.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everybody has some form of addiction.\u00a0 Even if it doesn\u2019t ruin your life, there is some form of attachment.\u00a0 Who amongst us doesn\u2019t have attachment?\u00a0 We all do.\u00a0 It goes with a body.\u00a0 Bodies have attachment.\u00a0 They have magnetism and they get polarized.\u00a0 We\u2019re just talking about degrees.<\/p>\n

If you try directing yourself with an intention, maybe a New Year\u2019s resolution, something like, \u201cI\u2019m going to clear myself of my attachments, addictions, obsessions and compulsions,\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m already laughing.\u00a0 Why do you want to beat the hell out of yourself?\u00a0 You may say, \u201cWell, I didn\u2019t do what I said I was going to do.\u00a0 I lied to myself and that means I\u2019m despicable and should be ashamed.\u00a0 God is just going to get rid of me because I\u2019m a no-good failure and reject.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is what goes on in the reflective evaluation of things like addictions and attachments where we have an idea, desire or a want and then we don\u2019t fulfill it.\u00a0 The negative power likes to play in that wedge between your true nature which is holy, good and divine.\u00a0 That true nature doesn\u2019t have any frailties, transgressions, or sins.\u00a0 It is pure, whole and complete.\u00a0 The nature of what that is, is eternal.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t allow itself to be mucked up by an attachment or addiction.<\/p>\n

Well then, what are we doing here?\u00a0 I\u2019d say we\u2019re setting ourselves up to allow the Christ to complete what we don\u2019t know how to complete.\u00a0 Do you have that willingness?\u00a0 It\u2019s also asking, \u201cCan I get God as my partner?\u00a0 Can I go direct?\u00a0 I know the Christ is a nice being and all, but I\u2019d rather just deal with the big fellow. The one that has all the powers, because God can do it.\u00a0 Okay?\u201d\u00a0 So, God\u2019s your partner. Like a \u201cone and only\u201d.<\/p>\n

You can say, \u201cI don\u2019t need another partner.\u00a0 If I\u2019ve got God as my partner, the position is filled.\u00a0 I thought I needed a set of partners and the attachment somehow messed it up.\u00a0 I just replaced them with another partner, and when that one messed it up, I replaced them with the next partner.\u201d So now let\u2019s get one that is going to do the job completely and it doesn\u2019t get messed up.<\/p>\n

It is a law of God that your Soul will not be lost or forsaken.\u00a0 It will not be forever in bondage or eternal damnation.\u00a0 I can go ahead and claim that, but your mind might not trust that.\u00a0 We\u2019ll put your mind in there also.\u00a0 Go ahead and claim it. Make a decision.\u00a0 It is a decision, so do it in that way.\u00a0 You decide, \u201cGod is my partner and God is going to complete.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then God said, \u201cI\u2019m going to use my anointed one, so they come with you in a form like you. It will be like a partner that\u2019s a friend or companion.\u00a0 What is done is inside of you, although we can show it to you outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greater is the one within you than the one in the world.\u00a0 Remember that.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get caught in the one in the world because they are going to be doing what humans do.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to give them some slack.\u00a0 They are like you.\u00a0 If you think they don\u2019t have human frailties and their own set of attachments or addictions, you might be surprised.\u00a0 They do.\u00a0 But they hold themselves up so they are in God\u2019s promise and fulfillment.\u00a0 Because they are doing something like a demonstration, they can show you a demonstration of how this could work in a human condition that is overly involved with an addiction or attachment.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll just make it really simple, so it\u2019s almost like that\u2019s not a problem.\u00a0 Do the best you can to clear yourself.\u00a0 You may say, \u201cLook, my batting average ain\u2019t so hot.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know my grade, but it\u2019s not high.\u00a0 I don\u2019t look at it like I\u2019ve done an excellent job of taking care of myself or I wouldn\u2019t have this addiction.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even qualify for excellence if I\u2019m addicted to something.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s okay, because Christ is excellence.\u00a0 It is still something like you.\u00a0 We need some room here.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to give yourself some slack.<\/p>\n

There is a place in John-Roger\u2019s teachings where he talked about being in a room with people doing heroin, cocaine or this or that.\u00a0 There are other addictions that are not about substance abuse.\u00a0 There were people doing all kinds of addictions.\u00a0 Which one is hardest on the Soul?\u00a0 Some say it is something like violence.\u00a0 That\u2019s where we say, \u201cDon\u2019t hurt yourself and don\u2019t hurt someone else.\u201d\u00a0 That just doesn\u2019t fly well in this level. Don\u2019t give up.\u00a0 Keep going.\u00a0 Have your faith.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a matter of the god of opinion.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry about other people.\u00a0 It\u2019s you and God.\u00a0 Conduct it that way.\u00a0 It\u2019s like saying, \u201cOkay God, I\u2019m going to do the best I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

The things you do where you feel guilty or ashamed or whatever, that is not really helping.\u00a0 It\u2019s not an issue with God.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t make you a reject or stop God\u2019s love and adoration of you.\u00a0 God doesn\u2019t view you as what you do in your body or that your body is some kind of form that makes mistakes.\u00a0 It is not a real issue to God.\u00a0 It can be an issue about, \u201cHave you learned how to love yourself?\u201d\u00a0 What is that answer?<\/p>\n

I encourage you to claim, \u201cYes, I have learned how to love myself.\u00a0 I just don\u2019t always do it.\u00a0 I\u2019m a temporary lover of myself.\u00a0 Sometimes I don\u2019t really measure up with my loving.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s okay because the Christ can love you anyway.\u00a0 Then you can have the experience that there is this amazing grace that loves you anyway.<\/p>\n

Do you want to take hold of that truth?\u00a0 This, again, would be to be your own friend and forgive yourself.\u00a0 You would have compassion for yourself, not just with an addiction, but for anything and everything you\u2019ve done that in some way is a transgression or not in your best interest. What does the Christ do with this?\u00a0 Does it beat the hell out of us as the best way to discipline us?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the best way at all, to punish or try to hurt somebody.<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019ve had enough of that.\u00a0 You need to let go of the idea that there is something wrong with God when you do these things.\u00a0 God\u2019s got a mercy, and that mercy we also call forgiveness.\u00a0 God forgives, but there is still an invitation to love yourself and care for yourself.\u00a0 God\u2019s compassion is unending, so it doesn\u2019t really count how many times you transgressed or did something stupid.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 Get up one more time.<\/p>\n

What if I fall again?\u00a0 Then you get up one more time.\u00a0 There\u2019s a wonderful teaching from John-Roger that comes in here beautifully.\u00a0 \u201cMinimize the downtime.\u201d\u00a0 When you have a fall, a faltering, go down and then give yourself over, how do you get ahold of yourself?\u00a0 That\u2019s a nice question.\u00a0 Get a hold of yourself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if I don\u2019t?\u00a0 I don\u2019t like it when I say I\u2019m going to stop and then I don\u2019t stop.\u201d\u00a0 Okay, that is the pattern and you are aware of it.\u00a0 By now you probably realize there are no surprises anymore.\u00a0 It\u2019s like, \u201cI\u2019ve done it all repeatedly.\u00a0 I stopped it.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t stop it.\u00a0 So, what\u2019s the point?\u201d\u00a0 The point is you could do better, but you need to do it in such a way that you don\u2019t hurt yourself.<\/p>\n

If you have a relapse or an indulgence, get to calling it something that is rather neutral.\u00a0 You are helping your mind to understand that you\u2019re going to be something like a temporary quitter.\u00a0 It\u2019s called, \u201cI\u2019m going on the wagon again.\u201d That could be minutes.\u00a0 \u201cI was on the wagon for two minutes.\u00a0 Is that really on the wagon?\u201d\u00a0 I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

You have to keep talking to yourself in some way where you are smarter than your dumbness, more favorable towards your smart self who has some good ideas.\u00a0 The dumb part may set it up like a demand and then if you go off with an attitude of \u201cor else\u201d, you may then try to punish yourself.\u00a0 You\u2019ve done that and it didn\u2019t really work.\u00a0 That is my point.\u00a0 Just get up again and keep going towards what is smart.\u00a0 It\u2019s smart to get up again.\u00a0 Keep being smart.\u00a0 Do something to satisfy the addiction but where you are doing less damage.<\/p>\n

Have people in your life who hold up a mirror and reflect to you, but in a good and loving way.\u00a0 Maybe they even enable you with your addictions, but there is something in helping where you<\/em><\/strong> realize you\u2019re enabling.\u00a0 You might as well say, \u201cYeah, I\u2019m doing it.\u00a0 I\u2019m indulging.\u201d\u00a0 Do something that keeps taking down the irritation, disgust and sense of betrayal towards yourself.\u00a0 Take that stuff down.<\/p>\n

I hope you have been hearing the part I\u2019ve been sharing that has mercy and a Christ in it that knows who you are.\u00a0 What would take account of your life in such a way?\u00a0 You may fool a lot of people in this world, but you won\u2019t fool Spirit.\u00a0 Forget about that.\u00a0 Spirit knows.<\/p>\n

You are still here.\u00a0 Get that loud and clear.\u00a0 If you are still in MSIA, the Master\u2019s or Doctorate class, and the Traveler is talking to you, taking time from other people who also want to share, there must be something there.\u00a0 You\u2019re in the Movement, front and center.\u00a0 You are not on the edge hanging by your fingernails falling in the great fall.\u00a0 The loyal forces of the opposition aren\u2019t cheering like, \u201cWe got another one.\u201d\u00a0 No.\u00a0 If that were the truth you wouldn\u2019t be here.<\/p>\n

When people disconnect from the Movement, it\u2019s like they go to sleep.\u00a0 They go away and stop being involved.\u00a0 They find all kinds of reasons not to be involved, but they basically go away.\u00a0 They don\u2019t connect with the Traveler.\u00a0 They don\u2019t talk or write to the Traveler.\u00a0 More importantly, they don\u2019t call the Traveler forward inside of themselves.\u00a0 They stop.\u00a0 They put other things first.\u00a0 That\u2019s not you.\u00a0 You call on the Traveler something like every day.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s working.<\/p>\n

The closeness to the Traveler within you is what really counts.\u00a0 You can\u2019t fake that.\u00a0 It will be shown to you, and not necessarily in a way that people are very conscious of.\u00a0 They may think, \u201cI\u2019m doing other things in my life now.\u00a0 I\u2019ve learned the teachings.\u00a0 They\u2019re not really interesting to me anymore.\u201d\u00a0 But are they living the teachings?\u00a0 There\u2019s the rub.<\/p>\n

If you are living the teachings, your ordinariness and humanity can still carry a dose of judgment.\u00a0 That\u2019s not unusual.\u00a0 All of us could raise our hand on that one.\u00a0 But there\u2019s a greater one in you as you come into that presence of the Lord that is holding the keys to the Traveler Consciousness.\u00a0 As you go up, when you meet up with that form of the Traveler, at every station and place along the way, it\u2019s hard not to shake.\u00a0 It is hard to open your eyes in its presence.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to speak.\u00a0 It\u2019s got an awesome, but not fearsome, quality. That power is mighty.<\/p>\n

What you carry as a negative indulgence is nothing.\u00a0 It\u2019s no-thing.\u00a0\u00a0 Your real intention is to be with the Beloved, to come close.\u00a0 Some people don\u2019t want to confess. They don\u2019t want to say what their indulgences, addictions, sins or transgressions are.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want to bring it up.\u00a0 They want to pretend it\u2019s hidden and not known.\u00a0 Do you know by now that it\u2019s foolish to think the Lord of Lords would not know everything?\u00a0 And it still takes us, even with our pretenses, if we will come to the place where the Lord is.\u00a0 That place is often where you have to \u201ccome as you are\u201d.\u00a0 You can\u2019t come hidden.<\/p>\n

I often say the primary occupation in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness in this world is clearing.\u00a0 Get the stink, the unclean and unclear off you.\u00a0 Let it go.\u00a0 It is primarily in your judgment.\u00a0 That\u2019s where you hold an againstness towards yourself because of what you did or allowed.\u00a0 Not just in this lifetime, but in all your existence.<\/p>\n

We have to hold it up so we forgive it all.\u00a0 We bless it all.\u00a0 We love it all.\u00a0 The Christ is already doing that.\u00a0 If you are with the Christ and invite that consciousness to be up close and personal with you, we take a baptism.\u00a0 It\u2019s a royal cleansing.\u00a0 Then there is a baptism of fire, which is a purification.\u00a0 What gets burned up is not you, but if you\u2019re attached to it, that\u2019s too close.\u00a0 Just release it.<\/p>\n

If you are going to get close to the Lord, you\u2019re going to clean up.\u00a0 You are going to take a baptism and do the purification.\u00a0 Does it have to be in one day?\u00a0 If you can do that, do it.\u00a0 Go for it.\u00a0 But it often takes time.\u00a0 God is practical, taking something like six days to create the world.\u00a0 What took you so long, God?\u00a0 \u201cI was enjoying myself creating more aspects and elements, because it would just be so much fun to be here.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to make this <\/em><\/strong>place convergent.\u00a0 A unique place in all creation where it\u2019s all here.\u201d<\/p>\n

What are you going to choose?\u00a0 What is your life going to be about?\u00a0 You can go in any direction.\u00a0 You can go dark and negative, or you can go to the brightest light in the same place!\u00a0 I go, wow, that\u2019s a spectacular creation! It\u2019s all convergent.\u00a0 Why not converge it so your life becomes the Holy Spirit?<\/p>\n

The Christ walks with you as you.\u00a0 When you are onto what is really good and divine in your life, there is laughter and joy.\u00a0 There\u2019s peace and harmony.\u00a0 Whatever you are doing in your life, be smart.\u00a0 Go ahead and claim that God\u2019s got you.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

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Prayer<\/h4>\n

Lord God, once again we give thanks for the opportunity to be with You. We ask that You bring us forward from whatever we have chosen that would keep us lagging or restricted from knowing You.<\/p>\n

Lift us from our pretenses and falsehoods that we have placed before ourselves as judgments and false knowledge. We ask that You take away the illusion and that You may assist us, regardless of what we have done.<\/p>\n

We come to You in grace, to the door of forgiveness. Restore our joy and courage, that we can go through each day and whatever meets us, knowing the blessings of each moment and being glad in what we behold as eternal truth.<\/p>\n

We bring our enthusiasm to do the best we can. We trust that You are always with us and that You have prepared the way.<\/p>\n

There is nothing against us that will ever last. Whatever negativity we find shall not prevail. We are resurrected in the Christ. The Holy Spirit is our companion.<\/p>\n

You bring the Lord\u2019s hand to touch us, strength to lift us, vision to look upon Your face, Light to let us see the truth, and wisdom to know that Your will is done.\u00a0 And we find everlasting peace in Your loving embrace.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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