In 1970, John-Roger invited me to be his guest in Los Angeles and attend the MSIA Conference.\u00a0 After the Conference, J-R was planning on taking his annual summer car trip for a couple of months.<\/p>\n
Before he left, I asked if there was anything I could do for him when I got back to my home in Miami.\u00a0 He said, \u201cLet me think about it.\u201d\u00a0 About 20 minutes later he brought in the bottom of an open shoe box filled with cassette tapes.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s on any of these.\u00a0 If you wouldn\u2019t mind, I\u2019d appreciate if you have the time to listen to them and take some notes.\u201d\u00a0 He sounded as though I was doing him a favor.<\/p>\n
Back home in Miami, I began the enjoyable task of listening to the tapes, carefully writing down the synopsis of each.\u00a0 I was relishing having my own personal seminars, one right after another.\u00a0 Little did I know what was in store.\u00a0 And then it happened \u2026<\/p>\n
The first words on a new tape were, \u201cIf you would know the SECRET<\/em> of \u2026.\u201d\u00a0 Suddenly I was on full alert. Secret<\/em>?\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t heard J-R use that word.<\/p>\n I was holding my breath.\u00a0 Without knowing why or how, I knew from my depths this was exceptionally important for me to grasp.\u00a0 Transfixed, I must have rewound and played it a dozen times before I was grounded enough to write.\u00a0 And then, word-for-word, I wrote it down.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you would know the Secret of right relations with people and things, then Look Only for The Good \u2013 that is, The Divine \u2013 and Leave All the Rest To God.<\/p>\n For, in truth \u2026 whether you see something as good or bad, right or wrong, beautiful or ugly, intelligent or unintelligent \u2026 everything<\/em> is a reflection of your own consciousness about it being made manifest to you.\u00a0 In Reality, everything is part of a vast, Cosmic Orchestra \u2026 and essential to the overall and harmonious playing of The Whole.\u201d (John-Roger)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sitting in the quiet, I knew this was My Life\u2019s Lesson, although I had no comprehension as to how this was. \u00a0At the time, I didn\u2019t grasp that the keys of how to use the Secret lay right there in front of me in the second paragraph.\u00a0 I just focused on the first statement, which rang like a perfect illuminating bell in levels of my consciousness.<\/p>\n Full of wonder, I called J-R and read him my notes regarding the Secret.\u00a0 A moment of silence \u2026 and then he said, \u201cThis is the Secret of Soul Transcendence.\u201d\u00a0 Thus, was born one of the great MSIA classics to be given to us all.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t have the presence of mind to ask him for clarification as to how to utilize this secret.\u00a0 I wondered, \u201cHow can everything I see and hear be a reflection of my<\/em> consciousness?\u00a0 Wars?\u00a0 Cruelty?\u00a0 Sickness? History? Stars? Music? Am I somehow responsible for everything<\/em>?\u00a0 How can I be creating this world?\u00a0 Look only<\/em> for the good, regardless of what else I see?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that denial? Does that mean ignore what\u2019s \u201cnegative\u201d or pretend it\u2019s not there?\u00a0 Leave everything to God that I can\u2019t see as good or Divine?\u00a0 Is this pretending? This doesn\u2019t make any sense.\u201d\u00a0 Although it sounded somewhat intriguing, I had no clue as to how to work it. Questions kept coming \u2026 although not necessarily the ones to bring the clearest insight and understanding.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, without a doubt, I knew it was my Life\u2019s Lesson.\u00a0 And although it was a conundrum to me, I held it in my heart as a treasured gift \u2026 as in time I slowly lifted in consciousness.<\/p>\n Years passed and more of us received our Soul Initiations.\u00a0 \u00a0After countless times hearing us quote only the first statement of the Secret, with little apparent recognition of the keys for how to utilize it, I imagine J-R decided to make how it works even more obvious. \u00a0As with so many Divine Truths \u2026 there are layers within layers to uncover and go deeper.<\/p>\n Thus, by about 1984, with literally no fanfare, the revised version made its appearance with expanded keys of perception from the Preceptor:<\/p>\n \u201cIf you would learn the SECRET of Soul Transcendence, look only for the good \u2013 that is, the Divine \u2013 in people and things (this includes yourself!) \u2026 and leave the rest to God!<\/p>\n We cannot allow anything<\/em> discourteous to get into our mental attitude toward anything, including ourselves. The instant we do, our relationship goes out of balance.\u00a0 There is no emotionalism, no sentimentality nor wishful thinking in this.\u00a0 We simply realize that if we identify anything as either intelligent or unintelligent, good or bad, friendly or unfriendly, cooperative or uncooperative, etc., that is precisely how it will appear … for all we experience is a state of our own consciousness about a given thing being made manifest in our outward experience.<\/em><\/p>\n All living things are individual instruments through which Spirit thinks, speaks, acts, and reveals Itself.\u00a0 We are all interrelated in a common accord, a common purpose, and a common good.\u00a0 We are members of a vast Cosmic Orchestra in which each living instrument is essential to the complimentary and harmonious playing of the Whole.\u201d Slowly, slowly \u2026 it was being revealed.\u00a0 Rather, I was slowly allowing myself to look deeper as multi-dimensional keys to the Secret began to come into focus.\u00a0 I was on my own quest for the Holy Grail.<\/p>\n Letting go of restricted beliefs about myself, who I really am?\u00a0 Who we all really are?\u00a0 What Life really is?\u00a0 Allowing myself to look only for the good, the Divine in myself<\/em>? \u00a0And then simultaneously allowing for my human parts to actually be essential to the Whole, at the same time not eclipsing the Whole in my perception? But that requires my observing my judgments about myself, about Life, as illusions?\u00a0 Reflections of what I don\u2019t yet know how to love? \u00a0Is everything a mirror?\u00a0 Is owning my divinity in the ordinary \u2026 or the ordinary as part of Divinity \u2026 allowing me to transcend<\/em> beyond my habitual limited responses (my chosen karma)?<\/p>\n Could a main key be as simple as \u2018attitude?\u2019\u00a0 As I looked with compassion, I saw compassion.\u00a0 As I looked with gratitude, I saw majesty.\u00a0 As I looked with lack, I saw less Light.\u00a0 As I looked with wonderment, I saw wonder.\u00a0 As I looked for multiple realities to align, I saw I was the one turning the wheel of perception.\u00a0 Are we all Divine Beings on a self-made treasure hunt?\u00a0 Have we chosen to make the game more challenging by taking on a self-imposed veil of forgetfulness?\u00a0 Does the journey simply hide in plain sight the glories we seek?\u00a0 Is looking for the Divine being We Are \u00a0\u2026 and unconditionally loving ourselves completely \u2026 a key?\u00a0 How do we do that?<\/p>\n As J-R told us often, “It takes great courage to see the Face of God.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1970, John-Roger invited me to be his guest in Los Angeles and attend the MSIA Conference.\u00a0 After the Conference, J-R was planning on taking his annual summer car trip for a couple of months. 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\nJohn-Roger<\/p><\/blockquote>\n