A Search For God

 Hi everyone,

If you celebrate Christmas, I hope you had a had a great day and if you have kids, I hope their's was everything they hoped for. If you don't celebrate Christmas I hope you had a wonderful day as well. Maybe you had the day off from work to take advantage of the holiday. Maybe you celebrate Hanukkah. I love that tradition also, I never took part in the Hanukkah tradition, but it always seemed more meaningful than a jolly old man somehow sneaking into your house. When my kids were little Santa brought presents, but we never were super serios about making sure they sat on his lap and all that other stuff. They wrote a letter and left cookies and milk out for him so he could get fatter, but we never really made too much fuss about it. We did make them go to bed early so we could have a reason to have some quiet time 😊😊 

Since last week I bought the Nag Hammadi. It's a compilation of books discovered in an area in a town by the same name in Upper Egypt. A local farmer discovered scrolls in pottery as he was digging on his land. The Gospel of Thomas and a bunch of other books that we'll get into. I also bought a couple of Edgar Cayce's books. A Search for God Books 1 and 2, and The Story Of Jesus. I started reading all of them but A Search For God is the one that has sparked my interest first. In some recent posts I mentioned meditation and that maybe not everyone can sit crossed legged, for an long period of time. If you're focusing on the pain in your legs or back then you wouldn't be getting the benefit of your meditation.

The first chapter in the book is called meditation. You may have heard the saying "Praying in talking to God. Meditating is listening to God." Cayce mentions that in this book as well. In the very first line he says, "In the material world we are conscious of the phenomenon of growth. We should be equally aware of spiritual progression that includes both a broadening of understanding of the relation between the Creator and ourselves." He also says, and I'll paraphrase, some people are just content to go through our day to day lives hoping that things will work out for the best, but other people seek a better way, searching for a light that renews hope. "Prayer is the concerted effort of our physical consciousness to become attuned to the Consciousness of the Creator." 

"Meditation is the emptying of ourselves of all that hinders the Creative Force from rising along the natural channels of our physical bodies." These natural channels are sensitive spiritual centers in our bodies. Some practices call them Chakras. Meditation is not daydreaming but connecting our mental and physical bodies to their spiritual sources. True meditation is arousing our mental and spiritual attributes with our creator. Will we always receive an immediate answer every time we pray and meditate? Probably not, but like Jesus says in Matthew 6:8, The Father knows what you need before you ask. Praying and meditating shows The Father we are anxious  for His guidance. I know sometimes we feel like we wait, and wait and feel like we never get an answer. 

Sometimes when we try to make things happen, it seems like we try over and over. Then finally when nothing seems to work, we say OK GOD, what am I suppose to do? The answer comes immediately. That is what Cayce means by attuning ourselves with God. If we can sit, in our most comfortable position. Maybe listen to some soothing music. I like to burn incense. There's no right or wrong way. Just put yourself in a position where you aren't distracted. There's a spot in our backyard that I call my spot. I can go back there under the trees and just have a peaceful feeling. Also in the pool. Whatever works for you is the way you should use to connect with God/Spirit/Creator/Universe or whichever term you like best. 

I've also been listening to videos about the Ethiopian Bible. They talk about getting back to the Old Testament names of God. YHWH, and all the names of Jehovah. Through the years we have gotten to where we just say God and that has lost it's personal touch, like when YHWH told Moses to tell Pharaoh I Am sent you to free the people. 

There's a lot I want to share, the Lord's Prayer video was way cool, but for I want to focus on Edgar Cayce's teaching on meditation so we can all start connecting to and feeling the presence of Christ Consciousness in our lives. 

The next section of Chapter 1 in A Search For God is preparing the body for meditation. We'll get into that next time.

Have a great week and Keep Searching,

Paul