“Let this
mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5; New King James
Bible (NKJV). “For God has not given us a spirit of
fear, but of power and of love and of a sound
mind.” (Chapter 2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV). “For those who live according to the
flesh set their minds on the
things of the flesh, but those who
live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death,
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” (Romans 8:5-6; NKJV). Just as our human ancestors experienced
physical bodies that tended to grow older with time, so do those of us here, in
the present times, appear to have temporary, earthly bodies. Over the years, however, these material body-forms
that we occupy seem to ‘wear out’ (lose both mass and utility) as what we term ‘aging’
occurs. Most of us expect this process of
physical aging, so it’s easy to give in to the belief that our mind is aging right along with the rest
of our material bodies. Yet, the thing
we erroneously identity as our ‘mind’ is really far beyond our understanding of
what a ‘mind’ is; for that which we call our mind is really a consciousness awareness of all that
exists, both in and out of the physical sense of things. It’s important that all seekers after
spiritual truth should perceive, or understand, that spiritual truth is the only truth that exists, anywhere, or
anytime. There’s no other truth of being.
There’s only Reality in spiritual truth.
Centuries will come and go, but material
truth does not exist as a reality.
It has no power to extend itself beyond its own false belief. Only spiritual
truth exists as a reality that lives eternally. The whole dream-state of material-reality
is the Adam-dream, not the truth of our being.
Sleeping humanity only finds God’s Truth and Reality by realizing that
the whole physical sense of being is
a state of self-deception. God has no
imperfect creation, anywhere. Life in matter
finds no such perfection in materiality.
Materiality is ‘man’s invention’ not God’s Reality. Our earthly experience is not our truth of
being; rather, it is a collective dream-state from which we all need to awaken. Christ Jesus came into the collective
dream-state more than two thousand years ago, to spiritually-awaken all
sleepers. But Christ Jesus didn’t stay
here after his resurrection. Once he
showed that life has no end in our true, spiritual Home, he left all who
followed his teachings to find their own way Home…their own spiritual
awakening. We must recognize that a conscious
awareness of ‘mind’ as a spiritual thing has no relationship to the material
symbol of what a ‘mind’ is. Our true Mind
has no material substance whatsoever. It
is conscious awareness of all the REALLY exists. Our true Consciousness is our full
realization of all creation and all that is in it. This innate consciousness exists above
and beyond our physical sense of awareness.
This greater, innate consciousness is our spiritual consciousness…that conscious awareness of being that belongs
to everyone, everywhere, despite all our ignorance of it. In other words, this ever-present mentality
(our true Mind) is, in fact, the Christ Consciousness that many Christians, and
others, recognize as a higher sense of conscious awareness and the truth of all
being. Now, this deeper consciousness is never
a finite, physical, or material thing, for there is no such thing as a
physical, material thing. Matter has no
real substance in God’s spiritual creation. Our One and Only true Mind is often termed,
the Christ Consciousness, because it is the spiritual
mind that was expressed by Christ Jesus, which Paul the Apostle preached
throughout the ancient world. (See biblical Book of Acts, New
Testament; King James/&New King James Bibles).
This mind that was in Christ Jesus is the universal mind which sleeps within everyone’s memory banks until we
individually awaken to its presence. It was through the understanding of
this universal mind that the disciples were learning to heal the sick, and
every material thing that was needing
to be fixed, or brought back to wholeness into the physical sense of things. The physical sense of things is known only to
the false sense of matter, and it only seems real to each one’s own, individual
false sense of matter. In God’s spiritual creation, there are
no finite, material laws to know. Matter
as physical substance does not exist in God’s perfect creation. God has no contenders. In God’s creation, only good exists. The divine spiritual creation of good has no
other side to it, despite all the false, material beliefs of evil, like
sickness, hate, death, that try to claim to be real substance. Spirit, alone, is Substance. The Bible tells us, “…ye
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32; King James Bible; (KJV).
That means that finding the truth of existence makes us free of
anything, or anyone, who might try to enslave us, or harm us, or bind us up in
any way. What is that great Truth? That God is the only Power, or Life, that
exists in God’s creation, of which we already “live, move, and have our being” (Acts 17:28;( KJV). We
always live in God’s, forever-creation, or Home, safe and sound for eternity. But, in this collective, material sense of things,
we don’t perceive that we’re already Home. For example: God has never allowed anything in all
creation to harm, for even a second, divine Love’s children (off-spring). But, because we don’t perceive God’s
invisible presence, we turn our back to the infinite Presence of God and
wait for our deliverance from the false sense of sickness, fears, and woes, when one mental turn toward God in a time of
seeming evil, can dissolve the material threat in a heartbeat. In the finite, material sense of
things, we seem to get sick and die. Yet,
nothing in God’s forever creation has ever died. We are divine Love’s own children, never born
to die. That’s what ever-lasting
means. After the moment of physical
death seems to separate us from our loved ones, those who have ‘died’ materially
still exist beyond the realm of matter or the flesh. We’ll find our loved ones again. It’s just that once they’ve left the material
scene, we can’t perceive them in a material form anymore, because we’re in a
different dimension from them. Our
material form was never our true body, for our everlasting, true body is
spiritual in essence, not material. We’ll find our loved ones again when we
‘pass over’ the same bridge that they’ve already passed. The only reason we mourn our loved ones who
have passed away is that we don’t know if they’re OK or not. But the everlasting children of God are
always OK’; for they were always God’s spiritual children, (never children of
matter to begin with). This material sense of existence is kind
of like children dressing up for Halloween, with scary costumes and frightening
masks covering their real identities. The
masks and costumes can only hide their real selves…but the costumes never become their real selves. God’s perfect, harmonious creation is like
that: always with us, despite our own false
sense of it, safe and sound in
God’s forever creation, where no evil situation is allowed to enter. In God’s ever-present creation, we are always
safe and sound, even when we seem to be in some material realm of evil. Here’s an example, I’ve written of before,
which uncovers what seems to be a hidden reality beyond our human view,
or perception of things: Several year ago, my husband and I were
traveling, by car, down a major
highway, when another automobile came down a cloverleaf road from above, missed
the sharp turn and literally leaped into the air, right over a hill, toward our
car. My husband tried to slow down, or
speed up, in order to avoid the collision, but the car was still airborne, and
coming right to my car door. I didn’t
even have time to pray…I just closed my eyes and said, “God.” People who saw the event couldn’t
believe what happened next. The car,
sailing through the air, right toward me, seemed to pause, come to a pause in
the air, and landed, perfectly parallel to me, missing our car by about 3
inches. Next, a police car was right
there, but no one had called the police yet, and we were told by the police
people (a man and a woman) that we should leave the scene immediately. I tried to give the police our name, and see
if the people were OK in the other car, but the female officer came to me and actually
whispered in my ear, “You are not to be
here. Go quickly, now, and don’t look back.” I didn’t understand that. I wanted to check to see if the couple in the
other car was OK, but my husband told me not to argue with the police. So we left.
My husband wouldn’t talk about it for a couple hours, but it turned out
he didn’t know what happened either. He
couldn’t figure out how the police could be there, almost before the event
occurred. The car coming right at me had
turned from me, in mid-air, while it was still many feet off the ground. And the two police officers didn’t seem to
act like police people. No questions, no
accident report, and even the two individuals in the sailing car were all right…no
injuries. Now, several years later, my husband
and I both still feel that there was something surreal about the two police individuals…almost like actors, rather
than real police. But since that time, I’ve
had other “near misses” from danger that came toward me and then suddenly turned
away. I rarely write about my surreal
episodes. People do not believe
spiritual adventures. So, everything I
write on this website, as well as hundreds of articles I’ve printed elsewhere
makes me sure that these healing articles were meant for the future, as well as
the present. As I’ve said, I used to
keep all my really spiritual adventures private, but now I’m in my seventies
and I think I’m supposed to keep writing whatever comes to me, until that voice
within me tells me to stop. The purpose of this article, however,
is to tell people that we all live and move and have our being in the Infinite Mind
of God. Living in this infinite Mind, no
part of God’s infinite Intelligence will ever be taken from us. No forgetfulness can really be hidden so deep
in our subconscious that it can’t come out.
So, don’t accept the false belief that
our physical minds can be damaged in any way, for there is no such thing as a
physical mind. That’s just a world
belief. Our true Mind, our forever conscious
awareness of every good thing in God’s creation is the Christ Consciousness
that dwells within our own, spiritual consciousness, never to be taken away. This God-mind connection cannot be broken, nor even injured from time; nor is
forgetfulness a possibility of our true, spiritual Mind—the universal Christ
Consciousness. So, claim this spiritual
consciousness that dwells within us all, whenever you’re tempted to believe
you are losing your ‘mind’, or that your mind is becoming weak in some other way. No one has a ‘weak’ mind, for no one really
has a material mind. Mind is a spiritual
thing only, and the only Mind that exists belongs to God, within whom all
creation resides, throughout all eternity.
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