Lesson #1

This is going to be a very "interesting" course. Already I feel a little disrepected by the assumption that people are either "science minded" or "spiritually minded". As an anthropologist AND minister I consider myself to be both and most people that I know are somewhere in the middle. However I took this class so that I can offer spiritual counseling without having to fall back on phrases like "let's see what the Bible says". I hope I'm not disappointed,

 

Connie

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"When you feel your tree breaking, just bend"...The New Radicals

Spiritual Awareness

Spiritual Awareness Final Essay 

Rev. Lucinda Parker

Having read James Redfield’s Celestine Prophecy and the Tenth Insight years ago, I was truly looking forward to Rev. King’s rendition of this class. I was impressed and pleased to see the subject of universal energy so well presented!

As there are no coincidences, I even found the lessons arriving at the right time for events occurring in my life. Power plays and the theft of energies were contributing to a very negative work environment. As I worked through Rev. King’s lessons, I was again reminded how to recognize what was occurring and more importantly how to diffuse it. No one can steal anything form you unless you let them. This course gives one the tools to be in command of their own life.

We make choices constantly. Even choosing to ignore or not act is a choice which will have an impact upon us. Rev. King appropriately repeats in several lessons the impact of individual choice and the power we have to control ourselves and to create the lives we want.

I especially enjoyed the lesson on finding our life purpose. Many of us spend our time looking externally for who we are, why we are, and waiting for that perfect life somewhere in the unforeseen future. This lesson is one that should be read once a week. It is that powerful! “The present moment is actually the only moment you have to fully touch and to be touched by life.” Rev. King, Lesson 10. The entire lesson reminds us not to hold off and wait for tomorrow to create our life and find our true purpose.

While not required for credit for this class, I highly suggest answering the questions Rev. King presents at the end of lesson 20. Write the thoughts out in your journal. Reread your essay in a week, in a month. How has your life changed? While the lessons will no longer arrive in my email, this class has encouraged me to once again begin seriously writing in my journal.

Spiritual awareness is about creating a new Earth, a new oneness, and living in pure love. Rev. King has done an excellent job in taking the precepts of the Celestine Prophecy and creating an interactive and thought provoking course. I have taken a majority of the classes offered by the Seminary. This one is one of the best, particularly if you have only begun your spiritual path.

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Spiritual Awareness

Master of Spiritual Awareness

Rev Don Eck

I have never been one to be able to relax and meditate without my mind wondering off on some event that took place during the day or the day before.  From the Spirit Quest to the Awareness class I have been able to actually finally after years meditate without letting myself be distracted.

By following the outline and lessons in these two classes I have been able to actual begin to become aware of things in my past and present life and how all these events and people have shaped me into the being that I am today.

I am now able to not only feel the energy that the Universe provides us but absorb that energy and gain a positive approach to life in all relationships at home and in business.

In the lesson on Our Need for Energy studying the "Parent", "Child" and "Adult" ego reaffirmed and brought to mind the things I learned years ago in college.  This lesson has helped me to become conscious of what's not working and I have been able to make changes in my actions to some of these things.  I am still working on some actions but this lesson was real to me and I will continue to work on myself in this area.

From this lesson on it was read, do the assignments, read, do the assignments and read, do the assignments.  I have had people that I work with tell me that I have changed in the last few months.  They say I am more relaxed and actually giving out lots of positive energy in the workplace. 

Thank you for these great courses. Lives do change  if one follows the lessons as assigned in each lesson.

Rev. Don Eck

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Dr. Spirituality lesson 7

Here is lesson 7:

1.       Explain how the ladder of prayer has affected my understanding of prayer: After this week's lesson my understanding of prayer has grown. I learned that if we pray from a position of lack, of fear, of retribution for perceived wrongs done by others we are drawing lack, fear, and retribution to ourselves as we are all One. By accepting responsibility for our part in all situations/experiences we become free from debilitating guilt and are able then to move forward to the ultimate goal of joining with the All That Is where there is no fear, no guilt, no lack. As we join with others we move to humility (my definition of this word is to "be one with the truth") we reach the ultimate goal of total communication/communion with God.

2.       Write a prayer of need, change it to a prayer of freedom, then a prayer of joining & finally a prayer of humility. Lord, I pray to be forgiven for the rage I feel towards my ex-husband.  He has caused me a great deal of pain and suffering and there is a big part of me that hopes he will someday know what it feels like to hurt like this. Amen.  Lord, I probably drove the man crazy with my neediness.  I wanted the perfect marriage and made impossible demands on my ex-husband to fulfill my dreams and "needs".  I wanted him to fill me up, let me know that I was valuable, that I was important, and loved.  I now see he could not do this as it was not his to do.  It was/is my responsibility to allow myself to be filled up as I let go of my beliefs that I am somehow unlovable and lacking. Lord, as I learn to love myself help me connect with others who are working on this lesson.  Let us join together in connecting with You.  Let us come to know that we are not separate nor are we separated from You. Lord, thank You for bringing me to understanding and feeling Oneness with the All That Is. Show me how to serve You in Love and Gratitude. As Jesus prayed, "Let me be an instrument of Your Peace."

Amen

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