tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291841952012-01-16T14:06:51.876-05:00New Thought, Science of Mind. A blog that discusses 21st Century spirituality, the nature of God, of life, how to use God's natural and spiritual Laws to live the life you want.Rev. Dore' Jacques Patlianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05386619315978863201noreply@blogger.comBlogger1021100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29184195.post-43747103677292666772012-01-03T16:01:00.001-05:002012-01-16T14:06:51.886-05:00

                              Click on arrow to play video version On New Year's Day we all opened the page on a new chapter in our lives. Another year has passed into history and we all have the opportunity to wipe the slate clean; to make a new start or as we say in the US, "turn over a new leaf".  Time has granted us a chance to have a "do-over" for that which we did not

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Special Holiday Double Message                                Click on the arrow to play the video of:                     The Greatest Story Never Told Part 2: The Legacy of The Christ                                                                                                             The Greatest Story Never Told -Part 1                              We have all heard of the "

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I believe that one of the hardest things for human beings to accept is that we  are all very powerful beings.  If fact, we have the same power "hardwired" into our very DNA that the Creator uses to create everything that exists.  Yes, we do work on a different scale, our ballpark is a bit smaller, but our power is of the same nature and substance. He has dominion over the Cosmos and we

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Why does the world call the man named Yeshua Ben Nazareth, Jesus Christ?  It clearly was not his name.  Have you ever in modern or ancient times heard of a Jew named Jesus?  No, neither have I!  If he lived today, his American Express card would not say Jesus H Christ.  What's in a name? In the case of Jesus...everything! Let's clear up his given name first.  His name was Joshua in

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One of the most universal of truths is that none of us knows the true nature of God; what He/She looks like, or how God operates to create all that exists.  Oh, yes, we think we know, we believe we know but none of us knows for an absolute certainty - that certainty of personal experience.   I believe that we shall all have this experience at the end of this Earthly interlude we call

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Did you know that there was a secret to success and greatness that was known to Moses,The Athenians and Spartans, the Romans, Jesus, and many great leaders and nations in modern history, including Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington, The British Empire, Otto Von Bismark and The United States of America?  Not only is there such as secret but anyone may use it, no matter their race,

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God is central to any discussion of spirituality and religion.  Let's talk about how Science of Mind views God and His/Her relationship to humanity.   A belief in a higher power, call it God, Allah, the Great Soul, Rama, Yahweh, the Universe, Spirit or whatever you wish it is a universal idea.  It all amounts to a great Mind, a great Soul that is the cause of all that exists, the thinker

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That Divine Mind, that Great Soul we call God, has given us 3 great gifts that empower us to create any life experience in which we can believe.   The first is will.  The volition or will power to choose a course of action and hold to it through thick and thin is the basis of our freedom of action as human beings. The second gift is intellect or mind.  This is the gift that allows us to adapt

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Last time we asked the question:  "How many of our readers have experienced a consistent feeling of general well being; a feeling that most everything was going well; you were on top of things and life was good?"  I wish that we could have taken an on-line survey for I believe that not very many of us would have answered "yes" to the question of well being.  Last week, I asked each of

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How many of you have ever felt that wonderful state of well being?   By well being, I mean the feeling that you knew that you were on top of things, competent, capable to handle any situation that might arise in your life and that there was nothing to fear.    I don't believe that very many people experience this "I can handle it" state of mind on a regular basis.  It is a pro-active

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I have times in my life when things just aren't going as I planned or wanted.  Things unravel, bills are more than expected, people do not behave as I thought they would, and life appears to have hit a "rough patch". Do you have times like this?  I am having one today, which is why I chose this topic for the blog. We have difficult times, its part of the human experience but it need not be a

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Do you want to change your life or at least significant parts of it?   Have you ever dreamed of living more abundantly, having a better life for your children, or just being more healthy?  Would you like to have a good job and enjoy peace of mind?  You are probably saying: "of course, who wouldn't?" I doubt that there are many people alive today who have not dreamed of transforming their lives

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Do you think most people understand what Jesus was saying when he spoke of the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven?   I am pretty sure that many don't.  I suspect from my conversations, particularly with conservative or fundamentalist Christians, that the Kingdom is seen as a realm far away in space or another time dimension that will come to Earth and become a literal kingdom ruled by Jesus;

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Yesterday we watched the spectacle of millions of people waiting to be swept up to a place called Heaven, while the rest of us not judged good enough were to be "left behind" to face the music of a wrathful judgement by an angry God.  Well, we are all still here and we always will be. How could the religion named for the Christ believe that God would destroy his people for the sin of being

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It seems to me that old style Christianity has always embraced the concept of repentance, as if we were bad children promising to an angry parent that we would not be naughty anymore.  Usually, like a child without self discipline, we would soon repeat the "naughty" behavior and have to repent and repent and repent! Yes, it is good to acknowledge where we have fallen short of our best

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Have you ever wished you could change the world or at least your little part of it?  I have and still do. I believe that wanting a better world is a part of human nature.  For 5,000 years or more humans have dreamed of Paradise on Earth, a place where all of us had plenty of every human need: love, food, a nice place to lay our head, safety, peace, a better life for our children and a world

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In Science of Mind, we speak of "Practicing the Presence".  This means making a daily habit of living with the conscious understanding and knowledge of God as the Truth of who we are.  Practicing the Presence is to live with the sure and certain awareness that God is in us, working for us, through us.  It is a way of life lived in unity with God.   Does this mean that we must be "religious" or

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For the love of God.  What must we do to feel and deserve the love of God?  What must we do to heal our world and have the lives we all long for? So many of us wish for something more; for an end to the hunger inside - the feeling that there must be more than this life we are living.  It is as if we have a "hole in our soul" that we must fill to feel whole and right with the world.  This is not

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Does it seem to you that we are often asked by our culture, parents, teachers and clergy to live a 21st Century life using rules made when the world was thought to be flat and the stars were believed to be windows of heaven where the angels peered through to watch us?   It certainly seems that this is the case as I look at conditions around the globe and see how people are forced into ways of

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Free will and imagination are the greatest of all the many gifts given to us by our Creator.  These two blessings are literally the "Keys to the Kingdom" in the creation of our life experience here on this planet.   Imagination and free will work hand in hand to allow us to create our life experience as we will, as we choose; not as some high in the sky anthropomorphic deity wills.  We are

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Each one of us on this planet lives in a state of Grace, whether we know it or not.  Grace is freely given by God at the moment of our Creation, it is not earned by effort, by prayer or by good works.  Grace is great gift of God; it is our birthright.  Grace is free but we must learn to recognize it and use it.  Let's look at Grace in a slightly different light than you may have done previously

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2011 is just two days away!   The last last two years have been very challenging for just about all of us here in the US and for most of you around the world.  Very uncertain times!  But we know that uncertain times often bring the greatest opportunities for growth, change, health and wealth.   With a new year ready to be born, how we do our part to make 2011 the best year ever, instead of just

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All of the Christian World is familiar with the Christmas story; the Greatest Story Ever Told of the Magi, the manger, the baby Jesus and Mother Mary with Joseph, shepherds, and a chorus of angels.  This is a lovely story which tells a story of wonder, awe and the birth of a new era in human spiritual evolution.  Whether stars can stop in the sky and whether Jesus was born in Nazareth or

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What is meant by Supply?  Is it our money, our job, our home?  No, Supply is the inexhaustible source of all we need to live the abundant life. Let me illustrate by asking you to imagine an orange tree.  The tree is laden with ripe fruit.  We know that the oranges are not supply because they come from the tree; they are the effect of the tree. The tree is not really supply because it and its

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In the Science of Mind philosophy and faith, we speak often about "The Law".   We are referring to the Divine Laws instituted by God before the beginning of time and long before human life appeared on this planet.   There are two realms in human life, the spiritual and the material; with the Spiritual being the creative force of the material.  As I have often said, all humans are spiritual

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In human society, particularly in the West, facts are considered by many to be the building blocks of reality.  As Joe Friday, the old time Los Angeles Police detective on "Dragnet" used to say: "Just the facts, ma'am", when a victim or witness would give a statement; but was Joe getting the truth or just the facts... that's the question.  Are facts necessarily true? I believe the answer

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In my last message we talked about Mental Science and about how we had a "license from God" to use The Law to create the reality of our daily lives.  We discussed how we were the authors of our book of life and that nothing or no one outside of us is responsible for the reality of our lives.     Let's talk today about the ideas in a slender little book written in the 1930's by a wonderful lady

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A Science is built on hypothesis, theory, and investigation.  That investigation may lead to a dead end and no provable truth may result or it may lead to a new piece of "Scientific Fact".   A hypothesis is a statement that a proposition or idea may be true.  If enough evidence suggests that it is probably true then a theory is born.  Not yet fact but well on the way, it could be called a "fetal

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Who are we?  What is God or is there one?  What is the relationship between the divine and the material world?   These are questions that have occupied the mind of mankind since the first humans began to think, speak and reason.  Looking out from our eyes onto the wonders of this Earth and the Universe around us we must wonder how did we get here, why are we here and what is our purpose for

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In just a very short time, the Science of Mind United Kingdom Conference will be here.  Will you be there?  I and my dear wife Susan, Dr. Roger Juline, Dean of the Holmes Institute and his lovely wife Kathy, and a great line up of the top ministers and speakers in Religious Science will be there for a wonderful two days in the seaside resort of Bournemouth, England.  When?  October 23-24, 2010.  

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La verdad es la verdad, is a very common Spanish expression that means, "the truth is the truth".  Is it?  Whose truth?  Is the truth the same in 2010 as it was in the first century?  Is the truth the same now as it was in our grandfather or grandmother's time?  The truth about truth is that it changes and evolves depending on the cultural and political mores of the time.  Yet some of us still

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In the last message we talked a bit about the Science of Mind philosophy and way of life.  It is all built on a realization that God sits not up on a cloud in a place called heaven but is everywhere present all at the same instant.  When we know that God is a Great Mind, a Divine Intelligence whose body is the Universe itself, then we are on the right track to spiritual enlightenment.  It is

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Many of you have been reading this blog for years and perhaps many more are just beginning your journey with me.  It is time to talk about just what Science of Mind is, what we believe about God, about life and about who we are in the Cosmic scheme of things. Please do not confuse Science of Mind, also known as Religious Science, with Scientology.  They have no relationship and not much in

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Do you realize that you never really die?  That is correct, you never really die!  Your body will cease to function and when that happens we say that you are dead but you most certainly are not dead.  The husk, the wrapping, the vessel that you have lived in is dead but you remain very much alive.  You see, you are not your body.  You are your Mind and your Soul.  We often confuse the physical

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Can you picture your dream?  Can you see clearly what you really want in life?  Can you make it so real in your mind that you are there?  Only then will it come true - it will appear in your life as reality to the exact extent that is was real in your mind.  If you cannot see it clearly and cannot believe that you can have it, you never will - no matter how much you may wish, hope and dream. 

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Last week we discussed the 5 Laws of a Happy Life.  The last Law involved imagination.  As far as scientists or theologians can discover,only human beings have a fully developed faculty of imagination.  Other beings can, and often do, deal quite well with the reality that is around them but cannot dream of a different reality and then create it with their thoughts, words and actions.  Humans can

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Yes, We are back!   We experienced blog problems and so had to wait for a software fix.  We regret not being able to be with you for the last two months.   We shall be "playing catch up" so watch your e-mail as we will be posting at least weekly and perhaps more often for a while.  Thank you  for  your understanding and your loyalty. Now...The Good Life! The good life.  The life we were supposed

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In just 24 hours from this writing we will be celebrating New Year 2010. Will this next year bring ease and grace or struggle to our lives? Will 2010 be a year we look back upon with fond memories of great times and abundant living or will it be remembered as a tough year, best forgotten? Will this New Year be the year that we make the big change in our lives or will we experience just 12 more

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Billions of people around the globe know at least the basics of the Christmas Story; The Greatest Story Ever Told, as it is often called. We sing about, read about and hear sermons about the birth of Jesus. We enjoy the Nativity Scenes displayed with the babe in the manger, the "three wise men" with their expensive gifts, the sheep, the cows, the shepherds and, of course, Joseph and Mary. There

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Happiness! Who in the world does not yearn to posses this often elusive state of mind? We all seem to want it; most of us have experienced it for a while only to see it evaporate like mist in the morning.Happiness is enshrined in the consciousness of every American child when he or she learns that in our Declaration of Independence we have the inalienable right, given by God, to Life, Liberty and

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Let's talk about wealth and living the abundant life. In the last message we discussed health and how to begin to use the power of God's Law to heal our body, our mind and our lives. Now we will turn our attention to perhaps the most misunderstood area of human life - wealth and abundant living.In many cultures, notably in the US, there is a very conflicted attitude about wealth. Everyone seems

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In our last post we discussed the ideas of reward and punishment and our deep cultural belief in them. I suppose it appeals to the "fairness" we all seem to seek in a world never designed to be fair. The world is just in the sense of karmic justice; what you put out in life you do receive, pressed down to overflowing. What you sow you surely will reap, but rarely from the same person or in like

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Does God reward us when we are very good and punish us when we are bad? I suspect that most people around the world would say: Yes! Isn't that the way the world works? You get rewarded when you do the right thing and punished when you don't. No, actually it isn't how the world works most of the time and that is what creates the great tension between what we are taught as children in church,

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In my last post I shared with you my views on God and religion and the fact that often religion has much more to do with ceremony, ritual, dogma and rules than about worship and honor of the Creator of all that exists. We also examined together the idea that God has nothing to do with religion, did not create it and cares little for it. If God had created religion, why did he create so many

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Many people that I speak with on this blog site and in my travels seem to equate God and Religion. Many more are turned off on God or even the idea of God; based on their personal experience with religion. I thought it might be good to let you know what I believe and perhaps what Science of Mind generally believes on this subject. I cannot speak for the entire Science of Mind movement, but I

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I suppose the greatest question any human can ask is: What happens when we leave this life? What is death and what comes after? Where do we go from here?Death is for many of us our greatest fear. Why do we fear death from our childhood through each chapter of our lives and on into old age? Perhaps its because so many see it as an ending. An ending of US. A cessation of who and what we are.

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In my last post, entitled "Life Is an Inside Job", we discussed the concept that our life is a result of our thinking. By this I mean that the life we each live is a result of our beliefs, thought patterns, choices and speaking. This is influenced by our genetic heritage, our cultural programming, our parents, or the lack of them, but these are influences only as long as we wish to be influenced

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As I write these messages, I am very aware that my readers are from many cultures in many, many countries around the globe. I know that being an American is to be part of a culture that is very different from the ones that many of you call your own. But I do believe that there is much in the human experience that is universal. I know that all humans have dreams, aspirations and desires for

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For many of us all around the world, things seem pretty frightening right now. Jobs are being lost without warning, investments have gone up in smoke, bad news is pounding us from every cable news channel, our real estate values are evaporating like smoke; little wonder it is so hard to keep our eyes on the Truth that God is our source of supply and our constant strength and help. As my mother

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"Be you transformed by the renewal of your mind". This quote from Paul's Letters to the Romans is one of the clearest and most powerful statements of the Scriptural basis of Science of Mind and, indeed, of all Christianity. Jesus did not teach that it is done unto you as you wish, hope or beg. Jesus did not teach that it is done unto you because you are a wonderful person and deserve it. Jesus

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For my many readers outside the US, a little explanation of the title of this message is needed. In America, a basic University class, such as College English or Western Civilization is called a "101" course, as in Western Civ 101. Demonstration is what we in Science of Mind call the manifestation in your life of that which you desire and do Treatment (affirmative prayer) to create in your

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Many times it seems that teachers are better at talking the talk than walking the walk. "Those that can, do and those that can't, teach!" I was a high school and college teacher for more than a decade and like all teachers, I did not like that saying one bit. As they say, the truth hurts!The older I have gotten and the more experience I have had in careers outside of teaching the more I believe

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It has been said that if you look at a person's life, you are seeing a snapshot of what is inside that person. I believe that this is entirely true. Every major religion in this world says basically that this is so. Jesus told his disciples when asked where the Kingdom of Heaven (defined as peace, abundance, joy and the happy life) was: "Look not up there or over here or to this one or that one,

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The world is getting a good housecleaning right now. I know it looks like hard times, maybe a recession of some length, but it is really a global housecleaning. These happen about every 20 years or so to remind us to get back to basic principles. This becomes necessary when "good times" encourage too much license and flaunting of the rules of common sense. Human Evolution and spiritual growth

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Are you worried, frightened or just anxious right now? If so, you are certainly not alone. These are very uncertain times and as human beings we don't like uncertainty, which is rather strange since there really isn't anything certain at all except that the Sun will rise tomorrow morning and set tomorrow evening. Everything else is in constant flux and change.Indeed, it has been said that change

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I believe that many of us have the idea that the Laws of the Universe (Divine Law) are almost impossible to understand by the average person and that they are best left to theologians and professors of philosophy.We may have gotten this deep seated belief from being told that "God Works In Mysterious Ways" by a priest, minister or rabbi. They use this bromide as a way of answering the 3 toughest

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As I was thinking about the topic for this week's message, it occurred to me that just about all of us are pretty good at getting around in the physical world. We can understand what we can see, feel, touch, taste, smell as long it is "in the natural" or physical realm. When talk of the spiritual world comes up in conversation people almost always get uneasy, as if a taboo subject has been

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Awakened Heart Ministries is devoted to the personal empowerment of people all over this planet, regardless of language, culture, religion or environment. Do you realize that literally billions of people are unknowingly "doing time" in a mental prison of their own construction? They yearn for something more; someone or something that will free them from the life they are living and make their

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Tomorrow, July 4th, Americans will celebrate the 232nd birthday of this glorious and beautiful nation that I am proud to call my native land. Families from Maine to California, Alaska to Florida, Hawaii to the US Virgin Islands, will celebrate with good food, quite a lot of liquid refreshment and fireworks. Oh my, the fireworks - that is what the 4th signifies for many Americans. As I write this

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On this blog we talk about "The Law" quite often. What do we mean when we say the "Law"?In the Science of Mind we believe that the entire Universe and everything in it is a result of the thought of God, the Universal Mind, the Divine Intelligence. God always acts in accordance with a series of Laws, that He instituted and through which He creates and runs the Universe. These Laws are totally

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The two most powerful words in the Universe are "I Am".The Bible tells us that I AM is the very name of God. When Moses asked God his name, I AM was the answer. That is the name of God, He is the Great I AM. God is First Cause, has always existed, indeed is all that exists outside of God. Do you realize that you and I create our reality and our lives by speaking His name a hundred times a day.

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Science of Mind is a part of a spiritual movement often known by the name New Thought. There is nothing "new" about New Thought. It is older than such "mainline denominations" as the Baptist Church, The Methodist Church, Assemblies of God, Church of Christ, The United Church of Christ and many others. Johannus Swedenborg, the seminal Swedish Theologian, is often thought to be the father of New

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In Science of Mind we often seem to outsiders to be in a constant state of denial because we do not speak, think or act from a nagative point of view. Nothing could be further from the truth. Because we talk and think only about what we want and ignore what we don't want in our lives does not mean that we do not know or see life's challanges. In fact, Science of Mind teaches that you ignore an

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We have probably all heard the phrase: "Made in the image and likeness of God". What exactly does that mean? When I was young and exploring my spirituality, my rather avant garde mother encouraged me to go to different churches of different denominations and see which, if any, fit my needs and personality. She did not do church although she did believe in a Higher Power and did pray. I owe Mom my

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The Apostle Paul is credited with the phrase: Pray without ceasing. By this he meant that we should make our lives a constant prayer. Did he mean that we should spend our lives kneeling with hands folded and speaking formula prayers?No, he did not! He understood the true nature of prayer. Prayer is to thought as a laser is to light. Prayer is finely focused thought with the power to renew our

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It is very important to know who you are! How many of us have taken the time to ponder the question: Who am I? What is a human being and why are we endowed so differently than any other life form on this planet? Are we the products of evolution and the natural extension of the great apes? Or were we created out of whole cloth in just six days about 5,000 years ago? Or perhaps the answer lies

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How many of you have made a New Year's resolution? I have made a thousand of them, if I have made one. A few actually were achieved but most were just "good intentions". Good intentions are rather like hope. Better than the alternative but just barely! They are soft, weak, well meaning but posess little or no power for real change. As New Year 2008 dawns in a few hours I invite you to try

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Christmas is one of my favorite times of year, is it yours? I went to a lovely Singing Christmas Tree program at a large Baptist Church in my town - yes I was in the front row of a Baptist Church! It was extremely well done, the music was delightful, the story very traditional and the short message, couched in a "thank you for being here", was appropriate and very upbeat. Kudos to First Sarasota,

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In this fast paced 21st Century world that we all share, why do we still care about a young Jewish man who lived sometime around the beginning of the First Century CE? (common era, the new politically correct replacement for AD) Isn't Jesus rather irrelevant today?I do not believe that Jesus will ever be irrelevant until love, joy, abundance and brotherhood are irrelevant. I hope that I do

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As a Religious Scientist I sometimes miss Jesus. Oh, I know that the Master Teacher is always there, ready to come into my heart and mind whenever I am open to the experience. But I miss hearing more about the real Jesus - the magnificent man who transcended his humanity in a way that no other person that we know of has done. You see, those of us in Science of Mind (Religious Science), while once

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I have often said on this blog that using the Law is simple but it is seldom easy. That is so true for so many of us - including me! If you read last week's message you know that the Law is another way of describing God's operating system - how the Universe works and how we co-create our own personal reality. If you remember, we discussed the idea that we create our reality, our life experience,

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When I was a child I had a very difficult time understanding how God could allow all the bad things that happened to the Earth and her people. Why were thousands killed in an earthquake in Tokyo and hundreds dead of Hurricane Donna in the Gulf Coast? Doesn't God control all things, including the weather? Doesn't God care about what happens to his children? Why doesn't he protect us and keep us

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Prayer is perhaps the most powerful spiritual tool available to the human race; but it is also the most misunderstood and misused.Most of us were taught as children to pray kneeling by our bedside with our hands together, our head bowed and our eyes shut. We were taught to repeat words that asked a great being far, far away in heaven (where that was we had no idea) to grant us a favor or keep us

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In our last message, we introduced our readers to the idea of "Revision", the technique of freeing yourself from the shackles of your past. Remember, we did not advocate denying or ignoring what is happening in your life right here and now! But you do not have to be a slave to your past hurts, failures and errors. How can we "turn the wheel backward" and use this wonderful spiritual tool to heal

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Have you ever thought, as I have, that it would be grand if we could rewind the tape recording of our life to erase some things that we have done to others or experiences that have happened to us?I suppose that many of us have entertained these thoughts but dismissed them as idle foolishness, after all no one can do that-can they? If we could erase the hurtful or shameful parts of our past,

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The Science of Mind Philosophy is rooted in a bedrock belief in Divine Law. We do not believe in a capricious God that rewards and punishes. We do not believe in a "Parent God" whose relationship with us mirrors that of our Earthly parents. We conceive God to be our Creator - the Most High God and the Indwelling God; one and the same. We believe that the action of God in our lives is impersonal

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I am writing to you from London tonight. I have just returned from a small English town by the name of King's Langley in the County of Hertfordshire, about an hour north of London. In the auditorium of a secondary school in this quiet village (the world headquarters of Ovaltine) took place the first Science of Mind conference held in the UK since 1909! How remarkable that Science of Mind and New

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The greatest idea in the Universe is that everything begins in Mind. It is the key to all creation. It is the answer to every question; the root of all knowledge. This one great idea of Universal Truth unlocks the secret of health, wealth and happiness. The control lever of your life is your mind - it's all in you!Where is Mind? Is it up in the sky somewhere? Is it God? Is it an old man in a

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Every person on this planet has experienced growing from a baby to a child then into an adolescent and finally into an adult. That is the natural progression of life which ends with our transition into another state of being and another form (used to call this death).Do you know that all three stages of your being are designed to evolve and grow into maturity? Yes, your body, your mind and your

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What makes one person always seem to be on the winning side of life while another always seems to miss the brass ring - never seems to get a "break"? Oh, I know that we like to say that there are no winners or losers in life and, to an extent, that is true. We all end up the same place and we all have to die first to get there!However, we all know people that have a life journey filled with fun,

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Guilt, shame, poor self image, depression, feelings of worthlesness. These are epidemic in our culture today; especially here in the United States. So many people that I encounter in my daily life seem to be haunted by the shadow of past hurts or the shame of things they have done. In Science of Mind, we teach that what you are inside - your inner man or woman - is perfectly reflected in your

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"Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts"! If you are old enough to name the wildly popular TV show that this line came from, then you are getting on a bit, aren't you? Yes, me too! That phrase was spoken by Seargent Joe Friday of the Los Angeles Police Department on "Dragnet" every week for over 10 years! Our society has a great reverence for "facts"; so much so that we are told that to depart

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`Wayne Dyer put it well. "Living in the past is like trying to steer a boat while staring at the wake!" So it is with life.Millions and millions of us are trying to steer our lives while fixated on events long gone, dead - never to return. Many of us have set our hearts and minds on an event or series of events in our lives that were particularly shattering to our sense of self and our

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The Secret, it seems is the next big thing to hit the web, the blogs, the television, Newsweek Magazine and even your neighborhood video rental store.Oprah has gotten behind The Secret and given it the highest visibility possible; bringing its message into potentially every home in America. Newsweek did a feature article on The Secret, as did the New York Times. Their contributions were to bash

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Every human on this planet has a power at his/her disposal that can transform every day of their life into paradise on Earth. This power unleashes a process whereby even more of what we have and what we desire is given to us. We become a magnet for that which we desire. It is so simple, so easy, so elemental that it is hard to imagine that most people rarely, if ever, use this power. What is this

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The poor will always be with us! These words of Jesus The Christ seem so indifferent to suffering; almost cruel. Didn't Jesus pity the poor, feel bad for them, want to improve their lot? Yes...and NO!Yes, I believe that Jesus was a very compassionate man who loved humanity and really cared about all of us. No, I do not believe that he felt it was in his power or anyone's power to lift up the poor

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Life Purpose seems to be a major preoccupation with many of us at the dawn of the 21st Century. Perhaps it is because this is a time of great change. A time of a great leap forward in human spiritual evolution. We are at the time of transition between Ages (An Age is roungly 2000 to 2100 years). The Piscean Age began at the dawn of the 1st Century CE or about the time of the birth of Christ. The

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One of the most enduring questions asked by human kind seems to be: "Where do we go from here?" Sometimes we hear the corollary which is: "Is this all there is?"Life is short and as we get older it seems to get shorter and shorter and time flies by. Remember when we were youngsters and a year seemed like an eternity? I used to count my age in halves, as in I am seven and a HALF as if that made

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Science of Mind teaches that you create your reality with your thinking. We do not subscribe to the common belief that reality exists outside of us. "Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life" is our slogan and byword. Your thoughts are you. You think therefore you are. Without thought there is no sentient life. To exist is to think. Therefore, what you think is who and what you are.Of course the

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In my work as a minister I often am asked "How can we know that God exists?" Usually this question is followed by: "How can there be a God who allows terrorist attacks, global warming, poverty, inequality and all the ills of the world?" More than a few people I speak with seem to blame God for the actions of humankind as if a just God should save us from ourselves. God has granted us the most

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No matter what else is going on in your life, you can be absolutely sure of one thing. You are loved beyond measure by your Creator, that Divine Intelligence, that beautiful Spirit we call God. No matter what you have done or failed to do in your life; you are loved. No matter how often you fall short of the person you think that you should be; you are loved. No matter what you have been taught

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For nearly 2,000 years the Western World has been taught some basic truths. The man we call Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God. He was born of a virgin whose name was Mary; she was impregnated by God Himself. God sent His only begotten Son to Earth to bring a New Covenant to mankind and to pay our sin debt in full. Therefore, only by repenting of our sins and making Jesus our personal

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Let me say right from the beginning that I am a huge fan of Yeshua Ben David. Who is he? Why that is the man we built one of the world's largest religions around! You know him as Jesus Christ. How did an Essene Jew named Yeshua (Joshua in English) become Jesus Christ and how did a man who repeatedly stated that he was not sent to spawn a new religion but to reform the old one - Judaism - become

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Did you know that every thing in your world begins in Mind? Strange as it might seem to the casual student of spirituality, it is true that nothing just happens. All of life begins in the mind of a person or in the much greater mind of God. When we understand that everything begins in Mind, we begin to see how we have created the life we now have, how the world got into the state it is in and how

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Did you know that the God who made the Natural Laws that govern the physical Universe (gravity, motion, hydraulics, kinetics, etc) also made Spiritual Laws that govern the way life works, the way everything that exists is created and the way we interact with God. When we in New Thought (Science of Mind) speak of The Law, that is what we are saying. The Law is simply the way things work in the

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What does Science of Mind believe about the Bible? Is the Bible the literal word of God? Can we trust that everything in Scripture is the literal truth and historical fact? Did the stories told in the Bible really happen as they were written?These are questions that many are asking in these turbulent times. The answer is not a simple one. There is no way for us to prove that much of the Bible is

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One question I hear more than any other is: "Why does God allow suffering? Isn't God our loving Father"? Before I came back into the Science of Mind way of life from my foray into the Episcopal and Lutheran churches (due to spousal request) I used to be troubled by these same questions. As I re-learned the true nature of God I remembered why God and suffering have absolutely nothing to do with

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Many of us were brought up to believe that life happened to us; that our life was created independently from who we were inside and what we thought and did. This just isn't true and it never has been. Scripture tells us that "as within, so without". This means that our lives, are but a reflection of what is inside of us. In other words, our thoughts and deeply held beliefs about life and the

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What does Science of Mind say about Jesus The Christ? The Science of Mind philosophy holds that God has sent many teachers for many cultures and eras. Some of these great teachers have earned the designation of Kristos, which in ancient Greek meant the annointed one. We translate this to Christ. These great messengers of God have taught a thread of Truth that runs through every great religion;

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What state are you in? No, not California or Florida but what mental and spiritual state of mind are you in? Do you realize that your state of mind right now is creating your life experience tomorrow and the day after and after? It's true, the state of mind in which you habitually find yourself determines the course of your life. You are the creator of your own personal reality. The Bible speaks

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