Tuesday, April 13

"There is only one Spirit—of Truth. There may be many divisions, as there may be many drops of water in the ocean yet they are all of the ocean." Edgar Cayce reading 262-87  Western cultures have bred a type of human being who feels strongly alienated from everything which is not his own consciousness. He is a stranger both to the external world and to his own body, and in this sense, he has lost his connection with the surrounding universe. He does not know that the “ultimate inside” of himself is the same as the “ultimate inside” of the cosmos, or that, in other words, his sensation of being “I” is a glimmering intimation of what the universe itself feels like on the inside. He has been taught to regard everything outside human skins as so much witless mechanism which has nothing whatsoever in common with human feelings and values. This style of man must therefore see himself as the ghastly and tragic accident of sensitive and intelligent tissue caught up in the cosmic toils like a mouse in a cotton gin. ― Alan Watts, Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship Tuesday, April 20 "Don't let a day go by without meditation and prayer for some definite purpose, and not for self, but that self may be the channel of help to someone else. For in helping others is the greater way to help self." Edgar Cayce reading 3624-1 Thursday, April 22 "MEDITATE, often. Separate yourself for a season from the cares of the world. Get close to nature and LEARN from the lowliest of that which manifests in nature, in the earth; in the birds, in the trees, in the grass, in the flowers, in the bees..." (ECRL 1089-3) Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness. ― Stanislav Grof Wednesday, April 28 "In the developing financial gains for oneself, be sure that all of the relative forces with mental and material weigh well together and that choices made where the individual would develop for the betterment in a financial world… These should be handled in the manner in keeping with the mental forces, weighed with the spiritual understanding of self and the duty to others." (ECRL 8-4)