the miracle self

THEMIRACLESELF

PAUL F. GORMAN

THEMIRACLESELF

THEMIRACLESELF

PAUL F. GORMAN

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The Miracle SelfCopyright © 2008 by Paul F. Gorman

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* * *Dedicated to

my wonderful son, Tristanand beautiful daughter, Grace

You are eachin your unique waythe Miracle Self

present here on earth.

I love you!

* * *

CONTENTS

Introduction

The Invisible Made VisibleIt’s MeLight on an Extraordinary TruthCalm The Rippling of The MindThe Secret of Demonstration is to Lift AboveThe Visible

A Shocking RealisationThe Infusion of AwarenessUnder The Control of SpiritIf You go to Bed Tonight...Personalising: The Great MistakeRealising Self-Complete OmnipresenceThe Highest Form of MeditationSpirit is Only Able to Enter an “Empty House”Only Spirit is SupplyAn Important Clarity on SupplyThe Self-Contained LifeSow, And The Reaping Will Take Care of Itself7 StepsLet GoIt is DoneBelief After Silence is ImportantThe Deep WellThe Master Ability to DemonstrateIf You Were The Only Person in The WorldMy Kingdom is Not of This World

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INTRODUCTION

Why, if spirit really does exist, and if we are all one with It—onewith the very essence of Life, love, harmony, abundance and joyItself—do we suffer? Why, after more than 150 years of meta-physics and metaphysical techniques—such as visualisation, affir-mation, positive mental attitude, tithing and meditation—plus4000 years of truth teachings and demonstrations given to us bythe greatest spiritual masters who walked the earth, are we, as ageneral world populace, and commonly individually, still in the gripof disease, lack, limitation, war or threat of war, and discord?

How can an individual study dozens, even hundreds, of bookswritten on the subject of spirituality and truth, and practice dili-gently, yet suffer the same degree of hardship, illness, injustice anddisharmony as those who do not study or practice?

Why is it that you or I can seek spiritual health, prosperity, love,success and true purpose in life for years or decades yet fail toexperience the tangible fruitage?

The answer is this: Metaphysics has lost its way in deviatingfrom the pure truth as taught by the Masters of old. The pure Truthis principle not caprice, therefore repeatable. When the Mastershealed the sick, fed the multitudes, demonstrated abundance ofall, and brought peace where there was disharmony they were notonly demonstrating the presence and ever availability of theInfinite, but revealing the principle involved so that anyone—including you and me, here and now—can do the same.

This is the secret revealed and taught in a series of break-through lessons in The Miracle Self given by a spiritual light who’stravelled the path before you, and has much to show you.

“The minute you discover even a grain of the truth of Spirit andtherefore of yourself, and then you learn to rest in Its sublimePeace and Wholeness, you not only release the miracle within, butexperience a sustained life of such harmony, love, health, abun-dance, success and fulfilment that living takes on a completelynew, higher and more richly rewarding purpose and fruitage thanever the mind could imagine.”—Paul Gorman.

In The Miracle Self Paul has given the world a teaching that

infallibly leads to demonstration—by principle. As he illustrates, inthe same way you can rely on and trust the principle of mathemat-ics, music, and gravity, so you can rely on and trust the principlethat is Spirit—the Infinite Invisible substance and form of all exis-tence.

“When the mind has ceased its words and thoughts, its mentalefforts and struggles, and becomes silent and transparent—openand receptive to the Silence Itself—then Spirit is tangibly wit-nessed within as harmony, life, love and abundance of all, thenexperienced as the outer material harmony. Silence is the principle,and the miracle itself.”

If you have read spiritual books, attended seminars, practicedmeditation, visualisation, affirmation, incantation, and tithing withlittle or no sustained tangible result here is teaching that can, final-ly, be the catalyst for your breakthrough.

This is not a coffee table book, nor a work you’ll read once thendelegate to the book shelf. You will want to keep it by your side, dip-ping into it each day, sometimes each hour, drawing truth andinspiration that gently evokes your silence of mind. Each chaptercontains a clarity and power you’ve not found in metaphysicalteachings—a clarity that is enabling breakthroughs for spiritualstudents the world over.

In these pages you rediscover the ancient art, principle andactual demonstration of the miracle in every day life, here and now.Once the profound, yet in essence, simple, principle is lived eachhour of each day—a joyous, often ecstatic experience itself—indi-vidual life becomes glorious, beautiful and bountiful without limit,overflowing with the tangible fruitage of health, love, relationship,prosperity, home, success, attainment and true life purpose.

It truly is a miracle—the Miracle within you, functioning asyou, and pouring through you into your outer world of body, mind,people, activities, things, places, situations and conditions in joy-ous harmony, synchronicity and abundance.

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

The Invisible Made Visible

The problems of humankind are experienced because of mistakenidentity—an identity which assumes itself as being limited mindand finite form, rather than limitless mind and spiritual form.

This is a spiritual universe; a spiritual world. You, I, and allbeings, and all things and situations, are Spirit. All being is Spirit,yet experienced through the mind as material form—people, ani-mals, insects, plants, vegetables, things, places and conditions.

The mind experiences pairs of opposites—good and bad. InSpirit there is no opposite. There is no good versus bad, there isjust Oneness, life Itself, abundance Itself, love Itself—the all-per-vading fulfilment of being, without opposition.

While we are ignorant of our true identity, and the true identi-ty of all in this world, while we trust and rely on the material for-mations of life only, we are bound by degrees of limitation, lack, illhealth and frustration inwardly and outwardly.

When we awaken to our true identity and the true identity of allpeople, things, places and conditions—which is Spirit—miracles oflove, reformation, life, success, happiness and abundance quicklybecome our individual experience.

The Invisible Infinity of Being

Spirit is incorporeal—invisible, infinite, omnipresent. Even thoughthe mind sees and operates with what we call materiality or corpo-reality—corporeal people, functions, substances, materials, objects,conditions and places—all of what we see, hear, taste, touch, smelland think, and all of the ways in which we use every ‘thing’ andinteract with every ‘person’ and ‘situation’ is—despite how ‘real’ thephysical nature of it appears to be—incorporeal.

This is the secret of secrets. It is the ultimate truth.We do not need further understanding when we’ve grasped this

mind-shattering awareness—not just intellectually, but deep with-in our ourselves, as a deep knowingness that we enable to escapethrough us, out, into and as the outer appearing world of people,places, things, and activities.

When we finally possess this knowingness all day and night—when it’s permeated and saturated our entire inner senses—we findourselves in a paradise of inner and outer joy, life, success and hap-piness.

Nothing can enter our life that is anything less than fulfilment:nothing to do with body, business, employment, home, friend,lover, travel, employee, customer, student or patient.

Even those people, animals, things and conditions we experi-ence day by day no longer register as just corporeal; we see—per-ceive—through the appearance to the invisible nature of him, heror it. We have an inner awareness. We know that every person andthing is Spirit appearing materially to our minds.

So we dismiss the way the mind registers our world, and we restin the glorious awareness that all is Spirit and therefore all is blissand perfection, without limit, here and now, despite appearances.

That firm knowingness has immediate harmonising and healingpower. When you can truly look at anything, or any situation orcondition at all, and not be fooled, but deeply know that it is spir-it and therefore perfect life, abundant supply, complete harmony,health, happiness and fulfilment you’ll witness ‘healings’ andimprovements everywhere you go. Wherever you are the harmonyof being becomes evident.

You’ll see miracle regeneration, turnarounds, opportunities.You’ll see love present everywhere—love bursting forth from

within every person, thing and situation. You’ll see the effects ofthis extraordinary universe of love pour out into visibility as tangi-ble material people, things, events and places.

But you must never be fooled. Even as the universe pours outinto visibility its lavish life, abundance and harmony in every direc-tion you must continually know what is really happening: the ever-present incorporeal spirit is appearing as incorporeal people, thingsand places in a form that the mind is convinced is, and experiencesas, corporeal—visible form.

You must forever dismiss the material images and concepts ofwhich the mind is convinced. You must see ‘through’ everythingand realise (have the perception of) the incorporeality of absolute-

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ly everything that ever presents itself to you.When we achieve this, eighty or ninety percent of our individ-

ual world is found to be paradise prepared for us, ready and wait-ing for us to walk into and enjoy without limit—“Before they call Ihave answered”—the joys and fruits of which we can indiscrimi-nately give, serve, and share with others.

On the few occasions when collective mind belief finds its wayinto our consciousness we quickly recognise it for what it is andknow how to deal with it: by lifting awareness up and out of thematerial scene and by realising the incorporeality of spiritual har-mony right where, and as, the very people, things and conditionsthe mind sees as corporeal and problematic.

Two of The Major ChallengesFacing The World

Two of the major challenges faced by millions throughout theworld—ill health and lack—are found to have their cause in themind’s insistence in seeing and believing this universe to be mate-rial instead of spiritual.

The awareness of spirit being the only presence dissolves thesematerial problems, to reveal life, abundance and fulfilment of pur-pose.

Let’s assume that we, at this moment, face a problem we areunable to solve mentally or physically, or even by traditional meta-physical means. The problem could be one of health, supply, rela-tionship, home, employment, business, morals or sense of worthand purpose.

From the perspective of the mind the need is the material solu-tion to the problem. Our thoughts are obsessed with the need forhealing, money, opportunity, love, relationship or companionship,more customers, a nicer home, a happier family, better morals,greater safety—whatever we see as being the outer need and solu-tion to the problem. It is logical and real to the mind. It is commonsense. It is reality. The mind is incapable of knowing more than thematerial—corporeal—forms of life, therefore it accepts only amaterial, physical solution. The outer physical or material forms oflife and fulfilment are the mind’s only yard stick. It has no other.

There is nothing wrong with that as far as it goes. In fact, thereis everything right with it as far as it goes. But ‘as far as it goes’ isthe mental and material realm of awareness only—the very causeof all problems amongst the human race.

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A Greater Awareness is Required

We must raise awareness—each one, individually—above the levelof mind-only awareness. If we do not, we will continue to experi-ence the great limits of the mind, and suffer them. There is nomagic cure despite the promises made in many of the world’s meta-physical teachings.While the mind remains dominant spiritual har-mony cannot appear.

We must realise: Spirit is infinite; Spirit fills all space. Spirit iseverything, everywhere. Spirit is incorporeal—invisible to themind—and yet, because Spirit is infinite, filling all space, beingeverything everywhere, what the mind sees, hears, tastes, touches,smells, and thinks is actually Spirit appearing as all these forms ofsense and activity, but misinterpreted by the mind.

Spirit Does Not Change Its Nature,Character, Substance, Infinity

The mind interprets Spirit conceptually. Everything we see, hear,taste, touch, smell or think is a concept of spirit but not SpiritItself. Spirit is infinite, eternal, untouchable, immovable, unchang-ing. Spirit does not change its nature, character, substance, orinfinity. It cannot. It is eternal allness, self-completeness, inde-structible fulfilment of being. No one, nor any thing, can changethe fullness, bliss and omnipresence of Spirit one iota. Neither canSpirit be contained in or by the mind. Think about that: Spirit can-not be contained in or by the mind and yet we have thought we canbring spiritual fulfilment to our lives by the use of the intellect, andby affirmation, visualisation, positive thinking, right doing, correctgiving and the like. Is not all of this using the mind and physicali-ty?

What you and I see as a person or ‘thing’ is actually Spirit Itself,existing as that person or thing—Spirit unchanged in nature, char-acter, substance and infinity. The person or ‘thing’ does not actual-ly exist as your mind or mine experiences it. The mind experiencesa person or ‘thing’ but it is actually Spirit, the whole of Spirit, infin-ity Itself, abundance Itself!, bliss Itself!, life Itself!

The ‘form’ you see is an illusion—a very convincing illusion noone can argue!, but an illusion nevertheless. Therefore, if you aretrying to bring ‘more’ or ‘improved’ illusion into the illusion, youfail. It cannot be done because the illusion doesn’t exist in the

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pureness of reality. It seems to exist; the mind is convinced it does.But it does not. What the mind experiences the person or thing tobe is actually nothingness compared with what she, he, or it trulyis.

How can you improve a person or object that does not, in real-ity, exist as you see it? It is impossible.

Can You Brighten a Sunset?

If you are watching a sunset and believe the sun is turning itselfoff—because it is now a gentle orange glow rather than the blazingwhite intensity it was an hour ago—you are believing a trick of themind.

The sun is, of course, just as intensely bright as it is twenty-fourhours a day, yet the mind is watching it become a dim glow. Thedimness appears real enough, and to a child who has never seen asunset it may be unquestionable: the sun is turning itself off. Tothe mind that knows—the mind that has risen above the belief ina sun that turns itself off at night—the puzzle is easy: what is beingwitnessing is simply an illusion of the senses.

The adult mind is not fooled by it.Likewise, if you have raced on a go kart track, you will have dis-

covered that what seems like one hundred miles per hour is actu-ally only fifteen or twenty miles per hour. The same fifteen or twen-ty miles per hour experienced in a car or truck seems like a snail’space because you’re sitting two or three feet above the ground. Butin a go kart you are inches off the ground. Your proximity to theground makes just fifteen or twenty miles per hour seem like onehundred.

The feeling of high speed is an illusion of the senses. When youare familiar with it you are no longer fooled.

In the same way, we must now rise above the ‘infant’ belief thatthe material, physicality of life is ‘real’. Matter is not ‘real’ becausethe only thing present where the mind experiences matter—whether it be body, person, building, money, relationship, city,beach, ocean, office or factory—is Spirit.

Spirit—The Only Presence

Spirit is the only presence, the only thing, the only person, the onlyplace, the only condition because Spirit is infinite and thereforefills all space. There is no space left for ‘you’ or ‘me’ or ‘body’ or


‘money’ or ‘city’ or ‘dog’—or whatever material thing or being we arethinking of. Spirit does not change Its nature, character, substanceor infinity. There is only Spirit, therefore no matter what you needor desire, as known by the mind, no matter what it is or how largeor critical it is, the real and only need is Spirit. When you knowSpirit, Spirit appears as the need or desire fulfiled in the material,physical senses of the mind—i.e. Spirit appears as the tangibleneed fulfiled whether that be health or healing of the body, pros-perity of the finances or of employment or business, opportunity,fulfilment of purpose, loving relationships, happy family, safety,security, beautiful new home, and so on, without limit.The moment you grasp this and start desiring Spirit instead of the

forms Spirit assumes you’ve cracked the greatest secret in the uni-verse.

You have found your direct access to infinity and you can haveas much of it as you wish because there is no limit to infinity. Theallness of infinite good exists right now, within you. It is only a mat-ter of how much you dwell in that awareness thereby letting It pourout into and as your tangible harmonious world of self and cir-cumstances.

There is no limit, no amount, no time frame, no season, no lack,no process when you walk through your day realising the incorpo-reality and therefore infinity and omnipresence of all.Please understand this!When you understand it there is no more you need from me or

any other spiritual teacher or teaching that has ever existed. You’refree! You have become the very infinity of abundance and blissyou’ve been searching for for years. You have discovered that youare it.

I am THAT I AM. I am what I have been searching for.That which I have been seeking, I AM.I AM the entire incorporeal universe existing as me, right here,

and as everything I experience and involve myself with. The entireuniverse supports me, shines here AS me, maintains me, protects me,supplies me but I must have an awareness of the incorporeality of allbefore I am able to witness the infinity of all as an actual tangibleexperience.

You are one with the infinity of all because both Spirit and ‘you’are the one incorporeal existence, the one existence that fills allspace aware of Itself at that point called ‘you’.

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You are not what the mind has assumed you are, a corporealform with a corporeal mind that needs corporeal people, things andsituations to survive or thrive. Form is never again seen or desiredthe way the mind sees and desires it.

You have risen above the mind in awareness into spiritual dis-cernment. You know that everything is incorporeal and you havediscovered that the knowing of this great secret, and the resting init with a peaceful, transparent consciousness, is enough to openwide the floodgates of heaven and witness the great and boundlesstreasures of the infinite right here where you are, every day andnight.

But you have to start from where you are. What do you do? Howdo you make this practical so that the riches of the infinite life,success and supply become your reality here and now, and forever-more?

Let’s make this very practical and quick. Many people ask me,“How long will it take for my needed harmony to become tangible?”How long will it take you to realise that the setting sun is not turn-ing itself off? It’s up to you. If—every time you witness the settingsun you have the discipline to remember it is not turning itself off,it is just an optical illusion—then very quickly you will not have to‘work’ at it. You’ll simply know it.

By the way, your knowing it doesn’t stop you enjoying the illu-sion of the setting sun, or a thousand, or ten thousand of them.

Your knowing the illusion of money, clothes, car, home, goodfood, good travel, good movies, good theatre and concerts doesn’tstop you enjoying these ‘things’ of life, and an abundance of them.It is just that you are never again fooled by the appearance anymorethan you are fooled by the appearance of the sunset.

The Miracle Self Method

Whenever your mind begins to think of what the material need is—health, love, money, home, happiness, safety, security—quicklycatch it and lift your thinking to incorporeal Spirit as everything,everywhere.

Realise that Spirit is the limitless and perfect supply at everypoint in space, for every situation, for every need and for every truedesire and it is already fully manifest right where you are.

There is no unmanifest spirit. Spirit already exists in Its mani-fested infinity right there where your mind latches onto a corpore-al appearance of a ‘need’. Lift your awareness away from the


appearance of a need into the atmosphere of the omnipresence—the absolute overflowing allness—of Spirit filling the very space themind is looking at and sees a lack, limitation or discord.

Then rest the mind. Stop the thoughts and words the mindoccupies itself with. Stop thinking even about the infinite incorpo-real omnipresence that is Spirit everywhere, filling all space. Stopthinking about Spirit. Get still, peaceful, and silent and let SpiritItself flood into your awareness like an ocean floods a cavern.

In your silence let Spirit do the work. Let Spirit rush in. LetSpirit be your awareness. It is right there waiting for your stillnessand silence twenty-four hours a day, ready to rush in and floodevery nook and cranny of your being and experience. Do not try tobring the complete awareness to yourself because that will be “try-ing amiss.” Spirit is everything, everywhere and Spirit is aware ofItself right where you are, as you, and as everything about you,every finite detail, need and desire—spiritually, incorporeally—because Spirit is you and everything about you. Mind is incapableof knowing or experiencing Spirit so let Spirit do it. Spirit to spir-it… Spirit to spirit… Spirit to spirit... not Spirit to corporeal ‘per-son,’ ‘thing’ or ‘condition’ but Spirit to spirit… Incorporeal InfiniteAll to incorporeal infinite all even though the mind sees it as afinite ‘thing’ or ‘person’ or ‘amount’ or ‘condition’ appearing tangi-bly.

The Fulfilment of Every Need

The Self-awareness of Spirit—meaning Spirit being aware ofItself, now tuned into by you, in and as you, as an actual awarenessyou receive or feel within—is the fulfilment of the need.

Spirit is the self-completeness of every point in space, the veryspace or situation the mind is seeing as ‘needing’ improvement, lifeor prosperity. Do you see that? There never was a need but mindsaw what it thought of as a need, because it sees only corporeally.

The incorporeal wholeness is already existing where the mind isseeing a corporeal need. There is no corporeal need anymore thanthere is corporeal anything; there is only incorporeal everything so,again, the mind is falling for an illusion of its own making.Think, think! Spirit being aware of Itself right at the place

where the mind is seeing a need is the fulfilment itself. It is oneand the same. Spirit is the blissful fulfilment of all, and it alreadyexists.

The Self-awareness of Spirit is also the fulfiling form the mind

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thinks it needs. Except now you know that Spirit is incorporeal andSpirit is everything, everywhere. The fulfiling form already existsright here and right there. It always has existed right where youneed or want it but because the mind senses only corporeally it isincapable of seeing the incorporeal Spirit already existing, eternal-ly existing, as the ‘need’ fulfiled, right there, right in that very spotwhere you sense the need.

Spirit And Form Are One

Spirit does not change Its form from invisible to visible. All is one—

I and the Father are one.Jesus

The nameless is the origin of heaven and earth;the named is the mother of all things.These two are the same:they are only different nameswhen they become manifest.They both may be called the cosmic mystery.

Lao Tzu

The One is in eternal manifested existence wherever you areand in whatever form you need or desire it, without limit, withoutquestion, without effort.

All already exists. Except—remember—all form is incorporealnot corporeal. All of everything everywhere is incorporeal whichthe mind is incapable of experiencing. On knowing this our job isto let the incorporeal allness reveal Itself to our awareness. LetSpirit rush into the ‘empty cavern’ of our consciousness, no longercluttered with thoughts, words, ideas, schemes, fears all based ona corporeal, finite sense of existence.

Into the stillness, peace and silence of consciousness rushes theentire universe of Spirit, and all is well. All harmony, health, abun-dance and joy is revealed. It is felt within as a welling-up of peace,or joy, or a sense of ‘release’ from the problem the mind beholds, oras euphoria, or light, or heat, or sometimes as a clarity of meaning,a statement you have known for months or years but suddenly now‘get’—a great clarity or depth of meaning suddenly bursting intoyour awareness.

This is how we know and experience Spirit. This is how we


realise the incorporeal Presence that is the fulfilment already exist-ing but now tuned into by us in the complete silence, stillness andpeace of mind.

Then, the ‘infant’ mind which experiences only corporeally, stillwitnesses an illusion in the ‘outer’ world except now it witnesses ahealthy, harmonious and prosperous illusion. It sees the need ful-filed as health, healing, love, money, home, travel, opportunity.Whatever the need or desire has been, as deemed by the mind, isfulfiled in the outer realm—the realm of the mind and its materialformations. But, you are not now fooled by even the good illusions.As you watch the wonders, life, and riches of incorporeal Spiritappearing to the mind corporeally, you walk around with a gentlesmile on your face in the knowing that all of this life, abundanceand joy now appearing in your life is not what it seems; it is actu-ally incorporeal Spirit appearing as incorporeal form, experiencedcorporeally, tangibly.

You have discovered the greatest secret of the ages.

Sickness to Health

What about health? Volumes have been written about how to usemetaphysical treatment to change sickness or disease into healthand life. Yet, sadly, there are very few healings. What is the reason?What is the answer?

The first requirement is to view sickness and disease as a prod-uct of the mind and its corporeal formations. Do not be fooled bythe physical appearance—to the mind—of accident, illness or dis-ease. Go through the exact same process of knowing and then let-ting explained.

This accident, illness or disease is the mind seeing corporeallywhat is actually incorporeal wholeness, beauty, bliss, health, life,perfection. While my mind, and certainly the minds of everyonearound me, is seeing this injury or illness or disease, my inner activ-ity is to lift awareness above the finite sense of corporeality into thefreedom and perfection of incorporeal allness.

I must close my eyes, either figuratively or literally, to the sceneas it appears in the physical, corporeal world. I must stop focusingattention on the injury, illness or disease. I must bring my thinkingto Spirit. I must remind myself that all is Spirit, all is incorporeal.Spirit fills all space including the very space that looks to the mindas if it is injured or ill or diseased.

Spirit cannot have an injury, illness or disease! It is impossible!

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If you try to give incorporeal gravity a disease or try to injure it, ofcourse you will fail. In the same way then, you can understand howimpossible it is to injure or disease incorporeal Spirit.

This is the awareness you to have to gain in the face of theappearing physical sickness or injury.

When the mind has reached a state of peace by knowing thetruth of the appearing problem, stop all thoughts and words.Simply be still, and silent.

In the silence all harmony is revealed; Truth reveals Itself. It isfelt as peace, a sense of release, a warmth or heat, a light, a clarityof understanding, euphoria welling up within. That’s it, a welling-up feeling within that lets you know you had nothing to do with it.It is a ‘happening’ within you without any effort by you, as you sim-ply sit in complete silence, expectantly, letting the infinity of Spiritbe felt or experienced within your being.

When you feel It, you can know all is well. You can be certainthat the incorporeal bliss—Truth—you have felt within is also theincorporeal form that is perfect body or perfect organ or tissue, thatwill subsequently be experienced by the mind as a physical ‘heal-ing’ or ‘regeneration’ or ‘correction.’

But you are no longer fooled by the corporeal appearance as the‘healing’ appears visibly. You know that as soon as you feel theincorporeal Spirit ‘happening’ within you you are already experi-encing the incorporeal form of fulfilment. The mind normally takessome minutes or hours or days to ‘catch up’ and see or experienceit corporeally but you no longer fasten your reliance on the feed-back the mind sees, or how it experiences life.

All reliance is now grounded in the incorporeal omnipresence ofwholeness, everywhere present, as everything. The minute you feelIt within you the job is done. You can relax knowing all is well, allis fulfiled, all is safe.

In the early days of realisation, because the mind is steeped inthe belief of corporeality and the limitations, lacks, illnesses, dis-eases, accidents and disharmonies experienced where only the cor-poreal sense of awareness exists, we may have to repeat our aware-ness and silence a number of times—or many, many times—beforethe mind suddenly witnesses the tangible fulfilment.

Do not let that dismay you or make you feel as if nothing is hap-pening despite your knowing and silent meditations. You are open-ing up to a great power and presence, the greatest power and pres-ence in the universe—the One power, substance and presence. Ifyou do not manage to ‘get’ it completely the first or tenth or twen-


tieth time—or sometimes the hundredth time—do not worry orgive up. You will never be too late as long as you continue catchingyour mind thinking in terms of the lack or disease or inharmonyand switching thoughts to Spirit, all-present, all-knowing, all-power, then becoming peaceful and silent, letting Spirit flood yourconsciousness in stillness and silence.

Most of all, one must, at all times—every minute of the day andnight—make sure thinking is on and in the incorporeality of all, andnot plunged back into corporeality.

Nothing is ‘solid’ or ‘finite’ or ‘limited.’ Nothing. Nothing is‘missing’. Nothing as seen by the mind and its five senses is whatit seems to be. “Do not judge by appearances.” All is incorporealSpirit, omnipresent, blissful, beautiful, abundant, overflowing withlife, fullness and joy at every point.

We must know this truth to a degree we’ve never known any-thing before. And we must let it reveal Itself within our own con-sciousness, all the time being still, peaceful, silent and receptive—open and expectant—to the flow of spirit that is always bursting toflood our very being in, as, and out into the external scene.

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CHAPTER TWO

It’s Me

I used to be fearful of a crossroad not far from my home. Deep inthe countryside, with heavy-growing, tall hedges and trees on allsides, the four single track roads that meet at the crossroads do notprovide much warning of the approaching junction. Each day, as Idrove through that junction, I sensed how easy it could be for adriver to be unawares, and to plough right through without stop-ping, causing a possible nasty crash with another car.

One night, I was driving towards it, my mind absorbed in some-thing or other—probably Spirit!—and suddenly I found myself feetfrom the junction. I hadn’t noticed it. I slammed on the breaks,heart jumping out of my chest, and stopped with inches to spare.There it was! The very danger I feared! How easy for other drivers tomake the same mistake, I thought.

A few weeks later I was struggling with a particularly severe andstubborn appearance of a lack. “Why,” I thought, “especially as Iknow Spirit—that Spirit is supply filling all space, therefore fillingall space where I am, within and as everything I do, and that theinvisible supply and visible forms of supply—money included—areOne presence, not two—why after I have known this for years, andspent good time each day in the Silence feeling the presence ofSpirit within, why am I still struggling to the point of ruin with thisproblem of supply?”

Bear in mind, by this time, the problem of lack had hounded mefor years. I couldn’t seem to free myself of it no matter how muchknowing I practiced or how many hours in the Silence I devotedmyself to. Looking back, I don’t know what, other than the sheermight of Spiritual awakening happening within, without my con-scious awareness of it, kept me on the path of finding a spiritualsolution. I don’t mind saying, those years—about twenty altogeth-er, the last seven of almost unbearable lack—were the single hard-

est years of my life.Other people, maybe you too, experience the same problem

with different effects—with health, or employment, or relation-ships, or happiness, or habit, or a sense of purpose and worth, orhowever else a lack of spiritual awareness may appear in individualexperience. Actually, any lack, limitation or discord, in any guise, isthe same problem: a lack of true identity with Spirit. It surfaces indifferent ways depending on the individual susceptibility of con-sciousness. With me, the problem mainly surfaced as lack of tan-gible supply, and later as some lesser relationship and healthissues.

One day, while I was deep in meditation, the statement “It’sme!” suddenly popped into my mind: Out of nowhere the thoughtof the crossroad came, and with it, “It’s me!” It’sme that is the otherdriver who may speed through the junction and cause an accident.It’s me! Oh gosh, that’s different. I am the one responsible for safe-ty at that junction, not other drivers; I. This was proved by my nearmistake that night a few weeks back.

Then, just as quickly, the realisation came, “Oh, it’s me who isholding back the free flow of abundant supply in my businessaffairs. It’s me, not any customer or client who is deciding not torespond to my offerings. There is no customer “out there” some-where who is deciding my product or service isn’t suitable, or is tooexpensive, or not timely; it’s me! I am the only customer! I am theonly client! I am the only buyer! I am the only supply! I am thecause of that limitation I am experiencing!”

But if in truth I am spirit, if I AM THAT I AM—the pure life,activity, supply, joy and fulfilment of all—then the “I” that is mylimiting experience must be a false sense of I, not the true, one I—Spirit. Oh, that takes responsibility from my shoulders because allI now have to do is quieten the mind of its false and restrictivesenses, to let Spirit shine through, which it automatically does asthe mind is still and peaceful. I don’t have to “fight” the experienceof lack, I don’t have to attempt to manipulate the scene, or try topersuade customers to buy from me. I simply have to recognise mybusiness, and every customer, for what they truly are: Spirit. If I amexperiencing any sort of inactivity or lack it is my very own con-sciousness projecting a belief of “inadequate business” or “non-responsive customers” or “not enough money” into my world. It’sme! Only “I” am present “out there” because “out there” is nothinggreater or lesser than my own consciousness beaming out its com-plexion, its own flavour, colour and texture, its own response, its

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own fruitfulness or barrenness. I-am-that-I-am when I’m unknow-ingly under the influence of mind, yet in truth I AM THAT I AM—the fullness of Spirit existing here as me, with all the infinity ofexistence ever at hand, here and now. Therefore there is not a prob-lem “out there” in the entire world or universe, including “outthere” in by body, my family, my home, my employment or busi-ness, my customers or clients, my neighbours and neighbouringcounties, countries and continents, there is only the pureness andoverflowing joy of spiritual peace and paradise, omnipresent. But Ihave to “remove” the mind and its fractional, restrictive, judgmen-tal complexion in order to experience the fulfilment of Is.

Neither Good Nor Bad

You see, the physical crossroad itself is neither good nor bad, safenor dangerous, but the mind makes it so. The tarmac, hedges andtrees have neither good nor bad in them, neither safety nor danger.They are innocent, of course. But as soon as a mind enters thescene, the scene is imbued with whatever complexion that particu-lar mind contains. If my “human” mind contains the sense of dan-ger I imbue that innocent crossroad with the complexion of danger.Then I have to live with it. My consciousness becomes so for me. Icannot escape it. The intangible and tangible are one and the same.Whatever the mind holds as conviction is also held in manifesta-tion. Mind and manifestation are one; the ‘two’ actually are oneand cannot be separated. The presence then, at those crossroadswhen I am there either physically or in consciousness is that of “my”mind. Whilst my mind contains a fear of danger then that fear istangible in my experience. Mind and manifestation are one andtherefore the danger now exists tangibly. I demonstrated that factby my near miss.

Furthermore, by my conscious fear of the junction I open outthe way for there to be an accident one day, even if that accidentdoes not involve the physical appearance of me, but of others. Ifthe fear of an accident did not exist in my consciousness there isno way in the universe I could become aware of an accident. Therecould never be an accident while “I” was present either physicallyor in consciousness. That means the driver who may be unawareand speeds dangerously, possibly disastrously, through the junction,is me. Certainly, if I was not present either physically or in con-sciousness—in other words, if I knew nothing about that junction;I had no consciousness of its existence—other driver’s minds

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imbued with a fear of it, if there were any, will have its effect intheir experience.

But as long as the fear is in “my” consciousness, I am the onlydriver. I have dominion over the scene while I am there; andremember, “there” means physically or in consciousness. I could besitting safely at home but as long as that junction is in my con-sciousness—which it is even when I’m not thinking about it, orphysically present at it—it is imbued with the complexion of thatconsciousness. It is the inescapable law of mind manifestation.Therefore I have a responsibility to know the Truth and live by itevery minute. That shook me awake very quickly.

What is Going on in My ConsciousnessThat Makes it So?

Do you catch this critical point? Whenever we look out at a scene,or a person, or a situation, or activity, and we witness either goodor bad in it, life or sickness, abundance or lack, companionship orloneliness, we must ask, “What is going on in my consciousnessthat makes it so? What is going on in my consciousness that allowsit to possess this complexion, this appearance?” This is a hardteaching, but critical if we are to make progress towards and wit-ness the fruitage of the spiritual self—the Miracle Self.

There is no person, thing, condition or situation “out there”other than that which collective consciousness creates, and whichindividual consciousness unknowingly accepts. There is no “outthere”; there is only “in here”. If we enter a room filled withunpleasant green light, we don’t go to each point of greenness andtry to fix it, we realise the source of greenness is at the point of lightentering the room. We go to the source and there we would find agreen filter covering the window. As soon as we remove the filterpure light floods every nook and cranny of the room. Fulfilment issuddenly present. Fulfilment was always present but as long as thefilter remained the effects of it were inescapably experienced. Mindand manifestation are one; the green filter and the manifestationsof it, green light, are one and inseparable. The greenness “outthere” in the room was never the problem unless we believed it tobe. Then are we stuck with it, and we’ll have a never ending job onour hands to try to correct it. The truth is, we’ll never permanent-ly correct it because as long as the filter remains covering thesource of light we’ll always have some form of greenness to contendwith, and to try to solve. We’ll never be free of it.

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The Solution To Any And Every Problem

It is in just this same way that we discover the solution to any andevery problem, no matter whether it is a problem of health, supply,morals, habits, injustice, loneliness, success or any other appearingnegativity or discord in our experience. Always the solution is to goto the source—Spirit—and realise it is only the mind that hasunknowingly accepted the collective belief in good versus bad, andthat that is the cause of the appearing problem. The solution? Stillthe mind and let Spirit permeate individual consciousness. LetSpirit dissolve the erroneous “filters” of belief to reveal theomnipresent harmony, joy and fulfilment that Is.

“I” Am The Only Presenceand Activity

Do you see how this applies to all of life’s experiences? The reali-sation that “I am the only driver” and “I am the only customer andthe only supply” changed the way I handled each day. With therealisation that the only thing “out there” is Spirit, yet it is I—myconsciousness—that imbues every person, animal, thing and con-dition “out there” with the idea and belief of limit or negativity orlack or discord in one respect or another, not only a great respon-sibility but also a great joy flooded over me. “Responsibility”because the only power affecting my world was the power I imbuedit with, positive, negative or spiritual, and therefore the entirety ofmy world, right down to sales of my products and services, thehealth of my body and family’s bodies, my home and the area inwhich I have my home, my happiness and fulfilment of being—every aspect of my life, success and joy—is the degree to which Iknow Spirit and am able to let Spirit, not mind, be my world. “Joy”because when I achieve the letting of Spirit be my world I know myworld will be nothing less than paradise in every way, unimaginablebliss, life, abundance and overflowing satisfaction in every depart-ment and activity of life.

Understand this: Nothing exists but Spirit. There is no person,animal, object, condition or situation “out there” that is not, actu-ally, Spirit, and therefore perfection and fullness of life and suc-cess. But the mind projects whatever colouration or distortion hap-pens to be lodged in it by collective consciousness, collective belief,which brings on the appearance of limit, lack, illness, lonelinessand unhappiness where, in truth, there is only the fullness of

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Spirit—just as the green filter brings on the appearance of greenwhere, in truth, there is only pure light.

The easiest way to understand this is that mind has a set of “fil-ters” packed with collective belief, projecting their “colourations”into your world. Whatever particular set of “filters” you or I happento have lodged in individual consciousness constitutes the“colourations” of our individual worlds. They are not “yours” or“mine” but those of collective mind which happen to have foundlodging in your consciousness or mine. They have no actual poweror presence even though there is no argument that while weremain under the influence of those filters we suffer, and some-times suffer horribly. The solution is quick and sharp as soon as wediscover the nature of the filters—their nothingness, like the noth-ingness of the green light—and instead, realise the one presenceand power of Spirit being the only person, thing, activity and con-dition, and rest in It, enabling the spiritual completeness to shinethrough the mind and appear in the outer scene in glorious fulfil-ment.

Consciousness is What I Am

Consciousness is what I am. My consciousness is what I experi-ence in my world, and why I experience it. When my consciousnessis imbued with mind I will experience the products of mind—degrees of the lack, limitations and discords of mind belief, out-pictured in my world and affairs in proportion to my particulardeep-set beliefs. Even though these pictures have no actual sub-stance or power they affect me as if they do have substance andpower whilst I continue to believe them, and do battle to try tosolve them.

But the moment my consciousness begins to relax, open andbecome imbued with Spirit, the erroneous world of two powers,good and bad, begins to fade to reveal the pure spiritual presenceof completeness, life, abundance, joy and fulfilment everywherepresent. Life, health and vitality are revealed in the body and mindwhere there was sickness, fatigue, stress or depression; prosperousactivity, abundance and success are revealed where there was busi-ness or employment inactivity and insufficiency; love, joy and hap-piness are revealed in relationships where there was disagreement,antagonism and frustration; companionship is revealed wherethere was loneliness; a perfect home becomes available where animperfect home experience used to be.

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How?

But the question comes, how? How is consciousness imbued withSpirit? How is it achieved? What do we have to do that is differentthan everything we’ve been attempting all these years? The answeris this: we have to find the Peace deep within our being, for thatPeace is the substance of all form, and the very forms and activitiesof tangible life, love, harmony and abundance themselves.

First, realise that every person—whether we name him or her afamily member, friend, neighbour, customer, client, bank manager,shop assistant, employee, colleague, judge, policeman or beggar—is Spirit appearing as that person, in that guise. Realise that everyactivity is Spirit, every enterprise or employment is Spirit, everything and place is Spirit, every condition and circumstance is Spiritappearing as, and in the guise of that particular person, thing,place, condition or circumstance.

Because all is Spirit, despite the multitude of guises, all is per-fect, life-filled, abundant, satisfied, happy. Because all is Spirit, allis under the control and government of Spirit, not him or herself,or itself, but Spirit. All has the infinity of Spirit, the life of Spirit,the love of Spirit, the activity of Spirit, the givingness of Spirit.

But here’s the catch: you and I, individually, have to know thattruth in order to witness it and benefit by it. Every person on theplanet, every animal, thing, place, condition and circumstance isthe miracle Itself existing as that individual expression—but youand I have to know that truth in order to witness the miracle.

If we do not—if we are mentally lazy and allow world belief torun rampant in our minds, as I did at the crossroad and in my busi-ness—we will witness world belief in every person, thing, activity,enterprise and condition by the degree of our particular coloura-tion of beliefs. The crossroad will be imbued with world belief; ouremployment or enterprises will be imbued with the belief of suc-cess and prosperity or struggle and lack determined by what is sit-ting in our individual consciousness. We, and everything we haveand are involved in, and every person we love and have friendshipwith, will be subject to the ups and downs, the health and sickness,the economic good times and depressions, the safety and acci-dents, the joy and depression of mind belief. Look around yourworld, you’ll see plenty of evidence of the two powers—the nega-tive and positive—of mind belief on every corner.

The first step is to dismiss the corporeal appearance of person,animal, thing, activity, place, condition and circumstance. Know

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that whatever is its guise, it is not that. It is, in Truth and Reality,Spirit—the infinite invisible love, life and supply of all joy, yetappearing as that corporeal existence to the mind. We are with-drawing the mind from the scene and allowing Spirit to beacknowledged. The only person, thing, place, activity or conditionever present is Spirit. Spirit is the only presence and we have toknow it.

The second step is to now rest in the omnipresence of Spirit, besilent and open, and let Spirit infuse your consciousness with thejoyous fullness of Self. Remember, your consciousness is yourentire world, not just your ‘inner’ awareness or ‘inner’ being. Thereis no ‘inner’ versus ‘outer’; there is just all-encompassing Oneness,completeness, wholeness. So as you are still, and silent, and asSpirit floods your consciousness, your entire world blossoms withthe Peace, Life, Love, Supply and Satisfaction that it truly is. Yourentire world—consciousness—has eternally been the wholeness ofSpirit, but you haven’t known it, nor enabled it to become tangiblyevident through your stillness and silence. Therefore, many times,and in particular cases, it has appeared difficult to you, or antago-nistic, or sick, or unfriendly, or unfair, or lacking, or restricted, ordepressing. But that was only the mind allowed to run rampant.Now you know the great secret of releasing the miracle—knowingthe Truth, then being still and silent to enable Spirit to burstthrough into visibility in all Its might, glory and grace as every per-son, thing, activity, condition and place in your world.

Finally we can say, “It’s not ‘me’ any longer; it is Spirit!” We havewithdrawn the mind from every nook and cranny of our lives andenterprises, and opened out the way for Spirit to be the only pres-ence, the only activity, the only power, the only result.

Now we begin to live the Miracle Self. The tangible miraclesand boundlessness of Spirit become evident in our body, family,home and travels; in our work; as the manufacturing, buying andselling activities of our enterprise; as the fulfilment and abundanceof supply, achievement and satisfaction, and as the life, love andhappiness of every relationship, activity and endeavour.

The Miracle Self is ours to experience here and now, through-out all of life, as we take away the mind, to reveal the One Self.

Spirit, let me know the true Self, the Self that never dies, neverdeteriorates, never tires, depletes or ages. Let me know the true Life,the breath of the Eternal, the body eternal, the One. Let me know theuntouchable, indestructible body of Spirit appearing here as my body,

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my life, my awareness, and the body, life and awareness of all whocome within range of my consciousness. Then I will always haveboundless life, health and vigour of body in the tangible.Let me know the true Supply, the Supply that never runs dry,

never dissatisfies, never is lacking. Let me know the true Essence,Substance and Matter that is the impersonal infinity of Supply inevery way, and for every need and desire, which blesses everyone I giveit to and share it with, without measure, here and now. Then I willalways possess an abundance of money and prosperity in the tangible.Spirit, let me know the true home, the Home that is You, not the

finite, limited, unsatisfying home that is material. There is only onetrue home, and it is You, Spirit, the infinite invisible home that isperfection, happiness, comfort, safety and fulfilment in every way. Letme know that, and that only, for any home less than that One TrueHome will be limited and dissatisfying. Then I will always find mytrue and fulfiling home in the tangible.Let me know the One Love, the One Relationship, not the finite,

limited sense of relationship my mind knows. Let me know the OneInvisible Love and Joy in all relationships, especially the one closestrelationship of spouse or partner, and family. hen I will always findmyself with loving and satisfying relationships in the tangible.Let me know only the One employment or business, the invisible

activity that is always full to overflowing, full of creativity and satisfac-tion, full of purpose and fulfilment of being, full of givingness and sup-ply. Then I will always have prosperous and successful employment orenterprise in the tangible.Just the One Invisible Spirit, that is all I want and all I ever need,

for that One Spirit appears in and as my tangible world as fulfilmentand joy of all, without change, without opposite, without thought.

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CHAPTER THREE

Light on anExtraordinary Truth

An extraordinary truth has been revealed in chapter one:

Spirit being aware of Itself right at the place where the mind isseeing a need IS the fulfilment itself. It is one and the same. Spirit isthe blissful fulfilment of all, and it already exists. The Self-awarenessof Spirit IS ALSO the fulfiling form the mind thinks it needs. Exceptnow you know that Spirit is incorporeal and Spirit is everything,everywhere. The fulfiling form already exists right here, and rightover there. It always has existed right where you need or want it butbecause the mind senses only corporeally it is incapable of seeing theincorporeal Spirit that is already existing, and always has done, as the‘need’ fulfiled, right there, right in that very spot where the mind seesthe need.Spirit and the forms of Spirit are one. Spirit does not change Its

form from invisible to visible. All is one. And that one is in eternalexistence wherever you are and in whatever form you need or desireit, without limit, without question, without effort.It already exists.

This is the great secret of omnipresence.And the realisation or awareness of omnipresence is the great

secret of demonstration.Once you are truly aware—just as consciously aware as you are

aware of the scene in front of and beside you as you walk along thestreet, and therefore avoid bumping into people and things—onceyou have that degree of conscious awareness of Spirit being every-thing everywhere you will witness miracles of health, abundance

and happiness wherever you are.When you know that right where you are, right on the very spot,

wherever that happens to be, or as whatever situation your mindhappens to believe is a lack, limitation, inharmony or even emer-gency—actually is the presence of the entire universe of spirit—incorporeal allness and bliss—and you then simply rest in the all-ness of incorporeality, nothing in the universe can block sublimeharmony from your experience.

When you know that the infinity of Spirit the mind cannot see,plus the finite corporeal people, places, things, conditions and sit-uations the mind does see is all the One, unchanging Spirit existingfully, infinitely and harmoniously right where you are, and whereevery ‘situation’ is, you’ll witness miracle after miracle of fulfilmenttaking place in your midst.

The key is to maintain the awareness that Spirit is incorporeal,infinite, and therefore fills all space and is all forms—all ‘people’,‘things’, ‘places’ and ‘conditions’.

There is no Spirit “and” any thing, any person, or any situationor condition. There is only Spirit. Spirit is seen by the mind as cor-poreal person, thing, place, condition and situation but no suchcorporeality actually—in the deepest sense of reality—exists. Yetthe mind is capable of sensing only in what we call a ‘corporeal’manner. Only incorporeal Spirit exists, and incorporeal Spirit doesnot change its nature, character, substance, infinity or omnipres-ence, so the very ‘thing’ or ‘person’ or ‘condition’ or ‘place’ you arelooking at or experiencing is nothing other than the One Spirit inits absolute purity, incorporeality, wholeness, infinity and fulfil-ment.

Empty? Or Bursting With Fullness?

Look at an empty space in front of you. To the mind a spaceappears empty. Maybe it’s a space in the room you’re sitting in,maybe it’s the openness of the outdoors, maybe it’s the sky. No mat-ter where it is, the mind tells you it’s empty, it consists of nothing-ness—no persons or things.

To the mind, the only ‘things’ occupying it are air and gravity.You can move into that space and still breathe, therefore oxygen iscertainly present. You can also drop an object and watch it fall tothe ground, therefore gravity is also present.

The mind accepts even the invisibility of oxygen and gravitybecause it experiences them corporeally through the physical activ-

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ities of breathing and witnessing objects falling to the ground.But are oxygen and gravity the only ‘things’ occupying that

space? In that space abides the entire incorporeal infinity of theuniverse and every ‘thing’ in the universe. In fact, in that spaceexists the entire infinity of the universe. “The whole of infinityexists at every point in space at the same time.” (Thomas Troward)Therefore, in the deepest of spiritual realisation, that space is you,and me, and every person. It is the entirety of the infinite uni-verse—incorporeal Spirit —being everything, everywhere incorpo-really—at every point in space at the same time including the spaceright in front of you.

Have you been searching for something you thought was miss-ing from your life? Money, health, love, companionship, rightemployment, fulfiling vocation, prosperous business, beautifulhome, automobile, amazing travel or holidays, youthfulness, hap-piness, purpose? It’s all right in front of you in what looks to themind as an empty space, or aging body, or lacking bank account, orloneliness, or inappropriate home or automobile.

It’s all in the palm of your hand. It’s all in your lap. It’s all laidout at your feet— “It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at yourfeet.”1

You understand this now: Everything, everywhere is incorporealspirit, whole, self-complete, infinite, omnipresent. But the mind iscapable only of experiencing corporeally—finitely, fractionally, par-tially.

Who cares what the mind sees or fails to see when we have theknowing that, despite what the mind is experiencing and judging,the whole of fulfilment is present in that very spot?

Who cares if the mind sees a lack of money or a lack of healthwhen we know the truth: that the infinity of Spirit—meaning theinfinity of all fulfilment, in this case all the money and all thehealth that is ever needed right here and now—is already present inthe very place the mind sees lack or ill health or disease because,actually, everything, everywhere is incorporeal and whole?

That is why mind sees fractionally or in a distorted, limited way.We have labelled the mind’s inability to see what really is as “a lackof money” or “poverty” or “illness” or “disease” or any other of themultitude of negative experiences and images the mind believesexists through its fractional, corporeal sense.

It’s time to throw out the labels. We have labelled the experi-ence of the sun disappearing from view each evening as “the sun-set.” The sun isn’t “setting” at all. It’s doing exactly what it is always

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doing, burning intensely twenty-four hours a day. But the mindsees it as “setting” so we’ve labelled it as such.

But does the label have any power, any authority, any domi-nance over us, any truth? Of course not—unless we allow ourselvesto carry on believing it.

Do you still believe there is nothing but oxygen and gravityoccupying that “empty” space in front of you? Do not be fooled anylonger!

Do you still believe you are missing something or some personor condition from your life? Only if you are still believing the cor-poreal images mind is presenting to you can you believe you’remissing anything at all. Do not be fooled any longer!

Everything, everywhere is incorporeal Spirit filling-full thatspace as fulfilment of all. Spirit is indivisible. It’s only existence iswholeness, self-completeness, the whole of infinity existing at eachpoint in space, the whole of love existing, the whole of bliss, thewhole of joy, the whole of harmony, the whole of supply.

Close your mind to the corporeal appearance and open yourinner eye, your perceiving inner self, your inner sense of the incor-poreality of all, the omnipresence of incorporeal all.

There you will find paradise—your paradise. As you rest in it, itwill come alive and visible to you.

Complete and instantaneous fulfilment of the scene alreadyexists as incorporeal allness and is suddenly felt by your inner sens-es: Spirit reveals Itself to spirit, incorporeal All reveals Itself toincorporeal you and incorporeal everything about you, because Allis One.

Incorporeal Spirit is appearing visibly to the mind as incorpore-al you, but the mind experiences it corporeally.

Spirit is Indivisible

Let’s take the truth that Spirit is indivisible: the whole of Spiritexists at every point in space at the same time. Being aware of this,a great spiritual breakthrough and lifetime demonstration willoccur within you and out into your tangible world as you graspwhat is about to be said.

In the past, we have thought of Spirit as being the invisible sub-stance we will try to ‘make appear’ in a visible, tangible way as‘form’ in order that we may spend it, manufacture with it, heal ourbodies with it, companion with it, pile it up as riches, homes, cars,opportunities. We have entertained the sense of twoness instead of

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Oneness—the false belief that incorporeal Spirit becomes orimproves corporeal form. This is not true.

Now we know that Spirit is everything everywhere. Therefore,there truly is only one substance, one existence, one form, one per-son, one place, one condition: incorporeal Spirit being everythingeverywhere, no matter that the mind sees it all corporeally.

The Infinity of Supply

Let’s try an interesting demonstration: Take out of your pocket asingle coin or note. Hold it in your hand. What does the mind see?It sees an object labelled a ‘coin’ or ‘note’. The mind has—throughits corporeal sense (the only sensing function it has)—objectifiedinfinite incorporeal Spirit ‘as’ a coin or note.

That’s okay as far as it goes. But what’s the truth—the reality?What the mind sees as that coin or note—an ‘object’ with form,weight and quantity—is actually the one infinite incorporeal Spiritexisting as incorporeal form.

Think how ‘dumb’ the mind is!You are holding an infinity of form, in this case, a form labelled

‘money’—an infinity! Literally an infinity of any form you want orneed for complete and perfect fulfilment of this very moment—that is what you’re holding!

Yet the ‘dumb’ mind sees, and worse, believes, that that coin ornote is ‘all’ you’re holding! You are holding infinite incorporeal all-ness—all of incorporeality, all of infinite allness, all of infinite sup-ply because Spirit—incorporeality—is indivisible.

Look again at the coin or note. Smile about the fact that yourmind actually does see the infinity of incorporeality as a corporeal‘object’—a whole world of corporeal people, objects and condi-tions. Have the same understanding sympathy for the mind as youwould have for a three year old child who is convinced the sun isturning itself off.

You do not believe the sun is turning itself off because the childsays it is. Therefore do not believe the mind because it believes cor-poreality. Now figuratively or literally close your eyes to the ‘coin’or ‘note’. We’re going to dismiss the mind and open the inner sense.Let the sense of incorporeality gently permeate the scene withinyou—gently infuse every nook and cranny of the mind’s idea of an‘object’.

How? Simply—gently—switch your thinking to incorporealeverything, especially incorporeal ‘coin’ or ‘note’. Let the awareness


rise up within you of the ‘coin’ or ‘note’ actually being incorporealwith no edges, no weight, no amount. It is infinite allness.

This is the literal truth about what the mind is seeing as thatcoin or note. It is incorporeal. Spirit is eternal, infinite presence. Itdoes not change Its nature, character, substance, infinity,omnipresence, Self-awareness.

Indeed, Spirit is what that coin or note really is because there isno ‘thing’ other than Spirit, no presence other than Spirit.Therefore what appears to the mind as the ‘object’ is no object atall, it is incorporeal form, therefore the very presence of infinityItself, fully existing, fully available, fully already present at everypoint in space at the same time as whatever incorporeal form is‘desired’ or ‘needed’ at this instant for the visibility of perfect har-mony and fulfilment now.

The ‘Now’ Exists Before Now is Needed

Do you see why the now exists before the now is desired or need-ed? Only the ‘dumb’ mind incapable of seeing the incorporeal blissof all fulfilment right under its nose believes it desires or needssomething that at this moment is missing. Nothing is missing. Howcan it be? Everything everywhere is incorporeal infinity, incorpore-al Allness-of-all fully existing at every point in space at the sametime—that includes right under your nose, right in your lap,“rolling in ecstasy at your feet”. To paraphrase Shakespeare,“Nothing is missing yet the mind thinks it so.”

All we have ever got to do to bring unbounded harmony into ourtangible experience is to dismiss the mind-sense and magnify ourinner incorporeal sense—awareness—of the infinity, the all-incor-poreal-allness of every pinpoint of existence—no matter what themind is telling us about it, or how it sees it. When we have trainedourselves to do this we possess the greatest treasure in the uni-verse—the ability to witness heaven here on earth. We experienceperfection and sublime harmony right here in our tangible experi-ence.

This greatest treasure is worth more than all the money in theworld piled up for our personal use, all the gold and silver in theworld formed into ‘priceless’ statues and jewellery, all the diamondsthat have ever been mined, the greatest love potions and the great-est elixir of youth ever formulated, put together.

This great pile of so-called treasure is corporeal! It is nothing-ness! And you’ll appreciate it as nothingness the very minute you

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grasp the incorporeality and infinity of bliss, life, abundance andjoy that you really are, that everything everywhere really is, and thatyou have open access to twenty-four hours a day, for eternity.

Yes, It appears to the mind-world as corporeal good and perfect‘life,’ ‘things’ and ‘conditions’ but these are just the effect—the cor-poreal sense the mind sees; the images the mind sees—of thegreater sense of incorporeal presence now permeating your aware-ness and mine.

The greater our awareness of incorporeal allness the greater‘amount’ and ‘instantaneity’ of goodness, perfection, health, abun-dance, joy and fulfilment we experience corporeally.

An individual who allows the mind to dominate might see a lackof money in his life or business. An individual who has an aware-ness of the incorporeality of all places his attention on the verysame scene and quickly experiences the tangibility of prosperityand fulfilment of life and business happening at that very point.

Life, business and relationships suddenly become filled withlove, prosperity and satisfying activity. The intellect cannot under-stand this because it is only able to sense corporeally, so it calls it‘luck’ or ‘an opportunity’ or ‘meeting the right person at the righttime’.

It is none of these. It is the recognition that the very life or busi-ness that, to the mind, appeared to be a corporeal ‘body’ or ‘busi-ness’ or ‘condition’ lacking or limited in some way is actually theOne incorporeal Allness existing in perfect harmony and self-fulfil-ment—joyous and abundant, creative, satisfying and fully produc-tive Isness right there.

But again, it takes the incorporeal sense to bring the incorpore-al visibility to the scene, which then, to the mind, is called corpo-real, tangible, ‘real,’ solid, bankable, liveable, shareable, ‘healed’ or‘prospered’ or ‘made happy’ or ‘harmonised’.

Corporeality is Purely Mind-Made

All the ‘things’ and ‘treasures’ and ‘conditions’ in the world aremind-made. They are the mind perceiving in the only way it iscapable of perceiving: corporeally.

Every corporeal thing and condition is the mind conceptualis-ing Spirit. The mind takes spirit, experiences it corporeally, andthen places labels on everything it experiences. It calls those labels‘reality’. Yet everything the mind perceives is fractional imagery.The mind is incapable of experiencing the blissful infinity of love,


life, supply, and joy that exists fully, everywhere at the same time,without bounds.

The mind sees ‘objects’ and ‘conditions’ through its fractionalcorporeal sense and names these images a ‘value’, an ‘amount’, a‘measure’, a ‘danger’, a ‘illness’, a ‘disease’, a ‘process’ and so on.

It labels some things ‘good’ and other things ‘bad’. But only“thinking makes it so”—only the complexion of thought interpretsgood versus bad, positive versus negative. All you’ve got to remem-ber is that if the mind is experiencing it, it is corporeal, thereforenothingness.

All of the world and the universe and everything in it as seenand experienced by the mind is of the mind’s making. The mind isits own worst enemy; in fact, its only enemy.

Do you see that? Everything we see, hear, taste, touch, smelland think is corporeal, of the mind’s own making, both the goodand the bad, the happy and the sad, the youth and the age, the loveand the hate, the joy and the fear, the rich and the poor, the healthand the sickness.

A ‘lack’ or ‘sickness’ or ‘loneliness’ or ‘disharmony’—no matter ofwhat—only appears as such, and only has the power to operate assuch, while the mind is in charge of awareness—while the mind isallowed to dominate the scene with its sense.

The moment the incorporeal sense dawns in consciousness, andbegins to permeate our awareness, even by a grain, miracles arewitnessed.

So I say to you: If you are still looking at that coin or note witha sense of finiteness stop it right now.

If you are still looking at or experiencing something ‘wrong’ withyour body stop it right now.

If you are still unhappy or frustrated or lonely or fearing something, person, or situation stop it right now.

All of this is reacting to a state of corporeal sense.Stop it.Lift your awareness into the incorporeal sense and you lift your-

self into paradise, and more specifically, a paradise right here andright now where just a minute ago it looked like degrees of lack,limitation, sickness or unhappiness because the mind was runningrampant.Paradise right here, right now. This is the actual truth. It is real-

ity, the only reality, and it is not some far-off dream you’ll experi-ence one day if you meditate enough, or in the ‘next life’. You’re sit-ting in It now, moving in It now, breathing in It now, loving in It

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now, living in It now.You’re reading this in It now.This is It!!!You have It now… all of it, all of infinity, all of every form, sup-

ply, condition, situation and person that is part of your complete,blissful fulfilment now!

Think! Think!!

Do you see now why I tell you to live with the awareness of “I have”rather than “I have not”? Do you now see clearly why I tell you thatif you live each successive day thinking you need things, that cer-tain people, things or situations are missing from your experience,and you’d like them, or you desperately need them, then all you willdemonstrate is a whole lot more “have not”?

It is the surest way the mind ever invented of creating ill health,disease, poverty, loneliness and unhappiness—the appearance andbelief in these mind-labelled conditions and situations. It’s thesurest way ever of dragging yourself through hell, the particularhell of your individual mind’s-eye sense of life.

Stop it.Do you also see why visualising, affirming, positive-thinking,

and even meditating for things and situations is the exact samemind-sense awareness of “I have not”?

Stop it. All it can ever do is make things worse for you and yourswhether you experience the worsening quickly or in a few monthsor years along the road. It is only a matter of time; you can’t escapeit as long as the mind is thinking, “I have a condition or situation Ido not want,” or, “I have a lack I need filling or a limitation fromwhich I need freeing.”

Many spiritual seekers think they understand their true spiritu-al identity, and the true spiritual identity of the world and every-thing in it, yet they meditate earnestly for months or years with verylittle or no demonstration. The reason for the lack of demonstra-tion is this: although they intellectually understand that Spirit fillsall space, and that Spirit is everything everywhere, they haven’tactually realised it.

Remember this well: The mind is incapable of knowing or expe-riencing Spirit. Therefore, if we are ‘knowing’ this in the mind ful-filment will not be experienced. It doesn’t ‘work’. It cannot. It hasto be an actual awareness—the miracle has to be felt within. Thatis what happened when I sent out early copies of chapter one of


this book to students. Many called saying they suddenly, aftermonths or years, ‘got’ it after reading that chapter. Yes, it clearlyexplains the truth of Spirit. It is causing wonderful breakthroughsin the consciousness of many.

Now here’s the wonderful thing: You cannot escape the “I haveNOT” awareness. But neither can you escape the paradise thatopens up visibly all around you, and with everything you touch andinvolve yourself in, as you live the awareness of incorporeal every-thing—of “I have everything because I have and I am infinite incor-poreal allness.”

I have the infinity of incorporeality because I am the incorporeal-ity Itself existing here as me and as everything everywhere.There is just Oneness, one infinite incorporeal presence, existing

as everything, the Invisible formless appearing to the senses as visibleform, the Isness that is everything, everywhere, including my every-thing, everywhere—here and now.

You cannot escape the blissful infinity that is the incorporealityof all because you are it—the wholeness of all—inseparably, byinheritance. “I live and move and have my being in and as Spirit,and Spirit lives and moves and has Its Being in and as me”—yes,because Spirit and ‘you’ are the one incorporeal existence, existingas you, and as everything, everywhere, filling all space, being allthings, all activities, perfectly, harmoniously, beautifully, bountiful-ly now—eternally now.

Never again do you look out at anything at all without beingaware of its true identity: incorporeal infinity objectified as incor-poreal person, thing or circumstance, experienced by the mind ascorporeal. That is the miracle treasure, and you possess it now. It isyours in its fullness, eternally.

The Silent Mind Opens SpaceFor The Miracle to Become Visible

There is now just one thing left to do: be silent. So far we have usedthe mind—albeit at a higher degree of awareness, a spirituallyinfused awareness—to grasp the truth of incorporeality. But know-ing with the mind is not the miracle, and will not make the miracletangible in human affairs. The mind can only know ‘about’ the mir-acle, not experience It.

So now we must turn over to Spirit Itself. We understand that

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Spirit is the only presence, the only power, the only form—allincorporeal. Spirit is incorporeality—Silence, complete stillness,complete peace. In and into the silence, stillness and peace wemake of the mind rushes Spirit Itself, the incorporeal Spirit beingfully aware of Itself right at the very point of consciousness called‘you’. The miracle has always been present in and as you, butnow—through your silent, still mind—you enable it to become tan-gible to the senses. In the silence of mind Spirit rushes in… in thesilence Spirit floods the empty, peaceful stillness of you… in thesilence… in the silence…

In the silence the miracle becomes evident. In the silence,peace and complete stillness of your mind the omnipresent Blissbecomes tangibly apparent, and all is well. In the silenceIncorporeal All makes Itself known as incorporeal all… Spiritaware of Itself as itself, you… Spirit to spirit… Spirit to spirit.

Incorporeal Spirit to incorporeal everything everywhere… all ful-filment everywhere, at every point, as every ‘desire’ or ‘need’ the mindsees… Spirit to spirit… Spirit to spirit... Silence to silence… Silenceto silence… Bliss Itself to blissful visible fulfilment of all…omnipresent omnipresence… Is… you.

Rest in this. Trust. Trust the Infinite Incorporeal Allness that isLove, that is existing as you and your entire world and universe. Youhave nothing at all to be concerned about. The entire universe ofincorporeal Allness bears down for and as you, lavishing you andyour entire experience with the gifts of Love… the treasures andendowments of the completeness of your fulfilment, from thebiggest to the tiniest need and desire—from the snow-cappedmountains to the flutter of the butterfly, from the most extraordi-nary achievements to the tiniest happenings, from the exhilaratingsurges of life to the tiniest breath, from wealth beyond imaginationto the tiniest penny, from selfless giving to the tiniest gesture ofconsideration, from the most exhilarating pleasures to the tiniestjoy, from the beauty and romance of the sunset to the tiniest lap ofthe warm evening wave, from the deepest love to the gentlestlover’s touch, from the immeasurable experiences of fulfilment toeven a minute’s blissful rest from mind—All is for you… all is theincorporeal miracle being your every inner and outer fulfilment,everywhere, at every moment.

Be aware of the incorporeal Bliss and rest in It. That’s all ittakes, your deeper awareness, your inner sense of the Invisible


present everywhere, and your silent resting in It. You have thatawareness now. Do not worry any longer about anything at all, youhave the awareness. You have the treasure, the greatest treasure inthe universe: incorporeal awareness—the miracle awareness.

Now be gently silent… open... receptive... peaceful... and let.Then you will understand Franz Kafka as you have never been

able to before now:

You do not need to leave your room.Remain sitting at your table and listen.Do not even listen, simply wait.Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary.The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked,It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

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CHAPTER FOUR

CALM THE RIPPLING

OF THE MIND

A student beautifully likened the illusory corporeal senses of themind as “the rippling waves of a lake”. As we opened our eyes froma few minutes of silence he said, “I have just realised somethingwonderful. The activity of the mind that sees disease, lack anddisharmony is similar to the waves on the lake that stop one seeingthrough the clear water to the beauty and life beneath. The calm-ing of the mind is like the calming of the waves. With the stillnessof the water all harmony below the surface becomes visible.”

This is a wonderful analogy. This is the way in which spiritualwholeness—perfection of all, omnipresent, already and eternallyexisting, already manifest—is brought out into tangible (mind-awareness) experience.

Metaphysics mistakenly calls this process ‘healing’ or ‘prosper-ing’ or ‘harmonising’ but the correct word for the spiritual experi-ence is ‘revealing’ not ‘healing’. Spiritual awareness and acknowl-edgement reveals the wholeness and harmony already present andeternally existing—the is—omnipresent, as everything everywhere.

Everything you have in your life at this moment, and everythingyou do not have, is your current experience because of the degreein which your mind is rippling with concepts, beliefs, fears,thoughts, and perceptions. The more you are aware of the presenceof Spirit, therefore the calmer the rippling of your mind, the morehealth, harmony, happiness and abundance reveal themselves asyour tangible experience. The less you are aware of the presence ofSpirit, therefore the stormier the ripples of your mind, the lesshealth, harmony, happiness and abundance reveal themselves asyour tangible experience.

Imagine

Imagine your perfect, complete, joyous existence—in every way,and as every person, thing, place and condition now and ever inyour consciousness, your ‘kingdom’—now exists below the surfaceof the water. The Allness of you and everything about you.Perfection in every way, as every person, every thing, every circum-stance. Think about that. That is the truth of you, right here, rightnow, but the mind does not see it. The mind is the rippling or,often, the storms that keep the fulfilment that you are from yourexperience here and now. Get this feeling that the only thing sepa-rating you—here and now—from your complete and immediateharmony, bliss and fulfilment in every way is the rippling or stormsof the water’s surface—the activity of your thinking, concernedmind.

The illness or disease you or another is experiencing, the lack orlimitation, the unhappiness or disharmony is nothing more than animage created by the rippling or storm of the ‘water’s surface’.

If we were to place a beautiful statue of you—a perfect repre-sentation of you at your joyous best in every way—just below thesurface of a crystal-clear, completely calm lake, we would see youclearly. No ripples or storms are present to distort the image of you.If you have visited Greece or Hawaii or the Maldives for instance,you know the beautiful experience of swimming, or boating in aglass-bottom boat in the clear, still waters, watching the multi-coloured fish dancing, the corrals, the reefs, and the flowers asclearly as clear can be. Just for a few moments imagine the perfectstatue of you just below the surface of such an ocean or lake. Wesee you sharply, in perfect detail, in perfect colour, in perfect form.You are peaceful, happy, complete. You are abundant, healthy, joy-ful, successful. You are completely fulfiled in every way.

Now imagine ripples begin to disturb the water’s surface.Suddenly, the perfect, defined image of you is slightly distorted. Wecan’t see you as clearly. You do not look as peaceful or complete.You’re breaking up. You have a look of concern about you. Certainthings seem to be missing from you. Your body looks ‘ill’. Your cir-cumstances appear somewhat incomplete. Your love, your family,your friends all seem to have something a little wrong or unhappyor challenging or stressful about them.

Then the ripples turn to stormy waves and we can hardly makeyou out at all. You are fragmented, incomplete and stressed. The

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perfect you is practically lost to sight. I can’t make you out. All I seeis some glimpse of an image but it’s fractional, distorted and dis-coloured. Every person, thing, activity and circumstance in yourlife appears, by degree, disjointed, deficient and curtailed. If I wasfooled by the imagery I’d think something terrible was happeningto you and try to fix it, or I’d walk right past without recognisingand acknowledging you.

Ah, do you catch that? Is this not what we do every moment ofthe day? Every person, every animal, every tree, every plant, everyobject, every place, every condition, every mineral, every cell, everyatom is the full bliss and perfection of Spirit existing as that per-son, animal, tree, plant, object, place, condition, mineral, cell oratom. Do we recognise and acknowledge It? Or are we fooled bythe appearance, both the good and the bad, the harmonious andinharmonious? We are fooled! We walk right past and in that igno-rance miss the greatest miracle in the universe: the full infinity andbliss of our very own Self, existing here and now, in the very placewe are.

We entertain the belief that the ‘ripples’ or ‘storms’ the mindsees, and is fooled by, are what we are. We believe them to be ourreality, and the reality of every person, every animal, every thing,every situation and every condition.

Stop Being Fooled by The Mind

Stop it now! Rise in awareness into the bliss of spiritual perfectionexisting here and now.

Realise: a little sickness is a little ripple. A disease is a storm.The mind accepts the sickness or disease as real and then setsabout trying to cure it. This is good as far as it goes. Let’s neverdeny or criticise anything that helps in any way. At the same time,if we are serious about discovering the spiritual completeness ofself, if we are serious about discovering how the great spiritualmasters throughout history healed the sick, fed the multitudes,revealed abundance, and brought happiness and wholeness, thenwe must learn the principle they demonstrated.

Every great spiritual healer throughout the ages—Krishna (thefirst spiritual master on record), Shankara, Buddha, Isaiah, Moses,Elijah, Lao Tzu, Jesus, John, Paul (previously Saul), right throughto Sri Yukteswar, Paramahansa Yogananda, Bhaktivedanta SwamiPrabhupada, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Joel Goldsmith and RobertAdams of more recent years—and others—have given us the same

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principle, each in their own way and each with their own analogiesand metaphors, but the same principles:

Spirit is what you are, what every person is, what every thing is,what this entire universe is. Spirit fills all space. Spirit is every-thing, everywhere. There is nothing but Spirit. Spirit is incorpore-al, invisible infinity, yet the mind experiences corporeality: tangi-bility and objectivity. The mind senses and experiences finitenesswhere there is only infinity. The mind sees, experiences and usestangible form where there is only intangible form. The mind’s cor-poreal sense is not real, it is just sense, or concept. It is imageryappearing real to the mind. We have been born into an environ-ment laden with centuries of belief that the objectified corporealsense and experience is real.

Let us not, then, be surprised that the discovery of all beingincorporeal—infinite invisible Spirit—is a difficult, if not very dif-ficult, truth to realise. Nevertheless, realise it we must if we wishto master the beauties, bounties and miracles of the spiritually-awakened consciousness. If we’ve had enough of the diseases, cru-elties, injustices, poverties, lacks, limitations, selfishness, greedand miseries experienced in a world unaware of its spiritual identi-ty it is now time, individually, to step higher, realise once and forall—and seriously, with a daily discipline—that all of the humanexperience, both good and bad, is but imagery ‘on the surface of thewater’—the ripples or storms on the lake—and yet, as we experi-ence the storm the perfect whole is present and instantaneouslyaccessible to us.

There is no ‘truth’ to the imagery seen in the rippling or stormywaters. The perfect whole is there just ‘beneath the surface’, wait-ing to be recognised. There is no truth to sickness, disease, lack,limitation, disharmony or unhappiness. This has been the greatdiscovery made by the spiritual masters throughout all ages. Thatis why they were able to dismiss even the most destructive diseasewith a quick smile or wave of the hand, and it is why we can do thesame today even if it takes us a more concentrated or prolongedawareness than just a quick smile. Our smile may need to be slow-er, but smile we may when we know the truth and are able to restback in It letting Its perfect whole become evident to the quietenedmind.

There is no more truth to disease, lack, limitation of inharmonythan there is to fragmented imagery created by stormy water. Howcan there be anything other than Spirit if Spirit is infinite? This isthe great discovery. There is no Spirit and. There is only Spirit.

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Therefore, what we see and accept as disease is the false reportingof the mind—the image on the stormy water—but not the truth ofthe person or condition. The truth of any and every person and con-dition is Spirit! That’s all!

There is no disease, there is only Spirit. There is no lack, thereis only Spirit. There is no limitation or inability or inactivity, thereis only Spirit. The evidence of the mind is always against usbecause the mind is capable only of corporeal sense. Spirit is incor-poreal so we must dismiss the evidence of the mind and its beliefsjust as readily as we dismiss the image on the rippled water. Theimage—the appearance the mind perceives and believes—is notthe truth. Spiritual perfection and bliss is the only presence andthe only truth. And—remember this important point—Spirit doesnot change Its nature, Its substance, Its character, Its infinity, Itsform. When you and I individually walk through our lives and voca-tions being aware of the incorporeal infinity of bliss omnipresent aseverything everywhere, even though our five senses and thoughtsare giving a very different set of evidences, spiritual harmony mustand does always appear tangibly.

Our awareness and acknowledgement of incorporeal Spiritbeing everything everywhere has the effect of ‘stilling the waters’—calming the mind, releasing it from the worrisome and fearfulimages it sees. In that peace, the wholeness appears. It already andeternally exists but now is seen more wholly and clearly. The wholeis revealed where before incompleteness was apparent. The stormsubsides and the perfect ‘statue’ of you appears crystal clear, and allis well.

The effect as witnessed by the mind is what we call healing ofthe organ or function of the body, dissolving of the tumour, pros-pering of affairs, wealth of employment and business, the bringingof harmony to the work place or trade affairs or unions, the blos-soming of love and happiness in relationships, the emerging ofgreat talent where there seemed to be little talent, innovations thatimprove the lives of individuals or nations, ideas that producegreater product and produce. All of this is the effect witnessed tan-gibly and materially but the cause of the appearing outer har-monies is Spirit—the One and Only omnipresent existence—beingrealised individually by you and by me, and then seen corporeally bythe mind as the health, wealth, happiness and fulfilment of tangi-ble being.

Remember: Spirit is what all is. Spirit is perfection, love, bliss,harmony, abundance, perfect activity, perfect function, perfect ful-


filment of being from the body and brain to the atom, from themountain to the grain of sand, from the elephant to the ant. All ofSpirit exists at every point in the universe at the same time. All isalready manifest because Spirit is eternal perfection, It does notchange, or move, or complete Itself. It already is complete, infi-nitely so. There is nothing to complete because All already Is, andit is Ising as you right here, right now, eternally.

The process of spiritual harmony or healing is revealing theincorporeal Is that already is, not making something happen, notimproving a condition or illness, not bringing abundance to pover-ty, not bringing love where there is hate. All this is just the falseimagery of the mind, the belief of the mind. Forget it. Dismiss it.Do not ‘work’ on the mind and its images and conditions anymorethan you’d work on the images created by the stormy water. Theperfect whole—in every way—is present everywhere, as everything.Let it reveal itself through your silent mind as the perfect ‘statue’of you reveals itself through the still, clear waters.

Spiritual perfection and wholeness reveals Itself to you whenthe mind is still, peaceful and silent. You can’t do it; It does it. Thevery attempt to do it yourself is mind activity, which again blocksthe spiritual whole! Do you see? The perfect whole is right therewhere your mind is seeing a problem. It is only the activity of themind that is blocking the perfect wholeness from tangible appear-ance. Do not work on anything other than stilling the mind andbathing in the sublime Love and Fulfilment of Spirit. Then you’lldiscover the whole appears right in front of your eyes. Do not tryto ‘heal’ a disease; instead, know the truth about the appearance,then still the mind. Listen and let. “It is the Father’s good pleasureto give you the kingdom.” It is the ocean’s ‘good pleasure’ to giveyou the beauty of the corrals, reefs, fish and flowers. All you and Ihave to do is still the waves, and then, like a miracle, all the beau-ty and bounty of the ocean is revealed to your sight where, evenjust a few minutes ago, it was distorted or blocked by waves. Stillthe waves—still the mind—and you will witness blessings afterblessings, miracles after miracles, too many to count.

What is Most Bothering You?Witness Harmony Now!

Consider what is most bothering you, or someone dear to you, thismoment. Gently know the truth about the condition or situation.Know that, whatever it is, it is actually just another name for

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Spirit—a name the mind, in its unknowing, has given to Spirit, aconcept of discord, lack or limitation. That’s okay, there is no harmin a name.

But now realise that whatever this thing or condition looks liketo the mind, it is really Spirit. That’s all. The bliss, the love, the joyof Spirit existing fully and harmoniously right there. Dismiss whatthe mind sees. Dismiss the corporeal sense that makes this thinglook frightening, or limiting, or lacking, or threatening.

Now perceive the withinness that is incorporeal Spirit.Completely forget the ‘person’, ‘thing’ or ‘situation’. Let it dropcompletely from your mind, and replace your thinking with spiri-tual truth. Ponder it. Rehearse it in your own mind. Get the feel-ing that because Spirit is infinite, and therefore fills all space,that—yes!—there is nothing other than incorporeal Spirit eventhough the mind sees millions of different corporeal people, ani-mals, things, places, conditions. And because Spirit is eternal per-fection and completeness at every point in space at the same time,it follows that Spirit does not change its nature, its character, itssubstance, its infinity, its omnipresence. Therefore everything themind sees as corporeal—the bad and the good—cannot be truth. Itis all a trick of the mind and can be dismissed. Never be concernedabout what the mind shows you; there is no actual power in it, noactual presence, no actual influence because Spirit is all power, allpresence, all influence.

As you feel an inner agreement, an inner assurance, a releasefrom the worrisome looking ‘thing’ or ‘condition’ because you arenow filling your awareness with omnipresent, incorporeal Spirit asbeing everything everywhere (remember, you are not thinkingabout the ‘thing’ or ‘condition’ now, neither are you trying to ‘con-vert’ or ‘send’ your Spiritual realisation to ‘solve’ the ‘thing’ or ‘con-dition’—you must not do either—your thinking is now only onSpirit, incorporeal, omnipresent) you now become completely stilland peaceful for Spirit to reveal Itself within your silence.

Let Spirit reveal Its wholeness, It’s bliss, Its joy to your within-ness in Its own way. Do not ‘outline’ what or how you want Spiritto become known to you, for instance “in the form of a healed bodyor filled bank account or loving relationship.” That is anotherstorm and it will block the harmony from your experience just assurely as an ocean storm will block from your vision the beautybeneath the water’s surface. Let Spirit be Spirit in, as and throughyou in Its own way.

You have no idea how It will reveal Itself within you—what feel-


ing or sense of enlightenment will well up within you—but beassured of this: When you feel Spirit happening within you theouter harmony is axiomatic. Nothing in the world can stop the har-mony, health, wealth and satisfaction of the tangible experienceonce—and every time—Spirit is felt within, and is acknowledged asthe only presence—the only ‘thing’ present—from night to morn-ing, and morning to night.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that Spirit fills you withinyet leaves the outer problem unfulfilled. Impossible! All is one, nottwo. The inner and the outer are the same oneness. As a powerfulsearch light floods every corner of the room with bright white light,so Spirit released in individual consciousness (the knowing andsilence of the mind) floods every nook and cranny of your life. Yourentire consciousness—your entire kingdom and everything in it—lights up, becomes harmonious, joyous, successful—particularlythat one problem that is most bothering you. Watch it, it will blos-som as paradise. It will be bliss. There will be joy where there wasfear or worry. Why? Because the fullness of paradise, bliss and sat-isfaction is already present simply awaiting your and my knowing it,then recognising it for what it is—incorporeal Spirit in all Its per-fection and bounty in every way—our acknowledgement of Spiritbeing everything everywhere—no more walking past It withoutrecognising It and acknowledging It—and then our receptive silentmind.

In the silence all bliss and perfection is witnessed to beomnipresent, first in the inner, then shortly afterwards in the outer.

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CHAPTER FIVE

THE SECRET OF DEMONSTRATION

IS TO LIFT ABOVE THE VISIBLE

The secret of demonstrating an infinity of all good, right herewhere you and I stand, is to lift awareness up and away from whatappears to our senses as the physical forms of life into the atmos-phere of Spirit—the intangible—where an infinity of All perfectionand wholeness already exists without the physical forms being nec-essary.

The great mystery and miracle of life is that when we lift aware-ness up and away from the physical forms of life into the pure spir-itual allness of being without physical form—fulfilment of all ateach point in the universe, including the point called ‘you’—satis-fying tangible forms are always present in our physical experience.

That’s the great miracle. No one in history has been able toexplain how Spirit works, other than that Spirit does appear to ourphysical senses as all form. But we must reach the point as quick-ly as we can manage to, of not caring ‘how’ Spirit appears to us asform. It does. That is where our ‘interest’ in the outer appearingworld should end.

Our entire interest and desire must be in spiritual realisation,spiritual dwelling, spiritual living. The outer world of abundant,glorious form then takes care of itself, in wondrous ways and expe-riences of fulfilment that reach into and as each niche of our lives.

Imagine

Imagine you are the sun. You are the infinite fire, light and heatitself. Now imagine you have, this hour, temporarily lost awareness

of yourself, what you are, what you have, and the effect of yourlight and heat as it pours throughout the universe. Your awarenesshas come crashing ‘down to earth’ and now occupies a tiny patchof light on a wall. Your temporary, fractional awareness occupies nomore than the measurement and confines of that tiny patch of lighton the wall.

That tiny patch is the totality of what you think you are, whatyou think you have, and what effect you think you create in ‘yourlife’.

Just imagine it! Suddenly, you would be in a state of panic.Demands are being made upon you for which you possess insuffi-cient supply. Your ‘body’ becomes ‘ill’ or ‘diseased’ because you pos-sess insufficient health, insufficient life. Companionship becomesunsatisfactory because you think the only available companions areto be found within your tiny patch of being. Or you assume you donot have ‘what it takes’ to attract a loving partner. Employment andbusiness activity becomes hard, never quite as satisfactory as youwant it to be because you draw solely on resources limited to theconfines of your tiny patch of existence. And so on throughoutevery department of your life. Life seems to be, by degree, a never-ending series of limitations, lacks, difficulties, unfulfilled dreams,desires and needs, sadness, unhappiness, and fear.

Yes, of course! All you are aware of, temporarily, are the confinesof the tiny patch of light on the wall you have falsely assumed to be‘you’—what you have, what you can do, achieve and experience.

The ‘patch of light’ represents what you as a human being false-ly believe to be your limited self, with many more needs and desiresthan you seem to have the ability to satisfy.

Let’s Take Supply

As a tiny patch of light you discover it doesn’t take too much livingas an individual or business owner before you ‘run dry’ of supply.You have ‘used’ all the light you possess as a tiny patch because youhave assumed the tangible light that makes up your patch is thelimited supply of light available to you for use in this physical expe-rience.

So what do you do? You go in search of more patches of light.You search and labour for the tangible because in your temporaryunawareness you have thought that all you have is what you cansee, hear, taste, touch, or smell. Then you, and everyone in thesame predicament (the whole human race), concoct all sorts of

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creative methods of ‘getting’ and ‘earning’ more patches of light—money, along with every form of physical supply: home, clothing,automobile, companionship, love—all the ‘things’ of a satisfyinglife.

Most of these methods are more ethical than some! But, at theircore—whether we call it working hard and ethically for money, orbeing lying, cheating or stealing it—all methods are misleadbecause they each focus on ‘getting’ or ‘earning’ or ‘making’ lightpatches—money.

But making patches of light is impossible without the source oflight that creates the patch, so they fail to be the prosperous fulfil-ment we seek. We try, but continually run short. We forever seemto need more, and quickly.

You can see how bizarre this scenario is! You can also see thatthe whole scenario of limitation is caused by a lack of awareness ofthe truth of identity. That’s all. You—the sun itself—thinks it isshort of light and heat and so tries to ‘make’ more by concoctingmethods of manufacturing light and heat without access to thesource—the creative substance, activity, and presence Itself.

The Awareness That Evidencesan Infinity of Good

What is your real need? Is it more ‘patches’ of light and heat? No.What you need is a renewed awareness which reveals that, actual-ly, you are the sun aware of itself individually at this point in theuniverse called you, and that the awareness itself is the gateway toall the light and heat patches you will ever have need or desire of inthe physical.

Of course! The effect cannot stop itself from appearing physi-cally and tangibly. But you are not now concerned about the phys-ical because your real nature is the intangible light and heat itself.You are the very infinity of light and heat, and so you never concernyourself with how your light and heat appears in the physical. Yousimply use your appearing physical patches of light and heat totrade with and play with, but you never try to ‘get more’ becauseyou know you already are all, and have all.

You are the very cause of every patch of light and heat you expe-rience tangibly. You are not ‘getting’ them, you are them! Do you seethat? All that is happening when you see something in the physicalis that you are seeing the effect of you, yourself, appearing to thephysical senses. The patch of light you and I see is the sun light

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appearing tangibly to the physical senses. But the patch is an illu-sion of effect. The patch is not what it seems to be because actu-ally it is invisible light appearing tangibly only because our tangiblesenses perceive it in such a way. The real substance is the lightsource itself—the sun. Obtain the awareness of your infinity oflight and you’ll have as many patches of light as you ever have needor desire of.

That’s the secret of demonstrating supply. Never attempt todemonstrate money. That’s the seducer!—the thought that thephysical, the patch, is what you need. You’ll find yourself possess-ing all the money you ever want and need, and in never-endingabundance, when you lift awareness up and away from the physi-cal appearing money, and into pure spirit where money is unnec-essary to fulfilment—the place of awareness where supply is limit-less, immediately available, and never runs dry.

This is the secret of secrets! Please understand this. Re-read ita hundred times if necessary until your consciousness breaks intoawareness, like a bud breaking out in spring. Most of all sit in theSilence, ponder it, empty your ‘house’ and let Spirit move in.

Lift your awareness into Spirit where there is no need formoney—just pure, infinite Peace, Bliss, Completeness without tan-gible material form, and without a need for it—and you will dis-cover the great miracle is just as true for you today as it was for thegreatest masters of the ages: that an infinity of supply of all good,including money, success, home, food and all good things isomnipresent right at the place you are standing, and becomes aninfinity of material tangible things, people, places and conditionsto your physical senses and experience.

But you never look for them, or concern yourself over them,because—if you are still doing that—you have not understood whatI am teaching you: that you are spirit—you are the ‘sun’—and sothere is nothing more than that wholeness you can add to yourself,or desire. How can there be? You cannot add anything to whole-ness. The infinity that you are, and that you now awaken to andbask in—your infinity of spiritual being— appears to the physicalsenses as money, healthy organs, life-filled body, wonderful rela-tionships, creative business or employment, happiness and joy ofall life—just as sunlight appears to the physical senses as patchesof light on the wall. Open your awareness to the infinity of Spiritthat you are and you find yourself in possession of an infinite num-ber of ‘patches’—health, money, home, car, holidays, success, hap-piness and harmony in every department of individual experience.

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You can see how the same applies to every seeming challenge orlimitation we face. We are facing it only because our awareness ofwhat and who we are, and what we have, is confined to the tiny‘patch’ of being we have thought we are.

You are not finite in any way, and nor am I. You and I and everyperson, thing and condition are the one infinite Spirit. That’s it.You need no more awareness than this because the moment youawaken to your true infinite identity all the ‘patches’ of harmony,health and wealth appear to the physical senses. The moment youawaken to your true identity you no longer have concern for the‘patches’ of physical-appearing health, happiness, love and pros-perity, and yet—in your unconcern—you find all of life flowing har-moniously, healthily, lovingly and prosperously.

Health

You see how, if there is an appearance—a ‘patch’—of ill health orinjury or disease, in order to see that appearance dissolve into noth-ingness we must lift awareness up and away from the physicalappearing ‘thing’ or ‘condition’ into the pure awareness of intangi-ble spirit where ill health, injury and disease do not exist. It is inthat pure awareness of Spirit that the ‘healing’ occurs.

The ‘healing’ appears to our physical awareness when—and onlywhen—we have lifted above being concerned about the ‘illness’,‘injury’ or ‘disease’ in the knowledge that the appearing problem isjust the ‘patch’. It has no cause, no substance, no power.

By the way, if you want to prove that physical ‘things’ and ‘con-ditions’ have no cause, substance or power try shutting off thesource of light from the patch, and see how long the patch remainson the wall. Of course, it disappears instantaneously.

There is no cause, substance or power in anything you and I canexperience in the tangible. All cause is Spirit and therefore good—infinitely so. You are that spirit and all you have to do is lift yourawareness up and away from the physical into the pure Spirit, thenrest there with an empty, open, peaceful, attentive, inviting atti-tude—with no concern or interest in the physical need or desire—and simply let the spirit that you are exist freely in, as, and throughyour consciousness.

Your spiritualised consciousness infallibly then appears as aninfinity of ‘patches’ in your physical experience—healthy, fit, ener-getic body and mind; abundance of achievement, money andopportunity; beautiful relationships; happy, loving conditions; cre-

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ativity, performance, achievement, attainment; joy, happiness andfreedom in every endeavour and department of life. But you and Imake no physical effort to ‘get’ these conditions, we simply contin-ually live and bathe in the awareness of the infinity of Spirit beingwho we are, and who every being is, what we are and what everybeing is, and what we have and what every being and has.

But never again do we become concerned when somethinglooking like a challenge or demand or accident or disease turns upeither personally or to someone in our life. Instantly we recogniseit as a patch that the human mind—the five-sense awareness—terms difficult or impossible or upsetting or business-threateningor even life-threatening.

Instantly we lift up and away from the appearing ‘problem’ intopure spiritual awareness where there is no material form, eithergood or bad. There is just pure intangible Spirit, bliss, peace. Asyou dwell in that Spirit—as you actually live there (in spiritualawareness) all day—as being your only true nature and sub-stance—and you steadfastly hold onto spiritual awareness only—not allowing yourself to become entangled in the belief that thepatch you are seeing is something to ‘work on’ or ‘resolve’—thenyou will quickly see the problem dissolve or correct itself as beingthe harmony it really is.

That’s the secret of demonstration.

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CHAPTER SIX

A SHOCKING REALISATION

I am going to shock you now. Stay with it. Make sure you under-stand what I am about to tell you. Then immediately live with iteach minute and each hour. As it takes hold in your consciousnessit will become rich fruitage in your tangible experience.

Spirit will never give you a thing. Nothing is ever going to ‘come’to you. No ‘miracle’ is going to ‘occur’ for you. The skies are notgoing to open wide and pour you down a blessing of health, or amillion pounds. No spiritual balm is going to somehow be releasedwithin your body to heal your sickness or disease, or to restore yourfunctionality or wholeness. No perfect partner, no employment orbusiness opportunity, no perfect home or car, no happiness, no sat-isfaction, no youthfulness is going to magically ‘manifest’ itself foryou or within you.

Does that seem to fly in the face of everything we’ve said so far?If you think it does, then it is about time to resolve the mistakemade by thousands on the spiritual path. You see, this is the verymistake that leaves thousands desolate of their good. Thousandsare still ‘waiting’ for their demonstration, or at least the one ‘big’demonstration of health, supply, success, companionship, or lovethey need. Only the very few are actually, daily, experiencing theirdemonstrated good.

Why is this? Because your boundless demonstrated good alreadyexists right where you are, omnipresent, in, as, and through every-thing everywhere! Unless and until we individually reach the pointof awareness that can agree that omnipresent, incorporeal, spiritu-al Allness already is existing right where we are, and as each andevery one of us individually, we will continue to search the worldover for our good—it’s teachers and teachings, its books, its semi-

nars, its holy temples and churches, its shrines—even within ourmeditations and mind-practices—everywhere apart from where itis: right here!, already perfect, already whole, already being, alreadyfully existing and functioning in Its entirety of fulfilment as youand as me, and as every person.

Spirit Does Not Give!

Spirit Is. Your manifested good, without limit, is alreadyomnipresent at your feet, in the palms of your hands, all aroundyou wherever you happen to be, in and as the very form you wantor need for complete fulfilment this very moment, now.

Let’s recap to make sure you understand this great secret ofdemonstration, so that—from today forward—you actually liveyour demonstration, actually experience it—the ‘smallest,’ the‘biggest’ and the ‘most serious and urgent’ each day—and neveragain be confused about what you are, what every person and thingis: incorporeal, omnipresent. Let’s make sure you know, here andnow, and forever more, how spiritual harmony becomes visible andtangible in individual experience.

Spirit is incorporeal infinite allness. There is no Spirit and.Spirit IS what this world and universe is. Spirit fills all space, is allbeings, objects and activities. Spirit is the only existence, the onlyexisting person, thing, place, condition, situation. It doesn’t matterwho or what you’re looking at or thinking about, it is Spirit objec-tified through the ‘false-reporting’ five senses of the mind, with asense and belief of corporeality instead of incorporeality.Corporeality is the concept—the sensing—created by the mind;concepts of That which is actually present: incorporeal Spirit,form, perfection, love, bliss, beauty, harmony, joy in everything, aseverything. All is incorporeal. Only a corporeal sense exists in themind.

We have got to constantly remind and convince ourselves of thistruth. It is not at all easy to accept at first, but it is fact. This entireworld of people, things, conditions, and places looks real. It looksphysical. It appears to have weight, measure, finiteness. It appearsto have seasons, processes, distances, bodies and vehicles. I amhere living in the same world as you; I know what it looks like. Iknow the mind and the intellect will argue all day long that thiscorporeal-looking world and every person and thing in it is real. Butspirit is not physical. Spirit is incorporeal, infinite, filling all space,being all things, situations and activities. Spirit does not change Its

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nature, form, character, substance, infinity or omnipresence,therefore there is no physical, there is no process, no season, nomechanics, no time, no distance—there is no ‘thing’ or ‘person’ or‘condition’ as experienced by the mind; there is only the One exis-tence of all: Spirit.

That is why we do not attempt to change or improve or heal orprosper what the mind sees as needing improvement. We recognisethat what the mind experiences—real as it certainly seems—has noactual reality. The perfection of Spirit is right there where the mindexperiences a problem, illness, disease, lack, limitation or dishar-mony. When consciously recognised, the spiritual harmony appearsvisibly as health, supply, companionship and harmony.

The Fullness of SpiritAlready Exists at Every Point

All is instant. In fact, all is more than instant, it is omnipresent; italready exists. It has, and will do, eternally because all is now—Spirit being omnipresent allness—incorporeally—now—at everypoint in the universe at the same time. Nothing is missing, nothingis sick, nothing is limited, nothing is needed, and when we realisethe incorporeality and omnipresence of allness we possess theawareness that causes miracles.

Do you see now that if you are sitting around waiting for some-thing to happen you might as well tuck yourself in for a very longwait. Nothing is ever ‘going’ to happen because it already has hap-pened! All is eternally manifested. Nothing is ‘going’ to be mademanifest. The whole of your infinite demonstration is already sit-ting at your feet, waiting patiently for you to recognise it. Whenyou stop judging the scene through your corporeal-sensing mindand begin judging only incorporeally suddenly the truth of spiritu-al bliss becomes ‘yours’ to pour out as the outer scene.

A Subtle Extra Step we Easily Miss

There is a subtle extra step we have to take, which, if we’re notcareful, we miss, and therefore overlook our already-demonstratedgood. We fall into the trap of ‘excuses’ and fail to experience ourdemonstrations being tangible, or, at least, we experience only thevery fringes of demonstration. We say, “Oh well, it hasn’t happenedtoday, but it will. There is obviously some spiritual reason why ithasn’t turned up today, and that reason must be for my good, but I

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really hope it will happen tomorrow because I’m now desperate. Itis urgent now—please Spirit—please. I am desperate!”

No. That is not the Miracle Self. Your demonstration already is,and is ising right at the place you are, tangibly, in and as the veryperfect and complete form it needs to be for your complete fulfil-ment, or the fulfilment of the person or situation you are ‘treating’.Thinking it will ‘come one day soon’ will achieve only one thing: alot more ‘one day soons’. “For to every one having shall be given,and he shall have abundance, and from him who is not having,even that which he hath shall be taken from him.” This is not acruel law of the gods who reward the rich and deprive the poor ofeven the little they have; it is a principle of spiritual identity andawareness, the real self we each are. If we are aware of—have—spiritual identity—“every one having”—we will continually experi-ence “more” good in the forms of overabundance of harmony,health, wealth, success, attainment—complete joy of being, things,and purpose. But if we are unaware of our spiritual identity—“himwho is not having”—we will continually miss our already manifest,already present infinite-all and we’ll watch as even the corporealgood health, good prosperity, good career, good family and friends,good safety and good environment we’ve managed to ‘mentally’ cre-ate or attract seems to crumble and desert us.

What is it we are missing? What are we failing to understand?What are we not doing?

We have to not only be aware but also acknowledge and trust thepresence of spiritual allness. There is a difference between aware-ness and acknowledgment. Both are required. You might be awareof the presence of Spirit, but are you acknowledging the presencein the form in which that acknowledgment is required?

Webster’s New Riverside University Dictionary describes theword “acknowledge” as: “To recognise; to know. 1a, To admit theexistence, reality or truth of. 1b, To recognise the validity, force orpower of. 2a, To express recognition of (acknowledge our pres-ence). 2b, To express gratitude for. 3, To acknowledge receipt of. 4,To accept or certify as legally binding. Core meaning: To recognise,often reluctantly, the reality or truth of.”

That core meaning rings true, doesn’t it? Don’t we so often findourselves “reluctantly” recognising the truth of omnipresent Spiritin favour of the mind’s senses and corporeal awareness of theworld?

I interpret “acknowledgment” like this: Let’s say you and I wereplaying the game “Hide and Seek”. Before we play, you tell me

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you’re going to hide behind the tree in the field. I close my eyes andcount to ten, you run into the field and hide, I open my eyes andset off to find you.

I am aware of your position because you told me you’ll be“behind the tree in the field”. But I haven’t yet found you.Awareness is not enough. I now have to acknowledge your pres-ence behind the tree. I have to “express recognition” of your pres-ence. I have to “recognise the validity” of you being there. I have to“acknowledge receipt” of you. I have to “accept as legally binding”the fact that you are present behind the tree. I have to “recognise,often reluctantly, the reality or truth” that you are there.

When I do—when I actually say to you, “There you are behindthe tree, I see you”—you come out of hiding. I have now “demon-strated” you; I “see” you, whereas a minute ago I could not see youeven though I was aware—conscious of—your whereabouts. Doyou see the difference between awareness and acknowledgment?This is what Spirit requires. This is the first principle or law ofdemonstration.

I realised this after speaking with some students recently. Iknow this group have a good awareness yet their demonstratedgood still evades them. It suddenly became clear: Acknowledgmentis the secret. Indeed, we have to so deeply “know” that our good isalready manifest right where we are as incorporeal allness, good,perfection, overabundance in the very form we need it withoutlimit, that we walk around all day with the certain acknowledgmentthat it is right here—just as we would call out with certainty,“There you are behind the tree, I see you”. Then spirit is free tobecome “released” into and as the mind’s visibility; our manifestedgood becomes visible to the mind corporeally.

We must move through our days and activities knowing withabsolute certainty that all the infinity of our good is right herealready manifested. We must continually acknowledge Its presenceas everything everywhere, perfectly already-manifested good inevery department of life. ‘Hoping’ this is true will not work.Accepting that it will ‘arrive one day soon’ will not work. Being con-tent with its ‘non-arrival’ today will not work. Why be content withits absence when you know it is already sitting at you feet?Acknowledge it now. Stop making excuses for its ‘non-arrival’.Acknowledge It now, and continually.

The second principle, and requirement, is silence. In theSilence All becomes visible to the mind as long as you know It ispresent. In the silence all that is acknowledged as present—spiri-


tual infinite allness—becomes tangible to the mind as the form offulfilment—the need fulfiled. You have awareness, and you havenow acknowledged your infinite incorporeal good—remember,always incorporeal good, never corporeal good. Now, in the Silence,your good appears of it’s own accord. Spirit reveals Itself withinyour silence.

Thank You, Thank You Spirit, I have found You. If I look into theseeming empty space in front of me, there You are in the fullness. IfI look up into the sky there You are. If I look at my body, my employ-ment, my business, my family, my home there You are in the fullness.I know You are there, I acknowledge Your presence, and all is well. Ican finally relax. My troubles are over. I am well, I am safe.I was still, until now, trying to make incorporeal All ‘produce’

some form of good for me. Now I know, and I acknowledge, the pres-ence of incorporeal Spirit as all, and as the very allness of my com-plete fulfilment here and now and at every moment.I walk around with the continual awareness and acknowledge-

ment that You, Spirit, Incorporeal Infinite All, are ‘hiding’ from themind right here where I am—like ‘Hide and Seek’ to the mind. Spiritis continually omnipresent. Spirit pours forth as boundless love, joyand abundance of expression, ever available as freely as the sunshineis available to all who avail themselves of it.I have all form because I have all incorporeal infinity. Corporeal

form is incorporeal infinity being seen by the mind finitely, thereforeif it appears to me that I have a lack of healthy, harmonious or abun-dant form, it is because I am looking corporeally instead of incorpo-really. How can I have a lack of anything when here I am, the veryfull presence of the infinity of Spirit, the infinity of incorporeality,existing here as me and as every fulfilment of me and every personand thing in my consciousness?I AM the infinity of incorporeal Spirit therefore I have all form. I

AM incorporeal infinity therefore I HAVE incorporeal infinity. I rest inthat assurance, never worrying about the corporeal sense of form mymind sees, and I discover—in my resting—that all good, loving, andabundant spiritual form becomes visible corporeally in my physicalexperience.

My active awareness and recognition of Spirit omnipresent, here,there, everything everywhere, is my oneness with all form, all per-sons, all harmony, all life, all supply, all love. When I am living inawareness and acknowledgment of the presence of infinite incor-

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poreal spiritual allness right here, right now, I am one with all formright here, right now. All fulfilment is ‘mine’ now. I ‘own’ it now.This peaceful knowingness brings forth the corporeal-sensed ‘heal-ing’ and fruitage of fulfilment in all of life.

Now you can see why gratitude is important and possible.Webster says to acknowledge is to “express gratitude” (2b). Whenyou know with such certainty that you acknowledge the presenceof the already-manifested spiritual perfection—incorporeal perfec-tion omnipresent—and you know that as you acknowledge It Itinfallibly becomes visible to the mind as the corporeal fulfilment orhealing—there is inherent gratitude.

Use your ability—or lack of ability—to feel inherent, inner grat-itude as a measure of your spiritual awareness. When you feel atleast the same flood of relief and gratitude you would when youexperience the physical corporeal manifested good, for the spiritu-al incorporeal good you know is ever manifested and formed sim-ply awaiting your recognition and acknowledgement, you haveattained the spiritual awareness that is the miracle.


CHAPTER SEVEN

THE INFUSION OF AWARENESS

Let us keep in mind the single most important awareness we musthave: Spirit is incorporeal Allness, Infinity, Self-Complete, fillingall space, being everything everywhere. Person, place, thing, situa-tion and condition is also incorporeal allness—Spirit—filling allspace yet seen and experienced by the mind as an objectified cor-poreal finiteness. Spirit does not change its nature, character,form, substance, infinity, omnipresence, omnipotence, omnis-cience. A mountain or one grain of sand is the same one,unchanged, incorporeal Spirit appearing to the mind as a corpore-al mountain or grain of sand. Anything and everything the mindsees, hears, tastes, touches, smells or thinks is a corporeal conceptof an incorporeal reality.

With this in mind, I want to give you a wonderfully clear way inwhich to understand the process of demonstration, a way that willbring rapid results.

Awareness Infused With and by Spiritis Miracle Demonstration Revealed

The awareness of the presence of incorporeal Spiritual All and thecorporeal-appearing (to the mind) demonstration are one. Thedemonstration of perfect, blissful All already exists at every point.Your perfect, full demonstration is omnipresent wherever you hap-pen to be, already waiting for you to be there, waiting for you to‘catch up’ with It by opening awareness—but it takes an awarenessinfused with the oneness and incorporeality of Spirit in order for Itto be seen by the mind corporeally—visible to the mind as a tangi-ble good ‘thing’ or ‘person’ or ‘condition’.

The demonstration already exists because incorporeal allnessalready exists at every point in the universe at the same time. Youcannot demonstrate anything. You can only become aware of thealready demonstrated perfection. You cannot manifest anythingbecause all is already manifest—All is incorporeal Allness alreadyexisting at every point in space as both invisible incorporeality andvisible incorporeality as is needed or desired for each moment’s ful-filment, witnessed by the mind as corporeal.

You can only become aware of the already manifested, incorpo-real Allness, then—in the silence of mind—feel it become incorpo-real fulfilment within, shortly afterwards to be witnessed as theouter, corporeal fulfilment. But here’s the thing: it is the degree ofinfused awareness that determines the degree of manifested goodyou or I will witness visibly each day, each hour.

Make sure to remember: Only Spirit exists, only Spirit is awareof Itself, and only Spirit makes Itself aware as the individual mindand all the sensed ‘things’ of the mind when the mind is complete-ly still, peaceful and silent. Where the mind is still Spirit is fullypresent and fully demonstrated because the presence of Spirit isalready the Oneness and Allness of full, completed demonstration.

Here’s an analogy that clearly illustrates the art of demonstra-tion—the process and principle, or law, of demonstration.Understand this and you’ve got your demonstration, inner andouter, one and the same:

When you place tea leaves in a cup of hot water the water grad-ually becomes infused with the flavour, colour and aroma of theleaves. You keep the tea in the cup until the water is fully infused.At that point you remove the leaves. The full flavour and aroma ofthe tea is now ready to be enjoyed.

This is a wonderful analogy for the process of consciousnessbecoming infused with the awareness of incorporeal Spiritual All,and—as a result—experiencing the visible (corporeal) manifestedgood of fulfiled demonstration in your midst.

Let’s say that ‘tea’ is Spirit and ‘water’ is our individual con-sciousness—our awareness. Let’s also say that ‘boiling the water’ inpreparation for making the tea is our mind knowing the truth andpreparing itself to be silent—contemplating, pondering, rehearsingthe truth.

The first thing we do is boil the water. It is a necessary prepa-ration to the making of each cup of tea but it is not the tea itself.In the same way, the first thing we have to do each time we turnwithin for spiritual realisation is to know the truth with the mind.

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Our knowing truth with the mind—thinking about truth; con-templating, pondering, rehearsing the truth with the mind—is notthe Spirit Itself but it is a necessary preparation. Why? Only whenthe mind has reached a state of knowing that enables stillness,peace, and silence can Spirit Itself become an awareness in and asthe mind.

Spirit is everything everywhere. It is the one power, the one all-knowing intelligence, the one presence. It is all around you as youread and ponder this chapter. It is everything in your vicinity rightnow. Look around you. All of everything you see is incorporealSpirit being that thing, and every thing, seen corporeally with yourmind. What you are seeing in your vicinity is only a fractional viewor awareness of what really is there: fullness of bliss, fullness oflove, fullness of intelligence, fullness of everything you need anddesire right now, present here where you are, fully available to youthis minute as every good and loving form you require.

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Your mind has to be truly silent, empty of thoughts and concepts.It has to become a state of receptivity. Complete silence. While youare looking out into whatever happens to be your current scenerywith a false ‘knowing’ that you are ‘short of money’ or ‘lacking inhealth’ or ‘lonely’ or ‘limited’ in some way your mind is busy enter-taining belief-images of its own making. While it’s doing soSpiritual Allness cannot penetrate. It forever wants to. It is foreverready to. It is forever pushing at your consciousness trying to burstthrough. But your mind is busy with images, fears and schemes ofits own making, thereby shutting Spirit out.

What an amazing realisation! Right where you are this minute,reading this, your very surroundings and the things filling thosesurroundings are all incorporeal Spirit, the entire universe of bliss,perfection and fulfilment bursting to pour through your silent con-sciousness as the instantaneous fulfilment of absolutely everythingand every condition your mind has thought was missing. Nothingis missing, nothing at all! Only the corporeal-sensing mind can lookout and see a lack or limitation or illness or inharmony. But theincorporeal-sensing inner-awareness knows allness, beauty, abun-dance, perfection and joy in and as every person, thing, and nookand cranny of the universe.

You are—right now, and at all times—in the very midst of theinfinite ocean of incorporeal Spirit Being your every fulfiled

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demonstration now. Look at anything in your vicinity—in yourroom, in your car, in the park, by the ocean—wherever you happento be reading this. Realise that that ‘thing’ your mind is seeing isactually the entire universe of incorporeal Spirit, the entire incor-poreal demonstrated fulfilment of all you ever need or desire. Itknows you. It is aware of you. It wants you to close your eyes, shutout the mind’s view and thoughts of the world and about your sit-uation, and be silent. Then It can rush in. It does rush in. The verysecond you silence the mind Spirit floods in, infusing your entirebeing with Its bliss, Its government, Its organisation, Its all-intelli-gence, Its harmonising presence, Its correcting and regeneratingSelf, Its miracle Isness of Being.

Now, all of this contemplating, pondering, rehearsing of thetruth is the equivalent of ‘boiling the water’. It’s necessary but it isnot the ‘tea’ itself, it is not Spirit Itself. All we have done so far hasnot brought one drop of actual spiritual awareness and demonstra-tion to us. It has been mind activity, not Spirit activity, which canonly happen in the silence of mind. So now we have to ‘let the teainfuse the water’—let Spirit infuse our awareness. But here wereach a very interesting realisation, a realisation that will foreverclear up the confusion of ‘why I am not witnessing the demonstra-tion I need.’

First, the only way we can make a good cup of tea is to let thetea infuse the water. We can’t ‘make’ the tea infuse the water, itdoes it itself. Secondly, if we dip the tea into the boiling water forone quick second we get very weak tea. It really can’t be called acup of tea, it’s a cup of hot water. Our experience of ‘tea’ will beweak, virtually non-existent. If we leave it in for a few seconds ourexperience of tea will still be weak and unsatisfactory. It hasn’t fullyinfused the water! However, if we leave the tea in long enough tofully infuse the water—perhaps two to five minutes—then the full-ness of colour, flavour and aroma has been achieved, and is expe-rienced.

Remember, we’ve ‘boiled the water’—pondered the truth untilour mind is peaceful and still. Now we become silent, receptive forthe infusing of Spirit to take place as actual awareness. This is theonly actual spiritual awareness, the only actual demonstration. Butif we’re not careful we fail to enable Spirit to fully infuse our con-sciousness. We keep thinking instead of listening. We keep ourmind busy instead of resting and receptive. It’s like boiling the ket-tle over and over again thinking we’ve made tea. Boiling the kettleis not making tea; it is only boiling water.

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Inner silence is what Spirit is, and where It is. Only innersilence. Only in the silence can Spirit rush in and infuse con-sciousness. Only in the silence can Spirit’s Awareness of Itselfmake Itself known to and as our awareness of the perfect demon-stration already existing in our midst.

In the silence of mind Spirit spontaneously Is because It alreadyfully Is. But because our consciousness is so imbued with thebeliefs of collective consciousness it takes some seconds, or min-utes, or many, many minutes for Spirit’s Awareness to infuse Itselfas our awareness. When has Spirit fully infused consciousness?When we feel an actual happening within, a glow within, somekind of ‘welling up’ within, of peace, or bliss, or a sense of ‘release’from what was a worry or burden a minute ago, or euphoria, orwarmth, or heat, or light, or a clarity of meaning, an understand-ing, or an involuntary intake of breath.

Our role in the demonstrated good is just one: silent receptivitywith a little patience. We don’t bring-on the demonstrated goodanymore than we bring-on the infusion of tea. We let.We be silenceand wait for the ‘happening’ to happen within, and it infalliblydoes, just as we wait with a little patience for the tea to fully infusethe water, which it infallibly does. There is no ‘hope’ about theprocess, it is principle and law. It cannot fail to happen, it is law inaction, principle in action. But we must be silent, we must wait, wemust be a little patient—and then, gradually or suddenly, the mir-acle of awareness happens, and all is well. Consciousness isinfused. We have become aware of the presence of incorporealAllness right where we are, as good and wonderful everything,everywhere. It is the greatest moment of experience.

Then the corporeal sense experience follows. We drink the fullyflavoured tea—we see the fully demonstrated form of good withone or more of the five mind faculties: we see health where therewas sickness, we witness healing where there was disease, we seeabundant money where there was lack of money, we see a beauti-ful home where there was an unsatisfactory home, we see happi-ness where there was unhappiness, we see companionship wherethere was loneliness, we see creativity, ideas, innovations wherethere was a barrenness of mind… we see, hear, taste, touch, smellor realise (think) whatever the fully formed perfection of being andcircumstance needs to be. Yes, of course! Because what we havebecome aware of is the incorporeal wholeness that really exists atthe very place the mind was looking through its finite corporealsenses which showed limitation, lack, inharmony, disease, dissatis-


faction, unhappiness, frustration, old age, disintegration, failure,fear. The ‘dumb’ mind! Stop believing it. Stop relying on it. Stopallowing it to judge your scene and situation. Stop trying to use itto conceive fixes. Stop trying to use it to succeed or attain orachieve. It was never meant to be used in such a way. It is a receiv-ing and utilising device not a creating, causal device.

When the inner realisation has happened within then usuallythe corporeal sense of the good form will appear to the mind someseconds, minutes, hours or days following. Why? The mind is aslug. It is so slow to wake up that even though the presence of theneed fulfiled is now actual awareness and form within, the minddoes not instantly see it in most cases. Do not let this worry you!The demonstration is yours! It has happened! The mind will catchup very soon, as I say, sometimes within seconds or minutes, some-times within hours or days. Your job during this seeming delay is tokeep awareness on the omnipresence of incorporeal allness. Do notthink of the corporeal form you need. Never do that. Maintainawareness of the infinite incorporeal omnipresence present rightwhere you are, and as the seeming corporeal form you are handling,or need. That awareness will take care of the rest.

You rest—and remain resting—in that awareness all day andnight long. Do not let it drop from your consciousness. Each ‘cupof tea’ has to be fully infused if the ‘tea’ experience is to be fulfil-ing. Each five or ten minute period throughout the day has to befully infused with the awareness of incorporeal Spirit,omnipresent, as everything everywhere. Yes, each five or tenminute period. It’s as if you thrived—your life depended—on cupsof tea all day, a fresh cup every five or ten minutes. Each cup mustbe fully infused if the experience is to be fulfiling. Your awarenessof incorporeal Allness omnipresent has to be constant because it isthe only reality. The moment your mind begins to sink back intocollective five-sense mind belief you’re in trouble, all the troublethe mind gets itself into worldwide. If, like me, you have hadenough of the mind and its ways you have to be as constant aboutyour awareness as you are about your breathing. Nothing less willwork.

Each five or ten minutes, turn within, ponder the truth—thetruth stated in these pages—then be still and receptive. Be still andreceive the inner flow of Bliss. Be still and let yourself be infused byand with the awareness of the already-present fulfilment of yourbeing welling-up within. That welling-up is the substance of allform you’ll witness in the outer scene of your life.

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Rest—even for just a few seconds now, because the constantturning within and receiving throughout the day will have keptyour consciousness open and your awareness high—in the bliss ofstillness, peace, silence. That stillness, peace and silence of mindenables Spirit to infuse your entire consciousness. You see, onceyour awareness and receptivity is ‘on’, Spirit instantaneously infus-es Itself into, as and through your entire being—your entire every-thing everywhere. Harmony and joy of everything in and as yourlife is experienced. But when awareness is ‘off ’ or ‘dead’—noawareness of incorporeal Spirit present and existing as fullydemonstrated harmony at every point—there is no ‘water’ intowhich Spirit can enter—no cavern, no receptivity, no opening, noavailable ‘empty house’. Try placing tea into a cup with no waterand watch what happens. Why doesn’t it work? Not because tea isabsent but because water is. If you are not experiencing yourdemonstration it’s not because Spirit—the demonstrated allness ofgood—is absent, but because your awareness—your receptivity andopenness to the awareness happening within you twenty-four hoursa day—is absent.

Your awareness has to be greater than the mind’s awareness.The mind is telling you, “I have a problem.” Of course it has, it isunable to see properly. It senses corporeal finite ‘things’ and ‘situa-tions’ or ‘lack’ when all the time it’s looking at incorporeal, infinite,omnipresent harmony of all. The problem the mind has is not whatit appears to be—not the lack or limitation or illness or inharmonythat seems to exist. The problem is the inability of the mind torealise what it’s looking at, and to judge the situation accurately.“Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

The ancient mystics and master metaphysicians have beentelling us for centuries that the mind is incapable of being aware ofthe spiritual allness everywhere present. “Judge with right judg-ment”—judge by your inner awareness of incorporeal allness,omnipresent at every point in space at the same time, existing asself-complete euphoric fulfilment as you, within you, for you, outthrough you into your entire world, and then let Spirit be theawareness of Itself within you. Don’t ‘you’ try to do it, you’ll be wast-ing your time. Let Spirit—already fully aware of Itself existing asyou and as your allness of fulfilment—make Itself known withinyour silence and stillness.

In your gentle silence you are witness to the miracle of demon-stration Itself. In your silence you are the miracle of demonstrationItself. In your knowing silence you are the allness of infinite bliss


Itself.Be the silence of awareness... be the silence of Life... be the

silence of abundance... be the silence of love... existing here andnow as you, at every point of here and now, and for every personwho is lucky enough to enter your pureness of consciousness, yoursilence of awareness. Be... be... be... the absolute silence and still-ness of the infinite incorporeal Bliss, present where you are,omnipresent as you.

Be the miracle Itself... be the Miracle Self... be the miracle youare.

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CHAPTER EIGHT

UNDER THE CONTROL

OF SPIRIT

The tangible fruitage of spiritual realisation is experienced in lifeonly as we individually maintain awareness that Spirit is incorpo-real, omnipresent; that Spirit fills all space and is all form andbeing—all people, animals, places, plants, vegetables, minerals,cells, atoms, subatomic particles and beyond, yet experienced bythe mind as corporeal.

But, you see, we think we know what omnipresence means andis, and I am sure if I asked virtually any spiritual student whatSpirit is, the synonym ‘omnipresence’ would come up amongst oth-ers. Yet, is there a certain condition or situation that is botheringyou, or someone dear to you, today? Are you worrying about yourbody and its function, or the body or function of someone dear toyou? Are you challenged by the difficult time you’re having at work,or the difficult economic or trade affairs your business is experi-encing? Are you still fearful of the tumour, the disease, the arthri-tis, the joint, the organ, the restriction, the inability? Do you stillbelieve in the lack or limitation you are struggling to resolve? Doyou still believe a person can harm you or yours, or sue you, or stealfrom you, or be antagonistic towards you? Do you still believe thereis danger in the streets?

In this way we prove we do not know Spirit. We do not knowwhat omnipresence truly is and truly means to our life experience.When we do know, our entire life experience changes inside out.Whatever problem you happen to be experiencing at this moment,no matter how serious it is materially, or how urgent, or how large,or how long you have suffered it, no matter what you’ve been toldby doctors, solicitors, accountants, or professional advisors, and nomatter how hopeless it seems to be, there is—literally and tangi-bly—only one truth, one presence, one activity, one controlling fac-

tor: Spirit. And it is the certain solution to the appearing problem.Spirit is the only presence, the only person, the only condition,

the only situation, the only thing, the only activity, the only life, theonly supply, the only being, the only presence, the only governingpower, the only control. And Spirit is love, life, harmony, joy - full-ness of activity and function, fullness of success and achievement,fullness of happiness and fulfilment, fullness of bliss and ecstasy ofexperience at every moment. There is no destruction in Spirit.There is no failure, no decay, no malfunction. There is no ‘lessonto be learned’ sent to us by Spirit as this appearing disharmony,lack, limitation, hardship or disease. Yes, we’ll learn from it, hope-fully, but that’s got nothing to do with Spirit. Spirit Is. And the Is isonly love, perfection and satisfaction at every point, every place, asevery activity, every being. To think Spirit ‘sends us lessons’ is asabsurd as thinking the sun ‘sends us sunburn’ so that we learn torespect the sun! What nonsense! Spirit Is Love. Love does not sendhard lessons; love is ever available for us, as us, and as everythought, every word, every action, every person, everything, every-where in our experience. But we have to individually know thetruth, and be silent and open for It to pour into and as our entireconsciousness and tangibility. And It does, in the most wonderfuland miraculous ways.

But now let’s get specific, and in so doing, discover where wemight be experiencing ‘delays’ or ‘slowness’ or even blocks in ourdemonstrations. Think carefully now. Spirit is omnipresent; Spiritis omnipresence Itself. The fullness of Spirit IS present at everypoint in space… every point in the body and brain, point in thebusiness, point in the high street, point on the road, point in thecondition or circumstance. Where, then, is the problem? Where isthe malfunction? Where is the inability? Where is the disease?Where is the deformed or paralysed organ or function? Where isthe lack? Where is the harmful or limiting condition? Where is theperson who has the power to do you harm, or be unfair, or steal, orinjure? It can only exist in the corporeal senses of the mind. Do yousee that? We can paraphrase Shakespeare: “Spirit has no problembut the mind senses it so.” Spirit is perfect wholeness—incorpore-al wholeness and bliss—yet the mind sees a problem or malfunc-tion or inability or lack. Where, then, is the problem located? Notanywhere but in the mind’s corporeal sense.

The mind looks at a beautiful tree, abundant with deliciousfruit, and says, “There is spirit. Isn’t it miraculous.” The mind thenlooks at the same tree in the depth of winter and says, “There is no

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fruit, no colour, no beauty. Where has spirit gone?” Both observa-tions are incorrect. What the mind sees as barrenness and what themind sees as abundant leaves, fruit and colour are neither Spiritnor lack of Spirit. Spirit is incorporeal invisible infinity appearing tothe mind in its corporeal sense as both the tree laden with fruit,bursting with colour, and the barren tree. Both ‘trees’ are the mindsensing Spirit in the only way it is able to: corporeally, thereforefinitely, with seasons, growth, beauty, abundance; then decline,barrenness and decay. This is the mind not Spirit. We have to dis-miss the evidence of the mind. “My kingdom is not of this world.”“The kingdom of God (Spirit) is within you”—the kingdom of spir-itual Allness and fulfilment is ‘within’ or ‘hidden in’ whatever themind is observing. All is Spirit—inner and outer—yet the mind seesonly the corporeal sense of finiteness. The kingdom is right hereand there yet the mind misinterprets It. Our miracle is right herewhere we are, yet the mind fails to recognise it, so walks on by.

We have thousands of serious-sounding names and terms forthese misinterpretations: diseases—hundreds of them, limita-tions—hundreds of them, lacks—hundreds of them, unhappiness,stress, frustration… just look at the millions of pages of medicaljournals and self-help books of the world. All of these pages con-tain the ‘names’ the mind has conceptualised—all misinterpreta-tions of the one harmony that Is. We are Spirit—only Spirit—notSpirit and something that can set up opposition to It.

What does this truth mean when it comes to dealing with theappearance of a problem, particularly the problem uppermost inour mind this moment? Well, we can quickly see it dissolved if wego right to the heart of the matter:

Spirit is omnipotence. The only power, the only controlling fac-tor, the only influence, the only activity, the only function. As hardas it may be, dismiss the appearance of the problem and everythingyou think or ‘know’ about it and how serious it is, or how irresolv-able it is. Bring your awareness into Spirit only. Invisible to yourmind and its five faculties is the incorporeal wholeness and per-fection right there where you see the problem. Spirit has no prob-lem; mind is the problem. Spirit is existing in all its perfection,beauty and bliss right there, yet the mind calls it a problem of dis-ease, lack, limitation or inharmony.

A Shocking Truth

This is a hard truth for many, nevertheless, we must realise the

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great import of it: Disease is just another name for spirit. Cancer isjust another name for spirit. Meningitis is just another name forspirit. Arthritis is just another name for spirit. Poverty, limitation,hate, anger, accident, injury, injustice, stress, high blood pressure,frustration—all the names we place on conditions created by mindare, in fact, cases if mistaken identity. How can this possibly betrue? Spirit is omnipresence. Spirit fills all space, therefore Spiritis all persons, things and conditions. Spirit is infinity thereforethere is nothing else. How, then, can there be any other existence,any other ‘thing’, any other condition or activity? Of course, therecannot! Spirit is the only presence, the only thing, the only condi-tion. Therefore, if we see an appearance of disease, lack or inhar-mony it must and is the mind misinterpreting what is actually theonly thing present: Spirit, therefore love, harmony, perfection, joy,bliss, fulfilment of being, and of function, and of activity.

The mind is experiencing Spirit false, therefore the need is todismiss what the mind sees, hears, tastes, touches, smells andknows (thinks), and lift awareness into a spiritual atmosphere, anatmosphere of incorporeal sense, the sense that the perfectionexists invisible to the mind, but as the only reality. “Judge notaccording to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” Thekingdom of heaven—the ‘healing’—the bliss of all—is within‘you’—within the very sight or sound or taste or touch or smell orthought you experience corporeally. Think about that! What anextraordinary realisation! The perfect whole is right there withinthe problem that looks to the mind as terrifying. The awareness ofthe presence of the kingdom and then the silence of mind so thatthe kingdom of perfection can reveal Itself in your stillness andreceptivity—as it infallibly does because it is already there simplyrequiring your and my silence of mind—brings the perfection intovisibility here and now.

The perfect whole emerges into visibility as perfect health, per-fect organ, perfect function because the corporeal is nothing morethan the incorporeal ‘outformed’ or ‘outpictured’ in the mind’s eye.The perfect wholeness of spirit emerges into corporeal visibilityeven as a regenerated organ where there was a destroyed organ yes-terday. Of course. The corporeal, physical organ, in the first place,was nothing more than an outpictured image of spirit. The mindcalls that outpicture ‘real’ but the only reality is Spirit. The mind isincorrect.

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mind this is understood and is truth. Body, business, companion-ship, love, money, home, car, jewels, clothes, wine, food, art, music- all of this corporeal life, beauty and bounty is nothing more thanthe outpicturing of Spirit as seen and used by the mind. If your dis-cernment is purely material the life and things of life will be finite,limited, always lacking (always more to ‘get’ or achieve), always atrisk of failure or injury or accident or economic decline. But to thespiritually discerning mind all is Spirit showing through to themind as the corporeal, tangible life and things of life. All, therefore,is infinite, untouchable, always present, always whole, always fullyfunctioning, always harmoniously synchronised. All is under thecontrol of Spirit and is simply experienced by the mind in a corpo-real, physical sense but never believed to be real or causal. Whenyou have spiritual discernment—real spiritual awareness—you arefree. No one can touch you, no one can control you, no one canlimit you, no one can cause you to lack or be impoverished. You arefree in and as love itself, in and as bliss itself. Your every move,every companionship, every enterprise, every purpose and everythought is the very perfume of ecstasy Itself.

Always remember this: The kingdom of Spirit is a finished king-dom. Nothing can touch it, alter it, make it ill or diseased, slow itdown, injure it, make it lack, or limited, or disharmonious in anyway. Our role in bringing the beauties, joys and perfections of spir-itual completeness into corporeal visibility is first, to know thetruth and, second, to be still, peaceful, silent in meditation toenable the spiritual allness—all-present already—to flood our with-inness as peace, bliss, warmth, euphoria, a release from whateverit is that concerned us, which has the added effect of revealing thecorporeal tangibility of wholeness as visibility.

The kingdom is finished. Accept it, and let it emerge now. If wego to bed tonight thinking there is anything left to achieve or heal,we are not in full spiritual awareness.

Think about that.

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CHAPTER NINE

IF YOU GO TO BED TONIGHT...

Did you catch that? That astonishing truth?

“If we go to bed tonight assuming there is still something toachieve or heal we are not in full spiritual awareness.”

Indeed, if we meditate for the purpose of achieving or healingor prospering our estate in some way, we are not in spiritual aware-ness. We are still living the outer awareness, not the inner, and wewill fail to demonstrate spiritual fruitage.

Can we take Spirit this literally? Can we trust and rely on thepresence of Spirit and spiritual fulfilment to this degree, to thesame degree we can state, “If we go to bed tonight worrying howthe tides will ebb and flow in the morning we are not in full ocean-ic awareness”? Is Spirit this practical—right here and now wheremy problem of health or wealth or harmony is? Our concern that itisn’t is the cause of lack of demonstration for many students andpractitioners.

Spirit Is—not will be. Health Is, wealth Is, harmony of all Is. Ifit isn’t, then we are suggesting that Spirit will become harmoniouswhen and if we work hard enough at making it so, or that Spirit willbend it’s ways for us, at our command or plea. No, no! Spirit Is.Spirit is eternal bliss. Spirit does not change. There is no unmani-fested Spirit. The spiritual life, harmony, abundance and fulfilmentthat you are, and that those dear to you are—in fact, that all is—isin complete existence now, not will be someday soon, or after days,weeks or months of meditating and treating. Whether you or I cansee the fullness of life and wealth and harmony that is this partic-ular moment is a different matter. In fact, it is the matter. The

whole secret is right-awareness. “Open his eyes that he may see.”When we absolutely know that the whole of Spiritual perfection

exists here and now—in all it’s trillions of individual expressions—you and me and every person, thing and place included—and thatall this outer manifestation of form is simply the outpicturing ofincorporeal Spirit in the corporeal sense realm of the mind as body,as organ, as function, as relationship, as supply, then the harmon-ising of every situation comes through “quick, and powerful, andsharp.”

It is when we do not have the awareness of omnipresent whole-ness that we find ourselves living with a problem for weeks, ormonths, or sometimes years before it yields, if it ever does. And ifit does—which it infallibly does when we know and let the perfec-tion of Spirit reveal Itself to us where the bad condition appears—in the absolute stillness and silence of our mind—when is that‘yielding’ time? Immediately. When the mind is still Spirit revealsIts wonders because it is only ever the activity of mind that blocksthem. The question is, how long and hard are we going to make thejourney? Harmony of all reveals itself instantaneously when we giveup all mental and intellectual effort. When the mind has failed tomanufacture the needed fulfilment, we’re left desperate, with noother choice than to rely one hundred percent on Spirit, finally wereach the point of looking to and relying on Spirit one hundred per-cent. Or when we reach the full spiritual awareness through study,contemplation and meditation and therefore naturally rely onehundred percent on Spirit.

What do I mean by full spiritual awareness? What altitude ofawareness results in ‘quick, and powerful, and sharp’ healings, har-monies, and bounties here and now? Close your eyes for a few min-utes—as I will before another word is written. Become open andreceptive. Have the attitude of ‘emptiness’ ready to be filled to over-flowing with understanding. Stay within a few moments until youfeel empty, ready and receptive...

(Realise now, that the words flowing out onto this page comefrom the depths of consciousness. They are not ‘mine,’ they areSpirit pouring though my open consciousness. I type what I‘hear’—what ‘comes’ to me, not in audible words but in awareness.Let’s listen to, therefore, and absorb, what Spirit instructs on thismatter of ‘full spiritual awareness’):No one can change what is. If it is, it already is, and nothing you orI do will change that Isness. If you’re holding a frog but you thinkit’s a toad, nothing you think or do will change the toad into a frog

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because there is no toad, there is only a frog; the frog already is andis the only is.

It is only our awareness that is at fault. Our awareness of whatIs is illusory. What is the process of bringing fulfilment to the scenewhich appears, to the mind, to be a ‘toad’? Awareness! Awakeningto what is. That is all! Treating to turn the toad into a frog will fail;meditating to turn the toad into a frog will fail. Why? The frogalready is a frog. How can the ‘toad’ respond to your treating andmeditating? There is no toad! However, treating and meditating forawareness of what already is will always reveal the fullness and har-mony that is. The nature of ‘that which is hidden from you’ is toreveal itself, as the nature of the sun hidden below the horizon isto reveal itself to you.

“Know what is in your sight, and what is hiddenfrom you will be revealed to you. For there is nothing

hidden which will not be manifest.”

This is one of the most beautiful and important statements of truthever written. “Know what is in your sight…” Know that the “toad”isn’t a toad. Know that Spirit is the only thing present. If what is inyour sight is a person, healthy or sick, large or small, beautiful orplain, joyous or miserable, intelligent or unintelligent, know whatis in your sight: Spirit only, appearing to your physical sight as thatparticular person, and as the particular traits of that person. Butnone of what appears corporeally is the Truth. Do not be fooled bythe tangible appearance. The tangible appearance seems real, yes.But what is real? Is it what it appears to be to the finite senses ofthe mind? Or is it the infinite presence of Spirit being seen frac-tionally, finitely, through the distortions of belief and conceptualsense? When you know and rest in what Is, miracles start becom-ing evident.

If what presents itself to your senses is a disease know what isin your sight: Spirit only, appearing to your physical senses as dis-ease. The mental practitioner will immediately get to work attempt-ing to heal the disease—the attempt to change a toad into a frog.You would only attempt such a feat if you did not know what wasin your sight. “Do not judge by the appearance, but judge rightjudgement.” When you know the truth of Spirit—that Spirit is infi-nite and therefore the only thing present, that Spirit is perfection,bounty and beauty, and that Spirit reveals Its wholeness when themind is still—all you do is smile at the disease, turn within, be still,

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and silent, and receptive, and patiently wait for the spiritual per-fection that is to reveal Itself to you. It always will—“It is theFather’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”

If what is in your sight is lack or limitation, whether financial,creative, in companionship, in love, in vocation, employment, busi-ness, or family know what is in your sight: Spirit only, yet appearingto your mind-senses as that lack or limitation. Do not be fooled bythe appearance. Do not worry about it—it is the mind’s inability tosense correctly, that is all. The appearance of lack or limitation isnot a spiritual reality, and therefore not an actual reality in yourexperience, even though it appears to be. Judging only by the tan-gible appearance no one can deny the presence of the lack or lim-itation. But what is really present? What is the only presence, inreality? Is it what appears tangibly and physically to the faculties ofthe mind? Or is it the infinite invisible ocean of fullness being seencorporeally, fractionally; being misunderstood, or misinterpreted bythe mind which, remember, is incapable of interpreting or experi-encing Spirit? When you know the truth that Spirit is the All-in-all,that Spirit fills all space, is everything everywhere, the only thingpresent; that Spirit is perfect fulfilment, fullness of being, fullnessof pleasure at every point in the universe at the same time; thatyour silent—not busy!—mind enables that fullness to become evi-dent as the truth—the full perfection—about that which to themind seems to lack or be limited, then miracles of abundance, free-dom, creativity, restoration and fruitfulness emerge from‘nowhere’—from the invisible, incorporeal realm that, actually, isthe only realm, yet sensed by the mind as corporeal and physical.

Always remember: this is a spiritual, incorporeal, infinite uni-verse beheld by the mind as corporeal, visible and finite. “My king-dom is not of this world.” There is only one form: Spirit. Yet themind sees and believes form to be solid, corporeal, weighty, dimen-sional, limited, changeable and destructible. The mind believesform can be attacked by disease, or injured, or killed. The mindbelieves form can be abundant or lacking, beautiful or ugly, largeor small, loud or quiet, deep or shallow, black or white, attractiveor unattractive, pleasant or unpleasant, joyous or sad. None ofthese pairs of opposites are true; the only truth is Spirit becauseonly spirit is present. Spirit is the only being or object present. Thisis what we must know, right in the face of the so-called tangibleevidence to the contrary.

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to perceive, will be revealed even to your mind and its facultieswhen you know what is in your sight. When you are able to look atany person or thing and know what is in your sight then you dis-cover a great miracle: that that which appeared to you as one of thepairs of opposites—disease or health, lack or abundance, limitationor freedom, love or hate, companionship or loneliness, or any otherof the myriad human challenges—now appears to you as spiritualharmony made evident as tangible harmonious and enriched form.

The spiritual wholeness emerges into physical wholeness—theinfinite invisible form emerges into that which is witnessed as thefinite visible form. We call that emergence ‘healing’ or ‘transforma-tion’ or ‘restoration’ or ‘prospering’ or ‘regeneration’. Mostly we callit a ‘miracle’ because the human mind cannot understand how theharmony suddenly appears when, a moment ago, there was dishar-mony, or how full function and healthy activity suddenly appearswhen, just yesterday, there was a lack of function, and inability, oreven a diseased organ.

Now there is only fullness of life, fullness of health. Nothing inthe corporeal realm of awareness can explain it. No corporeal evi-dence exists. That is why, when we insist on continuing to employthe mind to create and maintain health, creativity, harmony, love,pleasure, wealth, happiness and fulfilment we struggle or fail. Orwe manage it in one department of life through sheer mental effortyet fail to manage it in three others. We are naturally good in careeror business but struggle in health, relationships and social activi-ties. Or we’re naturally good socially but money and health westruggle with. Or we manage to resolve one illness or limitationonly to find another popping up in its place a year or two later.

The mind is incapable of experiencing Spiritual fulfilment.Always there will be another problem to resolve. Why? Mind alwaysoutforms itself. You cannot escape the principle or law of corpore-al being: Mind always outforms itself. While there exists a belief inthe possibility of disease, somewhere, somehow, some time diseasewill be experienced, either within our own bodies or within thebody of someone who is in our range of consciousness. While thereexists a belief in the possibility of lack, limitation or failure, some-where, somehow, some time, lack, limitation or failure will be expe-rienced. We cannot avoid it as long as we insist on continuing toemploy the mind as our creator, go-getter, maintainer, sustainer,protector, fulfiler.

Ah, but there is freedom from mind! There is freedom from thelaw of the outforming mind. It is Spirit. When we find our freedom


in Spirit we find our freedom in and from every person and everything. When you “Know what is in your sight, what is hidden fromyou will be revealed to you.” Instead of being exposed to, and at themercy of, the storms of mind and its multiplicity of beliefs, and theeffects of those beliefs, you discover you have power over all. “Hethat is within you is greater than he that is in the world.” The Spiritrealised by you is greater than anything and everything the mindand its world can throw at you. There is actually only one power,one presence, one activity, one control—Spirit. But remember,Spirit is incorporeal and so it must be perceived, it must be anawareness rather than something the mind can latch onto corpo-really and say, “There it is.” It is nowhere the mind can detect orexperience; it is invisible to the mind. Yet it is the one and onlypower, one and only presence, one and only All-in-all whichbecomes visible to the mind as tangible health, harmony, abun-dance and love everywhere and in every circumstance and rela-tionship.

Whilst we invest power—belief—in the ‘reality’ of disease orlack or limitation or loneliness or unhappiness we throw ourselvesunder the circumstances of that believed power. It is very hard inthe beginning because we say the illness or disease or poverty ordepression is real, and to the corporeal sensing mind it is real. But,again, we have to stop being led by the mind. Just because the mindbelieves the frog is a toad does not make the frog a toad. The frogis a frog and the minute we become aware of it the fulfilment thatis the frog emerges and becomes ours to enjoy, our reality. This isvery much how spiritual healing and harmony is made evident.Only Spirit exists, infinitely, filling all space, being all-in-all, every-thing everywhere. Any appearing thing or circumstance that is notspiritual—meaning harmonious, life-filled, love-filled, fully func-tional and abundant, successful, happy, fulfiling—is the ‘toad’. It issimply a matter of mind misinterpreting what is. “Know what is inyour sight, and what is hidden from you will be revealed to you.”

There is no Unmanifest Spirit

“For there is nothing hidden which will not be manifest.” Whenyou catch the significance of this amazing truth your entire worldchanges overnight. Let’s recall what we’ve revealed so far: Spirit iseternal bliss of all, filling all space, being all people, things, condi-tions, circumstances, places, activities. Spirit is the only thing pres-ent no matter what the mind interprets that presence to be.

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If Spirit is fulfilment, and is eternal, there never can be a splitsecond when any part of spirit is unmanifest. If it was possible tohave unmanifested spirit, spirit could not be infinite, eternal,omnipresent fulfilment of being. So we know that Spirit is fully,infinitely manifested. The kingdom is a finished kingdom. Thekingdom of you is a finished kingdom, perfect and complete inevery way, already fulfiled to overflowing in every detail, every activ-ity, every love, every attainment, every joy. Yet the mind, when it isused purely corporeally, does not experience the blissful complete-ness. But when the mind is used first to “Know what is in yoursight,” and then as a receiving device which enables Spirit to rushin and fill awareness with Itself, then, “There is nothing hiddenwhich will not be manifest.” Do you catch that? All is already man-ifest simply awaiting your recognition or awareness of It—theincorporeal manifested completeness of fulfilment, existing hereand now waiting for you to pick it up like a television set picks upthe incorporeal broadcast of pictures and sound.

When you know this, then let it happen within you as an aware-ness—a feeling of peace or warmth or heat or light or release fromthe worries you had about whatever problem appears to you corpo-really—the mind then witnesses the spiritual forms of fulfilment ascorporeal ‘healed’ people, things and conditions in the way wecould say the television set witnesses the incorporeal broadcast ascorporeal pictures and sound. You must not concern yourself withhow the mind witnesses spiritual harmony anymore than you con-cern yourself with how the television set witnesses pictures andsound. No one in history has been able to explain how or why themind converts incorporeality into corporeality, and believes it to bereal. It doesn’t matter. What matters is that you know the truth andlet the truth become reality to you. And the how of it? The silenceand receptivity of mind.

Now do you see why, if you go to bed tonight still believingsomething requires improving or healing you are still under thehypnotism of the corporeal-sensing mind, not in full spiritualawareness? If by tonight you are still convinced that what you’reholding is a toad, you are not in full awareness of what is. If youwork and work on spiritual realisation of the problem, believing youstill have to ‘change the toad into a frog’ you are not in full spiritu-al awareness. You’ll awaken in the morning—and many, manymornings to come—with the same problem to overcome.

Rather, go to bed tonight knowing the ‘toad’ is actually alreadya frog despite the way it may be appearing to the mind. The full sat-


isfaction and perfection of being—right where the problemappears, no matter what it is or how serious or urgent it is, even ifthere are supposedly only days or hours remaining, the perfectwhole is present in fully manifested completeness. Know this truthand then let the spiritual wholeness reveal Itself through your stilland silent mind.

All is well. All is whole. All is perfect. And you will witness thatwholeness and perfection tangibly as the corporeal need fulfiledwhether it is to do with your body or mind, someone else’s body ormind, your finances, your employment or business, your relation-ships, your purpose in life, your happiness, your safety or security,or any other fulfilment you can possibly desire or need. It will showtangibly within a few hours, or days, or weeks at most—Spiritrevealing Itself in your stillness as the need fulfiled.

Know the truth, and lead your mind to a peaceful stillness. Keepyour mind peaceful, still and receptive. Then watch the miracles ofSpirit appearing tangibly everywhere in your world.

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CHAPTER TEN

PERSONALISING:THE GREAT MISTAKE

One time, I was pondering why, when Spirit—the all-fulfilment ofbeing—is everywhere present, so many seekers do not evidencetheir demonstrated good. The answer came, sharp and clear:“Because they personalise their needs.” Let’s look at this becausethe moment you understand it, and then cease from making themistake of Personalising, you open the floodgates to infinite goodthroughout your life, here and now.

Spirit is Principle

We must remember that Spirit is principle not caprice or impulse.Spirit and Its abundance of omnipresent good is never going to dosomething for you. It will never send you health, prosperity, successor happiness anymore than the principle of mathematics will sendyou the answer to twelve times twelve, or the sun will send sun-shine for your garden. That knowledge just about wipes out all the‘praying’ the majority of the world has practiced since the birth ofman. Think about it. Then, once and for all, realise it’s no use pray-ing or meditating to God or Spirit because the only true God orSpirit there is, is principle not favouritism.

Principle does not listen to our wishes. Principle knows nothingabout you or me. Heaven help the world if it did! If the principle offlight were able to listen to our personal pleading not a plane in thesky would be able to stay in the sky because every person wouldhave their own agenda. “Leave early—leave late; fly this route—flythat route; maintain this altitude—maintain that altitude; tilt leftso I can see the view—tilt right so I can see the view.” The princi-

ple of flight simply is, as is the principle of mathematics, gravity,sun, music, equilibrium and every other principle including theprinciple that is Spirit.

We Must Align OurselvesWith The Principle

If we wish to enjoy the great fruits of any principle we must alignourselves with it, not expect it to align itself with our personaldesires or needs. If we do not understand this and continue expect-ing or attempting to have principle work in our favour, or for ourproject, or health, or abundance, or relationship, just that long wewill fail. So realise, if you are still not demonstrating your neededgood, it is not that that good is not present and not ever-availableto you here and now, it is just that you have not yet aligned yourselfwith the principle of that good. The very moment you do, your goodwill be with you, just as the minute you align yourself with the prin-ciple of mathematics or flight or sunshine or gravity its good will bewith you. The good hasn’t got to ‘come’ from somewhere, it isalready fully present right where you are; your only need is to alignyourself with it.

Imagine you have just finished landscaping and planting a beau-tiful garden. Now you need sunshine to bring light, warmth andgrowth to your garden. But imagine you were unfamiliar with theprinciple that is the sun and so you began meditating for sunshineto ‘come’ to your garden. You personalised. You were thinking interms of your personal needs and sunshine fulfiling them instead ofthinking in terms of the fact that sunshine bathes the entire earthin blissful light and heat—the omnipresence of light and heat forall gardens, people, and places—including, obviously, your garden.

Imagine now that that personalised thinking, that effort to havethe sun ‘work’ for you and your garden, had the effect of blockingit from your experience. The sun is fully present but your erroneousthinking has the effect of placing a barrier between it and your gar-den. It’s an illusory barrier caused by the mind, the erroneousthinking; it’s not real. But it has the effect of being real in yourexperience.

What’s The Cure?

What’s the cure? Impersonalise. Realise the omnipresence of sun-shine and therefore its omnipresence in your garden too. Relax.

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Relinquish all effort to ‘make the sun work for you’ in the aware-ness that you have nothing to do but rest in the omniactivity andomnibenefit of the sun’s already present fullness. The illusory bar-rier has now been dissolved and the instantaneous benefits ofomnipresent sunshine are yours to enjoy in their fullness.

Now do you see how we so easily and so frequently block ourgood without knowing we’re doing it? We or a loved one have ahealth issue and what do we immediately start doing? Treating forits cure! Why weren’t we treating a minute ago, or an hour ago, oryesterday? Ah, but we’re treating now because we have a personalproblem we wish to solve for ourselves or another. That’s just thesame as treating for our garden, or another’s, and there can onlyever be one result: failure.

Or we have a need for employment or business prosperity, or weknow someone who has the need, so we begin treating. We beginrealising the omnipresence of prosperous activity in and for thatperson, or for that business and the fulfiling sales activity of its par-ticular products or services.We have beautiful meditations in whichwe realise the omnipresence of supply for our business or ourfriend’s business. And for all our treating, meditating and realisingnothing improves. In fact, things rapidly get worse. Why? We’rePersonalising! Not only are we personalizing but now in our mindis the idea that this person or this person’s business is in need ofsupply and success and you know what the only possible outcomeis: more and greater need; more and greater lack and limitation.What is held in mind is also held in manifestation - mind and man-ifestation are one. If we are thinking “Have not” all we’ll ever get ismore “have not”. Only when we know “I have” are we able to expe-rience that “have”. And what have we? The fullness of Spiritomnipresent, not personal. Only when we rest in the omnipresenceand ever-availability of Spirit—the All Good—are we able to expe-rience It tangibly just as we are able to experience the sun tangibly,or gravity or flight or mathematics.

The Uselessness of ‘Spiritual’ HelpThat is Not Truly Spiritual

You see the danger or uselessness of going to a spiritual practition-er who accepts the problem you bring him and starts working on it?It reminds me of a story of Mark Twain who, during a steamshipjourney to Europe from America, became sick. News reached hisfans both sides of the Atlantic, and when he finally docked in

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Southampton, England, his assistant came running up to him andsaid, “Oh, Mr Twain, I hope you are feeling better; your fans allover the world have asked me to tell you they have been praying foryou night and day.” And he said, “That is nice. Please let themknow I am sure their prayers did me no harm!”

You see, if we are praying or treating or meditating—whateverterm we wish to use; it’s really all the same—for someone or something or condition—we are ‘praying amiss’.1 Mark Twain knew theonly effective prayer is a prayer that has nothing to do with himindividually, but must be impersonal, the knowing of theomnipresent Good of All which becomes tangibly evident as theindividual when it is realised and rested in. Nothing is ever goingto happen for a person or condition, rather all will become evidentas the person and condition when the omnipresence of spiritualwholeness is realised and bathed in.

So Let’s Talk About You

What problem are you facing? It could be a problem of your ownor a family member, or a friend. It could be a problem of health ormoney or employment or business or relationship or home or trav-el. It could be a problem of depression or loneliness or lack of pur-pose. Whatever it is in your case, just as long as you are thinkingin terms of “you” and of bringing harmony to “your problem or sit-uation” you will fail.

The very first need is to impersonalise. The problem isn’t what itseems to be no matter in what guise or urgency it is appearing. Itis really a problem of unawareness of the omnipresence of all goodright where you are, actually existing as you—individually but notpersonally. It’s a problem of wrong identity—an identity that thinksof itself as a person with personal needs and desires. There is nosuch existence! There is only the One Spirit existing as billions ofindividual beings and forms, including the six billion of us humanbeings occupying the globe, the highest form of all existence. Theminute we remove the “you” and the “me” that thought in terms ofwhat we personally need or desire, the good that is omnipresentand infinite is able to shine through into visibility. The minute welift awareness above all personal sense, into awareness of the infi-nite invisible spiritual good of all, omnipresent here, now and for-ever, rest in It, be completely still and silent in Its presence, lettingIt reveal Itself within our consciousness, that same minute we willbe in actual possession of our tangible good, which then—within a

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few minutes, hours or days—will be visible through the mind in theouter realm as the good form of our demonstration. The need is ful-filed by whatever means, and in whatever measure, is required, andsometimes miraculously.

Do what you do for the joy of it, for the givingness of it to oth-ers, but never think in terms of getting it to work spiritually. Takeyour mind far up and away from any him, her, or it, any vehicle orchannel or activity. Gently merge yourself in the omnipresence ofimpersonal Spirit, the impersonal good of all being, all thing, allactivity, all purpose, and all place. Realise that good—in all it formsand ways, and in infinitely more forms and ways than we can everbe aware of—is just as omnipresent as sunlight, mathematics, grav-ity and flight—and just as spontaneously available to you and mewhen we do not attempt to personalise it.

Now watch how quickly your whole world of person, thing,place and activity blossoms, becomes enriched, abundant, life-filled, love-filled and joyous.

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CHAPTER ELEVEN

REALISING SELF-COMPLETE

OMNIPRESENCE

There is an aspect of meditation which often proves a block to ourdemonstration of good. It is this: If we are not careful, we rest inSpirit, and receive a beautiful flow within, a beautiful peace andassurance that all is well, and then promptly get up and start think-ing about our friend who is experiencing cancer or rheumatism, orour business that is experiencing lack or limitation, or our employ-ment that is proving difficult in one way or another, or our rela-tionship that is less than loving.

The peace of Spirit is felt within but we then fail to realise Spiritomnipresent the world over, right down to every individual, everything, every place, every grain of sand, every cell, atom and sub-atom in our world.

Realise this: Spirit does not need your help or mine to be wholeand perfect life. Spirit is eternal Isness, eternal completeness.There is no unmanifested Spirit. There is not one blade of grass outof place in Spirit; there is not one weather storm in Spirit; there isnot one pound or dollar missing from your complete fulfilment ormine in Spirit; there is not one inharmonious relationship in Spirit;there is not one wisp of inactivity, lack, limitation or difficulty inSpirit. There is only the ecstatic peace of sublime Being.

Remain Aware of Spirit, Not Form

Our awareness must remain on Spirit rather than on the appearingforms and conditions witnessed by the mind if we are to experiencea greater degree of the completeness and satisfactions of life.

Let’s take a friend or family member who has been told they

have cancer. Knowing what we know and are trying our best to be,we sit down to meditate for him or her. But right away we must becareful to understand what our role is. We do not think of the per-son, we think only of Spirit and the perfection of spiritual life.There is no form as the mind knows it in Spirit, there is just infi-nite invisible Spirit. That is what we contemplate, and only that.We do not try to “see” spiritual life as the form of the person we aremeditating for. We concentrate on spiritual life—invisible life. Ourcontemplative meditation might go something like this:

Spirit, Spirit, Spirit—only Spirit exists. Spirit fills all space.Spirit appears to my senses AS a person, and so I know that the formof a person as experienced by my mind is illusory. The person trulyexists but not in the form I am experiencing. My physical eyes deceiveme. My mind deceives me. I therefore can ignore the appearance inthe realisation that, in truth, the form is Spirit, infinite, perfect andblissful.I know that Spirit does not need my help to be Its fullness of Self.

Every pinprick of Spirit is eternal bliss and perfection of Being.Therefore, every PERSON is eternal bliss and perfection of Being eventhough I might not be able to see the evidence of this Truth with myhuman senses.

Awareness—that is the great secret.The very moment I become aware of Spirit being the person,

and not the form that appears to my mind, the ‘healing’ begins totake place. As I become more and more aware of Spirit being everyperson, every thing and every condition—everything, everything;everything is Spirit!—I am not causing change or healing to takeplace, I am simply awakening my senses to the already existingpresence of Spirit. As I awaken, the purity, completeness and per-fection of what is becomes more evident—tangible—to my mindand physical experience. But let me be doubly sure that I know Ihave no role whatsoever in the appearing of Spirit to my awareness.Spirit reveals Itself to my still consciousness. My only role in thiswhole transformation is to achieve and maintain an open con-sciousness into which Spirit rushes in and takes residence.

Spirit, I rest in You. I wait patiently for You to fill my awarenesswith the Purity You are, rather than the impurity my mind hasaccepted—the ills, lacks, limitation and unhappiness the mind hasgrown up believing. How wonderful it is now that I know only Spirit

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exists, and that any inharmony entering my awareness is nothing buta “trick of the mind” which is instantly purified by my simply sittingin the peace of my withinness, with an open and receptive con-sciousness—an empty house—and having You, Spirit, fill my ‘dark-ness’ with light, love and clarity of awareness.

All ‘healing,’ harmonising, and fulfiling experience then takesplace in the withinness of being, which then shines through intoand as my outer scene as infallibly as sun rays shine and appear asvisible patches of light, and tangible areas of heat.

Spirit is the one power, omnipotence. Nothing, nothing, noth-ing appearing to mind is able to stand against the one power andpresence of Spirit. Spirit is the only real, the forms of life. Theimages the mind witnesses are conceptual, therefore have nopower, substance, or actual presence. One with the vital awarenessof Spirit is a majority. Nothing in the entire world or universe canstand against you when you are aware of Spirit being the Only.

Spirit realised (an actual conscious awareness) always and infal-libly appears as the illness or disease melting away to reveal healthand life... as the lack or limitation fading away to reveal abundanceand freedom of prosperous activity and wealth of bank account,wallet and purse... as the dropping away of inharmonious relation-ships to reveal loving and joyful relationships... and as every restric-tion and hardship of life dissolving to reveal joy and happiness inevery department.

Our friend, our business, our employment, our illness or diseasedoes not need our “working on it” before it becomes perfect, pureand whole. It needs our release. Spirit does not need your help ormine to be Spirit. But it does require our releasing of even thethought that anything needs fixing, improving, prospering or heal-ing.

Spirit is Already Whole

Spirit needs no improvement. It is already whole, perfect and infi-nite in all ways. It is omnipresent, which means the whole realm ofwholeness and joy is right where you are and I am. Spirit needs noimproving, prospering or healing. It is already whole, abundant,complete and blissful. The moment we know this, then meditate tohave this knowing permeate conscious awareness, and the momentwe release all thought of person, thing or condition in the knowingthat it is pure Spirit and therefore needs nothing from us, we dis-

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cover the ‘healing,’ ‘harmonising’ and ‘prospering’ consciousnessthat performs miracles as far as the five-sense mind is concerned.

Do you see that it is not really a miracle? It is simply awakeningto the omnipresence of Spirit as everything, everywhere, needingnothing at all from you or me other than our awareness of Its pres-ence, and stillness and silence of being through which It saturatesconsciousness and expresses in fullness through the mind as allharmonious and joyful form and activity.

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CHAPTER TWELVE

THE HIGHEST FORM

OF MEDITATION

There comes a time when we drop all personal effort in our searchfor Truth. We reach a point where we have tried and tried and triedto have Spirit flood our experience and harmonise our life andaffairs, yet we’ve had little or only spasmodic success. Maybe we’vebeen trying for months, years, or even decades. Although some har-mony and prosperity has appeared it is insufficient to transformour experience and leave us free of the shackles that stubbornlybind us to one form of limitation or another, or one after another.

Then one day it occurs to us: Here I am trying to realise Truthmyself. All these months, years or decades I have thought it is myjob to bring a realisation of Spirit to my life. So I have sat for hoursafter hours trying to crack this mystery called Truth assuming mydedicated effort will bring out Its fruitage.

Ah, that’s where we’ve gone wrong! But strangely enough, allthe effort we’ve made has been a necessary phase of awakeningconsciousness to the point reached now: complete surrender ofpersonal sense, in recognition and submission to the Infinite, OneSelf.

Now our mode of awareness and meditation changes complete-ly. Now we sit in meditation and instantly realise within ourselves,“I can do nothing myself. Spirit Is and my role is simply to sit veryquietly until the Is that is becomes an actual awareness within me.”It is no use trying to ‘bring’ the awareness of Spirit to ourselves bychurning over dozens of statements of Truth. That practice was foryesterday, but we drop it now.

Surrender all Personal Effort

Now, surrender all effort and rely completely on Spirit to do theawakening of consciousness. Simply sit in silence, empty in mind,not ‘working’ the mind at all, but resting it, creating of it an empty,clean ‘house’ in which Spirit can inhabit. What a relief! What asense of release of all burden and need for effort in the realisationthat I am spirit, and Spirit needs no help from “me.” Indeed, Spiritis completely unaffected by my human effort!

Simply sit and receive. That’s all. Sit in attentive expectancy ofSpirit making Itself known to your awareness. It will do so in Itsown way. Remember, Spirit is the infinite, all-knowing mind, bliss,harmony, supply, companionship, love, happiness, joy, pleasure,and limitless fulfilment. So do not think a thing. And certainly donot wish for Spirit to ‘fix’ a problem in your experience! It is onlyour finite mind that sees a problem where, in truth, there is nosuch problem. Spirit sees no problem because Spirit has no prob-lem. In your pure state—when your mind is silent, empty andreceptive—you become a greater transparency of that Spirit.

Only when the mind has ceased churning can Spirit inhabit it.Even the churning of statements of Truth in mind block the actu-al awareness of the presence of Spirit from your consciousnessbecause any activity of mind is not an activity of Spirit. Spirit issilence. Therefore only in the silent, empty, receptive mind canSpirit become your vibrant awareness and tangible harmony.

A Sunbeam is One With The Sun

Let me give you an example that will make this highest form ofmeditation crystal clear. Imagine you are a sunbeam. You have livedyour entire life, until now, assuming you had to create your ownlight and heat. You were unaware that personal effort had the effectof blocking the sun’s infinite light and heat from your experience.You can quickly understand how dark and cold your life would be!

Then you awaken to your true identity. Although you are anindividual sunbeam, aware of your current surroundings, you actu-ally are the infinity of the sun expressing itself as you. Your entireexistence, your entire being, is infinite individuality, not finite (per-sonal) individuality.

You realise that the only thing necessary to experience the infin-ity of fulfilment you crave for is for you to sit in silent receptivitythereby letting the sun freely pour its light and heat into, as, and

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through that point called you.You realise you must make no effort, other than the effort of sit-

ting in pure openness, pure receptivity allowing the sun to be youin all its fullness. How ‘quickly’ will you experience that fullness?Instantaneously. Why? Because the fullness of the sun IS alreadywhat you are, and where you are, but you have been blocking itfrom individual experience through a false sense of personalisation.

This exactly describes the method of silent receptivity which isthe highest form of meditation discovered and practiced by thegreatest ‘healers’ of all time. It is a complete silencing of the mind,a complete dropping of all personal sense and personal desire tosolve this or that, or prosper this or the other, or ‘get’ this thing orthat thing. It is the art of sitting with a silent, open, attentive,receptive mind and then, with a little patience, letting Spirit beSpirit for, as, and through you.

Simply wait peacefully and patiently for the feeling of Spirit hap-pening within you. You’ll feel It as peace, or a sense of release fromthat which has concerned you, or a warmth or heat welling up fromwithin, or a bliss, or euphoria, or a beautiful understanding (aware-ness) about something of Spirit that springs up into consciousnessand is exactly what you need at this moment.

When you have felt this ‘happening’ within you can get up andget on with your day in the absolute knowledge that the Spirit youfelt within will now quickly appear in your tangible sense-world asthe need or desire fulfiled. Never, never look for the form; keepyour awareness gently permeated in Spirit, but have an innerabsolute assurance that the Spirit felt within always—infallibly—appears in the mind-world as the need fulfiled, and abundantly so.

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CHAPTER THIRTEEN

SPIRIT IS ONLY ABLE TO

ENTER AN ‘EMPTY HOUSE’

Meditate peacefully on this:

Spirit is SILENCE.No words, no thoughts, no activity: just SILENCE.

The moment you think a thought, you are not in Spiritbecause you are not in silence.

The moment you utter a word, you are not in Spiritbecause you are not in silence.

The moment you read a sentence, you are not in Spiritbecause you are not in silence.

The moment you listen to a teacher, you are not in Spiritbecause you are not in silence.

Spirit Is. Isness needs no word, no thought, no activity because italready Is. How can a word improve what already Is? How can athought improve what already Is? How can an activity improvewhat already Is?

Spirit is perfection beyond thought, word or activity. Every pointin the universe Is—fully manifested, complete, eternal, perfection.Our only journey is one of awakening to the already manifestedcompleteness, eternality and bliss of our being, which includeseverything that appears to our mind as ‘external’—our outer worldof body, business, employment, family, home, automobile, and sat-

isfaction.We do not do the awakening. We simply desire the awakening

and create an empty consciousness—empty of the desires of outerappearing forms, people and conditions—in order that Spirit canrush in to awaken our awareness, or degree of awareness, at thepoint called you, and me. And it does.

A Beautiful Clarity

A conversation I had with an Infinite-I student yesterday bringsthis point out beautifully. As I write this, I am casually keeping mymind open for a new family home. When the right home is readyfor us, and us for it, it will appear. In the meantime, I am enjoyinghow Spirit seems to be preparing the way for us.

This week, a beautiful house came onto the market, just perfectto my mind. But, obviously it isn’t perfect because it’s in Devon andwe’re in Kent—two hundred miles distance; a bit of a commute toschool each day! So I looked with interest at the details and amexcited that Spirit will appear physically to us as an even morebeautiful and perfect home sometime soon.

But here’s what came out in my conversation with this student.The house is already empty. The previous owners have moved out.The estate agent photographs show empty rooms with not as muchas a picture left hanging on the walls or a single piece of furnitureleft in position. During my talk with this student it suddenlydawned on me that this is what Spirit requires before It can floodinto and as tangible individual being.

If your ‘house’—your consciousness, your awareness, your mind(use whatever synonym works best for you)—is packed full of yourthoughts, your words, your needs, your plans, it is impossible forSpirit to inhabit your house (your consciousness).

Just as it is impossible for me to inhabit a house still occupiedby the present owners, it is impossible for Spirit to inhabit yourconsciousness while it is still inhabited by you—your mindthoughts and awareness.

‘You’ and ‘I’ must move out before Spirit can move in. You see,the ‘you’ and the ‘I’ we’re talking about are a false sense of Self. Yourand my real and true self is the infinity of Spirit existing right whereyou and I stand individually, as you and as me. But we entertain alimited or ‘blind’ sense of that self. That blind self fills its con-sciousness to overflowing with the needs, problems, lacks and lim-itations it sees in its ‘outer’ world. While individual consciousness

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is so full Spirit has no way of living there.Move out of your mind-awareness. Empty your ‘house.’ How?

Sit in silence. Cease ‘your’ effort to know the Truth. Stop yourwords and stop your thoughts. Surrender all ‘personal’ knowing andeffort. Every moment you try to know Truth by your own effort is awasted moment. Nothing is being achieved because only SpiritItself is Truth. Only Spirit Itself is the miracle. No thought, noword, no activity is Truth, so stop all mind activity during medita-tion, and as much as you can, also, while you are operating in thetangible world.

Sit in your empty ‘house’ in peace and silence. Let Spirit inhab-it your consciousness. You will find It does so instantaneously withjust a little patience on your part. Then your outer world reflectsthe inner habitation of Spirit as all forms of harmony, health,wealth, happiness, companionship, opportunity, success andattainment—without effort.

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CHAPTER FOURTEEN

ONLY SPIRIT IS SUPPLY

Your business is not supply. Your employment is not supply. Yourinvestments or inheritance are not supply. Your money is not sup-ply. Spirit is supply—only Spirit.

Spirit is Self-Complete. Therefore, what is this business,employment, investment or inheritance. What is this paper stuffcalled money that you have been thinking of, and relying on, asyour supply? If Spirit is Self-Complete there is nothing else Spiritneeds in order to be complete where you are and as everything youdo. No channel, no vehicle, no paper, no activity, no process, noseason, no time. Indeed, there is nothing but Spirit; Spirit is every-thing, everywhere, and It is Self-Complete omnipresence righthere, right now, where you are. Therefore, what has ‘time’ got to dowith it? What has a ‘vehicle’ or ‘channel’ got to do with it? What hasa ‘process,’ ‘activity’ or ‘season’ got to do with it? What have littlepaper rectangles or circular pieces of metal called money got to dowith it? Spirit already exists right here, omnipresent, in Its infinitefullness. How can anything else—remember, there isn’t anythingelse other than the mind’s concepts of Spirit—effect It? they can-not, and do not.

Labels of The Mind

It is only you and me - the collective consciousness of the humanrace - that has created a separation in the mind and called it ‘busi-ness, employment, investment, inheritance, money.’ When itcomes to health, it is we who have created a separation and calledit ‘body, organs, function, exercise, healthy diet, medicines, vita-mins, minerals, antioxidants, prebiotics, and probiotics’—and the

multitude of other “names” connected with health. None of theseare supply and none are health. Only Spirit is supply and only Spiritis life. Spirit is everything, everywhere. The fact that mind seesSpirit as a multitude of forms has nothing to do with it. Only Spiritis all, and Spirit is omnipresent right where you are, as every ‘thing’you need in this mind-experience. Only make sure you do notbecome entangled thinking in terms of ‘things, situations, amounts’:think only of the infinite Spirit that you are and that every thing is.

Business—Employment

If business, employment and industrious activity were supplyevery business, every employment and every industrious activitywould be limitless, eternal, effortless streams of supply for everyperson who involved themselves in these activities. You know thereisn’t a business in the world, or an employment, or an activity thatcomes close to being true supply. All you and I have to do is stepinto any community to see the results of this false belief in supply:lack, limitation, hardship, debt, poverty, fines, interest charges,court summons, theft, mugging, even murder, and prison. Thefalse beliefs in which we have invested our hopes have cruel, oftenterrible, consequences throughout the world.

Body

If your body with its organs and functions were Life itself itwould never change, never age, never tire, never sleep, never weak-en, never be injured, never wrinkle, never deteriorate, never die. Itis only we who have created a separation in mind and called it body,organs, and functions, and then invested that body with propertiesof, in one category, life, health, and energy, and in another catego-ry, degeneration, ill health and lethargy. All you and I have to do isstep outside the front door and you quickly see the results of thisfalse belief: the aging, the weak, the crippled, the paralysed, theinjured, the diseased, the weak, the dead. The false belief in bodybeing Life has disastrous and cruel consequences the world over.

The seeming vehicles or channels of supply, life, love, relation-ship, happiness, vocation, creativity, and success are a trap unwit-tingly set by the mind. The mind looks ‘out’ at life and says, “Thisis all there is. What I see and what I have is the sum total of whatI am, and what I can achieve, and be, at any moment.”

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Supply

Let’s take the subject of supply—specifically ‘money’ because somany millions of people throughout the world have difficultyunderstanding what money really is and how to release themselvesfrom the trap and restrictions of the money belief.

When we are judging purely with the faculties of the mind webelieve we need employment, or a business, or investment or inher-itance, or crops in our fields in order to have the necessary amountof money for a financially satisfactory, free, or even wealthy life.Then, when we have one or more of these ‘channels’ we immedi-ately believe that it or they determine the ‘amount’ of our supply. Ifwe are employed we believe our wage is the limit of our supply. Ifwe have a business we believe our ability to make business ‘suc-cessful’ is the ‘amount’ of our supply and asset worth we have athand at any one moment. If we have investments or inheritance webelieve that its ‘size’ determines the ‘amount’ of money we are ableto draw each month, and the ‘degree’ of financial security we have.

You see, all the mind can do is judge by forms, amounts,weights, functions, processes, vehicles, channels, activities—visibleevidence alone. But remember the single most important truth youmust grasp: you, I, and every person, thing, and condition is Spirit,not form. All forms are simply the mind seeing Spirit through oneor more of its five faculties, which ‘interpret’ Spirit as the forms,weights and measures of the objectified world.

The belief and reliance on form dissolves when we catch thevision of Spirit being everything, everywhere—rather than things,amounts and activities being everything, everywhere.

Right in your lap this very moment is all the supply of the infi-nite. Think, think! All the supply of the infinite is yours to spend,enjoy and share this very minute. But you do not see it with themind. So you say, “I wish that were true of me any my circum-stances, but it isn’t, although I can just about see how it could be,one day, when I achieve a higher awareness of Spirit.”

Right There The Mistake is Made!

Ah, right there is where you are making the mistake that keeps theinfinite supply from your experience. You are still looking throughthe mind. Your mind is telling you, “Where is this infinity of sup-ply? I cannot see it, therefore I cannot use it.” But remember, themind can only see Spirit in what we call form. It can only judge in

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what we call form. It can only think within the confines of what wecall form. It is incapable of experiencing Spirit. Spirit is high abovethe mind’s perceptive and comprehensive ability. We must abandonthe senses of mind if we are to rise into the joy, abundance and infi-nite freedom of Spirit.

Begin today to know yourself as Spirit only. Know supply as Spiritonly. Know business, employment, investments, inheritance, andmoney as Spirit only. Certainly know that Spirit appears to the mindas all these forms but never again fall into the trap of measuring theamount of form you have and believing that the amount is the degreeof your ability in any way whatsoever, whether you are thinking ofbody, money, business, relationship, family, home, car, or happiness.

Lift Awareness Higher

As you lift awareness to the point of realising that everything every-where is Spirit and that Spirit is Self-Complete in every way, need-ing no form, activity, process or time to be that self-completeness,you will quickly witness your entire life, health, supply, happinessand success become—even in the forms the mind sees—the natu-ral self-completeness that your life already spiritually is.

Be still and let Spirit reveal to you what your business, employ-ment, investment, or inheritance truly is. You’ll be astonished whatyou discover, what becomes evident to you. Still the mind and letSpirit talk to you. Be still and let Spirit show you what your lifereally is, and what your body really is. You will be shocked at whatyou discover! You will be shocked to discover that all these formsyou have spent your whole life depending on, trying to ‘get,’ andbeing limited by, are nothing at all apart from mind-created illu-sions that have kept you confined! It is like me drawing a chalksquare around you and telling you not to step out out from it, andyou believing it, and remaining a prisoner of it!

Understand This

If you believe the amount of form-money your mind sees today isthe limit of how much you have you are believing the limits of a“chalk line” drawn around you! You have infinite supply in your lapthis very minute and as long as you realise that Spirit is everythingeverywhere, and as long as you are bringing that Spirit-is-every-thing-everywhere awareness to your consciousness every minute ofthe day (and never again falling for the mind-forms belief) then you

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will discover that Spirit rushes in and through your mind which, inturn, sees it as all the money you need and desire for anything atall, without limit, effortlessly appearing day by day, week by week,in an easy, natural flow.

Other ‘minds’ will see it only as your business suddenly becom-ing prosperous, or your employment suddenly opening up asgreater opportunity and increased wage, or your investments orinheritance suddenly gaining in value and providing you withgreater income. They have no perception of Spirit being supply.But you will know what is really happening: your awareness ofSpirit being the only life, substance, and presence, and your com-plete reliance on Spirit, never again on form or activity or process,enables Spirit to be seen in, as and through your transparent con-sciousness (empty of the thought of form) as great health, greatwealth, great success, great happiness.

In the same way, if you believe the amount of form-health yourbody possessing today is the limit of how much life you have today,and how much life you can expect to continue to have, you arebelieving the limits of a chalk line drawn around you! You have infi-nite life this very minute. As long as you realise that Spirit is yourlife, and the life of everything everywhere, not the forms of life themind experiences, then you will discover that no matter what thebody seems to suffer from it is illusory. Life is Spirit. Life is notdetermined by a set of organs and functions. No, life is Spirit,wholly and completely, and as long as you know and abide in thattruth nothing, nothing, nothing that appears in the body or worldof form can effect that life because no thing can effect Spirit.

Keep Your Mind Above Form

Do not think in terms of form, think only in terms of infinite Spirit.Have the inner awareness that everything the mind sees is in factinfinite Spirit being to the mind all this world and universe of form.Imbue your entire awareness with the omnipresence of Spirit. Relyonly on the omnipresence and self-completeness of Spirit. Trustonly Spirit. Yearn only for Spirit. Make effort only for Spirit. Thenyou will discover that the very life and activity that you are is a dailymiracle of excitement, success, health, wealth and happinessbeyond anything imagined by the mind.

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CHAPTER FIFTEEN

AN IMPORTANT CLARITY

ON SUPPLY

~ What Supply Is ~~ How Supply Is Experienced ~

~How Supply Appears Tangibly In The Outer World of Form ~

Part OneWhat Supply Is

Supply is invisible. It is the infinite invisible substance, essenceintelligence and form of Spirit. It is not body, health, home, money,property, investments, employment, business, or ideas. It is nottrees, leaves, flowers or fruit. It is not produce, products or servic-es. It is the invisible, supreme infinitude of Substance, Essence—the One Life Force—within you, me and every person. It formsitself through the mind as the things, amounts, property, invest-ments, business, ideas, money, life, body, relationships, joy, oppor-tunity, success and attainment experienced in the external.

It is infinite and omnipresent. It expresses through the mind in‘overabundance’.’ Look at nature, how it is laden so heavily andgenerously with leaves, flowers, fruits, grasses, animals, insects,birds, fish—always multiplying, always growing, always pushingforth with an inner satisfaction and, I am sure, a smile of contentknowingness of its unstoppable and imbedded infinity of being,always omniactive, always fulfiling itself in ever greater bounty andbeauty.

Supply is the invisible formula and formulation of all visibleform. The formula and substance is seen by the mind as theformed. The invisible formulation—Spirit—is experienced by the

human mind as the visible form.

Invisible—Incorporeal

Supply is the invisible Life Force and Substance which is witnessedby the mind as all the harmonious, natural, healthy, wealthy, suc-cessful and joyous things and conditions in this five-sense realm ofexistence.

Omniactive

It is omniactive. It is not affected by your action or mine, or yourinaction or mine, for the external is never able to influence theInternal.

Supply Requires No Channel, No vehicle, No Body

Spirit is the perfect wholeness of your entire life now, this minute.It requires no channel, vehicle or body. It takes no account of whatis, or what is not, in the physical, material realm. It Is.

Omnipresent

It is omnipresent Self-Fulfilment already. Right where you are isthe infinity of already fully manifested supply, mountains of it ifyou like to think in physical terms. Limitless, infinite supply existson the very spot you exist this moment. You, actually, are nothingless than the fullness of Supply expressing as you, being you.

You are the infinite, blissful wholeness of supply being presentin form as you and as everything, everywhere, that you need, desire,do and experience.

There is no unformed Supply, Spirit. Spirit is eternal Oneness,therefore Supply is forever and eternally formed.

Supply is Spirit. Therefore, although it is fully and eternallyformed as you and as everything you see, hear, taste, touch, smell,think and do, your human five senses cannot see It, touch It, oremploy It.

Only as Supply flows through the mind and becomes tangible tothe five senses can it be seen, heard, tasted, touched, smelled,thought of, and employed by the physicality of you and of me.

Supply is the invisible, infinite substance of all good, abundantand fulfiling form, ever-present and ever-available to every individ-

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ual, without exception or circumstance, worldwide, universe-wide.

Part TwoHow Supply is Experienced

There is just One substance—Spirit, or Peace. The One substanceis objectified by the senses of the mind, experienced in the exter-nal world as the people, animals, insects, things, places, activities,conditions, and circumstances we call physical, material or tangi-ble.

But all is the One substance being all—that One substancebeing Spirit, Peace.

Therefore, the one thing we need is the experience of Spirithappening within—the sense of the invisible Something beingpresent within us, the awareness of something happening withinus—the sense of the Peace Itself.

That’s all we want and all we ever need. Why? Because thePeace appears in our external, objectified world as every person,animal, thing, place, condition and circumstance.

We do not make or create the objectification of the externalworld; the Peace is witnessed by us as the objectification of all inthe external world. It is the mind that has the impression ofobjects, persons, and conditions where, in reality, there is but theOne Spirit, the One substance that is Peace being All.

The objectification is automatic through the filters or facultiesof the collective mind. We are not involved, and so we don’tattempt or make an effort to be involved. We leave that part of thiswhole external experience to the automated faculties of the mind.Just forget it; leave it alone. You’ll save yourself many years andmany hardships, believe me!

The less sense of Peace we have happening within us each hourof each day the less harmonious, healthy, wealthy and fulfiling isour experience of the external objectified world.

The greater sense of Peace we have happening within us eachhour of each day the greater harmonious, healthy, wealthy and ful-filing is our experience of the external objectified world—here andnow, without limit.

The Only Limit

The only limit is your or my unwillingness to sit in the silence andserenity of our withinness, and to wait a little patiently until we

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actually experience the happening of Peace within. There is notone other limit in the entire world that has any power at all, or canimpose itself upon you or your situation at all, to limit you, or toleave you in lack, or with sickness or disease, or inharmony orunhappiness or loneliness. Any limitation or discord or ill healthyou are experiencing—any at all, no matter how severe or urgent itseems, or how impossible it seems to solve, or how overwhelmingit seems, or how long it has been bothering you—is a self-imposedlimit. The nature of that self-imposition? The limit we ourselvesplace on our experience by not devoting enough time in the Silenceactually experiencing the happening of Spirit—the happening ofPeace in our withinness.

It makes little difference whether it is your problem or the prob-lem a member of your family or circle of friends or acquaintances.If he, she or it has entered your consciousness—your awareness—then he, she or it is instantaneously imbued with the substance ofyour consciousness. And what does that constitute today? Is itfilled with the Peace? Or is it filled with thoughts of the terriblecondition or situation that overwhelms you or yours? Ah, there youhave the reason for every discord, every lack, every limitation, everysickness and every frustration or unfulfilled desire that can everenter your external world.

The Solution

The solution? Enter your deep withinness, and there, be still, wait,be a little patient, and soon—usually within a few seconds or min-utes, but sometimes longer—you’ll feel the welling up of some kindof happening in the silence and depth of your being. It is the Peace.That Peace is the harmony, health, success and abundance of allthat will then appear objectified and tangible in your externalworld.

Do not expect the whole harmony or the whole healing or thewhole amount to necessarily become evident all at once. It can do,and as you become more familiar and constantly imbued with thePeace within, the whole often does become apparent at once. Butwhether it does or does not doesn’t matter! As long as you knowthat if and whenever you need more good in your external worldthe answer is to go within to experience more of the happening ofPeace within, and that It will infallibly then appear to your outersenses and circumstances as the needed harmony, health, successor abundance, you simply keep up your inner life experience each

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hour, each day. Do whatever you have to do in the outer but theone and only thing that will change the outer from disharmony toharmony, limit to limitlessness, sickness to health, lack to abun-dance is the Peace experienced within which then becomes evidentas the peace experienced in the outer.

When I had what seemed insurmountable lacks, limitations anddemands to do with money, or health, or family, I learned the great-est secret in the universe: Go within, stop using the mind, waitpatiently until I am experiencing the actual happening of Peacedeep down within, and then stay within that blissful sanctuary,basking in It for as long as I want to, or can. Often that would behours at a time—two, four, six hours at a time, just coming out verybriefly for a drink of water, or a snack, then sinking right back intothe bliss of Peace in my withinness for another hour or two or threeor four.

That basking in the Peace is real power. It is the single mostpractical thing any of us can do when faced with any sort of trou-ble of lack or limitation, whether of our own or someone else’s. ThePeace is the all-permeating solution, so spend as much time expe-riencing It as you possibly can.

Your Entire World Changes Quickly And Permanently

To give you the greatest clarity on this matter of supply: It is as sim-ple as I have described. It may not, at the moment, be easy for youto be still and quiet enough to get the sense of Peace happeningwithin you. But never for a moment believe it is more complicatedthan I have described here. It is not. The only need is for you to getthe mind still and quiet enough so that you can relax into yourwithinness, and there, feel the blissful infinitude of Love, Peaceand Wholeness that is the You of you happening twenty-four hoursa day.

The Peace you feel happening within as you sit in the Silenceand stillness is the substance which then appears as objectifiedhealth, money, investments, new home, new car, new or betteropportunity, new or better employment, new or better business,new or more loving relationships, new or more fulfiling purpose,new clothes, new furniture, art, literature, music, pleasure, travel.All the glorious things of tangible living are but the Peace objecti-fied as those things and conditions.

The Peace is the one experience we want and need, nothingelse, because all else—the whole of the harmonious, glorious


objectified world of people, things, successes and events - happensautomatically without our knowledge as to how. Who cares how? Ithappens, so let’s lap it up, be productive, giving and sharing withthe bounty of opportunity and things we find pouring into our lifefrom all directions, and let’s have overflowing gratitude for the mir-acle and magnitude of it all, but let’s never try to be involved in cre-ating the objectified world, or in trying to ‘get’ things and condi-tions in or from the objectified world! That will only, and can only,lead to frustration, limitation and hardship. We all know that bynow!

Only The Actual Experience of Spirit Within Counts

Get the actual experience—the actual feeling of the happening ofPeace within, a number of times each day, and you’ll automatical-ly ‘get’ every good person, thing, condition and circumstance inoverflowing measure, without limit or boundary, in the externalworld.

Part ThreeHow Supply Appears Tangiblyin The Outer World of Form

The inner infinitude is the outer form you and I witness as theexternal world and everything in it. All is the infinitude of Spirit—Peace—but the human senses experience it as a multitude of finitepeople, animals, insects, things, conditions and places.

For instance, when you hold a coin or note in your hand you’reholding what the mind experiences as a piece of finiteness. Butwhat you are really ‘holding’ is Peace being experienced as an object- in this case, a coin or note. You are holding a piece of Peace. Letthis seed itself in your consciousness and it will quickly changeyour entire world: you are never holding or experiencing anythingexternal—you are holding a piece of Peace; you are experiencing apiece of Peace.

Then you don’t care what, at this moment, the piece of Peacelooks like to the mind. It may at this moment be appearing to youas the most terrible disease or limitation or lack or discord. It does-n’t matter. It is alright. It has no power over you or yours the verymoment you know the great Truth: no matter what it looks like inthe external world it actually is a piece of Peace. It is the PeaceItself. It is nothing to be frightened of, or threatened by, or to feel

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overwhelmed by. On the contrary, it is the very Love, Infinity andOne Substance of Spirit—Peace—Itself, so relax, be at ease, andsimply let the happening of Peace be felt within as you rest in theSilence and stillness of your being, and quickly you will see theobjectified scene change to one of harmony, health, abundance,love, opportunity and fulfilment.

All is Spirit Appearing Yet The Mind Sees Form

All is the Peace that is Spirit yet being experienced by the mind asan object or condition. The mind objectifies Spirit, but only insense, not reality. Spirit cannot be objectified; Spirit eternallyremains Spirit—unchanging in incorporeality, infinity, substance,form (spiritual), and nature.Think about what you’ve just been told! Money is Spirit—the

inner Peace—objectified by the senses of the mind. The ‘object’ isbeing encountered only because your mind—which is imbued withthe collective conditioned mind—is capable only of experiencingfinite concepts. It’s a bit like me placing a cup upside down on theground and saying that I now have just this cup-full of gravity,which I can use, but that if I want more I have to get another cup-full from somewhere else.

The coin or note you’re holding is that ‘cup’ of Peace objectifiedby the mind. But it is not an object, not a ‘piece’ of anything; it isthe Peace—it is Spirit. Now tell me, how much Peace do you have?How much Peace is available to you? You don’t have Peace in abank with access only to the ‘amount’ you see, with the mind, asbeing tangibly available. You don’t have to earn it, work for it,‘make’ it, labour and sweat for it. There is no limit! Peace is infiniteand ever available in as much ‘quantity’ as you wish to experience!You may not be feeling or experiencing much Peace at this momentbut that’s not because it’s absent or unavailable, it is because youare not taking the time or opening the way to the experience of It,or the experience of enough of It.

If you’re not devoting sufficient time to feel the Peace within,you will also not have enough objectified things and conditions inthe external world, because the Peace is the things and conditions.

If you want or need more good things and conditions, experi-ence more of the Peace happening within you, and then let the resttake care of itself. It’s as simple as that. There is no time or processinvolved before you’ll witness the good things and conditionsappearing in the outer externalised world because the Peace and


the things of Peace are identical substance and identical presence.The only time or process involved is your sitting in the silence andstillness of your withinness actually experiencing the happening ofPeace ever and fully glowing—Being—the fullness of you andyours.

Take Hold of a Coin or Note

Take a coin or note in your hand. Look at it. Get the sense thatwhat you’re holding is not actually the object it appears to the mindto be, but Peace being sensed by the mind as that coin or note.Money is Peace—the One infinite substance—objectified, but notas an actual object because no such thing exists; simply as theimpression of an object. The mind believes the impression andtherefore says it is very real but we have to rise above the level ofmind, into spiritual discernment.

The infinitude of Peace forms Itself through the faculties of themind as an infinitude of so-experienced (by the mind only) finiteobjects and conditions. But no such finiteness exists. The only exis-tence, the only presence, is the infinity of Spirit, Peace, Bliss,Serenity, Light, Grace—call It what you will, it’s all the same Onesubstance and presence.

Every object is not the object it seems to be, but the infinity ofPeace sensed by the mind as the object. Therefore, never make anopinion about how much you have or haven’t got at this moment,or at any moment, because you’ll be making a mistake that bindsyou to limitation, hardship and discord.

The only ‘thing’ you have, the only ‘condition’ you have, is thePeace. Never make an opinion based on the external appearance ofthing or condition. Always—and instantly—realise that every thingand every condition - whether the collective mind has decided it isgood or bad, healthy or sick, friendly or unfriendly, rich or poor,productive or barren, beautiful or ugly, safe or unsafe, secure orinsecure, limitless or limited, abundant or lacking, loving or unlov-ing—is actually, literally, the infinitude of Peace that is the Onesubstance of all glory, all bounty, all beauty, all good, yet being wit-nessed through the faculties of the mind as that sense of objecti-fied thing or condition, in a degree proportional to the amount ofPeace being experienced and maintained in the individual con-sciousness each hour.

If you want ice cubes you need the substance of which ice cubesare formed. When you have access to the substance you can have

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as many ice cubes as you wish to have. If you have party guestsarriving tomorrow and you look in the freezer and discover youhave just one ice cube, you don’t worry or start a frenzied effort to‘get’ ice cubes from thin air, or to start ‘treating’ for ice cubes in thehope that, somehow, by some hocus-pocus, you’ll ‘manifest’ icecubes from the external world somewhere.

No, you simply take the substance from which all ice cubes areformed—water—and then instead of one ice cube you ‘have’ athousand, or as many as are needed to satisfy your guests. There isno limit to the number you can have as long as you have the sub-stance, water.

Again, this is a material example and therefore limited, but youget the idea. The substance of all body, family, money, investments,dividends, home, car, art, music, furniture, tree, bush, flower, leaf,fruit, earth, bricks, mortar, wood, metal, plastic, electricity, com-puters, telephones, iPods, digital files, images and sounds—the allof all we experience and use in the external world—is Peace.

The Peace Felt Within is What Appearsin The Outer World as Harmonious Form

The Peace felt within as an actual happening automaticallybecomes the unlimited, boundless experience and provision ofgood people, conditions, things and situations in our externalisedworld, appearing automatically—without even one thought oreffort made by us—just as the trees, leaves, flowers and fruitsappear automatically in the external world without thought oreffort made by us.

Leave the external scene alone as far as attempting to create orget or achieve. Use the boundless streams of opportunity, thingsand conditions which arrive on the scene all around you—as theyalways will, in unlimited, glorious and effortless streams when youlive in and out from the inner life—but never interfere with theexternal, material, physical process.

Devote all the time you can to the inner life, actually experi-encing the happening of Peace within. Always remember: every-thing ‘out here’ is a piece of the Peace, therefore rest back into thatPeace within, knowing that It is limitless, infinite and ever avail-able in Its fullness here and now. Then all your external world andevents will be glorious, life-filled, health-filled, success-filled, richand satisfying beyond measure and without limit, time or process,with a divine immunity to sickness, discord, accident or failure.


There is No Need to CategoriseThe Outer Life, And Work on Each

Finally, understand that everything I have said here applies inexactly the same way to the health of your body, the joy of your rela-tionships, the love and happiness of your family and circle offriends, the success of your employment or business, the prosperi-ty of your investments and enterprises, the safety and security ofyour environment, the attainment of a beautiful new family home,or holiday home—endless good and enriching things and circum-stances. There is no limit to the number and measure of good peo-ple, things and circumstances you can ‘have’ because there is nolimit to the amount of Peace you can experience in your within-ness. The One and the other are identical.

The only limit is the limit you place on yourself by failing todevote sufficient time to experiencing the limitless Peace within!

Realise that this applies in exactly the same way to every person,every animal, every thing, every place, and every condition and cir-cumstance that enters your consciousness.

All ‘beings’ and ‘objects’ you experience are the Peace objectifiedby the mind. When you look at your family and know they are thePeace objectified, you imbue them with the miracle of Spirit.When you look at your home, your money, your pets, your friends,knowing they are the Peace objectified, you imbue each and everyone with the miracle of Spirit.

But always remember: It is one thing to know that all beings andthings in your world are the Peace objectified by the mind, but thisknowledge alone is of little or no visible value to anyone or any-thing, including you.

No Words; No Thoughts

The only tangible value is in having the actual experience or feelingof the Peace glowing within you—happening within you—as anactual experience taking place during the silence of your mind, inthe depth and stillness of your withinness. Your silence and still-ness—no words, no thoughts; just an inner receptivity and expecta-tion of the feeling of the Peace—is the only condition in which thehappening of the Peace can actually be experienced. Therefore, it isthe only condition in which your external world can blossom with-out limit—can overflow with abundance, life, glory, beauty, success,attainment and happiness in every department and activity.

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The peace you feel happening as you sit in the blissful silenceand serenity of your own private withinness—all alone, just youand the infinitude of Spirit being You—is what then appears to yourmind senses as more and more money, a new home, a healthy orhealed body, happiness in the family, attainment in business, glori-ous items and activities for home, leisure, pleasure, travel—a boun-ty of beautiful furniture, music, paintings, instruments, concerts,theatre, cars, skills, opportunities, successes, achievements—what-ever is your fulfilment—beyond limit and beyond anything themind can believe is possible, even if you think your mind believesmuch is possible!

Believe me, it knows nothing compared with the infinity of spir-itual bounty ever present and ever available to each one of us whoknows the great secret of spiritual living: Feel the inner Peace hap-pening within and then be a witness to Its limitless bounty, beauty,pleasure and joy in what is seen by the five-sense mind as extraor-dinary external achievement, unbounded health, limitless wealth,glorious happiness, and true and joyous fulfilment of purpose.

Whatever difficulty, trouble, unhappiness, sickness, lack or lim-itation you may be experiencing at this moment, of your own orsomeone else’s, the quick and infallible answer is to allow morepeace to happen within your silence and stillness.

The Peace you open up to—that you allow to happen within youas you simply turn within knowing that It is there, fully present andfully being within you, and that you simply wait a little patiently forso that you can become still and peaceful enough inside to feel Itspresence and glowingness within as a sense of deep peace or still-ness or relaxedness or bliss or warmth or heat or a glowing oreuphoria or release—even if you do not feel anything great excepta sense of loving stillness or relaxation or release—a deeper still-ness or relaxedness than you’d normally feel—an inner stillness orrelaxedness rather than a ‘bodily’ relaxation—is the achievement ofthe inner happening I am describing.

When you’ve achieved a good sense of it with each session ofsilence—meditation—you can be certain that It will soon appearthrough the mind, in the outer world, as some kind of harmonious,enriched, healthy, joyous, loving form—especially the form mostneeded or desired at this moment to bring fulfilment to the particu-lar lacking or limiting condition or circumstance you’re troubled by.

When you have—by actual experience—the happening of theinfinitude of Peace within each day then you also have the infini-tude of good things, circumstances and conditions happening to


you and for you in the external world.

The Inner And Outer Are One And Identical

One and the other are identical. The inner Peace and the outerform are identical. Peace does not produce anything or draw goodthings and conditions to you; It is the things and conditions objec-tified by the mind senses in the external world.

Live in and out from the Peace each hour of the day and thenyou’ll quickly discover you have all good things and conditions,eternally blossoming into conscious awareness and into objectifiedform in your external world. You then possess—“I have”—the great-est miracles of health, wealth, harmony, success and happiness,knowing no limit, no boundary, no process, no season, no timerestraint.

The infinitude of All is here now, and eternally. It is the Peace.It is the infinite within and the limitless without of you. It is yoursto bask in, be fulfiled by, and to share with the world without prej-udice or reason; just because.

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN

THE SELF-CONTAINED LIFE

As we begin to awaken to our spiritual identity we discover someremarkable things about what we are, what we have, and what wecan achieve.

One of the things we discover is that life itself, and everythingof which life consists is impersonal and self-contained. Once wegrasp this extraordinary truth it changes our entire life experience.So let’s see if we can capture this here and now, and let’s see howquickly it, indeed, changes each of our lives tangibly, and in evermore wondrous ways.

You have advanced sufficiently to know that Spirit is everythingeverywhere. Anything and everything that appears to you is nothingbut Spirit seen by he mind as a person, place, thing, or condition.You know that what appears as a finite thing—an object—isn’t anobject and isn’t finite at all; it is infinite Spirit appearing to themind objectified and finite—an illusion of the senses.

Because everything is Spirit everything is infinite and invisible:everything is the Infinite Invisible existing, expressing. Yet there isno escaping the fact that the mind perceives the everywhere-pres-ent Spirit objectified as people, places, things and conditions.

The First Knowing

This is the first ‘knowing’: that you and I are Spirit sensed by themind as body and mind, and that everything everywhere is Spiritalso sensed by the mind as person, place, thing and condition.

The second ‘knowing’ is that Spirit is indivisible—the whole ofSpirit exists at every point in the universe—every point throughoutinfinity—at the same time. There is no separation, no division, no

slices of Spirit here and other slices over there. The whole of Spiritis one self-complete Being, one self-complete Presence, one self-complete Existence existing at every point at the same time. Spiritis indivisible, self-complete, wholeness right where you are, and Iam, and every person is. The whole is the only existence. There isn’ta choice: you are the whole of love, the whole of life, the whole ofsupply, the whole of companionship, the whole of fulfilment righthere where you’re standing, eternally manifested right now.

Yet The Mind Doesn’tExperience it That Way

The third ‘knowing’ is to ignore the pictures and situations themind presents to us in and as “this world.” Everything the mindsees, hears, tastes, touches, smells and thinks is false reporting.Ignore it in the knowing that it is false reporting. Dismiss it. We arenot ever going to stop using the mind but we’re forever going toknow that the pictures of conditions, lacks, limits, illnesses, dis-eases accidents, loneliness and hardships the mind experiences—and the good of life too (we cannot have it one way and not theother)—are false images, or false realities. They are not Spiritbecause the mind is incapable of understanding or experiencingSpirit. What the mind experiences through the five faculties, andwhat it thinks, is not Spirit. It is a concept of Spirit, not SpiritItself. The entire scene of your individual life, and of the world anduniverse as a whole, is a falsely reported scene, therefore learn todismiss the way it looks and the things it presents to you—all of it.Dismiss the lot. It is all untrue and therefore you haven’t anythingto be concerned about, or to struggle with, fight, or to succumb aslong as you realise that Spirit is the only actual presence and theonly actual power.

Knowing these three ‘knowings,’ let us now take the subject ofsupply and watch as it opens a whole new vista of understandingand tangible experience of freely available abundance, opportunityand success in whatever we apply ourselves to.

Money is Spirit seen and experienced by the mind as a finiteobject. The daily scene as understood by the mind is that I start theday with ‘X’ amount of money in my pocket, bank or credit card, Ispend a certain amount of it, and therefore I have that amount lessby the end of the day.

Do you see how stupid the mind is? It takes infinite supply—Spirit—objectifies it, and divides it. It says, “I have ‘X’ amount but

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that person over there has less than I do, and that other person hasmore than I do. But that bank or credit card company has billionsand I can borrow some of it to help me along.”

None of this is true when you remember the three ‘knowings.’ Ihave infinity because I am spirit, therefore I have the infinity ofspirit because spirit is indivisible. Every person has infinity for thesame reason: they are spirit, therefore they have an infinity of spiritin the shape of everything, everywhere. No one has more or less thananyone else because every person is the fullness of Spirit existingas individual expression, but this only becomes actual, tangibleexperience when we dismiss the pictures and understanding of themind and, instead, perceive with the inner eye, the inner self thatis Spirit Itself. We realise we are Spirit, and that everything every-where is Spirit no matter with what face or by what amount it hap-pens to be appearing to me as this moment.

The Only Thing With WhichWe’re Ever Dealing

The only thing we are ever dealing with—and transacting with—isSpirit, not ‘money’ or ‘cars’ or ‘houses’ or ‘body’ or ‘health’ or ‘peo-ple’ or ‘employment’ or ‘business’—just Spirit!

Remember: IGNORE WHAT THE MIND IS PRESENTING TO YOU.REALISE THE PRESENCE OF ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING APPEARING TO

YOU IS SPIRIT ONLY.

Let’s go Further

If Spirit is One Self-Completeness, which It is, and if you are that,which you are, then when you pass an amount of money from yourpocket to someone else’s pocket what you’re really doing is passingit from one pocket of yours to another pocket of yours. You are real-ly—in actuality—passing it from one bank account in your name toanother bank account in your name because there is only onename: “I”.

You cannot give me something and therefore be short of thatthing anymore than I can give you something you didn’t alreadyhave before I gave it to you. You have the entire infinity of Spirit.You cannot ever ‘give away’ or ‘spend’ even a sliver of it becauseSpirit is indivisible. It cannot leave your side no matter how hardyou try to rid yourself of it. It is impossible to divide Spirit so howcould you possibly ever give away or spend any of it and therefore

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be short of that thing or that amount? Everything is Spirit andtherefore immovable. It is always right where you are - the wholelot, the whole of infinity. You are that and you have that.

The Mind Reports Falsely

The mind in its fractional sense and fractional understanding per-ceives a ‘thing’ or an ‘amount’ which is ‘spent’ and is therefore nolonger in its possession. But that’s the mind indulging in its narrowways, its false-reporting ways. How long are we going to continueto allow the mind to rule? When are we going to wake up to thetruth that all is Spirit and therefore our one need is to perceive spir-itually not materially or physically? We have to ignore the scene asreported by the mind and perceive that, in actuality, Spirit is theonly presence and the only thing happening right in front of us, orby us, or to us.

Think of it like this: Imagine you are an actor on a movie set.Everything needed for the movie is self-contained within the set—all the characters, all the money, all the houses, businesses, cars,streets, shops and landscape. None of it can ‘get out of ’ the fourwalls of the set and yet there is a limitless amount of everythingneeded to fulfil the movie. The movie set and every person andeverything it needs is self-contained, self-complete.

Let’s say you are playing you in the movie. In one scene, you aregoing to pay a bill for £10,000. For a moment you forget you’replaying a character in a movie, so you look in your bank and youdiscover you haven’t enough money to pay the bill. You only have£1,000 not £10,000. You are a long way short of the neededamount. Yet the scene is just about to be filmed! What are you todo?

In a panic of forgetfulness fear possesses you. “What am I goingto do? I haven’t got near enough money yet the demand is right inmy face. Worse, I can see no way of getting the money today, oreven this week, or even by the end of the month, by which time itwill be seriously overdue and urgently, even threateningly, demand-ed from me. I am in trouble.”

The only way you can see of getting the needed amount is toborrow it. So you nervously call family and friends plus credit cardcompanies and banks, but they all say, “Sorry, we have no money tolend you; we have no credit for you.” In your forgetful state you arein dire straights. Life seems as if it’s crashing down with no seem-ing way out.

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Then you wake up! “Why, how foolish I have been! I do not playthis scene with ‘my’ money, I have access to, and use, the moneyprovided by the producer. Oh, thank goodness. All is okay, I haveall the money this character needs and wants for every scene in themovie. And best of all, when I have paid this £10,000 I still have asmuch money as I had before I paid it because I’m not using ‘my’money. It hasn’t gone anywhere—it is all still within the set.”

This is The Secret of Limitlessness

If you catch this you have the secret of limitless supply. Supply—in any and all of the infinite ways in which it appears and is usedby the mind and the physical body, including as money—is never‘yours’ or ‘mine.’ It is infinite impersonal supply—SPIRIT—everfreely available at every point, to every individual as the particularform or condition that fulfils the immediate need. Spirit is everfreely available to you because you already have an infinity of it.You cannot possibly ‘get’ any more and you cannot possibly ‘lose’any, or be ‘short’ of any. You are the one infinite Spirit Itself beingyou but not just you, the other person too. Therefore you have theinfinity of Spirit right where you are, in as many different forms asyou want and need without effort. When you ‘spend’ it or ‘give itaway’ you are only passing it to yourself.

And yes, there is no effort involved. Again, how can you applyan effort to ‘get’ something you already have? Only in a dream stateof awareness could you imagine you do not have what you alreadypossess. Wake up! Wake up from the sense dream of materialityand physicality, of amounts and measures, of good and bad, healthyand sick, of changeable forms and amounts. Waking up is all you’veever got to do! Then, upon awakening to your spiritual identity, youdiscover you are in possession of an infinity of all good in everydepartment of life, instantaneously available in any and every formas and when you need or want it, just for the realising.

When you are ‘paying a bill’ or ‘spending’ an amount of money—whether it’s pennies, pounds, thousands, or tens of thousands—fixyour mind on Spirit. Realise that what you’re actually ‘spending’ isSpirit appearing as money, or as anything else you might be passingone to another. Therefore, ignore the appearance and realise thatnot even a sliver of anything can leave your possession. Yes, I know!The mind is seeing an ‘amount’ being passed from your account toanother’s account but your realisation and mine has now risenabove the limited appearance, elevated into the freeing awareness


of Spiritual everything everywhere—Spirit being everything every-where.

Open The Floodgates of The Infinitein Your Experience This Moment!

The realisation of Spiritual infinity as everything everywhere opensthe floodgates of the infinite being you actually are. Never again doyou experience lack, limitation or inharmony. And as you apply thesame understanding to life and health, by realising the untouch-able purity of Life that Spirit is and therefore you are, and youhave, disease is unable to affect you. Any illness or disease nowpresent in the body will gently, or sometimes spontaneously, dis-solve and disappear.

It takes only a little actual spiritual awareness before even aminor cold or scratch is unable to come anywhere near you. Sure,an occasional minor ailment or accident or difficulty finds lodgingin consciousness, and therefore in the body or in some other outerexperience or activity. Why? We’re not perfect! We haven’t yetreached an absolute purity of spiritual realisation. But interesting-ly, neither did any of the great spiritual masters of the ages, at leastnone of them history has recorded. Does that shock you? Readtheir accounts carefully and you’ll see that even they were occa-sionally tempted back, or drawn back, to believe in world condi-tions and beliefs and were—at least for a fleeting moment—affect-ed by them. We can explore that at a different time. But at themoment, you and I can be perfectly happy with the fact that we’reable to rise above—in consciousness awareness of Spirit beingeverything everywhere—eighty or ninety percent of world, or mate-rial, belief. We find ourselves, those around us, and those whocome to us seeking realisation to be in a new world not one in amillion knows is fully existing right in their midst, as them and aseverything they can possibly experience, need or desire in limitless,ever available beauties and bounties. Life becomes exhilarating,effortless, fulfiling and pleasurable.

One More Thing

Always, always remember only the silence is actual Spiritual aware-ness and experience—no words, no thoughts, just complete still-ness, peace and silence.

Never go an hour without at least two or three minutes of

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silence—a turning within and adopting a receptive expectationwhere Spirit can actually reveal Itself within you, as you, andthrough you into your ‘outer’ world. As well as hourly silent min-utes, never go a single day without at least two or three more for-mal meditation periods lasting anywhere between ten to sixty min-utes, or more sometimes, where you may spend a few minutesreading or pondering Truth, or rehearsing Truth statements in yourmind, and then being silent for the remaining time, letting Spiritreveal Itself within, as, and through you—being the fulfiled totali-ty of you.

This practice infallibly results in wondrous experiences in alldepartments of life without further effort. You and I are the guestsof life. We’ll actually experience how abundant and generous ourhost is as we learn to be aware of the Infinite Invisible Spirit thatwe are, and that we have, in all ways and as all forms, and as we letthe Infinity of us reveal Itself to a greater and more glorious degreeeach day, as we rest the mind in complete silence and peace,becoming a witness to the bounties and wonders of Spirit appear-ing right here in and as our tangible experience.


CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

SOW AND THE REAPING

WILL TAKE OF ITSELF

A parable comes to us from ancient times: One day a great spiritu-al master was walking with his followers and they saw a man on hisway to Judea, carrying a lamb. The master said to them, “Why isthe man carrying a lamb with him?” His followers said, “Becausehe will kill it and eat it.” The master said, “As long as the lamb isalive the man will not eat it. Only when he has killed it, and it is acorpse, will he eat it.” They said, “Yes, he will not be able to whileit is alive.” The master told them, “You, yourselves, who have earsto hear, keep alive those things you know, lest you become a corpseand be eaten.”

Like any spiritual text, if this parable is taken literally it is notunderstood. It will mean nothing to you and do nothing for you.But with spiritual discernment the same parable opens the flood-gates of the infinite right where you stand.

The ‘lamb’ in most spiritual texts represents the bliss, harmony,peace, and joy of spirit. The master’s followers saw only a lambbeing carried for the purpose of killing and eating. But the mas-ter—in his great spiritual wisdom—saw another opportunity toexplain the secret of bringing limitless spiritual harmony, health,happiness and abundance to individual experience.

As long as the lamb is alive the man will not eat it. Only whenhe has killed it, and it is a corpse, will he eat it. And: You, your-selves, who have ears to hear, keep alive those things you know, lestyou become a corpse and be eaten. Spirit is omnipresent, infinite,filling all space, being everything everywhere—all person, all thing,all place, all activity—but do we keep this awareness alive in con-

sciousness every minute of the day and night? Do we continuallyacknowledge and expect only spiritual presence? Do we refuse toaccept anything other than spirit—just spirit, not spirit and?

What Are You Acknowledging?

If we are honest, we mostly acknowledge and expect physical peo-ple, things, activities and conditions, and their consequences. Thatis why the world continues to be cruel to us and those we know, inone way or another, or in multiple ways. And it will continue tocontinue until, one fine day, we wake up and accept our true spir-itual identity and the true spiritual identity of everything every-where: incorporeal spiritual allness existing right here and now asyou, as me, and as every person, thing and condition from the atomto the mountain, from the first string of DNA to the fully formedhuman being, from the dew drop to the mightiest ocean, from thekiss of the breeze to the severest gale—everything everywhere, infi-nitely so—despite how it appears to the five senses of the mind. Weneed to awaken the sixth sense, the inner sense, to discern spiritu-al omnipresence, and we need to keep it awake—‘alive’—twenty-four hours a day lest we “become a corpse and be eaten.”

Do you catch the spiritual master’s lesson? If we fail to keep ourawareness alive, we will by degree “become a corpse and be eaten.”Not a physical corpse, a spiritual corpse. We are ‘dead’ spiritually—‘dead’ in spiritual awareness. Then we’ll be ‘eaten’ by all that thetangible, mind-dominated world has to throw at us, and we knowfull well what that is: illness, disease, inharmony, lack, limitation,unhappiness, poverty, barrenness, loneliness, misunderstanding,failure, stress, injury, accident, greed, theft, contagion, depression,war, injustice - I suppose we could list pages of circumstances andconditions the human race finds itself threatened by, and, to a cer-tain extent at least, experiencing individually.

There is not a person on the planet who, by some measure, isnot fearful of something or someone or some circumstance thatcould come along to upset the happiness or health or abundanceor safety or security or relationship that is their life today. There aremillions around the globe who are, as you read this, suffering suchhardship, disease, threat or poverty that life hardly worth living.Why such hardship and injustice? Why? How is it possible in a uni-verse of spirit—of Love Itself—appearing tangibly as the mind andall its multitude of forms and names?

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The Answer

The answer—the answer given to us by the greatest spiritual mas-ters who ever walked the earth—is mistaken identity. Everything isinfinite, incorporeal, blissful Spirit—oneness, nirvana, heaven—yet the mind mistakes itself, and everything it sees, hears, tastes,touches, smells and thinks, as finite, physical form, existing in arelatively hostile world that one day, in some way, is likely to dishout a lorry load of hardship and sadness.

But there is immediate individual freedom from the hardshipsand cruelties of the world. It is here and now available to every oneof us who are willing to seriously and fully accept our true identi-ty, our true being, our true life: Nothing is hostile; nothing is sub-ject to disease or sickness or decay; nothing is dangerous or conta-gious; nothing is lethal; there is no lack or limitation or loneliness;there is no poverty or injustice but the mind believes it so.Therefore, because the mind always outforms itself, each of us hasto live with the progressive outforming consequences of ourbeliefs.

Worse, most of the world beliefs are not known to each of usconsciously; they are seated deep down in the subconscious. Thatis why a circumstance or condition can hit at you ‘out of the blue’.We say, “I wasn’t believing that cancer or meningitis or accident orinjury or lack or limitation was likely to come into my experience,or the experience of someone close to me. Why has it appeared inmy life?” Ah, but you do believe—you accept—the existence ofthese disharmonies, even if it is an acceptance that someone youhear about in the news or neighbourhood or your social circle hasbeen affected by one or more of them. You accept it as possible oreven probable. You feel a fleeting sorrow for the person whilstsecretly thanking the gods it’s not you or your loved ones, and thencontinue doing what you were doing as if what happened was justone of those things. Right there is your subconscious belief—andacceptance—of a universe of good versus bad matter, notomnipresent Spirit!

We must have an ‘alive’ awareness—which means an all daylong, twenty-four hour a day awareness—if we are to experiencethe treasures, beauties and bliss of Spirit in and as everything inour life. As long as your awareness and expectation is alive theworld cannot ‘eat’ you with its suggestion of lacks, limitations, dis-eases and discords.

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Keeping The ‘Lamb’ Alive

Keeping spiritual awareness alive—keeping the ‘lamb’ alive—inyour individual consciousness is the power of alchemy to yourworld. Discord of any nature cannot touch you and yours anymorethan you can touch gravity. It’s impossible. While you are not think-ing on the things of the world, the things of the world cannot thinkon you. You are invisible to it. You are invisible to disease, germ,economy, lack, scheming, injustice, failure and hardship of any andevery nature because spirit is love, joy, and fulfilment, and Spirit iseverything everywhere. When Spirit is everything everywhere inyour consciousness that is when you’ve found your freedom in theworld.

Do you see? Where are you to the disease if you are immersedin spiritual awareness twenty-four hours a day? You’re nowhere.You’re invisible. Where are you to lack or limitation? You’renowhere. All these things are mind-made; they are products of themind that believes in them. When you are not allowing your mindto rule the scene, but you are permeating everything everywherewith spiritual awareness, mind-effects cannot touch you becausemind is no longer present. Only Spirit is present; that means onlylove is present, health is present, harmony is present.

Now watch the miracle: When the awareness of Spirit being theonly thing present is kept alive in consciousness—and remember,you cannot have a few minutes of life and then an hour of death;you cannot have an alive lamb, then a dead lamb, then an alivelamb again, and so on; the only ‘aliveness’ that is possible is a con-tinual aliveness.

With continued awareness, the treasures of spirit emerge fromwithin as all tangible form without. Where there was an appear-ance of disease now there is no disease; where there was an appear-ance of lack now there is abundance; where there was an experi-ence of loneliness now there is fulfiling companionship; wherethere was a difficulty in trade relations now there is harmoniousrelations. Whatever name or nature the problem, whatever degreeof seriousness, you discover it dissolves into nothingness when truespiritual identity is accepted and kept alive in conscious awarenessevery moment of the day and night.

Consciousness is What I Am

Consciousness is what I am; Spirit is what I am. But remember:

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mind always outforms itself. So now you understand everythingthat happens to you, for you, and through you happens as a resultof the degree of your conscious—alive—awareness of your truespiritual identity and the true spiritual identity of everything every-where, versus your non-awareness, or corporeal awareness. Yourindividual awareness of spirit is what counts, and is what subse-quently externalises as your outer world.

Keep in mind this curious fact: your awareness is always alive!You are never unaware. You are never not conscious—except, per-haps, in deep sleep, and even then there is a subconscious aware-ness always ‘on’ in you. But here’s the question: what is alive in andas your individual awareness? At each moment, you are either alivewith awareness of spiritual omnipresence or alive with awarenessof corporeal, physical people, things, conditions, places and hap-penings—corporeal presence.

Now listen to this carefully: It is the degree of each type ofawareness—incorporeal versus corporeal—going on in your indi-vidual consciousness that determines the nature of your individualexperience day by day, week by week, year by year. If you were sit-ting here with me, I would have us meditate on that truth rightaway. Please do, before you carry on. Reread the statement, take itinto consciousness, ponder it for a few moments and then besilent. Let Spirit—in the silence—bring light to it for you. It willchange your world.

You Can’t Afford The Luxuryof Non-Awareness

If we walk through our days with very little spiritual awareness weare subject to the awareness we do have—collective world beliefawareness. The only possible result is that we are affected by thevery world beliefs of which we want to be free. A book published inthe 1980s is titled You Can’t Afford The Luxury Of A NegativeThought. It is a positive mental attitude book, not spiritual, and forthat reason I do not recommend it to travellers on this path. But Ilike the title. We could borrow the idea and say You can’t afford theluxury of a non-spiritual awareness. There is wonder and miracle inspiritual awareness kept alive in consciousness, and those wondersand miracles reveal themselves right here, now, limitlessly andwithout human effort, having the effect of harmonising whateverdisharmonious situations present themselves, and making morefruitful and joyous even those departments of life we’ve assumed


can’t get better.Little do we know the treasures and joys of the infinite life when

we rely on the mind to do our knowing. There is a realm of infinitejoys, boundless life, happiness and achievement without limit andwithout effort, of love flowing forth as us and to us at every turn,with every touch, and as every thing. It is Spirit—Spirit being spir-it as you and as me, expressing Itself in the silence, without taint,without prejudice, without opposition, even without thought... justIs... just I... I being Is.

It is our real life, our true identity, and our natural inheritance.When we know this truth—really know it—our awareness is noth-ing other that It. We laugh at any opposing appearance. But duringthe journey of awakening to It, we must ‘keep alive’ our aware-ness—our ‘lamb’. We must be strict and disciplined. We must bestubborn. We must, to the best of our ability, resist any and everyappearance that suggests a power or cause or presence other thanSpirit. There is none, but we have to keep a resilient awareness ofthis truth alive in consciousness twenty-four hours a day. You can-not afford the luxury—or laziness—of a non-spiritual awareness.The effort—in the beginning—is intense, there’s no use pretendingit’s easy. But the payoff is colossal and quick—the infinite store-house of all good, all pleasure, and all fulfilment pouring into andas the life experience, with nothing able to oppose it or even touchit.

It is the invisible infinity of All expressing as you and yours,without bound, without opposition, without thought. It isomnipresence in and as everything everywhere, “rolling in ecstasyat your feet” being Its infinite, unbounded Self as you and every-thing about you.

All That The Infinite Has is Yours

Then you discover what the greatest spiritual lights discovered,that “All that Spirit has is yours.” Spirit has all because all is spir-it. Spirit is indivisible, the whole exists at every point in the uni-verse at the same time. You are spirit, therefore you have all thatspirit has—infinity of all good, in every department of life, everpresent and available to tangible experience here and now. Thewhole is indivisible as you. Your entire fulfilment of being alreadyexists. You are Spirit being spirit: you. The Whole being the whole:you. Nothing but the whole exists, and it is fully manifest here andnow as you, as every person and every thing, everywhere.

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As you go about your daily life at work, at home, at school, trav-elling, socialising, talking, writing, painting, playing, holidaying, ormeditating you must make absolutely sure that your awareness ofSpirit being you and being everything everywhere is fully alive.Never allow it to drop from your consciousness because if you do,you now know that mind-awareness—collective world belief—willrush in and inhabit your ‘lazy’ mind. There are only two types ofawareness—incorporeal and corporeal. One will enable you to livea limitless, blissful, achievement-filled life in every way; the otherwill make you a ‘corpse’ subject to being ‘eaten’ by world belief andcircumstance.

Sow, And The ReapingWill Take Care of Itself

Your conscious alive awareness of Spirit being everything every-where without exception or opposition reaps the spiritual har-monies. “Whatsoever you sow, that shall you also reap.” Do not beconcerned about the appearance of the harmonies, they take careof themselves. Do not be concerned about the healing you or aloved one needs; it will take care of itself. Never be concernedabout a shortage or lack or limitation; the abundance and freedomtakes care of itself.

All good reveals itself tangibly in that place where spiritualawareness is alive. Where your awareness of spiritual omnipres-ence is, there is joy, harmony, life, abundance. “To him who hath,more will be given.” To you who has the alive awareness of spiritomnipresent, filling all space, leaving no space remaining for any-thing other than spirit and Its boundless joys, more of the infinityof spirit is ‘given’ —more becomes your experience both intangiblyand tangibly, invisibly and visibly, one and the same.

Whatever you saturate your awareness with within multiplies inthe outer. This is why fear of a thing or circumstance is the bestway ever invented to bring it to tangible experience. What you holdin mind with deep belief you hold in manifestation also becausemind and manifestation are one. When you fear lack or limitationyou experience more lack or limitation. When you fear ill healthyou experience more ill health. Why? What saturates your aware-ness magnifies.When you allow collective belief to saturate aware-ness, mind is at work, and you cannot escape mind multiplying thatbelief as outformed experience.

But when you bring spiritual awareness to bear on everything


everywhere spiritual harmony multiplies itself in and as yourawareness and therefore in and as your outer experience. The innerand outer are one and the same. But you discover a magical bonus:Spirit has a leavening effect—you invest ‘one measure’ of spiritualawareness and spirit reveals Itself as multiple measures. The mindcannot embrace infinity and so, as infinity reveals Itself in and asevery department of your life as your spiritual awareness is keptalive, you witness “blessings so great you shall not have roomenough to receive them.”

Where You Are NowYour Perfect Whole Demonstration Is

Right where you are is a world of infinite beauty, bounty and joy—your world here and now! It is in full existence this minute. It isyou and everything you are, your entire surroundings, everythingyou are involved in, every person you love and call a friend, andevery person you call an enemy. It is every person and thing thatever touches your consciousness. The evidence of the five senseswill never discover this paradise. It walks, talks, works and playsright in the midst of It twenty-four hours a day without ever recog-nising It! But as you learn to keep your awareness of Spirit alive,bit by bit it starts to glow in your experience; the mist burns off toreveal a paradise so dazzlingly beautiful, so overflowing with abun-dance, so life-filled, so joyous, pleasurable and purposeful, so self-complete, so infinitely intelligent and loving that you realise thatthe only contribution you can make is to be silent.

There is Nothing You Can doBut be Silent

There is nothing you can do but be silent, to let the paradise ofSpirit inhabit your still and reverent senses, pouring out the infi-nite bliss as and through you to your world and everyone in it,showering silent blessings in every direction, in every life, in everyplace, in every situation.

No one can tell, looking corporeally at you as you. No one everknows that going on within you is a spiritual awareness that opensthe gates of paradise to all who are even slightly receptive. Yoursilent awareness of infinite harmony and love of all saturates allwho enter your consciousness.

Miracles of healing, prosperity, love, happiness and success are

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your experience, and are sprinkled everywhere you go, all about.What will your next five minutes be? What awareness will you

bring to all in your consciousness? What about the five minutesafter that? What about the next ten, the next hour, the rest of today,tomorrow?

It’s up to you now.


CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

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Stop the mind!You are spirit. And yet you are frustrated, even angry. You’ve

cried many times because the promised spiritual harmonies still donot seem to be yours, or that of those people and situations youwish to bring fulfilment to.

In the early days of my awakening I was sometimes able to donothing but cry. I was angry with spirit! “Why are you not provid-ing me with this promised supply and health and happiness? I ambeing so good; I am meditating daily, I am trying with every fibre ofmy being to follow the instructions. I can’t try harder!”

No one can try harder if they are sincerely following the spiri-tual path. You are doing everything you know how to do. You listento CDs, you read books, you go to seminars or classes, you sit inmeditation each day, you try to keep your mind on spirit. You can-not try harder than you’re already trying. But you think there is stillsomething you are missing because the life, prosperity, compan-ionship, success, happiness and fulfilment you wish for yourselfand others are not yet evident. You think you ‘get’ it yet there is lit-tle or often no tangible evidence. When a problem or emergencypresents itself you are unable to dissolve it by spiritual means; itoften turns out to be a long, hard and intense struggle.

Drop The Effort

I am going to tell you something now that will bring quick releasefrom the struggle: You do not need one ounce more understanding.You do not have to do anything different before the infinititude ofharmony is yours tangibly.

You have already achieved your demonstration because alldemonstration is instantaneous. But you are not accepting it!Therefore your mind is still desperate to see it visibly. Bear in mind,you can only desire or be desperate for a thing or event you thinkyou do not have. This is the final thin veil that keeps your alreadydemonstrated good hidden from the tangible sense.

You cannot do any more. You cannot. And you must not try. Yes,I sometimes broke down in tears, angry, pleading to spirit. I wouldfind myself screaming at the invisible: I am dedicating myself tokeeping spiritual truth alive in my mind, and to meditation, evenmore than I am dedicating myself to my family and business. Whatmore can a person do?!!!

The reason we break down and find ourselves angry is that wethink the universe will give or produce something for us—healing,prosperity, a person who loves us, success in our business oremployment, creativity, a new home, a new car, a parking space—which it has not, as yet, given or produced. We think that someform of desperately needed harmony has not, as yet, revealed itself,and we wonder why not. We are convinced it should have done bynow because we know so much truth and we meditate faithfullyeveryday. Where, after all this effort, is the harmony?

Or you may think it is you. You think there is some degree ofrealisation still needed before you will evidence the harmony, abun-dance and health. You think harmony will happen one day that can-not happen today because there is still something you do not knowabout spirit and demonstrating your spiritual allness. As one stu-dent recently said, “It feels as if there is a big secret out therewhich you know but I don’t.” That is the same as thinking the uni-verse will one day open up the clouds and drop you down a millionpounds, or heal the dreadful disease.

Spirit Does Not Heal or Give

Bring back to mind what I’ve said: You do not need to make anounce more effort. You can’t, even if you tried. You do not need toknow anything more than you already know. In fact, you only needone statement of truth—one realisation of truth—and that wouldbe enough. You could heal the worst disease, you could bring over-flowing abundance to any situation, you could bring fulfilment tothe most underprivileged or depressed people or circumstances.No, you need not one further word of knowledge. What you neednow is to accept that you have arrived. Think about this. Accept that

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you have now arrived.* You see, if you go about your days thinkingyou still have a demonstration to achieve—or that you, yourself,still have a measure of realising to achieve—before your demon-stration will appear, you will demonstrate exactly what you’veordered: delayed harmony. All you are doing is perpetuating yourmisery. What are you thinking? “I do not have the necessary reali-sation.” I have not. But the entire secret of spiritual demonstrationis the realisation of “I have.” I have! I have the fullness of spirit. Ihave all, therefore I have the fullness of my demonstration righthere, right now.

Why is That True?

The “I” that thinks I haven’t enough understanding is a false iden-tity. Your true identity is just one thing: spirit. Spirit does the work,spirit is the manifested allness, not “you.” There is no “you” as youthink yourself to be—the mind-sense you are holding yourself tobe. Who is this person you think is “you” who says, “You over thereknow something that I over here do not know?” Who is it otherthan a personal sense of being called Paul or John or Mary orNatalie? Who is it? That personal identity you are entertaining doesnot actually—in truth—exist. Only Spirit exists as each individualmanifested being, you and me, everything everywhere.

However, while you continue to identify with a personal senseyou go to bed tonight thinking you still are missing the final secretand therefore missing your demonstration. You hope tomorrowyou’ll find the secret and that your demonstration will finally man-ifest. What have you just done? You have perpetuated the problem.Tomorrow will come and, of course, you will not discover the“missing” truth. You’ll go to bed another night continuing toassume you still haven’t realised the great secret, and—well, onand on it will go. Has this not been your experience to date?

No, no. Make your realisation here and now. Do not wait untilbedtime tonight; do not wait for anything; do not wait anotherminute.

I Am The Demonstration Itself!

I am spirit. I am not this form running around my world, witheveryone calling me by my given name, with a career or business,with a family, with certain health issues, or money issues, or loveissues, or success issues. I am not that. I AM CONSCIOUSNESS.

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I am the one, invisible, incorporeal spirit, already fully manifest.Now if I drop responsibility for my life, my health, my finances,

my family, my friends, my loves, my career that I, as a personalsense, have undertaken—if I drop it all right here and now, know-ing that I have done more than enough, everything I can possiblydo and a hundred or a thousand times more than I am ever expect-ed to do at my end of the demonstration process—and realise, theone thing I have forgotten to do is be aware that, actually, I am thedemonstration itself, then I will quickly witness my fulfilmentbecome tangible to my experience.

I have been looking all over the place for my Self, the demon-strated fullness of spirit that I already am! I have been searchingthe world over for my Self, in every book, every class, every CD pro-gramme, in every teacher I can find, thinking that that teaching orteacher, over there, knows a secret that I, over here, do not know.

Yet, all this time, I am the demonstration itself. Not the processof demonstration; I am not a process; I am not a channel throughwhich the demonstration appears; I am spirit; I am the fully mani-fested demonstration itself.

Drop the personal sense of “you”—your name and personal cir-cumstances. As soon as you drop it the full demonstrated harmony,abundance, health, life and joy is found to be sitting right where youare. It has been sitting there for eternity simply waiting for you todrop the personal sense and accept your inherited fullness. Whenare you going to drop your “name” and, with it, the personal, limit-ed sense of existence you’ve unwittingly accepted? As soon as youdo, you’ll discover the great truth: I am the demonstration I’ve beensearching for all over the world, in every book and class. I am notthe process of demonstration, I am the demonstration itself.

A Profound Truth

This is a profound truth. Do you see it? I am not the process—I amnot this thinking machinery through which harmony and abun-dance is made manifest. I am not that. I AM the harmony, tangibly.I AM the abundance, tangibly. Interestingly, it is the very mind Ihave been assuming and hoping my demonstration will happenthrough that has been blocking the demonstration that I am.Nothing ever is going to happen through you because there is noth-ing for it to pass through—there is no personal you for it to passthrough.

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occur in the future because the whole of spirit is already fully man-ifest. There is no unmanifest spirit. There is no ‘future’ in spirit.Therefore, the demonstration—the actual, tangible demonstra-tion—is already at your feet, omnipresent. Stop thinking Spirit isomnipresent and think The demonstration is omnipresent. It is. Andthe reason: There is no un-demonstrated spirit. There is nounmanifest spirit; that is impossible. It is impossible to haveunformed spirit, but you see, the mind considers form to be cor-poreal. That is its big mistake. Form is actually incorporeal; themind simply senses it as corporeal. The mind sees it, hears it, tastesit, touches it, smells it, or thinks of it in corporeal terms. The mindhas corporeal sense only. The mind is a corporeal-sensing faculty.But in truth there is no corporeality—“God is spirit”—all is spirit—incorporeal, not corporeal.

The concept we all hold of the world, the universe, and every-thing in it, and everything happening within it, is only that—a con-cept. But the truth is that all is spirit, invisible infinity of all.

Why then is there a lack of evidence in your experience, a lackof demonstrated good? You continue to assume there is somethingto do, or something to know, or a process to involve yourself in.That very assumption is the blockage. You see, this outer sense oflife is not our real life. Our real life is the invisible life, completeand free and limitless. Our only real abundance, our real healthand success, enjoyment, creativity, attainment, and family is spiritbecause Spirit is what we are. Only when we can go into medita-tion realising, “Ah, now I am home! Now I am actually living myfull demonstrated being, here in meditation,” do we suddenly wit-ness miracles of harmony happening around us. When we comeout of meditation and go running around again in our believed con-ceptual worlds we are living an illusion. If we ever try to demon-strate something out here we are living an illusion, because thismaterialistic, corporeal sense is the dream. It is not real.

The One Real Life

This outer sense of life is the dream that, certainly, we are all expe-riencing and which we will continue to enjoy to the fullest. But ourreal life is the invisible, incorporeal, spiritual life. When we go intothe Silence within we are living our real life. It is like saying, let mego into the bank where I have limitless wealth. It will never run dry.When I come out of the bank I start spending the amount I’vebrought out with me, and it gradually, or quickly, depletes. When I

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want more I go back into the bank where my allness of wealth is.While I am in the bank—in the actual vault—I am ‘with’ my realmoney; when I walk out of the bank I walk out with the amount Ihave brought with me, but all the time my actual wealth of moneyis “in” the bank, not “out” here.

Meditation is very much like this. Only when we are in medita-tion - in the silence, receiving or becoming aware of the allness thatwe are—are we actually living our real life. And by that meditation,and by the realisation that in the silence of meditation we are liv-ing our only real life, comes the expressions of the fullness of lifein the forms the mind sees “out here” as wealth, happiness, healthand success. But they all come from that spiritual awareness, thatlife-awareness that we really are: spirit in full manifestation, hereand now, eternal, as you and as me.

Without Silence TodayYou Have Not Lived Today

Get the feeling that you’ve lived today without your real, fullydemonstrated, enriched life if you have not meditated today withthe awareness of “I have”—if you have maintained the awarenessof “I have”. How can you live without Life? Your real health, wealthand success is only to be found in spirit. And what is spirit? Silence.The only way you can be silent, and the only way you can experi-ence the Silence, is in meditation, when the mind is still, andpeaceful, and open to the flow of Spirit within. Therefore, how canyou achieve anything in life, love, family, home, business, and joyif you’re trying to achieve it without the Silence? You cannot.

The personal sense you hold of yourself has to be dissolved from“your” situation, “your” scene. Not physically but in awareness.That mind that thinks there is a secret that you don’t know has tobe dissolved from the scene. The mind that goes to bed each nightthinking, “Grrr! I still do not have my demonstration; I know whatI’ll do, I’ll read another chapter of the book, and hopefully I’ll findthe secret there. Surely the one great secret I’m missing will be inthese pages I haven’t yet read. Mind, I’ve read a million pagesalready and it wasn’t in any of those, but still, maybe it will be inthese pages I’ll read tonight!”

Demonstration Will Never Be Found Like This

You’ll never find demonstration on a page, in a seminar, on a CD,

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or even from a teacher. The only place demonstration is, and theonly place you’ll discover it, is within your very own self—the OneSelf being “you”—the Self that is aware of Itself as you.

Realise: you are spirit living a dream awareness called material-ity. It is not the reverse: you are not a material, physical being witha spiritual aspect which you can tap into for various good thingsand situations whenever you need or desire them, like ordering fastfood from a restaurant. You cannot order good things and condi-tions from the universe. Spirit, the universe, is omniscience—theall-intelligence, all-knowing mind, substance, form and activity. Itwould not be very intelligent of omniscience to leave you short ofthe good things and conditions you require to live a full and joyousexistence. Lack, limitation and sickness is unintelligent, not intel-ligent, especially not Intelligence Itself.

Abandon all Concern

If I were to tell you that if you, this minute, completely abandonedall concern and all sense of responsibility about everything “outhere” in your life, including health, money, safety, happiness, homeand everything else—that you are to no longer take responsibilityor even thought for any of it—and you are to now become one hun-dred percent satisfied with sitting in the silence, not wanting any-thing, not hoping for anything, but just being in it for the purepleasure of going into the silence and bathing in it, and if I were topromise you that everything in your life and affairs would be thentaken care of—absolutely everything you could ever worry or beconcerned about would be taken care of—and not just ‘taken careof ’ but evidenced as beautifully, abundantly, easily and naturallyfulfiled, so much so that you would be left standing there watchingit all with astonishment and amazement—would you stop the effortand the worrying? Would you simply bathe in the Silence as manytimes per day as you could and just let harmony happen?

Take that leap now, this minute! The leap is possible to takebecause I am telling you that you, the personal sense of being youthink you are, cannot do a thing more. Actually, you have neverbeen able to a thing more. You are not expected to do a thing more.In fact, you have already overworked by a thousand times—tryingto gain realisation, making mental and physical effort, reading,learning, searching for the secret. You’ve overworked a thousand-fold. Your need is now to remove the personal sense of being. Thenthe miracle of Is shines through your consciousness as tangible ful-

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filment. It has always been there for you; it is now. But you mustget that personal sense of “you” out of the scene.

Withdraw The Mind

The mind thinks it needs to keep trying, thinks it needs still to dis-cover some secret it hasn’t yet found. The mind extends itself intoyour business or employment, into your body, into your family andtries to take responsibility, yet it finds itself incapable. It finds itselfhitting up against situations or conditions or demands it can’t meetand therefore starts worrying about them. The moment you deema situation beyond your immediate control in one way or anotheryou have to live with the consequences of your belief because thevery belief you’ve invested in any situation is a temporal power toyour experience. The mind interprets all day long. It interprets asituation and says, “Oh, I’m in trouble, I better get this dealt with.”Right there, you have to now live with the power you’ve invested inthe situation. You might have a business. Your mind might be wor-ried about a dozen situations in that business, many of them to dowith money. Most of your worries are based on what you feel yourbusiness is capable of achieving. The mind has reached into the sit-uation with its particular interpretations, and sees limitations,lacks, inabilities where there are none. Business—like anythingand everything else—is spirit, therefore, tell me, where is the limi-tation, the lack, the inability?

Take a coin and hold it in your fingers for a few moments. Rubit a little. Get a gentle feeling for the metal and weight and textureof it. The mind tells you this is a coin, it is made of some kind ofmetal, it has a certain weight and texture, and it has a certainvalue. Now—although you will use the mind to realise what I’mgoing to show you—discard what the mind has just ‘known’ aboutthat coin and realise this:

Spirit is the only presence. Spirit is infinite. There is no ‘thing’other than spirit. We therefore can understand—intellectually—that the coin is spirit. But here’s the miracle: Spirit does notchange its nature, its character, its infinity, or its substance. Think!You cannot take a bit of spirit and form it into a coin anymore thanyou can form it into an organ or function of the body, or the bodyitself. Spirit does not change its substance, nor its infinity, nor itsnature, nor its character. You cannot take a little bit of infinity andmake it finite, and call it a coin, or an organ, or a function. Just asyou cannot take a little bit of gravity and form a coin or organ or

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separate function from it. It is impossible.

Your Full Demonstration is at Hand!

What you are actually, literally, holding—get a real feeling forthis—is the whole demonstration you are looking everywhere for. Itdoesn’t matter whether the mind says it is a ‘health’ demonstrationyou’re looking for somewhere in your body, or a ‘money’ demon-stration you’re looking for in your business, employment or familyaffairs, or a love or harmony or safety or security or happinessdemonstration you’re looking for—none of this matters. All is theOne Spirit and Spirit does not change its nature, its character, itssubstance, its infinity. Therefore, what the mind is telling you is asimple coin—a ‘thing’—with its interpretation of value or amount -actually you are holding that very infinity of spirit which does notchange its substance, character, nature.

And so, you can immediately see that it is only the mind that isseemingly able to form things, to create materials and use them toform a multitude of objects, processes and functions. But that isthe mind-realm only. It is fine as far as it goes. But the need spiri-tually is to dismiss the mind realm. The mind provides false evi-dence. Keep that in mind as you go about your day, interacting withpeople, projects, family and social activities, handling things, visit-ing places, dealing with circumstances and conditions.

Dismiss what the mind is telling you. Ignore the way the personor thing or condition appears to be. Do not think of the person orthe problem as it appears as form to the senses of the mind. “Takeno thought for your life, for what you will eat, for what you willwear.” Well, go the whole way: Take no thought for this thing —acoin—or for your business or employment, or for your body or fam-ily or home. Take no thought for any of it. Your mind will certainlytell you its version of things, just as your mind is right now tellingyou what this ‘thing’ you are holding is. But you have to dismisswhat the mind tells you because it is mistaken. It always is mistak-en. And we’ve got to know it’s mistaken.

Listen to The Great Spiritual Masters

The mind is functional in the five senses only, and it is highly use-ful when it is used in the correct way. But to try to understand whatyou truly are, and what everything truly is through the mind isimpossible. And so we have to dismiss the mind. Every great spiri-

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tual master who ever walked the earth has said the same thing.Many modern scientists and physicists agree. I have only learnedfrom them—for instance:

My kingdom is not of this world...Do not judge by the appearance.

Jesus

The external world is only a manifestationof the activities of the mind itself.

Buddha

The substratum of everything is ofmental character.

Sir Arthur Eddington

Why would we be advised not to judge by appearance unless theappearance was not reality, unless the appearance was in fact illu-sion? No, the great masters knew the truth: that all form—goodand bad—appearing to the mind is ‘maya’—illusion, having nocause, no substance, no power, no ability to act of its own.

This is why the spiritual masters were able to walk about wit-nessing miracles happening all around them. And that is why youand I can walk about and witness miracles happening all around usas long as mind is not getting in the way. You see, you are not themiracle; I am not the miracle; Buddha, Lau Tzu, Shankara, Isaiah,Jesus, John, Paul, Krishna, Nanak, Joel is not the miracle. “I of myown self am nothing,” and, “The Spirit within me does the works.”The miracles were able to be evident everywhere these masterswent, and are able today, right here and now, to be evident, at leastto a good degree, everywhere you go and I go and anyone who hasthe true spiritual consciousness goes if the mind is not blockingspiritual omnipresence by thinking its limited thoughts and speak-ing of its limited ways.

The Miracle is Already Here!

The miracle is already at your feet, in the palms of your hands,everywhere about, omnipresent, in and as everything everywhere!The miracle is in your fingers this minute! You are holding thatcoin: if you are not careful you will accept the mind’s view of it andyou will put it away thinking it is nothing too much to be excited

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about. What a great mistake! You’ve just walked right past yourdemonstration. Why? Because you’ve believed the mind, or you’veallowed the mind to be the determining understanding. That iswhat blocks the visibility of your demonstrated good.

The entire secret taught to us through the ages by every spiritualmaster is that we must dismiss the mind and what it sees and under-stands because it is incapable of seeing or understanding Spirit. Soas you hold the coin, you dismiss the mind, and you realise—literal-ly—“I am holding my infinite demonstration of all fulfilment becauseSpirit does not change. It cannot. It is eternal manifested good. Thekingdom is finished and I am holding it in my fingers!”

Close your eyes, gently dismiss everything the mind wants to tellyou about the coin, and realise:

I am holding spirit. Not a ‘bit’ of Spirit because I can’t be holdinga ‘bit’ of infinity; such a thing does not exist. I am holding the infin-ity of Spirit. Although this coin feels solid, my mind is there makingit appear solid even though it has no real solidity because it is spirit.Although it looks finite and it’s got a weight and a texture, and if

I hold it to my nose it has an aroma—again, all of this is being expe-rienced because my mind is on the job.But if I now gently dismiss the mind and realise that I am actu-

ally holding Spirit that does not change, and that spirit is my full,manifested demonstration at every point, I’ll discover my full demon-stration here and now without even one more day of waiting.I can go anywhere in the world, or up in space, or down in the

oceans, and I will find my fulfilment there because Spirit is there,and “The whole of spirit exists at every point at the same time”—thewhole of my demonstration, fully manifest, is there waiting for me toaccept, like a buffet of fulfilment.But I have to recognise the buffet is there before I can pick it up

and enjoy it. I have, in affect, got my back to the buffet, and I can’tsee that beautiful spread laid out for me and my family, my friends,staff, customers, my whole world.How can I partake of it? I can’t until I know it is there. Then I

can turn around and pick it up tangibly, and freely enjoy it.

This is very much the same as demonstrating spiritual good. If yourely on the mind, you will never spot the buffet! You never will! Themind is incapable of experiencing Spirit even if you train it for a

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million years. So we dismiss the mind and realise what Is.

There is Something Else—Watch This:

This coin I am holding is Spirit and Spirit is self-complete. Spirit isself-governed, self-fulfilment. Spirit is Its own law, the One law ofharmony, of abundance, of health, of joy. Fulfilment has nothing todo with the mind making it so. Spirit is already fully harmonious Is.So think, have I got to ‘do’ anything, or ‘realise’ anything, or achievesome ‘method’ I assume I haven’t yet mastered in order for that‘piece’ of spirit—that coin—I’m holding to be the full law unto itsown self? The full government of love and harmony and abun-dance? Have I? No!!! In fact, only the minute I try to do somethingor be something or know something does the full harmony that isget blocked from tangible evidence.

The fullness of all demonstrated good is already here. Only themind blocks the appearance of it, the actual manifested tangiblething, or condition. Only the mind blocks it. Spirit already fullyexists where you are. You or I don’t make it so; It already exists. Andyet the mind steps in and says, “Oh, this is just a coin.”

Now listen to this. If you have a business, imagine now that youare holding your entire enterprise in your fingers, or if you areemployed imagine you are holding your entire employment in yourfingers, or if you are a housewife or husband imagine you are hold-ing your entire home and family in your hands. What’s the differ-ence between this and the coin? There is none. Your business oremployment or home and family is Spirit. Spirit is limitless, bound-less fulfilment and joy, harmony, love, synchronisation, govern-ment, law. Your business, employment, body, home, family andaffairs already are the most beautiful, prosperous, joyous persons,things and activities until the mind steps in and says, “I know bet-ter.” The mind thinks it has to ‘make’ something, or ‘fix’ something,or ‘heal’ something. Tell me, how can you improve that which islimitless fulfilment? You see how ‘blind’ the mind is?

Tell me, if you go to bed tonight—or if you allow another minuteto go by—still thinking you have to ‘do’ something in your business,employment, body, family, home or affairs, or in your spiritualawareness and healing, then your mind is still in one or more ofthese departments and therefore the omnipresent harmony theytruly are is blocked from your evidence. And remember, as yourmind shines out and into every nook and cranny of your life, youinvest in every nook and cranny your belief, and then you have to

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live with it.So, when you go to bed each night thinking there is still some-

thing more you have to understand about bringing spiritual har-mony, bliss and abundance to every place and situation, then youand your situations have just become—again—a law unto your ownbelief. You, yourself, are the law unto your business, employment,body, family, friends, home. If there is any disharmony in any of ityou—your mind and its beliefs—are that disharmony.

It is a hard truth to accept. Yet, if we fail to understand this we’llforever fail to witness and live as the fullness of harmony we trulyare. Whatever you believe consciously and subconsciously is thesubstance and character of your entire life, all the people, thingsand activities included and you will have to live by it. There is noescaping it—“As you sow, so you reap.” It is the teaching ofKarma—what you put out in awareness (belief) is what you willunavoidably get back, good or bad, healthy or sick, rich or poor.

Exercise Care

The moment you think ‘you’ have to know something, or someoneelse knows something you do not know about spiritual demonstra-tion, you are living by the mind. That’s the most precarious way tolive.

I wish I could say I knew how to demonstrate health, wealth andfulfilment but, of course, I do not. It has nothing to do with me,you, or even the greatest spiritual master who ever walked theearth: It is Spirit. Fulfilment has everything to do with me—mymind—not being present! I have to make sure my mind is not shin-ing into my business, my body, my friend’s body, all the bodies Ipass in the high street and shopping centres. I have to do my bestto be a transparency through which Spirit shines out to and as myevery thing, unfettered by me, the mind. Then I see, when I look atmy business or my body or my friend’s body—when I look any-where at anything at all—as a beholder, a witness—not a ‘doer’—not a ‘creator’—but as a witness to that which Is, then I see healthbursting through where there was ill health; abundance and suc-cess bursting through where there was lack and limitation, lovebusting through where there was a lack of love, satisfaction andhappiness bursting though where there was frustration and sad-ness, overflowing creativity, ideas, joy, life. Not because “Paul” hascreated it or because “Paul” has been so clever and been able to bea channel for all this wonderful spirit, but precisely because Paul

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has not thought so much of himself, and has, at last, got himselfcompletely out of the way!

Miracles Happen Where Mind is Not

There—with, finally, no mind present, no effort, no attempt tomake anything or correct anything or improve anything or knowanything—you discover what is already present: the full bliss ofSpirit being your body and every organ and function of your body,your friend’s body and every organ and function of their body, yourbusiness or employment, your family, your home, your safety andsecurity, your fun, happiness and fulfilment of all.

Now you see how you can go to bed tonight—you can even bein this very minute now—realising that all the months and years ofpersonal effort, with so much accompanying misery and hardshipin various departments of life, you were being a law to your ownexperience. As a torch with a red filter attached is a law of red light.The red filter becomes a law of red light unto everything the torchshines on. You cannot escape it. But remove the red filter and sim-ply let the pure light shine forth, and the “problem” of red light dis-appears instantly. You simply witness it. In the same way, you do notcreate anything, you simply become a transparency of your true selfso that you can witness what is. Then suddenly you discover thatright in front of you is a magical world of fulfilment and joy. All is‘pure light’. Your business may, a few hours or days ago, have beenstruggling financially or because of trade relation difficulties orindustry or professional restrictions. Nothing you tried to do recti-fied the problem. Everything was dried up and seemed hopeless,yet suddenly a magical veil opens up, and there, right in front ofyou, where not long ago the situation looked terrible to the mind,suddenly that same business flourishes. It now surges ahead pros-perously, it resolves the obstacle that bound it, or witnesses abreakthrough in trade affairs, productivity or opportunity. Thesame for the body, the family, the home.

All Material, Physical Things And CircumstancesBecome Impotent

No person, no thing, and no condition or circumstance has anypower over you unless you allow it by your fear or love of it.What isall of this other than the mind? Mind has no power. Spirit is theall-power, the only power, omnipotence. Your awareness of spirit

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omnipresent is mightier than any appearing situation or conditionin the world—“He that is within me is greater than he that is in theworld”. The Spirit that Is, is the one and only power.

Do not ever worry about any seeming condition of lack, limita-tion or frightening disease or illness. Do not ever worry what the‘experts’ say. Do not ever worry about a seeming lack. It is all noth-ingness as long as you take the power out of it by realising the non-power and non-presence of anything but Spirit. It’s like letting airout of a balloon, all its ‘power’ is instantaneously gone. Just amoment ago that balloon appeared to have a life and a power; acondition or situation appears to have a life of its own and a powerover you in some way or another, and you find yourself unable tomeet it because it appears as if you do not have the necessaryresources or influence or people or knowledge.

Forget it! You can instantaneously ‘suck the air out of the bal-loon’—that seeming situation or power—by getting yourself - yourmind—out of the scene, and realising that Spirit, that ‘He that iswithin me’ in the old terminology, is mightier than the ‘thing’ or‘condition’ in the world. The thing or condition in the material,physical world that is worrying or threatening you has no power. Itis nothingness.

But if you continue to invest power in it by allowing your mindto go meddling with your life, latching itself to all and sundry—then you invest all and sundry with that thing called mind which isincapable, and not only incapable but crammed with endless “redfilters” of belief.

When you get mind out of the scene, when you withdraw mind-awareness, then you discover that what is already present is bliss,infinity of all health, abundance and fullness of joy. All of the infin-ity of fulfilment here and now is available to you here and now theminute you lift the veil of illusion. Just lift it out of the way—it fallsaway so easily because it has no power to resist your spiritualawareness; nothing has power to resist your spiritual awareness.And there you discover the magical and the miraculous fully exist-ing as you and as everything about you because Spirit is what every-thing everywhere is, what you are, and Spirit is already there,omnipresent, eternal, fully manifest in all Its completeness, itswonder, its love, and its miracle. Spirit has already happened, thekingdom is finished. Your miracle has already happened for and asyou, and has happened in your evolving state of awareness for andas you. The whole of your overflowing fulfilment of all is waitingfor you to become aware of it, and to pick it up. It is wonderful! It

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Understand This Point Very Clearly

Your full demonstration is already right where you are; the kingdomis already finished. So if you go to bed tonight, or if you carry onliving the next minutes of your evolving awareness believing it isnot, then you have to carry on living without it—“from him whodoes not have, even what he has will be taken away”. But if you goto bed, or even better, if you go into the very next moment, realis-ing, “Oh, I can relax because my demonstration is already here,”and then if you withdraw all concern, all meddling, and you liter-ally leave it one hundred percent to Spirit—just sit in Spirit, in theSilence—for nothing other than the pure joy of basking in theSpiritual Bliss—being totally satisfied with that—you will quicklyevidence your demonstration visibly.

Catch this: Be totally satisfied with sitting in the Silence andenjoying the bliss. Do not come out from meditation wanting ademonstration to turn up somewhere, because then you’ve missedit again. This is the ultimate truth of demonstration. There is noth-ing more I can teach you. Get yourself—your mind—out of thescene. Do not concern yourself at all now about health, family,business, employment, home, happiness because Spirit has alreadygot an omnipresent treat of fulfilment for you. But because youkeep using the mind you are unable to see that treat.

7 Steps

Step One: Realise Spirit is already fully manifest as your demon-stration of healing or abundance or idea or ability or love or com-panion or home or car or happiness or parking space. There is nounmanifested Spirit. Spirit is love, harmony, fulfilment. Ponder anyof these areas of fulfilment as you begin to understand the fullnessof beauty, bounty and joy being every experience in life. If Spirit isfully manifest as your entire life—every department and activity oflife—then, take your time, and ponder what kind and quality oflife, and kind and quality of every department of life, you have.

You can realise that Spirit is manifest as allness although yourmind is telling you you’re holding just a solitary little coin. It’s awonderful exercise to practice because the mind really tries to con-vince you it is just a coin worth only so much. But it really is not.It is the infinity of Spirit.

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Spirit is already fully manifest as all fulfilment here and now,where you are, omnipresent. Nothing the mind can do can changeor effect Spirit one bit because the kingdom of all is already per-fect, complete, blissful here and now, tangibly. Spirit is eternal;nothing the mind does or fails to do can change eternity. Spirit isalready fully manifested bliss and abundance and activity andattainment, and nothing you or I do or fail to do can change it onebit. Nothing you or I do is needed because Spirit already is fullywhat we want; in fact, our fulfilment is already infinitely more glo-rious and ecstatic than we can ever imagine we want. That’s thetruth of it. Once you stop using the mind you discover riches, glo-ries and successes that you couldn’t even hope for because themind is incapable of imagining that deeply and broadly.

This is the irony of spiritual living: the mind wants ‘just’ thehealing of the body, or to be more successful because it will makelife as we know it easier; it will take the pressure off when we canpay our bills easily and promptly. This is what the mind thinksbecause it is incapable of thinking further. But Spirit is alreadyexisting as infinitely more than ‘just’ your healed or healthy body or‘just’ your prosperous business or loving relationships. It is alreadyomnipresent as you, and your fullness, without limit.

Step Two: Go into the Silence, into meditation, with that knowl-edge now. Go into meditation purely for the joy and complete sat-isfaction of sitting there enjoying Spirit because you know thateverything is already done, everything already is, and thereforethere is nothing for you to do other than sit in meditation—bask-ing in the spiritual bliss—and to graciously accept and enjoy it.

Step Three: Come out of meditation one hundred percent satisfiedwith having simply sat in the bliss and enjoyed Its limitless fullness.If you want something after being in the Silence you plunge your-self back into “I have not.” Then you perpetuate the problem. Becompletely satisfied with the spiritual experience within.

Step Four: Do not start meddling in the outer scene again!

Step Five: Trust the spiritual Isness completely—“With all yourheart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength” Trust itwith your life! Completely trust, completely rely, completely leanon the spiritual Isness. Understand completely that the only reasonyou’re not seeing your demonstrated good this minute is because of

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the mind. Trust Spirit implicitly, more than you trust any physical,tangible thing or process. Your good will appear.

Step Six: Continually let go. Repeatedly let go. Remind yourselfevery few minutes of the day to let go, let go, let go because every-thing already Is. Run it over and over in your mind: “Let go, every-thing already Is... let go, everything already Is.”

Step Seven: Do not ever again be fooled by the mind, and theappearing processes, vehicles and channels that happen in the fivesenses.

The result of faithfully practising these seven steps is life, riches,successes, glories and loves beyond imagination. All fulfilmentbecomes your experience, visible and tangible to you. All alreadyexists but All will now become more and more visible and tangibleto you as your very body, your every function, your every activity,your every desire and need, your every fulfiling form beyond thestretch of even the greatest imagination.

My dear friend, live this! Your mind and body cannot do anymore, neither was it ever expected to do so, so stop trying. You werenever expected to do even one thousandth of what you’ve done inyour effort to realise spiritual wholeness. Relinquish the ‘you’ thathas thought it can achieve something spiritually. Submit yourselfand every element of your life—Spirit is everything everywhere andSpirit is the already-existing perfection of that everything you are.

The mind does not believe this. The mind will always present afalse picture. So the mind takes itself on a long journey of miseryand hardship trying to find what is already present but not tangibleor understood by it. This is the journey of awakening we all takeuntil one fine day we realise the omnipresence of all is already atour feet; we awaken to the miraculous fact: “I am the demonstra-tion itself, here and now, eternally, available to me.”

Let’s make that day today.

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CHAPTER NINETEEN

LET GO

Spiritual harmony in all departments of life is achieved by therelinquishing of material belief, desire and reliance, for theabsolute dependence on Spirit for all life, all supply, all success, allrelationship, all companionship, all love and joy, all fulfilment ofbeing and fulfilment of purpose.

It is the complete letting go of the material belief of life for thecomplete acceptance of the spiritual existence. This is a spiritualworld and universe only. You are spirit only not Spirit and anything.You are incorporeal being only, not incorporeal and corporeal.When true spiritual awareness and reliance is individually obtainedmiracles of health, abundance, happiness, success and harmonyappear right here in the material-sensed life—the corporeal con-cepts of life created by the mind.

Always remember: The mind is sensing or experiencing conceptsof the only real: Spirit. This secret knowledge is key to miracles ofharmony, beauty and bounty in all of experience.

Let Go!

Joanie recently flew for a visit to California. A cousin was gettingmarried and the trip was a good opportunity for Joanie to catch upwith the large family she left on the West Coast for England. I tooktwo weeks off to be with the children. “All will be fine,” I assuredher. “You can take the trip without worrying the kids will starve, belate for school, have unwashed school uniforms, be un-bathed, andlacking in intellectual and fun-time stimulation.” If you are a moth-er you will, I am sure, appreciate Joanie’s concern!

Actually, behind the scenes in the Gorman house, all was quite

well organised and efficient. The three of us got stuck in andenjoyed good home cooked meals at the dining table, fun and nur-turous conversation, efficient school routines, freshly bathed chil-dren, laundered uniforms, computer clubs, swimming, walking,trampolining, bicycling, along with a good movie at the weekend.

Joanie called a few hours after arriving in California, eager toknow how we were getting on without her. She gave me a checklistof things I needed to remember. “It’s okay, I’ve got it organised. Letgo!” She laughed. She can’t easily let go of things she normally con-trols and has so well organised. How many of us can?

The next day we spoke again. “Have you remembered...? Didyou do...? Don’t forget to leave early tomorrow for the music les-son...” I laughed. “You haven’t let go! Let go of it all, it’s okay. We’reorganised.” Of course, she was checking out of her love for thechildren and me. I am sure she was worrying she’d forgotten to tellme something (she hadn’t—she’s a perfectionist).

In a similar way, we must let go and let Spirit be the life, activityand success of our experience, in all ways, without our interference.

Spirit is All

Spirit is All. Spirit is infinite—infinity itself. There is no Spirit and.Spirit fills all space, is all persons, things, conditions, places. Spiritis self-complete, self-organising, self-supplying, self-fulfilment.The whole fulfilment of Is is present at every point in the universeat the same time. Whatever is, is Spirit being that isness.Whateveryou are looking at or thinking about—or hearing, tasting, touching,smelling—is incorporeal Spirit being experienced by the mind asthe corporeal sense of seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smellingor thinking.

Dismiss how the mind interprets life; realise incorporeal Spiritas the Allness-of-all—literally, not metaphorically.

Do not simply read that statement. Stop and really ponder it.Spirit is All. Spiritual perfection of all already exists, is alreadymanifest, already demonstrated, eternally existent. Can you imag-ine how unstable the universe would be if spiritual perfectionrelied on the human race to bring it into being! No, Spirit Is, andSpirit is untouched by you or me. Nothing we do or fail to do hasthe slightest bearing on the spiritual perfection that Is. Your job andmine is to become aware of what already Is.We must take this truthliterally, not metaphorically, because it is literally the Truth.

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Let Go of The Appearance

We must let go of the appearance as it is experienced by the mind,either individually or collectively. We must become aware that onlySpirit is, therefore perfection is right at that point where the mindis experiencing a disharmony, disease, lack or limitation. Perfectionexists at every point.

For us to continue to ‘take thought’ for the ‘problem’ or ‘need’—and thereby failing to release the material sense of life and itsneeds—is similar to Joanie failing to release concern for the chil-dren and me. I know everything is organised because I’ve thor-oughly organised it if not only because I do not want to let the chil-dren or Joanie down. I know that Joanie can let go, not be con-cerned about a thing, and everything will run smoothly. But sheworries. She is ‘taking thought’. She is attaching her mind to thesituation. By letting go she will relax and enjoy her trip far more.

In spiritual principle ‘taking thought’ has a far more serious con-sequence. Spiritual good is blocked from our tangible experiencewhen the mind is at play. It leaves us with a sense of finiteness anddiscord instead of the infinity and all-harmony that we truly are.We are infinity itself, supplied, maintained and sustained out of theOne Infinite Spirit individualised here as you and as me and asevery person, every thing, every condition and every place but wehave to give way to that infinity.

The need is to let go. Of what? Of the mind and the physicalactivities the mind thinks are necessary. Let go of the activity of themind and body that tells you you have to ‘do’ something eithermentally or physically, or both, to correct a ‘problem’ or bringhealth or harmony or abundance where the mind is experiencingsickness, inharmony or lack.

The need is not mental or physical activity; the need is to knowthat—right at the point of seeming sickness, lack, limitation ofdisharmony—exists the perfection of Spirit being the person orthing or condition the mind sees as needing improvement, acknowl-edge the presence of incorporeal perfection, and then rest in It.

Let It Flow

Let harmony flow into awareness, with a complete trust andreliance in It, nothing else. The harmony you feel welling up with-in will then shortly become evident in the outer scene. This is theinfallible principle or law of spiritual living. Trust it with all your

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heart, all your mind, all your soul and all your strength.As you are ‘waiting’ for the outer evidence—the healing or the

harmony—be disciplined in spirit. Do not allow your mind to wan-der into mental or physical thinking again, or into doubt. Be strong.Be certain of Spirit—the omnipresence of all spiritual good.Continually keep up awareness of Spirit being omnipresent, omnis-cient, omnipotent—the All-in-all incorporeal harmony and bliss,the All-in-all incorporeal organising power and government, the All-in-all incorporeal good form that appears to the mind as good andperfect corporeal form when realised and acknowledged right atthe very place the mind misunderstood and saw sickness or unhap-piness or inharmony.

Let go. Take the mind out of the equation. Let Spirit be spiritwithout your—the mind’s—interference. Live every moment in theawareness and acknowledgement of incorporeal Spirit being pres-ent everywhere, as everything. Leave Spirit to manage what isSpirit’s to manage—everything everywhere!Most important, realise that all is already ‘managed’—all is alreadycomplete, finished, whole. The kingdom is finished perfectionwhether it’s the kingdom of the body or an organ or function with-in the body, or the kingdom of relationship or companionship, or ofemployment or business, supply, success, attainment, joy.

Our ‘work’ is to know this great truth, acknowledge it frommorning to night, and night to morning, in and as everything thattouches our consciousness, and to frequently rest in the bliss ofSilence in order that the Spiritual already-existing-perfection isable to become your awareness and mine. Then we watch the mir-acles take place.

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CHAPTER TWENTY

IT IS DONE

The greatest of all secrets of spiritual harmony—the secret of theinner invisible One allness appearing as manifest, tangible harmo-ny to our material experience, here and now—is the realisation andresting in “It is done”.

“The kingdom of God is within you”—within your conscious-ness, forever available to you in its allness of infinity and allness ofboundless harmonious form—“All that I (the infinity of Spirit)have is yours”—to the degree of your awareness of Its presence.But do you for one minute think the kingdom of God—Spirit (Godis Spirit)—is incomplete or can be made incomplete? Ah, that iswhere we go wrong. That is where endless delays in demonstrationoccur, or incomplete demonstrations, or demonstrations that arenever seen despite a lifetime of ‘trying to demonstrate’.

Spirit is Eternal, Unchanging

“His kingdom is an eternal kingdom.” Eternality does not change.It already is complete. Spirit is infinite completeness of harmonyand love—completeness of harmony and love being all manifestedform, omnipresent already, as everything everywhere. The king-dom, the omnipresence of all, here and now—look around you,that is It!!! you are it!!! although not as experienced through thesenses of the mind—is a finished kingdom. Or have we thoughtGod is unfinished or has been made incomplete somehow, some-where, particularly that ‘somewhere’ that is appearing to our mind-senses as a problem—a disease, a malfunction, a lack, a discord, anaccident, an unloving relationship? Or maybe we have believedthat Spirit can succumb to cancer, or meningitis, or rheumatoid

arthritis, or poverty, or loneliness, or relationship antagonism andthe misery that goes with it?

Well, it’s time to shake up our awareness. It’s time to shock our-selves, if that’s what it requires, into the realisation of what Is—likea shock treatment in the ER to bring life back to our ‘dead’ bodiesand minds.

The Mistake

The mistake is made when we look corporeally and try to makesense of Spirit, what we are, and what everything in our world is.When we say “the kingdom is finished” what ‘kingdom’ are wereferring to? If we think there are two kingdoms—the invisible spir-itual kingdom and the visible material kingdom—we have missedthe great secret.

There is just Oneness, one kingdom, and that kingdom is Spirit,the incorporeal, invisible, boundless, eternal Allness of bliss, loveand harmony. But this paradise is experienced by the mind throughone or more of its five senses as corporeal person, thing, place, ani-mal, plant, vegetable, mineral, atom and sub atom.The corporeality of everything you experience as your body, yourmind, and every other body, mind, thing and circumstance is sim-ply the mind’s interpretation of what actually is the only thing pres-ent: Spirit. It’s just the way the mind sees, hears, tastes, touches,smells and thinks but it is not the real, the actual presence of thething or condition you are looking at. The only person, thing orcondition you are seeing is incorporeal Spirit expressing Itself asthat person, thing or condition but the mind interprets incorpore-al Spirit as corporeal finite form in the shape of person, thing orcondition. That’s the entire problem we are dealing with, nothingelse.

That is why all work to try to correct or improve a conditionseen in the corporeal realm of awareness is fraught with impossi-bility. We are attempting to correct or improve—‘heal’—the mind’sinterpretation of what really is present: Spirit. The true ability toheal lies not in trying to improve the way a person, thing, or con-dition appears to the corporeal sense, but to ignore the imagesense—the problem—in the realisation that, actually, right herewhere the appearance of the problem is, is the finished kingdom ofwholeness and perfection.

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problem of the mind’s belief in corporeality and the frailty that goeswith all corporeal form. Everything corporeal is subject to injury ordisease or corruption or decay or lack and limitation and eventualdeath. Of course, because the mind is seeing finiteness in theforms of both good and bad, positive and negative, life and death,love and hate, construction and destruction, and it firmly believesin the reality of its creation. It really believes that the body has lifeand that life depends on the health of the organs and functions ofthe body, the meat. Yet over and over we are told—by every greatspiritual master who walked this earth—that life is not in the body;the body is in life—formed of and animated by life Itself. The bodyis Spirit being experienced by the three dimensional, five-sensemind as corporeal. But in truth it is incorporeal, invisible Onenessexpressing through the corporeality of mind which believes what itsees and experiences rather than in the Life Force that it truly is.

Life is Spirit, Not Body or Organ

Life is the incorporeal Spirit pushing out into mind-awareness asthe corporeal experience—the body. But never let us be confusedwith the belief that life is in the body, the meat. If you believe lifeis in the meat, visit the butcher shop. Discover if you can bring hisproducts to life. If you can manage it you’ll have a good chance tomake it big on television!

Yet, isn’t this exactly what we do when we attempt to ‘heal’ aproblem in the body? There is never anything wrong with the bodybecause the real body is Spirit, eternal, harmonious life. The prob-lem is in the appearance of a corporeal body and the multitude ofdiscords that can appear in the corporeal sense of body.

The real body is Spirit and that is untouchable, perfect, sublimeand blissful. When the spiritual body is recognised by you andme—when we develop the deep awareness of Spirit being thebody—and when we can therefore agree, “It is done, there is noth-ing for me to do other than bring into deep awareness the presenceof spirit being the body that is appearing corporeally to me as hav-ing a disease or injury, but I know the appearance is nothingness,just an appearance because of the mind-sense,” then we see heal-ings. We see prosperity and happiness become tangible everywhereour awareness shines. We have not done a thing other than removeour corporeal sense of awareness from the scene and replace itwith the “the kingdom is finished and infinitely perfect” awareness,followed by silence in which the perfection already omnipresent

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can reveal Itself.

It is Done

The entire key is to diminish corporeal sense and magnify incorpo-real sense. The great spiritual masters have been instructing us inthis way for five thousand years, and interestingly, all gave similarinstructions in their own words: take no thought for the problem orthe needed things of the material sense of life. Instead, becomeaware of the spiritual kingdom—the incorporeal kingdom of theinfinite invisible.

“We do not look at the things which are seen, but at the thingswhich are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary,but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

Where the corporeal mind believes a tumour can grow and pos-sibly destroy the body, and where the physical eye sees thetumour—“the things that are seen”—the inner kingdom of perfectbeing exists—“the things which are not seen”. Spirit is not visibleto the human eye and so what is the visible tumour? Spirit nevercan develop a tumour; Spirit is tumourless. The ‘idea’ of a tumourhas no existence in Spirit which is pure love, pure bliss, pure lifeItself. It is simply an idea in mind, a belief of the corporeal think-ing mind, the mind that believes in two powers, good and bad, lifeand something else that has the power to restrict or destroy life.Certainly to that mind, two powers, and their consequences, arevery real.

But there is no such reality. Spirit is infinite; Spirit fills allspace; Spirit is everything everywhere. Where then, is there roomfor Spirit and your body? Have you thought your body is materialand not spirit? There is no space for ‘your body’ because all spaceis filled with the infinity of Spirit being everything everywhere. Yourbody is nothing less than Spirit Itself appearing to your mind andthe collective mind as the corporeal body you’ve believed is yourreal body. Where is there room for a tumour or meningitis or arthri-tis or even a corn? Spirit fills all space, therefore what appears asan ailment can be only spirit, yet spirit experienced by the two-pow-ers mind as ailing, diseased, or disharmonious appearances.

The kingdom of spirit is finished, eternal bliss of life and per-fection, here and now, as you and as everything you see, hear, taste,touch, smell plus everything you do and have. It is done. The greatsecret is to forget what the mind sees—drop it completely—andpermeate your awareness with spiritual presence—“the things

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which are not seen”. Then you quickly experience harmonious peo-ple, things and conditions you can see. Spiritual awareness shinesthrough the mind as harmony, love and abundance, and becausethe mind is now in a degree of silence—non-judgment about whatit sees corporeally—the deep harmonies of Spirit become visible ascorporeal life, harmony, love and abundance.

I hold you who are reading this in awareness of your true spiri-tual identity, and therefore your true and full manifest identity.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

BELIEF AFTER SILENCE

IS IMPORTANT

Part One

Many on the spiritual path block and delay their tangible goodfrom becoming evident here and now because following periods ofsilence they fall right back into seeing and being responsive to thelack of health, supply or harmonious conditions appearing in theirworld.

They fall back into believing, or being fearful of, or reacting tothe immediate appearance—the sense appearance. So belief playsa very important role in evidencing the infinite harmonies of Spirit.But it has to be clearly understood if we are to avoid running offwith the idea that “belief” has any kind of power. That will land uson the rocks with a crash, so let’s, today, get this clear and thenmake sure we are bringing it into practice as we each go about ourindividual days and activities.

First, remember the great secret: Peace, Spirit, Silence—thesense of inner joy, love and relaxedness—is the substance of allform. It is invisible, incorporeal, and not known by the mind. Themind is incapable of knowing or experiencing Spirit, therefore nowords you use and no thoughts you think or ever can think willbring Spirit into your experience.

Spirit is Self-Complete, fully manifested wholeness, perfection,fulfilment of being here and now. You are that wholeness of Spiritbeing you, but because you have been raised to believe that you areyour mind and your body, and that your mind and body are reallythe only powers you have in life, you have never known the realyou.

It is strange, isn’t it? You feel you really do know who you are,what you’ve got, and what you’re capable of. But I tell you, youhaven’t got a clue! You are infinite bliss, infinite love, infinite beau-ty! You have the entire infinity of spirit—the actual substance of allgood and beautiful form, all ability, all things, all persons, allachievements—within and as your very being here and now, freelyaccessible to your tangible senses and use every minute of everyday! And yet, we live lives of limitation constantly desiring things,people and circumstances we think we do not have, and need forour success and fulfilment. We act like beggars in a universe ofabundance and beauty, that universe being us! We are the universe,the infinity of Spirit Itself, being the wholeness of itself as each oneof us here on earth.

The Real You

The real you is whole, perfect, abundant, joyful, and fulfiled—tan-gibly so. The real you is Spirit - invisible perfection and complete-ness—but because you have thought of yourself as material formand mind you have missed the miracle you really are—Self-Complete Spirit, infinite in every way and every thing. You havealso thought of health, money, friends, family, home, success andjoy of life being material tangibility and in that way you have againmissed the miracle you really are, and the miracle of infinity thatembodies you and yours—literally everything you are, every personin your life, every form, everything you touch, every activity orenterprise or project you perform.

You and the ‘things’ of health, wealth, success and happiness areall Spirit. There is just One substance, One tangibility, One mate-riality—Spirit. There is no Spirit and. The invisible and the visibleare One identical presence and form. Understand this and you willlift yourself higher in awareness and therefore actual demonstra-tion than ninety-nine percent of spiritual seekers and practitionerson the planet.

The majority of spiritual seekers and practitioners are busy try-ing to fix the physical forms of life—to bring health, harmony andprosperity to the physical forms of people, relationships, families,enterprises, regions and nations. But for all this well-intentionedand exhausting good work there is little or no difference in thedivorce rates, the unhappiness, the lack and limitation, the pover-ty, the conflict evident within and between families, communitiesand nations. In many cases it is worse today than a hundred years

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ago yet there are certainly more spiritual seekers and practitionerstoday than at any previous time in history. Where is the result of allthis spiritual awareness and practice? Where is the result in yourlife and activities of all your spiritual effort?

The Four Thousand Year Old Solution

There is a simple answer to it all. It has been available to us for overfour thousand years, and if we were to search in the right directionwe discover it.

It is this: Peace is the substance, the life, and the form of themiracle that you are, here and now, both ‘invisibly’ and ‘visibly’. Wemust know this truth. We must carry the knowing of it around withus all day and all night—never for one minute letting it slip fromour awareness. There is no duality, no ‘twoness’ about life. There isjust Oneness. It is only the human mind that fails to see the lavishlife and abundance all around, everywhere we look, everywhere wearer, and as everything we do because it is relying on the five sens-es instead of the One Inner Sense. The mind is constantly trying tochange and improve its world when its world is already so bounti-fully whole and perfect that nothing - ever - can be added toimprove or bring greater fulfilment. Nothing. Not one morsel orgrain.

The Perfect Completeness Exists Here,Where You Are

In truth—in reality—right here where you are now, no matter whatthe scene looks to be to your mind, or how difficult your situationseems to be—whether the difficulty is an issue of health, money,morals, safety, happiness, success, home, friendship, relationshipor fulfilment of purpose—the perfect whole already exists. Butwhat is that wholeness? What are you? What is all form, all pres-ence, all thing, all place, all condition, all life? Spirit! So it is of nouse looking for the harmonies of life through the senses of themind. You will never see them or experience them like that. It’s nouse trying to ‘fix’ things or ‘heal’ things or ‘draw’ things to you by theuse of the mind. The mind is incapable of experiencing Spirit. Youcannot do anything about health, supply, family, happiness, home,success—“I, of my own self, can do nothing; it is the Spirit (thePeace) within me that does the works”—because there is nothingto do; all is already done, in overflowing measure, completeness,

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and omnipresence.

That’s The Secret!

That’s the secret! That’s the miracle you are—that you already are!You can do nothing about health, supply and success because allthe health, supply and success in the infinity of Spirit is alreadywhat you are, what you have, and what is ever-available to your tan-gible experience here and now.

The answer is as simple and as effortless as having the gentlesummer rain fall all around you: go into the deep silence of yourwithinness, be still, relax, withdraw from everything the mindknows and sees, let that whole outer scene gently fade from yourmind, then simply be receptive, listen, be a transparency throughwhich the awareness of the Peace is felt within.

You do not do anything; you simply let the wholeness that youalready are, and already have, become evident to your inner sensesby being still, relaxed, and receptive to the inner impulse—thePeace—the actual substance and form of all good, the whole mir-acle being you.

The Peace or deep relaxedness you feel happening within is theOne substance of all good, abundant, life-filled, successful and glo-rious form, the inner invisible and the outer visible being identicalpresence here and now—that presence being you and every person,thing and event in your life.

You have instant and constant open access to your miracle—your infinity of all good—by resting in the Peace, the Silence ofyour deep, inner being. It is always there, deep within you, await-ing your recognition, always full, always ready to pour throughfrom the depths of being to the tangibility of outer awareness ingreat abundance, surging life and health, indescribable beauty,unstoppable opportunity and harmony, overflowing fulfilment ofpurpose and joy. The only limit to the amount of Peace you experi-ence within and therefore the amount of good you experience inthe outer realm is the limit you, yourself, place on the time youdevote to being in the Silence—meditation.

You have, within your being this very minute, an infinity ofPeace—an infinity of the substance of all good and glorious form.You can choose to know that and access it right now, and continu-ously each day, or you can choose to carry on being caught up inthe five-sense world of appearances, needs, lacks, limitations,injuries, sicknesses and diseases, battling them, attempting to solve

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them or cure them in the outer.If you are still with me on this spiritual journey you well know,

by experience, that trying to fix or heal or prosper the outer sceneis doomed to failure. Any temporary fix you do manage to achieveby sheer mental strain soon falls apart at the seams and quicklycrumbles, only for you to start all over again trying to fix thismonths’ or this years’ new problems.

The Answer to Any And EveryNegative Appearing Problem

The answer to any and every negative appearing problem—no mat-ter what its nature or intensity—is to go within to access the spiri-tual substance of all good and harmonious form: the Peace ofInfinity, the Peace of the infinite, blissful Spirit being you and yourwhole world of people, things and activities.

As you feel the happening of Peace flowing or glowing withinthe depths of your withinness, rest assured it is the Oneness of allgood, life-filled and bountiful form. Your demonstration is com-plete the moment you feel the Peace glowing within because all isOne. Do you see that? Once you feel the Oneness of all form, asPeace or deep relaxedness or a sense of ‘release’ from the problem,you have ‘both’ the inner invisible awareness and the outer visibleawareness because the inner and outer are identical one presenceand form.

Rest in The Blissful Love Within

Rest in the knowledge of this wonderful secret; rest in Its com-pleteness and fullness. Rest in the relief and joy of knowing that asyou feel and bask in the Peace, you are feeling and basking in theoneness of ‘both’ inner and outer good, in all forms, and in all ways,in all places.

My dear friends, what more can we ever want? What more canwe ever need? Blissful life and fulfiled purpose—overflowing withhappiness, joy, supply and achievement in every department—isyours without effort by living the silent inner life, receiving the freegift of Spirit twenty-four hours a day, with depths, glories andattainments so lavish the mind is incapable of imagining even agrain of them—and then watching as the infinity of inner treasurespour out into the tangible world as you, your world, and everythingyou do in it.


No Effort of Yours is Required

There is no effort you have to make, or even can make ‘out here’.The effort—if it can be called so—is in living the inner life ofsilence and relaxedness from ‘this world’—of silent receptivity tothe infinitude of Spirit constantly happening within. The rest oflife’s health, success, prosperity, opportunity, companionship, love,safety, joyful activity, fulfilment of purpose and givingness to theworld happens automatically.

You find yourself ‘pushed’ or ‘led’ by the inner Peace you areexperiencing each day, as a sail boat is pushed and led by the windin its sails. The boat doesn’t sail itself, it has no self-power withwhich to journey. Wind is its power. Peace is your power and mine,and your and my substance, life, and form of all—the One All-in-all, effortlessly and freely received within, then experienced tangi-bly in individual outer life and activity.

Part Two

Now we come to belief. It is a big wake-up call. The absence ofbelief after silence is fatal to the tangible forms of good appearingas your body, your employment or business, your endeavours, yourhome, your loves and companionships—and the lives and experi-ences of those close to you whether family, friends or students.

You see, if you come out of even the deepest silence—theawareness of the Peace glowing within—and then quickly again getcaught up in the sense world of sickness, lack, limitation and dis-cord you block the tangible appearance of the very Substance youjust experienced which id ready to appear as the fulfiling forms ofgood you need or desire.

It’s like wishing to see a movie but then turning your back to thescreen! You are ‘refusing’ the movie that is playing right where youare! Turning your awareness from the inner whole back to the outerappearing need is just the same as turning your back to the movie.

In What do You Believe?

It is a matter of belief. Do you believe the inner wholeness,omnipresent here and now as the one substance and the one formof all? Or do you more strongly believe in the outer sense of lack orlimitation or inharmony? Yes, of course, you more strongly believein the outer sense. That’s okay. You cannot help that in the early

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days of your spiritual awakening, it is so strongly ingrained in yourmind as reality. But realise now, that the outer appearance of any-thing at all has no power, no actual law or cause about it; it is justappearance to the mind that accepts it. But to the mind that knowsthe truth all seeming outer power and cause quickly losses its holdand is seen as nothingness.

The very important key to demonstrating the infinity of spiritu-al good is to believe in the presence of the Peace as the One sub-stance and already manifested form of all good here and now—even though the mind may not, at this moment, see any evidenceof it whatsoever.

Remember, the mind is incapable of seeing or experiencingSpirit. All you’ve got to do to prove this to yourself is to look aroundyour world. How much harmony, love, satisfaction, success, truehappiness, abundance and sharing is evident? Rather than beingthe norm it is rare. Yet, you know enough to realise that Spirit isomnipresent the world over, being every person, condition, event,activity, thing and place. Why then is It not evident everywhere youlook and everywhere you go, no matter what individual, what race,what country, what continent? Why are the hospitals overflowingwith patients? Why is business, on the whole, self-serving andgreedy? Why is government mostly self-serving and power-hungry?Why does a president or prime minister conduct savage behaviourand brutality, even murder, on his or her own people, or conductwar on another country killing or maiming hundreds of innocentpeople and wiping out whole families or communities?

The Mind is Incapable of Spiritual Expression

The mind is incapable of seeing or experiencing Spirit and there-fore acts out of self-preservation and domination. The mentally andphysically strongest dominate when nothing greater than materialand mental consciousness exists. It is not the fault of the humanrace or of any individual. Always remember that. Never blame thehuman mind for its behaviour any more than you’d blame a sheepfor getting lost. “Forgive them, for they know not what they do,”said the master metaphysician. Blame no person for what they dobecause if they knew of their true spiritual identity they wouldnever do such things. They would have no need to ‘survive’ or ‘dom-inate’ and therefore all survival and domination instinct would dis-solve in the awakening of their spiritual identity. They have no ideathey are Spirit, and that with spiritual awareness and receptivity,


this whole world right down to each and every individual, canlive—literally so—in a paradise experience, so life-filled, success-filled, rich and beautiful that the self-survival consciousness wouldquickly become devoid of expression.

Your job and mine is to not only take as much time as we areable to each day in the silence, bathing in and receiving the infini-tude of Spirit, Peace—the substance of all form, the One invisibleand visible Being of all, identical oneness and presence here andnow—but to then ‘come out’ of the silence knowing the presenceof that Oneness of all is right here now, not going to be one houror one day or one week from now.

That is The Fatal Mistake!

How can the now of all form become evident to the mind that isbelieving - or more probably hoping - it will become evident soon?Nothing will become! All is now. The only forms that become evi-dent to you are the forms you know to be here now. But remember,if you’re looking out for corporeal forms you’ll have a long, hardwait because the wait will be eternal. There are no corporealforms—only the sense of corporeal forms. All real form is Spirit,therefore unknown and undetectable by the mind. Yet as we livethe inner life of actually experiencing the infinite invisible Peacewithin—the infinitude of real substance and form of all - that sub-stance—Peace—permeates the mind senses and is quickly seen aswhat we call tangible forms of good in the outer scene—life,health, money, attainment, satisfaction and happiness with all wecompanion with and as all we do, in limitless, effortless quantityand availability.

Here’s the secret: without ever trying to change or improve theouter scene, know with a real belief that the oneness and allness ofall good—the infinitude of good life, success, companionship andhappiness—in actual spiritual form—is here and now, in its com-pleted fullness, fully manifested and available for you to access anduse, without delay.

Do not try to ‘make it so’ for that effort is only possible by theperson who believes it is ‘not yet so’. Gently—despite all physicalappearances to the contrary, no matter how intense or urgent—know it is so.

It is an irony the mind will never understand so don’t try tounderstand it. Again, keep in mind the words of the greatest heal-er and reformer history has recorded: “I, of my own self, can do

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nothing; it is the Spirit within me that does the works.” And whatworks are they? The bringing of inner awareness—the inner hap-pening—of the fully manifested Peace, the substance of all goodform and experience, into individual experience. This means boththe inner and outer tangible experience, because all is One, theinner and outer being identical infinite substance and identicalinfinity of form, albeit seen by the mind as finite persons, things,places and events but now lavishly life-filled and abundant persons,things, places and events.

Instantly Catch Yourself

Every time you catch yourself thinking ‘it isn’t here yet’ or ‘it hasn’thappened yet’ instantly realise the mistake. That very thinking isthe blockage that keeps the tangible evidence from your experi-ence. Listen to that: after achieving the happening of Peace glow-ing within the ‘hasn’t yet happened’ thinking is the only blockage.It is the only thing keeping your infinity of good out of your expe-rience.

There is only one thing present here and now where you are,and wherever you might be at any time, and that is the fullness ofSpirit, fully manifested as your individual completeness—loving,healthy, rich, beautiful, overflowing with satisfaction and achieve-ment, brimming with tangible fulfilment of purpose to a depth andactivity you have never had a clue is your true being, and your truereason for being a part of this earthly experience.

Recognise only the presence of Spirit despite all appearances tothe contrary. Acknowledge only the presence of Spirit despite allappearances to the contrary.

“A monk (spiritually aware person) who is skilled in concentra-tion (focused, one-pointed awareness of the presence of Spirit) cancut the Himalayas in two.”

“Truly I tell you, if you have faith (belief in the One presenceand form that is Spirit) the size of a mustard seed (the smallest ofall seeds), you will say to this mountain ‘Move from here to there’and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

“The Way has never known boundaries… but because of therecognition of a ‘this,’ there came to be boundaries.”

Realise only the One Presence. Believe only the One Presence.Live in awareness only of the One Presence every minute of everyday. Then you’ll not only enjoy a personal life richly blessed andtangibly miraculous, but every person, thing and condition that


even brushes your consciousness will be imbued by, and blessed by,the miracle presence that is You being you. It is magical!

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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

THE DEEP WELL

The true fulfilment of life is found only when we, individually,realise that the oneness and allness of infinity is within our veryown being, and must be allowed to flow out.

Truth is within ourselves.There is an inmost centre in us all,Where the Truth abides in fullness; and to knowRather consists in opening out a wayWhence the imprisoned splendour may escapeThan in effecting entry for a lightSupposed to be without.

Robert Browning

The mistake made in metaphysics—and the reason for so little suc-cess in bringing the miracles of the infinite into tangible expressionin every day, practical experience—is the attempt to alter, improveor enrich the outer scene; the attempt to use spirit to heal, prosper,and bring happiness and harmony to the outer world of body, rela-tionship, business, home or family. It is doomed to failure from theoutset. Why? Because in trying to use spirit to affect the outer,material, physical world we are making a fundamental mistake.

The ‘outer’ world of physical form is the world of the mind’sconcepts. No form you see, hear, taste, touch or smell is real form.The form is there, yes, but not as we experience it. The only trueform is Spirit being the infinity of form, and spirit is invisible,incorporeal, without outline, height, weight, or amount. It isecstatic purpose and fulfilment of Self eternally existing in peace,sufficiency and joy. You are It expressing individually in perfect

form and perfect activity with every thought, move and nuance lav-ishly catered for. What you experience of yourself and your worldwith the mind is but a fractional speck of the infinity you truly are.

All Forms are Concepts of The Mind

The entire universe we see, hear, taste, touch and smell is a uni-verse of concepts of the mind. The real form—Spirit—is presentwhere you are experiencing a limited concept of the form. Think:the perfect whole is present but that which you experience,because you’re experiencing through the faculties of the mind, isbut a fractional, finite concept of that whole.

Look at a flower. You see its beauty, you smell its fragrance, youtouch its form. You embrace the miracle it is with wonder and joy.Yet you are experiencing but a fractional, finite grain of its true self.The true form of that flower is and has sublime beauty withoutlimit, infinite intoxicating fragrance, divine love as its very form.From this - “through a glass darkly”1—the mind experiences vari-ous physical attributes we call ‘flower’, even though, in truth, it hasno physical attributes. The physical attributes are but conceptsheld in mind experienced as physical attributes.

Do you want to know the real flower? Then shut off the mind,be very still and quiet, be attentive to your withinness, and slowly,slowly, from the deep Silence of your being, will begin the flow ofAllness, Infinity Itself, revealing to your awareness what you wishto know. If you truly desire to know that flower, then It will revealItself to your inner awareness, and it will be a beauty so deep, sogentle and delicate, so infused with Love, so emotionally touchingthat it will change your entire life in that one moment.

What if you loved flowers but none were present? What if youwanted flowers but there seemed to be a lack of them where youare? To the mind, which is capable only of being conceptual, look-ing out at the tangible, physical world around it, let’s say there isan unarguable lack of flowers. But are you physical or are you spir-itual? What is your true nature, your true being? Spirit. The phys-ical of you is but a concept of the real you. What is the real natureof the flower? Spirit. Spirit is indivisible, whole, self-complete, sowhere is the division between you and the flower? There is none.

You are spirit, only spirit. As spirit, there is not an atom of any-thing missing from your fulfilment. Neither is there an atom ofanything missing from the flower’s fulfilment because both you andthe flower are one. If you desire flowers then flowers desire you

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equally because both you and flowers are Spirit, and Spirit exists inand as eternal, synchronised fulfilment. There is no imbalance ofdesire or need or fulfilment, for one and the other are the same,identical spiritual presence.

You and Your Good are Indivisible

You are lavishly complete in every way because Spirit is your truebeing and Spirit is infinite, indivisible fulfilment of all. Your spiri-tual self cannot want for anything because it already has it, what-ever the ‘it’ is. You are self-complete infinity existing as you but youdon’t know it, so you allow the mind to play tricks on you by sug-gesting you lack something, or many things; that you live a lifebound by degrees of limitation, with threats of sickness, injury,injustice, jealousy, hate, risk and chance always present, alwaysshowing up somewhere in your life or as the experience of some-one dear to you.

If flowers are a part of your fulfilment—if they bring joy, fresh-ness and colour to you—then be assured you already possess aninfinite number and variety of the most stunningly beautiful flow-ers in the infinity of creation. Where are they? In your spiritualself. They eternally exist in and as an element of your self-completespiritual being. But here’s the miracle: the inner form and the outerform are One. They are identical. There is only Oneness, nottwoness. The inner invisible and the outer visible are One. Whenyou know this great secret, instead of believing the mind whichlooks out into the world and says there is a lack of flowers, you lov-ingly laugh at the mind and the outer appearance, dismiss it, enterthe deep withinness of your being, and there—in complete silenceand stillness—feel the allness of fulfilment—in this case, flowers—which, remember, are spiritual flowers—the only real flower—which you feel as Peace or relaxedness or a sense of joy or assur-ance glowing or ‘happening’ within you.

That Peace is the flowers—an infinity of the best and most stun-ning you have ever seen. When you have ‘found’ the happening ofPeace within you, the demonstration is complete. You have now‘manifested’ all the flowers you can possibly want, and usuallymany, many more for you to share generously with others. It’s asif—the moment you have felt the Peace happening within—youhave received a delivery from Interflora, with regular deliveries noworganised for you. The feeling of Peace glowing - happening—with-in is the completed demonstration. Then, very quickly, you will wit-

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ness the physical flowers coming into your tangible experience.The inner invisible and the outer visible are One and identical. Itis simply that the mind experiences the outer as a finite, fractionalform, but it is the One because the One is the only one.

And if that takes what the mind calls a miracle, then it is a mir-acle you will witness. Somehow flowers will get to you. Everyflower in the region will hear your call and want to be your fulfil-ment. You’ll not be able to stop flowers from coming into your expe-rience the moment you demonstrate the real flower—Spirit.

The moment you have felt the Peace happening within nothingin the entire world can stop your fulfilment from reaching you,becoming tangible to your experience. Nothing. That is why,throughout the ancient spiritual texts of the world, the authorsrelated experiences of birds bringing food to them where that wasthe only way, or “the oil never running dry” when there was only asmall bottle of oil for baking, or of the gold coin in the fishes mouthwhen tax was demanded, or the handful of loaves and fishes mul-tiplying to feed five thousand with twelve basketsful left over, or—in modern times—of Eddie Rickenbecker, stranded with nine crewmembers in the Pacific ocean for thirteen days, with no radio, nofood, no fresh water, witnessing fish swim to his raft surrenderingthemselves to be eaten, fresh water falling from a cloudless sky, anda seagull landing on his raft surrendering itself as food, and then,against all odds, to be found and rescued. These experiences aremiracles to the mind but not to the spiritually endowed conscious-ness.

The Secret that Separates the MastersFrom the Masses

Let’s use the illustration of a water well to see that Spirit is the sub-stance of all form, and how you, I, and anybody in the world dedi-cated enough and willing enough to practice this—to make it theiractual way of life—can demonstrate an infinity of harmony, health,love, happiness, abundance, success, reward, recognition, anddeep joy and satisfaction everyday of their lives.

There is a well, with an infinity of water deep down within, ofwhich it is unaware. It assumes its outer physical form is all it is,and all it has. Because it is unaware of the infinity of water it hasdeep within, it constantly desires water that it observes in the outerscene as lacking. Not only that, it needs water because people con-stantly come wanting it, even demanding it. From where will it get

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all this water? How can it possibly fulfil these constant demands?What is the answer? The well must turn within and discover the

free-flowing infinity of water eternally present and available as thevery nature of itself.

This is the truth of all being. It is the truth of you. Whatever youexperience as “needed” in the outer scene—health, supply, love,friendship, home, success, joy—the secret is to know you’vealready got it because the ‘it’ is spiritual allness—the wholeOneness of self-complete fulfilment here and now.

The mind would look only to the outer appearing lack and startto furiously scheme a method of getting the needed material healthor home or money or activity. It would beg, steal, borrow, or man-ufacture. It goes outside to practitioners, medics, pills and potions;it borrows from banks, suppliers, investors, credit companies. Itsees time restraints, processes to work through, logistics to create,activities to perform. It believes the need for vehicles and channels.It truly believes that if it does something in the outer it will find itscure or supply or solution or possibility or opportunity. All of thisin the material, physical plane of existence created by the mind.

Nothing but Spirit is Required

But none of this is required. Not one element of physicality ormateriality or process or time or season or channel or activity isrequired. The only requirement is the discovery of the true identi-ty of self, and then the releasing of the infinity of that self as theallness of fulfilment in the outer appearing world. The moment wediscover the truth about our very own infinity of being, then turnour entire effort within, we will find our supply of allness. Themoment we discover this truth—the source of all supply—we haveonly to be still and let the infinity of all flow up and out to satisfyand fulfil every hour of every day, every desire, every need, andevery purpose.

The whole physical world of people, animals, things, places andactivities are Spirit being interpreted through the conceptual, phys-ical faculties of seeing, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling.When seen through the physical eye every person and every thinglooks solid, with outline, weight, size and character. But the fibreof them, the substance of all in the physical appearing world, isSpirit. Further, as the infinity of Spirit flows through each individ-ual mind, it is formed into the likeness—the mould—of that par-ticular mind. So the visible form we see and experience is the

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mould of the mind, the likeness of the deep beliefs and particularingrained awareness of the individual mind.

That is why each form of person, animal, thing, condition andplace has its own unique shape, character and complexion. Themind has nothing to do with the truth of each being; it is unable toexperience the ‘true’ being or object. What your mind sees andexperiences as each being has nothing to do with the truth of eachbeing. What we see and experience is nothing but a false conceptof the real being. Nevertheless, the real being is there, present,active—and he, she or it is infinitely beautiful, infinitely intelligent,infinitely supplied in every way, and infinitely fulfiled.

Get this deeply ingrained into your awareness: Spirit is the onlypresence, the only being, the only thing, the only power, the onlyactivity, the only intelligence, the only law, the only governing fac-tor, the only supply, the only life, the only joy, the only love, theonly pleasure, the only happiness, the only family, the only employ-ment, the only business, the only customer, the only staff, the onlydriver, the only weather, the only nature.

“Yes, yes, I know that,” you say. But with the very next thoughtyou wonder how your paralysed arm will recover, or how your braincan recover from the damage of meningitis, or how the lump willdissolve, or how the money you need will arrive, or how the homeyou need will materialise. Always our mind is looking out there forthe cure or supply or solution when, all the time, the allness ofhealth, wealth, love, friendship, success, home and family are with-in, infinitely so, ever available to every person, without limit ordelay. But the key is to know what true health, wealth, body, home,success and happiness is: Spirit, the infinite invisible, incorporealallness of being existing in all its fullness right here where the mindis frantically searching and worrying about where it’s all going tocome from!

How Long Will it Take us to Realise?

When are we going to ‘get’ it? Spirit is seen and experienced by themind fractionally, so fractionally that where there is the infinity ofallness all around—literally bursting from every fibre, every space,every pin prick of the world—the mind sees just a fraction of a frac-tion of It and calls it lack or limitation or illness or loneliness orunhappiness. In the worst cases of fractional seeing, it calls it dis-ease, injustice, war, murder, theft, violence, hate, bigotry, depres-sion, poverty, starvation, homelessness. All of this is real and horri-

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ble, even atrocious, to the experience of life lived through themind. But the truth of it is—the ultimate truth, yet instantaneous-ly available—is that all negative conditions and situations are butthe out-forming of the mind which sees the presence of Spirit frac-tionally and in distortion.

The answer? Turn from the outer to the inner, to that sanctuaryof Peace and Wholeness, the blissful quietness and rest from theouter appearing world of limitation and discord. Whether the outertroubles are evident in your body, mind, home, family, friend, city,nation, or world, the answer is always the same: go within, andthere, rest in the allness of Peace. Realise that that Peace, as yourest in It in the silence, and as you become receptive to Its hap-pening within you, floods and saturates your consciousness andthen appears in the outer physical world as the fulfilment of theneed—the needed physical things or condition of harmony andhealth, the needed tangible peace or escape into peace, the rightopportunity, abundance of money to meet your immediate needs,the perfect home, or perfect person, and so on.

The Peace Felt Within Appearsas the Peace Without

The Peace within appears as the peace without. The supply withinappears as the supply without. The life and health within appearsas the life and health without—one and identical—the Onenessthat is Spirit being released from within the silent mind to be wit-nessed physically in the outer material realm, but always theOneness of invisible infinity flowing out into visibility as the finite,objectified fulfilment.

Constantly rehearse in mind that Spirit is the only, everything,everywhere. Spirit never takes account of what is, or is not, in thephysical realm. Of course It doesn’t, the physical realm is not com-plete; it is only the mind’s concept of that which is complete. Ourexperience, as a human being, is fractional. So to look at the worldand or specific limitation facing us and wonder how Spirit will healit, fix it, or supply it is nonsense!

As you maintain this truth in mind you soon arrive at the break-through moment of realising that, if Spirit truly is the only every-thing everywhere then the whole and immediate answer is to gowithin to Spirit, hunger only after that happening of Spirit within,crave only the feeling of Spirit flowing and permeating every nookand cranny of your consciousness, in the awareness that when you

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are living each hour of the day with Spirit consciously happeningwithin your being as you regularly sit in the complete and receptivesilence, all physical things, conditions and circumstances becomeconsciously infused with the One life, One health, One love, Oneabundance, One opportunity, One success, happiness and fulfil-ment of being no matter how impossible or implausible that mayseem to the mind and its previous experiences, or its education.What is the mind, its knowledge and experiences compared withSpirit? Nothing! The fog (concepts) of the mind clears and you seeclearly.

Witness Miracles

Rest in Spirit and you’ll rest in fulfilment. Rely on Spirit only andyou’ll witness miracles. Crave nothing but Spirit even though youwell know that Spirit flowing from the silent depth of your within-ness will appear physically to your experience as good and harmo-nious person, thing, opportunity, place, or pleasure.

If you need heath or healing, seek and rely on Spirit only—thehappening of Spirit glowing or flowing within your being—theactual feeling of the Peace glowing within. Know that the momentyou have felt the Peace you have received your demonstration ofhealth or healing and that it will soon appear physically in the outerbody, yours or the person’s you have in consciousness. At this stageof conscious awareness we may need to live in the Peace hour afterhour, day after day, week after week—never neglecting our outerduties and activities to family, employment, business and friends—but making the receiving of the Peace within our main priority atevery possible opportunity. Create every opportunity to simply sitand receive the glowing or the happening within, for minutes, or, ifyou can, hours at a time. That will break the back of the healthproblem sooner rather than later, and the physical healing willmore quickly become evident.

In the same way, if you need supply, do not start franticallyattempting to ‘get’ supply from the outer world. That’s not the need;it will not work. That will just prolong your misery. Rather, seek andrely on Spirit only. Dwell in the deep silence of your being, andthere, experience the happening of Spirit within. Do this over andover and over again each day. And if the problem is severe, or if it’shounded you for weeks, months or years (as it did me) the very bestthing you can do is to take “forty days and forty nights” away fromyour world—take one day a week, or a block of seven days, or four-

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teen days, or longer if you can, away from your home, employmentor business—and devote the entire time to spiritual reading, lis-tening, classes and, most important, long, beautiful periods eachday in the silence, simply receiving the glowing of Spirit happeningwithin, and bathing in It.

Oh, if only I could tell you what immense power this is, and whatimmense tangible results it has in your physical world! Your wholeworld can change inside of a week or a month when you devote seri-ous time to contemplation and experiencing Spirit within, when youtake regular periods of “forty days and forty nights” to simply letSpirit be you in the silence of your being. You so fill your entire con-sciousness with Spirit happening, that you experience miracles ofhealing, supply, happiness and success within, which then burst outinto your visible world in every department just as a million buds,leaves and flowers burst into visibility in the spring gardens.

Do you see this? Do you now see that every problem, every chal-lenge, every lack or limitation or discord or need you have everexperienced, or ever will, is simply the fractional experiencing andbelieving of the collective human mind, which has found a tempo-rary residing place in your individual mind through no fault of yourown, and that the whole and immediate answer—no matter whatthe physical scene is, or how distressing or urgent it is, and no mat-ter what is, or is not, available in the physical realm at thismoment—is to gently turn away from the outer scene to theSilence and Oneness of Spirit within, understanding that Spirit isthe only thing present everywhere, the only real form, which is per-fect, whole, life-filled, abundant and fulfiled in every way here andnow, and therefore, by resting and allowing that Spirit to flow freelythrough your stillness and silence It heals every nuance of frac-tional experience and belief in consciousness, which then appearsin the outer realm as the healed body or mind, the needed tangiblesupply of money or food or person or place or thing, the desiredfriendship or love, the perfect home or opportunity, the busy andprofitable business activity, the happiness and joy of companion-ship, family, colleagues and neighbours.

Spirit Becomes Visible in Your Experienceas Limitless Harmony, Joy, Life and Riches

As the life, supply and love that is Spirit surges through the mindit becomes visible as the tangible. It is witnessed in the physical asthe healing, supply and love of our experience, tangibly so. But

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remember well, that the healing, supplying and love happens with-in our consciousness as Spirit floods and permeates every nook andcranny of our stillness and our dedicated attention and receptivityto It.

Whatever individual consciousness contains pours through themind becoming the tangible outer form we experience. Mindalways out-forms itself as the physical appearing body or condition.When consciousness contains only or mainly the concepts andbeliefs of collective mind we leave ourselves open to the lacks, lim-itations, ill health and discords of that very collection of conceptsand beliefs. But the moment we discover the great secret—thesecret that separated the masters from the masses, and separatesus from the masses—we constantly turn within to let Spirit becomeour conscious awareness of being. We live our entire life out fromthe stillness and silence of that deep infinity of withinness.

We then find ourselves immune to the difficulties, challengesand disasters the rest of the world has to suffer—literally and tan-gibly immune to it—living an inner and therefore outer life filledwith health and vitality, success and abundance, love and friend-ship, beauty and bounty, joys and pleasures, and a real fulfilmentof purpose. Yes, it is a miracle. But the real miracle is the miracleof Spirit; the miracle awareness that Spirit is everything every-where, that Spirit is you, that Spirit is your entire world, and that,by constantly turning within, and living your entire life out fromthat deep infinity of withinness, you are a master of life, and ablessing and healing presence to all and everything that comeswithin range of your Spirit-filled consciousness.

Silence towards the outer world is the key. That silence enablesyou to turn within peacefully and bathe in stillness and receptivityto the inner infinity, receiving the Spiritual allness. That silence,stillness and receptivity is the condition in which, and throughwhich, Spirit glows and flows in our awareness, dissolving the frac-tional beliefs and concepts of the mind, enabling us to evidence thepresence of the fullness of being in the inner as well as the outer,for one and the other are the same, the invisible and the visible,identical Oneness of all.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

THE MASTER ABILITY

TO DEMONSTRATE

Part OneRely on Spirit Alone, Never Form

Do you not find it strange that students who have been on the spir-itual path for years, even a decade or longer, and who are morethan well versed in the knowledge of spiritual principles, of self,and of harmony—most of whom could probably write a good bookabout it—still find they cannot demonstrate health, supply, successand joy in their every day lives. I was one of these. Perhaps you areexperiencing the same frustration.

I want to give you a clarity and inner awakening that will, if youreally now commit yourself to studying, pondering, meditating on,and actually practicing what is about to be revealed, will enable youto quickly open, and keep open, the floodgates of infinite good inyour daily life and affairs.

You know that there is but one Existence. Call it Spirit, Love,Life, Supply, the Infinite, God, the Life Force, the One Substance,the One Power, the One Presence—call it by any name you wish;the name is of no importance—nothing more than synonyms forthe Oneness of Infinity.

You know that Spirit is whole at every point in infinity at thesame time—omnipresent, omnipresence Itself. There is no suchthing as a lack of completeness at any point in the universe, as anybeing in the universe, thing in the universe, or as any activity in theuniverse. The whole of infinity—self-completeness—exists at eachpoint. The micro contains the macro. Oneness is the truth and the

supreme reality.But remember, Spirit is invisible to the mind, so as long as

you’re not now trying to understand this fact with the mind, youare half the way to being able to demonstrate it. You can perceiveit, but if you find yourself struggling or arguing with this truth ofwholeness—Oneness—it is because you are still thinking in physi-cal, corporeal terms. Spirit is invisible, incorporeal. The need is towithdraw the mind completely from its normal environment ofmatter, people, things, activities, places, seasons, processes, andchannels into the peaceful atmosphere of the invisible infinity ofallness, omnipresent as your very being and everything about it.

Remember this every moment of the day: Because the mind iscapable only of experiencing finiteness it does not possess thecapacity to experience spirit. Through the mind we cannot see,hear, taste, touch or smell spirit; what we see, hear, taste, touchand smell is our mind’s concept of the real presence, which is spir-it. We have said, when you experience a flower, your experience isthe mind’s concept of the flower, not the fullness of spirit whichthe flower truly is. The mind experiences a fraction of a fraction ofthe true presence of the flower. The same is true of every person,animal, thing, place, condition and circumstance you experiencewith the mind.

Everything Objectified is a Dim Fractionof its True Self

Amazing, isn’t it, that everything we have experienced throughoutlife, and believed to be real, is not a fraction of a fraction of whatit truly is. It’s amazing, maybe shocking the first time we realise it,but it’s also wondrous. Within the infinity of this realisation aremiracles awaiting release into and as your tangible self and worldthrough the avenue of your awareness.

You know also that Spirit is infinite, therefore is all form, allpower, all activity, all intelligence, all being that is this world andin this world (and universe). Spirit is everything everywhere, with-out exception. Spirit is what you are, what your money is, whatyour home is, your family, your car, your garden, your favouriteshop, your everything, experienced through the mind finitely—“darkly”—as the people, things, conditions, places and activitiesyou witness in life.

You know that Spirit is Good. Spirit is fulfilment of being, ful-filment of existence, fulfilment of Itself and every expression of

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Itself, for the seeming ‘two’ are but One. Love expresses and con-tains only love with nothing to oppose it. Life expresses and con-tains only life with nothing to oppose it. Supply expresses and con-tains only supply with nothing to oppose it, and so on through allthe synonyms. You are that Love, Life and Supply existing here asyou, and the entire world and universe of people, things and con-ditions is that Love, Life and Supply existing as them. Yet the ‘you’you are familiar as being through the mind has little or no aware-ness of the Infinite You, the real You, and the infinity of all goodyou possess and have availability to, here and now, and eternally.The entire world of ‘thems’ and ‘its’ you are familiar with throughthe mind resemble nothing compared to the real ‘thems’ and ‘its’they truly are.

It is Real

Every person, place and thing does exist. This world and every per-son, object and place in it is real. Never believe it isn’t. But the wayin which we see and experience every person, place and thing isfractional, finite and distorted. So, in the very presence of infiniteLove and Life the mind sees a fraction and a distortion and namesit ‘sickness’ of one sort or another. Whatever is ‘in’ the mind isalways out-formed in what we call the material or physical mani-festation. So the ‘sickness’ of which the collective mind of manbelieves, is out-formed and shows up in our experience tangiblysomewhere. It has to. It has no choice as long as it remains sittingin the mind as a belief. It is the law of mind-formation, or mind-expression, or mind-imaging. The mind is in a constant state ofprojection and so is always projecting its collective inherent beliefs‘out’ into and as the external scene.

You might think you’re witnessing a sickness ‘out there’ either inyour body or mind, or someone else’s. But there truly is no ‘outthere’—there is only the mind projecting it’s image and likenessinto and as your material world, which you quickly or eventuallysee, hear, taste, touch or smell and then react to, often with alarm!

It’s just the same, really, as the law of image-projection. Themovie you watch on the screen isn’t truly ‘on’ the screen. It is a pro-jection from the projector. The movie is ‘in’ the projector. If it was-n’t, we’d see no movie on the screen; if the film was blank, noimages would be seen on the screen. You see how impossible it isthat the screen can fail to project the totality of images of whichthe film consists. If the film contains an image of ‘sickness’ then

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that image has to appear on the screen. Equally, if the film containsimages of life, love, success and happiness those images have toappear on the screen. We are truly in the hands of the producerand director of the movie as to the appearance we’ll witness ‘outthere’ on the screen. Our emotions, excitement, fear, expectationand satisfaction are all thrown about like a feather in a storm; allreactions to the images thrown onto the screen by the projector.

So it is that the collective mind of man is our producer anddirector when we are ignorant of the law of mind projecting itselfout and as our material, tangible world. And the producer-directorwill, by degree, continue to govern and dominate our lives until themoment we begin to withdraw belief and reaction to the outerworld of matter (the screen), in favour of the inner invisible infin-ity of life, love and fulfilment of being which you, and I, and all,truly are.

Do Not Any Longer BelieveThe Images of The Mind

How ridiculous it is to believe the images on the screen of life afterthe moment we understand what they truly are! That moment ishere and now, today, this minute. From this very moment realisethat the entire world of good and bad people, things, conditionsand places is nothing but images on the screen of material life, pro-duced and directed by the collective mind of man which hasevolved through centuries of unknowingness of its true self andtrue nature: Spirit. We can no more blame collective consciousnessfor its unknowingness than we can blame a one year old for notknowing the twelve times table, or even the one times table. Norcan we blame ourselves for the conditions that cause our particu-lar troubles.

Not You; Collective Mind

It never is anything to do with individual you or me; it is the col-lective mind that has found a temporary lodging in our individualmind, and is then, of course, out-formed—projected—as our indi-vidual experience because it has no choice but to do so. And whyhas the collective mind been able to lodge in our individual mind?Because, at the moment, or at the time, we have been unaware ofthe Truth that Spirit is actually our true self and our true nature,and that in spirit there is no good or bad, there is just Oneness, the

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oneness of Good Itself, with nothing to oppose it.The moment we individually become aware of this great truth,

the producer of the images of our world—the collective mind—instantaneously losses its power and substance over us. All the peo-ple, things, circumstances and antagonistic conditions we see asbeing very real, tangible and threatening become impotent in aflash, and—literally so—dissolve from our experience. Why?Because they never possessed an ounce of real power in the firstplace, just as the theatre screen has never possessed real power orsubstance. As a child we might find ourselves drawn in and believ-ing the frightening images on the screen, so the images have powerover us. They are the cause of our reaction, our fear, even ourimminent disaster or death!

But are they real? Do they possess real substance, real form,real activity despite the belief in the child’s mind that they do? Ofcourse not. You know what happens the moment you introduce thechild to the fact that no images on the screen are real but project-ed. As soon as the child ‘gets’ the truth of it, the image instanta-neously losses it power and effect. The child can still enjoy a goodmovie but never again is he drawn into believing it is real.

Yes, we can, should, and do still enjoy good life, love, people,things, events, activities, enterprises, home, family, travel, andpleasure except now we find ourselves with a greater abundance ofthem than ever before, and without effort. They are attracted intoour material experience like blossoms attract bees. But we arenever again fooled by the outer appearance or the outer processes.We know that all the outer appearing true selves are Spirit, andtherefore, no matter how beautiful, bountiful or wondrous theyappear in their physical forms - or how unfriendly, sick or depravedthey may appear in the guise of a tangible discord, or illness, orlack, or limitation - they are, either way—good or bad—nothing butimages on the screen of material life. The real ‘them’ or ‘it’ is Spirit,wholeness, love, fulfilment, bliss, perfection of existence Itself withnothing to oppose it.

Okay, so all this you know with the mind. I have probably, to thispoint, said nothing new to you.Why, then, are you unable to demon-strate it? Ah, there is a specific reason. It is this: There is a worldof difference between the knowing of the truth, and actually know-ing truth. One is through the mind; the other is through the Soul—the deep inner self we each are. That difference separates thosewho are able to daily demonstrate the infinite life, riches and har-monies, from those who are not.


Part 2Know The Truth, And The Truth Frees You

From all Material Ties

Know the Truth—really know it deep within your being—and theTruth becomes tangibly evident as the life, riches and harmonies ofyour experience, with no effort on your part, and with nothing tooppose It.

“But,” you say, “it is all very well to hear that, but how do I getto the point of knowing truth more than I know of the truth? Whathave I got to do, practically, to transcend from knowing of the truthto actually knowing It and therefore demonstrating It in my dailylife and affairs?”

There are two steps, and they work in parallel. If you will stickto what I’m about to reveal to you, you’ll witness the opening andflowering of your consciousness with wonderful results following.

Step One: Take a single statement of truth, or no more thanthree or four, related to your favourite or most pertinent need ordesire. For instance, if your need has to do with a health issueselect one, two, three or four statements that talk of the One life,the One power, the One form, One presence. If your need has todo with an issue of supply select statements that talk of the Onesupply, the One presence of allness, the Whole existing at everyplace in the universe. If your need has to do with a relationshipissue select statements which talk of the One being, the One har-mony, the One agreement, the One joyous synchronicity of allbeings. In the same way, select statements that relate to any cate-gory of need that’s apparent in your life.

Where will you find such statements? Every paragraph of thisbook overflows with them! Any sentence that clicks with you, orbrings you an ‘Ah-hah’ feeling, or opens your eyes, or causes a‘Wow!’ moment within you is the right statement for you. Alwaysremember, there is no power in the words - any words ever utteredin the history of mankind, or words that ever will be uttered in thefuture of mankind. The power is in your awakening to the deepmeaning or truth of which the words are speaking. Do you see that?It’s the difference between me giving you the words, “The sunset isbeautiful this evening” and you then using the words to go andactually experience the sunset for yourself. My words will never bea fulfilment to you; they will never be the actual experience of thesunset for you. But your using my words as a prompt to get up and

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witness the beauty of the sunset yourself will quickly lead to theactual fulfilment of the experience itself.

When you’ve selected your one to four statements, use themlike this: Take the one which today holds the most meaning or won-der for you. Don’t worry that one particular statement may havemore effect than another—again, there is no power or effect in thewords themselves. Any statement of truth in the entire world hasthe same possibility: that of opening your consciousness to theinfinity of your being, enabling it to blossom and demonstrate. Thework of awakening happens within you not ‘out there’ anywhere,even from the most stirring or poetic words ever penned.

You Know This to be True

How many stirring, beautiful and inspiring words of truth have youread and listened to since you began your spiritual quest? Thischapter alone consists of seven thousand and ninety four words. Ifyou’ve read only one spiritual or metaphysical book it will have con-tained twenty thousand words at least, more like fifty thousands ormore—sixty, seventy, eighty thousand words. You may have readtwenty or fifty or one hundred books. Some of you have read morethan that. Just twenty, fifty thousand word books will have been thesource of a million words of truth flowing through your conscious-ness. If you’ve read one hundred books five million or more wordsof truth have flowed through your consciousness, assimilated, pon-dered, and, by degree, taken out into life with you.

But can you demonstrate the truth those millions of words havespoken of? If not, you’ve got to ask why. And the answer is: there isnot an ounce of power or effect in any of those words, not even thewords of the greatest spiritual masters such as Buddha, Krishna,Shankara, Isaiah, Solomon, Lao Tzu, Muhammad and Jesus. Doesthat shock you? If it does, let’s get the shock out of your systemhere and now, because only when you understand this criticalpoint—that the one and only place truth is is within you, and theone and only way in which It is made evident in the material worldis by being released from within you—will you know how todemonstrate, and more than that, find demonstration as natural assimply closing your eyes and smiling at the Presence everywherearound you wherever you are.

Words and thoughts are the bridge from the knowing of thetruth, to knowing Truth Itself. They are the first step, and they arecritical as the first step. So let’s get on the bridge now. Select just


one Truth statement of your choice.Live with that one Truth statement all day, every hour, every

minute. Rehearse and rehearse it in your mind all day and evening.Never for a moment let it go from your awareness. Keep it glowingin the background of your mind as you go about your work or fam-ily duties, like a winter fire gently glows in the background of yourevening.

But here’s the secret: after every repetition of the statement inyour mind, stop and allow it to percolate in your being; to gentlysink in of its own accord and flow through the depths of your beingby stopping your thinking for a few moments, and turning yourawareness within. Why? The stopping is a space in your mind—agap in thinking—and that space or gap allows the Infinite Peace topour through. It is instantaneous. You’ll often feel it as a beautifulpeace or relief or relaxedness within. The outer world will look justthe same but don’t believe it; it is being dissolved, made impotent,and saturated with the infinity of Good, Love, Life, Abundance andHarmony flowing within your consciousness. Every moment youstop your words and thoughts you allow the space, the gap, to hap-pen in your world. That is pure power.

The Allness of Consciousness flows through the space in yourmind, out into and as the outer appearing world, the image on thescreen. That is where the immense infinity of power and substanceof Good is, right there within you, your consciousness, the Silence,flowing through the space or gap you allow by that moment of nothoughts and no words, to become your tangible, physical, harmo-nious world.

Step 2: The Experience of Demonstration Itself. Now that you havecrossed the bridge - using words and thoughts of truth, which havebrought a calm and stillness to your mind—you are ready for para-dise Itself—the greatest gift in the universe. You are now preparedto receive it by sitting in the deep Silence of your Being, experi-encing the infinity of All actually present and happening withinyou.

Within and out from the Silence of Being comes the knowing ofthe omnipresence of love, life, success and happiness in and as all.The knowing is the form itself. The Peace you feel happening with-in is the forms of life, love, supply, success and happiness thatappear in your outer experience. The inner and the outer are Oneand the same.

That’s why, after you have known the truth with the mind, when

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you now actually experience Truth happening within you—usuallyas a feeling of peace or deep relaxedness or a glowing warmth orlight within—you automatically find the truth demonstrating Itselftangibly in your experience. You’re not doing it; the Oneness isdoing it. It always has been doing it for you, and as you, but youhaven’t witnessed it because all you’ve done is know of the truthfrom books and classes, words and thoughts. Now you are risinginto knowing Truth Itself, which means the actual experience ofthe feeling of Peace happening within you while you simply sitsilent and receptive. You are now becoming aware that the know-ing and then the material forms of the Knowing are One and iden-tical.

The degree to which you know that Truth and the forms aswhich the Truth appear in the outer awareness are One existence,One presence, One form—not two—is the degree to which youdemonstrate the infinity of life, love, harmony, success and wealthin your tangible experience.

That’s where and how it happens, within and as your con-sciousness pouring into visibility through the space your mindbecomes when you stop all thoughts and all words, to be a recep-tivity, a listener, an awareness faculty. The knowing of the truthbecomes the actual knowing truth Itself in all Its inner Oneness,which becomes the outer tangibility. It is entirely an inside job, per-formed not by anything you do with your mind—not by words orthoughts—but by no words and no thoughts - the space, or gap, ortransparency you make of the mind in the Silence.

Additional to the constant rehearsing-then-moment-of-silence,repeating-then-moment-of-silence, over and over and over againthroughout the day—of just one statement of truth—have at leastthree or four periods throughout the day of ten to twenty minutesin the Silence, in meditation, where you stop all thoughts and stopall words, and just gently relax, surrender, relinquish or allow todrop away all of the outer world of material people, things, condi-tions and circumstances, good and bad.

Let the entire boat-full drift off, away from your attention, andsimply relax and bathe in the infinite love, the blissful peace andgentleness of Spirit within, and let It do the work of bringing theKnowing to your awareness. The battle is not yours, but Spirit’s. It’snot your job to rise from the knowing of truth to the actuality ofknowing truth; it is Spirit’s, so relax, surrender, and simply let. It isthe deepest, most divine, most miraculous, most tender experience.Even the abundance of good forms and activities as which the deep


Peace appears in your outer world are nothing compared to thebliss, ecstasy and wonder you experience within, because what youare experiencing is the actual Spirit Itself, the tangible MiracleItself happening within you. Nothing will ever compare.

The silence becomes your daily mode of awareness and prac-tice. Make it your practice today, and every day, and I can assureyou you will witness the most wonderful, astonishing, and miracu-lous transformations of life, from within to without, and quickly so.But I’ve found that to deviate from this “straight and narrow” wayis to delay your experience of good, often for months or years.

Tomorrow, you can work with a different one of your state-ments, or stick with the same one for days or weeks. It is often bestto work with just one statement for weeks upon weeks because ittakes just one, sufficiently realised as being the Truth of being, toopen the floodgates of the infinite in your life; just one. The biggestmistake made, one which I myself made, is to anxiously skip fromstatement to statement, from book to book, in a frantic effort to‘find’ the truth that will bring the needed demonstration. There isno truth ‘out there’! There is no knowing ‘out there’! “Truth is with-in ourselves… and to know, rather consists in opening out a waywhence the imprisoned splendour can escape, than in effectingentry for light supposed to be without.”

The Complete Demonstration is Within

The very truth—therefore demonstration—you’re looking for, andneed, is, right now, sitting within you as the One inner and outerharmony, health and joy of all being, bursting to escape throughyour stillness of mind, not your activity of mind. “I can, of my ownself, do nothing.” If the great master metaphysician can do nothingof his own self, do you suppose you and I can? No, of course not.He was giving us the secret but until now we have failed to recog-nise it, or we’ve overlooked it as being curious but not practical. Noone could have been more practical than the Master. No one inrecorded history, that I know of, has demonstrated the absolutepracticality of spiritual living more than He, and the uselessness ofbeing inwardly spiritual yet outwardly barren.

The focus on one realm of existence but not the other is nottruth because in truth there is but One, the inner and the outerbeing identical Oneness. We need to listen and learn. You and Icannot do anything about health or wealth or love or happiness orsuccess or attainment or home or family or safety or fulfilment. So

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we need to stop trying in the recognition that it is the very tryingitself that blocks the way.

Then we suddenly discover what the master also said: “It is theSpirit within me that does the works.” Doesn’t that sound just likethe message Robert Browning has given us, Franz Kafka has givenus, and actually, the message every true spiritual master down theages has given us? It is the Spirit within that is the One substanceof all, the One life, the One supply, the One harmony of all, theOne activity which is omnipresent as both what is sensed by us asthe inner invisible, and what is sensed by us as the outer visible.

It does the works of bringing the Wholeness to our tangibleinner and outer awareness; we do not do it; we cannot do it; wewere never designed to do it except in our ability to become stilland silent, and receptive to Its infinite happening within us.

The One Need

Our only need is to release the One spirit within, the All-in-all, theinner and the outer life. We achieve that by first, knowing the truthwith the mind, then by being silent and letting the great It escape,flow through and out of our Silence, to appear as the tangibleforms of harmony that make the material world an effortless joy ofliving and achievement, a constant wondrous surprise everywherewe are, and as everything in which we are involved.

All the rehearsing and repeating of statements of truth by youreffort naturally fades away the moment you know Truth Itself,because then you’ll find there is a constant flow of Truth awarenessconsciously going on within you without much effort on yourpart—with just the continual openness of the inner ear. “The spir-it within me does the works.” But until that happens naturally, youwill tremendously accelerate and shorten the time it takes to expe-rience the demonstrated truth by faithfully practicing the straightand narrow method above.


CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

IF YOU WERE THE ONLY

PERSON IN THE WORLD

Spirit does not take into account what is in the material realm, orwhat is not. Spirit is whole, fulfiled; the already fully manifestedexistence of All despite appearances to the contrary in the outerrealm of matter. Remember, appearances are caused by the con-ceptual mind seeing ‘darkly’ that which is actually the incorporealpresence of Allness.

Right where there is an appearance of lack there is wholeness,tangibly so. Right where there is an appearance of ill health thereis the allness of life, tangibly so. Right where there is an appear-ance of relationship antagonism there is love, tangibly so.

Here we come to a point that causes many students to sufferlong delays in demonstration: thinking the demonstration isdependent on a particular, already-existing physical channel, orvehicle, or process, or person.

No, Spirit is dependent on no person, no thing, no channel, novehicle, no process. If there was nothing but an empty world,devoid of every person and every thing, do you suppose Spirit isunable to be your fullness of being? What nonsense! Your demon-stration would reach you just as easily. Of course! What is thething, or channel, or vehicle, or process you are relying on? Spirit!Spirit is every person, thing and process that appears to you. Thereis nothing but Spirit! The person or thing or channel you may thinkis the only way your demonstration can reach you is the created,but Spirit is the creator.

Spirit is the Infinite Invisible Source and Substance of all weexperience in our world. You are It existing as you. You are spirit,therefore infinite, complete, free in every way imaginable and in an

infinity of ways you’ll never imagine with the mind. Does Spiritrequire anything but Itself to fulfil Itself as you and as every per-son, thing and condition you need or desire materially? Of coursenot. Spirit is that materiality appearing to your senses as every per-son, thing, place and condition.

Suppose you were the only person in the world and you foundyour body with the appearance of disease. There are no doctors, nopharmacists, no drugs, no hospitals, no procedures, no cures.There is no material help whatsoever. There is just you and the nat-ural world. Does the lack of medics, drugs, operating tables andprocedures mean you’ll soon be dust? Does Spirit depend on mate-ria medica and all its equipment? Of course not! All these people,procedures and things are Spirit appearing as various agencies ofexistence and activity in this physical realm. You don’t need theagencies as which Spirit appears, you need only Spirit itselfbecause, in Truth, you, and everything else, are only Spirit Itself.

I am not saying the agencies aren’t sometimes useful and some-times used, but never are they needed. Never. Spirit is completenow, and at every point of now in eternity. Whatever physicalagency may or may not be objectified at this point of human evolve-ment is of no importance to the spiritually demonstrating individ-ual. To everyone else it’s often life-saving, it’s the only help they’vegot, so if the physical equipment or procedure they need to besaved hasn’t yet been invented, they have to go without their help,and continue to suffer, or die. That is the story of evolving materiamedica through the recent ages. But it’s entirely different to us whoknow that we are spiritual beings, and who can actually demon-strate the spiritual fullness of self.

That’s why more and more of the masses are finding their helpwith the great advancements made by materia medica. Many dis-eases that only a few decades ago were killing thousands are nowquite easily cured by modern drugs and procedures. It’s a wonder-ful thing at the level of consciousness that needs it.

But you are spirit! Every person on the planet is spirit! Spirit iswholeness, life, fulfilment, joy. Can you imagine Spirit sittingaround saying, “Well, it’s too bad, the equipment and procedureyou need to save your life is not due to be invented for anotherhundred years, so you’ll have to suffer it and die.” No! Spirit isomnipresent Wholeness, Love, Life existing as fully manifestedForm, as everything everywhere. Spirit is the All-in-all, the Allnessof-and-in the allness, both the inner invisible and what we experi-ence as the outer visible. Then where is there room for suffering

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and death? Where in omnipresence is it that such a horrifyingthing could happen? Do you see that? It’s impossible. There is justLove and Life in all. It is Spirit, and you can one hundred percenttrust and rely on the spirit you are to be your fullness of being.

That’s the great secret: to recognise Spirit as being the only you,the only life, the only supply, the only love, the only friend, the onlyfamily, the only home. With all hope and reliance withdrawn fromthe visible world of people, place and things, and placed on Spiritonly, you witness Spirit appearing to you as the perfect people,places and things of your fulfilment. No longer is It blocked by themind imprisoned in materiality.

If you were the only person in the world, and you faced theappearance of disease, you’d find your help just like EddieRickenbecker found his, lost in the middle of the Pacific ocean withno food, no water, and no radio; you’d find it in Spirit, and it wouldbe “quick, and powerful, and sharp.”6 Rickenbecker knew thatalthough it appeared to the mind that he was lost in the ocean andin danger of death, actually he was just as much in the infinity ofSpirit as he was when ‘safely’ tucked up at home. What’s the differ-ence? The fullness of Spirit is omnipresent. Just by quietly turningwithin to the omnipresence of Spirit, and resting with receptivity inthe deep withinness of being, Rickenbecker witnessed his demon-stration happening all around him. You know the account: fish andbirds coming to him to be eaten, rain water falling from a cloudlesssky, and finally a ‘chance’ spotting and rescue.

All alone in the world, you’d find your health by realising:

I am spirit, not matter. I know the appearance to my mind is thatI have a body and a disease, but actually the I that I am is spirit,incorporeal, invisible, and Spirit needs no person, no object, no pro-cedure, no method. Spirit Is, therefore I am. I am Whole now. Thedeep inner Peace I feel happening as I simply rest in my withinnesssprings up into tangible life here and now. I simply watch as the dis-eased part of my body becomes whole, perfect, fresh. I witness a com-plete renewing of any and every part of me that needs it.I do not do it. I do not make an effort. I do not try to be an assis-

tant or co-director to Spirit. Spirit needs no person, no thing, no pro-cedure! Spirit Is. I simply rest quietly in my withinness, completelytrusting the great Oneness that is Love and Life omnipresent withnothing to oppose It. I witness the happening within which becomesthe happening without. Spirit does the work; the battle is not mine,but Spirit’s. I rest, I relax, and I watch the miracle happen.

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No matter what problem ever faces you, whether it’s an issue ofhealth, supply, love, home, family, employment, business, safety, orhappiness, and you’ve been struggling with it for months or years,one of the reasons for the struggle is often this thought that yourdemonstration requires a particular channel, or event, or person, orprocedure. Remind yourself all the time: “What if I was the onlyperson in the world”. Have I been unknowingly blocking mydemonstration by personalising my awareness of Spirit, assumingIt has to come through a particular person or group of people Ialready have around me, or through a particular channel or vehicleI already have, called family or employment or business and itsvehicles of operation? That assumption will block your demonstra-tion like curtains block the sun.

Spirit needs no person, thing or activity because even when per-son, thing or activity does appear as the channel through whichyour good appears to come, it is never from that source, and neverneeds the channel. It is from Spirit only, and if there are no exist-ing or present vehicles available then your demonstration will cometo you in any one of a billion other ways, even from the clear bluesky if necessary. I can tell you that from experience.

Because of the work I’ve been involved in for many years withbusiness owners, some of whom have become students of theInfinite-I, I have watched the struggle that is set up when a personsees his business vehicles as the only way in which supply willdemonstrate. I’ve also watched how quickly supply flows themoment the vehicles are dropped from mind, and the realisation ofpure spiritual presence and demonstration is achieved.

The mistake is trying to make our business prosperous and har-monious, or our selves prosperous and harmonious—or healthy,happy, wise, fulfiled. We personalise and thereby block our demon-stration. This is the secret: The earth and everything in it is Spirit’s.Everything is Spirit. You are Spirit being you. That means you andeverything in your world is impersonal, not ‘yours’, not owned byyou but owned by Spirit. In that case, you and everything in yourworld is perfect, whole and infinite. There is not a bit of finitenessabout you or about anything in your world. You are infinite and youhave infinite allness right this minute because you are spirit, ownedby Spirit. Not owned in a restrictive way but in an infinitely freeway! You have the keys to the world! You have complete freedomincluding the freedom to ignore your spiritual inheritance and truenature, or live it.

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Spirit Can Only be Lived Fully

If you decide to live it you discover you must live it wholly, not par-tially. You can’t mix Spirit and matter because the mix is only inyour conceptual mind. All the time you are still thinking in termsof matter and physical procedures you are entangled in the beliefof a material world of limitation.

But from the very moment you lift into the true spiritual aware-ness—the true awareness that everything everywhere is Spirit, andthat it is only the mind’s concepts of Spirit that make the world ofpeople, places, things and activities look as they look—you are ableto withdraw all attention, reaction and fear from the outer appear-ances, turn within to the deep Silence of your being, and there,rest, bask in the sublime Substance of All, patiently waiting for theactual feeling of It happening within—a feeling of peace or warmthor release or relief or love or a sense of satisfaction or delight—andthen knowing the greatest secret ever given to the human race, thatthe peace happening within is what quickly appears in the outerworld as tangible, physical health, supply, love, home, car, busi-ness, travel, deeply satisfying and joyous relationships, safety andsecurity, boundless pleasures and fun, and most of all, a wonder-fully satisfying life’s purpose materialised.

Take Ownership of This Lesson

My greatest wish is that you will make this lesson a reality in yourlife. Never again be content to know of truth. All that knowing oftruth is is an intellectual joy and something fascinating to talkabout with like-minded friends. But it is not demonstration.

Demonstration requires knowing truth Itself, which is achievedby using the ‘bridge’ of words and statements of truth to relax andassure the mind, to calm it, to give it something to rely on, placeits hope on, rest in, and relax with. When the relaxing and restingfeeling has been achieved then the mind has turned from being afrantic thinker and doer to being an organ of receptivity. Thencomes the second and miraculous experience, the experience ofactually knowing Truth Itself—the actual feeling of Peace happen-ing or flowing or glowing or welling-up within your being.

The peace you feel within is the Truth happening in yourworld—the infinity of Spirit happening in your world, inner andouter. The within and the without are the same One, the only One.If you look into your world and see anything at all lacking or limit-

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ed or discordant, the one great need is to turn within to the Peacethat is always happening there, and bask in It, rest and relax in It,letting It glow and flow within you, knowing that the Peace you feelhappening within is the tangibility of what will then appear in theouter realm as good and abundant form.

The Form felt within is the form witnessed without. The innerinfinity of Peace is the outer infinity of health, supply, success,attainment and fulfilment of everything you are, have and do; onlydo not make a separation between the inner invisible Peace and theouter visible forms of matter as which the Peace appears. There isno separation other than in the mind of the individual who doesn’tyet know the great secret taught to us throughout the ages by everytrue spiritual master: the infinity of all good is within your very ownbeing. It is not matter, but Spirit. It is invisible, incorporeal andcannot in any wise be sensed by the mind. It is the One and Onlyof both what we think of as the ‘inner’ world and the ‘outer’ world,except, truthfully, there is but One world, Spirit, here and now, fill-ing all space, being all. The only need is to go within to It with arestful and receptive mind, using no words and no thoughts, mak-ing no effort at all but always being receptive and open, bathe in It,feel It, and thereby let it flow out—let It escape—into and as yourwhole world of inner demonstration, and then as outer appearingmatter and activity.

But always remember, the demonstration has nothing to do withyou. Spirit does the work, and Spirit is the demonstration Itself.The Peace happening within you is the demonstrated good in all itsfullness, and the only part you play is to be receptive to the hap-pening, to be the recipient of Its infinite love, life, supply, and formhappening within. The rest—the outer appearing good—is infalli-ble and axiomatic.

Then your outer world becomes blessing after blessing, miracleafter miracle, delightful surprise after surprise as, just like the mag-nificent breaking forth of the Spring gardens, your world of body, fam-ily, home, enterprise, attainment, recognition, reward and pleasurebreaks forth each day as boundless health, limitless supply, satisfyingendeavour and enterprise, deeply loving family and friendships, and aprofound sense of worth and purpose that no one living purely intel-lectually and physically will ever know nor be able to achieve.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

MY KINGDOM IS NOT

OF THIS WORLD

“Know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” This is one ofthe greatest spiritual secrets ever revealed, a secret which, whenknown, enables every one of us to experience the wondrousfruitage of boundless good in individual life. But, as always, simplyknowing this statement intellectually will do us little or no tangiblegood. Failing to understand its hidden meaning and enabling itsactual experience to pour out from our withinness will prove to beno more than an unfulfilled promise.

What is the Truth we must know and experience—that truththat will set us free from the restrictions, burdens, lacks and hard-ships of “this world”? What is that truth which will give us instan-taneous freedom of body and health, freedom of love and relation-ships, freedom of enterprise and purpose, freedom of home, activ-ity, and fulfilment in every department of life?

Well, by now, you have an idea, but let’s make it clearer andsharper than ever: The truth we must know is that there is no real-ity to “this world”. Every aspect of “this world” experienced throughthe five senses is nothing more than a series of mind-created con-cepts. Concepts of what? Of the one real world which is Spirit fill-ing all space, being all persons, all objects, all places and all con-ditions.

Absolutely every person, object, condition, animal, insect, min-eral, cell, atom and sub-atomic particle is nothing more than a con-cept formed by the collective mind of man and is not reality. Letme illustrate this in the following way: Let us say you are the direc-tor of a new movie. You film the first day’s footage and all seems to

have gone well. But when you watch the rushes that evening yourcharacters, plus the whole of each scene, is imbued with unpleas-ant degrees of redness. Every character, every scene, and every sethas a degree of red, from mild pink, to crimson, to deep, dark red.Nothing looks as it should. The array of beautiful, natural colours,skin tones, characterisations, costumes, sets and scenery thatshould have been captured in all their natural glory is discolouredand disappointing.

Immediately you shout, “That’s not what we filmed!” And that isthe truth; it is not. What has happened? Unknowingly, the cameracrew left a kaleidoscope of red filters on the lenses of each camerathereby “creating” that same kaleidoscope of red images on everyimage filmed. If you, as director, accept the kaleidoscope of redimages as being real there is only one thing you can do: attempt tocolour-correct each and every image and finite detail separately.Not only would it be a long and infinitely laborious job that wouldnever succeed in capturing the true natural colours by artificialmeans, but it would not solve the problem of “redness”. Each timeyou filmed more footage the redness would be present and you’dhave to start all over again trying to correct it frame by frame, detailby detail. You might succeed to a degree but you’d never find theultimate solution that way.

Let’s say your heroine and hero both look particularly red. Theheroine, although red, is very beautiful, yet, because of the red-ness, is not close to being the true beauty she actually is. The hero,also red, appears plain and aged which is not close to being thestrong, handsome actor he actually is. The redness has made every-thing appear illusory and incorrect.

Finally, after many years of attempting to tackle and correct theredness frame by frame, minute detail by detail, the truth of the sit-uation pops into your mind: “This appearing redness is an illusion!It’s not real! There must be something between the real and theimage of the real I am witnessing on the film.” You know what hap-pens next; you discover the red filters on the camera lenses, youremove them, and, hey presto!, suddenly your whole “world”appears as it always has been in truth—brighter, more beautiful,more handsome, richer, healthier, joyous, pleasurable and satisfy-ing in every department. You’ve found your freedom! And you foundit by discovering the truth, not by attempting to correct the “error”appearing on the film. There we have the entire explanation andconfusion about “this world”.

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The Truth

The Truth is Spirit, and It is pure, beauty, love, life, joy, and fulfil-ment at every point of existence. “This world” is the image worldappearing as is does because of the concepts of belief—the “red fil-ters”—of centuries of built-up collective human consciousnessfinding its way into your and my individual consciousness. There isnot one iota of truth in “this world”—the material world of people,things, animals, places and conditions as we experience them. Thatis the hidden secret within the words of the great master meta-physician, “My kingdom is not of this world.” Not once did he sug-gest that there is a different world called “heaven” where he camefrom, or where only God, he, and a handful of other worthy saintsabide. Can you imagine it? It would be hard luck for the rest of usbecause by the look of things in “this world” we and our ways arecertainly not too heavenly.

No, he was revealing the secret of secrets: “this world” onlyappears as it does, with sickness, disease, injury, poverty, lack, lim-itation, dissatisfaction, hardship, failure, insecurity, unhappiness,loneliness and finally death because it is experienced through the“filters” of collective human belief. The appearance of everythingin “this world” has no cause, no power, no influence, no substancein reality. This is the truth we have to know. Now you can see why,immediately we do know this truth, we begin to set ourselves freeof the hold it has upon us—free of the appearance world. We nomore have to be free of lack, limitation or discord than the actorsand director need be free of redness. There is no redness in reali-ty. There is no lack, limitation or discord in reality—only whenexperienced through the filters of belief and conceptualisation.

Through those filters the world looks both good and bad, bothwealthy and poor, both happy and unhappy, both successful andunsuccessful, both healthy and sick, both loving and hateful. Thepairs of opposites are a creation of mind only; there is not one iotaof Truth in them. This whole world of matter is a world of conceptscreated by the belief-filled and conceptual mind of man, nothingmore. That is why, as long as we attempt to correct the images ofmind, body, family, home, employment, business, activity and placewe will only ever succeed in the most minor of ways, and in mostinstances fail, just as the director will succeed only in the mostminor of ways as long as he attempts to correct redness on the film.

“My kingdom is not of this world” and “Know the truth and thetruth will set you free” now suddenly alight in your consciousness.

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“My kingdom” is not a separate place but this very place in whichyou, and I, and the entire world population are living, here andnow. It is the real place, the real kingdom—the spiritual real world;the world—your very world and mine—that does not contain sick-ness, poverty, failure, entropy, destruction, disaster, death, but onlylove, life, beauty, wholeness, abundance, harmony and fulfilment.

To Experience The “Knowing” is to Demonstrate

When we truly arrive at the point of knowing this we no longerattempt to “correct” or “prosper” or “heal” whatever or whomeverappears to need it in “this world”. “My kingdom is not of this world”therefore why attempt to heal it, improve it, bring prosperity andhappiness to it? Yet the miracle is that as we drop the attempt tomanipulate “this world” in the knowledge that everything appear-ing in it is not the Truth, and then we rest in, and rely on, the expe-rience of Truth actually happening within us, and pouring out ofus, “this world” heals, improves, prospers and becomes gloriouslyfulfilling in every way.

That is how the great miracles of the past were achieved, andhow they are achieved today. Not by healing “this world” but byignoring it, knowing the presence of the real spiritual world, andthen letting the spiritual Truth make Itself clearer to our humanfive senses in and through the silence of mind. Only in the silenceof mind does Spirit become tangible. Then, as the light shines inthe silence—mind empty of the “red filters” of thoughts or words—“this world” of beings, objects, and conditions is witnessed to beboundless life, wealth, success, love and deep satisfaction.

What appeared to be a sickness or disease, lack or limitation,discord or loneliness as witnessed through the conceptual collec-tive mind, quickly “becomes” whole and healthy, abundant, freed oflimit, harmonious and loving. The “redness” quickly becomeswhole, healthy and abundant—the natural, real complexion thatalways existed in Truth. The wholeness of life, health, supply andfulfilment always exists and has never, for a second, been compro-mised. The compromise exists only in the mind of man, not in real-ity. “My kingdom is not of this world” of compromised conceptsand images.

I am no longer going to believe the sickness or disease or limit orlack; I am going to have the discipline to seek “My kingdom”—thekingdom of the spiritual Truth that is the only truth and reality

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omnipresent here and now, even though, to the mind and physicali-ty of being, this sickness, disease, limit or lack appears very realindeed, and is very real as long as I remain in the realm of mind andcorporeality—“this world”.I must raise awareness up and beyond “this world”. Appearances I

am no longer willing to accept. I have grown beyond the willingnessto accept, by rote, what the rest of the world accepts. Why should I?I am not a lemming willing to follow the crowd simply because theyhave gone off in a direction they now call real. That is nothing shortof suicide to the fulfilment of life as it truly, spiritually, is, and thedeep, glorious satisfaction that life truly is.

The truth is: this world is real but not as we materially experienceit. “My kingdom” is the spiritual kingdom, the Kingdom within thekingdom, the real World within the conceptual—“red”—world.Your body, and the body of your family, friends and fellow humanbeings the world over are real but not as you experience them.Whether the material sense of body is healthy or sick, vital or dis-eased, beautiful or plain, it is real but not as you experience it. Thereal, spiritual body exists here and now, right where you are expe-riencing the “this world” body, and it is never compromised.Therefore, give up the attempt to make healthy or heal the “thisworld” body. Give it up; give it up this minute, because if you con-tinue to try to “fix” the “this world” body of its ailments, injuriesand deterioration you’ll fail. There is no Truth in the appearance ofsomething that needs fixing or healing! The Truth is found in “Mykingdom” of Spirit, existing in all Its glory and completeness, withnothing to oppose It. The very moment you abandon all attemptsto do anything to the “this world” body, whether yours or another’s,and, instead, switch your effort and awareness to the Spiritual bodyand Its ever-existing pureness and wholeness, you’ll witness quickand wonderful “healings”.

The same applies to every facet and activity of life. Your employ-ment, your business, your home, your automobile, your travels,your life purpose, your joy and happiness, your relationships andcompanionships, all appears in “this world” to be subject to bothgood and bad, happiness and unhappiness, success and failure.One day we’re on top of the world and everything looks bright; thenext we’re at the bottom of hell with everything that can go wronggoing wrong. That is the “this world” of pairs of opposites createdby the mind, yet it is quickly discovered that such a creation has nopower, no influence, no causal activity, no presence in reality—in


“My kingdom”—in Truth—Spirit.

Nothing Can Oppose Spirit

There are no opposites in Spirit. Spirit simply Is. Is has no oppo-site. There is not “health” or “wealth” or “spouse or partner” or“success” in Spirit. Spirit simply Is; Spirit is Life Itself, and LifeItself does not have “health”. To have “health” there must be anopposite condition—“ill health”—to bring validity to the concept of“health”. Life is Life. Life is infinitely more than “health”, for whatcan health be other than a measure of life? If you want proof, askyourself, “Are their degrees of health? Or does everyone who hashealth have the same degree of health?” You know the answer. Thatalone demonstrates that “health” is a concept, not Life Itself. No,Life is Life is Life with not even an ounce of health.

Supply is not “money” because there are degrees and amountsof money in each person’s mind, bank account, wallet and purse. Ifmoney were supply everyone on earth would have the sameamount: an infinity of money at hand at every moment. But no oneon the planet will find themselves with an infinity of money, evenif they lived a thousand years, or ten thousand. Money is a conceptof supply as witnessed through the mind—through the “red” filtersof mind. The secret of having an abundance, or even an overabun-dance of money is to “Know the truth, and truth will set youfree”—free in never-ceasing wealth. And what is that truth we mustknow as it applies to money? Spirit is Supply and Supply appearsthrough the mind as the objectified concept called money—limit-lessly so—when we cease from attempting to make money—theattempt to bring abundance to “this world”—and instead, raise oureffort and awareness to “My kingdom” of omnipresent Spirit, thereletting It reveal Its infinite Self. Once we raise awareness into thespiritual kingdom there is no further effort in life; life comes to us,supply hunts us down rather that us having to hunt it down bysweat and toil. This is the truth that sets us free.

An infinity of “money” already exists where you are, and as everyemployment or business endeavour in which you are involved, orever will be, because “money” is the omnipresent spiritual supply—the infinity of supply that is Spirit. There is no “abundance” or“prosperity” in Spirit because those terms require an opposite inorder to exist. Spirit is Supply; Supply is Spirit, and Spirit is You.Because Spirit is omnipresent, existing in all Its fullness at everypoint in space at the same time, Supply is omnipresent and exist-

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ing in Its fullness—Its infinity—at every point in space at the sametime. Only when we make the mistake of believing money is sup-ply—believing the “redness” on the film is the reality—do we strug-gle with lack. But the very moment we lift awareness up and above“this world” of concepts, objects and limits we gain our freedom inan infinity of supply which is then witnessed as an abundance oroverabundance of money plus every other needed or desired goodform. So on through every issue of human life and its pairs of oppo-sites.

Leave this world alone, it is not real. It is a world of conceptsonly. You, or I, or even the greatest mystics and masters who everlived—Buddha, Jesus, Shankara, Lao Tze, Krishna, Nanak, andothers—cannot change a world of illusion, a world of concepts,and the objects and images produced by those concepts. This dis-covery is the wondrous vision realised by every spiritual master—this realisation of Oneness, of Spirit being the only existence, andthat everything appearing through the realm of mind is not real buta false image or concept.

Secret of The Miracle

The secret of the miracle and the healing is this: “this world” is notto be worried about or manipulated, no matter how sick, limited,sad, lonely or lacking it appears to be. Your very own consciousnessis the infinity of Spirit Itself and is the fullness of life to you andyours when you know it, and let It be. It is omniscience—the all-wise, all-knowing mind—therefore never tell It what you need, howyou need it, or when. It knows already, well before you even had anawareness of the need. Let It be You and everything about you.

Spirit is Omnipotence—the all-and-only-power, all-and-only-activity. There is no power other than Spirit, Good. Therefore whatappears to be a negative or destructive power in “this world” is notpower in the slightest the moment you know the Truth, and thenlet the Truth be the Truth in your life.

Spirit is omnipresent—everywhere present in Its fullness ofinfinity at each point in space at the same time, filling all space,being everything, everywhere. There is not, and cannot ever be,“redness”—negative conditions of any sort—in the world becauseSpirit is the only presence, the only person, the only thing, the onlyplace, the only condition despite appearances. Forget “thisworld”—leave it alone! Stop attempting to improve and enrich it!You cannot improve or enrich a shadow, an illusion, a nothingness.


Lift awareness up and into the blissful atmosphere of Spirit wherethere are no bodies, minds, lovers, friends, businesses, employ-ment, money, homes, automobiles, holidays, places or conditions.There is just Spirit, the bliss that is Life and Fulfilment Itself!

Enter that world, and rest in It. Be content to rest there as youwould rest under the welcome shade of an ancient oak on a hot andtiring day. Rest there, and be at peace—feel the Peace. Be completelysatisfied that in that blissful place, that world of Spirit and Peace,all is already done for you, all is finished and complete, all is glori-ous, all is life, supply, happiness and harmony. Be completely satis-fied with the Peace that wells up within. Be silent. Be the silenceitself. Rest the mind and be silent. Stop all words and all thoughtsand simply be silent. Listen. Be open and receptive. Into thatsilence, openness and receptivity will rush the infinity of Good, theinfinity of Spirit Itself, the real You Itself, and all is well. Everynook and cranny of “this world” will become harmonious,enriched, life-filled and satisfying beyond measure. Every cornerand niche of your experience will reveal life and success, abun-dance and happiness, relationship and companionship, fun andpleasure, purpose and fulfilment beyond anything the mind canimagine for itself.

This is the Miracle Self. This is your self. You are the miracleitself. Let It Be—for and as you, now.

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THE SYMPHONY WITHIN

When the noise of the world clamouringis for a moment left outside,

when the doubts, and fears, and urgent needsare lovingly understood;

When the rage of outer thoughtsare dowsed in love and care,

Suddenly, in the stillness of the mind,a dawn of Love so deepsoothes every part of me.

From somewhere deep withinI feel It’s healing rays;

welling up and filling mewith a tenderness sublime.

At last, at last, at last!Just Silence here and there,At last I feel Its presence,deep Silence everywhere.

I bathe in Love Sublimeholding me, caring,removing every fear;

Saying “Be not afraid, it is I,It is only ever I.”

“The disguises of the mindhave been your only fear,

But no one, nothing, ever is,anything but I with you, right here.”

“I am what you seein body, in home, in work;

I am everything everywhere,but the mind is not aware.”

“I am the fields, the sheep, the cattle;I am the buds, the flowers, the fruits.I am the earth, the air, the sunshine;

I am the giver, the receiver, the gift Itself.

“I am the One you feel this momentin the deep peace of your withinness.I am the One you feel in stillness,

The One Life, One Love, One Supply.

I am the peace, or warmth, or lightyou feel glowing deep within;

I am the release, the joy, the blissyou feel happening within.

You feel Me within being the life of every smilebreaking forth in every being,

the gentle wisp of breezecaressing each and every one

with Love.

You feel Me being every loving thoughtand every grateful gesture;

every baby’s joy,every parent’s delight.

You feel Me being the Oneness of Lifeat every tiniest point

and every grandest vista;You feel Me being the moon and stars,

both essence and form itself.

You feel Me being the wind and sky,the fluffy whiteness of the cloud;

You feel Me being the sparkle of the ocean,the magnificent wave’s every motion.

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You feel Me being the flight of the feathery birdas she soars in joyous freedom;I am the melody of her song

and the life of the branch she sits uponwhilst pouring out her glorious symphony.

Nothing but nothing can hide my Presenceyet the dimness of mind sees not;but with the gentle turning within

to the stillness deep insideyou’ll find Me waiting there in fullness;

there my love for you abides.

You’ll find the I of Meis truly the I of you

the fullness and the gloryof everything you need,

desire and do.

There is not a single grain of sand,a single pin or mite,

That isn’t already here within for youin boundless, immediate sight.

There is not a dream too grand,a desire too mighty to have,

That isn’t already yours withinto be and to live this moment.

The mind may think it difficultThe poor, dim, simple mind!

But mind is nothing but an imageso tiny, so limited, so behind!

The I of you is the I of All,The All is You right here;

The very presence of Infinity ItselfBeing, Expressing; no fear!

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The You of you is all aboutpouring Love forth boundlesslyWhat is to fear? I say to you,

but the images of mind so dear?

Realise this My love, My soul,I AM your life, your supply, your joy.

Not the things the mind sees here and there,but ME, the invisible Bliss everywhere.

I came to you as YouI gently let you know:

If you can see it, hear it, taste it, smell it,or touch it,

then that’s not the I that I am.

That’s only the mind in its fanciful waysnot seeing a fraction of Is

Yet in the midst of the fractionexists the perfect Whole

The Is that is You and is Yoursright here, right now, forevermore.

Simply rest the mind this hourand the Whole will shine gloriously through

in every blissful wayright here, right now, today.

Never can I leave you, nor forsake you,to cry

For you are Me, and I am you,The One Ecstatic I.

Where will you go from the I that I am?From the I that is you, that is I?

How can the I be apart from the I?For there is no other than I.

Only joy is present herein every imaginable way

Not one tiny fragment of darknesscan enter your being today.

THE MIRACLE SELF222

Where would it come from,this darkness of mind?

The mind is just image, not real.Just image, not real, I assure you it’s true

So rest My love; Let Me be You.

Trust Me, trust Me, only MeNot ever what the mind may glean.Fall back in My arms of Love, I say

The withinness of you is where I AM for youeach minute, each hour, each day.

Simply rest the mind and turn withinMy song is singing there.

The song of Life, and Love, and All.It’s the greatest song I ever sang,

and every note for you.

Just place your troubles on the ground,your needs and desires too.

For I am Life, and Love and Alland All that I AM is you.

Quickly you will see Me thereboth within and then without.

For the within and without are identically OneThe womb of Love, the Life of Love,the Flow and Form of Love, just One.

Never again think I am out therefor that is just the mind.

I am here, I am you, I am here within.All is Good, all is fine, all is Love for you.

Inspired following the September 2008, Eastwell Manor “5 Books” Retreat

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