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| At 2008's Expo, Manna Food Pantries received 440 pounds of food through the efforts of our spiritual community - THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED! |
Also, a Very Special Thank You to ALL who participated in 2008: We came together and manifested a remarkable beginning! From the staff at SOLE - with eternal gratitude - THANK YOU!
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Our spiritual community is an amazing one. When we come together it is more than joyful, (and we define Light as Joy, absolute Joy!) it is nothing less than spectacular! We come from diverse backgrounds - Caucasian, African-American, Asian, Native American, and all mixes of the above.
All of us are on a spiritual path (and it matters not what your path is...); some of us just don't know it yet - life is but a dream and we are all ONE: |
You know those “talks” you have with yourself in your mind? One day I continued to answer “myself” until there was no more “I” to answer to, and it was a bit like removing the layers of an onion.
I sunk down, down, down deep within myself. At what I thought was the center, when I could go no deeper, I found my self - the observer - in a space that can only be described as a cavern, and there was a presence there – two actually – one that was there to guide me and the one that I would - eventually - meld with.
The guide was my Christ Self, or my higher self. The melding part was something else altogether: I felt that it could be - perhaps - part of the grid that connects us all – some call it Spirit, or God, or All That Is. I just knew that the closer I got to it, the warmer and more intensely content I felt, the more at peace I was.It came to me that what I was feeling must be that peace - that gift from the Holy Spirit - that is talked about in A Course in Miracles.
For an instant, as if I were just a fleck of dust drifting back into a cloud,I melded with that timeless ONE and became All That Is and the moment was and is indescribable. How long I stayed in the ONE I don’t know, but the memory has never left me; in that instant, my life changed.
And I know that it really did happen because the moment was and I came out of the other side of it, looking back on it, as it were.
And I knew that I had to somehow capture the image of that space in the vastness of my inner mind, knowing that to do so would allow me to remember it always.
Without knowing how, I instantly created a "self" that would “put” that image in memory somewhere, and in that same instant, another "self" was created that looked at the first self in judgment, as if to say, “How can you possibly think that you are so important that you can keep an image of this forever?” As the observer, I looked at these two “selves,” the one that would “take the picture” and the other that stood in judgment of the first, and with a thought – “I think I will just delete these selves” – they were gone and I was back in the moment with the ONE and my higher self. What an amazing ability that was, I remember thinking. Whoosh, just wish them gone and they were gone in that instant. Those feelings of creation and destruction were astonishing.
After melding for the second time, I remember asking the question, “This must a situation just like it is after you die, but why is it so dark in here?” and then I “heard” the answer,
“You have your eyes closed, silly.”
My life called to me at that moment and I knew I must return to the surface.I took a deep breath and allowed the onion to re-layer as I ascended, little ego selves fastening themselves atop other little ego selves, but the feeling of that moment – of that experience – has remained with me ever since, and I know it will continue as long as I need it to because it is eternal.
