|
The Inner Voyage The Ascension Career Unit 4 Perfect Health
Instructions to Students & Teachers -: In this first lesson we are 5th Epochal Revelation Quotes - The entire ascendant plan of Lesson Content - We’ve probably all wondered
Perfect
Health The Triune Balance -
Body - Mind - Spirit Express
a desire with intensity and it is already realized How to become your "Body For Life"
Lesson
Plan Outline:
In this lesson teachers should be full
of love and extruding confidence, and be in a state of triune
harmony of development with universe powers of healing energies,
beaming with the life energy of the Masters work of ministering
to the mindal and material needs of His little children,
understanding that what a son of God desires and the Father
wills IS, instilling undying hope in the minds of their students
in their desire for both the teacher and the student's success
in their earth struggle to reach this triune balance between the
material - mindal and spiritual elements of our nature. Health, sanity, and happiness are
integrations of truth, beauty, and goodness as they are blended
in human experience. Such levels of efficient living come about
through the unification of energy systems, idea systems, and
spirit systems. Truth is coherent, beauty attractive,
goodness stabilizing. And when these values of that which is
real are co-ordinated in personality experience, the result is a
high order of love conditioned by wisdom and qualified by
loyalty. The real purpose of all universe education is to effect
the better co-ordination of the isolated child of the worlds
with the larger realities of his expanding experience. Reality
is finite on the human level, infinite and eternal on the higher
and divine levels."
Jacob's Ladder
Unit 4 Perfect Health
The Temple of God and it's living
Manifestations How to become "your body for life
When you saw the title of this lesson
did you feel a bit skeptical about the word "Perfect?" Do you doubt that Perfect Health is
possible for you . - - or anyone? At the end of this lesson you will know
and feel that it is not only possible but available to everyone.
Have you ever had, for a moment in your
life, the feeling of being full of energy, with an alert mind,
wanting to take big bites out of life? Has your body ever been
in such good physical condition that you were overflowing with
vitality and ready to climb any mountain, face any obstacles?
This is the spirit of the Father leading us onward to the
victory of perfect health. Physical Health is one of the most
enjoyable feelings. Every breath of fresh air you breathe is
life energy going through you. Your mind becomes so synchronized
with your body that you know when it is time to give it rest, to
feed it or to give it exercise. Good physical health is great, But there
is more - there is Perfect Health, it goes beyond feeling
physically healthy It means being in joy, happy to be alive,
open to new adventures, and challenges in your life! You feel
bursting full of love and energy and appreciation of life,
nature and its beauty. Perfect Health is also total relaxation;
a breathing in time, to fill -your cup and to be in tune with
yourself and what surrounds you. It is to the mind of perfect
poise, housed in a body of clean habits, stabilized neural
energies, and balanced chemical function--when the physical,
mental, and spiritual powers are in triune harmony of
development--that a maximum of light and truth can be imparted
with a minimum of temporal danger or risk to the real welfare of
such a being. By such a balanced growth does man ascend the
psychic circles of planetary progression covered in the next
lesson, one by one, from the seventh to the first. Are you starting to feel healthy
already? Be careful to share it with all your friends - it is
contagious
STATE
OF HEALTH Perfect Health is something everybody
wants. But how many people are willing to do something about it? Most people do not realize that one
really serious problem on Earth today is that the general
standard of health in almost every person is lower than it needs
to be. Yet society accepts this as "normal’ Lets take a look at the following chart
prepared by researchers on mankind's general state of health.
Success
Failure
It clearly shows the difference between what our health
picture could take like from infancy to old age ... and the way
it actually goes.
Quite rightfully, the potential curve is termed "success" and
the usual performance curve "failure’. Why should we settle for
"failure" when we can have "success"? Take time right now to ask
yourself if you really want Perfect Health as a way of living
and being. All you need to reach Perfect Health is
Desire plus Action. How
IS Your Health Let’s try this little questionnaire: - - You only need to write down ‘yes’ or
‘no’.
‘No’ answers indicate that everything is
not what it should be with your body. However if you can
sincerely say yes to the last question the rest will fall into
place. It's only a matter of patience and perseverance.
Natural
Healing What about when you catch a cold or come in
contact with the flu? How do we approach sickness? Sickness of any description is brought
about by some violation of Nature’s Law. In some cases, these rules are broken
intentionally, as with improper nutritional habits, insufficient
rest or exercise. More often the individual is somehow subject
to a violation of nature’s rules without knowing it, as in the
case of virus infections, inherited tendency toward certain
diseases, injuries, etc. By breaking natural law man suffers the
consequences. Psychosomatic causes are responsible for
more illnesses than either of the previously mentioned
instances, particularly in the comfortable middle-class
societies such as flourish in Europe and North America. What is a psychosomatic illness? It is an
illness that is emotional in origin. Doctors have agreed that 90% of most
illnesses, such as headaches: backaches, ulcers allergies, even cancer,
are psychosomatic Although some of these can be of physical
origin, more often than not they are the result of an unbalanced
metabolism due to mixed up or negative emotions, A person who is under internal pressure to
perform in a new job, or a person that feels no one loves
him-her, will, in most cases break out with some external
dis-ease. You can eat the right food, and jog one to
two miles a day - but if you are full of fears, anxieties and
frustrations you will probably end up with a physical ailment. Health and Happiness must start within us.
Have you ever had an illness that was psychosomatic? Have you
ever been sick as a result of something that you were going
through emotionally? List a few examples:
So,
the first obvious rule for Health is to dig into the
subconscious to eliminate possible psychosomatic trends we might
have, and to respect all known health rules. If subjected to a
disease of the "accidental variety a leg injury for instance,
get the proper rest and nursing care. Use common sense. Resist
the urge to use the patent medicines advertised so convincingly
in television commercials. The chemicals in them actually make
your bodywork harder to maintain its balance. Nature of herself
is a marvelous healer if left alone to do her work.
A "rood" is 1/4 of an acre. This means
four people could live off 1 acre of land. That was in the days when
the land was rich. Nowadays, we keep pouring artificial
fertilizers and poisonous sprays into the land, but our poor
plundered planet is having hard time feeding us. Will we awaken
before our death?
Psychic
Healing Once you have done everything you can to
allow the conditions for curing to take place, and you have let
Mother Nature take over -then you are ready for your next step:
Psychic Healing. If spiritual healing seems strange to
you, or you have in the past rejected the idea, now is a good
time to get out your neutral file and consider the possibility
that when nature can go no further -God does help those who try
to help themselves. If properly applied natural and spiritual
healing can be used in conjunction with one another to produce
startling results.
Self-Healing Self-healing
is an automatic outcome of deep meditation. Having now become
fully familiar with daily practice of the P.A.M. Technique and
the deeper stages of meditation (scientifically speaking there
are at least 52 stages of depth in meditation) you should have
experienced many familiar sensations sweeping through the body,
heaviness, weightlessness, tingling sensations usually beginning
at the feet and working upwards. We will not discuss here the
visual auditory, and other types of experiences accompanying
these sensations in deep meditation, as these do not apply to
self-healing. The expert self-healer is cured daily, while in
meditation, of any little health problems which may arise, often
without the conscious mind even being aware that sickness had
threatened. DAILY AUTOMATIC SELF-HEALING IS AVAILABLE TO ALL. But unless you have felt a conscious
awareness of the warm healing sensation flowing in meditation,
your healing power is not fully developed, and you should rely
on a combination of natural treatments while building up your
powers of spiritual self-healing. Give it a try! You have nothing to lose. Imagine the PSI as a filament in a light
bulb. No one can expect an impoverished one-watt PSI to do the
work of a 100-watt PSI. Daily plugging into the Power Source
during meditation is one way to increase our wattage. it is also
increased by exercise, in other words, by how actively the PSI
tries to impress its knowledge upon the conscious awareness.
Developing
Spiritual Wattage
Another aspect of the light bulb
illustration to consider is that although we all start off equal
- say with one watt’s worth of light capacity, as soon as we are
born our life experiences reflect around the filament of PSI,
deflecting its light into a unique pattern. Narrow, rigid or
negative programming forms patterns on the outside of the light
bulb which block out the light of the PSI filament. So, although in the Inner Journey we
firmly believe in spiritual healing, simple natural healing
should be thought of first. ‘If the problem is a severe one like
cancer or T. B. proper diet and rest is essential. A broken leg
or arm is obviously better set by a doctor first, then given
meditative treatment. ALWAYS
USE COMMON
SENSE Now let's see how we can overcome
sickness and gain the control of our body.
CYBERNETICS Mind control and self-healing have a
strong relationship to each other. To understand this
relationship, it is necessary that we touch briefly about
cybernetics and its psychological application. In the Inner
Journey we see the "mind" as something separate from the
"brain". The science of cybernetics teaches that
"man" is not a machine rather that man has a machine to use as a
vehicle to function in the physical realm, in much the same way
that we use cars or motorcycles to get around. You are the
driver; your body is your vehicle. You are the REAL man which
inhabits the machine. It is up to you to care for it to control
it, to give it direction. You are the master of your own ship. We wouldn’t like the thought of driving a
car whose steering locked, or whose brakes were faulty. Yet in
our society, too often the machine runs without any direct
control from its operator, and a life of haphazard confusion
results. In developing our extrasensory faculties, we aim to
bring the machine under control - to broaden its scope, greatly
increase its potential for service, and make it the sort of
vehicle we can be proud to operate. You can fix, patch and put the best fuel
in your car but unless you are a caring and conscientious
driver, your car will not last.
MEDITATE ON
THIS: "Man is not a machine any more than
electricity is the motor it activates." As a driver if you have healthy, happy
thoughts, your body will manifest health and vitality.
MIND CONTROL
Until MIND has learned how to control the
machine, progress is impossible Once this has happened however,
the physical body is no longer subject only to the laws of
nature - but can be controlled by higher laws. There are many books
which describe fire walking in Fiji, comfort on a bed of nails
in India, psychic photography, and astral travel, which are
examples of some of the ways in which this is done. It is important to realize too, that our
physical vehicle is a channel of energy. Life and vitality is
not so much contained within us, as if we were a vase; rather it
courses through us. Universal energy is available to all.
What stops us from making full use of it?
Let’s
go back to the dynamic energies of ID and EGO. Do you remember
how the ID operates on the pleasure principal, according to what
it likes and dislikes - and EGO, the selective servant, seeks to
propel the personality towards those things which will please
the ID? The EGO has no conscience it only wants to protect the
ID and provide gratification of the ID's desires every time the
ego discards a spiritual thought because it is not in keeping
with the self-interest of the ID, it is as though a "brick" is
plastered on top of previous "bricks" inside of our channel.
These "bricks" are what block the free passage of Universal
energy. Here are two examples to illustrate the
point further. Let’s assume the cashier in a store gives
Mrs. Doe $2.00 too much in her change. Mrs. Doe realizes this,
considers keeping it for a moment then thinking that it doesn’t
feel right, she returns the money She has acted on the impulse
or the thought message from her spiritual mind. On the other hand, if the same incident
happened to Mrs. X, though her first impulse might be to return
the money, she might on second thought decide to keep it for
herself, perhaps with the justification: "A big store like this won’t miss the
money - it will just come out of their advertising expenses and
I can certainly use it." In this case the spiritual thought was
discarded, and another ‘brick" added.
HEALING OF
OTHERS You might be wondering "what about going
to another person to get psychic healing" or "should I try to
heal others"? Except under very exceptional circumstances, where
you have been asked for specific help this would be quite
incompatible with spiritual teachings where
the axiom is - "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a
day! Teach a man to fish and you feed him for always”. The aim is to gradually eliminate mental
crutches as psychic powers develop Sickness is a crutch for
many. If they would start on a progressive path of
self-realization self-healing would be an automatic outcome. An Atheist At Lourdes We get so many questions on the subject
of "Faith Healing" that I would like to relate one of our
favourite healing stories from Notre Dame de Lourdes, the
celebrated healing shrine in France, It concerns one Louis Olivari, an Italian
businessman, who was an atheist and a communist Louis was struck
down in the prime of life with a creeping paralysis which
gradually paralyzed his body from the feet upwards. His wife, a
devoted Catholic, pleaded with Louis to go to Lourdes, but he
wanted none of it. But as time went on and the disease had made
him powerless from the chest downwards, he became too weak to
argue with his wife's ‘insistence and finally off they went to
Lourdes. The way the shrine operates is that at
set times the monks ring a bell three times. At these times the
sick people dip under the water praying fervently, and many
cures have been recorded. Only sick people can go into the pool. In the case of Louis Olivari, he was by
that time unable to move so his wife made an arrangement with
another family who had brought their teen-aged son, blind from
birth onwards - Louis would act as the boy’s eyes, while the lad
carried him into the healing water. The bell rang and in they went1 quite
good friends by this time They dipped for the first time the boy
calling for Mary to restore his sight, while Louis remained
stubbornly silent. The lad was very sincere and full of faith As they arose he told Louis that no cure
could be forthcoming unless he took this thing seriously and
prayed earnestly They dipped a second time the boy still praying
and Louis’s lips still tightly closed Again the boy argued with
him and tears began to well up in Louis’s eyes. His throat
smarted. Then the bell rang for the third time....
And the words burst forth from Louis’s heart, "Oh God, if you
exists heal this boy, who needs it so desperately". Then he
fainted and had to be dragged from the water. When he recovered,
he was cured. According to the story, the blind boy
never received his sight. Why do you think this happened? The point of this story is not to knock
the wonderful element of faith, which could also perhaps be
described as an extremely positive attitude ... but faith can be
a two—edged sword. If, for example, we had been raised to
believe in Voodoo, it would be possible for the witch doctor to
deposit some little emblem signifying destruction on a doorstep
and within a matter of days the recipient would be dead ... just
because he believed in it. When Louis Olivari took his focus of
attention off himself, he began to reach upward toward Empathy
... In the same manner, if we remove ourselves from the
sympathy—antipathy circle, we can reach upwards and be healed by
the power of Universal Empathy. The more self centered a person
is, the more his PSI power is dimmed for healing and all other
aspects of psychic development . Love - concern, caring for
others — this is the ultimate emotion. The most powerful force
in the Universe. Many people are under the impression that
those studying metaphysics are primarily concerned with the
question of life after death. Not so. "Is there really life
after birth" seems to us to be a far more pertinent question. The "life" we enjoy has little to do with
age, wealth, education, social status or other external matters.
Nor can it be gauged by the number of years that pass from the
time we are born until the time we pass on. Rather it is a
matter of how much life energy is coursing through us every
moment of every hour of every day. How much we can appreciate
and enjoy all of creation. Remember we saw the great difference
between man's s actual health performance and his potential Remember the life curve of the happy,
successful people. Why should we let others program us into
thinking that we must be ill and age and die when we are 70 or
so? What is the secret of the people who lead active lives until
they are 100 years old or more - and enjoy it? Your textbook
Perfect Health describes some of these delightful centenarians - Modern science is already starting to
suspect that health is a lot a matter of "mind" than "body".
HEALTH TIPS In summary, here are a few tips. 1. Respect all known health rules. Your
body will thank you for it. 2. Man is not just an animal living in
nature’s realm. He is also a social and a spiritual being.
Always respect social law -insofar as it does not conflict with
the other two higher laws. As far as spiritual law is your first
preoccupation. 3. Continue to dig into your subconscious
to identify possible psychosomatic trends. 4. Use the P. A. M. Technique to
eliminate these psychosomatic disorders. 5. If subjected to disease of the
"accidental" variety, get the proper rest and nursing care. 6. Try to avoid drugs. They upset your
natural body processes. Nature of herself is a marvelous healer,
if left alone to do her work. 7. Meditate daily. Perfect health will
result as an automatic by-product. 8. Build up wattage. Life and health are
directly proportional to coursing through us. 9. Use common sense. Our aim is to
gradually eliminate mental crutches as our psychic powers
develop. Don't do it all at once. 10. Perfect Health – by Winifred G.
Barton – Read Chapter 8 to summarize and review. Perfect Health: - The Time is Now! In our later lessons, we will see how our
aura (seen as a light around the body and depicted in painting
as a halo) reflects the state of our health and our thinking,
and how it can be used as a means to diagnose sickness or mental
error. Empathy is like a fountain of life,
reaching ever upward and outward, connecting us with life-giving
Universal vibrations. The more we tap into it, that is, show
concern for those about us, we ourselves reap the greatest
benefits. In our next lesson we will see further
benefits of psyche and personality development as we explore
varieties of Psychic Phenomena. Urantia Revelation Quotes Click the numbers at the beginning of each phrase or sentence and scroll down to the paragraph in the Paper Paper will open in a new browser tab. Change back to this open browser tab to return here to the lesson.
PLEASE USE YOUR BROWSERS BACK BUTTON TO
RETURN TO THIS PAGE The rule of living
147:4.4 "1.The Level of the flesh ...Such
a purely selfish and lustful interpretation would be well
exemplified by the supposition of your question....
147:4.5 "2.The Level of the feelings..This
plane is one level higher than that of the flesh and implies
that sympathy and pity would enhance one's interpretation of
this rule of living..
147:4.6 "3. The Level of the mind....
147:4.7 "4. The Level of brotherly love..... Still
higher is discovered the level of unselfish devotion to the
welfare of one's fellows. On this higher plane of wholehearted
social service growing out of the consciousness of the
fatherhood of God and the consequent recognition of the
brotherhood of man, there is discovered a new and far more
beautiful interpretation of this basic rule of life..
147:4.8 "5. The Level of morality.... 147:4.9 "6. The Level of spirit...And then last, but greatest of all, we attain the level of spirit insight and spiritual interpretation which impels us to recognize in this rule of life the divine command to treat all men as we conceive God would treat them. That is the universe ideal of human relationships. And this is your attitude toward all such problems when your supreme desire is ever to do the Father's will. I would, therefore, that you should do to all men that which you know I would do to them in like circumstances."
42:9.5 Physical stability associated with biologic
elasticity is present in nature only because of the well-nigh
infinite wisdom possessed by the Master Architects of creation.
Nothing less than transcendental wisdom could ever design units
of matter which are at the same time so stable and so
efficiently flexible.
132:2.4 The spiritually blind individual who logically
follows scientific dictation, social usage, and religious dogma
stands in grave danger of sacrificing his moral freedom and
losing his spiritual liberty. Such a soul is destined to become
an intellectual parrot, a social automation, and a slave to
religious authority.
132:3.2
Truth cannot be defined with words, only by living. Truth is
always more than knowledge. Knowledge pertains to things
observed, but truth transcends such purely material levels in
that it consorts with wisdom and embraces such imponderables as
human experience, even spiritual and living realities. Knowledge
originates in science; wisdom, in true philosophy; truth, in the
religious experience of spiritual living. Knowledge deals with
facts; wisdom, with relationships; truth, with reality values.
132:3.3 Man tends to crystallize science, formulate
philosophy, and dogmatize truth because he is mentally lazy in
adjusting to the progressive struggles of living, while he is
also terribly afraid of the unknown. Natural man is slow to
initiate changes in his habits of thinking and in his techniques
of living.
132:7.6 Then exclaimed Ganid: "Teacher, let's you and I make
a new religion, one good enough for India and big enough for
Rome, and maybe we can trade it to the Jews for Yahweh." And
Jesus replied: "Ganid, religions are not made. The religions of
men grow up over long periods of time, while the revelations of
God flash upon earth in the lives of the men who reveal God to
their fellows." But they did not comprehend the meaning of these
prophetic words.
132:7.9 What a scene for the celestial intelligences to
behold, this spectacle of the Indian lad proposing to the
Creator of a universe that they make a new religion! And though
the young man did not know it,
they were making a new and everlasting religion right then and
there -- this new way of salvation, the revelation of
God to man through, and in, Jesus. That which the lad wanted
most to do he was unconsciously actually doing. And it was, and
is, ever thus. That which the enlightened and reflective human
imagination of spiritual teaching and leading wholeheartedly and
unselfishly wants to do and be, becomes measurably creative in
accordance with the degree of mortal dedication to the divine
doing of the Father's will. When man goes in partnership with
God, great things may, and do, happen.
Please use the e-mail link below if you have
questions about this lesson
You are a child of the
universe, no less than the trees and the stars, you have a
right to be here.
|
.gif)
