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Thursday grats...Oprah's change in perceptions via her visions!

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I am grateful to have seen Oprah on Diane Sawyer last evening…regarding her investment with the children of the fatal aides’ victims in Africa. Seems she realizes a vast need for many things to occur for these children who have little to look forward to.

Oprah’s dreams are indicative of some one who had a vision and no one could bring it down to ‘their’ size. She kept it foremost and great in her own mind’s eye. Thanks Oprah, I am grateful for the many ways that you show us “There has to be a better way.”

I am grateful for me and my visions too. A way back in ’82 I wrote one of these visions, OBE? that I had. I was nudged to go for a dream and when I did, I allowed some one? who stood before me with their dream thus falling short of my Oprah size dreams.

Oprah was no more blessed than I to come by these visions. Yet she did and she is still the Happy Angel living her dreams and has many years to fulfill many more.

I think that I am having regrets and need to slap Compassion all over me. I need to remember that I have 26 years over her, 2 daughters and an “X.” When I knew I’d need be responsible for any of my dreams or visions, I went back for my education. No one could stop me in that area. Never! And here comes Compassion to lather me gently.

I need not regret the many things I’ve done for my rell size visions…and I certainly admire these visions Oprah sees and does. With her spirit and verve there are many visions she will still get to fulfill…she is not over yet!

Me? I am grateful for all the women who take back any of their abandoned powers to share with this Universe the many possibilities of joy, peace and love…in whatever way it feels right as we move along this vertical path…rell


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Wed grats...ACIM's "Setting the Goal..."

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I am grateful for friends and family…and for the miracles in my life. How many times have I changed my perception? Answer: Just every times I feel a Holy Instant. It feels like a cloud kiss on the go!

I am grateful for ACIM, for Dr. David Hawkins and his 3 books, (www.veritaspub.com) J. Krishnamurti, always fond of Ruby Nelson’s book, “The Door to Everything,” and many more over my life span who have meant a lot to me in the way of changing my perceptions.

Sometimes I feel like a 4th of July sparkler that one shakes around in circles and watches the Holy Instants just sparkle away!

I am grateful that my mind has the ability to look at stuff from many angles, and if I am undecided go to Holy Spirit for a those nudges. There are many times that I don’t get there, and I am not a happy camper. There are many times that I don’t go there and I look up and say, “Thanks, Holy Spirit, and I didn’t even ask!”

So I’ve opened ACIM to Chap 17, “Setting the Goal” I am still amazed as I open to such a definitive place.

Jesus is convincing me that, {{{The practical application of the Holy Spirit's purpose is extremely simple, but it is unequivocal. And He will work with me to make it specific. There are certain very specific guidelines He provides for any situation, but I must remember that I do not yet realize their universal application. Therefore, it is essential at this point to use them in each situation separately, until I can more safely look beyond each situation, in an understanding far broader than I now possess.

The goal of truth has further practical advantages. If the situation is used for truth and sanity, its outcome must be peace. (***I love this aspect!)

The goal of truth requires faith. Faith is implicit in the acceptance of the Holy Spirit's purpose, and this faith is all-inclusive. Where the goal of truth is set, there faith must be. The Holy Spirit sees the situation as a whole.}}}

Me? This whole approach has been a mind blower for me many times…but I like the way it works when I work with it. I have 2 situations going on right now that I am totally relying on H S to undo the consequences…and yes, the only work required of me is “KEEP MY HANDS/MIND OFF!…and to see it finalized as only H S can do it in my mind’s eye”…mind you now, I did not say, “How I...rell does it in her mind’s eye…?” ;-)Yeah, this can get ego tricky. Yeah, and I know want it is like to pick me up again…while flinging away on this vertical path…rell


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Sat's Grats....Love is Freedom!!!!!!!?

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I am grateful this morning for the beauty that surrounds me…feels real good. I am grateful for these miracles.

I am grateful for going to dinner with a bunch of my widowed friends and then on to a movie…I saw “Something’s Gotta Give.” The new Jack Nickolson and Dianne Keaton flick. Actually hilarious! One of the more “up-tight” non-participating ones commented that she heard it was risqué?…with eyes ready to question my choice? I checked with her with what she meant by risqué? Duh-h-h? Then offered, “Does it mean that if you have not done what they might do that “it” is then considered risqué?”

No response…Then I continued, “Because, to me, if I’ve already done what they might do, I can’t actually refer to “it” as risqué…then can I?”

I am grateful for my freedom…feels just right…if indeed, I am free?

In the segment, “The Bridge to the Real World…” Jesus tells me that “Love is freedom!”

(first person){{{And for me to look for it by placing myself in bondage is to separate myself from it. For the Love of God, no longer seek for union in separation, nor for freedom in bondage! As I release, so will I be released. Forget this not, or Love will be unable to find me and comfort me.

There is a way in which the Holy Spirit asks my help, if I would have His. The holy instant is His most helpful aid in protecting me from the attraction of guilt, the real lure in the special relationship. I do not recognize that this is its real appeal, for the ego has taught me that freedom lies in it/guilt. Yet the closer I look at the special relationship, the more apparent it becomes that it must foster guilt and therefore must imprison.}}}

Me? I reckoned that I was guilty of placing my crap onto Hank, rather than Holy Spirit to undo for me. I decided to forgive me for doing just that…in the meantime, Hank appears scared to death of me…or as I perceive his fear appearing antics, am I as scared of me as he appears to be? If so, this is illuminating to me. Jesus said that, “Love is freedom…” and will I be free when I love Hank and me like God loves us?

The closer that I observe Hank in relation to me…it is apparent that I am guilty of not loving me like God does, or I could not want prison for Hank and that prison would include me. It is with deep Compassion that I observe us both in action…and we will both be free…rell


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Fri Grats...Chap 14...Teaching the Truth...

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I am grateful today that the holidays are one day closer…

I am grateful for the drive to SEMo to be in the warm embrace with some cousins.

I am grateful for having dinner last night with some old old friends…I had not seen some of them for many years.

I am grateful that my life style is getting more and more simpler. My Cmas decorations is 6 lights in the front windows and huge red plastic bows tied on the mailbox and on a few things out front. Ho-ho-ho…

I am grateful for the course that offers me a peaceful outlook to this simpler life…and I am delighted to open Chap 14 “Teaching the Truth…”

{{{Seg 2, “The Happy Learner,” prg 6…If I am to be a happy learner, I must give everything I have egoishly learned to the Holy Spirit, to be unlearned for me. And then I will begin to learn the joyous lessons that come quickly on the firm foundation that truth is true.

All this lies in the Holy Spirit's plan to free me from the past, and open up the way to freedom for me. For truth is true.}}}

Me? The Holy Spirit has joyously taken enough of my crap from me to unlearn that I now know that I am an Infinite Being subject only to what I hold in mind. Now when H S is out of work with my stuff and nothing more to be unlearned, I will know that truth is true…smiling simple rell


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Mon grats, 12/7/41 ponderings & this present warring stuff...

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A pondering from yesterday, December 7...I remember just exactly where I was when I heard the news about Pearl Harbor. I was setting in front of one of those round top Philco radios. I was never grateful to hear of war… then, or today. I said away back then, “There has got to be a better way.” I still believe it.

Ya, know, didn’t Bush ever realize that the length of the negotiations and what ever killings and what ever destruction would take place during these negotiations would be far less than what they entail today? Wouldn’t he? I am not grateful for enduring what is going on when I feel other options are looming us straight in the eyes just as accurately as the missiles and gunshots. Surely the elected brilliant minds could pool their wisdom? If they are not this brilliant, why are they voted into office for?

Now, down to what I am grateful for. I am grateful for a spiritual path that teaches me inner peace in here even if there is strife out there…somewhere?

I am grateful for miracles…, which a miracle is a change in perception in how we see any invasion…yes, rell, even as to seeing any invasion as an illusory invasion? Back to the drawing board for me…yeah as a Compassionate person… who is still attempting to cut out the lower self condemnation.

Me? That’s right here real close to home…me…I am grateful that the Hanks in my life are showing me to turn the other grateful cheek. Just because I’ve decided to see him differently, does not mean he is willing…and it is only me that counts in seeing this miracle unraveling…I can. My option for me, is to continue my sprint to Holy Spirit with any remaining projections…and look at this as a relationship in progress…In Holy Spirit’s timing…it will be a Holy Instant!

I am feeling closer to the purification that I sought… Thanks Holy Spirit! …You are doing a Great Job!

…rell



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Sunday Morning Grats...Investing in Miracles...

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I am grateful that I willing to invest in mircles!!!!!!!!

I am grateful this morning that my back yard has become God’s largest dining room for the birds. It seems as though there is food galore out there for them. This was a flock of sparrows and now a flock of starlings. It is a carpet of bird and it truly is: “that birds of a feather flock together.” I know the feeling. Gulf Shores is beckoning me again this year. And yes, that is one great big piece of the country where a flock of “Snow Birds” flock together for the winter months.

I look out and a beautiful single little red bird knows where he has it good and I am grateful…and now a blue jay!

I am grateful for my widowed friends whom I dine with on Friday. They went on to see the movie, “Samurai.” I could not bear to see another movie with any sort of struggle in it.

I saw my video, “Far From Heaven.” It did a good job of revealing a gay husband’s indifferences to a nieve-unsuspecting wife…and what they both were going through.

I have dealt with this more than once in my career with wives wanting to learn how to communicate whereby gay husbands will cease ignoring them…wanting only their love. Their Denial System is overwhelmingly resilient to even peek at the facts and/or vs their complaints. Yes, it is sad that this surfaces within any marriage, but it is not meant as a personal assault on the partners.

I wonder what I will open in ACIM? Answer:

W B lesson 46: “God is the love in which I forgive.”

“God does not forgive because He has never condemned.”

“And there must be condemnation before forgiveness is necessary. It is the great need of this world. As I condemn only myself, so do I forgive only myself.

Yet although God does not forgive, His Love is nevertheless the basis of forgiveness. Fear condemns and love forgives. Forgiveness thus undoes what fear has produced, returning the mind to the awareness of God.

God is the Love in which I forgive you, [rell].”

Me? My intact Denial System? I am grateful that God’s love is the basis for my forgiveness. Seems that I am making no headway with Hank, but I am me, as it is only me that I forgive. It is interesting to observe his resistance. Suppose Hank’s D S is protecting him from something? And what about me? Do I think that I have a need for as much protection?

I know that before pre-course, I knew nothing about loving me as God does. I know that to love me as God does has opened the doors for much more Compassion and it is this available Compassion that has softened my attitude towards the Hanks, the Marys, the etcs. This change in my perception is unmeasureable to my resistance to finally want to love me…without condemnation.

I’m grateful that I became willing to forgive my stuff that Hank was showing me. My denial system was in overload re: him/me?…regretfully so, but it is this change in my perception that is truly a miracle…rell



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Thurs Grats and Hawkins on Acim Principle #7...

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I continue to be grateful for the other Hawkins in “I”…telling me, “The growing soul consistently learns to surrender poor choices and choose wiser ones. The choices are made repeatedly and the working out of our fate is through these decisions and options…until our more mature spirit reaches for the certainty that it is going in the direction of purification.

“The evolving spirit then moves closer and closer to God.
Spiritual purification may seem difficult, but eventually, it becomes natural.”

In ACIM, principle #7 is: “Miracles are everyone’s right but purification is necessary first.”

And both of us Hawkinses will continue to avow that to consistently choose love, peace, or forgiveness leads one out of the house of mirrors. The joy of God is so exquisite that giving up any of our “owned crap” to Holy Spirit to undo the consequences is well worth the effort and seeming pain! (I don’t like admitting my dislikes for Hank?) But it does become joyous!

I am grateful for Hawkins for letting me see these statements in writing…{{{the inner ‘high’ of (‘denied’ my word) righteous indignation of hating enemies, turns out to be disappointing in hollow illusory victory. The more mature spiritual aspirant is one who has explored the ego’s options and false promises of happiness.}}}

I am grateful for all the finalized healed relationships as I look back over both shoulders. If “onlyIda” meaning if only I had done this sooner, how much more peace would I have found? I have sought peace, but I needed to get more honester. Is that a word?

Me? I am grateful for the course and Hawkins, as it was where I ran into the possibility for peace to abound in my life. Continuing right along with mending more relationships that are still in progress. Just like me, I’m a humanbeing still in progress…or one of my paintings, a work of art in progress…but endearingly, this cyberfamily is meaningful to me as a family in progress...and I remain vertical...rell


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Wed Grats...WB lesson 231"Father, I will but to remember you."

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I am grateful as always for our patty…even as healthy as I am, I’d just love for her to be my caretaker and love me like she loves those “Clients.” I love how their capital “C” places them in relation to the Truth that they’ve been born to be…and she knows it and shares it. Yes, this is beauty and love in its purest form.

I am grateful for any insight that I have to life in general and how I am willing to “go for it!”

I am grateful to be corresponding by e-m with a niece who is dealing with hubby’s terminal pancreatic cancer. I often wondered how she had ever made it/survived? Her father is the one sib that our mother seemed to excessively mother. She tended to pity him…he was fat/pudgy, ugly/homely, and a lazy conniving manipulating annoying sib. The rest of us agreed that we were very lucky not to be loved like him.

He married Vera, a rather passive and pregnant lovely young woman. Ellie was a beautiful black eyed baby girl. Somehow she survived it all. About 7 years later a son was born…he was designated to be Vera’s own little boy. And history/herstory repeated itself. The story changed when 7 years later another child was born and this baby became my sib’s own son to raise. Both the parents and the sons were ever at odds. ITMt, no one ever raised Ellie.

These e-mails from Ellie are now revealing who raised and nurtured her…my Mom…

I am very grateful for this awareness. Even though, we felt like Mom flunked on smother loving “King” Rex, (Rex is real name) we were grateful for what we got from her nurturing, to say the least. The picture was, need I repeat the paint job? …’Twas the height of depression, 8 very young offspring to feed, school, and keep warm and healthy…and some how she and dad did it. {{{There must have been a Power Greater than them…}}} and I must have been willing to find it, too…LOL?

I am grateful to Ellie as she unravels her story to me…sorta like a second hand nurturance…?

Is it interesting that I go to this WB lesson 231? “Father, I will but to remember You.” Which says:

What can I seek for, Father, but Your Love? Perhaps I think I seek for something else; a something I have called by many names. Yet is Your Love the only thing I seek, or ever sought. For there is nothing else that I could ever really want to find. Let me remember You. What else could I desire but the truth about myself?

Jesus is telling us: “This is your will, my brothers. And you share this will with me, and with the One as well Who is our Father. To remember Him is Heaven. This we seek. And only this is what it will be given us to find.”

Me? All of this, patty, Ellie, Mom, “King” Rex…really makes me think about how the course tells us that we have always been loved by God, that we’ve never been separate from His Love, and somehow we somehow innately knew this and yearned for it…yeah, staying vertical…rell


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Mon Grats ...Realizing the Power in Gratitudes and Grace.

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I am grateful to be opening a new page for Dec. Gratitude’s. Doing these pages has changed a lot of things in my life. Both Emmet Fox and Jesus convinced me that if I would bring a feeling level into each of my gratefulness', that this is where my power would be...in the feelings. Now power and grace are both here for me.


Congratulations to you patty, who said: “Today I am grateful I caught myself dialoguing {{{I am so exhausted}}} then to remind myself {{{I am so energized.}}}” I love it!

{{{{patty, }}} Seems like our 2 minds are teamed up out there in these M-Fields. All the month of November, first thing I do/did of a morning is quote the other Hawkins, who tries to tell us that "We are subject only to what we hold in mind."

And this is mine…”I am subject only to what I hold in mind. I hold for rapid energy, rapid memory, and clearer vision…plus, holding and seeing myself with excellent health.” I reach over and write this before I go after that first cuppa C.

I am grateful to be getting to the bottom of some of my pitching. I am amused at so many of my writings…they are evidently very spiritual…and me, I didn’t know that I was. My first awareness of any spirituality came after age 50, when I was ready to be inducted into the 12- Steps of it all. So these pre-50ish age writings are amazing to me.

Here is one:

WANDERING AROUND by: Rella W. Hawkins (12/72)


It seems that I am never where I want to be

Unless I go out there in imagery

Seating myself at His Knee

And know that I am one with Thee...




Like mirror mirror on His Face

Then Is when I realize Grace

There are lines of Life that I like to trace

As I set next to His Holy Place.
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Me? This is very hard for me to take in considering how hard my heart had become. But I am grateful to know that the course tells us we have “it” even if we never find scraps of paper from our past to verify “it.” Always vertical? rell


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Sun gratefulness...lesson 37, is this a MMOB lesson?

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Is this a MYOB lesson? Mind My Own Business?

I am grateful this morning for finding answers to a bunch of my questions. They tend to come in from many directions. Tonight a dear friend wanted to come see me and go for her walk. Seems she was unawares of answering several things on my mind…and some she was.

I am grateful for getting my new fake oriental carpet for my kitchen. It is so colorful and looks so good with the other surrounding rooms. Getting beyond the obstacles to the final purchase was not a simple task, but it was a simple task to lay it down.

I am grateful to open ACIM to lesson 37, “My holiness blesses the world.”

“This idea contains the first glimmerings of my true function in the world, or why I am here. My purpose is to see the world through my own holiness. The world and I are blessed together. No one loses; nothing is taken away from anyone; everyone gains through my holy vision. It signifies the end of sacrifice because it offers everyone his full due. And he is entitled to everything because it is his birthright as a Son of God.

There is no other way in which the idea of sacrifice can be removed from the world's thinking. Any other way of seeing will inevitably demand payment of someone or something. As a result, the perceiver will lose. Nor will he have any idea why he is losing. Yet is his wholeness restored to his awareness through my vision of my holiness. My holiness blesses him by asking nothing of him. Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.

My holiness is the salvation of the world. It lets me teach the world that it is one with me, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by my quiet recognition that in my holiness are all things blessed along with me."

Me? I’m here to tell you, that having been a teacher, I sure thought that I had to use my mouth to go out and preach this wonderful message. Yeah, I got me into deep water with enough people that I knew there had to be a better way…then...in this lesson… I was able to see how I was not to open my mouth…but to just let my actions come through. This lesson is loud and clear:

{{{{{ Jesus is saying, “rell’s holiness is the salvation of the world. It lets her teach the world that it is one with us, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by rell’s quiet recognition that in her holiness are all things blessed along with her.” }}}}}

{{{{{ Jesus also says: “Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.” }}}}}

So for me? I do not want to demand that anyone change anything, like their actions? …I want to be able and willing to love them just like they are…and some how I will do this…by remaining and accepting vertical mindedness only for me…

Is this called MMOB? rell


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Sat's Grats! Chap 12, illusory saturation and the real world

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I am grateful for family and friends that I love and who love me.

I am grateful to be with friends last night for dinner and on to a movie…which was “The Missing.” It is really hard on me to see movies of this sort. Seems like it is too hard work for my own beingness to see the torture, killings, and greediness, etc. I still have not finished “Hannibal” and may not…but I haven’t finished seeing “Signs,” either.

I’ve opened ACIM to Chap 12, Jesus is encouraging me here with his words...in Seg III, prgs 7 – 8 with:

“rell, if only the loving thoughts of God's Son are the world's reality, the real world must be in his mind.

His insane thoughts, too, must be in his mind, but an internal conflict of this magnitude he cannot tolerate.

A split mind is endangered, and the recognition that it encompasses completely opposed thoughts within itself is intolerable.

Therefore the mind projects the split, not the reality.

rell, everything you perceive as the outside world is merely your attempt to maintain your ego identification, for everyone believes that identification is salvation.

Yet consider what has happened, for thoughts do have consequences to the thinker.”

Me? Thanks, Elder Bro for this explanation. I can use it! So, is this what is happening with my mind when I see a terror filled movie such as “The Missing?” Have I left enough of the ego world behind so that when it is illusoryly saturated and beaten down for 2 hours it goes on overload? Is it up to Holy Spirit and me once again to regain and re-compose my mind back to where it was with God before I can peacefully move on? Whe-e-e-e-e-e! (deep breath and slow blowing out!)

So thanks much cyberfamily, for my place here…for encouraging my mind to re-claim it’s verticalness as soon as possible. I think that I will stay with “Elf,” “Radio,” and “Bringing Down the House…” sorts of movies…rell

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Fri Gratitudes...Gentle Elder Bro and thorns...

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I am grateful feasting is over and the onslaught of a Holiday Gift Buying rush is in Full Bloom…I grin. I tend to buy things when I see them for my friends and family all year long. I used to misplace them…but now I have one closet where all gifts are stashed. If only I could get so organized in all of my affairs…

I love it…just opened the course to: Chap 31, The Final Vision …5th segment, “(lower)self-concept versus Higher Self”

Jesus is trying to tell me that I made my lower self-concept. And it bears no likeness to my true self at all. It is an idol, made to take the place of my reality as the Son of God

He continues: “The reason why this concept must be kept in darkness is that, in the light, you, rell, would not think it true. And what would happen to the (ego) world you see, if all its underpinnings were removed? rell, your concept of the ego world depends upon this concept of your lower self. And both would go, if either one were ever raised to doubt. The Holy Spirit does not seek to throw you into panic. So He merely asks if just a “little” question might be raised.”

Me? A “little” question? To me this is a BIGGIE! I really had a lot of rage to deal with when I learned about this. Jesus tries to be just as gentle as he tells us that a slight twinge of annoyance is no more than a veil drawn over intense fury. (Lesson 21)

I try to take in what Elder Bro Jesus wants me to know. Rage no longer scares me. (I work with men and women who batter…) I do know that if and when mine surfaces, I’ll go to Holy Spirit…it does, and I do…becoming free of another one.

I look forward to running into Hank again next Tuesday…it was rage that I felt towards him, but it was my own. (Mind you now, this sort of rage is always socially intact.) Since I became willing to see him differently, I have. I mean that I am seeing me differently! Yes, I never thought that I’d say it, but I am grateful for Hank, he was like a little thorn in my mind?…rell


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T-Day Grats...a page from the other Hawkins book, "The Eye of the I."

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I am grateful for this day in which to ponder being thankful.
I am grateful for all the things for which I am Thankful. I am so thankful for the other Hawkins…

Copied & Pasted is the copy of a page from Hawkins’ book, “The Eye of The I…” a page where he claims it is possible to get beyond The 12-Steps of Alcoholism…verifying that one wont do it unless they are embarking upon a Higher Consciousness with their mind. I love this page. Here is why!

Page 315 of “The Eye of The ‘I’ ” by David Hawkins, MD

There was a group of people who came at one time to the clinic to learn about kinesiology and, surprisingly, none of the reliable negative stimuli had any affect on them and they tested out to be immune to external negativity. Upon questioning, it was revealed that they were all spiritual aspirants and students who, in this particular case, had studied a spiritual course of instruction called A Course in Miracles. This discovery was important and led to a further investigation in which students who intended to do the one-year A Course in Miracles workbook were tested before starting the course and serially thereafter. By the time the students were up to about Lesson 75) they had lost their vulnerability to negative stimuli. (A Course in Miracles is based on the power of forgiveness.) This enables the replacement of the ego's perception and its dualistic positionality with truth which replaces falsehood. The critical lesson in A Course in Miracles where the student showed this shift is ‘I am only subject to what I hold in mind'. However, for this lesson to become absorbed, the preceding seventy-four lessons had to be taken daily and sequentially as prescribed. (A Course in Miracles calibrates at 600.) Another interesting observation of spiritual power is accorded by a study of the spiritual organization of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which has an overall organizational energy field of 540 (Unconditional Love). It is a common observation that so long as the recovering person remains within the influence of that powerful energy field, they remain sober, and when they decide they are going to 'go it on their own' and leave AA, they relapse quickly. Thus, unless a participant's personal level of consciousness rises to 540 or above, their recovery depends on the spiritual power of the group itself. It is comparable to iron filings being held within a powerful electromagnetic field.

Me? I love this page. I love so many things…I love all of you. rell



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Wed Grats...Power vs Forde: Levels of Consciousness

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What is the difference between Thankfulness and gratefulness? Ya know, I don’t need to know…but tomorrow is Thankful Day!

I am grateful today for the beautiful sunshine that appears to be everywhere. One glorious day! I already miss all those green fluffy leaves flipping off in the breeze. Those trees are so bare.

I am grateful for health, energy, memory and clear vision. I feel very fortunate to be blessed with all of this.

I am grateful for the awareness of a Higher Consciousness that captures my mind. And for Dr. David Hawkins who shares that “I am subject only to what I hold in mind,” and who has taken ACIM beyond the 12-Steps on into our Levels of Consciousness through the kinesologic method of measurement.

Me? The awareness of the probable cut off levels of consciousness within a human being, which may flexibly be observed?…offers me another level of Compassion when dealing with those I love and care about. It does not take hearing very many statements of refusing one’s responsibility and then to place blame on another; it does not take hearing many statements of negative projection to understand the Law of Attraction seeking them; and it does not take many statements of owning victim-hood as something bad as always happening to them. What this does do…it clicks in my Compassion to love them regardless of how much they place faults and blames on others. Yes, I am aware that they have choices but they do not think they have, and they do not want to hear about them.

My career has involved overcoming addictions within individuals who seek help. The addiction mentioned above is known as the “Addiction to Being Miserable.”

I am grateful there is recovery for those who seek it. I am grateful to be able to share skills and to walk them through whatever it takes. I am grateful to feel Compassion for the reluctant. Yes, in many cases there is a better way and yes, some are willing to find it. I am grateful to have come by this Peacefulness and Calm within me and for this cyberfamily’s encouragement for this freedom…rell



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Tues Grats...more with Chap 23, "The War Against Yourself."

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I am grateful for a busy day yesterday…it was Bonnie’s Day Out at Olive Garden and then to a movie. After the successful mending of the Bonnie relationship…I’ve decided to go for all that I can think of. Hank S. (notice the initials? just like Holy Spirits?) We were at the same places both Fri and Sat. I did not feel attacked nor could I even consider thinking attack thoughts. I felt light. This amazes me…with me. Do you suppose that I held grievances to keep me from loving me like God loves me? I was seeing in him what I needed to look at in me and seek Holy spirit…what I saw came in loud and clear… yeah!

No one is strong who has an enemy, and no one can attack unless he thinks he has. Was it Charlie Brown who said “The enemy is his’en,” contraction for “his own/my own?”

Chap 23: in the first segment: “The Irreconcilable Beliefs” Jesus is telling me…

“The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. It cannot come where there is conflict, for a mind at war against itself, (his’en) remembers not eternal gentleness. The means of war are not the means of peace, and what the warlike would remember is not love. War is impossible unless belief in victory is cherished. Conflict within you, rell, must imply that you believe the ego has the power to be victorious. Why else would you identify with it? Surely you realize the ego is at war with God. Certain it is it has no enemy. Yet just as certain is its fixed belief it has an enemy that it must overcome and will succeed.”

And I, rell, regretfully did all this? Yes.

Jesus continues: “Do you not realize a war against yourself would be a war on God? Is victory conceivable? And if it were, is this a victory that you would want? The ego always marches to defeat, because it thinks that triumph over you is possible. And God thinks otherwise. This is no war; only the mad belief the Will of God can be attacked and overthrown.”

Me? And what did I know? Well, I’ve had a lot to learn and I am still learning. I find Compassion is so handy at times like these awareness’. Compassion with Self.

To think that I must’ve enjoyed still thinking I could outdo God by attack or feeling attacked. I must’ve been really ready to see the yuck in me as “their/his’en” stuff just so long…now I’m willing to seek Holy Spirit to undo the consequences of these wrong decisions…in this H S is really doing a good job …I feel light!…rell



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Sunday grats...Chap 23: "The War Against Yourself."

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I am grateful again today that my lifestyle maintains Peacefulness and Calm. I wonder how long ago my investment in P&C commenced to be desirous of this and then to come by it? Could it have been long ago when I first read “Lost Horizons?”

I am still grateful for reading that book as a child and believing in a Shangri-La. Each phase of my life has always been better that that past existence. I’m not claiming any Utopias, but to that skinny scrawny kid reading that book…it did offer hope. To that skinny scrawny kid my present existence would appear Utopiac!

I am grateful for opening ACIM to Introduction of Chap 23. "War Against (ego)Myself," Jesus is trying to tell me, rell:

“rell, Do you not see the opposite of frailty and weakness is sinlessness? Innocence is strength, and nothing else is strong. The sinless cannot fear, for sin of any kind is weakness. The show of strength attack would use to cover frailty conceals it not, for how can the unreal be hidden? No one is strong who has an enemy, and no one can attack unless he thinks he has. Belief in enemies is therefore the belief in weakness, and what is weak is not the Will of God. Being opposed to it, it is God's "enemy." And, rell, fearing God is an opposing will.

“Walk in glory, rell, with your head held high, and fear no evil. The innocent are safe because they share your innocence. Nothing they see is harmful, for their awareness of the truth releases everything from the illusion of harmfulness. And what seemed harmful now stands shining in your innocence, released from sin and fear and happily returned to love.”

Me? Don’t you just love segments like this in ACIM? Up until I was age 50, I attacked God…big time! In ACIM I learned that to attack is a call for love. Don’t you know God sure did have to love me a lot to finally get through to me for me to know that mine and ego’s warring was merely an illusion? And to think that I went straight to the Top seeking love? Don’t you know how grateful I am each day for Helen to scribe and Bill to type… just being there for Jesus…as was Bill and Bob, the 2 drunks who received the 12-Steps of Alcoholism?

To me it is very interesting to Realize the ego is nothing. I, as rell, in this physical body is illusory, and that rell, this Child of God is eternal? Don’t you know that I am grateful?…I am just as grateful as our patty, to be a part of this Cyberfamily to remind me to be vertical...rell


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Fri Grats...Course: "The Decision To Forget."

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I am grateful for the very quite day yesterday. I did not leave this house and probably wont today until time to go to dinner and a movie.

I opened the course this morning to the segment “The Decision to Forget.” Chap 10. Jesus is telling me to:

“Offer the Holy Spirit only my willingness to remember, for He retains the knowledge of God and of myself for me, waiting for my acceptance. Give up gladly everything that would stand in the way of my remembering, for God is in my memory. His Voice will tell me that I am part of Him when I am willing to remember Him and know my own reality again. Let nothing in this (ego) world delay my remembering of Him, for in this remembering is the knowledge of my Higher Self.

Me? There were certain segments that really got to me the first time I read this course, and this segment still does.

One of the things I’m feeling about this age bracket is memory failure. Kruuuuuuuxxx! It goes like this...if I could remember to ask Holy Spirit to remember for me, I wouldn’t need to ask Holy Spirit, and I resent having to ask about this sulggish memory! But I will.

I would really like to remember what all I have forgotten, or would I? The course has reminded me that I am an Infinite Being and subject only to what I hold in mind, and therefore I hold that I have “rapid memory.”

I am grateful to have come as far as I have in my Higher Consciousness and this gratitude page has been a huge assistant to staying vertically minded and wanting more…rell


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Celebration is over...No more. And I am grateful for all things....

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I'am grateful for the changes that have happened to me over this past year with recognizing the feeling level of each gratitude and writing and posting these gratitude lists.

I've made unheard of strides in several relationships. It seems what I had found in me to be grateful for, also showed up big time with those I didn't want to be close to. Seems that I no longer see things to aggrivate me or irritate me in those I chose to be annoyed with.

The course said that recognizing our own merits of gratefulness, plus allowing the feeling level of each gratitude to be recognized and felt, too...would increace the appreciation of Self. I see this excercise as increacing my appreciation, not only of myself, but I began valuing Others on a much deeper level.

Thanks Christopher!

I am grateful to have given birth to a beautiful daughter who is 54 today…what a joy she is…our b/ds were 2 days apart. My other daughter is 43…also a joy…

I wrote a line once, it said, “I just love little girls, they make the neatest women.”

Some of my best friends are women…My tennis budd is Mary who sent me this card…I do believe it tops them all; for cute and clever…it goes:

Hey, cutie!
Hey, sweetie!
Hey, shrine--
worthy goddess
of unequaled
coolness,
crown princess of
stunning yet
approachable perfection,
high priestess of unbearably
enviable youthful gorgeousness!

And lo...you thought that you were just the birthday girl.
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As for me getting pleasure out of a birthday, I do believe this one topped the cake. I have been so-called wined, dined, lunched, movied, neighbored, visited, gifted with great gifts…this has been one wonderful week of birthday wishes, with friends and family…I am very moved. If only Ida known lda got all of this attention, Ida got older a long time ago. I know that I am very grateful, but I am sorta speechless…but

Hey cyberfamily!
hey spiritual gods and goddesses
of unequaled beauty,
on caring and concerned ,
of running above coolness,
oh so approachable
are all of you.
Your depth of compassion
touches my soul…
I will love all of you always…

Yeah, I enjoy mosts all things and I do have fun!

And...Yeah, I’m grateful…rell



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Wed Grats...Grateful for life's experiences...

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I am grateful for Janet, a friend indeed of many years. She has been a wonderful dependable friend and I love it how her friendship has been of the nurturing sort. Always there for me like Jesus, doing unconditional loves sorts of things for me… when I moved, she was there, and endless other caring sharing.

We spent my birthday together yesterday, starting out with our first pedicure and off to lunch, back here for cranberry cake topped with my own cooked cranberries. I was so glad that I made that cake, because I felt just like Piglet with each birthday visitor and wishes, we would set and eat a great big wallop of it and grin.

Our widowed group had a turkey dinner last evening. As we were leaving someone remarked, “rell, I sure hope that you’ve had a wonderful birthday!” I replied, “Thanks, but I still have 3 more hours.”

Reverently speaking, and most of all, I am grateful for my health, friends, for family, and for the joys in my life. Seems I am reverently grateful for this cyberfamily where I can attempt to share the events of vertical mindedness of enlightenment that delights my lifestyle while still in this physical…rell



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Mon grats...Meaning and Reason, WB #44...God is the Mind in which I think...

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I am grateful this morning for an undisturbed full night’s sleep.

I am grateful for a whole day of Freedom.

I am grateful for being touched by so many beautiful truthful souls...patty's posts, and Jennifer posting Freeman’s poem, “I am there,” so touching. The first time I read that sonnet I went boneless. I do hope that some one recorded your father’s performance. I’m not too sure I had any understanding of God back then, but I truly understood what Freeman wrote. I still don’t always know about “Truths” in my life…but I know that I am open.

Dr, David Hawkins maintains only the integrous have access to the Truth. I often wonder why I don’t know Truths are Truths” I feel truth...but seems I don’t know it, or, then, do I?

I opened ACIM to lesson #45: “God is the Mind with which I think.” (I study in first person)

Today's idea holds the key to what my real thoughts are. They are nothing that I think I think, just as nothing that I think I see is related to vision in any way. There is no relationship between what is real and what I think is real. Nothing that I think is my real thoughts resembles my real thoughts in any respect. Nothing that I think I see bears any resemblance to what vision will show me.

Jesus is trying his best to convince me that:

I think with the Mind of God. Therefore I share my (real) thoughts with Him, as He shares His with me. They are the same (real) thoughts, because they are thought by the same Mind. To share is to make alike, or to make one. Nor do the (real) thoughts I think with the Mind of God leave my mind, because (real) thoughts do not leave their source. Therefore, my (real) thoughts are in the Mind of God, as I am. They are in my mind as well, where He is. As I am part of His Mind, so is my (real) thoughts part of His Mind.

Where, then, are my real thoughts?

Jesus says we will attempt to reach them. We will have to look for them in my mind, because that is where they are. They must still be there, because they cannot have left their source. What is thought by the Mind of God is eternal, being part of creation.

Me? Can any of you possibly imagine what went on in my mind when I read this the first time…and I didn’t even know Jesus was part of this material? I just thought who ever wrote this sure knew something that I’d never heard of before…but remember, I maintain that I am open?

I really centered with this line: “Ideas never leave their source!” This was the most comforting line I’d ever read. I had not been in a 12-Step Program very long, and had just learned there was a Power Greater than I…and gratefully had come to terms with that.

Now I’m learning “ideas never leave their source?” I think that this is when I first decided that perhaps I could have been an Idea of God’s that I had never left It's Source. It sure made a lot more sense than being an idea of Guy and Flossie’s…they were good enough at parenting, but not in planning. I had become the 5th of 8, in 1927 at the height of the Great Depression?

Victor Frankl in “Man’s Search for Meaning” helped me acquire Meaning for my life, now ACIM comes along and gives me Reason. I thought, nothing can stop me now, but me…and I felt like I was a roll…Then I learned about Higher Consciousness …definitely not from my friends, but from books.

I loved the message in “Jonathan Livingston Seagull.” Both Bach and Frankl were before course.

I’m rambling…I’m grateful…what more can I say?…rell



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