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In Episode 84, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way” by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 11) CHAP. 11 – The New Horizon: The Practitioner’s chapter; Universal mesmerism; harmony or discordant conditions - the entire human scene is a mesmeric suggestion, dream pictures having no reality or permanence; Does this world exist?; Above the sense life, there is a universe of Spirit; Feeling alienated, like strangers in a strange land; Fully immersed in the ‘game’ or ‘movie’... we have our experience; Shoot the screen or re-shoot the movie; Don Miguel Ruiz, ‘the domestication of the planet’, this mesmerism; Walking out of the darkened room - the allegory of Plato’s Cave; Why settle for shadows on the wall of the cave?; In proportion as our thought dwells on God - the greater the freedom from limitation; Ascension - rising above the experiences and conditions of this world; Meister Eckhart, “The Way of Paradox”; Breaking through consciousness; Grace

In Episode 83, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way” by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 11) CHAP. 11 – The New Horizon: The Practitioner’s chapter; Universal mesmerism; harmony or discordant conditions - the entire human scene is a mesmeric suggestion, dream pictures having no reality or permanence; Does this world exist?; Above the sense life, there is a universe of Spirit; Feeling alienated, like strangers in a strange land; Fully immersed in the ‘game’ or ‘movie’... we have our experience; Shoot the screen or re-shoot the movie; Don Miguel Ruiz, ‘the domestication of the planet’, this mesmerism; Walking out of the darkened room - the allegory of Plato’s Cave; Why settle for shadows on the wall of the cave?; In proportion as our thought dwells on God - the greater the freedom from limitation; Ascension - rising above the experiences and conditions of this world; Meister Eckhart, “The Way of Paradox”; Breaking through consciousness; Grace

EP082 Show Notes In Episode 82, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way” by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 9) CHAP. 9 - SUPPLY: Supply is not the orange on the tree, it is the infinite invisible behind; Individual consciousness - the Law of Supply unto you; Law is the activity of manifestation; If I believe in little, I receive little; Everything begins with an initiated idea (beginning of train of causation); Order is heaven’s first law - demand upon supply; “The law in these here parts”; I can’t be contemplating lack and manifesting abundance; the law is YES (prayerful consent); Cultivating the awareness of the presence of God; Don’t have to say what it (the manifestation unfolding) will look like; Being ‘unselfed’; Prayer and Meditation to come into fullness of our supply; The highest altitude of consciousness that I can manage; Is this selfish or is this a blessing to the world?; What is ‘trending’ in my consciousness and life right now?

In Episode 81, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way” by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 8). CHAP. 8 - Metaphysical Healing: Definition of healing - ‘healing is remembering who I am’; Healings are always in proportion to our understanding; “In proportion” to…; The “God” word, the “I Am” concepts as constraints - letting loose of concepts, to grasp a ‘healing consciousness’; Be in the verb rather than the concept, in the activity of “is”ness, attune to the mystery of life unfolding; Anchoring to concepts, or drifting in the “Is”ness; Creating an ‘interim’ God that we can relate to, releasing old ‘concept’ of God; Collapsing duality - the idea that God and I are separate; Being still -- not running after thoughts; Consent - saying ‘yes’ to the ‘is’ness; Centering prayer, contemplative prayer; Stone in a river - the stone is still even as the water moves; Giving myself permission to keep collapsing my idea of God; Releasing in order for ‘what

In Episode 80, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way” by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 7). CHAP. 7 - Prayer: Prayer and meditation, chorus and verse of the same song; Nature of prayer, scientific prayer; Not penitent or beseeching a God ‘out there’, but praying to, from, through and AS God; the ‘Altitude’ of prayer - God in me, as me, is me; Affirming Truth, aligning human mind with higher mind; Prayer as a tool to bring us back to our Self; Centering prayer, Contemplative Outreach Chicago, mystical roots of prayer and meditation; Father Thomas Keeting; Consenting, choosing a sacred word or breath, allowing the Spirit; Gently return to your sacred word; ‘10,000 opportunities to return back to God’; Prayer is a discipline, a choice, intentional; Working with a tool makes you more adept with that tool; Moving into a ‘unitive’ consciousness and a sense of ‘being One’; Practicing Prayer so that ultimately false idea of self ‘gets out of the wa

In Episode 79, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way” by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 6). CHAP. 6 continued (“Meditation”): The promised land of peace; “What must we do to be saved from the ills and terrors of these present days?”; Let, let, let; Outer world conforming to the inner world of truth; Joel Goldsmith, Marine in the context of WWI and WWII; How to pray for your enemies; We all have our human experience and allowing it to inform how we chose to express in the world; Being in the world but not of it; Prayer is not an activity of the human mind; knowing God through the “Soul Faculties”; Prayer and Meditation - are they the same?; To ruminate and cogitate; Prayer and Meditation - just different movements of the same song; Different experience of the same song; Spiritual Mind Treatment - first step is Be still and know that I am God, and contemplate God; Step two - unification; Meditation for stilling the “Stream of Crazy Consciou

In Episode 78, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way" by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 5). CHAPTERS 5 and 6: The Soul; Hidden in plain sight; Soul Powers; Defining success - expressing your Christ consciousness wherever you are at; Soul Consciousness from continuous turning within; Siddhartha - we are not necessarily being called to be ascetics sitting under the Bodhi tree; Seeking higher path, and what we have becomes more meaningful and more blessed; True reality is Spiritual; We are consciousness fulfilling itself and finding ‘all things added unto us’; Grasping or chasing down the spiritual consciousness within me; Meditation is the key, we can’t get it intellectually; Ceaseless prayer; One conscious God-breath is the beginning of our new birth; Be still and know; Moving into the experience; One foot on the dock, one foot on the boat -- the balance of human and ‘spiritual’ experience; We Are Messengers - Maybe It’s Okay; Maybe it’s ok

In Episode 77, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way" by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 4). CHAPTER 4: Charles Fillmore, ‘the quickening’ happens within… Goldsmith says it is ‘the realization of a presence always present…”; States and Stages of Consciousness, Spiral Dynamics, Ken Wilbur; It is a state of consciousness becomes visible as a person because of the finite concept we hold of God; Moses-Leader consciousness, Isaiah - Prophet consciousness, Jesus - Saving, Grace consciousness, Paul-Preacher/Teacher consciousness; Current consciousness in government; Lacking high consciousness, I stuff it; Be gentle with your self and more toward your True Self; Even though I judged, I can step back and recognize I am not the mistaken thought and feeling - and I can change it; mistaken thought = contrary to truth of who I am; See the evolution of consciousness evolving through our history; Everything has its place and time when it is arising in co

In Episode 76, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way" by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 3). CHAPTERS 2-3: T.S. Eliot, “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time”; EGO = Edging God Out, or Expressing God Originally; Getting back to where we started in consciousness; Giving up the effort to ‘get’ and claim our true identity; Meditation as a too; Examining the ‘why’ of what we desire, what is the soul intention?; Peeling back the layers and making the gentle inner inquiry and work; Wayne Dyer, Real Magic, “Truly at the level of the absolute everything is perfect, whole, complete and included in that is your desire to do something about it”’; Soul yearning to contribute and express; Unfolding like a quilt to reveal what has been there all along; Two kinds of thought - those that separate, those that unify; Evolving into ascension consciousne

EP075 Show Notes In Episode 75, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way" by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 2). CHAPTER 1 - Letting go/Transcending the desire for an improved human good and humanhood; John van Druten, the paradox; Planted in truth; Seek first the kingdom (human condition improves as a by-product); Jesus keeps saying don’t toil…; Rubber meets the road - go back to the aspects of Good; Turn your cheek - turning away from mortal picture - the cultivation of a spiritual sense; Receiving in the heart, intuitively; Feel differently; Thoreau and ‘moving our bloated nothingness out of the way’; Mental indigestion; Letting is not being passive, it is with full participation and presence; Letting go of the lower, letting in the Higher.

In Episode 74, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “The Infinite Way” by Joel S. Goldsmith (Part 1). Introduction and biographical information: Goldsmith lived 1892-1964; Published in 1947; Forward by John Van Druten; Infinite Way is a spiritual teaching that reveals the nature of God and man; Nature of the discords of this world - a misconception of God’s expression of himself in his universe; Oprah; Eckhart Tolle inspired by Goldsmith; A New Earth, The Thunder of Silence, Living the Infinite Way, Jesus, Buddha; Metaphysics, Mysticism, Mystic; Consciousness Transformed - transcribed talks and lectures; Christian Science Practitioner; Meditation; Consciousness; Flow of Divine Mind; The Gift of Love; The definition of grace; The Heart of Mysticism; Contemplation; The experience of yourself as and in connection with Oneness; In the Presence, boundaries fall away; Crusted over with the barnacles of being human; Not a religion but an experience in spi

In Episode 73, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “Your Invisible Power” by Geneviève Behrend (Part 8 of 8). CHAP. 14 - How To Make Nature Respond to You: Working with that which is creative, and that which is amenable to our suggestion; CHAP. 15 - Faith With Works: What it has accomplished; All space if filled with the creative power; This creative power is amenable to suggestion; It can only work by deductive methods; CHAP. 16 - How to Pray, Believing You Have Already Received; Intelligent, plastic, undifferentiated substance; 5am meditation; Sonia Choquette, “Subjective mind, listen to only to my higher thoughts”; Denials; Hints for application and practice; 5 min. Study, 15 min. Application; Cultivating understanding faith; Disciplining your mind to work with the Law; CHAP. 17 - Things to Remember; A great idea is valueless unless accompanied by physical action; Eat less, drink less, blame circumstances less - all these things are about self-di

In Episode 72, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “Your Invisible Power” by Geneviève Behrend (Part 7). CHAP. 11 - How To Bring the Power of Your Word Into Action: The Power Germ, as that which germinates; seed=germ; How the power of your word into action; Thomas Troward - the mental faculties stimulated from without or within; Repetition - not re-asking, but “weeding and tending the garden"; These techniques as Affirmative Prayer. CHAP. 12 - How To Increase Your Faith: Every living this has faith - but what in?; Faith is that quality of Power which gives the Creative Energy a corresponding vitality… taking form. CHAP. 13 - The Reward of an Increased Faith; Conscious realization that you are not a victim of the universe, but a part of it; Pressing the Laws into serving your particular demand or desire; Master not slave; Reproductions of in miniature of God; No longer feeling a victim of circumstance; Endeavoring to think one thing and producing an

EP071 Show Notes In Episode 71, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “Your Invisible Power” by Geneviève Behrend (Part 6). CHAP. 8-10. Genevieve’s ‘personal testimony’; why she took up the study of mental science; Overwhelming loneliness (the hole in the soul) and those experiences that drive us inward and seeking something beyond the physical; The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science, the Dore Lectures, Thomas Troward; Uncomfortable with being alone - finding distractions; Being in the deep, quiet place; One moment meditation and opening to the within-ness; Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy; `Abdu'l-Bahá; Ernest Holmes, Science of Mind, Religious Science; Entering into the spirit of what you are reading; Making the effort - memorizing to review, and receive revelation; My mind is the center of Divine operation; My own special world of which I am the center.

EP070 Show Notes In Episode 70, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “Your Invisible Power” by Geneviève Behrend (Part 5). CHAP. 7 - Things to Remember (In Using Your Thought Power for the Production of New Conditions): Be sure of what conditions you want to produce; What is your why? Concentrating the creative action of Spirit; Objective and Subjective Mind (Iceberg); Updating the subconscious; Relax - strenuous effort defeats your purpose; You don’t have to grunt to grow; Hold your picture in a cheerful frame; What you really want is expansion - what does it matter what channel it reaches you by?; Mary Morrissey - the green balloon story; I have to let go of how [my good] is going to show up; ‘Evidentials' - tracking the manifestations; Daniel Nahmod, ‘I Learn and I Forget’; Operating from the True Self (back to the first order of business - what are you?); Labels as limitations.

EP069 Show Notes In Episode 69, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Rev. Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “Your Invisible Power” by Geneviève Behrend (Part 4). CHAP. 5: Be SURE of what it is you REALLY want and specializing your desire; Stiffening your mental backbone; Writing the sequel to Gone With the Wind; Discovering what you really want; Asking, ‘What would I prefer instead?’ CHAP. 6: Suggestions for making your mental picture; Visualization is deeper than seeing color and shape; Times to visualize; The deep consciousness beneath the surface of your own thought power; Centering and self-recognition, journaling, artistic and other exercises for visualizing.

In Episode 68, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “Your Invisible Power” by Geneviève Behrend (PART 3) Discussion: Your ‘joyous assurance’ is the very powerful magnet of faith (Chap. 2); Relation between mental and physical form (Chap. 3); Material form is needed for the self-recognition of Spirit from the Individual standpoint; Life isn’t happening to us, it’s happening through us; matter is a necessary channel through which life differentiates itself; The harder you press, the deeper the impression; thought as prototype, mind is a 3d printer; Storyboarding the movie of our lives; (Chap. 4) Operation of Your Mental Picture; Infinite substance is manifesting in me right now; Grasp (that which you are) and Grow; This is evolution…; Enthusiasm increased by keeping your desire secret; You don’t hand your new baby over to just anyone.

In Episode 67, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “Your Invisible Power” by Geneviève Behrend (Chap. 1: Order of Visualization). Discussion: Visualization - the great secret of success; "Order is heaven’s first law…" Creative Process in the Individual, Thomas Troward; Tendency of thought and activation of the Law; Choose, initiate and direct thought - and then stay the course; Cancelling out through disordered thought; Mental mind training is possible (not easy, but simple); What exactly is ‘visualization’?; If we can conceive of it, it already exists.

In Episode 66, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “Your Invisible Power” by Geneviève Behrend (Introduction). Discussion: Thomas Troward, the Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science; May the things we desire be those things which bring you joy, freedom and contentment; Be your “best” self; Just BE; Geneviève's story; Manifesting possessions - for many, the starting point; It’s not the things we seek, but the experience those things bring; Hole in the soul and don’t know where to go

In Episode 65, co-hosts Kim-Char Meredith, Sharon Dziubski and Mary Beth Speer discuss ideas presented in “Creative Mind” by Ernest Holmes (Section: Part II - Practice, Cont.). Discussion: Hating, resenting, setting YOURSELF on fire; Forgiveness; The Law has always been the same - we are growing in our understanding; to use or not use ‘denials’?; Deny the power of the condition or experience (the power is in God); Informing, conforming, reforming; Affirmation - the great weapon of the healer; Affirmations to evoke feeling and feed faith; Affirming the highest good.