Its presence
in higher amounts indicates a level of calmness. The higher the serotonin
level the more at peace you are. After several hours of intense group
meditation, the serotonin was measured again and there was a significant
increase in serotonin levels in virtually all the participants. As predicted, the
participants in this long group session of meditation were more peaceful
and calm, as measured by their increased serotonin levels. The second part of this experiment involved measuring the serotonin levels
of people in the immediate vicinity of the lar ge meditation group, who werenot doing the group meditation. Their serotonin levels were measured both
before a long group meditation and immediately following the meditation
of the entire group of several thousand people. It was discovered that
serotonin levels were significantly increased by simply being in the
immediate neighborhood of a lar ge group of people who were radiating
tranquil ener gy. The implications of this kind of scientific research are
astounding to contemplate. Just imagine, when you become more peaceful
and you practice sending out this kind of serenity silently , you have an
impact on everyone in your physical environment. On several occasions I have had the pleasure of being in the presence of
those who do this. I consider these people to be divine masters. In a little
village in Germany , I sat with 199 others in the presence of Mother Meera,
an enlightened soul, whose lifetime has been devoted to spreading peace
and love to devotees from around the world. As she held my head in her
hand, and looked into my eyes, I felt as if I was in the presence of God in an
egoless human form. I have never had such a feeling of bliss merely by
being in the same room with someone. When Mother Meera entered the
small room where two hundred people were crammed in to sit darshan for
three hours, the atmosphere of the entire room was raised to a higher level
of love and bliss by her presence. Empty of ego and af filiated with the spiritual principles of love, kindness,
surrender , peace, connectedness, for giveness, cheerfulness, and gratitude
you get closer and closer to God. When you begin to radiate spiritual
qualities you will impact the ener gy field of your immediate surroundings
more than you may have realized. Furthermore, you will keep your own
energy field less contaminated, and you will prevent conflicts and problems
from surfacing merely by your raised spiritual consciousness. Indeed, you
must keep uppermost in your mind that it is never between you and them; it
is between you and God. This fascinating world of invisible ener gy is becoming more and more
scientifically verifiable. W e refer to these particles of unseen ener gy as
pheromones and we see that in nature, even trees emit these invisible-to-
the-eye excretions. For example, when Dutch elm disease has attacked one
elm tree in a neighborhood it sends out a warning signal via thesepheromones to all the other trees in the vicinity . They then emit their own
built-in defense mechanisms to fight of f the invasive germs of the Dutch
elm disease. Similarly , animals and people have pheromones of invisible ener gy that are
emitted in moments of fear and its opposite, love. W ell-documented studies
show that animals entering a room where other animals have been
slaughtered react with spasms of apprehension and fear . So too, when
humans are in a room where torture has taken place, they feel the painful
and cruel ener gy. The pheromones of fear are in the atmosphere and they
impact the ener gy field of the environment to such an extent that it af fects
anyone who enters that space. The opposite is also true. In places where
spiritual consciousness and unconditional love are practiced, pheromones of
grace, beauty , and tenderness are emitted and remain in the environment. I have felt the pheromones when I have been in places where both these
extremes were standard practice, and I definitely felt the impact on my state
of well-being. Here are four examples from my life experience, two from
the low/slow ener gy fields of fear and two from the opposite high/fast
energy fields of love. As you read all four , remind yourself of your power to
contaminate and to illuminate the ener gy fields you work and play in every
day. Just because you can’ t see those pheromones does not mean they don’ t
exist. Environments of Fear
Amster dam, Holland  On three separate occasions I visited the home where
Anne Frank lived in fear of being captured by the Nazis during W orld W ar
II. This home, including the attic where Anne hid for several years with her
family and recorded her thoughts in her diary , is now a museum visited by
thousands of people each year . The theme of the museum is both a tribute to
the spirit of Anne Frank and a reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust. Each time I’ve visited and toured this home along the canal I have been
struck by the feeling of sadness that seems to permeate it. That feeling
remains in the pheromones of fear from the Frank family and those who
risked their lives to shield them from the prying eyes of the Nazi occupiers.Furthermore, all who visit here seem to be emitting their pheromones of
sorrowful ener gy. On my last visit, I could no longer tolerate the ener gy field in this house. I
found it extremely dif ficult to catch my breath and I was physically feeling
choked and nauseous. When I spoke with others leaving the Anne Frank
home they also reported similar experiences of feeling the slow ener gy of
sadness and literally becoming physically ill.
Robben Island, Cape T own, South Africa  When I observed Robben Island
from atop T able Mountain in Cape T own I immediately felt a strong ur ge to
visit, though I was unaware, at that moment, what the island was or
anything of its history . When I was informed that this was where Nelson
Mandela spent seventeen of his twenty-seven years incarcerated, I knew it
was a must-see for me. I made reservations to visit the following day , which
turned out to be the tenth anniversary of Mandela’ s release in 1990. My
wife elected not to take the half-day trip so I boarded the boat with my
friend Dimitri, who lives in South Africa, along with his eleven-year -old
son, Simeon. Only black political prisoners were incarcerated at Robben Island because
of the South African system of apartheid and racial separation. At that time,
black South Africans became political prisoners merely for attending some
kind of a meeting in which plans were being formulated to overthrow the
system of apartheid. Consequently , Robben Island was a place where
innocent people were forced to work all day crushing limestone in the
quarries. T oday , tourists visit and are given tours by the former inmates of
Robben Island. As I toured with Dimitri and Simeon, I saw the cell where Nelson Mandela
had lived in seclusion and forced silence. I feel that this man symbolizes the
highest example of what this book is designed to teach: that there is a
spiritual solution to every problem. Nelson Mandela’ s imprisonment forced
him into silence and in going within himself he was able to make conscious
contact with God. Silence, like God, is indivisible. When Nelson Mandela
walked out of prison in 1990 he had for giveness and reconciliation in his
heart. I believe it was the spiritual ener gy in him that transformed SouthAfrica, dismantled apartheid, and democratically elected him president. This happened with relatively little violence in contrast to the all-out war
that was projected for eliminating racial political policies. Throughout our visit on the island I felt the anguish that is in places where
injustice, torture, and fear have been practiced. When we left the island,
young Simeon turned to me, and without any prodding or conversation said,
“I felt wrong in there. Did you notice it too?” Indeed, this innocent boy
confirmed what I had been feeling all morning. An ener gy field of fear is
created where mistreatment flourishes and Simeon articulated what we both
felt. Environments of Love
Assisi, Italy  In a small village not far from Florence, a thirteenth-century
soldier was imprisoned. The son of a rich merchant, this young soldier had
been “lost” for most of his life, when suddenly he had a vision to serve God
in an unconditional way . He gave up all material possessions, ultimately
living and teaching the message of Jesus of Nazareth. This was the man
who would come to be known as Saint Francis of Assisi. Saint Francis, who experienced the wounds of Christ (the stigmata),
practiced Patanjali’ s advice, which I wrote about in chapter two, of
steadfastly abstaining from falsehood and thoughts of harming others. He
became renowned for helping many by simply being in their presence. W ild
animals and birds became tame and domesticated near him, meekly licking
his fingers and flying into his open hands. For my wife and myself, Assisi was a pilgrimage. W e went to Lower Assisi
to visit the tiny chapel that Saint Francis had prayed in every day . The
chapel still stands in its exact condition from that time. A spacious edifice
with glorious stained glass windows and an ornate ceiling surrounds it. Thousands of people mill about in this outer structure, all in Assisi to pray
and pay homage to the thirteenth-century saint. The visitors come and go
every day from all over the globe, in solemn, somber , loving tribute to this
divine being.My wife and I were escorted into the tiny chapel which once was the
spiritual meditative home of Saint Francis. W e both sat down to meditate in
this sacred place, and immediately felt the pheromones of bliss and
unconditional love entering our ener gy fields. Our tears of joy and bliss
were a response to the glorious feelings. In fact, we returned a second day
to visit again and confirm how powerful the experience had been and to be
certain that it wasn’ t just our expectations at work in that chapel. The room
radiated with unconditional love. It was in the air , so to speak. This little
chapel, inside the outer chamber surrounding it, seemed a metaphor for
ourselves. Our body is the outer protective chamber . But deep inside that
chamber is a place of perfect harmony and peace, a place to visit often and
feel the radiance that abides therein. Here in Lower Assisi is a place where Saint Francis made conscious contact
with God, and a place where millions of people have come with love and
gratitude to mill about and be in the imprint of his ener gy field. This kind of
energy leaves its mark. It remains there, invisible though it may be; it is
surely felt and experienced. Loving radiant ener gy joyously impacts the
energy field of all who enter that field. I feel the presence of Saint Francis
with me as I write this book, and I have acknowledged it in the opening
pages. Machu Picchu, Peru The Spanish went through South America performing
their version of the Holocaust, much like other European marauders
decimated Native Americans who lived in North America for thousands of
years before the arrival of invaders. No one within the gunsights of the
conquistadors was spared. Millions of people were slaughtered. The
consciousness of hatred and intolerance permeated both continents. The
history of these places, played out in every village, is the story of man’ s
inhumanity to man. The Spanish conquistadors missed nothing in spreading their terror as they
systematically killed native peoples. Those they didn’ t kill with arrows and
bullets became infected with diseases the invaders brought with them. They
found every village, with an exception here and there. Machu Picchu is one
such exception. The unwelcome visitors just missed it altogether . This
place, built thousands of years ago as a holy shrine by the native peoples,sits at the top of a remote mountain in the Andes. It went undiscovered by
anyone from the W est until 191 1. As we approached Machu Picchu, first by air , then by train, then by bus,
and finally by foot, we pondered the questions everyone asks about this
place. How did they build this thousands of years ago? How did they carry
millions of gigantic rocks up such a treacherous path, without cranes,
helicopters, and earthmovers? Who carried the rocks to the top of this
remote mountain and placed them in a terraced formation? How did they
build this tribute to their divine worship of nature thousands of years ago
when the wheel had only recently been discovered? How did the hatred that
infiltrated the countryside bypass Machu Picchu? How was it that this
remained an isolated sacred spot? My wife and four of our children spent several days walking, meditating,
observing, and breathing in the ener gy of this magnificent place. The days I
spent in Machu Picchu gave me some of the most blissful feelings of
sustained well-being that I have ever known in my life. I meditated in the
mountain shrine and felt the presence of God surrounding me. When I
lectured to the seventy or eighty people who accompanied us there, the
words did not seem to come from me. I was only a vehicle for the flowing
energy that seemed to come from elsewhere to the audience. I kept
repeating to my wife that I had never felt such a feeling of well-being in my
life. The pheromones of loving ener gy, untainted by the low ener gies of
intolerance and hatred, were distinctly present in this magnificent place
which stood unmolested over the centuries. Those lower ener gies, which
infected the surrounding territories and created fields of sorrow , will only
be eradicated with a new infusion of love, or a spiritual solution to a very
large collective problem. There you have four examples among many I could have related here in this
section. My visits to Dachau near Munich, Gettysbur g in Pennsylvania,
Alcatraz in San Francisco elicited similar feelings of low ener gy
atmospheres of suf fering. Similarly , entering the ener gy fields of the Great
Pyramids, the sacred hills of Sedona, Arizona, and the ancient holy shrines
on Bali evoked feelings of being in a higher and faster ener gy field. The
important thing here is not to give you an endless list of examples but toencourage you to awaken to the fact that ener gy is something radiated
outward that impacts for eons of time everyone who enters that space. Y ou
have the choice of making your ener gy field environment blissful by
sending out this kind of consciousness, or you can impact your environment
in nonblissful ways. When you feel that your family , social, and work environments are
poisoned in any way by the negativity and slowed down ener gy of others,
you can do something about it. I turn once again to Mother T eresa to of fer
you a way to improve those negative environment fields. The following
section represents a blueprint for a broader environmental ener gy field
permanently free of contamination. The eight points are from Mother
Teresa of Calcutta, followed by my comments on each of her suggestions. An Eight-Point Plan of Decontamination
People ar e often unr easonable, illogical, and self-center ed. For give them
anyway . Forgiveness in your heart is like a cleansing agent for your ener gy
field. When you notice the low ener gy conduct of others, rather than
allowing it to impact and infect your immediate surroundings, send them a
silent blessing and refuse to be seduced into joining them in their low
energy. When you forgive them you choose to not be impacted in a negative
manner . If you ar e kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind
anyway . Your field of ener gy is protected from contamination by kindness. Once you are independent of the accusations of others, you are unable to be
angry and hurt over what others accuse you of. Be kind because it is you,
not because of the reactions you want from others. Kindness that comes
from your heart will suf fice to keep you from being dragged down into an
energy field infected by false accusations. If you ar e successful, you will win some false friends and some true
enemies. Succeed anyway . The world is filled with people who are looking
for occasions to be of fended. Y our success at anything is enough to trigger
such a reaction in others. Keep your ener gy field pristine by focusing on
what you know to be your divine purpose, and by doing so, the universewill support and sustain you with what is labeled success. Others will be
offended, but if you persist in ignoring their reactions, you will not allow
the presence of false friends or true enemies to be a factor in your life. If you ar e honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank
anyway . Your ener gy field will remain uncontaminated as long as you know
that you are being honest and frank. This may attract others at the lower
energies of dishonesty and cheating to try to take advantage of you. But you
will not become their victim because you will have the sense of inner peace
that characterizes higher and faster spiritual ener gy. Those who attempt to
cheat you will respect and honor your position when you stay true to your
spiritual values. Behave toward others from your highest self and you will
eventually be free of the fear of being cheated. Ironically , when that fear
disappears, the problem of being cheated also disappears. What you spend years building, someone may destr oy overnight. Build
anyway . Do not build anything only for the purpose of having it completed. Build because it is your way of expressing your purpose. When you eat a
banana the goal is not to finish it, but to enjoy each bite while nourishing
yourself. Building something is a means of expressing yourself. If someone
took all the books I’ve published and destroyed them, I would continue to
write. If every tape recording of my lectures was destroyed, I would
continue to speak. Everything in the material world that is built will
ultimately be destroyed. Build not in fear of having it destroyed, but
because you are giving expression to the infinite spirit within. If you find ser enity and happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy
anyway . I always remind myself that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way . If you seek the reactions of others as the basis of your
way of being then you have turned the source of your happiness over to
those whose reactions you covet. Happiness is an inside job. Y ou don’ t get
it from anyone or anything; you bring it to everyone and every event of
your life. Keep your ener gy field free of contamination by remembering
that you are the source of the cleansing. Others may be jealous, find fault
with you, and say terrible things about you, but you are free to choose
happiness for yourself anyway . The by-product of your response is that yougradually impact their jealous and mean-spirited ener gy fields with your
radiating happiness. The good you do today , people will often for get tomorr ow. Do good anyway . Like being happy , doing good is something that you do as an expression of
your invisible spiritual essence. Stop looking for the approval and gratitude
of others as your reason to do good. Even if no one ever says thank you, do
for others as your heart dictates from spirit, which is rooted in the faster
energy of love, kindness, and connectedness to all. Y our spirit ur ges you to
express heart ener gy. Ego, rooted in the material world, ur ges you to do
what you do so that you will be remembered and rewarded as if life were a
contest. Listen to your spirit. Remind yourself to give love and do good
because that is who you are, and for no other reasons. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the
world the best you’ve got anyway . “The best,” as used by Mother T eresa,
implies your highest, most sacred self. This is the fastest vibrational ener gy
and the source of all problem resolution. Others may attempt to contaminate
your ener gy field by demanding more of you, or by criticizing you
repeatedly , or even by ignoring your ef forts. When you return to your
highest self, you are independent of those opinions almost instantly , and
problems of feeling unappreciated are nonexistent. Give the world your
spirit, and detach from the outcome of your ef forts, and your ener gy field
becomes less and less contaminated. These are the eight suggestions that Mother T eresa of Calcutta of fered as a
plan for your life. Her conclusion is the truly profound essence of this
offering. “Y ou see, in the final analysis, it is all between you and God; / it
was never between you and them anyway .”
Recently I approached a traf fic light where a man stood in shabby clothes
with a three-legged dog by his side. As I waited for the light to change I
looked at this scene with compassion and felt an ur ge to contribute
something. The sign he was carrying indicated that he was homeless. The
people in my car commented that he was a strong young man, there were
plenty of employment opportunities, and why should anyone give to people
who are capable of working. They indicated a kind of mild contempt forthis man soliciting funds when he “should” be working like they worked
every day . My thoughts were on him and the fact that he cared for and fed
this crippled dog. I rolled down the window and gave him several dollars
for which he expressed enormous gratitude. As the companions in my car semi-scolded me for being a sucker and for
enabling him to continue to be a beggar I heard the words that Mother
Teresa said. T ruly this was not between me and my friends in the car , nor
was it between me and that homeless man. It was between me and God. And something inside of me ur ged me to extend love and a little cash as
well. The next time you see anyone asking for money , remind yourself of
this, and if you honestly feel that you don’ t want to give, then by all means
don’t, but rather than being critical, angry , or even mildly upset, instead
offer that person a silent blessing and drive on with your ener gy field
uncontaminated by those lower vibrations. Before we turn to the third field of ener gy, I’ll close this section with
Mother T eresa’ s observation. It is a valuable guide to preventing the lower
energies of others in your immediate surroundings to impact your ener gy
field in an impure way . THE FINAL ANALYSIS
 
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway . If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway . If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true
enemies;
Succeed anyway .If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway . What you spend years building, someone may destroy overnight;
Build anyway . If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway . The good you do today , people will often for get tomorrow;
Do good anyway . Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway . You see, in the final analysis, it is all between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway . —Mother T eresa of Calcutta
Decontaminating Y our Mind Fields of Energy
Here we enter a somewhat obscure area. But nevertheless it is of equal
importance for you in maintaining your ef fort to avoid contaminating your
life, so that you might implement spiritual solutions. Here we are talking
about thoughts, yours and those of others around you, and how you can
keep yours pure, and not allow the low ener gy thoughts of others to impact
you in a desecrating manner . This vignette from my life will help you
understand what I mean. In 1982 I went to Greece to run in the footsteps of Pheidippides who
purportedly ran the twenty-six-plus miles from Marathon to Athens in 490b.c. to carry news of the Greek victory over the Persians. I was part of a big
group of runners and other tourists who were gathered at JFK International
Airport in the departure lounge when we learned that the plane’ s departure
would be delayed by seven hours. The place became one gigantic collection
of grumblers, complainers, and agitated people who now had to decide what
to do for the next seven hours. Amid this chaos was a little old Greek lady , perhaps in her eighties, all
dressed in black, who proceeded to take a seat, close her eyes and,
apparently unconcerned about the delay , sit with a smile on her face as if
she were meditating. I walked around the Olympic Airline T erminal for two
hours and then wandered back to the departure area and there sat the little
old Greek lady , as peaceful as could be, still in the same position, still
showing no signs of dismay . I then took a cab to a movie nearby and returned to the airport three hours
later, and the little old Greek lady still sat in her peaceful manner . Other
passengers began to return still grumbling and upset six hours after the
announcement. But the little old Greek lady in black was unperturbed and
just as peaceful as before. Eight hours after the original departure time we
all boarded the plane. The little old Greek lady sat across the aisle from me. She smiled at me as we sat down, and then, believe it or not, for the next
thirteen hours, the duration of that flight across the world, she never moved
once. She didn’ t eat, drink, get up, watch a movie, complain, stir—nothing
but sit in the same position as in the departure area, with the same contented
look on her face. Finally , almost twenty-two hours after we had arrived at JFK for the flight,
we landed in Athens. As we left the customs area I noticed the little old
Greek lady in black being met by her family . She laughed, took out gifts for
the many children who awaited her arrival, hugged everyone, and was in an
animated, high ener gy, joyful mood as she left the airport. Almost two decades have passed and I have never for gotten that little Greek
lady and the impact she was to have on my life, even though we only
exchanged a smiling glance. Every time I observed her , either in the chaotic
departure area or on the plane, I noticed that I felt more comfortable, more
at ease, and less inclined to be upset. She had the same impact on all theother marathoners who were in the lar ge collection of passengers. W e all
remarked that she was twice our age and dressed in uncomfortable clothes. And we all noticed how she didn’ t demand food or lodging vouchers, didn’ t
threaten a lawsuit, but simply went to a chair and put her mind into a state
of bliss. Her silent statement impacted all those who observed her in a way
that seemed to relax everyone. T o this day , whenever I am involved in a
similar delay situation I recall that little old Greek lady all dressed in black
and remind myself of how to enter and remain in a mind field of peace. That our thoughts impact us is too obvious to elaborate on further . We all
know that we become what we think about. But it is significant to
remember that our thoughts are a field of ener gy cycles, a mind field, and
that just by our thoughts alone we impact not only ourselves but those
around us as well. The little old Greek lady was able to spread an invisible
energy of contented bliss to all of us on that flight by doing nothing more
than sitting and thinking. Obviously , she resonated her inner calm to all of
us. Scientists describe thought as an or ganized field of ener gy composed of
complex patterns of vibrations that consolidate information. Dr . Valerie
Hunt further describes it in her book, Infinite Mind : “Thoughts are events in
the mind field that are available not only to the consciousness of the creator ,
but also to other minds.” She explains that our thoughts are not private but
rather “field-public.” This means that you do not think in a vacuum, but that
your thoughts are created from transactions with other fields. Thoughts can
be passed on from generation to generation not just by photographs, print,
or the spoken word, but also by the strength of thoughts remaining in your
mind fields. The more dynamic your field of ener gy, the more capable you are of
communicating and impacting your thoughts to others, and in being
impacted yourself. How do you go about making your thoughts so dynamic
and creative? I quote Dr . Valerie Hunt again. “One does not dwell upon the
process nor does one struggle to get answers. One trusts the process of
higher creative thought. . . . Such is the capacity of great healers, lecturers,
clairvoyants, physicians and spiritual leaders when they enter expanded
consciousness states.” Y ou can do this. Y ou have the potential to keep yourfield of ener gy uncontaminated, and the potential to radiate a dynamic
spiritual ener gy. Simply by your presence alone, vibrating in this mind field
of creativity and peace, you can impact others. Your intellect might protest and attempt to convince you that mind fields
and silent communication of ener gy are nonsense. But once you see this at
work you’ll know . The intellect itself is too disconnected from etheric
energy forces to readily accept such possibilities, but I have seen it work
over and over in my own life. When I am able to consciously project love,
understanding, and compassion to those in my immediate life space, I feel
the shift in ener gy. I surrender my judgment or my desire to make my point
and the mind field ener gy changes. Gradually I watch that dif ference in
energy af fect the other and enjoy the change within myself. My wife,
Marcelene, is a master at this. I have had the exquisite experience of being in the delivery room with my
wife as she gave birth on many occasions. She knows that she is entering a
space that is dominated by stressful and fearful thoughts so she prepares
herself with her thoughts prior to even entering such a space. She radiates
her thoughts of love, joy , and gratitude for being able to participate in the
mystery of creating and delivering life. She surrenders to the mystery , with
no fear , only a knowing and inner determination to be peaceful during this
wondrous event. Such is her mind-set and consequently her mind field as
well. I am with her and available but I am actually quite useless. She
projects her inner peace, and calm determination to do what “women have
been doing forever ,” as she describes it. The presence of her thoughts brings
a sense of calm and peace to the other women in labor , the nurses, and even
the trained delivery personnel. Marcelene is writing her own book on giving birth with full participation in
the sacred mystery through mind field ener gy. She is an incredibly
impressive example of entering the mysterious sacredness of birthing
through mind field ener gy. Marcelene has delivered seven babies without
any drugs, each time creating the kind of ener gy I describe here. Moreover ,
she is now a doula, a woman who assists others with their own high ener gy
in delivering their babies in an atmosphere where fear and anxiety arereplaced with a calm, loving feeling of thankfulness for being able to
participate in such a miracle. This mind field exists and you are capable of not only keeping yours
uncontaminated, but of being a force for raising the frequency of others in
your presence. Raising those frequencies is the subject of the next chapter . For now , see if you can accept this idea of a mind field of ener gy composed
of your thoughts and the thoughts of those around you. The closer you
come to being in a dynamic state of grace in your thoughts, and refusing to
be in the fields of those who are projecting lower ener gy thoughts of fear ,
stress, evil, anxiety , depression, and the like, the closer you come to being
in God’ s mind field. Here is how Meister Eckhart phrased it. Nature’ s intent is neither food, nor drink,
Nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything
Else in which God is left out. Whether
You like it or not, whether you know it
Or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts,
Tries to ferret out the track on
Which God may be found. I love this idea, finding the track on which God may be found. This is the
energy field I am asking you to consider . It is devoid of the lower ener gies
that contaminate our lives and saddle us with illusions that we call
problems. Since I opened this chapter with an observation of W illiam Butler Y eats, let
me close with another one of his poetic observations.VACILLATION (IV)
 
My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless. When you refuse to allow your ener gy fields to become contaminated, you
feel blessed, and you know you can bless others as well. That is what a field
of high ener gy truly is, one that exchanges feelings of being  blessed with
giving  blessings. I invite you to spend some time in your thoughts,
imagining having this for yourself. What follows in chapter six are some dynamic principles to internalize for
living in these faster ener gy frequencies. OceanofPDF .com6
RAISING AND  
MAINT AINING YOUR 
SPIRITUAL ENERGY
But I do not believe that man can perceive his “God-Like” qualities until his field reaches higher
and higher vibrations and attains a greater degree of coherency. No matter how hard we try to receive spiritual guidance, we cannot until our fields are attuned
to that vibrational system. —DR. VALERIE HUNT
Johann W olfgang von Goethe, a creative genius of the early nineteenth
century , made this observation: “If you treat man as he appears to be, you
make him more than he is. But if you treat man as if he already were what
he potentially could be, you make him what he should be.” His advice is
pertinent in today’ s world and specifically insightful about raising your
spiritual ener gy if you apply this wisdom to the way you treat yourself. First, who do you appear to be? Y our conditioning, your history , and your
senses provide you with a multitude of answers. Y ou appear to be a person
with a body , which has certain obvious limitations. Y ou appear to be of a
particular ethnicity , a certain age, with a background that has led you to this
point in your life. Go and look into a mirror to see what appears to be you.Now go beyond those appearances and look deeply into your eyes and see
yourself as a spiritual being having a human experience. Imagine what you
potentially could be, if you were unrestricted by all those appearances. Beneath or within what you appear to be is the image of magnificence and
unlimited joy that you truly are and that I ask you to consider as you read
about these principles. What you potentially can be is the basis for forming
a spiritual ener gy field. This is the foundation from which spiritual ener gy
arises for the resolution of problems. I enjoy Shakespeare’ s description:
“You are full of heavenly stuf f and bear the inventory of your best graces in
your mind.”
Just let this idea rest in you: you were made to prosper and you are going to
choose to identify yourself from this potentiality , rather than as you appear
to be to others and to yourself. Recognizing yourself as a child of the most
high, as a divine presence, will facilitate raising and maintaining that
higher , faster spiritual ener gy field. And it is from this new ener gy field that
you will bring the sparks of the divinity that nullify and eradicate those
problems in your life. In the remainder of this chapter I will describe a
series of principles to help you implement this idea. RAISING YOUR ENERGY VIBRA TIONS
The following principles are not of fered in any particular order of
significance. They represent my personal view on how your mind and your
subsequent behavior can move you from the toxic ener gy levels of the
material world into the level of spirit, wherein lies the solution to any and
all problems. All these ideas are presented with the intention of inspiring
you to become conscious of your ability to shift from the lower/slower
energy patterns of the material world to the higher/faster vibrations of the
world of spirit. Practice the Presence of Spirit
Practice awareness of the impossibility of being outside the omnipresent
spirit. Some ways of doing this are to remind yourself when you first
awaken that this is a day that God will be with you at all times. Remind
yourself that everywhere you are is a holy place. Every meal you eat bemindful of what it took for that food to reach your plate. When you make a
phone call, drive in your car , or enter your workplace, begin to have this
God realization. As you practice being mindful of the presence of the divine
invisible spirit you will notice a greater sense of peace, a stronger feeling of
being safe and secure, a knowing that you are healthy and living from an
inner sense of integrity . These feelings result from simply silently
practicing, and I emphasize silently . No preaching and converting others to
think as you do. Simply realize the presence of your source from which you
are never truly separated except in your own mind. Just by being mindful of
the divine presence, you raise your ener gy field vibrations. This is what Dr . Hunt means in the display quote at the beginning of this chapter . You have
to attune to the vibrational ener gy field of God to be able to receive spiritual
guidance. When you find yourself feeling out of sorts, anxious, or afraid, exercise
your mind by inviting the realization of the omnipresence of spirit to be
known, now . Do this in the midst of your fear or anxiety and notice how it
seems to be much less troubling. Some teachers refer to this as practicing
mindfulness. It is a sure way to raise the ener gy field frequencies into
higher realms. Y ou literally provide yourself with a treatment when you
stop to remember and practice the presence of God within and around you. Your Mind Is the Substance of All Matter
Take a look at your hand right now . Would you describe it as intelligent? No, because intelligence is the mind that directs your hand to move to the
right, to grasp, to clutch, to make a fist or wave good-bye. Y our hand
responds to the directives of your mind. Y es, of course, the hand has
intelligence, as does every living cell have a center of intelligence, but that
cell responds to the directives of your mind. Thus your mind is the
substance of the matter that is called your hand. Now think about every
other or gan in your body . Your heart, liver , spleen, all of which were created
to act in accordance with the central divine intelligence within them. Y et,
your mind is still the substance. If you so elect, your entire body will respond to the directives of your mind. From your mind you can tell all your body parts that God gave themfunctions and direct them to perform them. As you use your mind in this
manner to direct your body , eventually it will do so on its own. At first, you
tell it to do the business of God as it was so created to do, and then you will
see it doing so on its own. But always, your mind, that fount of high
spiritual invisible ener gy, is the substance of and in control over your body . Now extend this principle to all that surrounds you as well. Mind is where
you experience all matter , and your mind is the substance of all that you
experience. When you raise your ener gy field to include yourself in the
mind of God, you have that God field at your disposal. Every person on
earth is governed by the mind of God, yet most don’ t recognize this fact. Thus, they encounter the problem of the illusion of separation which ego
brings about. Even though I have said over and over that the mind of God is
your mind, I do not mean that you have a monopoly on this, as if you were
some chosen favorite. This unifying force is not only the intelligence of
every person, it is the intelligence of every cell in the universe. And this is
the scope of your mind! Direct, insist, demand if you must, that your mind
be in harmony with the divine mind and your ener gy will go from slow to
fast, from material to spiritual, from problems to solutions. The next time
you are faced with a problem, look at your hand for a moment and remind
yourself that although it has intelligence, its substance is your mind that
directs it to be a hand. Then face the problem with your mind  and God’ s
mind  as one. Mortal Sense Needs to Y ield to Make Room for Spiritual A wareness
On Beethoven’ s writing table, framed under glass, were the following
words, copied in his handwriting. He had discovered them in an essay on
the spiritual practices of Ancient Egypt. “I am that which is, I am all, what
is, what was, what will be; no mortal man has lifted my veil. He is only and
solely of himself, and to this only one all things owe their existence.”
Imagine this great composer reading these words every day to remind
himself of the source of his creativity . You too can be inspired to decide to let go of your primary identification
with your mental, material self and yield to the one to whom all things owe
their existence. When confronted with a problem stop in the middle of itand remind yourself that God is on the field and that you can surrender to
that realization. When I do this, almost immediately the solution is obvious. I am always surprised that I didn’ t realize that I was attempting to resolve
my dif ficulty with my mortal self, feeling separated and anxious and facing
the issue all by myself. In the moments of yielding the mortal sense, the
energy field increases and you make room for the presence of spiritual
awareness. I received a letter from a woman who was diagnosed with cancer and given
only a few months to live. She decided to keep this information from
everyone she knew , including her husband and children. She rented a cabin
in the northern Minnesota woods and spent each day silently yielding her
mortal sense and opening herself to spiritual guidance. The days turned into
weeks, and the weeks into months, with every day devoted to communing
silently with God and releasing her attachment to her body and the cancer
that had invaded it. She began to feel stronger as she no longer identified
herself with her body . When she returned to her home she never again even
visited a medical facility . Today she thrives, some nine years after her
terminal illness diagnosis. The commitment to yield her mortal sense and
allow the calm, peaceful, serene, loving presence of God to handle the
cancer was what she intuitively felt was her pathway to healing. Any problem, I emphasize any, disassociates from your inner world when
you yield your material mortal self and allow the higher frequencies of
spirit to manifest in your life. Send Love to, and Pray for , Your Enemies
I use the word enemies  advisedly here. The poet Henry W . Longfellow
wrote, “If we could read the secret history of our enemies we shall find in
each man’ s sorrow and suf fering enough to disarm all hostility .”
Harboring anger and hatred toward anyone guarantees that you remain in
low ener gy fields where problems will continue to crop up repeatedly in
your life. I suggest that you examine every relationship in which you feel
judgmental thoughts of anger and hatred. Replace those thoughts with
energies of acceptance, kindness, cheerfulness, and love. Y ou will have to
make a personal commitment to, first of all, notice what you are feeling andthen exercise your ability to choose to send love. When your heart becomes
pure, your enemy becomes your friend, or even more significantly , your
teacher . Your worst enemies are your greatest teachers because they allow
you to examine the emotions of anger and revenge and then to transcend
them. They give you the exact tools you need to elevate yourself to the
spiritual ener gies that provide your solutions. When you send love in response to hate you accomplish one of the most
difficult things for anyone. As I look into my conscience I can now honestly
say, I have no one whom I can call an enemy , no one whom I could say I
hate. Over the course of my life I have been disappointed many times. Some have borrowed and never repaid. Some have for gotten their promises. Some have left me for others. Some have cursed me and spread rumors
about me. Some have stolen from me. I send love to them all, mindful of
the Buddha’ s words: “W e live happily indeed, not hating those who hate us. Among men who hate us we dwell free from hatred.” It has been this
transformation in my own thinking, perhaps more than anything else, that
has allowed me to move out of those low ener gy problem regions of my
life. It is a powerful strategy for raising your spiritual awareness. God Is Not W ithholding
Imagine, for a moment, that you know a person who has stored away
everything you want or need for your happiness, but refuses to let you have
them unless you do his bidding, ask properly , and behave as he wants you
to. Furthermore, this person can heal you of disease but allows you to suf fer
for now , and maybe  will consider healing you at some future date. This
would not be a very nice person, let alone a very nice God. Is this the kind
of withholding God that you imagine the spiritual ener gy to be? In the
scriptures it clearly says, “And everything I have is yours.” These six little
words may be the secret you’ve been looking for to raise your awareness to
a spiritual level. God is often perceived as an invisible being whom you pray to when you
find yourself experiencing some kind of shortage in your life. “Please God,
send me the money I need. Dear God, I want you to heal me of my disease. I beg you God, please bring back my spouse who left me for another man.”On and on, praying for the things that you perceive to be missing. In this
mind-set you believe God decides whether to provide those missing
bounties from your life based upon how you behave and whether you do the
proper penance and ask in the fashion that God demands. Moving your ener gy up to the level of spirit involves knowing that God is
not going to be doing anything dif ferent one hour from now than he is doing
right now . Moreover , God isn’ t doing anything dif ferent now , than he was
doing an hour ago or one hundred years ago. God is only here in the present
moment, in the eternal now . God is inextricably intertwined with your
ability to move your thoughts out of yesterday and tomorrow and to escape
into the now , wherein is located God’ s only residence. The now is a speck in the universe of abundance that has no boundaries. “Everything I have” means the unbounded prosperity of this universe. “Is
yours” means you can have whatever you place your attention on with love,
now, not at some future time, but now . God is not holding back your share
of this unbounded pie waiting for you to conduct yourself properly . Nor is
God gleefully watching you suf fer in scarcity and illness until he decides to
stop withholding. Whatever solution you seek for whatever problem you
may have is available to you in this moment. It is in you, not in some
mythical Santa Claus like being with a long flowing beard floating around in
the heavens, dispensing “goodies” to some and “baddies” to others. Y ou are
always connected to this universal source of present moment ener gy. As Saint Paul put it in his letter to the Corinthians, “Do you not know that
you are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you” (I
Corinthians 3:16). When you know this truth, you stop asking God to give
you what you think he is withholding. Instead you can bring this spirit of
God that dwells in you to those missing or problem areas. And you will
have unlocked the secret for a spiritual solution to your problems. Once you realize that you cannot influence God, nor can you find God in
some place where he has hidden from you, you know that nothing is being
withheld from you and you can commune with this omnipresent source and
bring that love to bear on your personal problems. You Are Not Being PunishedJust as God does not withhold, God does not punish you by burdening you
with problems. As Joel Goldsmith, the founder of the Infinite W ay put it,
“All you have to do is to awaken from the belief in two powers of good and
evil and begin to honor God by respecting the first commandment . . . how
can you fear an evil power if there is only one power and that one power is
God?” The idea that God could be punitive is inconsistent with spiritual
awareness. Purely and simply put, God is love and he has made everything
beautiful in its time, including you and everyone else. Actions and thoughts, which you might call evil, are the result of the error
that is made when you believe you are separate from God. It is a mistake of
the ego, or the intellect, to believe there is evil for which God must punish
you. Y ou correct an error by bringing truth to it. Y ou then nullify the error . The idea that God will condemn you is not consistent with a God of
forgiveness. You believe either in one power or two. The power of one is the power of
love. Evil exists first as a thought of non-good or non-God, and then it is
that thought which is acted upon. But it is all an error . “God is too pure to
behold iniquity .” If it’ s not good, it’ s not of God, and if it’ s not of God, it
can’t exist, since everything is of the one power we call God. Y ou can
correct all the errors of your belief in separation from God by bringing that
higher loving ener gy to those areas of your life that are plagued with
problems. They are not punishments. Rather think of them as errors to be
corrected. They will disappear as surely as two plus two equals seven
disappears when you bring the substance of truth to the error . God does not condemn, God for gives. God does not punish, God is love. You end the error of evil which is a non-God thought by bringing a God-
thought to it. Y ou raise your spiritual ener gy by recognizing the lower
energies as being the result of having separated yourself from spirit in the
first place. Y ou rid yourself of the idea that any evil person has a grip on
you, because there is only one power in the universe that holds everything
together , and that power is good. All else that is not good is your mind at
work creating the illusions of problems. Nothing of an evil nature has ever
touched God. Anything that you believe God punished you for is because
you lived in the mind of man rather than the mind of God. When the mindof man becomes illuminated, he becomes a part of God, and this is the
solution to your fear of punishment. God Is Not an Overcoming Power
There is no reason for you to sit around and wait to be favored with a
spiritual experience, because most likely it is not going to happen that way . What you must do to raise and maintain higher spiritual ener gy is to learn
these principles and then put them into action. The simple truth is that by
thinking good, healing, loving thoughts you can produce the good, healing,
loving results. And conversely , by thinking evil thoughts you can produce
evil results. So, how do we overcome our mental inertia? By changing our
fundamental belief system. When you believe in two powers you must
constantly upgrade your fighting because stronger defeats weaker . A greater
force defeats a lesser force. Thus we have two forces or powers always in
conflict with each other . I’d like you to try a dif ferent idea here, which will eliminate the barrier of
your mental inertia. There are not good powers and bad powers, good
forces and bad forces. There is only one power and that is the power of God
or spirit. This power does not overcome evil, disease, disharmony , or
problems. The power of God is not an overcoming power . It does not defeat
or engage in conflict since it is the only power there is. There is no
secondary power for it to subdue. The two-power idea is a mental and
material creation of man wherein we fight lesser forces with greater forces
to emer ge as winners, or we think loving thoughts to overcome evil
thoughts—to be happier . God power doesn’ t overcome. The power of God is a creative, sustaining power . When you embrace this
idea of one power , all other forms of power whether material or mental
dissolve. Once you know this you stop fighting evil thoughts and instead
embrace the oneness of God. “Resist not evil,” means do not give any
credence to evil as a power in the first place. Evil has no power except to
those who subscribe to there being two powers. Once you embrace the idea of one power , you commune with that power
and let go of the illusion that a power other than that of God created your
problems. That is the two-power mind-set that I’ve called low/slowfrequencies of vibration. It is there because you live in the duality that there
is non-God and God existing simultaneously . Moreover , God is in this
never -ending eternal conflict with non-God and never has, or ever will, win
—this is all absurd. By leaving behind this duality thinking, and embracing
the idea of one power , you leave behind conflict. Y ou go to that one source,
needing nothing to struggle against, and you bring this truth to those
problem areas and observe as they evaporate in the presence of this one
power the power that is the one that you cannot seek after , attain, influence,
or coerce, because you already are connected to it right here, right now . Right where you stand. It is the meaning of “the Kingdom of God is within
you.” Again, as Saint Paul put it, “Y ou are the temple of the living God.”
Divine Love W ill Meet Every Human Need
Mary Baker Eddy is responsible for these words being printed on the wall
of every Christian Science Church: “Divine love will meet every human
need.” How is it possible to believe this is true? People continue to have
many unmet needs in the presence of divine love. They feel divine love and
still their problems and sicknesses persist. This statement does not imply , as
many who wish for the resolutions to their problems assume, that divine
love is out there doing it for or to you. Divine love is something that you
must express and when you do, your every problem or need will be met. Divine love is not floating around in the air or sitting in a fluf fy cloud
waiting to rain down on you and wash away all your problems. Divine love
is what you radiate outward and it is not what you think of as human love. In divine love there are no conditions, no rules, no need to be thanked or
reciprocated. Divine love is spiritual love that embraces the seven
components of spirituality elaborated in chapter one. Y ou must let these
blessings pour out from you rather than going to God for your blessings,
because you are the instrument through which this grace flows. If you are to
raise and maintain your spiritual ener gy, you must keep uppermost in mind
that you (not a God from whom you are separated) are willing to allow
divine love to solve the problem. Rudolf Steiner observed “If we do not develop within ourselves this deeply
rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall neverfind the strength to evolve to something higher .” Divine love is not truly
higher than yourself, but it is higher than the physical or ego-self you’ve
come to believe is you. Y ou already are this divine love and you can radiate
it outward and aim it at your unmet needs once you begin acknowledging
that it does exist. You Cannot Have God and Have Fear T oo
Generally speaking, most people fear their highest possibility and they are
afraid to become that which they can envision in their most glorious and
perfect moments. Consequently fear becomes an accustomed state of being,
and avoiding our own divinity becomes commonplace. I suggest that your highest possibility is to come to a knowing of your own
divinity . Yet your conditioning has led you to believe that it is almost
sacrilegious to assume that you are divine. Divinity , you have been told, is
for God and perhaps his chosen saints, but not for you. Thus, a fear of your
highest possibility keeps you from knowing God and living a life in which
you can access spiritual solutions. Essentially there are two overriding emotions—love and fear . And those
two emotional states cannot be experienced simultaneously . If you have fear
you’ve eliminated love, and vice versa. The scriptures remind us that
“Perfect love casteth out all fear .” They also inform us over and over that
“God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him” (I
John 4:16). So, obviously the solution is to rid yourself of all fear and the
only way to do so is to stop yourself in a moment of fear and see if you can
replace the fear with love in that very moment. Right in that moment of
replacing fear with love you have introduced a spiritual solution to the
problem surrounding the fear . Always remind yourself in moments of fear
that God cannot reside where fear exists. I am sure you are familiar with the saying that our greatest fear is fear of the
unknown. If that is true, how can we remedy it? By becoming acquainted
with the thing you do not know and that you fear . Then it will disappear . And what is it that we maintain is unknown? God, spirit, higher awareness,
and ultimately love. Any and all fears that you harbor make you the
landlord to a ghost. Face it, and feel the fear . Replace fear by simplyallowing a feeling of love or the presence of God to reside right in that same
ghostly spot where the fear was. I have found in my own life that I seldom encounter fears anymore. The old
fears of failing, or enduring the disapproval of others, or not knowing how
things might work out, simply don’ t crop up in my inner world any longer . It’s not because I’ve achieved a certain level of success or material
possessions (it is my experience that people who rise to a high level of
material success have a great fear of losing it), but because I have a strong
feeling of love where fear used to be, and because I know that I am never
ever alone or separate from God. If you find out that what you fear the most
is an illusion of your mind only , then you have identified where you will
develop next. The eradication of that fear , when all is said and done, is
accomplished with the introduction of spirit, which cannot live in the same
space as fear . You cannot have God and have fear too. Every fear represents a disbelief in
God at that moment. Keep uppermost in mind these two observations. One
from the scriptures, “I will fear no evil, for thou art with me,” and one from
the Sufis, “Y our greatest gift lies beyond the door named fear .”
Don’t Feel Spiritual—Be It! You don’ t wander around all day feeling moral or honest. Y ou simply are a
moral person. If you consciously felt moral you would be broadcasting it all
day, explaining each act of honesty as a reflection of your feelings of
morality . Instead, you simply are honest and moral and your behavior
comes from within you. The same is true of your spirituality . Being spiritual
is not an emotional accomplishment to praise yourself for . It is your way of
being with God that is as natural as your health, morality , or even your
artistic sense. T rying to feel spiritual is not the same as being it. When you attempt to feel spiritual you erect a barrier , because you are then
introducing your ego into the picture. Ego wants to praise you for being
more spiritual than those around you, and condemn you when others are
more spiritual than you. Ego wants to explain and defend your spirituality ,
and monitor how spiritual you are feeling at various times and in many
circumstances.By simply recognizing your connection to God, and inviting that part of
yourself to consciousness, you are raising your ener gy level to the level of
spirit. But if you make yourself a pawn in a game of “How mystical can I
feel?,” you invite ego to assess how superior you are to others. Ego thinks
that feeling more spiritual is equivalent to being in an elite classification
and will begin to try to get more spiritual points than your opponents. It is
that very elitist world of the lower vibrations that you want to leave behind. Don’ t try to feel spiritual, just be it. God Cannot Be Divided Against God
God is an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent infinite power that cannot
be fragmented or divided. That is, God cannot be available for some people
and unavailable for others. He cannot be here one day and gone the next. He cannot be in anything that is evil and also be in that which is good. In
defining God, all discussion disappears and you have only the one, all
knowing, all good, all loving presence. When you find yourself in duality you are in the physical world where your
senses perceive opposites such as: good/bad, healthy/sick, alive/dead,
right/wrong, and so on. This is where you perceive yourself as laden with
problems and you seek solutions. So, your ego insists the solution to being
sick is to find health; the solution for scarcity is abundance; and the solution
to pain is pleasure. In your ego-dominated world you perceive all these
opposites. But if disease or evil were to exist, God would have to be responsible for
them and therefore their nature would be good. Since God created
everything, and everything that God created is good, the things we call
problems are constructs of our thoughts and senses. Recognize that the
nothingness, appearing as a problem, is what frightens us. It is not God that
is divided into problems or solutions, good versus bad, disease versus
health, it is you. The absolute way to health, prosperity , and love is in knowing that disease,
scarcity , or evil never can be acknowledged as having power . If you ask
God to heal you, you are acknowledging that God made you sick. When
you ask God for special favors you acknowledge a God power that keptthose favors from you. When you ask God for health, it is like saying, “God
you’ve got this thing called health, but you won’ t give it to me, please
reconsider .” You are asking God to be divided into having health and not
having health, or abundance, or anything else. Instead of seeking benefits or favors from God, remind yourself to
commune with this eternal presence that is in you. Bring this presence to
the illusions that are in your mind called problems. See that in the presence
of this unconditional, nonjudgmental love duality based problems disappear
and only loving presence remains. As Joel Goldsmith put it, describing the infinite way in Foundations of
Mysticism :
All you have to do is face the impersonal source of all worldly evil and
recognize its nothingness, its lawlessness. Then be still, be quiet, be
calm, and watch—watch the hypnotism and its pictures pass away
from you. That’ s how it’ s done. Harmony Is Y our Normal, Natural State of Being
While God represents the one power and does not recognize any other
power , your mind is something quite dif ferent. Y our mind has both the
power of evil and the power of good. As long as you use this power for the
purpose of creating harmony in yourself and others you are consistent with
the one power of spirit. Spirit is the one unifying force in the universe. It is possible for you to use this power of the mind to bring about
disharmony , and when you go in this direction you are lowering the
frequency at which you vibrate ener getically . Your body cannot be
independent of itself, it needs an “I” to direct it. If your mind says overeat,
your body conforms to the mind’ s instructions. If your mind says imbibe
poisons, your hand will obey and pour the toxins into your body . A mind
imbued with ignorance or error will keep the body in a constant state of
disrepair and problems. This same error -plagued mind will create a
multitude of problems for your body and all its attendant circumstances. Harmony is your normal, natural state of being, because when you are
natural you are in the hands of the one loving presence called God. It isyour mind that generates disharmony and creates havoc or problems for
you. Now , of course you do not want to get rid of the mind or the body to bring
about a spiritual solution to your problems! The body is a glorious
instrument through which you function as a human being. Y ou need it to
enjoy this incarnation and go for a swim, drive an automobile, and make
love. Y ou do not want to get rid of it. Y our mind, which is the captain of
this ship called your body , has the power to steer you through this lifetime
and make it a marvelous voyage. When you reach the spiritual peace that is
what this book is about, your mind and your body are the instruments
through which God ener gy flows. Y ou are no longer limited by the
boundaries of the body and mind. At this consciousness there is no limit to what can be revealed to you. Y ou
will taste the fruits of synchronicity wherein you are in collaboration with
fate to manage the coincidences of your life. Y ou will have a knowing that
transcends the mind and the body . As you become more aware of your
divinity you will discover your abilities to remove illusions of illness,
scarcity , and evil in the ways that Patanjali alluded to in the second chapter
of this book. This harmonious relationship with spirit is your natural state of
being. Our Lacks Come from Failure to Understand God’ s Law
Over the years I have often been asked if I have a secret formula for the
success I’ve achieved in transcending a childhood partly spent in foster
homes to having acquired virtually all that I could possibly ask for .
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in higher amounts indicates a level of calmness. The higher the serotonin
level the more at peace you are. After several hours of intense group
meditation, the serotonin was measured again and there was a significant
increase in serotonin levels in virtually all the participants. As predicted, the
participants in this long group session of meditation were more peaceful
and calm, as measured by their increased serotonin levels. The second part of this experiment involved measuring the serotonin levels
of people in the immediate vicinity of the lar ge meditation group, who werenot doing the group meditation. Their serotonin levels were measured both
before a long group meditation and immediately following the meditation
of the entire group of several thousand people. It was discovered that
serotonin levels were significantly increased by simply being in the
immediate neighborhood of a lar ge group of people who were radiating
tranquil ener gy. The implications of this kind of scientific research are
astounding to contemplate. Just imagine, when you become more peaceful
and you practice sending out this kind of serenity silently, you have an
impact on everyone in your physical environment. On several occasions I have had the pleasure of being in the presence of
those who do this. I consider these people to be divine masters. In a little
village in Germany, I sat with 199 others in the presence of Mother Meera,
an enlightened soul, whose lifetime has been devoted to spreading peace
and love to devotees from around the world. As she held my head in her
hand, and looked into my eyes, I felt as if I was in the presence of God in an
egoless human form. I have never had such a feeling of bliss merely by
being in the same room with someone. When Mother Meera entered the
small room where two hundred people were crammed in to sit darshan for
three hours, the atmosphere of the entire room was raised to a higher level
of love and bliss by her presence. Empty of ego and af filiated with the spiritual principles of love, kindness,
surrender, peace, connectedness, for giveness, cheerfulness, and gratitude
you get closer and closer to God. When you begin to radiate spiritual
qualities you will impact the ener gy field of your immediate surroundings
more than you may have realized. Furthermore, you will keep your own
energy field less contaminated, and you will prevent conflicts and problems
from surfacing merely by your raised spiritual consciousness. Indeed, you
must keep uppermost in your mind that it is never between you and them; it
is between you and God. This fascinating world of invisible ener gy is becoming more and more
scientifically verifiable. W e refer to these particles of unseen ener gy as
pheromones and we see that in nature, even trees emit these invisible-to-
the-eye excretions. For example, when Dutch elm disease has attacked one
elm tree in a neighborhood it sends out a warning signal via thesepheromones to all the other trees in the vicinity. They then emit their own
built-in defense mechanisms to fight of f the invasive germs of the Dutch
elm disease. Similarly, animals and people have pheromones of invisible ener gy that are
emitted in moments of fear and its opposite, love. W ell-documented studies
show that animals entering a room where other animals have been
slaughtered react with spasms of apprehension and fear. So too, when
humans are in a room where torture has taken place, they feel the painful
and cruel ener gy. The pheromones of fear are in the atmosphere and they
impact the ener gy field of the environment to such an extent that it af fects
anyone who enters that space. The opposite is also true. In places where
spiritual consciousness and unconditional love are practiced, pheromones of
grace, beauty, and tenderness are emitted and remain in the environment. I have felt the pheromones when I have been in places where both these
extremes were standard practice, and I definitely felt the impact on my state
of well-being. Here are four examples from my life experience, two from
the low/slow ener gy fields of fear and two from the opposite high/fast
energy fields of love. As you read all four, remind yourself of your power to
contaminate and to illuminate the ener gy fields you work and play in every
day. Just because you can’ t see those pheromones does not mean they don’ t
exist. Environments of Fear
Amster dam, Holland  On three separate occasions I visited the home where
Anne Frank lived in fear of being captured by the Nazis during W orld W ar
II. This home, including the attic where Anne hid for several years with her
family and recorded her thoughts in her diary, is now a museum visited by
thousands of people each year. The theme of the museum is both a tribute to
the spirit of Anne Frank and a reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust. Each time I’ve visited and toured this home along the canal I have been
struck by the feeling of sadness that seems to permeate it. That feeling
remains in the pheromones of fear from the Frank family and those who
risked their lives to shield them from the prying eyes of the Nazi occupiers. Furthermore, all who visit here seem to be emitting their pheromones of
sorrowful ener gy. On my last visit, I could no longer tolerate the ener gy field in this house. I
found it extremely dif ficult to catch my breath and I was physically feeling
choked and nauseous. When I spoke with others leaving the Anne Frank
home they also reported similar experiences of feeling the slow ener gy of
sadness and literally becoming physically ill. Robben Island, Cape T own, South Africa  When I observed Robben Island
from atop T able Mountain in Cape T own I immediately felt a strong ur ge to
visit, though I was unaware, at that moment, what the island was or
anything of its history. When I was informed that this was where Nelson
Mandela spent seventeen of his twenty-seven years incarcerated, I knew it
was a must-see for me. I made reservations to visit the following day, which
turned out to be the tenth anniversary of Mandela’ s release in 1990. My
wife elected not to take the half-day trip so I boarded the boat with my
friend Dimitri, who lives in South Africa, along with his eleven-year -old
son, Simeon. Only black political prisoners were incarcerated at Robben Island because
of the South African system of apartheid and racial separation. At that time,
black South Africans became political prisoners merely for attending some
kind of a meeting in which plans were being formulated to overthrow the
system of apartheid. Consequently, Robben Island was a place where
innocent people were forced to work all day crushing limestone in the
quarries. T oday, tourists visit and are given tours by the former inmates of
Robben Island. As I toured with Dimitri and Simeon, I saw the cell where Nelson Mandela
had lived in seclusion and forced silence. I feel that this man symbolizes the
highest example of what this book is designed to teach: that there is a
spiritual solution to every problem. Nelson Mandela’ s imprisonment forced
him into silence and in going within himself he was able to make conscious
contact with God. Silence, like God, is indivisible. When Nelson Mandela
walked out of prison in 1990 he had for giveness and reconciliation in his
heart. I believe it was the spiritual ener gy in him that transformed SouthAfrica, dismantled apartheid, and democratically elected him president. This happened with relatively little violence in contrast to the all-out war
that was projected for eliminating racial political policies. Throughout our visit on the island I felt the anguish that is in places where
injustice, torture, and fear have been practiced. When we left the island,
young Simeon turned to me, and without any prodding or conversation said,
“I felt wrong in there. Did you notice it too. ” Indeed, this innocent boy
confirmed what I had been feeling all morning. An ener gy field of fear is
created where mistreatment flourishes and Simeon articulated what we both
felt. Environments of Love
Assisi, Italy  In a small village not far from Florence, a thirteenth-century
soldier was imprisoned. The son of a rich merchant, this young soldier had
been “lost” for most of his life, when suddenly he had a vision to serve God
in an unconditional way. He gave up all material possessions, ultimately
living and teaching the message of Jesus of Nazareth. This was the man
who would come to be known as Saint Francis of Assisi. Saint Francis, who experienced the wounds of Christ (the stigmata),
practiced Patanjali’ s advice, which I wrote about in chapter two, of
steadfastly abstaining from falsehood and thoughts of harming others. He
became renowned for helping many by simply being in their presence. W ild
animals and birds became tame and domesticated near him, meekly licking
his fingers and flying into his open hands. For my wife and myself, Assisi was a pilgrimage. W e went to Lower Assisi
to visit the tiny chapel that Saint Francis had prayed in every day. The
chapel still stands in its exact condition from that time. A spacious edifice
with glorious stained glass windows and an ornate ceiling surrounds it. Thousands of people mill about in this outer structure, all in Assisi to pray
and pay homage to the thirteenth-century saint. The visitors come and go
every day from all over the globe, in solemn, somber, loving tribute to this
divine being. My wife and I were escorted into the tiny chapel which once was the
spiritual meditative home of Saint Francis. W e both sat down to meditate in
this sacred place, and immediately felt the pheromones of bliss and
unconditional love entering our ener gy fields. Our tears of joy and bliss
were a response to the glorious feelings. In fact, we returned a second day
to visit again and confirm how powerful the experience had been and to be
certain that it wasn’ t just our expectations at work in that chapel. The room
radiated with unconditional love. It was in the air, so to speak. This little
chapel, inside the outer chamber surrounding it, seemed a metaphor for
ourselves. Our body is the outer protective chamber. But deep inside that
chamber is a place of perfect harmony and peace, a place to visit often and
feel the radiance that abides therein. Here in Lower Assisi is a place where Saint Francis made conscious contact
with God, and a place where millions of people have come with love and
gratitude to mill about and be in the imprint of his ener gy field. This kind of
energy leaves its mark. It remains there, invisible though it may be; it is
surely felt and experienced. Loving radiant ener gy joyously impacts the
energy field of all who enter that field. I feel the presence of Saint Francis
with me as I write this book, and I have acknowledged it in the opening
pages. Machu Picchu, Peru The Spanish went through South America performing
their version of the Holocaust, much like other European marauders
decimated Native Americans who lived in North America for thousands of
years before the arrival of invaders. No one within the gunsights of the
conquistadors was spared. Millions of people were slaughtered. The
consciousness of hatred and intolerance permeated both continents. The
history of these places, played out in every village, is the story of man’ s
inhumanity to man. The Spanish conquistadors missed nothing in spreading their terror as they
systematically killed native peoples. Those they didn’ t kill with arrows and
bullets became infected with diseases the invaders brought with them. They
found every village, with an exception here and there. Machu Picchu is one
such exception. The unwelcome visitors just missed it altogether. This
place, built thousands of years ago as a holy shrine by the native peoples,sits at the top of a remote mountain in the Andes. It went undiscovered by
anyone from the W est until 191 1. As we approached Machu Picchu, first by air, then by train, then by bus,
and finally by foot, we pondered the questions everyone asks about this
place. How did they build this thousands of years ago. How did they carry
millions of gigantic rocks up such a treacherous path, without cranes,
helicopters, and earthmovers. Who carried the rocks to the top of this
remote mountain and placed them in a terraced formation. How did they
build this tribute to their divine worship of nature thousands of years ago
when the wheel had only recently been discovered. How did the hatred that
infiltrated the countryside bypass Machu Picchu. How was it that this
remained an isolated sacred spot. My wife and four of our children spent several days walking, meditating,
observing, and breathing in the ener gy of this magnificent place. The days I
spent in Machu Picchu gave me some of the most blissful feelings of
sustained well-being that I have ever known in my life. I meditated in the
mountain shrine and felt the presence of God surrounding me. When I
lectured to the seventy or eighty people who accompanied us there, the
words did not seem to come from me. I was only a vehicle for the flowing
energy that seemed to come from elsewhere to the audience. I kept
repeating to my wife that I had never felt such a feeling of well-being in my
life. The pheromones of loving ener gy, untainted by the low ener gies of
intolerance and hatred, were distinctly present in this magnificent place
which stood unmolested over the centuries. Those lower ener gies, which
infected the surrounding territories and created fields of sorrow, will only
be eradicated with a new infusion of love, or a spiritual solution to a very
large collective problem. There you have four examples among many I could have related here in this
section. My visits to Dachau near Munich, Gettysbur g in Pennsylvania,
Alcatraz in San Francisco elicited similar feelings of low ener gy
atmospheres of suf fering. Similarly, entering the ener gy fields of the Great
Pyramids, the sacred hills of Sedona, Arizona, and the ancient holy shrines
on Bali evoked feelings of being in a higher and faster ener gy field. The
important thing here is not to give you an endless list of examples but toencourage you to awaken to the fact that ener gy is something radiated
outward that impacts for eons of time everyone who enters that space. Y ou
have the choice of making your ener gy field environment blissful by
sending out this kind of consciousness, or you can impact your environment
in nonblissful ways. When you feel that your family, social, and work environments are
poisoned in any way by the negativity and slowed down ener gy of others,
you can do something about it. I turn once again to Mother T eresa to of fer
you a way to improve those negative environment fields. The following
section represents a blueprint for a broader environmental ener gy field
permanently free of contamination. The eight points are from Mother
Teresa of Calcutta, followed by my comments on each of her suggestions. An Eight-Point Plan of Decontamination
People ar e often unr easonable, illogical, and self-center ed. For give them
anyway. Forgiveness in your heart is like a cleansing agent for your ener gy
field. When you notice the low ener gy conduct of others, rather than
allowing it to impact and infect your immediate surroundings, send them a
silent blessing and refuse to be seduced into joining them in their low
energy. When you forgive them you choose to not be impacted in a negative
manner. If you ar e kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind
anyway. Your field of ener gy is protected from contamination by kindness. Once you are independent of the accusations of others, you are unable to be
angry and hurt over what others accuse you of. Be kind because it is you,
not because of the reactions you want from others. Kindness that comes
from your heart will suf fice to keep you from being dragged down into an
energy field infected by false accusations. If you ar e successful, you will win some false friends and some true
enemies. Succeed anyway. The world is filled with people who are looking
for occasions to be of fended. Y our success at anything is enough to trigger
such a reaction in others. Keep your ener gy field pristine by focusing on
what you know to be your divine purpose, and by doing so, the universewill support and sustain you with what is labeled success. Others will be
offended, but if you persist in ignoring their reactions, you will not allow
the presence of false friends or true enemies to be a factor in your life. If you ar e honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank
anyway. Your ener gy field will remain uncontaminated as long as you know
that you are being honest and frank. This may attract others at the lower
energies of dishonesty and cheating to try to take advantage of you. But you
will not become their victim because you will have the sense of inner peace
that characterizes higher and faster spiritual ener gy. Those who attempt to
cheat you will respect and honor your position when you stay true to your
spiritual values. Behave toward others from your highest self and you will
eventually be free of the fear of being cheated. Ironically, when that fear
disappears, the problem of being cheated also disappears. What you spend years building, someone may destr oy overnight. Build
anyway. Do not build anything only for the purpose of having it completed. Build because it is your way of expressing your purpose. When you eat a
banana the goal is not to finish it, but to enjoy each bite while nourishing
yourself. Building something is a means of expressing yourself. If someone
took all the books I’ve published and destroyed them, I would continue to
write. If every tape recording of my lectures was destroyed, I would
continue to speak. Everything in the material world that is built will
ultimately be destroyed. Build not in fear of having it destroyed, but
because you are giving expression to the infinite spirit within. If you find ser enity and happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy
anyway. I always remind myself that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. If you seek the reactions of others as the basis of your
way of being then you have turned the source of your happiness over to
those whose reactions you covet. Happiness is an inside job. Y ou don’ t get
it from anyone or anything; you bring it to everyone and every event of
your life. Keep your ener gy field free of contamination by remembering
that you are the source of the cleansing. Others may be jealous, find fault
with you, and say terrible things about you, but you are free to choose
happiness for yourself anyway. The by-product of your response is that yougradually impact their jealous and mean-spirited ener gy fields with your
radiating happiness. The good you do today, people will often for get tomorr ow. Do good anyway. Like being happy, doing good is something that you do as an expression of
your invisible spiritual essence. Stop looking for the approval and gratitude
of others as your reason to do good. Even if no one ever says thank you, do
for others as your heart dictates from spirit, which is rooted in the faster
energy of love, kindness, and connectedness to all. Y our spirit ur ges you to
express heart ener gy. Ego, rooted in the material world, ur ges you to do
what you do so that you will be remembered and rewarded as if life were a
contest. Listen to your spirit. Remind yourself to give love and do good
because that is who you are, and for no other reasons. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the
world the best you’ve got anyway. “The best,” as used by Mother T eresa,
implies your highest, most sacred self. This is the fastest vibrational ener gy
and the source of all problem resolution. Others may attempt to contaminate
your ener gy field by demanding more of you, or by criticizing you
repeatedly, or even by ignoring your ef forts. When you return to your
highest self, you are independent of those opinions almost instantly, and
problems of feeling unappreciated are nonexistent. Give the world your
spirit, and detach from the outcome of your ef forts, and your ener gy field
becomes less and less contaminated. These are the eight suggestions that Mother T eresa of Calcutta of fered as a
plan for your life. Her conclusion is the truly profound essence of this
offering. “Y ou see, in the final analysis, it is all between you and God; / it
was never between you and them anyway. ”
Recently I approached a traf fic light where a man stood in shabby clothes
with a three-legged dog by his side. As I waited for the light to change I
looked at this scene with compassion and felt an ur ge to contribute
something. The sign he was carrying indicated that he was homeless. The
people in my car commented that he was a strong young man, there were
plenty of employment opportunities, and why should anyone give to people
who are capable of working. They indicated a kind of mild contempt forthis man soliciting funds when he “should” be working like they worked
every day. My thoughts were on him and the fact that he cared for and fed
this crippled dog. I rolled down the window and gave him several dollars
for which he expressed enormous gratitude. As the companions in my car semi-scolded me for being a sucker and for
enabling him to continue to be a beggar I heard the words that Mother
Teresa said. T ruly this was not between me and my friends in the car, nor
was it between me and that homeless man. It was between me and God. And something inside of me ur ged me to extend love and a little cash as
well. The next time you see anyone asking for money, remind yourself of
this, and if you honestly feel that you don’ t want to give, then by all means
don’t, but rather than being critical, angry, or even mildly upset, instead
offer that person a silent blessing and drive on with your ener gy field
uncontaminated by those lower vibrations. Before we turn to the third field of ener gy, I’ll close this section with
Mother T eresa’ s observation. It is a valuable guide to preventing the lower
energies of others in your immediate surroundings to impact your ener gy
field in an impure way. THE FINAL ANALYSIS
 
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true
enemies;
Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone may destroy overnight;
Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often for get tomorrow;
Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is all between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway. —Mother T eresa of Calcutta
Decontaminating Y our Mind Fields of Energy
Here we enter a somewhat obscure area. But nevertheless it is of equal
importance for you in maintaining your ef fort to avoid contaminating your
life, so that you might implement spiritual solutions. Here we are talking
about thoughts, yours and those of others around you, and how you can
keep yours pure, and not allow the low ener gy thoughts of others to impact
you in a desecrating manner. This vignette from my life will help you
understand what I mean. In 1982 I went to Greece to run in the footsteps of Pheidippides who
purportedly ran the twenty-six-plus miles from Marathon to Athens in 490b. c. to carry news of the Greek victory over the Persians. I was part of a big
group of runners and other tourists who were gathered at JFK International
Airport in the departure lounge when we learned that the plane’ s departure
would be delayed by seven hours. The place became one gigantic collection
of grumblers, complainers, and agitated people who now had to decide what
to do for the next seven hours. Amid this chaos was a little old Greek lady, perhaps in her eighties, all
dressed in black, who proceeded to take a seat, close her eyes and,
apparently unconcerned about the delay, sit with a smile on her face as if
she were meditating. I walked around the Olympic Airline T erminal for two
hours and then wandered back to the departure area and there sat the little
old Greek lady, as peaceful as could be, still in the same position, still
showing no signs of dismay. I then took a cab to a movie nearby and returned to the airport three hours
later, and the little old Greek lady still sat in her peaceful manner. Other
passengers began to return still grumbling and upset six hours after the
announcement. But the little old Greek lady in black was unperturbed and
just as peaceful as before. Eight hours after the original departure time we
all boarded the plane. The little old Greek lady sat across the aisle from me. She smiled at me as we sat down, and then, believe it or not, for the next
thirteen hours, the duration of that flight across the world, she never moved
once. She didn’ t eat, drink, get up, watch a movie, complain, stir—nothing
but sit in the same position as in the departure area, with the same contented
look on her face. Finally, almost twenty-two hours after we had arrived at JFK for the flight,
we landed in Athens. As we left the customs area I noticed the little old
Greek lady in black being met by her family. She laughed, took out gifts for
the many children who awaited her arrival, hugged everyone, and was in an
animated, high ener gy, joyful mood as she left the airport. Almost two decades have passed and I have never for gotten that little Greek
lady and the impact she was to have on my life, even though we only
exchanged a smiling glance. Every time I observed her, either in the chaotic
departure area or on the plane, I noticed that I felt more comfortable, more
at ease, and less inclined to be upset. She had the same impact on all theother marathoners who were in the lar ge collection of passengers. W e all
remarked that she was twice our age and dressed in uncomfortable clothes. And we all noticed how she didn’ t demand food or lodging vouchers, didn’ t
threaten a lawsuit, but simply went to a chair and put her mind into a state
of bliss. Her silent statement impacted all those who observed her in a way
that seemed to relax everyone. T o this day, whenever I am involved in a
similar delay situation I recall that little old Greek lady all dressed in black
and remind myself of how to enter and remain in a mind field of peace. That our thoughts impact us is too obvious to elaborate on further. We all
know that we become what we think about. But it is significant to
remember that our thoughts are a field of ener gy cycles, a mind field, and
that just by our thoughts alone we impact not only ourselves but those
around us as well. The little old Greek lady was able to spread an invisible
energy of contented bliss to all of us on that flight by doing nothing more
than sitting and thinking. Obviously, she resonated her inner calm to all of
us. Scientists describe thought as an or ganized field of ener gy composed of
complex patterns of vibrations that consolidate information. Dr. Valerie
Hunt further describes it in her book, Infinite Mind : “Thoughts are events in
the mind field that are available not only to the consciousness of the creator,
but also to other minds. ” She explains that our thoughts are not private but
rather “field-public. ” This means that you do not think in a vacuum, but that
your thoughts are created from transactions with other fields. Thoughts can
be passed on from generation to generation not just by photographs, print,
or the spoken word, but also by the strength of thoughts remaining in your
mind fields. The more dynamic your field of ener gy, the more capable you are of
communicating and impacting your thoughts to others, and in being
impacted yourself. How do you go about making your thoughts so dynamic
and creative. I quote Dr. Valerie Hunt again. “One does not dwell upon the
process nor does one struggle to get answers. One trusts the process of
higher creative thought. Such is the capacity of great healers, lecturers,
clairvoyants, physicians and spiritual leaders when they enter expanded
consciousness states. ” Y ou can do this. Y ou have the potential to keep yourfield of ener gy uncontaminated, and the potential to radiate a dynamic
spiritual ener gy. Simply by your presence alone, vibrating in this mind field
of creativity and peace, you can impact others. Your intellect might protest and attempt to convince you that mind fields
and silent communication of ener gy are nonsense. But once you see this at
work you’ll know. The intellect itself is too disconnected from etheric
energy forces to readily accept such possibilities, but I have seen it work
over and over in my own life. When I am able to consciously project love,
understanding, and compassion to those in my immediate life space, I feel
the shift in ener gy. I surrender my judgment or my desire to make my point
and the mind field ener gy changes. Gradually I watch that dif ference in
energy af fect the other and enjoy the change within myself. My wife,
Marcelene, is a master at this. I have had the exquisite experience of being in the delivery room with my
wife as she gave birth on many occasions. She knows that she is entering a
space that is dominated by stressful and fearful thoughts so she prepares
herself with her thoughts prior to even entering such a space. She radiates
her thoughts of love, joy, and gratitude for being able to participate in the
mystery of creating and delivering life. She surrenders to the mystery, with
no fear, only a knowing and inner determination to be peaceful during this
wondrous event. Such is her mind-set and consequently her mind field as
well. I am with her and available but I am actually quite useless. She
projects her inner peace, and calm determination to do what “women have
been doing forever,” as she describes it. The presence of her thoughts brings
a sense of calm and peace to the other women in labor, the nurses, and even
the trained delivery personnel. Marcelene is writing her own book on giving birth with full participation in
the sacred mystery through mind field ener gy. She is an incredibly
impressive example of entering the mysterious sacredness of birthing
through mind field ener gy. Marcelene has delivered seven babies without
any drugs, each time creating the kind of ener gy I describe here. Moreover,
she is now a doula, a woman who assists others with their own high ener gy
in delivering their babies in an atmosphere where fear and anxiety arereplaced with a calm, loving feeling of thankfulness for being able to
participate in such a miracle. This mind field exists and you are capable of not only keeping yours
uncontaminated, but of being a force for raising the frequency of others in
your presence. Raising those frequencies is the subject of the next chapter. For now, see if you can accept this idea of a mind field of ener gy composed
of your thoughts and the thoughts of those around you. The closer you
come to being in a dynamic state of grace in your thoughts, and refusing to
be in the fields of those who are projecting lower ener gy thoughts of fear,
stress, evil, anxiety, depression, and the like, the closer you come to being
in God’ s mind field. Here is how Meister Eckhart phrased it. Nature’ s intent is neither food, nor drink,
Nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything
Else in which God is left out. Whether
You like it or not, whether you know it
Or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts,
Tries to ferret out the track on
Which God may be found. I love this idea, finding the track on which God may be found. This is the
energy field I am asking you to consider. It is devoid of the lower ener gies
that contaminate our lives and saddle us with illusions that we call
problems. Since I opened this chapter with an observation of W illiam Butler Y eats, let
me close with another one of his poetic observations. VACILLATION (IV)
 
My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless. When you refuse to allow your ener gy fields to become contaminated, you
feel blessed, and you know you can bless others as well. That is what a field
of high ener gy truly is, one that exchanges feelings of being  blessed with
giving  blessings. I invite you to spend some time in your thoughts,
imagining having this for yourself. What follows in chapter six are some dynamic principles to internalize for
living in these faster ener gy frequencies. OceanofPDF. com6
RAISING AND  
MAINT AINING YOUR 
SPIRITUAL ENERGY
But I do not believe that man can perceive his “God-Like” qualities until his field reaches higher
and higher vibrations and attains a greater degree of coherency. No matter how hard we try to receive spiritual guidance, we cannot until our fields are attuned
to that vibrational system. —DR. VALERIE HUNT
Johann W olfgang von Goethe, a creative genius of the early nineteenth
century, made this observation: “If you treat man as he appears to be, you
make him more than he is. But if you treat man as if he already were what
he potentially could be, you make him what he should be. ” His advice is
pertinent in today’ s world and specifically insightful about raising your
spiritual ener gy if you apply this wisdom to the way you treat yourself. First, who do you appear to be. Y our conditioning, your history, and your
senses provide you with a multitude of answers. Y ou appear to be a person
with a body, which has certain obvious limitations. Y ou appear to be of a
particular ethnicity, a certain age, with a background that has led you to this
point in your life. Go and look into a mirror to see what appears to be you. Now go beyond those appearances and look deeply into your eyes and see
yourself as a spiritual being having a human experience. Imagine what you
potentially could be, if you were unrestricted by all those appearances. Beneath or within what you appear to be is the image of magnificence and
unlimited joy that you truly are and that I ask you to consider as you read
about these principles. What you potentially can be is the basis for forming
a spiritual ener gy field. This is the foundation from which spiritual ener gy
arises for the resolution of problems. I enjoy Shakespeare’ s description:
“You are full of heavenly stuf f and bear the inventory of your best graces in
your mind. ”
Just let this idea rest in you: you were made to prosper and you are going to
choose to identify yourself from this potentiality, rather than as you appear
to be to others and to yourself. Recognizing yourself as a child of the most
high, as a divine presence, will facilitate raising and maintaining that
higher, faster spiritual ener gy field. And it is from this new ener gy field that
you will bring the sparks of the divinity that nullify and eradicate those
problems in your life. In the remainder of this chapter I will describe a
series of principles to help you implement this idea. RAISING YOUR ENERGY VIBRA TIONS
The following principles are not of fered in any particular order of
significance. They represent my personal view on how your mind and your
subsequent behavior can move you from the toxic ener gy levels of the
material world into the level of spirit, wherein lies the solution to any and
all problems. All these ideas are presented with the intention of inspiring
you to become conscious of your ability to shift from the lower/slower
energy patterns of the material world to the higher/faster vibrations of the
world of spirit. Practice the Presence of Spirit
Practice awareness of the impossibility of being outside the omnipresent
spirit. Some ways of doing this are to remind yourself when you first
awaken that this is a day that God will be with you at all times. Remind
yourself that everywhere you are is a holy place. Every meal you eat bemindful of what it took for that food to reach your plate. When you make a
phone call, drive in your car, or enter your workplace, begin to have this
God realization. As you practice being mindful of the presence of the divine
invisible spirit you will notice a greater sense of peace, a stronger feeling of
being safe and secure, a knowing that you are healthy and living from an
inner sense of integrity. These feelings result from simply silently
practicing, and I emphasize silently. No preaching and converting others to
think as you do. Simply realize the presence of your source from which you
are never truly separated except in your own mind. Just by being mindful of
the divine presence, you raise your ener gy field vibrations. This is what Dr. Hunt means in the display quote at the beginning of this chapter. You have
to attune to the vibrational ener gy field of God to be able to receive spiritual
guidance. When you find yourself feeling out of sorts, anxious, or afraid, exercise
your mind by inviting the realization of the omnipresence of spirit to be
known, now. Do this in the midst of your fear or anxiety and notice how it
seems to be much less troubling. Some teachers refer to this as practicing
mindfulness. It is a sure way to raise the ener gy field frequencies into
higher realms. Y ou literally provide yourself with a treatment when you
stop to remember and practice the presence of God within and around you. Your Mind Is the Substance of All Matter
Take a look at your hand right now. Would you describe it as intelligent. No, because intelligence is the mind that directs your hand to move to the
right, to grasp, to clutch, to make a fist or wave good-bye. Y our hand
responds to the directives of your mind. Y es, of course, the hand has
intelligence, as does every living cell have a center of intelligence, but that
cell responds to the directives of your mind. Thus your mind is the
substance of the matter that is called your hand. Now think about every
other or gan in your body. Your heart, liver, spleen, all of which were created
to act in accordance with the central divine intelligence within them. Y et,
your mind is still the substance. If you so elect, your entire body will respond to the directives of your mind. From your mind you can tell all your body parts that God gave themfunctions and direct them to perform them. As you use your mind in this
manner to direct your body, eventually it will do so on its own. At first, you
tell it to do the business of God as it was so created to do, and then you will
see it doing so on its own. But always, your mind, that fount of high
spiritual invisible ener gy, is the substance of and in control over your body. Now extend this principle to all that surrounds you as well. Mind is where
you experience all matter, and your mind is the substance of all that you
experience. When you raise your ener gy field to include yourself in the
mind of God, you have that God field at your disposal. Every person on
earth is governed by the mind of God, yet most don’ t recognize this fact. Thus, they encounter the problem of the illusion of separation which ego
brings about. Even though I have said over and over that the mind of God is
your mind, I do not mean that you have a monopoly on this, as if you were
some chosen favorite. This unifying force is not only the intelligence of
every person, it is the intelligence of every cell in the universe. And this is
the scope of your mind. Direct, insist, demand if you must, that your mind
be in harmony with the divine mind and your ener gy will go from slow to
fast, from material to spiritual, from problems to solutions. The next time
you are faced with a problem, look at your hand for a moment and remind
yourself that although it has intelligence, its substance is your mind that
directs it to be a hand. Then face the problem with your mind  and God’ s
mind  as one. Mortal Sense Needs to Y ield to Make Room for Spiritual A wareness
On Beethoven’ s writing table, framed under glass, were the following
words, copied in his handwriting. He had discovered them in an essay on
the spiritual practices of Ancient Egypt. “I am that which is, I am all, what
is, what was, what will be; no mortal man has lifted my veil. He is only and
solely of himself, and to this only one all things owe their existence. ”
Imagine this great composer reading these words every day to remind
himself of the source of his creativity. You too can be inspired to decide to let go of your primary identification
with your mental, material self and yield to the one to whom all things owe
their existence. When confronted with a problem stop in the middle of itand remind yourself that God is on the field and that you can surrender to
that realization. When I do this, almost immediately the solution is obvious. I am always surprised that I didn’ t realize that I was attempting to resolve
my dif ficulty with my mortal self, feeling separated and anxious and facing
the issue all by myself. In the moments of yielding the mortal sense, the
energy field increases and you make room for the presence of spiritual
awareness. I received a letter from a woman who was diagnosed with cancer and given
only a few months to live. She decided to keep this information from
everyone she knew, including her husband and children. She rented a cabin
in the northern Minnesota woods and spent each day silently yielding her
mortal sense and opening herself to spiritual guidance. The days turned into
weeks, and the weeks into months, with every day devoted to communing
silently with God and releasing her attachment to her body and the cancer
that had invaded it. She began to feel stronger as she no longer identified
herself with her body. When she returned to her home she never again even
visited a medical facility. Today she thrives, some nine years after her
terminal illness diagnosis. The commitment to yield her mortal sense and
allow the calm, peaceful, serene, loving presence of God to handle the
cancer was what she intuitively felt was her pathway to healing. Any problem, I emphasize any, disassociates from your inner world when
you yield your material mortal self and allow the higher frequencies of
spirit to manifest in your life. Send Love to, and Pray for, Your Enemies
I use the word enemies  advisedly here. The poet Henry W. Longfellow
wrote, “If we could read the secret history of our enemies we shall find in
each man’ s sorrow and suf fering enough to disarm all hostility. ”
Harboring anger and hatred toward anyone guarantees that you remain in
low ener gy fields where problems will continue to crop up repeatedly in
your life. I suggest that you examine every relationship in which you feel
judgmental thoughts of anger and hatred. Replace those thoughts with
energies of acceptance, kindness, cheerfulness, and love. Y ou will have to
make a personal commitment to, first of all, notice what you are feeling andthen exercise your ability to choose to send love. When your heart becomes
pure, your enemy becomes your friend, or even more significantly, your
teacher. Your worst enemies are your greatest teachers because they allow
you to examine the emotions of anger and revenge and then to transcend
them. They give you the exact tools you need to elevate yourself to the
spiritual ener gies that provide your solutions. When you send love in response to hate you accomplish one of the most
difficult things for anyone. As I look into my conscience I can now honestly
say, I have no one whom I can call an enemy, no one whom I could say I
hate. Over the course of my life I have been disappointed many times. Some have borrowed and never repaid. Some have for gotten their promises. Some have left me for others. Some have cursed me and spread rumors
about me. Some have stolen from me. I send love to them all, mindful of
the Buddha’ s words: “W e live happily indeed, not hating those who hate us. Among men who hate us we dwell free from hatred. ” It has been this
transformation in my own thinking, perhaps more than anything else, that
has allowed me to move out of those low ener gy problem regions of my
life. It is a powerful strategy for raising your spiritual awareness. God Is Not W ithholding
Imagine, for a moment, that you know a person who has stored away
everything you want or need for your happiness, but refuses to let you have
them unless you do his bidding, ask properly, and behave as he wants you
to. Furthermore, this person can heal you of disease but allows you to suf fer
for now, and maybe  will consider healing you at some future date. This
would not be a very nice person, let alone a very nice God. Is this the kind
of withholding God that you imagine the spiritual ener gy to be. In the
scriptures it clearly says, “And everything I have is yours. ” These six little
words may be the secret you’ve been looking for to raise your awareness to
a spiritual level. God is often perceived as an invisible being whom you pray to when you
find yourself experiencing some kind of shortage in your life. “Please God,
send me the money I need. Dear God, I want you to heal me of my disease. I beg you God, please bring back my spouse who left me for another man. ”On and on, praying for the things that you perceive to be missing. In this
mind-set you believe God decides whether to provide those missing
bounties from your life based upon how you behave and whether you do the
proper penance and ask in the fashion that God demands. Moving your ener gy up to the level of spirit involves knowing that God is
not going to be doing anything dif ferent one hour from now than he is doing
right now. Moreover, God isn’ t doing anything dif ferent now, than he was
doing an hour ago or one hundred years ago. God is only here in the present
moment, in the eternal now. God is inextricably intertwined with your
ability to move your thoughts out of yesterday and tomorrow and to escape
into the now, wherein is located God’ s only residence. The now is a speck in the universe of abundance that has no boundaries. “Everything I have” means the unbounded prosperity of this universe. “Is
yours” means you can have whatever you place your attention on with love,
now, not at some future time, but now. God is not holding back your share
of this unbounded pie waiting for you to conduct yourself properly. Nor is
God gleefully watching you suf fer in scarcity and illness until he decides to
stop withholding. Whatever solution you seek for whatever problem you
may have is available to you in this moment. It is in you, not in some
mythical Santa Claus like being with a long flowing beard floating around in
the heavens, dispensing “goodies” to some and “baddies” to others. Y ou are
always connected to this universal source of present moment ener gy. As Saint Paul put it in his letter to the Corinthians, “Do you not know that
you are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you” (I
Corinthians 3:16). When you know this truth, you stop asking God to give
you what you think he is withholding. Instead you can bring this spirit of
God that dwells in you to those missing or problem areas. And you will
have unlocked the secret for a spiritual solution to your problems. Once you realize that you cannot influence God, nor can you find God in
some place where he has hidden from you, you know that nothing is being
withheld from you and you can commune with this omnipresent source and
bring that love to bear on your personal problems. You Are Not Being PunishedJust as God does not withhold, God does not punish you by burdening you
with problems. As Joel Goldsmith, the founder of the Infinite W ay put it,
“All you have to do is to awaken from the belief in two powers of good and
evil and begin to honor God by respecting the first commandment. how
can you fear an evil power if there is only one power and that one power is
God. ” The idea that God could be punitive is inconsistent with spiritual
awareness. Purely and simply put, God is love and he has made everything
beautiful in its time, including you and everyone else. Actions and thoughts, which you might call evil, are the result of the error
that is made when you believe you are separate from God. It is a mistake of
the ego, or the intellect, to believe there is evil for which God must punish
you. Y ou correct an error by bringing truth to it. Y ou then nullify the error. The idea that God will condemn you is not consistent with a God of
forgiveness. You believe either in one power or two. The power of one is the power of
love. Evil exists first as a thought of non-good or non-God, and then it is
that thought which is acted upon. But it is all an error. “God is too pure to
behold iniquity. ” If it’ s not good, it’ s not of God, and if it’ s not of God, it
can’t exist, since everything is of the one power we call God. Y ou can
correct all the errors of your belief in separation from God by bringing that
higher loving ener gy to those areas of your life that are plagued with
problems. They are not punishments. Rather think of them as errors to be
corrected. They will disappear as surely as two plus two equals seven
disappears when you bring the substance of truth to the error. God does not condemn, God for gives. God does not punish, God is love. You end the error of evil which is a non-God thought by bringing a God-
thought to it. Y ou raise your spiritual ener gy by recognizing the lower
energies as being the result of having separated yourself from spirit in the
first place. Y ou rid yourself of the idea that any evil person has a grip on
you, because there is only one power in the universe that holds everything
together, and that power is good. All else that is not good is your mind at
work creating the illusions of problems. Nothing of an evil nature has ever
touched God. Anything that you believe God punished you for is because
you lived in the mind of man rather than the mind of God. When the mindof man becomes illuminated, he becomes a part of God, and this is the
solution to your fear of punishment. God Is Not an Overcoming Power
There is no reason for you to sit around and wait to be favored with a
spiritual experience, because most likely it is not going to happen that way. What you must do to raise and maintain higher spiritual ener gy is to learn
these principles and then put them into action. The simple truth is that by
thinking good, healing, loving thoughts you can produce the good, healing,
loving results. And conversely, by thinking evil thoughts you can produce
evil results. So, how do we overcome our mental inertia. By changing our
fundamental belief system. When you believe in two powers you must
constantly upgrade your fighting because stronger defeats weaker. A greater
force defeats a lesser force. Thus we have two forces or powers always in
conflict with each other. I’d like you to try a dif ferent idea here, which will eliminate the barrier of
your mental inertia. There are not good powers and bad powers, good
forces and bad forces. There is only one power and that is the power of God
or spirit. This power does not overcome evil, disease, disharmony, or
problems. The power of God is not an overcoming power. It does not defeat
or engage in conflict since it is the only power there is. There is no
secondary power for it to subdue. The two-power idea is a mental and
material creation of man wherein we fight lesser forces with greater forces
to emer ge as winners, or we think loving thoughts to overcome evil
thoughts—to be happier. God power doesn’ t overcome. The power of God is a creative, sustaining power. When you embrace this
idea of one power, all other forms of power whether material or mental
dissolve. Once you know this you stop fighting evil thoughts and instead
embrace the oneness of God. “Resist not evil,” means do not give any
credence to evil as a power in the first place. Evil has no power except to
those who subscribe to there being two powers. Once you embrace the idea of one power, you commune with that power
and let go of the illusion that a power other than that of God created your
problems. That is the two-power mind-set that I’ve called low/slowfrequencies of vibration. It is there because you live in the duality that there
is non-God and God existing simultaneously. Moreover, God is in this
never -ending eternal conflict with non-God and never has, or ever will, win
—this is all absurd. By leaving behind this duality thinking, and embracing
the idea of one power, you leave behind conflict. Y ou go to that one source,
needing nothing to struggle against, and you bring this truth to those
problem areas and observe as they evaporate in the presence of this one
power the power that is the one that you cannot seek after, attain, influence,
or coerce, because you already are connected to it right here, right now. Right where you stand. It is the meaning of “the Kingdom of God is within
you. ” Again, as Saint Paul put it, “Y ou are the temple of the living God. ”
Divine Love W ill Meet Every Human Need
Mary Baker Eddy is responsible for these words being printed on the wall
of every Christian Science Church: “Divine love will meet every human
need. ” How is it possible to believe this is true. People continue to have
many unmet needs in the presence of divine love. They feel divine love and
still their problems and sicknesses persist. This statement does not imply, as
many who wish for the resolutions to their problems assume, that divine
love is out there doing it for or to you. Divine love is something that you
must express and when you do, your every problem or need will be met. Divine love is not floating around in the air or sitting in a fluf fy cloud
waiting to rain down on you and wash away all your problems. Divine love
is what you radiate outward and it is not what you think of as human love. In divine love there are no conditions, no rules, no need to be thanked or
reciprocated. Divine love is spiritual love that embraces the seven
components of spirituality elaborated in chapter one. Y ou must let these
blessings pour out from you rather than going to God for your blessings,
because you are the instrument through which this grace flows. If you are to
raise and maintain your spiritual ener gy, you must keep uppermost in mind
that you (not a God from whom you are separated) are willing to allow
divine love to solve the problem. Rudolf Steiner observed “If we do not develop within ourselves this deeply
rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall neverfind the strength to evolve to something higher. ” Divine love is not truly
higher than yourself, but it is higher than the physical or ego-self you’ve
come to believe is you. Y ou already are this divine love and you can radiate
it outward and aim it at your unmet needs once you begin acknowledging
that it does exist. You Cannot Have God and Have Fear T oo
Generally speaking, most people fear their highest possibility and they are
afraid to become that which they can envision in their most glorious and
perfect moments. Consequently fear becomes an accustomed state of being,
and avoiding our own divinity becomes commonplace. I suggest that your highest possibility is to come to a knowing of your own
divinity. Yet your conditioning has led you to believe that it is almost
sacrilegious to assume that you are divine. Divinity, you have been told, is
for God and perhaps his chosen saints, but not for you. Thus, a fear of your
highest possibility keeps you from knowing God and living a life in which
you can access spiritual solutions. Essentially there are two overriding emotions—love and fear. And those
two emotional states cannot be experienced simultaneously. If you have fear
you’ve eliminated love, and vice versa. The scriptures remind us that
“Perfect love casteth out all fear. ” They also inform us over and over that
“God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him” (I
John 4:16). So, obviously the solution is to rid yourself of all fear and the
only way to do so is to stop yourself in a moment of fear and see if you can
replace the fear with love in that very moment. Right in that moment of
replacing fear with love you have introduced a spiritual solution to the
problem surrounding the fear. Always remind yourself in moments of fear
that God cannot reside where fear exists. I am sure you are familiar with the saying that our greatest fear is fear of the
unknown. If that is true, how can we remedy it. By becoming acquainted
with the thing you do not know and that you fear. Then it will disappear. And what is it that we maintain is unknown. God, spirit, higher awareness,
and ultimately love. Any and all fears that you harbor make you the
landlord to a ghost. Face it, and feel the fear. Replace fear by simplyallowing a feeling of love or the presence of God to reside right in that same
ghostly spot where the fear was. I have found in my own life that I seldom encounter fears anymore. The old
fears of failing, or enduring the disapproval of others, or not knowing how
things might work out, simply don’ t crop up in my inner world any longer. It’s not because I’ve achieved a certain level of success or material
possessions (it is my experience that people who rise to a high level of
material success have a great fear of losing it), but because I have a strong
feeling of love where fear used to be, and because I know that I am never
ever alone or separate from God. If you find out that what you fear the most
is an illusion of your mind only, then you have identified where you will
develop next. The eradication of that fear, when all is said and done, is
accomplished with the introduction of spirit, which cannot live in the same
space as fear. You cannot have God and have fear too. Every fear represents a disbelief in
God at that moment. Keep uppermost in mind these two observations. One
from the scriptures, “I will fear no evil, for thou art with me,” and one from
the Sufis, “Y our greatest gift lies beyond the door named fear. ”
Don’t Feel Spiritual—Be It. You don’ t wander around all day feeling moral or honest. Y ou simply are a
moral person. If you consciously felt moral you would be broadcasting it all
day, explaining each act of honesty as a reflection of your feelings of
morality. Instead, you simply are honest and moral and your behavior
comes from within you. The same is true of your spirituality. Being spiritual
is not an emotional accomplishment to praise yourself for. It is your way of
being with God that is as natural as your health, morality, or even your
artistic sense. T rying to feel spiritual is not the same as being it. When you attempt to feel spiritual you erect a barrier, because you are then
introducing your ego into the picture. Ego wants to praise you for being
more spiritual than those around you, and condemn you when others are
more spiritual than you. Ego wants to explain and defend your spirituality,
and monitor how spiritual you are feeling at various times and in many
circumstances. By simply recognizing your connection to God, and inviting that part of
yourself to consciousness, you are raising your ener gy level to the level of
spirit. But if you make yourself a pawn in a game of “How mystical can I
feel. ,” you invite ego to assess how superior you are to others. Ego thinks
that feeling more spiritual is equivalent to being in an elite classification
and will begin to try to get more spiritual points than your opponents. It is
that very elitist world of the lower vibrations that you want to leave behind. Don’ t try to feel spiritual, just be it. God Cannot Be Divided Against God
God is an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent infinite power that cannot
be fragmented or divided. That is, God cannot be available for some people
and unavailable for others. He cannot be here one day and gone the next. He cannot be in anything that is evil and also be in that which is good. In
defining God, all discussion disappears and you have only the one, all
knowing, all good, all loving presence. When you find yourself in duality you are in the physical world where your
senses perceive opposites such as: good/bad, healthy/sick, alive/dead,
right/wrong, and so on. This is where you perceive yourself as laden with
problems and you seek solutions. So, your ego insists the solution to being
sick is to find health; the solution for scarcity is abundance; and the solution
to pain is pleasure. In your ego-dominated world you perceive all these
opposites. But if disease or evil were to exist, God would have to be responsible for
them and therefore their nature would be good. Since God created
everything, and everything that God created is good, the things we call
problems are constructs of our thoughts and senses. Recognize that the
nothingness, appearing as a problem, is what frightens us. It is not God that
is divided into problems or solutions, good versus bad, disease versus
health, it is you. The absolute way to health, prosperity, and love is in knowing that disease,
scarcity, or evil never can be acknowledged as having power. If you ask
God to heal you, you are acknowledging that God made you sick. When
you ask God for special favors you acknowledge a God power that keptthose favors from you. When you ask God for health, it is like saying, “God
you’ve got this thing called health, but you won’ t give it to me, please
reconsider. ” You are asking God to be divided into having health and not
having health, or abundance, or anything else. Instead of seeking benefits or favors from God, remind yourself to
commune with this eternal presence that is in you. Bring this presence to
the illusions that are in your mind called problems. See that in the presence
of this unconditional, nonjudgmental love duality based problems disappear
and only loving presence remains. As Joel Goldsmith put it, describing the infinite way in Foundations of
Mysticism :
All you have to do is face the impersonal source of all worldly evil and
recognize its nothingness, its lawlessness. Then be still, be quiet, be
calm, and watch—watch the hypnotism and its pictures pass away
from you. That’ s how it’ s done. Harmony Is Y our Normal, Natural State of Being
While God represents the one power and does not recognize any other
power, your mind is something quite dif ferent. Y our mind has both the
power of evil and the power of good. As long as you use this power for the
purpose of creating harmony in yourself and others you are consistent with
the one power of spirit. Spirit is the one unifying force in the universe. It is possible for you to use this power of the mind to bring about
disharmony, and when you go in this direction you are lowering the
frequency at which you vibrate ener getically. Your body cannot be
independent of itself, it needs an “I” to direct it. If your mind says overeat,
your body conforms to the mind’ s instructions. If your mind says imbibe
poisons, your hand will obey and pour the toxins into your body. A mind
imbued with ignorance or error will keep the body in a constant state of
disrepair and problems. This same error -plagued mind will create a
multitude of problems for your body and all its attendant circumstances. Harmony is your normal, natural state of being, because when you are
natural you are in the hands of the one loving presence called God. It isyour mind that generates disharmony and creates havoc or problems for
you. Now, of course you do not want to get rid of the mind or the body to bring
about a spiritual solution to your problems. The body is a glorious
instrument through which you function as a human being. Y ou need it to
enjoy this incarnation and go for a swim, drive an automobile, and make
love. Y ou do not want to get rid of it. Y our mind, which is the captain of
this ship called your body, has the power to steer you through this lifetime
and make it a marvelous voyage. When you reach the spiritual peace that is
what this book is about, your mind and your body are the instruments
through which God ener gy flows. Y ou are no longer limited by the
boundaries of the body and mind. At this consciousness there is no limit to what can be revealed to you. Y ou
will taste the fruits of synchronicity wherein you are in collaboration with
fate to manage the coincidences of your life. Y ou will have a knowing that
transcends the mind and the body. As you become more aware of your
divinity you will discover your abilities to remove illusions of illness,
scarcity, and evil in the ways that Patanjali alluded to in the second chapter
of this book. This harmonious relationship with spirit is your natural state of
being. Our Lacks Come from Failure to Understand God’ s Law
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A high level of calmness.
What does a high level of serotonin indicate?
The impact is that the serotonin levels of those around you will increase, and you will have a positive influence on those in your environment.
What is the impact of being in the presence of someone radiating tranquil energy?
The purpose of the mind is to allow you to connect with the one power, which is the source of all solutions.
What is the purpose of the mind, according to Dr. Valerie Hunt?
Recognizing and embracing your connection to God, and not seeking external validation or approval.
What is the key to raising and maintaining spiritual energy?
The author advises replacing fear with love and embracing the idea that God is the omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent power that cannot be divided or separated.
What is the author's advice for overcoming fear and negative thoughts?