The World is a Hospital in Need of Service
The world is a hospital full of sick people. And when you’re in the hospital, you don’t get angry for the people being sick; you just acknowledge that they’re in that hospital because they are sick. So it really changed my expectations to accept that people are ill in varying degrees—some people obviously very ill; […]
Dealing with Problems Will Make You Strong
I just want to emphasize that problems is a part of life and living in the physical reality. Whether you avoid problems, welcome problems, or just dutifully deal with problems really does make a difference in how strong you are to be in a changing world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akFTiWvv94A Marshall Vian Summers speaks on dealing with problems […]
You Can Only Practice. What Will You Practice?
I found that the second time I did Steps to Knowledge, it was a very challenging thing on one Step, and I apparently missed it the first time through. But that’s typical for Steps to Knowledge is you only see maybe ten percent of what’s in those Steps the first time through. Second time through, […]
Functional Spirituality in a Changing World
To be stable in a changing world, you have all four of these Pillars: Relationships; Health; Work; Spiritual development, which is really your connection to Knowledge. In its essence, that’s what creates stability. And you’re only as stable as the weakest of any one of those Pillars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KPjxtqM-ls Marshall Vian Summers teaches functional spirituality and […]
Thoughts and Beliefs Are Not Reality
Reality is everything that is happening beyond your thoughts and beliefs. No matter what you think, that’s all happening. And to get real in the world is to be with reality. And there are people who can just reveal more reality to you then you can reveal to yourself. And so your sources of information […]
How Does the Mystery Move within the Manifestation of Life?
For the part of you that lives in the Mystery needs the part of you that lives in Separation, so that it can give its great gifts to the world through you. And the part of you that’s living in Separation needs the part of you that is living in the Mystery, so you can give your true gifts to the world
To Want the Truth Beyond Comfort and Consolation
You almost have to know and want the truth beyond comfort and consolation. You have to have a need for it. “I need this. I need to know what I’m doing in this world. I don’t want to stumble into the future the way I’ve stumbled in the past. I don’t want to lose years […]
7 Spiritual Beliefs Debunked
People come here with what I think of as binky beliefs. Binky beliefs. A binky is a pacifier. It’s what you give a baby to make it feel secure, safe and secure, stops crying. “I’m okay now, I’m okay now.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFlIomNB6Lw Marshall Vian Summers dispels several popular spiritual beliefs that many people tell themselves to […]
How to Deal with Great World Change
Many people out there have felt the approach of great change in the world, have felt disturbed by it, concerned by it, concerned that people around them are not responding or don’t seem to want to know anything about it. Are you stirred by what you see happening in the world? Are you feeling a […]
The Problem of Ambivalence
Ambivalence is the thing that deflates you. It’s where the lights go out in you. It’s where you stop. Not sure. How do I know? What do I do? Where do I go? As if something would have to be so perfect for you to choose it that otherwise, you just are kind of neutralized. https://youtu.be/oD7WxJBGIJ4 […]
