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Mar 22nd, 2007 at 1:56am
 
It has been asked, "how do we know our spiritual experiences are real, as opposed to delusions and wishful thinking?"  Lucid dreams appear absolutely real and convincing, yet may have no basis in physical reality.  Bruce encourages us to use our imagination in the process of retrieving stuck souls or communicating with a deceased loved one; yet I can imagine an infinite variety of conversations to have with grandma, creating a two way dialogue in my mind, right now and I would be the sole author of these creative writing essays - or woud I?

For me, the journey begins with understanding consciousness and thought and what it can and can not do.  I have come to believe in what Dave here has called the primacy of consciousness - that my conscious mind is the chicken, and my physical existence, the egg.  I searched for proof of this, and proof that we are more than our physical bodies.  I found out much over the past several years.  A compelling amount of evidence shows us that thought creates reality.  Oh, I know that this sounds like the channeled Seth material, and for those of you who don't like that -  sorry, but Seth/Jane Roberts became popular because there was a kernel of truth in the writings.

Thoughts are constantly embedding themselves onto our subconscious and effecting probabilities and outcomes on the physical world.  This is most obvious to us when we take an action based on the thought (duh), however a close examination of our lives shows that our deepest thoughts/beliefs tend to manifest in our daily lives.  This has been pointed out, and labeled "the law of attraction."  Many self help books have capitalized on this law, and made a lot of motivational speakers and "life coaches" a lot of money.  Ah well.  However, any thinking man or woman, when given enough introspection can verify this concept to be true.  It is not the fleeting thoughts, the "wishes" which manifest, but our deepest thoughts, presented to the subconscious (and hence the universe - aka Carl Jung's shared subconscious), tend to manifest themselves.  We reach our greatest hopes and fall to our greatest weakensses in this manner by indulging in deep subconscious beliefs.

The P.E.A.R. laboratory in Princeton ( http://www.princeton.edu/~pear) for 30 years studied the effect of consciousness on physcial phenomenon.  People in single groups or in pairs sat in front of machines formulated to generate random numbers.  Time after time, it was shown that human thought/intent had a small, but significant effect on the outcome of these machines.  If you toss a coin 1000 times, in general you get 500 heads and 500 tails.  Statistically PEAR showed that the intent of an observer altered these coin tosses by a tiny percent.  Paired human beings, especially those who shared an emotional bond, had a much more profound effect on the outcome of these machines.  These studies were unbiased, scientific and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.  Sometimes, intention caused the opposite reaction to occur in the machines on for some observers.  But a change was documented in the real world.  

Masaru Emoto has shown that as water crystallizes, intentions expressed around it effect the subsequent appearance of microscopic water crystals on a photograph.  His photojournalist essays are truly staggering, and so are the implications.  When water is slowly frozen and observer tags the container with certain words, such as "love" or "gratitude," the subsequent beauty of the crystals formed is in stark contrast to crystals formed with hateful or vindictive thoughts or words.  Further, there has been some evidence that water consumed after a blessing may have certain health benefits due to the power of conscious intention.  The idea of "saying grace" before a meal may have profound implications for our health.

If thought creates reality, how does it work?  It appears to be the impression of thought, while in deep meditation or profound relaxation on our subconscious.  Fleeting thoughts, or thoughts with doubt (what Kathy here terms "cross purpose" thought) has little to no impression on the subconscious or effect on reality.  Thought that enters our subconscious as CONVICTION or firm belief, is usually translated in the real world.  We are told by astral explorers that this translation of thought into reality is much easier in the spiritual planes.

Now to get back to that conversation with grandma, or the retrievals done here.  The same rules should apply.  We may use the imagination method to get the party started, so to speak.  But when deep in meditation, when thought is focused and true intent or conviction is applied, that which followed, which is experienced in general should be real.  We usually know this in an after death communication (ADC) by knowing in our core that it is so (the knowing of experience).  Albert has mentioned this in his retrieval experiences.  A conversation only done in our imagination, with cross purpose thought and whimsy may or may not have had an effect on the spiritual plane.  The initial use of the imagination method applied with conviction, and followed by an observational period has a much better chance of working.

I asked in another thread what the quote about the faith of a mustard seed meant in the new testament, Matthew: "For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you."  I did not get a response from the person in question.   My own interpretation of this is that thought, when applied with faith (or conviction), creates real tangible effects in both the physical and spiritual planes.  When seen in this way, we can understand our spiritual experiences, be they retrievals or conversations with grandma as having been real if they were experienced in this way.  

I agree with Don, that we need to be applying intent to obtain rational verification for these spiritual encounters as well.  However, you can see from my above train of thought why the notion of spiritual contact and retrievals may have a firm grounding in reality without such historical rational verification.

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Reply #1 - Mar 22nd, 2007 at 2:53am
 
Matthew,

Thanks for starting this thread.  It's not clear to me that you are a "monist," but, for now, let me pose questions designed to flush out what you might mean by "the unity of all things" and our power to create in this life.  Suppose I intend that Joe's metasthetized pancreatic cancer will go into complete remission.  Suppose further that my mental discipline is relentless and well-focused, my attitude is positive and loving, and my faith is strong.  Let's also concede a New Age conception of God as All That Is or Universal Consciousness or the One, despite my objections to this conception as too simplistic,  How would you then respond to these 4 at times conflicting contentions?

(1) It may not be the will of "God" to heal Joe.  If it is not, then Joe will soon die no matter how well I perform my role as a mental healer.

(2) The power of loving focused intent is a necessary condition for effective petitionary prayer, but not a sufficient condition.   Effective prayer involves many subtle principles that go far beyond our focus on the noble outcome desired.   

(3) No, on the contrary, God is love and we are one with God.  So God's will cannot be distinguished from our loving support for Joe.  His fate is in my hands and in the hands of others who love him and pray for his recovery.  But we may not have mastered the requisite skills of mental healing. 

(4) No, the power of God is limited by natural laws in ways that we can't fully understand.   Joe may be beyond physical healing no matter what God and I want to do for him. 

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Reply #2 - Mar 22nd, 2007 at 5:21am
 
Hi Matthew When i receive from spirit,sometimes i have to sort out whether its my thoughts coming into the words i get from spirit and when i have talked of this to George our medium at the spiritualist church,he told me that most mediums do go through this as he has been a medium for a lot of years and sometimes he questions himself but he tells me ,when i get these doubts that i must put my faith in spirit and say exactly what i receive,even with these doubts,which i do now.He also told me if i kept doubting myself i may as well stop being a medium.

I know when i did the retreival on one of my friends who died in tragic circumstances,i was walking up my stairs and as i got to the top,i picked up this really strong scent of beer,,it felt like i was standing in a brewery as my friend would always be out drinking at weekends,and as i looked i saw him,he was in tears and he was afraid of going to the light ,so i just asked God to send his helpers and guides to help him go through the light ,and i saw two guides walking him through and my friend came to me two days later and said he was now at peace,but that is the sign he gave me that he was there, the scent of beer.

Love and God bless          Love Juditha
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Reply #3 - Mar 22nd, 2007 at 6:04am
 
Hi Don & Juditha,

Don, my answer to you would be that your hypothetical friend Joe, stricken with disease has his own energies and convictions.  Prayer has been shown, even in dispassionate scientific studies to have a positive effect/benefit.  However, his death may depend more on his own relationship with God/the universe and his deepest thoughts and convictions.  It is clear that these factors will be much more important in his healing or death than the thoughts/prayers of outside concerned loved ones.  I can not pretend to know how various energies interact (Joe's with a prayer group).  However all reports and evidence point to his own thought/conviction being the most powerful factor in deciding on whether he lives or dies.

Biological reality will play a role here; Joe is given a rulebook of being a human being.  While miraculous cures have been documented, often these dire situations are a chain of events of free will, and circumstance.  (Joe smoked for 20 years, understood he should stop, chose to continue, had a deep conviction that he might get cancer one day, etc.)...

I do not believe that we can all walk on water and harness impossible powers at will.  I believe in the physical plane, as an incarnate soul it is more subtle, but that thought does influence probabilities in our real lives. 

To say that it might not be God's will for Joe to live is plausible, but Joe in thought and action, as a being of free will and intent was a part of this decision, even if indirectly.  No one meted this out in abstentia. 

Focused prayer and love may not be enough.  There are conflicting intentions of energy both from Joe and all those interacting with him. 

I do not believe that a prayer group has the ability to change Joe's destiny if his conviction deep down along another path (death).

Your comment about the physical laws being real and a factor I believe may be true in certain circumstances, however Joe's free will was most likely involved in leading him there.


Juditha, thank you for sharing your retrieval experience.


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Reply #4 - Mar 22nd, 2007 at 6:18am
 
The sense/dream development stage living in and with the spiritual world called the distant Old Moon Stage. Later the manifestation of the individual logic and intellectual developed in the Old Sun Stage and important to discern the sense-pictures, the remanence of the old moon stage, when it arises. This discernment is done through the ego.

It was/is important in the development of the human to break out of the collective old moon stage into the individual sun stage in order for the ego to develop intectually and individually. To be one part of the whole and not collective-consciousness part of the collective consciousness.

Without the individual intellect of the ego the state of collective-consciousness arises as it was in the distant old Moon stage. This stage, important in human development, perceived itself to be part of nature and nature to be part of itself. However, when the time was right to develop further ie the ego; certain entities did not want to let go of this dream like stage.

During the old Sun stage the newest member to our spiritual body – the ego - was developed. Within this the ego individually and intectually perceives outside of itself and with this the perception the Christ Impulse as the oneness of collective consciousness which in turn is perceived inwardly.

This is why it is important for the developing / developed ego to be aware of dream-like influences.


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Berserk wrote on Mar 22nd, 2007 at 2:53am:
Matthew,

Thanks for starting this thread.  It's not clear to me that you are a "monist," but, for now, let me pose questions designed to flush out what you might mean by "the unity of all things" and our power to create in this life.  Suppose I intend that Joe's metasthetized pancreatic cancer will go into complete remission.  Suppose further that my mental discipline is relentless and well-focused, my attitude is positive and loving, and my faith is strong.  Let's also concede a New Age conception of God as All That Is or Universal Consciousness or the One, despite my objections to this conception as too simplistic,  How would you then respond to these 4 at times conflicting contentions?


 I see God a bit differently than that, though i do believe in the unity of creation.   I belive that when Source manifested the universes, it pervaded all with its essence, and yet kept a part of itself outside of creation.   So, if you added up the sum energy of all of creation, all individual souls, all energies, such as 1+1+1+1+1=5, this would not account for the totality of energy.  Or the sum is greater than the additiion of all the parts.

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(1) It may not be the will of "God" to heal Joe.  If it is not, then Joe will soon die no matter how well I perform my role as a mental healer.


 I don't think God controls anything in that kind of specific manner, what i would say is that God's Will is always love and the most constructive for all involved, but that's a very broad stroke, and meanwhile God doesn't direct things itself, but rather has given all freewill and to try to manipulate any of it's creation (even if for a good end), would be to break that covenant.  

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(2) The power of loving focused intent is a necessary condition for effective petitionary prayer, but not a sufficient condition.   Effective prayer involves many subtle principles that go far beyond our focus on the noble outcome desired.  

(3) No, on the contrary, God is love and we are one with God.  So God's will cannot be distinguished from our loving support for Joe.  His fate is in my hands and in the hands of others who love him and pray for his recovery.  But we may not have mastered the requisite skills of mental healing.  


 An interesting thing to me, is that Yeshua did not heal every sick person he came into contact with.   While the physical personality might want healing on a conscious level, the Total self of which that person is an aspect of, may think that this personality still has things to learn from these conditions however difficult they may be for the personality.

 I think Yeshua knew the differences between the will of the physical personality, and that of the will of the Total self (the overiding will), and i think he would commune with each person's Total self before deciding whether or not to try to heal that person.   In some cases, i believe that the physical personality was not ready to be healed and Yeshua respected the Freewill and choices of the Total self.  

 God didn't have much to do with it in a specific sense of directing this or not, but rather that Yeshua was a pure and perfect channel of Gods energy, which is love and which is the most powerful healing energy there is.    To me, God didn't say to Yeshua, this person will be healed and that person won't be because i deem it so...  Talk about a simplistic version of reality.

 Yet, there is more involved than just the Total self's wishes and wants too, there is the greater good of the Whole or collective, and there are those who are fully attuned to that and who do act in a more specifically directing manner.   These have been called Masters, Light beings, Elders, etc.     These are the Creative Forces within the Whole, and they are creative because they are fully and always aligned to God's highest will, that of pure Love which takes into account all involved.  

 So, these may somewhat act as guides and directors on behalf of God, in a more specific manner.   These may commune with a person's Total/Higher self, and come up with a better and more constructive path for all involved.

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(4) No, the power of God is limited by natural laws in ways that we can't fully understand.   Joe may be beyond physical healing no matter what God and I want to do for him.  


 See above, just as applicable.   But also, the nature of physical energies, and the fact of their immense density, often makes it more difficult for such instantaneous and complete healings and it requires a great deal of harmony of all involved to manifest this.  

Using Yeshua again as a channel of healing, Yeshua comes up to a person with an illness, the person, the physical personality deeply wants to be healed and asks Yeshua for help.   Yeshua communes with that person's Total/Higher self, and its all agreed that physical healing now is ok and beneficial for all involved.  

 So far, so good, but say there is a rabble rousing crowd around surrounding them with a lot of extreme negativity and doubt, directed at Yeshua and to this healing process at the moment, and his Disples and other followers are nowhere to be found at the moment.  This could even affect the connections between Yeshua's purely positive and harmonious energy to that of the person's energy field, which has much inharmony mixing with some harmony.   It could "mix in" so to speak, and limit the degree of instantaneous and full healing, and say the person also begans to doubt meanwhile, this too will have a limiting effect.  

 But, switch the above around, with the other conditions the same.  Yeshua is surrounded by those of faith and positivity, and/or others in prayer and meditation.   There is no doubt in the person regarding Yeshua's abilities to act as a pure channel of Source energy, and the Total self of that person has already given the go ahead to Yeshua.  

 The healing may very well likely be instantaneous and complete.   What did God have to do with it?   God is the healing, vivifying energy that Yeshua acted as a channel for, but God didn't direct or manipulate the situation in a direct manner at all.  

 
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Reply #6 - Mar 23rd, 2007 at 8:26am
 
Hi Matthew and all,

I, too, thank you for starting this thread.  I would like to delve a little deeper into this subject based on my own experiences and what I have learned.  I certainly don’t have all of the answers, but I’d like to present my perspective from a larger view that includes what we think of as our spirituality.  This isn’t by any means conclusive; it is what I am trying my best to understand in a cohesive manner that addresses “the unity of all things” from my perspective.

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It is not the fleeting thoughts, the "wishes" which manifest, but our deepest thoughts; presented to the subconscious (and hence the universe - aka Carl Jung's shared subconscious), tend to manifest themselves.  We reach our greatest hopes and fall to our greatest weaknesses in this manner by indulging in deep subconscious beliefs.


Most of the time we don’t consciously realize just how deeply our subconscious beliefs go and the direct effect they have on our desired creations.  It is the spiritual that creates the physical.

We exist on what we term spiritual and astral levels that penetrate downward into the physical or what we think of as our physical body.  In this we include the idea that we are “body, mind and spirit”, but we do not yet understand all of the implications of this.  In particular, we lack knowledge of our spiritual aspects and we tend to view these from a separatists point of view.

Consider the possibility that we exist in many bodies in addition to the physical one that we are most familiar with.  Or it may be easier to understand if we think of our self as a single body existing within many interpenetrating levels that include what’s been called “planes of reality” such as the Spiritual Plane, the Astral Plane, and the Physical Plane.  Each of these planes interpenetrates the ones below it down and into the physical body.

Consciousness begins at the deepest level of our being regardless of what we label this.  For me within my belief this deepest level is God, the father who is the very ground of our being or at the very core of our energetic essence, commonly called our higher self.  This is the part of us that is never separated from God.  I suppose one could describe God, the father as Consciousness without belief that is always active in Creator / Creative Movement.  Don might want to help me out here with my description as I think he knows what I’m trying to get at.

As the movement of our core or the Divinity within goes forth from the spiritual plane downwards in vibration, it encounters and penetrates through the next lower spiritual plane of vibration, which is our origination of what we call intention.  Keep in mind that in my description we are still on a very deep or high vibration of our existence.  This level of intention is where belief was/is created, not only within us, but also within the greater consciousness of the collective.  This plane of intention could be thought of as God, the son or the Christ Consciousness, or what Kyo terms Cosmo Ethics that is now carried within the spiritual plane consciousness of intention.  To me, God, the Holy Spirit carries collective consciousness within the whole of consciousness and is the means by which feedback travels.

I see this as a feedback process where consciousness moves downward through all vibrations including the physical, and collects information, which it then returns; back not only to itself, but to the whole of creation of this spiritual plane of intention as well.  This is also what gives our personal consciousness the power of freewill choice, so our choices have their origin at this higher plane of our being or what we think of as our subconscious mind.  

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If thought creates reality, how does it work?  It appears to be the impression of thought, while in deep meditation or profound relaxation on our subconscious.  Fleeting thoughts, or thoughts with doubt (what Kathy here terms "cross purpose" thought) has little to no impression on the subconscious or effect on reality.  Thought that enters our subconscious as CONVICTION or firm belief, is usually translated in the real world.  We are told by astral explorers that this translation of thought into reality is much easier in the spiritual planes.


When we enter into deep meditation or are very relaxed it is easier for us to as Matthew states make the impression of thought upon the subconscious.  This is because we can travel the line of consciousness back to its source while being physically conscious of our action.  In actuality, this movement between higher and lower consciousnesses is continual.  We can and do effect change by choosing to do so either consciously or unconsciously.

Our cross purposes do have an effect on our ability to create what we want.  And they do have an effect on our subconscious because we have muddied the waters with our conflicting thought patterns.  This is why our creations don’t always turn out the way we want them to be.  We try to make choices for what we consider to be better than what we had, but much of the time the choices we make stem from our fears, which muddy the water even to the point where it has become so completely murky that we cannot see clearly.  The creation of fear is the root cause of this.  Fear is also from my perspective how we created a split in consciousness, which thrust us into a world of duality.

On a larger scale this duality stems from our strong collective belief that we are separate from God, from each other, from our self and from nature.  It seems we have created a very real solidified world of separation for us to experience and guess what?  We did it intentionally regardless of whether or not we were or are conscious of doing it.  We also continue to feed this strong separatists belief back to our subconscious mind at the spiritual plane of intention and this is what holds it in place along with all that exists in our physical world including our human frailties and suffering.

There’s an old saying… you are what you believe you are.  I think there is more truth in that saying than any of us realizes because this spiritual level of intention is a center of spiritual power that exists within the physical body and everything we do rests on the foundation of our intention in the moment we do it.

We all are very good at creating mixed intentions.  We do this habitually in numerous ways.  One of the primary ways is that we give ourselves reasons of why not, which are really rationalized excuses, alibis or stories that we tell ourselves to justify why we couldn’t create what we desired or get the results that we wanted.  Our reasons of why not will never give us the results we wanted and many times they serve to convince us that the reasons why not are almost as good as the results that we wanted in the first place.  Since we are spiritual beings these reasons of why not are fed back into the higher levels of our being and add to our foundational belief system, which in turn has a tremendous impact on not only our physical life experiences, but also on all areas of our entire being.

Many times what we want or desire serves the purpose of assuaging fear so when we have a desire to create or accomplish something we long for we don’t get the results we want because we have mixed intentions or cross purposes with ourselves.  This interferes with our natural ability to create what we want.  Anywhere in our lives where we have trouble creating what we want, including health and healing, is exactly where we are holding mixed intentions.  So we must clarify what our intentions are in order to realign the intentions that are preventing us from accomplishing what we want to accomplish.

We all have great spiritual power located within the higher levels of our being and the spiritual plane of intention is the foundation upon which the lower planes are built.  Whether we realize it or not, we are continually transforming the framework of this level of consciousness, which in turn has a direct affect on all other dimensions beneath it.

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Reply #7 - Mar 23rd, 2007 at 5:39pm
 
I've had some experiences where things I've perceived non physically have been verified physically, but things quickly moved to the point where such verification is no longer needed.

For one thing, I've been working with the spirit guidance I work with for about two years now, and so many things have happened that let me know I can trust them. And I was really stubborn about this. Therefore, I know them well enough by now, to know that they aren't going to lead me on wild goose chases when it comes to retrievels. Everything they do is productive and serves a purpose.

There is also the factor of a way of understanding that is much deeper and has more meaning than an intellectual verification approach. My deepest understandings/experiences have occurred at a level I couldn't possibly duplicate by thinking about them. I have tried, and just can't do it. If weren't for these types of understandings I wouldn't have faith in things such as God, Christ and the afterlife, because I have a difficult time completely accepting what my intellect tells me. I've found that it can be wrong, no matter how logical it seems at a particular moment.

I've found as Juditha has found. When I receive spirit communications sometimes my mind interferes with the reception process. This doesn't mean that an entire experience is meaningless. It just means that bits and pieces are wrong.

Regarding the subconscious mind, for my spiritual practice it has become necessary to allow fragments of my mind I used to suppress to become conscious. I've found that I wasn't over issues I thought I was over. I've also found out about issues I didn't know about. At times my higher self and/or guidance will place a fragment into my awareness in a very there way, so I can deal with it. The result of the above is freeing up my energy so I can live more and more according to my true self.
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Reply #8 - Mar 24th, 2007 at 8:53pm
 
I recall Joseph Campbell asking somethng like, "Am I the candle from which light shines forth, or am I the light of the candle from which all light is emitted?"

If we are "monists" (thanks Berserk) - then it's all One, and the problems lie only in understanding how"IT" operates.

If we are separate from God, then we are not monists, and we're going to have fun trying to figure out we get two different and separated natures out of a single Creation.

And if we're sort of half and half? I'd say that's just confusion. The wrong question.

Weekly I drive to work 210 miles and then home 210 miles. I believe in what Europeans call "rechtfahren", ie. "Drive right, pass left."  So when I get bogged down behind a cluster of slow vehicles waiting for someone who creeps along forever in the passing lane next to another snail, blocking the road, oblivious of the many cars wanting to pass, I sometimes project my "drive right, pass left" philosophy along mentally. Quite often the slowpoke moves to the right lane, allowing us all to pass. (Yes, I also say "Thanks".) Assuming that I am somehow communicating, we must be in some kind of contact. That's a vote for oneness. It's the same when I go to phone my wife and discover her already phoning me.

If we are dualistic, then we are making God perform. (There's a problem for engineers to ponder!) If we are monistic, then we are God, and we're making our selves perform.

At rare times we all have moments in which we seem to be facing the Vast Unknown. In these transcendental instants, it seems that anything that makes sense is possible. All we need to do is to locate the logic, and hold on. The mustard seed has no doubt, and thus it cracks and crumbles its way through rock and pavement to grow - literally moving its mountain. "Faith healing" (I often use hypnotic suggestion) operates the same way.  In fact, it's a "mind over matter event" when you lift your coffee cup. (And when hypnotized to not be able to do it, you can't!)

I like a logical monism. If we assume a Creative event, then every potentiality for its future expansion must be implicit in that event at the same initial instant. You and I select which of those options to pursue, much as we might select which road to take as we drive through town. The logic is already there, but we don't necessarily sense it unless we use the path that happens to include that sensation.  The mustard seed path with its portable mountains is thus nothing but one of the established and well defined worldlines that we might follow. How to locate that worldine is a different matter, but hypnotic phenomena provide a suggestion, as does focussed intention.

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Reply #9 - Mar 25th, 2007 at 1:09am
 
Here are 4 more studies that are in various ways relevant to amatthew's thesis.

(1) DMILS stands for "direct mental interaction between living systems."  In DMILS research, the sender is in a separate location from the receiver and may, for example, visualize the receiver in a very exciting or fearful situation or as relaxing on a sunlit beach.  The receiver has no idea of the exact time and nature of the sender's visualizations.   David Fontana summarizes the typical results in "Is There an Afterlife?" p. 23:

"Even on occasions when the receiver is unable to report correctly whether the sender is sending arousing or relaxing situations, electrodermal reaction nevertheless seems to be significantly more activated during the arousing than during the calming sessions.  Electrodermal reaction is in most cases beyond the individual's conscious control, and the instruments that are used to measure it are so sensitive that they measure an effect even when the reaction is so slight that it fails to impinge on the receiver's conscious mind.  Thus, the experiments show that even when receivers have no conscious idea of whether they are the recipients of arousing or calming thoughts, their unconscious mind seems to be receiving the information and registering it in physiological reactions."

(2) William Braud conducted an experiment with "senders unpracticed in distant healing."  Through simple visualization and directed attention, these senders were able to 'reduce the rate of destruction in blood cells placed in a saline solution."  The chances of this result being no more than coincidence were 5,000 to 1.  But the most significant point is this: since no receiver was involved, this implies the possiblity of direct action of another mind on someone's blood vessels (fontana, p. 21.   

(3) Dr. Glen Rein did an experiment on Dr. Leonard Laskow's ability to influence the biological function of cells with is thoughts, images, and intentions.  Laskow shifted into a specific state of cconsciousness and mentally focused on 3 petri dishes containing cancer cells held in the palm of his hand.  A nonhealer in an adjacent room was performing the same task while reading a book to minimize any effect his mental activity might have on the cells.  All 6 dishes were evaluated blindly for their growth characteristics.  Of the 5 mothods laskow used, only 2 showed significant effects.  The most effective intention was "return to the natural order and harmony of the normal cell line (39% inhibition)."  Asking for God's will to manifest as half as effective (21% inhibition).  But it must be conceded that God never signed a contract agreeing to participate in the experiment.  Adopting unconditianal love for the cancer cells had no effect.  It must be recognized that a positive verdict of results depends on whether one adopts the perspective of humans or cancer cells!  In any case, these results are not easy to reconcile with study (4) bwlow.

(4) Spindrift, Inc. is a research group devoted to the scientific evaluation of prayer-based healing.  In studies involving lower organisms and plants, they found that a "Thy will be done" nondirected approach was more effective in than one in which specific results were requested.  [Both (3) an (4) are summarized is Larry Dossey's book "Be Careful Whatyou Pray for..."

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Reply #10 - Mar 25th, 2007 at 7:22pm
 
There are several inter-related ideas about intent and the process of creation in the physical world that I believe bear repeating.  The first concept is that of intent coupled with certainty or acknowledgement that the intended action has been occurred.  Many involved in healings and prayer will give thanks for the healing, even before it has happened.  The healer is to "see the ill person as already healed," and acknowledge that it is done, giving thanks to God, and even visualize the emotions of joy and happiness that the healing has brought.  This is what seeing it as already done means.  This can be applied to intent either for healing or for any desired change in the material world.  There is New Testament evidence for this, as Don and others can point out.  Ask and ye shall receive:

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Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? "


The other important aspect of the use of intent in creating in the spiritual or physical planes is that it must be coupled to positive action.  One does not just sit and mediatate on wealth without making meaningful changes into one's life to work and earn money.  Action must be coupled with intent - this may seem obvious, but it isn't always to all people.  Some forms of religion have a "faith alone" document.  That if one has faith in God, that faith alone guarentess success or salvation. 

Another aspect about intent is what ethical consequences follow.  Those who practice intent with the idea of doing ill to others may achieve their ends, only to entangle themselves in negative karma.  In general, people aware of this try to couple their intent with the highest good for all those involved, and some will actually pray for the best outcome while they are applying intent to any given situation.


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Reply #11 - Mar 25th, 2007 at 11:30pm
 
"The first concept is that of intent coupled with certainty or acknowledgement that the intended action has been occurred.  Many involved in healings and prayer will give thanks for the healing, even before it has happened.  The healer is to "see the ill person as already healed," and acknowledge that it is done, giving thanks to God, and even visualize the emotions of joy and happiness that the healing has brought.  This is what seeing it as already done means.  This can be applied to intent either for healing or for any desired change in the material world.  There is New Testament evidence for this."
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Matthew is of course Jewish.  So it is ironic that his paragraph displays a better grasp of one key New Testament principle of petitionary prayer than many Christian pastors would be capable of formulating.  But Jesus teaches many more prayer principles. One natural response to this thread is to start a parallel thread on Jesus' prayer technology.  When Matthew's thread begins to lose some steam, I may initiate such a thread because there wiould be plenty of room for interaction between the perspectives of each thread.  At that time, I'll explain in detail the rich nuances of the "mustard seed" image for faith.

It is useful for Matthew to employ his own jargon to describe the elements of prayer.  Religious jargon often numbs the mind and fails to communicate the experiences it originally envisaged.   The most obvious example of this is Jesus' use of the word "faith" as a prerequisite for healing.   The term cannot really be translated because it is a code word for a heightened state of consciousness that most people don't know how to achieve.  Also, when less than pious language is used, this raises the question of precisely when a more "spiritual" or "religious" terminology might be helpful.  The more we can express old theological ideas in new language, the better our chance of penetrating the belief system to the practical methodology intended by the old language.  

Much of Matthew's interpretation is controversial and will eventually elicit some objections from me.  But his controversial claims are a plus, not a minus, because they are in principle falsifiable and therefore potentially testable.  In that sense, Matthew is in the process of formulating a "monism" that is "meaningful" in an epistemological sense.  I often wince when Christian pastors counter tough but honest questions with replies that "protect" the faith by making it unfalsifiable.  

Many Christians find it thratening to focus on petitionary prayer principles or what Matthew imagines as the power of focused intent.  They prefer to keep it simple and assume that a simple presentation of one's needs before God can suffice.  What is threatening about the notion that prayer is a discipline enhanced by a set of principles?   Well, suppose there is a right and a wrong way to pray for needs, and we violate or ignore key principles by the way we pray.   Our oversight raises questions like whether relationships remain broken which might have been repaired through proper prayer or whether bodies remain sick which might have been healed through proper prayer.  I have found such questions very humbling because, when it comes right down to it, I usually lack the self-discipline needed for the type of prayer lifestyle that Jesus advocates.  On those occasions when I have gone the extra mile and prayed correctly, I have seen miracles.  

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Reply #12 - Mar 28th, 2007 at 11:58am
 
Dr. Karl Phibram, a renowned professor of neuropsychology at Stanford University is well known for developing the holographic or holonomic model of the brain, which theorizes that the mathematics of the hologram works well as a model for brain processes and that the human brain essentially functions as a hologram collecting and reading information from a holographic universe.  

Simply, the way this works is that our brain, using our five senses picks up the energy field of whatever we focus our attention on and translates that energy field into an object.  The object that is perceived is really the secondary reality (or illusion as some call it) because the object is really a signature of the deeper reality of the energy field.  Or in other words, when we see an object such as a tree what is really happening is that we are seeing something that is a secondary reality.  The primary reality is the energetic signature that our brain interpreted the shape and color to be a tree. Our true reality is the energy that carries the information and all of our senses act together to create the illusion of our world around us, including our physical body.

Phibram’s research relates to the level of our deeper intention, which is the result of our consciousness upon which our energy flow is based.  The implications of this for our health are that any physical problem is a physical manifestation of the true disease that is found within consciousness, which is our primary reality.

When we consider our science and health care systems are most often based on the physical world, we realize they are based on secondary causes, not primary ones.  Our intentions regardless of whether they are conscious or unconscious are expressed in our thoughts; feelings and actions really are the primary factors that determine our state of health.  Any physical disease such as pancreatic cancer Don mentioned above is only a physical manifestation of the true disease that is to be found within consciousness and any science for treating disease that is based on the physical world is based on secondary causes, rather than the primary cause.

Using the hologram as a model, which clearly demonstrates that each piece contains the whole we can understand that each piece of us, no matter how small still contains the whole pattern of us that is expressed in the physical world.  Each cell in our body contains our whole genetic makeup.  Cloning is an example of this.  Our energy field (aura) that surrounds and interpenetrates the physical body is what creates the physical including each cell.  Disease such as pancreatic cancer is created in the energy field long before it is manifested in the physical body.  The energy field of each cell contains the whole pattern of health and even if we only had one healthy cell left, we can tap into the pattern of that cell to regain our health and cure disease.

Time is also holographic and each aspect of every moment exists both at all times and in all times.  We don’t usually think of time as being whole, complete and alive as well as coexisting in a knowledgeable interconnectivity with all other moments, but it is.  Each moment in time is self-aware and has access to all other moments in time.  What this means for us is that we each have access to all other moments.  We truly are everywhere all the time, always!  This means that we are always connected to our health before we become sick and we can access that experience of health and bring it into the now time for healing and we can do this instantaneously!

Our bodies are composed of energy.  They are a gelatinous substance of light.  Instead of thinking of ourselves as solid matter, if we were to think of ourselves as a gelatinous substance of light we could effect change with intention or prayer as Don mentions much more easily.

There is power in groups because any group of people together creates a greater whole.  Using the holographic model where even though each smaller piece of the photographic plate still contains the whole, the whole that it contains is fuzzier or less clear than the previous larger piece.  In reverse order, if the pieces are put back together, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.  Therefore a clearer picture of our greater, whole self emerges.  Any group of people together creates a greater whole that has more power than each person separately, however any individual within a group can tap into and access the power and energy of that group.  This goes even further to where each group within a larger group can tap into the power and energy of the larger group and on and on…

Another significant premise that I think comes out of Karl Pribram’s work states that the brain processes data consistent with what it is use to.  Or in other words, our experiences are based according to our expectations, which are based on our beliefs.  Since reality is created by consciousness, it is our consciousness that creates its own experience of reality because our consciousness is a part of reality, but this gets tricky because of the controversy surrounding it.
Basically the controversy amounts to misuse of this premise by stating blame, which in my opinion comes from the personality level of thoughts and feelings, which are secondary causes.  What we commonly call ego although I think the ego gets a bad wrap most of the time.  The ego is simply our interpreter of secondary causes.  Our deeper level of intention is the primary cause.

If we accept the idea that we create our own experience of reality, this puts us in a powerful position to understand how we created something such as pancreatic cancer or heart disease for example.  We then can change the ways in which we created something and re-create another more desirable outcome for physical manifestation.  We have the pattern of the whole within us and because of this the body has a natural healing system already in place where rapid change or healing can and does take place.

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Reply #13 - Mar 28th, 2007 at 12:45pm
 
   Really well written and interesting post Kathy.  I agree with a lot of it, but would like to add that while often many diseases start from the nonphysical "levels" of being in many cases, not all always.

   If i explained all the reasoning behind this, i would probably have written a small book.    But basically, accidents occasionally happen is what i'm trying to say.  Most is intention, choice, very way of beingness, belief systems, and/or purpose on some level (whether conscious or not), but not always.   

   For example, a radiantly healthy person who lives a life of love and service, treats their physical vehicle really well, is just really intune and doesn't limit themselves much and is pretty conscious to the greater self, one day falls onto their back in a bad way, and they end up with some severe spinal misalignment and nerve impingements. 

  This "event" wasn't prechosen, it wasn't known about before hand.  It wasn't karma, it just happened due to the unique nature of what you call the secondary reality.   It wasn't a probability even, but an "accident" because there is a certain amount of chaos within a creation of mostly harmony, choice, order, and purpose.   

  So, the once radiantly healthy person who is relatively poor materially, starts to lose health more and more.   Some major lesions have developed in parts of their spinal area, there is some major structural issues. 

   They can tap the healing force within them all they want, and not necessarily get better because this is a problem not "caused" at a nonphysical level, but at a level of physical structure which is really slow vibration energy.     They could spend hours upon hours trying to heal themselves, or going to energy healers...   But, if they simply go to a Chiropractor and get their back adjusted consistently, there is a high degree of probability of them getting better after. 

  I guess what i'm saying is that you need to treat the dis-ease or illness at the levels from whence they manifested and this is a very relative issue depending.   It could be the spiritual level or body, the mental, the emotional, the etheric-physical, or it could be a different mix of any one of these, or sometimes more purely one than the other. 

   You see this kind of treatment, and diagnoses in the Cayce readings, you see the complexity, subtly, and relativity of what actually causes physical un-health.   You see a multi, holistic approach, which takes into account the 3 main "levels" of being, physical, mental, and spiritual as both different and unique levels, but also ones which "overlapp", merge, or blend to a degree. 

  I am reminded of a case in the Cayce readings, where a little girl had major health problems.   Apparently it was not part of her life plan, it was not a probability, nor was it karmic experience for her to balance.   His guides said that most disease and illness was "karmic" in origin, which is a broad term for various energy reactions, particularly from the less physical or completely nonphysical ranges of energy (emotional, mental, spiritual, etc.).

  Apparently what happened was, a nurse was careless and did not wash her hands properly, and she introduced some germs into the little girls system, and it created a big problem for her later on in life.   It was a purely physical problem, created from a purely physical cause--and in a sense it was an accident because her Higher self had not chosen this experience for her to begin with.   Because it was purely physically caused, the treatment for her was mostly on a physical level.     Yet in many other cases, prayer, meditation, energy healing from others, attitude and habit changes, etc. were also involved.

  But in todays society with its overly literal and material mindset, its good that the nonphysical aspects of healing become more stressed such as in your post, and i did enjoy reading it.   You have a good ability to tie different subjects in together in an understandable and well written manner.
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Reply #14 - Mar 28th, 2007 at 4:04pm
 
Hi Justin,

Thanks for the review.  It’s good to have your voice here again, too.

Basically my post is my understanding of Pilbram’s work that makes sense to me based on my own experiences.  A lot of my understanding is based on David Bohm’s work as well as Pilbram’s.  In reference to the human condition of duality and separation Bohm stated, “Nature has allowed humanity the luxury to make mistakes, because humankind must have the possibility of being creative.  It is our fledgling ranking in this cosmic process that places us in these circumstances of choice and possible chaos.  Disorder, and its consequent suffering will prevail as long as all the different elements chaotically grow independently of each other, don’t work together.”

To me Bohm is saying we all together as a group have created this world to be as it is and we will continue to create the same as we have previously created until we as a group use our deeper intention to create the changes for betterment.  We are doing this and we have come along way.  The world and our healthcare systems are changing, but it will take the power of larger group consciousness to effect a complete change.  Of course that consciousness begins with our self.

This may tie in with what you’re getting at, too.  It’s been a lot of years since I’ve read any of the Casey material so I’m no longer exactly sure of how he defines karma.  My definition of karma is simply that it is a process of transformation or cause and effect, which is motivational desire (cause) and fulfillment (effect)   

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Apparently what happened was, a nurse was careless and did not wash her hands properly, and she introduced some germs into the little girls system, and it created a big problem for her later on in life.   It was a purely physical problem, created from a purely physical cause--and in a sense it was an accident because her Higher self had not chosen this experience for her to begin with.   Because it was purely physically caused, the treatment for her was mostly on a physical level.


This example doesn’t fit with Pilbram’s model of how our brains work or the holographic view of the universe.  From a holistic perspective, the little girl would not have gotten sick when coming in contact with the germs had her system been balanced in the first place.  This is the tricky part that I mentioned in my other post.  We all play the blame game of our belief systems.  This statement blames the nurse for passing germs to the little girl.  The little girl’s consciousness is the primary cause of her illness and the weakness in her energy field existed prior to her contact with the germs.  Responsibility always rests within our self.  In our world of dualism this is hard to explain.

Let’s say I caught a cold and I could say to the person I caught it from… “I caught your cold.”  This implies blame.  But the primary reason why I caught the cold in the first place is because my balancing system was off.  So a more accurate statement for me to say would be, “This cold that I caught is a signal to me that I need to balance myself because I’ve weakened my immune system that allowed this virus to penetrate.” This statement implies my own responsibility in this.

I’m not by any means degrading or discounting our healthcare system, I’m simply saying that we need to view our illnesses and disease by first of all taking the responsibility of creating it in the first place by knowing that it is a secondary physical manifestation that resulted from a primary cause.

The same is true for accidents or anything else such as obesity.  Instead of saying something like “I’ve got a bad back” one might try to view this from the primary cause and say something like, “The pain in my back indicates that I’m backing out on myself and it is time for me to be clear about my intentions or the person that overeats is padding themselves from a world that they fear and feel the need to protect themselves from. 

All suffering stems from the ways in which we have created our life to be and we hold it in place by continuing to believe that we are unconnected victims instead of realizing that we had something to do with it in the first place.  The choice is ours.  We can continue to see ourselves as victims or we can try something new that holds great possibility for new opportunities to heal ourselves.  Our true primary reality is the reality of energy and consciousness and anything that focuses on the secondary or material reality of the physical world is based on illusion and is illusory.  It seems to me that this is what our sciences are now discovering.

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Reply #15 - Mar 29th, 2007 at 2:40pm
 
 Thank you for the re-welcome.   I'm afriad i have written a small book in response to your reply.   When tying so many different things in together, its hard to keep things real brief using this odd communication style called "language".  I try to be as precise and yet as holistic at the same time, and unfortunatley sometimes this requires repetition and length.

Lights of Love wrote on Mar 28th, 2007 at 4:04pm:
To me Bohm is saying we all together as a group have created this world to be as it is and we will continue to create the same as we have previously created until we as a group use our deeper intention to create the changes for betterment.  We are doing this and we have come along way.  The world and our healthcare systems are changing, but it will take the power of larger group consciousness to effect a complete change.  Of course that consciousness begins with our self.

This may tie in with what you’re getting at, too.  It’s been a lot of years since I’ve read any of the Casey material so I’m no longer exactly sure of how he defines karma.  My definition of karma is simply that it is a process of transformation or cause and effect, which is motivational desire (cause) and fulfillment (effect)  


   I don’t know if that’s what Bohm or Pilbram is saying or not, since I’m not all that familiar with them, but I do largely agree with your assessment of his and the other guys work.    Yet there are some differences in the “fine print” I suppose you could say.   To me, yes the physical is a manifestation of collective Soul consciousness (not a “creation” though), but the nonphysical pattern from whence this originates, from our Soul patterns is directly from the Creator.   What we did, was took the Creator’s original creation and patterns, and slowed down their vibratory energies to the point where matter (the opposite pole of Spirit) seemed to have been created, ore more aptly was temporarily manifested.  

  Because of the nature of physical energies, they have their own properties as different from the nonphysical from which they originally originated from or were patterned after, but at the same time these energies are also interconnected with nonphysical energies until we as the collective decided to re-raise the vibratory speed of matter to its original state as originally designed and initiated by the Creator.    We are not “true Creators” in this Universe, right now we are only “playing at” being creators, we are more so manifester’s right now.    When we re-attain full Source Consciousness, we will phase into raw energy states (outside of the overall vibratory range of this particular Universe) and become True Co-Creators with Source, which was Source‘s original intention outside of us having been given Freewill to choose Source or un-Source.

 Karma to me, is like attracts and begets like on whatever energy,  or consciousness state from whence we “put out” a certain energy.   When we manifest emotional and physical karma, we meet it here, when we manifest mental karma, we meet in the nonphysical states of being.  

 Cayce’s guides said that much (but not all) of what we experience in the Earth plane, is karmic in origin.  Karma or like attracts and begets like works (and automatically) because all energies and consciousnesses are interconnected in the One Field.  So, one energy expression/manifesting either positively/constructively affects another and/or the Whole, or negatively/destructively affects another and/or collective others.   This means we have both a responsibility to self and to others for our choices and manifesting.   Nowhere is this more “extreme” and obvious than here in the dimension of the physical (the mixed dimension of polarity).

 When we choose to act, think, or feel in a certain way, and that destructively impacts another and we are conscious of this on some level, then we must balance that and “like” will be attracted to us, it is both energy Law and the desire of the Soul because as a part of Source/Spirit it like Spirit seeks perfect balance within self (Spirit is that perfect balance and what we seek to re-remember and be like again).    So, it isn’t so much by “rote”, but rather judged relatively according to our intentions and state of consciousnesses at the moment of choosing.    So for example, say I’m trying to safely carry a baby, I’m being careful and conscientious of not wanting to end up hurting the baby, but for whatever reason I end up falling and the baby gets hurt, my Soul or conscience will not say, “oh you have karma to balance now” because my intention was constructive and the baby was only harmed because of the unique properties of the physical.  
 Now, if I was being careless and doing things I know I shouldn’t be doing while carrying the baby--things which I know may possibly endanger the baby‘s physical health, in other words not being conscientious for my own particular awareness and development at the time, then I fall and hurt the baby, then yes I will have manifested karma for myself to balance, it won’t matter even if it was technically an “accident” because within my own awareness I knew on some level that my reckless, careless actions could potentially have some kind of destructive effect on this baby.

 Its very “relative” and has a lot to do with intentions and the degree of our awareness, spiritual development within any given moment.   Those who have developed much towards a Source Consciousness, have much responsibility to others and self---those strongly of material consciousness are not that aware and being so, they have less responsibility to self and others which is why when they are destructive to others they tend not to suffer much for it within their own conscience and consciousness (though at some point, some more aware and developed aspect of self must balance it out) .    Within the physical, the actual actions are not always the most important thing when figuring out karmic causes or not.  
Cause and effect is like attracts and begets like is what happens within a given physical lifetime and its similar to what we are talking about in relation to karma.   Karma though, is balancing out energies from other aspects of selves who also are projected into the physical energies (other lives).  

Both are related to like attracts and begets like energy law, but one is of this life and the other of other lives and selves and “carries over” in a sense.   And so far, we’re talking about difficult or destructive karma and cause and effect, but the same is true for positive and constructive.


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This example doesn’t fit with Pilbram’s model of how our brains work or the holographic view of the universe.  From a holistic perspective, the little girl would not have gotten sick when coming in contact with the germs had her system been balanced in the first place.  This is the tricky part that I mentioned in my other post.  We all play the blame game of our belief systems.  This statement blames the nurse for passing germs to the little girl.  The little girl’s consciousness is the primary cause of her illness and the weakness in her energy field existed prior to her contact with the germs.  Responsibility always rests within our self.  In our world of dualism this is hard to explain.

Let’s say I caught a cold and I could say to the person I caught it from… “I caught your cold.”  This implies blame.  But the primary reason why I caught the cold in the first place is because my balancing system was off.  So a more accurate statement for me to say would be, “This cold that I caught is a signal to me that I need to balance myself because I’ve weakened my immune system that allowed this virus to penetrate.” This statement implies my own responsibility in this.


To go into all this, we need to have a deeper understanding of reality in various respects, we need to consider many things, the nature of time, the nature of Life Planning, the similarity and differences between the conscious self and the unconscious selves (subconscious and super conscious or in other words Soul and Total/Higher self).  

 First time: as many have stated, time is not really linear as we perceive it here, yet there is a time of sorts.  That there is a “difference” between one moment and another whether in the physical dimension or within nonphysical dimensions is a self evident truth.  
  Time goes in probabilities.   When we choose something within the moment, this sets up certain probabilities of what we will experience from those choices.   Our Total/Higher Self exists outside of linear time perception, and so it sees probabilities of what we would call past, present, or future in relation to our choices in any given moment.   But our Total self, nor even Source itself, cannot completely “predict” exactly what we will choose or not choose.   This is freewill, the ultimate freedom and gift.    However, once we have actually made a choice along a certain line, then both Source and our Total selves will see the various probabilities which can arise from that.  

  Before we come in, various aspects of completely Source conscious Beings, our Total selves, our main guides, and the self which is going to get projected into physical energies all commune together and come up with the best possible Life plan for that individual aspect or what we would call a “personality”.    Obviously the Life Plan is not “written in stone” because of Freewill, but our Total Selves and our various guides try to keep us on track of it because it is a work of such unbelievable awareness and wisdom, the most constructive to self and to the collective.  

   Much of what we experience in major, intense, and particularly affecting ways as personalities were written into the Life Plan as probabilities and paths to begin with.   We’re talking major stuff that really affects our lives and the way we live it.    Much of our Life Plan is reasoned from our collective pool of Karma and karmic memory, but sometimes we take on certain challenges for the nature of those challenges and the potential growth factor involved, and not because it is karma for us to balance.

 But in both cases, these probabilities are pre-known about, because they are essentially pre-chosen on some level.   So, while something may be a “surprise” to our conscious personalities, it will not be so to our Total/Higher selves.    

 But, there is a certain amount of chaos which can happen within creation, creation has its “random” elements even though it basically follows a harmony, order, and plan.   Creation is purposeful but for Freewill to exist in a real way, a certain amount of chaos was allowed to exist along side the order or harmony of the Universe  and Creation in general.  

   So, while much major stuff we experience is either pre-planned or pre-known about from the perspective of the Total self, before it actually happens, its not always the case 100 percent of the time.    In the Cayce readings, in that particular example, his source said emphatically that this was not meant to happen to that infant girl, it was not a probability nor especially it wasn’t a pre-chosen thing to experience.  It essentially ended up changing much of her Life plan after she came in.   Hence, it was not a desirable experience either from a spiritual perspective or on part of that of a suffering C1 personality.   Meanwhile, in many other cases, his source said that the illness was largely karmic in origin, or you could say imbalance on other energy levels other than the physical then which the Soul inherently seeks a perfect balance.  

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Let’s say I caught a cold and I could say to the person I caught it from… “I caught your cold.” This implies blame. But the primary reason why I caught the cold in the first place is because my balancing system was off. So a more accurate statement for me to say would be, “This cold that I caught is a signal to me that I need to balance myself because I’ve weakened my immune system that allowed this virus to penetrate.” This statement implies my own responsibility in this.



 Relativity Kathy.   You are an adult who is more or less in full control of your vehicle, and the connections between your Soul force and physical are quite developed.    But this was a new born infant, what choice did she have in the matter of choosing to strengthen her energies to ward off these germs?    Her physical care was at this point, largely the responsibility of her mother.  
    The above would be true for you or me (especially us since we are more aware of health and health principles than even most adults), but not for her.   A Soul doesn’t have much conscious control over an infants body (especially when just born) because the connections between Soul energy, and physical energy are still being “worked out”.  

 You talk about “blame”, and in a way, it sounds like you are “blaming” the infant girl for not having a stronger immune system to constructively deal with the conscious carelessness of the nurse?   To me, that’s backwards when you consider certain inherent issues as pertains to a specific and relative case.  

 Let’s make it a more obvious and overt example.   Take the same situation and example, but change it a bit.   A nurse who has certain beliefs, ideals, and awarenesses usually handles infants with the physical care necessary for the greatest possible health involved.   She makes sure her hands are washed clean and largely disinfected.   She usually in these cases, thinks more for others than purely just for herself.   But one day, she has been in a fight with her Fiance before coming to work, she’s treated her body like crap and so her mood is also suffering for that, and overall she is just in a more angry and imbalanced way today.   In fact, she is so angry that in one split mili-second decides to choose to do something very rash and wrong, perhaps in a way she takes out her anger on the infant in a overt manner because it just won‘t stop crying, maybe she shakes the baby in a rough manner.    This was not a probability event, it was not pre-set up or pre known about by her Total self, nor the Total  of the baby involved.  

 But, because the infant’s body was handled in such a rough way, and because of the unique properties of the physical and of an infants body and its delicacy, this one swift event and choice of the personality--the nurse has an far reaching influence and affect on this person’s health for the rest of their life because perhaps neither of the parents or anyone else knew about this incident.    We are not talking germs in this case, which is a more subtle thing.   What was the infant to do, perhaps amazingly gain adult strength and power in the moment, and stop the nurse from doing this?    Would that even be possible if this was pre-seen before hand since it was not a probable event, meaning that neither Source nor the two Total selves directly involved saw this coming.   Purely a freewill choice off the paths of both involved, it was an “accident” from a spiritual perspective (not pre-planned), though within the physical of course there is always cause and effect.    Of course when you shake or handle to roughly a little child’s body, there are going to be consequences or an effect to that cause.  But this is purely material causation, and in this particular case, the spiritual wasn’t directly involved.  
  Yet, perhaps in other cases similar to the above scenario, perhaps this was a probability and something prechosen to happen (and an event agreed to on a spiritual level before hand for the greater growth of all involved).  No one but the Total selves directly involved, or Source or those completely attuned to Source know the true causes and reasons for such things and experiences.   Cayce’s guides could read the Life Plan of others, and they were aware of the various probabilities up to a point.

 True accidents are that which are not pre-planned or pre-known about, and which have undesirable long term effects.   This above dissertation reminds me of a few Cayce quotes--for example, “No association or experience is by chance, but is the outgrowth of a law, spiritual, mental, or material (*his guides saw these as different, yet potentially and usually interconnecting)” reading 2753-2

 “It is never by chance but as with all things in this material world, there are causes, there are effects.   To be sure, at times there may be what might be called accidents.  But these, too, in a causation world, have their cause and effect.”  2927-1  Just like I talked about in the above with the different examples of the same scenario with the nurse.

 “Little happens by chance.  True, there may be errors--which is indicated oft in the experience of the mental, the spiritual and material activities of an entity.  These may be called accidents at times.”  2881-1

 “Know there is little or naught which happens by chance save accidents.  These appear even in creation…”  5106-1

 In another reading from memory, there is a statement much like the above, and after saying that there are even accidents in creation, his guides say something like, well it’s a odd statement but true.


Back to the above, let’s talk about “blame”, blame is akin to judgment, in fact one could say that blame is a kind of emotional judgment.   There is pure perception, and then there is ego judgment which stems from fear, or selfishness on some level.   Pure perception is reasoning from the point of the collective, which takes lovingness to “attain” to in awareness to begin with.  Judgment is purely the belief and perception of the little separated self who sees and understands very little because their point of reasoning is so narrow and biased.  

 In the above case of the nurse and the infant girl, nobody has the right to “blame” the nurse or the little girl, yet the nurses own Soul self and conscience will see the necessity for balancing this destructive, careless, and impulsive choice which led to a certain action and cause in the material world.  Another part of this Total self, may choose to have a similar thing happen to it, as was caused by this other personality to that little girl.   Only self truly judges self.    

 Yet, what about Life reviews and the Elders involved in them.? I’ve read different accounts of these “meetings” in the nonphysical between a individual self, and between Beings of Pure Light who are crystal clear channels of Spirit consciousness, and different accounts from different respectable sources are quite similar.   Essentially, while these completed Beings do not “judge” or blame the individual for anything, they do point out their errors in a compassionate and detached way.    They perceive purely and state their perceptions.   You may read accounts of one of these Beings showing a certain part of that person’s physical life to the nonphysical person, and communicating something like, “now why did you do this, or why didn’t you do that, etc.”  Or something like, “you knew on some level that this choice might hurt others didn’t you?  Or how do you think that person felt, after you chose to treat them in that manner?”

  Basically, these Beings act as pure reflectors to the Soul consciousness of the individual involves, and what’s needed in spiritual growth is self honesty, self responsibility, and a greater, more collective/Oneness, compassionate, and holistic awareness of which these Beings help to provide.   They do not sit in emotional judgment on these people, but they do gently point out certain errors, illusions, destructive acts, attitudes, etc. so that the person will recognize this more deeply within themselves, and so they can change that pattern.   They can do this, because they perceive in a crystal clear manner both of the person involved and of the others connected to same, they are completely aware of all the factors in that individual’s Soul growth and their overall pattern in the Earth (the collective akashic “memory“ of all timeline probabilities of that individual Soul).  

  There is such a thing as “error” or un-Sourceness, and when we continue to choose this on various levels, it keeps us from the consciousness of our Creator for always like attracts and begets like.  If we are to be fully aware of and One with the Creator again, we must be completely “like” the Creator again, pure, full of Love, pure Light.    How can these Elders, these completed Ones, actually “blame” anyone or anything?  But yet they can see error from not-error, Sourceness from un-Sourceness can they not?  

 In the case of this nurse, Cayce’s source, who are of these Elders (and/or in other cases, messengers for these), saw “error” on part of the nurse, and they knew that this Soul would have to balance this destructive act which came from un-Source like attitudes and intentions.   They knew this girls ill-health was not a pre-planned experience, but yet had a cause purely on a material level of energy, from a destructive freewill choice (spiritual) on part of the nurse.  They knew that in that moment, the nurse manifested difficult and challenging karma for herself.  

 The only way around karma, is by taking it on and by becoming pure Love and becoming completely detached to self and what happens to self, however “negative” and difficult it might appear to others.   Such is the example of Yeshua’s life.  He transcended Karma by taking it fully on, and yet in becoming pure Love and purely detached to the individual self and only caring about what happened to others, he eventually transcended self suffering (after the Resurrection).   He became his real Self and the R.S. does not know suffering, even if the material conditions are destructive.
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continued from last post because it was too long to entirely fit in...


  Interestingly, Cayce’s source said that Yeshua and Joshua of the Bible were part of the same Total self.   Joshua as we know, was kind of a warrior leader after being a psychic channel for Moses.    Later on, Joshua during some intense battles, had the leaders from the other side, put up in trees to die.   Yeshua even though enlightened and purely loving at that point, still had to take on his own karma to balance it.   He (or a part of him) manifested this in the material plane, and so he had to take it on in the material plane himself.      Nor was this completely easy even for him, no doubt he experienced some intense physical pain and knew that he would, hence why at one point asked if this could be avoided, he knew it would be hard for what was left of his human self.   But by taking on and perfectly fulfilling the Law of Karma in a loving Source like way, he transcended same and became Law incarnate.   The energy law of like attracts and begets like, is a manifestation of the Law of Love,  of the Oneness of all force which has individual essences within it.
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Reply #17 - Mar 29th, 2007 at 2:56pm
 
Whew Justin... that's a long post  Grin

You hit the nail on the head regarding the blame game controversy.

Thanks for the input.

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Reply #18 - Mar 31st, 2007 at 1:31pm
 
I think to be human is to battle with concepts of justice and equality, destiny and chaos.

I basically agree with your well thought out discourse above Justin but have to speak from my experiences and beliefs that I am in agreement with Cayce and with ACIM, there are no accidents..only choices made from uncorrected ego, leading to a circumstance where the nurse for example, evolves from taking responsibility, from experiencing what her uncorrected ego has caused in suffering to another, then rectifying her error, benefitting the child in the long run by going back in her mind and correcting herself, it benefits everybody on the planet, including the child, whose soul was aware of the dangers of incarnation, having it's own higher self, which gave a briefing of the possibilities and probabilities in place on planet Earth, an evolving and imperfect display of people making bad choices.

but then there is no bad, there is no good.  it all just is. Monroe said this, and we can argue it's value forever and ever.
I think the main point is taking responsibility, self-responsibility for all one's own suffering, blaming neither circumstance nor peoples for our own suffering and pressing onward to do better, to forgive what we see, to continue to give away our truth as we know and feel it. this is a little painful in itself; as little ideas we get attached to die excruciating death throes..we thought we had the truth...we now release our attachments to what we formerly had such pride in owning.
but it's replaced by something that fits much better and is given freely. a type of grace, or the higher self we can say or our return to our beginnings and home, free of allusions that separate us one from the other.

I believe free will is a misnomer. there is only the choice here of how we shall react to suffering or injustice, if we will seek to become part of the solution or to be a part of the problem.  In this case we could say the child would come in contact with the nurse as a probability of having been born in the same geological place as the nurse. the experiment factor would entail whether the nurse could forget her relationship problems long enough to give her full attention to the new life in front of her. she failed. she now has to rectify and suffer with the knowledge of her failure.
since she had not the intention of doing this injury she will not be cast into hell forever, but such as life is, another chance is available when mistakes are made, to take that energy form of the innocent child and redeem it to health and bless it, as Yeshua would the same, and raise the child to it's rightful position. and she could have done that in her present life, without coming back in another body if she had grasped the principle of taking responsibility for her error.

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Don said:
"What is threatening about the notion that prayer is a discipline enhanced by a set of principles?   Well, suppose there is a right and a wrong way to pray for needs, and we violate or ignore key principles by the way we pray.   Our oversight raises questions like whether relationships remain broken which might have been repaired through proper prayer or whether bodies remain sick which might have been healed through proper prayer.  I have found such questions very humbling because, when it comes right down to it, I usually lack the self-discipline needed for the type of prayer lifestyle that Jesus advocates.  On those occasions when I have gone the extra mile and prayed correctly, I have seen miracles."


This brings up an important distinction, namely the separation of intent and prayer.  For me, there is no true separation.  When we try to accomplish any goal in the physica plane, we have intent.  Intent may be coupled to certainty and proper action.  There is a cause and effect relationship that then comes into play.  If intent is applied correctly, then the desired result (manifest by a change in probabiities in the physical world) is bound to follow.  Don wonders whether or not healings might be accomplished more often if a different prayer lifestyle were not adopted and consistently applied (such as that of JC).  One could just as easily question why many attempts to imply intent in the physical plane are unsuccessful.

Kathy has spoken of cross purpose intentions.  As an example, one could look at the person who hopes for a promotion at work.  The intent seems to be on getting the promotion, yet this person is constantly saying "yeah, but I know it will never happen for me, I have bad luck."  This cross purpose intention sinks into certainty and the promotion never materializes.  So too, with our daily lives, goals and prayers.  There are also multiple energies at play.  In Don's example of an ill person, there are the true and deep-seated intentions that person carries with them.  There are the intentions of the person such as Don or group praying interacting with that of the ill person.  Don, I don't think that with such complex metaphysical issues, you can reliably blame your use of proper prayer principles as the true cause of failure to heal from an illness.  You would need to account for the various intentions and energies at play in the person's life and their loved ones. 

I, for one would be interested Don in the prayer principles you have found useful.  I have based mine off several authors and sources, but am always open to experimenting with more.  Some people here on this site, like Dave, even speak of coupling intent with objects in the physcial plane to achieve an end.  This comes off almost as a pagan or "magic" spell, where one states intent "by drinking this cup of water, I see the healing as done," then drink the water, and go to sleep with the idea that you have tied the thought to something in the physical plane (the cup of water).  Others have written down their intent or prayer, and then set it on fire, saying the same thing effectively "by the burning of this object, I see it as accomplished."  These simple "spells," though they seem paganistic, couple the physical world to our seeing the goal as accomplished.  As such, they may multiply the force behind the intention, thus helping to promote the outcome.

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Reply #20 - Apr 1st, 2007 at 1:51pm
 
I confess to having burned a piece of paper with an intention written on it. it made me feel better whether or not it manifested, sometimes it would, sometimes not. I think we need to get to where we "believe" or call it faith if you want, which is a higher degree of belief.

I don't do that anymore of the burning as I feel whatever is going on is supposed to be going on and I don't see a need to change anything or I might mess things up, meaning I trust that I will get there, we all will, safely to where we want to be.

I talk about a miracle of healing in my book which occurred by praying right. then two people in the house got healed instead of just me, because I thought at the last minute, in asking for my healing of the body, to include the healing of her body, (where two or more of you are joined)  i don't know what that if I hadn't of thought of including her in the prayer, that I would received my healing anyway, but it seemed I was being prompted to not just think of my own suffering, but someone else's, after all, the intention in the beginning of the prayer was that I would be able to complete the job she had asked of me and for which she was paying me for.
it worked,blew me away, but it worked!

as regarding prayer I learned from the church of religious science only one thing of value: 1) treat
2) move your feet

treat is another more modern word for the action of intention setting and prayer.
moving  your feet is to go forth, but first to release concern or doubt, then move into faith.
self disapline that Don mentions is very important and praying without ceasing would entail self disapline without self flaggelation. I think focusing one pointed on intention is like self disapline, but its very important not to over do self disapline to the point of beating yourself up every time you notice you made an error.
to error is human, to forgive is divine it's said.

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Reply #21 - Apr 1st, 2007 at 3:04pm
 
Althouigh it might not be to the point of your initial epistemic question, I find the noti9n of "proper prayer technique" interesting.  Whether I delude myself or prove my reality ir seems, in Shakespeare's words, 'If this be madness, then there's method in't."

I cannot think clearly without obedience to the proper rules of thinking. Else I wind up with those whirling clouds of color, mixed emotions and facts that lead nowhere. Not even to a stable hallucination. And the less attention I pay to the logic of it, the worse it gets.

If I am God, then my logical prayer is how I address myself, much as the tail caught in a door jamb addresses the head of the dog to get it to remove it. If I am not God, then prayer is the communication of my tiny self to obtain a better state whcih must be best described to avoid the problem of the perverse genie who grants three wishes, but in the most literal and malicious manner.

From the less esoteric side, if I do not function according to the highest rules of function that I can adopt, then I limit myself. In yoga, I must abandon the causes of chaos and interference to rise to the next level. This I can test. Thus, Descartes is not only a "thinking thing", but a "logically proper thinking thing". And only to that degree, the degree to which Descartes' nature is not in conflict itself, is Descartes truly and unequivocabkly himself.

This being testably true, perhaps we're asking the wrong quesrtion, which will assuredly give us the wrong answer - or none at all.

Arising out of voidness, evolving so as to create the space it fills, expanding sui generis alone, with potentiality projected into infinity, it may be that our nature reduces not to a thing, but to a dynamic of which the "stuff" is entropy - or as Wheeler called it, "information".

Were this to be so, then we further reduce Descartes to be no more than a thought. And I find myself to be no more than the tale told by ancient rishis sitting by Mother Ganga, "a dream flitting through the mind of Brahm." 

From this interesting perspective, I seek the proper prayer and to properly pray it. "If I be your dream, God, then let me be a good one. Dream me well."

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Reply #22 - Apr 2nd, 2007 at 7:50am
 
I’d be interested in what Don has to say about prayer as well. 

Matthew, I agree with what you’re saying here.  Your example of someone seeking a promotion is a good one to easily understand.  All of our intentions are within our deeper consciousness.  In recent years I’ve come to understand that all we think, say and do stems from consciousness at a higher level of our being.  It seems like whenever I’m in the process of defining more of who we are, as all of us have done with this thread, I begin to have experiences that reinforce what I am learning about and clarifying within my own consciousness.

A couple days ago a young man working on a vehicle had an accident that resulted in a deeply gashed and broken finger.  I wasn’t present; my husband took him to the hospital and told me of the incident afterwards.  The young man told my husband that just before the car fell he had thought that he should put gloves on and that he should double check the jack stand that was holding the car up because it was crooked.  The young man ignored his conscious inner dialog and the accident occurred.

Of course it wasn’t this young man’s conscious intention to have this accident, yet it occurred.  Clearly had he listened to his inner dialog, the accident either would not have happened or his injury could have been much less serious, or he may not have been injured at all.  It’s clear that this young man is responsible for the series of events that led to this accident occurring, but it is also an example of how we hold cross-purposes within our higher intention that prevent us from accomplishing something we intend to accomplish.  The most obvious to me is that he didn’t listen to his own guidance.  The cross-purposes in this could be from any number of beliefs that he along with the rest of us holds.  All of which have to do with beliefs that we are disconnected victims of circumstance.  Possibly one of the main beliefs is that we discount or devalue our inner dialogs.  This is understandable because as I mentioned in a previous post, we’ve muddied the waters with so many conflicting beliefs that it is hard for us to trust in ourselves as true spiritual beings.

The next day, I had an accident, which gave me more insight regarding higher intention and where I think we all are heading for as we change our beliefs.   

Some of you know that my house is under construction.  Several times a week I go check on the progress.  That day it was about 80 degrees and I was wearing shorts, tank top and flipflops.  I picked up my keys and guidance said, “Put sturdy clothing on.”  For a moment I objected because it was hot.  Then I reluctantly pulled on my jeans, a long sleeve shirt, socks, sturdy leather shoes and a flannel lined jean jacket and proceeded to sweat even though I turned the air conditioning on full blast in my truck.

I drove out to the house incident free, looked around and headed back to my truck.  As I walked across the driveway I took a step and fell.  The brick masons had left concrete rubble laying in the drive and I’d stepped on a large chunk, lost my balance and went down hard on the concrete.  In the process I twisted and sprained both feet, landed on my right knee, hip and elbow and was instantly overcome with nausea from the pain.  As I recuperated a bit I thanked guidance for the sturdy clothing I’d been instructed to put on.  Then suddenly anger welled up within me as I became angry with the brick mason’s for not cleaning up their mess better.  A voice in my head yelled at me, “You can fix this.”  Instantly the anger dissipated and I noticed my right foot hurt the most so that’s where I began.

Over the years I have learned that there is great power in our hands for healing.  I repaired the damage I had done to first my right foot, then the left.  Next I focused on my hip and healed the broken blood vessels, which stopped the bruising.  My knee and elbow having been covered were barely skinned.  I worked on myself for perhaps 15 or 20 minutes and when I was done my body showed no signs that I had ever fallen.  Had I not listened to guidance my injuries could have been much worst and not so easily or quickly repaired.

The reason I was able to heal my injuries is because this knowledge exists in my consciousness and I let go of my cross-purpose of anger and blame, which also existed in my consciousness.  If I had not completely cleared my intent, I would not have been able to heal myself so quickly.  If I had held on to my anger my body still would have healed because of its natural healing ability, but it most likely would have taken a few days instead of a few minutes to do so.  Healing is our birthright.  I didn’t do anything that any one of us is not capable of doing for our self and also to help another heal.

Several studies have been done recently that show the direct affect our energy field has on the energy field of another.  I may post about this later on.

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Reply #23 - Apr 2nd, 2007 at 3:27pm
 
I loved re-reading your story Kathy as I remember it from another forum and it occurs to me this was all set up so you could see you can produce this healing for yourself and find out you are more than you thought you were, a tenet of TMI language, our unlimited selves, our connection to god.

I must have set up the same thing with Ricky when my back discs slipped and he worked on it long distance. I went from crawling on the floor for about a week to walking around normal the next day except for a little soreness around the muscle tissue which healed fast.
your inner guidance did protect you by your change of clothing, showing this was set up.

I put Rick in my lists of credits in the book...I was able to sit down and type then. I couldn't sit up from the pain before.

sometimes if I have something wrong with a part of my body I use visualization, like you did with the vessels that were broken, sending appreciation to the cells, thanking them for serving me. then I found a shouting affirmation worked also when I sliced my finger a voice said DO YOU NEED PAIN! I shouted NO!  I looked at my finger and there was no blood, only a tingling in the reuniting of the skin cells.
I was a little shocked for awhile that such shouting with emotion and affirming could work like that. I thank the voice reminding me that I didn't need pain.

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Reply #24 - Apr 2nd, 2007 at 6:33pm
 
Hi Alysia,

Actually this just happened last Friday.  I'm sure it was to illustrate a point to me.  You'd think I'd find a less painful way to do that.   Undecided  lol Hard to forget something like that.

Yes, strong emotion certainly can bring about healing.  My mom had an experience like this with a puppy that was close to death.  She screamed "No" and felt power go through her as she held the puppy in her hands.  The puppy was immediately healed and lived for 15 or 16 years as I recall.  A long time for a dog.

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