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MARCH/APRIL 2003
CONTENTS:
Editorial -- Life as Reflection
It’s not the academic analysis of arcane spiritual truths or the fervid pursuit of service upon outer levels that counts for much in life. Rather, the real value of a life emanates from the quiet moments when we touch, if only for a fleeting moment, the beauty and joy of existence.
Reasons for the Present World Unrest -- Djwhal Khul
The Human Soul—Part II -- John Nash
Throughout history many individuals have passed beyond separative individualism into group consciousness. Now, the process is accelerating, and group consciousness is manifesting among increasing numbers of people. Perhaps individualism has largely run its course, even at a racial level, and group consciousness will soon become the norm for humanity as a whole.
The Beginning—The Grand Experiment – Wayne Sterba
…the spiritual service of Triangles is the initiatory effort to provide a point of transcendent fusion in consciousness for all of humanity, and thus to become the incipient collective soul so desperately needed at this time.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Three Bardos–Part III -- J.S. Bakula, Ph.D.
The [life] review process requires that we experience the effects of our every thought, word, and deed on another person. The judgment scene shows that what really counts is the motivation behind our every action, and that there is no escaping the effects of our past actions, words, and thoughts, and the imprints and habits of thought, word, and deed they have stamped us with. It means we are entirely responsible not only for this life, but for our future lives.
The Spiritual Reality of the United Nations -- Roger Roy
The right human relations between people and among nations that the UN is struggling to achieve is focused on transmutation of national supremacy, racial antagonism and ethnocentric beliefs of cultural superiority into a global consciousness that respects cultural diversity and the richness of national heritage. The subjective unwritten mission statement of the UN is to restore the Plan on earth.
The Mystery of Electricity – Brian Arrowsmith
We see that before the mystery of electrical phenomena can be revealed, we must search for and become aware of the expression of electrical energy within ourselves. To operate at full potential we must know and be integrated with our instrument. We must come to some understanding of the driving force of our inner self. Just as with the magnetic coil theory, whereby electricity is transformed to magnetism, so the electric current flowing around and through our bodies can be transformed to the energy of goodwill and put to action: The transforming agent is the power of our mind.
Vimala Thakar, Silence, and the Third Initiation -- Christine Townend
During [the] period of self-inquiry, Vimala recommends that one should not do violence to the thoughts by trying to force them into abeyance. Rather, this will just make them stronger. Instead, one simply turns away from the thoughts, with the idea, "My friends, I don’t need you anymore". To gently turn away from thoughts which interrupt the process of self-observation and to return again and again to the practice of watching oneself, is a process which requires determination and self-control.
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