The KINGDOM OF GOD!!

On October 6th, Nate Mines of Dynamic Wellness will be our discussion leader for our 9th Anniversary. Please join us on the next first Sunday at 10am at the Empowerment Center in Cheverly, Maryland

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The Kingdom is Within: Meditation, Focused Thought and Manifestation

The Kingdom of God is within you.  

“Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you.” Luke 17:21

Most people have no idea that the God we speak about is within them.  The Kingdom of God dwells in the right hemisphere of the brain. The right side of this kingdom is the intuitive, creative, imaginative or energetic abilities of humankind.  

1. Meditation 

The right hemisphere of the brain is the kingdom of God. 

The pyramid is the design of the human brain.   

The Sabbath Day means rest – there are six Charkas and the 7th one means meditative thought.  The 7th is the Pineal Gland of the brain.  The Sabbath does not mean the 7th day of the week.  It means to overcome the 6th activities of the body to bring you to a level of higher understanding and purpose or bliss.  “The Sabbath does not have to do with any day of the week. It is the state of mind when humanity enters a state when one enters into his/her own soul – into the realm of spirit.  There she or he finds true rest.  The Sabbath means the prefect day of one’s spiritual enfoldment. 

2. Focused Thought

Focused thought is the single eye.  It is the capstone of your life – building of your life. It is clarity of mind. Singularity to make your life available to help yourself and others.  

We are not here to save ourselves. We are here to help others.  When you get rid of the 

self-centered notions of religion, we release ourselves from the dregs of religion. 

3. Manifestation 

You are the very manifestation of the temple not made with hands. 

Reality begins with a stream of thought. Thought consist of waves of energy or light particles. This energy is the foundation of making things and experiences into a physical reality.  All things begins with the mind.

Exerts from Hidden Meanings:

PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, EMOTIONAL

ARE REFERENCED IN THE BIBLE

There are three other positions besides East in the human psyche.

There is the physical, there is the emotional, and there is the intellectual.

The East or right side is the spiritual. 

The physical would be the south or body. 

The intellectual would be the west or left hemisphere.

The emotional would be the North.

Understanding these keys gives you an idea of what the Bible is referring to as it uses such symbols and how they relate to your inner person.

 It means the Kingdom of God is a matter of consciousness.  And not on just the basis of some kind of religious or spiritual perspective but physically, for real.

YOU WON'T FIND IT IN A CHURCH.   It is not in a church or a religion. 

It is within you.

 Everything in the Bible is a mythological study of the human mind and body.

1 Corinthians 3:16 You are the temple of God. For the temple of God is Holy which temple you are.

This simply supports the concept that what is considered the temple, or tabernacle is actually the human mind and the entire Bible is a deep mystical study of the secrets of the human mind.

THE SYMBOLIC TEMPLE

Acts 7:48 The most high dwells not in temples made with hands.

Here the Bible is saying that church buildings and temples have absolutely nothing to do with the dwelling place of God. 

Yet for thousands of years people have been slaughtered over the location of the temple which is made with the hands of carpenters and masons. 

THE TEMPLE IS  YOUR HEAD !

It is all symbolic, for the only temple made without hands is on top of your shoulders.

A Thought to Ponder from The Urantia Book

"The kingdom of heaven is neither a social nor economic order; it is an exclusively spiritual brotherhood of God-knowing individuals. True, such a brotherhood is in itself a new and amazing social phenomenon attended by astounding political and economic repercussions."

(1088.3) 99:3.2

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FATHERHOOD TEACHINGS: TRIVIA

Tiger Woods in 2010 commercial

Trivia is the food of national news, and chief among its topics are famous people whose lives are picked apart to find trivia to support an industry wide commitment to mediocrity. There is an enormous amount of trivia about famous people who employed impeccability, and skill to become top professionals in their crafts.  Getting to these levels is not a trivial series of actions.  Most people will not ascend to the heights of their craft, or better self for all the reasons that the Lady GaGa's, and Michael Jackson's shirked to become the best. 

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In plain English what is required to become the best is a core, a belief-system, a work ethic, a dream, and a drive that leads a small group of people, famous or not, to the right people and the right combinations of tools that ushers them to the birth canal of creative freedom, success, and work they love.  If asked to give up pizza, or turn off their TV's to begin a journey on a succes track for their children most parents, we have found, will not turn off their TV or stop eating pizza. 

Paris Hilton is an exquisite beauty, and the emphasis on her business acumen is of little concern to the public. Revelations about her business, and wealth creating enterprises don't provoke conversations or research into the how of her life's work, or the inner workings of her family, and their value system. Paris Hilton comes from old money built up by hard work, skill, and shrewdness. These are some of the fundamental things missing from the educational process of our children: how money works, what is currency, and how to create wealth, etc.

Yesterday, I was asked to be a part of a small team of conflict resolution facilitators. There were three locations in Maryland and Washington DC visited. One of the sites had many problems that were traditionally approached with the wrong questions, and the wrong people in place to help boys transcend a life of crime into a better life. Three of us listened carefully to a story of two boys who have been on the streets since 9 years of age doing whatever it took to survive. Survival to them was breaking laws, being violated, dancing between life and death situations, and taking risks beyond their years to eat something, and sleep somewhere. The trigger words and actions we employed got them talking honestly as we listened. The story was painful. One of the most painful things, to me, was a boy explaining his actions.

“I wasn’t being disrespectful not shaking your hands. I don’t know how to relate to men. I am used to women. Men don’t come through. I am tired of being let down.”

“What about your father?”

“My mother died when I was two, and my father is a bitch. Fuck him!”

That was just one paradigm in need of a shift. There is a deep responsibility to parenting other people’s children. The walls to scale that defend boys from the weakest men’s terror over young lives in the streets distorts, and kills. Imagine a child, a boy making decisions between killing and robbing just eat, buy a pair of shoes, to sleep somewhere safe for one night.

All day from one conflict to another we, from the Empowerment Center, had to connect every issue to the prison industry. The relationship between disempowerment, family dysfunction, death, abandonment, poverty, and fatherless children is connected and strung together by the business of incarceration. Development in the black community of our children’s path to adulthood begins here. Unraveling the confusion begins here. Work within the gang culture begins here. Rape adjusts itself within boys at young ages as an aspect of their manhood that hardly ever makes it into the conversations between professionals in government programs, or faith-based initiatives. Incest marks the lives of countless African-American families who cannot see beyond the confusing emotions, and the altered sense of place, and being that becomes their legacy. How do you break these lines, these ancestral lines that barely recognize the power of African spirituality?

From the healer’s perspective the developmental process begins in the private ceremonies between the healer and the Creator. Ceremony is a tool, but it is not the solution. It is the listening that opens the eyes, broadens the world, and tussles with the demons haunting the chambers of one’s souls. I looked deep into their souls. The telling was strenuous on the soul of the fathers listening to ‘sons’ talking freely about their pain, and their understanding of manhood at 9, at 15, and 18 years of age.

In the end of our one session my ‘medicine’ took over and gave us the direction to move their lives forward. According the Manhood wheel I used to interpret their lives a practicality settled into the spaces between us, and we agreed to help them build a structure based upon a re-education about finance, money, and currency. From the space of practicality new life will form and build itself until we can return to their childhoods and restore their childhoods unto them. Giving their childhoods back is crucial. It is fundamental. It is basic to the tenets of the transitional ceremonies they have entered by moving into relationship with us.

The boy’s first homework assignment: buy a notebook, and pen and begin to simply write their thoughts down on paper. Why paper? Because they need their privacy, and computers are not necessary for childhood development. Computers have nothing to do with the raising of a child. The adults who do not understand are weak in their assessment of strength, power, and accountability in the process, the game of developing a child, or touching his/her spirit to better gauge the intended path of a child’s life journey. Parenting by thought, intuition, power, and conscious awareness take precedence over technology.

These are the insights of the first-born of my parents, and the second grandchild of my maternal grandparents. –Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of the Sacred Medicine Wheels (May 6, 2010)

Father & son - Jon Chandler & son Jon 2

father & son - Jon 2 & his son

BONDAGE

"You can be clear, explicit and intelligible without losing humanity and understanding. Emphasizing the point, he reminded the young scholars that, "a quarter teaspoon of understanding is worth more than a truckload of knowledge". Dr Pat Hohepa no Ngapuhi nui tonu ~Mereana Taki

"I see great wisdom in the words of Dr. Hohepa, for I have see many with great knowledge but no understanding. And I have seen others with very little knowledge yet great understanding. The two are neither mutually inclusive nor exclusive, but rather two different things. Knowledge comes from the intellect. Understanding comes from the heart, and the spirit, from the core of one's being. 

Also, I do not see how one's understanding is in any way a judgment of another. We are each YOUnique, and so then is our understanding. My understanding cannot make anyway else less or more, nor can theirs make me less or more than what I truly am. And to interpret another's understanding subjectively, based on your own feelings, is a personal choice of the person doing the interpreting. No one can MAKE me feel anything. It is how I choose to respond to them that determines how I feel." ~Tarra Blackwolf-Sabín

"Coming straight from the Heart of a matter gently yet straight." ~Mereana Taki

"I know no other way to speak but from the heart, gently yet straight. In the colonial world I am considered "defective" for I never learned deceit. For that, I am told I "lack social skills". If deceit is a social skill needed to live among "civilized" people, I will continue to socialize with the birds and the trees and the water and the wind and the earth. They don't seem to mind my "lack of social skills." ~Tarra Blackwolf-Sabín

"The seeds of 'lack' are the Rivers of poverty flowing through 'modern' false consciousness. Such a Mind is required to enslave the masses to their own oppression and domination, and to bind such non BEingness to planetary unthinking destruction of Great Mother relationships clean, clear and direct with no money, with no governments, with no chains in our Minds, Hearts, Spirits, Bodies. Nothing but the clothing of our responsibilities to ourselves for our freedoms, for our Humanity in every possible way, shape and form. Othering as a margin Self these are all tools of Abusers and Predators that cultivate their prey, fatten up their victims, using docility, and all manner of disempowerment that once internalized by the the captives requires a quantum shift in that vibration to reshape, realign, and recentre.

The Heart knows nothing of FEAR. This is why it is so heavily neglected as an organ of choice in oppressive and dominating Human relationship systems.  It is demonized into inactivity and trivialized by a Valentine's romanticism like emotional jewelry show, pomp, ceremonial, and then you get other extremes like the song says: "What's Love Got to Do With It? 

Oh dear the beat goes on! Thank goodness it is an involuntary muscle like Great Mother. Her Heartbeat goes on long after our lights go out." ~Mereana Taki

photo: Tamals Jones

EMILO WILLIAMS,an activist in Washington DC

Topic of Discussion

Circles of Trust

Mr. Emilio has more than 25 years of experience in training, group facilitation and human resource development. He has conducted training and has provided technical assistance for several corporate, governmental, non-profit, and state and federal organizations. In addition, he has provided training and technical assistance to the Corporation for National Service grantees, and thousands of AmeriCorps program staff, and VISTAs across the world including Alaska , Hawaii , American Samoa , Asia, Europe and others. As he continues on his Soul journey he is appreciative of each and every paradox life provides.

Every problem we see “out there” has part of its root system “in here”. By stepping back and stepping in, by reclaiming our souls, we are also stepping up and stepping out into a world in deep need of all the soulfulness we can offer. – Parker Palmer

Solitude is essential to personal integration: there are places in the landscapes of our lives where no one can accompany us. But because we are communal creatures who need each other’s support—and because, left to our own devices, we have an endless capacity for self-absorption and self-deception—community is equally essential to rejoining soul and role. Imagine a community that knows how to welcome the soul and help us hear its voice.

Join us as we explore oppression through circles (every first and third Sunday)! Hear what you can do to make creative change one person at a time starting with you!







For more information on Emilio and The Koi Group:

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http://livinglegacy.ning.com/profile/EmilioWilliams