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A – Z thoughts UPDATED JULY 5, 2009

ABUNDANCE - What we inherited from our Father who has all, is all, and lacks nothing.

ACTIVITY - Busy doing vs busy being.

ANTI-CHRIST - 1) Why is God letting Satan live forever – to ensure eternal suffering for sinners?

2) If Christ is the one creation of God, then what is not one but billions cannot be the Christ. Yet what opposes the Truth of oneness must not be God’s creation. However, what God did not create cannot exist. Only bodies individualize and deny oneness of Spirit. The ego, being the so-called embodiment of individual spirits, opposes the Truth of All being One Spirit with God and each other.

AWAKENING - 1) Can we awaken unto perfect, all-encompassing Love and retain one unloving thought in our Holy Mind?

2) Which accelerates awakening better – succeeding in life or failing?

3) Do we wait for our awakening or do we make it happen?

BELIEF - 1) We believe in things going wrong or right and in what we see, hear and experience. Do we not believe that what is our best interest would therefore be in everyone’s best interest?

2) Belief is based on faith and hope, substituting for knowledge.

3) What is the difference between believing and knowing?

4) Belief creates acceptance of existence and is true for me as it is made by me.

BEHAVIOUR - 1) All behaviour is either love based or fear based.

BIBLE - 1) Is the Bible the word of God or the world of man?

2) Is it all true, partially true or not at all true? If partially true, which parts are and which aren’t?

3) We trust the consistent and understandable. Can we trust inconsistent teachings that confuse and make no sense?

BIRTH – SEE DEATH

BODY - 1) Can an Infinite Sprit be confined in a temporary container?

CAUSE AND EFFECT -

Effects: birth>death - - pleasure>joy - - pain>suffering - - loss of loved ones>grief - - accidents>victimization - - bad health>sickness. What causes all these things?

CAUSE: God? Nature? Mankind? Accident? Other? What if there is only one cause?

CHANGE - Who would change direction while travelling happily along on a path? However, if continuing on one that brings discomfort, do we not seek a new one? Coming to an abrupt halt may harm, so we slow down before stopping. Then we can change direction, beginning slowly and then accelerating once the new path is seen as beneficial. Learning something new to replace what we have valued for years requires patience while the undoing is in process. Then we can change direction with joy and great anticipation.

CHOICE 1) Where do we prefer to be right now – Heaven or earth?

2) What do we want – above all else?

3) We can only choose between alternatives.

4) We choose what we believe brings us the greatest benefit.

5) Which would we prefer - excitement or peace?

6) What we don’t want is to have no choice.

7) Can God choose to become something other than He is? If perfect, can He change? To what?

8) If God created us perfect, can we choose to become imperfect?

9) Was God's giving us free will to choose whether to live forever or die a gift we would give to our children?

CREATION 1) If we are created in God’s image and likeness - and we can make mistakes - does that mean God is capable of miscreation?

2) The product is a testimony to the producer. If a child is flawed, where did the flaw come from - the child or the parent? If Adam “fell,” was he created perfect or flawed? If perfect, how could he have become imperfect?

3) Are we a failed lab experiment?

4) If God created all that is, then what He did not create cannot exist.

CURRICULUM - There is no universal method or technique in awakening, as each of us has a different past and so different things to undo. However, to know the Truth that sets us free, we each must rid our minds of guilt in order to know of our eternal sinlessness.

DEATH/BIRTH 1) “And the last to be overcome is death.” (1 Corin 15:26) If birth is the number one cause of death, how can we overcome it? “I pray thee, whoever perished being innocent?” (2 Corinth 5:1-8) Was Jesus the only one born innocent? Why only him? “From the beginning you were created Immortal, and Children of Eternal Life. You destroy death, and you destroy the world, without yourself being destroyed.” (Clement of Alexandria, c150-225, a father of the Church and a Gnostic.) If created Immortal, wouldn’t this mean we all can overcome death?

2) Can God love sinners and still condemn them all to death?

3) “All born from women are unclean.” (Job 25:4-6) Jesus was born from woman! The clean are born from spirit? Of course – what else?

4) Is death an end – or the birth of another beginning?

DREAMS - How can dreams ever come true, being fantasy?

DOING - Have we embarked on a path of mortal activity - out of restlessness - rather than just be?

EGO 1) Imagine building a fantasy house of straw. The temporary collapses easily. The unique and alone seek recognition and validation that comes only from weakness.

2) If Love only extends Itself as one entity, what is separate and different is not part of Love.

EVIL - If evil exists, God must have created it. If God did not create it, it couldn’t exist except in a dream.

EVOLUTION - Were billions of different living things created by lightning that changed clay into reproductive life forms? Wouldn't that have to include both male and female - in order to propagate? AMAZING! The age-old question: which came first - the chicken or the egg?

FAITH 1) How much faith do we have? As much as a mountain that we can't move a mustard seed?

fear 1) We fear losing things we are attached to, our possessions, peace, comfort and the future. We also fear being wrong and condemn those who misbehave out of fear. We fear losing our health, clothes, memories, talents, abilities and reputation.

2) Love only gives but fear only gets. From a thought of lack, we embarked on a journey to find something more than All That Is.

3) We fear only those we hate because of what they have done or will do. Fear in based on ingratitude, love on gratitude.

4) Fear is uncertainty, fussiness, anxiety, unknowing, weakness, concern, unfulfilment, loss, doubt.

5) We fear giving control to God.

6) We fear not pleasing god.

Forgiveness 1) Which reflects forgiveness; “An eye for an eye” or “Turn the other cheek?” Can both be the same? What does “turn the other cheek” reflect other than forgiveness – and on a higher level – agreement, and so no wrongdoing?

2) Forgiveness - a flaw swatter.

Getting - Belief in lack creates need to get, strengthening belief in being created without our Divine inheritance. What can the needy give but something instead of everything?

Giving/receiving - 1) We give and get something from giving it. Getting denies having everything. Giving freely, however, brings a gain for both giver and receiver.

2) We either drink or pour. We are either thirsty or full. We can only truly

give by not seeking any personal benefit other than to feel the joy of having so we can give. That comes from awareness of our abundant inheritance from our Father.

3) We can only give what we have to give. However, can we give what we believe we have to give?

GOAL - If things don’t add up to reach a desired goal, we creatively “balance the books” in order to get what we want.

GOD - 1) Is God a parent? If so, a father of what – a mortal or immortal child – or perhaps both?

2) How is God described in the Bible – loving and giving - or withholding and punishing; forgiving and helping - or wrathfully sentencing us all to death for something we did not do?

3) To what extent is God in control of everything happening in our world; totally, partially - or not at all?

GRATITUDE - 1) What can we thank God for? Birth, toil, suffering and death for an ancestor’s thirst for knowledge? For favouring some over others for no apparent reason? For floods, AIDS, and many other “acts of God?”

2) We can be grateful only to a Father who gives all to all and never withholds any of his attributes.

HEALING - 1) Why do we need healing? Does God? What is the cause of sickness, anxiety, arthritis, blindness, etc.?

2) What is healing? Reparation? What caused the need for healing in the first place? Adam's wrong choice?

3) Who was the greatest healer? Jesus? Are we to become like him and do greater things? Know anyone who has done that?

4) How did Jesus heal - prescribing medicine, physiotherapy, psychology, surgery or other worldly means?

5) Were not his healings based on faith? If so, faith in what - who?

IMPOSSIBLE - 1) For mortals to fly without assistance.

2) For mortals to become invisible.

3) For mortals to live forever.

4) For mortals to walk on water.

5) That God’s Will not be done.

INEVITABLE - 1) What is inevitable but than the Will of God? “The last shall be first and the first shall be last.” (Matt 20:16) Do we inevitably return to our Father’s House - together?

2) Implies no choice and our destiny set. Yet death here is also inevitable. Might we have predestined our own death by wanting to be born?

JUDGMENT - Do we not believe we can tell between good and bad, tall and short, black and white? All differences support our belief in multiplicity instead of what is One and the same.

JESUS - 1) "Behold my beloved son in whom I am well pleased." If man was made in God's image and likeness, what about Jesus?

KNOWLEDGE - 1. Who knows all there is to know?

2. If we know of a great coffee shop, do we not believe others would enjoy it too? When they tell us they didn't like it, do we not think they have poor taste? What is true to us from our own experience is knowledge. Not everyone reaches the same conclusion, however and so knowledge appears to be personalized rather than universal. Different interpretations, then, is not knowledge.

LEARNING - 1) When can we learn – other than in the now? Do we not learn only what we want to learn to survive as best we can?

2) We learn from others and from personal experiences. We are taught history, geography, language, and how to eat, behave and dress. We learn about meaning of life from those who have learned - yet with so many different teachings and interpretations, who can pick which is the right one?

3) Learning is acquiring, gaining something. This means we don’t have and must get, denying being given everything.

LIFE - 1) Is mortal life a gift from God? Is it really a gift - developing only to deteriorate?

2) What life form does not have to eat another life form? Do all life forms go shopping? Is this godly?

LOVE - 1) What is love? Is it affection, devotion, appreciation, valuing? Can it be just fondness or is it a deep yearning and desire? Can love be selective? Can we love in degrees? Can love still be love if conditions change – such as when a “loving” partner causes harm?

MISCELLANEOUS

"Call no man master, for one is your master who is within thee." Does that mean no external being can teach Truth?

Didn't God know of evil before creation? Wouldn't knowing evil contaminate perfection?

NEED/WANT - 1) All life forms shop, eat and reproduce.

2) Lack creates needs and wants – therefore seeks fulfillment.

3) Do I need billions of things - or just one thing?

ORIGIN 1) We are either created or evolved. Which suits us best? If created mortal by an immortal parent - why?

2) Evolution - which came first, the chicken or the egg?
3) If we descended from Heaven as in John 3:13, wouldn't that mean we committed immortal suicide?

Ownership - We value our possessions and fear losing them. This makes us possessed by our possessions and do what we can to protect them.

path - 1) Who on a chosen and valued path would seek another?

2) God cannot interfere with our path, only show the way.

3) Letting go of valued things creates fear of loss. Seeing the path as unworthy allows happily exchanging for another.

4) We are all getting along as best we can. Is that enough?

5) Who gladly tosses away valued beliefs? Who keeps detrimental beliefs once discovered?

PEACE - 1) Might the non-understandable peace of God be boring?

2) How can God’s non-understandable peace ever be understood or experienced on earth while we need air and food to survive?

3) Possible loss or not getting keeps us in fear. When we have nothing to lose or nothing needed to gain, fear is gone.

PERFECTION - Definition: “Complete; without defect or faults; finished; thoroughly versed; thoroughly learned; of the best, highest, and most complete kind; entire; having all essential parts; supreme excellence; complete development.

1) Can perfection change? To what?

PRAYER - Praying to God to fix things doesn’t seem to work very well. Perhaps we should instead seek first for directions on how to return to the Kingdom?

purpose What is our purpose here? Are we to give praise, thanks and to obey and worship God to earn the right to Heaven? Are we to get what we can while we can?

questions -

1) How many believe the Bible is the word of God?

2) Who is the world’s worst terrorist? Wouldn’t it be the one most feared – the one with a recorded history of mass annihilation - the one continuing to destroy innocent lives – and the one who promises more mass destruction? Everyone knows his name – it’s in the Bible!

3) What are the consequences if everything is going exactly according to plan? What if everything is not going according to plan?

4) Under what circumstance - if any - can there be no such thing as a victim?

5) How do we feel about the future and about the past?

6) Is it good to be concerned? What is its benefit?

7) What needs fixing but that which doesn’t work perfectly? Is momentary life on earth perfect?

8) How is it we put all our faith in a God who created a flat world?

9) If we buy a new Ford car and it is defective, who is responsible for the defect, Ford or the owner? Who is responsible for our flaws, Adam or God? What is the gain in creating a flawed creation?

10) Can a forgiving God seek revenge?
11) How good is God’s creation: perfect – so so – or a monumental disaster.

12) If God offered to grant you 1 wish, what would that be?

13) What would we think of a father who killed his favourite child to prove his love to his

misbehaving children?

14) If the battle is between mortal flesh and immortal spirit - who wins?

15) What would it mean if there was no such thing as an accident?

16) Could we have chosen to discard knowledge in order to sense?

17) To what extent does faith and belief influence outcomes?

18) What does “The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” mean?

19) Under what circumstances, if any, can everything be going exactly as planned?

20) What are the consequences, if any, for needing to get?

21) Who would arrange for their children to speak in different tongues so they wouldn’t be able to understand each other? Wouldn’t this create fear and anxiety rather than peace, love and harmony?

22) If we were offered Heaven right now, departure in one minute, would we board right away or wait for the next shuttle?

23) Who would question what is believed true?

24) If eating meat on Friday is no longer a sin, are all those who went to hell pardoned?

Reality - Whatever means anything to us becomes real.

Reacting - Reacting makes real unless reacting with love to reveal Truth.

SALVATION - 1) Appears difficult - yet to find simplicity, we must let go of the complex.

SIN - What are the seven deadly sins? Gluttony, pride, lust,

SOUL - What does “soul” mean? Does it contain our mortal records – including good and bad?

SPIRIT - What is spirit (not to confuse with courage etc.)? We could say non-form or an infinite, eternal entity. If so, how can eternal infinite spirit exist in a non-eternal container? Can both exist if one perishes?

THOUGHTS -

1) Would we do something for no reason, to lose, or to gain a benefit?

2) Random – We are wearing our uni forms.

3) Establish a solid foundation before building.

4) Any form of fear such as worry, regret, anger, concern, doubt, hope, uncertainty destroys peace.

5) The body – the great cover-up of Christ.

6) We try to open doors to go through rather than being shown.

7) We are weighed down with our baggage such as painful memories, remorse, hope and anxiety.

8) There is no need for spirit to fight for its life.

9) Elevator – one who gives us a lift.

10) The descending steps out of Heaven must be retraced in order to return.

11) Those who shout need to be heard, to control and command.

12) Can the Bible really be the word of God? Is not the test of truth consistency? Are the passages in the Bible consistent?

13) From birth, life is a struggle to keep our heads above water. It is not easy to seek the unknown in place of the known.

14) Life’s a bleach – and then we dye. ( ; - D

15) Those who say they know, don’t know. Those who say they don’t know, they know.

16) If the Sabbath is Saturday and Christianity changed it to Sunday, have all Christians sinned?

TRUTH - 1) The unadulterated Truth is clear, consistent, easily understood, unchangeable, and the same for all without differing interpretations. It is not believed, only known through experience.

2) We each have unique and individual experiences and although true to each, no two have the exact same “truth.” If there is only one Truth, then It is universal - not open to different interpretation, and the same for all.

3) What is true is experienced and what is believed is not.

4) When an oyster senses an irritating grain of sand, it covers it with many layers to make it feel better. Could we have covered over irritating Truth with layers to make us feel better?

VALUE - Would we not happily postpone our return to Heaven as long as we cherish birth, mortality, experiences, differences, changes and things that make us feel good?

WANT - 1) Wanting to impress reflects lack of self-esteem (self-worth).

2) Only if I want Truth and nothing but the Truth will I gladly let go of what is not True.

WILL OF GOD - 1) What God willed has happened and what He did not will could never happen. What did He will for His children - for some to be more fortunate than others?

2) Can God change His will? If so, why wasn’t it right the first time?

(A WORK IN PROCESS)

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