This past week I took a pill for Raynaud's Syndrome. I
take these pills for 5 months between mid-October and mid-March. It helps my
extremities during the cold weather.
This time, however, since it was the first pill in 7
months, I began feeling woozy and very tired. I suddenly passed out – the
result of an unexpected and extreme drop in blood pressure – scaring my wife
and several friends who had dropped by. I was hospitalized for several days
while they performed every test imaginable before they concluded it was the
pill for Raynaud Syndrome not a heart attack or stroke.
I’m still not totally up to snuff, so this message is
short. In fact I want to share a quote from Eric Butterworth [In the Flow of
Life, Unity Publishing, 1994.]:
“Knowledge is received by tuition [that is, instruction]. …[W]isdom
is unfolded from intuition, which flows into manifestation in your body and
affairs. I hope to excite your mind with some helpful insights. An insight,
however, is like the food you eat. To become energy, food is transformed by the
process of metabolism. We do not become the food we eat; it turns into us.
“My goal is not to transfer the ‘gems of wisdom’ from these
printed pages into your mind. The insights shared, which I believe will be
helpful, must be transmuted into a consciousness of the flow of the creative
process. One could memorize every word
[of this book] and be able to repeat it by rote, paragraph by paragraph, and in
the end he would have an overloaded mind and possibly, even as Unity co-founder
Charles Fillmore suggested, an uncomfortable experience of ‘metaphysical
indigestion.’
“It is a common motivation to look for information by which
to set things right. However, people are not in the world to set it right but
to see it rightly. Jesus said, ‘The
kingdom of heaven is at hand,’…but it is right
seeing that is the key to experiencing it. In fact, right seeing leads to
an actual outforming of it….
“[Seeing implies your eyes.] The word eye comes from a Sanskrit root word, which means ‘fountain.’ This
is beautifully significant, for when your mind is remolded from within, you are
synchronized with the omnipresent flow of God which streams out in the very act
of seeing. You see from the consciousness of God. Thus you
actually project this consciousness toward anything your eye beholds.” [pp. 5-7]
This message from Butterworth is very similar to the
reality AA old-timers told me, “Change the way you look at things and the
things you look at change.” I’ve personally
experienced that Truth many times working AA’s suggested program of recovery.
I’ll change my attitude and my universe changes.
ACIM says the same thing: “Being willing to ask the Holy
Spirit to help you see things differently will alter your perception of reality
– from your tiny egoistic version to one based more on the spiritual reality of
Oneness. When there I find peace.
Although these messages are mostly for me, thanks for
listening. As always – feel free to forward this message to your friends,
family, and those accompanying you on your spiritual journey.
Don.
#4 October, 2013
Copyright, 2013