But if we do it kindly and slowly and we admit that it’s not ours, then we share it. We are just passing it on. Take some of it. It helps. Those who are still hungry can have another helping.

Often a student teacher runs into other student teachers and again they try to impress each other with what they know or learned, with what books they’ve read or with the source of the information and maybe some truths. Again, this doesn’t work. Even though it’s spiritual in nature it’s ineffective even if they are on a similar path, because one man’s truth is not anothers and if their egos are clashing they won’t be able to communicate. Everyone runs into these situations, like some of my Christian friends who try to save me instead of themselves. One should be trying to find other sources of information and truths that are not in their Bible.

We all need to step out of our Box’s sometimes to see what is really going on. By our Box’s I mean the programming that has been put into us and is running most of the time on auto pilot. Most don’t even realize they are repeating their programming. They are so stuck in the mud that they don’t even know they’re stuck. They want to save me, but they haven’t been able to save themselves. They’re all running around each other with the same Bible, pointing the finger at each other, saying everyone else has it wrong, and that all 3,500 plus other Christian groups got it wrong too, and that they are the only ones who got it right.

We can’t get it right if the source of our information is incorrect. Disinformation is hard to define if we refuse to look at other sources of information, “Truths,” and compare them. When I was a Christian, we were scared to compare them because we knew deep down inside that something must be wrong. Why else would the Christian church break up into 3,500 plus pieces? In other words the entire different sect’s or groups with different names and belief systems. Jesus did not start Christianity but he fostered it. They have made a religion about Jesus but forgot the religion of Jesus. That is “his teachings”, yesterday and today’s .That’s why many of us call ourselves Jesusonion’s instead of Christian. Remember that Jesus said to take the log from thy own eye before attempting to take the splinter from thy neighbor’s eye.

Christianity would all be one denomination if their source of information were the Truth. And there are truths in there if we search for them, but also very much untruths and disinformation were put in there by the dark side when they were in power in the Catholic Church during the dark ages. Enough said. The picture should be clear. I can safely say, “You probably wouldn’t be reading this book if you weren’t looking for more ‘Truths,’ not mine, but divine Truths. If it fits, wear it. If not, find something that does fit. It doesn’t matter if it’s in style or not. If it fits, wear it. We tend to block out or deny any thing that is a threat to our old belief system. But with a open mind and a desire to expand our present consciousness, we can find a way to fit it into your present belief system, then you can add this information to yours. It all comes from the same source and center .No one has all the answers, but they are out there if you look hard enough”.

But remember to be a good teacher we first have to be a good student, learning to share the information gently with those around us so as not to cause resentment in them. That’s the true art. Look for different ways of saying the same thing. Find grounds that we can build upon when giving the information. Remember to exchange. Give our opinion or view then wait for a kind feedback response. If we don’t get it, we don’t need to attack them back but instead we should say we’re sorry. They don’t understand and go our way. That way there won’t be blocks we will have to take down later on.

We’re all new at it and although I have been studying for 40 years, since I was 19, I am still changing back and forth from student to teacher back to student back to teacher. I had to become a student again to be able to write this book. I knew there would be a “part II” to the last book nearly 20 years ago when I finished “part I” and although I tried many, many times to write it, I had what is called writer’s block. It just wouldn’t come, but now in these last two months I am ready, writing as a teacher again. I did a lot more studying and research and learned a lot more, sometimes too much and I couldn’t relate what I learned to the world around me.

Now that I finished the Teacher’s Manual in A Course in Miracles I was again ready to serve. I meditated for a few minutes as I talked to the Holy Spirit, Master Jesus and my higher self about what I planned to write. Then I asked for them to take over and guide me. Now I can’t stop writing because it’s not coming solely from me. Its sacred information created for everyone to share. I asked for their help and I got it, so it’s a half and half partnership. I get to do the work. They guide me in what to say and how to say it.

It helps that I’ve got 40 years of book learning behind me. But if I am doing it for the ego’s sake of impressing people of what I know, then it won’t come. If, on the other hand, I tell my experiences so that readers can relate to them in regard to what they are going through. It is good that some readers may be learning how to be a writer teacher, as I am doing. Well, if what I present can help, then I have also learned something. We hear and listen up. We learn as we are teaching, when the Holy Spirit speaks through us. The teacher learns from the student as well as the student learns from the teacher. It’s a never ending cycle. When we decide to become part of it, we have to apply ourselves, let the higher teacher inside guide us and take the credit so the ego won’t come in. Then we can save the world together through raising our mass consciousness to cosmic consciousness. Which is Christ Consciousness. We all become student-teachers to each other. Amen.

And just when we thought it was finished, I am told by my guides there’s more. So here goes. Now the way to raise our mass consciousness is by doing our homework. By that I mean not only do we have to study our books but also perform exercises with the mind. First we have to pray, meditate and worship like Jesus told us to do. Prayer can almost be any plea we make giving thanks and praise, or it can be just a conversation with God. Asking the proper question gets a better answer or response. Worship is giving thanks for the answer as well as praise and honor to the father Creator. All of these things I spoke about before. Jesus said don’t worship him, worship only the father, but we can pray to him as well as the Holy Spirit for guidance.

Now meditation, well that’s a whole different story and just like prayer and worship, there are many different forms of it. Basically it’s learning to still the mind, learning to be quiet inside, learning to stop the chatter and slow down the speed of our thoughts. Remember, we have at least 10,000 thoughts per day. And most of them go by unnoticed. Learn to be the observer, the perceive, the watcher. Most of us have decided to try this in our life sometime or another. It’s when we just sit there and let the world pass by.

All things are okay. We’ve got nothing to do that’s important. And we learn not to judge, allowing all to pass us by. We learn to be in allowance. And pretty soon when we look at the outside world we begin to notice with some practice that things start to slow down. Even though people and things are still moving around (that hasn’t stopped), but our thoughts have stopped. Only positive thoughts can expand and heal the mind. There are no neutral thoughts says Jesus.

Then we find something that is called the perfect moment, when we are in the here and now. Jesus calls it the holy instant . It is in this time frame when our minds go blank with no thoughts that we soon have the feeling of becoming one with everything. We feel this great feeling of oneness, that we are connected to everything, not only around us but the whole universe. And we want to hold onto that feeling forever and never let it go. But the tighter we squeeze it to hold on to it, the quicker it slips away.

I am sure most all of us have had at least one experience like this in our lives. But do we really know what happened? Did we ever figure it out? Boy, don’t we wish it would come back again? I had my last one last year sitting on the intersection hitch hiking because my truck broke down. With the help of the Holy Spirit I had decided to buy a motorcycle to get around when my truck was in repair. And at that moment I stopped thinking for a short while and “presto,” that perfect moment hit me. And, wow, not only did I feel the oneness of being a part of everything, but also my stress went away.

While I was in this holy instant I felt up lifted as though all my burdens were taken away. Now I had been here before and knew it wouldn’t last, but that I should enjoy it as long as possible. This was a form of contemplative meditation which often happens by itself. This is “enlightenment,” an example of where we could be and what we could be . We can also learn to make it happen, (but it will take a lot of practice,) if we take control of our thoughts. There are many methods of mediation out there to help us.

We need to understand what happens at this time. Non-judgment and allowance play a very important part or role. And that indicates to us to slow down and release our thought pattern to a point of no thoughts. Now that isn’t easy. But we can learn it in two ways. The one we already mentioned is to consciously slow down our thought process (which is hard to do) and then to just stare out around us and become non-attached to anything. Just allow everything and everyone to interact with “no judgment.” Use these mantras: Do not be a part of it. Become the “observer.” Become the “perceiver.” Now we still have the problem of our thoughts, if they don’t want to stop on their own. So if we really want to experience this holy instant of total oneness (and believe me it’s quite wonderful) well then we have to do our homework as I said before learn to be in the now moment.

Now that we have learned what to do outside, well then we need to learn to go inside, same as before. Find that comfort zone, sitting, lying down or in a Hatha yoga posture. Now there’s several ways of doing this. The one I practiced most of my adult life is the yoga way since I do Hatha and other forms of yoga. And that is to close our eyes and repeat a mantra which is a holy word. Every time we get a thought we repeat the mantra. This distracts us from attaching ourselves to our thoughts. So instead of grabbing it, judging it, then categorizing it, we just simply let it go. And it’s much easier said than done. It’s like the birds we feed. When we stop feeding them they keep coming, but eventually they stop.

If we don’t have a mantra, we can make one up, but it should be something we think of as holy and short (see the I Am mantras in the Poems, Prayers, and Promises chapter). “Short is best” so it’s easy to repeat. We should keep repeating our mantra over and over. Now with this type of meditation it can take years to slow down our thoughts to a point of no thoughts for a few seconds. But this is good. The secret to doing this is simple: first, no attachment. If we find ourselves attached to a thought, if we are giving it energy and somehow believe we can own it then let it go. That’s right. Just let it go, and then go back to our mantra. We shouldn’t expect any big changes in our lives for a long time. It’s a very slow process but bit by bit we will have fewer thoughts, more control and a clearer mind, and it will become a bit easier to control the thoughts. And also, when we practice it will be easier and quicker to return to our mantra.

Now the second thing to success is never give up! It’s going to take a long time. We knew that when we started, but by making or training ourselves to practice then we have assured the outcome. And the key is practice, practice, practice and never give up. Then one day we can reach on the inside what is called Samadhi in yoga. I did it nearly 20 years ago after 15 to 20 years of practice. And basically it’s the same thing as that holy instant , the perfect now moment, when time stops. Again, I felt this great feeling of oneness but this time it was the oneness of the holy family inside that I spoke of before, the Kingdom of God or heaven within as Jesus called it. I finally achieved a point of no thoughts, just being-ness. It was wonderful and that was that. I couldn’t get it back, but having the experience showed me what is possible. Just like the holy instant, they are very fleeting and hard to come by.

I didn’t want to have to spend another 20 years to get it back, so I began to look for another way, something different. After all, the highest self is not that “point” we reach such as the holy instant or Samadhi, it’s that point in between where we are now, always in this now moment where we are always. Now, that’s really difficult as well. “How do you do that?” I asked. Well I had to do a lot of research. Jesus said to meditate but in the New Testament he didn’t say exactly how, except to be quiet, still our thoughts, and then let God answer. He can’t get a word in edge way to us because we have our continuous thoughts going on all the time.

It might take us a lifetime of practice to quiet the mind down enough for the God inside to be able to send us his holy messages. But I wanted it now, not at the end of my lifetime. And as we have found out now some of the original information was taken out of the New Testament that was a part of the Bible, so that we wouldn’t have the knowledge or information Jesus gave us to use today so we would survive these end times. Instead it just says to do it, but not how to do it, just general terms.

So I looked it up in The Urantia Book and it said that Jesus used and taught a contemplation type of meditation, not the type I was using before which is fine if we have the time to practice it. But now no one has the time to practice it, not only because we are slaves to the almighty dollar (nine to fivers) but also because 2011-2012 is not far away and we need a quick hit on meditation so we can be on our way to our new day. The Urantia Book is more like an encyclopedia of the whole of God’s inner and outer kingdom. It gives tremendous amounts of information but doesn’t always tell how to exactly do something.