Objective for this week:
The Quest is a year-long discovery of the inner self, our Christ nature based on The Quest, A Journey of Spiritual Rediscovery by Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla. “Discovering” our inner Christ nature can be difficult, sometimes taking a whole lifetime.
This week we explore our varied states of mind and consider whether they belong in the category of heaven or hell. We also explore the consequences of our thinking, something known metaphysically as judgment day.
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Metaphysical Lesson:
- Heaven is a high state of consciousness, referred to by Jesus as the kingdom of heaven. This kingdom, according to Jesus is within you.
- Hell is a low state of consciousness, metaphorically described by Jesus as the garbage dump of Jerusalem.
- We choose to reside in heaven or hell by the state of our thinking.
- The consequences of our thinking are immediate, our soul expands or constricts according to our thoughts, words and deeds.
- What we perceive as a hellish experience may in fact be a purifier.
- Preview of Ch. 40: “As a part of God, that which we are eternally had no beginning nor does it have any end.”
Process for "I'm choosing heaven today":
- Begin each day this week with the affirmation: “I'm chooosing heaven today.”
- Follow that affirmation with a consideration of one thing you might do that day to avoid or let go of a hellish experience.
- Follow that with a consideration of one thing you might do that day to reside in the state of mind we call the kingdom of heaven.
- With each decision made throughout the day, silently say to yourself “judgment day” and consider the consequence of the decision on your soul: will it expand or constrict, with it become purer or murkier?
Bible passage:
“Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life” John 4:14
