“Instinct and intuition are the first levels of direct knowing—they both help you perceive the consciousness-and-energy world—instinct is concerned with physical survival (you might think of it as a lower-frequency kind of intuition focused in the reptile brain), while intuition brings guidance from the soul. Intuition registers in one segment of your awareness at a time—your hearing, or vision, or tactile sensitivity, for example. Direct knowing, in comparison, is a heightened intuition that brings inspiration, guidance, and wisdom via all your channels and centers at once. There is no need to go through a process of decoding it; you know immediately.” ~Penney Peirce

“It doesn’t seem like instinct and intuition are related, but, as Ms. Peirce notes, they are. We all know what instinct is, or at least we think we do. We assume that “dumb animals” can’t actually think, so they do virtually everything by instinct. Instinct is what tells a dog to sleep with his back against a wall for protection. Instinct is why beavers build dams, while ducks don’t. Instinct is specific to a species. But instinct isn’t all of it. Instinct is why the squirrels start to bury nuts in the fall, but does it tell the squirrels when the winter will be harsh and they need to bury more nuts than usual? Perhaps, but I’m not sure.”

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Today perhaps the ultimate unsolved mystery of human life for scientists and philosophers is: How and why does consciousness exist? Although some scientific literature still acknowledges that the question remains open, the overwhelming consensus among neuroscientists today is that the brain alone creates conscious experience.

But what happens when scientific investigation leads directly to officially “unthinkable” conclusions? To get an idea, watch this interview with Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona. He is the Director of the university’s Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. Much of his professional career has been devoted to examining scientific opinion on the nature of consciousness, in particular the often-unspoken “materialistic” assumptions about the mind-body connection.

It seems that science has not been prepared for the uncomfortable revelation now coming increasingly into scientific review: the self-aware mind is not simply an effect of brain activity; it endures when that activity is ended. Of course, any assessment of this finding will require much more than a brief interview, but the emphasis by Dr. Schwartz on an objective protocol, including double-blind and triple-blind studies, could reduce the emotional responses that the subject too easily provokes.

This emerging science could have a great impact for those exploring the electricity of life and mind-body paradoxes.

Watch the interview, then read the “Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science” at explorejournal.com.

Click Here to watch the interview with Gary Schwartz posted on YouTube October 1, 2014 (14 minutes).

Click Here to read the “Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science” at explorejournal.com.

link submitted by Robert Anderson

Saturday, November 8, 2014 
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RM Rebecca Willis
Cantor: Rev. Gary Huss, Sr.
Reader: Rev. Greg Klinedinst

Sunday, November 9, 2014
6:30 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
Cathedral Church of the Americas
Leave: 5:45
Gate: 6:15
Sunrise: 6:45
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Sean Savoy
Assistants:
RC Roger Weld
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Races of Man       RR Sean Savoy
Church of the End Times      Rev. Jim Elliott
Church of the New Covenant      Dea. Shane Grady

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 
12:00 N COMMUNION 
Chapel of the Holy Child
Rev. Michael Spohn

Friday, November 14, 2014 
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RM Rebecca Willis

 Each week of the liturgical year, a reading from Second Advent Scripture is delivered as part of the Saturday Communion of Fellowship Service held in the Chapel of the Holy Child. This reading follows the Sacred Calendar of the Church; that is, Prophecies and Revelations that have been received by The Church on sacred dates are recalled in a liturgical context during the appropriate season each year. This reading is delivered by the Officiant of the Communion Service (that is, Bishop Gene Savoy, or occasionally in his stead, Bishop Sean Savoy) just before the final blessings. Each service also includes a reading from the ancient scriptures, prayers, or wisdom sayings of various world religions past and present and is usually thematically related to the Second Advent Reading. This reading is delivered by the Reader right after the announcements that begin the service and is thus the first reading of the service. An audio recording of the reading from Second Advent Scripture delivered on the date above is provided here below together with a transcript of the first reading of the service that day.

SECOND ADVENT PROPHECY AND REVELATION

A Reading from Second Prophecy to the Americas, Chapter 31: “On Men of Two Worlds” (pp. 215-218)

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ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS

A Reading from the Gospel of the Egyptians:

O living water, O child of the child, O glorious name!

O Living Aeon, Living One who sees the Aeons! Who is eternally eternal!

You are what you are, You are who you are!

You who lives in the heart, This great name of yours is upon me, O self-begotten Perfect one, who is not outside me. I see you, O you who are visible to everyone.

For who will be able to comprehend you in another language? Now that I have known you, I have mixed myself with the unchangeable. I have armed myself with an armor of light; I have become light!

For the Mother was at that place because of the splendid beauty of grace. Therefore, I have stretched out my hands while they were folded. I was shaped in the circle of the riches of the Light which is in my bosom, which gives shape to the many begotten ones in the Light into which no complaint reaches. I shall declare your glory truly, for I have comprehended you,

O God of Silence! I honor you completely. You are my place of rest, O formless one who exists in the formless ones, who IS, raising up the man in whom you will purify me into your life, according to your imperishable Name. Therefore, the incense of life is in me. I mixed it with water after the model of all archons, in order that I may live with you in the peace of the Holy Ones, you who ARE, really truly forever.

“By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language. Rejecting man-conceived dialects as inadequate and unworthy to perpetuate divine ideas, the mysteries thus chose symbolism as a far more ingenious and ideal method of preserving their transcendental knowledge. In a single figure a symbol may both reveal and conceal, for to the wise the subject of the symbol is obvious, while to the ignorant the figure remains inscrutable. Hence, he who seeks to unveil the secret doctrine of antiquity must search for that doctrine not upon the open pages of books which might fall into the hands of the unworthy but in the place where it was originally concealed.” ~Manly P. Hall

“The ancients were much smarter than most people think. But they didn’t really chose symbols as the best way to communicate, that was already done before any of them lived. Symbols are the language of the soul and the spirit. In a different way, it is even the language of the mind. The ancients knew this and used it. Hall goes on to say that nations and empires come and go, rise and fall, so the ancients had to find ways to share knowledge with future generation that would not likely be destroyed. We all know that the ancient library of Egypt at Alexandria was considered the greatest of its time and held a great deal of information on the mysteries, mystical schools, and spiritual development. It was nearly all lost when the Romans burned the library and we are only know recovering much of that knowledge.”

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Saturday, November 1, 2014 
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Robert Petrovich
Cantor: Rev. Francine Petrovich
Reader: Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer

Sunday, November 2, 2014
6:19 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
Cathedral Church of the Americas
Leave: 5:30
Gate: 6:05
Sunrise: 6:34
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistants:
RC Roger Weld
RC Ted Staver
RM Carol Ann Crabb
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Christian Churches       RC Robert Petrovich
Church of the Golden Age of Light      Rev. Ben Hubbard
Church of the Universal Theocracy      Rev. Harold Boulette

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 
12:00 N COMMUNION 
Chapel of the Holy Child
Rev. Michael McIntyre

Friday, November 7, 2014 
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RR Sean Savoy

 Each week of the liturgical year, a reading from Second Advent Scripture is delivered as part of the Saturday Communion of Fellowship Service held in the Chapel of the Holy Child. This reading follows the Sacred Calendar of the Church; that is, Prophecies and Revelations that have been received by The Church on sacred dates are recalled in a liturgical context during the appropriate season each year. This reading is delivered by the Officiant of the Communion Service (that is, Bishop Gene Savoy, or occasionally in his stead, Bishop Sean Savoy) just before the final blessings. Each service also includes a reading from the ancient scriptures, prayers, or wisdom sayings of various world religions past and present and is usually thematically related to the Second Advent Reading. This reading is delivered by the Reader right after the announcements that begin the service and is thus the first reading of the service. An audio recording of the reading from Second Advent Scripture delivered on the date above is provided here below together with a transcript of the first reading of the service that day.

SECOND ADVENT PROPHECY AND REVELATION

A Reading from the Prophecy to the Races of Man, Chapter 70: “The Great Day of God” (pp. 454-459)

< Click here to listen to this week’s reading. (7 minutes) >

ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS

A Reading from the Gospel of Truth:

The gospel of truth is joy to those who have received from the Father of truth the gift of knowing him by the power of the Logos, who has come from the Pleroma and who is in the thought and the mind of the Father; he it is who is called “the Savior,” since that is the name of the work which he must do for the redemption of those who have not known the Father. . . .

Since the perfection of the totality is in the Father, it is necessary for the Totality to ascend to him. Therefore, if one has knowledge, he gets what belongs to him and draws it to himself. For he who is ignorant is deficient, and it is a great deficiency, since he lacks that which will make him perfect. Since the perfection of the Totality is in the Father, it is necessary for the Totality to ascend to him and for each one to get the things which are his. He enrolled them first, having prepared them to be given to those who came from him. . . .

Those whose name he knew in advance were called last, so that the one who has knowledge is he whose name the Father has pronounced. For he whose name has not been spoken is ignorant. Indeed, how shall one hear if his name has not been uttered? For he who remains ignorant until the end is a creature of forgetfulness and will perish with it. If this is not so, why have these wretches no name, why do they have no sound? Hence, if one has knowledge, he is from above. If he is called, he hears, he replies, and he turns toward him who called him and he ascends to him and he knows what he is called. Since he has knowledge, he does the will of him who called him. He desires to please him and he finds rest. He receives a certain name. He who thus is going to have knowledge knows whence he came and whither he is going.

 

Reginald Morton

Second-year Academy Consociate Morton Reginald Morton, age 59, passed into the Light on Friday, August 29, 2014. He was being hospitalized at Mt. Carmel East in Columbus, Ohio at the time of his passing. He had been suffering from fourth-stage cancer for several months before then.

“The transformational process is largely about clearing the clutter that interferes with your soul coming all the way through into your body and life. Unlearning and dissolving old, ingrained perception habits is really the biggest part of this. But unlearning habits and establishing new ones is no more difficult than learning them in the first place. … Decide what you want and don’t want and entitle yourself to have what you want—now. Nothing can happen until you know what you want …
“Ask for help. Everything in the nonphysical world is cooperative, service-oriented, and win-win-win by nature. … Create a new set of criteria for making choices. … Weigh each choice: does this allow me to experience my home frequency? Does this keep my intuition open?” ~Penney Peirce

It may not be the most important thing, but getting rid of old habits and beliefs that restrict your learning is certainly among the top five things you need to do to advance spiritually.

Some people may say that they have no bad habits or beliefs to get rid of, but this is not about habits that would traditionally be considered bad. This is about habits and beliefs that limit or prevent spiritual growth. For example, believing in the teaching of one church so totally that you never even investigate the teachings of other churches or other religions is a habit or belief that is restricting your spiritual growth. If your church even tells you that you should not listen to ministers of other churches or faiths, or read books about them, this is a church you should probably leave immediately. A valid church or spiritual school with valid and honest teaching is not afraid to let it’s members study other faiths. In fact, they often encourage it as a way of helping to open your mind. It is really shocking how many people will insist their church and their beliefs are the only true ones, but when you ask them what is specifically false about another belief system, they have no answer because they have never bothered to learn anything about other beliefs.

Another common belief that isn’t generally considered bad, but for this purpose probably is, is a strong belief in exactly what God is. Many people have such beliefs, though it may be more about what God is like, what His personality is, rather than how He looks. There are some, though, who have become so sunken into the muck of materialism, they can only see God as another physical being, but with great powers. You can never know the real God if you cling to these false concepts and do not approach your spiritual awakening with a completely open mind.

Some of you may argue that eliminating beliefs and habits that you have had for a long time is not easy, and that is true. The quoted text above gives an answer which is probably the easiest and probably the best way to get rid of bad habits and false beliefs: replace them with new ones. Of course, the new ones need to be open beliefs and habits, not the closed type you had before. Instead of switching from one materialistic habit or belief to another, you need to get in the habit of opening up your mind and considering other possibilities. After you practice this for a while, having an open mind and non-judgmental beliefs will become new habits and your path to true enlightenment will become clearer.

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Tonatiuh, the Aztec Sun god, who wavered upon his first rising until bloody sacrifices were made. From the Codex Telleriano-Remensis (16th Century).

If folk memory is anything to go by, global warming in its most dreaded form is a thing of the past.

The universality of flood myths is widely known, but fewer people are aware that traditions of unbearable heat, often leading to a devastating Weltbrand, are just as ubiquitous. Although many reports do not identify the cause of the steep rise in temperature or the wildfire associated with the ‘age of myth’, others persistently attribute it to a group of phenomena we may conveniently call ‘anomalous suns’.

Generally, the sources trace the erstwhile emission of relentless heat to four solar properties, singly or combined, all of which seem equally bizarre when applied to the quotidian sun.

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Physicist Stephan Fuelling says: “I think that these are just that, ‘myths.’ If the sun had a strong output burst in human history, then this should have been recorded in the ice records, the activity of the sun relates to the formation of certain isotopes, which would point to such an event. To my knowledge, no such event ever occurred. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. If it can’t be proven, then it is a myth.”

Robert Anderson responds: “I don’t think you can discount mythologies that are so widespread. Science is finding that myths often reflect real events. I know that Stephan rejects the whole electric universe position so his response is not surprising, but I also am aware of the research of Dr. Paul La Violette, an astrophysicist at Portland State who has found ice core evidence of such events, though his theory is that such events were caused by cosmic ray outbursts from the center of the galaxy, all of which coincide with climatic changes on earth. Discussion of his work can be found on youtube and gaiamtv sites.”