Showing posts with label Religion & Spirituality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion & Spirituality. Show all posts

Friday, 12 September 2014

Basic Beliefs of Eckankar

Harold Klemp, the spiritual leader of Eckankar, describes the basic beliefs of Eckankar as follows:


Drop cap The teachings of ECK define the nature of Soul more carefully than do other current religions. Each person is Soul, a particle of God sent into the lower worlds (including earth) to gain spiritual experience. Purified by the spiritual exercises, he comes into contact with the Holy Spirit. His goal is spiritual freedom in this lifetime, after which he becomes a Co-worker with God, both here and in the next world. Karma and reincarnation are primary beliefs.

Key to the ECK teachings is the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master. He has the special ability to act as both Inner and Outer Master for ECK students. He is the prophet of Eckankar, given respect but not worship. He teaches the sacred name of God, HU, which lifts one spiritually into the Light and Sound of God, the ECK.


The ECK (the Holy Spirit) purifies one of karma (sin), making it possible for him to accept the full love of God in this lifetime. Then he gains wisdom, charity, and freedom.


Personal experience with the Light and Sound of God is the cornerstone of Eckankar. Of all the religions on earth today, Eckankar offers the most direct teachings on the Light and Sound of God. These twin pillars are missing in whole or in part from the rest. People who truly find these two aspects of God undergo a complete spiritual change. Life becomes fresh and new again, as it was in early childhood.


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Sunday, 31 August 2014

Our Connection to Spirit

Spiritual Growth Requires a Reconnection to Spirit

by: Richard Blackstone

When was the last time you consciously thought about the spirit or soul aspect of your beingness? Essential spirituality information requires you to seek this reconnection. Use your spiritual quest to advance your spiritual growth with a conscious and consistent association with your spirit.


As babies, we were born into this world in perfect balance in the mind, body, spirit being that we are. This is what I like to call the “love triangle.” As we grow, develop and define the world, we become less and less influenced by our spirit. Why is that? Because, just like all things in life, what becomes real in our lives is what we put our attention on.


The world we live in at this particular point in our evolution has not put a lot of time and attention on developing our spirit. We are constantly being conditioned to believe that our beingness is to be mostly concerned with our body and our mind.


Some people might say that is not true. They would say, “Look at all the religions and how we are seeking the word of God through our religious teachings.” There is much truth to this argument, but what is being promulgated and what our attention is being put on is the religion itself and not on our innate “spirit.”


The religion becomes the message and not the day-to-day influence of spirit without judgment or labels attached to it by each and every religion, according to its particular doctrine.


So our physical senses continually bring us a message that we identify ourselves as mostly a body and a mind. We put our attention on this never-ending conditioning and become less and less influenced by the spirit side of our beingness.


The love triangle adjusts accordingly and instead of the perfectly balanced mind, body, spirit being that we were when we entered this physical world we begin to view ourselves from a whole different perspective.


We are still a three-part being and we will always be a three-part being. It is just that the “spirit” part of our beingness has not received any attention and is therefore less influential in the decisions and choices we make in our lives.


The result of this neglect of our spirit is the startling revelation of how the love, that is the core of our beingness, also atrophies and is less influential when we lose our spiritual influence.


Wow! This is worth a big Ah-haaaaa. Our love quotient is way down when we lose the influence of our spirit. Somehow, that statement makes total logical sense. Not just physical sense but more importantly nonphysical sense.


The sense that comes from the more subtle aspects of our beingness. The sense that comes to us from the triune relationships in our lives. From the superconscious, conscious and subconscious. From the physical, the nonphysical, and the metaphysical. From the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost. From the mind, body and spirit.


This is the nature of our beingness in the world we live in today. This is “what is so.” It is neither right nor wrong. It is merely “what is so.”


The question we need to ask ourselves is this: “Does this serve me?”


Each of you must go within yourselves and answer that question. Your answer will determine who you choose to be, and from that beingness you will do the things it takes to manifest the beingness that you choose.


Make a conscious choice in this very present moment of now to “be” more spiritual. All it requires is to consciously allow your spirit to be an active participant in your decision making process. Make that choice today and reap the benefits of that choice for the rest of your life.


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Sunday, 24 August 2014

How To Contact Spirits

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Speaking to Spirit … How To Feel And Hear Spirit

by: Heidi Sawyer


Speaking to spirit is different from talking to your friends or next door neighbour. If you are lucky enough to see a spirit in a physical form, you will notice their method of communication is not through their mouth but through a thought pattern such as telepathy.


For most people it takes a while to realise that messages you receive from spirit helpers are not part of a vivid imagination.


You will find that as your psychic senses deepen, even the thoughts of the living become something you pick up on. This is because we are all energy and energy has no concept of time or space, it ‘just is’. Often people will describe how they ‘just knew’ their friend on the other side of the world was going through a change in their life, or they could feel a friend from school was going to contact them, even though they hadn’t seen them for twenty years. Strangely, they started to think of them to find a day or so later they called.


This is picking up on the fine radio waves of subtle non-physical communication. Before this skill is developed, we describe it as a strange feeling that we can’t quite put our finger on – gut feeling perhaps; but as we take more notice and start to actively develop it life becomes much easier.


Recently, during a time of moving, I found myself automatically slipping into this part of myself. I just knew the removal company wasn’t going to get it quite right so I put extra clothes in the car and in drawers I knew they would not be taking. I stopped myself from putting too much of the most important things in the car because I thought I was being a little too paranoid. As it turned out, I was absolutely right. If I had fully listened, I’d have had everything I needed! The removal company did mess up and if I hadn’t put the essentials in the car and the drawers, I would have been completely stuck! They took three weeks to deliver the full load of belongings. They were supposed to take one day!


There are many ways to help you to feel and hear spirit better. Methods that help you decipher real from imagined communication help you recognise your psyche’s way of receiving information whether it’s from spirit or your own deeper senses.






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