Mind Consciousness

Am I an object or a Being?

Yesterday, I got my finger pinched between cement when the slab I was holding cracked in two, and one half folded and fell to the ground, pinching my finger on its way.  I got a nasty blood blister and bruise on the pad of my finger.  Not to mention the OUCH sensation.

When exploring this, and the application of Scientific Metaphysics to the situation, I heard the comment -- "Oh, so you think you're an object that things can happen to."  Wow... yes, I was indeed in the belief that that was so.  It made me stop and really think about that.

In her pamphlet, Radical Reliance On Truth, Margaret Laird says, "The statement, 'every material belief hints the existence of spiritual reality' means that every theory or belief, every concept has existence only in the spiritual fact - the God-idea as individual Mind.  The idea and its identity are not two.  That which identifies the idea is the idea, whatever form it may assume, the consciousness of Good (Mind) is Good, as conscious being."

When I, in mistaken belief, live as though I am merely a human being -- a two-legged animal, I lose the ability to see that I am Consciousness, Mind in action, showing up as my world in the only way I have the eyes to see it.  I can align with One in an instant -- dropping my belief in the apparent two, and in that present Now -- I stand in the magnificence of All being - One infinitude of existence.

What is Real vs. What is Concept?

A very good distinction to draw if we are interested in operating with power in our world.

So what is Real?  Reality happens all the time, all around us.  If I hold up an apple, and ask what it is, the first response is, it's an apple, a sort-of round red object, etc.  Answers can go on for some time, but finally, we'll get to it is what it is.  All labels and everything else 'about' it is a concept.

So, Reality is.  It's very simple.  As human beings we confuse reality with our concept of reality.

For example, "I had a bad day", or "the deepest, darkest part of Africa" -- all concept -- that is a 'view' of reality - but not reality.  As a concept, it is not real, but my personal view of reality, that is filtered through my story about it.

It's powerful to distinguish Reality from my View or Concept of reality.  So the thing we are looking at is real.  Our concepts of it are not real.  We make it up.

I live in the world as I am, not as it is.  I live it where I am, in my own self-view.  It's a perspective, a view.

If we can leave the look of things alone -- acknowledging there is nothing to fix, or change or fiddle with, new and unseen opportunities and possibilities will arise that are unpredictable.

Learn to be permissive of the appearance world.  Notice when you are pulled to fix, fiddle, change, resist, etc. anything that is happening. 

Acknowledge Consciousness is fundamental.  It is the source and condition of all existence.  Margaret Laird says, "Conscious Identity is the condition of being exactly the same as Consciousness."

To quote Betty Albee, "It takes a quality of alertness in daily living to not be a reaction machine.  When I'm being myself, I don't have any attention on myself, like Betty doing something.  'Betty' doesn't exist.  I am being the happening."

In a recent seminar, Betty said, "Language is a transient view of reality.  There is nothing to fix or change.  It's a momentary view.  It comes to you for life and you give it all the life it has."

Yep -- we add all the judgment, meaning to the circumstances showing up -- giving it the "life" it has. 

Who Am I?

This is the most important question any of us could engage in.  Knowing who you are is vital to any spiritual exploration of your Self: that which is beyond the appearance/look of yourself.

So when I am interested in having power in my living, this is a vital question, because it shapes my experience of my world - it's who I see myself to be.

The goal is to live myself accurately.  What am I believing about myself?  What am I believing about my world?

When you really get pressed to the wall, and you have everything that you are on the line -- you say to yourself, either this Science (scientific metaphysics) is accurate, or it's not, and if not, let's go study something else.  Never once have I been let down.  Until it's lived it's just words -- not helpful..

So this blog is a record of my own Self discovering and the application and practice of Scientific Metaphysics, as taught by Mary Baker Eddy, and her student Bicknell Young, and his student Margaret Laird, and her student, Betty Albee.

Being is all there is.  So what is it about Being that I know?  What can I actually prove to myself about Being?  I know that I consciously exist.  And I can go on from there.  Divine being is always present when I am present.

Since I know that all of the language in my world (the seen, heard, and felt) is not causative, then what is causative?  What shapes my experience of my living?  It all gets down to the question, Who Am I?