Exciting happenings going on at Conscious Kernels. We have introduced and added teleseminars and online classes to our line-up. Teleseminars are phone-in seminars. There is a speaker or discussion leader and the audience. You call in on a regular phone line and can participate in the discussion, question and answer session, etc.
On-line classes work the same way.
Our introductory teleseminar is coming up on June 5 and is FREE! We will have a "Meet the Author" teleseminar with our lastest author, Jennifer Weggeman, author of "A Month of Sundays, Vol. 1" ebook and audiobook. A Month of Sundays is a collection of 30 inspirational affirmations. Each about a page long, these were written when Jennifer went into her Akashic Records. Fascinating stuff! She wrote these down as she read her Records. You can learn all about that at the Meet the Author session.
But you have to sign up now as space is limited. Just go to the website page or go to the home page at www.consciouskernels.com and click on the Teleseminar link at the top of the left hand column. You can get the details of our first seminar there. We also have a further explanation of teleseminars and how you can benefit.
This is a very exciting and new way for you to explore your personal spiritual growth. I know a number of people do not live anywhere near a New Thought church or group. So we can become your local group via the telephone!
We also want ideas for future online classes and teleseminars, so if you get on any one of our mailing lists (customer, newsletter, free book, ecourse, teleseminar sign up), we will be sending you a survey to see what people want to learn, what people want a greater understanding of, what people need to feel more fulfilled. We want to help people with their challenges. So hopefully the survey will go out soon after the first teleseminar and that will be the impetus of many more to come. All for your personal spiritual growth.
Until next time,
Namaste
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Friday, March 9, 2007
"The Secret" Backlash
Did anyone catch another "Secret" show on Larry King last night? This time the people who appeared in the "Secret" had to defend themselves and the movie against pop psychologists and the like. I missed the first 15 minutes so I stayed up to catch the re-airing 3 hours later and after I saw what I had missed the first time, I turned off the show. I just could not take it. I could not stand to hear one more word about the "Secret" or its nay-sayers. I'm so sick of the Secret, but not for the reason you might think.
Just for clarity, the Secret was no secret to me. I've been a Religious Scientist for over 8 years. That teaching encompasses all the Spiritual Laws of the Universe, not just the Law of Attraction. What I am so sick about is the secularizing (if that is a word, if not I just made it up) of Spiritual Principles into drugstore remedies. The people who criticize this one explanation of one Universal Law, are not considering its complex nature as a Spiritual Law. They take a few phrases at face value and say "positive-thinking" is dangerous to be solely relied upon. And "to tell people all they have to do is think about something and they get it is living in a fool's paradise."
Science of Mind and New Thought cannot be reduced to Positive Thinking. That is so secular. And the "experts" on the Secret who reduce everything to energy vibration and brain waves are doing a great disservice to this knowledge of Spiritual Laws too.
Something "new" (although this teaching has been formally around for 80-some years; 2000 years if you count the true teachings of Jesus) is bound to be resisted, as some of the Larry King guests said last night. So I quess we will see how this all shakes out. The vast majority of humankind has not been ready for this revelation, otherwise Religious Science would not be classified as a "cult" by some unenlightened text books. Are they ready now? Not if they reduce a spiritual practice and principles to mundane, pedestrian ideas of "pie-in-the-sky" thinking.
But for those who felt something ring true in any of the information presented in the Secret, there are organizations that you can go to to learn more, to get more than just a Readers Digest version. New Thought centers and churches. That includes, Unity, Divine Science, and Religious Science.
Go get the real deal from one of these places and take yourself out of the pointless rhetoric that now seems to be the new legacy of the Secret.
Just for clarity, the Secret was no secret to me. I've been a Religious Scientist for over 8 years. That teaching encompasses all the Spiritual Laws of the Universe, not just the Law of Attraction. What I am so sick about is the secularizing (if that is a word, if not I just made it up) of Spiritual Principles into drugstore remedies. The people who criticize this one explanation of one Universal Law, are not considering its complex nature as a Spiritual Law. They take a few phrases at face value and say "positive-thinking" is dangerous to be solely relied upon. And "to tell people all they have to do is think about something and they get it is living in a fool's paradise."
Science of Mind and New Thought cannot be reduced to Positive Thinking. That is so secular. And the "experts" on the Secret who reduce everything to energy vibration and brain waves are doing a great disservice to this knowledge of Spiritual Laws too.
Something "new" (although this teaching has been formally around for 80-some years; 2000 years if you count the true teachings of Jesus) is bound to be resisted, as some of the Larry King guests said last night. So I quess we will see how this all shakes out. The vast majority of humankind has not been ready for this revelation, otherwise Religious Science would not be classified as a "cult" by some unenlightened text books. Are they ready now? Not if they reduce a spiritual practice and principles to mundane, pedestrian ideas of "pie-in-the-sky" thinking.
But for those who felt something ring true in any of the information presented in the Secret, there are organizations that you can go to to learn more, to get more than just a Readers Digest version. New Thought centers and churches. That includes, Unity, Divine Science, and Religious Science.
Go get the real deal from one of these places and take yourself out of the pointless rhetoric that now seems to be the new legacy of the Secret.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
New Line of Products!
I've been so busy working on the secret surprise, that I haven't had time to post any additional clues.
So without further ado, I am here to announce to launch of a new line at Conscious Kernels. The HERITAGE LINE of ebooks. What is the Heritage Line? It is and will be a growing list of a hard-to-find and out-of-print books written by the pioneers and early leaders of the New Thought Movement. That's right, we have Ernest Holmes's two early, early works: Creative Mind and Creative Mind and Success. These are the precursers to his master tome: The Science of Mind, on which Religious Science was founded. We also have an early work by Thomas Troward, a great influencer of Ernest Holmes, and the man credited with starting the branch of philosophy called Mental Science. And last of our introductory list we have The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles. This is the book that turned the life around of the producer of the movie/DVD "The Secret" that has been explored on Oprah a number of times in the last two weeks. This gem of a book will get you on the road to prosperity.
We will keep adding to this list of Heritage books as we pay tribute to where we have come from to see where we are going. These four books were all written between 1910 and 1919!!! Let's see how far we have come or NOT! Let's pay homage to the groundbreakers and original Thinkers that have helped us to understand Spiritual Principles to use in our daily lives.
You can see the list at http://www.consciouskernels.com/heritagelist.html
We will be adding more in the near future, so start adding these incredible books to your metaphysical library. These are all MUST-READS!!!
Until next time.
Namaste
So without further ado, I am here to announce to launch of a new line at Conscious Kernels. The HERITAGE LINE of ebooks. What is the Heritage Line? It is and will be a growing list of a hard-to-find and out-of-print books written by the pioneers and early leaders of the New Thought Movement. That's right, we have Ernest Holmes's two early, early works: Creative Mind and Creative Mind and Success. These are the precursers to his master tome: The Science of Mind, on which Religious Science was founded. We also have an early work by Thomas Troward, a great influencer of Ernest Holmes, and the man credited with starting the branch of philosophy called Mental Science. And last of our introductory list we have The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles. This is the book that turned the life around of the producer of the movie/DVD "The Secret" that has been explored on Oprah a number of times in the last two weeks. This gem of a book will get you on the road to prosperity.
We will keep adding to this list of Heritage books as we pay tribute to where we have come from to see where we are going. These four books were all written between 1910 and 1919!!! Let's see how far we have come or NOT! Let's pay homage to the groundbreakers and original Thinkers that have helped us to understand Spiritual Principles to use in our daily lives.
You can see the list at http://www.consciouskernels.com/heritagelist.html
We will be adding more in the near future, so start adding these incredible books to your metaphysical library. These are all MUST-READS!!!
Until next time.
Namaste
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
New stuff coming
Oh how I love to pique interest by being mysterious!!!
We are hard a work on a new line of products to be revealed by the end of the month. Again, with your personal spiritual growth in mind, we KNOW you will love this line-up. And it will most definitely become a part of your spiritual growth library.
I'm going to keep it a secret until the actual unveiling. We will probably be offering an introductory discount as well, so get ready!!
Stay tuned for more clues!
We are hard a work on a new line of products to be revealed by the end of the month. Again, with your personal spiritual growth in mind, we KNOW you will love this line-up. And it will most definitely become a part of your spiritual growth library.
I'm going to keep it a secret until the actual unveiling. We will probably be offering an introductory discount as well, so get ready!!
Stay tuned for more clues!
Conscious Kernels Discussion Board
It pains me to have to do this, but I had to make the decision to lock the entire Conscious Kernels Discussion Board at our website www.consciouskernels.com
Why? Because it was getting abused by posters using a discussion board about spiritual ideas and topics to make links to porn sites. It was taking up way too much of our Moderator's time to remove these posts and try to block their IP addresses from further posts. It became a major time-consumer and time-waster. So for the time being, no one can post to any forums. You can still read them, but no new posts. So after a major onslaught of these postings, I have decided no more postings at least for awhile.
Just ridiculous. And honestly, if these people had any sense of marketing, they would go around posting to an audience that would never use their links. There are plenty of other places these people can and should go. LEAVE US ALONE!
I won't comment on the sickness and depravity of these people in general, but just let them go find more suitable grounds for their activity. I will revisit this decision in a few months and see if they have moved on.
As with many things, a few idiots spoil it for everyone.
In the meantime, you can make comments here. Here at the blog, I get to screen comments BEFORE they get posted. We can't really do that at the discussion board until after the fact. So I welcome legitimate comments, questions, ideas, suggestions here at the blog. I might be able to put them on the discussion board in addition to here, time permitting.
Until next time.
Why? Because it was getting abused by posters using a discussion board about spiritual ideas and topics to make links to porn sites. It was taking up way too much of our Moderator's time to remove these posts and try to block their IP addresses from further posts. It became a major time-consumer and time-waster. So for the time being, no one can post to any forums. You can still read them, but no new posts. So after a major onslaught of these postings, I have decided no more postings at least for awhile.
Just ridiculous. And honestly, if these people had any sense of marketing, they would go around posting to an audience that would never use their links. There are plenty of other places these people can and should go. LEAVE US ALONE!
I won't comment on the sickness and depravity of these people in general, but just let them go find more suitable grounds for their activity. I will revisit this decision in a few months and see if they have moved on.
As with many things, a few idiots spoil it for everyone.
In the meantime, you can make comments here. Here at the blog, I get to screen comments BEFORE they get posted. We can't really do that at the discussion board until after the fact. So I welcome legitimate comments, questions, ideas, suggestions here at the blog. I might be able to put them on the discussion board in addition to here, time permitting.
Until next time.
Friday, January 19, 2007
Visioning
There has been alot of buzz about Visioning.
What is Visioning? It is a practice of getting in touch with your Higher Self, Spirit, Intention, whatever you want to call it to bring about change in your life, set goals, move forward, advance in some area of your life.
Being the start of a new year, I recently attended a Visioning Workshop to set my intentions for 2007. I had never done a Visioning session, but according to the facilitator, Michael Beckwith used Visioning to go from a 20 member church to one of 10,000. Those kinds of numbers get your attention, so I decided to see what this Visioning thing was all about.
Well, I don't know if it was just me and I did not understand the point, or I was lead in a direction that to me seem off-Principle (Science of Mind principles) but part of this Visioning exercise just did not work for me.
First we were lead in a guided meditation to get in touch with Spirit. The workshop leader used the term "soul". After that, we opened our eyes and answered a series of questions on a worksheet. The first being: what is Spirit's Highest Vision for my soul in this lifetime?
Was I being to literal when I read this question or does it see to imply fate and predeterimation? And using the term soul seems to imply a separation. Aren't we all trying to get to the place in our personal spiritual growth where we can say, like Jesus, "I and the Father are one"?
Spirit, as in Universal Mind, Divine Mind, Creative Power, has no vision for me. It has ALL visions for me. It is the unlimited potentiality. It is the undifferentiated substance. It is all possibilities. It is me as an individualization of this all encompassing potentiality that makes it specialize. As Ernest Holmes has written, Spirit has no particular plan for anyone. That is what makes us individuals. That is what makes us Conscious beings.
And then to bring in the soul concept. Soul is my subconscious connection to the All. It is the collective unconscious, my direct tap-in to omnipresent Universal Law.
And Law is waiting to be consciously directed by me. Otherwise, it works on the Law of Averages if I do not consciously direct it.
Other questions on this worksheet continue in the same vein: Spirit's Highest Vision for my soul in 2012, in 2010, in 2007. We were supposed to write down anything that came into our minds whether that be words, images, sounds, smells, etc.
I had a few images and feelings, but not much came through. That makes perfect sense if you take into account my belief that there is nothing but unlimited potentiality for me. I am not being told by Spirit what I should be.
As we shared some of what we wrote down among the group, I could tell that some people really got into it and did get in touch with their inner self. Others I could tell were just regurgitating what their intellect and ego told them to write down. They had invested alot of something in a particular direction they wanted their lives to go in, and they were determined to convince themselves that this is what Spirit wanted for them too.
The second part of the workshop was goal-setting. For some reason, I got alot more out of this part of the workshop than the first half. This was bringing our human intellect into the equation. Nothing wrong with that. Our intellect has its place. What I liked about this exercise is that it let me think long-term and medium-term. It was almost a luxury to actually sit down and allow myself to think about these goals. Most of us do not give ourselves the time to do this. We just plod along and see what happens. And then deal with what happens. A very reactionary way to live.
Well, I rather be pro-active, and this gave me a wonderful opportunity to do that. Things actually came out of my pen that I have no idea where they came from. Maybe this was Spirit starting to individualize as me and my actions.
What was spiritual about the goal writing session was to think about what I would have to BECOME to make those goals come about -- not necessarily what I would have to DO. Big difference. Personal spiritual growth is all about what we are becoming.
Self-contemplation, which is how Spirit creates everything (read Thomas Troward's books), is also how we create our experiences. I have to think about myself in a certain way, or I won't believe certain things are possible. And belief is THE critical factor in creation.
To reach my goals, I have to see myself as more. More intelligent, more spiritual, more communicative, more prosperous, etc.
This is what I got of my first Visioning Session. Probably not what other people got out of it. Call me a purist. The Law does not care what it creates for me. It is my servant. Spirit only wants me to have my good. Whatever I choose it to be. So to ask Spirit what it wants me to do, goes completely against that.
Now, yes, there is Divine Guidance. That is your inner wisdom. Because deep down, you do know what to do, if you just become still and turn off the noise of the world, community, family, friends, and your own ego. This is what we need to tap into in a true Visioning practice.
Until next time,
Peace, be still.
Tina
What is Visioning? It is a practice of getting in touch with your Higher Self, Spirit, Intention, whatever you want to call it to bring about change in your life, set goals, move forward, advance in some area of your life.
Being the start of a new year, I recently attended a Visioning Workshop to set my intentions for 2007. I had never done a Visioning session, but according to the facilitator, Michael Beckwith used Visioning to go from a 20 member church to one of 10,000. Those kinds of numbers get your attention, so I decided to see what this Visioning thing was all about.
Well, I don't know if it was just me and I did not understand the point, or I was lead in a direction that to me seem off-Principle (Science of Mind principles) but part of this Visioning exercise just did not work for me.
First we were lead in a guided meditation to get in touch with Spirit. The workshop leader used the term "soul". After that, we opened our eyes and answered a series of questions on a worksheet. The first being: what is Spirit's Highest Vision for my soul in this lifetime?
Was I being to literal when I read this question or does it see to imply fate and predeterimation? And using the term soul seems to imply a separation. Aren't we all trying to get to the place in our personal spiritual growth where we can say, like Jesus, "I and the Father are one"?
Spirit, as in Universal Mind, Divine Mind, Creative Power, has no vision for me. It has ALL visions for me. It is the unlimited potentiality. It is the undifferentiated substance. It is all possibilities. It is me as an individualization of this all encompassing potentiality that makes it specialize. As Ernest Holmes has written, Spirit has no particular plan for anyone. That is what makes us individuals. That is what makes us Conscious beings.
And then to bring in the soul concept. Soul is my subconscious connection to the All. It is the collective unconscious, my direct tap-in to omnipresent Universal Law.
And Law is waiting to be consciously directed by me. Otherwise, it works on the Law of Averages if I do not consciously direct it.
Other questions on this worksheet continue in the same vein: Spirit's Highest Vision for my soul in 2012, in 2010, in 2007. We were supposed to write down anything that came into our minds whether that be words, images, sounds, smells, etc.
I had a few images and feelings, but not much came through. That makes perfect sense if you take into account my belief that there is nothing but unlimited potentiality for me. I am not being told by Spirit what I should be.
As we shared some of what we wrote down among the group, I could tell that some people really got into it and did get in touch with their inner self. Others I could tell were just regurgitating what their intellect and ego told them to write down. They had invested alot of something in a particular direction they wanted their lives to go in, and they were determined to convince themselves that this is what Spirit wanted for them too.
The second part of the workshop was goal-setting. For some reason, I got alot more out of this part of the workshop than the first half. This was bringing our human intellect into the equation. Nothing wrong with that. Our intellect has its place. What I liked about this exercise is that it let me think long-term and medium-term. It was almost a luxury to actually sit down and allow myself to think about these goals. Most of us do not give ourselves the time to do this. We just plod along and see what happens. And then deal with what happens. A very reactionary way to live.
Well, I rather be pro-active, and this gave me a wonderful opportunity to do that. Things actually came out of my pen that I have no idea where they came from. Maybe this was Spirit starting to individualize as me and my actions.
What was spiritual about the goal writing session was to think about what I would have to BECOME to make those goals come about -- not necessarily what I would have to DO. Big difference. Personal spiritual growth is all about what we are becoming.
Self-contemplation, which is how Spirit creates everything (read Thomas Troward's books), is also how we create our experiences. I have to think about myself in a certain way, or I won't believe certain things are possible. And belief is THE critical factor in creation.
To reach my goals, I have to see myself as more. More intelligent, more spiritual, more communicative, more prosperous, etc.
This is what I got of my first Visioning Session. Probably not what other people got out of it. Call me a purist. The Law does not care what it creates for me. It is my servant. Spirit only wants me to have my good. Whatever I choose it to be. So to ask Spirit what it wants me to do, goes completely against that.
Now, yes, there is Divine Guidance. That is your inner wisdom. Because deep down, you do know what to do, if you just become still and turn off the noise of the world, community, family, friends, and your own ego. This is what we need to tap into in a true Visioning practice.
Until next time,
Peace, be still.
Tina
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men
Today is Global Peace Day. Everywhere around the planet, churches, spiritual groups and individuals, at the same time, are meditating, praying, and/or thinking about Peace on this planet.
At our church/spiritual center, we were asked: what would bring you Peace, what would make you feel peaceful? So I put out that question to you: What would bring you Peace, what would make your experience one of Peace?
A few answers were: to stop trying to do everything for everyone. To Let Go and Let God and know that everything is good and right. Good answer! Another person said, to know that I have not missed out on anything, that it is not too late for anything. Yet another said to believe, in spite of appearances, that everything is happening for the highest Good of All. (meaning, to stop worrying about everything)
The New Year is a good time to think about Peace especially as we move into 2007 and see around us wars in many parts of the globe. So in spite of this appearance of war, we need to believe that our highest Good -- Peace -- is already at hand. There is peace and only peace in Spirit. Peace is the knowingness of Good and only Good.
Let us declare with our powerful Word, let there be peace on earth, and good will going to and coming from all people.
Happy New Year to all.
At our church/spiritual center, we were asked: what would bring you Peace, what would make you feel peaceful? So I put out that question to you: What would bring you Peace, what would make your experience one of Peace?
A few answers were: to stop trying to do everything for everyone. To Let Go and Let God and know that everything is good and right. Good answer! Another person said, to know that I have not missed out on anything, that it is not too late for anything. Yet another said to believe, in spite of appearances, that everything is happening for the highest Good of All. (meaning, to stop worrying about everything)
The New Year is a good time to think about Peace especially as we move into 2007 and see around us wars in many parts of the globe. So in spite of this appearance of war, we need to believe that our highest Good -- Peace -- is already at hand. There is peace and only peace in Spirit. Peace is the knowingness of Good and only Good.
Let us declare with our powerful Word, let there be peace on earth, and good will going to and coming from all people.
Happy New Year to all.
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