Category Archives: Consciousness

The Immensity Of Your Identity

In Christ Jesus’ most famous open-air sermon (the Sermon on the Mount), he said to his disciples, “You are the light of the world.” Was Christ charging his disciples with the responsibility to enlighten the world with this new teaching? Many Bible scholars believe so.

Digging deeper into his words, you’ll discover that Christ was turning their attention – and yours as well – to the immensity of their True Identity.

“God is light and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). These words mean exactly what they say. God is Light.

Imagine your bedroom flooded with a light so bright and brilliant you can’t distinguish the distinct shapes of the objects in the room. Divine Light is similar to that.

God’s Light is present everywhere. But the truth is, God’s Light is the everywhere, the Substance of everything and everyone. Yes, this Light is the Substance of You. Can you accept this? If so, it’s easy to perceive that You are Light. For now, don’t try to see this Light; just accept that it is.

Right now, you are in a wonderful position to take a giant leap of understanding. You are Light, and you can accept that. But do you think this means you are a separate lamp of Living Light? If so, let’s look at this from a grander view. For that, we have to go to the beach.

Picture it. You’re standing at the shore with an eyedropper in your hand. You bend down and draw up a single drop of water out of the ocean. Humor me and name that drop “Billy.”

Billy, as you know, has all of the properties of the ocean, but now he’s separated from it. In that separation, he’s not what he used to be. Billy doesn’t have the size or power of the ocean supporting him, nor is his movement assisted by the motion of the water.

Yet what happens when you drop Billy back into the ocean? Here’s a clear explanation. “When a drop of water returns to the ocean, it instantly loses its identity as a separate drop … becoming a part of the ocean’s enormous volume.”

Please read that quote again. It is the key to Self-understanding. You are the Light of the world, but you are not a separate little lamp of Living Light.

You are the Light of the world because of your Oneness “with” God. In this Oneness, you lose all sense of separation and are now the grand Ocean of Living Light that is God’s Presence. In your awareness of Oneness, you are the Light that is the entirety of existence.

“But Allen, what about the other people I see and know?” There’s one loving answer to this question.

Mis-perceived, those so-called others are separate little lamps of Living Light. Rightly perceived, they are, like you, the same grand Ocean of Living Light. Rightly perceived otherness has been replaced with Oneness. [Be clear: You do not lose your individuality in Oneness, but you do lose your separation.]

In a nutshell, your Oneness with (as) God is your Oneness with and as all Life. This is true Love.

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Open Vision — Seeing The Invisible

You Think You’ve Seen It All

Bored? Need something new to see and do? You could board a plane and fly to a new and exciting destination. Or, you could take a long drive through the back roads of a nearby state. There are so many things you could do to stave off boredom and see something new.

But there is another way to see exciting new things without even leaving your home. Try a staycation. No, not the typical one where you visit popular or overlooked sites and eateries in your area. Try a spiritual staycation. When done right, a spiritual staycation can be the most exciting thing you’ve ever done. And you can staycate wherever you are.

How many times have you walked through your home? You probably think you’ve seen everything there is to see, but the Truth is you’ve only seen a smidgen of what’s in your home. There’s so much more for you to see.

The Spiritual Staycation Illustrated

In the Holy Bible, there’s a story that illustrates the results of a spiritual staycation. The King of Aram sent his army to capture the prophet Elisha who was hiding in Dothan. Early one morning Elisha’s servant went out for a stretch, and when he looked up, he saw an army with horses and chariots surrounding the city. He cried out to Elisha, “Oh my master, what are we to do?”

Elisha didn’t pray for help. He simply prayed, “Lord, please open his eyes and let him see.” The servant’s eyes were opened to see that they were safe and protected.

With open eyes, Elisha’s servant saw a completely different scene. He stood in the same spot where he first saw danger, but one thing changed. He saw with open vision what he could not see with closed vision.

The Key Point For Seeing The Invisible

Here is the spiritual gist of the story: ALL OF GOD IS EQUALLY PRESENT AT EVERY “POINT” OF THE UNIVERSE.

Where are you right now? Right where you are ALL OF GOD IS PRESENT – not a portion, but all of God. How much are you seeing? Without leaving the spot where you are, there’s so much more to see.

When Elisha prayed for his servant’s eyes to be opened, he prayed for open vision. Open vision sees the seemingly invisible. Open vision sees the fullness of God’s Presence. What appears invisible to human vision is visible to open vision. Yes, open vision is Illumined Vision.

Do you want to experience open vision? The essential requirement is a humble admission that there is more to see than you are presently seeing. That’s all.

God is the Substance of your environment. And God is Infinite, so there’s always plenty to see.

While walking, driving, or just sitting, look around and ask your Self, “What more is there to see here?” By doing so, you’ve opened yourself to see more than seems to be present. Colors may seem more brilliant and intense. Everything may suddenly seem brighter – as if more suns have risen over the horizon.

The people in your environment may display more loving behavior. In a flash, the bodies and objects around you may glow as pure light. Undoubtedly, you will see a better (so-called) human experience. There’s no telling what open vision will reveal. Just know this: There is always more to see.

Open my eyes, that I may see glimpses of truth Thou hast for me;
Place in my hands the wonderful key, that shall unclasp and set me free.
Silently now I wait for Thee, ready, my God, Thy will to see;
Open my eyes, illumine me, Spirit divine!

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The Truth About Wealth

This excerpt is from Alfred Aiken’s book, That Which Is. It requires a slow and careful read as you adjust to Aiken’s writing style.  Enjoy.

God cannot be broken up into Health, Wealth, Action, Life. God is One God, One Life, Action, Wealth, Health – all is one whole Being. Life cannot be present and Wealth or Action, the self-same one Being, be absent.

As this is seen, one will no longer assume that even though he is alive, he can suffer from the absence of Supply, Action, Intelligence. Rather, he will be aware that All is one, and it is this one All here who is Individually Present identifying The Alone I-Self as this I that I am.

It is only the “mist”-guided human sense that would attempt to break One into many parts; that would parcel the Infinite One into a series of attributes, a collection of qualities; that would decide where some of these qualities could function and where they would be absent, or at least operative in a lesser degree.

To know God as God is, stop trying to reason your way up from the human to the Divine. It cannot be done. It is not that Truth transcends human belief or reason, but that in Truth there is no such to transcend! Where God is, and there is nowhere God is not, there is no human to reason, to transcend – there is only Truth being. This is the One Way, and this Way is the only. Anything else is duality, nonsense, the so-called way of the thief and the robber.

Do not pray for more God, more Wealth. The One Whole is already present, and this One is as much Wealth, Health, Intelligence as He is the Self that is Action, Perfection, Power, All. If you are alive, exist, God is the Life, Consciousness, Awareness, Identity, the I of you entirely; your Total Being, Individuality, Am-ness. Your Identity, your Being is not present in degrees, or merely partly operative, but in Its Entirety. Life cannot be present, identified as acting here and now without Health, Wealth, Intelligence being, for these are one inseparable Whole. Life is all I-AM, or I do not exist.

Having an abundance of money and all the things one desires is not to be considered a stigma. With Mind [God] an abundance of all things indicating limitless freedom and liberty is inevitable! However Substance, Affluence is not the result of human personality, identity; not the result of cause and effect, of inheritance via family tree, or shrewd marketing, clever foresight, physical struggle and effort.

Affluence is the normal, the only state of Infinite Intelligence. Ideas, being things, forms in Consciousness conceived by Mind of Itself, Its own Substance, there is no possible shortage of any Good-Thing anywhere, any time.

There can never be a shortage of God, Wealth. The whole of God is always available to God wherever God is, and there is nowhere God is not. Infinity can never shrink, shrivel or become less than Absolute Total, Entire. God cannot be swallowed up by taxes or prodigality, cannot be “mist” -used, misappropriated or wasted. The Sole Self I Am cannot cease to be ever abundantly available to Itself …

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It’s Easier Than You Think

The Roller Coaster Ride

Reading Psalm 91 is like a roller-coaster ride. One moment you are at a height of thrilling inspiration, and the next moment you plummet into discouragement. First there’s the promise of immunity from every evil (91:7), and then you realize the promise is not for everyone (91:1).

It’s Really That Simple

When you read the last post on Psalm 91 (and I’m assuming you have), did your heart sink when you realized the promise of danger-free living was only for those who stay in the conscious awareness of God’s Allness? Did you think, like a lot of folk, “I could never do that. No one can.” Don’t believe it! You can do it. And it’s easier than you think.

Let’s go back to basics: God is All. Take a moment to taste the sweetness of this Truth.

God Is The Only Mind

God, being All, must be and is the only Mind there is. God is Mind. Yes, it seems like there are many minds. It appears as though there are millions of identities rushing around with their own personal minds. But like the flat-appearing earth, it’s not true. God is the one and only Mind.

The True Mind-Body Connection

God is Mind, and this Mind is the Substance of your entire Being. The key word is “entire.” This Mind is the entirety of your Identity, Body and Being. Doesn’t this give new meaning and understanding to the so-called mind-body connection?

This One Mind knows all Truth because it is all Truth. More wonderful is that this Mind is always “stayed on God,” because it is God. In short, your Mind (God) is constantly dwelling in the conscious awareness of God.

There Is No Personal Mind

What are you going to do with this information? There is one thing you must do. Give up all sense of a personal mind – yours and others. You may be held in high esteem for having a brilliant mind that’s scaled the heights of intellectual achievement. Nevertheless, give it up. You don’t have a personal mind more capable than another’s.

Perhaps you’ve always thought of yourself as a numskull. It’s the excuse you’ve given yourself for doing poorly in school and never advancing in your career. Give it up! You don’t, and can’t, have a mind less capable than the most brilliant mind you know. God is the only Mind.

Embrace Your Only Mind

Once you’ve taken out the trash of a personal mind, embrace the one all-knowing Mind as “your” Mind and the Mind of all. Embrace the Truth that this Mind you Are is now and forever dwelling in the conscious awareness of God’s Allness. For a few days, just as a reminder, try starting your day claiming “the Mind of God is the I that I AM.”

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Conscious Immunity

In a future post, might you teach regarding Psalm 91:7?

“A thousand shall fall at thy side
and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee.”

With all the news reporting wars, fires, job firings, deportations, other crazy stuff, how goes that Bible verse?

God Is Love

Before we explore the answer to this question, keep this fact in mind: God is Love and does not cause disease or destruction. Never entertain the idea that God is responsible for the disturbing sights and sounds you see and hear every day.

What Is The Promise?

Psalm 91, now believed to be authored by Moses, is one of the most recited and beloved psalms in the Holy Bible. After reading this post, I suggest you take an additional three minutes to read the entire psalm. It’s a beautiful and inspirational read. It is a promise of complete immunity from all danger, but the promise isn’t for everyone.

Some Biblical scholars disagree with me and claim that the psalm doesn’t promise immunity from all danger. Reader, I let you decide. When you read this verse, what do you think? “There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.” Again, the promise is for a select group of people mentioned in the first verse of the psalm: “He that dwells in the secret place of the most High….”

In spiritual terms, this means to dwell in the conscious awareness of God’s Allness. The key word is dwell. Occasional visits, when situations seem unbearable, offer no such immunity.

Who Are The Fallen Ones?

The questioner asks specifically about verse 7: “A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee.” It’s a loaded verse stirring up images of blood-soaked bodies dropping all around you — or perhaps of you gazing out of your home’s window, without a care, while jagged tongues of fire leap from the windows and roofs of every neighboring house. What does it all mean? Who and what are the thousands falling all around you? Why doesn’t it come near you?

Although you may dwell in the awareness that God’s Perfection is equally and everywhere present, you may still seem to see destruction all around you. You may still seem to see reports of wars, job firings, etc. However, you will (grab something to steady yourself) know that it is pure illusion – a distorted perception of Omnipresent Perfection. Dwelling in the awareness of God’s Allness, you are not alarmed by the thousands falling to your left and right. You know what they are – pure illusion.

These illusions can’t touch you any more than the monster in the movie can reach out and grab you by the neck. There is no monster. Yes, these sights and reports seem to be real, but you will know they are no more real than the train tracks converging in the distance.

Reader, I have one question to ask you: In a scary movie, is the humongous monster towering over the city any more real than the pint-sized monster hiding in the Mason jar? Of course not! Yet, for some reason, so-called Truth students seem to think that some graphic scenes shown in news reports are more real because of their unfettered violence and cruelty. Nothing is nothing.

The Main Point Is

Dwell, stay, remain in the Conscious Awareness of God’s Allness. Never leave. This is an imperative for your complete immunity from all danger.

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The God Governs Teleprayer

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Join me for “The God Governs Teleprayer” – a year-long opportunity to lift up your government with prayer.

DAY: Mondays (throughout 2025)
TIME: 7:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

This brief, weekly gathering is dedicated to:

  • Recognizing God’s government as the only government.
  • Knowing that God’s Love and Intelligence are working through and as the leaders and decision makers throughout the world.
  • Discerning and experiencing God’s Omnipotence in government.

The format is simple. The call will open with a short Truth statement followed by a period of Silence. All lines will be muted, and the call will last approximately 8-10 minutes.

All are welcome. Please feel free to share this invitation with like-minded individuals.

Call-In Number: (978) 330-9214 (free if calling within the United States)

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It Works And Here’s Why

You and Joel Goldsmith (Infinite Way) suggest that one should pray, “God, all I want is you.” How will that heal me? Is there something here I don’t understand?

Before I dive into the answer, here’s a story that proves the practicality of this God-focused type of prayer.

Years ago, I thought I was dying. I was alone, and suddenly blood was everywhere. The pain had me curled up on the bedroom floor. I thought I was beyond the point of healing, so I prayed, “God, I don’t want a healing, all I want is You. Let me experience your Presence.” Soon, fear gave way to peace, and I fell asleep. When I woke up the next morning, I was completely healed.

Are you in pain, or do you have an urgent need? A prayer like this doesn’t seem to address your immediate concern, and that’s why people say it’s impractical – even foolish. Nevertheless, it has proven effective when all other prayer suggestions have failed. Here’s why.

Many people pray “to” God believing that God reaches into “His” heavenly goody-bag, pulls out a blessing and rushes it to them. If prayer traffic is heavy, it might take a while – a long while. All of this presupposes separation. First, that God and the person praying are separate, and second, that God and the so-called blessing are separate. Neither is true.

Whatever your need seems to be – health, peace, love, prosperity, happiness, etc. – God is the source of your good. God is not only the source of your good, GOD IS THE GOOD ITSELF. God is All.

For an example, let’s take Health. God does not have Health to give. God is Health. Should you have a health concern and you pray, “God, all I want is you,” your realization of God’s Presence (the answer to your prayer) results in the realization of Omnipresent Health. Yes, Health is present right where you are. The same is true of any seeming need.

Because God is All, when you have God, you have All. That’s why the prayer is the most practical prayer you can pray.

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Don’t Wait For A “Demonstration”

This excerpt is from Paul Gorman’s book, The Giving Self (The Immediate I). Big Sur Publishing in the UK was owned by Paul Gorman. It was his publishing company that first published my second book, Sounds of the Trumpet.

Change What You Accept And Change The Evidence

We read books, attend classes, and seek spiritual counsel. Yet we seem content to end each day still missing the fullness of harmony that is our very own Being, and ours to tangibly experience each and every day. This is strange because Spirit is what we Are and what we have; Spirit is All-Present already – fully finished, complete, omnipresent; therefore immediately available to your experience in Its fullness of harmony each and every day.

It is only individual acceptance that “we do not yet have the material harmony we want and need” that obscures it from our tangible experience. Change what you accept and you change what is tangibly evident in your experience.

Parable Of The Lost Child

Imagine if you lost sight of your young child in the park. Would you accept that appearance and walk home without her? You wouldn’t dream of it! You would start looking harder. You would look here and there, and another one thousand places until you found her. Only then would you walk home, with her.

The Three Essential Steps

The secret of evidencing an infinity of spiritual Good is a very similar process and discipline. Let’s say you are experiencing a lack of money – but the same applies for any appearance of lack, limitation or discord:

First you realize the nature of the appearing lack-its nothingness, its illusion. It is just an image of lack produced by the fogginess of the mind senses but not in any way real. Second, you close your eyes, go within, get quiet and still, then simply wait for the glow of Spirit to make Itself felt in one way or another – as a sense of peace or calm or release from the outer scene, or joy or heat or light, or even just a nice feeling of silence and safety deep within your being. Third, when you feel Spirit happening within you know that the “demonstration” of supply has “been made and you get up and go about your business in full confidence that the supply you felt within will now become visible in one way or another in the outer.

But do you? Do you really know that the invisible supply will quickly become evident in the “outer?” Or do you “walk home” accepting that it “has not yet appeared” but hopefully will tomorrow or next week? It is unfortunate but this “acceptance” of separation from Good results in just so many days weeks, months or years in a lack experience. Spirit is not evidenced where the “lacking consciousness exists; yet Spirit is evidenced continuously, and in all its free flowing abundance where the “I Have” consciousness exists.

Let’s say that one or two hours after this meditation your good was still not evident. What do you do? In the same way as you would look and look and look for your child until you found her, you “look and look and look” until your good appears tangibly. In the case of spiritual demonstration “look and look and look means have “more silence, more silence and still more silence” until the dawning of a greater spiritual awareness within takes place.

Don’t Walk Away Without Your Child

Do not walk away without your demonstrated good! The problem is not that your good is not present but that you cannot yet see it. That’s a whole different ball game. If it was truly absent we have a different problem, and a more difficult one. We would have to go off searching for it somewhere, or perhaps manufacturing it somehow. But the infinity of Spirit and everything Spirit Is and Has, is right where you are – “closer than breathing”, so we need not go searching anywhere for It.

Our “problem” is that of not “seeing clearly”, rather than of not “getting”. Our immediate Good – the complete, overflowing Fulfilment of the appearing need – is present where we are. All we have to do is “see” It. In the same way as we would not walk home without having our child we do not walk home without having our Good tangibly, materially, physically in our hands So we keep re-entering the Silence, our Silent Self, the Silence which Is the One Form of All. We keep knowing that our Good is present in Its Fullness and that we are only being silent so that we may see what Is the finished Kingdom of Allness spread all over the earth, at our feet. We keep on and keep on entering the silence letting and letting Spirit become more brightly illumined in our withinness – until – there It Is! the Peace, Joy Light actually felt as a happening within. Now we “see” our Good tangibly, right there in our withinness, overflowing.

Can you imagine the great Master accepting that the crowds were hungry yet being unable to feed them? Can you imagine Him walking home that night without having “demonstrated” all the tangible supply needed to satisfy the crowd’s hunger with “twelve basketsful left over? Of course not!

We must have the same sense and commitment to the immediacy or spontaneity of Spiritual Allness. Your infinite Good is present with you this very minute, in actual Form. It is Spiritual Form the only Form there is. It always has been with you and always will be “closer than breathing”, in infinite measure. Your, and my, only need is to be still and silent enough, often enough, to have the omnipresent Good “shine through” the dense fog of the mind, into tangible visibility. That is all. There is nothing else to the demonstration of all the Spiritual Good in the universe.

From this hour onward, whenever good appears to be so distant from you, do not accept that appearance. Know that All Good and Perfect Existence is right there where you are, in Its fullness. Do not read more pages, do not listen to more audios, do not attend more classes. Simply go back and back and back into the infinite storehouse of Silence, and there, in the deep withinness , with a little, or sometimes a lot of, persistence and patience you will soon discover your Good right in front of you “pressed down, pouring out, running over”-“rolling in ecstasy at your feet”.

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A Better Government (Part 2)

Answer This Question

In the last post, I promised we would get the so-called “bad guys” out of office. Let’s unseat these corrupt, power-mad, inept politicians and replace them with wise, efficient, selfless leaders. You and I can do this, but first answer this question. Who made them?

Be careful how you answer because there’s only one correct answer. Any other answer denies God as the only Presence. Here’s the correct answer: They never were made. God Identified is the only Identity. This Truth aligns completely with God’s Allness.

There’s A Snake — Or Is It?

No one can deny that these crooked, corrupt hacks do seem to exist, and their appearance does seem convincingly real. But, judging by appearances, a rope has often been mistaken for a snake. However, a closer look reveals the supposed snake to be nothing more than a coiled rope.

Similarly, a closer look at those villains sitting in positions of power reveals the living Christ (the living Presence of God). Some people, who were too afraid to take a closer look, still believe a snake was coiled in the corner of the garage. Are you too afraid to take a closer look at your “snakes” in government? Are you too afraid to be wrong? Too afraid to see that your snakes were mis-perceived ropes?

Let’s get to the point of this post. Since divinity is the Reality of every Identity, you can pull that divinity into visibility by keeping your focus on the Truth of any Identity. How do you think Practitioners heal? The bigger question is: Are you willing to focus on the Reality of your “snakes?” If you’re willing, here are a few suggestions on how to proceed.

Just A Few Suggestions

#1

This first step is a must: Forgive yourself. Forgive yourself for believing that any government (or leaders in government) has power over your well-being (or the well-being of anyone). You profess that God is the only Power, then let it be so.

#2

Next, ask yourself, “Am I willing to drop my human estimation of all leaders in government?” Note the word “willing.” If your answer is “No,” you can stop reading now.

If your answer is “Yes,” take the political leader and government official(s) that concern you most. [As an aside, my choice is Kim Jong Un.] If it helps, call them by name, and say, “As God is the only Presence, I am willing to perceive your Identity as God Identified.” If you can’t wrap your heart around that, how’s this? “I am willing to behold you in the image and likeness of Love, Light, Peace, and Intelligence – all that God Is.”

#3

Here’s the last step. During one of your prayer periods, take any government leader into your prayer and ask “your” God-Consciousness, “Tell me who this Identity called __________ really is. What is his/her true nature?” Listen for the answer. God will reveal the true nature of this Identity. You may have to do this many times, but it is worth it.

You may be more inclined to take a whole body of government and ask, “What is the Truth about this body of government that I need to know?”

Will this do any good? Will this have any effect on the government where you live? Yes! As stated earlier, when you discover, acknowledge and hold fast to one’s True Identity, you will pull it into visibility. However, no change has happened. The changeless I AM simply revealed Itself.

Should you follow the suggestions above, I promise the benefits will be more than satisfactory – even if those in power are replaced by more suitable government officials.

The true litmus test is not what seems to happen “out there,” but what happens in your perception. Your perception of government and government leaders will change, and that change will be consistent with God being the only Presence and Power. No longer will you judge by appearances. You will judge by God’s Allness.

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