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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!
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”.
Understanding Your Desires
Strike The Word From Your Vocabulary
What do you desire? More important, why do you desire it? Is it because you feel something is missing from your experience? Humanly speaking (and I can’t imagine why anyone would do too much of that), desire and lack are joined at the hip.
Let’s continue from the spiritual point-of-view. Does God desire? Your answer, I’m sure, is, “No, Allen, God being the One Infinite, Indivisible Presence is All and therefore has All. And, Allen, now that I think about it, that word should be struck from my vocabulary.”
Desire Is An Alert – Not An Alarm
You and God are (is) One – the same One. You have All because the I of your Being is All. You are eternally complete. Yet, we do seem to have desires. Why do we have them? Imagine you are waiting for a pizza delivery. Twenty minutes pass, and the doorbell rings. What does that bell signify to your salivating mouth? The presence or absence of the pizza? Yes, the bell signifies the presence of something you desired. Similarly, desire is an alert signifying the presence of something that seems to be absent. If desire could talk it would say, “Don’t overlook me. I’m here.”
Every Desire Alerts You To God’s Presence
Every desire signifies the presence of a spiritual (God) quality. Take a look at these God-qualities:
- Life
- Wholeness
- Joy
- Infinity
- Beauty
- Love/Peace (Oneness)
- Eternality
- Completeness
You can trace every so-called human desire back to one or more of these God-qualities.
Someone once asked, “Allen, what about my neighbor’s wife? Sometimes I have desires for her. How do you explain that – spiritually speaking?” In a nutshell, that desire symbolizes the Presence of Completeness.
Simple – But Will You Do It?
Let’s move this from the theoretical to the practical. Whenever a desire emerges, rejoice. Rejoice because the desire is saying, “I think you’ve overlooked me. All you have to do is acknowledge my Presence and understand why I am present, and you will experience my Presence.” Do you understand why the seeming desire is present? It’s because God is Present. Therefore all the qualities of God are Present, and they are present right where you are.
Don’t spin and scurry around trying to get God (or any aspect of God). Simply acknowledge that God is present as that particular aspect of Itself. If you will do this without wavering, you’ll experience the Presence of that which seemed to be absent.
If this unwavering acknowledgment doesn’t seem to work, get busy praying to understand that the entirety of God is present in your life (as your life) right now and always.
The Evidence Of Perfection Is Right Where You Are?
HEAVEN IS HERE– NOW
Jesus once proclaimed, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand”– meaning that the evidence of Truth is already evident. He urged, “Repent,” – change your mind from believing in the appearance of God’s absence. Paraphrasing Jesus’ words: IF IT APPEARS THAT YOUR LIFE AND AFFAIRS ARE IMPERFECT IN ANY WAY, DON’T BELIEVE IT. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS ALREADY VISIBLY EVIDENT, RIGHT WHERE DISEASE AND DESPAIR SEEM TO APPEAR. Why would Jesus dare to say these words to apparently troubled hears and mind? Because Jesus knew that God Is All. He knew that only God can be and Is evident.
GOD IS ALL — INCLUDING EVIDENCE
Reader, have you seriously considered why you really mean when you say, “God Is All”? Certainly you mean God is the only Presence, the only Power, and the only Identity. And you must mean God is the only Substance, Form and Activity. But have you considered that since God is All, God must necessarily be the only Manifestation – the only Evidence? Answer honestly. You cannot sincerely acknowledge God as the only Manifestation and Evidence while hoping and waiting for the evidence to appear. That is implying that God is both present and absent at the same time. Is this a firm foundation to base you life on? No!
Dear reader, know that it is impossible to sincerely acknowledge God as the only Evidence without also experiencing that Evidence right where you are.
This excerpt is from my second book, Sounds of the Trumpet. The chapter is titled, “The Evidence.”
Are These Your Questions Too?
About seven weeks ago, Trevor, a reader of Absolutely Yours, sent me the perfect email – perfect because in one email he asks many questions that people have asked over the years. Because I wanted to thoroughly address the questions Trevor asked, without being too wordy, it has taken many weeks to respond to his communication. Below is Trevor’s email.
I do enjoy your blogs – Perhaps it is easy to write about Truth, but what you write about is it your experience or just pretty thoughts? Take your blog for instance “Escaping The Dream of Human Existence.”
Questions:
- Do I have a mind that is aware of a material or human existence? You must believe in this mind otherwise you would not write blogs. You believe there is an audience that can be reached … you get my drift.
- So many Truth writers there are, but, do they practice what they preach?
- What is your purpose?
I know that we seem to be in a world of form but need not be of it where God sends His Teachers. Not that they are part of it but for a moment leave the Light and enter the darkness to show forth the Light.
Peace and Love,
Trevor
To make the answers to Trevor’s questions clear to you, I decided to approach them in sections that address most of Trevor’s questions.
Is what I write my experience, or just pretty thoughts?
In my early years as a minister, I made the decision not to preach anything that I have not experienced to some degree. When I write or teach about instantaneous healing, it’s because I have experienced it myself. When I write about taking no human action to find employment, it’s because that’s how I found employment. When I write about seeing the Body of Light, or hearing the Music of the Spheres, it’s because that’s what I saw and heard.
Most of the Truth writers I know are writing from their experiences. More importantly, most of the Truth writers I know have withheld writing about experiences that totally defy what the so-called intellect deems possible. Pretty thoughts and well-crafted words without genuine experience are pointless.
Reader, this is the most important thing. Through prayer, continue to explore the Allness of God. Do not be deterred! The experiences that reveal themselves will never frighten you. They will astound you.
You must believe in this mind otherwise you would not write blogs. You must believe an audience can be reached.
A Practitioner who takes calls from those who seem to be dealing with tumors, growths, and other bodily troubles does not respond to the caller because she believes that these troubles exist and can be healed. She doesn’t even acknowledge the reality of an identity or body that could possibly experience these troubles.
Similarly, I don’t write blogs because I believe in a human mind that can be helped, but because I know (despite convincing suggestions otherwise) that there is only One Mind.
Trevor, I write Truth because, as Truth is All, what else is there to write? I speak Truth because, as Truth is All, what else is there to speak?
I could write long discourses about the circus-like machinations of the American political scene, but it would be a lie. I could write about the health benefits of tea made from the carcasses of dung beetles, but that too would be a lie. Writing about anything other than Truth is wasted paper, ink and pixels.
As far as that audience to reach. I wish I believed there was one; then I would actively market this blog. Years ago I wrote a post (don’t know if it transferred to Absolutely Yours) for performers – how they can be more effective performers. It was based on my years and “struggles” performing as a classical pianist.
In a nutshell: Know that you and the so-called audience IS ONE – not two. That’s the mindset that I write these posts. It’s the only possible way.
I always open my lectures with these words. “Do not look up to the speaker. I, the speaker, and you, the listener, IS ONE MIND. You are both the speaker and the listener. Even when you read the words of Christ Jesus, know that they are the words of ‘your’ Mind.” This is true of the books and posts that I write.
Do the Truth writers practice what they preach?
In short, yes. But let me open the curtain so that you can peek in on the process.
It all starts when the writer experiences some form of Illumination. This is when he has a momentary experience of existence as it IS – as spiritual Form and Substance. Usually this is a Light-filled experience. The body, plants, buildings, etc., are literally seen as spiritual Form. Words cannot adequately describe this experience.
Although the experience only lasts for seconds before the writer seems to slip back into a seeming material world, he knows that he will never again be deceived by the appearance of a material world.
The Truth writer writes from this point of reality. He lives from this point of reality.
In these high times, so-called miracles are experienced. The chains of time and space are broken, and a person may find himself being there without having to travel there.
Sometimes these experiences appear as “heavenly helpers,” when human help is not available. But, Trevor, you do get my drift. Great stuff happens.
What is your purpose?
Trevor, I’m glad you asked about my purpose, because at one time I was confused. Early on, long before I wrote God Is All, I wrote for a spiritual journal expressly for the purpose of enlightening the readers. (A lot of minds going on here, and mine was ego driven.)
Once I realized God to be the only Mind – the Mind that is both reader and writer, everything changed. As stated, I write (hopefully no more books) because only Truth is worth writing.
There was no intention of writing God Is All (the first book). One night I was just about pulled out of bed and dragged to the computer. I started writing, but it was more like I was taking dictation. I didn’t think the words. I just wrote the words that came. The book was finished in three (3) weeks.
The file sat in my computer for several years. I had completely forgotten about it. One day a friend was “playing” on the computer and found the file. He said, “Allen, what’s this? It’s really good. Did you write this? You should publish it.”
I did and God Is All has been reaching readers all over the world for over twenty years.
My purpose is BEING.
I know we live in a world of form.
Form is real. The way we seem to see Form is not real. That’s the simple Truth. Two people could be sitting in the same room – one seeing Form as it really is.
The person really seeing would see the same books, tables, chairs and bric-a-brac as the other person. The only difference, these Forms would not have density or solidity. Think of a rainbow. It has shape, but there is no solidity or density. This is how Form actually appears (or the best way words can describe it).
The thing to get is that FORM IS REAL. There is nothing material about FORM.
Spiritual Leaders And Their Lies
This is an excerpt from my second book Sounds Of The Trumpet
Life Is A Playground Not A Learning School
Perhaps you have heard the theory, widely accepted by many metaphysicians, that misfortunes haunt our lives to teach us a valuable lesson, and once that lesson is learned the misfortune departs. False notions such as this one have encouraged “spiritual leaders” to perpetuate the great lie that earth is a huge classroom with multitudes of brutal lessons preparing us for ease of living somewhere else – at another time.
There’s Something Better Than Overcoming Problems
There is a well-known religion that takes great pride in how their members and believers use Truth, solely and very effectively to overcome every type of physical malady known to man. This is fine, but there is a higher view. From the peaks of Mt. Absolute, you can see that the highest testimony to the Omnipresence and Omnipotence of God is not in overcoming problems, but in having no problems to overcome, to literally go from one glorious experience to the next glorious experience in this infinite universe of illimitable glories. Isn’t this a better testimony to the fact that GOD IS ALL?
Your Assurance Of Uninterrupted Glorious Living Is The Allness Of God
Is it possible to actually live from glory to glory? This questions can be answered simply: IF IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO LIVE FROM GLORY TO GLORY, THEN GOD IS NOT ALL. IF IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO LIVE FROM GLORY TO GLORY, THEN GOD IS NOT THE ONLY PRESENCE AND THE ONLY POWER. But you and I know with unshakable certainty that GOD IS ALL.
So This Is Why I Wasn’t Healed
This excerpt is by Alfred Aiken from The Unchallenged Self
I Declared Truth Until I Was Blue In The Face — Where’s My Healing?
Recently, one steeped in metaphysics asked for a clearer explanation of God. As the ALLNESS of God was pointed out, the seeker said, ”Oh yes, I know, but that is too absolute for me. Talk so I can understand you. The doctors at my place of business tell me I have tuberculosis and I am unable to work. I can’t pay my bills. I’ve declared Truth till I’m blue in the face but it doesn’t seem to do a bit of good. Why doesn’t God heal me? I’ve asked Him in all sincerity. I know He’s all powerful – that He’s Love Itself, so why doesn’t He heal me?”
I tried to point out the ONENESS of God, but with each statement of Truth, my visitor countered with a metaphysical quotation, assuring me this was the very same Truth he had been declaring for months on end. To break through this glib parroting, he was then asked for an original definition of what Truth is – not words or pretty, quotable sentences, but what is the Truth Itself; not the truth about Truth, but Truth’s very essence – what the I of this I-PRESENT is. This question caught his attention and he was still – he listened to the sole Self for a change, rather than to the chatter of no-Self, not-Self, not-One, not-I!
Fight Evil Appearances And They Will Appear To Get Worse
Until now, all his efforts had been expended against evil, against a condition. However, as always in the field of theology, the more evil or sin is fought, the larger it becomes – the further from the Allness of God the theologian travels. Evil is not to be wiped out, dealt with, handled, cast aside or overcome.
Why?
Because God is ALL, and this leaves nothing beside. Sickness, like aught else evil, is not something to be met, destroyed or healed, because PRESENT PERFECTION leaves no evil – leaves none sick, ailing or in distress. Surely no one would go about trying to heal God!
God’s Allness Is All That’s Going On
My visitor was asked is he had ever felt GOD was in need of prayer – had he ever “worked” for GOD, tried to set GOD free of disease, deadly germs, infection? The answer was an immediate NO! Did time ever affect GOD? NO! Is God all, right NOW? Yes! Is there more than ALL? There was a pause, then a slow acknowledgment that there is ONLY GOD. Who then is ill? NO ONE, FOR GOD IS ALL!
Suddenly, he saw this. “This is Truth!” he declared. It was clear to him that until this moment he had merely been attempting to know about Truth – about himself, about disease, but he had now know TRUTH ITSELF. Truth revealed Truth to be TRUE RIGHT NOW, WHOLE, AWARE OF BEING THE I THAT I AM – THIS I RIGHT HERE.
Some three days late, because of employment insurance regulations, the young man had to report to the doctors for another X-ray. When the X-ray was taken it showed but a slight congestion which the doctors said was possibly fatigue. When they compared the new pictures with the old ones, they were at a complete loss to explain how the old set showed such an advanced stage of the disease and the new ones did not. To be doubly sure, however, they later called for another set which showed no trace of discord, and within a matter of days the yound man was back at work.
The Proof Of God’s Allness In Your Life
Oops! That’s What I’ve Been Doing
Hoping and waiting for the evidence of God’s Allness are the culprits that seem to hide the experience of Truth’s evidence. Hoping, wishing, and waiting for the evidence of Truth to appear is a flat-out denial that God Is All. How subtle this is!
Many sincere “students” of Truth are unknowingly investing their attention in the denial of the established fact that God Is All. Every time the truth of God’s Allness is contemplated with the hope and wish for its evidence, the Fact is at once denied.
It is a self-defeating practice to contemplate the fact of God’s Allness, and at the same time hope for health, a windfall, or a change of some appearance for the better. Simply put, most people lack the experience of the evidence of Truth because they, in their hopes and wishes for such evidence, are actually denying its presence as an already established fact.
I’ll Try This Instead
… Beloved, no change is needed in your life at all. Your Life is the evidence of God – pure, holy and perfect in every way. Simply stay with the Fact that God is the only Evidence evidenced. Nothing needs to be added to or removed from your Life.
Excerpt from Sounds Of The Trumpet-The Evidence
Our Readers Write
Below are two recent communications I have received. I thought they were worth sharing with you. Please feel free to share a testimony that with our readers.
Letter of Thanks
Loved your recent post Allen….as always. Just want to say that…though I experience “falls” much more often then you do…I have had very similar experiences in the way you describe here.( I’m into the term – feeling of Illumined Awareness rather then Mind). Its sooooo liberating. So just want to say thank you for your sharing because hearing you speak it somehow adds an even greater Flavor and Quickening of Understanding and Trust to it for me. Thanks as always. Love to you Friend.
D.L.
A Testimony
Dear Allen,
Gratefully I am feeling well. Take care of my own affairs. I have a reliable Jeep Liberty and go to town however many times necessary. I am 5 miles from Payson. My home is in the forest of Ponderosa Pines —secluded and private — but not isolated.
First, every morning long moments of stillness, peace, and “listening.” I don’t begin the day without this quiet time.
I will share with you an experience last week. I walked directly into a low-hanging tree branch, and a short, sharp end of the branch went into my eye. Immediately I went into the house; sat down and assured myself “nothing is wrong with me.” That was the end of the discomfort, and the balance of the day I drove to town, did the errands, came home. Everything was good.
I do appreciate the fine posts you send; they certainly help me to maintain. I still enjoy the cassette tape about living a life of ease … it’s a masterpiece.
M.E.
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