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May 06 2020
joel goldsmith, marie watts, Revelation

Infinite Way Is Not Absolute

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Is The Infinite Way An Absolute Teaching

A woman once asked me, “Allen, what’s the difference between Joel Goldsmith (Infinite Way) and the Absolute?” Because they make similar statements, it’s easy to think they’re the same. They are not. In his seminars, Joel often said, “The Infinite Way is not an Absolute teaching.” I think the man knew what he was talking about. Still, inquisitive minds want to know what makes them different. What distinguishes one from the other?

Can You Detect The Difference

Below are two excerpts. The first is by Joel Goldsmith from his book The Infinite Way. The second is by a former student of Goldsmith and the most well-known author of the Absolute – Marie Watts. These contrasting excerpts point to one major difference between the two.

[Excerpt #1 – Goldsmith]

“On Awakening in the morning, and preferably before you get out of bed, turn your thought to the realization that ‘I and the Father are one … Son … all that I have is thine … The place where thou standest is holy ground;’ and then let the meaning of these statements unfold from within your own Consciousness. Gain a conviction of your oneness with the Father, with Universal Life, the Universal Consciousness.”

[Excerpt #2 – Watts]

“All that is manifest, all that is active in You or as You, all that appears as Your experience is known to the All-Knowing Mind. This is the only Mind that exists and functions as Your Mind, now, this instant. Nothing forms itself outside or apart from this Mind. Nothing exists contrary to the uninterrupted activity of Perfect Mind. There are no opposites, no conditions, no comparisons in the One Infinite One, All.”

Starting Point Or Stopping Point?

Do you see the difference? I once handed a pamphlet of the Absolute to a metaphysical minister. She read a paragraph or two, closed the pamphlet and stared at it. I knew the cogs of her brain were turning, searching for a genial response. Finally, she blurted out, “What can I do with this?” – a typical first-time response to the Absolute.

In the first excerpt, Goldsmith gives a procedure to follow. In the second excerpt, no procedure – just Revelation of Truth. This second excerpt is a fine example of the Truth that unfolds as a result of following the procedure of the first. A book of the Absolute is light on procedure and heavy on Revelation. In fact, some books of the Absolute give no procedure at all.

Let’s say you’re digging for gold. You are loaded down with shovel, pick and gold pan. In your back pocket is a concise guide to gold digging. You follow it to the letter and strike gold. The digging is the procedure. Yet, the procedure is worthless without striking gold. Gold is the “goal.”

The Infinite Way is unmatched in procedure, but it’s worthless unless you strike gold – Revelation. Too many people seem to love the procedure and stop there. They boast about the long hours spent in meditation. They pat themselves on the back for giving it so many years. Yet, they forget that procedure is the starting place, not the stopping place.

Many books of the Absolute seem to have no practical value to those who stop at procedure. However, as soon as they keep digging and strike gold (Revelation) it all comes together. “Allen, now I get it. No procedure is necessary. Before, I thought you were crazy.”

Know this, reader. There comes a time in your spiritual practice when there is less procedure and more Revelation. And ultimately, there is a point when no procedure is necessary. It must be this way, for God Is All.

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Jan 27 2018
Consciousness, God, Perfection, Prayer

Right Prayer Is Awesome

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Are Your Prayers Self-Defeating?

In the last post, I ended with a promise to explain the insanity of trying to use Truth to improve your life. The fictitious runner’s story below is used to make a point.

For sixteen months, Imogene Franklin pushed her body through a tortuous training program. In the upcoming race, she wanted to beat the world record for the fifty-yard dash. On the day of the race, Imogene does something strange. At the starting block, she pulls a rope from her waistband and ties it around her ankles. The gun fires. The racers are off. Imogene, ankles tied together, falls flat on her stomach, scraping the side of her face. Why, after all those months of training, would she tie her ankles together? It was a self-defeating act. Wouldn’t you agree?

Did you make the connection between Imogene and people who are trying to use Truth to fix their lives? There is a connection.

Most likely, you are like many of our other readers. You agree that God is the only Presence. You believe that God is All. You, I’m sure believe – even know – that God is Perfection. Not merely perfect, but Perfection Itself. As God is omnipresent Perfection, there is no spot where Perfection is not. According to what you say you believe, this Perfection has to include every aspect of your life – the whole shebang!

Denying God’s Omnipresence But Still Wanting It

“Praying” with the intention to improve any aspect of your life is denying God’s Perfection being that aspect. Praying to improve any aspect of your life is affirming the absence of Perfection in and as that particular aspect. It’s like tying your ankles before the gun goes off. It’s self-defeating.

It does you no good to start your praying with the absence of God. Denying God’s ever present Perfection while hoping for it is being double minded. Nothing good can come from it. Reader, inherently you know that God is changeless. “I am the Lord thy God and I change not.” If God’s Perfection is not already present in, through and as the entirety of your life, it will never be present.

The thing to do is to realize that the allness of Perfection is all that there is as your life, mind, being and body. The thing to do is to realize that this Perfection is the only experience.

Betty, Joel Goldsmith, and Practical Prayer

Is it practical to not pray about your problems? Is it practical (as suggested in the previous post) to take your prayerful attention completely off of your seeming problems? It’s the most practical thing you can do. The following is a true story.

During one of my seminars in Arizona, I met a woman named Betty (name changed). Betty was a friend and student of Joel Goldsmith, founder of The Infinite Way. At the time of this story, Betty was a middle-aged woman seeking direction and purpose in her life. She was too vibrant to rock her life away watching games shows on television. Betty craved a purposeful and successful life. However, Betty knew that praying for purpose, success and money were spiritual no-nos. Remember, she was a close friend of Goldsmith’s. The core principle of Infinite Way is praying only for a realization of God. As impractical as this seemed, God-realization was her only focus.

On a trip to Washington, DC, Betty and a friend dined at one of those hifalutin restaurants in northwest DC. Her dinner companion excused himself to go to the restroom. While waiting for him to return, Betty fiddled with her linen napkin. She twisted and looped it into a unique shape. As soon as she was done with napkin-twisting, a beautiful and richly dressed woman came over to her table. Pointing to the napkin, she said to Betty, “Where did you get that?” Betty answered, “I just did this while waiting for my dinner companion.” The woman told Betty that she was the queen of some small country and was here visiting the embassy. “I am having a dinner hosted by the state department and would like to have 1000 of those for the guests. Can you have them for me in three days?”

Betty, a former restaurant owner, said “Yes.” Quickly she assembled a team of people to make the intricately twisted napkins for this royal occasion. This was the start of a high-end tableware company that became a multi-million dollar business.

Did she pray about her problem? No. Was her God-focused prayer practical? You decide. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God … and all things shall be added unto you.”

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Jan 16 2013
Consciousness, Prayer, Prosperity

Did You Fall For This Lie?

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Misguided Advice From A Practitioner

For the theater musician, the tide of success seems to ebb and flow. When she’ll flow, no one knows. At least this is the appearance. My good friend Wesley is a theater musician, and at one time his career was treading water waiting for another high tide of success.

“Wesley,” I said, “why don’t you call a Practitioner to jump-start your career?” He did, and from there things went downhill, backwards on ice! I heard the frustration and confusion in his voice when he told me what the Practitioner said.

The Practitioner told Wesley that he should not be seeking more gigs, and more success. “After all,” said the practitioner. “God doesn’t know anything about pianos, theaters and money. You should instead be seeking to know God.”

Reader, are you scratching your head like I did? Did your mind immediately flash back to the healing miracles of Christ Jesus? Did you say to yourself, “Well Jesus never told the lepers they should be seeking to know God rather than seeking a healing?” And did you say to yourself, “Wait a just minute! Jesus never rebuked the miracle seekers for not seeking God instead?”

Does Money Really Exist?

Many Practitioners erroneously believe that pianos, theaters and money don’t exist, and that God knows nothing of them. Lies and vicious propaganda! Rather than criticize and condemn, let’s take the axe to the thick root of this delusion.

True, God doesn’t know anything about money, pianos and theaters as they are humanly named. Yet, these forms do exist. To the Infinite I Am, the name of these forms is the One Name – I AM.

In the experience of visual illumination, you do see pianos, theaters and dollars. However, you see them as forms of Light – much like you see the rainbow as a form of light. These forms exist, but not as matter.

You Are All

The Practitioner should have told Wesley the Truth. He should have told Wesley that the Infinite I Am is the I AM that he is. This Infinite I AM includes every form within Its infinity. Then the Practitioner should’ve reminded Wesley that there is no separation of time and space between him and any form. He then should have capped it off by saying, “Wesley, you have ALL, because you ARE ALL.”

Are you thinking, reader, “Well what about all that seeking first the kingdom of God business? Jesus did say that, you know?” He did, and there’s no getting around it.

Reader, suppose the story went like this. Instead of calling a Practitioner, Wesley prayed with the sincere desire to know more of God. These same truths would’ve revealed themselves in and as his Consciousness.

However, since Wesley called a Practitioner, it was the Practitioner’s responsibility to tell Wesley the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth.

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