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  John Paul Mitchell 6:28 am on December 1, 2008 | CommentsKEY+TEACHING+%2342008-12-01+06%3A28%3A03John+Paul+Mitchell | # |
  Tags: consciousness, Divinity, Eloi Abba, freedom, God, government, guru, Independence, Jesus, Peace, Peacefulness, The Father, Tyrants

  KEY TEACHING #4

  Freedom is a well-cherished and sought after sanctuary. There is numerous types of freedom, including but not limited to, governmental independence from tyrants, financial freedom, emotional well-being and inner peacefulness, spiritual cleanliness, unspotted from past deeds, mental clarity, and control of the outward abiding senses. From the beginning of time, in every culture, in every major civilization, all religions and people have spoken about freedom, achieving it in one form or another.

  Freedom is not free. Freedom must be earned through hard work and continuous effort. One must know what type of freedom one is attempting to achieve. Only by knowing the destination can a person chart a straight and narrow course. Even with foresight, an outlined plan, following it with diligence and keeping one’s self-esteem high, there still exists obstacles and disastrous encounters along the way.

  Every freedom has a price. Only those who are willing to pay the price, to endure any temptation, distraction, obstacle, or critic is worthy of attaining their day of independence.

  Freedom is the greatest achievement. That is why it has the greatest struggle to accompany its journey. When it comes to the spiritual freedom of Wholeness, there is only one true salvation — that is God. Throughout life’s voyage there is only one refuge — that is Divinity’s representative on earth — the guru.

  The guru acts as the guide-master, ready to take the refugee from dark waters of debauchery, materialism, greediness, hatred, and violence onto the shores of peacefulness, joy, happiness, satisfaction, and communion with Eloi Abba — the Father, our God.

  In your mind’s eye, imagine the following scene from Luke 18:18-30 (KJV):

  And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God. Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother. And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up. Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich. And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

  If you could be completely and consciously free, what would you be willing to give?

   

• John Paul Mitchell 7:12 pm on November 25, 2008 | CommentsKey+Teaching+%2332008-11-25+19%3A12%3A29John+Paul+Mitchell | # |
  Tags: Divine Providence, God, Misery, Pain, Pleasure, Suffering, Wholeness

  KEY TEACHING #3

  Suffering is innately connected to our existence. Pleasure would not be so sweet if it were not for its opposite, pain and misery.

  Everyone in life is searching for continued happiness that does not fade, but very few find it regularly and consistently. The troubles and burdens of our society always bare weight on the mind, emotions, and soul of a person. We seek happiness, we want happiness, we need happiness to fill satisfied and content with our existence, but we find suffering, misery, and pain instead.

  If we are unable to move from suffering to a Divine Providence that knows only contentment, satisfaction, and Wholeness, then our life is wasted. It does not matter what we do in between, it only matters if we were doing one of three things in life.

  1. Serving other souls compassionately without selfish motives, only motivated by the charity of one’s heart
  2. Treading the esoteric path to higher states of being and consciousness
  3. Reach the Summit of Life by actualizing complete satisfaction and happiness with self, life, and God

  By keeping these three goals firmly placed in the forefront of our mind, we can surely move from suffering to Divine Providence. Given the right tools, we can accomplish anything–even the Final Merger with God.

   

• John Paul Mitchell 6:27 am on November 24, 2008 | CommentsKey+Teaching+%232+-+Part+22008-11-24+06%3A27%3A05John+Paul+Mitchell | # |
  Tags: God, Key Teaching, knowledge, One Great Power, wisdom

  KEY TEACHING #2 - PART 2

  Intimacy is an intricate part of our human existence. Most people do not have the intimate connections they should be having. They are walled up, alone, boring, and drifting away in their fleshy outer shell. Their existence seems to float along from a single episode of pleasure to the next.

  I’m not talking about everyone, of course. This is a majority of people, especially those who are unfulfilled, miserably abiding their time, waiting for someone to save them. They don’t realize they could save themselves, and take action this very moment. Ultimately, there is no moment but NOW. However, that’s a different lesson.

  The teaching I’d like to convey is that we can know God personally, in a very intimate and conscious way. We can know God mentally, emotionally, and yes, even physically. Every day we can do something to know the Father a little bit more. It can be reading Scripture, praying, meditating, singing holy songs of praise. But in those moments, we should strive to fully surrender our heart on the metaphysical alter of God.

  In fact, I encourage you to know God, to know everything you possibly can know about the One Great Power. Just don’t use this acquired experiential knowledge in deceptive and manipulative ways. If you learn something new about the Father, share it openly with those who are willing to listen.

  It’s even possible you’ll learn something, but those you tell won’t believe you. That’s perfectly fine. They are entitled to their own beliefs and opinions about God and life. We should listen to what they have to say, see if it holds any stable ground, and if it does, commend them for seeing truth. If it doesn’t, that’s fine too. Demonstrate tolerance.

  Admit when you’re wrong, especially when it’s about God.

  Everyone goes into the religious arena claiming sole ownership and stake on what God is and what God wants. Ultimately, we don’t really know what God has planned for our tiny planet and the universe. We may see glimpses, but never the whole picture.

  It’s best to surrender to this lack of knowledge and start a truly intimate and conscious connection with our Father, the One who created the essence of who we really are.

   

• John Paul Mitchell 6:33 am on November 23, 2008 | CommentsKey+Teaching+%2322008-11-23+06%3A33%3A06John+Paul+Mitchell | # |
  Tags: God, Key Teaching, One Great Power, Oneness, prayer, student, Yoga

  KEY TEACHING #2

  TEACHING

  Though man can pray, meditate upon our Source, read countless Holy Scriptures, perform religious rituals, and sing praise songs and hymns for hours, we can never truly know God in His entirety. He is ever-expansive, all-encompassing, with endless characteristics that the human mind is dwarfed by when trying to comprehend His majesty, glory, and totality.

  There is highly intellectual individuals who read Holy Scripture, thinking and believing they know every single thing about God, what God wants, what God has planned, and what God is like. These same intellectuals are fools to believe they can grasp the expansiveness of the One Great Power with their puny and frail human intellect. Only a rare few are blessed to know more about God, the Father, than a majority of the population. Even then what those individuals combined know is a small fraction to everything the One Great Power is and will evolve into.

  Just like humans, God throughout the ages and history of mankind, has expressed Himself through emotions. But because He has done so, humans have confused many things about God. We think if God destroyed a city out of anger or punished a devotee to test him, that we can emulate those same emotions and qualities in our life. He is too high and majestic with a purpose and drive greater than anything we know. We can never truly know or understand God.

  EXERCISE

  It is best to be honest and humble about our limited knowledge of God. The student of Oneness and lover of God can take the first step and humbly admit to God in prayer that he or she knows very little about Him. A simple prayer like this can be highly effective:

  “God, my One True Father, the Giver of Life, I think I know you, but I don’t. I follow the precepts of someone I believe knows a lot about you, but I still don’t know you like I would like to know you. O Lord, my One and Only Salvation, please reveal yourself to me, little by little, so I may know you more fully. Amen!”

   

• John Paul Mitchell 7:35 am on November 20, 2008 | CommentsKey+Teaching+%231+-+Part+22008-11-20+07%3A35%3A37John+Paul+Mitchell | # |
  Tags: awareness, conditioning, Control, freedom, teachings, techniques, willpower

  KEY TEACHING #1 - PART 2

  In this follow-up to Key Teaching #1, where I originally taught you the concept that true power is derived from absolute control of yourself, you’ll learn a powerful technique. I don’t waste time with teaching half-baked techniques. I teach only what is powerful and what will work.

  I have years of teaching and counseling experience and can help anyone, as long as they are receptive and willing. If they are not receptive and not willing to try what I offer, then my techniques aren’t for them. I could always trick them into doing something, if I really wanted, but I leave it to each person to be responsible for their actions, choices, and life.

  Here’s the technique. I’ll break it down step-by-step:

  1) When you do any action, pause for just a brief second or two
  2) In that brief moment, ask yourself this question, “Why am I doing this, this way?”
  3) Then follow-up with a second question, asking yourself, “Can I do this a different way?”
  4) If you answered “Yes” to the second question, then ask, “How would I do this instead?”
  5) After asking the questions, then consciously choose your course of action

  I’ve intentionally loaded the three questions with the word “this”, which is a pronoun used to indicate a thing, state, event, or time. The purpose is to consciously draw your attention fully to whatever it is you’re doing in that very moment, or what you’re about to choose to do.

  The reason you want to throw all your concentration on asking these questions is to see how habitually and automatically we do things without thinking about them. This is fine with necessary actions, especially breathing.

  I’m glad breathing comes automatic, but again when you pay close attention to the breath, you can train yourself to breathe more deeply, naturally, and smooth.

  To master control, you must achieve a firm grasp of awareness, concentration, and willpower.

  We are constantly faced with choices in our life. I’ll demonstrate a classic example. I’ll replace one of the common drinks in this little test with my favorite soda.

  You can only choose one or the other. What drink would you pick? Pepsi or Dr. Pepper?

  It doesn’t matter which one you chose. Why did you ultimately pick it? You should begin asking yourself questions like:

  Why did I choose this one over the other drink?
  Is there something in the flavor of this drink that gives me pleasure?
  Why wouldn’t the other drink satisfy me?

  Dig deeper. Tear apart your day-to-day thinking. Analyze why you do the things you do.

  In fact, practice the technique I taught you above. Do this for an entire day with everything you do. If you can’t instantly pause for a second or two, then ask yourself those questions after the action or event is over. Ask yourself, “Was it possible to do that differently?” and if so, “How could I’ve done that differently?”

  Do this throughout your day. If you can walk down one path, ask yourself why you didn’t take the other path. If you choose a chicken meal over a beef meal, ask why.

  Justify your choices to yourself. Make sure you’re not on auto-pilot every minute of the day, acting like the billions of human robots out there in the world.

  Recognize your conditionings, break free, and choose to be Now.

   

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