Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland

GOD IS
God is the Center of Everything
God is Everything
God is the Center
God IS

The Great Body of Love

While we are a spiritual school, we always recognize that the spiritual includes the physical. Angels, who have no physical bodies, never forget what it means to be incarnated in a physical body. There are many physical bodies upon earth. Human egos tend to think of only their own body because, as you know, ego believes it is the Center of Everything. This cannot be, because God is the Center of Everything. God is Everything. God is the Center. God IS. Ego is not. Ego is a mere belief, a false belief.

There are many bodies upon earth. Human bodies. Bodies of animals. Bodies of trees, grasses, grains, seeds, nuts, and flowers; the great body of the ocean and all the bodies that exist within the ocean; the bodies of mountains, boulders, rocks, and pebbles; the bodies of the forest and everything that dwells within the forests.

The sap of trees is their life blood -- no less important or significant than the life blood of humans. The life blood of animals is as important as the life blood of humans. The First People of the earth knew this. When they chose to take the life of an animal, plant, or herb for food, medicine, or clothing, they knew to honor that life, not to take it recklessly, in game or sport or cruelty -- to take only what they needed for their own life. They knew to ask the earth for the blessing of that body.

Even money has a body -- the body of the tree or minerals from which it is made. Humans take the body of the earth and create money and then call that money "mine." People hoard that money, which comes from the body of the earth, and believe they are stronger or better or wiser because they have more money than someone else. They forget that someone else helped them "make" that money. In reality, no one makes money. They simply accumulate money.

Human beings work in rain forests and jungles, on plantations, in sweat shops and factories, on farms, on the land, and in offices. Without all these people working so hard, no one who is called "rich" could become rich. But "rich" people forget this. They forget that everything they have, even the money they hold in their hand, comes from the great richness of Mother Earth. Everything that IS upon the face of the earth comes from the Mother. It is She who gives birth to everything. 

So remember to give thanks to Mother Earth. Honor Her. Make friends of the trees, many of whom are older than you will ever be. Even something as small as a bee performs a function that is vital to maintaining the life of humans. Bees can exist without human life, but humans cannot exist without bees.

Honor the Great Body of Love, Mother Earth

Poetry Today

MAYA
I am not here
no matter how it looks
I was never here
my flesh is no evidence
of my presence
past or future
it is clear
I never was
nor will I be.

G O D
I am here
No matter how it looks
I was always here
My flesh is no evidence
Of my absence
Past or future
It is clear
I always was
And always will be.

 

Merry Christmas 2017

May your days be merry and bright
This is Jamestown, NY where I happen to be right now. Where are you? Wherever you are, may your days sparkle. May your eyes sparkle. May your aura sparkle. Love always, Judy aka Indira

🌟Hirth Martinez🌟 wrote this song the first time we visited family and friends in Jamestown, NY.t It was recorded by the 'Holiday Gents.' Hirth played guitar. Here are the lyrics.
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"It's December, Magic and Love in the air
Everywhere it's Christmas
Merry Christmas Everywhere
I remember we were once in New York
Visiting family and friends
I remember wishing Merry Christmas never ends
Holiday seasons with You
There's nothing that I'd rather do
Loving and laughing and singing
All night through, All day too
Merry Christmas to you, Merry Christmas
Share it with family and friends
Now I'm wishing, Merry, Merry Christmas never ends."
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Nice Angelic Advice

Gurdjieff is a spiritual teacher I sometimes like to read. Here is some nice angelic advice for the New Year 2018 that is just around the bend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlWGE5U6yXI
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The Gift of the Present Moment

During this beautiful holy season when so many
different celebrations of Light are taking place, I
wish you the peace in your heart and soul that
comes not from anything outside, but from the 

inner celebration of your soul connecting with
Light, with Truth, with all things Holy.

I wish for you the gift of knowing that joy comes
from within, from your connection to all things
good and holy, which come from Truth or God or
Whatever Name you give to the Infinite Source 

from which all things flow.

Let’s not join a world that fights over what name
to call God. A rose by any name at all remains a
rose, and the Infinite Source by any name at all
remains LIGHT.

Let’s try to remember to stay in the present
moment, which is the greatest present of all.
Notice when you are talking about the past. Ask
yourself: Who is doing the talking? Is it ego? Ask
yourself: Is it relevant to NOW?

Look around you. Be aware. Are you aware of
how your words are affecting the people around

you, or are you too caught up in your own ego to
notice?

The ego doesn’t care about the present, and it has
no presents to give anyone, no matter how much
money it has or how many gifts it can buy. The
ego is always the sun of its own universe. The ego
is a universe unto itself.

So give yourself the gift of remembering to stay in
the Present Moment. Here is where you find Eternity.
Here is where Love is. Here is Truth.

Stay out of the past. Stay out of the future. Just
choose to stop living there—that is not real life. It
is the ego getting high over what isn’t real. The ego
is an addict, always getting high, getting low.

You are not here for the highs and lows. You are
here for the Present. In this Present Moment shines
the Light of all Wisdom, all Compassion, all Love.
You can enter that Light now. Ego can never enter 

that Light, because ego is made of dark. Just as 

darkness dissolves when the light is turned on, so 

does the ignorance of ego dissolve in the Light of 

Understanding—and it's a choice. You must choose 

to willingly allow the unreal to dissolve in the Light 

of Truth.

All love to you now and always.
--
Your Open Classroom is always Open! Are you? 

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Winter Solstice

Yesterday was Dec. 21, the longest day of the year. The best known winter solstice celebration is held by druids in Wiltshire, England, at the Neolithic Stonehenge monument. Adherents to the ancient Celtic religion give thanks to the sun at the solstice for beginning its path toward the spring.
Speaking of which, let's gives thanks to the Light as we continue our path towards spring — the eternal Spring of Understanding that is within you.

Near-Death Experience

 

You may know that it was with the intervention of angels that I survived a near-death experience in 1981 during which I encountered the Light of all wisdom, love, and compassion. I chose to go to the Light but an angel sent me back to my life on earth. Angels and Beings of Light intervened to protect and guide me, not only while I was out of my body, but also after I returned to it.

This experience shook the cornerstones of what I considered to be normal reality. It profoundly transformed my life and changed the course of my career. I was not meant to die that night, at least my body was not meant to cease to function upon the face of the earth with 'me' in it. Death is another concept altogether. The 'I' is never born and never dies.

Following this near-death experience, my natural empathic abilities, always very keen, began to deepen and expand. I sensed the angels around me and was able to intuit their messages. Amazed and astounded by this, I questioned deeply what was happening to me. I had always thought of myself as a very pragmatic, down-to-earth person, perhaps even more so since my contact with the angels because angels, in spite of the many myths human beings have created about them, are among the most down-to-earth beings one could ever encounter.

today

And So It is

and so it is

that now
only a facsimile
of me
goes on
into the night
only the depths
of light within
that animate this shell
are real
and there is breath
and action and non-action
and none of it is me
none of it is real
even though I seem to live and breathe
it is not so
and so it is

only God

is all there is.

Germany

Since there are so many students here from Germany, and Germany, as well as Switzerland, are part of my annual European Tour, I thought this was interesting:

What US state is the same size as Germany?
Montana comes closest at 147,000 sq miles. Next is New Mexico at 121,000 sq miles. In terms of population, no US state comes close to Germany's 80 million inhabitants, but California is closest with almost 39 million.

The Light side of the Moon

Okay, so it's early morning here on the dark side of the moon -- or at least in Jamestown, NY where I am right now. It's still dark outside though. The snow of the past few days (there was a blizzard the day I flew in from Europe on Dec. 12) is melting and the green grass is appearing again. The wandering deer from the nearby woods will be happy.

Sitting here with my computer about to write a morning school message, I was distracted by a request on my computer to take a personality test. It had beautiful pictures of nature to look at, so I succumbed. Here is what it said about my personality:

"You are as rosy as a red rose, and you offer a breath of fresh air wherever you go. You radiate warmth, and people are attracted to your sensitive, calming energy. You have your feet on the ground and understand what it means to have patience -- as in difficult situations your soothing energy always offers a helping hand to those in need. Soft and gentle, people fall in love with you very easily and you should recognize your calming powers in this world."

Well, people who do not want to live in the truth will most likely not fall in love with me very easily. The darkness (ego) never falls in love with anything but itself, and that isn't real love. 

So when people who used to "love" you, even your best friends, even family members -- when you find others suddenly avoiding you for no reason, maybe getting angry or upset with you -- finding ways to stay away from you or cut the intimacy -- just know that this can happen as you get closer to the light. Keep being kind and polite to everyone. You will find new friends and companions coming into your life -- those people who are as dedicated to the light as you are.

Return from Europe December 2017

Hi Everyone,
I have completed my 2017 European Tour and finally have space and time and opportunity to return to Your Open Classroom. Did you even know I wasn't here? Hmm. It looks like it was lonely since I was gone, so I will have to put some logs in the fireplace and brew some hot tea to warm the one-room school. Actually, there are many rooms here. Many many posts, so you can always find something to read, to comfort and enlighten your soul and heart. Know that I love and appreciate you. Oh -- and I added a new background -- snow, since it is winter. And it is really winter where I am, here in western New York State, close to Canada, in the heart of the snowbelt. Here's a fuzzy picture.  P.S. I will try to write more about my tour. I say try, because it depends on what I feel like when the future moments come.

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Be not conformed

Be not conformed to this world. While we must obey the laws of the society we live in, we are not here to live our life according to the dictates of society. Your life is yours. It belongs to you. Not to other people. Not to society. Not to your parents, partner, or children. Not to your friends or acquaintances. Not to your job. Not to negativity. Not to thoughts. Not to ego.

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"Every one of those unfortunates [human beings] during the process of existence should constantly sense and be cognizant of the inevitability of his own death as well as of the death of everyone upon whom his eyes or attention rests. Only such a sensation and such a cognizance can now destroy the egoism completely crystallized in them that has swallowed up the whole of their Essence, and also that tendency to hate others which flows from it.” - Gurdjieff & Ouspensky “Commentaries” by Dr. Nicoll

just something to uplift this monday---good night or good morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKji0oK1bmg

Good and Bad

"Remember that, as I said, the right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge. When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly: while you are making them you cannot see them. You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk. Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either." - C. S. Lewis

- C. S.  Lewis wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. C. S. Lewis’s most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics in The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.

Grow wiser, not just older

Some people just grow older, without growing wiser. Then there are those who use their years to grow wiser as they grow older. Like this woman, who is blind, but still sees the light.

This 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with her hair fashionably coiffed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home yesterday. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary.

After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window. “I love it,” she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.
“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room …. just wait.”

“That doesn’t have anything to do with it,” she replied. “Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged, it’s how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice;

I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away, just for this time in my life.”

She went on to explain, “Old age is like a bank account, you withdraw from what you’ve put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing.”

And with a smile, she said: “Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less, & enjoy every moment.

Photograph by Karsten Thormaehlen

A Post from the Past

This was first posted in 2011"

COPING WITH FEAR

Fear is the greatest weapon of control. Just look at history--both your own and the world's--to see that this is true. Fear is a dark force that has nothing to do with your true nature. Your true nature is light. Dark attracts dark. Fear attracts fear. This is the nature of fear.

In spite of the fear being broadcast into the world today, you can align with your higher nature which is light. You can go within yourself to find out what is true for you. You are not compelled to blindly believe everything you hear on the news, from the media, religious, or political leaders. News today is not meant to enlighten, but to enslave with fear. Fear is addictive. When the media or government can "excite" you with fear, they know they have you hooked and you will continue to come back for more and more, giving away more and more of your power to them. Have you noticed how the news plays the same horrifying images for days reliving horrifying events from the past?

NOTICE WHEN FEAR TAKES YOU OVER

• Notice when you are feeling afraid.
• Do your best to identify what it is you are afraid of.
• Ask yourself if you have any control over what you fear (whether it is an earthquake, a war, terrorists, dying, being left alone, not getting something you want).
• Acknowledge to yourself what you have no power over. There is great empowerment in acknowledging what you are powerless over.
• Consciously offer your fear to your higher power.
• Do your best to bring yourself to the here and now.

SUGGESTIONS FOR HELPING YOUR MIND COPE WITH FEAR

Your first lesson asked you to be aware of the questions you ask. Ask yourself the following questions. Spontaneous writing can help you find answers and understand your fear. Having a non-judgmental person to read your writing to is also helpful.

• Is the thing I fear happening right now?

• Do I have any control over the thing I fear?

• What purpose does this fear serve?

•What do I get from having this fear?

• Does the fear have a useful message for me?

• Can I learn something from this fear?

• Where do I experience fear in my body?

• What thoughts are connected with this fear?

• Am I safe right now?

• Do I know for sure this fearful thing will manifest?

• What (who) am I believing in when I believe this fear?

• What (who) am I trusting when I trust this fear?

• Is this fear trustworthy?

• Are my thoughts in the past or present?

• Am I in the present moment?

• What am I afraid would happen if I stopped being afraid?

SUGGESTIONS FOR HELPING YOUR BODY COPE WITH FEAR

Play your favorite music if you like, or just sit silently. Notice where fear is held in your body. Close your eyes and bring your complete attention to this place. This helps the frightened place within you understand that it is not alone. Breathe into the fear. Notice any tension, tightness, or stress in your body. Roll your shoulders. Do this until you feel tension easing from your shoulders.

Let your head move in soft gentle circles. Inhale deep peace as your head rolls back. Exhale a long sigh of tension as your head drops forward. Do this until you feel tension easing from your neck and shoulders.

Consciously breathe deep into your abdomen, letting it expand and fill with air like a balloon. Let breath move into to your solar plexus. Continue inhaling and fill your lungs, letting your chest and heart open and expand. Let this expansion naturally lift and stretch your arms. Continue to inhale until you feel the need to exhale.

Now inhale and let the stretch move through your spine. Let the stretch relax and expand your entire body. Let your body intuitively stretch, move, or even dance in any way that feels good to you. Observe your body without trying to control its movements. Let the natural intelligence of breath move your body. Feel your body responding with love and gratitude for the care you are giving it.

When your movement naturally stops, let yourself sit or stand quietly for awhile, imbibing the wonderful healing energy you have created for yourself. Re-enter the world refreshed and rejuvenated, with your focus upon the Love and Truth in your heart.

SUGGESTIONS FOR COPING WITH FEAR THROUGH AWARENESS

Simply go about your day with awareness. Notice from moment to moment what you are thinking, feeling, and doing. Perform each task completely. Give your complete attention to each task. Do not multitask. Do one thing completely at a time. Perform each task with reverence, as if it were a sacred (not scared) duty, as if you are serving God. Imagine that a host of angels surrounds you, gazing  upon you with unconditional love and acceptance. When you find that you have traveled away, into the past or future, gently bring yourself back to the task at hand. Remind yourself that there is nothing more important than your serenity now in this moment.

AFFIRMATIONS OF TRUTH

The following are not merely positive affirmations: they are affirmations of Truth that you may repeat to help recondition your mind. Media and society are intent upon repeating negative, seemingly authoritative, pronouncements of negativity that only ingrain us more deeply in fear. You must apply yourself diligently if you are to rise above the ignorant world.

Ask God for more light. The more light you have, the better you can see while walking through the dark.

• I am safe.
• Courage flows abundantly into every cell of my body.
• Courage flows endlessly into my heart.
• Courage fills my mind.
• There is enough.
• I am enough.
• The universe provides for me abundantly.
• Grace flows freely to me.
• My cup runneth over! 
• I am open and receptive to the gifts that come to me.
• I am safe.

You might also read this very positive affirming passage from the Bible. You can always substitute the name of your own higher power or change any words to suit yourself. Our school is never about religion; it is about spirituality; and we honor spirituality in all its forms, so please never allow yourself to be offended when I mention different sacred texts and names for God. I can only mention the ones I know, so if I leave something out, you can always let me know!

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

C.S. Lewis Quote

12 September 1960: Living in the Present Moment:
The whole lesson of my life has been that no ‘methods of stimulation’ are of any lasting use. They are indeed like drugs—a stronger dose is needed each time and soon no possible dose is effective. We must not bother about thrills at all. Do the present duty—bear the present pain—enjoy the present pleasure—and leave emotions and ‘experiences’ to look after themselves
The whole lesson of my life has been that no ‘methods of stimulation’ are of any lasting use. They are indeed like drugs—a stronger dose is needed each time and soon no possible dose is effective. We must not bother about thrills at all. Do the present duty—bear the present pain—enjoy the present pleasure—and leave emotions and ‘experiences’ to look after themselves.

Take heed!

"You get for yourself exactly what you wish for others — what you _ really _ wish for others, not what you say you wish. It can be no other way. It is a law of spiritual science. Work with that opening." --Vernon Howard