A NEW EARTH STUDY QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS

A VIDEO FOR YOU ON OUR BEAUTIFUL EARTH.

COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FOR THE ANE STUDY GROUP

Our group is going strong with enthusiastic members returning for another dose of ANE.

We continued our discussion on the ego.

This part of ANE is so critical.

I believe if we get a handle on the cunning ways of how the ego operates we will be happier and more peaceful people.

So much energy is wasted resisting the ego, which seems to be a natural response.

No wonder most of us have such a difficult time walking the talk of what our logical mind tells us.

The ego wants our resistance. The ego knows that you strengthen what you resist.

Instead become addicted to a new response. See it, notice it, and then let it go without judgment. We talked about how to deal with the egos in other people.

There are people all around us who are not into anything spiritual and are reacting to situations around them on auto pilot. They are in a drama that seems so real...triggering their pain body. When people are in a pain body, knee jerk reaction there is no amount of reasoning with a pain body...so letting it go is the only option until they calm down.

I gave everyone a tool to use when dealing with the pain-body or ego talk in other people. You can say to yourself, 'let me look at this differently.' It is a self talk, that focuses one's own thought pattern from that of being drawn into the ego's drama, to that of love and understanding an non-reaction.

There is a difference in withdrawing with no reaction, to that of a love energy reaction. At least, it works for me, when I remember to use it; that is the ticket, to remember to love instead of react with judgment.

Everyone is doing the best that they know at the time.

I trust you are becoming more awake to who you are and becoming more at peace with life because of the wisdom in ANE.

Please feel free to make comments and ask questions.

A NEW EARTH STUDY #2 APRIL 28TH .

I received this insightful e mail from one of our study group members.

I share it for the highest good of all...and mostly to encourage anyone in our group to ask questions and to make comments.

I have placed my answers in between paragraphs in the replying e mail.

The questioning e mail ...

My understanding of Tolle's "wisdom" is that we don't deal with our pain-body with thoughts, but rather by recognizing that we are not our thoughts; our essence is the being behind the thoughts.

You got it so far, excellent ! Today, I seemed to hear many ways of telling ourself helpful ways to heal our pain, but TELLING is still dealing at the level of thinking.

I have found that the thinking mind, if consciously used, can assist in responding to the ego, my way of dealing with the ego is to shine a light on it with a feeling,conversation. It is the same as feeling it, only with words I have given the meaning to. Your way may be in a simple recognition and a feeling occurs, that alone will be sufficient for ego to release hold on the mind and emotions . The meaning for you, is I don't identify with this thought.(ego) (I am not this egoic thought I am as perfect as God made me. )

I understood him to say that we need to FEEL the awareness BEHIND the thoughts in order to not identify ourselves with them, no matter how healing we might think they would be. I also had a different take on "fighting " the ego. I understood him to mean that you can't fight it( that only strengthens it), But only by recognizing it as an inherent human condition, present in everyone, not just those who try to put us down, could we separate our identity from it, and thus begin the process of becoming conscious.

You are absolutely right, rather than use the word fight, better to say, I see you, I understand what is happening here, I gotcha, now zip up and out you go. Not in all those words, but the essence of those words are behind the recognition of ego's intent. Perhaps when I myself get better adept at recognizing the ego when it occurs it won't take an conscious, inner talk conversation, but it will be totally wrapped into a single enlightening ,feeling or essence. I do believe there will be millions of egoless people walking our earth helping others to find their light. That is an awesome thought.

Forgive me if this sounds like splitting hairs...I am wondering if I am misunderstanding his intent.

Not at all, I am so happy you feel safe enough to voice your thoughts, that is exactly what this group needs. I am a work in progress and need your input to keep me on my toes and to walk my talk... so please feel free to keep shining on me.

Thanks...Pat

Monday April, 21st, we started our first ANE study group in our city's library.

I was overwhelmed with gratitude for the first showing of people who were able to make it to the group. The interest was keen and the response was fabulous.

It seems the world is ready for a change.

Enough of all the war, TV brutality, movie screen horror, media manipulation and egos running rampaged all over our world with rage, anger and murder in their hearts.

questions came up that perhaps at a moments notice didn't get answered totally.

Question #1 "I do affirmations every morning, is this feeding the ego?"

My answer: No, affirmations are just another way to peel away the world of form of who you think you are, in order to get to spirit/love within you. the true 'you' has always been there waiting for you, now you have a chance daily to affirm your wonderment of the true "you" The subconscious mind agrees with everything you tell it, so affirmations are great, keep it up.

Question #2, "How do we actually live ANE concepts in the real world?"

My Answer: Living with awareness of the true you,(spirit) by Being in the moment ( conscious) as much as possible during your busy day. By aligning with God/Source, your true purpose noting your inner desires and dreams with your natural talents. and Then by shining a light on the egoic mind when it accuses, scolds, craves, worries, criticizes, and wants to be defensive. The more you call ego on what it is saying, recognizing its erroneous voice, the quicker it disappears. Ego hates the light. Be patient with yourself, this doesn't happen over night, break in this new thought system like a new pair of shiny shoes till they are really comfortable and you can't take them off.

Question #3 "Do you believe that people attract bad things to themselves, do things happen to good people?" The person asking the question didn't agree that they attracted the negative situation to them. Does it always mean that people attract negatives to themselves?

My Answer: I would have to bring attention to the wording, 'good people,' which is to mean that there are good people and bad people. I agree there are people in our world who believe themselves to be worthless with anger built up in themselves. They have a past story about their lives that prove to them that they have very little worth. They were treated without respect of who they really were in truth. These people take on a role of evil, bent on doing harm to others.

One person that comes to mind is Charles Manson, I heard his story on the radio, the woman talking, did a study on his life . She said, Charles Manson grew up in a very abusive environment from birth. he grew to understand himself according to the viewpoint of those around him. His misunderstanding of the truth of who he is, created a monster who's mission seemed to be dominate others and to take the lives of other people out of pent up rage.

Remember though, life, (light energy) as we know it, cannot end, only the body (substance, or content, which is in constant flux) ends.

Meanwhile, the world looks on in horror of what this evil man did.

I would not like to meet such a person in a dark alley who believes such evil thoughts about themselves .

If Charles Manson had learned at a young age of his true identity, his life would have been much different. I don’t believe there are bad people, per say but ones with bad stories and who believed that is who they are.

This is why it is so very important to see the light in everyone and reveal that light to the persons you meet by how you treat them.

In answer to the question good people don't attract their negativity, I have to disagree. They don’t of course do so consciously they do it unconsciously.

All people attract good or bad at any given time according to their thoughts and beliefs; to say differently. would make God, the Source of all, (The One,) doesn't follow the Universal law. Whether we believe it or not, the law of gravity will play its role. The law of attraction is an energy and must follow that energy no matter what your belief is, just like gravity. That doesn't mean that every thought is going to create badness in your life, that would make you crazy. It does mean that what ever belief you hold habitually as a fact of your particular life will become your reality sooner or later, as the scriptures say, "that which you believed has come upon you.". the energy has to be constant to be one that creates.

The question then is, what is good and what is bad? All experiences come when we have a need to grow in a particular area. It is not meant as a punishment but as Love.

Which may explain why people keep attracting abusers into their lives.

There are horrible things that happen to people every day. No one would purposely attract such horror into their lives.

And yet, if we don't understand at least a bit of what is happening, we will get caught in the web of the egoic mind...being aware and being conscious, is knowing all is love, not fear. We need feed love and keep awareness on love within and like the scriptures say, learn to be as wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove.

Of course having said all of that, does not mean we become cold, heartless and unfeeling, on the contrary, we can be more of service, act appropriately with feeling and yet be above it all in wisdom and knowledge in order to be of help to those who are not awaken yet or fully conscious, but still in the ego mind set.

So-called evil people are here for a purpose. Every opposite has an equal opposite, every cause has an equal effect . You might say it takes courage to be the evil of that equation. When we see this in relationship to the never-ending, illusion of time, with no beginning and no end, things take on a new essence of meaning and new peace comes with it.

Love does conquer all, a new earth is evolving be the answer to this involvement. It takes a new way of thinking and courage to step into it.

I welcome your comments, questions or even disagreements. feel free.