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METRON 10-7-18 –MEDITATION AND MANIFESTING THE MIND OF CHRIST, Part I

Today’s Notes:

I – “There is no other basis to teach from but to echo the mind of Christ; he is the Mastermind personified within us!”
(I Corinthians 2:16 – Mirror Translations)

II – “…Yet we, ourselves, are continuously holding (or: progressively having) Christ’s mind (a mind which is Anointed, and which is Christ)!”
(I Corinthians 2:16 – JMNT)

III – “Meditating is a means for you to move beyond your analytical mind so that you can access your subconscious mind. That’s crucial, since the subconscious is where all your bad habits and behaviors that you want to change reside.” — Dr. Joe Dispenza

IV – “But you have been anointed by [you hold a sacred appointment from, you have been given an unction from] the Holy One, and you all know [the Truth] or you know all things.”
(I John 2:20 – AMPC)

V – “But as for you, the anointing (the sacred appointment, the unction) which you received from Him abides [permanently] in you; [so] then you have no need that anyone should instruct you…”
(I John 2:27 – AMPC)

VI – “I’m simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I’m saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process. It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty. That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.” ― Osho

VII – “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ― Amit Ray

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METRON 9-30-18 –CHOOSE LIFE!: Creating a Better Reality by Taking Full Ownership of Your Current One, Part IV

Today’s Notes:

I – “I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you today: I place before you Life and Death, Blessing and Curse. Choose life so that you and your children will live.”
(Deuteronomy 30:19 – The Message)

II – “How can you just leave me standing
Alone in a world so cold?
Maybe I’m just too demanding
Maybe I’m just like my father, too bold
Maybe you’re just like my mother
She’s never satisfied
Why do we scream at each other?
This is what it sounds like when doves cry”
– Prince

III – “Do you need to ask, ‘So why does the child not share the guilt of the parent?’ Isn’t it plain? It’s because the child did what is fair and right. Since the child was careful to do what is lawful and right, the child will live truly and well. The soul that sins is the soul that dies. The child does not share the guilt of the parent, nor the parent the guilt of the child. If you live upright and well, you get the credit; if you live a wicked life, you’re guilty as charged.”
(Ezekiel 18:19, 20 The Message)

IV – “Train up a child in the way he should go [and in keeping with his individual gift or bent], and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
(Proverbs 22:6 – AMPC)

V – “Your mind is like a parachute: it only works if it’s open. We all know what could happen if a parachute didn’t open: bad things. The same would happen with our brains. A closed mind means that our brains can’t function to their full capacity. The ’Theory of Two Mindsets’ coined by psychologist Carol Dweck proposes that people either have growth mindsets or fixed mindsets. The idea is that those who lead their life based on wanting to grow and learn are on the path to success, while those who feel they’ve already reached their peak will not. If we can train our brains to learn from others, face challenges with positivity and appreciate effort, then we will trick our bodies into reaching our full potential.”
― Maggie Lasto

VI – “Thinking the same thoughts leads us to make the same choices. Making the same choices leads to demonstrating the same behaviors. Demonstrating the same behaviors leads us to create the same experiences. Creating the same experiences leads us to produce the same emotions. And those same emotions then drive the same thoughts.” ― Joe Dispenza

VII – “You will always manifest what you think and believe, but that may or may not be what you actually want. If you are unhappy with your manifested reality, identify the sources in your consciousness and make adjustments to those thoughts and/or beliefs.” ― Russell Anthony Gibbs

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9-23-18 METRON – CHOOSE LIFE!: Creating a Better Reality by Taking Full Ownership of Your Current One, Part III

Today’s Notes:
I – “And calling is Yahweh Elohim to the human, and He is saying to him, ‘Adam! Where are you?’ And saying is he to Him, ‘The sound of You walking hear I in the garden, and fearful am I, for naked am I, and I am hiding’. And saying is He to him, ‘Did anyone tell you that you are naked? From the tree of which alone I instruct you to avoid eating, from it did you eat?'”
(Genesis 3:9-11 – CLV)

II – “But the time is coming—it has, in fact, come—when what you’re called will not matter and where you go to worship will not matter. It’s who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship.
(John 4:21-14 – The Message)

III – “Your self-talk is the channel of behavior change”
― Gino Norris

IV – “Turn down the volume of your negative inner voice and create a nurturing inner voice to take it’s place. When you make a mistake, forgive yourself, learn from it, and move on instead of obsessing about it. Equally important, don’t allow anyone else to dwell on your mistakes or shortcomings or to expect perfection from you.” ― Beverly Engel

V – “The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease, mirrored back from all quarters in the deportment of those about them; they are compelled to inhale the poison of their own breath, in infinite repetition.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne

VI – “I am often amused and sometimes amazed by the free-reign constructs of my mind. That is why I converse regularly with myself – I am one of my better friends…” ― Gavin Mills

VII – “Via self-talk we give our mind instructions on what we expect of ourselves and so behave accordingly. Change the instructions and we change the outcomes.” — Sam Owen

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METRON 9-16-18 – Live Recording ‘IN THE NOW with Jim Swilley’ and Guest Zach Keough – HEALING AND RESTORATION FROM WITHIN, parts I-III

Today’s Notes:

1John 1:1 That primordial phenomenon, which we perceived and realized with our faculties – the enigma that we now profess to understand derives from an intangible source, a frequency used to create a nurturing, life-giving, and harmonious environment.

1John1:2 This frequency brings about awareness; we perceive its life-altering abilities and now we attempt to disclose the logistics of these energetic signatures through mindfulness, which resides in a nonlocal resource, yet it remains immediately available to us.

1John1:3 We share with you our personal, firsthand experience based on acoustic and visual evidence, hoping that our experience piques your interest enough to engage in further dialogue and inquiry into this phenomenon. The fellowship between us is divinely inspiring and evokes a spirit reminiscent of Jesus the Christ.

1John1:4 We compose this small piece of literature, not in prose form, but so that it appeals to your intellect, inspires, and forms an energetic template with the intent to produce healing and restoration from within.

1John1:5 This is the message we received, and now relay to you, when we elevated our consciousness: goodness is ubiquitous; every thought is exposed as an illusion connected with the past and future, derailing our ability to attain a coherent mind and body.

1John1:6 Should we profess to engaging regularly a mindfulness approach to life yet permit these damning illusions of our past and future to dictate our thinking patterns, we deceive ourselves and are unable to experience an altruistic approach to life.

1John1:7 But, should we continue our pursuit in attaining a coherent mind and body, a consistent form of enlightenment, we engage delightfully and gleefully in each other’s conversation about our experiences in oneness. In this manner, Jesus’s courageous act is not in vain, because His words resonate with us even unto this day, dispelling any and all misperceptions we conceived of ourselves and of others.

Translation by Zach Keough

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METRON 9-9-18: CHOOSE LIFE!: Creating a Better Reality by Taking Full Ownership of Your Current One – Part II

Today’s Notes:

I – “Soon another Feast came around and Jesus was back in Jerusalem. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there was a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, with five alcoves. Hundreds of sick people—blind, crippled, paralyzed—were in these alcoves. One man had been an invalid there for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him stretched out by the pool and knew how long he had been there, he said, “Do you want to get well?” The sick man said, “Sir, when the water is stirred, I don’t have anybody to put me in the pool. By the time I get there, somebody else is already in. Jesus said, “Get up, take your bedroll, start walking.” The man was healed on the spot. He picked up his bedroll and walked off.”
(John 5:1-9 – The Message)

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II – “You will never be who you want to be, until you are happy with who you are.”
― Thomas F. Shubnell

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III – “There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
― J.K. Rowling

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IV – “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

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V – “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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VI – “The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.”
― Steve Maraboli

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VII – “Life is not compassionate towards victims. The trick is not to see yourself as one. It’s never too late! I know I’ve felt like the victim in various situations in my life, but, it’s never too late for me to realize that it’s my responsibility to stand on victorious ground and know that whatever it is I’m experiencing or going through, those are just the clouds rolling by while I stand here on the top of this mountain! This mountain called Victory! The clouds will come and the clouds will go, but the truth is that I’m high up here on this mountaintop that reaches into the sky! I am a victor. I didn’t climb up the mountain, I was born on top of it!”
― C. JoyBell C.

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METRON 9-2-18 –CHOOSE LIFE!: Creating a Better Reality by Taking Full Ownership of Your Current One, Part I

Today’s Notes:

I – “I call heaven and earth to testify against you today! I’ve set life and death before you today: both blessings and curses. Choose life, that it may be well with you—you and your children.”
(Deuteronomy 30:19 – ISV)

II – “Today I call the heavens and the earth to testify against you: Life and death I have put before you, the blessing and the malediction*. Now choose life that you may live, you and your seed…”
(Deuteronomy 30:19 – CLV

*mal·e·dic·tion : a magical word or phrase uttered with the intention of bringing about evil or destruction; a curse

III – “Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude* God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap.”
(Galatians 6:7 – AMPC)

*de·lude: impose a misleading belief upon (someone); deceive; fool

IV – “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.” ― Stephen R. Covey

V – “Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.” ― Roy T. Bennett

VI – “But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak. For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced.”
(Matthew 12:36-37 – AMPC)

VII – “We are our choices.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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METRON 8-26-18 –’MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!: Discovering New Dimensions of the Holy Spirit in The Now’, Part III

Today’s Notes:

I – “I will pour out my Spirit on every kind of people…”
(Joel 2:28 – The Message)

II – “Then it will come about at a later time that I will pour out my Spirit on every person.”
(Joel 2:28 – ISV)

III – “Then in those days I will pour My Spirit to all humanity; your children will boldly and prophetically speak the word of God. Your elders will dream dreams; your young warriors will see visions. No one will be left out. In those days I will offer My spirit to all servants, both male and female.”
(Joel 2:28, 29 – The Voice)

IV – “Now, at that time there were Jewish worshipers who had emigrated from many different lands to live in Jerusalem. When the people of the city heard the roaring sound, crowds came running to where it was coming from, stunned over what was happening, because each one could hear the disciples speaking in his or her own language. Bewildered, they said to one another, “Aren’t these all Galileans? So how is it that we hear them speaking in our own languages? We are northeastern Iranians, northwestern Iranians, Elamites, and those from Mesopotamia, Judea, east central Turkey, the coastal areas of the Black Sea, Asia, north central Turkey, southern Turkey, Egypt, Libyans who are neighbors of Cyrene, visitors from all over the Roman Empire, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs. Yet we hear them speaking of God’s mighty wonders in our own dialects!” They all stood there, dumbfounded and astonished, saying to one another, “What is this phenomenon?” But others poked fun at them and said, “They’re just drunk on new wine.” Peter stood up with the eleven apostles and shouted to the crowd. “Listen carefully, my fellow Jews and residents of Jerusalem. You need to clearly understand what’s happening here. These people are not drunk like you think they are, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. This is the fulfillment of what was prophesied through the prophet Joel, for God says: ‘This is what I will do in the last days—I will pour out my Spirit on everybody and cause your sons and daughters to prophesy, and your young men will see visions,and your old men will experience dreams from God. The Holy Spirit will come upon all my servants, men and women alike, and they will prophesy.”
(Acts 2:5-18 – TPT)

V – Peter said to them, “You all know that it is against the Jewish laws for me to associate with or even visit the home of one who is not a Jew. Yet God has shown me that I should never view anyone as inferior or ritually unclean.
(Acts 10:28 – TPT)

VI – While Peter was speaking, the Holy Spirit cascaded over all those listening to his message. The Jewish brothers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out on people who weren’t Jews, for they heard them speaking in supernaturally given languages and passionately praising God.
(Acts 10:44, 45 – TPT)

VII – “For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.” – Yoda

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METRON 8-19-18 –’MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!: Discovering New Dimensions of the Holy Spirit in The Now’, Part Ii

Today’s Notes:

I – “Remember…the Force will be with you, always.”
– Obi Wan Kenobi

II – “If you love me, show it by doing what I’ve told you. I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!
(John 14:15-17 – The Message)

III – “If you are habitually loving Me…you WILL continue observing…My implanted goals (impartations of the finished product within; inward directives; interior purposes and destiny)…and I Myself will continue asking…the Father, and He will proceed to be giving another Helper (One called alongside to give assistance, relief, comfort and encouragement; Paraclete) of like kind to you folks – to the end that He (or: It) can continue being…with you folks on into the midst of the Age – “the Spirit of the Truth (or: the spirit and breath of reality; the Breath-effect and Attitude which is Reality), whom…the System (world; ordered arrangement of religion, politics and culture; the controlling system) has no power…to receive, because it is not habitually gazing upon It (or: Him) with contemplation (continually viewing and watching it with attentive interest), nor is it coming to intimately and experientially know It (or: Him). Yet YOU folks are progressively knowing It (or: Him) by intimate experience, because It (or: He) is continuously dwelling (remaining; abiding) alongside you folks – in your presence – and It (or: He) continuously exists…within, in union with, and among you people.
(John 14:15-17 – JMNT)

IV -The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
~ E. O. Wilson

V – “The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” ― Black Elk

VI – “Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

VII – “Jesus, the One from Nazareth – even as how God anointed Him with [a/the] set-apart Breath-effect (or: Holy Spirit; Sacred Attitude) even for (or: and with) power and ability – Who went throughout repeatedly doing works bringing goodness, ease and well-being, as well as constantly healing all the folks being continuously held down under power (tyrannized and oppressed) by the one that casts things through folks (the accuser, slanderer, adversary)… because God was with Him.”
(Acts 10:38 – JMNT

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METRON 8-12-18 –MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!: Discovering New Dimensions of the Holy Spirit in The Now, Part I
Today’s Notes:

I – “But here’s the truth: It’s to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away the Divine Encourager will not be released to you. But after I depart, I will send him to you.”
(John 16:7 – TPT)

II – “It’s better for you that I leave. If I don’t leave, the Friend won’t come. But if I go, I’ll send him to you.”
(John 16:7 – The Message)

III – “Yet whenever that may be coming – the spirit of truth -it will be guiding you into all the truth, for it will not be speaking from itself, but whatsoever it should be hearing will it be speaking, and of what is coming will it be informing you. That will be glorifying Me, seeing that of Mine will it be getting, and informing you.”
(John 16:13, 14 – CLV)

IV – “Yet, whenever that One – the Spirit of the Truth (or the Breath-effect from Reality; the attitude which is genuineness) – may come…It (or He) will constantly be a Guide and will progressively lead you on the Path (or it will continue leading the way for you) directed toward and proceeding on into all Truth and Reality (or into the midst of every truth and genuine reality) – for It (He; it) will not habitually speak from Itself (or: Himself), but rather, as many things as It (He; it) continuously hears, It (He; it) will proceed speaking, and will continue reporting back to you the things presently and progressively coming, as well as those that are habitually coming and going.”
(John 16:13 – JMNT)

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METRON 7-29-18 – FREE YOUR MIND AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW: Healthy Thinking and Prospering as Your Soul Prospers, Part V

Today’s Notes:

I – “So above all, guard the affections of your heart, for they affect all that you are. Pay attention to the welfare of your innermost being, for from there flows the wellspring of life.”
(Proverbs 4:23 – TPT)

II – “Carefully guard your thoughts because they are the source of true life.”
(Proverbs 4:23 – CEV)

III – “The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.” ― Eric Micha’el Leventhal

IV – “The hormones of stress, in the long term, push the genetic buttons that create disease. When we live by the hormones of stress and all of the energy goes to these hormonal centers and away from the heart, the heart gets starved of energy. As long as we are living by the hormones of stress, we are living as a materialist, because the hormones of stress cause us to believe that the outer world is more real than the inner world.
“The hormones of stress make us feel separate from possibility (of learning, creation and trust). If the hormones of stress are like a narcotic and we could turn on the stress response just by thought alone, then we could get addicted to our thoughts.”
“People can get addicted to the adrenaline and the stress hormones, and they start using the problems and conditions in their life to reaffirm their emotional addiction, so they can remember who they think they are. The bad circumstances, the bad relationship, the bad job, all of that is in place because the person needs that to reaffirm their emotional addiction.”– Dr. Joe Dispenza