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METRON 6-24-18 – CONSCIOUSNESS AND VISUALIZATION: Finding a Practical Road Map for the Fourth Dimension, Part IVc

Today’s Notes:
I – “I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him —since the EYES OF YOUR HEART have been enlightened…”
(Ephesians 1:17, 18 – NET)

II – “And so they proceed in coming into Bethsaida. Here people are now progressively bringing a blind man to Him, repeatedly calling Him to his side, continuing to urge and implore Him, that He would touch him. So then, taking a hold upon the blind man’s hand, He led him forth, outside of the village. Then, upon spitting into his eyes while placing [His] hands on him, He proceeded to ask him, “What, if anything (or: Whatsoever), are you now seeing?” And looking up, he kept on saying, “I continue looking at the people (humans); I continue seeing them as trees continually walking around!” Next, He again put [His] hands upon his eyes, and then he looked throughout and saw thoroughly (clearly), and he was restored to his former state. He even kept on attentively looking at and seeing everything at a distance quite distinctly.”
(Mark 8:22-25 – JMNT)

III – “An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.” ― Albert Einstein

IV – “Identify your assumptions (what you believe).
Question how you feel when you hold those assumptions.
Visualize holding different assumptions.
Ask yourself how it feels to hold a different world-view.”
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie

V – “Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.” ― Robert G. Ingersoll

VI – “Human beings are walking containers holding ideas, beliefs, feelings and triggers. Love and fear are the only things that can overpower these systems. Everyone lives in this container as they interact with the world, and sometimes, a combination of these things can create their own imaginary prison.” ― Ilwaad Isa

VII – “As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world.
Visualize your light radiating throughout the world,
passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.”
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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METRON 6-17-18 – CONSCIOUSNESS AND VISUALIZATION: Finding a Practical Road Map for the Fourth Dimension, Part III

Today’s Notes:

I – “Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Jeremiah, what do you SEE?’”
(Jeremiah 1:11 – NKJV)

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METRON 6-10-18 – CONSCIOUSNESS AND VISUALIZATION: Finding a Practical Road Map for the Fourth Dimension, Part II

Today’s Notes:
I – “For the momentary lightness of our affliction is producing for us a transcendently transcendent eonian burden of glory, at our not noting what is being observed, but what is not being observed, for what is being observed is temporary, yet what is not being observed is eonian.”
(2 Corinthians 4:17, 18 – CLV)

II – “…while we are not constantly fixing our gaze on or carefully noting the things that are being constantly seen or repeatedly observed, but rather, [we are continuously looking at] those things not being constantly seen or repeatedly observed, because the things being constantly seen and observed [are] for a season (temporary; set toward a certain situation; transient), but those things not being habitually seen or observed pertain to and have their source in the Age ([are] eonian; [continue] age-lasting).”
(2 Corinthians 4:18 – JMNT)

III – “To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.” ― Alan Cohen

IV – “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

V – “If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.” ― Eckhart Tolle

VI – “We’ve been given the power to have what we visualize, but we tend to visualize what we already have.”
― Tommy Newberry

VII – “As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations. [He was appointed our father] in the sight of God in Whom he believed, Who gives life to the dead and speaks of the nonexistent things that [He has foretold and promised] as if they [already] existed.”
(Romans 4:17 – AMPC)

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METRON 6-03-18 – CONSCIOUSNESS AND VISUALIZATION: Finding a Practical Road Map for the Fourth Dimension, Part I

I – “The Lord said to Abram after Lot had left him, Lift up now your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your posterity forever. And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if a man could count the dust of the earth, then could your descendants also be counted. Arise, walk through the land, the length of it and the breadth of it, for I will give it to you.”
(Genesis 13:14-17 – AMPC)

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II – “And He brought him outside [his tent into the starlight] and said, Look now toward the heavens and count the stars—if you are able to number them. Then He said to him, So shall your descendants be.”
(Genesis 15:5 – AMPC)

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III – “We are creatures of habit. We think somewhere between 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts in one day, and 90 percent of those thoughts are exactly the same ones we had the day before.”
― Joe Dispenza

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IV – “During his training, a baseball player strives to make each swing better than the last. The repetition of a faulty swing would be worse than useless. It would ingrain bad habits. The same is true of emotional responses.
If we allow ourselves to continue to have the same angry responses, we just entrench our anger habit.

But if we strive – through consciousness, visualization, and coaching – to moderate our anger response, over time, we can train ourselves to respond to events as we choose – without anger. You can’t magically be free from anger tomorrow,but you can put yourself on your own training program that will reduce the frequency and intensity
of your anger response day by day, year by year.”
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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V – “Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”
― Voltaire

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VI – “Find a time and place of solitude. Look into the distance, and into the future. Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build – and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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VII – “Let Me reveal this truth to you…you’re impressed with what happened to the fig tree, but the fact is that you have the power and ability to say to this entire mountain, “Be lifted up and be thrown into the sea!”, and see it obey you! You’ve seen me actually speak to a storm…or command the dead to live again…well, in the same way, if you can connect the God-kind of faith that is in your own heart with the creative ability that is in your own mouth…if you say what you believe, and believe what you say…you can produce these kinds of results! This is why I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer…whatever you decree…BELIEVE…accept the reality that it exists in another, unseen dimension, simply because you say it. Don’t suspend or delay belief until you see it manifested in the physical realm, because what is unseen is more real than what is seen. Be confident that your request is granted to you, and you will get it…your own irresistible faith will attract it to you.”
(Mark 11:23, 24 – Mark In The Now)

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METRON 5-27-18 – THE SOUND OF SILENCE: Discovering the Power of the Serene Mind, Part III

Today’s Notes:

1. “Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.”
(Proverbs 4:23 – AMPC)

2. “Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. “Life has its rhythm and we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity.”
― Victoria Moran

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METRON 5-13-18 – THE SOUND OF SILENCE: Discovering the Power of the Serene Mind – Part II

I – “Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.”
(Matthew 6:34 – The Message)

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II – “Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones.Learn from their ways and become wise! Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work, they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter.”
(Proverbs 6:6-8 – NLT)

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III – “Peace I leave with you; I’m talking about My own, personal sense of peace, wholeness and well-being; I’m actually transferring it to you. You see, My peace is unlike the peace that comes from this realm…the peace that is reactionary and temporal, dependent on outward circumstances to determine its strength and presence. My peace is other-worldly – settled, absolute – causing you to be in harmony with your whole life – past, present, and future – and ultimately with the whole of creation. It will empower you to refuse to let your heart (your inner world) become troubled, agitated, or upset, no matter what is happening around you, and you can be fearless because you will be at peace with the Father, with yourself, and with the universe.”
(John 14:27 – John In The Now)

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IV – “For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.”
(James 3:16-18 – NKJV)

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V – “For wherever there is jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry and selfish ambition), there will also be confusion (unrest, disharmony, rebellion) and all sorts of evil and vile practices. But the wisdom from above is first of all pure (undefiled); then it is peace-loving, courteous (considerate, gentle). [It is willing to] yield to reason, full of compassion and good fruits; it is wholehearted and straightforward, impartial and unfeigned (free from doubts, wavering, and insincerity).

And the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to God’s will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace by those who work for and make peace [in themselves and in others, that peace which means concord, agreement, and harmony between individuals, with undisturbedness, in a peaceful mind free from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts].”
(James 3:16-18 – AMPC)

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VI – “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu

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VII – “Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.
Let it teach you Being.
Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.
Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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METRON 5-6-18 – THE SOUND OF SILENCE: Discovering the Power of the Serene Mind – Part IB

Today’s Notes:
I – “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven:…a time to keep silence, and a time to speak…”
(Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7 – NKJV)

II – “But oh! God is in his holy Temple! Quiet everyone—a holy silence. Listen!”
(Habakkuk 2:20 – The Message)

III – “Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh

IV – “You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.” — Timber Hawkeye

V – “Do not worry about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God, that is superior to every frame of mind, shall be garrisoning your hearts and your apprehensions in Christ Jesus.”
(Philippians 4:6, 7 – CLV)

VI – “When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

VII – “Let not your heart be troubled…”
(John 14:1 – KJV)

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METRON 4-21-18 – Part V – AS HE IS: Manifesting The Christ in the Material World

Today’s Notes:

I – “Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human.”
(Phillipians 2:5-7 – The Message)

II – “The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.”
– John Templeton

III – “Great masters neither want nor need your worship.
Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate
their divinity by claiming it as your own.”
– Alan Cohen

IV – “Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God. The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love…This is how love has been perfected among us: we will have confidence on the day of judgment because, during our time in this world, WE ARE JUST LIKE HIM. There is no fear where love exists.Rather, perfect love banishes fear, for fear involves punishment, and the person who lives in fear has not been perfected in love.”
(I John 4:7,8, 17, 18 – ISV)

V – “My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love.”
(I John 4:7,8 – The Message)

VI – “It takes discipline and compassion
to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough
to recognize the divine in another.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

VII – “Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
Love never dies.”
(I Corinthians 13:4-8 – The Message)

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METRON 4-22-18 – Part IV – AS HE IS: Manifesting The Christ in the Material World

Today’s Notes:

I – “Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, TO BE LIKE US…”
(Genesis 1:26 – ISV)

II – “God: Now let Us conceive a new creation—humanity—made in Our image, fashioned according to Our likeness. And let Us grant them authority over all the earth—the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, the domesticated animals and the small creeping creatures on the earth.”
(Genesis 1:26 – The Voice)

III – “Jesus judiciously replies to them, “Is it not standing written within your Law…that ‘I say, you people are (or: exist being) gods’? [Ps. 82:6] Since He said ‘gods’ [= elohim] to whom God’s Word (or: Logos) came to be (or: toward whom the Idea, whose source and origin is God, was birthed; toward whom God’s message proceeded and was directed into existence) – are you yourselves now saying to the One Whom the Father set apart (consecrated as holy) and sent forth as an Emissary (on a mission; as a Representative) into the organized System (into the world; into the cosmos; unto the realm of the secular; into the religious and cultural complex) – that ‘You are blaspheming…because I said, ‘I am (exist being) God’s Son?”
(John 10:34-36 – JMNT)

IV – “You are a Divine creation, a Being of Light who showed up here as a human being at the exact moment you were supposed to. You are the Beloved, a miracle, a part of the eternal perfection.”
– Wayne Dyer

V – “Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand. Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven.”
(Matthew 5:14-16 – The Message)

VI – “If you want the Divine to become alive within you, first of all you as a human being have to become absolutely alive.”
– Jaggi Vasudev

VII – “See the Divinity in others and you will find it within yourself.”
― Ka Chinery

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Metron 4-15-2018 Part III ‘AS HE IS: Manifesting The Christ in the Material World’

Today’s Notes:
I – “So the Lord said to Moses: ‘See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.’”
(Exodus 7:1 – NKJV)

II – “Yahweh said to Moses: See, I appoint you as Elohim to Pharaoh; and Aaron, your brother, shall come to be your prophet.”
(Exodus 7:1 – CLV)

III – “There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
O traveler, if you are in search of That
Don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek That”. – Rumi

IV – “If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.” – Bruce Barton

V – “…for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save THAT which was lost.”
(Luke 19:10 – NKJV)

VI – “You see, the Son of the Man (the eschatological messianic figure; = Adam’s son) came to seek after, and then to save, deliver and restore what is existing being lost and destroyed.”
(Luke 19:10 – JMNT)

VII – “For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as] in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood [by God].”
(I Corinthians 13:12 – AMPC)