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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

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METRON 7-22-18 – FREE YOUR MIND AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW: Healthy Thinking and Prospering as Your Soul Prospers, Part IV

Today’s Notes:

I – “So keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real, honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, merciful and kind. And fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God, praLLOW: Healthy Thinking and Prospering as Your Soul Prospers, Part IVising him always.”
(Philippians 4:8 – TPT)

II – “Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse.”
(Philippians 4:8 – The Message)

III – “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” — Peace Pilgrim

IV – “The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds, and prays that God will bless him, is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. That which ye sow, ye reap.” — James Allen

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METRON 7-15-18 – FREE YOUR MIND AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW: Healthy Thinking and Prospering as Your Soul Prospers, Part III

Today’s Notes:
I – “O beloved one! I am continuously having (or: thinking and speaking) goodness, ease and well-being (or: wishing and professing loudly; claiming) concerning all things [for] you to be constantly having a prosperous journey (or: to progressively travel a good path; to habitually be prospered unto success; to be continuously helped along the Way) and to be constantly sound and healthy [in mind, thought and body] just as (or: to the same degree as) your soul (inner being; or: = your life) is progressively being prospered on its journey (helped along the Way; prospered unto success; caused to travel the Good Path).”
(III John 2 – JMNT)

II – “Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:
first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;
second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;
and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions.”
– Eric Micha’el Leventhal

III – “Psychologists tell us that by the time we’re in our mid-30s, our identity or personality will be completely formed. This means that for those of us over 35, we have memorized a select set of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, emotional reactions, habits, skills, associative memories, conditioned responses, and perceptions that are now subconsciously programmed within us. Those programs are running us, because the body has become the mind. This means that we will think the same thoughts, feel the same feelings, react in identical ways, behave in the same manner, believe the same dogmas, and perceive reality the same ways. About 95 percent of who we are by midlife is a series of subconscious programs that have become automatic—driving a car, brushing our teeth, overeating when we’re stressed, worrying about our future, judging our friends, complaining about our lives, blaming our parents, not believing in ourselves, and insisting on being chronically unhappy, just to name a few.” — Dr. Joe Dispenza

IV – “As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.” — Adi Shankara

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7-8-18 FREE YOUR MIND AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW: Healthy Thinking and Prospering as Your Soul Prospers – Part II

Today’s Notes:
I – “Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.”
(Romans 12:2 – The Message)

II – “I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

III – “Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.” – Buddha

IV – “The things that trouble our spirits are within us already. In meditation, we must face them, accept them, and set them aside one by one.” – Cristopher L Bennett

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METRON 7-1-18 – FREE YOUR MIND AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW: Healthy Thinking and Prospering as Your Soul Prospers, Part I

Today’s Notes:

I – “Now your attitudes and thoughts must all be constantly changing for the better.”
(Ephesians 4:23 – TLB)

II – “Now it’s time to be made new by every revelation that’s been given to you.”
(Ephesians 4:23 – TPT)

III – “…to take a fresh breath and to let God renew your attitude and spirit.”
(Ephesians 4:23 – The Voice)

IV – “…to be renewed in your mental attitude…”
(Ephesians 4:23 – ISV)

V – “And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude]…”
(Ephesians 4:23 – AMPC)

VI – “…and then to be continuously renewed(or: from time to time, or, progressively made young again) by (or: in; with) the spirit (or: attitude; breath-effect) of your mind (or: from the mind which is you)…”
(Ephesians 4:23 – CLV)

VII – “Can you accept the notion that once you change your internal state, you don’t need the external world to provide you with a reason to feel joy, gratitude, appreciation, or any other elevated emotion?” ― Joe Dispenza

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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)