Friday, November 21, 2025

Song Of Myself...

 


AI Generated



Song of Myself
What a gift to receive these words 
of the eliminations of someone living 
on the terms undefined by W48 
but rather realms we understand to be of a mystical form. 
It is my pleasure to welcome the angels 
to speak to me 
as it is their wish to reach each of us 
and it is in a language that defies W48 reason.
I awoke yesterday morning with a curious message, 
and it meant nothing to me until later in the day 
when out planting a rose bush. 
I was preparing the soil 
with the final hour of light 
that was so beautiful to be out in. 
And then all of a sudden it became very dark overhead, 
storm clouds arrived swiftly as the sun was setting. 
I typically would ignore it 
and keep working 
when I am out with my hands in the soil. 
The morning image of yellow polka dots 
was still in my consciousness 
and at this time on an interview on my ear pods, 
the director brought up his uncle 
who passed and was inspiration 
for a deep feeling 
to work on a big project 
for since he had passed. 
His uncle loved the idea of a polka dot car, 
and I awoke to myself. 
I knew I had to move inside 
and as soon as I was inside 
the lightning struck nearby. 
I understood the angels use a unique language! 
~M




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Thursday, November 20, 2025

In The World but Not from It



In the Peace Pagoda in Pokhara, 
I found a peculiar statue of Lord Buddha. 
With one hand pointing up and the other down. 

It reminded me of the painting of 
The Academy by Rafael, only there, 
Plato is pointing up and Aristotle down. 

This reminds me of the Sufi saying: 
“Being in the world but not from this world”

~J



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Monday, November 17, 2025

I Love The Passage...

 

AI Generated


 I love the passage from 
"In search of the Miraculous”. 
That ‘conscious nucleus!’ 
It's the spark, 
the fire within us. 
I need to tend to it, 
to not extinguish it. 
To keep it going, growing. 
And the fire will ward off the ego, 
the 'ordinary self'. 
I can feel it inside of me. 
The fire within. 
To lead with that, 
with the inner. 
Beautiful. 
~M



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Friday, November 14, 2025

To Replace All Negative Attitudes ...

 



"To replace all negative attitudes 
towards the existing world 
by a feeling of confidence and love 
towards the new world that is being born,
towards the still unborn child 
that is the future of mankind, 
to arouse in oneself constantly 
this love of future humanity.
Every time one observes some kind of negative attitude, 
to take this as the reminder 
that we human beings 
live on this Earth in order to serve -
and particularly to serve the future, 
and to serve with love, 
with hope, 
with confidence that it is possible 
for humankind to be born again."
~J.G. Bennett: from a talk on November 7, 1972




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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

As Above the Clouds, So Below



This morning I awoke in the full 
glory of sunrise, above the clouds. 

Easy to be present. 

Then the descent. Literally. 

Bellow the clouds, there is reality. 
Not easy to be present. 

Both are good opportunities for the work. 
~J


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Monday, November 10, 2025

You Wander...

 


Amedeo Modigliani



"You wander from room to room 
hunting for the diamond necklace 
that is already around your neck!"
~Rumi



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Friday, November 7, 2025

From Mervyn...

 


Edward Burne-Jones



 From Mervyn - 
he also said something to the effect that 
often we think it is the soul who is speaking. 
But it’s really the creature in us 
and we don’t even know it. 
I have verified this many times with myself, 
even the nice creature. 
Because of this I’m sitting here right now, 
seeing my creature with its many I’d 
and just holding it 
with some divided attention when I remember. 
It is really a moment to moment, 
second to second thing. 
So grateful because it is helping me separate a little. 
The creature is here 
and it seems like an important warning.
~S



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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Giving Nature of God

The Return of The Prodigal Son - Rembrandt


"I declare that I will not pray to God to give to me, 
nor praise Him for what He has given me, but, 
I will pray to him to make me worthy to receive, 
and I will praise Him because 
He is of such a nature and essence that 
He must give. 

That we must thus in truth become the son, 
may that truth help us, of which I have spoken. 
Amen."
 
~Meister Eckhart




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Monday, November 3, 2025

He Draws Us...

 



"He draws us unto Himself by love… 
and then we can do nothing but behold Him
enjoying, with a high, 
mighty desire to be all oned unto Him—
centered to His dwelling—
and enjoy His loving and delight in His goodness."
~Julian of Norwich



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Friday, October 31, 2025

On One Hand...

 

AI Generated


On one hand, 
I know it is not easy to recognize the real 'I'. 
On the other hand, 
the real I has a different 'taste' or feeling within us. 
When I am identified, 
I can still discern the real I. 
It's just that in the midst of the identification, 
I dismiss it and follow through 
with the path of least resistance, 
the identified path. 
I want to borrow M's comment 
and apply it to the real I:
It's the spark, 
the fire within us. 
We need to tend to it, 
to not extinguish it. 
To keep it going, growing. 
I can feel it inside of me. The fire within.”
I have verified that the real I 
is the way the soul communicates with me. 
If I dismiss it, 
the communication path reduces. 
If I listen to it, 
then a real relationship is developed.
~T




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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

I Call You Friends....

Academy Retreat 2025


"I no longer call you servants, because
a servant does not know his master's business.
Instead, I have called you friends,
for everything that I learned from my Father
I have made known to you" - John 15:15 (NIV)


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Monday, October 20, 2025

Mervyn Said...

 


William Blake



Mervyn said something to the effect 
that often we think it is the soul who is speaking. 
But it’s really the creature in us 
and we don’t even know it. 
I have verified this many times with myself, 
even the nice creature. 
Because of this I’m sitting here right now, 
seeing my creature with its many I’d 
and just holding it 
with some divided attention when I remember. 
It is really a moment to moment, 
second to second thing. 
So grateful because it is helping me separate a little. 
The creature is here 
and it seems like an important warning.
~S




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Friday, October 17, 2025

If We Know...

 

Pooja Bodas


If we know about our soul 
and listen to her inner dictates, 
we can hear the voice of divinity 
and learn to listen to the laws of our inner being 
through the virtues of our soul. 
We spoke about humanity evolving 
and looking deeper into these stories, 
with the history of our souls 
knowing more is revealed to each generation. 
We are in the awakening process 
on a much bigger scale than ever.
~F



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Monday, October 13, 2025

Happy The Man...

 


Christina Carmel 


“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”

~Horace



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Saturday, October 11, 2025

Maurice Nicoll Would Say...

 


Maurice Nicoll would say 
that we need to become aware 
that there is another world. 
For me 
that came as a deep sense of there being 
a missing aspect in my life, 
that I should be able to go higher, 
but I could not find the way. 
When I found Mervyn, this school, you all, 
this possibility of a higher life opened up for me. 
I SAW it in the energy around me in the school. 
But my ego had to be wrestled to the ground, 
so to speak, in order to free me to soar.
~J



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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

The Price of Presence

The Virgin from The Virgin and Child with 
Saint John and an Angel - Sandro Boticelli


Recently, in a morning meeting, I shared a memory of Mervyn:

He was at home, surrounded by loved ones 
who were having a disagreeable discussion. 
I can’t remember the topic. 
But the whole time, he was there, 
listening and lightly engaging in the conversation.

When we left, he turned to me and said:

“Do you think I wanted to be present 
in the middle of that conversation? 
I did not. But I had to. 
It’s the price to pay for our soul. 
We can’t pick and choose our moments of presence.”

Remember Yourself Always.

~T

Friday, October 3, 2025

Lost In Awe...

 

Jane Goodall 
1934-2025



“Lost in awe at the beauty around me, 
I must have slipped into a state of heightened awareness. 
It is hard – impossible really – 
to put into words the moment of truth 
that suddenly came upon me then. 
Even the mystics 
are unable to describe their brief flashes of spiritual ecstasy. 
It seemed to me, 
as I struggled afterward to recall the experience, 
the self was utterly absent: 
I and the chimpanzees, 
the earth and trees and air, 
seemed to merge, 
to become one with the spirit power of life itself. 
The air was filled with a feathered symphony, 
the evensong of birds. 
I heard new frequencies in their music 
and also in singing insects’ voices – 
notes so high and sweet, I was amazed. 
Never had I been so intensely aware of the shape, 
the color of the individual leaves, 
the varied patterns of the veins that made each one unique. 
Scents were clear as well, 
easily identifiable: fermenting, overripe fruit; 
waterlogged earth; cold, wet bark; 
the damp odor of chimpanzee hair, and yes, my own too. 
And the aromatic scent of young, 
crushed leaves was almost overpowering.
That afternoon, 
it had been as though an unseen hand 
had drawn back a curtain and, 
for the briefest moment, I had seen through such a window. 
In a flash of “outsight” 
I had known timelessness and quiet ecstasy, 
sensed a truth of which mainstream science 
is merely a small fraction. 
And I knew that the revelation 
would be with me for the rest of my life, 
imperfectly remembered yet always within. 
A source of strength on which 
I could draw when life seemed harsh or cruel or desperate.”
~ Jane Goodall
"Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey"




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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

One with God




Gemini AI Generated Image


The other morning in our mystical meeting, 
Stephanie played the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic.

While I was listening to it, I was very moved 
and had a very strong realization.
Being Jewish, I have been reciting the 
SHEMA every day for most of my life.

Sh’ma Yisre’eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad.

The meaning is:
"Hear, Oh Israel, the Lord our God the Lord is One."

I have always interpreted it that we should all listen 
and know that there is one God."

But listening to the song of the Lord’s Prayer, 
it entered me and for the first time I had a 
much deeper understanding. 

It was for me to hear that it wasn’t that there was one 
God but that I was to listen and be one with God.



~P




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Monday, September 29, 2025

It Is Foolish...

 




“It is foolish to think 

that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.”

~St. Teresa of Avila



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Friday, September 26, 2025

Yes, It's A Process...

 

Eily Sayegh


Yes, it’s a process 
and maybe also grace to find something real! 
I keep realizing 
how the Academy is here to protect our souls. 
Mervyn said 
the soul does not know the ground rules of the creature. 
This is why we have our teachings. 
He asks us to exercise caution with creatures 
as we have a lot to lose. 
~S




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Wednesday, September 24, 2025

On Understanding

 

Peter Oespensky - Image Credit to Whoever Credit is Due


"Understanding always comes that way—
you understand, and then 
you cease to understand. 

But if all attempts to understand 
something go wrong, 
try not to think about it 
but try to remember yourself, 
that is, to be emotional, 
and in time you will understand. 

Understanding does not become 
permanent at once; as in everything else 
there are many steps and you can 
understand something one day and 
not understand it the next day, 
for you may be more conscious 
in the same circumstances one day 
and more asleep the next. 
So many days may pass 
before it becomes your own."


Ospensky - The Fourth Way


We are reminded to listen to Mervyn's lecture on
Knowledge, Understanding and Being
which is in the video section of our archives at this link:





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