If you are dissatisfied with the conditions of life...

If you are dissatisfied with the conditions of life, there is no possible way of changing them unless you first change the state from which you view the world;

Now I have brought you this year an entirely new series. I have named this first one, The Power of Awareness, because it is the foundation stone on which the entire structure rests. Not a thing has happened in the past year
to shake that foundation. Many things have happened: many revelations, many experiments, and yet the foundation remains intact.

For those not familiar with this foundation, we make the claim that consciousness is the one and only reality. So, if you call God the ultimate reality - that is the name we give to this ultimate reality. So we say, "Consciousness is God". We say, "Consciousness in action is imagination"

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And if consciousness in action or God in action is the Son bearing witness of his Father, then we come to the conclusion that imagination is that son.

We have had nothing this year, as I tell you, to disturb that deep conviction. We look upon the world, as I would say, a manifestation of consciousness: and the whole vast conditions of men are but revelations of individual states of consciousness. We distinguish between the individual identity and the state of consciousness that it occupies. You are an eternal being. The real you is the imaginative you, personified for us in our Gospel as Christ Jesus, but man doesn't know it. But this is your real being; this being is your wonderful Imagination.

When we speak of the revelation of a state, we simply mean that the state in which the real you for a moment abides objectifies itself as the condition and the circumstances of your life. If you are dissatisfied with the conditions of life, there is no possible way of changing them unless you first change the state from which you view the world; for the state from which a man observes the world determines the world that man describes. For the world that is described from observation must be as thus described, relative to the describing observer.

In a very simple way, were I to ask you now, "Where is San Diego?" and you answered, "About, I would say, approximately 130 miles from here," and then I ask another question, "Where is Santa Barbara?" and you replied
"Approximately 100 miles from here," well, I do not have to be an Einstein to tell you where you are, for if you tell me where these two are, and one is a hundred miles from here rela-tive to you, and the other is a hundred and thirty miles from here relative to you, I know you must be somewhere within the vicinity of this City of Los Angeles.

Now the same little law holds good in any description you make of the world. If I ask you to describe your world socially, and I listen attentively to your description of the world, you are revealing your position in the social
world to me. If I ask you to describe it intellectually, financially, spiritually, you may not know it, but the description that you offer of the world is revealing to me who listens - or to yourself if you are attentive - that particular state of consciousness from which you view the world. And you will continue to see the world as you now see it, unless you change your state of consciousness.

THE POWER OF AWARENESS

Posted by: "Gary" gary@persistentsuccess.com   revisingfaith

Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:08 am (PDT)