Become as a Child
Centering in the Light of Grace
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Beneath the din and clamor of your thoughts while focusing on the material world is a treasury of peace and quiet knowing. The light of heaven is the lighting of your earthly consciousness. As such you were born centered in your physical and mental being. This lighting is of the life force living out a mission through your physical existence. Subservient to your material focus is your spiritual guide: Your first state of consciousness. This compassionate center of your self is a magical one for as it lives with you and through you it also has awareness of the special plan and reason for your earthly journey. As this evolutionary being you are an earthly/celestial expression of life.
Your ability to see clearly from the spiritual lighting of your center remains subservient to your outward focus on life. Free will has been given to you so that you may learn the ways of the world for yourself. No other can reveal the meaning and purpose of life for you. As an individual you have been sent to earth to accomplish what only you can do as you contribute your chosen energies to earthly experience. You have been endowed with the power of the God consciousness. However you may conceive of your personal God, these highest powers find a home in your mind.
In the terrestrial/celestial consciousness all things exist, from the basest to the sublime. You have been given the freedom of choice and your choices reflect your personal evolution through an "in the body experience". As creatures of free will, we walk, talk, and sleep without really knowing how or why this happens. As an intelligent form of life we begin to question the reason for our existence. This question is met with the mentality that falls under the laws of logic and as no proof appears to exist the answer remains elusive. We must look to the laws of the universe where questions are answers and the restrictive mentality of the present stage of evolution falls away. The knowledge we crave is for deliverance from the archaic dominate negative emotional experience of life as it now exists on earth.
Each person on earth is a unique expression of life in evolutionary form. For within each person a guiding angel awaits the waking of its earthly partner. In your personal search for evolvement you are being prompted to join with the spiritually oriented self you subconsciously know dwells within you. You may have referred to this concept of your evolved self as your higher self. Begin to think of your evolved self as your centered self, grounded in knowledge of all that you are, for there is no one or no thing higher or lower than yourself.
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About the Book
This book is the culmination of a twenty-five year search for a return to a Centered state of grace that was revealed to me. The final message, as related in "Become as a Child", is that enlightenment need not be an elusive esoteric search without end but instead a thoughful return to one's beginnings.
A sequel to "The Nature of Centered Emotion", this book consists of sixteen consecutive interactive mandalas beginning with the Mandala of Centered Vision and culminating in the Mandala of Celestial Horizons. In a wedding of the material and the spiritual, these mandalas encompass a structure containing both the conditioned primal emotional responses of materialism and the light giving spiritual support that lives in and through our center of consciousness. In a revelation of self-awareness, painful error in ego identification learned in childhood are compassionately revealed and replaced by a quintessential spiritual healing.
About the Author
My experience with mandalas began when for two weeks, I was privileged to experience a wonderland of spiritual vision blended in perfect harmony with the material world. For fourteen days I knew what it was like to view without judgment those things I would have considered to be evil. I knew how it felt to be free of fear and worry for each moment in its self was perfection and completion.
The fifteenth morning I woke to a flat, cold, gray appearing world. The light of my insight had been removed from my vision. Even as I felt a great loss, I was determined to find my way back to the wonder of the clear vision that had been mysteriously given to me.
A few months later, I suffered a back injury that left me handicapped for a year. My search for healing reached an intense pitch. My focus moved from my pain and disability as I began sensing symbolic light images of geometric design, which I now know are called mandalas. I dreamed of squares becoming diamonds turning into perfect circles of white light. I sensed the squares symbolized materialism, the diamonds relationships and the circles completion. I spent many hours translating these dream images to geometrical symbolic drawings. While the symbolic meaning of some of these forms were revealed to me in dreams, I became aware that I was also deeply sensing the emotions of those around me. As I did this a template (mandala) of emotional oneness evolved revealing duality and self disapproval dominating human emotion. The evolvement of these mandalas became a source of insight into the dualistic nature of emotion. They progressed to show how complete acceptance of life and self opens the mind to experience a Center Grounding between heaven and earth called NOW.