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A breath of fresh air, Science and Spirituality takes a down-to-earth journey with infinite mind. It accounts for practical discoveries of scientific and spiritual mind power. The ideas are not new or old, but freely open to the restorative workability of reason and inspiration.
Consciousness expands healthily. Viewpoints connect or reconnect in ways that naturally reveal our true essence and environment.
Science and Spirituality celebrates Science and Health, first published in 1875 and written for truth seekers. Past, present, and future. Science and Spirituality clarifies the science of spirit to illumine the movement of mind and honest investigation. It illustrates divine love meeting human needs.
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Holiness and the Holy Spirit, now
I read The Bible. Some days, biblical text feels holy. Some days not. Holiness is mental. Not physical. Holiness or Holy Writ cannot be confined to a physical book.
Holiness is known by spiritual mind. Unholiness is known by human mind, brain mind.
The Bible consists of an Old Testament and New Testament. The Old Testament prophecies a Messiah and portrays generations of people praying for and waiting around for the promised Messiah. Savior.
The New Testament verifies the Messiah has come. Promised fulfilled, in the life of Christ Jesus. But Jesus was crucified. His physical form returned with breath for a month or so before disappearing, ascending.
Do I wait around for the Messiah’s return? I need help here. What does that even mean? Do I wait for another human person?
From the Gospel of John, Jesus apparently said, “I will ask [God], and [Love] will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth.” The Holy Spirit.
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I return to the Old Testament and find Abraham, Elijah, David, Ruth, Esther and many more, who were not waiting around for the Messiah. They lived the Messiah. So did Jesus and many people after him.
We can identify with and live the Holy Spirit. Comforter. Friend.
God created holiness, not the unholy. God sustains holiness through each of us as one.
Lord’s Prayer with spiritual interpretation
Our Father in heaven,
Our Abba-Eema, all-harmonious,
Hallowed be Your name,
One blessed and blessing name and nature,
Your kingdom come,
Your government is come; You are ever-present,
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Enable us to know—as in heaven, so on earth—infinite Truth is omnipotent, unmatched.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Give us strength for today; feed the anxious intentions.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And Spirit is reflected in spirituality.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
And Love does not lead us into fixation, but transforms us to the unity of holy consciousness.
(Italics represent my spiritual interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer as found in the Bible, Matthew 6, and credited to Christ Jesus)
Google space lesson
I have had a gmail account for more than a decade. I use this gmail account regularly to email family, friends, and co-workers.
When signing into the gmail account recently, a notice popped up, telling me that I have only 86% of my google space left. The pop-up alluded to the warning that I did not want to run out of space. As if whatever I have in that space was super important.
I was annoyed and curious at the same time. So I looked into it. And made a discovery.
Of course, if I pay money, I will not run out of Google space. But this did not explain what Google space was and how that space gets filled or emptied. I looked into it further.
Now, I will admit here, that I was tempted to ask my children to “fix it” for me. They can, believe me. But sometimes, most of the time, I need to do the work myself.
With more clicks on the screen and some fast reading, I was led into the abyss of my space full of documents and pictures. Apparently, Google keeps all my data. Fortunately, Google has the decency to explain how to generate more space, by deleting permanently as many of those documents and pictures I do not need. But warning, it will be a permanent deletion.
I browsed through the documents and pictures, supposedly huge and taking up more space than, say, deleted emails that have no images.
Most of the documents and images can be found elsewhere, in published papers, magazines, or websites. But the unpublished pictures were another matter. They were huge space hoggers and ridiculous. Pictures of cats, flowers, chickens, eggs, blurry rocks, or my feet because I accidentally took a picture when the camera was facing down.
It only took a few minutes to click all and delete permanently. Sure, I entertained the thought that I was doing myself a disservice but here is the thought that far outweighed that thought and gave me peace.
My thought, or line of thinking: I had no idea that I even had Google space and that Google filled it with what I communicated every day. Unknown to me, all those pictures and words were stored and identified as belonging to Cheryl Petersen. I likened it to my brain storing images or memories I do not know about or even want. Do I want to search my brain to delete certain images? Perhaps, but the brain will only fill up again, mindlessly. I must acknowledge and identify with the higher power that defines space itself with images and communications of spiritual good and goodness. Health, holiness, harmony. I did, and peace was there.
I did not permanently delete my interactions with the increased knowledge gained from writing or the increased joys received from God’s creation.
“O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.” — Psalm 139:1-10
The God of Mind
I told my mouth to quit yelling at the child. With a mind of its own, the mouth kept yelling.
I hope the flower will remain beautiful in its completeness. With a mind of its own, the flower fades and dies.
I ask God for more patience. Does God have a mind of its own to decide? Do I have a mind separate from God? What is God?
Since time began, with scientific scrutiny, human beings observe evidence and question. Answers come, generally followed by more questions, but our spiritual sense detects a steady stream of resolutions in the meantime. Mainly the resolve that we are not alone, but energetically structured by truth and love.
From the Old Testament in the Bible, the prophet Nehemiah was inspired to inspire the people to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. But some people tried their hardest to stop and scare Nehemiah, who finally told the naysayers, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.” Nehemiah 6:8, English Standard Version.
Nehemiah turned to God and acknowledged, “But now, O God, strengthen my hands.” — Neh. 6: 9.
The walls were rebuilt. Who is the strength of mind? Is the mind of strength one and all-embracing?
Christ Jesus counseled, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. — Matt. 22:37.
What is the mind of love? How is the love of spiritual mind possible?
The Apostle Paul explained, “And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.” — Romans 8:27
What evidence do we have of the Holy Spirit fulfilling the will of infinite mind, truth?
“This new plan I’m making with Israel
isn’t going to be written on paper,
isn’t going to be chiseled in stone;
This time I’m writing out the plan in them,
carving it on the lining of their hearts.
I’ll be their God,
they’ll be my people.
They won’t go to school to learn about me,
or buy a book called God in Five Easy Lessons.
They’ll all get to know me firsthand,
the little and the big, the small and the great.
They’ll get to know me by being kindly forgiven,
with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean. — Hebrews 8:8-12, The Message
I progressively stop yelling and listen to heartfelt love of mindfulness.
I thank flowers for their expression and beauty, letting them go when they are ready to provide nutrients to the soil and getting fresh flowers when inspired to do so.
I acknowledge the patience of infinite mind and accept it as the identity of whole being, being whole. I build on every ounce of patience I express. I acknowledge and respond to divine consciousness as all-in-all.
God goes with us or we go with God
Have you ever felt overwhelmed? It could be likened to being taken from a safe place to a place of worries. Or to when Jerusalem was besieged by Babylon.
“In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.” — Daniel 1:1
To the character of assumption, the king appears as the enemy.
Trying to relate, when I feel overwhelmed by jobs to do, bills to pay, and health to maintain, I assume human existence and body is near the enemy.
Interestingly, Daniel was selected to work for the king. But Daniel took a stand in one aspect of his dictated existence.
“Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank.” — Daniel 1:8
Daniel studied and lived wisdom. The king noticed and promoted Daniel. But Danile’s co-workers became jealous of Daniel. They tried to undermine Daniel and some of his buddies. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
Daniel continued to study and live wisdom. He prayed to one God, infinite wisdom but insisted to the king that wisdom was available to all the living.
Perhaps Daniel didn’t try to own wisdom anymore than he owned envious, suspicious co-workers.
But King Nebuchadnezzar made a horrible mistake that put Daniel and his buddies in danger. Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego survived the danger, and the king reported publicly:
“King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you! It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me. “How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures from generation to generation.” — Daniel 4:1-3
God, infinite truth and spirit, is everywhere.
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