April 1984, Science of Mind Magazine

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H I D D EN IN Y O UR M I ND IS AN
A W E S O ME P O W ER T H AT C AN
T R A N S F O RM Y O UR L I F E!
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Q D E C E OF
APRIL 1984 VOL 57 NO 4
ARTICLES FEATURES DEPARTMENTS
THE CASE FOR Readers' Corner 7
IMMORTALITY 2
by Ernest Holmes Personal Affirmations 19
Thoughts lor this Easter
season, by the founder ol Radio/TV Listings 31
Science
of Mind Home Study References 88
HOW TO SPIRITUALIZE
Cornerstone 104
YOUR MARRIAGE 8
An Interview with
Ministry of Prayer 106
Swami Kriyananda
by Ronald S Miller THE CREATIVE ADVENTURE 16
is there a place for God in
Wilferd A Peterson
your intimate personal
relationships'' EXPLORATIONS IN
CONSCIOUSNESS 20
KEEP ON WRITING 17 John White
by Alice Stacey
THE PRINCIPLE
A warm recollection ot
IN PRACTICE 21
Ernest Holmes and how he
Margaret R Stortz
solved a problem
WORKSHOP OF THE MIND 25
THE HEALING POWER
OF VISUALIZATION 22 Ernest Holmes
by Hilda de b Vega UGHT FROM THE
Could mind-power be used LANGUAGE OF JESUS 26
to deal with severe Rocco A Errico. D.D.
physical pain''
THE EVOLVING
SUDDENLY A NIGHTHAWK 27 RELATIONSHIP 108
by Marie Gottredson Jordan Paul. Ph D
At a time of stress, she Margaret Paul. PhD
discovered one of Life's
great truths
STRANGERS
IN YOUR MIND 32 HEALING MEDITATIONS
by Pero Ferrucci FOR APRIL 39
A look at the fascinating by Georgia C. Maxwell
complexity of your personality
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THOUGHTS FOR THE EASTER SEASON
E 3 The Case for
Immortality
Ernest Holmes
Common sense will tell us that
death is no part of Life, for "... it
I involves a self-contradiction to say
11 that the energy of any force can stop
fW the working of that force." This is
Il why Jesus said, "God is not the God
31 I of the dead, but of the living." In
gl I substance, Jesus was saying this: God
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creative Energy of everything. How can that
which is Life include death, because death is
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; -—-—ι although he said that he had not yet attained
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metaphysical teachings. Author of The Science of
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" Immortality is not something we purchase
to the resurrection from the some kind of body. The resur
dead. This implies that his idea rection body is a logical necessity
of resurrection means becoming if life is to continue. For Spirit
resurrected from among those without a vehicle through which
whose concept of life is so lim to function could not express It
ited to the material world that self. There can be no conscious
the final break between the two ness without form.
worlds can be made only through This physical body is real
the experience of dying. But enough in its place, but it is not
Paul does intimate that a correct supposed to be eternal. It is the
understanding of the Life Prin mind and spirit, and not flesh
ciple would enable one to attain and blood, that inherit the next
complete resurrection while in kingdom. "The flesh withereth
the flesh. away, but the Spirit endureth
This, in all probability, Jesus forever." The Talmud says:
has done. He was able to lay off "First no atom of matter in the
this physical body and appear whole vastness of the universe
only in his ethereal or spiritual is lost. How then can man's soul,
body. "For there are bodies ce which comprises the whole world
lestial and bodies terrestrial." No in one idea, be lost?" And from
matter what plane we may be the Vedas: "As from a blazing
functioning upon, the creative fire in a thousand ways similar
Principle within us will manifest sparks proceed, so, Beloved, are
a body which will be the "mat produced living souls of various
ter" of that plane. The fact that kinds from the indestructible
this Life Principle has done this that also return to him." From
on the physical plane is a guaran Hermes: "The soul, however, is
tee that this is the way it works. not forever in a mortal body, for
This does not mean that the it can be without this body."
spiritual body is merely the From St. John: "And this is the
physical body more rarified. It promise that he hath promised
is a body transcendent of the us, even eternal life."
physical plane. We may take Jesus taught that this eternal
it for granted that if life here life may be perceived here and
after is to be as complete, as self- now, may be completely entered
recognizing, and as localized as into even while we are function
it is here, there will have to be ing on this plane, when he said,
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said that marriage should be than our own.
based on spiritual principles. "Nobody is married spiritual
How can that be done and what ly if he is married to his partner
value does it have? only on a mundane level. Thus
Swami Kriyananda: "From Indian Scriptures say that hus
a spiritual viewpoint, marriage band and wife shouldn't love
is seen to be a vehicle by which each other only for the sake of
the soul achieves union with God. each other, but for the sake of
Because this union transcends God, whom they see in one an
any purely physical or institu other. Unless marriage is spiri
tional consideration, marriage tualized, it cannot be successful
must be honored first and fore in the deepest sense, because the
most as a spiritual condition, a very basis of true marriage is
training ground to prepare peo a love that is spiritual, not
ple for the higher union. Thus earthly."
the ultimate purpose of marriage
is to bring us out of ourselves, So the outer, physical mar
out of the narrow confines of riage should indicate that a
selfishness and ego, so we may marriage has also taken place
begin to live a more sanctified on a deeper level within the
P E R S O N AL R E L A T I O N S H I PS ON
T HE P A TH TO E N L I G H T E N M E NT
R O N A LD S. MILLER
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psyches of the two partners.
Kriyananda: "Yes. Besides
being a path to Divine union,
marriage is also a way for men
and women to balance their na
ture, since we are instinctively
drawn to the opposite sex for
reasons that transcend mere
sexual attraction. Men and wom
en generally need to balance
their somewhat one-sided na
tures, and they unconsciously
seek the opposite sex to achieve
a state of psychic wholeness. Swami Kriyananda is one of the
best known modern exponents of
"Men, for example, generally
the ancient science ot yoga He
express more reason, while their
s a gifted lecturer author teacher
feeling nature is kept hidden and composer singer and philosopher
undeveloped. Conversely, wom os well as an artist, scientist, and
businessman Educated in Ruma
en usually express more feeling,
n/o. Switzerland. England, and the
while the reasoning nature is
United States, he speaks nine lan
more hidden. This doesn't mean guages and lectures m five of
that men have no capacity for them
love or women have no capacity He was bom in 1926. and be
came a disciple of the world
for reason. It's just that men
famous Paramahansa Yogananda
tend to depend more on reason m 1948. thereafter holding van
and women tend to depend more ous leadership positions at the
on feeling. headguarters ot Yogananda's Sett
Realization Fellowship He left that
"Most of us find it advanta organization in 1962 after fourteen
geous to be closely affiliated years, which had included four
with somelxtdy who has qualities yeors of studying, lecturing, and
teaching in India
which are complementary to our
In 1969 Swami Kriyananda
own nature. So, in marriage, we founded Ananda Cooperative Vil
enter into deep communion with lage in the foothills of the Sierra
our opposite, complementary Nevada mountains which has be
come widely recognized as one
quality, which therefore no
I of the most successful New Age
longer remains buried in our communities m the world He has
own unconscious. We learn, in authored twelve books, mclud
mg The Path. Autobiography of a
effect, to balance feeling and
Western Yogi
reason. Actually, this balance
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