Is the Bible Literal?

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Question:     The Bible has some great insights into deeper studies. But it has some contradictions. Especially if you take the Bible literally. I would like to know, how do you view the Bible, what do you think on it? Do you view the Bible as literal or all spiritual with deep meanings and not literal at all?

Higgins:     In areas of the world where the Bible is easy to access we encourage you to delve into it for the opportunity for learning that it provides. However, the Bible is incomplete and many stories are presented out of context. Some aspects may be taken literally and some aspects would not benefit you to take literally. The problem is, the reader has no idea which may be taken literally and which not.

The Bible does give a history of Earth and how mankind came to be on the planet (albeit incomplete). It also hints at the spiritual aspect of what man is. Part of the beauty of the Bible is that by virtue of its inconsistencies and omissions it creates questions in the minds of many. It is in the seeking of the answers to those questions that the reader will eventually find Truth. The Bible is a path to finding the Truth although the Truth is highly veiled within the words of the Bible itself.

Received September 25, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

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Searching for the Holy Grail

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Question/comment:     I have been a Christian most of my life. Wanted to get closer to God and have a great relationship to him. I did but then later found out things I was shocked to found out on the Bible. I went away from Christianity and began a search for Truth, no religion attached to it and began to study and search online. In the process I found this site, which has been a HUGE help so thanks a bunch on that 😀 It really helped put me at ease for the time being. But now it is back.

Higgins:     Wherever a person is physically located we encourage them to delve into the most accessible spiritual path available that is of interest. Delve fully and when the path becomes exhausted blaze a new trail as the asker of this question is doing.

We applaud the asker’s perseverance and fortitude. It is the seeking and the asking of questions that brings forth the answers and all answers shall be unlocked by the askers of the world.

You, the asker of this question, have embarked on a marvelous adventure that few are courageous enough to attempt (or are not driven to attempt). In your search for Truth you have, as men have for thousands of years, embarked upon the search for the Holy Grail.

Blessings, Friend, on your remarkable journey. May you relax and enjoy yourself every step of the way.

Received September 24, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

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Don’t Mean to Be a Bother

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Question:     I dont mean to be a bother or anything but I have some more questions for you.

Higgins:     Friend, you are not a bother. In fact, just the opposite. It is the asking that drives our evolution. It is the seeking that drives yours. You and your questions are blessings to the world. You and we and All That Is ( meaning that which you call God) expand and become more because you are willing to ask them.

Received September 24, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

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Is Infatuation a False Love?

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Question:     Is infatuation a false love and if it is, how do you know that you are truly IN love with someone for real and not just an infatuation? And how can you make it last?

Higgins:     Infatuation is not a false love it is a shade of love.

A difficulty you physicals get into is that you think there is an IN love with someone for real. Let us remind you that love is an emotion offered by your Broader Self relative to how you are responding to any given situation or thing. Many of you have come to think that real love is when you feel love or positivity for the same person all the time when actually real love is holding your thoughts and feelings about all things (no matter how ugly they may be…starvation, war and killing for example) in the same loving and compassionate way you hold the things that are easy for you to like. In that way you are able to radiate the emotion of love almost all the time and when you learn to do that you are living in your Truth.

To find a long-lasting loving relationship find someone with whom you get along easily. That is of utmost importance. It is very helpful to find someone who, just by being, produces a sense of heart expansion within you.

Should you have a mutual desire to walk together through the rest of your lives then we encourage you to think positively about them every day for the rest of your life. That will stimulate a positive flow of energy between you so that you continue to draw the things you like about them out. That is the best way to nurture a relationship for the long-term.

It will also help to learn to say yes.

Received September 22, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

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Differences in Kinds of Love

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Question:     What is the difference between Love to friends and family, and that IN Love with that special someone?

Higgins:     There are many shades of pink. There are also many shades of love. That is the easiest way to understand it.

Received September 22, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

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What is Love?

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Question:     What is love? I don’t mean I love this food or I loved that movie. I am talking about True honest Love.

Higgins:     Love is an emotion. It is produced within you by that Broader Self that guides you through this physical existence. All emotions are offered relative to how you, in any given moment, relate to your surroundings. The emotion of love simply means that whatever is happening in your life your Broader Self agrees with you about it.

When you feel any kind of negative emotion your Broader Self is disagreeing with your thoughts/feelings/vibrational offerings about the topic. And, yes, that does mean that the True You is love because any emotion you feel that does not feel really good is contrary to the Truth of Your Self.

When you describe food or a movie as something you love it means that the food or the movie resonated with you in a positive way such that the Broader Self agreed with you thus producing positive emotion.

The emotion of love for food or a good movie is very similar to love for a person. When love for a particular food arises it is easy for you to differentiate the wonderful feeling as produced because the food was especially tasty. Love for a person is sometimes confusing because you do not understand what specifically is drawing from you the loving emotion.

When love is produced within relative to another human it is because something about them resonates well with you. One thing to understand is that only one emotion can be felt at any given time therefore you cannot feel love all the time. If you could then your guidance system (the emotions your Broader Self produces within you moment by moment relative to your surroundings) would fail for it could not communicate with you. Thus, in the moment that you stop focusing upon the things you like about the other person your guidance system must jump in and produce emotion relative to the new thing you are thinking about.

When you physicals stop focusing on the things you like about your loved one and focus instead upon the things you don’t like your guidance system sends you negative emotions. Sometimes you fall out of love because of these new emotions. We want you to understand the other person doesn’t necessarily change in any way. When you thought nice things the Broader Self  produced a feeling of love relative to that person. When you stopped thinking nice things and started thinking negative things the Broader Self produced negative feelings relative to the same person.

What we encourage you to look for in relationships is positive emotion in conjunction with a simple enjoyment of the others company. If you can look at things in the other person that produce negative emotion in you and genuinely want to find solutions then this may well be a person to consider for a long-term commitment.

Received September 22, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

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Meditation Vibrations to Music

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Meditation Vibrations, Energy Alignment Music is now available on CD. Bill Wolford has created music for several energetic alignment meditations from Higgins. These meditations were created by Higgins to assist in raising our energetic frequencies.

The CD begins with aligning with one’s current surroundings, coming to peace with life as it is right now. Then Higgins helps raise one’s current vibration to its highest potential.

Tracks 3 and 4 simply bring one into harmony with the Earth and the frequency the Earth will be when the shift is complete.

Tracks 5 and 6 are all about relaxing and finding peace.

Bill has done a beautiful job of capturing the essence of Higgins’ meditations in music.

Find the CD at www.meditationvibrations.com.

Bright Blessings,

Cheryl

 

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The Kindness Paradigm (6)

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Developing compassion

Compassion is the pathway to kindness. Compassion is an emotion in the vibrational range of love and deep appreciation. Compassion encompasses the emotion of deep understanding. A person develops compassion by directing their thoughts towards gentle understanding and acceptance of the world around them.

In order to do that we must first consider what humans are. Human beings are eternal beings inhabiting a body on a temporary basis. We are extensions of God. We are on Earth seeking growth. While our range of emotions is broad our true essence rests in love, peace and harmony with love being defined as deep and abiding appreciation.

The way we know this to be true is that when we feel frustration, anger, hatred, guilt, depression, fear or myriad gradations of these emotions we feel bad. When we feel hopeful, uplifted, happy, radiant, joyful or any gradation of these emotions we feel good. Our entire being is geared toward seeking that which feels good.

We must understand that all any of us ever do is seek these good emotions. Anytime we express negative aspects of ourselves or negative behavior all we are really doing is outwardly expressing that we have gotten off track. In the same way that a washing machine will get off-balance and bang around in the spin cycle our negative behaviors are simply us banging around because we’ve gotten out of balance.

With this understanding it is much easier to feel compassion for others. When we are able to hold compassion for ourselves and for others regardless of the situation, what naturally overflows is kindness.

Cheryl Jensen, September 3, 2013, at Lake Goodwin, Washington

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The Kindness Paradigm (5.5)

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

After rereading The Kindness Paradigm (5) on Accepting and Allowing I realize I left some information out…the part about why acceptance and allowance are important.

Refusal to accept and allow all things is futile. Resistance actually makes things worse. Imagine having a tent collapse while you are in it. Struggling won’t help you get out. Relax. Accept the situation and gently find your way out.

Allowing things to be as they are is the equivalent of not struggling. It is non-resistance.

When one person stops struggling, develops compassion and begins making decisions and choices based in kindness they become the embodiment of peace. Every day this one person is directly responding to the world’s violence by not responding to the world’s violence. They are no longer potentiating violence and harshness but instead potentiate peace and cooperation by living in harmony with their surroundings whatever those surroundings may contain.

Cheryl Jensen, September 2, 2013, at Lake Goodwin, Washington

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The Kindness Paradigm (5)

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

It’s been a while since I posted on The Kindness Paradigm so let’s go back and review what we’re up to:

The Kindness Paradigm is based on the belief that there are certain desires ubiquitous to all mankind yet recognizes that the achievement of those desires will look different to each individual; it is a vision of a way of living in which happiness is the driving force and decisions are based on kindness; it is a vision of life in which enthusiasm for the life one leads is of paramount importance and the importance of achieving one’s individual desires is understood and supported by all.

We needed a bridge to get from where we are to where we want to go and I suggested the bridge looked like this:

Relax within your life as it is right now, with all its warts and strange beautiful things; practice allowing and accepting everything just as it is with no changes whatsoever; develop compassion for yourselves and others, knowing that the game of life is challenging and complex; from compassion, kindness will overflow; that kindness will spring forth in all sorts of ways that nurture the human spirit.

Today I wish to move on to how to become allowing and accepting.

Merriam Webster defines the word ‘accept’ several ways but the number one definition for the word accept is to receive willingly. That is the definition we will use because to achieve our goal of living life in a Kindness Paradigm we must accept willingly that which presents before us and allow it to exist.

When you allow another person to live their life as they choose without encouraging them or expecting them or even hoping for them to be or act a certain way you allow them. Allowing is a scary concept for some because it means saying yes to things you do not like, agree with or want in your life. Frankly, it means saying yes to things you do not want to exist in the world. However, the Kindness Paradigm is not about what anyone else is doing. The Kindness Paradigm is about you. It is about each individual choosing a life of kindness for themselves and simultaneously allowing every other individual the dignity to make their own choices, whatever they may be.

The way to become allowing and accepting is to practice. Practice saying yes, practice seeing beauty in the ugly things. Developing compassion will make accepting and allowing others to be as they are much easier. We will explore the development of compassion next.

Cheryl Jensen, September 1, 2013, Lake Goodwin, Washington, USA

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