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TRUTH TEACHING:
Questions and Answers
Questions asked and answered from Internet forums about Truth Teaching
By Rev. Dr. Ray C. Pasold
Published by S.E.L.F. Publishing™ Division of the Sacred Eternal Life FellowshipThis entire document is in the Public Domain
1. “What conclusions have you reached about God from your Truth Seeking?” There are many discoveries, however, the most important one is this:I serve the God of Truth, Who is Light, Love, and Freedom, the only God there is.2. “Please explain more about what you found out and how you accomplished this.” There is a challenge with this type of discovery. Before one can know, they must first believe. Now belief means it may be true, it could be true, but I do not know if it is. Then theexperiment can begin. If you decide what the answer is before you experiment, before you believe to do experiments, the conclusion is just a mental one, another form of belief. I believe todisbelieve in God. This is just another worthless opinion.It’s not easy, or everyone would do it, though many claim to have done it. Safety for yourself is a key element, to keep you from the snares of those who believe a certain way and tryto enlist you in that belief system, such as religions, gurus, etc. The key then, is to have theunquenchable desire, the burning need to KNOW and not just believe. However, in order toknow if something is true or not, one must first believe, and then experiment to find the truth.Belief only means it may be true, it could be true, but you don’t really know yet. That’s whatTruth Seeking is all about. The mastery of self is the journey that leads you to higher consciousness, and needing to know and not just believe, protects you from all other teachingsthat are not verified by yourself. At a certain point you begin to realize that everything you foundto be true and in error, are subject to change as your understanding grows, your consciousnessevolves. This means what you found for now will change as you evolve. 2 + 2 = 4 or is 2+2 = 22,or both?Self Mastery is the answer to achieving higher states of awareness and consciousness.There are thousands of paths calling to the seeker to follow, but only the Truth you find is realfor you. Eventually, the doors of consciousness are open and you are ripe for that experience of the dimension of the Spirit Realm. It is quite amazing.The most important thing I have found is that the Truth cannot be a belief, or it could bewrong. It must become a part of you, so that you KNOW it, feel it, experience it, and live itevery moment of your life.Spirit Consciousness is not just a new knowledge, or a different kind of knowledge.Above all that which it is, it is a new conscious awareness, a different or higher, state of
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2consciousness. Consider Truth to be a cone, spiraling upward and ever expanding. The truth youhave discovered lays at the beginning of the cone, the bottom. As you gain higher awareness,higher consciousness, that truth is expanded, as your realization moves up the cone of truth, ever expanding. You need no one to help you achieve these states and all will eventually do so.However, if you wish to speed your spiritual awareness to higher levels of consciousness, thereare tools that have been found to be very effective to volitionally force yourself into a higher state, instead of waiting on natural evolution of consciousness (which may take many lifetimesand thousands of years).There are those who can give you these tools, and if the tools work for you, you canachieve incredible progress on the journey to Spirit Consciousness. These teachers are calledTruth Teachers. There is no universal tool to achieve Spirit Consciousness, but there are toolsthat work for most everyone. Just remember, a real Truth Teacher knows they cannot give youSpirit Consciousness, but only give you the tools to achieve it.The tools are many and consist of two types. First, to build your awareness that higher states of consciousness may exist, there are books and writings that describe it and tell of other peoples experience with higher consciousness. There are many such writings, and I can only giveyou the ones that helped me. You might enjoy them also. (Remember, you must first believe thathigher states of consciousness exist, before you can experiment and discover if they do or not.)Cosmic Consciousness, by Richard M. BuckeJonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard BachIllusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, by Richard BachThe Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, the Christ of the Piscean Age, by Levi DowlingYou will be led once you begin sincere Truth Seeking to many other writings. However, if youdon’t ask, with all your heart mind and soul, you may not find the answer you seek. It must beyour priority, above all else in your life. The second types of tools are those that require you todo the work, to work on yourself, to look within yourself and find the Christ within. All thewritings mentioned speak of this requirement.Meditation is the first way of self-examination. There are many forms of meditation,however, the meditation you seek is one of self-mastery. I could post some of my classes on this, but it would take much space here. Self-mastery is an on going experience and never ends. Thegrowth into awareness of the Christ within is also an on going experience. However, there is aLINE of higher consciousness one crosses; you are blessed with an awareness and knowledgethat can never leave you! It is called illumination, or re-birth into Spirit Consciousness. Your Truth Seeking takes on a new dimension once you have gained this state.Once you obtain a break through, a confirmation of experience, an illumination, you nolonger depend on texts, other people of the physical realm, for further spiritual growth. Note theword “depend.” I still read as much as possible about this and learn from other people, however the knowledge obtained is always tested by the truth of my experience and the teachers I have,who are of the Spirit Realm and not the physical. Direct communication with the Spiritual Realmis one of the blessings of illumination.In order to maintain the knowledge you acquire before illumination, and not to let theday-to-day life and contacts with others rip the awareness from your consciousness; I have twosuggestions. First, let your spiritual journey be shared with only others on the path, and no one
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3else. Second, do a study on assertiveness, so you can free others from your manipulations as youfree yourself from theirs. I highly recommend this book.When I Say No, I Feel Guilty, by Manuel Smith.This is raw assertion, but you can transform it into spiritual assertion.3. “I assume that prayer was the main method used to connect with God. Is that correct?” No, it is not. Prayer usually means talking to God, but not listening. Most people who pray do not know but only believe there is a God. They cannot begin to even believe that Godwould in any way bless them with a verbal response, or any other kind of communication. Theymust defer to a book. Then there are those who imagine that God is speaking to them, andusually tell others all about it. Some believing they are Prophets and the like. Real prayer issimply listening to the small still voice within you, that has no sugar coating and presents to youwhat you need to hear and feel, whether it is comfortable or not, whether it confirms your beliefsor negates them. Very few people take the time to master themselves to be able to listen to thatsmall still voice. Many believe they hear that voice, which is only the voice of their own mind.They have not done the work, have not mastered themselves, and are still lost in belief.4. “How do you feel about people like Osama Bin Laden? Is he spiritual, faithful, evil, etc.” I don’t know him. I have, of course, heard about him. I do know this. There are thosewho claim to be Spiritual yet their actions negate the Light of Truth, the Love of God, and lifeitself. They all appear to claim a superior knowledge, yet if you do not believe as they do, theywill either kill your body or condemn you to some sort of hell after your body dies. These typesof people are lost in false belief and are a detriment to Truth Seeking and humanity in general.Osama Bin Laden appears to fit this description.5. “Do you think many Christians practice the principles you adhere too?” The principles of Truth Seeking are not limited to Christianity. The Hindus call the Christwithin the Atman, just as an example. Yet most Hindus, just like Christians, will not do the work of Self-mastery and prefer to live in belief. They need to choose an authority to believe in.Christians who are Truth Seekers soon realize that they are not Orthodox Christian believers, butare Christines, those aspiring to become Christ-like and Free. Christian Gnostics, of which thereare many, all appear to be genuine Truth Seekers. However, you’ll have to ask them.6. “What percentage of Christians sees this issue the way you do in your opinion? I suspect thatit would be far less than half of them just from my experience with them.” It appears you are suggesting that force of numbers can have a bearing on what Truth is.If it were only I, it would not change. The Truth simply is. However, I suspect that no OrthodoxChristians whatsoever see this issue the same way. Remember, they are lost in belief, and refuseto go beyond it. If Jesus himself appeared before them and spoke anything that was at variancewith their belief of what the Bible means, they would scream, “Devil!” and denounce him.
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