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From Pride To Neutrality

by | Nov 26, 2017 | , ,

In Dr. David Hawkins' "map of consciousness," courage first registers at the level of 200 on an ascending logarithmic scale of creative power that goes to 1000. Master teachers like Jesus and Buddha calibrate at the top end of the "map," which Hawkins designates as Enlightenment. Just below the level courage at 200, is the energy of pride, which calibrates from 175-199. Dr. Hawkins maintains that the collective vibration of humankind globally is just above 200, after being calibrated for...

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Love Is The Answer To Every Question

by | Sep 7, 2017 |

I recently attended a talk given by Revs. Brian & Kristen Grandon titled “The Journey of Spiritual Awakening: Reframing Salvation”. This talk was the 5th installment in their 8-week series “Our Authentic Spiritual Journey,” which they are presenting at Unity Church of the Hills in Austin. It got me thinking about how my own thoughts and ideas around salvation have changed over the course of my life, and how I learned in the process that love is the answer to every question I have....

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Teach Only Love

by | Apr 13, 2017 |

It could be said that the main purpose of A Course In Miracles [ACIM] is to teach the lessons necessary for us to learn how to teach only love. ACIM does not aim to teach the "meaning of love," which it maintains is "beyond what can be taught." However, it does aim to teach us how to "remove the blocks to the awareness of love's presence" in order that we may know the love we are. It achieves this aim through a combination of both theoretical and practical lessons. However, ACIM repeatedly...

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Being A Catalyst For Peace

by | Feb 3, 2017 |

Without a doubt, peace is my favorite word. To me, peace is more than just a pleasant sounding word, peace is the experience I seek more than any other in my life. It would be fair to say that peace is the reason behind every choice I make. For the record, I am not saying that every choice I make leads to the experience of peace. I still have some work to do before achieving that goal. However, I am saying that peace is the goal, or the end game as it were, of all of my thoughts, words and...

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Soul Diving EP 001: My Favorite Word Is Peace

by | Aug 27, 2016 |

In this debut episode of the Soul Diving with Rick Busby podcast, titled "My Favorite Word Is Peace," we talk about war and peace, both within our own selves and in the world. Along the way, we learn that we may not always be able to change the external world, but we can always change our minds about the world. The episode also features music from Rick Busby's albums Soul Diving and Strawberry Moon, including selected bits from the songs "Like A Dove," "Just Like Angels," "Mysteria" and...

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Understanding Spiritual Understanding

by | Aug 10, 2016 |

The first idea to understand about spiritual understanding is that no one ever attains it without first striving for it. As Charles Fillmore emphasizes in The Twelve Powers, each of our creative faculties of mind is a potential power. The development of these powers to their fullest expression is not an automatic process, nor is it even guaranteed. In short, if we don't look for it, we will never find it. If we do not ask for it, we will not receive it.In the Hebrew scriptures, we learn that...

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The Greatest Discovery of All Time

by | Sep 10, 2015 | , ,

In the "Foreword to the 40th Anniversary Edition" of Eric Butterworth's spiritual classic, Discover the Power Within You, the esteemed poet Maya Angelou acknowledges her affinity for the compelling idea at the very heart of Butterworth's teachings. Namely, that "the power of God, the essential spirit, is within each of us." This idea is also at the heart of what Butterworth would call the greatest discovery of all time, and is essentially the foundation upon which his celebrated metaphysical...

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How Does Your Light Shine? – (Part I of II)

by | Sep 8, 2011 | ,

When I was six years old, which, for the record, was almost 50 years ago, my family went on vacation to Lookout Mountain in Tennessee. We lived in Nashville at the time and I have two specific memory recalls from that summer trip. First, me and my middle brother Ron, aged 5 at the time, both had a severe case of mouth ulcers that resulted in us having to eat cold tomato soup and have our mouths coated with some kind of ultraviolet solution that stained them purple. The other memory was a...

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The Greatest Lie Ever Told – (Part I of II)

by | Jul 1, 2011 |

Despite our philosophical, religious, political and cultural indoctrination to the contrary, the greatest thing a man can do for mankind is not to lay down his life for another. The greatest gift any man can give to another, or indeed to all of mankind, is to live his life to the fullest of its potential, grounding his every action in a profound sense of love for all, especially his own self, giving his deepest most divine creative gifts without reservation or shame, and modeling the...

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