Actually, friend, I'm spending most of my time writing, which I find very difficult and challenging. I have a blog and a web-site and I write an occasional article for the Institute of Metaphysical Science (La Jolla, CA) Quarterly Newsletter. My teaching has evolved consciously into a specialized form, a language for ideas that inspire me. I found as I listened to my intuition (Christ) it kept hearing in me as the "Science of being One," formerly known as Christian Science.
Of course, I started this phase of my developing self-conscious living of my own divinity with Joel Goldsmith, who we know left metaphysics and turned to mysticism. My growth took the opposite way; not that they are opposites, we understand; but complementarities. Since I had gone deeply into mystical contemplation under the supervision of Thomas Keating, Trappist monk, which inspired me to research the whole of mysticism from Plato to the contemporary mystics I found myself wondering/wandering interiorly into a depth of research into the Science of Self, living consciously which revealed to me the limitations of mysticism as a doctrine of the Self.
Perhaps you know the writings of Lillian DeWaters and her student William Samuel, who like Joel moved from rational thought (practical magination) to pure intuition (reality) as their premise for conceptualizing the Infinite. I found their language and concepts very useful in focusing specific issues for my need to research and grow my own divine Mind into its present conscious manifestation. Each teacher/teaching emphasizes some similar and some different aspects of metaphysics and mysticism (historically seen mysticism is a branch of metaphysics). Metaphysics asks the questions and mysticism, divine Science, advaita vedanta, etc. are the answers. It is very useful for us to form our own meaning of the concept -- the limits of human reason, as well as the concept - transcendental idealism, mystical experience, psychic phenomena, ESP, etc. which name some conscious experience of Reality itself. What reality can we experience consciously but the reality of our own individual consciously being?
"Science" bases its practice on the premise of individual, indivisible, infinite Consciousness or Mind, known to us as the infinite Unconscious or Infinity. Since our own Infinity forever presents Itself to our human thought as paradoxical, we assume or infer a theoretical basis for our thinking (doing). Assuming that "God" is a word for Presence, for consciousness or Mind, we must also assume that since I consciously Am (not I am conscious - since these two statements are not identical). I recognize that "I consciously am" identifies myself with "of necessity"; but identifying myself as "I am conscious" identifies me with accident or choice, or chance and makes for one very restless me) -- we must also assume since I consciously am, my Mind - my divinity - my Christ - my Atman - that is, my Ego - or ordering center of all my mental phenomena is ONE - and that One is making my HUMANITY its conscious identity.
Since Truth is Self-revealing in and as each conscious human individuality and is revealing that the divinity of HUMANITY is the fact, that the human is human because it is divine and not human for the same reason-- this fact unfolding effortlessly from the Infinite Unconscious or Soul, appears to human perception as the evolving of conscious awareness and reveals that each one learns from her/his own experience and not from teaching, from rules or commandments, or mediatory forms - either medication or meditation - and learns that "God" and "man" are WORDS for one BEING -- one CONSCIOUS HUMAN individuality -- one Ego.
Christ, one's own conscious human individuality does what it does INTUITIVELY by BEING, instead of DOING as conscious awareness in the hope of achieving a result. In the discovery of One Ego, and the practice of that fact, there is no other ego to get rid of, to change, enlighten, heal or improve. The aim and goal of one's life becomes what it was in the beginning and what unconsciously it always is -- perfect.
When we listen to our own God-sense or intuition voicing us to follow it into the deeper depths of Soul, we hear our own Christ/Science say: "The works that I do -- SHALL you do (of necessity, not choice) and greater works that these SHALL you do." The greater works of the divinity of our humanity (individual Christ) are "no sick to heal, no poor to make rich, no sinner to save, no war to win, no ignorant to enlighten, no students to teach -- since all the phantom problems of the intellectualizing -verbalizing, taking thought imagination have resolved themselves and now rest in the fact of my BEING my own true ideal – the fact that: "There is but one Ego, Mind," And "I, Mind, Am."
When I am no longer fascinated (hypnotized) by the sound of my own voice (personal me concept, age 2) and its magical powers of "procuring, healing, saving, teaching and discovering new mediatorial forms - new medications and new meditations, I am liberated from any wish for bigger and better results, which imaginary forms belittle me. In consciously living my Self as one, -- "None of me is bygone, I am only. I am MY life. All of my living is NOW-living," (Dorsey)-- I have no need to deny anything and nothing to deny. I am not required by my divinity to be anti-anything. That time has fulfilled itself in my HERE, NOW living of myself. And at last, what I called "God", the I that I Am, is recognized is my own Self-existing Being and my practice is consciously (asymptomatically) living my Self by appreciatively acknowledging all of me as only me (sanely living my mind) or unconsciously (symptomatically) living all of me, as if pretending that parts of my mind are not mental and so not my mind (insanely).
Peace
Rob
Reprint of an article for the Quarterly Newsletter of the Institute of
Metaphysical Science, LaJolla, CA (formerly the Margaret Laird Foundation.
Truth a.k.a. Love d.b.a. Life
By Rob Craig
A group of scientists had worked tediously to breed a new type of butterfly, the most exquisite ever. The day arrived when it began to exit the cocoon. The press was called, cigars lit and champagne uncorked. But as the assembled group watched the butterfly freeing itself, their joy turned to panic as it snagged on the last little bit of its self-constructed envelope and began flapping its wings furiously, trying to set itself free. Totally exhausted, it collapsed and seemed to be dying just at the point of new freedom, new life.
The head scientist, distraught at the sight, quickly employed a small scalpel to make an incision in the snag and free the butterfly. After several minutes it feebly struggled to its feet and then flapped its wings exultantly, ready to launch. The scientists poured the champagne, lit the cigars and smiled for the press. They had built a new butterfly.
