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How is Truth Interpreted in Your World?
The author relates her cancer diagnosis and her subsequent healing, when, after meeting and studying with Margaret Laird in the 1920s, she began to drop her sense of the body.
What About Rebellious Children?
If I think I’ve made a serious mistake, the primary question is always who you are being. When “Who am I?” is clear as conscious awareness, the “what to do” part takes care of itself. Whatever “choice” the human being appears to make is sourced by Mind.
If I’ve Made a Mistake, What Should I Do About it?
If I think I’ve made a serious mistake, the primary question is always who you are being. When “Who am I?” is clear as conscious awareness, the “what to do” part takes care of itself. Whatever “choice” the human being appears to make is sourced by Mind.
Understanding Is The Key
In a 1961 Los Angeles Seminar Mrs. Laird said: "Realization is the function of Truth as understanding." This direct presence of Mind in action as realization or understanding constitutes man. God's self-knowledge is man! The fundamental characteristic of...
Without My Perception…
All I have in my world is just what I see.Viewing people in trouble, I must have them be. Without my perception there’s no world event; Perception/reception is my own message sent. The source and condition of actual BeingIs Truth — the real substance of each thing...
By Being All There Is
We are often told to be ourselves. What does that mean? Can I possibly be anything else? The Self we are reminded to be is our divinity — which is always present whether acknowledged consciously or not. In Science I cannot be anything else because All is the divine...
What’s Your Perception
Startled! Unsettled! Are you resisting what Is ?The desire to fix something, change the picture, is a clue to ask —who am I being now ? What shows-up as a problem is a matter of perception. All living is reflective of your thinking, your perception of the world...
How A Book Changed My Life!
Since I can only live in the here and now, I focus my attention on: What am I experiencing right now? — the answer being “the scientific fact of whatever the material senses behold.” One scientific fact is: “To see is to be what is seen, with no gap in between.” Since this is a scientific fact, my I AM-ness is one-all, and abides in the “secret place of the most high,” having left the mortal basis of belief and united with the one Mind.
Gotta Have A Nemesis! Who – Or What – Is Yours?
Since I can only live in the here and now, I focus my attention on: What am I experiencing right now? — the answer being “the scientific fact of whatever the material senses behold.” One scientific fact is: “To see is to be what is seen, with no gap in between.” Since this is a scientific fact, my I AM-ness is one-all, and abides in the “secret place of the most high,” having left the mortal basis of belief and united with the one Mind.
REACHING ACROSS WHAT TABLE? THE VIEW IS YOUR OWN
The main issue with the idea of "reaching across the table" is the belief that there is anything outside of One, that there are issues or even a table to be across, or someone "out there" with opposing views, threats, disease or anything unlikePerfection functioning,...
Considering Mind
I recall participating in a fabulous IMS teleconference, in which we studied Practice Not Profession by Margaret Laird, in its entirety, over five sessions. On page 47 of that paper, Mrs. Laird writes, "No individual has a mind that can hate." That sentence suddenly...
Let It Be!
What is this thing called "practice" that we, as Metaphysical Scientists, are supposed to do? Practice what? I always thought to practice was to do over and over until I got it right. If perfection is all there is, what's to practice? Is there any other way to be?...
Living Is Not A Second-Hand Experience!
I first came across the term "unlived life" in Margaret Laird's 1956 Laird Letters, and have seldom, if ever, seen her use it elsewhere. Like much of her writing, that curious word juxtaposition reeled me in: What is an "unlived life?" I wondered. Is that when...
I Am Concerned About The Security Of My Family
Yes, thinking/living as the two-legged animal blinded by appearance produces the ills of which we complain. Such limiting beliefs can easily dominate your life.
Are you Stuck in a Problem? What Is The Point Of Trying To Fix Anything?
Let's listen in on Betty Albee at her 2011 La Jolla seminar. She covers problems, solutions, abundance and employment. It all shows up in ways that only you can understand. Albee: What's the point of trying to fix anything. You know, even as human beings, if we...
Hitting Reset
HITTING RESET Sometimes the identification with material sense can get pretty overwhelming. You know Science, but still you are drawn into the picture, pushing for this or that outcome, buying into material belief. What to do? The usual advice is to just let go,...
Its Very Funny…
Socrates was sitting in the Athens marketplace, 399 B.C., asking the younger generation "Is excellence still possible?" The older generation was too busy for nonsense. The context for his question was their magnificent Greek culture collapsing around them. Today...
Observer, Not Judge
My exploration of scientific metaphysics always gives me new perspectives on books such as Deepak Chopra's How to Know God: The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries. I notice in Chopra's book, and those of a lot of other spiritual writers, a wavering between...
What’s My Purpose? Do I Have A Choice?
'What is my purpose?' How many times have you had this thought? It can be a topic of our conversations - 'something was done on purpose…', or 'living a purpose-driven life,' or like I've said to myself, 'what is my purpose in life'. Do you identify yourself as a...
Problems: Self-Caused and Self-Solved
In I Am My Own Ancestor, Margaret Laird explains exactly what it is that gives rise to personality. This led me to question if I could get rid of disagreeable traits? It’s not nature or nurture. It's your individuality, the "great I AM,” infinitely individualized,...
Who am I being?
Have you ever heard the expression - you get what you focus on? Yes, your FOCUS draws attention to a state of Mind - if you believe the look of things, then the paradox/duality realm of the two-legged animal, the ego-image, will be your...
My Present Experience is The Catalyst
Problems are generally defined as difficulties — puzzles to be solved, issues requiring a solution. The term "problem" paints a picture of something hard to deal with, something to be avoided. A catalyst is something that increases action, brings about a change in...
The Problems Of ‘Others’
Ideas on which this article is based are explored at greater depth in Laird's, "Objects of Sense Are Ideas of Soul." The unreferenced quotes below come from that address. In his review of Lionel Shriver's novel So Much for That, Ron Charles of the Washington Post...
Mist Statement
Since I can only live in the here and now, I focus my attention on: What am I experiencing right now? — the answer being “the scientific fact of whatever the material senses behold.” One scientific fact is: “To see is to be what is seen, with no gap in between.” Since this is a scientific fact, my I AM-ness is one-all, and abides in the “secret place of the most high,” having left the mortal basis of belief and united with the one Mind.
Problems Are The Staff of Life
A friend told this little story: A frog had fallen into a deep rut in the road and couldn't get out. His frog friend tried to help but was unable to get him out of the rut. Finally the friend went to get help. On his way back with the help he came across the stuck...
Easy Come Easy Go
Yes, thinking/living as the two-legged animal blinded by appearance produces the ills of which we complain. Such limiting beliefs can easily dominate your life.
What’s the first thing a student of Science should know?
Yes, thinking/living as the two-legged animal blinded by appearance produces the ills of which we complain. Such limiting beliefs can easily dominate your life.
Where Is A War?
Where is a war? Oneness is a destination that we never left. Security is only found as ME. Catch up with Bliss Conversations in this audio clip from February 28, 2022. (transcription of the clip will be added to the post later) [button...
There is no such thing as relationship!
We listen in to Laird in her Liverpool 1965 seminar. A gem! So much truth and wisdom in this short audio clip! Listen In! …. Beyond the usual, but this ‘one’: I can of my own self do nothing. Exactly. It is because of my self that "I" am nothing. God is...
“Healthful” Ordeal?
In her Liverpool 1965 Seminar, Margaret Laird talks about a "healthful ordeal." I pondered this idea: How can an ordeal be healthful? Or how can anything healthful be an ordeal? The dictionary defines “ordeal” as a severe trial or experience. Historically, an accused...
A Message In The Language Called Environment
Yes, thinking/living as the two-legged animal blinded by appearance produces the ills of which we complain. Such limiting beliefs can easily dominate your life.
Science Can’t Be Leaned On For Comfort And Health
Margaret Laird, excerpted from her classic text, Christian Science Re-Explored, A Challenge To Original Thinking. Science is not a system of reform, nor can we lean upon it for comfort and health. We have comfort and health from Science only by being the...
God Waking Up To What He’s Being
Margaret Laird, excerpted from her 1967 Evanston, IL Seminar.... Margaret Laird: The Human and Divine Coincidence to show this Oneness.... She said that John saw it in Jesus as divinity embracing humanity. Well, I think of humanity as our present identity, "It's...
STABILITY, YOGA AND PLANE RIDES
Yes, thinking/living as the two-legged animal blinded by appearance produces the ills of which we complain. Such limiting beliefs can easily dominate your life.
The Ever-Present Idea
Yes, thinking/living as the two-legged animal blinded by appearance produces the ills of which we complain. Such limiting beliefs can easily dominate your life.
Stopping the World!
Yes, thinking/living as the two-legged animal blinded by appearance produces the ills of which we complain. Such limiting beliefs can easily dominate your life.
Who’s Addicted?
I am addicted to my personality, my comfort zone, and my penchant to keep the “two-legged animal” happy. Everyone confronts the human inclination toward addiction. It’s a cog in the mechanism called the human condition and goes with the territory of believing in more than one power and presence.
“I’M FINE THANKS” is No Indication of Health!
Absolute “Health” is grounded in perfection and constituted of life, joy and purpose. This fact, identifying the God’s eye view of being, is evident only when those characteristics are consciously lived. This can be a tall order for human beings conditioned to...
Something to Count On By Nena Spencer
hinking about security, I am reminded of the title of a book by Alan Watts, "The Wisdom of Insecurity," and a statement by Margaret Laird, "No good in creatures can be found, but must be found in thee." What is wise about "insecurity"? It is wise to understand that,...
SECURITY: All is All
What is security? According to the dictionary, it is the state of being secure, sure or certain, free from fear or apprehension. How can we feel secure with the news media bringing attention minute by minute to the beliefs of the...
Better Than Safe: INVULNERABLE
Everyone wants to feel secure, safe, free from danger, fully protected -- because we sense intuitively that this is the true nature of being. . "Being is ceaseless awakening to Reality. It is the discovery that nothing exists external to our being, either to gain or...
