An audio recording on compact disc of the Consciousness Class given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on March 8, 1973.

It includes introductory remarks regarding change, progression, and success; the missing link between the two-legged and four-legged animal and the difference in their experiencing free will; suggestion for learning to visualize; visualizing wisdom; difference in reaction to being emotionally high and experiencing a spiritual fullness; how discussion of spiritual matters on a mental level depletes us; soul; explanation of eternal progression of the form; faith as the bridge between dimensions; the fountain exercise reveals level of awareness; discussion about truth; elaboration of the terms, electrical, magnetic, odic, energy, force, and power; are those from other dimensions attracted to spiritual classes given here; application of spiritual teachings is a must for spiritual enfoldment; Law of Disassociation and how to practice it; difference between wisdom and knowledge; explanation that many do not need spiritual teachings because they are already applying them; all forms are limited; all form is illusion; severing sanguinary ties; where does thought come from; attachment to thought; difference between faith and belief; cosmic consciousness.

An audio recording on compact disc of the Consciousness Class given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on March 15, 1973.

It includes a discussion on the laws governing health, wealth, and happiness; Allsoul and individuality; clarification about the spheres and planes and levels of awareness as well as a comparison with other universes; explanation of the solar plexus as the main circuit system and how this affects mediumship; spiritual discernment, spiritual responsibility, and the Law of Merit; growing out of personality and into principle; Spiritualism and the Bible; the purpose of the ego; educating ego to work in principle and accomplish soul’s purpose in life; the size of ego and the soul’s merit system; racial differences; awakening the spirit within; rejuvenation of the vital body; why some people are confused at time of transition; meaning of “thy will” and the fact people have only 10 percent chance of changing; validity of 72-hour waiting period after transition for embalming, cremation, etc.; paganism of funerals; Law of Merit governs incarnation; setting laws into motion to make changes in self; relationship of law set into motion to level of awareness; giving energy to problems in the psychiatric treatment process; choosing wisely one’s associates; how to test the spirit; the purpose of trance mediumship.

An audio recording on compact disc of the Consciousness Class given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on March 22, 1973.

It includes a discussion on harmony, rhythm, and unity; health, wealth, and happiness; balancing the soul faculties with the sense functions—considering value; discussion of evolutionary incarnation; explanation for glimpses of so-called past lives; the eternal now; attachments; belief and faith in becoming receptive to the Divine Power; explanation of the mental being; comment about planets; why the aging process takes place; the thought process; motive for service indicates level of awareness; garnering up spiritual substance to build a spiritual body and how few accomplish this prior to transition from the earth plane; aspiration and inspiration in serving the Divine; the teaching of the neutrality of God and its implications for liberty or license; the power of prayer and our guides and teachers acting as ministering angels of a neutral God; incarnation of animals; exercise to truly look at self and gain awareness.

An audio recording on compact disc of the Consciousness Class given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on May 3, 1973.

It includes a discussion on the purpose and direction of the evolutionary path of soul incarnation, including a discussion on the Law of Merit and Allsoul; commentary upon the teaching that whatever happens to us is caused by us; clarification of the terms plane and sphere; the Law of Expansion and Contraction with respect to population on the planets; the relationship of sound and color to vibrations; how to spiritualize one’s thinking through awareness; perceiving truth; the wisdom of patience; soul consciousness or clairsentience.

An audio recording on compact disc of the Consciousness Class given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on May 10, 1973.

It includes a discussion on several statements contained in Discourse 2 of The Living Light, which are explained in terms of the Law of Cause and Effect, the Law of Personal Responsibility, the expression of duality; the astral, mental, and spiritual realms and our bodies of expression related to them; the connection between desire and sadness; other discussions include the Law of Attrac­tion or desire and the Law of Attachment; self-pity and the Law of Attachment; balance as an expression of Divine neutrality; Divine Wisdom; expectations of another versus expectations from the Divine; a definition of memory par excellence and how it works cooperatively with the conscience in the Law of Fulfillment; joy defined as fulfillment; the process of setting laws into motion and how they are directed to either freedom or limitation; the transgression of the Law of Commitment; an expression of the cause of causes with a statement as to how the soul perceives and the mind conceives; evolutionary incarnation; becoming aware of past incarnations and lessons to learn now; exercise given to be­come aware of one’s plane of consciousness and sphere of action; clarification of the soul faculty of duty, gratitude, and tolerance; insight into the statement, “Think, my children, and think more deeply”; an understanding of soul mates and an explanation of the cause of senility.

An audio recording on compact disc of the Consciousness Class given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on May 17, 1973.

discussion about euthanasia and prolonging life; expansion of the Law of Identity; awareness and its relationship to selfless thoughts; sustaining a spiritual body and overidentification with the present; neutralizing a law set into motion.

An audio recording on compact disc of the Consciousness Class given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on May 24, 1973.

An audio recording on compact disc of the Consciousness Class given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on May 31, 1973.

A discussion of the soul faculty of giving and where represented in the human anatomy; soul faculties of peace, poise, power, patience, perseverance, and promise; learning to practice and demonstrate disassociation; balancing the electric and magnetic vibratory waves to express from the odic; explanation as to the difference between magnetic and vibratory waves; importance of using both the electric and magnetic in concentrating; educating the ego; comparison of the exercise in Discourse 6 to visualize a cloud with “reflections from within”; an understanding about the power we have over this moment; discussion about conscious, subconscious, and the mass minds; trance; how to reprogram the subconscious mind, talking to the other person inside of us; the purpose of dreams; why all forms dream; exercise to become consciously aware of our dreams; why dream analysis is not beneficial to soul’s awakening; why we remember some dreams and not others; explanation of why imagination is the doorway to the world of spirit; exercise of “why this and why now” given to understand our experiences; explanation that all form is the effect of image and that the gift of the self is the gift of the image; did Jesus give the gift of himself and other discussions on Jesus; discussion about expressing 10 percent free will; definition of sacrifice; the purpose of acupuncture; how superstition affects the acceptance of spiritual healing; concept of time in other dimensions; the meaning of “For what the mind may know today, the heart shall close and know not tomorrow.”

An audio recording on compact disc of the Consciousness Class given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on June 7, 1973.

A discussion of soul level—patience, peace, individuality, principle; mind level— perseverance, poise, personality, detachment; body level—promise, power, materiality, acceptance; explanation that in us the superconscious flows through the soul level; also given, the levels through which duty, gratitude, and tolerance flow; comments upon the properties of soul faculties; math is the key to the universes; Law of Expression; concentrating upon perception; the astral body; animals and how the Law of Progression applies; explanation of divine grace or spiritual bank accounts; the eternal moment of now, over which we have power; how difficulties relate to lessons not passed at another time; comment upon the parable in Discourse 7, The Living Light, “For as the moon sets, etc.”; distinction between “I” of the eternal spirit and the “me” of the form; discussion of parable in Discourse 5 of The Living Light; directing energy into either fear or faith and how to talk to the subconscious and reprogram thoughts of fear, so one will not give power to them and be controlled by them; comment on first statement of the “Total Consideration” affirmation, as a declaration of truth that nothing outside has power over us; discussion regarding one cannot give without gaining and one cannot gain without giving; conscious choice and how the progress of another can be held back by permitting the magnetic powers to be drawn and depleted; balancing self through awareness; drugs and lack of conscious control; what is fate; do we have soul talents; difference between will, free choice, and controlled choice; will as the motivator in the creative principle; if the spiritual, mental, and physical are not balanced, one experiences a loss in the dimension in which he is not expressing; there is no beginning or ending to the universe; concept of man as a miniature universe; discussions on “thy” will, divine order, divine grace, divine time or priority and divine wisdom; definition of desire; comment upon vegetarianism versus eating meat and food prepared through violence.