A discussion that includes understanding about the function of jealousy, envy, and greed—the recognition within one’s being of unfulfilled desire and how to handle another’s expression of it; explanation as to why truth needs no defense; truth likened to a river, the importance of flowing with it to find freedom; using aspiration and desire to break out of mental prison and flow again should mind compute it “has it;” how understanding will change from level to level as perception expands; understanding that personality is expressed through the mental body and individuality through the soul; discussion as to why it is a releasing of feelings to the Divine that frees us, not a denial or annihilation of expression; learning how to release, give, and express gratitude to the Divine; bringing the conscious and subconscious into balance through kindness; the bridge between the electric and the magnetic; discussion about which minds create thought forms; definition of brain and its relationship to the minds; explanation of Law of What Can Be Borne; simplicity and complexity; intellect and intelligence; clarification of statement in Discourse 10 of The Living Light that “overactivity of the mental body causes a very strong pressure,” and how to free self through service and why similar condition does not occur in spiritual body; serving selflessly as gratitude to the Divine; clairsentience and testing the spirit; definition of psychic realm and importance of awakening the spirit rather than seeking phenomena; interdimensional communication and communicant’s giving a communication and not lingering and being pulled into level of recipient; how to distinguish between impression from spirit and from subconscious.

A discussion that includes introductory remarks cover resentment to making necessary changes to free ourselves; all experience is inside of us; encouragement gained through faith; pulling the good of experiences into our lives; giving away your divinity; Divine Love is the energy that sustains all things; students drop out of class when no longer receptive to the divine flow; when you prepare, you limit it to your preparation and stop telling God the way anything is to come; students’ questions about Ladder of Progress and Law of What Can Be Borne; comment upon levels of awareness; divine life line—how one rises to higher states of consciousness through the direction of will to the Divine; directing Divine Love; total consideration and the expression of reason and freedom; the function of the subconscious—becoming consciously aware of its levels—reflections from within—the goals of reprogramming it; seek first God or an illumination of the levels of mind will not be possible; the astral body and the astral shell; memory par excellence; discussion about the function of attachment, progressive pattern of the mind in expressing attachment—expanding consciousness to attaching to the soul faculties and then to the Divine; explanation that sense functions are protection and soul faculties are expression; understanding that whatever you need exists in your thought and that he who experiences need, experiences limitation and constant unfulfilled desire; the motive of one’s question reveals the level of awareness upon which one is expressing; learning to question the familiar; discussion regarding the balance point of the 10 percent free will and at what point receptivity occurs; directing energy to that which you wish to become, so it will manifest through the Law of Faith; discussing spiritual class work in a social setting; explanation of why unsolicited help is to no avail.

A discussion about subject of feeling being in one dimension and thought being in another dimension; exercise on choice to see how the minds—conscious, subconscious, and superconscious—work through the laws of association; mathematical and spiritual connection to each word; discussion of the relationship between will, intellect, and feeling; what the human intellect is, why it is an expression of our spirit in this dimension but also why it is not designed to express truth; how we lose awareness when we try to put the spiritual into the human intellect, where duality exists; how the spirit knows but the intellect questions and doubts; why it is wise, during unfoldment, to silently have spiritual experiences; comment upon fact that each individual’s path is not identically the same as another’s path; clarification as to the soul faculty of intelligence and the human intellect; how the merit system affects I.Q.; the science of Spiritualism as serving the purpose of going beyond barrier of the mental; discussion of mental retardation and the reversal of this limitation in terms of the soul’s merit system; the difference between mind and brain; the definition of indecision; discussion of the vital body and its reactor or vibration mind—part it plays in relation to stimuli, health, revitalization, and healing.

A discussion of the statement from The Living Light, “As the Light can never shine without its so-called opposite of darkness, which is only light in lesser degree”; that which seems to be destructive is not under the control and the discipline of reason; importance of putting heart, soul, and faith into prayer; clarification of meaning of statements from Discourse 40 in The Living Light, “Continue on with the raising of your vibration,” and “We are working each day in every way to remove from your lives the obstacles on the path”; keeping eyes single—directing energy to what you want to become and never wavering; dual decision or indecision; the practice of disassociation; how to share with another soul the divine peace that you are experiencing; concentration, visualization, and releasing an image; difference between intuition and premonition; difference between conscious awareness and the principle of intuitive knowing or awareness; how meditation and spiritual discipline will increase awareness of intuition; meaning of spiritual discipline in organizing one’s being, to meditate, and to make constant effort and become consciously aware of the source of one’s thoughts; discussion upon the levels of consciousness; spiritual healing— hat is the healing energy, how is it concentrated by healer and spirit doctor; why some people are more receptive than others; part that faith plays in healer’s being receptive to the healing power; how disturbance dissipates this energy; how there is a harmonious flow throughout entire body when subconscious is peaceful; colors emanated by the various parts of the body; comments about cancer; how disease may be related to need for attention; directing energy away from illness; the application of these principles of healing and health to animals and other forms; the Law of Responsibility—to whom and for what are we responsible; how present day psychiatry differs from Serenity’s approach in directing energy to a review of emotional traumas and Serenity’s method of reprogramming tapes of the subconscious in both human and animal; how to meditate; the danger of placing mental energies on the kundalini and how to raise it without negative experiences; discussion of self-confidence and overconfidence; how to release to the Divine to bring about what is right for us; discussion regarding how to change where you are; final comments upon the fact we are here to live and enjoy this life.

A discussion about concentrating upon peace during meditation; discussion of solar plexus; explanation of evolutionary incarnation; relationship between effect in the body and a state of consciousness that exists in the mind, using a sore elbow and conscience, stubbing the toe and indecision as examples; negligence and accidents; discussion of man as a law unto himself; expansion upon the understanding that kindness is the bridge between electrical and magnetic fields; comparison of law of karma, reincarnation and divine grace with the teachings of Serenity; comment upon the Law of Contradiction and how it guides the soul to the realms of confusion; attention-getting devices; the function or purpose of the conscious, subconscious, and superconscious minds; conception—the Law of Merit, and soul’s preview of experiences prior to incarnation; suicide and free will; definition of words study and investigation; clarification of word growth; comment that each cell has a mind; evolution of the form; understanding of forgiveness; capital punishment; emotional reactions of a plant to pruning.

A discussion about the comment about a statement in Discourse 56 of The Living Light, “He who does what is to be done without thought or interest in results is ever free to do the work of the Divine”; response to question, “Is there a time in our meditation when we reach a state of perfect balance?”; understanding of the difference between concern and consideration; relationship between understanding, consideration, and awareness; definition of instinct (energy) and its expression in both man and animal with a discussion of suppressed desires; conscious awareness during passing to the hereafter; awakening the light within us; is there a hierarchy that sends us to serve from the realms of light; kundalini; how the form limits the expression of the soul faculties in children and handicapped persons; discussion of disease in relation to attitude of mind and unreleased energy from suppressed desires; overabundance of energy in some people; thoughts and attitudes of mind form and deform the astral body; rescue work; what parents can do to help their children in their spiritual unfoldment; the difference between a psychic and a medium; the nine minds and forms; an understanding of the divine merit system; expanding tolerance; medical doctors work on bodily effect while a student should be working upon the cause; principle of healing in reference to the Law of Solicitation—motive for help; discussion of rocks and the nature of their soul; the responsibility of humans to help the lower forms of the kingdom in their evolution; the Law of Merit with respect to the Law of Descent and Ascent; the soul’s experiences; the importance of understanding the levels of the subconscious to gain truth and freedom—becoming aware of one’s thoughts and feelings in order to control what tape is playing; a discussion of hypnosis and self-hypnosis in altering the tapes of the subconscious.

A discussion that includes comments about concentrating upon peace during meditation; how to gauge the depth of one’s understanding in any area with examples of criticism, tolerance, and understanding; how to tell where we are spiritually; prenatal influences upon a child; explanation that the Divine Intelligence which flows through the soul, sustains the form that the soul creates; how faculty of tolerance corresponds to function of friendship; how vibrations are created; comment about the nine bodies; when the soul and the other bodies leave the physical body at transition; discussion upon the deposition of the physical body; what happens when parts of the physical body are donated for transplant; identifying self with peace; evolution of the physical form; explanation of how to send absent healing to those on Earth and the other side of life; hunting and killing animals for sport—the killer instinct; human sports—wrestling and boxing; perceiving auras; self-preservation as the basic instinct in both animals and man; self-preservation and ego; faith and awareness; principles involved in “Divine Abundance” affirmation; understanding cruelty to animals and prevention and the responsibility of man in the evolution of the animal’s soul; waste and how an adversity of the mind created by the mind attracts the experience; definition of marriage—does it and can it serve a spiritual purpose?

A discussion about concentration upon peace during meditation; affirmations; questioning about levels of confirmation or information; does the soul have awareness of its next form and how the mind blocks awareness of the soul; discussion upon judgment, forgiveness, and awareness; visualization and the Law of Supply; prayer as aspiration and affirmation; Spiritualism, its science, religion, and philosophy; intuition; is conscience affected by our values; addiction to tapes in the subconscious; The Lord’s Prayer; true duty or fabrication of mind; paraphernalia, psychic experiences, and communing with God; unsolicited healing—motivation and desire for seeking healing for another or sharing spiritual understanding; the relationship of a white aura to healing; sensing odors and colors during healing; color emanations of the planets; how perception of color varies according to levels of consciousness; color and the senses; compassion and interference; soul faculties and sense functions with respect to animals; the hereafter and awareness of our motives.