An audio recording on compact disc of the Consciousness Class given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on August 12, 1982.
The spiritual principle of promptness. Respect, consideration, understanding, and wisdom. The purpose of these classes. Trance classes. A discussion on the principle of Life. Man is an idea. The difference between a thought and an idea. The cause of our struggles. We think we are the thinker and believe we are the thought. We move from bondage by stilling our mind. Believing and becoming. Self-awareness and identification. Moving from freedom to bondage. Thought is form; an idea is formless. Belief and knowledge. “To be aware of what you are is the effect of your efforts of controlling what you are not.” Ideas fulfill and awaken. Only our senses suffer. When the suffering is intense enough. The nature of thought. The void. We are the great void. To believe you are the thought binds you. When you ask and receive not. It is not easy to let go of what we think we are, but it is necessary. Circumstances. Self-reliance and the denial of the Source. The limits of questions. Letting go of all. Breaking the shackles of attachment by controlling the thoughts of identification. When obstructions seem the greatest. Obstructions are only an effect of thought and identification with that thought. A spiritual exercise. The refinement of form. Power and force. The effect of self-thought. Becoming receptive to our true being. Temptation. Let us encourage ourselves as we awaken and go to sleep. Beauty, a soul faculty, and the beholder. Beauty, harmony, and unity. Be united in thought.