A downloadable MP3 recording of Consciousness Class 15 given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on May 31, 1973.

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.

A downloadable MP3 recording of Consciousness Class 16 given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on June 7, 1973.

An audio recording on compact disc of the Consciousness Class given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on June 14, 1973.

A class in which students express as to what they have gained from the spiritual awareness classes; short lecture upon awareness of only one light in life; it is the nature of the form to ever strive but in order to be free, one must accept that one will never have it all no matter what the effort; elaboration about Plane of Ozone and its importance as a plane of expression prior to soul’s incarnation into the physical form—preview of incarnation; difference between Divine Love and cooperation; discussion as to how the sense of feeling precedes the thought of mind; ruts of the mind and what controls us; understanding that soul’s awakening is dependent upon its individualized merit system and awakens on different planes of consciousness; how the mind resents and tries to reject its own struggle of awakening; distinction between soul and spirit; how intuition is sensed and how it flows through the faculty of reason; why reality cannot be defined; the importance of the faculty of tolerance; fountain exercise and the importance of choosing light green in which to visualize it; thought forms; faculty of serenity; symphony of the spheres; the need to open to the soul faculty of humility, as it is the inability to control self that disturbs us.

A downloadable MP3 recording of Consciousness Class 17 given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on June 14, 1973.

An audio recording on compact disc of the Consciousness Class given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on June 21, 1973.

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 downloadable MP3 recording of Consciousness Class 18 given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on June 21, 1973.

An audio recording on compact disc of the Consciousness Class given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on June 28, 1973.

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 downloadable MP3 recording of Consciousness Class 19 given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on June 28, 1973.