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New Thought Note For The Day - THE WHOLE - Finding God On The Train - 7.27.2017

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What if, as has been suggested by my recent

guidance posted earlier this week, that we,

here on earth are actually the vanguard of life

in this universe: the first step, and as such,

the only fully sentient, conscious life that has

been, so far, accomplished by this magnificent

universal life form.

 

Today, while again meditating on our place

in the universe, I received the guidance below

titled simply The Whole. As I read this note,

I think of the renowned theoretical physicist

that I have fully referenced in my book series,

and his ontological conceptual quantum

framework outlined in his inspired book

titled Wholeness and the Implicate Order.

 

My guidance often ends with a conceptual

push forward, encouraging some confusion,

wonder, and future investigation. Today it

is the final phrase of this note: “to enhance

and enliven the whole of wholes.”

 

THE WHOLE

 

We exist within the concentric wholes of everything,

the universal whole is the substance supporting

a multiple of wholes, sentient and non-sentient,

every morsel of matter supports the aspects of a

combined existence, each when flourishing

supporting its intention as it contributes to the

combined or communal coexistence, the ultimate

intention.

 

Our human whole is an essential aspect, yet still

in a state of becoming, it supports the universal

whole through cohesive intention supported by

a living consciousness, with each individual being

an essential aspect of the fabric of awareness,

each holding this reality intact, supporting what

is joint perception.

 

Our human whole – body, mind, consciousness,

and soul operates at a level of intricate complexity,

a unit not separate but within the ocean of light,

air, and space – always connected to the current

now as well as all beingness across time.

 

Our healthy, positive thoughts form the adhesive

for our individual and communal experience

within the universal whole. The entropy of even

one human whole diminishes the universal whole.

 

As we perceive our existence and understand

our contribution, we will better understand our

origins, as well as our destiny, which is, to enhance

and enliven the whole of wholes.

 

NOE G. 7.27.2017

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

NewThoughtNoteForTheDay - NEW LIFE - Finding God On The Train - 7.24.2017

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incubator – noun - an enclosed apparatus

providing a controlled environment for the care

and protection of premature or unusually small 

babies. • an apparatus used to hatch eggs or grow 

microorganisms under controlled conditions.

North American a place, especially with support

staff and equipment, made available at low rent

to new small businesses.

 

At night, peering into the observable universe

with shooting stars and galaxies fully arrayed,

I often wonder at the other planets, like earth,

that must surely abound with life, also populating

this infinite space. Sure that the encounter with

extraterrestrial life will be accomplished as the

beacons humanity rockets towards the outer

limits announce our existence.

 

Yet, recently, my guidance is leading me to

another possibility. One that is strangely

unnerving but has its own logic. That is;

we here on earth, are actually the vanguard

of life in this universe. We are the first step,

and as such, the only sentient, conscious

life that has been so accomplished by this

magnificent universal life form so far.   

 

Ok, let’s focus on this question for a moment.

What if the sentient life we are experiencing

is the first, fully formed universal life, and we

are actually existing within a virtual first cause

test tube world, the first life, the advanced life,

the incubator of all potential universal life?

 

What if we are really at the beginning of

universal time, and we are the evolutionary

offspring of a dynamic, living growing universal

beingness. An offspring created via controlled

evolution, fully equipped with the desire and

capability to explore and inhabit the universe.

 

Although we may shudder at the fate of existing

and future life under this scenario, that is,

life in the hands of what appears to be, at best,

a toddler humanity, a first step is for us to

understand our place in this cosmic universal

life intention.

 

I have been meditating on this very concept,

and while sitting and meditating on my back

deck this morning, I could sense the very life

energy growing and expanding our existence,

always creating, fostering, and supporting life:

pushing us forward; never ceasing.

 

The poem below titled New Life, I believe

was an initial inspired response to these

ruminations.

 

NEW LIFE

 

Each day life erupts anew, fresh and potent

within the garden of this, our existence,

pulsing, pushing, stretching to reach a slight

step beyond, to grasp a sliver of more,

a morsel of further expanded possibility,

as beneath the appearance of stasis is a struggle

for this furtherance, a preordained unfolding where

the essence of being boils and churns undaunted,  

whirling, as the progression finds its inch,

as it rips at the fabric of this present confinement,

stretching its intention, increasing its volume,

inflating its very boundaries, borders,

expanding with its additional new life;

never ceasing.

 

POEM G. 7.24.2017

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

 

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impediment – a hindrance or obstruction

in doing something.

 

Let us, each today, reaffirm our worthiness,

allowing nothing to act as an impediment

to the securing of our rightful beingness –

the attainment of our genuine, authentic

existence.

 

OUR WORTHINESS

 

We are each worthy of living, thriving,

being – created to soar, to reach beyond

mere existence and touch the heavens –

fully capable of transcendence, clarity,

and ascendancy – with our full potential

waiting to be revealed and unleashed

into vibrant being – released and forgiven,

without guilt or shame, cherished by universal

grace and understanding.

 

We are, each and every one, worthy to be,

to love, to express, to touch our genuine,

authentic selves, our life given natural

purpose, a perfect expression of Godliness,

a marvel, a wonder, an integral facet

of an evolving and expanding oneness,

a life-ness always in the process of becoming.

 

No one, nothing, no thought of guilt or shame,

sin or turmoil, has the right or capability of

impeding our rightful beingness, our destiny

with joy, peace, love, and happiness –

our heaven on earth.

 

NOE G. 7.6.2017

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

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Finding God On The Train -

Notes On Enlightenment

Quest For A Positive, Personal Spirituality

         

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Hello, my name is George Bryant Cronk (nickname G.) and I welcome you to my blog, FINDING GOD ON THE TRAIN - NOTES ON ENLIGHTENMENT - Quest For A Positive Personal Spirituality, located on this Typepad site at:

 

www.FindingGodOnTheTrain.com

 

    This blog, chronicles my ten-year quest for a positive, personal spirituality, one which began with a near-death realization that I had missed the spiritual point of my life, and resulted in a promise to God; if given the opportunity, I would rectify the situation - all culminating in my connecting with God through affirmative prayer and meditation while commuting on the train to Washington, DC.   

    As my connection with God intensified, I decided to share the details of my spiritual quest, as well as the divinely inspired guidance I had recorded during my daily meditations on the train, culminating in the creation of this Finding God On The Train blog, along with the related facebook and twitter sites listed below.

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    New Thought Notes For The Day, as my blog posts are titled, have been published and shared across my existing social media sites. You can also easily access the most recent New Thought Notes For The Day by going to the left-hand sidebar of the blog under the listing of "Recent Posts," where the most current posts are available. Just click on the one at the top of the list for the most recent post.

    Since the blog’s inception in early 2009, over one thousand posts have been published.  On the left-hand sidebar of the blog is a listing titled "Categories," where archived posts have been categorized for easier reference and selection, enabling readers to scan a number of topic areas.

    To read all of the New Thought Notes For The Day published to date, click on the category ALL DAILY POSTS ON ENLIGHTENMENT, similar categories are also listed if you would like to review all posts featuring Affirmative Thoughts, Meditation Guidance, or Poems. These Categories are added and deleted as needed. If you would prefer to read each post in sequence for a given month, locate the "Archives" sidebar and click on the month you would like to review. 

    What makes the message of Finding God On The Train so fascinating, to me at least, is the sheer scope and depth of what has been communicated, providing a foundation for a positive spirituality that is so comprehensive, it is certainly worth the investment of time to at least investigate and consider thoroughly.  My task in this has been to put it in some understandable order, connect it with what has been previously said by the great wisdom traditions, and when plausible, connect it with the supportive science and metaphysics of our day. 

    So, let’s take a moment to step back and explore how another feature of this blog originated.  As you can imagine, when I began my spiritual reconnection with God, I had no plans, in my wildest imagination, of publishing a blog or a book about finding God.  But as I became more connected with God through meditation and prayer, I received a message to write a book titled, Notes On Enlightenment. I would define my initial reaction as being incredulous, quickly reminding God I was not the person for this mission. Yet, here I am ten years later, nearing the completion of a three book companion series, as you might expect, titled Finding God On The Train – Notes On Enlightenment.

    Along with my blog posts, my readers have been supportive, and extremely patient, as I have discovered how to preview my evolving book on this blog. I would write, and when I felt my offering was coherent, send it out as a post, often numerous times, and only when it looked viable, would I create a blog page, publishing my latest draft on the left sidebar of this blog. As I stretched the parameters of even Typepad’s vision of what a blog could do, the technology improved and I was able to preview chapter after chapter.

    After seven years, I looked up and realized my offering was over eight hundred pages, and still not finished. I had written a mammoth spiritual tome, too long and too large for anyone to carry, let alone to read. As a result, this “masterwork” is to be traditionally published in three related, progressive, and distinctive chunks beginning in early 2018. 

    This companion book to the blog, which has been rolling out under the Book Chapter tab on the left hand sidebar, is now being updated to reflect this new editing, while still serving as the foundation for the key concepts of Finding God On The Train, as well as the details of my quest for a positive, personal spirituality. 

    It is my goal to enable my readers to preview these books on the blog, without charge, before traditional eBook and print publication takes place. Since these books were originally written for blog publication, I am also hoping to be able to have a blog version of the final published three book series available for reading directly on the blog, although on a subscription basis.

    At this time, The Crystal Path - Book One of the Finding God On The Train – Notes On Enlightenment Series has already been re-edited and is available for preview on the left-hand sidebar under the Book One – Crystal Path Chapters tab. Except for some minor editing, Book One is complete and will be more traditionally published early next year. 

    The Control Of Consciousness – Book Two of the Finding God On The Train – Notes On Enlightenment Series, which for the most part was previously published on the blog, but is now being re-edited, will provide a more advanced and in-depth focus on actual mind control, mindfulness, and control of consciousness techniques and approaches. When the re-edit of Book Two is complete it will be available for preview on the left-hand sidebar of the blog prior to final publishing.

    God Consciousness and The Divinity Within – Book Three of the Finding God On The Train – Notes On Enlightenment Series, will survey ancient and modern wisdom traditions, mystical revelations, spiritual practices - along with the leading philosophical, scientific, and theological theories, research, thought, and conjecture that support the concept of a Universal God Consciousness. I will propose my own theory of God Consciousness based on the message I have received on the train, as well as discuss our own, consciousness based, individual connection with this divine.

    My years of commuting five-plus hours per day, most of it on the Amtrak train to D.C., have provided the basis for this blog and the companion book(s), contributing to the flavor and color of the offering. Although the physical restrictions resulting from major spinal reconstruction surgery have forced me to retire from my long commutes, my spiritual home will always be on the train. More about this in Book Two. 

    Feel free to let me know what you think, or share your own spiritual experiences by post or by email at     

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    Please note that positive spirituality is open to all approaches and paths to faith and God, as long as they are held with love: no one is excluded, and more importantly, there is no one path that is considered more valid or feasible than another. So all are welcomed aboard.

 

WITH LOVE! G.

 

P.S. To gain a better understanding of what I am trying to accomplish and why, please take a few moments to read the introduction to Book One - The Crystal Path listed under the Book One Chapters tab on the left-hand sidebar of the blog.

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POSTSCRIPT FOR BOOK ONE - THE CRYSTAL PATH - FINDING GOD ON THE TRAIN - QUEST FOR A POSITIVE PERSONAL SPIRITUALITY

POSTSCRIPT -

QUEST FOR A POSITIVE PERSONAL

SPIRITUALITY

 

TORRENT

 

Nothing within our existence is stationary;

unchanging; or static; rather it is like a

spring torrent – rushing uncontained,

forming then shifting, becoming again,

zestful, unhampered or directed by what

was or what should be: and, so it is, with

each moment of life, appearing robust

then in pieces shattered, only to be restored,

formed, captured, and forgotten, as swiftly

as it is generated profoundly once more;

and in this, with this torrent, we seek

to slow the pace, find a meaning, a common

thread, holding on for dear life, wishing for

stasis, when none exists, until, with reflection

and careful meditation, our pursuit of order

and control gives way to a giving in, releasing,

an allowing, and we understand our place

in the motion and being of this torrent;

one not separate; contained; not impacted by –

we, the momentum rather than the moved.

 

NOE G. 4.20.2016 

 

A MOMENT OF REFLECTION

 

Be thirsty for the ultimate water.

Then be ready for what will come

pouring from the stream.

 

Closing Stanza of Rumi’s Poem –

Having Nothing from A Year With Rumi

Translated by Coleman Barks

 

As we end Book One – The Crystal Path, which elucidates my spiritual quest as it has intersected with the message from God on the train: and as each reader personally decides to detrain at this juncture, or possibly, remain on board to continue this spiritual train quest - transitioning to Book Two – Control Of Consciousness, it is worth pausing for a moment to reexamine our original objectives - mine as the author, and yours as the reader, assessing our forward progress.  

    I will start. Based on my actual and on-going quest, I wanted to share my experiences, the message I received, and the path I have pursued in seeking a “positive,” personal spirituality. Most importantly, I wanted to encourage those who felt so inclined, to stretch for a personal connection with God, to listen for God’s guidance, and, hopefully, share this with all of us in the future.

    Along the way, I have structured and organized the message of Finding God On The Train; which as I received, I felt urged to convey on the blog and include in this book series. En route, hoping to ascertain whether a set of usable spiritual tools or templates, existed that we all might adapt in order to accelerate and enliven our own efforts: the Crystal Path framework unfolded, finding form as I drafted Chapter Six. In truth, much of the message I received and have communicated in this book reverberates the guidance and wisdom of the great mystical traditions through the ages. I have worked to lay this out so it is functional and usable in today’s world.

    In addition, reflecting on the compassion and kindness of the tone of the message received on the train, I have felt personally compelled to move the spirituality I present in this and future publications, away from the characterization of a harsh, uncaring God, who seems overly concerned with retribution rather than transformation: stepping clearly beyond the painful fixation on sin – original or self-created, evil, and guilt. Most importantly, I want each and every one of us to fully realize we are not alone – rather, we are joined in our consciousness with a loving, encouraging, supportive God at all times.

    As a representative of all the readers who are, have, or will be reading this Finding God On The Train – Notes On Enlightenment, I sincerely hope you have found, and will continue to find, what you may need to assist with your own spiritual quest. I also realize that my approach - offering this guidance without encouraging readers that this is “the way,” the only way - leads to some personal confusion: basically, how is the reader to approach all of this material; that is, as a guide, as a formal approach, as a dogma or doctrine, or maybe, like a manual. Now, here is where I will add to the confusion, and tell you I believe it is it is all of the above, some of the above, or none of the above, depending on the needs of the particular reader/seeker. The more I consider it, the more it reminds me of one of those Sufi tales that can be read on multiple levels. To be honest with you, I am still working to answer this question for myself.

    I have been so blessed to have this opportunity to present the message of Finding God On The Train. I wish for you, and all you love, heaven on earth – with all the joy, peace, love, and happiness you desire and deserve.

 

WITH LOVE, G.  

 

WHEN GOD IS POURING

 

Let us not expect less when more

pertains, driven by some foolish

notion of our worthiness, or a confused

impression of appropriate desire –

instead; when God is pouring, may

we lift our most substantial cup,

to capture every intended drop.

 

As we do this, may our twisted

notions of scarcity and self-denial

seem pointless in the strong and

ample flow of God’s favor – the heavy

drops of good fortune, the abundant

grace anointing us.

 

Far and wide, let us strip any and all

limitations that we adhere to a boundless

God, prepared to receive even more

than this, if so ordained – replacing

joy for temperance, wonder for frugality,

heaven on earth for simple accommodation.

 

AT G. 1.26.2015

 

FOR THOSE CONTINUING ON

 

Next stop - Book Two – The Control Of Consciousness, is intended to expand the discussion introduced here in Book One - The Crystal Path, with a practical focus on key mind control techniques and approaches each of us can readily apply and utilize to improve, not only our spiritual pursuit of happiness, but also our secular day-to-day happiness and mental health.

Book Two provides a more advanced and in-depth focus on actual mind control, mindfulness, and control of consciousness techniques and approaches, along with guidance on incorporating the seven facets of consciousness into the reader’s personal, positive approach to spirituality. If we did nothing else, but incorporate the control of consciousness in our lives, we would take a giant step towards our spiritual and physical well-being.

We will arrive at our destination with Book Three of Finding God On The Train – to be titled God Consciousness And The Divinity Within; the final book in this Finding God On The Train Series, where we will, together, focus on God Consciousness and its relationship to our internal divinity.

 

NEXT STOP – HEAVEN ON EARTH