ARE YOU HATEFUL OR INDIFFERENT?

Indifference is an emotion that has its root in apathy. Apathy is derived from the suppression of passion and concern because of some traumatic emotional event(s) that have built up walls to effective interpersonal engagement. Indifference is a lack of concern due to the acceptance of mediocrity and established comfort. Apathy is being fully disconnected from Divine love and indifference is a separation from Divine love due to the acceptance and security of mediocrity.

Hate is a reaction to not feeling love from someone due to their interactions and the perception that someone else has hurt you. It is not accepting responsibility and passionately desiring to hurt them due to your perception that they have hurt you or ‘could’ hurt you.

Love is more of surrendering yourself to your internal passions of tenderness and devotion to your Creator, another or yourself. Hate is resisting and fighting whereas love is allowing and surrendering. Apathy is not having an emotional stake in one’s perceptions while indifference is any lack of passion for involvement at all.

Know where indifference and apathy come from as well as love and hate. See them for what they are and know that in Divine love you are nurtured, whole and perfect. Anything less than that is in the realm of the mind, the ego, your beliefs and your subsequent behaviors and interactions. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

ARE YOU IN CONTROL?

When you insist that you can control things in your environment that are beyond your control it is your ego that is asserting command in your life. It is fooling you into believing that you are better than others, more capable than others and more deserved of the ‘things’ that you perceive you need in order to feel better about yourself. It is an illusion that you perceive in order to justify the existence of self.

When you spend your time looking at and living from SELF, you are more inclined to ‘move with the flow’ and ‘allow’ Divine order to move through you to effect positive change in your life. Living in an ongoing state of trying to control what is not controllable by self, in effect, separates you from the blessings of SELF; that which is your Divine purpose being manifested in your life.

When self is in command it co-creates the perception of ‘struggle’ in order to convince you that it is ‘victorious’ and that everything is a battle between what is perceived as ‘good’ and ‘evil’. It is sheer foolishness because in reality, you are only separated from SELF when self convinces you that you are. It is a game designed to make you more dependent on self than SELF. All of your blessings and ‘triumphs’ in your life are not because self made then happen; it is because SELF allowed them to happen to bring you to the awareness that you are a spiritual being first and a physical being second.

If you ignore the signposts on the road of life you might end up at a washed out bridge and cannot proceed any further. You cannot get to your destination until you turn around, go back the way you came and take another road. You would have not taken the wrong road to begin with if you had listened to SELF. SELF knows the correct path and you would have taken it if you had simply ignored self and listened to the correct guidance.

It is your choice to either listen to SELF or follow self’s insistence that it can control what it can’t control. Allow the current of the stream of life to gently and graciously guide you to the fulfillment of your Divine purpose in Divine order instead of trying to control that which is uncontrollable. Break the illusion that you HAVE to do SOMETHING; you don’t.

What you HAVE to do in order to become fulfilled is simply ALLOW it to happen by aligning yourself with your Divine purpose in Divine order. How do you do that? By getting out of your own way through squelching your perceptions that you can control events, situations, occurrences, circumstances and the behaviors of others to your advantage.

You are NOT in control; the Divine is. Allow Divine order to bring you ‘home’ to where you were created to be; now, and evermore. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

ARE YOU LIVING FROM
WITHIN OR WITHOUT?

There are many models of the expression of creation and we can use graphical representations to help us understand how things work in this vast universe. In the accompanying graphic we can use the symbology and nomenclature to help us get an idea of how it works. The graphic is based on a superimposition of the Divine expressions over the Jungian model. If we put the Spirit of God at the center of the pie chart expressing the energy of love into our universe we can see the manifestation of individual expressions as a result.

If we are extraverted we operate in the realm of Sensing to create Knowing. By tapping into Divine guidance through meditation we can begin to understand what we sense and come to a place of Knowing. By observing the unfolding of Divine order we can begin to understand what we are Sensing. After repeated observations and conclusions from sensing, we begin to think and feel according to what we perceive in our individual external environments; hence we are basically extraverted.

If we are introverted we operate in the realm of Thinking to create Being. By tapping into Divine will through meditation we can begin to understand what we think and come to a place of Being. By observing the unfolding of our Divine purpose we can begin to understand what we are Thinking. After repeated observations and conclusions from intuition, we begin to think and feel according to what we perceive in our individual internal environments; hence we are basically intraverted.

Whether we choose to live from within, without or both, the universe still operates according to laws and principles. Thoughts affect the Dark (unseen) Energy which in turn affects the Dark (unseen) Matter. Everything unseen molds and shapes what we perceive in a dualistic reality of expressed energy and formulated matter.

The Spirit of God and the ability to create is within each and every one of us right now. Feel the Divine order to understand Divine guidance. Think the thoughts of Divine will to understand your Divine purpose. After all, we are all One with the Spirit of God. We just need to realize it. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

ARE YOU LIVING IN DIVINE LOVE?

How do you know when you are living from Divine love? When you give and share peace, understanding, joy and love with others even though you are going through the perception of personal hell.

Operating from Divine love means you forgive yourself and others for aberrant behaviors, you apologize to yourself for your reactions to those behaviors, you give thanks for your awareness in understanding you are Divine love and you share your blessings of Divine love with the entire omniverse.

Living in Divine love is our natural state of existence; if we perceive that we aren’t living in Divine love it is because our egos are very good at convincing us that we aren’t.

Listen to the Divine emanating Divine love from your heart. That is the true guidance we all need to be perfect in our expression of the truth into reality. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

ARE YOU MISTAKEN?

Mistakes are the perception that something was done in a manner that wasn’t appropriate, didn’t yield the sought after results or were emotionally expressed out of passion. The definition of mistake is “an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness or insufficient knowledge [dictionary.com]. It is the perception that an action was in error to bring about a desired and expected result.

What we might perceive as an error can yield the results we are seeking by allowing us to think we are doing the right thing when in fact we aren’t. We don’t always know the results of our actions and behaviors because we don’t see the entire picture. That’s why it is integral to spend daily time in prayer, meditation and service for us to become ‘in-tune’ with our Divine SELVES! That attunement to divinity affords us a direct channel to ‘understanding’ what we need to do and when we need to do it.
Our perceptions sometimes deceive us ‘purposefully’ in order for us to take the actions necessary to co-create our desired manifestation. If this is true, is there anything that is truly a mistake? Or is it that our perception tells us that it is a mistake when in fact it is NOT an error? Allow the Divine to guide your steps and don’t worry about mistakes.

Be ye therefore perfect by realizing that you are a child of the Most High and even if you perceive that you have made  ‘mistakes’ that you are forgiven simply by asking for forgiveness. Don’t allow the commission of ‘mistakes’ to stifle your progress in life. Be focused on the end result and allow yourself to get there without judging your perceived ‘mistakes’ on your journey. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

ARE YOU ON THE FENCE?

When someone challenges your erroneous beliefs you have a choice to make; either embrace what they have said and learn from it or reject what they have said and go about your way believing what you believe regardless of what they have said. In the former, you are allowing the possibility that what you believe is not as important as what you know; in the latter, you are categorically stating that what you believe is more important than what you know.
Knowing comes from allowing the Divine to guide you and bring you into a complete understanding of unconditional love and how to share it without any strings attached or expectations of others giving it to you in return. When you extend yourself to others and expect them to return that extension, you are missing the point of unconditional love completely. Unconditional love is completely caring for another so much that you allow them to be whom and what they are whether they are with you or without you.

It is a love of non-attachment; no control, no domination and no manipulation whatsoever. It is a recognition that the Spirit of God is within them as it is within you and that you respect that relationship more than any ego-driven selfish desire. It is a Divine desire of mutual growth and expansion that is more important than any self-motivated desire.

When you refuse to discharge your erroneous beliefs you are admitting that your ego is more important than the Spirit of God. When you release those beliefs in favor of Divine understanding revealed through Divine guidance, you elevate your awareness to the knowingness of the Divine and send your ego a clear and unfettered message: I choose to love more than rule; I choose to give more than receive; I choose to be One with the spirit more than to allow my selfish desires to rule my life.
Have you chosen that message? Are you on the fence? Or are you allowing the Divine love within you to light your path and the path of others? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

ARE YOU BELIEFS TRULY YOURS?

Do you know the origins and meanings of your beliefs? Are you easily moved by what others tell you is the truth? Do you buy into other people's passion and agendas because you fear your beliefs are being challenged? You have the power to purge yourself of erroneous beliefs and discharge other's attempts to control, dominate and manipulate your thoughts, emotions, words and behaviors by making the time to leave the chaos and slow down your world.

People who believe without knowing the origins and meanings of their beliefs are subject to the will of those who convincingly present their ‘facts’ in such a way as to emotionally move them into reacting and fighting against what they perceive is challenging their beliefs. It first begins with an attempt to control what you think by giving you their ‘facts’ in such a way as to stimulate more than just your interest. When this is accomplished they move to dominate your thoughts with helping them in their ‘quest’. Lastly, they move into manipulating your thoughts for you to actively participate in their quest.

Who are THEY? They are the people who not only desire power over you, but will do whatever they can to become the middleman between what you believe and what is the truth. They are aware of how you input your beliefs and what buttons you have that they can push in defending your beliefs. They are unscrupulous in manifesting their agendas and don’t really care about you and your needs; they only care about what YOU can do to manifest their agendas. Politicians, religious leaders and advertising executives are the most prominent in using techniques to control, dominate and manipulate your thoughts and behaviors to meet their perceived ends.

Don’t fall into their trap. Observe and research the facts before making a decision or forming an opinion. Discern the facts AND your beliefs in order to approach the truth. Make the time to center yourself every day in order to leave the chaos of the world behind and commune with the Divine to establish what is really true. Be proactive in your ‘quest’ to become what you were created to be and NOT what others tell you what you ‘should’ be.

You are a spiritual being having a physical experience through mental and emotional processes. Do some personal housecleaning and purge the negative and reactive thoughts and emotions that don’t serve your well-being and the well-being of others. Daily meditation affords you the process of slowing down and becoming aware of your negative and reactive thoughts, emotions, words and behaviors that interfere with your growth and expansion.

Be proactive in establishing a perfect alignment between your relative truth and the absolute truth of the Divine. Trust the Divine to supply your needs, focus your wants, manifest your Divine desires and fulfill your heartfelt expectations. In other words, get out of your own way and allow the grace of God to operate completely in your life. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

ARE YOU GETTING THE BUSINESS?

As the old passes the baton to the new and gives way to paradigms of considerate awareness, we become aware of the older models' ‘excuses' for aberrant behaviors in the name of what we refer to as ‘business'. In its strictest sense, business is the purchase and sale of goods in an attempt to make a profit. In order to be in business one must either have possession of the goods or services or purchase them for resale. One then must market those goods or services to others having them readily available for sale.

The expression of these actions is the attempt at making a profit. Buy at a price; sell at a higher price; the difference is the margin of profit. Those who do well at this derive an inner sense of power from it and begin to expect this process to continue if they repeat the same steps ad infinitum. However, market conditions change and fluctuate like the wind and what was once the hot item becomes passé. Becoming accustomed to this process certain individuals allow their egos to take hold and look for ways to ‘milk' or ‘bilk' profits out of those less aware of these processes.

When you have just enough to pay your bills and not anymore to ‘enjoy' the ‘icing' in life, certain individuals through corporate veils find ways to take advantage of your lack of ‘disposable' income. Banks and their bean counters consciously and non-vociferously carry out their clandestine agendas of robbing you of your ‘disposable' income in order to increase their bottom lines in the name of ‘business'. The greed of the ego has taken reign over the ‘fairness' of treating customers with dignity.

The banks use your money each and every day making ‘day loans' to other banks and financial institutions and make millions that YOU never get an interest in or derive a profit from in the name of ‘business'. It is outright usury without compensation to the investors which in reality are each and every one of us! When people become aware of these activities some react violently and some react simply by withdrawing their monies from their banks.

When confronted with ‘check cashing fees' a teller once said to me, "Why are you complaining, everyone does it!" I responded with, "Because everyone does it, doesn't make it right." That is what greed has done to people. It makes them justify their aberrant behaviors just because everyone else does it. We need to stop allowing the banks and corporate business from bilking our disposable income with time sensitive fees and charges.

Most people reliably pay their bills and shouldn't be punished for the fact that they are behind at times. The reasons they are behind are not always mismanagement of their funds but untimely payments to them from businesses. Not everyone receives a paycheck every Friday. Some get their monies based on the businesses receivables of 30, 60 or 90 days. In this economy it has been stretched to 120 days sometimes.

Be considerate of the other person and their financial situations. Tell the banks to stop financially raping all of us with their petty fees and charges. Stand up for the dignity of all over the excessive profit of the greedy. Be honest and diligent in your business and take a fair profit for your goods and services WITHOUT taking undue advantage of others. This is what business is about; NOT greed! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.