DIVINE WHOLENESS
What is wholeness? It is a thing complete in itself, or comprising all its parts or elements [dictionary.com]. So then, what is Divine wholeness? It is the experience of the Divine as being the whole of reality; complete in itself and the sum total of all of its parts or elements.
It is not based on the belief of Pantheism, which is the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature [dictionary.com]. It is more akin to Panentheism. “In Panentheism, the universe in the first formulation is practically the whole itself. In the second formulation, the universe and the divine are not ontologically equivalent.
In Panentheism, God is viewed as the eternal animating force behind the universe. Some versions suggest that the universe is nothing more than the manifest part of God. In some forms of Panentheism, the cosmos exists within God, who in turn "pervades" or is "in" the cosmos. While pantheism asserts that 'All is God', Panentheism goes further to claim that God is greater than the universe. In addition, some forms indicate that the universe is contained within God.
“Much Hindu thought is highly characterized by Panentheism and pantheism” [Wikipedia.com]. In the most popular form of Panentheism, God is both transcendent and immanent, much like the Judeo-Christian view. The difference is that God does not have a vindictive and punishing personality which, in essence, is creating God in the image of man (anthropomorphizing).
Divine wholeness is accepting and allowing ALL of what God has created as being an expression of God and was created through the power or energy of love. It is aligning yourself with this Divine wholeness and becoming One with it. In actuality of reality, you are already one with it; it is your perception that separates you from that awareness by your belief that the perceived dualistic reality is what is real and not Divine wholeness.
Allowing the Spirit of God to work through you is living in the actuality AND perception of Divine wholeness. It IS living in the Oneness of spirit. Choose to be in the awareness, actuality and reality of Divine wholeness and ALL else will be added unto you. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DOING THE RIGHT THING
How do you know you are doing the right thing? When it seems like the whole world is crashing down on you! When you make a move forward and you’ve gone two steps backward. When you try to help someone and they spit in your face. When you go out of your way to do the best you can and you fall flat on your face. But why is this happening? Why must we endure the worst when we are giving our best?
Taking a stand on any issue means that you’ve put yourself and your feelings ‘out there’. It means that you have stepped boldly out and have become vulnerable with your feelings. It is your feelings about life that must grow and that is why it is happening. You can be the best educated, most popular and most successful person on the planet but until you know how to handle your feelings you are a mess! Your feelings are your direct indicators of how 'what you are thinking about' either works or doesn’t work. If you are not in command of your feelings, you don’t have command of your life.
Being in command of your life means that you listen to your ego’s demands just enough to ensure your self-survival AND you listen to the still small voice of the Divine guiding and inspiring you with new and effective ideas to make you grow and expand. Don’t allow your feelings to change who you are and don’t resist them either. Allow them to ‘indicate’ what is working and not working and don’t attach the rest of your life to them. They are a by-product of whom and what you are and they are NOT you!
Be the child of the Most High that you are and be in command by balancing your ego with the guidance from the Spirit of God. Your feelings will indicate when this is working and when it isn’t. If you feel badly, then it isn’t working. If you feel fulfilled, then it is working. It’s as simple as that. Pay attention to the guidance you receive and ACT on it. Don’t crawl up into a ball and seek the sympathy of others. Stand up and move toward what you want and don’t allow the words and behaviors of others to thwart your progress. Be diligent and be strong.
It is your destiny to become whom and what you were created to be. It is up to you to use your feelings to ‘guide’ you and not ‘rule’ you. Know that the Divine is there every moment to nurture your desire, fulfill your expectations and create health, wealth, prosperity and abundance in your life. Be firm and in command by letting go of everything that doesn’t serve your individual AND collective growth and expansion. Feel good about yourself by allowing yourself to be the child of the Most High that you truly are. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DO NOT BE A SLAVE
TO VIOLENCE
If you have the inclination to vote for any Republican that filibustered and voted down the gun bill today then accept the fact that you are a SLAVE to your inherent violent tendencies. May God have mercy on your soul!
May God bless you with the awareness that ANY possibility of violence being committed needs to be enforced by monitoring and checking for the knowledge of safety, the capacity for emotional stability and the propensity for violence of ANYONE who has access to guns or explosives.
Why? Because PEOPLE commit violence when they are unstable and have access to weapons and explosives. Plain and simple. If you think that monitoring and checking infringes on YOUR rights then the hell with YOUR rights. Your right to have the power over life and death is NO MORE important than anyone’s right to be able to live out their lives in peace and safety.
If you live from the ego and its tendency to violence then you will die by its fear and aberrance. Choose to live from the Spirit of God and eliminate the possibility of death and destruction due to anyone’s ignorance. Grow the f**k Up! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DON'T BE A
SPIRITUAL DOORMAT
Are you a spiritual doormat? Do people come to you in deeply emotional states and try to rent space in your head with their ‘problems’? Do you feel imposed upon by them or do you look at it as an opportunity to serve humankind?
However you feel about them emotionally dumping on you there is a reason this is occurring in your life. It is teaching you how to share Divine love in this particular situation and with this particular person. If you feel imposed upon, then you are not ready to move forward. You are still operating from your ego and NOT the Spirit of God.
No one should allow anyone to ever walk all over them like a doormat, but sometimes perpetrators are very subtle in how they work their way into your head. Be loving and helpful, but be firm as well. You have your ‘Father’s’ business to be about and that is making this world into the Kingdom of God.
Evict anyone from your head that tries to use you as a spiritual doormat. Listen to the still small voice in your head and NOT the loud whining voice trying to get into your head. Be diligent and be strong. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DO OUR EGOS EXIST?
What is the ego? Is it something that can be measured by science? Or is it a conglomeration of emotional environmental reactions to events, occurrences, situations, circumstances and the behavior of others? The ego is a construct of bio-chemical patterns that affords us the ability to fight or flight through the initial emotional reaction of fright. How do you evaluate whether you move toward something or move away from something? Would your ’ego’ prevent you from the possibility of harm to ensure your self-survival? Is this the ego’s primary purpose rooted in our reptilian brains?
Some schools of thought proclaim that there is no ego. A Course In Miracles (ACIM) is a book that proclaims “There is no ‘ego’, you don’t have any choices and everything is an illusion that you have created [paraphrased].” I reject this ACIM baloney categorically. Why? Because it has NO basis in fact whatsoever and it is complete and utter conjecture by the personality of Helen Schucman, the author who ‘channeled’ this information [supposedly directly from Jesus (The Christ)]. Even her co-writer William Thetford disputed some of her ‘revelations’ later on after many started teaching from the book as the gospel truth.
It is true that the ego does not exist as a separate entity; it is a construct of bio-chemical patterns rooted in our reptilian brains that affords us the ability to emotionally react with ‘fight or flight’ in order to ensure self-survival. I choose to base my observations scientifically and not on what someone with a personal agenda has channeled. If what they have said aligns with scientific fact, then further investigation is still required and one must test these principles to validate their purported truth. Thoughts ARE energy and we do have choices. Just look around you. Would you step in front of an oncoming bus? Would you jump off of a cliff simply because you know inside that it is an illusion? Hardly!
Yet many ACIM’ers continue teaching this book as the ‘gospel truth’ without complete verification of its sectional or overall validity. Much like the Book of Mormon (Joseph Smith) for the Latter Day Saints and Dianetics (L. Ron Hubbard) for the Scientologists, ACIM is a contrivance based on what someone channeled through their emotional network, wrote down and presented as the gospel truth. In my opinion, based on my years of undaunted research, all three books are fabrications of the authors’ personal agenda manifestations. Whether Schucman, Smith or Hubbard, all ‘believed’ what they were presenting as completely true. In turn, in my writings, I reveal my perceptions of reality yet I don’t teach them as the gospel truth. It is the truth as revealed to me and it might not be the same truth as revealed to you.
As the perceived bridge between science and spirituality closes its gap, we are coming to see more and more that we are all connected and not separate from our environment. We have a duty to co-create a reality that is supportive to all of life and not just the manifestation of our own selfish and personal agendas. Read what others say but DON’T make it the ‘gospel truth’. Take it for what it is; a personal revelation for THAT person and not you. Become what the Divine designed you to be and share Divine love with all WITHOUT personal agenda manifestation as your top priority. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DO WHAT IS IMPORTANT
When you pay more attention to things that are not important you are not focusing on your individual growth and expansion or that of others. You are simply distracting yourself from the things you know you must do, the things you know you need to do and the things that you are being guided to do.
It is your ego striving for dominance and you need to put it in check. Do the most difficult thing you need to do FIRST! Tackle it and make it happen. The feeling of accomplishment will invigorate you and give you strength to finish the important things you need to do.
Stay focused on what you are here for and be diligent in how you bring it to fruition. Only you will have to answer to yourself for the actions you have made AND for the actions you have failed to perform. Be truthful with yourself and others. It is your life you are living and it is up to you to make it fulfilling! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DO YOU FEAR OUR GOVERNMENT?
Why is it that people fear the government? Is it because they believe that their individual rights will be taken away? Is it because they are so fiercely independent that any form of authority is threatening to them? Or is it that any type of structure being imposed on their lives threatens their independence.
First off, independence is a necessary ingredient to any society that is seeking to advance and flourish. The next step in moving forward is to understand and develop an ongoing dynamic state of ‘interdependence’. We are NOT islands. We are all connected through the Spirit of God. We need each other to grow and expand.
Contractors have built our roads and bridges; Police have ensured our safety; Firemen have squelched out fires; Soldiers have defended our national security; Teachers have taught our children in schools. Government Administrators have carried out legislative policies that were voted in to law by our representative. All of which are PEOPLE! Our government is a system set up by the people, for the people and composed of people.
Corporations, on the other hand, are businesses driven by the charge of profit. They are setup by people, run by people and designed to generate profit for the corporation; which in turn distributes profits to its constituents based on their value within that system. They are comprised of people but corporations are NOT people. They are expressly set up to deliver products and services for a PROFIT.
Now, when corporations get in bed with the government we have a serious problem. The huge profits that they generate are repeatedly being used to provide ‘perks’ and ‘incentives’ for OUR representatives to vote according to their agendas. Take Speaker Boehner for example; he is heavily invested in the XL Pipeline and continually brings the legislation up in the House to pass it. Why? Because he will make a significant profit (http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201201180005), No matter how cleverly he hides it, he is still using GREED to actualize his interests and NOT the interests of those he represents.
This is what happens when the private sector sends someone into government to manifest their corporate agendas. President Obama NEVER said that businesses developed not due to individual initiative; he said that we are ALL involved due to our INTERDEPENDENCE with shared infrastructure, schools and government agencies. It’s true; however, that government has turned into a business. People pay ‘fees’ and ‘fines’ for infractions and we are all nickled and dimed to death. The municipal governments treat their people like the low hanging fruit to be plucked and fill the government coffers.
Why is this all happening? It is because most people follow the greedy motivations of their egos in order to ‘move up the ladder’; whether in government or in business. If we are going to grow and expand into an equitable and fair society, we must teach our children about spirituality MORE than individuality; more about interdependency than independency; more about love and faith and trust in God and each other than fear about what ‘might’ happen. It is a major challenge but it is something we can all meet when we learn to love whom and what we were created to be. We are children of the Most High God and it’s time we started acting like it. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DO YOU FEEL SOMETHING IS MISSING?
Do you feel something is missing? Do you wake up each day with thanks and promise and go to bed at night feeling that something is missing in your life? Are you conscious of what it might be or do you roll over, snuggle a pillow and snore yourself to sleep?
If you feel ‘something’ missing it is the hole in your heart where your Divine purpose resides. It is stagnating and crying out for you to actualize it in your life. It is the seat of your Divine desires that are like germinating seeds pushing outward into your awareness and beckoning you with a feeling of something being missed in your life.
It will not go away. It will nag you at the most inappropriate times until you act on bringing it to the surface. It is whom and what you were created to be guiding you to complete fulfillment.
Listen to that inner voice. It knows whom and what you truly are. Follow its guidance to the complete fruition of your Divine purpose in Divine order. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DO YOU REALLY WANT PEACE?
Do you really want peace? Do you think, speak and act in a manner that creates peace? Or do you only think that peace is an abstract that we can never realize? If you do you have become so desensitized to your own spiritual reality that being at peace is totally unknown to you.
You were created from peace and you will return there. What underlies reality is the scaffolding of nature that holds you up and keeps you alive. Energy exchanging to matter and back; all on the skeletons of dark matter pulling you in and dark energy pushing you away.
There is more dark energy (72%) and dark matter (23%) in the omniverse than matter and energy. in fact, matter and energy are only 5% of the ‘reality’ that we observe with our senses. It is called dark because we cannot sense it or measure it.
There are more things going on in the omniverse than you are ever capable of sensing, perceiving and experiencing. Yet, you know it all and live your life as if what is sensed is all that there is. Deep within you is your center of peace and it is where you experience total peace when you make the time every day to commune with the Divine in deep meditation.
Make the time to stop the sensory bombardment and visit the Kingdom of Heaven within you each and every day. It is where you are from, it is where you are and it is where you are going. Peace, be still. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
