ALL REVELATIONS
ARE DIVINE GIFTS

Leave your prejudices, dogmas and erroneous beliefs at the door. You are welcome in my life when your mind and heart are open to learning, growing and expanding. If you aren’t, I wish you well on your path.

It is up to me to decide whom I interact with just as it is up to you to decide that as well. When someone is closed and unwilling to learn it reveals that they are secure in their comfort zone and don’t desire to break free from their self-imposed mediocrity. They view the world as they ‘believe’ it to be and not how it is.

I welcome those who challenge what I say, write or reveal. For in the challenge we all learn what is real and truthful. However, when someone says, “It’s in the Bible” as their only evidence without knowing where it is in the Bible or from whence it came, I seriously doubt their veracity and their intelligence.

Research everything before you speak it, write it or reveal it. Know the facts and not the opinions of others. Temper your revelations with the understanding that if they are truthful they will withstand any and all scrutiny.

Don’t fear what has been revealed to you. Think about it, feel it, know it and be it. It was given to you for a purpose that will become apparent to you when you focus on the context in which it was revealed to you.

All revelations are Divine gifts that guide you on your path. Follow that guidance and step confidently even though you might not know the way. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D. 

What appears to be miraculous is in actuality Divine order moving natural order to unfold what you observe to fulfill your actualization in direct proportion to your expectation of its occurrence and the allowance of its manifestation. Either every action is miraculous or it is not.

The miracle of life is life itself growing and expanding into what it is expected to become and what is allowed to happen. Seeking supernatural explanations for natural unfolding is like claiming that a wise old bearded man on a golden throne in the sky is gracing you for kissing his posterior and obeying his rules to reap some reward that has been dangled like a carrot in front of a mule to get him to move. If you believe that this is the way life works then I suggest you look into how nature unfolds and manifests whether you participate or not.

Life goes on without your concepts and constructs of its manifestations. Life is. It came out of chaos by congealing and defining organic order from the inorganic raw materials that were doing their dance of energy and matter state change. Is life “a course in miracles” or “a curse in miracles” that unfold in your perceptions? You are what the Divine created you to be. Life out of randomness and chaos in order to look back at itself and proclaim, “I am that, I am.”

Be fulfilled in knowing that you are the advancement and culmination of what the omniverse does naturally; even though it appears to be miraculous to your limited perceptions. Divine love is the expression that created of all of life. As above, so below!

Be ye therefore perfect and NOT what others and your perceptions tell you that you are. Be the perfect divine being you were created to be by expecting the best to unfold for you and others and then allowing it to be so. And so it is! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

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.

PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY

“But surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith, or for that matter, my citizenship” (Barack Obama, 2/4/10). Today in the USA distraction and misinformation seems to be the accepted form of putting forward your agenda. I ought to know, since my former column with Examiner.com was censored by The Clarity Group last October, 2009. I took a stance against one of my fellow writers who kept putting forward the lunacy of rhetoric (in my opinion) espoused by Glenn Beck. I was removed from their system after I refused to comply with their censorship. The same people who claim to have values and respect the Word of God are caught having affairs and cheating on their taxes. But how do they get away with it? The term Plausible Deniability comes to mind. PD is a response that is carried out by perpetrators that deny the existence of an act or occurrence because there is no concrete evidence to prove that they actually committed the act. For example, the recent issue over torture by US officials.

Agendas are set by individuals who desire an outcome that they perceive to be correct based on their accepted beliefs. The Christian Holy Wars and Crusades or the Muslim Jihad are examples. Both instances outline violence to relieve a perceived struggle to better oneself and attain a unity with God. But is this perceived struggle really necessary? Hardly. It is a result of the demands of the human ego and not God. As Dr. Wayne Dyer once said, “We are individualized expressions of the whole.” Our egos are concerned with separation and division. We are inextricably tied to our dualistic environment. Try to live without breathing the air in the atmosphere or walking without the earth beneath your feet. We cannot do it. We are a part of this perceived reality just as much as it is a part of us.

Spirituality is indivisible. It is your ability to recognize your connection to the oneness of life. Your ego cannot divide God. Anyone who separates groups of people from one another is ego-centered and does NOT reflect the oneness of God. It’s just that simple. Yet, many self-righteous religious fanatics thrive on separating themselves from the beliefs of others. In their obvious ignorance, they accept the desires of the ego as being holy even to the point of committing crimes against humanity. When caught in their heinous acts they embrace plausible deniability to cover their tracks. They convince their base of followers that those who are making the attacks on their character are even weaker in character than they are. It’s called bait and switch. While you are examining someone else’s behaviors you are not looking at the one who is making the accusations. Candidates like Sarah Palin pull this one so much that their behavior is obvious.

When an individual lives a significant amount of time on this planet they come to an understanding of how things work. When we all are young, we enter life with an understanding of what we were taught form our parents and family, school and friends. We have an understanding of the information we have learned and use that knowledge to navigate through life. When we have repeatedly used that knowledge over the years tempered with experience, we begin to understand how and when to use our knowledge in relation to our lives. We, over the course of time, develop wisdom. An accurate analysis of our dualistic perceived reality demonstrates division, separatism and a perceived struggle to get through life. Nothing could be further from the truth. As we develop our spirituality over the course of our lives, we come to a deeper understanding that God is indivisible. He is what gives us life and the ability to choose the path we want to follow.

We are blessed with a conscience which is based on common sense. Conscience is an ability or a faculty that distinguishes whether one's actions are right or wrong. In psychological terms conscience is often described as leading to feelings of remorse when a human does things that go against his/her moral values, and to feelings of rectitude or integrity when actions conform to such norms (Wikipedia). Conscience is based on common sense. Common sense consists of what people in common would agree on: that which they sense as their common natural understanding (Wikipedia). Conscience is a relative reaction to an absolute accepted common sense of an observed factual reality.

Most people possess a conscience but some people do not. There is a difference between understanding a person’s pain and being able to vicariously feel that pain and act in a manner to not hurt or manipulate another human being. A psychopath is an individual whose lack of empathy for another human being leans more to an inherited condition where fearlessness is employed and an inability to internalize societal norms. A sociopath’s behavior is similar to psychopathicbehavior but is more from environmental influences than it is from heredity. These two expressions of character are both classified as antisocial personality disorders as proposed by Psychologist David T. Lykken.

Utilizing a conscience based on common sense, how can any individual justify separation and division of humanity from the oneness of God? The only way is to make others believe that you (your ego) possess a greater wisdom of God’s plan (Pat Robertson for example). It’s back to the expression my way or the highway. If you don’t buy into their B.S., then you are not controllable by them. Without control over your conscience and common sense, they cannot tap your wallet. The religious leaders who employ a division and separation message are not proclaiming the truth of God. They are only trying to control, dominate and manipulate your behaviors to succumb to their will. Only the mindless follow these control freaks because they have not come to an understanding of the oneness of God. God gives life; he does NOT promote death. It’s just that simple. If you employ this acid test you will always be able to ferret out the truth seekers from the manipulators.

Live your life with the actual acceptance of God as the giver of life instead of the plausible deniability associated with those who strive to separate us from our brothers and sisters. Act on the truth and the facts that you observe and don’t rely on the opinions of those who thrive on the control, domination and manipulation of other human beings. Use the conscience you have based on the common sense that we are all tied to each other and the world in which we perceive and live. There is no division in the heart of God, only humanhood. ~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.

OBJECTIVE?

When everything is subjective then it is obvious that nothing is objective.

Objectively speaking, being subjectively objective requires one to be objectively subjective as well.

Being objective requires you to minimize your subjectivity and maximize your objectivity, subjectively speaking. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D

DON'T WORRY!

If you only knew that in taking the action not to worry about that which you suspect will bring you pain and suffering, you have set the wheels in motion for the dome of your ego to open your awareness to the heavens and bathe you in the well-being that you always have flowing through you.

The peace, understanding, joy and Divine love of the Divine are ever-present within you; it is in worrying that you separate yourself from the truth that you are always living in well-being and that it is your choice ‘not to’ that separates you from the blessings you already have.

Be ye therefore confident of well-being! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.