What is the Spirituality Guidance Channel? SGC is a video portal designed to introduce spiritually inclined individuals to be exposed to spiritual videos, radio, teachers, music, art, books, resources and links from a selected group of teachers and requests from viewers. Each featured coach/teacher will have their own page highlighting any videos, audios, websites or printed material they have produced. This portal will be regularly promoted on the Internet through social networking and targeted marketing channels. Please visit the website at the following address:http://www.spiritualityguidance.com and email me at webproducer@hotmail.com with any suggestions, links or materials. Thank you for your most courteous participation in this project. I welcome your input. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

PRAYER FOR THE FALLEN

Rest well, little children and teachers. We will not let your deaths be in vain. We will not rest until the world learns to live in love honoring the Spirit of God and removing the egomaniacs from power.

We will be relentless in our pursuit of peace amid chaos, integration amid prejudice and justice amid injustice until all of our weapons are converted into plowshares and we reclaim this world for the purpose of peace and love for all. And so it is! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

LOST YOUR WAY?

Have you lost your way? Are you still looking for something that you haven’t been able to find? Do you keep hoping, dreaming and praying for the answers to your perceived problems? If you are, then you need to realize that if you keep looking outside of yourself for the answers to your perceptions you are looking in the wrong place.

Every answer to your questions and perceived problems only come from within. They come from the same place from whence they were created. We create our own problems based on our perceptions of reality. When we co-create answers to our ‘problems’ it comes from the inner desire to know exactly what we need to do.

Go within every day and seek the only guidance that will align us with our Divine purposes in Divine order. Look within to resolve what occurs without. Follow your heart and know what to do. Trust in the Creator of all life to bring the solutions you seek.

Let go of just hoping and dreaming and pray for direction. You will be amazed where you end up when you listen to the Divine! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

THE LAST PLACE WE LOOK

DIVINE LOVE

What is Divine love? Is it something we have access to and can experience in our hearts? Or is it a construct of what we perceive as an idealistic state of what is 'good'? Is it the Source of our creation or is it simply something we 'choose' to believe in that isn't real?What does it mean to have Divine love ‘flowing’ through you? ‘Flow’, means ‘to issue or proceed from a source’ [dictionary.com]. In order for a ‘flow’ to occur, there has to be a source, a path and a destination; without any one of these, there is no ‘flow’. If Divine love is the source and we are the ‘path’, then our environment is the destination.

We all are ‘channeling’ Divine love to a greater or lesser degree with every breath we take. But how do we know we are ‘flowing’ Divine love? Our emotions are the indicators of our inner awareness of the flow of Divine love. If we are experiencing the ‘joy’ of the awareness and ongoing manifestation of our Divine desires, then our emotions will be ‘projecting’ that joy into our environment and matching experiences will be ‘reflected’ back to us.

The same goes for experiencing the ‘anger’ and ‘frustration’ of the manifestation of the ‘yearnings’ of the ego; our emotions are then projected into our environments and we experience the matching reflections of those emotive thoughts. If we are experiencing intense emotions we are fueling whatever thoughts we hold to be true. But what drives these emotions?

Our deep and fertile desires! When we identify with either ego or Divine desires and add emotional fuel to them, we are aligning them with Divine order. Divine order ‘flows’ Divine love to ‘affect’ natural order. Thus, we get reflected back to us whatever we ‘intensely’ desire emotionally. Whether the source of the desires is the ego or Divine, the omniverse moves in response to the ‘intensity’ of the emotions seeking to fulfill those desires.

However, if you are experiencing emotions that are projecting ‘resistance’ to our desires, then what we are ‘resisting’ will be projected into our environment and it will be reflected in our subsequent experiences in our environments. In other words, whatever we ‘allow’ or ‘resist’ will become our realities. Accepting or rejecting thoughts, ideas and evaluations is a mental activity where we have no stake in the game.

However, allowing or resisting those thoughts, ideas and evaluations involves ‘emotionalizing’ them into the co-creative process of manifestation. If our cars have the ‘potential’ to get us from point A to point B, the only way it will get us there is if we have ‘fuel’ in the car and we get in and ‘drive’ it to our destinations. We, as the drivers, are like the mind and mental processes; it still requires the ’flow’ of the fuel to rev up the engine and create motion to our destinations by the guidance of our mental processes. The driver can either use GPS, maps or directions to get to the destination; however, the driver can also ‘feel’ the Divine guidance and arrive there as well.

Previous experience is a teacher of the environment and a learned understanding of our environments can summon the ‘flow’ of Divine love to give us Divine guidance. Our choice of which emotions to ‘attach’ to will determine the arrival at our destinations. If we choose to attach to the negative emotions of ‘frustration’ and ‘anger’, we are feeling that we have been treated ‘unfairly’ and it keeps re-occurring. If we hold onto these negative emotions and keep repeating them, we are co-creating the manifestation of the conditions in our environments to re-experience these negative emotions.

Conversely, if we choose to ‘attach’ to the positive emotions of ‘happiness’ and ‘contentment’, we are feeling the ‘joy’ of life and that will keep re-occurring. The degree to which we are experiencing the complete flow of Divine love will be reflected in our attitudes about life. If we experience joy in serving and helping others, we are co-creating that state within us. If we ‘look down’ on others for their ‘positions’ in life, we are co-creating that state within us of ‘resistance’; and subsequently we will repeatedly encounter the anger and frustration of dealing with those ‘feelings’ about others. We are what we think about; moreover, what we think and ‘feel’ about.

Our emotional attachment to our accepted thoughts, beliefs, feelings, actions and behaviors determines our individual ‘flow’ of Divine love ‘through’ us. If we choose to allow any negativity to pass though us without emotionally attaching to it, we will send it into oblivion. If we choose to resist any positivity passing through us without emotionally attaching to it, we will send it into oblivion as well. If we choose to resist any negativity to pass through us, we are emotionally ‘attaching’ ourselves to it and it becomes a ‘part’ of whom and what we are.

If we choose to resist any positivity passing through us, we are emotionally attaching ourselves to it and the state of its existence will not be a part of us. The process is actually quite simple; accept what is ‘good’ for us and ‘allow’ it to manifest. Reject what is ‘bad’ for us and don’t ‘resist’ it. If we truly want joy, peace, understanding and the flow of Divine love though us, we will allow the complete fulfillment of health, wealth, prosperity and abundance to be our ‘reflected’ experience.

Remember, it is our egos that ‘resist’ these states because ‘it’ wants to be in charge and pat itself on the back for its ingenuity in bringing these state about. Our egos are NOT our source; the Divine is. The Divine is NOT some anthropomorphic being outside of ourselves, but the dynamic expression from the static source of all creation; the Divine Infinite Creator known as the Spirit of God! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.