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.

DROPPING THEIR STONES?

When the beam is removed from our own eye we have a choice to drop it or use it as a club to beat up on others. The question becomes, "Are we part of the crowd dropping their stones?" ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

THE ART OF
MARKETING AND SALES

The Art of Marketing and Sales is being able to sell a shit sandwich and have the customer not only order many of them, but to taste them and rave about how good they taste.

When you are convinced by anyone to buy what they are selling just stop for one moment and think about this: if what they are offering is so good, then why are they selling it to others and not to themselves. If it were really all that good, then they would want it all for themselves, wouldn’t they?

They are selling it to make a profit for themselves more than it being of value to you. Don’t buy what you don’t need just because a fast talking salesperson says all the right things. Buy out of necessity and not out of foolishness.

Remember, train yourself to smell the shit sandwich and send it back from whence it came. Never allow the dangling carrots of bullshit artists to convince you that you need something when you don’t. Discern what you need and make good choices. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

 PROJECTED JUDGMENT

Once again, I have been chastised by a younger devout Christian man for using the word f**k. “Brother, you should not use such words. They bring you down and that’s not being like Jesus.” I responded, “Did Jesus go to the fig tree weeping and begging it to bear fruit? No, He cursed it!” Silence from the man. “And what about in the temple, did Jesus gather a prayer group and say to the moneychangers to please stop doing what they were doing? No, he kicked ass overturning the tables and speaking to them in the only language they understood!” I added. 

Silence again. Then I said, “Please don’t impose your values upon me and tell me that what I am doing is not Christian-like. Especially when Jesus wasn’t a Christian; He was a Jew!” Silence again. I am an open person and I always speak my mind. I will not allow anyone to tell me how to speak, when to speak and what to say. That is my choice and no one else’s. It isn’t about my ego and my right to speak freely; it is about the audacity of someone else imposing their value and belief system upon me trying to tell me that I am wrong. I don’t curse around children and certain people.

I am respectful; but when someone tries to tell me how to live and what to say, I still react. And please, all of you ACIM’ers, please don’t tell me that I am projecting this because someone else is imposing their beliefs on me. That’s horseshit and you know it. We have a choice to either swallow someone’s bullshit or reject it completely. I choose to add a little color to my rejection for emotional impact in order for them to remember what I have said. Please, speak freely and openly to me with a modicum of discretion as to not insult those who might take offense; but never, never tell me what to believe and how to speak. That is not in your purview and it is not in mine to tell you what to believe and how to speak as well. Peace and blessings to all of you. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

DO YOU FIT IN?

Sometimes it seems as if the chaos of the world is what is driving our every movement. We react to the eddys and currents and flow along with the trends in order to ‘fit in’.

But how do you fit a square peg into a round hole? Do you simply chop off your corners in order to round off your edges enough to fit in? Or do you mold and shape your square form and shrink down to fit into the circle?

There is another option, however. It comes from the realization that the round hole is only round because it appears to be round and you accept it as such.

The expressed reality always reveals the structure and form of the creative principles involved in its manifestation; however, since we are co-creators in this vast omniverse, we can ‘imagine’ the manifestation as fulfilling a different purpose than what most people accept to be as ‘the way it is’.

This, in essence, is not ‘reacting’ to the round hole but ‘proacting’ from it. It is taking what ‘is’ and making it into what ‘could be’ in order to co-create another ‘reality’.

But do we really have the power to do this? Are we endowed with such creative energy that we can actually move mountains? Yes and no.

In electrical application there is a device called a relay. Its function is to applying the switching of high voltage circuits by using low voltage triggers. In other words, our concentrated thoughts that ‘imagine’ other realities affect the larger and more powerful energies surrounding us when we consistently and effectively focus on their manifestation.

This IS the process of co-creation. It is one of our Divine ‘gifts’; the expression of Divine love into the omniverse. This requires complete trust in the Divine to take the images in your mind (your de- (of the) sires (the Father)) which have been planted in the seat of Divine love (your heart) and ‘convert’ them into reality.

Just thinking about your desires is NOT enough to manifest them. You must passionately ‘feel’ them in order to flip the relay and move the energies of the cosmos into complete and utter fulfillment of your ‘desires’.

The apparent chaos in the outer world can be ‘affected’ by your committed passion to the end result by your ‘feeling’ the joy of accomplishing what you desire. Feeling this joy allows you the experience of complete Divine trust.

When you trust enough to not attempt to control ‘how’ things will manifest, you align your Divine purpose with Divine order.

Consistent and dedicated imagination DOES create reality. You must use your imagination and practice its implementation in order to co-create what you desire. It’s a simple as that and only as complicated as you make it.

Stop stressing over ‘how’ things come about and have the faith in the Divine to move the dynamic energies of the cosmos to actualize your desires to fit the square peg into a new square hole; one that is meant for you to fit in and one that will completely fulfill your desires.

It all begins when you imagine something other than ‘the way it is’, or should we say, ‘the way it ‘appears’ to be’. Be diligent in your pursuit of your dreams and desires. They are the seeds of greatness that the Divine planted in your heart of hearts. Germinate them with imagination and water them with passion. They are yours and yours alone to commit to the growth and expansion of YOUR reality.

It doesn’t matter how much chaos exists outside of you as long as you maintain your inner peace and conviction to manifest your Divine purpose in Divine order. Use the gifts you have been blessed with to ‘fit in’ the way you were created to ‘fit in’ and not the way you ‘believe’ the world wants you to ‘fit in’. You are unique and there has never been a mold that cannot be broken by the imagination and passion of the human spirit. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

STANDING STILL?

When you walk toward your destiny while walking away from your past you are standing still.

When you realize that standing still is allowing the Divine to walk with you every move you make will be blessed with the unfolding of your Divine purpose in Divine order.

Walk boldly, confidently and focused upon the Divine desires in your heart.

It may at times seem like you are treading water, but in reality you are moving toward complete and utter fulfillment. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.