Accepting things as they are does not mean that you have to absolve yourself from doing what is necessary to make them equitable for all! It means that you set a baseline and proact from that baseline and not react to its very existence.
Just as Yeshua, (according to Jewish law) drew a line in the sand (actually he was writing the law that was broken just as the priests did on the dust of the temple floor) for all to see just what the adulteress was accused of, was establishing a baseline.
In order for all of us to understand what we need to do to share Divine love we need to accept what has happened and move forward to correct any and all aberrances that deny the sharing of Divine love. Just like Yeshua forgave the adulteress and the Scribes and Pharissees for their acts that violated the law in order to share Divine love everlasting, we need to forgive one another for our trespasses against one another and move positively forward in Divine love.
Focus on where we are in order to learn what we need to do to make it better. Establish a baseline of understanding and proceed forward in Divine love and you will experience forgiveness for your prior lack of understanding and aberrant behaviors. Be perfect as the Divine is perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Elizabeth and I would like to invite you all to our site ‘Service In Prayer’. For many months we have been led to offer a way for our online friends to have a forum to share our prayer needs with each other.
The purpose of this website is to connect with one another and share our needs for healing in whatever areas we feel we need. Please visit the website or go to the Facebook forum to post any public prayers on the Wall or PM us for private prayers.
We will pray for you or help you to find Prayer Partners to assist you in healing and realization of your Divine purpose and the unfolding of it in Divine order.
Thank you all for your support, kindness and for blessing us with your ongoing friendship. Peace and blessings to all of you and your families! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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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.
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.
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ABUSE OF CHILDREN
The Spiritual/Religious Abuse of children defined:
Has the child experienced:
* Dichotomous Thinking – Dividing people into two parts: those who agree with the parent and those who don’t. The parent makes fun of, belittles, and shows prejudice towards other’s beliefs.
* Elitism – The parent refuses to associate with people or groups they consider impure or unholy.
* Submission – Requires that the child completely adopts the parent’s point of view. There is no room for differing opinions or questioning their authority. Name calling, chastising, and the silent treatment are common maneuvers into compliance.
* Labeling – The child is taught that people who don’t comply with the parent’s beliefs are seen as disobedient, rebellious, lacking faith, demons, or enemies of the faith.
* Public Performance – Demands perfection and happiness from the child at all times. Religious activities such as attending church have extreme demands, excessive expectations, and rigidity.
* Legalistic – Strict adherence to the parent’s rules and regulations are commanded with absolute statements about insignificant issues such as hair color or clothing.
* Segregation – Estrangement from extended family members and friends outside of the religion. This includes shunning, alienation, or persecution.
* Blind Obedience – Is expected from the child to the point the child is expected to worship the parent.
* Abuse of Authority – Parents use their spiritual authority as justification for why the child should completely submit.
* Fraud – Parent engages in criminal misconduct or covers up the transgressions of others in the name of their religion. This includes covering up sexual abuse, physical abuse, financial felonies, and misdemeanors. ~Christine Hammond
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May Sutor and Dean A. Banks, D.D. have uploaded podcasts. Robert Yarbrough will be added soon. Just click on the podcasters placards below and click on the Podcast title. Currently there are five podcasts on Bobby Hinkle's page, one on Elizabeth Sutor's page and nine on Dean A. Banks, D.D.'s page. Stay tuned for more! Thank you for choosing us!
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.
Welcome to our new Sunday Morning Service by Dr. Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Every week Dr. Dean will be engaging subjects that are pertinent to your growth and expansion into recognition of; respect to; and communication with your inner spirit.
Please feel free to comment or suggest topics for review. May the Divine always bless you and your families! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
“My son, do not let wisdom leave your sight. Carefully observe sound judgment and discernment.” ~Proverbs 3:21 (International Standard Version)
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BRINGING JOY
What brings about joy in your life is moving from resistance to rejection, from acceptance to allowance and from mediocrity to fulfillment. When you stop fighting that which you believe is against you, you learn to reject that which does not bring about joy.
You learn to accept where you are now and allow what is to be without attaching any emotions to your experiences. You start to grow and expand in your understanding of you spirituality and move out of your box of mediocrity into a life of fulfillment.
You derive an ongoing sense of joy from every experience in your life and share that joy with others. You live life to the fullest and only desire to live in the truth, love yourself and others and bring about the growth and expansion of all.
As a result you express joy and gratefulness in everything you do. Peace. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
MORE INFORMED
Because I have been educated in the facts and have learned through my education of how to ferret out the facts, does not make me better than you; it makes me more informed of the facts than you. If you decide to put me down because I have learned something that you haven’t, have refused to learn or simply dismiss because of the selfish importance of your erroneous beliefs that is completely on you and your childishness.
Perhaps someday you will mature into a responsible and accountable individual whose honest passion for the truth will override and supersede the parroting of lies, innuendo and false constructed realities. I am no better than you and you are no better than me. It is when you base your philosophies on ‘me’ and not ‘we’ that ruffles my feathers. Why? Because we are all here to love one another more than fight and kill one another!
So, keep parroting what isn’t true in favor of what is inconvenient for you and you will eventually find out that your dismissal of the truth is where all of your problems in life lie. Until you grow up and passionately seek the truth over all else you will remain a child crying and throwing a tantrum for what ‘you’ want and not what ‘we’ want.
Go ahead and make your selfish day while those who have learned this lesson the hard way have already made the proactive steps to rectify being selfish and amplify being loving. You will always reap what you sow! The processes that bring forth life operate on the truth and not your beliefs about the truth. May you always be blessed! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
A recent post: “Smoke and mirrors - everything appears to be solid and real - appearances are deceiving - nothing can be held onto - like vapor it all dissolves - here as an appearance then gone - to suffer is to want it to be other than that.”
My Response: Just like that breath of fresh air? Oh yeah, that's right...it's no-thing? Hmmm. When illusion is not deemed reality it is reality that has become an illusion. Think about that one AFTER you jump off of a cliff! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
NO-THING
Oh well, another long time FB friend has defriended me because I would not relent on his Advaita ‘no-thing’, ‘non-dualistic’ horseshit. From one post to another it was that everything was an illusion (which it is) and that appearances are deceiving (which they are) and that it is all vapor and cannot be held onto (which is quantumly true). He said that to suffer is it to want it to be other than ‘what it is’. That’s where I disagree.
Suffering is an internal choice based on selfishness and fear and so what if things appear to be other than what they are. You HAVE the source of all life within you that guides you to utilize the ‘smoke and mirrors’ as he called it to live a fruitful life. Without Divine desire, passion and expectant results why are we even breathing? Are we here to just exist? Or are we here to share Divine love? You decide.
I know my decision. If I have been to acerbic about this I will NOT apologize. I have lived a long and blessed life and I am grateful for it; no matter what anyone says or does to me. May all of you be blessed this holiday season! Enjoy your families! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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Some have said to me over the course of a few years that I speak often against those who do not ‘believe’ as I do. It is not about the fact that they don’t ‘believe’ as I do; it is about the facts that their beliefs cause acrimony, derision and foster aberrances against others BECAUSE of their erroneous beliefs. There IS a difference! Within each and every one of us is a well-spring of benevolence, mutual respect and the understanding and implementation of Divine wisdom. It is up to us to ‘tap’ into that each and every day for guidance in directing our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, words, actions and behaviors. When you posture yourself consistently with erroneous beliefs that divide and separate without offering methods of unifying congealing the blessings we all have you are operating from your selfish ego and NOT the Spirit of God.
The Divine Infinite Spirit of God unfolds harmony into the omniverse by allowing chaos to be perceived as order through the expression of Divine love. Divine wisdom is in living your Divine purpose in Divine order by the consistent expression of Divine love. Don’t believe me? That’s fine because someday you too will let go of your erroneous beliefs in favor of Divine harmony that is expressed by Divine will. Divine will IS the creative process that allows everything everywhere to grow and expand into fruition. It is when we stifle this process by living in selfishness that we go awry. In a nutshell, my messages might appear as ‘us’ and ‘them’ when in fact they are distinguishing the differences in order to shine a light on them and learn how to deal with them so they won’t stifle our co-creative abilities.
What I attack is the selfish ego within each and every one of us that separates us from the Divine in order to ‘get’ something for what it believes will ensure its self-survival. What I support is the Spirit of God within each and every one of us that unifies us with the presence of the Divine in order to create the harmony peace, understanding, joy and Divine love. In order to know that we believe we are divided we must learn what we feel divides us and remove the veil of deception that it is insurmountable. When we cooperate with each other to move forward and not backward we can, and will, do amazing things! Be unifying in spirit and loving with all despite any appearances of that which is contrary to harmony. Much love and respect to all! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Love comes in many expressions. It is not a static state of just feeling; it is a dynamic state of expression. Love is not love unless it is given and received. If it is held within without expression it does nothing but make the holder feel better about themselves; whereas if it is shared with another being it is contributing to the growth and expansion of all beings. Why? Because in the choice to share love you have transcended any selfish need to hold onto that which only makes you feel good about yourself. Love can be kind and gentle. It can be tough and demonstrative. The form of its expression is dependent upon any given situation and the choice of the one expressing the love.
Love nurtures and enlightens without directly causing pain. Pain comes from one being uncomfortable with how they are receiving love or not receiving love. It is in the response to how one is sharing love that reveals just how much one loves themselves enough to interpret and distinguish love and not derision. When someone does not unequivocally love themselves they will interpret another’s sharing of love as attacks upon their character when in fact the one expressing love is attacking an erroneous message and not the messenger. If the one receiving such enlightening love does not perform their due diligence in learning the truth then they will interpret the love of learning and enlightenment as a ‘put down’ more than an attempt to share Divine love. It is up to the one who shares Divine love to not react to the response with more derision, but to proact by holding firm to the truth and the sharing of Divine love.
The one receiving Divine love might feel hurt by this because down deep inside they know that the truth is more important than what they feel at any given moment. Sharing Divine love can be tricky at times because it is dependent upon the giver and receiver and their understanding of just what Divine love is and what they truly are. It is incumbent upon the one who shares Divine love to maintain it despite the reaction to it; in other words, don’t allow the response to the sharing of Divine love to override the initial sharing of it by reacting negatively. Remain uplifting and diligent despite anyone’s animosity towards you. Truly sharing Divine love means that you keep yourself in that dynamic state despite any negative reactions to your sharing of it. Be congenial and move on if your sharing falls on deaf ears or hardened hearts.
Don’t belabor your honest commitment to sharing Divine love if someone does not understand it. Your sharing is not dependent on how others interpret it; it is dependent on your willingness to be uplifting despite any reaction to it. It is in the act of sharing Divine love that we all become more of whom and what we were created to be. Sharing Divine love requires action on the parts of the giver AND receiver. It requires an allowance by both to make its action complete. Let go of your erroneous beliefs about love and allow that which is love to be love without you attaching any emotions to it. It is from that state in your mind and heart that you will be able to facilitate and exchange that which edifies life and never denigrates it. Be perfect just as the Divine is perfect in sharing and receiving Divine love! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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COMMON GROUND
A question was asked by a commentor, “What do we do when Congress will not seek common ground?” We work to vote out the bad seeds. If we don't want weeds, we must tend our garden. As long as greed and selfishness are the norm in Congress we will continue to experience their aberrance and obstructionism.
We have the tools available to minimize their efforts for 'me' over 'we'. It takes our combined effort to remove the weeds and strengthen our garden. Relenting to that which hurts more than helps comes from fear of what might happen and not what actually can happen.
Don’t allow fear to stifle our actions toward growth and expansion. We are a diverse nation built on having unity in diversity. Those who utilize beliefs over truth to manifest their selfish agendas will reap what they have sown just like we will reap what we have sown by our actions or inactions toward the betterment of all.
Be diligent and perfect as the Divine is perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
ON THE UP AND UP
What do you do when someone you trust accuses you of doing them wrong when you were totally on the up and up? Do you challenge their assessment? Do you vehemently deny what they are accusing you of because you know that the truth is other than what they claim? Or do agree with them, smile and move on?
What you do is stand your ground on the truth despite the fact that they are changing reality to suit their needs. The truth cannot and will not be compromised by anyone unless you allow it. When you know what you have done and someone else denies that reality do what you have to do. Stand on the truth no matter what. If they cannot accept that truth, then move on.
Their inability to see your honesty does NOT make you dishonest. It reveals their inability to see the truth and impose their version of it on you. Send them love and move on because you don’t deserve to be treated as if their assessment is right just because that is what they choose to believe and NOT what is the truth. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
THE ESSENCE OF WHAT I AM
If I leave tomorrow,
I won’t be gone
I will remain the essence of what I am
In everything I write
For it is not about what we can get from each other
It is about what we have done together that counts
I was here for a time and I don’t know when I’ll leave
But just that fact that I have lived, loved and had the best in friends
Has made my life a joy
Thank you all for being here for me and with me
For sharing your look on life
You have always been the best to me
Your friendship is appreciated
May you all have a blessed Holiday Season!
Continuing to argue when both sides are postured by erroneous beliefs and refuse to discharge those beliefs in favor of the truth proves lack of maturity. We can all learn from a good argument as long as both participants seek truth over belief in the truth. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
What you cannot see, will not see or are oblivious to, will never mean anything to you until you ‘realize’ its existence; or the possibility of its existence that comes from the utilization of your imagination. The term ‘walk a mile in my shoes’ is an idiom that means that you should try to understand someone before criticizing them. In other words, until you have traversed their paths, roads or gauntlets, you have no idea what they have been through and how and why they have decided to make the choices that have led them to be where they are now. Until you listen to their story and ‘imagine’ how they have felt you truly will not understand their experiences.
Imagination is the tool and gift that we have been given in order to look beyond what we sensually experience and acquiesce to the omniversal knowledge that is available within all of us. Imagination comes from the desire to know the truth and the ability to let go of sensual experiences and allow Divine intuition to guide us to more possibilities that can become probabilities when we choose to co-create our realities. Until you learn that the unseen creates the seen and tap into the processes of co-creativity you will not be able to see what you have done in your life to co-create your reality AND what others have done to co-create their realities.
See beyond your perceptive copies in your brain of the external energies and matter in the seen world and come to know the realizations of the unseen world that is revealed from your intuition into your imagination. Be open to that which you cannot perceive directly from experience and joy in the majesty and purpose of the Divine in creating that which we all experience collectively and individually. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WE'VE BEEN BETRAYED
It’s official. People that we trusted to represent our interests have betrayed us. After all of the exposure to the truth our electors betrayed us. They are only out for themselves and NOT us. They obviously live in fear of reprisal from the new regime or they would have voted their conscience and not their beliefs. It is we who have allowed them to rule over us and it is we who can stop them!
Get involved in your community and make sure that Fascism does not creep in under the guise of religion. Do your part by seeking the truth over all else. Evil proliferates when you become distracted by what edifies you more than what edifies all of us. Trump will not last. His form of evil and Fascism will end up in their eating their own.
Watch as this travesty of justice kills what it yearns to own and rent and what it believes it controls instead of what is controlling them. Stand firm on the truth and never allow evil to distract you for one second. That’s all it takes for it to gain a foothold and destroy life itself! Peace, dear ones. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
STANDS ON ITS OWN
Judging is comparing what someone else does to what you do and coming down on them for not doing what you do. Discernment is looking at the facts and evaluating the outcome of those facts in order to understand the truth.
Posting memes, fake news and sheer agenda manifestation with no basis in fact is selfish, egotistical and downright lying to support your erroneous beliefs.
The truth stands on its own and doesn't need the opinions of those who fail to investigate the facts and research the proponents of those facts. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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