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IAAP Newsletter: The Unified Field

2009 Third

Lessons In Trust

I recently had the pleasure of visiting Ghana in West Africa where I had two adventure-filled weeks. There were many dimensions to the trip, but there is one experience that I would particularly like to share with you. Larry Pearlman and I met with a group of people in Accra who were interested in sharing in a time of attunement. There were nine of us altogether, some of whom had had previous attunement training through the Emissary program many years ago, and others for whom this was a new experience. It is always a wonder to see how attunement transcends language, culture and barriers of all kinds, and reaches straight to the heart.

We began the session with a time of heart-space. Two stories of faith and divine direction were related that I found quite profound. One of the men in the group, Emmanuel, had a daughter six years ago who was born with a large growth on her backside about the size of her head (he had a photo to show us). She looked irreparably deformed and the doctors suggested that she be allowed to die. His wife was also ready to let her go, but Emmanuel felt so strongly that there was another way that he would not allow it. He described how he felt a divine presence that filled him with light and peace and inspired him to look beyond the immediate circumstance and appearance. He could only see his baby daughter as perfect and whole and steadfastly held on to that vision. One day, he told us, there was a pool of water around the baby’s bed, and the growth had mysteriously dissolved. The excess skin was removed and, in due course, the buttocks separated and all the appropriate body parts came into place. Today she is a happy, healthy, beautiful little girl living a normal life. Her name is Hope.

An equally touching story was related by a woman, Nancy, who also had a daughter a few years back. In her infancy she developed a terminal condition and had a year at most to live. Nancy described her feelings of deep depression, despair and anguish, until one day she had a vision of a hooded creature who told her he was Death. He asked her why she was afraid of him. “I am not the enemy,” he said (paraphrased). “I am part of life. Fear is the enemy. Embrace life now.” That encounter totally shifted something in Nancy and she did, indeed, choose to embrace life and make each moment count. She described how the rest of the time with her daughter was filled with love, joy, thankfulness and pleasure. The little girl did eventually die, and when she did, the cycle was full and complete, with no regret or remorse, and Nancy could let go and move on more easily. At the time she was happily pregnant and celebrating the continuity of life. Although the outcomes were different, both stories demonstrate a victorious spirit and trust in a design and presence beyond the immediate circumstance.

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Vision

I read the monthly Science of Mind magazine, and enjoy the column called, “The Way It Works.” Readers send in questions about life, or about the teachings of Ernest Holmes, founder of Science of Mind, and Jesse Jennings writes his response from the SOM perspective. Recently, someone asked, “I want to start a nonprofit organization, but they always seem to struggle. Is the struggle because they call themselves NONprofit?” He wrote a thoughtful response which included: “On the effect side, there are 1.6 million nonprofit organizations in the US whose general purpose is to address societal needs that are not being met by profit-making corporations or government entities, or to pick up the slack... They are called nonprofit because they do not distribute dividends to stockholders, but recapitalize all their receipts into providing services.... the term nonprofit is not at all meant to be a synonym for ‘unsuccessful.’

“On the cause side, which is where we really do our spiritual work, an organization doesn’t set out to pile up funds, but to meet a need, and beyond that to envision the world as if that need were already being met. An organization that helps children would want to have a picture in mind of what a helped child looks like, as well as a willingness to have these and all future children be strong, well, and happy, even if that means the organization is no longer needed. One that rescues animals must have a vision of what a world looks like where no animals need to be rescued, and so forth, else it’s working at cross purposes to what it says it intends. This envisioning is the causal work; it brings openness to being led in the most creative, effective ways to best serve.”

Upon receiving the First issue of the 2009 Unified Field, I enjoyed the new mast head and colors, and having the Statement of Purpose on the cover. In reading the purpose statement, I began to wonder. Am I doing the causal spiritual work Jesse Jennings articulated? Do I practice envisioning the world as if the Attunement need were already being met? Or do I inadvertently hold and maintain patterns of nonalignment through attention to them?

I would like practice, and training, in carrying mental pictures of what a world of Attuned people looks like. It would be enlivening to spend time developing the vision of what a world looks like that no longer needs Attunement Practitioners, or Attunement classes, because every one in the world is living in attunement with Life; or a world where attunement is so natural a practice that every family or community has its attunement server integrated. This kind of mental entraining would be powerful to do together in groupings of radiantly-focused beings. I can see it being like creating a group mandala, but instead of using bodies, we would use words to build an ideal vision of what the world will be like with each participant, or visioner, adding his/her unique piece of the visual structure.

This envisioning of a restored world is the causal work, the spiritual work of the Attunement Practitioner.