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IAAP Newsletter: The Unified Field

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.