Welcome to the Lake Tahoe Spiritual Living Center!

Every Wednesday night, from 7 to 9 pm at the Center for Spiritual Living in Carson City (1927 North Carson Street, in the Frontier Plaza, on the corner of Winnie Lane) I have the pleasure of facilitating a wonderful group of people in a book study.  We are just finishing up a book called the Laws of Manifestation by David Spangler.   It’s a great little book, with only five chapters and 157 pages.  We figured we would be done with this book in two months, tops.  It will take us about 4 1/2 months to finish it.  But this group is profound:  they ask intelligent questions, they offer wisdom and insight that is refreshing.  The result of that is that while we often have deep discussions that solve all the world’s problems in a two hour span, we sometimes make little progress in the book.  We like it that way, and have a lot of fun while we are doing it.  You are free to join us, anytime!  It’s a book study, not a class!  That means you can drop in as you wish, come and go, no commitments, no homework, just good talk, fellowship, and learning in a very practical way how to apply what we teach to our individual lives.

We anticipate finishing up with The Laws of Manifestation in two weeks, and will begin with the Four Agreements  by Don Miguel Ruiz starting May 18.  Order the book from the Amazon portal at our Center web site:  http://www.cslcc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=31&Itemid=118. Then show up to the Center on Wednesday, May 18 at 7 pm!  We always have coffee and tea, and sometimes surprise snacks show up.

Meanwhile, I thought a summary of the Laws of Manifestation might be in order.  We have decided to make the phrase, “be the bungalow” our secret handshake.  Guess it’s not a secret anymore huh?  We had a lot of fun with this one last night as we read through a section in the book that resulted in telling us that if we wanted to manifest a bungalow, we must be the bungalow.  Being the bungalow refers to a basic law of New Thought:  if you wish to manifest something, you must become it.  It works with everything:  if you want a loving relationship, you must be love.  If you want abundance, you must embody the principles that abundance represent to you, such as freedom.  If you want a bungalow, you must be the bungalow.

Spangler breaks it down into four stages:  Right Identification, Right Imagination, Right Action and Right Attunement.

Right Identification comes from self knowledge, and self knowledge at the levels we are talking about here comes from disciplined spiritual practice.  We are talking about the knowledge that God is within.

Once we have that knowing, that peace that comes from a connection with Spirit within, we are ready to move to the next step, that of Right Imagination. It’s really a variation on visualization.  Spangler talks about “precise thought and visualization on the mental levels.”  But he expands that visualization technique to visualizing more than just a thing.  We need to also visualize what that thing means to us.  In the case of the bungalow, we have to decide whether the bungalow fits our vision of who and what we are in the community, will the bungalow serve our purpose?  And again, Spangler stresses that in order to create, we must start with silence and meditation.

The next step is Right Action.  I call this doing the next indicated right thing.  In Centers for Spiritual Living we talk about “treat and move your feet!”  Spangler describes it very well: It is “the willingness and ability to do whatever is necessary on physical levels to bring the manifestation about.”  He adds, “Manifestation is not always about having something ‘drop into one’s lap.’ “  In addition, right speech and gratitude are very important aspects of this step.  Right speech refers to speaking positively and avoiding things like gossip and criticism.  And gratitude means more than giving thanks.  Gratitude is a verb, it’s all about the action.  If you are grateful for having received something, what are you doing to care for it, and to use it with skill and wisdom?

And last but not least, we have Right Attunement, which really brings us back to being the bungalow again.  Right attunement is the combining of the first three steps, using all of them to access that incredible power that we all have. I hope to see you at the Center soon, either while we are still in the Laws of Manifestation, or when we start the Four Agreements!  And I hope this little primer on manifesting helps you to achieve whatever you want in life!

You are worth the sun, the stars and the moon.

Do you believe it?  If not, I think you should take Money, Metaphysics and the Meaning of Life!  While one class won’t cure a lifetime of low self esteem and the resulting conditions, it will go a long ways towards setting you on the path of greatness.

For it is truly greatness that you were meant to be.  And if you feel greatness, and believe what you do to be greatness, then you will manifest greatness.  If you believe you are worth the sun, the stars and the moon, that is what you will manifest.

It all starts within.  Within is where we cultivate and maintain the consciousness of Spirit, and of feelings of worth.  Do not start outside of yourself.  That is bassackwards and will get you nowhere.  It’s like trying to teach a pig to fly, all it does is frustrate both you and  the pig.  Do not try to obtain more stuff, don’t move to a different place, don’t switch jobs, don’t switch partners.  That is called an outside fix, and outside fixes are at best temporary.   Do not worry and fret about outside circumstances.  Don’t base your feelings of worth on what you have, don’t allow the news to affect you, turn your thoughts from the world outside of you and go within, to that quiet inner place of peace.  Connect with Spirit within and Know.  Keep your thoughts there.  Carry the Consciousness of Spirit with you wherever you go, whatever you do, and you will begin to know that inner peace, you will begin to feel better about yourself, you will begin to know what you are worth.  And that truth will show up in your life in the form of better conditions.

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Karen Linsley, RScP, is a licensed Spiritual Coach and current Ministerial Student at Holmes Institute.  She will be teaching Money, Metaphysics and the Meaning of Life on Wednesday nights in Carson City (for 8 weeks beginning October 13) and on Thursdays (beginning October 14) in Lake Tahoe.  For more information, email her at karen@laketahoespirituallivingcenter.com

Last night I was having a conversation with someone near and dear to me who said, “The major attribute of Spirit is to create, and because we are a part of Spirit, that is our major attribute as well.”

I found this statement very profound for a number of reasons.  One is that the person who said it calls himself  a Christian, not a New Thought metaphysical kind of person like me.  And two, I’m a Practitioner.  I’m all about attributes of Spirit.  Everytime someone asks me to do a treatment, one of the first things I ask them is, “what attribute of Spirit are you wishing to manifest?” 

But I’ve always thought of attributes of Spirit in terms of things like health, abundance, love, joy, freedom, infinity, compassion.  I’ve not ever once thought of creation as an attribute of Spirit, and certainly not thought of it as the MAJOR attribute of Spirit. 

But, now that it’s been mentioned, I’m thinking about it.  I’m thinking about how we were made, created, so that Spirit could experience the physical.  I’m thinking about how with every thought we are creating, and how we talk about changing our thinking to change our lives.  I’m thinking about every treatment request I recieve.  Isn’t a request for good health actually a request for creation?  Creation of good health?  Isn’t a treatment request for a job actually a request for creation of employment?  Isn’t a request for peace actually a request for creation of that which would allow peace to reign?

It certainly puts a different slant on things, for me at least.  Thinking in terms of creation rather than manifestation just feels different.  It feels pretty good, if you want to know the truth.  Perhaps I’ve missed a key point.  Maybe, in my Practitioner training, they talked about that and I just wasn’t ready to hear it.  Or perhaps my wonderful friend has come up with a concept that is so simple and beautiful that  no one has ever thought of it before.  Who knows?

What I do know is that if you ask me for a treatment anytime soon, instead of asking you what attribute of Spirit you wish to manifest, I will be asking you what you wish to create in  your life.

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