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It is easier for a rich person to lie to protect themselves than for a poor person to be honest and be heard for the truth that they speak. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is easier for a middle class person to live in mediocrity, than it is for a poor person to increase their lot in life. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is easier for a middle class person to allow the rich puppet masters to control their lives, than it is to truly do something about stopping them from doing it. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is easier for a person to lie to themselves and others, than it is for them to live in the truth. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is easier for one to fill in the blanks with their own beliefs, than it is to go and seek out the truth and validate its occurrences. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is more beneficial to live your life sharing Divine love, than it is to pursue your selfish yearnings. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is more beneficial to pursue the desires in your heart, than it is to live up to what others believe you should be doing with your life. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is more beneficial to seek out the truth, than it is to continue living a lie. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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WHAT I DO
What I do determines what I experience:
I sense, therefore I perceive. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
I perceive, therefore I exist. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
I think, therefore I am. ~René Descartes
I feel, therefore I believe. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
I know, therefore I am blessed. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
I am, therefore I think. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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KNOW MORE THAN BELIEVE
Too many times we allow that which we believe we need to do to take precedent, instead of following what we know we should do.
It is up to us to make the choices necessary for us to express our Divine purposes in Divine order in order to contribute to the growth and expansion of all of life.
Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
INGREDIENTS
It is not just the beneficial ingredients in vaccinations that we need to look at; it's the OTHER ingredients that affect the genetic code that we need to examine. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
INSANITY
Insanity is in trusting those who have a clandestine agendas concerning your health and well-being.
Just because millions have been saved by vaccination does not discount the fact that detrimental ingredients that affect your genetic code are in the cocktail that have no business in being there except to fulfill the agenda of scientific experimentation.
Trust is NEVER earned through peoples' egos; it is known from within. Be ye therefore skeptical of egotistical agendas! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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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.
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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.
SUSPEND BELIEF
According to my research, the 'potential' exists dependent upon an individual's bodily chemistry.
It has NOT been proven; however, there are other chemical compounds in vaccinations that are NOT necessary to the successful delivery of the vaccine itself.
All 'belief' should be suspended until the conclusive research validates the truth. I raised the question due to non-necessary chemical agents present in the delivery mechanisms of vaccines. Peace. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
KNOW INSTEAD OF BELIEVE
Each and every time we use ‘belief’ to supersede researched experimental facts we are deluding ourselves with feelings instead of knowing. It’s alright to believe what our ‘gut’ tells us; however, it is also good to not accept what someone says blindly without seeking the proper verification and validation of the ‘truth’.
Raising questions about ‘scientific’ research is not fomenting conspiracy theories; it is simply being aware enough to realize that human beings are conducting the ‘research’ and where human beings are involved, data has a way of being ‘fudged’ in favor of agenda manifestation.
Seek out multiple ‘proofs’ of ANYTHING before you ‘believe’ something is acceptable. If the analysis of the raw data upholds what the facts reveal in multiple occurrences, then it is safe to ‘assume’ that your belief is valid.
Assuming is taking a ‘leap of faith’ based on what you ‘feel’ is correct, which in itself is STILL a belief. Know the difference between reason, feeling and knowing and use each one ONLY when it is appropriate. Be ye therefore aware! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
BEAUTY IS PERFECTION
Beauty is perfection. Everything that has been created has been created from Divine love. Perfection is beauty when we accept that we are divine beings created in Divine love for the express purpose of sharing Divine love.
Denying that you are a beautiful and perfect creation of the Most High is living in fear and thumbing your nose at the Divine. God does NOT make mistakes; we are the ones who misinterpret the grace, perfection and innocence of the Divine and make it into something other than what it is in order to fit into our box of beliefs that we have forged.
Stop trying to control that which you cannot and allow that which blesses you to keep you in peace, understanding, joy and Divine love. “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee” Isaiah 26:3 (King James Bible).
Live in divine perfection by recognizing the beauty that the Divine created in you. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
HUMANS CREATE EVIL
It is not God that causes evil in the world; it is humankind believing and acting upon what they feel is correct for them. When humankind does good for one another it is God working through them. When humankind hurts one another, it is their selfish egos that are in command and NOT God!
Anthropomorphizing God is what causes people to blame 'Him' for all the events, occurrences, situations, circumstances and the behavior of others. They bring the Divine Infinite Spirit of God down to their level of understanding in order to comprehend their reactions to their life experiences. How childish!
You cannot and will not ever completely comprehend and understand what you cannot sense, observe, perceive and then subsequently believe. Your beliefs are predicated on your experiences and the ‘value’ that those experiences mean to you. Your subjective analysis is a ‘portion’ of the objective reality and NOT the complete reality!
Stop personalizing reality to your beliefs and understandings and come to know that God has created this omniverse with the expression of Divine love and that it is our misinterpretation of this that causes what we perceive as aberrant and evil.
Accept responsibility for your observation and subsequent participation in what occurs in your life and know that God is always blessing you with well-being. It is you who chooses NOT to see that! Peace. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
AND WHAT ABOUT EXPECTATIONS?
Your desires are in your heart for a specific purpose. Without you expecting to fulfill them they would NEVER occur. Without expectation, NOTHING would ever be created. Your desires are never manifested unless you expect them to be fulfilled. If you continually say and believe that you should not expect fulfillment for your desires is ludicrous. When the Divine created the omniverse it was expected to be created. If not, it wouldn't have. How would anyone ever know if they are living in their Divine purpose unless they allow it and expect it to happen? Manifestation occurs when you allow it to unfold not when you ‘attract’ it to yourself. Desire means 'of the Father'; yearnings are 'of the ego'. Expectation of 'well-being’ IS allowing it to flow through you; otherwise, you are always a victim to your ego.
I don't buy the ACIM teachings about expectation; they are NOT a denial of Oneness but a tool to allow it. The lady who channeled ACIM was delusional. Many truths are revealed with ACIM but not everything that was channeled aligns with omniversal law! What Patricia Arnold (Loud Mouth in the Balcony) once said is exactly the truth! "Unless the expectation is aligned with Divine Mind, nothing happens." Your desires are planted in your heart by the Divine and when you expect them to manifest they will. The Divine implements 'how' they will manifest (‘surprises’ as the LMITB has said) when you trust and expect the manifestation; it is in how they manifest it that comes from the Divine.
If we never work toward them and expect them to happen, they NEVER will happen at all! Your job is in expecting the fulfillment and allowing the Divine to determine 'how' it will be manifested. If you fail at your expectations, it was for the greater unfolding of your Divine purpose. I have had many surprises in HOW my expectations have been manifested, which led to a wonderful and surprising life. My ‘surprise’ is in watching things grow and expand into their fulfillment; they are the result of the tree 'expecting' them to grow and expand into what they are. How things manifest is in the realm of divinity; what manifests comes from the desires in your heart.
If you don't expect to get out of bed, then why do you even try? The thread of truth that runs through varied teachings about expectation cannot be denied. However, if you do NOT expect to do anything, then you won't do anything. If you expect to do something, then you will do something with 'surprises' along the way! If you so choose to aimlessly go through life not expecting to do what you desire you will reap what you sow; NOTHING! When you are trying to accomplish or finish a project, don’t you expect to finish it?
Expectation of fulfillment is about manifesting your Divine purpose in Divine order; it is the fulfillment of whom and what you are and your Divine desires. What other kinds of fulfillment are there? Expectation is not the contingency of action; it is the proponent of it. When you have mastered automatic expectation of your well-being you have achieved the ability to ‘allow’ your greater good to manifest. Without ‘expecting’ it, what you seek will NEVER come into fruition. Be ye therefore expectant! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DON'T STOP PRAYING
Whether someone believes in prayer or not should not stop anyone for praying for them. If the person asks for you to not pray for them because they don’t believe in prayer that is their right.
However, you have the right as well to exercise your faith for them and promote their healing.
If the person you are praying for has a discerning mind, a great heart and has always been a loyal and honest friend, then they have Divine qualities; whether they recognize them or not.
The problems that exist are in dealing with beliefs about ‘God’ and NOT in the fact of whether or not God exists. Differing beliefs have been the cause of human strife as a fact of history.
It is up to us to be respectful to each others’ beliefs and honest to ourselves in how we will share those beliefs. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
MOOCHERS
What do you expect from those who keep saying that most people want to ‘mooch’ off of the government when our society rewards avarice and greed over community and sharing?
What do you expect when people allow the CEO’s of major corporations to influence our way of life by the politicians whom are bought and paid for by ‘special interests’? What do you expect when middle-class people are pre-programmed with the ‘dream’ of becoming CEO’s and living a lavish lifestyle in castles with moats like Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter?
We are all baited by the “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’ into being what will make us happy. It is a con-game perpetrated by those who need you to ‘believe’ in that dream for you to work hard for THEM; without your dedication and drive they would be NOWHERE!!!
Stop riding the Avarice Express that is ALWAYS leaving from Greedy Station. Give to others what they need and seed their successes by serving their understanding and implementation of well-being. Be ye therefore supporting and contributing! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
BEING RICH AND SUCCESSFUL
Always remember, there is nothing wrong with being rich and successful. It is what you do with your riches and success that reveals your individual character and the values you imbue.
If you make your riches and success your ‘God’ then you are a slave to your ego’s demands. If you go within to experience inner peace you will come to understand the joy of serving others by sharing Divine love; you become a willing master of living from the Spirit of God within.
When you allow the well-being of health, wealth, prosperity and abundance to flow through you unfettered by your ego’s selfish demands you are living your Divine purpose in Divine order. Be ye therefore allowing! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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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.
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Whatever you become comes from saying I AM! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Life is like opening a walnut; you never know what you get until you crack open the casing. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is easier to react with negativity, to fight and to resist that what you don’t like, than it is for to accept the responsibility of proacting and working towards that which you do want. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to be positive and forthcoming, than it is to conceal a private agenda that hurts others. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Ego yearns to control and spirit desires to allow. Let go of the selfish yearning to control and allow your Divine desires to flow from your inner heart. Be ye therefore allowing! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Divine truth is always secure in knowing the ever-presence of Divine love. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
While you're looking for God where religions tell you He is, the Divine love in your spirit is beckoning you to the truth of stillness and silence within your very own being. Why are you looking outside for that which can only be found within? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
The Divine loves you no matter what you think, feel, believe, say or do. Period. End of discussion. NEVER forget that! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
GOODS
What exactly are packaged ‘goods’? Have you ever seen packaged ‘bads’? Packaged goods are groceries that are packaged for sale. Goods are articles of trade, wares or merchandise. Then what are ‘bads’?
During the garbage strike in New York City in 1975 people were desperate to get rid of their garbage. Some got quite creative and put their garbage in wrapped boxes that looked like gifts; left them in the back seat of their unlocked cars and to their surprise they disappeared. Could you imagine the look on the thief’s face when they opened the gifts and found garbage?
How many times have you gone for an easy fix for a problem only to discover that you ‘believed’ it was the answer and discovered it was nothing but junk? You were deceived by its appearance and trusted that you knew what was in the ‘packaged goods’.
We all get fooled by appearances until we come to know that what is on the outside doesn’t always reflect what’s on the inside until we know where it is coming from. If it is too easy to ‘get the goods’ (like in an unlocked car), then we should anticipate a possible deception. Those who try to hoodwink others play on people as suckers do so by focusing on the lowest common denominator of greed.
Don’t fall for your apparent good being wrapped up in pleasant and deceptive packaging. The value you place on your apparent ‘goods’ reveals just how possessive you are of them and how much of a priority they are in your life. Look for the same values of goodness in others and learn to trust ONLY in the Divine to guide you to knowing what goes on in your environment. Be ye therefore observant! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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YOU ARE GREAT!
Do you truly know how great you are? Do you know that when you live from the now the motions of the omniverse are not even felt?
We perceive stillness amid the motion because we cannot feel the greater movements due to our focus on only one segment of it.
That segment known as the moment is where you we come to realize the grandeur of the cosmos and the infinity of the Divine.
Experience the moment with wonder and come to know that you are the fulfillment of Divine love everlasting.
You are the reason that the omniverse can look back on itself in wonder. You were created to experience that which emanates Divine love. Live in it, with it and from it! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
YOUR EGO GAME
If you believe that displaying ‘good’ behavior to others while ‘not caring’ for them in your heart is ‘pleasing’ the Divine, then you are living by righteousness to demonstrate to others just how good you are. It is a game your ego plays with you in order to justify its own existence at the expense of others and your ‘true’ SELF.
If you know through Divine faith that you truly care about others in your heart and that your subsequent behavior is a result of living in Divine love, then you are ‘allowing’ that flow of omniversal creative energy to guide your life and you ‘don’t care’ about what others think and feel about your behavior. Your intention guides your behavior from within to without and NOT the other way around.
When your behavior gives the impression to others that you have good intentions about them when you don’t, then you are living from without to within and are being guided by your ego and NOT the Spirit of God. As Christ said about those who pray in public for the recognition of men, they already have their reward.
For those who pray in their closets privately with the Divine within receive Divine guidance, life-giving intentions and pure hearts. You have been given life by Divine love and access to it by Divine grace. It is up to you to live from the Spirit of God within and NOT from the self-absorption of your ego patting itself on its back for good behavior. Be ye therefore pure in heart! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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If you believe what the Bible says, then your assessment of what it tells you is correct. However, I have studied it from childhood into old age and have learned that it is nothing more than a collection of stories for simple shepherds seeking to understand exactly what life is.
Yeshua clearly said that the Kingdom of Heaven is within you, not in some book written by men with controlling agendas. I choose to 'read the red' and listen to the wisdom that Christ, NOT PAUL, imparted.
Too many have blindly listened to Paul's Gospel and not that of Yeshua. As a result, we have all contributed to creating a world other than the Kingdom of Heaven. Live by the Beattitudes and you will be following the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Anything other than these principles are fabrications of others who ‘believed’ what they were saying was true. Peace. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
BLINDERS
Arguing with a person who has blinders on to the truth can be quite frustrating at times. However, send them love as you send them on their way.
When your life experience has taught you that being humble in your beliefs and focused on Divine knowing, the only decent and loving thing to do is not fuel their fire; allow them the dignity to know that they are parroting someone else’s words and NOT living from the Divine within.
Someday they might wake up to the truth of the Divine within or they may never get there. It is NOT our jobs to change their beliefs; it is our job to send them Divine love. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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HAD TO KNOW
I have sought the truth of the Divine all of my life and have learned a great deal from my studies from Sunday School to Seminary School.
I HAD to know and spent many years in church and in the library to find out the truth. When I had to translate and understand what was actually being said, it opened my eyes.
After being attacked tonight by an evangelical wing nut I found something a dear friend once wrote about me.
He was a brother on the path and we were such good friends that I named my 3rd son after him. I generally don't like to 'toot my own horn', but this is what he said about me:
“Long before they called it "the new age", before many folks thought outside of the spiritual box, Dean was one of the few folks I knew who was "a truth seeker" back then. What he knows has been taken from a lifetime of experience, experimentation, study, and fortitude. This is not just another interest, hobby, mind game, or even "a way of life" for Dean - it IS his life. That is why he is only one of a few that I call my God-brother. Yoga, meditation, the mystery schools, the "Sikh house" dinners, speakers at U of D, we were just kids but we were on the quest then - and we're talking the early '70's. Dean, you don't know how much of an honor and joy it is for me for you to have named your son after me. For a guy that always wanted a family but never had kids, it's one of the deepest joys I have in this world.” ~Vic Peppler
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LIKE A CHILD
When you have the opportunity to grow and expand into an awareness of Divine truth and you retreat into the security of your belief system, it reveals that you are acting like a child who fears to grow up.
When you blindly quote scriptures from holy books without knowing from whence they came as if they are the final authority on life, you reveal just how rigid and unyielding your belief system is and how comfortable you are in keeping them as a security blanket.
When you resist and fight that which is sharing Divine love with you because you value your beliefs more than the truth, you reveal just how much your ego is in control and NOT the Spirit of God.
Your rigid stance and unyielding behavior of your belief system is the hallmark of a child on the brink of throwing a tantrum in order to get its way. This is your opportunity to grow up and expand into the awareness of your inner divinity and allow the Spirit of God to work through you with Divine love.
As long as you constrict that flow with dogma, doctrine and unmovable opinions you are NOT allowing the Divine to share Divine love through you. Let go of your erroneous beliefs based on the observations of shepherds and supposed holy men from thousands of years ago. What they experienced does not apply to you or anyone.
What matters right now is your ability to love yourself and others by sharing Divine love. If you believe anything else than this, then you have doomed yourself to living in separation from Divine love due to your stubbornness in NOT learning the truth and the clinging to your erroneous beliefs. Be ye open to the flow of Divine love everlasting. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
POMPOUS ASSES
I just love it when pompous asses get taken down by pompous statements phrased in such a way as to bait them into revealing just how pompous they truly are.
There is definitely an art in saying “F you” to someone and them thanking you as if you were complimenting them.
An over inflation of one’s ego looks for compliments in everything and has a distinct difficulty in discerning their own proclivities toward self-absorption.
In other words, me over we! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SPOON FED LIES
When you finally stop believing the lies you have been spoon fed by the politicians, the media and the corporate war mongers, you’ll come to realize that you have a duty to expose them for the evil that they are. If you do nothing, then you are a part of that evil because you are living in fear.
If you want to do something and don’t know what to do, go within and seek the truth. You ARE your brothers and sisters keepers just as many of the world’s religions have taught. When you allow the aberrance of selfish and evil people to ride herd on your life you are playing the victim. Be a victor and stand up for the truth NO MATTER WHAT!!!
What you fear most of the time NEVER happens anyway! Be bold. Be diligent. Be a person that serves others with life giving behaviors and STOP those who lie, cheat and steal from your brethren. If you don’t, then it will be visited on you when you least expect it; simply because you allowed it to be without standing up for the truth.
May God bless you in holding fast to truth and justice. Be ye therefore truthful! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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REFUSING TO GROW UP
Refusing to grow up in your outlook on life comes from the fear of losing what you believe is true without ever coming to an inner wisdom of what is actually true. It’s like a child who refuses to let go of a broken toy that no longer works because they had played with it too hard. It ends up in the toy box with the hope that someday it will be fixed and it can be played with again.
The truth of the matter is that once it is broken, even though it might be fixed, it is still weak at the point where it had once broken. Belief systems are very similar in the fact that we cling on to them even when we learn that they are no longer valid. They might still contain some truth; however, if when applied in the real world they lose their validity, they are still weak at the point where they no longer apply to the growth and expansion of all.
Be flexible with your beliefs and come to know that they have origins; they require maintenance and that they have to apply in the real world or they are not valid. In this way, you are capable of learning the truth without having it covered with a veil of erroneous beliefs that you refuse to discharge because they make you comfortable, safe and secure. A child grows up when they put away the things that no longer work and learn to live with the things that do work. Be ye therefore teachable. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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When what you profess to be is never met because of your compromising with the implementation of the theme of your beliefs, then you are not only not true to your beliefs but complicit in not sharing those beliefs effectively.
Stop living in your beliefs and start living in the knowing and sharing of Divine love.
In this way, what you say and what you do is what you are and what you strive to be. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
A LONG HARD LOOK
Alright, let’s strip away all belief for a moment and take a look at our lengthy history as a civilization. Whether you believe the myth of Adam and Eve or the Darwinian explanation of genetic mutations and survival of the fittest, let’s take a discerning eye at who we are, what we are, where we came from, how we got here, when we got here and why we are here now.
Who are we? Are we individuals seeking our own self-survival, or are we part of a collective of individuals growing and expanding within our communities? Have we learned from our collective past who we are? Are we currently sheepherders living from day to day to survive in the wilderness? Or are we technologically enabled individuals that are discovering a new sense of community through social networking? We have the resources available to us to know just how the omniverse works and that it has existed beyond our comprehension to explain it.
Our sheepherder ancestors did not know what we know and explained things as a result of seasonal experiences, societal interactions and relegating what was unknown to a deity far off in the heavens. We have grown in our knowledge of time and space and some have discovered the hidden wisdom and intelligent design in the omniverse. Some believe that our lifetimes are limited. Some believe that we die and change form and continue to exist and some believe that when we die it is all over.
What are we? We have come to know more about what we are as well. We are electro-chemical conglomerations of trillions of cells working in tandem and being mostly water-based. We interact with our environment and electro-chemical interactions in our brains create thoughts, feelings, beliefs, words, actions and behaviors.
We look into the mirror of the omniverse and see ourselves as human beings in physical forms and call this reality; when in actuality, some believe that we are seeing the reflections of the projections of our inner spirit. Others believe that we reflections of a deity’s projection and still others believe that our consciousness is a result of our brains existing in a temporal environment.
Where have we come from? We have come into existence on this planet and have used its resources to survive and thrive as a species at the expense of other living beings and the planet’s natural resources. We have discovered the inner workings of the deepest levels of observed existence without knowing exactly how it all came into being. Were we created here? Did we evolve here? Or were we the result of other living beings interacting with already existing species on this planet?
How did we get here? We theorize as to how things came into existence and use the principles of experiential unfolding to replicate the expressions of certain physical laws. We don’t exactly know how and why magnetism works; however, we wouldn’t have most of the technology we use regularly without harnessing the forces of magnetism.
Just because we don’t know how it works doesn’t stop us from using it to our mutual benefit. We have a host of theories from creation to evolution to alien insemination as to how we have gotten here. We don’t know exactly how, yet we survive and thrive as a species.
When did we get here? Some believe we have always existed here from simple life forms evolving into more complex ones. Others believe we were created in seven days from a deity hovering over the waters. Still others believe that we were deposited by or inseminated by alien life forms on spatial road trip.
Our history reveals more fighting, resisting and death seeking due to misunderstandings, conflicts and familial hatred. It is amazing how we have even survived our own lust for power and dominance.
Why are we here now? We are here because we have access to the most powerful force in the omniverse; a force that guides us to seek peace, understanding, joy and love. It is the power of love that we ‘feel’ in our hearts when we allow ourselves to experience order amid chaos, listening amid the noise, happiness amid the confusion and seeking the love of that which is beyond our comprehension.
Do you listen to and believe what someone ‘observed’ and surmised thousands of years ago and allow it to determine your life right now? Do you base your life on some book written by men with agendas over feeling the love in your brother’s and sister’s hearts? Do you insist that what you believe is more correct than what someone else believes and you will do whatever you can to prove them wrong by intimidating, demeaning and rejecting their experience in order to prove yourself right? If you do, then you haven’t learned a thing about the quality of life and the strides we have made as a collective civilization.
Your viewpoints are NOT the be all and end all of life. They are your OPINIONS of it and should always be relegated to sharing and not IMPOSING their content on others. When you step into the realm of convincing, converting or coercing others into believing what you believe is the truth, you have dismissed love from the equation; DESPITE your beliefs as to why you are trying to convince them.
See beyond your vain attempts at control, domination and manipulation of what others believe in order to elevate your perception of just whom and what you are. You are a child of the omniverse looking back at itself in wonder. Be open and appreciate life for what it is and NOT what you want it to be. Be ye therefore caring and fruitful! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
CONSULTATION
DIVINE LOVE
Never forget that you were created in Divine love, by Divine love and with the ability to share Divine love. You are NOT a ‘sinner’ when you share Divine love and you are one when you live from your selfish ego. When you share Divine love you are NOT falling short of divinity; you are being divinity!
It is not about emulating a ‘glorious’ and capricious deity whom you have assigned human qualities to; It is about sharing that which has created the entire omniverse and freely given you health, wealth, prosperity and abundance everlasting!
You are the one who separates yourself from God; not God who separates you. You are a divine creation endowed with Divine grace and Divine love. Live from that and NOT the false concept drilled into you by men with agendas that you are eternal sinners. That is so far from the truth it is DISGUSTING!
You were created to live in peace, understanding, joy and Divine love; not in a false concept of sin that has been perpetrated on you by men and men alone; not by God!!! Live from the truth and not the lies of unscrupulous men with clandestine agendas of control, domination and manipulation.
Let go of their selfish concepts of reality and live in the truth of the Divine right now! Be ye therefore loving! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
ANIMAL WELFARE
WHAT IS A MOMENT?
What is a moment? Is it a second of time or a series of seconds that allow you to ponder your thoughts and generate inner feelings? A moment is an indefinitely short period of time; an instant or juncture of importance or consequence; a particular time or period of success, excellence or fame. A moment is an undetermined period of time where time loses its significance because you are experiencing the feelings associated with your predominant thoughts. It is the awareness of your thoughts that channel those thoughts in subsequent feelings that support your predominant thoughts.
If you continually focus on what you do not want in your life in these moments, what you do want in your life cannot and will not come to you. Why? Because the acceptance of your well-being cannot manifest what you do want when you are continually co-creating what you don’t want by dwelling the thoughts and feeling the feelings of what you don’t want. You cannot feel good and bad at the same moment! You can from one moment to the next feel differently, but NOT in the same moment!
Moments become seconds, seconds become minutes, minutes become hours, hours become days, days become weeks, weeks become months, months become years and years become a lifetime! If you spend the majority of your life focusing on the moments of what you don’t want in your life, you are co-creating more of the same until you get to the end of your life and wonder why you haven’t gotten what you ever wanted! Go for the good feeling of what you want in every moment of your life and you will be co-creating more of what you do want in your life.
It is not that you are physically attracting objects, things and people through a mysterious Law of Attraction; it is because you are allowing your greater good to be a dominant thought and feeling that assures you of fulfilling what you innately desire! The Law of Allowance is very simple and straightforward; what you allow, you fulfill! Be there in your life’s moments with thoughts and feelings of peace, understanding, joy and Divine love and you WILL be completely fulfilled with the manifestations of your inner desires.
You were created to experience health, wealth, prosperity and abundance as you NATURAL state of well-being. Stop interfering with the natural flow of well-being by accepting and fulfilling your erroneous beliefs instead of expecting your deepest Divine desires. Be ye therefore fulfilling! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
THE PERSISTENCE
OF RESISTANCE
What you resist persists. Keep fighting and more of the same will come until you stop fighting and choose love.
Allow that which you feel is against you to pass through you without attaching any negative emotions to it and you will diffuse its perceived power over you.
Be ye therefore allowing. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
LIVING IN A FANTASY
You are living in a fantasy of your own making when your beliefs comfort you more than the truth.
When you decide to get real with yourself, you come to know the truth of Divine love. That truth is that the Divine is within the spiritual heart of everything everywhere.
If you choose to separate reality from the Divine you are living in a fantasy of your own making that will undermine your ability to live in Divine truth.
Be ye therefore realistic! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
BLAMING GOD
Blaming God for the actions of a person’s ego is ludicrous at best. It says nothing about God. It speaks volumes about humankind, however.
Whether we believe in God or not, blaming God for the actions of humankind is not accepting responsibility for your own behavior and the results of that behavior.
Believing in God does not prevent people from doing bad things to one another. Having respect for the Spirit of God within others is what prevents people from hurting one another. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
CONSULTATION
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OUR TRUE HEART
Where is our true HEART? Is it the physical organ pumping blood through our bodies, or is it a spiritual symbol of the seat of Divine love? It is the bridge between ‘heaven’ and ‘earth’ by the ‘awareness’ of ‘reality’ and ‘truth’; hence H(eaven), E(arth), A(wareness), R(eality) and T(ruth).
Our spiritual heart is what teaches us the value of life and the purpose of it for the growth and expansion of the omniverse. Our physical home is the EARTH; it is the ‘E’arth’s ‘A’wareness of the ‘R’eality and ‘T’ruth from ‘H’eaven. We are inextricably tied to the Earth and it is our mutual environment in which we grow and expand together.
We have a duty to maintain our awareness of our spiritual and physical hearts. Share Divine love with all of creation and respect your home. As the saying goes, “Don’t s**t where you eat!” Be a part of the whole as the whole is within you. Be ye therefore heartful! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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APPLES AND ORANGES
An ‘ad con volutem’ attack is one where non-related instances are used to support an argument based on a personal agenda manifestation; they are designed to confuse the opponent of an argument by issuing forth supposed facts without introducing specific bibliographies of those supposed facts.
Don’t be baited into a debate where the challenger accuses you of retaliating with ad hominem attacks because it reveals that there initial argument is weak at best and their egos need to defend their weak positions. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
IS YOUR BRAIN DECEIVING YOU?
Do you believe what your brain tells you is reality? Are you so entrenched in the veil of deception of motion and the illusion of duality that you simply won’t budge in your conviction that your brain fools you with perceptions that ‘fill in the blanks’? Do you argue for your version of reality even when you are proven completely wrong?
Your perceptions continually delude you because of how your brain has adapted to its environment. For example, vection is the perception of self motion induced by visual stimuli; look at a moving train while you are in one and you will perceive your own movement before you rationalize the other train’s movement. It is the conflicting input from your peripheral vision and your centralized vision that creates the brain’s perception of reality.
In the minute you have read this paragraph, you have moved over 1600 miles through space as a rider on this globe. Did you feel that motion? Did you perceive any changes in your environment? Did you convince yourself that what you observed and perceived is reality and NOT the fact that you traveled through space half the distance of the USA in less than a minute? Will you make a fool of yourself arguing that what your observations, perceptions and beliefs reveal is the true reality?
Stop viewing life for the valley of deceptions. Climb to the mountaintop and see from a Divine perspective that you are living in a soup of deception based on perceptions that you accept as truthful and real. What you are is greater that what you perceive you are. It is OK to swim in the soup; just don’t let it conform you to the perceived pot of ‘reality’ that holds the soup and molds it to its perceived shape. Trust in the Divine’s perspective and see ALL of reality. Crackers, anyone? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Don’t believe me? I highly suggest that you watch the following episode of ‘Brain Games” on NatGeo TV or purchase a copy of the episode ($1.99 SD, $2.99 HD) “Motion Commotion” on YouTube to actually see HOW your brain fools you every moment of your life!
SPIRITUAL BOOKS
WHAT IS A RACIST?
What exactly is a racist? It is a person that ‘believes’ and ‘practices’ racism. Racism is the ‘BELIEF” that the varied races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others [World English Dictionary].
Some further this viewpoint by including environmental influences that come from the places in which they live. It is not a fact, but a BELIEF!!! What do I call people who practice this belief? I call them MORONS because they ‘intrinsically’ know better and still act like they are better than everyone else. They exude bigotry that comes from nothing but selfishness and PURE ego!
A moron is a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment [dictionary.com]. Basing your reality on what you believe is tantamount to fooling yourself about the reality you observe, perceive and subsequently believe. If one so chooses to live in stupidity, bad judgment and lack of discernment, that is their right.
However, their moronic behavior demonstrates complete and utter deception of themselves and others in order to fulfill their own agenda manifestation! Be ye therefore considerate of everyone and their differences. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DRIVEN BY GREED
When 'free markets' are driven by greedy and unscrupulous individuals, what is intended as being 'free' and 'open' ends up being monopolized by those individuals to their own ends and profits.
Allowing everyone to contribute to 'free' charities is not constricted to giving money; it is also implemented by giving time and sharing what has blessed you with those in need.
Seeking equality for all should not be predicated on their financial ability to pay for services that are beyond their means in order to survive and thrive.
The needs of the many ALWAYS outweigh the needs of the few. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SOMEONE ELSE'S
I once said to a person that you don't know the meaning of life until you change your kid's diaper.
They fired back at me with how dare I say that they could not know the meaning of life until they had a child.
I responded after a moment of introspection and said that I was wrong; you don't know the meaning of life until you've changed someone else's kid’s diaper. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DON'T WORRY!
If you only knew that in taking the action not to worry about that which you suspect will bring you pain and suffering, you have set the wheels in motion for the dome of your ego to open your awareness to the heavens and bathe you in the well-being that you always have flowing through you.
The peace, understanding, joy and Divine love of the Divine are ever-present within you; it is in worrying that you separate yourself from the truth that you are always living in well-being and that it is your choice ‘not to’ that separates you from the blessings you already have.
Be ye therefore confident of well-being! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
CIRCUMSTANCES
Why do we continually do the things that undermine our progress? Is it because we don’t feel worthy enough to move ahead? Is it because we are second guessing our motives and desires? Or is it because we know down deep inside that we don’t want to do the legwork over the apparent long haul of manifesting our innermost dreams? Could it be that we are inherently lazy or that we feel that it would be too much work for us to pursue?
If we perceive the fruition of our goals as a struggle we will avert our moving forward actions and make excuses for not behaving in the way that is necessary for our growth and expansion into individual fulfillment. We will procrastinate, delay and avoid what we KNOW we need to do in order to give ourselves and others the appearance that ‘circumstances’ have interfered with our progress. Nothing could be further from the truth.
We create the circumstances because it is we who make the stance and create the conditions that we perceive around us; hence, circum- (surrounding or affecting) and stance (a firm position). Circumstances are created by what we perceive around us ‘as a result’ of the position that we take in life. We either react to or proact from what we perceive is happening to us at any given moment. Choosing to be honest and forthright with ourselves and others sets the tone for a stance that allows truth and justice to prevail.
Our perceptions of our ‘circumstances’ are the result of how we react to or proact from what we experience in our individual environments. If we choose to be deceptive and selfish it sets the tone for our future experiences and ‘circumstances’. How you react to your experiences is ultimately how they will affect you. Do you want pleasant circumstances in your life? Then be honest, forthright and giving. Do you want unpleasant circumstances?
Then keep being selfish and sanctimonious about your beliefs and you will constantly be in ‘circumstances’ that will challenge your erroneous beliefs and create problems in your life. The choices are yours. Make the choices that support life and opportunities and not those that take away from them. Be ye therefore supportive, kind and truthful. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
OBJECTIVE?
When everything is subjective then it is obvious that nothing is objective.
Objectively speaking, being subjectively objective requires one to be objectively subjective as well.
Being objective requires you to minimize your subjectivity and maximize your objectivity, subjectively speaking. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D
MORE SAYINGS
The image we maintain has nothing to do with who we truly are. What we truly are is beyond any image that anyone holds as true or chooses to believe is what we are. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Respect for life begins when you respect who and what you truly are. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
"Seek first to snatch the ball out of my hand before I reveal that the ball is no longer there, Grasshopper!" ~Master Po
I am here to speak the truth, live it and share it. If anyone doesn't believe what it is I say, then that is their right. Just respect the fact that it is my right to say it just as it is your right to believe it or not. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
If we can’t see the reason for why things happen to us, then we will eventually come to understand our individual purpose from the experiences we encounter. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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