There has been one theory after another about the symbolism on the back of the dollar bill from it being a Masonic Satanic declaration to line lifted from the Roman writer Virgil. It turns out that it is the latter. “The original source of the NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM Motto on the Foundation of the Unfinished Pyramid on the Great Seal of the dollar bill was borrowed to mean: the beginning of the new American Æra,
The motto Novus Ordo Seclorum was coined by Charles Thomson in June 1782. He adapted it from a line in Virgil's Eclogue IV, a pastoral poem written by the famed Roman writer in the first century B.C. that expresses the longing for a new era of peace and happiness. The original Latin in Virgil's Eclogue IV (line 5) is: "Magnus ab integro seclorum nascitur ordo."
Charles Thomson was a former Latin teacher, and Virgil was one of his favorite poets. Inspired by the above passage, he coined the motto: "Novus Ordo Seclorum" and placed it beneath the unfinished pyramid, where he explained it signifies "the beginning of the new American Æra," which commences from the Declaration of Independencein 1776.”
Simple, huh? Yet one conspiracy theorist after another proclaims that it is the “New World Order.” The unfinished pyramid was a symbol by the Freemasons to indicate that our Republic would never be complete. It would exist in a constant state of growth and expansion. And that it has!
We are still experiencing growth pains from all of the lies, misdirections and agenda manifestation by those who seek to control, dominate and manipulate the rest of us to their own twisted greedy ends. It is up to us to put a stop to these fools whose egos are bigger than the Titanic. Don’t sit and watch the ship sink while the rest of us are swimming for our very lives. Be responsible and do your part to uphold the truth above all else. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
This is great! I must be doing something right! I have been called a hater, immature and a juvenile all week long. The one thing in common about those who called me those things is that they are all conservative Republicans. I guess I struck a nerve. And by the way, that’s exactly what I was trying to do!
Sometimes you need a wedge and a bar to overturn a rock that is hiding the truth. When it is there for all to see, some get angry and refer to those who turned over the rock as haters, immature and juveniles. Well. So be it.
Name calling to me is a shortcut way of describing a person’s aberrant behavior without wasting too much of my breath on diplomatic innuendos. I have been accused of not being very spiritual because I name call, sometimes curse and spew anger at liars. Oh well, I guess I am human! If that’s what it takes to wake someone up I will do it. I don’t care what anyone thinks about me. I only care to send the message that the Divine gives to me in meditation.
If that bothers some people, perhaps they need to pay attention and work on the things that bother them. I am not out to hurt anyone; I am out to say the truth as it has been revealed to me and I don’t care what anyone says about it. Peace, and may God bless you with the insight to understand the truth from anyone who is bold enough to reveal it! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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SERVICE IN PRAYER
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.
OUR PAST ISSUES
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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.
One thing I forgot, I am mean-spirited as well. Some people don't have a sense of humor when it comes to revealing that their heroes are liars!
They accuse me of degrading another human being. I am NOT degrading another human being!
I am pointing out how they degrade themselves! Get it? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
THE ESSENCE OF
SPIRITUALITY
The judgments of religion are taken to heart by some zealots of spirituality and used to manipulate others; when the essence of spirituality is discerning and non-judgmental.
Religious, societal and familial programming of accepted ‘norms’ of behavior are so deeply programmed into our psyche that we accept them as being true without challenging their veracity and validating their occurrences.
Only when we discharge erroneous beliefs and live from the spirit within will we come to understand that our judgments of others are in relation to our own understanding of life and NOT theirs.
When we look at the facts without attaching emotions, feelings and beliefs to their existence, we become free of fooling ourselves with our own egotistical agenda manifestation.
See things for what they are and not what you want them to be. It is better for all of us that way. Peace. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
OPENING THE DOOR
When you allow others to judge your spirituality and you give them the opportunity to cut you off from helping them to understand their judgments, you have opened the door to their awareness.
They might not ever appreciate what the Divine within you has done, but they will encounter similar events with others until they realize the error of their ways.
What you resist and hold onto the most, whether good or bad, will continue to be reborn until you learn to allow it to be what it is without attaching any emotions to it.
The more you emotionally invest in fighting against what you perceive is holding you back, the more it will keep occurring until your learn how to let it go. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
CONSULTATION
WIRING OF THE BRAIN
Our brains are wired to protect ourselves at all costs. This means that we will lie, control, dominate and manipulate the perceptions of ourselves and others to create a new reality that is remembered as being favorable to us. Knowing this, we can learn to listen within to the Source of all truth! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
LETTING GO
Only when you realize that your beliefs need to be let go to allow faith to build a trusting relationship with the Divine will you begin to align yourself with the unfolding of your Divine purpose in Divine order.
As long as you hold onto your beliefs instead of trusting the guidance from the Divine, you will be caught in the hamster wheel of mediocrity and non-fulfillment. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
"Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." ~Unknown (Attributed to Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln but neither authored the saying).
TAKING ITS COURSE
When you allow nature to take its course, your course will align with nature! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
NO DISTRACTIONS
If you would only realize just how beautiful, blessed and vibrant you truly are there would be nothing to distract you from actualizing your purpose and living in complete fulfillment each and every day of your life.
May God bless you in realizing that with every breath! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DISTURBING THE FORCE
When you believe something negative about someone without the proof to back it up, you are creating a major disturbance in your life force.
Believing in something passionately creates that experience in your life and when you allow negatives to manifest about someone without testing their veracity and validating their occurrences, you are being led by your emotional ego more than the Spirit of God within every one of us.
You are being selfish, self-centered and irresponsible. Responsible people don’t believe everything that people say; they investigate for themselves because they are accountable for their opinions. In other words, they are mature enough to understand that life is perceived by us AFTER we filter what we have sensed through our individual belief systems.
Our brains skew reality to favor our self-survival at all costs; even over the reality that we are believing a lie. Allowing the Spirit of God within to guide and direct us to a greater understanding of ourselves and our beliefs gives us a window into our own motivations and agendas that we yearn to fulfill.
Trust the Divine more than what you believe and you will be blessed with a truthful reality more than a skewed viewpoint of it toward your own end. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
THOSE WHO
SPEAK THE TRUTH!
This world needs those who speak the truth no matter what. Some have asserted that I am mean, acerbic and too assertive in my interactions on my threads. I love my friends on FaceBook and some repeatedly misunderstand my motives when I stick to the truth. Kindness is always the state in which to be, however some attack in public and then berate in private.
What is on a thread is not the whole picture. What is in the heart is. You can rest assured that I will always present the following in my writings: I will speak from my heart; I will investigate what it is I say; and I relay it as ‘a’ way and not ‘the’ way. However, some take my presentation of ‘a’ way as ‘the’ way’.
That is not my problem if they do, but I always strive to present what I say in the light of Divine understanding. If they so choose to challenge that, that is their right. However, where is coming from? Ego or spirit? I sincerely doubt it is from the latter. Peace and blessings to all of you and thank you for participating in my threads.
I will always speak my mind and say what I know to be the truth from within. That is my Divine purpose unfolding in Divine order and I will honor that purpose. If you ‘believe’ that it is my ego and not my spirit, then that is on you. I KNOW what it is! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SEPARATION FROM JOY
When you hate the fact that others are doing what you want to do with your life you are driving yourself further and further away from living your dreams. Why? Because you are separating yourself from the joy someone else feels in living their dreams and consequently your joy as well.
When you give to others what you desire to experience you integrate their joy into your joy and taste the beauty of what you want to experience. If you don’t, you are moving away from what you desire and moving toward your own selfishness. Be supportive; be forthright; and share in the joy of others!
This will bring you the joy that you seek and deliver the results you are expecting more than driving a wedge between what you desire and what you currently are experiencing. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Currently Bobby Hinkle, Elizabeth
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.
It is always better to break bread, than to break heads! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to put a moron in their place than to place a moron in your space. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to say things as they are than to allow the unwarranted beliefs of others to taint the truth. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to stop prevarication in its tracks than to allow it to stop you in your tracks. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to cut off a skin tag that does nothing but harbor a virus than to allow the virus to spread within and infect other parts of your body. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to remove a disturbance in the force of nature than to allow it to affect your inner peace with noise and chaos. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to be honest and forthright in all of your dealings than to be dealt the lies and factual spin of others with a selfish agenda. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to walk away from stupidity than to allow stupidity to walk your way. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to be angry with liars than to be lying in anger! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to define your understanding than to understand how you have been defined. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to be joyful in spirit than to be pleased with your ego’s ingenuity. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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DON'T YOU JUST
LOVE IT WHEN?
Don’t you just love it when someone tells you just how spiritual you aren’t when they don’t have a clue just how temporal they are? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Don’t you just love it when someone proclaims your irreverence when they are basing it on what someone told them it is and not what it actually is? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Don’t you just love it when someone judges you and then tells you that you are judging them? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Don’t you just love it when someone is a pompous ass and tries to tell you that you are? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Don’t you just love it when someone believes that they are better than you and that they have the right to tell you what to do with your life? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Don’t you just love it when you give of yourself to others and then you are told that you are selfish, self-centered and self-absorbed? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Don’t you just love it when holier-than-thous judge your actions based on their misinterpretations of what is good for all? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Don’t you just love it when prudes try to convert you to their way of thinking and their reasoning is anything but sound? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Don’t you just love it when people keep telling you not to let things bother you when in fact they really don’t? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Don’t you just love it when you speak the truth and you are told that you are mean-spirited, angry and are missing the point? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
MAKING MONEY
OFF OF WAR
Whenever a conservative shouts George Soros, it means that he doesn't want you to look at the Republican war machine and its large slice of the ownership of companies that make money off of war! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
NO ONE IS SPECIAL
When you start to feel that you are special, is when you should realize that it is your ego ever so subtly trying to elevate your importance over others.
When you listen to your inner heart you come to know that we are all the same. No one is any more special than anyone else.
We are all souls expressing varying degrees of the allowance of Divine love and we should always remember to share our blessings with others.
After all, we are all in this together and it is up to us to know the truth about whom and what we truly are! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
THE SANCTITY OF BIRTH?
Pro-life believers demand the sanctity of birth and most times ignore those who are born and starving. It seems that they go along with things because they want the security of mediocrity and the comfort of apathy. They can be shallow and obtuse sometimes as well.
It’s the one’s that truly believe in the sanctity of life and do whatever they can to support the living and the unborn that have a real chance of learning that there are things beyond their comprehension due to how they were raised and how they lived.
I am pro-life; I neither have a woman’s body or the right to tell anyone what to do with their life. It is not my place to decide; it is theirs. That’s not a cop out; it’s the truth. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SHARING THE SPIRIT
Whether we agree with each other or not doesn’t really matter; what matters is that we know that we all share the Spirit of God within and that is where we will discover the truth that benefits all! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
THE GLASS
When you pour water half-way up into an empty glass, it is half-full. When you pour water all the way to the top of the glass, it is completely full. When you pour out half of the water in the glass, it is half-empty. When you pour out all the water from the glass, it is completely empty. Whether a glass is perceived as half-full or half-empty with water depends on when you arrived on the scene. Your consciousness affects what you observe because your perceptions become real AFTER they are filtered through your belief system. So what does this mean?
It means that what you observe, believe and perceive is the result of who or what you observed and where, how and when you observed it. Why you observed it is because you were present in the now. Whatever meaning you attach to your experiences comes from evaluating your experiences with your values and beliefs. We might not all experience the same perceptions because our beliefs ‘change’ their meanings into what is comfortable for us. Honest, factual and repeated observations can document the truth.
It is when we ingest the facts and form opinions based on our values and belief system is when we alter the truth to suit our inner need of resolution. Our viewpoints are always skewed to our personal perceptions and until we learn how to adjust those perceptions to serve all, we will always disagree and enter gridlock. It is only when we step out of the confining walls of ‘me’ that we come to learn the freedom of being ‘we’.
We all need to make that step in order to have peace on earth; understanding of each other; ongoing joy; and the benefits of living in Divine love everlasting! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
THE CYCLE
OF LIES
The Cycle of Lies can only be broken when you choose to observe and perceive while minimizing what you believe. You are what you have learned from birth to where you are now. What you believe is the sum of repeated thoughts that you accept as true without challenge.
When what you believe passes the tests of verifying its veracity and validating its occurrences, then your beliefs can grow into what you know. By daily going within and listening to the still small voice of the Divine guiding and directing you to unfold your Divine purpose in Divine order, you bypass your beliefs and enter into the realm of knowing.
Wouldn’t you rather KNOW the truth from the Source of all existence or blindly believe in something that you do not truly know? It’s your choice. Only you can walk the path of enlightenment from believing to knowing. Take the first step and become whom and what you were created to be! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
FINE ART PRINTS
SPIRITUALITY GUIDANCE
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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OUR WEBSITES
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Have you ever thought about how a convergent consciousness created this entire omniverse? Or even how the Divine expressed Divine love into the polar opposites of the perceived dualistic reality? Or how this supreme “dark” energy of Divine love slowed down enough to allow “dark” matter to establish a scaffolding network upon which energy traverses and inorganic matter congeals?
How about how inorganic matter reacts to dynamic environmental changes so much that the “spark” of life created organic matter? And finally, how organic matter organized along the matrix of dark matter created an emergent consciousness that actually “looks back” at the entirety of creation with awe? Consciousness is the impetus of creation from the “above” convergent consciousness of the Creator to the “below” emergent consciousness of the created.
What we experience as reality comes from how our emergent consciousness senses, believes and perceives is reality. In reality, only consciousness exists and it co-creates that which we perceive as the reflections of the projections of Divine love. As above, so below. As within, so without.
Know that each and every day that you experience life that you are completely blessed because of the gift of consciousness you have. Use that consciousness to co-create, beauty, peace and joy. Live in that which you already are; Divine love everlasting! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
HYPOCRITES!
Hypocrisy is knowing the truth and saying things that are not truthful in order to gain the support of others that either don’t know how to find the truth, who are too lazy go and find out or are so comfortable in their ignorance that they believe anything that aligns with what they were previously taught. In other words, Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, Bobby Jindal…or should I say, the entire Republican field of candidates?
When you play to your base with half-truths, partial truths and outright lies to gain support for your selfish and detrimental agenda of war and human debasement, you are evil at best. Most people cannot, will not or consciously choose to not see what exactly you are doing. However, thank God that some of us do and will keep heralding with the trumpet of truth.
When you support lies and untruths you have no moral, ethical or life-giving character. Go ahead and deny that; it won’t change the fact that you are despicable in regard to the equanimity of all. May God bless your wretched souls! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Have you ever noticed that the people, who claim that you are judging others, are in fact, judging you? Why is it that they can’t distinguish the difference between discerning and judging? Actually, it’s quite simple. Judgment is taking an individual evaluation and personalizing it with your established beliefs; whereas discernment is evaluating events, occurrences, situations, circumstances and the behaviors of others AND yourself independently of ANY belief system. For example, if someone is committing a behavior that is hurting someone or a group of people, one might judge their behaviors as aberrant because they ‘believe’ it is wrong.
Beliefs are nothing more than repeated thoughts that one accepts as true without testing their veracity and validating their occurrences. Beliefs can be either accurate or erroneous. Judgment, in essence, is the perception of behaviors in relation to what you believe is right or wrong and NOT what you KNOW is right or wrong. Discernment is different. It is the logical evaluation that comes from inferring the facts or the inner knowing of intuitive guidance that presents itself in a logical manner. There are no emotional agendas attached. Why is it that people who claim that others are judging them or others insist that judgment IS discernment? It is because they have an emotional stake in the game and they won’t accept anything beyond their belief system.
They are allowing the ego, which is a construct of their reptilian brain’s self-survival mechanism, to convince them that their beliefs are correct despite solid evidence against those beliefs. Judgment is evaluating perceptions based on how they support or challenge your individual beliefs lodged in your belief system; in other words, how they will affect only me. Discernment is looking at things how they are and evaluating how they affect all of us collectively. There are no benchmarks of beliefs in applying discernment; there is only an honest evaluation of the facts without attaching any emotional baggage to those facts. A particular area of evaluation of life that is of prime import is that of ‘piety’. Piety is the dutiful dedication to your ‘beliefs’; and NOT necessarily to the facts.
Religious piety has always been a problem especially in work places where people inflict their personal beliefs on others in an attempt to control, dominate and manipulate others’ actions to their own end. Recently, we have seen this with the Kentucky clerk who refused to do the job she was elected to do because of her pious beliefs. In spiritual circles, this occurs as well. Religion teaches the divine experience of others as a way to know God, while spirituality allows the individual to experience the divine by themselves without any attachment to a particular belief system or dogma. But yet, there some spiritual people who have established their belief systems and use spirituality to judge and beat up on others because they believe that they should ‘act’ a particular way.
I have gone through this last week. I grew up with having to attend church 3 days out of the week. I had no choice in the matter and did what I was told to do. After observing the proliferation of untested beliefs that were never validated, I decided that I had to know the Bible and what it truly meant. I read and read whatever I could get my hands on to allow me to understand the truth in what I was reading in the Bible. During seminary school I kept challenging myself to learn the original languages, know the cultural and geographic idioms and study the meanings that were lost in the many translations. I received my doctorate in theology by putting the effort in to study religions, philosophies and belief systems. I learned that there are many ways that people settle for ‘believing’ more than ‘knowing’ because they don’t want to do the work of research; they want to remain in their comfort zones of mediocrity.
Being spiritual requires a commitment to the truth and the hard work of learning how to DISCERN the truth more than blindly accepting ‘established’ beliefs. It is not for the faint of heart or the lazy. It is for those whose emotional passion is so strong that it has to learn how NOT to attach personal established beliefs in the act of judging others. I have said time and time again that my background in spirituality is NOT predicated by anyone’s beliefs in anything that I say or do. Yet, I was challenged last week by a ‘spiritual’ person as being a fraud and NOT being spiritual! She was inflicting her benchmarks of beliefs on me in an attempt to ‘diminish’ my spirituality. She did this because I had cursed like a sailor; put down Fox News; and defied her already established erroneous beliefs. This has happened before with some people saying that I should ‘act’ spiritual? WTF is that? I will NOT put on an act of being spiritual!!!
It is real for me because I have lived it all of my life. Yes, I curse sometimes (and more than I should at times); yes, I vehemently identify aberrant behaviors; and yes, I rant and rave about how some people are hurting others and are consistently getting away with it. But none of that does NOT make me unspiritual! I have said many times that I am just a guy typing at a computer relaying what has been revealed to me in deep meditation. I have learned from the best in spirituality and I have incorporated many of their teachings into my understanding of spirituality. The fact is that I AM ME and NOT them! Just as the Divine Spirit of God is within my body (as it is within your body) and creates my individual soul, I am NOT going to live by anyone else’s beliefs or benchmarks of existence. I don’t have to and neither do you! When someone judges you it is their ego that is at the helm. When someone discerns your behavior in relation to others it is the Spirit of God at the helm of their life. People that tell you how to be spiritual are trying to control, dominate and manipulate your being with their erroneous beliefs that are accepted as true by their egos!
There are NO rules or dogmas in spirituality; there is only ONENESS with the Divine and your ability to remove yourself from the negative and dogmatic influences of the pious people who ‘believe’ that they know what it is to be spiritual. There is no doubt, worry or fear in knowing! There is in believing because it is based on ‘feelings’ more than facts. Never let anyone tell you about your spirituality. Remove yourself from them immediately because they will never understand that it is their ego that is in command in their life and NOT the Spirit of God. When your inner well-being guides your life you learn that you need no one else’s approval to be who you were created to be. Your one-on-one relationship with the Divine IS the most important thing in your life. May you always be blessed with Divine love everlasting! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Have you ever asked someone you trusted completely to do something and in your mind and heart you knew they would do it only to find out that they hadn’t done it at all? If it wasn’t important then it really doesn’t matter. But what if it really was important and they let you down?
You asked them to do it and you made it quite clear that it had to be done and you trusted them implicitly to do it and everything else was a priority except what you asked them to do. The rule is always that specific results require specific instructions and when you followed that rule you expected a responsible behavior based on their character and consistency, only to later find out that they had let you down.
Do you get angry? Do you feel abused? Do you simply let it go? Or do you discharge your anger first in order to see clearly and get beyond what they had done? Whatever way you choose to deal with things there is one thing for sure. What you believed about them is NOT true and you cannot ever allow them to handle the situation again or it will be your fault. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Trust can only be maintained by the resultant behavior of the one you trust. Has the Divine ever let you down? If you believe that then you truly don’t know the grand scheme of things. Anger is fleeting and understanding comes after the fire has been put out. Don’t allow the lack of understanding by others to affect your peace. If they have let you down, move on and stay in peace. Perhaps someday they will learn about priorities. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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IN YOUR OWN IMAGE?
When you finally grow up you learn that man has made God is his own image. He has anthropomorphized the Infinite Spirit Creator into being fickle, contrite and capricious in order to understand why he was even created. God does NOT have the characteristics of man and is NOT an impersonal spirit that is devoid of love and feeling. God IS silence and stillness and from THAT comes the projection of the perceived dualistic reality of polar opposites. It is NOT a false dualism of spirit and ego because the infinite spirit is NOT dualistic!!!
Spirit is a singularity of stillness and silence and a culmination of all reflected projections upon the stage of the perceived dualistic reality. This is why the perceived dualistic reality unfolds FROM spirit and the perceived dualistic reality refolds TO spirit. As above, so below. As within, so without. The projection of Divine love into the omniverse is what has created everything everywhere. The omniverse consists of energy, matter, dark matter and dark energy. All pieces of the puzzle that form the perceived dualistic reality. Matter and energy are the ‘seen’ aspects of the omniverse and dark matter and dark energy are the ‘unseen’ aspects.
The unseen aspects provide the push/pull dynamic and the static support structure of ‘how’ the seen aspects unfold. When we allow the unseen aspects to move through us unfettered by passionate emotional reactions to their existence we create an ongoing state of allowance which molds and shapes the seen aspects in Divine order. The Spirit of God within projects Divine love to each one of us personally. It is NOT impersonal, but highly personal! Maturing in spirit means that you understand just how the unseen affects the seen and you ALLOW it to happen naturally.
What we perceive as being supernatural is actually what is highly natural that we don’t fully understand. Just as what we perceive as being miracles are just natural occurrences that we didn’t expect or understand completely. The observations of ‘reality’ that our senses ‘feel’ get filtered through our pre-programmed belief systems lodged in our subconscious minds that skew our perceptions to ensure our self-survival. Our brains ‘lie’ to us to ensure that we survive for another day. As long as keep ‘believing’ those lies we are acting like children. When we grow up we come to realize that listening to the still small voice of God within is the only true way to KNOW the truth.
Go within each and every day. Slow down your being to a point of stillness in order to feel the presence of God. Listen to your inner heart to the voice of Divine silence guiding and directing you to understand the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Immerse yourself in the peace of your inner well-being each and every day to drink from the holy grail of truth. Be a responsible adult by learning to live from your inner truth and be accountable for your actions and behaviors.
Only then will you be able to forge your own path of self-actualization that unfolds your Divine purpose in Divine order. May the Divine bless your steps as you bless yourself in the presence of the Infinite Spirit Creator Spirit of God. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
CAN'T GET THROUGH
This song, “Can’t Get Through”, was from an album I produced in 1992 for the Artist Steve Miceli.
Steve is on guitar, I am on piano and keyboards (strings), Dave Karns is on bass, Jim Burnett is on drums, and Anthony Gemignani is on vocals (& lyrics).
It’s about wanting to be close when you feel you are too far away. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SUCCESS?
Do you want to be successful in your life? What do you have to do more than anything to be successful? Is it something that you have to do or is it something that you simply can’t bring yourself to do?
Actually, it’s quite simple. Whatever you deeply desire in life can only become yours when you learn how to celebrate the victories of others in attaining their dreams.
Until you learn how to give what you desire the most you will never be in an alignment between your heart and mind to be ultimately effective. Allowing that which is burning in your heart to be freely given discharges any deleterious effects that you perceive as hindrances.
Go ahead; let go of that which tries to convince you to be self-centered, selfish and self-absorbed. It will free you to be exactly what you were created to be! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Learn to love what you hate and you will free your heart to allow only love to guide your life. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Go ahead; make your day by sharing Divine love with all whom you encounter. You will also make their day! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
POPENADO!
Living in Delaware we are in the Philadelphia Media Market and have been inundated with the countdown to the Pope’s arrival. Every day we get a digital clock with how many days until the Pope arrives; where he’s going to be; how many new sandwiches and T-shirts will be graced with the Pope’s picture; where he will speak. It is complete mental torture. This onslaught of “Popenado”, “Popefest” or “Lollapopelooza” is really over the top. The Holy Father this, the Holy Father that; who fucking cares!!! He is a man who has to shit, shower and shave just like the rest of us and because some religious institution, who, by the way, has caused more deaths and torture of innocents over the ages is now doing it by reaching into your home and generating anticipation for his ‘holiness’es arrival.
WTF? What is he going to say that he already hasn’t said? Yes, he seems to be more progressive than former ‘popes’, but let’s get real. He still prances around in robes with golden crosses and “Popemobiles” to make the Catholic Church larger than life. Yes, he goes into poor communities and mixes and mingles with those who look to him for guidance and blessings. The bottom line is that regardless of his ‘progressive’ teachings, the Catholic Church is centuries from understanding the true message of Yeshua. They are more wrapped up in the ‘appearance’ of things than teaching the truth that the Spirit of God is within and that we DON”T need them as a middleperson to God! And they will NEVER teach that message because the flow of money through the church would dry up worse than the California countryside.
Any religious institution that takes the words of Christ and teaches that the ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ is WITHOUT, is outright LYING to their constituency. Christ taught quite clearly that the ‘Kingdom of God’ is WITHIN!!! Don’t get caught up in this parade of pomp and circumstance surrounding an institution that was founded by a murderer and has perpetuated the supposed validity of itself in order to supplant the individual prosperity of its constituents into a filling of their coffers. The Christ consciousness is within each and every one of us, just as Yeshua clearly stated. It is NOT in anyone’s dedication and loyalty to a manipulative and clandestine agenda manifesting church. Please, wake the fuck up! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Be that which you are. Think that which you desire to be. Feel the joy of living in your desires. Believe that which can be proven by facts. Speak with authority from your heart. Do that which you know is right.
Share Divine love with everyone. Focus on these things and let go of ANYTHING that distracts you from that focus. This is how you unfold your Divine purpose in Divine order.
Anything else is wasting your precious time. You will live in your blessings when you let go of that which doesn’t serve your blessings and focus on that which does. Be ye therefore perfect as the Divine who created you is perfect. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WHO IS THE NARCISSIST?
Who is the narcissist? The first one to call another a narcissist.
Why? Because they can't resist putting off their aberrance onto others before they get identified for what they truly are.
Karma is a bitch sometimes but dharma is always beautiful. Something a narcissist will never understand! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
OPPORTUNITIES
Why is it that one opportunity after another comes to you and it just seems to pass you by? Is it because you are not prepared enough to seize the opportunity? Is it the timing of it in your busy life? Or is it something else that you just can’t seem to put your finger on it? What would cause you to watch one opportunity after another to just ‘pass you by’? We all know that prayer is talking to God. We can ask God for what we believe we need to transpire in order for us to feel fulfilled.
Asking can come in many forms; simple requests (supplication – petitioning - asking for needs and forgiveness), praising (worshiping –blessing - adoration), thanksgiving (for the blessings we have received) and intercession (prayer on the behalf of others). There are many types of prayer as well: faith, agreement, request, thanksgiving, worship, consecration, intercession and imprecation. Prayer can be internal or external verbal speaking or even mental visualization.
In essence, prayer is a spiritual communion with God where we take action toward a desired end. We can pray all day long or in short sessions in order to make our perceived need known to God. After we pray, we must slow down and go within to listen to the still small silent voice of stillness from the Divine. This is known as meditation. Meditation is a quiescent spiritual introspection which reveals just how we should proceed in fulfilling our prayers. It is listening to Divine guidance.
If we listen to Divine guidance, we must then behave in a way to bring about the answers to our prayers. This is known as Divine service. Divine service are acts of helpful activity to others; giving them help when they need it; sharing your talents, skills and abilities with others to better their lives; giving others what you desire the most in order to experience mutual joy with others. Finally, allowing yourself to be fulfilled. This is where many lose out because they need to understand one major thing; you must not just believe, you must KNOW that you are worthy to receive the blessings that you have requested of the Divine.
If you somehow believe that you are anything less than a perfect Divine creation you will allow doubt, worry and fear to keep you static in mediocrity, instead of dynamic in spirit. You can ask, listen and serve all you want; however, if you don’t know that you are worthy to receive the blessings that you have requested, you will not allow them to unfold ‘naturally’ in Divine order. How do become worthy? You realize that you are a child of the Most High and that you were created to be, do and have your Divine birthright of living in health, wealth, prosperity and abundance everlasting. You do this by consciously choosing to live in peace, understanding, joy and Divine love everlasting!
Is there a process to aid in helping you feel worthy be removing doubt, worry and fear? It turns out that there are many processes available and they all are based on realizations and actions based on those realizations. Descartes stated quite accurately that because we think, we are the essence of God; “I AM.” “Cogito ergo sum” in the Latin states that “I think, therefore I am.” Our existence comes from the fact that our emergent consciousness ‘thinks’, and that in thinking we ‘are’. However, there are several other statements that need to be realized in order to attain a state of ‘worthiness’. “Sentio igitur credo” in the Latin states that “I feel, therefore I suppose.”
Feelings are reactions to what we perceive is transpiring in our world. We must come to learn that they are not always completely accurate. “Credo ergo ego loquor” in the Latin states that “I believe, therefore I speak.” Our beliefs are forged by our repeated thoughts and our feelings about those thoughts; whether they are accurate or erroneous. Our beliefs derive us to speak our perceptions of the truth. “Magnis locutura sum, et idcirco ego nunc agere” in the Latin states that “I speak, therefore I act.” By speaking our perceptions of the truth, we are acting out what we believe upon others; and with that, comes a responsibility and accountability to speak the truth after we have tested its veracity and validated its occurrences. “Ego facio, et idcirco ego nunc conversari” in the Latin states that “I act, therefore I behave.”
When our actions are expressed into our world we behave in a manner in which to bring about what we believe. Our behavior becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy because we are determined to manifest what we believe. “Confido igitur spero” in the Latin states that “I have faith, therefore I trust.” In reality, we cannot ‘have’ faith. The essence of faith is an action, therefore a verb known as ‘faithe’. Faithing is NOT a static state; it is a dynamic expression of trust in the Divine. When you trust completely in the Divine, you are practicing unwavering ‘faith’. “Spero equidem mediis, igitur scio” in the Latin states that “I trust, therefore I know.”
Trusting completely in the Divine means that you ultimately KNOW that you were created in the spiritual image of the Divine and that you are worthy of the best that exists everywhere in this vast omniverse. It means that you KNOW in your prayers, meditations, service and fulfillment that you are a blessed child of the Most High God. In knowing we all speak our lives into existence with being responsible and accountable in how we use the power of “I AM.” Being worthy means that we have “adequate or great merit, character or value based on our commendable excellence” [dictionary.com]. It means that we are deserving of the best that the Divine has to offer!
When we realize each and every day that we are worthy of the best we seize each and every opportunity to grow and expand into whom and what we were created to be. Be ye therefore perfect as your Divine Creator is PERFECT!!! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
KNOWING MORE
THAN BELIEVING
When you consciously choose to know more than believe you co-create an avalanche of experiences that will force you to choose the truth over supposition, facts over speculation and discernment over judgment.
Your opinions of life will be systematically unraveled and you will encounter challenges to what you believed were true. This honing of your perspective prepares you to learn how to live in reality more than illusion and it ultimately frees you from the binds of erroneous beliefs and opinions.
Choosing to know has its consequences; living in the truth. Choosing to believe has its consequences as well; living in unfulfilling mediocrity. What are you choosing? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
URANIAN DAWN
Here is a song I recorded in 1990. I had heard a melody from my friend, Ella deCourcelle that she had written but did not have a song for it. Ella was an excellent church organist and pianist. She allowed me to borrow her melody and I used it as a chorus melody.
It comes in after the intro and I wrote a song around her melody. I finger played the drum synth tracks, played synth bass and played synth keyboard horns. The keyboard horn solo was played through an old Guild ‘tape based’ Echoplex.
The song is called “Uranian Dawn” and it depicts the dawning of the Age of Aquarius (which is ruled by Uranus). Technically, Uranus is the planet that brings with it a new way of looking at things, and its approach is best met with an expanded consciousness. Hence the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, or Uranian Dawn. I hope you enjoy it! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
LIVING IN FEAR
Is Israel the only one that lives in fear of Iran’s nuclear capability? Actually, the Iranians do as well. They are the ones who live everyday in fear of what Israel will do. Remember, Israel has nuclear bombs and they don't. The only thing that maintains the peace is a balance of power! Without that, whoever has the greater power can act on the basis of national defense.
It is the Christians and Jewish religious zealots that influence the purported ‘safety’ of Israel due to some twisted ‘prophecy’ based more on literary authoritarian alliteration than fact. How would you feel if Cuba had nuclear weapons (as it almost occurred in the early sixties by the Russians) and we didn’t? Wouldn’t you want a balance of power as well? Get real, people. Living in fear is no way to live.
Letting the other guy know that your retaliation can be as devastating as his attack actually prevents him from making the attack in the first place. This is how we all need to live until we learn how to live with each other without the threat of mutual self-destruction. Peace to all peoples on the Earth! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
“Then we arm our side with exactly that much more. A balance of power. The trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all, but the only one that preserves both sides.” ~Captain Kirk, Season 2 Episode 19: “A Private Little War.”
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