February 11, 2025 • 28 mins
We explore how to navigate division and anxiety through a spiritual lens based on the understanding that "we belong together." The sermon examines how to translate our spiritual ideals about love into meaningful action during turbulent times.
• The song "We Belong" reminds us that despite our divisions, we fundamentally belong together
• Jesus was political but not partisan – speaking truth to all sides without aligning with any faction
• Life unfolds perfectly according to our reactions, not because an external force controls outcomes
• Love by itself is inactive – it requires our conscious choices and actions to create change
• Quantum metaphysics shows us we're all expressions of the same divine energy in different forms
• Complaining without action only reinforces problems rather than solving them
• Speaking out from a place of love rather than hatred is essential for meaningful change
• Small, consistent actions can transform both our individual lives and our collective experience
• The time for loving action is always now – not some ideal future moment
Don't wait for the perfect time to take action. The time will never be just right, but the time will always be right now to make the world a better place.
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Dr. James Mellon (00:00):
So the song is called we Belong and I'm going
to start there, as I often dowith the songs that we do.
So we belong to the light, webelong to the thunder.
Valentine's Day is coming up.
Does everybody have theirvalentine picked out?
Oh god, great audience.
(00:23):
Valentine's Day, move on.
So you know, this is a love songof two people saying, no matter
what we're going through, wereally belong together.
And when you look at this in auniversal fashion, we are a very
, very divided people right now.
You notice that very divided.
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And yet we belong together,regardless of what's going on.
And when I look at this in aquantum sense, when I look at um
, when I look at my slides andit suddenly says you don't
belong here, hold on, really.
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It's asking me to verify myself.
Hold on, please.
You know what?
I'm probably gonna have toignore my notes.
Don't you love it when thathappens?
So I'd.
I have slides.
So we belong to the light, webelong to the thunder.
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If I look at this in a quantumsense, the idea for me is that
the light, of course, is thedivine, the absolute, as Ernest
Holmes would say, the absolute.
The thunder, perhaps, is therelative what's happening in the
world.
So there's the absolute and therelative, which for years
science of mine has beenteaching us that dualistic
notion that there's the absoluteand the relative, which for
years science of mine has beenteaching us, that dualistic
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notion that there is theabsolute and the relative.
Still in many churches you'regoing to hear that being taught.
There is the absolute and therelative.
The relative is the world ofform out here and the absolute
is the divine, except thatbefore he died he changed his
mind and no one seems to bepaying attention to that.
Before he died he said no, no,no, no.
The absolute is the relative.
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At the level of the relativeMeaning, it's all God and you
can live God in the most sublimeway or you can live God in the
most depleted way your choice.
So I'm like I won't go to thatanymore.
So now I'm just not going toknow which slide is next.
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We'll all do this together.
Yes, we belong together.
So the understanding I got fromthis song as I listened to it
over and over this week got fromthis song as I listened to it
over and over this week.
Let me say this I've beenreally thinking about what I was
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going to talk about today.
As a minister, you deal with alot of people's emotions, a lot
of people's feelings.
It's not a surprise that inthis particular spiritual center
there are mostly liberalDemocrats, but there are some
conservative Republicans as well, and my job is to honor and
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respect all of it.
But I can tell you that, as aminister, much of my week was
talking people off of ledges andtalking about anxiety, and
listening to people complain andpeople that are scared to death
about what our country's goingthrough, what's going to happen,
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what's what.
So, and sometimes it's just notenough to say to them you just
have to trust that life isunfolding perfectly, because
most people don't want to hearlife is unfolding perfectly when
their life is falling apart.
Right?
So I had a lot going on thisweek with that, and then some
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things just popped up and I hadto laugh this I was driving home
from somewhere and I wasstopped in traffic and I looked
up and I was like anxious, jesusoffers rest.
And I was like, does he though?
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I mean, really, does Jesusreally offer rest?
And I had to think to myselfabout this.
I had to really ask myself See,they're hearing what we're
saying.
We're out of here momentarily.
No, jesus offers rest, and so Ihad to give myself some time to
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think about Jesus.
I'm teaching an advancedconsciousness class right now,
where Jesus has been very muchin the forefront of this
particular book called the NotYet God, and it's the concept of
the book is that we are God.
We're just not yet aware of itand we are not yet leaning into
it, we have not yet embraced it,embodied it enough, but we are
God and it's an amazing book andit brings up a lot about Jesus
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and Jesus's life and Christconsciousness, which is what
Jesus had.
So I'm looking at this, I'mgoing anxious.
Jesus offers rest and I waslike, yeah, okay, it's a long
red light, and I'm thinkingpeople are beeping now and I'm
like, whatever, look, I'mgetting rid of my anxiety.
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No, but I'm thinking aboutJesus and I'm thinking about
what I'm teaching and I'mgetting rid of my anxiety.
No, but I'm thinking aboutJesus and I'm thinking about
what I'm teaching and I'mthinking about how many
questions I have now aboutreligion and about spirituality,
where we're going as a religion.
Last night I went to the event,the Topanga Reach event, and
thank you for all of you thatshowed up and went.
It was wonderful, it wasspiritual community in this
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unbelievable.
Who knew they had a house likethis in Woodland Hills?
I never thought of a house likethis.
It was like so many stories andit was just beautiful.
But all the pillars that wereout in the sound bath and
everything that was prepared inthis space and the age range
really was somewhere in 40iesand fifties, maybe thirties and
some 20 somethings and I waslike this is what people want of
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that age.
This is what they want.
They want community, they wantexperiential, they want to feel
God.
They don't want to be lecturedto about God, they want to feel
God and I hope we do that herebecause that's my job to bring
that awareness of it, which iswhy there's so much music and
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why we have our sound bands andwhy Dr Eric does his sound 90
sound experiences.
We want you to experience whatGod is.
So this made me laugh and sothis is my title of my talk
today On my Way to Church.
And that's kind of how I seemyself, although now I'm
thinking he looks like you,doesn't he?
Yes, that's Joselito, drJoselito on his way to church as
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a child.
It's a Catholic church and he'son his way in.
I didn't even think of thatwhen I picked that picture.
Today I'm looking at all thesepictures.
You know, when you put in thepixels, you put in boy going to
church, and so all thesepictures come up and I just so
many boys going to church, andthen I just picked this one.
And the reason why my talktitle is On my Way to Church is
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because of the word church.
You know, if Nick were heretoday he'd be like oh, church.
But you know what?
What is church?
Church is a building.
Church is a place.
Forget about the concept of itand the overall consciousness of
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it.
But a church is a building andI as a child went to church
every day.
I was going to be a priest.
I had my little missile.
Everybody in the neighborhoodsaw me every morning, walked to
church with my missile out here,so they knew where I was going
and that I was a very goodCatholic boy.
So I would go to church everysingle day.
Where was church?
Church was a place I would goto meet God.
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I see church and I think God.
That's where, if I go in, stilltoday, when I'm out and about,
if there's a big, gorgeouschurch.
Poor Kevin, he's got to go intothat church with me.
Or he goes to a Starbucks and Igo into the church and I go
into the church and I meet God.
And I go into the church and Imeet God.
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Now, now I'm aware that I'm notreally meeting God.
I'm actually up-leveling myconsciousness to walk in and
feel the presence of who Ialready am, but perhaps don't
remember and perhaps I haven'tbeen paying attention to that.
As Kirby was saying, as I'mwalking along the streets,
thinking a million differentthings and then a church, god.
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So really, this room is achurch.
It's a place where you come onSundays to meet yourself.
It's a place where you come tounderstand yourself, to
understand who you are.
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People hate the word church andespecially the word God, you
know, and they're all like it'sdivisive, don't use it.
I'm like you know what?
Maybe it is divisive, but maybeI need to use it to move the
divisiveness in a differentdirection and stop buying into
the divisiveness, but actuallystep into.
As Ernest Holmes says, show mea man who's for something and
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against nothing.
So this is a church and we area church.
The Global Truth Center is aspiritual center, but it is a
church.
It is a place where people cometo see who they are and when
they leave here they rememberwho they are, even if it's for a
brief moment, until you get onthe 101.
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Whatever it takes to rememberwho you are, even if it's for a
brief moment, until you get onthe 101.
Whatever it takes to rememberwho you are right.
So that's where we are today,on my way to church.
So Mel Robbins who, by the way,wrote the book the Let them
Theory that Thor Chalgrin willbe teaching starting tomorrow
night I hope you're all going tobe there.
Small consistent action changeseverything.
Going to be there, smallconsistent action changes
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everything.
Small consistent action changeseverything.
So we're talking this monthabout love in action I love
Kirby gave a great entrance tothis the idea of the action part
of this, the active part ofthis.
So if it's love in action, alot of people misunderstand that
.
They think that it means eventhis love only.
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That love only means I ignoreeverything.
I see nothing but love.
It's all good, it's all God.
I've told the story many timesabout the Northridge earthquake
where my landlady said to meit's all good, it's all God.
Your house will suddenly riseup, it had already fallen down
and I was standing in it nakedduring the earthquake, because I
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was thrown out of bed and thewall fell out and I'm in the
street.
And then she's like God and shewas a religious scientist God
will build your house.
God will build your house.
God will fix this.
So I finally had to say Roseher name was Rose God is not
going to fix this, you need tofix this.
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You own this house.
You're the landlady.
You need to fix this.
And she said, yes, I trust thatGod will fix this.
I was like Jesus is not cominghere to fix this.
So I said so, rose, here's thedeal.
Sweet woman too, very sweetwoman.
I said Rose, here's the deal.
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I'm not paying any more rent.
I'm going to save all my rentand I'm going to fix it.
I'm going to pay to fix this.
I'm going to pay with my rentand once it's all paid off, I'll
start paying your rent again.
And don't you know?
She didn't miss a beat and shewent see, god takes care of
everything.
Now, what I realize now is thatshe actually realized I was God
.
That's how I see it now.
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Yes, and maybe she actually didknow that, because that's the
truth.
So small, consistent actionchanges everything.
So if it's love in action, it'snot about sitting told me how
to say it.
It's not enough to have ideals,we must translate them into
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action.
So something else happened thisweek.
Along the way, I got a phonecall from a minister friend of
mine, but one of our ministers,rick Tamlin, who spoke last
night in Palm Springs, and he,you know, he's one of our
ministers here.
So he called me and said I'mgetting so many calls and I'm
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bombarded with people that arescared to death and the anxiety
and the fear about what's goingon in our country.
And I said uh-huh.
He said I just I want to speakto it, but I know you don't like
us to speak politics in church,and I said that's correct.
I said you have to find a wayto speak to everyone, not just
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one group who's anxious.
And so we had this long talkand I don't know what he said
last night, but we did talk forabout a half an hour and he said
I feel better, I think I knowwhat I'm going to do.
And then this is all week andthen I get an email from someone
saying you should look at yourstudent's talk from two weeks
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ago, my student, reverend DrJonathan Zenz, who runs a unity
church, now in Tucson, arizona,and he went all political.
He said isn't he one of yourstudents?
Don't you teach not to gopolitical at church?
I was like well, he is one ofmy students, but he's now a
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doctor of consciousness studieswhere he runs a unity church and
I have no business getting intohis business.
I said, but I will go look atit.
So I looked at it and then Icalled Jonathan and I was like
Jonathan, I loved what you said,it was, it was really great.
He said I know, and I got somuch flack.
People were like I don't, Idon't come here for politics, I
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come here for spirituality.
Come here for politics, I comehere for spirituality.
And so this was one of thequotes that Jonathan said.
He said this is a quote, thisis what he said, I'm quoting him
.
He said Jesus, remember he's atunity, lots of Jesus in their
talks.
So he said Jesus was political,he just wasn't partisan.
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And people got very pissed offabout that and I said, oh my God
, that makes brilliant sense.
Jesus was political, he's notpartisan.
Jesus did not care if you were aJew or a Roman, a Pharisee or a
rabbi.
He told you when you were doingthings incorrectly.
He told you when you weregrabbing for power.
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He told you when it weregrabbing for power.
He told you when it was allabout money.
He told you when you weren'tcoming from love only and he
didn't care who he said it to.
Now, the outcome of that wasn'tvery rosy, if you remember the
ending of that story, right?
But Jonathan was like I didn'tgo political, I merely said that
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.
That's all I said, and peoplethought that was very political
and I've been spending a lot oftime this week really asking
myself what I was going to talkabout this Sunday.
What was I going to say With somuch coming down on me from
many of you and from a lot ofpeople around the country that
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watch me and study with me areasking me where are you going to
go?
What are you going to say?
How are you going to stand upfor what needs to be stood up
for in this country?
And when I heard that statement, I was like Jesus is political,
was political, I mean please.
I played Jesus twice, so I knowall about Jesus and I remember
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the scene where the moneymanager's there and I got to go
all over the stage and throweverything around and then
collapse in abject despair overmy behavior.
That was what I thought then.
Now, if I were to play it again, I'd be thrilled.
I'd just do them all off and go.
Yeah, that was what Jesus did,right?
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But he wasn't partisan.
He wasn't saying this is mygroup and I'm going to defend
them.
He was saying we are one, weare together, we belong together
, and since we belong together,together, we must take care of
one another.
And since we belong together,we must stand up when we see
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injustices put upon certainpeople for no reason other than
they are that type of person.
So I think it's important forus as a community a non-partisan
community, to stand up forpeople and to stand up for love
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only.
Now, it's not enough to haveideals, we must translate them
into action.
We have a lot of ideals in thiscenter, don't we?
We have a lot of beliefs, a lotof philosophies.
They're on the wall.
Love only, if we're going tocome from love only.
How do I speak out?
Well, gandhi did it.
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He just stopped eating, andthat was a very bold action that
he took from love, withoutattacking anyone else.
I'm not telling you all to stopeating, just to be clear.
But I am asking today, what isours to do, what is mine to do
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in the face of this, in the faceof so much anxiety?
And that takes me back to Jesus.
You know anxious, jesus canhelp you rest.
Well, yeah, jesus' philosophyand the Christian philosophy of
love one another as I have lovedyou, treat your neighbor as
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yourself.
All of that philosophy is whatwe teach, is what we are living,
and so when we go to thequantum field and we understand
it's all relative.
Here's the thing, the reason whylove in action is so important.
I say life is unfoldingperfectly all the time and I
believe that I live my life bythat.
And life is unfolding perfectlyall the time and I believe that
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I live my life by that and lifeis unfolding perfectly.
My life is unfolding perfectlybecause my life unfolds
according to my reaction to whatis going on in the world, my
world, my reaction.
If my reaction's off, myexperience of life is going to
be off.
If my reaction is negative andangry, my life is going to be
negative and angry If my life isloving and important and has
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integrity, then my life is goingto be that as well.
That's how this works, that'show the universe works, that's
how my life is unfoldingperfectly works.
I am not saying that we believethat there's a God somewhere or
an energy somewhere or an entitysomewhere that is making sure
that, no matter what you do,it's all going to come out well
in the end.
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That's the old school.
That's just not how it works.
Will it all come out well inthe end from a quantum
understanding that life isnothing more than energy and
that energy is love?
Yes, it will, but it could burneverything up in its wake,
trying to just get back to itsoriginal source, its original
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purpose.
You are responsible.
You are absolutely 100%responsible for the lives you're
living, and your life willunfold perfectly to the degree
that you are clear about whatthat means.
And it can't just be about you,because, as the song said, we
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belong together.
There's only one of us.
So, yes, is it important for usall, every single one of us, to
speak out?
Yes, but from love.
Only Love has to come out ofour mouths in action.
And that's the, that's the,that's the turmoil, isn't it?
It's hard sometimes To see whatwe see, to know what we believe
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, to know what we feel, to wantto do something, but to take
that moment of saying what isthe most loving, responsible
action I can take in the face ofthis.
These are the conversations I'vehad all week, talking people
off of ledges.
One person said to me well, howare you going to feel when gay
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marriage goes away?
And I said I'll feel married tomy husband no matter what they
do.
I said but I will charge thestreets in support of love and
in support of people having theright to love.
I walked for women's rights.
I walked when the Supreme Courtdecided to put it back to the
states and many states lost awoman's right to choose.
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I went and marched on that.
I didn't march against theSupreme Court, I marched for a
woman's right to choose.
Do you see the difference?
Your consciousness makes thedifference.
So Michael J Fox says ourchallenges don't define us, our
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actions.
Do you know what else doesn'tdefine you?
All of your complaints?
I mean because a lot of peopleare complaining right now, have
you noticed?
But what's complaining going todo without action?
Complaining is just going tokeep it in place, whatever
you're complaining about.
So our jobs in this idea oflove and action, love is the
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centrifugal force of theuniverse that is moving
everything forward, right, don'twe all agree with that?
Love is this expansiveemotional journey for every
single being, all energy.
Inaction is your job.
Love in and of itself isinaction.
Inaction is for us.
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What are we going to do withthat love, with that energy?
It was very difficult this weekto talk to so many people and
there was a moment I turned toKevin.
I got off the phone.
I walked into the kitchen and Iwas just getting off the phone
he goes who have you beentalking to?
I was talking to someone for avery long time who was very
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upset and I explained what I wasdoing.
He said so what are you goingto do about it?
I said I just did it.
I loved someone, I heardsomeone, I listened and helped
them get back to a place wherethey can now take action, but
not from a hateful heart.
And if that's our job, thenthat's good.
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That's a really important partof what we do.
So anxious Jesus offers rest.
It does.
But you know, what else doesthe science of mind, this
philosophy?
To me, it's so important that wehonor the work of Ernest Holmes
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, and the funny part is, ofcourse, ernest Holmes took
everybody else's work andsynthesized it into a formula
that we could understand,because Thomas Troward, as
brilliant as he was, was noteveryday reading for people.
The man never found a periodthat he liked, was not everyday
reading for people.
The man never found a periodthat he liked.
So it was very difficult tofollow Thomas Troward perhaps.
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And then Ernest Holmes camealong and mixed it up and said
here's what it really is.
And for me, dr David Walker, mymentor, he went even a further
step.
He made it funny and reallycolloquial.
And, dr Walker, when I firstheard him speak I was like, ah,
that's what it is.
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And I would like to think thatI've taken it even a further
step.
I don't like too many periodseither I'm starting to get
better at that but I'm taking itthe further step of saying
here's what Ernest Holmes wantedus to know at the end of his
life.
And here's where we are todaywith science.
Here's what the science field,the quantum metaphysics, is all
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about.
I had a young man ask me lastnight at that gathering saying
so, what is quantum metaphysics?
He said he was like 27, I thinkhe said I took physics in
college.
College hated it, absolutelyhated it.
So why would I like quantummetaphysics?
Why would I like quantummetaphysics?
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I said, well, here's what Ithink Physics is, all those
formulas and stuff, and it makesus all insane.
And I didn't like physicseither.
I said but physics is tellingyou what's the sub particle
world all about, what's going onin the world.
Quantum Explains what the sub,what the the sub-particle world
all about, what's going on inthe world.
Quantum explains what thesub-particles in the space is
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all about.
Quantum metaphysics.
Metaphysics is, now that youknow, this is what the world is
about.
This is what energy is.
This is who you are.
What's behind it?
What's behind all of thatQuantum metaphysics beyond the
physical, what's beyond all ofit?
Well, you know what it is.
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If the world is broken intojust particles in space and
there are way more space thanparticles and the particles in
the space together are one thing, and if that is creative and
that is energy and it's always,always creating, it's always
energetic, then what's behind itis the force, the life force
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that we call God, that moves allof it forward, that keeps it
moving at all times and it'sgoing to keep doing that, no
matter what we do with it.
And we have to start realizingI'm not falling into the habit
of saying it's all.
It's all doing exactly whatit's meant to do no, no, no, it
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is doing exactly what it's meantto do, but are you doing
exactly what you're meant to doto have the life you want?
Because that's what it takes.
It will take all of us, as AmitGoswami says, to become quantum
activists to start to reallyunderstand.
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Here's what the energy is,here's who I am.
Now put that love in action.
Last quote in action.
Last quote Napoleon Hill saiddon't wait.
The time will never be justright, but the time will always
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be right now.
So the question becomes whatare you going to do with your
now to make the world a betterplace, namaste.
So the song is called we Belong and I'm going
to start there, as I often dowith the songs that we do.
So we belong to the light, webelong to the thunder.
Valentine's Day is coming up.
Does everybody have theirvalentine picked out?
Oh god, great audience.
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Valentine's Day, move on.
So you know, this is a love songof two people saying, no matter
what we're going through, wereally belong together.
And when you look at this in auniversal fashion, we are a very
, very divided people right now.
You notice that very divided.
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And yet we belong together,regardless of what's going on.
And when I look at this in aquantum sense, when I look at um
, when I look at my slides andit suddenly says you don't
belong here, hold on, really.
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It's asking me to verify myself.
Hold on, please.
You know what?
I'm probably gonna have toignore my notes.
Don't you love it when thathappens?
So I'd.
I have slides.
So we belong to the light, webelong to the thunder.
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If I look at this in a quantumsense, the idea for me is that
the light, of course, is thedivine, the absolute, as Ernest
Holmes would say, the absolute.
The thunder, perhaps, is therelative what's happening in the
world.
So there's the absolute and therelative, which for years
science of mine has beenteaching us that dualistic
notion that there's the absoluteand the relative, which for
years science of mine has beenteaching us, that dualistic
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notion that there is theabsolute and the relative.
Still in many churches you'regoing to hear that being taught.
There is the absolute and therelative.
The relative is the world ofform out here and the absolute
is the divine, except thatbefore he died he changed his
mind and no one seems to bepaying attention to that.
Before he died he said no, no,no, no.
The absolute is the relative.
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At the level of the relativeMeaning, it's all God and you
can live God in the most sublimeway or you can live God in the
most depleted way your choice.
So I'm like I won't go to thatanymore.
So now I'm just not going toknow which slide is next.
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We'll all do this together.
Yes, we belong together.
So the understanding I got fromthis song as I listened to it
over and over this week got fromthis song as I listened to it
over and over this week.
Let me say this I've beenreally thinking about what I was
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going to talk about today.
As a minister, you deal with alot of people's emotions, a lot
of people's feelings.
It's not a surprise that inthis particular spiritual center
there are mostly liberalDemocrats, but there are some
conservative Republicans as well, and my job is to honor and
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respect all of it.
But I can tell you that, as aminister, much of my week was
talking people off of ledges andtalking about anxiety, and
listening to people complain andpeople that are scared to death
about what our country's goingthrough, what's going to happen,
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what's what.
So, and sometimes it's just notenough to say to them you just
have to trust that life isunfolding perfectly, because
most people don't want to hearlife is unfolding perfectly when
their life is falling apart.
Right?
So I had a lot going on thisweek with that, and then some
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things just popped up and I hadto laugh this I was driving home
from somewhere and I wasstopped in traffic and I looked
up and I was like anxious, jesusoffers rest.
And I was like, does he though?
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I mean, really, does Jesusreally offer rest?
And I had to think to myselfabout this.
I had to really ask myself See,they're hearing what we're
saying.
We're out of here momentarily.
No, jesus offers rest, and so Ihad to give myself some time to
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think about Jesus.
I'm teaching an advancedconsciousness class right now,
where Jesus has been very muchin the forefront of this
particular book called the NotYet God, and it's the concept of
the book is that we are God.
We're just not yet aware of itand we are not yet leaning into
it, we have not yet embraced it,embodied it enough, but we are
God and it's an amazing book andit brings up a lot about Jesus
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and Jesus's life and Christconsciousness, which is what
Jesus had.
So I'm looking at this, I'mgoing anxious.
Jesus offers rest and I waslike, yeah, okay, it's a long
red light, and I'm thinkingpeople are beeping now and I'm
like, whatever, look, I'mgetting rid of my anxiety.
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No, but I'm thinking aboutJesus and I'm thinking about
what I'm teaching and I'mgetting rid of my anxiety.
No, but I'm thinking aboutJesus and I'm thinking about
what I'm teaching and I'mthinking about how many
questions I have now aboutreligion and about spirituality,
where we're going as a religion.
Last night I went to the event,the Topanga Reach event, and
thank you for all of you thatshowed up and went.
It was wonderful, it wasspiritual community in this
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unbelievable.
Who knew they had a house likethis in Woodland Hills?
I never thought of a house likethis.
It was like so many stories andit was just beautiful.
But all the pillars that wereout in the sound bath and
everything that was prepared inthis space and the age range
really was somewhere in 40iesand fifties, maybe thirties and
some 20 somethings and I waslike this is what people want of
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that age.
This is what they want.
They want community, they wantexperiential, they want to feel
God.
They don't want to be lecturedto about God, they want to feel
God and I hope we do that herebecause that's my job to bring
that awareness of it, which iswhy there's so much music and
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why we have our sound bands andwhy Dr Eric does his sound 90
sound experiences.
We want you to experience whatGod is.
So this made me laugh and sothis is my title of my talk
today On my Way to Church.
And that's kind of how I seemyself, although now I'm
thinking he looks like you,doesn't he?
Yes, that's Joselito, drJoselito on his way to church as
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a child.
It's a Catholic church and he'son his way in.
I didn't even think of thatwhen I picked that picture.
Today I'm looking at all thesepictures.
You know, when you put in thepixels, you put in boy going to
church, and so all thesepictures come up and I just so
many boys going to church, andthen I just picked this one.
And the reason why my talktitle is On my Way to Church is
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because of the word church.
You know, if Nick were heretoday he'd be like oh, church.
But you know what?
What is church?
Church is a building.
Church is a place.
Forget about the concept of itand the overall consciousness of
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it.
But a church is a building andI as a child went to church
every day.
I was going to be a priest.
I had my little missile.
Everybody in the neighborhoodsaw me every morning, walked to
church with my missile out here,so they knew where I was going
and that I was a very goodCatholic boy.
So I would go to church everysingle day.
Where was church?
Church was a place I would goto meet God.
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I see church and I think God.
That's where, if I go in, stilltoday, when I'm out and about,
if there's a big, gorgeouschurch.
Poor Kevin, he's got to go intothat church with me.
Or he goes to a Starbucks and Igo into the church and I go
into the church and I meet God.
And I go into the church and Imeet God.
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Now, now I'm aware that I'm notreally meeting God.
I'm actually up-leveling myconsciousness to walk in and
feel the presence of who Ialready am, but perhaps don't
remember and perhaps I haven'tbeen paying attention to that.
As Kirby was saying, as I'mwalking along the streets,
thinking a million differentthings and then a church, god.
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So really, this room is achurch.
It's a place where you come onSundays to meet yourself.
It's a place where you come tounderstand yourself, to
understand who you are.
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People hate the word church andespecially the word God, you
know, and they're all like it'sdivisive, don't use it.
I'm like you know what?
Maybe it is divisive, but maybeI need to use it to move the
divisiveness in a differentdirection and stop buying into
the divisiveness, but actuallystep into.
As Ernest Holmes says, show mea man who's for something and
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against nothing.
So this is a church and we area church.
The Global Truth Center is aspiritual center, but it is a
church.
It is a place where people cometo see who they are and when
they leave here they rememberwho they are, even if it's for a
brief moment, until you get onthe 101.
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Whatever it takes to rememberwho you are, even if it's for a
brief moment, until you get onthe 101.
Whatever it takes to rememberwho you are right.
So that's where we are today,on my way to church.
So Mel Robbins who, by the way,wrote the book the Let them
Theory that Thor Chalgrin willbe teaching starting tomorrow
night I hope you're all going tobe there.
Small consistent action changeseverything.
Going to be there, smallconsistent action changes
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everything.
Small consistent action changeseverything.
So we're talking this monthabout love in action I love
Kirby gave a great entrance tothis the idea of the action part
of this, the active part ofthis.
So if it's love in action, alot of people misunderstand that
.
They think that it means eventhis love only.
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That love only means I ignoreeverything.
I see nothing but love.
It's all good, it's all God.
I've told the story many timesabout the Northridge earthquake
where my landlady said to meit's all good, it's all God.
Your house will suddenly riseup, it had already fallen down
and I was standing in it nakedduring the earthquake, because I
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was thrown out of bed and thewall fell out and I'm in the
street.
And then she's like God and shewas a religious scientist God
will build your house.
God will build your house.
God will fix this.
So I finally had to say Roseher name was Rose God is not
going to fix this, you need tofix this.
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You own this house.
You're the landlady.
You need to fix this.
And she said, yes, I trust thatGod will fix this.
I was like Jesus is not cominghere to fix this.
So I said so, rose, here's thedeal.
Sweet woman too, very sweetwoman.
I said Rose, here's the deal.
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I'm not paying any more rent.
I'm going to save all my rentand I'm going to fix it.
I'm going to pay to fix this.
I'm going to pay with my rentand once it's all paid off, I'll
start paying your rent again.
And don't you know?
She didn't miss a beat and shewent see, god takes care of
everything.
Now, what I realize now is thatshe actually realized I was God
.
That's how I see it now.
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Yes, and maybe she actually didknow that, because that's the
truth.
So small, consistent actionchanges everything.
So if it's love in action, it'snot about sitting told me how
to say it.
It's not enough to have ideals,we must translate them into
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action.
So something else happened thisweek.
Along the way, I got a phonecall from a minister friend of
mine, but one of our ministers,rick Tamlin, who spoke last
night in Palm Springs, and he,you know, he's one of our
ministers here.
So he called me and said I'mgetting so many calls and I'm
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bombarded with people that arescared to death and the anxiety
and the fear about what's goingon in our country.
And I said uh-huh.
He said I just I want to speakto it, but I know you don't like
us to speak politics in church,and I said that's correct.
I said you have to find a wayto speak to everyone, not just
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one group who's anxious.
And so we had this long talkand I don't know what he said
last night, but we did talk forabout a half an hour and he said
I feel better, I think I knowwhat I'm going to do.
And then this is all week andthen I get an email from someone
saying you should look at yourstudent's talk from two weeks
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ago, my student, reverend DrJonathan Zenz, who runs a unity
church, now in Tucson, arizona,and he went all political.
He said isn't he one of yourstudents?
Don't you teach not to gopolitical at church?
I was like well, he is one ofmy students, but he's now a
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doctor of consciousness studieswhere he runs a unity church and
I have no business getting intohis business.
I said, but I will go look atit.
So I looked at it and then Icalled Jonathan and I was like
Jonathan, I loved what you said,it was, it was really great.
He said I know, and I got somuch flack.
People were like I don't, Idon't come here for politics, I
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come here for spirituality.
Come here for politics, I comehere for spirituality.
And so this was one of thequotes that Jonathan said.
He said this is a quote, thisis what he said, I'm quoting him
.
He said Jesus, remember he's atunity, lots of Jesus in their
talks.
So he said Jesus was political,he just wasn't partisan.
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And people got very pissed offabout that and I said, oh my God
, that makes brilliant sense.
Jesus was political, he's notpartisan.
Jesus did not care if you were aJew or a Roman, a Pharisee or a
rabbi.
He told you when you were doingthings incorrectly.
He told you when you weregrabbing for power.
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He told you when it weregrabbing for power.
He told you when it was allabout money.
He told you when you weren'tcoming from love only and he
didn't care who he said it to.
Now, the outcome of that wasn'tvery rosy, if you remember the
ending of that story, right?
But Jonathan was like I didn'tgo political, I merely said that
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.
That's all I said, and peoplethought that was very political
and I've been spending a lot oftime this week really asking
myself what I was going to talkabout this Sunday.
What was I going to say With somuch coming down on me from
many of you and from a lot ofpeople around the country that
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watch me and study with me areasking me where are you going to
go?
What are you going to say?
How are you going to stand upfor what needs to be stood up
for in this country?
And when I heard that statement, I was like Jesus is political,
was political, I mean please.
I played Jesus twice, so I knowall about Jesus and I remember
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the scene where the moneymanager's there and I got to go
all over the stage and throweverything around and then
collapse in abject despair overmy behavior.
That was what I thought then.
Now, if I were to play it again, I'd be thrilled.
I'd just do them all off and go.
Yeah, that was what Jesus did,right?
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But he wasn't partisan.
He wasn't saying this is mygroup and I'm going to defend
them.
He was saying we are one, weare together, we belong together
, and since we belong together,together, we must take care of
one another.
And since we belong together,we must stand up when we see
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injustices put upon certainpeople for no reason other than
they are that type of person.
So I think it's important forus as a community a non-partisan
community, to stand up forpeople and to stand up for love
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only.
Now, it's not enough to haveideals, we must translate them
into action.
We have a lot of ideals in thiscenter, don't we?
We have a lot of beliefs, a lotof philosophies.
They're on the wall.
Love only, if we're going tocome from love only.
How do I speak out?
Well, gandhi did it.
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He just stopped eating, andthat was a very bold action that
he took from love, withoutattacking anyone else.
I'm not telling you all to stopeating, just to be clear.
But I am asking today, what isours to do, what is mine to do
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in the face of this, in the faceof so much anxiety?
And that takes me back to Jesus.
You know anxious, jesus canhelp you rest.
Well, yeah, jesus' philosophyand the Christian philosophy of
love one another as I have lovedyou, treat your neighbor as
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yourself.
All of that philosophy is whatwe teach, is what we are living,
and so when we go to thequantum field and we understand
it's all relative.
Here's the thing, the reason whylove in action is so important.
I say life is unfoldingperfectly all the time and I
believe that I live my life bythat.
And life is unfolding perfectlyall the time and I believe that
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I live my life by that and lifeis unfolding perfectly.
My life is unfolding perfectlybecause my life unfolds
according to my reaction to whatis going on in the world, my
world, my reaction.
If my reaction's off, myexperience of life is going to
be off.
If my reaction is negative andangry, my life is going to be
negative and angry If my life isloving and important and has
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integrity, then my life is goingto be that as well.
That's how this works, that'show the universe works, that's
how my life is unfoldingperfectly works.
I am not saying that we believethat there's a God somewhere or
an energy somewhere or an entitysomewhere that is making sure
that, no matter what you do,it's all going to come out well
in the end.
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That's the old school.
That's just not how it works.
Will it all come out well inthe end from a quantum
understanding that life isnothing more than energy and
that energy is love?
Yes, it will, but it could burneverything up in its wake,
trying to just get back to itsoriginal source, its original
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purpose.
You are responsible.
You are absolutely 100%responsible for the lives you're
living, and your life willunfold perfectly to the degree
that you are clear about whatthat means.
And it can't just be about you,because, as the song said, we
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belong together.
There's only one of us.
So, yes, is it important for usall, every single one of us, to
speak out?
Yes, but from love.
Only Love has to come out ofour mouths in action.
And that's the, that's the,that's the turmoil, isn't it?
It's hard sometimes To see whatwe see, to know what we believe
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, to know what we feel, to wantto do something, but to take
that moment of saying what isthe most loving, responsible
action I can take in the face ofthis.
These are the conversations I'vehad all week, talking people
off of ledges.
One person said to me well, howare you going to feel when gay
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marriage goes away?
And I said I'll feel married tomy husband no matter what they
do.
I said but I will charge thestreets in support of love and
in support of people having theright to love.
I walked for women's rights.
I walked when the Supreme Courtdecided to put it back to the
states and many states lost awoman's right to choose.
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I went and marched on that.
I didn't march against theSupreme Court, I marched for a
woman's right to choose.
Do you see the difference?
Your consciousness makes thedifference.
So Michael J Fox says ourchallenges don't define us, our
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actions.
Do you know what else doesn'tdefine you?
All of your complaints?
I mean because a lot of peopleare complaining right now, have
you noticed?
But what's complaining going todo without action?
Complaining is just going tokeep it in place, whatever
you're complaining about.
So our jobs in this idea oflove and action, love is the
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centrifugal force of theuniverse that is moving
everything forward, right, don'twe all agree with that?
Love is this expansiveemotional journey for every
single being, all energy.
Inaction is your job.
Love in and of itself isinaction.
Inaction is for us.
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What are we going to do withthat love, with that energy?
It was very difficult this weekto talk to so many people and
there was a moment I turned toKevin.
I got off the phone.
I walked into the kitchen and Iwas just getting off the phone
he goes who have you beentalking to?
I was talking to someone for avery long time who was very
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upset and I explained what I wasdoing.
He said so what are you goingto do about it?
I said I just did it.
I loved someone, I heardsomeone, I listened and helped
them get back to a place wherethey can now take action, but
not from a hateful heart.
And if that's our job, thenthat's good.
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That's a really important partof what we do.
So anxious Jesus offers rest.
It does.
But you know, what else doesthe science of mind, this
philosophy?
To me, it's so important that wehonor the work of Ernest Holmes
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, and the funny part is, ofcourse, ernest Holmes took
everybody else's work andsynthesized it into a formula
that we could understand,because Thomas Troward, as
brilliant as he was, was noteveryday reading for people.
The man never found a periodthat he liked, was not everyday
reading for people.
The man never found a periodthat he liked.
So it was very difficult tofollow Thomas Troward perhaps.
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And then Ernest Holmes camealong and mixed it up and said
here's what it really is.
And for me, dr David Walker, mymentor, he went even a further
step.
He made it funny and reallycolloquial.
And, dr Walker, when I firstheard him speak I was like, ah,
that's what it is.
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And I would like to think thatI've taken it even a further
step.
I don't like too many periodseither I'm starting to get
better at that but I'm taking itthe further step of saying
here's what Ernest Holmes wantedus to know at the end of his
life.
And here's where we are todaywith science.
Here's what the science field,the quantum metaphysics, is all
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about.
I had a young man ask me lastnight at that gathering saying
so, what is quantum metaphysics?
He said he was like 27, I thinkhe said I took physics in
college.
College hated it, absolutelyhated it.
So why would I like quantummetaphysics?
Why would I like quantummetaphysics?
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I said, well, here's what Ithink Physics is, all those
formulas and stuff, and it makesus all insane.
And I didn't like physicseither.
I said but physics is tellingyou what's the sub particle
world all about, what's going onin the world.
Quantum Explains what the sub,what the the sub-particle world
all about, what's going on inthe world.
Quantum explains what thesub-particles in the space is
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all about.
Quantum metaphysics.
Metaphysics is, now that youknow, this is what the world is
about.
This is what energy is.
This is who you are.
What's behind it?
What's behind all of thatQuantum metaphysics beyond the
physical, what's beyond all ofit?
Well, you know what it is.
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If the world is broken intojust particles in space and
there are way more space thanparticles and the particles in
the space together are one thing, and if that is creative and
that is energy and it's always,always creating, it's always
energetic, then what's behind itis the force, the life force
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that we call God, that moves allof it forward, that keeps it
moving at all times and it'sgoing to keep doing that, no
matter what we do with it.
And we have to start realizingI'm not falling into the habit
of saying it's all.
It's all doing exactly whatit's meant to do no, no, no, it
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is doing exactly what it's meantto do, but are you doing
exactly what you're meant to doto have the life you want?
Because that's what it takes.
It will take all of us, as AmitGoswami says, to become quantum
activists to start to reallyunderstand.
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Here's what the energy is,here's who I am.
Now put that love in action.
Last quote in action.
Last quote Napoleon Hill saiddon't wait.
The time will never be justright, but the time will always
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be right now.
So the question becomes whatare you going to do with your
now to make the world a betterplace, namaste.
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