Dr. Masters’ Mystical Insights

Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.
“Real Magic versus Ego Illusionary Magic”

Can people really materialize their needs through spiritual practices? So very many people over the past 100 years have been attracted to Metaphysical New Thought by the lure of what they personally can acquire. Certainly there are human needs of a roof overhead, food on the table, clothes on one’s back, and other basic necessities. It is then certainly understandable that a person would be attracted to a philosophical theology that offers promise or hope that a person can meet his or her basic needs, and yes, be a prosperous person materially. And, all this is in direct contrast to more fundamentalist religion that has either directly or indirectly suggested to followers that being prosperous is somehow sinful or not being religious.

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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.
“Decision Making: Who Makes the Decisions?”

How life turns out—or how it is going for anyone—is based on what decisions one has made, to one’s betterment or detriment.

When a soul is born into this physical earthly dimension, with but few exceptions, he or she incarnates with a false sense of identity—the personal ego. As they grow to adulthood, the limited sense of awareness of other personal egos surrounding them reinforces the illusion that they are but personal ego identities.

From schoolyard adolescence to the adult environments of human life in this earthly dimension, the personal ego identity is accepted as being the decision maker in one’s life. The personal ego becomes involved in a personal learning process based on what one’s parents believe and then expands into the beliefs of educators, politicians, scientists, and, for the majority, religions. The personal ego builds what it knows about life and how to live it based on a composite from all these sources of what is and what is not.

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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.
“Thankfulness in Mystical Reality”

Everything that exists physically—even ideas thought by those in physical embodiment—has a deeper, more profound energy existence.  The idea of thanks is part of a deeper, more Mystical Reality, as well.  A person who expresses thanks for any physical life experience is not, in the majority of cases, aware of the profoundness of his or her expression.  A person expressing thanks to God may have little, if any, awareness of the deeper significance of such an expression.  This is because, unless a person has been blessed with real Mystical Awareness, giving thanks is an expression of limited, personal ego identity.

It may be that when giving thanks to God, there is a divide of consciousness or awareness between personal ego identity and Universal Identity, or God. Because of such a divide imagined by the personal ego, the full Mystical Reality of the idea of thanks is lost in the myriad of personal ego subterfuges.  When the personal ego gives thanks to God, the ego is one thing or identity, and God is another identity.

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“The Illusion of Co-Creating and the Reality of Aligned Co-Creating”

From traditional and fundamentalist dogma to metaphysical speculations, the basic belief has been that the Power of God can intervene in human affairs to somehow provide people with what they believe they need. A very large percentage of any organized or even non-organized religion has had such a belief as the foundation of its existence. In the most basic of terms, most human beings are attracted to some form of religion based on what they believe the religion can do for them in their present physical lives and as some assurance of a good experience in any afterlife. In effect, the religion—at least in a follower’s mind—acts as an intermediary between the follower and God. Reduced to its simplest description, people become part of a religion with the thought that through the religion of their choice, God will grant them their desires or prayers in this life and the afterlife.

When humans are very young, they look up to their physical parents to supply their needs. When they become adults—at least numbered in physical years—they turn to God to take over for their physical parents to supply their needs during their physical lifetime and in the life beyond the physical. In traditional religion God is prayed to—that is, asked, pleaded with, or begged—for something to be granted.

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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.
“To Know Everything, Admit to Knowing Nothing”

There is nothing so ignorant as the personal ego in humans that believes it knows something or anything about the reality of life.

The personal ego is of itself a figment of the imagination built on limited physical sense perceptions that it exists or even has any reality. How can anything that is of itself a non-reality even begin to attempt to grasp the reality of what life really is, both on a Universal scale and miniaturized down to an individual?

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“Time? A Mystical Perspective”

A person remembers the past and wonders about the future. An older person thinks how quickly time has passed, and that it seemed just yesterday—perhaps even a moment ago—that they were as young as the youth they see around them.

Yes, as the expression goes, time seems to “fly by”—but does it? On the other hand, people describing some great moment of inspiration have said or written that it was as if “time stood still.”

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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc. -Simultaneous Dimensional Existence

We are many in one.

When the psalmist praised God, proclaiming himself “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139), he alluded to the mysteries of our beingness that mystics through the ages have discovered—that the reality of who and what we are is complex. Indeed, every human being is a microcosm of the macrocosmic Universe, both physical and nonphysical.

How complex is a person’s state of beingness? If a person had no idea of the inner physiology of the human body and suddenly viewed it for the first time, most assuredly there would be a sense of amazement. Consider then that there are still other levels of a person’s state of beingness that are just as complex, if not far more so.

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