Dr. Masters’ Mystical Insights

Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.
“Rituals—Until God Fills the Void that Never Was”

Since the beginning of recorded time, various religious and spiritual groups have engaged in rituals.  To many, rituals form some sort of bridge between themselves and the Divine, or God.  From very simple people living meagerly in huts to the so-called captains of industry at the top of skyscrapers, very few people are immune from finding themselves engaged in some form of religious ritual.  In many religions, rituals take up a great deal of the followers’ time.

To the vast majority of souls occupying this earth plane of existence, some sort of ritual is practiced in accord with the general theology espoused. The question should be asked—if so much time is taken in the practice of rituals, are they of any real value?  Is there anything to be gained from rituals, or are they just part of pomp and circumstance to impress the masses?

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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.
“Readiness for Mystical Freedom”

The Christ Mind that was in Jesus spoke the words, “And you shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free.”  These words have been subject to many scholarly, theological interpretations, but they are truly revealed through mystical awareness.  That Truth is that there is but One Life in the Universe, and that everyone and all things are part of this One Life—the Creative Universal Presence, or God.  The Truth of being set free mystically refers to being free of the false sense of personal ego identity, so that one’s soul may experience and benefit from its oneness with Spirit, or God.

Understanding this may present a problem:

The problem may be that you already know the mystical description and accept it, but perhaps only on an intellectual level. Knowing and accepting something on an intellectual level is knowing and accepting something by your false personal ego identity—by that illusionary part of yourself that is divided from the Whole, the One Life, or God.  The intellectual acceptance by the personal ego is a ploy or game that this false sense plays to pacify the soul into thinking it is progressing spiritually.  If the ploy or game works, then one’s spiritual existence goes into limbo. The false personal ego identity may then choose to philosophize with other false personal ego identities about the nature, mysteries, and realities of life, but might never get past philosophizing or intellectualizing about reality.  One then becomes a scholar of mysticism, but not a mystic.  One speaks of the Truth, but rarely experiences or lives it, except during momentary lapses by the controlling false personal ego.

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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.
“The Mystical Psychology of God’s Love for Every Human Being and Desire to Help Each and Every One”

Of all things that can be known in the human experience, indeed the greatest of all is the experience of love. No matter how seemingly magnificent and grand anything else in human life may appear to be, it is but a shallow substitute at best for the knowing and experiencing of love.

Love is true wealth, for if you have it in your life you will feel wealthy, even if you do not possess riches in a material or financial sense. If, on the other hand, you have abundant financial and material wealth, but are without love in your life, there is no way that what you have materially can make up for the emptiness or loneliness in your life.

As one passes through life, so many types of experiences are given priority positions in the human mind. Some of these areas are indeed important, in terms of human life experience, but none is as important as love.

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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc. – Intimacy and Spirituality

There is a powerful relationship between sexuality and spirituality in the human psyche. Sexuality is not simply a strong biological urge; it has a spiritual reality. Down through the ages, mystics have known and taught that sexuality is the outer physical manifestation of a spiritual urge to have mystical union with God, or to reestablish an intimate relationship between the human soul and the eternal Spirit.

Certainly, through recently recorded time, sexuality has been degraded by the spiritually unaware. The need for reconnecting to God is so strong an urge in some, without an awareness of the real truth underlying their desire, they are often driven to the lowest forms of sexual expression.

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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc. – Multi-Dimensional Universes

While physical science is moving increasingly to an acceptance of multi-physical universes, mystics—having long since known this—are aware of an even greater complexity: numerous nonphysical dimensions within each physical dimension.

Expanding this reality from a collective one to each individual’s human reality, there comes a realization to every soul on life’s eternal path that they and all other human beings exist in different dimensions simultaneously. An expansion of inner awareness brings the realization that the soul, or true Self, exists in many dimensions, in several different expressions of beingness.

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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc. – Moving from Temporal to Eternal

When one contemplates eternity, it brings a sense of something that is timeless, without beginning or ending—something that has always been and will always be.  Let’s step forward in concept and realize that all—you, me, and everyone—exist in and as a part of Eternity.  In this earthly plane we exist in time and we are part of humanness, but in Absolute Reality, we are existent within and as a part of Eternity.

Now Eternity and all that it is, has always existed and thus has had sufficient endless time to become conscious of itself.  All timed existences, inclusive of humanity, are as thought processes moving within Eternity. Eternity or Eternal Life is another way of describing the Ultimate Life Consciousness of all that is, or—God.

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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc. – Exploring Consciousness

The exploration of consciousness is the final frontier in the exploration of life and the mysteries of existence—its origin and its on-going presence—as well as for answering questions that intellectual analysis cannot answer because it is based on the speculations of the five senses.

Indeed, to find the truths of life, a person must go beyond the limitations of the five senses.  The outer senses can only perceive on a limited scale.  Even with the help of scientific instruments piercing minute information through the lenses of a microscope or exploring the vastness of outer space with a telescope or an exploratory landing craft, there remains a limitation to some answers.

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