Lectures
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- Written by John Michael Thornton
- Category: Lectures
When you first start to explore spirituality and psychic development there is this wonderful honeymoon period. You get the best parking places, synchronicity is everywhere and you talk to your guides more than you talk to your family – Then the true work begins and you are faced with the choice of continuing down a spiritual path or spending your life as a tourist. No one can make the decision for you. No one can or will make you choose one way or another. For some people it is the first clear, personal choice of their lives.
Choice.
The path of Spirit is all about choice, free will, and living with our choices every day. What are the guidelines we should follow? How do our choices effect others? Why do we make the choices we make, and how do we live with them?
In this brief look at choice and responsibility we will look at how world religions have viewed choice as well as looking at how modern mystics and teachers have explored this idea of free will.
(45 Minutes)
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- Written by John Michael Thornton
- Category: Lectures
This is the story of how I stopped believing in the Divine, learned to respect angels and began to understand the power and place for faith - it has a lot to do with the U.S. Postal Service.
No one goes around believing in the Postman. You know he will show up - Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Belief is the end of faith.
Knowledge is the end of belief.
I Know there is a God and I see the Evidence and feel the Power every day.
Everyone needs a quick little talk in their back pocket that makes a point, makes them laugh and demonstrates your world view in 20 minutes or less - this is mine.
(20 Minutes)
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- Written by John Michael Thornton
- Category: Lectures
The answer is always “No.” Like many readers and teachers, time and again I hear people say a thousand different variations on, “Do it for me.” Spiritual work is too hard. Being healthy is too much work. Forgiveness is such a pain. Instant gratification takes too long. And, can’t you just make me psychic? Isn’t there a Secret that makes it all easy?
One of our greatest challenges is how to teach and inspire people without trying to do the work for them and how to bring ourselves to do the hard work of spiritual development every single day. In this talk we will explore ways of inspiring yourself and others to do the work and learn the lesson and make yourself and the world better each and every day.
Everything is a test, and everything is a lesson. No one can do it for you, but the rewards of choosing to take the test and learn the lessons are tremendous.
(45 Minutes)