We have accepted that Spirit is infinite. Spirit fills all space. Therefore there can be no Spirit and. Every person, thing and condition that is, is Spirit being that person, thing or condition.

We also understand that the human faculties of seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling and thinking cannot experience Spirit in Its pure state. Spirit is infinite invisible SILENCE yet the five senses and even thought perceive finite form, and inharmony.

We have learned that what the mind sees, hears, tastes, touches, smells and thinks is a TINY AND DECEPTIVE FRACTION of the infinity of Spirit that each and every person, thing and condition really IS. We are not aware of the infinite Reality, we are aware only of a fractional fragment of Reality and it is experienced by us as the finite forms of body, building, place, business, employment, activity and so on.

The secret of bringing limitless harmony, love, health, prosperity and joy into individual life is to IGNORE the FORMS we experience through the mind, and gain an awareness of the INFINITE SPIRIT that all appearing forms really are. We know enough to close our eyes to the world of form and condition, and to REST in Spirit in the peace of our withinness, and patiently wait until we have an awareness of Spirit flowing in and AS our being.

But here’s an aspect of meditation that is very important, and which often proves a block to our demonstration of good.

If we are not careful, we rest in Spirit, and receive a beautiful flow, a beautiful peace and assurance that all is well, and then promptly get up and start thinking about our friend who is experiencing cancer or rheumatism, or our business that is experiencing lack or limitation, or our employment that is proving difficult for us in one way or another, or our relationship that is less than pure love.

We experience the blissful presence of Spirit WITHIN but fail to realise Spirit OMNIPRESENT the world and universe over, right down to every individual, every thing, every place, every grain of sand, every cell, atom and sub-atom.

REALISE THIS: Spirit does not need your help or mine to BE. Spirit is eternal ISNESS, eternal COMPLETENESS. There is no unmanifested Spirit. There is not one blade of grass out of place in Spirit; there is not one weather storm in Spirit; there is not one pound or dollar missing from your complete fulfilment or mine in Spirit; there is not one inharmonious relationship in Spirit; there is not one wisp of inactivity, lack, limitation or difficulty in Spirit. There is just BLISSFUL PEACE OF SUBLIME BEING.

BUT WE MUST BE AWARE OF SPIRIT INSTEAD OF THE APPEARING FORMS AND CONDITIONS WE ARE AWARE OF THROUGH THE MIND IF WE ARE TO EXPERIENCE A GREATER DEGREE OF THE COMPLETENESS OF SPIRIT IN OUR TANGIBLE SENSE.

Let’s take a friend or family member who has been told they have cancer. Knowing what we know and are trying our best to be, we sit down to meditate for him or her. But right away we must be careful to understand what our role is. We do NOT think of the person, we think ONLY on Spirit and the perfection of SPIRITUAL LIFE. There is no form as the mind knows it in Spirit, there is just infinite INVISIBLE SPIRIT. That is what we contemplate, and ONLY that. We do NOT try to “see” spiritual life as the FORM of the person we are meditating for. WE CONCENTRATE ONLY ON SPIRITUAL LIFE, INVISIBLE LIFE.

Our contemplative meditation might go something like this:

Spirit, Spirit, Spirit… Only Spirit exists. Spirit fills all space. Spirit is what appears to my senses AS a person, and so I know that the form of a person appearing to me is an illusory appearance that the mind is seeing. The person IS really there but not in the form I am experiencing. My physical eyes deceive me. I therefore can ignore the appearance and realise that actually the form is Spirit, infinite, perfect and blissful.

I also know that Spirit does not need my help to BE Spirit. Every pinprick of Spirit is eternal bliss and perfection of Being. Therefore, every PERSON is eternal bliss and perfection of Being even though I might not be aware of this Truth.

Ah, there it is! Awareness! That is the great secret. The very moment I become AWARE of SPIRIT being the person, and not the FORM THAT APPEARS TO MY MIND, the ‘healing’ begins to become evident. As I become more and more AWARE of ONLY SPIRIT being every person, every thing and every condition - EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING IS SPIRIT! - I am not causing change or healing to take place, I AM SIMPLY AWAKENING MY SENSES TO THE PRESENCE OF SPIRIT. As I awaken, the PURITY AND COMPLETENESS AND PERFECTION of what is appearing to me becomes evident -  tangible - to my mind and physical experience. But let me be doubly sure that I know I have no role whatsoever in the appearing of Spirit to my awareness. Spirit reveals ITSELF to my still consciousness. My ONLY role in this whole thing is to continually be an OPEN CONSCIOUSNESS for Spirit to inhabit.

Spirit, I rest in You. I wait patiently for YOU to fill my awareness with the Purity that YOU are, rather than the impurity my mind has accepted - the ills, lacks, limitation and unhappiness the mind has grown up believing. How wonderful it is now that I know ONLY SPIRIT exists, and that ANY inharmony that comes into my awareness is only a “trick of the mind” and can be, and is, instantly purified by my simply sitting in the peace of my withinness, with an open and receptive consciousness - an empty house - and having YOU, SPIRIT fill my ‘darkness’ with light, love and clarity of awareness.

All ‘healing,’ harmonising, and fulfilling experience then takes place in my withinness which ALWAYS reflects in my outer scene as infallibly as invisible sun rays reflect in the outer scene as visible patches of light, and tangible areas of heat.

Spirit is the ONE power, omnipotence. Nothing, nothing, nothing that appears to mind is able to stand against the ONE POWER AND PRESENCE OF SPIRIT because Spirit is REAL yet the images my mind sees are not real, they are just IMAGES the mind interprets Spirit as. One with the actual awareness of Spirit is a majority. Nothing in the entire world or universe can stand against you when you are aware of Spirit being that thing.

SPIRIT REALISED (an actual conscious awareness) ALWAYS AND INFALLIBLY APPEARS AS THE ILLNESS OR DISEASE MELTING AWAY TO REVEAL PURE HEALTH AND LIFE… AS THE LACK OR LIMITATION FADING AWAY TO REVEAL ABUNDANCE AND FREEDOM OF PROSPEROUS ACTIVITY… AS THE DROPPING AWAY OF INHARMONIOUS RELATIONSHIP TO REVEAL LOVING AND JOYFUL RELATIONSHIP… AND AS EVERY RESTRICTION AND HARDSHIP OF LIFE DISSOLVING TO REVEAL JOY AND HAPPINESS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT.

Our friend, our business, our employment, our illness or disease does not need our “working on it” before it becomes perfect, pure and whole. IT NEEDS OUR RELEASE. Spirit does not need your help or mine to BE SPIRIT. But it DOES need our RELEASING of even the THOUGHT that anything needs fixing, improving, prospering or healing.

How can Spirit need fixing? It is already whole, perfect and infinitely present - omnipresent - right where you are and I am. How can Spirit need improving, prospering or healing? It is already whole, abundant, complete and blissful. The moment we KNOW this, and then meditate to HAVE THIS KNOWING PERMEATE FOR, AS, AND THROUGH OUR CONSCIOUS AWARENESS IN A GREATER DEGREE, and we then RELEASE all thought of person, thing or condition IN THE KNOWING THAT IT IS PURE SPIRIT AND THEREFORE NEEDS NOTHING FROM ME, we discover the ‘healing,’ ‘harmonising’ and ‘prospering’ consciousness that performs miracles as far as the five-sense mind is concerned.

But do you see that it is not really a miracle? It is simply AWAKENING to the omnipresence of Spirit as everything, everywhere, needing nothing at all from me or you OTHER THAN OUR AWARENESS OF ITS PRESENCE AND OUR STILLNESS AND SILENCE OF BEING through which to express without hindrance.