Observe IT 1: Where Are You Looking From?

Seeing is believing? From where? your eyes? other senses? or other organs? It's important to know. Awaken to where your perspectives arrive from. Are they egoistic or through the Divine Intelligence available at all times to inform and inspire? You get to decide what to see, what to listen to, and where to listen from and through. Join Rev. Jay to explore the choices.

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This morning,

I want to start out with a couple of questions for all of us,

Not just you,

But for myself as well.

What does living a life of curiosity day to day look like?

And it doesn't matter whether things are going smoothly or we're confronted with any sort of challenges.

That doesn't matter.

What matters is how are we stepping into it?

What does living a life of curiosity do for us every day?

And the second question is,

How do you,

How do I,

How do we discern between our personal agenda and that of spirit?

Let me repeat that one.

How do we discern between our personal agenda and that of spirit?

I'll explain that question a little more later if you don't quite understand.

But first I'm going to talk about the sentence of spiritual living where I was ordained has a global vision.

And in this global vision,

There's this sentence that I want to read to you.

And it says,

We see a world in which every person lives in alignment with their highest spiritual principle,

Emphasizing unity with God and connection with each other.

A world in which individually and collectively we are called to a higher state of consciousness and action.

We see a world in which every person lives in alignment with their highest spiritual principle.

So in this world,

Where do we see this world from though?

That's what I'm wondering from the sentence.

Where do we see that world from?

How do we align with it that it was talking about?

How do we align with that,

That idea,

That spiritual presence?

Well,

It all depends on where we're looking from or maybe where we're looking through.

So is it from the five senses?

Are we seeing the world or are we experiencing the world through only the five senses?

Sight,

Sound,

Taste,

Smell,

Touch through our eyes,

Through our ears,

Our mouth,

Our skin.

Or is it just the brain?

Are we experiencing the world from the brain?

The brain where the seat of intellect is,

Language,

Cognition,

Creativity comes from,

Logic and knowledge of course sits in the brain.

All those electrochemical workings of the something like 86 billion neurons that are firing those synapses,

Firing in our brain.

The place where we recognize,

Where we give meaning to ideas,

Where we create narratives,

Those all happen in the brain.

And I would say that most of us have that brain,

That head thing down.

Some people call it the head thing.

We say things,

We think things like,

I think,

I think,

I reckon,

I understand,

I declare this or that in my life.

I reveal this or that in my life.

Intelligent,

Intellectual decisions are made and announcements are given through the brain.

Or maybe we see life,

We experience of life from our heart.

Maybe it's our heart,

Maybe it's not our brain,

Maybe the answers are in our heart.

Now the heart,

Interestingly enough,

Whoops,

Above the table,

The heart,

Interestingly enough,

Is the first organ in the body to develop.

Isn't that interesting?

And it's not merely a muscle,

It's actually an organ.

There was a time where they just called it a muscle,

But it's now officially,

I don't know when that began,

An organ.

It's not just there to pump blood though.

The heart has a complex intrinsic nervous system of its own,

Of over 40,

000 different sensory neurites firing off independently from those happening in the brain.

And it's now labeled by researchers,

There's a whole new field called neurocardiology.

And those researchers in neurocardiology calls what's going on in the heart as a functional brain.

Isn't that interesting?

And in this functional brain in the heart,

We can learn independently of the heart.

We have our own memories that are in our heart.

We feel and we sense information through our heart.

The heart creates an energetic magnetic field right now as I'm speaking that tells our brains whether we feel safe or not.

It's the regulator of our perception.

So maybe that's where life is being seen from.

Ernest Holmes wrote,

We can think,

Pray or speak words until we are blue in the face and not a thing will manifest at least not in the clearest way unless we have feeling behind it.

While we admire the intellect,

We must realize that the intellect is not the creative factor in the universe.

Rather,

It is the feeling that is creative.

So he's saying it's not just a mental as in the brain-mind occurrence.

It's a feeling occurrence,

Which is what the heart is about.

And Neville wrote a whole book called Feeling is the Secret.

And he wrote in that,

Ideas are impressed on the subconscious through the medium of feeling.

No idea can be impressed on the subconscious unless it is felt.

But once felt,

Be it good,

Bad or indifferent,

It must be expressed.

Feeling is the one and only medium through which ideas are conveyed to the subconscious.

I want to repeat that one,

Feeling is the only one and only medium through which ideas are conveyed to the subconscious.

So it's feeling,

So it's heart.

So it is the heart.

It's not the brain.

It's the heart that we see life from.

But maybe that's not true either.

Maybe it's the gut.

You know,

The gut,

You know,

I feel it in my gut where intuition shows up.

The gut is called the enteric nervous system and it consists of sheaves of neurons that are embedded in the walls of our gut.

And the gut goes from the esophagus all the way to the end there.

It's a whole long,

Your whole torso pretty much.

There are some like a hundred million different neurons going on,

Popping and synapsing and doing all those crazy things in the gut.

And that's more than in your spinal cord or more in your whole peripheral nervous system throughout your entire body.

It's pretty amazing.

And it uses more than 30 neurotransmitters,

30 neurotransmitters,

Just like the brain does is happening in your gut.

Can't see me pointing,

But I'm pointing to my gut.

Interesting thing else about the gut,

95% of our serotonin,

The serotonin is that hormone that regulates mood and appetite and sleep and memory and sexual desire and function.

95% of the serotonin is in your gut,

Not in your brain.

Fascinating.

And there's this thing called the vagus nerve.

The vagus nerve carries information from the gut to the brain.

It goes all the way up your torso to your brain.

But the interesting thing about that is that the information only goes one way from the gut to the brain.

So the gut is informing our logic center,

Our knowledge center,

Our intellect,

What's going on.

But as smart as it might sound,

The enteric nervous system,

Our gut can't really balance our checkbook or compose a symphony.

It mostly just controls digestion.

But the gut also controls self-preservation,

Interestingly enough.

Responding to challenges,

Opposition,

Danger,

And helping us determine our core sense of self through its reactions to our thoughts,

Right?

It takes guts.

My gut tells me.

I feel it in my gut.

All those things we say because that's what's happening.

It's not just a metaphor.

And some of us have this gut stuff,

Intuition thing going on strong.

So is it the brain,

The heart,

The gut?

Which one is fueling the life of curiosity from day to day?

Which one is understanding and analyzing and solving whether things are going smoothly or not?

Which one is discerning between our personal agenda,

Our almost narcissistic ego,

Our fears in our egos?

Which is doing that?

Which is discerning that personal agenda,

That ego agenda versus that of spirit,

The information from spirit?

And what is driving our desires,

Revelations,

And our actual communion with the universe?

Michael Beckwith wrote this great quote and he said,

When your thoughts and actions begin to align with the imperatives of your soul,

You enroll the full support of the universe.

Unimagined possibilities begin to open up as you synchronize with the divine,

Synchronize with the divine.

How do we synchronize the divine?

Is it my senses?

Is it my brain?

Is it my heart?

Is my gut?

Spirit's call is one of wholeness and oneness and infinite possibilities and creativity and freedom and truth.

I say that every week in one way or another and we use spiritual practices like visioning and like the affirmative prayer we did earlier,

The spiritual mind treatment,

Meditation,

All sorts of spiritual practices that assist us in letting go of these personal agendas.

Now,

I'm not saying having a personal agenda is a negative thing.

I'm talking more about the personal agenda of the ego that usually is something that is informing us that we don't have something,

That we need something,

That we are in fear of something because it doesn't meet our needs.

So we use the spiritual practice to let go of our personal agenda and then align with the cosmic consciousness to experience then a greater flow and a greater ease of life no matter what is showing up and manifesting our desires of course and the things we want to reveal in our lives.

So how is the divine communicating with us and us with it?

Again,

Is it the senses,

The brain,

The heart,

The gut?

Is prayer or meditation or visioning or visualizing coming from your head,

Your heart or your gut?

As individualized expressions of the one infinite universal energy,

We have access to the infinite wisdom and intelligence of all space and time.

It's pure love,

It's unconditional love and it flows through us as,

As for us and with us as individualized expressions.

We are individualized expressions of this energy but it shows up to the degree that we set our previous ideas aside and tune into its frequency and then thus awaken to the impress of its intelligence and its love of universal spirit.

But if that happens of course to the degree that we become conscious of it,

That we step into tune in to that frequency.

But then again the question comes up,

Is consciousness in your brain,

Your heart or your gut?

Is it in our logic and knowledge,

Our feelings or is it in the power of intuition that usually shows up through our gut?

This is called the,

What's going on in our brain is called the cephalic region.

Our heart of course is the cardiac region and our gut like I said before is the enteric system.

So do we think therefore I am or do I feel therefore I know or do I intuit therefore I am inspired?

Ernest Holmes quote again,

God's creative power of mind is right here.

He says,

We have as much of this power to use as we believe in and embody.

The storehouse of nature is filled with infinite good awaiting the touch of our awakened thought to bring spring forth into manifestation in our lives.

It's right here he says,

Well where is here?

And he said embody,

To personify,

To be a part of the wholeness of our personhood is what embody means.

So then it must mean all of them together working as one.

Sometimes the head,

The brain is the lead,

Sometimes the heart,

The feelings is the lead and eventually whether it starts there or ends there,

The gut,

The inspiration is the lead.

It's a combo is what I'm getting,

Working in tandem,

Talking to each other,

Empowering the intuitive words and ideas with feelings,

Intellect and thus showing up into our lives,

Into our experience.

If you haven't heard this before,

I call this the divine matrix.

Mind heart,

Gut,

Brains talking to each other,

Relating to each other,

Jumping off ideas through and from each other,

A full on,

Full body,

Holistic mind.

That's what I call the mind,

This divine matrix,

This interworking,

This idea of this organization of brain,

Heart and gut working together,

Adding it all up and becoming our consciousness,

Bringing our ideas into our belief system so that constantly and consistently and habitually and as second nature,

You might say,

Although actually it's first nature,

We answer all instances,

All experiences,

All questions,

All conditions and dreams and desires,

Et cetera,

Et cetera,

With Spirit's highest idea.

We reveal when we work them all together as one divine matrix,

We reveal Spirit's highest idea,

But what is again Spirit's highest idea of itself as my life?

That is the question that we ask every time a decision is to be made.

And it probably won't be the only question,

But that is the main question when we're faced with deciding about something that has shown up in our lives or deciding about something we want to change in our lives or bring forth into our lives.

That is the highest idea of Spirit in this moment.

When we live in these questions as its own spiritual practice or as an addition to all the spiritual practices that you do,

We invite ourselves to listen to and from a different place beyond the egoic brain that edges God out mostly and into what I was saying,

The mind,

The divine matrix,

The brain,

The heart and the gut,

The divine matrix of the intellect,

The feelings and the intuition.

So great.

So now we know this,

We've figured that out.

So what do we do?

Well,

We ask questions.

We ask questions to our most inner self.

Yeah,

We can ask questions to friends.

We can ask questions from our allies and professionals and all that.

But the deepest part before we make the final decision comes from the questions we ask our most inner self.

Questions open us up to something new.

Questions invite curiosity.

That word,

That beautiful word.

Curiosity is a way of being what is Spirit's highest idea in my life.

This type of question breaks us away from what we think we know and desire and invite something greater within to guide us.

That those infinite possibilities that are in the universe to guide us.

It's time we reawaken our heart intelligence and connect it with our brain intelligence.

There's a gentleman named Ramana Manharshi.

He's a Hindu sage from the early mid 20th century.

And he wrote this,

When the mind stays in the heart,

The I,

As in the letter I,

Which is the source of all thoughts will go and the self,

Whichever exists,

Will shine.

Let me say that again.

When the mind stays in the heart,

The I,

Which is the source of all thoughts will go and the self,

Which ever exists will shine.

The self with the big S.

The self that is so full of universal presence.

That individualization that is within each and every one of us of God,

Of the divine.

There's this great word in the Cherokee language called,

That says shanti ishta is the word.

And it means the single eye of the heart.

The single eye that sees what's true without judgment.

Like the universe,

Like the law of cause and effect or the law of attraction.

It sees what's true without judgment.

It sees what's there,

What's behind,

What's deep into the belief.

Shanti ishta.

There is only one power and presence,

The one source back of all things.

Call it what you like.

And knowing that there is only one life,

This life must be who I am,

Who you are.

Therefore each of us has the ability to allow the infinite wisdom to express through us by living in the question,

What is Spirit's highest vision of itself as me in this moment,

In this question,

In this situation?

Living from a space of curiosity,

A place of curiosity and remaining open and willing to reveal Spirit's highest vision of itself in our lives as us.

Expressing through our divine matrix of head,

Heart and gut allows us to live as act from a place of divine guidance.

And from divine guidance we can create heaven on earth.

Because that's where it is.

It's not somewhere out there.

It's not somewhere we go.

It's somewhere we,

It's something we experience.

Robert Browning wrote in Peracelus,

Truth is within ourselves.

It takes no rise from outward things,

Whatever you may believe.

There is an inmost center in us all where truth abides in fullness.

Now from outside things he's not talking about the universe.

He's talking about all this 3D stuff.

It's inside.

So what does living a life of curiosity day to day look like?

Whether things are going smoothly or you're confronted with challenges.

And again the second sentence,

How do you discern between your personal agenda and that of Spirit?

You entertain God only using your intellect,

Feeling the moment and listening for the intuition,

The head,

The heart,

The gut together,

The divine matrix.

Learning through curiosity,

Remaining open to experiencing a shift,

A perspective,

A new awareness,

A heightened experience of life through the full body,

The holistic use of the divine matrix.

That is where the answers to the questions are.

This are what you are looking from.

Are you willing?

I am.

Join me.

Thank you so much.

Namaste.