by Sunburst Founder, Norman Paulsen • (Part 1 was posted on November 30, 2020)
What happens when we open the inner-dimensional door at the crown of our head, asking and coaxing the “sap” to flow from the divine Source into our tree of life? The divine Spirit begins to awaken into its all-pervading Christ consciousness! Christ Jesus stated that he came to bring us life and bring it more abundantly. The creative breath of life and consciousness of Christ is breathed into us and our immortality is realized.
Christ Jesus also stated: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock.” The pressure, or knocking sensation you may feel at the crown of your head while meditating, is the touch of the divine Christ-conscious Being, breathing the breath of life into you more abundantly. Let the breath of immortality take possession of you!
If we allow our little egos, our self-conscious selves, to desire this more than anything else, then I Am That I Am, the Christ, will come. By circulating the life force up and down our spines in meditation, as taught in Kriya Yoga, keeping the door on the crown of our heads open to the divine brilliance of the first creation of Light, that Presence will be attracted to come into us! We must open the door and ask with all our live, with all our desire, offering up our life force, our tithe to God!
We are living in these bodies and yet have no idea of the potential of the consciousness that created them. Even as God does now, in Christ consciousness all the geometrical patterns in nature could be understood and contained within this incredible computer mind that we have. We do not use the total capacity of the great higher brain. Imagine if we could! This upper stratum of the cerebrum is built to contain the messages of all the vibrating atoms in creation. It was created by God for God to inhabit in the sons and daughters of man.
We have the ability within us to understand everything that has ever been created—to literally be one with I Am That I Am, while here on this Earth, walking in these bodies. We are standing on the threshold of such a transition now for humanity. I Am That I Am wants to walk on this Earth, to be able to share our lives 100 percent.
We have been given free will to love or deny this great Being. We can destroy the worlds God has created, or we can caretake them and beautify them. We can become the true sons and daughters of God, the caretakers of creation. That is why we have been given the tool of Kriya meditation. Through it we can re-establish our connection, our oneness with the blazing Light of the face of God at the divine center of creation.
Yes, now is the time to open ourselves to receive that great Force, that Light, that Life, more abundantly. We are created in the image and likeness of this whole creation, God’s kingdom. It all exists within us. We have but to realize it. And what does it mean when we do? It doesn’t mean we’re special. It simply means we become divine caretakers of the creation. We become heirs, one with I Am That I Am, true sons and daughters caring for the creation with willing hands, accomplishing the divine will wherever we go, as best we can, every day.
by Heiko Wirtz • One morning my phone rang very early. When I answered, Norm, founder of Sunburst was saying “Heiko, I want you to drive to the ranch right away and go up on the mesa. Spirit showed me that one of the bull pasture gates is open, and the bulls are heading that way.”
Not anxious to jump out of bed so early, I said, “Really? How do you know this?”
In a matter-of-fact tone he said, “I was flying over there in my inner vision and saw it.” That ended the conversation.
I threw on my clothes and hurried off toward the mesa. Bulls are normally kept in a pasture by themselves. If the bulls got out of their pasture, they would wander into the 800 acre hilly pasture beyond. And they would quickly be mixed in with the cows and calves, a mess to sort out later.
Sure enough when I got there, the mesa gate was wide open and the bulls were only about 50 feet away. I ran to close the gate. Soon Norm showed up in his white Suburban. He had a big smile on his face, like the whole thing happened just to show me something about life. “God wants to be a cowboy, too,” he said.
Right then I realized that God is interested in everything we do. If we could only imagine what this means! What an ally we can have in our lives! Everything we do is observed by the Great Immensity. All we have to do in return is open our hearts, our desire, our thoughts, and allow that greater experience to be there with us.
When our consciousness is aware of Spirit’s presence alongside of us and inside of us, we magnetize Spirit with our desire, and we become witnesses and doers within this great divine creation.
I Am That I Am,
Thank you for your ever-present watchfulness over us.
Help me remember your presence every moment.
May I go forth knowing that you are always with me
Amen
by Sunburst Founder, Norman Paulsen • If the kingdom of heaven is within you, as the son of man from Galilee stated, then it can be known to you. But how do you find it? How do you perceive it? How do you get there? Through the ancient teachings of the Solar Logos, the Light of Consciousness, the living Christ, the way is always open!
The ancients described our spinal column as the Tree of Life, with the roots (hair) anchored in heaven, and the First Light of creation. Yes, each one of us is indeed like an inverted tree. This means that our great upper brain, called the upper chamber, exists inner-dimensionally in that region where Light originally first burst forth projecting the great expanding sphere of creation.
In each one of us, the tree of life carries the sap, or the Breath of Life that comes forth from the inner Cosmic Sun, the first creation of Light, the body of Christ. It enters into us through the roots of our hair, descending through the door at the crown of our heads—the place that was open and beating with each heartbeat when we were infants. Without that life coming into our bodies, our hearts cease to beat, our senses cease to function, our life in this body ends.
The inner-dimensional tree of life in our spinal column is hollow, like a tunnel. The breath of life flows through the center of our inner-dimensional tunnel and outward into the causal, astral and physical dimensions of our being. The astral body resembles a vibrating electrical tree full of colors, like a rainbow at times.
Yes, in illumination, our body is a Christ-mass tree crowned with a star, the Cosmic Sun. The astral body supports the flesh, the physical body and the fruits thereof. Through the inner-dimensional tunnel in our spine the Light of Christ, as the breath of life, flows from the center of creation into us. This means that within us exists, inner-dimensionally, the totality of everything that I Am That I Am ever projected from the smallest of all places outward into the creation.
The kingdom of heaven is indeed within us to find, as Christ Jesus stated! We are made in the image of our God! Our bodies and our souls are divinely connected to that infinite Source, that life-giving Being, that consciousness, that unconditional divine Love. Yes, I Am That I Am is in each of us, dreaming momentarily that He or She is our little individual self-conscious ego. (Part 2 follows on Dec. 8. Fall photos of Sunburst Retreat Center are shown.)
by Cayce Howe • I love thinking about joy and happiness, but it’s even better when we can move into a realm where we can experience the feeling of joy and the feeling of happiness. Paramahansa Yogananda once said, “If you possess happiness, you possess everything. To be happy, is to be in tune with God.”
It is so often in this world that the external part of life does not give us too many reasons and opportunities to feel joy and happiness. Sometimes it even feels that there is little time to give ourselves that gift.
In a book I read, the author suggested that we take three minutes and spend those three minutes complimenting ourselves continuously. I had never done anything like that and it felt so odd at first, but then it felt really good and I was left with a feeling of positivity. I felt more receptive to the presence of God, as though it had cleared the way and that God could come in and sit with me.
I wonder if feeling joy and happiness is being in tune with God. How powerful is it? And how beneficial is it for just one of us to feel joy and happiness? How beneficial would it be to this great planet for each and every one of us to feel that way? If we have two or three or four people smiling, how beneficial is that for the consciousness of humanity?
Or what if we have an entire room full of people blending our souls together in this feeling of joy and happiness, how would that affect the consciousness here on Earth and how would that allow Spirit to walk through us and to manifest Him or Herself here? As we spend time in quietude and meditation we enter into a place that is limitless; we enter into a place where God’s divine plan can be felt, can be seen and tasted. When we quiet our minds and quiet our bodies, we can slip into this place of limitless beauty.
We can envision a world living in accordance with divine plan and all its’ inhabitants living in tune with our Creator. Imagine the playfulness, the joy and the bliss. As you walk through this beautiful thought world, imagine our own gifts, our own work, that you would offer in such a place. Imagine how divine Spirit would manifest through you, in your own unique way.
As we each do this, we are reaching out to our Creator, and saying that we are empty vessels for the divine plan to take place through us. We are here to help manifest in any way Spirit would like, this beautiful vision, this realm of limitless beauty and divinity and oneness.
Meditation allows us to transcend our worries and concerns, and bring us to a place where we can reconnect with joy, with happiness, and with the will of our Creator. In this way, we have a limitless opportunity to feel and experience the joy that is our divine birthright—what God wants for each and every one of us. We have the tools to not only uplift our own spirit, but the spirit and consciousness of this entire world.
by Catherine Mauron •
