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Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
The Law of One is clear that the many people are here now to help midwife Earth's fourth density vibratory conditions. The presentation pulls together Ra's descriptions of the Earth's third density. Ra's balancing technique helps us learn how to become the Creator by balancing our inner lives as we become more aware of what arises given the catalysts of the day. Doug offers another type of technique that is based upon the Law of One and the techniques of self-compassion. He calls this the Sacrament of Solidarity. Participating in the Sacrament of Solidarity is a kind of tapping into Intelligent Infinity and the result can be an explosion of love, joy, perspective, and integrity. Inner balancing naturally ensues.
The images used in the presentation can be found here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2022/11/30/third-density-and-the-sacrament-of-solidarity/
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Building 4th member, DeMarcus, gave a wonderful introduction to the Law of One's concept of densities. A community discussion follows.
Images used in the presentation can be found here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2022/11/29/densities-metaphysics-characteristics/
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Doug presented on the Law of One material's concept of will and faith. Few themes are as important in the material as these.
The images can be found here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2022/11/17/will-and-faith-the-reins-by-which-we-move/
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
This presentation takes place at the Retreat House Community Center in Richardson, Texas. Doug combines three teachings together to provide a deep, practical, and accessible synthesis of:
1) the archetypal wisdom of Jungian psychiatrist and spiritual director, Troy Caldwell, MD (retired),
2) the perennial wisdom of the Enneagram,
3) a modified version of Richard Rohr's teaching of the True Self/False Self, which Doug calls the Anchored Self/Floating Self
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The images used in this presentation can be found here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2022/11/10/jungian-archetypes-and-the-enneagram-part-2/
References:
www.troycaldwell.com
www.cac.org
www.enneagraminstitute.com
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Rob Kornmeyer was raised Catholic and later found meaning in Norse religion. He offers his understanding of the Norse religion and ties it together with some aspects of the Law of One material.
The images discussed in the podcast can be accessed here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2022/11/09/norse-gods-and-the-law-of-one/
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
In this fourth part of the Universal Christ presentation, Doug ties in the Enneagram Types with the Anchored Self, Floating Self pedagogy to reveal a more comprehensive exploration of how the Universal Christ is present in and through the human consciousness.
The slides for this presentation can be found here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2022/11/08/the-universal-christ-part-4-the-enneagram-as-nine-faces-of-the-universal-christ/
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
In this third part of the Universal Christ series, Doug continues to speak to a group of colleagues who work together in the financial sector where they teach their clients how to become good stewards of their money and use it to bring about more justice and solidarity with others who struggle socially and economically. Doug introduces the concept of the the Anchored Self and Floating Self, which builds upon the teachings of Richard Rohr, OFM. How discusses ways in which we can learn to embody our Anchored Selves more and more, while using our Floating Selves to do good in the world.
The images of the presentation can be found here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2022/10/26/universal-christ-part-3-the-anchored-self-and-the-floating-self/
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
This second presentation on the Universal Christ continues to draw our attention to God's perfect symmetry between the macroscopic and the microscopic. Secondly, Doug speaks about the pattern of Love's own becoming in which there is always a dying and rising, loss and renewal, losing and gaining. This paradox is exquisitely exemplified by the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Drawing upon Richard Rohr's teaching, we see that Jesus is a visible icon of an invisible universal Reality. To find out what God has been up to for the last 14 billion years, look at the life of Jesus; and to find out how to interpret the life of Jesus, engage with God's "first Bible:" creation and its cycles of transformation. There's perfect symmetry there, too.
The slides for this presentation can be found here: http://cosmicchrist.net/2022/10/20/the-universal-christ-part-2-the-pattern-of-loss-and-renewal/
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
This presentation is the first in a series of five on the theme of the Universal Christ. Doug introduces how an ever transcendent reality is simultaneously immanent in the immediacy of our daily lives.
The slides used in the presentation can be found here:
https://cosmicchrist.net/2022/10/12/universal-christ-part-1-god-comes-disguised-as-our-lives/
Our Vision
Ra says, “The Original Desire is that all entities seek and become one” (20.27). The “oneing” arises across ever increasing complexity. Complexification is evolution, and evolution is gained “by the losing,” as Ra mentions in 93.24.
It is sometimes said that there are three boxes that lead to evolution: Order, Disorder, and Reorder. Individually and collectively, we have to a sense of ‘order’ so that we develop identity. Then, we have to go through ‘disorder’ so that the experience the expansion and transformation of our ‘order’ gave us. We arrive at ‘reorder,’ but not after considerable deconstruction. In a world whose sense-making worldviews and institutions are thoroughly in disorder, how can we hold the depth of meaning so that we live into new spaces of inner and collective freedom? Our podcast hopes to be a small voice in the desert (disorder) which attempts to integrate, not segregate; unite diversity, not demand uniformity; include the pieces of disorder so that we may transcend into reconstructing–reconciling–reordering–renewing–the ever ancient, and ever new.
Building 4th is the name of our small spiritual community that is centered around the cosmic law known as the Law of One.
What does “Building 4th” mean? [see below for further descriptions of each of these four points]
- Building the Fourth Density [1]
- Building the Fourth Energy Center [2]
- Building the Fourth Way [3]
- Building Forth On Our Spiritual Evolution [4]
Building 4th’s Fourth Way is to embrace an incarnational spirituality grounded in the immediacy of our life-situations.
- We seek to learn in order to serve: We affirm that whenever we study the Law of One or other spiritual material, whether on our own or as a group, this is for the purpose of crystallizing our spiritual principles and learning how to embody them.
- The mundane is sacred: We affirm that there is no separation between the ordinary world and divinity. For example, doing dishes is an act of the Creator knowing Itself and can be supremely sacred.
- Love is our metric: We affirm that any teaching or belief, whether conventional or esoteric, is valued by how well it helps us love and understand ourselves and others, including those others whom we perceive to be different or even antagonistic.
- The way down is the way up: We affirm that our ordinary lives are rich in opportunities to grow spiritually. We try to bring our full presence and open heart to each moment, even–and especially–the difficult ones. We are learning that there is no escaping the conditions that foster our personal growth and therefore our goal is to embrace each challenge wherever we discern that it is safe and appropriate to do so. And even in dangerous, unsafe situations, we want to hold the assurance that the creator’s love is with us and we are immortal spiritual beings. In short, the ascension process is not a journey up and out of this difficult third-density illusion, but rather a movement down and into it more.
- The importance of humility: Ra suggests that to become the creator, “[…]renders one the most humble servant of all, transparent in personality and able to know and accept others.” We trust that our understanding is ever evolving, thus we try to hold our own views and various identities with humility. We acknowledge that admitting we don’t know fully requires some level of vulnerability and this can be uncomfortable.
We are inspired by the perennial philosophy that undergirds most of the world’s major spiritual traditions. For us, one primary description of the perennial philosophy is the Law of One material.
We are also informed by the academic disciplines of psychology, sociology, and theology, as we endeavor to weave a healthy synthesis between the conventional and the cosmic, the exoteric and the esoteric, and micro and the macro [4].
We hope that you enter the adventure with us and that you’ll enjoy our podcast.