On Living As A "Spiritual Pragmatist"

Someone I respect recommended a book by John Randolph Price, whom I couldn't remember reading. Apparently he is a "spiritual pragmatist" who emphasizes Doing when it comes to raising one's consciousness above difficulties, and sharing this higher consciousness for the good of all.

Immediately, my hackles rise. What? Am I still not Doing enough? Still not making enough of a difference? Here he writes a book or two full of pretty ideas and phrases and makes a million and I'm still struggling with challenges every day, a small fish swimming in a very big stream!

All you have to do, he says, is daily affirmative prayer, meditation, and higher visioning for unconditional love and the elimination of fear. And you have to have awakened to your true Identity and be in conscious relationship with your Source. This is the only reason, he says, we are living on this Earth. No negative energy!

What pulls my energy down and makes me feel like I'm continually swimming upstream? I hear my father script, "you have to work hard all your life and save for old age." I hear my husband script, "You have to work hard at things you don't like doing that pay the bills, and pay your way in this marriage, or I won't want to stay married to you." I hear my mother script, "Just leave that man and come home and look after me and I'll look after you." I hear my society script, "Do whatever it takes to make your living making money for us, so you can do what you want on evenings and weekends."

With the crash in the real estate economy, I lost my work. When I lost my work, I lost my income. When I lost my income, I lost my home and the income properties "saved for my old age". Yet whenever I turn within, I hear, "You're really absolutely fine."

When I am aligned with the me I know and love, I am working industriously and joyfully. I am ministering to the needs of my congregational community with tenderness, sparkle, and wisdom. My lower self can't see how my mega debts are going to get paid before incurring the wrath of the financial corporations to whom I owe, while my higher Self adores the me I am and encourages me to shine even more fully.

Dear soul companions on Earth, I am blessed by knowing you are also here co-creating with the Presence and Power within you!

Love from Angel Zing