RIGHT THINKING PRECEDES RIGHT ACTION!

Society is a macrocosm of the individual spirit. If there is no changes within oneself, then all the cleaning up "outside," like the newly pressed out wrinkles of wrong doing in our behavior on the surface, means nothing.

A good analogy can be found in the pseudo "rehabilitative efforts," of clever prisoners made to get out. For example, a lot of inmates discovered that all they had to do was tell the "man" they have changed, had a spiritual revelation, were now ready to alter their life. After that, they took a training course and went up in front of the Parole Board and automatically were freed.
But strangely, after getting out they suddenly were back in trouble and had returned. The prison boards wondered why their carefully developed programs weren't working and discovered after careful scrutiny that the inmates had learned how to con the system--that is, to give society what they wanted to see, rather than really change.

The moral of the story:

Change, or rehabilitation from wrong action, must take place within oneself. Unless that change is real, deep and sincere, all the retraining and programming in the world won't be effective.
The truth is we must "will" the change in ourselves. Not just open to receive a new way of thinking, but actively involved in willing that change in ourselves--followed next by right action.

To change the world we must must first "CHANGE OURSELVES" and really mean it!
Nahu Lanham.

WHAT IS YOUR SPIRITUAL IQ?

“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

The above is a biblical verse from Proverbs 23.7 once made popular since it was originally said to be espoused by the wise and learned Solomon and later taken up by many philosophers such as James Allen, Emerson, Mahatma Gandhi and Demosthenes who once wrote: "You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit."

What we discover in this phrase is well taken because it reflects the inner content of intention, a subject that is well under scrutiny among those of IONS. Look first to change that which is within one's inner self and the changes that you wish to see in the world shall follow.

Thus, the problems arising within the world are a direct indication of changes needed within oneself and within the collective consciousness of the world spirit.

Between the two a dynamic tension arises, continuing to manifest itself as dipoles one wholistic system of energy. What changes occur inwardly dramatically affect us as a whole. That is why IONS is such a vital, collective spiritual cauldron vulcanizing change through the reflective sharing of awareness that otherwise go unspoken in the world.

In that sacred space of collective spirit, creative change is instigated every moment, especially when it is energized by meditations like those of 'great space' envisioned by Tibetan teacher Tarthang Tulku in the Nyingma tradition and written so eloquently of in his book, Time,Space and Knowledge, or the spiritual practices envisioned by Eckhart Tolle in, The Power of the Now.

These two space-expansive, time-shrinking meditations cut through the chafe of Maya to illumine a wholeness that reduces the dissonance of separation and fanciful evolutionary adaptations, into the easily accessible Point of the Present. This is a place where all measurements begins and end in the thoughts we focus upon during our daily mental rituals. Disciplined thinking and awareness requires some effort to bring the wayward mind under the control of spirit—however, once focused and aligned, each person becomes a singular center of consciousness that can unite the world into a uncommon joy. This is, in essence, the true nexus of a Spiritual IQ.

Let's transcend the dissonance and unite the differences by educating everyone to these brilliant yet simple spiritual gems.

Blessed be~
Nahu Lanham

SPIRIT WORLD

The Spirit World
Lo, all about
Now comes
With a sweeping rush--
Through the night tides chill
And the mornings dove trill
Saffron robes flowing at dusk!
Murmuring voices throng
Down a hallway long
In billowing gossimer glide
As stairways creak
And tapered walls speak
In a cryptic note
How they moan!
From marbled darkness
Rising souls flee
In a moment of glee
With Spirit wings—See them fly~
Through a numinous night
On an orange-tinged flight
From the lingering
Pull of the tomb.

Nahu Lanham
From my collection of Poems
Prisms
Copyright Circa 2007