Founder, Dr. Masters’ Weekly Mystical Insights

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“The Jesus Complex—or Claims to Be Jesus—Mystically Understood”

Uncertainty, war, fear, confusion, ill health, loneliness—these are just a few of the reasons people often welcome someone who might claim to be Jesus in the physical flesh.  The Christ Mind that was in Jesus warned that there would be those who would appear in his name.  And certainly, there have been.  For reasons already stated, people who are particularly hurting are open and vulnerable to someone handing them a business card with the single name of Jesus on it.

Of course, it takes more than a business card.  It takes giving the outer appearance of what people would believe Jesus should look like.  If you have ever seen any movie about the life of Jesus, you know that the actor who gets the role looks like what people have—from childhood’s conditioning—believed him to look like.  If there were a casting call by a movie producer for an actor to play Jesus, the requirements might be as follows:

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“Yin and Yang—Its Mystical Power and Presence in and beyond Physical Life”

Yin and yang is you—it’s me—it’s everyone.  It is one of the most profound communication symbols of mystical reality upon which the whole of existence exists: it can demonstrate a healing goal sought after in oriental medicine, a philosophical concept to be contemplated, or a mystical symbol on which to meditate.

Yin and yang can indeed be a symbol of many things to many people.  Visual symbols have been with mankind since the beginning of recorded history, yet the symbol of yin and yang has held people’s attention in a far greater way than other symbols—and for good reason.  Most symbols communicate lesser truths, while the symbol of yin and yang communicates life itself. 

For life, it symbolizes the manifest and the un-manifest—the un-manifesting darkness living within the manifesting white, or conversely, the manifesting white existing within the un-manifesting darkness.  From a mystical point of view, it can be thought of as the manifesting light, or physical creation’s foundation, living within the un-manifesting darkness or Spirit.

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“Why Life? The Purpose of It All”

What’s the meaning . . . the purpose to it all?

With the exception of philosophers, theologians, and a few deep thinkers, most people live their lives without questioning—why?  Be it ever so briefly, why does tend to surface in most people’s lives at the time of some life-changing event which greatly impacts their emotions, such as a transition (that is, death), a painful or crippling illness or accident, the tragedies of war, and similar experiences which shake the foundations of an otherwise structured life.

When things are going right, a person gets caught up in the positive quality of life and feels no need to question.  However, when things go painfully wrong, a person questions.  If life contains so many experiences that are filled with pain and sorrow, why live at all?

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“The Effectiveness and Non-Effectiveness of Spiritual Practices”

Do prayers, visualizations, affirmations or other spiritual practices really work, or if they only work sometimes, why?

This question is repeatedly asked by many—by those who ask for prayer, and by those who pray or use some other spiritual practice for themselves or others.  With the progression in spiritual awakening, the answers change.

As an example, in the old-time, basic fundamentalist religion, prayer for most people is a pleading, begging, or hoping for some desired result.  As a person moves in spiritual awareness to a higher plane of consciousness or understanding—such as that of New Thought or basic metaphysics—the pleading and begging cease, and prayer becomes an affirming that, through God’s Power, the desired effect is already so.

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