“Here in solitude, in this time of peace, of meditation, I withdraw deep into the silent recesses of my being to a place of utter calm. Slowly the world retreats from around me, until finally I am alone.

Walled away from
all clamor and strife there is nothing but me.

I am not body; I am not thought; I am not experience; I am not
the past nor the present nor the future. I simply am.


Across my consciousness comes a constant procession of thoughts and I observe them. I do not make up these thoughts. I know they come from the Universal Subconscious Mind, and I watch as they are presented to me. I slow the train of thoughts. I examine each of them, then let go, neither accepting nor rejecting. On and on the thoughts come, and I ask myself, “Who is it that observes
this?”

And I hear the answer, “Thou that art, always have been, and always will be – thou observes!” and I understand.

Divorced from body, thought, and experience, I still exist as I always must. Here then is my true self, a thing independent of all but spirit, a contemplative “I”, which only observes and chooses from the thoughts that cross consciousness.

Whatever I choose is mine. Whatever I reject shall never touch me.

I need
only observe and accept, and all things will be added
unto me by a power which leaps to acknowledge my faith
and my decision.

I sense such warmth and security as
might overflow the world.

I sense a fusion of my being
with the great Universal Subconscious Mind, the mind of God.

I sense the presence of the Father who knows no wrath, who does all things at his child’s bidding. I
sense my union with this Father by immutable and irrevocable bonds. I am one with all truth, all beauty, all justice, all love.”