state of mind

Rain Barrels, Showers, Wind, and Fire

by Beca Lewis April 19, 2011

Rain barrels – what do rain barrels have to do with spiritual perception. Standing in the shower one morning, I realized quite a bit. Spiritual perception is the practiced ability to see what looks like a material, and limited person, place, or thing, and see it as it actually is – an idea of the [...]

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Broken Perceptions: Or Does Everything Hurt When You Poke It?

by Beca Lewis November 9, 2010

We can tell we have a broken finger by the pain we feel, and we can tell a broken perception in the same way, by the pain we feel. It is not necessarily a physical pain, although that can be a symptom, it is also emotional pain. We all have both of these kinds of pains at least some of the time.

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False Evidence Appearing Real

by Beca Lewis August 9, 2010

A little green tomato fell off one of my plants and I put in on my window ledge to ripen. Days later, I noticed it wasn’t there. I didn’t move it, Del didn’t move it, where was it? I took my rings off and put them on the sink. When I went to look for [...]

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What The Mind Knows

by Beca Lewis June 2, 2010

Sitting on the back porch, I kept glancing over to my right where I could see a brownish “haze” under the weeping spruce tree. It kept distracting me because I couldn’t figure out what it was. Thinking that the rain or the early morning light was doing something funny to my vision, I looked, and [...]

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Spring Cleaning Thinking

by Beca Lewis March 16, 2010

Light does that. It reveals.

What happens next is up to us. Either we can let the dirt remain, or we can clean it up.

Here’s where the many choices, or free will, comes into play. It is the choices of what we want to perceive or think about what is revealed, and what we choose to do about it.

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There Is Always A Way

by Beca Lewis August 27, 2009

Every morning I have a drink that begins with a cup of hot water. One morning our microwave broke so I thought, “Well I guess I won’t be drinking that this morning.” It took a few minutes before I realized that a microwave is not the only way to heat hot water, just the one [...]

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