In order to understand how Personal Creation increases rather than decreases God’s role in our lives, we must know everything there is to know about the Mechanism of Manifestation. We must have that mechanism thoroughly explained to us, as well as the principles of life which support it.
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NOTE: Saturday is Prose & Poetry Day here on the blog, a time to take a moment once a week to relax the mind, open the heart, and access the soul through the gift of prose from one of the many books of The New Spirituality, and through the poetry of m. Claire, author of the forthcoming volume, Openings

This week’s prose…the seventh in a series of excerpts from Happier Than God.
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The Process of Personal Creation is actually three phenomena interacting as One. The first phenomenon has to do with God, the second has to do with you, and the third has to do with you and God together.
Another way of describing this would be that Part One of the “mystery formula of life” is the I Am, Part Two is the You Are, and Part Three is the How To.
The fact that all three of these aspects are not deeply understood by most people is why the principle of “attraction” has been called a “secret.”
Some people have said they’ve tried using this principle and have thought it to be ineffective, disappointing and disheartening. I believe that is because these people are working with only part of the data.
Others want nothing to do with attraction or Personal Creation no matter how much data they have, feeling that it may actually be “evil”—the work of a devil who seeks to lure us away from our reliance on God by seducing our egos with thoughts of our own power.
And religious traditionalists are not the only ones who might shy away from this process. The list includes many of those who are simply seeking to live God-centered lives and experience a personal relationship with the Divine (whether inside or outside a traditional religion). Not all of these people may be comfortable with the claim that they, themselves, are solely in charge of creating their own reality.
Then there are also non-religious rationalists who believe that what cannot be explained by evidence, reason, and logic is irrational and can only lead to self-delusion.
The fact is that nothing within Personal Creation is evil or irrational. But, as I have said, much about that process has not been sufficiently explained.
Until now.
(The explanation is presented in great detail in Happier Than God , which may be ordered from Amazon.com on February 27th. Look for another excerpt here next week.)
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This week’s gift of poetry
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A rivulet, or a river;
sprinkling, or spate –
it doesn’t matter.
Whatever it is You want next.
Whatever it is I see
that You need.
The willingness to surrender
is so new a creature, that
I wouldn’t even know Its colors.
And should It leap,
from the forest of my pride
and gut me –
I wouldn’t
feel
a
thing.
(So New a Creature – m. claire – copyright 2007 – all rights reserved)
For more of the work of this new poetic voice you are invited to visit www.mclairepoet.com.