John Fetzer's retreats BF
April 15, 2020
... service because he could go incognito, and he liked the meditations. John believed in the primacy of love, the reality of read more...
Author: Bruce Fetzer
Keywords:
incognito, staff, Spiritual, sister, short drive, Miracles, use, memo, supplemental reading materials, pictures provide
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Trustee Memos
Bamford-Fetzer essay
July, 2012
... richer. His experiences, whether in human encounters, meditations, or dreams became filled with deeper meaning. He sensed a read more...
Author: Christopher Bamford
Keywords:
increasingly, Spanish flu pandemic, center, limits, instance teaches, precious ointment, divine solitude, cursory knowledge, Myth, study group
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Category:
Commissioned Essays
Carolyn Dailey Interview 3/21/2011
March 21, 2011
... what got John hooked because they did a lot of pyramid meditations . They had the UFO sightings over there. They were trying read more...
Author: Carolyn Dailey
Keywords:
Larry, Tom, Fetzer, Monday night, Priscilla, Trust, Monday, Jim, Course in Miracles, oral history
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Miracles, spiritual, John, Memorial, wonder, psychic, cancer, Keating, Institute, channelings, Arizona, Ouija board, spiritual journey, UFO, Rhea, partnership, cards, archives, Jim Gordon, Course, Judy, Killick, Gordon, Kalamazoo, Jesus Christ, publisher, doctor
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Oral Histories
Jim Gordon Channeling 7/17/1984
July 17, 1984
... pattern now, so that he can begin to do initiation. These meditations of the masters of the heart are the first step toward this read more...
Author: Jim Gordon
Keywords:
forth, consciousness, soul, liberation, God, love, spiritual, Jim, manifested, Fetzer
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Holy Spirit, Trust, light, Foundation, Masters, realm, heart, divine, physical, energy, John, understanding, serve, Holy, path, Jim Gordon, cruel, Memorial, physical body, Father, Phoenix, blending, harmony, Gordon, implanted, truth, centuries, freedom, John Davis
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Channelings
Jim Gordon Interview 6/21/2011
June 21, 2011
... lost his fear of death? Jim Yes, I do. Through the meditations an d having been out of body some, he had lost that fear. read more...
Author: Jim Gordon
Keywords:
Larry, Fetzer, spiritual, Trust, John, spirit, Kalamazoo, dreams, meditation, Memorial
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Right, soul, mind, Mike, emotional, emblem, credit, funded, death, Archangel Michael, Jim Gordon, John Fetzer, psychic, Gergely, AMPRA, God, interviewed, Archangel, pathway, Wunderlin, energy, chelation, doctor, Institute, Camp Chesterfield
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Oral Histories
Jim Gordon Channeling 4/19/1986
April 19, 1986
... Be aware of that and sit quietly and patiently and do your meditations daily knowing that you are serving God at that moment in a ... words to hear and I shall do everything I can with my meditations. Very often when I’m meditating on a physical level it read more...
Author: Jim Gordon
Keywords:
let, god, balance, jim, life, time, grant, loving, help, great
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way, forward, work, maintain, bring, light, run, away, day, foundation, beloved, things, greater, going, truly, physical, april, daily, love, moving, true, come, fulfill, forth, precisely, forthcoming, better, selves, running, lay, practical, dwell, complete, desire, inside, body, soul, divine, level
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Channelings
Jim Gordon Channeling 2/3/1986 - 2/4/1986
February, 1986
... that they originally gave us, you know, and some of those meditations. I found it easier actually to do the HU by concentrating ... book, you know, on meditation. He’s giving a number of meditations in there, too, and I suppose there will be more of that read more...
Author: Jim Gordon
Keywords:
john, true, god, greater, loving, time, self, little, forward, jesus
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light, new, great, people, mysteries, right, things, like, come, long, meditation, coming, christ, life, way, shall, mind, comes, spirit, hattie, mother, future, small, unto, hope, present, place, truly, given, day, breath, spiritual, unfoldment, remember, oneself, living, yeah, love, body
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Category:
Channelings
Bruce Fetzer Interview 10/18/2011 Channelings...
October 18, 2011
... that the channelings - I still reference them today in the meditations. The agenda of the Trust meeting today has a quote from read more...
Author: Bruce Fetzer
Keywords:
larry, john, tom, jim, jesus, different, things, like, spiritual, actually
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says, experience, years, yes, big, people, right, person, thing, group, time, mike, channeling, fetzer, great, question, coming, nathji, paragraph, wasn, okay, good, pretty, today, paul, institute, way, christ, meeting, jerry, healing, important, think, literally, specific, jimyo, killick, statement, later
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Oral Histories
Bruce Fetzer Interview 7/6/2011
July 06, 2011
... these processes are set up, mostly in dyads, small groups, meditations, journaling and that sort of thing. They’re all set up to read more...
Author: Bruce Fetzer
Keywords:
larry, john, tom, jim, right, msia, called, actually, spiritual, foundation
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time, book, new, started, way, good, yes, things, insight, organization, like, vincent, years, gordon, light, fetzer, day, people, mike, different, channelings, said, energy, physical, joey, books, spirit, chuck, institute, inner, staff, responsibility, thing, property, lloyd, little, read, think, stuff
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Oral Histories
Jim Gordon Channeling 8/17/1985
August 17, 1985
... You must begin to work in directing that energy through the meditations given by John in this last discussion, as well as through ... John I do with respect to the meditation. I studied the meditations as indicated by John-Roger, the meditation that you gave read more...
Author: Jim Gordon
Keywords:
divine, emotional, meditation, consciousness, God, radiant, soul, daily, Jim, joy
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wisdom, Trust, heart, Cato, upliftment, eye, mental, Jim Gordon, brother, Fetzer, Greetings, Foundation, John, light, blessing, eternal life, energy, action, Beloved, bondage, regions, dimension, lawyer, rejoicing, eternal, peace, activities, Christ, Memorial, physical, healing
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Category:
Channelings
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