Looking for more about The Kingdom Within

[Enki]

Two thirds of the way through Amazing Grace and I am very struck by the importance, and seeming crux point for Laura, of "The Kingdom Within" as being "key" for our development. However, I only found one reference here and don't remember this topic from the other 14 volumes Laura authored/coauthored. Are there other references or associated terms? Amazing Grace also helped shed more light on my own covert narcissistic mom.

There but for the Grace of Grace go I.

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[axj]

The Kingdom Within probably refers to connecting to our core self or going deep within to the divine parts of ourselves ('higher centers' or the 'Higher Self') as part of the Work on ourselves.

The C's say that All is One and that we are in a way all the Creator. There is nobody "above" us:

December 12, 1995

A: The point is: stop filling your consciousness with monotheistic philosophies planted long ago to imprison your being. Can't you see it by now, after all you have learned, that there is no source, there is no leader, there is no basis, there is no overseer, etc... You literally possess, within your consciousness profile, all the power that exists within all of creation!?! You absolutely have all that exists, ever has, or ever will, contained within your mind. All you have to do is learn how to use it, and at that moment, you will literally, literally, be all that is, was, and ever will be!!!!!!!!

 

[Gaby]

"nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” Luke 17:21

You can find more clues in Timothy's Ashworth's Paul's Necessary Sin: The Experience of Liberation.

As Laura writes in the Wave:

The Wave Chapter 71: If I Speak in the Tongues of Men and Angels or, Jaguars: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Love and Complex Systems

Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann writes in The Quark and the Jaguar: I have never really seen a jaguar in the wild. In the course of many long walks through the forests of tropical America and many …

cassiopaea.org

Positive feedback loops are a bit more problematical, and are the stuff of nonlinear dynamics. The key to positive feedback in terms that we are concerned with relates directly to the teachings of the Cassiopaeans. Their communications could be likened to the output from an amplifier, “us in the future,” which is picked up by the microphone, or “us in the past”, which is then looped back into the amplifier – us in the past (the present, from our frame of reference) again is then emitted by the speakers in a greatly amplified volume – or nonlinear change of the reality. This point is made clear in the following:

June 9, 1996

Q: (L) al-‘Arabî describes unified thought forms as being the “names of God.” His explication seems to be so identical to things you tell us that I wonder …
A: We are all the names of God. Remember, this is a conduit. This means that both termination/origination points are of equal value, importance. … Don’t deify us. And, be sure all others with which you communicate understand this too!
Q: (L) What quality in us, what thing, enabled us to make contact?
A: You asked.
Q: (L) A lot of people ask!
A: No they don’t, they command.
Q: (L) Well, a lot of people do ask or beg or plead, but they get all discombobulated with the answers.
A: No, they command. Think about it. You did not beg or plead … that is commanding.

 

[Enki]

Two thirds of the way through Amazing Grace and I am very struck by the importance, and seeming crux point for Laura, of "The Kingdom Within" as being "key" for our development. However, I only found one reference here and don't remember this topic from the other 14 volumes Laura authored/coauthored. Are there other references or associated terms? Amazing Grace also helped shed more light on my own covert narcissistic mom.

There but for the Grace of Grace go I.

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A few other terms I found in Grace are: The Kingdom of God and The KIngdom(s)

 

[whitecoast]

Hi Enki. Another work that serves as a strong philosophical backbone for this Inner Kingdom idea is Mouravieff’s Gnosis series, as well as Ouspensky’s In Search of the Miraculous.

 

[Enki]

Should I paste or attach what I collected together from the passages in Mathew and Luke referring to the kingdom(s) within or of God? Laura referred to these as the most relevant? Also am I not yet allowed to edit here?

 

[whitecoast]

Should I paste or attach what I collected together from the passages in Mathew and Luke referring to the kingdom(s) within or of God? Laura referred to these as the most relevant? Also am I not yet allowed to edit here?

Sure, I’d be interested in reaching more about what resonated so deeply for you.

 

[Breo]

Should I paste or attach what I collected together from the passages in Mathew and Luke referring to the kingdom(s) within or of God? Laura referred to these as the most relevant? Also am I not yet allowed to edit here?

Thank you for opening this thread. I would be very interested too.

 

[nicklebleu]

Also am I not yet allowed to edit here?

Generally you can edit your posts after a certain number of postings (I don’t remember from the top of my hat - 50 or 100).

 

[Menna]

Two thirds of the way through Amazing Grace and I am very struck by the importance, and seeming crux point for Laura, of "The Kingdom Within" as being "key" for our development. However, I only found one reference here and don't remember this topic from the other 14 volumes Laura authored/coauthored. Are there other references or associated terms? Amazing Grace also helped shed more light on my own covert narcissistic mom.

There but for the Grace of Grace go I.

​

Those that engage in The 4th Way Work are involved and use the kingdom within on a daily basis for self improvement to develop a single I. It’s important to develop internal checks and balances as a guide for the inner work for example if you see an advertisement for fast food but your aim, want, goal is to follow the diet info here but you don’t have a strong kingdom within you - you will fall to many temptations and not have the results you want. So use your decision making in reality to gauge if you are getting the results you need. If not your emotion/intellect in you needs work also your awareness of reality may need work too

 

[Breo]

About the kingdom within being an "inner milieu":

I think there are several issues relating to the kingdom being "within". At a low level of Being or essence, individuals are basically machines controlled by external stimuli. Thus we have social conformity as a common characteristic of such people. As development progresses, the individual becomes less influenced by the external environment, and develops a complex and multilayered internal environment, or inner psychic milieu. Without an inner milieu, there can be no autonomy, no choice, no action, and that describes the majority of humanity. The kingdom is thus an "inner" space from which one interacts with the external world. Picture it like a medieval castle. It is fortified and has guards at all entrances. Before any thing or person can enter, the authority of the castle must analyze the subject in question and approve or deny its entry. Those who do not conform with the order and purpose of life in the castle are expelled.

For individuals without an inner milieu, God can only be external. Thus, they worship in a manner similar to a person begging at the feet of their superior. They fear the authority and feel inferior to that authority. In the case of ritual magic and other low-level systems of "spirituality", the practitioner manipulates things in the external world in order to receive a response, either in that world, or in his own personality. But as long as activity is directed in such a way, it will only lead to spiritual entropy. On the other hand, when a person has a developed inner milieu, the picture is balanced. When one is truly autonomous, the way they interact with the external world is an expression of their internal nature. Instead of seeking reactions from the external world (through various sorts of interpersonal or "magical" manipulations), they themselves act as the axis or portal, through which the higher is brought into the lower (a microcosmic expression of the macrocosmic fall of spirit into matter).

Instead of seeking external reactions, and instead of reacting themselves in a simple stimulus-response fashion, they act as loci of real Action. Via discernment, intuition, and confidence, they act in the world in such a way that whatever they do is "positive" and creative in the given situation. It all comes from the inner psychic milieu, which is the only way to truly connect with divine (i.e. hyperdimensional, STO) centers. If you attempt to connect with the divine in an external way, you are acting on a low level (i.e. one determined by the external environment, which is thus based on lower social and selfish instincts, like self-preservation). And when acting on a low level (i.e. STS FRV), you align with those "divine centers" which are STS in nature. And thus you get situations like Laura describes in the Wave, like possessions and such.

See also the Book Review by Laura: The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins by Burton L. Mack

 

[Enki]

Thanks kind people with homework assignments, a search here brought up too many results but a Boolean search nailed it to the top few of: the Book Review by Laura: The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins by Burton L. Mack The Lost Gospel: Book Review by Laura Knight-Jadczyk Also thanks and I got the Gnostic Trilogy. I will look into how The 4th Way Work is involved and uses the kingdom within on a daily basis for self improvement and Paul's Necessary Sin: The Experience of Liberation - Pauline Christianity = PaleoChristianity

In answer to what struck me about the kingdom of God, it was more that I was looking for more to be struck by Laura's struckness. Still looking, but "become like Little children.." was already in my field and was writing about it elsewhere. Creatively cultivating spontaneity, wonder and curiosity is important to me. Currently I'm wondering about my lack of feeling for a second unintentionally rescued Greyhound of which someone has seemed to have stolen it's soul? The opposite character, first adopted LabPit, Is my own personal comedienne! Lab is teaching my inner Grey to play too. Even so, when I just gave it an unusual looking tug toy it cracked me up by just starring at! I am very curious, as I've been examining how I not-so-pleasantly feel as the target of my mom's "love", as Mom was similarly effusive to Greyhound, but nearly starved it to death.

Building the Kingdom of doG!

 

[Magnolia]

I've never thought about the "Kingdom of God," although I am very interested in what constitutes STO.

What constitutes STS is easy -- I am inundated with it, whether it be conscious or unconscious intent, seduction/provocation/intimidation, rivalrous or malicious thoughts, hyper-dimensionally motivated behaviors, physical actions, or outright spiritual abuse. But I surmise STO is a state of consciousness and not an operational performance of activities, and I have read no clear statement as to what constitutes the STO state of consciousness. I figure Paul's letter of love and humility [1 Corinthians 13] gets closer to it than even lengthy documents.

But there is a chance that STO and The Kingdom are related, and both are a state of consciousness. Hence, the Kingdom is not a place, or a feeling, or an idea, or a "thing." It is a state of consciousness.

The following prayer may seem obtuse, although it connects for me. It is called the Prayer of Correct Self-Identification from a small booklet. It proposes that man is here is to manifest God, and man -- as such -- "is" God.


God is not a person. I am not a person.
God is Love. I am friendly and nonpersonally, nonconditionally benevolent.
God is Mind. I am intelligent.
God is Perfection.
"I and my father are one." John 10:30.

 

[Magnolia]

Unfortunately the above posted before it was finished. It's a common issue for me -- possibly because I enter a wrong shortcut key. Not sure. Apologies. Here's the correct.

I've never thought about the "Kingdom of God," although I am very interested in what constitutes STO.

What constitutes STS is easy -- I am inundated with it, whether it be conscious or unconscious intents, seduction/provocation/intimidation, rivalrous or malicious thoughts, hyper-dimensionally influenced behaviors, physical actions, or spiritual distraction and outright abuse. All zero sum games with a focus on "self" aggrandizement.

But I surmise STO is a state of consciousness and not an operational performance of activities. I figure Paul's letter of love and humility [1 Corinthians 13] gets closer to defining STO than many lengthy documents.

There is a chance that STO and The Kingdom are related, and both are a state of consciousness. Hence, the Kingdom is not a place, or a feeling, or an idea, or a "thing." It is a simply state of consciousness. Both may be described as, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High" [Psalm 91]

The following prayer may seem obtuse or simplistic, although when considered quite carefully, it connects for me. It is called the Prayer of Correct Self-Identification from a small booklet. It proposes that man is here to manifest God and the qualities of God; and man -- as such -- "is" God. To manifest God is to BE the kingdom, within.

God is not a person. I am not a person.
God is Love. I am friendly and nonpersonally, nonconditionally benevolent.
God is Mind. I am intelligent.
God is Perfection. I am healthy.
God is Power. I am strong and vigorous.
God is Infinite Mercy. I am compassionate.
God is Goodness. I am generous (in thought as well as deed).
God is Joy. I am joyful.
God is Peace. I am peaceful.
God is the Divine Parent. I am assured and safe forever.
God is Constant, Never-Changing. I am stable and trustworthy.
God is Humor. I am laughter and playfulness.
God is Infinity. I am nondimensional spirit.
God is Eternity. I am never born, never dying.
God is the only "I AM."
I am because God is.
"I and my father are one." John 10:30.

 

[axj]

There is a chance that STO and The Kingdom are related, and both are a state of consciousness. Hence, the Kingdom is not a place, or a feeling, or an idea, or a "thing." It is a simply state of consciousness. Both may be described as, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High" [Psalm 91]

State of consciousness seems to be a good way to describe it.

Consciousness seems to be an aspect of the core self, the divine part of us that is a part of the Creator. A higher state of consciousness also means access to and use of the 'higher centers', as described by Mouravieff, Gurdjieff and others.

What constitutes STS is easy -- I am inundated with it, whether it be conscious or unconscious intents, seduction/provocation/intimidation, rivalrous or malicious thoughts, hyper-dimensionally influenced behaviors, physical actions, or spiritual distraction and outright abuse. All zero sum games with a focus on "self" aggrandizement.

It seems that one of the ways to become more STO is to consciously let go of all these STS patterns and habits on the mental, emotional and physical action levels. The more we let go of everything that is false or without integrity, the only thing that remains is who we truly are - our authentic core self.

But I surmise STO is a state of consciousness and not an operational performance of activities.

It seems that activities (mental, emotional or physical actions) are expressions of our state of being or state of consciousness. It also seems that in order to change our state of consciousness we need the 'grounding effect' of activities or expressions. In other words, just going deep in a meditation and doing nothing else is probably not enough to permanently change our state of being while in physicality. Authentic expression or living these qualities is also required.