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FROM THE HEART needs no newness because it is eternally whole. The part of
you that seeks change is not the part that will be fulfilled.
What needs to change is to gain the awareness that you don’t
need to change. I told you this paradox is juicy!
Alan Cohen is the author of the soon-released
Spirit Means Business, illuminating how to suc-
ceed with money and career without selling your A Course in Miracles tells us, “Seek not to change the world,
soul. Become a certified professional life coach but seek instead to change your mind about the world.” If you
through Alan’s transformational Life Coach Train- attempt to change your circumstances without changing your
ing beginning February 1. For info, visit mind, nothing will change. Change your mind, and everything
www.alancohen.com. around you will change. The world is not a cause. It is an ef-
fect. Edgar Cayce said, “Mind is the builder.”
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE YEAR
Time is a blank screen upon which we project our conscious-
As we enter the New Year, we all hope this year will ness and play out our intentions. Any demarcations we make
be better than the last one, and new and wonderful in time come only from our beliefs about it and what we wish
things will come to us. We seek to improve our worldly to use it for. Most people in western culture made a big deal
situations and become better people. But what if the most about the advent of the year 2000. Meanwhile that same year
wonderful thing that could happen would be to realize that was the year 5760 on the Hebrew calendar, 4697 in China, and
we live in a universe absolutely and eternally dedicated to our 1420 in the Islamic religion. What year was it really? The year
well-being? lives in our minds more than we live in the year. Buckminster
Fuller said, “Human beings are the only creatures who tell
While listening to a classical music radio station, I heard the time and think they have to earn a living.” Whatever we think
show’s host announce a cantata by J.S. Bach entitled, “The time is, is a story we made up. Nothing happens because of
Spirit Soothes our Weakness.” I was struck by the title, as time. Everything happens because of the thoughts we apply to
appropriate today as it was 300 years ago when Bach com- it. The only purpose of time is to learn to use it wisely.
posed the piece. Even while Bach’s world was radically dif-
ferent than ours, the issues he dealt with were the same. He, If we are going to make something of the new year, let’s use
too, was plagued by the insistence of the deluded self, and it to discover ourselves rather than find new and more com-
he, too, recognized the empowerment of a spirit-guided life. plicated ways to forget ourselves. Rather than moving more
In that awakening the apparent chasm of time dissolves and pieces around the chess board of your activities, rise above
we are joined. the board so you can see it from a higher perspective. Use the
year to make up a new story rather than continuing old stories
King Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun.” that lead nowhere. A mythology expert identified 11 plot
The more I explore what appears to be new and different, the categories into which all stories fit. That’s it. So it is with life.
more I realize that, while the world goes through constant We just keep repeating the same stories over and over again,
change, truth is impeccably reliable. What works always with minor variations that make them seem different, while
works and what doesn’t work never works. All else is detail. they are not.
It is not the parade of events that makes evolution, but the
upgrade of consciousness. If there is any evolution, it is the There are two kinds of evolution: horizontal and vertical. Hori-
awakening to the presence and power of a kindly reality that zontal evolution just keeps playing out the ego’s beliefs and
far transcends worldly events. reinforcing its fearful world in more complex forms. Cave men
stockpiled rocks to throw at invaders. We stockpile nuclear
Here we come to the juiciest of paradoxes: To become new, weapons. Just more and bigger expressions of the same men-
we must recognize that we never change. Healing comes in tality. Just because technology advances does not mean we are
claiming our inherent eternality. The personality seeks to gain progressing. Seven billion people thumbing smartphones does
newness by manipulating people, things, and events. The soul not necessarily indicate an advanced society. What people say
on their smartphones demonstrates evolution or its absence.
Spiritual Services with Vertical evolution is measured by the level of consciousness
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Individual/Group Messages is self-knowledge, awakening to the you that never needed to
from the Other Side evolve because you were created perfect by God. The outer
Spiritual Development Coaching world is a set of props laid out according to the mind we are
using . If you are going to make the new year new, recognize
Psychic Medium, that time has no power over your life, but you have power
Motivational Speaker, over time by recognizing you live beyond it. Pray not for new
Spiritual Certified Coach, Ordained Minister things to happen, but for a new consciousness. St. Paul said,
In Person, Phone, Skype, Groups, will travel “Be renewed by the renewing of the mind.”
I wish you the best year of your life because it is the one in
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you have no age, history, or future. You just are.
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