Being Free, Part II with Roger Teel

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[00:00:31] Topic Today, Being Free. This is Part II. Let's talk just a moment about Part I.

[00:00:38] The last week the idea was put forth that in many ways there's a tendency to give our power away,

[00:00:47] our power and our possibilities, Away To Circumstances and People, Thus Essentially agreeing to become their prisoner

[00:00:54] and feeling captivated by and in them. However, The Truth of the Matter is that our spiritual birthright is freedom,

[00:01:06] And that being free is the deep calling and the greatest potential of our being.

[00:01:14] And so to emancipate this free essence within us, What we first have to do is actualize the free spirit in us,

[00:01:22] While we're in the midst of what we had deemed to be the limitation or that which has confined us,

[00:01:30] In the midst of and then we can begin to follow the heart's purpose and brave a higher path forward in our life.

[00:01:38] Now it starts always now, Lifting up, Freeing That Spirit, Now.

[00:01:45] So today this is an opportunity to continue to expand our sense of what it means to be free, truly in its essence.

[00:01:55] In the Bible it says, Let your Yes, Be Yes and You Know, Be Know, Calling Us to say what we mean and mean what we say,

[00:02:09] Especially when agreeing or disagreeing, Not wish you washy. So let's deal with the no side of that equation first.

[00:02:19] This is embracing our capacity to say no, Especially when no may be our most positive answer.

[00:02:32] To say no to that which were tempted to drag along as the old and the stagnant, Fearing to turn a new chapter perhaps.

[00:02:42] To say no to that which in our life is no longer appropriate.

[00:02:48] Maybe behaviors or something such as that.

[00:02:50] To say no to anything trying to enter our life that's offensive or abusive.

[00:02:59] Let your know, not be timid, Your free, because they know when it supports your ongoing evolution.

[00:03:10] I've been thinking about a few nosed for me, you know, after years of struggle.

[00:03:18] And no little introspection.

[00:03:24] I have finally proclaimed no to kale.

[00:03:33] No.

[00:03:35] Now, I know it's good for you.

[00:03:40] Heaven I know and with all the apologies to you and nutritionists and naturopads.

[00:03:49] I just say no.

[00:03:52] I say no to can you experience?

[00:03:57] I say no to eating a leathery leaf that takes me 10 minutes to chew.

[00:04:03] I say no to picking it out of my teeth all day and just said kale, no.

[00:04:20] It's interesting.

[00:04:20] You can say it independently, another no, surfaced in my life this past week.

[00:04:27] And actually the backstory is that a number of years ago, 15, maybe 18 years ago, I did arrive at a no.

[00:04:36] And it has served me well.

[00:04:39] You see, whenever you're in the public eye, you're apt to receive communications and input.

[00:04:50] But what I decided those many years ago was that I was saying no to anonymous letters.

[00:05:01] Because, you know, I would get them on occasion and never did they ever serve really.

[00:05:07] Never did I feel uplifted or supported.

[00:05:10] It's kind of like somebody prepares a mess and drops it at your feet and runs away.

[00:05:16] I thought, you know, it may be one of the silliest and most cowardice forms of communication.

[00:05:23] It's irresponsible, no accountability, lacks integrity.

[00:05:27] There's no opportunity for dialogue, exchange, clarity, growth in the matter.

[00:05:35] And I decided no.

[00:05:37] So here's what I did.

[00:05:38] I developed a strategy.

[00:05:39] First of all, when an anonymous letter would come and you can tell them.

[00:05:43] Because they're so sterile, it's just a wide envelope and an address and nothing else.

[00:05:49] And what I agreed to do was to very carefully open it, pull it out so I could just see the very end of the piece of paper.

[00:05:56] And if there wasn't a name on it, then I would immediately rip it up.

[00:06:01] And the first time I made good on that note, it felt so awesome.

[00:06:07] It felt so enlivening.

[00:06:09] It felt like such a great act of self-care and I have maintained that although they've waned, but last week I spoke and wouldn't you know it?

[00:06:21] I got an anonymous letter.

[00:06:25] And I said, Erica, how the Louisia look at what has greased me here.

[00:06:30] And I did exactly what I told you I would do.

[00:06:34] Salt was anonymous, didn't give any of it a look, ripped it up and said, hallelujah.

[00:06:40] Then I did a little prayer blessing for whoever sent it.

[00:06:44] Just blessing them on whatever their path of growth is.

[00:06:48] And blessing what I know to be their hard.

[00:06:51] And then with great glee, I filed it under tea.

[00:06:56] Not for tea, but for trash.

[00:07:00] No.

[00:07:03] And it feels so good.

[00:07:04] Now, I'm quite certain that there may be some nose hovering, offering themselves in your life.

[00:07:12] Maybe a little more significant than kale and anonymous letters.

[00:07:17] So what are they for you?

[00:07:20] Is it that it's time to say no, to say, well, to complacency, to letting fearful your strings all the time

[00:07:28] and limit you?

[00:07:31] Is there a relationship that needs either to be released or recalibrated?

[00:07:37] Sometimes, you say no to draw a line in the sand.

[00:07:41] You say no more of this.

[00:07:43] No more of this.

[00:07:44] I invite you to be with that because that's a part of your liberation, your continual emancipation from limitation.

[00:07:53] So now let's turn to the yes, let your yes, be yes.

[00:07:57] Now, I know that in this room filled with so many people there are an equal number of unique yeses that you're probably poised to empower.

[00:08:06] It's like yes, I'm ready for this.

[00:08:08] Yes, I want to go in this direction.

[00:08:10] Yes, I'm embracing this.

[00:08:12] And what I want to do is offer an umbrella over all of those unique yeses of yours to support them.

[00:08:20] And it is to say yes to the evolution of your very being, to say yes to the evolutionary principle within you,

[00:08:33] to say yes to how you're created to be a pioneer of the possible.

[00:08:41] Say yes to letting life continue to have its way in growth for you and all dimensions of that word growth.

[00:08:51] David's dental rest, brother David's dental rest wrote another name for God is surprise.

[00:08:57] And the God in you and me is constantly ready to surprise us with more about us than we've come to know so far.

[00:09:08] I tend to know that we form rigid identities of ourselves and others.

[00:09:15] And we stay stuck in that.

[00:09:19] And yet the true spirit of us is proclaiming whenever we can listen to its whisper, you're so much more than that.

[00:09:26] Try your wings say yes to that so much more of you.

[00:09:34] I'm going to have some words of our founder Ernest Holmes put on the screen and take them in.

[00:09:39] They're so extraordinarily powerful.

[00:09:43] We start with a proposition that life is for us when we work with it.

[00:09:48] If we are in harmony with the upper progressive movement of the spirit, there is nothing that can hinder our advancement.

[00:09:58] He understands this will take the position of one who wishes to work in union with the creative power of God.

[00:10:05] And to such a one we'll come all the power that he can conceive of and believe in.

[00:10:12] And I had them underline and make bold that phrase, the upper progressive movement of the spirit.

[00:10:21] That's woven into you and me.

[00:10:23] This urge, this upper progressive urge to be more of what the God seed in us contains.

[00:10:34] Now there's a metaphor for this. I'd love to share with you and I invite you to imagine back to the beginnings of creation.

[00:10:44] And that time when it was all together but then it parted and there was the sky and then there was the water.

[00:10:51] And in that ocean which is often called the primordial soup, it was a, it was a protoplasm of critical chemicals and elements.

[00:11:02] And so in a little while pretty soon actually, heons of time.

[00:11:08] That protoplasm that primordial soup produced a single-celled organism.

[00:11:17] Now until that time there had been no active life and yet with that emergence of that single-celled organism,

[00:11:26] the possibility of every one of us here was activated.

[00:11:32] Every one of us, that single-celled organism is your earliest ancestor by the way.

[00:11:39] Now this one-celled organism soon became a two-celled and then a four-celled organism.

[00:11:46] And it keeps evolving and pretty soon we had fish and whales and lizards and all that stuff in the water.

[00:11:53] And more and more was created and more and more newness until the water's got really, really full.

[00:11:59] And then it seemed like evolution turned on itself.

[00:12:04] Turned back on itself, seemingly not producing so much new but now producing what I would simply call weirdos.

[00:12:14] Weirdos in the water just weird variations, not newness but weird variations of that great population.

[00:12:23] And you might think of that was the end of evolution but it was actually a part of a larger process.

[00:12:31] Because one day, a certain weirdo there in the water,

[00:12:37] a little fish that had grown legs and lungs to go along with fins and gills,

[00:12:45] that little fish jumped onto land and breathed.

[00:12:50] And that instant, the possibility of elephants and eagles was activated, not in manifestation but in possibility.

[00:13:01] The possibility was opened up so incredible.

[00:13:04] It was a power moment in evolution because that strange weird little fish activated countless other possibilities, countless other possibilities.

[00:13:20] Because it was willing to enter into, to give itself over to a greater process, to cooperate with the evolutionary process of transformation.

[00:13:36] One time in our history, Calvin Coolidge was president and he decided not to run for a second term and a reporter asked him why aren't you running for president.

[00:13:45] And he said because there's no room for advancement.

[00:13:50] Because there's something in every one of us that earns for advancement.

[00:13:57] We have the courage to take that radical step forward transformation can begin.

[00:14:06] Now this metaphor speaks also to the evolution of human consciousness.

[00:14:12] In some respects, as we have grown, we've in a way gone about as far as we can go in limited mentality.

[00:14:22] I mean it seems so much that our little mind has turned back on itself because it's filled with like reasons and excuses and lashing out and justifications and harsh judging, blaming all of that kind of thing.

[00:14:39] Stuckness limited stories filling up the consciousness.

[00:14:44] But that's also the state and I'm beginning to sense it going on now, that's also the state where strange variations of creative ideas can also begin to percolate.

[00:14:59] And I'll tell you what that fish is a part of every one of us.

[00:15:02] It's our capacity to imagine and to crystallize a vision.

[00:15:10] A vision, your vision is like a fish with lungs and legs.

[00:15:17] And unusual may be weird yet highly progressive opening in life.

[00:15:24] And when we step forward onto the land of real form owning that vision, owning it, things may not immediately change but we have activated immense possibilities that shall emerge through our courage, through our willingness.

[00:15:49] So the real question is how will you and I, how will we jump our vision on to dry land?

[00:15:58] And I know at first it seems radical, seems like it's going to upset the apple card with so much going on in our lives.

[00:16:04] So much that we've tried to cement down for safety and security reasons.

[00:16:08] And you may feel like a certified weirdo for jumping a vision of change and evolution onto dry land.

[00:16:17] But I know that some of us are highly qualified in that capacity of certified weirdo's.

[00:16:24] I think our church is fairly full of us in a very loving and powerful way, very much so.

[00:16:33] But this is the way that we reveal more of the divine magnificence and mystery of our being.

[00:16:41] So that little fish has more to teach us in some things we can do this week.

[00:16:44] First of all, the first thing I would tirely encourage us to do is first of all exit the soup.

[00:16:53] Exit the soup.

[00:16:56] And this means that finally we let our no be no.

[00:17:00] And we decide no more, no more of this.

[00:17:05] No more shall I impede myself.

[00:17:08] No more shall I agree with others who don't have my best interest in mind.

[00:17:13] No more am I going to hide out from what calls?

[00:17:19] No more am I going to think that I don't have anything left to give?

[00:17:24] No more.

[00:17:26] No more. There's so much more available.

[00:17:31] But we have to exit the soup of our stories, in our excuses, challenge our fears and go for it anyway.

[00:17:40] And sometimes it's a progressive process.

[00:17:43] We showed picture of Nelson Mandela, such an astounding man.

[00:17:48] When he was thrown into prison for his leadership in seeking to overthrow apartheid in South Africa,

[00:17:54] he was understandably discouraged.

[00:17:58] There he was in prison, sentence to a life of hard labor,

[00:18:04] and his initial belief was quite honestly, it's not happening.

[00:18:08] It's not happening.

[00:18:10] But he also wasn't one that was inclined to stay stuck.

[00:18:15] And he challenged himself, I've got to grow that.

[00:18:18] I can't stay in that.

[00:18:19] So he started working with the premise that it could happen.

[00:18:24] He didn't at first believe it, but he kept working with it.

[00:18:27] And he kept working with it and he stayed with that until there came a shift

[00:18:31] and he absolutely could embrace an own that it could happen.

[00:18:36] But he knew this isn't a stopping point.

[00:18:39] He kept working with that.

[00:18:40] He decided to embrace that it will happen.

[00:18:44] And he struggled with that at first, but he kept working with his consciousness,

[00:18:48] working with a higher perspective of things, a greater vision and understanding of things.

[00:18:53] And there came a time when he could deeply powerfully declare it will happen.

[00:18:59] But he didn't stop there.

[00:19:01] He said, there's another step.

[00:19:04] I want to go to the place where I am knowing and living that it is happening.

[00:19:10] No matter where I am, no matter the apparent conditions,

[00:19:15] the processes of foot and it is happening.

[00:19:19] And there came a point when he bought into that totally.

[00:19:23] And it gave him strength and transformed him in that environment.

[00:19:26] And I believe that his freedom wasn't when they opened those doors 26 years later

[00:19:33] and let him out, but when he arrived at that realization, that it is happening.

[00:19:39] And of course, he then became president and his affirmation bore fruit.

[00:19:46] Exit the soup.

[00:19:48] What's the soup?

[00:19:49] You've been swimming around in the muck.

[00:19:52] It's not you.

[00:19:53] It's just habits.

[00:19:55] Get out of there.

[00:19:57] Then that fish teaches us to breathe in.

[00:20:02] Breathe in imagination.

[00:20:06] That fish had to jump onto dry land.

[00:20:07] And I think we could take that first step out of the soup.

[00:20:10] Then it had to take a breath.

[00:20:13] And I think we get a breath of fresh expansive air when we imagine.

[00:20:18] We live in a framework.

[00:20:19] Every one of us.

[00:20:21] It's our belief system.

[00:20:23] It's what we believe is possible.

[00:20:24] Believe what we believe we are.

[00:20:27] And our choices tend to be limited within the scope of that framework.

[00:20:32] And that's why sometimes it seems so difficult to make change.

[00:20:36] What we're called to do is to go beyond that framework through imagination,

[00:20:43] to imagine outside.

[00:20:46] Fly in the face of what the limit seemed to be and imagine beyond that.

[00:20:51] Imagine how registly, creatively, spiritually,

[00:20:55] and all of a sudden the realm of your choices and possibilities has expanded.

[00:21:02] And we can continue to do that.

[00:21:06] Breathe in possibility, breathe in imagination.

[00:21:10] What Einstein called holy curiosity?

[00:21:13] To be curious about what's available to me beyond what I understand.

[00:21:19] What's available to me if I knew anything's possible?

[00:21:24] What's available?

[00:21:26] I wonder.

[00:21:28] I'm going to imagine.

[00:21:30] And then we are much more powerful.

[00:21:32] We're strengthened through imagination.

[00:21:35] We also showed a picture of Victor Frankel in last Sunday.

[00:21:37] I shared how he came in the midst of the horror of a concentration camp experience,

[00:21:44] how that Austrian psychologist came to the deep and profound realization

[00:21:47] that there was one thing they could never take away.

[00:21:51] And that was his freedom to choose his attitudes, no matter what the circumstance.

[00:21:57] He shares in his writings another very powerful experience in his life at that camp.

[00:22:04] One winter day he was being marched with the group of other prisoners through a field.

[00:22:12] And it was winter and it was bitter cold.

[00:22:14] He had thin clothing on, he had no socks, holes in his shoes.

[00:22:19] And it was very weak from malnutrition and mistreatment.

[00:22:24] And at one point he began to cough.

[00:22:26] To cough so severely at Brought him to his knees.

[00:22:30] And a guard came over and demanded that he get up and keep walking.

[00:22:33] But he was coughing so hard he couldn't even reply to the garden.

[00:22:36] So the guards started beating him with a club.

[00:22:40] And told him he'd die there if he didn't get up.

[00:22:42] And the thought went through front goes mind of well, this is it for me.

[00:22:47] But then he says in that moment all of a sudden his imagination,

[00:22:53] left out of that snowy field in Poland and he imagined himself at a lectern,

[00:23:01] sharing with a large, large audience of thousands,

[00:23:04] his lecture on the psychology of death camps.

[00:23:10] And he was no longer half dead in that field,

[00:23:13] but he was living in that lecture and he was telling that imaginary audience about that

[00:23:18] very moment when he collapsed in the snow and he was too weak to get up.

[00:23:22] But then he added to it that in that moment he also found a reservoir of strength within

[00:23:26] and he didn't realize and he was indeed able finally to stand and walk though

[00:23:31] haltingly at first and he gained more and more strength to go on.

[00:23:37] And as he was imagining describing this to the audience,

[00:23:42] at that actual moment back in the snow he found that he was actually able to stand up

[00:23:50] and to keep moving.

[00:23:52] And he kept that visualization going throughout their whole work order there,

[00:23:57] and they're all in their whole time of working.

[00:23:58] And as they also walked along, walked back to the barracks and as he collapsed into

[00:24:04] his bunk and exhaustion, he imagined completing that lecture and thousands of people

[00:24:10] standing giving him a standing ovation.

[00:24:13] He made it through.

[00:24:15] Many years later, 1990, and a high in California,

[00:24:20] he's giving a lecture to 7,000 telling about that story and at the end they're on their feet.

[00:24:26] Giving him the very standing ovation he had imagined.

[00:24:32] You see what he did was he imagined a future in which his problems were resolved

[00:24:39] and then he worked backward to the present to activate the qualities to make that future a reality.

[00:24:49] That's the power to breathe in imagination, take a deep breath right now

[00:25:00] and let your concept of you expand.

[00:25:03] Imagine that life is saying to you all there's so much more.

[00:25:08] You're so much more, you're here so we're not done with you yet.

[00:25:15] What could be?

[00:25:18] Finally then, that weirdo little fish encourages us all to trust our legs,

[00:25:27] trust your legs.

[00:25:29] Trust that capacity even when you don't know entirely what's going to happen or where

[00:25:34] you're going to end up or what's going to transpire, that you have the capacity to take a step.

[00:25:40] And you can do it flying in the face of whatever is going on, flying in the face of your age,

[00:25:46] the situations you're past, that you can trust your legs meaning principles.

[00:25:53] Those legs on that fish were the principles we move on, are what will carry us forward.

[00:25:59] The principle that we are pure spirit, that we're born of an infinite loving life,

[00:26:03] that life supports us if we'll allow it.

[00:26:07] The principle that according to our believing and our inspired action,

[00:26:11] it shall be done unto us, that we are creative beings, that we are light beings.

[00:26:19] On those legs, we can walk forward.

[00:26:23] I want to close with an actual event in a man's life.

[00:26:28] It touches me a whole lot.

[00:26:29] I'm going to tell you about Jim Henry, who lived in mystic Connecticut.

[00:26:36] I'm not a real visit mystic.

[00:26:38] Any town that's mystic, I think that probably is pretty good.

[00:26:43] Jim Henry, 98 years old, and he releases his first and only book in a fisherman's language.

[00:26:51] It was called.

[00:26:53] There was a collection of short stories about his life and about his experiences.

[00:27:00] But what's most remarkable is that Jim Henry didn't learn to read and write until he was 91.

[00:27:08] He quit school in third grade because his dad had he and his brother go to work to help the family survive.

[00:27:14] And then after that, he captain to lobster boat and he served in the National Guard.

[00:27:19] Then he became skilled carpenter and plumber, even designed to build his own home.

[00:27:25] But over the years he hid his illiteracy by employing a number of tricks like for instance that a restaurant

[00:27:32] he'd always ordered with somebody else order since he couldn't read the menu.

[00:27:36] And he knew just enough to be able to sign his name.

[00:27:39] So he got through.

[00:27:41] But at 91, he came upon the story of George Dawson, who was a grand son of a slave,

[00:27:51] who wanted to earn his high school diploma by learning to read and write.

[00:27:55] And that he accomplished that George Dawson did at 98 years old.

[00:28:01] And Jim Henry said, well listen, he had the same problem I didn't I figured if he could do it I could.

[00:28:06] And so he did.

[00:28:09] At that age, 91, he learned.

[00:28:13] He went outside his frame of reference in the possibility.

[00:28:18] And he learned to read and write.

[00:28:20] He wrote the book and it caught on like wildflower, a film company bought the rights to make a film about his life.

[00:28:28] Stories appeared in magazines.

[00:28:29] He got a letter from the president and from people around the world.

[00:28:33] And he remarked, here I have nothing but a fisherman before and now everyone is looking up to me.

[00:28:39] It makes me feel so happy.

[00:28:42] As a joy in this.

[00:28:45] Jim Henry passed away at the age of 99.

[00:28:48] Three months short of his hundredth birthday with his family reading him,

[00:28:54] passages from Jonathan Livingston's sequel.

[00:28:57] But you see he'd already found his wings.

[00:29:00] He'd found his wings.

[00:29:02] So what's this all saying to you?

[00:29:06] Beloved one.

[00:29:08] I know it's stretching and challenging me because this remember we are possibilities always.

[00:29:17] Always.

[00:29:19] We're here to explore being free.

[00:29:23] So exit the soup, trust your leg, breathe in the imagination and trust your principles, trust your legs.

[00:29:32] That's what it means.

[00:29:34] That's your destiny in your design.

[00:29:36] Being free.

[00:29:40] Let's take this into prayer.

[00:29:45] A beautiful it is now to become more still and since deeply within,

[00:29:55] yes, within there's something that knows and never forgets,

[00:30:05] knows that we are impeccable, magnificent, spiritual life.

[00:30:20] Here to have life and have it ever more fully and abundantly,

[00:30:27] here to reveal through ourselves and our living,

[00:30:32] more and more eternally more of the infinite creator, our source.

[00:30:41] Go to that, that which knows, that which knows speaks in a quiet heart.

[00:30:56] It proclaims the voice of spirit.

[00:31:02] I have loved you with an everlasting love.

[00:31:08] I have vested in you qualities of magnificence and the essence of freedom.

[00:31:21] You, my beloved child, are creative consciousness, explore beyond what the lesser mind has presumed is so.

[00:31:37] Explore.

[00:31:38] Draw upon something deeper.

[00:31:42] I am here, I am with you and I will never leave you.

[00:31:46] No, for sake you.

[00:31:49] And when you trust your legs instead of forward everything that I have is there for you,

[00:31:54] just keep stepping.

[00:31:57] The way is revealed.

[00:32:03] So in this beautiful heart-felt moment may we just give thanks for the life that we are.

[00:32:11] That life is so much more than our past.

[00:32:14] So much more than whatever's going on now.

[00:32:18] That life is glorious.

[00:32:20] It is energy.

[00:32:24] It is beauty.

[00:32:26] It is sacred.

[00:32:30] Imagine that you are weaving around yourself a cocoon of love.

[00:32:36] A cocoon that doesn't no longer limit you, but becomes the birthplace of that higher order of being woven into you.

[00:32:51] And that as you finally say no to self-doubt and no to limited ideas, no to that which no longer belongs to you.

[00:33:02] Say yes to this love.

[00:33:06] And say yes to the beckoning.

[00:33:11] Feel it.

[00:33:13] Feel it that you are emerging from this cocoon, this criss-a-less of love.

[00:33:19] And your splendor is revealed.

[00:33:23] And you look around and you see other beautiful beings awakening as well.

[00:33:28] And there is a vibration and an energy that is being cast by these awakened beings and you and it's filling our world as we rise above limited toxic levels of thinking and birth.

[00:33:49] The greater possibilities within us.

[00:33:54] And I speak to word knowing for you and for me for everyone,

[00:33:59] wholeness of my body emotions and circumstance.

[00:34:03] I affirm for you and me openings into the greater good.

[00:34:06] And I give thanks in advance that everything we need and require all the resources, the inspiration, the guidance is already provided.

[00:34:12] And as we trust our legs and step forward it is provided.

[00:34:16] And we go forth in a new way that's exhilarating somehow knowing.

[00:34:23] It is for this that I came here.

[00:34:29] Oh, I give thanks for this as it is anchored deep within us.

[00:34:36] And as we leave this precious place, this beautiful container of consciousness, it unfolds by means of us.

[00:34:46] Thank you, spirit.

[00:34:48] For indeed, the truth is making us free.

[00:34:56] For this and more than words can say I give thanks, we let this be and become and so it is.

[00:35:04] And I'm in.

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