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Aug
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How Dreams Can Help Us

Category: Dreams, Questions and Answers Tags: , ,

John V Autumn_7By Harold Klemp

Q: How can our dreams help us?

A: Dreams are like a daily report card. They show how you are doing in your spiritual mission, even if you don’t know you have one. Dreams tell how you are getting on in your relationship with God and life.

There is a spiritual side to every experience or event, no matter how large or small, and whether or not it occurs in every day life or in a dream.

But—and this is a big but—few people have the spiritual eyes to see.

Most people are in a daze but don’t know it. They have hardly any idea about their life in the higher spiritual worlds while their body lies asleep at day’s end.

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Excerpted from Youth Ask a Modern Prophet about Life, Love, and God.

 

May
19

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Discover the Source of All Truth

Category: Prayer, Meditation, and Contemplation, Questions and Answers Tags: , , , ,

By Harold Klemp

Learn to go inside yourself, because this is the source of all truth. There are a lot of holy temples out here, but the most sacred of all is the temple inside you, because this is where you meet with the Holy Spirit.

How do you meet with the Holy Spirit? Read More

Mar
15

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Why Are We Here?

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ECKANKAR, God, Soul, DestinyBy Harold Klemp

Q: In the grand scheme of things, why are we here?  I believe I understand that we are here to attain Self-Realization, then later God-Realization on our journey home to God to truly be a Co-worker.  Why this “journey” in the first place?

A: Why this journey home to God?

Do you know the parable of the prodigal son?  A young man, born into all the advantages of a wealthy family, decided to leave home and see the world.  Well, he wasted his money and ended up in a far land, among strangers, working as a swineherd.  He would gladly have eaten what the pigs did.

One day it came to him: here he was living nearly like a beggar.  Even his father’s hired servants fared better.

So the wastrel returned home.

“Father,” he said, “I’m a waste.  I’m not worthy to be called your son.  Make me as one of your servants.” Read More

Feb
23

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What the Master Offers

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ECKANKAR, Harold KlempBy Harold Klemp

Q: You have spoken about being a holding tank for our karma, to the point where it makes you physically sick.  Also, your wife, Joan, wrote about the unique value of the Master to the chela.

In a culture imbued with the tradition of messianism, it’s hard to imagine what may lie beyond the concept of a savior who needs to sacrifice himself to save mankind.  What are some of the differences between the role of a savior and the way the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master helps people with their karma?

A: Faith and belief are based on feelings instead of reason.  So it’s pointless to argue with someone of another religion about the validity of Eckankar over his beliefs.

This being so, it greatly simplifies the matter for us.  We do not wish to convince anyone about anything. Read More

Jan
15

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What about Soul Mates?

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ECKANKAR, Soul Mates, Self-RealizationBy Harold Klemp

Q: I read in the book The Tiger’s Fang, by Paul Twitchell, about the topic of Soul mates, and it baffles me.  Does that mean that every Soul will somehow find his Soul mate somewhere on the journey to Sugmad?

A: Your question does come up fairly often, so let’s take a look at it.

The confusion arises from something Paul Twitchell once wrote in chapter 6 of The Tiger’s Fang.  There, he endorsed the idea.  But Paul was then still a Master in training.  His understanding was incomplete.

Later he strongly reversed himself in The ECK-Vidya, Ancient Science of Prophecy.  You’ll surely want to read chapter 5, “The ECK-Vidya Theory of Time Twins.”  He wrote it as a spiritually mature individual.  Over the years, too, I have addressed this issue in a number of talks and writings. Read More

Jan
8

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Who Are You, and Why Are You Here?

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inner_worlds_27_color_HIBy Harold Klemp

Q: What is Soul, and why are we here?

A: Soul just is.  It is the creative center of Its own world.

We know that Soul exists by the evidence of life around us.  When Soul inhabits a body, that body lives, moves, and has being.  When Soul leaves, the body no longer lives, moves, or has being.  What has left?  By direct or indirect evidence, we know that some unseen force gives life to a physical body.

What is that something?  Soul, of course. Read More

Dec
8

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Life Is a Gift

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ECKANKAR, Soul, Resposibilty, SuicideBy Harold Klemp

Q: On this journey home to God, we are sometimes faced with painful experiences.  During these times, some people make the choice to end their lives.  What is the spiritual lesson and responsibility in making that choice?

A: Life often is pain.  If not physical pain, then surely emotional or mental dis-ease of some sort.  Earth is God’s boot camp for Souls.

People who take their lives are to be pitied only because they threw away on a whim the divine blessing of this life.  In Christianity, it would be a final tragedy.  The reason is that its belief system admits but to a single human existence in eternity and to lightly gamble it away is to forever suffer eternal damnation. Read More

Nov
3

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Who Greets a Departing Soul?

Category: Life after Death, Questions and Answers Tags: , , , ,

rp_Who-Greats-a-Departing-Soul-1-1024x819.jpgBy Harold Klemp

Q: In the ECK writings, reference is made to the Angel of Death.  Some of these references portray this figure in unsettling terms.  Elsewhere, the writings indicate the noninitiated are met by friends and loved ones at the time of passing and guided across by a benign angelic being.  Could you say a little about the experience of death for the noninitiated and what this special time means for the ECK initiate? Read More

Oct
15

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What Is an ECK Satsang class?

Category: Questions and Answers, What Is ECKANKAR? Tags: , , , ,

May 2013_KW_0216 - Satsang Group TempleAn ECK Satsang class is a gathering of ECK members who choose to come together once or twice a month to further their spiritual understanding through study of the ECK discourses. In studying the ECK discourses, an ECK Satsang class revolves around the rhythm of the Living Word.

This rhythm is important because it is the Life Force, the ECK. The words of the outer teachings are instruments of the Mahanta to help unlock your heart so you can enter into the secret kingdom. To the eyes of the world it may all seem foolishness, yet the gifts of the Holy Spirit are given to those who cherish them enough to reach out for them. Read More

Oct
15

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What Is the Ultimate Goal of Soul?

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ECKANKAR, Goal, Soul, Love, SpiritualBy Harold Klemp

Here is a brief review of the final goal of Soul: It gathers an education in the lower worlds so that It can become a true citizen in the spiritual community.  This is what we call a Co-worker with God.

The relationship between parent and child in the worlds of matter is based upon this spiritual design.  The parent is the vehicle for the child’s entrance into the world and is responsible for his education.  The child must, between birth and the age of perhaps eighteen, learn all the dos and don’ts of his culture.  The significant fact underlying the parent-child relationship is that there is more freedom for the child as he gets older and assumes more responsibility.  The parent has failed his duties if the child reaches legal age and is unfit to take his place in the world. Read More

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