{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"SL04-01 Beyond Seeking and Receiving the Light of Hope to Broadcasting it To All","description":"Spei Lumina has been on a hiatus of sorts since April.  My apologies for the long delay in publishing a new episode of imaginal prayer during these trying times.  If you are like me, the polarity and division that continues within our society and culture between the Left and the Right, Conservatives and Liberals, Maskers and Anti-Maskers, Vaccinated and Unvaccinated in this ongoing post COVID-19 pandemic is truly wearing to your soul.  It\u2019s hard to be that reflector of Light, of Hope, of Truth when all around us is division and scorn for the other and those who don\u2019t agree with us.   I\u2019ve been reading some old metaphysical and spiritualist journals and papers from the 1800\u2019s to early 20th century.  From 1934 - 1937, Joseph Benner of Akron, OH published a periodical titled The Inner Life - The Herald of the New Age.  Benner was the owner of SUN PUBLISHING CO. in Akron, OH.  He wrote many books, his most notable was, \u201cThe Impersonal Life.\u201d Also known as \u201cThe I AM teaching.\u201d Elvis Presley was known to have been introduced to this book by one of his acquaintances and it was supposedly one of his favorite book that he gave away hundreds of copies of the book during his lifetime.   In the July, 1937 issue of The Inner Life there is an article entitled, \u201cA Challenge to Metaphysicians\u201d  wherein the author asks his brothers and sisters in spiritual ministry to consider developing the Christ Consciousness within all by starting their meetings with his proposed invocation and prayers outlined int he article. What follows is my adaptation of his invocations as an imaginal prayer exercise, helping us to invite that Light of the Christ consciousness within so that we in turn may broadcast that Light, that Love, that truth out to all in these trying times. I hope you will join me in this imaginal prayer exercise grounding ourselves in the Christ consciousness within each of us and emanating and broadcasting that Light and power and love out to all. This episode is dedicated to the memory, ministry, and mission of the article\u2019s author who is known simply by the initials H.F.C. ","author_name":"Spei Lumina - Lights Of Hope","author_url":"http:\/\/angelsofthenativity.org\/speilumina","html":"