Preface by Lorraine Sinkler
PART ONE: THE NATURE OF SPIRITUAL POWER
1. The Atheism of Material Power
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2. Releasing Spiritual Power
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3. Spiritual Power Unveiled
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PART TWO: THE WORD MADE FLESH
4. Flesh and Flesh
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5. Our Real Identity
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6. The Word and Words
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PART THREE: ATTAINING CONSCIOUS DOMINION
7. Concepts or Is?
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8. Attaining Dominion through “I”
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9. The Mystic and Healing
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10. Dominion through Daily Realization
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11. Awakening to the Soul-Faculties
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12. Consciousness Unfolding as the Harmony of Our Experience
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Hidden behind the personal self is the real Self, that which Paul called "The Christ," or our spiritual identity. To awaken mystical consciousness is to come to that point where we can spiritually apprehend this truth about ourselves and about each other and live by it.
In Awakening Mystical Consciousness, Goldsmith explains the spiritual principles and practices that will help us to awaken. He instructs the reader in how to use contemplation, meditation, and inner communion to attain the realization of the true Self. With care and in detail, he addresses the nature of God as omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience; the nature of spiritual power; our real identity; the nature of concepts; and the barriers that obstruct the way to realization. But Goldsmith clearly emphasizes that these statements of truth are not truth. They only help us get into the center of Being, where we can be receptive to the inner voice.
A mainstay of this book is erasing the false concept that man is separated from God, and that there is a God "out there" that can take away our sins, diseases, lacks and limitations. "Through this work," says Goldsmith, "you are going to awaken out of the dream that there can be any separation. It wakes you up, and then you look around and realize you are in heaven. You have been there all the time, dreaming you were in hell."
Goldsmith explains that awakening to mystical consciousness bears great fruitage. Through our realization of oneness, we regain our original dominion over our bodies and our lives. We can also demonstrate the healing consciousness, that consciousness that knows there is nothing to be healed, but only Truth to be revealed. "The goal," he says, "is the attainment of this Spirit of God" – mystical consciousness. "That is the entire goal of the spiritual life."
[Note: Awakening Mystical Consciousness is the collection of the 1970 Infinite Way Letters.]