NTI Colossians combines the teaching of NTI Ephesians and NTI Philippians, while bringing more clarity to both.
NTI Ephesians taught that you are the process of creation, and your way of being is creative spirit. Whatever you accept as true is given through spirit to all of consciousness and is experienced by consciousness in the Fourth Principle of God, the realm of manifestation.
NTI Philippians taught that your creative spirit isn’t the result of your purpose alone. Your purpose (motive) combined with believing attention (faith) creates the way of being that is creative spirit. NTI Philippians recommended you watch the body to see if the motive and faith it follows is the motive and faith that you want as your creative spirit. It also recommended that you stand firm with the purpose of the Heart.
NTI Colossians points to what we are beyond the creative principle, which is life-awareness. It reminds us that our truth is the truth of everything. It’s not just that I am life-awareness and an insect is life-awareness too. The insect and I are the same life-awareness.
In other words, NTI Ephesians pointed to the Third Principle of God as what we are. NTI Colossians begins there, and then points directly at the First Principle of God as our actual reality.
To say we are merely the Fourth Principle of God, manifestation, is a mistake. To say we are the Third Principle of God, the creative principle, is more correct. To say we are the Second Principle of God, consciousness, is closer to truth. To say we are the First Principle of God, life-awareness, is truth. To say we are all four principles simultaneously is the essence of truth, since all four principles are made up of the First Principle of God.
In NTI, the First Principle of God is called Life. The Second Principle of God is called spirit. The Third Principle of God is called creation. The Fourth Principle of God is called form. You are all of them, because you are Life, which is the source and the essence of them all.
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Thoughts of Awakening # 212
Gratitude is a gift.
It is the natural extension of love.
To love is to extend,
and to be grateful is to love.
Gratitude extends.
It increases.
This is what it does.
So gratitude is your extension of yourself
within all of that which you are.
~From our Holy Spirit
Homework for this week
- Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
- Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Thoughts of Awakening, 211-217 including Commentary on Desire (with 211), Commentary on Gratitude (with 213), Commentary on Happiness (with 215), & Commentary on Experience (with 216)
- Read NTI Collosians 1-4 (No NTI reading on days 211,213,215, or 216).
- The reading from Rupert Spira was from The Transparency of Things, p210-214, A Knowing Space.
- Exercise is the What is Constant game. As changes seem to occur in your daily life, ask what is constant? If you are mad at someone now, ask what is constant. What is the same now as it was earlier that morning? Even ask, what is the difference between experience and non-experience?
