Three spiritual masters provide lessons that have given an educator years of profound insights

By Jim Hawes

Eckhart Tolle, Bill Samuel and Jane Roberts have taught me several profound spiritual insights that have created 20-plus years of meaningful and fascinating lessons.

Eckhart Tolle’s classics “Stillness Speaks,” “The New Earth” and “The Findhorn Retreat” have provided me with several conscious pointers. He calls this experience “the awakened doing,” which he says is the alignment of your outer purpose with your inner purpose: “Consciousness flows through you into this world. It flows into your thoughts and inspires them. It flows into what you do and guides and empowers it.”

The three modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment and enthusiasm. With acceptance, you are at peace with whatever you do. Enjoyment means that you will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present. Enjoyment of what you are doing combined with a goal or vision that you work toward becomes enthusiasm. Eckhart says that if you find yourself in one of these modalities, you are not in ego, or what he calls the conditioned mind.

He says a new species is arising on the planet. It is now and you are it. I like his title, but I would have changed or added one word. “The New Earth Now!”

Bill Samuel’s books, particularly what I think is his best book, “The Child Within Us Lives,” have been a survival life raft in the challenges of teaching at the middle school level. There were many moments when fear and, yes, even anger erupted. But Bill’s glimpses or advice were to sense or feel and know that this always-present child — joy, wonder, and enthusiasm — was pulsating through each student.

This was amazing, even a bit magical, as I struggled with appearances of fear and anger; I could feel myself doing what Bill recommended. Be at the top of the mountain of struggle. Be the child. This wonder, joy, and enthusiasm is always here and now. What appeared to be an angry student or a student telling me how boring my class was became an authentic sharing with my students. Bill also suggested that one keep a daily journal where you write these experiences while always seeing and expecting the good or positive silver lining. Also, Bill was right that when you write your positive glimpses, even more glimpses pop out.

The third master, Jane Roberts’s, work, “Afterdeath Journal of the American Philosopher William James,” is my latest gem that has several profound blockbuster conscious insights. Her last four chapters, which include the epilogue, is where William James pours forth some of the most profound and hopeful spiritual ideas that I have ever read.

One of my favorite quotes from this work:

“Every once in a while, from nowhere we are filled with a new buoyancy, an additional energy, a sudden exhilaration and enthusiasm. So, faith is born again in a man by leaps and bounds as he begins to trust his own nature and the terms of his private existence.”

“I really understood James’s assertion that the atmospheric presence gives fresh insights, energy, or whatever is needed. James goes into all of this thoroughly, but it takes a second reading. James is saying that since the atmospheric presence doesn’t intrude, we have to ask, to state our needs or intents and they will be met, because super nature or the atmospheric presence (or the universe) is responsive and actively wants to give support. This is a far cry from our usual belief that life must be tooth and claw.”

In conclusion, conscious materialization is made clear by these three master sages. Eckhart Tolle’s “Now or Awakened Doing,” with his modalities of acceptance, enjoyment and enthusiasm.

Bill Samuel says that the child (wonder, joy, and enthusiasm) is available any time or age atop what he calls the mountain of struggle. More of these child awareness glimpses can be created by keeping a daily journal.

Last, Jane Roberts belief that the “atmospheric presence” is where we came from and where we return to when we die. It is a transformative medium where we can get spiritual guidance to make our lives more meaningful.

Reading one or all three of these illumined authors can produce more conscious materialization.

Jim Hawes is a retired elementary and middle school teacher from Rogue River School District. He published his first book, “Ageless Child,” in 2011 with Balboa Press.

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