Love alone can beget love. If we wish to have joy we must give it; it is a subtle pronouncement of the law of cause and effect. Separateness, mortality, and renewal have always been the friends of evolutionary progress.  The strong implication has to be that it is only in a World where it has been practicable for living things to maintain and defend the physical, temporal and spiritual boundaries of their minds and bodies, that all the beauty and variety of life and culture could have come into existence. It is not always easy to be an individual. There are probably times when every one of us finds it an absurdity that we do in fact have boundaries that we do: that we have been fated to live here rather than there, now rather than then, in this body rather than another. What we make of the World as it really exists, depends on how we look at it. We can be the optimist who brightly believes this is the best of all possible Worlds, or the pessimist who gloomily nods one’s head and says, “How true!” Freedom is the recognition of necessity. Our mental gaze should be upward and inward and not external, for this is the secret of the secret place of the Most High. We are still alive, awake, and aware. We are still conscious, and consciously conscious. We are not less but more ourselves. #RandolphHarris 1 of 7

The purpose of scripture or the doctrines of religion is to keep people from dwindling in unbelief and to ultimately help bring their souls into a state of cleanliness, that they may dwell with their Father in Heaven in the eternities. Of course, most of the gifts of life are not just handed to us; we have to work for them. We know instinctively that it takes more than cosmetic cures to be attractive, but many of us still search outside of ourselves for the fountain of youth because we are not sure what else to look for. The true source of attractiveness is actually found through inner exploration. In order to glow with life from the inside out, we have to learn to release untapped talents, banished longings, and passionate desires; expand our skills in solving complex problems; and attune ourselves to the secrets of our souls. We cannot grow without doing this work. Left to our own devices, most of us harvest only a small percentage of what can keep us feeling and looking alive. Even when we glimpse a pathway into our inner World (through flashes of insight, nightmares, episodes of depression or intense joy, spiritual awakenings, or encounters with intimacy), we fail to make the most of it, because no one every taught us how to cultivate those mysterious aspects of ourselves. It is important to understand that unless we are a truly unusual individual, we are likely to be completely clueless about how to handle challenges that we face. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7

Good is not withheld from anyone, but ignorance of the law excuses no one from its use or its abuse. Anything is good to have provided it harms no other person but helps our own self-expression. Whatsoever things we desire we are to receive. Suppose we had a friend who never refused our petitions, who always had the power to grant our requests; someone strong, affluent, and self-sufficient, who has at his or her disposal infinite resources so that he or she could honor our requests. And suppose this individual’s greatest desire was to benefit us. Should we not feel fortunate indeed? Further, let us suppose that the only condition this friend imposes on us is that everything one gives us is to be used for constructive purposes. And presume this friend promises us that if we use all these gifts for constructive purposes alone no harm should ever come to us. In addition, this friend guarantees us absolute protection. Should we not feel this person the most wonderful of all friends? This is exactly the principle which God laid before us in the scriptures.  However, Ezekiel 33.31 reports, “They sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them.” When we love the Lord, why do we still break his laws? #RandolphHarris 3 of 7

Full-scale rituals evolve when even more people need and use the methods. Rituals are formalized in words and in actions, the meaning and experience of the truth being represented. For example, many religious welcome new members into their ranks by performing a physical cleansing (with water) to symbolize spiritual cleansing. Rituals are powerful only so long as the people practicing them are aware of their underlying meaning. Certain natural and necessary restrictions are laid upon us. They are merely those restrictions that keep us from using the gift destructively. They are not restrictions of limitations or bondage. They are merely such restrictions as must necessarily be consistent with a Universe of Law, of Order, of Harmony, of Unity, and of Love. We cannot consider them as being restrictions, since we know that Peace, Joy, and Happiness go with the gift. Surely, if we had a friend who was such a giver we should think of that individual as being no less than Divine. Few people have good role models in their adult life and beyond. Some people cannot even name five people they know who have aged successfully (i.e., happily). They usually can only name one or two. So at this point in our society, and in our lives in particular, there are very few places to turn for information on facing the challenges of aging. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7

Up until we became adults, our growing process was easier. Our urges to develop were recognized and encouraged by our parents and our peers, and we had plenty of goals and rituals and experiences along the way to make sure we were on the right track (birthday parties, graduations, promotions, perhaps parenthood). During the first half of our lives, we learned to master the external World, and we developed self-esteem as a result. Any failure to mature internally was easily overshadowed by our success in the outside World. Now that we have reached adulthood, the time for exploring the inner World, we may find ourselves with less gratifying symbols that let us know we are on the right path. One of the reasons for that is because few of us have been taught even the basics of how to develop our inner selves. We are living in a time when the importance of spirituality, self-awareness, and emotional maturity are undervalued at best and devalued at worst. Getting on the right path takes knowledge and courage. We have to recognize that God is at the center of our lives, at the very center of our own thoughts and consciousness. We must realize that God is the very presence and intelligence by which we think, so we do not have to go out and find him; God is always at home and his home is within our own souls. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7

Should we not feel that we have the most wonderful companion imaginable? Should we not spend some time in daily communion with this companion? Leaving all external confusion and fear outside, should we not enter this sacredness and, meditating before the Ark of the Covenant, should we not each in, unroll the scroll, and dead from it the divine message: “Before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear,” reports Isaiah 65.24. As we grow older, prizes from the outer World often begin to hold less fascination. It becomes clear that growing up is a fallacy. We begin to feel in our hearts that we are not now, nor will ever be, grown-up. Adulthood is a phase of development like any other, fraught with ascents and descents into ever-changing arenas of human potential. Learning to conquer the challenges of our soul with as much strength as we mastered the trials of the World at large is the prime objective of adult life. Sometimes we might feel fragmented, with everyone and everything out there claiming a piece of us. At times we may feel burned out, restless, unsure of who we are, and stuck by the emptiness of externally defined success. This is the price of maturity, and a sign that now is the time to get back in touch with our innermost drives, talents, and desires. That sense that things are just not being right is nature’s way of telling us it is time to change. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7

Now, as you can tell, this is not a sugar-coated presentation, it is Clorox, and I hope you are not offended. We must no longer have just a light-wired job. We must have the conduit of all the powers of God upon us, and then when someone calls upon us to give a blessing of any kind, when they call upon us to speak, we will be as conduits and speak as God would have us speak. Now, the Lord bless you. It seems that there are many words of eternal life that have proceeded forth from the mouth of God to which we must give more diligent heed if we are to receive the promised blessings. However, if we have sought to do wickedly in the days of our mortal probation, then we will be found unclean before the judgment seat of God; and no unclean thing can dwell with God; wherefore, we must be cast off forever. The Kingdom of God is not filthy, and there cannot be any unclean thing enter into the Kingdom of God. Be clean and be the vessels of the Lord. Know that you are the temple of God. The wonderful gifts you will find on your journey will provide an inner resource you already have at your disposal in claiming the rewards nature intended you to have, and we will learn new strategies we can use to bring our extraordinary abilities to the surface until the sea itself flows in our veins, till we are clothes with the Heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive ourselves to be the sole heir of the whole World, and more than so, because people are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as we are. #RandolphHarris 7 of 7

Lord, it is good for us to be here. I pray that the same sweet spirit which has prevailed will continue with us. People require the promise of the paranormal to make sense of their lives. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, exclusively on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be built. In the interior of our consciousness, each of us has a private hall of fame reserved exclusively for the real leaders who have influenced the direction of our lives. Perhaps, instead of meekly assuming that the World we live in is so much poorer a place than we would have liked, our lives so much less meaningful and our prospects so much less promising, we shall have to try to show that the real World—a World with soul-power—is after all unsurpassably rich, and the alternative World—the World without soul-power—is nothing more than a snare and a delusion. We need to distance ourselves from all those beautiful lamentations about humanity’s sad plight. This evolution of life on Earth—and all that we hold dear about ourselves as living beings—has depended primarily on divine guidance, which provides the sources of control for self-improvement, a stable character, and a truly successful life. God determined us to be pleased by benevolent actions. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

The burden of life arises from the belief that we have neither the power nor the intelligence to solve our problems. However, it is highly doubtful that there is even one soul upon Earth, regardless of station or age, who does not have ample room for personal growth and improvement. If we are no better tomorrow than we are today, we are not very useful. The sad part of humanity seems to be the utter lack of desire, in the lives of many, to really do something about enlarging the vistas of their vistas of their existence. We must rely on the divine guidance to speak the right word into law. The word of trust executes itself. Our acknowledgement of good becomes the faith in the future, and we recognize the challenge to grow and change. The word of God is faithful and true, and protection—his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. The word of truth is based upon the changeless principle of reality. By the word of the Lord were the Heavens made. Thus, our divine partnership with its divine guidance transfers the burden and lifts the load of life. Our part is to plant the right seed; to know that the law flows from the word; to know that the word is the starting point of every creation; to know that ideas are things; to know that the entire physical Universe is a thing of thought. We do not know the nation until we know its pleasure of life, just as we do not know a person until we know how he or she spends one’s leisure. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

Have you ever thought much about how your leisure gives you away? I used to know a man who was head of a very large commercial empire. Beginning with nothing but ambition, he became a multimillionaire and, finally, retired as head of his successful company. He bought a large and magnificent yacht with which to cruise the World. And do you know what he did with his free time? He watched salacious stories about celebrity gossip, produced fake news, and got falling-down drunk and have to be carried to bed, unconscious, every night. He is now dead. His leisure gave him away. There was nothing there…just nothing at all. He was a one idea man. Once he was away from that idea, he was a lost soul in a white squall. He did not enjoy his yacht and travel meant nothing to him. He was a pitiful, unhappy cypher. Not because he was rich…there are thousands, millions just like him in every walk of life. It was just that his millions, which gave him access to the whole World, were worthless to him and accentuated his nothingness. When we have transferred the burden into the law, and when we have cosigned our own soul to peace, we shall have a new interest and a fresh outlook, for we shall be entering into the spirit of life, into the livingness of life, and into the joy of that livingness. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

In our individual World we have the power and the knowledge to create these individual experiences which makes life worthwhile. And there is no limit to the evolution of these experiences, for one conclusion will lead to another. This is the symbolism of the octave, which means that the end of any particular creative series is but the beginning of a new creative series. In our social and cultural evolution, in a World of competing ideas no less in the World of bodies and genes separate development is essential to success: independence and solitude are the schools of genius, privacy is needed to shelter the tender shoots of innovation, virgin minds are the seedbeds of originality. Let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought content. Selection can only be effective provided that each of the hundred flowers is allowed the opportunity to bloom its own fashion, each of the hundred schools of thought is given space to mature in its own way. Provided too that, when each flower or school has undergone its test of fitness and proved itself more or less successful, there is the opportunity for new generations to take the field and start over again. Change is what it will take to bring any individual out of the dilemma of living with principles of error. For it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

In general, separateness, mortality and renewal have always been the friends of evolutionary progress. The strong implications has to be that it is only in a World where it has been practicable for living things to maintain and defend the physical, temporal and spiritual boundaries of their minds and bodies, that all the beauty and variety of life and culture could have come into existence. Which means in effect that it could only have happened in a World of normal laws. There is in each one of us the will to live, to enjoy, to express and to unfold; this will is divine, and our will is in partnership with this divine will, and our mind with this divine mind. Thus, we expect and believe that all good shall come to us. As we transfer the load, a new meaning comes into life, a more spontaneous self-expression; sadness gives place to joy, and confusion surrenders itself to peace. Action robbed of friction moves without fatigue, and the endless drama of life presents us with inspiring scenes and ever-moving experiences. This is the New Heaven and the New Earth. And when that final transference shall take place from this World into the next, we shall exclaim, “Into thy hands I commend my spirit.” The evidence of the power of faith is clearly defined by the Savior. Faith in God will cause the miracle of change and set the course of action on the true purpose of life. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

Predictions made in advance may be and frequently cause someone to be in a difficult situation because reality is often unexpected, events occur even through nothing like them has ever been observed to happen in the past, unimagined contingencies do arise, seemingly absurd eventualities do come to pass. Repentance follows faith as naturally as the day follows dawn. The morning breaks, the shadows flee. Repentance is they very essence of change; it embodies the powerful principle of obedience to God’s law and discipline of self. When applied to our lives, it provides a cleansing joy which surges through us. We beseech thee, Master, to be our helper and protector. Save the afflicted among us; have mercy and compassion on the lowly; rise up the fallen; appear to the needy; heal the ungodly; restore the wanderers of thy people; feed the hungry; ransom our prisoners; raise up the sick; comfort the faint hearted. Lord, who hast mercy upon all, take away from me my sins, and mercifully kindle in me the fire of thy Holy Spirit. Take away from me the heart of stone, and give me a heart of flesh, a heart to love and adore thee, a heart of delight in thee, to follow and enjoy thee. Disgrace clings to no one after repenting, any more than feet defiled with mud of the World, come yet soiled and polluted from the cleansing bath. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6

There are many events throughout history that have profoundly the destiny of nations and peoples. We are surrounded by divine wisdom, love, and intelligence. The principle of divine guidance is the gift of God forever made and forever delivered. We need evidence to justify our belief in the existence of the soul. Spirituality emanates from the ordinariness of this human life made transparent by lifelong tending to its nature and fate. We already believe in the soul that we hope and expect to find evidence of paranormal phenomena. Ironically, it was the skeptical World of science that has helped prove the theological doctrine of the spiritual World. The moment of astral disembodiment in which the energy of the soul leaves the body has been captured by legendary Russian scientist, Konstantin Korotkov. A bioelectrgraphic camera was utilized to photograph an individual at the exact time of death. Using the gas discharge visualization method, an advanced technique of Kirlian photography shows the life force of the person leaving the body gradually. The navel, and the head, are the first parts of the body to first lose their life force, or rather their soul. The groin and the heart are the last two areas of the body where the spirit resides before finally heading onto the great unknown. No wonder, then, that the majority of people are so well disposed towards the field of parapsychology in general and so eager to listen to particular stories. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8

The human history is the working of the infinite mind on this planet. We are, of necessity, inlets to the divine mind, but since we are individuals we become outlets to the degree that we permit ourselves to become. It is no more impossible in principle that a dead person should come back to life than an unborn person should achieve life in the first place. Which is harder, to be born or rise again? Konstantin Korotkov has speculated that the soul of those who suffer a violent and unexpected death, may manifest itself in a state of confusion in your power settings and return to the body in the days post death. Although this is a frightening notion, the surplus of unused energy must find a home before it can gradually enter the energy fields that surround us. The health and wellness movement has emerged over the last decade as millions of believers have come to practice disciplines structured around the notion that our soul is a manifestation of measurable levels of energy flowing through the human body and the space it occupies. We all die. No matter how young, beautiful, healthy, or cautious we are, someday our body will become lifeless. Friends and family will mourn us. However, they cannot bring us back. Nevertheless, our death will be temporary. Our spirit one day will reunite with our body. This resurrected body will not be subject to death, and we will live in the eternities, free from pain and physical suffering. #RandolphHarris 2 of  8

We have all sinned. Our sins would forever keep us from living with God, because no unclean thing can enter into his kingdom. However, because of our Lord and Savior, we are granted a most precious and priceless gift—regardless of our past, we can repent and follow the path that leads to celestial light and glory, surrounded by the faithful children of Heavenly Father. We will rise from the despair of death and embrace those we love, shedding tears of overwhelming joy and overflowing gratitude. We will exist as eternal beings, Worlds without end. Our sins will not only be erased; they will be forgotten. We can become purified and exalted. Because of our beloved Savior, we can forever drink from the fountain of water that springs up into eternal life. We can dwell forever in the mansions of our eternal King, in unimaginable glory and perfect happiness. Those who find a way to truly behold God find the doorway to life’s greatest joys and the balm to life’s most demanding despairs. So, when we are encompassed by sorrows and grief, behold God. When we feel lost or forgotten, behold God. When we are despairing, deserted, doubting, damaged, or defeated, behold God. He will Comfort us. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8

God will heal us and give meaning to our journey. He will pour out his spirit and fill our hearts with exceeding joy. God gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases strength. When we truly behold God, we learn of him and seek to align our lives with him. We repent and strive to refine our natures and daily grow a little closer to God. We trust God. We show our love for God by keeping his commandments and by living up to our sacred covenants. In other words, we become his disciples. God’s refining light saturates our souls. His grace uplifts us. Our burdens are lightened, our peace deepened. When we truly behold God, we have the promise of a blessed future that inspires and upholds us through the bends and bumps in life’s journey. Looking back, we will recognize that there is a divine pattern, that the path is real. Nothing is more important than the realization that since we are surrounded by infinite intelligence we are immersed in limitless wisdom. We are surrounded by a principle of mind and intelligence which will become divine guidance to us provided we permit it to do so. Our part is to realize that divine guidance is a principle, and to accept this principle as operating in our everyday life. The answer to every problem is in the problem itself. It is usually so self-evident that its very obviousness conceals it. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8

The most important day in our lives is the day when we behold God; when we see him for who he truly is; when we partake with all our heart and mind of God’s atoning power; when with renewed enthusiasm and strength, we commit to follow God. May that be a day that recurs over and over again throughout our lives. As we behold God, we will find meaning, joy, and peace in this Earthly life and eternal life in the World to come. So divine guidance is ours for the asking, and no matter how crude that asking may be, or may have been in the history of religious evolution, there has always been an answer. God has answered every request at the level of the mentality from which the request was made. When the scientist listens, the artist imagines, the mathematician calculates, or the poet waits for muse to guide one’s fancy into word pictures, all are praying for divine guidance. Each in one’s own sphere of action receives as much guidance as one is capable of perceiving. Why not, then, consciously specialize the law of divine guidance, for surely this would be a practical thing to do. It is not enough to believe that divine guidance can guide; we must know that divine intelligence is guiding. We must know that there are no mistakes in the divine plan, and we must know that we are all part of the Universal scheme of things. #RandolphHarris 5 of 8

Consider the case of resurrection. If we cannot absolutely disallow the possibility that a human might in fact rise up from the dead, can we nonetheless absolutely disallow certain potential explanations of what casual process could lie behind it? The undertaker suggests to us, for example, that the explanation for his client’s rising from the dead is that once the man was removed from the ice box, the warmth of the radiators made his bodily functions return to normal. While there might be much else that we would like to know about what went on here, there would be nothing obviously incoherent or self-contradictory about this explanation—and it would not be one we could rule out in advance on purely logical grounds. However, suppose the undertaker suggests instead that the explanation for the man’s rising from the dead is that at five past two his biological clock started to run backwards and caused his body to revert to its predeath state. Any effect is miraculous when it exceeds the natural powers of the means employed. Thus, it is called miraculous when infirmary is cured by touching a sacred relic, when a person possessed is healed by invoking the name of God, and so on, because the effects exceed the natural powers of the words used to invoke God or the natural powers of a relic. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8

There may be miracles that are supernatural in substance, quoad substantiam, where the phenomena in themselves are indeed beyond the limits of nature, so that there very existence is miraculous. For example, when a single body is in two  places at the same time—the very point being that in this cause the phenomenon as such could never come to pass in the natural course of things. We must specialize any law which we wish consciously to use, and the principle of divine guidance is no exception to this general rule. We must believe that there is a divine guidance, we must deny every tendency to disbelieve in divine guidance. If law is mind in action, and if we specialize this law through the activity of our thought, which we most certainly do, then we must consciously know that we are daily guided and directed into right action. We must know that there is an intelligence which goes before us and makes our way plain and immediate. Whenever any problem confronts you, take it into the silence of your own contemplation and declare that there is no problem and announce the belief in the answer. Mentally act as though the problem were an argument trying to convince you that you do not know the answer, and then through the conscious activity of your thought destroy the argument either by picking it apart a bit at a time until there is nothing left, or by the complete realization that dissipates it as the Sun dissipates the mist. #RandolphHarris 7 of 8

We are surrounded by such an astonishing wealth of light and trust that I wonder if we truly appreciate what we have. It seems to be human nature: as we become more familiar with something, even something miraculous and awe-inspiring, we lose our sense of awe and treat it as commonplace. Sadly, we sometimes take for granted the eternal and soul-expanding gospel of God. When you dissolve the problem and seek divine guidance you are announcing that there is no problem. Announce that there is a complete answer and that this answer is made known to your mind right now, today. In this way you wait upon your indwelling Lord, the Supreme One, the Creator and the Sustainer of your destiny. Divine guidance is just as definite a principle in the Universe as is the law of attraction and repulsion. Your use of divine guidance must be just as conscious as an architect drawing a plan; just as certain as a mathematician solving a problem; and the answer is just as definite. The power is real and can bind you to your loved ones for time and for all eternity. Our hearts have to experience the gratitude and awe for the sacred and sublime gifts God has granted us. Life-changing truths are before our eyes and at our fingertips. If we seek the truth, develop faith in God, and sincerely repent, we will receive a spiritual change of heart which only comes from our Savior. Our hearts will become new again. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8

In the heroic struggle to be someone, to make life work and to find happiness, things we do may inflict wounds on something much deeper than me. The very foundation of existence can be affected, and so infirmary and ailments arise as from some profound, mysterious place, very much as a divine apparition. We know that the battle for the right to live happily through the will to live rightly is half won when we have correctly diagnosed the trouble. And if we have been walking down a road that leads nowhere, where the trail runs out and stops, all we have to do is reverse our steps and remember that the power which took us down the wrong road can just as easily lead us back on the right one. Pursuing divinely appointed responsibilities in righteousness, unity, and equality will prepare us to meet God. It is eternity-shaping. We know who we are and we know what God expects of us. God has armed us with righteousness, in his power, and with great glory. The ceremonies of dedication may be rehearsal, but no mortal language can describe the Heavenly manifestations of these memorable days. The soul exists because its nonexistence would lead to an absurdity. It would be wrong to pretend that this is something absolutely everybody does not stop to think about—of that the mind-body problem, as modern philosophers conceive of it, is a burning issue for all human beings. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

Still, I doubt in this contemplation of mortality that there is anybody who has not at least noticed that there really is a puzzle here, hardly a person who has not observed that their own mental life is on the face of it too good to be true, and therefore, I would guess, hardly anyone who has not been drawn to dualism as at least some sort of a solution. Ordinary people are likely to get not a little outside cultural help. We have to plough the furor for ourselves, clearing our minds of every external influence before finding the answers to the puzzle. As I am sure you realize, the whole trend of modern psychology and neuroscience is in fact totally antithetical to dualism and will not admit to there being even a hint of paranormal interaction between the mind and the brain. While the problem of consciousness remains a problem even for the experts, ordinary people can be forgiven for supposing that they have (and always have had) the essence of the answers already in their pockets: the simple, easily graspable, patently obvious, and metaphysically comforting idea that mind and body belong to different spheres and may in principle lead relatively independent lives, even while the mind has effects on the body and the body effects on the mind. Once a person has arrived at this dualist model of what it is to be a human being, it is certain to be a powerful enabler of paranormal beliefs across the board. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

Angels appear to some, while a sense of divine presence is realized by many, and each heart is filled with joy inexpressible and full of glory. This life is the time for all of us to prepare to meet God. After an individual has arrived at this model of what goes on quite naturally inside of oneself when one wills, acts, perceives, and so on, the way is open to legitimizing paranormal action in the World beyond. The case of mind-over-matter interactions occurring within the brain ought perhaps to be regarded as exceptional. If things can happen inside of the brain, why not outside? In fact could it not be argued that, compared to what happens every day inside our heads, when our minds lead our bodies the amazing dances that they do that are considered miraculous, once we admit that mind-over-matter effects can and do occur in a single case, the absolute taboo on non-physical causation has been broken. The World is then the paranormal’ oyster. Several professional parapsychologists have openly acknowledged that it is their faith in mind-body dualism that justifies and motivated their search for paranormal phenomena in general. Parapsychologist alone constitute a professional group where dualism is still the most popular assumption. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

Normally, psychic phenomenon (psi) arises from the fact that mind can directly influence matter and matter mind. These interactions usually would be confined to the mind-brain system where they would be going on all the time. Once in a while, however, they may spill over into the environment and it is only then that they would count as paranormal within the terms of the accepted definition. If psi phenomena occur we must adopt some other conception of the way the mind works, for example that the mind generates ideas and that these ides somehow fulfill themselves in the real Word. This many smack uncomfortably of magic but only observation can tell us whether or not such magic is a fact. Probably everyone will half agree with this “only observation can tell.” However, it is strongly suspected that for many people it is nonetheless their basic belief that the mind must be magic to be a mind at all that encourages them, to begin with, to go out and look. For me personally, life can be difficult, but I keep my faith in God and keep praying and praying and keeping my faith because I have seen God do wonderful things in my life, and people have so much faith in his power and have these amazing testimonies about how God has helped them. I feel that there are much greater things in store for my life because that is what is reported in the scripture, and I want my testimony. I want to be able to see my dreams come to fruition and be able to lift someone else up by telling them how my faith in God got me here. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

And I believe that by focusing on God every day, it creates a kind of mind storm where he is all around you and active in your life, and you can feel the Sun is about the shine. In your heart, when you have faith in God and are living right, you just know he is going to turn your pain into blessings. As for people who violate the covenants of chastity, who abuse spouses or offspring [or, for that matter, anyone else] will one day stand accountable before God. It takes less energy to live constructively than it does to live destructively. It takes no energy to have faith, while fear devastates such energy we have. It takes no energy to love; it is hate that is destructive. It does not take mental or physical energy to be happy, but unhappiness and morbidity consumes so much energy that it devitalizes us mentally and physically. It does not take mental of physical energy to build up hope; it is despair that blocks us. All it takes is faith. As we look around, we see the devastation of wickedness and addiction at every turn. If, as individuals, we are really concerned about the Savior’s ultimate judgment of us, we should seek repentance. It sometimes seems strange that life should have delivered such power into our keeping, such a will and imagination, and then let us alone to make the great discovery for ourselves. Sometimes we wonder why God did this? God never made any mistakes and never can. This is the only way he could have created us as free people, for the very idea of freedom carries with it the obligations of ignorance and the rewards of understanding. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

And now it is high time that we awake from our sleep and come back to a direct and intimate relationship to the power greater than we are and to a law of God acting creatively on our prayers of affirmation, our meditations of faith, and our hymns of praise. The science of the mind conspires with us because it has lead us back through the dim and dark caverns of our own thinking to the original source of our being, which it has hesitated to call God but which it knows is a power greater than we are. No one can travel the new road for us but ourselves. Science may put up a sign: This is the way; walk in it. So we must take our journey into the promise land. A person without a spiritual conviction cannot hope to make the same use of the creative power of our though as the one who has it. We must deliberately play with the idea that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, that the Kingdom of God is within. We must reorganize our thought on this basis, taking as our central theme the conviction that pure spirit is every at the center of our being. We should keep the door of our thoughts open to the invisible guest who would enter with us. God is the resurrection and the life. One may end one experience and be born into another in this World. We are learning how to do this by mentally letting go of the old and taking hold of the new. We know that the spirit triumphs over everything, love is all-conquering, joy becomes supreme. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6

If we persevere, then somewhere in eternity our refinement will be finished and complete. The ratiocination in and of itself can be a major cultural force, and in particular that human beings might be expected to have found their way to believing in the paranormal by what starts out as a non-paranormal route. However, there has always been a still more obvious route to take. For, if people can reason their way towards the paranormal on the basis of the experiences of unusual phenomena like dreams and visions, all the more should they be able to do so on the base experiences of ordinary, waking, mental life. In fact if there were ever a good reason for believing in an immaterial soul with potential paranormal powers, it is arguably the incontestable, universally experienced, continuing miracle of human consciousness. How comes it that we have such astonishing powers of perception, intelligence, language, imagination, will-power, strength of purpose, skill in action? How can the mental and the physical Worlds interact in such coherent and purposeful ways? How can we be so lucky as to be blessed with self-awareness? Why ever should it feel as it does feel to be each of us? The magnitude of our calling can seem overwhelming and the responsibility may be frightening. However, our Heavenly Father did not leave us to wander in darkness and in silence, uninstructed or uninspired. In his own way he revealed the lessons he would have people learn. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

Look into a human mind from the inside and all you find is thoughts and feelings, look into a human body from the outside and all you find is flesh and blood. How can two such entirely different kinds of things keep such consistent company? What possible explanation can there be for these minds belonging to these bodies? Can anyone deny—unless they resort to some very special pleading—that human mental life seems to be simply too good to be true? Some philosophers taught the conscious mind and the physical body really must be independent entities, belonging to different qualitative realms—the former made of what is called, in Latin, res cogitans or thinking stuff, the latter of res extensa or extended stuff. Neither entity absolutely requires the existence of the other: bodies without minds are possible in principle, and minds without bodies are possible in principle. In human beings, however, God has so arranged it that the two do in fact coexist in a wonderfully intimate relationship. This relationship is made possible because—but only because—there is a special channel in the human brain (located in the pineal gland) that is capable of carrying causal influences in both directions. These influences involve the direct effect of mind on matter and matter on mind. These normal psychophysical interactions are therefore, strictly speaking, paranormal. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

The World is filled with beautiful people who are uncertain. The sad part is many of them have not learned to fully use their abilities. Perhaps the word of God, giving them proper examples, has not sounded in their ears or found lodgment in their hearts. Some are young people who do not know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they do not know of what. They are angry, but they do not know at whom. They are rejected, and they do not know why. All they want is to be somebody. Others are stooped with age, burdened with care, or filled with doubt—living lives far below the level of their capacities. So many people are prone to excuse their own mediocre performance, and blame their misfortunes their lack of ability to persevere. Others can become victims of their own rationalizations. And there are some who soar beyond their meager accomplishment. Envy and discouragement then take their toll. Can we not appreciate that our very business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves? To break our own records, to outstrip our past by our present, and to bear our trials more beautifully then we ever dreamed would could and do our work with more force and a finer finish then ever—the true idea is to accomplish more than we thought was possible. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. We can achieve these goals by getting a true perspective of who we really are! We are children of a living God, in whose image we have been created. Think of that truth: Created in the image of God. We cannot sincerely hold this conviction without experiencing a profound new sense of strength and power, even the strength to live the commandments of God, the power to resist the temptations of the adversary. Sometimes there are blocks and conflicts, repressions, inhibitions, which go under the names of inferiority complex, or superiority complex, or a sense of rejection or guilt. And our minds have to be taken straight back to life and come to an understanding that it does not matter so much what had happened in the past because we can get complete clearance from it. What matters is that we should forgive ourselves and others, know that we are forgiven, and that, no longer indulging in what is wrong, we will feel a new will to live surging up within us. God wants us to place great emphasis on the will to live creatively and enjoy life. Life does not hold anything against us, nor does it condemn us, nor judge us. At any hour of the day we can get a complete clearance. “God has filled us with his love,” reports 2 Nephi 4.21. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

What if you have been lurking in the dark or damp shadows of previous experience until you are so depressed that you do not know what to do because you are surrounded by darkness? The very moment you step out into the Sunshine you are in the light. Just place yourself in the position so that all shadows will be cast behind you, so there will be nothing between you and the Sun, and let its warmth and energy fill you with a new will to live. No person has the will to live unless he or she feels that life is worth living. And one cannot have a deep sense of the will to love unless one feels that one is going to live forever somewhere. It is impossible to divorce this will to live eternally, this belief that we are important beings from the best possible mental hygiene. This is why we focus on eternal life so there is always something to look forward to. It does not mean that we have to suffer on Earth until we pass into Heaven. Eternal life is just a way of letting us know there is something to look forward to in the future and to life the best life possible so we can get there. The play has just begun and will never end. There is not a single person on this Earth who can heal from their neurosis without a restoration of spiritual faith, and it is impossible to get the most out of life while we are here unless we believe in immortality. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

Today, I was at Starbucks, a team of young lawyers came in. There were to men, and two women, and they were all dressed in their fancy suits and dresses with their computers, and their faces just beamed of youthful vigor, vitality, intelligence, and happiness. It was clear that they had found something in life that make everyday worth living. There is nothing complicated about this. We can all be so happy. We should stop thinking it is so difficult to get our thought straightened out, and begin to realize how easy it must be, for there is no mystery about it. We know that thoughts are things, and we know that our inward emotional reactions to our ways of thinking do produce inward states of harmony and well-being, which in turn gives rise to our disposition. And we know that this happens because our thoughts are focused on the optimistic things in life and not weighed down by pessimism. When we learn to focus on faith instead of fear, on fulfillment instead of disappointment, and on the love of God, we have the power to gleam with happiness. Our dreams do not have to frequently present images of dark power in which we are either the wielder of weapons or their victim. The worth of souls is great and we should be intensely interested in the future because we expect to send the rest of our days there. We have to learn to be around people who we can love and trust. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6

I do not presume to know the timetable of God’s plans and purposes, but I do know that with each of us the time to turn and begin to go where we ought to go is not later than now. Where are we really going? As we come again to the season that celebrates the coming forth of our living Lord and Savior, we would well remember that divine plan and purpose that in due time would take us from this swift passing life to a real and personal everlastingness of life, with limitless eternal possibilities, and with our loved ones with us, always, and forever. This is God’s plan and purpose. Many people try to tell us suffering is part of God’s plan, but I do not believe that. I think that is just a consequence of human being having free will. God wants us to be happy and safe and that is why we have commandments to teach us how to live. That is why it really matters where we are going and why we need his gospel to tell us how to get there. If there is any condemnation or animosity in me, I gladly lose it. I lose it and let it go as I turn to that silent presence within me which gives all and withholds nothing. As we enter into the harmony of eternal peace, into the joy of knowing that we are now in the Kingdom of God, from which no person is excluded, take time to realize that we are stretching forth into an endless future of pure delight. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

We are born wit a will to live and an almost equal will to die; when we look forward to more pain and unhappiness than to peace and joy in living, the mind begins to destroy the body so we shall not have to suffer the pain we unconsciously anticipate. The will to live and to be happy is necessary to our physical well-being. The more we study the way the mind works the more we realize that most of our physical infirmaries, and perhaps all of our unhappiness, come from certain deep-rooted reactions to life that generally are built around the idea that we are not wanted or needed or loved. We feel some deep sense of guilt, and this gives rise to a feeling of insecurity and stress. Thus we reject ourselves and suffer because of this self-imposed condemnation. Idea, thoughts, and psychic formations in general become localized between the organic elements of the nervous system, where resistances and association-tracks form the correlate corresponding to them. Everything that can become an object of internal perception is virtual, like the image in the telescope produced by the crossing of light-rays. The unconscious psychic process leads to the justified expression for the morbid race, which goes on in the inner conflicts of the mind, until finally the frustration is so great that the mind begins to destroy the body because of impressions it has received are destructive. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

When the unconscious process of self-destruction reaches a point where there is no longer a will to resist it, the person loses their will to love and so even nature cannot restore that individual, and generally in such cases he or she passes on. The physician, it is true, does not learn of these unconscious processes until they have produced an effect on consciousness. The unconscious is the larger circle which includes the smaller circle of the conscious; everything conscious has a preliminary unconscious stage, whereas the unconscious can stop at this stage, and yet claim to be considered a fully psychic function. The unconscious is the true psychic reality; in its inner nature it is just as much unknown to us as the reality of the external Word, and it is just as imperfectly communicated to us by the data of consciousness as is the external World by the reports of our sense-organs. What we need is a deep, underlying faith or conviction about life that will remove this inner conflict and frustration and let the original divine patter come to the surface, for we are all rooted in God, the living spirit. There would have to be perfection at the center of our being or we should not be here. You are therefore perfect, even as our Father which in Heaven is perfect. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

Our roots run deep into the creative soil of the infinite mind, and if we have not stopped drawing straight from the roots of our being we should be all right. The same God and Father who made us in his own image, wants to show us the way of life and redeem us from death; that the Heavens have been opened and the fullness of the gospel brought again, to save and exalt us all, if we are willing, which is God’s purpose: to being our immortality and eternal life to pass. If we are on the wrong path, it is important to find out where and when and how we started to deviate—that pathway that leads to destruction rather than life, the pathway that leads to unhappiness and frustration rather than joy through self-expression. Humans are born to be happy, to live creatively, to love, to sing, to dance, and to express themselves to the full capacity of their humanity. When they do not do this they feel unhappy, sad, and alone, and wish they were dead—they no longer have the will to live. However, we can go back to that which is more fundamental. We can go back to God, the creative spirit, and understand that we are born of God. There is only one life, that life is God, that life is perfect, that life is our life now. Nothing has interfered with that life, nothing can interfere with it. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

There is nothing in the Universe that holds anything against us. We have to learn to forgive ourselves and forgive everyone else. The past is gone and it no longer affects us. This is April, this glorious time of the year when nature again comes alive. It is a season of promise, a time of beauty. It is a time for falling in love. This morning I noticed a handsome young man and a beautiful young lady walking hand in hand toward this building, a diamond ring on her finger, and I surmised that they will be married, as will scored of thousands of others across the land when April turns to May and May to June. To those of you who, with glad hearts, dream of marriage and the establishment of a home, expect the Lord to build that house. Know that God holds nothing against us, and if we have done anything to hurt others, or they have done anything to hurt us, we now forgive ourselves and them. Therefore we are conscious that we have complete clearance. There is no judgment, no condemnation. We must know that there is no fear. Perfect love casts out all fear. Therefore, we have confidence in life. We have a deep faith and a complete conviction that God is all there is and that we are wanted and needed and loved, not only by the divine spirit but by everyone we meet. We belong to life, it belongs to us, and we are going to enter it with joy. Life is ready to give us everything that is good, and we are ready to pass it on to others. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

We are a channel through which good flows in every direction. Giving and receiving, and receiving and giving, the channel is never stopped. Respect for one another, the kind of respect that regards one’s companion as the most precious friend on Earth and not as a possession or a chattel to be forced or compelled to suit one’s selfish whims. Love cannot be forced, it comes out of Heaven, unasked and unsought. This respect comes of recognition that each of us is a son or daughter of God, endowed with something of his divine nature, that each is an individual entitled to expression and cultivation of individual talents and deserving of talents and deserving of forbearance, of patience, of understanding, of courtesy, of thoughtful consideration. True love is not so much a matter of stressful concern for the well being of one’s companion. We have no sense of insecurity nor stress. We feel secure in God. We know that we will be guided and guarded and loved into fulfillment. We have no stressful thoughts for tomorrow, for we shall know what to do when tomorrow comes. We have to be educated into our ignorance or else the full presence of the divine will be kept at bay. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6

Realizing that Love is the great motivating power of life, and knowing that Gog must be at the center of everything, let us take the time to turn and begin to go where we ought to go not rather than later. Without a felt connection to things we become numb to the World and lost that important home and family. Sometimes we set our hearts on things we feel we have to obtain, and when we get them find they do not mean as much as once we thought they would. We assume that our loneliness has to do with other people, but it comes from our estrangement from a World that we have depersonalized by our philosophies.  And so the years move by—and even while yet young we feel like our souls are old. Life intends and wants us to give every good thing, but when the circulation is stopped at any point it is slowed down at every point. A good enough illustration is the circulation of our blood in our physical bodies. Stop the circulation anywhere and it is decreased everywhere, and whenever the circulations is stopped stagnation sets in, and infection is likely to follow. We never drink from stagnant pools because we know they are poisonous. We seek the free-flowing water which purifies itself as it flows. Our minds are psychological pools through which flow the thoughts of God, which are thoughts of love and generosity, good will and peace, poise and power. Whenever there is stagnation in our psychological lives we shall discover that the reason is because we have not permitted this flow. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8

Everything moves in circles. This is the way of life, and what we refuse to give we refuse to accept. Nothing is more important than that we learn how to forgive both ourselves and others. It seems that forgiveness is one of the greatest lessons in life. The human mind has a necessity to relieve itself of the burden of condemnation, and the lesson to all humanity is that even God cannot give us what we refuse to accept. It is impossible for us to feel relief and release from self-condemnation while we bear condemnation towards others. We long to be free from burdens. How we yearn for a sense of release from fear and doubt and uncertainty. How greatly we long for a security which takes fear from our lives. We pray for a certainty and a faith that will make us whole. The physician and the surgeon can patch up this physical body of ours, and the psychologist or psychiatrist can help us to straighten out our emotional tensions, for all of which we should be grateful. However, only life can give life. Beyond this body and deeper than this mind there is a perennial wellspring of life which can flow through us to eternal givingness and to everlasting forgivingness. Beloved friends, where are you really going? What do you really want? Every day is part of eternity. What happens here and now is forever important. #RandolphHarris 2 of 8

Prepare yourselves for opportunities that await you here and now, as well as for a future that is forever. Who would not be in paradise? If we felt that someone beside us had the power to say to us, today shall thou be with me in paradise, in the Garden of Eden of the soul, in the fields that blood forever, beside the still waters—if we knew that there was someone who could do this for us, would we not exchange everything we have for this gift? Of course we would. The laws of nature, the laws of God, the laws of life, are one and the same and are always in full force. We live in a Universe of law. Spring follows Winter. This we can count on. The Sun will show itself on time again tomorrow morning. This we can count on. The Universe remains to the heart unhurt, it is your Heavenly Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. The Kingdom is something we do not earn; it is the gift of Heaven. This heart is unhurt is the heart that God gave us. We alone have refused to receive the gift; it has never been withheld. From the day we are first ushered into this World, until the last moment when the soul takes it silent flight into the unseen, our life is drawn from an invisible source. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8

The moral laws and spiritual laws are also in full force. This also we can count on. All of us will realize the results of how we live our lives. And do not let anyone say that mere humans have right or power to repeal God’s commandments or ever set them aside—commandments that are so practical and essential, a part of life, dealing as they do with health and happiness and peace, with honesty and morality and cleanliness, and excellence, and all else that pertains to life. If someone tells you, my beloved friends, that you can set the commandments of God aside without realizing the results—if someone tells you that, then you may know that you are listening to someone who does not know, or is not telling the truth. These minds, these bodies God has given, with their wondrous physical functioning, must last a mortal lifetime—and to impair or dull the sense, or damage their physical functioning, or abuse or fail to care for them—to indulge in body-destroying, mind-dulling, spirit-blighting substances is not the best use of our resources and could lead to unwisdom. Whatever is not good for humans should not be used by humans—nor done by humans. It is intended that we should be happy. It is meant that we should live to the full; that we should sing and dance and be sober; that we should love and be loved in return. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8

However, in our ignorance we have inhibited the action of God in our lives, and so we have cut ourselves off from the only power than can help. And it is not only physical punishment that comes from departing from the laws of life, but also psychological and spiritual punishment, and the anguish of the soul inside. The worst punishment of all is that in the court of one’s own conscience, no guilty person is acquitted. The only sensible thing to so it retrace our steps and start all over again. We should not do this with any sense of morbidity nor fear, but rather with the feeling of an explorer or navigator who knows that there is an undiscovered country in our own minds. It is the World the way God made it. There is a humanity that we have not yet met. It is the divinity hidden within each one of us. There is a God who exists everywhere. We shall never see this God until we look through the eyes of our own divinity. Well, we ought to live as we ought to live, not only because it would please our parents, but as a favor for ourselves—for every commandment, every requirement God has given is for our happiness, for our health, and for our peace and progress. My beloved friends, even selfishly it is smart to keep the commandments God has given. The human penchant for thinking things through from first principles could be the key factor in turning people towards belief in paranormal powers. #RandolphHarris 5 of 8

Recognizing that similar beliefs in paranormal powers have been characteristic of all known human societies throughout history, it is possible that there origin lay not in anybody’s direct observation of paranormal phenomena as such but rather in what inevitably happens wen thinking people start reflecting on the meaning of certain relatively familiar facts of life. First of all, what is it that makes the difference between a living body and a dead one; what causes working, sleep, trance, infirmary, and death? Secondly, what are these human shapes which appear in dreams and visions? The obvious inference is that every human has two things belonging to them, namely life and a phantom. Now, along with the physical side there must be concern also with pollution of the mind and soul—concern for the purveyors and exploiters of pornography, those who profit or for other purposes would fill people’s minds with vile, debasing pictures and impressions. We have an obligation to safeguard children in their innocence and honesty. And besides the rising cry to clean up pollution, let there be like concern to clean up physical pollution of mind and manners and morals. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8

Life or the animating principle can leave a person’s body, as it does in death or dreamless sleep, so that although the body persists the conscious self is gone; and second that a ghostly version of this conscious self can wander and go visiting, as may happen when it turns up in another person’s dream or vision. From which they might well have drawn the reasonable conclusion that the ghostly self that sometimes turns up elsewhere is one and the same entity as the animating self that sometimes leaves the body. If the self returns to the body the human wakes or escapes from one’s trance; if it stays away, one dies and one’s body corrupts, although as a ghost it may continue to haunt other people’s lives. From this it would surely have been but a short step to believing in the possible occurrence of a variety of more exotic paranormal phenomena. Once the premise of immortality, immateriality and transcendence is granted, every magic act on the part of the transcending self becomes possible: after all, it belongs to a different World, one that is not bound by the limitations of gravity, density, and time and space in general. Psychic action at a distance, telepathic communication, reincarnation, messages from the dead, and so on—all would become not merely real possibilities but, with just a little imagination, real probabilities. #RandolphHarris 7 of 8

So much that is these phenomena were not in fact to be encountered in real life, it might seem quite reasonable to invent them: which is, arguably, what in culture after culture actually transpired. Now, as we go along in life, two things should surely be considered: the power of prevention and the power of repentance. Why run against the laws of life? Why run headlong into ill health and unhappiness? Why life contrary to conscience? Think of the heartbreak and waste and regret that could be prevented by living as we ought to live. No one can set aside consequences. The heavy weight of wrongdoing is too big a burden. The heaviest burden in all the World is the burden of sin. It is not a happy sight to see those in the anguish of carrying that weight around, wishing to Heaven they had done differently. However, thanks be to God for the principle of repentance, for a Father who understands us and who has assured us he will accept our repentance so long as it is sincere. This you can count on. O turn from those ways which will take you where no one really wants to go. Turn to that which will bring you peace and self-respect and cleanliness and a quiet conscience. God is all there is. God is love. Love is the motivating power of the whole Universe. God is in everything; God is in everyone. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8