Loehr-Daniels Life Reading Reports
Truth
Conductor: He says, “I have a friend who is a Mormon. He vows that the true gospel was revealed by Joseph Smith and that Mormon-ism is the truth faith. What can you say about this?”
Dr. John: The history of earth will give validity to my statement that always there has been an attempt on the part of earthbeings to say, “Lo here, and Lo there” in their search for truth. Yet never has all of Truth been contained in one earth frame-work of thought. And never will it be contained in one earth framework of thought, for Truth is beyond containment.
I would not venture to present a Gospel of Truth from my admittedly advantageous viewpoint, as one who speaks outside of earthliving to those in earthliving. I could give a version of Truth according to the expanded spiritual insight, which is mine over yours as an earth being. But even so, what I would give – while it may very well be quite fully expanded over present earth concepts of Truth – still it could not contain all of truth, for Truth is uncontainable.
Yet Truth has been expressed many times, in many ways. There is that which is of the nature of Divine Truth in the Mormon teaching. There is that which is of the nature of Divine Truth in the Hindu teaching, in the Buddhist teaching, in Zoroastrism, in the Jewish faith. Wherever man has reached out with sincerity and a plea for Truth, that outreach has been honored. But it has been man himself who periodically has said, “This is the only Truth.”
Conductor: So man’s claims go a bit beyond what has been given to any man? It is true that almost every religion has, in the past anyway, claimed that it was THE religion, THE divine revelation, THE correct way to God. The Catholics claim that only the Pope has the keys to heaven and could let a person in or keep a person out.
Dr. John: Of course for any religion to speak forth with such authority was always to draw and to hold individuals to that teaching which was being represented. And many times this is a good thing.
Conductor: Well, that’s true. A very great positivism has been needed to draw and hold – oh particularly the weaker members of the human race, those who don’t think too much for themselves. Those individuals who are quite impressed by the very positive claims, who can be drawn to a better way of living, by very positive claims. (2539: 7-8) – This life reading was given March 1966-Ed.
Conductor: She has an interesting question about religion. She states that the words church, Jesus and Christ affect her strangely. She feels this sort of thing tends to separate people and wonders why we can’t have a religion and worship without the words Christ, Mohammed, Buddha or anyone else. Just one unified Creator, so that everyone could gather together without this separation element.
Dr. John: First of all, God, the Creator, the Source of Life, has a nature of unity, yes, but also one of diversity. And there is goodness in diversity. The world’s leaders of religious thought have been souls who in their beingness and in their teachings have given emphasis to particular qualities of the overall God-nature.
To truly understand the whole, whether it be the whole of God, or the whole of any other subject, it is good to concentrate upon the various parts which go into the whole. The human instrument of understanding does not have the capacity to embrace the whole, whether the whole is Creator, whether the whole is Truth. The whole of God’s truth is so much greater than the parts that the parts must come to comprehension of the whole through emphasis upon the parts! It is the emphasis on the parts, and then the uniting of the parts, which brings a comprehension of the whole.
The soul known as Confucius brought the concept of wisdom as being the goal for human beings to attain. That is a very true and valid part of the whole, which was emphasized in that way. And the one who became known as Gautama Buddha emphasized the aspect of peace, which is a vital portion of the beingness of the whole.
The one known as Jesus brought the understanding of the love-aspect of the whole. Because souls are individual, are diversified in their beingness, it is quite right and quite good that there be the seeking of an understanding of the whole, by understanding the parts. That is not to be condemned.
Certainly to settle upon an emphasis on a part, losing sight of the whole and assigning wholeness to the part, is equally short-sighted and unwise.
But the very quality of individuality makes for the expression of the whole in different parts. We do not think you would ever find unity and oneness in consciousness of the whole in the earth frame, for you do not find that in the cosmic schools of learning. There are cosmic schools of learning, there are different planes of being, because of the diversification of the whole. (3657:7-8) – This life reading was given August 1974
Conductor: She asks, “I often try to pray and it seems that my prayers are not heard. How can I reconcile this with God’s plan for me?”
Dr. John: She can if she puts the idea of her life in the framework of being one of many lifetimes. Here again, reincarnation holds the answer in part and also the pull of the future. That is what God’s plan is for the soul of the personality.
Many things that seem good to a personality may in truth be very good, but it may be that soul has experienced those things in recent personality expressions and is to have a different kind of experience now.
It may be that the soul has wasted opportunities in the past that would have brought it these experiences which now the personality reaches for.
It may be that the reaching of the personality for specific desires is intended to create a desire within the soul that the soul has been lacking. The personality expression of that soul can begin a desire that can then snowball through future personalities and come out into fulfillment...
To have faith in prayer and to pray specifically, and then to say, “My prayer is not valid. Prayer does not work,” when these specific things do not come about, can only be said when one has a very narrow view of life. One must learn to think of one’s personality self as being only one expression, an earth expression in the experience of the soul which that personality represents.
Then one will pray for that which is right for the soul to experience through the personality. The personality is the instrument for the soul’s growth and expansion. The personality is made to grow the soul, to give the soul certain experiences it cannot have unless it has a personality expression. (3390)
Dr. John: We would caution the personality at this point not to fall into the trap of many metaphysical students of thinking that in a manner of speaking, their life is in their hands, that they have all power, and that they set the goals, and if they do not achieve the goals it is because they are not thinking or doing correctly.
Now that approach is a part of the picture and a very important part. However, added to that approach is the understanding that there is a larger purpose and plan than the personality in its own thinking and planning can take hold of and direct. There are forces from past lives, and there are purposes in future lives that affect the present.
This is why those in metaphysical framework who seek to commander the present lifetime according to their own positive vision, fine as that may be, do not always have 100% results, you see.
Follow the pathway of positive thinking, of structuring the pattern of the life with the elements of goodness that you as a personality reach for. Hold the mental thought that this good will come to her.
But at the same time, having painted a picture mentally and put in it the positive elements desired, don’t frame the picture. Don’t call it complete. Paint the picture as completely as possible, putting in all the elements that seem good. But then, in a manner of speaking, turn the attention away from the picture. Walk away from it.
Leave it on an easel as though one were a student in a studio who had completed an assignment but left that assignment there, knowing that the master teacher would come in and examine it. Then, according to the wisdom and the greater perspective of that master teacher some element in the picture might be crossed out. Other elements of good of which the painter had no recognition might be added by the master teacher, you see.
So here is your balance between having a goal and reaching for it, using the metaphysical principles which are true and valid principles, a balance between that approach and the approach summed up very easily in the phrase “let go and let God.” (3141)
Question: It is said that we come to Earth to experience, but it is also said that we come to Earth to learn to be detached from all desires and attachments. Then when we become saturated with them, we become detached. This sounds contradictory. Please explain this.
Dr. John: A good question, and it is contradictory, Ma’am. There are those who feel that since the native realm of the soul is spirit, it was a mistake for the spirit ever to come into flesh. We believe this is an inadequate view.
It is true that to be too thoroughly identified with the flesh is wrong. There must be a certain detachment. On the other hand, there also must be a certain vital attachment to have the experiences which are gained only through incarnation.
Partly this rests back upon the idea of the nature of God. The idea of a rather detached God who would view human incarnation as a rather sad and stupid mistake—that idea of a God could lie back of the idea that man should detach himself from all that would attach him to Earth-living.
But that creates a spiritual zombie, and it loses the value that is in incarnate experience. So there must be an entering into Earthlife, an entering into Earth experiences and their manifold nature in order for the molding effect of the experience, the experiences of joy, the experiences of greed, experiences of success, experiences of very strenuous effort and even of failure. If the person does not enter into this, then the experiences go for naught and are wasted.
Now the soul itself can identify with the person and get the experiences, and must. But if the soul identifies too much with one of its incarnations, then the soul itself can become stained by some of these emotions (primarily). That is unwise and the young soul that does this then has to learn to take a little greater detachment in its attachment.
Well, I find that I’m speaking somewhat at length, but you at least get my opinion, that there must be a vital interest in the experiences of incarnate life for the soul to take mastery of these experiences. Thank you for the question. (8038)
Stretching the Person to the Limit
Dr. John: Upon more than one occasion the person will be stretched to the limit, because life will do this. And this is one way in which a child of God on any level will grow, by being stretched to the limit and then pressing himself to find more and being pressed until he discovers he can do more and know more than he thought he could. At that time he has more access to help beyond himself than he had realized when he was not pressed to the limit of his own abilities. (7384:41)
Eugenics
Question: How are we to view this new science of eugenics, and how does it fit in with the overall plan, God’s plan, for planet Earth?
Dr. John: It is one possibility that has opened up of the overcoming of some of the diseases and disabilities of the physical form, of making the soul’s experiences in incarnation less burdened, freeing it to accomplish its purpose better.
Many advances can be used wrongly. Possibly the expression of beauty in music is at times used in a way somewhat contrary to God’s ideas of value. Knowledge can be misused, especially a small amount of knowledge. As the greater knowledge is gained, there is more chance of it being used correctly.
As the understanding grows of what human life is all about and that the evolution of the God-child is the basic purpose here, and the bringing in of the knowledge of God’s way and the enthusiastic acceptance and following even with desire of God’s way, this will be the framework within which the constructive application of new knowledge can be, more assured.
Eugenics - to be well-born - actually is more important than to be royally born, and in former generations, to be royally born was considered very, very important. But now you know better than that. You know the significance of the lives that are spent in the growth experiences, the basic growth experiences of the soul while incarnate through its various personhoods. And so to be well born (is more important).
As I search the concept bank of my channel, I find that there is a memory of a story that was written in some magazine about a couple expecting a child. The child was born horribly inadequate, deformed in some way or other.
And the kind doctor said to them, “If you let nature take its course, this child will make its transition within probably a week. Of if you put your whole lives in pawn to preserve the breath in this child’s body, it may live to be 10 or 12 years old and then will make its transition, but will be deformed, will not be able to express normally through mind or the senses or speech.” And the parents, expressing their love in the more intelligent and higher, more spiritual, way, said, “Let nature take its course.” And the child died. A year later a perfectly healthy, normal, robust little boy was born to them who was filled with joy from the very moment of his birth. That joy probably from the soul at the parents having chosen aright to give it a life of much more happiness and value than the former would have been.
I offer these as some suggestions for your consideration. Yes. (8080) – Reading given July 1980