Prayer: How To Pray Aright

Today in our "Divine Book Club" session we spent a moring with Alfred Aiken, a genuine 'Voice For God (Reality)' with unparalleled clarity pointing sincere aspirants home to Perfection & PERFECTION is indeed Reality, the very point of Life is for the Love Of/In/As It!

We explored "Prayer", the bonus inclusion from the special edition of Alfred Aiken's "The Unchallenged Self" (A Book On The Absolute), immersing deeply in the Truth of Prayer & precisely how to Pray Aright for guaranteed, instant results. Heaven Is Now for all Beloved, no exceptions & no exclusions. We simply need walk the 'right way' as clearly demonstrated & illuminated by Christ; "I" Am That I Am.

You only have the 'best' (MOST expansive & inclusive) view from the highest point. TRUE Prayer (to Pray Aright) is to have the 'facts' at hand, to align WITH the mechanics (Law) of Life. You can NOT fail when you live Principle, just like you can NOT fail to have the answer when you apply maths, the answer already exists.

"I" am the Truth, the Way, the Light & naturally The Light of the World - the world is Heaven seen 'aright' & that is precisely what we do here!

Below you will find a replay of our session as well as a transcript. BEFORE you read further, stand In & As Truth, FULLY, COMPLETELY & ABSOLUTELY Truthfully Identified As What "I" Is. "I" is found, "I" is already established inviolately As One In Spirit, Immaculate Awareness In God Consciousness. The true value of all Truth 'teachings' is revealed from Truth & NOT trying to 'get' it, rather In Acceptance Of 'fact'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqQ__bUtYQ0

Prayer - by Alfred Aiken (short excerpt)

How does one pray in The Absolute? As God is all, the Alone One, the Only, the Infinite All-inclusive Being, who is left beside? As God is all, who is it that prays, and to whom is the prayer directed? God being all, who will answer, and whom will He be answering? Does God pray to God? Is there such a need, requirement or practice? Does Omnipresence pray to Omnipotence?Does Omniscience request anything from Omniaction?

In other words, does one, and should one, pray? Of what use is prayer? Is it not basically the outgrowth of theol­ogy's dual belief of Creator and creation, Good and bad, God and satan; a beneficent God, and a dependent creature who looks to this God for the continued essentials of his identi­fication — nay, for his very existence itself?

Repeatedly these questions are asked of the author: Do you believe in prayer? Do you pray? If so, how do you pray? Do you ask for something? Do you inform God of what you need, or wish? Can you be certain that He hears you? What assurance have you that God will answer? Do you have a special formula for making your request? Will God answer me the same as He will answer you? What must be one's attitude when he prays? What preparation does one need to make prior to his period of prayer? How long should one continue making his needs or desires known to God? Why should one expect God to answer or in any way respond to a petition?

What is the basis for expectation — that is, is morality, sacrifice, humility, or self-denial one's best approach to God? Just how does one most readily and assuredly gain the Divine ear? Where is God located — that is, in what direction should one face to pray?

Is it best to kneel, eyes closed, or will God hear one while standing, eyes open? Should one be alone, or can one pray while in a crowd?

How does one address God when beseeching Him? For what can one ask, expecting to receive? Just how far can one go in prayer? What will God consider as overstepping the bounds of propriety? Should one ask for nothing more than just enough to subsist on? Is it wrong to pray for wealth, abundance of the good things of earth, an easy and indolent life, pleasures of the body, table, amusement?

All these questions, and many more are filling the thoughts of millions of men and women on the face of this planet today. They are seeking the answers in every sort of cult, doctrine, system and 'ism' that dots the countryside. And what is the result? Are not our hospitals, our insane asylums, our cemeteries having to constantly enlarge their borders?

Theology would deal with these questions in various ways, according to its doctrinal creeds or denominational be­liefs. Metaphysics, a division of theology, classes certain de­sires as material, hence taboo, while others are classed as permissible. It declares that answers to permissible requests are obtained through understanding affirmations of the pres­ence of Good, and a denial of evil. The more orthodox sys­tems of worship consider prayer to be chiefly making every need known to God, but the prayer must be done in abject humility and with an all-consuming faith that He will hear and answer. However, they warn you that should He not deem it "best" for you to experience your request, you must bow your head in spineless subjection. From their viewpoint, one is not to question the wisdom of his deity when good is with­held, or an excess of unbearable burdens and misery engulf him. The old human adage "Bear it bravely, Son, for Father knows best," holds good also as a rationalization for unan­swered prayer — a safety zone wherein the clergy can find refuge when embarrassed by questions from their followers or adherents.

Does one pray in The Absolute? If so, how? Who would be praying, God being all?  Does God seek anything from God? Does God need or desire anything? Is "prayer" merely another term for petition, or request? These questions demand an­swers, not platitudes; concise statements, not evasions.

This I that I Am is Life Itself. Does It need, or seek to remind Itself of who or what It is via prayer?

Beseeching God is not prayer. Asking God to be God is not prayer. Begging Love to be Love is not prayer. Urging God to be Omnipresent is not prayer. Requesting Infinite In­telligence to interfere or intercede in human affairs is not prayer. Rather are all these so-called reverential activities the mumbo-jumbo of the Adam dream, and as in the recorded tale of Elijah's contest with the prophets of Baal, calling out to a God does nothing for anyone. But turning wholly to God as God is, brings instant awareness of His constant Presence and Power. Truly, no human prays aright, for in Truth there is no human. All is God, even as God is all.

To repeat, if one requests God to be Life, Love, Awareness — if one beseeches God to be Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Om­niactive, Omniscient — to be the Alone One, the all of All, In­finite Being who is the Sole-I-that-I-Am, the I-Identity every­where forever, one is not praying aright, hence is not praying at all. There is only one One. What is not that One, simply is not. As with the answer to two plus seven — if the figure is not nine, it is not the answer. The answer is already established in Truth and does not vary, does not change or fluctuate.

What is not true of God, Mind, Intelligence, Truth, is not true of the I-that-I-Am — is not true of this I-Identity, this Individual Conscious Life. This Life I am aware of is the Life that is God — the Consciousness, the Awareness, the Identity is God. There can be no other. A personal sense of being an educated mortal, a man, a fear-laden member of the human race, is spurious. It is not God. It is not the I-that-I­-Am. It is not Real, not Truth being Infinitely Individual. In Fact, the entire assumption vanishes, including all the limita­tion that goes with it, as I behold the Single I. In this Light of Mind, illusion dissipates, even as darkness leaves no evidence or trace in sunshine. Not that darkness goes anywhere, or that anything is lost, altered, changed, improved — darkness or evil simply is never genuine, actual, substantive.

In prayer, nothing Real concerning you will vanish, but rather becomes apparent. Where lack appeared to be, Afflu­ence is in full evidence. Where disease, fear, doubt and worry seemed the norm, Perfect Health, Positive Assurance, Un­bounded Wealth and Joy are in Full Action. Where one as­sumed he lived inside of a body, he will discover his Life to be Infinite, and that the universe is within Mind, hence his dominion is Present and Eternal — all things are his to com­mand, rather than he being subject to them.

To pray to a god, a deity out beyond somewhere — to a power that is removed from the Self — is duality. Of course, no human can pray otherwise, for humanity is based on the assumption of a god or creator, and of a man or creation which is subject thereto. Humanity, manhood, creation, father­-mother-child — this is theological teaching which permeates every form of thought-taking in the world today. It is duality, hence any attempt to escape it by practicing its format, is im­possible. When the premise is wrong, the conclusion must be wrong. A continuance of wrong does not set one right. All the devout faith, sincere practice, innocent adherence or mad insistence cannot make nothing into something, or un­-Truth become Truth.

True prayer is always answered. Prayer cannot fail, for it is Mind's awareness of what Mind is this very moment. Prayer is God being aware of Himself in all His present Per­fection.

So-called prayer in the field of duality, the limits of re­ligion, the constrictions of theology, the agony of fear and privation, the toils of disease and anguish, are predicated on a petitioner and the One to whom the petition is directed. Most humans term the petitioned one "God," but a human's deity is actually but a superior human, a man; a man-made, man-authorized power supposed to reside outside of him, out in the great beyond somewhere. He thinks of his god as being capable of making him suffer, allowing or permitting him to suffer — nay, in fact demanding that he suffer for his own good; that his god can be persuaded to intervene, if prop­erly asked, and that he will, under certain conditions, atti­tudes, or promises made by the sufferer, set aside his plan for him; that his god can be cruel, vindictive, revengeful, jealous, indifferent!

That we understand the nature of duality better, let us dissect it that we know what else it consists of — that we see how unreal and unreasonable it is, and no longer give it room or power to sway us.

Duality is confusion throughout. It is the babel of pres­ent-day materiality — the threat of wars, of bombs, of disease, of lack, of governmental usurpation, of competition, of false ideology and mental domination through malpractice and brain washing, of death. Its only hope for identity or classi­fication depends upon a successful refutation of Truth; upon keeping Reality hidden; upon the petitioner or believer re­maining confused and bewildered.

God, Life as Omnipresent Perfection does not exist to human belief with its multiplicity of demands, lacks, irri­tations, misidentifications. Why? Because to the human sense there are many individuals, minds, wills, determinations, histories, sins and intentions. Duality cannot exist save it conceives a multitude of lords many and gods many. If duality could ever behold Oneness, in that instant its very foundation would be wiped out. But it (ignorance, belief, supposition, evil) can never know Truth, for Truth is Sol­itary, Whole, One Complete Being without another, while duality is always two or more.

Yes, God is One, whether called Power, Presence, Mind, Life, Action or what. To this All-inclusive One, this All-em­bracing Entirety there can be no lack or excess, no need for more or less of Himself than already is, for Infinite Spirit is Totality, Universal Substance — the Absolute in Intelli­gence, Endless Perfect Life and Its own full and completely satisfying Self-manifestation forever.

Mind is conscious of Its full Presence everywhere; of Its total Perfect Action throughout Immensity — Immensity which is included within My Infinite Conscious Awareness, My Mind. There is no possible place or space, even as minute as a microscopic pin point, outside of Consciousness. There is no moment that God is not all of all — no moment when "time" or measurement of Life as dimensional or limited, is possible, for Consciousness is forever Undimensional. The total All-present, consciously Intelligent Absolute is indi­vidual in His perception, awareness, satisfied enjoyment. It is this I that is the I, the Life, the Identity, the Substance, the Being of the One Individual Consciousness reading these words — the I that I Am, and there is none other. This I that I Am is never human, never mortal, never a sinner, sick, dying or dead man. Mind can experience and be, act in ac­cord with and know only Its own Full Present Awareness. Whatever suggests or pictures a contrary state is utterly void of Reality, Authority or Power, hence in the light of Truth can be dismissed instantly and permanently.

Truth leaves no possible "other" mind, no ignorant petitioner who needs anything, nor anything in need anywhere. Truth excludes the possibility of there being a lack of Truth any­where, a place where Intelligence is not, an absence or poverty of Consciousness, a dearth of Good which must be brought to the Divine attention.

As God is the alone One right here, this very Life, this Identity, this I that I am, there can be no second I, no lesser or additional I anywhere to bring anything to the attention of I. I-God, Everpresent Infinite Intelligence, already knows all I Am, for I-Spirit-Am-All. Naught of what I Am can be lack­ing from the One I Am.

Such praying is instant in answer — immediate in Posi­tive Presence, in Conscious Evidence. Truth is already the Truth of My Self. There is no wait for It to become so. There is no need for, nor value in a philosophical, a religious, a theological or a metaphysical approach — one of human puri­fication, progression, evolution. Neither man-conceived moral­ity, nor any racial, educated or social provision has anything to do with Truth.

Prayer as a human attitude is worthless in Reality. Human supplication or adoration, attempting to bargain with Infinite Intelligence, or being informative, never reaches the Divine ear. Love being all of all leaves nothing human, hence no human prayer can be answered. That which is not, cannot be nurtured, supported, aided or rescued. That which God is, is never absent, never in need of improvement, never imper­fect in any way, hence does not require saving, being already eternally safe and secure.

To state that humanity and its shortcomings are outside the pale of Mind may seem cruel, but is it? Is it discourag­ing to dishonesty, cruel or unkind to deceit, to ignorance or assumption, to call it by name and treat it as it deserves? Does one wrong evil by giving to God all the honor, glory and power that belongs to God? Would it be Right to ignore God in order to wait upon presumption, humanity, disease, evil? Is mortality of such importance that Life must be sacrificed to make room for it? Is lack so lovely that Intelligence can be eschewed, while a shrine is erected and the limitation served, hence worshipped? Is fear and suffering so glorious that they deserve your undivided attention, Spirit meanwhile being held in abeyance or cast aside? Where is God, Omni­potence identified while these imposters are in your every awareness? Is mythical finite man so fascinating that Omni­presence can be by-passed so one can blindly serve this non­sense?

In the midst of an adulating, or fearful service to evil, to ask God to be God — to do this or that, or to beseech a favor, even when unselfishly uttered in behalf of someone else ­brings no more good into so-called human experience than one's faith in the prayer promotes. It is faith only that does the work in every such "successful" event. When the woman who had the issue of blood for many years approached the Na­zarene and touched the border of his garment, she was cured by her faith, not by understanding her identity to be none other than the sole I that is Life-present. (See Mat 9:20-22) She was no more aware of her unborn-undying Identity after the cure, than she was before. She still believed her Self to be a human being evolved by the family of man, subject to temptation and sin — to biology, gender, time, birth, maturity, age, sickness, lack, fear, ignorance, death.

Lazarus was called from the tomb (see John 11:43-44), but did that experience prevent him from ultimately return­ing to the very place from which he had been summoned by Jesus? Did Lazarus recognize his Identity to be that I that is Omnipresent Perfection — that I that is Infinite wherein there can be nothing but Itself, hence no otherness, no dual­ity, naught foreign or alien?

Without comprehending his Life to be the Absolute One free of adulteration, of subtraction or addition, free of op­position, a reverse or perverse sense, and aware that Life is Single, Entire, Whole, Total, was the experience of being momentarily freed of the purported wage earned for sin, enough to cleanse Lazarus of carnal identification? From that moment did he act only as the Self that is the Self, or, as is general with human sense, was he content to merely experi­ence a "cure" instead of healing; a respite from separation and pain; a passing lift that made it easier to bear future phy­sical and social lack and privation?

In so far as the record goes, Lazarus again returned to the grave with the passage of time, and in accord with human determination. He was not free of belief, which is death ­— the belief that One, that Life is man, is mortal. Still insisting on personal identification, his respite in "time" was com­paratively short. While God was proved to be more power­ful than the "last enemy" (1 Cor 15:26), Lazarus rejected God as Omnipresent Life, the Sole-I-God as being all of all which left no enemy, no other one, no thing that could perish.

Raising Lazarus from death, from mortality's cycle, from man's finite orbit of birth-death, was Jesus' experience. To him Truth was an ever present operative Fact which could not be set aside or annulled. Knowing God to be the Sole Mind, the Entire Identity, the Alone Substance, the Con­scious Awareness, the abolition of death was inevitable. To the Present One Mind there was no cessation of Life, for God knows Himself to be Changeless Omniscience, Omniac­tion. The certainty of Truth, the awareness of I as the Sole I that God is, remained constant with Jesus. His was the All­-inclusive joy, the Self-evidence of Total Being being-that Unchallenged Identity which includes the universe, all ideas, things, bodies, along with the one called Lazarus!

With all thy getting, get understanding of Identity; of the nature of I, Self, the Alone One God, Life, for such is more to be desired "than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb." (Ps 19:10)

"But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living (in the so-called consciousness of humanhood, manhood, of mortal assump­tion). The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold..........................