How to Grow Spiritually

William LePar’s spiritual source, The Council, has always stressed prayer and meditation. The insights gained from our prayer and meditation, they stress, must be put into action.

The Council:  One must always search deep within to find the purest part of themselves, the higher self.  They must constantly pray and meditate that they find the good person inside, and then they must try to demonstrate that good person or bring it to the conscious and let it live, not only inside but outside of them.  If you as a soul being allows that inner search to be too easy, too quick, then there is much that could have been learned in a lifetime that would not have been experienced.

As souls, you are very efficient in your utilization of your experience in a material form.  Efficient, we said.  It is too bad the quality could not be a little better; let us say, the quality of those experiences could not be a little better.  Does that answer those questions?

Questioner:  Yes, thank you.

The Council:  It does seem almost contradictory to say that one searches and then one will not find, but when you really stop to think that the purpose for living a life or coming into the material form is to experience things at a first-hand level, and the first-hand level is the material level, then you begin to realize that we search inside only to find other ways of experiencing things that will teach us even more.  So, when we search inside, the answer should propel us onward to seek or be better, to make better out of each situation.  Do you understand?

Questioner:  Yes.

 The Council:  One of the primary tasks of a soul coming into the material form is to learn to create as much perfection in each experience as that soul can.  That is, everything from saying, "Good Morning," to someone in the morning to actually having a meaningful or an important experience or exchange with an individual.  Do you understand?

Questioner:  Yes.

The Council:  Those must be experienced.  We search inside, deep inside, to find a way to make each of those experiences as perfect as they can be.  It does not mean that that will ever be achieved, but right now what is required is the desire TO achieve.  Has that made it any clearer?

Questioner:  Yes, thank you.

The Council:  Once an entity, once an individual, gives up searching at a conscious level, it is very bad times, let us put it that way.

For more on William LePar and The Council visit www.WilliamLePar.com

Not Being Able to Resolve a Lifelong Problem

In this discussion with William LePar’s spiritual source, The Council, they deal with personal issues that a person has been struggling with his entire life but cannot seem to resolve.

Questioner:  If we struggle with, say, a specific problem all of our life on a conscious level, and we are never able to resolve that problem on a conscious level or any other level, I guess, can we assume then that this was preordained and that we are not able to change it?

The Council:  Quite possibly, quite possibly, if you have dealt with it the best that you possibly could.  If it could not be changed, then it was a needed experience.  Do you understand?

Questioner:  Yes.

The Council:  Now, again, these are general outlines.  Each individual is applied to those outlines to different degrees, according to the situation.  If you take an emotional problem, if you take a physical problem, regardless, and an individual struggles with that problem all their entire life and it is never resolved, why, one might ask.  Why?  Possibly the struggling with it, the dealing with it in the best way that they consciously knew how was what was needed, not the actual solving of the problem or the overcoming of the physical problem or the emotional problem but the actual struggling and dealing with it.  Do you understand?

Questioner:  Yes, and then other people who come into contact with the same problem also have a lesson to learn and that is why they are there?

The Council:  Yes.  All lives are interconnected.  There is no such thing as separation.  You do not know someone for nothing; there is a purpose.  It may be as simple as to, it may be nothing more than just saying, "Good morning," or a very near acquaintance passing the time of day with idle chit-chat, but it serves its purpose, it was not for naught.

For more on William LePar and The Council visit www.WilliamLePar.com

Mental Illness – Physical Illness, an Opportunity to Serve?

In this quote from William LePar’s spiritual source, The Council, we are given advice on viewing illness.

Questioner:  Can The Council address the source of mental illness? Is it a spiritual crisis?

The Council:  All sicknesses, whether they be of the physical nature or the mental nature, are part of the life plan. It is in many cases to create a situation wherein others around that individual have the opportunities to show their love and their compassion. At times, certain mental illnesses prevent an individual from making mistakes that they have made many times in previous lifetimes. But we must learn to look at all sickness, whether they be physical or of the mental nature, in these terms: These individuals are blessed and have come in to give each of you the opportunity to serve, to express your love, your godliness. One should not look at such situations, that of physical or mental sicknesses, as a karmic condition for that individual. This isn't a loving attitude. Look at it in a very productive and positive way for yourself. This is your opportunity to show whether or not you are a loving god or a selfish person who rejects the opportunity to be giving. As with the physical problems, because everything must have a means of operation or rules in order to create a common ground, mental illnesses originally begin in a malfunction of the body's workings. At the seat of all emotional problems or mental illness is the chemistry, the blood chemistry, and how it affects all of the parts or organs of the body. That is the natural law or rule in which such conditions come about.

Remember, any illness, regardless of what it is, is your opportunity to serve another individual, and in so doing you serve yourself, and this is good because in serving yourself in that manner you are showing yourself how godly you really can be. Taking care of those who are ill certainly isn't an easy job, but remember this, if there is anything of value, if there is anything real, it requires a great deal of work. Those things that you accomplish in this lifetime of a spiritual nature will not necessarily come easily all the time, but once you have acquired those you will never lose them. They become part of your spiritual wealth, a wealth that will never be taken away.

A Child’s Learning Begins Early

Here we learn from William LePar’s spiritual source, The Council, how we can bring the greatest opportunity for spiritual growth to our children.

Questioner: I want to know how it would be best to teach children to respect themselves. It is a materialistic world, and they are very self-centered.

The Council:  Teaching a child to respect themselves has to begin at the moment of birth. In actuality, it can or should be begun prior to birth. While the mother is in pregnancy or carrying the child, she and the father should talk to the child. The child is quite capable of hearing and, to many who may be surprised, quite capable of understanding, understanding not necessarily from the intellectual level but from the spiritual level. By talking to the unborn child in terms of its worth and its value, as a being, can help immensely. After the child is born, then it becomes the responsibility of the parents to constantly attempt to instill the self-respect that is necessary for a productive and happy life. The quest for spirituality begins the moment the individual is conceived. From that point on, that soul, that entity, that spirit, is on a journey of discovering self, discovering the god within. As the child enters the school years, it should have some understanding of its own self-worth, its value. This can be helped immensely by teaching the child discipline, discipline of self, understanding that one, at times, must be in control in any given situation. If the child is not taught self-control, eventually the child will give over that control of self to someone else. In that situation then that individual will become the pawn of a bigger player.

Your world is what it is today because far too many have refused to take control of their own lives. They have been sent on a maddening quest for materialistic identification, for materialistic wealth or self-value at the cost of the control of their own life, their own destiny. When you are born, you are born with a fate, the situation, the conditions you are born in. From that point on, as you reach maturity, as you learn to take control of your own life, as you learn to discipline yourself, you then begin to create your destiny, what you make from the original situation you were born into. It is only through self-discipline that one gains control over his own destiny. If not, the individual is condemned to follow the leader wherever the leader may take him.

A child in school should be taught to think and make decisions and assume the responsibility of those decisions. If the parents have not taught the children where the values in life are, a teacher can hardly be expected to do that. Although a teacher may have some influence by pointing out what is really valuable in life and that is the relationships that we have with each other, the caring we have for each other, the love we have for each other, the ability to take responsibilities in stride, the ability to make commitments and keep them until the commitments are fulfilled.

The Fives Steps to Spirituality - Part 6

This is William LePar’s spiritual source, The Council’s, summary of the Five Steps to Spirituality that we have presented over the last several months.

 These five steps to spirituality will not always be easy to fulfill.  At times they will be very hard.  At other times, they will be a simple matter to accomplish.  These five steps will definitely cut against the old human nature that you may have had, but in the process they will begin to introduce a whole new nature to you.  They will begin to open your eyes to a more spiritual you into a more spiritual way of life.  These five steps, if applied, will not deprive you of anything but will teach you to more fully control yourself so that you have guidance over your own, so that you have a more full control of yourself, and in accomplishing this you accomplish a stronger human nature and a stronger spiritual nature.  A stronger human nature in the sense that you become more sensitive to those things around you, more aware of those things around you, those things that will help not only you to grow spiritually but will help others to grow also.  These are five steps that one must apply to themselves, to their lives, not on a half-hearted basis but one must make a commitment to keep these five points every day of their life.  When you first begin it may be hard at times to fulfill these commitments, but as time goes on one becomes stronger and stronger, and eventually they become such a part of you that it takes no effort whatsoever.  At that point then you can look back at what you are.  At that point then you can look back at what you WERE and see what you are.  You will then see that you are a new person a whole new being.  It is possible to correct all of your karmic debt in one lifetime, in this lifetime, so that you need never to reincarnate again, and these five steps, if one commits themselves to them, will most assuredly overcome all karma and any need for reincarnation, but you must be honest with yourself; you must be honest with yourself.  You will not be able to rationalize these things because in so doing you will end up only fooling yourself and no one else.

Five steps to spirituality.  Five steps that any man, woman, or child can apply to their lives, eliminating all karmic debt, eliminating ALL karmic debt, and making available to themselves a new being, more fully and more spiritually developed, one that will leave the material manifestation behind forever, one who most assuredly will be in the realms that the Infinite Father made, in His Schoolhouse of Learning they most assuredly will be very close to their at-one-ment with the Divine Source.  We present these five steps of spirituality to all of you with our blessings, in hopes that each of you will apply them in your lives and in so doing you and we will be united much sooner.  We thank you.

For more on William LePar and The Council visit www.WilliamLePar.com

The Five Steps to Spirituality – Part 5

This is William LePar’s spiritual source, The Council’s, fifth step of the Five Steps to Spirituality.

The Council: If you take these five steps and apply them to your life, much spiritual growth can be accomplished.  In fact, one can accomplish a degree of spirituality that most have only dreamed of.

The next step in spiritual growth, this process, is:  Never accept any glories.  Remember, do what you must do.  Fulfill your responsibilities and your obligations in life.  Never wait around for that pat on the back.  Move on to your next challenge or your next step.  Many people who become involved in spirituality or in spiritual activities that are promoting spirituality make a problem for themselves.  It is bad enough that some of these people seek a reputation in the world, but it is even worse for these people when they seek a reputation among those people that they are involved with who may be attempting to bring a greater spirituality to others.  These spiritual movements are works dedicated to the Divine Source, and ultimately, these works are to bring glory to this Infinite Father.  Those who help are not permitted to take any part of those glories.  It is like this:  anyone who may serve or work for a commission, for what little bit of glory he can get out of it is a merchant, and he ought to be cast out of the temple. This can be applied to those money exchangers that are spoken of in the temple when the Christ them chased out.  They were not serving the people as a means of serving God; they were serving the people so that they could get their percentage out of it.

Remember, we must not be as the Pharisees were.  We must not stand before others beating our breasts and putting ashes on our forehead so that all may see how holy we are.  Do what you can do for others.  Do what you can for the Divine Source in the service to Him, but do not expect glories and praises.  All glories and praise belong to this Divine Source.  Those things that you can use in service for others and for the Divine are gifts that you have to help YOU grow, not to help you gain glories.

The Five Steps to Spirituality – Part 4

The Five Steps to Spirituality – Part 4

This is William LePar’s spiritual source, The Council’s, fourth step of the Five Steps to Spirituality.

The Council: If you take these five steps and apply them to your life, much spiritual growth can be accomplished.  In fact, one can accomplish a degree of spirituality that most have only dreamed of.

The next step:  Never pass anything on about anyone else that will hurt him.  Remember, a tale bearer has no place in the Divine's favor.  If you know anything that would hinder or hurt the reputation of one of God's children, bury it forever.  Wipe it from your mind and from your thoughts.  Remember, if you wish the Divine Source to be good to you, you must begin to be good to His other children.  Remember, the Divine Source invites you to a spiritual banquet, He invites you personally to sit at His table, but He expects you to have table manners.  He expects to teach you those table manners that you do not have, and remember He will not let you eat unless you obey the etiquette of the table that He has prepared for you.  Whatever you pass on that may hurt someone else, whatever little remark that you may carry that will hurt someone else you must immediately put away.  Bury it away so that it goes no further.  Do not add your own self to the hurt of others.  In the Divine Source's Eyes each of us is His child and He will not accept one child hurting another.