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INVITATION TO A PUBLIC WORKSHOP*

Dear Blessed One,

ECKANKAR Nigeria, 2023 Nigeria Regional ECK Soul Adventure Seminar, Umuahia, cordially invites you to a *Public Workshop* as follows:

*DATE: Thursday, May 18, 2023,
04:30 PM West Central Africa*

*Venue (In-Person):* Ochendo International Conference Centre, Umuahia

Topic: *WISDOM OF THE HEART: GETTING YOUR OWN ANSWERS FROM GOD*


*Facilitators: Aspect Caiquo, _Guest Speaker,_ and Nduka Nwagbo*

You may attend the event online via zoom

*The Online Platform opens at 04.00 pm:*


You may log in using the following details:

Meeting ID: 895 2570 3064
Passcode: 297363

*INVITATION TO A PUBLIC WORKSHOP*

Dear Blessed One,

ECKANKAR Nigeria, 2023 Nigeria Regional ECK Soul Adventure Seminar, Umuahia, cordially invites you to a *Public Workshop* as follows:

*DATE: Thursday, May 18, 2023,
04:30 PM West Central Africa*

*Venue (In-Person):* Ochendo International Conference Centre, Umuahia

Topic: *WISDOM OF THE HEART: GETTING YOUR OWN ANSWERS FROM GOD*


*Facilitators: Aspect Caiquo, _Guest Speaker,_ and Nduka Nwagbo*

You may attend the event online via zoom

*The Online Platform opens at 04.00 pm:*


You may log in using the following details:

Meeting ID: 895 2570 3064
Passcode: 297363

My definition of a true religion is one that does good in the world.

It tries to find ways to help people be themselves. It does not try to shape people to be what we think they should be. The sign of a good religion is that it helps the people grow to become more godlike, to be capable of more love and mercy—for themselves as well as for others.

Sri Harold Klemp

Becoming a conscious vehicle for God requires that you become the very best you can possibly be, no matter what you choose to do.

Sri Harold Klemp
The Language of Soul

On earth, the common state of awareness is the human consciousness. As one learns more about love and humility through the trials of many lifetimes, he moves higher in consciousness.

Sri Harold Klemp
The Loving Heart

HU is the love song to God that we sing. And it’s to open your heart—like opening your wings. Opening your wings simply means opening your state of consciousness.

Sri Harold Klemp
The Awakening Soul

@ Templee333

@ olite93



Those 2 are the only free ebooks for now.
If you can locate the nearest Eckankar Centre they have libraries where you can borrow ECK books and read

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but when i mingled with the eckist in the past and asked them for books to read, it didn't go well

People usually react from past experience. I know how many people I lent out my ECK books to and they never returned it till now.
I had to buy those books again.

But now in most ECK centre there is a functional library where you can read and if they trust you they can allow you to take it home and return it after reading so that someone else can benefit from it.

"One who is thankful for every good thing will find the richness of heaven in the humblest detail of his spiritual life."
—Harold Klemp

The water of life, even as truth, appears to be available everywhere to everyone. But only those who know how to give love are able to drink of it, to receive truth.

Sri Harold Klemp
Truth Has No Secrets

"Today comes but once. Recognize its goodness. Open your heart."
—Harold Klemp

Most important in the spiritual works of ECK is the knowledge that a solution to every problem is within us.

Sri Harold Klemp
The Spiritual Life

@ Templee333

Hi @ benodic
sorry for disturbing. Please i just have the feeling that i should call your attention to this OP. On a normal day, i'd just ignore him and go away. Sorry for disturbing once again

Thanks for calling my attention. We are all children of God and hence should be each others brothers keeper. Unfortunately many have not yet come to this level of realization and are still blinded by tribe and religion.

Hardship is the crucible through which greatness is built. So the attitude towards it matters a lot. It becomes a sink or swim situation. Unfortunately if you decide to sink life brings you back again to a more tougher condition.
If you decide to swim , life takes you up to greater glories.

For the OP reaching out to voice out his frustrations, he has already tapped into the unseen hand of God that guides and protects all souls.
All he needs is to have faith in God's ever abiding love. Remove all negativity or complaints and focus on God. Help always comes through unexpected quarters

@ Templee333

How does one live the spiritual life? The answer is simply to live creatively, because each of us is working to become a Co-worker with God.
—Harold Klemp
The Language of Soul

most times you talk about creativity, do you mean inventing new things/ideas?

That and more.
Creativity is Soul using Its God given qualities to solve the daily problem that it confronts in life for the good of the whole and thereby becoming a channel for God's Love

@ Templee333

"The dream world and its people are real. It is only our recall and understanding of it that are incomplete."
-Harold Klemp

There is this common notion about dreams where people say that eating in the dream or seeing dead people is something negative, what could you say about that?

Definitely not true.
Moreover nobody dies. People simply drop their outer body and continue existing in the inner worlds which are also the dream worlds. Those that are still wearing their physical body visit these worlds temporarily when they are asleep and can of course see those who are dead physically but have relocated to the dream worlds.

We surrender our fears, our cares, and our worries. In the meantime, we plan our daily life.

We visualize something on the inner, and then we set out to do whatever we can to bring that plan into being. There are many people who have thousands of ideas, but the truly rare person is the one who can figure out what he has to do in the physical world to make his dream come true.

Sri Harold Klemp
Touching the Face of God

@ Templee333

"The path of ECK encourages the freedom and responsibility of Soul. That is Its birthright."
-Harold Klemp

Does debt (financial) have any spiritual effect, both on the part of the debtor and the creditor

It is not the debt itself that is the problem. It is the attitude both have towards it that creates
spiritual problem. If anger, hatred, complaints are allowed to come into play both pile up negative karma but if love is allowed to come into play both can grow spiritually.

Everything has to do with Karma. People you are owing now might have owed you in a past life. The issue is now do you react with love or do you react with anger.

With love comes understanding. When you can understand each person's position and issues it becomes easier to handle the situation and grow from it.

@ Templee333

The greater states of freedom comes when you have mastered the lessons of love and have become a clear, open and pure channel for God. You then have more freedom to live, move and do as you wish under the law of divine love.

if mastering the lessons of love is all that is needed, then one can have this spiritual freedom without the spiritual exercises of eck,not so?

Kindly note that Eckankar has never claimed to be the only way to God or the spiritual exercises of Eck being the only tools to achieve spiritual freedom.
What the spiritual exercises offers is a short cut to attaining this freedom possibly in one lifetime.
Soul is free to use any other means as it seems fit to achieve this mastership no matter how long it takes. It doesn't really matter what means or how long, what matters is achieving it.
By the time you have reincarnated several times on this planet learning one lesson over and over, nobody reminds you to stop taking any bullshit or detours and focus on the methods that can take you straight to the heart of God.
But some souls still loves the detours and the merry go round of coming and going and would like to experience all the aspects of life before making up their mind to pack up and go home.

@ Templee333

"As you gain in spiritual unfoldment, everyone in your circle of acquaintances is benefited and uplifted."
--Harold Klemp

How is this so?

It is a spiritual principle that when one soul is uplifted spiritually the whole universe benefits from it. This is because we are all connected.

When an individual attains spiritual heights it increases the flow of divine Love through him which touches everyone that comes close to him. This upliftment starts with those closest to him.

Also God uses an enlightened soul to help in carrying the burdens of other souls which could have crushed them. Those souls that are helped in this way may not even know and of course the enlightened soul maintains the law of silence.

That is why you will never see a true spiritual master coming out to tell you he did this or that to help humanity. They do their part quietly in the background without anyone knowing about their contribution.

@ Templee333

Divine Spirit helps those who are ready to drop some habit that's standing in their way on the spiritual path to God."
--Harold Klemp

are these habits the five passions you've been talking about? Or if not, what habits are they?

The habits being talked about are bad habits that stream from the passions of the mind.
e g gluttony, gossiping, procrastination, etc.
These habits are big obstacles to spiritual growth

"And as we bless this day, we realize it was another opportunity to grow: to see, to know, to be."
—Harold Klemp

Most important in the spiritual works of ECK is the knowledge that a solution to every problem is within us.

Sri Harold Klemp
The Spiritual Life

@ Templee333

The doctrine of hell was introduced as a way to scare people into submission in their religion.
That concept may be okay for those at a certain level of consciousness.
But for those souls who have started awakening such concepts are no longer needed. At such level of awareness you serve God and life because you love God and not because you are afraid of going to hell.
And you follow the Spiritual laws that govern life which include the law of Karma i.e The law of cause and effect, The law of Love, The law of silence etc.
This brings you in harmony with life and opens you up to become a channel for God's love

Please i will love to know what is the law of silence

The Law of Silence has to do with keeping the inner communication between you and Divine Spirit to yourself. You only give out the information as directed by the Holy Spirit because not everyone is ready for the truth.

For example you can get an inner revelation that someone close to you is going to die.
You don't just run to that person and start telling him that information. He might not be ready to accept it and might even attack you or accuse you of witchcraft

In such situations you just surrender the issue to the Holy Spirit and ask It to take control of the situation.

Another example is that the Holy Spirit might also reveal who your spouse will be. You will not just go to that person and tell her that Holy Spirit said that you are my wife as is being done in some churches. That is breaking the law of silence.
But rather you surrender the situation and quietly work towards winning the person's affection.

The experiences of life teach truth.

Sri Harold Klemp
Love—The Keystone of Life

@ Templee333

"Life is truly meeting ourselves. The complaints we have of others are reflections of our own deficiencies."
--Harold Klemp

I don't completely get what you mean here. More explanation please

This is in line with the law of consciousness.
Whatever you see in another person is a reflection of who you are. Life shows you a mirror of yourself through those around you.

That is why we say if you don't like what you are seeing around you or the way people are behaving towards you it means there is a deficiency in you that needs to be changed.

That is also why it is said that the people gets the leader they deserve.
The leader reflects the consciousness of the people. Yet you see the people complaining bitterly about their leaders but put them in the same role, they will do worse.

Soul is creative, infinitely creative. Our creative imagination is our gift from God. The imagination is the God-spark, the part of us that makes us like God. And you can direct it toward whatever needs improvement in your life.

Sri Harold Klemp
Touching the Face of God

@ Templee333

Is God and soul the same thing? If not what is/are the difference(s)?

Soul is not God but soul is God-like.
A miniature god because it shares all the qualities of God.
God is the totality of everything. from It everything was created and in It all have existence.

These concepts are for the mind. To fully comprehend these concepts you need to experience them.
You need to see yourself as soul which we call Self Realization for you to have an inkling of what soul really is.

You then need to go further to experience God which we call God- realization. These experiences are difficult to put into words.
Because in the pure spiritual worlds the mind from which language springs from can not operate in those worlds.
This is the reason we encourage people to make effort to have these experiences for themselves

"God's blessings are always with you. You just need the eyes to see and the ears to hear."
—Harold Klemp

We’re all creations of God, and for this reason, each Soul deserves the highest respect you can give.

Sri Harold Klemp
The Loving Heart

"What is the greatest blessing? The gift of life itself."
—Harold Klemp

Facing life gracefully is probably the first step to giving of yourself to others.

They aren’t separate qualities. The quality of being graceful in your dealings with other people or in giving of yourself to life go together. They complement each other.

Sri Harold Klemp
Love—The Keystone of Life

"Through our experiences here on earth, Soul develops the beauty and grace It needs to become a Co-worker with God."
—Harold Klemp

Do what you can for yourself. Do what you can for others. In doing so, you are moving forward spiritually as a divine light of God.

Sri Harold Klemp
The Awakening Soul