65th Live Stream with Carlton Pearson - Gift of Time

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Time, the measured distances between events and occurrences in life in the earth realm, is our friend and ally, but we often make it an inconvenient and intimidating enemy and adversary. We have a love/hate relationship with time, never seeming to have enough of it, while simultaneously too much. For example, we tend to think time is taking too long to bring us what we want or make us what we want to become. We wrestle with time constantly complaining and protesting that it doesn't cooperate with our chosen and prescribed schedules and agendas. The soul — your soul — knows all there is to know in time, as time, all the time. There are things hidden in your soul, but there is nothing hidden to your soul and nothing unknown to it. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience itself and to experience in general. One of the deepest mysteries in the earth experience is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation and recovery. We are recovering what we already have, are and know, but have forgotten we have, are and know. Creation is an act of recovering what always and already exists. Remember: life doesn't just happen to us, it happens through and as us. We are, in both fact and function, time. This is why most of us have subconscious love/hate relationships with ourselves. We tend to perceive our self-worth and self-doubt based on how our time is spent. The ageless, spaceless, timeless, skinless and endless aspect of our deeper human essence is our infinite self and soul; our spirit, which recognizes the struggle in our psyche with our perceived human time restraints and constraints. Such things are illusions, but we actualize them in consciousness by inaccurate perceptions. All we really have in life is time, because that is essentially and basically who and what we are. Time is like the air we breathe, inhaling and exhaling it all day and night. The clock and calendar should be our trusted friends and allies because they can prove, approve, disprove and improve any and everything. Time is a clearing space, but only the illusion of reality, a continuous area or expanse that is free, available or unoccupied. We must transcend the illusion of time restraints or constraints and embrace the expanded consciousness of freedom and limitless expression and experience. As my dear sister La Donna posted today: A great victory is realizing that life is less about conquering and more about navigating. Enjoy your birthright and gift of time!Carlton Pearson After college at the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa Oklahoma he served for 15 years on its Board of Regents, and two years as Associate Evangelist of The Oral Roberts Association, (ORA). In 1977, Pearson founded Higher Dimensions Ministries (now New Dimensions ), in Tulsa, which grew to over 5,000. Bishop Pearson was consecrated to the office of Bishop in 1996 thru a College of Bishops headed by Bishop Charles E Blake, presently the Presiding Bishop of the Churches of God In Christ, the denomination he was raised in and through whom he was ordained in 1971. In 1993, Carlton married the former Gina Marie Gauthier who is a professional Life Coach and Yoga teacher. More recently, he has felt a passion to proclaim the "Gospel Of Inclusion" and has written a widely acclaimed book by that name, published by Simon and Schuster. It confronts the Christian church's exclusivism as being inconsistent, in spirit with the teachings of Jesus. Pearson's frank and often controversial take on a number of different subjects has earned him appearances on television programs such as NBC and MSNBC's Dateline, ABC's Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley, The Edge with Paula Zahn and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, The Monique Show on BET, and a number of other television, radio and print media outlets. Bishop Pearson was recognized as one of America's 10 Most Influential Black Ministers by Gospel Today and Belief.net. He has received several honorary doctoral degrees. Bishop Pearson recently served as the Interim Senior Minister at Christ Universal Temple in Chicago. He and Gina now host New Dimensions of Chicago, building a local multi-cultural and radically Inclusive spiritual community that emphasizes expanded consciousness and Self Actualization. His newest book, God Is Not A Christian, Nor A Jew, Muslim, Hindu...God Dwells With Us, In Us, Around Us, As Us was published by Simon and Schuster and released in the spring of 2010. Visit our Youtube Channel for more video! Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/bishoppearson Website: http://www.bishoppearson.com Join Email List: http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?llr=cqgwpvn6&p=oi&m=1011112155650