​"Many people find themselves searching endlessly for sensation out in the world in order to avoid facing the hurt, anger and upset they find when they turn inside to find peace. Many people don't know that their peace lies beyond their pain." - John-Roger
May you go past the pain, past the hurt, and go to the peace and loving.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
www.Essence-into-form.com
Painting by Themistokles von Eckenbrecher

​"Go within and practice being attuned to your inner worlds. Practice letting go of your focus on this world and all its glamour and illusion. Look beyond your physical senses to more subtle levels of perception. Follow your breath to a presence deep within you. You are present. And at the same time, you are traveling in your inner awareness. With your purpose at hand, keep choosing the loving, the adventure, the expansion."
- John-Roger with Pauli Sanderson
Go deeper than the fear, the drama, and move to the expansion, the knowing.
The knowing that it's all set up for you to connect back in with the Divine and to trust the Grace.
LLS
Richard Powell
www.Essence-into-form.com
Art - Jonathan Wiltshire

​"The essence is the essence. It is now--and has always been--eternally present. So, you are never born, and you never die. All you do is focus your attention to whatever level you care to. That to which you are attentive, that which you're visualizing, that upon which you focus your energy to alleviate your stress, tension, and fear--that brings you freedom. It breaks the karmic blocks, and you rise to a new level." --John-Roger, D.S.S
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
www.Essence-Into-Form.com
Art - Tamara Dean

​"In time, you can reconnect with the enthusiasm of Spirit as quickly as you take your next breath. You can breathe in awareness and breathe out enthusiasm. It can become as regular as your heartbeat.
When you have created the habit of continually reconnecting, the Soul energy replaces the personality as the center of consciousness.
The Soul will still use the mind, the emotions, and the body as vehicles through which to function, but instead of being distracted by the personality, you will be focusing from the Soul." - John-Roger
Reconnect to the truth of who you are.
The stillness.
The peace that goes beyond all understanding.
LLS
Richard Powell
www.Essence-into-form.com
Art - Tamara Dean | The Suspended Moment | 2022

​“At this end, in the physical plane, the Light and Sound are lost in gross matter. On the finer planes — astral, causal and spiritual — Sound is audible and Light is visible. At the upper end, the Sound is the finest music — unheard by human ears — and the Light is of millions of suns and moons in one ray…The Reality is beyond description…” - Sawan Singh
"A sound, huge and booming like a glorious chant, came down from above, and I wondered if the winged beings were producing it. Again, thinking about it later, it occurred to me that the joy of these creatures, as they soared along, was such that they had to make this noise—that if the joy didn’t come out of them this way then they would simply not otherwise be able to contain it. The sound was palpable and almost material, like a rain that you can feel on your skin but doesn’t get you wet".~Dr Eben Alexander, PROOF OF HEAVEN
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
www.Essence-Into-Form.com
Art -Niko C

​“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the Spirit.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
www.Essence-Into-Form.com
Art - reiji_hiramatsu

​You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
- Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
www.Essence-Into-Form.com
Art by Georg Janny, 1922

​"You can never confront and win with resistance. To win, you confront each situation by slowly expanding your energy field, your ego field, and reaching out to meet and encompass the new situation. If you just meet each situation, one at a time, it's very easy. As soon as you feel like, "Oh, I'm blowing it; it's falling on my head," pull your energy field back in and shore it up again; hold steady." John-Roger, DSS
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
www.Essence-Into-Form.com
Art - Dante and Beatrice contemplate the Empyrean,
by Gustave Dorè.

​Since this seems to be up again in the world of Spiritual exploration I thought I would put this forward. Thoughts on psychedelics from Ram Dass.
"For many of us who have come into meditation through psychedelics, the model we had for changing consciousness has been of “getting high”. We pushed away our normal waking state in order to embrace a state of euphoria, harmony, bliss, peace, or ecstasy. Many of us spent long periods of time getting high and coming down. My guru, in speaking about psychedelics, said:
“These medicines will allow you to come and visit Christ, but you can only stay two hours. Then you have to leave again. This is not the true samadhi. It’s better to become Christ than to visit him – but even the visit of a saint for a moment is useful.” Then he added, “But love is the most powerful medicine.”
For love slowly transforms you into what the psychedelics only let you glimpse.
In view of his words, when I reflected on my trips with LSD and other psychedelics, I saw that after a glimpse of the possibility of transcendence, I continued tripping only to reassure myself that the possibility was still there. Seeing the possibility is indeed different from being the possibility. Sooner or later you must purify and alter your mind, heart, and body so that the things which bring you down from your experiences lose their power over you. Psychedelics could chemically override the thought patterns in your brain so that you are open to the moment, but once the chemical loses its power the old habit patterns take over again. With them comes a subtle despair that without chemicals you are a prisoner of your thoughts." Ram Dass
This was my own experience so many years ago. I then turned to meditation and eventually met my own Spiritual Wayshower who didn't work with people if they used drugs. My experiences since then far exceeded my "trips" before. I understand some need to go through the experience to learn but I also understand that for me this was not the path.
The path of Love and Awareness was the one that rang true.
LLS
Richard Powell
www.essence-into-form.com
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