More about Richard Knox:
Presenter and soloist, Bahai, Unity, Religious Science, Interfaith Celebrations, and many other traditional and new form spiritual communities, including workshops and seminars in the human potential arena.
Master's Degree in clinical & counseling psychology, twenty-three year
student of comparative religion practice, as well as, A Course in
Miracles (individual study), Pathwork Guide Lectures (group process), and The Urantia Book.
An invitation for a personal experience of Universal Spirituality
Exploration of the common ground of our Human Family
Original music, readings, and devotional songs for workshops, seminars, and spiritual gatherings. Joyfully inspired works that enhance and awaken a sense of connection to the Self, Others, and the Oneness.
As a young man in the professional theatre, I was given permission to feel everything "on stage"; I had to learn it was safe to feel off stage as well. Then a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology prodded the human potential and self discovery to continue. I'm a fan of the group process. When we come together and realize all of our wounding and defenses and projections are in this one room; not in people, but that we carry them with us. They are present and we're looking at them wherever we are. We come together to speak them finally, and to practice giving up our victimhood. The tenderness of our confused child having learned defenses against the distrustful world, to survive the chaotic dualistic life on earth. Learning a moments rest in Paradise, (from the Latin) meaning " beyond division." Beyond the illusion of our separation to the Unitive understanding. How many times should I forgive them, Lord? "70X70", Jesus said. Or, until you realize they didn't do anything.
What we think and feel and say about another. We are thinking and feeling and saying about ourselves.
I've learned to speak up, not with a bull rush into the china shop as it was for many painful years, but with a positive will, both very strong and loving in intent and intention, and with continual discernment about my motives. With a matador in many ways.
What I found I had to say, not by accident of course, is:
Love is the answer no matter what the question.
The wisdom books of all religions agree. Becoming as a little child is the key to entry into Paradise. The
Golden
Rule the passport we hold to practice our citizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven. Where we are finally safe from the small part of ourselves, the part where we fall short of living up to our vows to not injure another. We become duty bound by The Principles of The
Golden
Rule, the Human Family Code shared by all religions. To practice loving each other as we would like to be loved.
What we find is
The door to the room of the
Golden
Rule is locked
The lock on the door is our judgments
The key to the lock is our returning to our innocence.
When we have recognized the lock and
Found the key and
Bravely opened the door.
What we step into is a room full of mirrors, where we see only ourselves reflected back to us, and begin to see, that as we treat our neighbors we are treating ourselves.
Slowly we become comfortable, then familiar, with acknowledging and understanding, even knowing;
What we think and say and feel about another
We are thinking and saying and feeling about ourselves.
Our neighbor then becomes a gift to us, a blessing in disguise, showing us our selves, mirroring back our inner life. When we see a wanting to withdraw our love, a wanting to defend or an unwillingness to forgive or a wanting to punish or even to kill, we admit freely we don't want to be treated that way. And so we become duty bound by the Human Family Code, the principal of the
Golden
Rule to practice not treating others that way.
