Hawaii Hotel Talk February 17, 1963

Original Unedited Hawaii Hotel Talk, Corrected From Edited Consciousness Transformed

February 17, 1963 The Halekulani Hotel Honolulu, Hawaii

Let us make a move that separates us from most of the metaphysical world. As humans we have our supply in money, or the representation of money, and we find health in the body. If the heart beats so many times, if the assimilation acts according to this rule, if the elimination acts according to that rule, then we have health. We associate intelligence with the brain and we find our life in breathing. Take away our breathing and we have no life, or we find our life in the functioning of the heart.

When you come to our work, what you are really doing is making a transition, so that your healing work is never in correcting what is wrong in the body or the mind or the pocketbook. I think it is in The Infinite Way that you will find, “You cannot meet a problem on the level of the problem.” So, if you are faced with a problem, should you try to do something to that problem, you would not succeed. You first have to move outside the realm of the problem in order to find harmony.

We find our harmony in spirit, and you might call this the point of demarcation or separation. We find our harmony in spirit, in Consciousness. Since God is Consciousness, and since God is supply, we find our supply in God or in Consciousness. In the same way, since God is health, we find our health in God or in Consciousness. Even the Bible knew this, that “God is the health of your countenance.” Yes, health must be found not in the body but in Consciousness – then the body expresses health. Likewise with supply.

You must leave the realm of the mental and material and find yourself elevated to Consciousness. We have to find our health, we have to find our supply, we have to find our intelligence in Consciousness; even our longevity we must find in Consciousness. If we try to perpetuate ourselves by patching up the body, the results would be temporary. Medically it’s possible to change sickness to health and, if that is all the person is seeking, they can find it there. There are not many incurable diseases in materia medica, but if one is seeking a principle of life whereby we wish to find our immortality in the fullness of our being, then we have to leave the realm of mind and body and find our good in Consciousness. But since the realm of Consciousness is invisible, you can be given no proof in advance that this is true. No signs shall be given in advance.

So, we start at some particular time in our spiritual journey; it could be today for some, next year for others. But one day we have to make a transition from looking for our supply in bank accounts, looking to our body for our health or to human beings for happiness, and realize that wholeness and completeness in every department of our lives is embodied in the God-consciousness which is our individual Consciousness.

For awhile this leaves you hanging nowhere; you are in space, as it were. Scripture says, “He hangeth the word upon nothing,” so in this particular transition we have nothing to cling to because we are no longer looking to the body or the pocketbook or the brain, and we cannot see, hear, taste, touch or smell Consciousness. We do not even know that Consciousness is, yet we are putting our complete reliance, our complete dependency on it.

God constitutes my individual Consciousness, therefore my Consciousness embodies the fullness of the Godhead. Therefore, my Consciousness is the law unto my health and my supply. My Consciousness embodies every activity of intelligence, guidance, and direction.

At this point you can know the truth but still find yourself hanging in space, because you do not know what is to come next. All right, I am transferring my faith to Consciousness, but I have no way of knowing what Consciousness is. All I can do is continue to hang in space until Consciousness comes through with a demonstration which convinces me beyond all doubt that “I am on holy ground.”

Remember:

God constitutes my Consciousness and in the beginning God gave me dominion  - all of the supply necessary, all of the health necessary -  and God planted it in my Consciousness. Therefore, all that God has is mine because God constitutes my Consciousness. My Consciousness embodies the infinity of being.

There are no  limitations. You see, we limit ourselves. There is no real limitation anywhere in the world except the limitation we place on ourselves. Everyone on the face of the globe could have the allness of God, because we are talking about indivisible Consciousness. So it is that any individual can have an infinity of supply and yet have enough left over so everyone else can have an infinity of supply. God constitutes our Consciousness and God is infinite being.

When you make this transition, your whole state of consciousness undergoes a change because now, instead of looking to the body for health, your vision is up in Consciousness. “Know the truth, and it will make you free,” and the truth is, “My life is not in man or in matter, but in God. God constitutes my life. Therefore, my life is eternal.” The more you live with that, the less you look to the body and the less fears you have of those aches. “God is the health of my countenance,” and remember, God is omnipresence. So you are really never separated from your health or your supply, or your happiness, completeness, and perfection.

Enjoy human relationships, certainly, but do not be so dependent on them that their absence breaks your heart. Once the individual makes this transition, even in a small measure to where they say, “Yes, I find my completeness in my Consciousness,” the whole nature of life changes. There are no vacancies or losses in Consciousness – there is only the going and coming of the human scene as the fulfillment of the activity of our Consciousness. When your whole experience is the activity of Consciousness unfolding, you will find a complete continuity of harmony.

Until you are ready for it, this is a difficult thing, this matter of transition, where you find your allness in Consciousness rather than in man or body or purse. To some it must be a matter of daily and hourly practice to remember consciously: “I have my good in my Consciousness. I find the harmony of being in my Consciousness, and it is the harmony of my body and my human relationships. My supply is God, or Consciousness. God constitutes my Consciousness, and all that the Father has is mine.” This must be a matter of hourly practice until that moment of transition when you can say, “Whereas I was blind, now I see.”

The reason that you cannot get more specific than this, is that Consciousness is not embodied in your body, because your Consciousness is actually omnipresent. Your Consciousness is not confined to time or space (and always remember why), because “I and the Father are one, not two, and all that is true of the Father is true of me. God is the Selfhood of my being, but this is universally true.” Therefore, the moment you are called upon for help in any part of the world and you close your eyes to realize omnipresence, you can be certain that your patient anywhere in the world will receive your treatment. There is but one being, and God is that being. To be able to close the eyes and shut out all persons and to say that, “In Consciousness is my good, my companionship, my experience of life,” would mean that, on opening the eyes, you would find yourself in the presence of those necessary to your experience – but first the human experience must be blotted out. “You cannot meet the problem on the level of the problem.”

To find our good in the Consciousness which I am, is to bring such a change in consciousness that, bit by bit over a period of time, you would see your whole life transformed and on higher ground. You find yourself in a whole new consciousness. “I am an individual, one with God. All that God is, I am. All that God has is mine, for I and the Father are one.” That realization of oneness is your assurance of completeness and perfection.

All of this universe is embodied in my Consciousness, the skies above, the earth beneath, the waters and all that is in them is embodied in my Consciousness, because God constitutes my Consciousness.

This brings you to the statement of the Master, “I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” This is oneness. “This universe is embodied in my Consciousness. Because God constitutes my Consciousness, I have infinity. The infinite allness of God is mine.” This acts to break the human ties of dependency on person, place, or thing. “God constitutes my Consciousness. Therefore, all that God has is mine because of oneness. In my oneness with God, I am all.”

In one experience after another you will transfer your allegiance or faith from effect back to Cause. You will break your dependency on “man whose breath is in his nostrils,” in the realization of your self. “I and my Father are one and that oneness constitutes my infinite allness. I am hid with Consciousness in God. I live and move and have my being in and of God.” This shuts out “man whose breath is in his nostrils” and the things of this world.

“Since God constitutes my Consciousness, and God constitutes your Consciousness and the Consciousness of every individual on the face of the earth, I am one with everybody.”

With every appearance of discord, lift your thoughts immediately: “I find my oneness in Consciousness which is Cause, not in matter or effect. I look to Cause for my peace, my wholeness, my satisfaction, my joy,” and all of it becomes manifest in what we call tangible form.

Remember that this is an activity of transition which must happen at a specific moment of your life. At some moment you must say, “I shall live in Consciousness. I shall find my health and my supply in Consciousness.” Then drop it, and let it rest. Sometime later in the day you will again remember, “I am seeking my good in Consciousness, omnipresent.” As you persist in that, you bring the day closer when the transition does take place. Then there are no more statements or declarations – there is just the living of it.

You understand, of course, that you cannot explain this to anyone, and you have no right to. This is an experience to be lived but never talked about. The human mind could never understand what you meant by transition  or Consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith