Spiritual Growth - The Metaphysics Of Fast Food Service In The Bible

We humans tend to have a penchant for 'pouring' cities and leveling hills. It seems we love to create networks of streets, businesses, and housing developments. We are enthusiastic about pouring concrete, macadam, and steel over what were once natural landscapes. We lose little time cutting interstate highways and planting shopping centers, shopping malls, and golf courses on perfectly good land.

Metaphysically, the ego does all it can to urbanize the natural spirituality of our human nature. It flattens our 'peaks of higher spiritual consciousness,' clogs the flow of Spirit, and does its best to construct intellectual grids of dogma and tradition upon our evolving inner landscapes.

This article is about improving our spiritual consciousness so we can live more fully -- and permanently -- at the speed of our Christ Consciousness. One of the greatest prosperity stories in the New Testament is the story where Jesus the Christ feeds thousands of men, women, and children on a hillside.

Metaphysically, this historical event symbolizes an internal process which goes on in our minds. I refer to this particular story as the first fast food service in the New Testament. The story appears in all four Gospels, but I shall use John's Gospel since it contains elements which are not mentioned in the other Gospels. Read John 6:1-15 in your favorite New Testament version.

This event takes place at the time of the Passover, an important historical Jewish holiday. There would have been hundreds of thousands of people traveling to Jerusalem. Did Jesus feed thousands of people with five loaves of bread and two fish? It seems incredible doesn't it! Did the generosity of a little boy compel thousands of other people to share what they had? Perhaps. Did Christ have the power to manifest anything He wanted? Of course! However, I believe the importance of this story rests with its metaphysical interpretation which makes it one of the greatest formulas for prosperity ever found.

The meanings of key phrases, terms, and characters in this story metaphysically interpreted:

Sea of Galilee represents the Garden of Eden


Sea of Tiberias stands for right thinking


Crowds usually represent a mindset that seeks spiritual understanding


Jesus symbolizes our quickening Christ potential


Disciples are our higher mental faculties and spiritual capacities


Passover represents passing over sense pursuits by choosing a higher state of spiritual consciousness


Philip stands for the power of the spoken word through affirmations and denials


Andrew represents a Spirit-oriented strength of mind


Simon Peter personifies a deepening faith


Boy generally represents childlike faith and imagination


People seated our comfort and acceptance of our Christ Nature


5 loaves stand for ever-present substance which underwrites the capacity of our five senses to manifest our good


2 fishes symbolize both formative and creative divine ideas


12 baskets represent the 12 highest spiritual qualities within us that are quickened and strengthened by the influence of Spirit

When we toss all of these characters and key concepts into a metaphysical basket, here's what we get:

When we focus on our connection with our Christ Self using affirmations and denials to declare our good, we will be able to manifest incredible abundance through the strength of our faith, which in turn quickens all of our highest spiritual faculties so that we can become the best Christs we can be.

Dr. Bil Holton is a metaphysician and Truth practitioner. His mission is to help others have a better understanding of the Bible, and learn how to walk the spiritual path on practical feet. Visit his website at http://www.metaphysicalbible.net to learn more about Bil, and to view the many resources that are available to help you on your Truth walk and spiritual journey.

Top Seven Tips For Metaphysical Growth

1. Make laughter a daily spiritual practice. Laugh as often as possible. The more uncontrollable your bout of laughter becomes, the better you are doing. Not only should this work out your abs, it will also help you to take life less seriously. It would even be beneficial to greet unwelcome experiences with laughter.

When you look at life from a different perspective, you begin to feel like life is one big joke. Rather than just laughing silently to yourself, laugh out loud when it comes even if you are alone. If you pay attention, most of the people you would consider to be "spiritually advanced" tend to laugh quite often.

2. Choose internal peace. Although the world may continue to be in conflict you can always choose peace within. You may not be able to create world peace outside of yourself, but you have absolute control over your internal reality. With strict daily practice, through intention, you can always experience internal peace. Allow this calm feeling to radiate out through your thoughts and actions.

3. Show love to all who you come in contact with. Empathize with everyone around you, and you will understand that every person is living the best way they know how. They are acting based on their beliefs and programming. Therefore regardless of what they do or say, it would be well advised to show unconditional love back.

4. Spend time in nature. Make a sincere effort to be immersed in forests or some kind of natural environment. I find that this can be a very energizing activity, since it is very easy to see the beauty in nature. Also places that have been relatively unaffected by the human population usually have a relatively high vibrational frequency. This can trigger some profound experiences. Regardless of what you are doing, whether it is hiking, sitting, walking, etc... you will have access to an energy that may not usually be available to you.

5. Eat in the light. All food has vibrational levels. If you wish to raise your vibration, it is important you eat food with a high vibration. I have learned that foods such as whole grains, nuts, fresh fruit, and vegetables have high vibrational frequencies. Foods that contain dairy, meats, alcohol and sugar have lower vibrations. The essence of the foods you eat can have a long-lasting effect of you, even after you have digested the food.

6. Take Spiritual Action. You have an innate ability to transform the world. Each individual is deeply connected with all others and has power to change the mass consciousness. Understand that as you transform yourself you are transforming the world. Take responsibility for your unlimited power and become the change you wish to see in the world. Do not be concerned with changing the world, your role is to change yourself. Once you do this, the world will follow.

7. Get into a Spiritual Routine. Humans can be creatures of habit. Use this to your advantage by setting up a spiritual routine for yourself. Do not make it too hard or too easy. Write it down, and then stick to it. This should include your physical disciplines such as physical exercise, diet, and so on as well as your spiritual practices. You should include many of the practices outlined in this article and in past issue of Metaphysical Mind (freely available at my website).

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