What’s New

Ten Vernon Howard Books Reprinted
     We now have 10 beautiful new editions available. Most of them have spectacular new covers and all have been carefully proofed and corrected to eliminate any errors. They are printed on bright white paper and the print is a nice size to make it easier to read. Because of production, paper, ink and freight costs we had to raise prices a bit. However they are still very affordable. Below is the list of books with links to each one.
Your Power of Natural Knowing … 700 Inspiring Guides to a New Life … The Power of Esoterics …
Cosmic Command … Esoteric Mind Power … Treasury of Positive Answers … Solved — The Mystery of Life …
Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge … Pathways to Perfect Living … Inspire Yourself

How to End Suffering — Apathy

     The commentary series below is focused on a particular negative emotion, painful feeling, negative trait or  state of human beings that causes us tremendous pain and suffering. Perhaps you will recognize that you yourself have had personal experience with this condition. You’ll find the explanation of how it causes suffering and how it produces detrimental effects in your daily life. You will also be shown how Truth can help you to lessen these effects and how you can eventually eliminate them from your life altogether. A new negative characteristic of human nature will be gone into each month. It will be great fun to explore these things in order to help us see through them and to be rid of them.
APATHY by Karen West
     The grip of darkness is fueled by keeping a person unconscious to the harm done by his or her false nature. Vernon states that we are to wake up from this self-damaging slumber and break the spell. What does this mean? It means that until we see we’re apathetic toward our own spiritual growth and inner development, we will not take steps to see through the illusion of suffering and how we stubbornly stay asleep when we have been given the true solution to our problem.
     It is Life (with a capital “L”) that has been offered to us by God, Truth, Reality. We presently live life with a small “l”, weighted down by all of the cares of the world. We have neither the best of this world nor any sustained contact with the higher world. Until we face the mistake we’ve been making, we’ll continue to live within a very small part of ourselves that traps our attention and limits our view of Reality.
     Truth wants us to see that we have been ungrateful for and apathetic toward the Life given to us. We have not cared for it properly. In his book, The Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge, in the section entitled “Affection for Royal Principles,” Vernon says, “We must not handle the truth carelessly. It deserves our honor and affection.”
     If you were given a precious gift on just the material level, you’d likely take excellent care of it. The Bible references the “pearl of great price,” found in Matthew 13:45-46. “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.” Likewise, the more we value these teachings, the more enthusiasm we’ll have toward our own spiritual evolvement and the apathy, laziness and carelessness will fall away.
     But one of the many tricks of darkness is to keep us unaware of our undeveloped abilities and of our God-given gifts. In truth, the Kingdom of Heaven is within, as close as our breath and available at every moment.  Why do we then see only lack and live from the false self in continual suffering? Why do we dismiss its authenticity in preference to our self-created illusion of suffering? Because we mistakenly believe we’re separate from God and that we must do life on our own. Because we’re addicted to the low-level vibrations of the artificial nature and are afraid to give them up. Because we haven’t realized that God, Truth, Reality is waiting patiently for us to awaken to the True Self and to the awareness that everything valuable comes from the higher.
     Deep down, we know we don’t understand what life is all about and that we misjudge what is truly good and right for us. If we genuinely want a peaceful life, we can longer afford to be apathetic and passive toward self-work. This requires continually bringing our attention home to ourselves and refusing to fight what we see.
     Vernon states, “The resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.” We resist the light and then suffer over the disturbance that it causes. Vernon tells us that all suffering is unnecessary. When we start to sense that the power of the universe is on our side, we’ll also want to drop the resistance and yield to Truth. But we must see that darkness is not our friend and has never done us any good. Only then will we stop being apathetic toward “Life” and begin to live from the harmony of our own inner essence.