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Autumn & Winter2018/2019

CRUSADER

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World Healing CentreReg. Charity No: 1170377

476 Lytham RoadBlackpool

Lancashire FY4 1JFEngland

Telephone: 01253 343701Email: info@whc.uk.net

Opening Hours: 8.00am to 4.00pm Monday to Friday

WRITE, EMAIL OR CALL USFOR PRAYER HELP

Website: www.whc.uk.net

DAILY PRAYER at 9.30am Monday to Friday……………………………………………………………….

SPIRITUAL TEACHING AND MEDITATIONEvery Tuesday at 2.00pm

Everyone Welcome

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FROM BROTHER MANDUS WITH LOVEBrother Conrad

My father was born in West Hartlepool, part of a town called Hartle-pool, which is an industrial and shipping port.

Mandus’ father was a great manwith wonderful gentleness of spirit.He was Norwegian and spoke sevenlanguages. My father had an elderbrother called Rupert and twoyounger brothers, Otto and Roi. Allmost successful in their various am-bitions. The youngest brother Roialso inherited the talent to writeand, in fact, was a war correspond-ent in Norway about which he laterpublished a book. (“Fighting Norse-men etc. With plates”.)

My father’s mother was a lady of great strength of character whoknew the value of good exercise, good food, and good rest. Mostcertainly stood no nonsense from her lively sons as they grew up. Mygrandfather’s name was Otto and my grandmother’s was Eleanor,known to myself and family as ‘Nana’. Nana with her great direct-ness and personality and outreach, passed into Heaven at the age of102!

After school, my father trained to be a chartered ship broker and hewas totally successful becoming one of the youngest and most highlyqualified ship brokers in the country. At the end of the 1920’s hemoved to South America and took up a position with ‘Grace Airlines’which later became Pan American Airways.

He was in the pioneering field gathering tremendous experience. Assoon as he had established himself, he asked my mother to join him

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in Buenos Aires. Mother was a totally untravelled country girl, butjoined him she did, and they married in that fair city.

I was born in March 1933. Mandus had many adventures at thisjuncture, not the least of which was to put me into the newspapers asthe youngest baby to cross the Andes in a plane that year. He wasalways able to make lots of friends and many very special ones towhom he has been loyal all through his life.

My parents decided in 1934 to return to England and again to WestHartlepool. There he opened up an interesting business for himselfand family.

In 1937 my sister Margret was born. Now we are moving very closeto the outbreak of the second world war and due to extensive bomb-ing, my mother and sister and I plus another family of close friends,were evacuated to a village called Brough which lies in the middle ofthe Pennine Chain, the backbone of England.

The war office made very good use indeed of my father’s profession-al experience.

In consequence he was transferred to Blackpool and into the Minis-try of Shipping as a senior executive officer. He worked with awonderful team of people. Merchant shipping in many parts of theworld was being destroyed. I am sure my father’s great heart brokeon every occasion.

The war ended and Mandus took the very first opportunity to leavethe Civil Service. He went into a great adventure. He became inter-ested in FUEL. He started off with his brother Otto, salvaging sea coalat a place called Blackhall Rocks, not far from Hartlepool. They hadfleets of surplus trucks. My father went all over getting markets forthe coal.

This led to another coal adventure. One day, near a Lancashire towncalled Wigan, he saw some of the locals combing slag heaps, and

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putting little pieces of coal into their baskets. So, realising that coalis much lighter than water, and that the old mine workings wereflooded, a wonderful concept came about. Simply, a great trough wasput up on the side of the slag hill. Water was pumped to the top fromthe old workings and tons upon tons were put in at the top letting thelighter coal run off the sludge all the way down to the bottom.

This was a successful business meeting a demand in industry. Any-way – this was sold to another pioneer so that he could devote all hisenergies to a spiritual work.

Mandus then put all his assets and drive into a course called ‘PowerThinking’ for which he was awarded an honorary PhD. Many peoplebenefitted greatly from this, but it became a financial failure.

Anyway – by this time, knowing deeply God to be calling him, he tooktime apart. One day drying dishes in the kitchen, the Lord stoodmightily in the midst of my father’s entire presence in an incredible‘LIGHT’. In that instant, he just knew …. and not to worry aboutanything!

At this time the Lord revealed that Mandus was to have no concernabout money and that Divine abundance would be supplied. In notime at all he was led to a dear lady who could no longer run herprivate hotel business in Blackpool. She had always wanted a Sanc-tuary of Prayer and so offered my father two lovely and very ade-quate rooms.

Outside for all the passing holidaymakers to note, and firmly plantedin the front garden, was a big sign reading –

‘DIVINE HEALINGBROTHER MANDUS

FREE’

The first person was arthritic. They sat together in prayer and myFather shared with me that he had no idea whatsoever what to say

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to her. She received an instantaneous healing!

The rest of the spiritual evolvement of this wonderful Ministry isintimately and beautifully shared by my father himself in the booklet,‘HOW GOD CALLED ME!’.

How to be Healed of Anxiety

YOU may say you are anxious. Anxiety is your lack of confidencein Me and in yourself. When you are anxious, you are at themercy of problems which you believe to be too big for you tosolve efficiently.

Every problem has a treasure, its true solution. Every problemyields its jewel as you work with Me.

A host of problems is a great treasure indeed when we deal withthem together; but a host of unsolved problems, difficulties inwhich you believe because they remained with you, cause youanxiety.

Eliminate your anxiety by dealing with every new problem as itarises, by working with Me and simply by doing your best.

In the course of our work together, Divine answers will resolve allpast problems too. CONRAD

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Perfect HarmonyDr. Timothy O’Higgins

In Christ we are united, at home in the Real Presence. However, our humanexperience lacks this peaceful resonance and accord. We experience lifethrough many layers of consciousness and identify with many roles throughour lives.

Many have died identifying with the righteousness of the causes with whichthey are attuned, devaluing those whose vibrations they find dissonant.Many have killed to honour the roles they have chosen and ideologies theyhave espoused, demonising and annihilating those who follow alternateworldviews. The Lord Our God is One, Unity in diversity, expressing inmyriads of Lights. You are one. So is everyone else. Let your light shine,and let others lights shine too.

Distortions in our minds show up as conflicts in our relationships. Our outerworld mirrors our inner world. What is projected outwards is a reflection ofthe inner projector, our consciousness. That is why it is so important tofollow the directive of the beatitudes “Love your enemies, do good to thosewho hate you, pray for those who persecute you”. Thereby evil of negativitywill not find ground in you.

The Adamic mind creates a world of thought forms, a network of veilsthrough which it perceives and experiences life. This network resonateswith other thought forms (ideologies) at the same frequency in a matrix oflove and hate and categorises others as righteous or wicked. The egoic mindis self-validating and self-perpetuating.

We must awake to the arrogance of our ignorance and realise the evil wecommit in our name. This process starts with self-forgiveness. We mustforgive ourselves for adhering to our own understanding. We must also freeourselves from the networks of our religions and our countries, and ourfamilial, racial, sexual and political prejudices. Shared distortions reinforceindividual ego distortions and perpetuate discrimination, violence and hu-man atrocities. Our ego states are like a cold glacial void that keeps us fromloving and shields us from receiving Divine guidance. In the fellowship ofthe Holy Spirit, all are welcome, all are equally valued, all are worthy.

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Forgiveness has nothing to do with the other, it is ourselves we free us from ourcognitive distortions. It melts our frozen hearts. The things that appear to behappening to us are actually happening through us. As we cleanse the corridorsof our minds we see clearly and know even as we are known. We come toknow that I am in the Father and the Father is in me and I and my enemy areaspects of the one divine body of Christ, part of the Divine Love expressing asthe all in all.

The disharmony of conflict is a manifestation of a lack of inner peace. It isimportant to be aware that when we do not want to forgive another we chooseto memorialise strive and disharmony. This is the root of war. We need tochange our resonance. We need to raise our spiritual frequency and attune ourconsciousness to Christ-consciousness. To bring peace to our outer world letus make peace with our inner world.

I release _____who I hate, to the Holy Spirit that we both may be free.

I release_____ political party and leaders I detest, to the Holy Spirit so we allmay be free.

I release _____country which I loathe, to the Holy Spirit, that we may be inharmony.

I release_____religious belief system which I despise, to the power of the HolySpirit, that we all may know the truth, beyond our understanding.

Enlightenment comes when I see everyone as my brother and sister, accept theperfection of every moment, give thanks in everything and give safe passage toall who enter my consciousness. We have eternity to get there. Be gentle withyourself and with all.

PEACE BE WITH YOU THIS SEASON

PEACE BE IN ALL, THIS NEW YEAR

BE A CHANNEL OF PEACE

BE PEACEFUL

BE

PERFECT

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The Three Wise WomenYou do know what would have happened if ithad been three wise WOMEN instead of men,don't you? They would have asked for direc-tions, arrived on time, helped deliver the baby,cleaned the stable, made a casserole, andbrought disposable nappies as gifts!

Save Me

There was a preacher who fell in the ocean and he couldn'tswim. When a boat came by, the captain yelled, "Do you needhelp, sir?" The preacher calmly said "No, God will save me." Alittle later, another boat came by and a fisherman asked, "Hey,do you need help?" The preacher replied again, "No, God willsave me." Eventually the preacher drowned & went to heaven.The preacher asked God, "Why didn't you save me?" Godreplied, "Fool, I sent you two boats!"

Best Way to PrayA priest, a minister and a guru sat discussing the bestpositions for prayer, while a telephone repairmanworked nearby. "Kneeling is definitely the best way topray," the priest said. "No," said the minister. "I get thebest results standing with my hands outstretched toHeaven." "You're both wrong," the guru said. "The mosteffective prayer position is lying down on the floor." Therepairman could contain himself no longer. "Hey, fel-las," he interrupted. "The best prayin' I ever did waswhen I was hangin' upside down from a telephone pole."

The Shortest Will Ever WrittenBecause I was of sound mind I spent all my money!

The Pastor came to visit the other day. He said that at myadvanced age I should be thinking of the hereafter. I told him,"Oh, I do it all the time. No matter where I am - in the livingroom, upstairs, in the kitchen, or down in the basement, I amalways asking myself: ‘Now, what am I here after?’"

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Food for ThoughtDr. Timothy O’Higgins

The holiday period can be a time of stress and sleep difficulties. Thefollowing suggestions may be of help to you.

1. Take the phone, computers etc. out of the bedroom. This is consid-ered the most important thing you can do to help you sleep.

The blue light on the phone disturbs our circadian rhythm, theactivities on the phone (dings, pings), emails, social media appsarouse the brain and prevent the relaxation necessary for qualitysleep.

2. Waking up in the middle of the night?

Watch your blood sugar. Reduce your sugar intake. Try a spoonful ofalmond butter or coconut oil at bedtime and another if you awake dur-ing the night.

3. Monitor your caffeine intake.

Although most of us know caffeine contributes to sleep difficulties wemay be fooling ourselves by minimising its effects. One or two cupsof caffeinated drinks is OK for most of us but if you have sleepproblems reduce your intake.

4. Try going to bed earlier.

People who go to sleep earlier, sleep better. The body likes to besynchronised with the sun and the moon. This prevents your bodygetting overtired and releasing the stress hormone “cortisol” whichfurther disturbs sleep.

5. Check the light.

Light is the major cue to our sleep wake cycle. TV screens, lightsfrom technology, street lights or other sources of light in the bed-

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6. Alcohol.

Alcohol may make it easier to fall asleep but it decreases sleepquality and makes it more difficult to sleep throughout the night.

7. Wind down.

Give yourself time to prepare for bed by reducing the amount ofstimulation you expose yourself to, TV, social media, computeractivities prevent you from proper sleep preparation. Slow down,shut down. Sleep well.

8. Melatonin.

Many people report significant benefits from taking the hormoneMelatonin. It has been used for many years for jet lag. It helps toregulate stress hormones, improves mood and helps with weightmanagement and body temperature. Melatonin is most abundantwhen we are in total darkness and exposure to light decreases therelease of melatonin at night.

9. Magnesium.

Has been used extensively to relax the mind and muscles. It contrib-utes to blood pressure and blood glucose regulation.

10. Magnolia Bark.

Research has found that taking this herb can help to reduce the timeit takes to fall asleep and to increase the amount of REM sleep(rapid-eye-movement sleep) and non-rem sleep, which both contrib-uted to restful sleep. This herb also reduces the stress hormoneadrenaline, thereby helping you to relax as you fall asleep.

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What is PersonalityBrother Mandus

Who knows all the mysteries and potentials of life?

One can only dimly observe and assess some of its processes.

What is personality? I conceive that we arrive on this earth as babies,with life, a relatively blank mind, and a body in which this consciousnessis centred.

Through the creative processes of God, shared through our parents, wecarry with us something of their nature and, indeed, some of theessences of all our forebears. There are inherited traits of character andpersonality, which one can often quite easily perceive.

So this must form some basic part of our being. From then on, asbabies, children and teenagers we absorb this knowledge, attitudes,customs and react to our environment. All this becomes part of ourpersonality.

But we also exist as a free-will consciousness in our own right, andtherefore evoke a constant stream of thought into the total pattern ofindividual personality. How often, for example, do we find someone whohas transcended a terrible environment and become a wonderful person!

We are really the products, now, as a person, of all our thoughts,attitudes, reactions and emotions since the day we were born. Plusthose factors we have inherited.

Clearly, we were not pre-destined to a particular pattern because we areconstantly changing and evolving our minds and, therefore, our person-ality.

True, the general pattern of life, and our eternal nature, is pre-destined.But we do have free-will, within the overall structure, to mould, evolveand express as we choose.

That is why we can change our personalities to an enormous degreeand often, when infused with the vision of spiritual truths, become atransformed person.

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Will You Support Us Please?

This is a draft wording of a simple will:

“I GIVE AND BEQUEATH (state what…..) to the Trustees forthe time being of the World Healing Centre (WHC) of 476Lytham Road, Blackpool, Lancashire FY4 1JF, United Kingdom(being Charity No. 1170377 registered under the Charities Act)to be applied for the general purposes of the WHC AND IDECLARE that the receipt of the Treasurer when this legacy ispaid, or the then proper officer for the WHC, shall be a completedischarge to my Trustee(s) for the legacy to the WHC.”

This a wonderful way to maintain our spiritual outreach to humanity. We are grateful to you for your kindness and support.

I believe we are all involved in this extension of our spiritual, mental andemotional nature. We are destined to evolve, as quickly as we may,those qualities of mind and personality, which allow the Mind that is inChrist to be freely expressed in thought and action.

There is, inevitably, a divine purpose in our creation and a divineobjective gifted to us, which evolves to fulfilment as we learn to live by,and become obedient to, the divine laws, which secure it. We becomenew creatures in Christ.

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CONCERNING BALANCEConrad

Much is expounded, let alone experienced, about the natureof imbalance and rightly so. After all every imbalanced statein the universe of galaxies and stars is corrected. Perhapsall movement itself is concerning imbalanced energies be-coming balanced states. The state of absolute balancedenergy surely is the total Perfection of God, and is thedestiny of the Universe and of every soul whose very envi-ronment is the spiritual and material cosmos.

Certainly our intrinsic nature is to be progressively aware ofthe energies of life moving us into the Perfection from whichwe emerged enabling us to experience understand and in-herit the very Heavens and every delight of our Creator.

We are the Sons and Daughters of God forever. We quickenour awareness of every Divine Perfection, of every balancedstate, as we live this utterly wondrous reality.

Pray to be totally united, each of us with all others, until weshare Perfection. Every thought and act expressing thisprayer stands a very good chance indeed of being in harmo-ny with all which God decrees to be, and of having God’ssupport. Having such access to our Father Mother Godmeans we cannot fail. Deserve and enjoy this assurance!

We give ourselves to Perfection with body mind and soul.We resolve every conflict. We prevent all wars. We alwaysaddress any imbalanced state until balanced Perfectionreigns.

Divine Healing must be proven! We show how we are takenforward by the ONE Spirit.

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Words

I have words for everyoneI have words for no one,They come, They go,I try, them, to slow.Sometimes, in my mind, I succeed.Sometimes they’re on super-fast wind.

Words, they say a lot.But yet now are overusedAnd say nothing at all.They heal, they hurt.Can make you feel like dirt.

Some words are liesYou can hear it in the speakers eyes, yetThey insist.

Anxiety - the wordI’ve heard that the most, I think - HaHa.No more?

Sensitivity I shall term it now.Connection and positive flow.A whole new way of speaking, connecting now.But not all are ready.

They will be, but how?Trust - Faith - Plodding on.The language of light.Come on in and shine on!!! Alison Hodson

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YOUR WEEK WITH THE FATHERBrother Mandus

Monday: Thank you Father, I am an individual with free-will consciousness and the sacred right to choose for myselfmy course of conduct without interference or trespass fromothers. Thank You Lord for my responsibilities which nowI cherish.

Tuesday: Thank you Father, For all which is comprisingmy experience my gratitude soars. Father, I move withYour Spirit, not only for myself, but for all others whom Ihave the great privilege of meeting.

Wednesday: Thank you Father, I come to You as a littlechild, just to be still in Your Presence. I am now in ThySpirit, and in Thy Mind, and it is You Who are doing allthings necessary in my life to make it perfect in Thy sight.I rest in Thee. I abide in Thee. I continue in all myactivities knowing that Thy peace enfolds me in everythingI seek to do. I recognise Thy Spirit at work in every aspectof being.

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Thursday: Thank You Father, For healing my soul, mindand body. I accept Thy gracious gift of Love, and know myonly need is to become Love in Thee. I turn away from self,and go forth to serve and help with prayer, love and joyeveryone with whom I come into contact.

Friday: Thank You Father, That I am content this day inThy Peace. Thank You, my Lord, that I realise the LivingTruth that sets me free. Thank You Father, that all that I askis granted unto me, and I thankfully accept Perfect Every-thing according to Thy Will and knowledge of every cir-cumstance.

Saturday: Thank You Father That I am healed of self, andknow that the Spirit of Love now moulds my life into theimage and likeness of Christ. Thank You, Father, forPerfect Everything, through Jesus Christ Our Lord.

Sunday: Thank You Father, I eagerly and gladly embracethe truth of Thy living Spirit with me. I surrender self to theprinciple of Divine Love. I give myself and expend myselfin Thy service. I shall seek every opportunity to advanceThy work. I shall be glad, pray, love, and give, that I maylive in Christ. Thank You Father, for Perfect Everything.

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Good Things Happen When YouNeed Them The Most!

Hello Brothers and Sisters, My name isLouisa and I have been working at theWorld Healing Centre since the begin-ning of the year. I have spoken to manyof you over the phone and have repliedto many of your wonderful letters.

I would like to introduce myself by tellingyou a bit about my Spiritual Awakening story and how it changed my life.

After many years of struggling with my emotional and physical health Ibegan to lose hope of ever living a 'normal' life again. At my lowestpoint, when darkness ruled my life, I was blessed by Spirit and taken ona beautiful journey to heal and grow into the person I always wanted tobe.

My story begins one dark and cold evening about 4 years ago. On thisday I had been especially tired and was worried about my deterioratinghealth. I was in quite a lot of pain and felt a sense of despair. As I mademy way to my car through the busy streets I wondered how I would carryon. My mind was jumping from one worry to the next and I felt very low.As I glanced up from the ground to check my route I saw a man walkingtowards me. He was middle-aged and looked scruffy and dirty. Hestopped dead in front of me, smiled and said "I have something to tellyou". I was surprised but I smiled back and asked him what it was. Helooked into my eyes and said "GOOD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOUNEED THEM THE MOST". Although I found this strange I thanked himbut he then stated "I want you to say it". So, I stated "GOOD THINGSHAPPEN WHEN YOU NEED THEM THE MOST". He then told meto remember it, smiled again, said good-bye and walked away backalong the busy pavement. I was inspired by these words and thisaffirmation was to give me strength in the following times.

Work continued to be stressful and became more difficult as my bodybecame weaker, manifesting the build-up of stress it had endured for somany years. I eventually had to give up work as my body created anauto-immune disease. Deep inside of me, however, I had a strong

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knowing that everything was going to be alright and this pushed meforward.

I became housebound, forced to be in my own company. Without theusual distractions, I was faced with my past issues as they started toincreasingly prod my awareness. I realised that I had tucked away somuch sadness and grief with the hope of never seeing them again.However as these thoughts and emotions pricked my conscience Ichanged a habit of a life-time and dealt with them head on. Thenegative emotions flowed out of my body as I brought these experienc-es to the surface. I looked at everything from every angle and withoutjudgment. I began to reflect and I began see the light in my life. Irealised that I had experienced these lessons to assist me to grow andto help others. "What have I learnt from this?", I would ask myself overand over again and subsequently I was shown a very different picturethan the one I had hidden away.

I practised meditation to assist with expanding my self-awareness. Ieventually learnt to still my chaotic mind by listening to what it was tellingme. Prayer became my regular communication and my connection toGod blossomed.

I realised that my empathic nature had caused me so many problemsas I took on the troubles and problems of many disadvantaged, troubledand vulnerable people. I wanted to help everyone but continuallydeprived myself of my own basic needs, the self-love I so desperatelyneeded.

Alongside this, my own life had been paved with traumatic experienceswhich I had filed away in the "DO NOT OPEN" box. Although I hadportrayed a strong and resilient individual to the watching World, insideI was broken, weakened by past emotional experiences, which hadgone on to create many negative and limiting beliefs within me.

So, I processed my life, flushed my past with love and forgiveness andfinally let go of all the negative emotions of anger, shame, guilt andregret I held for many years. The compassion grew inside me for allthose who I had perceived had done me wrong including myself! Iunderstood that their lessons were yet to be learnt and this was their

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responsibility not mine.

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no for-giveness without love.” Bryant H. McGill

I also let go of the fear that stopped me moving forward and allowed meto procrastinate about everything I wanted to do. In conjunction with thisnew freedom I felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude for everythingthat I had learnt and that it was all for a reason ... my soul's spiritualgrowth.

My past no longer controls my future!

I have come to realise that God has given us all free will choice in everymoment and that is the only control we have. As such, I am nowconcentrating on myself and taking full responsibility for the choices Ihave made and those I make from now on. That is all we are requiredto do. We have to be the best version of ourselves in every moment andstep forward with wisdom, grace, humility and without fear. In turn thisbecomes our reality.

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot changethe circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you canchange yourself. That is something you have charge of.”Jim Rohn

I am now connected to Spirit which has set me on a new and excitingpath of personal development and the expansion of my spiritual self. Ifeel creative and have found enjoyment and passion in my life.

Along the way I have beenblessed with signs from heav-en, confirming and clarifyingthat I am moving in the rightdirection. I have met and con-tinue to meet wonderful andinspiring new people. I havealso been given some wonder-ful opportunities which I am tru-ly grateful for.

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I am now healthy and genuinely happy. I am guided by Spirit and duringmy transformation I have created a Workshop, Book and Website toassist others to empower themselves to create a loving, compassionate,peaceful, fulfilled and joyful future for themselves and everyone else.

I am blessed once more by finding my way to Anne and the WorldHealing Centre.

All my love to you all and I hope you have a peaceful, happy and healthyAutumn and Winter 2018/19.

AND DON’T FORGET, GOOD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU NEEDTHEM THE MOST.

What do snowmen eat for lunch? Iceburgers!

Why are Christmas trees so bad at sewing? They always drop their needles!

What happened to the thief who stole a Christmas AdventCalendar? He got 25 days!

What is a skunk’s favourite Christmas song? Jingle smells!

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A Present For The Christmas Tree

“Oh, what wonderful Christmas hats! Let’s play at beingKings with them. They look like crowns,” said Jenny.

With glee, Jenny’s brother Bob and sister Sue agreed.

“I am King Harry and I command you not to quarrel, becausetomorrow is Christmas Day.”

Sue told the others that she was just a King.

“Guess who I am, “ said Jenny. “I am one of the wise Kingswho went to see Jesus when He was born.”

“Gosh! Good idea!” exclaimed Bob. “We will be the othertwo wise Kings. What should we do?”

“Well, we can’t take presents to Jesus. But maybe He would like us to takepresents to someone who really needs them,” said Sue thoughtfully.

They put their crowned heads together and thought and thought, but couldn’t thinkof anybody, nor did they know of any new babies to whom they could take presents.

“I know, I know,” shouted Sue. “Christmas trees!”

Bob and Jenny gazed at the Christmas tree in the corner of the room.

“Everyone puts presents under Christmas trees, silly” said Bob.

“No, I don’t mean that. I mean how about thanking all the Christmas trees forgiving us a happy Christmas. We could go to the wood where we play and laypresents in front of the giant Christmas tree we found last time.”

It was a great idea – who had ever thought of given presents to a Christmas treebefore?

After quite a lot of thought, the three “pretend” Kings – Jenny, Sue and Bob chosepresents of food to take to the big fir tree.

Jenny took three rosy apples from the sideboard. Sue had a big bar of chocolatewhich she had bought with her own pocket money. Bob went to the kitchen andtook twelve slices of bread, he even put butter on them. Then off they all went tothe wood.

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But as they went into the wood a little boy saw them. The boy was unhappybecause his family didn’t have enough to eat. Can you imagine what he felt likewhen he saw the children carrying food into the wood and wearing Christmas hats?He couldn’t help following them, though he made sure that they didn’t see him.

Soon the children found the giant Christmas tree. What a lovely perfume the firtree had, and how beautiful and how quiet it was!

“We are three Kings,” Bob said to the Christmas tree. “Thank you very much forour Christmas tree at home, and for all the Christmas trees everywhere.”

Then Jenny and Sue said thank you and they gave the tree a kiss.

After that the children laid their presents in front of the tree,whispered goodbye and ran all the way home. And the little boywho had seen everything, ran all the way home.

Now if Jenny, Sue and Bob had stayed behind in the woods, they would have seena little boy and his sister talking to the old Christmas tree.

“Thank you for a nice Christmas,” they said. “Please enjoy our Christmas cracker,it’s all that we have got, and thank you for letting us have the apples, bread andchocolate to give to Mum and Dad.”

The next day was Christmas and when Jenny, Sue and Bob had finished playingwith their presents, they ran back to see the giant Christmas tree.

My goodness how thrilled and how surprised they were to see that the apples,bread and chocolate had gone, and to find a lovely Christmas cracker instead.

“Let’s pull it,” whispered Bob.

The two girls pulled the cracker, and out fell a tin whistle and also a piece of whitepaper.

“Read the joke on it,” said Sue quietly.

Jenny picked up the piece of paper.

“Oh! It’s not a joke, it is beautiful. Itsays … ‘A happy happy Christmas toYou. Thank you for being so kind. Ilove you.’”

Isn’t that wonderful?

By Brother Conrad

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Children’s Corner

COMPETITIONFor the first time the World Healing Centre is launching a Chil-dren’s Competition. Our Magazine is circulated all over the Worldand we are looking for the cover picture for our Spring/Summer2019 edition.

We would like to see the beauty of the World froma child’s perspective!

Can you create the perfect picture for us?A group of local service users will judge the competition:

1st Place: Front Cover4 Runners Up: Published

All winners will receive a copy of Think Stories with Conrad1. Open to everyone up to 16 years of age2. A4 (210 mm x 297 mm) maximum size

3. Please provide your age, name and address and send yourartwork to World Healing Centre, 476 Lytham Road, Blackpool,FY4 1JF or email to anne@whc.uk.net

4. All entries to be received by: 28 February 2019Thank you and we look forward to receiving

lots of inspiration!

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THE MYSTERY SCHOOLMartin Nathanael

Quietly consider this possibility. Each and every one of us is enrolled in adivine Mystery School. The tutor is Life, and the lessons are provided everyday. These lessons unfold within the field of our experience in diverse ways.

SUPPOSE that prior to your birth - at the core of your being - at the level ofyour deepest wisdom, you made certain decisions. And that these decisionsformed the blueprint for the lessons and experiences you needed in order tofulfil your destiny.

That is how you came to be born to the right parents, in the perfect time andplace. And from that time onwards, You - beyond the psyche - began creatingALL the events and people in your life to perfectly present you with thechallenges and lessons you most needed for this divine purpose. It means thatnothing happens by chance; it all has meaning. There are NO accidents.

And Why? Because the purpose of your life is to fully wake up to thefullness of your divine stature. This is what YOU truly want, whether or notyour egoic self has caught on to it! Your Teacher is your true Self, the sat-guru– calling you from within, the “voice crying in the wilderness” of your psyche,and appearing before you through the opportunities, challenges and trials ofeveryday life. Your life is a Mystery School, in which everything happens toyou by design. Every person who enters your life, every situation whetherjoyful or tragic, every challenge, is there for a specific reason. These lessonsare set before us in many ways:

1. THE CHALLENGES WE FACE

What are you currently facing in your life? Problems? Or challenges?Opportunities? Bad luck? Or Life pushing you onwards and upwards –gold tried in the fire!

Do we speak of events as happening TO us? Do we ever ask questions,such as

- “What can I learn from this experience?”- “What message is the universe delivering through this?”- “How can I turn this experience into one that is transformative?”

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Are we the VICTIM of things happening TO us?

Or do we take RESPONSIBILITY (the ability to respond) for thecircumstances in which we find ourselves?

2. THE NATURAL WORLD

The world around us reflects the exquisite glory of the divine reality; andso, not surprisingly, poets, prophets, mystics and seers, within everyculture imaginable, have spoken, written or sung of Nature’s great role inteaching us the mysteries of Life. Here are just three examples:

- “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes areclearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even Hiseternal power and Godhead . . .” (St Paul, Romans 1: 20)

- “And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees,books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good ineverything. I would not change it.”

(William Shakespeare, As You Like It)

- "The visible world is a manifestation of the inward spiritual World,and it is an image or figure of eternity, whereby eternity has madeitself visible." (Jacob Boehme, The Supersentual Life)

What can we learn from the growth of plants, the cycle of the seasons, theproperties of herbs, the unique skills of insects, birds and animals?

In a wonderful ancient Indian epic, Srimad Bhagavatam, we find thestory of The Man Who Had Twenty-Four Gurus! There is only space forpart of this teaching, so here are three of the gurus (teachers) he acknowl-edges:

Earth: “People plough, dig and tread the earth. They light fires on it.Still, the earth does not swerve from its course even by a hair’s breadth.On the other hand, it feeds and houses all creatures. Seeing this, I learnedthat the wise one should never swerve from his vow of patience, love andrighteousness under any circumstances and one should dedicate his lifefor the welfare of living beings. The earth along with its mountains andrivers is my first guru.”

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Sun: “My fifth guru is the sun. Though the sun we see in our daily lifeis one, it appears as many when reflected by water in different vessels.Similarly, the one real Self manifests itself as many selves of livingcreatures when reflected by their physical structures.”

Moth: “I often observed that the moth is tempted by fire to jump into itand get burnt down. So too, the unthinking man is enticed by the illusorypleasures of the senses and thus gets caught in the ceaseless cycles ofbirth and death. On the other hand, the wise one, when he catches evena glimpse of the fire of wisdom, leaves everything aside, leaps in it andburns down the illusion of being a limited self. Thus the moth was myninth guru.”

3. THE PEOPLE IN OUR LIVES

What do we see when we look at one another? Or anyone, for that matter?

There is an understanding in the wisdom of certain spiritual and philo-sophical traditions that the person in front of you – at any time, under anycircumstance – is your Teacher. The Course in Miracles goes evenfurther, and states that anyone who is making life uncomfortable for youis your “saviour”!

It means your children are your teachers, your nuisance neighbour is yourteacher; your patients, your students, your clients, the bus-driver, thecleaner, the passing stranger – are your teachers. The people you love,and the people you hate – they are all your teachers. Through ournecessary daily interaction with people, we are invited to shrug offout-dated limitations, and embrace the finer attributes of our being:

- We resolve our self-esteem issues- We learn to stop “holding on” (non-attachment)- We learn to let go of grievances- We acquire the courage to be truthful, whether others like it or not- We learn to give up kidding ourselves- etc, etc, etc

LIFE being a divine Mystery School also means that the reverse is also true.Not only is everything and everyone our teacher; whether consciously orunconsciously, we also fulfil the role of teacher to those who experience ourpresence.

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A Different View of ChristmasExcerpt from A Course in Miracles Chapter 15

The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in darkness.See it not outside yourself, but shining in the Heaven withinAnd accept it as the sign the time of Christ has come.He comes demanding nothing.No sacrifice of any kind, of anyone, is asked by HimIn His Presence the whole idea of sacrifice loses all meaningFor He is Host to God, and you need but invite Him in who is thereAlready. (T-15.IX.1)

Let no despair darken the joy of Christmas,for the time of Christ is meaningless apart from joy.

Let us join in celebrating peace by demanding no sacrifice of anyone,For you offer me the love I offer you.

What can be more joyful than to perceive we are deprived of nothing?Such is the message of the time of Christ, which I give to you

That you may give it and return it to the Father, who gave it to me.For the time of Christ communication is restored and he joins us

In the celebration of His Son’s creation. (T-15.Xl.8)

This is the time in which a new year is soonbe born from the time of Christ.I have perfect faith in you to do all that you would accomplish.Nothing will be lacking, and you will make complete and not destroy.Say then to your brotherI give you to the Holy Spirit as part of myself. I know that you will bereleased,Unless I want to use you to imprison myself. In the name of my freedomI choose your release, because I recognise that we will be releasedTogether. (T-15, Xl.10)

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