The Aunt Jemimah Post

Delores L Adams, Founder and Chief Editor of The Aunt Jemimah Post

My story: As a young woman first entering the business world, I was blessed with good health, a great sense of style, good friends, a good employer that actually cared about their employees and, most importantly, a love for Jesus the Christ since childhood. Yet, I was very unhappy. So, I changed jobs, eventually. A big mistake, where corporate interests mattered more than people and things got increasingly worse.

Unmarried with no loving husband to comfort me at day’s end, at times I just wanted to curl up and die. Yet, I was blessed with something more, though I did not realize it then. In my darkest hour when fleeting thoughts of suicide would come to mind, something always softly reminded me that I would only have to come back again!

Though not yet familiar with Karmic law, somehow I always knew exactly what that meant. So, with no usual way out, as drugs and alcohol was not an option (my mom taught us well), my only escape from severe depression were my dreams of a better life and a profound love of music and dance. And so, I continued through the ups and downs of my life and suffered dearly at times, but I did not give up or give in.

Self-Realization Fellowship

Once, while visiting my eldest brother, he introduces me to the world-renowned teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of Self Realization Fellowship (SRF) a church of all religions based on the ancient science of Yoga, which literally means union with God. No stranger to Yoga, I appreciated my brother’s story but did little else.

Soon, one day after passing a book rack in my grocery store, I am mysteriously urged to return and purchase a certain book titled, A World Beyond by Ruth Montgomery, c. 1971, then considered a rare account of life after death, now not so rare, by Arthur Ford who had recently passed on. He had been an eminent psychic of his time and a dear friend of the author. Ford was also a former student of Paramahansa Yogananda. A mere coincidence? Hardly.

Nonetheless, soon after reading this wonderful book, I visit the Hollywood Temple of SRF and have another amazing moment. In passing a SRF student monk after his evening lecture, I am awestruck and know instantly that this truly is a man of God. Soon, I would meet the very humble yet highly evolved senior monk of  SRF who was a direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, destined to be our pastor and spiritual counselor. A blessing indeed! There I would spend many fruitful years of learning before leaving the state.

Yet, my learning would continue, but in a different form. Though, I continued my spiritual studies and meditations, I was still having trouble when engaging the world. Tired of  being “blissed out” during meditation yet unhappy amid the negativity in the world, one day I cry out to God asking to be “happy all the time.”

A Course in Miracles

In effect, I was also saying, “there must be another way” as it was these words that actually brought forth a wonderful text into our world and eventually into my hands. Titled, A Course in Miracles (ACIM), c. 1975, I consider the Course a Westernized version of Jnana Yoga, which means union with God through discernment between the real and the unreal or between truth and illusions.

A self-study program, essentially the Course is about retraining our mind to focus on the truth instead of illusions, which we usually find very difficult initially. Of course, after becoming sick and tired of being sick and tired of acute unhappiness, we gladly learn to give up our thoughts and seek God’s Thoughts (the Truth) instead.

With practice, we can overcome the insanity in this world, a world that we have made, and live a happy and well-balanced life devoid of fear, guilt and anger that were mere illusions after all. For only love is real, says the Course.

Wanting to share my understanding of ACIM and SRF, some years ago, in a small Unity Church, I was ordained a minister of God and dedicated my life to the brotherhood of mankind. While not a preacher per se, I take this calling very seriously and consider my writings my ministry.

As to our focus here, I find that politics is more about our lives and our relationship with each other rather than the business of government as such. Thus, all able Americans must take our politics very seriously so as to ensure a better society for our self, our children and the world. After all, it is our duty as Americans and as citizens of the world.

Well, that’s my story. What’s your story?  Nonetheless, having been on the path to sustainable peace and happiness for nearly forty years now, I gladly share what I’ve learned and am still learning. Peace to all.

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