A Practical Approach to the Universal Principles The Spiritual I.V.

In numerous essays, classes and books I address what I call the spiritual I.V., the necessity of identifying and verifying the Universal Principles in our life experiences. In other words, the stress is on the personal conscious recognition from your own experiences as opposed to blindly accepting tradition or faith in what someone else says their experience has been.

This is a process initially in conscious recognition. I am not advocating any particular religion or even a particular path of enlightenment. I am talking about the first step of conscious observation that will eventually be taken over by the intuitive mind. It is a step toward the door to your path. If you can’t find or open the door, how are you going to determine a path?

Most of the Renford books in the first level of study at the Institute of Applied Metaphysics are designed to assist the reader in this process of identification and verification. The purpose is to key off in your mind an incident that can confirm for you a particular Universal Principle.

This is not just a plug for my books. I want you to understand the necessity for this approach to self-discovery and, therefore, some understanding of the Creative Force many call God. These first level books approach the process from different angles so that should you not be able to associate a Universal Law with your experience in one area – maybe you will be able to relate it to another part of your life.

In The House that Namuh Built you can find the story of one man’s process of self-discovery and each incident is an example for you to relate to your experiences. However, this is a modern day parable told in a simple story form that some may find difficult to relate to their own reality. For this reason I wrote The Rules of the Game.

Some people are not terribly interested in what Jesus, Buddha or Lao Tzu had to say but may be very interested in what Lou Holtz, Bear Bryant and Vince Lombardy had to say. This book is analogous to football and all the quotes come from sports figures. These philosopher coaches may or may not have been aware of the Universal Principle they were stating but their expression of that Law is unmistakable.

Others will not read anything unrelated to their business or money. For this reason I wrote The Laws of Material Wealth. This book is about the thinking that should occur before you go into business for yourself. I draw on my experience in raising capital for new businesses for illustrations of each Universal law.

For those who love poetry I revealed in 63 poems my process of evolution and unfoldment. In whatever manner and in whatever way I could I have sought to provide ways for you to relate to the Universal Laws. I have suggested to you what I have discovered but your dependence on my word about these Universal Laws if accepted on faith will be just as much a hindrance to your process as accepting what your preacher says without searching the scriptures to see if the things said are so.

The process, of necessity, must be yours and yours alone. It is your experiences you are studying in relation to the Universal Laws to help you consciously recognize this principle so that you can say, “I know this to be true because I have been there and done that.”

Once you have been able to relate each principle to an experience consciously it becomes second nature for you. You are not having to analyze everything that happens to you in relation to the Universal Laws. The intuitive mind takes over and the inner being recognizes what is going on as a natural process.

You will never get where you want to go with this if you sit down with a list of the Universal Laws and ask yourself, OK what has happened to me that typifies a particular Law. You can review four life experiences and determine which Universal Laws or combinations of Laws were in place.

You cannot use the Universal Laws like some tool or “how to” formula. You can learn to come into harmony with these Universal laws and thus benefit to the maximize from the harmony.

This process requires work on Self which I have found to be the most difficult work an individual can undertake. Most people would prefer to read a book, go to church or to a seminar and let someone tell them what they should do. Dome want to go to a service or group meeting and feel the energy without having to think, observe or in any manner work on one’s self. The actual process requires so much mental effort that without a group or a teacher available on demand you may simply set it aside as requiring too much thinking.

By using the Renford Books as your tool for the process of relating the Laws to your experiences the task becomes simply a procedure that automatically slots in an experience as being an illustration of a principle.

There is an added exercise that will facilitate your process. This exercise is also difficult because we are unaccustomed to self-observation. Once we actually start paying attention to what we are saying and doing we become more and more self-aware. You do not have to beat yourself up for being angry or saying something caustic. By virtue of the fact you are observing yourself you are aware of what you are doing. You will simply stop doing the negative which you recognize as harmful to your process. You may catch yourself responding negatively to some one because of what they said and may respond in kind but the fact that you recognize what you are doing is a major step in your process.