Prayer: A New Prayer Model

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A New Prayer Model

by William Bezanson

In my mind, prayer is done wrongly by the vast majority of people. Prayer is a mystical process, not an intellectual one. My prayer model, evolved from the Rosicrucian teachings, is one in which I visualize what I want (for example, to have a sick person healed) and then to release that image to God with total confidence that healing has already happened. Then, I listen for any intuitive urges that I may receive for actions that I should take. I repeat this process as often as seems necessary. Later, when I learn that the person was healed, I make an anonymous donation to a charity, a hospital or some appropriate organization as an expression of thanks to God for making it happen.

Such a prayer model has me doing the work, not God. God guides me in what work to do, but I do it. That work typically involves mystical healing, whereby my visualization is so strong that an alchemical process manifests it on earth. Other examples of doing such work, include my visiting or phoning a sick friend to encourage him, running some errands to assist them, applying therapeutic touch healing techniques, if I am so skilled, and so on.

This model of prayer must only be used for altruistic purposes, not selfish ones. It should also be used for serious matters, such as not for praying for a team to win its game or for you to win the lottery unless of course you plan to donate a significant part of your winnings to some appropriate cause.

The conventional method of prayer, in which the petitioner begs God to manifest some result or miracle, is ineffective because it is based on a mythology of God responding to prayer. Such myths may be comforting to some people, but such people are not thinking clearly. God is Nature – the sum total of physical and spiritual laws of nature. God is not a being that responds to petitions, but it is Nature: impersonal, impartial, and constant.

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