This is a sample chapter from Owen Waters
latest e-book, "Freedom of the Spirit:
Four Powerful Steps to Spiritual Freedom."


A Light in the Darkness

The 1920's, the Roaring Twenties, ushered in the technologies
of radio entertainment and movies with sound tracks. Before
that, 'the movies' had been silent moving picture dramas with
subtitles. Now, with the addition of sound, they became 'the
talkies.'

The new media of radio, as well as the newsreels that played
before each movie, began providing people with new sources of
information and entertainment. Henry Ford's mass production of
motor cars was creating a demand for the dirt roads of the day
to be hard-covered with tarmac. Progressive towns began
boasting that, as well as a hard-covered main street, they also
had a traffic light!

Television was still twenty years into the future, but the
telephone was becoming a fashion statement, especially when its
use was demonstrated by glamorous starlets in the movies. With
the separate earpiece held up to one ear, they would loudly and
clearly intone the magic words, "Hello, calling long distance!"
in order to be connected with their intended party through a
relay of human telephone operators. In the movies, if not in
real life, they always succeeded in getting through on the
first attempt.

Meanwhile, the young adults of the day, such as the
fashionable flappers, showed their newfound freedom from
tradition by dancing to the Jazz music that reflected their
sense of lightness and fun.

By 1931, however, storm clouds were gathering over American
society. On the one hand, construction of the Empire State
building in New York City, the tallest building in the world to
date, had just been completed. On the other hand, the economy
was being dragged relentlessly down into the depths of the
Great Depression. Bank failures were snowballing at a
frightening pace as the economy collapsed inward upon itself,
leading to unemployment rates in excess of 25%.

People became deeply insecure and were desperately searching
for answers. Angry mobs began to listen to even angrier
speakers, who sought political scapegoats to blame for their
woes. Others, meanwhile, turned in the opposite direction,
seeking solace from God.

It was into this economic and social darkness that Emmet Fox
(1886-1951) began speaking in the United States about a
technique that he called The Golden Key to harmony and
happiness.

Emmet Fox was a New Thought author who proclaimed that the
Golden Key technique would get you, or anyone else, out of any
difficulty. The technique was simplicity itself:

Stop thinking about the difficulty and, instead, think about
God.

To achieve this, people were told to make a mental list of
everything that they knew about God and to repeat those
sentences in their heads until their attention had shifted
entirely away from the difficulty and onto a focus upon God.
They would repeat lists of statements, such as: God is
omnipotent; God is love; God knows all; I am a child of God;
God is present everywhere; God is truth; God is with me now;
and so on.

Then, the person had to put the difficulty out of their mind
until the next time that they saw fit to use the technique.
Some difficulties were harder than others to resolve and
required several Golden Key sessions.

From extensive experience, Emmet Fox knew, without a doubt,
that if the Golden Key technique were done correctly, it would
work every time. The problem was, back in those days, no one
really understood exactly why it worked!

After all, people asked, how can you solve a problem by
turning your back on it and thinking about something else? And,
they wondered, why would it only work if you raised your
consciousness high enough? Couldn't God fix the problem
regardless of how high you reached in your spiritual awareness?
These were just some of the unanswered questions surrounding
the mystery of the powerful and effective Golden Key technique.

Now, fast-forward to our current time period, and we find that
the answers to such mysteries have become available. Better
yet, we also have the knowledge and resources to greatly
improve upon this original idea. The main lesson learned from
this technique was this:

When you enter a higher state of consciousness, life's
challenges become transformed.

Problems become solved, almost as if by magic. Upon closer
examination, you see that there are two ways that this magic
happens.

1. Problem situations are energetically healed by the higher
consciousness, or;

2. Solutions are seen and these solutions are energetically
created in the superconscious mind. As you will see later, one
of the functions of the superconscious mind or soul is to
create new realities as intentional energy fields which will
then unfold and manifest in your physical life.

Later, we will be discussing ways of reaching higher
consciousness which are particularly effective, especially in
today's level of human awareness, which is far in advance of
the general spiritual awareness of the 1930's.

First, let's examine why our spiritual possibilities are so
much greater today...

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