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Copyright © 1996 by Joanne Brandt
All rights reserved. Inquiries should be addressed to
Twelve Star Publishing, P.O. Box 123, Jefferson, MD 21755
John Randolph Price is an internationally known lecturer
and best-selling author of The Abundance Book, The Angels
Within Us, and Empowerment, books that combine the
ageless wisdom of East and West. His wife Jan just published The
Other Side of Death, about her near-death experience. Together
they teach annual Mystery Schools in lush earthly locations. This
husband-and-wife team are the inspiration for World Healing Day,
where millions of people around the world join in a simultaneous
global mind link.
Earthlight: At one time you were both quite successful in business.
How did you become teachers of metaphysics?
John Randolph Price: Well, let me begin at the beginning. I was
with an advertising and public relations agency in Chicago back
in the 1960's and one of my clients gave me The Success System
That Never Fails. I thought it was a book on how to sell life
insurance, and I put it in my bookcase and didn't read it.
About six months later it fell out. When I looked down, it was
open to a page that said, "What the mind can conceive and
believe, the mind can achieve." That resonated, so I picked
up the book and began to leaf through it. There were several mentions
of the teaching of Ancient Wisdom and current metaphysics. The
next day Jan went to the library and got all the books she could
find from the bibliography and brought them home.
Thus we began our search.
As we read this material we wondered if what was being taught
back in those ancient Mystery Schools was still being observed
today. We tracked the knowledge all through the secret societies,
up to the modern times, with the Transcendental Movement and Ralph
Waldo Emerson, and into the present time, with the New Thought
Movement. We realized that this was a golden thread that extended
from 5,000 years ago in ancient Egypt all the way to the present.
That's when we really got excited. By then we had discovered there
were things out there called New Thought Churches, where they
were teaching this knowledge. We were saying: If this has gone
on for so long, and it's being taught now, has anyone out there
"got it"?
We began to do the research which led to our first book, The
Super Beings. I contacted a number of people in the New Thought
movement and asked if there were people who had their acts completely
together, where they had complete financial abundance, perfect
relationships, ideal health, and everything in life to the ultimate.
We found one, and then another one, and then another one. Once
we finished that book, we were guided to stop all commercial operations
and step out into this new world of research and communications.
That's when the Quartus Foundation was formed, to continue the
research into the ancient wisdom.
EL: I was surprised how old some of the ideas are. Like creative
visualization. I thought perhaps Shakti Gawain invented that.
(Everyone laughs.)
JRP: It's amazing, when you read in the Manley P. Hall books where
he researched very carefully the old Mystery Schools, they were
using the techniques that today we consider modern metaphysics.
The use of affirmations, visualization, discipline in your work,
journaling, meditation.
It all comes around in cycles, and what we're having now is that
continuity. We get letters from all over the world and people
are being lifted up into a higher frequency of consciousness.
The "movement" is like a tidal wave.
EL: So the spiritual and material worlds are moving closer together?
JRP: When Jan went across to the other side, she was told very
explicitly and in great detail that there is no difference between
the material and the spiritual. The Ancient Wisdom Teachings tell
us that materialism is simply spiritual life in the lower frequency.
Spiritual life is material life in the higher frequency, where
it becomes invisible. And she was told that this life we call
material is no less spiritual than what we call heaven.
Jan Price: We have to realize is that it's all the same stuff.
We're just experiencing it in a different energy. Everything that
is expressed is of that energy of All-That-Is. Therefore, on every
level, on every plane of existence, Spirit is expressing as whatever
form or experience. This particular plane of existence, this dense
physical world that we're in, is an adventure. What is that quote
that everyone's being credited with?
EL: "We're spiritual beings having a human experience."
JP: That's right. And I read the other day that that came from
de Chardin (Everyone laughs.) But it is truly that. My message
was to savor fully the physical experience. It is as sacred as
any other experience. And when we truly move into a greater manifestation
of our spirituality, we experience the fact that we're not a body.
We're a being that inhabits a physical body, just as people who
go out in space have to have a space suit. Spirit is expressing
right here on this plane in physical form, having a joyous adventure.
JRP: You know, the Ancient Wisdom Teachings talked about money
as an expression of the love of divinity. When you look at it
that way, it takes away its materialistic connotations. It becomes
simply an expression, a manifestation, to provide for the needs
we have while living in physical form.
To me materialism has been taken away by the physicists who say
there is no such thing as matter -- all of this is energy -- we
know that. Two, a materialist is a very greedy individual, who
has no thought of anyone but him or herself. They are manipulating
energy; they are manipulating people. Living the spiritual life
means you are relying upon that spirit of God-within-you to provide,
to manifest, to express through you all that is needed on the
journey through life.
EL: You often say, "My consciousness of God as my supply
is my supply." But seekers often think everything is spirit,
and miss the material boat.
JRP: We have to live in both worlds. I am sitting here on a stool,
in a physical body, but I know I am not that body. I know I am
a Light Being from another dimension. I am here on this plane
for a period of time in order to experience this and enjoy the
adventure of it. I know that my essence, that true nature of my
being, is the Absolute Perfection of everything in this world.
It is the provider and the provision of everything I could possibly
have.
But my work is to be aware of this, to understand it, to know
it, and to follow the guidance. We have to position ourselves
in this world in order to be at the right place at the right time
for the appropriate outpouring from whatever channel Spirit chooses.
If we just meditate all the time and wait for something to happen,
we're gonna be covered in cobwebs.
JP: Whatever our consciousness is, that's what's going to outpicture.
Those who don't tap into the true meaning of spirituality are
going to find out very quickly what their consciousness is, by
what is outpictured.
The second part of Empowerment is called "The Manifestation
Process". If you'll note, the very first statement in that
is "attunement" because if we're not in tune with that
spiritual nature, then all the other things are not going to work.
JRP: Step 1 in that 10-Step process is getting in tune with that
higher frequency, and once you are in that vibration, you choose,
and then you accept, and that sense of "have" registers,
and then you move through the other steps right through to manifestation.
EL: You have manifested World Healing Day. How did this inspiration
come to you?
JRP: It was September of 1983. We were flying back from leading
a workshop in Birmingham, Alabama. I was doing a meditation on
the plane and I heard the words, "It is time for world service."
Now it wasn't an audible voice; it was a little impression. I
thought, what in the world does that mean?
The next morning I went into meditation again and asked for guidance.
When I went to the typewriter, the first chapter of The Planetary
Commission book came forth. The guidance said that in 1987
there would be a critical mass in this world of darkness. We needed
to get as many people together as possible at one particular time
for a simultaneous global mind link. The date of December 31,
1986 was given to us. We choose 12:00 noon Greenwich time, because
we knew that that would encompass all time zones in the world
in one 24-hour period. (Ed. note: 6:00 a.m. EST)
On January 1, 1984 we announced the idea of a global mind link
-- World Healing Day.
From then until fall of '86 we criss-crossed the country. It was
a grass-roots movement. We asked for no contributions. All we
asked was that people tell people, to tell people, to tell people.
And they did.
Over 500 major organizations got behind it. The Human Unity Institute,
CA, took over the scorekeeping. In September of '86 we had 18
African nations signed up. The President of Sri Lanka went on
television weekly to announce World Healing Day. A woman from
Japan's World Peace Society personally came over bringing stacks
and stacks of names.
The media, of course, did not know anything about this. Then,
all of a sudden, right after Christmas, the papers were calling
every moment.
JP: What set it off was a full page ad in the New York Times for
a gathering at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The press
was calling and they were saying, "How did you pull this
off? How come we didn't know about it? How did you do it without
us?"
JRP: There were over 500 million participants from 77 countries
that first year. One year later, the President of the Stockholm
Peace Institute released a report saying that in 1987 there was
a break in the number of hostilities throughout the world. That
showed us that it was worthwhile.
We don't have the numbers for the second year; we stopped counting,
but someone said there had to be close to a billion people, or
1/5 of the planet coming together. The L.A. Times said it was
the largest participatory event in history.
EL: You sound justifiably pleased with the success of World Healing
Day. JP: We're in awe of it. It had its own energy and its out
there doing its thing.
JRP: We also know that there's so much more we can do. When Jan
was on the other side, she was shown the world in darkness, but
with the light coming through, the light growing, which meant
to her that this world is spiraling toward victory. We are moving
into the higher vibrations.
We feel that after the turn of the century the acceleration is
going to be even greater. We see the world moving into the light,
and we see people all over the world coming together, where religion
is not divisive, where there is plenty, where people understand
the meaning of supply and the principles involved. When enough
people understand, its going to tilt, and there's going to be
abundance for all.
JP: That reminds me of someone saying to John, "I'm not interested
in working for prosperity. I have everything I want." John
said to him, "What about the rest of the world? Would you
work for the prosperity of the rest of the world?" Let's
do that. Let's open the doors for everyone.
This is what World Healing Day is. Many people call it a peace
event, and certainly it is. Because when we have peace within,
we have peace without. But it's to heal everything, to heal all
the people in the world, whatever their malady may be.
For information about workshops conducted by John and Jan
Price, and their bi-monthly publication, The Quartus Report,
please contact The Quartus Foundation, P.O. Box 1768, Boerne,
Texas, 78006. For a catalog or to order their books and tapes,
call Hay House, 1-800-654-5126.
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