Discovering Eric Butterworth

Eric Butterworth writes: "Jesus was definitely the Son of God! But you, too, are the Son of God. I am the Son of God. All persons are Sons of God in various stages of expression. This is a very dramatic, very exciting, certainly very controversial subject, but a very important realization." This broadcast will explore Eric Butterworth's belief that the Divine nature of all people is the heart of Jesus' teaching.

Eric Butterworth declared that "the Spiritual Truth is that life is good and that all things-even the loss, the failure, the pain, the darkness, all things-are but the means of leading you to greater awareness that life is good. You simply have to open your eyes and perceive." Listen as Butterworth shares his deep faith in this Spiritual Truth.

Eric Butterworth observed "If you're fearful in a storm, or any crisis, the fear is caused not by the condition, but by your acceptance of the possibility that the condition can do harm to you." Listen as Butterworth explains how to release limiting fear.

Special guest, historian and biographer, Neal Vahle, joins Tom Thorpe to discuss his newly published biography of Eric Butterworth. Listen as Tom and Neal discuss significant events and influences in Eric Butterworth's life and work.

Eric Butterworth tells us: "There is a sense in which each of us is a living magnet, constantly drawing to himself or herself the things, the persons, and the circumstances that are in accord with the thoughts that predominate in mind." Listen as Butterworth explains how a change in consciousness really can lead to a change in circumstances.

Eric Butterworth explains: "The Great Law has been called 'The Law of Karma' by the ancient enlightened ones. Modern scientists would call it 'The Law of Cause and Effect,' 'The Law of Action and Reaction,' or 'The Law of Sequence and Consequence.'" Ralph Waldo Emerson called it "The Law of Compensation." Listen as Butterworth shares his insights into this universal law.

Eric Butterworth writes: "To many people, the 'Good Book' is the Bible, and the Bible is a vital and inspirational part of the lives of so many. But it is important to create your own 'Good Book,' to write your own list of positive realizations that come out of the inspiration of your heart." Listen as Eric shares his thoughts about HOW each of us can create our own book of positive thoughts and experiences.

Faith's Fulfillment, Eric Butterworth tells us, is discovering ourselves as part of God. Butterworth writes: "When we learn to be still and know that we are of God, we reach the highest spiritual altitude that man can attain." Listen as we explore the path to Faith's Fulfillment.

Unity, or what Eric Butterworth calls "the new insight in Truth," has been called the world's easiest religion because it imposes few requirements on its followers. One thing Unity DOES require is that each of us learn to think for ourselves. Listen as Eric Butterworth explores how people "work out their own salvation" through the power of thought.

Eric Butterworth challenges us: "No matter what the situation or the experience, no matter that you can recount all sorts of reasons for being discouraged and disappointed, straighten up, square your shoulders, hold your head up high, and smile, and let the Laughter of God ring out!" What is this "Laughter of God"? Listen and find out!

Host Tom Thorpe and his guests, graduating students from Unity's Spiritual Education and Enrichment Leadership Program, respond to Eric Butterworth's suggestions for moving through feelings of discouragement that sometimes get in the way of our spiritual progress.

In today's broadcast, part of our Lenten Disciplines for Personal Overcoming series, Eric Butterworth explains how feelings of guilt actually keep us from making positive changes in our lives. Butterworth offers a positive alternative to guilt.

As our Lenten Disciplines for Personal Overcoming series continues, Eric Butterworth explains how we can release fears and phobias by recognizing and then allowing ourselves to experience the Truth about them.

Today we begin a "how to" series of programs based on Eric Butterworth's Lenten Disciplines for Personal Overcoming. Our opening program explores a strategy for healing chronic negativity by establishing a lasting positive focus in consciousness.

Eric Butterworth remarked, "Whenever I am disturbed about world problems, or about people and situations near me, I know that I am dealing with a world of my own mind." The good news is that each of us is the executive director of our own thoughts. By our thinking we make the difference-positive or negative-in our life experience.