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This is Part X of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.
You are solely there as an instrument or as a mirror to reflect back to them some information that might be helpful to them. If they want to receive what you offer, fine. If they won’t want to receive it, that’s fine, too. But if you have as your intention that you want to make them well and want them to be better after the session, guess what, they will feel better, but you won’t. Your energy will have been used and drained.
So, as I do my work I have learned to not do it personally or to take it personally. I don’t care what a person thinks after a class or a session. My sole preparation and intention is to be connected at the heart level. That’s the only thing I care about.
If I speak from my heart, I have done my intention and my “job”. And that is all that matters. If I am concerned about how it went for you, then I really lose my energy to you. If I know that I am coming from my heart, then I have done my best and leave it at that; then I am OK.
For myself, when I started doing readings on a pay-for-basis around 20 years ago, I would literally spend an hour or so preparing before the reading, literally reading for the person without them here to make sure I had something to say when they got here. I did this because I felt that I had to make sure that they felt good when they left. And I would even give two hour readings for people simply to make sure they got enough. Doing this would totally exhaust me.
So, I finally stopped doing readings after a while because it was so darn draining. I finally had to “get”/understand this piece that I am sharing with you now. It is such that now I don’t care before a reading. [I’m not saying here that I do not care for the person. No, not at all, I do! What I don’t care about is listening to or paying any attention to my ego’s fears, insecurities and fantasies of omniscience.]
Actually, I don’t even prepare any more other than that I create a clear intention that I am going to, first, connect with “being present” and in a place of Embrace for myself and then once connected, speak what I feel and sense, unedited and not scripted by my mind.
In other words, I have learned to “speak before I think.” It has all been drummed into us that we must “think before we speak.” Yeah, but that does not get you anywhere in the world of intuition. In this work, you “speak before you think” because as you start to think you start to censor and alter what you are feeling and you get in your own way.
So, to get back to my main point, the essence of this work is Love based. Otherwise it isn’t worth very much. If you do it for ego purposes, it won’t work for you and, though it may serve others to a degree, it will only be to a small degree. All we are here to learn is how to best mirror back to another the good that is within them and to do it through the eyes and heart of our Souls.
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This is Part IX of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.
It became crystal clear to me at that point that “the sound of one hand clapping” is the sound/feeling of total oneness with the object of your attention. This is the sound of oneness, of “one hand clapping.” And this is what intuition is all about
It is about becoming one with the object of your attention. No longer is there a sense of separation or duality, but there is now “a becoming one with” and, therefore, a “knowing.” No, it is not with you mind that you know, but with your heart! Actually the etymology of the word intuition is “to see or go within,”
So when you want to read or connect for someone or with something, you become one with them/it. When you want to connect or be with yourself, you become one with your Self. No, not you ego or mind self, but your Higher or God/Goddess Self. It is from there that you really know. It is from there that real connection occurs. This is the place of the Embrace, of Love.
Otherwise you are caught up in an emotion we call love, but please understand that Love is not an emotion. It is a state of being. Love is not a dependent state of being. It is an independent state of being. Love is not attached state of being. It is a detached state of being. Love is a state of being that comes from the Heart and not from the head. It is a state of being that comes from the Soul and not from the ego.
What in heaven’s name is he talking about? One of the biggest problems people have when they are working with others in a healing capacity or even just in a relationship with another is something called co-dependency. What is he mumbling about here?
If you want to intuitively read another person, you really have to be very careful about what you are doing and how and why you are doing it. When you are with another individual either in a relationship, in a healing setting or in a reading setting, be it whether they are asking for your feedback or whether you are just “tuning in” in order to sense what is going on, regardless, you must be there for them as an objective mirror and nothing else. You are not there to be their authority.
As well, you are not there to prove or validate yourself, that is, to prove ,b>to yourself or to them that you can “read”--that is purely ego “stuff.” And if you are doing it for this reason, be assured that you will have your energies sapped.
Also you are not there to heal them. They have to choose to heal. So often, when we do this kind of work, we want to heal the person. We not only want to prove to them that we are good, but, also, that we are a gifted healer. That is all ego! Let go of this way of thinking; it will get you nowhere. It will only drain you!
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This is Part VIII of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.
But other things happened during this experience of the “Embrace.” I, also, made the determination and the clear intention at that time that this is what I am here not only to experience personally, but also to share with others. So, I made the resolve that that was what I would be doing with my life. So, as I said at the beginning of this class, “It is truly an honor and a privilege to have you here in this class. It is an honor and a privilege to have you here to share the possibility of the Embrace with you.”
So, the reason why I have shared this story with you is because I want to really give you a clear framework in this first class about what these classes are really about: and that is, that these classes are all about making that kind of a connection with the Embrace.
As I was saying at the beginning, if you want to connect for another, you need to be present with yourself. And to be present with yourself you must stand in this heart, in this Embrace, in this Love. If you want to “read” for someone, you read from a place of connection, of heart, of the Embrace.
I remember an experience when I was studying Shiatsu about 15 years ago. Shiatsu is the Oriental healing system where you apply acupressure to the acupuncture points with your fingers rather than with needles. When you do Shiatsu it is best, if you want to allow for the unimpeded flow of the energies, to always leave at least one hand on your client’s body during the entire treatment.
I remember one time when I was balancing a person’s energies; I was holding two different points on their body with each of my hands. Then all of a sudden I shifted energetically and made a really, really deep connection with the person. And the next thing I knew, it felt as if I just had one hand on the person and that he and I were one. As well, all was one in the room, all the people, all the objects, all was one. And then a voice drifted into my consciousness and said, “This is the sound of one hand clapping.” This phrase is the famous Zen koan: “What is the sound of one hand clapping?
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This is Part VII of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.
So, I kept looking for meaning. For me initially, meaning/purpose to me meant finding a cognitive understanding of what life is all about. But, wisely I looked in spiritual directions, too. I started meditating at 16 years of age. I looked into all kinds of “stuff.” And I kept looking and looking and looking and yet still never felt right or felt a connection with myself or with others; still always feeling odd, always odd. I never fit into anything.
And it was not until 20 years ago, when I was sitting in class, similar to this one, with one of my teachers, Philip Burley, when I “got it.” Jaime, my wife and I, would travel three hours one-way to get to these classes because it was the only place we could find anything like it.
We were attending regularly for a year or so and then one night during a session somewhat similar to this, all of a sudden, this profound “Embrace” came over me. It was visceral. I felt it throughout my whole body. I was shaking, vibrating. And it was electric. And it was so embracing and so unitive and so totally transformative. I felt totally accepted and at one with myself. In the middle of it I thought, “Eureka, this is it. This is what I have been looking, but in all the wrong places” [This is a reference to the song “Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places”.]
But it was not that kind of love, that co-dependent love stuff that I was looking for. This was the Real Thing: a profound Embrace, a unitive oneness with my Self. And at that moment or during those moments (it was an experience outside of time and space) I said to myself, “One…this is it. And, two, I am not letting go of this one.” And I didn’t. I then began a practice of spending two hours a night in mediation looking for it. By the way, you don’t really have to sit in meditation for two hours a day to experience this.
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This is Part VI of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.
So, I would like to now share with you why I teach these classes.
In this lifetime, the parenting that I received was such that neither of my parents had the experience of Love or of the Embrace so they were, therefore, incapable of sharing that with me. So as a child, what I basically heard, actually, all I ever heard, was what was wrong with me and what I was not doing right. Even on her deathbed, my mom could not say anything nice to me. That simply was just not possible for her; so bless her, bless her for that!
She wanted to be able to do so, but she couldn’t for whatever reasons; it does not really matter. And it was my choice to be with her and it was a gift. And my dad was not there either, sweet dear soul that he was, because he could not handle her so he was gone emotionally. And I did not have siblings.
And so the profound gift of all this was…and also given the way I was raised, they did not let me go out of their sight much; God forbid I would do something other than what they wanted me to do… I had a very rich interior life. I had no other choice. Either that or go crazy. Which some of you may think is the case. [Laughter.]
The richness of my interior life extended, as well, into my dream life. It is still a problem for me nowadays because I go to sleep and I am so active; it is ridiculous. There is so much going on; I often say to myself, “Give me a break already. Let me just go comatose for a while. Give me a drug. Give me anything.” FYI, I don’t take drugs, never have. But…it is a very active interior life that I have.
So through all this upbringing I was left with really poor self esteem and no real direction or purpose in my life. So, from a very young age I was desperately looking for meaning. My story, I realize, may parallel many of your stories, too. So, please understand that I am not claiming my story to be unique, nor in any way am I asking for sympathy. Nor, other than for teaching purposes, do I identify with it any more.
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This is Part V of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.
Caroline Myss writes in one of her books that during the time of Jesus, the band of light that humans could see was much narrower or smaller than we now see. They could not really see purple or indigo very well. They were not color blind, but they could not see the difference between purple and blue which now we easily see. So, if you can allow what I’ve just said to kind of settle in, it might give you a sense for what you are looking for as you begin to work with your intuitive sight.
Remember, you don’t “see” things with your eyes when you are doing intuitive work. Instead you just “feel”---it is a gut thing---this is just another way of saying you are using your 6th sense.
Where I want to go with all that I have just said is not anywhere near what I actually sat down and prepared to say today. I have learned, especially after doing so many intuitive development classes, not to get caught up in making sure I cover what I prepared for. I have also learned to transfer this same way of flowing with things that I am doing now in this class into most parts of my life, too.
My ego will script how it wants something to turn out and what it scripts is very limited compared to what my Soul is likely to have in mind for me. Also, if I tune in at the Soul level, I will sense and see a situation very differently from how my ego would see it.
So I have learned to let things flow instead of always trying to script them in my life; and I have learned to see them with the eyes and heart of my Soul and not from the myopia or narrow-mindedness of my ego. I choose to feel first and think later.
I have learned to see with my “first eye” and not my physical eyes. Why is it that we call intuitive sight the “third eye”? It really is the “first eye!” It is the first resource we want to use, if we really want to know something or someone.
This is Part V of a ten part blog.
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This is Part IV of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.
Also, because of all the left brain training we have had in our culture, intuitive knowing is considered flakey or irrelevant. But it certainly is not! What I hope to help you to understand through this course is how to feel, sense, and “see” a whole new world that is right there before you.
To do so you must learn how to shift out of the rational, cognitive state and into an intuitive, feeling state. You do this by shifting into a meditative state and then you learn how to trust the impressions you are receiving as much as, if not even more than, the physical ones you receive.
The cognitive state is a very narrow band of reality. Very little information comes thru that state. The greater part of reality comes through to you by your picking up on vibrations, in other words, by feeling. As Carl Jung said, “most of Reality is not thinking.”
Also, “we are vibratory beings” and must understand the implications of that phrase. We can live, be or travel into any level, dimension, time, or space. All we have to do is change our vibration. We can time travel into the future or the past. We can, just by changing our vibration, go anywhere we want to go in the universe. What????????? You say!
You don’t have to believe what I have just said or understand it. You don’t even have to remember what I just said. But the fact is that all you have to do is to clearly and intentionally focus your vibration and you are “there;” and “there” can be any “where;” and you can be “there” as any “thing” and you can also be there in any “time! “
We live in such a narrow band of reality, for example, our ability to see. We see within the infra red and the ultra violet bands of light. It is within this band of vibrations that we are able to see visually with the naked eye. Yet there are an infinite number of bands of reality that exist beneath the infrared and beyond the ultraviolet.
These are the bands that the animals pick up on and are guided by. This is how earthquakes and other natural phenomena are sensed before they physically occur. The vibrations are picked up on. The point is the bands go infinitely below infrared and infinitely above ultra violet. And guess what? You are capable of tuning into any one of those bands and “seeing.” But you have been so myopically trained, so narrowly trained, to see only in this infrared to ultraviolet band that you may not be able to even imagine what I am talking about.
This is Part IV of a ten part blog.
This is Part III of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.
So the purpose of these classes is to help you go there, i.e., within. For it is there where your intuitive abilities reside. We are all energy beings, yes! You included! You are energy in motion, even though at times it might feel like you are moving very slowly. [Laughter]
Everything is energy. All that we ever do is interpret energy, receive energy, and “pick up” on energy. What we are not doing is hearing, seeing, touching, tasting, feeling or smelling. No, we are not!
We are vibrations of energy who pick up on other vibrations of energy. One of the problems with “reading” or seeing or sensing energies is that the human race for many millennia has been focused on the visual as the primary apparatus for sensing vibration. Over half of our brain is dedicated to this visual faculty simply because we have trained it that way; it has become our habitual way of interpreting/receiving vibration.
But, for instance, with regard to our cats, their whole thing is sniffing. You give them something, they sniff it. They cannot see color like we do. Their vision is more black and white than ours. That is actually why they can be more nocturnal. Their first way of receiving vibration is to smell it. As well, they have a greater hearing acuity than we do. They can hear a broader range of sound than we can. We consider them to be more primitive because they use a more primitive part of the brain, i.e., smelling. From my point of view, they are not more primitive, they simply have developed smelling as their primary way of sensing vibration.
Where so many people get tripped up with regard to developing their intuitive abilities is that they feel they cannot “see.” They assume that to be intuitive means that you “see” subtle energies as you would see them in the physical world. They believe that it should all be in Technicolor, that it should be as clear as day, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus when he encountered the resurrected Jesus.
But this is not the way most people “see.” Actually, all you are doing is “feeling” and not seeing. All you are doing is interpreting vibrations. You get caught up in expecting to “see” and then you miss what you are feeling or sensing and dismiss it all. Then you say you can’t do it or don’t get it, when, in fact, you are getting it. But you have been trained to believe that “seeing” is the only way to receive intuitive impressions.
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This is Part II of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous part.
Please know that we are all God Selves. We are all God in finite form. We are here to have the experience of being God in a finite form. Somehow, though, we have forgotten this simple fact. So, we give our authority away to others, be it to mentors, masters, guides, angels, teachers, teachings, relationships, corporations, causes, and all kinds of other things, and we then never find our own “God”ness for ourselves.
So, the purpose of these classes is to help you learn how to get in touch with that God/Goddess Self within and to be present with that Self and from that Presence be present for yourself and others. Otherwise you can not be present. Otherwise you are lost in your ego, lost in your illusions, lost in your fears, lost in your masks and in your veils, lost in your present personality and all of its limiting beliefs and fears.
Therefore, you are lost in who you think you are not who you really are. Who you think you are, is simply not who you are. If you want to look at it in a broader perspective, you have lived many, many, many lifetimes. How could you identify solely with this lifetime; this gender; this race; this culture you are in? It is ludicrous when you think about it because you are none of those identities at essence.
Be that as it may, go ahead and be a happy Dane [of Danish ancestry]. [Here I am talking to a student in the class of Danish ancestry.] Enjoy that experience. Get into your birth culture and really enjoy it.
I am not saying to forget that you have these roots in this lifetime. But when you think about this topic more deeply, you realize that your roots are the same as everyone else’s and that you are the same as everyone else. That is, you are a Divine being in human form taking on a finite experience for who knows what reason(s). But if you go within and honestly and lovingly look at yourself, you will find out what those reasons are and you will then know who you are and why you are.
Thus, whatever you are experiencing presently in your life is no longer seen as a problem. What you are experiencing no longer becomes your identity. You can go much deeper into knowing who you really are and into integrating, understanding and embracing your present experiences, both the “good” and the “bad.”
This is Part II of a ten part blog.
This is Part I of a ten part blog.
We are all blessed with the gift of intuitive “in” sight or intuitive knowing. It is simply not the case that some of us have the “gene” for intuition and others do not. We all have the “genius” of intuition imbedded in us.
It’s just a matter of learning how to listen to that voice within. It is a matter of learning the “language” of intuition, that is, the language of the heart. For some people this “language” of intuition is a foreign tongue, one which they were not raised knowing. For others, they picked it up somewhere along the line and it all comes easy for them. But just as with any foreign language, you can learn it and you can become quite proficient in communicating with it. Actually, in time, it becomes totally natural and easy.
In this mini-blog course I will lead you on an adventure into the world of the intuitive muse. You will learn how to listen to the oracle within you.
It is fun and it is easy, easier than learning a foreign language actually. As well, I will help you to understand and experience the profound love that is the “ground” from which intuition arises. So, let us begin.
What follows below is the partial transcript of a live class in which I was first talking about the phenomenon of channeling and then I went on to discuss what intuitive development really is all about.
“There is a phenomenon called channeling that is quite misunderstood. Channeling is not about channeling this particular being or that one; it is simply a process of being in touch with your own God or Higher Self and letting that flow through you.
We all have guides, mentors, masters, angels, etc. that support us. Their purpose is to help us to make a deep, lasting connection to our Higher Selves directly and on our own. While we are still learning to make this connection, they help to transduce the higher energies and bring them into a vibratory level that we can receive and integrate. But ultimately we are meant to channel our own God Self.
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In this and my previous blog post I am commenting on a passage from my favorite spirit being, White Eagle. White Eagle is a wonderful soul who was channeled by Grace Cook. There is a wealth of published material available if you want to explore his teachings. For more information go to http://www.whiteagle.org
White Eagle was known as the Gentle Brother because of the tender, loving, yet very powerful spirit that his words and presence embodied. He cut to the chase in all that he said, speaking with a simplicity, yet with a directness and a power that cut through all illusions. His goal was to awaken us from the sloth of our ego and help us instead to take flight with the wings of our Soul.
I would like to continue by commenting on the following passage which is a continuation of the passage in my previous blog post:
We speak as one of you, we suffer as you suffer. The thought comes to us: ‘But why should you, a spirit, suffer because we suffer?’ Because, my brethren, love gives us understanding, it makes us feel with you, as you feel. Yet although we feel with you, and understand you, and absorb from you your heartaches, your sorrows do not weigh us down, because love is the divine transmuter. Love is the alchemist which transmutes the base metal of earthliness, the pain and passions of earth. Love transmutes all this, absorbs it and changes it into pure gold.
This is why you feel strengthened after contact with your guide, and you know that all is well. Your guide has brought you the light and love of God which reigns supreme in the heavenly state, and you are uplifted and strengthened and blessed by it. But you have to learn yourself to receive the cup and transmute the sorrows and sufferings of your earthly life. The Christ in you has to transmute and redeem you; then the lower self passes away and no longer has any power over you.
So, by learning how to regularly tap into the Divine essence of our Soul, namely Love, we can “make all things new.” For Love allows us to see the broadest perspective on any and every situation and it allows us to see the Divine Plan, Order and Timing that are in play in all that we experience. There really is a loving Divine Plan that is working itself out in our lives.
The Master Alchemists of old understood that “all things are good” and that if we can just raise our energies and see it all from the highest perspective, that is Love, that we would then have shifted our consciousness sufficiently to then have transmuted that which appeared to be “lead” to our limited ego mind into pure the “gold” that it was all along. It’s all a matter of perspective.
As Anais Nin wrote: We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are. So, as we raise our vibrations to that of Love, we see Love. If we look for the “lead” in life, we find it. If we look for the “gold,” we see and experience only that.
We are the ones who give meaning and value to the experiences we have; no one else can or does. In and of themselves our experiences are neutral. Therefore, we are both the creators and interpreters of our reality.
So, learn to quiet your mind and open your heart and tap into the essence of who you are on a regular basis and by doing so you will have become a conscious, loving creator of your world, that is you will have become a Master Alchemist.
This is Part II of a two part Blog.
In my next two blog posts I will be commenting on a passage from my favorite spirit being, White Eagle. White Eagle is a wonderful soul who was channeled by Grace Cook. There is a wealth of published material available if you want to explore his teachings. For more information go to http://www.whiteagle.org
White Eagle was known as the Gentle Brother because of the tender, loving, yet very powerful spirit that his words and presence embodied. He cut to the chase in all that he said, speaking with a simplicity, yet with a directness and a power that cut through all illusions. His goal was to awaken us from the sloth of our ego and help us instead to take flight with the wings of our Soul.
I would like to begin by commenting on the following passage:
In the world there is too much haste; there is no calm, no period of retirement from the battle of life. Some of you are so eager to get on with a particular plan that you feel yourself frustrated by any halt. You become filled with a kind of fever; and maybe when you are told to be patient you say to yourself, ‘But the people in spirit don’t understand the needs of the flesh and the demands of the earthly life.’
My brother, my sister, we in spirit understand only too well the claims of the physical life, for we have, stored up in our souls, experiences such as you are even now undergoing. So when you are told to make time to withdraw from feverish activity, remember that those who proffer this advice have learned the need for this withdrawal; for surely, surely only in the secret places will man make contact with the Source of his being; only in the secret places can he truly pray.
We are all more often than not in a hurry. We are even in a hurry to find time to relax or meditate or pray. How insane! We find ourselves on a treadmill of “doing” one thing after the other. Do, do, do, do, do--all day long! We keep doing “doo” “dooing” all over ourselves.
We somehow think that it is best for us to ignore our innate desire to find calm, comfort and solace in the “still, quiet place within.” Therefore, we never really get in touch with the essence of who we really are and with what really matters in our lives. “Doing” replaces “Being” and we become human “doings” rather than the human “beings” that we are really meant to be.
We are not on this planet solely for the purpose of feverishly running around trying to get an endless, unrelenting series of unforgiving chores done. We are here to deepen our connection with our Source and to learn how to feel embraced by the Love of God/Goddess and to share that embrace with others. We have eternal life and we are meant to deepen our connection to this eternal part of ourselves and not solely identify with the transient, ephemeral, “doing,” present personality part of ourselves.
Life is an opportunity to learn how to deepen and broaden our ability to give and receive Love. What we accomplish or do externally is only meant to be the backdrop for this schooling in learning how to Love. What we “do” is not meant to be our raison d’etre (our reason for being). Our raison d’etre is about coming to truly know and embody the Love that is at the Source of our Being.
By running around and getting caught up in a series of endless “things to do” we avoid our true purpose and live in denial of our true Selves.
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In this series of blogs and podcasts, I will be focusing on the topic of Channeling. For five weeks I will post on my blog a transcription of a session I presented on this topic.
In order to make sense of all of this and to be able to best follow the flow, please start at Part I which begins with my blog entry on March 5, 2007.
So, what follows is a session of “channeling” that I did a number of years ago. Please note that the energies/beings that are being channeled refer to themselves as “we.”
What follows now is a transcription of a meditation that the group was lead in. I have chosen to include it here because I feel that just reading the words and sensing and feeling what they are pointing to can be very healing and enlightening and can help you to switch into a real sense of who you are. Please read it meditatively. This is part III of the meditation, the final part. EnJoy! Please go to my podcast of April 6, 2007 to be lead in the full meditation.
“Now we would ask you to come out of this natural spring, out of this whirlpool and find a rock or a grassy knoll to sun your self upon. Just get up and find the sunny spot and then just lie there and feel the warmth of the sun. Feel the embrace of the earth. Feel heaven and earth uniting within you.
For as creators, made in His/Her image, you bring together all of heaven and earth and within you is the potential to experience it all without separation or duality, but to just feel, to just feel the oneness of it all and your oneness with it all.
Feel yourself as the convergence of heaven, of earth, of spirit, of matter. Yes, a center. Each one of you is the center of God/Goddess. And the number of centers is infinite. Feel what that might mean. Not with your minds but with your hearts, remembering, remembering, remembering …
As you lie there now feeling your connection to All That Is, allow yourself to invite in any guides, angels, masters, mentors, ancestors, etc. that work with you known or unknown, seen or felt. Let this be very spontaneous!
Feel them taking care of you and embracing you. For they know you. They know you, for they have known you before you forgot you, and they are here to remind you of that real you. They are here to help you forget that which is not you.
Allow them to inspire, to impress you, to fill you to overflowing, as you continue your connection to All That Is, feeling the oneness, the wholeness. We leave you now to experience, to feel, to connect and we shall return briefly. Pause…
The goal this afternoon was to bring you to that place of connection so that your experience of it might be so solid, so clear, so rich and so full that you might never again forget. So that as you go forth in your life, no matter what circumstances may be there before you, you are in this place of connection and you know, without a doubt, that you always are held in the hands and the heart of God/Goddess and that all is in Divine Order and Divine Timing.
Start now to come out by gradually beginning to sense your physical body and the room that you are sitting in. And when you are ready you can begin to open your eyes, taking a few deep breaths to ground yourself and feeling more refreshed and more at peace than when we began. Again at your own pace you may open your eyes, more refreshed and more at peace than when we began.
This is part X and the conclusion of a 10 part blog and the final part of the three part meditation. Please go to my podcast of April 6, 2007 to be lead in the full meditation.
In this series of blogs and podcasts, I will be focusing on the topic of Channeling. For five weeks I will post on my blog a transcription of a session I presented on this topic.
In order to make sense of all of this and to be able to best follow the flow, please start at Part I which begins with my blog entry on March 5, 2007.
So, what follows is a session of “channeling” that I did a number of years ago. Please note that the energies/beings that are being channeled refer to themselves as “we.”
What follows now is a transcription of a meditation that the group was lead in. I have chosen to include it here because I feel that just reading the words and sensing and feeling what they are pointing to can be very healing and enlightening and can help you to switch into a real sense of who you are. Please read it meditatively. This is Part II of the three part meditation. EnJoy! Please go to my podcast of April 6, 2007 to be lead in the full meditation.
“Imagine that there is a whirlpool nearby, a natural spring. Bring yourself to this natural spring and allow yourself to just sit in this spring. You can sit in it and it doesn’t go above your head. It feels like a spa made especially for you and the water is the perfect temperature and is so refreshing, cleansing and healing for you.
You feel the whirling and the swirling of the energies of the water and it cleanses you. It washes away all the energetic debris you have accumulated. You allow yourself to just sink into this healing, into this connection. Again you are not separate from this water that you sit in nor are you separate from this natural environment. You are one with it. It is you, you are it. You see it in yourself and it reflects you back to you as you look at it.
Feel the energies, the waters massage your toes and rub the bottoms of the soles of your feet, cleansing you deeper and deeper. Feel the water now flowing up to your calves, your knees, your thighs, your hips.
Feel the cleansing energy and as this energy cleanses it brings to you the understanding we spoke of earlier of not being separate from but one with All That Is. Feel it flowing now into your torso, your abdomen (both the front and the back), your arms, your hands as it continues now to flow up to your neck.
If you wish just dunk your head into the water now and feel it caress and envelop your head and your hair. Now as you slowly take your head out of the water and shake your hair out, you feel golden rivulets of love and light all around you and within you.”
This is Part IX of a 10 part blog and part II of the three part meditation. To be continued on 04/04/07
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In this series of blogs and podcasts, I will be focusing on the topic of Channeling. For five weeks I will post on my blog a transcription of a session I presented on this topic.
In order to make sense of all of this and to be able to best follow the flow, please start at Part I which begins with my blog entry on March 5, 2007.
So, what follows is a session of “channeling” that I did a number of years ago. Please note that the energies/beings that are being channeled refer to themselves as “we.”
What follows now is a transcription of a meditation that the group was lead in. I have chosen to include it here in my next three blog posts because I feel that just reading the words and sensing and feeling what they are pointing to can be very healing and enlightening and can help you to switch into a real sense of who you are. Please read it meditatively. EnJoy! Please go to my podcast of April 6, 2007 to be lead in the full meditation.
“So we ask you now to close your eyes and we will lead you in a meditation. We would like you now to integrate what we have spoken of. So, just begin to close you eyes and get comfortable, get comfortable within yourself. Take a couple of deep breathes to ground your self…
Open to receiving, imagine now your crown chakra, at the top of your head, opening as if it were a cup and let that cup be as large as you wish it to be. Feel it acting like a funnel for these energies so that you might be filled to overflowing with an understanding, a knowing, of who you really are. Feel the living waters, the living light flow into the top of your head and then gradually let it flow throughout your whole body all the way down to the bottoms of your feet…
Feel yourself now being filled with this energy and let it remind you that you are not separate from this energy, but that you are the Spirit of God/Goddess Her Self. Feel it enveloping you, feel it filling you…
Take another deep breath, and now we would like you to imagine that you are in the Garden of Eden, that you are in a pristine place of new beginnings, of connection, of holiness, of sacredness, of purity, of love.
Begin now to allow yourself to feel the embrace of the energies of the sun as you open to receiving its warmth, its light. Feel it warming every cell in your being. Feel it filling you inside and out…
As well, open up to the all the creatures large and small that you can see and those that you can’t see that are all around you…
As well, open to energies of the vegetation and the trees, to the sky, to the perfumed air.
Feel, sense your self not as separate from all these but as one with all these sensations, all these creatures, all these beings, all these energies. Not outside of you but inside of you - feeling, tasting, touching, sensing smelling, hearing, knowing, seeing. Your God/Goddess essence is everywhere. It is within and it is without; it is you, too.”
This is Part VIII of a 10 part blog and Part I of the three part meditation. To be continued on 04/02/07
In this series of blogs and podcasts, I will be focusing on the topic of Channeling. For five weeks I will post on my blog a transcription of a session I presented on this topic.
In order to make sense of all of this and to be able to best follow the flow, please start at Part I which begins with my blog entry on March 5, 2007.
So, what follows is a session of “channeling” that I did a number of years ago. Please note that the energies/beings that are being channeled refer to themselves as “we.”
“Some of these individuals you know of historically, others have never been recorded in your history. As well, there are many who have attained this awareness, way before what you call your recorded history. And it is they, all of them, who work as a force to help you to remember what we speak of.
We, they, have been labeled the White Brotherhood by some and we laugh. As well, we have been labeled “Ascended Masters” or Buddha “this” or Krishna “that” or whatever name you have chosen to give us. We do not see our selves in that light. We do not give any one of us any more importance than another, nor do we see ourselves as more than you, for we are all made of the same “stuff” – of that God/Goddess substance.
And so, yes, we perhaps now “see” a little better than you do, but your blindness, your myopia now is but temporary and the potential, power and love we see within you is so, so real. It is what we already are experiencing within ourselves and what you can experience, too. So we ask you to just entertain what we have been offering this afternoon as a possibility. We ask you not think too much about it, but allow the energy or the essence of what has been said to just seep in.
You cannot grasp with your minds that which is of God/Goddess. You can’t even speak of God/Goddess with your minds. It is why it has been said your soul resides in your heart for it is there that the doorway is located to your God Self, to your Soul, to your true identity. Please learn to feel with your heart and not think so much with your minds. And then all that we have been saying will be crystal clear!”
This is Part VII of a 10 part blog. To be continued on 03/28/07
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In this series of blogs and podcasts, I will be focusing on the topic of Channeling. For five weeks I will post on my blog a transcription of a session I presented on this topic.
In order to make sense of all of this and to be able to best follow the flow, please start at Part I which begins with my blog entry on March 5, 2007.
So, what follows is a session of “channeling” that I did a number of years ago. Please note that the energies/beings that are being channeled refer to themselves as “we.”
“And so this whole process begins, as has been said by many teachers, by totally and completely loving Thy Self. What we have been describing up to this moment is precisely this, namely: How to love Thy Self.
God/Goddess does not see Her/Himself as separate from Him/Herself but adores all of Her Self. We ask you to completely adore, appreciate and accept yourself. And in that adoration, appreciation and acceptance you will then be able to see that same God/Goddess in others; and you, too, then as God/Goddess will be able to see in another your Self.
This is what unconditional love is all about. It is not a sappy, clingy, codependent state of bondage, but an appreciation, an acceptance and an adoration of all that one is, sees, and experiences. And, as well, it is an appreciation, an acceptance and an adoration of every one and every thing else.
You are not separate from anyone or anything. The sense of separation is simply a belief system you have taken on in third dimensional reality on this planet called Earth to learn and to grow through and with, but it is not ultimately true. For as we look at this world and it’s “problems,” and as we look at each one of you and your “problems,” clearly all of them stem from what we’ve been speaking about; namely, your lack of a sense of connection to the core or essence of “who” you really ARE.
So, it begins and ends with you understanding who you really are. Throughout your recorded history there have been a few individuals who have attained this understanding of who they really ARE. Actually “understanding” is a weak word that does not adequately describe what we mean. What might better describe what we mean is that there have been a few individuals who have attained this vibration of energy or awareness.”
This is Part VI of a 10 part blog. To be continued on 03/26/07
In this series of blogs and podcasts, I will be focusing on the topic of Channeling. For five weeks I will post on my blog a transcription of a session I presented on this topic.
In order to make sense of all of this and to be able to best follow the flow, please start at Part I which begins with my blog entry on March 5, 2007.
So, what follows is a session of “channeling” that I did a number of years ago. Please note that the energies/beings that are being channeled refer to themselves as “we.”
“It’s okay to give a name to God/Goddess. And in many traditions there are many names for God/Goddess and in many of the traditions you recite the names of God/Goddess in order to help you feel connected. But please remember this, that each one of your names is a name/expression of God/Goddess. Each one of you is a finite expression of that which you call God/Goddess.
You come to events such as these so that you might find healing, so that you might find wholeness, so that you might find your true Selves. When you find your true Self, who you really are, that is how you find that healing, that wholeness, that salvation which you seek. You find it by finding who you really ARE.
It is not found by seeking the right remedy or a healing from someone else. It is not found by hearing the right word or the right teaching from someone else. It is not found in someone else, period! It is within you.
It is simply not true that someone else has an understanding or wisdom that you don’t have. When you interact with someone and have an insight; it is not their insight that you now have gained, but what is happening here is that you are now seeing reflected in them something that you had forgotten, but that now you are remembering about You. You are gaining you own insight into your Self and about your Self.
No one has more or knows more than you do. How could they? For if you allow yourself to tap into the essence of who you are, if you erase all the limiting images and beliefs of who you are from your memory bank, if you truly feel the essence of who you are, you come to know without a doubt that you are now whole, you are now healed. And you know that you know all the answers to all your questions! You now know Your Self and trust your Self. It doesn’t get any better than this! This is Self-Mastery! This is Awakening!”
This is Part V of a 10 part blog. To be continued on 03/21/07
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In this series of blogs and podcasts, I will be focusing on the topic of Channeling. For five weeks I will post on my blog a transcription of a session I presented on this topic.
In order to make sense of all of this and to be able to best follow the flow, please start at Part I which begins with my blog entry on March 5, 2007.
So, what follows is a session of “channeling” that I did a number of years ago. Please note that the energies/beings that are being channeled refer to themselves as “we.”
“Many of you still believe that God/Goddess is somehow outside of you. You can believe or buy into that belief, so to speak, or you can buy into the belief that God/Goddess is inside of you. But for many of you, even after you have decided to accept that God/Goddess must be within you, still perceive this concept as if God/Goddess has somehow just left one kernel, one atom of HerSelf inside you, perhaps in your heart, and then somehow the rest of Her/Him is still outside of you somewhere.
No way! She/He is inside all of you, period!
Do not in any way diminish your value by believing that there is only this one little, itsy-bitsy kernel of God “stuff” inside of you and then there is all the rest of you that is separate from God/Goddess.
Take a moment and ask yourself: Who AM I? Are you separate from that which is All That Is? If you believe in that separateness, you then are, in fact, separate. But if you allow yourself to remember that you aren’t separate or less than, then you remember who you really are and that you are One.
And how can you remember? Let go of your ego. Let go of the limiting beliefs that you have bought into that you are only your body, your thoughts or your present experiences. These beliefs are really like a “death penalty.” But there is no “death.” You have “eternal life.” You are “eternal life.” You are made in His/Her image! Any belief other than that is simply misguided!
So, understand that God/Goddess is not inside you nor is God/Goddess outside you. God/Goddess is YOU.
You are God/Goddess in finite form who has taken on this present personality temporarily in order to learn how to further expand your ability to love.
When God/Goddess looks at you, She sees you as Her Self. You are a mirror, a reflection of Her to Her. When you see yourself who do you see, a name or a personality Linda or Jen or Jill or Mike? Or do you see God/Goddess? Who do you see?”
This is Part IV of a 10 part blog. To be continued on 03/19/07
In this series of blogs and podcasts, I will be focusing on the topic of Channeling. For five weeks I will post on my blog a transcription of a session I presented on this topic.
In order to make sense of all of this and to be able to best follow the flow, please start at Part I which begins with my blog entry on March 5, 2007.
So, what follows is a session of “channeling” that I did a number of years ago. Please note that the energies/beings that are being channeled refer to themselves as “we.”
“What is so important to understand here is that most of you do not understand that YOU are God/Goddess. You temporarily and incorrectly see yourself as a third dimensional being with limitations, living on this planet called Earth in this lifetime, and only identify with this particular lifetime and personality. But you don’t even remember, least of all acknowledge, most of the lifetimes you’ve lived. You are a very old soul, a very wise soul, a soul with enormous resources available to you, if you but allow your ego’s interpretation of you to just drop away. Once you do, you will remember! You will truly know! Everyone is like this!
Perhaps all you focus on now and remember are your limitations and failures. Too many of you look for what is wrong with you. You define your life in a very narrow way and you see yourself as a finite, limited being. Every once in a while another image or feeling of a much higher vibration flows into you about you. Every once in a while you remember that you are so much more than just the experiences your ego is having!
But who you are now in the present is an “out picturing” of who you believe you are. And when you remember and know and understand that God/Goddess is You and not just within you, but really, really is you, then you can begin to open to that “channeling” that we spoke of before. Then you will allow for true “inspiration” to flow to you and through you!
You then become that channel, that finite expression of Godness and of wholeness and of fullness. This is what “true channeling” is all about. It is not about channeling another being outside of you, but it is a process of connecting with the God/Goddess essence or core of who you are and letting it all flow to you and through you.”
This is Part III of a 10 part blog. To be continued on 03/14/07
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In this series of blogs and podcasts, I will be focusing on the topic of Channeling. For five weeks I will post on my blog a transcription of a session I presented on this topic.
In order to make sense of all of this and to be able to best follow the flow, please start at Part I which begins with my blog entry on March 5, 2007.
So, what follows is a session of “channeling” that I did a number of years ago. Please note that the energies/beings that are being channeled refer to themselves as “we.”
“As well, one can channel with one’s eyes wide open while speaking in their normal voice and it is still channeling. [I have had this happen many, many times for myself. It is a situation in which I don’t have any idea what I’m saying. I have not preplanned a word of what I am speaking about. Just a series of images, impressions, thoughts and feelings keep coming up that inspire me as to what to say one moment to the next. While this is going on, I actually find myself listening to my words and internally saying to myself, “Hey that makes sense. I like that!” While this is happening my eyes are open and it looks like I am having a normal dialogue or conversation, but I am not.]
And so this is also a part of the phenomenon called channeling. Why we are making such a point of this now is because it is so, so important for you to realize that: You all “channel” in some form or another at different times and in many different ways. You have all had moments in “the zone” or moments of pure clarity, insight, foreknowing or inspiration. You have all been inspired in some form or another.
You may have chosen to ignore the inspiration and go against it because it wasn’t in your belief system to trust it. Or you may have been clueless that you were in fact being inspired and somehow thought that the bulk of what you were feeling and saying was coming from your own ego mind.
But the whole point of this discussion is not to get you to become a “medium” who “channels” some “other” ethereal being, but the point here is for you to get in touch with the core of who you really are and “channel” your Self or your Higher Self. No, not your ego’s little self, but your God(dess) Self that is at your core and that is definitely at the core of everyone. So, the whole point here is to help you to learn how to connect with and to channel and embody the Spirit of the God/Goddess that is within you.”
This is Part II of a 10 part blog. To be continued on 03/12/07
In my next series of blogs and podcasts, I will be focusing on the topic of Channeling. Over the next five weeks I will post on my blog a transcription of a session I presented on this topic.
So, what follows is a session of “channeling” that I did a number of years ago. Please note that the energies/beings that are being channeled refer to themselves as “we.”
“In modern times there are people who have been labeled as mediums or psychics. We have always been uncomfortable with these labels because they imply that the person channeling is somehow better than everyone else or special in some unique or other worldly way. They are not! Everyone can “channel.” As well, we are uncomfortable with the word “channeling” itself because it implies that there is some other being taking the speaker over.
Now to clarify what we are saying, when someone is channeling it doesn’t mean that there aren’t other energies that are present and supporting the process of “inspiring” you while you channel. There certainly are, whether you call them The Holy Spirit, the Buddhist Spirit, the Hindu Spirit, the Muslim Spirit, Aunt Fran, Uncle Al----whatever--- it doesn’t matter what you call them.
But what really is happening during the process of channeling is that one is being filled with inspiration. For your information, “inspire” comes from the Latin word that means “to be filled with spirit.” What channeling, from our point of view is all about, is being “inspired;” that is, it is about being filled with the spirit. But what spirit?
You all have guides, mentors, masters, angels, ancestors, etc. that are with you all the time. They are there to protect and inspire you. They were there with you at “the get go” and “the get go,” by the way, started way before you showed up on this planet. In other words, they have been with you for a very, very, very long time. They have been with you from the beginning, from your beginning.
As you are probably aware, there are different forms or kinds of channeling. For instance, while channeling some mediums’ voices change dramatically, their eyes stay closed and all kinds of spiritual phenomena occur while they are speaking. The Spiritualist Churches practice this kind of mediumship”
This is Part I of a 10 part blog. To be continued on 0/3/07/07.