Column # 3

"Obstacles to Change"

by Selacia

Obstacles to Change
The Council of 12 through Selacia *May 2002
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Note from Selacia:
We are in times of great transition as the illusions we have based our lives upon come to light and we move bravely forward in search of changing our limited human condition.   Everyone is in the midst of change, even those who do not recognize that they are changing.  Change is a natural part of life.  We face many challenges as we seek positive change, and this article is meant to address some of the obstacles found in the journey of most people.  The article is a follow-up to a two-part series, A New View of Change, written in February and March 2000.

The Council of 12

Nearly all of you say you want to change something about yourself and your life. You want things to be different than they appear to be. 

Even though you are constantly changing and evolving, you seek particular changes that you believe will bring you more joy and peace.  You seek changes that will help you move beyond the pain and suffering of the typical human life.  The changes you seek relate to transforming aspects of the human experience that you find limiting.  You seek to speed up what you label as positive changes, desiring to manifest them as quickly as possible. 

Most people seek to change themselves based on a reference point of believing they are not OK as they already are.  They spend their lives trying to fix what they perceive as being wrong about themselves. They are ignorant of their Divine perfection.  From that same limited reference point, there is also a normal human tendency to see things as being worse than they really are.  When you operate from this reference point, you always see yourself under a much darker cloud than actually exists.  No matter what obstacle you are facing, you do not see it clearly and therefore your vision of how to resolve it is clouded.  The Divine, seeing the same obstacle that you do, can
see the many creative solutions and opportunities for growth. 

Why does it often seem so difficult to change the things you know you want to change?  

Changing Your Mind:
In order to have real and lasting positive change in your life, it is necessary to change your viewpoint about yourself and how you experience life.  It is not enough to simply wish for a new relationship or a fulfilling career.  You must be willing to change your mind.  To do that, you need to become more conscious of what really runs your mind and to get in control of your mind instead of allowing it to control you. There are many tools, including DNA healing with its related core belief clearing process, that can be helpful in taming the mind.  Such tools are useful in uncovering and healing deeply-held belief systems that originate from a false view of the Self.   These outmoded beliefs, typically hidden from view because they reside in your subconscious, will provide continual obstacles to positive change until you root them out of your being. 

Belief Systems:
You have belief systems about yourself, about others, and about the numerous aspects of life and living. You have beliefs about change itself.  Most people are conditioned, for example, to believe that change is difficult and can only be achieved through struggle or by force.  Consider whether you hold any of these beliefs about change and the process of change:

It is hard to change. It is useless to ask for the changes I desire, because I doubt they will happen or because I doubt they will happen in a way that I am happy with the outcome. I hate change. I distrust change. The more things change, the more they stay the same.   The older I get, the more difficult it is to change. If you do not complain, nothing will change. Change is accompanied by pain or loss. I am a victim of change. I am afraid that I will be somehow worse off after an anticipated change.  I am stuck with the way I am or with situations that I do not like. I doubt I can make the changes I desire, or that I have the persistence to make the changes.  I am afraid of the unknown and what change might look like, so I would rather stay the way I am. There are so many things about my life I would like to change, that I do not know where to begin, so I focus my energies on other things I feel I can do something about. I must make change happen. 

Feeling Hopeless In The Face Of Change:
It is normal to feel hopeless in the face of change. It is also normal to feel helpless about being able to orchestrate the positive change you desire.  Even though these responses are normal to the human experience, they are not your natural way of being. Your natural response, when conditioned by remembering your true Divine nature, is to partner with the Divine to allow the appropriate changes to occur.  The key to success is your remembering to invite the Divine to become an integral partner in all that you do.   When you connect with the Divine in this way, and allow the Divine to show you how to change, you will discover that change can occur with ease and grace rather than through suffering. 

Changing The Focus:
If you really want to change, you must also be willing to refocus your energies and attention so that you live from the perspective of the present instead of the past.   You have a choice in each moment of whether to react to your past or to move on in your present. What does it mean to react to the past?  You do this when you focus on a past circumstance or object that you do not currently have.  In the past, for example, you might have enjoyed living in a particular house, neighborhood or city.   In the present, you may no longer live in this place, and you may have regrets about having made the move away from what you thought you loved.  Regrets keep you chained to the past.  You also react to the past when you focus on relationships you enjoyed at some earlier time.  The person you focus upon may not still be in your life, or your relationship with them may well have shifted, yet there is a tendency to view that relationship through its previous outdated energy.  When you do this, you are operating from your past rather than from your present. You also focus on the past when you hold a grudge against someone for something that happened long ago.

Each Step Represents Powerful Energy:
Each step you take in the process of change either moves you closer to clarity and enlightenment or further away from it.  This is because your thoughts and actions are powerful energy.  They either represent truth or they represent falseness.  They are not neutral.  Therefore, each thought and action has its effects upon your experience.  You can accelerate your personal transformation process by making the decision to become more conscious of your thoughts and actions.  Ask yourself daily which thoughts and actions have brought you closer to clarity and which have taken you further into confusion.  Ask yourself how important it is to you to be free from confusion.


Persistence, Patience And Kindness:
As you make your personal inventory of thoughts and actions, remember to be kind and gentle with yourself.  Punishing yourself for being in confusion will not get you to where you want to go.  It is not helpful to slap yourself on the wrist, making yourself wrong for taking seemingly too long to change.  However, it is important to persist with your transformation process for long enough to make deep, lasting changes.   When you are changing something about yourself at a profound level, remember that you did not become the way you are overnight.  Therefore, as tempting as it is to desire immediate change, remind yourself that there really are no quick-fix solutions.   If you stick with your inner process, having the patience to weather the times when it seems like you will never change, the Divine can assist you in developing the awareness and clarity needed for making the changes you seek.

Distractions And Roadblocks:
Being persistent with your own process of transformation also means living from a reference point of intention rather than from one of being a victim.  When you operate from intention, you do not allow the distractions of life to get you off-track. You do not wait for the mood to be perfect before you act.  You allow the Divine to fuel you with inspiration, confidence, and determination.   You do not allow other people or circumstances to distract you from your goal.  You refuse to resort to excuses and blame, but instead invite the Divine to help keep you on-track with making the changes that are in your highest good.

Being Specific In What You Ask For:
How many times have you noticed that you do not like the change you asked for when it shows up in your life?  A relationship, for example, may enter your life as a result of your focus and intention.  It helps to be specific in what you ask for when you seek change.  You may ask to be in a romantic relationship, but if you neglect to be specific about the kind of relationship you desire, or about the qualities you seek in the partner, you could be disappointed with what shows up.  Allow your Higher Self and intuitively guided reason to assist you in setting your specific intentions for change.  

Fallout From Change:
It is normal to have fallout when you are in a transformational process.  What happens frequently, though, is that you judge this fallout as wrong.  You do not like the feeling you experience in the midst of the changes, so you attach a negative label to the experience.  It is more helpful to view the fallout as a natural aspect of your growth, and to allow for self-nurturing while you seek to move back into balance.

As you move out of confusion and into more clarity in the days to come, we surround you with our love and blessings. 

We are The Council of 12.
Transmitted through Selacia * Copyright 2002 * All Rights Reserved

Selacia -- a channel for The Council of 12, is internationally known for her work in the inspirational/transformation field.   In her first book, The Golden Edge, readers are provided with guideposts and cutting-edge tools for moving out of fear and into joy and wholeness. She provides private telephone intuitive readings and DNA activations/healings to clients all around the world.  A certified DNA practitioner/teacher, she offers DNA sessions that incorporate the Council of 12's energetics, healing energies and wisdom.  Also included in the DNA clearings are rose quartz heart-shaped and obelisk-shaped crystals, energetically infused by The Council of 12 to accelerate and integrate the DNA work.  The Council of 12 has selected a number of rose quartz and other crystals for their work through Selacia.  Each one of them is infused with the Council's high-vibrational energies and healing.  In 2000, she brought the Council of 12's wisdom to the UNSRC's Society for Enlightenment and Transformation at the United Nations.  She offers ongoing teachings and workshops in DNA healing and other modalities.  If you would like to facilitate a workshop, order a copy of her book with personal message from The Council of 12, or to schedule a private session, contact Selacia at: 3111 Fourth Street #219, Santa Monica, CA  90405, USA, 310.915.2884, Fax:   310.664.6093, E-mail: Selacia@Selacia.com,   Web site:  www.Selacia.com

Column # 4

"Obstacles to Change, Part 2"

by Selacia

--Manifesting A Tangible Connection With The Divine--

Messages from The Council of 12
Transmitted through Selacia * June 2002

Note from Selacia:
("It is said that to change yourself is to do your part in changing the world.   As was stated in the previous article, Obstacles to Change Part I, nearly everyone feels they want to change something about themselves and their condition of life.   Likewise, it is a universal desire to want change within the world.  Those dedicated to walking a spiritual path learn that they must look to the Divine to reveal the steps leading to the desired changes within themselves. These people often say they would like more connection with spirit in their lives so that they have a tangible awareness when the Divine is revealing the most appropriate and beneficial steps towards change. Why is it that spiritual seekers often are unable to manifest a tangible connection with the Divine?  This article is meant to address some of the obstacles found in the journey of most people.")

Each of you has a natural longing to make the Divine more tangible and real.  You live in a world that for eons of time has separated spirit from the physical world.   When you realize how separated you have become from your true spiritual nature and from your Divine guidance, and discover that it is possible to end that separation, it is natural to seek a spirit-based life that can join the Earthly with the Divine.  As a part of that seeking, you come to understand that change is a necessary part of the equation for success.  You learn that you must change how you relate to the Divine nonphysical world.  You discover that in order to change, you must exchange your limited human view of what is really real for a more aware view that includes the Divine in all things.
 
This may sound like it would be easy to do.  After all, your logical brain understands the concepts.  You learn in school that if you study hard and grasp a teaching, you will probably get a good grade. Likewise, you learn that if you do not do your homework, you may get punished with a bad grade.  If your grades are poor, even more punishment may follow when you get home.  When you have been at the effect of the world's punishment long enough, you begin telling yourself you are wrong even if no one else says it.  After years of this educational conditioning, it is normal for you to think that life is like this too.  If this is your reference point, you likely expect that successes come from working  hard, from struggle, and from making success happen. If you feel you are not manifesting the success you seek, you likely judge yourself and label yourself as wrong or bad.  If you feel you have manifested a success, there is a tendency to believe this success has come to you because of something you did through working hard or through painstaking effort, rather than because of the Divine being that you are and your ability to simply connect with that Divine nature.

If you apply this limited point-of-view to your quest to make spirit real, the scenario may look something like this example:

You read in a magazine that meditation is a key to connecting with spirit.

You attend a workshop to learn how to meditate, applying your rational mind to the technique and studying the method with the thought of guaranteeing success by doing it the "right way."

You practice the meditation technique, following strict guidelines of when and how to do it.

On days when the meditation practice is missed, you send yourself various messages of judgment and punishment.

Meanwhile, in general when not meditating, you continue with your normal paradigm human life that is basically devoid of spirit.

You continue practicing the meditation technique for long periods, or perhaps give up on it and stop, in either case questioning why the practice has not lead to a more tangible presence of the Divine in everyday life and wondering what you have done wrong.

This is just one example of how you can feel empty and like a failure when you approach seeking spirit as though it were a project for the rational mind.  What has happened is that you have been applying a non-Divine reference point to your quest.  This is a false view and it will keep you locked into the normal limited condition that tends to separate spirit from being human.

Among the alternate, more useful approaches to pursuing a practice such as meditation include the following, which incorporate a Divine reference point:

You read in a magazine that meditation is a key to connecting with spirit.  You remind yourself that there are indeed countless paths to having such a connection.   You ask within for a confirmation of how, and in what form, meditation can help you to connect more with the Divine.  You listen for the answers to this inquiry before taking action. 

If an opportunity presents itself to attend a workshop involving meditation, you go within your own heart center to inquire about whether it is an appropriate opportunity and whether this is the optimal time to pursue it.  If, upon investigating this opportunity, you discover that it is not your optimal next step, you allow the Divine to speak to you about why it is not optimal and about what is preferred.  If you feel guided to avail yourself of the meditation workshop,you remember to place your rational mind in the backseat and to approach the study with an open heart and open mind.  You resist the temptation to use the practice as a yardstick or guarantee of successful connection with spirit.  You resist the temptation to approach your practice with a rigid mindset, allowing spirit to reveal to you what will be most useful to your personal journey at this time.

Instead of applying your rational mind to the practice of meditation, you allow the insights from your meditations to translate into your daily life activities.  This means being open to receiving the insights, even those that come to you hours or days after a meditation.  It means learning to connect the dots.

If you find yourself unable to meditate on some days, you remember to be gentle with yourself, letting go of judgment.  You remember that there are numerous tools for the Divine connection you seek, asking your Higher Self to open your mind to them as they are presented in everyday life.  When not meditating, you continue with your regular activities, realizing that each moment has the potential of becoming a waking meditation that allows you to join with the Divine. 

You continue appropriately practicing the meditation technique, while also continuing your approach of waking meditation, allowing each of them to naturally lead to the more tangible presence of the Divine in your life. 

What does it mean to live your life as though it were a waking meditation?  It means you are willing to see the Divine as it manifests all around you.  When you do this, you hear your angelic guides or your own Higher Self when they speak clearly and loudly through the people and circumstances of your life.  You allow yourself to be receptive to these messages of Divine wisdom presented to you in even mundane situations such as driving, shopping, interactions with other people, or watching television. You are open to the opportunities each of your everyday life situations presents.  You invite the Divine to reveal to you the teachings most appropriate for your path.  To proceed successfully with a life of waking meditation involves a state of awareness that must be developed with intention and maintained with attention. 

If you are having difficulties connecting with spirit, you can ask the Divine to remind you that you are not broken. You are conditioned by your humanness to want to fix things that do not need fixing, believing that you lack something you need for successful connecting with the Divine.  You may read dozens of books or participate in a string of workshops designed to open you to spirit, each time with the conviction that you need fixing before you can have the Divine as a tangible part of your life.

There is also a tendency to desire an immediate fix. In modern day times, with microwaves, DSL Internet access and fast food drive-throughs, you become accustomed to having your needs met instantly.  This modern-day human desire for urgent or immediate resolution is not the way of spirit.  You cannot place an order for spirit like you do for a hamburger. Asking spirit for guidance is not like sending an e-mail either.  When you send a friend an e-mail, you learn to expect very quick responses, quite often involving either a return e-mail or a phone call. Remember that spirit will speak to you, if you allow it, through many varied vehicles of communication. When you ask your Higher Self to provide guidance about your life, you need to have a long enough and wide enough attention span to receive the answers. Some answers, most notably those that you are really ready to hear and make use of presently, may begin to come quickly. These answers may come to you in the form of things your loved ones say, things you read or hear in everyday conversation, insights from your dreams, or through countless other ways spirit has to communicate with you.  Other guidance may be communicated days, weeks or months after your inquiry, reflecting your ability to better digest the information at that time.   More often than not, in the beginning, you simply miss the obvious and overlook it when spirit is responding to your invitation. 

Pay close attention to everything in your environment.  Ask your Higher Self to help you stay on track as you get accustomed to this new way of experiencing the world through the eyes of the Divine.  As part of this, you may want to begin each day by inviting your Higher Self to show you how to see more clearly through your fear and confusion.   Invite your Higher Self to partner with you in the day ahead, revealing to you the answers to your questions, providing you with gentle and loving reminders to see and hear the
Divine guidance being presented throughout the day. 

As you move out of confusion and into more clarity in the days to come, we surround you with our love and blessings.  We are The Council of 12.

Transmitted through Selacia * Copyright 2002 * All Rights Reserved

Selacia
Communication for Transformation Group
3111 Fourth Street, #219
Santa Monica, CA  90405, USA
Tel:  (310) 915-2884 * Fax:  (310) 664-6093
E-mail:  Selacia@Selacia.com
Web site:  www.Selacia.com

Column # 5

"Obstacles to Change, Part 3"

by Selacia

Messages from The Council of 12
Transmitted through Selacia * July 2002

--How Language Prevents Us From Manifesting Our Desires--

Note from Selacia:
"We know that words can hurt.  The young teenage girl who has been teased at school for being chubby may feel the pain of the hurtful words as though it were a knife entering her heart.  The words also register within her subconscious memory banks.  The pain caused by hurtful words is recorded within the child’s DNA.  The girl grows up with a tendency to be overweight, hating her body and going from diet to diet in hopes of changing herself into the slim figure she sees in magazine ads.   As an adult spiritual seeker, she wants to change what she sees in the mirror, and she wants to change how she feels about herself, realizing that her self-loathing is an obstacle to fully knowing her True Self.  Despite her positive intentions to heal these things, the woman finds her desired healing out of reach.   She is unable to change how she nourishes her body, mind and soul.  Why is it that people so seemingly determined to change are unable to succeed?  This article is meant to address language and how it can be an obstacle to successful change.  Please note that although the example given relates to a woman, the information applies to both men and women."

People in all levels of spiritual development are in the midst of change.   The element of change is the one thing that can be counted on to continue throughout the human physical experience.  For most people, it often seems as though change is something that happens to them, rather than something that they create.   They dislike much of what life seems to dish out to them, and they yearn for changes in how they experience key core issues.  Most people on a journey involving consciousness would like to rid themselves of addictive habits or other ways of being that cause feelings of limitation and struggle.  They naturally seek to change these painful experiences into joyful ones.  One of the major obstacles people face is a reference point that is based on a worldly view of how things work.  The tool of language is overlooked or underrated.  The Divine is not considered a tangible part of the equation for successful change, and the Divine is viewed as separate from the language operating in peoples’ everyday lives.  This view focuses on behavior, avoidance and the idea one must make things happen.  This reference point is not an effective vehicle for positive change.   

Consider the example of the 35-year-old woman who seeks to change her overweight body and self-loathing into a more positive experience.  After decades of yo-yo dieting, she feels defeated by the pain of being f! at in a society that values thinness.  She experiences conflicts in her relationships with others, unable to change her self-loathing into self-love.  What she does not realize is that her ability to transform this issue is greatly impacted by the language she lives with. 

What does it mean to live with language?  When a human being first comes into the world, it is impacted by the language of its parents and other caretakers.  Even when in the womb, the baby takes in words and nonverbal language.  Each word spoken carries the vibration of sound.   If the mother speaks negatively about life, the baby receives this negative tone.  Likewise, if the mother thinks negatively about life, the baby also receives these energetic imprints.  The baby is unable to discern truth and unable to shield itself from the negative communications.  After being born, the child continues to receive messages from its environment.  These messages are often in the form of negative remarks the child hears.  (The child takes in these messages and incorporates them into belief systems held within the subconscious).   Here is one example.  The mother may comment about the child’s baby fat, expressing concern that the child may have inherited the family’s weight problem.   This kind of opinion can set up expectations for failure.  It is more than the words themselves.  It is the subtle meanings behind the words.  Saying that the family has a weight problem, for example, is labeling weight as a problem.  The word problem is one of many words that have direct or subtle associations with negativity.   When someone says there is a problem, there is implied judgment.  After all, most people view problems as something bad and to be avoided.  Sometimes the problem is labeled with still further negativity by a decision that it was somehow deserved, or that it is a karmic debt that must be repaid.  In cases like this, language becomes the punitive vehicle for negative change. 

In other cases, words are spoken with implied threat, warning of impending punishment or other dire consequences. Language may imply blame, making someone or something wrong.   Language may also infer that the person seeking the change is a victim.  Some specific examples of negative language that serves as an obstacle to positive change include the following: 

·Stop eating that or you will be fat just like your mother.

·It is hard to lose weight.
·This diet will never work.
·He always talks about my weight.
·Everyone in my family is overweight.
·I always feel fat.
·I never feel good about my body.
·I must lose weight.
·I need to lose weight.
·I should  lose weight.
·I have to lose weight.
·If only he would stop bringing ice cream into the house, I could lose weight.
·If only there were more time to fix healthy meals, I could lose weight.

Language that comes from a place of doubt and powerlessness is also an obstacle to positive change.  A part of you is saying one thing and another part, most likely wrapped up in a limiting core belief, is saying another; This creates a division within.  You will either received mixed results or you will simply continue to experience whatever painful condition you seek to change.  Some examples of doubtful and powerless thinking include:

·I hope I can do it this time.

·I wish I could be thin.
·I want to lose weight.

Each of these examples illustrates an underlying reference point of powerlessness.  Each has the energy of putting off into the future what you desire to manifest.  When you say these things, either to yourself or others, as you seek to make the change of becoming thin, you sabotage your efforts. 

Language that communicates "no" to life, rather than "yes," will also stop you in your tracks.  Everyone learns as a toddler to say "no."  In fact, at that stage of life, communicating this is one of your few options when faced with something you do not  want to do.  The energy of this "no," as you mature, often translates into a resistance to change.  Even if the change is something you think that you really want, there may be an inherent resistance to it.  Even if a trusted friend lovingly points out something in your personal life that would be helpful for you to see and resolve, you may stubbornly refuse to examine it.  The language communicated at such times tends to reflect the energy of "I can’t" or "I won’t."  When you say "no" loud enough, you may even refuse to acknowledge such gifts of insight when they are offered.   Your rational mind will play tricks on you, convincing you that you have all the answers and that no one else understands what you need.  When you are saying "no" to life and to positive change in this way, you are also excluding your intuitively guided reason that could help you get to "yes." 
 
How do you turn this situation around so that you can begin to manifest more of the positive change you seek?  First, set your intention to become more aware of the language involved in your everyday life.  This means paying close attention to the words you say to others as well as the words you voice quietly to yourself as part of your internal dialogue.  Notice the interplay between your ongoing self-talk and the things you say to others.  See how one feeds the other.  Pay attention also to the words you hear others say, even when they are not directing the words towards you personally.  Remember that there is a tendency to take in the opinions of others.  Specific things to pay attention to include:

·Criticism (self-criticism and criticism of others)

·Doubt (self-doubt and doubt of success)
·Complaints (about others, about life)
·Attacks and defensiveness
·Blaming self or others
·Use of negatively-charged trigger words (e.g.   problem, diet)

Second, consciously invoke the assistance of the Divine to teach you discernment involving language.  Ask for help in transforming your habit of voicing self-doubt and other negative language.  Allow the Divine to reveal to you an alternative, more appropriate language for each situation in your life.  Ask for patience and the ability to come from compassion as you proceed on your path of change.

Third, know that if you find yourself repeatedly saying something negative, either to yourself or others, there is a good chance you have formed a core belief about this issue in your subconscious.  Therefore, allow your repetitive language to show you what limiting beliefs you may hold.  Once such beliefs are discovered, you can utilize tools such as DNA healing to transform the negative beliefs into positive ones. 

Fourth, when you hear anything about yourself or life, run the idea by your own heart barometer before deciding to make it your truth.  As you move out of confusion and into more clarity in the days to come, we surround you with our love and blessings.  We are The Council of 12.

Transmitted through Selacia * Copyright 2002 * All Rights Reserved

Selacia
Communication for Transformation Group
3111 Fourth Street, #219
Santa Monica, CA  90405, USA
Tel:  (310) 915-2884 * Fax:  (310) 664-6093
E-mail:  Selacia@Selacia.com
Web site:  www.Selacia.com

Column # 6

"Peace is Around the Corner"

by Marion Pargaman

I would like to tell you about a quite extraordinary event that happened to me during a peace walk organized by Tovana, a Vipasana meditation group in Israel.

What happened was a very personal experience but I feel it is important to share it with other people.

The Walk took place on the first week of April. It intended to give an opportunity for Palestinians and Israelis to walk together, to develop dialogue and self introspection, inspired by the ancient traditions that guided people like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

What I experienced on the last day was very much in the spirit of peace and coexistence, of calm and serenity created by the walk in the midst of the atmosphere of insanity and violence around us.

During 8 days, participants walked together from Tel Aviv-Yaffo to Jerusalem, passing by Jewish and Arab towns and settlements, in silence and awareness, declaring a commitment to deep listening and non-violence.

I joined the Walk with a group of Palestinians and Israelis who practice meditation and mindfulness together according to the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk and famous peace worker.

I participated in several days of the Walk.

Monday 8th of April, the last day of the Walk, was the eve of the Holocaust day, a day of deep emotion for the Jewish community.

It went from Ein Kerem, through Jerusalem to the foot of the old city walls.

I planned to join the group from the morning, but after a sleepless night I decided to join later.

* * *

In the early afternoon I park my car at the final meeting place of the Walk. I walk up to the walls of the old city, to meet them on their way. When I get to Jaffa Gate, I find myself in front of a very agitated elderly Arab man exchanging insults with an elderly religious Jew who is standing at a bus station a few meters lower down.

Some policemen from a Border Police patrol are trying to calm them down, so that it won¹t turn into a fight, as they are extremely angry.

I stand beside the Arab, I speak to him calmly and ask him to sit down without reacting to the other¹s provocation.

I am quite impressed by the restraint shown by the policemen .They don¹t defend one side or the other and respect both sides.

The bus arrives, the Jewish man boards the bus and the situation seems to have settled down.

Then, a Jewish woman who was there in the queue from the beginning of the argument, and who did not get into the bus, takes upon herself to start insulting the Arab who reacts immediately.

The police have gone and I am left alone to try to calm the situation.

I give my attention to the Arab who would have stayed quiet if he was not continually provoked by the woman. I try from a distance to reason with her without success.

She stops a passing police car and says something to the policeman who walks up to the Arab. I explain him what is going on and he goes back to the woman.

I am so happy that all the policemen in this situation act so calmly and help to restore peace. Then, a Palestinian woman on her way to Jaffa Gate burst onto the scene; she jumps to the conclusion that the old Arab is under attack and rushes in a frenzy to rescue him.

She yells some insults at the Jewish woman who was beginning to calm down, and the situation heats up again.

All my attention is now focussed on her. I feel she is like a bomb ready to explode.

I try to explain to her what is going on, but she is furious with me, screaming out her hatred, her despair and her pain.

This is Palestine accusing Israel. At this moment I represent Israel for her.

This whole situation is greater than the two of us and takes on proportions beyond our present meeting.

She shouts out her sorrow about what is going on now in the territories, the military incursions into Palestinian towns. She talks in particular about Jenin where some terrible fighting is now taking place. She has family and friends there and she says that our soldiers are war criminals.

She is convinced that we want to kill them all. Why do we hate them so much? They are not responsible for the Holocaust, why should they be paying the price?

She tells me about the refugees and their constant suffering for which we are responsible!

Pointing at the Jewish woman, she assures me that this Sephardi woman was treated with honor, as a human being, in an Arab country from where she comes, and look at how she behaves with Palestinians now!

It goes on and on; she shouts and spews her hatred for Israel at me.

I don¹t try to argue with her at all. I don¹t show any reaction to all these accusations.

I feel a huge compassion and an intense need to listen to her, only listen to her.

My patience is nourished by understanding that behind this overwhelming hatred is a deep suffering and pain aggravated by the present situation of war.

It must express itself in some way so that healing can take place.

I am ready to listen to what appears to me as the worst accusations, distortions or calumnies, without reacting.

I am aware that what reinforces my strength at this moment is that I have absolutely no doubt that the suffering and pain of the Israeli people is not less real and legitimate. I don¹t let myself get tempted or trapped into guilt or anger. I am sorry for the tragedy on both sides. My compassion for her is not on the account of the compassion and sense of loyalty I have for my own people, for myself.

For me this is not an issue of who is right and who is wrong .

I feel very very calm and peaceful deep inside. I know that it is the only way to calm her fury.

I let her express herself for a long time without interrupting her.

As she continues to shout at me, I tell her that she has no need to speak so loudly because I am listening to her with all my attention. At the same time I find myself caressing her arm. She lets me do it and progressively lowers her voice, while continuing to let her despair overflow. She says to me: Do you understand why some of us come and commit suicide among you? You kill us anyway, so why not kill you at the same time? She even mentions the possibility of coming and blowing herself up out of despair.

I tell her softly that I don¹t want her to die. Nobody should come to this decision. We all suffer on both sides.

She goes on and on claiming that the Zionists only want to get rid of the Palestinians. I tell her: You see I am a Zionist and I don't want to get rid of you .I wish we could live together as good neighbours. She listens to me!

She tells me about the demonstration that took place the week before near Ramallah. She complains about the Jewish organizations who took part in it. Then she asks me to donate some money to buy phone cards for Palestinians who need them. I give her some money.

At this stage the conversation is quite normal between us. She doesn¹t shout any more, she is even able to listen to me.

She is almost calm when I notice the people of the Walk approaching us slowly, at the top of the street.

They are in a line, a hundred of them, one after the other walking in silence, slowly, quietly, aware of each step, creating an atmosphere of peace and safety around them. They are very present. They radiate calm and warmth.

I point them out to her and explain that this is the reason I came here, to join a walk of peace in which Palestinians and Israeli are together. I tell her about the Walk, its message of coexistence and peace; peace at every step, here and now.

I suggest that she come into the line with me. She hesitates and rejects my offer.

At this moment they reach us. Several people I know shake my hand warmly as they go by.

A young woman very active in a group of rapprochement between the two peoples, approaches her and gives her a kiss. It appears that they know each other.

I notice that she is very moved by the Walk and the atmosphere it radiates. She seems to me calmer and calmer. Nothing like the furious woman I met only several minutes before.

The end of the line passes by us and I want to join it. Again I invite her and again she declines. I tell her that I understand and respect her decision. Before I go I tell her: I am sure that some day we will succeed in building peace between us. She smiles and replies: Me too.

Then to my total surprise, she comes close to me and kisses me on my cheeks !S

She walks alongside the line for a while. She tells me that she likes this Walk, that it makes her feel good, gives her relief and that her mood is much better now.

I am very very moved. I feel overwhelmed by this encounter, especially by its unexpected ending. Peace was there around the corner, I did not miss it!!

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I was aware that an intense moment of real reconciliation had taken place.

Everything contributed to it. Incredible timing that brought me to this place at this time; that brought her, in her turn, with enough time to first pour out her anger, to receive needed listening and compassion, time to calm down, so that she could be receptive to the subtle quiet energy of the Walk.

The Walk, emanating intense healing, bringing the tangible presence of peace and goodwill of a whole organized group, appeared just in time to complete the scene, adding a wider perspective to an individual encounter.

The thick walls of her hatred were shattered allowing her to express what was deep in her heart.

Kissing me was a miracle!

Within a short period of time, laden with emotions, her energy of hatred and death underwent an incredible transformation.

I don¹t know if, or how quickly, she returned to her initial state or how long she remained calm.

I know that this profound transformation was very real and intense; no matter what followed, it will leave a trace and a memory that cannot disappear.

A seed of peace was sown in her heart. We must plant many more, and water them thoroughly. I never understood so fully the deep meaning of the words pronounced by Thich Nhat Hanh in Shanghai on 19th October, after the 11th September tragedy:

Terror is in the human heart. We must remove this from the heart. Destroying the human heart, both physically and psychologically, is what we should avoid. The root of terrorism is misunderstanding, hatred and violence. This root cannot be located by the military. Bombs and missiles cannot reach it, let alone destroy it. Only with the practice of calming and looking deeply can our insight reveal and identify this root. Only with the practice of deep listening and compassion can it be transformed and removed. Darkness cannot be dissipated with more darkness. More darkness will only make darkness thicker. Only light can dissipate darkness. Those of us who have the light should display the light and offer it so that the world will not sink into total darkness.

This story is not mine alone. I know I have the duty to tell it to as many people as possible, so that planting seeds of peace may go on and on.

Marion Pargamin .Jerusalem.
<marion_p84@hotmail.com>

Column # 7

"Into the Depths"

by Janaka

May all of us, dear God, be still and listen. That we may end such madness.

Janaka currently lives in the Monterey Bay Area in California where he is a Waldorf teacher, artist, writer and tarot reader. He is the author of ‘Silent Ripples: Parables for the Soul’ and ‘Footprints Along the Shore of an Incoming Tide.’ He can be reached at janaka_om@yahoo.com or at 831-484-2354 to order books, set up an appointment to see his art work or for a tarot reading.

Column # 8

"The Pot Of Loving Peace At Rainbows End"

A Message From Archangel Michael June 2, 2002
Channeled Through & Written By Carolyn Ann O'Riley

What a beautiful moment in Now it is My Divine Beautiful Beings Of Light. The Creator sends you all the love that you can ever hold coupled by the presence of the Angelic Kingdom to assist you.

The tides of war are appearing more pressing and looming on your Planet Earth's horizon. Your attention to your thoughts and feelings for love for All is very much needed at this moment in Now. Your concentrated efforts to visualize Peace could divert the events that are trying hard to play themselves out according to all that buy into prophecy.

Remember My Divine Warriors of Light that which is feared is drawn near. There are still so many within the Mass Consciousness that hold the energy and fear of past predictions of Armageddon that it is pulling it closer.

Your efforts are sorely! needed to assist in neutralizing this pull of negativity towards the Earth Plane's old prophesied chain of events.

If you've doubts about your own abilities to stem the activities just look how far you've come My Beloveds. The calendar as you know it was to have stopped at the onset of the year 2000. You are My Beautiful Beings Of Light this powerful, you have just forgotten.

Beloveds this is not to be your fated selected potential within The Creator's Master Blue Prints but it needs your attention to choose the potential of peace instead of the potential of mass annihilation through nuclear war.

Many are leaving the Planet at this time, through natural disasters, crashes, mishaps of all types but this has been their choice My Beautiful Beings Of Light. They felt it was their time to leave and that decision was honored.

Many more will follow due to their own choices and decisions to depart. They have fulfilled thei! r contracts and are Home preparing for their next growth steps on their spiritual spiral of evolution. We decorate them and celebrate their contributions and efforts. We rejoice in their return and watch as each choose their next growth cycle. The Earth Plane is a very difficult atmosphere in which to learn and experience. Many had delayed their departure to help hold the light for the All.

Your energies and efforts to expand your light holding capabilities is very needed. It will take the concerted effort of all active light workers to maintain the growth thus far. It will take stretching to exceed and succeed at bringing Peace and thus Heaven to Earth My Divine Beings of Light.

This is a major clarion call to walk your spiritual talk Beloveds. Your Angels are here to assist you but they need your invitation in order to help you.

You are so very dearly loved, it is so hard to watch as One tries to destroy Another. The Creator never tells One to kill another in Its Name. The Creator, The Angelic Hosts and all Etheric Light Beings of Heaven do not take sides. There is no judgment being imparted within the Heavens simply observation of the actions, cause and effect. There is no Earth Plane competition directed or sanctioned by The Creator to determine what would make one right and another meaningless in the name of what is sacred or spiritually true. You all are of The ONE and thus there is no second best. You all have a unique part to play that no one else can do. No One else can be your puzzle piece. You are truly One Of
A Kind. You are all in perfection within The Creator's Spiritual Heart and this type of injury inflicted One to Another is hard to watch for all within the Heavens and on the Earth Plane.

Feel the love that flows down to you from The Creator and know that you are Its Precious Child. Allow the love to wash over you and fill you so that you do not feel lack or un-love. When ever you feel a need just ask for a spiritual hug and it will be granted no questions asked.

Visualize, if you will, all that are tittering on the brink of violence place them within a glowing pink cloud of love energy. See them being imbued with the Silver Violet Flame of Transmutation should they desire to accept it and utilize its energies to clear themselves of negativity and hatred.

Trying events require more love, more attention to visualization of peace to cool and sooth the swayed anger of those that would harm another in what ever name they declare their hatred to be aimed.

These heated Aspects of the All need to be loved and brought back into the balance of The ONE. Did you ever wonder where the phrase my brother's keeper evolved from. Most spout this phrase as "they are not their brother's keeper" but in Universal truth all are related sparks (precious children) of T! he ONE,  The AM That I AM, therefore, My Beloveds, you are your Brothers Keepers because you are all of The ONE.  Having defined that, it is part of  compassionate unconditional love to embrace All as yourself. You are not responsible for their actions, beliefs, or personal truths but you are to love them unconditionally and with compassion.

Divine Warriors of Light let us  break it down to even more of a simplified explanation: If only one Being within the entire Planet Earth was hurting no matter the cause, it is the responsibility of All the Earth Plane Occupants to send that Being love to help them feel validated so that they can remember once again Who They Really Are and what They are a part of and where They came from. In defining it in those terms My Beautiful Beings Of Light can you not see why there is so much pain? All the tears of all the people that have forgotten that they are loved let alone ! remember that they are apart of the WHOLE that can not be lost regardless of how much they try. No One is ever lost, they have just forgotten Who They Are. When we say "Who They Are" We are describing their Etheric Universal Being here not their Earth Plane physical form. You are spiritual Beings playing on the Earth Plane as a piece of projected materialized physical matter.

As we thank you for your efforts thus far we send you more spiritual love energy. Allow it to enter and give you peace and share it with the All. Send it to the All daily. Include The Mother Earth and all things for they too are part of The ONE. The All deserves love and the All is Divinely entitled to it as part of their spiritual heritage.

Together let us journey in meditation. With your permission I'll accompany you.

Find a quiet spot where you will not be disturbed for a while. You may either sit or lie down which ever is more comfortable for you. Cover your physical self with a light blanket if you chill easily.

Invite in at this moment all that you would have join you on this journey. In your imagination request through prayer to The Creator to send you down a protective Ray of White Light by saying "My Creator I ask for a protective Ray of White Light to enfold me and lift me up so that I may experience the very highest of  vibrations during this journey into my most inner depths of understanding and Being. I desire to protect myself from anything that is not for my highest good on this journey. I thank you My Creator for assisting me by sending this Ray that is now coming down through the corner of the area where I am meditating and entering into this physical form, permeating all that is within this Beingness's
presence." The Creator has gifted you with a White Ray and a Golden Ray for this adventure. It is entering into your body through the soles of your feet and moving up through your physical vessel permeating through out all of your energies fields and into all corners of the area that you are in, then exiting through your Crown Chakra. It is returning to The Creator and cycling back down through you again and back to The Creator in a circular motion.

You are now divinely protected and nothing can even  communicate with
you that is not for your highest good with out your permission at this moment.

We ask you further to direct your ego self to perch on your left shoulder at this moment. Instruct your ego self that it is to only be an observer on this journey.

Breath in deeply Divine Warriors of Light and feel the lighter relaxed feelings of being divinely guided into this adventure.

Breath in deeply allowing and seeing within your imagination your Highest Guidance join you and take your etheric hand to guide you into your Heart Chakra.

Your Highest Guidance! accompanied by your Angels, Guides and special
invited guests are now within your Heart Chakra and as you locate and turn the door knob of the golden door that says "To My Highest Guidance Within" you cross over the threshold.

You find yourself and your invited guests in a white marble corridor. Looking all around you become confused by all the different doors and conveyance systems available to you here. Your Angels sense your confusion and guide you to the elevator.

You enter the elevator and notice that the Angel has pushed the down button. You look very puzzled because here there is to be no down button. Your Angels explain to you that this time there is a down button because you must descend to the 3rd dimension to perform your work. They continue telling you that those that you will be helping during this meditation are stuck within the 3rd dimension. Your Angels tell you further that you currently are personally in t! he high 4th to beginning stages of 5th dimension within your own spiritual growth. You shake your head in acceptance of their information.

You think to yourself you had not realized that you would be helping others on this journey, usually you would be meditating to further your own personal remembrance work. Your Angels are reading your thoughts and are smiling, they've come to embrace you for your thoughts are confirming that this feels very good for you to help another.

As the elevator goes down to the 3rd level you begin feeling like every joint in your body hurts the pressure of going lower than your current vibration is something that you do not enjoy. Your are feeling heavier and heavier. You finally reach the 3rd level and the elevator stops. The elevator door opens and you exit into a hot dusty place. You see only a few blades of grass. Your mood feels depressed and your Angels tell you to take a deep breath that your work today is so very needed and will be appreciated.

You continue walking to the spot where you see several Angels up ahead stopped. They tell you to stop here and just sit down on the ground. They hand you a vessel and ask you to place all of your concerns and hurts within the vessel. They inform you that you must be a very clear Being in order to make this the most effective purest energy that can be utilized for the good all others.

You do as instructed and you do feel better even a little lighter now. You ask what is next. The Angels tell you that at this spot you will visualize a giant rainbow. At its tallest point its arch  will go up into the 6th dimension an at its beginning and ending points it will be back down into the 3rd dimension. At the ending point a pot will be created. Within this pot a supply of loving peace will be available. Those that desire loving peace can come and drink of the love and peaceas if they would be drinking clear cold water. The loving peace drink will be soothing and assist in bringing the Being back into harmony and balance with their Highest Good. Because this elixir will be so nourishing it will be desired by all that partake of it.

You tell the Angels that you are ready to begin and ask what you need to do. The Angels tell you that you are going to close your eyes and create with your highest energy through visualization this giant rainbow.  You do as instructed and there the rainbow appears all around you.

You become the beginning point of the rainbow. You are sitting in the beginning opening mouth of this giant rainbow arch. You look for a few moments because it is so very beautiful. You always liked to look at rainbows. You can feel the rainbow's colors wrapping themselves around you, embracing you and loving you for this work that you are doing.

You are next instructed to see your! self continually generating a wave of continual love and peace coming from your Heart Chakra that will travel through the rainbow's colored arch.

You begin this process and see the energy waves coming from your Heart Chakra. You find this visualization fascinating and very pleasurable. The wave is imbued with all the radiant qualities that the colors can add to it as it passes through the rainbow arch to the other side. The wave energy is converting into a liquid form as it approaches the other side.

At the end point of the rainbow arch the Angels have placed a large golden pot. The Angels are watching it as the first drops of love and peace emerge from the rainbow arch to fill the pot. The pot continues to fill. They tell you that it is now filled to the brim and that you can stop.

You stop your work and bring your concentration back to the location where you are sitting. The rainbow continues to stay in place. The Angels ask you now to stand up and they hand you a pair of binoculars. They point your gaze to the far end of the rainbow. You see the pot of loving peace sitting there. Then you notice that the rainbow's end is located in a war zone with a battle going on all around it.

You watch with your binoculars as a solider finally turns around and sees the giant rainbow. The solider looks rather puzzled but pulls their attention away from the battle and walks over to the pot. An Angel dressed in disguise as a common wanderer asks if they would like a cooling drink from the pot. The exhausted solider shakes his head in acceptance. The Angel takes the drinking ladle and scoops the special beverage into it and hands it to the solider.

The solider takes one swallow and you see his expression change as he experiences the effects of the liquid. The solider can't explain it but he is now smiling and feeling calmer and more at ease. Finishing his first drink the solider asks for another drink. The disguised Angel gladly assists in providing the solider with another portion of the beverage. The solider this time thanks the Angel for the drink. He smiles feeling quieter more serene now.

The solider hands the ladle back to the disguised Angel and heads in the opposite direction of the fighting. The disguised Angel calls after the solider and tells him that the battle is that way. The solider turns to the disguised Angel and says, "I don't need to fight anymore, I am no longer angry. I am going home and give my wife and children a hug. I haven't seen them in weeks. This war is no longer of interest to me, the cause is no longer my truth." The disguised Angel smiles for the special beverage has indeed done its work.

The Angels turn and thank you. You feel such joy at being able to do this. You know that if no other solider turns and sees the rainbow and comes for a drink that you have helped at least one person find that they are loved. What a special gift you have given that person the Angels communicate with you.

You are pleased with the outcome. The Angels ask you to do this as often as possible so that more and more can be touched with your compassion and love.

The Angels take your hand and guide you back down the path, back into the elevator and they push the button up. You feel the weight being taken off of you as you ascend. The Angels ask if you want to take back your concerns from the vessel. You tell them no and they transmute the contents in front of your eyes. The elevator doors open and you find yourself back in the white marble corridor.

They guide you back over the threshold back into your Heart Chakra, then back into your physical form.

They tell you to wiggle your figures and your toes and when you are ready to open your eyes. They ask you to sit quietly for a few minutes as you have used a lot of energy with this meditation. They tell you to reground and continue your day when you are ready.

My Beautiful Beings of Light you are so dearly loved more than any Earth language can ever convey. I send you All The Creator's love and gratitude.

I Am Archangel Michael, The Creator's Messenger of Peace, Light, Love,
Wisdom and Truth.

Channeled through and Written by Carolyn Ann O'Riley.

This is copyrighted material.  

Share this message with those that you love and watch as the love is sent around the world to return itself to you multiplied a hundred fold.

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Column # 9

"In The Heart of God...You Are Found"

By Vanessa Stone

Holiness is your birthright. The Love of God is impossible to contain. The Love encapsulates every Breath. Breathe with Consciousness, this is the Breath of God that is being offered, Holy Breath.

 God is a living essence within you, a heart within a heart, longing to be realized.

Self-Inquiry and cleansing of the Heart uncover one’s Divine Essence. This Essence is the holy nectar from which all Creation is made manifest; it is The Ocean of Divine Love and Grace, which make up the very fabric of your being. To be in a state of optimal health, it is vital to drink from this Ocean within. Allow yourself to be nourished from the very Source of your Divine Essence. The Ocean is always available; in fact, if one turns all attention to the very core of one’s heart, a longing is realized, The Ocean revealed. Every Breath is pointing you there, every moment the Heart of God is calling you to return to this Source of all that you are seeking.

 Love is the Guide; invite Grace to wash over your heart until all that is left is the Jewel of Truth. The Jewel of Truth radiates the Light of God that will illuminate the Way of Love. Surrender is the willingness to drown in the deep mystery of this Ocean of Divine Love’s Grace, to embrace the Heart of All Matter, to be the Master and the Slave at the same time. What a gift it is to experience the beginning and the end all in the same breath. This moment is the richest offering ever offered, this Ocean is the most healing water ever drank, rest in the Heart of God, allow yourself to be held, drink and be drunk.

 If one wants to know how to unlock the secrets of this universe, one simply has to stop the wanting and say yes to the invitation that the moment is offering. Stop searching around in the many corridors of the Mind; stop the unwillingness to surrender and travel within. The Truth is longing to be realized. It is here and now, the vastness of this universe is dripping with the very nectar that is the Essence of your Being. Begin the discovery.     

For more information about Vanessa, the Foundation for Divine Consciousness or Divine Essence School for Healing and Awakened Consciousness, please call (512) 371-0404 or www.divineconsciousness.org.  

Column # 10

"An Easy Way to Develop Your Psychic Abilities"

By Stephanie Yeh

Before you waste any time wondering if you have any psychic abilities or whether you can actually develop them, let me clear up the issue by saying that you do have psychic abilities and you can easily develop them. Everyone has psychic abilities! The question is how you develop them. 

Would you believe that you can radically increase your psychic abilities by practicing for 5-10 minutes a day? All you need is pen and paper. Don't think about your psychic abilities as something "special" or "difficult to learn. Learning to use your psychic abilities is no more difficult than learning to bake a cake - you're just using different ingredients!

Before we dive into instructions about how to increase your abilities, let's define what we mean by psychic abilities. In shamanic terms, call these abilities "Spirit perceptics" or "Spirit abilities." other words, these are abilities beyond your five senses that are part of your Spirit. You can use these abilities to access information way beyond what you can see, hear, touch, taste or smell. With these abilities you can access almost any kind of information, talk to spirits or beings who have died and much more.  

Here's a simple exercise that will help you develop your psychic abilities. With this exercise your goal is to practice using your Spirit abilities to access information that you can't access with your five senses. Here's how you do it:

1. Bring pen, paper and a watch or timer to a very public location that has lots of people. Fast food restaurants, airports or malls are good places to start.

2. Seat yourself in a comfortable location where you can easily write, observe people and see your timer or clock.

3. Pick a person to observe (you will need to observe him or her for 30 seconds). Set your timer for 30 seconds and start writing. 

4. Write anything and everything that comes up about that person, whether you can directly observe it or not. It's easier to start by writing what you can observe about the person (such as hair color, clothing, activities and so forth). Don't think about what you are writing and don't allow yourself to pause. Don't worry about whether you're observations are correct or not. Write as much as you can and as fast as you can.

5. Once the 30 seconds is up, pick another person to observe, set your timer and start writing.

6. Observe 10 people during a span of 5 minutes.

To give you an example of what you might right, look at the paragraph below:

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Man, blond hair, jeans, has kids, mustache, kind, loves sports, likes water, has a brother, works outdoors, in tune with Nature, born in the West or has a connection to the West, nice tan, sneakers, talking with someone, talks with hand gestures, works well with hands, sensitive hands, sensitive nature, enjoys people, likes the color red, wears red a lot, brown eyes, around 40, jazz music, smiles a lot.

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You'll notice in the short description above that there are many descriptions that can be seen with the five senses - the color of his hair, the way he talks with his hands, the color of his eyes and his tan. In between, though, are descriptors that can't be seen with the five senses - that he has a brother, he is in tune with Nature, likes the color red and jazz music. Notice that I didn't write that he likes jazz music, plays jazz music or listens to jazz music. I just wrote "jazz music." There may be someone around him to plays jazz music or he may like to listen to jazz music. Those details didn't come up so I just wrote jazz music. Be sure to write whatever comes up - no editing!!

 It doesn't matter if any of your descriptions, especially those that are done with Spirit abilities, are actually correct. The goal is to practice accessing information with these abilities. The correctness of your observation will improve with time. Practice this exercise as often as you can - any time you are waiting for a bus, sitting at a restaurant or resting in a public setting. If you don't get out much, you can do the same exercise by turning the volume off your TV and observing the people on TV.

You'll find that with practice you will develop the ability to simply look at people and know what they are like, what's going on in their lives and what is important to them. The more you practice, the better you'll get. The key is not to get attached to the correctness of what you right. The less you judge yourself the more correct your observations will become. Good luck!

Want to find out more about how you can develop your psychic and magical abilities? For a more advanced exercise, send a blank email to psychic@shamanschool.com. Or, check out the courses, online community, apprenticeship program and free ezine offered at the Esoteric School of Shamanism and Magic: http://www.shamanschool.com .

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Column # 11

"Heal Yourself: Leap into the Next Dimension"

By Stars of Celestial Waters through Rochelle Diane Sparrow

 

We see that you have come to join us to expand your higher state of being.  We appreciate your journey.  Now let's begin.

You have asked us to come to you for a specific cause.  You want to know if you are at a higher vibration and you doubt your learning.  You are incorrect to doubt.  Your journey has led you to us.  You have asked us to support you in your vibrational growth.  We have heard your request.   We  answered your request by providing  greater vibrational learning.  Now begin to trust what you know .  Your mistrust is what is is disavowing your ability to utilize your gains in experience this last month.  Greater condition exists for your ability to communicate telepathically and greater condition exists for your new ability to move forward in vibration towards harmonic flow into manifestation of the universal quest for peaceful relations.  IT IS TRUTH.  There is no need to doubt what you know and understand to be your vibrational attunement towards higher vibrational capacity.  Now let's explain what you are experiencing.

Lets begin by understanding that your vibration is moving at a rapid pace.  Often you may feel as though there is a great shift towards speeding up momentum in your daily affairs.  It is as through your experiences in your life are moving rapidly toward chaotic jumbleness.  It is more than your life experience that is being accelerated.  It is your speed of integration of intention toward peace that is accelerating the events in your life.  Your movement is very quick and it is the movement which is creatively exploring the higher rates of vibrational activity.  You feel chaotic when in fact, you are not experiencing a chaotic personal environment.  This surprises you, the split shifts you see in your immediate environment.  It is as though you belong in three different worlds.  The first is your feeling of chaotic jumbleness, the second is your manifested personal world, and the third  is the greater world which surrounds you.  You are often wondering which world you belong to.  You are correct.  You do not belong to any one.  You belong to one of inter-dimensional co-existence within all worlds.

You belong to the world of movement.  This world brings forth change in rapid vibrational shifts that create greater perceived distance from other dimensions..  In other words, you clearly see the shift and this is what feels unsettling to you.

You need to see this shift because it clearly validates the other worldly feeling that you are experiencing.  It is this other worldly experience we will explain next. 

You must begin to see that your other worldly vision of the world in harmony is coming about as truth.  You will experience harmonic changes in the world within the next five to ten months.  You will see that you have begun to change and that your beginning is what is the beginning for harmonic change in the greater world around you.  Welcome to yourself.  Welcome to you within the fourth dimension. 

It is our wish that your greater understanding of your  current shift will help you expand your fourth dimensional consciousness.  Now, this fourth dimensional consciousness is what will guide the current development of the flow of the world's harmonic vibrations  and the concrete resources that exist on your planet.  You will no longer experience the great chasm of great energy toward amassing of natural resources for personal gain and regulation.  There will be greater chasm between those who want peace and those who dislike war than those who want to control the world's resources.  It is this shift which will begin to create the justification for greater use of technological advances which you have gained in the last millennium.  It is this greater shift we will now explain for your greater understanding.

You have begun to see yourselves as believers of the great chasm that exists between your abilities to war and your abilities to create harmonic flow towards peace.  You see this in constant manifestation in your intention.  You see the pain of those people who are not unlike you suffering.  You want a solution to what is occurring and you want greater solution toward's world peace.  Now you understand  that your vibrational capacity can now create more peaceful relations between countries.  It is your vibrational capacity towards the fourth dimension which has helped you obtain a peaceful vision of the world. 

You are about to begin your journey.  Look into your third eye with the presence of your mind.  Be present in your third eye.  Within the matrix configurations that your third eye vibrates you will produce an inter-dimension that will co-create with intention what you want manifested.  It is your intention that vibrates within the matrix of the third eye that produces in concrete form, intention.  Now, let's begin.

Sit in a relaxed position.  Feel yourself present with your surroundings.  Your focus will shift automatically to a slower pace in keeping with the rotational vibration of your earth.  You are now in the present. 

Begin to breath in peace.  Hold the thought in your third eye of peace as you intentionally focus on bringing the energy of peace within your emotional vibrations.  Now as you hold this vibration of yourself in total vibration of  peace, you will note that you are quickly responding to feeling safe, relaxed and peaceful.  This is your gift to you.  Your great ability to create and respond to your creation in concrete manifested form. 

Your gift for co-creation is what will create for you your dream of inter-dimensional existence.  Your recognition of other dimensions has created within a desire to move into other dimensional life.  This other dimensional life is what will co-create peace that is constant, healing (both physical and emotional) and joy.  That is what you desire and that is what you will create.   We help you with  your expansion towards fullness of spirit present upon earth.  It is our profession that we guide you towards preparation in spirit to reach your highest potential of  being.  You understand that your highest potential is the success you will attain in knowing all the dimensions existent within the universe.  EXPANSION IS WHAT WE ARE PROVIDING FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE.  EXPANSION IS WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS MILLENNIUM.

Now understand, that your consciousness is expandable with your knowledge and intent of expansion.  IT IS YOUR MIND THAT CREATES BLOCKS AND IT IS YOUR MIND THAT  CAN  BE UNBLOCKED.  Begin to see yourselves as free beings and expandable beings.  Begin to see that your consciousness is quite fluid in motion and that fluid consciousness is what will send you towards other dimensional life.

We are helping you attain the greater consciousness that you want.  You understand that old energies that no longer serve your being are being discarded by your focus and intent on higher dimensions of vibrations that include graciousness, love and peace.  You are beginning to see that there is greater dimensional capacity in your field of consciousness.  You understand that when you expand your being you are allowing your consciousness to be present in the fields of love which generates peace and grace for all.  Now think of yourselves as in love with yourself.  Think of yourself as able to see yourselves in freedom and in spaces of freedom within life.  In other words, you experience freedom in each moment. 

You limit yourself with ideas that contain old notions of what reality is.  In order to let go, see yourselves as free agents in choosing ideas that support being open and support knowing there exists a void of increasing dimensional existence which supports your existence upon earth.  It is your existence we will speak of next.

There is a great dimensional ability that iis now currently open.  This opening is proportionately akin to the matrix of portals existent within the aura of the earth. This matrix  is composed of many centrifugal portals of energies above your earth's atmosphere and swirls energies upward from your earth into the body of the universe which is the body of the Source.  Once this energy is received by the Source it  is transmuted into a higher vibration, if the energy is open to knowing higher vibrations of existence.  In other words, the vibrational content of the energy that is echoed back from the earth to the Source must include a proportionate openness of energy in order for more varied types of energy to be received. 

It is your openness that is vital to reception.  It is your openness that will allow you to experience the full advantage of the the 16th overall matrix that is above your earth presently.  It is this matrix that will bring you into the sixth and seventh dimensional capacity.  The tools of inter-dimensional travel are love, graciousness and peace.  It is these three items we will discuss next.

Love is the presence that provides greater ability to know yourself through the acceptance of others in totality.  You see, you are mirrored in others around you.  Your aspects of being are viewed in totality in essence around you.  It is a universal law that like attracts like.  And like you, others are drawn towards you showing you yourself.  It is this opportunity that is present in your life that is your blessing from the universe, to view yourself in total, with clarity, by the outward acts of others around you.  

You can begin to view yourself with greater ease by understanding that the concrete exploration of your view of yourself is meant to serve your healing.  It is strictly designed to help you know yourself without blame.  It is the opportunity to love yourself through loving the value and validity of others around you.   It is the opportunity to understand receptiveness of the Source which is ever present within the state of grace. 

With grace comes the art of peace, creatively manifested through your learning about life without judgment or blame.   in others words, you create peace when guilt and blame no longer exist nor occlude your process of growth.  You stretch your growth and you expand towards freedom creatively exploring the realms of your existence without blocks self created by guilt or variants of guilt:  shame and self doubt. 

You can begin to clear yourself of shame, self doubt and guilt by understanding that you are starving yourself of love  and that love will automatically shift your focus towards grace.   Grace will shift your being into other dimensional capacity. 

You will be forced to shift into other dimensions due to the abilities that others are opening up in their own ability to understand and use other dimensional reality.  We mean forced because their shift into other dimensional reality will bring new abilities that unconsciously affect your ability to view your extensive talents to tap into telepathy, energy expansion and increased healing capacity.  Forced, in the sense that you too will shift and expand as the balance of humanity explores and accepts other dimensional capabilities. 

There is a great new world that is open to the expanded view of human exploration.  You are adventurers of co-created  reality, and you as co-creator, wish to see what lies further ahead in your development.  It is your development we will focus on next.

You are beginning a journey.  It is a journey into the atmospheric regions of your being, of God, of your planet.  It is your atmosphere around your physical being and around your planetary being which co-creates and manifests physical reality.  You manifest through your intention, your emotions and the vibrational capabilities that exist in the matrix surrounding your earth, as well as the co-creative vibrational field provided by the Source.  It is these elements that are existent upon your earth that create concrete recognition of the world in which you reside.  Your ability to vibrate up to a higher state is most important to co-create peace, justice and harmonic flow and balance of your planet.  There is greater advantage to understanding your ability to adjust to the open dimensional capacity that is acquirable at this juncture.  All that is required is subconscious recognition that higher vibrational status exists, the conscious intent to expand and the ability to have trust and faith in God, your Source. 

It is with great pleasure that we help you expand into other dimensional existence.  It is in the service of the Source that we pride ourselves and that we are proud to serve you.  Understand that our coexistence is a creative effort to serve your higher good.  Now we will bring you to a place of greater commonality with the Source. 

Begin to draw in your energy.  Relax your body, close your eyes, intend on being present in the space you are currently in.  Be fully aware of your breathing.  Breathe in and out.  Notice how your breathing becomes gentle as you focus on pulling in air from the Source and expelling air to the Source.  Notice that you are now communicating with the Source.  Expel air, draw in air.  Continue to breathe   Breathe in, breathe out. 

Now as you draw in your next breath, see in your mind's eye, the third eye existent between your brows, the Source.  What is it that you encounter?  What do you view?  What is it that you can grasp with your mind?  See it.

Continue to breathe in and out with the understanding that you can now see and touch the Source.  You can feel and sense the Source with your mind and with your breath.  You hear him with your inner ear and this shocks you.  What does he sound like? 

He sounds like joy humming a tune of great love.  It is your own being, vibrating in spirit, vibrating in love.  It is love you hear.  The great vibrational hum of co-creation within the state of love.  You understand now, you hear yourself. 

Stand.  Face south.  While facing south, breathe in and out.  Notice the even movement of your breath in and out.  Feel the energy of the south come into your being.  Notice the fiery warmth.  See it in your mind's eye, your third eye.  Feel the warmth fill your body.  See it as yourself being filled with the creative force of God's ability to manifest concrete truth through spirit.  You are facing the cauldron of the Source.  You are facing the anvil of co-creation.  You can make what you want with this particular energy.  What is your passion?  Bring it forth into daylight and hammer it into being.  Co-create your desire.  See it form into the concrete finished  product of your dream.  It is your dream that you manifest.  It is your will of the dream that creates the product of your intention.  See it manifest with passion. 

Now face the west.  Create drama by using the forces that exist in nature.  Bring in the wind.  Bring in the rain.  See it storm around you in your mind's eye.  See lightning flash.  See rainbows appear.  This is the energy that clears.  Clears emotions.  Clears sadness, clears anxiety.  Clears anger.  This is the energy that can begin anew with greater understanding of  its drama.  It is a healing power center that understands the emotional vortexes existent within the human aura.  These energies begin newer pathways formulated from older cleared pathways that existed for emotional manifestation within the human aura.  When you face west and allow yourself grief, when you allow yourself to let go of the old, you cleanse your emotional aura and begin the process of allowing new pathways to be made within the emotional aura.  You set yourself free to new experiences that begin  your evolution towards greater capacity for emotional fulfillment.  And then you rest to see the next day in the east, the new sun.

Now face the east.  Move towards the sun in your mind's eye, your third eye.  .  Feel the heat.  Feel it begin to burn,  Feel the sun burning into your being.  Allow the sun to burn into your core.  Fell the sun burning into the center of your being.  You are burning away.  You are becoming ashes, melting away into the earth.  Now see earth becoming molded into a new being right now.  See yourself becoming alive.  See the earth forming into a new you.  You are becoming alive.  You are becoming new.  This is a new you, a new being being brought forth from destruction. 

Now face the north.  Feel the north wind flow through your veins.  Feel it freeze your blood.  Feel your body move into non-motion.  Feel yourself frozen.  You are stuck.  You cannot see far ahead.  Only the snowy white horizon is within sight.  You cannot see as the snow becomes thick.  Now you cannot feel as your body begins to die.  You cannot see survival ahead and you die where you lay.  Your body now knows death but your mental consciousness continues life.  You are in shock.  You continue life.  You continue movement.  You continue the excitement and adventure of living.  You are no longer aware of death, you know only freedom.  You now know the eons of existence you own within your soul.  There is no life, only death and in death exists only life.  You have come to the north through the circle of life and found in death the wisdom of the eternal void where all creation exists. 

You are beginning to see your flexibility in consciousness.  As you begin to move your energy forward into expansion, you will create an eventual flow of creation in coexistence with the flow created by the Source in unison, joint movement.  In other words, as you grow, so does the Source, your universe.  As you expand and flow out, so does the Source expand and flow out.

Your continual growth allows the Source to gain clearer reference and focal point of destination to unfold and create momentum towards growth.  Your ability to create is as vast as the universe.  Your ability for choice is limitless and your ability to choose is within your will.  We guide you towards higher choices in vibration, but your choice is within and creates your power.  It is now up to you to choose choice for your betterment, to see the vast limitless ability of your choice and that you can create a world of harmonic peace. 

Create a sense of love for all who surrounds you,  Know that you are blessed with grace, that grace continues to abide by its own law of constant and stable forgiveness and through this very act of forgiveness growth is constantly accumulated.  Growth that is accumulated will be brought forward into manifestation into concrete format.  This will continue your growth process by allowing you to witness the very act of your vibrational status on the earth's vibrational status with the Source's power which co-creates physicality.  You are Gods and goddesses upon your earth operating with ease in manifesting your vibration and creating the world around you.  Continue your healing and continue the conclusion of healing vibrational frequencies that interfere with your leap into greater dimensional expansion.  You understand healing is key here.  Heal yourself and heal society's ills , the world around you will create peace, justice will flow into the hearts of those around you and the leap for humankind will manifest for all.  

Your creation upon the earth plane is meant for equality to manifest.  Without equal ability to use the power of the Source, you cannot create harmonic resonance within the Source that will manifest the total ability of the power within the Source.  Know that you can begin to use your own power to communicate within the Source and know power.  However, your earthly life will continue to include war and disease without equal freedom for all until all manifest communication and connection with the power available within the Source to harmonize all energies equally for peace, justice and freedom. 

To focus on yourself is the product of this treatise.  To understand harmony within yourself is what you must gain to continue evolution of the race and of yourself.  To understand evolution, understand that you will succeed within self to gain harmonic balance .  In other words, shift towards harmonic balance and you will shift towards freedom and equality for all. 

Create freedom for yourself now.  Know yourself in freedom by treating others justly.  See others residing in peace while being in the midst of conflict.  Know that peace is possible.  Do not doubt knowing and do not doubt love that is ever present to support your knowing.  See yourselves as free spirits, creative, industrious and alive with the passion of creation.  Manifest spirit in every minute and corner of your life and see your life flower into freedom.  Become a role model for the citizens of your world and you will become a role model for all within the universe. 

There will be a drastic change yet to come.  In the year 3000 much strength will be accumulated towards peace, justice and freedom.  A great shift will occur and this shift will create a lack of war and chaos  concerning world affairs.  There will be cohesive efforts to create connective force throughout the world.  IT IS YOUR EFFORTS NOW which are going to facilitate changes in the next millennium. 

Now go into the world with knowledge of your own importance.  Know that you are free to explore your creative impact in manifestation of freedom.  Know that you share freedom by becoming free.  Know that you harmonize freedom by becoming peaceful and accepting humanity as humanity stuggles for change. 

copyright 2003

Rochelle Diane Sparrow

(602) 430-6447

rochelledianesparrow@hotmail.com

www.rdsparrow.com

Column # 12

"You are Source: The New Era Begins"

By Stars of Celestial Waters through Rochelle Diane Sparrow

You are now going to experience a swift change.  Forces are colluding in nature to help propagate strength in nature to heal the earth.  The earth changes that have become manifest are not structured for cataclysmic episodic change, but rather gentle upheavals to fasten the ground into certain patterns of natural formation to create a healing atmosphere for the earth's physicality.  You are incorrect to assume that earth changes are chaotic, destructive forces aimed at creating upheaval for people.  There is a subconscious wave of energetic thought that is inconclusive and incorrect in determining that the earth is rejecting human kind for its destructive disrespect towards the surface of its being.  There is going to be greater change in the atmosphere of your world.  Release is now occurring.  Greater release of suffering will now begin.  The shift has now begun towards greater upheaval in world affairs.  You are going to see another war.  There is going to be greater unrest and diversive forces will continue to manifest creating social injustice. 

Now begin to see these changes as spiritual upheavals for your betterment.  This greater chaotic change that creates unrest and social injustice will not be successful in the precision of controlling world resources.  This greater social injustice will create a focal point for pulling together light and people who create light.  There will be mass demonstrations, people will cry out for peace and PEACE WILL PREVAIL.  Now understand that this unjust war will be for the rich and greedy to pull together their resources to control the world's resources. 

You know your power to pull together light.  You will begin to see that your focus on light will create change.  You can continue to create change by continuing to focus light on the creation of peace.  YOU WILL SEE CONCRETE RESULTS. 

Those of you who have begun to manifest grace in your life have already begun to manifest peace within your being.  You see that grace has granted you peace and you are correct to assume that continued creation of grace will create greater peaceful relations within yourself and external to yourself.  You are going to witness a shift within this century of dimensional states due to the practice of allowing and accepting grace into your being. 

You are wondering how this could occur, this strange new event.  It is not new and it's strangeness is not novel.  It is you demonstrating to yourself that your love for yourself continues to expand through the dimensions.  Grace is unlimited acceptance of all of humanity in all it's progressive formulas.  Remember, you are an experiment in progression, and as such, you constantly gain awareness through states that may be viewed as injurious to humankind.  It is within these darkened states of existence that you yearn for and explore light.  It is through knowing yourself through the acceptance of knowledge and seeing yourself with complete clarity through the tool of light that  humanity's ability to move forward exists.  There is greater dimensional capacity accumulating in this month of chaotic diversive force.  There is a greater maximum thrust and impetus for peace.  There is greater allowance for grace to exist in and through all dimensions without boundaries. 

It is now time to focus your entire consciousness on peace.  We will begin to align the power of forces that exist upon your sphere of existence.  You are going to see a shift in your consciousness after your proceed with this meditation.

Begin to breathe deeply.  Focus on the breath in and out in and out.  Notice the tension begin to leave your body.  See that you are beginning to relax.  As you relax breathe in deeply.  Breathe in and out in and out.  Notice that you are beginning to seek peace within your mind.  In your third eye, see the green hills of healing before you.  See the green extending out for miles.  See the green hills becoming filled with people.  Many people are coming out and surrounding you on the green hills.  They surround you for miles.  They are of all different religions.  There are many races.  The colors of their skin glow in the bright sky.  They speak in harmony.  They speak with one language.  They speak to you now.  This is what they say:  "We are coming together in harmony.  We are coming together as one.  We know you are one with us.  Join us."  You begin to walk towards the group.  You feel a kinship and you feel a harmonic flood of new truth enter your realm of knowledge.  You are a natural bridge, a connective soul, whose vibrational capacity creates a larger scope of knowing.  Your knowing proceeds to combine with greater dimensional capacity for greater sources of knowledge to enter the group experience.  YOU ARE SUDDENLY BECOMING VERY MUCH AWARE THAT OTHERS ARE RECEIVING THE SAME INFORMATION.  You are all operating from the same Source of knowledge which continually grows in inter-dimensional space and creative ability to heal and to transmit knowledge and communication within the totality of the group as one being. 

You wake up from the trance of your knowledge and you look around you.  As you see the entire flow of humanity before you, you begin to notice that there is little that separates you. You notice different cloths, different hair styles different skin colors, but you dismiss these differences as choices in styles of wearing different accouterments in presentation and in magnetizing certain vibrational frequencies to come to life in your particular arena within the world in which you live.

Your vibrational presentation in which you were born is to help you, not hinder you, in gaining greater ability to heal.  In other words, your healing contains a model of vibrational strength which creates continued growth for those individuals drawn magnetically into your field of being.  You bring health to all those around you with your greater capacity to heal yourself.  You bring others the model of vibrational healing for them to copy, to feel, to see and to explore within themselves. 

Your vibrational capacity carries within  a magnetic flow of energy sources which vibrate according to your current emotional state.  You change your emotional state and you change your vibrational flow.  Now, in order to change your vibrational flow towards health, you must begin to train your mind to see yourself as healthy. 

Your mind in the flow of health is what begets health.  Your mind in the flow of creativity is what creates the power and presence of healing.  Your mind creates healing as a response to your own call for health.  Your mind in co-creation with the Source, draws upon the energies of the Source and creates a flow of healing energy which synchronizes with your mental capacity to allow healing energy to flow.  In other words, if your mind is blocked from healing, you will block the healing flow of energy from the Source. 

Now this is a treatise designed to help you function optimally in health.  When you are sick, you believe in sickness and this emotional vibration of illness supercedes your ability to heal and to seek health.  In this particular mode of influence, you influence your emotional aura and change and bock the vibrational flow towards health.  In other words, you can choose to dismiss illness. You can choose to believe that illness exists.

Now understand that your ability to seek health creates greater emotional vitality.  You will find peace within the vibration of health and greater compassion for those beings who presents themselves as unhealthy.  You will feel their vibration as suppressed and suffocating , because indeed they are dismissing their own vitality from their beings.  Present them with healing by becoming role models for healing.

Now understand again that your role model for healing is quite contrary to what may seem healing for these particular beings.  They may see you as arrogant and unable to understand their plight and/or victimization.  Understand their plight as within their own being and their choice as victimization.

You are going to reach a certain vibrational frequency when the choice becomes health.  You will automatically incorporate peace into your vibrational frequency.  No longer will judgments be present or the need for judgment to fulfill your ego to absolve insecurity need be present.  You will gain greater strength in understanding the totality of connection between yourself and humanity.  Oneness will be an actuality, not a dream. 

Now understand that this greater capacity for peace is expansive and present.  You will gain peace with your greater healing.  You will gain choices to view others with compassion and you will let go of judgment because judgment will no longer be necessary to help bolster your failing image of yourself as strong and healthy.  

There are greater choices ahead.  You will be forced to view the greater choices you have made as witness to your co-creative manifestation.  You will witness greater chaos and conflict in world affairs.  However, as a witness you will gain greater impetus to change form from within.  You will see with clarity that what you have co-created with destructive force and intention will not create peace.  You will see that your manifestation of conflict is without end.  You will prove to be the last witness of your overall collective denial. 

You will begin to see a greater accumulation of people who come together in groups and who stimulate each other's knowledge of the current matrix vibration of energy which then expands to grater heights of knowledge due to vibrational input and exchange of energetic knowledge.  The new accumulation of knowing will expand, strengthen and stabilize within one year.  There are greater changes to come for humanity is explorational in nature and disease is also explorational in nature.  Therefore, these two particular energies collide and often exchange energy for mutual balance and resolvement. 

This particular increase in vibrational knowledge will eventually result in resolvement of disease.  You will see greater fluctuations and polarization of particular diseases that will strengthen their impact on humanity to continue to strengthen the will and intention of humanity to clear disease.  There is much accumulation of death that is along this particular path of existence and will be beneficial globally in helping humanity as a whole dispel disease.  In other words, you will begin to see disease as invaluable in teaching you the lessons of light and accumulation of power directed from the Source to heal disease.  Disease will be eradicated. 

Now you are part and parcel of the New Era that is now being created, consolidated and expanded.  The New Era is foretold in the Mayan calendar as an Era of greater strength and change.  There Era also hints of disaster due to various interpretations.  This is incorrect.  However, what is correct is the new exchange of energy which will occur due the expanded knowledge and acceptance of human capacity to explore and know the nature of Source.  You are Source.  Source is not within you or throughout you but IS you.  This IS your nature. 

There will be many like-minded Individuals who will come together in portals and vortexes and they will generate greater condition for others to congregate.  These particular people are specialized within the sphere of teachers and they are leaders in their particular art.  There will form aggregate pods of people who will create a vortex of energy and synergy simultaneously and will begin to shift  like-minded individuals who are willing to experience a higher state and level of being.  Whole organized groups of individuals will congregate and accumulate greater energy that will synchronize other people to their vibrational status.  In turn, the greater synchronized state will again access greater accumulation of vibrational frequency accumulating great powerful vortexes of swirling vibrational energy magnetizing all those with similar frequency.   

You will experience greater numbers of shifts than previously.  There will be momentous changes.  There will be greater upheavals within the flow of energy within your being than previously experienced.  You will sometimes feel as though there are momentous insights creating greater shifts within the arena of knowledge regarding the Self.  These greater amounts of shifts will help you begin to connect to greater vibrational frequency.  The New Era has begun.

Now understand that this New Era will help you expand in different modalities of dimensional ability.  You will see great changes, a new shift of knowing enter the consciousness of all the masses.  No longer will power be excluded from yourselves by yourself.  You will see your consciousness shift before your very eyes.  You will see the scope of your world view shift.  You will see commonplace miracles happen as though they were not newly engineered.  You will begin the New Era within six months.

Now understand that the messages that are coming through from guides to all light workers are geared towards helping people jump from one matrix of understanding and knowing to a higher, more loosely textured grid that will open more vortexual energy for those beings now ready to receive more light.  The open matrix is designed to bring in the New Era and is now present.  It is providing attunement for those beings able to adjust towards the new energy that will available and present in the New Era.  The New Era will concurrent with conflicts and skirmishes that occurring within countries that are adjusting towards clearing war.  When their wars are concluded, the matrix will be fully operational and energetically available.  You will then be transferred into the light of the Source. 

Your available light is now governed by a series of matrixes upon earth.  Now the particular series of matrix will lifted and recharged by the Source.  Understand that the replacement series of matrix that will descend upon earth will be forming the New Era generation of energy attunement and development for greater expansion.  Understand that the current matrix will be governed and cleared by your intention to change into higher dimensional capacity for change. 

This particular influx of new dimensional matrix will be influential in government.  You are asking, as a collective whole, to change government to a higher dimensional vibration.  The structure of government will change towards openness and sovereignty.  The sovereignty of government will allow for people to gain access to their ability to reach heights of awareness that will both contain and utilize healing on a worldwide scale.  You will begin to see diseases both emotional and physical recede.  People will gain a clearer sense and degree of knowledge that will direct them towards exploration of higher vibration learning.  The opening within the matrix will shift in march of 2004. 

The new matrix will be the end of third dimensional reality.  The new matrix will be the beginning of a massive coalition of individuals who have exceeded the third dimensional realm and move towards third dimensional closure.  These particular individuals will live within the fourth dimension.  These particular individuals will influence all on earth to move within fourth dimensional reality.  They are the innovators on your earth plane. 

Now these particular individuals will create healing centers that will influence healing abilities to open into and utilize fourth dimension energy.  We are speaking of a world wide shift.  We are suggesting that you, as reader, are currently part and parcel of this movement. 

You will concurrently cooperate with other beings in other dimensional realities who will assist your inherit ability to naturally heal.  These other worldly beings will begin a process of reconnection with those engaged within the fourth dimensional matrix in one month.  These other worldly beings are primarily engaged in understanding the movement of energy and facilitate the growth and movement of energy to a most rapid pace. 

The new wave of energy that is moving towards greater accumulation of peace will begin to shift into healing for the planet.  You will see greater achievement in the areas of art and music healing.  There will be a great influx of creativity beyond your scope of knowledge at present.  However, this new wave of creativity will begat other sources of energy that influence greater clarity and greater creative movement towards other dimensions.  You will begin to see these changes in one month.  

Now your new state of being will be greatly expanded.  It will become necessary to visit and revamp old habits, situations and emotional patterns that no longer exist in your new style of emotional relating.  You will  revamp, swamp and extinguish old energies that no longer impact you in this moment. 

Now understand the above process will not be instrumental in terms of creation of what you deem unhealed influences.  In other words there may be others who appear to want healing who appear open towards the new wave of healing but aren't quite sure or aware of their ability to heal.  These particular individuals look outside themselves for comfort.  They will be stuck without comfort because  they do not seek solace inside themselves.  Do not judge these beings, but find within your heart a state of gracious acceptance.  These individuals will eventually learn to find solace. 

There is greater accumulation of power and attribution towards the opening of the matrix when like energies are gathered and utilized.  When like energies gather there creates additional energies to open and expand the concurrent energy.  In other words more energy is gathered into the vortex that is co-created by like energy.  More energy is used and more energy asserts itself for use.  There are additional energies that will gather and spin into the Source the additional energy created.  In simultaneous manner energy will be gathered through magnetic laws of like gathering like and transmitted downward towards   beings who are generating progressive expansive energy.  The Source unites and connects you to yourself within the energy of Soul.

Now your energy as Soul will be expanded to a degree unrecognizable to you.  You will accelerate in change.  Changes will come naturally and seemingly unnoticed, however, you will feel the shift in your knowledge base as well as understand that your current ability to know and heal is quite remarkable.  You will see yourself with clarity.  You will see that your ability to see yourself with clarity has not only been renewed, but has been expanded into new depth. 

You will understand that your ability to see with clarity brings about new intentions.  These new intentions will form the basis for the New Era.  The New Era will bring a new facet of energetic connection.  The new energetic connection will provide the basis for intermingling with current energies as well as provide the impetus for evolution of new energy.  You are returning to Self.  

Self as you knew self to exist will become extinct.  The new self will be an evolution of truth, a coming together as ends meet in a circle.  Your power will turn as in a circle.  You will gather your energy in vortexual context and use towards intention.  There will be great change. 

Now understand that your current context for being and political climate will evolve.  New modes of communication will become present.  You will achieve ability to telepathically communicate at will.  You will begin to close the door on past limitations that block your abilities. 

Your new Self will again be exposed to conflict in the world arena.  However, this times around, you now have tools and abilities to manifest with intent peace.  It will manifest as quickly as intent.  Your abilities are no longer blocked. 

You will provide yourself with comfort within the context of hope.  You will see that your hope is not in vain.  Your ability to travel into the future is quite available and present for use.  You can achieve your dreams and you can achieve peace.  Begin your journey. 

Rochelle Diane Sparrow

copyright 2003

rochelledianesparrow@hotmail.com

www.rdsparrow.com

(602) 430-6447  

Column # 13

"Waiting For Synchronicity"

By Stephanie Yeh

Do you remember the scene in the movie “The Minority Report” where Tom Cruise is escaping with the psychic or “precognitive” and they are being pursued in the mall? In that scene, the psychic keeps telling Tom Cruise to “Wait! Wait…wait…wait.” She’s telling him to wait for the moment of perfect synchrony, when a man with a huge bunch of balloons will stand in just the right place and hide them from their pursuers. The whole time she’s telling him to wait, though, Tom Cruise is anxious and ready to run.

Now doesn’t that sound like a scene from our own lives? At least, that’s how the Universe would see us as we go about our daily activities. Here’s what it sees: we ask the Universe to bring us something and the Universe immediately leaps into action to bring it to us. But rather than simply waiting for that moment of synchrony, when all the factors come together in perfect order, we leap into action and try to “make everything work.” If we would just wait for the moment of perfect synchrony, as Tom Cruise did in the movie, we would find that it would come to us – easily, peacefully and without fuss.

In this society, we have an extreme bias for action, productivity and achievement. We believe that we must “do” everything in our lives, so we’re always in motion. In fact, it’s worse than that. Not only are we in motion almost every waking moment of every day, but we’ve also planned out our active motion for the coming days, weeks and months. Whether it’s work, PTA meetings, hobby-type activities or sports, we are completely booked. Or even if we aren’t physically booked at every moment, we’re so mentally busy trying to “figure it out” that we might as well be doing something physical! 

The result of all of this scheduling and mental gyration is that we don’t have any room in our lives for synchronicity. We have literally left not even the smallest crack through which the Universe can squeeze through that which we’ve asked for – and we wonder why the Universe doesn’t deliver!!

Manifestation, contrary to popular belief, is neither a totally active sort of thing nor a totally passive waiting. It is an active anticipation of what’s to come, a joyful expectation accompanied by inspired activity. In manifestation, you get a boost of anticipation followed by inspired ideas, followed by joyful activity, followed by yet more anticipation.

It’s like walking a winding, hilly trail. When you’re at the bottom of a hill, all you can see is the top of the next hill or curve – and you anticipate what you might see at the top. You’re so excited by what you might see, that you take action and walk up there. Once there, you see a magnificent view, and also the next phase of the trail. This leads to more anticipation drawing you forward, more action and more pleasure. You see, it is an active participation in life of all your senses – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual – with appreciation and pause regularly interspersed.

If it seems like the Universe isn’t delivering what you’ve asked for, you might not be leaving enough room in your life to let it in. To create some room, take one day a week, if possible, and schedule nothing. Let that day be a blank canvas on which the Universe can paint its perfect synchrony. If you can’t take a full day, take at least a few hours for yourself every week and see what magic unfolds! Enjoy!

 

Stephanie Yeh is co-founder of the Esoteric School of Shamanism and Magic (http://www.shamanschool.com). Through this online school she helps clients use magical and shamanic techniques to manifest their desires. Stephanie has created several online and video classes in conjunction with the telecourse format the school utilizes in her attempt to make this valuable information accessible to as many people as possible.

Through her site, Prosperity Abounds (http://www.prosperity-abounds.com), she helps others learn to create abundant health and wealth with spiritual and practical resources

Column # 14

"Beyond Limiting Archetypes"

By Linda White Dove

Hi All. I am writing this article in response to a request for a meditation to honor Earth on Mother’s day. However, because it is important to more fully embody the Divine Feminine everyday, especially during these times of massive planetary change, I will share this article on an ongoing basis as I believe it is becoming more and more relevant.

The Earth is part of us and we are part of the Earth. Although often referred to as a feminine energy, Earth is actually a combination of both feminine and masculine as are all people. Much of what is unfolding around us with war, the economy, environmental destruction, homelessness, poverty, hate and more, as well as the upcoming massive changes in our personal lives are a result of an imbalance of the masculine and feminine energies. It is an invitation and doorway to a more balanced way of living.

Because everything in the universe contains both the masculine and feminine energies and because as humans we are born with awareness and the ability to change/grow, how we understand and approach these energies in ourselves and in our lives has the potential to impact all of life on Earth and Earth herself in a big way.

All men and women have both the masculine and feminine energies inside and although men in this culture tend to identify with the masculine energy qualities and women with the feminine, the energies themselves are just expressions, ways of being that are not the domain of either gender. The qualities of masculine and feminine energy are not easy to explain with language. Words themselves have taken on meanings that, coming from a need to communicate what we need to know in order to survive have taken on judgments of good vs. bad, safe vs. dangerous, friend vs. enemy etc., making it difficult to explain qualities that are beyond judgment/fear. So when working with qualities such as the masculine and feminine it is much easier to feel them in your own body rather than try to understand the words used to describe them. As you feel them in your body, you will experience them in your life, which is the intent of this writing anyway.

That said, I am offering this meditation as a way to experience both the masculine and feminine energies inside of you and bring the experience into your life.

Take a few moments now to relax, close your eyes and find a quiet space within. Notice your breathing and sense your body with love and gentleness. Allow any stress or tension to relax into your breathing and the gentle energy of non judgment that surrounds you always. If you have any thoughts that come up, just allow them to be present, treating them as you would a young child needing TLC. 

When you are ready, bring into your mind the word for the masculine energy which is “creativity.” Experience this energy as permeating your entire body, mind, emotions and all other aspects of who you are. Notice how this feels; any body sensations, emotions, thoughts, memories. No need to change them, just treat them like the young child needing TLC. Stay with this as long as you wish. Then release it and tune into the word for the feminine energy which is “receptivity.” Again experience this energy permeating your body, mind, emotions and all other aspects of who you are. Notice how this feels without trying to change anything. Treat all that comes up like the young child needing TLC. The purpose of this first meditation is awareness. Stay with this for as long as you wish and when you are ready, release the experience and come back slowly to your body and your surroundings. If you like to journal I recommend writing about your experience with this meditation to refer back to as needed.

This meditation can be used frequently to gain awareness of both masculine and feminine energies inside you. The more you use the meditation, the more aware you will become of your judgments, hurts, stuck places, limiting beliefs, fears, conditioning, etc. As you treat all these with the loving TLC you would offer to a young child, you will find over time that it transforms into something more accepting, nurturing and fulfilling both during the meditation and in your daily life.

You might be wondering if this is a Mother’s Day meditation for the Mother Earth, why discuss or meditate upon the masculine? Why not just focus on the feminine? There are several reasons why I include both masculine and feminine. First, is that neither can exist without the other. There is a tendency among people to go to extremes; to deny one of the aspects within themselves or to blame either the masculine or feminine for what is not right in life or what is happening on the planet. It is only in appreciation and respect for both these qualities that we will find peace within and as a whole. Blame, hate, mistrust, rejection and misunderstanding will get us nowhere fulfilling. To honor the Mother, we must also honor the Father.

The other reason for including both the masculine and feminine is that the Earth really needs this right now. She calls upon us to honor the masculine and feminine experiences inside so that we can truly love one another in peace. The creative masculine energy has been limited by its association with force. As a result the creative, loving contributions of men (and women) are often met with fear and resistance. When the energy of creativity and initiation has nowhere to go, when it is not openly and lovingly received, it builds up and is expressed in ways that cause harm, limitation and misunderstanding. When the energy of receptivity and openness of women (and men) harbors victimization and mistrust from past hurts and trauma, the openness is gone and the energy has nowhere to go. As a result there is no foundation for anything wonderful to happen. The dynamic between the masculine and feminine energies forms the basis for all human interactions and for everything we manifest on this planet. If humanity really wants to grow, evolve and create a new, better way of living, both the masculine and feminine experiences need to be re-framed and experienced as they truly are in essence.

It is my hope that this meditation and article offers a beginning for this process. Thank you for the opportunity to share it with you!

allislove@mindspring.com

http://www.lindawhitedove.com

Linda White Dove, M.Ed. is a healing facilitator, teacher and writer with a focus on healing the divisions within the self as a path of planetary healing. Intuitively open since she was a young child, she has used her openness to explore the inner landscape that unites us all and to make this available via healing sessions, instruction and writing. Her articles have been included in both online and in print publications including Sedona Journal, Many Hands, Continuum and Loving More. For more information: http://www.lindawhitedove.com or (413) 527-4526.

Column # 15

"Love and Social Change"

By Linda White Dove

In a culture based on doing rather than being, the idea of love as the basis of social change is usually looked upon as unrealistic or idealistic. Yet without the basis of love, true, lasting change is not possible.

If you owned a house with cracking walls and uneven floors, the foundation would be the first place you would check. If the foundation was not strong, any other changes you made to repair the walls or the floor would be temporary and cosmetic. It might make things look better for a while, it would address the symptoms of the foundation being weak, but it would not solve the problem of the foundation. Eventually you would need to address the foundation. To ignore it and think you have solved the problem by repainting the walls would be ridiculous and no intelligent home owner would do this. Yet when there is a need for social change in our political, economic, environmental or other systems, we ignore the foundation and attempt to change the appearances of things without realizing this is what we are doing.

A system is simply a structure we have created to govern. It is a set of rules and procedures to organize, regulate, protect, provide fairness, etc. While this may be the intent of the system (and of most systems) what often happens is the system falls short of the intent we have for it. The reason for this is the systems are created and run by people. Where there is a lot of fear in the people who create and run the system, the system will be ruled by fear. The result is greed, attempt to control/manipulate and cover the tracks of accountability with fancy public relations, tactical distractions, blame and censorship. When we try to change the systems by electing more responsible officials, trying to change the way the system works, protesting, educating, etc. we are still trying to change the system itself without challenging the assumptions/climate/context of the system. In so doing, we are making cosmetic changes that cannot last. Every change we make this way is subject to the underlying fear that maintains the system.

As creators of the systems, the rules of the system were created by us as mirrors of our internal processes. Even if we were not alive at the time the system was created, it was created based on the beliefs, values, etc. of humanity at the time of the system’s inception (which are usually slow to change anyway). The systems were based on a perceived need to organize, regulate, protect, provide fairness, etc. To examine the reason for the perceived need is to understand the motivation for the system. While it is important to be able to organize, regulate, protect and provide fairness, what is more important is whether we do this from a perspective of fear or of love. Where the motivation is fear based, it is difficult to govern in a way that takes the highest good into consideration in making decisions. It may be the initial intent but eventually our emotions and the collective emotions/consciousness that is part of the decision process take hold and it is hard to interact or even see beyond the climate that is created, let alone realize we have created it.

Fear creates the belief that we are each alone and need to do whatever is necessary to survive, whether it be trying to control resources, stockpile at the expense of another, maintaining power at all costs, going to war, creating enemies where there are none, and creating false justifications to cover this all up. The more entrenched the fear, the more difficult it is to change the system. Even the most well intentioned public servants have to operate in the climate of fear and usually end up unable to make the changes that were so important to them.

Those who are aware of the injustices and cover ups and who work to facilitate change are also subject to the fear that is the foundation of the system- even if they do not work inside the system. The same fear that is the foundation for the system is also the foundation for all interaction since the systems are based on our current inner state of affairs. The systems we create are designed for the climate in which they operate. They are created and maintained by us. We are the climate, we are the systems. What we believe to be true about ourselves and each other is the foundation for the system.

What’s love got to do with this? As we examine and challenge our own fears about ourselves and each other, we change our minds and open our hearts, thus becoming healers of our own lives and the structures we have to relate with each other and the planet. Even if we are not politicians or activists, we have perceptions about ourselves and each other that limit our ability to relate in ways that create nourishment and fulfillment. If we have unexpressed anger, hurt, past wounds that have not been addressed, low self esteem, fear of being alone, shame, guilt, powerlessness, etc. these will reflect in the systems we create to protect and support us. All these create a climate of fear that underlies interaction. It may be subtle enough to be mostly invisible but it all adds up to create a weak foundation for the honesty, openness and objectivity necessary to have systems that truly serve.

Fortunately this means that the answers and path is inside us where we have the most influence and ability to change. And since we create the structures, as we make the changes, the systems we use will change too. This does not mean we do not need to take action such as education, activism, election reform, etc. but it does mean that these will require much less effort and be more likely to be effective over the long haul. Changing our inner experience to one of love and healing creates a climate open to change. I thank you for taking this journey with me.

Peace,

Linda White Dove, M.Ed. is a healing facilitator, teacher and writer with a focus on healing the divisions within the self as a path of planetary healing. Intuitively open since she was a young child, she has used her openness to explore the inner landscape that unites us all and to make this available via healing sessions, instruction and writing. Her articles have been included in both online and in print publications including Sedona Journal, Many Hands, Continuum and Loving More. For more information: http://www.lindawhitedove.com or (413) 527-4526.

allislove@mindspring.com

http://www.energymedicinecabinet.com

Column # 16

"Dis-Ease- A Window Into The Process"

By Katherine Appello

How did I come to the Process?

           I have meditated on and done reading on holistic healing, metaphysics, and how it all connects to wellness and health.  I put these into audio books, one of which is already out, having received excellent reviews.  Out of this I felt a comprehensive metaphysical paradigm appear.  I would like to share what I have learned.

The Root and Process:

          Our world works, by God’s wondrous mind, heart and soul, as a vibrant or stagnant interaction or lack of interaction of energy both positive and negative.  When positive, it is an equal to a beautifully coordinated dance of fireflies in synchronicity and harmony.  When not, it is like a child’s toy over the crib with no battery, hanging motionless.  What does all this mean for dis-ease?

          We have a physical, auric, mental, emotional, spiritual body, and soul.  Each of these interacts with each other (firefly dance) and outside influences, the darts thrown at the Bulls Eye.

 What are the Influences?

           They are dark entities and angels, as well as stress, other’s words and abuses.  These entities attack and throw darts, which weaken the holistic integrity and interaction of the selves.  Once there is an end to the synchronistic dance and the fireflies start flying in circles, apart, not together, it is the beginning of “curtains”.  These attacks bring feelings of sadness, anger, etc… We must be aware of this.

The Process:

          The auric body is attached, that’s the start.  Following this, the Spirit is attacked, leading to a disconnect between the aura and Spirit.  Now the darts hit the mental and emotional centers, thus faith crisis and total disconnect.  Finally, the soul is cut off and Bulls Eye, dis-ease and physical manifestation.  In psychotic and other severe influences, the fireflies are attacking each other, rather than dance in harmony, and thus Chaos reigns.

 Creating Wellness and Wholeness:

          There are steps to wellness and wholeness.  These steps are also outlined in my audio book 7 Steps to Loving Yourself.  They will help you dance, not clash with life, yourself and others.

Ø     Be open to creation energy.

 Ø     Appreciate this energy and respect it. Appreciate and honor life.

 Ø     Be aware of the beauty of who you are as a child of this universe.  See the wonders of nature, the season, plants etc…

 Ø     Be aware that you are a multi-dimensional being.

 Ø     Set boundaries for time, including self pampering and dream nurturing.

 Ø     Set boundaries for food (eat because you are hungry, your three meals a day, not over eating –not healthy).

 Ø     Set boundaries for intimacy, in terms of what you are comfortable with, and what is respect to you as a person, a child of creation, as well as family/friends (time, when to call etc…).

Let’s Wrap it Up:

          Health doesn’t just happen.  Wellness and wholeness doesn’t just happen by wishing it, contrary to what some in metaphysics might espouse.  Meditating alone won’t do it.  Herbs alone won’t do it.  I could go on and on with singulars.  It is a process for which you have to take responsibility.  I for one find that a combination of certain herbs help support my lungs, liver, kidneys and immune system, which I feel require it.  I take those daily.  I am trying to minimize meat intake and avoid red meat, eating more fruit and vegetables.  I also walk daily, meditate, listen to relaxing music, and do instinctive movement to music, focusing on God, on creation, love and manifestation of good.  This is something I recently began exploring, the movement with music.  Please don’t all go out thinking you need an exorcism.  You should see what patterns of behavior are there that are the fireflies attacking each other rather than dancing in harmony with each other, thus with others, and thus life.   I hope you will.

          This is one of a number of meditative, personal revelations and understandings, with my concepts put into audio books.  I am not here to change anyone, only share what has been shared with me in meditation.  To contact Katherine and learn more:  www.freewebs.com/kappello , and or call 646-249-1916 and leave a message.  

Column # 17

"What Do I Do Now?"

By Gina Rabbin

It has been 2 weeks since the outcome of the presidential election, and across the country many people are still deep in despair. The outcome was a shock, as they believed with all their heart that after the past four years, this country would choose a different course, a more humane and compassionate course. That this did not happen has caused many to feel a sense of helplessness and hopelessness. Again and again, my clients have said to me, "I don't know what to do. I don't know how to get beyond this."

It is important to look at this issue, to find the answers to "how do I get beyond this?" If we don't, the potential to give in to our sadness by going within and staying within, to disconnect from the world around us and return to the safety of our inner world, is too great. While it is often necessary to go within in order to begin the healing process, to stay within becomes an escape and serves no higher purpose.

Let us look to the Tarot for guidance and clarity. Drawn to the Gilded Tarot deck, I first ask for clarity around this entire issue. What is it we need to understand about the outcome of this election? What is our lesson here? As I hold the cards, Temperance steps forth and asks that, for the moment, we remain calm, that we maintain our balance in the midst of our emotions, that we do not go to extremes. And when we are sitting calmly and quietly, and ready to listen with our hearts and minds, Temperance asks us to look closely at our actions and behaviors in the years and months and weeks before this election. Were our internal beliefs in absolute harmony with our external actions? Did we take our spiritual awareness out into the world every day in a manner that perfectly expressed our values, our ethics, our integrity, our compassion? What did we do every day to affect the change we wanted to create? Temperance asks us to accept our responsibility for the outcome, not that we might judge ourselves but that we might grow and learn from the awareness. This is the immediate lesson, we are told: To live as spiritual beings in the world, involved in the world, expressing our consciousness in the world, on a daily basis, in all aspects of our lives, is the only way in which we can create the world in which we want to live.

What is the next step? Assuming we are ready to accept our responsibility for the outcome, that we have looked deeply within and made the commitment to express our spirituality every day, in the world, how do we heal ourselves and move forward? There are two cards that choose to answer us. With a sense of deep purpose, Strength reminds us that we have more courage and power than we realize, and those gifts are ready for us to call upon whenever we need them. So each of us must call upon our inner reserve of strength right now, and use it to rise above our feelings of despair and helplessness. Let us remember the lesson taught to us by Temperance, and now use our strength to put that lesson into action.

And who but the King of Swords can best accomplish this! With the energy of the King, the confidence, intelligence, and clarity of the King, we are able to take our wisdom out into the world, sharing our beliefs and values and spirituality with the world. For when we express our higher consciousness in the world, when we take purposeful action, we arrive at the place where both healing and change begins, in the world.

I welcome reader questions! If there is an issue you would like to see addressed in a future column, please email me at:  gina@ginarabbin.com

Gina Rabbin is a life-long intuitive and catalyst for clarity. She helps people clarify and resolve their personal and professional issues in order to create more fulfilling and meaningful lives. Currently residing in San Francisco, CA, Gina is available for readings in person or by telephone. For more information, please visit www.ginarabbin.com 

Column # 18

"How to Dowse or Water Witch"

By Stephanie Yeh

"Water Witching." The term sounds so delightful, mystical, and wonderful, doesn't it? Water witching is the art of using a magical tool, such as a pendulum or dowsing rods, or psychic abilities to find underground sources of water. People, including some plumbers, have been practicing water witching and dowsing for centuries.

Dowsing is actually a specific form of divination, which is the art of accessing information not available to the five senses.   Other forms of divination include the tarot, water bowls, scrying in chalices, and Rune stones.

According to Polly Cady, a master dowser of 14 years, one of the easiest ways to get started with water witching or dowsing is to start with a pendulum. You can make a pendulum from almost any lightweight object suspended on a chain, string or thread.   Lightweight objects you can use include paper clips, small rocks, earrings, hairpins, pendants, small medallions, crystals and talismans. If you choose to use a crystal, use an amethyst because other kinds of crystals become too easily contaminated.

To find underground water with a pendulum, here's a quick lesson from the American Society of Dowsers.

"The dowser usually seeks flowing underground veins suitable for drilling and pumping. The veins can be large and deep or small and shallow. You can discriminate by focusing on a need, real or imaginary . Ask mentally, either successively or all at once, for a 'vein of good drinking water, less than twenty feet in depth, which will flow uninterrupted at the rate of 5 gallons a minute or more.' Thus when you receive a reaction, you will know that it is not a pipe, a polluted vein or a source that might otherwise be too deep or seasonally unreliable for the purpose at hand.  When the dowsing reaction takes place, mark the spot and approach it from the opposite direction. If the two points do not coincide, the mid-point between them should be the center of the vein."

According to Polly, a left-to-right pendulum swing indicates a "no" while a back-and-forth swing (to and away from you) indicates a "yes." As with all magical techniques, practice makes perfect.

Stephanie Yeh is co-founder of the Esoteric School of Shamanism and Magic (http://www.shamanschool.com). Through this online school she helps clients use magical and shamanic techniques to manifest their desires. She teaches clients to use a variety of soft magic (meditation, angels, animal totems, visualization) and hard magic (energy handling, sonics, spellwork, and tarot) techniques to improve many aspects of life and work, including career, health, relationships, and prosperity. Stephanie has created several online and video classes in conjunction with the telecourse format the school utilizes in her attempt to make this valuable information accessible to as many people as possible.

Stephanie is deeply committed to the study and experience of prosperity and to helping other people achieve and experience prosperity. Through the study and application of spiritual principles, which she is involved with through the Esoteric School and with the help of a strong 15-year network marketing business, Stephanie and her partner have helped many people
achieve their prosperity goals. Through her site, Prosperity Abounds (http://www.prosperity-abounds.com), she helps others learn to create abundant health and wealth with spiritual and practical resources including Super Blue Green Algae from Cell Tech.

Currently Stephanie continues her quest to share information with her latest project, a free teleconference series sponsored by the Esoteric School on a variety of magical and shamanic topics with guest speakers from different spiritual communities.

Column # 19

"Finding the Answers in Managing Your Fears and Anxieties"

By Stanley Popovich

Looking for all of the answers in how to manage your most persistent fears and anxieties? I deal with fear on a personal level and I found it difficult to find all of the answers in managing my anxieties. I read some anxiety books and talked to various professionals, however I still had trouble dealing with certain fears and anxieties. Eventually, I wrote a book that presents all of the ways to help manage those hard to manage fears and anxieties and it is located at http://www.trebleheartbooks.com/mvStanPopovich.html

Let me explain the process of how I found those answers.

I first went to my local bookstore to find those books that dealt with fear and anxiety. I looked for those books that reviewed the techniques in how to manage certain fears and anxieties. As I read these books, I wrote down some notes on those techniques that I found most useful in managing my fears. As a result, I started a notebook and every time I found a technique that was useful in managing my fears, I would write it down in my small notebook.

Secondly, I talked to various professionals in the psychology and religious fields and they provided me with additional information. Again, I would write down in my notebook the information that the professionals gave me that I felt was most useful in managing my fears. Some of the techniques that I was told to use was learning how to use positive self talk, using thought stopping techniques, and breaking a overwhelming problem into its smallest parts.

For instance, I was told that I should visualize a red stop sign in my mind when I encounter a fear provoking thought. The stop sign would remind me to stop focusing on that thought and to think of something else. Another example, is when I conducted my job search. Instead of looking at the job search as a whole, I broke down the job search into many different tasks. I first developed my resume. When I completed my resume, I began to look for companies that would hire me and I submitted my resume. After sending out my resume, I then focused on the job interviewing process. During my job search, I performed each of these tasks one at a time which prevented me from getting overwhelmed.

I made it a point that every time I would experience a fearful or anxiety related situation, I would use the information in my notebook to help me. After the anxiety would go away I figure out what techniques worked and which ones didn't work. In every anxiety related situation I experienced, I began to learn what worked, what didn't work, and what I needed to improve on in managing my fears and anxieties

At the same time, I would continue to talk to various professionals to learn and to become better at managing the many types of fears and anxieties. I would review what I have learned with these professionals and they would provide me with additional information so that I would be better able to deal with my fears in the future. I did this research for around fourteen years and during this time, I gained a lot of valuable information on how to manage fear and anxiety.

The main point of this article is that no matter how difficult it is to manage your fear and anxieties, the answers are out there if you look hard enough. It might take some hard work and persistence, but it is possible to find those techniques that work for you.

Stanley Popovich endured his share of fear and anxiety over the years. Unable to find the help he needed, the author decided to undertake his own research. The result is "A Layman's Guide to Managing Fear Using Psychology, Christianity and Non Resistant Methods" - an easy to read book based on a combination of research and personal experience. For additional information go to: http://www.trebleheartbooks.com/mvStanPopovich.html.  For free articles on managing fear, please go to : http://www.managingfear.com  

Or Email the author at lonestar_9780 @ yahoo.com  

 

Column # 20

"Who Are The Indigos, Really?"

By Kate Hyatt

There are many galactic starseed races inhabiting Earth at this time.  As a veiled planet, Earth requires memories and true identities to be forgotten.  The numbers of people waking up to their true identities are growing, personal and group soul contracts are being remembered.  One group of souls that have had and still have some important contracts to fulfill here on Earth is the Indigos.  This galactic race has been one of the most widely discussed starseed races and yet many questions remain about them. 

While other articles have portrayed the enlightening mission of the Indigos, this article focuses on the galactic history that led this race to embark upon its mission.  New information about the Indigos will be divulged and a look at what work is still left to be done will be reviewed.

Some may read this article and find that it challenges their perceptions of what is already known about this race.  This article and the information given are not to change or discredit anything that has been previously released nor is it to sway any person’s personal truths about the Indigos.  This article was not written to be taken as the “absolute truth”, but rather to expand on the existing views of the Indigo race.  Keep in mind, while reading, that on the galactic level everything has value. While some of this information could be viewed as good or bad, it is neither. 

There have been many sources that have written about this race and have published lists of characteristics of the Indigos.  The following list expands on what has already been published and opens up for a broader and more complete view of traits that these beings possess.  For the sake of space and time an entire list of characteristics will not be written, but I encourage the reader to research and read more about the specifics of the Indigo personality. 

Indigo Personality Characteristics

The following is not a profile of all Indigos, yet, shall classify the attributes and qualities most Indigos themselves can relate to and agree upon.

 -         Indigos have a tendency to either shut down emotionally or get overly emotional for no apparent reason. 

-         They have a tendency to swing from one extreme to another, to resort to an “all or nothing mentality” without being aware of it.

-         Indigos are extremely loyal and trusting, but only to a select number of people, as generally trust does not come easily to them. This feature can be detrimental to the Indigos if they are unable to discern if their trust is warranted or returned.

-         They have difficulty processing lower chakra emotions such as anger, shame, blame, and guilt.  These are usually suppressed, sometimes with the help of alcohol, food, and/or drugs.

-         Due to the Indigos extreme sensitivity to frequencies, they have a difficult time differentiating the source between their energies and other peoples.

-         They have a need to be around people, but tend to get overwhelmed easily.

-         They experience constant internal battles; conflicted between what they feel is happening, what they sense happening, what they see is happening, and what they think is happening.

-         Indigo starseeds don’t particularly like human culture, yet are driven to assist humans.

-         When passionate and devoted to a person, situation and/or purpose they are unstoppable at reaching and attaining their desired destination and/or goal.

-         Due to the high intelligence of most Indigos, one of the biggest defense mechanisms used when confronted with an unknown/uncomfortable situation is arrogance.  When it comes to full honest self-appraisal the Indigos tend to either believe that it is what is outside of them that is “wrong” or they swing to the other extreme that it is all their “fault” (playing the victim role).

-         Since the Indigos thought patterns are so quick, misunderstandings in communication often occur due to omitted trains of thought.

-         Indigos react rather than act independently based on others actions.

-         They seek out people who are at their level of growth and may be intolerant of others who are not.

-         For Indigos, individualism is difficult so that the majority become chameleons,  joining other groups, yet feel lost for most of their lives.

-         They have a higher frequency level and most can read the energy signals of others.  Psychic abilities are extremely high which allows them to uniquely assist others.

-         Balanced intimacy between self and others is difficult for the Indigos and they can be exasperating in close relationships.

-         Indigos will mirror another’s belief system back to them, but the true Indigo as an individual is often overlooked.

-         Some perceive their views are “absolute truth” or the “right/only way”.

The above only skims the surface of the Indigos, but it is these attributes at this time that are the most important traits to look at for this race.  It is these characteristics that Indigos are now being asked to shift, not only from a personal growth/evolution standpoint, but also from the view that the very existence of this race depends on the integration and shifting of specific belief systems. 

To understand how these belief systems were developed a review of the Indigos history is necessary.

A History Lesson

In the Indigo history there has been much war, suffering, and death.  Indigos have not only been on the receiving end of tragedy, but they have participated in the destruction of others.  At this time I will only focus on the two wars which greatly impacted the Indigos way of being and directly affect the reason why these beings are here now in mass incarnation.  The  circumstances will be divulged about these wars and it is up to each Indigo individual to process the information and find soul growth.  Also through understanding these wars one will gain a bigger perspective of the group lessons stemming from the conflicts.  One can conclude that these situations have had a direct impact on the previously mentioned Indigo characteristics and belief systems.  The first war to be looked at has been dubbed “The Great War”.

The Great War

At the time of The Great War the Indigos had achieved great scientific and psychic abilities.  They were a somewhat peaceful race, but that is not to say that there were not occasional wars and disagreements amongst themselves and other galactic races.  They lived relatively cohesively within their communities, the galactic community, and were active members of the Galactic Federation. 

There was however one race the Indigos continually had problems with, but name of this race will not be divulged here.  Their squabbles turned ugly and the opposing race attacked the Indigo home world.  A long and bloody planetary war ensued where many were slaughtered from both sides.  The destruction and devastation was massive, especially for the Indigos, and when all was said and done the Indigos lost having to abandon their home world.  The remaining Indigo survivors gathered together and became known as the Elders.

These Elders were distraught over their loss. A major percentage of the Indigos were killed during the war and it was uncertain how they were to survive future attacks to defend what little they had left with their small numbers.  The shame and anger over what transpired was daunting. Still these Indigos possessed their technology, seeing hope in their survival.  They looked at the situation as an opportunity and indication that they needed to become more united in the way of the ‘Light’.  It would be necessary to eliminate all “negative/evil” emotions, hold only “positive” beliefs, and have a collective consciousness connected within the entire community.  There would be no more individuality and the entire society would work together as one great force. 

The belief of ascension held by the Indigos was one of complete light.  By eliminating those emotions associated with “dark” it served the purpose of higher consciousness.  Being this way was also a more effective stance against the “dark” races in the galaxy.  

Modifications were necessary to create this new “network” and work began.  Because the Elders still possessed the physical vehicle that housed these darker emotions, the complete removal was not applicable.  The genetic manipulations made of the Elders DNA could, and did, lead to offspring in which complete success of the ‘Light’ was achieved.  These new “Indigos” had no connection to the lower frequencies and only the Elders had traces and memories of these energies.  The Indigos were now a collective race of Light beings.  Years and generations passed and the Indigos grew in numbers and in ownership of new planets.  They became a race of extreme “light” and at contact with any perceived “dark” threats they attacked and eradicated others.  The Galactic Federation did not condone the actions of the Indigos and saw no accountability or responsibility within the Indigo community/collective. 

There is still much debate over what actually transpired when the Indigos broke away from the Galactic Federation.  One view is that a vote was cast regarding the membership of the Indigos in the Galactic Federation and the race was requested to withdraw from future association and participation.  From the Indigos perspective, they were the ones who decided to cut ties with the Galactic Federation due to the toleration and acceptance of too many races that were not of “light” nature.  The Indigos concluded that the Galactic Federation was no longer trust worthy and decided to break away from the Federation.  Either way, the Indigos association with the Federation was terminated.

After The Galactic Federation

The Indigos continued on their endeavors throughout the universe as time passed.  Difficulties started arising with reproduction due to the genetic modifications and the Indigos were at an evolutionary stand still.  The race was experiencing the long-term effects of the complete polarization to the Light.   This limited perception of beliefs and values greatly impacted the ability of the race to live harmoniously with the many diverse races in the universe.  Clashes occurred and conflicts broke out.  Although there were many wars due to their polarization, there is one particular war that is directly related to why the Indigos are on Earth at this time. 

At the onset of this conflict the Indigos became increasingly aware of the impact and the price of their DNA modifications.  This battle held the high probability of loosing a significant portion of physical vehicles.  The Indigos knew to keep in control of certain planets and lesson the casualty ratio they would need the assistance of another race.  The Indigos decided to approach another race that was also experiencing problems with their enemy, and signed into an alliance.  The Indigos put total faith and trust in this alliance.  Regretfully this trust was misplaced and the Indigos were betrayed.  The Indigos saw that the only future was that of either being under the control of one enemy, or another, or being completely destroyed and disincarnate at the hands of another race.  None of these options were acceptable to them and they could not perceive any other alternatives.  Since success in the war was no long viable, and extinction was inevitable, the Indigo collective decided to destroy the timeline.   Some of the Elders did not agree with this course of action but could not stop the decision of the whole.  The disagreeing Elders fled from the system and went to the Galactic Federation for assistance.  The remaining collective launched the final attack and the timeline for the Indigo race was destroyed.

The remaining Elders could not continue the bloodline race.  The DNA had been too badly contaminated and reproduction was impossible.  The disincarnate Indigo beings had no physical vehicles in which to reside.  With a proposition in mind, the Elders approached the Galactic Federation hoping to make a deal that would save their race.

The Proposal

It is well known throughout the universe, dimensions, and timelines that there exists a free will planet called Earth on the verge of ascension.  Many starseed races had already incarnated there to assist with the ascension process in exchange for opportunities that aligned with their races needs.  This was a perfect opportunity for the Indigos, since they themselves had no timeline to incarnate into and no able physical vehicles. 

The planet was projected and prophesized at that time to be heading for a 5^th Dimensional plane.  This was a perfect bargaining chip for the Indigos since their race were masters of 5D technology.  An equal energy exchange deal was negotiated and following are some of the specifics.

The Indigo race could incarnate on Earth in mass in the human vehicle.  This would give the race an opportunity to reconstruct and gather missing and damaged DNA for the Indigo physical vehicle.  Most importantly the Indigos would again incorporate the missing lower chakra energy’s, the “dark”, they had previously manipulated and dropped and reproduction could then again be achieved.  The free will zone provided the unique opportunity for the possibility of shifting timelines.  The Indigos would have the chance to reconstruct their destroyed timeline by making different choices on Earth.

In exchange for going to Earth, the Indigos needed to accomplish several tasks.  There was a need for a new 5D grid to be constructed and instituted.  The Indigos had the technological ability to do this by creating an informational “web” into 5D.  All the disincarnate Indigo souls would be needed to create such a web, lock in templates, and hold the higher frequencies of 5D consciousness.  Groups were assigned to specific specialty areas where their higher frequency would be necessary to create the templates and it was the responsibility of the Indigos to lock in the grid.

It was agreed that this timeline did not belong to the Indigos, only that they would be given the opportunity to shift their own timeline.  It is the responsibility and accountability of each Indigo to embark on their personal tasks and lessons so the shifting of their own timeline occurs.  When all this is complete the Indigos will return to their repaired timeline.  It cannot be stressed enough how important it is that this timeline shift occurs.  If it does not, the Indigos will be back to having no planet, no physical vehicles, and no timeline.  The very future of the race depends on this shift happening.

The Indigos have completed the task of creating the new 5D grid for Earth and the templates are set for the new frequencies.  The work is not over. 

The Work of Now

There are enough templates within the 5D Earth grid to allow the people who have the appropriate DNA, blueprint, frequencies, and consciousness safe passage into the new Dimension.  The templates needed to shift the Indigo timeline have not been completed.  I take the stand that this shift can and will occur.  The beliefs, pain, and fears, created and stemming from the previously mentioned wars, need to be healed and new choices need to be born. 

Everything that has occurred in the history of the Indigos holds immense soul growth value.  It is time to embrace this potential and release the gifts that wait.  There are lessons on the group and individual level that need to be processed.  The dark needs to be faced and the shadow of the Indigos way of being and actions needs to be addressed.  In each Indigo’s life there are reenactments of the choices previously made, and beliefs held, that needs shifting.  Responsibility and accountability is long over due.  Each Indigo will find that this work requires a conscious step up and a new level of integrity.  By taking on these tasks a new timeline will be created.  If this work is not completed the timeline will not be healed. 

To all the Indigos reading this article, I speak to you from the heart.  Do not be discouraged.  All your hard work has paid off and continues to do so.  All the sacrifices, pain, hurt, anger, shame, guilt, loneliness and discomfort have not been for nothing.  I know all that has been accomplished.  I also know that now is not the time to sit on our laurels.  There is still work to be done and I know you are tired and wish to return to a new/better home.  No time is to be wasted and you know what needs to be addressed and completed.  Accomplish what needs to be done, face your demons and your fears, complete your personal contracts and lessons, integrate your shadow, and embrace all your emotions.  Find your individual voice and speak, stand on your own two feet and face the dark, I will meet you on the other side.

About the author:

Kate was introduced to galactic information in 2003 and felt that she had finally found the missing link in her life.  With this newly acquired knowledge she gained direct communication and connection with the guide realm and other dimensions, has contributed to the creation of templates, can read soul blueprints, and has the ability to download information about timelines. 

To fulfill her contract of service to others she writes galactic articles and created a new form of Individual Coaching called Multidimensional Coaching.  With the incorporation of her past counseling experiences and combination of intuitive and natural understanding of the Multidimensional concepts and tools, she assists others in integrating the galactic reality and living the fulfilled life they never dreamed imaginable.  For questions and more information about Multidimensional Coaching please contact her at Kate@NestingGround.org   

Column # 21

"Demystifying Hands-On Healing"

By Richard Gordon

While hands-on healing is probably the easiest of skills to learn, it is also one of the most misunderstood of subjects.   In this article, I thought to cover some of the basic elements of hands-on healing and one of my attempts to validate its effectiveness.

If we were to believe the movies, healers are special people who may have been touched by an angel, born with a mysterious gift, may have had a near death experience, their hands usually glow in the dark, they cause light bulbs to explode, black stuff flies out the mouth, and they seem to always become drained from doing the work. Well folks, what did you expect from Hollywood?

Fortunately, NONE of the above is true.  My favorite definition of a "healer" is someone who was sick and got well, and a great healer is someone who was very sick and got well quickly.  In truth, you really cannot heal anybody other than yourself.  The cells must always heal themselves, and you can't force that to happen.  You can no more heal another person than you can digest the lunch that they just ate.  Anybody who thinks that they are healing another person is mistaken, egotistical, or delusional.

So what does happen, and why does hands-on healing work?  Healing is all about resonance and entrainment.  Everything vibrates, and when two things vibrate at different frequencies, there is a tendency for the vibrations to come together.  Most often, the slower vibration will rise to match the faster frequency.  There are many kinds of examples of entrainment; over time, similarly tuned electric oscillators will match frequencies, disembodied animal hearts when placed near each other and kept alive in a lab will all beat in unison, and when women share a dormitory, over months they will often start menstruating at the same time.

When two things are in proximity and vibrating at different frequencies, there are three possible outcomes:  Either the higher frequency will match the lower one, the lower one will match the higher one, or they will meet in the middle.  Practitioners of hands-on healing ideally learn to hold a high vibration in their hands, and then through biological entrainment, the differing frequencies will match up.  With effective techniques, a practitioner can learn to hold an extraordinarily high vibration, influencing and the person in need of healing to match the vibration of the practitioner.  When done correctly, the practitioner NEVER becomes drained form doing the work.  Most often the practitioner feels emotionally uplifted as a result of doing the work.

In my efforts to validate hands-on healing, I met with Dr. Elmer Green, considered by many to be the father of biofeedback.  Dr. Green had been aware of my work for the last 20 years through my first book, and was enthusiastic when I let him know about my new work I had named Quantum-Touch.

Thanks to a suggestion from him, within two weeks I was on a flight to Springfield, Missouri to see Dr. Norman Shealy.   Dr. Shealy was trained as a neurosurgeon, is the author of numerous books, is the founding President of the American Holistic Medical Association and was the doctor who tested, introduced and taught classes with Dr. Carolyn Myss.  Being quite the skeptic, it seems appropriate that he lives in Missouri.

When I arrived, Dr. Shealy asked me to work on members of his staff.  One woman had shoulder pain, another back pain, and a third had neck pain.  These were all relieved in less than ten minutes each.  Norm then decided it was time to put this technique to a bigger test.   After I explained to him that each person has the ability to hold a resonance that can allow bones to spontaneously glide back into alignment with only a light touch, he led me to a room where a 88 year old woman was in a great deal of pain suffering from osteoporosis.  One of her hips was massively higher than the other, and she could barely walk.  There were three physicians in the room, and they were taking her history for about thirty minutes.   When it was time to demonstrate what I do, I asked the  elderly woman to stand up and I gently placed my hands on her hips with absolutely no pressure, and started to run the energy.  Running energy involves the use of specific breathing and body awareness exercises to raise one's vibration. This energy has been described by numerous cultures for thousands of years - it is most commonly called prana, chi or ki.  In about 10 minutes the woman's hips had completely evened out and she could now walk without pain.

I explained that when the body receives a high vibration, it responds in whatever way it chooses, in order to accelerate the healing process.  Quantum biologist, Glen Rein, Ph.D. from NY has found that healers were capable of affecting the very winding of DNA.  In order to accomplish this, healing must first begin on a quantum, or subatomic level and work its way though the rest of the body.  From the DNA to the molecules, cells, tissue, organs and even the position of bones - they all respond to the powerful vibration of our love as expressed through the life-force energy that comes through our hands.

On the way back to his ranch that evening, I asked Dr. Shealy if he was impressed with the healing sessions that day.  He said, "No.  I think some of the people you worked on might have liked you a little, or may have even been open to what you were doing.  No, I want to see how this works on my most difficult chronic pain patients. people with 20 or 30 years of constant chronic pain who have not been helped by any traditional or alternative modality.  If you can help these people, then I'll be impressed."

At this point I knew I would need help.  Since group healing sessions are synergistically more powerful than individual sessions, I taught Dr. Shealy and three members of his staff to run energy.  Each patient received a one-hour group session, and in every case his patients experienced between 30% and 70% reduction of their pain.  What made the results all the more surprising was the news I received a week after I returned home.  Dr. Shealy told me that the pain relief was lasting in all of these patients.  At this point, Dr. Shealy told me that he was impressed and agreed to write the foreword to my new book, calling Quantum-Touch, "The first technique that may truly allow us all to become healers."

If I leave you with a few parting thoughts, I'd like you to know that hands-on healing is real, natural, and an easily learned, basic human skill.   And finally, hands-on healing clearly shows us that our love is far more wondrous and powerful than any of us know.

You can learn hands-on healing by reading Richard Gordon's new book, "Quantum-Touch: The Power to Heal," by watching a video workshop, or by attending a Quantum-Touch workshop in your area.  Richard Gordon is also the author of, "Your Healing Hands: The Polarity Experience," a best seller now in nine languages.  Visit the website for further information and more articles on healing, visit http://www.quantumtouch.com/.  

Column # 22

"Family Reunion Visualization"

By Georgina Cannon

On T.V. it all looks terrific.  Families frolicking in the lake, dads and granddads barbecuing while moms and friends laugh and chat over a glass of wine.  Aaahh... summer family get-togethers.

The reality is often very different.  Old grudges flare up.  Grandparents become dictatorial. Teenagers have worse tantrums than 2-year-olds, and dad takes off... out on the lake alone, with a fishing rod and a six pack.  Meanwhile Mom and friends are trying to make the best of everything, and keep reminding themselves how beautiful it is 'up here' by the lake.  While they proceed to down more wine that is prudent when preparing dinner.

Family get-togethers.  Whether it's summer at the lake, or Christmas at the in-laws... it's stress. But there must be a way to find enjoyment even in the chaos of dysfunction!

"There is." explains Dr. Georgina Cannon, director of the Ontario Hypnosis Centre School and Clinic,

"The secret is two-fold.  First, prepare yourself for the event.  The evening before you go, visualize the weekend or Christmas dinner, see it in all its chaos and discomfort, but notice how, in your mind's eye, you are calm and collected – you may be the only person enjoying the event, but you ARE enjoying it.  You have found something that gives you peace in the turmoil that allows ugly comments to bounce off, bad jokes to be funny, tantrums to not matter, and bossy parents to be accepted for who they are.    In other words, you are rehearsing the event.  And if you visualize this two or three times - in full colour and full sound, the 'edge' or tension will dissipate and you'll find the inner peace you are looking for.

The subconscious mind doesn't know the difference between real or imagined, so on the following day, when you experience the real thing, your emotions will have already encountered and dealt with the issues ... and you can stay detached.  And, you will!!  This really works.

The second part of the plan to enjoy the event is to remember why you are there.  What is the purpose of getting together as a family?  And for every family the reason is different.  But it boils down to one thing. Family is a unit, families have traditions and memories and photographs of those memories.  You're building tradition for the young members of the family.  And who knows, by the time they get to your age, they may be doing what you're doing now, to help overcome their trepidation about spending a weekend with you!  So grab and hold onto the big picture, take a few deep relaxing breaths and remember to find joy in the time. 

If the family time together is really more than you can comfortably handle, work with a hypnotherapist who can train you in self hypnosis, so that you can learn to relax at will, under any circumstances. And that's a skill you can learn to use for the rest of your life.

About Dr. Georgina Cannon 

Once a corporate leader and strategic planner for blue chip corporations, Dr. Georgina Cannon left her $300,000 a year corporate career 10 years ago to start the Ontario Hypnosis Centre. Georgina Cannon is a Doctor of Metaphysical Counseling, NLP Master, Timeline practitioner, Past Life Regression Therapist and accredited Instructor for the National Guild of Hypnotists, the Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association and the International Board of Regression Therapies. She is also on the Advisory Board of the National Guild of Hypnotists.  

Recognized by the media as an expert in the field of hypnotherapy and complementary wellness treatments, Dr. Cannon has been featured in many national print, broadcast news articles and television programs, including a Gemini nominated three-part, one-hour series on CBC Television broadcast nationally in the fall of 2004 and now being shown around the world.

To learn more about Dr. Cannon and the Ontario Hypnosis Centre, please visit www.ont-hypnosis-centre.com.

 

Column # 23

"Who Were The Ancient Maya And How Does The End Of Their Calendar in 2012 Affect Your Life Today"

By Gina E. Jones

Recently I have had many questions about life and its purpose. Maybe you have had some of the same questions yourself. Questions like—Who are we really and why are we here? Is humanity’s consciousness shifting? Is time moving faster and faster, and if so, why? Is the world at a breaking point because of terrorism, environmental damage, wars, and nuclear weapons? Are we, as human beings, truly capable of experiencing the higher consciousness of unconditional love? What does the end of the Mayan Sacred Calendar in 2012 really mean? Are these, in fact, the apocalyptic, end of time days prophesied in the Bible? How do I survive these upcoming changes? And what is my role right now in this unfolding dimensional drama?

 

In seeking answers to these questions, this is what I discovered. While time is flying faster towards the completion of the divine cosmic plan for Earth in 2012 as prophesied in the Mayan Calendar, efforts are escalating to help humanity through the days ahead. Earth is undergoing changes never seen before with the increasing frequency of hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and other catastrophic disasters. To the currently “veiled” human mind, there is no explanation. Unbeknown to the majority of humans, they are scheduled to ascend with Earth into the Fourth Dimension of Consciousness in the next five years. Unfortunately, most humans are not prepared to make this shift with the planet because of the pervasive fears perpetuated by the Forces of Darkness. Humanity’s blindness to the reality of their true existence is, in fact, creating the very situations they fear most.

 

Wow! Now that was quite a discovery. What does one do with such a revelation? I knew I had to go deeper into the coded message that was left behind by the ancient Maya many centuries ago for more clarity. And now I want to share this knowledge with you to help others prepare for the turbulence that lies ahead. I want people to fasten their seatbelts to ensure they make it safely through the bumpy flight to the next dimension.

 

The history of the Maya has, for the most part, been shrouded in mystery and speculation. Most of the Mayan texts were destroyed by the Catholic priests traveling with the conquistadors all in the name of Christianity. Four texts survived having made their way to museums and libraries in Europe. What is currently known about the Maya is to a large part based on the works of several researchers and scholars, some of whom have spent more than twenty years in the Yucatan interpreting the various carvings and glyphs left by the Maya. While some researchers and scholars may disagree on the specific date when the Mayan Calendar actually ends, they all agree that highly significant events on a planetary scale have been and will continue up to that time.

 

Researchers such as Dr. Jose Argüelles are convinced the Maya were not of the Earth; having traveled here from another part of the galaxy to leave the knowledge for mankind to ascend to a higher dimension.  Artifacts seem to allow room for this discussion as images suggest a quite different physical appearance from current-day humans. It is my belief that today there are off-planet beings, ascended masters, intergalactic/interdimensional citizens, and angels who are still communicating with us today to help us write the final chapter our own cosmic history.

 

For the last sixty years or so, many of these intelligent beings have been allowed to incarnate on Earth from the higher dimensions. More than sixty million entities willingly accepted the mission and agreed to take form on Earth at this critical time to assist the transition into the next paradigm. Each came in absolute love, intending only to be of service to others. Each also came fully knowing it must go through the Veil of Forgetting, separating its consciousness from that of its higher self to create the illusion that it is fully human, subject to all the physical challenges and emotional vagaries of the space/time continuum.

 

What most don't appreciate, however, are the sacrifices they made to exist in this lower, egoic realm.  So potent and dense is the third dimension that more than 90 percent of the Wanderers have failed to reconnect with the higher aspects of themselves and fully believe they are merely human beings.

 

One can spot a Wanderer almost instantly. They are salmon swimming upstream out of season, true strangers in a strange land. Wanderers are often plagued by allergies and a gnawing feeling of malaise. As children they typically display vivid imaginations and have make-believe playmates. They often find themselves outside the core of social cliques and are more apt to be loners than joiners. They develop a curiosity that may well get them into hot water—questioning authority at every level, needing to understand before obeying. Wanderers tend to have a highly developed rebellious side, intuitively realizing that most of the rules they have to follow are arbitrary and make little sense.

 

If Wanderers accept religion at all, they tend to gravitate toward Eastern philosophies, like Buddhism and Taoism, or the less orthodox versions of the classical religions into which they were born. They seem to know instinctively that, at some point, they will have to transcend their beliefs to fulfill the purpose for which they came. As they awaken, their understanding of the All That Is, together with their consciousness, becomes progressively refined. It is expressed as ever-purer forms of unconditional love. They expand their ability to enter these higher states of love by offering service to everyone who requests it. They elected to incarnate on Earth to assist those who wish to move up to the next dimension. That is their chosen path. Wanderers are here to help midwife the upcoming dimensional shift.

 

Exactly what will happen on December 21, 2012 still remains a mystery—the finite cannot fully understand the infinite—but it seems that we are receiving stronger and stronger clues. The Maya certainly placed great significance to this date. It is still five years away but our world is already experiencing unprecedented, extreme and rapid changes. The number and magnitude of "natural" catastrophes appear to be increasing exponentially. Scientists have detected extreme and erratic behavior in our Sun that in turn is having strong effects on our Earth's atmosphere and measurable effects on the other planets in our solar system as well. Could the strange rumblings at the center of our Galaxy be a cause of the weather and other changes we are experiencing here on Earth today? Will these energetic bursts increase in number and intensity as we approach the year 2012? The Maya would answer "Yes".

 

The Maya said that mankind will enter a new era of heightened consciousness. Perhaps on December 21 the very physics of our world will change—a transformation that will last until the dimensional shift.

 

Remember, my friends, it’s not all about the destination. It’s about the journey there as well. So let’s enjoy this amazing ride on the flight of consciousness into the next dimension

 

Gina E. Jones is now an author and radio show host in California, USA. Her internet talk radio program, Flying Higher, can be heard worldwide each Sunday at 7:30-8:30PM (PST) on BBS Radio Late Night at www.BBSRadio.com. Gina is the author of the recently released novel, Flying Between Heaven and Earth. 

 

For more information, please visit: www.FlyingBetweenHeavenAndEarth.com

 

Column # 24

"The Complete Feeling Exercise"

By Tantra Bensko

 

While attaining joyful states may be easy during calm meditation, what about those challenging times when we are not calm, when we don't like how we feel? How can we use the negative emotions as fuel for extravagant fiery bliss and understanding?

When you are feeling anger, frustration, hatred, or some other reaction to the linear lifetime we return to after meditation, try this exercise to raise your energies and integrate the trappings of the "real world" and your feelings of being a co creator, a High Consciousness, a god, a flow of energy.

Straighten your body out. Tighten your muscles up a bit, then release them. Having surging emotions can be a trigger for excellent, exquisite energy flow.

Send the energies out while remaining silent and self-contained. If people in your life you are being annoying, send your annoyance out with pleasure. Send it out your ears. You don't have to let their words infringe upon you completely. You don't have to hide your feelings and become constricted, heavy and blocked.

Love those annoying people at the same time you feel irritation. Know that they are aspects of god that separated in the process of creation of physicality, and they may feel insecure and unlovable therefore. Not that they would phrase it that way at the moment.

Their actions and vibrations may actually be causing a disturbance in your field. Your aura and body registers what others are doing and feeling within it. A person's thymus gland will go weak if someone he has developed circuitry with is in certain states of consciousness. The muscles at the top sides of the chest are emotionally reactive and try to protect the body thus causing stomach problems, including hiatal hernias, which cut off the vagus nerve (the parasympathetic system), and disturbances in stomach acids and the PH of the system because of the anatomical and meridian relationships in the body. Other reactions are common also. We can actually be allergic to other people's vibrations and emotions. Our subtle bodies and physicality can become attuned to our surroundings. The flow of the Universe during meditation, even if it is someone else's, can stop the flow of energy and lodge it in the liver, perhaps, or the upper right corner of the intestine. Massage is helpful in this case, as is an alkaline food or drink.  

To be calm spirits in the process of rising to higher states of awareness, an alkaline dominance is important. Emotional triggers that affect the chest muscles do not always do so if the body is alkaline. The orthosympathetic nervous system is triggered with fear and acids, causing the horizontal nerves in the body to tense their associated muscles and prepare for fight or flight. You and anyone near you are separate. The area of attack perhaps a touch or a sound or a sight no matter how benign, takes all the attention of the body. "Separation" is the key word.

The parasympathetic system works along vertical lines, the Kundalini pathway in the spine. When you are more alkaline and at one with your feelings, it dominates. If the horizontal energies are not trapped, stuck, and the vertical energies are developed by breath, attention, and movements, your perspective changes. You are a larger you, more of yourself; you are one with the universe. A butterfly or a bird can show you meditative techniques.

This is the rationale behind shiatsu. By pushing in a spot that is blocked, the practitioner alerts the ortho system at first. But as the body learns within moments to trust and relax, that spot begins to flow with the rest of the energies in the meridians. His arasympathetic system is becoming more dominant. He is thinking less in terms of separation within his body and at its "boundaries." He realizes boundaries are a matter of perspective. He thinks from the perspective of waves of light. Why not? It certainly feels good.

Pulling very lightly against the neurovascular holding points on the frontal eminence on the forehead is helpful in relaxing these muscles in the chest. These points are above the irises on the bulge. As you review the problem, stretch the skin lightly at these points for up to 10 minutes. The problem can actually become less stressful, more enjoyable, as the brain has created new pathways of integration. Thumping the thymus at the top center of the chest helps activate it again. You may begin to feel less anger at being trapped with the other people's world. Maybe that’s one reason we like Tarzan so much.

The physical world is so beautiful, it is worth being trapped in for a while. It can be even more fun the less trapped we are in its focus. And the less physical it gets, therefore. Its density is a manifestation of our idea we wanted to explore of limitation. It is an interesting idea. Time for the next one, now, however.

Our physicists tell us that physical reality is an idea. We can change our minds! Have a new thought. But keeping the train of thought flowing leads to easy transitions.

Physicists tell us also that there is no time. All is simultaneous. Our future selves are already happening. For some, perhaps, other selves have ascended. We exist on many levels of ecstasy and independence. We can contact them through exercises using Tantra Yoga and psychic connecting, waking lucid dreaming, purifying and expanding. We can travel through all the selves, flying like light and live in them all, excusing them all in radiance, feeling them flash from our core the core of creation, explosive and orgasmic.

In the mundane level, we chose to continue the dream that includes pain, separation, need, and guilt, power trips and forgetfulness. But this is only a part of it. As we learn to make this dream lucid, knowing we are dreaming and creating it to proceed as we desire, we move into more fullness of emotion to include all the vibrations, and to play with their flow and with the vibrations which are the universe.

It seems that may have overwhelmed some of our ancestors, and the body has determinable patterns of closing down the flow, such as lymph in certain areas connected like fuses. Our race may have diluted the vibratory influx of feelings, which are messages from the Higher Self. It seems the solar plexus, the nerve ganglia in the abdomen, gave up its function as the primary "brain" and delegated its authority to the brain in the head, which has not been equipped to handle all we ask it to.

All these lifetimes we have been training our bodies to handle the extreme ecstasies available, to hold to magnetic surges of love, to be the ecstatic surges, be light. Now is the time.

This can be difficult to do if the people you are with are bickering, for example. If you are irritated by this, or your version of this, send your irritation out with gusto, without diluting the feeling into a few vibrations. Irritation is painful because it is such a small band of frequencies. But the rest of the feeling is waiting to surge through. Feel the whole. Feel yourself consciously choosing to live in an existence with feelings. Good choice! Exciting choice! And you're feeling! Congratulations! Consider the alternative. Enjoy that freedom as if you are choosing for the first time, childlike, playfully, exuberantly, as if you were dancing. Imagine spinning upwards, circling energies up your body from your feet, from your genitals, from your solar plexus. Internally "yell." "I have feelings! I have feelings!

Don't worry. No one can hear you have this much fun, celebrating. This is the heart of the exercise.

You may want to focus your attention one inch below your navel. Attention here is supposed to produce chyme, an alkaline enzyme that changes your body into an ascended, invisible light body, through many experiences of transcendent, Tantric joy rushes.

Feel the electromagnetic resonance between the poles of your body. Everything is resonating in unison, at a high frequency, which eliminates blockages and congested energies and emotions. This excitement can be accelerated by a breathing technique.

Your spine should be reasonably straight. You are celebrating, internally yelling "I have feelings!" Meanwhile, unless you have a hiatal hernia, accelerate your body by forming a gentle suction up your body. This is done by nearly closing off the throat as if snoring. The rounded curve of the tongue as it enters the mouth from the throat is pulled by suction to the back of the throat/roof of the mouth. Try to breathe in lots of air through this small opening. This pulls up the back of the diaphragm. Exactly what you want. This pressure massages the organs and releases their congestion along with the emotional flow. This diaphragm lift is accentuated as you lift the energies up by focusing on the top of your head and above. Breathing in, bring your attention straight up along the vagus nerve, along the spine, to the pineal gland, to the chakra above your head. Pull as if you were pulling your breath all the way up. Focus your eyes high and together. Elongate your head slightly and push the bones together by squeezing the muscles at the centerline of your skull during the inbreath. Your tongue will even push down also at the sides squeezing against itself. This whole process squeezes the pelvic muscles.

The bones of the pelvis and the two bones at the top of the skull must move slightly with the breath for proper circulation of cerebrospinal fluid. On some people, these bones become stuck. Proper movement of the pelvic bones can be helped by rolling on your back balled up, holding your legs in with your arms. Roll from hip to neck. To help ensure the skull bones movement, reach up and spread your fingers to grasp each side of your head near the top. Pull the bones apart slightly, using moderate force on 6 inbreaths.

On the outbreath, simply relax. And start again breathing the energy up, using your attention to raise it. Some speed is helpful. You are pumping up excitement. You are pulling surges of love through your being. Make it grow stronger and stronger. Pick a pace you can live with, and don't force it past your limits. This will make changes in your life. Do this for short periods at first.

After a period of pulling up over and over, relaxation of the breath releases a state of existence that is timeless, perfect, blissful. You need not keep pumping. Continue to breathe in the same fashion, just at a more relaxed pace.

Orgasmic bliss can flood your being with this exercise. Simply look at what you see behind closed eyes. Your visions will be constantly changing into beautiful abstract and/or realistic pictures in glowing, saturated color, sometimes subtle, sometimes fiery. Remember what you are generating is love, transforming you and all that is around you. Celebrating you and all that is around you. Loving your self or your feelings, not judging yourself. Remember yourself as a loving being when you open your eyes. You have just charged the air with Ultimate. Intelligence.

You are not identifying any more with your emotional body, the electromagnetic field around you that extends beyond your physical and etheric bodies. You are a larger person than that. Beyond the emotional body is the intellectual body. This definition of the self is conceptual. You are larger than this. You are not the intellectual body. Realizing you are not these bodies is apart of the process of ascension. Imagine merging these with the next larger body, the Intuitional, knowing what to do, living in the present, following excitement as a guide. Excitement at the level of the exercise just described. Not being at the mercy of the emotions. Able, for example, to do the exercise and expand into the larger self at will. Not having to rely on learned knowledge but, living in the perspective of the parasympathetic system, vibrating as one, as during the described breath, allowing a butterfly to show you how to meditate. Where to put your attention. To be able to engage in sexual relations without the ego pulling you into "lust" to let it know it is OK and being fed. To be able to heal with the excitement and love generated, as in the exercise, and to know who to heal, when, and how, without prior knowledge.

This exercise can be adapted to be a healing technique. Generate the excitement, love, joy, accelerated by the breath and the desire to heal. Telepathically say, "You have feelings!" and send the energy where it needs to go to help free the person's constriction. You may send this celebration to an organ. Ovaries, for example, may feel abused, disliked, by a woman on birth control, who dislikes menstruation, sexuality, or has had an abortion. The organ produces feeling hormones and enzymes just as the brain does. It holds an electrical charge that can be released by this healing technique, and allowed to flow with the rest of the body. As in shiatsu when a point is integrated into the whole, triggering the para system, the organ is no longer separated from her. It need not feel the need to express its life in a cyst or cancer down the road. I have facilitated healing of ovarian cystic fibrosis in a woman in an hour or so. I have used this energy to heal one woman's venereal warts, and several men's prostate problems.

This area of the body can be easily confused in the transitional time. Many people are consciously working in their evolution towards ascension, forming circuitry with light. Yet they have learned lustful habits which tie them into density by forming circuitry with the physical focus, dream that we are our bodies and we must prove ourselves sexy, even in fantasy, to validate our egos. Most often, sexual energy will arise as on energy, like the Kundalini, that is generated and amplified in the sexual chakras, and unrelated to sexual attraction to a body, as we learn to distinguish them, and develop the "purer" energies which transform us along our path. Sexual energies would if we turned our attention to a lustful orientation, rather than grow. Because pure sexual energy is more continually, excitingly explosive and can be used to form strong circuitry with our Higher Self with Blissful Wisdom, with healing, or partner, or whatever we wish. These "images" can be fully in line with the orgasmic state, especially if the energies are drawn up the spine using the described breath.

The ovaries which can feel high, blissful, explosive energy, and at other times lustful energy perhaps, can become confused as to whether they are supposed to form circuitry with the ego and mass consciousness' gestalt of the present illusion, or with Joy. By using this technique of bringing excitement up the spine, we let the ovaries know what we want. And when we feel mundane lust, we can celebrate it, rather than repress it, as one of our feelings, doing the full "I have feelings!" exercise, and add to its vibration enough that it turns into joy, including a pleasurable sexual charge. This way the sexual organs and chakras do not feel a fight, a polarizing repression, but an integration and inclusion, and an obvious direction of flow. This puts us in touch with the Intuitional Body also.

The "I have feelings!" exercise is a way of speaking to all parts of the body with love, integrating each part, and its emotion it resonates with, as with shiatsu triggering the parasympathetic system.

By accepting and celebrating all emotions and seeing them as a whole, you can then accept all the levels of your being, and also other people and their emotions, as being one explosive exploration of possibilities.

Sometimes, if you are feeling drained emotionally, this exercise is not the one to do. Sometimes the body needs to rest in its acceleration and acclimate. This is fine. However, sometimes after simply lying with the state you are in, and letting yourself gradually recharge, you can then begin a mild version of the exercise to bring yourself to a pleasant, relaxed state.

When you are feeling calm to begin with, or have finished the "I have feelings!," breath can be very euphoric. "Shiva" is the Tantric label for That which goes beyond label, That from which all comes. "Om" is the sound of all vibrations at once, all feelings and all that is beyond feelings. All creation on all levels. This exercise produces ecstatic altered states.

 

Tantra Bensko flares in many directions at once, the focus being Lucidity on all levels. She publishes poetry, fiction, articles, and books. Her writing site, Lucid Fiction, is www.freewebs.com/tantrabensko. She is writing a book now called Tantric Lucidity. She is also an artist, and one of her sites is www.freewebs.com/Lucidvision. Her art has been published widely internationally and her solo show, Reality Burn!, is traveling through Spain from venue to venue. She makes movies from her art as well. She has been a healer since adolescence, living in the world of the miraculous,facilitating sudden changes in people's lives not only in the physical realm
but in the emotional and spiritual. She does this long distance or up close.  She is a spiritual teacher and one aspects of her teaching is Tantra Yoga,www.freewebs.com/lucidbody. She also arranges groups for Lucid Play,www.freewebs.com/lucidplay, in which people can go into deep states together with Tantric techniques and interact consciously from that state in a variety of delightful ways, learning new skills such as aura viewing and healing, and helping the world with the Maharishi Effect. She is also available for long distance work at http://www.kasamba.com/Tantra-Rose.

 

Column # 25

"Filaments of Maya"

By Tantra Bensko

 

Recently, I experienced the oneness of us all as we pulse out of the field of absolute consciousness, in a unique way. Before sleep, I thought of Babaji, the Simple Baba, also called the Youthful Babaji, who is no longer in physical form. To connect with him, I was focusing beyond his form, and beyond my own form. While I was doing so, I ended up staring towards the wall heater in the cabin where I was living, as the heater was slowly turning off to adjust the temperature. The orange glow of the filaments was fading out. As I was focusing at the time on the self that exists after death, the synchronicity with the heater going out and experiencing complete darkness made me think of a time when I was close to dying, and my visual field had looked similar, the light fading out into still darkness.

It put me in a slight panic, getting in touch with my desire to live, not die. I knew of course that I would continue in the formless state, and I have never been afraid of being on the other side. But that evening gave me a visceral experience of it, and in preparing for it, I imagined that I had died and was getting used to the idea of the blackness around me, unable to see my body or the world of this incarnation. I was getting quite at home with that state, and felt it to be truer than the transitory state of being incarnated, with all its limitations, and the pretense that that is all we are. The black state of absolute consciousness, pure being, seemed more homey than being physically focused soon.

When the heater came back on, I laughed at it, seeing it as almost a trick that I was not going to be suckered into believing. I knew the play of being alive is a wonderful dream arising out of the blackness, an illusion I have enjoyed.

I was able to stay in that awareness as I went to sleep and dreamed of Babaji in the form he was in when alive, but his form being made up of small dots that were exactly like the heater filaments. Behind the circles of light was the blackness of absolute consciousness, which is appropriate for him especially, as he is supposed to be an incarnation of Shiva.

I continued to have other dreams, and they all were in the same format, with everything being an incarnation of Shiva, the absolute, but the Shakti, the energy that arises out of Shiva into the Maya of physical life taking the form of the glowing filaments that have the same dark field as the ones in the heater. My own form in the dream had the same construct.

I have seen life in this way for decades now, seeing the void beyond the forms that pulsate out from it. I have always been aware of the pulsation between the two, the Maya aspect of the physical world that expresses the dark field behind it. For awhile, the vision had been flagging, as I had not been able to do as many Tantric exercises in the last few years. These dreams brought that vision back more strongly again. Perhaps Babaji himself was instrumental in my perceptual recharging. Yet, my dream helped me enjoy seeing especially intensely all things as Babaji, all things as incarnations as Shiva, including myself.

 

Tantra Bensko flares in many directions at once, the focus being Lucidity on all levels. She publishes poetry, fiction, articles, and books. Her writing site, Lucid Fiction, is www.freewebs.com/tantrabensko. She is writing a book now called Tantric Lucidity. She is also an artist, and one of her sites is www.freewebs.com/Lucidvision. Her art has been published widely internationally and her solo show, Reality Burn!, is traveling through Spain from venue to venue. She makes movies from her art as well. She has been a healer since adolescence, living in the world of the miraculous,facilitating sudden changes in people's lives not only in the physical realm
but in the emotional and spiritual. She does this long distance or up close.  She is a spiritual teacher and one aspects of her teaching is Tantra Yoga,www.freewebs.com/lucidbody. She also arranges groups for Lucid Play,www.freewebs.com/lucidplay, in which people can go into deep states together with Tantric techniques and interact consciously from that state in a variety of delightful ways, learning new skills such as aura viewing and healing, and helping the world with the Maharishi Effect. She is also available for long distance work at http://www.kasamba.com/Tantra-Rose.

 

Column # 26

"Take A Flying Leap At The Sun"

By Tantra Bensko

 

Flying has very practical applications. It's fun. And it can change your life. We have a very useful tool to help us fly. The sun.

The sun has been used for this purpose before, has it not? Look at the histories of Egypt, for example. Some pharaohs, goddesses and gods wore sun disks on their heads. One god was the meta sun: Aten.

As you come to feel yourself flying more and more in your life, you may identify yourself more and more with such flying archetypes. Yes, it's possible to have the continual sense that you are flying. This is hard to describe or explain. You just have to feel it. The more you meditate and do pranayama and yoga, and just spend time outside, maybe walking through the woods, arms outstretched like wings, the more likely you will feel it. The more flowing a person you are. The more you go flying in other realms.

Look into a mirror with a candle nearby, in a dim room. Fly into your eyes, like the Eye of Horus. Or look toward the sun (but not in it) and let its rays hit your pituitary and pineal glands through your eyes, connect with its energy, and close your eyes, resonating with the sun. Fly into its core. There's more there than you may have imagined. Breathe deeply as your fuel. Feel love, as your fuel. Let the sun be one of your chakras you can ascend to. You may start at the spine and zoom through the chakras, like sun discs, out past the sun globe of the crown chakra, going through the higher chakras, and into the sun. And beyond. Each chakra opens you into a new large sunlike ball of yourself. You become each plane of reality.

Make yourself as attuned to the electromagnetic currents and the sun as possible, removing blockages in your body, and making yourself a polarized conduit. Chlorophyll is obviously good for photosynthesizing the sun's energy into flight fuel. A clean diet and yoga and pranayama help clean your blockages, as does any kind of bodywork. Walking makes you electrical, if done through nature. And oil and water make you, wet battery that you are, more charged up, and upwards. The wrong kind of fats and oils keep the sun from working its magic. The sun is extremely healthy but only if you have the proper oils, such as wish salmon oil, or hemp oil.

You may want to ingest colloidal gold (from a health food store) to help resonate with the sun, as gold is its lower octave. The sun has been called our most impressive musician. See if you can "hear" its subtle sound and join in.

In hypnotizing people, I have gained more insights into sun flying. One man, John, wanted help remembering a dream that had "haunted" him since he was young. He was visited by alien beings who showed him balls of light, and then catapulted him through a window, through light balls, into the sun. What are aliens but people who have figured out how to travel through space? Their space ships can't go from one place to another linearly, but must go out of time and space and recompose themselves. How do we go past linear time and space? Through the pineal and pituitary glands vibrating as one, giving off a large ball of subtle light. A halo. We can go through it like a window, up through our chakra balls, into the sun. As the meta-sun, something transcendental and incredible.

In my particular type of hypnosis, I help a person raise his frequency higher and higher, going past the personality limits of time and space. I have never told anyone to enter a vortex. But they usually do. They fly through it into a light, perhaps zooming past stars. Being comfortable with the speed and the spin is very important. Coming out the other side is nothing to miss. This can happen in meditation as well, the vortex forming in a dizzying fashion. Ride it. Let yourself spread out.

Some have remembered, in hypnosis, an object that is a small representation of the sun. It is used for the soul to travel through, into any space/time on this earth or otherwise, this alternate reality or another. It is just possible you may be able to construct one yourself.
It is also possible to create a spaceship out of a few people who are in touch with their inner core of light! I believe this is what some of the spaceships are we see -- grouping of lights. The lights may be individual souls, joined as one group, all linked up from core to core, and going together into timeless spacelessness and reconvening when they wish. Link up, soul sun to soul sun. Let's go!

 

Tantra Bensko flares in many directions at once, the focus being Lucidity on all levels. She publishes poetry, fiction, articles, and books. Her writing site, Lucid Fiction, is www.freewebs.com/tantrabensko. She is writing a book now called Tantric Lucidity. She is also an artist, and one of her sites is www.freewebs.com/Lucidvision. Her art has been published widely internationally and her solo show, Reality Burn!, is traveling through Spain from venue to venue. She makes movies from her art as well. She has been a healer since adolescence, living in the world of the miraculous,facilitating sudden changes in people's lives not only in the physical realm
but in the emotional and spiritual. She does this long distance or up close.  She is a spiritual teacher and one aspects of her teaching is Tantra Yoga,www.freewebs.com/lucidbody. She also arranges groups for Lucid Play,www.freewebs.com/lucidplay, in which people can go into deep states together with Tantric techniques and interact consciously from that state in a variety of delightful ways, learning new skills such as aura viewing and healing, and helping the world with the Maharishi Effect. She is also available for long distance work at http://www.kasamba.com/Tantra-Rose.

 

Column # 27

"The Challenge of Self Love: Activate your ACS to Transform!"

By Deborah Frenette

 

Self love in our society can be a difficult task for anyone, especially for survivors of illness, poverty, abuse and neglect. Society tends to hand out messages that we are not acceptable; we are too fat, too skinny, too old, too young, not pretty enough, not well enough dressed and the list goes on…  Of course, the messages are designed to sell the products that are all about making our bodies acceptable. However, these social messages make it too comfortable to wallow in the self revulsion that harmful communication from the past trained us to believe to be true about ourselves. We can turn these false beliefs inwards on ourselves. However, it is quite possible with the assistance of your Autonomic Control System (ACS) to transform this loathing into self love. After all, self love is actually our natural state!

Recognize your valuable traits.

Be real with yourself. “Modesty” doesn't help you here; neither do old critical messages. Since we have been trained to look outside ourselves to find our “heroes”, finding your valuable traits can be challenging. So exploit this negative training to find the good things about you! Try thinking about the traits you value and love in your friends and family, then look at yourself to realize that these traits do exist inside you, too. You will be happily surprised at all the wonderful characteristics about- YOU!

 

If you enjoy shopping, make a trip to find yourself a special journal for your list of traits, or if you are artistic, create a set of cards. Your journal should be lovely; a beautiful work of art that makes you feel good when you look at it. Write in your journal daily, make the list of good characteristics about yourself and keep it handy to add to the list when you discover another truth about how great you really are! If you feel down or critical about yourself, or any time anyone says anything that triggers your own critical voice, open the book. Sit quietly by yourself, look inward and listen to that critical voice. Say “Thank you for pointing out these faulty thinking patterns that I am still holding in my subconscious mind” and ask your ACS to release these false and erroneous beliefs, and replace with positive loving thoughts about yourself.  Focus on the good your journal reflects back to you. *Then tap the reflexology point for the spine, which is located on the thumb line on the BACK of your hand, starting at the thumbnail, and tap all the way to the wrist. Breathe in the NMT pattern to release the judgmental thoughts and anchor the loving thoughts. You are commanding your system to release and heal!

 

Many of these judgment and negative thoughts were internalized in childhood by repetitive phrases used by our parents and educators, who are guilty but not to blame. Our parents and educators were highly likely to have been subjected to the same hurtful phrases. Repetition really does make a difference. Just think of the impact one disapproving phrase said by a parent over and over to a child can have. Do any of these phrases from childhood jump to mind now?  Then tap and breathe and ask your ACS to release the feeling and the phrase now, and replace it with a loving thought that comforts and is true about you. Now we can turn it around and use repetition of encouraging words to entrench the self love response!

Self love is a habitual response

Self love is a habitual response. So, you can make it a part of your routine to recognize your daily successes. Big or small, each success can be viewed as a triumph. Many people are trained to see the glass half empty, not half full, and that view leads to focus on the pessimistic side of life. We tend to gloss over the positives to hurry on our way to those negatives! Stop and savor the good events in life, and pat yourself on the back for all the tasks you have completed, for the kind words you have spoken, for all the times you overcome inertia and took a risk. Fill your senses with the finer things in life, which are usually free, and you will crowd out the space for critical thinking and self judgment.

 

Happiness is a succession of events that make us feel good, not a destination at which we finally arrive. Happiness too is a habitual response. Being thankful for the smallest positive accomplishment or gift of life has the effect of creating a self love climate, and assists in increasing your energy for life and for this shift to becoming your own best friend and supporter.

 

Try this experiment. Think of a very unhappy past event in your life. Feel the emotions of this event, and scan your body for reactions to these difficult emotions. Feel your energy, how does reflecting on this event make you react? Does the memory cause you to feel drained, angry or does it cause you to desire revenge? How do you experience these thoughts, where is your body reacting? Are you feeling tension in an area, does your tummy clench, or your forehead furrow? Form a positive outcome from this event. In any event in life, there is always a chance to learn about yourself, and to practice forgiveness. Now, focus on the areas of tension. Ask your ACS to release this tension, tap on the tight spots, breathe out the negative thoughts, and replace with the positive teaching and traits and allow forgiveness to fill your heart and mind.

 

Now feel your own energy and the areas of tension. Causing your ACS to release these memories will have the effect of increasing your energy and is a big step forward into creating the climate for self love.

Becoming your own best friend

Most people have the experience of loving and admiring another person in their lives. This person could be your first love, a family member, a teacher you really respected, or a friend, past or present that you care for and get along well with. Now, relax, close your eyes and think of one person you deeply love and trust, and who you know cares about you. Make a mental list of all the reasons why you love and appreciate them. Allow yourself to feel that love inside you. Then see yourself with this other person, and extend the love you feel over to yourself. You can see this as a light, or a shower of gentle, healing rain on both of you.  Trust in their love for you, and just feel it. Look at yourself with loving, tender eyes, even if you can only do it for a moment. Open your heart and allow yourself receive that love. Now, go to the mirror and look at yourself. Look deep into your own eyes and see the love inside yourself. Feel the affection move through you. Remember how it feels, and come back to that love another time. Throughout the day, pause when you look at yourself in the mirror and love your image. If you start to hear negative voices trying to take you off track, say “Thank you for pointing out these faulty thinking patterns that I am still holding in my subconscious mind” and ask your ACS to release, tap and breathe these cruel voices out and replace with benevolent and caring thoughts about YOU! This is your life; the time is now, and it is your decision, yours alone, to chose love.

 

*I have established this method of anchoring the NMT commands during the sessions with my clients. The energy of the spine is activated when the tapping of the thumb line is preformed. This release works most effectively when you have undergone a course of NMT sessions. This is due to the proper training of your ACS to respond to these commands. During your sessions, the practitioner of NMT is bringing order to the chaos of your system, and establishing proper protocol for the optimal operation of your ACS. This means that your self commands to your system will be effective.

 

Deborah A Frenette is a certified Hypnotherapist, and an Advanced NeuroModulation Technique Practitioner (NMT). She practices in both Toronto, Ontario and at the NeuroModulation Health Retreat in Stanstead, Quebec. For more information please visit her website at www.nmtcanada.com, or call 647 723 4566 and leave a message. Please feel free to share this article with credit to the author.

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