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Are We There Yet?

1/6/2019

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Are We There Yet?

On my last post I used some phrases that I believe perhaps caused some confusion.  Using the term “our journey” implied I was taking you on my journey, the implication being that my way is the only way or the best way.
 
Also, within my dream, I shared in the previous post that some other individuals courses and beliefs might be clouding a vision of the truth.  Someone might have assumed that I was ‘putting down’ various systems, other books, teachers and/or someone’s guru. The point of the dream for me was that an individual may not need activities that are too cerebral, or too dogmatic.  Of course, we will gravitate towards activities and actions that we resonate with at that moment.  My lectures and presentations have always tended to be of a more lighthearted nature where I share my belief that you don’t need pain to have gain.

So here are some points for additional clarity regarding what I am sharing.

The journey is not about traveling to a location to meet your Higher Self, but about opening your vision and seeing that you are your Higher Self.  Remember the Three Stooges line were Curly said, “I can’t see, I can’t see!  Moe says, why not?  Curly says, because I have my eyes closed.’

The phrase, ‘A beautiful heart and open mind and a humble spirit,’ is a state of awareness, one of many avenues, to open one’s outer/inner vision.  It has been helpful for me and I know it can be of assistance to someone else.  My sharing this concept is for those individuals who desire an approach that does not have extreme regime, endless courses where wisdom is doled out as you proceed through levels and those who are not interested in joining groups.

I believe in peace, love, beauty, harmony, fun, joy, laughter and rock and roll oldies from the 60s.  I don’t believe in only one group having the truth, or that the truth from God only comes through some lineages that you MUST honor in order to be given the “Word” from our Creator.  That time wherein there are only chosen Ones who know how to reach higher dimensions…is now passed on this earth.
There is a mighty wave that is beginning to sweep over this earth plane.  I didn’t bring it, I didn’t cause it and I can’t manipulate it.  I am merely sharing with you that it would be beneficial to get your surf board ready to ride this wave, if you choose.  You have other choices where you can float up and down in an inner tube if you like or just bob up and down with your body.  All have direct and immediate access to the greater awareness.

Perhaps a better phrase I might share is ‘a heart full of beauty, an open mind and a humble spirit.’ A heart full of beauty sees the highest and best in all things.  An individual with a heart full of beauty recognizes the energy and love behind form and realizes that the outer container, is just that, a container.  What might have been considered to be ugly or not beautiful to us in the past, because of perhaps our limited viewpoint, now touches us because we have apperceived the beautiful light of love shining behind the form.  We begin to realize that everything is created out of love and is love.

Paracelsus stated in the early 1500s, that whatever you would like to learn about a plant, flower, herb, rock or person; sit quietly before that person or object and just listen.  Ask within yourself that you be open to receive the messages that are being shared with you.  Although this also ties into being humble, the point is that you don’t have any preconceived notions regarding what something is, what it or they will share and don’t have a preconceived notion whether it is right or wrong.  There is nothing in this universe that will not reveal itself if you remain open and allow it to speak, transmit or share with you.

A humble spirit in my parlance means that one does not believe that they know everything and control everything.  Aspects of this belong with an open mind.  I shared the phrase of Pythagoras in a previous post which demonstrates that at any moment a person you are with might be your father, brother or son or mother, sister or daughter.  Everyone and everything can be our teacher.  When your hands are clasped tightly, you cannot hold anything new in your palm.

Now back to my dream regarding the people in the audience, with smoke coming from them, potentially blinding the truth.  If you read deeply into my post it was meant to explain that each of these persons, including myself, have had a journey.  Their journey is predicated upon past lives, past experiences and present needs.  Those needs might be making money to continue their activities.  Just like models that are thin and beautiful and you see them on television or the stage and some people might want to be like them; the life of some of these people is not what you might imagine.  Does that make them wrong or bad?  Of course not.  It is their journey.

So what is the intent of my sharing and what did I mean as ‘the journey.’  I mean to imply that when we open our eyes we will realize we are already at our journey’s end.  When we open our eyes, without colored lenses, slit glasses, sun glasses or whatnot, that we will already have arrived at our destination; we are our destination.

A heart full of beauty, an open mind and a humble spirit is a manner of seeing and being and not just a mantra.  In former times the belief was the journey could only be made along with a perceived few, the gurus, the lineage, the special systems, the secret teachings and the anointed Ones.  If anyone wishes to continue investigating, learning and experiencing in this manner because it is attractive and fulfilling, that is your choice.  You also don’t have to choose only one course, person or direction.

A great philosopher from the past stated that virtually all of the avenues of learning will eventually take you to your destination.  All have the kernels of truth.  Some will take you a bit longer on the journey while others may help you achieve the destination in a shorter time.  However, when individuals jump from one source to another, take weekly weekend seminars, read numerous divergent systems this takes them longer to achieve their goal and can cause confusion to some people.

Of course for many the truth is in the journey and not just the destination.  Isn’t the world beautiful where we have so many choices where we can align with groups that are extremely dogmatic, stringent and force us into actions and or move to ones that are completely the opposite?  Wherever we may be in our philosophy we can find a place to which we resonate.
But we have a new paradigm dawning on this planet.  The veils of forgetfulness becoming thinner and dimensions shrinking which will allow everyone, who is open, to perceive deeper truths within and for themselves.  Many in the religious and esoteric field will not be happy because they will not be the only ones who are ‘delivering the goods’ from the spiritual realms.

With love, in love and through love to you.
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Ready to Begin the Journey Together?

1/3/2019

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Ready to Begin The Journey Together?
I am going to include and modify some posts I have made previously to utilize during our journey toward contacting our Higher Self.  Today we begin with having…
Trust and Faith in YOURSELF

After 43 years of spiritual journeying I recognize that to achieve greater spiritual awareness your intent and desire are more important factors than following any specific rules laid down by other individuals. When one understands the concept that we are on this plane to demonstrate how we manage creative energies, the seemingly sealed door to higher awareness and spiritual manifestations is suddenly wide open for you to walk through, and utilize the greater capabilities that you have been endowed with.

I had the thought that each person has their own belief system and when that person is sharing their information, it is based on their experiences based on their own beliefs. Early in my spiritual journey I heard that one had to be chaste; that one should not eat meat; that one had to meditate in a specific manner; that you can only reach higher states with the assistance of a guru; and so on and so on. Endless rules and teachings that have been handed down through time by various groups and individuals.

All those aspects that I listed earlier as the necessities to achieve spiritual awareness, those are other people’s belief systems. I did not follow any of them because I did not believe they fit into my Western lifestyle and manner in which I wanted to live my life.

As you explore the writings of various cultures, societies, groups and the diverse experiences of individuals throughout history, it is very obvious that they did not all follow the same pathway to reach the similar states of spiritual awareness and the use of spiritual gifts. Perhaps it is easier for me to see this because I’ve been a caretaker/librarian of many diverse writings from throughout the world and throughout time.

The value of the various books, lectures and teachings of individuals should be in what they achieved rather than in the manner of THEIR JOURNEY. The journey can be very interesting but it was their journey and not necessarily your journey. The greatest gift they can provide to you is to have placed into your consciousness what is possible for YOU to achieve even if the writers have not personally achieved it.

Very early in my journey I came across a book titled, the 'Yogi Aphorisms of Pantajali.' This book listed the various psychic/spiritual abilities that human beings can manifest. Within one week of reading each of the various capabilities, I had the personal experience of each and every one of them happening immediately in my life.

It was stated in the book that many of these abilities would take years and years of intense meditation and other yogic regimes. Some of the abilities could only be initiated through the contact with a Guru.  I know that I had my experiences to show me that this was not necessarily the case, unless I believed it to be the case.

Now there will be some that will say that I had my necessary training in past lives and now in this life I was ready to have the experience. I could also say, due to the fact that you are reading my posts, that it is the same for YOU. Instant healing, bilocation, clairaudience, clairvoyance, and so many other abilities are here and present for each of YOU now!  Facebook friends, WE are the same FAMILY.

Manifesting, creating and accelerating various activities are possible for YOU, NOW, when you understand that it is not only possible, but already available to you NOW. It is only your lack of trust in yourself and your false belief that you might not have the capability to achieve these things that limits YOU.

Now we are starting our journey with a picture of Janus.  The two faced image that could see the past as well as the future.  Being that they are both on one coin we can see that from a position in the present we can see both the past and the future.  This is the awareness contained within your Higher Self. 

Emerson said, “We distinguish the announcements of the Over Soul (his description of the Higher Self), its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation.  For the communication is an influx of the Divine Mind.”  There is a peacefulness and joy when communication comes from the Higher Self.

I know from my sharing with people, throughout my life, that all things are possible and that the most important factors in accomplishing seemingly impossible things are intent, desire and will. Paracelsus stated it as Imagination, Faith and Will.

A Beautiful Heart, an Open Mind and a Humble Spirit is my belief system. There are deeper activities that take place within an individual through the activation and desire to achieve these qualities. I know that if you have trust and faith in whatever your belief then the likelihood is that it will manifest. It will manifest to the degree that you believe it will happen for you. You are just as wise, just as spiritual and have all the capabilities of those who write and teach about spiritual ‘things.’

I have found that the words that came from the breeze off the ocean in my dream, had the most impact in opening MY spiritual life.

My dream was, I was walking along the ocean with thousands of people, who like myself, were seeking greater spiritual enlightenment. To my left was the ocean and a short distance in front of me, almost invisible because of a fog, stood a woman dressed in blue holding a microphone. To her immediate left and to my right were circular stands filled with people. I recognized the people in the stands because they were well-known lecturers in the spiritual and health fields. The people in the stands had over-sized heads and there was a fog and loud noises coming from their mouths.

I couldn't hear and could barely see the woman in blue. When I got closer to the woman in blue, I saw it was Sophia, the goddess of wisdom. I then wondered, if these people in the stands, who profess to know so much, were causing this interference, then what are spiritual seekers supposed to do? Then a breeze blew off the ocean, cleared the fog and everything became quiet, and then I heard the following words..."all one needs to reach a higher state of awareness within themselves is, 'A Beautiful Heart, an Open Mind and a Humble Spirit'."

In my dream, the people in the stands are not bad, wrong or deluded. They have their own systems and pathways which they have used to accomplish certain things. Their pathway does not work for all people, but many people believe that they must follow these directions, and only these directions. You should not be disappointed if some of these systems don’t work, the system was not right for you.
You must realize that the majority of the individuals that have written these books have not achieved the higher consciousness of which they write.  They talk a good story rehashing ‘pearls of philosophy from the past,’ but when you are with them, off their stage, they are exactly the same as you. Same problems, same struggles, same lack of belief.

So, let’s begin to get acquainted to our Higher Self.  Talk to this aspect of yourself exactly as you would talk to a loving and close friend or someone you admire.  The dimensions are as close as they have ever been on this planet and you can make this contact if you remain quiet and listen.  This concept of listening to the ‘still small voice within’ is nothing new except, that at this time, despite all of the seeming chaos, it is the best time to make the contact while in physical form.  Invite your Higher Self to share with you and as you do this ‘feel’ the contact.  However it comes; a feeling in your neck, arms, heart, top of head, third eye or a voice…acknowledge it and thank your Higher Self for acknowledging your desire to come closer..


Trust yourself, know that all things are possible for you, and know that if you want something to happen, then it will happen to your level of faith in your belief.  We are just starting out so give everything time and be in joy.

I am sharing this because I am aware that it is the right time and those who desire to maximize their journey on earth have the greatest opportunity that has ever been available for the masses on this planet.

It is time for you to trust yourself and listen to your own inner guidance. Don’t be confined by what others might teach. It is not enough to believe you are becoming more enlightened by just attending conferences. You might be receiving more knowledge but true wisdom comes from within. Go within, listen closely to your inner voice, and TRUST YOURSELF. I Love You. 

To inspire and empower with love, in love and through love.


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