Life Within the Light?

The old philosophers believed that there were two ways to acquire knowledge.  Either through intuition or experience.

They believed that Intuition reveals things to us while experience tests us and provides impulses and urging for our further development.

Although we are aware when intuition comes to us, it is difficult to explain what its mechanism and substance is. 

Some old teachers used an analogy of Light to explain the substance or essence of intuition.  They explained that there are two kinds of light; a visible radiance that we call brightness and an invisible light we call darkness.  The belief was that darkness and light were fundamentally the same substance but different in degrees.

Light is a twofold being in that it contains quality and substance.  In thinking of the term darkness let’s use the term invisible as far as this explanation is concerned.  The dark light or invisible aspect of visible light is luminous to the soul and dark to our body.  The visible physical radiance is bright to our senses and dark to the soul.

The light we see contains energy that is necessary to support all the visible things we see.  The invisible aspect of light supports the invisible power and functions of humans including intuition. We might say that intuition is the capability of becoming attuned to the inside of light.  Now I don’t want this to become too complicated so let’s say that visible light is responsible for health and the invisible aspects contained within visible light causes wisdom.

“The light of:
Body – Gives strength, energy, growth and development.
Soul – Gives understanding
Mind – Gives wisdom
Spirit – Bestows truth.”  Now all of these aspects need nourishment which is contained within light.

The total burden of all energy that is needed is contained within every ray of visible light.  When we look at something we see either its objective physical form or we can perceive its inner light.  Everything that lives, lives in light.  Everything that exists, radiates light.  When we look upon something we can see the thing according to its outer characteristics or according to its inner nature.  “The heart has eyes as well as the body.  The mind has ears and all internal parts of people have equivalent senses of cognition.”

We see nature because of the light that shines upon it but we see the true life of nature because of the light that shines within it.  “Through observation we behold things lighted, by intuition we behold things self-luminous.

Outwardly we see only the reflection of light upon objects and life forms because they have become visible to our sight, but intuitively we can behold the inner light of all things.

Through reflected light we see shape, color, number and arrangement.  Through the inner light we can see goodness, beauty and integrity.

Continuing with the belief of some ancient teachers, the visible part of light is only a shadow or reflection of the invisible light which is truly the source of all life in the universe.  The universe in its totality is suspended in an infinite spiritual life-light.  All things exist within this light.  There is a sea of eternal light which some called the Luminous Nature of God.  Pythagoras stated, the body of God is composed of the substance of light.

Some teachers from the past taught that there are three suns within our solar system.  One is the physical sun we see, a second is a sun in the astral/psychic plane and the third is a spiritual sun.  These three suns bestow life to the worlds according to their own natures.  The physical sun warms and reveals bodies; the psychic sun nourishes the soul and the spiritual or root sun nourishes and sustains the spirit of all things.  The suns do not create the light but are the vehicles through which the light is projected.

The spiritual sun has to do with the divine nature of all things. The psychic or astral sun deals with ignorance and the physical sun dissipates the darkness we call crystallization.

Truth is a kind of light, when it shines another kind of darkness is dissipated.  “Truth is to darkness of ignorance, what sun is to the darkness of night.”

Our earth and all its life forms exist within a field of light, even at night.  This light is not affected by the alternation of day and night.  The light from the psychic and spiritual suns never ceases.  We are constantly surrounded and penetrated at all times by THE LIGHT.  We can never be further from or nearer to any essential principle that is necessary for our survival.  Like fish in water, we are not necessarily aware of what sustains our existence.

There is spiritual light, emotional light, mental light, vital light and physical light.  Energies and awareness are conveyed to each of these aspects from the light of the sun in which level or plane they are operating within.

“And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.”

May the light from your inner beauty, love, harmony and truth shine outward and illuminate your every step! 

With love, in love and through love to you.

A Little Journey
For the next week I will be on a little journey, within the journey, and won’t be near a computer. I won’t be able to post, but I will be able to send out waves of love to all of you...my beautiful, spiritual and enlightened FaceBook friends.
For the next week I hope you spontaneously experience or schedule as much LEFL as you can. Surround yourself with Laughter, Excitement, Fun and Love.
Upon the earth…
A little journey, you do make,
To help your Being, reach a more enlightened state,
A state of mind, is what it be,
Look behind the dross, to find the key,
Inside the Subtle One, watches your every move,
Its gentle urging, can help you improve,
Completion is, a state of mind,
Force won’t work, as you will find,
You’ll finally arrive, to a state of light,
Then you’ll awaken, from another earth night,
Two great paths, were your choice to walk,
One through insight, and one through talk. Steve
* * * * * * * *
The dross is burned, through your inspection,
Of this earthy world, which is a reflection,
You don the clothes, of this world,
For lessons to learn, which do unfurl,
Although some hurt, and seem quite real,
T’s just the illusion, which you feel,
So try to discern, what’s real to take,
And worry not, about the fake,
Look beneath, that which comes,
Is it illusion, or the spiritual from?
Dance the steps, which you must,
But realize the part, which will return to dust. Steven
With love, in love and through love to you.

Some More Thoughts Regarding Healing

In August 1995 I visited my parents’ home in Sedona with a friend. My friend touched her pinky finger to an iron and it immediately blistered and became very inflamed. As soon as it happened, everyone in the room turned to me and said, okay Steve, why don’t you see what you can do. I had been doing some healing work the previous ten years.

I have to admit I didn’t approach it in any serious manner but said okay. I walked over and touched her finger with my hand and in a few moments she said the pain was gone.

After another ten minutes she still had the blister and it was looking rather ‘nasty.’ My friend said, why can’t you do something about this blister? Something possessed me to pick up her hand and I breathed over her finger. Within several minutes the blister began to disappear and was soon gone.

I remember approaching the situation in a very light-hearted manner. I didn’t feel any pressure that I must make something happen, but I did have the desire to be of some help in the situation. I made two attempts to help a person who was having some difficulty.

The next day I asked my internal guidance about the experience and I received the following answer. The result took place due to the fact that I held the concept or viewpoint as though I was playing a game. In this situation and in other healing experiences, I should never place myself under pressure regarding how I would make something happen about or how it would come about but have some awareness that everything is possible.

My spiritual guidance went on to say, some important points for people to understand is, that one must have the knowledge that something can happen and they must know that there is a capability that something could happen but not to hold any personal responsibility that a healing must take place. The healer should be personally aware, in the moment, and desirous of being supportive. What separates healers is their ability to create the highest and best healing environment where the patient just knows that something will happen.

The resultant healing manifests from a change of state, brought about through the spiritual portion of the individual desiring to be healed, working through their endocrinology. This can happen instantaneously.

Approximately twenty years ago a Buddhist friend shared an investigation he conducted regarding the healing work of a Chinese master living in San Francisco. This master was a practitioner who worked with the arrangements of energies and patterns. My friend’s investigation concerned a woman in San Francisco who was opened up in several places during cancer surgery and it was discovered that she was covered head to toe with tumors. The doctors had little choice and closed her up and sent her home. They gave her morphine and hoped she would not suffer too long.
 
She contacted the Chinese master and he came to her home. He told her that certain things needed to be moved in her home. She needed to get different colors in the house. He then gave her a chip of wood and told her to place this chip in a particular spot in her home. She did what he told her.
 
Per his instructions, she rearranged the house, changed colors and left the chip where she was told. After some period of time, the largest tumor that the woman had, a stomach tumor that weighed close to ten pounds, as well as all the other tumors, all eventually disappeared without the woman changing anything else in her life.
 
Now in hypnosis we know that the hypnotist can change their subjects arm into a wooden post and change the post into a living plant and as such the subject will prune and water it as the hypnotist suggests. The energy that was behind the growth of the tumor was projected into the piece of wood. Not the tumor itself, but the energy behind the growth of the tumor! Hypnotizing a person, as well as reinforcing particular beliefs, can be accomplished in many different manners and it does not require that the individual has their eyes closed or even realizes they are being hypnotized.

The greater activities of how things are really accomplished, most of which we really don’t understand fully, are embodied within our own spirit, within our desire and within the focused purpose of an individual. It is important that an individual is willing to accept the responsibility for being healed. Yes, there is a responsibility and there must be an acceptance of a new identity, one that does not include the energy patterns that led to the dis-ease.
 
When someone becomes too involved with a particular situation then they become that situation. When someone is willing to give up being a ‘something’ then this will no longer be a part of their life. We are responsible for our manifestations. Our life and the way we live it is our biggest prayer for what we want to have happen.

Everything is malleable here on earth at this time. We are here to demonstrate how we manage our energies. If you are reading these words then it is your time to gently wake up to who you are and what you are capable of changing or manifesting. You are capable of so much more than you have imagined and when you wipe the sleepy out of your eye and you come to your real senses you will understand.

You don’t have to wait for someone to give you something that you don’t already possess. You don’t have to search for the answer because you are the answer. You don’t have to strain, push, be perfect or be more spiritual than you are. You are waking up now, because you are reading this, and as you come fully awake, everything is possible to the extent of your awareness.

I hope this has stimulated some thoughts regarding healing. Have a beautiful day and don’t forget to include some fun and laughter today. I love you.

With love, in love and through love to you.

Belief and the Healing Arts of Ancient Civilizations

Although we look back at some of the practices of the ancients and label them as superstitious, in the last 100 years some of the drugs that were used have been rediscovered and have proved to be of great value.
Today, we still use the snake symbol of Aesculapius.  In those ancient times as well as today, the doctor faces the problem of how to stimulate the recuperative powers of the patient into action.

In the temples of old, disciplines consisted of purification, temple-sleep, and various rest states.  Through reading the old inscriptions we learn that “bodily processes were aroused and focused through intensities of suggestion, through touching the patient, along with lifting the faith of one who was ill.”

Although we are talking about techniques used several thousand years ago, looking deeper we find that focusing on the ancient healing gods was meant to stimulate the body-mind relationship.  Hippocrates believed that the body and mind are a unity, and to affect one is to affect the other.  Today’s allopathic medicine takes more of the viewpoint of isolating the ‘one cause’ and prescribing the special remedy that will bring the solution.

Several Egyptian medical papyri coming from the twelfth dynasty, about 2,000 BC states that it was the duty of the pharaoh to maintain the health of their subjects.  “The ancient writer Maanetho wrote that King Athotis, of the First Dynasty of the Thinites, practiced healing and wrote anatomical works.”

Eventually all of the great medical centers were located at the chief capitals along the Nile, “These shrines were depositories of medical lore, and the success of these ancient traditions are confirmed by the lists of diseases and their cures.”

Clement wrote that there were forty-two Hermetic books at the temple at Hermopolis, of which six were medical texts giving formulas and remedies. “On the walls of sanctuaries wee inscriptions and tablets in commemoration of miraculous cures with statues and steles erected by former patients in grateful recognition of cures effected by the divinity.”

Now in those ancient times healing methods consisted of religious rites, ceremonies and special formulas which brought forth the mysterious, miraculous powers of deities and other supernatural beings.  The concept in those times was centered on the idea of expelling the unseen, malicious actions which caused disease.

The priest/doctor would make an examination and give the ceremonial form of diagnosis. “The patient would them make a formal statement regarding the problem.  I (patient’s name) am a sufferer with (naming the disease or problem).”

Treatments would then consist of” incantations, prayers and possibly giving of some remedy in conjunction with commands, spells, coaxing and threatening.  All of these had symbolic meaning which were meant to impress the mind of the patient.”

According to ancient writings, on some occasions the priest would put on a disguise and would appear to a patient as a god of the body part that was dis-eased, imitating the god in voice and gesture and utilizing relics to chase the evil spirits away.

Remedies were given to assist the spoken formulas.  “Time has proved the value of many of the modalities used at that time including, castor oil, aloe, mind, myrrh, copper, lead, salt, cedar, opium and other substances that are still in use today.”  It is interesting that, “it would appear that remedies used without the magical words were valueless or failed their full effect.”

We therefore come to the conclusion that the aspect of mind in the healing process was a strong consideration.  The Ebers Papyrus states in its opening line, “This is a book for healing all disease.” Further in the writings we find “…welcome remedy, welcome that which destoyest the trouble of this my heart and in these my limbs…the magic of Horus is victorious in the remedy.”

In the same Papyrus we read for an eye problem, “come ointment, come to the patient and take from him the water, the pus, the blood, the pain in the eye, the blindness, the flow of matter which are being worked there from the god of inflammations and of each kind of pain.”

In the ancient Greek writings we find they also believed in the power of the gods for healing.  They used rituals, hymns of praise, prayers and sacrifice.  The Greeks approached curing in two different manners, direct and indirect.

The direct method of healing was through the power of divine intervention through a sacred object, relic or through the medium of a priest who was acting as an intermediary for a particular healing god.  Healing occurred through laying on of hands and writings from those ancient times spoke of great cures from Aesculapius coming through a priest who was channeling this god.

The indirect cures were obtained following directions received through dreams and visions.  Fragments of records from shrines speak of cures due to applications of remedies given by gods through visions.  Therapies included mild purgatives, roots, herbs, diets, fasts, baths and rubbing ointments.

Dream temples were well-known in ancient Greece and it is obvious that psychology played a very important part in the healing process.  At Pergamon, patients were greeted by attendants who walked them through corridors, where steles and tablets mentioned great cures and healings that had taken place in the past. This was to get the patient properly prepared as they approached the god to offer prayer for their own personal healing.  At times they would touch a part of the statue of the god, while requesting help, and there are records of instantaneous healing taking place.

In the healing temples of ancient times an air of sanctity pervaded the temple and patients believed they were in a sacred spot.  In the dream temples the patient had no doubt that they would receive the answers to their difficulty, through their dreams that would come to them at night.  In the morning the dreams and visions would be interpreted by the priests who laid out directions for the treatment that would take place.  In the photo by Waterhouse we see the little girl relating her dream to the priests.

Whether it was the Egyptian, Greek or other Eastern Civilizations, they understood the importance of stimulating the patient’s own healing energies, which led to the miraculous cures which took place.

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

Love and Beauty are Always Near

A book written some time ago shared an angelic communication regarding seeing through the veil into the world of spirit…

“A living sense of unity with nature must be reached, till you can see yourself in every tree, in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every passing cloud, and realize that the manifold diversities which compose a valley or a garden or a wide panorama of mountain, sea and sky, are but expressions of the One Self which is in you, of which you are a part, by means of which you can pierce the external veil of beauty till it can hide from you no longer the vision of the self.”

“In addition to a deeper appreciation of the beauty of Nature, there must be that reverence for all forms and moods, for all her manifold expression, which springs from a recognition of the presence of the Divine of which these forms, moods and beauties are outward expression.”

Thoreau said, “It is not what you look at, but what you see.”

A sacred scripture shared, “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

When we think and act in beauty and truth, we become expressions of the harmonious forces that keep the universe in order.

Plato said, “The true order of going is to use the beauties of earth as steps along which one mounts upwards for the sake of that other beauty.”

The Walker of the Sky, “beholds things beyond the seas and stars; hears the language of the devas and comprehends it, and perceives what is passing in the mind of the ant.”

The All is in all, and all is in the All. Forged in thought it remains in thought. All is a part of the never ending song of the Creator. You are the Light that you seek. You are a child of the Light. You don’t find it, you are it.

As you allow the Greater Awareness that has been hidden from your view to resonate with the beauty and love that surrounds you, you will experience a new dimension of understanding. Let go and allow yourself to relax and trust that the Greater Awareness within you will melt the illusions that you have formed before your eyes. “It is not what you look at, but what you see.”

Just like Pegasus, you will fly,
Reaching heights within, an inner sky,
Traveling vast distance, while in starry flight,
You learn many lessons, during your night.
Listen closely, and have no fear,
Your own loving spirit friends, are always near,
Open your heart, so that your eyes will see clear, 
Then all the manifestations of the Creator, you will hold as quite dear.  Steve

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

Following the Course That Your Life Provides…
You Should Never Fear What Storms Arrive

From out of our library, I’ve chosen an interesting emblem from the 1600s. The emblem writer compared our journey through life as traveling over the sea.  I’ve modernized some the words for clarity...

“To the sea, this world may be compared,
For every person, who lives a life,
Is a pilot to a physical vessel there,
Some of little size or else a bigger frame.
Some, have their boat of their own life to guide,
Some of whole families who depend on their barge.

Some people govern whole townships and we may call this a little barge,
While others, rule great provinces, and they we may call captains of large ships.
Each has a course assigned to them as they enter their journey over the sea, they have their card, compass and due tack available for their journey,
And when each figures the course that they are on based upon those experiences that confront them,
They will accomplish all they have to do.

But many people leave the Care of their own course,
To judge or follow others, in their ways,
And, when their follies make their fortunes worse,
They curse the Destiny, which they should praise,
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For, waves, and winds, and that oft-changing weather,
Which many blame as the cause of their losses, though they observe it not, helps bring together,
A greater Wisdom to be learned through this change of course; new hopes may manifest,
So what appears to thwart one’s way, may soon depart and lead to a more enlightening pathway.”

Through our journey we have found each other in Facebook. I ask that the winds of your life steer you toward the highest and best that you can achieve.

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

Sympathetic Resemblances

The doctrine of sympathetic resemblances is an ancient concept that had to do with the idea that growing things reveal through their structure and form their usefulness to people. Through their color, aroma and form plants revealed the physical condition and organ of the body that could be benefitted.

This concept reached a zenith as it was taught in Constantinople in the 1500s. A person did not have to be smart in the sense of book learning, because even simple people discovered the healing aspects of plants through using their instinct and intuition. Through the sensing of the design of the plant structure they discovered the organs that would be assisted through some part of the plant.

The development of spiritual insight was one of the cornerstones of the ancient mystery schools. Physicians were taught to search within themselves for the spiritual insight that would help them recognize the energies in plants.
Philosophers and scientists were taught to develop spiritual insight to recognize the geometric energy patterns throughout the cosmos.

Physicians and healers were instructed to sit quietly in a meadow, relax and with a prayerful heart open themselves up to the universal mysteries of health and well-being. A person who is humble and asks for greater wisdom begins to notice how some plants in the fields follow the motions of planets and other plants open their petals according to various moon phases. Still other plants follow the cycle of the sun.

The ancients knew that plants derive energy from two sources, the earth in which they grow and the atmosphere that surrounds them.

Why do some plants have red blossoms and other plants have different colored flowers? Why do some plants have distinctive fragrances and others do not have any odor? The nature of the plant determines what nutrients it will take up from the soil in which it lives. The plant converts the energy of the soil into its body and this energy is available for the possible use by people.

The ancients knew that energies from the atmosphere and heavenly bodies were also absorbed by plants. Various colored plants corresponded to the colors attributed to different heavenly bodies as well as spiritual entities.

Along with plants, minerals also absorb energies. Over hundreds of years miners realized that certain minerals went through the cycles of birth, growth, decrease and death. One mining family in Europe, the Fuggers, recognized that veins of gold and silver actually grew over several hundred years.

Different plants that would grow in the same soil would still take on different characteristics depending upon the nature of the plant. People are unique in the aspect that we can change our nature and thereby alter the nutrition that we can take within ourselves from vast energy centers that exist within the earth plane as well as the cosmos.

The mandrake with its root resembling the human body; the heart wart, the leaves resemble the human heart in shape; the tooth wart resembles the human tooth.  The clue and key of the plant is it’s;
Appearance
Nature
Function
The procedure the plant exemplifies

Within its leaf, berry and fruit, a plant bares some relationship of appearance to the medicinal value which it possesses.  You must search within yourself for the intuitive recognition to apperceive the energy field of the plant.  We all have this ability to perceive and intuit as a natural given ability, all of us!

When people establish within themselves the activities of acting always in the interest of the highest and best, the good and the beautiful, they open themselves up to greater avenues of wisdom and enlightenment. These greater energy centers bring an immediate strength and vitality because a person is now rooted within these energy fields and their nature allows for the absorption of these profound and healing energies.

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

Aligning to the Great Energy Fields

Several ancient teachers in various cultures held the concept that when people are thoughtful of the world, then the world would protect them. These wise individuals believed that when people labor for the common good of others, then the common good would labor for them.

An important concept held by some wise individuals from the past, was that a partnership must be created between a person’s physical body and the natural world that surrounds it, as well as between the physical body and the invisible energy fields that sustain the body’s existence. When a person is in balance and harmony with the great energy fields, there is a greater opportunity for longevity and health.
Living organisms, in all spheres, survive only on some nutrition that is suitable for them. Evil does not exist and cannot survive on good. Happiness does not survive if it is served misery and unhappiness. Conversely, misery cannot survive if happiness is the only nourishment that is present.

Most negative emotions and attitudes are fixations that must be nourished. If one stops the nourishment that is feeding a negative attitude, it will eventually whither and become dormant. “Almost every ailment and emotional attitude is already within people at all times. The ailments and negative attitudes become active only if they are fed with the energy necessary for their resurgence.”

From throughout the cosmos, great energy streams constantly surround and feed the organisms on the earth. From invisible centers, the great founts of energy pour forth to nourish and sustain life. People’s mental, emotional and physical illness arises when they fall out of balance and are not in harmony with these great energy centers.

When people close themselves off from the life sustaining energy streams, obstruction begins and there is a blockage of these natural energy flows which then produces a dis-ease. Obstruction and disease move together. It is paramount for people to keep themselves open and attuned to the highest and best nutritional energy that is available to them.

When a person hides or tries to conceal their true attitude and emotions, this leads to a chain reaction within their body. A person knows when they are acting in a kind or unkind manner. A person is aware when they are suspicious of everything and a person is aware of whether they are being generous or selfish towards other people.

An obstruction of energy is created when a person experiences regret or remorse for how they handled a particular situation when another part of themselves believes there was a better manner in which they might have acted. When there is this type of divergence within the self, there is a weakening within the energy system of the body. The gravest danger for people is too experience debility or weakness. “When debility is present, an individual becomes open to:

A reduction to their resistance to infection.
A reduction to resisting negativity.
It becomes easier to complain
It becomes easier to find fault
It becomes easier to be discouraged.
It becomes easier to be bitter.
It becomes easier to be antagonistic.”

When people are confronted by any type of depletion, their basic optimism suffers and they feel a loss of security. With a sense of a loss of security then people begin to panic. All of the aforementioned emotions takes place when we separate ourselves from the highest and best energy fields that are available to us. The ancient Greeks referred to the highest and most life-sustaining energy fields as; The One, The Good and the Beautiful.

We can align ourselves and gain support from the highest energy flows that are present and available, through our actions of maintaining “A Beautiful Heart, and Open Mind and a Humble Spirit.” The Life Energy from the Great Energy Fields never separates from us, we deprive ourselves from beneficial energy because we shut down and obstruct the energetic field receptors within ourselves, and this blocks the highest life forces from being received and distributed throughout our body.  These are some thoughts from ancient teachers.

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