You Already Possess That Which You Seek.

In very ancient times there were three formulas that were used to manifest that which one desires.  They were stated as the formula for idealization, the formula for affirmation and the formula for actualization.  In more modern times, if we consider the 1500s as more modern, Paracelsus stated it as imagination, faith and will.

The concept is to create within your thoughts the highest and best ideal form, pattern, design or mold, whatever is the easiest for you to conceive, of that which you desire to bring into our objective reality.
The clearer that you define the ideal, outline and form that you wish to produce in physical form, along with your energizing the need for it to exist or manifest, along with your sure knowledge that it is necessary and you Will have it, it will tend to materialize.

Why will something materialize out of nothingness?  From the earliest times the ancient teachers have stated that there is a “supersensible and real cosmic medium that exists, which interpenetrates, influences and supports the tangible and apparent world, and which is amenable to the categories of both philosophy and physics.  This ‘cosmic medium’ or ‘astral light’ is close to what is termed ether.”

Now this ether is used by those who have achieved, what is considered magical activities, through their imposing upon this cosmic medium, their own thought and will, as easily as one might impose their energy upon things we can physically see.

Following the concept of ‘as above, so below; as below, so above,’ the wise have used this concept to create between the seen and the unseen worlds.

Through the creation or building of an ethereal pattern, outline, design or mold, it tends to attract to itself, and to build around itself a materialized counterpart or material representation in the physical world.  When you look to create something upon our physical plane, you attract persons, conditions, things and modify environmental factors that aid in the process of manifesting that which you desire.  What you might not realize is that something was taking place in a corresponding etheric level.   In actuality it was taking place first in the unseen world before you manifested it in the physical world.

The unseen world is actually the underpinning of all that you see, feel and experience.  What is probably the hardest thing for most people to conceive is how they have control over both the seen and unseen worlds.  The equilibrium or manifestation in both the unseen and seen can be controlled by the disciplined ‘Thought and Will of men and women.’

What is considered as magic by most people is little more than a mental discipline of strengthening and learning to focus your OWN WILL POWER.  It has been known through thousands of years, ‘Just as the powers of the body can be developed to an amazing extent by athletes, so may the power so the soul be likewise developed through learning how to Will.’

It was stated by one of the greatest physicists that everything exists within the ‘thought stream of God.’  Through the extension of the concept, as below so above and as above so below, the ancient mystery schools taught that Humankind, the microcosm, may proceed to create by means of the deliberate employment of the same methods and processes, and through the same principles ‘as those employed by Nature , or the Cosmos, the macrocosm.

When you think about our human creations here on earth, whatever you observe, first it was conceived within the thought or idea of an individual.  Then it became manifest within our physical world.
I would leave you with this thought…science has come around to the thought, although their thinking is not quite complete, that there is a universal ether, an immaterial, imponderable substance similar to what ancient philosophers termed the Akasha.  The concept is that this ether pervades all space and it is the ultimate state of condition of all materiality.

“The Ether is a substance filling all space, carrying in its infinite throbbing bosom the specks of aggregated dynamic forces called worlds.  It embodies the ultimate spiritual principle, and represents the unity of those forces and energies from which sprang, as their source, all phenomena, physical, mental, and spiritual as they are known to us.”  We all have been given the ability to create and demonstrate our ability to utilize creative energy as provided to us by the Creator.

I carry a coin from 200 BC, depicting in ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus.  Janus is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past. 

The All is in all, and all are in the All.  You who read these words are capable of everything that you might conceive.  Janus is within us and within us is everything that has been and will be.

With love, in love and through love to you.

Are they Geniuses or Really Good Listeners?

As you peruse the biographies of individuals, the world would call the greatest of geniuses, you find a very interesting dynamic.  These individuals credited their amazing discoveries, inventions, poetry, music and ideas to either an inner guide or to their dreams.

Robert Louis Stevenson describing his inner guides said, “…and for the Little People, what shall I say they are but just my Brownies, God bless them!  Who do one-half my work while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood, do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do it for myself.”

Puccini stated, “…the music of Madam Butterfly was dictated to me by God; I was merely instrumental in putting it on paper and communicating it to the public.”

Goethe said of his writing of the novel, Werther, “I wrote the book almost unconsciously, like a somnambulist, and was amazed when I realized what I had done.”

William Blake said of his work, Milton, that “I have written this poem from immediate dictation, twelve or sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time, without premeditation, and even against my will.”

Richard Strauss, said, “While the ideas were flowing in upon me, the entire musical, measure by measure, it seemed to me that I was dictated to by two wholly different Omnipotent Entities…I was definitely conscious of being aided by more than an earthy Power, and it was responsive to my determined suggestions.”

Brahms said, “I have to be in a semi-trance condition to get such results – a condition when the conscious mind is in temporary abeyance, and the subconscious is in control.”

“The English poet Shelley declared that ‘One after another the greatest writers, poets and artists confirm the fact that their work comes to them from beyond the threshold of consciousness.’”

The 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded to Otto Loewi, who discovered and demonstrated that nerve impulses are both chemical and electrical in nature.  The experimental procedure to prove his theory came to him in a dream.

Rudyard Kipling stated that he had an ‘inner helper’ who he could get into contact with if he did not think consciously about reaching him but rather drifted toward him.

Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869 “…went to bed exhausted after struggling to conceptualize a way to categorize the elements of nature based upon their atomic weights.  He later said, ‘I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required.  Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.’”

Elias Howe worked for years to invent a lockstitch sewing machine.  For years his attempts were futile.  Due to a ‘nightmare,’ as he defined it, he was shown exactly how to build the device that he sought for so long.  “He dreamed he was captured by a tribe of savages who took him prisoner before their king.  ‘Elias Howe, ‘roared the monarch, I command you on pain of death to finish this machine at once.”  Within the dream he was given the answer that he needed.

According to the poet Keats, “the description of Apollo in the third book of my poem, Hyperion, came to me by chance or magic – to be, as it were, something given to me.”

Obviously the names I have mentioned have been recognized as great innovators, trail blazers and individuals of great genius.  They are recognized as great due to their contributions in their various fields.  But would they have been considered great if they had not made their discoveries, composed their music or written their books?  Perhaps and perhaps not!

There are hundreds of more examples of individuals who perceived through dreams, visions and help from within, information that has thrust them into the category of genius.  I am proposing that some of them were just great listeners.

In my late twenties after I would awake during the night from a dream I would hear poetry.  I keep a legal size pad next to my bed and without opening my eyes I would write down what I would hear.  Some of the poetry is 24 lines long.  I have never rewritten any words as they were dictated to me.  If you are curious you can find some of my poetry at www.lesscomplicated.net  I am fully aware of the two different entities that have given me the words as each has their own particular subject and style.

I also have over 5 thick books of dreams that I have recorded over the last 15 years.  I wish that I had kept my dream journals from my late twenties through late forties.  My dreams answered questions that I was pondering during the day; gave me commentary on the lives of people from the past or present; foretold future events and inspired me toward my healing work.

So, I am not just sharing stories of people from the past, I can tell you that all of this is possible. 

Some of the individuals that I mentioned were seeking the answer to some question while others stated that they weren’t particularly searching for anything but received information.  So, what about YOU!

Why not YOU!  I believe, although I am biased, that our group is very spiritual, loving, beautiful and talented.  If you have been with me for the last couple of years you know that I continue to share with you that all things are possible.  All things are possible and you don’t need gurus, special courses or secret symbols to achieve wonderful results.  So now I coming to you with an easy approach…how about just listening.

If you realize that this is possible then it will manifest for you.  You can place your question in your mind and now you know you will get the answer if you believe and just listen.  Hopefully you will now understand that if you weren’t meant to have this happen to you that you would not be reading my lines.  I am here to awaken this concept in YOU. 

Why not YOU?  Yes, your guides and dreamers will work with you.  In fact, they have always been working with you but you were not listening.  By the way, in my last post I mentioned about sitting quietly for twenty minutes during the day.  Just drifting off, relaxing and listening then will work for you.

With love, in love and through love to you.

“Don’t Bite My Finger.  Look Where I Am Pointing”

The inner secret of every mystery cult and the inner meaning of the words of every great teacher upon this plane has been to become aware of our highest potential, to understand that we can remember more of who we are.

There is another part of yourself that dwells just beyond your ordinary consciousness, some call it a supra-consciousness, an Overself or an Oversoul.

When we come into a life we are hypnotized from infancy by our environment and culture, into certain beliefs, attitudes, systems and practices that have been fostered upon us by individuals who have not had contact with this deeper aspect within themselves.

The reading of scripture or sacred texts, while enlightening and potentially empowering, is not a replacement for the actual practice of becoming in touch with this higher aspect within yourselves.

A famous neurophysiologist, Warren McCulloch was known to say, “Don’t bite my finger.  Look where I am pointing.”

While some people are stating that a wave of spiritual awareness has come to the earth plane in these last several years, I would ask, ‘what does the term spiritual awareness really mean?’

I would suggest that we are hypnotized by routines that we want to believe make us spiritual.  Attending places of worship for one day a week and then acting in manners that are contrary to what we read, is this acting in a spiritual manner?  In today’s world that appears to be little life in the documents that we label as our spiritual literature, the true life is only in our actions in resonance with the scriptural words.

As you become hypnotized by the political climate and religious figures who act contrary to the highest morality and teachings in sacred scripture, and you accept their actions because of who you think they are, you move further away from your own inner truth.  When you begin to make excuses for those who you follow in the religious, political and social areas, you move further away from your own center of knowing.

Every great teacher, philosopher and enlightened guide has pointed to the pathway of your going inside and having a direct contact with your Creator God.  Within you, you will find the answers that you seek and not from those who talk a good story but don’t walk their talk.

For me, spiritual awareness is the recognition of a spiritual realm that is the underpinning of this physical reality that we are experiencing.  Those enlightened individuals, who periodically come to the earth plane, and live lives as examples of the highest aspects of love, truth, beauty, compassion, brotherhood and selflessness show us what it means to have spiritual awareness.

Wearing a robe, holding a sacred book and preaching does not make one a spiritual or even an enlightened being.   How you talk, how you walk, how you act and the light that shines from your being is more of an indication of how close one is to that highest aspect that resides within themselves.  That light within you has a closer connection to your source than your physical consciousness has at this moment.

Some of you have commented how much you like the positive and loving aspects of my posts.  I have not discussed politics or discussed current events but continue to point out higher potentials and what more is possible.  It is in this vein that I am writing these words to you.

You are getting too involved with the drama of the show.  Instead of observing and recognizing there is a higher purpose for what is taking place at this time in the world, you have fallen into someone else’s script and become their actor.

We have come into the schoolroom to demonstrate how we use our creative energies.  We have been given the opportunity to demonstrate, love, compassion, truth, beauty, selflessness and to understand that everything, and that means everything on this planet, is interrelated.  Exemplary individuals, throughout history, have demonstrated to us the highest spiritual precepts we are capable of attaining.

You have the choice to do whatever you please; to think and act in every situation as you feel is necessary and true to your character.  This is free choice.  While the religious texts have not lost their examples and true meaning, we are beginning to lose sight of the spiritual essence behind the words.  Our modern interpreters do not really understand what they are talking about.  They are bending and twisting and interpreting based on their own limited understanding and beliefs.

The surest way to understanding is to go within the closet of your own being; make contact with your own innermost spiritual essence and break this hypnotic trance that seems to be so prevalent.  Might is not right, power is not truth and the one with the most money is not necessarily the one with the highest spiritual insight.

My love for you and purpose for writing this post is that you don’t listen to others because of who they say they are or what position they hold, but that you go within and recognize your own highest truth.  Does it make sense that your sacred book might say to love all people and treat all as you would like to be treated and yet an interpreter of that book casts away everyone that doesn’t believe as he or she does?  Trust yourself and know that the highest truth is within you and act within that truth.

Take some time for introspection.  Take some time to sit quietly and ask yourself are you acting at the highest and best that you know is possible?  Are you occupied so much with what is taking place in the world, that you can’t sit still for twenty minutes per day in quietude, without your mind reliving or planning discussions with friends and loved ones over why your politics are right and why your particular religion is the only outlet for God’s plan on earth?

Again, “Don’t bite my finger, but look where I am pointing.”  I love all of the modern conveniences and tools that we have at this time, but they are just that…tools.  Instead of having more time for the appreciation of the beauty, love and our kinship with all life, which is part of the Creation, we are more stressed, unhappy and locked into a life of having to pay for our tools.  How many people do you know, that you can say they are truly happy, content and in joy?

Don’t be hypnotized by other people’s political or religious beliefs; don’t succumb to the belief that only science can provide the truth; that modern conveniences mean you have attained your highest purpose on earth; and don’t give up your moral compass because someone you admire is off course and you need to justify that they are right.  Go within yourself and humbly wait in silence and you will feel a warmth and eventually a spiritual presence within a light, that will become your true guide, friend, teacher and Father/Mother.

At these times of great outer conflict, confusion and misunderstanding, there resides within yourself a place of peace, harmony, love, beauty and greater guidance.

With love, in love and through love.

The Gumball Gift
 
Although I have been very active in sports and have achieved national recognition while competing, I have never been very handy when it comes to anything mechanical or working with tools.
 
I have often tried to overcome my problem of being mechanically challenged but have not had great success over the years.  This seems rather strange since my father had so many abilities when it came to electrical and mechanical repairs.  My father was a master electrician (during the war he built aircraft engines), he could repair any type of automobile, small appliances and built tools that would help him repair mechanical machines.  It was not unusual that my father would buy a product and then immediately figure out a way that it could be improved.  Many times he would send suggestions into companies, and more often than not, the next company model included some of my father’s suggestions.
 
While I had hands like glue and never dropped passes in football, and I could shoot and make half-court baskets while sitting on my backside, when these same hands were holding some type of implement used for repairing, they became spastic. 
 
One of my more memorable experiences begin with my deciding to change the spark plugs on my 1969 VW bug.   It was nearing the first half of a football game on television and I thought I would go into the garage and change the spark plugs during half time.  No problem I imagined.  I started working and the first couple of plugs came out well and then the next one was a bit tight.  So, I figured I must need a bit more force.  It still was not coming out so then I just really forced it. Then everything moved easily because half of the spark plug was in the socket wrench while the other half was in the engine bloc.  I called over to my father to take a look, he just smiled!  Even he couldn’t help me.  So, it was off to the car agency and a nice whopping bill to bore the spark plug out of the engine block. Oh, yes, I didn’t see the rest of that football game.
 
I don’t know why I am constantly fooled by companies that advertise easy assembly on their products.   For me, there is no easy assembly.  I have tried a few products from Asia which stress they are easy assembly.  Never happens.  When I am finished, ends flop around, corners never meet and when I’m finished there is always some extra part lying around.
 
One Christmas I decided to buy and assembly a gumball machine for my brother.  I purchased it because it said easy assembly and no special tools were needed. Now how hard could it be to put together a gumball machine?  Here was a perfect opportunity to demonstrate to my brother that I could do something mechanical, if one would consider this as being mechanical?
 
My brother had followed in my father’s footsteps regarding his mechanical and repair ability so this meant a lot to me.  Although my brother Barry is a year and one half younger, he always was the leader when it came to experimentation.  I remember one day when my parents had gone on a little weekend trip, my brother mentioned to me that he wondered how the washing machine worked.  I told him that I didn’t have any idea.  I believe I was 16 and he was 14 and one half.  So, out he went to the garage with me following close behind.  The next thing I knew he had parts scattered all over the garage floor.  What I had, was my eyes bugging out of my head.  I didn’t have the slightest conception how to place it back together. 
 
In my early years I never seemed to be able to visualize or picture things clearly in my mind once they were taken apart.  I can see things are together when I am looking at them but when something is taken apart I don’t always seem to understand how the parts go together.  Later I would understand that I see subjectively and not objectively.  Barry did finally put everything back together before our parents returned, so and I was very relieved. 
 
Now after several decades of endless jokes from my brother and father, it was finally my time to show everyone that I could put something together.
 
After I thought I had finished piecing the gumball machine together, I did note that there were a couple of screws lying around.  I was hoping that these were extra parts!  I rapped up my brother’s Christmas gift using my go-to-form-fitting rapping material, the always reliable Reynolds Aluminum Foil.  Over the years I have utilized this rapping paper for all Christmas presents, birthday presents and I love you gifts, hey, it’s the best!
 
Christmas day arrived and I brought my completed project to my brother’s house.  The moment came when Barry was opening my special present and I was ready to hear him say, ‘I am proud of you Steve.’  Instead his first words were, ‘how do the gum balls get out of the machine?’  What a foolish question I thought.  Then I took a closer look at the gumball machine and I began to have that same question. 
 
Even though I couldn’t repair most things, I learned how to get things fixed.   After my parents moved to Sedona they would occasionally return and stay with me in Los Angeles.  I would leave any small appliance that needed repair, directly in the pathway where my father would be walking.  I left them in the hallway to the bathroom, on the kitchen table as well as my father’s favorite spot on the sofa in the television room.  My father just couldn’t stand something not moving smoothly or making noise.  He would fix appliances, doors, gates and anything that rotated but was not moving smoothly and quietly.
 
I remember him saying, ‘what is this toaster doing in the hallway’?  Or he would say, why is this device making noise?’ Off he would go to the garage.  You don’t need to be an expert in everything, you just need to know who to call, or where to place items, when you need something done. J
 
I have some terrific friends who do all types of construction, electric work and general repairs.  I will stand next to them and watch everything they do and just marvel at their ability.  When I tell them how lucky they are to be gifted to do these things, they always reply, ‘Steve, we all have different gifts, and when I listen to you talking and joking, I marvel at how uplifted and empowered I feel.’
 
I guess the moral of this is that you don’t always have to be an expert in all things in order to achieve your goals.  We can be lacking in one area but shine in so many others.
 
With love, in love and through love to you.

It’s About One’s Perspective and Objective

I received the following question on one of my posts…

“Steven my question is, once one gives of themselves as I always have, what about the people that so often have taken that for granted and were so inconsiderate, and took kindness for weakness. Please give me your opinion... I have been let down a good amount of times for giving?”

This is the only manner in which I can answer your question.  Everything depends on the reason why someone performs a task or provides help.  Are they expecting something back in return?  Do they need to have some acknowledgement for doing what was the correct and proper thing to do?

If a banana peel or some other slippery substance was lying on the ground, and someone would pass it, I believe one of three things might happen.  In my little scenario nobody else is around at the first moment the person has come across the object.

The first would be that a person might think, I don’t have time to stop and pick it up and since I made it safely, I don’t care.

The second scenario might be that someone thinks, I would like someone to recognize what I am doing by picking this dangerous object up and they will congratulate me in some manner.  So I will wait until I see someone coming and then they will see me pick it up.

The third scenario might be, that one picks it up immediately to make sure that nobody will get hurt, and just deposits it in a safe spot because they know it is the right thing to do.

This is my first response to your question. Your perspective and other people’s perspective is involved with what takes place in any situation.

Next we should factor in whether you have gone way out of your way to do something because you were asked to do it and the recipient just didn’t take the time to thank you properly because they are not the ‘thank you’ type of person.  In this case if this is a friend then you are well aware that you are not going to receive that ‘thank you’ from this person so why keep trying?

You asked for my opinion and I can only give you my experience.  I am a giver and everyone around me knows that.  I give because I enjoy supporting, enhancing, balancing and creating.  I give because I have lots to share and it is fun to assist, whether someone thanks me or not. I do tasks because I like to see them completed and I don’t stand on ceremony over who does what or how much. 

All who have worked with me or for me know that I don’t need to receive credit or recognition for what is done by any joint effort.  I saw something that I had some familiarity with and just did it.  This is how I have been for all of my teenage and adult life.  I just believe in providing service or help without any strings attached or needed.

This being said, I totally understand that every person has different needs and interacts with people in a variety of ways.  There is nothing wrong with wanting to be respected, acknowledged or properly compensated for actions that are taken in support for another person.  Responses and actions are based upon perspective, upbringing, awareness, and norms within certain groups.

I am familiar with several people who have told me that their boss or head of their family only acknowledges them when they do something wrong, according to their superior.  The giver could have accomplished the most unbelievable result and they don’t receive a thank you or any acknowledgement at all.  They are told, you should have accomplished that anyway!  If they perform the slightest thing in less than what was expected and they are chastised.

There are billions and billions of people and billions and billions of slightly different reactions that people will make in the same situation.

My suggestion would be to align yourself with people who appreciate beauty, love, and honesty and have a reverence for life.  People who smile, laugh and have fun.  I believe you will find a better reception for those things you’ve done to help someone else.

I hope this is helpful…it is only my opinion of course.

With love, in love and through love to all who read these lines.

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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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