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In order to move into complete harmony in this new earth, we must first honor the wisdom of our ancestors that have come before us. As many of you may know, my life began in New England, a place with roots deep within the earth, and I taught history to middle and high school for ten years. I have always held a connection to my past deeply within my bones. It is now that I am being called to bring these two aspects of myself together as we enter into a time like no other, I know that the wisdom of the past will be necessary to guide us into the future. I share with you the first in a series of writings combining the ancient wisdom of our ancestors with intuitive guidance concerning the energetic patterns of the earth.…..
Divine Communication
We all have the capacity within us to communicate with, accept and embody this divine energy. It will be the journey into the New Earth for each of us to realize this true journey that we are on. Not a journey of earthly gain, but one of divine connection.
The question becomes; how, when we were raised in a world that did not teach us of our ability to communicate and embody this divine energy, can we transition into a place in our lives in which we can live and believe this? The answer lies in the energy of the holy trinity.
The concept of the holy trinity is one that has shaped the Christian world. In this Christine doctrine, although God is one, he is also embodied in the holy trinity which includes God as the all knowing creator, Jesus Christ as the human embodiment of God and the Holy Spirit as the divine energy that communicates God’s love to the world. I ask you to release any past understandings of the holy trinity while you read on, and open yourself up to a redefinition of this powerful spiritual presence in our lives.
Begin by thinking of the holy spirit as an energy. Just as God is the all knowing universal creative energy that is at the height of our experience with the divine, the holy spirit is also an energy that lies between us and God. Within the web of energy that is the holy spirit are all of our spiritual guides; angels, ascended masters, spiritual guides, souls of our deceased ancestors and loved ones as well as earth spirits that guide and protect us on our earthly journey. This web of holy spiritual energy is accessible to all of us, and accessing and listening to it is the key to moving into the New Earth and living from a deeper place, a place more connected to God and the universal energy of love from which we all emanated. Jesus was able to move mountains because of his connection to and communication with the holy spirit; it was this connection that allowed him to hear and communicate God’s message to the world. However, the story of Jesus is one that was meant to be a lesson to every man, not of one man with special powers. We can learn a great deal about communication with God and the holy spiritual energy that connects us with this divine energy of love through paying careful attention to Jesus and other ascended spiritual masters that have passed before us.
If you can then envision a web of energy that surrounds us all and connects us to this universal divine loving creator, imagine what it would take to touch that web, to listen to that web, to feel that web. This is what happens in divine communication. We must first develop a sensitivity to these subtle energy fields, this is best done through energy healing practices and intuitive development. Once we begin tuning in, the messages that can come from the holy spirit are infinite. All the answers to everything we ever wanted to know and questions we could not imagine even asking are contained in this energy field, once we begin interacting with it, our world’s will begin to take a miraculous shape, one beyond our wildest expectations…
Harmony, Beauty & Pleasures and Suffering
The Lotus Sutra is revered by Buddhists as containing the core of Buddha’s teachings. This sutra teaches us how to create harmony in our inner and outer lives.
The Lotus Sutra begins with the teaching of one heart. We all breath the same air, drink the same water, and suffer from the same ailments. We have been given the gift of suffering, for when we suffer it tells us that something is wrong. It is in diving into the roots of the suffering that true freedom can be found. Through opening our hearts to understand our own suffering and the suffering of others we are given the vehicle to transcend and move through the suffering into the energy of the New Earth.
Harmony, beauty and pleasures are at the opposite energetic spectrum of suffering. It can sometimes be illusive to capture harmony, beauty and pleasure in our lives because we were all born of an age that stressed the pains of the struggle. When we can begin to look deeply into our own suffering it can become a powerful tool for transformation.
Suffering is an energy of the old world. Our ancestors believe that hard work and suffering were a necessary part of human existence. As we move into the New Earth, we are being called upon to teach a new truth to our children. Suffering is simply a signpost for change in our lives. The sooner that we can address the suffering and develop creative ways to move past it, the sooner we will truly begin to embrace harmony, beauty and the deep pleasure that the earthly plane can bring.
In the Lotus Sutra we are presented with a portrait of an integrated world; one that acknowledges the reality of the suffering of the earthy plane, but lives on earth with a daily acknowledgement and attention to the divine. As we bring the divine into our lives daily, we can begin to bolster our interaction with the suffering of the world with the presence of harmony, beauty and a deep pleasure for living life.
Increasing Sensitivity & Emotions
As we transition into an age of increasing sensitivity to the earth and all of her inhabitants, we find an increasing sensitivity arising within our own bodies and psyches. The earth has been and is being shaped by the divine universal energy that surrounds us all. This means that divine energy not only exists in the ethers, but also in the ground underneath our feet. As we move into an age where more and more beings are being born with an increasing sensitivity to the earth, we are all attuning with greater and greater frequency to the cosmic energy of mother earth. As crystal beds are being discovered all over the world, we are learning more and more about the powerful spiritual energy that is held within the core of the planet we call home. This increasing sensitivity will serve us in the days ahead, as we learn to tune into these currents that are running through the land that we live on and the energy that brings life to our bodies. As we tune in more and more to these energetic currents, we will be shown the way to move into the new earth.
Our greatest tool and obstacle to this divine creation is our emotions. This year has the potential to be a year of deep emotional healing for many. Without understanding and healing, our emotions have the potential to overwhelm us and to stop us cold in our quest for connection with the divine.
Emotions cannot reside in our bodies forever. Their ability to stay is increased with our attention. If we are thinking about and focused on any one emotion, this energy will then increase in both our bodies and minds. In the case of positive emotions such as love, joy, courage and peace, our job is to think about and meditate on the essence of these emotions as every opportunity arises to do so. If we do not feed the negative emotions of sadness, anger, fear or disgust with our thoughts, they will dissolve on their own. Therefore, it is through changing the way we think about things we can learn to bring more positive emotions into our lives and begin to release the emotions of sadness, anger, fear or disgust. Our thoughts are in great part a result of the culture and family in which we were raised. Negative emotions can only be totally transmuted through dissolution of the ego, for it is the ego that feeds the mind with the thoughts that capture the negative emotions. Therefore, until the ego is completely dissolved, the negative energies will continue to move through us. It is our job to recognize these emotions as gifts, pots of gold on the pathway to enlightenment, for through truly understanding and transmuting our darkness, we will be born to that pathway of eternal light.
Transformation through Manifestation
Manifestation has been a popular concept of late, and trivialized in many ways through it’s explosion into popular culture and vernacular. However, the principles of manifestation have been embedded in the knowledge of alchemical transformation since penned by the Egyptian sage Hermes. According to these texts manifestation is seen as the attainment of the pearl of great price. A practical representation of this pearl is the seed of divine presence in our hearts, minds and souls. It is through the attainment of this pearl that lead can be transformed into gold.
The process begins with purification of one’s soul. Our souls can reach purification through meditation on and embodiment of Shringhara, the divine energy of love. The next step is the ability to allow the purification of old energies; to accept and forgive our guilts, resentments and negative judgments of ourselves and others. We have to be able to fully experience our darkness in order to access the totality of our divine essence. The third stage is the patience to allow the transmutation of the self – this is an automatic process that occurs when the purification has run it’s course. Once all darkness has been consciously brought to light manifestation is born.
The final stage of manifestation is in receiving and accepting the abundance that is our birthright. There are seven sacred steps to receiving:
1. Reward yourself every day that you give to others. This may be in a small way, this energetically opens your pathways to receiving. When you deprive or exhaust yourself, you are no longer able to receive the life-force energy that flows through all things and is the source of all abundance. Through balancing your giving with receiving you are shifting your energetic pathways and strengthening the portal that will open you to unlimited abundance. Your ability to receive is as great as your ability to give; infinite when done from a place of love and respect for yourself and all others
2. Take time daily to release your worries. Worries are born of fear of the unknown. When you feel worry seeping in, challenge yourself to change your thoughts to visioning your future of abundance, close your eyes and imagine yourself surrounded with everything you desire in your life. Take several deep breaths in and let this feeling seep into the cells in your body, as you continue this practice worries and anxiety will slowly disappear.
3. Follow your heart in your life’s work. When work is done out of guilt, obligation, or resentment, it can never lead us on the path of attaining abundance. Leave any situation in which your heart is not invested, for your heart will never lead you down the wrong path.
4. Visioning your desires: Once you have decided on what it is you want and are opening to receive, practice being in the space of that which you already have through visualization. Continuing to vision your future as you desire it and feel yourself immersed in the imagery of it. As these things become real on the mental and spiritual plane, you will open yourself to receiving them on the physical plane.
5. Obstacles are simply ways of challenging the old to create the new. Without challenges in life, evolution would not be possible. Through embracing challenges as they appear in our lives, we can learn to transmute the energy of the obstacle from a barrier into a catapult, an opportunity to rise to the challenge and envision a creative solution. Often challenges arise that are unplanned, these are by far the greatest opportunities for opening to receive the abundant divine assistance that surrounds and flows through us all, once you can open to receive this assistance, your dreams are on their way to becoming a reality.
6. Practice believing in yourself, recognize all self-defeating thoughts and release them. As you learn to believe deeply in yourself you also open to the power of a deep trust in the universe; one cannot exist in totality without the other. As this belief in all that you do strengthens, it becomes much easier to open to receiving all that we desire.
7. Recognize that even with diligence and the best intentions, we all at times fall victim to the unconscious drives that run deeply within us. Recognize every disappointment, accident, or fearful response as a signpost for change. Continue to ask yourself, what do I want in this situation and follow your heart to take the necessary steps for change….
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