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A Quantum Explanation of Subtle Healing

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00

In terms of healing, subtle healing draws upon invisible resources, shifts energies that are intuitively rather than physically perceived, and is frequently “super” natural in nature. In contrast to allopathic approaches, subtle healing is best explained by quantum rather than classical physics.

A quantum-explained world is very different from a classically-explained world. Energy or subtle-based healing methods might be effective, but we can’t often see how they work. Likewise, we cannot always see what’s happening in the quantum or microstates. In a classical healing system, an object can be described according to its position and speed, as well as a unique set of quotients. We can guess where we might find a bowling ball—or an electron—if we know where it is, what direction it’s pointing, and at what speed we direct it. On the quantum scale, an electron, for instance, can exist simultaneously in many positions and velocities. When moving from place to place, it doesn’t take the straightest route—it might take all available roads, simultaneously. In regard to healing, the multiple locations of a particle (or person or softball) suggest possibilities for creating miracles, or at least some great results. A tumor in the brain might possibly also exist in a tree in the rain forest in South America. What if we could ‘blink” it out of the brain and locate it only in that tree? For that matter, what if we could also “blink” it in healing from a star, the future, or another dimension?

Various quantum theories suggest that we can. Physicists have observed that every particle in the “real world” is partnered in the “antiworld” with an antiparticle. English physicist Paul Dirac introduced the theory in 1928, describing antiparticles as companions in mass and spin that hold an opposite charge. Antimatter is a source of energy. When an electron meets its mate (the positron), both disappear, leaving two photons, or units of light.

Some quantum scientists suggest that there are antiworlds or parallel realities. These concurrent realities contain that which “did not” happen. If this world holds our sick self, another world includes our well self. In yet another, we might be dead. Treatment for a this-world terminal condition might exist in yet another parallel reality. An effective energy healer could simply exchange a preferred reality for this one.

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Souls: Who’s on This Planet Right Now?

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00

Souls tend to incarnate in groups. Our planet is evolving, just as we are as individuals. Following are the main soul groups currently invested in helping this planet progress. They are listed from oldest to youngest.
• Construct souls. This, the “grandparent generation,” is represented by souls that hold very specific ideas or goals. They were born into a world that required explicit knowledge and expertise, as well as strong values. These people needed to become carpenters or mothers, or to follow the Catholic or Islamic faith, for instance.
• Bridge souls. The “baby boomer” generation bridges the old with the new, the material with the spiritual. Many came in knowing that integrity of action calls for personal change first, planetary contributions second. Over the last decades, this understanding stimulated a groundswell in personal growth, from addiction treatment to therapy to “New Age” healing.
• Indigo souls. This “twenty-something” generation, which spills down into the teens and up into the thirties, is wisdom based. They want experience and freedom, but must also accept the responsibilities of developing knowledge to make practical contributions to the planet. Their representative color—indigo—combines blue and purple, the colors of communication and vision. Their ultimate objectives are to establish higher goals for this world and decide how those can be achieved.
• Crystal souls. Crystal souls tend to carry very little karma—or self-protection. Being quite psychic, their challenge is to live in a depressed world and keep themselves free of the negativity present.
• Spirit souls. Some souls are incarnating angels. These do not have the protection issues of the crystal children, because they understand compassion and forgiveness and do not perceive danger where there is none. These souls hold the energies of what is possible for this world.

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From Beyond to the Here and Now

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00

By what mechanisms does the soul enter our lifetime on earth? I have drawn from neurological research, metaphysical ideas, and studies in consciousness to create the following model. The detailed process of transferring ideas and programming from soul to mind and body involves:
• Soul programming into the subconscious, which connects the reptilian brain and the Lower Mind. The Lower Mind regulates your survival issues and basic physiology. If your Lower Mind thinks the world is a scary place, it will become so. If a belief in security dominates, you will find the world a safe place and will attract prosperity.
• Subconscious programming into the unconscious, which links the mammalian brain and the Middle Mind. Your Middle Mind manufactures feelings, thoughts, and emotions, which in turn determine your everyday behaviors. Negative programs result in negative behaviors and emotional issues including depression or anxiety. Positive programs will draw positive people and situations to you.
• Unconscious programming into consciousness, which bonds the higher or learning brain and the Higher Mind. Dharmic programs, if believed, can override karmic patterns, setting off a chain reaction in the body that results in achievement of spiritual purpose and easy manifesting. If karmic beliefs rule, life will be challenging and difficult. You will constantly feel like you are not living the life you are meant to have.
• The conscious self or Higher Mind opening to the supraconscious, a part of your spirit that interrelates the soul and the world. Your supraconscious is connected to the spiritual realms, higher truths, and divine assistance. Once located in the supraconscious, karma is automatically transformed to dharma. The problems and pains of the past can now be interpreted as “perfect,” in that they led to learning and growth. This is not a justification for abuse. It is a healing process, one that recognizes the innate wholeness of every being and invites this wholeness into every corner of life.

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More Quanta - Back to the Light

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00

What was the first creation of the Divine? Light. Light was the first matter—or energy, which means that we are essentially surrounded by, and also made of, light.

Many scientists are now speculating that we exist within a great field of light. Researchers including Dr. Hal Puthoff have shown that a “zero-point” field encompasses the material world. The zero-point is a field of light that looks like a vacuum but is really a sea of electromagnetic energy, quite possibly speckled with virtual particles, units of matter that are currently not real but can become so, such as when they are perceived. There is always light, no matter how dark reality appears to be. These discoveries suggest that not only are we encompassed by a field of light, but that light holds everything we might need—if we could only learn how to access it for our well being.

Yet other research shows that we, ourselves, are made of light. Researchers including Fritz-Albert Popp, have discovered that DNA itself is a storehouse of biophoton emissions, or light. Advanced organisms emanate more DNA photons than do less-evolved organisms, and it appears that the zero-point field plays a major role in originating and interacting with this internal light. Disease occurs when the body interjects too much or too little light from the field. The universe is essentially surrounded by—and produced from—light, and so are our bodies.

How do we control or manage our relationship with this field? How do we live as the light that we are? These questions reveal our essential quest, as human beings. We might guess that if we know that we deserve to be loved, our DNA will emanate biophotons in a manner supportive of optimum physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual welfare. If we hold destructive ideas about the world or ourselves, we’ll reject light and live darkly. We will literally make ourselves, and perhaps others, sick.

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Healing - Using the Revolving Doors

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00

Healing often involves conducting inner and outer journeys that might take us through one or several levels of reality. These levels could be compared to the layers of a dessert parfait. Maybe there are cookie crumbs on the bottom, delectable flavors of ice cream next, then a mound of whip cream and finally, chocolate syrup and a cherry. Reality is similar, except that the bottom layer (or physical reality) is slowest in vibration and the top layer (the most spiritual reality) is the highest in vibration.

Stanford physicist Dr. William Tiller presents a more scientific model of the layers of reality (minus the cherry on top) in several of his writings. He portrays several layers of reality. From highest to lowest vibration, he describes the levels as the domains of the Divine, of spirit, three layers of mind, astral, etheric, and finally the physical stratum. Energy flows from higher to lower orders, with the higher domain providing instruction for a lower domain. Each domain occupied a different time-space continuum and operates under its own set of rules; however, each vibratory level is linked to all others. Except for the physical domain, we experience these domains as subtle or immeasurable. The etheric level, however, is considered most vital to our immediate lives, as it penetrates all aspects of physicality, creates matter, and interacts with our mind to generate patterns that connect us to the higher domains.

Essentially, healing involves maneuvering the revolving doors between these visible and invisible domains. To achieve a real change, we must decipher the site of the original issue, pinpoint its originating domain, and then release the problem. This journey through the looking glass might take us into physical matter, or force us to examine an issue within our emotional self, mind, soul, or even spirit, but it will take eventually involve a lesson for the soul, the part of us that holds everything we’ve ever done, thought, or said.

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Spiritual Strongholds: The Deepest Form of Bondage

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:00:00

Spiritual blocks are sometimes packaged as spiritual strongholds. These strongholds are forged from two or more beliefs or at least one feeling and a belief that relate to our divine nature—or rather, a false judgment about our innate purity. Most common are strongholds that leave us feeling disconnected from the Divine or from our own innate spirit.

Spiritual beliefs are mental in nature, but they affect every part of our being. The feelings connected with spiritual misperceptions might seem “normal,” but they impact us much more severely when bonded with a spiritual misperception rather the more everyday, garden variety. As with all misinformed beliefs, spiritual inaccuracies reduce to the assumption that we are separate: separate from the Divine, from our essence, from other people, or from the world. They leave us feeling worthless, undeserving, powerless, devalued, bad, or unlovable. They go a step further, however, in that they strike at our core self, reducing us to believing not only that we act badly or feel bad (or worthless or undeserving), but that we actually are the epitome of these negative beliefs. Essentially, spiritual strongholds produce shame, the sense of being wrong.

Most of us think that shame is a feeling; it isn’t. In the energetic world, it’s an energy that appears like a gray blob. It fills our cells, organs, systems, chakras, and all other energetic structures with a thick, viscous liquid that stops the flow of mana or life energy. It surrounds us with an impenetrable goop that locks us into being solitary. The more shame in or around us the more alone and lonely we feel. The more isolated we perceive ourselves, the worse we feel about ourselves.

Ritual abuse survivors exemplify the bondage resulting from spiritual strongholds and shame. Ritual abuse involves treatment that destroys our sense of divinity or the belief that we are connected to the Divine. I’ve worked with many people who have lived through—and nearly been destroyed by—ritual abuse. Many were exposed to Satanic cults. Some viewed the sacrifice of animals, babies, and loved ones at the altar of the dark. Others were themselves cut or castrated so that their blood would provide power for the abusers. These crippling experiences were inevitably accompanied by messages that left the abused feeling like they were evil, rather than the victims of evil.

Ceremonial abuse is only one form of spiritual abuse, however. Any fanatical set of beliefs can be used to hurt or injure our innate sense of worthiness. I’ve worked with many clients who were exposed to ‘born again” Christianity—the type that insists that anyone who doesn’t perform a certain way is evil, a spawn of the Devil, and going to go to hell. This type of spiritual pressure is a form of shaming and leaves the victim unable to access or call forth his or her unique spiritual essence or gifts. Likewise, any religion, institution, or school that professes to be the “only way” can lead to spiritual bondage and strongholds that leave the victim hating oneself and even the Divine.

A spiritual stronghold can be extraordinarily hard to heal, as by the time most people realize they are suffering from this, they have successfully convinced themselves that if there is a God, a Creator, an Almighty—that being cannot love them. I have found that the only way to really recover from a spiritual stronghold is to release the shame, perceived as a real and solid energy, to the Divine Source, and to then feel the feelings that underlie the events constituting the abuse. Feeling our feelings frees us to reexamine our ideas and to correct the ones that aren’t right.

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The Five Feeling Constellations

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00

How do you know if you are stuck in a feeling block or an emotional stronghold? Think about your feelings. Are there any repetitive feelings? Are there feelings you can’t express, no matter what? Are certain feelings “too big” for a current situation? Are you able to rationally decide how to respond to a feeling, or does it get the better of you? Do you feel dead to your feelings, or like you are always over-emotional? If you answer “yes” to any of these questions, you have might have a feeling block. You must “work through your feelings,” or feel them so that you can understand what they are trying to tell you.

In order to work through feelings, we have to recognize them. There are really only five basic constellations or families of feelings. These are:
• Fear
• Anger
• Joy
• Sadness
• Disgust

Each of these feeling constellations expresses a message for the body. If you accept and are willing to understand what your feelings are telling you, they can also speak for your spirit. They can alert you intuitively to the bigger picture and help you respond to the people, events, and opportunities around you. For instance, a spiritualized feeling of fear might prompt you to yell but only at an appropriate time, such as when a mugger is attacking and you need to scare him off. Not only do spiritualized feelings fuel your spiritual purpose, but they also enable you to receive true spiritual guidance and discern motives in others.

On the other hand, feelings can be distorted and harm us. This occurs when we distort one of the five basic feelings through judgment of the feeling. Distorted feelings make us act in inappropriate ways, and usually make us hate ourselves.

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Magic in the Chakras

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00

What was really happening when Jesus walked on water or calmed a storm with a command, as described in the Christian New Testament? What’s behind the Chinese stories of the hsien, avatars who ascend to the heavens without really dying? These just might be the product of the eleventh and twelfth chakras and auric layers at work.

The eleventh auric field is a film around our body, but if we were to slice it open, we would perceive a field of blinking lights. The streams of energy from these lights link into our brain, higher and lower chakras, and our hands and feet. For the trained and initiated, we can use this field to command and direct energies in a way so powerful, we, too, could walk on water, make a tumor disappear, or pull a coin out of the air.

The eleventh chakra is our connection into a level of existence that deals with powers and forces. (It is described in my series, Advanced Chakra Healing as the power pathway.) Through mental command, we can call forth and shift natural and supernatural energies to do our will. Natural energies include elemental forces, such as those of the air, water, fire, and more. Supernatural energies include the rays, cosmic, star, inter-dimensional, and spiritual forces.

The twelfth chakra is used differently by each of us. It really represents our individual self and potential for excellence. Through it, we can summon spiritual, human, and physical help and assistance supportive of our spiritual mission. When we become really good at something, we are involving our twelfth chakra in everything we do. We are all programmed for success.

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Hanging on

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00

The energies of others are only beneficial when they are loving energies. Love can help the dying person make peace with life—and with death. Unfortunately, the “love” of many friends and family members isn’t always so loving. People often hold on to the dying, not to help them on their journey, but because of their own fears, neediness, or sense of incompleteness. They might actually pull energy from the dying person, or worse, place their own burdens on the dying soul.

My business assistant, Wendy, is also a healer and a grief counselor, and frequently talks about the latter work. Several dying clients have actually told her that they can’t die because a loved one won’t let them. One client said that she couldn’t die because her daughter didn’t want to deal with sexual abuse issues with the father. Another client said that he intuitively felt that his adult son didn’t want him to die because he would then have to grow up and deal with financial matters on his own. I had one dying client tell me that she was ready to die but couldn’t because her children would fight; she was the peacemaker in the family and they didn’t get along without her intervention. These stories indicate the kinds of unfair responsibilities we can place on the dying, whose job is to leave gracefully, not remain among the living. The real problem with these intruding energies is that they create conflict within the dying person’s system and can lower the tone of his or her energetic patterns, potentially interfering with a smooth transition. Interference of this kind can also make it harder for a passing soul to select an appropriately high Plane for ascension.

While the living might weigh down the dying, sometimes the opposite occurs. One story stands out in particular. Joe was a forty-five-year-old single man whose parents had died years earlier within a year of one another. He was an only child. Since their deaths, he had been clinically depressed, unable to attract a romantic relationship, and afflicted with chronic fatigue syndrome as well as grueling nightmares. In his dreams he was a soldier, killing without mercy. Joe would wake up sweating and feeling guilty about his participation in these nightly wars.

An idea struck me: what if these disturbances were inherited from his parents, rather than machinations of Joe’s own soul? When someone dies, I have learned, the loved ones normally go through a year of conflict, illness, and depression, but not for almost seven years. To check out my theory, I had Joe visualize the locations of his parents’ souls. He found them together, hovering just outside his auric field. Each was attached to one of his adrenal glands and pouring dark-colored energy into them.

I asked Joe to describe the energies being sent into him by his parents. His mother’s energy was depressed and made Joe feel fatigued. He guessed that this was the source of his chronic fatigue, and perhaps some of his depression. His father’s energy was heavy with memories of his involvement in the Korean War. Was this the origin of Joe’s wartime dreams? Joe agreed that no matter what, he needed to release himself from his parents and their problems, but he didn’t want to hurt them. Ultimately, Joe felt comfortable calling upon Si Baba, his guru, who lovingly detached his parents from his body and sent them to the White Light. Joe’s symptoms ceased within a few days and have not returned.

Joe’s parents hadn’t wanted to make him ill. At some level, they thought that by holding on they were helping him. And Joe didn’t mean to “get them stuck” either, but by allowing their attachment, he was keeping them from moving on their own path.

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The Importance of Grieving

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:00

I believe in the afterlife. Even so, I cried freely at the funeral of a friend. I didn’t want him to die, and I was angry and sad about his death. Believing in the afterlife doesn’t preclude the need to grieve. In fact, grieving is a very important healing process, one best explained through the wisdom of the Hawaiian culture.

The ancient kahunas, as author Max Freedom Long explains, were Polynesian healers. To them, the word for healing was hoo-la, which means, “to cause light.” You create light by restoring the natural relationship with the High Self, which I call the spirit.

The kahunas thought that all problems originated from believing ourselves separate from our High Self. If we choose to, we can align with it—and open to its light—through a three-step enlightenment process. These steps involve:
1. Cleansing hurt and guilt.
2. Preparing the mind, as if for worship.
3. Performing hoo-ola, or “making life.”
The graduate of step three earns the title “la-ko,” or one who “possesses Light.”

When someone dies, or when we are dying, we naturally feel emotional pain. We might recall how the other harmed us—or feel guilty about the cruelties we inflicted. When someone leaves, whether through death, divorce, or some other form of separation, it’s normal to first feel our own suffering. No one likes loss or separation; it makes us feel sorry for ourselves.

But where there is grief, there is love. Sadness, anger, annoyance—these and the countless other emotions that accompany change—show us that we have loved something or someone. We can only miss what we’ve cared about. If we accept our grief and feel it without judgment, we’ll automatically open to the presence of love. Love washes clean everything. As soon as we acknowledge love, we have entered the state of worship.

To worship is to treat something or someone as divine. It is to sense the divine presence, even in the worst of circumstances. It is to trust that the Divine will transform something bad into something meaningful, important, and worthy. It is to believe in the afterlife, for if we—and all other transient beings—are divine, then we will continue to exist, and flourish.

Finally, we grieve—and love—by returning to life. You’ll know that you are performing both hoo-ola, or making life, and hoo-la, making light, when you can again hear the birds in the morning and simply enjoy their song, when you can stop at a coffee house and order whipped cream on your café au lait—no matter the caloric damage. When you possess appreciation of the small things in life, you can appreciate all of the people and beings that surround you—and those that might not be physically in your presence anymore. You have become a la-ko. You have merged light and life.

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The Creation Process

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00

How might we envision the creation process, starting from our spirit, and ending with our bodies? Picture the Divine Source as a great sun. Our spirits once dwelled within it like tiny, brilliant sparks of light. This Source sought to create more light—or love—throughout the known and unknown Universe and sent each of us forth to accomplish this goal. Each of us carried forward one or more spiritual truths or principles, upon which to found the next stages of Creation.

We are to share our truths with each other. To do so, however, we have to understand and finally, actually become them. Understanding our divine nature and the truths that reflect it occurs through experience.

Spirit doesn’t easily gain experience. First of all, a spirit is like air. On the plus side, it knows that it is eternally connected to Divine Source, always receiving unconditional love and therefore, perfect support. Criticism, sword slashes, or negative thoughts—these pass through our spirit like a knife through air. On the minus side, this immateriality means that it’s challenging, if not impossible, for a spirit to gain experience. Can one pick up a cup without a hand? It’s hard to offer others something to drink unless we can do so.

To solve the dilemma—to provide experience—the Divine Source formed a soul out of our spirit. Our soul is like a “slowed down” aspect of our parenting spirit, with one main difference. Lower in vibration and therefore, relatively concrete, it is affected by experience. It can learn—but also be hurt. It can express truths—but also believe in lies. As the part of us that imprints experience, the soul is also able to formulate conclusions based on these experiences. And many of these conclusions have been wrong.

In essence, our soul recreates its original wound. This is the first misperception, formed after the first time the soul decided that it was separate from the Divine. At some point after distinguishing from our spirit, our soul, flying free, fell. Maybe it was betrayed by another soul. Perhaps it became scared, called to the Divine for help, failed to perceive the Divine’s response. Maybe we called upon our own powers, and they failed us. The original scenario—the one that made our soul think, “I’m separate from the Divine”—is usually the same situation that causes us grief in this lifetime, over and over again—as well as other lifetimes.

Reincarnation is the process of incarnating in a body, lifetime after lifetime. Our spirit encourages soul reincarnation as a way of clearing our original soul wound and learning how to express our divine truths. Before birth, our soul agrees to this process, forming a soul plan or life contract with the Divine and others. And then, it experiences an event similar to the one that caused the original injury. Instead of summoning help or operating from a spiritual perspective, it closes down. Common sense tells us that if we do the same thing, over and over, we’ll get the same outcome. Perception creates beliefs and beliefs create physical reality. Because it always perceives situations the same way, and forms the same beliefs about events, our soul creates the same dark, negative reality it has always experienced.

A Definition of True Work

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00

Work invites us to share our spiritual gifts with the world. It allows us to succeed at our spiritual purpose or mission, which always involves creating more love on this planet. Each of us has a way of forming this love that is unique—and how fun, to experience our own way of being love, but we also get to experience the unique love of others.

Work is not a career label. It is not constricted to the employment description we provide to the Internal Revenue Service. It is not labor or toil or only that which earns money. Our spiritual work involves fulfilling duties and responsibilities. It might involve being paid; it certainly includes feeling gratified. Real work, however, the work that we are here on this planet to do, must accomplish a fundamental and singular goal.

True work enlightens. True work pulls forth the light that we are and radiates it into the world.

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Your Soul

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:00

Like your spirit, your soul carries the torch of your spiritual purpose. But it also holds your dysfunctional issues, all of which emanate from negative and inaccurate beliefs. To heal your soul—and your life and the world—it is important to understand the structure and flight of your soul. There is more to your story than that of spirit and soul.

After entering the material world, your soul acquired correct and incorrect learning based on experience. I first became aware of this truth when studying with a shaman in Peru. There was a small group of us, and no matter what life issue we professed to want cured, he would say, “Ah, negativity in the soul.” Financial problems? A physical disorder? Depression? “Negativity in the soul.” Since then, I have resolutely searched for soul-based rather than just physically based causes for my own and others’ problems. Inevitably, the issue becomes clearer and often resolves after the soul tells its story—a story that always speaks to an experience that has been misinterpreted.

Soul experiences can support spiritual experiences, of course. However, the harmful ones increase in number and intensity over time. Your soul, unable to hold onto the variety of perceptions forming its growing negativity, needed a mental storage vehicle. It created mind.

Your mind is the aspect of self that holds your soul’s beliefs, which form the basis of your decisions. There are two main beliefs: correct and incorrect. The correct belief is I am love. The incorrect belief is I am separate.

Think about your life. Nearly every situation reduces to either believing that you are about love, or that you are separate from love. Almost every conflict in your heart and life comes from thinking you are unlovable, disempowered, unworthy, undeserving, bad, or lacking in value. Throughout every lifetime, you have been (unfortunately) proving the accuracy of these negative beliefs. Beliefs create perception, and perception creates reality.

Our souls carry these beliefs—accurate and inaccurate—from one lifetime to another. In Hindu terms, the positive beliefs are called dharma; they fuel your spiritual purpose. The negative beliefs are karma; they must be transformed in order to become encouraging. Dharma supports your full essence and evolution through the attraction of kindly, joy-enhancing events. Karma also assists soul development, through the attraction of challenging experiences.

All soul beliefs, positive or negative, are encoded directly into your body at birth via the mind. Your body is the part of the self that impacts concrete reality. When embodied, your soul’s beliefs are interpreted as what we can think of as programs, or specific ideas that operate your brain and central nervous system. These programs are based on the dharmic and karmic ideas held in the mind. When you enact your soul’s programs, you create patterns, or repetitive behaviors that substantiate these beliefs.

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The Auric Field

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00

The best known energy organ is the auric field. The aura can be visualized as a complex layer of energy bodies that surround your entire physical body. Each auric layer, numbering twelve in all, is like a layer of saran wrap that has a different physical, emotional, mental and spiritual purpose. All auric layers set boundaries, screen energetic data and regulate your relationship with the outside world.

The aura is more than fantasy. Artists and other sensitive people have long seen auras, usually as bands of color around a person or other animate being

Sensitives who can see the aura usually describe multiple energetic layers, each with a different color or pattern. I, as well as many others, perceive at least twelve such auric layers around the human body. Each of these layers performs several vital functions, one of which is to screen different types of energetic information. For instance, one of the auric layers filters emotional data. Based upon conscious, unconscious and subconscious programming, this second auric field energetically decides what feelings to allow into your body and which feelings to send into the world. Feelings, like all aspects of life, are frequencies. Sadness vibrates at a different rate than does anger or fear. If you are programmed to perceive fear but ignore anger, you can psychically read when someone is scared but not necessarily pick up on someone else’s anger.

Each auric layer is in charge of certain frequencies or information-energy packets. The various layers filter everything from physical sensations to intellectual understandings to others’ spiritual beliefs. When all systems are up and functioning, it’s like having an force field protecting you. Good auric boundaries will also assure that you don’t “tip off” intruders, accidentally informing other people of your plans or moves.

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The Smile Virus

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00

I went to a funeral today for an elderly family friend. Funerals often provide an occasion for reflection, and this one was especially rich for me. I looked at the pictures that provided a window into her past. She grew up on the Northern Great Plains, a farming background, became a kindergarten teacher, married, had a family (most of whom I talked to at the reception) . I noticed one striking thing that remained a constant from the first photos, to the pictures from last year.(br/.
Her smile.

There were many photos of her, but her smiles transcended media and time.

How contagious her energy is! Even looking at her picture, I felt compelled to smile back. As I sat through the service, I heard her smile mentioned repeatedly; I was not the only person who was infected with her smile virus. How simple. Imagine a world full of people who smiled at each other MORE.

I had a short reverie about a world that smiled more, and I liked the vision. Before I left the funeral, I vowed to smile more – more often, with more energy and depth and at more people. I am challenging each and every one of you to do the same.

The Intuitive Way

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00

Intuition is a system. It is a thoughtful, scientific, binding, bountiful, beautiful and disciplined system. Psychic sensitivity exposes you to any and all psychic information available, at any given time. The intuitive individual calmly selects the psychic energy that makes sense, and rejects the remainder. While psychic sensitivity can lead to amazing insight and revelations, it can overwhelm and cripple the most gifted. The Intuitive way, however, is customized to each individual and their spiritual destiny.

Within each of us lies a special calling, like a bud waiting to flower. This calling is your purpose. It is a truth of God waiting to be expressed, a bit of heaven on earth. You are responsible to awaken, to prune and to express this truth in your life, in all you do, from washing the dishes to car pooling kids to listening to friends to working professionally to living with a love. Natural psychic sensitivities provide information to guarantee that you survive life’s challenges and dangers, hassles and struggles. As an intuitive individual, however, you can break ground. By following the intuitive way, you do the hard work needed to dig for your purpose; coax it to life; water and weed; assure sunlight and warmth; and force rest and cleansing that bring forth this blossom of heaven on earth.

By participating in the intuitive way, you unfold your spiritual destiny. You create more heaven on earth.

Anatomy of a Block: The Stronghold

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00

Essentially, a block keeps us from living as our authentic self. Usually blocks are composed of strongholds, mental or emotional programs that keep us stuck in a pattern that isn’t good for us. There are two basic types of strongholds. A mental stronghold is made of two or more beliefs that join together but never come apart. For instance, we might touch a stove and get burned. We now think, “Stoves can burn” and also “Getting burned, hurts.” These aren’t bad thoughts. In fact, they can be helpful; we’ll think twice before we touch another hot stove. A problem arises if we keep these two thoughts joined together to create a stronghold, or a belief that detracts from our life, or even causes harm. A resulting, negative stronghold might be the conclusion that because stoves burn and getting burned, hurts, then stoves are bad. This idea isn’t all that traumatic—it might spare us a great deal of cooking—but what if we formulate a mental stronghold like, “Anything that can burn is bad”? This type of stronghold can lead to a full-blown paranoia and we might avoid anything from sunlight to love, which can cause its own “burn.”

An emotional stronghold is formed from at least one thought and one feeling. These underlie many of our most challenging life issues. For example, imagine a sixteen-year-old who has just gone through his first relationship break-up. He feels sad. He thinks, “Breaking up hurts.” The feeling of sadness joins with the belief that breaking up causes pain. There’s nothing wrong with a temporary merging of a feeling and a thought. We are constantly trying in different beliefs and feelings; they instruct us on how to respond to a given situation. But what if our sixteen year-old would decide that a relationship, a necessary prerequisite to a break-up, is itself, dangerous? To avoid the sadness of a break-up, he might now avoid relationships altogether. Strongholds, such as this one, often underlie lifestyle and relationship issues.

There are also spiritual strongholds, which are similar to mental and emotional strongholds. These are composed of beliefs or feelings that bond together and relate specifically to spiritual issues. Examples involve ideas relating to deservedness of Divine love or acceptance of universal abundance.

A stronghold becomes a block when it fails to release when we’re through with it, and becomes programmed into our energetic system.

Excerpted with permission from The Complete Book of Chakra Healing All content ©Cyndi Dale and Llewellyn Books.

The Unseen World - of Energy

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00

We like to imagine what our life would be like, “if only.” If only we had a lot of money. If only we were thin, more successful, or had a better car. Have you noticed how you felt when you actually obtained one of your “if only” goals? You were still dissatisfied, weren’t you? After the initial rush, you probably felt emptier than before. That’s because true happiness isn’t derived through external accomplishments or belongings. Our deepest drive is for meaning, which is an invisible, not a tangible quality.

We all want to feel fulfilled. We want to know that our lives matter and that we’re making a difference in others’ lives. I believe that this drive for purpose is the distinguishing mark of the 21^st Century. We yearn for more than materiality. We’re following an inspiration to touch heart-to-heart, calling forth our spirit through connection. We strive for peace, internally and communally.

We have only to look around to understand why we long—and need—to make a personal contribution toward peace. War tears families apart while individual families war within. Mothers worry about feeding their children tomorrow while fathers wonder if there will be a tomorrow. Well-meaning individuals and organizations draft peace treaties that leaders and terrorists tear apart. It is little wonder that most of us want only to be a light, not another source of darkness, in the world. Unfortunately, the sheer number and intensity of problems facing us leave us feeling incapable and overwhelmed.

We all want to make a difference, but this is only possible if we first realize that no one can do enough to “save the world.” None of us can do enough. Real change and true transformation are only possible if we concentrate our efforts where they really matter. These actions start inside of us, in the inner realms, where we work invisibly, spiritually, and subtly. We must start—and end—our strivings for truth in the world of energy, for it is this unseen world—and the structures within it—that creates and sustains the physical universe.

The Search for a Guru

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00

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In my field, one of the more commonplace concepts is that of the guru.

A guru is a guide or teacher. We usually associate gurus with spiritual or religious sects, although a guru can also present intellectual ideas or understandings. Usually, however, a guru is the master of a defined spiritual path who shows the way to a particular body of followers.

I have a lot of mixed reaction to the idea of a guru; you might as well. The basic image is of circling he-who-is-close-to-God in hopes of receiving a little of the energy. Knowledge might be passed from on high through words, but just as often through the transmission of wisdom through the eyes or awareness.

I acknowledge the desire and need to honor the sacred. I know that there are individuals whose connection to the heavens and ultimate truth far exceeds my own. If they are willing to pluck a star and shine it in my heart, I’m welcoming of the gift. In return, I’m willing to acknowledge the sacrifice required to live in holiness and provide for those of us who are still struggling with how to spell the word “consciousness,” much less embody it.

And yet I tussle with the many facets of the practice. Quite honestly, I’d flunk the Basic 101 course. In my entire life I’ve probably sat still about two hours in a row and that was because I was sick or strapped into a plane. My legs fidget by themselves. Really. They aren’t connected to my brain or willpower or certainly a Commandant outside of me. Yell “Stop Wiggling” and they’d absolutely convulse. When God passed out the ADHD genes he gave me a double scoop.

Secondly I’ve yet to excel in Followership, the Intermediate required class. When my sons started Little League, I’d pray throughout every game—when I wasn’t laughing, that is. If they weren’t busy running the bases counterclockwise they were drifting to the nearby playground from far left field or hitting each other with bats. No matter how many times the coaches tried to demonstrate correct behavior, it went nowhere. Open brain, insert sieve, out it goes. It’s not that I’m looking to be a leader, it’s that I can’t stay on track—anyone’s track, much less my own.

Thirdly I completely strike out when it comes to the most advanced of requirements, that of Agreeableness. I try. I really do. I sit at family dinners and tell myself to paste my mouth shut with mashed potatoes and gravy and simply NOT TALK, but if I think someone is off or wrong, why, who else is going to set them straight? Just last week end at a lounge over rock and roll I was compelled, as in ethically forced with a god-given duty, to relay MY opinion (or Truth) about the reason people perform blood sacrifice. Needless to say, listeners thought it at least creative, as my response included mention of Egyptian pyramids and monoatomic gold and pineal gland harvesting. (If you’re interested, let me know—I’ll write my dissertation in next month’s column.) Christ himself might sit in white robes and gold sandals in front of me but if he makes a single factual error—why, I’m on it.

Many times in my life, I’ve needed a teacher. The issue is that they haven’t all been cloaked in long robes, hair, and bears. One of my favorite gurus was Mr. O’Dougherty, a literature teacher, whose booming voice scared the meekest of students into the hallway. He’d turn his big piercing eyes on you and you’d wondered why you hadn’t done your homework twice-over. God help those who didn’t do it at all. From him I learned to love language and reading and oratory. I learned that when pressed, I could really do something with my pen. He inspired my spirit.

Yet another important guru was my son’s great-grandmother, who recently died. Alice was a salty old broad who passed out advice like some grandmothers do cookies. During her 90’s, she lived in assisted living. Every morning, she rose at dawn and arming herself with the daily newspapers left downstairs, began to knock on doors. Her deal wasn’t really to deliver the papers, although that deed did get accomplished. She really wanted to know if anyone had died during the night. If her intrusion didn’t yield a response, she’d call for an ambulance.

Alice wouldn’t have passed as a religious guru or spiritual teacher, under most dogmatic auspices. First she swore too much. Webster would have edited out at least every other word. Second she didn’t think too much of religion. But when my now ex-husband pointed out that the Bible asserted that miracles are possible through faith alone, she gathered her rosary beads and oil, visited a sick friend, prayed to Mother Mary, and was anything but surprised when her friend pretty much rose from the dead. Alice believed in life and taught me to do the same.

For my part, I’m open to the teachings of those in authority; for the gurus who call themselves gurus. Still and yet, does naming oneself something make you that? In the end we must each decide who our teachers are —and should be. I know I o;d miss a lot if I restricted my list of acceptable teachers to those with the label. Who’d want to miss the Alice’s of life?

Do You Believe in Ghosts?

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00

Almost everyone asks me if I believe in ghosts. I do. I have been seeing and hearing them since I was a small girl.

My first experience with ghosts occurred when I was five years old. I awoke one evening because of a loud crash in the kitchen. Startled, I began to get out of bed, when I heard voices.

“Mac, you have to quiet it down. There are kids and a dog and such things, and You Know Who has a law against scaring the little ones.”

Mac? Who was Mac? I wondered. My dad’s name was Wally and I certainly didn’t think he’d be up banging around the kitchen in the middle of the night.

Another voice piped in. “Aw, Harry, it’s a greasy skillet and it slips.”

And the two voices proceeded to bump around the kitchen doing what sounded like an awful lot of cooking. At one point, I was certain I heard the sizzling of bacon, the chewing of crunchy toast, and at least one deep sigh of satisfaction.

I was frozen with fear and carefully stretched the covers over my head. Who were these strange men? What were they doing in our kitchen? Why hadn’t my mom and dad woken up and stopped them?

Finally, the noisy intruders finished cooking and eating, and I heard a couple of belches and then a moment of silence. I thought perhaps that they were gone, but when I peeked out from under the covers, I spied shadows on the hallway, just outside my bedroom. Oh no! Were they coming to get me?

I heard a door open. “Well, time to catch a train,” muttered the one named Mac. Suddenly, the house was quiet.

I settled back onto my pillow. Okay, I had figured them out. They were hobos. We lived close to train tracks. Mac and friend had obviously decided to pilfer our pantry before hopping a train.

I jumped out of bed, suddenly eager to tell my mom what had just happened. Then I thought better of it. My mom would be furious because they didn’t do the dishes. I had not heard any water running, which means that the sink would be piled with dirty pans and plates. My need for a hug overwhelmed my worry, however, and I ran into my parents’ room and threw myself onto the bed.

“Mommy, Daddy, the hobos were cooking in our kitchen!”

I repeated my announcement, since my parents were a little slow coming out of sleep. Finally, my mother struggled to her feet, her hair awry, and followed me into the kitchen.

It was spick and span, just like when we went to bed the evening before.

My dad stood in the kitchen doorway, a look of frustration on his face. “Cyndi, you have to stop telling these stories.” And with that, I was sent back to bed.

Excerpted from The Everyday Clairvoyant, Llewellyn Books. All content © Cyndi Dale and Llewellyn Books