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5 Nov 2007 / © SLC 2006-7

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Table of Contents
1. Divine Union 10. The Acceptance of
by Trish Acceptance by Ronnie Carroll
2. NOW Moment 11. Facing Challenges in the
by Leslie Smith
New Energies by Ronnie Carroll
3. The Gift of Love 12. Talking as a Breakthrough
by Leslie Smith
4. Larger than Life – Speaking Your Truth by Todd
Schaefer
by Mark David Gerson
5. The Tao of Giving and 13. Quantum Leap Channel
by Todd Schaefer
Receiving by Kyra Clark 14. Losing Identity, Gaining "I"
6. How Does One Show Love? By Todd Schaefer
by Lyn Gallant
15. Q&A With Dahæma
7. Aligning with the Infinite by the energies of Dahæma
by Mark David Gerson
16. The God Interface
8. Seek First the Kingdom of God by Burton
By Todd Schaefer
17. Energies and Infinity
9. Got Ego? by Ronnie Carroll
by Marty
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Divine Union
By: Trish
The path of Love begins within. This
is something we all know and do our best to
understand, but is something that becomes
more essential as we travel along the
Spiritual Path.
The answers we seek are always
inside of us. If we sit long enough to still the
mind we can find what we seek, where a
calm state of acceptance and love pours
forth. If we are troubled or sad or upset, our
mind searches for reasons and answers,
analyzing and trying to understand. We can
run in circles and come up with the same
results without much clarity.
Answers from the human mind no
longer apply. Rational ideas make less sense
in a multi-dimensional state. That is the
beauty and the call. To grow higher and
merge with all that is. There is no separation
between you and everything.
Simultaneously we exist together.
There is Love at the heart of all that is. But
with so many distractions around us, we can
get lost at times.
In getting lost in the fog, we have
one place we can always return to –a state of
clarity, a place of peace and joy – it is
coming back to the Self.
The most important union is the
divine union of one’s soul. Here all
possibilities exist. Healing occurs and magic
happens. Understanding and compassion are
natural companions to where our Soul
abides.
This is a place where we are re-
minded that at this moment we are
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everything we need and All that we need. In
this moment we are in touch with our true
beauty, our essence and our Soul. This is the
calling. To fully embrace and love
ourselves, one beautiful step at a time.
Come here whenever you are sad, or
scared or upset. You can come home to your
Soul at any moment in time. Commune with
your Soul and ask it what it is you need to
understand or receive or contemplate. This
is where you will find and create the
blessings and answers to that which you
seek.
Most of the times we know this, but
it is a good reminder. When the outside
world becomes too demanding, it is during
these times we can return to the
peacefulness of our inner worlds and rejoice
in the place of our Souls, where all is One
and nothing is missing. You are everything
you need at this moment, you are a perfect
Divine Being.
There is so much Love surrounding
you, embrace the Wisdom and Light within
and share it with another.
Love and Blessings!
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NOW Moment
By: Leslie Smith

To be completely engaged in the present moment, the moment of NOW, is no easy task
for the ordinary human. We have been trained to think a certain way and to live our lives a
certain way here on the Earthly physical plane of existence.
Time is a manmade creation, which in most aspects, is needed here on Earth. Time, after
all, is the basis of all things here. We set the alarm clock to get up at a certain time in the
morning; we have to be at work by a certain time, we have to be at school by a certain time;
dinner is at a certain time; we have to be at that party by a certain time. We think about our past,
and we set goals for our future. Time has been constructed in such a way that can really be very
intimidating: twelve months or 365 days or 52 weeks to a year, 24 hours in a day broken up into
sets of twelve; 60 minutes to an hour, broken up into seconds, 60 seconds every hour. Whew!
So let’s forget about time for a bit.
What about right now? Do you ever think about right now?
To live in this present moment, this NOW, means that you have to
forget about the past as well as the future. To be fully present in this now
moment is something that far too few of us have been able to maintain. To be
fully present in this moment of now, if you have ever experienced it, is to
experience peace and tranquility. You don’t have to worry about the past and you don’t have to
worry about the future. Seems like quite a challenge, doesn’t it? But you can do this by starting
out with simple things. While you are reading about this, your mind has probably gone
somewhere else, hasn’t it? You may have thought about what you were going to cook for dinner,
or you may have worried about something you had yet to get done, but what I’m challenging you
to do, is to start to change the way you see things, to change the way you think.
Start simply. Begin by just focusing when you are washing your hands about exactly
what you are doing at the moment. Feel the water run over your hands, feel the way the soap
suds up on your skin, feel it with all that you have. Feel the way the towel feels on your skin as
you are drying it. Then, move onto something else. Pay complete attention to
your breath, the in and the out of the breath within your body. Then, notice your
surroundings right NOW. What do they look like? Is there a smell in the air? Do
you see the colors of your surroundings? To fully engage in this very now
moment, means that all of your attention is right there with you, where it should
be, where it was meant to be.
Something so simple yet so very hard at the same time is to just be present right now.
Every single person on this earth and every animal and every plant is living the exact same
moment as you. Think about that! And every single person, who is living that exact same
moment, is experiencing a different reality based upon what they create in their lives.
One moment is all that there is. One moment, which is right now. Create what you will in
this NOW moment. Let it be yours.
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The Gift of Love
By: Leslie Smith
As I waited patiently at the red light, I
noticed him. He was wearing a
weathered brown overcoat, smudged
with what looked like grease, his pants
were too short and full of holes, his hair
was long and stringy, and he looked as if
he hadn’t shaved in ages. He walked
with a bit of a limp, and looked to be in
his 50’s, although, I could have been
wrong, as it looked like he had been
walking for days. He was carrying an old
plastic trash bag, which was half full of
something. Then, I saw him bend down
and scoop up a smashed tin can from the
side of the road, and drop it into the bag.
Long ago, I would have looked at that
man and thought he was nothing but a
homeless person, who deserved to be
where he was right now, probably a
drunk. There was no way
I would have given him
any money because he
would just use it to buy
more booze. If approached, I probably
would have instantly frozen up in fear
for my life.
But now, things are different. My
outlook has changed. When I see
someone like this, my heart grows. I can
literally feel my chest expand with Love.
My heart goes out to him, and to the
story he has lived within. He probably
doesn’t know how to get out of the story
he has created for himself at this point.
He may think there is no way that things
can turn around for him. He may feel
that life is pointless, and may even think
about giving up soon.
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If there is a person without a home,
living on the streets, fighting to just
survive, there is a reason for where they
are at. We do not know their story. We
do not know what happened to them. We
do not know how they grew up. We do
not know what kinds of things they have
been through. This person may not have
the tools, physically or spiritually to lift
themselves up out of where they are at.
If we have a warm home, meals,
clothing, transportation, jobs, family,
love, laughter, joy, we need to be
grateful for what it is that we have. But
we mustn’t just be grateful. We must
share what it is that we can give to
another human being. Let’s try and help
them. Maybe he or she holds up a sign
and asks for money, or work, or
whatever it may be. Give with love.
Give without putting parameters on the
gift. Don’t worry about what he or she is
going to do with that money. If you give
with love, and you really mean love, it
will not matter where the money goes. It
doesn’t even have to be money that you
give. You can give the gift of a smile,
who knows how long it’s been since
they’ve seen one. You can give the gift
of communication, who knows how long
it’s been since someone
has actually treated them
like a human being and
spoken to them. You can
give whatever it
is that you have
within you to
give. But, do it
with LOVE.
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Larger Than Life
by Mark David Gerson
When I was visiting Toronto last year, a
friend treated me to a ticket to Barbra
Streisand's first-ever concert
performance in that city. Although we
were sitting high in the rafters in a
hockey arena that was anything but
intimate, I was startled by how fully and
personally her energy filled every corner
of that venue.
"She's larger than life," I remember
gushing to my friend at intermission.
I recalled that experience a few days ago
after purchasing a CD recording of the
concert tour. "That's what I want," I
heard myself say and was so startled by
what seemed such a profoundly ego-
driven thought that I was almost
embarrassed.
But it wasn't until yesterday morning,
lying in bed thinking about what I would
write here, that I fully understood both
the Streisand experience and my inner
voice.
What I realized was that "larger than
life" isn't about being famous. It simply
means living larger than the restrictions
and limitations we all carry so willingly
through life. I also realized that access to
that energy is not limited to the Barbra
Streisands of the world, unless we
choose for that to be so.
Even as our souls yearn for us to "play
big," to discover our passion and live it
to the fullest, our fearful self continues
to seek out ways to hide and play small.
"Our deepest fear," writes Marianne
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Williamson in A Return to Love," is not
that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond
measure."
Perhaps even deeper than the fear she
describes is the fear of experiencing and
expressing our power out in the world,
of being larger than life, of living
beyond the self-imposed walls and
barriers we create in the mistaken belief
they will keep us safe.
They can't and they won't.
Our only safety resides in living our
largest life to its fullest potential, in
living our truth...in living our passion. In
walking through life as though we are
safe...as though nothing can stop, limit
or restrict us.
As I write this, an old Cole Porter lyric
keeps running through my head:
Oh, give me
land, lots of
land under
starry skies
above,
Don't fence me
in
At a literal level, the song is sung by a
cowboy who longs for the endless space
of the open range.
Yet it's also the song of every soul
deprived of its fullest expression by the
fences of a fearful mind, a soul that
seeks only the limitlessness of its natural
state.
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Whatever you think of Barbra
Streisand's talent or personality, when
you are in her energy field, you touch
that limitlessness and your soul cries out,
"Me too! That's who I am, too!!"
Here in the Western world, where we
have been taught to play small, we
transfer all of our natural desire for the
fenceless world of a life lived large to
our movie stars and sports heroes.
If we can't play out our own passion and
power, we play it out through a celebrity
cult that's no healthier than any other
cult, one we also find in countries with
charismatic leaders/dictators, in religions
with unapproachable gods and in all
situations where we abdicate the
expression of our infinite nature to
someone or something outside of
ourselves.
In my novel, The MoonQuest, very
much a metaphor for all our journeys,
the main character is destined for a
(c) Mark David Gerson
Mark David Gerson is a spiritual mentor and coach living in New Mexico. An inspirational writer who is
read in more than 20 countries, he is also author of The MoonQuest: A True Fantasy and The Voice of the
Muse: Answering the Call to Write. For more information: http://markdavidgerson.com of
http://myspace.com/mdg888.
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greatness he
continues to
resist. Yet
destiny, as he is
constantly
reminded, is not
cast in stone. There is always a choice.
"Every choice you have ever made, has
led to this moment. Your moment. Still,
the power to make a different choice
remains yours."
The power to choose is always ours. In
every moment and through every
situation, we're offered the opportunity
to choose our greatness, our passion, our
light.
It's what we do with each moment and
situation that governs our destiny, that
decides whether we live in our greatness
or in the shadow of someone else's, that
determines whether we build fences or
tear them down.
In this moment, what do you choose?
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The Tao of Giving

and Receiving
by Kyra Clark

We all have opportunities to serve; to give love in a variety of ways. Some of

these opportunities come to us in ways that don’t necessarily seem like we are actually
doing anything at all. This is the very nature of abundance living. We give as we see
necessary and receive in gratitude and love. Giving can be so simple that we may look at
what we have done to help others as something we would just naturally do. In The Seven
Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra suggests that if we have nothing to give, we
give a compliment, a flower, or a prayer to those we meet, and that love will be returned
to us in beautiful ways. Although to give just to receive is incongruent. It must be in the
nature of our being that says we love to give, just to give, without expectation of a return.
This is what I wish to convey at this time, The Tao or Being of giving and
receiving. There is a constant ebb and flow of all creation; it is the very nature of
creation. We take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide, we inhale and exhale. We can’t
just inhale and not give release of the air that we have taken in; we would die. The same
works with creation, with energy. In order for us to really understand how this works in
our lives we must practice it in love. Feeling stagnated from time to time with my own
financial issues; recently in fact, I noticed that I wasn’t giving. There was something in
me that said my pie is too small and there will be nothing left for me if I give to someone
else. This started to cause my flow to begin to constrict, causing less and less to come to
me.
I began listening to the lack consciousness around me. I began to hear patterns of
poverty talk coming from friends and others around me. People would say things such as
“I can’t do that, I don’t have the money for that,” when in this particular instance it was
for their own child’s birthday. I also heard that they weren’t receiving anything either.
“No money is coming in, I’m not going to be able to
pay for that,” etc. So I paid attention to the language of
those around me.
Not only was the language interesting to be
aware of but, I also realized who I chose to be around.
Some say to look at the five closest people around you
and you will see who you are, or are becoming. I
recognized that my lack- filled thinking had attracted
people that had the same kind of consciousness. This
only caused my money beliefs to coagulate. I knew
something had to change; my own inner dialogue was
aligning with the beliefs of others and causing me to dive deeper into this lack of
abundance in my life.
I chose to change my mind and give to people what I could. I began giving
complements, giving hugs, sending loving energy to people I saw on the side of the road,
and giving my change to beggars on the street. I also began seeing my financial issues
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from another perspective. I began living in the now moment. I began asking myself,
“What do I need right now?” The answer has always been “nothing.” I am perfect right
here, right now. There is nothing I need. I have food in my stomach, a roof over my head
and friends to keep me company. I choose to see my bills from a new perspective as well;
looking at them as a being paid, which they are, and I pay them every month. It is at the
point now, today as a matter of fact, that I manifested $45 in tips at work and I gave it all
away in loving gifts to friends and loved ones. It was totally joyful and I was grateful that
I could give and grateful that they were willing to receive.
Receiving is something that is a challenge to people as well. Today when I
offered to give my friend $10 to get some food for her and her mom who was in the
hospital, I was met with resistance. She said that she would feel bad. This is an amazing
thing to me. She felt bad to receive, and this is someone who always gives of herself to
everyone she meets. She gives kindness and hugs, even small gifts of chocolate, and even
gave me a flower one time when I felt poorly. To me she deserves every comfort in the
world, but to her it’s almost a reverse lack consciousness. It’s almost as if she were
thinking “I can give but please don’t give me anything in return.” She said that I needed
the money also, and wouldn’t accept it. I slipped it into her purse anyway. She used it to
get exactly what she wanted and loved every bite. I got to be part of that experience and I
was grateful to do so. We all must learn to be receivers, just as much as we can’t hold in
air with out release we can’t exhale air without taking more in, we would die.
This has been a struggle for me in the past. I am loving my way through it now,
remembering that receiving gives someone else the opportunity to give. This also
reminds me of the story of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, when Mary was anointing Jesus’
feet with oil and Judas commented that they could feed a hundred poor people with the
money she used for that oil. Jesus responded to Judas, “If I don’t let her give to me now,
she may never give again.” We must all be willing to receive the anointing - receive the
gifts of creation. The trees give to me every day. I watch them now shedding their leaves
and I am in awe as the float to the ground and land silently. There is an abundance of
leaves and they are all dancing for me. I am grateful for that and I am inspired by that gift
of creation.
We all have beautiful gifts that we are meant to share with the world. Share them
and be interested in what others can share with you. This is the ebb and flow of creation
in which we are enmeshed every moment of every day. This is why we are here. It is
time to enjoy and become part of this joyful and loving experience. We have so many
gifts waiting for us to open. Make every day your birthday and share your presents and
presence with others. Namaste
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How Does One Show Love??

By: Lyn Gallant

There are many ways to show love….a hug, a kiss, giving flowers, a beautiful card, a
love letter, but how does one give love? How does one open up their heart to give love?
What a question! Love is a very complicated word. Ann Landers once said “If you have
love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no
matter what else there is, it's not enough.”

This is an important message here. If you don’t have love in your life, it doesn’t matter
what you have, wealth, health, anything; if there is no love, then
you won’t have enough of anything in your life. Everyone feels love,
even a person filled with hatred at some point feels love toward
something in life. The best feeling in the world is love and there are so
many ways to think about it; through music, poetry, nature, meditation and
many other ways. Love is in all of us, and sometimes we need to open up and pass it
around. Sometimes we don’t know how to pass it around and need to be awakened.
Sometimes all it takes is a story, or a special happening, but it is a wonderful feeling to
give love and receive love; whether through people, animals, nature, it really doesn’t
matter.

I have a short story here…

My husband has a friend he found after 25 years of looking for her. At first when he
contacted her, she seemed fine, but then she began talking about her life. She had some
marital problems, health issues, and had become an alcoholic. My heart opened up to her
immediately even though she was my husband’s “ex girlfriend,” and my love took over,
embracing her and getting her to the point of putting herself in de-tox which is the first
step to changing her life around. I told her I am there for her for whatever she needs
when she gets out, whether she needs help with her husband and children…anything. At
first, jealousy was my guide and love took over in the end, showing me light and comfort
helping out a friend. I hope to have many years of friendship with her starting now. An
open heart helped me through this transition and Love found the way. It doesn’t take a
rocket scientist to know that “Love conquers all,” and “All we need is Love.” Love
embraced me and showed me the way!
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Aligning with the Infinite

by Mark David Gerson

In recent months, my inbox has been flooded with messages about this portal or
that, this eclipse or that, this major shift-point or that. In the past, I would have carefully
read through all the articles so as to understand the meaning of these events. I even would
have written a few of those articles myself.
In the past, I also would have searched out names and explanations for the
specifics of my experiences.
Today, though, it's barely possible to keep up with all the energetic shifts
barreling through my life and the life of the planet. Today, I recognize that adding names
and explanations does little for me other than offering my mind some degree of assurance
that I'm not going insane.
Today, I see that all I can do is surrender fully to all my inexplicable symptoms
and yo-yo emotions, to all the sudden collapses and revolutionary beginnings within and
around me, to all the unravelings, reformings and contradictions that eddy through my
day.
Today I see all that's going on for what it is — a radical rewiring,
rebuilding and rebooting of every aspect of what it means to be human.
Today I see that that my only call is to be in the moment with all
that is occurring and to give up any need to figure out, understand or
explain. Today I do my best to be in the wonder of all I'm seeing and experiencing and to
recognize the higher good in it all.
During a recent radio interview, I was asked, "Where are we going with all that's
going on?"
My reply was that all attempts to figure out where we're going pull us from the
present moment, the place in which all spiritual traditions would have us anchor
ourselves. How can I be here, in this moment, when I'm trying to predict what all this
means or where it will take me in the next?
I also pointed out that where we're going lies so far beyond our experience (and
thus our imagination) that it's impossible for most human minds, as currently formatted,
to grasp or predict.
Even the most intuitive and talented of channels is housed in a human body with
all its filters and limitations. Even the most insightful of visionaries must run his or her
visions through a brain that, evolving and expanding though it is, is neither evolved nor
expanded enough to process the fullness of this journey or the infinite nature of our
destination.
Don't get me wrong. The quest for meaning is as old as humanity. It has brought
us amazing inventions, incredible art and wondrous science. And it will continue to do
so.
But there's a difference between a spirit-based experience of connecting with the
numinous and a mind-centered experience of connecting the dots.
The former aligns us with the infinite, which is our true nature. The latter often
circumscribes us.
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I always wondered as a child how scientists could claim that no other planet could
support life. Didn't they get, I asked, that life "as we know it" is only one possibility in an
infinite matrix of potential?
That's the difference between connecting the dots and aligning with the divine.
That's the difference between living from our mind and living from our heart. That's the
difference between forcing the infinite-that-we-are into a straitjacket and freeing that
same infinite nature to soar unfettered through the limitlessness of our potential as
expressed in each moment.
That's why I choose, to the best of my still-limited human ability, to surrender to
each of those moments in the absolute knowingness that I'm always protected, safe and
loved and in the absolute and humbling certainty that I'm not yet capable of grasping the
full scope of my life and the life of the planet.
That's why — again, to the best of my human ability — I've let go most
explanations in favor of an unconditional surrender to the highest good in all experience.
That nascent attitude of surrender received a life-threatening jolt a few months ago when
my car was broken into.
My first, very human reaction was anger, blame, loss and feelings of betrayal. Yet
as I allowed myself to move through my emotions, as I struggled against my natural
tendency to "try to figure it out," my next step bubbled up effortlessly into consciousness.
Even if I couldn't "read" all the reasons or make all the logical connections, I knew my 30
months of full-time travel had ended and that a new phase of my life had begun.
Although it's still evolving, this new phase is bringing me gifts my conscious
mind could neither have imagined nor asked for. They are gifts of a heart opened more
fully to the experiences of the moment and to a knowingness that, while I welcome
explanation and validation, I no longer need them.

(c) 2007 Mark David Gerson

Mark David Gerson is a spiritual mentor and coach living in New Mexico. An inspirational writer who is
read in more than 20 countries, he is also author of The MoonQuest: A True Fantasy and The Voice of the
Muse: Answering the Call to Write. For more information: http://markdavidgerson.com of
http://myspace.com/mdg888.

Seek First the Kingdom of God

by Todd Schaefer

What is our Divinity?

One of the intriguing misconceptions

about our divinity is that it is often pedestal concept reserved for en-
perceived as "something that we earn." lightened beings and ancient masters.
Being a divine human, however, is not a We are not separate from them, except in
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our thinking. What makes us enlightened
is remembering to choose our divinity,
just as the masters chose it for them-
selves.
We cannot escape our divinity because it
is who we are. Divinity is what we are
made up of. It is what resides beneath
the many layers of what we have learned
to be. When we remove these layers, we
allow divinity to shine from within us.
The inhibitor to our divinity shining
through us is our mind.
Our minds are helpful companions when
they are in alignment with our divinity.
Sometimes, we allow our minds to rule
us and smother the divine in us. The part
of our mind that we often allow to rule
us could be called the ego-mind. The
ego-mind is our default consciousness
for our survival. This part of us is
valuable for addressing potentially
harmful "fight or flight" situations, but it
is not ideal for thriving in our
consciousness growth. While the ego-
mind is designed for survival and safety,
it unfortunately only reinforces itself. In
other words, the ego-mind does not
encourage consciousness expansion
because we usually only experience the
ego-mind within a state of ultimate
contraction for the purpose of safety.
When utilized as a mode of being
beyond our immediate survival, the ego-
mind can suffocate our sacred presence
and unknowingly rob us of our trust in
our divine nature.
Thankfully, our mind has a built-in
relationship with our body and spirit (or
divinity) that constantly promotes and
restores full and natural alignment in our
beings. The body believes what the mind
tells it (whether it is true or false). And
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the mind can be cooperative with our
divinity - the truest truth.
The greatest gift our divinity provides us
is the real truth about who we are when
we subordinate our minds and commit to
divinity with full decision. When we try
on different truths through our divinity,
we develop a sense of knowing what is
most real and truthful for us. This is
more real than if we had made a mental
assessment or an evaluation with our
mind. With our divinity, we are allowing
ourselves to feel truth. Through
integrating our divinity, and learning
how to quiet our minds, we learn to
listen within. We learn how to provide
peace to ourselves. We learn that we can
access our truth within ourselves, rather
than seek out an external pacifier. We
discover what is rooted in our ego-mind,
and what is rooted in our spirit, or
divinity.
Divinity means returning to our hearts
and our core essence. In order to grow
spiritually, we don't focus on reaching
outward; we focus on returning inward,
into the now. This is the place of
creation, abundance, healing, peace, and
more. Any effort to "be" in any other
moment than now is a function of the
mind, and temporarily sacrifices our
joyful presence.
Many of us would give anything to be
able to experience more joy. We want to
experience that sense of wonder and awe
as we did when we were children.
Children are fully present in the now.
This way of being is pure and sacred. A
child knows only this natural approach
to life, and must either be taught or
choose differently to change that
approach. When we return to our true
nature of divinity, an entire new world
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begins to illuminate. Our sense of
feeling begins to increase again and we
return to our joy. Our sense of aliveness
and passion re-emerge.
Apart from the ego-mind, we have our
normal operating, conscious aware mind.
When our minds aren't in fight or flight
mode, they do a good job of helping us
live our daily lives. Our minds facilitate
our growth and follow our directions.
Our minds enable our "doing" which
promotes our way of "being." Our minds
are the vehicles through which our
divine nature is expressed. However, our
minds are not the destination of our
growth.
Sometimes we wonder concerning
matters of spirituality when we cannot
derive a sense of truth regarding our
divinity within our minds. Divinity deals
with truth, but facts appeal to our minds
more than truth. When we look to fulfill
our spiritual needs, we encounter
frustration when our mind does not give
us the answers that it wants. So we then
make our mental assessment of what
spiritualism means to us based on what
our minds are willing or are not willing
to accept and believe. Facts don't set us
free. The truth does.
We use our brilliant minds involuntarily
and as second nature, in most cases. It
rarely occurs to us to "be" or operate in
any other way, unless we first filter
things through our processing and
evaluating system called the mind. It
rarely occurs to us that there is another
part of who we are, and yet we
occasionally struggle to mentally look
for these spiritual answers on Sunday
mornings at church. We hope that our
minds can grasp and understand where
we look for answers and experience
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some relief. In reality, we are evolving
our minds. But we tend to want to "go
through" the mind before we allow
ourselves to experience our divinity. Our
minds are the turnpike through which we
evaluate what we will allow inside our
being and what we will allow to come
out from us. Needless to say, our minds
alone are not designed to take us home
to the "promised land." Our minds do
not substitute for our divinity. Our minds
supplement our divinity.
Through our divinity, we discover new
meaning and new awareness about our
lives. We see ourselves from an entirely
different and fresh perspective. The
clarity that we have gained by allowing
our divine nature to surface has afforded
us the opportunity to see a clearer,
expanded version of who we really are.
And our mind is happy for us as well!
Our mind is happy to release the burden
of being overworked. Our mind begins
to see that there is a being that stands
silently with it, usually either watching
or participating with the mind. With this
awareness, we begin to look in the
mirror and we see someone who is
peaceful and courageous, living in trust
beyond the mind. We develop a new
definition of who we are, and we arrive
within ourselves again. We have a
clearer picture of what we are, and how
much self-love we have. By looking
beyond the mind, we have found the real
us - the Divine Human.
Divinity is our sovereign nature.
Divinity is built into each of us, yet we
are still learning to use it. There is a
finite list of applications and capacities
for our overworked minds. But our
divine nature is limitless. As we
surrender our mind's control to our
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divinity, we begin to experience ourselves. We learn how we operate in

everything in life with more richness and
vitality. “Quality of life” takes on a
whole new meaning.
We seek first the kingdom of God within
mind, body and spirit. We realign
ourselves with the Divine. Beneath all of
those layers of who we thought we were
resides pure love at our core, waiting for
us. Divinity is who we are.

Copyright © 2006 Todd M. Schaefer / Soul Solutions Group

Got Ego?
by Marty

Why yes, you do. We all have ego. Every human existence comes with a pound of
love and an ounce of ego. Unfortunately, as time goes on during this life existence, the
weight on the scale changes with ego growing its measurement and love shrinking. How
does this come about? Why would we ever want to shrink the sugar and grow the salt? I
believe it is not a desire but a twist of time that places ego in the lead.
Wow, what does that mean? The self ego is running a race against time while self
spirit has no clock telling it time is ticking. The ego understands the
unfair balance of this existence so it quickly begins to build by
interjecting itself into thoughts of “must have more” because soon
time will be over. It moves in on our spirit replacing all thoughts
with its own mortal end. We then begin the race to get more for
ourselves under the premise of “whatever it takes”.
How do you win the race? How do you pull the ego over?
The first step is being aware. Being aware of your ego allows you to pay attention to
when its voice decides to step in; when your thoughts are no longer yours but ego’s.
These moments are so often there are days when you drown in the awareness and are
overcome by the fumes of desire. It is in these days, these seconds, when this awareness
will allow you to change your thoughts bringing you back to your self spirit.
The second step is meditation. Meditation silences the ego allowing your inner
thoughts to replace the negative. It is the opportunity your spirit needs to bring you back
to your inner energy. This self energy is your spirit easing your mind from the ego’s run
and embracing you once again by soothing your thoughts.
The third is love. Love embraces both ego and spirit bringing a harmony to this
human existence. It is the essence of this universe and it is the light connecting all of us
as we walk this earth. Love heals all and forgets none.
I bring these words to you from personal experience as I have walked the ego mile,
awakened my awareness, brought connection through meditation and given my love to all
sentient beings. In this personal journey, I hope to show others that this life existence is
about spiritual growth not ego dominance. Being aware means being of love.

Namaste
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The Acceptance of Acceptance

Today, we are experiencing the “New Energies.” We have journeyed through this
Quantum Leap or Shift together and are on the verge of a great awakening for humanity.
We are emerging from darkness; we are awakening from slumber. But, this awakening
has not always been easy and many of us have struggled with pain and discomfort time
and time again until we wonder, “What are these energies? If they are enlightenment and
greater Peace, Love, and Joy, why do I hurt? What do I fear? Why can’t I grasp them?”
These energies are the Acceptance of Acceptance.
This seems redundant. Acceptance is simply that – acceptance. What is there to
not accept about acceptance? So, we grapple with doubt and confusion and the pain of it
all over and over again, all the while wondering why we can’t experience the new
energies – energies that aren’t new at all. They’re as old as the cosmos itself.
Acceptance is its own energy, distinct from the
energy of human love or anger or happiness or any other human
emotion that one experiences. To accept something, one
must embrace it wholly, entirely, completely, and without
reservation or it isn’t acceptance at all. It’s an “all or nothing”
deal.
We’ve all experienced acceptance before. We’ve all
had that flash of pure understanding and allowance
for the expression of another individual or circumstance.
We’ve come to fully embrace it even if for only a moment,
and in that moment, we’ve opened the door to Divine
Love and have let the energies of it flow. But, how many of us have paused in the middle
of that flow of energy and said, “Wait a minute! I have my rights to protect, my honor to
defend, my point to make.” Then, just as quickly and thoroughly, that energy of
acceptance has seemed to disappear. It really hasn’t gone anywhere; you’ve merely
stepped out of its flow. You didn’t sustain the acceptance of acceptance.
Acceptance is an energy in which there is no doubt, confusion, justification,
validation, compromise, value judgment, or limitation of any kind. It doesn’t require
understanding it or pondering what’s right about it or getting it to “fit” in any manner into
the pigeonholes of identification of our lives in any way. Acceptance is entire, whole,
and complete or not at all. So, the instant you step into the energies of doubt or defense
or non-acceptance of any kind, you step out of the flow of the energies of acceptance.
That’s when you react to perceptions of limitation. That’s when you experience
pain. That’s when you experience any number of negative human emotions. But,
always, regardless of what you experience, you have desire – desire to once again
experience the core energy of Divine Love which powers the energy of Acceptance. So
you waffle back and forth between, or in and out of pain/peace, anger/joy, doubt/surety,
confusion/clarity, loss/gain, disorientation/centeredness. You struggle with grasping
something that is well within your reach – that you once held, and then let go.
You grapple with the voice of ego that says, “How can I prove to someone else
how ‘right’ the feeling of acceptance is when all that can be seen is injustice? How can I
explain to someone else how I feel when I can’t define it myself? How can I allow this
situation to continue when I know it’s wrong? Why does this feeling of acceptance feel
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so secure when I have nothing solid to stand on? How can I covey how “right”
acceptance is in this world of ‘zero tolerance’?” All that ego understands of acceptance
is that it’s a form of surrender or giving up or fear of conflict. It is ego that wants to
change things based on what it perceives as true or right or just. It is ego that wants to
“fix” things when, in the spiritual realm, nothing “wrong” exists. It is ego that labels,
defines, and judges.
You step in and out of the energies of acceptance and expend tremendous
amounts of energy trying to grasp and hold that which cannot be held, defined or limited
in any way and you wonder why the energies of acceptance are so tough to experience.
Acceptance isn’t tough at all. It’s one of the easiest and most gentle and comfortable
ways of being. It is our natural way of Being. The difficulty lies in the release of ego
and all its false gifts and false promises and false perceptions.
In today’s energies you are experiencing Acceptance. It is a flow of energy – not
a stream unto itself, but more like a current of water through an ocean of other energies –
warm, gently flowing, without “true” direction or purpose but meaningful nonetheless.
You may be stepping in and out of this current and when you do, you can experience
pain, confusion, doubt, a tendency to argue, disrupted sleep patterns, an indefinable sense
of “dis”ease or discomfort. Take heart. You are learning to let go. You are learning to
surrender.
This surrender is not rolling over and playing dead as in, “Surrender, Dorothy”
(Wizard of Oz). Think of it as letting go as you’d redeem a ticket for admission to a
show or a seat on an airline. Think of it as redeeming a coupon for a discount or to claim
a prize. So, in simple terms, you can think of surrender as redemption…and the Grace of
God is merciful.

And So It Is.

Ronnie, as the Voice of Dahaema

10/20/2007

Facing Challenges In The New Energies

by Ronnie

I have a dear friend who is going through some troubling, "dark"

times of his own and over the past five months, through the course of his
search for enlightenment we've shared many enlightening conversations. He
says I have helped him. Yet, it wasn't because I was making a difference
that urged me to continue to help guide and enlighten him. It was (and still
is) my greatest honor to serve. For me, there is no greater pleasure than to be of service to
someone, for in the giving, I receive. In the receiving, I give. This is the flow of Divine
Love and for those of you who have experienced it, you know there is nothing else in
heaven and on earth like it. The joy is limitless. It can be addictive.
In the "old energies," I felt his pain, his darkness, his troubles and I was driven to
offer whatever help and guidance I was able. Yet, in his pain and darkness, he withdrew
ever deeper into whatever energies he was struggling with. At first, this withdrawal
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frustrated me immensely. It confused me. In addition to feeling his pain, I felt the pain of
not being able to shed more light into his state of Being-ness. Our conversations grew
more sporadic. The time between them grew greater. The content of the conversations
grew less and less fulfilling. I struggled ever harder to maintain that which I knew was
beneficial but, the more I struggled, the more I began to realize that, for as beneficial as it
might be, it was something he didn't want at the time.
So, I forced myself to withdraw and in that withdrawal, experienced even more
pain. These were the old energies and at length, after incredible inner turmoil, I came to
recognize the futility of them and then, bit by bit, began to experience acceptance of
them.
An odd thing happened in the energy of acceptance. The pain began to fade.
Confusion turned to clarity, doubt turned to self-acceptance and self Love which,
ironically, encouraged an even greater flow of Love for my friend. As hard as I tried, I
could not understand what was going on and I bounced back and forth between trying
even harder to connect with my friend, and pulling away, knowing that if I tried to
connect, I'd feel the emptiness of futility, but that if I tried to pull away, I'd feel the pain
of separation.
In the old energies, I forced myself to not answer my phone, fearing/hoping that it
would be my friend calling. I forced myself to not call him, fearing/hoping the futility
and the re-connection. I recognized this as game-playing; trying to screw with his head
and my heart in an attempt to manipulate, control, or trick my senses (and his) into
accepting and doing what I thought I wanted – acceptance of me and my help for his self
growth.
Do you see a theme here yet? The theme is one of this vs. that, giving vs.
receiving, pain vs. pleasure, distance vs. closeness. This is a theme of duality and duality
occurs whenever you view life (whether spiritual or physical) from a standpoint of
separation.

Enter the New Energies.

If you have not yet done so, I strongly urge you to listen to Todd's channel "New
Energy - Quantum Leap." Or you can read it in this newsletter (see below). His channel
explains in part what these new energies are and how to deal with them and what to look
for. In Dahæma’s article, "The Acceptance of Acceptance," she speaks in more detail
about one of the points that Todd covers in his channel: there is no struggle in the New
Energies. There is no struggle because there is no duality.
There is no greater a pain than losing someone you love, whether a child, a parent,
a sibling, or a spouse. In your grief, you feel the horror and agony of that
separation. One of the things that makes it so difficult to bear is your love for
the one who transitioned. At length, through your grief, you come to both
understand and experience that you love them and that they still love you.
So, you carry your own love for them and their love for you in your heart -
maybe for years, for decades. Then, one day, you step into the New Energies and you
come to experience that there is no difference between their love for you and your love
for them. It is the same love. It isn’t that one exists because the other one does; it’s that
the flow of love is a single, unified flow and there is nothing impeding it. It is that love
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which is the absolute, inseparable bond of the two of you and, at this point, you carry a
"piece of them" with you for all time.
With the acceptance of the New Energies, there is no pain of separation because
you at last understand and experience the absolute unity. This is the bond between all of
us. There is no separation. I carry the love of, and for many, many people with me
constantly. I also feel my guides with me at all times. The Love of and for others
continually grows for it is my mission in this lifetime to connect with all of humanity.
With the acceptance of the New Energies, there is no concept of who's right or
who's wrong. There is only acceptance of what IS. With the acceptance of the New
Energies, there is no fear because there isn't anything wrong. When there's no fear, there
is a natural greater self-assurance and trust. With that self-assurance and trust, there is
clarity of vision and understanding. You could say that the essence of the New Energies
is total acceptance - the acceptance of acceptance.
So now, getting back to my friend, I have come to see that while I deeply, dearly
love him, I cannot save him. Although I love him, I cannot protect him. Even by loving
him, I cannot heal him or make him see the light or feel better about his darkness. With
the acceptance of the New Energies there is only acceptance of what IS. So, I no longer
feel driven to call him. I'm no longer tailoring my lifestyle to fit his schedule of calling
me. I have recently turned off the ringer of my phone so that if anyone calls, they're
directed to my voice mail which I check when I feel like checking. It is such a relief!
Furthermore, I don't have to justify or validate my actions. They are neither wrong nor
right. They just ARE.
In the New Energies, it is easy for me to detach. It's that "Compassionate
Detachment" that Todd talks about. While still experiencing the leftovers of the old
energy, I felt I needed to justify or excuse my actions or blame my friend for forcing to
do what I had to do. In the New Energies, there's no need for validation of any kind. In
fact, the instant you try to validate, understand, justify, blame, excuse, or resist in any
way, you step out of that flow of pure acceptance - the flow of the New Energies.
This may all sound wonderful but you might still ask, "How do you do it? How
do you get to that point of acceptance, especially when you're caught up in fear (fearing
your boss or authority figures, your spouse or parent, or the possible outcome of any
perceived situation)? How do you accept the actions of someone when you're positive
they're mocking you or taking advantage of you? How do you accept the disappointment
or frustrations when something doesn't work out?”
The only way I know at this time how to do that is through forgiveness.
Forgiveness is NOT excusing or justifying or trying to forget that something happened.
Forgiveness is not a psychological ticket you hold over someone's head with the
implication that you can redeem it on demand. Forgiveness is not turning a blind eye to
what happened or trying to forget it. Forgiveness is very simply feeling with love what
you once felt with pain. Somewhere, in my process of grief, I had to forgive my husband
for dying. Then, in the process of healing, I had to forgive myself for holding any blame
for the need to forgive. I've often had to forgive someone for trying to push my buttons
and then forgive myself for not only allowing the button to be pushed, but for having the
button in the first place.
So, I forgive my friend and myself for his struggles and mine. I forgive myself for
the attachment and then the confusion over the ensuing detachment. I forgive myself for
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my choices. Will I ever reconnect with my friend? Maybe. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe in
a few years. Maybe never. I do know that the instant I start to worry or wonder about it,
I'm stepping out of the flow of acceptance and of the New Energies. The instant I start to
wonder if I'm doing the "right" thing, I step out of the New Energies. The instant I feel
any doubt or lack of trust, it's because I'm seeing things from a standpoint of duality – a
duality that doesn't exist in the New Energies.

Talking as a Breakthrough – Speaking Your Truth

by Todd Schaefer

When we get stuck in the mind, a good reminder is to express ourselves. Talk to
yourself out loud, being as honest as you can about the feelings as well as the experiences
you've had lately. Within ten minutes or so, your energy can fully shift back into your
own power.
You can completely annihilate your emotions of negativity that set in through the
practice of verbal expression. Realize that hearing your own voice can only
mean salvation. Thinking and the ego mind run thousands of times faster
than your mouth. It's a scientific fact. Talking not only forces us to slow
down the mind, but also it focuses our energies. We channel our energy in the
the now moment through our speech, and thus impede our over-thinking mind to attempt
to draw our focus away from this moment. We are not as likely to speak untruths as we
are to think them.
Simply speak and your energy can shift immediately, with your third eye perhaps
bursting open. You may feel awesome and empowered that you had done it yourself so
simply. When you hear your own voice, further insight is more easily accessible than
through thought. You are calling your own energy back to yourself, and when you want
it, it can happen instantly. It doesn't have to take any other type of process. You can
simply do it by being honest about how you feel, saying a few things out loud that you
are working on right now, and simply spending some time building rapport with what is
going on with you. This kind of creation might sound like simple self talk, but it is a
means of salvation. Your life as you know it in this moment can be the perfect antidote
and freedom that you can't achieve through the mind, where the ego sits and waits to
attack you, unbeknownst to you.
You see, in the mind, ego confuses us. But when we speak with honesty, even in
feeling darkness, "I" speak. Our spirit speaks. This impedes ego's involvement, and thus,
a miracle happens. Freedom. And ego loses the battle. Simple, isn't it? No major
process, just a few short honest moments of recognition, instantly obliterating the
darkness and returning us to our power. You also get to listen to spirit speak through you
which can help. We're a lot less likely to speak irrationally than we are to think
irrationally, because ego doesn't want us to become too aware of what we are doing. It
wishes to invade our thoughts softly - but not too much - or it might awaken our power.
You can simply awaken your power with a simple choice and affirmative creation –
speaking your truth.
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"Welcome to the New Energy" - Quantum Leap Channel

By: Todd Schaefer

This channel was given live on September 18th, 2007 in Millstadt, Illinois and has been transcribed. The
audio recording from this live channeling is available for listening online here:
http://soulsolutionshealing.com/channeling/audiochannels.html

Greetings, Dear Angels. We welcome you on this lovely

day. It is a day of celebration today, and much debate has gone on
about which one of us would allow to be come through today. And
it has been decided that it would be I, Electra. You may hold your
applause for later. [audience laughter]. Indeed, today is a day of
celebration; congratulations. You may hold your own applause for
later [audience chuckles] or you may celebrate now.
Indeed, the shift did take place last night, September 18th –
th th
17 - 18 , two a.m. there about and the shift continues. And there are many shifts to
come afterwards…hmm. There is new energy now in the air, in the places you go to, in
the ones who are coming in to the earth at this time and there is also new energy in you.
It is…part of the product of what you had come in to do at this time. Many of you have
brought yourselves into this place and had taken on the responsibility to bring about this
change beginning from decades past, and more of you within the last ten years, and more
within the last four. Many changes. Many reasons to begin celebrating as you feel the
change permeate throughout your beings now and as time continues.
And so we now speak of the new energy. What is the Quantum Shift? Many will
require this explanation as we continue onward for many ears do not know these words.
The Shift is what is new; what is not planned; what is a product of your creation and there
is no template at this time. There is no…procedure. There is no protocol. There is
simply the raw form of the new energy potentials which you have brought in to being.
And so, these potentials are here now. You can feel them in the air. You can
breathe them in. You can reach out in your imaginations. Some of you can even taste
them. They are energies that are…ready for your disposal; ready to be used by you and
are many characteristics as you begin learning about what these new energies are – what
they will come to mean in your life.
There is no struggle, first and foremost. There will be no struggle in those who
choose to embody the new energy – those who are outfitted for it now and those who
begin using it as their new template for being-ness. It will be easier for those to walk in
to this change now that you have done your work; those of you we speak specifically to –
the Dear Angels who have brought forth the changes within themselves who have been
willing to go through the discomforts and the profound physical changes, and the mental,
emotional change as well. The many times that the most centered of you have felt
yourselves to be quite crazy, and that is not a…un-normal thing to experience.
And so, what can you expect with the changes? What can you come to know?
You will see the lack of the duality – the integrated energies within. Your energy is not
predictable as the old energies once were. But, it is much more responsive to your touch.
You begin working and playing with these energies and they begin responding to you.
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You are already seeing within a day’s time how the energy has changed your experience.
Perhaps you are going through a shift already at this moment; and these are mostly
experienced as “quickening” processes in which you take on rapid, last moment changes
as you integrate, for since the change has arrived, the last minute changes are much easier
to complete. The new energy is available. It is no longer needing to be established, but it
is needing to be worked with. It is asking to be worked with. It is a loving and playful
energy. It does not have the negative aspects of the old energy. Once, you might have
reached out looking for what it is you would have wanted to create, and then perhaps you
would respond with a fear or an energy feeling in return and then you would begin
working with that.
The new energy is quite different for it is not quantifiable or easily identifiable,
but it is in you and it is around you. You begin asking your questions and receiving your
answers in your feelings. You begin to notice the subtleties and the changes. What are
the changes you feel within? You can feel now as you think to yourself – as you feel,
that there are changes that have been occurring. You do not feel the discomforts you had
felt in weeks prior to now. There is a different feeling in your body. There [are] different
responses to food and atmosphere. You can even take this in as you breathe. You can
take in the experience of a potential with the in-breath and with the thought…Let us take
a deep breath now.
Yes, the energies of the completion year are well on their way and you have also
established a certain determining level of completion within you for you are not needing
to operate on the two programs any more, but you have the opportunity to move to the
one – and that is the non-dualistic nature of the new energy. You see, until this time, you
have been bringing about the change – the potentials for the change of a permanent new
addition – new creation. And now, that has been established. You no longer will be
needing to push. The change in you is quite different now. Those of you who have
elected to establish the change within you will move on fairly quickly. Some of you were
outfitted for the times that you are experiencing now. Some of you it will come quite
natural to. We speak mostly of the younger ones who will be coming into their own –
any, for that matter, born after this day will also have the new energy attribute in them.
And so, those of you who had elected to stay during the time of the last ten years
– the last five years, there have been many transitions. Many of the dear ones who have
decided to go to do other types of work, some have decided to come back through as a
new being, and others who have decided to initiate the change in the physical. And so,
those of you who know who you are who have encountered some of the most challenging
transitions over the last several years of time; that is in the past now. Now there will be
change that is most conducive for how you have established yourselves within. The
“you” you had once known you to be – and we all know you have questioned where that
person is; “Where am I?” you ask. “Where was I?” – begins to arrive back into your
moment, back into you. And this is natural. You feel a natural coming back to yourself.
Since the shift has been established, many of you…will find it easy to bring
yourself back into this moment, feeling a certain comfort in your own skin once again.
Yes, there will be secondary and minor changes to continue. But, from here on out, in
the next two years and more time you will see that there will be many acclimations to
working with to where you are now. Yesterday, and any time before is a different story.
You have a new set of tools available to you and many of you listening have already
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begun working with them. The attribute – the potentials of the new energy are right here
in this room with you now. They have a life force of their own. They have a…quantum
attribute to them – many, in fact, that are waiting to be utilized by you. It is an energy of
raw form and you will begin working with it – adapting to it, learning how it works. This
is what you are doing now. The new energy will also unlock potentials in other beings.
Many of you have kept track of the…qualitative aspects of measuring energy – how you
feel, what it is that is energetic in nature, how you measure, and you use your methods to
measure it and – yes, there is in increase in that measurement. You will see that that
increase in measurement will have a catalystic effect on others, especially those who are
already reaching. It will be much easier for them to arrive at the quickening also. It takes
a small amount of energy, or light to establish a change for all. And those who had made
the choice to move forward with the change, perhaps experience the effects and the
challenges of doing so, yet knowing what the change was for.
And so, many of you begin to relax…hmm…Many of you, listening here in this
room and here, wherever you are listening begin to relax. It is quite easy to relax when
you want to, isn’t it? There are no other energies knocking at your door, begging for
attention, because you are not needing to address them at this point. You have a different
way available to you now. And the Dear Ones who are just beginning with these steps
have that new way available to them now as well. It will be easier for them to make the
change.
Many of you think that these changes are psychological in nature. To a small
degree, it is. But, there will be breakthroughs in psychotherapy due to the shift. There
will be more modalities. There will be easier ways to work with people without having
to go through the old modalities – the old systems of energy. You will find yourselves,
as healers, working with the systems of energy in Dear Angels around you, whether it be
each other who you know already, or those who are just walking in to the spiritual path,
as it were, of ascension. And they will be coming, looking for this release, following this
light that you have lit – that you have created; and part of them has created this light as
well. Perhaps, they had not participated consciously, but they have also traveled with
you and it would be wise to treat them the same way for they will be waking up just as
you have woken up and they will find it easier to know the light. They will find it easier
to recognize light and they will have an easier time waking up as well.
The awakening process draws them to you and the Dear Ones who have initiated
the change begin experiencing…many more attributes of enhanced clarity, for the new
light that has been blessed into the earth – into the creation realms benefits all. And it is
those, who have embodied the change at the challenging moments before the leap,
making the leap possible, will find themselves walking downstream instead of upstream.
There will be changes in the body. We spoke already of the water consumption
and how you can use the attributes of water as you continue to outfit yourself to it, asking
for its blessing – how you wish to be blessed by it, and then drinking it when you would
like that blessing, This is part of what our friends have called “standard technology” and
the restoration of the body’s systems. You will find new modalities working largely with
water, and the body which is already outfitted from the shift will begin responding to the
water – will begin responding to the light in it. And so, look for these changes and we
encourage you to begin working with these changes. At the very least, drink lots and lots
of water…hmm…It will only do you well.
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On the same token, seeing as there is no duality, there is no “other hand,” on the
same hand, you will find the new energy coming into the moment, rapidly. Your
turnaround time will be much less in your manifestations, but you will be checking into
your alignments to see and know the truth of your alignment. Asking for it and
recognizing that it is given will be one thing to know. Another thing to know would be to
expect it with surrender, and we imply here that the mind will be once again getting used
to the change – getting used to what is new.
Many practices in business begin changing as well. The value system becomes
predominant. The integrity, the consciousness, becomes valued and sought after in the
world you work in. Those of you who wondered where the payoff is in spiritual
growth…well, you’ve already done the work, and the world is now preparing itself for
you, readying itself to receive you. Many moments ago you would have had a thought
and you would have aligned with the thought and you would have waited for the thought
to come back to you, perhaps over a significant period of time. In the new – in the new
energy, the thought can come, the request can be made and it can show up instantly;
instantly as a realization, a revelation, a recognition, inspiration, creativity, any form. In
fact, you may get all at once, and this would cause you to sort through them, perhaps
write them down. When it rains, it pours. Ask and it will be given times a hundred. You
may make an intention or ask a question and find the answer in the next moment when
you go outside to take out the trash; when someone walks up to you, offering you that
which you have asked for. And so, many new things on the rise.
We also speak of…consciousness. Consciousness in the body. Consciousness in
the being, in the mind, expanding; consciousness not being an energy but a part of…a
segue into your creativity; partly the veil, if you will. The veil will continue to be as thin
as ever, perhaps nonexistent…hmm…You will be transcending many of the limitations
you had learned even in the last five years, spiritually speaking. Many of the Dear Ones
choosing to expand in any direction, in the physical realm – physical world, and even
more specifically, the spiritual aspects of expansion, will have an easier time. You will
see a fluid-ness, an adaptability to go to and from that which you wanted to do, where
you wanted to go, how you wanted to be. You will be training yourself to work with that
which is brand new.
You have created a new clay which you add water to and you form on your own.
And it will take time to form the clay, but as you continue to work with it you will also
create the procedure for how you wish to work with it. You see, as we’ve said before, the
old, you would send out and then receive as a part of a two-part process. In the new part,
you will create as you go. You see, you still believe at this moment that you must ask
and then receive, and you know that it is given, and you know that you must wait for it to
show up. But, now, you get to decide how you will create. You get to take the raw form
and decide, “Will it come in, in this moment, through your thoughts, through your voice,
through your friends? Will it come in through another?” And there will be a grace
period for learning, for the mind will resist at times, not knowing the predictability that it
would like to know. And that is the trade-off. You get something new and better but not
predictable or quantifiable.
We wish many blessings of luck to the new energy accountants and others who
might be trying to keep track of these energies. They will have one heck of a time.
There will be many who will write about it and try to identify…and that is good. It is all
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for the helpfulness of creativity. We encourage you to do the same; to bring as much of it
in as you wish to; to simply ask and allow it to be received in any way it can come to you.
It will be unexpected. It will not be known every time. You’d be surprised to know how
conditioned you are to receiving miracles…hmm…you would not think that a miracle
would be predictable, predicting what would happen spiritually or in the body. And a
miracle is not predictable. To ask for a miracle is to simply receive that it IS. The prayer
is the asking and your reception of it is what the miracle is. The miracle is your ability to
receive. So you might say that every new energy creation would be a miracle by your
own standards, for it will be transcending all that you had known. And this will be a lot
of fun for those of you who have been growing quite tiresome of what has been occurring
up until the Quantum Leap.
We also would like to speak of the gatherings. There will be more and more as
we have said for several years now through this Dear Channeler. The growing of group
participation, the desire for unity among individuals wishing to blend with their brothers
and sisters – and that they will do. You will find more groups coming together. Perhaps
the Dear Ones in this very room tonight remember of the speaking of the gatherings we
had suggested about. And many others you will see as you continue. Many other
blessings and group gatherings will be forming as beacons of light for those to attract to,
those to come to heal. Some of you will be doing this under spirituality. Some of you
will be doing this under your work atmosphere. Some of you will be doing this with
those that you teach – those that learn.
You will see changes in the corporate world as we have spoken; changes in the
ways that businesses are constructed as time goes; changes in…how unions come
together…hmm…whether that be through partnership in business, through relationship in
love, and most definitely in families. Families are such a precious and wonderful thing.
You get a group of people together who all learn from each other; sometimes they’re
close, sometimes not, and spiritually speaking, sometimes they completely do not know
one another and have a very challenging time recognizing them. We won’t mention any
names…hmm…This is an urge – to recognize…o.k.
And so, these dynamics begin to change as well. And you see a blossoming,
perhaps – a change, a way through (not that you have to reach anyone), but new
opportunities, new ideas, new things to do. Traditions…perhaps you will trade a few of
those in for ones that make sense for who you are now. Who are you now? You are here
– all of you [are] here now and your presence – your conscious presence will continue to
be more and more important as you walk. You bring about your spirituality as you move
about your day. You make your intentions for the day, and these are most powerful. And
you ask yourself to be with you – the you that our friends have spoken of, the you within.
You bring you with you; not merely a body with a mind that is elsewhere, but you bring
your full presence and attention to each moment with you, and this will be assisting you
most…beneficially in your creations from here on out. You’ll find a new sense of
confidence and self-esteem developing within, perhaps instantly for those of you who are
feeling it. And these will be the yearnings and the seeds of the purpose you ask for so
often. The love within that wants to be expressed is there now asking for expression.
Follow the joy. There has never been such good advice; to follow the joy. You
have an abundance of thoughts. You can ask for the inspiration and it will arrive to you
and the direction will be made, sometimes rather quickly. And this is what you want.
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But, beware the mind. It will take some time to get used to the change and you are most
adept at recognizing the mind’s interference or the ego and the resistance and the feelings
that you do not wish to feel. You will have gained a level of skill with these feelings of
resistance knowing that they simply are not needed and you stop creating at that moment
of recognition for you know that you wish to remain conscious of your creation. And so
you do.
You bring your Love with you and it will be easy to reach the Love within. It will
be easier to reach the Love within others. Your meditations will take on a bit different
form as you go out exploring, perhaps, or as you desire to connect more deeply with
yourself. And this is what we recommend…to bring you into your moment. You are not
needed anywhere else right now. Here is where you desire to be. Here is what your work
has been about. Let yourself shine in every moment. And believe me, you are shining
much more than before.
Many joyous times lie ahead and we will be communicating with you…as you
wish. And those other guides who wish to communicate with you, if you allow, will be
with you. Those of you who wish to speak with them will have an easier time. The veil
becomes thinner on this day.
And with that, Dear Angels, we will wrap it up. We’ve given you a bit of a
preview of this time and we are thankful to be of service for this time; thankful that the
Dear Channeler had responded to the new energy insight to be spontaneous and to drive
here and to give this channeling for you, for him, for others who would be following.
This moment that you experience was created – made possible by the New Energy. This
is how it arrived to you…made possible by the New Energy. Brought to you by New
Energy…“New and improved New Energy.” How good does it get? As good as it needs
to be.
Speaking of ‘as good as it gets,’ advertisements will be taking a change in form as
well and perhaps a change in their revenue will be on the rise as Dear Ones look inward
knowing how they do not need to buy a product, but instead, buy themselves – buy the
investment in them. And we look forward to watching these changes as well…One of
many. One of many.
This Dear Channel has been brought to you by Electra, Simon, and Macqoupin
primarily and several others, including those in this room and those who are not in this
room…hmm…We thank you for the honor to serve.

And So It Is

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Losing Identity, Gaining “I”

Growing Spiritually

We tend to think of spiritual growth as something we “work on” or “learn.” Some

of us consider it a matter of how we feel our way through life, maintaining a steady
balance of living in a way that is truthful to us. We could say that each interpretation is
correct. As we seek, we find.
In our earliest steps during our quest for spiritual growth, we seem to first look for
validation of what we are experiencing on many levels. We ask others for permission
that it is acceptable to feel the way we are feeling. We then begin to develop self trust
and listen to our inner voice. We learn to go within for truth about who we are and
connect with Source.
As we become connected with ourselves, we begin developing more intimacy
with our feelings. Often, if we experience something we don’t like, we may revert to a
time when our perceptions seemed more fitting for our path. In most cases, this involves
using our mind’s evaluation of our situation, which we use to interpret and analyze our
feelings. This is completely natural, yet our mental efforts can occasionally cause us to
experience some limitation. Eventually, we begin to recognize that working on anything
spiritual can be helpful to us as long as our efforts help us “release” and move forward
versus “identify” and remain mental.

Losing Identity

A common misperception about spiritual growth is that we “become more” than

what we once were, or “build upon” who we are. It is only natural to feel that we would
grow spiritually in the way that we have lived our physical lives. We tend to measure our
success in the physical by what we’ve gained. Spiritual growth, however, is not a
subject-object dichotomy, nor is it a process by which we “build more” onto our identity.
Spiritual growth, rather, is the relinquishment of ego-identification. Spiritual growth is
not a process by which we become more; it is a process by which we “strip away” who
we are not. It is the process by which we lose what is not real in us, and recognize what
is real in us.
The denuding of our perceived identity is a natural process which is taking place
in our consciousness. It is a natural step in consciousness evolution, and it is a process
which is occurring more rapidly now due to the Quantum Leap and the onset of the New
Energy. As consciousness continues to support us, we are experiencing a stripping away
of our old identity. We feel that we begin to lose our mental ideas about ourselves; of
what we believe ourselves to be and do. The nature of this change can cause confusion,
multiplying our emotional responses and causing us to question our feelings and personal
truths. As we naturally make our way through the confusion, however, we begin to
understand that spiritual growth is not something meant to be “learned” so much as it is
experienced as something that we “recognize” as we “unlearn” what is not true about
ourselves.
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We have taught ourselves untruths about who we are, and we often live our lives
with those untruths as our template for living until we spiritually awaken. As we wake
up to the truth of who we are, we understand that there is nothing in us that is not perfect
or not whole. We simply continually evolve our beliefs and perceptions about who we
are as we naturally move into a clearer awareness and consciousness.
Through our learning, we develop “recognition,” which can be experienced as
insight, revelation, a knowingness of truth, etc. In learning, we are teaching ourselves
something. In recognition, we simply perceive with clarity. “Learning” and
“recognizing” work together to serve us. When we recognize a truth, we no longer need
to learn for the moment. Because we are “recognizing” (or remembering) our true nature
rather than “learning” it, we come to understand that we have the ability to fully
recognize our true selves in any moment. Hence the miracle is born.

Ego Identity

We have a general idea about how we grow spiritually. We know that we develop
a mental identity in order to learn who we are. Now that this identity is changing within
us, let’s take a closer look at what “identity” is. Let’s look at an unmistakably obvious
example of our changing identity – ego.
I’ve observed that how I feel about other people is almost always an indicator of
how I feel about myself. Yes, we can sense and know that our feelings guide us, and that
the law of attraction is always in motion with how we are interacting with our world.
Yet, our ego identity always has something “in mind” to maintain separation and the
preservation of its existence within us.
We constantly see ourselves in other people by how we feel about them. Our
interactions with strangers can be a great indicator of how we are relating with ourselves
(especially when driving vehicles). I base this on the premise “interacting with others
equals interacting with our self” because when we are in full alignment with our self -
when we are not repressing our feelings consciously or subconsciously; when our
energies are balanced - we are in a state of grace. The natural state of the human being is
one of love, acceptance and innocence. Children are an excellent example.
Without recognizing ego’s presence, it can be easy for us to mistake ego (or
perceived identity) for who we truly are. We’ll call our true selves “I” or “I am.” We
spend most of our time automatically sifting through our experiences and “working on
our spirituality” that we forget what it is we are moving towards, and what it is we are
detaching from. This can only mean confusion, as A Course in Miracles states.
Essentially, we are growing into awareness and true perception, and detaching from ego’s
influence. Recognition of ego’s influence then becomes consciousness and the
Atonement (At-one-ment). We can learn this in infinite ways through infinite means
without even calling our life “spiritual,” and we may label it in infinite ways. (See A
Course in Miracles for the definition of Atonement.)
Our ego identity wants us to appease it by acknowledging and embracing it and
by valuing it. Ego wants us to resist unification (At-one-ment), which it perceives as a
form of attack. It wants us to remain ignorant of its influence and confused as to what is
the true “I” and what is ego. Ego wants to control us, but it does not want us to know that
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we are being controlled by it. Any thoughts of attack that we have, for example, are
prime symptoms of being influenced by it. What ego desperately does not want us to
know is that our attack of others is an attack on ourselves.
Once again, “a thought about others is merely a thought about our own self.” Not
only does this sound spiritual, but it is also psychologically true. Our thoughts of others
are a mental projection of our own inner feelings. As we recognize this split in our
minds, we bring awareness to the fact that ego is losing its control over us. Without this
recognition, however, we simply let ego dominate our minds and continue to confuse us,
and thus, perpetuate our illusion of what we think is our identity and what we believe to
be true of other people.
As we become intertwined in the ego-mind, our search for answers becomes
difficult to distinguish because we must appease our beliefs, programming, learned
associations, and any falsehood that ego has persuaded us to believe or what we have
been taught by others about ourselves. The lies of the ego are endless, and its demise is
in sight when it fails to prevent our arrival at an immutable truth. Ego fools us by
reinforcing its identity as our own, and we mistake these short-lived, seemingly positive
emotions for growth, gain, or even truth. Yet, we aren’t always discovering a truth,
however, when we feel good. Sometimes our egos conceal truth from us, masquerading
illusion as something real. This is what perceived identity is – illusion - although more
obvious when observing from the level of the ego-mind.
Nevertheless, our consciousness evolution is perfect, and will always take us in a
perfect, natural direction for us. No matter how long we choose darkness, there is
ultimately nowhere to go but God. For example, in the Quantum Leap, many of the old
workings, the old belief systems, the old thoughts about who we no longer are, are
beginning to fall away due to what we’ve created - the New Energy, or the New Earth.
Whether we’ve been participating in this awakening process consciously or are just
beginning to feel it, we may still find ourselves looking for a “truth” within the changes
which we can rely on – a truth that is beyond our loss of perceived identity. And of
course, it is human nature to feel darkness in the times when our truth is changing.

The Darkness

The Christian perspective calls these painful times in consciousness rebirthing the
“Dark Night of the Soul.” It is a time in which our identity evolves at the soul level. We
break through to an expanded consciousness, and thereby, an expanded version of our
self. To simplify, “The Dark Night of the Soul” could be seen as the loss of mental
identification with self. Mental identification is the filter through which spiritual
knowledge is lost. If we are trying to be something different than “I,” we may wonder
why part of our identity appears absent. In such instances, we experience “darkness,” or
a detachment from “I,” or a detachment from the most recent version of truth about who
we are. A Course in Miracles speaks of this as the resurrection and the crucifixion, which
can take place as often or as rarely as we like. The common belief that this process is a
one time occurrence which lasts a long time is not entirely accurate, for we continually
grow in consciousness, and we may choose to crucify ourselves daily. For simplicity,
you might say that the dark night (or nights) is what we may experience as we arrive at
the spiritual understanding - or recognition - that we are more than what we had
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previously perceived ourselves to be. The dark night is simply a process of our
consciousness evolving. Yet it could also be viewed as an attachment to the pain of
losing our identity. We can’t negate going through the dark night of the soul (or however
we choose to label the experience) because it is a part of our human experience. It is vital
for each of us, however, to question processes of growth such as the “dark night” for
ourselves. The recognition of the “dark night” serves our purpose, but the propagation of
it can jail us. By attaching to the darkness, we slow the miracle of our instant salvation.
We choose individually if the darkness is painful, or if it frees us. (Read Jim Marion’s
Putting On the Mind of Christ to learn more about the Dark Night of The Soul.)
If we have no expectations of what we think we “should” be; if we hold an open
acceptance about who we are, we would rarely encounter a backlash wave of
experiencing who we are not. With total acceptance of our experience of ourselves, we
resist nothing by the limitation we call identification. In truth, we are always
experiencing “more” of who we are. We choose the “dark night” by default when we
don’t. Embracing and allowing these changes of “identity” without attachment makes the
“dark night” an impossibility for us and for generations to come.

“Hey, I’m Human”

Of course, sometimes life just hurts! We integrate massive amounts of energy

within us and balance tremendous energy around us. We don’t always know how we are
doing it, but we do. It’s in our nature to evolve energy. We experience the least pain and
the most joy by practicing total acceptance of ourselves. Acceptance and non-attachment
is priority number one.
When we are integrating quantum shifts within us, our ego can react, and we may
find our ego defending itself against nothing – or anything, or everything. Our ego-mind
will occasionally search for what it can devise into a belief system, naturally probing for
its security, looking to gain a foothold once again in us. But ultimately, it will disappear.
With the perceived identity falling away, the “I” beneath is revealed in our
consciousness. This is the full recognition of God within coming to the forefront of our
awareness. We experience ourselves as brand new in the “I,” and without our previous
filters which have fallen away. We may feel a different type of connection to our self,
perhaps relating differently to ourselves than we’ve related to our self in the past. We
naturally observe how we’ve been controlling so many aspects of our lives, and we feel
comfortable practicing graceful surrender. We no longer resist the change, but instead
begin to flow with our new consciousness. We find that prior quantum shifts caused
upheaval within us, but subsequent ones seem to lift us into more alignment and clarity
within us.
We begin to realize that we can now go within and create anything we need. We
are not bound by the old schematic of our “old energy” beings. Even though the old earth
still exists around us, the new earth is being built into it by our choice to evolve our
consciousness. We have a new and different type of access to our inward-dwelling
divinity. We no longer require the assistance and the protection of our angels, yet they
are still there for us. We no longer need to wait for celestial alignments for optimal
results, nor deliberate until something or someone arrives to empower us to live our lives.
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Although we’ve been living this way for many years - developing this new energy - the
difference now is in what is available to us by accepting and living that way…now.

As the quantum ripple effect continues, we will see many changes on this earth in
the next years. There will be new and independent thought-forms breaking free to the
surface of the minds of most everyone. Creativity will soar. Some will be creating
peace, some will be creating havoc. Some will be leaving the dark night once and for all,
while others will feel that they are being pulled into it for the first time, because they will
not yet realize it was something that they chose from a place of perceived identity. All of
us have taken the leap and have participated in the process in some way.

Consciousness IS

Growth comes in many different forms and, as we’ve mentioned, sometimes the
most profound growth is simply unrecognizable at first, thus, requiring learning. At
times, our internal change is condemned by our ego instead of acknowledged as a perfect
process in motion. We have all gone through our share of struggle, and we will continue
to learn how to work with the new energy and our new beings. Our surrender of more of
our lives and expressing more of our selves work brilliantly for creating freedom and
peace within us.
Our changing identity may have altered how we view our spiritual growth, but
what we are in our core being – in spirit – has not changed. We are simply learning how
to experience and utilize more of “I.” As we remain non-judgmental, totally present, and
eliminate our filters, we will continue to be in the best place within ourselves…home.
With less identity, we are able to honestly accept who we are and who we have been, and
we seem to project that honesty outward in our feelings and expressions, living our lives
with less inhibition, mental jurisdiction, non-attachment, and more freedom. We can feel
this honesty as we look around at what people are expressing and how they are
expressing it, whether through writing or speaking or doing our favorite type of spiritual
work. The quantum changes and detachment from ego can be painful, but they leave
behind what is real and present to begin with – “I.

by Todd Schaefer
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Q&A With Dahæma

by the energies of Dahæma

You’ve often said that Divine Love isn’t an emotion; it’s a way of Being. What do
you mean by that?

Emotions are as tied to ego as conscious thinking is. Our emotions rise in response to our
perceptions and ensuing judgment, identification, and labeling of them. Divine Love
needs nothing external to trigger or enhance it. Divine Love is the essence of God and
this essence is absolute acceptance regardless of what external conditions exist. Some
people understand this acceptance as unconditional love yet even that requires the
existence of “conditions” so that it can be un-conditional. In Divine Love, there is
nothing which needs forgiving for all is already forgiven. In Divine Love, there is
nothing that needs to be understood for all is already understood. In Divine Love, there is
nothing “right” because there is nothing “wrong” for anything else to be measured
against. There is no duality of existence. There simply IS. Divine Love is Being-ness in
full acceptance of acceptance.

What is detachment? When I remember something that happened to me years ago,

does that mean I’m still attached to it?

Not necessarily. The attachment comes from the emotions you feel with the memory.
You may remember a time in your life that seemed to have a certain quality of its own to
it; a certain magic, or its own “flavor.” You may experience nostalgia for it although the
emotions can range from sorrow to joy. When you can remember that time in your life
without any emotional involvement you’ve detached from the energies of it. We’re
attached to many things in our lives and the energies of those attachments affect us
whether we’re conscious of them or not. The energies and the attachments to them are
neither “good” nor “bad.” It’s what you choose to do with the energies that matters.

I really care for my friend’s happiness but they are going through some difficult
times that I can’t do anything about. I want them to be happy and I’m miserable
when they’re not. I’m stuck. Could you give me some advice?

Caring for someone’s happiness isn’t the same thing as wanting them to be happy.
Wanting someone to be happy is driven by ego. What happiness is to you, isn’t
happiness to another. What makes you happy may hold no interest to someone else.
When you want someone to be happy, whose desire are you ultimately trying to fulfill?
All true joy, just as all true power is self-generated. Your friend’s only true happiness
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will come from within him/herself and only when they are ready for it and only if they
find it for themself. Ask yourself why you’re attached to the energies (or drama) of
misery because your friend is apparently unhappy. (Remember, your friend cannot feel
any way other than the way he/she chooses to feel).

You’ve said that there is no “wrong” in the spiritual realm but there have been
times when I did something that I know limited, or temporarily stopped my
spiritual growth. How can that not be wrong?

Wrongness is only what you label as wrong. Your actions, whatever they were, might
have taken you in an entirely different spiritual direction than where you thought you
wanted to go, but can you say that what you learned on your alternate path wasn’t
valuable or beneficial? Would you have learned those lessons had you continued on your
consciously chosen path? Maintaining Joy or Love (or any spiritual attribute you choose)
in your life isn’t a result of keeping to a certain path that you perceive leads to those
conditions or enhances your experience of them. That’s limitation, and that form of
limitation blocks your receptivity to other experiences or energies. Spiritual presence is
maintaining Joy or Love regardless of what path you find yourself on. Each choice you
make – from one second to the next – forever alters the course you have already taken
and will take. Each second holds limitless possibilities and choices. Even a course
which you feel is leading you nowhere is providing you experiences and alternative
perceptions that you wouldn’t have had if you’d taken a course which you deemed to be
more positive.

The God Interface

By: Burton

In the Java programming language, one type of class is the

interface. An interface has no code; it merely defines the methods that
an implementing class will have (its API).
For those who do not speak propeller-head, 'Car' is an interface.
There are many implementations of 'Car' - Ferrari, Ford, Fiat, Porsche,
etc, etc., yet they all share common functionalities and properties. They all have a
steering mechanism. They all have wheels. They all have brakes, accelerators and gear
shifting mechanisms, and they all are drivable.
To properly implement 'Car', one must ensure that the implementation behaves as
expected. To put it in terms of code, if when calling the start Car method the wheels fall
off, then that particular implementation is faulty.
We all have a 'God' interface to implement. When the various methods on this
interface get called, the return values should be as expected, and there should be no
unexpected exceptions thrown.
As children, when the Universe calls small Challenge, the output is quite often
directed thru our private throw Tantrum method (a private method cannot be called from
outside the implementation). As we get older we become more adept at programming,
and we may reprogram the throw Tantrum method (quite often without full conscious
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intent) to call avoid Responsibility, lie, cheat and self Justify. As other challenges are sent
our way our implementation of throw Tantrum and related methods can become more
and more convoluted, more difficult to debug, and consequently more fragile in their
construction.
Then, when really Big Challenge gets called our implementation crashes,
throwing exceptions and recursively calling feed Grudge, live In Fear, and possibly break
Down.
Even after the implementation is restarted, the abortive recursion may still exist in
memory.
To avoid this situation it is important to understand what outputs are required
from the God interface. And it is simple - God is Love. All outputs need to reflect this to
have a properly functioning God implementation. Love your neighbor as yourself; do
unto others; do not be selfish at another's expense etc, etc. In order to have the correct
outputs, a complete refactoring of one's own programming is required (Know Thyself) in
order to avoid unexpected and undesirable behaviors.
The foundations of our programming are set while we are still children.
Sometimes that foundation is solid, more often the foundation has flaws. We may not
even be aware that the flaws exist - that's the way it is, the way it’s always been.
Debugging and refactoring one's own programming are learned skills, requiring time,
effort, and objectivity.
Returning to the car analogy, 'God' can be implemented as a Ferrari, a Porsche, a
Fiat or a Ford. Each person gets to decide how to implement God, and what accessories
to include.
Now if you'll pardon me, I have some programming to do.
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ENERGIES AND INFINITY

I stepped into a stream of water

that instantly drenched my feet;
and on that sweltering, summer day
its caress felt cool and sweet.
I noticed in the rippling stream
of waters endlessly flowing,
that some of it was always coming,
while the rest was ever-going.
I pondered all the countless drops
bonding as one in unity
and realized that the flow was like
the energies of Divinity.
There was no separation of the drops
as around my feet they swirled.
The waters united comprised the stream
and the "here and now" its world.
It offered no resistance
to whatever formed its course
and whatever water met the sea
was the same found at its source.
What made the difference from start to
end
between its finish and inception?
Was the difference made through lack of
sight
and my limited perception?
How could both ends so far apart
eliminate duality?
Would the stream maintain its sense of
self
if I altered its reality?
But I realized something else as I stood
in the water, cool and pleasant
that in spite of the flow that came and went,
the wetness was ever-present.
At last I came to understand
there's no fragmentation in Divinity
for how can one divide the flow
of its energies through infinity?

(c) 2007 Ronnie Carroll

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