Eleanor Roosevelt...about fear

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Winston Churchill

"For myself, I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."

- Winston Churchill

We have a friend who is on the road....of self discovery

My husband wrote this to a friend who is in her early 50's and she is on a "walk about", a kind of mid life re-defining of who she is.....now.  I thought it spoke so much about our journey and how we can share where we have been to others who are on a similar place on their journey...perhaps a bit of a "Hero's Journey". 

We tease her a bit that she is out finding herself and she mentioned a saying that resonated with her, "Where ever you go, there you are." ...from one of my favorite movies......

The line is from Buckaroo Banzai…should rent the movie sometime if you haven’t seen it.  ET’s, 8^th dimension, etc… Note it was made in 1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!, often shortened to Buckaroo Banzai, is a 1984 science fiction film. It was directed and produced by W. D. Richter, and concerns the efforts of the multi-talented Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, a physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, and rock musician, to save the world by defeating a band of inter-dimensional aliens called Red Lectroids from Planet 10. The film is a cross between the action/adventure and sci-fi film genres, and also includes elements of comedy, satire, and romance.^[3]

Here should be the scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv_jkju_iZg

Apparently there is a book from 1994, ten years later, http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wherever-you-go-there-you-are-jon-kabat-zinn/1102636030?ean=9781401307783

Here is another interesting take on it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ed-and-deb-shapiro/wherever-you-go-there-you-are_b_858112.html

Anyway…what I was trying to say is it’s about finding and being happy ... being you.  The location really doesn’t matter because “you” are always there with yourself.  Being out of the old makes it seems better, when really what it might do is remove the old that is blocking your view. The old cant see the forest for the trees thing.

Remember The Four Agreements…he talks about how we all live in our own world, our perceived world…he called it a “dream”. And no one else is living your dream. They are living theirs, beside and with you but not in yours. 

Found this quote…“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. -- The Buddha

Enjoy the Journey…and at the end maybe you can use the Grateful Dead famous lyrics, the line from "Truckin'":

Lately it occurs to me: What a long, strange trip it's been.

Dalai Lama

"Always embrace the common humanity that lies at the heart of us all."

- Dalai Lama

William Butler Yeats

"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obedience to the heart."

- William Butler Yeats

Khalil Gibran

"A little knowledge that acts, is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

- Khalil Gibran

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James R. Ball

"We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have."

- James R. Ball

Tom Robbins

"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."

- Tom Robbins

Somewhere Out There....my Mother spoke to me from beyond the veil

Under the caption of things happen for a reason......

This is a portion of a letter I had shared with my close friends..…enjoy my experience.

Let me set the stage when this happened in March 2013.  I have an official copy of my birth certificate and my birth time is not on it.  I wasn’t born in the dark ages, nor at home…so why oh why isn’t the time on my birth certificate?

I have long lamented to my friends that I didn't know what time I was born (my parents have passed) and it seems to limit me as I seek to explore things like astrology, etc.  I have even thought about having an astrologer, do a “reverse” reading to see if they can work backwards and pin point the time….but I haven’t gotten around to it.

We had a speaker on The Human Design System coming to our monthly metaphysical group and again, I needed my birth time to do the Rave Chart.  I (again) called the hospital and county court house and pleaded for help and they confirmed (again) that if they didn't put it on my birth certificate, they, nor the department of Vital Records, would have it.  My heart sank.

On this particular Saturday in March, my husband was making comments about not cleaning house at our Saturday metaphysical “discussion group”.  Actually, I had tried to convince him we needed to stay home to clean house and not go to “discussion group”.  Cleaning house is not one of his favorite things to do so we went to “discussion group”.   After that, he dropped me at home to clean house and he went to see a presentation Michael Mapes was doing at the Morning Light Book Store. 

At “discussion group”, we had chatted about doing meditations while doing something like cleaning or dancing or just being still.  I thought perhaps I could get into a meditative state to dust and vacuum.  I started to get my cleaning crap out and went out to open iTunes music on my computer to lift my mood.  I walked by a box that has been invisible to me for years, within 5 feet of my computer for over 10 years since my parents had passed.

I had a thought, dream, suggestion or revelation the previous night.  I “remembered” that I had received a box of my "stuff" from my parents' estate, what we affectionately called the "Jerry Springer Show".  It was an ugly affair so I guess I had blocked it deep and had forgotten this box of "stuff".  I am happy to inform you that my Mother has spoken to me and lead me to the time I was born!!!!

She teased me a bit.  Just like her wicked funny sense of humor.  I found my baby book but very little was in it, which is understandable.  I think as children are born, the first baby’s book is filled and with the second, less and so forth...so by the time this 5th child was born, my Mother filled out the first page...with the time, 7:30 but not am or pm and then a few comments sprinkled about the book….and then she had to go to work and didn’t get around to it.  So I started to look up and talk to her.  I asked her to lead me or give me some “bread crumbs”.  I rifled through the box some more.  I found all kinds of stuff you would receive for a new baby: cards, merchant gift coupons, instructions from the hospital and the like.  I’m not sure why I kept going because I’m not fond of the “smell” of old dusty documents but I did.  Then I found the "actual" birth certificate which kinda looked like a copy of a "micro fiche"(black background with white lettering) ... and the time was not on it.  Disappointing.  So the people at the county hospital and court house had been correct.  I asked her again for direction and dug into the box...and Ta Da…….. I found the hospital's form with the time 7:35... with AM...in her handwriting.

I can't tell you how grateful and blessed I felt....

And playing RIGHT then was, Somewhere Out There, sung by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram....”someone is thinking of me and loving me tonight.”  I started crying.  “And even though I know how very far apart we are” …. ”It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the
same big sky”….  “Then, we'll be together.......where dreams come true.”

Now that I can see to type.....I don't think any words would adequately describe how I feel...but I think you know.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

"Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service."

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Giordano Bruno

"What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own."

- Giordano Bruno

Marcel Proust

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

- Marcel Proust

3 Buddhist Questions

I attended the Star Knowledge Conference and have so much to share.  The following is short and simple and I believe, powerful technique shared by Su Walker.   Thank you Su!

This is a technique to ask your higher self questions and you become your own Oracle.

You need probably 3 people or 2 people and a device to record the session.  One person is the facilitator and 1 should be laying down in comfortable position. And you need a  list of questions.

You are going to ask these 3 questions, get answers then ask the subject to take a deep breath and go deeper and deeper each time. 

1) Who are you?
2) What are you doing?
3) Where are you going?

Continue the 3 questions until the subject answers question 1 that the subject is the sun, star, or some constellation or something "light" like that.  When you get there, your subject is at the higher self or Oracle or super consciousness.   This is when you ask the other questions.

If you go further, the subject will go to a non-verbal state.

When you are done, give gratitudes. Then gently tell the subject that it is time to come back and you are going to count down from 10 and tell they are coming closer and coming back. At 1, tell them they are here and to open their eyes.

I have done past life regression and this seems like a simple technique.  I will keep you posted as I try this technique myself.

Mother Teresa

"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing that matters."

-Mother Teresa

Big Crystal Event

Last night, we went to a “class” called Big Crystal Event offered by Lauracle of Lauracle Compassionate Psychic Guidance and it was advertised as:

Laura is getting out her big crystals to help generate an amplified energy field full of possibilities AND she is excited to introduce you to some of the powerful Crystal Mysteries….……Laura has done healing work with these power house big crystals for years and knows crystal energies can help you evolve, clear and grow.

My husband and I have both taken Reiki 1 and had some other experiences where many others have stated they “felt” and manipulated energy.  We never “felt” it and had gotten discouraged.  Not having had the experience, we wondered (sarcastically) if that perhaps some of these people were having the orgasm scene out “When Harry met Sally”. 

I have come to understand that people are unique and how they experience energy is just as unique, it is not a right versus wrong kind of thing.  Right now, I am working on “getting out of my head” and trying to allow my heart to step forward to think and react.  Understand that I am an accountant by profession, so this is not an easy task for me.  And I just discovered that I am a triple Scorpio and that all of my astrological data is clustered in a narrow part of the astrological chart.  More on that at another time.

The point of this missive is that last night I felt something.   I guess I attribute it to how many crystals there were and how Laura had amplified their energy, as well as group.  As the evening started, I reminded myself to think from my heart and to be open to any little feeling.  I have started talking to my brain when it interrupts with its logical answers and I say, Heady, it is not your turn right now to be in charge…..I’d like to hear what the Heart has to say….it sounds silly as I write it but it is the tool I am using right now to get more heart centered. 

Laura spoke about the sources and how she uses her crystals in her practice.  This is complicated to explain so I am sorry if I confuse you or don’t do justice to how incredible this display of crystals was.  She had a soldered copper wire grid (1 inch squares) (overall size of approximately 4’x8’) on the floor that had clear quartz crystals wrapped around the edges, spaced maybe every foot.  She had all kinds, colors and sizes of crystals placed on the grid.  At each corner, there was a copper wand that was filled with crushed crystals attached to the grid with covered copper wire with a gator clip.  Sporadically throughout the evening, she would bring out something new and add it to grid:   4 flat copper ribbons (like antennas) at each corner; 2 “units” of 6 copper tubes, 3 foot long, soldered together, filled with crushed crystals and with crystals plugging the ends; Hebrew prayer made out of copper lettering on hard copper wire with copper and clips to attach to the grid; an orgone energy generator; 6 big crystals placed around the edges of the room to create a Star of David.

In the adjacent room was a massage table on top of another grid, similar to the one above and it had small crystals wrapped around the edges and maybe 6 big crystals laid lengthwise down the center of the grid, below the massage table.

This is where I get excited.  Everyone had a chance to lie on the massage table and experience the energy field of the crystals below it.  I took my turn and settled myself and closed my eyes.  Immediately, I felt this feeling in my chest; not the scaring feeling of heart palpitations….but a more pulsing thump in addition to my heart beating.  People were milling about waiting their turn and I was afraid to open my eyes lest I break the spell but I did anyway and the pulsing continued.  I smiled.  It was real and I could feel it.  I hopped off the table like a little kid.  I wanted to scream about how excited I was….which would have been my “Sally” moment.  But I didn’t.

A man got on the table next.  Laura grabbed me before I got too far and asked if I would like to feel the energy above his body.  I thought I had done Reiki 1 and hadn’t felt any energy during those classes…..so I thought what the heck.  She and other healers had been moving energy from his base chakra over his head and I started to do the same, looking to see if I could feel a blockage or anything really.  When my hand tried to push past his chest, it stopped.  I felt a HUGE difference in the energy above his chest.  Maybe it was the same kind of energy I had felt in my chest but above the body.  I patted at it and kind of slapped in the air.  My logical brain had no answer as to why this “air” was different but it was.  I took several more passes starting with his base chakra and each time was the same, the air was denser above his chest.  Laura let me do the same thing with a beautiful Vogel-cut crystal wand (points on both ends) and with a small smoky quartz wand.  I didn’t get the same feeling as with my hand.  I tried it again with my hand and felt the same heavier density.

Several more people got their turn on the table and each time I got a different feeling when my hand moved energy above their chakras.  I don’t have enough experience to draw too many conclusions yet.  But the big step was just feeling something. 

A close friend was at the class with us and as our norm, we met afterwards to compare and discuss our experiences.  I think it is interesting that she felt her energy rising and the vibration as Laura amplified the energy in the room while I felt more fuzzy and withdrawn.  I got the fleeing like in a movie where the room is stretched when someone is pulled from the room.  My husband felt a little tingling in his hands when his hands were feeling the energy above someone on the table otherwise he didn’t feel much else.  EXCEPT, once Laura had the energy amped up, she put on some appropriate music and asked us to meditate.  My husband closed his eyes and started to relax his breathing, then he peaked out to check out the room and he started to focus on one of the big crystals in front of him….and he saw it breathing.  He quickly closed his eyes and squinted again, and again, it looked like it was breathing.  As we shared our experiences afterwards with the group, he was a little apprehensive to share that but he did.  I was very proud of him.  It’s not every group where you can share something like this. 

I am so grateful for Laura sharing her crystals.  I am grateful for my husband going with me.  Contrary to what he told the group when he introduced himself……that he was there because I told him we were going out to dinner.  I am grateful for everyone else who was there who felt comfortable enough to share their truths and to share this incredible experience with us.

Namaste

The Metaphysical Road

 I like this quote from Tim Miejan,  the editor of the Edge Magazine,

“Enjoy the metaphysical road….to me, it's all about conscious awareness and the ability to discern that which does not resonate with you.  As a good friend says, test everything for a "yes," and then proceed!"

Marie Curie

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

-Marie Curie

Albert Einstein

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

- Albert Einstein

Just say..........Maybe or Oh

A Buddhist parable:

One concerns a farmer who wakes up to find that his horse has run off.

The neighbors come by and say, “Too bad. Such awful luck.”

The farmer says, “Maybe.”

The next day the horse returns with a few other horses. The neighbor congratulates the farmer on his reversal of fortune.

“Maybe,” the farmer says.

When his son tries to ride one of the new horses, he breaks his leg, and the neighbors offer condolences.

“Maybe,” the farmer says.

And the next day, when army officials come to draft the son – and don’t take him because of his broken leg – everyone is happy.

“Maybe,” the farmer says.

This parable is beautiful in it’s simplicity and surrender to the universe. I wonder if I could be attached to something so detached. I don’t know. Maybe.  

In my personal life, I learned from my wise friends who I am so grateful for their patience with me.... We have many choices on how to react to situations, people, circumstances, etc that are in our face every day.  I have learned to try to be an observer and to react by saying Oh.  The slippery slope comes when we start to attach emotion and our egos get invested in what is happening around us and then sometimes, it all can spiral out of control.

Now, I try to take a breath and say, Oh.

Carl Jung

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ...
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

-Carl Jung

Prayer of Protection

I went to a class held by Robert Baca (aka http://www.voicesfromheaven.com/ ) yesterday.  I've had several personal readings done by this amazing medium and it was his readings that helped me so much in moving on after the death of my Mother and strengthened my belief in what is behind the veil between she and I.  And most of all, every time I hear him, I am reminded that the love remains, unconditionally.

He gave us this prayer to use.  He suggested that we use it every morning in the shower.

Prayer of Protection

May the White Light of love and divine protection of the Holy Trinity and my heavenly divine angels be with me and protect me and surround me, reinforce me and strengthen me.  Protect me from all negative energies, all energies from all others, situations, atmospheres that I may encounter this day.  I also ask for the purpose of mind, body, spirit and soul.

I release all my negative energies, all my stress, all my tensions and most of all, I release all worries.  And even more so, I ask that you lift from my shoulders all the energies of weight that I have come to bear from all others before. 

I am complete, rejuvenated, cleansed and energized as One With the All.  All as One in the Light as One.

Amen.

Thank you Robert.

Hans Hofmann

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

- Hans Hofmann

Stephen Covey

"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."

- Stephen Covey

Robert Louis Stevenson

"A friend is a present you give yourself."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Sara Paddison

"Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real."

- Sara Paddison

Vincent Van Gogh

"Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it."

- Vincent Van Gogh

Henry David Thoreau

"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."

- Henry David Thoreau