AN IMAGINED REALITY

Dramatically beautiful and exciting spiritual experiences may breed a form of competitiveness between seekers.  Some people complain that their experience in meditation wasn’t as good as the other persons. Self-mastery is not competitive or involved with the world of glamour.  It involves soul progression and becoming fully alive here in matter.  Healing is experienced silently on many different levels.  The secret is to view mystical experiences as powers from the Higher Self to be used for the good of humankind, but not as an end to be sought after or achieved. You will also need to learn the difference between psychic and spiritual energy.

Acknowledge experiences as they happen and then encourage movement through them.  What effect do the visions have on your state of mind?  How do they seem to fit in to the perspective of your spiritual growth?  If psychic or spiritual experiences prove to be a benefit for your growth as well as a help to others, then be attentive, learn and use them wisely.

At the same time, you need to guard against not being grounded and falling into or becoming ensnared in an imagined reality.  If you allow and encourage this form of manifestation, your reality may become laced with the power of ego. It could become a form of turning away from its original design.  Psychic experiences can become a super-charged manipulative activity.  The lure of personal power has caused many a soul to turn away from the path of purity.  It is possible to become so immersed in the tinsel of mental mirages, the Maya, that you eventually become blind to the reality of your true essence and purpose.  We are creators.  This means we can at times create a false perception of what Is as easily as a true perception.

In the teachings of true masters, the emphasis is always “Love God First”.  Be alert to the fact that a soul can easily forget the One Presence, Power and Wisdom that is behind the creative finite manifestation.  I would like to see more evidence and hear stories revolving around devotion, commitment to soul growth and service associated with an authentic brotherhood and sisterhood.  The Lord Buddha said it clearly, “Only when you realize the full potential of your higher Self will you heal and understand the purpose of self.”

What are you willing to do to be healed in body, mind and soul?  Are you open to explore your true identity as intelligent light, a spirit, temporarily living in form?  Are you serious regarding kindling the fires of soul discernment?  Do you realize that as you lift your consciousness the requirements of Universal Law are more demanding?  Are you training your mind to be free and not duped by opinions of others?  Do you understand that self-mastery is to be attained in the physical body?  Do you realize the urgency of world conditions?

We have a responsibility.  The responsibility is to attentive and keep ourselves so filled with Light that at any hour of the day or night we are free of limitation and not bound by the misshapen desires of mental manipulation.  It is not the years, the study, the books we’ve read or the psychic experiences that matters, it is how deeply we love and try to express the heart.  I have discovered that devotion to Source is the greatest protection against delusion.  Loyalty, honesty and respect toward the higher Self manifests as a calm acceptance.  Any obstacles or glamorous inducements that cross our path will not sway us.

If you do not wish to be mesmerized, do not waste time on distractions, instead, trust and choose to see God in the moment.  We are holy beings hiding behind a mask.  In the ‘Song to God in the Bhagavad-Gita it is said, ‘Listen to me and hear me.  This is my secret…the supreme word.  I will tell you what will benefit you the most, because I love you.’  Gandhi in his interpretation of the Gita called it “a big knowledge-feast".  It is the very amrita (sweet nectar) of knowledge.

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WHO CAN USE 'THE POWER'?

Typically, humans find spiritual identity confusing.  It remains confusing for the most part because the ‘followers’ of the various religions who became the ‘leaders’ ingrained the idea that the followers require an intermediary.  Not true.   The priests, ministers and teachers who are typically only intellectually trained and not enlightened beings, having picked and chosen select passages, etc. have created religions, rules and regulations to control the masses.  The result is often distorted teachings that sometimes do not even resemble what the enlightened way showers tried to give to truth seeking souls.  When tablets and ancient texts are discovered centuries later, these are either kept from us for many years or again interpreted by unenlightened humans.   This has become so obvious; it almost does not need to be mentioned.

It is the higher spiritual body that has access to real power.  The source is the Godhead.  There is an impersonal mighty original energy that we can tap into once we understand what the power can and cannot do.  Actually, this power, Spirit, is the only genuine power and it won’t work against itself.  Try and abuse it and you are in big trouble. Mathematicians, scientists, metaphysicians of philosophy and religion have told us about this unified field for thousands of years.  The average person has not realized that this force has been made available for you and I to use.  When a healing is offered, it is this force that we are using.  For most, the use of it has been limited because there are definite truths we need to learn to request properly and initiate action.   How can you use a force properly if you neither are unaware of it nor understand it?

My purpose as with many others who work with Spirit is to help people understand the One Power that actually acts as all forces or power.  Wouldn’t it be wonderful to learn about this primary force, Spirit, and actually use it as originally intended?   You are a spiritual being.  You must learn to understand yourself as a spiritual being.  It is up to you to learn how to do all things.   The Power is not only for priests, prophets and saviors, it is for you.

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NEGATIVE INFLUENCES FROM THE ASTRAL PLANE

Last time, I shared a firsthand experience touching on suicide and unfulfilled wishes often experienced by those who vacate the body in great anguish.  I do wish to add at this time that there have been other such cases that have appeared to me asking to notify their physical relatives that they are truly sorry for an impulsive act that has caused so many people, including the departed, pain.  The personality, senses and mind temporarily remain with the soul in the afterlife until adjustments and understanding are thoroughly made and a return to a fresh life is determined.  An example of the afterthought of sorrow was the young father-husband of my daughter’s friend.  He took his life and left chaos only to find that his personal feelings continued regardless of what realm he happened to be vibrating in.

Not everyone who ‘crosses over’ asks forgiveness or is gentle in their personal behavior toward surviving relatives or friends.  There have been countless ‘pranks’ written and stories told about the mischief and evil activities that can come from earthbound souls attacking humans.  I had never heard any one mention the type of manipulation that went on between two sisters, one alive and the other deceased.   A young woman was brought to our home that actually smelled of death.  She was anorexic.

The ‘dead’ sister was attempting to influence the living sister to stop eating and join her on the other side.  Until that moment, the plan was working.  I scolded the departed sister about moral issues and that it was time for her to leave her physical sister alone and move onward into a new life for herself.  I also called reinforcements, angels, to come and remove the lingering earthbound soul.

Celestial help and the Holy Spirit stepped in and everything was corrected.  Once the young woman became free of the attachment and influence of her deceased sister, her health rapidly improved.  The debilitating experience changed her consciousness.  She decided to help herself and others.  The young woman enrolled in courses of study that would provide education and treatment for ongoing health, diet and enhancing her sense of self-esteem.

I do wish to add that none of us are immune to evil energy.  We must be on alert.  One powerful personal experience happened to me a few years back when I ignored a morning warning vision about a possible injury to my body and another reminder while sitting at the breakfast table.  When I stood up from the table, I felt an intense invisible force directed toward me.  My body was thrown to the ground and hip fractured.  It was a very painful lesson regarding paying close attention particularly to warnings from our invisible friends of light and love.  I never did find out why someone or something decided to harm me.  What I did realize is that I had not respected the warning and a serious injury materialized.

A HOLY SCIENCE

Based on personal experience, I have come to the conclusion that  the healing of any type of imbalance is actually a science.  When there is a disturbance whether in the body, mind or soul, there is a cause.  The cause has created an effect.  Often, the one experiencing the disturbance has forgotten the cause and yet, the initial disruption is the culprit.

It has become very obvious to me that a person's feeling nature nurtures a disturbance by focusing on the discomfort, telling other people, particular authority figures about the physical issue.  We experience dis-ease both on subtle and gross levels.  By focusing on the imbalance and a physician giving his opinion, the discomfort becomes strengthened and takes on a life of its own.  We now have a name for our discomfort.  Once we have a name for it, the imbalance  solidifies and becomes a living presence in the body as a result of the conclusions held in the mind.

Every day, I have the intention to add to this understanding using a lifetime of examples that prove how the levels of mind can create disharmony and through recognition eventually return to harmony simply through changing of the mind.  Excuses such as hereditary tendencies and the like will dissolve once you begin to understand how the mind works and manipulates matter...Shirlee