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Pain Magnet

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As a Spiritual Teacher I write to share journeys of growth. There is so much emphasis on positive outlooks, sometimes it is hard to find material that talks about how to get through the darkness to the positive.  Pema Chodron inspires me. She is transparent. She shares her stories and demystifies the path to enlightenment. Those stories have given me strength. I hope I can pay that forward. As a Healer, many people have a radar to sense pain. I have a pre-birth in the womb memory of coming here (Earth) with a mission to wipe out pain.  Empaths on this "mission" of eradicating pain, can actually become quite ill if they believe they can do this without the Guidance and Strength of Spirit. Working alone, without the protection of Spirit, there is the danger of having an out of wack ego, as if a mere person, a human,  can or even should wipe out pain. And as if pain is not an important part of life on Earth. Apparently what at first looks like a noble mission really turns ...

Mouse in a wheel-around we go

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Mouse in a wheel; around you go You get stuck. Then you get upset about being stuck. Then you don't trust anyone, because you are stuck. And around and around you go like a hamster in a wheel.  Sometimes you can slow the wheel down, and you think you are finally getting somewhere. Whew. This IS a hard place to be and as long as the wheel is spinning few can get in to help-- including yyour Spirit Guides, never mind a human helper !! The spinning wheel has benefits. Sometimes, in cases of abuse, it is a protection behavior that you need until you are strong enough to take on a journey of healing. It keeps your mind and sometimes your body busy which helps you to stay away from deeper feelings or issues. It assures you "you are getting somewhere" with the perpetual motion that you have been taught to worship in industrialized nation cultures. You don't have time to consider options; therefore you do not take risks nor do you risk failure.  Failure is always a part ...

So you want to be a psychic.....

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In a materialistic culture, it is so easy to be  infected by the bizarre and all pervasive ideas of  self measurement such as popularity, income, recognition. It can sometimes be disorienting to hang onto your Soul Path with little to no reinforcement other than the voices we hear in our head or the messages we receive from Above. How can I be sure I am not crazy, or worse, on an ego trip about having spiritual gifts that help people ? We often swim in the murky waters of feeling the Calling with no evidence of Reality creeping in to confirm or rebuke the experiences.  How I envy those Chosen by a Medicine Person or Taoist Wizard as  a successor, or as  "The One."  Thankfully I remember that Jesus, Buddha, and many others had no such reinforcement regarding their callings. What do I say to the smirky and snarky comments from humans inquiring how my Calling is going in the Real World, especially when I can Read their thoughts which are NOT  fille...

Surrender is not depression

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Surrender is such a strange action for Westerners that at first it can feel like the onset of depression. Non-action as an action is not a precedent for success in the "go get it" culture of the modern industrialized nations. We Westerners are not used to the concept of surrender. We can confuse it with giving up, and that is a depressing thought to the Nike generation of "No Fear, Just Do It".  Yet giving up is grand !  We give up smoking, we "give it up" applauding a talent, we give it  up when we stop obsessing about something. Giving up is a clearing out, an opening, an invitation for one thing to leave and creating the room for something else to enter. It is a brave gesture, and act of generosity, and one of faith -- faith that there is something better for us just around the corner. Surrender is the ecstatic stimulation of the heart and crown chakras. Our current energy patterns collapse creating a vacuum, a powerful energetic opening that demands ...

Perfect imperfection

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I went to see my Teacher (a Spirit entity that comes to us via a  human man). First I have to say I never thought I would be the kind of person to have a "teacher"!! I am so unconventional at times, and inconsistent, and I think I am an extra-terrestrial. My Teacher, a Being,  has had a profound impact on my life and I think I would not have had the courage to do the Spiritual work and Readings I offer, or have had strength to follow the guidance given to me from Spirit without this Teacher "standing" with me. And given what a pain I can be. I  have so much gratitude for the patience, humor and compassion any Teacher needs to have when standing by and for a chela (a spiritual pupil). My Teacher has loved me when I could not love myself, and has believed in me when I have given up on me. And has taught me the reality of the protection and guidance I have from Spirit.  I hope I can be for some, what my Teacher has been for me. So this weekend we heard about weakness...

I am Sick of Meditating

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Not really. But there are days. I just give up and want the car, the love of my life, money, FUN. I still have those days of being an addict. It takes a bit to remember that even when I do have all or some of those things, I can be, and often am, miserable.  Those externals are like crack. Smoke 'em and you get off for a while, then go looking for the next high. After a while, every mood starts to get ruled by the acquisition of some external.  Except.....externals, like every thing of earth, die. Only the Eternal is eternal. The culture of earth sells drugs of choice....... cars, trips, lose weight, get your  "dream."  It is not easy to be a non-addict. After all, if you aren't chasing the externals, what do you talk about ?  A friend called me and asked me how my day was and I told her I had spent the day watching the light change, and that a hundred years had passed. She was a fellow meditator and I  assumed she "got" what I was saying. I found out yea...

So you're a Soul

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You have done regressions, Life Between Lives, you know the other projects your Soul Energy is involved in while still incarnated in a lycra shell called skin held up by the scaffolding of skeleton and fueled by red sludge carrying nutrients to often overworked organs. And the final insult is a nervous system functioning as a radar system that sometimes seems targeted to find and feel pain, loss, sadness.  Now what ? You call this a life ? Well, yes.  When we were tribal, or for those who are still woodsmen/women everything was to be experienced, everything was a sensation. There is no time, or need to understand if the rain has meaning, or if missing a shot with an arrow was a sign we are bad. It is instead all simply experience that demands  we stay in the now, and make choices based on the now.  If it is raining, find shelter if it is cold, strip and dance if the weather is warm. If you miss a shot, learn and aim again. The life of luxury, of technology, has som...

On Being "Special"

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We love out pets. Every single one of them is  "special." They literally make our day. There is nothing more ecstatic then the purring of a cat, or more entrancing then standing next to beloved horses and feeling their sacred breath and energies surround us. My pets literally light up each day. Dogs laying on the lawn with all four feet in the air. My cat purring next to them. Sometimes we all lay in the sand together.... the two horses, two dogs and the ranch manager Mateo the kitty. We meditate together, sun bathe, and sigh. So happy and content. I swear we could cure anyone who walks into this circle of energetic radiance we have in the sand pit. You get the picture don't you ? So simple yet so powerful....... and yes.... Special....... every time, every moment I spend in the joyous energy of my pets is special. I never get sick of it or tired, or bored.  Yet we humans go crazy trying to be "Special" in some indefinable way.  We fret over our Karma, our Mis...

Light Workers light up... your own inner flame

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Many "new age" or spiritual people seem so anxious to not be in their own body, or be ..... who they incarnated to be. Hours are spent talking to angels, entities, spirits while the body inhabited is neglected, childhood issues ignored, current fears repressed. There is a kind of codependency, where one focuses solely on another, to be a helper. This makes one feel good about one's self and to be proud of our actions and our self appointed priorities. Being a self appointed helper also releases one from responsibilities such as feeling one's own emotions (and handling them).  The "helper" is also freed from any criticism (from self or others)--- after all, the helper person is sooooooo good, and only had good intentions. How can we criticize?  And finally, the helper person can always cry victim (after all I've done for you.....) rather than making a balanced assessment of one's actions or reactions. There can be a great deal of  ego i...

The Hobbit

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I recently went to see the newest Hobbit movie in 3D at the IMAX. This experience was more like being IN the movie rather than watching a movie. I had the most amazing revelation.....something I had considered intellectually for decades, but this time it became a visceral reality. I was raised to save the world...... at 11 years old I was going door to door to raise money for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in their campaign to stop the burnings and hangings of African Americans (done for fun, in public, attended by children as well) that were still popular in the 1960's , USA.  The idea of NOT saving the world has never quite become a reality for me...... still an attachment.   I don't know why the experience at the IMAX was the final drop in the bucket that shifted my perspective, but it was.  The movie showed war, loyalties, betrayal, despicable characters, liars, heroes, journeys, retreats......and it finally hit me...... this IS earth. It is...