As a child, I suddenly would know something as absolute truth that I had not really given any conscious thought to. For example, there was the Scrambled Eggs Theory of Spirituality. This is a name I made up because I needed to call it something to file in my head. I know it was Roger (my spirit guide) who used this analogy to explain an important concept I needed to become familiar with.
The explanation Roger imparted to me was made as simple as possible, since at that young age, more advanced concepts would have been hard for me to follow. Apparently, because one of my favorite foods back then (and still) is scrambled eggs, that is the symbol Roger used to explain the Theory of Spirituality.
In some mythologies, it is believed that the universe sprung from an egg. Roger explained to me that the spiritual universe was like scrambled eggs, runny scrambled eggs to be exact. Think of the eggs all cracked open and whisked together in a bowl. They are still individual eggs but, at the same time, they are being mixed together to become one big eggness. As these cook, they form into one mass, but because these are runny eggs, some of these, though still attached, stream away from the mass of eggs. When a child is born, that little runny part enters him or her and is his or her soul or spirit. The runny part is still attached to the larger aggregate, but it is also in the person, so the person is separate yet also always attached to the main mass of eggs. Then when the person dies, the runny part of the egg, the soul or spirit, returns to the egg mass to become one again with the cosmic whole of which it was a part of all along although it appeared to be separate.
All of this made perfect sense to me then, and is the story I sometimes tell people to help them understand how it is that we are all connected and how I am able to do what I do. I also remember that for a while I was reluctant to eat scrambled eggs because I was afraid of eating someone else’s soul.
(from my unpublished book Simple Gifts: Living a Spirited Life)
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
The Way We Are
The concepts of “mother,” “father,” “daughter,” “son,” are physical, earth-based ones. When a spirit transitions from the physical to the next vibration, the family-member designations continue for approximately one year, although the discarnate spirit recognizes early on a difference in the relationship. It becomes one that is actually closer, without labels.
Labels divide and they can create the illusory idea of being separate, and separate beings define themselves by rules of individuality. In spirit, everyone realizes each is truly part of a larger community.
I still call dad “dad,” but I also see him as a spirit pursuing a continuation of his reality in which there is a memory of a father/daughter relationship, but in reality, we are both spirits, connected, though I am incarnate and he is discarnate. While we recognize an earlier bonding, we celebrate a new level of interaction.
In what we perceive as the future, the relationships that people once had on earth shift as we seek to fulfill experiential needs. We have different relationships with people both through reincarnation and in spirit. In another physical lifetime, I might become (or might have been) my aunt’s daughter, or my father’s sister. Souls reincarnate in soul clusters---groups of people who are bonded together within the larger whole.
Those who transition continue to be family members, but they are also a part of the larger family, as are we all.
Namaste
Labels divide and they can create the illusory idea of being separate, and separate beings define themselves by rules of individuality. In spirit, everyone realizes each is truly part of a larger community.
I still call dad “dad,” but I also see him as a spirit pursuing a continuation of his reality in which there is a memory of a father/daughter relationship, but in reality, we are both spirits, connected, though I am incarnate and he is discarnate. While we recognize an earlier bonding, we celebrate a new level of interaction.
In what we perceive as the future, the relationships that people once had on earth shift as we seek to fulfill experiential needs. We have different relationships with people both through reincarnation and in spirit. In another physical lifetime, I might become (or might have been) my aunt’s daughter, or my father’s sister. Souls reincarnate in soul clusters---groups of people who are bonded together within the larger whole.
Those who transition continue to be family members, but they are also a part of the larger family, as are we all.
Namaste
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Namaste
Namaste---the hands come together at heart and/or forehead level. A bow, and the sacred sound is pronounced, the sacred salutation: the divine spark in me bows to the divine spark in you.
Namaste (nah-mah-stay) equalizes those coming together---king and peasant contain the same divinity. Both are made of the same energy. Each inhabits a body, is impelled to a life path, completes the journey, and then lays aside the shell to become pure spirit once again.
Namaste---we are the same, deep down and high above, we share a common source, no matter our station in life, or our outlook, or ideology. Shadowed by the vagaries of life, we become separate from the commonalities of our true nature. We lose our sense of being in relationship, one with the other and, in doing so, find and amplify our differences and use these to create me versus you, us versus them scenarios that lead to more divisive actions, fist fights, and sword fights, and bombings and wars.
Namaste---I bow to you, you bow to me. We recognize our alikeness and, in that recognition, rise above our differences. We are at peace because we are part of the same thing . . . my right hand will not inflict pain on my left hand. You are familiar, a long lost sibling in the light that is our true selves.
Namaste---it is no unplanned coincidence that we are encouraged to love God (by whatever name we know that being) with all our heart and soul and mind and, in the next breath, to love our neighbor as ourselves. Each is the same . . . as the vessel of the divine spark, we must love each other and in doing so, we love God. When we love God, we are loving the divine spark in each other.
Namaste---we will not let our differences in shading or creed or nationality or political persuasion or economic status or religious or sexual orientation keep us from acknowledging our sameness, our oneness in the universe. The small starving child in Niger is my sibling in the light and I have a duty and obligation to ease her hardship. The person whose hatred of those not like him colors his thoughts and determines his actions is my sibling in the light, and it is my obligation to bow to his divine spark in hopes that he becomes aware of it in himself and, in doing so, learns to bow to that spark in another.
Namaste---the Jew and the Catholic and the Christian and the Muslim and the Buddhist and the Hindu and the Shaman and the Pagan all contain the same spark, are of the same origin. Their religions cannot, must not mitigate the reality of this truth. Temple, church, mosque or hillside . . . the differences in the physical structure of their places of worship do not alter the common spark within their separate physical bodies.
Namaste---I wear purple or green or blue. I eat chicken or beef or tofu. Outward appearances do not alter the light shining within me and within you. We are siblings in the light. Does this seem simplistic? Sure, of course! Sometimes the real answers, the true answers are preposterously simple. If who we really are, our essence, is made of the same stuff, the same expression of a larger whole, then where is the sense in fighting with each other, in killing each other? Disagreements? Sure . . . siblings argue, sometimes they fight, but in trying to discern our common spiritual origin, wouldn't we also find our common earthly expression? And in doing this, do we then not strive to heal whatever separates our shining lights, one from the other? A fire provides greater light, greater warmth and produces greater useable energy when it is whole, rather than divided into separate flames.
Namaste---the divine spark in me bows to the divine spark in you. In our most basic state, we are the same. Let our spiritual familiarity overcome our human frailties. Let each spark contribute to rather than detract from the life-sustaining fire of our shared experience on earth.
Namaste . . . .
Namaste (nah-mah-stay) equalizes those coming together---king and peasant contain the same divinity. Both are made of the same energy. Each inhabits a body, is impelled to a life path, completes the journey, and then lays aside the shell to become pure spirit once again.
Namaste---we are the same, deep down and high above, we share a common source, no matter our station in life, or our outlook, or ideology. Shadowed by the vagaries of life, we become separate from the commonalities of our true nature. We lose our sense of being in relationship, one with the other and, in doing so, find and amplify our differences and use these to create me versus you, us versus them scenarios that lead to more divisive actions, fist fights, and sword fights, and bombings and wars.
Namaste---I bow to you, you bow to me. We recognize our alikeness and, in that recognition, rise above our differences. We are at peace because we are part of the same thing . . . my right hand will not inflict pain on my left hand. You are familiar, a long lost sibling in the light that is our true selves.
Namaste---it is no unplanned coincidence that we are encouraged to love God (by whatever name we know that being) with all our heart and soul and mind and, in the next breath, to love our neighbor as ourselves. Each is the same . . . as the vessel of the divine spark, we must love each other and in doing so, we love God. When we love God, we are loving the divine spark in each other.
Namaste---we will not let our differences in shading or creed or nationality or political persuasion or economic status or religious or sexual orientation keep us from acknowledging our sameness, our oneness in the universe. The small starving child in Niger is my sibling in the light and I have a duty and obligation to ease her hardship. The person whose hatred of those not like him colors his thoughts and determines his actions is my sibling in the light, and it is my obligation to bow to his divine spark in hopes that he becomes aware of it in himself and, in doing so, learns to bow to that spark in another.
Namaste---the Jew and the Catholic and the Christian and the Muslim and the Buddhist and the Hindu and the Shaman and the Pagan all contain the same spark, are of the same origin. Their religions cannot, must not mitigate the reality of this truth. Temple, church, mosque or hillside . . . the differences in the physical structure of their places of worship do not alter the common spark within their separate physical bodies.
Namaste---I wear purple or green or blue. I eat chicken or beef or tofu. Outward appearances do not alter the light shining within me and within you. We are siblings in the light. Does this seem simplistic? Sure, of course! Sometimes the real answers, the true answers are preposterously simple. If who we really are, our essence, is made of the same stuff, the same expression of a larger whole, then where is the sense in fighting with each other, in killing each other? Disagreements? Sure . . . siblings argue, sometimes they fight, but in trying to discern our common spiritual origin, wouldn't we also find our common earthly expression? And in doing this, do we then not strive to heal whatever separates our shining lights, one from the other? A fire provides greater light, greater warmth and produces greater useable energy when it is whole, rather than divided into separate flames.
Namaste---the divine spark in me bows to the divine spark in you. In our most basic state, we are the same. Let our spiritual familiarity overcome our human frailties. Let each spark contribute to rather than detract from the life-sustaining fire of our shared experience on earth.
Namaste . . . .
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Here and Here
The space I am sitting in is an illusion. The time in which I am writing this is also an illusion. By limiting ourselves to this time and space, we fail to notice the other times and spaces that are simultaneously occurring. For many people, there is only here and now.
I don’t remember a time when there was just here and now. I have always been aware of many heres and many nows all occurring in harmony with this here (I am sitting on a chair, typing on a pc) and now (2:31 pm on Sunday, June 17, 2007).
In another here, for example, my dad continues to exist in as vibrant a manner as I do here. He transitioned from a spiritual being in a physical body to a spiritual being without a physical body almost 3 years ago. His ability to communicate was almost instantaneous. All manner of “miracles” and “coincidental instances” occurred, which I will share over time.
To start this blog it is important to tell you that I am an intuitive psychic medium. I see and hear dead people, except, they are not really dead. They have simply transitioned to a different vibrational plane of existence. As the Spiritualists say, “there is no death, there are no dead.”
Through no choice that I can remember, I am a spiritual girl living in a material world. Albert Einstein wrote: “A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest . . . a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
In this space, on what I hope will be a regular basis, I will give examples of how this “optical delusion” manifests itself; how because of this delusion we believe we are alone when, in fact, we are never alone; and how we can free ourselves from this delusion and connect with all the spiritual beings around us, incarnate and non-carnate, thus helping to bring about a revolution of the spirit, one based on love, peace, and light.
Namaste . . .
I don’t remember a time when there was just here and now. I have always been aware of many heres and many nows all occurring in harmony with this here (I am sitting on a chair, typing on a pc) and now (2:31 pm on Sunday, June 17, 2007).
In another here, for example, my dad continues to exist in as vibrant a manner as I do here. He transitioned from a spiritual being in a physical body to a spiritual being without a physical body almost 3 years ago. His ability to communicate was almost instantaneous. All manner of “miracles” and “coincidental instances” occurred, which I will share over time.
To start this blog it is important to tell you that I am an intuitive psychic medium. I see and hear dead people, except, they are not really dead. They have simply transitioned to a different vibrational plane of existence. As the Spiritualists say, “there is no death, there are no dead.”
Through no choice that I can remember, I am a spiritual girl living in a material world. Albert Einstein wrote: “A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest . . . a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
In this space, on what I hope will be a regular basis, I will give examples of how this “optical delusion” manifests itself; how because of this delusion we believe we are alone when, in fact, we are never alone; and how we can free ourselves from this delusion and connect with all the spiritual beings around us, incarnate and non-carnate, thus helping to bring about a revolution of the spirit, one based on love, peace, and light.
Namaste . . .
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