Friday, August 25, 2017

My Time with Angels

One day many years ago, I arrived home from work and realized there was enough light left in the day to ride to Griffith Park, loop around it and come home.  I got dressed, put on my helmet and set off.

At the second major intersection, I had a full green light with no traffic so I started across...suddenly, I heard the sharp squeal of tires burning against pavement.  I looked up to see a car coming straight for me and within a nanosecond I knew they were aiming to hit me on purpose!

Something within me told me I would not survive the impact.  I let go.  I mean I really surrendered with only one thought, "Please God, don't let it hurt."  

Then nothing.  Time stopped.

THUMP! The car hit me - not the bike, but me, straight on.  I flew up into the air.

Suddenly, I felt the softest hand take my left shoulder and another hand take my right.  As if I were nothing but a feather, these two hands, which by now I knew were two Angels, lifted me ever so gently into the air and placed me oh, so softly on the ground!

Sprawled on my back on the pavement, I looked up into the faces of two men who laughed at the job they had done and screamed off into the evening!  Several cars followed them, believing they had intentionally murdered me - after all, no one could have survived that hit.

I was taken to the hospital.  I had only one puncture would on my lower leg and some sore muscles.  The police never pursued the men and the car they were driving was stolen.

I was alive!  The bike was not, but I was!


I was more alive than I had been because I knew unequivocally that my Angels were real and were constantly protecting me.

Thursday, August 24, 2017

A Strange and Wonderful Journey

Many years ago when I was beginning my spiritual journey of discovery, I was graced with meeting with two very powerful women who could work with energy and "hold space".

Because they were so strong, I knew I could work with them and not hold back my own energy - my energy was powerful, but I knew it would never overwhelm them.

I was having some trouble controlling the power of my energy that came from my solar plexus.  I found that there were times when I could physically push people away just with this energy.  I needed to understand more about this and how to use it properly.

I worked first with one woman at her house, and then after a couple of hours, her friend appeared...we were taking a tour of the house which was built by my friend's father on Mt. Washington in the Los Angeles area.  This location has extremely powerful energy in its own right and there is also a spiritual center located there.

We were completing the tour when suddenly I felt the most intense pain go through my throat, chest and solar plexus.  I could barely remain standing.  I tried to breathe through it and relax, but the pain was so severe - my mother had passed away at age sixty from a heart attack while she slept. Her brother had died at age forty-five from the same, so of course I was worried - actually downright afraid.

My friends could  see this was something big, so they asked me if they could help from an energy standpoint.  "YES!" I gasped.  I stood up and had one friend in front of me and the other woman at my back with her hand between my shoulder blades.  I closed my eyes.

First, I was in total darkness. I seemed to be stuck or held in place...nothing could move.

My friend in front of me realized she was blocking the energy from flowing freely, so she got up and moved slightly - Everything opened up!

Whoosh!  Suddenly, although still in complete darkness, I knew I was spirit only, but now I could feel my mother's spirit.  Her essence was literally wrapped around my spirit holding and protecting me!

As I listened, I could hear the voice of Mother Craddock (my mom's great-grandmother - she adored my mom)!  She was calling my mom by her nickname, "Dinny".  "Dinny, she is safe now.  She has found her way, you can let her go and she will be protected."  My mom took a few beats.  The pain in my chest was crushing me.

After that moment, my mom released me and moved into the arms of her beloved great-grandmother.  The pain was gone!  I expanded.

My mom, Mother Craddock and I said our good-byes and I thanked my mom for making sure I found my path and was safe!  They moved on into light.  I opened my eyes and I knew I had been totally transformed!

My friends talked with me for quite some time after that.  I noticed they were staring at my face!  At the same time, they both exclaimed that I looked different physically. They assured me I was fine, but told me not to be surprised if I saw the change when I looked in the mirror!

I wasn't worried... something major had shifted within me.  After this experience, I had a full understanding of something that had bothered me from the moment my mother had died - I could not feel her outside of me!  I always thought I should sense her presence near me; of course, I had no idea that all this time she had literally been One with me!  In fact, someone I highly respect talks about this experience as an expression of Oneness - that is very accurate.

I changed dramatically that day and ever since...I walk my path with the Angels, Jesus and God directing me.  I know death is only a doorway into another dimension.   Since that day, I have been blessed to have many occurrences of epiphanies and miracles occur in my life.

This is a strange, but wonderful journey we walk!

Friday, August 18, 2017

I Stand For Love.

Every single day that I am blessed enough to wake up, I stand for Love.

Not romantic or friendship love, but the pure, infinite Love deemed by our Creator.

Because I come from this place every minute of every hour, I do not need to stand against anything as standing against something acknowledges its existence.

I=You=We=One=Love

Release, Forgive & Love

You cannot simply ignore or remove hate, ugliness, pain or suffering.

You have go into it, immerse yourself, wrestle with it and dance with it until this dance becomes a waltz of forgiveness and ultimately a full recital of Love.

Then the power of the darkness is fully illuminated and cannot frighten or destroy you or anyone else any further.

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Awareness

" I – luminous, open, empty Awareness – am the truth of your Being and am eternally with you, in you, as you, shining quietly at the heart of all experience. Just turn towards Me, and acknowledge Me, and I will take you into Myself. "

- Rupert Spira

Monday, August 14, 2017

Frontier Spirit Unbound

"Shhhh! She is traveling between worlds right now. You can see her holding the tension of not knowing ~ she is simply breathing into her unanswered questions. 

Sometimes she drinks her coffee with quaking hands, not knowing where her relationship or her bank account is going. But this time, she is holding onto the tension of not knowing, and is not willing to hit the panic button. 

She is unlearning thousands of years of conditioning. She is not being split between the opposing forces of fight and flight. She is neither naïve nor ignorant. 

She is a frontier woman, paving new roads & making new choices. 

She is willing to make a new transcendent possibility emerge. You may see her now ~ standing at thresholds, or at crossroads ~ breathing into her body ~ intently listening for inner signals.

She's learning new navigation skills as she arrives at a most magical moment of her life." 

~ Sukhvinder Sircar

Your Glory

"In my deepest wound,
  I saw Your glory
 And it astounded me."

-  St. Augustine

Sunday, August 13, 2017

I, You

"No coming, no going. No after, no before. I hold you close, I release you to be free, I am in you and and you are in me.''

~Thich Nhat Hanh

Monday, August 7, 2017

Problem/Solution

" If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem."


~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Pure Awareness

"Therefore treat people, animals or objects of the world not as people, animals, or objects of the world, but as they truly are, made out of pure Awareness alone, made out of your Self alone."

- Rupert Spira



Non Duality


"A man who knows that he is neither body nor mind 
cannot be selfish, for he has nothing to be selfish for.
Or, you may say, he is equally 'selfish'
on behalf of everybody he meets; 
everybody's welfare is his own."


- Sri Nisargadatta 

Saturday, August 5, 2017

Lessons

Sadly I trusted someone for the second time and my trust was betrayed.  I feel angry, deceived, sad and vengeful in ways.

What I KNOW, however is quite different:

This is an opportunity for me to learn, to forgive and to heal!

For whatever reason, this Lesson came up again in my life in nearly the exact same way as it had before...clearly, there is an issue or void within me that needs work.

Yes, I could choose to just stay angry at the other person and cast out all my power towards them, but what or who would that serve?

So, I have a moment in time to reflect on why I am facing this problem again...what have I not healed within myself that is asking for assistance?

This process takes time.  I must dig down, below the surface, and release everything that is blocking my path to Awareness/Love.

What a glorious challenge!  I am grateful for this gift!

As I begin to let go of the anger, hurt, and betrayal, I am shown amazing insights into myself and my relationship to a greater Presence who I call God.

I have not finished;  I have only just begun my lesson...but as I continue on this path I am reminded of the following:

"Just as a screen is never truly obscured, let alone harmed by any image, although it is one with all images, so our essential nature of pure Awareness is never veiled or hurt by any appearance of the body, mind or world, although it is intimately one with all such appearances."

~ Rupert Spira

Healing Errors, Sin. Forgiveness.

When I perceive that someone has done something to me, it is really my subconscious trying to illustrate some issue within me that is not healed.

Why do I project that particular error onto my brother or sister?  

To understand and heal this, I must go deep to find the source of that projection - why that exact error?  Sometimes it is like peeling an onion, there are many layers all of which can cause tears...but keep going to the origination of the so-called sin.

Once you find THAT and have healed it, forgiven it, you never have to do that error again.

(If the same sin reoccurs, then you know that you did not find the source of the sin and there is more work to do.)

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Self Realize

Being self realized has nothing to do with decisions and actions, but exists separately- in a place bound by stillness and silence.  This is where I continue to urge all of us to go.

It is in these moments where we find who we are, as well as who we are in relation to one another. This is the realm where ALL relationships are healed, grown and allowed to blossom.

Get quiet, be alone, find the calm, the stillness - know the space between breaths and heartbeats...here is where answers, directions and purpose reside.  Any other place is of human creation, locked in the illusion of space and time.


In fairness to yourself, go to this place until you find there is nowhere to go because you are already there.