tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75417303757182565752024-03-05T00:27:21.510-08:00Me, Myself and I..and SpiritThoughts and views of an everyday human, and spiritual medium.Jan Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03587595873378376401noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7541730375718256575.post-60727320731003811062014-12-17T05:26:00.000-08:002014-12-17T05:32:20.634-08:00Grief<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Grief can be a bit like a monsoon ...spontaneous torrents of rain amongst long periods of dry weather. Sometimes it's a relief, other times you think that it's never going to stop, it's arrival a surprise and overwhelming you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When my mom died earlier this year after being ill for quite some time, I had thought that, as I knew it wasn't going to be a good outcome, that it would be easier as I had adjusted to the fact that she was going to die. Like all change you don't know the effect of it until it happens. For me, its not that I have become unrealistic about my relationship with my Mom and she's suddenly become a long lost saint of my life. Indeed, my Mom would be polishing her halo and wearing it as a skirt if she thought so. No, people leaving your physical life to the other side has its effects, whether you were close or not, whether it was expected or not, or a blessed relief or not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So I hear you say.. but you are a medium aren't you? You have belief in life after death? Yes, having a belief does help but the veil between here and the other side is still there. The difference between being alive and dead is still a big one to get passed, even for someone who communicates with the spirit world and supported by their beliefs. Removal of the veil does not change who the person was in their life, or how they behaved or the memories for those who are left behind. When you go home the truth of who you were is revealed, and a bigger perspective is offered. Yes I know my mother is home in the spirit world safe, and as I work with her physical absence from my life, her transition has still been an emotional one. This is not though intended to be a plastering of my mom through a magnifying glass for all to see, but rather an honest reporting of the effects of death and the loss of a loved one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My mom was a very strong woman who was my biggest teacher of my life, through both negative and positive lessons. Like everyone she had her challenges. Something within her needed a reassurance that no one could give her, and she lived by her own rules and beliefs. Born and brought up in South Africa and Rhodesia, she left her family and followed my father around country to county like most military wives, managing the kids, and life the best you could when you had to pack up and move every two years. Arriving in the UK over forty eight years ago, she was, like most South African's, direct and outspoken and so stood out as someone different and loud to traditional English conservative ways. She was marmite to some and adored by others. Although a woman of many opinions, she would have given the shirt off her back if she thought you needed it more than her, and would be the first to help someone down on their luck. She believed in loyalty and appreciation. She was a lover of shopping, a closet modern fashion icon, and attempted to be a model officer's wife.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As my mum, she was similar to a Jewish matriarch. She was the voice of my parent's, and the one who would challenge my brother and I in our teenage rebellions. She believed in interference. In truth she found it hard to let go of being the parent, even way beyond when both her children's faces were edged with age, and our own children becoming young adults. Like most mothers though, she was the one who made home home. She was the cook, the planner, the director and the initiator of any entertainment. She loved entertaining and indeed it was when she was at her best. If anyone could make a party out of a ham sandwich and a piece of cake, my mom would have, and would somehow have had enough left over to feed the army she would happen to find walking past her front door. Mine and my brother's younger lives were surrounded by people my mom would adopt from the local army mess and who would arrive and be welcomed for Christmas dinner like some long lost family member. For us kids, our friends found her somewhat scary and dragon-like as, whilst she could be both inclusive and accepting on one hand, kids were also bundled together into another space, well fed and watered, and expected to not get under adult's feet. It was an adult world we lived in. Mom, however, was the one who instigated family gatherings, always remembered our birthdays and special events. Her way of keeping involved and trying to show we counted, even if, in her later years, it was by proxy and by sending my dad out to make it happen. With me, my mom was always generous, but at times I was her own personal extension of a store cupboard. Fond of making improvements to her wardrobe and kitchen, She would regularly buy things and then change her mind, or it was a case of out with the old and in with the new. As I would leave their house after a visit, my mother would ceremoniously present her latest castoff to me with a 'you need one of these don't you' and a look that you knew it was not an option to refuse. It took me years to realise that everything was given with a return label and that she may want it back one day. It was mostly her way of sharing and not being wasteful, but she never forgot an item that she had 'loaned' me. Even now I have items I have never used in my attic uncomfortable with disposing of them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My mom was the one who installed the strong sense of family within us which made us rally round her, the one who had the strongest opinions and highest expectations that also made us dysfunctional as a family. My moms opinion stirring the family into one way or the other, creating a family line which you were in or on the outside of. In truth we were no different from any other family with strong and colourful characters within it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My mom fought several illnesses over the years, and was well examined by the medical profession...her last year's diagnosed with potential lung cancer, to be told only a month before she died that no cancer existed. The 2nd time for this to happen, the last being a diagnosis of oesophageal cancer the year before, my mother unbelieving was unable to absorb the information that she was once again reprieved and that she wasn't going to shortly die of cancer. She didn't like the thought of old age or death curtailing her life and so was concentrating on the job of not dying, but had mentally already run for the hills when they had mistakenly told her she had three months to live. The big C was overwhelming enough, and although it mysteriously became nothing, she did not consider that she was still going to die but through another big C word and through her favourite hobby of smoking. The diagnosis of COPD had sat in the background of everything else ticking like a time bomb. Telling her to give up the smoking stick was like trying to tell the queen that she couldn't rule and equally she was just as unamused. It was her stress management tool and she had been smoking too long for her to be able to give up at such a life challenging time. The smoking damage to her lungs had already caused her to stop breathing, followed by cardiac arrest resulting in her having to be resuscitated. This bought her a few days in intensive care unit on a ventilator with her brain affected by the lack of oxygen. Like a stroke victim it took a year for her to become slightly close to who she had been before the resuscitation. Then, so busy was she fighting the thought of cancer, and trying to have the last word, she wouldn't accept that smoking was killing her still in another way, and waved away reality. So one day in May, in defiance of her smoking her lungs would whisper their last song and stop taking in air properly. For my dad and myself her death was actively very traumatic as we watched her die, but for mom the carbon dioxide in her blood sent her to sleep and that was that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Even now, over six months on, it is all a bit surreal. As my brother lives in America and had a short window to be involved before having to go back, the funeral was done and dusted within a week. People had come, paid their respects, gone and on robot mode we did it, despite my dad's and my head still being at the hospital where we had left my mom on a horrendous Saturday afternoon in May. The first two weeks seemed to be spent in a pub drinking with my dad and within six weeks, I quietly fell out of my busy job, summer came and went, and months later I am now in another job, still adjusting, still trying to catch up with reality. Although my head recognises that it is still only a short time since she went, that time is a blur and it all seems a bit like distant memory that I keep trying to remember. Like a well loved tune, I can hum a few bars, but the words are confused and vague to the song.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As my dad would say, it was not a good time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My story of the dying and death isn't much different to any other. The response to death for anyone is different, who has been lost, the circumstances and your relationship adds to the lottery of what you feel. The emotions wide ranging but also life changing.</span></div>
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What I discovered was that when a parent dies, it is the true time when a person actually stops being a child, and you really become of age. No longer is the parent there to run to when the child's world shakes. Whist many of you might say you stopped depending on your parents years ago, the truth is possibly different. Think of it honestly, how many of you feel safe that they are still there if you need them? You don't, but it is comfortable knowing that they are there for that possible moment where you might. The safety net that existed as a child, silently still existing as an adult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In her later years, like for many grown up children, it seemed that the roles of parent and child had reversed between us. Me, the child having to become the active parent to my mother as she became frail and lost in her illness. It was not a comfortable one. I did not realise though, until she passed, how much I had missed having my well mom around over the past ten years. Nor, had I realised whilst I watched her decline, how much I had held on to the hope that my mom was still there if I needed her, and that she would return to be the person she used to be, even if to just have the mother daughter argument. Death takes away the safety net. No longer can you be the child. The parent has gone. You have to exist in the real world, and no one is there to run to for comfort even if you wanted it. You are now the only one who can be your parent now, and if you weren't in charge before, you are definitely now. This is not about what other relationships exist for you, but the relationship of mother and child that has been lost. Of course grief for other relationships bring their own effects and changes to who you are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It is true we are all born to die but isn't it amazing how this information is buried in our heads. Until death comes and shakes you by the hand, through friends, loved ones and famous people departure to the spirit world, it remains like a hidden secret. No one likes to look into deaths eyes, even spiritualists who regularly speak to spirit rarely ask questions about their own death. If they do, rarely will it be revealed. The veil set for the living is an important one in the journey of spiritual growth and understanding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have been lucky not to have lost many people. Indeed, family I may have known passed before I was born, and being part of very small family assisted that. My first real experience at the tender age of six was being told by my big brother that Father Christmas was dead and indeed had been shot, and my confusion when I received a letter from Santa a few weeks later, added to my bewilderment. Many people's experience in modern times is that of loss of relationship and many would not realise that even a childhood belief could be their first experience of grief and loss. Later I discovered that my beloved grandmother had written the letter, whose death when I was eight, I had grieved for many years without realising it. She was for me a true loving grandmother and who I missed so much that I became a broken record to my own children about enjoying and appreciating their own grandparents whilst they could. It was only years later that I realised it was because the fun times I had with my Granny were cut short and that I had never had the opportunity to appreciate her or say any goodbye to her. Being too young to decide and living in another country made her death not part of my direct experience, but more of a bed time story and a character who suddenly disappeared from my life. One minute I was expecting her to arrive from England at my Christmas school play, the next moment she wasn't coming and never would again. Christmas that year was terrible as her absence was felt by my father, and his grief seeped around our family like cold mist. Death's visit unwelcome and felt by all even if they didn't quite understand what death actually was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Other deaths I had experienced were largely by young associates at school being accosted by death through untimely accidents. Always still, the memory of them, lingering with me, unforgotten souls, whose lives had briefly touched my own. It is the colour and energy of the people you remember, even if it is a long time ago, and however brief you may have known them. Johann and Tara, thank you for sharing your brief lives and the odd message I have received from you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So is this a little morbid? I think not. Everyone has their experience of death but we rarely sit around the table to discuss it. Indeed only 100 years ago death was everybody's acquaintance who visited regularly and came to our homes like an unwelcomed guest turning up frequently bringing about a social get together and what kept families close and in touch. Two world wars and disease prevented old age creeping upon many, including the young who had barely touched the earth because staying alive was an everyday personal struggle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now generations can exist together as medical science creates a population of geriatrics waving their walking sticks and death dragging it's feet as it follows eventually catching up and reminding us of our mortality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now I am approaching middle age, I know I will start to lose the people I love. Where once I had only the odd message from people in spirit, a small queue is starting to form. No longer is it the predicable message from Granny at the Sunday Spiritualist church meeting, but old acquaintances are popping in to give their regards. Uncle Jack has met up with Granddad Bill, and my mom bringing her wit and humour, as she talks about her sister, aunt and mom and recent events in their world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It is helpful if you are a believer in Spirit, it has its benefits that soften the blow and hardness of being left behind. It doesn't stop the tears though, only time and appreciating other things in life does. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Grief is a process which you cannot avoid and have to go through. Elizabeth Kubler Ross says there are five stages of grief and loss, Shock/Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance and indeed the first four you will ricochet around like a pin ball machine, bouncing back and forth between them. It is rare that you won't feel it's effects or that it will pass by you unnoticed...to even feeling low and at rock bottom. You will eventually end up on the other side at the destination of acceptance, but it can take time. Death will become your friend, and it's changes will become part of you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of course, when death happens suddenly and unexpected it is a shock, knowing it is going to happen makes it an endurance test for everyone. For family supporting someone dying life goes into a type of suspended animation, all things mentally on hold, and even if you think that you are coping with it, you don't know whether you are until it is over. It is excruciating watching someone die, you are an almost helpless observer despite doing many things to prevent the outcome. You cope in the moment and file things away, as inside you know the person dying has a bigger challenge to deal with. It is them who are dying and having to accept their own immortality and review their life. Balance their regrets, their didn't dos with the things they did, that they loved and achieved, against the now and what next. This is when death and his shadow, illness, allows the luxury of thought amongst the pill popping in the fight to live with hospital as a unwelcome holiday destination. When eventually they let go of life is the time when the living have to get back to living, leaving the dead to the void and secret of death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The funeral is not the end of grieving, but the start of being allowed to. It is though down to whether you have caught up with the fact that they have actually passed. At times I forget my mom has passed, and it is almost still as if she was still in the hospital - such is the one moment here, and another moment gone. It is hard to get used to someone who you have known all your life to suddenly no longer be there...and even if you do believe in the spirit world, to be able to visualise where they are now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">If you don't have an afterlife belief, the starkness of non existence must make death a very cold final outcome. The thought that you will never see a loved one again, ever, must be an uncomfortable one even if you are certain in your belief that nothing exists after life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It is true though that our minds prefer stories of survival than cold reality and it's ability to avoid things it rather would not think about is part of its protection system. Many would question spiritual experience is part of the mind and as a hypnotherapist I can appreciate that conclusion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Death raises the question of immortality, and even as a spiritual person, you can lose faith as you get swallowed up in the grief and loss of your loved one. The mind no longer feeling safe in its existence, every threat to life and survival is examined and life stops about being tomorrow. Today suddenly seems way to short to be able to fit everything in, and a mental bucket list forms of what you need to squeeze in before your life is taken away<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Roboto Light', RobotoLight, Roboto-Regular, sans-serif-light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">. </span> Every moment becomes in real time, and as you feel your heart thump, as if a ticking clock counting down the final seconds of your life, an urgency in everything is thrown behind your everyday thoughts. It is not surprising that many people who have lost someone become subject to anxiety, panic attacks and that death triggers illness within their own lives. It is the mind becoming overwhelmed and imploding upon itself by its own questioning. A computer virus running into the survival program, corrupting the system and shutting it down bit by bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of course this is not everyone's full experience, for some this exists for only a moment, a short while, for others it becomes part of their lives for many years affecting their whole life. Marriage and relationship breakdown, falling out of jobs, illness, alcohol abuse, are all a potential symptom of grief, of people unable to adjust after death shaking their hand. When death becomes amongst you, family and friends need to find tolerance and love when they see someone suddenly change. Even if it appears to be months after and separated from the death event, the mind can suddenly reveal it is stuck at a stage in the grieving process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For me, I knew that I was processing the loss of my mom, but still the extent of my feelings surprised me. Though upon reflection, I realised that the early days were automatic. The shock still very much protected me and my practical sense had kicked in as I stepped in to support my dad, arrange my mom's funeral and I put aside how I felt about her death for later examination. Those days became about knowing I couldn't decide about something's as I felt disconnected from my feelings and so doing them just in case I regretted that I didn't.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">One of those was about going to see my mom in the chapel of rest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So many people talk about trying to remember your loved one they way they were, when they were full of life and vibrant. Often your loved one tells you this themselves as that is how they prefer to be remembered. It is really a question for those left behind. If you have observed their death, the trauma of it can interfere with the positive memories of them. You can suffer a type of post trauma that keeps you in the moment of loss, especially if you have gone through illness with them for sometime. When I was arranging the funeral, I also arranged for my mom to be dressed for the funeral, painstakingly choosing her clothes, shoes, matching jewellery, make up, her last going away outfit. Trying to do the one last thing for her that I could do, knowing that how she looked would be important to her. Her funeral was a gathering of her friends and family and if it were a party she would have been fashionably late after making sure that she was dressed and looking good for the occasion. She was known for never being on time and for paying attention to how she looked. It was irrelevant that no one would be seeing her face to face on the day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The question of whether I went to the chapel of rest arose. As the funeral was going to be just a week after her death, and the hospital took five days to release her, the funeral home could only offer one afternoon to see her . My father and brother both deciding not to go, I was left with a dilemma of not being sure what would be worse to see my mom dead again after an afternoon of seeing her die. What was more traumatic? I also found it hard knowing that she was all dressed up with no where to go and no one coming to visit, the daily habit of seeing her at the hospital still alive in my mind. She was dead but not totally gone out of our lives yet, and I wasn't ready to say that it didn't matter because she was dead. Uncertain, I sort advice from those I knew. Several of my friends had chosen not to see their loved ones, however, one of my dearest friends, Debbie, very much recommended it and told me it was a positive experience and how peaceful her nan had looked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Funeral homes are sombre places, and on a last minute rush on the Friday afternoon I arrived with trepidation at the funeral home having decided to see her. I think they were trying to set a peaceful respectful ambiance but for myself coming into it, it was stark and cold and very much not an environment I associated with my Mom. After what was a brief wait whilst they got her ready, the guy eventually fetched me and walked in front of me, leading the way, funeral marching as he went, and respectfully waved me into a small chapel room. It was all too obvious that this was not a normal everyday situation. As I entered the softly lit room I was greeted by gentle music and my eyes immediately fell upon my mom lying in an open casket, noticeably still, her hands laying crossed upon her chest, her eyes closed and looking as if she was just asleep. She looked so at peace. The funeral home had dressed her, made up her face with the make up I had provided, done her hair and she looked ready to go out for a day out. She looked lovely and looked much like my Mom. Death had taken years off her face though and she had a more youthful appearance that existed before old age and illness had taken hold. I could see before me the beautiful woman that stood out in her wedding photograph taken over 50 years before and that I had in my hand to put in her coffin. It was still hard seeing her, but going to see her helped me with her last hours of life, and I am so pleased I did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When someone close dies, if they have a cremation, it can be so different experience from a burial. At a burial the person is immediately buried. With a cremation, you have to wait for a few days for the ashes to be released from the crematorium. As my dad was working through his loss of his wife, I was the one who fetched her ashes and held them at my home as I waited for him to be ready to deal with the next stage. We had the challenge as to where mom would have wanted her ashes scattered and it was a question that was kept open for over 5 months. It was a family joke, as mom always threatened that she would come to live with me at some point, and had often talked about it. My mom being the strong woman she was, wouldn't have made for me a good house mate, and so living with me I hadn't encouraged. It seems she had the final word but having her live with me kept me in a place of not being able to grieve her physical loss. So when we go October scattered her ashes I found that tears would arrive at unexpected times and without much preamble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Many people go through different ways of letting their loved ones go. It is a bit by bit process and I have been no different. As time gets older and a range of firsts happen...First Christmas, first birthday, moments that were once shared between you, and that a noticeable gap that someone is missing amongst you. It is all part of death. It is not just loss of a loved one but a way of being too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Being a spiritual person has allowed me to understand and make friends with people from similar belief systems. In the pagan world, the universe is one, and the energy of our ancestors live on, and like the seasons, the cycle of life goes in a full circle, from birth to death, to birth again. At Samhain, who most know as Halloween, pagans celebrate the lives of the dead, and believe anyone who has died need to be passed to the Otherworld so the can begin their journey to their new life, and to be reborn again. All hallows eve at midnight is the time where communication with the dead, and the dead can be passed over. The relatives or friends of the departed go to local sacred pagan sites where the ritual and gathering of the souls of the dead are taken to the ferryman, represented by a pagan priest/arch druid, who accompanies and assists the souls to the Summerlands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As I had lost my mom, I felt another way to help me process my loss was to join some of my pagan friends in this ancient tradition remembering the dead at Avebury. So on All Hallows Eve we all met at ten pm, and along with others who had spirits to pass over, we took the traditional processional ancient walk through the Avenue of Stones up to the Sanctuary. It was a long walk in darkness following the Arch druid, Terry, who was acting as the Ferryman. Eventually reaching the Sanctuary just before midnight where Terry opened the circle and invited all to step into the centre one by one to talk of their loved one and giving an apple as an offering. The apple representing the body and cycle of life, and the seed within it the rebirth of the soul. In the dark starlit sky amongst the cold and wind, all those gathered remembered the person who had gone on before them. Specific well known people who had died that year were also remembered. In the small gathering of strangers, so much love, respect, laughter and tears were given in honour to those people who no longer walked this earth amongst us. Farewells said and circle closed we departed our separate ways for the long walk back to the car park, my heart less heavy. It may be a strange way to say good bye or to express grief to some but it helped me move forward and say good bye to my Mom. I would be proud if my family remembered me in this way, as it was so much more about the living, than the death celebrated at most funerals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Since my mom died, my spiritual belief has sat quietly in the background. A medium communicates with the Spiritworld through their senses, and when you are trying to shut much of your feelings out you are not allowing the communication to be part of you. When you live too much of a physical life you can miss the subtle spirit conversation that is part of every day life as the spiritual and physical work at different vibration, a different speed. As a medium you learn to be in balance between the two worlds and tune into Spirit by raising your vibration, how you perceive what you think and feel, noticing Spirit's active interaction with you. Those early days I was aware of my spirit family 'popping' in, including my Mom. I felt her presence and her impressions upon me, but often I was not ready to engage with her fully in that way just yet. I was still getting used to the fact her physical presence had gone and the days of reckoning of our lives together was still too raw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So when I suddenly felt the need and desire to get a dog, I didn't stop to think about these new thoughts and where they are coming from. A house with four cats, a husband who was nervous about dogs, and a job that prevented me being at home had been a very good reason to dispel any notion of getting one. There was also the fact that my parents had two dogs, neither my favourite, and although I grew up with dogs in the family, cats were easier option. My mom loved animals, especially her dogs. She was very close to her Jack Russell, Rosie, who devoutly followed her every move although I preferred the Old English Sheep dogs I grew up with. The sudden urge to get a dog, and finding myself at home and no longer working all day, made me petition my husband about getting one. Surprised at his agreement without the twisting of thumb screws, I got on to looking at adverts of puppies before he could change his mind. In a planned Sunday morning of doing housework, a impulsive moments look at an advert turned our day into a trip to London and back and before you knew it we were armed with a mad apricot cream cockapoo puppy and once again our lives had changed. What were we on! Were we mad? A dog is for life not just for Sunday you know. You could see our cats accusing us and hanging us as traitors, and my kids wondering what had hit them. Mom, aka me, had always said no to having a dog and suddenly she has gone out and got one. Rather rash of her. I forgot that having puppies were like having a new baby and there were moments when I thought I must have lost the plot. Dougal, was whilst adorable was also hard work. Named after the programme TV and book character, Dougal from the magic roundabout and with as much hair, was equally a very magical and enigmatic dog. With his almost Old English Sheep dog type face, Dougal, has been a focus and distraction and helped all of my family get over the challenging times of the last few months. A cuddle a day, and the daftness of him, even when he is hard work, has added funny moments to those sad days. Even my dad with his own dogs, has found it hard not to warm and smile at him when we are Dougalling together. We have Dougal days, instead of duvet days, and we all look forward to seeing his mad hairy face when we arrive home. I can almost feel my Mom smiling by me and telling me I told you so, you have to have a dog in your life and they make it better. I am sure she was the one behind it all, influencing and choosing her moments to help me find my own dog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As I am used to her being in my physical world, I don't automatically look for my mom on the spirit plain. However, every now and again she reminds me she is there, and I see her or feel her standing next to me taking things in as she did when she was alive. She is trying to help us all move forward and live our lives without her. As we both get used to the new change, and when we both are ready, I know we will have new conversations, and rehash some old ones. I know too that she has things she wants me to write, as I inherited from her my love of writing and this my own part of writing down my grief is also me processing our new way of living together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Soon it will be Christmas, but today is another first. I find I finish this today on what would have been her 74th birthday. I would have normally got her something, so in her name I brought her one of her favourite Christmas flowers, a Poinsettia plant, which she loved. As I couldn't physically give it to her, I have arranged it to be sent to someone else who was in need of some upliftment, and who would enjoy it too. I think she would have done the same, as it was something she did too, give things to others. She lived her life as she chose, and her absence is felt by all of my family. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It is early days for all of us, there are still so many firsts to go through where I will notice that she is not sitting physically with us, and other moments where she would have added her opinion to matters at hand. Although I talk of my own personal experience of losing my Mom, who lived a long life, and it is not to erode anyone who has their own feelings of their loss of their own loved one or their experience of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Death, and losing someone is always hard fact of life you have to go through and as you start towards acceptance, tears still fall upon an intruding thought of them, unexpected, uninvited and catching you at times and making you feel vulnerable. But like in between the monsoon rain, you find the warm moments of the sun, and these happier moments you start to notice more. </span></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC4Az6atuL4ORiEGduCtaP67rAveeb5WnVgyLhv3_gkXzGcpJtdv7tZyarXyQf9nkp3S_JZUThEN9P_VMx_NOc7bXHkiX281ULB7X_TT19Cc07uip7XnCMvQzboVBsV2_x7mThRbBEF3Y/s1600/IMG_19417732507866.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC4Az6atuL4ORiEGduCtaP67rAveeb5WnVgyLhv3_gkXzGcpJtdv7tZyarXyQf9nkp3S_JZUThEN9P_VMx_NOc7bXHkiX281ULB7X_TT19Cc07uip7XnCMvQzboVBsV2_x7mThRbBEF3Y/s640/IMG_19417732507866.jpeg"> </a> </div>Jan Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03587595873378376401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7541730375718256575.post-80230192987312280052014-08-15T02:27:00.000-07:002014-08-15T02:27:28.283-07:00Failure or Liberty<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Failure is a construct of the mind. How do </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">you feel about that? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No...I did not say think about it....I said FEEL!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Most of you would have gone into your head to consider and think about the statement to agree or disagree. It is the modern human response to think rather feel the truth in your heart..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So what am I about? Bare with me a little in my ramblings...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Recently I have been on my own little journey of
experiencing life. You could say that I
have been taking a little holiday from being an active Medium as I have been thrust into the full
physical human experience, body, spirit and soul. It has been a challenging time. I can only compare it to being chucked into freezing cold water and where all you can deal with is just coping with the shock and chill that is going on in that single moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In all of that it had seemed to me that Spirit had gone on vacation themselves and whilst I had never truly believed that they had gone away, they had been noticeably a little bit
on the quite side from the constant channelling of information I am used to. Sunseeker holiday spots in the Spirit world or not, I realised though when I look back, that they had been
knocking on my door every now and again to check in where I was at, often with a great big sledge hammer. Me
in my blissful ignorance hadnt been listening. I was living too much human and, during that time, tuned myself out of the spirtworld.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So with recognition that I haven't been firing on all cylinders, over the past year I have occasionally grabbed at my wonky psychic tuner with renewed vigor, and would every now and again land
on Spirit Radio One. Whilst receiving loud and clear the odd bit of
information in still pictures and symbols, it was with the consistency of a dripping tap. Previously I had enjoyed receiving Spirit in a what would be a tricolour movie download supported by surround sound and smellivision. Now I had been relegated to what seemed like a version of charads and pictionary rolled into one</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Feeling somewhat lost like a ship without its navigation, I panicked. Something had punched my psychic headlights out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The human mind has its own special way of working - it is an amazing computer that's prime objective is to keep you alive and safe however irrational it may be. Therefore, when you suddenly believe you are lost....then this is a direct instruction to your sub
conscious that gives it the licence to panic- and your computer kicks in to "safe mode" and every single thought after that becomes about survival
through that moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unfortunately my moment was two years long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So what has this all got to do about failure and mediumship?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As mediums we rely so much on our senses – it is the natural
side of us that has allowed us to go though life intuitively and sailing on the
sea of life with some comfort and confidence that we don’t always appreciated
how much we are supported by the spirit world in those times of challenge. When many of us are truly spiritually
awakened, it is like being plugged into consciousness energy and so what we once did
automatically can suddenly become a bumpy ride. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Why? As instead of still feeling our way, we have started thinking
our way conciously due to our heightened awareness. Developing as a medium
is a human experience as well as a spiritual experience, it is the two worlds
blending together - the light unconditional
love of spirit with the heavy physical reality and challenge of human
existence. As we touch base with our
souls true home when we connect with spirit, nostalgia, homesick and sadness can envelope us as the feeling
of what so much the human world is devoid of, love, acceptance, approval,
safety makes many spiritual workers just want to exist in the energy of spirit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know some of my good friends in the business may challenge me on this concept but many spiritual workers believe their sole purpose for living is to heal and/or pass on the message of spirit to those on the earth plane. Why when spirit can quite happily work without us..and do? They are the superior beings and do not work to our limitations. We are the ones confined to our physical bodies. Why do all spiritual workers seem to have to work through human challengings if their only purpose is to be messenger for spirit? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even the best mediums have their view - but a point to consider is that the human ego works in many ways to justify our human existence and to reassure our reasons for living - and us spiritual workers are no different. We think therefore we are. Our thoughts leading our existence through our whole human experience. This includes straightforward human fears but also an added spiritual worker one, the fear of losing our connection to spirit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As a Newby in our development circles..we can all remember our doubts and our wonky messages. Our fear that we may get it wrong..and that Spirit would leave us as not worthy of them working with us. As we grow as spiritual workers we learn and know that Spirit do not leave us. They are always there with love. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As we become more certain of our connection to spirit we can often forget to embrace the experience of living. We can so allow ourselves to be totally living with spirit that we find it too hard to live in the physical. How often do we wonder at our challenges, and our momentary lapse of reason, as we struggle with human kind? We are appalled at what the human race are doing to itself, the wars, cruety, the lack of kindness and love. Often our medium minds prefer not to be part of this. The human ego in us steps up to have a field day...but often spirit workers struggle to connect it to being part of human life as if our connection to the spirit world exempts us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are just as human as the next human, and our thoughts undermine us as spirit workers just as much as anyone who isnt working with Spirit. Just think if we can let go of those occasional moments of fear of failure when we are up there working for Spirit and being totally pure channels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, here I am - lost in my ego, struggling with all sorts of fear when someone suggests the following to me....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What about the possibility that we entered this life to experience life, to develop our knowledge through the physical experience. Every human making the agreement before they stepped into the birth stream to enter into a individual designed experience of birth..living and death? This birth, this life, and our future dying experience is our ownly purpose as to why we are here, and all we need to embrace and engage with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Is it possible that, us Spirit Workers have just chosen the experience to be only partially emersed in the human experience and retain our connection to spirit to enhance this life experience?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So taking that thought further...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So if our purpose here is to only experience being born, life, and our dying where would you fail?
To experience life in any way is experiencing life. So many people use the word “trying” – I am
trying to do this, I am trying to do that, when their mind is tied up in the destination of their journey and in the fear
of failure and not being successful at what they do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How about believing that you are successful in all that
you do, whatever it is? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When we live in our head, allow our thoughts to dictate how
we are, how we exist, the boundaries that it creates to keep our selves surviving
the physical moment. Fear stops us and
restricts us because we believe our purpose is to follow a specific course of
action. When that course of action
doesnt follow the route we think it should have, we then make a judgement
on what we are experiencing, often labeling it wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is all a construct of the human mind controlling
us, managing our experience to keep us safe in the experience.
You then, however, live every potential experience through your mind, and then
tuneout of "feeling" your existence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am sure you can go back in your mind to a moment in the
past where you still carry the emotional scars and still, when you go into a
similar situation, you are reminded of the past experience, and can feel a heaviness in your
heart challenging you about the situation. Your body acts as barometer telling you how you physically feel, specifically the heart. Tightness..constriction, pain anywhere or the subtle heavy feeling in your heart are all tell tale signs of your body telling you there is an emotion being held in your body and it is having an effect on your body..and subsequently your life experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Did you know you didn’t need to carry it around with
you? Did you know that emotion is energy in motion and that it's nature is to move and not stand still?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Every emotion held is a mini volcano waiting to burst. Tears, or its softer parents sadness, anguish, like laughter is not meant to be held in. Why can we allow laughter to bubble so freely where our pain we hold on as if it is a treasured possession?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is only because that for our spirit/soul selves joy is our natural state of being. So we allow the lightness of joy and positive feelings to move naturally, where negative feelings are so uncomfortable that if we allow it to exist we feel it will grow into some horrible monster child that we cannot control. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The truth is, like every child which is screaming for attention, it is only needing to be acknowledged. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Failure is a construct made in our modern society where our senses are battered with confusing and conflicting information, where wrong or right is the measurements of blame. The universal law of polarity exists in all that we do and where the positive element exists so does the negative in equal measure, there is no up without down or top with out bottom. It is always a matter of perspective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So imagine it for a moment. I am calmly trying to tell myself all is well with my mediumship and shoving my anxiety down into my chest as if cramming a suitcase full of clothes to bursting point and attempting to squeeze it tightly shut. Meanwhile my sub concious is running around like Corporal Jones from Dad's Army yelling "don't panic, dont panic". The swelling fear inside me grabbs my heart as mind babble of every possible consequence runs a muck in my mind defining my next experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So what's this to do with being a medium?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Despite all of our connectivness, spiritual awareness and knowledge, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we are living our human experience first. We may have chosen to do it as facilitators for spirit but we are not exempt from the human living experience itself. So even through the experience of mediumship and being a Spirit Worker we are going to get locked into our thoughts of failure, or believing we are here to get to a destination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There is nothing wrong in being a dedicated medium.. Indeed the new spiritual revolution is being greeted by our spirit family's with excitement as the earth and spirit realms are drawing closer. More contact and connections are going to be able to allow the human race to evolve further to create a more connected experience. However many mediums see that their lives is only one of service..their experience being outside of them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am recently reminded of the young man Stephen Sutton, who inspired the world with his battle with cancer and aged 19 passed to the spirit world. Before he left this life he didn't allow his illness to dictate to him and stop him embracing his full life experience. Indeed armed with a bucket list he set about grabbing life and packed his life with things he wanted to do, inspiring many along the way. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He lived life to the full in a short time which many do not engage in. Perhaps it was because he had nothing more to loose, nothing to risk and all to gain, and all he had left was to make the rest of his life experience as good as he could make it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What if really it can be like that for everyone? That if we stop looking at the destination, the results, tomorrow, achievement, perfection, outcome, or fear of our last breath?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How about success is embracing every experience with acceptance and joy with the knowledge that it is as it is. Allow our heart to be the barometer to choose rather than our mind managed by our subconscious surrounded by all the fears of human living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Failure is a human invention created from the judgment of right or wrong. If no experience, negative or positive, that you have walked into is wrong as it is just as it is in that moment. Why would you have failed? You are in that experience because you are supposed to be - not as any wrong doing but the direction you choose to go. It is just like driving into a deadend..you may have not seen or ignored the sign telling you where you were going. You are there and the next step is to drive out to the next step of your journey if you decide it's not where you prefer to be. It doesn't change that you experienced steps of driving or seeing places you hadn't planned to go through. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What we might choose to experience at a soul level indeed is a challenging thought to any human mind, but again it is a matter of perspective - our's is limited by the veil of not knowing or being able to see the big picture we may appreciate back home in Spirit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As Spirit Workers we believe we are infinite beings - and our lives, however long, is a drop in the ocean of the divine source, lived through the potential of many lives or multi dimensional experiences. Science has started to agree with much of our spiritual concepts through further exploration of quantum physics and that our</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> universe operates to natural laws: Vibration, Relativity, Cause and Effect, Polarity, Rhythm, Gestation and Transmutation....some would argue that there are upto 12 that operates. Much of our human brothers and sisters are not aware of any science in any form, just that they live and are only aware of their human experience. Those of a spiritual nature know that we are spirit living a human experience.</span><br />
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Jan Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03587595873378376401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7541730375718256575.post-25920321727480089002013-09-29T13:14:00.000-07:002013-09-29T13:14:38.929-07:00Today I am who I am<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some of my regular blog readers may feel that I am against
some of the love and light brigade or certain spiritual groups or of those who
are being the arch typical spiritual person. </span></div>
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It is good for anyone to hold to the affirmation “today I am who I am”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The hot bed of spiritualism is thriving amongst our
communities and indeed is having their own “coming” out of the closet like a
dominant gay queen stepping out in Canal Street in Manchester, loud and clear
and ensuring everyone knows they are there.
Anyone who is amongst like-minded people tends to grow in confidence and
feel encouraged as they recognise that there are similar people to them out
there. There is, however, like in gay
society, and in every society, the catty backbiting competitive crowd who stirs
up the party, and some who just follow the crowd as it is safer being on the
inside than the outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The strong “love and light” outlook, with the odd swing of
colourful garments, that marks many spiritualists is just a way of them trying
to show that they are dedicated to their spiritual belief and enjoying being
who they are with passion and intent, and it is the same amongst Wiccan and
pagan groups. It is normal to want to
fit in, and even like the young generation in trends and fashion, the “in”
crowd lead the way as to what is going to be acceptable – or not. Natural instinct is there to protect us all
and, the human as an animal, is much like any other herd animal and attempts to
stay with the herd to ensure its safety, and look and act much like the rest of
its brothers and sisters. The one on the
outside or looking different is the one more likely to be identified by predators
lurking hungrily around the edge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As you work with Spirit, and learn to understand how they
work, you will be taken through many experiences to assist you in your
knowledge and development. Spiritualism
has though, become a religion with many at the helm applying human nature to
control, manage and apply rules to how modern spiritualism exists within
society. You can give a thousand points
to them for being passionate and wishing Spiritualism to thrive compared to the
old days when we were all drowned and hung as witches or eternally fired for
being a heretic and practicing our belief – the good old days of living in the
closet. Many good things have been done
to aid modern Spiritualism but a fundamental thought seems to have been somewhat
forgotten. Being spiritual is a way of
being, it is not a religion. It is an unfoldment, a realisation, an epiphany,
and experience all rolled into one. Everyones’
personal journey is not totally the same, and is theirs to claim alone. The age old human thing of trying to reinvent
the wheel, where ego and insanity takes over what needs not to be a
manufactured way of being with dogma and dictators influencing who you are and
how you should be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Spiritualism has grown organically from the closet days,
where devoted spiritual pioneers sat in circle learning and working with spirit
and allowing them to grow in their knowledge and wisdom. With the dawning of the internet and a more
accepting society, we now have big schools, workshops, churches, spiritual
centres with the traditionalists and the new all trying to spread their wings
and bring to the world modern spiritualism.
It is truly wonderful that we can now share our spiritual awakening and
as to how we feel about it and who we are. But with the labelling of a religion and being
part of a specific society, new rules come in as to how we should behave and
think and how we should practice in being “spiritual” people. Someone somewhere originally had a great idea
to do good, to further the way forward and a little group got together to
influence the way – and bang everyone is on the wagon and the generalist guide “how
to be spiritual” is born. Our version of
the bible has arrived in all its glory, and not a second coming messiah in
sight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some rules are good – the Seven principles are a good
standing point for anyone with a spiritual belief. I won’t discuss these in detail as they are
easily found, and appreciated by any person wishing to understand spiritualism. But every religion has started with a seed
and its flower been admired and beheld, to only be torn up by the root and put
in a greenhouse and given a label as to how best it is grown and propagated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like any wild flower it grew well enough on its own without
help. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Human history and today’s multicultural society still shows
that most religions end up with humans fighting against humans whether it’s by
word or by sword. Whatever it is, it is
still a sad day for mankind and spirit alike.
Is it what we truly want for our spiritual legacy? Personally, I don’t think so, but somehow I
am not sure those who are waving our banner will be listening to me. For me it is straightforward, Spirit is always
there with their blazing light of love and it’s us humans which play the hokey
cokey with the dark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is true; there are some people out there who do need human
guidance. A spiritual awakening is a
confusing place to be at times, especially if you have great Aunt Mabel or even
Angel Gabriel materialising at the breakfast table for a chat unexpectedly. It’s
enough for anyone to suddenly choke on their Cheerio’s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What we see and what we think about spirit
can be overwhelming, and our minds can run around like an abandoned chicken on
a motorway dancing in front of dazzling headlights. In our need to gain knowledge, we do need to
understand that there are many ways of thinking, many different experiences. Specifically if we are going to tune into the
spiritual realm and invite strange spirits for a bit of a natter because we
have their loved one sitting in front of us, is not about having a duty of care
and abiding by the law, but caring about a fellow human. We do need to
appreciate that there is a way to deliver the fantastic news that little Jonny isn’t
going to be in pain anymore and will be shortly journeying back home to the Spirit
world on a one way ticket. It is not about wielding a new found power, believing
that as you have an insight to someone else’s life and they have given you
money to give that insight, does not mean that you have acquired the god given
right to destroy or ruin it by the “truthful” words you are blessed to give
from the spirit world. Too many times
I have heard how a message has been given to an unsuspecting happy client, and
the next minute they are lost feeling their lives are in tatters due to a
message given thoughtlessly and without care about its effects. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Spirit is
indeed loving, but there are so many mediums who are untrained, not in tune,
and misinterpret their communication with Spirit. Evidence is all about having “a
lovely lady with grey hair, your grandmother, who gives you her love”, rather
than the real evidence of the lady you knew who sat and watched the wombles
with you and fed you peanut jelly sandwiches.
If you have the privilege of having someone sitting waiting for your
words and that what you are giving or feeling matters more than what the person
sitting in front of you is feeling or receiving – then check you are hearing
spirit. It is likely they are jumping up
and down in front of you trying to get you to hear them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That being said, we are human and spirit sharing a journey
together and as human’s we are dominated by our fears and our doubts. It is safer to be in a group when you are
first developing. There are many excellent teachers out there who are every so
willing to share their experiences and wisdom for free and even more so if you
wave a score note around like a red flag to a bull in the right place. It is
not wrong to earn money from teaching spiritual matters, but often where money becomes
the main motivation, what you get in return can lose its soul. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The point is though....if you are working with Spirit, truly
working with Spirit, you shouldn’t need to be told. Spirit will guide you. It is
good to find out different views, and experiment with new ways of working,
traditional ways and different modern spiritual thinking. You can be angelic, Buddhist, ascended
masters, seventh heaven, ghost buster or mystic meg – it is a case of learning to be a apple, then
a pear, then a banana – or just being a fruit basket like me! It is not wrong, it is just the way you are
evolving and learning. You do not have
to trash what you first thought or the knowledge you first acquired, you just
have developed it and decided what is right at that time for you. You are all that you are because of
everything you have ever done, not just because of one single moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sometimes I may sound somewhat cynical about some Spiritual
things. It is not that I am truly
trying to put down – it is a case of every man for himself. It is ok to follow the crowd, it is ok to
wear rainbow outfits and have crystal chandeliers as earrings.....I have done
it. So do still do it occasionally. They are so beautiful! I do it not as a uniform, but as an
expression of me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have a lovely knowledgable friend called Jay, who the
other day came to circle wonderfully wearing beautiful orange and colourful
Indian garments in celebration of Ganesha, one of her favourite Hindu deities.
It was his birthday and, because she resonated with him, felt it was a way to
honour him by dressing herself in colours she believed he would appreciate.
Other days Jay will be just Jay, another day she will come in wearing outfits
which make her resemble a little native Indian squaw. She is not trying to be something, she is
just being Jay – comfortable and enjoying being aspects of herself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The point is that is what spiritualism is truly about, being
who you are, as a spirit. Your guides
and your spirit family know you inside out.
They have known you for eternity; you do not need to be something you
are not. They will help you find who
you are inside, and if you feel for a moment that you should dress like someone
else, they will happily not say a word, as they want you to benefit from the
experience of adopting a persona which makes you feel that you can be confident
and bring out the innerspirt, the true you.
It is your human experience and for you to decide what is right for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You do not need me, or anyone, to criticise or to tell you
are wrong in your way or thinking, or living or to tell you how to be or what
to believe...and if they do, then do wonder about what it tells you about
them...or even you. If you feel it is
right to be there, then that is where you should be. It is all about synchronicity at the end of
the day. Allowing the universe to
conspire to help you develop who you are, and it is all so amazing how it comes
together to bring the like-minded friends, the daring of being something
different than you may have been before.
You may allow them all to influence to you, wear the same outfits to fit
in, be draped in crystals, use the same Tarot cards, go to all the workshops
and circles to feel acceptance or part of something bigger than yourself. Even
read a blog to look for insight. It won’t
always be that way, as like most people you will grow in confidence and being and
enjoying who you are will become who you are. </span></div>
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be like others, don’t need to wear a “spiritual” uniform to fit in, not needing
to acquire knowledge or being part of something bigger. You will just be you in
the way you want to express yourself and be comfortable in saying that.</span></div>
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Jan Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03587595873378376401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7541730375718256575.post-72229158285282413172013-08-25T05:33:00.002-07:002013-08-28T23:24:50.318-07:00Just Being Human<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So now you are a fully fledged medium. Your Facebook
list has become the who’s who of Theso Arthur Findley Spiritual College with some
of your peers now adorning a double barrelled surname of “spiritual medium”,
and those mentors who you once regarded as near the lofty heights of the Great
Spirit are now classed as fellow friends.</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Your bookshelves that were once laced with fantasy smattered with the
odd mills and boon, now look like the Mind, Body and Spirit section of
Waterstones, together with an extensive unused tarot card collection.</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The once uninteresting wardrobe now houses a
number of rainbow outfits which would look good at a fairy convention and highlight
the many colours you are. </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, when the
odd spirit pops in uninvited when you are watching corrie because they are
worried about little Joey who has fallen out with dad or Burt who is dancing on
the edge of the spirit world, it is just a mediums way of life.</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But now you have acquired the status and the notoriety,
is it all it is cracked up to be?</span></div>
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developing medium however long I am working with spirit, you will have times
when you have to put down your crystal ball and just live your life and be the
human you are. All is not always well
living in the shadows of the realm of forever and even knowing that you have
spirit and your belief to support you does not make you suddenly immune to
living life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The last year for me has been one of those years. A lot
of starting and not finishing with a lot of where life has become so physical
that much of my spiritual work has been put on hold. I have just had to be. Even finding time to write my blog has been
lost as the big hobnailed size nine boots of life stomp through my world. So I have lived life day by day, but, like bubbles
in a shaken champagne bottle, I have had little bits of the writing monster
burst from me and splash over my facebook page as a reminder that, like spirit,
the soul inside is still there waiting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So I still write little things when the urge takes me. My husband has learnt to recognise that I may
suddenly become a bit quiet and, then as he wanders on to Facebook, he sees
something rather wordy appear in my status as explanation for me being awol. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Recently a lovely medium friend, who is perhaps wiser
than me, recommended to me to put my name at the end of my wordy posts on
facebook. Not wanting to disagree with a clever friend, I did it a few times
even surrounding it with a couple of pretty stars to justify why it was there. It just didn’t feel right however much I
wrote it or embellished it. I wondered
for a moment whether it was because I felt that there was something lacking in
me or that I was ashamed of my words or that I didn’t want to own what I wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When it came to it, it was simply one thing. I wasn’t intending to post my work to the
world in order to be a Guru, or to be some sage that has the answers to the
universe and everything to a waiting audience. I was posting because I was human and that I
was also recognising that I was surrounded by other people who were just like
me, and equally just as human, and trying to live their lives in the best way
they could in many human ways. It goes
without saying that the last year has provided its emotional challenges. It has
been hard for me and as my thoughts about it came to the surface, I was just
writing it down because it was me just trying to exist through the mayhem of it
all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have always written, so it is a natural expression for
me but even some of the statuses I have put up have still made me look in
amazement at them. I know some of it is
me, but I also know my friends in the spirit world are always with me, and
maybe having the odd dabble at writing too.
The Spirit world is perhaps trying to upgrade their publicity department
with modern ways of contacting the physical world - facebook and twitter is the new Daily Spirit
Times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So I don’t feel the need to put my name to everything I
write. If people on Facebook want to copy what I write, they will, whether my
name is against it or not. Whether they wish to give the credit and thanks to
me for my words or pass it off as their own, it is always still in their choice
when they post it. If they don’t, what
does it matter? If something reaches out through them and others benefit then
that is a good thing. If they resonated with my words, then surely those words
are, in essence, their own too? Truth always lives inside the heart and the
conscious mind can often be the last to find out an open secret. Whichever way my words get out to the universe
Spirit knows where they came from and, if indeed I am to be rewarded for my
moments of humanity, it will come from somewhere. It is not important.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Facebook is, however, a wonderful place to observe how
people are living their lives. I have said many times that there are many of
God’s PR agents writing their own version of war and peace. There is so much out there telling you how
you should or could live your life.
There are wonderful people like Eckhart Toll and Abraham Hicks, and
every day you come across people posting somebody’s wisdom on facebook, either
in a picture or in a verse. Plagiarism is alive and living on Facebook - let’s
not tell the lawyers! That being said, sometimes
the energy of god, the universe, Great Spirit, the goddess or whoever steps out
and touches you with a one liner of truth and you feel a profound connection to
something so big that you know that something indefinable has occurred within
you. An epiphany which rocks your world,
and from that moment you know you feel and think different.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However it comes, I am sure after all this spiritual
growth that you can look back and see your journey and that you were one person
once and you now fundamentally feel different now. You, during your development, have been
graduating from the school of life. Now
when you look at others you know and see the differences between you, and your
connection to the Spirit World has added so much more to you, and it is who you
are today. Whilst the innocent and ignorant remained sleeping, you woke and
danced in the Garden of Eden and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of
knowledge. What is known cannot be unknown and you are now running hooky from
human life along the edge of the earth.
You have vaulted from being mere human to spiritual being.
Congratulations!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And what’s this to do with achieving the dizzy heights
of being a working spiritual medium?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It has everything to do with it. Spirit and the spirit world are always
around us, even when you are feeling somewhat remote or disconnected from
them. Many mediums go through times when
they still have to grow as a spirit themselves, even if they are a guru, a
teacher, or a person who other people aspire to. You can’t deny your humanity and just live
chatting to spirit people, disconnecting with life and your physical
being. Being a medium doesn’t grant you
a pass to the top of the class just because you can talk to dead people, a host
of angels, or ascended masters. Ok chatting directly to god might make you a
little bit important!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The biggest thing you will learn as being a medium is
that despite knowing you are a spirit inside a physical body, you still have to
live a physical life and allow human everyday things to exist in your
life. You will never stop developing as
a medium and you also never stop growing as a human either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Through my own long list of facebook friends, I see
fellow mediums trying to live life, some living it uncomfortably, some
questioning their own spiritual ability, some accepting, some wondering why,
some content at where they are in life, some frustrated, others chasing
rainbows and believing that their purpose is to be more than they are. Many believe they are trying to be the spiritual
being they are, but really in essence they are being terribly human in their
response, not spirit. You do not need to
try to be something which you are already and apart from being human, you
are a soul, and you are spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I often hear many mediums telling me that working for Spirit is the sole reason why they have come to earth, or that they are earth
angels and that they are only here to do the Great Spirits or Gods work. Some
mediums exhaust themselves every waking moment working for Spirit. Others meditating for hours and hours a day to
strengthen their connection and thinking it is the only way for them to be
worthy of the connection. Week in and
week out they attend circles, workshops and the Arthur Findley College to get attain the level of Spiritual Medium. Pushing themselves harder and harder. Sadly,
through working with Spirit, many spiritual workers become less connected with
the physical world, their children and families losing them to communicating
with Spirit. A mother, father, daughter, son, best friend not fully present in
their lives, not gone to spirit, but almost as much so with the loved ones missing them. It is truly admirable to be so dedicated, to work so hard and to offer so much of yourself to one thing. I have been there. I
have felt it the pull. I love working with spirit
and connecting to that light energy of love. I love the Arthur Findley College, it is a wonderful place and I do recommend any spiritual worker should go there. Working with Spirit is very addictive and once you feel the energy and the connection, you miss it. Also, working with Spirit feels so much easier than
working with human beings with the heavy and darkness that exists in the human
world. Meanwhile Gods beautiful and
colourful human world grows grey as you continually live with Spirit. Is this really what we are supposed to be
doing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is true the call to work with Spirit can be strong.
The Spirit world want ambassadors for spirit to pass on their message of our
continuing existence. They are always very pleased to work with us and, if it
is something that we chose before we came to the earthly life or chose later
to do, they do their best to help us tune in to them. They
rejoice in our remembrance of them and enjoy our questions, our dedication to
working with them. But, to stop enjoying living our physical lives, to
disconnect ourselves from life, from our loved ones who lives with us in the physical world? No, that
is not what they expect or what was agreed in the contract of working with
them. They didn’t get you to sign a contract with
them in blood. They are not the Devil following you around waving a
toasting fork at you shouting that you will rot in hell if you stop working
with them for a while and enjoy your life.
You chose it wilfully and equally can unchoose it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I know this is a matter of what you personally believe as to what the Spirit world looks like, but consider this.
You arrive in the Spirit world greeted by your guide, your soul group,
your family and they ask what your experience of life was. How did you grow, what did you directly
experience, and what did you learn by being human? Did you grasp every opportunity you were offered?
If you believe in soul groups and the contracts you had with them, what would
your fellow soul friends say? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is not an answer for the human mind to find an
opportunity to whip itself - remember god is love, spirit is love….and they
would be gentle and loving in their answer. But what would you think, as your
higher self, when you are looking and reviewing your life in the Akashic records?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The spiritual influence and our recognition that we are more
than what we are strongly pushes us forward to be better as people. It is all over spiritual life to be a better spirit or person. It is a good thing to be conscious and aware but sometimes the love of spirit makes the human part of us feel unworthy and less,
and we strive harder to be what we think we should be rather than being who we
are, Human. In the world of spirit we are part of
something beyond our current human comprehension. We resonate to a different
vibration that our human physical body cannot spin to and the awareness we feel
here is a drop from an ocean too big to be seen. The unknown, and what we fear, our mind is
always trying to logically make sense of, to reassure our subconscious of our
being. It is so terribly human of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is not about stopping being a medium and not trying
to be better and improve yourself. But about ensuring that we do not allow the human part
of us to push us so hard and so much more than Spirit is actually doing. When you arrive home in the Spirit world, working
with spirit cannot be the reason why you did not experience your human existence
to the full. Our Guides understand our
human qualities, are loving and patient and know that we are hungry for
knowledge of who we really are, and to be what we can be. They are guiding us
through the experience as interactive as they can. You would not
ask a blind man to look and see the beautiful vista, but describe it to him and
help him touch it and hope that he enjoys the experience of the connection you
have assisted him with. Even if the
blind man, by miracle managed to see it, he would still perhaps not see the
same thing as you would be seeing as he is seeing through his eyes, not yours. As human we are purposely blind to the Spirit
world to aide our physical experience. It limits us in the interaction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So Spirit recognises that there are times which we will
not see what they see, not know what they know, and not hear what they hear, and
that they can only guide us, and not make our life their journey or experience. What we feel is totally down to us, and they are guided by us in that connection. They want
us to excel at being human, and they have agreed to be with us every step of
the way to encourage us through our journey in the physical world to grasp the
experience of life. They also have to
allow us to interact with our experience in our own way, allow our free will to
take us on the journey of our lives, allowing us to fly in any direction we want
to gain the biggest experience to bring home to the spirit world. In the many moments of now that they have
loved and worked with us, even when we were unaware of spirit, they always have
known and seen the bigger picture. They
do not expect us to be more than who we are as they already know and love us
as whom and what we are. It’s just us human’s who don’t. It is all part of
being human and our development. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes, not everyone will be aware of Spirit in their human
life time, but that does not make them less, just a choice that has been made
to hear a different drum and to dance to a different tune. It doesn’t make them less capable than us,
and can even sometime make them even more connected to both spirit and the
physical world more than us, as spirit is still influencing and working with
them. Truly being a medium does not lift
you to the level of a god above other humans! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The beauty of being a medium is that we learn that we
can rely on the fact that Spirit guides and helps us, as that awareness of the two-way
link we have always gives us the opportunity of being able to ask for their
view. But, however, they will not, and cannot, give us the answers that we need
to grow as human and spirit, but will always facilitate to help us explore and
expand our understanding and knowledge. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Recently, in my quiet connection with Spirit, they
helped me understand certain aspects I was questioning in my recent life
challenges. It is not a point of
sympathy, and I am not asking for a chorus of wailing (but thank you anyway if
you are so inclined) but we all have to go through the cycle of life with our
parents. It is the way of nature being born to physically die. Death knocks on our door in many ways, and sometimes
it can be a cruel slow process of painful watching and waiting of what you know
is inevitable, and when any person is face with their mortality or mortality of
their loved ones, even a talking to dead people worker, the magic can fall out
of life and the stress of living volume button gets turned up a few notches. It
has been that type of year. It is normal though. Whilst living my human experience, I
recognised that I needed some assistance through it and so asked for it. First it came through a fabulous lady called
Julia, who shared some lovely ways of thinking and discussions about universal
law. And secondly, through a book arriving in my space “Butterflies are free to
fly” by Stephan Davis. (free on kindle download through Amazon). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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several brain cells on a permanent holiday, I decided to expand my knowledge on
the universal laws, not just law of attraction, but the real scientific view
against the spiritual view. As usual my
lovely spirit guides (through my best friend Google) led me to this book which
for a while did rock my world quite profoundly, so much so that I shared it
with some of spiritual best friends. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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blue butterfly on its cover? It does tell you it is a very radical book in its
thought processes. The first thing I will say is that the book is written by a
guy who used to be highly active in the scientologist movement. However, it is an interesting book and makes good use of metaphor and analogies to explain it's point. It specifically highlights that we humans live
reality to that we can only directly see and what is in our experience and
perception of it. Plato, as well as having a mention, would have loved it. I won’t be a plot spoiler, as I think it is a
book everyone should read as it is has many truths, much wisdom, and other
points to share that will help add colour to anyone’s thought processes and
knowledge, even if they throw out the way of thinking. The book has a point of view some would argue
against and that may even bring some spiritual warriors to draw passionate “S”
words at dawn, particularly as it challenges spiritual thinking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For me, though, it reminded me why I thought the way I
did, and of the strong belief I have always had since a young child. It made me think and consider many points of
my belief. It rang question after question in my heart, as I could not argue with some of the mind blowing elements of wisdom and truth in some of his view points. It was clear, though, that his much of his belief was deeply ground in his own
personal experience, with elements which I could not resonate with because of how and what I believe.
There were several interesting viewpoints about our lives being governed
by an “Infinite one”, and for those who have read it, or do intend to read it,
I still like to refer to my infinite one as being my higher self….and I
couldn’t resist and went through the door!
Whether it was the one intended is another point altogether!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that life is there for us to experience, and most of all, that we should enjoy the experience. We may all seek a purpose, but in truth our
purpose is to experience life and to “feel” it to the very core of our soul,
higher self, or as in the book, infinite one.
What that experience is, I think, is for us to choose…and perhaps guided
by our higher self or infinite one to the experience it directs. Even when life is uncomfortable, like this
last year has been for me, I recognise I have chosen it to be that way
somewhere along the line by how I have interacted with it. I can fight
it, challenge it, but it will still make it as uncomfortable as it can be as I
am resisting the experience and it will continue to be that way whilst I
resist. After having what seems a very
long year, the saying is true that what you resist persists. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So there you are, the Devil is merrily dancing, teasing
and prodding you with his fork, and because he is a little sadistic little so
and so, he doesn’t have it in his ability to go away politely when you keep telling
him you are not enjoying the experience. He though is gleefully ignoring you as
he is enjoying every second of his experience of watching you squirm
uncomfortably and shaking in your boots, providing him with the emotion and
drama he is hungrily looking for. He is
more likely going to dance and jump around you revelling in your fear and
discomfort with the hope and anticipation of you giving him more. He could be
in for a surprise, as the moment you accept and smile back accepting the
experience of him dancing, it becomes no fun and no longer is he getting the emotion
and drama he was being fed by you, as you are no longer resisting but engaging
in and enjoying the experience. Suddenly the pain and prodding you were
experiencing stops.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some years ago during my recruitment agency work, there
was a lady who I had to go and discuss business with. She was very professional, and cheerful lady,
but I couldn’t help noticing that she had a habit of saying thank you before
speaking back, or just generally sliding it in the conversation in response to
my comments. At the time I thought it
strange, but I left feeling that I had missed some important point, as well thinking
that I had met a very enlightened soul that day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My recent experience through the book and my friend
Julia is that life is for feeling and enjoying. Every experience you go though
is to be appreciated, be it negative or positive. It’s not about being grateful
and constantly saying thank you, but appreciating every experience that comes
into your space by acknowledging your feeling of it and the growth it is trying
to bring. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ok, you may think it strange, but give it a go – just
beware of the too many loud thank you’s; people may think it’s a tick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In that appreciation and acknowledgment of it, you can
connect to an experience you wish to enjoy, rather than existing in an
experience you do not. Saying thank you,
or just appreciating the experience, allows acceptance (a mental yes) to the
awareness of truth to resonate and interact with you about the experience. It brings learning, nullifies any resistance,
and brings the opportunity of conscious change to your experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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remember that I am experiencing life I have chosen, and say thank you. Whether it is to my higher self, my guides or
infinite one, as in the book, is immaterial.
Those who read the book may appreciate the viewpoint even more though. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Spirit always like to show they have a hand in things –
and in confirmation of this, I now strangely work for an organisation called
infinite – and weirdly for a week or two I had to daily type a password of
“infinite1” to log into a local network. It still baffles me that I do that, but synchronicity
and my spirit guides are truly amazing…and I thank them for the experience!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Julia gave was to remind me that everyone has the right to be an individual
source of the divine, be their own path, their own drama. It is their life, their reality, their
experience…and no one is either right, or wrong, despite what we have always
been told as children. Both right and
wrong exist in the universe, and when you make a right, then the natural law of
polarity means that it’s polar opposite of wrong always exists somewhere in the
situation, whether it is someone feeling it or being it, and vice versa with
wrong and right. It is like a coin, one
side facing up, and other down, and seeing the facing up side as the right
side. You only need to reverse it, and the
other side now is the right side where in reality they both exist and it is
always your perception of it which makes it right or wrong. By recognition of both sides and accepting
that they both exist, you become neither up nor down, right or wrong, but
neutral.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can see when I look back as to how many times I have fought and resisted this
past year, what my heart already knew. Although the uncomfortable journey I
have been experiencing this past year has been as a result of my own reaction
to loved ones own fight with their experience of life and health challenges, I
appreciate more now that the resistance I
gave to accepting the experience was futile and unproductive, as it is like
trying to stop the world from turning round.
I see now how my humanity shouting at me protesting at its reality, and
my spiritual connection trying to remind me of the bigger picture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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By nature humans measures the world in polarity. We are emotionally motivated
by feeling ok, and not ok, right and wrong, Yes or No, and the internal battle
which can be created by the polarity can affect our daily lives and our
decisions. Living up to our own expectations, perceived other’s people’s expectations
and how we interact with our life time experiences is what makes our reality
and our final experience. Often it can
be put upon us like a cloak we believe we should wear, forgetting that it may
not be ours to put on, as we have in truth just allowed ourselves to get
dragged into a moment of dressing up in somebody else’s clothes, and then trying
to look good in it and feeling unhappy as a result. The point is, even unconsciously, you made the
choice of wearing the cloak…and that goes for every experience you have had –
you made the choice to be there. We are
all supporting actors in the drama of other people’s lives, and so are they
when we are the lead. Often, entering
into others experiences and making their drama our drama, and even through the
love of Spirit we can adopt the worlds drama as our own. If you are not enjoying it, resisting the
experience, then how about turning it on its head, like the coin? Sometimes you
have to take consciously take off the cloak and look in the wardrobe for the
one you want to wear. </span></div>
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someone else’s wardrobe but you don’t have to put their cloak on. You can appreciate it without entering into
the direct experience of feeling it. It
is their right to be in their own experience, it is their reality, made by
their own interaction with their experience. A good question to ask when you think you may
have wandered into someone else’s experience is this my truth? If you feel your heart tightening or
constricting, or some resistance to the idea – it is clearly telling you that
something is amiss and perhaps it is not what you should be doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when you are reminded that you are human. To work well with the spirit world,
it is important to ensure there is the balance of the physical and spiritual in
your life. We are all Alice’s in
Wonderland. Sometimes you may tip too
much one way, and fall down the hole and find yourself sitting at the Mad Hatter’s
tea party or in front of the Queen of hearts.
It is normal and natural to experience this life and when you are there
don’t resist it, feel the experience you are in. Don’t try to make yourself fit
in a box that is not designed for you. Love working with Spirit, and by all
means acquire new knowledge, grow spiritually. But don’t work so hard to just be, when the
only thing you need to be in this life is a happy you. This is the life you chose and are still choosing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jan Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03587595873378376401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7541730375718256575.post-89086409910438725592013-05-18T00:17:00.001-07:002013-08-11T08:38:49.665-07:00Inspiration - tapping into the universe<div dir="ltr">
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How do you feel when you are inspired...to write, to draw, to sings, to create?<br />
Did you know you were tapping into the universal energy? </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since the days I learnt that I could put pen to paper I have always written. Poetry, short story's, articles...even my own version of mills and boon. My eleven year old version of a steamy romance, which was possibly the biblical version of fifty shades of grey, still kept school mates gasping for the next edition. Although it was immaturely and naively written, it captured me and my friends. I would hungrily sit for hours writing in a school exercise book, churning chapter after chapter out - without a typewriter or a computer in sight, and no hope of a publisher. but my audience loved it. For me it was a way of expressing myself and putting my thoughts in order, and had started mainly for my own enjoyment. At that point I was writing because it tumbled out of me spurred on by emotional responses to the world around me. I didn't know that i was slowly tapping into something bigger than me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I look back at my earlier writing and see my childhood and my teenager angst... the woes and the joys, and see the glimpses of the person I was becoming, and growing to be. Although I did not put words to my spiritual awareness at that time, the inate awareness of being connected to some thing larger than myself was huge and quietly sat as a back bone in practically everything I wrote. Now I see so much more and the skills I was honing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So why talk about inspiration now? Those who are connected to my Facebook are used to my weird statuses, the moments when I suddenly have the urge for words to fall out of my head and I put up something reflective and, to some, diatribe about life. Some of my Facebook friends may have hidden my statuses because suddenly I am sprouting weird stuff, others though put messages of resonation, and in that moment i know that i have done the job I was supposed to do, even if I look at my status myself and think bloody hell what are you on girl! </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is inspiration. But when you feel that energy and allow that energy to flow, something happens deep inside you, and you then open up to the same energy that created this world...and if you think it in a wider context, the universe...and the divine energy of creation. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yep god was clearly having an inspirational moment when he created me, let alone the world, and the universe! </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The beauty about inspiration is that you don't need to put a religion on it or connect it to him upstairs, God, Allah, or any of his other personalities. You only have to accept that it's there and that you can do wonderful things with it. When we create we are connecting to something which communicates back at us, feeds our soul, rewards us with something physically we can see, and bring to life. We are all mini gods and by using this energy we create our world and our universe. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But okay, according to my Talent Dynamics profile I am a creator, and have dynamo energy, and have my head in the clouds, and inspiration is natural to me. But that is a natural choice for me, but everyone can be inspired, but in their own way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The other day I was attending a meeting, and as a medium who is now used to opening and connecting to the energy around me. I was listening to a medium give a message and then suddenly words started jumping in my head that surprised me as it was such a different format than I was used to. As they spun round like a miniature sand storm in my head, I had to immediately write them the moment the meeting ended. My dear friend waiting patiently as I urgently and frantically wrote in his car on my phone, and straight on to Facebook..</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"...And the child flew merrily with out fear cross the sky. The adult watched in awe and wonder and said I wish I could do that.The child stopped surprised, but you taught me, did you forget how to fly? The adult remembered for a moment. I grew up, and stopped living intuitively where conformity became my cage. My wings got weighed down by the sadness of not flying. The child said, follow me as I can fly! ... "</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I eventually read what I wrote, I thought crikey who have i tapped into...Peter Pan? Tinkerbell? Wendy. The comments I got clearly stirred something within the readers. Whilst I thought it an unusual status. some thought it beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As my husband would say, you've been busy haven't you...but for me I am used to it, know that something more is at work and that I write now just for more just me. Even though I still feel like Alice in wonderland when I eventually see what I have written, I know, especially now after the above, that I only just have to connect and something amazing will happen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am sure everyone has their thoughts to what is occurring, but it does not matter what I am connecting to whether it is my head, my higherself, my ego, a guide, wordsworth, Tinkerbell, universal energy, or even god. Along as it is good, as long as I have the good honest intention when I allow myself to become inspired, something amazing may happen. I now recognise that energy and allow it to happen, without fear, I open myself up to the inspiration whether it is triggered by a beautiful sunset, a piece of music, a person, a story or a feeling...and allows the answer from the universe to flow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am not special, or particularly gifted. Inspiration is something we all have...all capable of allowing for ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As in the words written above, and as I did too as a child, children are inspired so naturally where many adults forget, but still encourage their children to be inspired. So looks to your children, look to you as a child. What inspires you?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So come and join me in the clouds...<br />
Allow yourself to fly and connect to the energy of the universe.</span></div>
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Jan Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03587595873378376401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7541730375718256575.post-81636080042157298262012-03-25T12:52:00.000-07:002012-03-25T12:53:30.369-07:00What Are You Thinking?<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s a bit
of a question isn’t it? Everyone has their personal thoughts, their personal
truth. Truth is always how you look at
it, and you can buy into everyone story if you resonate with it enough. Any of you who have read my blog before know
that I am a strong believer in intuition and believer of finding out what is
your own personal truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My
bookshelves are full of other peoples truth, full of explanations about spirit,
mediumship, life regression, the law of attraction, positive thinking – you name
it – I can find a book on it somewhere. I
have read information on spirituality forums, websites, watched videos
channelled from enlightened beings and mr nobody on You-Tube. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Some of which
I have not truly experienced but I can tell you about it – as to have a
informed opinion is important in decision making – but you can get lost in
knowledge too. It can be as overwhelming as
a box of frogs and it does feel that you are sometimes part of some big
political drive with God advertising his policies through a variety of
representatives, whether it is spirit, a book, or a friend who has suddenly
become passionate about a new way of healing or mediumship technique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">gather all
we know and put it away in the box for a while and just start relying on our intuition to take
ourselves forward again. You can have all the knowledge in the world and still be non the wiser.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If you
personally are inspired, then it doesn’t really matter, as well as knowledge, attunement to higher
vibrations comes through many tools, crystals, spiritual healing,
reiki healing, channelling, painting, music, writing, dancing, meditation – the
list goes on. They are all methods of
where you open your awareness up to something more than just your own vibration
and something wonderfully creative happens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But back to
the question though “What are you thinking?" We have all heard the term what you put out
is what you get back as well as ask the universe for what you want and that it
will be granted – so when you put out asking the universe for a sex god, he
arrived. Not quite? You opened your
front door to find a relative of the frog prince saying he was your Mr Right
and wearing a faded t-shirt with “Sex God” emblazoned across it? Cosmic ordering is a tricky process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Recently I
was ambling around facebook and stumbled upon a guy on You-Tube who explored
the theories of 2012 and was trying to dispel some of the wilder notions. He
spent time on a range of discussions spanning several videos, discussing proof
of what was going to happen, or not, on 21<sup>st</sup> December 2012. This
included the Mayan calendar and potential incorrect calculations, the Illuminatii
who apparently rule our world, establishment conspiracy theories and about
great seers of our time who had predicted world’s events in the past. It went into great detail about what these
Seers had predicted for our future and the potential end of the world, starting
with the big bang and ending in a similar big bang. It also discussed the change in spiritual awareness
and ascendency to something different, aliens landing and a few other concepts. What was good about it – was it tried to be
balanced and was one of the best I had come across in the vast array of people
trying to convince me that I was dammed if I did and dammed if I did not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Everything
he said made sense initially. I thought I had found a balanced answer to what
might happen. Excited, I was about to
post the good news all over facebook to my spiritual friends, as I knew they
too would feel better about this video...but then something else occurred to me
and stopped me in my tracks.</span></div>
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intention behind all of this?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As a medium
myself, I have learnt to trust in my spirit guides and spirit family resulting
from a foundation built on personal responsibility
and developing my awareness of myself.
When you talk about energy, spirit and why we are here and the majority
of Spiritual belief – it is about us and our spiritual growth. It talks about personal responsibility and
when we heal, we need to heal ourselves first.
Spiritualism talks about the highest vibration of all - god’s
unconditional love…which all starts within us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Now just in case
you don’t have the foggiest what I am talking about – bare with me while I
explain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Energy is
what the universe is all about...it is also known as universal life force – a
force which is intangible, but when you know it’s there, you can sense it, feel
it and sometimes learn to see it. When
you start to appreciate things more at an energy level, you are able to appreciate
how to direct it to help yourself and your spiritual journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is not a case of good energy or bad energy….energy
is just energy , but knowing it is
capable of being manipulated and directed into something more than it started
out and that it creates and becomes everything that is in our world is what
gives you the key. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Where it
comes from is not the point, but it is important to just recognise it
exists. It vibrates and moves at a speed
which is instantaneous and is defined as it is spun and although we may only physically
see the finished product, whether it is something formed of matter like a
chair, or a situation or a word – it started long before you saw it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Considered
something which we all know and use in our everyday lives, electricity. It is energy. You turn the light switch on
and instantaneously the light comes on at the light bulb. The energy has been allowed to flow from one
given point – to provide an output of light at another point through the
electricity being manipulated by the light bulb. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But if you
take it deeper – the flow of electricity only came through your “intention” to
switch the switch on, and deeper still, that source of electricity came further
beyond the actual light switch. That switch
was just another point holding and blocking the electricity from moving to the
light bulb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As we walk
through life we come through many challenges and often what we think colours
our point of view. Being negative or positive
can change our perception of what we think of the situation and indeed can
affect our choices as we go though our life experiences. When you start to
consider energy as energy – what you put in to your world, you start to
recognise that if you have a negative view point, often what is created are
tainted with the view point and the flow of the energy is bending and being
manipulated by that negative view point.
It ends up with the opposite of what you thought you want. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When we try
to consider ourselves as spiritual beings living a physical life – a way to
consider it further is that our physical life is the light switch to the light
bulb, and our spiritual life is that before the light switch and the subtler energy
transmuted into light when light bulb is on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Now when you
see that the life force energy flows and it comes from an original source and
everything in creation comes from that original source – you then start to
appreciate the concept that we all come from the same light source, like our
electricity supply, it has been directed towards many light switches with light
bulbs – us, the universe. We are one and
the same energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The point of
this is not for you to blow a fuse at the thought of concepts beyond your
thinking pattern, but to just help you to become more aware of how energy
works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So you now
appreciate that there is energy, and that you are part of that energy…..but how
about you recognising that you are the light bulb, and your thoughts are light
switches which direct energy to you as a person?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What you
think….is what you are. If you think
you are a fat person, you will feel that you are a fat person but it doesn’t just
stop there. Our subconscious absorbs
many things we don’t realise it is absorbing – knowledge about our environment,
how it should operate in those environments and works accordingly. And hey presto, before you know it you are
saying you don’t fit into certain places or clothes because you are a fat
person - all because you thought you
were a fat person in the first place. It
doesn’t just stop there…but you get the idea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Recently I
worked with some 15 year old students who had been having a challenging time in
their lives. My thoughts came round to
how I would try to get over to them the choices they could make, and the world
they could manifest for themselves. It
came about in my preparation of the workshop that I realised that “intention”
is something that you have to be very conscious about – as it is part of the
energy that you create for yourselves as you think it. Understanding what you are intending when you
are acting out moments in your life, helps you to manifest what you truly want. If you are not setting your intention early
enough in the thought process how are you going to obtain the results you want?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If we have
managed to acquire negative thinking patterns, often it comes from a place of
fear and we adjust our way of how we are to keep ourselves safe in going
forward in our lives. So if we are tall
and have a fear of bumping our head we walk around keeping our head down
ducking and avoiding pain. It is normal,
it is how we protect ourselves. But
thinking about it, would it truly be your intention to go around stooped all
your life in order to avoid bumping your head? Or could it be that if you were intentionally
a little more focused on looking when you went that you could still walk
straight in your world and successfully negotiate the obstacles without having
to walk stooped? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Having a
small awareness of yourself and why is what makes the difference, being aware
of where and when you make your choices, and where your interaction with energy
truly begins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A good start
is to think positively, as it means that the moment you create you have a
chance of the energy going the right way.
But is the intuitive thought just enough? Some times, you need to define
it a little more, and put a little bit more purpose behind it. But like with
the 15 year old students, it is about starting with the right intention in the
first place – for them in the workshop it was giving to them a piece of play
dough and allowing them to do what they “will” with it. Some created shapes, some were more
inventive, and some didn’t do anything.
If you don’t do anything, how is the energy going to change? – the energy
in this case is them deliberately manipulating the play dough and changing it
from the ball it was – it couldn’t do it without their physical or mental involvement,
some concept of what they were trying to create. It is the same for anyone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So why am I
talking about intention? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Well we are
back to the universal life force again.
We are energy. What we think is
energy. What we think is what we create
for ourselves. What are you putting out
into the world? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We are not
just talking about thoughts about yourself but about the world around you. If we
are truly manifesting our future by our thoughts what are we creating for our children,
or the world around us? What is our
intention when we listen to all the negative things around us, people complaining,
and the bad news on TV? Listening to many
who are not aware of their thoughts, or their intention, or what they are
manifesting for themselves? What are we intending when we worry about the
unknown, the things which we fear, the terrorist attacks, and the world being a
dangerous place to live. What’s your
thought about 21<sup>st</sup> December 2012?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is great
if we are seeing it at a positive thing but what are we doing if are personally
contributing to and creating and adding to the thought that it’s going to be a negative
thing? In the bible it says that God the
creator is in all of us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So what is
your intention - what are YOU personally creating for yourself for YOU?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s a big
thought hey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A small
thought to add…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Life is a complex
tune played by a huge orchestra with many sub-melodies being part of the
overall tune. We are all part of that
orchestra playing our own single melody which adds to that tune. Our ability to hear the whole tune can get
lost in us as we are only able to concentrate on one particular melody at one
time and we can get distracted and associate with one part of that tune which
can erode our own playing of our own specific melody. The more we are open to listen, the more we hear,
the more we can become aware of the
other melodies playing in the background and can vibrate with them separately
knowing that the other melodies exist alongside our melody and that we are only
part of the overall tune of life which is far more and bigger than we can fully
hear or feel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If you
concentrate on the melody within yourself being true –something that you can feel
– surely you can’t go wrong as it adds to the magnificence of the overall tune? If you have the intention set right - one of
positive love, surely that resonates with the world, the universe, with spirit,
the divine and ultimately the creation of what you are thinking?</span></div>Jan Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03587595873378376401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7541730375718256575.post-86188624013403778912011-09-08T14:30:00.000-07:002011-09-08T14:30:31.987-07:00And the answer is....<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So you have watched Colin Fry on the tenth
re-run of the programme “Sixth Sense”, caught up with John Edwards “Crossing
Over” at lunch time and you have now received your application form to be Tony
Stockwell’s next apprentice on “Psychic Academy”. All in the preparation of
launching yourself on the unsuspecting world with your new found ability to
predict the future and talk to the dead.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">But before you rush off to post your
application, is it really that easy to become the next top medium?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">For some, maybe, but for most it is years of
self-development, self-healing and single minded dedication, with a few ego
trips thrown in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The biggest issue is knowing
where to start and to sort through the minefield of information given to you by
your new found spiritual friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Unless you have grown up in Spiritualism,
most peoples journey starts with a thousand unanswered questions and a stumble
towards a tarot reading with Mystic Peg who dramatically confirms to you that
you have psychic powers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes it
is through a Clairvoyance Evening at the local sport centre or pub and for
others it was by braving the doors of the local spiritualist church with hope
and doubt held tightly in both hands. Either way Spirit has announced that you
are one of them and you have been left feeling like Quasimodo and the Tooth
Fairy rolled into one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The answers,
however,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that you hoped to find from the
tea leaves at the bottom of a tea cup or at a medium demonstration may still
leave you somewhat bewildered and wondering if you have joined the Mad Hatter’s
tea party.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The revelation that all the things you know
when you shouldn’t know, the weird voices no one else hears and the odd people
you see are not a figment of your wild imagination or you buying a timeshare in
the local mental home can be welcomed with masked relief laced with wonderment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless you have a profound spiritual most initially
put psychic ability in the level of having magic powers or at the foot of God
or the Devil, whichever comes first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The background drop of Christianity still
sits heavily upon the social conscious of the western world, and whilst the
acceptance of multi religion is still in toddler training pants, the fear of
anything potentially supernatural, or unnatural, is not. Most might think that
the days of witch hunts are gone, but those stuck in the world of religious
dogma would rapidly agree to get their crusade swords out if God, and human
rights, would only sanction them to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Where fear is involved, change is like the hidden track on an album, not
in the title list but eventually played. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But
times are changing. Pockets of people are starting to virally spread all over
the UK bringing the questions of Who, How, What and Why to people’s personal
lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>TV and radio programmes now have
“your daily talk with spirit” slots etched in their schedules in not wanting to
miss out on the new hot religious trend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Psychic development workshops and medium demonstrations are starting to infiltrate
every town as people open their awareness to Spirit and blink their third eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spiritualism is like the new kid on the
block, everyone has noticed him and trying to work out if he is going to fit
into the gang, with some embracing him like a long lost friend and others
suspiciously watching this new “weird” kid from behind the corner.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So
you want to develop your psychic ability and to learn all about how to be a
medium – but it feels like someone is playing the three cup game, and you are
struggling to work out where the ball is? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Don’t
get taken in by the hype.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is good
that Spiritualism is evolving in this dawning Age of Aquarius, but note with
popularity, also breeds those keen to part us from our money; those keen to
become leaders in this new revolution with them replacing “God” with new buzz
words like “Great Spirit”, “The Divine” and “The Source”, all confirming that
we have a place in Spirit, and that with them we will find the quickest way to
enlightenment. Get your purses ready!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">God
does have a new PR company, but they are still governed by those human traits
of greed and control.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Firstly,
let’s get a few misconceptions out of the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, you do have a place in Spirit, as we are Spirit in a physical body,
and when we die, our spirit body continues into the Spirit World.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God may not be an individual but there is a
consciousness, an energy, which most would identify as Christianities “God”,
and many in the movement still call this source “God”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a label which us human’s have given
because we insist on labels to identify our physical world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, there is a path to enlightenment, but it
is not quick, and no one but you will help you get there any quicker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">But
hey, don’t count on me for evidence, this is my belief, and you are going to
have to find your own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Belief is
personal and I highly recommend that you listen and hear what everyone else has
to say – and gather the common known stuff and then read in between the lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I am writing the gospel according to me,
Jan Godfrey, but you will find many views out there, but when you learn about
Spirit, it is important to understand it. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Recently
I came back from The Arthur Findlay College of Psychic Studies after a week on
a Mediumship Course organised by Tony Stockwell, one of the many but more well
know mediums, who organises courses there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Arthur Findlay College is a wonderful place for learning as well as
a lovely place to stay. It is managed by the Spiritualist National Union, and
yes they do have their way of thinking, but one thing which came out of it for
me strongly was a message that was given by one of my Husband’s tutors issuing
a mantra to her students every now and again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Keep working with Spirit simple”. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It
is true that if those at Arthur Findlay have a variety of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Witches, Druids, Earth Angels and Folk of the
Fey, as well as average human Fred and Marg attending their courses, the rooms
during demonstration may be a little full of communicators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consider it for a moment, Archangel Michael
and Uriel and several other Angels from the dominions queuing with Quarter
Guardians, and the Great Indian Guide, Purple Cloud, hob-nobbing it with dotty Aunt
Mildred and Uncle George to get their message across. This is totally besides a
few Ascended Masters and other high guides being channelled in Trance class.
God may even make an entrance himself!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Interesting. but potentially very confusing for anyone trying to learn
the controls for their new toy mediumship.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The
message keep it simple is a good one though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When you are learning to work with Spirit you don’t need to dress it up
or bring your full personal belief of the magical or angelic world into
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All you need to do is believe in
what you are doing and the evidence you are obtaining for yourself when you are
working with Spirit. The lovely thing is when Spirit comes through they give
you evidence about their physical lives to you, and this evidence becomes
beautifully confirmed as true by the person you are giving the message to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they can’t confirm it – then there is
something not quite right and it is normally the “medium”.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I
can hear you magical people out there shouting “but what about honouring the
other spirits?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In truth most people are
looking to understand that their existence is not limited to this world, but
continues for eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most struggle
with that in the first place, and to bring them too much into someone else’s
reality by channelling a label they do not recognise or understand will
undermine the true message you are trying to give.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will be like you channelling Mickey Mouse
when they decided that they grew out of Disney when they were a child.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">That
is not to say that the Mystical and angel lore does not have their place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will look at other knowledge – I
did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shamanic Journeying, Animal guides,
Angel workshops, Druidic and Wiccan paths, Buddhist, Fairy and Elemental lore;
they are full topics in themselves and deserve an understanding. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The
point is that everyone has their own reality, but the human trait of over
complicating things in their aim to reach perfection is often misplaced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We go through experiences in our life both
good and bad and it is not in the aim to be perfect, but to grow spiritually
and to be the best we can be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often when
we try to be perfect it is because we have allowed someone to set our ruler at
an unfair level and we feel that we fail if we do not achieve it. This often
results in treating ourselves, and others, harshly when it seems beyond us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The human need to control others in order to
control our own world can be found in every battle and every religious book
telling us how we should be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone
else is always to blame for our own perceived failures with God and the Devil
having a starring role in having a bad day on the publicity front and named as
scapegoat.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So
if you are looking for the Devil, just look at yourself in a mirror and imagine
horns and fire around you and by all means give yourself a roasting for your
lack of perfection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can create your
personal hell, as that is what man is good at and does every day to himself
just by over complicating life. Everything you emotionally feel is created by
you, and if you see Judgement day coming, it is you who is the judge, the jury
and the hangman. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God aka the Great
Spirit and your Spirit family are partying in the blissful knowledge that one
day you will have a home coming celebration where the big picture and your true
reality will be lovingly understood. Meanwhile you are not enjoying your
experience.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So
when you get passed the rumour that you are doing the devils work, and the
worlds view of the amazing powers you possess and how you are going to work
with all these wonderful people who are now at your beck and call.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Start cutting the story away from the facts,
look for your truth and understand when everyone is lost in their own story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As everything in your life, whether you walk through
good or bad experiences, recognise that everything in life is as it should be
for you to grow spiritually & be the best you can be. You do not need to
fix it, make it better, or be perfect. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You only just have to live in the moment and just
trust in Spirit. Just learn from the lessons of life as they come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You only have to be open to the opportunities
and it is the same with </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">developing
your psychic abilities and working with Spirit, you do not need to reinvent the
wheel, just allow the wheel you have to naturally go round.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>As </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Aleksandr Orlov</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> of Market fame wisely says the answer is “Simples”.
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Jan Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03587595873378376401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7541730375718256575.post-68627991418324822022011-08-01T12:42:00.000-07:002011-09-08T14:31:19.569-07:00The beginning<div>
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In my world I am normal - but in Harry Potters "muggle" world, I am not. Its good to be quirky, have a character, but if you tell some people you are a medium, someone who talks to Spirit - instantly to most you have become someone who is on par with the local looney fruitcake, and at the very least an object of interest. So many would argue this normality - as the unseeing are just blind, the unhearing, just deaf, and the unfeeling, just unconnected. Every psychic/medium though has been there, started at the beginning.</div>
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We all have those light bulb moments, where a deep realisation seeps through our consciousness and changes us inside. When you finally recognise that you are on a spiritual path it is like having Regents Street, Oxford Street and Disneyland’s Christmas illuminations all turn on at the same time.</div>
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Finding yourself is truly a wondrous thing, knowing that there is more to your life than just you and a reason for your being and that the ultimate <span class="st">answer to the ultimate question to life the universe and everything</span> is not 42 as found in “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”. It is something more, but as you explore it becomes still indefinable and less tangible and open to interpretation and just as explanatory as the answer of 42.</div>
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Why? It is because belief is personal. We all want evidence that we are an important integral part of Gods, or the Great Spirits, plan, and that we belong in it in some way. To believe in an afterlife or the continuation of the soul after death is a big one for anyone to get their head round, particularly as God’s PR Department seems to be putting out vague and confusing versions of his truth with his own personal spin doctors seeming to be all more focused on bloody argument and whose lightning struck who first.</div>
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If like me all your life you have had this inner knowing that things are not quite as they seem, and that the drama of being born to die is potentially more like the commercial break in a wonderfully long drama series, you may have just cracked it. Some of us may come to the spiritual path young, but most stumble upon it after a tremendous hangover after drinking too much life, and discover that Spirit is not just the lovely stuff in a bottle which makes your head all fuzzy on a night out, but is also who we truly are, and equally as mind blowing. Getting our head round that we are energy light forms, and that when we depart this world, we go home to spirit and catch up with all those lovely people we missed, and some who we haven't. It is our own version of the big bang. </div>
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So, ok, you have just got over the thought of preferring to get dressed in the dark due to members of your family potentially standing at the bottom of your bed, some without even a formal introduction, let alone the odd stranger or two joining in. It comes, therefore, as a great relief to hear as you contemplate in the loo with orchestral sound effects that superiority can be a good thing and that Spirit are not so concerned with the mundane things of physical life. They have been there and done it, got the t-shirt and prefer to retain their energy for causing the odd night disturbance and frightening the unsuspecting person with the odd knocking, or ghosting appearance or two. You might get a dose of the hebe jeebees, but that just makes it more exciting. </div>
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The stories of ghosts are as old as time itself and the rumour of one sends paranormalists into waving tickets like touts at a world football match, often ignoring the plight of an earth bound Spirit or chasing after residue energy of moments in time that have been recorded faithfully by buildings. Most newbie’s to spiritualism are intrigued and confused by all the blurb that comes with the Light Bulb Event and are more looking for someone to give them the answers. So, devotedly many join the "Spiritualist" club safe in the knowledge that they will all be greeted with love and light and immediately transcend to more than just human and faster than you can say Superman.</div>
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Nope! Just because you have become a fully paid up member of Spiritualist United, and that you are regularly receiving your “Spirit Weekly” (magazine or spirit visitation) does not mean you have white washed your soul and all those nasty little negative human traits have disappeared. Being spiritual is just a term when someone has accepted that spirit exists and a wider concept is being considered. Little clique groups of people vaguely suggesting that you can’t come and play if you don’t play with their ball still exists, and they still gossip about Miss Pointy Nose down the street. Often you can find that some people are just not so spiritual after all, and that sometimes the more down to earth ordinary man who doesn’t profess to have a spiritual belief is closer to the higher realms that most of us. The first thing we need to remember is that we are human, and that we are here to live our human lives, spiritual or not. Being truly spiritual is not a hat you can take on and off as and when you feel like it, but is part of who you truly are inside and the very fabric of your energy. Not everything is about love and light and if you choose to wave that concept around like a Jedi Knight wielding a light sabre, then that is up to you. The truth is to be just a person who genuinely tries to treat everyone they meet with care, respect, warmth, tolerance, compassion and there are many other words similar. All those words are aspects of that big word “Love” which is the big flag of God, the universe and spiritualism, so you won’t be going far wrong. We all recognise those people in our lives, those gems that make us laugh and support us when we cry and who we admire as truly nice people. We want to be in their “light” energy, and be more like them – spreading the light is just being an example of goodness for others to follow. The nice thing about spiritualism though, is that when you weren’t so sure about who you had in your life, you do start to learn that there are a special group of people who do try to support you in your everyday challenges. Yep, it’s back to the people at the bottom of the bed again, your Spirit family.</div>
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This does not mean your local spiritualist centre or church are only for bunch of people displaying themselves whiter than white – although you do find some huddled together in a corner, but generally they are good and welcoming places to be and greatly assist you in your new existence. Just that when you start off on a spiritual journey you concentrate so much on trying to live your new existence that you divide people into spiritual and not spiritual and think that those who are supposed to be spiritual, think just like you, totally understand you and are as dedicated to spirit as you. They are already on their journey so, of course, they have the answer. Not quite.</div>
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It is back to the fact that belief is personal and so is the light bulb moment which brought us to spiritualism. We all come from different directions, with different experiences moulding us into the humans we are. We are much similar to a well used book being picked up by each of us, open up and all falling open at a different page, some ahead, some behind, some pages being skipped, and some staying on the same page the content not being absorbed. The point is that it doesn’t matter where the book was opened, we are all trying to do the same thing, and it doesn’t make anyone else any better, just sometimes a little bit further on reading the book. We are all walking towards realising our potential, recognising that we are Spirit in a physical body and that there is so much for us to try to understand with our limited brains. To understand the big picture, which is far too big for us to absorb in our current physical forms, and all you can settle into is just the awareness of something more and trust in what you believe. It is useful to think of it as a gigantic picture jigsaw with pieces missing. When you are close up to the picture you are so aware of those missing pieces and wonder if you will ever find them and just see a big gaping hole in your knowledge. But when you step back and look at the picture in its entirety you get the overall perception of the picture and it is a little more tangible – yes it is still vague, but you have a better idea. Don’t dwell to closely on the detail, just accept that it’s there.</div>
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For a while you may feel like a rabbit dazzled by headlights, but the lovely thing about this spiritual awaking, there is no hurry. As you understand, you will find that there is a reason for everything and that there is no such thing as coincidence, but just a thing called synchronicity where things happen as they are meant to happen. People will come your way, and they will have seemed to arrive just at the right time, with the right information, this applies to teachers and people who will help you on your spiritual journey. You may not have realised it yet, but you have been walking towards this light bulb moment for some time and now things will start making sense. Telling people you know things about people, see things, that you are psychic or a medium, that you believe in Spirit and have talked to ghosts all your life makes most earthlings look at you as if you have sprouted three heads. Most would have told you are just plain weird, totally off your head and you are of the looney, fruit loop variety, but hey! Welcome to the club. To those who have been working with Spirit for a little while, these concepts and occurrences are just plain every day normal. </div>
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As you walk into your new life, you will meet many people. Many will have a message to tell you – their own version of their own spiritual truth. Some will be followers of Shamanic paths, Wiccan, and include those of traditional paths like Christianity. Others will claim to have a host of angels at their disposal, others great Ascended Masters and 51 spirit guides to whom they have a deep personal relationship with. This may be somewhat reminiscent of the 72 Virgins of Islam myth to you, but it is not the point of whether what they saying is true or not, but more what is true for you. As you discover and become more aware of the tune of life and the spirit helpers you have who may guide you, it will come down to one thing. What is your truth? What is your belief? What is real for you? </div>
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The biggest message that anyone can give you is that being a sceptical believer, someone who does not believe everything they hear until some small personal experience brings them belief, is a safe one. In many of the messages brought to you there may be things which will make you want to run for the hills and not stop until you get there, but don’t allow fear and ignorance be your guide. There are many people who worship a god called “Science” and feel that if it is not shouted from the roof tops by the famous science moguls of the planet that it does not exist and therefore anyone who thinks different should be nailed to a cross or fed to the lions. There are many things that science have not yet found the measuring stick for, and like many inventions of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century, they would not come into our reality if someone didn’t stand by their initial inspirational thought instead of dismissing it into non-belief and non existence. Those people just trusted in themselves and allowed themselves to think out of the box, often through challenges that left them wondering why.</div>
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But do you know what? When you know who you are and you are in touch with the energy of your higher self and/or spirit, what people think doesn’t matter. There are times it does feel truly magical and each experience is truly amazing, although there are moments when you will still marvel and feel outside of it all. All you can do at the end of the day is just trust, allow your mind to be open and explore the possibilities of the answer to the ultimate question. The answers may lie at the end of the universe, or at the end of life.</div>
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But a little point to remember if you are at this beginning, or even part way through, or feeling you are at the end. Although there is always a destination, it is not the destination that is important; it is the journey getting there!</div>
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