Words that Touched my Soul (was 'Living in Body')

[Leila]

Hello, Friends!

I believe this article could be helpful for some of the readers here.

I certainly can relate to it, and this is what I am working on lately: living fully in my body, and honoring it as much as the mind and soul. As the vehicle which leads to knowing myself and the Source.

Unconditional Love for All!

Leila


An In-Body Experience

Wednesday, 29 July 2009 15:11 Lynne Forrest Life

 
For many years I sought ways to access "out of body" experiences. I had the idea that the way to gain enlightenment was by somehow shedding as much of my physical as possible. I grew up in a generation where "out of body" experiences were highly touted as being the gateway to higher planes. Hence various styles of meditation, long term fasting, sleep deprivation, use of hallucinogenic drugs, frenzied dance and chanting were all techniques promoted to accomplish a "higher state of consciousness". I had determined, through reading Eastern philosophy, that attachments to the material world served as a hindrance to spiritual progress. It seemed a natural correlation then, for me to determine the physical body as an extension of the material world, and thereby something that needed to be overcome, let go of, or at the very least ignored. I did not want to be too attached, or vain.

There was the other popular supposition, gained, I guess, through religious connotation, about the necessity of giving up one's ego, or ego-death. How easy it is to misinterpret the true meaning of such clichés so often bandied about! For years, I unconsciously associated "ego " with my physical self. This was, again then, something I needed to overcome by finding some way to bypass physical needs. Learning to live as an ascetic, even in a state of deprivation, became an ideal. Unfortunately, it seemed, I found it impossible to "get over" my bodily cravings and concerns. The more I fasted, the more obsessed with food I became. The more I used "consciousness-expanding" techniques, the more my life revolved around finding better methods for "getting out there". But no matter how high I got, there was always the moment when I had to come back into an aching, hung-over reality that I didn't want to face. My body became an uncomfortable place, full of human frailties that I didn't want to claim, reminders that I was far from the spiritual "nirvana" I so desired. If I could just get out of my body and stay there, then I could let go of this ego ridden plane of materialism, and attain the enlightened state I sought, or so I thought!

"We are spiritual beings having a human experience". This quote from Ram Dass suggests that we came here to take on human form. Is it possible that the body is supposed to serve as our vehicle for evolution? That it's not just some kind of God-ordained punishment of being trapped in a form we then have to spend a lifetime trying to escape? What if we took on this physical form in order to more fully experience our Source? What if embodiment is even necessary in order to know God? That our bodies are the tool we have been given in order to experience, express and celebrate our Creator's presence in our lives? How much more we might honor and respect this piece of equipment if we upheld it as having a rightful place in our spiritual process! For truly, this has been my own personal revelation! After years of attempts to escape the body without success I have come to see it as that which houses the memory of my essence. For it stores within its biology every event, every situation, every experience of my life. These things are not stored in my brain, for our physicists have now established that the mind does not reside there, but throughout the body, in its organs, and cellular tissue. So when we say we are having a gut reaction to something, it's literally true! When we say our heart aches, it's because it does. The ascribed organ is the physiological location of that particular emotional experience. And it becomes our challenge to recognize these tangible messages and learn to give them expression, in essence, to dialogue with our bodies. This is the conclusion I've reached through years of my own and the exploration by others, in personal growth and clearing work. It actually becomes necessary to center oneself more in the body, rather than get out of body.

Getting in touch with our body requires the ability to "Be here now", another Ram Dass aphorism. What does it mean to be here now? It connotes being fully present... in this moment, awake to everything going on around and within you. Impossible, right? Well, we have certainly surrounded ourselves with enough distractions and anesthetizations which serve to keep us unconscious, out of body and asleep. Everything from the junk food we eat, to the hectic schedules we keep, work at keeping us out of touch with ourselves and our world.

Each of us have moments we like to recall as magical, like still points in time. That afternoon you spent with the love of your life, when there was only you and him (or her), the blue sky, or the fire crackling, the birds singing. Extraordinary moments when time seemed to stand still, when your senses were heightened, when not a scent or sigh was overlooked or taken for granted, when everything worked. That's what its like to be fully present in a positive sense! And being connected to your body is essential in order to have such moments! For only then are we able to fully feel our experience. Of course, there are extraordinarily traumatic moments we may remember as well, when time stops and we recall blow by blow, as if it were happening in slow motion, a sequence of painful events. Wartime veterans often describe a loss of the state of feeling fully alive and vital which they were able to experience only under the threat of impending danger. During such times of threatened safety, they were able to experience an exhilarated animation missing from their day to day lives. Upon their return home, vets may find themselves struggling with depression as much from the loss of that state of being, as from the memory of the unbearable adversity they endured. Being fully present isn't about feeling perpetual joy, it is about being in a state of vital alertness!

Feelings have been given a bad rap, therefore we have learned to avoid them. Many of us shut down to our body's experience, to our feelings, both physically & emotionally, because we are afraid of pain. There are those who shut down feelings by living strictly through their intellect. Others keep constant melodrama going in their lives. Both are styles of avoidance. Pain has long been something to be overcome in our culture. Millions of dollars are spent yearly in researching more effective pain killers. This attitude encourages a disregard for the therapeutic benefits of pain.

We're told that what we feel doesn't matter. We learn to control our uncomfortable feelings by limiting our breath. In doing so, we disconnect from our body sensations and experience. Without body awareness we are unable to know what is going on in ourselves. These un-acknowledged and un-expressed events and feelings accumulate in the very cellular fiber of our anatomy to become compressed energetic pockets of pain, often physical in nature. Blockages are then created which affect our spontaneity, creativity and mobility. Pain is the body's signal that a block has been encountered which needs to be addressed and possibly released through expression.

Many health care providers are now realizing the essential mind/body connection. We can no longer separate our health care delivery system into specialized compartments. Healing emotional wounds (my specialty) requires inclusion of a process for physically releasing those traumas which are stored in the cells. Body workers often encounter an emotional release when working on a client. In the same way I have found again and again, that no real shift occurs in a client emotionally or mentally until their issues are addressed in the body as well.

Interestingly enough, my personal process of healing emotional issues around rejection and self doubt brings me more and more home into my body. The clearer I get the more grounded and centered I am. I notice a decrease in stumbling, knocks and bruises. It's simple. There's somebody home now! I've developed respect for what goes on in my body. I cannot tell you how many times chronic back pain, for instance, was alleviated once I got that unresolved burden "off my back". Or, having finally spoken my truth, my throat clears up. Our emotions are carried in the body. Not only that, but every incident we have lived through, if not released, is stored in the form of blockage within our physical structure.

We have three responses to any kind of trauma in life. We either fight, take flight or freeze. To fight or take flight are both ways of dissipating the adrenalin surge that accompanies any kind of threat to well-being we may encounter in life. But when we freeze, even though to do so may save our life, the adrenalin surge does not get discharged. It becomes crystallized in the body as an energetic blockage which interferes from that moment forward with our ability to live free and unrestrainedly in the present. We become like a deer frozen in the headlights, going through our lives immobilized, often re-creating over and over again the unresolved trauma of that past event until we can somehow go back in and complete that energetic release.

As we become increasingly aware of the important role our body plays in healing the mind, we begin to seek modalities that incorporate a holistic approach. Such practices as yoga, massage, dance and the martial arts begin to be recognized as essential body therapies. And psychotherapy that includes breath work, and or unwinding techniques such as those taught by physical therapist John Barnes in Myofascial Release becomes an important part of healing. It's time for us as individuals to understand that having an in body experience is the way to find not only ourselves, but also our Source.

Please visit Lynne's website at: http://www.lynneforrest.com

[juliainkc]

Dear Beloved Livia!

Nice to see you back in here. I trust that all is well. Thank you for sharing Lynne's article and what you are currently experiencing.

It is indeed with both feet grounded on earth while our mind is stayed in Heaven.

I am sharing two thoughts with you today below . . .

InJoy this day,

Love to you and all,

Julia


"You don’t have to go looking for love when it is where you come from."
      ~ Werner Erhard


"Very few of us were taught that we're essentially good. Very few of us were given a sense of unconditional approval, a feeling that we're precious because of what we are, not what we do."

    ~ A Year of Daily Wisdom ~ today's synchronistic calendar reading.

[Leila]

Hi, Friends!

Just noticed that yesterday the "traffic" here at OUR forums more than doubled as regards on-line number of members! Amazing!!! Must be the energy of Kadensnga AND Beloved Julia, which attracts tens of like-minded people!

For those who enjoy reading but are not yet moved to share with us, I will share a fresh story, just written by a very new friend of mine, on a "social network". I find it very worth reading, if you have time for 4 pages...His personal journey to awakening and openness to the world. Will post it in same thread, as they come from same source - his site.

I love you All!

Leila


A Soul’s Journey
Eric Willis

Recalling my earliest thoughts, I always felt a little different. Viewing the world and the people in it differently somehow than people around me. Noticing certain subtleties going on that no one could provide answers for. I was fascinated by the idea of God but no religion seemed to provide me with what resonated as complete truth for me.

Early in my childhood I began to see certain subtle energies. Not having any explanation of what I was seeing, it merely was something to play with whenever I was alone by myself. I was able to play with the energy by moving it around. I can remember even taking it and building some sort of field of light around my bed and my brother’s bed in order to protect us while we slept. I also have felt this pressure between my eyes for as long as I can remember to the point where it becomes so strong it feels as if I'm breathing through it. While in a relaxed state this pressure is also followed by what seems to be a rotating, pulsating indigo/violet color emanating from me.

Moving through the years I intuitively knew there was something missing. Something we had forgotten, yet I felt this knowing that somehow I was connected to everything and that everything was God. I can remember freaking a few people out in school by telling them I was god. Lol

As I grew older I was introduced to several books that explained what I was experiencing and feeling and even had pictures of what I had seen. It was the first time in my life where I felt I was getting real answers that made sense. Eventually this led to an insatiable thirst for more knowledge, and I pretty much read everything I could get my hands on.

After reading as much as I could, I knew conceptually I was gaining a pretty good understanding of my true identity, but conceptually wasn’t enough. I needed to experience, so I began taking yoga and private lessons in meditation. It was in my meditations where I felt things begin to really shift. I felt all kinds of strange energies. My body felt like it was on fire with energy at times and as if I was in some type of swirling energy that caused my body to move in a circular motion. I began to notice that I was gaining understanding that I wasn’t quite able to put into words. It was a knowing that was coming over me. I suppose you could say I was receiving downloads of understanding. Universal Truths.

With my continued practice I could feel myself changing at a rapid pace. I wanted to share what I was realizing with all of my friends, but no one seemed to be able to understand me. I quickly began to feel like I could no longer relate to any of my friends. Somehow I knew I was changing, and was about to make a huge shift that would have no return. FEAR! A lot of it was kicking in. Everything I knew to be was about to change. What I had been seeking for so long now seemed terrifying to me. I can remember my instructor telling me how things were about to change. And I would be seeing/experiencing many different things and to not worry and to call him anytime. I knew what he was telling me was the truth because I could feel it happening. FEAR kicked in again and sent me completely the other way.

I stopped my practice after this and began to deny a good part of my true self for many years. I simply did as everyone else did and went along with the crowd. Of course I could never completely turn it off. It was always there lurking and waiting inside me. Every now and then if you caught me at a party where I had drank too much you might see me start to blurt out a little wisdom. Lol But other than that, during this time I did what many did. Went to work, got married, bought a home and just tried to embrace the good old American dream.

Of course this denying of myself only lasted for so long and eventually brought me to a place where I was forced to come back to it. Because this is who I AM. The calling to return to my practices was very strong and decided to completely surrender to it, whatever that meant. My surrender has not been easy as it calls for the unveiling of so many illusions of myself, and the world in whole. And since my early years of practice I had taken on so many more behavioral patterns that needed to be reprogrammed. But I am grateful for every single experience as it provides me the opportunity for higher truths as a process to my revealing.

As I continued through this process I came to the understanding without any books of the Law Of Attraction and how looking back through my life I could see how everything I truly knew would happen seemed to happen that way. My belief about a certain outcome and my original intent behind it controlled the manifestation of it. Funny enough it wasn’t until the Secret came out that I got a little confused on it all. Lol. Seemed to be missing a few things about being in alignment with the higher self.

In addition to this I was gifted with my first experience of clairaudience, which completely freaked me out. In a meditation I could all of the sudden hear a little girl talking to herself. I couldn’t see her but felt her kneeling down talking to herself. I asked her what her name was and before responding she seemed completely surprised that I could hear her. Once she responded I immediately felt another presence become aware that I could hear. It was a dark presence and its voice immediately came in and sounded like something out of a horror movie. Yikes! Of course this freaked me out and immediately snapped me out of it. I knew I didn’t quite have control of it enough to control what I experienced during this state.

I began to become this spiritual warrior by constantly taking a look at myself in the mirror to reveal the many many illusions I had of myself. (Still goes on today) I say spiritual warrior because it’s not always easy to look at the ugly side of ourselves. So much easier to pretend they don’t exist, which brings me to another experience of how I came to learn about the shadow self.

In a dream I was confronted with a demon. This demon was the scariest thing I had ever seen. In this dream I began to fight this demon by shooting my light at him. The demon then proceeded to shoot its darkness at me. This went on for quite a while as we were evenly matched. I wasn’t quite sure what to do. This demon felt so dark and I felt it was so dangerous that I couldn’t leave it out in the open to cause harm. So I got the idea and was able to catch him and put him in a box. I wrapped some sort of banana peel around the box and then hid it under my bed. Every time I walked by the bed I could see those little demon eyes poking out looking at me. I was so fearful that it was going to get out. I figured I better grab it and actually bury it where it will be safe. As I grabbed the box I hid it in, all of the sudden this understanding came over me that to get rid of the demon I simply needed to merge with it. I let the demon out and somehow I and the demon became one and all was well. If you are not familiar with the Shadow here is a great article on evolve for it. http://www.evolvethe.com/wisdom/life/494-the-shadow-dance-understanding-repetitive-patterns-in-relationships

Moving forward in time again my dreams began to play an important role for me. Some seemed to be normal dreams where I would be working out unresolved emotional issues. Others were more advanced dreams of teaching as well as brief communication from beings. “Are you ready?” “Soon very very Soon.” Soon you will see how we see.” I have been reminded of my star lineage and also received messages of the coming times. I have received messages from what seemed to be dark entities informing me that efforts of human evolution was futile. I have sat in virtual classrooms where upon my entry, time and space folded upon me and myself and the other students had to give presentations on what they were contributing to usher in the new world paradigm. I’ve had dreams of policing dimensions and many more I won’t go into just yet.

Through advance breathing techniques I have reached states of absolute bliss and have literally experienced full body orgasms where after I could remember breathing worlds into existence. I could remember how creation was a song. A symphony. And how the most subtle shift or change of note affected everything. Absolutely Beautiful!

I have connected with Palm Trees to the extent where in their magnificent presence I was brought to tears. I have felt the coming changes of mother earth and on days brought to a point of so much sadness from the frustration of not being able to properly articulate how much love I have for everyone. The words are simply not enough. I have felt opposing energies where at times I felt so exhausted I simply just wanted to go home.

I have experienced being completely lucid in this dream we call reality. The transition to lucidity was so subtle. Like the movement from a 1 to a 1.1 yet the difference was enormous. I remember when it took place I felt as if I couldn’t move. It seemed like state was so fragile and any type of movement would snap me out of it. The first thing I did was laugh for about 20 mins because I could see the illusion in all its glory and how everyone was playing out there roles so seriously. I could hear so many sounds but somehow I had no personal relationship to any of them. Simply stuff coming at me from all different directions. I know longer wanted to do anything anymore but simply chose. Everything was a series of choices. It was a completely different perspective as where usually I would be conscious of food I would eat, people I would talk to and all sorts of other things in effort to raise my vibration. At this moment I could somehow sense all things that were of a lower vibration and if I engaged in them they would potentially pull me back down. I was able to maintain this state for about 3-4 days which at this time the worldly interactions were too much for me and eventually took hold of me once again.

I had finally reached a point early 2009 where I no longer could passively sit by and not take an active role in assisting in the ushering of the new world. I quit my job where I was the owner in an LA digital advertising firm. Of course everyone thought I was crazy and I was potentially leaving a lot of money behind. But it didn’t matter because money was no longer a huge concern for me. It was simply to affect this change in whatever way I possibly could. I have many years of experience in owning and operating my own business and it was time to utilize that knowledge for the greater good.

I have founded a non-profit organization called Evolve – The Human Experience. http://www.evolvethe.com. The goal behind Evolve is to create a trusted brand across multiple mediums in effort to educate people on the general practices of evolving this program we call the human experience through how we relate to the Mind, the Body, the Spirit and the Planet. Ram Dass says “We are spiritual beings having a human experience” In my opinion I believe that we have forgotten this. That we are spiritual beings first and through that understanding lays our limitless potential. We have forgotten our true potential and have been stuck in a loop playing out the same program over and over again. There is a lot of talk about the return of the Divine Feminine but what does that mean exactly. To me it is a returning to this potential. The feminine represents the blank canvas. Here is your world and you paint whatever you would like on it. The masculine would represent the actual painting of it. Masculine has been so dominant for so long we have forgotten our potential. That we can paint anything we want. Our grandest vision. I guess what I am asking from everyone is to upgrade this program called “The Human Experience”. Return back to the heart and remember our limitless potential.

My Vision:

Imagine a world where money was no longer the means of exchange of services but rather love and enthusiasm as its primary exchange. A world full of love and so much diversity that each individual’s enthusiasm became the driving force behind one’s life work and one’s life work was as distinctive as one’s own fingerprint. A world where every job and every service had its own caretaker that performed its tasks with so much love and care they freely wanted to giveaway these services. Tell me? What would this world look like? A world of harmony and service where all needs were met and provided by someone that was just as equally grateful to give as well as they were ready to receive A world of haves without the not’s. A world of abundance without the lack. A world of love without the suffering. Can you imagine this?

With Great Love and Deep Respect,
Your Humble Servant,
Eric

[juliainkc]

Beloved Leila,

I LOVED this!! I am so resonating with this I have goosebumps! Truly. Amen ~ So BE IT!!!

I just read the link article to the Shadow Self and it is an excellent article as well. Indeed. Ego and Soul Self uniting and creating the birth of the Spirit Child.

Thank you so much for sharing this with all here,

InJoy this day of unfolding blessings!!

Love in Divine Spirit,

Julia

[Leila]

Hello Brothers and Sisters, and Twin Sister Julia!

Indeed, it is a stunning writing! I am a slow reader in English (and in Romanian too ), and still read this about 3-4 times and keep wondering at the beautiful style and experiences shared.

What assists most my evolving are exactly these confirmations of people like us, living in body, about their contact with the "real world", and removing of the veil of illusion.

In this respect your sharings, Julia, are all priceless, and I apply them as much as possible, especially these days I invite the Holy Spirit in my mind and heart, to inspire my thoughts and feelings, and ask to be removed from me all that is not of the Spirit.

I am of the opinion that all that "composes" us is to be loved, understood, treated friendly and lovingly, and transformed through Love - meaning the ego.
I was amazed while reading Eric's article, to realize that the "scariest thing" he had ever seen was the very part of himself, the "shadow self"! Are we that bad?

Seems that we accumulated vast amounts of undesirable energies in our subconsciousness, not necessarily through our actions of this life, but from all the karma and life lessons we need to learn, and also from collective consciousness which influences us alot, when our vibration is low. And we keep bringing the deep darkness to the surface and Light, and dissipate and purify it. Becoming cleaner and cleaner, rising our vibration.
And also seems that this painful process can be transcended, when we are able to fully identify with our Divine Spirits, and be led permanently by God's mind and heart.

Please keep giving us very "practical tools", dear sister, which worked for you, like your "self talk", which enables you to be One with the Holy Spirit.

Much Love for All,

Leila

[juliainkc]

Dear Beloved Twin Sister Leila and All whom may be reading,

I sense deeply your heartfelt expression here truly. I admire your ability to read, write and speak in more than one language and fluently. The slower we go, the farther we go, so stay on your pace my sister.

I appreciate you and your loving and kind thoughts being shared with me and they are given in kind. Namaste.

What assists most my evolving are exactly these confirmations of people like us, living in body, about their contact with the "real world", and removing of the veil of illusion.

I invite the Holy Spirit in my mind and heart, to inspire my thoughts and feelings, and ask to be removed from me all that is not of the Spirit.

I am of the opinion that all that "composes" us is to be loved, understood, treated friendly and lovingly, and transformed through Love - meaning the ego.

I was amazed while reading Eric's article, to realize that the "scariest thing" he had ever seen was the very part of himself, the "shadow self"! Are we that bad?

A loving InCouragement here. In removing the illusive veil, we remove the symbols of defining in illusive terms what 'good and bad' are. Forgive the length, I feel IT flowing ~

I would say that everything we see in this world and this has been shared in this forums before by those whom are deeply embedded in seeing this as the Real World by their angry expressions that ones who think like we do are airy fairy nuts trying to sell a false agenda. And what I will say is, that everything we see, have seen and perhaps have yet to see as what we call dark behaviour is in us as a 'possibility'. We are capable of anything given certain circumstances or by the way one is doing the math. Truly.

I am saying that while we may not act on these things the way we 'see' others doing them, we are most definitely capable of doing these things given the exact circumstances. I see it as when someone murders another, they are having the experience for me as an aspect of myself which I AM and 'they' are an aspect of I AM GOD also beyond the temporary fleshly behaviour. So, they are asleep to their GOD Nature as I have also been.  The walking dead.

This is how I can recognize this now having been taken through and shown this and I will say that this is where compassion not feeling sorry for someone comes in. The Compassion of Christ.

Sympathy is reinforcing a victim mentality truth. It says, oh yes, there, there, oh you poor thing just look how much you have and do suffer. Sounds nice yes? And it offends ones when I say I don't feel sorry for them at all. I do have compassion though because I have had a similar experience with all the characters at play and emotions in full throttle and now having passed through the 'death' experience of it as in leaving it behind where it belongs, I can see into the one going through it in this moment as a part of me having the experience and still believing it is real. There is more than one way to kill somone or something and more than one way to have babies!

Only now, coming from within from a place of compassion, I am not drawn into the dark energy or emotions of the experience which by the way is the only way one can appear as a 'savior' to another aspect of IT Self. You've been resurrected from the old self's ways of doing and living life by dying to it and ny passing into being reborn or regenerated into the newness of your Authentic Nature. You've traded your false pearl for the Everlasting Pearl. You are walking in newness of Life as GOD in this material temporary world.

The only regret we will have I believe is that we did not participate with our eyes wide awake. We will regret missing it if we do not wake up to our Power and live in this world not by measuring it in degrees and levels which only exist in this world but in fullness of our Divine GODHOOD as Ruler of our world which whom can be against GOD or overcome GOD?

Do not draw back it says GOD says in the Bible, GO FORTH in POWER and RULE, multiply. Plant GOD Seed all over the place. Sounds like fun doesn't it?

I like this way much better. I love you and InJoy you Leila and appreciate all the beautiful expressions you so generously share with all others.

InJoy this day,

Love Always in Divine Spirit my Beloved Sister,

Julia



Seems that we accumulated vast amounts of undesirable energies in our subconsciousness, not necessarily through our actions of this life, but from all the karma and life lessons we need to learn, and also from collective consciousness which influences us alot, when our vibration is low. And we keep bringing the deep darkness to the surface and Light, and dissipate and purify it. Becoming cleaner and cleaner, rising our vibration.
And also seems that this painful process can be transcended, when we are able to fully identify with our Divine Spirits, and be led permanently by God's mind and heart.

Please keep giving us very "practical tools", dear sister, which worked for you, like your "self talk", which enables you to be One with the Holy Spirit.

Much Love for All,

Leila

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[Leila]

Greetings, Beloved Friends!

I'm so excited by what's happening in the world now! We are holding our hands and stepping into the Light.
Got this message from a friend, and share it with you here.

I love you as you are!

Leila


A Message on the
Great Shift of Consciousness
August 9, 2009
July 31, 2009

Channeled by Carol Ritberger, for
Thoth, Hierophant of the Melchizedeks

Ritberger Media Group
2040 Riesling Way
Cameron Park, CA 95682

Carol: My presence and voice was requested by Thoth and the Council of the Melchizedeks to share this congratulatory message with all who have worked for, suffered for, sacrificed for, longed for, and who have in the perseverance of their human spirit created the greatest shift in consciousness that humanity has ever experienced. It is this consciousness that will free us from the bondages of our past, from the limitations of self-doubt, and that will expand our thinking so that we may create a new way of being where it is possible to manifest unimaginable results. They wanted me to convey that they are in awe of our resiliency and humbled by our courageous nature.

Thoth: It is true that you are living in unprecedented and extraordinary times where the words and energy of one person can become the tipping point of change. It is in your desire to rise above and move beyond limiting thoughts and destructive emotions that have moved you into the enlightened state of being. You may feel that you have awakened from a long evolutionary slumber to once again become fully engaged in life.

There is a stargate, a portal in time that has been pulsating in the same rhythm as your human heart beat. This stargate has, over the course of 26,000 years, been opening and closing in indiscernible measurements. Yet, over the last 260 days this stargate has opened wider so you may see what lies beyond the reality that drives many of the activities of your daily existence. In the last 26 days, this stargate has remained open more than closed so you can venture into the reality of the subtle world of your soul.

On August 9, 2009 this stargate will be fully open and will remain open for two solar days. Within the four days prior to this date, you will feel a vibrational shift in your being and a notice a shift in your thinking. Your earth will culminate the trinity of eclipses. The first July 6-7, 2009, was a lunar eclipse. Then on July 22-23, 2009, was a solar eclipse. On August 6, 2009, will be the final eclipse which will be a lunar eclipse. Eclipses represent gateways, we call them stargates, that move thought and energy from one dimension into another. This final eclipse will ensure the energy of the portal vibrationally resonates the harmonics of the sacred feminine.

Let us explain the nature of a stargate so you may better understand its significance. A stargate is a doorway. In this case, it's a doorway in the mind that allows the perceptions of the left brain and the perceptions of the right brain to merge and form a sacred union. In doing so, the impurities, meaning the limitations and distortions held within both brains will be transmuted into the pure - pure meaning, in cooperation with each other and open to new ways of thinking. When the impurities are transmuted then both brains merge electrochemically and both are capable of heightened states of awareness. The stargate is this heightened state of awareness and is what allows the two brains to merge with the soul brain, which is housed deep within the workings of the human mind. In this alchemy of brains, all will reach their state of perfection.

How will you know when you've entered into the stargate and accessed the wisdom of the soul brain? You will find yourself feeling calm. You will experience a sense of resolve that comes from understanding that while you can control your thoughts, you cannot control the thoughts of other people. You will not be inclined to engage in conversations where there is no desire for mutual satisfaction, and where the air is charged with conflict and power struggles. When you experience strong negative emotional reactions you might hear your inner voice ask, "How do you want to see the situation and to what extent do you want to engage in the process?" Do you want to see it from the perception of your mind or do you want to see it from the perception of your soul? While the situation remains the same, if you see it from the perception of your soul, your response will be completely different than if you saw it from the perception of the mind. From the soul's perspective, you will see that it serves no value either to yourself or to others to continue to engage in the process. Be mindful, that this difference may make people around you uncomfortable. So be it. It is intended to be this way, for you are presenting them the opportunity to think and to awaken from their evolutionary slumber.

The twenty days following the closing of the stargate, you may find yourself experiencing a restlessness or an uneasiness. This is not because something is wrong with you, it is the tension created between those who entered into the stargate and chose to remain, and those who chose to stay in state of consciousness ruled by the physical world. Be mindful, from the perspective of the soul, whether someone chooses to enter into the stargate and remain in that enlightened consciousness or they chose to stay where they are in the consciousness of the physical world there is no right or wrong. It is merely the expression of free will. Do not invest your time or energy in trying to change the outcome or change another's free will.

We spoke of the harmonics of the sacred feminine. We find that it might be of value if we offered insight into what the sacred feminine is and why at this time in your evolution its presence is so significant.

The sacred feminine is the soul. It is neither feminine nor masculine in its vibrational polarity. Instead, it is a combination of both that forms a state of androgyny. It is this vibrational androgyny that makes it possible for you to enter into the stargate and remain if you choose without experiencing physical ramifications. The sacred feminine is the essence of your being and is the part of your being that animates the activities of the mind and the body. It is that immeasurable and indescribable living field of transformational consciousness that links your soul to the entire cosmos and to all that exists. It is the compassionate warrior.

In our desire to share more information we have asked our host to channel a message in audio format so you may listen to it at your leisure. Click here for the audio download. We hope you find it of value. If you do, we ask that you share its contents with others so they too, may awaken from their slumber and engage and rejoice in this glorious time in human evolution.

This ends the written part of this message. And, so it is.

Click here to download channeling audio file!  http://www.ritberger.com/

It is the desire of these non-physical beings who are the order of the Melchizedeks, a group of evolved teachers and overseers of the evolutionary process of consciousness, to let us know how much we are loved and are supported in our quest to create what we need and what we desire. They offer their insights to provide the clarity and guidance so we may move forward confidently, without suffering, on our evolutionary journey.

Light and Love,
Carol

© Copyright 2009 by Carol Ritberger, Ph.D., Medical Intuitive, and the Ritberger Media Group.
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[Leila]

Good evening!

Here is another nice reading.

I'd be very grateful to our Beloved Friend Talker, for changing the title of this thread, in something appropriate for sharing great stories / messages / articles, which are for the benefit of this community, being uplifting and empowering.
They have very different topics, though...

I intend to go back to my thread "Spiritual Evolution...", when I'm ready to share of my heart...for the moment I'm getting re-acquainted with the forum...

Unconditional Love for All!

Leila

Nina Ferrell: The platform of your life

We are actors on a stage. Our stage, our play, with co actors – we write this script, even though it feels like the total opposite, sometimes. We have a life story, and when we look back on it, when we reread the lines in that dogeared book, we are sometimes wearied by what we read. Stories of loss, stories of dreams, hardly dreamed, that just did not come true. Stories of lost love, plans that did not play out, adventures hardly started yet forgotten already.

A lot has changed. Everything has changed. We are moving with the new energies on our planet towards a new home, a new story, a new being and our feeling of homelessness, which was accentuated over the last year, is soon going to be a thing of the past.

We have been feeling uncertain, we have known that changes are all around us, some of us are just becoming aware of those changes and yet others know what they are and what their outcome will be.

Let it be said clearly that despite the belief systems, the platform of your life is about joy. No matter what play you enact on it, no matter the story of your life, what it was, it is all about what it is going to be as our world changes and shifts into a new time, a new space, a new opportunity for all of us to now create what we have always wanted for ourselves.

We are acquiring the skills, attracting the people who support our new way of seeing ourselves, uncovering the information we need to learn so that we can form the new images of who we really are – conscious creators who know what they do not want, and who know what they want, totally. Human beings who have the courage to speak their truth, and the courage to say “This is not me. I step aside without repulsing your reality. I allow you to be and ask that you do the same for me.”

The new path that you are on is the right one. You are rewiring yourself to react differently, to stop thinking that what you are seeing is real – when in fact you have created it and it is an illusion. And by repetition and repeated exposure to what you are being taught, you are rewiring yourself to a whole new reaction to your life – understanding that you create it all, that what you are looking at is not what counts, that what really counts is the understanding that you are creating all of it, that it is getting better and better and better…

You are rewriting the script as you read this – let it be joyful….

[Kadensnga]

Hello Wonderful Leila,

I have heard about you, and have looked forward to participating with you.

I am new here, but as you can see I have played on this playground alot in my short time.

What a great place.

Great Love to you my new friend,
Kadensnga

[Talker]

Good evening!

Here is another nice reading.

I'd be very grateful to our Beloved Friend Talker, for changing the title of this thread, in something appropriate for sharing great stories / messages / articles, which are for the benefit of this community, being uplifting and empowering.
They have very different topics, though...

I intend to go back to my thread "Spiritual Evolution...", when I'm ready to share of my heart...for the moment I'm getting re-acquainted with the forum...

Unconditional Love for All!

Leila[/color]

Nina Ferrell: The platform of your life

We are actors on a stage. Our stage, our play, with co actors – we write this script, even though it feels like the total opposite, sometimes. We have a life story, and when we look back on it, when we reread the lines in that dogeared book, we are sometimes wearied by what we read. Stories of loss, stories of dreams, hardly dreamed, that just did not come true. Stories of lost love, plans that did not play out, adventures hardly started yet forgotten already.

A lot has changed. Everything has changed. We are moving with the new energies on our planet towards a new home, a new story, a new being and our feeling of homelessness, which was accentuated over the last year, is soon going to be a thing of the past.

We have been feeling uncertain, we have known that changes are all around us, some of us are just becoming aware of those changes and yet others know what they are and what their outcome will be.

Let it be said clearly that despite the belief systems, the platform of your life is about joy. No matter what play you enact on it, no matter the story of your life, what it was, it is all about what it is going to be as our world changes and shifts into a new time, a new space, a new opportunity for all of us to now create what we have always wanted for ourselves.

We are acquiring the skills, attracting the people who support our new way of seeing ourselves, uncovering the information we need to learn so that we can form the new images of who we really are – conscious creators who know what they do not want, and who know what they want, totally. Human beings who have the courage to speak their truth, and the courage to say “This is not me. I step aside without repulsing your reality. I allow you to be and ask that you do the same for me.”

The new path that you are on is the right one. You are rewiring yourself to react differently, to stop thinking that what you are seeing is real – when in fact you have created it and it is an illusion. And by repetition and repeated exposure to what you are being taught, you are rewiring yourself to a whole new reaction to your life – understanding that you create it all, that what you are looking at is not what counts, that what really counts is the understanding that you are creating all of it, that it is getting better and better and better…

You are rewriting the script as you read this – let it be joyful….

Greetings All,


Ok, So what do you all see here as a major 'title' for this thread!

So jump right in and make a suggestion.

For crude starters:

1 - Onto thee I offer

2 - Doorway to Unconditional Love

3 - Doorway to Perfection

4 - My Heart Our Words Our Universe

5 - My Soul Your Soul in Tune with Source

6 - Words that Touched my Soul

7 - Doorway to Perfection

8 - !

9 - !

10 - !

[juliainkc]

Pardon me Talker and All,

Leila, I was 'absent' from the forums today and as I am reading your generous sharing . . .

Namaste my Beloved Sister truly. You've no idea how much you have blessed me today in the sharing of this article above by Carol Ritberger.

A Message on the Great Shift of Consciousness

August 9, 2009
July 31, 2009

Channeled by Carol Ritberger, for
 
Thoth, Hierophant of the Melchizedeks


I am so resonating with this post here. You are indeed a messenger from 'HOME' my sister.

Love to you always,

In Divine Spirit,

Julia

[Leila]

My Dearest Talker,

Ok, So what do you all see here as a major 'title' for this thread!

So jump right in and make a suggestion.

For crude starters:

1 - Onto thee I offer

2 - Doorway to Unconditional Love

3 - Doorway to Perfection

4 - My Heart Our Words Our Universe

5 - My Soul Your Soul in Tune with Source

6 - Words that Touched my Soul

7 - Doorway to Perfection

8 - !

9 - !

10 - ![/b]

Thank you for your readiness to assist, and for your proposals!

They may be useful also for the name of the site I dream to have!  I was thinking of few names of the domain, and when checked the web there were tons of such topics and sites! 

So, since I started this thread, it should have a name which vibes with my heart, so I can feel comfortable in it. (Remember the home which I created: "Expressing Unconditional Love", and which disappeared into a giant 1-2 days later?)

I like "Words that Touched my Soul", because all these words resonate deeply with my heart, they are tender, sweet, intimate, and even sensual! Please make it so.

There are tons of such stories out there in these times, and they come my way for a good reason. However, I won't share them all, but only those which really touch my soul, and I consider to be of tremendous benefit for our friends.

Thank you very much, and look forward to fill the thread with "pearls", which of course can do anyone here, if the sharing doesn't seem to match in other thread, like I felt.

Love you endlessly, ALL,

Leila

[Leila]

Hello, John!

Hello Wonderful Leila,

I have heard about you, and have looked forward to participating with you.

I am new here, but as you can see I have played on this playground alot in my short time.

What a great place.

Great Love to you my new friend,
Kadensnga

Yes, I noticed your joining the forums and huge energy and desire to overflow the fullness of your heart!

Also deeply enjoy your adoration for our Beloved Julia, who shines like a brilliant star on the sky of the Universe, sharing her Unconditional Love and blessing all of us, fortunate to be around and touched by her grace.

I have noticed also that Dearest Laura felt that you and I have something in commom, meaning our enthusiasm and need for LOVE.
Our Beloved Darrell defined it very well, as in sensing me "Love starved", when I became active in forums, on Christmas 2008. Not as much for receiving it, as for giving it, because Love is our nature, what we are made of.

I have been rather silent and even sad lately, living my life experiences, learning my lessons, removing the veil of the illusion little more. I am now again "blowing up" of Love, which had no channels of expression during last 3 weeks, and became "pressurized" in my heart, needing to overflow, and this place is once more resonating with my energy, so I feel wonderful sharing and communing with you All here.

More of what I have learned during last weeks, in other beloved thread of mine, at due time. Still, I wish to say that my Love is more alive than ever. I have only waked up to the fact that I was expressing it in this illusion we call reality and "life", while the true expression of our feelings is in the spiritual realm, in the unseen world of energy.
I had the most wondeful "teacher" in the realm of communicating through thoughts, energy, and Love, but I was not a good "student", just like at driving school, when we are not much independent while knowing that the instructor is near us and will "do the job for us", if necessary! Now the "instructor" withdrew his protective wing, and I am experimenting what I was tought.
It feels great, because I know that I act in the true world, and not in this illusion which will dissipate soon. We are being prepared for the soon coming time when we'll need to know how to communicate through energy. That time is close, and we need "training" and exercise, to survive in it.

We are evolving Love at new levels now. Directly between Selves, bypassing the Personalities, or egos. At that High level, Love is eternal and infinite.

Keep shining your Light, and expressing the Love of your heart! All Love is from Spirit. We are all channels who express God's Love.

Hugs and Kisses for Everybody!

Special Thanks to Julia, Talker and Laura, and much Love to You!

Leila

[Leila]

Kind of Life Guide, received today in a newsletter:

Seven Spiritual Principles that Shape Our Lives

Seven Simple Steps

Step One - Everything is connected.

"As above, so below." We are interrelated; there is a unity in life. The smallest atom and the largest galactic unit are connected and governed by the same rules. We are part of everything around us, and everything is part of us. We are not alone.

Step Two - Everything happens for a reason.

"What goes around, comes around." There is order in this seemingly chaotic world. There is a cause and effect, a reaction to every action. Nothing happens by chance, nothing "bad" happens. Life is governed by law and order.

Step Three - We change.

The world vibrates, and we vibrate. Science teaches us this rule that applies to everything in the universe. Transition is a normal part of life, not something to be feared.

Step Four - We move.

From vibration comes rhythm. Everything has a beat or pattern. Seasons change; tides rise and fall; day turns to night. Patterns affect all of life; we move in a defined rhythm or within a recurring pattern.

Step Five - We progress.

Our pattern is not static, however. Just as vibrations change, the pattern governing our lives moves in a circle, not a closed cycle but one that spirals upward. We progress.

Step Six - We balance.

Everything has its opposite. There is polarity in the world and in the universe. Our challenge is to try to find the middle ground, the median point, and avoid the extremes. We search for moderation in every emotion, every decision, every activity.

Step Seven - We create.

Sex attraction governs our lives and the universe. Life is creation. But this is not the "sex" of a limited male/female physical encounter. Sex attraction unites the masculine and feminine characteristics within us.

Our role is to combine the seven steps of connection, order, change, movement, progress, balance, and creativity in our lives. This is a guide to our spiritual life. This is Practical Spirituality, a life focus.

Cheryl A. Chatfield, Ph.D. is a writer and teacher.

[Leila]

Akashic Records for August 2009 - SpiritLibrary

a message from  Akashic Records  channeled by  Jen Eramith MA
Monday, 3 August, 2009

What energies and experiences can we expect in August 2009?  

The energy this month is intense and the experiences you are likely to have will be intense.  This is one of those times on Planet Earth where there is such strong collective change that none of you can avoid it; none of you can escape it.  It is similar to the kind of energy that occurred just after the tsunami of 2004.  We are not saying that there is a particular event that is meant to happen this month, but instead it is likely that events have already occurred by this time that cause you to consider your place as a collective human family.  The energy now is the true energy of deep profound and abiding change.  And so this month it is important for each of you, on an individual basis and on a collective basis, to acknowledge the inevitability of change.

There are changes that have already occurred under the surface for each of you individually and for all of you collectively.  Those changes can no longer stay under the surface.  Beginning in August of 2009, they must rise, be seen and be dealt with.  You will see change being addressed in all kinds of different ways.  Some will be resisting change, even to the point of self-annihilation.  Others of you will be embracing change or pushing it forward, even to the point where you push it too quickly and struggle to integrate it.  Of course there are many versions of a happy medium where the embracing of the change and the honoring of the change that has already occurred enables you to powerfully bring those changes into your reality.

First and foremost this month, the experience is coming to terms with change by recognizing that the changes are inevitable, they have already occurred, and that there is nothing left to resist.  All that is left for you to do is to move with the current.  Many of you may find it useful to think of this metaphor for August.  If you are familiar with a riptide on a beach, the current can pull someone out away from the shore and you can decide to fight the current, try desperately to swim toward shore, but inevitably the current is much bigger and stronger than most human swimmers.  If you will finally succumb to the direction, it may feel like the current is taking you somewhere you do not want to go.

The beauty of this metaphor is that a riptide inevitably releases and circles back toward shore.  If you simply allow yourself to be pulled out by the current, you can then swim to the side and return to shore using an inward current that helps you along.  It is useful to think of it this way because there is a danger of resisting change to the point of exhaustion and even destruction this month.  There is a profound power and beauty available in going with the flow of the changes that are already in motion and trusting that those changes will take you and your fellow humans where you ultimately want to be, even if initially the change seems to take you farther from shore.

This month is a great time to practice nonresistance, practice surrender and trust.  It is important to not be passive this month.  The inherent energy is fiery.  This is an energy of fire --the fire of creation and the fire of destruction.  Action will be vitally important this month.  Do not imagine that you can stand by.  Whatever you are involved in, whatever you feel moved by, needs action.  It is calling for action on your part.  It does not matter if the action is big or small as long as you take action.

How can we best work with the energy this month?  What can we do to best deal with the energy and experiences?

It will serve many of you to really take a little time, especially in July, to look at the directions your life has taken.  Look back on your life and recognize the major turning points, recognize directions that you took, then the changes that you made in that direction over the years.  It will serve you then to bring that process of reflection all the way up to the present moment; noticing what you can feel has changed and recognizing where those changes have emerged in your everyday life and where those changes are simply felt deep within you that have not yet been expressed in the world around you.  This exercise for you as individuals will essentially give you a heads up for August.  It will help you understand the events that occur in your lives because inevitably, every event that occurs in your lives in August is in the service of bringing those changes to the surface and bringing those changes into your reality.  If you can figure out what changes have already occurred under the surface of your life, you will not be so surprised by the ways they emerge in your everyday surroundings.

The second thing that will be useful in terms of working with these experiences is to assume that action is called for.  This month, most of you will be far more comfortable if you continually take action than if you wait, delay or freeze.  Even if the only action you can figure out to take is small, take that small action and then ask yourself, "What next?  What is the next action that is appropriate?"  On a day-by-day basis you will find that there are things for you to do.  Most of the things that you do will eventually lead you to much larger action.  You are being called as a collective of all of humanity to bring about change on this planet that will eventually lead to your survival as a species.  The real turning of the tide from descent into ascent occurs this month in August 2009.  This is the month when you will be able to bring the changes that lead to your best evolution, to bring them into the everyday world.  Anything you know you should be doing, anything that you think would be in your best interest, do it this month.

The third way to work with the energy this month is to be willing to let go of those things that have expired.  The Keepers have given you this direction for several months and so most of you have done kind of a housecleaning already, but you cannot afford to carry with you anything that no longer belongs.  Change is so vitally important that any version of hanging onto the past at this point will really put you at risk.  You could think of it this way if you think of the metaphor that the Keepers have been using for the year 2009, this metaphor of flying somewhere on an airplane.  By August, you have long since reached your cruising altitude, you have long since adjusted to turbulence and to the feeling of flying forward.  It is at this point in the journey that it will dawn on you that you have left the past behind and that you are hurtling forward to the future inevitably and very quickly.  For some this can create a feeling of panic.  You can begin to doubt yourself, wonder if you should have taken this journey and if you were to take these doubts very seriously, what you might imagine in the metaphor is that eventually you might try to turn the plane around to go back.  If an airplane tries to turn around to go back and then decides it really does want to go forward and turns forward again, if an airplane keeps changing its mind like that it will eventually run out of fuel before you reach your destination.  It can lead to big trouble.

It is now in August that it will serve you to notice what you long for in the past, notice the ways you resist change and then decide to move forward.  Decide to surrender to the changes that have already occurred.  You are already on this airplane, you are well on your way to your future.  There really is no turning back now.  Take a deep breath when you feel that resistance and then let it go continually turning your face forward to the future; to the changes you have already accomplished deep within that simply need an outward manifestation at this point.

Are there any power days or important days in August for us to watch for?

August 7 is likely to be maybe the most potent version of the energy of August.  This day is one of those days that come along every few months when you can literally pivot on your heels and spin in any direction and reset your energy.  So let this be a reset button.  Take note of anything that is not working in your life and assume that you need to turn away from it in one way or another.  Find a way to reset your direction.  August 7 is an excellent resource for you if you are ready to let go of something in the past because on August 7 you can really turn away from it and just start walking away.

August 12 is also an important day.  It is a day of closure or a day of wrapping things up.  It is a day that can feel - you know there is a kind of reassurance in the process of closure.  If you wrap things up you can ease your mind about them.  Let this be a day when you rest; when you do not take on new projects and when you do something to just take care of yourself.  Give yourself a slower day if you can in order to make space where you can notice what is finished and integrate that knowledge.

The series of days between August 22 through 29 looks a lot like what it would be like to walk through a house after it has burned down; picking through and looking for things that survived.  Looking for treasures or any items that you want to salvage from the wreck.  During this week, dedicate some time to looking for what is good in your life.  Look for the optimistic signs in your life.  Notice your gifts, and look for the gifts in other people.  This is a good week to employ gratitude as sort of a treasure hunt.  Turn your attention to seeking those things that are wonderful in your life amidst what inevitably may feel like it is a sense that all is lost, a sense that there has been great destruction.  Look for those gems of the gifts within you and within your fellow human beings.  Look for things to be grateful for this week and it will move you forward beautifully.

Is there anything else the Keepers want to tell us about August?

Remember that we are talking a lot about destructive energy and we want to remind you that destruction is just a natural part of the cycle of life.  It is a cycle of creativity.  After destruction comes rebirth; after rebirth comes a whole new phase of creation.  As that new phase of creation emerges, you will find yourselves thriving.  Inevitably as creation plays itself out and expires, the process of destruction comes along.

The beauty of this particular destructive energy that blows through in August, is that it is set up to be relatively quick.  It might seem very graphic but that is because it happens quickly enough that you do not need to get lost in the darkness of destruction.  The more easily you will let go of the past, let go of old resentments, old grudges, old belief systems and turn your face toward what is coming, the more easily you will find that the phase of destruction passes, the storm blows by and you hear the birds start singing and you find signs of new life and you can step into a fresh new energy in September.

For this month, remember that destruction is not a bad thing.  It is simply the descent in the beautiful cycle of life.