Spirit asks me if I can understand why whatever is
Happening is happening, before I am aware that
Whatever is happening is happening?
I protest. Something is always happening.
Yes.
Then what should I do?
You could practice understanding why what has
Happened has happened, even while you practice
Being aware of what now is happening.
I try.
Do you try to look?
Spirit tells me to respect intelligence whomever and
Whatever seems to possess it, for all of Life does, in
Greater or lesser degrees.
Intelligence is a precious gift, as is intuition, which is
A blending of thought and emotion. They are each
Potentials that we can develop through practice until
We refine them into awareness, understanding, and
Enlightenment, and beyond.
What could possibly be beyond enlightenment?
The experience of knowing that we are one, not only
As we are, now, as one, more or less.
Spirit tells me that unconditional surrender is a no-win situations.
Winners become losers if their influence over other powers
Depends solely upon force.
Such a situation requires continued use of force to maintain
Control over whomever or whatever.
Whatever?
Yes.
Such as?
Addictions and other self-destructive lifestyles.
But, will power …
Will power alone can sometimes control but never
Release the need for whatever.
Then what is a solution?
A solution for what?
The tension, the stress in maintaining control.
Awareness, acceptance, understanding, compassion
For self, and respect for the so-called enemy.
And intention?
Yes.
Spirit tells me that individuality does not necessarily mean
Exclusion from oneness.
We each are as we each are, alone or in a crowd. We can
Never not be what we are, but we can pretend, for
Whatever reason or reasons.
However, the danger of pretending to be what we
Know we are not arises when we forget that we are
Pretending.
Our response to any experience is a very individual one,
Regardless of how many others may share that
Experience with us. Our personal response changes us,
Sometimes at a very deep level of our existence, our
Being, our essence.
This, Spirit tells me, is the purpose of experience:
To help us become aware of who and what we are,
As individuals and as one with Life.
Spirit tells me that everyone is living a story that we create
As we live it.
The past may belong to an earlier chapter in our story, but
Through the magical art of reflection we can reminisce and
Embellish what might otherwise have been considered as
Meaningless or distressful memories.
Our creative mind can provide whatever past situation
With a greater depth of glory, pleasure, love, or
Personal satisfaction. We can even adjust facts, or
What we thought were facts at the time, as well as
The level of skills and understanding that we may
Actually remember having achieved during those
Earlier chapters of our story.
Why, He asks, do we, and everyone does edit the past?
For many reasons, not least of which is to bolster
Self-esteem, or public esteem, as many leaders
Seem to feel a need to do.
You ask me if the past really happened at all?
That, my child, depends upon how politically correct
You want my answer to be.
Spirit tells me to release my hold on the heavy but
Seductive energies of material values. For me, that
Position is neither desirable nor possible.
I tell Spirit that material comforts surely express
Spiritual values of beauty and pleasure, and that
Perhaps we each must find our own comfort zone
Where our own, individual spiritual and material
Values co-exist in harmony with each other,
Each expressing the other.
Yes, He agrees, as if He expected my response and
Intended to provoke it.
Perhaps, He suggests, I will learn to relax my hold
Without releasing it. Over-simplicity, for the sake of
Simplicity, He tells me, is a trap of false pride.
The middle way is a personal way and, as such is
A different path for every individual.
Spirit tells me to trust my intuitive awareness of situations
As they happen, but, only as they happen, and to be aware that
Awareness is a vibrational and moving energy. that has no
Necessary validity in past or future moments.
Awareness has no past or future; it encompasses what now is, what
Once was, and what will be, as it happens. However, our individual,
Limited awareness does not allow us to see beyond what it does,
Until we learn to expand the boundaries of our mind..
Spirit tells me that the so-called mystery of Tarot Cards
Exists only in the minds of those who seem to need to
Believe that there is a mystery.
Each card in the Tarot deck, He tells me, was designed
To express an element of human nature. Potential is
What it’s all about.
Any psychic worth his or her connection to advanced awareness
Can recognize this in the energy of the particular card drawn, and
In the energy of the particular person for whom the card is drawn.
They each express and confirm the other.
It’s as simple as that.
Spirit tells me that the boundaries of our mind
Are not by nature inflexible, but restricted by
Fear of moving into unknown territory.
This fear, He tells me, is based on
The false conception that there is
Unknown territory.
A wise man once claimed that we cannot step into the same
River twice. Spirit tells me that the river referred to was Life, not
Water, alone. And, claims Spirit, the River of Life contains many
Undercurrents that we must step carefully through to reach safety.
The unavoidable undercurrents of emotion and thought are two
Potential dangers we each must learn to walk through while
Crossing the River of Life.
How?
Deep breathing and meditation can help us.
How?
Air is necessary to life but only if we breathe in and then out.
If we practice sitting quietly and breathing deeply, while we
Focus on a particular emotion that is troubling us, then
Step into that emotion by breathing it in, deeply, and then
Release it, again and again.
Both emotion and thought, claims Spirit, are life-giving energies.
But, as with all nutrients, there is a fine balance between
Beneficial (the Middle Way) and the self-destructive quantities of
Too little or too much. We each must learn to recognize our
Individual needs.
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