Happy Solstice, Everyone!
Here in Minnesota, Solstice dawned just after 6 p.m., so I planned to be in meditation out on my balcony, then after establishing the energy the rain began in earnest so I moved inside.
Archangel Michael and whole host of other angels and guides were present, and this is what A. Michael said to all of us who serve the planet:
"Congratulations! You have our gratitude and appreciation. You have blown open the doors to this field of energy, previously unexplored by any human being. They will never again be closed. Play, sample as you will, enjoy, and celebrate one another."
He is referring to the success we have achieved in "trying on for size" the introduction of Third Earth energy since June of 2009.
During the meditation, a wolf sat on my left, noisily licking his chops and obviously guarding me. On my right, a raven sat on a perch; always a sign of change for me. I don't know everywhere I went, but half an hour later I was back.
Following my meditation, I got busy with other things, then exactly three hours after the dawn of the Solstice I looked out and an awesome rainbow hung in the sky. I sat out on the balcony and felt a part of the rainbow and knew my Solstice celebration was complete. Rainbows have signified the fulfillment of a promise since my first channeling event back in '83.
Our personal and public work is acknowledged. Now it is up to each of us to breathe deeply and accept the accolades, appreciate better what we achieve by doing our best and open ourselves to that exchange which enriches our planet - and ourselves when we allow it.
Phyl-EL
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
There Has to Be a Payoff
Hello again, Everyone!
Recent visits by Lao Tzu have promoted my discovery process exponentially, especially around human symptoms, also called drama. I am working this out for myself as I report to you who may also be engaged in becoming as authentic/transparent as possible.
Autoimmune disease came up in a session with a client recently, then again, grabbing my attention. I looked up the subject on the internet and found I have one and had another years ago. So, as I was talking out loud in the shower today about autoimmune diseases, Lao Tzu said, "There has to be a payoff, or you wouldn't do it." 'Do it,' meaning create it in the first place. This surely sent me off into breathing and exploring any and all human symptoms. A parade of symptoms marched through my brain: addictions, allergies, broken bones, cancers, viruses..... But I was aware also that symptoms could be emotional and mental; whatever human condition is absent of balance.
Any symptoms, he says, are created because there is some "payoff" or benefit, no matter how convoluted that may seem. We are a package of conundrums, aren't we? We have love/hate relationships with lots of things in our lives. We live in duality, or at least we have done. So what is the benefit when I am so determined, consciously, to resolve my symptoms?
There are some obvious answers:
Attention: so many of us are starved from many lifetimes for the comfort, the loving attention, of nurturing response. I'm reminded of the "bandaid phase" of each of my grandchildren. And how many times I, as a child, fell going up the rough concrete steps of our home, skinning my knees and getting a reputation for always having scabby knees. Not just clumsiness. Attention.
Identifying with others: in our drama/pain we interact with others who either share our pain or sympathetically react and reassure us that we have value to others.
Diverting attention: in focusing on our symptoms, we divert attention away from even more uncomfortable aspects of selves we feel unprepared to address. This could also be called:
Karmic Distraction: We have so many layers to explore while we are here, and we can only do so much at any given time, so our symptoms/drama can give us a focus with which we deal on the way to even more significant discoveries on the journey.
Expanding Consciousness: Our altruistic purpose here is to "expand the Mind of God." Our disease, our pain, our drama lead us on paths of discovery through which we learn "human" most effectively because we are stretched farther than we often believe is possible. How many people have you heard report that their lives were changed by their cancer? The effect of all human experience reverberates throughout Consciousness.
As I was talking with my sister about this today, the inevitable question came up: What happens when/if we release all symptoms? What is the outcome of surrendering all imbalance?
Why, I suppose we are out of here. We ascend, disappear, become truly transparent. Symptoms seem to be the way we hold on to our human form. Our beliefs, hidden or obvious, manifest as symptoms, some comfortable, some obviously not. And once they are transformed, once we achieve perfect balance, we become the Master. The Master may choose to continue the journey to offer the example, as have others before us. The Master may simply have no further need to continue this journey, serving this 3-D realm from a dimension free of drama.
Phyl-EL
P.S. After living with this post for a day, I feel like I left out a couple of things.
First, considering the question of our beliefs producing symptoms, it is not my intention to say we are "to blame" for creating our drama. Experience simply is. It informs us. Holding ourselves hostage for not having created differently is punishment never intended in this perfection we call human. Yes, we are in a perfect state of being, all inclusive, no exceptions.
Second, I consider myself an explorer, a detective. I'm always in a state of considering what it all means and where I can "solve" a mystery (as if I could!). But the challenge intrigues me, as I know it does many of you. On this topic of symptoms, then, I am excited by the mystery of it and the possibilities for resolution.
Lao Tzu knows that my ideal is to live in the principles of the Tau. And it seems to me that I am even closer to living that ideal as I open more consciously to this mystery.
Phyl-EL
Recent visits by Lao Tzu have promoted my discovery process exponentially, especially around human symptoms, also called drama. I am working this out for myself as I report to you who may also be engaged in becoming as authentic/transparent as possible.
Autoimmune disease came up in a session with a client recently, then again, grabbing my attention. I looked up the subject on the internet and found I have one and had another years ago. So, as I was talking out loud in the shower today about autoimmune diseases, Lao Tzu said, "There has to be a payoff, or you wouldn't do it." 'Do it,' meaning create it in the first place. This surely sent me off into breathing and exploring any and all human symptoms. A parade of symptoms marched through my brain: addictions, allergies, broken bones, cancers, viruses..... But I was aware also that symptoms could be emotional and mental; whatever human condition is absent of balance.
Any symptoms, he says, are created because there is some "payoff" or benefit, no matter how convoluted that may seem. We are a package of conundrums, aren't we? We have love/hate relationships with lots of things in our lives. We live in duality, or at least we have done. So what is the benefit when I am so determined, consciously, to resolve my symptoms?
There are some obvious answers:
Attention: so many of us are starved from many lifetimes for the comfort, the loving attention, of nurturing response. I'm reminded of the "bandaid phase" of each of my grandchildren. And how many times I, as a child, fell going up the rough concrete steps of our home, skinning my knees and getting a reputation for always having scabby knees. Not just clumsiness. Attention.
Identifying with others: in our drama/pain we interact with others who either share our pain or sympathetically react and reassure us that we have value to others.
Diverting attention: in focusing on our symptoms, we divert attention away from even more uncomfortable aspects of selves we feel unprepared to address. This could also be called:
Karmic Distraction: We have so many layers to explore while we are here, and we can only do so much at any given time, so our symptoms/drama can give us a focus with which we deal on the way to even more significant discoveries on the journey.
Expanding Consciousness: Our altruistic purpose here is to "expand the Mind of God." Our disease, our pain, our drama lead us on paths of discovery through which we learn "human" most effectively because we are stretched farther than we often believe is possible. How many people have you heard report that their lives were changed by their cancer? The effect of all human experience reverberates throughout Consciousness.
As I was talking with my sister about this today, the inevitable question came up: What happens when/if we release all symptoms? What is the outcome of surrendering all imbalance?
Why, I suppose we are out of here. We ascend, disappear, become truly transparent. Symptoms seem to be the way we hold on to our human form. Our beliefs, hidden or obvious, manifest as symptoms, some comfortable, some obviously not. And once they are transformed, once we achieve perfect balance, we become the Master. The Master may choose to continue the journey to offer the example, as have others before us. The Master may simply have no further need to continue this journey, serving this 3-D realm from a dimension free of drama.
Phyl-EL
P.S. After living with this post for a day, I feel like I left out a couple of things.
First, considering the question of our beliefs producing symptoms, it is not my intention to say we are "to blame" for creating our drama. Experience simply is. It informs us. Holding ourselves hostage for not having created differently is punishment never intended in this perfection we call human. Yes, we are in a perfect state of being, all inclusive, no exceptions.
Second, I consider myself an explorer, a detective. I'm always in a state of considering what it all means and where I can "solve" a mystery (as if I could!). But the challenge intrigues me, as I know it does many of you. On this topic of symptoms, then, I am excited by the mystery of it and the possibilities for resolution.
Lao Tzu knows that my ideal is to live in the principles of the Tau. And it seems to me that I am even closer to living that ideal as I open more consciously to this mystery.
Phyl-EL
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Reflections on God
Good Morning!
Last Sunday in Duluth for the Circle Service, which I love, I suggested that our conversation focus on: how do I remember myself as God; how have I forgotten that I am God; what does being God feel like; what does it mean to be God; how do I know God, etc.
As I drove home after the service I realized that every person who spoke, and many did, reflected on how they have forgotten their God qualities. They focused on how ego had controlled their behaviors. Now I realize that, while I thought at least some of them would be excited to relate their creative adventures, I had set them up for the negative.
I opened by saying that we come in this human suit, wrapped in ego and seeking to recall the original God-suit through our human adventures. Their thoughts went to the egocentric behaviors that challenge them; that challenge all of us. Nothing wrong with reflecting on how we are challenged and changing, but as effective as the service was, our intuitive/psychic/metaphysical adventures were not explored as I expected they might.
I love that some who spoke showed the personal courage to reveal a very vulnerable aspect of themselves. Exposure to a group with whom we interact at so many levels is a powerful act of faith; an act that changes both the speaker and the observers.
The congregation designed the service, and that's what a Circle Service is all about. Just because I thought they would jump at the chance to relate their multi-dimensional adventures, once I turned it over and folks stepped forward to hold the talking stick, they shaped the service to meet their own needs. And so it is.
Now, here on the other side of the Venus transit, the tight corkscrew energetic I saw on Monday has relaxed. All is swirling, so we may not yet feel the focus we want, but the still-turning kaleidoscope will slow soon, bringing us into the manifestation of all this change.
Breathing - a lot - helps, of course; breathing to release the need to know along with the anxiety of the not knowing. In the not-yet-knowing, we are reflecting on unfinished business and releasing reactions to it. We are building energy toward more acceptance of self, standing on stable God-platforms previously unknown to us. We are trusting "who we are, where we are, when we are," more certainly than ever before.
Phyl-EL
Last Sunday in Duluth for the Circle Service, which I love, I suggested that our conversation focus on: how do I remember myself as God; how have I forgotten that I am God; what does being God feel like; what does it mean to be God; how do I know God, etc.
As I drove home after the service I realized that every person who spoke, and many did, reflected on how they have forgotten their God qualities. They focused on how ego had controlled their behaviors. Now I realize that, while I thought at least some of them would be excited to relate their creative adventures, I had set them up for the negative.
I opened by saying that we come in this human suit, wrapped in ego and seeking to recall the original God-suit through our human adventures. Their thoughts went to the egocentric behaviors that challenge them; that challenge all of us. Nothing wrong with reflecting on how we are challenged and changing, but as effective as the service was, our intuitive/psychic/metaphysical adventures were not explored as I expected they might.
I love that some who spoke showed the personal courage to reveal a very vulnerable aspect of themselves. Exposure to a group with whom we interact at so many levels is a powerful act of faith; an act that changes both the speaker and the observers.
The congregation designed the service, and that's what a Circle Service is all about. Just because I thought they would jump at the chance to relate their multi-dimensional adventures, once I turned it over and folks stepped forward to hold the talking stick, they shaped the service to meet their own needs. And so it is.
Now, here on the other side of the Venus transit, the tight corkscrew energetic I saw on Monday has relaxed. All is swirling, so we may not yet feel the focus we want, but the still-turning kaleidoscope will slow soon, bringing us into the manifestation of all this change.
Breathing - a lot - helps, of course; breathing to release the need to know along with the anxiety of the not knowing. In the not-yet-knowing, we are reflecting on unfinished business and releasing reactions to it. We are building energy toward more acceptance of self, standing on stable God-platforms previously unknown to us. We are trusting "who we are, where we are, when we are," more certainly than ever before.
Phyl-EL
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
First Day
Greetings on this day of Venus transit!
On such a day of change, of what looks to me like a corkscrew (kundelini) energy, I feel inspired to print a piece written three years ago. As we approached the summer solstice of 2009, A. Michael said we were entering a three-year period during which we would "try on for size" the energy of the Third (New) Earth that dawned with that solstice.
We approach now the conclusion of that leap of faith period in which we have explored ourselves in formlessness; a heady time and a frightening time for many. Wisdom guided me to write this:
Be still and know that you are divine;
That change without reflects change within
And we are equal to it.
Know this time is formless,
Know that we are re-forming what is human.
Imagine that all before has been as the child
Preparing for kindergarten.
Well-meaning adults have encouraged you,
With visions of the
playground, the pretend corner, lunch with friends,
nap time, learning to read and count.
And so the new life takes shape in your mind.
First Day comes. You are excited.
Your Teacher opens the door.
And there is no floor.
No toys? No shapes, no colors, no numbers or letters
To guide you on First Day.
And yet,
With courage dredged from some mystical space
You step inside and BEGIN.
As we enjoy this awesome day of transit, in the lingering energy of yesterday's full moon, and as we approach the Jupiter event and solstice, I consider how prepared we are; how we have practiced this new energy and what courage it takes for us each to begin and to persist and to Become.
Breath is the key to relieving the inevitable tension that comes with such awesome exploration and initiation. So I breathe with all of you and offer gratitude for "that which we cannot yet see."
It is real. That dream. That New Earth. Breathe an try it on for size. It is more than we can imagine.
Phyl-EL
On such a day of change, of what looks to me like a corkscrew (kundelini) energy, I feel inspired to print a piece written three years ago. As we approached the summer solstice of 2009, A. Michael said we were entering a three-year period during which we would "try on for size" the energy of the Third (New) Earth that dawned with that solstice.
We approach now the conclusion of that leap of faith period in which we have explored ourselves in formlessness; a heady time and a frightening time for many. Wisdom guided me to write this:
Be still and know that you are divine;
That change without reflects change within
And we are equal to it.
Know this time is formless,
Know that we are re-forming what is human.
Imagine that all before has been as the child
Preparing for kindergarten.
Well-meaning adults have encouraged you,
With visions of the
playground, the pretend corner, lunch with friends,
nap time, learning to read and count.
And so the new life takes shape in your mind.
First Day comes. You are excited.
Your Teacher opens the door.
And there is no floor.
No toys? No shapes, no colors, no numbers or letters
To guide you on First Day.
And yet,
With courage dredged from some mystical space
You step inside and BEGIN.
As we enjoy this awesome day of transit, in the lingering energy of yesterday's full moon, and as we approach the Jupiter event and solstice, I consider how prepared we are; how we have practiced this new energy and what courage it takes for us each to begin and to persist and to Become.
Breath is the key to relieving the inevitable tension that comes with such awesome exploration and initiation. So I breathe with all of you and offer gratitude for "that which we cannot yet see."
It is real. That dream. That New Earth. Breathe an try it on for size. It is more than we can imagine.
Phyl-EL
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