There's a large part of me that does not like conflict in any way, and would rather walk out of a difficult situation, rather than hanging around, stating my case, and making it worse .. which is what would have happened if I had not left the building early on Saturday afternoon just recently.
Where were we .. we, being myself, my grown daughter and a couple who are good friends. We decided to go to a Trance Channelling session at one of the spiritualist groups here in Melbourne. My previous experience with this has been varied. One session I went to, many years ago, was incredibly beautiful. Quan Yin came through the lady channeller and gave many people in the room relevant messages, clear information and help. If I had been braver, and owned up to thinking I might be the Quill Pen she was asking for, I might have had a message too, but it was long before I knew my role in this lifetime, and I was not sure .. so I booked a reading with channeller afterwards, but the only person who 'came through' then was a lost soul (yes, I could recognise them even then) from the very recent Turkish earthquake who demanded I 'rewrite the Koran', something I know (and knew) next to nothing about, so there was no way I was going to follow those orders.
Another session was completely different. I invited myself to it out of curiousity. I think it must have been the first time I would see a channeller at work. So I asked nicely, through a friend of the channeller, and the lady seemed quite happy for me to join her small, select, group .. until I got there and was seated. You see, I made a mistake. I told the 'entity' beforehand that if it wasn't in the Light I would know and kick its ass into healing. So when the channelling lady saw me she looked uncomfortable, checked with her 'guide' and informed the group that the 'unbeliever' had to leave or the 'guide' would not be appearing that afternoon. Hmm.. me being the only newcomer in the room, you can guess whom everyone looked at .. and so I got up and left. Later I checked and it seemed the 'guide' didn't appear that afternoon anyway .. right. It was of the White Feather, or Yellow Eagle .. or something american indian variety, and I had gone in with an open mind and no desire to cause trouble ...
... which is the same state of mind I was in when daughter and I rocked up in the city to sit in with this lady, who, by a quick search on the internet, seemed very busy among the various spiritual churches, but had no webpages to tell us about her. No problem. We are not all computer literate.
So the four of us gathered downstairs, got told we could go upstairs 'now' and went up and were the first people there. I admit the energy of the space was not particularly nice, which affected the lady in the 'couple' more than it did me. I have walked into nastier energy and tend to ignore it until I feel like something has to be done. Well, once it was mentioned I cleared the building, and cleared it again. Accumulated negativity occasionally takes some work .. and it felt ok to me afterwards - so I made sure my friends and daughter were shielded as other people came into the room. It was set up for about 30 and in the end there were perhaps 12 of us?
I will cut a long story short and just tell you the puzzling bits. The lady channeller came into the room, walking straight through where we were (nearly all, 3 or 4 came late) sitting. She did not introduce herself, just sat in her chair facing us with her eyes closed (didn't even look around the room) and starting doing some deep breathing and twitching, which I assumed was her way of preparing to go into a trance. Eventually a very soft voice came through, again not introducing itself, and it then told us, to raise the vibrations in the room it was going to give us a brief talk .. all the time getting louder and louder. In the end the channeller was straining her throat and coughing repeatedly, without being allowed to drink water, which was in a glass beside her, because it might disrupt the energy of the entity???? Hmmm??? Whatever - having channelled Gabriel (archangel) and a few other entities myself, drinking water was never a problem, but .. each to their own way of doing things.
So who was this strange creature and what was the message - basically it was convoluted, confusing, non-sensical and some of it was completely untrue. Now that's being blunt. After a talk that went around in circles, up mountains and down valleys, without actually getting to any point, she then said we could ask questions .. but only if we 'talked very quietly' (said the man running the show). The problem was that the lady channeller was obviously deaf and misunderstood the questions .. but hang on now .. wasn't it the entity answering the questions, and where exactly was it, that it couldn't clearly hear what was being said .. or for that matter, SEE anyone in the room. It proved that by asking twice if one questioner had understood the answer (she nodded .. it had been her third attempt to get a straight answer to a simple question, and she just finally gave up completely). Well, the entity asked if she understand, again, and the man running the show answered that the lady had nodded .... and we moved on.
Before that another lady, desperate for an answer, got some convoluted nonsense as an answer and left in disgust. I am kicking myself over that one, because I should have gone after her. I knew the answer she was looking for, but by the time I abandoned the channeller and went downstairs for a break she had left. I am sorry.
My daughter asked a question (which I had given her, based on something the entity had said) and was given an answer that was only vaguely related to the question itself. She had to ask it three times in a row, before the channeller appeared to 'hear' it. 'What happens after you die?' .. the answer told us what happens to the body before you die, but non-specifically - and that the silver cord snaps. I did a quick search on the internet, knowing full well that the cord 'dissolves', and yes, it seems some people do believe it snaps. That's one heck of a jerk in a very gentle experience. It can snap due to accidents, not suicide, but it throws the spirit into shock and they can often end up as lost souls because of it .. so why was the entity teaching something like that .. it seems it had a big issue with suicide - that was what the original lecture had been about .. don't commit suicide. I couldn't agree more, such a waste of a lifetime, but please, next time, don't try and explain things in such a complicated manner.
Somewhere, just before I went downstairs, the man suggested to the entity that everyone needed a break, and everyone in the room decided they did too (we all shuffled and got ready to get up) .. only the entity was having too much fun and refused to co-operate .. so I admit to going downstairs, where I promptly lost my temper, made a few polite comments to the staff waiting to make coffee etc for everyone, and then I went back upstairs, waited until my friend had got her answer, and then begged the entity to allow everyone to have a break. I used my almost recent operation as an excuse, flattered the 'spirit', saying I would love to hear more, and finally it agreed to give up the channelling and let us all go.
I know what I have forgotten. Early in the middle of all those strange statements, half truths and such-like the entity said, and/or inferred, that it wasn't human and had never been human. It had never lived on planet earth .. it then contradicted itself at the end and inferred it was human. At the beginning it spoke of everyone being individuals, in spirit .. and then, when asked 'who it was' by a young lady at the very end, told us that when you are in-spirit you are 'all one' and so it didn't matter who the entity was because it wasn't that anymore, inferring that it had had human lifetimes. And yet, it had never been human, nor lived on earth?
What is wrong with this scenario.
1) the entity (I refuse to call it a spirit) had no respect for the lady channeller, forcing her throat to overwork and causing her to cough a number of times before she told it back off a bit
2) it refused to say who it was, or even who it 'had been' (when I asked it after the other lady)
3) it had never been human, then contradicted that and inferred it had had human live times
4) the information it gave was confusing, contradictory, convoluted and complicated .. Spirit works on the KISS principle when it teaches .. keep it simple, silly.
5) it never answered a straight question with a straight answer .. why use 4000 words when 3 would do
6) it appeared not to be able to hear what people were saying, even though we were told to be quiet to not disrupt the energy of the channeller's connection
7) it could not see anyone in the room .. the channeller's eyes were closed, but if it was actually in the room with us it would have been able to see everyone .. unless it was, of course, blind .. but blindness is a human condition, not a spiritual one.
So who was the entity? I have my suspicions, having seen the same dark blue aura around another spiritualist lady channelling in her church not far from my house. She also talked this base-level, convoluted nonsense that says nothing in a great big circle. At the very least it was a very young soul who enjoyed the audience's energy, as it was busy draining us dry, or trying to, and thrived on the sound of its own voice.
I would be interested in other people's experiences with trance mediums. I intend to start investigating all the spiritual churces I can reach easily around here .. and there are lots. I want to know the level of their teaching. I would think, in a 'society' that has been around since the 1800's, they would be way past the 101 (first class, first day, of a university course) level of our learning. It's not hard to step up. You just have to be prepared to learn to love and forgive.
Love & Peace,
Ama
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Monday, May 9, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Are we pawns or willing players?
My daughter once explained to me what a player is .. someone who dips into life, rather than commiting to it, or anyone. That's the polite version, anyway. Dips into life - doesn't commit - doesn't stay for the long haul, doesn't try when things get tough. Easier to walk away, change job, change location, change clothes, change friends, change spouse or partner, even change your name and start again .. only to repeat the whole thing, because we learn nothing from turning our backs on challenges and running .. the challenges follow us, in one form or another - until we stop and confront them and stop being 'players'.
The other side of the coin are pawns. Life is so tough 'for' them (you might know them as their other name 'victims'). Everything always goes wrong. Everyone hates them, does things 'to' them, doesn't do what they want them to do .. makes life hard. And they are not responsible for any of it. You've heard the reasons that are really excuses. Once again they are players .. not pawns. There are no such things as human pawns, because God/Spirit gave us Free Will, and there are very limited circumstances that take away our right to choose. And even then, our actions usually set up the circumstances. Don't know what I mean? How about a graphic example, political prisoners become prisoners because they choose to defy their leaders. Sometimes they do this for the greater good, but often they are only doing it to satisfy some 'want' within themselves ... even the greatest of them, whose motives seem so pure, could be trying to manipulate an outcome that backfires on them.
Manipulation .. yes, even they are players - for players try to manipulate others to suit themselves. You could say I am being cruel, or overly judgmental, but look at the world around you, where are the great people now .. mostly they are dead. These generations of ours seem to have forgotten how to be 'great'. We venerate footballs who can't keep their clothes on, the notoriety makes them more popular? And the drug dealers who admit their crimes are still talked about in the media as if they are suffering some fate worse than death in their Asian prison .. for the addicts its a fate worse than death. If the drugs were not available anymore, there would be no addicts. But, people become addicts through choice, and people become drug runners through choice also. And where are the bosses, who paid them so much money when they succeeded with the deliveries, when they needed bailing out of gaol .. ? More players.
Who are your heroes? I admit to having none. Oh no, that's not entirely true. I have a few whose words of wisdom have touched the hearts of so many people - you know them - Jesus, Buddha, Gandhi .. all of them were human, all of them defied societies expectations, and all of them left a legacy of wisdom that we can dip into anytime we feel the need to 'play'. And there are so many others, poets and muscians, simple people and cranky old nuns. Did we listen when they spoke, do we now?
Funny how the angels say to me, when they want me to do some serious work for them, "Ama, come and play". Who took the words, and the world, and twisted it in knots.
And how do we untwist it again?
I'll start with me ...
I am neither a pawn nor a player. I will walk the path of Light to the best of my abilities, watching my step so that I don't 'tread on anyone's dreams' (WB Yeats), watching my tongue so that my words will 'harm none' (the Wiccan way), and watching the love and joy dance lightly on my heart.
Try it .. you might enjoy the sensations.
Love & Light
Ama
The other side of the coin are pawns. Life is so tough 'for' them (you might know them as their other name 'victims'). Everything always goes wrong. Everyone hates them, does things 'to' them, doesn't do what they want them to do .. makes life hard. And they are not responsible for any of it. You've heard the reasons that are really excuses. Once again they are players .. not pawns. There are no such things as human pawns, because God/Spirit gave us Free Will, and there are very limited circumstances that take away our right to choose. And even then, our actions usually set up the circumstances. Don't know what I mean? How about a graphic example, political prisoners become prisoners because they choose to defy their leaders. Sometimes they do this for the greater good, but often they are only doing it to satisfy some 'want' within themselves ... even the greatest of them, whose motives seem so pure, could be trying to manipulate an outcome that backfires on them.
Manipulation .. yes, even they are players - for players try to manipulate others to suit themselves. You could say I am being cruel, or overly judgmental, but look at the world around you, where are the great people now .. mostly they are dead. These generations of ours seem to have forgotten how to be 'great'. We venerate footballs who can't keep their clothes on, the notoriety makes them more popular? And the drug dealers who admit their crimes are still talked about in the media as if they are suffering some fate worse than death in their Asian prison .. for the addicts its a fate worse than death. If the drugs were not available anymore, there would be no addicts. But, people become addicts through choice, and people become drug runners through choice also. And where are the bosses, who paid them so much money when they succeeded with the deliveries, when they needed bailing out of gaol .. ? More players.
Who are your heroes? I admit to having none. Oh no, that's not entirely true. I have a few whose words of wisdom have touched the hearts of so many people - you know them - Jesus, Buddha, Gandhi .. all of them were human, all of them defied societies expectations, and all of them left a legacy of wisdom that we can dip into anytime we feel the need to 'play'. And there are so many others, poets and muscians, simple people and cranky old nuns. Did we listen when they spoke, do we now?
Funny how the angels say to me, when they want me to do some serious work for them, "Ama, come and play". Who took the words, and the world, and twisted it in knots.
And how do we untwist it again?
I'll start with me ...
I am neither a pawn nor a player. I will walk the path of Light to the best of my abilities, watching my step so that I don't 'tread on anyone's dreams' (WB Yeats), watching my tongue so that my words will 'harm none' (the Wiccan way), and watching the love and joy dance lightly on my heart.
Try it .. you might enjoy the sensations.
Love & Light
Ama
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Love is a danger of a different kind ...
.
Good morning, anyone else love Eurythmics? I am singing the song to myself even now, having started it in the orchard as I wandered down a row of those glorious trees, covered in tiny apples (well, about half the size they will be in a month or two), and I was thinking about hate.
How's that for a subject! Hate. Why do we hate? Why do we bother? Dear God, why do we do it?
Really, the whole thought came up because I was thinking of the word 'God' and 'Spirit'. It can make both sides of the 'religious' bunch blanche. The Christians (and I'm a believer, just in case you are wondering) can't bare the word 'Spirit', used by the new age folk for God. And the new agers .. don't use 'God' because .. because why? Because the Christians do and they don't believe in that 'stuff'. Because its not specific enough?
"Which God do you mean exactly? I follow Isis." Yes, that has been said to me. I even ask the question of people when they come out with some truly outrageous statements that are supposed to be Christian .. like "I hate him!"
I don't remember God or Jesus teaching us to hate .. but then again, go and check out the Old Testament. There's one heck of a judgmental 'god' in there, known as 'the Lord' .. and then there's the other loving one .. and then there's a whole lot more of them - so which God do you follow?
And then there's the Holy Spirit - guess what guys .. new age folks .. and I've worked among them for years and years .. your 'Spirit' is the Holy Spirit .. someone just left off the first word. It's all the same energy .. you keep telling me that, and yet you then isolate bits of it and name them 'Gods'. Sigh ..
Where was I? Oh yes, hate.
Sadly, we are all more than capable of hating. Even the sweetest person you have ever met has a touch of hate in them, or they wouldn't be on this planet. The 'I've come only to serve others' sugarbabies make me blanche (that means go white in the face and want to groan BTW). All of us are here in physical bodies because we have work to do on ourselves - poke a sugarbaby and they are equally capable of lashing out when they are hurt. Believe me .. I've been on the receiving end. We don't intend to hurt them, we just remind them of their issues. I say 'we' because, although its me talking, its often their angels, or mine, who are directing where the conversations go.
Hate comes from fear. Hate is not the opposite of Love. Hate is what happens when we no longer trust, either another person, or ourselves. It is part of wounded pride and ego trying to restore integrity within us. It's version of integrity anyway, which is not always good for us. We should try not to feel that way (ahh.. the should word .. well, in this case, its appropriate). Hate destroys us from the inside, just as unexpressed anger, jealousy, guilt and all the other 'acid' emotions do. They burn away within us creating illnesses such as cancer and others (see Annette Noontil and Louise Hay for the connection between emotion and illness - fascinating .. and true).
Hate is the weapon we use first on ourselves, before we broadcast it not only at the person we are angry with, but also at everyone around us. It poisons the air around us, the food we eat, the water .. our friends, our family, our pets. Please tell me .. why do you hate?
No one deserves this sort of punishment. Not you, not me. Not whomever did whatever it was they did to you .. no matter what it was.
There's a belief among the spiritual folk that we create our reality and that everything that happens to us 1) happens because we chose it for the lessons, and 2) happens for a very good reason. One of the main reasons negative stuff happens is to help us to learn to love UNCONDITIONALLY. I typed that in capitals .. yes, I'm shouting. Should I type LOVE that way too?
Love is a danger of a different kind - because it makes us vulnerable to being hurt. Through love we open ourselves to receive so much good, and when the someone who the focus of that emotion cannot give back what we want them to .. for whatever reasons .. we can choose to 'love anyway' and let go, or we can drag them to us and hold them there forever by hating them. It is ropes of steel that bind us to the person we hate .. and they might never know it, and you might never meet them again .. but you are still bound to them, in the time and place where you chose to hate.
I do not want to be trapped in a time of great pain and loneliness, so when I was given a choice to love anyway, I fought to choose it. I fought my own anger, fear and loneliness, all reactions of ego based in pride, and in the end I let go .. oh it took time, but I made the choice and kept working on it each day until the whole issue didn't hurt anymore. I am very grateful for the lessons to those people involved. I learned so much about myself, how can I bear you any ill will?
Do not hate. Do not choose to destroy yourself and everyone around you through that negativity. The planet suffers enough with our stupidity. Do not make it suffer more. Confront the reality of your emotional attachment to those people you are angry with, forgive yourself, forgive them and let go. So much more than you will be healed. And we need that healing now.
We love you,
Ama
(and the angels)
Good morning, anyone else love Eurythmics? I am singing the song to myself even now, having started it in the orchard as I wandered down a row of those glorious trees, covered in tiny apples (well, about half the size they will be in a month or two), and I was thinking about hate.
How's that for a subject! Hate. Why do we hate? Why do we bother? Dear God, why do we do it?
Really, the whole thought came up because I was thinking of the word 'God' and 'Spirit'. It can make both sides of the 'religious' bunch blanche. The Christians (and I'm a believer, just in case you are wondering) can't bare the word 'Spirit', used by the new age folk for God. And the new agers .. don't use 'God' because .. because why? Because the Christians do and they don't believe in that 'stuff'. Because its not specific enough?
"Which God do you mean exactly? I follow Isis." Yes, that has been said to me. I even ask the question of people when they come out with some truly outrageous statements that are supposed to be Christian .. like "I hate him!"
I don't remember God or Jesus teaching us to hate .. but then again, go and check out the Old Testament. There's one heck of a judgmental 'god' in there, known as 'the Lord' .. and then there's the other loving one .. and then there's a whole lot more of them - so which God do you follow?
And then there's the Holy Spirit - guess what guys .. new age folks .. and I've worked among them for years and years .. your 'Spirit' is the Holy Spirit .. someone just left off the first word. It's all the same energy .. you keep telling me that, and yet you then isolate bits of it and name them 'Gods'. Sigh ..
Where was I? Oh yes, hate.
Sadly, we are all more than capable of hating. Even the sweetest person you have ever met has a touch of hate in them, or they wouldn't be on this planet. The 'I've come only to serve others' sugarbabies make me blanche (that means go white in the face and want to groan BTW). All of us are here in physical bodies because we have work to do on ourselves - poke a sugarbaby and they are equally capable of lashing out when they are hurt. Believe me .. I've been on the receiving end. We don't intend to hurt them, we just remind them of their issues. I say 'we' because, although its me talking, its often their angels, or mine, who are directing where the conversations go.
Hate comes from fear. Hate is not the opposite of Love. Hate is what happens when we no longer trust, either another person, or ourselves. It is part of wounded pride and ego trying to restore integrity within us. It's version of integrity anyway, which is not always good for us. We should try not to feel that way (ahh.. the should word .. well, in this case, its appropriate). Hate destroys us from the inside, just as unexpressed anger, jealousy, guilt and all the other 'acid' emotions do. They burn away within us creating illnesses such as cancer and others (see Annette Noontil and Louise Hay for the connection between emotion and illness - fascinating .. and true).
Hate is the weapon we use first on ourselves, before we broadcast it not only at the person we are angry with, but also at everyone around us. It poisons the air around us, the food we eat, the water .. our friends, our family, our pets. Please tell me .. why do you hate?
No one deserves this sort of punishment. Not you, not me. Not whomever did whatever it was they did to you .. no matter what it was.
There's a belief among the spiritual folk that we create our reality and that everything that happens to us 1) happens because we chose it for the lessons, and 2) happens for a very good reason. One of the main reasons negative stuff happens is to help us to learn to love UNCONDITIONALLY. I typed that in capitals .. yes, I'm shouting. Should I type LOVE that way too?
Love is a danger of a different kind - because it makes us vulnerable to being hurt. Through love we open ourselves to receive so much good, and when the someone who the focus of that emotion cannot give back what we want them to .. for whatever reasons .. we can choose to 'love anyway' and let go, or we can drag them to us and hold them there forever by hating them. It is ropes of steel that bind us to the person we hate .. and they might never know it, and you might never meet them again .. but you are still bound to them, in the time and place where you chose to hate.
I do not want to be trapped in a time of great pain and loneliness, so when I was given a choice to love anyway, I fought to choose it. I fought my own anger, fear and loneliness, all reactions of ego based in pride, and in the end I let go .. oh it took time, but I made the choice and kept working on it each day until the whole issue didn't hurt anymore. I am very grateful for the lessons to those people involved. I learned so much about myself, how can I bear you any ill will?
Do not hate. Do not choose to destroy yourself and everyone around you through that negativity. The planet suffers enough with our stupidity. Do not make it suffer more. Confront the reality of your emotional attachment to those people you are angry with, forgive yourself, forgive them and let go. So much more than you will be healed. And we need that healing now.
We love you,
Ama
(and the angels)
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Spiritual Soapbox
.
Good God its afternoon again. What happened to the morning .. oh I know, I spent a large part of it trying to change the background pictures on this site, and my other 'sacred gates'. I succeeded finally, after abandoning any hope of uploading my own favourite pictures. I settled for the wood of a crate for this one .. very appropriate given its new title. Yes, the site will still be about God, Spirit, the angels, demons, elementals, and hopefully a tiny bit of wisdom that I have been trying to acquire over the years. I noticed I succeeded in not writing a thing here since 11 March 2010. That didn't mean I wasn't writing .. believe me, I was .. there are reams of Allexpert.com (paranormal) pages to prove it, and then there was the meetup group .. which turned into more of a struggle than it was worth .. so its gone, but some of us remain - quietly hidden (lol) away at yahoo and facebook. In summing up the year I have to say the rest of it was a struggle - a mood swing and hot flush and other joyful symptoms of peri-menopause one .. so before I go any further, for those who also suffer, the Australia Menopause Centre is wonderful. Check them out. They have been my saving grace! http://www.menopausecentre.com.au/online/index.php
In the last nine months I have made many attempts to write a blog or two here. I even started a couple of other blogs with the same results .. no words were forthcoming on any particular subject, because most of the time it was my frustrations I wanted to express, and not the joys. When I sat down this morning I 'clarified' my thinking, which Spirit had been asking me to do for some time .. I deleted two of my blogs and settled down to keep just these two. I intend to try and write in each each day, but if I don't .. you'll know there's a very good reason. Call it my new year's resolution. I usually resolve not to resolve anything, but not this time. Things have got to change! :-) So this site is for expressing the challenges in life, and sacred gates will be for the joys.
Having spent at least an hour under the clothes line hanging clothes and talking to myself, everything I wanted to say here has vanished .. so I'll sign off for now and flip over and write something cheeful at Sacred Gates. The link is there on the right if you want to follow.
Have a wonderful day, have a wonderful year, and most of all, have a wonderful life,
Love & Light
Ama (who is very happy to be back!)'
Good God its afternoon again. What happened to the morning .. oh I know, I spent a large part of it trying to change the background pictures on this site, and my other 'sacred gates'. I succeeded finally, after abandoning any hope of uploading my own favourite pictures. I settled for the wood of a crate for this one .. very appropriate given its new title. Yes, the site will still be about God, Spirit, the angels, demons, elementals, and hopefully a tiny bit of wisdom that I have been trying to acquire over the years. I noticed I succeeded in not writing a thing here since 11 March 2010. That didn't mean I wasn't writing .. believe me, I was .. there are reams of Allexpert.com (paranormal) pages to prove it, and then there was the meetup group .. which turned into more of a struggle than it was worth .. so its gone, but some of us remain - quietly hidden (lol) away at yahoo and facebook. In summing up the year I have to say the rest of it was a struggle - a mood swing and hot flush and other joyful symptoms of peri-menopause one .. so before I go any further, for those who also suffer, the Australia Menopause Centre is wonderful. Check them out. They have been my saving grace! http://www.menopausecentre.com.au/online/index.php
In the last nine months I have made many attempts to write a blog or two here. I even started a couple of other blogs with the same results .. no words were forthcoming on any particular subject, because most of the time it was my frustrations I wanted to express, and not the joys. When I sat down this morning I 'clarified' my thinking, which Spirit had been asking me to do for some time .. I deleted two of my blogs and settled down to keep just these two. I intend to try and write in each each day, but if I don't .. you'll know there's a very good reason. Call it my new year's resolution. I usually resolve not to resolve anything, but not this time. Things have got to change! :-) So this site is for expressing the challenges in life, and sacred gates will be for the joys.
Having spent at least an hour under the clothes line hanging clothes and talking to myself, everything I wanted to say here has vanished .. so I'll sign off for now and flip over and write something cheeful at Sacred Gates. The link is there on the right if you want to follow.
Have a wonderful day, have a wonderful year, and most of all, have a wonderful life,
Love & Light
Ama (who is very happy to be back!)'
Saturday, February 20, 2010
I do wish that I was wise
.
If I was wise I would know the right thing to say in the right situations without wondering if they were 'right', without having to double-guess myself. When you work with Spirit you don't automatically become wise, you still have to work on it, on a day to day basis. And the lessons can hurt, because your ego is very much involved in your everyday life - and when you want to become a good person, free of fears and phobias, you have to face those fears and learn their source, and let them go. And letting go can be one of the hardest things you ever do - for often the foundation of your life, of who you believe you are, is based on those fears.
Spirit asks me, from time to time, who do you become?
Who do you become? Who am I becoming with my choices and beliefs and attitudes? Where is God/Spirit in the process? The Christians say 'what would Jesus do?' in any given situation, or they are supposed to? What do the new agers say? What do I say, perched, as I am, between the two?
What would 'love' do? What would a loving person do .. in any situation? How do I react from Love, even when I want to react from anger? What do I learn in the process?
If I was wise I would know the perfect answer to these questions. But as I am a growing being, I am still learning, them, and many more.
So my question to myself is always 'who do you become'?
Love & Light
Ama
If I was wise I would know the right thing to say in the right situations without wondering if they were 'right', without having to double-guess myself. When you work with Spirit you don't automatically become wise, you still have to work on it, on a day to day basis. And the lessons can hurt, because your ego is very much involved in your everyday life - and when you want to become a good person, free of fears and phobias, you have to face those fears and learn their source, and let them go. And letting go can be one of the hardest things you ever do - for often the foundation of your life, of who you believe you are, is based on those fears.
Spirit asks me, from time to time, who do you become?
Who do you become? Who am I becoming with my choices and beliefs and attitudes? Where is God/Spirit in the process? The Christians say 'what would Jesus do?' in any given situation, or they are supposed to? What do the new agers say? What do I say, perched, as I am, between the two?
What would 'love' do? What would a loving person do .. in any situation? How do I react from Love, even when I want to react from anger? What do I learn in the process?
If I was wise I would know the perfect answer to these questions. But as I am a growing being, I am still learning, them, and many more.
So my question to myself is always 'who do you become'?
Love & Light
Ama
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Would you like to know the Truth? (Part 3)
The next question in our journey is about what happens to us when we die. I’m going to tie the 4th question into this (Is there any hope for the dead?), because they are part of each other, in my opinion. Here again we touch on the subject that we cannot truly know the mind of God. Some people might think they do, and we might seem to get glimpses, but given what is written in the Old and New Testaments, and the contrast between them, I’d be very cautious in stating anything irrevocably. You don’t want to condemn yourself to hell by your beliefs, that’s if you believe in hell to start with. :-)
What happens when we die? The Watchtower writers believe that people cease to exist. They quote Ecclesiastes 9:5. I can only go by my memories. I was born with past life and between life memories. It made for a confusing childhood for a long while, until, as an adult, I learned that other people also have memories like mine. So saying to me that we cease to exist, that the dead know nothing, have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost .. well, it’s simply not true. Let me break it down a little.
Cease to exist. I agree totally that after dead the human body will cease to exist, eventually. If you are buried it takes many years, even longer if the body is embalmed; if you are cremated your ashes will dissolve away more quickly, unless someone places them on the mantelpiece in an urn. So they still exist. The spirit, the eternal part of ourselves, continues. I can remember dying and going to a place of healing, a hall of Light and Learning where I was able to review my lifetime, understand my mistakes, and then move on. I can also remember spending many years as a lost soul, a trapped spirit, in a place and time that seemed safe and familiar, where it was comfortable to live in my pain and my shame – until someone loving and kind came and reminded me of a better ‘place’, and then I returned to the place of Light and Learning and repeated the cycle of review and release. Now, some people might say I have these memories because they were bestowed on me by demonic forces to confuse me and turn me away from God. To be released from such a possibility I have been exorcised by one earnest Bishop, and just recently went and had a Ministry Session with the VMTC (you can find that story here http://amanazra.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/vmtc-prayer-ministry-workshop-me/), and yet my memories are intact, and in fact, have always led me back to God, rather than away.
The dead know nothing. I would not raise a dead prophet, as Saul chose to do, just for advice (1 Sam 28:3-25). Even though Samuel was aware of the times he lived in, after dying he would have been totally focused on his own journey, or should have been. When you are dead you are not so connected to the world, and worldly things, you have a wider focus. And strangely enough, doesn’t the fact that the witch of Endor could raise him defeat the whole last question. Samuel had not ceased to exist. He was a disembodied spirit, not non-existent. The same man in a different form, with different priorities.
After years of being a medium and talking to spirits and lost souls (ghosts), I know they know quite a lot, but that their understanding of human lives is very much broader than our own over-focused tunnel vision that we have in each lifetime. And yes it is tunnel-vision, or you can call it ‘ego-centric’. Living humans are sensory beings and can be totally overwhelmed by their day to day lives. It is not until we have died and gone through healing that we can, even to some small degree, understand the totality and complexity of all we have learned in each lifetime. We need the break between lives to sort it all through, learn from it .. and then repeat the experiences in new and varied ways.
No more reward? What is the reward for living but love and trust and truth and freedom? We can have it all when we choose to walk the path laid down for us by Jesus when he came. Even when dead we still walk this path. And the greatest reward of all is to know God and to stand at his/her feet and be Loved – and we do that at the end of every lifetime, and sometimes we do it during our lifetimes, when the Holy Spirit reaches out to each of us and touches our hearts. That touch flares the divine spark within each of us, and for a moment we see Glory.
And even the memory of them is lost? And yet I have a book that is 2000 years old beside me. It is called the Bible and it reminds us of our ancestors .. Saul, Paul, Isaiah, Martha, Ruth, Mary .. are they lost to our memories? Oh right, I never met Mary, but they are close to my heart, and so are their messages. And I remember my grandfather, both of them. They are dead, buried and gone through healing. They are not forgotten. Nor is the great, great, grandmother who blessed my daughter with frizzy hair. She is not forgotten. Genetically she has shown herself, and her ancestors, through my daughter. But yes, some people are forgotten by living people, but no one is ever forgotten by God. S/he who sees into the hearts and minds of all people, knows every one of us intimately, whether we are in living bodies at the moment, or not.
The brochure goes on to say that the dead cannot know, feel, or experience anything, they cannot harm – or help – the living. And then they quote Psalm 146:3, 4. “Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help. When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish”. Very true. When you die your plans can perish – unless you have trusted someone to carry on the legacy for you. And then they can continue. A good example is Dr Fred Hollows, who developed the cataract operations that have saved the sight of so many people. He is dead, but his legacy remains, and so many people in third world countries are benefiting from his gift to humanity. In that way he is still ‘helping the living’. And lost souls still experience the pain and fear that traps them, until they are returned to healing, and then they ‘experience’ everything all over again, learn from it and move on. Ask to stay aware of it next time around. There is so much to learn from a wider world view.
And on the last point, a word of caution. The dead can hurt the living. Some lost souls are just so nasty that it carries over into death and they try to continue to do what they did when they were alive. Some are so lost to drugs and alcohol that they try to continue these habits although they are deceased. They will attach themselves to living humans and feed off their energy, encouraging them to take up, continue, or make worse, the same destructive habits they had themselves. This is one reason why people like me exist – to help clear those lost beings into a place of healing. To save both the living, and the dead. And some are so intensely angry and negative that they develop telekinesis and can actually physically hurt the living. Another reason for ending their ‘between life’ existence and getting them sent Home.
So, in this case the Watchtower people are wrong. We don’t cease to exist, we continue our spiritual journeys whether we are in a living or body or simply in Spirit, and there is always hope for the dead – because God loves all of his/her creations, and wants us to be as loving, kind and generous as s/he is. To that end s/he provides some people with the gift of ‘discernment of spirits’ so that they can help lost souls find healing, both the living and the dead.
To be continued
What happens when we die? The Watchtower writers believe that people cease to exist. They quote Ecclesiastes 9:5. I can only go by my memories. I was born with past life and between life memories. It made for a confusing childhood for a long while, until, as an adult, I learned that other people also have memories like mine. So saying to me that we cease to exist, that the dead know nothing, have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost .. well, it’s simply not true. Let me break it down a little.
Cease to exist. I agree totally that after dead the human body will cease to exist, eventually. If you are buried it takes many years, even longer if the body is embalmed; if you are cremated your ashes will dissolve away more quickly, unless someone places them on the mantelpiece in an urn. So they still exist. The spirit, the eternal part of ourselves, continues. I can remember dying and going to a place of healing, a hall of Light and Learning where I was able to review my lifetime, understand my mistakes, and then move on. I can also remember spending many years as a lost soul, a trapped spirit, in a place and time that seemed safe and familiar, where it was comfortable to live in my pain and my shame – until someone loving and kind came and reminded me of a better ‘place’, and then I returned to the place of Light and Learning and repeated the cycle of review and release. Now, some people might say I have these memories because they were bestowed on me by demonic forces to confuse me and turn me away from God. To be released from such a possibility I have been exorcised by one earnest Bishop, and just recently went and had a Ministry Session with the VMTC (you can find that story here http://amanazra.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/vmtc-prayer-ministry-workshop-me/), and yet my memories are intact, and in fact, have always led me back to God, rather than away.
The dead know nothing. I would not raise a dead prophet, as Saul chose to do, just for advice (1 Sam 28:3-25). Even though Samuel was aware of the times he lived in, after dying he would have been totally focused on his own journey, or should have been. When you are dead you are not so connected to the world, and worldly things, you have a wider focus. And strangely enough, doesn’t the fact that the witch of Endor could raise him defeat the whole last question. Samuel had not ceased to exist. He was a disembodied spirit, not non-existent. The same man in a different form, with different priorities.
After years of being a medium and talking to spirits and lost souls (ghosts), I know they know quite a lot, but that their understanding of human lives is very much broader than our own over-focused tunnel vision that we have in each lifetime. And yes it is tunnel-vision, or you can call it ‘ego-centric’. Living humans are sensory beings and can be totally overwhelmed by their day to day lives. It is not until we have died and gone through healing that we can, even to some small degree, understand the totality and complexity of all we have learned in each lifetime. We need the break between lives to sort it all through, learn from it .. and then repeat the experiences in new and varied ways.
No more reward? What is the reward for living but love and trust and truth and freedom? We can have it all when we choose to walk the path laid down for us by Jesus when he came. Even when dead we still walk this path. And the greatest reward of all is to know God and to stand at his/her feet and be Loved – and we do that at the end of every lifetime, and sometimes we do it during our lifetimes, when the Holy Spirit reaches out to each of us and touches our hearts. That touch flares the divine spark within each of us, and for a moment we see Glory.
And even the memory of them is lost? And yet I have a book that is 2000 years old beside me. It is called the Bible and it reminds us of our ancestors .. Saul, Paul, Isaiah, Martha, Ruth, Mary .. are they lost to our memories? Oh right, I never met Mary, but they are close to my heart, and so are their messages. And I remember my grandfather, both of them. They are dead, buried and gone through healing. They are not forgotten. Nor is the great, great, grandmother who blessed my daughter with frizzy hair. She is not forgotten. Genetically she has shown herself, and her ancestors, through my daughter. But yes, some people are forgotten by living people, but no one is ever forgotten by God. S/he who sees into the hearts and minds of all people, knows every one of us intimately, whether we are in living bodies at the moment, or not.
The brochure goes on to say that the dead cannot know, feel, or experience anything, they cannot harm – or help – the living. And then they quote Psalm 146:3, 4. “Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help. When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish”. Very true. When you die your plans can perish – unless you have trusted someone to carry on the legacy for you. And then they can continue. A good example is Dr Fred Hollows, who developed the cataract operations that have saved the sight of so many people. He is dead, but his legacy remains, and so many people in third world countries are benefiting from his gift to humanity. In that way he is still ‘helping the living’. And lost souls still experience the pain and fear that traps them, until they are returned to healing, and then they ‘experience’ everything all over again, learn from it and move on. Ask to stay aware of it next time around. There is so much to learn from a wider world view.
And on the last point, a word of caution. The dead can hurt the living. Some lost souls are just so nasty that it carries over into death and they try to continue to do what they did when they were alive. Some are so lost to drugs and alcohol that they try to continue these habits although they are deceased. They will attach themselves to living humans and feed off their energy, encouraging them to take up, continue, or make worse, the same destructive habits they had themselves. This is one reason why people like me exist – to help clear those lost beings into a place of healing. To save both the living, and the dead. And some are so intensely angry and negative that they develop telekinesis and can actually physically hurt the living. Another reason for ending their ‘between life’ existence and getting them sent Home.
So, in this case the Watchtower people are wrong. We don’t cease to exist, we continue our spiritual journeys whether we are in a living or body or simply in Spirit, and there is always hope for the dead – because God loves all of his/her creations, and wants us to be as loving, kind and generous as s/he is. To that end s/he provides some people with the gift of ‘discernment of spirits’ so that they can help lost souls find healing, both the living and the dead.
To be continued
Sunday, July 26, 2009
The Serpentine Wall
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Very early this morning I woke with this vision.
A man and I were standing at the edge of a lake in a gap between two walls. The gap was probably 30 feet wide. The lake was at the bottom of a steep hill, with the first wall running along the base of the hill, higher than both our heads, away from me into the distance. It undulated across the bottom of the hill. It was made of red bricks. It did not look very strong but I knew it was, or had been. The other wall went away to my right. I could not see the end of either, I think. The level of the water was very low, far lower than the base of the wall, and the water was very still. Thinking about it afterwards I realised that the height of the 'man-made' wall was the height of faith in the past, where the marks of the water showed where it had lapped at the top. Every brick was made by faith, and the colour, the red, represented both strength and the blood of people who had died for their beliefs.
I asked the man what he was showing me and he answered
“We protect the faithfull”.
We protect the faithful? I thought about it, and then realised he meant faith-filled. Faith is a choice and an emotion, symbolized by the water in the lake .. which was very low. How do we fill the lake of our faith? What do we have to do to restore God/Spirit to its place of glory in our lives? We have lost the thread, the plot, if you like. We have lost God in the man-made religions we have created to satisfy our ego, and fill in the gaps in our lives – or worse, we have thrown God away because it does not do what we want when we want it, ‘fulfilling’ our wishes.
While I was thinking this through I saw more of the vision. There were floating entities, like balloons, over the lake. They dipped to the water, filled themselves full – and vanished. The positive energy of the lake that they were so drawn to eliminated them. They were negative thought forms that humans create every day. They are drawn to human energy, the energy of faith in the ‘lake’. It was a lovely scene until I realised that they were actually draining more from the lake and giving nothing in return.
We take from God/Spirit every day in every way because we are created from the energy of God and we often give nothing in return for the bounty. Not even a thank you.
What do you do for others that you are also doing for God?
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Very early this morning I woke with this vision.
A man and I were standing at the edge of a lake in a gap between two walls. The gap was probably 30 feet wide. The lake was at the bottom of a steep hill, with the first wall running along the base of the hill, higher than both our heads, away from me into the distance. It undulated across the bottom of the hill. It was made of red bricks. It did not look very strong but I knew it was, or had been. The other wall went away to my right. I could not see the end of either, I think. The level of the water was very low, far lower than the base of the wall, and the water was very still. Thinking about it afterwards I realised that the height of the 'man-made' wall was the height of faith in the past, where the marks of the water showed where it had lapped at the top. Every brick was made by faith, and the colour, the red, represented both strength and the blood of people who had died for their beliefs.
I asked the man what he was showing me and he answered
“We protect the faithfull”.
We protect the faithful? I thought about it, and then realised he meant faith-filled. Faith is a choice and an emotion, symbolized by the water in the lake .. which was very low. How do we fill the lake of our faith? What do we have to do to restore God/Spirit to its place of glory in our lives? We have lost the thread, the plot, if you like. We have lost God in the man-made religions we have created to satisfy our ego, and fill in the gaps in our lives – or worse, we have thrown God away because it does not do what we want when we want it, ‘fulfilling’ our wishes.
While I was thinking this through I saw more of the vision. There were floating entities, like balloons, over the lake. They dipped to the water, filled themselves full – and vanished. The positive energy of the lake that they were so drawn to eliminated them. They were negative thought forms that humans create every day. They are drawn to human energy, the energy of faith in the ‘lake’. It was a lovely scene until I realised that they were actually draining more from the lake and giving nothing in return.
We take from God/Spirit every day in every way because we are created from the energy of God and we often give nothing in return for the bounty. Not even a thank you.
What do you do for others that you are also doing for God?
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
On the journey with Spirit
It’s the little things that make a huge difference.
When I began this journey with Spirit I was very young and uncertain of myself, and now a little older I think I better understand what they are wanting of me, and I learned that by learning about myself. Today I am making soup, it’s a process of putting together a differing number of ingredients to get the sorts of flavours, the harmony of essence, that you like and are willing to share with others. It is our own personal harmony of essence that we share with each other when we meet daily, in person, on the phone, or on the internet through emails and chat programs. The harmony of our essence is expressed through the human aura, the energy field that surrounds each of us which interacts with every other person we meet. We call how we feel about someone ‘intuition’ and instinct and empathy, or just ‘knowing’ if they are right for us – to be friend or lover, just an acquaintance, or even someone we do not want to meet again. The harmony of the person’s energy can be a factor in the sort of relationship you will develop with them, and develop they do, through physical contact and all levels of communication. It is little things like body language, the sound of the voice, word patterns and vocabulary, and physical characteristics that attract people to each other even before we look at the more metaphysical influences such as past life relationships, and the frequency of their auric field. And why does it matter? Because Spirit asks us to love one another. They do not mean the physical sort of love that demands so much of our time and attention; they mean a commitment from ourselves to every living person to allow them to be whomever they, good or bad, whether they behave in ways we accept or not. They ask that we love unconditionally in a time when war seems to be spreading across the world, no matter how hard we try, or not, to stop it.
What does it mean to love unconditionally? It means to find within ourselves the gift of freedom that was bestowed upon us all at the coming of the Christ energy into the world and
share it with others. The door to our hearts was opened wide and new ways and new wisdom has been flowing in ever since. In connecting to this new wisdom, and accepting the responsibility it brings, we are once again the Children of God we have always been, lost in shadows, now redeemed.
I can hear my friends groaning and saying ‘Ama has gone biblical again’ .. well yes, God and Spirit (Holy Spirit for the more Christian folks) are the same being. We are all being asked for the same commitment, no matter what our belief systems are, no matter which ‘religion’ we follow. Love is the foundation and core of every message we receive from God/Spirit through our own hearts and the words of others. Love is the beginning, the ending and the whole middle of change ... and when you are unhappy change is what you are searching for. Begin with Spirit, for there you are truly Loved! Love one another. Start with yourself. Let your heart be free!
When I began this journey with Spirit I was very young and uncertain of myself, and now a little older I think I better understand what they are wanting of me, and I learned that by learning about myself. Today I am making soup, it’s a process of putting together a differing number of ingredients to get the sorts of flavours, the harmony of essence, that you like and are willing to share with others. It is our own personal harmony of essence that we share with each other when we meet daily, in person, on the phone, or on the internet through emails and chat programs. The harmony of our essence is expressed through the human aura, the energy field that surrounds each of us which interacts with every other person we meet. We call how we feel about someone ‘intuition’ and instinct and empathy, or just ‘knowing’ if they are right for us – to be friend or lover, just an acquaintance, or even someone we do not want to meet again. The harmony of the person’s energy can be a factor in the sort of relationship you will develop with them, and develop they do, through physical contact and all levels of communication. It is little things like body language, the sound of the voice, word patterns and vocabulary, and physical characteristics that attract people to each other even before we look at the more metaphysical influences such as past life relationships, and the frequency of their auric field. And why does it matter? Because Spirit asks us to love one another. They do not mean the physical sort of love that demands so much of our time and attention; they mean a commitment from ourselves to every living person to allow them to be whomever they, good or bad, whether they behave in ways we accept or not. They ask that we love unconditionally in a time when war seems to be spreading across the world, no matter how hard we try, or not, to stop it.
What does it mean to love unconditionally? It means to find within ourselves the gift of freedom that was bestowed upon us all at the coming of the Christ energy into the world and
share it with others. The door to our hearts was opened wide and new ways and new wisdom has been flowing in ever since. In connecting to this new wisdom, and accepting the responsibility it brings, we are once again the Children of God we have always been, lost in shadows, now redeemed.
I can hear my friends groaning and saying ‘Ama has gone biblical again’ .. well yes, God and Spirit (Holy Spirit for the more Christian folks) are the same being. We are all being asked for the same commitment, no matter what our belief systems are, no matter which ‘religion’ we follow. Love is the foundation and core of every message we receive from God/Spirit through our own hearts and the words of others. Love is the beginning, the ending and the whole middle of change ... and when you are unhappy change is what you are searching for. Begin with Spirit, for there you are truly Loved! Love one another. Start with yourself. Let your heart be free!
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