HEGEMONY

The implied authority, external force, or dominance, of another, is sometimes referred to as Hegemony.  Often, it is invisible.  Often, it has shaped your Beliefs and yet, you are unaware of it.  Why do you celebrate the Christian ritual that is called Easter?  How did this ritual come to be linked with the mystical rising of the Christian prophet, Yeshua?  And how did that date become enmeshed with the Gaelic/ Earth custom that worships the female deity known as Oestre (spelled many ways***), representative of fertility and the Spring Equinox?

How has that further devolved into the customs that you might follow today, with its various rituals and robing, candies, ceremonies, foods and such?  Is it possible that the Hegemony present in your current culture has influenced you, and that you now blindly follow its dictates?  Do you do as your parents have done, and their parents, and their parents before them, making only minor revisions?

What do you feel as you follow in the footsteps of those who have followed these ceremonies and rituals before you?  You may draw semblances.  The Earth and the Prophet are both sleeping and then arise.  Eggs emerge from the womb of Earth, reminders of spring and fertility.  Rabbits procreate rapidly; another symbol of fertility and plenty.  You meet in your communities to feast, celebrating the return of abundance.  But:  what do you feel?  Does doing these things move you?

How close to your roots do you feel as you move through these actions?  Is it meaningful, or is it another obligation, another expense, another travel to be taken, another group to be suffered, another day lost, or another day to put off what is really meaningful to you?  What motivating factors drive you to continue participating in things that do not resonate with your current Beliefs and Truths?

We do not advise you to make changes, today.  We do not advise you to develop new beliefs or to convert others to new ideas, or to disarticulate their current ideas.  We advise you to take stock of how you invest your energies.  More kilo hours of energy are spent on wasted concerns than could be believed--until you stop, look, and assess how you distribute yourself across the planes of your life.  Listen.  Your mortal life is ticking away.  Day by day, your ultimate horizon grows nearer.

Will you have spent your days there consumed by lies and self-delusion?  Wake up to your own games.  We do not tell you what to Believe.  We urge you to discover for yourself what you Believe, and Why.  What Hegemonies rules you Now, Today?

Break the hold of external mythologies upon your personal powers.  Free yourself.

 Blessed Be This Day

 This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,

Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me

from the other side of the veil.

April 20, 2014

Digital Art by Walks With Fire

REPURPOSE

What happens when your current Purpose dulls?  Lacking the satisfaction it once offered, you now feel as if you’re going through the motions, following a fake ambition, producing false products.  You find yourself outside the beautiful Eden you once thought limitless.  What is happening?

Purpose shifts many times in your Life, though you may not think of it that way.  When reviewing your personal history, you may see your Life in movements or acts or chapters.  If you look closely at the rhythms of how you have acted, believed, and made choices, you will see that you have evolved through many versions of yourself in this mortal Lifetime alone.  It is meant to be thus.

What good would come of a Life spent believing one thing in one way, and in pursuing it with one method, over all of Time?  How could growth occur?  If you are feeling the peeling away of the outermost layers of your Self, you are entering the ‘Next’ place of growth, becoming larger than the skin that now constrains you.

Do you find yourself punishing and regretful, saddled with circular thoughts that are painful and dark?  Does the place in which you now acknowledge yourself to be, suddenly seem foreign and hostile?  These are signs that your Templates need re-tooling; that it is time for Repurposing both your mechanics and your essence towards higher vibrations.  As you begin to shift, lower rates of vibration become grating, like a hairshirt against soft skin.

You may feel angry, sad, self-punishing, lethargic, and anxious.  As you accept the Higher version of your Self, your lower Self revolts.  It has become accustomed to what-is and how-is and where-is.  Lower Self does not want to change.  Change requires movement and stress and trial, over and over again.  Lower Self prefers its complacency.

Use a Time of Repurposing to review what has gone before, but as a neutral observer as much as possible.  Could you have made better decisions in matters past?  Quite likely, yes.  As the past cannot be changed, interwoven as it is with Great All and its codependent and symbiotic inhabitants, accept that you are flawed and growing, and that you can improve upon yesterday’s decisions with the greater wisdom and compassion afforded by today’s Higher States.

Allowing yourself to be dragged down and under the thrall of ‘what-was’ and ‘what-could-have-been’ is a fruitless and limiting pursuit.  The only thing that it changes is the speed at which you are able to move forward—and move forward you will—no matter how slowly you proceed.  So, accept the Past as work finished and proceed into your Future armed with the lessons gained.

Repurpose consciously and move that much closer, that much faster, to the Divine.

Blessed Be,

This is a Direct Voice Communication

From my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share

their wisdoms with me from the

other side of The Veil.

April 19, 2014

Digital Art by Walks With Fire 

RECONCILIATION

How do you know when you have arrived?  When does the doubting stop?  When do you say, “I have done enough fact-finding; now I begin my real work?”  When do you Reconcile with the moment of Truth?  Every Day.

Each morning, when you awake, what are you thinking?  Are you reviewing your dreams or thinking ahead about your day?  What do you question:  others or yourself or both?  At what level do you trust your own judgment and your ability to stay in touch with your own wisdom and intuition?  When do you Reconcile with Reconciliation?

Reconciliation is more than compromise or peacemaking.  It is the bringing together of factors in a summation of belonging that matches the cogent factors more deeply and intuitively than those than can be perceived at the surface level.  Reconciliation matches the air with the underwing of a bird’s feathers, computing lift and drive and drag, all without bothering your consciousness with the complex math that is involved.

Reconciliation brings together factors and particles and parties that hitherto have not been matched, and others that have been matched so long that we cannot imagine them apart—like sunflowers tracking the sun.  What is a mountain morning without fog or a honeysuckle vine without its bee?  If you could see the pattern beneath the visual beauty, into the deep mathematical construct of its form, you would see another beauty . . . Reconciliation.

What, in your life, shows the pattern of Reconciliation, and what abrupt and distraught patterns ache for its subtle hand?  When vibrations Reconcile, they become harmonic, using their forces in tandem, co-supporting rather than competing.  Look at the world you have built.  Where is the grind?  When you listen deeply, what sounds are coarse to your ears?  What factors around you would benefit from Reconciliation?

Today, listen to Great All’s symphony and seek for ways to smooth its course in the playground you call home.  When you comb free the knots from a silken skein, the energy flows unimpeded.  Imagine that sound played all around you—purely pearled notes set in motion from strings free of disruption.

Reconciliation provides such Bliss.

Blessed Be,

This is a Direct Voice Communication

From my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share

their wisdoms with me from the

other side of The Veil.

April 18, 2014

Digital Art by Walks With Fire

MAHOGANY

Mahogany wood grows slowly and is dense, compared to the Birch tree.  Its grain is long and straight, its pulp dark red.  Compare it to the Magnolia, and the Mahogany seems to grow quickly, more quickly still when compared to the Boab and the Redwood.  Do the trees in the forest compare themselves to one another for their speed of growth, their external shape, their size, and their internal forms?  Or do they inhabit their environment as part of a tapestry, taking part in the Song as an indivisible part of it?

Of course, trees are gladly part of the symphony of Great All, giving what they may to the whole.  Keeping their roots in the Great Mother, they cleanse and distribute nutrients, provide homes for insects and animals, and stretch their limbs into the sky, balancing the ethers.  They are perfect examples of cooperative All-ism.

You may consider yourself a certain type of tree with a certain type of growth pattern and habitat, a certain nature with certain needs.  Still, you are part of Great All and the Great Symphony.  What is your part in the Song?

When young, you might only listen, and then you will begin to hum to yourself, following along.  Once in the flow, your sounds will become audible; you will have become familiar with your sigil, or signature, and begin to tone it with some confidence as a member of the symphony.  At some point, you will take your part, adding your voice to the whole.

Over time, confidence grows, and like the young sapling tree, you will learn your instrument, and in addition to your voice, will begin adding notes to the Whole.  As you mature, you will hear notes outside the Symphony, your own Song, and you will begin to construct those symphonies to yourself, adding them to the Great All as you can.  You are becoming a Co-Creator.

As Co-Creator, you can imagine and manifest things that have never been before.  You, as a mature tree in Great All’s diverse forest, can now compose, adding to the symphony as well as performing solo.  You work toward becoming an active member, and eventually, Master.  The wood of you becomes dense and rich as Time and Temporing creates you from the Core outward.

Your roots drive deeply downward and out.  Your limbs are long and varied, elegant and enabled in many dimensions and manners, sensitive to the multitudinous languages of Great All’s ways and means.  You have fused the Earth and Heavens at the meeting point between, where you were made, and the sigil point from where you Create.

You have Become.

What tree are you?  Does it matter?  What matters is how you hear the Song and how you call it back to Great All’s beckon.  What matters is that you give your roots and your limbs freedom to stretch outward across all perceived barriers, to grow past those things that would hold you back because of fear or smallness or indecision.

What is the Tree of Life—but You?  

All of Us.  All Trees are sacred; all Trees are Life.  

Let your Wisdom lead you.  

Wake up to the Forest and hear its Singing.

~~~

Blessed Be,

This is a Direct Voice Communication

From my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share

their wisdoms with me from the

other side of The Veil.

      April 17, 2014

Photo by Ocean Rahan on Unsplash

ENDURANCE

To Endure:  what does that mean?  Endurance is embedded with Faith and Strength and Courage.  It is the rock that inhabits the river though the water carves its pathways around it, helping the sand to scour its sides and leave inlets for the organisms that feed in its cavities.  It keeps its eyes open to the sun and moon and stars, absorbing the heat and the cold in like measure.  Endurance is the state that remains stable as everything external moves by, and says with grace, “I Am.”

Endurance is not a state of non-change.  It is not a state of non-acceptance.  It is not a state of non-judgment, as in being unable to feel the difference between hot and cold, or day and night.  It is not a withdrawal from measures, and the time when the boulder split from the rock face of the mountain and landed in the water with its sharp edges intact, slowly smoothing as the elements forged its body to a more streamlined form.

Endurance is a steady patience; it is a calm hand; it has a loving heart and an understanding nature.  Endurance says:  “I Am and I can see that You Are.”

When your heart suffers, ask yourself, is it merely the shadows of leaf over the sun that you feel, or the ticking of pebbles as they tumble, sleeping, around your buzzing body, cold and heavy in the stream?  What does that mean?  Why do you feel so apart?  Have you known so many ages?

Perhaps you have, yes.  Perhaps you are what some call an old soul.  You have seen this journey of incarnates many times, this raising up of the new consciousness from birth to death, its traps and trials.  If so, then too, you have seen these Spirits sing their praises as they come into life and smile their first smiles, grasp their first human hand, go to sleep by lullaby.  Would you listen only to the dark thread and ignore the bright?

Endurance will have its days.  You will feel its weight.  When the air feels heavy against your skin, go where the air is lighter.  When the sounds of life become coarse, go where the sounds are softer.  Take yourself to those places where the Earth Mother can sing to you her perfect lullaby, and know what your Endurance buys you.

The longevity of Love Unconditional; that is the gift of Endurance.

Blessed Be,

This is a Direct Voice Communication

From my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share

their wisdoms with me from the

other side of The Veil.

April 16, 2014

Photo by Ashley Trethowan on Unsplash

RECONNAISSANCE

When you plot a decision, you send forward feelers to determine how your decisions might look plugged into your future, whether immediate or far.  This could be as simple as:  Do I want a salad for lunch or a club sandwich?  As you imagine yourself eating one and then the other, you register the different levels of satisfaction attached to each, and will usually make a decision based on the highest level of satisfaction provided by the specific element as tested.

Lunch seems to be a simple decision, but what exactly are you determining?  What factors are you actually considering on your missions of Reconnaissance?  Depending on how sensitive and ‘tuned-in’ you are, factors are being determined that reach far beyond the food ingredients included in the lunch:

            ∞  Will you eat your lunch where you are or will you travel for your lunch?

            ∞  If you travel for your lunch, how will you travel and what route will you take?

            ∞  Who will you meet on your way, and who will you meet once there?

            ∞  Does one choice expose you to, or keep you safe from, tainted food (persons, experiences, etc.?)

            ∞  What does each choice have to teach you once you have chosen it?  (A new recipe or feeling in the body?  A new acquaintance or expression?  A new environmental or habitat idea?  A new musician or artist or book or group that might become important to you?)

What choices does this choice now make possible?  Going forward, there are places you can access only by having entered at certain doorways at certain times.  Opportunities are sometimes brief and finite.  When the door on the carousel swings round and you see the future’s bright light beaming out, step on.  In those rare times, your Reconnaissance is not needed.  Unfold your Intuition fully and Surrender to the feelings of Yes.

But what of every day?  We are faced with multitudinous choices that at each intersect, have the power to change our future.  Overthinking can freeze us into non-action.  Avoidance will do the same.  This is where the power of Reconnaissance works at its best.  If you can divide your decision-making into A, B, and C, do this:  use ‘A’ for the choice that says ‘Yes’ to what you are considering, and ‘B’ for the choice that says ‘No’ to what you are considering.  
‘C’ is for the unthought thought or other thing, that is as yet unconsidered (that is sometimes a higher or better thing—but not always).

Send your thoughts, emotions, and intuition into the future of choice ‘A’ fully seated.  How does that future look and feel?  How does your future look and feel with choice ‘B’ fully seated?  If you are choosing between two distinct things, explore all of the ways that it makes you feel and all of the ramifications of how it affects your life.  Mostly, note how empowered or disempowered you feel.  Let your intellect do its part and then follow the threads of your Heart, Will, and Spirit.

Where does your Song lead you?

Still not clear?  What is it you’re not ready to Surrender?  Do you have Fear?  Do you Believe yourself incapable of taking on ‘A’ or ‘B’?  Why?  How much Truth lives in your Belief?  How much of your Fear is based in your false Belief?  If you Believed that you Could Not Fail by choosing and pursuing ‘A’, would you proceed with choice ‘A’?

If you knew that you had all of the help that was needed to be successful by seating everything attached to choice ‘A’, would you invite that decision into your life and begin that pathway?  We tell you that you have all of the help that you need.  Your Spirit Guides, your Tribe Members, are with you always.  While they will never assist you in delusion, or in self-destructive events, they will always help you in any empowering endeavors in which you choose to invoke their help.

We cannot imagine taking on tasks alone.  It’s not done for the most part.  We work together and are happy for it.  You can do the same.  Some of you do, but for the most part, you form hierarchies and competitions, and seek to isolate yourselves by developing individualism to the point of handicap. 

It is liken to a water molecule who longs to reach the beach—but simultaneously denying the moon and the wave, and then bemoaning his bad luck in fighting the forces around him that keep him from reaching the sand.  Poor, brave, water molecule—who only wants to reach the land—but must struggle alone against monumental forces!  Do you see?  This is so painful for us to watch, we can find no humor in it. 

When you use your Intuition through Reconnaissance, the vibrations it evokes are similar to a spider upon the web.  Your Tribe Members feel your seeking and can follow the threads that you throw forward to test the pathways for viability.  Which way holds the greatest value for the journey of the soul?  We can light the beacons.  We can help opportunities converge.  We can help the road signs become large and bright and unmistakable.

We are your Brethren.  We stay close specifically to aid you.  When you suffer, we suffer.  When you triumph, we triumph.  Call on us to help make your decisions, large and small.  This slipstream of Life contains enough snags to challenge every Soul without evoking any additional effort.  Let be what is.

Use Reconnaissance, and call on your Brethren to assist you in doing so.  Together, we can help you negotiate the slipstream of Life with less resistance. 

Blessed Be

This is a Direct Voice Communication

From my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share

their wisdoms with me from the

other side of The Veil

April 15, 2014

Digital Photo by Walks With Fire

RELEASE

What do you keep locked away and why?  Are there memories locked behind the walls of you that are dangerous or sad or so revolting that you have sworn to never look at them again?  Do you even know that they are there, collapsed in the long dark backroads of your least traveled selves?  How many dens and warrens exist inside you, harboring the unclean?

At the other end of the spectrum, how many memories, ideas, and beliefs have you on pedestals and in gilded cages, feeding tidbits from your hand?  How many of those honored captives sing to you in the night as you lay your head to rest?  What is your dialogue with these shackled guests and how likely is their departure?  How likely is their release?

Contemporary therapists have multitudinous and complex systems for helping others to identify and rout out these captives.  While helpful, these therapies must rely on the intellect and can consume long periods of time, especially when the recipient of help is resistant to release or incapable of engaging emotion—or when the therapist is incapable of helping them to engage their emotions.  And many cannot or will not come to such aid.

In some religious systems, “Being Saved” or “Initiated,” is quite often about Releasing:  the letting go of the world as it was, previous to accepting the new dogma of thought and action.  The tablet of life is swept clean to be begun again.  Sometimes, the body is dramatically changed through ritual cleansing, scarification, hair removal, tattooing, and the like.  Robes and costumes are taken on.  Language and idioms are accepted.

In the first case of a person working with a therapist there is discovery and sometimes, correction and emptying; in the second, release and substitution.  What happens for you, the Self-Seeker, when Release is sought?  What fills that void when you Release something that has long occupied a space inside you?

Pull a thorn from your foot and the wounded skin heals the breach.  Release old matter from the digestive system through fasting and the natural energy returns.  Take away the mind’s circular and self-punishing thoughts and there is more time for creative pursuits.  Disable self-lying and enable empowerment.

Do not worry over the presence of a void or even think of Releasing in that way.  When you Release anything that has an impeding effect, homeostasis returns, and the greater system takes care of itself.  Your Spirit has plans for every part of you and every function of you and every attentuation.  Conscious thought is a bonus.  Conscious Release is the necessary action.

How does one Consciously Release?  Seek Truth.  Most of what we hold on to and protect is shrouded in our own mythology.  When we bring it to the light of Truth, we can see it for its mockery; immediately it loses its value.  Once it loses value, it is easy to Release.  (Yes, it may creep back, seducing us again, but it is easier to release a second, a third, and even a fourth time.)

Today, begin with one Belief that you hold to be True.  How does this Belief affect your life, lifestyle, decision-making, self-image, and other Beliefs?  Do you keep this Belief on a pedestal?  What if you debunked this Belief?  Take this Belief and expose it to the light of Truth, methodically and without bias, as a neutral observer.  What do you discover?

Let’s use an example:  “I’m no good at communicating with others.”  Why you believe this:  “When I speak, people misunderstand me, and explaining does no good.  I get frustrated and stop trying to explain.  I’m just no good at it.”  Is this the Truth?  Perhaps this person is so desperate to have their concept or opinion heard, they aren’t really listening to the person to whom they are speaking and therefore can’t hear how that person can ‘hear.’  For a moment, believe the opposite of the Belief:

            “I’m very good at communicating with others.”  What does this look like:  I carefully watch how people speak and listen and find a common ground by which I may communicate with them.  I invite them to engage in communication with me, rather than expounding upon my messages and being determined to forcefully share what I’m thinking.  How does this resolution change the way you currently communicate with others?  If you Release your first Belief, the UNtruth, and adapt the second statement, how might this improve your life and your sense of community?

The way to begin anything is right now.  Today.  Make changes while the thought energy is fresh.  Small changes made with regularity create more change than large changes made “someday.”  If you want to better understand your world, better understand your Self.

Release your captives and you Release your Self to higher Empowerment and a more fulfilled life.

Blessed Be,

This is a Direct Voice Communication

From my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share

their wisdoms with me from the

other side of The Veil

April 12, 2014

Digital Art by Walks With Fire