EYES TO SEE

2014, ADAPTATION, FILTERS

JULY 13, 2014

 

Have you eyes with which to see?  Have you ears with which to hear?  You will say yes, of course.  Even when blind and deaf, most of us believe ourselves to be of open mind; to be intelligent enough; to consider different ways of looking at things; to willingly, industriously engage things, even anomalies, in order to identify or Name a thing before deciding how we should interact with it (when possible) . . .


         Now:  a charismatic speaker is presenting his ideas for a community center at location A.  He represents persons indigenous to location A.  He is well received.  People find him pleasant looking and accept his plans as positive.  Plans proceed, the community center services many, and the charismatic speaker moves to an area further away.

Later:  a speaker is presenting his ideas for a community center similar to one that he built in his own hometown.  He seems earnest enough, and if the information he presents is correct it might solve many issues for their own community.  Some of his ideas are a bit quaint, but perhaps some changes could be made to adapt this idea for their own community.

Thirdly:  yet another person is speaking who wants permission to build something in the community; something that will raise taxes.  He seems like a small town zealot.  Can he not see that what worked in his back-woods world would not work here?  Is he looking for an easy living or large salary at their expense while he builds this magical community center for them?  They also find his physical appearance, so unlike their own, somewhat off-putting.

Lastly:  who is this man from the other side of the world, promoting this ridiculous agenda?  He looks like another species of human and has the gall to believe that civilized peoples might concern themselves with gathering under these conditions for those reasons he so values.  How utterly ridiculous they find his agenda—and the idea that the project should be funded at the taxpayers' hardworking expense.  What a charlatan.

          This speaker is promoting the same agenda to different groups of people in different places.  Their lifestyles and social guidelines are different.  This is the kind of different hearing and different seeing that you would expect to see in people, based on how they value and assess things.  But, let us return to that first meeting . . .

One hundred people attend a meeting wherein a charismatic speaker is presenting his ideas for a community center.  Most of those people hear that the center will be located centrally, offer elder care, child care, medical services, educational and job opportunities, and support for those in need of financial assistance.  Most of those people recognize the speaker.

Only those opposed to or interested in elder care or child care will remember the proposed budgets for those services or the specifics related.  There are three persons in the audience needing medical care who know they can’t wait for this center to open; their minds begin to wander as they contemplate other options.  Two need dental care and are in fact having pain so intense they are having a difficult time focusing on anything in particular that is being said.

Seven have come to the meeting in a status of unemployment, hoping to obtain details about the community center and secure a job in its construction.  One is a nurse wanting to someday work closer to home.  Ten are mothers; two who want to work in daycare and eight who need daycare closer to home—they listen, but are distracted by their pressing, personal needs.

An elderly couple in the audience owns the land proposed for the community center.  The man has recently discovered that he has terminal cancer and hopes to sell the land while there is still time to seek treatment in a large medical center far from home.  Three rows back, a woman sits enraptured by the speaker, having been in love with him for most of her life; his words blur as she enjoys merely being in the room with him.

If interviewed upon leaving this meeting, you would receive very different accounts with very different emphases on matters pertinent to each speaker, about how the agenda was handled.  This is so in life.  We all have materia prima in our dialogue and outlook.  What is important to us?  What matters most highly?

Yes.  Our beliefs color our senses.  Our senses are trained by our beliefs.  Do you think this isn’t true?  Go to a tanner’s or a perfumery, or merely a restaurant where the smells that are so overwhelming to you, have virtually disappeared to the workers.  The cacophony at the factory?  How long did it take to become a background hum?  When was the last time you beheld a cloud in the blue sky and stopped, amazed by what your eyes were seeing—truly?

We cannot go about in a state of constant excitation.  We cannot behold the minutia of life with thrall.  Madness would set upon us.  We must filter.  Therefore, we must habituate.  The question is:  how do we habituate, and to what level, under which guidelines and what beliefs?  Study this idea for yourself.

You have eyes with which to see.  What are their filters?

 

Blessed Be This Day
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THE NAMING

2014, COMPARISONS, IDENTITY, VALUE

JULY 9, 2014

 

When you come to something purely, the experience of it is pure.  This is as far as purity can extend.  For as we have shown, all matter has been constructed and reconstructed many times, and though taken back to its base forms, histories linger.  Look into the eyes of a newborn and feel its weight and wisdom.

You look for a newborn’s purity and innocence.  That is there, too.  But, look:  see that wise Spirit, freshly engaged in that new body; see its history and desires and will.  See beyond what you have been taught to see and assume.  There is a Life here, that has been many Lives before, that is long and wild and busy knowing itself.

What if you were taught that a baby is a proud, strong Spirit come again to know another journey—a peer at your door who has sought your shelter—and whom you have agreed to provide shelter?  What if you saw the developing years of the conscious human mind as the years of the Spirit coming to know and understand the new body, seating the Soul and purpose inside the heavy and sometimes foreign biology?

What is the experience of being human?

Many Masters have told you that you do not need to seek your spirituality, for you are Spirit.  You do not need to develop your spirituality, or increase it, or focus on it.  It is you.  You are Spirit.  But, you are here, doing this, having this experience, and the pureness of this is directly experiential/causal to your sense of what that means.

How do you name this experience?  How do you name Great All?  How do you name your Spirit Self?  And . . . how do you name the Self that you are while you are here having this experience?  What is Naming?

Naming is defining, summing-up.  More than making observations, applying Names to peoples, places, objects and ideas, places on them values in the social hierarchies within the stratas of their existences.  They are powerful things, Names, so much so, that many Names are held sacred to the initiates of Mysteries once received at certain levels of achievement.

Let us consider some simple, comparative Names:

trail/path/road/highway/interstate

mist/sprinkle/rain/thundershower/deluge/hurricane

contribute/assist/command

starve/fast/crumbs/snack/meal/banquet/feast

kind/blameless/saint/demi-god

father/grandfather/great-Grandfather

pawn/knight/bishop/rook/queen/king

penny/nickel/dime/quarter/dollar

hobby/job/career/ceo/owner of corporation

walking/biking/carpooling/car-owning/used car/new car/status car

Have you noticed the way that we have ordered these lists?  They are ordered in the probable way that you likely believe in the value or power of things as they exist in your life today.  In the last example, walking is listed on the left, while status car is listed on the far right.  Consciousness is a pool.  We have drawn from that pool.

The point is this:  Naming has power.  When we use the word walking, do you think pleasant thoughts or do you think unpleasant thoughts?  When we use the word status car do you think pleasant thoughts or do you think unpleasant thoughts?  This is not an exercise in judgment.  This is a prompt for you to understand the power of Names.

Yes, “. . . a rose by any other name . . .”  A status car, called something else would imbue that Name with a similar power.  Still, the power of the Name is what we consider here.  The power of the idea.  When you say the Name of something, its power opens, because its power is attached to the Name which is assigned to it, in whatever language, in whatever time, in whatever place or culture.

When you begin a sentence with, “That is just a . . .” what do you follow with?  What Name of smallness or un-importance do you attach there?  Why is it unimportant?  What thing in this amazing Great All is unimportant?

When you begin a sentence with, “That is . . .” and proceed to exalt it, what do you follow with?  What Name of grandness do you attach?  Do you belittle yourself in comparison to this thing?  In comparison to the thing of smallness that you Name, do you falsely exalt yourself?

Naming things gives power to Hierarchy.  Naming things also gives power to order.  We cannot avoid Naming things.  We must Name things to understand our world and our place in it.  The question is:  Can we do it kindly, fairly, and as neutral observers, rather than automatons?


 

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THE GREAT OUTSIDE

2014, ILLUSION, INCLUSION, THE INDIVIDUAL, THE INDIVISIBLE

JULY 8, 2014

 

What is outside you?  How is it different from what is inside you?  Where is the meeting point between these two worlds?  What is the nature of these gateways and where lie the keys?

 There is no inside and no outside except as you form it as illusion.

Does this surprise you or does this statement ring with truth?  You know that your body is made from the same matter as is the stars and the sun and the planets and the non-matter.  Your mind is woven of the same vibration that makes the Great All continue in its dance, that gives it its pulse and beat.  Knowing this, how can a division exist?

When you draw or paint a representation of your mortal body, do you first encircle its outline and fill it in, making its ‘borders’ and gateways, dividing its outside from its ‘inside’, protecting your beliefs and values and individual interests from everything of truth and eternity that goes forevermore ‘outside’ it?  This is a taught response, not a genuine response.  You are made to be individual and indivisible.

The individual is indivisible—unique, but part of, a whole—a contributor to a beautiful symphony as is a note or chord.  The individual is dual-natured:  inside/outside; eternal/mortal; microcosm/macrocosm; alike/distinct.  An individual is not made to be apart any more than your brain cells are meant to be radical and uniquely operating cells within that organ:  impossible!

You are the Great Outside.  It is not inside you.  You are not inside it.  You seamlessly co-exist.  Like an atom in the ocean, you breathe of one another.  

You Are.

            By You Are, We mean that We Are . . .

 

Blessed Be This Day
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     Archives: July 8, 2014

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PERSEVERANCE

2014, COURAGE, INTENTION, PATIENCE

JULY 3, 2014

 

What is that quality that thrums in your chest, dampening your wildness, naysaying your need to put down a thing when it challenges the very fabric of everything that you believe that you Are?  

It is Perseverance, and if you have wisdom and experience, it is plied with Patience and far seeing.  It whispers to you:  “Stay a bit longer and see what you will see.”  

Perseverance does not guarantee your idea of success; it does not guarantee happiness or best outcomes.  It does not guarantee that all involved will be served in the highest or best way or that all of its means will be applied and adapted for meekness and kind trials.  

It means that Perseverance—thought of in terms of steadfast heart, mind and will—pays its co-creator as a hard and colorful road pays its traveler—in ways that cannot be bartered for in any other exchange.

Perseverance is the quality similar to that which is spoken in Christian marriage vows:  for better or worse.  It means following to the end, that goal which you set forth for yourself, despite the transient obstacles and their transient challenges.  It means that you will stay connected to Wisdom while being seduced by the emotions of right, wrong, failure, hopelessness, and mistaken roadways.

Even if the path you take shows itself to be false or is usurped by a higher or better path or a brighter goal, the energy of Perseverance is the master that pays out to the dedicated.  You may believe that you seek a degree as a doctor, but as you pursue the difficult courses, you decide you will become a veterinarian: your Perseverance leads you to an outcome that you did not or could not see before you reached the first bend in that stream.

Perseverance can seem to be a dogged master: the man who will not learn new ways loses his business to competitors: the carpenter who perseveres with penury rather than reason loses his home to high winds; the man who perseveres as if those around him are less holds himself free from true love.  These conditions are Perseverance as filtered through the flaws of character.

“He walked every day to the chapel, no matter the weather or his health.”  Consider this statement.  Is this a man of faith and fortitude, applying Perseverance, or is this a man whose Perseverance serves his ego—in that he wishes to appear as a man of faith and fortitude—that is, being seen as such is more important than being so?

“She stitches a quilt by hand for every child born anew in the village—a lovely sentiment, but so much wiser if she would use a machine . . .”  The woman in question could indeed create these quilts faster and with less trial to her body if she stitched them with a machine.  As they are gifts created and given in love, she feels and believes that creating them as she does, one stitch at a time in the slow rhythm of needle and master, the conduit of co-creation is stronger (though she might not express it that way).  Her Perseverance to continue in meaningful (for her) methodology feeds the highest manifestation of creative energy, honoring her creations; what sacrifices of time and personal energies she gives to her labors of love are hers alone to determine.

What if this maker of quilts continues past the time when her body has told her to stop, or past the time when her co-creativity urges tell her to move on to other projects?  She might be held in place by tradition, the repetition of social beliefs; pride: “I alone am the maker of these quilts and while no longer inspired, I must continue to create them, even if the essential spark of love in them is absent”; and fear: “I have done this so long I don’t know if there is anything else for me.”  This is an example of allowing oneself to hide behind the idea of Perseverance.

“I must do this thing that no other can do.  Only me.  I must Persevere despite my many obstacles and the lack of appreciation by others for my trials.”  This, children, is Perseverance tempered by the quality of martyrism.  Compare that idea with this one next.

A young widow is left alone to raise her physically and mentally disabled child.  She must do this thing that no other can do.  Only her.  There is some help in the community, but she must Persevere despite her many obstacles and the lack of appreciation for her role.  As her daughter grows and the mother attempts to socialize her in the community, the pair experience much hypocrisy, coldness, and rejection.  The mother’s Perseverance pays her only in the means of her daughter’s continued physical survival, and while she knows more challenge and hardship than the average person, she takes her small happiness where she can.

Every quality and conduit has its master.  Every sunset viewed by different eyes is a different sunset.  When you apply Perseverance in your Life, are you blindly crating it into a dogma, keeping it a small bud in a tight container to please the sensibilities of your ego?  Do you use Perseverance for survival?  What about creativity and growth?

Will you allow Perseverance to lead you upward?  Will you whisper to Great All of your heart, attune this to your will, and take Perseverance as your mate?  Will you master your Fate with Perseverance at your helm, and glory at the stars that wheel above you as you travel?

Only a coward needs a map when all the aspects of Divine Will have been gathered and mated together.  Perseverance is one of those giants.  Its Light is there in you.  Call it forward, unhobbled and whole.  Let it shine bright at your bow.

 

Blessed Be This Day
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LIGHT AS THE GREAT DESTROYER

2014, BALANCE, CO-CREATING, THE SONG

JUNE 30, 2014

      Light has long been deemed the great rescuer.  It is.  Light is considered to be comprised of pure wisdom and unconditional Love.  This is true.  Light is categorized as the very Highest vibration.  Again, you are correct.  How then, is Light the greatest Destroyer?

     Empty your mind of preconceived ideas, those bits of false knowledge and borrowed beliefs given to you by your family and community.  Have you divided the Light and the Dark by terms of goodness and badness or goodness and evil?  Have you divided the Light and the Dark according to benevolence and harm?  Have you embraced the Light and dreaded the Dark?

     Have you set aside your ideas?  Are you unencumbered for our journey?  Lift your eyes and open your heart.  Hear Us.

     The Great All is in perpetual movement, expanding, collapsing, birthing, dying, recycling, re-circulating, and reimagining itself according to its ever-changing intelligence and spiritual impetus.  The Great All is Eternal.  It is wise and fore thinking and unflawed, containing the perfect amount of chaos and nonmatter at all times to balance its processes of making and remaking itself.

     The Great All, therefore, as it Creates, must also Non-Create, or destroy.  As the Great All Creates, lifting life from its cradle in a beautiful, sinuous thread of Song, so does it Destroy, returning the life matter to the matrix, chaos, or Nagual, where it may be Sung from again.  Do you prefer the term “Re-Sung” rather than Destroy?  It is appropriate. 

     A star is Sung into its existence as a star; it will lose its volume over time and slowly its Song will dissolve as its body returns to the matrix.  Its Song will be forever etched into the Eternity of Great All; its Life and memory retained; its contribution honored:  “This Star shined here and Sang its Song; it knew and shared its joy, and when it was ReSung, its particles went happily to other incarnations where it Sang itself into other Songs and other stories in the Eternity of Great All, whereupon its new stories are now written . . ."

Do you see?  Light is The Great Destroyer (The Great ReSinger), and that is a thing of power and beauty.

     What, then, is Darkness?  You have been trained to think in opposites:  up and down; back and forward; day and night.  But, remember . . . you have temporarily set aside your ideas.  You are currently unencumbered.  Think now not in opposites, but in pairs, in harmonies, in songs, and symbiotics.  Up and down work together, just as back and forward, day and night, and the light and dark work together—the way that your inhalation and exhalation work together.

     Dark does not work against Light.  It is paired with Light.  Light is activity:  Singing and Re-Singing.  Growth; Birth; and Rebirth.  Dark is a veil for the Light.  Does not the Moon shine in the Dark of the night?  The Stars?  Do not babies grow in the Dark of the womb?  And the plants in the dark of the soil?

     Dark is a soft, capable hand to provide shelter and comfort against the activity and demands of the Light’s zest and activity.  The Light is not absent in the Dark but in rare places, and even in those places, the Light forms the cradle that makes those places possible.  Dark and Light are mated—part of a whole—not opposites, and not opposed.

     Is your left hand concerned only with good and your right hand with evil?  Will you walk to work forward and return home by backward steps alone?  Do you allow yourself food on even days but have only water on the odd?  What justifications do you use to divide Light and Dark into Good and Evil, or Day and Night into Good and Bad, or Safe and Unsafe?

     You are part of this Great All:  Part OF.  You have been Sung Into Creation.  Your very essence lends itself to Eternity.  You are Part Of.  Part of what is made.  Part of what is remade.  You are part of the Light, the Great Destroyer.

          How now goes your day, Bearer of Light?

 

Blessed Be This Day
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     Archives: June 29, 2014

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FORGIVENESS

2014, FORGIVENESS, GROWTH

JUNE 29, 2014

 

     Forgiveness is not a group of words, a release or surrender.  It is a coming to terms with a new way of thinking and being.  It is the way of Lightness, of being IN the Light, of BEING Light.  Forgiveness is one with the Light.  The Light is a state of unconditional acceptance and Love, where Forgiveness is unneeded and therefore, unknown.  With unconditional acceptance, no Forgiveness is needed.

     When you give yourself fully to the Light, all things not of the Light will be stripped away.  In this way, Light is a destroyer of the ultimate and very highest level.  All things bow to the Light, even when it is the Light which forms the circle that encloses the non-place of non-being, where there seems to exist only non-Light:  this is still ruled by the Light. 

Let us follow an atom of Forgiveness from its first inspiration to its absorption: 

• my history is a weighted thing that I notice more and more
• the others in my history do not interact with me to change & heal my history
• no others in my history are responsible in healing my history
• only I can release myself from my own history to heal my present
• how lovely it would be to release myself from this anger, remorse and guilt           
• how lovely to release others I hold inside this anger, remorse and guilt           
• my heart is softening around these issues that hold me rigid in my past            
• I have glimpses of my future, free from rigidity and blame with this history           
• my desire for freedom is growing larger than my need to blame and own            
• I release a small portion of this history and like the feeling of this freedom            
• I release more pieces of my history and find the feeling empowering            
• as I release more pieces of my history, I discover my own errors and smallness   
• discovering my errors and smallness empowers me to fully release my rigidity 
• the Light floods my body, mind and Spirit with Love and awareness            
• I feel awakened and empowered, amazed that I waited so long to free myself           
• Forgiveness enables me to offer apologies to others stranded in their histories of which I am a part, from a greater aspect of wholeness           
• my present is better facilitated for Forgiveness, enabling me to quicken the next healing response to other rigid emotions, anger, blame, or false histories            
• I have fully given over these thought forms to the Light, the great destroyer, who has absorbed and transmuted these energies and returned these energies to me as vital Life Force            
•  I am Forgiven            
• As this new energy, transmuted, is absorbed by me, I AM Forgiveness

THIS is Forgiveness . . .

 

Blessed Be This Day
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THE FELL

2014, THE DREAM OF LIFE, TRANSFORMATION

JUNE 27, 2014

 

     From the high mountain, much can be seen that cannot be seen from the valley.  This is the condition of the disembodied entity, to some degree.  We have said to you before that being without the flesh does not change the quality of mind and wisdom.  This truth bears repeating.  Wisdom is gained through time, sacrifice, realizations, and the gifting of beings Higher than Self.  You feel the presence of Wisdom when it is with you, do you not?

      When a Spirit slips the knot of flesh, the options are multiple, but for the sake of this moment’s illustration, let us say that the field from which they now view life is greater than that which they viewed it from while inside the flesh.  (Yes, there are cases in which this is not true, but we will not address those for the moment.)  We do not die.  We transmute, change forms, go from a mortal incarnation to a pure energy incarnation—if but briefly.

     This process does not suddenly imbue us with unearned and ungained wisdoms.  We have simply shed our skin.  However, we often have a longer view available to us, as we can move and see and hear and sense things in different ways once we are free of the flesh.  We are standing at a higher line of sight, at a Fell or a small rise or hill, unweighted.

     We may still be quite attached to the physical plane, feeling sad and uncomplete, confused, angry even.  Our life review may be a large, open tome sitting in our hearts like the saddest story ever heard.  The crying of our loved ones might stab into us, making us regret the loss of our bodies, inducing guilt and suffering and feelings of abandonment.  How could we die and leave them?

     We take our mind with us wherever we go, our beliefs and feelings too.  After a while, the human, social and emotional accumulation of falsehoods begins to fade as we regain our sense of Eternity and timelessness.  We grow large again.  Depending on the Spirit and the method of leaving the plane of incarnation, this may be a quick or a long process.  There may be counsel and healing required.

     From the Fell’s long view there is much to be seen—the past and the past’s past.  How many lifetimes will you review?  How much wisdom will you gain?  Will you face your demons, right your wrongs, accept your failures as opportunities for learning, and plan your next incarnation based on what is next best needed for your development?

     Many of us choose to refrain from returning to incarnate form after multitudinous experiences.  We choose to remain here, accessible to those who can communicate with us and channel to those who would listen, information that is currently needed there by those who wish to accelerate their learning.  Those of Us in Tribe de Cumbria who speak through this channel do just this, electing to address topics pertinent to our own areas of expertise, wisdom earned through the millennia.

     These transmissions are Love Letters to humanity.  We speak from above the Fell in a place of timelessness.  Our common bond as Healer/Teachers allows us to combine our personal energies in order to act as a resource for you.  For You, who are here, reading this.

     We thank you for hearing us and send unconditional Love from the Great All above the Fell.

 

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     Archives: June 27, 2014

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