BYWAYS

 

Byways are not only paths and routes that are smaller and lesser known,

 but ideas, conditions, concepts, and methods that are lesser known. 

While the main idea in any dogma stands out, many times 

the lesser instruments, or Byways, are overlooked.

Let us say that you are a methodical cook. The main idea of your efforts is to bake a chicken. To bake this chicken you must acquire it, prepare it, cook it, and finally, serve it. To have come to this main idea, you must believe in eating chicken, you must believe in the baking method of cooking the chicken, and you must abide by your preparations to ensure its end-state.

 

In any situation there is a large idea, and there are the ideas that brought the large idea forth. If you see an act of loving kindness, it may have been spontaneously given, but chances are good there has been some example set, there has been a belief and a thought-train that loving kindness is a right idea. There are Byways that have converged and emptied into the main idea.

 

Concentrate on a recent event, something central and pervasive within your culture. Whatever the event, different beliefs and reactions surround it. Now: what Byways may have led to this event? By fact, you cannot perfectly see and understand the main event without understanding the Byways that created it.

 

Find one condition, event, method, or belief in your life and study its Byways. Do the Byways surprise you? What may have poured into your greatest Love? Your greatest failure? Your greatest challenge? Your greatest Fear? Work to understand your self and you will gain wisdom in understanding others.

 

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.

Friday, January 15, 2021

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 EXCESS

 

Clarity requires focus. Focus suffers when we are surrounded by Excess. We speak not only of physical clutter, but of intellectual, emotional, and spiritual clutter.

Let us speak of something that many find positive: the Excess of Spirituality. Isn’t spirituality beneficial? Doesn’t “it” help you to grow? Remember first that you are Spirit having a human experience. That said, what does it mean to “be spiritual” when you have arisen from Spirit? What is the human experience if you spend it disavowing your physical, emotional, and intellectual self?

To have an Excess of Spirituality may mean that you become rigid in your views, customs, and habits, that your life becomes chaotic—out of balance and out of focus. While busy being human, you must give energy to ALL that you are. If you excoriate the joy from your life by being focused on a minutiae of demands, what are you serving? Your Excess lies in denial.

What if your Excess is the pursuit of power or wealth? Which other aspects of your life might suffer? What if you Excessively deny your self available food, or gorge on available food? What if you justify an Excess of anger, self-pity, low self-esteem, or self-aggrandization? What happens in an Excess of caution or in thoughtlessness?

Is your life balanced? Which ideas do you feed and which do you deny? Can you clearly see your own beliefs? Can you identify the core reasoning for your behaviors? Are your Excesses justifications, denials, or shadows in which you hope to hide?

Today, focus on just one of your Excesses. WHY is it? How do you use it? How and where does it hold you back? Can you make a goal of taming just one Excess? Give your self one month of pertinent and effective evaluation, retraining destructive habits as you go.

The world has been driven many times into Excess. Where there is Excess of one thing, there is a polarized version too. Wealth and poverty. Hunger and satiety. Challenge and apathy. Gratitude and entitlement. Even small shifts help the larger picture.

Be part of the balance and wholeness. Root out your Excesses and you will feel your focus grow. As your focus grows, so grows your Light.

 

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.

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

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 KENOS

KENOS: a void/ devoid of truth/ possessing nothing of value/

a faithless person who boasts of spirituality they do not possess/

one producing fruitless works/ consumed with vanity

 

The world is a clever place. It is a dream space. It is a tapestry and each living component is a weaver. As you have met, or been, a healer and helper, so will you experience The Kenos, a system, application, or person who is empty.

We have cautioned you to beware what is empty and false. Now we caution you to avoid BEING what is empty and false. Dissect your beliefs and actions. Validate the Truth or Falsity of them. Are you True? Are you filled with ungovernable Spirit that is freely seen and given?

 

We cannot make Love upon what is false, and can make empty war only briefly. Do an inventory of your Life. Sharpen your purpose and embolden your skills. Each, singular, indivisible and individual weaver is needed, especially now. You live in rapidly changing times, which requires rapid change in you.

 

We validate you and your path. 

Speak to us, and when we respond . . . Listen.

 

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.

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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 THE REDOUBTABLE DIVIDE

Redoubtable: Formidable/ Awe-Arousing/ Of Unassailable Regard

In All Things there is Truth. Truth sits at the Center. Outside this, there are opinions. Broad and varied and colored by culture, history, belief, and fear, opinions are just that. When you adopt an Opinion as Truth, here starts the trouble.

How do you feel about world hunger? WHY is it? Whom does it affect? How can it be remedied? (Do you believe it needs to be remedied?) Is someone or something at fault? Your answer is one example of opinion.

When the world is divided and one side cannot see or hear the other, what is to be done? You cannot continue doing the same things. You cannot continue speaking the same words. You must step outside and above the bickering.

Pretend for a moment that you are alien to planet Earth. Look down at the one problem of world hunger. Without politics, religious and social beliefs, and your own fears, SEE what is happening. How do you reach conclusions when you are not of this world? How do you find the behavior of Earth’s inhabitants?

You will not be able to shift totally away from who and what you are, but can you learn to listen and see? When you are studying something foreign, of different forms and colors, expressed through different words and ideas, can you get to the central idea or truth of the matter? We hope so . . . because that is urgently needed.

If you cannot quickly change your judgments and anger, can you change your behavior? Can you speak with forethought and compassion rather than lashing out? Can you study behavior rather than judging the person? Put on the robes of wise counselor and play that role for a while.

Only Truth is Redoubtable. Opinion is not. Allow your self to rise about the morass where empty rhetoric, judgment, and blame live. Live in Love. Strive your self to be Redoubtable, if not in all things, at least in the things that are most urgent.

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.

Monday, January 11, 2021 

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 WAR

If you have lived through the heat of War, your perspective on the world (and your neighbor) has shifted as compared to those who have lived their lives free of War. Ask War survivors how noble and righteous are the actions of War. Ask them to describe the horror of loss, death, displacement, hunger, and anguish.

Do not take lightly the energies of War. Armed conflict may be necessary to defend ones-self or defenseless others, but do not stray into thinking that War is noble. Do not think that violence is justified. 

Do not believe that violence upon violence will bring Peace.

Do you have War in your heart today? If so, how did you come to the idea? Have you been coerced? Are you “going with the flow” among your belief group? Do you feel backed into a corner, with War imagined as your only outlet?

When tensions escalate, divides widen, and rhetoric grows polarized and desperate, time demands that you approach with great caution and wisdom. Do not hold War in your heart. Do not support War in your community. Do not justify War, and certainly, do not Sing its Songs.

If War is escalating, step back. Look at the big picture. Collect unto your center, the brightest Light that you can. Radiate to others, in sight and away, the pureness of Love. Be to the world a Light, as a Lighthouse is to the ships.

If War is calling, decide now to defend Peace. Set the example of Peace. Speak with Wisdom. And if War comes to your community, choose to be a healer and Maige. You, who read this, are able, and capable in this. Be unafraid in the Light as you lead the way.

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.

Wednesday, January 06, 2021

 

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ARMISTICE

When opposing sides agree to a truce or a temporary cessation of violence, 
an Armistice is called. What more than the obvious (pausing violence) might be gained?

In negotiating peace, studies are made. Who are you? Who are they? How might a declared peace work, and will it last? Each force draws back and takes time to assess what is present in character, claim, and certitude. How much compromise will be made? What is protected and what is yielded?

While each of us fights these battles, and pauses, within our selves, we also fight them within our communities and the world at large. You have heard the terms: “end game,” “long game,” “ceded a battle to win a war,” “uneasy peace,” and “crushing defeat.”

Measure what it is you are currently warring against. What beliefs, systems, cultures, persons, or behaviors feel opposed to your own? Are differences arbitrary (to you and your beliefs), or are these differences opposed at the core of humanity?

Save your energy where you may for the processes of Love and Creation. In the places where you war, call an Armistice (if you can). Take time to study the battlefield and weigh the possible outcomes of re-engagement. Enjoy Peace where you can make it, and War only when it is a last defense and aligned with Great All’s core.

Where are you today? How do your wars rage?

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.

Monday, January 04, 2021

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THE TELLICO

Can you know a thing by the word associated with it? The word Tellico is an example of such that is given to what is more often misunderstood. Is the Tellico an open plain, two people in dialogue, the headwaters of a great river, or a male leader? How did we arrive at this spelling of what may have begun as a Cherokee word? What idea(s) does this word hold at its heart?

 It holds what YOU believe it does. 

Words are shapes that can be spoken, and possibly, written. They evolve from many cultures and beliefs. Sometimes, they represent the word-thought that made them, and sometimes they are in disagreement. They can be encapsulations of whole systems.

How familiar are you with your favorite spoken and written words? Do you know within reason from which ideas they arose? Is their meaning now the same as it was upon launch? 

Notwithstanding contemporary slang, think of a word that brings you joy. Is the word itself, its sound or appearance, pleasurable? Is it pleasurable because it represents something that is joy-bringing to you? 

Now think of a word that is offensive to you. Why? Are there words that are off-limits? Are there words in your dialogue you are unable to define? Do you believe in the power of words? Why? How about your name? Is your own name(s) pleasing? Is it displeasing? Why?

 Sometimes we are moved by the wordless,

specifically because it is presented as such.

A piece of visual art, a dance, a film, a study of landscape,

sunrise, sunset . . . can be felt at the core without words being necessary.

In fact, sometimes words sully the experience.

That “said,” be aware of your language. Though you cannot be always know its history and its usage across cultural and political divides, you can thoroughly consider your words when speaking to others. You say: “You are beautiful,” which is not as powerful as saying “Your radiance causes my heart to open.”

 

To say: “You are ugly,” is not as powerful as saying “Your distress and anger cause my heart to contract.” What do you mean to say? How do you choose your words? Do you speak plainly and with Truth? What do you hope to communicate?

 . . . And, how do you communicate without words?

How do you increase the Joy Of The World by doing

with Grace and Compassion 

and non-judgmental Love? 

 

For one day, try being the melody, the sculpture, the paint on the canvas.

 Try being the sunrise, the feel of a baby’s skin,

 the sound of cool water dancing over rock.

What do your non-words teach you? 

How does it change your ability to communicate? Whether you believe the Tellico is a plain, a town, a waterway, or a Cherokee Chief, a word is what you experience. Experience your self in the broadest sense, and communicate as often as you can in the wordless, inclusive, and harmonizing pathways of Inner Wisdom. Speak with your heart.

 In the Great Silence, We hear you.

 

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.

Sunday, January 03, 2021

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