LODESTONES

In your life journey, fixed points have been set.

These thresholds will have an attractive quality, a vibration that alerts you

that attention must be paid. Roads and pathways split many times, 

but fixed points navigate in only one direction, working as magnetically as a Lodestone.

 You may be aware of a Lodestone that you are fast approaching, but recognizing them in retrospect is the best way to understand how a fixed point draws you in and demands that you give it attention. You see in retrospect how inevitable the fixed point was, and the signs leading up to it—signs that are calibrated to your tenets and beliefs—signs that are calibrated to your learning and motivational style.

 While there are many times you will make a decision as distinct as turning right or turning left, shifting the events between fixed points, a Lodestone’s magnetism will inexorably draw you to Its horizon. You may come to a fixed point in many different ways, but the Lodestone draws you in from your current location, no matter how removed this point may seem.

 Perhaps you were meant to make someone a part of your life. This meeting will be a fixed point. You may diverge after the meeting, but the meeting itself, and the meeting’s purpose, will be unavoidable. You may say no to the opportunity, and you may say yes, but being presented with the opportunity is mandatory.

 Think about how you got to the exact place where you sit today. How many decisions led to this place? How many times did you accept or reject opportunities? Do you feel something unavoidable on the horizon? Is it something you dread? Is it something you must learn to accept? What works will be required of you? 

Pay attention on the pathway.

Listen deeply to your Heart and to your Intuition.

They are the guides that will lead you into the deepest part of your journey.

Heart and Intuition will not sway; they will support you every step.

 

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. 

Thursday, March 24, 2022 

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 EYES TO SEE

 

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 

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, March 23, 2022

a July 14, 2014 reprint

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MENTORSHIP
            ~using experience as a bridge
 

Whether your knowledge began with a book-based system,

or something derived from trial and error—or a combination of the two—you are in

a position to share your skills, and to Mentor others.

 
This knowledge need not be something society considers of high value--because all knowledge can be important and practical if it is what you need in the moment.
 
In this way, each of us is a teacher, just as we continue to be students. Through your behavior, conversation, and even body language, you are teaching. Those around you are measuring your response to things, and whether by embracing your methods, or consciously avoiding your methods, you are teaching.
 
When you intentionally Mentor someone, you are going far beyond mere teaching. You are embracing the whole of a person, looking at the big picture. You may be a ski instructor—and you will not stop at technique. You will teach your apprentice to tonify the body with diet, strengthening, stretching, and visualization techniques. You will teach them to study the mountain and the weather, and advise them in choosing their equipment.

 
As Mentor, you become part of their life. You were trained to do this—first as being a child. Whether or not you enjoyed an upbringing of two adults, one adult, or a tribe, your family may or not be blood related. They may have had a primarily negative, or positive influence on your life skills, your tenets, and your beliefs.

Think of all the things you learned 

to do as a child—in the first year--by age 3, age 6, age 15. 

You have learned much. And, you have taught much.

 

If you are particularly skilled, is it not a glorious thing to teach those who will follow you and carry the same torch? If you have

 had Mentors, you know how beneficial it can be.

 
So, today we urge you to look into your toolbox. What is it that you are uniquely qualified to do? What is the tenor of your voice? And how can you change the world by sharing what you know with another, who can grow these talents even higher by beginning on the scaffold that you help them build? 
 
 

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, March 22, 2022

 
 
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 BEHIND

            ~calming tomorrow’s worries

“I am Behind,” you say. Behind what? Behind whom? Do you see your self standing in the shadow of the Great Tomorrow, promising that you will fall short?

Are you Behind in chores? Learning? Financial Security? Acceptance? Purpose? How do you believe that you are Behind?

Consider your history. Have you ever felt Not-Behind? You will find this is a rare and brief occurrence, if it occurs at all. There is no way to be Not-Behind with your crops, not when after the seed is planted, they must have time to grow and nourish. There is no way to be Not-Behind on making tomorrow morning’s bed, for tonight, you will sleep in it.

So, when you believe that you are Behind, how exactly do you report upon your current condition? Have you procrastinated or avoided something that needs attention? Did Fear cause you to turn away from a responsibility, or to refuse an opportunity? To believe perpetually that you are Behind causes you to experience a chronic level of tension and anxiety.

Could you function in a more serene and efficient state if you dedicated each day to addressing what was most important? Can you be satisfied by worthwhile and genuine efforts? Can you surrender when your plans to accomplish a certain inventory falls short?

Be reasonable. Be direct. Be honest. Measure your tasks and accomplishments by standards that are real and pertinent. You will worry less about Tomorrow’s appointments, if today you labor with love and ease. You will calm Tomorrow’s worries and each day, celebrate your aliveness by living in the moment rather than just beyond.

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, March 21, 2022

Reprint: Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Photo by Hulki Okan Tabak on Unsplash

 TIME AND DISTANCE

     ~the training of perception

Time and Distance are closer concepts than you believe. Just as you may determine the point between two Distances in measures of Time, you may determine the point between two Times in measures of Distance.

            Time------------------------------------Time  = Distance

            Distance----------------------------Distance  = Time

The concepts that you accept, expound upon, teach, and understand in different ways during your lives are of necessity, taught around the construct of words and word units.

Therefore, many of these concepts overlap, contradict, and share some redundancies. The definitions of these concepts also vary according to era, culture, and socio-economic subcultures and hierarchies.

For instance: the distance between point A and point B is felt to be much greater when traveled by foot, less by horse, even less by car, and respectably less by airplane. How much less does that same distance seem when the travel between A and B becomes instantaneous—when your atoms may be moved from the first point to the second without noticeable delay?

You may argue that the distance has not changed, but that it is the speed which has changed, yet maybe this is a matter of words and concepts and overlapping constructs and contradictions. Yes?

How does this same example change the construct of time? Traveling from point A to point B on foot consumes more linear time than traveling that distance by horse or by car or by airplane. Moving the compressed and cohesive form of the body-in-total from A to B instantaneously requires no linear time at all—so how much time does it take?

Quite often, when you are judging Time and Distance, you are doing so according to the markers in your body and in your life, that indicate change. You say to yourself: “Since I left point A, how much change has occurred since I arrived at point B?”

If you have been making the journey by foot, substantial change has occurred. You have seen much on this journey, even if that was not your intention. You have had many opportunities to think and experience and to interact with your environment. As the window of change and experience from A to B shortens, the change is reduced. You are less changed.

This is the significant reason that when you have a “Life-Changing” experience, that is, an experience which changes you ‘in the blink of an eye,’ you feel a great leap ahead. You jump from A to B with a sudden thrust, arriving at B with your changes whole, having never felt their slow turning, and the typical smorgasbord of choices that is usually required to seat them.

Invite into your life all modes of travel and all methods of moving from A to B.

 As long as you embrace the importance of travel itself, 

keeping yesterday’s horizon behind you and tomorrow’s ahead, 

you can always be assured that you are moving towards B.

And once you reach B, it will become your new A, 

and the sun will rise again.

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.

March 20, 2022

March 21, 2014 reprint

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Photo two by Tony Lee on Unsplash

 FALSE COMFORTS

             ~how beliefs provide shelter

If you believe a thing is Destined, do you more readily accept it? If you find something to be illuminating, do you believe it is also necessary? 

Do you believe that the universe “gives you no more than you can handle”, even while you are breaking? Do you believe a beloved person is now dwelling in a better place, though your religious system says otherwise? We do not contest the truth of any of these Comforts--yet any or all of them could be False constructs.

False Comforts are sometimes needed to help us make it successfully through a difficult transition. When we are standing at position “A”, looking across a long channel to position “B”, we quite often believe we do not possess the necessary courage, tenacity, or energy to move forward. It could be that False Comforts aid us.

And how do False Comforts compare to Everlasting Comforts in these situations? Can you connect to the inner core of your self/Self, and Great All, to find and apply what is needed on your journey . . . or do you too often hide behind colloquialisms and empty ideas that are embraced by humankind’s higher percentages?

There is no fault in wanting Comfort. There is, in fact, a great need for it. But—as a child afraid of the dark—will it help you in Life to believe that there is nothing harmful in the dark, or that you needn’t take cautions? Instead of ignoring Intuition, and repeating litanies of False Comforts, would you be better served by opening the closet door and exploring the interior with a flashlight?

Events explode in our lives without planning, often dismantling preconceived ideas, and along with them, our tenets and beliefs. We are quite often shocked out of believing one thing and simultaneously forced to embrace another. You may believe a road is so safe to cross, you stop looking both ways . . . until an acquaintance is killed crossing the same road.

You may win the lottery, though you never consciously thought about the numbers, or envisioned a sudden and generous gift. These kinds of events cause fault lines in your life, where before the event becomes a separate life from the life you live following the event. This happens with both positive and negative occurrences.

What is your favorite False Comfort? Do you procrastinate? Do you say that tomorrow will be just as good as today to begin something? Do you believe that you will be better prepared, later? This is the False Comfort that there is always a tomorrow.

Do you believe that your life will improve once you have reached certain goals: a relationship, a job, a home, community standing, physical or mental abilities? This is the False Comfort that your future, once your goals are reached, will be bliss.

Do you believe that something was meant to be, and has occurred by no fault of your own? Do you believe that external events always trump your internal powers? This is the False Comfort of believing that you are here, riding a Life Train, merely a passenger on a powerful conveyance that is ruling over your destiny. This is the False Comfort of martyrism, apathy, and false modesty.

You will find upon exploration that your life is guided, and minimized, by many False Comforts. Should you wish to banish these False Comforts, you can replace them with true and perpetual Comforts.

You are intentional. You were constructed. You were Sung together with Love, and when it is time to recycle your energies, you will likewise be Sung together again in a new and beautiful way. You are always within sight and hearing of many Beloved, who are witness to your life, and help wherever they can.

You are part of the Everlasting Harmonies. You are important. 
You are involved, no matter your choices, in the Great Construct that is Great All.

Should you need Comfort, True and Everlasting Comfort, you may bridge your life by first embracing the False. And then, looking back to the shore from which you departed, reach out to the True and Everlasting Comfort—both giving and receiving.

It is said that you can bring a man a fish and feed him for a day—but if you teach the man to fish, you will have fed him for a lifetime. Knowledge fires this power.

Read a girl a book, and open her world. Teach her to read a book, and you set her on a journey. Teach a girl to write a book, and you will give her the artist’s canvas, and with that, a girl can make her own world, and many worlds thereafter.

So . . . consider your False Comforts, and when necessary, take of them Comforts that are real. But, when comes the time for you to fish, and to write books and to make new worlds, place your False Comforts behind you. 

Let your Light shine wild and broadly. 

In sharing that Light with others, you

Embrace the True and Everlasting Comfort.

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. 

Saturday, March 19, 2022

 

First photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash  Second Photo by Ant Rozetsky on Unsplash Third Photo by Anton Darius on Unsplash

 MEMENTOS & THE SHADOWS OF INK

   ~how archives reflect angles and ages

Once a thing is written, and believed, it persists. You may destroy manuscripts, and evidence of manuscripts, but the words once written have already made their wave. The Mementos, and the Shadows of Ink, now exist in the Hall of Concordance. The piece has been engraved.

Think about a troubling memory—something that caused you to change your opinion about a person, place, or a thing. Later, you might understand that the entire construct was false, or was falsely observed, such as having viewed it through child eyes. You may later experience a similar circumstance through a more mature lens, but your initial contact with such a thing lingers. Its Shadow has helped you to form your tenets and beliefs.

If your first contact with the world is one of despair, violence, and insecurity, that Memento will live on with you, even when your world moves away from those things and never revisits them. You may currently know that other ways to live exist, but once you have separated from those ways and Created new ways, you will not magically become unaware of the first.

The Master’s task then, is to stay aware of those things that helped to form you, whether deleterious or beneficial, and understand that in the construct of Great All, someone is currently formed around those experiences and beliefs. Perhaps, they haven’t the will, the awareness, or the support to rise above or transmute them. This is all the same, whether or not those Shadows and Mementos are remembered in a positive or negative light.

Do you believe that every trip to the dentist ends with a milkshake-reward? Do you believe that eating with your elbows on the table will earn you a slap? Do you believe that you’ll always be picked last for the sports team at school, or that being Class President earns you things that you needn't work for? You will find many of these biases hiding inside you.

This is why words are so powerful. Humans use words to frame experiences. Humans use words to identify, to exchange communications, to tell truth, to tell lies, to label or include or exclude. Words are used to influence and condemn. They are used to express love.

And words are wrapped all around and through your life. Word-Thoughts are so powerful, we cannot fail to form them, even when we believe we are communicating without them.

So do an inventory of which Mementos and which Faded Inks are creating a weight in your life. Mind your words as you speak them, and even as you think them. Indelible, indestructible words have made you, and continue to shape you. Make the commands that words trigger and drive serve you, and serve all of Creation in the Highest ways possible.

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, March 18, 2022

 

 

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