FAITH

What is Faith?  Is it the same as Belief?  You have been hearing, and using, these words for most of your life.  Is this your current understanding of these wordthoughts?

            Faith:  belief in something to be true without any evidence to support truth

            Belief:  holding an idea to be true based on learned input

Faith and Belief are remarkably different:  in society, in evolution, in cosmic reality, and most importantly . . . in your personal patterns, pathways, and pathos.  Belief is a set of thoughtforms that have been conditioned into the mind of a sentient being by the experiences of that being’s life.

            • Breaking a mirror will bring 7 years bad luck

            • Monsters will take you if you don’t eat all of your vegetables

            • Masters feed you when they are pleased and starve you when they are angry

            • In Heaven there are harps and angels and in hell, fire and devils

            • Humans are the superior species currently alive on Planet Earth

            • Inferior races of humans should be annihilated in favor of superior races

Some of these Beliefs sit more gently with you than some of the others.  The list of Beliefs alive on Planet Earth today is astounding.  You would be dumbfounded by what you believed to be the ignorance, violence and ignominy of some of these Beliefs, so foreign to your own culture and your own Beliefs . . . yet they hold power for their Believers, who feed them Faith and look upon them as if their Beliefs were Truth.

In fact, Beliefs cannot be countered with more Beliefs, not in the end.  Beliefs can only be countered in a way that matters, by Truth.  Faith can lead to Truth.  And what is Faith?

Faith has long been colored by Belief.  Having devolved to a wordthought and an idea, Faith has been encapsulated to mean a hollow belief that someone clings to despite any evidence to support it.  Is that Faith?  No.  But, then, Faith cannot be contained by a singular idea, and certainly not by a singular wordthought.

Faith is a condition of the Quiet Mind:  the ability of one to see clearly, where one is in the moment and to be there, in that condition, accepting.  That is Faith.  Nothing more.

Faith is a deep understanding and acceptance of harmony.  It is not the application of anything.  We may talk about the application of Faith and now, that is another thing; it reflects different sociocultural inheritances, needs and circumstances. 

Pure Faith, however, is this: 

I am alive, here and now. 

It is perfect.

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, May 20, 2014

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USURPING DOUBT

By what means do you coalesce your Faith?  Do you coalesce your Doubt by opposite means or by similar means?  What is Faith, and what is Doubt?

Faith, in application, is the streamlining of Belief, with or without tangible evidence, toward a desired outcome.  When you coalesce your Faith, you first envision the outcome and may or may not see, the factors falling into place that create that outcome.  Faith is the shortcut between where you are now and where you want to be, providing for the fulfillment of everything in the gulf between those two points becoming manifest—without the need of your laborious and/or egregious manipulation.

You therefore, coalesce your Faith by surrendering, and by remaining an unimpeding factor in allowing the necessary factors to come to the pathway that connects point ‘A’, where you are now, and point ‘B’, where you want your Faith to take you.  The only thing you must manifest is your surrender, your attention, and your willingness to communicate at a level which allows you to see where you are being led—and respond as appropriate, as it becomes appropriate.  This happens each time you place your foot on the path.  In the present, not the future.

To coalesce Doubt, you must believe in a variety of factors:  your inability to travel between points ‘A’ and ‘B’; the existence of point ‘B’; the inability of the route from ‘A’ to ‘B’ to be fully known or fully satisfied; the value of either or both point(s) ‘A’ and ‘B’; or a total or partial lack of resources to fulfill the A/B route.  Therefore, Doubt is a much more complex and difficult thoughtform and emotion than is Faith.  It requires more energy, time, and space consumption than streamlined Faith.  It is tentacled and bulky and altogether anti-social.

But what of rationality and process?  What of caution and censure and planning?  Can Faith be paired with these conditions, or can they only be paired with Doubt? 

Works of great Faith are usually supported by great work, which in turn requires rationality, process, caution, censure, and planning.  Faith does not require the obliteration of mind; it eases the pathway by providing a map for the route between points ‘A’ and ‘B’, unfurling it one beautiful line at a time.  Using the vehicle of Faith, the Quiet Mind can follow this map, steady and sure, undisturbed by the internal dialogue of defeat and false control that are the trademarks of Doubt. 

“Here is the first roadway,” Faith says.  “Enjoy the scenery.”

This does not mean you will not strive or take some backwards steps.  It doesn’t mean that you won’t have to quiet your mind again in order to see the next road and its opportunities.  It means, that you can clearly tune to the frequency wherein lies the instructions that await you:  the most appropriate route from where you are to where you want to go, from ‘A’ to ‘B’ containing the best experiences for your soul growth.  Place your feet with Grace upon that path.

It will not be without worry or failure, but using Faith, you will usurp Doubt.  Faith is not a faulty system.  Faith is not for the weak-minded or the false or the cowardly.  It also does not close its doors to intellect and reason and work.  It invites the Light into these qualities, bringing them to their best aspects. 

The Light says to intellect:  Listen!  Listen for yourself, and deeply.  Think truly, and without the taint of old ways and tired traditions.

The Light says to reason:  Reason without social stigma and false hierarchy.  Reason with a cosmic mind, unlimited by false potentials.  Grow large by allowing yourself to Reason as Creators reason. 

The Light says to work:  Work among your Brethren, for there you do not toil alone.  Among good company, you will Create and Achieve what you didn’t know before to be possible.

Usurp Doubt by using the tool called Faith, not in the plundering, limited ways it may have been taught to you.  Use Faith in Your Self.  Use Faith in Your Purpose.  Use Faith as a Co-Creator in a cosmos of Co-Creators.  That is:  see point ‘B’ from your current point ‘A’ and actuate yourself for the roadmap that soon occurs.  Follow that roadmap, step by step, using your wisdom, and the help of your spiritual community.

However you traverse that road between ‘A’ and ‘B’, you will be awake, and aware of the journey and how you undertake it.  You will be a savvy traveler.  No two journeys are the same, not even to the same destination, made by the same person from the same beginning point.  That is one of the beauties of Life.

Doubt is a construct of a small, constrained mind, NOT a caution.  When your intuition and wisdom stays your hand from some action, you understand its urgings:  that is Direction, NOT Doubt.  Doubt is a false, sly underpinning.  Do not answer its call.  
When you hear Doubt’s voice, look ahead to point ‘B’.  What Direction is needed?  Check your horizons.  
What signs see you of the first leg of your journey?  Are the etchings of your map writ clearly yet?

Usurp Doubt through strong Direction and following the tenets of Faith.  If this lesson has found you during a time of troubled Faith, take heart.  There are those of Us who watch over you.  We are a hand at your shoulder and a kind word at your ear.  Let Us in, and We will carry your Faith for you until you are strong enough to carry it again for Your Self.

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, May 19, 2014

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WELL-MEETING THE DAY

 

Life is cycles inside cycles inside cycles. Day (deus: deity/ 2nd declination) arrives as night leaves and night arrives as day leaves. But Creator and the whole of Creation is there always.

For most in Earth School, day is a time of rising after the nightly regeneration.  

It is a time of action and outer seeing. 
 The night, its sister, is womb-time for regeneration, dreaming, 
and doing business with those in other dimensions.  
They are not opposites so much as they are compatible and specific and different

Well-meeting the day is to give thanks for the miracle that is life, for the beauty that you can see in creation as the sun rises. It is new and fresh. It is bursting with opportunity, possibility, and hope.  It is the time, one can say: Today I am changed; today I succeed; today, I release all of my illusions. No, we are not saying that this can be done only in the day, as it concerns the revolution of Earth and its relationship to the sun. 

We are saying that the energy of day is light and rising, potentiated for action. The dark is warm and sinking, time for inner contemplation and inner seeing. And how do you best use the energy of the day? YOU.  Not everyone.

 Practice staying connected to your Tribe. Give thanks all day long. Seek truths in the objects, movements, conditions, and behaviors around you. Use the light of day to see clearly how your house needs cleaning. Clean it. Make no excuses. You are not limited except by your own beliefs, your mortality, and the restrictions of your dimension and planet. Inside those terms, the opportunities, while not limitless, are amazingly vast.

Exalt the day and it exalts 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, September 06, 2020

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Saturday, May 17, 2014

HOPE

Hope is a wish made with determination.  With direction, the wish takes on a possible outcome with reliable signs.  To Hope is not to Manifest.  To Hope is not to Pray.  To Hope, in the purest form, is to apply energy in the direction of intent with the wish that the outcome meets your expectations, knowing that it might not, but seeing it in the highest light anyway.  Hope is one step higher than expectation and many steps below manifestation.

When does Hope serve you?  You have heard that a dear friend has been injured in a terrible accident; you Hope that he is okay.  Inside your thoughts, you see him as okay.  You wish for him to be okay.  You want the outcome to prove that he is okay.  All of this is positive energy directed rightly.

But what happens when your Hope is underscored by dread and fear?  I Hope my friend is okay, but I can’t see how it would be possible after hearing about the accident.  I Hope my friend is okay, but I know he doesn’t do well in an emergency.  I Hope my friend is okay, but what if he didn’t have his medical alert bracelet on?  Do you see?  You give positive reinforcement with one thought and negative reinforcement with the other thought.

To be truly beneficial, Hope must be open-ended.  You are on an island where an active volcano is threatening all; you hope that the Wednesday packet arrives as planned.  Meanwhile, you begin helping the community to build flotation devices and warn those who are elderly or handicapped that you’ll be evacuating.  All of these outcomes could be seen as an affirmative action.  It is both Helpful and Hopeful.

As you have learned in prayer to give thanks for what is, and to ask that things be amended in the picture of Highest Good, Hope does not enter in.  “I hope you heal little Jimmy.  He’s been a good boy.”  Perhaps Jimmy is indeed, a very fine boy.  Perhaps Jimmy and his Creator have chosen this time for him to go home.  This is not a punishment made out of hand to an innocent; it is not a reprisal for bad behavior, or a bad event.  It is an event.  Period.

Are there instances where other factors might be in play concerning Jimmy’s death transition?  Yes.  Hope will not change those circumstances either.  To Hope, without direction, is to take a passive role in your life:  you buy the lottery number 4629 and hope it wins; you hope that your soulmate will be at Friday’s dance; you hope that your garden does well.

Act.  Act.  Act.  You may Act with Hope, yes, but do not Hope without Action.  See the lottery number 4629 winning, envision the meeting of your soulmate and groom yourself for a celebration; give love to the plants in your garden and listen to what they need.  Hope without action is nothing more than the passive-aggressive meanderings of a lazy or underinformed mind.  Sense it; see it; study it; set in motion activities that manifest what you Hope for.

Do you see?  This seems like a small matter of words, but this is a coda for living life well.  Do not hope for things; make things happen.  Don’t hope that one day you’ll have time to play the piano.  Find a teacher and begin lessons.  Don’t hope that one day the right program will enable you to fix your roof; find persons with the skills to do the roof mending and set about discovering a trade of money, goods, or services that would allow this to happen.  Don’t hope that your physical condition will approve according to the doctor’s prescriptions; do well what you know to do and give attention to this daily. 

Hope, guided by intuition and driven by action is what makes Manifestation the powerful tool that it is.  A wise craftsperson studies their craft, uses their tools, and shares those gifts and creations with others for their betterment and joy.  Great All has equipped each of us with a tool box, unique and complete in the beginning, but blessed each time it is expanded and beautified.

How can your Hopes lead you forward?

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This interactive piece of art, a Boab Tree installed in South Africa by artist Daniel Popper in 2011, requires spectators to pedal the bicycles in order to light the lights:  see the article at: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/daniel-popper-siemens-boabab

(This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,

Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.)

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HUMOR AS THE CROSSROADS OF JOY AND PURPOSE

The sweetest sound on Earth is the sound of a child's laughter. No matter the age of the listener, their culture, or the time in which they live, this is a sound that brings immediate joy. It is no wonder that laughter is so healing.

When you are glad, you help others to be glad.  When you feel joy, it is contagious.  Let others feel that contagion.  Let its warmth spread, like a golden, molten glow that is welcomed into dark spaces, bidden or not.  Let your light shine that others may not only see it, but feel it as well.

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.

    Archives: May 16, 2014 

 

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CONDITIONED RESPONSE & REACTION

A man is coming towards you on a twilight street, shirt askew and bloodied.  Your conditioned response is one of fear, right?  However, the truth is, that this man has just escaped an attacker and is still dazed.  If your conditioned response was one of say, an EMT, or a doctor, how might it be different?  

Your response to anything is conditioned by your beliefs, your sociocultural lens, your desires, and your personal experiences; therefore, all of your responses are conditioned responses.  The point is to understand HOW your responses are conditioned, and how often you react rather than respond.  Test these works in your body as you read them:  Your body will tell you the difference between a conditioned response, a High Mind Response, and a reaction.  

What experiences have conditioned your responses for the subjects we undertake?  

Who and What do you believe that you are?  

From what conditions and which places did your existence arise?  

Who or what is responsible for your making?  

What does living life on Earth mean?  

What does family mean?  

What is the difference between right and wrong and good and evil?  

What is life for?  

Do you need only exist or do you need to accomplish—accomplish what?  

When you can understand first, what your beliefs are regarding these basic tenets of existence, you can begin to understand within what framework your responses are conditioned.  Do you respond to these readings because you have been conditioned to believe that there is a higher authority or wisdom?  Does a hierarchy seem to be the structure through which you understand the order of life?  Do you see how complex this idea of conditioned response/reaction is? 

In your work with others, you are helping them to understand the nature and source of their conditioned responses.  Likewise, they offer you opportunities to study your own conditioned responses and how they inform your life, your behavior, and your actions.

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. 

May 15, 2014

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PERCEPTION AND PURITY

Just as the Perceiver brings to the object being perceived, his or her own set of vibrations, the place and time within which the object is perceived also adds to the equation.  Nothing is the same, second to second:  a river, a forest, a square meter of air or soil; You. 

Unending, ubiquitous change is the foundation of Great All and everything encompassed within it.  And while you might measure an object, entity, thought wave, or ghost wave for a base signature, there are many commingled signatures tangled among its interwoven songs, layers that go deeper as you study and search.

For this reason, nothing can be purely pure that we know of—not if you measure pureness as a quantity of isolation and singularity.  Pureness is a concept and theory upon which we build other concepts and theories, which we then use to elucidate principles we wish to explore and/or study. 

For instance:  we make oxygen by combining it in a certain way, and water by combining hydrogen and oxygen in a certain way.  But:  is it that pure or that simple?

How can it be?  How many times have those molecules, as molecules perceiving and being perceived, combining and being uncombined, commingled?  How many pathways did the symbol on the keyboard key, letter‘d’, transverse before it was placed on the keyboard that is under your left middle finger?

Thinking backwards, from the top, you must first consider the paint transfer that proclaims ‘d’:  from whence did those raw materials for the paint come?  Who mined them?  Who discovered them?  Who transmuted and combined them?  Who packaged and produced and promoted and sold the paint as a product and to whom?  Who marketed and billed and advertised and shipped that product(s)?  Who made the planes and trucks that moved that product(s) and all of their parts and all of the aspects of their fuel and licenses and regulations and communications and advertising and contracts and roadways and unions?  Who made the computers who oversaw all of these processes, and who moved them in similar planes and trucks with similar needs?

And who went into the forests to gather raw materials to produce the paper to print the supporting documentation on?  Who were the worms and the lichen who worked with the trees in those forests and what other minerals in the rocks worked with that limestone in the earth to bring forward the white pigment?  How did oxygen and gravity and the sun and moon contribute?  How many fallen ancestors have left mortal remains that echo in that pigment?

Listen.

It is an exhaustive search for the mind alone to track something back to its smallest sources, only to discover that the line you have followed is so long it was not possible to see the arc.  You are following a circle, a lemniscate, a perpetuating cycle of one thing feeding into another, destroying and remaking as it goes. 

                                                   Singularity is not.

Therefore, it is not possible to cite all of the ways, all of the means, and all of the energies and vibrations who contribute to any one thing—for there isn’t any One Thing.

There Isn’t Any One Thing.

There Isn’t Any One Thing.

In the Great All, Everything is Connected

and this is but one example.

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, May 14, 2014

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