You have made your choice...

The screens light up, huge screens, lifelike screens.   You are alone in the auditorium although you can feel a presence or perhaps more than one.  
You are shown on the gigantic screens 2 or 3 people at different stages in their lives.  Child, middle age, old.     Each person that you are shown has physical and behavioral characteristics that you can learn from, that fit at least in some way with what you are looking for.  
Something catches your fancy about one of the people on one of the screen and you decide you want to try it out.  You are spirit, you are energy, you move into the screen into the body to see how it feels to be this person.   You don’t linger but you might try another body or you might try a different age.   You have all the time you want.  You have already talked about what you want and what you want to accomplish.  You make up your mind and telepathically tell the presence that this is the one you want.  You have made your choice.  You take a last look at this person on the screen that you will be and leave the screening room.  You are ready now to make the final preparations for your return to earth in your next incarnation.  

The Face of God as Many....

If I were an artist, specifically a cartoonist, I would draw a set of images and call them, "the changing face of God".  In the first one would be primitive humans praying to their nature gods,   Pantheism, everything outside of themselves, that they had no control over that became their gods.   Next would be an images of Abraham, of Old Testament fame, considered to be the father of monotheism.  Abraham is recognized by the three major organized religions as the beginning of the belief in one god, again however this is a god, created in a human image, male, old, and existing outside of the human existence.   This god spoke to Abraham and a few others directly.   The next image would be of the prophets, masters, great souls, who came to show us god and teach us how to live with each other.     Still one God but teachers, prophets, aware humans, who we often did and still do turn into gods.   There will undoubtedly be more of these frames but the last one I would do is simply this, an image of a human, looking at themselves in the mirror.  and this would I would depict as an adult looking into the mirror but seeing a baby reflecting back.   This is the new face of God, as we are all baby gods in the making.   There is still a Source, but that Source has placed a part of Itself in all of us.  And we are finding that part and integrating that Divinity into the human.  As our linear time becomes more focused in the now, humans will come to know themselves as the "I", the one, the many, part, but the totality of All That Is because All is the Source.   The great song of Creation, a harmonic chorus in Spirit, once only heard in Spirit, will come alive and be heard as the wind blows across this fair earth, and in the quiet stillness of a warm summer evening will we hear this choir of angels.  What began as the All will be the many as One.   The face of God as Many faces, humans, you and I.  

Advice for you and me.....

If I had but one bit of advice to give to you and me, it would be this:  Don't despair, get out of fear, don't let your emotions overwhelm you and love yourself.  There is a new world coming.   It can already be here for you.   Did you notice?  This advice to me also.  

It really is that simple...

Can you believe that we actually choose to come here, this planet of darkness and bright and beautiful light.  Planet earth, planet of polarity, light and dark, good and evil, love and fear, pain and joy.   We not only choose to come here but we keep coming back.   These ideas alone are worth the thought of trying to make ours, and others, stays here as pleasant as possible.   And yet human history is wrought with war and sorrow punctuated by moments of joy and beauty.  We are not beings stranded on a prison rock floating in space.  Again, don't you think that alone is worth the idea of trying our best to make our stay as pleasant as possible.  We chose to come here and we have choices here and now.  And yes, it really is that simple.    

Love is the Motive....

In order to fully step into the mantle of our personal spirituality and power we must first let go of what organized religion tells us about our relationship to God.   We have to allow ourselves the proposition that it is true and good that we have a personal connection to the Source and it is the right thing to do to use the power that we derive from that connection.  We have never been separate from our Source but it has only been in the energy of the current cycle that we have been able to fully know that.  We no longer need an intermediary.  We never did but we didn’t know that.   When we are fully in the core of our personal spirituality, our Higher Self, we can never commit the kinds of acts that have so often been done in the past.   The painful and destructive things that have been done in the past, and in some cases are still being done, in the name of God and religion, are acts committed by humans listening to the interpretations of other humans.   You will know when you are in the core of your being, surrounded by your Higher Self, when love is the motive and love of self is the motivator. 

Music helps us remember...

"The musician is very close to mysticism, far closer than the philosopher...because music is meaningful without any words; it is meaningful simply because it rings some bells in your heart..creates a synchronicity between you and itself, when your heart starts resonating in the same way, when you start pulsating in the same way."
Osho, Philosophia Ultima
We often hear about celestial music, the music of the spheres, it is an integral part of the other side.   Indeed, harmonic sound is part of creation itself.  This is why music touches us.  It is why music is a part of all society and ceremony.  And yet when we come into this life we no longer hear the music of the spheres, the celestial music, the angelic choirs.   Finding that music back is one more of the reasons  we search for God.   Music helps us remember...

"There are more things in heaven and earth......"

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." 
Yes now I am quoting Shakespeare.   HAMLET Act 1 Scene V to be exact.  
The more I learn the more I remember.   And other than wanting all my life to find out about God and things of a spiritual nature, is there a specific reason I am learning and remembering all of this?  It is said that if you fully embrace your God self in this lifetime when you come back the next time you will return with your memory intact.  I would like that.   But it is also my intent to live a very long life this time around.   There was a time when I insisted I did not want to come back again to this place of pain and sorrow, but I'm thinking I will most likely return to see through all that has begun in this lifetime.  And to be able to do so with my memory of home and who I am as an eternal being, now that might be quite an experience.    Yes, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of.....  Knowing some of them doesn't necessarily take away feelings of pain and separation that life on earth can produce but they certainly make a lot more sense.....   

Intention works.....

It seems lately that I have been increasingly personalizing this message.  I'm not sure if that was my original intent or not.   I do know that my intention to awaken, to become more aware of things of spirit,  has been very fruitful.  It simply amazes me the clarity and knowledge that is coming to me.    So I guess that is the message for tonight.  Intention works.  

In Praise of Creation....

I watched again this morning as my little companion, the dog Manolo, pranced out in front of me, proud and skipping along.   He touches me with his sweetness and beauty.   The hawk that flies overhead, the deer that disappears off into the brush.   And even the trees and the grass.    Who came up with the idea for a little grey dog with a sweet personality, a black and white striped zebra, an eagle that soars with the breeze?  Thank you Creator of beauty.   

The God/human relationship is changing....

In the new vibration of the 21st century, the so called “age of Aquarius”, the God/Human relationship is changing.   It has changed from God the super human created by the human as a way of understanding Divinity to the God in Human which is the human finding and accepting the Creator energy that is a part of the body and went into the creation of human beings.

A vision of angels......

Tonight I return from a visit with former co workers who once shared with me the job of assisting people with mental illness.   Several of them still are doing that work.    I am going to repeat a quote from A Course in Miracles because it not only applies to our beautiful planet but to the beautiful dedicated angels on earth that assist us all in so many ways.   "There is no place for hell within a world whose loveliness can yet be so intense and so inclusive it is but a step from there to Heaven. To your tired eyes I bring a vision of a different world, so new and clean and fresh you will forget the pain and sorrow that you saw before."   There is no place for hell within a world whose people care so much for others.   Thank you my friends, thank you for restoring my faith in people and in myself.  

"Oh When I Get Where I'm Going......"

When I Get Where I'm Going is a song by Brad Paisley sang as a duet with Dolly Parton.  The Harmonies of the two singers is wonderful in itself but the more I learn and the more I listen to the song, it is a pretty good representation of afterlife.  There is a little country and western christianity thrown in but for the most part it is good.   Take these lines for example:  "...The first thing that I'm gonna do Is spread my wings and fly."  and "So much pain and so much darkness, in this world we stumble through.  All these questions, I can't answer, so much work to do." and probably most of all:  "Oh, when I get where I'm going,  there'll be only happy tears. Hallelujah! I will love and have no fear."  It is an ah ha moment when we see little glimpses of eternity in things like this.   

And so it is.....

There are those among us who sleepwalk through life.   It is then up to the awakened ones, those with some awareness, to be the lighthouse, the beacon by which they start to wake up to realize there is more than the life they live.    Our match lit in a world that is often so dark we cannot see our way, will light a beacon by which all can eventually find their way.    Find a quiet moment, speak to the God within.  Set your intention to increase your awareness.   Set your intent to live life more fully awake.   And so it is....

the only judgment.....

When this life is over there will be a review but the only judgement will come from ourselves.  I have a feeling we can be pretty hard on ourselves.  But we can work harder next time.    

Ask and you shall receive....

One's intention is the key to thought, creation, change.   It is important to make one's intention clear and not be involved with the method or the outcome.    Allow the universe to work out the method, just be open to do your part.   And don't worry about the outcome....   Ask and you shall receive....   The outcome may not be exactly how you envisioned it and in fact is usually better......

Take your place...

All our lives we have given away little bits, sometimes large amounts, of ourselves to get along in the world.   Our family, church, school, tell us do this, do that, don't do this, don't do that.   And so our life becomes a lot of what we hear and only a little of what we choose and feel.    It is okay to claim those little and big bits.   Its okay to claim our coping skills, our relationships, our love and our spirituality.  
Take your place,  look at all the places where you have given away your power, make your choices and stake your claim.   Stake your claim for what is already yours.    Espavo... I see you claiming that which is yours.  

It connects us all........

This full Moon in October has been called the harvest moon, the hunter's moon, the travel moon, the dying grass moon, and the blood moon.  There has been conflicting studies about the effect the moon has on the behavior of people and animals.   It is a time when the reflected energy of the sun is at its peak so that it makes an excellent time to reflect.... on who we are, where we are going.    Another cycle has been completed.  In addition to all of the folklore when it comes down to it, it is simply something of extreme beauty.    Wherever you are look up...  That is the same moon shining on you that shines on me....   It connects us all........

ONE.......

ONE... We are all made of the same stuff, all pieces of God trying to find our way home, remembering and once more experiencing that Oneness.  But perhaps when we have so much trouble tolerating, liking, loving the other it's because we are having trouble tolerating, liking and loving ourselves.     It is easy to say...."we are ONE"....  Is it easy to feel it... know it.... be it?   ONE...

Hope..... I think so.......

The battle raged.  What once had been a beautiful valley now was filled with smoke, covered with blood and rang with the clang of weapons and cries of battle and dying men.   The sun was overhead and the fighting had only gotten heavier when almost on cue from opposite sides the women started to move out onto the battlefield.   Grandmothers, mothers, daughters, sisters, unarmed but with their heads held high were walking steadily out into the midst of the smoke and battle.   It took a few minutes for the soldiers to realize what was happening.    One woman clutched her breast as a red stain covered the front of her garment.  The fighting slowed down.   Commanders behind the lines could be heard berating the men and urging the fighting to continue.   Another woman, an old one, fell to the ground.   A young soldier near the front suddenly cried "mother" and dropped his weapon and ran to a woman approaching from one side.   There were women from both sides moving out into the field, many stopping by a downed soldier, some tending to the fallen women, most moving resolutely out into they
center of the now slowing action.   One by one soldiers on both sides started dropping their weapons.   Commanders berated and threatened but by now the soldiers were abandoning the fight, some running to specific women, some walking off to the side, heads down.   
Word spread of that day, the day the women stopped the battle.   It took some time but the war ended sooner than later, a peace treaty brokered by women.    The mothers and grandmothers finally had enough and had decided to do something about it.  
The above is a story, a fairy tale.   I know of no place this actually happened.   But today, October 7, 2011, three women were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.   Hope.....  I think so....... 

The webs we weave...

Have you noticed?   Change is happening...Occupying Wall Street is a movement that has prompted sit ins and protests all over the USA and other countries.     The Arab Spring is what they are calling all of the changes in the middle east.  And the Occupying Wall Street and the Arab Spring have in common the fact that these "r'evolutions" have no known leader.   They share organization by social networking on the world wide web of the internet.   Facebook, twitter, often from smart phones.     Instant communication among a group with no known leader.   Quite a concept isn't it?   Spread the word.  IT IS HAPPENING.    The webs we weave...

Love, courage and kindness make a lot of sense

The human is capable of great evil.   We can see with our eyes what that evil does, but we aren't aware of what that evil does to the soul both of the evil doer and the one or ones to which the evil is done.   On earth there is free will which is why such things are allowed to happen.  If only we could remember/could see what an evil act or acts does to the soul.  The energy of the soul is torn apart and dirtied.  Much has to be done to repair those souls when they return to the other side.  
The human is capable of great love and courage.    These acts of love and courage and even simple kindness produce great strides in growth,  development and understanding.   As humans we are faced with choices.   Love, courage and kindness make a lot of sense, do they not?  

Cycles.... Change.....Choice.....

Cycles.... It is the time of the year that we move toward autumn.   The endless cycle of season, the endless cycle of life...And yet humans resist change.   We have a tendency to get comfortable where we are with what we are doing.    And yet change is inevitable.   Choose the changes you want in your life.  The changes in your life will affect the entire planet.  Choose carefully.   

Write the tale of your life.....

I seem to have a taste for books and movies that have one liners that speak to me.  Tonight I was watching a movie called THE OUTLANDER.  It is a cowboys and aliens movie except that this one was vikings and aliens.   However in the middle of the movie the female lead speaks to the male lead with this line:  "If you truly believe that you write the tale of your own life... then the end is up to you."  Whoa... where did that come from?  I paused the movie and wrote that one down.   In the old energy, while we had free will, we were still under the influence of karma.   That isn't true anymore.   We truly can write the tale of our own life..... And we can write the end of our own story.  Funny the things you can find in b movies with awful alien creatures...  creatures that seem to all look the same with big teeth and slimy everything else.    Write the tale of your life...  give it a happy ending.  

Thank you for taking your power!

It is only by opening to the God within, that which we call the Higher Self, or in old terms, The Holy Spirit, are we able to tune into synchronicity and learn to love ourselves.  Then we can begin to expect good things in our lives and we can begin conscious creation.  
How do we do this?   Set our intent, “I intend to....”, ask our Higher Self for assistance and then be very mindful.   Watch for negative thinking and pay attention to synchronicities.   It may take a little time because we are not used to thinking like this. 
Espavo....   Thank you for taking your power!