In a spectacular visualization, the Tibetan tradition states that the syllable hum (part of Om Mani Padme Hum), although blue in color, radiates five different colors. The dot (drop) on the crescent should be blue, the crescent is white, the head is yellow, the syllable 'ha' is red and the vowel 'u' is of green color.
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Y Azul

Not too many days before during an almost trance-like state a name was revealed to me. Y Azul. At the time I wasn’t sure what it meant, however, I understand a bit more now. I wanted to share some of these aspects with you. Blue, by some sources, is associated with the Moon, Mercury and Venus, along with Aquarius (some other sources don’t associate it with Aquarius, but since it is the sign of water, I feel that it should be.)

In Arabic Azul means blue. In Spanish Azul also means blue, along with the ‘Y’ meaning ‘and’.

Here is the meaning and symbolism of the color blue derived from various sources. I have divided this section up for easier reading.

The color Light Blue represents:
Tranquility
Happiness
Understanding
Patience
Health
Element of Water
Goddess oriented
Feminine aspects.
The color Dark Blue represents:
Impulsiveness
Depression
Changeability
Psychic.

Blue is the color of spirituality, intuition, inspiration and inner peace. It is also associated with sadness and depression (the "blues"). In healing blue is used for cooling and calming, both physically and mentally. In the aura blue indicates serenity, contentment and spiritual development.

Indigo is associated with psychic ability. In healing, use indigo for relaxation, reassurance and promoting psychism. In the aura indigo signifies a seeker, often of spiritual truth.

Blue is idealistic, rational, honest, and tranquil. Goethe observed blue to be the most negative colour, the closest colour to black. Many languages do not distinguish between blue and green: in Egypt, light blue was considered green and dark blue, black. Light blue is more spiritual, dark blue more sociable.


Blue as a reference to the Chakras or Energy Centers of the Body:
Fifth chakra (throat=light blue): When it's clear, you tell the truth. When it's clogged, you're in denial.
Sixth chakra ("third eye"/forehead=dark blue): When it's clear, you're intuitive. When it's clogged, you're confused.

Blue in Buddhism

Transcendental Buddhas, personification of the abstract aspects of Buddhahood, are each endowed with a different color in their sadhanas - Akshobhya - Blue bodied, is one aspect.

Specifically it is believed that by meditating on the individual colors, which contain their respective essences, the following metamorphosis can be achieved: Blue transforms anger into mirror like wisdom.

In a spectacular visualization, the Tibetan tradition states that the syllable hum (part of Om Mani Padme Hum), although blue in color, radiates five different colors. The dot (drop) on the crescent should be blue, the crescent is white, the head is yellow, the syllable 'ha' is red and the vowel 'u' is of green color.

Blue
Eternity, truth, devotion, faith, purity, chastity, peace, spiritual and intellectual life, these are some of the associations that appear in many different cultures and express a general feeling that blue is the coolest, most detached and least "material" of all hues. The Virgin Mary and Christ are often shown wearing blue, and it is the attribute of many sky gods including Amun in Egypt, the Sumerian Great Mother, the Greek Zeus (Jupiter to the Romans), the Hindu Indra, Vishnu and his blue-skinned incarnation, Krishna.

In Buddhism both light (sky blue) and dark aspects of this mysterious color are important. The significance of the light shade is reflected in the supremacy of the semi-precious stone turquoise in the daily spiritual and religious life of the devout Buddhist, who holds various beliefs about this stone. In general terms turquoise is a symbol of the blue of the sea and the sky. Infinity in the sky speaks of the limitless heights of ascension. The stone is opaque as the earth, yet it lifts the spirit high, laying bare to us the wisdom of both the earth and the sky.

When worn in a ring, it is believed to assure a safe journey; worn in the ear it prevents reincarnation as a donkey.

Turquoise has also been held as a sacred stone by ancient cultures other than the Tibetan. It was sacred in Egypt along with malachite and lapis lazuli. It was also sacred to the Persian culture, where it symbolized purity. American Indians believe it to be a protector and guardian of the body and soul. Gypsies wear this stone in their navels, believing it to be good for everything. Nothing illustrates more the spectacular influence of the darker blue on Buddhist aesthetics than the 'Blue Buddha', also known as the Buddha of Medicine or Healing.

The most distinctive feature of this Medicine Buddha is his color, the deep blue of lapis lazuli. This precious stone has been greatly prized by Asian and European cultures for more than six thousand years and, until relatively recently, its ornamental value was on a par with, or even exceeded, that of the diamond. An aura of mystery surrounds this gemstone, perhaps because of its principal mines are located in the remote Badakshan region of northeast Afghanistan, an all-but-inaccessible area located behind the Hindu Kush. One commentator has written, "the finest specimens of lapis, intensely blue with speckled waves and swirls of shining gold-colored pyrite, resemble the night aglow with myriads of stars."

E.H. Schafer summarizes the Buddhist interest in lapis lazuli:
"The Chinese were not alone among the Far Eastern peoples in their admiration for the blue mineral. The Tibetans valued it above all others, even ahead of gold, and those highlanders saw in it the image of the azure sky, and said that the hair of their goddess had its color. Both men and women wore it on their heads."

Indeed to this day, statues prepared in Tibet and the Himalayn kingdom of Nepal have their hair painted blue.

Traditionally this beautiful stone was used to symbolize that which is pure or rare. It is said to have a curative or strengthening effect on those who wear it, and its natural smoothness allows it to be polished to a high degree of reflectivity. Specifically in alternative medicine, because of it being associated with a certain 'coolness', it is used when inflammation is present, or when any internal bleeding or nervous condition exists. For all these reasons, plus the fact that deep blue light has a demonstrable healing effect on those who use it in visualization practices, lapis is the color of the principal Medicine Buddha, making this stone an important one in Buddhist mysticism.

Indeed the Lapis Healing Master is one of the most honored figures in the Buddhist pantheon. In one of the main sutras (canonical texts) concerning the Medicine Buddha, Shakyamuni tells his close disciple and attendant Ananda:

I beseech you, Blessed Medicine Guru,

Whose sky-colored, holy body of lapis lazuli

Signifies omniscient wisdom and compassion

As vast as limitless space,

Please grant me your blessings.

Blue Emotionally

BLUE
Blue is the second most powerfully emotional color after red. It is linked to devotion and harmony. Lighter shades of blue can be associated with understanding, health, tranquility, protection, peace, and general happiness. It sharpens the power to perceive, heightens spiritual awareness, and increases one’s patience. Darker shades of blue can be related to depression, moodiness, changeability, impulsiveness, unfortunate circumstances, and can be very subduing. Dark blue is also connected to fanaticism. In more positive light, blue is the color of nobility and tranquility. It has elements of healing, peace, the psychic. Blue is the color of the element of Water - symbolic of the ocean, sleep, twilight, and the sky. As a calming color, it produces feelings of constancy and faith and can reflect images of sensitivity, truth, sleep, hope, friendship, wisdom, loyalty and ones desire to nurture. Piety and sincerity are coupled with blue as well as creative self-expression, communication, wisdom, confidence, integrity, truth, freedom, and independence. Unity, conservatism, security, cleanliness, order, loyalty, and coldness are linked to blue. In other situations, blue is the color most associated with technology, and is sometimes used as an appetite suppressant.

In Christianity, blue symbolizes Mary and Advent. In Hindu belief, blue represents the throat chakra and is color of Krishna. The Zuni used this color to symbolize the west. In China it is associated with immortality. In Colombia it is associated with soap. Jews see it as a color of holiness and those of the Middle East see blue as a protective color.

Blue is often considered to be the safest global color.

Around the twentieth century it became a symbolic representation of the male gender, particularly in Western cultures. As an aura, blue most often reflects many of the traits discussed above (calmness, truth, devotion), and may also indicate the development of telepathy. Darker shades reveal deep devotion but may also indicate loneliness. Royal blues are for those who know their life’s path. Darker, muddy blues might show over-sensitivity or forgetfulness. Blue is also the color of meditation and spirituality.

INDIGO
Indigo is the color of dignity and high aspirations. Light blue is seen as a color of tranquility and invokes feelings of higher intuition, psychic powers, and trustworthiness. The darker the color is, the more powerful the application. Indigo provides calm and coolness without feeling cold, like an icy blue. In Hindu belief, it is the color of the third eye chakra. Inner vision, intuition, clairvoyance, perception, imagination, concentration, peace of mind, and projection of will, are all manifestations of indigo.

Blue Associated

Blue positive aspects represent: Peace, tranquility, calm, devotion, sincerity, honor, steadfast, dependable, loyal, productive, stability, harmony, unity, trust, truth, confidence, spirituality, intuition, inspiration, conservatism, security, cleanliness, order, loyalty, sky, water, ice, coolness, technology, appetite suppressant, love, acceptance, patience, understanding, cooperation, comfort and loyalty. * Pale blue (baby blue) stands for an infant boy.

Negative aspects can be: depression, obscenity, fear, coldness, and passivity.

Some Cultures associate blue:

• China - associated with immortality.
• Colombia - associated with soap.
• Hindus - the color of Krishna.
• Jews - holiness.
• Middle East - protective color.

* Note: Blue is often considered to be the safest global color.

Associations of the color blue:
Planets: Moon, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter
Days: Monday, Friday, Saturday, Thursday
Astrological: Libra, Sagittarius

Indigo Children, Crystal Children

If you have some time, please click on the links below to learn more about these topics.

The terms, "Indigo" and "Crystal" were given to two generations of children, because they most accurately describe their aura colors and energy patterns. Indigo Children have a lot of indigo blue in their auras. This is the color of the "third eye chakra," which is an energy center inside the head located between the two eyebrows. This chakra regulates clairvoyance, or the ability to see energy, visions, and spirits.

Many of the Indigo Children are clairvoyant The Crystal Children have opalescent auras, with beautiful multi-colors in pastel hues. This generation also shows a fascination for crystals and rocks,

At Month’s End

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” From the book Illusions.

One of the characters, the messiah of the book, says at the end of the book, “But I think…I like the drama…” He said this concerning being shot by what he calls a friend for he thought it would be best to be murdered by a friend than some angry person. I have to admit I laugh a lot, even at times when most would be upset, crying, or angry. It’s the drama, although I’ve never considered myself one for drama, I suppose I like the drama of life, these sketches I’m drawing for amusement, my personal amusement. I never realized how much drama I have drawn for my life, but as I reflect upon some of those things at this moment, I laugh. What a life I’ve lived! I have lived in many places, met many people, learned many things and all through these dramas created in my life dream.

I feel as though I have lived a thousand life times just within this one life dream. Maybe I was trying to get as much out of this life as I could, maybe I still am. I’m sitting here as usual in the big, comfortable, square, blue-clothe covered chair in the Living room looking out the window at how the beauty of the grounds is coming to life. It’s amazing what beauty comes about when something is loved and cared for. Yesterday I desired to play with rocks, so I started cleaning up around the old garage where a pile of rocks sat. I discovered more flowers, some ferns, some old junk, glass, and as I began to put the huge rocks into place, circled a bit away from the building, I could see what an incredible art studio it could be. The rocks will create a circular outdoor area once filled with dirt and covered with crushed granite to be packed which will create an awesome place to sit. From that outdoor space one can see in all directions. The building needs some loving care, but amazingly is in overall good shape for its time upon the earth. I see it, as I do most spaces, not as it is, but as it can be. I suppose that is my gift; I see things as beautiful, with a purpose. I used to try to create these things on my own, however, now I realize that I NEED others to help create the beauty I see. For me, it’s in sharing the vision and having someone work with me to express the beauty. Although there are times, like yesterday, that I greatly enjoyed throwing rocks alone, there are times that I desire company.

Today is another beautiful sunshine filled day. This week is supposed to be very warm, so my intents are to continue preparing Lonnie’s garden area for planting. I’ve already trimmed his orchard and started cleaning up around the garden. There are things I would like to accomplish to help him have the kind of garden he desires. I’m setting my intentions to visit my friend Larry, the Architect and Bike/Café owner, in Columbia towards the end of this week. I’m looking forward to visiting with him and several others up there, like Tomas (the deaf photographer with a gentle spirit), and Coyotey (a kind hearted young man who works for Larry and is a Reiki Master).

This is almost the end of the month, and although I was caught in a fog for a bit, I’m beginning to see clearly that I’m just to enjoy being. I’m just to enjoy the drama that I have drawn for myself, the same drama that brings about the emotions to be felt. Life is good, because I have drawn it this way.

Thought for now (this isn’t for everyone): Jorge, what’s up? Kelly, what have you been doing and how is your new love? I find that while I’m out and about that I miss the communications from my friends, as lately only a few have been sending emails. I wonder what everyone is up to and how he or she is doing. I see the value of communication, in sharing your life with others. How are you doing today?

The sunsets here at The Cabin in the Woods are incredible. This was taken the other night as the sky was filled with beautiful pink, orange, blue, and the earth seemed to be swallowed up in darkness.
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Stillness

I have just awoken from 12 hours of rest. After the last two nights of struggled sleep, I finally feel refreshed. Surprisingly, Roadie stayed on the bed until I woke up, and he let me sleep, not licking my face to wake me up. I suppose he knew I needed the rest.

Yesterday dearest Finnabair, Lonnie and Terese sent me an email saying to “chill out, you’re searching to hard.” It was funny because I had been out walking in the woods and meadows here at the Cabin because I was feeling the same thing. I spent the day relaxing and not really do much of anything.

Last night’s sleep was peaceful, energizing, and from my dreams, all about letting go. We ask the question, then let it go, releasing it. We call something to be, then let it go wrapped in golden light, so that is can become. Today, I’m letting go, and am just going to enjoy being. What a beautiful day it is, with the sun shining bright upon the pale blue sky, the multi-colors of green shimmering in the pines against the blue. It’s even warm outside. I think a walk is in order today, it’s so nice to walk around here, explore. I might try to see if I can find the cave again.

Thought for now: ( ) You put in a thought. I’m trying to let all of mine go for the moment. LOL

I found these flowers growing by the old garage amongst the rocks and old grass.
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These flowers are blooming all over at the Cabin. Refreshing yellow in the midst of brown.
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Life is what we create it to be.

Friday, February 24, 2006

“Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.” From the book Illusions.

As I sit here at almost 1:30 am, quietly with Roadie beside me, an old movie playing on the small black and white TV that Galen Rose had recorded and I’ve been reading. This particular aspect caught my attention. ALL of the events of my life are here because I have drawn them here. Now I have to ask myself, why would I draw some of the events of my life? What purpose did I have in creating them? If I created or drew them into my life sketchbook, then they have something important for me, or I wouldn’t have put them into this life sketch.

Today as I burned the many limbs trimmed from the trees in the Orchard, my thoughts abounded with wisdom that can only be attributed to the collective knowledge of the Universe. At one point I wish I had a recorder to record what I thought, as I have found that many thoughts are fleeting, whoosh, and they are gone. All of the thoughts dealt with this fact of drawing the events into my life sketch.

Last night I thought about writing an ending for this persona known to many as Sebastian, yet something stopped me. Maybe there is more to my life sketch than I realize, or do I know it and just not accepting it into my conscious mind? I struggled through sleep last night as though I was fighting against something. The sheets were torn from the bed, curled up in various angles on the bed; my mind was adrift with thoughts of what happened during the night. As I sit here I am trying to bring to my conscious mind what was happening in my subconscious mind. It seems that I have something more to do here and I haven’t written the ending of this persona, Sebastian. But what is it that I have written, or drawn, for him to accomplish.

Yes, I can see that perhaps he will have to change his character from the wounded child he perceived himself to be and into the other-worldly man I met in St. Louis. That man seemed to be totally aware of the fact that he was the master dreamer, confident in knowing what is was he was dreaming, and the purpose for which he dreamed. For as long as I can remember I have never felt part of, connected to, or belonging to, this physical world. Perhaps I have always been aware that I am only a dream, an illusion, dreamed by the master dreamer, the master magician, and I didn’t understand. I think I’m beginning to understand, but it seems foggy like that late night misty haze that lingers around you, where you can barely see two steps in front or behind. Perhaps that is why I haven’t had clear thoughts of late. My mind has been fogged up by so many possibilities that this dream can be.

The question was, ‘what you choose to do with them is up to you’. Now what? Yes, I have learned many valuable lessons from the events of the past, and even the events of the future because I can see them all. I think back to events that have brought me to this point in perceived time, that have helped me draw the persona of Sebastian. What do I choose to do with them now? That’s easy. Appreciate them, learn from them, and allow them to fade as the pages of a book left in the sunlight for too long. There is a new chapter being written, being drawn, in this life sketch. For I believe I know what Gabriel meant when he said that ‘I’ would die within a few months, that I would go ‘blind’ by months end. For at this moment I do feel blinded as I sense the death of a persona I had drawn called Jimmy Lynn Boney who changed his name to Sebastian Lynn St.Troy, and who will be reborn through creative writing, through the power of The Creative Mind, into a new persona. He will be shown the name given to him before time, the name known to the Universe. He will be sketched as strong, quiet, reflective, knowing, worthy, powerful, and most importantly a lover of life, of people, of all living things. This is the man I met in St. Louis. I do not yet consciously know his name, however, I know when the numbers are cast it will be a master number, as he is the master dreamer.

He scares me at times, as he always has, and probably always will because I sense that others may not understand who he is or why he is here as the master dreamer. Perhaps he isn’t just one, perhaps he is the collective here to dream as one so that together they can dream something greater than just one could. I’ve been asking the wrong question, no wonder I haven’t had an answer. The new question is what are our names, what name are we called by? Azul. Now who is this, but there is more yet unknown as that is only part of the name. As I was still and quiet more came to me. I didn't undersand the word azul, but it means Blue. The symbolism of this color is great. I'll set my intentions to write about the color Blue. The other part of the name is 'Y', meaning 'and'. And Blue, it's an interesting name - Y Azul.

What is it that I, we, am here to dream? Is it the Creative Conscious Connective? Is it to bring more into knowing, into gnosis, into awareness? I have seen the C3 in my mind and it’s far reaching capabilities. I see clearly the people coming here to learn, to grow, to establish great connections, and then to return to whence they came to live openly amongst the people in their life sketches drawing more into a collective dream. What would happen if we all consciously dreamed together, creating a world without fear, without illness, a world, an illusion, a dream, where all were drawn, written, into knowing, into awareness? I see the beauty of this dream. Am I the master dreamer? Are we, together, the master dreamer?

Thought for now: What have you drawn in your life sketchbook? What have you dreamed into your life? Why did you dream, or draw, them? I do not know the answers to your questions, as I’m only now seeking my own. Perhaps together we can find the answers.

A Dream, of Sorts

Part II - continued from the previous post.

Roadie has been barking most of the night at something outside the cabin. When we walked outside so he could potty, he didn’t want to walk down the steps. He finally came out when I walked into the yard. He seemed nervous about something. He kept watching me while he attended to his business. Then instead of coming inside, he wanted to stay at the top step; he kept looking at something unseen to my tired eyes, and just sat there. I asked if it was The People of the Woods, I even said hello to them, but I didn’t sense it was they he was seeing. He has been barking like this for two nights now.

I hadn’t felt the presence of The People of the Woods lately, however, tonight I’m sensing a great host of beings about. It seems they have gathered here for something, or someone. There are Seraphim, Cherubim, and many others here. I am asking why they have come here and they said ‘because I have begun to know of their existence here, that they have always been here’. I’m typing with my eyes closed, as it seems to help me see. The angels of the heavens, the guardians, princes, guides, and spirits of all time they are, and they are here. I’m about to cry because I feel extremely humbled by their presence. Are you the ones that Roadie sees? I ask.
‘Yes, we are.’
Why are you here?
‘You called us.’
Why and how did I call you?
‘You sent Gabriel’s angels to all corners with a message to bring you the gifts you seek.’ Roadie is barky loudly now. Yes, I had asked Gabriel to send his messengers into the world to bring about a request for gifts to allow me to travel, learn, and not to worry about monetary things.
‘That’s why we are here. We are bringing you the gifts you seek.’
What gifts?
‘Knowledge, awareness, your name, the wealth of all, together so that you as the master dreamer will have what you need to be free to dream the greatest dream.’
You are scaring me.
‘Do not be afraid. The dream is for all, it is for the common good, because you do not dream for yourself, instead you dream, draw, and write so that all may share in a beautiful dream that only The Creative Mind can dream.’
Why am I the one to do this?
‘Because you are blessed, this is why you have never felt that you belonged here, because you, although in this perceived time seem to be one, are in fact the master dreamer, the one who can call things into being by just a thought.’
How do I do these things?
‘It will all be shown to you, just believe.’
I’m afraid at this moment, I’m afraid to think, to move, to type, but they keep telling me to type. I’m afraid to open my eyes. Am I really this person you speak of?
‘Yes. Dream, live it, write it, create the illusions for everyone.’
I didn’t ask for this in my request to Gabriel.
‘Yes, we know, but it was what you really requested, and the minor aspect of wealth will also be granted.’
I’m being told that I am to dream, this is something that I have known that I was, the dreamer. Maybe that’s why I always see things when I look around, instead of seeing what is perceived to be there.

WOW, my eyes are open, yet I still sense they are here. I feel as though I have been in a trance, no longer present in this moment. It feels as if time stood still, yet flew by as if it didn’t exist. There are tears in my eyes, amazement in my heart, and humility of being because I am not sure this is who I am. Yet, many psychics have told me that I was a wealthy and powerful ruler in times past. Perhaps I was. Perhaps I still am. I cannot write anymore at this moment. I need time to reflect.

Y Azul. And Blue. Blue represents many aspects and I will share these soon. But for now, I am And Blue.

A Storm is coming.

After what I experienced last night I was drained and fell asleep. I slept peacefully until this morning when the alarm went off. I was going to ride with Kathleen this morning so she wouldn’t have to drive alone to a meeting in another town. However, I needed rest, so I slept. When I awoke, it was if I had been dead. I needed to slowly breathe and each breath seemed to fill my body with life. It was an interesting experience for sure.

As I sit here now, with Roadie curled up and sleeping beside me, I’m looking out the window of the front room into the forest and meadows beyond. The sky is like a fog, It’s as if one single cloud, thin and translucent, is covering the sky as there seems to be no end, no beginning, just the sky. It seems there is a storm heading this way as the wind, the swift wind of change, is blowing.

I am thinking, and have reread, about what I experienced last night and I am about to cry again. I do not fully understand this level of awareness, nor it’s meaning. I just want to sit some where and be quiet for fear that if what the spirits said last night is real, then if I think, I can create, I can dream, and I can write things into existence with just a thought. I suppose we all have this power.

“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.” Another quote from Illusions.

“We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.” Is another quote from Illusions that I read. It seems that there is a great truth here. I’ll wait to hear, and see, the answers to this. For now I am trying not to think, but the words keep flowing.

Thought for now: Change is the only thing in life that can be counted upon to happen. My name Lynn means a large body of water, the refreshing one. Water changes, it flows, it goes along freely to become, to be, many things. Am I open to change? Am I a dreamer, a writer, an artist, a magician, and can I (can you, can we all) create whatever we want to do, to be?

Bird Songs

The lawn, the trees, and porch, the fields, the buildings are all alive with the songs of birds. There are Wrens, Redbirds, some yellow birds, and many others. Their songs are delightful and lift my spirits. My spirits are lifted even higher as I watch them fly about, reminding me that I am free to fly. There’s a redheaded woodpecker in the tree out the front window, knocking, knocking, knocking on the tree. His little head bobbing back and forth as he does what is his nature, peck. I have purchased some bird seed to place out for them and look forward to seeing them enjoy the free food.

I have spent the day (yesterday) burning the limbs trimmed from the trees in the orchard and some old piles of limbs. Roadie and I played some rolling around in the grass, as it has dried up now from the melted snow. As I have gone through the day I have felt a bit at odds with myself. Towards dark I came inside and laid down on the sofa. As I lay there I kept thinking to myself, ‘I’ve accomplished the things I wanted to do here, so why do I want to keep this persona in this life dream going any longer?’. I acknowledged the fact that I could decide to allow this persona a chance for an end. I fell asleep. I spent the night in an awkward type of rest because it seems I was struggling with myself trying to determine if there was something I was to be doing.

It seems that there is something, what I’m not sure, however, I know it will reveal it’s self in time, when it is ready to be. I’m finding that by knowing that I’m the dreamer and can change things at will that I’m having to sort through a lot of things in my head. As I have said before, I am not my own, but I am. I suppose everything that has been is to prepare me for service to human kind, no longer to pursue selfish endeavors.

“Some of us start learning these things subconsciously. Our waking mind won’t accept it, so we do our miracles in our sleep.” Quote from Illusions.

I suppose this is why I struggle so much in my sleep. It seems that my conscious mind and my subconscious mind are getting in touch with each other. My dreams have always been my guide as they have told me where I would be going, who I was going to meet, and much more. Since I have become aware that the subconscious mind is strongly connected with the universal whole I have understood more. I’m learning, and suppose it will take another life time, to be aware at every moment of what the subconscious mind knows.

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.” Another quote from Illusions.

I have longed believed this and I suppose this is why I have created (called into existence) my true family – Momma Gretchen, Brother Jorge, Sister Finnabair, Father Lonnie, Great Uncle Punky, and so many others. Yes, I love and honor my birth family, however, it’s my chosen family that I enjoy the most.

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they are yours.” Another quote from Illusions.

WOW! Talk about the power of words here. I used to argue for my limitations, now I argue against them so I can free myself of them. I hear so many people arguing for their limitations and know why they are limited, it’s because they believe they are. I am no longer limited, I am free like the birds to fly, like the eagle to soar, like the winged horse to ride free upon the winds of change, like the vulture who soars with ease on the currents (the wind’s version of water’s flow), all because I have come into awareness. We are all free, we just have to realize it.

“Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect, then be sure of one thing: the IS has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.” Another quote from Illusions.

Thought for today: What limitations have you argued for yourself? Are you ready to argue against them, to set them free to find freedom? Who is your true family? And, what beautiful universe have you imagined? If this life is just an illusion, that we as master magicians are creating, then I can’t wait to see how beautiful it can become when we all dream of the beauty together. It still won’t compare with the beauty that is real.

Illusions

“You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them. You’re always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.” Quote from Illusions The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

The sun is shining brightly sharing its warmth upon the earth drying the water from the melted snow of days past. I am sitting here typing this morning, something that I am trying to make part of my morning routine. Routine – Wake up, stretch in the bed, play with Roadie, slip out of bed and into my slippers and a shirt, walk with Roadie to the front door, put Roadie outside, start the tea kettle, prepare Roadie’s breakfast, open the door for Roadie to return, give Roadie a treat, write in the journal, prepare morning tea because the tea kettle is whistling, prepare breakfast, continue writing in the journal, sit quietly in meditation. That is my current morning routine. I’m hoping in time to add yoga.

What we perceive as life is a dream, an illusion. We are the life dreamers, the illusionist, and the hypnotist. We make life into what we want it to be. Are you aware of this? Are you aware? This is something that I hadn’t been aware of, and instead lived by the negative energies of lies and stories that I had believed over the years about myself (what others said or thought about me), about the world around me, and what I believed about spiritual things (what I had been taught to believe through the church – modern religion). Only by awakening from the dream and being able to realize that I was the dreamer was I able to break free from the limitations, break free from what others thought and said, and break free from the literalism of religious teachings. I have begun to read Illusions, The Adventures of a Relunctant Messiah and I am thankful for the two people who have provided this book to me. I encourage you to read this short but very thought provoking book.

I think back to a few days ago when I wrote about what Gabriel had told me about my future. I had asked him if I could change my future and he said yes. I didn’t fully understand this until I kept asking more questions. Then I realized that I had the power (the ability to call things into existence, to dream them) to create whatever future I wanted. I also realized that my past had changed because I wanted it to change, not in a perceived reality, but in how I looked at it, how I perceived it to be. The power to change our life dream is amazing. We can free ourselves from limitations and find true happiness by calling it to be. We all have this power; it’s in becoming aware, of waking from the dream to realize that you are the dreamer.

Thought for now: What are your illusions of this perceived reality?

President’s Day

Monday, February 20, 2006

We are all painfully aware of the lies that our current President Bush is using to convince the public to continue supporting his war in Iraq. This was all developed in order for his family and friends to gain control of the oil in Iraq and to further his and his family’s interests, not the best interest of the American people. Yes, I know some might say that I’m out of order, but it’s all true and documented. Is it our best interest to continue to spend BILLIONS of dollars on a war that doesn’t benefit the American people? Is it in our best interest to force our way of living and beliefs upon another race of people? Don’t you think that it would be in our best interest if the BILLIONS were spent here in the United States for better education, for taking care of the people left homeless from the hurricanes, for improving the infrastructure of our country, for finding more earth-friendly energy for use in cars and homes, and for any number of better purposes than war?

I finished reading ‘The Laughing Jesus’ last night and the last thing they brought up was the war in Iraq and how President Bush responded to the events of 9/11. As I read what they said I was saddened because I know that there are many so called Christians who believe that this war is the right thing to do. But if they were really followers of the teachings of the Christ then they wouldn’t believe this to be so. They would follow what the Christ taught about loving your enemies and forgiveness.

This is a quote from the book, “As long as we live in the ‘us versus them’ world created by the illusion of separateness, we will continue to squabble and fight. We will continue to project the evil within ourselves onto ‘them’. It will always be the other side that is untrustworthy, duplicitous, criminal and inhumane, whilst we are good, honest, legal and loving. It will always be the other guy who is a terrorist, whilst ‘we’ are the freedom fighters. As a press conference following 9/11 President Bush stated:

How do I respond when I see that in some Islamic countries there is a
vitriolic hatred for America? I’ll tell you how I respond. I’m
amazed. I just can’t believe it because I know how good we are.

He’s right, of course. But only half-right. America is a good country. And in many ways it is leading humanity into a new and better world. But America, like every country and every person, has its shadow side. As long as it refuses to acknowledge this, it will continue to project its own ‘evil’ onto the ‘other’. In an ‘us versus them’ world there must always be an evil ‘them’. Just look at how, when the ‘evil empire’ of Soviet Russia fell, a new ‘axis of evil’ was created within a few years to fill the void. … From the Gnostic perspective, the first step to healing the present world crisis would be for us to be big enough to understand our enemy’s point of view. As Jesus says in the Gospels, we need to stop pointing out the speck of dust in our opponent’s eye and acknowledge the great plank of wood in our own. We need to seek out and humbly acknowledge everything we have done to divide ‘them’ from ‘us’. We have to make amends for our own failings, whilst forgiving our adversaries. We have to trust even where trust has been betrayed. And love even where love has been rejected. We need to refuse to play the game of winners and losers, and make it clear that we can only win TOGETHER.”

I continued to read and here are some great quotes found in ‘The Laughing Jesus’.

“Our highest duty as human beings is to search out a means whereby all beings may be freed from all kinds of unsatisfactory experience and suffering.” The Dalai Lama.

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Albert Einstein as he expressed the Gnostic perspective.

“The problems of today cannot be solved with the same mind-set that created them in the first place.” Albert Einstein

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” Philosopher Bertrand Russell

Here is the final thought in ‘The Laughing Jesus’: “Let’s both appreciate and improve. Let’s remember to value each mysterious passing moment. Because being alive is magical. Let’s respect ourselves and admire each other. We are amazing. You are amazing. You are the mystery of existence made manifest. You are the universal mind which is imagining this magnificent cosmos. And you are a unique human being with the opportunity to contribute your verse to the glorious song of life. There is no one in this world who is greater than you and none lesser. You are a marvel. There are no words adequate to describe all you are. Let’s stop being so sober and celebrate our existence. Let’s stop being so frightened of life and adopt a pronoid perspective. Let’s live lightheartedly and revel in the humour of our predicament. Because life is a black comedy so ironic that most of us miss the gags. ‘God is a comedian playing to an audience too terrified to laugh’, as Voltaire quips. So, let’s lighten up and enjoy the show. Then we’ll understand why the Gnostic Jesus laughs. Because life is funny. But only heretics get the joke. … If you can learn to laugh at yourself you’ll have a lifetime of amusement. And when you don’t take yourself so seriously, it is easier to be good-humoured with others. We are one human family. So, let’s learn to play nicely.”

“The best way to live is to be in the present moment and get along as best you can, trying to see the funny side of things.” Pagan Gnostic Lucian.

It’s President’s Day. A day to celebrate our presidents. It’s also a day to stand up and hold our leaders accountable for what is best for our country, not what is best for them. You might think to yourself that writing just one letter to your Congressional Representatives or other political leaders won’t do anything, however, that one letter when combined with others makes a very powerful voice. Stand up, make yourself heard, and let your leaders know what you think. It’s time we take control of the United States of America and rule by the common good, not the good of a select few.

Thought for today: Can you laugh at yourself? Can you stand in front of a mirror naked and laugh, fully accepting the mystery of who you are? This is something that I’m learning to do, part of the reason I’m learning to fully accept what I look like, who I am, and what I believe. Are you tired of our political leaders running the country for their own personal benefit? Are you tired of a war that only exists in the mind of a president who created it to benefit himself and his family? Are you ready to stand up and make yourself heard? I’ve been writing my congressional representatives for some now on everything that I think is being done wrong – the Iraq War, the Veteran’s Medical System, the hurricane relief, and so much more. I always get their standard response, but I’m not giving up, because I have hope that my letters will one day be combined with many others to let our leaders know what the people really want.

NOTE: If any of the things you read from my quotes from “The Laughing Jesus” by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy has raised questions then please look for the answers. I believe that we are all capable of finding the answers for ourselves. I also wanted to share the following link for The Alliance for Lucid Living – www.timothyfreke.com or write to them at: P. O. Box 3733, Glastonbury, Somerset, BA69WZ, England

This is a close up of the pretty pink flowers that were budding on the limbs I cut off the trees in the orchard. This one is in the Living Room at the cabin, my laptop is on the sofa behind and if you look out the window you can see the snow and that it's dark outside. I don't have water at the moment, but thankfully I have some jugs of water stored here. The flowers are so pretty and make me feel warmed in the cold.
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I saved these budding limbs from the orchard and they hadn't flowered yet, but just look at the pretty pink flowers now. This is a huge bucket of flowers sitting on the table in the kitchen here at the cabin. I'm glad I saved these as I'm sure with the snow and major freeze the trees that were cut back are troubled, but I know they will come back beautifully.
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The sign says, Caution Children Playing. The sign says it all I think. I was playing, I am a child at heart, and shucks, just go out and have fun, be a child for moment and take on a different perspective of life. LOL Happy Birthday! Wasn't that what Frosty the snow man said when he came to life? Frosty, children, singing, playing, having fun, lets all go have some fun.
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