Okay - here's a spooky story alert.  If spooky stuff isn't your thing, look away now!

If you like spooky stuff - venture forward!

I had a client come in the other day that was being vexed by "something".  The good news was that something wonderful was standing by her side to assist her and guide her and protect her.  The icky something was kept at bay though she was greatly feeling its negative influence.

We worked with her guide and got her comfortable with that.  She was able to hear him speak to her and we verified it's communication as being from the Light.  I heard his last name "RavenHair." I listened for his first name.  All I heard was "Mark" and it didn't have a ring true, but that was all I heard.  She said what she heard was "Tatooay"  We laughed because a "tatoo" is a "mark".  We both felt the ring true of that and she felt great that what she heard had been confirmed.

As for the icky entity, I told her that Jesus and I would take care of that.  My office is in the church and is sacred ground, so the thing could not enter there.  I asked Jesus to bind it so that she was safe from it's effects.

When I got home, I did a meditation.  I saw this "thing" bound by strands of Light.  Jesus was standing nearby just beaming love in its direction.  I asked if it should be sent away and I heard that it would be good to see what Love and Light could do.  This entity had been abusive, hurtful, cruely, and sexually predatory for a very long time.  It had influenced my client's step father for years when he molested her older sister.  Fortunately for her, her step father had been caught and jailed before he could abuse her, though he had been grooming her for that.  (shudder!)

This was a pretty nasty being.  My experience of these things is that at one time they had been human.  When they died, they don't work through their stuff and just attach themselves to others that are also abusive and the power feeds on power making the "sick" part of them stronger to the point where they no longer even look human or have other human characteristics.  Kinda like the creature in Lord of The Rings that once had been a Hobbit but became this creature after years of being under the influence of the power of the ring.

So, here struggled this nasty, horrid entity and the energy of Love and Light was freely offered.  After all, it was once just a hurting being that got lost.  Humbling to see Love offered in that way.

Okay, so none of this sounds very scary so far.  It gets creepy from here, so turn away now if you are sensitive to this stuff!

Well, I checked in every day.  Still the horrid thing struggling and fuming and spitting and snarling while Jesus (my understanding of the manifestation of Love) just held sacred ground offering Love.  I think when my cell phone died and I freaked out, I was feeling the backwash of that hostile energy.  I don't usually freak about stuff, so that was abnormal response for me and let me know how dangerous this entity could be.

Every time I checked in, my skin crawled and I felt the flame of hostility.  I could feel that I could feed my fear or trust the process.  It would have been really easy to slip into a fearful state!

I finally got the message that it was time to put the entity into a crystal to permanently bind it, shatter the crystal, command the shards to stay disconnected, and throw the crystal dust either in the desert or into the river.  I must admit that I was really uncomfortable dealing with this thing.  I've seen some nasty entities, and this one was one of the worst!

I know that Jesus (The power of Love) bound it.  Why does a human need to do anyting?  Well, what is bound in heaven will be bound on earth.  Actions in the physical plane strenthens the spiritual intent in spiritual realms.  I went through my crystals to find a suitable storage unit for the process.  Finally, I found one that would willingly participate (okay that sounds really wacked out, I know).  I thanked the crystal for its sacrifice and began the meditative process. 

The second I closed my eyes I was pushed back into my chair as a gush of black smoke flew into the crystal!  I don't know if Jesus sent the entity into the crystal or the crytsal sucked it up or some combination there of.  It was just a shock the power with which the entity flew into the crystal.  (hair on the back of your neck standing up?  Mine is just with the retelling!)

Suddenly, the small crystal felt dark and heavy!  I rushed outside to shatter the crystal.  To my chagrin, the crystal would not break!  I hit it repeatedly!  It still didn't break!  I finally got a bigger hammer and attempted to crush it on a basalt rock.  Basalt is pretty hard stuff!  It still would not break!  This small crystal was standing up to hammering it onto a rock! 

Okay, by this time, I am totally freaked out!  Well, not totally. . . I did know that it could not get out and that I was safe.  Let's just say it was disconcerting to see a little crystal remain unbroken through the pounding it was getting.  So, I took a deep breath and asked Jesus to help.  The next few whacks shattered the crystal into chunks.  I went on to pulverize the thing!  Nothing left but dust.  Hammering the crystal even left a mark on the Basalt!

I am glad that this thing was taken out of circulation.  It had been causing great distress to many people for a very long time.  My next task is to fling it into the river as the river is a powerful spiritual force and can seperate the tiny pieces of crystal dust for all time.  I hope to accomplish that today.  I'll let you know if anything happens with that!  Pray for me!

Is It A Sign?

I've been praying for myself and I've been praying for you.  When life is good, it's all so easy to believe in Spirit and that we are loved and that our guides and angels and the Ascended Masters (Jesus) are there for us.  When life throw us challenges (or we create them ourselves - another blog, another day) it seems hard to remember that God (Divine Source, Spirit - whatever!) is active in our lives.  The most spiritual times in my life have been when I've been on the doorstep of crisis.

Yet, we crave that spiritual connection.  We long for that Divine touch so that we KNOW within ourselves that God is real and that we are, indeed loved.  We pray for a sign and we get it!  Hooray!  We have that deep knowing and feel the presence of the Divine.  And then life goes on, the crisis passes and then we are back into the daily grind and Spirit feels distant and apart from us and our memory of that loving presence fades.  We pray for another sign and we get it and we feel connected again, fading with the passage of time.  And on and on it goes.

The problem with a sign is that it is non- sustainable.  Another sign is necessary in order to support our experience of God/Spirit being in our life.  The sign in and of itself is non-sustainable, but the ongoing connection merely requires our mindful awareness of the simple times when Spirit touches our lives. I keep a journal of spiritual experiences.  First on paper and then on my heart.  Then, when God feels distant, I pull out those recorded accounts and relive that connection and the flame of awareness is renewed.

A couple of days ago, I was praying for a sign and when I looked up from my prayer, I noticed that Phil's bowl of cereal had a banana slice that looked like an "Ascended Jesus" in the slice!  I laughed and showed Phil.  He laughed.  Now, maybe no one else can see the "Ascended Jesus" in the slice, but we sure did!  Perhaps you can recognize it in the photo I've attached.  Perhaps I'm the only one that was meant to see it in that specific moment that I was asking for a sign.

Not wanting my cluttered up kitchen to become a religious shrine, Phil went ahead and finished his breakfast. 

Why do we crave signs?  Because our faith fluctuates with the weather - or does our Faith fluctuate with the whether"?  Whether we can see and experience God in the way in which we want to perceive it.  I feel that God is ever patient with us and is willing to send us many signs.  I feel that sometimes the signs are subtle and we don't open up to the possibilities or we are so full of doubt that we avoid looking at things with "spiritual awaremess."

So, I've been praying for myself and for you.  I've been praying that I be led to offer some sort of experience that you can know beyond doubt that you are loved and that the spiritual realm is open to you anytime not just in crisis.  I don't know what that process or experience might look like.  I'm just being in a state of "Wonderment" about it.  "I wonder what a spiritual experience of profound measure would look like for myself and others."  We'll see what comes up for that.

I would appreciate your prayers for me on our behalf.  Thanks!

Angel Aura Quartz

On Sunday, we explored some energy portals as part of our Healing Sunday Service.  We took the time to breathe in a way in which the exhale became the inhale and the inhale effortlessly flowed into the exhale.  While we looked at our breathing and our breathing patterns, we considered that those moments when we hold our breath we are holding back due to fear.  When we breathe in a continuous manner, we unlock ourselves from fear and become able to access all of our talents and abilities.

That same breathe also connects us with the truth that we are alive.  Breath bring life to our being.  When we move from this realm into the next, our breath turns from breathing air, to breathing light.  If we add light to our breath by tapping into energy portals of divine nature, we add a new dimention to our living.

We first looked at the Portal of Light that is bright White, sparking light.  We breathed that white, sparkling light in, and then we exhaled toxins from our system.  Toxic thoughts, attitudes, and fears. 

Then we became aware of the Golden Portal of Light.  This energy is rich and warm and healing and rejuvenating.

We then focused upon the Portal of Violet Light.  Violet Light purifies that which is out of harmony and reunites us with our Divine Nature.

We then touched a portal that I don't really have a name for.  It was revealed to me and I have touched it with my awareness but hadn't really put the experience into words.  It took a few moments to describe this Portal Of Light.  It is clean and irridescent and multi-colored.  Like the quartz crystal when it is infused with vaporized platinum to become an "Angel Aura" quartz.  (Funny, I was trying to say platinum as I was attempting to describe the energy, yet I knew you couldn't see through platinum as it is a metal.  So I blocked myself from saying that because it didn't make sense to my logical mind.  I just looked up the angel aura crystal just now to find that it is infused with platinum vapors!  How cool is that!  Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could trust ourselves fully?!?)

The energy of an Angel Aura quartz is "Upliftment, peace, serenity, and expanded awareness," according to The Book Of Stones by Simmons and Ashian.  In services, I described the energy of this portal as being tenderness and sweetness - How God feels about us.  We breathed this energy in and allowed ourselves to feel that energy.

It's interesting that we have been writing people's names on a piece of paper so they can be "Uplifted" for their generous acts of service and their kindness that is given from their heart.  We are all tuning in to that energy vibration.  That energy is already within us!

Some energies felt better for some than others.  We each get to be right where we are and receive what is right for us at this moment.  There is no right or wrong, good or bad.  Each person can receive what they can receive for whatever reason and it is important to trust that whatever we are experiencing is what is right for us in that moment.

It was important to clear our energy field of thoughts or issues that we had placed there to breathe love and life into.  It was also important to reduce the flow of energy so we wouldn't be overloaded as we resumed our physical activities.

When we concluded the service with an energy circle, the energy seemed to be stronger, brighter and more powerful than we'd experienced before.

I sincerely hope that you get to experience these energies as you meditate or take some moments to ponder the power of the breath.  May you be uplifted by the experience!

I believe we all have more than one exit point wherein we may die and be transformed.  We don't always see those exit points yet some are more than obvious - the near-fatal car accident, the life-threatening illness.  Those opportunities are presented so that we can begin something new on a new plane of existence.

I have written before regarding "Living Reincarnation" which is an opportunity we create for ourselves an opportunity to be and do something new and different without having to perish.  We reinvent ourselves in such a way that we aren't the same person at all.  We may even choose to change our name or even change our face (or other body parts) with surgically.  For some those changes cannot happen fast enough.  (Isn't it interesting and ponderable that those that are urgently wishing to die, don't and those that long for more time are faced with their own mortality?  Hmm)

I've been having some health issues.  My life force seemed to be draining away from me.  I've been doing some healing modalities to overcome these issues along with medical assistance and herbs and meditation .. . blah blah blah.  Let's just say, I'm doing the deal to the best of my abilities and the life force just seemed to get weaker and weaker. 

Not that anyone would know.  I am a very private person and don't burden others with my stuff.  I just do my best and leave the rest.  This last week I did several healing modalities with help from qualified practitioners.  I knew things would get better, but I sure wasn't feeling any better.  I laid down to rest.  I slept soundly for two hours. 

During that time, I heard a voice say, "Wake up and breathe if you wish to live."  I thought about Phil.  I thought about how much he loves me andhow much I love him and sucked in a deep breath and went back into that deep sleep.  Now I'm not sure how much was conscious thought or was just an acknowledgment of the idea.  It didn't seem to be an active considertion, just an awareness of my loving connection with my beloved, Phil.

I have no concept of how much time went by or whether or not I continued to breathe normally or if my breathing was arrested for some reason.  I just remember hearing the woman's voice again say, "Wake up and breathe if you wish to live."  I thought about my grandchildren - how much I love them and how much they love me and took another long, deep breath.  Who knows how much time passed and then again I heard the voice giving me the choice.  This time I found myself aware of The Divine Fellowship and how much love was there for me to give and receive and consciously inhaled deeply.  More time.  Again the voice.  I became aware of information that I have not yet shared with others and I breathed in deeply.  The fifth and final time I was awakened to breathe I don't remember what was brought to my awareness.  I just remember breathing deeply and instantly falling back into the depths of slumber.

Some time later, I awoke feeling better than I have in weeks - maybe months.  Last night I asked Jesus to show me the way to healing  so that I could make clear and beneficial choices for my health.  I prayed for him to give me a miracle healing.

Fast forward to this morning when my dreams took me to visit my mother in the hospital.  My mother passed away a year ago in March and Memorial Day was difficult as family took flowers to her grave and other family member's graves.  I approached the hospital waiting area and announced my arrival to the nurse.   I thought it was a nurse as it was a woman dressed in white.  I was denied access to her.  She was not there.  I could not see her or visit with her.  I was instructed to wait for the doctor for more information, but as I awoke with a start, I remembered that my mother was dead and I was alive. 

Going about my day, I heard a timer going off.  Now, after my mother passed away, she caused my timer to go off more than once and I even moved the timer so it wouldn't make noise anymore only to have another timer in another location go off!!  She was trying to let me know that she was on the other side and okay.  When the timer went off this morning, I realized that she was acknowledging that it isn't time for us to be reuinted yet.  I realized that she is on the other side helping in spiritual ways for my benefit.

I cried.  I cried that the contact was made.  I cried for the love that I felt when I recognized the timer going off was my mom.  Oh, it wasn't really a timer.  It was a remote thermometer that had been switching its own channels for days!  Phil had to reset it!  Once I acknowledged my mother's presence, it hasn't made any noice since then.  The silly thing had never made a sound in the few years that we've had it!  We had it in our last house and neither Phil nor I knew that it even could make a sound!

So..... I believe I was offered an exit point and was my choice to stay was honored.  Now, with that said, I believe the soul has an agreement with God (Spirit, Source, whatever that is for you) and knows the lessons it came here to learn.  The soul also knows the lessons it came here to participate in teaching others.  When the lessons are done, the soul is ready to move on.  We may want to live and do more things, yet if the soul has completed it's tasks - fulfilled it's contract with Spirit, the soul will set up an exit point.  If we are done with this life and our soul's contract isn't, it's not going to set up an exit point no matter how much we stamp our feet and demand out.

If the soul is staying here, then there are wonderful things yet to come.  If the soul is getting ready to exit then there are wonderful things yet to come!  Either way, we win!  How cool is that?!?

I believe that I'm in bonus time.  I hope to make the most of it and do my best.  Maybe I'll have years yet to live.  Maybe I'll have another exit point tomorrow.  Either way, I'm choosing to live what life I have with love, kindness, compassion and power.  The power is there for each of us to wield in a good way.  How about you?  You ready for a bonus round?

Well, I've worked all afternoon on the Portal Newsletter.  I had to totally re-write one article.  It was just awful!  I took a break and had some dinner then got back to it and was able to re-write it without too much difficulty.  Then I added another article and had to rearrange the format to accommodate it.

It's going to be a lengthy newsletter without many pictures, but I had lots to share and wanted to get the information to you rather than taking additional time to "make it pretty."  So, I hope it's not too difficult to read. 

Now, I'm going to take the rest of the evening (it's now 8:30pm) and rest.  Got to be at the hospital by 6:30 in the morning to bless someone before their surgery, then stop by and visit with another church member.  I'm going to have to get groceries soon and the dust is pretty thick in the house, but I hope to have the newsletter turned into a PDF and posted on this website by tomorrow or Friday at the latest.

I must admit I miss being able to use Page Maker to do the desk top publishing.  Word is just not fun to use.  I'm constantly having to jump out of my creative thinking and writing into technical and formatting thinking.  It' really wears me out.  If I could just write it would be a lot easier.  But with Word, I am writing to fit the page as well as fit the thought.  My efforts to find a better program have been unsuccessful as yet.

Anyway, I'm powering through it and hope to have The Portal Newsletter, Summer Issue to you by the end of the week at the latest.  Articles I've written are "Wonderment"  Mission Statements Transform Our Lives"  "How Crude?!?" and "Messages From The Other Side."  Thanks for your patience!