Gaia: Living Metaphysics - Daily Living Aspects

Re: Cloudy with a Chance of Thunderstorms

http://torchholder.gaia.com — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:17:44 GMT

This is Clear, Transparent, Logical, Wise, Intuitive, Spiritual, Simple, and Obvious when Reading This. Congratulations ! You have managed to summarize The Rules for being a Mystic, as well as a Human Being of the Highest Order.

This is Precious Stuff. I would be gratified to see Gian's Response to this Post.

He has an amazing ability to expand principle, with logics and feelings and philosphy and spirituality and Humanity.i

Re: Cloudy with a Chance of Thunderstorms

http://yhd52754.gaia.com — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:42:53 GMT

Ken,

Interesting that you should say that. Seems to be my lesson of the moment.

So much so, that I wrote a personal blog today, called Letting It Be.

Peace -
Deb

Re: Cloudy with a Chance of Thunderstorms

http://baba.gaia.com — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:51:30 GMT

This is deep and thoughtful Deb. I agree that we always have a choice. Sometimes the best choice is to let go.

Cloudy with a Chance of Thunderstorms

http://yhd52754.gaia.com — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:25:26 GMT

I have started to write the book, Cloudy with a Chance of Thunderstorms, which it did come to me that I should write, after attending the Chicago - Celebrate Your Life conference.

I am allowing the NaNoWriMo event (National Novel Writing Month) which Centria (a member of this group) made me aware of, and am experiencing it almost solely through the Diving Deeper group (here at Gaia) to push content through me (50,000 words, by the end of the month, is the goal). So, far I am on track with my daily goals, at almost 13,500 words.

Most of it has been dredging up bits and pieces of my real life. However, yesterday, I allowed myself the luxury of letting some spiritual content channel through, from my Higher Self (certainly, that was how it "felt" anyway). Of course, any book I would write would have a spiritual tone and aspect to it.

So, rough as it is, and probably not in the structure it may ultimately take upon itself, I share it with you here as being uniquely and genuinely "of my own self". I hope you enjoy.
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Anger

Anger is resistance to what is, to reality. Anger is the frustrated child in me that wants something and feels it is being withheld from them. By growing “up”, I can integrate to an intentional and conscious surrender to life. The anger will subside because I’m not fighting with what my life is anymore. One can see that something is not as beneficial as it could be and take steps to change that situation, to shift that situation, so that it can more closely resembles what the ideal vision is, without being angry about it. Anger is victimhood. It is saying I am not in control, either of myself or of what is happening around me. Of course, I’m not in “control” of what is happening around me. It is ridiculous to believe that I could be. It is a big world, I am a tiny bit of individualization in that world. The world has so many other individualizations, waves and currents and winds blowing through it, on the macro scale; that I am neither meant to control it nor do I initiate any of that aspect of my experience at being “alive”. My only role in that macro aspect is my response to it and I am always free to respond to it in a way of my choosing. I “should” be in control of myself. The reality is, sometimes I am not.

The Witness

If I do not feel that I am “choosing” the way in which I am responding to the situation, then I truly am out of control. I am out of control regarding my responses, the only aspect of my being that I can control. When this awareness first begins to come through, to emerge within my conscious thought, it may be that all I am really skilled enough to do, is to observe what is happening. For we are all skilled at that, it is how we go from infancy, to childhood to maturity. At this stage of awareness, it is possible to become aware that there is a witness or observer within each of us that is not our physical body, is not our judging mind, is not our experiences of living a life. It is capable of simply looking around, watching life unfold in the moment, being in the NOW, moving through the time / space of this Earthly life that we each are allotted, without doing anything more about it, than to see it happen, to feel the sun and wind and notice the colors and the emotional outbursts of others around us, even to notice how our own individual self behaves in the heat of an emotion.

This is not a skilled activity, though it is useful as an activity. One can notice, is the mind playing the same old song over and over again ? – either literally or figuratively. One can notice fixations. One can be in appreciation or awe. One can be aware of the emotional body as separate from the mental reasoning. The mind is the thinking aspect. Some of this is trained and programmed and hardly “thinking” at all. It is societal and cultural and of its “time” period. Religion goes into this definition of mind as well.

The Intuitive Mind

There is a deeper mind. It is intuitive, it is where insight and inspiration emerge from. It is not trained but it has access to all of the knowledge of any human that has ever lived. Any event that has ever occurred, any “higher” learning or education that has been developed within a human consciousness, is stored in this accessible “place” for all time and always. Some, when they connect to this faculty, believe they have found God or some Ascended Master or evolved Being but no, this is still an aspect of the functioning of the mind, in the individualized self. Yet, it is very, very helpful in the productive and fruitful living of any individual life.

What is it that observes? What is it that watches without judgment? What is it that knows where the trajectory we are on now is headed? Is there only one trajectory? Are we in one world or many? Can we shift from one layer to another without the outer aspects of our life appearing to change?, without our own self appearing to change?, except perhaps in temperament. These are the kinds of questions that one who is on the spiritual path begins to ask of their own inner self. In a sense, it is a “why am I here?” question. But “why am I here?” almost connotes that we should not be, or that we would be happier elsewhere, and that would be to miss the whole point of reality.
Warning

So, once again, I attempt turn back to “the story” and allow it to come forth. There will be time enough for the analyzing. Actually, I think that was where I was attempting to go, as I was describing the functions of the mind. Intuition can be a tricky aspect. If one is wanting to “make it happen”, is trying to force it or push it through, one could find themselves in deep do-do. I have been, and others who I have been witness to in their own struggles with such, have found that in trying to “arrive” by force, we misinterpret much. There is no hurry. In fact, hurry can make one “accept” the craziest notions and act upon them.

So, if your intuition is telling you – I must do this NOW – take a deep breath and resist. No, the world is not going to end, you are not going to fail to advert some disaster, no one is going to be harmed or killed if you don’t act. You are quite simply not THAT important. Don’t be dejected. You are important. You are important to existence but your “actions” in this life should be light and easy. They should be as non-threatening and non-serious as though you had been chosen to play a role. Sometimes your conscious mind will not feel in tune with the role that is being asked of you to play. Perhaps, you don’t really feel you will do a good job of playing that role but that you are the one chosen to do so, and you must play the part. How will you know if that is so? It will be obviously, the next logical step available to you to take.

So, you play it with all the best you have to give. It is THAT important. It is important that you show up fully, heart-fully even (if you can), and reluctantly, if you must. Reluctantly, is perfectly okay. You can play the role of a reluctant participant, a victim whose hand is forced in a direction not of their choosing, and be fully aware of that aspect. And here I am circling around the subject again. Well, some things are hard to put into conscious, thinking mind, terms.

Protection

Here is an important protection, if you desire to allow intuition to take a greater role in your life, from the bible - Philippians 4:8. “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.” (Source - New International Version c 1984) This applies. My granny repeated that verse to me verbally, when I was trying so hard to follow my intuitive guide and having huge difficulty in interpreting the messages that come through.

There can be signs and messages in every item and word and aspect of your life. THESE ARE MEANT FOR YOU ALONE. That is why another person will think you are crazy; if you tell him a bird just gave you a personal message. And there are so many more “messages”, that we can pick up a signal from, in modern times, than were available to the more simple humans living in our ancestor's period. The very air is filled with all manner of “content”, from all manner of sources – radio, tv, satellite, etc as well as from all the electrical impulses of thought that pass through any human brain which is physically active.

By taking the advice of Philippians, you can save yourself much trouble and grief. If your “messages”, from wherever you believe they are coming, tell you to kill someone or do some obviously crazy action, because something terrible will happen that only you can prevent, therefore you MUST do this – then, be highly suspicious and do not act upon it immediately. The truth IS, that if the Divine really NEEDS you to do anything and at this point in my own life, I’ve come to doubt that kind of urgency – always; but if the Divine really needs you to do something, you will not be able to prevent it from happening. So, you have the luxury of taking your time about getting a round to - It.

The importance of this advice is that the human mind, being poorly programmed as it is by violence and other human risks and vulnerabilities – by our stories (real or imagined), by our media (real life or fiction) and by our actions and the interpretations of those actions – is in a period of great danger. Yet, by the simple conscious insistence, that these qualities – truth (which can be subjective “x is mad at me” or objective “the sun came up this morning”), nobility (morals, ethics, courage, generosity, dignified), right action (instinctively “right” as in not hurting another person unless in self-defense), purity (absence of inappropriate qualities, being of the core essence, not diluted or mixed with eternal influences), lovely (eliciting a feeling of love or inspiration upon the beholding of) or admirable (worthy of general approval by others) are represented in the thought or action contemplated; is a very good guideline to judge - whether the “insight” is worth paying attention to or the “request” to take a particular action is worth considering.

If you feel you should or must do something, and it violates such ideals and concepts, better to let it go and ripen. If it is important, it will return modified. It is always possible also to negotiate such. Consider what it is that is bothering you about it and “negotiate” that aspect out of consideration. Free choice is REAL. You are not coerced by anyone to do anything. You ALWAYS have a choice. If your life is in jeopardy, you have the choice to submit or fight, whatever your instincts guide you is the best path for survival, if you wish to continue living. One can also forfeit their life for a “larger” cause. Such is also a choice. One can be tired of living and decide it is of no use to continue on. That is another choice. There are only choices, and the paths those choices take us upon, the outcomes of which are the trajectory of that choice.
Trust

The still small voice, once you are able to be aware that it is there, with such love of you that “It” would never ask anything harmful or awful of you, will give you much confidence and a genuine sense of security in living out the journey that your life is taking you upon. We each have many such journeys but the nature of our physical lives is such; that we can only be certain of this one in which our awareness is currently focused. We can have “experiences”, “dreams” and “intuitions” about other such journeys, which are remembered within our core essence, that the complete Self of our soul has taken. But they are in theory only, to the conscious mind which lives this life. They are also inconsequential except, that the lessons, we may have possibly gained in such experiences, when they can be recalled; may speed up or ease the learning curves we encounter, in the life of which we are conscious now, in the physicality of that.

Re: 9:09 - the Gaia minute

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:03:33 GMT

HI Deb; it was posted yesterday . So you saw it as it was put up; Kathy and I were fine-tuning it for a day or two before that.

How wonderful when people around us respond positively to the Gaia Minute. I even have those who respond with completely blank faces; a stone wall comes down!

Re: 9:09 - the Gaia minute

http://yhd52754.gaia.com — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:30:04 GMT

I didn't know about this YouTube until yesterday. When I am in St Louis, I use my new iPhone to do the reading on Gaia I never seem enough time for and discovered that KES, Meenakshi and Eli had put together this video that explains what Eli was thinking and feeling about this "need", when he brought the idea of the Gaia Minute to us all.

~A Guide To Prayer Prepared For The Gaia Minute~

I was at my dentist's office yesterday. I am aware that the dentist and the staff there do a prayer circle. So, I told the receptionist about the Gaia Minute. Her face was beaming. She could understand that this is a "good" thing to do. It is wonderful how easy it is for people who believe in the effects of prayer to simply do this without alot of questions. Every one can give up 9 mins a day, around the :09 time in someone's time zone. It really is so very simple, easy and doesn't ask alot of any one person.

Peace & Blessings -
Deb

Re: 9:09 - the Gaia minute

http://yhd52754.gaia.com — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:05:12 GMT

After the weekly 9:09 Gaia Minute conference call guided meditation on Monday, Oct 12th - I went to yet another medical appointment and then, to Whole Foods to do my shopping. There I found a little spiral journal called WeMoon 2010 - Gaia Rhythms for Womyn - Reinvent the Wheel.

On pg 34, near where the journal begins the year on Dec 16, 2009 is this beautiful poem - Gaia's Message by Maria Silmon copyright 2002

Gaia's Message

I am here
in the scent of a flower
in the living rainbow of light
on a dew drop
on a blade of grass

I am in every ray of the sun's light
in every grain of sand and drop of rain
in the rising mist
in the heat of the morning sun

and I am living through you

I whisper my secrets to you
when you are waking
and sing to you my song
while you sleep

I teach you of love
and its unfolding
and hold you when you weep

I am a reflection of life's unfolding
and I too,
as you,
am evolving

I am growing and changing
just as you do

I am vast
and, like you
I am part of the great cosmic dance
of awakening and becoming

I dance with the planets and the stars
and sparkle
as a radiant emerald jewel
in the bed of the universe

Re: What does the Presence feel like to you?

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:54:09 GMT

This is such an amazing thread, and I wonder if I missed it when it was first posted; or was my answer...silence, wordlessness....?

I feel different layers of Presence as the One permeates all. As God, there is a different aspect that I recently started a thread on, at the God Pod - What is God to me today?

And on this thread, as I read your original question, Sandy, I'll reply that at various times: I feel a sensation in the crown, a 'settling -in" to my body,as aspects of God. But the wholeness is hinted at as a hum.

Re: 9:09 - the Gaia minute

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:35:56 GMT

Yes, Deb !! I did those annual world peace meditations yearly for a long time from the start. 4AM my time on December 31st! In the early years I would get up at 2 AM and join a group somewhere in town, I had my choice of groups to join even at 4 AM. I guess the endeavor lost its fashionableness for most people..... But, of course, the desire ever resurrects, currently as 9:09 and others.

I think those are my favorite verses too. Especially the word "sanity." Adyashanti emphasizes that aspect.

Love, OM

Re: 9:09 - the Gaia minute

http://yhd52754.gaia.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:16:09 GMT

Smiles -

Re: 9:09 - the Gaia minute

http://fastdarter.gaia.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:09:08 GMT

Yes Deb, I am aware of Cady..
Here's the complete works.
She was showing her true colors..

Re: 9:09 - the Gaia minute

http://yhd52754.gaia.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:49:01 GMT

OM,

It is long but there is something about it . . . My favorite part is at the end -

I am seeing the salvation of the Planet
before my very eyes, as all false beliefs
and error patterns are dissolved.
The sense of separation is no more;
the healing has taken place,
and the world is restored to sanity.

This is the beginning of Peace on Earth
and Good Will toward all,
as Love flows forth from every heart,
forgiveness reigns in every soul,

and all hearts and minds are one in perfect understanding.

Do you remember those old New Year's Eve - World Healing meditations?, I do. My Science of Mind church in St Louis always promoted it to the congregation.

Peace & Blessings -
Deb

BTW Lars,

Price seems to have been very well versed, not only in Holmes' work but, in Unity thought as well. Just in this morning's reading for me is a reference to H Emilie Cady, a Unity publication called Lessons in Truth.

Re: 9:09 - the Gaia minute

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:05:38 GMT

Oh my goodness. It's been decades since I used that meditation/invocation, and I greeted it with tears of loving recognition. Thank you, Deb. I have never encountered any better. Though I do like your "treatment" very very much!!

Blessings, OM Bastet

Re: 9:09 - the Gaia minute

http://fastdarter.gaia.com — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:57:20 GMT

Most excellent!!!
both of them :-)

Re: 9:09 - the Gaia minute

http://yhd52754.gaia.com — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:33:44 GMT

In researching the Quartus Foundation for The Super Beings thread, I found this -

World Healing Meditation

In the beginning
In the beginning God.
In the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth.
And God said Let there be light:
and there was light.

Now is the time of the new beginning.
I am a co-creator with God, and it is a
new Heaven that comes,
as the Good Will of God is expressed on
Earth through me.
It is the Kingdom of Light, Love, Peace and Understanding.
And I am doing my part to reveal its Reality.

I begin with me.
I am a living Soul and the Spirit of God
dwells in me, as me.
I and the Father are one,
and all that the Father has is mine.
In Truth, I am the Christ of God.

What is true of me is true of everyone,
for God is all and all is God.
I see only the Spirit of God in every Soul.
And to every man, woman and child on Earth
I say:
I love you, for you are me. You are my Holy Self.

I now open my heart, and let the pure essence of
Unconditional Love pour out.
I see it as a Golden Light radiating from the
center of my being,
and I feel its Divine Vibration in and through me,
above and below me.

I am one with the Light.
I am filled with the Light.
I am illumined by the Light.
I am the Light of the world.

With purpose of mind, I send forth the Light.
I let the radiance go before me to join
the other Lights.
I know this is happening all over the world
at this moment.
I see the merging Lights.
There is now one Light.
We are the Light of the world.

The one Light of Love, Peace and Understanding is moving.
It flows across the face of the Earth,
touching and illuminating every soul
in the shadow of the illusion.
And where there was darkness,
there is now the Light of Reality.

And the Radiance grows, permeating, saturating every form of life.
There is only the vibration of one Perfect Life now.
All the kingdoms of the Earth respond,
and the Planet is alive with Light and Love.

There is total Oneness, and in this Oneness we speak the Word.
Let the sense of separation be dissolved.
Let mankind be returned to Godkind.

Let peace come forth in every mind.
Let Love flow forth from every heart.
Let forgiveness reign in every soul.
Let understanding be the common bond.

And now from the Light of the world,
the One Presence and
Power of the Universe responds.
The Activity of God is healing and harmonizing Planet Earth.
Omnipotence is made manifest.

I am seeing the salvation of the Planet
before my very eyes, as all false beliefs
and error patterns are dissolved.
The sense of separation is no more;
the healing has taken place,
and the world is restored to sanity.

This is the beginning of Peace on Earth
and Good Will toward all,
as Love flows forth from every heart,
forgiveness reigns in every soul,
and all hearts and minds are one in perfect understanding.

It is done. And it is so

Re: 9:09 - the Gaia minute

http://yhd52754.gaia.com — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:10:46 GMT

I wrote the following for One Light Many Windows and share it here for it's relevance of our studies and to a commitment to the 9:09 Gaia Minute.
I have written this Spiritual Mind Treatment (based on the Science of Mind teachings of Ernest Holmes, a metaphysical practice), which is a kind of contemplative prayer, for the use of any who resonant with it.

Read it silently, or if your privacy allows, read it out loud. As you become familiar with the words and concepts, add your sincere “feelings” into the words. They become an active principle that the Law of Cause and Effect (Holmes term for the Law of Attraction) uses as a mold and the Divine Spirit does the work to reflect these thoughts in physical reality.

Humbly offered,
in Peace & Blessings -
Deb

Harmonizing with our Mother Earth, Gaia

There is a Divine Intelligence, aware of Itself, ever expanding infinitely with no boundary yet perceived. From this Divine Intelligence, All-That-Is has been conceived and created. This Father Spirit conceived a beautiful, blue planet and our Mother Earth, Gaia, was born. This Father-Mother, energy and matter, then began to conceive and birth a multitude of manifestations, of which all that we see – rock, water and air - are some. From such matter, sentient beings were then conceived. There is an orderly cycle of growth and reproduction; and this matter is recycled and reused, as food and new soil and in the creation of new manifestations, ever and ever unfolding, upon the Earth.

Of the sentient beings, humans shine with a precious light. Some shine in basic earthly ways, some shine in generosity or compassion of heart, some shine for they see not what is but what can be; and of those dreams, Spirit creates what all see. Each human is like a drop in the ocean, each human is a cell upon our Mother, a child living loosely yet completely attached to her, while in the material form. Though humans are a part of the Earth, the whole of Gaia is much, much more. Thus, more easily are we able to recognize that, we are part but not all; and yet, we share kinship with each and every aspect of our Mother, whether of solid matter, liquid water or invisible air, whether sentient or not.

So, knowing that, as we join together in common intent, our increasing numbers tip the balance in favor of harmony, in our role as children of the Earth. There is an amplifying effect; requiring not a majority but only sufficient numbers, and when reached, all are elevated to that same state of understanding. In harmony, we now respect each aspect of our Mother, as an aspect of our own self, for truly it is so. Our actions are guided by awareness and directed by Spirit; and as this becomes the desirable state of Being, we shine our light, and those whose lights do not yet shine as brightly are encouraged to allow more light to flow through them. As their own light increases, such becomes the common state of Being, until the whole Earth glows with such radiance, as to bring awe to every heart and mind.

Now, we reach deeper, deeper into our heart. Our intentions in this prayer rippling out in the stillness of this NOW moment of no time or space; and those ripples overlap one another, and our prayer and intentions encompass the globe of our Mother Earth, Gaia, and it glows in the radiance of our heart energy. This energy is active and is an impulse that touches hearts and minds all around us with love for our Mother Earth, Gaia. We open our hearts even more, expanding their capacity to flow through Divine Love Healing Energies. We are here to give and receive LOVE.

Now, we let go and release these beautiful feelings of Love, Respect, Harmony and Appreciation for our Mother Earth, Gaia, and they do the work of Divine Love. We are conduits of vibrational energy for this work of the Divine and all of Gaia sings to feel such LOVE.

Blessed Be these words to the fulfillment of their intentions. Amen. And So It Is.

Compromise & Shining Your Light

http://yhd52754.gaia.com — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:42:43 GMT

I just love Julie Zipper's Meditation Vibration for Sept 28th, Chapter 1 of Sun in Libra. In it she discusses the difference between compromising a situation and compromising your self and talks about why it is important not to dim your light for others.

At the end, she gives a primer on Chakra Balancing with a brief meditative technique.

Enjoy and grow, expand and shed loving light today.

Peace & Blessings -
Deb

Re: Autumnal Equinox

http://joy-within.gaia.com — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:27:30 GMT

Deb, this reminds me of times I've had in the woods and just reading about it now feeds my soul too.

Re: Autumnal Equinox

http://yhd52754.gaia.com — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:13:45 GMT

Just in from a hike through my forest as the day ended, not long after the peak of the equinox. Honoring Mabon by hugging many ancient trees beginning to grow sleepy, my guardians and grandfathers of thr forest.

I stopped at a special place I've been going to lately, where we discovered an ancient fire pit on a rocky glade last summer, and lit the little orange candle in its tiny black jack-o-lantern pail, dropped 2 perfectly red leaves, in remembrance of my in-laws whose wedding anniversary would have been yesterday, into our newly constructed and filled frog pond (fresh with deep earth well water and downpours of rain last night).

On my way home I picked a bouquet of fall flowers - yellow sprays and blue chickory - wild grass grains, a big yellow paw-paw leaf, dried plants and bark and storm killed leaves to leave on my rock altar.

Such is the nature of my practice. I live close to the Earth and honoring the seasonal changes feels good, connects me to the natural world a bit more somehow, feeds my soul.

Peace & Blessings -
Deb

Re: Autumnal Equinox

http://fastdarter.gaia.com — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:06:02 GMT

Ditto :-)