Oil Leaks and Swelling Tides

We are experiencing another shift in the energy. The past two days I've felt a heaviness, somewhat foreboding. It's been draining and leaves me deeply tired. On one level I'm picking up the growing sense of desperation within the population as they become more aware that things are not the way they've always been and our systems are now so unstable. My empathic reading of people all feeling an uncertainty they haven't prepared themselves to experience.

On another level, I'm also aware that great sadness and loss now swells in my heart for the damage to our fragile balance of nature caused by the oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico. Grieving at the soul level for the loss of marine life, destruction of the genius that is our ecosystem, and a growing sense of foreboding about the magnitude of the damage to these Earth systems that support life.

These oil leaks are a wake up call message from the Universe and Earth. "Don't you see what destruction you are wreaking on this gem of the Universe with your abuse of oil? Well we'll show you in speed action events what you have allowed to occur."

The leaks also serve to further expose to the masses the dark forces behind Big Oil. Illuminati being further exposed and falling on their swords as they experience that the can of worms they opened in their greed is larger than they can handle. The population backlash is steadily growing. Events like these oil leaks fuel (pun intended by the Divine) the rising tide of global revolution. Gasoline to the fire, so to speak.

What we came here to take part in is finally unfolding everywhere we look. The speed of unfolding accelerates so quickly now that it can not be overlooked. Everything speeds up as we approach our entry into no time. This is where we'll learn that we have nothing but our Divine Spirits and discover that our Divine Spirits are really all we ever needed to begin with.

Send Love & Light out where ever you go. Speak out and claim your Free Will to choose life lived in Balance, Harmony and Peace with all other living beings. Stay centered in the eye of the storm. I bid you all courage and expression of your true hearts.

The Unfolding Process of What It Means to Seek the Wisdom Within

Tomorrow evening I'm teaching a class at the Atlanta Self Discovery Center titled Intro to Alchemy, about accessing the wisdom within. It's been quite an amazing and interesting process over these weeks as I've thought about what accessing the wisdom within means, so I decided I would share some of it. The idea to teach about the wisdom within came to me about six weeks ago. I had become really cognizant of how often people use the phrase "going within". I see it all over the place, in books, websites, on Facebook, hear people talking about it. It's one of the core teachings in all the spiritual and religious texts.

Yet I found myself asking do most people really know what going within or seeking the wisdom within means? If they're finding the wisdom within, then why is it not reflected in the way people behave in their lives? The population of this planet is still on the path of destruction. If all this wisdom is being accessed, they why don't we see things changing dramatically for the better?

My initial design for the class was focused on how we can really gain wisdom from our experiences. As I've said before (and will undoubtedly say again), we come here incarnate on the material plane on Earth to experience and learn. We come here to learn from our experiences. And there is such wealth of wisdom in our experiences that few people ever harvest as they go along. Doesn't it make sense to distill the lessons and wisdom while we're still here so that we can apply it as we progress through our life?

One of the most magical aspects of the way our lives unfold is that at any given point, we are prepared. Our experiences build upon one another so that for any challenge we currently face, the answers we need were already given to us through our previous experiences. The sad thing is that culturally, we are never taught how to examine our experiences and extract the learning.
I was first presented with this concept many years ago. Looking back, I believe I sort of understood this. As I've continued through in life, I've found over and over again that this is true. We are always prepared, whether we realize it or not. Much easier to face the uncertainty of the unknown future when you know that you have everything you'll need, isn't it?

The entire universe is present in our Self. We are each a micro level reflection of the Macro level Universe. So if we know and understand our self, then we come to know and understand All That Is. Do you ever run out of things to discover about your self? Aren't we each fathomless? I know I am. There is always more to discover and understand. That is what is meant by As Above, So Below.

That was my concept, to focus this class on how we can really learn from our experiences and how to dig out the real gems of wisdom. Then by coincidence, or should I say without conscious intent, I wondered on to some information about the Universal Mind, also called the Matrix, or the Collective Consciousness. The Universal Mind contains everything - past, present, and future, all information, ideas, solutions. When we are incarnate in the material world, we also exist simultaneously on the level of the Universal Mind. For the most part we are not conscious of this existence. We become conscious of information from the Universal Mind through dreams, intuition, "psychic' awareness. When we pass out of our bodies at "death" then wee exist only on the level of the Universal Mind. When we talk about expanding consciousness, my understanding at present is that we are opening up so that we become conscious of the Universal Mind and can access any information we want, while residing in our bodies. Two weeks from now, my understanding may shift completely.

The last few days I find myself aware of Divine Knowing. That the wisdom within is revealed and present in our actions, when we keep our awareness present in the moment. I wrote about this yesterday. This takes us right back to our experiences and the wisdom woven throughout. Doesn't it? Or is this another way that wisdom is revealed to us. Or both. I'm not certain at the moment.

So here I am this evening doing last preparations for teaching this class tomorrow. And I have to say that the more I've come to understand in the past six weeks or so, the more I'm aware that I know so little. And what I do feel I have some understanding of is all interrelated. Everything is, so it's extremely easy to go wandering off on tangents that are just as interesting. Which is not really what I want to do when teaching tomorrow.

Thankfully, I know that the class will hold it's own energy, a collective of all who attend. I will check in with where everyone is in their understanding about what it means to access their own wisdom within, then move from there at a pace they are comfortable with. I remind myself we are all Masters. I will remind the participants of this at the start. Really, this class is just another experiential opportunity for us to come together and assist one another as allies in discovering our wisdom within. Hopefully, me included. I'll trust the process.

With Love,

Acquired Knowledge is Not Divine Knowing

Acquired knowledge is not the same thing as Divine Knowing. Many confuse the two. Most actually. You can see it all around you. People who mistakenly believe that study and memorization of facts from various spiritual teachings gives them Divine Knowing. They study sacred geometry, Tarot, the Mayan Calendar, etc. as if this acquired knowledge with unlock the door to the Light. This is not to say that the teachings are without value. Far from it. Such teaching are highly valuable when used as tools to elicit understanding of who we are as expressions of the Divine Creator.

What matters is how we live in each moment and how we interact with all the other expressions of the Creator that surround us. Divine knowing appears only through our actions and interactions with Self and Other. Not through the recitation of spiritual text. One can reach enlightenment without ever opening a book. Divine wisdom is offered to us continually in our experiences of living a life.

Diving Knowing in action is the ability to set aside what you are doing and give your full attention to a child who wants to tell you something.

Diving knowing is present in the moments you fill with awe and wonder at the mystery and magnificence of a seedling emerging from the combination of dark soil, water and light of the Sun.

Divine knowing permeates our beings when we say we are sorry from a true heart when we err, and when we forgive others who make no apology to us for their error.

Divine Knowing appears when we feel someone's smile at the very center of our heart.

We, and here I definitely include myself, make it all so complex. Yet there is a simplicity in understanding the Divine. A simplicity that defies expression in words. A simplicity that only finds expression through the heart in action.

This is what seems true to me at this moment. Then it will wisp away. I'm aware that I really know nothing and I'll continue on my path, seeking to understand what is greater than my comprehension. On occasion I look down and realize I'm walking with ruby slippers on my feet. Don't you?

Thoughts on Being Clairsentient & Expanding

I posted a comment yesterday promising to write about being clairsentient (also known as empath, or feeler). Feeling a bit guilty that it's taken me so long, yet everything happens when it's supposed to. Here goes...

I've been clairsentient as far back in this life as I can remember. Although I had no idea until about six years ago. I had assumed that I was just like most everyone else in regard what senses I had, see, hear, taste, smell, feel. When it was pointed out to me in a reading, a whole lot about my life made much more sense. I've not read much about this ability to intuit others' feelings, so I'm only about to share insights from my own experience.

Part of the reason I never clued in to the fact that I was reading others' feelings more readily than others could, was that it feels so natural as I experience it. It's also a very present experience. It happens in real time, rather than past or future. I'd always envied people who are clairvoyant or clairaudient. Wouldn't it be wonderful to hear voices or see visions that gave me answers for what to do in the future. Least that's what played in my mind from time to time, even after I recognized my own intuitive ability. I told a friend not so long ago, "I want to be clairaudient when I grow up." As if somehow having a voice of wisdom speaking in my head, this guidance would solve all my indecision when it arose. It would make me feel safe and confident. Today, I'm content with how I am. Having found this contentment, my intuitive perceptions for voice and images are expanding. I believe they are for all of us now as we awaken.

While many of the intuitives I've met have shared that they had great confusion and doubt about their sanity when they started to hear or see in expanded ways, they at least knew that this was an additional ability. How many people are there out there who have the empathic ability to feel the emotions of another person as if they were there own, and don't realize it? I don't know the answer, but I suspect there are quite a few. I run into them from time to time. We probably all do. And as we quickly progress now in our expansion, we are all becoming clairsentient.

Before I knew I was an empath, having this ability without the knowledge of it caused some problems for me. As a small child, I picked up on conflicts in my family, without actually hearing or witnessing disagreements, I picked up the feelings. I had constant ear infections, my body saying it didn't like what it was hearing. I started personal growth work and exploration of self in my twenties, which was very young at that time. I had to. I felt too much and with such intensity. But wasn't that perfect that it drove me to explore my self, my relationships, and my feelings.

One of the biggest challenges I had to work on was boundaries. Understanding what is my stuff to deal with and what belongs to another. It was all mushed together for me at first. Took a lot of work to get clear about. I see now that my empathic awareness contributed. I'd feel strong emotions and just figured the emotions were my own. Or I could get way over involved in someone else's life because I was feeling what they felt. I just morphed right into their being, in a way. Later, once I got really clear about boundaries, this became an asset in my work with people because I could so easily understand what they were experiencing and feeling, and validate their feelings.

One of the nicest aspects about being clairsentient is that it's super easy to clarify whether what you feel is your own feelings or the feelings of others. All you have to do is remind yourself that you're an empath. Immediately when you remind yourself, you'll know. It just become suddenly clear. This is me, that belongs to them. Oh, am I grateful it's that easy. Can't imagine the mess if it was any more complicated than a simple reminder.

These are some really important things to do if you are clairsentient. It will save your sanity and the sanity of the other people in your life:

1) Discover who you are. If we don't know our Self, how are we going to communication who we are to someone else?

2) Do the work to identify and sort out your own feelings. Keep working to resolve your feelings about issues and events from your past. This does not mean rehashing each and every past situation that bothers us. If we identify the important learning from an experience, it becomes worthwhile, even though it might have been extremely unpleasant.

3) Get clear about boundaries between yourself and others. By this I mean identify what are the issues, feeling, thoughts, activities that are yours. These are the only ones you have any power to change, control, resolve. This helps immensely in relationships too.

4) Ask the Universe to given you everything you need to do Items 1 - 3.

It really matter what your intuitive abilities are, these are important for everyone. We have to get our Self clear in order for the Self to expand.

Love & Light to all.

I Am working on the next post

Going a bit slow today. A massive amount of new highly vibrating energy has been coming in over the last few days. I really felt it two days ago, with an immense surge and a number of new doors opening simultaneously, both within me and in my outer world. Big doors. As a result, I've been dragging a bit yesterday and today as the new energy settles in and my body and mind adjust. Spirit is always in tune and so it's monitoring this process. (Much gratitude :))

It's taking me a bit longer this morning because my mind keep wandering off exploring the new open spaces and not wanting to focus on the task at hand. Bit by bit, paragraph by paragraph...it will all come together when it's meant to, hopefully today. That's just the way things happen, when they're meant to.

Changing Our Wallpaper By a Leap Of Faith

There are many patterns in our lives. Patterns of behavior, patterns of thinking. They repeat around us like the patterns in fabric and wallpaper. The wallpaper of our lives. Block print, floral print, geometric. Over time, they grow stale with age and peel along the edges, finger prints along the door frames and around light switches. Aging until we strip the walls bare and sit quietly alone in the room. Quiet in the empty blankness and wait, listening for our heart within. It's after this solitude, after sitting in the emptiness, that we come to know what new color or pattern reflects who we are now. Only then can we decorate our life in ways that speak from the soul.

The scary part can be allowing the silence in. It's the leap of faith. Holding in the moments when you're suspended in mid-air, unsure where you'll land. The period of free fall are unnerving. My experience has been that where I land is always much better then the place I took off from. In hindsight, it was worth taking the leap of faith.

The moments of free fall, of solitude are an ending and a beginning. It's from the choice to allow emptiness to fill us that change happens. An act of loving Self. The love is both the destruction of the old and creation of the new. Joy arrives as the new collor fils the walls of our world we dance in. Our reflected soul life manifesting as our surrounding reality.

Our Free Will to Choose Solutions as a Response

I'll never forget the night I really understood that I have the ability to choose. This was 25 years ago and I'd just started attending the Center For Study of Human Systems. It was like the flood gate opened. I'd never really thought about it before. I had the ability to choose what I did, how I responded to those around me, and how I interpreted the world around me. My head tumbled through so many situations and events in my life seeing over and over again that there had been other possibilities I'd not seen. It was late at night, I was tired and needing to sleep, but my mind couldn't stop reexamining both my past and the present just before me. The whole world was suddenly different.

So as not to be misinterpreted, I was not some Polly Anna compliant child. Independence was a strong value I absorbed in my family. I went after things I wanted, particular things I wanted to learn and do, many of them a bit out of the ordinary. I point this out to show that even though I was used to making some strong choices, I still didn't recognize or understand that I had choices at every given moment. Observation has since led me to believe that not many of us do.

We are all born into and brought up within some form of family system. Every system has a way of operating, whether it's a family, a small business, a city, a multinational corporation, or a nation. The same dynamics operate in all of them. Systems as they develop, form patterns of operation, rules for the components to follow, both spoken and unspoken, roles are defined and filled by the various components, communications patterns form about what gets expressed and how, and what does not get expressed. We are all components in multiple systems, even though this most often is not consciously realized. I'd go as far as saying that for the most part, people aren't that consciously aware of the roles they play, the communication patterns they follow, or that they are following the unspoken rules. We grow up learning that this is the way things are and doing what we think we're supposed to do.

Because we enter into already established systems, whether functional or dysfunctional, for the most part, we do so without recognizing and understanding that at each moment we have the ability to make choices. This is our right to Free Will. It is our birth right here on the planet. A Universal Law. So one could correctly say it is Divinely given.

There is one very, very important caveat to the law of Free Will, while we each have the right to choose for our self, we must do so without imposing our will or infringing on the Free Will of another. Kind of like "First, do no harm" It requires awareness of how our actions affect those around us, perhaps even those far away. Violations of this caveat are rampant. Further explanation is not necessary. You can see it all around you and know immediately when someone is denying you your right. Without a doubt, taking another person's life is the most severe violation of all.

In situations where someone is imposing their will upon us and infringing on our right to Free Will, we each have choices as to how we respond. Most people see only two of the choices. Either submit and be run over, or stand up and fight back. There is, however, at least one other choice available. There may be more; I know some things, but far from everything. For me it took many years and some extremely challenging life circumstance before I recognized a third option available in situations where someone was imposing their will upon me. This other choice is to refuse to play the game, to walk away and live the way you want to without them at all.

Assessing our current circumstances with the dark forces, (however you want to call them - Illuminati/Bilderberg/PowersThatBe/International Criminal Banking Syndicate), when we collectively stop playing their game things will shift immediately. If everyone does something in this regard, it will initiate change. Two ways this can be done. First, choose where and on what you spend your money. If people stop buying their products, they will either go out of business or change what they produce. Second, withdraw your labor for their enterprises. If everyone stops working for the defense contractors, the military, the corporations making toxic products or using unscrupulous practices, they will lose their power to act. It's basically a shift in energy, when enough people withdraw their energy in the form of money and labor, the dark forces will evaporate like the Wicked Witch of the West from a bucket of water.

Anyway, It's a thought :) There are only six degrees, or less, of separation between each of us (by this I mean all six billion). The power of multiplying communication exponentially is huge. It can start by each person telling three friends, and on and on.

There's a last observation worth sharing in this post. That is, the number of those aware is growing quickly, there are some blessed angels among us who've had the courage, dedication, and discipline to gather real news, sound the alarms and inform people about what is going on. None of us like the dark forces' endeavors at all. (Not ot deny that they are serving a purpose) I firmly believe that the forces of Light are stronger and that the Original Creator is really overseeing all. At the same time, the Ascension is about us realizing our Divinity and our power to create what is for the highest good of each and all. We have the Free Will to create solutions and change. It's our choice and it's really time to do this now.

Much more on the subject of solutions to come. For now and always,

May the Light Forces be with you!

When It's More Convenient

When it's more convenient, I am going to Egypt to see the pyramids, preferably without a big group and lots of tourists. I want to feel again what it's like to be inside the King's Chamber and allow the memories of that time to return. I'll locate the library in Alexandria and shed a tear for the books we lost in the fire, send gratitude for those we saved, and find comfort in the knowing that nothing is ever really lost.

When it's more convenient, I'll return to Haleakala at sunrise, alone and without the distraction of a shallow husband. Haleakala. The House of the Gods. I'll feel the majesty surround and permeate my body, mind, and soul. And remember all we came here to do in this glorious Now we're in the midst of.

When it's more convenient, I'll return to Stonehenge and be thankful that when I first experienced it, no fences or barriers prevented me from walking freely among the stones, touching them, climbing on top. I'll remember how, as with the pyramids, we all came together and used our concentrated energy to alter the gravitational forces so the stones could be lifted and placed where they remain, and be grateful that the true powers are being rediscovered.

When it's more convenient, I'll sit on the beach at the edge of the surf as the sun rises. I'll send out my gratitude for all that this planet is, the magic and mystery of its interdependent and interconnected plants and elements, species and Man. This place where emotions dwell, imbuing all with meaning. This place of all possibilities, so taken for granted, yet slowly the recognition grows day by day, person by person. I'll send my gratitude and relief to the sunrise.

When it's more convenient, I'll write my thoughts, my wishes, and my wisdom on little sticky notes then I'll fly high up in the air, scattering them all around and see who they stick on, then watch for change and the awakening to unfold.

Now is a very convenient time for all these things. Now is a very convenient time to realize our dreams.

Preparation in the Moments Before Final Accelleration

Over the past few days I've felt the energy streaming into the planet ramp up exponentially. Restlessness, difficulty focusing, and unusual disruption of sleep are the main symptoms I'm feeling. Many of us sense that the waves of earth changes have only just begun and will now increase in intensity. Gaia has absorbed over the millennium so much of the fears, doubts, and destructive thoughts we earth inhabitants have spewed out relentlessly. This lower vibrating energy she needs to release now, cleanse and heal, as she absorbs the higher Heart level energies pouring in. Ascension was promised to her from the beginning.

As more and more of the Light Forces enter in and flourish in our hearts and ways of being, the Dark Forces contract and become increasingly concentrated. Less diffuse, the Dark Forces become more visible to all. They are illuminated and stand out in contrast to the higher vibrating Light Forces. They are also becoming more vicious in their efforts to control as they struggle to maintain their existence.

As so many of us are aware, many are leaving the planet now. Their numbers will increase as earth changes, war and dis-ease provide the vehicles for their departure. They have chosen this, either prior to their incarnation or during. In leaving the physical plane they will take their place to assist from other levels and dimensions.

All is as Divinely planned. The great Transition occurs on all levels. This is important for each of us to recognize. Even as we gain understanding of what is taking place at higher levels, we are still incarnate being living in the physical material plane. We are not exempt from experiencing the Transition at the physical level. There will be great, inescapable sadness and loss. There will be immense challenges. It is all just around the corner. Many cloak their minds in denial and the false belief that in expanding, they no longer need concern themselves with anything "negative". It is best that we each recognize that challenges and loss are part of the Transition and prepare ourselves. These challenges and losses are the opportunity to experience our Godly power of creativity, to affirm our strength, and deepen our knowing of the Divine eternal flame within. Love is the force of both creation and destruction.

Another aspect playing out in the physical conflict of Dark and Light Forces is our awareness of our God given right to Free Will. It is our birth right here as incarnate beings on Earth. We are being given the opportunity to see and experience the importance of this Universal Law, our right to choose. We each have the right to Free Will, provided that we never infringe upon another's Free Will. Many violations of this law occur. On the global level, many are now standing up against the Dark Forces operating in our governments to claim their right to free will. From a soul level, it's vital in each soul's progression that they claim their right to Free Will and stand up against infringement and violation of this Universal Law. It is vital that each of claim and exercise this divine right. By ignoring the violations by individuals or by our governments, who we chose and allow to represent us, we are allowing and accepting the incursions upon our free will. Standing up can be done by either fighting back, which many will chose to do in the form of revolution. Or it can be done by refusing to acquiesce to those who infringe upon our right. We can walk away and refuse to play the game. Each of us has the right to chose how they wish to respond. That is our Free Will in operation.

Gradually we are coming together to anchor in the light and create a new energy framework for the planet. Coming together should be focus for us now. Seek out others, particularly in your own small communities. We have all been guided to move closer together physically, and our job now is to affirmatively seek each other out and make the connections without delay.

Guidance comes to us from many sources throughout the Universe. Little known are the Keepers who have been actively awakening and guiding us as they work from higher levels. There are Keepers incarnate on the planet who are now coming forth. They number about 2000, and have lived lives of relative seclusion hidden away in mountain caves, deep forests, as well as in plain site. They came into life on the planet prepared to guide and assist in this most active phase of the Expansion. Most people will not recognize them for who they are at this time. Some of the Keepers may themselves not be conscious of who they are at present, but that awareness will unfold. They are doing their work regardless. As we progress forward the Keepers among us will become known. The Keepers of the Crystals will activate the final changes for the transition to Lightbody and will open the portals for the Ascension. The Keepers of Earth guide and coordinate the Light Workers throughout the planet.

We are in the final moments of preparation before the most tumultuous phase leading up to the shift. The last big breath before diving in. Today I share with you this reminder to myself. Savor each glorious day, each moment of tranquility, and cherish the splendor and mystery of the natural world living in interconnected harmony all around us. Open our hearts wide. Acknowledge each within ourselves our strength and courage. And place ourselves each moment in the vibration of Love. God speed!

Gifting Children

Two children
Crouch in sand at water's ebbing edge,
Silhouettes and sparkle.
Perfect bodies
So small amid wide gold, blue, white shimmer.
Their babble scatters on the wind,
Like dust flecked across the sunlight.
Head bent, intent,
Digging for the perfect shell
She offers him on sandy outstretched palm.

At dusk in a back garden
They fly in whirling abundance.
Tag and song and innocence,
The children's laughter
Peels above the darkening grass,
Weaving through the leaves.
Movement calling forth the moon.
Dancing with the firefly
He offers her on smooth outstretched palm.

In soft vertical snowfall
The children walk,
Bundled and booted.
Steady, even child paces paired,
Quiet in gray, white, and branches.
A song of intuition, of knowing,
Moves unseen between the stillness.
As silently they pause and trade
Two snowflakes tongue to tongue.

Two children journeying.
Within the other
They recognize such similar scars,
Such similarly born strengths.
A globe of radiant wonder
Floats between them,
Riding on the interchange.
Theirs is a mutuality of healing.
Each accepting gifts
Offered on a kindred soul's outstretched palm.

Oh, will they ever,
Can they ever fully comprehend
Those married forces of Moon and Fate
That pull the tide and days and winds
Over them, rhythm, onwardly threading.
Drawing lives together, drawing them apart,
Moon and Fate drawing up the blanket
To tuck them in at night.


Copyright © 2009 by Helen Sumerwell All rights reserved

Paying Attention

Gradually over a good number of years I've had this ever deepening longing to connect to something I've not been able to describe clearly. Though it's finally becoming clearer to me now. At first it was like a feint whisper that grew slowly and steadily year after year. What I'm longing for has the quality of a dream I just don't quite remember. The something I yearned to connect with, intuitively felt to be a vast level of information that I am certain I've had free access to before, I just don't quite remember how to connect to it. Does this feel at all familiar to you?

I understand now that as my longing grew, I've moved closer and closer to connecting. Actually I realize that my connection has been there all along, just the level of connection has been increasing, strengthening. Over this last year I've recognized that what I've been yearning for is my connection to Source, my Higher Self, or the Universal Mind. Which are really all the same thing. My friend, Julia, has a really nice post on her blog Cosmic Calabash about connecting to Source through the heart.

My intuition has always been very strong, it's just that I've yearned for even more. I've been clairsentient for as long as I remember, despite the fact that I didn't understand I was until about 5 years ago. I had just assumed that everyone understood what others were feeling as I did. It was so easy. I did find it a bit confusing when others didn't get what someone was going through. Once I understood that not everyone had this ability, interactions among people made much more sense to me. In many ways, being clairsentient allows me to read people's minds.

One of the really wonderful aspects of this great transition we are going through, is that we are all opening up. Our sensitivities and levels of awareness are developing and strengthening as we each connect to our inner knowing.

What I'm trying to remember is how I connect in a way that allows me access to any information I desire, retrieve what I need, when I need it. I'm certain I've known how to do this before in other incarnations. In reading Anastasia and the other books in the Ringing Cedars series (I'm on book 4 now), you get a really good picture of this ability, as well as the understanding that this is how we are meant to be. Anastasia is a very good role model of what expanded consciousness is. As you read about her, you see what we are all capable of and understand the direction we're moving towards.

About a week ago, as I was looking for something totally unrelated, I clicked on a link about Universal Mind, which then led me to Remote Viewing. What a coincidence! Don't you love the way this happens? I did a fair bit of reading about the protocols used in Remote Viewing, which was developed by Stanford Research Institute under Department of Defense funding of the Stargate Project to provide the US military with reliable methods to train anyone to be accurate in gathering information from the Universal Mind. The Farsight Institute is a nonprofit research organization which offers a lot of training materials free of charge on their website. I read through their training manual the other night. Remote viewing uses very specific procedures. Most significant under the protocol is that the viewer is blind as to what the target is. My experience as I read through the manual was striking. I could not only see myself doing the steps defined, I could also feel in my body doing what was described in each step of the remote viewing procedures. It all felt very familiar.

Two drawbacks of using the Remote Viewing protocols are having to hide what it is I'm wanting information about behind randomly assigned numbers, and the fact that you have to search blindly through multiple dimensions picking up low definition aspects, then analyze them after the session to arrive at deductions. At the same time, there is a lot of valuable guidance in studying this technique, it's worth checking out.

My style has allows been to have information presented in an easily accessible and well organized form. Akashic Records came to mind. They fit my preference for organized information. Searching on Akashic Records led me last night to a very nice guided mediation that leads you up to and inside the Hall of Records. I'll be going there today once the dogs take their nap and I can travel undisturbed.

Developing skills takes practice. Seems to me that understanding and developing our expanding consciousness requires two things. First, just allowing the changes to unfold within us. That's the flower opening within our hearts. Reactivation of our deactivated strands of DNA. Raising your vibration. It can not be forced. The other aspect is paying attention and practicing in ways that tune our conscious mind to listen, see, and feel with our inner senses. Paying attention is perhaps one of the most important things we can do now.

Gambling With Unsparing Change

Loose change
Spare change
On a dime
My two cents
Pocket change
Make a bet
Are all the lessons ever ours for free?

Full house
House of cards
Queen of Hearts
In spades
Joker's wild
Deuce coupe
Did that Knave steal a heart from me?

See you
Raise you
Diamonds trump
Winning suit
Play my card
Shoot the moon
Tomorrow, who shall I decide to be?


Copyright © 2010 by Helen Sumerwell All rights reserved

Night Birds' Song

I was in one of those phases when sleep evades my grasp each night at 2:30 am. It had been going on for days, this ritual of nightly waking. Tossing and turning is not my style, so I'd rise, heat water for tea, and take my seat at the table on the porch. The porch was where I lived. The table was my kitchen table, desk, and coffee table rolled into one.

As I sat pondering the stars and musing over whatever thoughts passed through my head in the wee hours, it became my magic time. Then one night I noticed all the birds were singing. A wild symphonic choral performing in this out of place hour. There are often times I'll hear the birds singing in the moment just before the sun rises, but this was the depths of the night.

I watched and listened. The next night they sang again. This time I went inside after a few minutes and occupied myself on the computer. When I listened the birds were silent. As I stepped back onto the porch, they erupted back into song. And then I knew. All the birds were singing just for me. They sang a song of our power to touch the world all around us by simply stepping out and being present.

Holding Hands

Oh what love, holding my daughter's hand, so small within mine. She always accepted my hand. Not like so many children who find the game in running just out of reach. No, she always took mine. She continued to do so even as she grew past the age that it was required for her safety. How big a gift could one person give as that?

There was a period in her middle years when I let go of her hand often when we walked together, until finally she asked me why. Doing so had not been conscious on my part and to learn of my reflexive action erupted such sadness and the horror that I'd give such a strong message counter to my heart. It was a difficult span of years, not with her, but my discovery that I couldn't reach my husband within the marriage in which I'd placed such hope. Perhaps it was my deep feelings of unworthiness and unlovableness that led me to drop her hand, as if even she couldn't possibly love me.

It still makes me sad, fills me with regret to think that I could have dropped her small hand when we walked back in that time. Yet there is solace now. Even though she is grown and on the threshold of starting her own family, she will let me take her hand when we walk out together.

How many images and words and expressions are contained in this simple act of holding my daughter's hand, and her mine. It is our statement to the world. It is our quiet agreement, our magic created out of the string of days and years we've walked through together.

Bathing in the Showers of Light

Highly vibrating energy streams down upon the planet now. Showering all around us, within us. Like fireworks in reverse, the golden energy shouts down towards us, then disperses into a shower of light fragments. Like "Faerie Dust" Karen Bishop so accurately described it in her most recent post on Emerging Earth Angels. Do you notice it? Feel it moving all around and within you? Experience the Light changing everything on every level of awareness?

As these higher vibrations permeate through everything, it's shaking up anything dark within us - fear, anger, pain, disapointment, desperation, judgment.... Like beating the carpet of our interior, clearing out any dark impurities in our thoughts, emotions, and body, so that we may release these energies we no longer need or want to hold in our being. It's happening both within us and around us on the global stage. The light forces illuminating and exposing the darkness that has controlled our world by illusion for so very long. As the Light Force moves in and expands, the dark energies have less space to occupy. They are becoming more concentrated as they evaporate. They're struggling desperately and in vain to hold their grip, but it's slipping rapidly. They can no longer hide behind secrets, lies, and illusion as more and more people wake up and see through the illusions to the Truth.

On a physical level, I feel great change happening in my body. Standing and walking I feel a strength, power, and groundedness I've not felt as strongly as I do now. My posture now is naturally so erect, yet at ease. It feels as if I'm larger and so much more fully present in my body. Sometimes my foot cramps up uncontrollably, then it passes. A couple of people I know have reported this same occurrence in the past few weeks, a side effect of our taking in this strong, highly vibrating energy and helping to anchor it into the Earth.

Alternating with the expanding sense of power, is tiredness. I'm finding that most days I need to take a nap. Even if I'm not super tired, I fall asleep instantly the moment I lie down and sleep so very deeply. Yet even the tiredness has a pleasantness to it. I experience it as a deep contentment, a relaxing in, and an exceedingly deep relief, as if finally after such a long wait everything is becoming as it should have been all along.

At the emotional level, in the past few days a situation arose with someone I know that echos and mirrors a painful dynamic from my childhood with my mother that took a long time and much effort to work through. The situation presented it's self almost like a test for me to see whether I had really worked through the issue from my upbringing. It was also very mild and I see this recent situation as a rising up of the last dusty remnants of the hurt and anguish and disappointment I'd worked through over the relationship with my mother. It's also been extremely easy to let go of, something I no longer need or want. At the same time, my feelings of joy, contentment, gratitude, peace, and deep appreciation for every singe thing swell and swell within me. Happiness and love expanding within me to levels I've never experienced before. At least not in this lifetime till now. It's all so awesome. This morning I've been so filled with awe that I'd be quite content to just sit quietly throughout the day and simply revel in joy and wonder.

All really is in Divine Order.