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The Magic of Finding Our Perfect MirrorExcerpt from: Thet Elixir Called Love How do we fall in love? Falling in love is first to have worked upon ourselves, honed in ourselves. We cannot fall in love if we are begging illness, if we are begging death, if we are begging sickness, if we are begging poverty, if we are begging victimization. We don't fall in love; we only get relief, but that is not love. We have to work on ourself and we have to love what we are, like we would love us as children. We cannot look at our face in the mirror and say it is too fat or it is too old or it is ugly, my nose is too big or my eyes are too far apart or my eyes are black and blue is pretty, or blue is ugly and black is beautiful. We can’t take ourselves apart like that. We have to love us like we would love a child of ours that suckles at our breast or is protected in our great arms. We have to learn that propaganda to the world is that the most beautiful people are already found — they are already found — and they just simply live up to an ideal of commercialism. As soon as they get one wrinkle in their face, they are out of here and they are no longer beautiful. That is not your story. You wouldn’t cast away your child because your child was not socially beautiful; at least my confidence in you is that you wouldn’t do that and that your child is yours. Love is its own beauty. Body parts don’t make beauty. Soul and Spirit make beauty. To have a child that comes from your loins, your semen, your eggs, a living, breathing incarnating Spirit that came from you, it is a miracle. Who would not love this child because they were not photogenic or they had big thighs or an oblong face or they didn’t have hair or they had too much? If you did, shame on you. Accursed is you, and to these things you will be in your next lifetime. That is a fact. You know why? Because what we resent and hold secret in this life builds the temple and the model of your next incarnation. I promise you, that is how it works. What do we do when we fall in love? When we have worked on ourself, when we have rooted out our secrets, found the source of our anger, rooted out our self-guilt, told the truth, because you can’t love someone when you are battling your own guilt. To make them be your redeemer is idiocy. You have to do it yourself. You have to clean the vessel. That means that you have put all your attention to you, and you take your life apart and you put it back together again. Change the way you live, please. Please. Love is not what goes in your mouth. It isn’t about how much food you can consume. It isn’t about how much sex you have. It isn’t about how cool you look. It isn’t about how much money you have. It is all waste. It all turns to crap. Now I will tell you the greatest love affair there ever was is God loving you into life and having the patience to allow you to be alive, you who have squandered it through pizza and beer, squandered it through all of your addictions. Your heart is still beating — amazing, amazing. Amazing your heart is still beating. So when we have cured ourself, we know the only reason we are sick is because of our attitude, and it stinks, and we change it. We start being active in our life. We start forgiving ourselves by telling the truth, that we can forgive. We do. We hold no secrets. We have no monkeys on our back. And, oh, yes, the cost of telling the truth is a good relationship, money in the bank, a new truck, a new car, a garden. Telling the truth has consequences but they ain’t nothing compared to what, in the quantum world, that which we hide and suppress we are doomed to become, and the next incarnation will be built exactly on that. Did you know that all of the years that you have lived in this body that you have had great lives and you have had lousy lives, lousy, bloodsucking, leeching lives? So why is it if you were really great in one life you were such a louse in the next? Because being great in the one life was at the cost of suppressing a lot of things, just like a clever politician does. And in the next life you are that which is suppressed, and it doesn’t look so good. Do you understand? Look at me. Mind does not die. Mind does not die. Flesh and blood will pass away, but the kingdom of heaven shall never pass away. Mind never passes away. All reincarnation is is the need to keep picking up lives that we can burn out, hoping to get to a conclusion of wisdom. Yes, you didn’t hear that. Well, that is about right. And you probably won’t ever realize this till some years after I am gone, and you will go, "My God, why didn’t I realize that then?" Well, because you didn’t want to realize that you are just an ongoing drama machine and you change more costumes than are in a Shakespearean play. You burn out bodies, but the mind goes on. And all we are looking for is that perfect marriage. So to love, the greatest example is that we are the product of a great parent, not our partner, not our mate. You are the product of a great parent who has allowed you to be here stuffy, limited, ignorant, buffoonish, and on a bandstand preaching about your physical immortality, and all the while the wisdom of the ages is listening to this speech because it has heard it before. It ain’t going to happen. So what happens when we fall in love? Well, it is a lot different than sexual magnetism and it is a lot different than feeling sorry for somebody and it is a lot different than being drawn to a charismatic person. Falling in love is not this at all. I will tell you why. When we find a person whose mind mirrors our own — mirrors: their thoughts are our thoughts, our thoughts are theirs, not because they want to be, because they naturally are — when you find a person who thinks as highly of you as you do of yourself and vice versa, the magnetic power of mind to mind is billions of years transcendent of sexual attraction. When we find our greatest mystery, our greatest hope — which is ourself — finally reflected in another one, we are confused; is it the other or is it myself? It is the same. That is when we love. Now is it true opposites attract? Well, absolutely. For mating purposes that is a necessity. People are attracted because they are different in the first seal. People are attracted in the second seal because there is a need and a demand. In the third seal people are attracted because someone controls your life so you don’t have to. But in the mind we are attracted because we have found the perfect mirror of our own mind. We are turned on with profound respect, admiration — listen to me — respect, admiration, all divinity. This is how we hold the great mind. We don’t want to even tarnish this with having sex; we have to get down there in the basement to do it. What turns us on is something about this other person that allows us, as if somebody cleaned the mirror and finally we are seeing ourself, and they vice versa. That is where true love is. So will you have that? It is my most utmost desire that you have that. It is my utmost desire for you to find a woman in your life whose mind is like a steel trap, whose wonder is more beautiful in the far reaches and far corners and valleys of thought and concept, mixed in with dreams and will, or with a man — a man, no matter what he looks like — to find that man who is handsome and is noble and, as regal-looking as he is, does not fall to his lowest denominator and act like lions in heat, act like hyenas in heat, a pack of dogs doing it in the junkyard. This is a man that, unlike any other man, could easily be these things but is not, but understands them not with a force of control but simply that it is not important, but still that this man who has dreams, whose Spirit speaks through his mouth, whose passion vibrates the beating of his heart, whose concept of humanity, his place with humanity, his understanding, his love of God, his nobility of — A man who loves truth more than deception is rare. A man who loves greater than his loins is rare. When we find such a man, a noble man — I mean, they have been all through history. It doesn’t mean they are gay. Just because they don’t have sex doesn’t mean they are gay, just noble men. And to know their mind, I mean, you have to get your vibration up there to get into that mind. This is a man that is not a victim, a warrior, but a peacemaker at the same time. It is a man who tills his own field, brings in his own food, creates his own kingdom, and is responsible for joy in that kingdom and protecting that kingdom. That is a great man. And in that is a quality for all people. They are very rare to find. When you find that man and you recognize him, then maybe you are the lady who long has wanted to find such a man, and maybe you are the lady the man has longed to find, a truly polarized situation that really is a oneness in mind. When we find out our greatest treasure — to be in love with another person, to be in love with ourself — when we are in love with that person, it is because we are in love with ourself. We expect nothing from them that we wouldn’t expect of ourselves. We ask not of them anything that we wouldn’t ask of ourselves. We expect from them what we expect from ourselves. Loving yourself is living to your highest moral and spiritual aptitude. That is loving yourself. And to love another person is only equal to what you feel about yourself spiritually. — Ramtha Copyright © 2003 JZ Knight JZK Publishing, A Division of JZK, Inc. Editor: jaime@ramtha.com www.jzkpublishing.com *For information on Ramtha and Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment, please contact: Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment, P.O.Box 1210, Yelm, WA 98597, or call 1.800.347.0439, 1.360.458.5201. http://www.ramtha.com
Ask NancyBy Nancy MarieIf you would like Nancy to answer a question (all identities will remain anonymous) please mail it to: Ask Nancy Dear Nancy, Dear Anonymous, To establish seamless communication with your guides or angels you need to have a strong body, mind and spirit connection. I find creating such a relationship is similar to constructing a house. In this metaphor, think of your physical body as the foundation, while your mind is the framing or skeleton of the structure and your spirit is the windows and skylights. When constructing any building you need to begin with a good foundation. The physical body needs a good balanced diet, daily exercise, and plenty of deep sleep to help stabilize a strong body, mind and soul connection. This may see simple, but when the stress of life taps you on the shoulder, it is easy to overlook the simple basic needs of your physical body. Since the integrity of the whole building or the integrity of your communication with your guides and angels is dependent on the strength and balance of your foundation don’t cut corners. Remember that everyday stress and pressure that we take for granted can block this opening process. Once the foundation is laid it is time to begin framing the structure or defining the space. I think of this time as creating or setting the intention for communication. Go inside and ask yourself, “Why do you want to communicate with your guides and angels? Are you in need of assistance now? And if so, what is the situation that needs help? Or do you just want to open up a dialogue and build a viable connection?” Remember, the clearer your intention, the easier it will be to manifest communication with your guides and angels. Vagueness, lack of clarity or internal disharmony can also generate so much internal confusion that it will be difficult to distinguish between wishful thinking and divine communication. So take the time to write down your thoughts and get clear before you begin hanging the windows and skylights or calling in your guides and angels. The third step is about quieting your body and mind so you can hear the callings of your own soul or the voices of your guides and angels. Any form of meditation can be used as long as it relaxes the body, quiets the mind and opens the heart. This will allow your spirit to expand and will heighten your intuitive awareness, thus making it easier to hear and understand your guidance. I personally prefer breath and sound meditations along with yoga and tai chi, but any method of meditation is fine as long as it relaxes the body, stills the mind and opens the heart. The practice you choose also needs to feel comfortable and natural so you will want to practice it every day. For those whose lives are already too full with work and childcare, I recommend you make one or more of your daily tasks into a meditation. When my children were very young I meditated when I did the dishes, folded the laundry and vacuumed. Like a chi gong exercise, I would focus on my breath, which relaxed my body, while the repetitive movements allowed my mind to empty and my heart to open. I have always enjoyed transforming my everyday tasks into meditative experiences even before I was a mother, because it felt like a double bonus–when I finished my meditation I would feel soft, center and clear and my chore was done. Now divine guidance is not always delivered by a winged angel. In many cases it may be delivered via the radio, a friend or even a perfect stranger. However the support is delivered, always be thankful. Now suppose this information is delivered to you via the radio, how do you know that your guides are speaking to you and it is not just your imagination? The answer lies in your senses. When you experience visitation there is normally a strong energetic shift in your physical body. It is usually experienced with your strongest sense. So take some time observing your senses. Which are the strongest? If it is a sense of smell, then pay particular attention to the smell before and after you think you have just received a message from your angel or guide. There will be a consistent pattern. I have a friend who always smells roses when her guide is trying to get her attention. I personally feel like I have put my finger in an electrical outlet and there is 400 volts shooting through my body. So pay attention to how your energy feels when you have finished your daily meditation and are very centered and grounded. Then be very aware of any changes in those patterns after you have requested guidance. Besides the time commitment, preparing yourself for spirit communication actually requires great inner strength and courage. Daily meditation can bring about many changes. Your physical senses become more sensitive and you can lose the ability to numb yourself or ignore pain–either your own or others. But then when your mind becomes more accustomed to this inner hush, old beliefs can be reviewed and cast aside and a new perspective on life can birthed. This inner transformation helps your mind let go of its attachment to the way things need to be and welcome the way they are. This new shift in perspective can help you open up the communication lines even further, for when you are attempting to control external events you temporarily lose your intuitive sensitivity to the more subtle forms of energetic communication. Dear Nancy, My girlfriend doesn’t want me to even talk to her on the phone when she calls. Her attitude contradicts my beliefs about helping others. Nancy, what is it that keeps my girlfriend and I from understanding each other? Can you offer me some insight? Dear Anonymous, To begin with, I would like to commend you for maintaining a high ethical code during such stressful times. Unfortunately many of us have been taught to point fingers and blame others for our misery, or even worse to make someone else the object of our rage and disappointment. It takes a very strong and compassionate person to reach beyond his own discomfort and offer a helping hand to someone else. Sometimes the Universe creates a situation to help us crystallize our own core values. This circumstance between your girlfriend, your son’s mother, your son and yourself seems to be such an opportunity. You have been pulled in many directions, but ultimately you have found your own honor code and are living what you believe. Congratulations! This is very admirable. I am sorry your girlfriend was not able to get past thinking about just herself and see the good in others. But, just let it go! Ultimately, we need to live our own honor code and trust the Universe will provide us with what we need to continue our journey. Nancy Marie is an author, illustrator, teacher and gifted intuitive. For the last two decades, she has guided thousands of people back to their own clarity and inner peace through her private consultations and workshops. Her first book, The Beckoning Song of Your Soul, A Guidebook for Developing Your Intuition, moves intuition away from the esoteric and back into the mainstream of life, where it belongs. Her newest book, Passage of Change, a fable based on the research of Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., is available now from Inner Eye Publishing. This amazing little book illustrates how our beliefs affect our cellular biology and how changing our beliefs we can literally change our whole life. For more information about Nancy Marie or to order her books call (530)926-0365 or check her web site: www.innereyepublishing.com
ReviewsTitle: Music as Yoga by Michou Landon “Like the swan of Greek mythology that has the power to separate water from milk, the living being draws love from sound.” This is a lovely book: a blessing. It is visually beautiful. Simply holding it, one can feel the care and clarity in its creation; and, whether one agrees with every assertion within its pages, the read can feel like a transmission. Patrick Bernard is well-respected among connoisseurs of spiritual and healing music. This publication may earn him more fans, as it demonstrates his command of the spoken word and the history and science of sound. Music as Yoga may have more precisely been titled “Sound as Yoga.” Because everything in creation is vibration, Bernard builds an argument for sound as the key to change and evolution at all levels, most profound and far reaching. “If the vibration of a simple tuning fork can produce a cascade of splashes [in water], what is the power held by…a symphony orchestra or a rock music recording?” This is a near-infinitely vast field. Music as Yoga does not try to be exhaustive in its scope. Instead, it offers an overview in four chapters. Bernard begins by scientifically examining the affect of sound and music, both positively and negatively, conscious and unconscious; and it argues for modern man’s need to recognize and manipulate these influences respectfully, as did the ancients. He then moves to the power of the spoken word—“the song of destiny”, both sacred and mundane. He examines prayer, autosuggestion and introduces Mantra. Ultimately, he echoes the teachings of the ancients that words don’t matter; the are simply “ambassadors of reality.” The inner sound and essence of word and sound are what carry the power to heal, to focus the mind, to change manifestation. In building his argument, he moves from the modern and scientific to the spiritual and sacred and then brings home to individual, daily practice. Along the way, he includes exposition of his cosmology; an argument for vegetarianism; explanation of the troubling significance of a 1953 change in the official frequency of the note “A;” and a lovely section illuminating the universality of sound and listening as fundamental and sacred part of all spiritual paths. With the latter, he decimates all justification for war or discrimination and demonstrates how Sound is Yoga (Union). He ties it all together practically in a discussion of Mantra -- with an especially poetic and moving passage on the mahamantra “Aum”. Music as Yoga concludes with the presentation of one healing mantra and a simple and profound chakra-aligning process using visualization and the seed sounds. He leaves us with the profound and important reminder that sound is power, and it is free. Right now, at least in this part of the world, we are free to make sound, speak, sing and hear the name of God -- in whatever form -- and thus maintain, strengthen and clarify connection with that which is Divine and Universal. Title: That Elixir Called Love by Joanna Cherry This book was compiled by transcribing teachings by Ramtha, a 35,000 year old entity, speaking through the body of the woman JZ Knight, to his students. Some of it is upsetting. Much of it is encouraging and uplifting. That Elixir Called Love deals with humanity's search for love through the attractions, agendas and addictions of the first three “seals” of the body. The seals are positioned in seven locations throughout the human body and are, in Ramtha’s teachings, places where the body interacts with seven levels or dimensions of existence. Of the three seals in question, the first is at the base of the spine, and is about sex; the second, in the abdomen, is about seeking attention through illness and calamity; and the third in the solar plexus, is about power. None of them are about love. According to this book, most men have been addicted to the first seal, sex, whereas most women deal with life from the third seal, power. This is why men have feared and disempowered women, who rest naturally in a more powerful consciousness. Women, in order to survive in a patriarchal society where they have been put down and robbed of power, have usually stepped down their energy from the third seal in order to meet a man’s energy. They have tried to make their faces and bodies enticing to men, so that they and their children could be protected and provided for. Ramtha’s advice to women: “Don't use your sexuality to find another husband. Use your God to find yourself... When we are totally fulfilled in ourself, everyone else is company. Do you understand? That is the most desirable woman on the face of the earth... one who doesn't need anybody.” And to men he says: “The day that the man no longer is connected to his penis but is connected to his fourth seal and works arduously to be that and still considers himself a God, not a man, is the day that he is nearer to God and he is on the equal precipice with women.” The fourth seal in this teaching is the heart. The first three seals are about emotion. “All emotion is a narcotic,” says the Ram. “You are addicted to your emotions.” Emotion demands that things be always new and different. Men coming from the first seal may say to a partner “I love you,” when the desire is simply for sex. But when the first flush of sexual fulfillment is over, boredom sets in and one or both partners begin to fantasize about being with different people. One of the most disturbing, eye opening parts of this book describes how our attitudes and fantasies during lovemaking determine the child who is conceived. Ramtha teaches that women are more likely to use the second seal to become ill or have accidents, so that they receive attention. And to the third seal gravitate those who want the longest orgasm of all--power over others--such as gurus, executives, ministers. Love is in the now. Can you imagine my Maxine Q. Kittycat feeling bored and not purring because I’m petting her the same way I did yesterday? If genuine love exists between a couple, no Kama Sutra is needed. Love in the moment holds our complete attention. This love comes from the fourth seal of the heart, and higher. In that arena, we are attending to what is eternal in our partner, the soul and divinity. There is a fascinating section about St. Germain and Don Juan at a dinner party. St. Germain speaks of immortality, while Don Juan is his usual seductive self. Which receives all the attention? From this is garnered that the most desirable any of us can be is God-I-Am, our only eternal truth. Not a body. Not a man, not a woman. God. About amnesiacs, Ramtha says that as they feel no emotion from their past, they become younger; emotion equals time. And they are able to create cleanly and powerfully because nothing from their past holds them back. We need to break our repetitive emotional cycles. “The miracle exists out of emotional time,” he says. Of people with multiple personalities, one personality may have a disease-ridden, even terminally ill body. The next instant, another personality takes over the same body and it is disease-free, demonstrating that we are not a body, we are a mind. Ramtha encourages us to become the “Observer,” the high self which sees, knows and loves all without getting stuck in emotional attachment. Also, to not be a gender. “The clearest, cleanest, fastest way to manifestation is to create without gender. Then it happens straightaway.” About love with another person, Ramtha says “To fall in love with a person, another human being, has got to be the direct result of first falling in love with you.” And the reflection of love as a many-splendored thing is essentially the reflection of ourself, and then when we look in this mirror, we are looking at another entity... [who] smiles and we smile, that its eyes dance and our eyes dance, and that when we come together, full body, and we touch, the only thing that separates us is that it is an illusion of our own reflection. Then we are in splendor.” In one overview statement, towards the end, the Ram says: “[Love] is a many-splendored thing. It is a phenomenon, and yet it is the basis of life itself because we are, in the greater view, loved into life. We are loved by a higher order that is so passionately involved with us that but for that passion, we would literally be nothing; with no memory, no past, no present, no future, no hope. We would be a nothing.” The last section of the book is a transcription of JZ Knight’s telling the group of her experiences with Ramtha, and it is quite moving. All in all, I have read no book I would recommend more highly. It gives food for thought and action for a long, long time Music: Title: Shambhala Dance, a meditation through movement Barbara Markay has a distinguished and varied career in music certainly this collection of songs conveys that history she assembled very able handful musicians to bring these compositions life. CD Title: It's Your Move! by Michou Landon Do not be fooled by the title. This is more than simply a business and abundance coaching program, examples of which I have always found hard to stomach. The objective here is Transformation. When something entirely intuitive suggested I give it a listen, I was heartened and relieved to find myself quickly intrigued. This spiritually-based program is cumulatively and cohesively structured and presented in 5 CDs, by the author, John Dean Williamsen. His content and presentation are accessible, candid and unpretentious. There is a lot of information here, though. At times it felt a bit heady and warranted repeated listening. It’s Your Move! begins with an overview of the Seven Days (or steps) of Creation from Genesis, and how these metaphorically equate with the stages of any Creative process, which, in humans, can be conscious or unconscious. This program seeks to educate and empower us to make the process – and consequently our lives -- more conscious and positive. Williamsen professes to have drawn from a number of sources and philosophies in developing the process presented; these include both fundamental and more mystical Christianity, Buddhism, and psychology. However, the insights are predominantly anchored in a refreshing “metaphysical Christianity,” which offers profound and fascinating explanation of Scriptural metaphors. A wealth of insight and information is offered making the program worth listening regardless listener’s diligence in applying tools provided genuine commitment to self-transformation however might be required listen through all five cd’s.
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