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Interview with Shulamit ElsonBy Michou Landon"During my first 40 years, I led two distinctly separate lives, serving two masters, neither with a full heart. My inner and outer life had little relationship to each other. And I had no clue as to how to live either of them successfully...." So begins the account of her life's journey back to wholeness in Shulamit Elson's rich new book Kabbalah of Prayer: Sacred Sounds and the Soul's Journey. Having set a poignant personal context, with a story at once familiar and unique, the international healer and teacher then presents a clear and alive overview of the intricate and profound Kabbalah. From this foundation, she shares the simple, powerful practices — Sound Prayers — revealed to her with the unfolding of her life work. Mount Shasta Magazine's Michou Landon talked with her recently about her journey, the sound prayers and their universal impact. MSM: You talked in the book about your name, where it comes from, but I wasn't clear what it means. SE: In the Song of Songs it's the name of Solomon's mistress, [who] was actually called the Shulamite, or a person who comes from the area; the tribe were the clan of the Shulamites; so she was actually named for that. It has as its root, wholeness and peace. The poem itself is viewed to have a very high, mystical meaning by all the traditions, including the Christian tradition, in that is seen as the love of God for His people, and therefore the Shulamite is actually representing the people. It's quite a large name for a small child. It took me a long time to grow into it. Why did you set out to write this book? SE: I had my own personal journey. Out of which arose a desire to communicate not only what has happened to me, but the larger story of how I felt it could be very useful and illuminating to other people who set out on a similar path. Most of us, when we start out, are not sure of ourselves, and that includes me. Also, [we're] afraid of what might happen or not happen, once we start out. I thought it would be very helpful to other people. I'm wondering what you received from the process of writing it? SE: Actually, I don't know that I started out with that idea, because, of course, as you know, writing a book is a tremendous amount of work. It deepened me, quite considerably. I was looking into the ancient texts and was fortunate to discover some written over 1000 years ago that I was able to translate for the first time, and which had informed my work. I was actually on a voyage of discovery with my own work, and was not always aware of all the substantive work that had already existed within the text. There was that surprise, to find support for what I was doing, and a deep understanding by these scholars of 1000 years ago, or more. Fundamentally, there was a deep kind of security in my knowledge that came from it, a deeper understanding than I ever had before. And there's the sense of satisfaction, of having completed a project of this length and depth. When you say, "this work you're doing", you're not only talking about your own journey, but the work you're doing in the world. SE: I'm talking about the work I'm doing in the world. My journey led me to work with sound and the original vibrations of the universe, which is very profound in prayer, and to develop a system around the sounds relating to prayer. That's one aspect of my work. The other aspect is that I help people on spiritual journeys. I have students. Do you have a facility? SE: I have a facility. A lot of my work is done either when I'm traveling or by phone. Many people will come to the facility once, or see me, or hear me talk, or read the book. Then we begin to work. I have students from England, Mexico and France, so it's not practical to see people all the time, here. We do work by phone. I prepare a personalized CD for people. They listen to the sounds, and they have assignments to do at home. I don't mean reading and writing assignments, but life experience that would determine "how do you open up the consciousness? How do you waken your Higher Soul? How do you begin to hear the truth of your own life?" It's a process, and it's helpful having some guidance doing it. Are these CD's you create for people based on your talks with them? SE: I do have a gift of sight. I can actually see what's going on with a person when I'm working with them, when I have their permission. We work with central issues, areas of "stuckness", areas of confusion. To be alive is a very dynamic, exciting business. It's not always easy to go through certain passages. We can become confused or unsure about how to proceed. The sounds are very helpful to open that up. I've found that to be the case in practicing them since I got the book. What would you like the reader to receive from the book? SE: Encouragement. Most people who set out on any kind of journey, and everybody does, to some extent to find some sense of completion, or union, or lack of loneliness, some sense of joy and fulfillment, and particularly if you are setting out to find this unnamable thing — your essence, your calling — are left alone. Nobody quite believes what you're trying to do makes any sense. The one thing that is required for this voyage is the sense of commitment. I like encouraging people. This system explains how the soul develops, and what the challenges are. In the literature there were people who actually thought about it, and actually lived it. You're talking about the sound prayers? SE: In this case, I'm talking about the concept of the soul, and how the soul develops, which is in the second chapter, "The Journey of the Soul." I am sharing a system which can transform your life and not in this kind of... "Maybe it'll work, maybe I'll see a difference in six months, a year". You can feel the effects pretty directly... quickly. For me it was instantly, yes. SE: These are the ancient wisdom traditions. If people cultivate compassion, for example, as an action...because you do have to decide to do that, it doesn't come naturally to anybody, the first impulse when attacked is to defend yourself... in the moment when you're in a situation where you are judging somebody, or in a situation when you've been harmed, or you see someone else harmed and you're moving into a place of judgment, if you can actively cultivate this compassion, you can see your life change in front of your eyes. You can see other people transform, in the moment. It brings you into the moment. It's extremely powerful. One woman whom I was working with was constantly judging herself — always felt self-critical. She was in a place of such shyness, afraid to even open her mouth. When she started doing this practice, it brought her into the here and now. She began to release and actually pay attention to what was in front of her, instead of being caught in this terrible place of self-criticism. That's one problem that can be addressed. Also, you can help heal other people, and yourself by using these sounds. When you talk about developing this work, or the prayers, how much of it came from texts you were reading, and how much came from your own experimentation? SE: It came first through my experience and experimentation. I began to make and practice sounds. I didn't have a text for it. Then I was directed to look at the Kabala. I found a system there. Not the system of sound prayers, but a system in the Tree of Life and understanding of the creation of the Universe and an understanding of how the sounds could be applied to the Tree, and so forth. I began to use that, and I began to understand I could have a lot of power. I was learning and developing at the same time. I was working with it over the course of several years. During that time I developed the concept of sound prayers. It's a combination. When you look at the text, you see that the sounds are aligned with specific traits, certain aspects of the Tree of Life. But how you use the sounds — that's something I've put together. Do you have a memory of having one pivotal launching point when you were making the sounds? SE: I was well into my fifties when the sounds came to me. The power attracted me. At the same time, I didn't understand it. It was strange. And I didn't know what to make of it or do with it. I was just drawn to using the sounds, to working with other people with the sounds. I did one meditation with my husband as the receiver. I was using lines from one particular text and using the sounds directed at him. That was a pivotal moment. I understood how profound the sound was. It brought an image to me that was very deep, and I understood this was something that could lead me to some fine places. I had to overcome my own misgivings about doing the work in public because it is very unusual. Yes. I go on walks and chant. The trees enjoy it, but anybody else there would find it a little... SE: Well, my plants love it. My plants in my studio are just flourishing. They are going to take over the place. Different traditions have different sound prayer traditions. The Hindu tradition has toning and mantras, and pretty much every tradition has some sort of accompanying sound. I know there is overlap in the traditions, where certain sounds seem to resonate in certain parts of the body. Other times, there is quite a distinction in the understanding between the different traditions. In your experience do these differences also happen between individuals, and how much license should there be with someone finding it in their own nervous system and structure and vibration? SE: It's pretty universal. I've been in cultures which are very different: Malaysian, Chinese, India, Western Europe. I've done it in Israel and also used it with Arabs, who loved it. The sounds transcend intellect, concepts, race and religion, gender and identity. They're before all that, primordial. They came out of the original vibration of the universe and are recognized as such. If you go to the sea, most people are completely soothed by the rhythm of the ocean. We are very different, but we're also the same, and we have the same genetics and lineage. There has to be a certain amount of accepting, receiving, surrendering in order for that resonance, that relaxation, to take place. SE: These sounds are not trying to convince you of anything. They don't have a point of view. But letting go of our own... SE: Yes, it has a profound effect. When you make the sound of the chants in other traditions, if you're not Hindu and you do the "Om" you feel it. And you feel it in exactly the place you're supposed to feel it, if there is a place where you're supposed to feel it. There definitely are differences, different philosophies, but people do respond and they respond typically exactly where you'd want them to. When I work with people, I'm making sounds to very specific aspects of their energy field or their physical being, their emotions. People feel it. They feel the sound resonating, vibrating, in a particular area that I'm sending it to. After reading all the material you provide on the Sefirot and the Kabbalah, which I thought was about the most lucid and clear I've read, I felt a kind of deep honor of receiving a gift. As I entered the second section, where you talk about the prayers, it was like entering a temple. The first time I actually practiced them, there was a love and power I felt. I was so still and so moved. Then I dropped into this abiding, unselfconsciousness knowing of my life form as a vessel of the Divine, and my soul and intention to be basically good. Doubt disappeared. By the third practice, grief had left the building! SE: You put that beautifully! It's a great joy for me to hear the way it was meant to be communicated was received. You say sound is associated with Creation. Is unique benefit of sound prayer an aligning with the intelligence of Creation? SE: Using this system, the visual of the Tree of Life, the essential visual of the Kabbalah, the Tree can be seen with the roots in the heavens and the branches here in this world. It can also be seen in the reverse way. Meaning we have an influence on what happens in the other worlds as well. We feed the roots through our actions, and our emotions, and so forth. If you look at the Tree, in the Kabbalistic system there are four worlds. Each world has a tree. It's a replication, in each of the worlds, of the same structure. In each of the worlds it becomes more ethereal or more subtle. The sounds that I teach are all central column sounds. They are all going up the trunk of the tree. If you can imagine the trunk is going up through all these worlds, when you make any sound you're actually vibrating with the entire trunk. You're actually touching all the worlds. It's an incredibly powerful alignment with the forces of the universe. In addition, it is a feeding of the upper worlds with a nectar, almost. That's very healing to the upper world, which, in turn, comes back to us. Everything is feeding everything else. It has a powerful effect. It's not abstract. It has a powerful effect on the worlds above, which you have an influence over, and can alter and shift and soften your own life, as well as the life of others. The reason sound and sound prayer are coming forth in this particular time in history is because of all the changes we're going through. You mean a huge shift in consciousness, in which it is very important to realize that we have a power in us, we're not victims. SE: It's important people remember that, especially with the kind of conflict we're facing, which is kind of nameless and faceless, and "who knows when it's going to come down on your head" kind of thing. The most scary thing about this time is that we understand, we know no one's in control. Our leaders are not in control of events. We have incredible powers as individuals through our prayers to affect the upper worlds. By using the sound prayer to awaken the Higher Soul, and the Higher Soul is a direct line to the universal forces of and to God. And in this case we are feeding the upper world with our goodness. This has a direct, positive impact on us. It's important to remember that and to take responsibility and recognize that this is a collaboration and we enter it consciously. SE: This is a wonderful point, and it needs to be emphasized over and over again. There's a fairly common misunderstanding that the forces of the heavens actually dictate everything; and people will say things like "the universe will show me the way," or whatever. It's a collaboration. We reach to God; God reaches to us. Nothing happens unless you put your part in. You could be given a great gift, to play the piano or something; if you don't sit down and practice, you don't have anything. It's the same with life. Everything is in partnership. You say if you practice these prayers with others, don't harmonize. What exactly would be the reason for that? Is it because there's a distraction? SE: There are two pieces to it. The first is, in this work, which is between you and God, even if you're doing it in a group, it's coming from you as an individual. What you want to do is express your own soul note, your own yearnings, through the sound. If you take ten metronomes, put them in a room, and start them off at a different rates, they entrain. The same thing happens here. You don't concentrate on trying to harmonize. It's work. You're actually just making your sound and it entrains. And when it entrains, it produces the most incredible symphony. Some years ago, in a slightly altered state, I heard this sound that seemed as if ...all the souls that had ever been created were singing their own note. It wasn't just singing. They were singing their own note. That's the best way to describe it. It was beautiful and haunting. None of the voices were attempting to harmonize, and there was something very yearning in it — very powerful. It made the most incredible symphony. I called it the Symphony of Souls. I felt if I could bring that down to this plane, it would be wonderful. When you're doing this work, you're talking about your soul yearning for connection. Out of that, without attempting to harmonize, you're finding your own note, which is another teaching, which is that we're each unique. We are the same, but we are also unique, We have a unique soul's purpose. And that's what's needed to be expressed, not in attempting to conform or harmonize or make something beautiful. It is beautiful. You talk about your personal story, and an angel that came to you at the ocean in Jamaica. This particular angel did not have a form, it communicated with you from silence. People who read about these profound experiences can feel somewhat separate because they aren't aware that they've also had this kind of help. I wonder if you could speak to that? SE: We have help all the time, even though we may not notice it. We may find ourselves walking to the left instead of the right, or meeting people we've actually been put in their path somehow. Out of that something happens. It could be anything. It could be getting a new job, or finding your soul mate, or it could be anything. We're constantly guided, and constantly protected. We've all been in situations where we think, "My God, we were lucky to get away with our lives!" I remember Carolyn Myss saying once, "We are guided right down to the apple we choose in the supermarket." Would you say supernatural experiences are inevitable? SE: If you're very, very occupied, you can't notice anything else. If you're constantly occupied, you have no room to hear these other voices, you just have no space. And then there is belief. If you're a person that's practical and grounded, and somebody says, "This is all nonsense," then you're not going to let this kind of information come in, because it doesn't fit the pattern. Most people are touched at some point in their life, either through a dream or through some recognition of something that has happened that was blessed or guided. Think of the kind of events that happen where it all works out. For example if you have a bad accident and the doctor's right there, and gets you to the hospital. Or it just happens that somebody passes on the road that has the expertise to help you. You can view that as luck. But it's more guided than that. In terms of awareness of what's happened, people will have to understand that it comes through in the system in which you were raised. If you expect to see an angel with wings, then you will. Being Jewish, it's a kind of formless kind of religion. I don't see form. If somebody spoke to me, actually in words, I think I would be very startled. But I don't find it startling or upsetting to have a thought coming to me. It comes through in a form that you can accept and understand. It's a question of opening up. People who say they never have these experiences feel they're deprived from something that connects them; they're very isolated. They don't have a contact with this beauty, but this beauty is always around us. It depends on what we choose to look at. You talk about two angels that accompany us through life. You have this picture of the angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other. I'm curious, if you could just clarify more the understanding of good and evil in the Kabbalah. SE: There's an understanding that evil exists. In Isaiah it says, "I am God. I created Good, I created Evil." Certainly, it seems to have pre-existed man, if you read the story of creation in Genesis. Evil existed before man existed. I personally have never found any of the explanations for the existence of evil totally satisfactory. You have to deal with the concepts of a loving God, and things that happen, like Cambodia or Hitler or Rwanda. I do believe it exists as a force, and that's a concept that certainly exists in Judaism and the Kabbalah. I don't know if that answers your question or not. I just raised the issue, because it's been a point of confusion for me. SE: I don't feel confused, about the fact that evil exists. I have no problem understanding that it exists; I have a problem understanding why it is necessary. I don't feel myself in a battle between good an evil every day. I feel myself sometimes having to make choices, choices between right and wrong. I do believe each of us has the capacity for evil. The higher you go spiritually, the more you are tempted. There are two other things we need to talk about. One is the work you do out in the world, with the trainings that you do. The other thing was your trip to Israel, and anything about the Israel-Palestinian situation you might want to talk about. SE: Let's talk about the training first. Basically, in addition to my private students, I guide people in world meditation. Not sitting meditation, but the sound prayer, the sound meditations and observation of your own behavior on the spiritual path. I do workshops in places like Esalan, teaching the sound prayers. It could be a weekend or a 5-day event. I'm very interested in having this work spread such that people begin to set the tone for their life, on a daily basis. While it doesn't replace ordinary prayer in any way, shape or form, you could use these sounds before you use your regular prayer, for example. This is something that you do before, in preparation, and it's very, very powerful. It prepares you as a vessel. SE: I've been all over the globe with this work. I do the work of physical healing. I know the sounds are extremely powerful for people who are ill or are suffering. I've worked with a number of people who have severe illness, where the sounds were very, very helpful. I've begun to organize groups who are making the sounds across the country. I have gotten very interested in moving this work into the arena of conflict between opposing parties. The sounds have the ability, for those who practice them, to get you to a place where you realize that there is more that unifies you than separates you. In a conflict situation, for example in group confrontation, in negotiations, this is the set-up phase, in a way. Then people would be more open to discuss and come to perhaps a more embracing solution, moving out of of fratricidal, homicidal, suicidal conflicts that go on in places like Ireland and Lebanon. I just went to Israel. When I was in there, I did work with several groups of Arabs and Jews together. One was a quilting project with 72 women of Christian, Muslim and Jewish background, who made a quilt using Fatima as their symbol. It was a beautiful quilt. It's going to travel around, in Israel to begin with. They're asking me to take it around and to teach with it. But there were problems with the making of the quilt. These people have difficulties together. It was not a dance in the park [but it] was very rewarding. I worked with a group of Arab and Jewish educators in a village called Neva Shalom, which is a place where Arabs and Jews live together and educate their kids together in Israel. We used the sounds there; it was quite an interesting experience for them. I mean, they'd never heard of such a thing. These were young people, twenties, early thirties. There's a lot of pain in that region and a wound that cannot be healed. This work is extraordinarily valuable in that setting. I worked with one other group at the Jerusalem Y. The Jerusalem Y is a very respected institution in Jerusalem. It has a staffing of a third each: third Christian, a third Jewish, a third Moslem. It's a place where all the groups feel comfortable. They do some very interesting work there. I work with the staff. They're very curious to see what application it might have for the groups they run, groups of young people. When you said, "a wound that can't be healed," what did you mean? SE: Take it to a practical level. Your son's been killed, and your wife's been killed in battles back and forth. These are things that don't go away. There's a lot of pain, but there's an understanding that this way of dealing with it is not going to end in a good place. Often people who have had that great suffering come to a release and a sense of love, despite what's happened. We're in this situation in a larger sense in the world all over. We're clashing against cultures we never heard of fifty years ago. This is a completely transformed world. The question is "How are we going to manage here?"We've got populations moving against each other, moving against each others' lands. Because of TV, we've got a situation of instant knowledge across the globe when anything happens, and an excessive amount of information. This is one reason why the sound is so great. It just cuts through that. What's happening, even though it's playing out now in terms of potential catastrophe, is a birth of a new consciousness, which will allow us to live together, respecting our differences and applauding our singularity. It's a dangerous passage. The sounds are profound because they actually cut across all the lines. How do they do that? Is it that they're non-intellectual? Or does the vibration some how transcend? SE: All the traditions say that the world was created through vibrations or sound. There is an understanding that that was the primary movement. The Kabbalah has a very esoteric explanation about how sound created the world. The ether became light through vibration. In Hebrew, it's the movement of the vowel point that changes the word from "awvir", which is ether, or "owr" which is light. The letters are the same. It's the vowel point which moves, which changes the pronunciation. And the vowel point is the vibration. It's the sound. You talk about the Spirit in the body. SE: It's compared — like the Spirit to the body. The body can't exist without the soul, and the letters can't exist without the vowel point. It infuses life into it. Then, to clarify, vowel points are like markings. They're not actually vowels like we have in English. They're just markings over consonants, so to speak. SE: Over, under and on the side and in. They're not letters. I don't want to make it too complicated. Like "Buh" and "Vuh" could be the same letter, but "Buh" has a dot in the center. Vibration created the universe and when we use vibrational sounds, we are actually entering into a consciousness which, on the Tree of Life, is called wisdom consciousness. But wisdom consciousness is before thought, before speech. For example, maybe you want to create a sculpture, and you have this idea about how it's going to happen. And it comes to you kind of whole, you have this total idea of how it should look. Then you have to get the stone and the stone has its own desires, limitations, because it's stone. There are certain things you can do with it and certain things you can't. You become the vehicle for making it happen. It's always less than what you saw in your vision, translating it into reality. On the other hand, if you hadn't translated it into reality, it wouldn't exist. Wisdom is where it comes through clear, but it doesn't have a shape, you can't express it. You've got to put words to it, or form to it; you've got to bring it into being. It moves from formlessness into form, wisdom into understanding. Both are needed. The vibrations are coming before thought. There's so much peace in them because you drop your duality. People say, "I don't have this aspect in my nature. How do you know the things you know? I can't do that." But we all can. It's a part of our nature, our consciousness. I don't know that we would survive without it. SE: Right, but we have to cultivate it. One of the things that is nice about when we sleep is that we sometimes get a touch of the Divine. And we're reminded that we are more than just our struggles and our loneliness and our constant efforts, so we can actually exist in a place where we're not making efforts, we are actually part of the flow. It's still work. I don't want to get people too confused that it's not work. There's always a balance. To sum up... SE: It's very important for people to realize each soul has a special role to play in the structure of the world as it is today. That's the understanding of Kabbalah, of Judaism. There's a reason for creation, and there's a reason for the creative beings that are here. We have an important contribution to make, although it might not be important in capital letters. You may not be an important figure. We all have a role to play. And if we play it with joy and with decency and compassion, we actually can begin to awaken our Higher Soul, and we can begin to act, not out of slavery to our passions, but out of service. When we act out of service, we are living in a place of much greater joy. Then it's about being, not struggling, not trying to make things happen, but living fully in the present moment — not in past fears, and not in anxiety over the future. All we have is the present moment. If people want to pursue this further the best thing to do would be to read the book or go to your web site. SE: Read the book. Kabbalah of Prayer: Sacred Sounds and the Soul's Journey. And definitely go to the web site, www.soulsongs.com. It's a good entrance for people who are on the spiritual path, anyway. b>SoulSongs, POB 35, High Falls, NY 12440
Evolving your Brain, an Interview with Dr. Joe Dispenza, D.C.by Dawn FazendeDr. Joe Dispenza has published and authored several scientific articles on brain chemistry, neurophysiology, and biology. Discover how we can experience new emotions and new abilities. Our brain will keep the status quo or deliver infinite possibilities, either way, we should know how it works and Dr. Joe makes it easy and enjoyable to learn! Dr. Joe's forthcoming book, "Evolving Your Brain and the Science of Creating Personal Reality" will connect the subject of thought, perception, brain anatomy and physiology, neuroscience, the mollecules of emotion, cellular biology, genetics and health. Not merely interesting fact or theory... it is knowledge that you can apply. First of all, you are not only one of the appointed teachers at the Ramtha School of Enlightenment, you are also featured in the movie What the #$*! Do We Know. You are an expert on the brain, is that correct? Dr. Joe: Well, I don't know if I am an expert on the brain but I know a lot about it. What is your background in research and medicine? Dr. Joe: I went to Rutgers University and studied in biochemistry. From there I went unto Life University outside of Atlanta, Georgia and got my doctorate degree in Chiropractic. About 6-7 years ago I started my postgraduate work in brain physiology brain chemistry and brain imaging, brain functioning and neurophysiology. It led me into a deeper understanding in the way we use this instrument of thought. Then it moved into the way we think and how that has an affect on our body and our world as well as the choices we make. I am a student at Ramtha's School of Enlightenment and I remember being told you didn't believe what Ramtha was teaching so you decided to do the research to prove whether what he was teaching about the brain is true or not. Dr. Joe: I have an analytical mind and I was trained in the scientific method, which most people who study science follow. It gets engrained into you, so when I listened to Ramtha talk, I listened to his teachings. It wasn't that I did or did not believe him it was that I just had to find out for myself. What I found out for myself made the information more real, more applicable to my own desires and gave me the confidence to actually begin to make applications in my life. It is interesting as he would throw around words and concepts and ideas that were very advanced and I would grab the doctorate book of neurophysiology and/or physiology and it would be right in there almost word for word. Being able to tie these concepts together in the fashion that he did let me know that that did not come from someone who was "text smart" but from someone who was rattling off this information without any notes. When science says it and we can understand it from a scientific standpoint, I think it gives people permission to experiment for themselves. Many of the teachings now coming out of RSE are based in science. Dr. Joe: Ramtha has brought up concepts that weren't even proven yet, then three months later science is proving exactly what he says. That was also an enlightening moment for me as well. The school is based on science, not complicated science. Simple science in a simple enough way that everybody gets a chance to participate and none gets excluded. Science that has shifted in a way that people begin to accept that there is more to them than they actually thought. I am a student and not a scientist. When I am sitting in the audience I find that that is absolutely the truth. The science of it does make it easier to understand and incorporate the teachings. A student is not dealing with guesswork or belief as in "I believe this man because I feel what he says is true" because you have proof of the truth, in many cases, independent of the school or the teacher. Dr. Joe: Belief is conjecture. Belief is filling in the gaps with more belief. When we do that, we tend to talk ourselves out of our own greatness, out of our own possibility. When a teaching is methodical and there is reason to it and it follows a certain rationale, then you know exactly where you are navigating and you know exactly where your intentional result is. And when you know that, the brain works differently. When it has a plan and it can formulate intention. That is the beginning spark of creation! The one thing that Ramtha has always brought forth is the fact we are Gods and that the brain is simply an instrument of a remote mind, a God that is not this physical body. Most people would say I am not God, God is the guy up in the heavens. To some people this is a blasphemy to speak. But that is something for them to worry about. Right now I am thinking the question, "what does this marvelous brain do for us"? Dr. Joe: The brain is divided into three different compartments. There are two essential elements that make the brain work the way it does. We have a very huge neo-cortex. Our neo-cortex is the largest of any species of animals along with dolphins. The neo-cortex is our thinking brain. It is the part of the brain that allows us to develop free will and make choices. Because we have such an enormous brain, and the part of the brain called the frontal lobe which makes up 40% of our brain, we have the ability to gather information, gather knowledge, either from learning information or having experiences. And by piecing together that information and knowledge it allows us to speculate possibilities and that allows us to create options. It allows us to modify our behavior and control our behavior, plan future events and project outcomes, choose an outcome and navigate in our environment with reason and awareness. Now that part of the brain is a record of our experiences in this lifetime. We do inherit a lot of connections genetically from our parents, like thinking. We inherit thinking, and thinking very similar to the way they do. We are going to act similarly, we're going to choose similarly, have skills and attributes and emotional propensities similar to our parents. But that is only a portion of who we are. We still get to make new connections, learn new things and develop new circuits in our brains and start to demonstrate what we learn. This is our thinking brain and our senses are uniquely and intrinsically tied into different parts of that brain that allow us to find different pathways and assimilate information of whether we are seeing and learning, whether we are smelling and associating, tasting, or whether we are hearing and learning. We are using our senses to gather raw information from the environment. That is how we evolve this brain and actually create new circuits and this allows us to have an advantage in the environment. The other parts of the brain that have to do with the mid brain, the limbic system, the cerebellum and the brain stem, those are parts of the brain that run off in an automatic program. It is the intelligence that is keeping your heart beating and digesting your food, and making ten million cells every second and producing a 100,000 chemical reactions every second per cell. It is organizing your DNA, it's organizing systems, and it is pumping gallons of blood every minute. It is doing a tremendous amount of activity that we, as conscious individuals, free will individuals, don't really have to think about. So we have to agree that something is giving us life. That intelligence or that will or that consciousness is happening below our conscious awareness. That is called subconscious mind. People give it that understanding and never investigate the deeper level of that. The deeper level of that mind says that because it is a mind and it knows how to make cells, it knows how to change PH in the body, and it knows how to alter function, we have to agree that it has an intelligence that knows quite a bit. When we turn to that intelligence and we begin to interact with that intelligence we are beginning to take our personality, that exists from the neo-cortex, and we begin to see what answers it has for us that are greater than our thinking brain — greater than all of its predictions and formalities and thinking that it knows the solution to things. This subconscious part of the brain has a mind and the brain is in action and it is producing a result. When we are able to unify these two elements of our brain we have a greater advantage and are producing greater levels of mind. Most people usually stay separate from that second part of the brain because we are so distracted by the external world. We are so absorbed in the external world, so addicted to the stimulus from the external world that we begin to believe that that is all there is. There is us, our thinking brain and there is the external world and very few stop to recognize that there is an intelligence that is actually giving us life. Ramtha referrs to the neo-cortex as the personality brain, the brain that has to do with this life, what we are doing now. Whereas, the sub-conscious is referred to as the part of the brain that is connected to the mind of God. Dr. Joe: We can think of the subconscious mind as the aspect of our self that is eternal. It goes on to transcend space and time because, if you really think about the amount of time that it would take for the brain to send a signal to the body to make ten million different cells, it would happen in such an enormously short amount of time that it would literally transcend time. There is an eternal aspect or an implicate order that is giving life to this personality that we call our self. Our personality is shaped by the connections and circuits that we get from our parents combined with our emotional propensities, the experiences we have had in our life and the experiences we have learned. That becomes the modus operandi in which we function as an individual that has a certain identity. We associate who we are as an identity based on things that we have experienced, things that we have learned in the past. Now when we can take that and understand it we can take it another step and not be satisfied with that but begin to recombine circuits and connections to modify our behavior to produce a new outcome. Now we are beginning to use the brain to a greater extent. Most people at a certain age become dissatisfied with certain experiences and crave the routine and the familiar and the automatic programs begin to take over. Then nothing new ever happens and we are living out our genetic propensities. If we decide we want to make changes in our life no matter where we are in our patterning, or our age, where do we start? Dr. Joe: We have to start with a certain level of awareness. Knowledge and awareness allow us to begin to make different choices. It's that simple. We have to gather new knowledge and information. We have to stop those old programs to make room to make new connections to utilize. If we don't learn anything new we are not using our neo-cortex. The neo-cortex is like a record to gain knowledge and information. Once we have the knowledge and information we personalize it and we begin to apply it. When we use it we are setting ourselves up to do something differently, to have a new experience. Once we do something differently, to have a new experience, then we begin in that experience to record, through our senses, a host of different sensory information that bombards our brain that allows us to make new circuits. Those five different pathways rushing up and sending enormous amounts of signals to the brain, release chemicals that create a feeling, which is how we can remember things better as we have this feeling to associate with, an emotion. The new experience then is the result of learning new knowledge and applying that knowledge to get a different result. That's called learning. That is called evolving. One new thought that you can incorporate can change the entire physiology of the body, is that true? Dr. Joe: It can if you take it to the greatest level. You see, once we have the experience we can't stop that. The knowledge that produces a new experience does format, reconnect and repattern the circuits in the brain. You will begin to fire in the brain slightly differently. The next level is to create a memory that is called an implicit memory, which is a memory that becomes a skill. When it becomes automatic it becomes a skill and it does not involve speaking anymore. Then we are creating a whole new set of connections that run right to the sub-conscious mind, right to the cerebellum. When that happens, now the body is trained to be a certain way. Now we can reproduce the experience anytime. Most people apply knowledge to a new experience but they never take it to the level where they can actually repeat the experience. The School of Enlightenment is about making implicit memory, making new knowledge implicit so that you are wired for it. When you are hot wired to an outrageous concept, you can reproduce it, you can reprogram it or repeat it at any moment. That particular new thought is now rooted in the body, reproducing a new physiological change. Now the person is it. Let's use the example of the Ram. After he had his first out of the body experience, it took him seven years of trying again and again to repeat that experience. So it took him seven years to train his neo-cortex to the point where that experience became a skill. Is that what you are saying? Dr. Joe: Yes. Then once it's a skill it is repeatable, right? Right! Now he can do it at will. That would be the same with any of the spiritual disciplines we are being taught. Let's talk about emotion as emotion is a big hang up in the New Age movement. To me it's seems as if people believe it should be emotion that controls our life. We spend our time feeling a certain way and if we don't feel that way we become either happy, unhappy, miserable, or perhaps we're excited and joyous. We judge the value of any of our new experiences by how they make us feel. Yet Ramtha says that emotions are nothing more than chemicals rushing through the body and that we are entirely too fixated on them. Dr. Joe: I think if we back up here and just get an idea of what we are talking about, we have to agree that when we are having a new experience we are experiencing a new emotion. When we are involved in anything external, we are involved in the environment, when we are interacting in our world, everything that we are processing through our senses is gathering information. As long as the experience is already known, we are producing chemistry that is already familiar to us. When we have a new experience ultimately a new experience will produce a new set of chemicals that will then rush through the brain and create a new feeling. That feeling is called an emotion, so the emotion is the end product of feeling of an experience. When we continuously have the same emotion everyday that means then we are hooked on the same experience. Our mind is tied to a past experience that is reactivating the circuits that produces the same chemistry so that we can feel the same way based on something from the past. Now when we have a new experience, the new chemistry creates a whole new emotion that gives the person a different memory related to that experience. If people continue to have the same emotion everyday it means that they are using that chemistry for some addictive means. That allows them to have a personality that is rooted in a feeling so they can reidentify themselves as someone or something. The victim stays a victim by being a victim. There's reward in the chemistry, a feeling bad, or feeling terrible, that they have excuses or they are blaming someone or complaining, all those attitudes, all those emotions allowing the victim to stay in their past association and allow them to excuse themselves so they never have to change. When that happens there is a feedback loop between the brain and the body, the thoughts creates the feelings, the feeling allows us to feel the way we were thinking. Once we feel the way we think, the brain checks in with how the body is feeling then we start to think the way we feel. That loop becomes complete when feeling becomes the means of thinking. Now, at that point the person has a lot of difficulty in change because the substrata or the mechanism to change involves no feeling. When we begin to change, the person has the moment when they stop the thought that produces the normal chemistry. The moment that happens, whoa, the person goes into shock because they are disrupting the chemical continuity of how they define themselves as a personality. When that happens, the person changes for a moment and realizes they don't like how they feel because at this moment they are breaking the addictive pattern and there is no feeling or feedback loop. They immediately rush back to fire the same thought so they can create the same chemistry and create the same feelings and they never really ultimately change. So when a person stays with a new experience or the choice of a new experience, and they don't accept it because it doesn't "feel" right, what that means is that it doesn't feel like their old patterns. Dr. Joe: Right, they are breaking away from the familiar. They are breaking away from the routine, and because we are such creatures of neuro habit, such creatures of predictability that the moment we break away from routine there is a disruption in chemistry, that disruption in chemistry breaks the continuity. The person would rather be tied to or committed to the emotions of their past than break away and make other choices and create a new future because there is an interim period between change from the familiar to the unknown where there is no feeling. That unknown feeling for most people is associated with fear. The moment that that happens, they rush back to what feels better and they say "I want to stay the way I am." They say, "I want to stay the way I am" even though on the surface they appear to be actively pursuing growth and change. Dr. Joe: We all do it, and when we do this we are subjugating a possible future for a feeling. Ramtha has pointed out that we value our emotions so much, but when we die, the undertaker sucks them all out as the chemicals they are. Most of us feel that emotions are the reason we are here. Because they feel so personal, so uniquely ours, they become the most important things. Some people choose emotion over anything else in their life. They don't understand that it is chemistry. Dr. Joe: I think that we have to agree that emotions aren't that. Emotions are the end product of experience. The point is if we keep on having the same emotions it means those emotions will ultimately push the genetic button to cause ourselves to disease and age because those emotions are technically connected to some past event and we will, by reproducing the same emotional state, wear the cells out. This is literally what we do. So, if we are going to be healthy, well and evolving what is Dr. Joe's prescription? Dr. Joe: Well, learn something new every day. Make sure routine doesn't bore you. Make sure that you apply what you learn so you can experience something greater. Surrender your personality to a greater level of mind. That mind is not outside of you, it lives right inside of you. Make sure that the new experiences you create, you are able to recreate over and over again so that they become permanently wired and at the same time make an analysis of what emotion you want to live by everyday and do everything you can do to interrupt that program and replace it with a new dream, a new desire, a new adventure. You have an audience here of 60,000 people. What of all the things you have learned would you really want them to know? Pick something that you think is really the most important thing. Dr. Joe: I think that our thoughts really matter. Manage our thinking and be able to manage our reactions. And be able to change. If we were able to change every single day and push ourselves a little bit further than we would normally go in order to represent ourselves as somebody different. If we worked on that everyday, we would emerge as a new person and the limited attitudes that we live by, that we inherited, all the emotions based in limitation that have to do with fear,guilt,shame, worry, insecurity and self-doubt, all those particular emotions will fall away because the brain will literally rewire itself to the new ideal. Old circuits will break away and make change. We will continue our conversation with Dr. Joe in our next issue.
Twenty-five years of Observation: an Interview with Michael Langevinby Dawn FazendeMichael Langevin is the Publisher of Magical Blend magazine and owner of MB Media. He has written books and articles covering the New Age Movement over the last 25 years and travels the world talking about various topics of interest of all of us. How long have you been doing Magical Blend? ML: 25 years. I always thought it would get easier. As it grows it becomes new and challenging in different ways. It reinvents itself. I don't know how much is my personality and how much is the business. How big is Magical Blend now? ML: Magical Blend started in my living room 25 years ago, we spun off natural beauty into health because we did not want Magical Blend to become a health and beauty magazine. Now we have two samples. The first issue is called Transitions, a magazine for people fifty and better. I kept talking to people who said they loved Magical Blend but now that they are in their fifties and sixties and they really want a magazine that will help them deal with aging better. Magical Blend's last two publications were 118,000 and Natural Beauty and Health is around 120,000. We are hoping to launch Transitions right around there if not bigger. That's good news for everybody. ML: That's how I see it. Getting out the information is really what we are all about. As a publisher I can say, if you are not doing it for that reason you might as well go to bed. ML: When I do go to bed I think, "Gee, I do things that make the world a better place". I have done other jobs and said, "I think I earned $40.00 today". This is not the same thing. What made you decide to sit down and do a magazine? ML: I worked with a number of amateur publications, experimental publications back in Boston. They weren't going anywhere because they were so experimental and amateur and they gave up, I thought. Then I went on a trip to Peru with a woman I met and we were going to hitchhike through Central America, a very adventurous idea and my life was full of folly and risk. After a number of weeks in Mexico we were beaten up and almost killed in Vera Cruz. I had a near death experience and a vision of other dimensional beings. They said they were working for the good of humanity and I had some choices to make. I could go on and die or live the meaningless and foolish life I had been living. I could do this or sign up and make a difference in the world. They were so convincing I said sure. I'm in! I was sent back and I stood up and screamed and the marauders, all the desperate people who probably had no money, ran off and left us to limp to the hospital to get ourselves put back together and get our traveler's checks replaced. We didn't go to Peru. The woman I was traveling with was offered a job in San Francisco. She thought that was probably a healthier place to be. We hitchhiked up to San Francisco and arrived there on Halloween of 1978. I was blown away, having come from Boston, to witness people doing amazingly creative and spiritual research and teachings. I had never heard of any of this stuff. What we had in common was book publishers and the main stream had rejected them. We got together and said "Let's just get our stuff together and get it published so it can go out to the world", see how it goes. After the first issue it was five years of us volunteering nights and weekends. We were working day jobs to support us. Then when the bones were burned out and it was not selling too tremendously, there were a few of us left and we decided to do one more issue putting the best of everything we had learned into it. As fate would have it, that issue sold out and we were able to quit our day jobs and work fulltime in the magazine starting in 1985. We rode the excitement of the New Age and Spiritual information need the country had at that point. Main stream media was not putting this information out to the public. People were hungry for it so it felt like we really couldn't do anything wrong in that point in time. Then the main stream media got a handle on it and (laugh) we almost lost the business. We had a staff of fourteen people and I had to lay off nine of them. The other five of us had to work minimum wage for a year. I had to get out of debt because I had signed with national and international distributors at the same time main stream had decided to start putting information out to the public. A series of things went wrong but we pulled it back. We have reinvented the magazine countless times saying,"Ok, what do people want now? Where are they being led?" Each time we have learned new lessons and repositioned it again, always staying close to the initial intent of bringing out material that inspired people, empowered people and gave people information that could make their lives better. That is where we have gone for twenty-five years. You have been sitting in the catbird seat watching the transits of the New Age and Spirituality Movement in this country. What do you think are some of the biggest things you have seen? ML: Oh, my God! It is mind boggling to me. When we first interviewed Deepak Chopra he hardly was known. Or Dr. Estes who wrote "Women Who Run With The Wolves" and Marianne Williamson and Carolyn Myss. I met my wife in 1988 and I told her about the magazine and what I was doing. She told me she really liked me but didn't want to have anything to do with this hocus pocus. She is a therapist and now she works with people using visualization, personal ritual, creative affirmations, nutrition and exercise and things that at one point were thought to be separate from the therapy model. She has become main stream with it. Those of us who grew up in the sixties saw a lot of Eastern Religion and Yoga. Now Yoga is a mainstream and has become one of the chosen exercise programs, along with visualization, affirmation and positive thinking. Movies like What the Bleep and Indigo are trying to get into it. My teenagers watch The Simpsons and they deal with ets and meditation and the healing power of thought. When we started doing Magical Blend people would say these things weren't meant to be shared with the public. This was only meant for those who spent years and years studying and refining themselves. Back in 1985-1988 healing with crystals was here, and then it went away. Now it has come back for those into crystals and semi-precious gems used by many people in the know. At one point meditation was thought to be a very negative thing. Now Time Magazine has come out with articles on how to do it for your business. ML: Victor Sanchez, who I feel carries on the lineage of Carlos Castaneda, teaches Fortune 500 business companies as well as people from San Francisco and New York. It is amazing to me that companies are signing up to take these classes to run your businesses better, to run your life more meaningfully. Kevin Ryerson, made popular by Shirley MacLaine's books has taken his work into corporate America. ML: I just talked to Dan Millman whose new book is out. His book Peaceful Warrior was a huge hit and today he is flown in by huge businesses all over the world to teach them how to run their businesses with more understanding of the changes and spiritual aspects of peoples needs and the needs other businesses they deal with. Twenty-five years ago this was scary to people. Religion: there are religions that are really there to serve people. Organized religions and the mystics and people who live meaningful lives with them. But a lot of them are really threatened by people finding their own path to spirituality and their own ways of becoming one with the divine. One of the things I have been saying in the talks I give is that if prayer is telling the divine what we want, then meditation is listening to what the divine wants from us. These kinds of belief systems are becoming much more approachable to people in the mainstream. Because of the changes going on and the vibration of the planet and it is raising these vibrations at such a high pace, the information you are putting out in Mt. Shasta Magazine and I am putting out in my magazines is becoming more and more important to people. People are either closing down in their beliefs or they are opening up to all sorts of possibilities. From what I have observed those that are choosing to close down are getting crazier and crazier everyday. They are actually praying for Armageddon. There was a poll right after Bush was reelected there was a poll and 45% of the American public believes they are not going to live a normal life and their death will be in the rapture at the end of times, which, in their belief system, is any day now. It's scary. That is a very large focal group. ML: It is when you have George Bush in the White House. I promised early on that we would not make Magical Blend a political magazine. However right before the election we came out with a political issue that was very much left of center because I felt people needed to look at things really close up. Then people who had been with Magical Blend for years and years said they liked the spiritual focus behind the scenes. This overwhelming response was that people wanted to talk about the spirituality and creativity of life behind politics and what might be replacing it as alternatives. But they didn't want to take a stance where they said, George Bush and his people were evil, or being liberal was a good thing. They wanted us to be non-partisan so to speak. I really think that the Mayan Calendar tells us when we will be seeing radical changes on the planet. Others think we will be seeing major changes over the next ten to twenty years because life is accelerating so much. I believe that the change we are going to see is the end of organized religions we have come to respect, the end to the political systems we have come to understand, love or hate and even the end of the Capitalist system we have come to know today. With advanced technologies and the understanding that the spiritual vibration must be right, people are really going to open up to change and the systems in our society are going to change worldwide on every level. And I think the people that are embracing the "End Times" books and "The Rapture" — that really isn't mentioned in the bible — is a device for the people who are hoping to take an easy way out. Jesus never said anything about the "End of Days". "Revelations" was a later addition tacked on centuries later by a disaffected outcast from the mainstream Christian teachings of his time. ML: I think that Christ is going to return. My understanding is that Christ is going to return as a little piece in each one of us as the dawning of a new spiritual awareness. I spent a lot of time in Peru and my first book Lost Secrets of the Incas, was all about the culture before the Spanish came. If you spent time in any South American country researching their pre-European roots you'll find that there was a whole different way of viewing reality. What we define as our reality is our five senses and the material world we live in. Reality is many many dimensions more than that. There is almost a conspiracy. What is being done in America is an attempt to dumb down humanity so that it is disconnected from nature and it is disconnected from each individual's potential to become gods and goddesses within themselves. When you look back to the ancient people and their way of viewing reality, their way of being able to move in dreamtime or in spirit in astral planes and their connection to spiritual energies was so much more tuned in and alive as god and goddess beings that they can die of poverty yet their lives have so much more meaning and so much more connectedness to the things that are important in life. Poverty is a relative concept. ML: It really is. There is poverty of spirit, poverty of lifestyle and there is poverty of money and material things. It is hard to come back from a world where they have richness of spirit, richness of interpersonal actions to "who has the latest hit? who's on TV?". Lately TV is all about murder trials and reality TV. ML: And worse, we are told by the mass media that we are hopeless, helpless victims, the world is a bad place and people will do you wrong if you give them a chance. My experience is the opposite of that. We don't have to be victims. We can assume power in our lives. We can create the lives we want and people really are there to help. I lost my wallet after I had just gotten some money out of the bank last week. A woman called me up to come and get it. She had found it. When I went to pick it up, everything was in it. When I offered to give her some money she said, "I know how I would feel if I had lost my wallet, please don't do that". This is how people really are when you give them a chance. I have a relative who spends a lot of time watching TV and is very fearful of the world. I am always telling her people are really nice. She went to a store in the city and was walking back. There were young men on the corner and she was sure they were going to accost her. She was so afraid she dropped her groceries. They came over towards her and she thought she was going to die. They helped her pick up her groceries and walked her back to her apartment with the groceries. She called me and told me, "You're right, people are nice". Time and again when I have traveled the world people have gone out of their way for me and yet TV and the newspapers would believe that is not the way it is. What I hope we have conveyed in Magical Blend, Natural Beauty and Health and hopefully Transitions is that people have the goodness of caring, if you give them a chance. We can make a difference in our own lives by setting clear goals and by committing ourselves to creating meaningful lives for ourselves. If we have losses, or setbacks, we have to pick ourselves up and go forward, meeting those challenges and helping each other to create a better tomorrow. I believe that most people on the planet are here to help create a Golden Age for humanity and nature on the planet Earth. That is what they signed up for before they were even born. I know that you have written other books. What are they? ML: Magical Universe was about our first fifty issues and was a look at a number of original authors, now famous, that contributed to Magical Blend, such as Neale Donald Walsh, Ken Carey, Barbara Hand-Clow, Lynne Andrews, Mao Tunishun, Shakti Gawaine, Jean Houston and on and on. That was to prepare people for how changes were coming down on the planet. My first book was called Secret of the Incas. My second book is Spiritual Business. I was talking to the publishers telling them how we run Magical Blend different from other businesses, and have done so for the last twenty-five years, and they suggested a book telling people how it can be done. They worked with me and we came out with a book on how to run a spiritual business and hopefully an entertaining story of how we have done it backwards and have learned the lessons for twenty-five years. Then the third book with just my name on it was Secrets of the Amazon Shamans. It is scheduled right now for fall release. It is basically talking about the knowledge that has been in the Amazon and the richness of the Amazon basin with a pre-European understanding and connectedness to nature. It also looks at what is taking place in the Amazon right now with Westernization and mining, clearcutting of the Amazon forest and replacing it with cow pastures to supply Burger King and McDonalds. We can make magic while in our living rooms or by traveling down there and prevent the lungs of the planet from being destroyed. By writing to our congress people our representatives, by being aware of how we buy the products we buy. We can write letters to Brazil, Venezuela and all the countries that connect with the Amazon Jungle. I have really been blessed by a lot of the shakers and movers in new thought over the years and call on them as friends. What I have found is that anyone who decides to make a difference and make a stand can influence many lives. I have been blessed to talk in a lot of conferences and bookstore signings and different lectures and I feel that if two or three people walk away from those lectures inspired to make changes and have more meaningful lives then what better reason to be alive. You are going to be in our Wesak Celebration this year, April 22-24th. ML: I really am excited about that. I just told someone I was going to be there and they said, "Oh, that is wonderful and I am so excited ". The whole Mount Shasta Wesak Festival has a great reputation. I think that the fact that you have carried it on, will evolve it this year, and that I will be part of it, is a real thrilling thing. And to be able to share my experiences with the people that will attend and I look forward to blending with the other amazing people that will be speaking there. We are going to have a good group and of course you will be right up there with all the rest of us to make the picture complete. That is what it is for. ML: That is what you do with Mount Shasta Magazine and that is what we try to do with MB Media at every level. We try to get that information out there and refine it as we go to learn more. I am not the person that started with this magazine twenty-five years ago. I have changed and evolved in so many ways. A lot of things I believed in twenty-five years ago have evolved and changed which is what I encourage people to do and this is what the Wesak Festival really means to me. What is the cutting edge of spiritual understanding and how can we all share that and grow with those energies? MagicalBlend.com is filled with information and anyone is welcome to go there and email the publisher.
Message from Archangel Michael - A Golden Opportunitythrough Ronna HermanBeloved masters, the Earth and humanity are on the verge of a great awakening and transformation. It may seem as though the elements are out of control and destruction abounds; however, please remember, "Out of chaos comes new Creation." Many dear souls who are not yet ready to graduate from the wheel of reincarnation and karma are transcending into the higher realms in preparation for an "upgrade in consciousness" as they prepare for a new and better cycle of experience. Because of what you, the Legions of Light, have accomplished, it is assured that no other group of souls will ever have to experience the deep level of suffering, fear, negativity and deprivation that you have experienced during your many sojourns in this galaxy and especially on Earth. The beautiful servants of the Creator, the Devic and Elemental Kingdoms, have been given another new directive, instructions to infuse the Earth in full force with their elements of life: Cosmic fire, the life force of Creation; the breath of the Supreme Creator, the air element; the cleansing and life-sustaining element of water; and the foundation of your existence on the material plane, the element of Earth. The elements are not your enemies, they are Divine gifts from the Creator, but you have misused and abused the Earth and yourselves long enough. Humanity is coming of age, and each of you must suffer the consequences or reap the rewards of your actions. It is quickly becoming evident which areas of the planet are most in need of cleansing and balancing.We are endeavoring to keep the level of pain and suffering at a minimum and, as you have been told, the mass destruction of your planet is no longer a possibility. However, as is the case when you allow your physical body to deteriorate to the point that your life force is threatened, so it is with the Earth, and drastic measures must be taken. These times in which you are now living are so critical. Every opportunity must be taken to assist the Earth to birth and reclaim her Light body. Come together at the time of each full moon in meditation with the intent of allowing the influx of cosmic life force to flow through you and into the Earth. Become aware of the wondrous opportunities that await you if you agree to take an active part in the transformation of the Earth and humanity. Many of you are, or are becoming, aware of the importance of the event called WESAK, which occurs at the time of the full moon in the astrological Sun sign of Taurus. In the past, it was thought to be only a religious celebration in the Eastern world; however, we tell you it has significance for all the world and all humanity no matter what the spiritual/religious ordination. The word WESAK is derived from syllables and energies which are a combination of sounds brought forth from the higher dimensions. Meditate on this word, use it as a mantra and see what emerges from deep within your consciousness. Within the Divine plan for Earth and its inhabitants it was decreed that during the astrological Sun signs of Libra and Scorpio there would be a harvesting of all the positive, unconditional Love/Light energy that humanity has projected out into the world over the past year, and these vibrational frequencies would be stored in a great Pyramid of Light in the higher dimensions to be dispensed at a later time.You see, the Love/Light energy you project is unique because it is mixed with the Essence of the Earth and your earthly experiences. When it is melded with the rarified Essence of Creator Light, it is much more easily dispensed into the areas where it is needed, causing less chaos and destruction when the Light comes in contact with the frequencies of darkness. It is also more easily integrated by those who are awakening by causing less distress in their environment as they endeavor to return to harmony within. We have told you that you are the transformers of the Love/Light which carry the components of life and all Creation, and these waves of Light are bombarding your Earth in greater amounts and increasing strength. The more of this wonderful elixir you can contain, the more you can disperse, and then even more will be given to you. There is a great gathering and celebration in the higher realms, as if each and every soul's good deeds are weighed and measured, and it is determined what your additional and share of heavenly gifts will be for the next cycle. Your guardian angels and angelic guides will use your special allotment of Love/Light to create more miracles in your life in order to ease the path and assist you in fulfilling your Divine Mission. Your share of heavenly riches is to be used to help create a better world, and to help accelerate the ascension process for yourself and for others. We have told you you must learn to receive so you may better share your gifts and abundance. Easter also has a much deeper significance than an observance of the crucifixion and resurrection of the Christed Being Jesus/Yeshua. This Beloved One set the stage for what is occurring on Earth at this time. He opened the way so that the Divine Love/Light of our Father/Mother God and the Supreme Creator could penetrate the veil and eventually permeate the Earth and the consciousness of humanity. The vibrational frequencies of Light are radiated forth in the greatest measure during the sacred event called the WESAK FESTIVAL, held at the time of the full moon during the Sun sign of Taurus. It is a time of showering down the pure Essence of the Creator through our Father/Mother God, the Lords of Light, the Buddhic forces and the Christed Beings from the highest dimensions. These times are especially auspicious, for there are Divine Representatives of the Creator from throughout the Omniverse stationed in the great cities of Light. They have come to observe and to share their gifts with humanity during these unprecedented times of transformation and evolution. Join with your soul families in a celebration of love, thanks giving and unity. To magnify and enhance the integration of the Divine gifts of Love/Light, we suggest that those gathered build a group Pyramid of Light/Power in the higher fifth dimensions, and as you come together in this sacred place, the infusion of Creator Light will be magnified amongst you, and each of you will share and benefit from the gifts bestowed on each other. You will have built a sacred place where, henceforth, you can come and join together with your soul companions and you will receive support, inspiration and wisdom from your special ascension group. Wherever you are inspired to be, know that it is a commitment you made a very long time ago in the higher realms. It will be a reuniting of Star Seed groups who have agreed to step to the fore and show the way for the beloved souls who will follow in their footsteps. You are preparing yourselves to be the bearers of the Christed/Creator energy foretold as the Second Coming. There will not be one great avatar to lead the way into the New Age. Each of you has the potential to be a Bearer of the Light and a Wayshower into the future. The third event we wish to speak of will take place on May 23, 2005, during the full moon in the astrological Sun sign of Gemini and has been designated as the FESTIVAL OF HUMANITIES. You will have begun the integration of the frequencies of Light bestowed upon you during the Wesak Festival, and at this event you will be asked to make a commitment to be an active Bearer of Light who will radiate into the world the Divine frequencies of Love/Light, Wisdom and Power. You will help make these wondrous gifts available to those who are stepping onto the path of awakening and beginning their journey toward en-LIGHTEN-ment. We suggest that you go into your own Pyramid of Light and ask that an ascension column be built through and around you, with you as its anchor. Envision the Light from your own God Self radiating down from the higher realms and permeating your Being, and as this Light grows stronger it will expand until it surrounds your home, your neighborhood, your city and will radiate out further and further in the area in which you live. Every area on Earth must be cleansed and brought into harmony.You are in or will be led to the place where you can be of the most service and if you are filled with Light instead of fear, you will be safe no matter where you are. Those who need cataclysms to awaken will take their cataclysms with them no matter where they go, for that is the reality they are creating. If your Higher Self wishes you move to another location, you will be guided as to when and where you are to relocate and where you can best serve and be served by the Light. Some are asking for more information regarding the gift of four angelic helpers I recently reminded you were available to each of you. All you have to do is sincerely ask for this gift, for we will not infringe upon your free will. It will be more effective if you ask during your meditation time, or better yet, go into your Pyramid of Light, for in doing so you bypass the distortions of the third- and lower fourth-dimensional mass consciousness. In the your Pyramid of Light, we can radiate our Essence to you and join you there. Your guardians, guides and teachers are there waiting for you and you may also call upon any of the Beloved Beings of Light or whomever you wish to join you. That is one of the wonders of these times. This is the easiest and most effective way for us to interact with you. You can ask to be taken to one of the great Cities of Light in your etheric body. Be aware that there are universal laws and a protocol that must be followed, as well as rules which determine what your unseen friends can do for you. We cannot negate or wipe out the tests and challenges that your Higher Self has instigated for your learning; however, we can smooth and ease the way if you are in the proper frame of mind and endeavoring to follow the higher path, and we can also dissolve any negative vibrations around you once you have garnered the wisdom from a particular lesson. You must always seek your highest good and the greatest good for all others. Your intent is of utmost importance and you should strive to stay centered within your sacred heart, to maintain harmony even in the midst of chaos around you. Live your life with integrity as you follow your truth to the best of your ability. Then we will walk beside you and smooth the way before you as you claim the gift of self-mastery that is being offered you. Let us all join together in the higher realms in these coming months, as we merge our Essence one with another, and together we will spread the Divine Light of the Creator out into the world and beyond. I am ever your faithful companion on the journey. I AM Archangel Michael. STAR*QUEST* 6005 Clear Creek Drive, Reno, NV 89502
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