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There is really only one gift that keeps on giving and that gift is love. Love is the ultimate gift on every level that embraces the physical, the mental, the emotional and the spiritual aspects of life itself. Without love, life for mortal people could not exist.
Love is an energy that embraces you in a thousand ways, in a thousand situations. Every person will describe love differently. It’s what we all want, it’s what we all seek but it is not what we all know how to give. Some people give love the way it was given to them – which may have been limited. Some people just open up their whole heart to everyone, even though this may not be what was given to them. It’s just who they are.
Love is the gift you give yourself because you can see your own goodness in the warm and loving ways that people react to you. Love is the way you care for your body; love is the way you see your body and enjoy the body you came in with. The more you love yourself and your body, the better body, the healthier body you will have for a very long time. The length of mortal life does not measure a person’s ‘long time, or long life’. The length of mortal life is measured by the length and breadth of that person’s soul evolution. Long life does not mean a person is well evolved. Long life means that a person has a long mortal contract this particular lifetime in which to learn greater and greater lessons of love.
Love is an energy that lives within you. The more you love, the more you will find yourself surrounded by loving people, people who are just like you in the way you love. Your resonance with all the Divine aspects of love will attract other people who are also in resonance with those same Divine aspects. What is a Divine aspect of love? A Divine aspect of love is a feeling of goodness you get when you are with that person, a feeling of unselfishness, of caring, of giving. It is also a feeling of non-judgment. When you are with other loving people, you can see how hard they try, how much they love not just you, but how much they love other people in their life. Being with that person makes you feel happy inside, hopeful. That person may be quite different from you and yet their core qualities are the same as yours: warmth and love.
Love is the pleasure that you find when a special friend knocks at your door, you hear her voice on the phone or he embraces you. Love is a combination of all the little bits and pieces of information, knowledge, hope and insight that every single person brings to you. Every person has a gift for you, no matter how small it may seem. Sometimes that gift can be the opportunity that person has to teach you and sometimes you give the gift of your own knowledge, lovingly shared with them.
Adversity visits all of us, not as a hardship so much as again, an opportunity to learn a new facet of love. Sometimes, you just need to learn what love isn’t, and why certain actions are not what anyone would call love. Some of our greatest lessons arise out of overcoming adversity. If this were not true, why would we even have a mortal life at all? Mortal life is a schoolhouse of opportunities to learn every single facet of what love is and isn’t. The more you learn, the more you evolve.
An evolved person loves everyone around them and unconsciously surrounds themselves with loving persons – it is just who they have become. An evolved person loves people and sees the perfection in each person’s path. Each new person is a new gift of friendship, possibly shared experience and hope. Old friends, new friends, precious family members offer some of the greatest gifts one person can ever have. Loving people, are the best gifts to have on your birthday, on Christmas day, and on every day of your life.
There is a television producer who has proposed an interesting pilot for a new TV show, with this premise: two family members are brought to the show because they are bickering over how to dispose of the possessions of a beloved family member who has died. They are agonizing over how their Dad would have wanted his ashes spread, or who their Mom would have wanted to have received her old fur coat, or what to do with their son’s vintage mustang car, as an example. So, on this show, a reputable psychic who is also a medium is brought in to contact the dead relative to adjudicate the argument. Once they learn what the dead person’s wishes are, then everything is resolved, everyone is happy and they all live happily ever after and even their grief is solved.
The producers absolutely believe that this show will help people resolve their differences after a loved one has died. They want to show that all anyone has to do is find a good medium, learn what their dead relative wants and everything is now OK.
Do you see the problem with this? This is just wrong on so many levels --- where does one begin!
The premise of the show is that since the living cannot resolve their differences, they need the services of a medium to find out the wishes of a dead relative. The ghost has to solve the problem. The irony is that once the medium contacts the ghost, they discover to their dismay that the ghost has given up ‘attachment’ and has let go of the past and is moving through the realms of the heaven world. Frankly, the dead just do not care what we do with their ashes, that old fur coat or the vintage mustang! What use have they of material things and really, why do they care?
It is not the job of a transitioned soul to have to adjudicate problems among family members left behind. If a soul is still hanging on to those things, then the soul has not made their required passage into the heaven world and truly, they have much bigger problems than what to do with a piece of jewelry or a set of golf clubs. One of the major lessons of dying is that you are giving up earthly things. One of the pleasures of transition is not needing earthly things. One of the milestones of soul evolution is the concept of release from attachment.
Souls need to feel that they are now, literally free to move through all the glorious school houses of the heaven world, unencumbered by the problems that their death may have engendered for the living. Every person’s death is a problem for some living person. That is part of the lesson of living and dying. Everything we do, whether it is being born or it is dying is going to have an impact on someone, somewhere, somehow. This impact, the continuing impact of living on after someone in our life dies, is the purpose of life itself, of living through all the experiences on the Earth plane and eventually all the experiences of the Heaven world. That is the very essence of the process of soul evolution.
Just because a family member may want a departed soul to resolve a family squabble, does not mean that contacting the dead soul is a karmically correct action to take. Resolving that squabble without the departed soul is the lesson!
The other profoundly disturbing element here is the concept of ‘just finding a reputable medium’ to talk to the dead. Do we just look these folks up in the phone book? Truly, how does one conduct due diligence on a medium? Some people will use word-of-mouth, or reputation. Most of the really authentic mediums do not advertise. Many of them are extremely careful how they use their expertise, because the karmic bar is set a much higher for them. Literally they are being trusted with the ability to talk to the other realms and not only is that not a minor feat, it is also a huge karmic responsibility.
Some mediums are frankly questionable. One has to approach them gingerly. Some mediums prey on the sadness of the grieving family and often tell them what they want to hear, while charging large sums of money. So just finding a medium is itself a problem.
Frankly, if all anyone had to do, was to ask the dead what their wishes are, wouldn’t it all be just so much easier? Wouldn’t grief be easier if we could get the answers to the ever-nagging questions of:
• Why did this happen?
• What were you thinking when you drove off the bridge?
• Why did you kill yourself?
• Are you ok where you are, do you miss me?
• Did you suffer horribly at the hands of your killer?
• Can you ever forgive me for what I did or didn’t do?
When you consider how profound, poignant and persistent these questions are, the question of what to do with material things, just pales in comparison.
Maybe this producer’s television pilot will be a hit, at least for a while. Maybe a tiny handful of families will get an irrelevant answer as they put off their karmic lesson. Maybe audiences will falsely believe that they can find reputable mediums in the phone book, that are able to talk to the dead. However, the truth is, that the age-old elements of grief will never be so easily solved.
The karmic lessons of living and learning from grief are demanding and no matter how much any of us want them to be different, they are not going to change. We must come to terms with our grief and we have to heal our grief and our relationships through the process of loving and helping one another day by day, through the challenging schoolhouse of earthly life.
In the parlance of the spiritual path, you learn that you cannot change anyone else: you can only change yourself. How you change yourself will ultimately determine how people around you react to you and what energetic forces you attract. Like absolutely attracts like. So to this end, what if you could change the circumstances of your day-to-day life? What if you could change something about yourself and your surroundings in a really wonderful way?
The benefits of this are many-fold, rather like a good neighbor who really has a beautiful yard: that yard/home and property will help the values of the whole neighborhood. You will find that you are happier, healthier and overall, have a more fulfilling life – and this is something that you can control. There are unseen forces out there that react to how you react. So, how can you raise the value, literally the vibration of where you work, as well as your home?
Here is the experiment. Do it for 90 days as a test.
• Step one: Every morning, visualize the violet flame of transmutation coming up through your desk, work space, home, property, car anything that you want to spiritually clear and make feel very positive. It has to be your space. You cannot do this for someone else, only your own space.
• Step two: Bring down a beautiful white light after you have done the violet flame on the whole area. This will literally bring positive healing light to your life.
• Step three: As you walk toward your desk, workspace, car, home, yard or room, bless it. Just ask that the area be blessed by the Diving Light of God.
• Step four: Every so often during the day, say to yourself one or all of the following affirmations:
*Something wonderful happens to me every day.
*Day by day in every way, I am more abundant.
*Everywhere I go, I meet the nicest people.
*I am magnetic to all wonderful things.
*It’s all good. Even the difficult experiences are teaching me valuable lessons.
• At the end of every day, give thanks in your prayers for the wonderful day you had.
• Send some type of healing to the world. Give out the energy of your most generous heart.
• Create a new realities book where you make a list of the aspects that you are ready to receive in your life. This can be a raise, a new car, love in your life and/or great health.
• Ask your subconscious to make this happen and then thank your subconscious for doing such a great job.
It is good to remember that the subconscious makes manifest what the conscious part of you creates. Your connection to Higher Self is what will provide the spiritual horsepower to make manifest wonderful things.
As you do the things above, you are changing your own frequency. The higher your frequency, the higher frequency people, experiences and things will you attract.
When – yes - when wonderful things begin to happen to you, start recording them. Document the results of this experiment just as you would do with any experiment. The proof of your actions will be in the reactions of people to you. Your attitude will determine how the world treats you. Just like Ebenezer Scrooge, he had to change his view of life itself in order to redeem himself before his eventual death. As he changed, literally, the sun came out in his life.
True metaphysicians are ultimately scientists at heart, studying the science of that which is beyond known physics. When every one of us can prove the existence of how all of this works to ourselves, we can literally change the world around us and truly make this world a very happier place for everyone with whom we interact.
Did you ever notice that when people get together and they begin to talk about ghosts, that somehow everyone joins in, not just with an opinion, but also with an actual experience of some kind? . . .sizzle. . .
Did you ever ponder why when people are discussing religion that frequently they begin to discuss past lives and reincarnation? Pop!
When people discuss going on vacation or to a new country that more often than not, they will note how familiar the place felt, almost as if they had been there before? Pop, Pop!
Did you ever meet someone and note how instantly you either disliked with him or her, or at the opposite end, felt immediately comfortable with him or her, almost- - - -almost as if you have known them before? Pop, Pop, Pop!
Have you ever taken part in a discussion of the pyramids in Egypt, the pyramids of Teotihuacán, the monuments of Tiahuanaco, or the amazing pyramids in China? Did the discussion continue to include Stonehenge, Angkor Wat, Chichin Itza, or Machu Picchu? Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop!
Perhaps you and your friends gazed at the night sky and pondered the possibilities of life in Atlantis, or life on other planets, ancient and modern alien visitors? Did you then go around the group and ask if someone had actually seen a UFO or had a close encounter? They filled you with their delicious sense of either, dread, fear and/or excitement, didn’t they! Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop!
Surely you have seen a deck of Tarot cards, or been to a party where someone is doing a Ouija board or telling a story of their experience with these darker tools of magic. This caused you to want to understand what this concept of magic is all about. Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop!
Mental popcorn is created when even one person figures out that there is a staggeringly large world out there of fascinating, esoteric facts, opinions, legends and native stories to learn about that cannot be explained away by science! Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop!
These things are so interesting, so tantalizing that you begin to hunger for even more stories of the strange, the unexplainable, and the hauntingly tempting elements of the seemingly unknowable.
Yet, there are people who do know this information and how it works! These are the seemingly eccentric people who spend a very large part of their lives studying just these very topics. They are utterly fascinating to talk to, why it is as if you didn’t realize how very hungry you actually were to understand this very important yet esoteric side of life! These people will also help you understand how to connect the psychic dots of understanding, the invisible lines of connection and the eternal historical threads that totally bind all of us together. They will skillfully weave the tapestry of understanding and ultimately help you to find wisdom.
These are the teachers among us who spend a lifetime in their own personal searches for truth beyond what modern science tells them is ‘true.’ These people will understand the esoteric and profound science of love, compassion, hate and viciousness and their places in our lives. These folks have an organized mind and they can delicately put the pieces together of why you hated your mother and how that may connect to a past life you may have had in say Brazil or China. They will guide you to seeing into the realms beyond physics into meta [beyond] physics.
If you are lucky enough to find one of these people, you will have entered the world of the disciple, the initiate in training, the world of the metaphysician. We can all enter this world it is not for a few people alone. The only difference is that they long ago discovered the pleasures of mental popcorn and now fill out their spiritual diet with meatier topics and, often, healthier spiritual choices. You can enter this world with diligence, an open mind and an insatiable desire to know.
However, at the end of the day, at the end of a life, truly, the butter on that spiritual popcorn is the wisdom acquired by understanding, growth and the delectable connection to the clear light of the Divine!
The following copyrighted poem is from a collection called "Poems from the Mariner's Wife". These were written to my husband who, at 61, is still sailing the seven seas, so that he would know that no matter where in the world he would be, my love would always find him.
Halloween
By Tina Erwin
The Goblins have come, as they do every year,
to fill all the children with excitement and fear.
The orangey pumpkins with gnarly faces,
are waiting for the moment to assume their places.
The kids have decided what they will and won’t be,
a flapper, a gangster, a kook from TV.
The trick or treat candy now sits in the basket
just waiting for someone to dare for to ask it.
The witches are watching from rooftops and trees
while trolls terrorize the insects and scare away the bees.
The Trick or Treat players have begun their patrol,
seeking candy and fun from around every knoll.
But there’s just no Halloween at sea I’m told,
just the wind and water and the ever present cold.
So think of us brightly on Halloween night
as we ward off the scary, the hairy, the fright.
We’ll think of you braving the dark anyway
with nothing to scare you but the lack of the day.
So wrap your Halloween in our love and light
and you won’t have trolls or scares or fright.
For Halloween time is about love after all
the love that comes from the feel of Fall.
That love that comes from the fun painted faces,
and the knowledge that we miss you in your far away places.
Copyright 2009, Poems by the Mariner's Wife, by Tina Erwin
"Inhale, Exhale" & "DESIGN YOUR LIFE Hello everyone from Cheri & Judy of a ~ www.Asacredconnection.com ~ We are so grateful to offer you this interview with Tina Erwin from the Edgar Cayce's (A.R.E.®) ~ Association for Research and Enlightenment. (Now archived on ~ www.worldpuja.org ~) Tina provides us with an hour of helpful information allowing you to integrate simple powerful tools such as Love, Truth, Wisdom, and Compassion in your life as you encounter challenges of loss in your daily! Tina D. Erwin, CDR, USN, Ret, has studied metaphysics much of her life to allow her to understand her own psychic abilities. These intense studies were further enhanced by the experiences of a dynamic twenty-year career in the Navy, working for the US Submarine Force and retiring at the Commander level. All of these experiences enabled her to not only assist her sister and her family, at the death of their child, but also guided her in the creation of the book Lightworkers Guide to Healing Grief. Tina offers us all hope about the afterlife while also exploring reincarnation, "death gates," angels, and ghosts as she takes us through the stages of grief ~ offering tools and methods that really help us to heal. You can learn more about Tina at her website www.TheLightworkersGuide.com. Also, to To learn more about Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment, (A.R.E.®), please visit www.EdgarCayce.org With Love & Grace, Cheri & Judy Cheryl P. Lenz “Teacher, Practitioner of the ~ "New Energy Medicine” Judy Lynn Sorenson Intuitive Consultant ~ Vibrational Medicine Co~Host of ~ the Design Your Life Broadcast on ~ www.worldpuja.org Anchoring the Energies of Love, Truth, Beauty & Goodness Web site: www.Asacredconnection.com www.omniumfoundation.com |
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Monday October 19th, 2009 ~ Airing 12:30 ~ 7:30 p.m. PST
Interview with~ Tina Erwin
Co~Hosted by ~ Cheryl Lenz & Judy Sorenson of ~ www.Asacredconnection.com
Hello & Welcome everyone!
This is Cheryl and Judy of A Sacred Connection broadcasting from the World Puja Network! We are so grateful to offer you this interview with Tina Erwin from the Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E Association for Research and Enlightenment. Judy and I are very excited that Tina joins us to provide you with a wonderful hour of enlightening information that will keep you focused, aligned, and able to integrate simple powerful tools such as Love, Truth, Wisdom, and Compassion in your life as you encounter challenges in your day to day life!
Tina D. Erwin, CDR, USN, Ret, has studied metaphysics all her life to enable her to understand her own psychic abilities. These intense studies were further enhanced by the experiences of a dynamic 20 year career in the Navy, working for the US Submarine Force, retiring at the Commander level. All of these experiences enabled her to not only assist her sister and her family, at the death of their child, but also guided her in the creation of the book Lightworkers Guide to Healing Grief. Erwin offers us all hope about the afterlife while also exploring reincarnation, “death gates,” angels, and ghosts as she takes us through the stages of grief—offering tools and methods that really help us heal. You can learn more at her website www.TheLightworkersGuide.com. To learn more about the Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc. (A.R.E.®), please visit EdgarCayce.org
Topics we will discuss in this interview include; how to move through the various types of grief, loosing a loved one, life situations; loss of job, home, and relationships with the knowing there is life after trauma.
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