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Contents:

1. Intuition Development with the Tarot by EarthSongWoman

2. Chakra Clearing, Re-energize and Balance Yourself in Twenty Min by Dawn Abraham

3. Manifesting Your Dreams & Desires by Shirley Knapp

4. Astro Theology and Sidereal Mythology by Michael Tsarion

5. The Holy Mushroom, by Jan Irvin

6. Spiritual Poetry by Suzi Kay

7.Ending Depression through Understanding by Aquarius

8. Loving Ways To handle Difficult Energies/Feelings

by Energy and/of Love

9. Spirit Guide Portraits at Surgery for the Soul.

10. My Awakening by Dave Brewer


Intuition Development with Tarot

by EarthSongWoman

This visualisation is a good general relaxation exercise as well as being a method to enter into a card or to connect with other realms.

I have described it as a method of going into a card... If you wish to use it as a relaxation exercise then at the point you would walk into a card you just pause here for as long as is comfortable then return in the manner described. You may find that you have images come to you - allow yourself to just view them and record them afterwards in your journey - they are likely to have significance to you either directly or symbolically.

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Chakra Clearing, Re-energize and Balance Yourself in Twenty Min

by Dawn Abraham

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Chakra clearing paves the way to opening your creative energy. Learn how to easily clear up what may be blocking you from success. Re-energize and balance yourself in twenty minutes.

I want to share with you a process that will clear your chakras allowing you to get the most out of any chakra based meditation you may be doing. I discovered this technique a while back and was grateful I did. It gave me clarity about which of my chakras needed attention. That information allowed me to work on the areas in my life that were blocked.

Let’s Start with some basic background information. The word Chakra means vortex or wheel. Chakras are energy centers in our body. There are seven main chakras in the body. They are lined up from the base of the spine to the top of your head. Each chakra adjusts different aspects of your personality. They each have different tasks. By Chakra clearing you can give your whole entire energy system a boost.

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Manifesting Your Dreams & Desires

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What are your dreams? Are they large enough? The Universe wants to bring you MORE. Are you in a place in your life where part of it feels limited or exhausting? If so, it is the time for you to begin manifesting your dreams and desires.

First of all you must remember that Miracles Do Happen and that it is time to reach for the top. Not to order from the bottom of the list, but to ask for what it is that you really desire. Go for the top. Go for the limitlessness.

Show your fellow beings that—through the process of releasing limited thoughts—your cup is filled with the opportunities that the Universe Wants To Bring to you. By daring to do this, you are teaching what you know. You have taken the courage to release. Now you must take the even greater courage to command and receive what you wish.

You must stay in touch with the fact that you are in actuality manifesting every moment of the day what you desire, whether it is the top or the bottom. Stretch your vision of yourself!

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According to Astro-theologian Michael Tsarion there is a great story of the human race that lies mostly buried in the unconscious slumber of men and women, although the story line continues to unfold as every hour passes upon the Earth. It is the story of humans and the natural world in which we live. It is not history or even her-story, it's our story.

Tsarion says that thousands of years ago, in the great society of Egypt that birthed the legendary Stellar and Lunar cults, men and women lived together as equals. They spent their lives striving for balance within themselves and with each other. To them the human body and consciousness were sacred and the inner questions of who and what they were reflected outward in their everyday lives. Living on the earth was a spiritual act and what we today consider mundane and ordinary, everyday reality, was understood by them to be infused with psychic energy and rich with personal meaning.

In their understanding, that which was created within the human psyche was partially reflected outward in the material world. The cycles of the human body and the cycles of nature were revered and studied in great depth as a means of divination and insight into their individual quests for clarity and understanding. The way they lived together and interacted was symbolic of their inward journey through the great challenges of life on the path to wisdom.

Today, most of us realize that we are out of balance within ourselves, with each other and with the planet. Other forces and other agendas have cut off the feminine and have driven reverence for the cycles of life and nature into a place of suspicion and domination. Without the wisdom of the other the male principle continues to divide and conquer the planet, paving it over for the mechanical progeny of his wounded ego.

The way we now reflect outward, the way we create our habitat here on this Earth, is an indicator of our internal crisis of spirit. Some believe that in prayer or by studying indigenous traditions we might gain clues as to what's not working within ourselves. Although we are on the right track in thinking that something must change, we are still mostly looking up to an inflated male ego creation (God) as the one who can force a solution. According to Tsarion the missing piece was left behind 10,000 years ago in the Garden of Eden. In the subsequent rewriting of this myth, the new authors condemned nature and the feminine principle. The liberating knowledge of the male and female was twisted into punishing retribution of the knowledge of good and evil. Women and nature were vilified and everyone was thrown out of balance, out of the Garden. It seems like the game was and still is about cutting off the male from the female and the human being from nature. All of our related psychic stress and searching is then covered up by artificial doses of material substitutions, religious dogma and rules. 

But fortunately, the human spirit is strong. Most of us want to reconnect. We just don't know where to start. Tsarion says the place to start is right here at home. Where we live. Inside and out. We have made an intellectual journey back to where we started 10,000 years ago — now it's time to get our house back in order.

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Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity

A critical re-evaluation of the schism between John M. Allegro
and R. Gordon Wasson over the theory on the entheogenic origins of Christianity
presented in The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
by J.R. Irvin, © 2008

    Why should we be surprised or shocked by the idea that people of all eras and cultures have used hallucinatory drugs to attain exalted states of consciousness, which they take to mean divine understanding?  In The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross John Allegro tried to show that this idea was built into the language and thought of religion from the very earliest times, and was still evident in the language and thought of the first Christians.

   When survival depended on the fertility of the earth, and fertility was a gift of the gods, people sought to promote fertility by appealing to divine power. The swiftest and surest way to know the mind of god was through the use of herbal drugs. Throughout all ages and across all continents, priests and shamans have used entheogenic drugs in religious rituals. One of the chief sources of these drugs was fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, the sacred mushroom.

   John Allegro believed that Judaism and Christianity were no exception. He held that many biblical stories and sayings derived from earlier fertility cults based on the use of the sacred mushroom. He discerned mushroom epithets behind many stories, names and phrases in the Old and New Testaments, either elaborated into folk tales or deliberately hidden in names and incantations. Embedded in different contexts, and often misunderstood in translation, they still carried messages for those who would look for them.

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Spiritual Poetry

©Susi Kay 2008

The Wings Of The Butterfly

 

Although I yearn for thee to keep

And know thee often turns to weep

I give my heart

It hath no bounds

To envelop thee

Make no sound

 

Though the skies turn oft’ to grey

I send thee dreams

Of sun filled days

To bask and bathe

In golden rays

 

Look now unto that cloudless sky

Float on the wings

Of the butterfly

Breathe the beauty

The flower doth send

Catch the gold of the daises head

 

Return thee now to this pliable earth

With thee I walk

To thee I serve

And tho’ I yearn for thee to keep

I hold this bond

Of love so sweet

S.K

07.07.2007

Ending Depression through Understanding

by Aquarius

Depression is one of the many mysterious conditions that are presently raging in our world. It surely is one of the most mystifying illnesses that have plagued humankind, possibly ever since we descended deeper and deeper into the suffering and pain that thus far seems to have been an inevitable part of life in physicality. The more we lost the contact with our Source, the deeper the suffering and the stronger the soul’s longing and yearning to return to the state of Heavenly bliss, of the oneness with God, that is its true home.

In a society that no longer has a centre – although we are slowly regaining it – life may frequently appear hopeless and pointless. Many these days live in a purely material existence that lacks the inner direction of knowing that this life serves a higher purpose. They know not why they are here and what they are meant to do. This can be such a frightening experience for some that they start looking towards what on the surface looks like a way out, namely suicide. It is by now reaching epidemic proportions, as the relevant statistics reveal, especially among the young. At the threshold of the Aquarian Age this is hardly surprising because among the souls now coming in are a great many highly evolved and therefore extremely sensitive ones. Unbeknown to their earthly self, their soul has chosen one of its most difficult experiences ever, that of having to face and coming to terms with existing in over-materialistic societies.

When such souls run into the difficulties this presents, many initially turn to a pastime that has become extremely popular these days and that is intellectualising the emotional/spiritual problems of the human psyche. The abundance of books that have been written in this vein speaks volumes in itself. On the surface of things it may appear is if such an approach could offer a quick fix to the solution of all human problems by explaining them away intellectually, thus creating a shortcut on our way to enlightenment. To find it is every soul’s birthright but not through spending its time by playing with words. They are part of the illusion of this world and unless they are followed up by right thoughts and deeds, at best they will count as nothing; at worst they will rebound on us and work against us.

The spiritual pathway – more about it in the chapter ‘The Resolution’ – is a narrow one and the only safe way of treading it, to my mind, is by turning towards our inner guidance; it alone can tell us what is right or wrong in any given situation. Apart from that it is important never to forget that we do not have to walk on the Earth alone. God and the Angels are with and our Guardian Angel is always there to help us even in the smallest endeavour. They know when we are ready to find out more about God, ourselves and the world we are living in. And when that moment comes, they guide us towards the right people and places.

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Loving Ways To handle Difficult Energies/Feelings

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Here is one of the many ways to handle energies that are not fully Light. When there are energies (feelings, thoughts) inside that are dissonant or noisy (anxiety, fear, .. anything that is judged as not ok):

Contain, Calm, Put it in Perspective, Explore and Transform.

There is a purposefulness and an honor in being stewards of our energies. When we make them better, we affect the lives of everyone else also. It is a great responsibility, we are not alone and all others do support us in our efforts.
It is an honor to have so much potential to help our self and others.

1. Contain them - do not act on them and give them a physical form.
Contain them, and hold them inside your self, like a vault. Do not project them (act on them), do not try to 'get rid of them' by telling others about them un-mindfully, and do not try to cover them over with other energies. Ultimately, these are energies within your self, and they are there for you to heal, and only you can do it. They are like a leaking roof... the leak is a sign of some work that needs to be done.

2. Calm the energy down. - If it is an emotion that is extreme, then calm it to make it be only moderate in intensity... or to be small. The more you can calm the energy down, the more your conscious thoughts and feelings can be clear.

Put your self in a place of calm and security... Go in nature, or sit down or lay down. Cuddle with a blanket. Take a warm shower or bath. Or even simply be still for a moment and take some easy breathes. Whatever calms you.

3. Put it in perspective. - After the energy is safely contained in yourself, realize that it is Only a feeling or thought... that is all; it may be uncomfortable, but really it is harmless. It is a feeling or thought; it is not your self. Just as you can be tired at some times, and energetic other times, ... your feelings and thoughts change; they are not the core of who you are.

It is the thought and feeling energy that you need to change. You, your self, are okay. It's like a car that has a leaking hose; the car itself is fine... the only need is to replace the leaking hose with a good hose that will let the car run well.

4. Explore and Transform the energy. - Why is it there? It is there to tell you something, and it is there to help. Your body gives you signals of discomfort when it's hungry, and it gives you pain if your shoes are hurting your feet. The discomforting energy is there as feedback; it is your sub-conscious way of bringing your attention to something important.
Is it your way of telling yourself of something you feel is a priority to attend to? Is it telling you to give your self more quiet time during the day? Or to start some purpose or intention you have been thinking of?
You already know the answer (that is why you are creating discomforting energies as signals), so you will be able to easily remember what it is, just by giving it attention.

When you find (ie. when you remember) what the meaning of the energy is, then you can naturally start to act on it. ..and soon, what once may have seemed like a problem, will be transformed into a thing of contentness and a reminder of our ability to create positive change


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Spirit Guide Portraits

Have you ever had the feeling that somebody is watching over you?

Or maybe you dream about a certain person, that you have not physically known in this lifetime?

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Psychic drawing and painting is not a new phenomenon, but in having a portrait of your own personal spirit guide, you are strengthening the link between the two planes of existence. Some people are more sensitive than others and they recieve clearer visual impressions of their guides than those who are still in their early spiritual development stages.

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MY AWAKENING
by David Brewer

The universe has its way of bringing what we need to us just at the right time. The way my awakening happened is a beautiful illustration of this. Afterwards I could look back at my life and see how it had all been put together to bring me to just the right place, at the right time, in the right circumstances to meet Allison. No there's no romantic interest here. Allison is the earth angel who arrived in my life completely by chance to wake me from the illusion and set me on the path to spiritual awareness.

I can see now how I'd been getting nudges in this direction for some time. I had a friend who was a Reiki master and another who was Reiki 2 and preparing for the master attunement. The Reiki 2 friend was also into all manner of esoteric stuff, most of which she would refuse to tell me about because I'd think she was mad. I watched her stop the rain once. I’d had a couple of Reiki sessions but didn't seem to get much from them at the time. I'd also had a 5 year relationship with a woman who was into runes, tarot and witchcraft, although she never seemed to do very much actual witchery that I could see. Nowadays I suspect there was more to her than I realised at the time. She would tell me how our thoughts were powerful and creative things and how I was unaware of just how powerful I was. She was right there. I felt powerless to have an effect on anything much. The world seemed to progress on its own path and there was little I could do to make much difference. I failed to see how what went on in my head could possibly make a difference to what occurred in the world outside.

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