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“Know Thyself!” This has been the clarion call of the Ancient Mystery Schools from time immemorial. The Schools have been meeting places for all who have wanted to come to truly “know” who they are and claim their personal Mastery. The profoundly transforming tools of Self-Mastery that were taught in the Schools have been “hidden” for millennia and up until recently available to only a select few. But they are now available to all who sincerely desire to learn them.

One of the great gifts of the times we are now living in is that we all can directly access this knowledge for ourselves. As well, we can each directly connect with the Masters that embody this wisdom/love and be guided by them into a deeper connection with our Selves/Souls. We can connect with a very powerful and a very real Internal Master Mind Group that really supports and loves us.

We can attain Mastery of our minds, emotions, body, and ego; and when we do, we can live a life that is constantly fed and inspired by the deepest levels of our Soul/Higher Self. We can live a life of Empowerment, Joy, and Love. We can be free of the limitations and myopia of the ego mind.

As Eileen Cady, the co-founder of The Findhorn Community, so elegantly stated:

By claiming our Self-Mastery, we learn how to live in the divine flow of life—free of the fears, worries, and false beliefs that limit us. We can claim our Mastery and leave behind our old, false identities of being victims and powerless. We can directly access the wisdom of our Soul and live our lives based on its inspirations.

Self-Mastery and empowerment are the birthrights we are all entitled to. We are being called to accept our true inheritance, one in which we finally realize that we are divine Masters and co-creators of Joy.

You can uncover for yourself the mystery and majesty of who you really are. You can end your bondage to the old, false self-images and the enmeshments and entanglements of your past, and claim the power and freedom to “Be true to your Self.”

You can enter the doors to the sacred temple of your Soul and find within all the wondrous beauty of Thy Self.

By learning to breathe, quiet the ego mind and listen, you, too can become a Master of your life and no longer a victim.

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How can you be “true to yourself?” How can you live your life authentically connected to who you really are and not to who you think you should be?

The key is listening. That is, listening to your authentic Self or your Soul and following her promptings. This means that you must slow down enough to quiet your ego mind and view your self and the situation at hand from the perspective of your Soul.

Your ego will always “awfulize” and “catastrophize” everything. It makes everything a life and death situation when in fact there is no death, there is only life! It notices or fixates on irrelevant details and ignores the bigger picture.

Progress up your life’s mountain of Mastery is not a linear progression. Progress in your life is a series of pieces of a puzzle that you experience over time which eventually helps you to see the bigger picture.

But it is only your Soul that can help you see your experiences from this broader perspective. And if you ignore or don’t even know that there is such a perspective through which to interpret and understand yourself and the experiences you are having, you are lost.

So, I often find myself asking the question: “What does my Soul think of this situation? How does my Soul feel and see it all?” These are the questions I want to always be asking and this is the way in which I want to learn how to see and interpret everything in my life. I know that by doing it this way, everything is softer, easier and clearer. And it allows me to be more relaxed and at peace.

So, take the time to learn how to “see” again. Take the time to breathe, quiet your mind and pause before you act or react from your ego’s perspective.

Learn how to put your Self or your Soul first and leave your ego behind. Always, always, breathe, pause and ask: “How does my Soul see this?” And then trust what you receive! Then you will be putting your Self first!

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"The Mind is a Lot Less Important than We Think It is: Who do You Think You are? A MeditationI"


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It is so hard for the ego mind to wrap itself around who you really ARE. The ego mind is only capable of remembering the conditioning which it has been fed since birth. It knows nothing about the Divine plan that you formulated before it came into being. It has no clue regarding your infinite potential; and it certainly has no idea about the incredible mysteries and majesty that lie within you.

So, why do we keep relying on the ego mind to help us get to know ourselves or to understand what our purpose is? The ego mind is meant at best to be a servant of our soul. It is not meant to be our master.

So, let us learn how to access this clear, pure essence by learning to quiet our ego mind and listen to our heart/soul. Then we will discover who we ARE.

Meditation is the key to this way of perceiving.

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The mind is a lot less important than we think it is. In our Western rationalistic society, we have given pre-eminence to the cognitive processes. Of course, the mind has its place and value in the scheme of things. But the mind is not meant to be the primary way we experience reality. As Carl Jung said, “All of reality is not thinking.”

Feeling or sensing is. The mind judges, analyzes, compartmentalizes and this causes a sense of separation and duality. The heart or the intuitive faculty embraces or becomes one with its object of attention. It feels it from the inside out.

The heart knows an object from the inside out and not from just the surface, outside appearance. So, to really get to know someone or something, learn to quiet your mind and feel; and then identify with and become one with that which you are focused on.

Meditation is the doorway to this way of perceiving.

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"Spiritual Guides, Mentors, Masters, Angels and Ancestors, Part II"


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This is Part IV of a four part series. Please go back to my last three blog entries for Parts I, II and III.

Past Lives:

1. While in a meditative state create the intention that you want to see a past life for yourself or for the person you are reading for. Then, as in number one in Part III of my previous blog entry, create a silhouette of a person and then begin to see it fill in. Trust the impressions you get. See what gender, size, shape, clothing, feeling, historical time period, etc. appear.

2. Ask why it has appeared now and what it wants to communicate. Trust the impressions you get.

3. Ask what is the primary message or quality that it wishes to reflect to the person you are reading for or to you. Sense/merge with its presence and sense what you feel it wants to communicate. Trust the impressions you get.

4. Ask for a name, too. See number 4 in Part III of my previous blog for instructions on how to receive a name.

5. Or, lastly, imagine yourself or the person you are reading for as an historical figure and see who shows up. Then determine your relationship or their relationship to that historical figure and to the era they represent. In other words, if Socrates shows up, it is more than likely that his image appears as a marker for an era and is not likely to mean that you or the individual you are reading for was Socrates. Then by asking simple questions and creating a silhouette as above you can unearth information about this particular past life. Trust the impressions you get.

This is the last of four parts on this topic. Please go back to my last three blog entries for Parts I, II and III.

Feel free to email me with any questions you may have about this topic.

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This is Part III of a four part series. Please go back to my last two blog entries for Parts I and II.

How can I sense them?

1. While in a meditative state create a silhouette of a person and then begin to see it fill in. See what gender, size, shape, clothing, feeling, etc. appear. Ask if it is a guide, mentor, master, angel, ancestor, etc. Usually it will be obvious. Trust the impressions you get.

2. Ask why it is here now and what it wants to communicate. Trust the impressions you get.

3. Ask what is the primary message/feeling that it wishes to communicate either to you or to the person you are reading for. Sense/merge with its presence and “listen” to what it is communicating or saying.

4. Ask for a name. The name may be spelled out before you or you might hear it clairvoyantly, but often it can be expressed symbolically, e.g., a white eagle feather is White Eagle. Or it can be expressed metaphorically, e.g. a rock means Peter, a crown means Stephen, etc. Or you can create your own shorthand for common names using symbols, metaphors and letters of the alphabet. Or you can ask for the letter of the first name and then be lead to more letters. Trust your impressions and flow with them and you will be amazed at what can happen.

5. If it is an ancestor, notice whether it is on the right (father’s side) or left (mother’s side). Ask it to reveal to you gender and relationship (i.e. grandparent or aunt/uncle, etc.) and perhaps a word or an image that might have evidential meaning for the person you are reading for. For example, a ring or watch or favorite color or article of clothing that would have special meaning. Trust your impressions.

6. Sense/merge with this energy and let it express a message through your heart. Trust your impressions and flow with them. [Sometimes the person that appears may be physically alive. You can tell by looking at their navel and noticing whether there is a silver cord present or not. If the cord is not present, they are no longer physical.]

7. Lastly, another technique is to focus on the image of a heart and see who comes out of it. Trust the impressions you get.

Part IV to follow.

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"Spiritual Guides, Mentors, Masters, Angels and Ancestors, Part I"


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This is Part II of a four part series. Please go back to my last blog entry for Part I.

Who are my Guides?

1. They are often individuals who have had a similar Soul’s purpose and/or lessons to learn as you presently do, but who have already “mastered” them.

2. Their personalities were (are) likely to be the same or similar to yours.

3. As well, some are less evolved than you and they are there to impede your way in order to help you to overcome. They have similar issues as you do. They gain in this process, as well.

How do they work with me?

1. They never impose or force decisions or truths upon you. They honor and recognize that you must make your own choices.

2. They support you. They are not judgmental. They are loving, kind, and healing. They never come with fear.

3. They need your permission to help. You must “ask” for their support. “Seek and ye shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened.”

4. They help you to get in touch with the Divine within you, with your main power source. They help recharge your batteries. They help you to access higher truths, spiritual experiences, and healing.

Parts III and IV to follow.

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This is Part I of a four part series.

Our Guides are with us before our physical birth, at our birth, all the way through our physical lifetime, and during and after our crossing over. In other words, they are always with us. They are a part of our Soul group. One or two are usually most prominent, though we have many in our lifetime.

They can be seen and experienced consciously, if we quiet our minds and open our hearts. Otherwise most of the communication goes on when we are asleep on the astral plane.

Their purpose is to Serve, Protect, Inspire, Guide, and Teach us.

We have a number of Guides with us on a constant basis (they are always on call, so to speak), for example:

1. Master Guides: offer inspiration, higher truths, and insight. They guide us to greater peace, love, and mastery over our thoughts and feelings. They have chosen and agreed to love us unconditionally and to work with us for eternity, no matter what.

2. Protectors: help with physical protection, healing, and health.

3. Intuitive Guides: help with our spiritual and psychic development. They are “gatekeepers,” in other words; they protect the gates between the physical and spiritual worlds for us.

4. Occupation/Work: come according to the work we do: parent, teacher, counselor, politician, artist, musician, engineer, accountant, plumber, scientist, religious leader, etc.

5. Special Guides: touch in from time to time for particular issues or problems you have, i.e., finances, relationships, work, etc.; or for specific spiritual development issues, Jesus, Mary, Yogananda, St. Germain, etc.; or for specific creative projects, inventions, etc.

Throughout your life, your guides come and go, as your needs change. If you take on a new, important, and difficult task, you may have a special guide for the duration of that task. Other guides may remain with you for the better or total part of your life. You meet or attract many along the way in your life.

Parts II, III and IV to follow.

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"The 'Embrace'"


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This week I am sharing with those of you who read my blog why I do the work that I do. Please go back to my post on July 31 for Part I.

Within each one of us lies a limitless well of living waters brimming with wisdom, love, inspiration, creativity and strength. We just need to find the key that opens us to these treasures.

This key lies in learning how to quiet the mind and open the heart (i.e. meditate) in order that we might learn how to experience and process life through the heart-mind and no longer through the myopic vision of the ego mind.

Herein one will find a profound place of freedom and joy from which one can truly “live life.” Herein one becomes the author/authority of his/her life and learns what it means to truly be a Master of her/his thoughts, emotions and life experiences.

Herein one truly learns to be “true to thy Self.” As well, one comes to understand that if you have not yet learned to “know thy Self” that life will feel and be incomplete.

So, I wish that my work can be a road map to that divine, blessed place of peace and the “Embrace” that lies within each and every person, a place that all those who truly aspire to Mastery have found, a place where there is a peace and a love that “passeth all understanding.”

It is here that the initiates of the Ancient Mysteries Schools endeavored to arrive. In my work, I intend for the “mysteries” of this process to be removed and so, too, the “ancient” trappings! We are living in a time when the ancient keys to the Kingdom are, in fact, fully accessible to every modern man and woman who desires to access them. The Divine Feminine has returned!

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