Cygnus Review April 2013 - Free Your Heart

April 2013, issue 4 – free of charge

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Cygnus Review heal your body, feed your soul, free your mind, love your planet

Meditation Eckhart Tolle

Free Your Heart

Manuscript Found in Accra Paolo Cuelo Keys to the Universe Diana Cooper

When Love is Truly All-in-all Pierre Pradervand Heal the Hidden Cause Sandy Newbigging No Dig Organic Heaven Maddy Harland

Come, Free Your Hearts Right Now, From All the Lies Ann Napier

Ann Napier

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y dear, dear Friends, When we were younger we used to sing a most beautiful song, with the line in it: ‘Come, free your hearts right now, from all the ties.’ But once I misread the words and sang ‘Come, free your hearts right now, from all the lies.’

As I sang the word ‘lies’, I noticed that a million bells were ringing inside me, because it struck me very forcibly that our most important task in life is to free our hearts, minds and souls from all the lies we have inadvertently believed as a result of conditioning. I felt that if only we could dissolve and remove all this illusory junk, the divine would be able to shine, speak and act through us in a pure way, just as is the highest intention for us as human beings. ‘I and the Mother/Father are one.’ ‘Greater things than these shall you do.’

Healing our souls also helps healing from cancer Because freeing our hearts from lies is also a most important component of healing from cancer, these days I am working to do that with a wonderful, compassionate shaman/doctor/sound healer, Vladislav Matrenitsky, in the Ukraine.

The other day Vladislav suggested I talk to my brain, and ask it what was wrong.

Since 2011 I have known I have brain tumours you see. They don’t usually give me any symptoms miraculously, but they are still there, like the sword of Damocles.

However, I am convinced that – with the help of my older son, who is applying his considerable intelligence to finding ways of healing cancer that conventional doctors usually don’t think of – or are not allowed to think of – we will

Come, Free Your Hearts Right Now, From All the Lies eventually heal them, especially if I do my spiritual work and uncover, understand and dissolve all the lies without fear or attachment.

So to help me do what Vladislav said, I looked at one of the statues of Quan Yin (Goddess of compassion), that we have in our bedroom. They have such compassionate faces, and radiate such peace and calm. So I imagined this compassionate being, looking into my brain and showing me what was wrong.

My biggest lie This is what I was shown. Throughout my life, and maybe even before, I had believed a very big lie: that for sins I was not even aware of, did not understand and may not even have committed, I could be punished and made to suffer unbearably for years and years, so that to this day, when I suffer, I believe I am being punished for something ….. but I do not know what I did wrong. Also I could never quite believe that I deserved a life without suffering. The effect of my acceptance of this great big lie was to place a sort of iron helmet over my head, which even the divine could not penetrate or remove, because I was keeping it in place with my own conditioned belief.

So in sum, my iron helmet is formed by the (totally unreasonable, I know, but nevertheless very deep-rooted) sense of having been abandoned by God to an unpleasant fate because I have displeased Her/Him in some way. Neale Donald Walsch says you should always give what you wish to receive, and that is what I have always tried to do: to give others an ever-deepening sense of their connection with the Divine, and an awareness of their ineffable perfection and purity, and the feeling that they are warmly, totally and unconditionally loved. That is why I wrote our 2013 calendar – for myself as well as you – especially the affirmation for May, because I thought I would need to meditate on that rather a lot this year: I AM a unique and wonderful being, who causes the Divine heart to sing, for the sheer joy of knowing I exist. That is how loved I

AM and how loved every being is.

Receive what you give So what I have now realised is that while I may have spent almost my entire life in manifesting my prayer to be able to spread Divine wisdom and love, I have to find some way for this ocean of truth, joy, peace and harmony to penetrate my own body and mind as well, and to fill me so fully that there simply won’t be room for anything else; otherwise healing will eternally elude me. In other words I have to remove that darned iron helmet, because it is a lie.

On realising this I immediately saw an image of the helmet being turned upside down and made beautiful – studded with jewels and transformed from iron into gold. Ew – how do I do that? I asked myself. But the answer came very quickly: take steps to cancel out the beliefs forming the helmet with opposing truths.

Affirm: I am eternally and completely loved; I never did anything wrong, I am innocent and pure; I can never be separated from love because I AM love; love can never abandon me, because love is all that exists; my mind is love’s mind; my flesh is love’s flesh. God is love.

Nothing else exists.

So with these affirmations, persistently practised, I could turn the helmet upside down and transform it into an empty grail cup, which I could then offer up to the divine, to be filled to overflowing with THAT which is beyond the mind.

So, while I may never understand it through discursive thought, there’s one thing I know: the Unknowable will increasingly be able to flow from me to quicken and nurture the souls of others.

And that is the gift I have most longed for throughout my life.

Thus, through an utterly terrifying experience, a door has been opened for me, and a most longed-for gift has been given. It is my heartfelt wish that you may receive the same through reading this.

Bless you, dear lovely people, Ann, Geoff and the Cygnus Team

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his is the story of how following the call of my heart and getting in touch with my true Self transformed an abused and drug-addicted adolescent into a passionate woman living her dream. It is the story of how I discovered that what we love and God’s will for us is one and the same and ultimately how all heartfelt passions and desires lead to a life of service.

My childhood As a young child I had the most beautiful relationship with my mom. We spent hours playing and hanging out together. Then when I started school my mom missed me so much that sometimes she would tell the principal I had to go to the doctor just so she and I could play together. We would sing in the garden, watch our favorite movies in bed and eat fishes in the dishes—sardines and crackers. Our connection was clearly magical.

However, when I was seven, my mom’s demons came back to haunt her and she became a raging alcoholic. My world cracked open. As a child my first thought was, ‘Did I do this?’ From then on I transformed into the black sheep in school and my world became a nightmare.

My mom and dad eventually divorced and my life spiraled out of control. At the age of seventeen I was physically molested by my brother’s two best friends. Then I got into drugs. At eighteen I was strung out on LSD. At nineteen I lived with the president of the Oakland Hells Angels. And at twenty I lived in no less than twentyone different places in one year. I was on a roll of the lost kid. One day I had the realization, ‘If I don’t stop this then I will end up like my mom or worse.’

I had a boyfriend who was not into drugs and one day when we were talking I said, ‘Do you know what I think?’ He said, ‘You don’t think. You don’t even have a brain.’ It felt like someone had taken a sledgehammer and hit me hard. I was mortified that someone I loved had said something so awful to me.

In tears, I called my brother who lived eight hours away. In his sweetest voice he said, ‘It’s ok little sister, you’ll be alright. I’ve just discovered something wonderful, it’s called transcendental meditation. Don’t worry, everything’s going to be ok.’ Four days later he turned up at my door, walked into the house, packed my bags and together we moved to Santa Barbara, California, where he lived with me until I got off the drugs and learned how to meditate. That marked the beginning of my life turning around for the better and it was a big sign from Spirit. I believe that learning how to meditate saved my life.

The Light – Following Your Heart the president of the Hell’s Angels and then Beginning to follow my heart realizing she would have to change her life or A miraculous series of events followed, else she would end up just like her mother. At which led me to go from a completely broke that point I got real quiet, looked out at the meditation teacher to following my dream audience, took a breath and said, ‘And that of becoming a transformational speaker and little girl was me.’ seminar leader.

The women got up out of their chairs Then one day I opened an email from someone I did not know, which is unusual and gave me a standing ovation. There was not a dry eye in the house. for me. It said: ‘Dear Janet Bray Attwood, we are group It suddenly became clear Every single step of women in Miami. We why spirit had led me here. are putting on a day where you take leads you As I looked out at each and every one of these precious we are going to bus in two right to where you women, I saw my mother. In hundred homeless women in transition to a five star are supposed to be. that moment a healing took place in my heart and it was hotel. We are going to feed so huge that I would never be them on china, give them the same again. I knew without a doubt that presents and we would love you to come everything I needed to heal with my mother along and be the keynote speaker. And by the way, we can’t pay you.’ was healed in that moment.

This deep inner knowing that I had to Following the direction of Spirit accept their invitation came over me. A light I have noticed that the best moments of went on inside and as I sat there reading the my life have been when I can not make email, I felt like crying. I knew I had to say sense of why I am there. I have also come to yes. I received another message from Spirit understand that all of us are here to give and while I was on the plane: ‘Do not give these it is the giving that creates happiness. When women your usual opening speech.’ When I I follow the direction of Spirit—follow the arrived I took one of the organizers out for Light—in the highest sense I am looking out dinner and asked her what the women from for number one and that is where I find the the shelters were like. She said, ‘Well, they biggest gifts. have a five to ten minute attention span, There are a number of things that I have many of them are coming off drugs, they’ll found get in the way of being able to listen be running back and forth to the bathroom to Spirit. Some of those are false beliefs and to smoke and they’ll probably be the worst caring what other people will think. By audience you’ve ever had.’ At that point I felt having the courage to listen to and trust my very depressed. I did not want to disappoint intuition, I create the courage to listen to it these women and I did not have a clue how again and again. Every time I listen and trust, to capture their hearts.

I realize even more that it is the only voice That night before bed, I said a prayer, which will guide me safely to my destiny.

‘Please let me know what to say to these There are no mistakes in the universe. Every women tomorrow.’ When I woke up I went single step you take leads you right to where straight to my computer and started writing. you are supposed to be. My desire is that When I walked on stage, I took out my everyone has the courage to listen to their piece of paper and read it to them. It went true Self and follow their heart. It is always like this: ‘There once was a little girl and she the path of least resistance. had a magical relationship.’ And I went on Extract from The Light, © 2013 by Keidi to tell the story about this little girl getting Keating, published by The Light Network. physically molested, taking drugs, riding with

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When Love is Truly All-in-all

any years ago, I was attending the board meeting of an international peasant-farmer network of which I was one of the founding members in the seventies in West Africa. This is the amazing group that inspired the writing of my book Listening to Africa.

The last day of my stay, I caught dysentery. I spent some hours studying, meditating, praying to overcome the situation as had been my custom for years, rather than hastily swallowing some pills.

In the evening it seemed to have cleared up and I went out for dinner with some African friends. However, the next day, during my trip home, it manifested itself again quite vigorously. So on the plane I was assiduously working, spiritually to overcome the condition.

I was seated next to an unaccompanied little boy with a little card on his chest carrying his name, address and other details. The stewardess taking care of him was unbelievably gentle with him, as if she were his mother. At one moment, she came and spoke to him with such kindness I suddenly felt engulfed by a wave of incredible gratitude for this woman. And

I was aware of absolutely nothing else but the infinitude, grandeur, majesty, and Allness of Love.

suddenly, this gratitude transformed itself into the most incredible sense of Love I ever experienced in my existence.

Instantaneously, I found myself in a mental space completely out of time and geographical space. I was aware of absolutely nothing else but the infinitude, grandeur, majesty, gentleness and Allness of Love. Love was the only cause, law, effect, substance, power, being, essence in the universe …

Words are totally inadequate to translate what this all-encompassing and enveloping feeling communicated. I had no other consciousness but that of Love.

Above all, for the only time in my existence, I was totally devoid of any sense of ego. There was just no place for it at all. The divine consciousness was my consciousness, and there was/is none other. It was total Oneness. This complete absence of a personal sense of self, of ego, of some little person parading under the name ‘P…. P…..’, with the innumerable ‘stories’ that includes, was the most powerful aspect of this experience. The divine total freedom, absolute complete bliss, infinite contentment and peace.

‘The divine understanding reigns, is all, and there is no other consciousness’ Mary Baker Eddy once wrote for me, this egoless consciousness was the most glorious moment of my whole existence. Nothing can compare with it.

And suddenly, I was back in the plane.

I felt something adjusting in my bowels and in a matter of seconds the dysentery

was gone, disappeared, vanished … into its native nothingness.

I don’t know how long this lasted because I was totally out of the human consciousness of time and space. For a few moments, I had really tasted heaven. And believe me, friend, it is a place worthy of returning to.

May I stress that this experience was a pure gift of Grace. It had nothing to do with hours of praying, a special spiritual discipline or meditation (I wasn’t even meditating at the time). Maybe its main raison d’être was this sharing with Cygnus readers – I don’t know. I have had other similar experiences and other instantaneous healings which happened in a matter of minutes which I can again only explain as the totally free impartation of Grace. Eddy once made a statement that has helped me so much in times of great duress, when everything seemed to close down on me: ‘A deep sincerity is sure of success, for God takes care of it.’

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Life is precious. Savour it, cherish it and enjoy every moment.

Live life and share the love.

Sandy C. Newbigging

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hen you fully appreciate the immense and immediate impact that your mind is always having within your body and life, it becomes clear that physical wellness and emotional well-being are intimately connected. Consequently, physical health complaints don’t necessarily have purely physical causes and unhealthy beliefs and emotional unease can be the common hidden causes to many chronic physical conditions and persistent life problems.

Move beyond treating symptoms

Conventional approaches to healing physical conditions, troubling emotions and destructive behaviours can fail to deliver lasting benefits because they often only treat the surface-level symptoms rather than healing the deeper underlying mental and emotional causes.

Ignoring the underlying causes is a bit like attempting to flatten a turbulent river without first removing the jagged rocks sitting below the surface; you can try all you like, but without removing the rocks it’s going to make very little long-term difference!

Your body is a physical mind Obvious mind–body connection responses include getting a red face when embarrassed, your mouth watering when you think of a food you love and experiencing butterflies in your stomach when you’re feeling nervous or excited. Even sexual arousal requires the mind and body to communicate!

Although we generally take these common physical reactions for granted, if you stop a moment to consider all the physical reactions that happen as a result of what’s happening in your thoughts and emotions, you can’t help but begin to question whether your chronic back pain, skin condition or digestive disorder is the result of a purely physical phenomenon.

The implications of the mind–body connection are massive when it comes to understanding why people end up with challenging physical conditions. This is especially so when you explore the extent to which your beliefs are not only known by the cells of your body but are also constantly actually causing physical changes to occur.

More about this soon, but first let’s play a game:

Monitoring the body-mind

Notice what happens within your body when you: Think about certain memories; Think about someone you dislike compared to someone you love dearly; Think about different future scenarios that

Stop Treating Symptoms by Healing the Hidden Cause you are excited about compared to ones you’re worried about; Find something funny and laugh; Find something sad and cry; Criticize someone/something; Praise and appreciate someone/something; A vital first step in self-healing The first step in intentionally self-healing (I say intentionally, because you are unintentionally self-healing all the time!) is to notice first-hand, in your own personal life experience, that your thoughts and emotions are impacting on your body.

Becoming aware of this means you move from being oblivious to the ongoing, behind-the-scenes impact of the mind–body connection to a simple appreciation that it is happening.

Although it may sound like a simple step, believe it or not this is a massive leap towards taking charge of your physical destiny.

When you fully appreciate that your thoughts and emotions impact upon what happens within your body, you naturally find yourself in a far better position to actively influence your physical health and well-being.

Your body-mind isn’t against you

Your body is born to live and will do everything it can to stay alive. In fact, I’d suggest it already is doing so! What you may consider to be a physical problem is in fact your body’s best attempt at adapting in order to survive the physical, mental and emotional conditions that it has been subjected to in daily life.

Similarly, whether you believe it yet or not, your mind is also on your side too. Although it can appear, at times, that you have an inner saboteur messing with your manifesting powers, the reality is your mind is always helping you to manifest a life perfectly in line with your current beliefs. Meaning that if you have limiting beliefs then you can end up creating a limited life.

Here’s the good news. It is the natural tendency of the body to heal itself and the

natural law of life to be abundant – so this is your invitation to heal any unhealthy beliefs that may not be currently bringing about the levels of health and wealth you want.

The healing power of peace Over the past few years, both myself and the Mind Detox Practitioners I’ve trained, have witnessed remarkable remissions from health conditions; including skin conditions clearing up, chronic pain vanishing, and digestion problems disappearing, to name but a few. Along with this, we’ve also observed the healing of many other emotional issues and life problems – all from helping people to heal their unhealthy beliefs by making peace with their past.

The Mind Detox Method finds what I refer to as the Root-Cause Reason (RCR), which is justifying the existence of one or more unhealthy beliefs. It then helps you to heal these unhealthy beliefs by coming to healthier conclusions that, due to the interconnection between your mind, your body and your world, can cause healing to occur naturally in your body, emotions and life.

Having tracked the main beliefs causing imbalances in hundreds of clients, I have discovered and worked with the most common unhealthy beliefs. I share the top 20 of these unhealthy beliefs in HEAL THE HIDDEN CAUSE, so that you can make sure you don’t have any of them – or if you do, so that you can heal them for improved health, wealth and happiness.

The possibilities are infinite!

Big benefits can be gain from stepping beyond treating surface-level-symptoms to discover and heal the hidden mindbased causes of physical, emotional and life problems. By making peace with your past, chronic stress is reduced, allowing the body to heal, and by clearing your unhealthy beliefs, you can use your mind as the incredible tool that it is to create improved levels of wealth and well-being. © Sandy Newbigging www.minddetox.com

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y parents and my grandparents stayed married until death parted them. I, on the other hand, couldn’t keep my relationships going for more than a few years.

Why were love and commitment becoming so fragile? I tried all the familiar recommendations for healing disharmony in intimate relationships: improved communication, finding a more ‘ideal’ mate, more passion, loving my inner child, negotiation, and so forth. Yet these remedies did not arrest relationship deterioration when trouble started. Eventually I realized that they sometimes address only symptoms of a more fundamental problem. That problem is right under our noses. It has always been there, but now that we can dissolve our marriages with greater ease, it is even more glaring. Once we acknowledge the problem, the solution is evident.

The trouble begins with sex Not exciting sex versus boring sex, or too little sex versus too much, as most of us conclude, but rather fertilization behaviour itself. After all , platonic friendships between men and women work fairly

In my next incarnation I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement.

You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last nine months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!

I rest my case.

Woody Allen

Cupid’s Poisoned Arrow well. The trouble generally erupts after we attempts. You experience this as the drive become lovers. And what else begins then? to exhaust yourself sexually when you For everyone? The quest to have our sexual can. The second is different parents for needs met as thoroughly as possible. your offspring. You experience this as Passion seems like our best friend, often disenchantment with sexual exclusivity. the one indisputably good thing about What serves you best? an otherwise dysfunctional relationship.

A solid emotional bond with a mate, However, sexual satiety – that ‘I’m harmony lots of affectionate, generous done!’ feeling after sex – turns out to be touch, and a reliable way to ease sexual a subconscious, surprisingly persuasive, frustration. mammalian signal.

It urges us toward Those people are happy who relish love’s pleasure habituation (feeling Enjoying Aphrodite’s sensual embrace fed up with a mate).

As a ship riding easy on a calm sea, Because we’re unaware Avoiding the obsession that leads to disgrace. of this signal, we ascribe For sex, like a horsefly, can madden with it’s sting, the friction in our relationships to other And Eros [Cupid] has two arrows to his string... causes.

A mere scratch from the first brings lifelong joy, The more dissatisfied But the second wounds to death, and breeds despair. we grow, the less likely Goddess born in Cyprus [Aphrodite], keep my bedroom safe we are to stumble upon From the mortal arrow, make love in my life the other way of easing A steady, continuing delight, sexual tension: relaxed, Not obsessional or destructive. Let me serve gentle intercourse that The great queen with ecstasy, as is her right, soothes sexual frustration But commit no crimes for her, nor become her slave. entirely differently.

-Euripides (ca. 480-406 BCE), Iphegenia at Aulis Who’s in Charge There’s an optimistic belief that doing what your body is inclined to do will lead to well Now that the planet is teeming with being and contentment. Actually, given our underfed, underloved human beings, it may unquenchable appetites, most of us would be time to master this ancient alternative and be healthier on a Paleolithic diet of whole add it to our lovemaking repertoire. Sex and foods (no refined starches and sugars). But intimate relationships are two of life’s most a diet for our sex lives? Surely if our early valuable treasures. Whatever your economic ancestors pursued sexual satiety whenever woes, I hope the information here will help opportunity knocked, we’ll be just fine you protect, and so benefit more than ever doing the same thing. from, these widely available riches as you chart This logic assumes that you’re your ideal course. At the very least you will programmed for your own benefit. In know more about how Cupid poisons his fact, evolution has wired you not for your arrow as you work toward creating the intimate individual welfare, but for your genes’ relationship for which your soul yearns.

From Cupid’s Poisoned Arrow, © 2007 by success. What serves your genes? Two Marnia Robinson, published by New World Library. things. The first is lots of fertilization CUPID’S POISONED ARROW: FROM HABIT TO HARMONY IN SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS Marnia Robinson

It’s oh-so-quiet...and then – zing! Cupid’s arrow skewers a primitive part of the brain, we fall in love amid showers of passionate fireworks, bond for a time … and then often stop responding to one another, perhaps even pursuing a new love interest. There is a secret to sex, spoken of in the disciple Philip’s gnostic gospel, which leads beyond mammalian programming and grants sexual union immense spiritual power.

Ancient sages recognized this sacred art of transcending the addictive biological snare and named it hieros gamos, the Sacred Marriage or the ultimate union. Using cutting-edge neuroscience, psychology and medicine, together with wisdom from antiquity, Marnia Robinson explores this cosmic secret and reunites lovemaking with healing, balance and continually replenished intimacy and tenderness.

With the help of this book, you too can enter into the secret of the ultimate union.

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ARE YOU THE ONE FOR ME? Barbara De Angelis

MEDITATION: PRACTICING PRESENCE IN EVERY MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE Eckhart Tolle

Now you can have the relationship you’ve always wanted! From Barbara De Angelis, internationally recognised relationship psychologist, comes the definitive book on compatibility. It’s a lucid guide to creating – and sustaining – the fulfilling relationship you deserve. You’ll learn why you’ve chosen the partners you have – and how to make better choices; how to evaluate the level of sexual chemistry in your relationship; the ten types of relationships that will never work; how your childhood memories affect your love life; the six essential qualities to look for in a mate; how to spot fatal flaws in a partner, and why you may be falling in love for the wrong reasons. Frank and pithy, it will get right to the core of your questions and concerns.

Is it possible for meditation to be utterly effortless? To experience the depths of being in any given moment of our lives – not just while we practice? Not only is it possible, explains Eckhart Tolle, but it is the very way we come to touch the essence of meditation. With Meditation, we can listen to the soothing tones of this respected teacher, so conducive to calm absorption and reflection, as he discusses the many methods of meditation and their shared purpose: accessing the richness and power of pure presence. Whether you’re just starting a practice or looking to go deeper than ever before, Meditation offers vital insights for anyone eager to taste the fruits of this vital discipline.

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FINDING JOE DVD Patrick Solomon

THE FIVE LEVELS OF ATTACHMENT Don Miguel Ruiz Jr

Do you ever feel trapped and dominated by the emotional pain of attachment?

Don Miguel Ruiz Jr, Toltec Master of Transformation and direct descendant of the Toltec Eagle Knight lineage, explores the ways in which we attach ourselves inappropriately to beliefs and the world, so destroying our inner peace and freedom.

He explores the five levels of attachment that cause suffering in our lives and shows how we can supplant its tyranny through wisdom. Accessible and practical, this book invites us to look at our own lives and see how an unhealthy level of attachment can keep us trapped in a psychological and spiritual fog. He then teaches us to reclaim our true freedom by cultivating awareness, detaching, and discovering our true, expansive selves.

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THE TRUE SECRET OF WRITING: CONNECTING LIFE WITH LANGUAGE Natalie Goldberg

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If you’re facing big difficulties or important changes in your life, or you’re wondering how to give your life more meaning, you’ll find this important film enormously relevant, inspiring, encouraging and healing. In the early 20th century while studying world mythology, Joseph Campbell discovered a pattern hidden in every story ever told. He called it ‘the hero’s journey’. With the help of 20 visionaries including Deepak Chopra, Mick Fleetwood, Gay Hendricks, Sir Ken Robinson and Alan Cohen; Finding Joe explores how the hero’s journey unfolds in real people’s lives in the modern world, wresting them away from the tramlines laid down by parents, teachers, the media and society in general, and catapulting them into a life where they are compelled to face the unknown and find the true gold that lies within us all.

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DIVINE INTUITION: YOUR INNER GUIDE TO PURPOSE, PEACE, & PROSPERITY Lynn A. Robinson

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We are all connected by love. That love guides and nourishes us.

Live life and share the love.

Claire Nahmad

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here is a new understanding abroad today of nature and our earth, of creation itself. Although this knowledge is very ancient, we have rediscovered it in what is called Cymatic patterning, whereby in loose material such as sand or dust (suggestive of the biblical ‘dust’ from which mystics say everything came into creation), the most beautiful geometric forms appear when resonance is applied to the base on which it rests.

This essence and creational force of music is within all nature. It is within us and it is us in our life as physical form. It arises from the sacred silence within our spiritual depths where God resides, and, via its resonance or vibration, crystallizes in outer manifestation as every form in nature. It is this divine music which is said to be the language of the angels.

The Dragon Essence The language of the angels, understood to be the creational resonance within nature and within higher consciousness, has been known throughout the ages as the ‘Green language’ or ‘Language of the Birds’, for it was recognised that it sounded throughout nature and was nature, and that its dynamic force was the spirit of ascension. For 160 million years our earth was saturated in serpent or saurian energy as the dragon essence – the great dinosaurs – held sway. Those mighty saurians are with us today in the wonder of birdlife with all its many splendours and its power of mellifluent song, manifesting for our edification the spirit of ascension – where we will follow, it is said, in the not-too-distant future!

A language of the heart The language of the angels was always a secret language, for it is the language of the heart, residing within the inner sanctum of the mystery of life. In my book I have drawn from this language in its simplest rendition so that it can be used by anyone and everyone. The language of the angels as it is presented here resides in their names, and in the chanting of their names. Within the resonance of each magical name lives the concept of the angel, providing a vessel for its being in the ethereal worlds. It is this that we can call on to summon the angel to our aid and to facilitate the absorption of its benign creative influences into our soul.

Speaking the language of the angels There are four simple steps to using the language of the angels: The first is to summon the power of your imagination gently and easily so that you can draw close to the angels.

The Green Language The second is to hold a very clear idea in and soul energies and spiritual flow seem your mind of the service you are asking of parched. The Angel of Creativity, Irel, the particular angel you have decided to will light a flame throughout your being call on. so that you catch fire with her impulses.

The third is to render that clear idea The angel of Benevolent Outcomes, into a brief and straightforward Ach-Sah, will direct request for help from the angel, the warp and weft of They showed that which can be spoken aloud or crises or stultifying the whole planet silently. circumstances so that was bathed in this The fourth is to chant the her gift can be given. name of the angel for a few And Zeruel, Angel of resonance, which, if we minutes whilst continuing to the Everlasting Arms, could hear it, would retain the clarified request in will bear you up when sound something akin your mind. you come to the end to Tibetan priestly As you speak the language of of your strength. chanting. the angels, let your chanting There are so many be resonant and rhythmical angels – the number so that it moves in an easy, circular is limitless – ready to help and to give. We flow. It is worth remembering that it is can call on them with their language and a language of heavenly magic, of secret allow their resonance to wash through us wonders and sublime mystery. Speak it in floods of spiritual light. with reverence, because the earthly mind Fireball in the skies will try to steal away its enchantment The meteorite that recently struck the and potency. Yet, as you enter ever more Ural Mountains in Russia bore with it as deeply into the presence of angels through it shattered a deep resonance, many times regular communion and receive their more profound than the human ear can many blessings, you will find that the hear, which was detected by sensors in materialistic perspective loses its dominion Antarctica. They showed that the whole and can no longer imprison you, because planet was bathed in this resonance, you are in the arms of angels. which, if we could hear it, would sound You might wish to call on the something akin to Tibetan priestly Breakthrough Angel, Uriel, if your desire chanting. It came, perhaps, to prepare to achieve something is blocked by us and our earth for a deluge of spiritual indwelling resistance. Och, the Angel of forces, which many predict will arrive very Crystals and Gemstones, is a node point soon. Tuning in to this resonance with for all the angels associated with crystal inner percipience, I heard the voice of work and brings enlightenment and the angels, and it seemed that there had guidance. Hariel, the Angel of Companion been an upliftment and refinement of and Domestic Animals, will enter your conditions on earth so that the vibrations being with his blessing through resonance of their language could reach into us so that you can heal and commune with ever more strongly and succinctly. This your animals. is the time of Eastertide, a time of new The Angel of Clear Seeing, Zuriel, eases beginnings. It is indeed the time to walk confusion; the Angel of the Falling Dew, and speak with angels, perhaps more Miriel, brings the touch of magic back into vividly than ever before. your life and offers replenishment when © 2013 by Claire Nahmad. Connect hopes and dreams have withered away with Claire on Facebook.

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Diana Cooper

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012 marked the end of a 260,000-year cosmic era on Earth. The symbol for that age was a six-pointed star and there were thirty-three spiritual laws for that period. Now we are birthing a new fifth dimensional Golden Age during which 48 Keys and 2 golden cosmic keys hold the energies that guide us. An understanding of these holds you in the fifth dimension. The symbol for the forthcoming civilization is the Metatron Cube, which is an advanced six-pointed star.

The Metatron Cube As the symbol of the New Golden Age, the Metatron Cube contains every aspect of sacred geometry; throughout all aspects of nature sacred geometry brings the masculine and feminine energies into perfect balance and harmony.

The ancients did not analyse the shapes. Rather they experienced and felt the flow that the shapes created and everything was built using sacred geometry, so that people felt in harmony and balance when they were in buildings or gardens.

You may like to link to your monad or original divine spark and align your chakras to the sacred shapes held in each one. Breathe in the fifth dimensional colour of each chakra and invoke the archangels to bring your cells to perfect balance.

The colour of Sirius is blue green, so in order to tune into that Golden Cosmic Key of Sirius with its new advanced concepts as well as the spiritual technology of telepathy and levitation, this is a simple exercise you can do.

Surround yourself in blue green light. When you have breathed it in ask Archangel Metatron to take you to every aspect of the Cube, to allow you to gain a higher perspective of its importance and impact.

The Cube represents the love energy of the universe and the beings of Mu, the Golden Age before Lemuria, look after the divine blueprint of all stars

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Keys to the Universe within the cosmic Metatron Cube.

Just by looking at it something changes in your consciousness. It is a very powerful symbol.

When I was asked to write this article, I picked a Key card for Cygnus and was not really surprised when I drew Sonic Sounds, for Sonics are angelic harmonies and when the angels sing these over you, miracles can happen. There are certain qualities that call in the angels to sing and I feel these qualities are an inherent part of Cygnus’ work and message – selfless love, pure intentions and divine peace. Sacred geometry also attracts angel Sonics.

Here are simple ways you can help yourself, others and the planet.

1.Focus on the divine perfection of plants, trees, animals, the people around you or the planet. Hold the intention that whatever you chose to energise is whole and happy, then visualise a cascade of glorious harmonics flowing over them from the angels. This is a wonderful way to offer healing to nature, people or animals.

2.Listen to beautiful music and be aware of the angels singing over you.

3.You can nurture yourself by breathing

in a beautiful pale yellow gold colour and imagine, sense or hear the angels singing over you.

4.Set a pure intention for the day and carry it out.

5.Expect miracles.

The Ancient Tribes from Atlantis At the fall of Atlantis the twelve High Priests and Priestesses each took their tribe to a location that was specially prepared for them. When I pick a card for any purpose I know and trust that the angels are guiding the perfect card to come forward to help the readers. I picked the Key Card, the Babylonians as I was writing this section.

The Babylonians At the end of Atlantis the High Priest Horus led his tribe to Babylon.

They carried a vast knowledge of the seasons, the sun and the cosmic properties of water. And they worked symbiotically with the elementals, tending the land together and keeping it green and beautiful. This enabled them to create the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. They taught the locals about irrigation, to design creative buildings, fashion beautiful crafts and to trade with honour in accordance with the Spiritual Laws.

They knew that when you bless water you bring the energy up to the fifth dimension. If you are drinking pure cold water, showering or bathing, bless the water so that it uplifts your energy. If you bath children in blessed water or bless water in the swimming pool or ocean, everyone in it will benefit. The blessed water is purifying you at a cellular level.

So link into their energy and work with what nature provides for the greater good.

They also help you to understand and apply the spiritual laws. © Diana Cooper, Spiritual Author of many books and Founder of the Diana Cooper School.

KEYS TO THE UNIVERSE (CARDS) Diana Cooper

If you enjoyed Diana Cooper’s book, The Keys to the Universe, you’ll love these beautiful cards designed to help and inspire seekers on the path of enlightenment. If you haven’t read the book, the cards stand alone in their poignant ability to connect you with the magical vision of your soul.

There are 50 keys – 48 of which enable readers to unlock the secrets of other realms, such as the natural kingdoms, the elements, archangels and angels, cosmic masters and wisdom centers. The cards also include two enthralling Golden Cosmic Keys – Hollow Earth and Sirius – attuning you to the wisdom of the cosmos. Clear instructions make this deck, with its power to unlock universal secrets, a clear choice.

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The Key to Happiness and Healing

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come about because of what psychologists erhaps the biggest gift I have received call projection. Particularly because of early on my spiritual path, life experiences, as human beings, we take and particularly from A on negative beliefs about ourselves. This Course in Miracles, is an conditioning results in pain that we try to understanding of and get rid of in the following ways: by seeking a means for practising to get our psychological needs met; through forgiveness. I have found addictions; or by projecting them onto that, practised as often as the need arises others. On the mind level, we project what (which is quite often!), forgiveness brings we believe about ourselves and don’t like, not just an easing of the issue with another deny, do not want to look at or disown. person and peace of mind, but a profound We have a negative emotional reaction to step-by-step healing of negative beliefs and others behaviour because we have seen in conditioning in my own mind. I want to them what we secretly believe and don’t like share these ideas, so that others may be able about ourselves. There is the old saying: ‘If to practice in their own lives. you spot it [in another], you got it’! This I have learned that ‘true forgiveness’ is a radical concept, going far beyond what is normally signified by the word. To the world, forgiveness is a noble but slightly soft option. If we are feeling kind and generous we may let someone whom we feel has wronged us ‘off the hook.’ In so doing, we might feel that we have done ourselves a disservice or not been strong save 48% enough; we might have been truer to ourselves if we’d stood our ground and maintained a righteous indignation.

I remember one of the first A Course in Miracles groups I attended, when the penny suddenly dropped. ‘Oh, I get it!’ I explains why in any given circumstance some exclaimed. ‘Forgiveness is for my benefit.’ people will get an emotional reaction and It is important to remember that in others won’t. It’s because the reaction was not forgiveness we are not condoning behaviour. caused by the situation, but by the meaning We are not saying that acts of abuse, individuals have projected onto it. corruption, violence, etc. are okay, but we are A Course in Miracles says that the pain saying that we don’t want to carry around in we think was caused to us by another was, our own minds thoughts of condemnation, in fact, caused by us – by the meaning we grievance, anger and hatred that only hurts have projected onto the behaviour, or the ourselves. situation.

Holding a grievance is, as Buddhists say, What forgiveness does is to take back that like holding a hot coal in our hands to throw projection, recognize that regardless of what at someone. We get burned. Or it is like the other person may have done, in truth, drinking poison, hoping the other person they are pure spirit, innocent and whole, and will die! remain as they were created by Spirit. Once Our issues and grievances with others

we have taken back that projection, we are free to see their innocence, that they didn’t cause us pain, and that what we think it means about them was made up by us.

The next step is to enable us to see our own innocence, too. Through prayer, meditation or an inner asking for help, we can recognize that we, too, are innocent, remain as we were created and that our negative stories about ourselves are also made up by us and are untrue. Thus, a part of our unhelpful conditioning is healed. All forgiveness is self-forgiveness.

Every time our buttons get pushed, we could see it as an opportunity to have our own minds be healed of another aspect of that conditioning. We could even be the most grateful to those who ‘get our goat’ the most, for they offer us the biggest opportunities to heal.

Step by step, our minds become clearer.

We may have to repeat this process many times on a given issue, until it is gone. We may be tempted, when the issue returns, to think that forgiveness hasn’t worked, but we can rest assured that, each time we chip away at it, it is getting smaller.

Forgiveness is a very simple idea, but it is not easy. It is sometimes the last thing I, personally, want to do. There is what Marianne Williamson calls a ‘gravitational field’ in our minds, the ego, intent on pulling us back into grievance. The ego doesn’t want to heal. It believes its job is to maintain the idea that we are victims of circumstance and of other people. But we can forgive it, too.

I find that when I forgive, I immediately feel lighter. Although I can remember what ‘caused’ the problem, I can barely remember what the problem with it was. And I am left feeling love and gratitude for the other person, a deeper connection with them and myself, and the world seems a friendlier place. Try it for yourself and see.

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Chat Page Dear Friends, wish to share an insight with you.

I had a dream, this little girl, whose face I could not see was sitting on my lap, she had lost her brother, little boys kept appearing to us. I could not see their faces and she kept saying no that not him. Then I heard a voice say she’s looking in the wrong place, he’s in her heart.

This experience helped me a lot as I’ve lost my twin sister not long ago and keep thinking I’ll go and see that medium then that one and really theres is no need, as she’s in my heart and all I have to do is to just shut my eyes and look in my heart and I can see and talk to her.

Ms C Russell

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Open to Love Be still Be silent For gently whispering In the depths of yourself Is the love that you seek In the soft gusting breeze In the trees that sway It awaits you In the wave that laps the shore In the breaking of the dawn In the birds’ sweet chorus There you will find the echoes Of the love whose only need Is the opening of your bruised and fearful heart With love to all, Julie

Within me Like a vast open desert Like a deep endless sea There are uncharted waters Lying deep within me Like a bird on the wing Like a horse running free From a tiny acorn Grows a strong oak tree Like the phoenix shall rise To spread colourful wings And the songbird at daybreak As it joyfully sings My spirit has risen No more to sleep And into the shadows The light starts to creep The darkness is fading As night turns to day And fresh rays of hope Clear the sorrow away To light the way forward No more turning back Down a perilous road Paved with nothing but lack A bright new path beckons Me to my destiny As it waits to reveal What lies deep within me

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Lifted by your clouds of light, Your moon protects me through your night, And when I need more than I know, Your mists are kisses on my soul.

So, Mountain Mountain, Speak in tongues.

Create My world, in silent sun. let sweetened rains, release all pain.

For seeds to grow, In love again.

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Eternal shrine, of love recall.

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ardly a ‘cygnet’ at 64 years old but a fitting label for me just the same as, at times, I still feel very young in my ‘spiritual quest’ to become a fully fledged swan!

My first important memory on my ‘journey’ is that, at eighteen and working in a bank, I suddenly knew that Life had to consist of more than the superficial so, that very lunchtime, I bought my first book of discovery – ‘Chariots of the Gods’ by Erich von Daniken with no reason for my choice than its seeming ‘other worldliness’. I didn’t enjoy it much but am grateful for it being the first step in finding out what this Life is all about!

In due course, that learning, moved me to become an English and Drama teacher then a homeopath, a follower of Buddhism and an animal healer and therapist , all important elements towards Self-knowledge. Now retired, I still draw on all of these even though

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their impact is ever changing just as I am.

The most important aspects in my ‘spiritual quest’ have been, firstly, to find belief and true confidence in myself on an equal level with everyone else. Not very ‘spiritual’ I know but, for years as a child and young woman, I had a very real inferiority complex. I knew that I couldn’t move on to deeper issues about Life until that was dealt with so that was a very important landmark.

I have read so many books, attended workshops and lectures that again, theoretically, I could say I know the answers.

Trouble is, that doesn’t realise the Truth, does it? – I know I have to experience it for myself.

Learning gratitude has been a big step forward. It is so easy sometimes to wallow in self-pity and victimisation which doesn’t serve any purpose at all. If I ever begin to have these feelings, stopping and recalling all the valuable things in my life soon lifts me to a different plane.

At the moment, I am very aware that my learning is about all of Life being the same deep down – one energy, one Truth, one Love and that it isn’t anything outside of me but

is always present within me and everything on earth. It is a wonderful joy to know the potential that exists within each of us if only we aren’t afraid to be that huge. (See how much I’ve read – the latter was from Marianne Williamson, I believe!)

Theoretically though, being ‘One’ seems easy to accommodate but my challenge is to feel it in everyday circumstances. What a different matter! When someone pushes in front of me in a long queue, fails to say thank you for a gracious act or is rude and abusive, for example, it so easily alienates me from that awareness. It then becomes ‘them and me’! It is at that point that I have to stop, wait and refuse to react and remember that behaviour is only learned by experience and is not the real being underneath it all. This is where Buddhism’s observation of oneself helps me to avoid becoming embroiled in my momentary emotions. I’m not ‘there’ or even ‘here’ yet but, still living, still learning!

It is difficult to recommend a book – there are so many. However, Neale Donald Walsch’s ‘Conversations with God’ [Stock code: Continued...

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Finally, my ‘jewel’ offering I am grateful for several – my Dad for one but I’m afraid I cannot share him with you!

Firstly, something which is so simple, free to give and can illustrate that deep bond between all of us so easily. A smile. Try it. It works wonders most of the time. Smile at a scowling, ‘hard’ teenager in the street and see the gentle being that he really is. It is its own reward.

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