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Editorial Words of Power and The Power of Words Throughout history, cultures have revered certain words and phrases for their magical properties. Mantras, chants, and spells are words believed to possess a unique energy or vibration. In the tapestry of human existence, words are the threads that weave together our shared narratives. They are the silent architects of our reality, constructing bridges between minds and painting the canvas of our collective consciousness. But while words are tools we use daily, we seldom pause to consider their deeper, almost alchemical potency: the magic of words of power. Imagine a world devoid of words. It would be a realm of muted emotions, where thoughts remain imprisoned in minds, unable to dance freely in the vast expanse of human connection. Words, in their essence, are the keys that unlock these cages. They allow our deepest fears, joys, and dreams to take flight, touching the souls of others and leaving indelible marks. A single word, spoken at the right moment, can heal a wounded heart or ignite the flames of passion. It can start wars or broker peace. Such is the undeniable power of words.
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Yet, beyond this tangible communication realm lies a more esoteric dimension, where words transcend their conventional roles. In this mystical domain, words become spells, imbued with an energy that can shape destinies. These are the words of power, phrases that resonate with the very fabric of the universe, channeling energies that can manifest desires, protect, heal, or transform. Historically, civilizations have recognized and revered these words of power. Ancient sages chanted mantras to invoke deities, while druids whispered incantations to harness the forces of nature. Often shrouded in secrecy, these words were passed down through generations, their magic preserved in sacred texts and oral traditions. They were not mere combinations of letters but keys to the cosmic dance of energies. In our modern world, the magic of words of power may seem like a relic of bygone eras, but it is more relevant than ever. Whenever we voice our intentions, pen our dreams, or declare our beliefs, we cast spells, consciously or unconsciously. The affirmations we repeat, the vows we make, and even the songs we sing all carry the weight of this ancient magic.
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Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little. Tom Stoppard
To harness this power is to recognize the responsibility that comes with it. Words, once spoken, cannot be taken back. They ripple through time and space, leaving energy trails in their wake. As wielders of this mighty tool, we must choose words wisely, speak with intention and kindness, and recognize the magic within every syllable. While words are the building blocks of our shared stories, they are also the spells that shape our shared destiny. In the dance between the power of words and the magic of words of power lies the secret to understanding our place in this vast, interconnected web of existence. As we navigate this journey, may we always remember the enchantment that words carry and the worlds they can create.
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Christina Donnell, Ph.D. ENCOUNTERS WITH LIVING LANGUAGE: SURRENDERING TO THE POWER OF WORDS
Christina Donnell, Ph.D. is a classically trained clinical psychologist, author, and spiritual teacher, who studied Eastern traditions and the shamanic energy practices of the Q’ero (Care-o) Indians of Peru for nearly three decades. She has experienced a lifetime of what many would consider phenomenal occurrences, including her own near-death experience, deep transcendent states of consciousness, and interdimensional communications with beings who have crossed over from their human lives. Her multiple award-winning first book, Transcendent Dreaming: Stepping into Our Human Potential, a foray into the quantum nature of the human body, chronicles her radical spiritual awakening through a form of dreaming that expands consciousness, allowing dreamers to identify with the intelligence that animates the universe.
She is the founding director of The Winds of Change Association, a Minneapolis-based educational organization offering programs that cultivate humanity’s evolving consciousness.
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Her most recent book, Encounters with Living Language: Surrendering to the Power of Words awakens readers to the intrinsic energy of language, where we can experience its multidimensional transmissions connecting us to the oneness that underlies all of life. Her book provides a riveting account of these discoveries and an invitation for readers to welcome an embodied experience with the living language and explore the dormant places within them still waiting to awaken. Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: maintains a consultation practice, teaches, and speaks worldwide; her lyrical prose and audio series are fused with transmissions of the unseen, captivating audiences of all ages. For information about Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: Donnell's books and courses, and Winds of Change Association, visit: Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: Donnell.com
“Many of us on the planet are here to be the womb that births the unseen into the manifest world. We go by many names—we are poets, mediums, psychics, mystics, teachers, and astrologers —who speak from a mother language of the unseen. We are here to bring forth a new threshold of tomorrow.” Christina Donnell, Ph.D.
Trained as a clinical psychologist, Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: received a BA in Psychology from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School. She became an associate clinical professor and clinical director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the Department of Psychiatry of Saint Paul Ramsey Medical Center in Minnesota.
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In the early 1990's concerns about the increasing role of managed care and the absence of focus on the human spirit in the mental health profession motivated Christina Donnell, Ph.D.
OMTimes had an exquisite opportunity to sit down with Christine to talk about Language, and Power of words. OMTimes: As a spiritual teacher, what lies at the core of your work with students?
to leave her clinical position to travel to Peru to explore the healing practices of indigenous tribes. She spent decades learning the shamanic energy practices of the Q’ero Indians, working with sorcerers and shamans of the high Andes. Christina Donnell, PhD, has also spent nearly three decades studying Eastern traditions, practicing martial arts, and Zen meditation. A dreamer and a "Mistress of Language," Christina Donnell's love of writing began when she was very young. Yet it was after a near-death experience with yellow fever in the high Andes, that she heard a voice calling her, "It's time to do what you were born to do. Be language's mouthpiece." After returning to Minneapolis, Christina Donnell resumed her private counseling practice and began writing about her experiences.
Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: The common thread that runs through my teachings is awakening others to the unseen dimensions of life and witnessing how creation brings the unseen to be seen in the manifest world. It happens in all of nature, and it happens through us.
This is a threshold for a new tomorrow. Ultimately, I am speaking to the miracle of our omnipresent body, awakening and anchoring awareness here, which is our sovereign birthright. It can renew our human bearings to prompt recollection and re-establishment of the rootedness of human awareness in the surrounding ecosystem. An encounter with living language has taught me this beautiful possibility.
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OMTimes: In your newest book, Encounters with Living Language: Surrendering to the Power of Words, you share many experiences, what you call illuminations. What is an illumination? Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: For me illumination has two essential characteristics. Both the quality and the structure of awareness change. The qualitative change involves a heightening of sensations and the meaning conveyed. The structural change involves a unification of all parts of awareness to form a total system. OMTIMES | OCTOBER
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In embracing this unified system, the field of consciousness expands far beyond its normal limits. Past and future are no longer experienced as absent and separate from the present, but as an integral part of it. The notion of a separate self disappears, coupled with a sense of participation in the outside world. When somatic-sensory experiences of the spoken or written word goes deeper into us, not stopping where it used to, new dimensions of reality are revealed. OMTimes: What do you mean by living language? Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: Language is living when conceptual thought gives way to a direct somatic-sensory experience of the spoken or written word awakening to realities beyond the everyday world. Experienced in this way, words become virtual cups of light, patterns of information, that open-up the dimensional capabilities of our awareness to experience other states, other things, and other places. OMTimes: What is it like to have an illumination?
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Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: Startling. They come out of nowhere. I find myself inside a reverberating field, in the presence of a generative act that both includes and encompasses me—a place where word becomes spirit. So expansive is this state that it feels as if the cosmos is inside me.
My awareness is absorbed into the internal sound and then into the vastness, like stars as they shine. Archetypal forces behind words invade the spaces and I’m imbued with a palpable sense of knowing. The surroundings, like sacred vessels, suddenly fill with lucidity.
As the silence deepens, I feel my customary analytical consciousness dissolving, along with my usual insistence on explanations.
Next, words often attach themselves to other elements in the room—objects, people, wind, breath—it's as though they are feeling through me and I through them. Each element is no longer distinct but a continuous flow, including the interplay between me and the other elements, all forming a whole. I sense an exquisite musical harmony in the exchanges between my inner and outer worlds.
During each illumination, I find myself merging with the primordial language, its vibrating sound permeating my inner being while the external world recedes. Just before I feel myself become language, time slows down and my consciousness changes. Simultaneously, a subtle emotion fills me from the roots of my hair to my heels.
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I’m reminded of T. S. Eliot’s homage to music “heard so deeply that it isn’t heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.”
Extraordinary experiences with language have led me to a destiny of incarnating the eternal in temporal time.
The spirit, no longer a trespasser in the territory of matter, is now a creator in the field of matter. Illuminations, I realize, portray some latent force being born into the visible world through language.
OMTimes: In your first book, Transcendent Dreaming: Stepping into Our Human Potential you introduced a new form of dreaming where dreamers can identify with the Intelligence that animates the universe. How is transcendent dreaming different from the more common dream state, or lucid dreaming?
OMTimes: How have illuminations altered you?
your
Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: Through these states, my encounters with language awakened me to realities beyond the everyday world, where conceptual thought gives way to direct knowing—an immersion into what I have since come to call “living language.” The silence from which a word emerges and returns becomes a radio receiver through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted. The consciousness springing from encounters with living language teach me what it is like to embody the eternal—unseen forces that, coursing through the body, can unveil a deeper reality and arouse from its slumber a sense of the primordial life I share with all creation.
Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: In ordinary dreaming, the dreamer is primarily a passive participant witnessing the form of a dream. Another level of dreaming is lucid dreaming. This occurs when a person is able to awaken within a dream, maintain awareness of dreaming, and often control the course of the dream. Lucid dreams are also much more vivid than ordinary dreams. As a dreamer becomes proficient in lucid dreaming, other capacities open-up, such as the ability to experience consciousness in more than one place at a time, to interpenetrate matter, to coexist in the same place with things.
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Transcendent dreaming has all the qualities of ordinary and lucid dreaming yet offers more. In transcendent dreaming the dreamer has waking consciousness while merging beyond the form of the dream into its source. The source of the dream is the same intelligence that guides creation. When we awaken within this source, we become one with it and our infinite nature emerges. In this way, transcendent dreaming serves as a bridge between the manifest and nonmanifest reality. OMTimes: How is transcendent dreaming different from an encounter with a living language? Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: Encounters with living language do not require a sleep state. Yet, it results in the same expanded awareness and is occasioned by language. OMTimes: How do you describe a transcendent human? Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: A transcendent human is one who has experienced and can navigate a reality that exists that surpasses the material realm.
OMTimes: In both books, you speak of "expansions in consciousness,"— some of which were intense. What have you learned from these events? Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: I have learned that we as human beings can absorb and assimilate all different kinds of energy and be in harmony with them. The body is made for it.
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“The source of the dream is the same intelligence that guides creation. When we awaken within this source, we become one with it and our infinite nature emerges. “
When we assimilate more and more energies, the world of separation eventually disappears. Notions of "good" and "bad" right and wrong, even the need for protection, fall away and transcendent capabilities emerge.
But the old structures--whether physical, biochemical, or perceptual – are not always quiet about fading out. I am reminded of a quote by the late yoga teacher and mystic, Sri Aurobindo, who once remarked, to discover the "new country within us" we must first learn how "to leave the old behind." Accommodating expansions in consciousness takes fortitude. And, it is a bodily experience. OMTIMES | OCTOBER
OMTimes: Can one learn to summon illuminations, or are they spontaneous, delivered by an inner or higher source? Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: For now, I suspect a higher source delivers illuminations. I cannot summon an illumination. They appear spontaneously and sometimes in inconvenient moments. I know that when the mind is quiet and stillness appears, the quantum realm becomes available to the awareness. OMTimes: With the proliferation of the use of psychedelics and mind-altering substances now being used to treat mental health issues, are your illuminations stimulated by any substance? Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: I have never used substances. Likely the capacity grew from a practice of meditation and stillness of mind, as well as my lifelong experiences from transcendent dreaming. In meditation, transcendent dreaming, and privileged moments with language, conceptual thought recedes, trap doors open to a sensory experience, and the knowledge obtained is that of one no intellectual undertaking can yield. A new dimension of attention opens that goes beyond usual forms of consciousness.
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OMTimes: What is Holy Word Power? As in John 1:1, we are told that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. As you wrote in your book, you have realized the "unfathomable power of words" and that a word could conceivably influence "the wholeness of creation." This certainly opens an avenue of consideration about living language.
Ultimately, the power of any word depends on the mindset of the person using it and the depth of embodied awareness from which it arises. The Hindu sage Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation, spoke on Vedic grammar by saying, "Grammar teaches not only the relationship and mutual coordination of different words. Grammar uncovers the reality contained in each word .
Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: Yes. The Word! In the beginning was the silence. The silence was everywhere Nothing existed. And then there was the Word.
“What is a word? This is a word that at its core has eternal, infinite, unbound being. … What is to be unfolded to knowledge and experience through the word is that which lies beyond the obvious. That which lies beyond the obvious must be experienced to be known.
As the cosmos was born, the silence was broken in the fiery violence of becoming. As the planet settled in the cold endless nights of our universe, silence was restored. And it was a silence of great depth and breadth. And we can imagine the sound of the first Word/wind as it billowed on earth against the curvature of new mountains and warmed over the restless oceans. The rippling of waters and the breath of the wind were the only sounds until the arrival of vegetation and animals. Ever so slowly, the earth developed its own music. Streams gave voice to the silence of valleys. Between the mountains and the oceans, rivers ferried the songs of landscapes. Yes. The Word.
The experience ends in opening the awareness to the unboundedness. Unless that unboundedness is experienced, language has lost its true value. Something will be gained…, but not the totality which is contained in every word. At the deeper levels there will be more connectedness, more connectedness, until it reaches the ultimate connectedness. Inert, now it is lively." Maharishi's view of the transcendent use of words struck a chord in me. That a word could influence the "wholeness of creation" awakened me to the unfathomable power of words — a phenomenon I call "holy word power."
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I regularly experienced high-ranking Q’ero medicine people in the ceremony who could call in dry lightning strikes on a mountaintop. Ultimately, the power of any word depends on the mindset of the person using it and the depth of interconnected embodied awareness from which it arises. The power of words has the capacity to activate somatic-sensory templates that unlock dimensions of interconnectedness that have barely been realized. OMTimes: You have studied with the Q'ero medicine people of the high Andes of Peru for three decades. What drew you to this culture?
Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: What attracted me to the ways of the Q'ero medicine people was not only their mastery of the energy real but also the purity of their hearts. They are truly a people who live as if every moment is sacred. They do not live in linear time. They live in a construct of time that is poly-synchronous. All is happening now. They also do not live with a "me" cosmology (the way we locate meaning), but rather a "we". They easily call in the rain and lightning. They have a beloved relationship to the forces of nature and creation. They have achieved a mastery of the energy realm through a relationship to power
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1 that is sourced from dominion with all of life verses dominance over it. I believe they hold open a window to ways we can all live. It would be hard not to continue my work with them. OMTimes: You had a near-death experience while in Peru, far from a hospital. After having your own near-death experience, what would you like to share with others that might help understand this phenomenon? Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: If it were not for the recovery, I think everyone should have a near death experience. I contracted yellow fever in the high Andes while trying to secure parental rights for my godson in Peru. I went into a second stage of yellow fever most do not, experiencing a fever of 104 and 105, which results in death for many. When I reached this place in the illness, I experienced the threshold in the subtle realm where one “crosses” over, where the breath and awareness leave the body. I remember I simply was ready to relinquish life. For me, the dance with this threshold is alluring and intoxicating. I mentioned in Transcendent Dreaming that I would on occasion be called to the medical center to help families determine when to take someone off life support. I would travel in the subtle realms with a patient and receive different kinds of information. In being able to do so, my own awareness became bathed in this intoxicating, luring subtle realm. My own neardeath experience was the same, yet I did not have any control. Had I, I likely would not be here right now. Instead, a luminous light bathed my entire body, and I heard the command, “I am the original light that illuminates the living word, is time to do what you were born to do. Be language’s mouthpiece.” The experience was mystifying, and sublime. I then came crashing back into a very ill body which took several months to recover from the effects of the illness. OMTimes: How can the human body meet the mystery of light inside language, opening the door to a quantum reality? Most people are not consciously aware of an incredible quantum tool in our possession – the body. OMTIMES | OCTOBER
Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: There are 100 trillion atoms in one cell of the body. One atom—a neutron, proton, and electron cloud which can orbit at any frequency and be in multiple places at once. 100 trillion atoms in one cell. 99.5 percent space and light. Where does the solidity we perceive come from when underneath it is made of space, movement, and light? What happens when we anchor our awareness here? To the quantum realm and space? In the body? I suspect one direction of our human evolution is coming home to this quantum space which quantum physics has been talking about for 100 years. Now, we simply need to experience it. Because language is a virtual cup of light (Quantum) an interior trap door can be opened in our body to awaken and anchor another and far more expanded awareness. OMTimes: Who is your new book for? Christina Donnell, Ph.D.: Encounters with Living Language is for anyone who has ever been moved after hearing or reading a poignant line. It is for anyone who has experienced the luminous power of language and, as a result, felt compelled to explore its quantum nature ushering in new dimensions of awareness. It is for a new generation of speakers who are articulating for the firsttime quantum awareness which is their mother language. I’m thinking of many nonspeaking autistic young adults who, once they learn how to speak through letter boarding, are sharing a quantum reality through language for the first time. OMTIMES | OCTOBER
Many speak different languages they have never been introduced to, are telepathic and clairvoyant, and their awareness easily resides in multiple places. Perhaps this is an evolution in human consciousness starting as a mutation like many other advances begin. Ultimately, its universality is the enduring beauty of human awakening occurring through a deeper interaction with language. I offer my chronicles of surrendering to the power of words as inspiration for others to explore the immeasurable potential of language, which exists in each of us.
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Karma, Violet Flame, and Transcendence
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By Humanity Healing
onstant use of the violet
with events that occurred in past lives
flame, whether to address
spontaneously.
present situations or connect with forgiveness,
can lead the practitioner to connect
Generally, these types of occurrences happen during visualizations,
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meditations, or dreams; however, it is
sense, the violet flame symbolizes the
also possible for visions of past lives to
quality of transmutation.
arise at any moment. To transmute means to transform, Contrary to what many may think,
to bring about change; hence
connecting with a past life is not always
the violet flame is also known as
a joyful experience; most of the time,
the transmuting flame, capable
initial contact is linked to moments
of generating profound and true
that produce discomfort, sadness,
metamorphosis.
disappointment, and even pain. Similarly, as an element of connection This is because these episodes need to
with forgiveness, it is attributed to
be healed and overcome to contribute
transforming resentment and negative
to the current process of spiritual
feelings into love and cleansing the
evolution and eradicate harmful
accumulated karma from past lives.
patterns that may repeat. Those of us who believe in Metaphysical schools have developed
reincarnation accept the idea that
various techniques that allow
negative programming received or
practitioners to activate the violet
generated by our souls in past lives can
flame and cleanse the negative energy
negatively influence the present life.
or karma that the soul may have Hence the importance of working with
accumulated in past lives.
the violet flame to help transmute past
HOW TO CLEANSE PAST LIFE KARMA?
life karma and reinforce our positive
Cleanse past life karma with the violet
Violet Flame and Different Wisdom
flame.
School
In the study of metaphysics, the
Each metaphysical school or Ageless
violet flame is the seventh and final
Wisdom Modalities follows its own
flame (or ray) that represents living
system of working with the violet
manifestations of Divine Power. In this
flame and addressing past lives;
actions in the present.
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however, most use visualization as the
Again, don't rush or slow down the
main action tool.
visualization; follow your pace and breathe slowly.
A simple technique involves recreating the image of the vision or memory of
You can pause the violet flame's
past lives and visualizing it surrounded
journey when it reaches the area of the
by bright violet light. Then, hold
heart to purify any negative emotions
the image without forcing it until it
and sensations that arise from the
naturally fades into a point of white
connection with past lives.
light. Then, allow the violet flame to continue Another method involves visualizing
until it reaches the head and exits
a flame or violet light moving through
through the crown. You can accompany
the body, from the feet to the head.
the visualization with affirmations such
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as "I AM THE TRANSMUTING VIOLET
known as the law of cause and
FLAME, I AM FORGIVENESS."
effect. Nothing in the universe escapes this law. From the physics
In the book "Discover Your Past
perspective, Isaac Newton also
Lives with Karmic Astrology" (2016/
described this law when stating
Portuguese edition), astrologer and
that every action has an equal and
writer Dulce Regina advises releasing
opposite reaction, which is one of
karma by activating the violet flame
the fundamental truths governing
while reciting several times an
the universe's functioning. And, of
affirmation by yogi and Hindu guru
course, humans cannot escape this
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952).
reality.
A person's negative or positive
Many of our actions generate a
karma depends on a universal law
reaction, and every cause has an
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effect. Based on this understanding,
Destiny can be modified by ourselves
it is clear that our actions generate
day by day. While many times we lead
energy that returns to us with the
a morally correct life, we may feel like
same intensity and manifests within
victims of events that seem to defy
us according to our own actions.
all logic and do not correspond to our
In other words, if we consciously or
actions. These negative situations may
unconsciously harm someone, that
result from past actions in previous
harm will eventually return to us.
lives that continue to affect us, often
This is precisely what is referred to as
without us even realizing it. In addition,
negative karma.
we often generate negative karma when we hate, act with violence,
I am the master of my fate:
harbor resentment in our hearts, and
I am the captain of my soul.
many other things that can cause
William Ernest Henley
these negative situations to come OM TIMES | October 2023
back to us at the most unexpected
• keep moving forward.
moments.
• Keep hope and faith alive. The negativity of each situation and
The good news is that it is possible to
how it affects you is a matter of
transmute negative karma if we put
perception and is in your mind.
into practice the ten secrets that we
Therefore, you can change it. • Always forgive.
are about to reveal to you:
• Meditate on your actions. • Learn to remain silent in moments
• Use your imagination to visualize positive and pleasurable situations.
of emotional turbulence.
• Speak and think positively at all
• Do not judge others. • Pay attention to things that make
times. • Give love regardless of what you
you happy. • You should not fight or resist; just
receive in return.
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Adoption Reincarnation and Past Karma ARE THEY CONNECTED?
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By Cathedral of the Soul
eing a parent is an
a mistake to think that motherhood
incredibly emotional state,
is restricted to the natural generation
a love eternally established
of life through the womb. Our
in the heart through caring
capacity to love is much greater than
for and relating to a baby or child. It is
biological relationships.
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The process of adoption is an
can have a family, a home, the love,
alternative for those who wish to
and the attention they deserve.
have children but cannot do so through natural means. Fortunately, the number of people choosing adoption, whether or not they can
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ADOPTION AND REINCARNATION
have children, is growing, choosing to dedicate their love to a child who
KARMIC RESCUE
is born and cannot be with their biological family.
Just as in material matters, spiritual life is very diverse. There are no
Allowing same-sex couples to adopt
rules, and each case occurs within
has also made significant legal and
its peculiarities and the needs of the
moral advances so that more children
spirits involved.
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However, years of experience from
adoption. Restlessness, low self-
esoteric and spiritualist schools
esteem, and a sense of inferiority
allow us to realize that in adoption
are common but not absolute rules.
cases, there are common aspects of
Only by deeply connecting with
karmic rescue benefiting the spiritual
these feelings can we overcome
development of children.
them.
ADOPTION AND REINCARNATION — HEALING
THE KARMA OF CHILDREN In some situations, we see children
There are many cases in which the
who do not value their parents. Out
spirit decides to heal the negative
of pride, selfishness, and vanity, they
feelings that may arise from
become tyrants to their parents, OM TIMES | October 2023
enslaving them to their whims and
they have another opportunity to
paying with ingratitude and pain for
rediscover those parents they did
all the tenderness and love offered
not value, regaining yesterday's
them. Many go to the extreme of
affection, love, and tenderness.
physical violence or abandon their parents to their own devices when
The Law of Eternal Return and
they are older.
divine mercy allow for this reunion through adoption and
When these spirits die and
reincarnation, no longer in a
remember the divine laws, they see
biological way but through the
the atrocities they have committed
heart, bringing these children
and seek reparation and
into their parents' arms through
reconciliation. Then, as children,
adoption.
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growth. They can then enjoy the unconditional love that only parentchild relationships provide. The Law of Eternal Return is the divine law of justice. Perhaps a woman cannot have children, but she grows spiritually over the course of her life, making increasingly loving decisions that promote her own growth and that of others, always making herself available to divine love. Without anger, she accepts that she will not be a biological mother but maintains that willingness in her heart. THE KARMA OF PARENTS
Then, due to the mother's actions and merits, spirituality gives her
Just like children, parents may also
an opportunity and brings her a
have engaged in abandonment,
child. Other times, spiritual friends
abuse of all kinds, humiliation,
volunteer to raise children when their
violence, etc. When they return to
biological parents cannot. These
the spiritual world, they awaken,
events are true gifts from the gods.
realizing the gravity of their actions. Like everyone else, they receive divine grace to learn from their mistakes and to recover and repair the errors
ADOPTION AND REINCARNATION — GRATITUDE
committed in the past. Adoptive parents should not harbor Sometimes, limited to natural
resentment towards the biological
conception, they receive a child
mother. On the contrary, whether
through adoption to further value all
or not they have contact with her,
aspects of the magic of parenthood,
especially in spiritual terms, they
especially in terms of spiritual
should always be grateful to the
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person who brought the child into
they may struggle more to develop
the world. Without her, a new family
security in life and self-love.
life would not have formed. As mentioned before, in many cases, They should always send good energy
this is one of the reasons why some
and gratitude to the biological
spirits choose to come into the world
mother. They should also help
through adoption, so parents must
cultivate the same feeling in the
be very careful in raising this child,
child, discouraging feelings of anger,
encouraging inner strength, self-
sadness, or disappointment towards
esteem, and security so that they can
the biological mother.
grow in the best conditions.
INNER STRENGTH
Adoption is divine, spiritual, and noble. It is fulfilling the laws of the world that
A child who has been adopted is likely
go beyond social standards. It is being
to have a tendency toward feelings
strong to confront prejudices and is
of abandonment and inferiority. As a
ready to give love. And nothing is more
result, despite the love they receive,
important than love.
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Karma and Reincarnation: How Are They Connected?
K
By Humanity Healing
arma upholds the principle
some point, we will be touched in the
that if we do good things,
same way.
we will replicate our days with positive situations,
while if we are filled with evil, at
The energy surrounding us and even the one we radiate is vital for our life
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to proceed positively. Bad feelings and
FAMILY
ideas affect those who feel them more
The family that we get is also closely
than those who inspire them.
linked to the Law of Karma. An unresolved situation leads to family
Over time, hatred, envy, resentment,
members being assigned with
and revenge translate into a magnet for
dementia, alcoholism, and drug
these types of feelings. Karma becomes
addiction.
a mirror of our inner world that creates a magnetic field to attract in equal or
KARMA-SAYA
greater measure what permanently
With sexual acts, a bond is created that
abounds in our ideas and hearts.
goes beyond the physical plane. The multiplicity of partners can also cause
Your states of mind do not occur
much of the karma to be transmitted,
randomly. They occur because of
and people remain united. Astral
vibratory and karmic patterns.
marks or "Samskaras "are created that
Frederick Lenz
must be worked on.
What is not overcome persists and can
GROUP
be transmitted between generations,
A consistent collection of Individual
social or family groups. Karma is used
karmas (thoughts, deeds, and
as a synonym for destiny, but the truth
intentions) can lead to serious
is that it is totally alterable if behavior
situations collectively. Disastrous
patterns are also modified.
situations many times named "acts of God," such as Floods, tragic accidents,
TYPES OF KARMA
and pandemics.
Karma — what is it? POSITIVE KARMIC ENERGY INDIVIDUAL
If debts are canceled on the karmic
Bad deeds tend to generate a greater
plane, one transcends and achieves
number of bad deeds. The chain
a new life.
cannot be stopped even after having had several lives to overcome it. The
In short, if good deeds are done,
consequence? Diseases, deformities,
more noble actions will be
orphanhood, loneliness.
attracted, and energies will be OM TIMES | October 2023
balanced. For example, a home
be unstoppable, with very serious
with an abusive father.
consequences for other future generations.
According to the ancient Law of Karma, the only way to ward off
Before you embark on a journey
negativity and prevent it from
of revenge, dig two graves.
transcending over time and
Confucius
becoming generational karma is to employ high levels of patience and
When karma is lessened, many areas
humility, and forgiveness.
begin to activate and improve. It is like a plug that opens and allows
Thus, another energy is spread to
situations that seemed impossible
children and siblings, and karma
to happen to become a reality. Think
does not multiply. On the contrary,
and feel only positive; the rest will
if more violence is generated, it will
come little by little.
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Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a
Some believe that when people
punishment imposed on us by
die, they reincarnate into another
some external agent. We create
body but with the same Soul;
our own karma. Karma is the result
Reincarnation can happen every
of the choices that we make every
time death comes.
moment of every day. Tulku Thondup
As the Matter changes and the Soul strengthens more.
There are many interpretations of Reincarnation, and you will find that
If there is no more reincarnation, it is
many talks about it never happening
because the purpose for which one
in plants or animals, only in human
comes into the world has already
beings. The controversy around the
been fulfilled. The mission was
topic, especially in the scientific
achieved, and the learning process
community, is immense.
was accomplished. OM TIMES | October 2023
DOES REINCARNATION EXIST?
Recurrent memories can represent visions of the past that are not
Reincarnation: same Soul, different
understood.
body Through hypnosis, this mystery could It is every man's obligation to put
be deciphered.
back into the world at least the
Young people who remember phrases
equivalent of what he takes out of it.
that are not in line with what they
Albert Einstein
have lived find in Reincarnation an explanation.
We have all questioned ourselves The Catholic religion opposes the
about Reincarnation.
idea of Reincarnation. The concept of Did we inhabit another body at some
another life after death is subscribed to
point? Did we suffer? Did we die
in the Resurrection, a fact manifested
several times? Who were we, and
after the death of Jesus, widely
why have we come to exist again?
propagated in the Bible.
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Souls never die, but always on
just another means that offers several
quitting one abode pass to another.
opportunities to mend the path. Debts
All things change; nothing perishes.
contracted in the past appear in new
The Soul passes hither and thither,
lives.
occupying now this body, now that... As wax is stamped with certain
In this way, some suffer more
figures, then melted, then stamped
than others or are more fortunate
anew with others, it is always the
and loved. Tragic events happen
same wax. So, the Soul is always the
continuously, while the Soul does not
same, yet wears at different times
become perfect.
different forms. SIGNS THAT SPEAK
Pythagoras
OF REINCARNATION HOW DOES IT HAPPEN? If you have felt that you have been to As we live through thousands of
some place before or known another
dreams in our present life, so is
person on another plane, it may mean
our present life, only one of many
that your Soul has been attached to
thousands of such lives which we
another body.
enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that
1. Great empathy with people with whom you have had little contact.
more real life, and so it is endlessly,
2. Affinity with remote times, even
until the very last one, the very real
with a degree of identification.
life of God.
3. Fears and phobias.
Leo Tolstoy
4. Dreams that repeat permanently. 5. Strong intuition.
The continuous evolution of the Soul is the most widespread explanation for
The karma of souls can be altered
the reason for Reincarnation. Another
with good deeds and contemplative
existence, another vital challenge.
life. The practice of yoga increases consciousness and helps us work
Achieving perfection is the goal, and
with Karmic knots in our physical and
only a pure spirit can rest. The body is
emotional bodies.
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Rising to the Challenge THE CONSCIOUS GROWTH IN DARK TIMES
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By Paul Lipton
hen the world
yearn for conscious growth. Bombs
seems out of
explode, bullets fly, bodies fall, and
balance, fear lurking
lives are shattered, yet the human
around every
spirit seeks its quiet sanctuary.
corner, and life seems frail and fragile with each passing moment, the heart
There are cries at night for lost loved
and soul call out for guidance and
ones as dear friends are lost in the
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upheaval. There is a hopelessness
and will right the wrong. But can
that seizes our very being--a sense
evil truly extinguish the light? Can
of foreboding and dread--with even
the vampires that want to suck the
turning on the television or opening
very essence of us succeed? Can
the newspaper.
the monsters truly win this round in our history? Is there no end to the anarchy that seems to be the
THE CHALLENGE OF CONSCIOUS GROWTH IN DARK TIMES
norm these days? Is hope dead? Is decency a bygone antiquated idea? Is the hero a mere movie idea? Is a
During these very dark times, we
happy ending only in fairy tales?
seek the light. We seek answers. We hope for guidance. We pray that
Can we rise to the challenge? Can
a higher being is watching over us
we meet the enemy of our souls on
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the battlefield we face? In this split
exception to the whole! The whole is
second, this fleeting time in history,
good. The total is decent. The whole
are we up to the test that is our life?
is honorable.
The answer is that we must and
In a time that calls for good, we
can meet the challenge. There is no
must harness it. We must call on the
other option.
better angels to appear and light the way. Of course, evil exists, but
Evil will always exist, for it seems
honor, nobility, courage, decency,
in some part of our DNA. But is
and a code of moral conduct must
there evil that lives separate and
be released. We cannot wait for
apart f rom the human condition?
someone else to ride in to save the
Sometimes, it feels that way. It feels
day from the vampires. We must be
like evil simply is, yet it is the
the keepers of the moral compass.
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RISING TO THE CHALLENGE BRAVELY
Rather, stay the course and be the light to help others get through the valley of darkness.
So, each day, agree to speak the code of moral conduct. Act with
Can a few truly make us run and
courage. Be the brave, noble one.
hide? I think not.
Since no one gets out of life alive, I agree that our finite time here will be one of purpose and meaning. So, decide what your legacy is! Is
SO, HERE IS THE COURSE TO FOLLOW FOR CONSCIOUS GROWTH:
your story that of the vampire or the vampire slayer? Don't be fearful
1. Accept that life is finite.
any longer. Don't hide from the
2. Accept that we can't control
challenge. Don't run from the fire.
others' evil conduct.
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3. Accept that we will fail in many
9. We must be the tangible embodiment of the intangible
of our efforts. 4. Accept that we must act without
concept. We must literally become
expectations of success.
noble and not merely talk about
5. Agree that life is finite and
it. We must become heroic and not merely read about it. We must
a beautiful gift. 6. Agree that we can't control others'
become the honorable ones and
evil conduct but can control our
not merely chatter about "where
reaction and response to it.
are the honorable ones."
7. Agree that we will fail in many of our efforts, but we will succeed more than we fail, and we learn f rom our failures. 8. Agree that we must act without expectations, but we still must act and live with courage and conviction.
CONSCIOUS GROWTH AND CHALLENGE On this day and at this moment in time, rise up. Yes, put flowers down where others have fallen and pray for the lost ones, their family, and friends,
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but then, call upon the power that
legacy. This is our immortality. This
exists in the good to rise up and fight
is our purpose. We are the vampire
the fight for our moment in time right
slayers, and the angels are within us
here and now.
and calling us to act.
You ask, what is the meaning of life
About the Author
in this time of conscious growth and
Paul Lipton is an attorney and
challenge? It is how we respond now
author. His book, Hour of the Wolf/
to this global event. It is putting aside
An Experiment in Ageless Living,
minor differences and disagreements
asks the reader to live outside of
and realizing that we are the chosen
limitations and live life fully and
ones to save this time for our children.
consciously. Age is simply an
We are the warriors of the soul. We are
arbitrary number that does not
the heart soldiers. We are the saviors
define you. Paul looks for the sweet
of our future. So what is the meaning
spot where life and adventure meet.
of our life? How we act right now is the
theagelessexperiment.com
very essence of who we are. This is our
facebook.com/TheAgelessExperiment
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Positive Vibration: 7 Days to a More Empowered Life
V
by Cindy Griffith
ibration is one of the
how often do you think about how
most important factors
our “vibes” affect your life. The quality
in our quality of life
of our positive vibration is controlled
and often the least
through thought and action. With
understood. Yes, everyone talks of
a simple daily practice, we see how
“feeling someone else’s vibes,” but
raising our vibrations can change our
OM TIMES | October 2023
mental and emotional outlook, thus changing to a more empowered life. Our vibrations waft out in the air, like the smell of cookies baking in the oven. The cookie aroma will affect anyone walking in the house by creating a feeling of joy, bringing a happy memory, or experiencing hunger! Your vibration is like that as well. Likewise, someone coming near you is affected by your pulse and will often have an emotional, although usually unconscious, reaction. For example, if our vibration reflects calm and peaceful energy, it will imbue our surroundings with a sense of calm and peace. Those coming in contact with you will,
What determines our level of positive
consciously or not, be affected by
vibration? Thoughts and actions are
that calm and peace to the level
the main influencers of vibration.
that they either resonate with your
Actions based on judgment and
vibration or conflict with it. People
negative thinking tend to lower
resonate with us if their vibrations are
vibration, whereas actions based
similar. The stronger the resonance
on thoughts of compassion and
or similar vibration, the stronger
love will raise vibrations. None of us
your calming effect will be on the
constantly vibrate at a high level,
person. If the person’s vibration were
which is why our vibration level, like
opposite, the dissonance, or lack of
our emotions, goes up and down.
resonance, would likely make you both feel uncomfortable, similar to
It is not realistic to always think
simultaneously hearing two radios
positively. Trying to force yourself to
tuned to different stations.
“think happy thoughts” and pretend OM TIMES | October 2023
everything is okay is unhealthy.
that divinity, slowed the vibratory
Instead, we must honor our mental
rate of a small part of its essence and
and emotional state at any time. By
created matter from that slowing.
taking a positive step each day, we
Using the universal law that teaches
can give ourselves the boost needed
“as above, so below,” just like God
to help us shift our vibration naturally
creates denser, slower matter by
while still honoring whatever we feel
lowering vibration, we create a slower,
in a given moment. By becoming
denser life by lowering our vibration.
mindful of how our thoughts
In the same way, we can improve your
influence our actions, we begin
life by raising our vibratory rate. When
to take control of our empowered
we raise our own vibration, we create
vibration and have greater influence
a life filled with more positive energy,
over our actions and lives.
attract more positive people, and struggle less.
Many mystics teach that we, like God, create through vibration. God,
You may have heard the expression,
Creator, Spirit, or whatever we call
“You could cut the air like a knife,” to
OM TIMES | October 2023
explain the environment surrounding
We see this when surrounded by
a difficult situation between people.
positive people. You find yourself
Why is that? The vibrations given
looking at life more positively.
off are so strong and low, creating
Also, you surely have fallen prey
a palpable shift in the environment.
to “Negative Nellie,” creating an exhausting lunch visit where you
Another expression, “I felt lighter than
literally watch yourself thinking
air,” explains someone feeling really
more negatively.
good. The person’s high vibratory rate is influencing them. Others around
What does this teach us besides
that person will be influenced as well!
staying away f rom negative people?
This idea of vibration levels affecting
First, it teaches that we are in control
those who come in contact with it
of our lives. Just like the angry
is demonstrated in mob mentality,
crowd’s lower vibration can change
where a usually calm, happy person
our mental and emotional state
encounters a group of angry people
and lower our own vibration, we
and becomes angry.
can consciously raise our vibration, OM TIMES | October 2023
thereby changing our mental and
want, focus on raising your vibration
emotional outlook. Third, getting
higher to compensate! You do that
together with positive people with
by watching your thoughts and
whom you resonate will take you
actions to make sure they reflect
to even greater, more empowered
how you are really feeling inside
heights.
instead of “catching” someone else’s negativity.
We must choose our friends and environment wisely. The stronger,
Life changes when we are more
positive vibration is the most
aware of our vibration because we
influential, so if you are caught in a
stop sending low vibrations into the
place with a lower vibration than you
environment. The Law of Attraction
OM TIMES | October 2023
teaches that similar energies are
Day 6: Take care of your body by
attracted to each other. We may want
getting enough sleep and eating
to attract other empowered, higher-
well.
vibrating, optimistically thinking people to increase the number of
Day 7: Finally, do not place judgment
positive happenings in life. Keeping
on the vibration; just do the best you
our vibration high as much as
can when you can. Judgment lowers
possible increases the opportunity
our vibration!
for positive people and things happening around us.
The last point is very important: We are human and sometimes need to
How can we shift our positive
be in a crummy mood; or experience
vibration in a week? Each day, try one
medical depression. We can’t fake
of these suggestions. If one of them
our vibration, but by taking one of
does not feel comfortable, just pick
these steps daily, we will find that
another to do that day:
positive vibration rises naturally. With these higher vibrations, we can
Day 1: Sing or listen to uplifting
attract positivity into our lives and
music, read positive and empowering
start the ball rolling toward a more
literature, or watch a funny movie.
empowered future.
Day 2: Spend time with a group of
About the Author
positive people or an inspiring friend.
Cindy Griffith is a Psychic, Spiritual Development Teacher
Day 3: Think of a loving situation or
and Blogger. Author of Soul
something you are grateful for, and
Soothers: Mini Meditations
allow that vibration to fill your heart
for Busy Lives and her latest
and radiate throughout your body.
book, co-authored with Lisa K., Grow Your Spiritual Business.
Day 4: Try meditating by focusing on
Cindy teaches throughout the
your breath for a few minutes.
U.S., Online, and in Tokyo. Find more about Cindy, her articles,
Day 5: Donate something or
books, and psychic readings at
volunteer your time.
CindyGriffith.com. OM TIMES | October 2023
Spiritual but not religious: How values connect on climate
S
By Sustainability Times
pirituality may prove
In-depth interviews conducted by
valuable in achieving
Dr. Jessica Eise of the University
climate goals, and new
of Texas at San Antonio establish
research from the United
a sense of being connected to the
States is focused on how tapping into
natural world among those who
specific cultural shifts in spirituality
view themselves as spiritual but
might drive climate action.
not religious people. A common OM TIMES | October 2023
thread found in the interviews, all completed with individuals living in two Midwestern U.S. cities, was a shared priority placed on nature and the environment regardless of how different their individual belief systems were. With 27% of American adults now identifying as spiritual apart from a specific religious identity, Eise believes that exploring these spiritual dimensions may help to promote climate action. And since it’s such a departure from the 1940s and 1950s, when only 2% to 3% of Americans were without a religious affiliation (primarily Christian), she also thinks it’s important to understand
The strong bond with nature, the
the collective social trend that
Earth and other people is described in
emphasizes specific values despite
Eise’s academic paper as “a pervasive
the individual spiritual identities.
emphasis and certainty in their belief in the interconnection of living
For example, strikingly diverse
things.” The work, completed with
people chose similar words to
Meghana Rawat of the Utah Valley
describe these values. “If there’s
University, was published this month
a God, I should live my life with
in the journal Public Relations Review.
love, compassion, understanding, tolerance,” said one of the 28
More than 85% of those interviewed
participants. “And if there isn’t
said that spiritual beliefs influenced
a God, I should live my life with
their lives and behavior, how they
love, compassion, tolerance. So,
see the world, and the political
it just doesn’t matter.”
candidates and positions they OM TIMES | October 2023
support. All of the participants said
action around climate change and
spirituality shapes their identity.
the environment, and this may be a space with potential to promote
“My job, my relationships with other
and encourage change and
people, my interactions with bees,
action,” the paper said.
animals, plants, my garden. My garden … is like my church,” said one
At the same time, many of these
participant. “It’s my worship place.”
people said they feel largely ignored or misunderstood by
A growing population of spiritual
media and others who view them
but not necessarily religious people
as outside of the discourse.
may be a key demographic in terms of driving climate action.
“Rich ties between spirituality
“Communication and public
and environmentalism have
relations practitioners have
existed for millennium and still
struggled to motivate sufficient
do in many cultures and groups
OM TIMES | October 2023
around the world,” says Eise. “But
“We need to ref rame our messages
mainstream Western narratives
to an ‘everyone’ problem that we can
have generally – and rather
solve and for which we have reasons
severely – divorced spirituality,
to hope,” Eise says. “Spiritual and
ethics and morals from ‘scientific’
ethical messaging that emphasizes
issues such as climate change and
connection to one another and the
environmentalism.”
environment has a lot of potential in this light.”
More research is needed, she said, to better understand the
Originally Published in Sustainability
spirituality trend in different
Times
geographic regions and cultures. She’ll be broadening her own
© 2023 Sustainability Times - Content
data with expanded study on
on this site is licensed under a
spirituality, ethics and climate
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
change attitudes.
SA International license. OM TIMES | October 2023
When to Use Reiki for Your Pet?
M
By Ministry Earth
any studies around
ailments in these four pillars,
the world prove the
not just the physical aspect that
effectiveness of energy
allopathic medicines provide.
Healing and spiritual
Everything is important, but
treatments. Everything is energy.
relying solely on medication treats
Both humans and animals, beings
the consequence, not the cause.
composed of body, mind, emotions,
Therefore, it is important to treat
and spirits, need to address their
the body as a whole.
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Animals are highly sensitive and
negative and deficient energy
tend to absorb our energy when
becomes too much for them to bear
we are not well. So, Reiki is a way
(hence the importance of having
for animals to be worked on.
more than one animal in a large family). Reiki helps maintain well-
Reiki helps restore and balance the
being and energetic balance and
animal's energy when it becomes
strengthens the animal's immune
overwhelmed by the surrounding
system.
energies, whether in the home or from the owners. Animals,
Animals are sentient beings, just
especially cats, are sensitive and
like us humans. They also appreciate
assist in transmuting the energies
good relaxation techniques, positive
of their home and family. However,
energy, and care that shows them
they can become ill when the
how much they are loved.
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Did you know that animals hear and
Talk to your animal, even if it's just
know EVERYTHING we say?
mentally. It will be very important to them!
Not to mention that they FEEL Some animals are "holding on"
everything we feel.
to their death because of their Therefore, be careful with aggressive
owner's feelings. There are
or dismissive jokes and words. Be
animals that get sick out of fear
mindful of moments of anger that
or apprehension about what their
you might take out on your pet.
owner thinks and whether they
They may not speak a language
might be given away. However, an
comprehensible to us, but we always
animal is a living being like us, with
communicate with them!
feelings and emotions. OM TIMES | October 2023
TAKE CARE OF YOUR PET, IT IS A SENTIENT SOUL! In fact, it would be ideal to use Reiki therapy on your pet at all times, as it can be used as a preventive measure to strengthen their health and promote well-being. We are all constantly exposed to various types of energy, and our animals absorb it intensely. Taking care of their energy is also an act of love. Such treatments do not need to be frequent. Biweekly or monthly applications can greatly enhance the animal's quality of life. However, since this is not always the case, it is advisable to use Reiki when owners notice something unusual, whether in behavior or physical. Of course, it should be
restore and balance its energy,
used in conjunction with veterinary
preventing any diseases that could
assistance.
manifest in the physical body.
An animal may often have some
Despite being widely spread in
energetic blockage that interferes
recent times, Reiki is still little known
with its well-being, which may not
for animal treatment. I believe the
be easily — if ever — detected by
biggest barrier is showing that
veterinary exams.
animals also need this kind of care and not waiting for diseases to
Problems first occur in the spirit.
establish themselves before seeking
Therefore, if the animal exhibits
help. Much of what happens to
strange behavior, Reiki can help
animals are problems and energies
OM TIMES | October 2023
that they absorb from their owners,
Often, at this moment, the animal
so taking care of the energetic and
already calms down. But, even when
spiritual health of the animal is also
it doesn't show that it wants it, please
part of responsible pet ownership.
focus on the Reiki energy and say you are there to send healing energy
REIKI IN DOGS:
wherever it is most needed.
Ask for permission.
The wisdom of Reiki will do its part. It will know where to go. It will go to the
It is very important to always ask for
environment if it's not for the animal.
permission from the animal, either mentally or out loud.
Let them approach.
Permission to be there, to approach,
When treating pets of friends or
and especially to apply Reiki. Explain
relatives with whom you don't have
that it is healing energy and that you
much contact, it's ideal to let them get
are there to help.
used to your presence. OM TIMES | October 2023
They may perceive that you are
slightly to the side. Start moving your
invading their space, causing some
hands as if something very interesting
stress in this initial contact.
is happening there. Usually, they approach you to see what it is and
Sit on the floor and wait for a while.
interact with you.
During this time, start connecting with Reiki energy so that they can
Of course, there are cats that
feel positive vibrations coming from
immediately approach. They can sense
you.
the positive energy right away.
Avoid eye contact with fearful or
Restless animals
aggressive dogs. There are animals that are very restless Fearful or aggressive dogs feel very
and won't stay still.
intimidated by eye contact; they may feel threatened. Usually, they have two
After you have tried everything to
reactions: to flee or to try to bite. Be very
establish a bond between you, and he
careful!
still hasn't relaxed, it's not a problem.
With cats, make eye contact.
Simply find a position where the animal is always in sight. Then, raise
Cats communicate a lot through eye
your hand and start sending Reiki. He
contact. Ask anyone with a cat how
will receive the energy anyway.
they sometimes stare at them for a while.
This technique becomes stronger when a person has reached the
When you start, look directly into his
second level of Reiki, not only because
eyes and blink slowly twice or thrice,
of the use of symbols but also because
then wait a moment. If he blinks
your energy becomes more potent
back at you at this moment, you have
with the second level.
created a bond of trust with him. To learn more about Animal spirituality As they are very curious, after he
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blinks back, he blinks again and turns
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Relationships The interconnectiveness among all human beings and, consequently, the relationships among us are the focus of this section. The dynamics of the web of connections we make is one of the most prominent aspects of human existence: how we interlace with each other’s existence in a meaningful way.
The Art of Learning to Love
S
by Catrina Stiller
o many of us feel
arising out of kinship or personal
unworthy of love. This
ties; (2) attraction based on sexual
makes learning to love
desire: affection and tenderness
ourselves difficult. Here
felt by lovers; (3): affection based
are some ways to enhance the
on admiration, benevolence, or
art of learning to love. According
common interests; b: an assurance
to Webster's Dictionary, love is
of affection; 2: warm attachment,
a (1) strong affection for another
enthusiasm, or devotion.
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From these definitions, it is difficult
the activities I enjoy and surrounding
to understand what the term self-
myself with people who treat me
love means. Many individuals believe
with love and respect."
that when a person declares love for self, it is an ego-centered statement.
When used in this context, self-love
A declaration that means the
becomes a cornerstone to loving your
individual is conceited or egotistical.
life, living out your purpose, and even
Even Webster's Dictionary defines
having the ability to love someone
it this way. When I refer to self-
else. Unfortunately, many individuals
love, I mean a regard for one's own
I treat suffer f rom a lack of self-love.
happiness—not in an "I don't care
They have no idea how wonderful
about anyone else" sort of way, but
they are and how much they have
in the sense that "I recognize my
to offer the world. They come to me
God-given right to be worthy and
feeling broken and beaten down by
accepting of happiness by pursuing
life. They believe they are victims of
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their circumstances, upbringings,
leaving you feeling more and more
economic status, and environments.
helpless.
I can easily see this in them because, for many years, I, too, believed I was
We all have a tendency, at times,
a victim of circumstance rather than
to feel like victims, especially when
the creator of my life. Finally, I began
something painful happens. We
to wake up to my harming self-
have a habit of wanting to blame
talk. I would observe myself saying,
someone else for life's difficulties.
"If only I was born into a family of
This way, we do not have to take
higher economic status." "If only my
responsibility for our feelings, actions,
family lived somewhere else." "If only
thoughts, or the state of our lives.
I hadn't been abused or this or that
Instead, we can make excuses for
trauma hadn't happened to me." The
why we are unhappy, unlovable, and/
list of if-only can continue forever,
or unsuccessful. Developing self-love
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is vital to becoming the creator in
through magazines, surf the web,
your life rather than a victim of your
go to the library or department
life. You need to get to know who
stores, and notice which sections
you really are without others telling
and subject areas you are drawn
you who you should be or what
to. Then commit to trying one new
you should be doing. You need to
activity each week. You can also list
become your own best friend.
the things you have always wanted to do but have put off doing because
Many have asked me, "How do I
you didn't want to do them alone.
become my best friend and learn
Finally, stretch yourself beyond your
to love myself?" You can begin
comfort zone and choose to do an
by creating a physical list of the
activity f rom that list alone. Once
activities you enjoy. If you do not
you make f riends with yourself,
know what activities you enjoy, look
you will no longer feel the stabbing
OM TIMES | October 2023
pains of loneliness. You may still feel
body as you read each quality. Do
lonely f rom time to time, but the
you notice any tension anywhere?
deep, hollow pain of being alone will
Is there a feeling of resistance or
dissipate.
openness? What does the space feel like around your heart? When you
Another exercise in developing and
read one of the qualities, do you feel
learning self-love is to write down
tightness in your chest? Does your
ten qualities you love about yourself.
body move forward, backward, or in
If you struggle with identifying
the same position?
these qualities, ask a trusted friend, teacher, counselor, or family member
Many individuals find a feeling of
for help. Read the list out loud to
disbelief, and physical resistance
yourself daily while paying attention
appears when they begin verbalizing
to the physical sensations in your
the qualities. This is often a sign that
OM TIMES | October 2023
that you are unworthy and open the possibility of learning to love in your life. • I am worthy of being loved. • I am gaining confidence in myself each day. • I am f ree to accept myself completely as I am. • I am f ree to make mistakes and learn f rom them. • I am a divine spirit having a human experience. • I am proud of the person I am now and the person I am becoming. • I am a unique and wonderful human being. • I am doing the best I know how to do at this moment. • I am challenging myself each day to see the good in me. this person does not believe they are
• I can f reely give and receive love.
worthy of love. Believing that you are not worthy of love will keep love away.
About the Author
We are all worthy of receiving love.
Catrina Stiller is an Intuitive
Denying yourself love is equivalent
Counselor and Healer. She holds
to telling God he made a mistake
a license as a Practical Counselor
in creating you. God does not make
and is a National Certified
mistakes, and the best way to show
Counselor. She is also level II Reiki
gratitude to God is to love who you are
certified. Catrina offers intuitive
and acknowledge your self-worth.
readings, counseling, and energy healing. She also facilitates healing
Here are some affirmations you can
circles and other workshops.
say at the beginning and end of your
Visit her website to learn more:
day. This help challenges the belief
catrinastiller.com
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How to Use Rose Quartz to Attract More Love
I
by Kartar Diamond
n the realm of traditional
extended excerpt f rom my book,
Feng Shui, there are several
The Feng Shui Matrix.
approaches we use to help garner more love and
In traditional Feng Shui, we can
romance. I have written about it
relate to a house like a radio,
in my e-book Feng Shui Tips for
receiving certain f requencies,
Love and Romance, which is an
depending on which station we are
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tuned to. The house can attract good energy when we skillfully use the space (such as spending more time in the best parts of the house) and balancing all portions of the house, which is often the more practical thing to do. We can determine the inherently best portions of the house through calculations based on when it was built and its compass alignment. We can remedy any part of a house, the more practical thing to do, using natural elements, like water, wood, metal, earth, or fire. Our human affairs are influenced by the spaces we occupy, but we also have some measure of free will.
associated with all forms of love: self-
We can use many complementary
love, romantic love, love for family,
modalities, such as natural crystals
platonic love, and unconditional love.
and gemstones. Natural crystals can
This is a basic crystal in any energy
be programmable and possess their
healer's collection.
own healing vibrations. Rose quartz's energy is nurturing, For example, rose quartz is one of
gentle, and warm, helping to
the more popular crystals associated
foster feelings of compassion and
with attracting love and enhancing
forgiveness. It assists in purifying
self-love.
the heart and promotes deep inner healing, self-acceptance, self-worth,
Rose quartz, often referred to as the
and self-esteem. The soft pink
"love stone," has been treasured for
crystal encourages the release of
centuries for its energetic properties
worry, fear, resentment, and past
OM TIMES | October 2023
emotional traumas, replacing them
In terms of romantic love, rose
with feelings of peace, love, and
quartz is believed to attract new love,
harmony.
improve understanding in existing relationships, restore trust, and
Another technique is to hold the
promote closeness. It's often used in
rose quartz during meditation or
rituals or placed in the bedroom to
place it on the body while lying
enhance relationship harmony.
down. Raising your own vibration with meditation can help switch
One secret of the ancient masters
on the stone's healing power. You
and dowsers concerning Feng Shui is
can also place a stone in water
to place the healing stone of choice
and then drink the water for a
on an image of the space you want
homeopathic-like influence on
to balance. This could even be the
the water. Another technique that
drawn floor plan of a house. Then,
includes water is to take a bath
remotely heal the area with the
with these stones in the tub!
power of the natural crystal. We live
OM TIMES | October 2023
in a parallel universe which you can
balance our body, mind, and spirit
transmit energy through!
towards more self-love, forgiveness, happiness, and compassion.
While the rose quartz's energy is particularly aligned with love, it also
Having these high-vibration stones
supports healing and rejuvenation,
around you can hardly ever go
reducing tension and stress, soothing
wrong at home or at work. Ancient
emotional wounds, and encouraging
civilizations even made underground
tranquility and comfort.
spaces their homes and places of worship. In countless ways, we can
Other stones which can attract
honor and invoke the energy of
love and romance include unakite,
Mother Earth, including in these
chrysoprase, pearl, garnet, ruby,
precious stones and natural crystals.
moonstone, blue lace agate, lemon quartz, amethyst, kunzite, and
From the Feng Shui and Crystals
green jade. These stones can help
Blog Series
OM TIMES | October 2023
Metaphysics
The Transcendental Facets of Eucalyptus Essential Oil by Andrew Pacholyk, MS L.Ac
OM TIMES | October 2023
About Eucalyptus...
O
trees planted in these areas could transform damp, stagnant marshes
riginating in Australia
into dry landscapes, effectively
and Tasmania, the
eliminating the breeding grounds for
remarkable eucalyptus
malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
tree has spread globally,
with over 700 species, 500 of which produce essential oils. Alongside
EUCALYPTUS HEALING PROPERTIES
Corymbia and Angophora, eucalyptus is one of the three related genera
This essential oil possesses a
commonly called "eucalypts."
delightful aroma and strong potency. It acts as an expectorant, effectively
Certain eucalyptus species are
clearing mucus and stubborn
colloquially known as gum trees due
phlegm. Its remarkable antiviral,
to their tendency to release a thick
anticatarrhal, and antibacterial
sap when their bark is damaged. The
properties make it an essential
name "scribbly gum" originates from
addition to any herbal medicine
Greek words (EU), meaning "well,"
collection. It proves particularly
and (kályptos), meaning "covered,"
beneficial in treating sinusitis, the
alluding to the initial concealment of
common cold, productive cough,
the flowers by the operculum or "cap."
laryngitis, and bronchitis.
Initially used by Aboriginal
Moreover, this therapeutic oil can
communities to treat infections
alleviate urogenital disorders,
and fevers, the eucalyptus tree's
including leucorrhea and cystitis.
properties caught the attention of
By diluting it in a douche or
French naturalist De Labillardiere.
bathwater, one can cleanse and
This exceptional oil proved effective
eliminate the dampness and
in combating malaria and fever,
infection associated with microbial
aiding in the drying of mucus and
presence and discharge. Eucalyptus
tonifying the lungs. This "fever tree"
oil has been a trusted analgesic for
was extensively planted in Algiers to
centuries, relieving neuralgia and
combat malaria-infested marshlands
muscular pain, particularly in damp
and stagnant waters. The eucalyptus
and cold weather conditions.
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Eucalyptus Oil and Transcendence
By incorporating this magical oil into
From a psychological and spiritual
a snifter bottle or roll-on perfume,
perspective, this extraordinary
one can cultivate an awareness of
essential oil liberates our minds.
happiness and good fortune.
It opens pathways to clearer thinking, alleviates the burden of
The round leaves of specific
feeling constrained, and infuses an
eucalyptus species have been
atmosphere of freedom, optimism,
associated with prosperity and
and positivity. When a space feels
money. Consequently, it is linked
enclosed or lacks vibrancy, this
to the concept of "bringing
oil can be used in an oil burner or
money to you." As a result, it has
diffuser to expand and invigorate
earned names like "money tree" or
the room. In the realm of incense,
"cash bush," making it a valuable
its enchanting aroma helps
component of empowerment
dissipate trapped emotions such as
rituals, money bags, wallets,
fear, insecurity, and doubt, which
purses, or herbal casting aimed at
may stem from outdated beliefs.
transforming the financial realm.
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As mentioned earlier, eucalyptus
they are widely believed to possess
boasts a long-standing reputation as
the power to ward off evil and
the "herb of protection." It has been
repel trouble-causing adversaries.
traditionally grown outside homes to
So, whether seeking relief from a
safeguard against harm or planted
congested sinus or cough, in need
in gardens to repel bothersome
of a soothing rub for sore muscles,
insects and other detrimental
or desiring increased protection
intruders. However, this herb serves
and awareness, embrace the
as a remarkable tool for expanding
magical benefits of this potent and
one's boundaries and moving forward
camphoraceous gift from nature.
fearlessly. About the Author Eucalyptus leaves have also been
Find out more about Andrew
thrown into bonfires, fireplaces, and
Pacholyk, MS, L.Ac, at:
onto candles or incense to aid in
peacefulmind.com
dispelling negativity from individuals
Therapies for healing mind,
in a weakened state. In addition,
body, and spirit
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Books
“What is a word? This is a word that at its core has an eternal, infinite, unbound being. … What is to be unfolded to knowledge and experience through the word is that which lies beyond the obvious. That which lies beyond the obvious must be experienced to be known. The experience ends in opening the awareness to the unboundedness. Unless that unboundedness is experienced, language has lost its true value. Something will be gained…, but not the totality which is contained in every word. Encounters with Living Language: Surrendering to the Power of Words awakens readers to the intrinsic energy of language, where we can experience its multidimensional transmissions connecting us to the oneness that underlies all of life. Christina’s book provides a riveting account of these discoveries and an invitation for readers to welcome an embodied experience with the living language and explore the dormant places within them still waiting to awaken.
At the deeper levels there will be more connectedness, more connectedness, until it reaches the ultimate connectedness. Inert, now it is lively." Maharishi's view of the transcendent use of words struck a chord in me. That a word could influence the "wholeness of creation" awakened me to the unfathomable power of words — a phenomenon I call "holy word power."
“What is a word? This is a word that at its core has an eternal, infinite, unbound being. … What is to be unfolded to knowledge and experience through the word is that which lies beyond the obvious. That which lies beyond the obvious must be experienced to be known. The experience ends in opening the awareness to the unboundedness. Unless that unboundedness is experienced, language has lost its true value. Something will be gained…, but not the totality which is contained in every word. Encounters with Living Language: Surrendering to the Power of Words awakens readers to the intrinsic energy of language, where we can experience its multidimensional transmissions connecting us to the oneness that underlies all of life. Christina’s book provides a riveting account of these discoveries and an invitation for readers to welcome an embodied experience with the living language and explore the dormant places within them still waiting to awaken.
At the deeper levels there will be more connectedness, more connectedness, until it reaches the ultimate connectedness. Inert, now it is lively." Maharishi's view of the transcendent use of words struck a chord in me. That a word could influence the "wholeness of creation" awakened me to the unfathomable power of words — a phenomenon I call "holy word power."
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