UCM 2013 Winter/Spring Issue Serving Those Who Serve: Healing Focus Table of contents: ●
Introduction of Magazine: Editor
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Headquarters Highlights ●Presidents Message
Rev. Sandy Clark
●Dean of Education
Rev. Angela DeBry
●Minister Transitions ●
Regular Columns ● Ministerial Mentoring
Rev. Tom Garry
● Charter Corners
Rev. Doti Boon
● Pages from our Past
Revs. John and Sabara Watson
● Spotlight on
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Rev. Bea Baechle
Special Articles Eternal Pilgrim A poem
Rev. Alice
Theriault Ascension in Nature
Rev. Eve Wilson
Strategies for Emotional Healing
Rev. Janet Childs
Three Dimensions of Healing
Rev. Hal Isen
Universal Church of the Master Winter to Spring Issue: Healing This issue is a Healing Focus. Healing is both a noun and a verb, an activity and a journey. When we first enter the Healing journey it is often to experience an intervention in which the mind body connection is made manifest in some way. We connect with it either as a recipient, a healer or both. It is exciting, sometimes the first doorway to our spiritual understanding. During this long and wonderful journey it appears that we relate to healing in many ways. It helps us to discover ourselves and ultimately to release ourselves. It shows us the reachable powers for good, and helps us to move into the Divine oneness. There are multiple tools and like most metaphysical tools they work more and sometimes less, depending on where we are personally and how this particular intervention resonates with our own energy. As you read this issue, search for self in the articles, one will be yours, ask that you can be with whatever is there for you. Most of us reading this magazine have already discovered that reality is malleable, and healing makes it more so and then attaches to our own personal ready point. Happy reading. Mary
(photo is our NC healing / memorial garden in the Spring)
Headquarters Highlights
Some exciting things have happened at Headquarters since our last issue, many of which are posted on the UCM Web page, please check it out if you haven’t been there lately, www.u-c-m.org. The staff has been busy processing renewals both from ministers and students and we thought that you might be interested in where UCM ministers are located, so we developed the following information: 49% of our members are in CA; FL and MI have 10% each, AZ 7% international is 4% with NV 3% and the balance in All other states. The Board of Trustees is in the process of calling each of our 239 voting members, those calls will continue through March. The membership seems pleased to hear from us, and to share their thoughts and prayers for the good of UCM. We have completed the initial balancing of the 2012 financial reporting, the summary of which will be presented at the annual Meeting.
Save the Day UCM Annual Business Meeting: May 18, 2013 Location: Center for Creative Living 1461 Koll Circle; San Jose CA Fundraising: Silent Auction Rev. Debbie Uharriet, Conference Chair
Headquarter Highlights The Presidents Message Rev. Sandy Clark, D. D.
Happy New Year to all of you. I spent the New Year’s Holiday week on a paddle wheel boat cruising down the Mississippi River from Memphis to New Orleans. Now I know the theme of this issue of our magazine is ‘Healing’ and when originally booking this trip, healing was the furthest from my mind, but in being home, and in light of my experiences of the week, healing is exactly what “spirit” had in mind. Many of you are aware that I have been traveling over the New Year’s holiday for some time now, it all started when I was asked if I would like to go to San Antonio, Texas for New Year’s, and my response was who goes to San Antonio for New Years? Well I went, had a marvelous time and ever since have traveled over the New Year’s holiday. Rose Parade, Buchart Gardens, Nashville and more. We flew from San Francisco to Memphis arriving one day early so we could visit “Graceland” before boarding our boat. Now I was not too excited about touring Graceland but said I would go. Well was I surprised, I actually enjoyed the Graceland Tour! I came away with a much different perception than when I had arrived. I cannot say exactly what I expected, but I will say I got in touch with a person not a “superstar”. After boarding the boat and finding our stateroom I was relieved to discover I did not feel claustrophobic as our room was inside with no window. Even though the room was small I was comfortable. One reason we took this trip was for the music, as it was billed as Big Band Music from the Glen Miller Band. However we were delighted to discover that a very large number of the passengers were from a Dixie Land Jazz group, who when the ships musicians were not entertaining, entertained with their own groups! And they were good! There was a jam session each morning and anyone who had brought their own instruments could join in. One lady who turned 90 on the trip would bring her banjo, and she could, I believe the term is, strum! We were surrounded with people enjoying what they were doing and sharing their joy in music.
Headquarter’s Highlights Continued
Now you may be wondering what does all this have to do with healing and what process did I use. I did not really realize at the time what was happening to me as I was enjoying the trip, people, music, plus being away from my “normal” routine. It was not until I returned home, immersed back into my routine that I discovered some changes in myself and then during a meditation saw a much bigger picture of what that trip experience really was for me, not just a cruise down the Mississippi! I was born in Minnesota, near the beginning of the Mississippi River. Water is a clearing symbol, and I spent seven days in a boat on the water! Just makes sense that something is going to be washed away, and I was able to release a lot of emotion and “things” that had seemed important to me and now no longer are. It is not that I have forgotten or am not doing things, they just no longer have the emotional pull that they had before. Did I meditate on the trip asking for the release of certain things, not specifically, however before the trip while still home I had asked Sprit for help. Our prayers and requests are answered, sometimes not quite in the way we expect, but they are answered. As we all walk along our pathways this year may we each be guided in our highest and best interests. With Light and Love, Sandy
Headquarter Highlights Dean of Education Rev. Angela DeBry, H.H.D, D. D. UCM An Exceptional Education Program 1908 – Present – And Beyond From the Desk of the Dean When Reverend Garry, Th.M. our editor, told me that this issue was on the Healing Arts I was thrilled. So many of the members who are drawn to the UCM Education Programs either through the Ministerial Credentialing Program or the Theology Degree Program come because they are truly spiritual healers and they are looking for a safe place to practice their particular belief. We have sponsoring ministers who have a spiritual healing charters that teach their students such disciplines as Huna, Reiki, Color Energy Therapy, Tai Chi, Matrix Healing, Vortex Healing, Ascension Training and so many more. Our students and teachers practice Yoga, Tai Chi, Feldenkrais, Touch for Health, and multiple forms of meditation. They bring wisdom and spiritual healing traditions from so many cultures, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Wicca, Islam, Judaism, just to touch on a few. Thanks to the foresight of our founding ministers, who made spiritual healing a part of our By Laws, we are able to offer the spiritual healer a home where they may be trained and operate legally their spiritual practice. Many of our ministers are what I call “solitary practitioners”. They do not have a charter or a group but have become ministers specifically to practice their spiritual healing modality. Some specialize in clearing work. They go to homes, businesses and such and clear the energy for the individual and set a healing space for that place. Several of our ministers do what some call Ley Line work. This involves balancing the energy field of Mother Earth so that she may heal from traumas such as oil spills, fires, floods, etc. There are also the ministers who practice the laying on hands healing arts such as Reiki, Color Energy Therapy, etc. rather than teaching it. Our graduates also appear in the more traditional healing models at hospice centers, pastoral drug and alcohol counseling, grief counseling, funeral parlors and as critical incident debriefers for first responders. If you are called to service in the healing arts and are looking for a home to express your particular spiritual gift, if you are looking for an individual teacher in the Credentialing Program or a Theology Degree to help you develop the spiritual healing gifts that you know you have, we would love to work with you. For our members who have a spiritual healing gift that they would love to teach as a sponsoring minister we would love to help you design a sponsoring program. Please contact me at rev.angeladebry@u-c-m.org or staff@u-c-m.org. Reverend Angela DeBry, H.H.D., D.D. Dean of Education ● We have awarded certificates this quarter and enrolled three new degree students
Gone On - Is Not Gone We, who are the members and ministers of this UCM family, understand the continuing existence of those who have crossed over from this spiritual plane. We draw guidance and inspiration from those who have described this spiritual path through the vibration of their consciousness and we are grateful for our connections with kindred souls on both sides of the veil. May remembering strengthen us in our commitment to loving service to Humankind. The following members have passed on since our last edition.
Transitions Reverend Jacoby "Robert" Sumrall July 2, 1938--Feb. __, 2013 Florida ••• Rev. Robert Sumrall was ordained in 1994.• He and his wife, Rev. Shari Sumrall, held UCM Charter #750 for Church of Light.•Though recent health issues limited his participation,•Rev.•Robert has done healing, messages and sometimes sermons for Sunday Services.• He worked at psychic fairs and with Rev. Shari in classes, circles, weddings and private readings.
Reverend Lynn Winch Jan. 21, 1944--Nov. 7, 2012 Tucker, Georgia ••• Rev. Lynn Winch was ordained in 1987.• She was an internationally known medium and healer.• She was also an astrologer, numerologist, did readings, insight and release work.• She was UCM State Agent in Georgia. ••• Rev. Winch dedicated herself to prayerfully helping where needed: for the highest and best for all souls, for our country, all countries and for UCM.
Reverend Michael McLaughlin Dec. 27, 1949--Aug. 29, 2012 Alexander, Arkansas ••• Rev. Michael McLaughlin was ordained in 1996.• At that time he wrote that he had spent 20+ years in recovery for•various addictions and had done years of therapy and introspection.• Spirituality permeated every part of his life.••• Rev. McLaughlin received his BA in psychology from Antioch University and was a•graduate of the interdenominational chaplain program at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, CA.• When he relocated to Arkansas, Rev. McLaughlin represented UCM as State Agent. Reverend Virginia Veach July 7, 1932--Feb. __, 2013 CA ••• Rev. Virginia Veach was ordained in 1979.• She held UCM Charter #737 for Universal Fellowship. ••• She began her professional career as a physical therapist, received a Masters in clinical psychology, a Ph.D. in Transpersonal psychology and became a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor. In the 1980s she was a national speaker and edited a psychology newsletter. • As far back as she could remember, Rev. Veach was a "sensitive" and was gifted as a healer and medical psychic.• She studied with Revs Jack Schwartz and Howard Thurman, Buddhist teachers, psychic surgeons in The Philippines, Tibetan doctors and Native American healers.
We are always sheltered beneath His wings. Psalms:
Ministerial Mentoring
Rev. Thomas Garry, D. D. President and Founder Center for Infinite Growth
The theme of this issue of the magazine is Healing. Healing is the way that many of our ministers were drawn to the church. It was my path to UCM. Historically healing was employed by the clergy as part of their ministry. In Christianity, the admonition of the Master was to go forth to teach and to heal. This then is the authority upon which many have traditionally drawn this inspiration and in this country it provides the legal authority for your healing work. My interest in healing began at an early age and has continued throughout my life. Once you become aware of another person’s need, your intrinsic desire to help becomes manifest. This is a God inspired gift, which is the source of the healing. It is important to consciously practice in that manner, so that your own personal energy does not become depleted. The energy begins to flow when you connect, with a desire to help a person who has a healing need. The affirmation is not my will but Thine, in asking God for the highest good in this co-creative act. Frequently the intuitive awareness grows to enable one to understand the parameters of the need. Some ministers dedicate their life to their healing work, all ministers should consider including healing in their daily practice of prayer and meditation. The word minister simply means to serve, and this is a blessed form of spiritual service. Healing is a natural act; its beginning is timeless, practiced by primitive peoples in most cultures throughout the world. Remember, worrying about someone drains their energy, praying for them increases it.
I would welcome your input or requests for discussion of topics that would meet your needs. You can reach me at tpmg1111@charter .net.
Charter Corner Why Don't you Have a UCM Charter? Rev. Doti Boon
Many UCM ministers are unaware of how exciting it can be to have a charter. Having a charter is a wonderful way to gather spiritual friends and family together in one place for prayer, community, support and love. A charter fosters support groups interested in discussing our Father/Mother God in all aspects. When I communicate with our world-wide network of ministers I am surprised at how little they know about the benefits of having a charter. Let’s start with some of the most wonderful features, the advantages, for you and your community. Under UCM’s umbrella you will be granted a 501(c)3 tax deductible status, guaranteeing your congregation a tax deduction for all monetary donations. You will however have to register your own charter with the IRS. Headquarters can guide you in this simple process. In the upcoming years this will be very important and UCM will fight for you to keep this status. You can have charter meetings in your home, in a local community center, offices, fraternal halls (Elks, Moose, Kiwanis, etc.) or school. You don’t need to go out and buy a church.
Teach by your example. Be the change you want to see in the world.
Charter Corner Continued Why would you start a charter? The following are some ideas for starting a charter. Reach out to friends that are interested in learning more about various religions and form a religious study group. Talk to people around you, at your gym, school, work, bank, dog park, etc. that enjoy the latest spiritual or metaphysical books, movies, classes, etc. Start giving metaphysical, religious, spiritual or informative classes. Most of all – inspire people by your loving, supportive energies and wisdom!
All you need to start a charter is to: First choose a name that reflects what you want to do as a UCM Ordained Minister,(Reverend).. Be willing to facilitate spiritual meetings, services, retreats, Goddess circles, a healing network, book club, or ministerial students. Check out some of the wonderful names used by our charters: Temple of Love and Healing, Center for Infinite Growth, Goddess Temple, Center for Creative Living, Temple of Light, Alternative Healing Connection, Haven for Spiritual Travelers, Memorial Chapel, Golden Light of Christ Church, Blue Rose Ministry and many more. Legally it is necessary to submit the By-Laws required in your State or Country. UCM headquarters will help you with this; they have a template. You will need a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer, the President is the individual who has established the Charter, must be an ordained minister in good standing. You must hold at least an annual Board Meeting with recorded minutes and ensure that your finances are managed in compliance with the state and federal guidelines.
Charter Corner Continued I would like to share some of the wonderful events happening at my Charter CCL, in San Jose, California. Hopefully it will give you some terrific ideas for your future charter. Celebrated Hanukkah, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Independence Day, Veteran’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr., Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year, St. Patrick’s Day, Imbolc, Beltane,Yule and all of the turnings of the Wheel, and other holidays. They taught ministerial classes including many facets of world religions, metaphysics and spirituality, recorded music and metaphysical CDs, sponsored an orphanage, sponsored talks by international speakers, Goddess retreats, organized a choir, put on concerts, Christmas caroling, sponsored Christmas giving to the homeless and destitute, started an Outreach of time and energy to hospices, folks with AIDS, children in need, etc. organized psychic fairs, peace meditations, healing circles through Reiki, Kundalini, Vortex, massages, prayer, chakra, Akashic records, tarot, channeled and flower readings, formed women’s groups, men’s groups, Sunday school, taught Classes in higher consciousness, Course In Miracles and Aquarian Gospel. Communicated with Spirit Brothers, Worked with Folks in Recovery, organized Drumming Circles, sweat lodges and facilitated weddings, funerals, baptisms Taize services and naming ceremonies. They also took groups to sacred spots around the world and did ritual, healing and reclaiming ceremonies.
CCL Sanctuary
Do you feel you could do some of these? Would you like to have a voice in your community? You probably “feel a stirring” or a “calling to serve” in some capacity or you would not have become an ordained reverend in the first place. After reading this are you inspired, excited and spiritually connected to the One! I know I am. CCL Prayer Flags
Might you even consider exploring a Charter for your group. We hope so.
Pages from the Past By: Revs. John and Sabara Watson UCM has a rich and wonderful past, our goal in the magazine is to maintain a connection to that past and its teachings. We are very excited to have the Revs. John and Sabara Watson volunteer to manage this column. As many of you may know John is the son of one of UCM’s Presidents Birdie Peterson. He has saved many of the earlier articles and he and Sabara have agreed to review and forward them to us for sharing. We have learned a little more about Sabara this issue.
My name is Sabara. •Yes, that's my birth name. It took many years to understand why I came in with that name and that is who I am! •My heritage is from Scotland, Ireland, England and America. I first encountered Spirit•at the young age of three after a traumatic accident/injury. •I became aware of a loving presence and would talk to her often. •When my family would ask who I was talking to I always said "my sister". She is a calm, understanding, loving presence in my life.
In 1993, after a series of life changing events, I began a new life journey. •I was "gifted" a session with a local psychic/medium who was known as the "Dream Weaver." I wanted to know more! •Thus began a•deeper study of spiritualism, healing and consciousness awareness. I resonate with the Native American and Celtic Shamanic practices of nature, earth and spirit, as well as guides and ancestors. In 1999 I began attending a small spiritualist Church called "The Spirit of Grace" which was a UCM Charter run by Ken (deceased) and Ollie Keck. •While attending Church I met and married Rev. John Watson who has taught me so much and helped me become a UCM Ordained Minister. For nearly 20 years I have studied, taught and shared spiritual information. •My lifelong "Sister" is always with me and brings forth love and guidance from the Divine. We are so appreciative of the work that Revs John and Sabara are doing to keep us connected to the Pages of our Past… Mary.
This issues article is by Rev. Richard Smith: Information about him from his memorial in the UCM Centennial Book. Rev Smith was ordained on May 7,1984 and held a Church Charter for the Center of Eternal Light in Ft. Myers, FL. For many years he studied and taught the Meta-Sciences and Healing Focus. He studied with healers throughout the world, including “Daskalos” in Cypress and Switzerland. He also became an active practitioner in the Academy of Future Science, The Book of Knowledge, Keys of Enoch through the teaching and writing of James Hurtak, PhD. Richard became a member of the UCM Board of Trustees in 1998 and served with excellence and dedication, traveling from Florida to Northern California for the quarterly meetings. Richard continued his spiritual work even to the day of his physical passing on February 1, 2006. Since his passing a number of friends and fellow ministers have confirmed experiencing the warm friendly energy of his continual spiritual presence. The Garry’s have been so blessed. His article follows. UCM Quarterly, Spring 1993 FROM THE HEART By Rev. Richard Smith
Jesus taught, “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.” We, however, looking elsewhere, toward teachers, from the outside, to find our solutions to everyday problems. These everyday problems are given to us as an opportunity to grow. We must begin to search for answers within ourselves and the solutions will come through meditation and prayer. This is the key to set us free. We must also become aware of all events within our lives on a conscious and subconscious nature. Take time each day to expand the outer consciousness by reviewing daily events, by being more aware of your surroundings in nature, and projecting love to all around and to yourself. As we expand and gain knowledge, it is then time to share this knowledge with all life. From the book, The Quest by Tom Brown, Jr., “It is not enough to seek the things of the spirit on a personal level. To do so is selfish, and those who seek the spiritual realms for themselves are not working to change the spirit that moves through the consciousness of man. Instead they are running away, hiding from their responsibility, and using their wisdom for their own glorification. Spiritual man must then work for a principle, a cause, a quest, far greater than the glorification of self, in order to affect the spirit that can change the course of man’s destruction. To work only for self, to cloister oneself in the seeking of spiritual rapture, is to run from this responsibility.
Pages from the Past Continued
Trying to live a spiritual life in modern society is the most difficult path one can walk. It is the path of pain, isolation, and of shaken faith, but that is the only way that our vision can become a reality. Thus, the true quest in life is to live the philosophy of the earth within the confines of man. There is no church or temple we need to seek peace, for ours are the temples of the wilderness. There are no spiritual leaders, for our hearts and the Creator’s are our only leaders. Our numbers are scatted; few speak our language or understand the things we live. Thus, we walk this path alone, for each vision, each quest, is unique unto the individual. But we must walk within society or our vision dies, for a man (or woman) not living his or her vision is living death.” Within the present conditions that exist we have all come to that place in the development of the human family where there must be a reckoning, one point upon which all may agree. Out of all this turmoil that has risen from the social life – racial differences, the outlook upon the relationship of man to the creative forces of God and his relationships one with the other – must come some common basis upon which all agree. You say at once, such a thing is impractical, impossible! What has caused the present conditions, not alone at home, but abroad? It is the realization that was asked some thousands of years ago, “Where is thy brother? His blood cries to me from the ground!” and the other world answered, is answering, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” The world, as a world, has lost its ideal. People may not have the same ideas, but all people may have the same ideal! As the spirit of God once moved to bring peace and harmony out of chaos, so must the spirit move over the earth and magnify itself in the hearts and minds and souls of men to bring peace, harmony and understanding. They can then dwell together in a way that will bring that peace, that harmony that can only come with all having the one Ideal, not the one idea, but the ideal of “Thou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, thy neighbor as thyself.” This is the whole law, the whole answer to the world, to each and every soul. That is the answer to the world conditions as they exist today. It shall be brought about as you each in your own respective sphere put into action what you know will fulfill that. As has been from the beginning, the little bit of leaven raises the whole lump. Man’s answer to everything has been power – power of money, power of position, power of wealth, power of this, that or the other. This has never been God’s way, will never be God’s way.
Spotlight on: Reverend Eve Wilson: A Natural Born Healer: By Rev. Bea Baechle
Some people are born to heal, and Reverend Eve Wilson is one of them. Her natural, intuitive ability to heal revealed itself at the tender age of 12. After watching a massage demonstration on a television show, Eve confidently offered to give her dad a massage when he got home from work. Regular massages and energy balancing work over the years transformed his stiff body and dissolved a fatty tumor the size of a softball from his neck. “By the time I was 16, I was holding family meetings and counseling people,” said Eve, “And by the time I was 19, I was getting hired to do massage, because I was good at it, and I could tell people what their disease looked like. It was just natural to me; I could see people’s energy.” For the next five years, she spent time in a spiritual community where she was trained in basic energy balancing. At age 26, she quit both her jobs as a massage therapist and as a social worker, due to circumstances that she couldn’t live with any more. “I started crying and talking to God, asking, ‘What am I supposed to do?’ The answer that came was, ‘Advertise as a healer.’ And I asked, ‘What will I do?’ And the reply was, ‘You will know.’” So Eve advertised as a healer, clients came, and she strengthened her healing techniques along the way. “People got better, they came back, they invited their friends, and within six months of beginning my practice, I was a full-time healer,” noted Eve. A year later, people asked her to teach them. With strong guidance from Spirit, she began her Healer Development Program.
Eve Discovers UCM Once Eve started teaching people, she sought a legal umbrella for her students to practice healing. At that time in her home state of Michigan, several people had to hire a lawyer to defend themselves for practicing alternative health care and healing techniques without a license. As she started investigating alternatives, she found UCM and visited a small independent spiritualist church in Live Oak, Michigan, where the head minister, Reverend Beverly Birk Carey, had been ordained through UCM. Eve’s papers from her previous spiritual community transferred to UCM, and she became an ordained UCM minister in 1989 so she could legally certify her students as UCM healer practitioners. Twice she had to deal with custody issues, once with her own daughter, Kara, and once with one of her student’s children. In both cases the fathers tried to discredit the mother’s spiritual work to take custody away from them. Their attempts failed under the legal protection of UCM. “UCM is well-accredited and founded,” said Eve. “I’ve seen others taken to court for practicing healing illegally. I didn’t need a lawyer as part of UCM.” In addition to UCM’s legal protection, Eve loves the ecumenical nature of UCM, the high integrity she feels about the people affiliated with the church, as well as the flexibility UCM offers for each minister to pursue their spiritual work as they feel called to do by God.
Spotlight on: Continued Thriving Healing and Teaching Practice For the past 16 years, Eve has certified an average of three to five healing practitioners per year through UCM, and people have attended her intuition development, self-healing and empowerment classes locally and remotely by phone or Skype from all corners of the world. She realizes that one of the reasons God brought her from the crowded Detroit area to Ann Arbor, Michigan, a less populated area with many alternative healing options, was to provide an impetus for her to expand nationally and internationally. “Sometimes when you’re doing really well with what’s easy and convenient, you don’t do what you know you should be doing,” commented Eve, who lives in a town house with her two healer dogs. To help spread the word about her classes and her extraordinary healing work, Eve submits articles in alternative health magazines like Body Mind Spirit Guide, populates her own website with in-depth spiritual wisdom, and just started tapping social media methods with a Facebook page. The greatest testament to her gift, however, is the decades of personal success stories she can share about helping individuals, couples, children, families, pets and the personal, planetary and cosmic ascension process.
Eve’s Healing of a Child One of Eve’s favorite healing cases involved the grandson of one of her graduate students. The baby was diagnosed with cystic kidney disease at just five months old and had a life expectancy of just one year. When asked to work with the child, Eve connected telepathically with his higher self. “He was a master teacher in a little sick body, but he was so cheerful,” remembers Eve. “He said, ‘I’m here because I’m teaching my family. My disease is for their benefit.’” Eve asked him if they could resolve the issues he’d like to bring to focus in the family, would he be interested in healing and living a normal life? And he answered, “Yes.“ So Eve began working spiritually and telepathically with the issues that involved his parents and grandparents, explaining that for this little boy’s health to improve, he required them to deal with certain things. “I would work with them and resolve some things, and then he allowed me to work on his body,” said Eve, noting that one of the most serious symptoms of this disease is the cysts that fill the kidneys and prevent filtering properly. “We worked with that and the cysts stopped growing. We didn’t get the ones that were there to go away, but as his body got bigger, his kidneys grew, and he was able to function.” At one point when an issue with the grandmother arose, the young boy was diagnosed with leaking heart valves related to the disease. Eve worked with the family to address the issue and again received his permission to work with him. At the boy’s next doctor visit, they saw no evidence of leaking vales and shrugged it off as a misdiagnosis. Today he is a normal, healthy 9-year-old, with perfectly functioning kidneys, and the doctors say he couldn’t have had the level of severity of the kidney disease they originally thought.
Spotlight on: Continued
Eve’s Healing Techniques Today Eve combines a number of specific healing techniques in her work. She avoids hands-on healing, because she finds it works better to take the healer out of the middle of the actual process. Her clients typically give her a list of issues to address, from physical and emotional to financial. She connects to their higher selves and then works with etheric surgeons and the “Karmic Board” to find the place in their soul’s development where things can shift if they address a particular issue or block. Eve defines the Karmic Board as a group of divine beings and ascended masters who are supervising our evolutionary process here. With the qualities of unconditional love and wisdom that we associate with beings such as Jesus, St. Germaine, Quan-Yin and Buddha, the Karmic Board has the authority to deal with soul contracts across all lifetimes to help her clients understand what they can learn from their circumstances. Eve compares our spiritual journey here to a workout gym. Just like exercise equipment provides the oppositional force of the equipment to build a certain muscle, certain challenges in your life help build certain soul muscles or soul qualities for our higher consciousness. Once those soul qualities are built and developed, it’s time to rework those soul contracts. “I also work with soul groups,” explained Eve. “When you look at the whole world, you look at family, community, country, culture, and the whole planet. Although we’re all connected in different ways, I see different focuses of these soul groups, so when I’m working with different individuals, I get to work with a lot of deep planetary issues that have been here since before the earth existed. There may be a whole soul group that’s ready to shift.”
Ascension Work
One of the most rewarding aspects of Eve’s healing practice has been the ascension work for individuals that she has integrated into her Healer Practitioner Certification in the past four years. By helping students overcome and heal old sufferings, she witnesses the beautiful Holy Spirit energy coming in—a reunification with God—where it doesn’t hurt anymore, and they really see God in everything.
There’s no absolute evil; there is only God’s growing us and teaching us. Everything has a purpose,” said Eve. “When the suffering is gone and we have an understanding that we’re building a body for God to live in, to manifest in, and all of this world is going to be turned into the body of God—that’s the very best, that’s the frosting on my cake,” said Eve.
Eve has also brought together the most skilled individuals from all her classes as an Ascension Group trained to work on broader levels.•“When spirit calls us, we meet and work on the planetary ascension process—treating the world as an individual and each group within it as an organ in the body of the planet, including animals, the water, etc.• It is always satisfying to help this way.• We see great and positive changes.• We also see that due to his and other work people do to bring God into the world, the planetary shifts are 70 percent less severe than they would have been otherwise.”
You can reach Eve via e-mail, evew@spiritualhealers.com or by phone (734)780-7635. Visit her website at www.spiritualhealers.com for The Weekly Word for Healing and Ascension Blog, healing and inspirational articles and
This editor is very excited to announce that Rev Eve Wilson has agreed to write a regular column about healing for our UCM Magazine.
We are always looking for good poetry and were delighted to receive this submission from Rev. Alice Theriault of San Jose. Alice has years of service to this spiritual community and devotion and teachings of the Mother Mary.
Eternal Pilgrim Now child of Mother Earth and Father time Bound to this mound of rock by ticking clock A weary soul enclosed with walls to climb Not always so, for ears have heard last lock Of birthing Door in times before, to mourn The final light from God’s clear sight, to right Man’s willful ways, walk rough-hewn paths, well worn By pilgrims in pursuit of Divine Light, Pure essence of each entity, whose thread Weaves all together, spanning pristine space Across vast galaxies. Once more I’m led To bring God’s Peace within this earthly place. What gifts for temporal lives, sage lessons learned ? Sweet Lotus Crown–-true blissful treasure earned!
Ascensions in Nature, Eve Wilson
Reprinted with the authorization of from Body Mind Spirit Guide www.bodymindspiritguide.com
People and all of nature are ascending to a higher vibration where we can experience more enlightened levels of consciousness and greater intuitive awareness including telepathy and spiritual vision. These changes will help people and nature interact in mutually beneficial ways. We already see indications of this change in the way people care more about animal’s rights; recognizing they have many of the same needs and feelings as humans. Another indication is the increasing number of people communicating telepathically with animals, as healers and animal whisperers. Audubon Magazine ran a story in December called Planet of The Apes. I will excerpt: “In Rwanda a tracker monitoring a wild gorilla family saw several young apes team up to break a poacher’s snare by jumping on the tree branch that held it taut and untying the noose. Spying a second trap, they scored two for two. Researchers noted the gorillas “impressive cognitive skill”. These were the first juveniles to dupe trappers by destroying snares.” In Scotland, The Findhorn Garden Foundation has for over 30 years been growing the biggest vegetables ever seen on a formerly barren piece of land.Their secret to success is working hand in hand with the angels which guide the plants and the nature spirits. If you haven’t read about their story, please do, it is ground breaking work pointing toward the type of relationship that people will be able to have with nature consistently as we all progress in our evolution. As a healer I am privileged to work with animals. I’ve seen what happens when they receive upgrades to their brains and central nervous systems during their healings, allowing higher intelligence to express through their bodies. Two of my favorite examples are a gerbil who incidentally, following much healing to cure brain and nerve damage after being poisoned, would come when she was called. Following her child up and down stairs and around the house she amazed visitors. The other is a cat who would stand crying outside of a door that was cracked open and wouldn’t even use her paw to let herself into the room. For me to talk with the cat to find out why she was peeing on things, the etheric surgeons had to upgrade her brain and central nervous system. She was the only non-telepathic cat I ever met, but not anymore! Following our work she went directly to a door and opened it.
Ascension in Nature: continued Integrating a young pet into your home is much easier when you can talk with it telepathically. You can explain what you want and why and can seek agreement and mutual understanding. As a healer, I may if appropriate, invite the pet’s higher self to have the etheric surgeons improve their capacity for understanding. This can create an amazingly smooth relationship. Likewise their humans often need upgrades in understanding and compassion! Upgrades like these have become increasingly common in recent years as the ascension process has picked up speed. They are given at the request of a client’s higher self when they are ready for these improvements. The ascension process will include many upgrades for all of us when we are ready. Our brains, nervous systems, endocrine glands, and chakras are among the first upgrades to higher vibration which we get. These upgraded systems allow higher levels of consciousness to wake up in our bodies, which helps us integrate our true nature and wisdom into all aspects of our lives.
We will see similar changes happen for all life forms here on earth over the next few decades. Many people can sense the intelligence in trees; especially certain trees which express a great degree of love and higher consciousness. Having had many conversations with trees, I look forward to hearing that with their ascension more people will be telepathic and able converse with them. I once met a tree in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula who was a teacher for other trees. She spoke to me with greater clarity and power than any other I have met. All around her the younger trees were unusually awake and communicative. Although lacking in her wisdom, they were friendly and chatty. It made me wonder if in cutting down older trees, we have robbed young trees of their teachers. However, the trees are ascending as well, and so I know we will enjoy more and more opportunities to learn and share with them in the future.
As animals and plants pass away, they will return in new world bodies capable of adapting to the changes in climate as well as consciousness on the planet. I have been clearly told by the soul of the planet that all life forms which have appeared to be extinct will return in the new higher vibration world. Nothing will be lost except the darkness of separation between us and the inclination to gratuitously use the natural world. In place of that we will increasingly have a world community of common purpose and mutual respect for every level of life.
Strategies for Emotional Healing Rev. Janet Childs MA, Diplomat AAETS (American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress). Director of Education, Training and CISM (Critical Incident Stress Management), Centre for Living with Dying program of Bill Wilson Center
We often meditate on spiritual healing and physical healing, and in the process, we can neglect emotional healing. As spiritual beings, we may also hold the unrealistic expectation that all our emotional trauma dramas will be released if we believe enough. If we are spiritually sophisticated enough, we will be magically healed. As Director of the Bay Area CISM (Critical Incident Stress Management) Team of the Centre for Living with Dying program of Bill Wilson Center for the past 35+ years, I have borne witness to the power of community and individual action steps to transform trauma into meaning as we build the 'new normal' together. Our team has developed four steps to facilitate this process, as it helps to have a structure to manage the chaotic waves of feeling. As caregivers, we may have a delayed reaction to stress (definition: our natural response to any loss or change). So as we are assisting others we many not realize the depth or power of our own personal impact - or response- until it shows up later in a convoluted way. Then, it can potentially cause more secondary trauma, as we may judge our self for having a reaction now, when we were 'fine' initially. These steps can be done individually, or in a group process, as we ' stand beside' one another in our journey towards emotional healing. We are putting a period at the end of the sentence, and we are lifting each other up to the new level of wisdom and compassion our hearts have to give. Although we cannot control what happens to/for/with us, we can control how we respond to it. Four simple steps create a progression of healing. We may need to do many cycles of these steps as we progress: Acknowledge: Bringing to reality the validation of what has happened.: The first step in dealing with difficult feelings, such as grief, anger, pain, guilt, sadness, etc, is to acknowledge that you are experiencing them. Listen to your body-and different sensations and feelings your body is experiencing. Attempt to quiet the ' rational mind' that will sometimes try to convince you that you are fine- that nothing's wrong. Accept your feelings, whatever they are. Try not to judge them (C'mon, you don't have the right to feel that way), transcend them (I'm too nice a person to have these feelings) or feel like you have to act them out (well, if I feel that way, I guess I'll just have to kill myself, or kill someone else). Feelings are irrational ... sometimes we may never know why we are feeling a certain way. The important thing to remember is whatever feelings are present, are okay.
Strategies for Emotional Healing Continued Express: Details, thoughts and emotions: The next step in healing feelings is to get the feelings from inside the body to the outside. An ancient Chinese proverb states, "A feeling held inside increases its strength a thousand times". This is where it can be difficult to find a safe person and place to do this. Talking helps; especially talking about the details of the feelings – the horror, the guilt, the incident, or the aftermath. Letter writing to the person you are having the feelings about also helps, even if this person might be dead or far away. Even letter writing to yourself is helpful (the origin of diaries or journals). Drawing, painting or artwork is a good way to get feelings out, but be sure to make it a free flowing experience where you are not judging your "creation". The healing is the doing, not the finished product. Hitting pillows, banging on phone books with rubber hoses, running, or doing anything physically active is another outlet for feelings. Screaming, yelling and crying are other healthy releases. Act: Trans-formative steps to create the new normal: The third step in healing feelings is to do something active to begin the healing process, sometimes this can begin in expressing the feelings, lighting candle, doing a ritual (visiting the grave, planting a tree, having a celebration of life), wearing a ribbon or some other indication that we are in a tender, vulnerable place or creating a book of memories. Sometimes, we need to burn or bury what we need to let go of as a physical way to release. With guilt, sometimes we need to do some act for atonement to begin the healing. However insignificant or silly it seems, allow your own creativity to tell you what you need to do. You know better than anyone else what would make you feel a little lighter, a little more resolved, a little better. Celebrate: Reconnecting to what is good and meaningful in our life. After the hard work of healing feelings, it is vitally important that we give ourselves a reward. When working with feelings, it is good to focus on them for a limited period, and then give oneself a break. During this break, do something fun and life affirming just for you. You can share time with others or just allow you to do something nurturing or ‘selfish’. When we deal with feelings we tap into a special part of us that is very childlike. And while we are very capable adults most of the time, it is important to acknowledge and support that little child of our hearts and to move on with the joy and meaning our life can give us. And remember, this does not take hours of therapy, feelings do not last forever if they are allowed to come out and we are not only our feelings, we are complex, multifaceted human beings who have the ability to deal with our feelings in a positive empowering way. Enjoy the experience of responding rather than reacting to difficult changes in our life. We can nurture our emotional healing in a beautiful way.
Three Dimensions of Healing •by Rev . Hal
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heal : .. to make sound, well, or healthy again; restore to health..to cure or get rid of (a disease)...to restore a healthy condition....to free from grief, troubles, evil, etc.....to make whole...._______ Webster's New World Dictionary. The infinite, unchanging, ever-present PRESENCE of AWARENESS is the Source of ALL Life. It is the limitless Field of Being on and within which all experiences-thinking, feeling, sensing, and perceiving (inwardly and outwardly)--- arise. Check this out for yourself in your own experience. Do you know or are you aware of anything other than the experiences of thinking, feeling, sensing, and perceiving? Inquire for yourself: is not objectless Awareness present before a thought arises, while it is forming, and after it dissolves back to nothing? Is it not then obvious that the still, silent Awareness you are which is present before, during and after thought cannot itself be a thought? Ask the same question to yourself regarding feelings, body sensations, and perceptions (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching). Do not all these experiences arise, manifest, and dissolve in Awareness? Check this out in your own direct experience. In your direct experience (not in your thoughts or beliefs) does not this open Awareness, this empty, limitless Field of Being give rise to the unfolding of all forms, from the gross to the most subtle energies?
Is Awareness perhaps analogous to a computer screen on which programs and films play, but on closer examination the programs and films with their drama and action are realized to be merely modulations of light, color, and form of the screen of Awareness itself?
Three Dimensions of Healing, continued The•"I AM Something" Healing Dimension•- Conventional Duality: When infinite, formless Awareness is identified as the thought, "I AM separate," then the true nature of "I" becomes veiled, and "I" appears to constrict and becomes identified as a finite cluster of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions. This condition of being an inside "separate self" existing in a independently existing "separate outer world" is the fundamental human presumption which ---though contrary to our own direct experience---is indoctrinated into most human beings by the age of two. This presumption that "I AM Something," a separate "me" made of a mind/body that exists in an outer world instantaneously gives rise to a perceived world of duality; a world of limitation, subject and object, knower and known, birth and death. It is a "reality" in which survival of the separate self and the striving for Ideals (what "should be" and is not) becomes the default purpose for living. In this "waking sleep" state in which one's true nature is veiled, there is an ongoing sense of separation, fragmentation, and lack. There is an addictive need for striving and "self'improvement toward an imagined future (someday). In this conditioned state, physical, emotional, mental, and even spiritual suffering is guaranteed. The sense of the seamless oneness and interrelatedness of all expressions of life is veiled in this constricted state of finite identity. If I believe that "I am the body" (a perceived conditioned reality of naive materialism, where I identify myself as a separate physical "some-body"), it is appropriate for healing to take the form of fixing or correcting the symptoms that I experience as a body, be it a broken bone or physical illness.• When I believe that "I am the body" then dis-ease in the body is often considered to be caused by the "attack" of some outer agent. In this perceived reality, illness of the body is not ever considered to be an attempt of infinite intelligence to restore balance, but is perceived as a war to be waged with an outer and often mysterious intruder. Thus, at this dimension, the often used phrase heard in relating to a dis-ease or imbalance is, "A war on....." (pick your disease or illness). In this belief in a world of separate independently existing objects, we are always at war with some version of "not-I." Of course, in this dimension we will "find" the "cause" of these symptoms in the form of some germ, virus, DNA problem, or other condition, etc. and attempt to treat it.• Allopathic medicine is a good example of a healing paradigm at the level of "I am the body," where treatments and procedures have been developed to focus on and treat symptoms in an attempt to relieve suffering and maintain health.
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At the"I Am the body" level of identification, the perception of an imbalance at the mental/emotional/physical levels is often treated as if the body is the source of the problem, rather than an expression of the problem. Chemical solutions are then often prescribed in an attempt to either balance or suppress the imbalance. In contrast, healing practices such as Chiropractic adjustments can provide a bridge in which the relationship of the physical body to emotions, energy flow and nutrition is recognized and included in a healing treatment. When I experience myself as "I am the mind" (as thoughts, feelings, images, sensations, or the energy that underlies these various forms), there is a shift from "I am the body" to "I have a body." In this perceived reality, there is more space to see the whole body/mind as a continuum in which imbalances can be addressed not as separate phenomenon, but as an intimate interrelationship of the arising thoughts, sensations, and perceptions. Integrative medicine and mental and emotional healing modalities of various kinds have successfully attempted to do this. Some of the most powerful healings I have witnessed have occurred as a function of simply having the willingness to stop resisting what is, allowing and embracing what is present, seeing the perfection under the appearances, letting go of trying to be the "healer", and surrendering to the power of prayer or intention to "let go and let God." Over the years, I have personally been privileged to be with clients and seen the effectiveness of various mental/emotional/physical techniques such as Hypnotherapy, imaging, and other deep relaxation methods in the successful releasing and dissolving of decades-long mental/emotional issues, which in turn allowed the body to spontaneously go back into balance and heal itself at the physical level. The ability to be aware of and work with the "energetic body" allows for remarkable healings of mind and body to occur. The recognition and treatment of the "vital force" in Homeopathy allows for healings that may not be available when only addressing the person as a physical body. The recognition of the mind, emotions, and physical body as expressions of an energetic interrelated system allows for multi-dimensional healing where there is no "do-er" present, but rather a loving, allowing intention to surrender to the infinite, everpresent Awareness that gives life, and let it guide what happens. In my personal experience of utilizing such energy methods as EFT, TFT, TAT, Reiki, and Quantum-Touch, I have experienced the healing of mental, emotional, physical and spiritual planes of Being, not only in those in close physical proximity, but also with clients at a distance. After all, it is ALL one seamless expression of "I"!
Three Dimensions of Healing, continued
The•"I AM Nothing"(No-Thing) Healing•Dimension - Enlightened Duality: At some point in one's spiritual journey, the identification of oneself as a separate physical, emotional, mental, and even as a separate spiritual self begins to fade. There is a process of inquiry in the East called "Neti, Neti" (not that, not that), which is a deep experiential engagement in realizing that one is not any of the forms of mind, body and world that we have been conditioned to believe that we are. The mind cannot take this part of the journey, for thought can only imagine objects and concepts, it cannot experience objectless "I Awareness" as itself. Thought can only imagine a concept or image. It cannot directly experience the context in which it itself appears. It is through Awareness itself knowing itself that one comes to realize that ALL forms of what we have identified with are transient, coming and going, arising from the formlessness of Awareness, manifesting, and dissolving back into the formlessness, and that only the Awareness that is observing it all is unchanging and ever-present. All of the survival conditioning of the imaginary separate self--- including the separate self's attempts to look good, avoid rejection, get approval (from others, self, or God), be important, not be ignored, avoid pain, have control, avoid being non-disturbed, and gain comfort --- begin to lose their allure and their power to veil our true nature from us. Sometimes this letting go happens very gradually. Sometimes it may happen suddenly and dramatically. It may seem to happen as a function of meditation, deep inquiry into the nature of Being, and/or as a function of participating in enough "healing sessions" to realize one day that there is no "me" doing anything to a "them," only the letting go of all illusion of being a separate person "doing" healing, and an openness to receive and allow to flow the grace of the infinite Wisdom which is the Source of life. Sometimes this shift happens with no warning at all; someone, who a moment before had never even questioned the purpose of living, is taking a walk to the store to get a frozen yogurt, and it is just their time to wake up, frozen yogurt in hand!
This "I Am Nothing" non-event is a radical and irreversible healing. It is the dissolving of our identification on all level of appearances with the illusion of being a separate self. It is the collapse of identifying oneself as a perceived object composed of physical, emotional, mental, or even energetic attributes. You realize in your direct experience that you were never born and you will never die. What experience that what you ARE is ever-present and infinite. Fears drop away: the fear of dying, the fear of not getting what "you" want, the fear is losing what "you" have. This awakening non-event is not a state. States come and go. This healing is the unveiling of our true nature; the awakening from the dream of being anything other than infinite Awareness itself.
Three Dimensions of Healing, continued
This healing is a dimensional shift from experiencing being a separate mind/body in a separate world, to being the Awareness, the "I AM" in which mind, body and world arise as a seamless experiencing in each flowing moment of NOW. With this shift, there is a cessation of striving, a relaxation in body and mind, a sense of wholeness replacing the sense of lack inherent in the illusionary separate self, and a stillness and openness to all the appearances arising, manifesting, and dissolving back to the formless in the Awareness that "I AM THAT I AM". There is a sense of awe, of gratitude, of love and compassion. You know yourself as the aware screen on and within which all of life's appearances arise from no-thing into the appearance of "ten thousand things", and you can embrace the whole movie appearing on the screen that you are in all of its forms. What is present and unveiled is the happiness and peace that are the inherent qualities of your true nature. From the space of "I AM Nothing," all of the tools, knowledge, etc. of healing that you have learned and experienced are still available to you if appropriate, but rather than being in the service of an illusionary separate self attempting to resist what is or fix a problem or "save" someone (and believing that it is the "cause" of a healing), all that is known is now held in the service of and is an expression of love, compassion, happiness and peace. You know and experience that everything is already perfect, that nothing is missing, and "others" are seen as what they are, expressions and modulations of the same "I" Awareness that is perceiving them. The dimension of "I AM Nothing" is also referred to as the Path of Wisdom or Understanding. The• "I AM Everything"• Healing Dimension - Non-Duality: This dimension is the last step in returning home to what you are and where you have always unchangingly been. In the dimension of "I AM No-thing" there is the experience of being the infinite witness/observer of the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual forms and worlds arising within it. Yet, if one inquires deeply, you will see that there is still a very subtle sense of separation present in the sense of all the experiences arising within and on Awareness are held as distinct from Awareness itself. Sometimes those who experience "I AM Nothing" may hold "mind, body and world" at a slight distance, as if these are separate or could contaminate the screen of "I Awareness" on which they arise.
Three Dimensions of Healing, continued
In some Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, this separation is built into the teaching, causing in some cases a withdrawal or retreat from "the world" in attempt to maintain a "pure" Awareness in Being. This withdrawal may be completely appropriate as a stage in the journey home to our true nature in order to distinguish that Awareness is unchanging, ever-present, and limitless, and that all forms of mind, body and world that arise within Awareness are ever-changing, coming and going, and limited. However, the final step that collapses all apparent duality no matter how subtle is to engage in a rigorous but loving experiential contemplation with the question, "What is the substance of mind, body, and world?" Start by realizing through direct experience that you (or anyone else) have never experienced a mind, a body, or a world. These are labels, concepts veiling your direct experience. Have you ever seen a "mind?" Has a surgeon ever found a "mind" in a brain? Look and you will see that "mind" is a catchall label for thoughts, sounds, and images that come and go with no volition needed on your part. Then observe that "body" is a label also for a multiplicity of sensations and perceptions, and allow yourself to experience what those are, unburdened by the story, memories, and beliefs you may have attached to them. Then ask yourself, "What is the substance of the "world? What is the world made of?" By direct experience, do you know anything other than sensations and perceptions? If you get this far, it is time to hoist a flag with the word Ken Kesey painted on the front of his Merry Pranksters Electric Kool Aid Acid Test bus---"FURTHER." Now, take your multi-dimensional inquiry to the next level: Have you actually ever experienced, and can you actually hold on to a thought, sensation or perception as if they are a stable "thing"? Or are they more a verb than noun, more a moving process than a stable "thing"? Is it not more accurate (look in your own experience!) to say that there is Awareness of thinking , that there is Awareness of sensing , and Awareness of perceiving , and it is all ever-moving, ever-flowing, arising and dissolving in Awareness? The dimension of "I AM Everything" is also referred to as the Path of Love. When Love is present there is no experience of apparent separation.
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And if this is so, then look now in your direct experience at what the substance of the thinking....sensing.... and perceiving is made up of.... Is it anything other than the KNOWING of it?...the AWARENESS of it? (Check it out). It is ALL AWARENESS KNOWING ITSELF! All of the "forms" on the screen of Awareness are modulations of Awareness. If you experience this, you ARE this. (Thought and feeling can't take you home, they are made of Awareness. Only Awareness can take you home to itself.) If you engage in this inquiry fully, making sure that you are testing out the answers experientially rather than based on thoughts, beliefs or concepts, the final veil of separation can fall away, and you will realize you ARE whole, complete, limitless peace and "you" have always been HOME! What will then be left is to live from this truth...to KNOWINGLY BE THE PRESENCE OF AWARENESS. The only healing remaining to be done will happen naturally as you allow yourself to begin the day reflecting on and experiencing the truth of your Being. Sit... Be still.... Be aware that "you" are beyond thought...that "you" are aware "I AM and I AM aware that I AM"....Don't just think it...experience the truth of that beyond words and concepts...Awaken to, identify with, and abide in your true nature each day .... experience and allow the ever-changing arising of thinking, sensing and perceiving on and within the unchanging, open, space of Awareness you are. Live each day from this truth, with no resistance to what arises (including any resistance to what arises!)....Don't follow any thought or sensation...let them come and go...and you BE the unchanging stillness in which they arise, manifest and dissolve...Don't think this...experience this for yourself....the Presence of Awareness that you are will begin to permeate all forms of thinking, sensing and perceiving, allowing all of the old conditioning to dissolve back to the formless and all expressions of your Being to resonate with and be in the service of limitless, ever-present, loving "I". "Thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions may be agitated or calm but I, the presence of Awareness that knows them, do not share their qualities. I am the open, empty, aware space that cannot be agitated by any appearance of the mind, body or world and hence peace is My Nature�________ Rupert Spira
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