Showing posts with label belief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label belief. Show all posts

Sunday, July 1, 2012

The Enlightenment

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Many of us have heard about an upcoming spiritual "shift" in the world.  Some prophecize about an "end of the world" Armageddon-type instance where we're all blown to smithereens by a comet that would cause Spielberg to be green with envy.  Or there will be another ice age.  Or the magnetic poles will switch.  Or a huge solar flare will burn us off the face of the earth.  Or monkeys will learn how to use the computer and take over the world... the list of end-of-the world predictions is as long as my arm and I learned last year to ignore all of the fear-mongering lest I lose my soul to worry.  I didn't put much stock into any kind of major world change spiritual or otherwise- it's called "avoidance!"  Then after the beginning of the year I met a new friend, a complete stranger, whose angel sent him here to Indiana from another state to meet me, or really more my soul, and over the last six months he has shared with me visions concerning spirituality, an awakening, and tons of other really cool stuff that I want to, no I am supposed to, share with you.  Madelyn and Kristy have both agreed that using "The Majickal Life" as my vehicle to spread this news is welcome and aligned with their own thoughts and intentions so here I am! 

I am here to tell you that there will be no future shift because a shift is already occurring.  In the future this shift in consciousness will lead to further steps in an ongoing process once more and more people are awakened.  We are in its midst and I am sure each and every one you, dear readers, has felt the power of of a spiritual change in some way or another over the course of the last year or so.  And we all doubt don't we?  We hear The Universe, a God-power, whispering to us but being human our first inclination is to turn a deaf ear, ignore the messages.  We catch a glimpse of wonder yet we pull the veil down over our eyes and tell ourselves that it must be our imaginations and my friends we all need to STOP denying the power and energy of The Universe, the power of Love, and accept.  Believe.  We must.  Not only for ourselves but for the rest of the world.  This is what we are being called to do.

Before I go any further I would like to thank Kristy for keeping our blog alive for the last few months.  My apologies to her {although I know she will cringe in reading the word "apology"} and you for falling off the face of the 'Net for a while.  Kristy is an amazing writer, thinker and spiritualist who is so already in the know.  I am just now becoming enlightened.  There is this super long road of spirituality ahead of me and I have just opened the gate and taken my first {cautious} yet real baby-step onto the gravel, wincing at the brightness of the sunlight as it begins the chore of "awakening" me- a somewhat doubtful soul who really really longs to "see."  Oh how I want to clearly see with a fully accepting mind, body and spirit and I am so excited and thankful that the process has finally begun for me... or should I take a step back and admit that the process began years ago but I doubted.  I could cry from relief that I am finally learning to believe- so thankful! 

And so it begins.  I have an interesting story to tell you about circumstances in my life that have unfolded over the course of the last six months.  It is a story about me personally, my own spiritual awakening, but even more importantly it is an experience that has educated me about The Enlightenment that will happen in our world some time in the future.  When I do not know.  I don't have specifics but instead symbols and channeled messages and visions to share.  I am going to relay the information as it has been received with no apologies or desire to convince.  For me to speak of what sounds like a fairy tale as truth is a difficult task but this is my charge, a personal task and challenge.  I've pulled this information apart, researched the daylights out of it, doubted like mad-crazy, shared it with other spiritually like-minded people and we all come to the same opinion- the experience is really happening.  The channeling is true and the man who is experiencing these visions is sincere.  Take and believe what you will and leave the rest behind.  It is amazing, mind-blowing really, and going through it has taken most of my doubt and crushed it, thank God!  I will always had the inclination to question but I also believe that a sweeping blind faith in anything can be dangerous.  The spirit world knows this about me as an individual and deals with it accordingly ;)  In choosing me as the person to share these visions with "they" know it will expand my mind- and my belief needs to be strengthened.  Ironic {or divine plan} to take a most doubtful person and force her to try an accept and believe the *nearly* unbelievable!  Yet I do.

I recently have had a few different people introduced into my life who are meant as learning experiences for me as well as new friendships.  From these people I have been taught a lot about trust, belief, the cessation of doubt, and most of all the power of Love as not only an emotion but as the most important energy in the universe.  I am thankful to all of these people as well as my guides for putting them into my life.  I met "D" as I will refer to him not long after Christmas.  Upon meeting, a week or so later, he approached me with the most unbelievable information and had I not already been involved with the spirit world I would have thought he was a lunatic: he told me he was sent here to Indiana by a "man" who began visiting him in the night a while earlier.  This man told D, "I will be introducing someone to your soul" and subsequently a work project opened up for him here in Indiana.  He took the job, far away from home, based on blind faith in the spirit world and waited.  Worked.  Dealt with the cold crappy Chicago-land winter weather.  Waited some more and finally the man returned and told him the soul he would be introduced to would soon be known.  Then he met me.  After he met me this man, who of course turned out to be an angel, returned to inform him that my soul is the soul.  His soul mate, a soul who is supposed to work together with him on a type of... spiritual project you could call it.

Remember that our physical bodies are simply a shell for our souls and also that we all have multiple soul mates.  It is our humanness that pays attention to the physical, not our spirituality.  Our egos are hung up on "the body" while our spirit knows better- yet the ego is strong and we are all human.  When D told me that he has the ability to "read people's souls" I had my doubts but he also told me that "my soul desperately wants to speak to my heart yet my brain {ego} constantly debates and doubts," and he told me I must stop.  Hm.  Interesting thing for a stranger to know about me, and no truer words could be spoken to describe my human condition of living in the constant shadow of doubt for years and years; my doubt is my biggest challenge and obstacle in obtaining my own spiritual awakening.  My soul tries to speak to my heart and my ego tries to obliterate the messages.

So my friends I have lots and lots to share with you.  D's angel is named Odesa and Odesa has shown D wonders I can barely even describe.  He has been taken on spiritual journeys and shared them with me each step of the way.  At first I was jealous of his experiences but I now understand it is my charge... I am to learn through D how to trust, how to believe.  I am also a natural-born scribe.  I love to write and research.  Ferreting out information is a love of mine.  Often Odesa speaks to D in a very classical-type language that can be confusing yet I "get it" fairly easily.  I "translate" Odesa's messages and in doing so realize that some of what D is shown is meant as guidance for me.  Me personally.  It is a most amazing blessing.  Along with that is an overarching message about world change.  An awakening, a calling, an enlightenment.  Spiritual ascension.  Different types of souls and the work they need to do to change the world... and I am going to, over the course of several detailed blogs, share with you what I know about "The Light" and how important it is to love.  No fear-based emotions but instead only love. 

Right now D and I are in a moment of transition.  D is a strong intelligent man, a true channel for the spirit world.  He, to me, is almost like a "Master Guide" himself except for the fact that he's also only human.  Along with his amazing spiritual journey he also has worries, confusion, doubt, work, family, stress, bills... and as I will explain later our humanness can sometimes battle with our spirituality despite our best intentions.  With his knowledge and blessing I am sharing with you what we've worked on together up to this point.

I firmly believe that D is receiving these visions as messages about a spiritual change in our world, this "shift" the "New Agers" have been talking about for years.  I pooh-poohed this talk for a long time but no longer can.  It is becoming part of my world, my reality.  My entire thought process is changing.  It is transcending but can also be painful as well as exciting and euphoric.

I will start at the beginning with a separate blog that details the first vision and go from there.  I will explain to you like I did to D along the way what I feel each spiritual symbol means, my interpretation, but would love it if you would add your own thoughts.  I know in my heart this information is supposed to be shared so if along the way it speaks to you then spread the word.  It is nothing but love, understanding and enlightenment- spiritual education about learning how to change our world for the better, raise the vibration of Gaia, stop the chaos and achieve a God-balance for humanity.  This is real.  It is happening and will continue to escalate... like I said I don't have facts {sorry} but images, symbols and divine guidance.  Just know that believing, trusting and loving are so very important- more important now than ever before.

Welcome to my journey :)  I hope you find it as interesting as I have, and I am so happy to have you along as I begin my way down this long and winding utterly amazing road!

Love and Light,

~Jennifer   

John 15:9-17 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.  If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.


 















Friday, March 2, 2012

Suspension of Disbelief

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This is actually a picture of my son looking out the front window at the snow; I've had the picture of the window tucked away for a while and used it to create this fantasy image of PJ The Butterfly {waiting for his mommy to let him outside to play with all his little butterfly friends.}

**Warning... Warning... Long Post Ahead**

There is a story I tell my son when we meander through the neighborhood or park concerning the numerous dragonflies that seemed to be wherever we are: in the yard, on the fence, on the antena of my car, in the flowers, etc. etc. Dragonflies are always around me and if I am quiet and patient they will gently land on me, my finger, arm, allowing for some great photo opportunities!  One even let PJ touch its wing last year!

The story is about a kingdom of the past, a land that was inhabited by fairies of every shape, size and color. Beautiful fairies with huge glorious wings that were iridescent and when caught the light glimmered like jewels in the sun. These fairies were known for their wings which were very precious and worth their weight in gold.

This kingdom of fairies reigned in peace for hundreds of years with no enemies. Their leader was the Fairy King and he was kind, fair and good. The fairies in the kingdom got along perfectly well with the wood nymphs, the mermaids and the unicorns of nearby neighboring lands. Occasionally the elves in the next kingdom over could be a bit of a problem because they liked to play their harmonicas too loudly but it was nothing the fairies couldn't handle. They all worked together to create a sweet little life for themselves. There were shoemaker fairies and baker fairies and clown fairies and jewelry fairies and chocolate-maker fairies and market-owner fairies... in other words, a fairy for everything that was needed to make a kingdom run smoothly and happily.

During the day they gathered the harvest from the fields, crops of the tiniest most delectable strawberries and the sweetest of corn {it would taken 10 fairies to harvest one ear of corn and they ate it kernel by kernel because they were so tiny.} They took buttercups and used them to collect the morning dew to drink, and at night they would have mini festivals where they sat to celebrate the wonderful day they'd experienced together. They sang the song of the Fae and played their tiny lutes and good times were had by all. Every day was a celebration in the kingdom of fairies.

Until one day a darkness fell upon the land. A terrible and most Wicked of Wicked Witches learned about the fairies and their precious wings. She cast a spell over the fairy kingdom which placed an invisible net all around the land so no fairy could escape. Immediately fairies became trapped in the net, thrashing to and fro so their little wings were torn. Luckily their friends were able to help them escape but no fairy could flee from the kingdom. The fairies were terrified. All celebration came to a screeching halt and none of the wee creatures would even venture outside of their homes for fear of being caught. For fairies this is a fate worse than death- to be deprived of the gift of nature and freedom.

The witch's second spell was to coat all the flowers and fields with a stickiness that would capture the fairies, trapping them so the Wicked Witch could grab them and snatch off their wings to sell, leaving the poor little fairies to die. This witch didn't care at all about the welfare of the sweet fairies who had lived together content and peaceful for years. All that was important to her was selfishness and greed. She would obliterate a species of creature purely for the sake of capitalism, killing them off forever. Extinction.

How sad. Makes one feel a bit despondent, doesn't it?

But what the Wicked Witch didn't realize was her sister, The Very Good and Happy Witch, knew about her evil sister's plotting and would do everything in her power to stop the madness. She couldn't banish the spells but she could counteract them with white magic of her own. She plotted and pondered until she came up with a plan but it was a plan that would change the fairies' lives forever.

She would cast a spell upon this particular kingdom of fairies, transforming them all into dragonflies. They would be disguised so the Wicked Witch wouldn't recognize them. They would also be so small they could fly through the netting and escape to find a new and better land for themselves. After consulting with their leader {they were a democracy, of course} the fairies agreed this could be their only hope and asked The Very Good and Happy Witch to work her magic upon them. That night, before the enchantment was to begin, the fairies had the hugest celebration in the history of celebrations: The Celebration of Life.

And the next morning as they began to awaken... they felt different. Lighter, like air. Even more ethereal than they had been as fairies. As they threw off the covers and lifted into the air the first thing they noticed was their wings were even more beautiful than before. Shining and glimmering in the morning light they buzzed from house to house greeting one another in excitement. Inspecting themselves in droplets of morning dew they realized that while they looked different they felt the same if not better!

So the dragonflies flew off to find another kingdom where they flourished and lived happily ever after all the way up until today.

The End

So... whenever you see a dragonfly remember~ with those beautiful wings they are really fairies in disguise!


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Smile!

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Imagination, oh how I love thee. Remember when we were children and anything was possible? When we believed in Santa Claus and The Tooth Fairy? Oh how easy it was back then to *believe!* Just trust and believe. We really didn't know any different, did we? Blissfully unaware.

Wouldn't you love to revert back to that old childhood state of mind? To stop the constant questioning of motives, debunking of facts and overall skepticism of everything that is beautiful in the world? To readily believe in what some call the unbelievable: UFO's, ghosts, and The Loch Ness Monster?

To believe in... magic? 

And fairy dust? 

And low-calorie chocolate?!

If my Hungarian ancestors were alive and were asked about things that go bump in the night, like ghouls and vampires, there would be no rush of doubt; they believed. What made them wrong and us right? I'm sure they had their reasons to check the graves of loved ones close to sundown to assure all was well- making damn well sure to exit the premises before the sun fell too far behind the horizon. Who knew what lurked in the dark shadows of night? What did they know, believe, that we didn't?

Now too many us waste our time disbelieving.

What happened to the magic in living?  What’s up with all the doubt and disbelief?  Often we find ourselves living in the past or worrying about the future while allowing the glory of right now to pass us right on by and that's no way to live. God didn't bless us with the gift of creation and imagination to throw those wonders away in the chaos of constant questioning. Okay, so Santa wasn't real. Or wasn't he? For those few blissfully innocent years that you did believe, wasn't the old jolly fat man much more than just a figment of your imagination? Who says that just because we grow to become adults we must leave all the open-mindedness behind? I, for one, refuse to do so.

Santa sneaks in to eat all my Oreos. The Tooth Fairy and I have tea on Tuesdays, and that darn Easter Bunny keeps stealing all my eggs and hiding them in my house...

It's called Suspension of Disbelief. The cut and dry version goes like this: to be able to enjoy fiction we, as the audience, must be able to believe in the unbelievable; we must suspend what we would normally believe to be true, allowing ourselves to accept the fiction. If a person is unable to do this then she will have a hard time getting lost in a good book or really becoming engrossed in a film. Instead she'll notice things such as "dogs can't fly" or "cats can't read!" until she's ruined any possibility of becoming swept away by story.

Revel in the fantasy my friends!

So, once again- Suspension of Disbelief. We all have the ability to do it, and some of us do it more than others. I myself am a dreamer. I don't read a book; I live it. I don't watch a movie or listen to a song- I fall in love with it. Characters become my best friends. I don't just live my life... I create it.

I create my life, too.

Which leads me to another even more exciting fact- Suspension of Disbelief needn't be applied only to fiction.  Oh no no no NO no.  It can be applied to our everyday lives.  It's all part of the process of manifestation.  This is where the magic comes into play, see?   Manifestation is the art of being able to believe in something that may not be real to you right now.
 

We are told to believe, believe, believe.  Even Kristy has the inspirational word hanging in her office as a reminder.  But what happens when we allow ourselves to become locked in chains of disbelief?  Maybe you are so utterly and completely broke at a particular moment in life that there is no way on God’s Green Earth you could ever believe yourself to be wealthy.  You completely disbelieve the possibility of having enough money to be comfortable, or heck- to even pay a bill {been there so I do know the feeling!}

*Allow me a moment to step up here on my soapbox*

Fellow blog readers- this disbelief will keep you lacking the funds you so desire.  It will place a serious divide between you and whatever you wish for in life.  What you long for, dream about and aspire to.  Disbelief is just not worth it.  So stop it!  Suspend the Disbelief!  You must trust and believe that what you truly want and wish for in life can be yours!  You have to believe it or else you have one helluva time achieving those goals and aspirations.

You must stop thinking “But that could never happen for me” because you are allowing yourself to be overwhelmed with disbelief.  So knock it off!

I own a healthy and robust imagination, and I put it to good use not only in my enjoyment of fiction but also in manifestation. I abuse my imagination really... I love to read, and I'm a writer. As an artist {jewelry, drawing, photography... a dabbler of all and a master of, ah, ahem. let's just leave it at that shall we?} I enjoy being this way. I often heard as a child, "Oh get your head out of the clouds {or your nose out of that book} and face reality! But where's the fun in that?

Obviously, thank God, I didn't listen :)

A year ago I weighed thirty pounds more than I do right now.  I was, er, "fluffier."  And I didn't appreciate the extra weight, especially not when trying to play with my son.  I could tell I was headed to the point of no return... the icky place where soon there would be no turning back weight-wise.  So I decided to change this about myself, and one of the first things I did was to change this idea I had that I could “never be thin.”  I completely disbelieved I’d ever wear a single-digit pants size again.  In doing do I was just asking the universe to hold on to those extra pounds for me!

I made a conscious effort to change my thinking first, starting with suspending my disbelief over the idea I could achieve the level of health I wanted in my life.  Then I concentrated on believing.  Yes~ it can be two very separate steps.

I lied to myself.  I refused to believe what my mirror showed me.  I changed all my passwords to words that emphasized slimming down {think about how often we type in our passwords... over and over and over again.  Intentions as passwords work very well, fyi!}  I no longer concentrated on not being fully pleased with my physical appearance... I just started ignoring it for a while.  Pretending the issue didn't exist.

I stopped telling myself it could never happen… and slowly but surely it DID happen.

Little by little I lost weight.  I took the emphasis off what I needed to change... and away it went! Now I'm not saying I didn't make lifestyle changes because I did.  Little ones.  I drank more water.  Increased my walking.  Ate smaller portions.  But it was all so much easier once I stopped fixating on the issue by not allowing myself to be convinced weight loss could not be achieved.

Sometimes we are our own worst enemies, are we not?  How often do you find your negative self-talk consists of words similar to the following:

I can’t ever be as successful as…
I won’t ever be published…
I’ll never have enough money…
I’ll never be good enough, or pretty enough, or smart enough or lucky enough…

Banish all those evil words of disbelief!  Stop the madness! Toss that lack of faith right out the window and let the breeze of belief blow in!

My wish for you, our dear readers, is to practice suspending your disbelief.  If an aspect of your life is less-than-perfect do not ever feel it can’t be changed.  Don’t doubt that your life goals and dreams can be achieved.  Concentrate on the positive and take the emphasis off what you lack- in doing so you won't be drawing the lack of back to you.  Got it?

Live like a child. Dream like a child. Believe like a child... love life like a child!

Appreciate the little things in life like you once did as a child.  Children don’t disbelieve- they don’t know doubt until we teach it to them {ponder that thought for a moment!}

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My Little Man!

Once you begin noticing the wonder in the world around you {again because you used to do this- I promise you did} I guarantee you will thank me for it!

Let life be majickal.  Allow.

~Jennifer