The Enlightenment

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.

 

Spirit Communication Through Dreams

Jennifer's Dream Land

Dreams. As humans we all have them, a common trait that links us together. Even animals experience dreams. Ever observed a dog while he's dreaming of running, those cute little whines- legs working a mile a minute as he chases a phantom rabbit through a field? Funny stuff! I am a very vivid dreamer and at times my dreams take me to places otherwise unknown in my waking life. The above picture I took in northern Minnesota {sans fairies although I don't doubt pixies are plentiful up in God's country, such beautiful magical land!} This shot, a lush emerald alcove of water, is reminiscent of my dream lands... although those dreams I will explain in a future post. My flying dreams are the most wonderful nighttime visions of all.

According to Wiki dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep; these nighttime images are seen as being a link to our unconscious mind. Yet dreams are so much more than our synapses randomly firing throughout the night.  No, dreams are a form of spirit communication. Dreams can be understood as a way for our normally crazed chaotic waking minds to relaxxxxxx and unwind.

I do believe there is a direct link between our brains and our souls although some of us *koff koff* {who shall remain nameless} battle that link. I, for one, have a bad habit of disputing the information my soul communicates to my mind. Question, question, question... hey- we all have our issues, right? Well at night my mind blissfully shuts up, I mean, shuts down... and this allows my heart, mind and soul to connect. It also allows my spirit guides and angels a clear connection to my unconscious mind, my heart and my soul.

And this, my friends, is what my post is all about. Dreams as spirit communication. Not all of us are blessed with amazingly strong abilities like Kristy but this doesn't mean we have no abilities at all, just different. More... subdued.  I used to lament over the fact that I don't readily see spirits or hear them whispering in my ear.  Now my guides know darn well that if one of them were to whisper in my ear, taking me- a, well, doubter- off guard I would probably wet myself... and I know they don't desire causing me any public humiliation! In short, they offer me guidance they know I can accept.

And believe. And TRUST.

I trust my dreams. I have no control over these vivid magical images I am blessed with during the night. There is no reason for me to question the validity of my dreams or wonder if they are “only my imagination.” I am fortunate enough that my guides choose to support me, nurture and love me, through my lack of faith. And one of the ways they do this is by offering me visions and messages through my dreams. I’d like to share an example of this with you now.

I kinda hit a life roadblock last year; we all experience them from time to time don’t we? I allowed myself to become derailed from my passions. I fell into a funky abyss from which I had a hard time climbing out of. My guides allowed me time to wallow in self-pity and a perceived sense of unbalance, feeling so very “stuck,” but only for so long. Slowly signs began making themselves known to me, signaling to me that it was time to get back on track both spiritually and emotionally. They’d had enough of my sloshing around in despondency and were urging me to become unstuck from my lack of conviction because we all have the personal authority to lift ourselves out of pain simply through the power of positive thinking and a concentration on joyfulness.

In other words, my guides were telling to to grab my Big Girl Panties and slip em' on, and now!

Rainbows were the first of my signs, and that is a topic for another post on symbols. But the second sign was my dream life became increasingly vivid, the messages undeniable. During this time spirit communication through my pendulum was strong and distinct with one of their main messages concerning getting back to my passions, my art. My creativity. For me a life without creativity is not truly living. If I do not create I may breath but I do not experience life, not really.

Recently I was staying overnight at a hotel, alone, reading Doreen Virtue’s book on how to contact angels and guides. In it she specifically explains that dreams are often visions given to us from our angels. She reminds her readers to ask for those messages via our dream world because, come on let’s face it, it never hurts to remember to actually ask for help instead of just assuming it will be offered to us on a silver platter. Another important aspect to receiving messages during the night is to request we remember those dreams and know them for what they are- important insight to our waking life.

As I lay down for bed I asked God and my guides to please use my dreams as communication and to help me remember those dreams… and that night I had an amazing dreamtime experience.

I was walking down a nature trail {nature, particularly water, is very important to me} along with a bunch of other people. I looked down and noticed I wasn’t wearing any shoes, thick nasty mud squishing up between my toes. I was not happy with the mud and wondered- where the heck are my shoes? The people around me were talking about this special land of frogs we were traveling to- frogs? Hm… I often see animals in my dreams and always pay special attention to these totem messages.

I felt continuously stuck in this mud and labored to keep up with the group but although I trudged along I was not left behind.

After walking for a while and dwelling on the mud that covered my feet we entered into a magical clearing; green, lush and deliciously beautiful it was filled with square-shaped pools of “hot spring” water. These warm pools were filled with frogs, frogs that were… singing with a sonorous music instead of just ribbiting. Everyone marveled over the frogs while I walked over to a grassy area to wipe the mud off my feet. I didn't want to take the chance of "muddying the water" by dipping my feet into it so rubbing them on the grass would have to suffice.  Misty steam wafting from the pools of water where the frogs resided floated to where I stood and led me over to the frogs where I clearly experienced their genuinely beautiful sound… and then my dream was over.

This particular night I had many dreams that I remembered upon awakening. I recorded them all to further analyze their meaning. I own a wonderful animal totem book that is one of my favorite spiritual resources for decoding the animal visions that appear in my life. As I researched frogs in my book I had to laugh because Frog means “transformation through water” and I was recently baptized Christian through immersion- an experience that was foreign to my past-Catholic self. Frog also means transformation through sound which is not surprising to me as I love music and can’t live without it. Also my guides have hinted that once I become more open and trusting I will be able to “hear” more clearly- meaning there is a possibility I will be developing clairaudience. Frog is associated with both land and water, just as dragonflies are- another strong totem for me. I equate “land” as being my mind/earth-based self and “water” as being my soul/heart-based self. I need to find a balance between the two, and Frog is being shown to me as a reminder of this fact.

And finally, a direct quote from the totem book concerning Frog asks if I have become mired in the mud of everyday life. The mud of everyday life- and in my dream I was getting stuck in that yucky thick mud, battling to arrive with the rest to experience the beautiful song of Frog.

But I did make it; success was mine!

Some more information about Frog: emotions are often represented or associated with water {hence my abundance of water dreams lately, and Frog represents water.} Frog means sensitivity to the emotions of others {right!} and metamorphosis… exactly what I am currently experiencing, a spiritual metamorphosis. Frog also means coming into one’s own personal power and the connection to water can be a reminder to “keep it fresh.” Am I becoming mundane? Afraid of my uniqueness? It’s time for me to dive into new fresh creative waters, and to sing the song of my soul.

Frogs are keenly attune to sound. A recent spirit guide message for me was “it’s okay for you to see, and it’s okay for you to hear.” Water is the best conductor of sound. I know that by introducing Frog into my dream along with the serene sounds, misty ethereal pools of water and especially becoming stuck in the mud {and not liking it one single bit} were all messages from my guides. Messages to get off my butt and become unstuck creatively. To banish the doubt and allow myself to clearly hear their messages, and also to learn that I have power over the “climate” of my life- Frog represents climate control too. Also Frog represents my love for music, how important sound is to my life, and the knowledge that repetitive songs and their content/meaning are messages from my guides.

So my challenge to you, dear blog reader, is tonight take a moment to reflect on your day and any issues you may have encountered, good or bad. Reach out to God and your guides/angels and ask for your dreams to be used as a vehicle to know their messages. To decipher the meaning will take some analyzing but once you’ve received the message via your dreams your guides will assist you in clearly understanding their divine intent.  Make sure to keep a notebook close by your bed!

Happy joyful dreaming to you all, and remember to sing the Frog song of your soul.

~Jennifer