Most of us can agree that no matter what is happening in our everyday lives…the process of bathing seems to lighten the load. Something about getting clean is enjoyable, relaxing and presses the reset button for many of us starting or in many cases, ending our days. I am proposing to look at a routine which most of us view as a simple process that peels the dirt away from our physical bodies as a spiritual one and I hope that even those who find themselves agitated by the need to carve the time to bathe into their day will learn to tap into the healing available underneath the surface of what has been up till now a mundane chore.

Gratitude & Spirit

The first step in turning physical bathing into an expression of spiritual energy starts with gratitude. For me this was a natural process that was born out of some of my life situations growing up but if you have ever been camping for an extended period of time in a remote place or engaged in an activity in which you were literally covered in dirt, dust or some other kind of substance than you will be able to identify with just how wonderful it can feel to get clean. What makes these situations different than the everyday approach is you. You are happy to be able to clean yourself off. You willingly and excitedly engage in the process, relishing every minute of it…lingering to prolong your enjoyment. It is this joy that allows the water to go beyond the dirt on your skin and sink deeply into your soul.

Imagine how you’d feel about finding the perfect place to bathe…perhaps it’s a lake or stream, a marble room or Roman style bath. Here you have hours with which to unwind and nothing pressing to do. Hold this scene in your mind, letting the surprise and elation of stumbling on this place and the ease of no schedule, worries or responsibilities permeate your being. Once you’ve achieved feelings of beauty and tranquility, enter your bathroom…it’s time to begin.

The Process

I realize of course that you can not spend hours in your bathroom each morning (although I do suggest that you take a day every so often and luxuriously devote yourself to this process) the point of this exercise is to teach you how leave your to do list out of your bathroom routine…I assure you, you don’t need it . While you’re bathing I want you to remain focused on bathing…not on everything else you have to get through in your day.

When you turn on the water, hold the tranquility you achieved earlier and concentrate on the sound of the water. When the temperature is right step inside, get comfortable and concentrate on your breathing. Spend about two minutes following deep breathes in through your nose (for a count of 6), hold it for 2 and then release it through your mouth for 6. Now imagine yourself covered in mud, this mud represents all of the negatives you encounter in a normal day…the water is golden light which lifts the mud from your body and carries it away. As the mud releases from your form, see your body emerging in pure white light. Wash your hair and see your spiritual body underneath glow, wash your face, neck, arms, torso, back, legs and feet in the same manner each time seeing the emergence of your spiritual body (a glowing form with your exact same shape).

Before you step out tilt your face skyward and see opening from the heavens a giant beam of light brighter than the sun. It falls upon you, cascading down your body starting with your head. This is the divine white light of love and protection. It engulfs you until all you can see in your minds eye is a glowing mass. Emanating from this mass is the most penetrating sense of peace that you have ever felt. If there are any spots on your body that you are having trouble with see extra light in those areas.

If there is something mentally or emotionally challenging that you are experiencing send extra light to your head or heart area, if it is self confidence related send it to your abdomen, if you need the right words for an activity this day then send it to your neck. Lastly, end your routine with an affirmation. Say to yourself, I am surrounded by the white light of divine love and protection. I attract only positive energy, situations and people.

The goal here is to pay attention to your body, how it feels, the process of getting clean and to clean your energy as well. By using your bathroom routine to flood your body with renewed energy each day…you are tapping into a healing opportunity, releasing your negativity and starting your day on a positive note by stating your intentions.

A word of caution for those who are practicing opening up to their own psychic abilities…don’t be surprised if this practice triggers psychic experiences for you. The vibration level this meditation can achieve just may send one of your guides in with an urgent message

This post is the beginning of a series of interviews I am conducting with psychic mediums. I’m posting questions to three very different, equally talented psychics in an attempt to get a wide variety of experiences and some deep answers about growing and cultivating psychic talent and the world of energy.

If you are not already familiar with Vera Nadine I believe you soon will be. A talented psychic and historical medium, Vera Nadine talks with straight forward authority about subjects and experiences that are quite foreign to many people.

PK: Religions are the conduits we use to access spirit. They provide a framework, imagery and general structure for our spiritual work but can become restrictive and spiritually stifling if misunderstood. For this reason I see a trend in people exploring faiths and belief systems outside of the ones they may have grown up with. After this exploration sometimes they return and sometimes they adopt entirely new methods for their spiritual expressions. Can you tell me what systems of faith have influenced you and how paganism is helpful to the work you do today?

Vera Nadine: Well, I say a lot about my spiritual genealogy in my Do You Have the Sight? post. I don’t really think that the system of faith I was raised with influenced me much at all. As a matter of fact it did a lot to make me feel like we have no power over our own lives or the path that our spirits take. I would say the only remnant of Protestantism in my life now is my irksome desire to have everything neat and tidy with all things having a designated time and space, a box for every pin so to speak. The only belief that I can honestly say I ever understood from that whole exposure was that there is a right and a wrong way to do life. This is, of course…..completely wrong.

Paganism was in my life from about age thirteen onward, eventually evolving into Wicca and leading me to formal training in a hereditary tradition of Witchcraft. Though I wouldn’t say that I could honestly be called a Witch or a Priestess until I was about 24. I know that these are words that put up mental blocks for some people. They begin to hear their inner policeman blowing his whistle and calling out for arrest. I however do not suffer from the belief that there is only one way to do things or that there is any person, deity, religious text etc. that is right or wrong.

Paganism called me because of my personal urge to feel more connected to the natural world of which we are a part. The understanding that there is both a Goddess and a God seemed, and still seems, quite sensible and in no way evil to me. We both have a mother and a father, so having a balance in your deities as well is simply common sense.

I do not believe so much in religious systems or structured, dogmatic spirituality. I do however believe that each and every religion has at its core the same overall human values, kindness, responsibility for you actions, etc.. Whatever religion you choose to enter the world of spirituality from is of no matter, what you should get from it is connection, joy, inspiration and strength.

I eventually chose to leave behind all specific rules, requirements and expectations and to intertwine together the elements of belief that work to bolster my own individual spirit without regard for the judgment of others. So long as I feel that I am continuing to grow and that what I do in my life brings no harm to another person, than I know that I am on the right path.

Recently I have begun incorporating elements of Buddhism and Hinduism into my spiritual practices. I find that they calm me and shift my awareness in new and interesting ways. I consider myself a Goddess-worshipper and Priestess, but feel no worries about bringing in flavors from several pantheons, including Norse, Greek, Celtic, Egyptian and Aztec.

So as you can see what is helpful about paganism is the awareness that it brought to me and the fact that it allows me to be as open-minded as I am towards belief and spirituality. When I counsel people about their spiritual paths I am able to view them as whole and entire without the burdens of religion or sin or any of that human construct. I give advice based on the person’s soul energy, their goals, as chosen by them on an eternal level. We are all the learner, at all times, and there are several different paths that we can take to arrive at the same lessons.

(Image Copyright Vera Nadine)

PK: Many of us come to spiritual occupations because of a sort of ‘calling’ that leads us out of normal life endeavors and into the world of spirit. Did you have such a ‘calling’ and how did it manifest the changes in your life that ultimately directed you toward serving others?

Vera Nadine: No, I wouldn’t say that I had “a” calling. Having been a spiritual person since a relatively young age, I would say that I have had several “mini” callings. There have just been many recognizable stages in my personal and spiritual development and each was marked by it’s own miraculous or eye-opening occurrence. These have come in the form of self-acknowledgment, the death of a loved one, opportunities manifesting in an instant, automatic writing reminding me of my gifts, looking at something I’d seen several times and suddenly seeing something else, visiting places where I lived in other lives and mainly just hearing my own soul song and deciding to sing along. My post The Calling: A Spiritual Manifesto is about this.

PK: What is a historical medium?

Vera Nadine: To be honest it is a turn of phrase that I pieced together in my quest to define my innate gift for those who do not know me well enough to understand it. I was born as a recorder, a memory box in the making. I am a medium for history, history just comes through me. For some reason it is not usually “recent” history but history ranging from 150 years ago to 35,000 years ago. Spirits from throughout history who look to resolve their own issues and move (at last) into their next incarnation often come to me for help. Laughingly, I sometimes ponder whether or not it is I who have an affinity for history or whether, perhaps, it is history that has an affinity for me. This is not to say that history is the only area in which I am able to use my mediumship. I also use it for medical intuition and for seeing soul paths, the lessons that we are set to learn on our current journey and how a person can use their talents to fulfill their own chosen life purpose.

PK: The concept of time as we know it does not really exist if we are present in the now. When we access the part of ourselves that is timeless we can interact with all that has ever been and ever will be. The opportunities are then endless for expansion and learning as it is possible to observe past and future events, learn from historical figures, your great grandparents and even your past and future lives all of which serves to enhance your state of consciousness. Can you tell me how you got started with historical mediumship?

Vera Nadine: I often saw imprints of past occurrences as a child. Just brief flashes of people going about their daily lives, getting on and off of a train that was no longer there, sweeping their front door stoop when the house had long been torn down. It was our public school’s penchant for museum visits that really brought it out. But at that same age I began to know that it was “weird” what I could do. I banished the ability behind a haze of heavy metal, half-hearted rituals and underage partying only to have to work really hard to dig it back out when I found my connection to spirit in my college years. Since then I have been doing lots of writing and lots of traveling inspired by my historical visions and this has helped me to solidify historical mediumship as the base, my innate talent upon which all of the other gifts have then been built.

The first step in developing such a gift is not, I would say, to understand the nature of time. That is a never-ending lesson and one that often requires you to “go back to the drawing board” several times before even an inkling of its true nature can be found. Instead it is the challenge of suspending disbelief. We are born believing both everything and nothing. That is as close as one can get to what they call omniscience, at least in physical form. But as we are raised in a world molded to human desires, it is a construct that allows for a only a very limited world view. We have our beliefs sort of trained out of us. We end up having our million or more vast beliefs wheedled down to a nice, exclusionary, thousand or so beliefs. All else is ridiculous or impossible in the adult human world view. So suspending disbelief in the theory that time is all happening at once and that we indeed CAN see the past as it truly is/was, that is the first hurdle to developing historical psychic connection.

PK: What are some of the largest misconceptions you’ve encountered about time?

Vera Nadine: That time exists is the main one. Time does not exist, it is an illusion. Our intent manifests instantaneously once we put our belief behind it but then we set up blockades to reaching our goal or intent by believing that we must follow the set pattern of time in order to reach that manifestation. No matter how hard we try to believe time away we cannot, because the systems of the human world are set up to constantly remind us of its dominance over us. You plant a tomato seed today and you believe that you have to wait weeks and weeks to see it to fruition, but its already grown, just over there, can’t you see it?

Another important point about time is that although the past the present and the future all exist at once, our lives are not preordained. It is a difficult concept to grasp, that time is ever present yet the choices that you make now are of your own free will. There are two ways for me to attempt to explain this.

One is that certain things in your future are preordained but by YOU, you have chosen them before birth. There may be a certain situation that you must be put in, or a certain conversation that has to take place or a specific company that you need to work for or a specific person that you are destined to meet. But it is the concept of the moment that is preordained, not the means by which you get there. Believe it or not, in this vast world, there are several paths that you as an individual can take that will eventually lead you to the same point. There are numerous crossroads in our life that we generally fail to recognize, but they exist nonetheless.

The other way to explain this is that you are making the decisions that bring you your specific future, its just that you have already made them. Understand me, everything is happening at once: now and five minutes from now and five years from now and five generations from now. So you are deciding in this moment what to do tomorrow but in actuality you’ve already decided and that tomorrow is already happening. It is likely that all possibilities are happening at once as well. So you may change your mind again twenty minute’s from now about those plans for tomorrow which is okay too. Because THAT tomorrow is already happening as well. The same goes for if your lunch date for tomorrow changes their plans without you knowing. That alternate tomorrow has already happened as well.

Time is all things at once, possibility is the same thing, so I guess you could say that time and possibility are one and the same.

PK: If you could give everyone on the planet one of your experiences to help them expand their consciousness which would it be?

Vera Nadine: It is so difficult to say because there have been some really great and interesting things that I have seen. But, that being said, I know that the best of what I am to be opened up to is still yet to come. I guess I can’t say what would be a good experience to help others expand their consciousness, because what each of us needs is so similar but honestly so different. I can only know what worked best for me. Perhaps, if I could have everyone become truly aware of the power of energy and how the things that happen to them are actually happening with them. It is with our agreement to allow a person (or a situation, an emotion, a food we digest etc.) to alter our energetic state that the experiences we have are allowed to be by each of us. This one piece of awareness alone is the most dear to me and is the catalyst for so many other possible discoveries and understandings. But we all come to our Knowing in our own time and fashion.

I hope you have enjoyed this interview with Vera Nadine and her answers to these questions. For more stories and medium-adventures please check out www.veranadine.com.

How long do we sit in anguish watching others use their wings wistfully wishing we could follow them out into the bright blue sky? How much conditioning does it take before we have convinced ourselves of our worth, readiness or ability to take the leap? Who do the voices belong to that say that we can’t?

Leap and the Net will Appear

My friend Christine says this is an old Zen saying, but I first heard it in her song Right Outta Nowhere. Leap and the net will appear, references acts of faith…times when we go forward with our knowing and nothing else.

When I was a child I wanted to know what it was like to fly. I loved watching the birds and I thought the wind on your skin like that…soaring through the air so light on the currents must be the best feeling on earth. I couldn’t sprout wings so I instead learned to pull myself up onto the roof of our one story house where I would creep toward the edge, sit down and try to talk myself into jumping off.

The voice of my mother’s fears would protest in my mind…and she won the battle many times…but anyone who has ever really known me, knows that I possess a persistence.

This persistence kept me on the edge while some deep part of me whispered with quiet confidence that these fears didn’t apply to me, that it was o.k to have the experience. So one day…carried on a wind that was like a great exhale, I unfolded my wings…and took a leap.

The Voices that You Listen to: Do they Belong to You?

I was triumphant in my attempts to be a bird..I trusted the voice that told me I could have the experience and I landed without a scratch, feeling like I had just been embraced by angels and who knows…maybe I had

My curiosity satisfied I moved on to other challenges and new experiences but whenever I caught myself mustering courage or noticed the sound of my mother’s fearful voice ringing in my ears; I remembered the time I sprouted wings…and listened carefully until I could hear the voice inside.

Not every experience is right for every person…it’s a customized journey. Certainly jumping off the roof of a house (from the perspective of most people) is a dangerous and not recommended course of action…but how much of life is considered dangerous by others? And does that mean that it is really is dangerous for you?

What is your inner voice saying to you? What challenges is it encouraging you to face? What experiences does it want you to have? What fears keep you from taking the leap? Are you hearing the voices of others or your own?

Possibility and Potential

The edge is the jumping off place between the two worlds of what is known and what is possible. All it takes to leap into the world of possibility is to let go and know your own potential by seeing your connections to the creative forces of the universe…this is the net that appears, it is always there as a potential. Working with possibility allows creative outcomes to enter your life with powerful harmony…turning the limited into the limitless

An Area of Personal Growth

Knowing the difference between space and indecision is an area that I have been working on for some time. However, recently the importance of striking the balance between trying not to rush into a decision (my personality’s default method) and taking a conscious stand (instead of allowing the circumstances to make my decisions for me) has been repeatedly brought to my attention. From a tarot reading which suggested I balance the water in my makeup with earth to meditations encouraging me to take full responsibility for and explore many of the more pivotal decisions I’ve made in life; it has become all too obvious that I am now in the place where I need to consciously and fully embrace and understand where I am standing in my life at all times.

Space or Inaction

Most of the time action grows organically out of giving your ideas space…but you can allow that process to stagnate by failing to commit to a course and then waiting for the situation to grow out of your inaction. Sometimes it does, but riding the fence can prevent you from gaining an intimate knowledge of your own processes if it comes from a refusal to see what is really there. Knowing how to bring space into a situation and when to take action from that space is reflective of great wisdom. This wisdom is born of an intimate awareness and knowledge of oneself and requires an introspective gaze into your own interior landscape.

Qualitative Questions Regarding Action and Space

Lately, my guides have been teaching me to monitor the space I give to the situations in my life and to ask myself a few questions throughout the process:

When I hold the space is there reluctance to act?
What actions can I commit to?
What actions must I refuse?
Am I waiting for an acceptable solution?
Do I know what an acceptable solution would be?
What do I hope to manifest by acting?
Is there anything I hope to get free of by not acting?

Revelation is the Reason for Questioning

At times this method creates more questions than it resolves but always at the very least it reflects the areas in which you do not have good answers and sets your feet on the paths you need to explore.

Exploring these areas in the quiet stillness and solitude of meditation can reveal some amazing answers, many of which have been blocked from the waking mind simply because of a non-acceptance of what’s really going on under the surface.

The goal is to make all that was previously hidden conscious so that an aware and awake decision can be made in every circumstance.

More Reflection

If you’re jumping to a quick solution; explore it. And if you find yourself waiting; look deeper. If you don’t want to act or can’t, ask why? And if you find yourself rushing headlong into something, bring that desire into the quiet, still and deep places you hold inside…and see if that desire holds up.

What I have learned from all of this is that truth must be seen and heard and made known if you are to grow. The truth about yourself is always something you can run from and ignore…but you simply won’t get anywhere spiritually by doing that. It is to our advantage to see it all; good, bad and indifferent makes up the whole of what we have to work with which simply is…what it is. If we want to change it, we have to be willing to see it, accept it and then make our decisions from there.

As we grow in spiritual power…this process becomes very profound…almost sacred, as the consciousness within us develops and we become aware of the fact that our emerging spiritual beings are getting closer to the surface of life…each and every time.

Spirit Animals

During meditation I’ve been visited and assisted by a variety of spirit animals. Their appearance is always significant, their information accurate and the places that they lead vital. Spirit animals come in many forms; so far I have been lucky enough to be visited by a giant silver wolf named SeaWolf, a miniature white owl called Potter, and an enormous white/silver dragon who goes by Eros. Yes, the common denominators in my spirit animals appears to be that they are all wild and white. But I often wondered why I never received a visit from any former pets…especially the one I had bonded with the most closely in life; a german shepherd dog named Kenya.

A Chakra Meditation of Significance

Pondering spirit animals and their significance before a meditation one day I decided that I needed to work on my heart chakra. This was my focus going into the trance…but once I got to cleansing my chakras I noticed during the alignment that I had skipped over my heart chakra entirely (something I never do!). This was so odd that I realized immediately a significant message from my deeper self was presenting, so I dove in and put all of my focus on opening my heart chakra. I invited my guides to help clear it as there was a darkness I was having difficulty with. Once I had it clear and had continued my alignment a voice prompted me to shoot skyward, straight out of my crown chakra and into the pure white light that was pouring into it.

I traveled in this light for some time until I just seemed to slow down and rest on a platform. There on the platform sitting next to me was a glowing form I could not identify. I tried to clear my vision but it nothing came into focus, I tried to listen intently but there was nothing but kind hearted silence.

Perplexed, I sat down and the scene in front of me changed. I saw my dog Kenya’s face clearly but her body from her feet to her ears was bound in darkness. Her dark eyes pleaded with me and I instantly leapt from my platform of light into the darkness. When I reached her, I raised my energy so that my hands and body were pure light. I embraced her and the darkness melted. She was free.

An Old Friend

I was so shaken by this experience that I ended the meditation. Scenes from my past came flashing through my mind. I saw clearly the day we brought Kenya home when she was six weeks old and how she would follow my feet and keep track of every place I went. She chose me as her companion, which became obvious by the time she was 5 months old and my family conceded that she was my dog but in reality we belonged to each other.

She was my best friend through homelessness, depression and extreme poverty from the time that I was 15 until I was forced to give her up at 16 1/2. We were inseparable…everywhere I went, she went…but this was a bond that went beyond friendship and companionship…this was a spiritual bond. I cried for months over having to leave her…my parents argued that she was sick and pregnant and that we didn’t have the money to care for her or to feed her…surely the German Shepherd Shelter was the best alternative for her. I agreed but died inside. A part of me shut down and went with her…a part of my heart that I hadn’t opened since.

The Power to Heal

This was the part of me that needed to heal…this was the darkness I had encountered in my heart chakra during the meditation. After processing these memories for a few moments I became aware of Kenya’s presence so I dove back into trance once again soaring into the white light flowing through my crown chakra until it slowed and I came back to the same platform as before.

I was greeted by the same energy presence that was there previously…only this time as I watched, I realized I was looking at the form of my beloved dog…I simply couldn’t see her before through the darkness that had grown within me. I sat there with my arm around her in the state of perfect peace we had enjoyed so many times in life. Two separate beings sharing a moment of oneness with the ALL.

Pets as Teachers and Guides

Later, as I threw the ball for our german shepherd puppy Sango, I realized I hadn’t fully bonded with this dog. As we played I opened myself to her completely…relishing the feelings that I had not allowed myself to experience with an animal in all these years. I silently thanked Kenya for coming back and showing me how to release my heart, she was then and is still, a great teacher. Now, when I sense her presence I smile to myself knowing that loss doesn’t exist in spirit…the human mind is the only place you will find it

Spiritual Bonding

The bond that develops with a spiritual teacher is a strong one. These light-holders of the universe mirror to us the light of our own consciousness, take us by the hand and show us the way through the thick overgrown forests of our egos and lead us toward feeling the spirit, that has been up till then, at best…a mental concept in our heads.

It is natural to become deeply attached to your spiritual mentor, to trust their judgement and assessment over your own and to come to rely upon them for your spiritual connection. This is usually a necessity in the beginning when our connections with our own consciousness are deeply buried within our egos, when we can’t feel our own oneness with all of creation and when we can’t yet hear the voice of our own inner wisdom.

Through universal oneness…someone who is deeply conscious brings consciousness to those they are in close contact with. This is the burning log that can ignite the wood that is as of yet untouched by spiritual fire. But keep in mind that the purpose of this relationship is to get your own fire started. There will come a time when you will have to rely upon yourself or you will stunt your own growth. At this point your relationship with your spiritual teacher may not end but it will definitely change.

Moving from Student to Practitioner

The time to move on will present itself in your ability to handle your own issues. This will usually first happen in the circumstances when your teacher is not available for whatever reason and you are left with no choice but to work it out. When you become increasingly adept at this…your own readiness is presenting itself and it’s time to start seriously listening to the still small voice within and to seek it out before you approach your spiritual mentor.

When you do seek your own wisdom do you:

feel the same sense of relief that you experience with your teacher?
are you able to achieve the same level of connectedness?
find that things are working themselves out with little or no effort on your part aside of taking charge of your state of consciousness?
find that you need to talk to you mentor less and less?
find yourself capable of being motivated to explore spiritually on your own…independent of your spiritual teacher?

If you can answer yes to these questions then you may have to soon accept that it is time to move on.

Accepting the Change

It’s very possible that you can and will remain very close to your mentor…but also you may move in different directions. This can be a difficult transition to make due to the close bond you’ve developed but whether or not it is helpful to continue contact is a very personal decision; one that is made by both student and teacher.

Sometimes, each finds they need the space that opens up to continue their spiritual work; in which case they will have very little contact with one another. Other times they find that they can now mentor each other and develop a wonderful relationship in which they move fully into supporting each other’s spiritual growth.

However it goes…it is important to hold your mentor in your heart…flood them with your consciousness…and then let go. What arises out of this process will be exactly what you need to grow!

I chose the title of this article because it filled me with impish glee to write it. But before we go too much further perhaps I should explain why. The reason that it gave me such a tickle is that some of my most vital teachers could easily have fit under the bad & ugly categories…yet I look back on them with such appreciation that they have become to me…very good. Most of you who read this site have probably figured out by now that I love perspective shifts…they fill me with energy, expand my mind and set my soul free. So the title is all about perspective.

Psychic Experiences

I have never had a negative psychic experience. From my early childhood visits from a departed grandfather who liked to watch me sleep (which I never did for long due to the hissing that his presence always produced in my cat); a mischievous ghost named George who enjoyed pulling our covers off at night and tickling our feet to my adult experiences of having a conversation with my deceased grandfather, a grandmother who is currently suffering from Alzheimer’s and various spiritual figures such as angels, archangels, Jesus, the three forms of the Goddess; the maiden, the mother and the crone and her counter part the Sun Child and the Horned God. Yet, I do not consider myself a medium (I think a part of me is scared to see dead people) and I do not consider myself a psychic. So what am I? I’m just a spiritual adventurer…out there having cool experiences, seeing what I can learn and then sharing it with all of you

Angels

Seeing angels was not really what I expected. I was not sure how they would appear and I wondered if they would come in wings and robes but for me they did not. I could not see very many details at all…instead my first sighting of them was simply as beings of light.

My first contact was with my guardian angels. I could instantly distinguish their energy as such because it had a very different feel. They seemed beautiful to me in a very nondescript way…in fact the way they felt was their most distinct feature. These are the angels that cleanse my aura during my chakra meditations, they also help me connect to different parts of myself and other entities as well. They are never far…in fact, I am always aware of them…they seem to hover around the left and right sides of my head so I now know how it is that people began to think of them as being on their shoulders

Then not too long ago I was visited by Archangels. They too came over as beings of light…but towering in stature. Their energy felt immense and it was reflected in how they seemed so much larger than myself in my spiritual vision. They identified themselves as Michael and Gabriel. They accompanied Jesus, whom I embraced warmly when he arrived, we had at one time been very close but had a falling out over the years which had finally been healed. It was a momentous occasion to say the least! Here’s the funny thing though…these same archangels also accompany the Goddess (lately she appears in her three forms at the same time) and the Horned God when I communicate with them. I don’t know if this happens to anyone else but the archangels for me, now always herald the appearance of god energy.

Gods & Goddesses

I need to make a distinction here between Gods & Goddesses and Source. Source energy, Higher Self, Angels, Archangels, Jesus, Gods & Goddesses all have very distinct energy. When the Goddess appears to me she is immensely majestic. Beautiful, divine and full of feminine power she is quite the figure to behold in any of her three aspects. Her quiet power pervades my very being, her mere presence demands respect…she is the stately queen of all queens whom no man alive could resist.

The Horned God and Sun Child appear in the same majesty yet their energy is very different. It is the same in regards to its immensity but it has a very male feel. They are the two different sides of desire. He appears behind her…always in the background, on the hunt or as a glorious child on her lap. He is the part of us that seeks life and moves toward it…he is a match to the life force within us. I feel a kinship with him, he is very comfortable, familiar, loyal and safe. Yet a great power lies within him, like a pulse, just under the surface…it reminds me of the smell of the spring air when the world is just about to burst forth into bloom. That is his power.

Jesus

Jesus comes through as immeasurable love and kindness. He warms my heart and my spirits. He also has a safe and familiar energy…a bond of kinship and of life. Like the Horned God, he serves life with his own…so it is not surprising that their energy would be similar in some ways, but in others completely different. The Horned God feels a bit wild…Jesus does not…he feels like peace.

When I healed my relationship with Christianity, Jesus came through with the Archangels at his side. He gave me a warm embrace and encouraged me to continue to encircle all faiths. He then placed his hands on my stomach and it expanded beneath his fingers, his hands began to glow as his body took on a transparent quality. Then like smoke in a vacuum, he entered my body through my belly button, reforming as a full term fetus in my expanded belly symbolizing the expansion of my Christ Consciousness. I know what you’re thinking…the birth motif has been big with me lately…but what can I say…I just tell it like I experience it!

Spiritual Teachers

The most spiritual man I ever met, identified me as being a significant contact through a phone call. We were each working jobs that miraculously orchestrated our unlikely paths to cross. I immediately sensed he was a spiritual teacher although I’m not sure how conscious of it I was. I loved his energy…enjoyed talking with him…and could feel something awaken within me every time we had contact. He stated that a meeting like this, was never an accident, and as if to prove it, he selflessly helped me gain in consciousness for several years. People like this seem rare but they are out there. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear…

Psychic Vampires

One of the most important lessons I learned about energy was taught to me by a psychic vampire. Now, don’t get me wrong…most of us could be accused of having been a psychic vampire at one time or another…but this man made it his chief form of existence. You could literally watch him target someone, walk up to them and sink in his teeth. When he was done…a traumatized shell of the person remained until they got a chance to recharge their batteries and then he was back again, ready for more.

This experience taught me to take charge of my own energy, to learn how and where I could heal from such attacks and how not to make myself a victim. Like I said in the beginning…even the bad & the ugly can be good