Into the Mystic

As long as I am judging where someone else is with their path, I’m not where I need to be with mine.

More on this to come and yes, I really am here and yes, I really do post here.  :)  My head’s been up in the clouds a bit but  I am coming back down to earth and will be posting here more often. It’s spring! YEY! 

In early January, I decided to undertake a pretty radical (for me) endeavor - a ten-day juice fast (called the Master Cleanse). I blogged all the way through the twelve days I did the fast over on Snarkypants (under category MC) and decided to cross-post it here as well because even though it was primarily a physical cleanse, that was really just the beginning of a huge shift for me.Read on:I had promised that I would write a little about the 12 days on the cleanse now that I’ve had some time and distance from it so here you go. I felt better in those twelve days than I have in quite a long time. Free from the worry of what to eat, was it something “bad”, should I feel guilty blah blah blah cakes, I was able to feel an internal quiet that brought me a great deal of peace. I miss that feeling already. In fact, I was so terrified of making bad (there’s that word again) food choices that I stayed on the cleanse an extra couple days. I know that beginning to make those choices for me is part of ‘the work’ that I am to do this year and I am doing my very best to be mindful of that.A very astute gentleman on the YLCleansers.com board by the name of Daniel wrote this about his cleansing experiences and I reprint this snippet here with his permission:This is a roller coaster you have climbed aboard, and so you will have very difficult times when you think you aren’t making any progress, and then all of a sudden out of nowhere you will have a big breakthrough that shows the progress you are making, or a burst of energy, or sudden clarity about some aspect of your life. Your face will probably break out as it expels toxins from your body, you might get bad breath, flaky skin, etc.–but then all of a sudden those toxins will be gone and your body will start focusing somewhere else. Most of the time, you will have no idea what is happening while your body repairs problems you didn’t know existed and hopefully won’t even have to find out about. You may start a cleanse with one particular goal in mind and be frustrated during the cleanse thinking your goals aren’t getting any closer, but after a while you will see that progress is happening either on your original goal or on a different area that had to come first or was more important. Cleansing is am extremely personal and sacred journey. People around you most likely will have no comprehension of what it is you are doing, or the importance of it. They may even belittle what you are doing or ask if you have spoken to your doctor about it–as if doctors are gods that know better than your own higher self, what you know in your gut, etc. As you cleanse, you thank your physical body for it’s service processing all those foods that tasted so good, and give it an opportunity to heal itself from any bad ingredients in those foods, toxins in the environment all around you, in the water, in the various products that contact your body, toxic thoughts and emotions…A sacred journey indeed. Much of the learning, however, seems to have come after I went back to eating solid food. I found it was more of an emotional cleanse going on as I released the hold sugar had on my body and emotions. I chose not to eat those things that had served as my comfort foods and to face issues in my life without that security blanket that had been with me for much of my life. And in a very minute way, I began to understand more of the struggle that addicts go through as they face their issues without numbing out.One of my very dear friends is a beautiful channel for my guides and she shared this with me earlier this month (January) and it was what has been uppermost in my thoughts as I undertook this challenge.You have much to offer others. You have much more coming to you that will only enhance the work that you do. As you wait, work on those things that you know you should (and you know what they are because we have told you and told you and told you.) Get what you know you should do out of the way so that you will be ready and available when it is time for you to “step it up” to the next level. Know that we love you. Know that what we say is for your highest good and purpose. We know that you do not always want to hear these things. We know that you want to go from A to Z and bypass B-Y. It doesn’t work that way even with Spirit! (humor and laugh) We honor you, and we honor your work. We honor your choices. There is no intent to criticize here only a loving message. Did you ever think that maybe by doing the B-Y stuff, Z would come along surprisingly fast? A thought for your meditation closet. Know that we love you. Know that we are with you to support you. Know that we will help you do B-Y so you can get to Z. Know that you have friends that will also support you in getting B-Y DONE!!! Use them. Ask. Each is on his/her own spiritual journey, but part of that journey is helping others. That is how we all move forward. Learning not to zip right from A-Z has been a big lesson for me in my adult life. This cleanse and the aftermath of it starts my work with B-Y. It’s tough work but it’s going to be worth it and I know I will be ready when the time comes for me to step into the next higher vibration. And yes, I am not only doing another cleanse in March but am working diligently to completely change the foods I eat and how I nourish my body. Big work for sure. But it’s what’s been given to me to do and I honor that. (I may grump about it from time to time but I honor it!) More on this as I continue doing ‘the work’.

From this article in the New York Times:

“Your mortgage agents, your realtors, your bankers, you can’t go to these people anymore,” said Tori Hartman, a psychic in Los Angeles. “They’re just reading a script — at least that’s how my clients feel. People are sensing that the traditional avenues have not worked, that all of a sudden this so-called security that they’ve built up isn’t there anymore. They come to a psychic for a different perspective.”

My thoughts? People need to know that they can trust in the guidance they get from within. What I get when I have done readings for others is some validation for people that they know the answers themselves - they just have to be nudged in a direction so they can hear and/or see it. I don’t think I’ve said anything to anyone that they didn’t actually know deep down. It’s just a bit of a nudge and some validation.

The readings I have done seem to be just a bit of that nudge. What I most enjoy is helping others to grow and learn ways to trust their own guidance and information. I don’t ever want to foster an attitude of “Only *I* have the answers and you must come before me to get them” because that is contrary to what I believe and what I’ve been taught. It’s clear to me (and hopefully to others) that we all have the ability to get guidance and to learn how to trust it. My work is to assist others in seeing that and working with it.

More on this as it comes to me.

Lori and I have spent the week doing twelve million intuitive readings (okay, not that many but really close) and I realized that I could do readings all damn day and be happy as a clam. I’m always fascinated by what comes through for each person - and then comparing what I get with what Lori gets. Her messages are very focused on the here and now such as “take more vitamins” or “what’s going on with your lungs?” - stuff like that. Mine are much more big picture - whether you are on track for your work in this incarnation, or where your relationship with Mr. Perfect is going (or not, as the case may be). Many times, Lori and I are on the same wavelength with a couple exceptions where we totally got divergent messages. I interpreted that to mean that either decision would bring the outcome for the person’s highest good and each had consequences to address. It was a matter of which resonated more with this individual.

We got lots of good feedback from those who shared with us. One woman offered to exchange something from her energetic toolbox for us - doing meridian and chakra clearings. Cool! Sounds good to me. We have about 8-10 left to do and that won’t take too long. What takes a while is sending the email with both readings and tracking any follow-up questions and all. But at least if I’m hanging out at my computer in the evening, I’m doing something worthwhile instead of surfing and spacing.

Good question! I’m glad you asked. 

To illustrate what comes through when I receive guidance from my “round table” (as I call them), I thought I would post my most recent personal reading.  Slade Roberson from Shift your Spirits had a class on Automatic Writing (it’s an E-course so you can download it at any time and work at your own pace, btw) and one of the exercises had to do with timed readings.  For example, Slade suggested you set five minutes on the clock, ask your Guides a particular question (or series of questions) and just write whatever you get for five minutes without stopping.

I’m writing here exactly what came through for me in those five minutes today.

The question I posed was this: What am I to focus on when I get off the computer at 9:30pm each evening?

Here is the response I got:

Dear one, we appreciate your willingness to open up new ways (pathways) of doing things but you already have all the answers you need.  Follow what you feel is best - you are looking to us (up) rather than to yourself (inward) as if we have some great power you do not.  We are you, you are us, we are ONE.  So look inside yourself, dig down and find whatever it is you think (feel, believe) you need and try it out.  Discipline is not so scary, it’s being modeled for you right in front of your face by one of your master teachers.*  Look at how he stays on task.  You can do that as well but you really don’t give yourself credit for that.  Your success at your job attests to your ability to focus and get something done so you know you can do it.  It’s a matter of finding that thing you want and following through.  Yes, we hear the questions about the Seminary and we implore you not to drop out.  Keep chugging along and you will get there.  We know you can do this since we are you and you are us.  Remember that.  Remember this as well:  The Universe and I act in concert and all I need to know is within me.

Can you feel the calm tone of the words? It never ceases to amaze me how stuff just comes pouring out through my hands, into the pen and onto the paper. It’s sort of like you have a sweet, non-judgmental best friend writing to you about stuff. From a writing session I did the other night came this bit of info: “We can, however, tell you that words come easily to you for a reason and a review of the drafts on In2themystic showed you what you are capable of. We would suggest that you find that voice again, the one you ascribe to us and open the valve and allow it to flow. You are wise to do this practice and know that we will bring forth into your mind whatever it is we feel is necessary for your growth but remember that the “DO” part is truly up to you.”

If you are interested in getting a reading of your own from me or Lori (or both of us together), look for more information on that coming very soon.

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*The Husband has been working on a new eating plan for the past few weeks and he has been dogged about staying on it. This is what my Guides speak of and yes, they have told me many times that he is one of my master teachers. (I should elaborate on that another time. Master teachers can be a pain in the butt sometimes!)

 (Note from Lisa: I found this in my “Drafts” folder. I wrote this in October 2007 and thought now might be a good time to post it.)

Reverend Regina Cross, one of my great teachers in this lifetime, has defined the term sensei as “sometimes teacher, sometimes student”. I like that title because it speaks to how we are all teachers and students at different points in our life. It can even happen at the same time, believe it or not. Right now, I am at a place where that duality has begun to show itself. The last year has been an amazing journey of lessons, joy, adventure, sadness and growth. In each situation and at every corner, I would ask “what is mine to do now?” and wait for the answer.

As we move forward on our spiritual journey, increase our spiritual knowledge and raise our vibrations we become teachers for those who are stepping onto that path. That is the task that many of us agreed to, to share our knowledge with others. We can have visions of standing in front of crowds of people, sharing our knowledge with people who are willing to learn and that can be one aspect of teaching. But most of us will have teaching experiences with individual people in our lives, many of whom will be uncooperative, unwilling and at times even rude or mean to us.

We are called to teach when we need to help someone learn a lesson or experience an aspect of their spiritual journey. These can be easy or difficult experiences, based on what we need to teach. As teachers, our role is to simply be who we are and to allow the situation to unfold. The person who is the student will do what they do, they will learn or not and then we move on. But it is usually not that smooth or easy. We often get caught up in the experience and it becomes personal, we push the student to learn and forget that our role is to participate, we lose our detachment and have expectations about the outcome.

And the situations in which we are the teacher are not those which we can easily detach from. There are often strong attractions and feelings involved so that we fully participate in the situation. If we forget that our job is to teach, not to force the other person to learn, we can feel that we have not done our job if we don’t deliver successful results. But our success is not dependent on whether we believe the student has learned and incorporated the lessons in their lives. We are successful teachers when we simply agree to share what we have learned and allow the student to accept the teaching, or not, according to their free will, their willingness to learn and their own level of spiritual growth. And we will also learn through this experience.

When someone calls a teacher into their lives they do so on a soul level. Their soul requires the lesson in order to move forward. While the soul may be ready, the mind and heart must also be in agreement and sometimes they are not. As teachers we have to respect each person’s free will and to remember that their ability to grow and learn depends on their willingness to release their fears. When they are uncooperative, unwilling, rude or mean to us, their teachers, it is simply a reflection of the fear that they have about their spiritual growth. We must respect this and know that if we can’t help them we have done our job and the Universe will provide them with another teacher who can.

As you can see from the post below, Lori (writing under the name Silver Wolf) has joined me here at Into The Mystic.  She’s just the coolest person and her gifts are only exceeded by her wonderfully big heart and desire to be of service.  You can read a bit more about her here.

We get together every other Sunday with a group of about seven women, amazing intuitives in their own right, to talk and learn and share our skills with each other.  I had the idea of a spiritual group in my head   but my good friend Marianne was the one who did all the networking to bring it together and I am eternally grateful for her abilities to take things and run with them.

Lori and I have been discussing the idea of offering readings using our skills - she is highly clairvoyant and I am rather clairaudient (i.e.: she sees and I hear) to assist with questions you might have around life choices.   We are still working out the details and will have a separate post up about it soon.

In the meantime, look for more from and about Lori and me!

Really cool picture from this website.

So as I sit here getting various messages for various people that seem to happen more and more to me everyday I can’t help but wonder what is actually reality and what isn’t?  After being diagnosed with Bipolar disorder and anxiety disorder at the age of 13 I now realize that many of my issues is the fact that I have these gifts.  It makes me wonder how many other people in the world are not suffering from an illness but actually living a reality……

“You’re not strong by putting other people down. You’re strong by lifting other people up.” - Barack Obama

This statement, and his actions which exemplify it, are one of the many reasons I am proud to support Senator Obama for President of the United States.

“WHAT DEFINES ME IS NOT WHAT DEFINES YOU. WHAT DRIVES ME IS NOT WHAT DRIVES YOU. I LOVE WHAT YOU DO NOT LOVE. I AM ME AND YOU ARE YOU.”

(From a shirt found here and worn by my very own secret love, David Cook.)

I often struggle with defining myself because I see many sides of things. It drives the husband crazy that I can do that and often causes a small amount of friction because he is so black and white. It either is or is not. Period. I am all about the nuance and unless I feel definitively strongly about something, it really doesn’t matter to me much.

I don’t know if I will ever reach the staunch defiance (? not sure if that’s really the right word) of the statement above but I am learning more about it as I go.

Just some thoughts on a Sunday morning.