Into the Mystic

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.

There’s a beautiful post over on DailyKos from a Pentecostal Democrat that really moved my heart.  I am only posting the last paragraph of it (it’s rather long) but it’s so worth a read. I try to keep my political leanings off here (mostly) but this seemed relevant and I really liked what she said. I’m not of the Evangelical Christian group but her words resonated for me and hopefully for you as well.

So as an Evangelical Christian, conventional wisdom these days says I’m fired up and energized. That’s right. I am! The viciousness, the condescension, the “elitism” from Republicans; it certainly lit a fire under this Evangelical Christian, but not the kind the Republicans were looking for! I’m fired up to say loud and clear that they don’t speak for me, my family, none of my friends, acquaintances, or my church family! And I will not sit idly by while the name and character of the God I love so dearly is hitched to a bunch of folks who can’t even follow these simple words spoken by Jesus: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Matthew 7:12.

(image from SmileyMe)

Rose said that I have this concept sort of encoded in my energy field and I wanted to put that out here just because.

Namaste
I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells.
I honor the place in you of love, of truth, of light, of peace.
When you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me,
We are One