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GRATeFULLness
Nourishment from Others
interspersed with my questions, observations or experiences
since March 21, 2011 enriched by more nourishment-
see below -
A Sufi Message
E-mail from Rinatya (a guest in Succah-in-the-Desert
during the first Gulf-War in 1991) on 2006_04_19
restudied, excerpted and graphically edited: 2007_04_23
PRAYER AND THE FIVE ELEMENTS
by Pir Zia Inayat Khan
Five aspects of prayer are described by the Sufi teacher
Hazrat Inayat Khan.
I have found that they correspond to the five elements
to which we attune through purification breaths.
Earth purification breath
The earth breath is
inhaling and exhaling through the nose.
To attune to one’s relationship with the earth
one needs to awaken to one’s subtle energetic body.
In the same way that the physical body is continuously nourished
by digesting and metabolizing the physical substance of the planet,
on a subtle level
our magnetic field is nourished by the magnetism of the planet.
It is useful to first locate the rhythm of your heart.
Then see if you can find the echo of the heartbeat in your hands, feet and
head.
Scientists used to speak of the heart as the pump of the circulatory system,
but now it is understood
that the heart itself is pumped by the collective action of the entire circulatory
system.
So you can’t think of your heart as being limited to your chest.
In fact, if you feel the pulsation of circulation in your hands, fingertips,
feet and head,
you may feel that there is no definite boundary.
When your eyes are closed,
your hands don’t feel as if they are made up of five fingers,
but rather you feel the vibration that pulses through the hands,
expanding in all directions and forming a field that emanates into space.
To tune into the magnetic (Earth-Will) electro
(Spirit, Sky) field
and let it nourish the magnetic field of my body,
may help me take off the ground.
Once you have attuned to your electromagnetic field,
as you inhale
you can become conscious
of how your life field expands
with the influx of energy from the earth through the soles of your feet,
through the palms of your hands
and through the base of your spine.
Then as you exhale,
feel yourself collapsing into the gravitational field of the earth,
sinking down to be composted and recycled in the body of the earth.
So you have to overcome the idea that you are separate from the earth.
… think of yourself as a cell in the body of the earth,
in which the earth has articulated itself
in order to experience itself.
...
Gratitude
Related to the element earth is a specific quality
of prayer, which is thanksgiving.
Every day is an opportunity to count one’s blessings,
instead of the opposite which is to enumerate our troubles
– and of course in doing so we attract more trouble to ourselves.
For example, if we give a gift to someone,
and that person appears indifferent and shows no gratitude,
we are less likely to give a gift to that person again.
It’s the same way with the universe.
Gratitude is not only for the sake of obliging the one who has given us something;
it is for our own sake,
because when one is inattentive to the blessings of life,
even that which one has been given is as if it were absent.
But for the one who is grateful,
even when that for which one is grateful is no longer with you,
it remains present because of your gratitude.
Gratitude immortalizes
one’s experience
because in gratitude one lives life vividly.
That for which you are grateful engages your full attention and comes alive
in you.
and you will find that it really does affect your attitude in life.
When you realize how much has been given to you, you simply feel happy.
and if you are happy, then other people are less likely
to feel threatened by you,
and so consequently they are more likely to be nice to you.
[This is not in line with my own experience...]
Take a minute now.
Invoke one object of your experience:
a person, animal, plant, object, or an aspect of nature like the blueness
of the sky.
As the Sufis say,
taste it, savour it, enjoy it in your mind,
feel what it means to live in a world in which you have the privilege of experiencing
that thing
Water purification breath
Let us return to our breath,
inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth.
One becomes attuned to the more fluid dimension of one’s subtle being.
The body from the outside looks solid, but we know that we are more than 75
percent water.
...
The pulsation of the water within carries the memory of the state of the womb
– that state of primal unity in which we were bathed in the water of
compassion;
and the pulsation of the mother’s heartbeat that filled the womb
carried a deeper memory,
the memory of the primeval ocean from which our life emerged.
...
So through the breath we become conscious once again
of this ancient lineage of pulsation that continues to flow through us.
Feel yourself washed within
as the water flows through every particle of your body
and washes away everything that is superfluous,
bringing movement where there was no movement,
washing away the blockages and obstructions that allow emotion to flow freely,
because the true nature of
emotion is motion.
...
We come to the aspect of prayer that relates to water,
and that is repentance, which is most beautifully expressed in tears of repentance.
There is the story of a Sufi who was in the habit of
praying five times a day.
Once, going to sleep late, he was going to miss his morning prayer,
when a supernatural creature came and woke him up.
You would think that must have been an angel, but it was the devil.
…, ‘I saw that you were going to miss your prayer,
and I knew that when you woke up you would be so disappointed in yourself
that you would cry,
and a tear of repentance of such grace and beauty would fall from your eye
that it would wash away all the sins of the world’.
Tears are the perfume of repentance.
Repentance is the act of accepting responsibility for one’s mistakes,
one’s shortcomings, one’s limitation. …
At first it seems like an unpleasant thing to do, to return to bad memories,
but one finds that there is much grace that comes
when one finally does face up to the Shadow…
...
look to see if there is something lingering in the
depths of your mind
that you don’t feel quite right about, but you haven’t allowed
yourself to look at closely.
Try to move beyond the rationales, the excuses that you give yourself,
and really listen to the voice of your conscience which can see beyond that.
Just imagine what it would be like to be a child who has made a mistake, admits
it
and turns to the loving embrace of a parent.
[my "shadow" is the evil that comes
so often out of my goodness,
as in the case on this day - March 23, 2011 - my donation for Arnon's piano....]
Fire purification breath
The breath of fire is
inhaling through the mouth and exhaling through the nose.
The temperature of our body is an indication
that we are in a process of perpetual combustion.
Combustion means that matter is quickened;
particles escape their frozen conditions and begin to move rapidly,
and as a consequence great amounts of energy are released.
It is the same as in history when great empires or institutions have fallen
and suddenly there are new opportunities and a great surge of creativity and
freedom.
Physiologically the rate of one’s metabolism can be intensified by consciously
cultivating heat.
What begins as heat in the lower centres rises and is transmuted into light
in the higher centres.
As one does this one can imagine what it means to have a countenance, a face,
like the sun.
Supplication
The direction of earth is spreading (gratitude);
the direction of water is descending (the mercy and grace that descends with
repentance);
the direction of fire is rising: supplication, which means asking for one’s
need.
Sometimes we wonder whether we ought to ask for our need…
You might say, why should I impose upon God to help me with what seems like
a trifling matter?
And moreover it might be said that if God is omniscient and omnipotent,
it means that God already knows what I want
and if He/She hasn’t fulfilled it there must be a reason that I don’t
know.
The problem with that argument is that it is based
on duality:
God outside there and me over here.
But what if one understood one’s relationship with God as the Sufis
do,
as two ends of a line.
On one end is a state of limitation, but nonetheless a state of actualization,
and the other side is an unlimited and yet unactualized state.
So the actualization of the unlimited can only be through the
limited being.
In fact it is in prayer that the two poles come together,
because in articulating your need
you bring your desire into concrete reality,
through your thought and emotion.
Something begins as a universal impulse
of ishq , of longing,
but still very vague and unformed.
Then when it becomes more clear it becomes a desire.
Then when the desire becomes more clear, it becomes a wish.
And when the wish becomes more clear it becomes a will,
and it’s through will that everything is accomplished in this world.
[This is almost verbally in line with Godchannel's
teachings !!! and - this I add on March 23, 2011 - also of "Abraham"]
So supplication is the process of
clarifying one’s desire,
letting one’s desire resonate and pulsate within oneself
and become more and more strong and focused
until it attracts its own fulfilment.
....
Evolution comes in dialogue:
you put forward your wish, your will, with all sincerity and clarity, and
that will be heard.
The answer may not be the answer you expect,
but nonetheless it incorporates the message that you sent in your prayer.
And the answer in turn stimulates a new need, a new desire;
it is in this spirit that our desires themselves evolve and transform.
….
Air purification breath
Inhale and exhale through the mouth.
Recall that if you were to look at your body through an electron microscope
you would have a very different profile than the one that you ordinarily see.
Your body would look like the starry sky at night:
points of light in the midst of vast empty space.
The points of light are all in motion,
and so one’s sense of solidity is belied
by a profounder vision of oneself
which is not a form so much as a choreography.
When one becomes frustrated in the constraint of the more concretized mode
of one's being,
one can revert to this dimension
and experience the sense of freedom and liberation that comes with it.
...
One identifies with the primordial state of the cosmos
which was a swirling cloud of gas, rich with infinite possibilities.
….
Murshid says,
‘God is what is needed to complete oneself’,
so each of us is a work in progress …
Ether purification breath
Let your breath return to its natural state,
deepened and refined through the purification of
those four elements,
Earth…Water...Fire…Air…
feeling them balanced in your constitution.
In this balanced state intuit the presence of the fifth and most subtle element,
ether.
Communion
Open yourself to the fifth aspect of prayer, which is ‘at-onement’
or communion.
A great dervish once said, when you look for God, God
is in the look in your eyes.
And so suddenly one realizes that it is God that
prays to God.
And the person that you took to be yourself
is just a mirror in which the divine light reflects back on itself.
…….
This article is an edited transcription of a talk given
in Suresnes, Paris on 28.1.05.
Pir Zia Inayat Khan is President of the Sufi Order International,
the son and successor of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan,
and the grandson of the great Sufi sage Hazrat Inayat Khan.
He resides and teaches at the Abode of the Message in upstate New York,
and is the editor of the anthology, A Pearl in Wine:
Essays in the life, music and Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan (New Lebanon, NY:
Omega, 2001).
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next source of nourishment from others
March-April 2011
Nourishment from Others, Driving Backward to my Past, Finetuning
to my Present
In a way this is a continuation of
"Learn & Live
16 >2011"
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21, 2011 From "Veronica, Inner Whispers" [context of time-period: the upheaval in the Middle East, from Egypt to Libia to Syria, and Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, Atomic Disaster] What Should I Do? "In times of uncertain reality it is easy to become attached to negative outcomes. Normally the individual would keep their thoughts aligned, but with all the input of negativity, even the most stalwart mind can be at risk. It is a time of reaching deep into the soul and remembering beyond the linear. If attachment to the timeline is the primary source of energy there may be difficulty in creating one's reality. A moment of courage is required when all the energy of the environment is in chaos. Realize that this is but on chapter in the story of you and your energy. No matter what occurs, the continuance of your soul is a fact. Take the lessons of a harsh reality and put them to good use. Appreciate the small moments of success as they will attract more if encouraged to do so. Love those whom you cherish with great warmth. Those playing in this drama have participated with you in other moments. Attempt to clean up the small pockets of chaos as they approach you. It will help sooth the mass consciousness energy so that the whole environment may heal and evolve. Maintain the fierceness of knowing who you are and the role you play in this environment. Know that you are far more than just the face you see in the mirror. Keep counsel with the truth. The truth of your incarnation and that of your eternal soul. Be a participant in this life not an observer. Create, expand, and grow, and make life happen. Do not let life happen to you. You are the creator. You have the possibility of changing it all. Have courage and do it." Veronica |
Weather-Report from
"LEKTIONEN
DER LIEBE" Wetterbericht
bis zum 21. Maerz Es gibt also wenig für euch „zu
tun“ im Moment
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[Was
the lesson which I had to give Arnon and Yael today, the beginning of this
new phase??
My urge to make them remember and face the "FullMoon
Full-fill-ment" in August 2007 ???]
Arad, March 22-24, 2011
The harmonic, loving, fruitful togetherness with
Arnon
and Yael,
who for the first time wanted to visit me only the two of them (14)
[i.e. not in the frame of the "Quartet",
i.e. with Ayelet and Itamar]
provided the "nurturing soil" for doing some serious work
concerning "denial" and the need for total
self-acceptance
 They sang together and they played together, for instance "A second childhood" [there's only one, not very good, cover which I could find on youtube] |
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Arnon kept playing a sequence of four chords, his own invention, saying: "A pity I'm not good at inventing lyrics, and it's not even a melody!" I said: "First of all, it will be a melody, even without your intention! Second you have a cousin who is outrageously talented in writing!" So they sat together, often during these 3 days, and evolved a song . "I never had this priviledge of a true co-creation in music!" I said. "But you and grandfather Rafael made songs together?" See SongGame "that was not the same: he wrote a poem and I - later - added a tune to it, while you co-create both music and lyrics - step by step - together!" Yael stressed, that not all the lyrics came from her mind or better: her intuition. "'Arnon sometimes threw a word in, and that helped me to phrase a line!" "Suddenly when there is nothing to say, everything can be a little different and tomorrow you'll see, it hasn't ended And if the end is aleady seen on the horizon, it doesn't mean that there is no chance for a beginning, it will arrive by itself." |
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By the way, I, too, played with Yael,
- my cherished Mendelssohn
piece about the biblical poet who yearns to be like a dove that finds
rest in the desert!
Yael (14) - a member of the Jerusalem youth orchestra for wind & percussion
instruments - played like a professional,
while I - after perhaps 3 years of NOT-playing - had some difficulties to
get playing and singing in line....
 "You must learn to become a 'duo'! " I had begged them the day before, when I saw Yael succumbing to Arnon, just like he uses to succumb to his sister Ayelet. They learnt it in one go, and cooperation became perfect between them. |
When Yael, who felt
sick during both nights and vomited on both mornings,
felt better, So now, I "turned the fearful
into the fruitful" and asked Amit's mother, |
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 On this day of Purim we had received three "Purim-Presents" (mishlokhee Manot), one anonymous, one from my neighbor Nitza and one from a family with the name "Ofir" (which is also the name of my landlord Ofir Cohen, and we thought, they had intended it for him, not for me) nice people , though (I judge!) they are fundamentalist missionaries from the settlement Susya in Palestine Yael added this note to OUR Mishloakh Manot: "Dear Cohen-Family , may we all have a joyous Purim, full of laughter and fun! We want to thank for the ingredients to the "Haman-Ears" and leave some of them for you to taste (one with dates, one with chocolate, one with halva and one with plums!) Good Appetite and Happy Purim, Arnon and Yael - the grandkids of Rachel " |
 
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On the third day of this harmonious, loving, fruitful
togetherness,
our "Cosmic Selves" prepared the stage for an incident,
which would make all of us grow into more self-acceptance.
I'll just mention, that it had to do with Arnon's fierce resistence
to enter an emotional memory:
"Nothing really happened", he blurted
and got up to walk away,
"except you, Grandma, pressure people till they
cry!
One should not reach this point of crying, it's not good!"
The situation: since Yael again felt sick and needed to sleep,
we could not go out to the desert, as so carefully planned.
To use the time I asked Arnon, if he wanted to see the cave,
in which we had learnt to make "Aya-Lia" for the first time.
He agreed, but "for some reason" I could not reach that page
[On March 22, I finally found it - the
intertwined sequence "Brazil-Arad" in May 2010]
In 2010,there was also
another significant occasion connected to Aya-Lia or Aya-Liya !]
and instead reached the 13 pages of "FullMoon
Full-Fill-ment".
That was in August 2007, and it seemed fitting to open the pages,
since the night before we had gone out to see the Purim-Full-Moon.
At first, Arnon refused to look into this sculpture altogether,
though his mind couldn't even remember what it was about.
But after I pointed out his tendency to deny, he agreed.
Yet at the end of the
second page he exploded and left!
I kept sitting in front of the computer and asked inside:
"What am I meant to do now?"
"Nothing!" was the answer.
So I sat there for a long time, till Yael - feeling better - got up.
I had the excuse to prepare breakfast without saying a word.
Both, Arnon and Yael, tried in a round-about-way
to cause me to talk and be involved,
but I knew, I had to be true to myself
and not let Arnon get away with escaping.
It was only after we had climbed down a wadi for some time,
that Yael came back to me, the slower climber, and asked:
"Is something the matter, Savta?"
"It took you a long time to ask, Yael!
Isn't it because you, too, try to escape?"
"Yes..."
From then on the path was open to the "work",
we had to do.
And Yael later suggested, that she would complete the work,
once they would travel home together, by bus and by train.
Arnon fries "Aya-Liya"
(flour, water, salt
and oil in the pan) and Yael
eats the "Tabouli",
which they had prepared the evening before
This is a Rotem
tree - not as usual in our desert: a Rotem brush - see the
song-page for Yael's sister Rotem-
which in its utter loneliness reminded me of the
song about the brave cypress,
sung by Yael on her brother
Itamar's Bar-Mitzva on February 1, 2011
Arnon and Yael take a rest from the maintenance-work
of my path through the
Wadi of Compassion, for which I had asked
 Did Arnon remember the "Duo" issue, when he said to Yael, before they left:: "When we erected the fallen pole in the Wadi of Compassion, it was a real cooperation between us!" "It was difficult, wasn't it?" I asked , "Yes!" The pole once held my sign: "Nakhal Khaemlah" - "Wadi of Compassion", but it was torn off by "wicked boys", even before the pole was overthrown. I'm not sure yet, if and with the help of whom to attach the sign again... |
 the "Anemone-Street" which crosses the street to my home 
In that "FullMoon-Full-Fill-ment,
Page 5, I mention,that the Quartet helped me to re-establish the torn sign: "Nakhal Khaemlah, The Wadi of Compassion" 
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You cannot notice what-is and complain about
it,
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29, 2011 From "Veronica, Inner Whispers" The First Thing That Should Be Addressed "The energy of the planet at this time is chaotic in the best of circumstances. Each person participating can feel the frenetic energy as it emanates from the surface. This energy can bring fear into the hearts of those who cannot assimilate it all properly. What should one do in times of trouble? The first thing that should be addressed is your own belief system. The ability to rise above the difficult energy is crucial. Know that you do have the power to balance all situations. Even if it is a mass consciousness moment, realize that every drop of positive thought projected into the most dire situation does help. Secondly, having a sense of well being while appreciating your own skills of creativity. Not every experience is perfect. Sometimes even the difficult ones can garner much growth and perspective. Do not judge difficulty harshly. realize that you are capable of contouring [molding into a specific shape] any experience. Allow yourself the lesson, even if it's not pleasant. Take from it the created new energy and use it to continue your evolution. Nothing is lost. Nothing is wasted. Decide within yourself that you have value while learning the lesson. Whenever possible allow this energy to be released into your reality. It helps with the planet, others, and yourself. The time of ascending to a new level of perspective is at hand. Be the one who embraces all of it and grows. If enough of you participate in this way, the transition will be easier for all. The time is now." |
April
2, 2011
From Maureen Moss THE WORLD PUJA NETWORK NEWSLETTER This month has been another of over-arching, jaw dropping moments, all earthquakes aside, and now a new challenge of poisoned waters, which I know through our love and healing prayers will be healed. We give great thanks to Dr. Emoto (see Learn&Live 19!) as well as everyone of you participating worldwide in your deep and sincere love for this Planet. I know our Mother Earth is so very grateful that more and more of humanity is at long last deeply loving her and valiantly attempting to take burdens off of her. What a difference love makes. Give her time, she will respond in kind. It's been a long time since she has gotten this much deep caring and attention.
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See "an
urgent message >Healing the Waters of Japan"
See
a new song: 
and
a
newly recorded old song: Der Koenig von Thule
April 3, 2011
synchronicity of new info
SLEEP-DREAMING
Yesterday, on Shabbat, I
allowed myself to pick out old clippings from my beautiful wooden box.
There were several called "What
the Moon saw", by Hans Christian Andersen, on which I noted:
"I've just finished studying, what Spirit teaches
about the "Two Attentions" (see e.g. "Awareness"),
and these moon-peepings into ever so many tiny scenes on earth are - at
least in theory, for not all stories are good-
a demonstration of living in both 'attentions'" [which,
I add in 2011, is a better word than "dimensions"]
There was also noted a website: www.lucid
dreaming - could I really have discovered this in 2000?
And when I opened it, and studied a bit, I felt driven to register for receiving
their updates.
I got a response, and I followed the
instructions of helping myself to recall tonight's dream.
I did, indeed, recall several sequences, that were pleasantly interesting,
but to follow the instruction to write down, what I dream, immediately,
would make me relapse in my old pattern of "having to do something".
I let go.
"But then..." - what was the first group e-mail I opened this morning?
"Flow-ering Dreams", from the Go-Gratitude site. What a coincidence.
The article gives me the purpose for striving towards "lucid dreaming"
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Welcome to LUCIDITY*FLASHES, Whenever anyone mentions dreaming or lucidity, do
a reality test: Things In This Issue (February, 2011) * Why It Matters How We Treat Our Dream Characters -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... "A human being is part of a whole, called
by us the 'Universe', .......................... Where better to begin
the practice of compassion The enlightened sages, as in the above quotes, teach
us .. the person you are in the dream is just the person .... Please join us on The Big Island, Dreaming and
Awakening Discussion topics include: ....
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"FLOW-ERING
DREAMS" From the Go-Gratitude Team As you lay yourself to sleep, preparing to shift from wakefulness into the Dream space, give yourself a deep breath and release ... As you do, in-vision your Blooming Dream Seed. Now, allow this feeling of Gratitude to remain,
As you drift into sleep, Upon awakening, return to this space of Gratitude, The Dream Space is an open field of possibility, Consciously entering the Dream in a space of Gratitude What follows is an enhanced ability to lucid
dream, Our dreams play a vital role in Birthing New Reality.
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Still on April 3, 2011
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- while "Driving
Backward under Guidance" yesterday, on Shabbat, I came across a postcard with the sculpture "the Lament" by Kaethe Kollwitz. I don't remember the writer, but since stamp and address of the card show: Kassel 22.10.86 an Rachel Bat-Adam bei Plehn, Horstweg 3a, Berlin 19 I imagine, that I met "Tim" during my 4 months in Kassel, Germany, in winter 1986-87, or in a workshop which I held there in May 1987. At the time he wrote this card, about the 9 hr 36 min. movie "SHOAH" , I was engaged as a guest-lecturer at the Theological Faculty of Berlin.  Kaethe Kollwitz: "Klage" (Lament), 1938 |
I
am shocked by "Tim's perspective on "compassion", so
praised in the article about "Lucid Dreaming" above, and all
too familiar to me as one of my two basic feelings. "A short note to let you know how much I appreciated SHOAH – what I am beginning to realize, from the victim's side (those who were confronted with such horror) is that although aggression under such circumstances would be the politically legitimate response, when faced with the full scope of insane, socialized hatred – the individual sufferer, removed from almost all controls of meaningful counteraction, has no more ground for aggression (except self-aggression). "It seems one is faced with a decision between a sort of suicide or withdrawal, or one learns compassion, and forgiveness - n o t as a moral imperative, rather merely because all the alternatives of social action had been denied, the choice was no longer moral. I feel disturbed and uncertain of the value of such compassion: the compassion of the neurotic (i.e. how Nietzsche understood St. Francis of Assissi's compassion), one may be just as much a v i c t i m o f c o m p a s s i o n as a victim of hatred, if one survives at all. Does anyone win? Best Wishes Tim (I realize I have a lot more to learn about the condition of being a victim – I feel I can't accept the choice of suicide or the choice of survival under such circumstances) |
Also today, on April 3, 2011,
Rabbi Ohad Ezrachi's newsletter contains a quote in Hebrew from a book, which I now discovered in the English original:
truly a book which to me seems overdue: God in Your Body by Jay Michaelson , Nov. 2006
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in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness, and Embodied Spiritual Practice God in Your Body is about embodied spiritual practice: how to experience the deep truths of reality in, and through, your body. To some, this may seem like a contradiction. Aren’t spirit and body separate? Isn’t a “spiritual” experience precisely one that is “out of body,” in a special place, or state of mind? In the paths explored here, spirit and body are not separate at all. Nor is spirituality a special feeling, or a trance, or a vision, although such phenomena may accompany some spiritual practices. Rather, because Being is omnipresent, the experience of spirituality is nothing more or less than a deep, rich experience of ordinary reality. Realization is simply waking up. And the body, because it is always present “here and now,” is both the best vehicle for doing so, on the one hand, and on the other, how holiness expresses itself in the world. [This are almost the exact words of Godchannel: read the quotes from "FreeWill", channeled in July 2000, and "Body - Identity, channeled in Sept 2000, in my page "Body Is God"] Jews are sometimes called the “people of the book.” But they are equally the people of the body. Consider the core practices of mainstream Jewish religion. Traditional observance of the Sabbath and holidays involves not beliefs or “spiritual feelings,” but taking and refraining from certain physical actions. Jewish dietary laws are about foods, ... Even Jewish prayer—built around the kneeling (barchu) [see a 1min. video about bowing at the knees and at the waist), listening (shema), and standing (amidah) prayers—is built not upon some abstract soul or spirit, but upon the body. This body-centricity of the Jewish tradition is well known in academic and scholarly circles, but ironically, forgotten in many religious ones. ... God in Your Body is essential reading for
...integrating the body into spiritual practice, and also a resource
for scholars interested in Jewish traditions about the body. ..the
book shows how to experience the presence of the Divine in,
and through, the body. And it shows how, by cultivating an embodied
spiritual practice, it is possible to transform everyday activities
- eating, walking, breathing,
even going to the bathroom -
into moments of deep spiritual realization, uniting sacred and sensual,
mystical and mundane |
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Excerpts from the chapters which are
online: .....the Kabbalah, the vast body of Jewish
mystical and esoteric literature, understands the greatest spiritual
achievement not as transcending the body, but as joining body
and spirit together. Symbolically, the Kabbalists imagined
the six-pointed Jewish star as one triangle pointing upward—toward
heaven, transcendence, and the emptiness of the Infinite—and
another pointing downward, toward the earth, Immanence, and the endless
varieties of experience. The great goal of Kabbalah, which
literally means “receiving,” is not to privilege one triangle
over the other—to flee the material world in favor of the spiritual
one, or vice versa. It is the sacred marriage of the two. ... Thus religion belongs in bed as well
as in the sanctuary; ... Sex, eating, bathing - these are not necessary
evils in the Kabbalah. Rather, the body, about which there is so often
much shame and so much fear,
is the most practical place for spiritual work. This integral vision is reflected in the kabbalistic concept of the four worlds, ... the worlds of asiyah (action), yetzirah (formation), briyah (creation), and atzilut (emanation) and four souls of nefesh (fleshly, ‘earth’ soul), ruach (emotional, ‘water’ soul), neshamah (intellectual, ‘air’ soul) and chayah (spiritual, ‘fire’ soul) roughly map onto the familiar matrix of body, heart, mind and spirit. But all are really a reflection of yechidah (“unity”). ... Forgetting the body in favor of the soul is like forgetting the foundation of a house in favor of the living room; it will not hold.
When I use the word “God” in an intellectual,
third-person way, I mean what the Ancient Hebrews called YHVH—What
Is; Being; what was, is, and will be. ...Consequently, what
appear, on the surface, to be computers, trees, and hamburgers are
actually, in their essence, God. .. ... if you’re sitting in a chair right now, why are you not falling on the floor? Because of “the chair”? Or because of all sorts of molecular properties of wood or metal, which derive from invisible forces of electromagnetism and gravity, and on and on and on? ....The sum of all these forces, beyond label, beyond self—this is what is meant by “Being.” Nothing more.
So I invite you to stay with experience, rather than theology. Rather than starting from a position of “God exists, therefore I must be grateful to Him/Her/It,” just use the body to experience gratitude, and see what happens. In the first chapter, for example, we will look at eating as a spiritual practice. Our bodies are hard-wired to enjoy eating, and yet we often seem bored by it, and distract ourselves with television, or reading, or conversation. With close attention to a few bites of our meal, though, amazing things can happen. The words v’achalta, v’savata, u’verachta—you will eat, you will be satisfied, and you will bless—suddenly make sense. The mind is quieted, the body is energized, and the food tastes more delicious than usual. Our attention is called to the miracle of eating: that you are turning lettuce into human, that your body knows exactly what to do to take what it needs from the food and discard the rest. All that’s needed is time, and attention. Try it and see.
.... Ordinary reality is plenty.
Embodied spiritual practice, simply, works. Letting the body lead, and as a result transcending the illusions of the small mind to access a deeper consciousness—we are thus turned toward the holy. This is how to “seize the day,” and “suck the marrow out of life”: to turn down the static of existence, and hear its subtle, softer music. Hakarat hatov, the sages called it: recognizing the good.
Jay Michaelson later - in 2009 - published
a book: About Jay Michaelson Some of his other writings:, Another Word for Sky: Poems
(2007) also: Az Yashir Moshe: A Book of Songs and Blessings
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Excerpts from the chapter God in your Body; Eating In almost every contemplative tradition, eating is regarded as a sacred act. From one perspective, consuming food is simply a necessity of the body—everyone must eat in order to survive. But eating can also be a deeply spiritual practice, with many layers of meaning. To the ancients, who did not know about ATP, proteins, and sugars, it was mysterious, and inspired gratitude, myth, and ritual. They saw it as a metaphor for the uniting of self and other, for receiving sustenance from a heavenly source, and as a primary social bond. Even today, there is something miraculous about turning lettuce into “me,” .... eating can focus the attention, calm the mind, and delight the heart and body. Precisely because it is a mundane, necessary act, it awaits and invites elevation. It makes sense that a Jewish book about the body starts with eating. Jews have complicated relationships with food. On the one hand, the Jewish tradition celebrates eating, and sanctifies its delights. On the other hand, there are all those fast days, and all those restrictive dietary laws. Moreover, Jews really like to nosh—and sometimes not in the most “mindful” way either.... Now, I don’t want to put down
eating on the run. I lived for many years in New York City, where
doing so has become a kind of art. But it is possible, even in the
midst of a rush, for a meal to be more than just the ingestion of
proteins and carbs. To do so requires a practical, as well as theoretical,
orientation. Put Kabbalah into a distracted and busy mind, and all
you’ll get are more concepts. But put into a quieted mind, true
kabbalah—receiving, of the Divine Light within—can take
place. As the prophet Isaiah 55:2
says, V’achalta, v’savata, u’verachta: Eating Meditation The foundational teaching for this chapter
is the Torah’s injunction “to eat, be satisfied, and bless
YHVH your God for the good Earth” –Deut.
8:10 and 11:15
Second, notice the order of the pasuk, as if only after one has eaten, and been satisfied, can one really make a blessing. Experience matters. And notice that the verse contains all four worlds within it: the body (eating), heart (satisfied), mind (the reason for the blessing), and soul (the blessing itself). But the body comes first. Eating is simple, but eating in a way that really fulfills the commandment to “eat, be satisfied, and bless” takes a certain amount of subtraction—slowing down, quieting down,...asking “What is happening right now—and can I be with it?” To experience “What is happening right now” in your body, you can try this simple eating meditation for a whole meal, or five minutes—or even just a single bite. I find a bit of fruit or vegetable is good, though I often teach this practice with a potato chip—really, almost anything works. Here’s how to do it: [the eight steps, which Jay teaches her, are quite similar to the "birkat hamazon", which I've been practising with the Quartet , ever since we started with the weekly "Grandma-Day" in 2001, and later with Mika, even when there is just her and me eating together- see especially K.i.s.s.-LoG 2008_07_21!] 1. First, spend a little time considering the food before you put it in your mouth. Use the kabbalistic map of the “four worlds,” which roughly correspond to body, heart, mind, and spirit, to help you. On the level of the body, you might gaze at the food with focused attention, or even, if appropriate, feel the food with your fingers. What does it feel like, or look like? Allow yourself the pleasure of being entranced by this object—most food is quite beautiful, in its detail...You might smell the food too, and notice what effects doing so has on your body. 2. “Check in” next with the heart. What desires are you experiencing? Are you hungry? Nauseated? Thankful? Do you think this practice might not be for you? Whatever the “feeling-tone” of this experience is, just note it attentively, without judgment; stay with it for a couple of breaths, and see if it shifts, or intensifies, or ebbs. 3. On the plane of the mind, consider for a moment all of the people involved in bringing this food to you. Farmers, truck drivers, factory workers, storekeepers—there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people whose labor created the simple occasion of this food arriving in this moment. Take a moment to consider them; imagine what they look like, how hard they are working to support themselves and their families, the economic system that creates the conditions for their labor. 4. And, on the level of the soul, consider all the conditions necessary to have created this food. The four elements of fire (sun), water, earth, and air; the genetic information in the plants or animals, part of the Divine wisdom (chochmah); ecosystems and molecular biology beyond our understanding. Consider, in Thich Nhat Hanh’s words, all of the aspects of the universe which “inter-are” with this food. You are holding a small storehouse of the sun’s energy, and water from a cloud. Allow the poetry of this simple piece of food to be felt, in your body. ... As the Talmud says, “the miracle of food that God provides is as spectacular as the splitting of the Red Sea.” 5. Then—finally!—place the food in your mouth. Before chewing and swallowing, experience the tactile sensations of the food on your tongue, the tastes, the feeling of the mouth watering. What happens to your body when you put the food in? Calibrate your sensitivity as finely and exquisitely as possible. See if the food tastes different in different parts of the mouth. Really give yourself a juicy, rich experience of this bit of food. You might keep your eyes closed for the duration of this practice, simply to focus your attention on what’s going on in your mouth, rather than on other things. 6. Next, bite into the food and chew, trying to omit any automatic movements. When chewing, know you are chewing. .. Do only one thing at a time, allowing the mind to slow down, focus, experience and fulfill the act of v’achalta, eating. 7. Swallow after the food has been thoroughly chewed (you probably want to chew around twenty or thirty times). See if the flavor changes—some food really only comes alive after ten or more chews; some disappears. Finally, when you do swallow, see how far down your esophagus you can still feel the food. Just relax in the physical sensations of eating. 8. As your tongue cleans your mouth after this mindful bite of food, try to maintain the attentiveness that you’ve cultivated; don’t let it be automatic. We have a finite number of hours on this planet—why not be as awake as possible for each of them? ...Now, if there hasn’t yet been enough “God” for you in “God in Your Body,” remember that what we are doing here is setting the conditions necessary for an experience of God to be an experience, rather than just an idea—the theology will come soon enough. I invite you to make eating meditation a regular part of your day, for forty days. See what five minutes a day, or one bite a meal, does for you, even if only for the duration of those five minutes. In my years of teaching this practice, people have reported deep relaxation, delight, insights into their personalities and needs, and immense gratitude to God—all from eating. One time, on a meditation retreat, I was doing this practice with a single string bean, and had a sensory experience so intense and so beautiful that I was moved to tears. Obviously, it was just an ordinary string bean—but my mind (and heart) was so exquisitely sensitive to the sensations of eating that it was a delightful experience. Michel Foucault once said, “What we must work on, it seems to me, is not so much to liberate our desires but to make ourselves infinitely more susceptible to pleasure.” Meditation is just that: the process of becoming more susceptible. Then you can proceed to bless God. U’verachta: Count your Blessings In the previous sections, we explored two different mindfulness techniques for waking up to the miraculous details of ordinary life. These practices are found in many world traditions, but they are not the primary Jewish ways to wake up. Brachot [blessings] are. .... Bracha, like many Jewish spiritual terms, is a body word; it is related to birkaim, the word for knees. A bracha is figuratively getting down on one’s knees, in gratitude and supplication:... Traditionally, brachot are recited before and after eating any substantial amount of food. The exact words depend on the type of food being eaten, but they all have the same beginning: baruch ata adonai, eloheinu melech ha’olam. baruch.. ha’olam hamotzi lechem min ha’aretz …who brings forth bread from the Earth baruch... borei pri ha’etz …who creates “tree-fruits” (most fruit) baruch... pri ha’adama …who creates “ground-fruits” (most vegetables) baruch ...borei pri hagafen …who creates “vine-fruits” (grapes, wine, etc.) baruch .. borei minei mezonot … who creates the varieties of grain baruch ... shehakol nehiyeh bidvaro …that all exists in God’s word (everything else) For these last phrases, you might direct your attention at the specific food in front of you. Suppose it’s an apple; you might envision the apple tree, growing from a seed, sprouting apples, just as its genetic information instructs. Or suppose it’s a complicated “artificial” food for which the last bracha is appropriate;... Even if it’s just a pause in your day, a bracha can allow gratitude or joy to grow. Brachot are tiny islands of time, and since they are centered on the body, they are linked not to some abstract obligation, but to something actually happening. I also like to think of brachot as little acts of love. Being in love is beautiful not only because we are loved by another, but also because we are able to experience love ourselves. It feels deeply nourishing to feel grateful, wondrous, or loving, and eating is an opportunity to feel all those things, albeit in miniature. The brachot ordained by our ancestors recognize this power. Try them. |
April 4, 2010
DREAMING-EATING| This
night, April 3-4, I succeeded well in recalling at least 5 dreams. But all of them were nightmares - one with millions of cockroaches, [see "My Daily Desire>Oct. 21, 2009" -during these days I'm again cleaning and spraying everywhere and all the other dreams "dealt with" my trauma of having to prepare food for other people - a superhuman pressure. I've never understood the "jet-lag" between reality and dreams, even after I've done everything to heal that "reality", and even after I nowadays do create circumstances without that reality, i.e. it happens perhaps 10 times a year, that I have to cook for someone in the tiny kitchen-corner of my rented room (2 electric plates and a toaster-oven). I keep having these "Cooking-Pressure-Nightmares" time and again, ever since the first 10 years of my marriage, when I, no-one else, had "believed", that for Shabbat-Eve and for Shabbat-Lunch I had to cook a "s p e c i a l" meal! And ever since I was - truly forced - to cook for - up to 16 guests in the Succayah! My vision said: everyone will cook for himself in his succah, but what unfolded was: the community-meals, guests and hosts together, were no less an attraction than the "Re-creation of the Soul" in the "Space-Purity-Silence" of the Desert. |
Just
now, when searching for "eating" and food in the Bible (some
900 times!), I came across the opposite "jet-lag". People dream about what they yearn for, but when they wake up there is nothing. 
And it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth and, behold, he eateth, but he awaketh, and his soul is empty or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh, but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath desire Isaiah 29:8 |
Mythology which is relevant for me
 An "Arc-Angel" perhaps? From my treasure-box this night: an empty postcard showing "The Sarcophagus of Ramses III" When I search for a version on the Internet, I was led to "Nut" and so impressed, that I decided to excerpt the entire chapter in RUOW II, "Original Cause - The Unseen Role of Denial", which contains the clipping I found tonight about "the first Chorus in Heaven". A strange thing happened: after I had finally fallen asleep, I was awakened by this clipping. A strong wind from outside the window had blown it right on my face! |
 A solar wind stream hit Earth's magnetic field on April 2-3, sending a wave of "deep sky auroras" over northern US states. The lights were pale-white or even invisible to the naked eye, but digital cameras revealed spectacular colors and luminous shapes...These are called "deep sky auroras" because like other deep-sky objects (e.g., galaxies and nebulae) they are best seen using optics and timed exposures |
 The Egyptian Goddess Nut Raising the Sun, from the inside lid of the Djedhor Sarcophagus (bc 378-341) Nut was the goddess of the sky and all
heavenly bodies, |
p51 - THE EMERGENCE
OF THE LESSER ARCHANGELS from
RUOW
, violet book, "Original Cause - The Unseen Role of Denial", |
| From
Inner Whispers - VERONICA How wondrous, that the same messages now come from such different sources! See above: "God in your Body"! Appreciating the Physical "Often there is speculation that the physical state is one that should be abandoned or ascended from. Naturally the whole idea of existence is one of evolution. It does not simply occur in the physical. We have heard "whispers" of the incarnated body as it passes from life to life. Your culture supposes that it is an existence of less and that the spiritual state is the ultimate moment. May we suggest that the spiritual mind creates the physical? In that moment the sense of touch becomes a pristine gift. Nowhere in the universe does it exist except in the skin of an incarnate soul. It should be appreciated as an advanced creation of the soul~~~ It's existence manifested by a creation that will transcend the soul to higher realms. The next time you curse your physical, hoping for a free pass to the eternal, we suggest you recall the utter awe of your fingertips as they caress the skin you now inhabit. The path can be as "heavenly" as the destination. You will appreciate the physical much more after the experience. We were much like yourselves in our quest for the attainment of enlightenment. Imagine our surprise when once nonphysical, we realized the value of the body. We relate our experience so that you may blend both moments for more advanced evolvement. Consider it. It may change how you proceed with this current linear." |
This
time (April 4, 2011) I want to add and quote one of the correspondences which are always attached to Veronica's group-e-mails. It is not directly related to "Appreciating the Physical" and "Body", but it is also extremely "right"! Dear VERONICA, I would like to know how do i keep the man i love by my side. He's my best friend i really do feel comfortable with this man but for some reason sometimes i feel he's a little distance with me. I would like to know if you see any future with him or does he have another person in life or future. His name is Richard and his birthday is 04/14/XX. Thank You. Dear Snow, Keeping a relationship involves a delicate balance of yourself as you relate to him. He also feels the comfortable sensing that is a result of your dual energy blend. The distance you feel is his own uncomfortableness and inner disappointment of his own actions and non actions. To attempt to define his every nuance will only make you desperate. Realize that your energy will only attract him if it is strong. Keep your focus. Be the person who balances his energy. The energy kept balanced will keep him in your sphere of reality. It is up to you. Whether you realize it or not the power is in your grasp. -VERONICA "Victim-hood is the coward's way out of one's own creation..." "You may not always like what we say. However, it will always provoke you... that is our intention." -VERONICA |
April 5, 2011
| DREAMING
Finally a good night's sleep, and dreams with small scenes of loving. The background was a re-curring theme: many people camping outside. In focusing on at least one thread, when I woke up and - as usual - indulging in grate-full-ness, I saw my younger son, Micha , at the age of five, (now 44), trying to socialize. [This was hard for him as it was hard for my...] I followed him and masses of kids down steep steps somewhere in Jerusalem. In order to get a good photo, I needed to get closer and down to his level. That's when he vanished . I roamed through the streets, but couldn't find him. Discerning many ruins in this center part of the city, I wondered, 'How after 43 years of Jerusalem's "reunification" there is still so much rubble?' Since in a dream everyone and everything is me, I look at this dream from the perspective of a passage I read and re-read before sleep: |
From
"The System", channeled in 1983, later edited as the book
"Andarean Theory", [open K.is.s.-Log 2008_06_05, click Ctrl/F and put "System" in "Search", also open the links] Nr. 324, p. 82 (What is the significance of a Second Coming, or a New Age, if it already exists?) It will be a timeperiod that already exists, but a time when everyone will have evolved through his lessons of experience to the point, where no one will need to go back through the old time periods. they won't be necessary any more. They will exist in space as much as an empty classroom exists in space. It will be like looking at a museum. The importance will be in having then a world where the people are joined as one, and can go to and fro the planet in tht understanding. Nr. 325, p. 82 (This would mean that all mankind would have achieved a much higher level of evolvement, and we would not have all the disension we have now?) Yes. The whole Concept was created at once. It's just that all entities must gain the experience, to achieve the end Concept for planet Earth. Since all entities have free will, each can take as much time as he wishes to get to that end process. It won't be complete until they have all completed it. [See, in Learn & Live 3 >October 15, 2010: the message of "Matreya" about "Der Durchbruch der Menschheit", the breakthrough of mankind] Then, there will be other experiences in other realms they can go through. Nr. 326, p. 82 (Can individual entities complete the course before other entities?) It can be completed, but then they must come back and work with the other slower entities. Nr. 327, p. 82 We have to be our "Brother's Keeper" then, and help the whole human race to Evolve. Yes. |
T I M E
| From
VERONICA'S WHISPERS ON APRIL 5, 2011
T I M E |
T I M E "Manifested existence is a continuum
This was the first time, "Inner
Whispers" reached me. VERONICA speaks from an emotional and experience
based knowledge perspective.
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About the COMING TIME - in "Lessons of Love" by Matreya, channeled through Julia
See also the Wetterbericht March 3-21 above
A note to the fact and the manner of quoting this info in the German language:
My omissions don't mean "lack of relevance" for me, as in other info, which I excerpt for myself,
but are a technical "trick" to help me learn by intuition, i.e. by letting myself be guided to what I quote -
because my mind so often cannot grasp what I read.
Of course, I should explain the expression "go into your heart, be your heart",
and why I agree not to omit the terms "love and light",
which I find so outworn that I can't bear to hear, leave alone use them.
[see in Maureen's letter on April 2, above, that I'm not the only one to feel like that!]
But the way, this info urges us to be heart, to be love, somehow feels authentic to me.
It is what "we" are here for, "we" who are meant to help humankind through the chaos.
I simply feel and intuit, that it's the same message as the one of "Godchannel",
only that in the latter it's explained clearly and in detail, what this means,
and I am so immensely grate-full, that I have been "trained" through decades
towards understanding, that "heart" or "love" is first of all "total self-acceptance" .
The process towards it has been for us "pioneers" long and arduous.
But now TIME seems to play no serious role any longer....
The "Quantum-Leap" is happening...
| Continuation (from Learn&Live
14>January 7, 2011, and from the Weather-Report from March
3-21> above.
Maitreya über Übergang
in die 5./7. Dimension-und die kommende Zeit |
In Facebook I today,
April, 5, 2011, discovered this excerpt from
Anmerkung: Den Begriff "Münzen" verwendet Maitreya für die Muster, die wir tragen-und er benutzt diesen Begriff deswegen, weil jede Münze, jedes Muster zwei Seiten hat-die nicht voneinander zu trennen sind.
Maitreya: Ihr Lieben. Zunächst einmal: Nehmt Eure Rolle in diesem Stadium Eurer Entwicklung an. Erkennt, dass Ihr einen göttlichen Kern habt, der aber erst in Verbindung mit Allem - Was - Ist zum wahren Mitschöpfer werden kann. Akzeptiert, dass es einen Plan gibt. Für jeden von Euch und für die Gesamtheit des Seins. Und dieser Plan ist so allumfassend und voller Liebe, dass man es mit Worten nicht beschreiben kann. An diesem Plan habt Ihr selbst als Teile Gottes und der Göttin mitgewirkt. Durch das Vergessen auf dieser Ebene fehlt Euch der direkte Zugang dazu und Ihr Lieben: all Eure Versuche, diesen Plan zu schauen, sind vergebens. Es wäre die sofortige Verschmelzung mit der Urquelle allen Lebens. Euer physischer Körper ist nicht in der Lage diese Information auf einer bewussten Ebene aufzunehmen. ... Seid Euch bewusst, dass ALLES, was Euch widerfährt ein wohl platzierter Ton in der Symphonie der Schöpfung ist, für den es KEINEN linearen Auslöser gibt. Ihr habt wohl Eure Konzepte von Mustern: “Weil ich dies oder jenes Muster habe, geschieht mir dies oder jenes immer wieder.” Ihr Lieben: Wenn Ihr sehen könntet, was sich gerade vollzieht. Welche Schönheit und Liebe dabei ist, sich vor Euren Augen zu entfalten. Ihr würdet in Ehrfurcht den Atem anhalten.
Vergesst Eure Musterarbeit. O ja. Ich weiß. Die Therapeuten unter Euch werden aufbegehren bei diesen Worten. Diejenigen, die so gut darin sind, Muster aufzudecken und zu erkennen oder zu bekämpfen. Vergesst Eure Musterarbeit!
Eure Art mit Mustern und somit mit Energien umzugehen, ist sehr oft die Vermeidung der Annahme Eurer eigenen Göttlichkeit und somit auch die Vermeidung der Annahme der Göttlichkeit in Eurem Gegenüber. Ihr “arbeitet” an Euch, um Zeit zu gewinnen, Ihr Lieben. “Bevor ich mich wahrhaft mit meiner eigenen Göttlichkeit auseinandersetzen kann, muss ich erst noch dieses oder jenes Muster bearbeiten, dass mich davon abhält. Bevor ich mein Gegenüber lieben kann, muss es erst noch diese oder jene Eigenschaft ablegen.”
Ihr Lieben. Eure sogenannten Muster sind einfach eine Seite der Münze. Die andere Seite ist immer eine göttliche Eigenschaft. Das Spiel, dass Ihr solange gespielt habt, ist bald vorbei und die Liebe ist jetzt da! Ihr dürft Euch Ihr öffnen. Sie bedeutet keine Gefahr. Nur Heilung, geliebte Menschen. Und Licht auf die andere Seite der Münzen, die ihr Muster nennt. Könnt Ihr ermessen, was das bedeutet, Ihr Lieben? Habt Ihr schon einmal gehört: Wo viel Licht ist, ist auch viel Dunkel? Dieser Satz ist verkehrt. Denn es heißt: Wo viel Dunkel ist, ist auch viel Licht. Erkennt die Geschenke, die in Euren Mustern liegen, denn sie sind die andere Seite Eurer Gottgegebenen Werkzeuge, Ihr Lieben. In Ihnen liegt große Macht und der Schlüssel zur Ergreifung dieser Macht ist die Liebe. Die zweite Lektion der Liebe, die da heißt: Annehmen. ........... So repräsentiert jeder von Euch in seiner ursprünglichen Essenz einen gewissen Aspekt oder Strahl Gottes und der Göttin [see my song of 1989, which says exactly this: Du bist Meer, ich nichts als Welle, Du die Sonne, ich der Strahl, eine Farbe aus Milliarden deines bunten reichen Spektrums...] und dieser Strahl bestimmt die Erfahrungen, die Ihr als Wesen sammeln könnt, um wahrhaft zu wachsen. Nach ihm richtet sich die Anzahl und die Art der Münzen, die Ihr von Anfang an seit Eurem ersten Schritt aus der Quelle, als Zeichen Eurer Herkunft bei Euch tragt. Bevor nicht jede dieser Münzen “erlöst” ist, könnt Ihr diese Seinsebene nicht verlassen, da jede der “lichten” Seiten wie eine Eintrittskarte ist, die Euch erst den Zutritt zu höheren Seinsebenen ermöglicht. Und so kommt es häufiger vor, dass Ihr mit einer dieser “Eintrittskarten” für kurze Zeit in Euren Meditationen eine Ausflug in höhere Ebenen des Seins unternehmt. Da Ihr aber noch nicht alle Münzen umgedreht habt, die Ihr besitzt, ist es Euch nicht möglich, dort ganz und gar zu verweilen. Euch fehlt die “große” Eintrittskarte, die erst durch die Umpolung aller Münzen geschaffen wird. Und deswegen Ihr Lieben: Hört den Ruf Eurer Seele, die Eure Sehnsucht wecken will. Seid bereit für die Verbindung mit Eurem Hohen Selbst, die nur und ausschließlich durch das Öffnen Eurer Herzen bewusst vollzogen werden kann.
Die Liebe ist es, die den Weg aus der Dunkelheit Eurer “negativen” Seinsanteile hin zu Eurem wahren göttlichen Licht erleuchtet. Nur sie macht es Euch möglich, durchzuhalten und den oft steinigen Weg zu wahrer Meisterschaft zu gehen. Sie ist die einzige Kraft, die stark genug ist, jeden - ich wiederhole - JEDEN Widerstand aus dem Weg zu räumen. Denn die Liebe verbindet, was zusammengehört und erlaubt Euch, Euch in Ihr auch in Zeiten größer Umbrüche und Turbulenzen auszuruhen und die Kraft zu tanken, die von Eurem wahren Ursprung stammt. Aus Eurem Herzzentrum, dass das Herzzentrum Gottes und der Göttin wiederspiegelt. Und so, Ihr Lieben, erkennt, dass der Schlüssel zu Eurer Befreiung ganz nah bei Euch ist. In Euren Herzen.
Öffnet Euch der göttlichen Liebe und lasst zu, dass sie die Führung in Eurem Leben übernimmt.
aus: die sieben Lektionen der Liebe, erschienen im Smaragd Verlag
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Arad, April 6, 2011
"Zwischenbilanz"
| DREAMING This is the third and last time that I report about an extension of my experience: remembering my sleeping-dreams, so as to complete another "triptych". The dreams through the night and in the morning were almost a sequence, a sequence of harmony and wholeness, alone or with my family, at someone's home or in Nature. My daughter's family was still missing, but it was clear to the rest of us, that this family, too, would join us soon. The last scene was about me among a few other families. There also was much love and understanding. But there also was a feeling of FAREWELL, of the beginning of a new stage in my life. |
About
this Wednesday in Arad: No, no! no new diary entries! But, together with the Dreaming, I wish to state, that this seems to be the first morning ever, that there is not even the tiniest obligation in front of me. The difficult tasks in "house&garden" are done. No phone-calls. The last ones yesterday: to the clinic: the results of my examinations were good, to the man, Roger, responsible for repairing the metal sculpture on my mother's grave, - till Febr. 20, 2011, her deathday and the deadline for the repair, nothing happened, I let go. But now Meir, who had advised me to repair the cross+Star-of David, begged me to call Roger!) All "necessary" "completions" of recent inserts on Healing-Kiss done, all e-mails and the connected demand of studying links completed. No need to travel anywhere or to meet anyone. There is pure "zest-full-ness" towards following my "holy routine": Taking care of nourishing Body, going to and fro the pool through the desert, swinging, swimming and singing in the water, choosing one chore at a time of putting house and garden in order (spring-time!) Carefully choosing inputs from TV, Internet, "group-emails", which help me a) to expand my understanding, b) to celebrate what is right with the World "Driving Backward with Guidance" with the help of Healing-K.i.s.s. and go forward with utmost care to connecting or re-connecting with potential peers. |
Also on April 6, 2011
More from "The System", channeled
in 1983 , see above , April 5
| Nr. 337, p. 85
(I suppose that if and when
the time comes we might be able to interact with others in the universe
through space-ships etc.- that will happen to fit within a learning
experience that is right for us?)
|
Nr. 346, p. 86
(Some writers say there are more
people alive now than ever before, because of the conquest of disease.
Comments?
Nr. 378, p. 95
(How much influence does the incarnating
entity have, if any, on the form and looks of the fetus?)
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The most magnificent Creators My problem with others is not the difference
of thinking |
On the other hand - I enjoyed adding a little Hebrew sculpture to the Mika pages.
Also,
I again tried to study the website about interconnected human consciousness whose intention fascinates me!
My mind goes blank after a few sentences.... I express my desire, that this info may reach me by INTUITION!
Arad, April 7, 2011
Death?
| More from The System Nr. 402, p. 95
(Do parents have guilt complexes
unwarrantly because they have homosexual children?) Nr.
443, p. 114 (Does
Man do this to himelf, rather than some force from outside of Man,
such as the Creative Force, deciding it is time for changes to be
made?) |
Yesterday
evening: baby-sitting with my landlords' kids till after midnight:
a chance to watch not only the so very moving new season of "A Star is born", but late at night, a movie in 3SAT: "Emma's Glueck" about DYING and LOVE. "Emma's Bliss: A love-fairy-tale that simply makes happy" 
[she knows how to kill without causing pain and to kill to stop the pain] Of course, I couldn't fall asleep. I put on the light again and again, re-reading "The System" about reincarnating and lives-in-between. If I would be diagnosed with cancer, would I still be joyous as in the past? Yes, I would! ~~ But why?~~ With a life as wondrous and whole as mine? There is a deep yearning for what and for whom is "on the other side". But I promised Body, not to leave it behind this time. I'll NOT "pass over". 'This is not bad either', I heard Feeling saying: 'Soon it will make no difference, if 'here' or 'there'! You will enjoy both.' "As you embody the highest vision of Spirit and the deepest knowing of Will, they come together in manifestation as they were once together in the unmanifest solitary whole being, Original Heart. And in you, the human ~ Further, because you are not alone in Body, This morning I'm pondering, if my present life, my holy al-one-ness is actually a break between lives! without the need to discard Body! For how can I understand this so fervent, so ardent need and desire, to evade all commitments (~ except my travels to Mika and Efrat ~), to dread all interactions, be it face-to-face or by phone or by E-mail, if not as a need to rest from the exhaustion of too much living???? |
| Nr.
449, p. 115 (No
one can do anything to us. We do it to ourselves. Right?) Nr. 491, p. 126 (How
can a small group, in balance, make a big impact....) |
Nr.
495, p. 127(How do the
10 Commandments of the Bible tie in with experiencing from every point
of view? ...) Obviously, there is contrast. The 10 Commandments are an attempt to give man something to balance with. All tht is must be experienced in order to understand. But, in order to accomplish, and to direct your individual will so that it might accomplish things, a balance is necessary. By laying down a set of rules, mankind is brought into a group that is attempting to balance. With any group energy, you run a much bettr chance of maintaining a balance than you do with one person out of an entire group attempting to maintain a balance. Therefore, the 10 Commandments are an attempt to bring the whole of mankind into a balance, where they can start to accomplish a goal which they have in common, which is to become co-creators with the Source. Without this as a focal oint, they would most likely run around in circles, never resting in an area with a sense of security as to its correctness. They are simply guide posts, as are other laws that have been handed down from other religious groupings, guide posts. Nr. 496, p. 127-128(...We were told that people come into your life for a reason, you may gain one or two things and they pass on. That you have gained from it what you need, or it would not pass from you. Do things pass from us when their purpose is served, or must we let go of something on our own decision?.) Things in this area are intricately tied. It will be difficult to assist you in seeing the differences. Situations of which you no longer have a need pass from you so that new things can be offered to grow from. Often, one of the lessons we have to learn, is that there is something which we truly no longer need. For the most part, the things that we save, are fears that the future will not hold for us anything nearly as valuable as the memories to which we grab on tightly. And, therefore, although things may be in the process of leaving, decisions that they are not necessary are often important. And , from this point, you'll learn to decide what helps you function and what does not. It is not that they are of absolutely no use. one must learn to give up and make room for the things that are advantageous to him. However, there are other circumstances where things are not of value, and these things may often be taken frm you very quickly, and you may never notice that they are being taken until they are gone. In which case, you simply say, "Ooh, wonder where they went? Oh well," And, then, there are other things that you hold tightly to, that are torn frm you with your grasp still firmly around them not wishing to give them up. But, because you are holding on to something which is unseless. which has no growth within it, it es being taken from you to offer you the opportunity to see your own folly in grasping on to something from which you gain no value. |
| No
553, p. 147 (How does
consciousness vary as it connects with all living things?) Consciousness changes with every natural kingdom. The atomic-molecular or mineral kingdom has an awareness, [see Godchannel.com>.awareness!] but the awareness is that a form has to be maintained. It is a readiness to adhere to the organizing energy pattern. It is a kingdom awareness rather than an individual awareness. When a molecule or an atom seems not to follow the rest of the adhering molecules or atoms, it is because there is another thought structure in the near vicinity, and it is a pivot point between indecision as to where it actually should go. But, the awareness is one that is felt by the entire kingdom not a thinking of the individual particle. It is just a following of its tape. But the tape is not always certain exactly where it belongs at all, at a precise moment. Research in physics, with sub-atomic particles and with quantum theory, is right now learning of this property or characteristic. The plant kingdom
has a more complicated awareness. The animal kingdom
members are individual and separate from the group, but upon death
the individual essence is reabsorbed into the group spirit. Animals,
because of their m o b i l i t y ,
have a much more individual separateness than is seen in the plant
or atomic-molecular kingdoms. Animal species have self awareness.
They know that they exist, but they have little thought as to why,
or what next. They do not plan for the future or act according to
rules and regulations other than be being trained, either by the previous
creatures of the species, and by instinctual memory tapes, or by the
influence of a more predominant species. There is not the thinking
process, although there is a self awareness. |
No.562,
p. 150 ...
The type of info obtained from the higher self is info that you have accumulated in past lifetimes, but have screened out before coming to earth this time. But, proper direction, with proper attitudes, can set up a link with that info allowing, depending upon what part of it you've tapped into, part to flow in to assist you at this point in time. Regression, meditation and trance can tune into these areas. But, there are restrictions imposed by guides, and from the physical vibration that you must maintain to stay on earth plane. This is an automatic screening process. You are only permitted to tap in to that in that can be of assistance to you. You have no need of any other. The guides will block out info which might affect a learning situation you still have ahead of you. It's not that you do not have the info you have accumulated in the Universal Mind belonging to you. But, it's that you have made a choice upon entering into the physical world, and had an understanding that that was not necessary, except for certain limited portions you may be given access to as you grow during earth life. No. 563,
p. 150 (Is the concept
of oneness of all living things tied to the universal mind, or to consciousness?) |
Both: Driving Backward and Celebrating what is right with
the World
 |
Miri
Yemini: Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center at Shamoon College of Engineering "promoting an environment that fosters |
Also on April 7, 2011
DEAR WOMAN
 |
I cried my heart out from the first
sentence of the apology, |
|
Also on April 7, 2011:
Poems, which were sent to me in 2009, by two old friends, who wanted to re-connect with me,
but I "managed" to trigger them rightaway and they backed off.
| M.L.Kaschnitz
(von Anke)
Manchmal stehen wir auf Stehen wir zur Auferstehung auf Mit unserem lebendigen Haar Mit unserer atmenden Haut. Nur das Gewohnte ist um uns. Die Weckuhen hoeren nicht auf zu ticken Und dennoch leicht |
Hannele Auf dem Steg Es kommt ein Wind auf In dem Engel spielen: sag wohin treibt mein halbverjährtes Boot? Die schwarzen Bohlen Ach laß mir dies: |
Hannele
Fahrendes Volk Zwischen den Orten Einsinken in die Lebendigkeit Als wäre es hier das nie |
| "However unjustified my feelings are I feel them vicariously for all." |
I sing my double slogan
|
"My presence heals in ways which my mind's responsibility might miss!" |
See another insert today concerning the healing of the waters in Japan
I finally understood, where to insert the symbolic image of me and the Iranian Semiramis of 1978
I inserted samples of Ayelet's "Book"...... in Finetuning and very moving, very relevant letters of Rilke written during WorldWar I
April
8-9, 2011: with Mika and Efrat at Shoham. See two great scenes and listen
to Mika's amazing "Song to God"
and a talk about "Joy" with Starchildren
Gal and Boris
|
When you focus upon lack in an attitude of
complaining,
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| At
the end of this page I allow myself to verbally move my anger about
"Spiritual Leaders". The "spiritual" messages about "The Great Shift" are now condensed in a 12 week "Advanced Course" "for the Agents of Conscious Evolution" (ACE), by the "futurist" Barbara Marx-Hubbard, born 1930!! I align with the concept of 'Conscious Co-Creation, fully activating our Roles in Birthing New Reality.' But I'm forever triggered by the "American Way of Making Business" even with such vital messages; The teaching is given away for money, and never do "those Americans" think of the rest of the world. They talk only one language, and it's self-understood, that everyone has to succumb to their language. They throw around "praises" and "recommendations" like "celebrated evolutionary leader" Barbara , and the course will, of course be, "the evolutionary adventure of a life-time", "powerful" "profound". |
"Conscious
Evolution enables us, if we take responsibility for it, to use our creative
power to guide our own lives and the evolution of the systems and the
communities in which we live and work. It is a process by which individuals
and groups, families, organizations, and societies
can envision and create images of what should be, and bring those images to life by design. "Conscious Evolution is at the core a spiritually-motivated endeavor. Its precepts reside at the heart of every great faith, affirming that humans have the potential of being co-creators with Spirit, with the deeper patterns of nature and universal design. "The promise of Conscious Evolution is nothing less than the emergence of a universal humanity capable of guiding its own evolution into a future of unimaginable co-creativity." |
But to be fair, I'll once again enjoy to quote "Veronica's Whispers":
A New Message From VERONICA (on April 12, 2011)
World Energy
"We have shared before the importance of a good ebb and flow of energy in the linear reality.
In this time frame of great transition to a higher level,
it is important to maintain the consistency of a positive ebb and flow.
Much misalignment may occur
when one becomes engaged in any way with the current negative energy that is being eliminated.
It is very easy in your culture to participate with all the negativity even while not being in close physical proximity.
We realize all of you are interested in what is called the news of the day.
However, the engagement of its energy improperly will only beg it to linger.
The advice ... to permanently eliminate such dramas eternally.
Consider keeping your own energy removed from these dramas as they dissipate.
Refusing to enable the energy reinforces what is needed~~~ complete elimination.
We encourage all those in physical not to become distracted.
The direct focus of your energy is imperative to the "clean up".
Imagine if you will - a very dirty room that must be cleaned.
The first several passes to eliminate the dirt always reveals the job to be much more difficult than thought.
It is always important to focus upon the end result~~~ a clean room.
Focusing on the dirt distracts one from the goal and can offer feelings of depression.
It is of a similar vein in your current surroundings.
Remain clear about the end result.
Stay focused, rise above the fray.
Keep your energy aligned until the new level is reached."
--VERONICA
Continuation of my present thread of Nourishment, Finetuning and Closeups