Hello again. Thanks for stopping in. I prefer a letter like approach to these articles, so I will set this piece up as if I am writing to you – because I am. (So please forgive any errors or booboos in grammar or brevity. This is more personal for us than a term paper.) I am assuming you are here because, like most of us, you are sure there is more to it. There is more to life than the explanations that are currently out there being provided to us through our leading institutions. They are good for many things, but they may not be giving adequate or satisfying explanations for the meaning of our lives, or the inexplicable events we are going through.  

I don’t intend to make a case against any institution here. I am not up for bashing any group, religious organization or belief system. They all serve the ones they serve quite well—until they don’t anymore. And then the searching starts. That is how it works for me. I have always thought consciousness was the ticket – the be-all for attainment, for enlightenment and for lasting happiness. Now I am more open to the gifts that are provided all along the spectrum. We are gifted at each and every step of knowledge or enlightenment. In fact, the movement is the fun part. The growth from knowing one level of understanding, and then expanding so that there is more understanding, that is the fun of the game and the point of the game. If you know too much, the game is over. You may have heard me say that Life is a lot like a cosmic and very convincing version of a scavenger hunt. The spirits call it, search-and-go-find-it. Wheee, it is so fun when we make a discovery. So not knowing is part of the fun. Then discovering can happen, and growth can happen. So it does not matter how much you know, which step you are one, or which belief system you are currently tied to, the movement is inherent in a lifetime. The change is inevitable. So-called learning is unstoppable. We find “new stuff.” We get a big kick out of it. And then we search for more. We seem to have an endless appetite for this kind of thing – discovery. We gather more and more. As the thrill of the last win, the last bit of knowledge, the last insight or invention fades, we go out and search for more. We want more meaning. And we get it.  

The game is built on this rule: When the student is ready, the teachers come. With the divine heritage that we human beings-soul babies have, we are not denied anything (although it may feel like that for awhile-but time is one of the toys to help give us that “waiting” experience – toying with our “desire” levels so that it enhances our moment of getting.) The Universe is set up to respond to our desires. It delivers. Molecules themselves will move when we tell them to. Our wishes are granted - eventually. As we develop ways to communicate with this generous universe, this unlimited sugar daddy who indulges us beyond comprehension, then we can better use it for whatever purposes we have in mind.  

We don’t need to have a religious affiliation to communicate with the universe. In one of the sessions with the spirits who come to teach us, we got the message that if it feels right to ask God, then pray to God. Use the methods you may have learned in Sunday School if that feels right. The divine He/She is in love with you and very much loves to fulfill your wishes. This Divine source of all love, the soul of all souls, who so wants to create love and express love and be love, this Being will stir the universe to provide you with what makes you happy, even in the short term. And then this divine Being of All Sacred Hearts will stand ready for the next request, because there is such joy in playing these creation games with you, in looking for opportunities to add grace to your life. The divine one does not get tired or irritable at our constant desires. Desire was created, and accepted by us, the souls who are in human form, so that there would be endless loving games of creating. Cool, hey? 

And perhaps you feel humble or too modest, and/or feel it is too daring to ask God for things for yourself. You may feel hesitant to ask for material things, or personal wins or seemingly frivolous stuff from your Divine All Mighty Supreme God (yes, that is a very daunting idea). Then you can ask the universe directly. It has no other major function than to interact with you, to grow, change, and add gifts to your life.       

I have a radical proposition here. Since I believe we “of” God, since I accept the idea that we are divine souls, fragments from a divine source, I believe that there is a good sound divinely blessed reason for us being here. And it is not punishment for sin, a deserved abandonment, or a test as a make up call for something we or our ancestors (Adam and Eve) screwed up on. The apple story has a very different meaning for me. The guilt related to original sin is fascinating, but I have another take on it. We must be here for a divine reason that is loving and makes more sense, is more related to our given heritage. So my theory is that we are on a mission. We are pieces and bitlets of divine impulses. We go out on dangerous expeditions. We bring back a deeper and a greater love to our divine source. We expand the divine seeds of love that we start with in heaven, and through heartbreaking love stories in human forms and in the extreme conditions of the earth plane, we bring back bigger love. If you think of us as individual units of the not-godly family, then we do God a favor. By doing what the angelics and heavenly citizens cannot do, we love in the midst of the mess, the ignorance, the limits and pains of earth and bring back the rewards to our heavenly cousins who stayed safely behind in the knowledge of who they really really are.  

Or, if you accept another possible view, and you can think of us as always aspects of a divine god so we are divine agents, then we may not have to be humble about our human limits. We are god-assigned versions of godliness and we are on a mission.  Our assignment is to develop the deeper aspects of love which require; hardships, a lot of not-knowing, a major lack of enlightenment. It requires uncertainty and fear, apart-ness, isolation and mystery. All these elements are important for growing love in this form, like plants that thrive in a jungle versus plants that thrive in a sunny and protected garden. Expression of love and appreciation, evolving and creating more and better love, all of this comes from the same divine source, it just looks different. Since God can be all things, maybe we are just more versions and variations of Him/Her caught in the act of being love-makers and love creators and love stretchers and love beings.  

Either way, we are brave ones for being willing to do what we do here – that is, to live here, love here, hurt here, love anyway here, break down here, heal here, and so on. God is love. Love must express itself. So this is one endless love story playing itself out in countless episodes of living love. 

So, now if we accept that such a mission is our reason for living here, it may affect how we pray. We pray to call on the tools and provisions that the universe can provide to us. As if we are James Bond and we go to the lab to see what cool gizmos have been developed for us to carry out our mission. The universe has it all. We can call on it by using the language and elements that make up the universe. It is vibration, energy, and organization according to intention. We can use vibration and intention together in our words. We can select words to help guide the understanding of our next wish or desire. And we can make it more powerful with our energy sources around our bodies. Also repetition is a good clear message sender. So we can call out to the universe that we want something, we picture it for the visual manifestation and help the universe get the right specs on our desires. It gives and gives. If it missed the mark, we can pass on that model and keep asking until a model comes along that fits our desiring. It’s OK to say “no,” to one version, because there is an endless incoming stream of gifts from the universe. You can be picky. It is all variations on the theme of desire, and desire combining with energy and organizing to manifest something. You can change your mind as much as you like. You can accept one version but ask for a better one. It all comes. Well, it will come according to a few conditions.

There are times when your experience might feel like you did not get what you asked for. It might be that your local consciousness had some relief in mind, but your higher self had made other arrangements for you in this lifetime. For instance, if you are poor, or feel your money status right now is “not enough,” and you call for more, it might be that your life theme is around poverty, or feeling like there is not enough to keep you fulfilled. The higher self trumps the current local consciousness. It sets up the hardships that our little beings would consider insane and impossible and would definitely refuse to “go there.” The higher self sees these as opportunities for love expansion. We’d view them as torments to avoid at all costs – never a preferred option. Higher self wins. Our awareness here lives through the hardships and challenges that are planned out at the higher level. We grumble. We hurt. We pray for an out. We plead for mercy. We beg for relief. And only when Higher self is ready to say, “OK move on,” then we move on.  

Our pleading may or may not have a lot of effect on the short term outcomes. However, since we are not always sure, it is a good idea to pray for relief if that is what it feels right to do. Maybe poverty in youth was required to develop your compassion, so that when you get stinking rich in your golden years you decide to set up a fund to help starving children and struggling families. And so, this would be one good way for love to express itself, right? So asking is always advised. If it is not granted now, it may be by design. However tomorrow might be the right time to bring the next phase.  

I am told we do not ask enough. We should ask all the time. That is the essence of our relationship with all that is manifest in the universe. We want. We ask. We get. The universe has something to do. Ha. I picture it as a wizard who is bored, sitting on the bench, waiting for a sign that it gets to come into the game. But we don’t call it. We fumble on leaving our ace-in-the-hole, secret weapon sitting out the whole game. (There is no shame in that either. In that case the pay-off is that we get to say “we did it ourselves!” more or less.) Actually I am told that the universe is so wired up to serve us that it tries to interpret our wishes all the time. It sends you what it guesses you might want. Or maybe another way to say it is, the universe is wired to pick up your desire vibrations as you radio them out unknowingly. If it perceives that you want something, it sends something like that to you.  You can make the order more clear by asking for stuff, describing it, drawing it, and repeating the message often.  

There are many stories like that. I bought a red SUV after hearing a similar story about another lady who used the process to get her SUV. The deal popped up when I was getting an oil change. To make conversation, I asked the owner what was the best deal on the lot right now. I had spy-balled that good-looking rig before, but assumed it was out of my price range, so I did not ask. He said the best deal right now is that red Pathfinder. Wowsers. It fit my budget. He did the paperwork. I drove it home, thanking the universe for how cool it is to play with. And I thanked my God and my angels too. I like to make it a personal thing with divine entities. 

Lets move on to when petitions come in a more recognizable form – prayers. We learn prayers in our Sunday schools and repeat commonly known prayers in church. I went to a Catholic school for 5 years so I knew the Hail Mary’s and Our Fathers and I said rosaries. It was a good experience to pray that way, but I usually felt the prayers were not answered. I was confused with the messages of sin, guilt suffering, and badness, and so I felt I actually did not deserve anything more than I got. So, my little childhood prayers were used more to help me get over my nightmares and other manifestations of fear. I had tons of fear in my early days. It must have been a theme for me. Fear as a player in my life, was transformed pretty much after my near death experience in 1985. Thank goodness. Before that, I was afraid of everything and everyone. Whew.

Later I came to wonder if prayer brought relief to persons because while they recited the phrases, even if they were not totally engaged in the meaning of the words, at least during the time of repeating the lines, the mind was intercepted from it’s relentless negative self-talk. There is a stream of consciousness that is quite destructive when left to its own meandering. The negative tidbits are in the thousands in number. We bombard ourselves internally with this polluted. We rev about this incident, we rage about that person, we flame on about our problems and agitations and the people who bring them to us. We get righteously angry and charged up. I think many folks I know feed on this power source. They feel enlivened and invigorated and ready to fight a good fight from the frenzy they feel after a major rev. Prayer can intercede and cool this process down. It can cause us to stop the mad ranting, the rush of toxic wastes that pour through our delicate heads and that fry up our nerves and generally stress us out. Instead the brain is subjected to other words, words that were prescribed by masters and saints, words that will at least be a counter point to the mental raging.  Even if the recited lines did not have inherent power in them, I figured they were valuable as a wet blanket to deter the wildfires that tear through our thoughts.  

Speaking of repeating words, with or without meaning, and having value for stress relief, I also have had good experiences with Transcendental Meditation, TM. TM uses mantras to induce the mind into states of recuperation, recovery, discovery and major healing possibilities. It uses words or power syllables from ancient scripts to bring about healthy benefits to the meditator. I had a neighbor who worried about me using TM one time. I told him I did not know the literal translation of the mantra I was given by my teacher. This upset him. He cited a line in the Bible where it says one should not repeat words that they do not know. I think he assumed it was casting spells or black magic or some trickery to get to me pray to an un-certified or unworthy deity. I tried to tell him that I felt so much better from this, so much more benefit than just reciting church prayers and much more than just resting or sleeping. I would continue to do it, even if I was being hood-winked into practicing some weird foreign conniving religion. The neighbor was a very cool guy. He was involved in a common fear based religion, so I could relate to his worries. He feared I was honoring a “false god” which is a common threat to folks like me who like to dabble in other people’s religious and prayer practices. Atany rate one big lesson, among many good lessons in TM, is that repetition of sound can have a profound effect on how the mind and the body act, heal and grow. I still am a huge fan of TM and I encourage others to learn it and try it in their lives.            

I am still drawn to prayers. I revisited the “holy” prayer version, the communication with God, not the virtual mail order catalog of the universe described above. I experienced real prayer in a few different forms and settings and I have a very healthy respect for the whole concept of it now. It is powerful and beautiful and important. Let me share some of the experiences. It might sound familiar to you too. I tried a couple of different Christian churches. I found the prayers in the Presbyterian Church is almost identical to the ones in the Catholic Church. The masses are almost interchangeable. I attended a Methodist church for a few years so my kids could benefit from a good Sunday School study. I wanted them to be familiar with Bible stories, heroes and figures, but I wanted to spare them from the traumatic programming I had in my formative years.  The Methodists are more positive in general, and I enjoyed the people and the sermons there. The idea of praise as a major function of mass and prayer began to sink in. Before that I was consumed with the drudgery of hell and sin and punishment, where songs tended to shout out about God’s wrath and our expected and appropriate fear of him.  

I dabbled in reading about eastern religions as well. That was very popular for us enduring hippies. I quickly became confused with the gods rituals and rules of Hindu things I read. It was hard to appreciate for me and it was hard to remember. It helped me appreciate how the devotees of that religion have developed complex ways to express their love and devotion to their divine gods in so many forms and with so many personalities. It actually made sense to me in another way. They get to love their gods in the same way that we humans love each other, with lots of personality. I also dabbled in Buddhism in the 70’s and looking back I can see where I was probably not mature enough to get a lot of the value of it. I still like to read the books by the Dalai Lama. These trips into eastern thought and ritual really helped me look again at some of the Christian rituals with a new appreciation. Before that, they were rules to follow and a test. If you screwed up a ritual or a line, God would take advantage of your soiled and impure heart and sentence you to hard time. Granted I was pretty sensitive and I did not need all those threats to obey. My memory might be also mixing up the details but it was a goofy way to learn to talk to God. As I revisited the ceremonies in my late 20’s and 30’s I started to get more appreciation for what they were probably trying to teach me all those years ago.  

The meditations I read about seemed to require more discipline that I was ready for, so I did not stick with them. I always go back to TM, which was sanitized and de-mystified for Western audiences. As I understand it, the mantras and the TM technique come from ancient Sanskrit scriptures. However, they have been extracted out of the religious context for their scientific and personal benefits, so that one does not have to claim any one type of religious conviction at all to find it helpful. Persons who are atheistic are also going to benefit from TM. It is promoted as very non-sectarian, even though there are occasional references to God. That did not upset me. What the trimmed back versin of TM meant to me is that, if I wanted to make my healing process into a prayer-filled ritual to further establish my relationship with God or my divine  roots, then I had to add prayer to the meditation practice. I did that. I loved that. I had pre-TM prayers that were a mix of petition, forgiveness and gratitude. Then I had a post-TM prayer set that focused on gratitude and healing for me and for the world and all its inhabitants. I usually ended with praises. I would rave on about how cool the world is and all of its countless gifts. I felt quite happy and high functioning while doing that combination of practice. 

Then the brother of mine who got me interested in TM in 1975 converted to a religion and, after a few years, moved to live on an ashram. He loves his life now and is totally immersed in his spiritual practice development and devotions. For him and his community they show their love for God in both prayer sessions and in service. The prayer services that I was allowed to attend where very moving. They included drumming, rattles and musical rhythm makers. They include singing in the form of chanting. The chants are in Hindi or in Sanskrit. As a visitor, I could sing along from a booklet. And I could read the English equivalent in the translations. Very cool! The chants are full of repetition. They praise and rave about the beauty of the divine forms. In their belief, God is embodied in two human forms. Radha, the female is the soul of all souls. The chants rave about her beauty and the hem of her skirt and her lovely dress and so on. They are outbursts of love and compliments and adorations for the divine in a form they can see, relate to, and love completely. Radha is pictured as a young girl. I prefer to see her as the mother of a young girl, so I use a variation on the theme so that I can feel understood by my divine keeper.

The other divine form that they adore is Krishna, the male. He is the omnipotent one who can create and do all things, especially all the things that bring joy to Radha’s heart. So they are an interactive dynamic  couple. At first, this was very foreign to a old former Catholic gal, but I really enjoy the softer and female-friendly approach. I enjoy visions of it as well as being entitled to be considered clean enough to be allowed into the inner circle. (When I was young it was a sin for girl to be in the sacristy, only altar boys could go back there. Yeah right! Like I was gong to buy the fact that they were more worthy of being in sacred places, those wild and mean and un-godly boys!?! Even though I was more obedient, I was not worthy. Since they were so much worse than me, this unfairness was a great mystery and anguish and irreconcilable problem for me. The separate rules for girls and boys helped me quit the church a few times. So this image of a divine couple was quite a pleasure to consider. The real point for me is that any image from my early teens and into my 30’s.  

I now think when they say man is in the image of God, it means that we are created from an image. It means creation can come form such a powerful source, image. And we are all from this image. One form, male, is not more in the divine image than another, like female. In fact, any image that helps us love and relate to god is a good divine image to build the relationship with. So, to help me feel like I can trust the divine one to really understand me, when I picture Radha and talk to her, she is about 10 years older than me and she really “gets” it. I love that about her. 

At any rate I noticed the feelings that power up the room when there are about 100 people chanting away about the love for the divine couple. It is palpable. You can feel it. The prayer service is called satsang. Some people really get moving, standing, swaying and raising their arms. It might look like a quieter version of a Baptist church, or a peek into the church that Ann LaMott writes about in her beloved San Francisco Bay area. In this case many of the ladies wear saris, even the white women. It is a way of pleasing the holy man, the Rasic (sp?) saint, Swamiji, who established this religious community. He sings and chants and leads the sessions. At other times, the teachers, all women, lead the singing and chanting and they play the instruments to set the beat and start off the satsang.  

The beat has its own contribution to the session. It frees the mind, releases it for other endeavors.  It might be described as an altered state. I can see where the beat is an audible version of the reciting of the mantra was in a silent way. The mind opens to move to new places. The singing of the chants apparently sets the intentions. The intention is a love-fest with the divine ones. So the words are a calling out of loving compliments and expressions. They are in total awe of the loving divine beings. Calling in the consciousness of their divine favor brings a bliss state to the attendees. They repeat lines about their beloved ones over and over again. It is quit a moving experience to be able to join with them in this event. After they get whipped up and loved up and bussed out from the physical and emotional and spiritual effects of the chanting, they settled down and listen to a sermon. The sermon might be about the properties of Godliness, or the little dramas or plays that go on between the divine couple and their perfected loving beings who hang out to love and serve them, Gopis. So, from a social studies viewpoint, their gods get a mate and a community of like minded, blissed out and peaceful companions. Pretty cool. Again, this can be related to what love and fulfillment feel like from inside the human point of view. Or the sermon might be about the behaviors humans might employ that are suitable for gaining more attainment or more close relationships with the god couple. Those who are happiest with a surrender approach to gaining the company of God enjoy the structure and set up of this kind of religious practice. Surrender and obedience are common in other religions too, so this is not too much of a stretch. One worries about abuses of such practice, but I did not feel that there was much corruption there. It was a terrific visit. I am not a convert, just a happy visitor.    

What strikes me about it, again, is the energy and power that can be generated from this chanting practice. So, when I got home I used it as well. I like the chants where they just use names. One is only singing Radha, Radha, Radhey, over and over again in a simple tune. Another one lists some of the names that God used in various incarnations on earth. These are my favorites, probably because they don’t require a lot of memorization. I have adapted them for my own uses though. I have sung about other things I want. I can tell both God and the universe about my wishes in this format- this language of repetition, of beat, or song and happy up-lifting praising phrases. I can feel energy in a pure form, that I can then direct to go to certain places, cause things to happen and/or turn the energy into a color or a form for a certain purpose. For example, I can call up a powerful white light that is divinely blessed and therefore will not harm anyone. Then I can send this beam to another person with the instructions to heal, the help uplift, or inspire, or bring the joy that the person is seeking. I can ask the light to surround the earth and help heal the planet for optimal love and health and performance of the planet in carrying out her mission.  We have learned that violet light has powers to transform, so if a negative situation has me tied up, I ask the light to transform it into something I can help with. Or if it is beyond my ability to have any positive impact, then I turn the situation over to the light to do as much as is possible, given the commitments and appropriate loving goals of the higher self. So in my good intentions to help heal a person from their afflictions, it might not come off as a complete recovery, but the light will do some good, as much as is possible. The light was born of a diving impulse and was assigned an honorable intention of goodness for another, so I am sure it was helpful in some way. I don’t need to see the results myself.  

So I have borrowed from the concepts of the form of the most powerful prayers and used it for the highest good that I could apply myself to. Let’s talk about ethics a bit here. I know of people who do not pray for others because they don’t want to interfere with the free will of another, or with the needs of the other to have the hardships. In my view, my light prayers and gifts of light are coming from my best intentions. I believe my thoughts will be trumped by the higher self of the other being. So maybe my good juju will just bounce off the person who I am hoping to help. If so, the good vibe might linger in the aura and help later, or it might be absorbed by others who are allowed to absorb it. Or maybe it fall to the earth and the planet absorbs the goodness of the intentions. I don’t believe I am infringing on others. They are too well connected and protected for that. Also, I ask that I be transformed if that is what is needed to bring peace between me and another person. So, only if it is for the highest good of the other person, only then would they be affected.  

In fact we are allowed to affect each other quite a bit. And we do. One concept in TM is that we affect 10 people around us so much that what we say, do or the vibe we send out, will affect the way they touch the next 10 people. So there is a 1% Effect. It was tested in a few cool ways. They imported meditators into towns up to 1% of the population to see what would happen. They found astounding results. You can read more about those things on their website. 

And about affecting each other, there is a growing amount of research out there that supports the idea that we can send energy and can have positive effects. Dr. Elizabeth Targ got National Science Foundation (NSF) money to study effects of prayer and distance healing on patients with AIDS. I heard her presentation about it at the International Conference on Science and Consciousness in Albequerque, NM. She had 10 different healers use their methods for one week, for a total of 10 weeks. The healers included Christian prayer groups, spiritual, psychic and/or metaphysical healers, and so on. The findings were quite important. The control group continued with the regular rates of episodes, depression, doctor visits for pain, and so on. The prayer group had significantly fewer of these events during that time. It was a double blind study so the patients did not know if they were prayed for or not. So it may not have been too influenced by the beliefs of the patients themselves. Also there was no way to control for random prayers, so it is assumed that all patients had some prayers directed toward them, but the study group was monitored during the weeks that a healer was working on them from a distance. Very exciting to see that medicine is the arena where the mystical and the scientific might find more common ground than they expected to find. Dr. Targ died of a brain tumor when she was studying another group with a very rare type of brain cancer. Her work is available for review if that interests you too.  

What her work also tells me, is that if I am asked to help heal someone, it is worth my time and energy to send the prayers in the ways that feel best and most powerful to me. The method I like best is using a chanting format. I repeat until I feel powered up and full of light and love myself. Then I ask that the person who needs the help get all that is possibly available, through this genuine gift of light and hope for their wellbeing. I might imagine they are healthy happy and well. I keep repeating that until I feel like I have emptied the reservoir that I collected for that one. Or, after a few minutes, literally, a few minutes, I just send the rest of the light to others who I like to pray for-always trying to remember to say for their issue and for their highest good. Maybe the issue is not fixable or able to be improved right now, but some good comes of it. I let the spirit guides and higher beings decide what gifts would best serve the person I want to pray for.  

Of course, there is a whole body of work about prayer. It keeps getting larger as we study it more and more. I have heard that prayer may not change the situation, but prayer changes me, and that’s why I do it. I agree with that too. Marrianne Williamson has a few books on the subject. I highly recommend her work. She has a book with models of prayers in them. I like to try them but I adapt them as well. I might go through it and repeat a few lines over and over before moving to the next one. This feels like chanting. It powers up the prayer itself, and it helps the whole think last longer. I mentioned Ann LaMott. I think she was talking about Ms. Williamson when she said her two favorite prayers were, “Please, please, please,” and “Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.” Me too! Hear Hear!  

One other petition prayers that works well for me is to ask God, or my divine overseer, or my Radha, Soul of all Souls, to adjust the veil between us. I want to feel her company. I ask that I am allowed to me more aware of our bond. I ask that I feel like there is a divine presence with me all day, especially at work when I need the help. If I ask again and again for the awareness of the spiritual help, the wonderful feeling of completeness and kindness and love comes over me. It really helps. I know I have divine connections, yet I want to be aware of it. I want to feel it, to know it, to get relief from the apart-ness stuff. I have a deal with the universe to bring me people if I can be helpful. I want to serve as well. And maybe at times the stuff I share with others will help them the way others have helped me grow and become a better person and be a better agent of our divine mission. So the universe delivers. Part of my work is to run a complaint department. So all day I run into people who come in because they are ready to have a change. If I can help, I want to do a really good job. It’s important. They are important. I am serving God’s babies out here. It is hard sometimes.  

I heard one time an answer to one of the big questions in life, “How?” “How can I do this or do that?” The big answer is “With love, with kindness.” I love that. I have mentioned elsewhere that I have a theory. It builds off of the line, “People who dish it out, can’t take it.” I agree. I would add that “People who do no dish it out, cannot take it either. Therefore, no one can take it.” I believe there is a way to get things done that can still be compassionate. Yes, to make an omelet you have to break a few eggs. However you can appreciate the eggs first and thank them for their wonderful gifts. Appreciation is powerful stuff. In fact, Dr Imoto is getting a lot of attention now for his work with appreciating water. He has found that polluted water can be cleaned up, healed as it were, so that it becomes drinkable, after being treated only with thoughts of appreciation and gratitude. If you lift the veil, or allow the light to fill your form to the point where the form feels like only light, from this place you are very powerful. Appreciate from this position and it really affects the world around you. I love this kind of work. I do most of my healing work in the middle of the night, using this technique of light appreciation and intentions.  

I mentioned Whole Hearted Healing in another article. Actually Grant McFedridge, the person who invented that healing technique, is doing a lot of work on developing and sustaining peak states of consciousness. They involve some version of blending with the light and altering one’s sense of form and letting go of apart-ness and so on. This supports my assumption that we are able to leave this apartness thing when we want to. After it has served us for a time, we can revisit other states of experiencing our real real sevles. Our visit on earth is voluntary. I believe it when I hear from the dead friends and visitors of  mine when they say there is a heroes welcome for all who come to the human world. Swamiji and others say there are thousands of souls waiting for a chance to come into human life. I believe it is for a chance to be agents of divine love. Swamiji also talked to me about my talking to dead people. I was interested in his view when I was first doing it a lot. I know many folks are frightened by the idea of it. Or they are afraid of me. Or maybe they fear that I can read their minds. Thank goodness that is not the case. I wouldn’t want to read minds. Ick. Swamiji knew I had come to Texas with that question. He talked about my grandfather who was helping me develop the ability. He was very cool about it all. He just reminded me not to believe they are God or the bringers of divine messages. Over time, I have found that they are usually lovey-dovey persons who passed on, got love, and came back to be nice and say important messages of love and support for those of us who are left here. Others seem to be at a higher level in their understanding about the designs, meaning and reasons for this human life. Just like a math teacher might be a great friend and instructor, one would not follow every bit of advice thinking that the math whiz is totally enlightened about all things. It is also true that my spirit teachers and friends know a lot, share generously, but they have their limits too. I think we benefit a great deal from our work together, them and me.    

I got into shamanic journeying recently and enjoy it so much. It has many of the elements I had noticed before in the prayer works. Journeying only involves a drumbeat. With this pulse, one can synchronize with other dimensions near ours and can visit them comfortably. It is a great travel method. It is a great spiritual practice as well. I had the privilege of learning from a couple teachers from Lower Michigan, Kate Durda and Stephanie. Their website is listed elsewhere. I then had the chance to work with their teacher, Sandra Ingerman. She is doing great work with healing the waters and other parts of the planet too. Her books are very good. I recommend them and I recommend that you try journeying to experience more forms of life, and life in form, and love in form, and forms converging and merging. It’s very fun and dramatic and the lessons come in the form of stories and epiphanies, not lectures. It is very cool and nicely deigned for beings like us, in form and in the physical and predisposed to enjoying drama, action, movement and interactions.    

After a while, since I mix prayer and prayer forms with other forms, with all intentions for good, with many of my life projects, and my service to humankind, I guess I don’t do much without prayer. I recommend mixing and matching them for you as well. It might bring you the things you are searching for. I hope so. Many Blessings to you in your wonderful journey and your very enchanted mission – to bring love to life and back again. 

Sincerely yours,

Sherry

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