Notice a Theme?

Every month, I host a Live Channeling through my website. These events take place by conference call so people can call in from anywhere, and they always feature a topic that I get from the Akashic Records. I do a channeling in my own, personal Akashic Records every couple of months to find out what topics would be most beneficial for everyone, and then I plan events to bring you those topics.

Last week I posted the new Channeling Events for the remainder of 2011. Here’s what we’ve got coming up:

June 15 – “Adam and Eve: The Final Chapter in Gender Duality”

July 13 – “Light in the Darkness: How to Hold Hope When Others Falter”

August 10 – “The Search is Over: Find Emotional Fulfillment Now”

September 21 – “Year 2012: The Year of the Wheel”

November 9 – “Bliss: Find Infinity Within the Boundaries of Your Life”

December 7 – “Time and Space: Understand the Power of Third Dimensional Reality” 

Do you notice a theme? I don’t think I would see it on first glance, but luckily I get to cheat by seeing how they all fit together when I look at them in the Records. The theme is, as we are preparing for 2012, that we must work with what we have rather than try to transcend it or clear it away.

Look at the titles -- finding emotional fulfillment now, achieving bliss by managing boundaries, and using time and space instead of being limited by them – all of these ideas are based on accepting the constraints of our lives instead of resisting them. When we do that, we can work with them rather than being in constant denial or struggle. And this puts us in a powerful position to make changes.

I think this might be the key to what’s to come after 2012. If we are creating Heaven on Earth, then that means we are working with what’s here on Earth. There is no more time for denying our circumstances, or for waiting to transcend them.

Maybe the theme of 2012 should be No More Waiting. No more waiting for the second coming, no more waiting for the apocalypse – nope, it’s just us here and now. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

I’m excited to hear what will come from the Akashic Records in the next few months because I’m hoping we’ll all get more information about the joy of embracing our lives and making the very best of them!

(PS – If you’re wondering why there is not a topic for October – it's because I didn’t get a one from the Records. There was a sense that something important is happening that month that is not yet foreseeable. I think the topic will come when we get closer, which just makes me incredibly curious about what it will be. Stay tuned – I will post this on my website calendar as soon as I have it!)

Sacred Objects

I recently attended an event for which the speaker was running late. The audience had gathered by the time she arrived, and we sat awkwardly as she took an additional twenty minutes to carefully set up a beautiful altar. The altar was lovely, but I wondered if the good vibes it created were enough to make up for the tension in the room as we waited. Sometimes putting on a spiritual event is like a theater production.

Have you noticed how many props are available for spiritual activities? Crystals, candles, and incense abound. There are sacred tapestries and carved statues of deities -- feathers, claws, teeth and leather. We even use gold, frankincense and myrrh! I love the way these things remind us that objects can be infused with sacred energy. 


Yet sometimes, like when I sat through that alter set-up, I wonder if we might be overdoing it just a bit. If we're not careful, we can spend a lot of money in those beautiful New Age bookshops buying props for our spiritual practice.  It's easy to fall into thinking that one particular object will either make or break our spiritual practice.

The Akashic Records tell us that all objects hold energy, and any object can be sacred. My favorite example of this, given often in channelings, is a child’s toy or blanket. Imagine the love, tenderness, and possibility infused in that object through hours of play and snuggling.  I think some of the most powerful objects we can use in our practice are the ones that emerge from the love in our everyday lives.  A treasured toy, jewelry from a beloved grandmother, or a stone we pick up on a beautiful day -- these are deeply sacred.

This ability of objects to hold energy also extends to those things we reject. I’ve had a broken bookshelf in my bedroom for two months now, and every time I see it I feel just a little bad about it. That means I feel just a little bad every night as I go to bed and every morning when I wake up. By now I have infused that poor bookshelf with hundreds of tiny, unhappy thoughts.

Spring is a great time to examine the energy we infuse into the objects around us, and make adjustments so that our physical surroundings support harmony. Fill your space with love, and get rid of the things that make you feel bad. That’s the reason I’m off to fix that bookshelf! 

Past Lives in the Akashic Records

Past lives are a really interesting part of what we find in the Akashic Records. Past lives come up all the time in consultations for individual people. When I’m channeling for an individual person, I often find that information about their current situation can only be explained by outlining a past life. So much of our current path is connected to what our soul has been doing for ages.

When I look at past lives in the Akashic Records, they always appear according to two principles – meaningful themes and what is most relevant now.

The second organization is by meaningful themes. A theme might be a lesson, such as forgiveness or patience. It might be a skill your soul is developing over many lifetimes, such as teaching. Themes are sometimes centered on a larger endeavor your soul is dedicated to, such as the development of science or democracy. Or sometimes our souls develop a theme around something we are just interested in experiencing, such as fire, isolation, or motherhood.

The Akashic Records are always organized by what is relevant in the present moment. The truth about the Akasha is that it is timeless, so there really is nothing other than the present moment and the information that informs it. The information that informs the present moment often comes from the past, but it’s not organized by the linear timeline we’ve invented. It’s organized by what matters now.

If you’re a science geek like me, you might think of it like the structure of a protein. Proteins are long strands of molecules that are folded up into particular shapes. A protein strand can be unfolded and refolded to form an entirely new protein with completely different characteristics. That’s how the linear timeline occurs in the Akashic Records. It’s always folded according to what is meaningful for you in the present moment. The strand of information refolds itself continually based on what you need to learn, which changes moment by moment as you progress. The points where information intersects are the places where you will find the most useful meaning for your current endeavors. (I think of those points as the themes, mentioned above.) 

See how time re-sorts itself according to meaning? Neat, huh?

Sometimes people ask to know what their most recent lifetime was. When I look in the Akashic Records for this, I hardly ever see it. Instead, I see what is most relevant. It’s like I’m trying to look in a storybook for a mathematical equation. I see lots of meaning, but I don’t see the linear timeline. When I connect with the spirit beings that are the Keepers of the Akashic Records for the answer, the sense I get from them is like a shrug. They don’t organize information by time because that’s not an efficient way to deliver meaningful information. Chronology isn’t what matters – meaning is what matters. The information is organized in a way that will lead us to deeper wisdom, higher power, and greater joy.

Sounds simple enough, right?

After years of looking in the Records, I’ve become far less attached in my own life to keeping track of chronological order. I find that I can’t remember if I ate dinner before going to a movie or afterward, because it doesn’t matter. What matters is how the food affected my body, and what I learned from the movie.

Unfortunately, this also means I’m less skilled at remembering chronology when it does matter, like when I can’t remember if I turned off the stove today…. or was that yesterday? The perils of working as a channeler!

It's Crisis Time

You know how the May Message said things would get bigger this month -- both the nice things and the not-so-nice things? Well, it’s happening. I’ve received many email messages and phone calls this week from people in crisis. Most of these are people I’ve worked with before who are usually cool, calm and collected. It sounds like the latest shift is hitting hard. If you have a challenge in your life, it might have just exploded.

Many of you have booked Personal Consultations, but I know that my schedule requires you to wait for a few weeks. What can you do in the meantime?

The May Message explains how the energy is getting bigger this month, and that it requires courage to adjust to this. The Records tell us that we can’t avoid facing everything that needs to be dealt with in our lives. If you’re having a hard time with this, you are not alone. Read the entire Message for more on what’s happening and how you can work with it.

Also, I have decided to do something I’ve never done before. I’m going to do a second channeling on the Year 2011. I always do one channeling for the year, and the 2011 channeling has been available on my website since October. In it, the Akashic Records were unclear about what would come in July 2011. What I saw in that original channeling (found at the bottom of this list) was something like “cosmic static” from July forward. Now that some time has passed, we can check to see what has manifested since then, and what we can see from this vantage point for the remainder of 2011.

Want to join me for that channeling? Or download it after it’s done? Sign up for my free newsletter and I’ll be sure to let you know when both the event and the download become available.

In the meantime, if you are one of the many struggling with the big expansion this month, take a deep breath, try to slow down (even just for a few moments!), and see if there is something you need to face in your life. Expansion can be uncomfortable or exhilarating, and it all depends on how well we embrace what’s happening in our lives and work with it. 

Retreat

Remember a couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was working too much?

Luckily, when it comes to doing consultations and channelings, it doesn’t matter if I’m burned out or not. Once I enter the Akashic Records, all is well and I feel great. It was the time in-between – you know, that part of my life that is my own -- where I was feeling burned out.

I finally took a week to retreat and quiet down, and my entire reality has changed. I am quieter -- more sure-footed and sure-minded. Having this inner stillness is worth every effort – something I had forgotten in my rush to work so much.
 

My retreat took place in the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington.

I spent five days in a cabin in the woods -- sleeping, hiking, and of course doing some work, too. I like my work too much to stop completely!

I spent hours staring at the ocean.  It felt like my brain was being rewired for peacefulness. 

I also spent hours sitting on the beach watching sea stars make their slow walk over the rocks. At first it was uncomfortable to be so still.  Then I remembered how and it became the most natural thing in the world.

It was a great reminder that we all need to do this sometimes. We need to retreat from the outer world that can be so engaging and distracting. We must find a deeper voice inside ourselves that can guide our actions when we return to the outer world.

Even if you can’t find a cabin in the woods, we can all create the sense of quiet in our own homes. I’m newly inspired to make the journey upstairs to my meditation spot every day instead of just once or twice a week. Instead of checking my phone for messages or CNN for yet another headline, I head upstairs and sit quietly. Even ten minutes of meditation will vastly improve how my day goes. 

(The map is courtesy of http://www.jewelsofthesound.com/sanJuans.html  

Other photos are the best I could do with my phone camera!)

What about you? How do you find space each day for quiet? Is it the ride home from work? Walking your dog? A daily yoga or sitting practice? Learning how others manage this can help all of us find ways to make room for the sure, strong inner voice in our lives.

Love Capacity

My last post has had me thinking about the other favorite things I’ve seen in the Akashic Records, and I think my very favorite is this – that most of us have only reached ten percent of our capacity to love and be loved. That’s pretty exciting.

Even better? That our capacity to love others is about ten times greater than our need to be loved by others.

Yes, that’s right – ten times greater.

What if we all start striving to finally release our immense capacity for love? You want to talk about abundance? There it is. If we all give ten times more than we need, abundance is the only thing that is possible. And according to the Records, the giving actually fulfills us.

When I first saw this in the Akashic Records, the way it was shown was in the image of a young child. When love is withheld, such as from an abusive parent, the child’s capacity to love that parent far exceeds the fear of abuse. A child will often fight to stay with an abusive parent, not because they think that parent will change. Children fight to stay close to the people they love. We were all born with an enormous need to feel love for others. It is an energy that is meant to pour out of us and into the world in every moment.

My grandmother always said, “Never suppress a generous thought.” I realize now that this advice wasn’t given so I could help others. It was given for my own good. I need to have love pouring out of me in order to be happy and healthy. I was born with this capacity, and so were you.

So open the flow of love in your life. Say the kind word that comes to your mind, take an extra moment to smile, or write a note to someone who is on your mind. If you are rejected, just remember – the love you have for the world is bigger than your need to be accepted. Try again!

Hard-Wired for Love

One of my favorite channelings from the Akashic Records is the Healing the Human Family Series. I channeled this about two years ago, and I just love listening to it. The title alone, Healing the Human Family, gives me a smile. The way I choose topics for channelings from the Akashic Records is by asking the Records directly what needs to be channeled in the coming months. Then I plan a channeling event to access that topic and answer questions brought by participants. 

When I first saw this topic in the Records, I sort of got a crush on it. It’s just the sweetest idea to me to think of all of us in one, big family together. Just like lots of smaller family groups, the Human Family is messy, but it’s filled with love.

I listen to the Healing the Human Family Series because it gives me hope for things that otherwise break my heart and overwhelm me – subjects like racism, sexism, homophobia, and religious intolerance.

The Akashic Records continually repeat the idea that our core nature is to be compassionate and kind. In fact, we’re made for it. Our minds and bodies are actually built to experience love and compassion. In Healing the Human Family, the Records outline how we lose access to our inherent compassion because we forget our true nature when we’ve been hurt. This series specifically explains how we are hurt in ways that teach us to compete with others based on race, gender, socioeconomic class, and religion.

The Healing the Human Family channelings are unique because they give us a perspective on how things like racism and classism fit in the spiritual evolution of humanity. What I love most about these channelings is the way they outline the big picture of human evolution all the way down to the everyday details of how we can heal this in our lives. 

Like so many truths, this is being discovered and discussed in many ways across the world. Because I’m a scientist at heart, I especially love this example:   

RSA Animate: The Empathic Civilisation

(you can also find the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g&feature=share)

(OK, I also love the snarky cartoon animation.)

Healing oppression in our everyday lives is the tricky part, isn’t it? It’s easy enough to love the idea of the Human Family, but when we try to conceive of seven billion family members, with all the layers of pain and bad behavior that includes…… well, it’s overwhelming, to say the least!

I love the Healing the Human Family Series because it tells us exactly how our everyday actions can help dismantle oppression and pain. The Akashic Records help me see the big picture, which can be reassuring. And they help me see that my small part is meaningful, which is empowering. It is such a relief for me to consider that, just like any family, the Human Family is filled with mistakes and pain, and in even greater part filled with love and compassion. In fact, we’re wired for it!