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Fields of Influence: Intuition, Clairvoyance, Clairsentience, Empathy

There you are, lying anxiously on the massage table waiting for the therapist to begin. Your body is still wound up from a day at work. Your mind races and deep inside you feel as though you’re going to vibrate right off the table. As soon as the therapist’s hands touch your body, you are jello.

There are many explanations for this response, including, simply, one that is tactile. Let’s look further and interpret it as a form of intuition. In this massage instance, it’s a physical body sensation based in our ability to physically feel energy from outside ourselves–it’s called “clairsentience.”

Even though there are many relaxing stimuli present–quiet music, evocative scent, soft color–the therapist transmits something through her hands that goes beyond what triggers all the usual senses.

The following experiences convey various types of intuition, even telepathy. Some are pretty simple and are sort of the norm for us all. Others are a bit more complex and until fairly recently have remained hidden to the mainstream behind a thin veil of fear or discomfort, even denial. All involve what is often called the metaphysical realms–energetic or spiritual experiences–beyond the physical.

It takes willingness to see things differently and a bit of dedicated practice to bring the pieces of the puzzle together. Even if you’ve been intuitive all your life, are you ready to take it further, to own it 24-7? Are you willing to engage with it in a more truly responsible realm for the greater good? Read and gauge these scenarios for yourself; have you ever experienced anything like them? Do you want to experience more of the same with consciousness?

-You walk by a building and feel a cold chill.

-You’re driving down the freeway and suddenly feel the spiky rush of adrenalin pulsing through your body. Not a car in sight, a mile down the road you come across a serious accident.

-You aren’t a sports enthusiast, yet are talked into a professional soccer game while traveling through Chile. The closer you get to the stadium, the more excited you become.

-A woman awakens at 3:15am mountain time feeling all the symptoms of a heart attack. Gasping for air, she holds her heart and wonders whether or not she should call 911. Instead she walks around the living room, sweating and panicking with chest pain. She does her best to breathe deeply and slowly until the symptoms finally clear away nearly an hour later. This woman’s mother calls the following day with news of her father who had experienced a heart attack at approximately 2:15am Pacific time.

These are clairsentient experiences–intuition through body sensation.

-In another time, a woman is walking through her castle garden with her husband holding his arm. She spontaneously gasps and squeezes tightly, her eyes widening. She turns quickly to his chest, looking up into his eyes and murmurs without apparent cause, “she’s been taken.” At the same time in a different part of the country, this woman’s daughter has just been tattooed with the priestess’ crescent moon symbol on her forehead.

-A man lays down on his living room carpet to stretch his back and relax. Suddenly an image of his wife comes to mind…she is making love to someone else. The man sobs uncontrollably, watching as the image plays out in full-length and color. Later he confronts his wife and she admits to the affair.

-One Friday, a woman begins to see the image of an acquaintance in her mind and out in her energy field as well. This image is tenacious, and no matter how many times she clears her mind and field, this face does not go away. Gradually the woman’s head begins to pound, her body goes into fear, she tosses and turns for two nights. Thoughts of this face are rampant, preoccupying her mind throughout the weekend. On Monday she calls that acquaintance to set up a brief tea date. The conversation reveals an incident that took place on Thursday that validates & explains the presence of this face around her the last few days. As soon as the conversation is complete, the face disappears, the thoughts stop, and the woman sleeps again.

These are all clairvoyant (clear sight) experiences; the second and third are also empathic (ability to feel others emotions); the third is probably clairaudient as well.

-A woman rests in her hotel room. Suddenly, a quick short breath throws her head onto the back of her chair and she feels immediately lost and alone, overwhelmed with fear. A voice rings in her head over and over, “where is everyone, why is everyone gone; why isn’t anyone here?” A barrage of rainy, sodden images fly through her mind, though nothing looks familiar, and the loneliness creeps in deeper and deeper for the next few days.  On the last leg of her journey home across country, she becomes filled with rage and begins to spontaneously & primally scream for no apparent reason.

-When she arrives home, she learns that three key people in her life had betrayed her on the very day of that first lonely vision. Upon walking into her office for the first time in three weeks, she feels unwelcome and pushed out, like someone else belongs there instead. Some days after, she learns that the same three people had misused her work space while she was away and many assumptions were made about ownership.

Both of these experiences involve clairaudience, empathy and clairvoyance.

We are all gifted with visions, feelings, hunches, instincts and the like. Intuition is our   inheritance and an ally!

Use it, speak to it, trust it, embrace it without reservation. Sometimes the signs are very soft and quiet; sometimes they are loud and obnoxious. At times they are seriously tenacious and just won’t go away; we lose sleep because we fail to address the first signs. Reframe what you previously thought of as mental chatter; notice if you feel emotional or have physical sensations at odd times. Do strange thought patterns arise…things you wouldn’t normally think about?

Listen and honor these moments; you will soon become a fluent “intuitive” speaker with increasing awareness and graced with a new interpretation of events around you!

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Sweeping

Pros and Cons of Sweeping the Front Stoop First:

1. You only have to sweep the house once because there’s no longer any dirt on the stoop that would normally blow in with the wind through the front door.

2. As you sweep the inside dirt out the door, you can clearly see what it looks like because the outside dirt has already been swept away.

3. When all the dirt is swept, you can sit inside a nice clean house.

Pros and Cons of Sweeping the Inside of the House First:

1. You only sweep the stoop once…this is good.

2. When the outside and inside dirts mix together on the front stoop, it can become confusing. You might find yourself asking, “where did all this weird dirt come from…can it possibly be all mine?”

3. You might as well just sweep the outside dirt into the house and get it over with…the wind is always moving to some degree or another and rarely does it blow from inside outward!

4. If you do sweep inside first, you could be overworking, never taking time to rest and reflect as the old dirt flies out the door.

What do you sweep first…the front stoop or the inside of the house?

I say sweep the front stoop first…who cares if you have to sweep it again!

Learn to be a really good sweeper.

 

Will You Meet Me Here?

Do you want to know who I really am?

I want to know you.

Can you see my pain when I speak to it, as it is expressed and shared, just as it is, a moment in time, not a life long identity?

I see no less in you.

Do you allow me to shift and change, to make my own choices, trusting that I will find my way?

I allow no less in you.

Will you move aside your ideas and projections of who you think I am, who you want me to be, to see me for who I really am?

I will do no less for you.

Will you continue to offer yourself to me, even when I choose not to use your gifts?

I offer no less of myself to you.

Can you see me now? Can you feel my soul? Do you speak to the spirit in me, and are you willing to honor the you in my reflection? Do you know me now?

I see, I know, I honor and speak to no less in you.

I am human, I am God, and I find no less in you.

Will you meet me here?

Spiritual Freedom

I’m beginning a new podcast series called Spiritual Freedom and have decided to ask myself the same question I’ve been asking others. “What does spiritual freedom mean to you and how does your work help others to embrace this?

In this moment in time, I see spiritual freedom as a place of grace and self acceptance. No matter what I create or discover inside, no matter what happens in the outer world, I am connected to my soul with enthusiasm and experience the world with love in my heart.

Until 1988 I’d never given this precept a second thought, maybe not even a first. In fact, I spent a lot of my growing up years living in total autonomy without even knowing it! Spirit drove me, embraced me, it penetrated everything I did, and doing was the essential me.

Mostly I was an active person, expressing spirit while skiing, sailing, practicing yoga, dancing, hiking, swimming, and as I matured, I found spirit in romantic partnership. I was filled with passion and spontaneity, enthusiasm for nature, for people and life in general. In the early days, up until I was in my early 30′s, it was all about playing and having fun. My body was healthy, strong and very vital. At the time, this was my interpretation of spiritual freedom, a sort of unconscious bliss.

Then, in 1987, I worked with a young woman who suggested I take a meditation class at Berkeley Psychic Institute (BPI for short). So I did. No questions asked, I just signed up and attended the class. It was the best decision I ever made! I learned to ground, run energy and heal my body-mind of a subtle, yet rising river of anxiety that had overflowed a few years before; one that I’d dammed up so I could continue having a blast.

Now my anxiety had an outlet and I watched as energy I never knew existed began to release from deep inside me. I was still having fun, it was just a different kind of fun. My enthusiasm was for the unknown, the psychic or soul parts of me that I’d suppressed and long forgotten. Suddenly, I was a totally different person with totally different friends, thoughts and even behaviors. I remembered that I was a spirit in the body and that was incredibly freeing. This sensation allowed me to expand way beyond my previously established boundaries, and simultaneously I was grounded more than ever before.

After the first year at BPI the learning curve became a bit steep. We learned how to go into the shadows, pulling out old patterns and programs for healing. Sometimes these patterns were sticky and I felt further than ever from the ease of spiritual freedom. Other times, there was no time and no space between my body and the great expanse of the universal web of spirit. Of course this place of limitless possibilities was my preference. Sitting on top of the mountain was very different than the challenging journey upward. At that moment in time, my interpretation of spiritual freedom was comfort in the body and a quiet mind.

Soon I decided to teach people about spiritual tools and precepts, becoming a minister at the same time. The bar of consciousness continued to be set higher and higher. Eventually, and this happens for everyone, even many times on the road to enlightenment, I hit a huge, resistant rock inside me that wouldn’t budge. I believed everything the world reflected to me. Like an obsessed dieter, I tried desperately to change the reflections by being nicer and nicer.

No longer free, I wasn’t autonomous in any way. I felt so blocked, so encumbered, I even gained weight. It took a whole lot more than a deep breath and grounding, or an aura healing, to sustain even the tiniest flame of desire in me. It was so very dark in here! My tools weren’t working anymore and emotions began to fly up and out of this entrenched place like bats exposed to daylight. All I could do then was ask for help.

“As we read, we allow the cosmic and earth energies to flow through our bodies, opening the doors through which we become more aware of our spirituality and increase the communication with the God of our hearts. Let us pray. May it be with the blessings of the creator, that whatever happens during this healing will benefit each of us in our spiritual growth, awareness and understanding. Amen.”

This is the prayer we recited to set the energy before practicing many of our healing sessions. I used it every day before I went to work, before I even stuck my toe out the door. It was the first time since resolving the old panic that I wanted to curl up and hide under the covers. Albeit short in duration, this wasn’t the last time this same pattern would come out of the dungeons, hairy and smelly, wearing the dirty and torn clothes of a life sentence prisoner. It looked a bit different each time, yet was linked to the same old ball and chain that dragged me down, time and time again.

If you’d asked me about spiritual freedom in those days, I may have given you the finger! That was my answer. I was tired of digging, tired of using the cliché about how everything is good, no matter what; saying those ridiculous affirmations about what doesn’t kill you just makes you stronger. I just wasn’t there yet. Flipping people off was as free as I could be back then and my subterranean anger had finally started to bubble and breathe. Little did I know this would be a constant companion for years to come.

As it was, I found a lot of freedom in the ability to express emotion as I experienced it in the moment, quite spontaneously. I thank one of my teachers for that permission. She told me “it may look ugly at first, but you absolutely have to practice being angry, you have to admit it, embrace it, love it and show it outwardly. When you can do this without worrying about the risks, that’s when you’ll be free.” And anger was my next experience of spiritual freedom.

So, fast forward into present time, after lots of anger, lots of self-hatred realized, lots of sadness and grief, many moments of feeling victimized and then taking responsibility for all those experiences, I sit here today asking myself what is next. How will I experience and interpret spiritual freedom around the next bend.

All I can say is this: I am willing to be lonely, I am willing to be alone, I am willing to go even deeper, spending my whole life as a ditch digger. I am willing to be all these things. I am also willing to open my heart, to find compassion, to be powerful, to let my light shine as the Goddess that I am, I am willing to transmit peace everywhere I go. I am willing to risk every relationship I have to find my way back home, to complete my soul. This is freedom.

“‘What if a man gain the whole world and lose his own soul?’ To a mystic with eyes turned inward toward infinity and cosmic consciousness, Jesus’ words have great meaning. There exists only one to one contact between the Cosmic and a living soul, which flames quietly, bringing a lifetime of contentment and a realization that nothing is worth exchanging for that attainment.” This is taken from Berkeley Psychic Institute’s Psychic Creed.

And how does this play outwardly? Currently my life’s work centers on my own growth as a human being in full spiritual embrace, and although I want to reach out sharing with everyone on my planet, if one other person feels compelled or motivated by this, my soul will be complete.

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