Brother Michael Sky

my prayers are added as well.

I wanted to make a few folks here, who might be interested, aware of a book I picked up at Ollie's ( a discount store )... I just dug it out to study it... This is a remarkable book not only for it's size - it's 17"X24" - but also for the spiritual nature of the subject. It' is a book of Paintings which cover the Buddhist and Hindu dieties and bodhisattvas. Many of the paintings are Mandalas. The paintings are rendered full page, which makes for an impressive spectacle... the cover and a few examples from within.. Dakini Mandala The Cosmos of Healing two side by side the entire book is filled with these images ( 61 pages ), and the best part was - it cost less than 10$ the book is from Mandala Publishers and is entitled Celestial Gallery by Romio Shrestha. I don't want to even look to see what this book originally cost... check your discount stores...... edit : there is a very informative foreword by Deepak Chapra .....

however on an advanced level, when one has mastered non-attachment, they may indeed search for the source of these thoughts. It is an important step to realize EXACTLY where these surface thoughts originate, and why... I am more inclined to take my instruction from Hatha Yoga sources... Traditional Yoga and meditation of the Himalayan Masters

I believe that we hold every bit of creating which could, and possibly does affect others, against ourselves... no one is judging us, but we are our own harshest critic, and the record of creation holds every instance where our thoughtlessness has impinged upon another's free will. We all intend to clear that record to the best of our ability... The idea here is that we will come to recognize the affects of our creating and begin to take conscious control... once it is attained - time for a new class....

you will never know the admonitions I have received for impatience....

One thing I am sure of... There are many ways to translate the experiences of our spiritual nature. Never have I had a spiritual experience that had one aspect - there have always been multiple meanings which take me quite a while to understand... and I have never had someone effectively understand my dreams... they may get portions right ( maybe even enough to convince me they are on to something ) but there are always aspects which are not understandable by others... And also - I have never met two individuals which have the same experiences... Focusing on another's Truth ( especially when we see a value in it ), to the exclusion of our own Truths, is an easy thing to do at times... but we must ALL do our own searching - for Truth may come to us differently... We are too limited in the flesh to see the whole picture... No one person has all the answers... we must start from a solid base, and build our understanding from our very own perspective... Rev Irma, your dreams would drive me nuts... I would be in a constant state of meditation until I glimpsed the ideas which are running in circles in my subconscious... and got a handle on their unraveling...

ok.... I'm gonna get a little deep here..... This is from an experience which I have not thoroughly processed yet, but I share it because it fits the question... ever since I learned of Karma, and the truth about reincarnation, I had this picture in my head. I pictured a long line of lifetimes stretching back to a time which is so far back as to be seemingly infinite... all the lifetimes I have been able to witness seemed to happen one after another.... in an unbroken line.... until this one time, when searching my subconscious for the root of an issue which has been a thorn in my side.... something peculiar happened... I realized - all of a sudden, and it shocked and confused me for quite a while - that I had the sequence wrong.... some of these lifetimes were out of sequence as relates to physical dates... This was quite confusing as I had figured that I finally understood how incarnating happens.... but I was mistaken... To help explain what I figured out, I will need to use an image.... I had previously had a picture in my mind to try to understand my history.... it was like a line on a graph - stretching from point to point, upwards at times, downward at times... but always connected from point to point... when my points started crossing and merging in places where they could not be touching, I became confused and lost my grip on the idea... so I began searching for the answer, I needed another mental picture....... I meditated for months - opening my mind to the answer, and asking for instruction so that I might get a handle on this issue, so that I might continue digging through my subconscious for the root of that problem I was dealing with... During one exceptionally deep meditation I found my instruction - a mental image was solidly in my mind when I cam back to myself. The image is a spider's web - in the center is me. not just any me - but ME. The root of the various aspects which is my pleasure and duty to manifest. there are levels to a spider's web - sometimes in a spiral ( which is ideal ) and sometimes in consecutive layers ( when there are very base choices to make in ones development )... At all times my development takes place somewhere on this web... but the interesting thing is that it is NOT a consecutive - there are lifetimes which are represented by the junction of lines in this web, each junction on the web is a separate lifetime... but they are all taking place simultaneously.... The importance of this keeps occurring to me in different ways... the main thing is this : Each and every incarnation is actively affecting each and every other lifetime... for example - if I, in one particular lifetime - am able to increase my vibration to the point of approaching the next octave, it will positively affect each and every other lifetime... conversely, if I fail to try to improve my lot, and move away from my duty, and allow my vibration to fall, it affects me in every lifetime on my web.... I am of the impression that if every aspect of myself were to actively seek enlightenment constantly - it would be a short trip home.... but that is not how it works... each incarnation ( with the exception of a few ) is completely unaware of the others - and finds itself in various mental states, affected by the themes I have chosen as a learning exercise... and is affected by the " average " vibration of my incarnations, which is constantly in flux.... This has explained so many things that were previously causing me great difficulty. The seemingly random changes in my mindset I discovered in my deepest meditations were very confusing to me, as I have been working on mental stability for quite a while with no seeming progress, I felt I had " hit a wall " and could make no further progress... but this answer gave me an understanding of where this resistance was coming from....and that my attempts were not in vain - I simply had a much larger job than I had realized... my efforts are being " shared " by a countless array of me's.... some of whom have the slightest interest in things which are not physically based, and are not helping things in the least - are actually causing me to regress... This is something which came to me in stages... the understanding of it came naturally and slowly... and for me - it is a revelation - it will make a great difference in my efforts... there is one " rule " I have noticed in my spiritual exercises.... the strength of your desire, will determine the degree of success... I WANTED, NEEDED an answer to this debacle.... and I would not put the question down until I reached an understanding which allowed me to move forward... what it boils down to, IMO, is " how bad do you want it? ".... this is applicable EVERYWHERE.... and I see this whole thing as proof positive of separate " dimensions "... but I feel, beyond the understanding of these things for spiritual enlightenment, there is next to no purpose in exploring other " physical " dimensions - for I am already there.... doing my thing.... my attention goes to spiritual realms - where I am bound, when I have mastered physical life.... and where all those other me's will end as well - as we merge together - reaching higher and higher, and doing the will of our Father....

parallel PHYSICAL universes? wouldn't mean much to me... I live in this one... and any portion of me that is there, is doing the same thing I am here - looking upwards...

There is a very simple reason I am willing to discuss these subjects... when I looked for validation for the things which occurred to me, I was unable to find much out there that didn't have " crazy " written all over it... I looked for words which related something similar to what I was going through and was at a loss.... I KNOW I am not the only one out there who needs a little bit of support... there are others out there, right now, who are looking for the words I share... I pray they find them, so that they may continue their journey on a little more even keel... and with a little more trust in themselves... whether I actually converse with someone who has had the same experiences as me doesn't matter from my view... these words will remain for a while - in case they come looking late...

This one is very easy for me. Consciousness has ALWAYS been. the physical is but a tiny portion of reality... what you are referring to is the Akashic Record - the recording of every moment of every soul, since the creation of individuals. It appears to me as an effect, and is not the Source... The Source, or Creator, has it's own consciousness, and our goal is reunion with that consciousness. I DO wonder if there is a consciousness within the Record itself though, at times... but I have no experiences which would infer that - just a feeling I get ( and could very well be a misunderstanding.. )... the purity of the Field - in each dimension in where it resides the purity of the Field is directly related to it's signature vibration. The closer you get to the source, the purer the environment, the higher the vibration. The " tunnel of Light " is a common visual for the rapid increase or decrease in vibration - a visual representation of change... most commonly experienced when one leaves the physical ( where one is leaving the environment of this planet, with the shadows and haze which surrounds us ( which I have explained repeatedly )... The reason for all the negative energy here is MANKIND.... we have created it, we maintain it, and it will remain until we do something about it... it is daunting to know that the creations of ages wait for our attention to remedy - but that is how it is, IMO... It directly relates to your question about Creating one's own Reality, and magical thinking.... doesn't feel so " magical " to realize how many half-formed, ignorant creations we have waiting for our attention... and the work which must be done to clear up the mess we have made... I believe you have this backwards... you are trying to gauge consciousness by a vantage which is so far from Reality, that a misunderstanding is inevitable... from a place where we have so much confusion about what consciousness is.... now these are obviously my opinions, based on my experiences... I make no claims that I am right - I am most probably misunderstanding many things... but some of these ideas seem very concrete to me at this time...

I feel I have experienced the Intelligent consciousness of Creation. I will not say I understood what it was I was experiencing fully, but in my mind - there's no question - nothing else would exist if That Consciousness had not desired it's presence... This is a question that I believe is the first one answered when one has an experience of Altered Realities... The very first time I " slipped " unconsciously from my body, I was engulfed in a consciousness which was so huge, as to be all encompassing... I was cradled and comforted, and assured I was not dreaming... I do not experience that Consciousness regularly - but when I find myself in great need, it is there for me.... as are many, many created beings......

If you have ever been unjustly accused, there is always a grain of doubt ( as to a person's intentions )...... He has my prayers..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBeguUvuDzs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ar0r02FZng uh, happy Birthday?..... an Angel to sing for Jesus.... 1:45 - 4:00 is her performance...

agreed..... has me all discombobulated .... this Holiday season feels " different " somehow - but that could just be my perception... the energies I experience are as strong as usual - but folks reactions to it are not... people seem reserved to my eyes... and they are keeping their energies tightly about them.... It is shaping up to be an unusual Holiday season...

I cant wait, this is serendipitous.... I've been reading the Mahabharata...

lol...sorry, I didn't realize that piece of what i WAS going to say wasn't erased... it was longwinded, and detracted from enjoying what you posted..

- I think I need a tissue.... and a maybe a Awesome.... and somehow familiar... The Frost Children?

I see levels of meaning in your words Qryos, Yet it feels as if there is something left unsaid. I like that, and I think your effort is greater for that trait... Well done ... the break in meter in at the end of the second stanza was an honest choice, we were warned of it's presence in the first, but it still made me stop and begin again... I feel that which you project - and that speaks of success in your intention... again, well done...

in the spirit of Truth, here's me :

People tell me I look like that guy who was always getting into trouble years ago, the one with the really long hair who was soooo tall........ I don't tell them I cut my hair...

thank you for posting this SalemWitchChild... I go out to counsel so many people who have pets that are obviously in need of a great amount of nurturing... sometimes it hurts so bad to see the condition of their animals, that it is very hard to maintain my usual level of sympathy... to see what some folks do to the animals who Love and Respect them so greatly, causes a rage in me that I have struggled to leave behind... How terrible would their life seem were they chained, with three feet of chain, to the bumper of a car throughout the rain, and snow, and blazing heat.... with kibble thrown in the dirt around them.... and they sit in their snug houses - stuffing cheetos in their faces, loudly complaining how God has not supplied a big screen TV.... after all, they ask for so little.....