Cool Kids [S]

She sees them walking in a straight line, that's not really her style.
And they all got the same heartbeat, but hers is falling behind.
Nothing in this world could ever bring them down.
Yeah, they're invincible, and she's just in the background.
And she says,

"I wish that I could be like the cool kids,
'Cause all the cool kids, they seem to fit in.
I wish that I could be like the cool kids, like the cool kids."

He sees them talking with a big smile, but they haven't got a clue.
Yeah, they're living the good life, can't see what he is going through.
They're driving fast cars, but they don't know where they're going.
In the fast lane, living life without knowing.
And he says,

"I wish that I could be like the cool kids,
'Cause all the cool kids, they seem to fit in.
I wish that I could be like the cool kids, like the cool kids.
I wish that I could be like the cool kids,
'Cause all the cool kids, they seem to get it.
I wish that I could be like the cool kids, like the cool kids."

And they said,
"I wish that I could be like the cool kids,
'Cause all the cool kids, they seem to fit in.
I wish that I could be like the cool kids, like the cool kids.
I wish that I could be like the cool kids,
'Cause all the cool kids, they seem to fit in.
I wish that I could be like the cool kids, like the cool kids.
I wish that I could be like the cool kids,
'Cause all the cool kids, they seem to get it.
I wish that I could be like the cool kids, like the cool kids."

Whoa [3x]

Like the cool kids

Enlightenment At Home (OM)

Right Where We Are

by Madisyn Taylor

Spiritual growth can take place anywhere if you are open and ready to learn and receive.

Many spiritual seekers feel called to far-flung places across the globe in the interest of pursuing the path of their enlightenment. This may indeed be the right course of action for certain people, but it is by no means necessary to attaining an enlightened consciousness. Enlightenment can take root anywhere on earth, as long as the seeker is an open and ready vessel for higher consciousness. All we need is a powerful intention, and a willingness to do the work necessary to moving forward on our path.

In terms of spiritual practice, at this moment, there are more tools available to more people than at any other time in history. We have access to so much wisdom through the vehicles of books, magazines, the Internet, television, and film. In addition, the time-honored practice of meditation is free, and sitting quietly everyday, listening to the universe, is a great way to start the journey within. There is further inspiration in the fact that the greatest teachers we have are our own life experiences, and they come to us every day with new lessons and new opportunities to learn. If we look at the people around us, we may realize that we have a spiritual community already intact, and if we don’t, we can find one, if not in our own neighborhood, then on-line.

Meanwhile, if we feel called to travel in search of teachers and experiences, then by all means, we should. But if we can’t go to India, or Burma, or Indonesia, or if we don’t have the desire, this is not an obstacle in terms of our spiritual development. In fact, we may simply be aware that our time and energy is best spent in our own homes, with our meditation practice and all the complications and joys of our own lives. We can confidently stay in one place, knowing that everything that we need to attain enlightenment is always available right where we are. 

On this day of your life

On this day of your life,

Neytiri & Jake, I believe God wants you to know...

...that things work in society, because biology compels it.
Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

Camille Paglia said that, and it is important to remember
during these times of great change and apparent turmoil.
Conversations with God puts it this way: Life works
out in the process of Life Itself.
 
All you have to do is trust that it will, and allow it to.

Desire

"One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulating to creativeness, to love, and to long life." - Alexander A. Bogomoletz

Today I desire to live. I have discovered value in my life. I have experienced personal self-esteem. I am able to feel, talk, trust, and laugh again. I desire to live fully! I can remember when I felt lonely, isolated, angry, shut down, and hopeless. My desires were destructive when mingled with alcohol. Then the pain became too great and I experienced a vital "moment." I realized I needed to make a choice:Was I to live or die? I chose to live! This was the beginning of my spiritual journey into self from which I discovered God and this world. Creative and positive desires were reborn in my life, and I am able to live and love again.

God, may I continue to desire those things that do not hurt me.

Healing What Hurts (OM)

Freeing Up Energy

by Madisyn Taylor

When we are carrying the burden of our unprocessed pain, sooner or later, it will inconvenience us.

Many of us are going through our lives aware of a well of pain underlying our daily awareness that we’ve felt for so long we aren’t even sure where it comes from. It almost seems as if it’s part of who we are, or the way we see the world, but it’s important to realize that this pain is something that needs to be acknowledged and processed. The longer we sit on it, the harder it is to work through, and the more likely it is that we will be forced to acknowledge it as it makes itself known to us in ways we can’t predict. Rather than waiting for this to happen, we can empower ourselves by identifying the pain and resolving to take action toward healing it.

The very thought of this brings up feelings of resistance in most of us, especially if, on the surface, our lives seem to be in order. It’s difficult to dig up the past and go into it unless we are being seriously inconvenienced by the hurt. The thing is, when we are carrying the burden of our unprocessed pain, sooner or later, it will inconvenience us. If we can be brave and proactive, we can save ourselves a lot of future suffering and free up the energy that is tied up in keeping the pain down.

There are many ways to do this, but the first step is to recognize the pain and honor it by moving our awareness into it. In this process, even if it’s just five minutes during meditation, we will begin to have a sense of what the pain is made of. It might be fear of abandonment, childhood abuse, anger at being mistreated, or some other long held wound. As we sit with the pain, we will also have a sense of whether we can deal with it by ourselves, or not. It may be time to work with a counselor, or form a healing circle with close friends. Whatever path you choose, resolve to go deep into the pain, so that you can release it fully, and set yourself free. Remember, it is never too late in life to heal what hurts, and there is never a better time than now.

On this day of your life

On this day of your life,

Neytiri & Jake, I believe God wants you to know...

...that you may speak your truth, but soothe your words

with peace.

Tell your truth as soon as you know it. Yet tell it gently,

kindly, and with compassion for the hearer. Someone

needs to hear the truth from you today... but that person

also needs your deep compassion as you speak it.

 

Seek to say what needs to be said with softness, and

with a wide open heart. Remember, the truth can hurt...

but it hurts a lot less if you care how it feels while

saying it.

Humility

Humility doesn't allow people to walk all over me. -James Baldwin

The word "humility" has often been misunderstood. James Baldwin understood this. Christian piety often gave the impression that it was spiritual to let others take advantage of us - and we suffered in silence. But real humility involves respect. It is necessary to respect other people, treating them with dignity and genuine interest. But we must also respect ourselves. Say Yes to Your Spirit affirms this balance. I'm not respecting you if I allow you to disrespect me. - Leo Booth

I affirm a humility that respects self.

Kim in Practice: Meditative Breathing (ET)

Many meditations involve a focus on the breath. The purpose of this practice is to balance awareness with the physical embodiment of movement, even if that movement is very minimal. Join us for Kim’s teachings on meditative breathing aimed at opening ourselves up to spiritual awakening.

If there’s a lot of noise in your outer layers – in your mind, in your emotions – meditative breathing allows you to just let it be. So maybe you won’t feel the stillness at that moment but as you let it be, allow things to be as they are, stillness reveals itself; there’s a space that opens up.

You are that space, and that space is vast. Yet a lot arises. 

So let’s begin. If you’d like you can sit up so you don’t go to sleep. You could even sit at the edge of your chair if you like.

Close your eyes, simply breathe, and notice your breathing.

Notice quality of your breathing. Just allow your breathing to be as it is. You’re not changing; just noticing and letting it be. Where’s the inhale going in your body? Now see what happens on the exhale.

If thoughts arise return attention to your body. Scan your body head to toe, noticing sensations in your body, places you’re tight, holding tension. Just feel the sensations, because that’s all it really is: sensation. Call it tightness, pain, anxiety – the name doesn’t really matter. To just transmute anything, you’ve got to let go of judging and analyzing and simply allow it to be.

With your awareness we are unconditionally loving this moment.

As you bring attention to your body and your breath, your breath deepens and your body relaxes. Feel the breath as you breathe deeper into your body. There is no time like the present. Notice there’s almost a running towards the future or the past, just notice that shift from running towards something to just being here. Free. Present.

In this space that we call a room, notice the sounds, keeping your attention on stillness. Notice whatever arises within you.

Where is that formless dimension that is found within? Tap into it. Connect to it. Stay in that space.

If you have some story or emotion going on inside you just notice where it is in your body. Bring attention to it, asking where in the body it lies. All the thoughts seem to happen in the head, but for every thought we hold, believe to be true, is held somewhere in your body. So next time you have a stream of thinking, go in your body: where do you feel it? Where is your attention going in the body? Stay with that sensation. Be with it completely, allowing it to be and move out of you, dissolve, transform.

This is the practice of returning home to yourself, realizing that every single form is not who you are. Who you really are is pure consciousness; the vastness that holds this universe.

Is there any time? No, only the present moment. In every moment, it’s your choice. Be still and know that I am.

Eckhart and Zen (ET)

The inability or rather unwillingness of the human mind to let go of the past is beautifully illustrated in the story of two Zen monks, Tanzan and Ekido, who were walking along a country road that had become extremely muddy after heavy rains. Near a village, they came upon a young woman who was trying to cross the road, but the mud was so deep it would have ruined the silk kimono she was wearing. Tanzan at once picked her up and carried her to the other side.

The monks walked on in silence. Five hours later, as they were approaching the lodging temple, Ekido couldn’t restrain himself any longer. “Why did you carry that girl across the road?” he asked. “We monks are not supposed to do things like that.”

“I put the girl down hours ago,” said Tanzan. “Are you still carrying her?” Now imagine what life would be like for someone who lived like Ekido all the time, unable or unwilling to let go internally of situations, accumulating more and more “stuff” inside, and you get a sense of what life is like for the majority of people on our planet. What a heavy burden of past they carry around with them in their minds.

The past lives in you as memories, but memories in themselves are not a problem. In fact, it is through memory that we learn from the past and from past mistakes. It is only when memories, that is to say, thoughts about the past, take you over completely that they turn into a burden, turn problematic, and become part of your sense of self. 

Your personality, which is conditioned by the past, then becomes your prison. Your memories are invested with a sense of self, and your story becomes who you perceive yourself to be. This “little me” is an illusion that obscures your true identity as timeless and formless Presence.

Excerpted from Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, pages 139-141.

What Every Child Needs to Flourish: Kim Eng’s Teachings on Conscious Parenting (ET)

By Suza Scalora

Suza Scalora sits down with Kim Eng, counselor, public speaker and partner of spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle, to discuss how we can cultivate consciousness as parents and support our children in flourishing into healthy, conscious adults.

Suza

In your opinion, what is the most vital thing a parent can do to support their child and help them flourish into a balanced, healthy adult?

Kim

What comes to mind is a line from the movie Avatar, “I see you.” That is what every child craves, in fact, what we all crave — to be seen. If we can get beyond the form, the baby, the body, the crying and just “see,” by which I mean, just sense their essence. There are so many sacred moments that we often miss because we get lost in thinking. We send our children to school at an early age and they’ve got to achieve this and they’ve got to accomplish that. They begin to lose sight of who they really are. It’s important to see your child, so give your child that attention. Of course we need to give attention to what they do, but it’s even more important to give attention to who they are at their core. This kind of attention goes beyond any doing, beyond the body, beyond the mind. The giving of pure attention is love, so by giving love we teach them what love is, and the importance of love, and so they develop the ability to love.

Suza

How does a conscious parent help their child navigate an ‘unconscious’ world that can be highly competitive and mired in fear?

Kim

A conscious parent creates something else at home. Our home is a manifestation of what is inside of us. If we are conscious, then that gets reflected in our environment, especially our home. As the child gets older, and as we become more masterful in cultivating presence internally and in our home, we can extend that into the world.

Right now, to a large extent the world we have created is a reflection of our unconsciousness, which re-creates certain basic patterns again and again, but we’re waking up from that. In order to continue to awaken, we must understand that we have everything, right now, within us.

It’s also important to have periods in your daily activities dedicated to doing absolutely nothing but being. You can do that with your children—just be there with them. Even in the “doing,” in the playing, you can be present with them by truly seeing and enjoying them.

Suza

Being able to really see your child starts with this recognition that there’s something deeper inside of us. When we recognize this power within us we’re able to recognize it in others.

Kim

Yes, absolutely. If there’s going to be any real change, it has to start with us. If we don’t do this for ourselves, but we try to create it for our children, it won’t hold up. Children know intuitively when things are phony.

Suza

Can you talk about this deeper sense of self and how it differs from our identification with the functions and roles we play in society?

Kim

Parenting is a function. Any job we have is a function; but, that’s not who we are on the deepest level. When we become attached to our function and identify with it, we become unconscious of who we are in our essence. Who or what we essentially are, is awareness or consciousness. It’s not only important to teach our children how to be in the world, but how to detach from it as well. We can be in the world, but not of it. What does “of” refer to here? It is the identification, the attachment to the roles we play and the expectations we have for ourselves and others.

Suza

As a parent, your function includes protecting and teaching your child. What is the difference, from a conscious parenting perspective, between serving your role as a parent and identifying with your role as parent?

Kim

When we identify with the role of parent, we take on this idea of “this is who I am”—and it’s not. Adopting the identity of parent gives us this idea that we are superior in some way. In order for someone to be superior, someone has to be inferior. So, who’s inferior? The child.

When we play such a role in the relationship, we often put expectations on our children. We want them to become doctors or lawyers, for example. The child, however, may love art or dance or something else, but we get fixated on this idea that they need to achieve “success” on our terms. We allow our identification with the parent role to take over. Instead of guiding them we try to mold them, so that their life fits our expectations. If they fail, or fail to conform, we become unhappy. If they do conform, chances are that they will become unhappy. This is what can happen when we identify with our roles. We put an identity around ourselves and, consequently, around our children.

When we choose to see or rather sense the true nature of our child, and realize that it is one with our own true nature, then this false identity disappears. Simply knowing that we are more than our functions in society is enough to become conscious. Our essential nature is awareness. Realizing that, is spiritual awakening.

Self-Talk and Self-Awareness (ET)

To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for your inner state at any given moment.

That means now.

Ask yourself, “Is there negativity in me at this moment?” Then, become alert, attentive to your thoughts as well as your emotions. Watch out for the low-level unhappiness in whatever form that I mentioned earlier, such as discontent, nervousness, being “fed up,” and so on.

Watch out for thoughts that appear to justify or explain this unhappiness but in reality cause it. The moment you become aware of a negative state within yourself, it does not mean you have failed. It means that you have succeeded. Until that awareness happens, there is identification with inner states, and such identification is ego. With awareness comes disidentification from thoughts, emotions, and reactions. This is not to be confused with denial. The thoughts, emotions, or reactions are recognized, and in the moment of recognizing, disidentification happens automatically.

Your sense of self, of who you are, then undergoes a shift:

Before you were the thoughts, emotions, and reactions; now you are the awareness, the conscious Presence that witnesses those states.

“One day I will be free of the ego.” Who is talking? The ego. 

To become free of the ego

is not really a big job but a very small one. All you need to do is be aware of your thoughts and emotions—as they happen. This is not really a “doing,” but an alert “seeing.”

In that sense, it is true that there is nothing you can do to become free of the ego. When that shift happens, which is the shift from thinking to awareness, an intelligence far greater than the ego’s cleverness begins to operate in your life. Emotions and even thoughts become depersonalized through awareness. Their impersonal nature is recognized. There is no longer a self in them. They are just human emotions, human thoughts. Your entire personal history, which is ultimately no more than a story, a bundle of thoughts and emotions, becomes of secondary importance and no longer occupies the forefront of your consciousness. It no longer forms the basis for your sense of identity. You are the light of Presence, the awareness that is prior to and deeper than any thoughts and emotions.

Excerpted from Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, pages 116-117.

Creating Connections While Apart (OM)

Family Ceremonies

by Madisyn Taylor

If you are apart from your family you can decide upon a reminder together, and create a simple ceremony of connection that defies any distance.

Life’s journeys may sometimes take us away from our families and friends, but there are many ways to stay connected. Aside from making use of the technology available—speaking on the phone or seeing each other from across cyberspace—we can create simple ceremonies using nature and our own thoughts to connect our hearts across the miles.

The first step in creating your ceremony is to look to nature for similarities in the different surroundings. The second step is agreeing upon something that is meaningful to all involved. If your mother loves birds, then perhaps each time you hear a bird chirp, you can think of her and mentally send love. You may choose the sight of a butterfly, the feel of a breeze or raindrops, or the scent of flowers to remind you of a special someone. The pink glow of sunset might be your favorite time to send a thought, or perhaps the warming oranges of sunrise. We can all see the sun, the moon, and an array of twinkling stars when we look to the skies. The monthly full moon may be your time to connect with your loved ones, or the first star you see each night, knowing that they, too, are gazing into the night sky and sending love. You could choose a day that you would usually celebrate together, such as a holiday or a solstice. If you once shared Sunday brunches in the garden, you can! each seek out a garden on Sundays. Or you can choose a specific time and account for the time difference in order to connect by heart and mind at exactly the same moment.

With practice, we may learn to recognize the feeling that comes when a loved one sends energy our way, and the feeling of soul-to-soul communication. In this case, distance may indeed make our connections stronger. There is certainly much to make us think of our close friends and loved ones often, but when we decide upon a reminder together, we create a simple ceremony of connection that defies any distance.

I Am Enough

                                                                      
In a crowded mall this Christmas, I went to pick up a small utility item. I don't need to shop much this year. In the last year I've slowly dismantled a life that wasn't so healthy. I'm starting over from scratch. Right then, though, for a moment in the mall, I was overcome by the sea of faces, snippets of conversation, the noise and the lights. I felt suddenly that I would never fit in anywhere. I would never belong. I felt so forlorn. I was alone. 

But I kept looking at all these faces. I kept looking at the all the things to buy. Shoes and sweaters. Watches belts, and twinkly earrings. Lamps and baubles. I saw a pair of high-heeled pink suede sneakers, which would have made my heart throb when I was a teen. But that day, as I slowly wandered past the shining stores and dodged hurried shoppers, I realized that I needed nothing.

I was in a whole mall of shopping delights and Christmas sales, and I saw nothing that I wanted for myself. I looked at the faces! and I saw no relationship that I wanted for myself. I didn't belong to these people, or to this place. Suddenly, I was glad. I realized, with a start of surprise, that I don't need anything in this entire shopping palace. I am complete within me. I felt as if I had evolved into a new spiritual creature in that mall.

The critical voices in my head suddenly became quiet. I found myself absorbing the sights and relishing, yes, relishing that I didn't belong. I was past all of this. I had grown past the need to get things to show off, and flash the status symbols, and to have people filling me. It was my Christmas present this year from my Higher Power to me. For Christmas this year, I got Me. I am enough.


Nancy M. (2004)

On this day of your life

On this day of your life,

Neytiri & Jake, I believe God wants you to know... 

...that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Martin Luther King Jr. said that, and he was right. And

his wisdom holds true not only for peace in our world,

but for peace within ourselves.

All of our spiritual traditions teach the same thing. To

achieve peace, be peace. Yet how does one be what

one is wishing to experience? By a sheer act of Will.

 

And...by causing others to experience what you wish

to experience.

Patriotism

Patriotism . . . applies to true love of one's country and a code of conduct that echoes such love. - Howard Fast

I was born in England, and I love to read about the history of my country. I especially enjoy reading about Sir Winston Churchill and the many speeches that he made. He was a true patriot. Some years ago I became a citizen of the United States. I'm proud to be an American, and today I'm reading about this country and the famous men and women who have contributed to its charter of liberty. Liberty is not only an idea; it is also a code of behavior. If I am to enjoy freedom, then I need to encourage the experience of freedom in others-and not just my fellow citizens.

In my Say Yes to Your Spirit, I realize I'm a patriot of the world.

Need You Now (S)

Choose Your Words (OM)

Failure

by Madisyn Taylor

When the word failure comes up, it’s a call for us to apply a more enlightened consciousness to the matter at hand.

The word failure puts forward a very simplistic way of thinking that allows for only two possibilities: failure or success. Few things in the universe are black and white, yet much of our language reads as if they are. The word failure signifies a paradigm in which all subtlety is lost. When we regard something we have done, or ourselves, as a failure, we lose our ability to see the truth, which is no doubt considerably more complex. In addition, we hurt ourselves. All you have to do is speak or read the word failure and see how it makes you feel.

At some point, the word may not have been so loaded with the weight of negativity, and it simply referred to something that did not go according to plan. Unfortunately, in our culture it is often used very negatively, such as when a person is labeled a failure, even though it is impossible for something as vast and subtle as a human being to be reduced in such a way. It also acts as a deterrent, scaring us from taking risks for fear of failure. It has somehow come to represent the worst possible outcome. Failure is a word so burdened with fearful and unconscious energy that we can all benefit from consciously examining our use of it, because the language we use influences the way we think and feel.

Next time you feel like a failure or fear failure, know that you are under the influence of an outmoded way of perceiving the world. When the word failure comes up, it’s a call for us to apply a more enlightened consciousness to the matter at hand. When you are consciously aware of the word and its baggage you will not fall victim to its darkness. In your own use of language, you may choose to stop using the word failure altogether. This might encourage you to articulate more clearly the truth of the situation, opening your mind to subtleties and possibilities the word failure would never have allowed. 

On this day of your life

On this day of your life,

Neytiri & Jake, I believe God wants you to know... 

...that bad news does not have to get you down. It can
actually get you going.

The things that really matter in life often become more
clear to us when we encounter bad news or bad luck.
We can use such moments to expand our experience
of our most precious treasures: the people that we love.

Now may be a wonderful time to get back to basics,
like board games with your children, quiet talks with
your friends, a moment of gentleness with your spouse.

Failure

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. Beverly Sills

Some friends of mine have recently shared that the reason they feel that they've not been successful in their lives is fear of failure. This has included relationships. This fear of being rejected stopped them from asking a particular man or woman out on a date. Is this crazy? Yes. But true. I really agree with Beverly Sills, because everybody experiences aspects of life that don't work out for them. I'm not sure I'd call it failure, but the process of trying is a learning experience in itself. Also concerning relationships, the worst that can happen is that they say, "No." So, if you're smart, you fish in another part of the lake! Say Yes to Your Spirit always involves risk.And remember: you don't always have to keep doing what you've done!

My dance in God includes risk.

Releasing Your Expectations (OM)

Finding Joy In Life’s Surprises

by Madisyn Taylor

The further you distance yourself from your expectations, the more exhilarating your life will become.

As we endeavor to find personal fulfillment and realize our individual ideals, we naturally form emotional attachments to those outcomes we hope will come to pass. These expectations can serve as a source of stability, allowing us to draft plans based on our visions of the future, but they can also limit our potential for happiness by blinding us to equally satisfying yet unexpected outcomes. Instead of taking pleasure in the surprising circumstances unfolding around us, we mourn for the anticipation left unfulfilled. When we think of letting go of our expectations, we may find ourselves at the mercy of a small inner voice that admonishes us to strive for specific goals, even if they continually elude us. However, the opposite of expectation is not pessimism. We can retain our optimism and free ourselves from the need to focus on specific probabilities by opening our hearts and minds to a wide variety of possible outcomes.

When we expect a situation, event, or confrontation to unfold in a certain way, it becomes more difficult to enjoy the surprises that have the potential to become profound blessings. Likewise, we may feel that we failed to meet our inner objectives because we were unable to bring about the desired results through our choices and actions. Consider, though, that we are all at the mercy of the universal flow, and our best intentions are often thwarted by fate. As you grow increasingly open to unforeseen outcomes, you will be more apt to look for and recognize the positive elements of your new circumstances. This receptivity to the unexpected can serve you well when you are called upon to compromise with others, your life plans seem to go awry, or the world moves forward in an unanticipated manner by granting you the flexibility to see the positive aspects of almost any outcome.

The further you distance yourself from your expectations, the more exhilarating your life will become. Though a situation in which you find yourself may not correspond to your initial wants, needs, or goals, ask yourself how you can make the most of it and then do your best to adapt. Your life’s journey will likely take many unpredicted and astonishing twists because you are willing to release your expectations. 

Performance

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. - Lao-tzu

One step at a time; don't rush, but keep moving forward. Success is a process. I need to remember that today. I wish to work smarter, not harder. For too many years I rushed around like a chicken with its head cut off-activity rather than performance. Say Yes to Your Spirit is more cautionary. I need to think before I act, and I don't need to rush. Today I have a work plan. I write down three or four things that I want to achieve each day.When I'm done I find time to play. I don't waste time; rather I seek to create my life on a daily basis. It works for me. What about you?

Fools rush in... not me!

Find Your Soul Purpose through the Akashics

Find Your Soul Purpose through the Akashics

by Teri Uktena

The following is an excerpt from the "Find Your Soul Purpose through the Akashics" on-line course. If you would like to enroll in the course, click here.

The Akashics is a name derived from the Sanskrit word Akasha and it refers to the base substance of the universe. This is the substance by which the Universe is made and that retains a record of all that has ever occurred to everything that has ever existed. Scientists in various fields are beginning to find evidence that confirms the existence of Akasha and are beginning to see it as a ‘field’ as omni present as gravity and the electro-magnetic field. It is currently discussed in the various scientific communities as the ‘in-formation’ field that underlies everything and is the force that holds all things together.

Long before the scientific method gave us tools to learn about our world, indigenous cultures on every continent knew of its existence. Medicine elders, mystics, shamans, gurus, druids, and all types of holy people spent a great deal of their time and resources attempting to reach it consciously, to channel the information and energy they experience there, and to bring back the wisdom that they have acquired through their travels. Each in their own way have done so, bringing healing, insight and a better life to all who have known them, read or heard about them.

While science currently sees the Akashics as a field of information to be studied, people experience the Akashics as a place, a multifaceted realm that can be traveled to and explored. In that realm is the Library where the records of all things are kept including each individual’s personal Soul Book. This book is the history of everything your soul has ever done and the plans for it during this lifetime. This book can be read in order to receive further understanding of who you are today and the purposes and goals your soul has set for you. There are also books for businesses, geographical places, buildings, and much, much more.

In the Akashics reside souls which are not currently experiencing embodied life, spirits which work within the Akashics and guides which aid people in their embodied lives. It is a place where you can be introduced consciously to the guides who are assigned to help you throughout your life or for specific projects or the time periods and interact with them. You may communicate with them directly and learn how they can communicate with you.

In the past 100 years, as our world has moved closer to a new age, more and more people have begun to experience heightened awareness of the connectedness of all things, the earth, politics, and personal interactions. More have felt a calling to seek out ways in which to improve their lives and the lives of those around them. Many talented people have found that they can reach the Akashics and ‘read’ the information there in order to help others, the most renowned of which being Edgar Cayce. Hundreds have become readers and have helped thousands to learn more about themselves and how to be their best and highest selves.

Now in the Twenty-First Century the Akashics are no longer for the few, but are open to everyone who seeks to find the answers to their questions and to act on what they find. In fact, what most people don’t know is that they have always been open to everyone. Every living human being accesses the Akashics naturally while they are sleeping. Those dreams that seem just a bit more real and coherent than the others, where you are talking to someone you know but don’t recognize their face, that’s the Akashics. You were there. That dream where you are your happiest in that special place where the world is perfect? That’s you in the Akashics. That dream where you wake up having figured out the answer to that nagging question magically out of now where? Yep, that’s the Akashics too. You’re a natural. You’re in.

This is in part because of your soul. Many people have taken in the message that our souls are some mystical ‘thing’ that is important but separate from our physical selves and daily lives, when the reality is quite different. Our souls give us life and make us unique. Our bodies, our emotions, our intellect are all manifestations of our soul in relationship with the world around us and all other things. We are in an ongoing conversation with ‘all that is’ and this is reflected in how we live in the world. However, souls are not small things that hover in our chests or hide at the base of our skulls or live in a nebulous cloud throughout our bodies. Each individual soul is very large and only a small portion of each soul resides in a person. The remainder of the soul remains on the spiritual plane that includes the Akashics.

Imagine if you will a rubber band being stretched in your hands. One part is in your left hand and the other is in your right. If you look at only one hand you could perceive that the rubber band resides only there. But if you look at both you can see that it is all connected and if you move your hands closer together the rubber band relaxes and you are able to easily see that it is one thing. Souls are much like this. When you are in conscious connection with the Akashics your soul moves toward wholeness and you are able receive the benefits of that which can and do include wisdom, healing, empowerment, and knowledge, among others.

There are a multitude of experiences that one can have in the Akashics, too many to number here. The purpose of this class is specifically for you to learn how to access the Akashics in order to read your own Soul book. You will also meet your own guides or those guides who wish to work with you during this process. Reading your Soul book will give you the ability to learn why you are here, what the meaning of your life has been so far, what challenges you are here to work through, what expectations you have for yourself, what are your gifts and abilities, what you are to learn, and who you wanted to become. Among many, many other things! As many questions as you can imagine, there are responses and support in your Soul book.

There are some things that the Akashics are not. They are not a means to see your future. Because each individual has free will, the future cannot be determined. We have the right to choose each action that we take and this makes the future a woven fabric which we are actively weaving each day of our lives, in each moment. Nothing is pre-determined conclusively.
Also, your guides and your Soul book will almost never give ‘yes’ or ‘no’, ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers. As the purpose of your life is to make choices, make mistakes, learn and grow and most of all experience life, the Akashics and your guides will never state definitively what you should choose. Aggravating as it is, they will only lay out the options and opportunities and help you see the end results each choice might bring.

The Akashics is not a place to try and influence others. Unless you have permission from the other person you will not be allowed to see anyone else’s book or to leave them messages or interact with them. The Akashics is a place for personal growth and healing which can help you understand a relationship, for instance, or a tendency you have for picking a specific type of partner, but it will not aid you in interfering directly in the choices you have made or in the choices or lives of others.

So, with all of that said, it’s time now to prepare for your own personal adventure in working with the Akashics. Firstly, there are a variety of ways in which people interpret their experiences in the Akashics. No way is better than any other and each is geared to give you the best experience that matches your unique style and gifts.

• Some people tend towards visual imagery and so will see images like still photos, either black or white or color, or they will experience information as if they are seeing a movie play before them. Sometimes they will feel like they are in the movie or in a video game.
• Others are strongest at hearing. They will hear information, but have no pictures to go with the sound. Most often they hear voices, ambient sounds while seeing random colors or some kind of holding pattern.
• And still others are more tactile and so they receive physical sensations or emotions while receiving information directly into their memories. During or after being in the Akashics a partner can ask them pertinent questions such as what their book looked like, what room they were in, or who they interacted with and they will be able to tell you, although their experience of the event was purely tactile.

The first step to traveling to the Akashics is learning how you perceive in the Akashic realm. To do this, let’s go through a simple meditation. Make sure that you have paper and a pen or pencil ready, as you will want to write down your results.

Beginning Meditation

• Find a place where you will not be disturbed.

• Sit comfortably in a chair or on the floor making sure that you do not have either your legs or arms crossed.


• Take three deep breaths to calm yourself.


• Close your eyes.


• Feel your body relaxing from the center of your being outward, through your chest, through your arms to your hands, up your back, through your neck and jaw. Relax your face, relax your eyes. Let the relaxation radiate through your pelvis and down your legs until it reaches the very tips of your toes.


• Now that you are relaxed imagine you see a doorway in front of you. Move through that doorway into a room. The room is pleasant and open. At the other end of the room is something sitting, waiting patiently. Move forward and you will see that it is an animal. It is loving and patient and there only for you. Walk up to the animal, touch it gently if you wish, acknowledge it and let it acknowledge you.


• When you are ready, you will see that the animal is sitting in front of another doorway. Open the door and follow your animal through it. Look all around you. See that you are in the most beautiful, loving, wonderful place you can imagine. A place where you feel your best and where everything is perfect and just for you. Look at everything around you. See all the colors; hear all the sounds as they float around you. Feel what it is like to be in this space. Feel it in your body and let your mind know that you are there.


• At your feet there is an object. It is specifically for you. Pick it up and hold it. Feel it in your hand. Look at it closely. Note the color, shape, and weight of it. Hold it to your chest and know that it is specifically for you and that it has great meaning for you. It will always be there when you need it and you can come back to this place at any time.


• Place the object back on the ground. Take one last look around you at everything and let a feeling of peace and contentment settle over you.


• Turn and follow your animal back through the doorway. You are now back in your room. Thank your animal for journeying with you. They will always be there when you need them and you can come to the room at any time you wish. Walk back through the room to the further door and back to your body.


• Take three deep breaths and as you breathe begin to wiggle your toes and your fingers. Take note of the sounds in the room around you.


• Open your eyes.

After the meditation

How you experience this meditation is most likely how you will experience the Akashics. If you were able to see then you will see in the Akashics. If you were able to hear but not see clearly or at all then that will be our experience and more than likely you will want to work with a guide to have them read your book to you or request that the book be and audio book in your case. The information can be provided in any form. If you had tactile sensations then while writing notes about the experience you should note that you are ‘remembering’ quite a bit more than you noted while you were having the experience. Trust that what you are writing down is true. For those who are tactile it is sometimes helpful to have a partner during and after the visit that can ask probing questions. This will help you assimilate the information more in real time and can help provide more insight into what you are experiencing.
I recommend working with this meditation daily throughout this week. Journal your experiences to see your progress. Each meditation will be unique and provide you insights into yourself and the world around you.