To honor the new year, I wanted to share the information on new age business and entrepreneurship, loosely based my recent interview with Claire Papin. It's something to think about for your future, and I hope it will be informative and helpful in making decision about how to handle the changes and challenges we are all faced with now.
I am currently in Albuqueruqe, NM, staying with a friend, and I have just made contact with old friends from the Sun Temples of Atlantis. This is the culmination of five years of knowing there was a group waiting for me, and that they would know me when we meet, and we would work together on many common goals, using my writing, design work and spirituality. It's wonderful to make this connection. I expect to meet my beloved very soon and see the manifestation of the vision I had this past June that sent me on this journey. What a wonderful time it is for me. I wish all of you much success and joy in this new year. The Angel of Infinity asks me to tell you that is time for the re-creation and recreation for they are one and the same. It's time to put joy back in to daily work and to make it the play that it originally was. Namaste.
The New Age of Entrepreneurship
The Transformation of Business
A dialogue between Claire Papin, It’s All Good on Sirius Satellite Radio and www.lime.com online radio, December 2005.
Intro bio: Today’s guest, Sandy Penny, is a visionary, a highly intuitive spiritual advisor, an accomplished entrepreneur and a published magazine author. She has built businesses from the ground up with little or no up-front investment, incorporating her creativity, lifestyle interests, and spirituality into unique expressions of her authentic self. Sandy has been a graphic designer, a marketing and financial writer for fortune 100 companies, and the publisher of two newspapers, The Rising Sun, the first metaphysical journal in Houston, Texas, and Family and Friends, a resource journal for kids and parents. Currently reinventing herself as a marketing consultant and inspirational speaker for New Age and spiritual businesses, she is traveling the world and developing material for several upcoming writing projects.
People talk about the New Age and the Aquarian Age all the time, but very few people talk about those terms in concrete ways. Can you define those terms for us?
There are many casual references to New Age people and thought and the Age of Aquarius, but few discuss it in a practical way. The "Old Age" was called the Piscean Age, and the fish was its symbol. It corresponds to the sign of Pisces on the cosmic astrological calendar. Our world has moved from the energy of the Piscean Age into the Aquarian Age, also called The New Age.
What was the Piscean Age about?
The Piscean Age was associated with the experience of hierarchy, structure, power and control, deep emotion and addiction - and the positive outcome of addressing the inherent lessons is to master the ability to build lasting structures while honoring the earth and the people who help build and sustain the structures. There are many extremes offered in the Piscean Age, drug, alcohol, work and relationship addictions. All that and more was readily available for us to choose. Once the planet moves out of a cycle, the lessons of that sign are no longer appropriate, even if we have not mastered them. The energy shifts into new patterns, and the old structures begin to break down so the energy can be used to build the new age structures. We have been witnessing that breakdown of the old age since the 1960s, slowly moving through the dawning of the Age of Aquarius into the full onset of Aquarian power.
How does the Aquarian Age differ from the Piscean Age?
Aquarius is the water bearer. It is heralded by events concerning wind and water – like hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, and as a complementary energy, fires that are spread by the wind. In the past few years and this year in particular, the transformation has become more intense, and few people have escaped experiencing it or at least feeling it in some way. The impact has been to bring up all the old Piscean karmic issues for us to look at because as a famous TV therapist says, "You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge." We have the opportunity to make significant growth and change at times like this. We can integrate the lessons of the old age and embrace the challenges of the new one. The good news is that a great deal of energy has been freed up for us to use in new and different ways, ways that are in harmony with the new energy of Aquarius. For those who resist change, events of wind, water and fire will free them from old attachments and create radical change. However, we can make mindful decisions about change, using our intuition and inner guidance, prior to being forced into a change by external circumstances.
What are the attributes of the Aquarian energy?
The sign of Aquarius includes what I call the four Cs: communication, cooperation, creativity and community. These are the challenges and the areas that will offer the best opportunities for success and growth for the next couple of thousand years. The internet is the ultimate symbol for the Aquarian Age. It offers instant world wide communication, the ability to build and change communities and businesses quickly and to respond to changes as they occur. It also offers the opportunity for a great deal of creativity and cooperation as a result of the connections it offers globally and the marketing strategies available to businesses.
How do these attributes affect us on a personal and business level?
On a personal level, we have seen how the internet offers us the opportunity to connect with people all over the world, to communicate, to cooperate, to date and just as easily to shut down that communication instantly if we choose. It offers us the ability to live in remote locations and access a global marketplace, to order what we need and have it shipped to us from all over this planet.
In the same way, the world of business is changing just as fast as the World Wide Web these days. The traditional business model with its hierarchal structure is giving way to the flatter, more fluid nuclear model that can respond quickly to new trends and plug in experts at all levels and phases of a project. Business owners and executives have to be thinking on their feet all the time and learning new skills and technologies. The days of the big behemoth companies are numbered, and their dinosaur bones will fuel the new economy as oil fueled the old one. Even Wall Street now offers a sustainability index so people can choose companies that are focused on what will make them last, like good environmental policies, employee ownership and commitment to fiscal health.
We have been seeing many of those changes in business recently, and there seem to be a lot of people out of jobs these days. Why is that and what does the New Age offer us in the way of financial support?
"To paraphrase W.E. Butler, a spiritual person serves by what he is, not just by what he does. In other words, there is no mandate for spiritual people to subjugate themselves to a collective ideal of servitude, for their very existence is a conduit by which spirit enters into and transforms society, no matter how subtle and unnoticed it may be."
What I mean by using that quote is that the jobs of the past that we have lost recently are not coming back in the same numbers, and rather than worry about what kind of jobs we will have, we have to refocus our attention on small businesses that offer us the opportunity to use the four Cs: communication, cooperation, creativity and community. We have to become more self-sustaining instead of depending on large businesses to support us. The days of the lifetime job and retirement after 30 years are gone. The energy of the Aquarian Age will not support that structure.
More good news is that it offers us the chance to evaluate the lifestyle and work choices we have made and to consciously choose something that brings us joy, challenges us, and expresses our creativity. We all have strengths and activities that we love that can be converted into money-making ventures once we accept that we can truly be paid to do what we love.
What kind of business ventures do you think will thrive in this new business world?
Anything centered around communication, radio, TV, all media will thrive. Entertainment ventures will become more and more desirable, computer games, more complex cell phones that can do so many things, creative movie making, travel, ethnically diverse foods, clothing and cultural events. All creative ventures: writing, painting, sculptures, music, photography. Personal service businesses like massage, personal trainers, meditation, yoga and tai chi instructors, nutritional counseling, alternative healing and preventive medicines. Unique and excellent organic products like coffees, teas, wines, canned food items. Environmentally sound products of all kinds. Non-violent toys, educational items and entertainment for children. And, there are so many things that have not been thought of or invented yet: light and sound technologies for healing, experiential homes and office buildings, so many wonderful changes that can occur if we continue on our current path.
So many people think humanity is headed down the path of destruction, how do you respond to that?
Well, I like to point them to research that was done more than ten years ago identifying the fastest growing market in the western world. It was originally called Cultural Creatives, and over ten years ago, it was calculated at around 35% of market share, and now has grown to more than 50% market share. The interest and personality factors identified in this group of people include concern for the environment, focus on community and cooperation, interest in cultural diversity in friends, food and entertainment, commitment to personal and spiritual growth, and a desire for peaceful coexistence including religious and racial tolerance. This is the market for the New Aquarian businesses, and it’s a huge market with a potential to thrive in ways we’ve never seen on this planet, good ways.
With encouraging numbers like that, why do you think so many people have a negative take on what is happening in the world?
At the same time that this number is growing, the aspects of our culture that need to change are aggressively asserting themselves in an attempt to preserve their own existence. The old age is struggling to hang on, even though it is destined to disappear. I believe that because most people are inherently good, there is a morbid fascination with our shadow side, and that’s why the media often focuses on the negative events that are happening. There is more drama and dynamic tension in what’s wrong with the world, and a bad habit of trying to get attention for negativity has created a perception that we are all bad. I think it is our very goodness that makes us fascinated with what is bad. We can hardly believe such horrible things are possible for human beings, because, for most of us they are not possible. And so we gawk at the three-headed chicken because it’s a curiosity.
How can we shift this habitual negativity?
We can just begin focusing on what is good in our life and putting our energy into projects that move us forward. We can consciously choose to work on our own negativity. We can refuse to watch violence and ask for more positive programming and support businesses and products that are environmentally friendly. We can vote with our dollars and express our opinions when people are running their fear and negativity. We can offer suggestions to people in our lives on how they can help support a world they choose instead of one that is forced upon them or accepted by default. Everything we do is a choice, even the act of not choosing is a vote for the status quo. We have to claim our power and put it into action. We’re creating a new world for ourselves and our children. We have the power to make it better. We can create, communicate, cooperate and build sustainable community. It’s a powerful opportunity, and we have everything we need to move in the direction of Utopia if we just let go of our fears and focus our power and energy in a forward thinking direction. This is the time of choosing and creating. Use it well.
What advice do you have for those in the throes of change and challenge who don’t understand what is happening?
I urge them to assess their skills and talents and to evaluate what brings them joy in their lives and then to look at how to turn that into a business. Make sure it is something you want to do as a business. Many don’t want to use their arts for money-making. They want to retain that as a joy-bringing experience only, and that’s fine. I also urge you to look beyond logic and let go of the limitations of what you think you can do and beyond what you think will make money. Also, look beyond what you think you deserve. Move into the realm of possibility and dreams. Whether we ever allow ourselves to look at them, we all have dreams. We all have vision of what our lives can be. We have to get in touch with them. That is where our mission lives. It lives in our imagination, and imagination is the meeting ground of heaven and earth. It is the realm where creativity reigns supreme. It is also where our personal wants and desires meet the collective unconscious and find points of connection that allow us to serve the greater good while serving our individual wants and needs. If you ask any spiritual person what they want to do, they always want to serve humanity in some way. And if you ask them their greatest challenge, they almost always say: making financial ends meet, paying bills and providing for their daily needs. If you combine those two, you have a winning combination for a successful business venture: serve the greater good while meeting your personal needs.
What are some ways we can do that?
You can get help from life and business coaches to clarify and focus your vision and create goals. You can meditate and ask for an idea that incorporates the aspects of your life that you want to fulfill. For instance, sit quietly and pray or think about what you want a business to do for you. Don’t say, make money. That’s an overlay. What you want may be to meet your financial obligations, to provide extras like vacations and upgrades to your home and lifestyle, joy in your daily endeavors, utilize a particular set of skills and talents you already have, bring together a harmonious group of people to work with. Things like that, whatever it is for you. You have to delve into your innermost wants and desires, and discard things like power and control over other people. That’s also an overlay, and you want to find out why you feel powerless and controlled by others if that comes up. You may need someone like a therapist or a new age counselor to help you sort out the emotional pieces and identify your true heart and soul desires. Once you do that, ask the Universe or Spirit or God to offer you an idea that exactly meets those heart and soul desires. You may not even have to identify them. You may just have to connect deeply with you inner self and ask for the solution. You’ll recognize it when you get it, and then you have to have the courage to act on it. Don’t discount it and talk yourself out of it. Take steps in the direction of creating it. If you don’t know the steps, ask in meditation or pray for the steps to take, then follow them. It’s always your choice to take the steps or discount them, but you will find your joy mounting as you move forward. That is the sign that you are moving in the right direction.
Will you always succeed if you do this?
It depends on how you measure success. I believe that no experience is wasted, and that every step we take leads us closer to our highest and best reality, so even if it looks like a failure in society’s eyes, take what you learn and keep moving in the direction of your happiness. The experiences, the synchronicities, the magic that will occur will bring you great joy. And that joy is what makes life worth living. We are creating a new age society that is more honoring of people, animals and the earth system; more ethical and more accepting of diversity and creativity. It’s exciting.
What will you do with this great opportunity?
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Sunday, September 25, 2005
From Gaye on Norfolk Island...
I've read and re-read and I think it was more the energy that came off your words as I read it this morning. On re-reading, it swamped me again and it's so huge that I'll try to give you an idea but I don't know if it'll come through.
Your sitting there, waiting for a hurricane to strike (for God's sake girl!) and processing information, emotional etc as you wait. Pink jeans and all.
"Take a good hard look at yourself".
"Rethink your life"
"If you don't like what's outside, look inside"
"examining my life"
"what have you hidden from yourself"
"process of spiritual analysis"
"focus positive energy"
"claim your power"
"express it"
I knew I wouldn't be able to do it. It's almost as if a conscious part of myself was sent over to you with my energies, and I went through a whole heap of emotional stuff over the weekend but sat back and observed rather than jumping into it. I was still in that space when I read your email this morning and it was so positive, so uplifting, and all from someone who was sitting out a hurricane!!!!!! It just seemed bigger than Ben Hur in that moment. Actually. It still does.
I'd like to take a minute and share something with you though. On Tuesday morning I had a powerful push to put an Advertisement in The Norfolk Islander, and that's a scary thing for me, but it was so powerful that I simply sent them an Ad, saying
Spiritual Readings Flagstaff, Kingston
Are you feeling stuck in old patterns and wish to rewrite your script?
Is your head swirling with new energies, and are fears crippling you?
Gaye is a Norfolk Islander, artist, author and mystic. At her home overlooking Kingston she offers readings, spiritual healings, crystal layouts, balancing and cleansing of chakra’s followed by down to earth discussion.
Bookings essential
No other info. Opened the Islander on Saturday evening and there's a quarter page Ad, two pages in from the front! I gasped. Shrank. Then screamed with laughter and thought, Boy oh Boy, I bet the Big Boys are just dancing in delight and saying to each other, "Wait, wait, she's opening the paper, she'll see it in a minute and will simply DIE!!!!" What a scream. Now that is a real universal joke. I sit now and wait for the consequences to roll in.
That's what I meant when I said that you've taken me beyond my normal little world and allowed me to share something, so big, so vast, that it would change my life! It was already happening. It's been happening to me since my first email to you. Is it a carry on for the love I feel for you and the encouragement and support I wanted to give you! Is it in the giving that I'm receiving. I feel that it is. I feel that I don't often genuinely want to GIVE of myself. I have no idea what I'm going on about. It's a huge change. I'm lovin it.
Love n Light, Ease and Grace, AIDO -- Gaye on Norfolk Island
Your sitting there, waiting for a hurricane to strike (for God's sake girl!) and processing information, emotional etc as you wait. Pink jeans and all.
"Take a good hard look at yourself".
"Rethink your life"
"If you don't like what's outside, look inside"
"examining my life"
"what have you hidden from yourself"
"process of spiritual analysis"
"focus positive energy"
"claim your power"
"express it"
I knew I wouldn't be able to do it. It's almost as if a conscious part of myself was sent over to you with my energies, and I went through a whole heap of emotional stuff over the weekend but sat back and observed rather than jumping into it. I was still in that space when I read your email this morning and it was so positive, so uplifting, and all from someone who was sitting out a hurricane!!!!!! It just seemed bigger than Ben Hur in that moment. Actually. It still does.
I'd like to take a minute and share something with you though. On Tuesday morning I had a powerful push to put an Advertisement in The Norfolk Islander, and that's a scary thing for me, but it was so powerful that I simply sent them an Ad, saying
Spiritual Readings Flagstaff, Kingston
Are you feeling stuck in old patterns and wish to rewrite your script?
Is your head swirling with new energies, and are fears crippling you?
Gaye is a Norfolk Islander, artist, author and mystic. At her home overlooking Kingston she offers readings, spiritual healings, crystal layouts, balancing and cleansing of chakra’s followed by down to earth discussion.
Bookings essential
No other info. Opened the Islander on Saturday evening and there's a quarter page Ad, two pages in from the front! I gasped. Shrank. Then screamed with laughter and thought, Boy oh Boy, I bet the Big Boys are just dancing in delight and saying to each other, "Wait, wait, she's opening the paper, she'll see it in a minute and will simply DIE!!!!" What a scream. Now that is a real universal joke. I sit now and wait for the consequences to roll in.
That's what I meant when I said that you've taken me beyond my normal little world and allowed me to share something, so big, so vast, that it would change my life! It was already happening. It's been happening to me since my first email to you. Is it a carry on for the love I feel for you and the encouragement and support I wanted to give you! Is it in the giving that I'm receiving. I feel that it is. I feel that I don't often genuinely want to GIVE of myself. I have no idea what I'm going on about. It's a huge change. I'm lovin it.
Love n Light, Ease and Grace, AIDO -- Gaye on Norfolk Island
Focus on the Future - Interactive Dialogue...
Dialogue about the last post: >>Sandy@writingmuse.com<< Otherwise: KB: is Karen Beth Glunz-Bagwell
>>Thanks for the note. Let me walk through your e-mail and respond as much as I can. I could label this post like Bob Frissell and Bret Lilly already wrote in their 1991 book, "Nothing in this e-mail is true, but it's exactly the way things are (for me). <<
KB: I admit that when I read your first issue where you were talking about changing the course of Rita...an aspect of my personality reared up to disregard and scoff... within a second my "aware ego" (a voice dialogue term that I like), quietly witnessed that program, "thanked it for sharing" (rather than attaching) and moved on to my mantra questions "How Does It Get Better Than This? What Is Right About This That I May Not Be Seeing".
>>I always begin by asking what is the highest and best vision I can see, and then I focus on that. I also allow for the "all in divine order" aspect of everything. I also ask what is the gentlest, most flowing way we can get the lesson, whatever it is. In this case, the best scenario I could see was that the storm go to the desert areas in south Texas, but that was not the outcome, and I am happy with the way it all played out. It could have been so much more devastating, and yet for some, it is total devastation.<<
KB: I am in wonder. There is an aspect of my personality that has some "RE" action to the statement, "information from my guides"...as if this information coming from another realm (or not) has more credence, more justification, than coming from you? Several of my friends have asked me to stop "quoting" people e.g. Bryon Katie, one of my favorite spiritual mentors. Actually, all my spiritual mentors are my favorite - tsk! You are one of my favorite spiritual mentors. Anyhow, my intention is to give credit where credit is due.
>>When I perceive that the information is coming from other beings from other realities, then I say "my guides" because I never ask who they are. I don't care who they are, only that they are the highest and best for the purpose at hand and that the information that I get is truth for those hearing it (sometimes subjective truth) for the issue at hand, and that whatever comes through me be used to create a powerful and postive future reality. If I read something, I quote the author.If you tell me something, I quote you. If I think something on my own, I say it as if it comes from me. If it comes from a being such as Shilam-Si-Ra who declares itself, then I attribute it to Shilam-Si-Ra. If it is Isar, an archetypal being of the winds of change, I attribute. You and I may be one, but we're still living separately in a world of duality, or we would not exist separately from each other, even if it may be only a perception.
Invisible beings revealed to me that there are so many beings that share this planet that are not detectable to our normal 5 senses, but that does not mean we can't know and interact with them. Do they not exist just because we don't see them? Do they not exist and have a purpose and reason for being just because we all come from oneness? For someone else to tell you how to express yourself may be them holding you in judgement. I know many things on my own, but not everything in this universe can fit into the small container of me all at once, so things outside this container communicate with me, and sometimes they do have a larger vision and ability to see the bigger picture than the "little I" does. Figure out for you what feels right and do that, even if it is in conflict with others who hold a different view. When I feel that I know all these things without input from other beings, then I will speak with my own authority, and when I feel that others have given me input on a subject, I will name them if I can. If not, I may just call them "my guides."<<
KB: One of the things that Bryon Katie says is that "we are being thought" rather than thinking. Only when we are in creative thinking do we have some originality. Otherwise, all of the 56,000 thoughts running through us, filtered by the brain, are random, recycled thoughts, from the mass consciousness, seemingly pertaining to our individual situation. Or not.
>>I believe that's true, but not the whole truth, and I believe that we cannot know the whole truth as long as we are physically incarnated. I also believe that we can begin to sort out what is recycled thoughts of the mass consciousness and what is inspiration from our Divine Source, and what is individual consciousness from different realms, but we have to develop attention to subtle details to know. And sometimes it doesn't matter what it is, it's what we do with it, how we express it, use and be it.<<
KB: Take for example the thought that cycled into my brain immediately when you posed the possibility of affecting Rita? It was instantaneous. My aware ego recognized it almost as quickly (gratitude abounds) and choose to detach, allowing flow rather than resistance.
>>We often judge it to be arrogant to think we can affect weather patterns and the patterns that seem to be larger, random and issuing from some unknown source. But everything has consciousness and can be communicated with if we find the language to transmit and receive. Of course, we deal with the consequences of what we ask for. For instance, where would you send the hurricane if you send it away from your area? Who deserves it more or less? Who has the right to make that decision and what responsbiility do we bear for asking such a huge favor of the "system?" These are always the questions of claiming power and wielding it knowingly and wisely and compassionately. I always ask for the highest and best outcome for all concerned, and that the least harm be effected, and the most good come of it. If we are to be powerful and to stop naming others as our source, we also take on the responsibility
(response-ability) of these actions. It's a huge piece of evolution.<<
KB: Joe Vitale wrote a piece that Sandra Zimmer shared with me..."we are more powerful than we know". After reading your piece and Joe’s piece among others, I choose to play BIG instead of small. I choose to visualize dissipation. I choose to stay in my question mantras and to meditate so as to detach from the thoughts and drama that the media kept pushing.
>>Good job.<<
KB: I like the way Abraham Hicks teaches about “flow and resistance”. I now look at the vibration of “commitment” as resistance versus flow. Same with the use of the word acceptance. I view it (at this moment and I am willing to have it transform again and again and again) as solid thus resistant rather than flowing...I like the term focus rather than commitment which allows for flow, evolution, and transformation.
>>Some of that is just semantics, word triggers. For me, commitment has a deep and loving sense of a long-term process, and within that commitment, flow plays a role, and resistance plays a role. I have a commitment to my spiritual path and my personal unfoldment, and I follow the flow until I reach a resistance. Then I deal with my resistance until it turns back into flow. It's like a rock in the water. If I need to rest from swimming, I may be grateful for a rock to climb out on while I strengthen myself for further swimming. We are too willing to judge ourselves and others in the process of living, and life keeps flowing over our rocks and giving us lessons anyway.<<
KB: I am learning to stay in the question unless I am in mind storming (creative
thinking) mode. This is key for me right now.... answers are still so programmed and become solid……being “right”. According to quantum physics, the answers transform the minute we “observe” them. The reason that our reality seems to be “the same” is that
we are in resistance rather than flow.
>>What about the possibility of agreement rather than resistance? We have many levels of consciousness within our personal system, and some are in resistance, some are in flow, and some are perfect harmony and balance and agreement. We may be in flow all along, but we have judged our reality, and so we decide we're in resistance, and then, of course, we are. Always allow for the possibility that everything is true, not one thing or another, but everything at the same time.<<
>>Just my opinions and my experiences, and I am changing every day. Do I understand it all? Of course not. But I am a believer, a true believer. I believe that whatever I believe is true. And, that all each of us has is our beliefs because the big questions have no answers that we can truly know in our limited form. And, this planet has room for all realities simultaneously, and room for us to honor each other in our multitude of beliefs, practices and understandings. And that is the beauty of living separately and coming together toward community and oneness.<<
--sandy@writingmuse.com
>>Thanks for the note. Let me walk through your e-mail and respond as much as I can. I could label this post like Bob Frissell and Bret Lilly already wrote in their 1991 book, "Nothing in this e-mail is true, but it's exactly the way things are (for me). <<
KB: I admit that when I read your first issue where you were talking about changing the course of Rita...an aspect of my personality reared up to disregard and scoff... within a second my "aware ego" (a voice dialogue term that I like), quietly witnessed that program, "thanked it for sharing" (rather than attaching) and moved on to my mantra questions "How Does It Get Better Than This? What Is Right About This That I May Not Be Seeing".
>>I always begin by asking what is the highest and best vision I can see, and then I focus on that. I also allow for the "all in divine order" aspect of everything. I also ask what is the gentlest, most flowing way we can get the lesson, whatever it is. In this case, the best scenario I could see was that the storm go to the desert areas in south Texas, but that was not the outcome, and I am happy with the way it all played out. It could have been so much more devastating, and yet for some, it is total devastation.<<
KB: I am in wonder. There is an aspect of my personality that has some "RE" action to the statement, "information from my guides"...as if this information coming from another realm (or not) has more credence, more justification, than coming from you? Several of my friends have asked me to stop "quoting" people e.g. Bryon Katie, one of my favorite spiritual mentors. Actually, all my spiritual mentors are my favorite - tsk! You are one of my favorite spiritual mentors. Anyhow, my intention is to give credit where credit is due.
>>When I perceive that the information is coming from other beings from other realities, then I say "my guides" because I never ask who they are. I don't care who they are, only that they are the highest and best for the purpose at hand and that the information that I get is truth for those hearing it (sometimes subjective truth) for the issue at hand, and that whatever comes through me be used to create a powerful and postive future reality. If I read something, I quote the author.If you tell me something, I quote you. If I think something on my own, I say it as if it comes from me. If it comes from a being such as Shilam-Si-Ra who declares itself, then I attribute it to Shilam-Si-Ra. If it is Isar, an archetypal being of the winds of change, I attribute. You and I may be one, but we're still living separately in a world of duality, or we would not exist separately from each other, even if it may be only a perception.
Invisible beings revealed to me that there are so many beings that share this planet that are not detectable to our normal 5 senses, but that does not mean we can't know and interact with them. Do they not exist just because we don't see them? Do they not exist and have a purpose and reason for being just because we all come from oneness? For someone else to tell you how to express yourself may be them holding you in judgement. I know many things on my own, but not everything in this universe can fit into the small container of me all at once, so things outside this container communicate with me, and sometimes they do have a larger vision and ability to see the bigger picture than the "little I" does. Figure out for you what feels right and do that, even if it is in conflict with others who hold a different view. When I feel that I know all these things without input from other beings, then I will speak with my own authority, and when I feel that others have given me input on a subject, I will name them if I can. If not, I may just call them "my guides."<<
KB: One of the things that Bryon Katie says is that "we are being thought" rather than thinking. Only when we are in creative thinking do we have some originality. Otherwise, all of the 56,000 thoughts running through us, filtered by the brain, are random, recycled thoughts, from the mass consciousness, seemingly pertaining to our individual situation. Or not.
>>I believe that's true, but not the whole truth, and I believe that we cannot know the whole truth as long as we are physically incarnated. I also believe that we can begin to sort out what is recycled thoughts of the mass consciousness and what is inspiration from our Divine Source, and what is individual consciousness from different realms, but we have to develop attention to subtle details to know. And sometimes it doesn't matter what it is, it's what we do with it, how we express it, use and be it.<<
KB: Take for example the thought that cycled into my brain immediately when you posed the possibility of affecting Rita? It was instantaneous. My aware ego recognized it almost as quickly (gratitude abounds) and choose to detach, allowing flow rather than resistance.
>>We often judge it to be arrogant to think we can affect weather patterns and the patterns that seem to be larger, random and issuing from some unknown source. But everything has consciousness and can be communicated with if we find the language to transmit and receive. Of course, we deal with the consequences of what we ask for. For instance, where would you send the hurricane if you send it away from your area? Who deserves it more or less? Who has the right to make that decision and what responsbiility do we bear for asking such a huge favor of the "system?" These are always the questions of claiming power and wielding it knowingly and wisely and compassionately. I always ask for the highest and best outcome for all concerned, and that the least harm be effected, and the most good come of it. If we are to be powerful and to stop naming others as our source, we also take on the responsibility
(response-ability) of these actions. It's a huge piece of evolution.<<
KB: Joe Vitale wrote a piece that Sandra Zimmer shared with me..."we are more powerful than we know". After reading your piece and Joe’s piece among others, I choose to play BIG instead of small. I choose to visualize dissipation. I choose to stay in my question mantras and to meditate so as to detach from the thoughts and drama that the media kept pushing.
>>Good job.<<
KB: I like the way Abraham Hicks teaches about “flow and resistance”. I now look at the vibration of “commitment” as resistance versus flow. Same with the use of the word acceptance. I view it (at this moment and I am willing to have it transform again and again and again) as solid thus resistant rather than flowing...I like the term focus rather than commitment which allows for flow, evolution, and transformation.
>>Some of that is just semantics, word triggers. For me, commitment has a deep and loving sense of a long-term process, and within that commitment, flow plays a role, and resistance plays a role. I have a commitment to my spiritual path and my personal unfoldment, and I follow the flow until I reach a resistance. Then I deal with my resistance until it turns back into flow. It's like a rock in the water. If I need to rest from swimming, I may be grateful for a rock to climb out on while I strengthen myself for further swimming. We are too willing to judge ourselves and others in the process of living, and life keeps flowing over our rocks and giving us lessons anyway.<<
KB: I am learning to stay in the question unless I am in mind storming (creative
thinking) mode. This is key for me right now.... answers are still so programmed and become solid……being “right”. According to quantum physics, the answers transform the minute we “observe” them. The reason that our reality seems to be “the same” is that
we are in resistance rather than flow.
>>What about the possibility of agreement rather than resistance? We have many levels of consciousness within our personal system, and some are in resistance, some are in flow, and some are perfect harmony and balance and agreement. We may be in flow all along, but we have judged our reality, and so we decide we're in resistance, and then, of course, we are. Always allow for the possibility that everything is true, not one thing or another, but everything at the same time.<<
>>Just my opinions and my experiences, and I am changing every day. Do I understand it all? Of course not. But I am a believer, a true believer. I believe that whatever I believe is true. And, that all each of us has is our beliefs because the big questions have no answers that we can truly know in our limited form. And, this planet has room for all realities simultaneously, and room for us to honor each other in our multitude of beliefs, practices and understandings. And that is the beauty of living separately and coming together toward community and oneness.<<
--sandy@writingmuse.com
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Winds of Change - Focus on The Future
For general distribution with credit to the author:
Sandy Penny, Houston, TX, sandy@writingmuse.com
It's just after noon on Saturday in Houston after Rita hit the Gulf Coast. As promised by my guides, I was spared the brunt of the storm. In fact, we had a worse storm than this a week or two ago which is normal for Houston. There was no lightning, some wind but not terrible, and the rain was intermittent. The sun is now coming out some, off and on. All is well.
But that's not why I'm posting this right now. The reason is that with 2.5 million people out of the Houston area right now, this is a great time to focus love and easy changes here. I can feel how clear the energy is with the people gone and the wind blowing through. It's wonderful, really.
It was explained by my guides that both these storms were born in Virgo, and that they were clearing old karma and revitalizing the Gulf Coast energy. Katrina was born in Virgo and delivered in Virgo. She was about clearing old patterns. Rita was born in Virgo but delivered in Libra. It is about restoring the balance and implementing change.
So much was learned in this process about our systems and ability to handle a crisis, and much of it needs big improvement. So much was restated about the good hearted people here and the help they offer each other in times of need. It really is a friendly, caring, open-hearted city. We hosted 250,000 refugees of Katrina from Lousiana, and we shared our resources with them and helped them have the time and space to make decisions about their future. Many of them are changing their lives for the better, and that's what this is about. Change for the better.
It is time for all of us to rethink our lives and ask ourselves the hard questions. Are we, as individuals, happy with what we're living and creating on this planet - in our own lives. We have to stop looking at the systems outside ourselves and ask if we're doing any better on a personal level than our systems are doing on a public level. Our systems are only a reflection of what we do and allow in our lives. If we give up and give our power to others, then we have no viable reason to complain about what they do. We have to take personal responsibility (response-ability) for ourselves and our friends and families, and then our systems will begin to reflect that. If we get caught in greed, our systems reflect greed. If we are stuck, our systems are stuck. Conversely, if we are loving and helpful, our systems can be loving and helpful. If we're angry, we get anger.
Take a good hard look at yourself and your life as you have lived it. If there is anything that you want to change or do differently, this is the time to do it. The free energy of change is available to us all right now. It's not just for the areas being hit by waves of change. This planet is a single unit, and we are all one with it and dependant on it. Don't get caught in victim consciousness or feeling powerless. We can make changes if we truly want to, and now is the time to make that commitment.
Ooooh, what a scary word, commitment. I recently complained that a friend of mine was unable to make a commitment, and doing my own process with why I was experiencing that, I found that there were important areas in which I have not made a commitment. For a while, I lost my trust and faith in Spirit providing for me. I took the reigns from Spirit and drove myself into the corporate world, trusting that it would take care of my day-to-day needs. And it did for a while, but then it fell off, my writing projects went away, and money got very tight. I felt squeezed by financial commitments, and I went deeper into the corporate world (which can be right for some people, just not for me).
On examining my life, I found that I am happiest, most fulfilled and most taken care of when I'm doing my spritual work. When I commit to it, it commits to me. So, I pulled my energy out of the corporate structure and placed it back into my spiritual path. That's when the Ozarks project showed up, and the vision of it was there all along, and it existed long before I made the connection with it. I was slowing down my own process. And Spirit does not judge the decision we make, so if we choose to ignore our guidance and commit to something else, Spirit lets us do that (except in extreme cases where we need to make a change for a particular reason instantly, and we're in resistance, then Spirit may move it for us, but not usually). We have to get in alignment with our highest and best good. We are like sailboats, we have to hoist our sales and place ourselves in the path of the wind to be carried along by Spirit. So, what is it that you need to commit to? What is it that brings your joy? Where is your passion? What have you hidden from yourself that needs to be expressed?
And, speaking of hiding, I recently judged a friend as hiding things from others, and doing my own process on it, realized that I was hiding my spiritual life from the general public. I have always known that I needed to go into a larger venue with the information I bring through from Spirit, but I have intentionally kept it small because I did not want to deal with judgement of the masses. I had a separate website for my business writing and my spiritual writing because I didn't want businesses to judge me due to my beliefs and not give me work. Now, I am committed to integrating my spiritual writing into my WritingMuse site, and creating a whole life for myself. Those who would judge my beliefs are not people I want to work with. And, it's probably more of a non-issue than I think. It's my own fear at work separating me from my wholeness and my joy and passion.
I want to call to your attention to the process I've been going through and always choose to go through. It's a process of spiritual analysis. If I am judging others, then I am seeing something in them that I don't like in myself. I may not know that or even want to know it at the time, but it is true, nonetheless. If I examine myself to look for that piece within me, I can heal it and move out of judgement, and the experience changes outside of me. When I change inside, my outside experience changes. It may take a while to reflect back appropriately, but it does change.
I would like all of you to focus positive energy on Houston and the surrounding areas that were more affected by the storm, and then to focus on the storm in your own life and see what changes you are being called to make, if any. Where are you being asked to amp up the energy for yourself? This is so great. The scenarios are abundant, wonderful, and so beautiful.
Claim your power and express it and share it with the world. It's time to go. It's time to take advantage of this window of opportunity to let the fresh air blow through your life and the whole world.
Peace, joy and gentle changes.
Sandy Penny, Houston, TX, sandy@writingmuse.com
It's just after noon on Saturday in Houston after Rita hit the Gulf Coast. As promised by my guides, I was spared the brunt of the storm. In fact, we had a worse storm than this a week or two ago which is normal for Houston. There was no lightning, some wind but not terrible, and the rain was intermittent. The sun is now coming out some, off and on. All is well.
But that's not why I'm posting this right now. The reason is that with 2.5 million people out of the Houston area right now, this is a great time to focus love and easy changes here. I can feel how clear the energy is with the people gone and the wind blowing through. It's wonderful, really.
It was explained by my guides that both these storms were born in Virgo, and that they were clearing old karma and revitalizing the Gulf Coast energy. Katrina was born in Virgo and delivered in Virgo. She was about clearing old patterns. Rita was born in Virgo but delivered in Libra. It is about restoring the balance and implementing change.
So much was learned in this process about our systems and ability to handle a crisis, and much of it needs big improvement. So much was restated about the good hearted people here and the help they offer each other in times of need. It really is a friendly, caring, open-hearted city. We hosted 250,000 refugees of Katrina from Lousiana, and we shared our resources with them and helped them have the time and space to make decisions about their future. Many of them are changing their lives for the better, and that's what this is about. Change for the better.
It is time for all of us to rethink our lives and ask ourselves the hard questions. Are we, as individuals, happy with what we're living and creating on this planet - in our own lives. We have to stop looking at the systems outside ourselves and ask if we're doing any better on a personal level than our systems are doing on a public level. Our systems are only a reflection of what we do and allow in our lives. If we give up and give our power to others, then we have no viable reason to complain about what they do. We have to take personal responsibility (response-ability) for ourselves and our friends and families, and then our systems will begin to reflect that. If we get caught in greed, our systems reflect greed. If we are stuck, our systems are stuck. Conversely, if we are loving and helpful, our systems can be loving and helpful. If we're angry, we get anger.
Take a good hard look at yourself and your life as you have lived it. If there is anything that you want to change or do differently, this is the time to do it. The free energy of change is available to us all right now. It's not just for the areas being hit by waves of change. This planet is a single unit, and we are all one with it and dependant on it. Don't get caught in victim consciousness or feeling powerless. We can make changes if we truly want to, and now is the time to make that commitment.
Ooooh, what a scary word, commitment. I recently complained that a friend of mine was unable to make a commitment, and doing my own process with why I was experiencing that, I found that there were important areas in which I have not made a commitment. For a while, I lost my trust and faith in Spirit providing for me. I took the reigns from Spirit and drove myself into the corporate world, trusting that it would take care of my day-to-day needs. And it did for a while, but then it fell off, my writing projects went away, and money got very tight. I felt squeezed by financial commitments, and I went deeper into the corporate world (which can be right for some people, just not for me).
On examining my life, I found that I am happiest, most fulfilled and most taken care of when I'm doing my spritual work. When I commit to it, it commits to me. So, I pulled my energy out of the corporate structure and placed it back into my spiritual path. That's when the Ozarks project showed up, and the vision of it was there all along, and it existed long before I made the connection with it. I was slowing down my own process. And Spirit does not judge the decision we make, so if we choose to ignore our guidance and commit to something else, Spirit lets us do that (except in extreme cases where we need to make a change for a particular reason instantly, and we're in resistance, then Spirit may move it for us, but not usually). We have to get in alignment with our highest and best good. We are like sailboats, we have to hoist our sales and place ourselves in the path of the wind to be carried along by Spirit. So, what is it that you need to commit to? What is it that brings your joy? Where is your passion? What have you hidden from yourself that needs to be expressed?
And, speaking of hiding, I recently judged a friend as hiding things from others, and doing my own process on it, realized that I was hiding my spiritual life from the general public. I have always known that I needed to go into a larger venue with the information I bring through from Spirit, but I have intentionally kept it small because I did not want to deal with judgement of the masses. I had a separate website for my business writing and my spiritual writing because I didn't want businesses to judge me due to my beliefs and not give me work. Now, I am committed to integrating my spiritual writing into my WritingMuse site, and creating a whole life for myself. Those who would judge my beliefs are not people I want to work with. And, it's probably more of a non-issue than I think. It's my own fear at work separating me from my wholeness and my joy and passion.
I want to call to your attention to the process I've been going through and always choose to go through. It's a process of spiritual analysis. If I am judging others, then I am seeing something in them that I don't like in myself. I may not know that or even want to know it at the time, but it is true, nonetheless. If I examine myself to look for that piece within me, I can heal it and move out of judgement, and the experience changes outside of me. When I change inside, my outside experience changes. It may take a while to reflect back appropriately, but it does change.
I would like all of you to focus positive energy on Houston and the surrounding areas that were more affected by the storm, and then to focus on the storm in your own life and see what changes you are being called to make, if any. Where are you being asked to amp up the energy for yourself? This is so great. The scenarios are abundant, wonderful, and so beautiful.
Claim your power and express it and share it with the world. It's time to go. It's time to take advantage of this window of opportunity to let the fresh air blow through your life and the whole world.
Peace, joy and gentle changes.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
The Trickster - Rita - Part 2
On October 7, I'm scheduled to do a ceremony and class on "Become a Force of Nature." I guess I'm being offered an initiation of becoming a force of nature for myself. Tonight I'm meditating on the storm and sending it love to reduce its force and anger. This is the second hurricance that was born in Virgo. Wow, is she p.o.'d.
It's a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate my faith and trust of my guides and the divine source to provide ease and flow in my life. My friend Claire had a vision of me a couple of days ago surfing the big waves. I was on the surfboard having a great time, and she was under the water. I reached down and pulled her out, and she realized she too had a surfboard, so she began surfing with me. We surfed right up to the sandy shore and stepped off our boards before they even stopped. We were celebrating our accomplishments. I love that vision. And on the way home from sharing it with another friend, I saw a pickup truck with two surfboards in the back. I laughed at my guides' obvious cosmic joke. Life is so full of magic if we're paying attention.
Tonight, I'm a little over-revved with hurricane Rita energy, but I had a nice glass of wine so I'll sleep well and be ready to focus tomorrow. I will do so much work tonight in dreamtime to make sure the most populated areas are safe.
My guides are fond of asking me, "Are you willing to create a small disaster to avoid a larger one?" I'm practiced in it now, and I hope to accomplish it once again. I feel confident about being safe. I feel excited to be a part of this major shift in energy for the Aquarian Age. But I am an "ease and flow" girl. We don't have to do this the hard way if we release our fears and accept the changes with grace and equanimity.
It's 11:20 Houston time, and I'm heading to bed.
Good night, sweet drams and safe journeys.
I love you all, whether we've met or not.
---sandy
It's a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate my faith and trust of my guides and the divine source to provide ease and flow in my life. My friend Claire had a vision of me a couple of days ago surfing the big waves. I was on the surfboard having a great time, and she was under the water. I reached down and pulled her out, and she realized she too had a surfboard, so she began surfing with me. We surfed right up to the sandy shore and stepped off our boards before they even stopped. We were celebrating our accomplishments. I love that vision. And on the way home from sharing it with another friend, I saw a pickup truck with two surfboards in the back. I laughed at my guides' obvious cosmic joke. Life is so full of magic if we're paying attention.
Tonight, I'm a little over-revved with hurricane Rita energy, but I had a nice glass of wine so I'll sleep well and be ready to focus tomorrow. I will do so much work tonight in dreamtime to make sure the most populated areas are safe.
My guides are fond of asking me, "Are you willing to create a small disaster to avoid a larger one?" I'm practiced in it now, and I hope to accomplish it once again. I feel confident about being safe. I feel excited to be a part of this major shift in energy for the Aquarian Age. But I am an "ease and flow" girl. We don't have to do this the hard way if we release our fears and accept the changes with grace and equanimity.
It's 11:20 Houston time, and I'm heading to bed.
Good night, sweet drams and safe journeys.
I love you all, whether we've met or not.
---sandy
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Hurricane Rita - The Trickster
From: Sandy Penny, sandy@writingmuse.com (Houston, TX)
for general distribution with credit to the author...
I am weighing in officially on my prediction for the hurricane and tracking it by this posting. I live in Houston, and I do not believe the hurricane will directly hit Galveston, although I do believe there will be damage there. I do not believe Houston will have significant damage from winds or flooding. I do believe that the direct hit will be lower in the Gulf - closer to northern Mexico/Brownsville, TX.
I see that the land is parched there and needs a good drenching, and this is Rita's mission, to bring back the greenery to the brown baked areas in lower Texas and upper Mexico. So, we'll know soon enough, but this is being posted on Wednesday evening at 9:25 pm Houston time. I recommend making any preparations that seem prudent, but still I want to celebrate on Sunday when we know everything is great. We'll have a great big Rita party.
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Here's an e-mail I shared last night - Tuesday night 09/20/2005
I have responded to many phone calls tonight about the projected trajectory of
Hurricane Rita, and I think we can all help make this a more positive event in
advance of it hitting.
I asked my multi-dimensional guides what the highest and best vision is that I can focus on for this hurricane, and I was told that the Mexican desert needs the rain, and that hurricanes, in addition to being the clearer of paths, are meant to significantly shift weather patterns so that areas that need the rain get it.
We, as powerful beings on this planet and project managers with the angels and
elementals can direct the path of the weather. I know it sounds pretty crazy, but I have a great deal of experience with this. And since I am being given this information in advance of landfall, I ask each of you to subdue your fears and harness this energy and direct it toward the areas that need the rain.
Use whatever your usual techniques are. If you pray, then pray that the rain will be useful and helpful where rain is really needed, particularly in the desert areas. If you talk to the angels, ask them to assist with this that it not harm people or animals and that it replenish the earth with its life giving water. If you visualize, see it moving south of its current trajectory (it has already dropped significantly below Houston on the tracking predictions since this afternoon). Envision its power dissipating to 1 and it being very beneficial to the places that need more water.
It's time to ride the big waves and to accept that we can contribute to earth events through mindful emotional directives. Breathe in your fear and breathe out love and positive energy.
Houston was an initial target because of all the natural fears concentrated here with the Katrina refugees and their families and those who are not yet surfing this powerful wave of energy. So, gather together (especially those of you who are not going to be affected by this hurricane, those in other parts of the world or country) and see the beautiful outcome for all concerned.
Don't be drawn into the fearful projections. Just breathe them in and breathe out a transformed vision of it. I know we can do this. I have experience with it. All of you on Norfolk Island know that we can change the weather from the experiences we shared there. See the hurricane transformed into a vortex in the desert, drawing the rain clouds there regularly and turning it into a green land once again.
Thank you all in advance for the powerful visions I know you will hold and the powerful prayers I know you will pray and great good wishes I can already feel from you. And, any of you who have groups that meet tomorrow, call this forth in your group, knowing that where two or more are gathered for the good of the whole, there is love and power and manifestation.
Wishing you all love, light and gentle loving winds of change.
P.S.: I am riding the big waves myself right now, on Nov. 1, I am leaving on the first leg of my new vision quest, to check out a retreat center in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. It matches a vision I saw 15 years ago and that has been prevalent and amped up for me since June this year. A wonderful woman named Bettina has invited me to come and help, and we'll decide what all we can do together as we explore it together. There will be opportunities for others to help build this center if the vision touches your heart and soul. Know, once again, that this is the time of the manifestation and remember what it is that you want to manifest. It's such a powerful time, and you are such powerful people, all of you, whether you feel it or not. Make good use of it right now. It's time to go.
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for general distribution with credit to the author...
I am weighing in officially on my prediction for the hurricane and tracking it by this posting. I live in Houston, and I do not believe the hurricane will directly hit Galveston, although I do believe there will be damage there. I do not believe Houston will have significant damage from winds or flooding. I do believe that the direct hit will be lower in the Gulf - closer to northern Mexico/Brownsville, TX.
I see that the land is parched there and needs a good drenching, and this is Rita's mission, to bring back the greenery to the brown baked areas in lower Texas and upper Mexico. So, we'll know soon enough, but this is being posted on Wednesday evening at 9:25 pm Houston time. I recommend making any preparations that seem prudent, but still I want to celebrate on Sunday when we know everything is great. We'll have a great big Rita party.
----
Here's an e-mail I shared last night - Tuesday night 09/20/2005
I have responded to many phone calls tonight about the projected trajectory of
Hurricane Rita, and I think we can all help make this a more positive event in
advance of it hitting.
I asked my multi-dimensional guides what the highest and best vision is that I can focus on for this hurricane, and I was told that the Mexican desert needs the rain, and that hurricanes, in addition to being the clearer of paths, are meant to significantly shift weather patterns so that areas that need the rain get it.
We, as powerful beings on this planet and project managers with the angels and
elementals can direct the path of the weather. I know it sounds pretty crazy, but I have a great deal of experience with this. And since I am being given this information in advance of landfall, I ask each of you to subdue your fears and harness this energy and direct it toward the areas that need the rain.
Use whatever your usual techniques are. If you pray, then pray that the rain will be useful and helpful where rain is really needed, particularly in the desert areas. If you talk to the angels, ask them to assist with this that it not harm people or animals and that it replenish the earth with its life giving water. If you visualize, see it moving south of its current trajectory (it has already dropped significantly below Houston on the tracking predictions since this afternoon). Envision its power dissipating to 1 and it being very beneficial to the places that need more water.
It's time to ride the big waves and to accept that we can contribute to earth events through mindful emotional directives. Breathe in your fear and breathe out love and positive energy.
Houston was an initial target because of all the natural fears concentrated here with the Katrina refugees and their families and those who are not yet surfing this powerful wave of energy. So, gather together (especially those of you who are not going to be affected by this hurricane, those in other parts of the world or country) and see the beautiful outcome for all concerned.
Don't be drawn into the fearful projections. Just breathe them in and breathe out a transformed vision of it. I know we can do this. I have experience with it. All of you on Norfolk Island know that we can change the weather from the experiences we shared there. See the hurricane transformed into a vortex in the desert, drawing the rain clouds there regularly and turning it into a green land once again.
Thank you all in advance for the powerful visions I know you will hold and the powerful prayers I know you will pray and great good wishes I can already feel from you. And, any of you who have groups that meet tomorrow, call this forth in your group, knowing that where two or more are gathered for the good of the whole, there is love and power and manifestation.
Wishing you all love, light and gentle loving winds of change.
P.S.: I am riding the big waves myself right now, on Nov. 1, I am leaving on the first leg of my new vision quest, to check out a retreat center in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. It matches a vision I saw 15 years ago and that has been prevalent and amped up for me since June this year. A wonderful woman named Bettina has invited me to come and help, and we'll decide what all we can do together as we explore it together. There will be opportunities for others to help build this center if the vision touches your heart and soul. Know, once again, that this is the time of the manifestation and remember what it is that you want to manifest. It's such a powerful time, and you are such powerful people, all of you, whether you feel it or not. Make good use of it right now. It's time to go.
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Saturday, September 10, 2005
Become a Force of Nature - Oct. 7, 2005
with Sandy Penny
Friday, October 7, 7:30 - 9:30 pm - ($22)
CenterPoint
(1920 Hollister Rd. * Houston, TX 77080 * phone 713-932-7224)
Sandy has harnessed the power of the elements for the good of earth and humanity for over 30 years. Wisdom taught by multidimensional guides and teachers can help free your energy and move you forward at this very powerful shift time.
Use the energy of Katrina and the other big waves that have changed us so profoundly to create and empower yourself for the life you want to live. Harness the elements on behalf of your mission. It's time to shift into gear, build the future you want and create sacred relationships.
For more info, contact Sandy at sandy@writingmuse.com
Friday, October 7, 7:30 - 9:30 pm - ($22)
CenterPoint
(1920 Hollister Rd. * Houston, TX 77080 * phone 713-932-7224)
Sandy has harnessed the power of the elements for the good of earth and humanity for over 30 years. Wisdom taught by multidimensional guides and teachers can help free your energy and move you forward at this very powerful shift time.
Use the energy of Katrina and the other big waves that have changed us so profoundly to create and empower yourself for the life you want to live. Harness the elements on behalf of your mission. It's time to shift into gear, build the future you want and create sacred relationships.
For more info, contact Sandy at sandy@writingmuse.com
Sunday, September 04, 2005
Katrina - Our Crisis is Our Birth
Labor Day 2005 – Birthing a New World
By Sandy Penny, Houston, TX
For General Distribution with Credit to the Author
www.writingmuse.com sandy@writingmuse.com
I have spent most of this week dealing with those who have been traumatized by the events associated with Hurricane Katrina, and they are all asking what is the meaning of all this. I have spent a lot of time meditating on that subject this week, in the midst of my own semi-crazy mindset. I called all my energy back to me and focused on the highest and best vision I can see as the outcome. Keep in mind the name Katrina means holy and pure and virginal.
As many of you know, for more than a year now, I have been talking about the big waves of energy that are being released from the crystal structures within the planet. These waves of energy are clearing the way for the re-creation of this planet for the Aquarian Age, and some of them come with devastating instant changes. As I mentioned recently, the onset of Aquarian Age energy is that water and wind wash away old Piscean structures and clear the karma of old Piscean hierarchies, powers and controls. The tsunami was one of those waves, and it released a large number of souls who are returning to the planet as crystal children.
I personally met my first crystal child today, one of the early ones. He was amazing, so wise and so aware and so powerful in the knowledge of what he is here to do. It was an honor to meet him, and a fulfillment of my own connection for him to sit down at my table at a psychic fair and begin talking with me the way Jesus must have talked with the Rabbis in the temple. He had no guilt or apology for his wisdom. He wasn’t feeling weird the way we all used to when we talked about our spiritual paths. And he carried such joy within him that his smile communicated a wonderful feeling that gave me chills. His name was Aaron which means high mountain and exalted one. I welcome the hundreds of thousands of souls like him that are arriving in new crystal child bodies and bringing with them the wisdom that will change this world forever. It is a true blessing, and we should be grateful to all those who gave their lives in order to return for that mission.
Now back to Katrina, the holy pure virgin. The land in the United States South has had many traumas, many atrocities, and many prejudices. As this land has been flooded, all those negative earth body memories are coming to the surface for review and healing. The winds of change have arrived with raw emotions, and some people are feeling and responding to the old Piscean Age energies of power and control, fear and anger, and hierarchy and structure. A great deal of fear is up for many people. We are now ready to release the last vestiges of our prejudice and fear of those who are different from us. Some people are protesting vehemently and bringing up references to their old pain. Some are turning violent, and many, many of us are feeling the wave in the group consciousness so strongly that we are exhibiting physical symptoms. Head colds and respiratory infections are signals that you have body memories and old karma with prejudice and fear of those who are different.
The way we all can help transform this energy and to make it less painful is to breathe deeply into our hearts and say something like:
You who are the Source of all Power, who illuminates the whole world, illuminate this painful situation and transform it into love, acceptance, compassion, and the embracing of diversity and other cultures. Illuminate my heart, my mind and my body that I can be a part of this transformation and illuminate all those who are in pain that they can make the changes that will transform that pain into love and action.
Over ten years ago I saw a vision of large numbers of people moving around the country and the world to create new communities, to build new societies, to transform cultures into a more positive expression of love, creativity and joy. I could not see how those things could happen, especially in such a short time frame, but since 911, the tsunami and now Katrina, I see how these things can happen very quickly. And what looks like a disaster right now can be the first step in that creation.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn. This is the dawning, the birthing, a labor of love. Make this Labor Day your day of love and help transform the world into the one you’d like to see. Do not allow yourself to get lost in the frazzled astral fears and your first chakra survival issues. Call your energy back into your body and infuse it with change, love and acceptance. Move into sacred relationship with everyone in your life. It’s an act of faith and an act of magic.
You are all so powerful and so beautiful, and I know you want this as much as I do. Join me in seeing the highest and best outcome for this huge transformational energy.
May light and love and power restore the plan on earth.
And so it is.
By Sandy Penny, Houston, TX
For General Distribution with Credit to the Author
www.writingmuse.com sandy@writingmuse.com
I have spent most of this week dealing with those who have been traumatized by the events associated with Hurricane Katrina, and they are all asking what is the meaning of all this. I have spent a lot of time meditating on that subject this week, in the midst of my own semi-crazy mindset. I called all my energy back to me and focused on the highest and best vision I can see as the outcome. Keep in mind the name Katrina means holy and pure and virginal.
As many of you know, for more than a year now, I have been talking about the big waves of energy that are being released from the crystal structures within the planet. These waves of energy are clearing the way for the re-creation of this planet for the Aquarian Age, and some of them come with devastating instant changes. As I mentioned recently, the onset of Aquarian Age energy is that water and wind wash away old Piscean structures and clear the karma of old Piscean hierarchies, powers and controls. The tsunami was one of those waves, and it released a large number of souls who are returning to the planet as crystal children.
I personally met my first crystal child today, one of the early ones. He was amazing, so wise and so aware and so powerful in the knowledge of what he is here to do. It was an honor to meet him, and a fulfillment of my own connection for him to sit down at my table at a psychic fair and begin talking with me the way Jesus must have talked with the Rabbis in the temple. He had no guilt or apology for his wisdom. He wasn’t feeling weird the way we all used to when we talked about our spiritual paths. And he carried such joy within him that his smile communicated a wonderful feeling that gave me chills. His name was Aaron which means high mountain and exalted one. I welcome the hundreds of thousands of souls like him that are arriving in new crystal child bodies and bringing with them the wisdom that will change this world forever. It is a true blessing, and we should be grateful to all those who gave their lives in order to return for that mission.
Now back to Katrina, the holy pure virgin. The land in the United States South has had many traumas, many atrocities, and many prejudices. As this land has been flooded, all those negative earth body memories are coming to the surface for review and healing. The winds of change have arrived with raw emotions, and some people are feeling and responding to the old Piscean Age energies of power and control, fear and anger, and hierarchy and structure. A great deal of fear is up for many people. We are now ready to release the last vestiges of our prejudice and fear of those who are different from us. Some people are protesting vehemently and bringing up references to their old pain. Some are turning violent, and many, many of us are feeling the wave in the group consciousness so strongly that we are exhibiting physical symptoms. Head colds and respiratory infections are signals that you have body memories and old karma with prejudice and fear of those who are different.
The way we all can help transform this energy and to make it less painful is to breathe deeply into our hearts and say something like:
You who are the Source of all Power, who illuminates the whole world, illuminate this painful situation and transform it into love, acceptance, compassion, and the embracing of diversity and other cultures. Illuminate my heart, my mind and my body that I can be a part of this transformation and illuminate all those who are in pain that they can make the changes that will transform that pain into love and action.
Over ten years ago I saw a vision of large numbers of people moving around the country and the world to create new communities, to build new societies, to transform cultures into a more positive expression of love, creativity and joy. I could not see how those things could happen, especially in such a short time frame, but since 911, the tsunami and now Katrina, I see how these things can happen very quickly. And what looks like a disaster right now can be the first step in that creation.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn. This is the dawning, the birthing, a labor of love. Make this Labor Day your day of love and help transform the world into the one you’d like to see. Do not allow yourself to get lost in the frazzled astral fears and your first chakra survival issues. Call your energy back into your body and infuse it with change, love and acceptance. Move into sacred relationship with everyone in your life. It’s an act of faith and an act of magic.
You are all so powerful and so beautiful, and I know you want this as much as I do. Join me in seeing the highest and best outcome for this huge transformational energy.
May light and love and power restore the plan on earth.
And so it is.
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Ethics in Spiritual Teaching
Today I was really disappointed by one of the spiritual institutions in Houston and how it treated someone who was not only donating the money from their classes but offering a service to the community.
Two friends of mine (Sue and Eddie) started an NLP study group at this organization. Their intention was to bring people together who wanted to study a book on NLP and work through the program outlined in it and apply it to their personal challenges. This was on a love donation basis, and all the funds were donated back to this organization except for $1 per person each week to cover handouts.
After two weeks of the classes, my friend had an opportunity to go out to California and study the NLP teachings and be certified to teach. Her intention was to learn what she could and bring it back to those who could not afford the California program and offer it on a love donation basis which again would be donated to the organization. While Sue was gone, Eddie, who actually suggested the group in the first place, would serve as a facilitator using the exercises and handouts they had created from the book.
As fate would have it, the first week after Sue left, an NLP Master showed up at the class, and volunteered to share his knowledge. Eddie, being the kind of person he is, invited him to do that. Everyone liked the NLP instructor, but Sue and I had a problem with the ethics of walking into another person's group and taking it over. No one else seemed to think it was ethically wrong, but I did and still do. I would not do that because I know how difficult it is to get the courage to teach, and how much preparation and effort goes into preparing for a group each week. I would respectfully have declined to lead the group and would have shared that I also teach and have great respect for those who offer their time and wisdom.
A couple of weeks went by, and I attended a group just to see how it was going. I found Eddie doing a fine job of coordinating the materials, the lessson plan left by Sue and honoring the NLP instructor's contributions - quite a juggling act. I enjoyed the whole class, but the least of it for me was the NLP instructor's participation. Overall, it was a great experience.
Sue returned from California for a few days before leaving again to take Master's Training (which she would also have shared with the group). While she was here, several people from the class sat with her and discussed Eddie continuing to conduct the class, and they agreed to support him in the process.
Three days later, members of the organization showed up at the class, took a vote and handed the class over to the NLP instructor. They ousted Eddie publicly, embarrassed and humiliated him, and reinforced his mistrust of groups that he was trying to heal. It was very sad for me to see that.
Why couldn't they have called Sue and Eddie and discussed it with them? Sue was available by telephone even though she was in California, and Eddie was certainly available. Why didn't they take Eddie aside and ask him to step down. Why didn't they set up a new class taught by the NLP instructor (which I suggested to one of the organization)? Why didn't that NLP instructor protest this poor treatment of a fellow facilitator? Why did a member of the organization say three days earlier that he would support Eddie when he obviously already planned this coup? Why didn't any of them think about their own karma for mistreating someone so publicly? Didn't they even think of the spiritual reputation of the organization?
I have severed my ties with this "spiritual" organization where I speak regularly because I value the contributions that students and facilitators make to spiritual growth. I hold a high ethical standard for myself in the way I treat others as a teacher, and I ask for ethical treatment of those who attend my classes. I also have a strong protective Leo nature for my friends and fellow teachers. If it were not for my own ethics and values, I'd be naming names right now.
This was pack mentality at its worst, in a spiritual setting, and I am deeply saddened by it.
It's my last tie with the Houston metaphysical/spiritual community.
Time for me to be moving on. Time to graduate, lessons learned.
Tearfully for all those who have been humiliated in public - Sandy Penny
Two friends of mine (Sue and Eddie) started an NLP study group at this organization. Their intention was to bring people together who wanted to study a book on NLP and work through the program outlined in it and apply it to their personal challenges. This was on a love donation basis, and all the funds were donated back to this organization except for $1 per person each week to cover handouts.
After two weeks of the classes, my friend had an opportunity to go out to California and study the NLP teachings and be certified to teach. Her intention was to learn what she could and bring it back to those who could not afford the California program and offer it on a love donation basis which again would be donated to the organization. While Sue was gone, Eddie, who actually suggested the group in the first place, would serve as a facilitator using the exercises and handouts they had created from the book.
As fate would have it, the first week after Sue left, an NLP Master showed up at the class, and volunteered to share his knowledge. Eddie, being the kind of person he is, invited him to do that. Everyone liked the NLP instructor, but Sue and I had a problem with the ethics of walking into another person's group and taking it over. No one else seemed to think it was ethically wrong, but I did and still do. I would not do that because I know how difficult it is to get the courage to teach, and how much preparation and effort goes into preparing for a group each week. I would respectfully have declined to lead the group and would have shared that I also teach and have great respect for those who offer their time and wisdom.
A couple of weeks went by, and I attended a group just to see how it was going. I found Eddie doing a fine job of coordinating the materials, the lessson plan left by Sue and honoring the NLP instructor's contributions - quite a juggling act. I enjoyed the whole class, but the least of it for me was the NLP instructor's participation. Overall, it was a great experience.
Sue returned from California for a few days before leaving again to take Master's Training (which she would also have shared with the group). While she was here, several people from the class sat with her and discussed Eddie continuing to conduct the class, and they agreed to support him in the process.
Three days later, members of the organization showed up at the class, took a vote and handed the class over to the NLP instructor. They ousted Eddie publicly, embarrassed and humiliated him, and reinforced his mistrust of groups that he was trying to heal. It was very sad for me to see that.
Why couldn't they have called Sue and Eddie and discussed it with them? Sue was available by telephone even though she was in California, and Eddie was certainly available. Why didn't they take Eddie aside and ask him to step down. Why didn't they set up a new class taught by the NLP instructor (which I suggested to one of the organization)? Why didn't that NLP instructor protest this poor treatment of a fellow facilitator? Why did a member of the organization say three days earlier that he would support Eddie when he obviously already planned this coup? Why didn't any of them think about their own karma for mistreating someone so publicly? Didn't they even think of the spiritual reputation of the organization?
I have severed my ties with this "spiritual" organization where I speak regularly because I value the contributions that students and facilitators make to spiritual growth. I hold a high ethical standard for myself in the way I treat others as a teacher, and I ask for ethical treatment of those who attend my classes. I also have a strong protective Leo nature for my friends and fellow teachers. If it were not for my own ethics and values, I'd be naming names right now.
This was pack mentality at its worst, in a spiritual setting, and I am deeply saddened by it.
It's my last tie with the Houston metaphysical/spiritual community.
Time for me to be moving on. Time to graduate, lessons learned.
Tearfully for all those who have been humiliated in public - Sandy Penny
Friday, July 08, 2005
Interesting Times...
The last week has been quite interesting and challenging for me. Right after the Solstice/Full Moon Labyrinth Walk, many confrontational situations came up for me, and I mean right after. The struggle to bring the two elements into harmony was not as gentle as I would have hoped for me. By the time I got home from the ceremony, I had phone messages and e-mails that challenged my balance.
And, I must say, I'm very happy with the way I handled them. In each case, I found the right thing to say to diffuse the situation and get to the heart of it. Instead of immediately reacting as I would have, I tried to see what good could come of each confrontation, and I learned a lot. And, I'm happy to say that abated quickly, so I must have gotten what I needed from it.
Then Sunday a friend and I took a very nice spontaneious trip to Galveston, spent time on the seawall, listened to the music he created, and had a lovely dinner at Landry's Seafood looking out on the water. It was an unexpectedly wonderful day. However, sometime in the night I began to feel physically unwell. The next morning I was feeling really bad, and it was followed by an entire day of clearing my body of everything from both ends. Yuck!
There are two theories on what happened. One is that I had food poisoning, that's the third dimensional reality. On a cosmic level, I woke up feeling bad in the night at the exact time the NASA proble smashed into the Tempel 1 Comet. I have a particular affinity with the word and concept Temple, even when they spell it Tempel, and I believe there was a huge metaphor in smashing into this particular comet and the state of aggression among religious factions on this planet. It would not be the first time, nor the last that I have been in alignment with planetary turbulence. I got sick right before the Tsunami hit, and I had a relapse of my "food poisoning" this week on July 7, 2005 (which numerically equals 777, a very mystical number) when the trains were blown up in London. I had a similar physical processing of the 911 events.
We are very connected to what happens in our world and in the universe, more connected than we even know or can imagine. We have to really understand and accept the concept of "everything is one" to realize that what we do to others we do to ourself. The Golden Rule says it, "Do unto others as you would that they do unto you." It's not a platitude, it's a truth that reveals that what we do to others we do to ourself. Everything is one.
Anyway, it has been eventful, but good in the long run. I've cleared out my body, detoxed my caffeine and alcohol for a week, and started to think about what my body really needs. And that's something I haven't considered enough lately.
Have a great weekend... Sandy Penny, WritingMuse.
And, I must say, I'm very happy with the way I handled them. In each case, I found the right thing to say to diffuse the situation and get to the heart of it. Instead of immediately reacting as I would have, I tried to see what good could come of each confrontation, and I learned a lot. And, I'm happy to say that abated quickly, so I must have gotten what I needed from it.
Then Sunday a friend and I took a very nice spontaneious trip to Galveston, spent time on the seawall, listened to the music he created, and had a lovely dinner at Landry's Seafood looking out on the water. It was an unexpectedly wonderful day. However, sometime in the night I began to feel physically unwell. The next morning I was feeling really bad, and it was followed by an entire day of clearing my body of everything from both ends. Yuck!
There are two theories on what happened. One is that I had food poisoning, that's the third dimensional reality. On a cosmic level, I woke up feeling bad in the night at the exact time the NASA proble smashed into the Tempel 1 Comet. I have a particular affinity with the word and concept Temple, even when they spell it Tempel, and I believe there was a huge metaphor in smashing into this particular comet and the state of aggression among religious factions on this planet. It would not be the first time, nor the last that I have been in alignment with planetary turbulence. I got sick right before the Tsunami hit, and I had a relapse of my "food poisoning" this week on July 7, 2005 (which numerically equals 777, a very mystical number) when the trains were blown up in London. I had a similar physical processing of the 911 events.
We are very connected to what happens in our world and in the universe, more connected than we even know or can imagine. We have to really understand and accept the concept of "everything is one" to realize that what we do to others we do to ourself. The Golden Rule says it, "Do unto others as you would that they do unto you." It's not a platitude, it's a truth that reveals that what we do to others we do to ourself. Everything is one.
Anyway, it has been eventful, but good in the long run. I've cleared out my body, detoxed my caffeine and alcohol for a week, and started to think about what my body really needs. And that's something I haven't considered enough lately.
Have a great weekend... Sandy Penny, WritingMuse.
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