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Oct 28

Only the Shadow Knows Too

by Sequoia Elisabeth

This two part blog on the Shadow has taken us from the obvious to the metaphysical and on to the metaphorical.  The practical aspect of “Shadow work”, as it is called in psychology and self-help, is the simple examination of your personality traits which you don’t like.  This is simple but not necessarily easy.  It requires you to look deep into your soul and see yourself as you are!  Not pleasant for most people.

The traits I speak of are things like anger, jealousy, spitefulness, vindictiveness, loathing, meanness, cruelty, apathy, etc, etc.  Whatever upsets you about other people are the traits within you that are at issue.  It is not very often and usually only in drastic events that you can see these shadows within yourself.  Usually the ego mind projects these traits on others so you can see them better.  Think of it like a movie projector.  The ego projects you…out there (the movie screen called life) for you to watch and embrace.

What kind of movies do you like?  What kind do you wish to avoid?  This is called getting to know yourself better and it is a lifetime process so don’t worry if things change.  They will, I can assure you!  It is part of the growth process.

There are several ways to explore the shadow (ego mind).  One is as described above, by simple observation; others include meditation and creative visualization (I am sure there are others too).  The mind is a tool which is used by ego or by Spirit (higher self).  As you explore this will become clearer.  Remember a few important points, the ego is a part of you and it is not “bad” although it may be negative.  Without it you could not interact in this world of shadows.  Spirit only knows light!  Ego does not exist in the Spirit realms because it has fully been integrated into the soul.  Here on earth they are separate or at least that is the illusion.

Meditate on your Higher qualities, the ones you like, the ones you aspire to.  As you do this the others fall away because you are not focusing on them.  The shadows will appear and you are to make notice of them, visualize yourself embracing them and then releasing them.  So what you are doing, and this can be done throughout your life, not just in meditation, is acknowledging the shadows and saying “I see you” “I love you” and “I release you” “You no longer serve me”  then you consciously redirect your attention to traits you desire, admire, and feel attracted to.

This process sounds really beautiful and it is, but in reality it will often be ugly.  It will manifest as arguments, temper tantrums, confrontations, fights, embarrassment, harassment, and the many challenges we face every day!  There is nothing wrong with this and in fact to avoid these is to avoid yourself!  Now there is a difference between embracing the issues as they arise and seeking punishment.

Be gentle in your explorations by listening to your inner voice.  Some lessons will repeat and can get stuck in a feedback loop if you are not aware of what is going on.  Examples are the man who always gets in fights, or the woman who goes from abusive relationship to abusive relationship.  The key here is to be awake and aware of what is going on!  This is the purpose of this Blog!  By being aware of your shadows you can dissolve them and move on as we spoke about in the previous blog, moving from one attribute in the Labyrinth to the next till you reach pure light, Agape.  Blessings on your Journey of Love.

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Oct 27

Only The Shadow Knows

by Sequoia Elisabeth

When was the last time you took a really close look at your shadow?  Have you ever considered why we have shadows?  There is the obvious physical reason of an object blocking the light so a dark outline of the object is projected in relation to the light source, but have you considered the metaphysical reasons or symbology that shadows represent?

The shadow represents the dark side of life, the mysterious and unknown.  Humans are naturally frightened by this and for good reason.  Everyone knows that creatures lurk in the dark waiting to consume you!  Carnivorous animals hunt at night because pray is easy to take.  …Of course this is a barbaric notion that served us many centuries ago, but in this age of enlightenment how do shadows figure in?

To understand shadows fully you need to understand your ego mind.  This is the part of you that believes in separation and in order to prove its existence it is constantly showing you how bad things are, how people die and that death exists.  The ego mind is your “small self” the part of you that is fearful and afraid.

While this does serve you in this dualistic world, it is not really you.  The ego is a manifestation of this 3d low vibration material world.  The world of illusion, fear, and separation!  Halloween and Dia de la Muerta are holidays that exploit and celebrate the ego mind.  It is a part of the Human ritual and a rite of passage if you will.  Our journey here on Earth is to navigate the shadows and emerge the other side in the light.  The shadows can lead the way if you know how to follow them.

On a more Metaphysical side of it shadow represents your negative traits; parts of your personality that you do not like and do not wish to deal with.  They are aspects of you that are deeply suppressed.  The shadow is still a part of you in this world just like the yin and yang; the dark and light that which makes up the whole.  In order to know the light one must embrace the darkness!

To do this takes Courage, Patience, Wisdom, Certainty, Compassion, Joy, Clarity, Understanding, Depth, Generosity, Abundance and Agape.  Each is a step into the darkness till pure light is achieved at Agape.

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Think of a Labyrinth, where the turns are folding back on themselves and the path is dimly lit.  It is the shadows that show the way, because as you follow the shadows the source light is behind the shadow.  Each step takes you closer to the light.  Till you reach the center to discover that you must return to the outer edge to fully be in the light.  Each discovery, insight, and revelation brings more light to the path till it is unmistakable which direction to go.  It then becomes an exercise in determination and persistence, putting one foot in front of the other experiencing each attribute on the path fully till the next one pops up and spurs you on.

Shadow work is so important in Spiritual development that many psychology programs are teaching it now and any self-help lesson is incomplete without it.  Next time I will get more specific and practical with this two part discussion on Shadows.

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Oct 25

The Illusion of Loss

by Sequoia Elisabeth

The process of transition often leads to the illusion of loss through rejection of family members, friends, co-workers and of the former self.  So what is loss?  Loss is “the state of being deprived of or of being without something that one has had: the loss of old friends.” (Dictionary.com)  It can also refer to the death of a loved one.

If we look further at this definition we see that it involves possession, “that one has had”.  Straight from these simple words it becomes clear that this is an illusion because possessing another human being is simply not possible.  You do not own your parents and they do not own you.  This goes for every relationship in your life.  It can even be extended to other living things such as pets or plants, although the definition becomes hazier at this point.  You can own a beautiful rose bush, but if you do not love it and care for it then you will lose it.  The same goes for your best friend!

Even if you do love and care, nothing is permanent so eventually it will be lost.  What is really happening of course is that it is changing forms, and the energy still exists just not as it did before.  When you die, your body decays and “you” move on to other experiences either beyond this world or in another form right here in this world.  Often this is why we choose to have children so that our form or essence has a vehicle to continue on.

The illusion of loss can bring profound pain and feelings of despair to the individual who believes that something horrific has just happened.  Fear is a gripping emotion that can consume your life if allowed to.  In a way you have indeed lost something and that is a particular expression of self.  We often identify with the person or object of loss and feel like a part of ourselves was lost and indeed it has been.  Grieving is expected, so please do not fight this.  Honor the life you identified with as if it were your own.  While at the same time realize that nothing is really lost it has only changed form.

Life is always changing and evolving.  When this process is embraced and honored wonderful experiences result.  There is no way to find anything better till what you “have” is lost.  For a child to lose a parent this signals a time for the child to step up and replace the parent as best they can, but more importantly the child has the opportunity to fully express their essence, or be themselves!

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Oct 20

Ownership Revisited

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Ownership is purely a man made concept that has existed for thousands of years in some form or another.  The question I ask here is simply this, “How does ownership serve you”?  Is it in the Highest and Best Good of the Human Race & Earth?

Ownership as defined by the Encyclopedia Britannica is, “the legal relation between a person (individual, group, corporation, or government) and an object. The object may be corporeal, such as furniture, or completely the creature of law, such as a patent, copyright, or annuity; it may be movable, such as an animal, or immovable, such as land. Because the objects of property and the protected relations are different in every culture and vary according to law, custom and economic system and the relative social status of those who enjoy its privileges, it is difficult to find a least common denominator of “ownership.” Ownership of property probably means at a minimum that one’s government or society will help to exclude others from the use or enjoyment of one’s possession without one’s consent, which may be withheld except at a price.”

What do you own?  Think carefully here.  Are you sure?  Is it because you paid for it?  Or is it simply that you claimed possession?  Can you do with it as you please?  Does it bring you joy?  Is it time to re-assess your viewpoint on ownership?

Copyright is a legal construction so that the person with this legal right can claim the profit.  I ask that you consider this carefully.  Who really owns the words written here or the electricity that brings them to you?  The reason this law exists is so that money can be collected.  It is not always the person who made the copyrighted material who profits from it.  Copyright law is simply a construct under which some get wealthy and other do not.  It is a limitation imposed by the powers at be.  Now I can choose to not copyright my writing, because these words do not come from me but from Holy Spirit.  Anyone who wishes can wade in the river of knowledge!  This goes for any creation, a building, a computer, a book, a recipe, you name it – the idea came from Holy Spirit!  The resources came from Gaia and your part in the process is the hands to mold it.  Just because you played a part of a Divine process does not mean you own the creation!  If I make the muffler for a car, do I own the car?  If I make a book cover do I own the book?  Not hardly.

What is “real” about real estate?  What are you paying for?  Could it be that you are paying for the right to use the property as long as you abide by certain rules and pay the proper taxes and fees.  Why are you giving your power to some official or banker?  What will happen if you claim your inner power and God given right to live as you see fit?  Is what you are thinking in the Best Interest of Everyone involved?

So you think you own something, such as a gold watch.  You wear it proudly and use it every day.  One day it disappears, you have no idea what happened to it.  Did you own it and do you still own it?  As the definition reads above you did own it, but now you do not.  Possession is 9/10th of the law, or so it would seem.  I would say that it is 100% the law of ownership.

Say you met with a friend and notice that they were wearing the watch that you once owned.  Who’s watch is it?  Does it matter that your friend found the watch in the company bathroom?  Do you automatically assume they stole the watch from you?  I hope not.  If you still wish to enjoy the watch, you could explain what happened and ask them politely to give the watch to you.  Since they are in possession of the watch, they own it.  If you are compassionate and caring you may get the watch back.

It is like the watch is making the decisions and choosing the person to be with.  And in a way this is exactly what is happening.  Remember like energy attracts like energy and if you are resonating a match to the watch it will come back into your life.  I once lost a ring and found it over three times before it decided I did not want it and I never found it again.  It is not about owning certain objects, it is about enjoying the use of them and then gratefully passing them along when you are done with them.

I used to have a camera that I was getting tired of and wished to get a better one.  A few days later someone stole my camera and my prayers were answered!  I now had the excuse I needed to go buy a new camera and I did.  I owned the camera while it was in my possession and then I did not.  The important point here is that I always have what I need.  The resources present themselves as the need arises!

It is also important to know that ownership as most people understand it today is an illusion.  You do not own the land, your car or anything really.  But you do have the use of anything you desire to claim in a way that honors the Best Interests of all concerned.

Right now this means paying for certain items so that you have permission to use them.  Of course you are not paying for the item, but the honor of using it!  If someone gives you a gift card, they are transferring their honor to you, thus making it a gift!

Ownership then is really a Spiritual Agreement made energetically between two individuals or Great Spirit herself.  Whether energy is exchanged in the form of money, labor, barter, or Love does not matter.  The water you drink, the land you walk on and the trees you sleep under were given to you as a gift from Great Spirit.  Are you using them with honor?

Ask not what do I own, but Do I have what I need?  I would bet the answer is Yes, because Great Spirit is a wonderful provider (as long as you allow it).

I did not get into the etiquette of ownership so please do not assume from this blog that I condone taking anything without asking first!  Get permission, either verbally, in writing or by (sales) contract.  Even in a cashless society, the rules of etiquette still apply.  I write about a Perfect Society on the website and you may enjoy reading this article published several years ago.

In conclusion, ownership as a concept in the LBE (Love Based Economy/Society) is abandoned because each person realizes the illusion inherent in ownership.  We as an enlightened society, embrace honesty and truth to the point that it pervades each aspect of society. The idea of paying for the right to use something that was originally meant for all beings to share simply is no longer acceptable.  The present conditions we impose on each other where created for the economic system to operate.  Think about it for a minute.

You do work of some type and are paid for it, you then turn around and pay others for services you need to survive. It is a contrived system that separates and stratifies society, and simply does not allow equality!  This system served its purpose and now it is time to move on to a cashless system where we no longer have to get something before we give of ourselves.  Each person in a LBE realizes the source of all love, accepts their role in this love, and acts with compassion.

Gaia or Nature truly “owns” everything on earth as she provides the materials and can destroy anything we create.  The idea of ownership when you really think about it is absurd.  Even if you create something wonderful, it is not yours because you got the inspiration from Holy Spirit, and used materials from Gaia or Nature, all you did was put them together in your own unique way.  Now yes this is a great gift and makes the world a beautiful place to live, but it is not ownership.  It is giving.

With no ownership this frees us to live a life of safety and security.  If citizens know they have food to eat, a warm place to sleep and other people to love and support them doesn’t this provide a powerful platform to live your life from?  There is no concern about who’s home you live in, or who’s food you eat or who’s clothing you wear, because you know in your heart that it is yours as much as anyone’s.  Each person in a LBE honors possession as the law, and at the same time each person only takes what they need and never takes that which is being used by another.  Each moment they are thinking about other’s needs above their own.  This is a compassionate and loving way to live, this is a Love Based Economy.

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For more info on a cashless society please read my previous blog by that title “A cashless Society” Jan. 31, 2011.  Also visit http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com to see the resource based economy advocated by Peter Joseph.

Our greatest resource is Love 😉

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Oct 19

Sex and Sexuality Revisited

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Transitions blog offers a reminder today about an eBook available at no cost on this website.  Sex and Sexuality, One Woman’s Journey of Discovery is a part of Unity in Gender Diversity’s growing set of spiritual materials.  It is about using sex, sexuality, gender and the attractive aspects of self to discover Truth.  Hormones, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Jesus Christ, and Relationships are among other aspects explored in an effort to deepen human understanding.  The author’s own personal story is offered as an example of what the transgender journey consists of, because I find that by sharing stories we get a deeper understanding of each other.  This book is designed to inspire a closer look at who you really are.  The significance of all relationships, as well as the meaning of sexuality, and so much more are discovered.   I invite you to take a journey of discovery!

The eBook is directed to those who are ready to move beyond the body and realize Divine nature, although anyone can come away from reading this a more educated, entertained, and enlightened individual.

Features to consider are: It is an eBook, easy to download, short and easy to read in a few hours, wastes no paper (easily printable), chapters are linked, direct links to website, No Cost and it is instantly available for download in PDF.

The benefits you receive by reading it: A transgender story to relate with, offers great pictures and graphics in color, learn about the transgender journey, understand your body better, get to know your inner-self better, become a better person, enjoy sex more, not just sex but the entire relationship, improve all your relationships!

Please share Sex and Sexuality, One Woman’s Journey of Discovery with anyone you think would benefit from this eBook.  It is a great way to educate friends, family or employers to the Transgender Journey.  Use it as a coming out tool.  Ultimately it is about Love – loving yourself by allowing others to love you!!  For more on Love please read the other eBooks offered.

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Oct 17

Perspectives On Life

by Sequoia Elisabeth

I offer up this article below because it is wonderfully written and as close to the Truth as I have found so far.  Proceed with caution!  Do you really what to know the Truth?  Can you handle it?  The beautiful thing about life is that it never gives you something you cannot handle, and if for some reason you are overwhelmed the body shuts down to protect the mind.  Sometimes traumatic events leave one in a coma, and this state is sort of like neutral.  The soul decides what to do with this event, and the emotions associated with it.  If it decides to move on then the body wakes up and if not the body dies.  The consciousness of this person never dies as I have written about many times.  All matter is energy and thus it can change form, so read on to hear another person’s perspectives on this subject.  Please forgive the length, I know it is longer than I usually post, but it feels right.  I welcome your comments and love a good discussion.  Cheers!

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The Meaning of Life

Kem Stone, May 2000

The purpose of my life has been to discover the purpose of life.  The answers are out there, if anyone chooses to look for them.  Truth can be found in religion and science as well as books, movies, and music. In particular, the novel Illusions by Richard Bach, the song “Innuendo” by Queen, and the Pink Floyd albums The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon.  Through these works of art, most concepts of the Universe can be understood.  The truth can be found, but only if a person chooses to look.

In this essay, I will attempt to outline the truth as best I can.  For all who want to know the answers, they can be found here, in this documentation of my life’s work.  However, with this truth comes an entirely different perspective on everything—a perspective that makes it almost impossible to live in this world.  To any and all who may read this, be warned that if you choose to believe the truth, it will change the way you perceive everything.  The purpose of this essay is to let all those who want to know the answers find them.  Also, it will serve as a solid document containing all the theories I’ve spent my lifetime finding.  Finally, it should serve as a suicide note, for once I am finished, I plan on leaving this world.

Three Dimensions of Thought

To understand this essay, you must understand the differentiations between dimensions of thought.  There are three dimensions of thinking.  The first is 1-dimensional thought, which is what most people of this world use to do most of their thinking.  This is the thought produced in your brain, and it covers everything solid and concrete that is absolutely and undisputedly there.  In 2-dimensional thought, there is more than what is simply there.  Most poetry and song lyrics are 2-dimensional, containing metaphors and symbols, which represent things different from what they are on the first dimension.  Then there is the third dimension, which is simply the truth.  It is logic where there is none, like in a dream.  All dreams have meaning, but only in the third dimension.  This essay explains the concepts of third dimensional thought, but using first dimensional language, which limits the amount of truth I can convey.

What is written on this paper is the truth, no exceptions.  If you choose to believe any of what I say, you must believe it all, because there are no contradictions when it comes to reality.  The more complicated the answers to the meaning of life become, the further from the truth they are.  There are only three true statements that can be made to apply to everything, and I will explain each of them in detail.  The only three fundamental truths of the Universe are:  1- Life is experience, 2- Existence is infinite, 3- Fate is a choice.

Life is Experience

There are three elements that make up the whole of existence.  They are space, time, and life.  There must be space for anything to exist, for without matter, there would be nothing.  That’s the most obvious truth there can be.  But what fewer people will accept because it is beyond 1-dimensional comprehension is that there are infinite types of matter existing in the universe.  The universe consists of far more than merely planets, solar systems, and galaxies, but of everything imaginable.  There must also be time in order for there to be existence.  Without time, nothing would change, and matter would be like a still picture frame, or a film paused at one point.  It is obvious that time must exist, but it is less commonly believed that there are infinite types of time.  Things change all around the universe, but in an infinite number of ways.  Time can also be moved faster or slower, forwards or backwards, or stopped.

So then, what is the meaning of life?  Couldn’t the universe exist without living creatures to experience it?  If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around, does it not make a sound?  The answer is no.  In order for the universe to exist, there must be souls in existence, moving in, out, and around it.  The meaning of life is experience.  Emotions, despite popular scientific believe that they originate in the mind, come straight from the soul.  Without living souls to experience space and time, and feel the emotions these inspire, neither could exist.  And just as there are infinite types of matter, and infinite ways things can change, there are infinite emotions that can be felt.  The most powerful emotion, though, can be felt everywhere at every time throughout the universe, and that is love.  Truth and Love are the only things that remain constant throughout existence.

Our lives take us into the Universe, into any part we choose.  We have an infinite amount of lives to live, an infinite amount of experiences to have.  Before we begin a life, we decide what experience we want to have, and we enter the universe in the space and time where we can have that experience.  In these lifetimes, we are free to do whatever we choose, and we are free to change our minds about our decisions, unless we choose not to allow ourselves to change our minds.

Richard Bach uses the word “illusion” to describe the lives we live.  This is a very accurate perception of the truth.  Time, space, and life, are all illusions.  Nothing that goes on anywhere, at any time, or to anyone affects the underlying “reality.”  Reality is divinely indifferent.  It doesn’t care what experiences we choose to have, what times and spaces we choose to feel emotions at.  Richard, in his book Illusions, analogizes our lives to motion pictures.  We walk into a film knowing what we’re going to experience: romance, horror, action, comedy, fantasy, etc.  But what happens in the film doesn’t affect what happens around us, only our emotional outlook on things.  We can choose any film we want, and we’re free to change it, see it again, or walk out in the middle.  We are the actor, director, producer, and screenwriter of our lives – our films.

Existence is Infinite

The being referred to as “God” is actually an infinitely different amount of beings.  God is a character created my man to explain the inexplicable.  Recently, in this world, man has turned to science to explain the order of the universe.  God and science are both names for the same thing:  an explanation of time and space in the illusion.  In reality, God is simply a being in which all emotions of every soul are felt at once, all time, all space, and all that has ever been exists in God.  In short, God is existence.

The Is, the combination of all time, space, and life, of everything and nothing is incomprehensible to a singular soul.  How all things that exist can be combined in one presence is a phenomenon incapable of being understood.  The phenomenon of omnipresence, of existence everywhere and nowhere, lies beyond the realm of dimensional thought.  God exists on the fourth dimension, a plane of infinite existence that stretches through the realm of everything and nothing.  God creates all time, space, and life.  It is a part of every soul, and every soul is a part of it.  It has no past, present, or future, it resides in no location, its emotions belong to no one, it just Is.

This does not mean anyone else’s perceptions are wrong.  If a person believes that God sits on a throne in the clouds, and punishes the wicked whenever they do wrong, they are absolutely correct, because it’s what they believe.  Truths we hold in the illusion are the truths of our perception.  Whatever we believe is the truth, is truth in this lifetime.  What I outline in this essay are the truths of the entire Universe, that do not differ, but it is your choice whether or not to believe them.  If you decide not to believe what I say, then what I say is not true.

God is existence.  Existence is infinite.  What does infinite mean?  Well, on the first dimension, infinite existence means that if you sent a space ship on a course to the edge of the universe, it would never reach it.  On the second dimension, infinite existence could suggest that a soul could live forever, and never experience everything.  Both these explanations are correct as far as the truth goes.  But on the third dimension, what infinite existence means is that anything a soul could possibly imagine, anything at all, exists somewhere and at some time in the universe.

All a soul has to do is imagine a world, and the Is creates it.  A soul could imagine a world where there is no God, and the Is will create that world, and that world will in fact have no God.  Another soul could then imagine the very same world that is ruled by a God, and the Is will put that soul into the very same world as the other soul.  Only for this soul, the world will have a God, or two, or infinite, however many are specified by the soul.  Two souls living in the same world, but with two different perceptions.  Both are right, because of the one truth that holds true for all truths: Existence is Infinite.

Pink Floyd touched on this very truth in the album Dark Side of the Moon, probably without knowing it.  Throughout the medley of music, songs come on with lyrics of both dimensions.  “Time” and “Money” have very 1-dimensional lyrics, while “Breathe,” “Us and Them,” and “Brain Damage” journey into 2-dimensional logic.  But the very last song, “Eclipse,” is one of the rare works of art that stretch into the third dimension.  The last two lines of the song are “and everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.”  Translated into 1-dimensional terms, this means that everything you experience really happens, but eclipsed by the moon.  The moon being a symbol for Truth.  The dark side of the moon is a place where there is no truth.  Everything happens, but it is only truth under the shadow of the greater truth, that Existence is Infinite.  The last thing said on the album, very faintly, says it all: “There is no Dark Side of the Moon really.  Matter of fact, it’s all Dark.”  There is no world where nothing exists; the entire universe doesn’t exist.

Fate is a Choice

So now comes the time to face the unpopular side of this philosophy: freedom.  We have the freedom to do whatever we want to do.  We decide what we want when we come into this world.  We are shown everything that will happen before it happens.  We then enter the illusion, and forget all other lives we’ve had, all other truths we’ve known, all other realities that have existed.  Unless, of course, we choose to remember them, as Jesus had, but I won’t get into that.  While inside the illusion, we are free to change our minds, stop the film, turn it off, or do whatever we want.  But in most lifetimes, we don’t let ourselves do that.  The fact is, whatever happens to us, happens because we wanted it to happen.

Evil is an illusion.  There is no evil, only that which exists in a soul’s imagination.  Some souls choose to live their lives as a bad guy, and there is nothing wrong with that, because any victims they claim are only victims because they chose to be.  There are no conflicting desires.  Everyone gets exactly what they want.  If a soul chooses a life of persecution, they will get it, and all the rich drama that comes with it.  Of course, they want to be persecuted, but they don’t want to want to be persecuted.  If a father of a murdered girl understood that his daughter died because he wanted her too, the emotion would be lost on that.  The concept that crime and injustice exists because we want it to is not an easy thing to accept.  The universe is a perfect place, and everyone experiences exactly what they choose to experience.  The perfect universe is a concept impossible to accept for all those who choose to be victims, and that is okay.

Fate is the current that carries us along in this world, which I call Millennium Earth.  In this world of finite things, there will be an end.  Every event that has ever happened leads to the end of the world, a judgment day in which evil and injustice will be obliterated, and the human race can live in harmony.  When that day comes, each

soul will make a choice: to believe in the truth offered to them and live eternally, or not to accept, and perish.  Those who believe are those souls who are in existence today, living free to move in and out of the illusion at any time or place, and having every experience they desire.  All these concepts can be found in the lyrics of Queen’s song “Innuendo”, and in my book of the same title.  This end-of-the-world saga is the truth of this world, but merely an innuendo to the whole truth of the universe.  There is no death.  Even those who choose not to believe and perish are still free to change their minds.  All events are causes that lead to the one effect: judgment day, but nothing makes it so we can’t change these causes.  All paths lead to life, no matter what paths we choose.  We can change whatever we want, but in the end, the fate of our world remains the same, and the truth does not stray from the one fact that Fate is a Choice.  In “Innuendo” Queen sings of all the truths of the world, all the injustices of life, and then makes the bold statement to stand out: “You can be anything you want to be.  Just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.”  This concept of truth behind truth can only be understood on the third dimension, and cannot be accepted on the first.  It is the hint made by Queen, by Richard Bach, by Pink Floyd, and by me.  “Through our sorrow, all through our splendor, don’t take offense at my Innuendo.”

Millennium Earth

We all live in different worlds, but we all share this one space-time I call Millennium Earth.  The world around us is currently home to six billion souls.  I call it Millennium Earth because this world exists only at this time, and only at this point in space.  All our history, from the prehistoric age, to biblical times, to the last century, was all different worlds.  Even now, each individual soul lives in its own world with its own truths and own choices.  We all have one thing in common: we chose this space-time.  We all have one thing in common: why we chose this space-time.  Based on my own observations and experiences, and a little help from the “bleeding hearts and artists,” I have come up with my theories as to why we live the way we do.

Society in Millennium Earth is designed to divide.  Pink Floyd calls it The Wall, which is a very accurate symbol for the divisions created by us in our worlds.  We use The Wall to divide people from each other, people from themselves, and to divide the illusion from the truth.  Everywhere there is crime, hunger, hate, disease, and countless other “injustices of God.”  Bad things happen to good people because it’s their choice.  We all came here to live in a world with The Wall.  I chose this life to have the experience of tearing down The Wall, and seeing the truth behind the illusion.  Most people will not have chosen this life to do that, so they will not want to believe the truths I tell them, and that is okay.

It is possible to live “Outside The Wall.”  In any illusion, the wall can be torn down, and the underlying truths of infinite existence, purpose of life, and choice of fate can be seen.  Once this is understood, and it can be seen that nothing is real, we can change the illusions to our liking.  We can perform magic, but only if we let ourselves.  In the past of space-time, people who lived beyond the illusion performed magic and were called wizards, witches, or prophets.  In Millennium Earth, no one chooses to do that.  Because I know the secret of the illusions, I can perform magic, but I don’t want to, or I would have chosen a world where this was possible.  Before I came in, I decided not to let myself perform any miracles.

Outside The Wall are the people who love us.  Inside The Wall, we have those we love, but they take on different forms, those of our friends, our lovers, and our family.  They are our spiritual family.  There are infinite members of each family, and there are infinite families.  We choose which members of our family we will enter a life with, and which parts they will play.  A lot of the time, our actual family contains none of the members of our spiritual family.  But we are always in the same world as our soul mate, a cosmic partner with whom we are connected to beyond the realm of emotion. Sometimes we choose not to find our soul mate, or we choose for them not to recognize us.  In this world of suffering, very few people allow themselves to love their soul mate, and that is okay.

This is a perception that is not easy to live with, but is the truth.  Very few people who live inside The Wall would like to believe that they only struggle because they want to.  That is because Millennium Earth is specifically set up to do everything it can to block the truth that we are free.  To be free and happy, all you have to do is stop struggling.  As a guide to living this way, simply follow three rules: 1-Don’t do any work unless you want to, 2-Quit any organization you do not want to be a part of, 3-Don’t respect anyone who does not respect you.  Respect is an understanding of another soul’s decisions, an understanding that whatever they choose is the right choice.  These rules are the rules of a fool, but a fool who knows the truth.  You won’t get very far in this world by living by that code, but rest assured, you will get what you want, as long as you understand that you want even those things you don’t want.  As Led Zeppelin says in my favorite song of this lifetime, “Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run there’s still time to change the road you’re on.”

So once you stop living inside The Wall, what happens?  Pink Floyd laid it out precisely in The Wall.  Once you say “Stop!  I wanna go home, take off this uniform and leave the show,” you will find yourself to be “waiting in this cell because I have to know, have I been guilty all this time?”  Following will be the trial of your lifetime.  As everything that has ever happened to you, everyone you’ve ever known, all the bricks in the wall come back to build themselves around you, the worms will eat into your brain.  But in the end, the worms (the people who judge you) don’t matter, because you decide the verdict, and though it sounds terrible to “tear down the wall” you will do it, and “the ones who really love you” will “walk up and down Outside the Wall.”

Basically, there will be consequences to your actions, but they will be whatever you choose them to be.  It is possible to live a life without consequences, but we don’t want to.  Millennium Earth is for those people who want to struggle.  For those of us who change our minds, and decide to stop struggling, there is always the option of suicide.  If there is anything that all religions, philosophies, and societies of Millennium Earth agree on is that suicide is wrong.  But in reality, suicide is just walking out when you’re finished.  Millennium Earth can’t allow people to accept this as a reasonable choice, because if we can just end our lives, our struggles don’t seem reasonable.  But all death is suicide, because we’ve all chosen to die at some point.  And it is a perfect world, so nobody dies without their consent, and the consent of all others.  Any pain brought to anyone’s life by death or suicide is there because they have chosen for it to be there, and that is a truth that Millennium Earth will never allow them to accept.

Death is not the end.  You can always come back and try again.  You can choose to return to a world identical to Millennium Earth, but with the ability to perform magic, and to remember previous realities and lives of your choosing.  It can all be done. Anything you can possibly imagine can and does exist at some place and at some time with some emotion.  Believe that, and the rest will follow.  Or don’t believe it.  Whatever you believe is true, is true.  Whatever you decide the answers are, they are.  Whatever you decide God is, it is.  Whatever pleasure or pain you want, you can have.  Whatever you decide to be real, will be reality.  Nothing really exists anyway.  In the end, only Love is real.  So make your choices, and enjoy the experiences.

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Kem Stone – May 2000

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Oct 14

All Death Is Suicide

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Musing about a recent death in my life, I came across the following quotes which shine a most illuminating light on things.  Just so you know, a dear friend that I worked and played with has left this earth plane by way of car accident (official designation).  It is my belief that she left by choice in a method agreeable by most she knew.  I find it strange that to die by “accident” is unavoidable but to die by suicide is sinful and unacceptable.  These beliefs serve a purpose of course, because they help us to make it through tough times when it is so easy to just end it.  Love is the answer, everything else are just excuses.  Consider the following quotes and make up your own mind.

“There is no such thing as an accident; everything that happens to you in every moment of every day is an exact vibrational match (thanks to the Law of Attraction) to the dominant thoughts you are thinking.

No exceptions, ever.

And, just to really throw the cat among the pigeons (as the saying goes), here’s one of Abraham’s most controversial (but completely true) sayings…

All death is suicide.

…which is a natural conclusion anyway if there is no such thing as an accident.” Stingray

It seems that everything is a choice, even death!  This goes right down to the color of your eyes and your genetic structure.  Not that all choice is conscious.  These choices were made before you were born and through thoughts, words and actions taken by you.

“However, the fear of death is unnecessary.  The truth is that all death is suicide.  At its core, everything is a choice.  There is an awakening occurring on the planet for those who are paying attention in which we are realizing how much choice we actually have in the creation of our reality.  As we accept our power we must let go of the desire to be accepted or understood by those who are stuck in mainstream thought.  This willingness to transcend the fears of others and become a pioneer is crucial to personal evolution.

In life, a central challenge is to let go of the idea that your body is decaying with time.  It is not.  It is actually recreating itself constantly.”  Unification.com

“In the Conversations with God Series by Neale Donald Walsh, God says that all death is suicide, and it is just a matter of whether we want to do it quickly, or over time with eating bad food, breathing polluted air, smoking, drinking etc. If someone is in pain, God does not want one to suffer, and does not blame someone for leaving their body quickly. If someone was to love you so much they would understand that, to keep you is selfish, everyone is sad when someone dies, not because so much they think something bad happened to them, but they cry for themselves, that what they want is no longer with them. Take this story for instance I was so in love with this guy, we lived together for a year, but I noticed he would go in the bedroom all sad and close the door sometimes. I found out he was looking at pictures of his kids he loved so much and his wife he was still in love with. I planned it out and talked him into moving to the city where his children and ex lived, and when we got there I said this is where I drop you off, I am moving on. I loved him enough to let him go and try to work things out with his wife and to be there for his children. Now, that is love.”  Kathy Miller

Remember that every thought, word and action leads to your experience in this world and ultimately to your fate.  We are guided by higher powers, no matter how you think of them, either Divine Being, God or Higher Self.  Listen to this guidance and you will make it through the maze of life to the Promised Land.  There is no right or wrong way home.

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Oct 13

Home With God

by Sequoia Elisabeth

A dear friend of mine passed on today and so I thought this appropriate to share.  It helped me tremendously when my Mom passed four years ago.  I pray it will help you now!

1)      Dying is something you do for you.

2)     You are the cause of your own Death. This is always true, no matter where, or how, you die.

3)     You can not die against your will.

4)     No path back Home is any better than any other path.

5)     Death is never a tragedy. It is always a gift.

6)     You and God are one. There is no separation between you.

7)     Death does not exist.

8)     You cannot change Ultimate Reality, but you can change your experience of it.

9)     It is the desire of All That Is to Know Itself in its Own Experience.  This is the reason for all of life.

10)  Life is eternal.

11)    The timing and circumstances of death are always perfect.

12)  The death of every person always serves the agenda of every other person who is aware of it. That is why they are aware of it. Therefore, no death (and no life) is ever “wasted”. No one ever dies “in vain”.

13)  Birth and death are the same thing.

14) You are continually in the act of creation, in life and in death.

15)  There is no such thing as the end of evolution.

16) Death is reversible.

17)  In death you will be greeted by all of your loved ones – those who have died before you and those who will die after you.

18) Free choice is the act of pure creation, the signature of God, and your gift, your glory, and your power forever and ever.

This list was taken from the book “Home with God, in a life that never ends” by Neale Donald Walsch.  http://www.amazon.com/Home-God-Life-That-Never/dp/074326715X

 

I will miss you Miranda.

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Oct 9

A Cell In The Body Of God

by Sequoia Elisabeth

A group was discussing how we relate to god.

Is he out there and we here?   What do we mean by oneness?   Many other questions were raised.  I have always loved that we are a wave in the ocean of God, but then a more ‘scientific’ and realistic analogy came to me.  I shared I felt we were a cell in the body of god.  Many different cells living, dying, and all a part with a purpose in this body of god.

Another thought I have shared and wondered about is how our energies as a peacemaker help humanity even when we are not ‘doing’ anything – just being.   I believe this is true but how?

These two ideas came together when I read: Just as there are specialized cells in the physical heart that set the rate and tone of heart activity, so do we affect those around us and beyond us now as we radiate the energy, vibration and consciousness of peace.

The footnote explained that these cells are called the SA (sinoatrial) pacemaker cells and are located in the SA node in the upper right section of the heart.  Although all of the heart’s cells possess the  potential to generate these electrical impulses (or ‘action potentials’) that trigger cardiac activity, the sinoatrial node is what normally initiates it, simply because it generates impulses slightly faster (higher frequency) than the other areas.  Because the sinoatrial node is responsible for the rest of the heart’s electrical activity, it is sometimes called the primary pacemaker.   We, as higher energy peace beings in the world act similarly in the “Heart of Humanity”.

Now look at this closer.  Each person plays different roles in life, just as different cells in the body play their roles.  Leucocytes (White Blood Cells) are the “cops” involved in defending the body against both infectious disease and foreign materials.  Erythrocytes (Red Blood Cells) are the delivery persons of the body bringing oxygen to the body.  And the list goes on with each cell type of the body corresponding to a function in life!  Brain cells are simply neurochemical translators so they function to provide commands and interpret signals like lawyers do.  I will allow you to be creative here because I think you get the point.   Each person is who they are and this is their purpose!  Even criminals serve a purpose.  Just as bacteria and viruses do.  Without them it would not be earth.

Look closely at your life and ask what type of cell you are.  Does this serve you?  Are you reaching your full potential?  What can you do to fully live your purpose?  There are two sides to every coin so if you are giving, someone else is receiving, and we all play both parts at one time or the other.  If you are an angel it means at some point you were a devil or will be.  This is how we gain the wisdom to be compassionate!

When going through your day understand that the stupid politician on TV or jerk who cuts you off in traffic are just playing their role and you have a choice as to how you react or even better act in response.  You may be the antagonist or the protagonist!  You may forgive or condemn.  The choice is yours, but then maybe that is your purpose.

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Oct 8

The Meaning Of Life

by Sequoia Elisabeth

What if you have thousands if not millions of purposes in life and not just one?  New books on the purpose of life or finding your true purpose in life come out all the time.   We all feel a need for life to have meaning!  What if that meaning is in the mix and simply by breathing and engaging in this realm your purpose is served?

Think about this for a minute.  It could be your purpose is to smile at that certain person at work at just the right time to give them hope when they are feeling down.  Or take your granddaughter to the zoo and indirectly inspire her to be a zoologist or simply to love her.  Your purpose could be simply to think positively and love each person you meet with an open heart and kind words.

Super Heroes are one of our favorite subjects for the movies, however we are each a super hero in ways that really matter to those we love and care about!  The movies are just there to inspire and entertain you.  We each have our gifts to offer the world and what I am offering here today is the realization that you cannot miss your purpose as long as you wake up in the morning and live your life.  The details take care of themselves.

Humanity has a higher purpose also that each of us is here to share.  Some people call them principles to live by, but I see them as Universal Purpose.  The first one is to “Be Here Now”.  This simply means to be awake and aware of as much as possible at all times.  The easiest way to know you are aware is to feel your breath as it moves in and out of your body.  This can be done as you go about your daily activities.  Simply feel your body, every cell is alive, pulsating with energy and carrying you to your destination – Feel It!

The next Universal Purpose is to “Love Unconditionally”.  I think this is self explanatory; however I will point out some key points here.  Love has no limits, and it is your very essence.  Love is who you are!  When you are embracing this gift you serve your purpose.  Love feels good always and all ways, so if you are feeling pain that is a sin or a sign you have missed the mark.  Loving is actually the easiest path or the path of least resistance, so go with the flow and stop trying so hard.  Remember Love is your nature, it is as easy as breathing and as close as your heart beat.

The third Universal Purpose is to “Tell the Truth – as you see it”.  We each come from a place of our personal understanding and knowledge.  It is important to always operate from this point of Truth.  Lying is a deliberate avoidance or aversion from this place of Truth and it harms you every time you do it.  A layer of separation or veil is created each time you lie and on the journey home you must clean through these layers to reach source.  All humans have a certain number of layers; it is simply an occupational hazard of being human.  We make mistakes, do not fret.  Instead focus on the Truth and be honest with yourself and others always.

We each have personal purposes as well as the Universal and these are discovered by listening closely to your heart and being observant of life and that which inspires you.  What brings you Joy?  I am not talking about having fun; I am talking about a deep feeling of blissful satisfaction and serenity.  The answer to every question is always right there and all you have to do is look, listen and feel.

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Oct 4

Believe No One

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Cari Cole’s blog has inspired me to talk about belief and truth.  Read her blog here.   She is a musician and as an artist has deep wisdom in her words.  Yes, artists usually do have a unique view of the world and because they have chosen to share their gifts with the world we are all better off.  I bet you are saying to yourself right now, I love Art!  You may even relate to the world as an artist and this is great.  I feel that there is an artist in everyone!

Her blog made this statement, ‘Believe no one – not even yourself’.  Now I succinctly remember hearing Don Carlos say this in an interview so who said it first does not matter.  The message is clear.  Or is it?

The world we live in contains shadows.  Look anywhere and you will see a shadow lurking somewhere.  This is your smaller self being revealed in a dualistic world of light and dark.  The ego self is your shadow and the Truth of you is Light.  Just as there are two sides to a coin, each person has two sides.  Which do you look at most often, the heads or the tails?

“Believe is a strong word. I prefer “consider”….. Consider everyone’s opinion and then form your own – but be suspect of yourself as well.  Next time someone offers you their opinion, consider the source and the motivation behind the opinion and make sure to decide for yourself whether the opinion is right and if so, that you will check in with yourself in a month of applying their comment and will not let it live in your brain forever.” Cari Cole

Not better advice have I heard.  Advice, opinion, point of view, perspective are each slightly different aspects of one whole, the Truth!  Of course even this is suspect.  Does an Ultimate Truth even exist?  We would all agree that each individual has their own Truth, but does “The” Truth really even exist?  The answer lies in your cosmology.

How do you see the world?  Has this changed in your lifetime?  I think this is what she is saying.  Live in the Truth of Now.  Be present to yourself in the moment and see the Truth as it exists right now.  It will be different in a month or maybe a day…

I invite you to consider your Truth and how or if that aligns with “The Truth”.  It is my belief that the Ultimate Truth speaks through you, as you, and in you.  The symbol of the lighthouse is a perfect depiction of this.  Be the Lighthouse.           Lighthouse

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Sep 30

Aquarian Androgyny

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Many do not realize that there are forces far beyond our little selves that not only influence our direction they often control it.  These times are indeed remarkable and the reason most of us chose to be here.  We are in Transition from the Piscean age to the Aquarian.

What exactly this means will vary depending on the Astrologer you speak to but there are some common threads presented here.  This has been my personal experience as I discover who I am and how this relates to the rest of the world.  Let me share what I have learned of the Aquarian age and you can put the pieces together.

“Aquarians are not “gawky nerdy”, “absent-minded professors” or “mad scientists. The characteristics that better describe them are iconoclasm, emotional “hardness”, bisexual, asexual or androgynous orientation, teambuilding, innovation and perhaps some social anarchy (from behavior that shocks conservative people to a general disregard for rules).  In addition, we may see a gradual replacement of the icon of Jesus with something that is indicative of Aquarian values, such as the computer, the committee, the scientist, the group, the mind or the iconoclast.” (Nancy R. Fenn)

Androgyny and the Aquarian Age

by Lynn Hayes | Wednesday July 13, 2011

I have always found it interesting that the worldly definition of “Uranian” according to Wikipedia is:

Uranian is a nineteenth century term that referred to a person of a third sex — originally, someone with “a female psyche in a male body” who is sexually attracted to men, and later extended to cover homosexual gender variant females, and a number of other sexual types.

Delving a little deeper, I find that the origin of this association with the word Uranian with the “third sex” originated with a German scholar named Karl Heinrich Ulrich who was what we could today call transgender, meaning he identified as a woman in a man’s body.  The term Uranian was picked up by Victorian writers such as Oscar Wilde, who wrote: “”To have altered my life would have been to have admitted that Uranian love is ignoble. I hold it to be noble – more noble than other forms.”  (Ulrich’s chart shows Venus opposite Uranus, and Uranus squares the Moon in Wilde’s chart.)

As we transition into the Aquarian age , it’s not surprising that gender roles are blurring and homosexuality is becoming more openly accepted.  Aquarius is ruled by Uranus, the planet that inspires us to live a life that is as authentically true to us as possible.  Uranus governs radical behavior and rebellion against the status quo, and this includes greater acceptance of lifestyles that don’t fit into the rigid social norms that fall under Saturn’s domain.  With Pluto, lord of destruction and regeneration, traveling through Capricorn, Saturn’s sign, these rigid social structures (Capricorn) are being pummeled and demolished.

As an astrologer I use the term “Uranian” to describe any person or trait that reflects this desire to move past old ways of thinking and manifest an authenticity in one’s thoughts and behavior patterns and this goes far beyond gender issues.  But a strong Uranus in a birth chart does tend to indicate a person whose gender identification is less than rigid although this doesn’t always manifest as homosexuality.

Androgyny is nothing new in the rock world (David Bowie, Marilyn Manson), but a new singer has taken gender neutrality to a new level.  Justin Vivian Bond (Moon square Uranus) is not only transgender, but uses the neutral pronoun of “v” to describe “vself” and says: “I like my penis, and I am keeping it, but I am creating a transbody — a physical record on my body and a medical record that I am a transgendered person.”

IndyWeek.com reviewed a recent performance by Justin Vivian Bond, saying:

The gender-ambiguous voice is unrepentant, a queer mixture of the sexes, “monstrous.” Monster comes from the Latin monstrum, meaning an aberration within the natural order. In other words, the so-called monster defies categories. Not surprisingly, what we call monsters are often only reflections of our most profound terrors and desires. Less obviously, monsters reveal the fact that we each contain something of the other; elements of “you” lurk within “me.”

And with the hermaphroditic, we are reminded that even in our differences, we all possess male and female attributes. Writing about Michael Jackson’s violation of the rules governing racial and gender identity, James Baldwin offered that perhaps what is truly monstrous is not ambiguity but the fight against androgyny in an effort to reinforce conventional gender roles. What is terrible is a restrictive gender regime; a terrorist is someone who polices the borders of gender.

This is just the beginning, and the more radical societal changes become the stronger the backlash of conservatives who fear this kind of extreme alteration to their world view.  This is part of what we will be seeing over the next four years as Uranus squares Pluto and takes us deeper into the Aquarian Age.

http://blog.beliefnet.com/astrologicalmusings/2011/07/androgyny-and-the-aquarian-age.html

The article is very revealing to me and gives me another label to play with,” Uranian”.  Upon further investigation I discovered that Edward Carpenter also identified with this term which is significant to me as my birth name includes Edward Carpenter.  He was a Gay activist, a pioneering socialist and radical prophet of a new age of fellowship in which social relations would be transformed by a new spiritual consciousness.

Conclusions drawn from this on my part are simply that my life is a part of a greater whole influenced not only by my life here on earth, but by the entire Universe and span of time.  The message I wish to convey is that your life too is a part of the Greater Whole, the Cosmos!  The forces guiding us are much larger than most realize and to resist is an act of futility.  GLBT is the wave of the future!  It is a sign of the Aquarian times!  We are in the transitional period now where Piscean traits are giving way to the Aquarian and 2012 is the Tipping Point!  Embrace this destiny and keep an open eye (Third Eye).  Seek with the heart (soul) for it always leads to salvation (Higher Self).  Pain is beside the point, if you can see the purpose in your folly.

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Sep 29

I AM

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Greetings family!  As I sit here thinking of what I would like to say for this segment, I am reminded by the author Neale Donald Walsch that it is our actions that define us.  Not only am I who I say I am and think I am it is through my actions that I am defined.  This is an interesting fact to consider.  Do you like what you see?  I mean as you look back over your life at all your accomplishments, are you happy with what you have demonstrated?

How often do you use the words “I am”?  These are the words that Moses uses in the bible to describe God, “I Am That, I Am”.  Powerful words, because they define us!  Now the version that most bibles use does not have the comma and that is a sore oversight by the men who translated the original document.  James Tywman pointed out in his book the “Moses Code” that the comma was missing so you can see how much that little detail changes the meaning of the phrase.  No longer is it “God is that”, it becomes “I” am that as an individual, I am God.  God is no longer outside us but within, through and as us!  The way I use this is to point to something and say, “I am that, I am”.  It matters not what you are pointing to, God is all there is.  The way I look at this is if I am an aspect of God and God is all there is, then I must be all there is.  When we say be “all that,” we mean it literally.

I am walking down the street pointing to a dog, “I am that, I am”, then to a tree, “I am that, I am”, etc. The feeling I get when I do this is one of inner-connectedness. Try it and see how you feel.  It may seem strange at first but when you think about it and let the reality sink in the Truth reveals itself.  We are all a part of the whole, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts!

The ego or “little self” part of your mind is probably screaming at you about now and that is to be expected.  So let’s go a little deeper.  God is all there is and we are merely instruments!  God works in us, through us and as us to express Divinity.  While this may seem a tall order, it is something that you have been doing all your life, only now you are aware of it.  Going back to the beginning of this blog I said that our actions define us, and so now you know who you are!

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Sep 24

Variety Is The Spice Of Life

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Perspective is as diverse as the observer.  Each individual is unique on to themself.  And with that said consciousness also tends to group with like perspectives attracting like.  Thus we have Tennis Clubs, Christian bookstores, and Alcoholics Anonymous.  Gender and Sexuality are no different.  Those of like mind tend to socialize together with each person adding their own unique perspective.

Gender Identity is one’s own personal, inner perspective of who they are in terms of gender, i.e. man, woman, or other.  Gender is best described as a spectrum or scale.  Just as a rainbow has many colors, shades and grades so does gender.  This also works for sexual orientation, while physical sex is more concrete, however even this is a spectrum too.  Human beings are complex creatures indeed!

When a child is born the doctor looks between the legs and declares male, female or gee I don’t know!  It is not till DNA chromosome and other medical testing is done does the doctor know if the child is truly male, female or intersex.  The external genitalia are sometimes ambiguous, or not fully developed.  The genetic, physical and mental traits this child is born with are the filter through which they see the world – their perspective!  As this child grows into adulthood the filter is constantly being shaped and polished by the world.  The amazing fact is that it is less the world outside this person that shapes them than it is the individual’s responses, reactions, and thoughts.

The important factor to understand and always remember is that each person is individual and offers something unique to every situation.  It is your job as an individual to listen and learn who this person is and then honor them for the uniqueness they represent.  Accept them for their perspective and refrain from pushing yours on them.  This is a free will society so you are certainly free to offer your perspective and in fact you are obligated to do so, however whether and what others do with this perspective is entirely up to them.

Some may see you as a crossdressing gay male, others as transgender woman, all while you identify as a transsexual.  Others may simply think that you are crazy.  Each person will see you as they choose and understand.  This does not change who you are, although it may have you questioning who you are, which is a good thing, because part of the human experience is constantly questioning reality.

One last point here is groups that think alike can sometimes have beliefs that seem opposed to other groups.  If some believe that chromosomes and genitalia determine a person’s gender then it is their right to believe that.  It is other group’s obligation to share their perspective so that each individual can more intelligently determine which group they are aligned with.  This is not about right or wrong, because that does not exist.  It is about expressing individual uniqueness in a way that is constructive to the greater whole of society and life on earth.  We all know that variety is the spice of life!

🙂 Sequoia Elisabeth

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Sep 20

Enema for the Mind

by Sequoia Elisabeth

When going in for any medical procedure requiring anesthesia you are required to stop eating or consuming anything by mouth and if the procedure involves the abdomen or pelvic area a complete colon cleansing is required as well.  There are both medical and Spiritual reasons for this requirement.

Adult patients (= or > 18 years)

  1. SOLIDS + MILK: stop eating and drinking after MIDNIGHT the night before your surgery.
  2. ORANGE/citrus JUICE or OTHER JUICES with PULP: stop drinking after MIDNIGHT the night before your surgery.
  3. CLEAR LIQUIDS: stop drinking FOUR (4) HOURS before your scheduled surgery time.
  4. ALCOHOL: no alcohol-containing beverages after 8pm the night before your scheduled surgery time. (http://www.anesthesia.wisc.edu/Clinic/providerinfo/npo/npo_main.html)

When sedated or under anesthesia, your body’s normal protective airway reflexes, such as coughing, that prevent the aspiration of any regurgitated stomach contents is impaired. The aspiration of acidic or solid gastric contents can cause serious and even life threatening lung inflammation and infection.  If your stomach is full, the chances or regurgitating are greater, and the amount regurgitated will be greater which increases the likelihood of aspiration. (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_NPO_before_and_after_surgery#ixzz1Gb5GwFDC)

OK, so now we know the physical/medical risks of having food in the GI track during anesthesia, and we are going to move on to the metaphysical reasons to empty the GI track.  Since the mind, body and spirit are intimately connected it is important to understand the Spiritual aspects of surgery or other medical procedures.

The body is a vessel for the Spirit to express in the material world or 3rd dimension and thus the actions taken with the body create ripples in the spirit world much as they do in the physical one.  Eating is the act of fueling the body or literally taking in the materials to build a new body!  You are what you eat after all.  Metaphysically speaking during surgery the goal is to suspend this process as much as possible so that the invasive procedure does not interfere with the process of digestion and assimilation.  The body will then be focused on healing the shock of the surgical procedure, be able to allocate more resources to the immune system and it will be more flexible to changes.

To experience this wonderful and uplifting energy try fasting for three days and cleansing the colon completely.  The body literally has less weighing it down and thus feels lighter as does the Spirit. The ironic thing is that eating is a major source of stress and aging on the body.  So the less you eat the longer you will live.  It is a balancing act between the material world and the Spiritual.

The more dense and complex the food; the more work required to digest it, which is not necessarily a bad thing, because it brings needed nutrients to the system.  The food you eat is metaphorical to the thoughts you think.  You have heard of digesting a thought?  The saying comes from this very fact.  Heavy thoughts take a longer time to process, just as heavier food does.  Your diet reflects your thoughts and vice versa.

Another aspect to this is the natural cleansing the body does before the final transition.  The soul knows when the time is coming and thus directs the body to cleanse itself and to take in less to digest, thus making transition easier.

The body is symbolic or representative of the soul.  As is the body, so is the soul and vice versa.  (As above, so below) Cleansing the body both inside and out is literally cleansing the soul!  (I use the word soul here to indicate the Spiritual aspect of the body that exists in multi-dimensions.  It is not God per se, but like the body and mind, Spirit/God flows through.  The soul then has access to a greater flow than the body or mind can handle.  The soul is still individuated, however God/Spirit is universal energy making all creation and is not individuated.)

I like to think of my body as a sensing organ for experiencing the 3rd dimension.  It also works as a tool for making changes in multiple dimensions.  May your transition be Blessed.

😉 Sequoia Elisabeth

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Sep 17

Slight of Mind

by Sequoia Elisabeth

The actions you take are necessary as proof to yourself that it is not only possible but reality.  The concept of reality is not as fixed as one would believe and because of this we are constantly testing reality.  If it happens then it must be true is the mentality we use.

Have you ever been to a magic show?  Is that reality?  Does the rabbit really disappear from the hat? Of course it does, the question is where does it go?  If reality was fixed could we even believe a trick like this?  Don’t we have to know there is a possibility of the rabbit actually disappearing to make this trick work?  Deep down we all know that this 3d world is an illusion.

A trigger is required for us to believe a certain event.  Let’s take surgery for instance.  Say a large benign tumor exists, can be seen on x-ray and with a large bulge in the skin.  We wish this tumor to be gone.  How do we make it go away?  We go to a surgeon and he cuts it out.  Why don’t we go to the magician to make it disappear?  Belief, personal experience and precedent!

We need matching action of a believable nature to create the result we seek.  The movies use this technique all the time.  Two scenes are shot at different times and spliced together to give the appearance they happened in sequence.  It is a trick for the mind!  In fact movies are all about tricks, they are actually a series of images shown very quickly ~16 frames per second and appear to be moving…appearing real.

Surgery is the matching action, like in the movies, which allows the mind to perceive a miracle cure!  When in reality it is done at a level beyond the mind.  Reality exists beyond the mind and the mind is our lens to this world.  Without the ego mind this world does not exist!  This is why the mind needs proof, i.e. surgery to experience the healing.  The Spirit does not need this trick, because it operates at the level of reality and knows there is no tumor at all.  There never was, because in reality we are perfect beings of light/energy made in the image of God/Universal Intelligence/Great Spirit.

The magic trick diverts the attention while the appearance is manipulated, but in reality the rabbit does not even exist so anything that is done is perfectly believable.  Now that we have this information, do we still need surgery to remove a tumor?  Or make a rabbit disappear?  This depends on your level of belief, and faith in reality!

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Sep 13

Labels, Good or Bad?

by Sequoia Elisabeth

The labels we speak of today are the ones we put on our identity and the identity of others.  We are not discussing if it is a good idea to label our food with contents and source, although that is always a good idea in my humble opinion.  Upon further reflection though maybe we are talking about all the labels we use whether they are for food, pets, neighbors, or house plants.

This world is obsessed with labeling everything!!  Even “Good” or “Bad” are labels, so let’s begin by considering what label means.  The meaning we discuss here is “to put in a certain class; classify.” (Dictionary.com)  Consider the role labels play in Gender Identity and any identity really.  What about roles and role playing?

Everyone plays roles and sometimes more than one at a time.  Mother, Father, Child, Engineer, Doctor, Maid, Saint, Sinner, Biscuit eater!  Roles and thus labels provide definition in life.  Imagine an actor being asked to act without a script or a director.  How would that movie turn out?  It could be good, but most likely it would be confusing and you would not even watch.  Life is a one person show!

You are the writer, director and actor!  This means the labels you choose are personal.  If you choose labels others can relate to then you will find popularity and acceptance, however if you choose labels others see as absurd then your experience will be very different.  Have you ever seen a cat that acts like a dog?  Following you around, fetching a ball, and chewing on shoes?  I have and it is funny, although it also sends a message that labels always fall short on accuracy.  Why?  Because life is personal, and of your creation so each person will experience life differently.

Labels do serve to provide a point of reference and provide a suggested experience, but they do not determine the outcome, that is up to the individual.  Try this exercise, go for a walk in the woods or anywhere really, and let go of your definitions of the world around you.  Label nothing and instead find an object and become it by saying “I am that, I am”.  The maple tree becomes you, and you become a maple tree.  Feel the energy and imagine the processes going on inside you (just as you probably do with your human body).  Feel the sap flowing, the sun energizing your leaves and the wind moving your branches!  Labels suddenly lose their importance, and Spiritual essence takes over.

Yes, labels serve the purpose of defining life, but do you really want to have everything boxed up and neat?  What about the joy of discovery?  The surprise in finding a treasure you never knew existed!  As my mom always told me, there is a time and place for everything.  Be careful how you use labels.

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Sep 10

Caring For Others

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Living is a dynamic process and it is easy to get caught up in daily dramas and just staying busy.  Transitions Blog is here to offer coping techniques in turbulent times.  Attitude and your personal cosmology largely attribute to your experiences in life.

A “Polly Anna” does not necessarily have fewer problems than everyone else they just enjoy them more!  Since life is about Joy and not struggle this seems like a good approach.  Often though it is our family that teaches an approach which we adopt without even thinking about it.  Once we realize that life is a choice we can begin choosing differently if we so choose.

Another aspect to life is that it has no meaning.  Many people search their whole life trying to find something that does not exist!  I tell you this not to depress you but to offer an alternative.  By the way, it is the ego mind’s purpose to control your life by sending you on wild goose chases, so now that you know better, choose again!

Meaning is assigned by you!  It is your duty to decide what has meaning in your life and act appropriately.  Many Spiritual leaders have gone before us and offered their answer to this dilemma which I am sharing here today.  Mother Teresa is famous for her work with the poor and infirm, Gandhi for his contributions of Peace to his people, and Martin Luther King for his demands for Equal Rights.  Each of these leaders chose what was important to them and shared this with others.  The binding theme here is caring for someone besides yourself.  It does not have to be a whole country or even a whole community.  It can be a family or even one person.

The greatest gift of being in a loving relationship is the opportunity to care for someone other than yourself.  When you have children this purpose grows.  Life no longer is about you, it becomes about them and you have a reason to live!

Having a family or even a partner is not required.  Loving another human being is a gift that anyone can give. (This does not mean the other person must accept your love, by the way, so give to everyone.)  It does not require money, health, or good looks.  All that is required is making the choice and following through.  There is no limit on how many people you can love as Gandhi, et al showed us.  Do what feels right to you!

You will discover that depression, anxiety, and many other ailments disappear when you have a purpose greater than you to focus on.  Of course you know that in order to be most effective you must face your personal issues along the way.  Take care of you and then take care of others.  This is not an excuse but it is an important consideration.  Give what you need!  If you are having health issues, help others in the process of healing yourself.  If you have money problems then help others with their issues by volunteering with a charity.  What you give you receive!!

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Sep 7

Time and The Use of Calendars

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Many people do not know that the Mayan Calendar is a chart that tracks consciousness and not necessarily time.  So calendars are not just for keeping track of what day it is.  They serve a very valuable function in society and in fact are the core of every society.

Even our Gregorian calendar serves the function of coordinating societies events.  Christmas is on Dec. 25th and society shifts around this time to celebrate giving, and honor the Christ.  July 4th is Independence Day here in the USA but means nothing to the other societies around the world.  They celebrate their independence days on their appropriate days.  If a country is majorly one religion or another the whole country will celebrate these holy days on certain days of the year which are tracked by their calendar.

The Hebrew calendar tracks Jewish holidays, and the Chinese calendar or Yin calendar tracks Asian holidays.  It is interesting to note that the Chinese refer to the Gregorian calendar as the Yang calendar, which simply tracks days and allows them to be in tune with the rest of the world.  2011 is the year of the rabbit which began on Feb. 3rd and ends on Jan. 22, 2012.  The year has certain traits and/or energies that are inherit to that time period.  This has been the way of almost all cultures for the past 5,000 years.  Time is a cycle and can be used to forecast the future.

“Numerology is any study of the purported mystical relationship between a count or measurement and life.”  It has been used in various forms for thousands of years and has validity when it is fully understood and believed.  A website that I use is http://numerology.findyourfate.com.  Just remember that nothing has meaning till you give it meaning.  This is profound in its implications, so think about that a minute.  Then follow numerology or not.  As an example, Christmas has no meaning till you give it meaning.  Someone from a tribe in the Amazon who has never heard of Christ does not have the slightest idea what Christmas is.

We have been hearing much about the date Dec. 21, 2012 and other dates because they are significant to someone’s calendar, namely ours and the Mayan calendar.  The Dec. 21st date is the equinox and the alignment of the Galactic Convergence.  (Some claim it to be the end of the Mayan Calendar)  It is also supposed to be the end of the Piscean age and the beginning of Aquarius, although I have discovered these changes are not a daily event, meaning they occur over many years.  Starting sometime around 1987 and ending sometime around 2060.

The more significant date is the end of the Mayan Calendar on Oct. 28th, 2011.  Dr. Carl Calleman has done significant research into the Mayan calendar and provides empirical proof that this date is the one we should be focusing on.  He explains why, “The understanding of Mayan time as quantized also provides a meaningful way of looking at the so-called end date where it is not even potentially a preset end of the world. (This is why no one embracing the October 28, 2011 date has fallen to claim that it is a preset end of the world). The end date simply reflects the point in time when the Cosmic Tree of Life attains its highest quantum state. This also implies that it is not the beginning of a new cycle and it is only on this basis that it is rationally understandable that this state would serve to create a millennium of peace in the “New Jerusalem” as the new world is called in the Book of Revelation. To instead use a Hindu metaphor it becomes logical that the attainment of this highest state means liberation from the wheels (cycles) of Karma. As the student of the evidence-based Mayan calendar will know almost all conflicts and warfare in the history of mankind actually originate in quantum shifts between cosmic energies and only as those come to an end is there any serious reason to hope for the emergence of a world in harmony. Hence, in this interpretation of the Mayan calendar there is absolutely no reason to think that the end date means the end of life or a “doomsday” when the world is predetermined to come to an end.

What the end date does mean however is that on October 28, 2011 the shifts between energies will come to an end and it is thus no wonder that many intuitively sense that the year that follow upon this, 2012, is very special. The processes that have been driving cosmic evolution until now will no longer be operating and after some time for things to settle the human beings will be left to create evolution themselves. What this means is in my view that the end date is not just another shift. Instead it constitutes the end of the shifts that have been caused by alternations in the quantum states of the Tree of Life up until that point,…” (Calleman, 2009)

Be sure to read the entire article for the full explanation.  To further this discussion on Mayan calendar, the Mayan people used the calendar to determine what kind of day they would have.  If the calendar said it was to be a day of compassion then they would live with compassion that day and if it said they were to be hateful, get married, to fight, etc., then they would.  The calendar made choices for them and each person followed it like the letter of the law.  This is the process that is ending, which we have been feeling the effects of in the liberation movements of the recent past.

It is important to be in tune with your deepest inner desires in this time of liberation, because the door is being flung open and literally anything is possible.  I invite you to take a tour of your inner self (through the power of imagination and introspection) and really get clear on your desires.  Those who do not decide are allowing others that privilege.  Blessings on your Journey of Love!!

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Sep 1

Appearances Can Be Deceiving

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Transition from male to female or vice versa is a drastic physical change and is often difficult not only for the person transitioning but for the entire family and if the person is famous then the entire community.  The further removed this person is the easier it is to accept, however when it is a person you admire or even idolize it becomes a whole different story.

Why are things so difficult you may ask?  Because each person has a concept of whom they think that person is.  You know your brother, right?  Or whatever role that person plays in your life, you think that is who this person is, but is that reality?  If your brother becomes your sister or your father becomes your second mom does this lessen the relationship?  How does this reflect on you?

The pride cometh before the fall!  Maybe the biggest issue is that your ego is bruised from the whole affair.  Someone in your family is different and this embarrasses you.  You did not even know this person whom you were so close to and oh my goodness this could rub off on me!  Does this mean I am queer too?  A member of your “team” has fallen in your eyes… or have they?

Maybe what is amiss is the mistaken notion that families know each other better than the rest of the world knows them.  Maybe everything happens for a reason and contains a gift for all involved.  Maybe each person need be on the lookout for gifts and when drastic events such as one family member transitioning occur this is the greatest gift of all.

The lessons are many and are different for each person involved, however a few themes are “we are not our bodies, we are Spiritual Beings having a human experience, do not judge a book by its cover, and Love has no limits.”  The human race is in a pivotal stage of evolution.  The physical body is being surpassed by the mental and Spirit.  It is a case of the jar no longer containing all the juice.  The body no longer defines who we are (if it ever did).

Appearances can be deceiving!  Just because someone looks big and strong, does this mean they are?  Or maybe they are beautiful to the eye; does this mean they have depth of character and compassion?  The saying, “do not judge a book by its cover” applies here.  However just because you have read the book (think you know your brother) does not mean that someone else could not interpret the story differently.

Love has no limits!  Unconditional Love is the only true Love!  This means that no matter what this person does that you still Love them and accept them for who they believe themselves to be!  It means you do not judge them for doing something you disagree with or goes against your moral values.  It does not mean that you must join them!  Pain comes from resistance and is often connected to ego; it is not Love!

So what is a person to do when it comes to family, friends or enemies?  The spiritual teachings tell us to Love thy neighbor as thyself.  See beyond the “cover” or physical body and perceive the soul, because when you see each person as a brilliant soul, child of God.  The world changes… it becomes Heaven.

🙂 Sequoia Elisabeth

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