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What does it mean to be Gay

by Sequoia Elisabeth

I have been asking myself this question most of my life. I remember commenting on how the “Gay community” had ruined a good word way back in the 70’s. To me it means being upbeat, happy, and jovial. It doesn’t really have anything to do with sex as far as I am concerned. That word is homosexual. Call it like it is. No sense trying to sugar coat things. Not that being homosexual is a bad thing. Who you love makes no difference to anyone else. Love in any form is a good thing.

I think the word gay got attached to homosexuals because they are often flighty, lighthearted, and jolly. Which to me is quite positive. I enjoy being around joyful people who don’t take life too seriously. Though I am not big on pranks or juvenile behavior. Somehow over the years the word “Gay” turned derogatory. The ego mind has its own agenda and creating more egos is one of them. Homosexuals don’t reproduce, so in the early days this was a big part of it. The more the merrier! (NOT) The other part is “guilty by association”. Fear motivates prejudice and thus the negative label. “They” don’t want to be labeled as “gay” just for being friends, so “they” choose to be enemies. The fact is, human nature is loving, we are social animals and enjoy hugs. Light unassuming contact can be affirming or offensive depending on a person’s point of view. When coming from love, its affirming, and when coming from fear its offensive. We all have the choice, fear or love. To me the acronym F.E.A.R = False Evidence Appearing Real, fits perfectly. Assume the best of others until proven otherwise! Just because someone has a negative experience with a person, does not mean all experiences will be negative. In 99% of our encounters with each other there is no need to even mention or think about sex. The ego would have you believe otherwise.

Being gay means so much more these days and this is both a good and bad thing. I often feel “gay”, though I have been heterosexual all my life, bedsides one adventure to the other side. My friends fall to both sides of the isle, and some are in the middle. I have chosen to not even play the game. My focus these days centers on agape love and non-sexual love. In the Spirit world, Love is all there is, so human/ego designations don’t matter in the end. For the sake of identity, which the ego just loves, I identify as a gay non-sexual male woman. Perhaps this puts me in the middle, I don’t even know, and have not been able to figure it out in 60 years! I doubt I ever will. It doesn’t even matter to me anymore. If you’ve read my eBook, Sex and Sexuality, you’d know sex is a distraction for most of us. A rare few use it as it is intended, as an expression of God’s Love. We are this Love, expressing. A small aspect of it includes sex.

Sequoia Elisabeth

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What I Believe

by Sequoia Elisabeth

The world happens through you not to you. It is a projection from your own mind. I believe in Karma or what comes around goes around. Said another way, “What you give, you receive”. So working from this imagine a foam upon the sea. This foam is made up of tiny bubbles and each of us is one of the bubbles. We can experience only what is within our bubble. If you think about this you’ll see what I speak of. When you look out into the world do you see yourself surrounded by a box or triangle? No. We see in circles or more accurately spheres. Just like Earth is a sphere so are we! Imagination allows us to see further, but this is not our “reality”. As we all learn early on, imagination is fantasy. It is also the tool we use to expand and move within our bubble.

Perhaps you have been told to look within and know thy self. The world outside your bubble is not you it is other self or simply other. The sea represents All there is or as many call it, God. The foam is temporary, coming and going with the tides. When our bubble breaks it rejoins the sea no worse the wear. So when I go with the flow… I take that quite literally. My bubble is mine and yours is yours, we cannot know each others bubble. This is the essence of ego mind. What I describe here is ego mind. There are two minds in a dualistic world, Ego and God or Spirit. If you wonder about the soul it is part of the ego mind, not God. The ego mind believes it is separate from God, but it is just a foam on the sea. Not separate at all. Any individual identity is of the ego, a bubble of foam. Since the Universe is a large place our bubbles can be quite large in relation to Earth or they can be as tiny as the room you occupy. It is still just a bubble. We each have a choice to make in this life. Are we the bubble or the sea? The choice arises often and the more we choose the sea the closer our experience moves in that direction. Ultimately though we all return to the sea since this is all there is, but not until we choose it (The Law of One/Free Will). The good news is we are One and Jesus (I am) has already chosen the sea.

Sequoia Elisabeth

Stupidest Question Ever Asked

by Sequoia Elisabeth

The human mind can reason anything. The tool used is the power of deduction or the rational mind. So follow along and see if this makes sense. If you follow my blog then you know I teach Oneness and what that means. If not, then perhaps more study is in order. It has taken many years (50+) for me to reach these conclusions (God Is and nothing else is). Now I share my wisdom with you – do with it what you will.

By choosing birth we have chosen death. Make no mistake, you did choose to be here. It may not have been a conscious choice, but a choice none the less. It is like walking though a door on the 50^th floor which opens to the outside of the building, you may not want to fall, but it happens whether you chose to fall or not. You took the step. Some may say this is simple consequence and perhaps it is. What I am leading to here is if you can choose an action with a consequence then why not choose the consequence? We obviously chose Death! HERE WE ARE! We took that step!

Suicide is taboo in society, so have you ever questioned why? Why is it when we have already chosen death by being born we cannot choose when or how we die? The next question you may not have considered is who is making this choice? The small self/ego self or the Infinite God self? Since God self is infinite and immortal it is unlikely this is who is making the choice. Since the only aspect of our self which can die is Ego this is the more likely culprit! The ego is not alive though, it only thinks it is and it constantly manipulates our experience on this level (the world you see around you) to make you think that it is. It’s reasoning… If you can die then you must be alive… right?

If you doubt this world is unreal, then ask yourself would God create a world with pain and suffering the likes of what we have here? Does anything in this world really hold up to scrutiny? Does it last forever? Does anything here make sense? Not to me!! I can assure you. I believe we are here to “loose our minds” for this is the way out. Ego mind is the scene generator behind this reality. Perhaps you have heard the Cave parable written by Plato? The longer I “live” the less convinced I am anything matters at all. Shadows all around….

So if God is infinite and immortal then we are speaking here of Ego death. I have experienced it many times in my mind as well as my experience. The next question is what does the Ego consist of? The answer is everything you see! Btw, did you know the eyes don’t see, the mind does? Yes, it is the Ego mind which sees for us. What we see is a projection from our own minds. It’s all “fake news”. The real is infinite and immortal… never ending… it does not die and was not born.

Once again, why does it matter whether we seem to take our life or allow “life” to take it? Natural death is an Oxymoron! Is this about giving or taking? I have done both and I will say giving feels better. Is this really my life to give though? What does giving of life really mean anyway? The Native American stories I have heard say when hunting, animals give their lives (bodies) so that other bodies may live. This means there is a conscious choice being made. Perhaps it is the hunter who actually makes this choice and maybe it is the animal who sacrifices itself to gain in the Spiritual Realm. Whatever you believe is what you will experience. Twenty six years ago I sat with a gun in my mouth asking myself these same questions! Which is it?

I have found that writing about death & suicide and expressing these feelings really helps to alleviate any related distress. God exists outside of Space/Time and knows nothing of our experience here. God knows only Love for this is what God is. The part of me considering taking life is Ego and delusion, for it is not possible to take something that is not yours! Notice I did not say take my own life. It is not mine to take. Ultimately this is the reason “i” am still here. These dilemmas here in Space and Time are on a feedback loop, repeating ad nauseum. Enjoying the ride?

The stupidest question you’ll ever ask is:

Why? Dictionary meaning:

1. for what reason or purpose. [Why do we need a reason or purpose?]

Suicide defined: “the act or an instance of taking one’s own life voluntarily and intentionally.”

So what again exactly are we “taking”? So you think you have “a life”? Is this real? What is real?

I believe this is where the whole game falls apart. We believe… we have a life, that others have a life, that anything we see or feel is real. Belief is where it all “becomes real” to us. It is literally, according to the dictionary, “an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.”

What if the belief in “reality” is what leads us astray? What if we choose not to believe? Is not believing a belief? Just as having no religion, still a belief? Atheists are still indoctrinated in denial! I mean how do we even know we are alive? Don’t even get me started on proof! All facts are in fact part of the construct. There are no facts… just as nothing is really alive! So again I ask, how could anyone ever die or commit suicide when we only exist in mind? Don’t forget, “what you think of an-other you think of yourself.”

I know now this is my life’s purpose, ROFL. I assume I learned about suicide from my dad who had patients commit suicide (he is a psychiatrist). I remember at least 3 friends who I personally knew in high school who “did the deed”, two of which were closet gay (another taboo worth questioning). Perhaps the other was too, but I am not sure about that. I have not gone long without thinking of the “deed”. Frankly, I have lived a very long time with these thoughts (or have I?), but they are catching up with me. I have heard every argument in the book both for and against. Do you believe in destiny? LOL, neither do I.

Blessings on Your “Journey of Love”,

Sequoia Elisabeth

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I am as God created me!

by Sequoia Elisabeth

I am as God created me! So why are you feeling dysphoria? Why do you think there is something wrong with you? (too fat, too tall, wrong genitalia, wrong hair color or eye color, etc, etc.) The imperfections are not of God’s making. The imperfections and the feelings of incongruence (dysphoria) come from the Ego. Allow me to explain this world to you.

This physical world we live in here is the creation of the Ego Mind, the aspect of you which believes itself separate from God. In truth this world is a dream and often it is a dream within a dream! It does not matter how many ‘echos’ of the One which are created, the point is there is only One and this one is God, the all there is. If you love movies, theatre, or story-telling then you know dreams… this life you think you are living is no more real than the stories you experience on TV, Movies, Theatre, or a story-telling stage. What makes it seem so real? Ego mind!

Adam and Eve are the original Ego story, not that they are real either. This Ego is an aspect of God which wished to see what separate means and so created a separate world, this world where we sit today, or seem to sit today. In reality no one has gone anywhere! We are all still in the loving arms of God, yet asleep and dreaming of life.

As the Course in Miracles states, the dream was but a second or flash and all that is or was or will be happened and we returned to God. The “reality” we experience now is simply an echo of this dream, thus the dream within a dream…

The next question then is how do we awaken from this dream? First of all by understanding who “I” is. These pesky pronouns are very confusing! I, me, you, us, we, they are simply different aspect of the One. Please understand there is only ONE. The delusion is that you are separate from me and that they exist at all!

This probably seems farfetched and from the perspective of the Ego mind it is. Step back from this perspective and see through the eyes of Holy Spirit, feel through Holy Spirit. It may take a while so don’t be in a rush. I have been working in this for years. The Truth becomes clearer every day though, so I keep the Faith and move forward. This takes us to the next step, acceptance.

Accept things as they seem (even though we know otherwise). Imagine you are a character in a movie. Can that character get out of the movie? Not hardly; they must play their part to the end. So why not enjoy your part/role in this elaborate story of life! It is much better than choosing misery. Be the best you (whatever your role is at the time) and Shine!

Sequoia Elisabeth 🙂

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ps. If you would like to read more on this, I highly recommend Butterflies Fly for Free by Stephen Davis, as well as A Course in Miracles (ACIM).

Space/Time and The Five Questions

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Our universe consists of space/time and time/space both of which are mirror images of the other. At the moment you are in space/time because you experience the physical world set in a certain time. Space has 3 dimensions and time only one. The mirror of this time/space has 3 dimensions of time and space only one. In reality both have 3 dimensions. Space is up/down, left/right, forward/backward and time is past, present, future. The space/time physical experience only has the one time element, present, i.e. the time is NOW.

Having explained this very basic law of physics you now know where you are, right? Not really…. This would require you know who you are and what you are. The who, what, when, where and why questions of existence make life worth living in my humble opinion. These are questions which have been intriguing mankind for millennia! This essay will attempt to give an answer to each of them to some degree of practicality.

Of course these are answers I have arrived at and you may well arrive some place else! Take what you read here with a grain of salt and move on with a bit more knowledge than which you arrived. Let us start with the who.

Who are you? In space/time we tend to experience ourselves as bodies, we think we are human beings or the animal human. The flesh and blood human is in fact a vehicle or medium of experiencing this physical reality. It is not ‘who’ you are, but perhaps where you are! The where of our 5 questions can then be extended to the place of the physical body, i.e. sitting in a chair eating breakfast at the dining room table staring out the window at the fluffy white clouds as they float carelessly by.

As one question is answered all the questions are answered because the whole of it is One. Understand our separation of each aspect/question is arbitrary and only used to help deepen the understanding of existence. So we now know where we are. Where the body is, is where you are at least in space/time.

The question of when you are is fairly simple since space/time has only one dimension, here and now. So the where and when are answered rather easily. The who, what, and why of it all are answered in concert because they are intrinsically connected. I offer up only what I have learned from my studies and leave it to you to question further, as I am doing.

What I am, is an individuation of Source, Infinite Intelligence, God, which is also ‘who’ I am. Same answer to both questions! So who is God, Source, Infinite Intelligence? That question is best left to another essay. I will say that what and who I am is consciousness itself, and the when and where are subjective and relative to the physical experience of the physical body I identify with. Why, is an arbitrary question and depends on the individuals interpretation of the other 4 questions. Why for me is to know they self. It is so God, Source, Infinite Intelligence can know itself. Like pieces of a puzzle each person, place, and thing make up the whole and further define God, Source, Infinite Intelligence. The combinations and experiences are infinite so the journey never ends!

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Everything Has A Reason

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Everything has a reason and purpose in life including pain, suffering, discrimination, bullying, inequality, and any negative you can imagine. Besides just balancing the positive, negative experiences serve Spiritual growth and collective learning. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango and you cannot experience loss without someone else volunteering to take it from you, or how about prejudice? Most of us have been on both ends of this, how else can we muster the compassion to forgive?

Who are we to deny these experiences our fellow man? Would you prevent another from learning their lessons? There is no way to stay neutral. I already tried that. The only thing you can do is go with the flow by listening to your inner voice without judgment and do what you must. It is not about being right or wrong, because once again we are all going to experience both and the more you focus on one the more out of balance you become and the more drastic the experience gets. Instead focus on the message the experience offers. Like a message in a bottle, every experience carries a gift!

We live in a Free Will zone (earth) so this means we all have free will and make our own decisions. Imposing your will on others is a violation of the Law of One thus polarizing your energy in the negative. There are two types of people on earth, those who live to serve others and those who live to serve the self. The first is positive polarity and the other is negative. Neither is right or wrong, however each has a path. The service to self path is the scenic route to God, while the service to others path leads straight home. The choice is yours, and mine…each person gets to make this choice.

There are certain paradigms for learning and growth. Earth is a 3^rd Density zone or Dualistic Paradigm. For every up there is down, hot leads to cold, pain to pleasure, and sweet to sour. Once our lessons are learned we move on to another. Eventually our growth reaches a point of completion for that paradigm, so we jump to the next. We grow out of these things on a personal level, like a passenger on a bus riding through town. This also works on a collective basis, so this is what planet earth just experienced. A shift to a higher consciousness or the next paradigm, 4^th Density or Unity!

The next time you think about protesting or advocating against something like slavery, discrimination, crime, or other inequality remember the Law of One. There are no victims, only volunteers! Be grateful for ALL the gifts you receive, even the ones which most consider “bad or undesirable”. Forgive and forget! Be the observer and witness your life while you are living it. It takes a little practice, and it works like this, allow yourself to do what you will and at the same time move your conscious awareness beyond your body. The tools used for this practice are will power and imagination. Try it while you are resting or sitting still as this is a good place to start. Let go of any expectations or judgments and accept that it is all GOOD.

🙂 Sequoia Elisabeth

God Is All There Is

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Oneness or Unity is the most important cosmology you will ever understand. It can be summed up in the simple statement, God is all there is. Take a moment now and reflect on the meaning of this.

Oneness is all inclusive and very simple; however the reality in this ego world is separation struggles to maintain a hold on life. Ego demonstrates thru turmoil, conflict, hate, fear, loneliness and death. The only way to move beyond the illusion of separation is to embrace it; to see it for what it is; an illusion. When something comes up you recognize as separation, simply acknowledge it, see beyond it and then just leave separation behind. Ignore it, it has no power. Instead focus on the Truth. The Truth is we are One unified and whole being. We are Gaia!

Oneness is Unity expressed, it is love thy neighbor as thy love’s oneself, it is making decisions with the consideration of seven generations to come, it is knowing we are all made of ‘Starstuff’, and it is so much more. Oneness is the realization that everyone you meet is a part of YOU, and you are Great Spirit, Universal Intelligence, or God. You have this in common with everything as well as everyone you meet. They are you and you are they. Each person is individual and connected at the same time.

What you give, you give to yourself, since we are all one. What you deny for another, you deny yourself. What you say about another you say about yourself! What comes around goes around…When you heal yourself – you heal the world! You are using the same mind as Albert Einstein or Mother Theresa. You are ONE with GOD, in a word you are GOD, expressing as the individual you are. Each form or “thing” you see is unique onto itself.

No two snowflakes are the same, yet a snowflake is similar to all other snowflakes. This goes for all other forms as well, rain drops, grains of sand, trees, people, etc. And even in each moment you are different. The “you” of last week is different from the “you” of now, which is depicted in this picture of Neo from the Matrix Movie. The Divine Paradox is: all is the One/Same, yet appears separate/different. When you meet someone new they are unique and yet they are YOU. When life is lived from a place of Oneness we become aware of the bond that connects all of life and things are never the same again!

“What is arising now is not a new belief system, a new religion, spiritual ideology, or mythology. We are coming to the end not only of mythologies but also of ideologies and belief systems. The change goes deeper than the content of your mind, deeper than your thoughts. In fact, at the heart of the new consciousness lies the transcendence of thought, a newfound ability of rising above thought, of realizing a dimension within yourself that is infinitely more vast than thought.” Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth, Page 21-22

This dimension is the Oneness I speak of. It is something which must be experienced to truly be known, and once the connection is made it becomes a part of you and cannot be lost. By simply being aware of this Oneness you are shining light on the shadows and allowing yourself to move beyond thought into the light.

On the New Earth each person is aware of Oneness and how it relates to them and the rest of existence. As we look around the realization connects – this is exactly what is happening now all over the world! People are awakening to Divine Oneness and embracing the New Earth.

Nameste’

🙂 Sequoia Elisabeth

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The Matrix of Oneness

by Sequoia Elisabeth

The concept of Oneness is essential to the New Earth, so I would like to revisit this concept, understanding, philosophy, life style, and/or way of being. Oneness once fully understood and integrated totally shifts your experience of life itself. It could be said this is enlightenment, although once you understand Oneness you realize you already are enlightened. This is the beauty of Oneness!

Oneness is all inclusive and very simple in concept, but the reality in this ego world is that separation is struggling to maintain a hold on life. This shows up in turmoil, conflict, hate, fear, and loneliness. The only way to move beyond the illusion of separation is to embrace it and see it for what it is; an illusion. When something comes up that you recognize as separation, simply acknowledge it, see beyond it and then just leave separation behind as a concept. Ignore it, it has no power. Instead focus on the Truth. The Truth is that we are One unified and whole being. We are Gaia!

Oneness is Unity expressed, it is love thy neighbor as thy love’s oneself, it is making decisions with the consideration of seven generations to come, it is knowing we are all made of ‘Starstuff’, and it is so much more. Oneness is the realization that everyone you meet is a part of Great Spirit, Universal Intelligence, or God, just like you are, and you have this in common with everything as well as everyone you meet. Each person is individual and connected at the same time.

What you give, you give to yourself, since we are all one. What you deny for another, you deny yourself. What you say about another you say about yourself! What comes around goes around…When you heal yourself, you heal the world! You are using the same mind as Albert Einstein, or Mother Theresa. You are ONE with GOD, in a word you are GOD, expressing as the individual you are. Each form or “thing” you see is unique onto itself.

No two snowflakes are the same, yet a snowflake is like all other snowflakes, just not identical. This goes for all other forms as well. And even in each moment you are different. The “you” of last week is different from the “you” of now, which is depicted in this picture of Neo from the Matrix Movie. The Divine Paradox is: all is the One/Same, yet appears separate/different. When you meet someone new they are unique and yet they are YOU. When life is lived from a place of Oneness we become aware of the bond that connects all of life and things are never the same again!

This dimension is the Oneness I speak of. It is something which must be experienced to truly know what it is, but once that connection is made it is a part of you and cannot be lost. By simply being aware of this Oneness you are shining light on the shadows and allowing yourself to move beyond thought.

On the New Earth each person is aware of what Oneness is and how it relates to them and the rest of existence, which is exactly what is happening now all over the world! People are awakening to Divine Oneness and embracing the New Earth.

Nameste’

🙂 Sequoia Elisabeth

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Silence is a Gift from God

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Silence is a gift from God! When was the last time you sat in silence? Are you able to work without music, television, or other distractions on? Don’t feel bad if the answer is no because it is human nature to need these distractions. The reason is quite simple – the mind never stops. Your mind is going even when you sleep; it demands attention constantly! This does not mean you must abide by this request.

Spiritual Masters such as the Dali Lama suggest sitting in silence at least 15 minutes daily. You can think of it as meditation if this helps but really it is a practice of aligning with Great Spirit, Prime Creator, Divine Source or God. The practice keeps you aligned with the essence of which you come.

The possession of God is the silence of the heart. The thought of God is the silence of the mind. ~ Mother Mary of St Austin

Silence is the folding of the wings of the intellect to open the door of the heart. ~Catherine de Hueck Doherty

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To Thy Own Self Be True

by Sequoia Elisabeth

How does one go about this? I mean, how does one be true to thy own self? It really depends on how you view “self”. The interpretation will be slightly different for each person, so this means trillions of ways!

I will share my viewpoint and you can integrate it into yours. In the process we both will grow… how is that for divine beauty? If you have been reading my blog over the years you know that I have a Unity Consciousness point of view, meaning we are all One. God is all there is! Once I started looking it showed up everywhere and all doubt was chased away. The more I questioned the deeper my belief. I see Oneness everywhere I look these days and the most significant portion of this is I know this means all is Divine!

Yes, this means that thy own self is Divine! We are all God…Godding 😉 Simply put, we are each doing as we are guided to do as an expression of God (Universal Consciousness, Great Spirit, Allah, or whatever you like to call it). Some follow the ego mind and this gets them in all sorts of predicaments, while the others are listening to the Divine guidance of Holy Spirit. It is not hard once you know the difference to choose the Divine. The still quiet voice, the loving, caring, compassionate guidance is of Divine Spirit. If you choose to say hurtful words, take harmful action, or even entertain ill thoughts this is ego in action.

The choice is often unconscious, so I invite you to bring the Divine into consciousness! The mind is under your control and by “your” I mean the Spirits control unless it is not, which means you have not claimed this control. The ego will take control of your mind and use fear and pain to control you if you allow it, but it has no power unless you fail to claim your God given rights. In order to make your claim simply state to the Universe and with God as your witness:

I release the past, and see myself in new light, the light of God as an equal to God. If this is beyond my abilities at this time then I remain open to this possibility and ask that I be given the opportunity for this realization. I hereby withdraw all power which I have given to other people or to situations which control my experiences. I am in control of my experiences and I choose Love, Joy, and Peace! In my sexual relationship with you dearly Beloved (all relationships I have ever experienced) I hereby release and forgive you for the blame which I placed falsely upon you. I understand this was a mistake and not a sin, so I am simply correcting an error on my part. The more I practice this and make this a part of my life the deeper will I experience this Truth. Holy Spirit I ask for your help in making this so, so that I may know myself in my True form. Help me in forgiving the past and in knowing the essence of my being. I Love You!

Now that you have released ego mind, being “true to thy own self” is a no brainer!

😀 Sequoia Elisabeth

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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.

🙂 Sequoia Elisabeth

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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!

😉 Sequoia Elisabeth

Who Are You?

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Identity is an important aspect of human life for several reasons. It is how we all relate to one another and the world around us, it is how we discover our self, and it is how we discover God. I am not sure we ever really “know” God, especially in one human lifetime. Unity in Gender Diversity is a website that celebrates this journey of self discovery from the perspective of one individual.

UGD has two main parts, the Gender Learning Center and the Spiritual Learning Center. Each explores an important aspect of what I call the Journey of Love, which is really a journey to discover the self, God and all that is. Along this journey identity changes and evolves to the point where deep insights are discovered. It really never stops though and when this lifetime ends another one begins and the process is repeated in a slightly different way. Some say that when you lay down at night you die and are reborn the next day in a slightly different way. I have this experience often, so maybe I can say I have lived many lifetimes within this one lifetime, maybe we can all say this!

I love the infinite expressions of life that constantly shift and change, but in essence never change. No matter what you identify with, be it an object, animal, or person, the core essence never changes. Thus the saying, As much as things change, they stay the same. Meaning all things are Unified as One in infinite variety.

In essence we are all made of the same thing and this includes everything you can sense around you, the people you meet, the chair you sit on, the food you eat, the stars you see in the sky, the ground you walk upon, everything! Carl Sagan called it “Star Stuff”, Plato called it “Aether” and Aristotle called it the “Fifth Element”. (Wikipedia.org)

This knowing can make your life both interesting and fulfilling. Since all things are of the same source, no harm can really take place. Things appear to change all the time, the experience is constant change! This is the way it was meant to be. This is how the source discovers itself! All that I am not, leads to what I am.

The Journey then is “notness”. It is being what you are not so that you can truly experience who you are! I pray this means something to you, if need be please read over the website and discover who you are not.

Ok, I will spill the beans right here… all that you can see, touch, taste, hear, and smell is NOT who you are. You are not your pet cat, your favorite Barbie doll, or even your car, nor are you, your name, a man, blonde, short, stupid, wealthy, etc… At some point you will identify with just about everything that crosses your path in this life… it is NOT who you are.

🙂 Sequoia Elisabeth

The Nature Of Consciousness

by Sequoia Elisabeth

The word consciousness is being used often these days, so I think to fully appreciate the depth and meaning of this word and this age we now live in we should take a closer look. Transition has been and will always be a major part of life. Are you prepared for it?

Gender transition is one aspect of a much greater change or transition that is occurring right now and has been taking place over the last 150 years or so. I find it interesting that so many transgender individuals are coming out these days as the environment or consciousness evolves to a greater acceptance level. So much of the fear, guilt and angst surrounding any deviant or anti-social behavior has been given rise by the religious institutions of the past. Once again this is a product of the level of consciousness at the time.

The Mayan calendar is not a calendar of time, but of consciousness! The last wave of consciousness begins today Mar. 9th starting an awakening of Universal Consciousness. The calendar ends on Oct. 28th 2011, meaning this cycle of consciousness is coming to an end. Many of you have probably been aware of this consciousness before, because the previous cycles have prepared us. Those who were firmly rooted in the other levels of consciousness may have missed this preparation and thus are being introduced to it now. This is a good thing. Nothing is required other than being open and receptive.

While this sounds easy, if you are firmly rooted in the old ways you will first have to release yourself from its grip. A purging must occur! Before a cup can be filled it must be emptied first! The good news is that consciousness is expanding and growing so there is no going back. There is no more nightmare!! Let it go! Carefully consider what is serving you and be honest with yourself. Step into the new world or new earth with your heart open and your mind quiet. The only way to hear Great Spirit’s guidance is to quiet the mind and listen with your heart. The first time I heard this I said, “What?” That seemed absurd to me, but after some introspection and research I discovered how to do this. WOW, what an awakening! With this final wave of consciousness this will be so much easier than in the past. Try the meditation at the bottom of the page.

A few suggestions to make the shift easier, stop using fluoride toothpaste, stop drinking soda and esp. the diet ones (artificial sweeteners block your mental function), stop using white processed foods (like sugar, flour, etc.), and move your body (be active). The only way to know if this works is to experiment. Use whole wheat, natural sugar, and grains for a whole week and see how you feel. The same goes for the other items to remove. Try it for at least a week, up to a month and notice how you are feeling. Write a diary if you like. I did this and was amazed at the difference it makes. I also did a colon cleanse and fasting which is a great way to get started. Once the toxins are removed from the system it is much easier to introduce new foods. Remember like attracts like, so the more you eat these natural foods the easier it gets.

Getting back to consciousness I will close here with a recap. Firstly consciousness is a thought energy that embodies a level of awareness. The Arabic describe it as layers of veil. As each veil is removed the individual is that much closer to the mind of God. I will add that it is like an onion, as the skins are removed your consciousness is that much closer to the Prime Creator. When you get to the center, you discover nothing. There is no central core to an onion, just as you cannot see the Prime Creator. The connection is through your feelings, and thus the importance of listening with your heart! The mind is a tool for connecting you to this world and it is perfect for that, but if you wish to connect to consciousness itself or Prime Creator/God then open your heart and feel.

Let go of what no longer serves you and look closely here. Embrace the new earth by changing your diet and being aware of your awareness! Seek higher awareness, and your dreams come alive! For me this is about living from my soul or soulful living!

😉 Sequoia Elisabeth

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Ps. Try imagining that you are whatever you see. See life from the perspective of a beetle, tree, flower, table, Moammar Gadhafi, Jesus, your Mom, Barack Obama, a cat, etc… this is the perspective of GOD, I am that, I am…

Finding Peace

by Sequoia Elisabeth

As a Spiritual Peacemaker it is my calling to help others find the Peace within and in so doing create Peace within me. One of the best ways I have found to reach this space of Peace is meditation. Many people find meditation difficult and this is because you do not fully understand what meditation is.

First of all let us consider what Peace is. Without dragging out the dictionary, think of Peace as the Spirit within you and all things. It is a still, calm, quiet, serene place but can also be active, forceful, and dynamic. Peace is quite simply the force of Great Spirit, Universal Consciousness or God. We find it calming and comforting because this is our home, our natural state. Finding Peace then would be like finding yourself!

The wee hours of the morning are easiest to reach this space. Why? Because the rest of the ego world is sleeping and so the airwaves are calmer and with less disturbance. Many people will rise at 4 or 5 am to do their daily meditation and while this does make the process easier it is certainly not required. I would say if you are just starting the practice of daily meditation, creating the habit of rising early and doing the meditation in the private space of your room can be a great way to center yourself before the day begins.

Start by getting comfortable, but not so comfortable that you are prone to fall asleep. It is of course ok to fall asleep, this is simply not the brain wave pattern we are shooting for. This space is just above the sleep realm. Relaxed and calm, but not out of it. Focus on a central point and relax. Breathe slowly and feel your breathe move in and out of your body. Move your stomach and not so much your diaphragm. The Buddhists call this belly breathing. The seat of your soul is located in the middle of your belly just above the navel. And the doorway into the soul is through the heart located just above the belly near the xyphoid in the center of your chest. Focus your attention to these locations and feel the sensations. Imagine Light beaming from within you and radiating out in all directions. As you relax into this feeling, Peace reveals itself.

Peace is always present as this is your essence. If you feel anxious, nervous, painful, fidgety, or distressed this is the ego and the message is false. The mind is in control here and the purpose of meditation is to release this control and fall back on your essence. Thinking is not necessary and should be avoided. A busy mind can be released with intention and practice. Focus on observation and feeling the space within. After a while you will be able to simply move into a place of peace at any time, with a simple intention. If at first you are only in this place for a second, you have still found it and you should congratulate yourself. Use this tool often and in any situation, it will serve you well. May your New Year be filled with Joy, Love and Peace! namaste’

🙂 Sequoia Elisabeth

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Are You Man Or Woman?

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Do you feel like a man or like a woman? What is a certain gender supposed to feel like? How do you know? I realize that most cisgender people have not considered these questions, but for a transgender or transsexual individual it is of constant concern. Gender incongruency is something that ~98% of the population can’t even fathom. What if the concept of gender as taught in the schools the last 100 years is inaccurate?

First understand the difference between sex and gender. Sex is determined by the parts between the legs and gender is determined by the parts between the ears. At least this is the modern or current understanding by science. Consider the possibility that each person is here in this reality for a purpose and they have chosen the roles they are to live before they are even born.

What if in fact gender is determined by consciousness, the field which surrounds the body and everything in creation. What if no one is born with a gender and instead they acquire it. Much like sexual orientation must be discovered by the individual. I cannot tell my brother that he is gay or straight or if he is man or woman. These are things he must discover. Life is a discovery! And we are explorers.

The prevalent teaching about God or Great Spirit or Universal Mind or Infinite Intelligence (or whatever you choose to call this energy) is that it has no sex or gender. Eastern philosophies have known this for centuries and in the past few centuries the western philosophies are accepting that God is not a man sitting on a throne up in heaven, some people more than others. I do not have actual statistics on this, but from what I gather this concept is changing.

The idea I present here today is that God is all there is and since God is all, so are we. This means that no one has a gender or a sex in reality! Those things only exist in this reality we call life on earth. We are indeed all androgynous beings of light! You may have seen this image presented before as alien life, for instance in the movie Cocoon (1985) or in episodes of Star Trek and in multiple instances in the media. Everything is energy.

I mention the idea of androgyny here because I feel this is the truth of nature. I believe that hetero and homo sexuality are creations of the human mind or the mind of man. This goes for what makes up a man or woman, male or female also. How do you know what a man or woman feels like? You do not, anymore than anyone else does. Just because you seem to have been born male or female does not mean you know what a man or woman feels like. It is what you say it is.

In the end you feel like YOU. Accept this feeling and get comfortable with it; it is all you will ever have in this lifetime. No matter what you change on the outside, the inner core remains the same. The experience will change and this is the point of the material world anyway. Enjoy the ride and only act with authenticity in your life. Live with pride! This is your role in life and it is mine.

Sequoia Elisabeth 🙂

What You Say Is True

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Transition Blog will be sharing some of the eBook Livin’ Large in the next few installments. Please enjoy this Journey of Love and if you are interested in more info the book is available on Unity in Gender Diversity. This book is a synopsis of this author’s metaphysical outlook and philosophy.

Why would you say something that is not true? More importantly your beliefs make it true! In order to say something the thought must come to you, if it came to you it was attracted by your beliefs and actions, which make it TRUE to you. This is a personal experience, so mind your own business (another chapter of the eBook) and observe the Truth all around you. There is your truth that most of us live by every day and then there is Ultimate Truth or God’s Truth. Just understand that they are not the same and that you can choose either at any time. It takes a little observation to realize that what you think of as Truth is really “your” truth, ego truth or man’s truth. Remember that you are the creator of your life, and as you say, so it will be, but only if it is in the highest good for all concerned.

God’s Truth or Ultimate Truth or Universal Truth or Universal Law is a choice available to you in each and every moment. As you say “yes” to Truth, your mind is open to goodness, and Truth will be self-evident. God’s Truth is eternal, constant, loving, inspiring, and beyond explanation. My point here is that your words do have power and you should use them consciously to create what you desire.

It is far too easy to fling words around and create chaos in your life and in other’s lives. Be careful what you say, because if you say that you are fat and ugly, is this really what you desire? Or if you say your partner, or anyone else is fat and ugly is this what you would desire? How does this serve you? And beware of discounting your word also (this means, saying to yourself or out loud that you are this or that which is demeaning), because then you are taking the power away from your word which makes it harder to create that which you do desire. Use positive self-talk to build up yourself and others. Use sayings like, “It is all good” or “Just gotta love ‘em” or “I love you anyway”. If you find yourself saying something less than flattering about someone, yourself included, stop and change the subject. Oh, haven’t we had Lovely weather this week!

🙂 Sequoia Elisabeth

The Perfect Relationship

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Does it really exist? Don’t be too quick to judge. Of course it does, and I am going to show you, but first a few points and foundational comments to start with. We have a relationship with everything in our life. So this means that you have a relationship with your family, your pets, your Lover, and every object in your life. What I am focused on here is the Love relationship with a partner. Many of the principles will go with any relationship.

The first thing to remember is that all relationships are about one thing, God expressing through you in self-awareness. As you are aware of God, God experiences God. Now, who or what is God. Simply put God is all there is. So how does an omnipotent, omnipresent, being know itself? By creating you! Of course the other thing to remember is that God knows all there is to know and so do you. God wants nothing, because God is everything. The word I think best describes God is LOVE.

With this in mind, as I express Love, I am expressing GOD. I am being the best “God” I can be. The goal in any relationship is to express Love. This expression leads to Peace and the experience of Peace will take us beyond all that is not God to a realization that we have been home with God all along. Yes, there is “not God” in this dualistic world, and you probably know this better than you realize. The easy way to tell the difference is “not God” separates, while God unifies.

So as we go thru our life we will be doing things and we will have feelings while doing them. As long as the feeling is positive you are on the right track, if you feel a sick feeling or negative one then something is not right and you need to change direction. This takes practice and experimentation, but over the years you will learn to do this either, consciously or not. The desire is to make this expression conscious and by observing your feelings, which are a combination of thoughts and emotions, you are being guided by Holy Spirit. A heightened consciousness and a greater awareness of all that is will result.

The next obvious question is how does one express Love. And this is really what relationships are for, the practice of expressing Love so that we may experience ourselves in our highest glory and that we may know God as God. Your partner is a witness to your life, your best friend, and your supporter. In so doing they are experiencing God. Conversely you are the same for them. Thus the cycle of Love and relation moves, grows and cycles back where it started with God

The partner relationship has one main purpose, to Love and Be Loved. How this looks is open for interpretation with infinite possibilities! It is best experienced without judgment or expectations as to what it should be like. Simply accept it all as an expression of Great Spirit or God.

Similar interests helps to move things along, so as we express ourselves your partner can understand more fully what you are doing and can help guide you by participating in the experience. Of course we all have thoughts that are different than our partner and this is the real gift. As we celebrate our differences, not trying to accentuate them, but by honoring them, our partner helps us grow. The longer two people are together the closer aligned they become.

Love your partner as they are, because it is up to them to change, if they even want to, so if you are not happy with something about them then step back and see if it is not something about you that is the real problem. Remember the world is a reflection of who you are and I mean your personal world, not the world at large (that is a culmination of all that is). As you celebrate your partner so you celebrate yourself, because we are all one.

Criticize not, or you will be condemning yourself. The more you become one with your partner the stronger the relationship becomes, but this need not be done by constantly standing by their side and melting into a shadow. In fact, the more you express yourself and be the person you were meant to be the better. Freedom to do this is important for a healthy relationship. Balance is advised here. Let me just say that we each have to learn on our own how this works, so doing what worked for someone else is no guarantee that it will work for you. Your assets enhance your partner; your strength is theirs. Forget about any short comings, they are soon to be history anyway. In the process of growth be forgiving of any mistakes you or your partner makes. A short memory when it comes to these things is a blessing. Each day is a new day, a new opportunity for you to be the best “you” possible.

🙂 Sequoia Elisabeth

Stop Running

by Sequoia Elisabeth

The easiest thing to do when you are faced with something scary is to run away. Fear is the opposite of love and we always have the choice of experiencing either one or the other like darkness and light. When you turn on the lights the darkness in the room goes away, it is the same when we love.

According to the ACIM (A Course In Miracles), our greatest fear is ourselves. Humans are afraid to know the truth about themselves because they fear the horrible things they have been told about whom they are and how horrible they can be. I mean Humans actually kill one another in sometimes brutal and vicious ways. Humans kill animals and eat them. We allow our children to starve to death. On a more personal level we have all hurt the ones we love in some way either physically or mentally, so we must be horrible creatures!

Are we really that horrible? Is being a vile person a requirement of humanity? Hardly! Please do not buy into the illusion and certainly do not run from your self! The nature of this reality is that our thoughts manifest in ways we are not aware of and the Divine Truth is hidden behind all the fear, pain, and lack we believe in. Each of us creates our own reality through our thoughts so what you think about that person staring back at you in the mirror is your “truth”.

It takes courage to look into the mirror and see the Divine Truth…you are looking at God (or your choice of deity). The road to self love begins with one step and the mirror is a great place to begin! Now do not get confused here, I am not speaking about loving what you see, that is just a shell and the same goes for everything else in this world. It is all illusion and we have been born blind! The Truth is always present and the potential to see it is always available. You may have had revelations where you actually saw the Truth and those are gifs from angels.

When I look in the mirror I am aware of my feelings. I do not judge them as good, or bad I simply feel. It is the feeling that leads you to who you are and seeing the Divine Person/Truth. Remember you are made in the image of God.

For someone who does not know the Truth, fear often jumps in and this is how addictions are born. We have a void in our lives and we have no idea how to love that person we see in the mirror, much less out in the world, so we run. We run from ourselves in a vain attempt to escape. The pain of the illusion is too great so we find a way to escape and the method of choice these days is chemicals that alter our sense of reality. Addictions come in many forms but they all have fear at the core. Addiction simply means that your behavior has become habitual and harmful. Even though you may realize that this behavior is harmful to both you and others it seems that you cannot stop and it also seems like it relieves the pain.

This is what I call a dream within a dream within a dream! How many layers of deception does it take for you to feel safe from yourself? Tomorrow we will continue this look at addictions and I will offer a solution.

😉 Sequoia Elisabeth