You may have noticed I’ve been a bit quiet since the new year. I’ve been working on another blog specifically dedicated to my psychic development. Please check it out and let me know what you think. I will of course still be writing here too, but most of the spiritual stuff will be in writing creatively with spirit
On another note, I went to clean the snow off my car this morning and someone had drawn a huge heart on the bonnet.
When I saw that Lynne McTaggert was going to be speaking at the Fab Friday Tree of Life lecture last Friday I not only booked a ticket but a front seat because I didn’t want to miss a single word, didn’t want my vision impeded by any large heads or woolly hats. Lynne is the author of The Field, the basis for the movie What the Bleep Do We Know, one of the most influential movies I’ve watched, and which I loan out to others to help them understand how important our thoughts are in shaping our lives.
I also read her second book The Intention Experiment which shows how we can physically change things when we meditate with intention. Experiments shows that when groups meditated with intention in certain parts of America crime rates dropped, people were spontaneously healed, and peace broke out between warring factions.
I showed up early for the 6 p.m. meditation offered prior to the 7 p.m. talk and was therefore fully awakened to hear what Lynne had to say about living with intention. She was preceded by Brian Hubbard, her husband, who was promoting his book Time-Light. His take on the ‘self’ was a little too complex for me and I found myself drifting off, but after the break I was fully awake to hear Lynne.
I was prepared to be amazed by what she had to say, what she had to share about her new work that lead to the publication of her third book The Bond, but I was not prepared for the exercise in telepathy as she showed us how much like ‘leaky buckets’ we are, her term for the fact that we are sending and receiving thoughts from others all the time. We are not sealed entities with our own thoughts; we transmit and receive thoughts all the time.
She then encouraged us to test this out by taking part in our own experiment. Working with someone we didn’t know one had to be a sender and the other the receiver. With eyes closed we breathed in deeply three times together, joined hands and the sender had to focus, with all five senses on an object that means a lot to them. The receiver simply had to take note of anything that they saw, heard, felt, sensed, smelt, or tasted.
I was the receiver and straight away saw a big chocolate brown bear, which later dissolved and was replaced by Pudsey Bear from Children in Need Appeal. I kept thinking that the bear was damaged. The sender had actually been thinking of two statues, 
one of Saint Pio of Pietreleina in which he’s wearing a chocolate brown cloak. She showed me a picture of him with big bushy beard and eyebrows, and, as all agreed later when I gave feedback, looks like a bear of a man. The other statue was of Our Lady, had been her mother’s favourite statue, and her mother kept knocking it over and knocking its head off. They had to keep gluing it back together.
Other people got direct hits. For instance one person was thinking of holidays by the sea and the partner picked up caravans, which is where they stayed on the holidays. Still others got the object intact.
Lynne then encouraged us to form a healing circle to show that when we intend healing to happen it does. Groups of 8-12 were asked to nominate one person who needed healing to stand in the middle of the circle while the others held hands and focused on a positive healing outcome. Our person wanted to be healed from lifelong tinnitus. We focused on ‘Paul has clear hearing and is whole and well in all other ways.’
During this exercise I felt Reiki energy rushing through me. By the end, about five minutes, I was so hot I wanted to strip off (unfortunately I was only wearing one layer and exposure was not on the agenda). Paul said the tinnitus hadn’t gone, and Lynne reminded him that not all healing happens instantly. It is also possible that others in the circle experienced healing. The person to the right of me said she felt a great heat coming from me, and had noticed it also during the meditation at the beginning. I’ve been given several messages recently about re-connecting with physical healing. Maybe this is one way of getting me to do so.
Lynne’s new book The Bond looks at how we can use the knowledge of our interconnectedness to help our communities. She’s also helping groups to set up ‘healing pods’. Lynne is also editor of the new magazine What Doctors Don’t Tell You, which has been a web magazine for years and has now made it onto the shelves in the shops.
Check out her stuff at these websites
http://www.lynnemctaggert.com
http://www.theintentionexperiment.com
http://www.wddty.com
Given that I’d sat in spiritual/psychic development circles on Monday and Thursday, and worked intensively on the new book, this unexpected and additional work on Friday night left me feeling exhausted but at the same time exhilarated. It took me two hours to come down, calmed enough to sleep.
This holy instant would I give to you.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You.
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.
And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. If I need a thought, that He will also give. And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. He is in charge by my request. And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son.
And so the end is here, and I face the final curtain. This is the last lesson of the year, a project I began to help me with the discipline of writing every day. How amazing that on this last day I watched the movie Julia and Julia about a blogger who blogged every day for the same reason. Her food blog got made into a movie.
Today WordPress send me the stats for the blog. Nearly 4000 people read it over the year, the greatest readership was in Austria (about 1,900) and the UK (about 1,700) The rest was split between 42 other countries from Austraila, Canada and the US to The Caribbean, Iceland, Finland, Brazil and Pakistan. I am amazed as I didn’t ever use tags. Although not many people commented quite a number contacted me by email to let me know how helpful they found some of the lessons. Some people read them during low moments and found solace. Some people used it as a way of tracking what I was doing and were inspired to keep going with their own projects.
So, something that was meant to bring discipline to my life has helped other to do the same. It’s given me a desire to continue but I’m not sure what I’ll be blogging about next year. One thing I know is that it won’t be every day, as I have a heavy writing schedule ahead this year. I intend to finish the parenting book and to write the accompanying course. I have at least seven other books in my head, all with voices impatient to be heard.
Today I had the loveliest compliment – one of my readers said the last story in my last book made him cry. He said I was a real story teller, at which point I nearly cried, because that’s what I’ve always wanted to be. I feel I’ve grown in confidence as a writer and I’m feeling very excited about next year. I’m being offered a few collaborative projects but need to stay focused on my primary goals of writing books.
I may blog about sexuality, spirituality and parenting next year as they will be the things I’ll be writing about. I hope you will still find me.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR.
This holy instant would I give to you.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You.
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.
And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. If I need a thought, that He will also give. And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. He is in charge by my request. And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son.
I tried to catch the sun before it went in today, but I wasn’t quick enough and had to do my two hour walk in Cannon Hill Park in a damp drizzle. It didn’t deter me or the hundreds of others out with their children testing out their various wheeled toys. It was what my body needed, and as I settled in the bar to re-read Think and Grow Rich the gentleman sitting in the seat opposite asked if I was enjoying it and I never got beyond a few words as we ended up talking for over two hours about the book and other spiritual practices and beliefs. If my body needed the walk my soul certainly benefited from the talk. Thanks Owen, you were a Godsend.
This holy instant would I give to you.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You.
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.
And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. If I need a thought, that He will also give. And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. He is in charge by my request. And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son.
I spent today doing more research and allowing the shape of the book to emerge. I think there will be a focus on the principles of ACIM – love v fear, and there’ll be butterflies.
I also reviewed my goals from last year and set new ones for next. I think it’s important when reviewing goals to remember to add the things you achieved that wasn’t on the original list. It helps to compensate for and ameliorate the ones you didn’t achieve. For instance, I didn’t write a parenting book but I wrote a book of short stories. I completed ACIM which ironically wasn’t on my list, and I also completed Walking in This World, also not on my list.
So, as 2012 draws to an end I exceedingly pleased with what I’ve achieved from my list, and I’ve made a most challenging one for next year. Just two more days to go!!
This holy instant would I give to you.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You.
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.
And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. If I need a thought, that He will also give. And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. He is in charge by my request. And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son.
I could hold out no longer, I started the parenting book today. It’s only at planning stages at the moment but the pressure in my head is easing. Once I started I had a real sense of calm It’s going to be a little more challenging than I anticipated as apparently I’m supposed to write it from a spiritual perspective, parenting the whole child, mind body and spirit.
I’m going to set an arbitrary date of end of March, which could be just a little crazy, but I’ll give it a go.
Final lessons (Reading)
Our final lessons will be left as free of words as possible. We use them but at the beginning of our practicing, and only to remind us that we seek to go beyond them. Let us turn to Him Who leads the way and makes our footsteps sure. To Him we leave these lessons as to Him we give our lives henceforth. For we would not return again to the belief in sin that made the world seem ugly and unsafe, attacking and destroying, dangerous in all its ways, and treacherous beyond the hope of trust and the escape from pain.
We will not end this year without the gift our Father promised to His holy Son. We are forgiven now. And we are saved from all the wrath we thought belonged to God, and found it was a dream. We are restored to sanity, in which we understand that anger is insane, attack is mad, and vengeance merely foolish fantasy. We have been saved from wrath because we learned we were mistaken. Nothing more than that. And is a father angry at his son because he failed to understand the truth?
We come in honesty to God and say we did not understand, and ask Him to help us learn His lessons, through the Voice of His Own Teacher. Would He hurt His Son? Or would He rush to answer him, and say, ‘This is My Son, and all I have is his’? Be certain He will answer thus, for these are His Own words to you. And more than that can no one ever have, for in these words is all there is, and all there will be throughout all time and in eternity.
Lesson 361
This holy instant would I give to you.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You.
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.
And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. If I need a thought, that He will also give. And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. He is in charge by my request. And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son.
Home straight. Only five more days to go on this journey. In many ways it’s been a long and eventful one, an in some ways it been much shorter than the three hour journey back from Manchester today. I believe the world and his wife was on the M6 today. One thing that I’ve certainly gained in this last year is patience, and peace come from patience.
Following the banquet yesterday I was happy to settle for a late breakfast of scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and hash browns at Oddballs in Chorlton. Even though it wasn’t on the menu they were happy to make what I wanted. I love the vibe in that place.
Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.
Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. I am Your Son, forever just as You created me. I would reach to them in silence and in certainty, for nowhere else can certainty be found. Peace be to me, and peace to all the world. In holiness were we created, and in holiness do we remain. Your Son is like to You in perfect sinlessness. And with this thought we gladly say ‘amen.’
Off to Manchester for more feasting and more socialising. Woke in the early hours of the morning with stories running through my head. I may have to start writing before the 7th of January as planned.
God’s answer is some form of peace. All pain
Is healed; all misery replaced with joy.
All prison doors are opened. And all sin
Is understood as merely a mistake.
Father, we will forgive Your world, and let creation be Your Own. We have misunderstood all things. But we have not made sinners of the holy Sons of God. What You created sinless so abides forever and forever. Such are we. And we rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us. Sin is impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain base more solid that the shadow world we see. Help us forgive, for we would be redeemed. Help us forgive, for we would be at peace.
It was a beautiful Christmas day, restful, fun, filling and full of love and laughter. There was some real sharing, real connecting with each other and a Skype link with those who couldn’t be present. If Christ was at our table he would have been happy with how we spent his birthday.
No call to God can be unheard nor left
Unanswered. And of this I can be sure;
His answer is the one I really want.
You Who remember who I really am alone remember what I really want. You speak for God, and so You speak for me. And 
what You give me comes from God Himself. Your Voice, my Father, then is mine as well, and all I want is what You offer me, in just the form You choose that it be mine. Let me remember all I do not know, and let my voice be still, remembering. But let me not forget Your Love and care, keeping Your promise to Your Son in my awareness always. Let me not forget myself is nothing, but my Self is all.
It’s probably been the most relaxed Christmas Eve I’ve ever had. Did a bit of shopping (having ackee and saltfish for dinner as the queue for the Marks and Spencer meal was too long) visited a few friends, spoke for long hours to others (far and near) on the phone, ate a meal of vegetables and rice, and drank a few glasses of wine while watching Mrs Brown’s Boys. BLISS!!
I think I might try this again. If my Self is all, then I really don’t need all the paraphernalia to have a great time.
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