Innocent until proven guilty – is a phrase we all know well as part of our judicial system. We know how our court system works and also, how often it doesn’t work.

But what about our own guilt – we are the police officer, judge and jury of our own actions. How did we become so harsh with others and ourselves? We feel guilty about so much and want others to feel guilty about the atrocities we feel they committed against us, society, and even the earth. Now I know this seems a bit of an exaggeration, but it is to make a point. Truthfully and literally I think sometimes the more subtle the “offense” against us, the more damaging something can be, because like a subliminal message it drives itself deep into us, so softly and like a tiny splinter we don’t really notice going in, it becomes sore over time.

We spend so much of our time looking for the right teacher, partner, job, you name it – we seem to be looking for it. So often within that outer search, we seem to get farther away from ourselves, and the innocence of who we are.

When did we lose that innocence? Was it taken from us as children – to a certain degree I think that answer is, yes, of course it was. On the other hand, I think we abandon it freely on a daily basis, not taking the time to notice the miracles that occur if you slow down and absorb life as it comes to you, instead of searching and looking for it.

Two weeks ago, I wrote about enchantment. I think without our innocence we can never fully experience enchantment. Innocence and enchantment are too often spoiled by science and our own curiosity that sends us climbing up the tree of knowledge, sending us on a search for the truth, and like a poison apple spoils the mystery of what exists in each moment of our life experience.

They say that OM is the sound of creation – the first sound made. Sounds a lot like MOM. Maybe our mother is OM forwards and backwards. Many of us have lost our maternal mothers, and if we have not, many of us have become the caretakers of them. I will tell you that the earth is the mother to us all.

If you don’t believe the Earth is our Mother, then tell me why, on just about any given day, you can walk outside, take off your shoes, and instantly feel better. She holds us and heals us in her vibration.

Her oceans and seashores heal the sick, and medicine can be found springing up from the dirt in the form of plants. She truly is our caretaker.

I have wondered often as so many others before me and with me, what is the purpose of our lives on earth, and what could possibly be the point in coming here, when we all seem to just want to find home. I think heaven sent us here as seeds and the earth birthed us as our mother. Maybe we are here to love the earth in the same way we love our own mother. I believe we are here to spread that in the innocence of joy, miracles, and random acts of kindness, and in doing so, we bring heaven to earth.

Saturday April 29th was Earth day, and Sunday May 11 is Mother’s Day. In case you did not think about our Earth on Earth Day, remember her on Mother’s Day and be a child again, and remember how innocent it felt being with your Mother when you were very small. As we get older let us remember that the Earth too needs our parenting, just as our human mothers do. That is the innocence of who we are.

We are the children of Earth.

~Cynthia

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“The Soul has an absolute, unforgiving need for excursions into enchantment. It requires them like the body needs food and your mind needs thought. Yet our culture often takes pride in disproving and exploding the sources of enchantment, explaining away one mystery after another and overturning precious shrines, dissolving the family farm that has housed spirits of civility for eons, or desecrating for material profit a mountain or stream sacred to Native Residents. We have yet to learn that we can’t survive without enchantment and that the loss is killing us.”

~~Thomas Moore

The Enchantment of Everyday Life

How often do we find ourselves enchanted? When was the last time you felt that feeling when the mystery of coincidence or an epiphany that left you speechless and in awe of the sacredness of life. An encounter you could not explain away, something that left you well…enchanted?

Angels are Messengers of God. They fill the space between heaven and earth. They see themselves as sparks of the divine. While they do have their specialties, they do not consider themselves separate. We could also think of ourselves in the same way when we take human form. We are little messengers bearing our own message for the world. We too are divine sparks.

. When you look up into the night sky at the moon and stars, it is easy to see some stars are brighter, some stick out more than others, but if they all were the same size and same brightness it would not be nearly as enchanting to look at. If only we viewed ourselves in a similar way. Some are brighter some are smaller. Some twinkle more than others. But have you ever seen an ugly star? Or judged a star, and asked it why it did not shine as bright as the one next to it? What would happen if the world suddenly shifted into a world where we marveled at each other and became enchanted, seeing the mystery and the beauty that is shining from within, blinding us to the negativity we seem to accumulate living a human life. When we learn to open the seed of life that is our Soul, it comes bursting forth with a light so bright it burns off the ideas of darkness.

Imagine just for a moment if we began to see the world not as something that needed to be fixed but filled with great mystery – and how all things and all people are so different. People wax and wane just like the moon – what if we saw our exit from this life like a shooting star?

When we hear that a comet or meteorite could come close enough to Earth to cause harm we have great wonder and respect for the heavenly body that could possibly destroy us. We are all very aware of the dangers of the sky the black holes the thought of the sun burning itself out and the power of the Moon during a storm. Still we don’t judge. We don’t hate the Moon. We don’t hate the Sun or the stars. The biggest fear humans have regarding the sky is the fear that there may be intelligent life on another Planet. Interesting isn’t it? We fear the possibility of intelligent life – we fear ourselves, and each other.

As the nights grow longer and warmer, make some time to stroll out into the evening, gaze up at the sky and at the stars and the moon and the beauty it holds and as you look up at it all with wonder and amazement know that the angels are looking back, with the same love, and are just as enchanted by gazing at you.

Cynhtia

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For quite some time, I have been puzzled by how we all are so full of questions but don’t want to be given or accept any answers to those questions. I often wonder that if God appeared in front of us with the answer to our quandaries we would rub our chins and ponder something else, or ask him to produce a report to prove or explain his answer.

There was an excellent article a couple of years ago, in an issue of Health Quest by Brian Sanderoff titled, “Curing is for Hams Healing is for Humans”, and I could not agree more. No one manifested disease over night obviously I am not speaking of colds or flu’s, but of the physical breakdown of cells and organs from months or years of repeated ignorance of our spirits and physical embodiments. There exists a belief among those of us who help others heal that curing someone from their well planned out physical breakdown in and of it self can prove fatal, and I suspect is perhaps part of the reason for prescription side effects and hospital and surgical fatalities. These diseases are not to be taken lightly, and need gentle subtle understanding and as Brian described, healing – not curing. We don’t need to cure disease we need to understand it and how it manifested. If we are so much wiser and technology is so advanced, why does chronic disease seem to know no boundaries and be at an all time high?

Maybe the testing that we think is the answer to our disease – ridden society is really part of the problem to begin with. It is now expected that we will come down with something at some point, and so we begin looking earlier and earlier. Could it be that just like our spiritual questions, we really don’t need the answer in the form of a cure to our illnesses either?

Have you ever had someone hand you a book, and even though a part of you may know it could very well hold the answer you are searching for – you don’t open it. I think that is part of the human universal question. There would be no quest without the wondering in the first place…and sometimes even when we are wallowing in the darkest place alone, we must squirm and wiggle until we figure it out ourselves.

Our new presidents motto is Change We Can Believe In. If I may quote him directly “I am asking you to believe. Not just about my ability to bring real change to Washington…I’m asking you to believe in yours.”

The truth is whether the changes are big or not, or even change at all, depends on us. If you think about it, as the creators of our own realities we are the masters of what goes on in our lives much more than we care to admit and moreover assume responsibility for.

Information is so readily available with a few clicks on the computer, often you can begin to read on a topic seconds after someone tells you of it. We are in the Age of Aquarius, the age of communication. There is no lack of information, but perhaps communication is just as important as education, without it the information is useless if it cannot be shared and translated through many different teachers, leaders, and visionaries bringing their experience with it. Many great Masters have come to earth to spread the same message of peace, and their messages have been funneled into the doctrines that have become our religions, and codes of ethics. Maybe it is time to begin to consider some fresh information.

It is not what we know it is what we have learned that is truly valuable. Knowledge without experience is like a can of paint without walls to spread it on or Mozart without a piano. Every painful moment brings change. How nice it would be if we looked at our experiences not as success or failure, or comparing ourselves to others, but allowing others to simply be and allow ourselves the same, to be and be-come. As we come to have a greater understanding that every one has valuable insight to share, we will remember that the only universal truth is of love, and that all of the details of each and all of our lives, is the road back to that love. With that comes the realization through the many changes occurring both collectively and individually in society. We are experiencing a leveling if you will, where the high rollers and what some could refer to as elitists, are beginning to see the loftiness in their considering that they were protected, and separate. Like a puffy white cloud on a summer day, that idea has darkened and the rain is beginning to fall, may they begin to see and feel as the people below them that have lived for so long under the same dark cloud, that the rain that falls from darkness is just the release and cleansing we all need. May we gather together and begin to rebuild a new world, one that has room for everyone.

Cynthia

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We have all experienced how certain places and people can sometimes suck the life force out of us like psychic vampires, draining us of our energyenerg, often leaving us with headaches, and bad moods.  But how often do we voluntarily find our selves in an energetic exchange even while watching the news? We hear a story about a celebrity divorcing, or in rehab, or an animal or child has suffered some maltreatment.  Often and usually with the best of intentions, we begin to dissect the situation, and decide what the person or situation needs, and in that moment we begin to outwardly project into the world our energy – and as we do – we lose a little of ourselves voluntarily within our version of what should be.  We stretch ourselves on an energetic wave to that person or situation, diluting our ability to perceive our own moment.

It is next to impossible to perceive what another is here to learn. You may be here to learn about trust, while another is here to learn humility.  When we view others hardships, and shake our heads and say that is awful, truly we do not know that.  Life is difficult for most.  I don’t know of many people who have not suffered a loss or betrayal of some kind. It is but a moment in the classroom called life.  To pray someone else’s lessons away is to rob them of their education. As we project our version of anything out into the world, we are immediately drawn into an energetic exchange and become triggered by the polarities we all possess in this world of duality.  We are in the process of the shift we do not want to reinforce the duality of opposites.  Understand however they are still there! We are not post-shift.

Consider not sending anything out at all.  The only way to improve on the conditions of the world is to become the improvement.  I cannot tell you how freeing it is when you begin to not take on all of the world’s problems.

I am not speaking of retracting our energy from the world, and retreating to some mountaintop to never utter a cross word again.  I believe we all will continue learning while we are in these containers called bodies – each of us rising up to meet a new challenge or new joy, consciously within our own energy system and within our own body.  When we are faced with a challenge rising up means just that…going within, to the seat of your soul and rising up your own inner connection to source or your higher self, and finding the answer specific to you, and only you.  When we encounter a personal joy, we beam out that joy naturally radiating light and love, and those that enter into our space radiate within it as well.  It is not a conscious effort, but a heart centered spiritual state.

Prayer that is sent out, from a sense of pity, is coming from a disconnected and assuming point of view.  When we choose to enter into deep mediation or prayer, we are linked directly up to source – removed from human views with human solutions.  There is no greater gift any of us can give to the world than the gift of being ourselves, within ourselves.

Understanding where your energy is flowing, calling yourself back and becoming centered will allow you to begin to realize the universe does not have human agenda or our own personal agenda as its primary focus.  When we all can openly and joyfully look for the blessing buried in our own difficulties and allow others and the world to do the same we will become harmonious sounds in the symphony of life.