September 21, 2008

Center of Light Newsletter

Co-Created by
Jeremiah Lindsay & Jody Howard


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Illusionary Body
Disaster or Miracle?


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Many readers want to know which one of us actually wrote each article.  Having experienced merging into Oneness with each other and All, we no longer have a desire or need to individually claim ownership to an article or posting.  The truth is, we are co-creators from the moment the article comes to our attention until it is in full form.  When you are in your full power you are no longer seeking acknowledging pats on the back, you're just speaking your truth. 
 

New Earth
Ascension


This is an exciting time to be on Earth, a time many of us have been anxiously waiting for.  Despite the magnificence of this time, some people are experiencing rapid shifts in their consciousness and awareness.  This can make us feel temporarily off balance or unstable.  Others are receiving Divine guidance that is confusing or contrary to anything ever heard before.  This can make us want to listen to our mind rather than our Higher Self.  Some of our earlier teachers are passing on messages that sound more like doom and gloom rather than the thrill of this new dawning.  This can make us feel fearful or always on the edge, waiting for some 'thing' to happen.  Ascension is our pathway to ultimate fulfillment, joy and passion for life.  These times and all the changes and shifts within them are to be embraced, honored and welcomed.  The time is now.  New Earth is here.  We only have to be willing to do the personal clearing work and open to our Higher Self in order to receive it.  Our intent is to assist others in creating ease, grace, celebration and enjoyment of the process.
 
Jody and Jeremiah


Illusionary

Body

 


This article began as a deeper exploration of karma and how it affects us as human beings.   We also wanted to tie karma together with what some people refer to as "The Pain Body".   We have found that using the expression 'pain body' is limiting as the truth of our life expression is so much more than just pain.  It involves blocks, attachments, limiting beliefs, trauma, karma, the roles of women, the roles of men, to name just a few.  Just the word pain is filled with so much drama and negativity. 

We see it quite the opposite.  Our physical bodies, physical, mental and emotional, are only projections from our spiritual body.    These projections are the spiritual tools that allow us to experience separation and learn the lessons we've planned as a soul residing in a human body.  The truth is, we are always connected to All That IS.  Understanding the whole process of how we experience ourselves and being able to work with it, is an absolute joy not a negative thing, and it becomes quite simple to heal, not dramatic at all. 

Before we embody, our Soul or I AM Self chooses the karma and all that we are to experience in this embodiment as part of our Divine Plan.  The information in our Divine Plan is placed into an aspect of our Spiritual Body.  We have chosen to call this aspect of our Spiritual Body our Illusionary Body rather than pain body.  The Illusionary Body serves as the holographic film in our Creational Womb (see article "Creational Womb") from which we project the reality we experience, as Me, My Self and I.   The Light of All That IS passes through our Illusionary Body and the lens of our Creational Womb.  The resulting physical experience of our projection of reality creates our life story and helps us play out that story to fulfill our Divine Plan.

The Illusionary Body is comprised of our Divine Plan, karma, blocks, attachments and limiting beliefs.  Thus our Illusionary Body holds the ability to bring about the events, experiences and consequences our Soul desires and requires for It to expand, evolve and learn.  . 

Our Illusionary Body is part of our embodiment, our evolvement, and our Soul's reason for being here.  It sets the physical us up for the experiences our Soul or I AM Self desires in our Divine Plan.  It has a list of experiences which are to occur during our lifetime.  With each of those experiences, there are choice points as to how we deal with the experience and whether or not we choose to continue, go deeper or ignore it all together.  These free will choices, over time, build more layers into our Illusionary Body. 

Our entire life in human form is based on illusion.  We must create the illusion so that we have temporary spiritual amnesia.  Without the amnesia we could never have the experience of pain, suffering, lack, separation, or limitation.  This is because our True Self is not capable of these experiences.   Illusion is the main component to learning.  Knowing this, we can accept it as powerful, positive, beneficial and very useful to us.    We can also work with it instead of against it.  When we can work with it and align with our I AM Self's divine plan, the lessons are accepted more easily and quickly.  The 'pain' becomes 'gain'.

When we begin to awaken, we see that our Illusionary body is a gift, a healing tool.  It becomes an important aspect of our growth as a Divine Human.  This is far from the thoughts that associate it with pain.  Acknowledging something as an illusion, and therefore an important aspect of our growth, allows us to release attachments more easily.  It removes the emotional energy that has us only see one side of a trauma or event.  Only by embracing both sides can we truly release it.  Imagine the joy of embracing both sides of everything and knowing that there is nothing to forgive or to suppress. 

Blessed IS,
J & J




Disaster or Miracle?


Most of you have seen lots of news coverage surrounding Hurricane Ike showing all the drama, havoc and destruction.  There seems to be little focus on the miracles that came out of Ike or on other Nature Events.  We witnessed neighbors who had never talked to one another coming together before Ike came ashore last Friday evening.  They brought their grills to the front for spontaneous gatherings, making plans for helping each other after Ike had passed.  That was a miracle we witnessed.
 
We left Houston at noon on Sunday after cleaning up what we could and emptying the refrigerator of food.  The upper limbs of a tall Mimosa tree rested on our roof without damage.  That it lay there with no damage to the roof was a miracle.  Currently we are staying at a lodge on the eastern shore of Lake Buchanan north of Austin, Texas safe and sound.
 
The energy of Hurricane Ike was with us well before it came ashore the evening of the 12th.  On the 11th, its energy was very masculine so we merged with it to bring more balance into what came ashore.   At no time did we feel any animosity, threat of retribution or punishment coming from Ike for the Texas coast and its inhabitants.  We and the residents of Galveston & Houston had chosen to live in a coastal environment clearly in the frequent path of the forces of nature.  So it had been 25 years since the last big one, we chose to live here.  Hurricane Ike was nothing more than a part of the Life Force of nature with a very high intensity.  Our sense was that its frequency increased as it came more into balance.  This left us comfortable with staying to ride it out in our home.  We also sensed its energies were an essential part of our own frequencies and spiritual growth.
 
Experiencing a deep oneness with it over the night it came ashore allowed us to sleep peacefully through much of its passage over Galveston, Houston and our home until the mimosa landed on our bedroom roof about 4 AM.  This was about the time the eye of the hurricane moved over Houston.  The moaning of the chimney and windows and small stuff hitting the house after that challenged our ability to stay present to Oneness with All and Hurricane Ike.  It required conscious effort to keep moving back into being present to the Now as well as being One with All. 
 
We had anticipated being without power for only a day or so.   When it became evident Saturday evening that it would be one to three weeks before power, groceries and gas distribution was back we started looking into where to go on Sunday.   As we cleaned up the yard and chatted with neighbors we became present to the energies of desperation and chaotic thought in the area.  Even though we felt physically safe, there was also a sense that we needed to be near water away from the chaotic emotional energies building in Houston.  
 
It is interesting to feel now that our spiritual service in the case of Houston and Ike is being best served by our being where we can maintain our own Light as fully present to Now and Being Love.   This points to the need to further clear attachments of the very old paradigm of having one's worth be given by giving away your own life force.  We know this as the condition for many lightworkers and healers who are still trying to release the bodhisattva vow from other lifetimes.  It also arises from the 3rd dimensional separation consciousness which has everyone feeding off of others in their life in the fear based need for attachments.  We saw neighbors who had never talked in months or years, coming together out of this fear, feeling safe by connecting, when it was just reinforcing and generating more of the same fears and feeling of lack.
 
We realized as we were driving out of town on Sunday, feeling as though we were freeing ourselves of the chaos and fear trying to fuse itself into us from others, there were many trying to return home.  They were being drawn back to a place where there was no food, no gas and many had no homes.  Traffic on the major interstate was like a parking lot, for up to 60 miles outside of Houston.  As we see it, these people were feeling drawn back to their possessions, even lack of possessions, as they feel those 'things' are a representation of who they are.  Our stuff then becomes our label, our identity.  Much of the fear was manifested within the loss and feeling of lack. 
 
We understand these misfortunes and catastrophic events will continue and are part of the great shift.  Suggesting that our inner angers and hatreds bring these disasters to us is a judgment formed out of our fears created in the reality of separation consciousness.  Why is humanity feeling responsible for Acts of Nature?  The forces of nature, whether occurring as weather, fires, mudslides, volcanoes, floods, earthquakes, landslides or tsunamis are just forces of nature and part of our planet's ongoing life.  As Lightworkers we must stay present to the fact that the dramas of these events do not have to be part of our reality.  They are part of the world in which we live, but they do not have to be our personal reality or responsibility. 
 
We are now in a beautifully dry place next to a lovely lake, yet the locals are suffering from a yearlong drought.   They did not even have wildflowers this spring.  They prayed Ike would bring them water.  This shows us that no matter where you are, you can see destruction, lack and fear or you can see paradise.   It's always our individual choice.  It is up to each of us to create paradise within us so that we can live in paradise outside of us.  We must decide what we choose to see and to experience.  It is up to each of us to own our experience of life as our personal creation.
 
Are you going to see these events
as disasters or miracles?

 
** We choose miracles **

 



 


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There are no questions this week as we evacuated after IKE and have limited internet access.  When power returns to our home we'll have this feature.  

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