Vitamins, Fears, Illusions of Separation, and Unconditional Love

"Don't move the way fear makes you move.

Move the way love makes you move.

Move the way joy makes you move. ~Osho

Nancy over at Life in the Second Half Blog wrote an excellent blog about "Living Fearlessly." Her blogs are always good and informative and often deal with current topics.

And today's topic was Vitamins--and Fear. I myself, wrote comments the other day on FB about an article that claims vitamins are no longer good for us. Following the publication of the supposed study, the next day another article came out about men, their prostates, Vitamin E, and cancer. Not curing cancer but causing it! Upping the risk of getting cancer, instead of the Vitamin E being beneficial...May help the heart but gives you cancer. When I read these article my thoughts were how contrived this all is. The pharmaceutical companies and the FDA have apparently for some time been aiming an attack at over the counter supplements, nature supplements and vitamins. In the U.S. alone, sales of nutritional supplements are more than 23 Billion Dollars a year.

These reversals on the use of beneficial supplements seems to be so prevalent any more and I believe it is one way to generate fear and take away our choices. And guess who will fill the void--the pharmaceutical companies. They will come up with something to replace nutritional supplements and will spend some of their 90 billions of dollars with TV and print ads, telling us how wonderful their product is, and then if you listen or read carefully, it will also tell you how many ways it may harm or kill you. But that is to be expected, of course....

But Nancy also posted an inspirational and incredible interview with Anita Moorjani, a woman who had 4 stage lymphoma cancer, was in a coma, hours away from death, and she had a Near Death Experience, and during that time she came into the awareness that we are one with the universe, with the God energy. She came through the near-death experience healed. Her tumors had reduced and then were soon gone. She is coming out with a new book in March, Introduction by Wayne Dyer.

The youtube Interview is long but so worth it. Take a little time away for the fear generated by our media, politicians, and government agencies, and listen to what Anita has to say about her experience, fear, life's purpose, and unconditional love.

Much of what she experienced is what Dr. James Martin Peebles, spirit guide, teaches with his spiritual psychology: illusion of separation, fear, creating our reality, etc. Her awareness of her healing is fascinating. She came back from the other side knowing her purpose to be here.

I preordered her book. I want to read it! I bet you will be interested, too, after hearing her.

Her website: http://anitamoorjani.com/

~Linda

An Octopus and his Coconut Shells Home, Fear or Wisdom?

This is absolutely amazing....an octopus who apparently can think, reason, about making and having a "home," helping to ensure its safety and sanctuary on the sea floor.

In watching this octopus so determined to create his safe haven, brought to mind these words from Dr. James Martin Peebles, spirit guide. Here he is speaking of the illusions of separation and fear.

“It is human nature to desire safety and sanctuary. The instinct for survival does not belong only to humans, it is a part of nature, too. But the fear of not having security–safety, can disable one on their journey if too much emphasis is placed upon it. Yes, it is natural to want to be safe from harm, to find sanctuary away from the tribulations of life, but often in struggling to ensure those desires, one may pull away, retreat from life and in doing so, the illusion of separation again rears its head. Fear can make one's life stagnate, unproductive, lonely, and painful. If one can welcome those fears, face them head-on and embrace them, then they will disintegrate like the ashes of a burning log. Now fire can bring fear–a hot flame that is licking up the walls of your home–but from a different perspective, flames generated under an oak log can fill the room with warmth and comfort, and when either fire burns out, and you pick up the cool ashes which remain and let them sift through your fingers, they disintegrate as they fall to earth. So it is perspective.” Excerpt from Three Principles of Angelic Wisdom by Linda Pendleton

Apparently, as Dr. Peebles indicates, it is not only our nature to desire safety and sanctuary but the instinct for survival is in nature. Is it possible that we do not give enough credit to animals and invertebrate that they can manipulate and chose to do things or creatively use objects to better ensure their survival.

I find it fascinating. We’ve seen the chimpanzees use tools, and other mammals and birds, we’ve seen the grieving of elephants and other animals, and now the determination of an octopus to build, surely another indication of how life, ALL life, is connected and is a part of the Universal Creation.

This Footage of the Veined Octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, showing sophisticated tool use behavior was filmed by Dr Julian Finn of Museum Victoria. Reported: Finn, J.K., T. Tregenza and M.D. Norman. (2009) Defensive tool use in a coconut-carrying octopus, Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 23, R1069-R1070, 15 December 2009.

~Linda

Fear of Psychic Gift

Photo by Eric Stephens

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–not absence of fear.”
–Mark Twain (1835–1910)

Intuition is defined as the ability to perceive or know things without conscious reasoning, immediate apprehension or understanding. It is your inner voice, or psychic awareness, your spontaneous knowing.

Our intuition is innate and a natural part of our lives. But many of us ignore, block, deny, or simply do not tap into this valuable resource. But why would we do this with a resource that can be used to help us heal, solve problems, and make spiritual contact with deceased loved ones or spirit guides?

Do you have fear of using your intuitive and psychic gift? Do you keep your psychic stuff to yourself because you fear being vulnerable?

What do you risk by becoming “public” with your abilities? It might be that if you use it openly, naturally, it gives power to other people to validate or invalidate you.

Some people may think you’re “crazy.” Does that thought scare you?

If you read the books of some of the well known psychic mediums you will see as children they may have had challenges such as “we don’t talk about that,” “it’s just your imagination,” “people will think you are nutty,” “ don’t tell anyone what you see.” Or hear, or know.... Have you ever experienced that?

I do believe there is a “code of ethics” about spiritual work. Even though messages may come to us from beyond I believe it is our responsibility to have ethical boundaries about forwarding messages to others without their permission. To do so may be an invasion of someone’s privacy. But I also feel it is our responsibility as a receiver to try and deliver the message in a gentle and sensitive way. We do have to remember people can be vulnerable, especially those in grief. And many messages that come through are for those in grief.

I saw an invasion of someone’s privacy, an intrusion into their private life, happen once at a healing circle. A couple were there to hear from two recently deceased loved ones, and that was apparent. A message did come through for them from the other side, but then before it was over, two other psychics in the room bombarded them with embarrassing information to do with the critical financial situation they were enduring, the things wrong with their sex life, the lack of communication within their relationship, hurt feelings against family, and so on. It was painful to watch their reaction to hearing all this presented publicly in front of thirty strangers. I felt so bad for them as I saw their faces turn red in embarrassment, watched their slinking back into their chairs probably hoping to fade away, watching their emotional withdrawal as the psychics continued, and all the while I was enduring their public humiliation along with them. That was wrong. If these two psychics had personal information like that they should have given it to them privately. Before it was over I knew more about these two strangers and their lives, both good and bad, then I know about my next door neighbors. I’m surprised we didn’t have their Social Security number before it was over.

But I also knew something about these two psychics, both new to their found abilities: they were too enthusiastic and their ego was right up front, trying to impress everyone and apparently had not yet discovered or decided they needed to have an ethical code of conduct with their spiritual work.

What if spirit is banging on your head to relay a message? Have you had that happen? I have and I know others who have had that happen. Sometimes you may wonder why the message came to you in the first place. And then once you have the message you may have to figure out the best way to present it. What if you hardly know the person for whom it is intended? Then what? You may find in most instances, if you tell the person you have a message from the other side, they will want to hear what it is, even though it appears they may not be a “believer.” And then again, you may have someone not wanting to hear the message at all. But that’s okay as you’ve done your part as the conveyor of the message. Sometimes there is just too much static for a message to get through. You know how it is: you send an email and it gets lost in cyberspace and you never know where it goes if it goes at all. Same with someone refusing a message from the other side. It may be out there in the ethers, and some messages may get to the person it was intended for in some other creative way. But for you, you did your job, and your responsibility is over.

As we use our intuition and PSI abilities, we have personal and spiritual growth, we learn more about ourselves as well as about others, we become more compassionate, more loving, more attuned to the higher aspects of the universe, and all the good things about intuition and spiritual growth take away the fear of having and using any psychic gift you may have. It is accepting and acknowledging fear and moving through fear which gives us courage. And with that courage comes a sense of freedom and a self awareness. We also may learn how healing and inspiring our words may be to another and that is heartwarming and takes away any traces of fear we may have.


Four Classic Types of Intuition:

Clairvoyance is defined as clear sight, or clear seeing, beyond the physical. Clairvoyance would include visions, seeing images in the mind, seeing angels, seeing apparitions, seeing deceased loved ones. This can include precognition.

Clairaudience is defined as clear hearing, the ability to perceive sounds, voices, music, that do not have a physical source. Clairaudience includes hearing messages from those on the other side, such as our loved ones, spirit guides, guardian angels, and often with the personality and voice inflections of the deceased loved one, for instance. This could also include hearing voices, sounds, from past events at a particular location.

Clairsentience is defined as clear feeling. Someone with this ability is able to experience strong, empathetic feeling and emotions from spirit, or even from living persons. This would include persons who are very sensitive to energies and emotions of other people. Healers of various disciplines often have this ability.

Inspirational Thought is defined as receiving inspiration without forethought. It has a broad definition and is how many creative ideas come to be: thoughts, ideas, impressions, knowledge, and creativity. Many great artists, musicians, and writers of the past (and present) have utilized inspirational thought.


Additional subcategories of extra-sensory perception such as:
Prophetic Dreams
Spiritual Dreams
Automatic Writing, Psychometry
Channeling
Trance Mediumship
Seeing Auras
Remote Viewing


~Linda

Fear and Courage and Love

Photograph by Eric Stephens

This book was suggested to me by my psychologist in understanding my own courage. When faced with a serious medical situation, I had fear, fear of the unknown, but somehow I quickly moved beyond those fears. I was optimistic...and I was continually hearing from nearly everyone around me how courageous I was. I didn’t know how else to do it. It seemed natural to acknowledge fear and let it go, but I was told not everyone reacts to a life changing event and challenges in the way I did. I do see that now.

This might not have been a book I would have picked up on my own, but I am finding it rather interesting. One of my late friends admired this man’s work and while living in Sedona I knew a couple of others who had studied his spiritual philosophy. The book is “Courage, The Joy of Living Dangerously,” by Osho, an Indian mystic and spiritual teacher, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s, He had taught Philosophy at a University for a number of years at one time. He took the name of Osho in 1989. I do recall when he was deported from his place in Oregon and sent back to India in about 1987, and there was a lot of rumor and controversy about his “group.” He died in 1990. There is an Osho Foundation in Sedona, Arizona.

This is an excerpt from the opening chapter, What is Courage?:

“Courage means going into the unknown in spite of all the fears. Courage does not mean fearlessness. Fearlessness happens if you go on being courageous and more courageous. That is the ultimate experience of courage—fearlessness. That is the fragrance when the courage has become absolute. But in the beginning there is not much difference between the coward and the courageous person. The only difference is that the coward listens to his fears and follows them, and the courageous person puts them aside and goes ahead. The courageous person goes into the unknown in spite of all the fears. He knows the fears, the fears are there.

“When you go into the uncharted sea, like Columbus did, there is fear, immense fear, because one never knows what is going to happen. You are leaving the shore of safety. You were perfectly okay, in a way; only one thing is missing—adventure. Going into the unknown gives you a thrill. The heart starts pulsating again; again you are alive, fully alive. Every fiber of your being is alive because you have accepted the challenge of the unknown.

“To accept the challenge of the unknown, in spite of all fears, is courage. The fears are there, but if you go on accepting the challenge again and again, slowly, slowly those fears disappear. The experience of the joy that the unknown brings, the great ecstasy that starts happening with the unknown, makes you strong enough, gives you a certain integrity, makes your intelligence sharp. For the first time you start feeling that life is not just a boredom but an adventure. Then slowly, slowly fears disappear; then you are always seeking and searching for some adventure.

“But basically courage is risking the known for the unknown, the familiar for the unfamiliar, the comfortable for the uncomfortable, arduous pilgrimage to some unknown destination. One never knows whether one will be able to make it or not. It is gambling, but only the gamblers know what life is.” ~Osho

It takes a lot of energy to be caught up in fear, in negativity, in a depressed state. I am always reminded of the words of the late Psychiatrist, Author and Radio and Television personality, David Viscott, M.D., "If we each used our feelings as a guide to reach the path for becoming our highest selves, we would at least be on the way to finding fulfillment in our own life, and the greater world would begin to make sense." That is from Viscott's excellent book, The Language of Feelings. He also wrote:

"The light you are seeking is inside. The light is life, is love, is you. Find it, nurture it, share it. To seek it is to take part in the infinite." ~David Viscott, M.D.

~Linda