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| Volume 13 Issue 2 | Troika Celeste Saint Germain, Editor |
March/April 2010 |
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| Volume 13 Issue 2 | Troika Celeste Saint Germain, Editor |
March/April 2010 |
| Happy Equinox = Equal = Balance! Seek the balance in all ways. Editor's Corner: While putting this newsletter together, I was overcome with appreciation, admiration and deep gratitude for all of the contributing members of 1 Spirit. The heart and wisdom they share with us every issue is amazing. Some have been members from the very beginning of this website and newsletter, others joining along during the past years. I have watched many of them turn from "shy violets" into blazing Sun Flowers! Each author has their own writing style, unique spiritual practice and point of view -- yet they beautifully illustrate the ONENESS that is the mission of 1 Spirit to convey. The original concept of 1 Spirit was to show -- by example -- how we are All One, regardless of our cultural heritage, race, gender, religion, chosen spiritual path and other "window dressings" of human life. 1 Spirit has members who are Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Mayan, Universalist, Theosophists, Agnostic, Hindu, Pagan, other beliefs I can not think of right now (please forgive me), and those without a label. There are those who use meditation, prayers, chants, angels, astrology, tarot, crystals, earth practices, art, channeling and other methods as their "window" to the Divine. 1 Spirit members come in all colors; black, white, red, yellow and . . . violet! They are of all ages, straight, gay, liberal, conservative, rich, poor, celibate and tantric . . . they are "everything" . . . The All That Is! In our world, all of the above have been used for centuries as "dividers", thoughts, beliefs and ideas to keep us separate and fearful of each other. . . . the "Us" and "Them" mentality. I wanted 1 Spirit to show that, even with all these "differences", through love, understanding and acceptance, we need not fear anyone for we truly are all ONE. I am happy and humbled to see that vision and mission so beautifully manifest through this newsletter! Thank you to the authors and our subscribers -- both sides create the whole! OK, onward with my announcements -- In honor of the Equinox, the Saint Germain Elixir is on sale until April 30. Ascension-StGermain.com/elixir.html is the sale page. I invite you to attend one of several transformational & experiential Saint Germain Ascension Play-Shops I'll be giving in Mount Shasta during 2010. Coming up is July 23-25 with an early registration discount available up to June 25. Please see my website, Ascension-StGermain.com/playshops.html for more information and other Play-Shop dates. And -- the BIG News! Save the dates Oct 8-12 for an amazing event -- The Transformation of the Human Heart to the Divine Heart during the 10-10-10 Gateway! Plans are still being made as to exactly where this will take place and will be announced soon. I can tell you this much -- Dolphins will be present and participating with us. The energies will be monumental and extremely transformative. You will have a wonderful time with like-minded Lightworkers at this once in a lifetime event. Please mark your calender and plan on joining us. Subscribe here to be on the Saint Germain mailing list. You will then be the first to receive updates on the 10-10-10 gathering. Love and Violet Blessings! -- Troika SGFAITH, HOPE AND LOVE - HOW IT APPLIES TO ASCENSION By Bryan James A very popular passage in the bible is 1 Corinthians 13:13. The Apostle Paul was explaining in a letter to the Corinthian church what traits were really important to focus on. "Three things will last forever - faith, hope, and love - and the greatest of these is love" (New Living Translation, 2007). So how exactly would that apply to ascension? What do we actually have to have faith in, what is it we should hope for, and how and whom are we supposed to love? I asked the etheric teachers and this is the explanation they gave: Faith -We have to believe it what it is that we are trying to accomplish. We have to believe that we can get our frequency high enough, our light ratio high enough, that we can actually ascend, and that our etheric teachers will help us to do so. We have to believe that all this is possible. Hope - We have to have hope that we will ascend. Hope keeps us going when we get discouraged about our spiritual progress. As we hope for that day when we do ascend, it is helpful to imagine what it will be like to consciously function at a higher level, so that we can help support the ascension of others. Some day we will be working with other ascended beings to support and guide individuals on their spiritual path, and send Light to the planet as it is needed from the 5th dimension. Love - Love is what we do when we are trying to work with others. Love is what we do when we work with ourselves. Love is what we do when we work with our etheric teachers. This is necessary because as Paul stated in considerable detail, it does not matter what or how many spiritual gifts we have, without love we cannot ascend. That is because the level of love we achieve affects whether we ascend or not. So it is vitally important that we love ourselves, others and our etheric teachers. And we show this by controlling our thoughts, words and deeds, so that we only do those things that are kind, useful, joyful, caring and loving for ourselves, other people and our etheric teachers. Bryan James is a Lightworker and founder of Agents of Light. Please visit his website.. Back to T of CASCENDED MASTER MESSAGE By Patty the Messenger BITTERNESS AND REVENGE Question asked 9 February Master Session: What prompts individuals to harbor bitterness and revenge? Does this behavior pattern ever bring satisfaction? How can they change their behavior patterns? I find most do not wish to change. How can the victims overcome the feeling of being a victim? Answer from Mary: She is reinforcing what Jesus previously said about the consequences of actions. Mary says what prompts individuals to harbor bitterness and revenge is that something happened that has been “bitterly disappointing.” The attitude on the bitter person is that to them an unwarranted wrong has been done to them. The person who is bitter is selfishly considering that they had not done anything to provoke what happened. She is dipping into the person you are thinking about, and that person does not understand that the reason for the perceived wrong is karmic and past life. This person also had not been taught the consequences of action. This particular person knows the laws and commandments but does not think they have done anything against another person or “a law.” Revenge belongs to the Lord. Whoever is guiding her can help her greatly by letting the revenge go out of her emotional body and system because it will cause her pain throughout the rest of her life. Mary is now making this a general questions. When people have things happen to them “which they don’t deserve,” when they have not done anything do deserve that they ask where did it come from, why did it come out of the blue. Mary is saying the bitter people are harboring the wrong and not looking at how they have contributed to what happened; if not this lifetime, a previous lifetime. Does this behavior pattern ever bring satisfaction? No! Jesus and Mary are both saying this pattern creates illness, alienation of those around them, and they are unhappy people who look for the worst in their lives. How can they change their behavior patterns? It will take a skilled, gentle counselor, whether a pastor, a friend or someone who is very wise and gentle and knows how to approach them and help them see how to let go, and see how maybe it was not deserved this life, but perhaps in a previous life. It will take a skilled counselor to change their behavior patterns and can take a long time. If a person is already in a spiritual growth situation, the realization of what happened in a previous life can bring an “aha” moment and the healing is almost instantaneous. I find most do not wish to change. Mary is saying we are to be as gracious, polite and giving as we can be to those people. You do not have the right to ask them to change. Try to be understanding without treating them as a victim. When their bitterness does not impact you, they will either seek help or go somewhere else. How can the victim overcome the feeling of being a victim? Mary says this is an entirely different question, but you are talking about the same person. Victims need to understand they are not victims. It takes a gentle counselor to guide this person to understand their victimization can be something they caused this lifetime through a thoughtless act that they are receiving the repercussions of. Or it could be karma, or they made a decision before they were born, getting ready to reincarnate and decide what set of circumstances would be before they chose their parents, etc. The entity who is a victim may not be a victim at all. On the soul level they may have chosen to experience this for a good reason. It would take a spiritual counselor to help that person to figure that out. Mary says we have no right to try to change another’s behavior. We are only responsible for our own behavior. Trying to change another’s behavior sets off a chain of activities, thoughts and emotions we may not be prepared to handle. Be gentle and kind to them unless they are abusive, in which case just move away and let them be, unless you are the counselor. Ascended Master Sessions are held the second Tuesday every month. We ask questions of the Masters to be answered. If you would like to email your questions, please send to ascendedmastermessages@gmail.com. A free will donation is requested to balance the energy between the Masters, yourself and the channel. You may contact Patty the channel with your credit card information: 302-378-0579. There will be a telephone conference Master’s Session Sunday, 11 April at 4 pm Eastern Time. Please Click Here for the details. Back to T of C.ANCESTORS AND DNA? By Elizabeth Wefer A recent PBS show about our ancestors and our DNA led me into a deep thunk. Does our DNA carry information about our past lives? It was a new thought for me, maybe some of you have figured it out all ready. If one of my ancestors was a duchess in the 16th century, was that one of my past lives? I have a brief past-life memory of Lemuria and another more recent one of being a Cathar--the most painful of all--as being tortured and burned to death has lingering effects in this life. How does that all work out? I've never had my DNA completely tested out so have no validation for my thunk. Are there scientist-channels out there who can enlighten me? Have you written a book that needs publishing? Please visit my website! Back to T of C.GATHERING INFORMATION USING THE BACK OF YOUR HEART CENTER By Cathy Chapman By entering the back of the heart center, you are able to access energies in other dimensions, universes and times. If you enjoy traveling, you can have great fun and learn much through travel from the back of the heart center. You can trace the history of an issue in your life through lifetimes, connect and communicate with those who have shared other lifetimes with you, and speak to those guides who have journeyed with you on the inner plane in various lifetimes. We'll use one example and then you can use it as a model for any other traveling you would like to do. Begin with the process of tracing an issue in your present lifetime through other lifetimes. You will even be able to go into the possibilities of future lifetimes regarding that issue. Begin by choosing an issue to examine. This could be a relationship with someone in your life, a behavior pattern, a feeling or anything that interests you. Once you are ready, enter your heart center from the back and go deep within to your altar or sacred space. Breathe in and out of your heart center. Ground into the Earth by imagining roots growing from your feet and dropping a line of energy from your tail bone into the center of the Earth. Ask to go to the place in your heart center which will take you to other lifetimes. Simply allow your consciousness to go there. Now state, in these or similar words, “I go now to the most recent lifetime which has the greatest effect upon ...” Allow your consciousness to move to that lifetime. You may or may not have images of the particular lifetime. For this experience, it does not matter. Begin to write or speak into your recorder whatever impressions come to you. Set your intention for healing of anything in this past lifetime that has affected your current incarnation. Focusing on your heart center, ask for the healing of all your chakras as it relates to your intention. You may ask for healing of one chakra at a time in the order you choose, or you may simply ask for the healing of all chakras. |
 Table of Contents DEPRESSION AND MEDIUMSHIP By Dr. Barbara LaRocca There is a new level of fear and depression affecting old souls. It is particularly tenacious and strong feelings of anxiety and depression that appear to have external causes but are really part of a spiritual upgrade. This is all part of a process of mediumship. Mediumship means spiritual development that includes clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience, as well as visionary and healing skills. We all know that there has been acceleration in the planetary evolution to work with the energies of 2012, and acceleration of mediumship is part of this. Care must be exercised while developing mediumship. Firstly, there is a need to remember that what you are feeling is not your fault nor are the external conditions that might be producing the content of the depression your fault (although they might require you to respond to them). As long as your training needs to have the external conditions, they will continue to exist. The external conditions (whether they include financial problems, relationship problems, health problems etc.) force the person to align with Spirit, and these conditions will change when your current mediumship is upgraded or as part of the upgrade. It is not a time to let fear override common sense or to be prone to worry of any kind. It is time to look up and see the beauty around you, to release expectations (they might be too low rather than too high even), and to begin a new connection with the unseen world. The challenge is to ground, stay in present time, and have that optimism that is recommended. Please remember you are not alone and this period of time will pass. It might seem that this energy has been going on forever — yes, the main problem is being in a spiritual grad school while living your daily lives. As you begin to feel the upgrade, the depression will lift and new resources will be felt. Stay with the program, use hematite to ground yourself, meditate with clear quartz, and ask amethyst to assist your crown chakra in integrating all that you are learning. Use a powerful crystal for doing meditations to be shown more resources and solutions. Use your common sense and the mediumship will lead you to the new space! Dr. Barbara LaRocca writes for Crystal Wings of Mt. Shasta, CA and can be reached at BeSelfEmpowered@aol.com. Back to T of C.FORGIVENESS By Leiah Bowden We are complex, multi-dimensional beings. Our thoughts sometimes to be the result of long labors of clearing the forest, or searching for water in the desert. And sometimes they seem to come out of the blue. I have never understood in my deepest knowing, the meaning of forgiveness. I didn’t have a feel for the physical mechanics, for the emotional cleansing, or for the depth of compassion that perhaps was necessary in order to feel forgiveness for self or others. And so one evening I sat down at my keyboard and sent an email to over 100 people whom I felt might have some idea that could help my find my own. I heard back from 75 people with responses as varied as the flowers in a meadow – from one short sentence to an essay 18 pages long, totaling – to date this March 14, 2010, over 114 pages. I have been humbled, astounded, astonished at this response. So many people thanked me for the opportunity to think about this and put words to thoughts and feelings. Many said they’d been thinking about this, working with the concept, struggling with the idea of forgiveness all their lives, or for many years. I am thinking that the wave of hungry words that has drenched me and continues to flow might be representative of a general appetite for clarity on forgiveness. Or maybe, as some of my responders indicated between the lines if not right out, for forgiveness itself. And THAT thought – about the general appetite – strikes me as an option not to be ignored. Maybe a book. (But then I have four in my computer in various phases.) Here are some ideas that have taken root in my heart and have helped me find at least a sense of what I was looking for: 1. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. -- Mark Twain 2. Do I perhaps hold different people to different standards? 3. Forgiveness allows me to clear out any poisons and half-truths from my heart and cleanse myself, making myself whole. 4. Maybe it’s a good idea to think about forgiving the person but not the behavior . . . I am not sure about that but it’s something to consider. 5. There is a potent transformative energy in addressing the problem while the wound is fresh, but truly, in my life, I have not had the courage to do this, waiting years for the anger to die down. Maybe now I could do it . . . I would like to hope so. 6. Sometimes, as in the above, I have withdrawn from the negative emotion. 7. It helps if I can understand the other person’s processes behind a wrongful act. 8. Forgiveness is not a thing to do. It's a state of beingness. Do . . . be . . . Do . . . be. 9. Forgiveness requires a conscious decision to enter that state, or the process of compassion filled steps, that lead into love. And it’s also love itself, applied to pain. 10. I breathe in the hurt, hold it a moment, then breathe out love.... 11. Why would I forgive? Because I want to be whole, and that can only be when I am not holding pain and resentment, my hand leaning on the scale against which the feather of judgment rests. I need my soul to be clean and clear. I must forgive. 12. Most nights when I go to bed I think of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s night-time prayer of forgiveness, in which I pray that the Universal Life Force draw all creation, in all time and all universes, into complete love, and ask that no one is punished on my account. 13. I am humbled profoundly by the ability of those who have suffered at the hands of those who enact terror on a group of people to forgive: Etty Hillesum, a few weeks before she died at Aushwitz: "I can see no way around it. Each of us must look inside himself and excise and destroy everything he finds there which he believes should be excised and destroyed in others. we may be certain that the least iota of hatred that we bring into the world will make it even more inhospitable to us than it already is." (paraphrased from Matthieu Ricard – Happiness, http://home.wxs.nl/~brouw724/EttyHillesum.html ) 14. Would it be possible for me to forgive as Immaculae Illagabdeza did? --- She was a survivor of the Rwandan holocaust in the 80's. Millions of members of her tribe were murdered by wandering mobs comprised of neighbors and people she'd grown up with. She hid in a bathroom for months. These people slaughtered her entire family. She had nothing to do in that bathroom but go within. She found forgiveness. Clearly, we are responsible for every aspect of our lives. Those we don't forgive offer us a convenient excuse for not take full responsibility. 15. A friend wrote back to say that her 5 year old was “standing near me and asking what your email says. I ask her if she knows what forgiveness means and without blinking she says, “It is love.” Wow. Yes. Little children CAN lead us. 16. When we don’t forgive, we are holding back what can heal us and first we need to forgive ourselves. But what if we don’t know exactly what to forgive ourselves for? One way is to know that whenever we feel hurt by someone else’s actions, that’s a mirror of what we, ourselves, need to clear up in ourselves: the mirror effect. 17. Forgiveness is something done on a cellular level. 18. I found out about the Huna practice of Hoponopono, in which phrases "I'm sorry, please forgive me, I accept your forgiveness, I love you" over and over. This feels really good. 19. I work with chakra energy when I do my Energy Portraits, and I can see and feel when one is unbalanced. Holding back forgiveness compromises the health of these centers that could better be spinning in love and joy for our better health and the better health of the planet and all creation. Because every one of us affects the larger worlds. 20. A seminar being given at NYU is to be FORGIVENESS: THE ORIGINS OF A MORAL IDEA 21. Anne Lamott says "not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die". 22. What am I doing to create the situation in which I can feel betrayed? How much power have I placed in another’s realm? I must take responsibility for the part I played in my own unhappiness. 23. Pretending to forgive is ridiculous; attempts to forgive must be profoundly true or else I am just asking for a repeat manifestation of pain in any of its costumes, and I don’t get to choose which guise it chooses next time around. 24. There are people whose behavior was hurtful, and I realized some time after the fact that I didn’t resent or feel hurt by them. I had come to that place in my feeling about them where there was nothing to forgive , so the hurt was gone, but something remained – a foreign taste, a new way of seeing them, indicative of my having sort of dismissed them out of my most treasured circle. I feel appreciation for them in some ways, admire some of their talents, their positive personality aspects, their devotion to living a good life – but I find that I don’t want to engage closely with them any more. And I feel fine about that. 25. Forgiveness is huge; I have the feeling that if we can forgive, we have accomplished a great learning – perhaps the learning we came here to experience. Who knows? I asked divine Being for a response about forgiveness: My divine guide suggested I include here the wisdom I learned during a reading I did yesterday of a dog who had died some months ago. Her grieving human had asked me to make a connection with her beloved dog, and part of what the dog told me was specific to her human beloved. I am including it here because it can pertain to many others: "We (animals) live in love, which means that we live completely open to the flow of authentic emotion, which is the way we feel the world around us, and which can be called "love." We are not able, constitutionally, to oppose the authentic flow of energy and emotion, and so we are always true to our nature, and our nature, the nature of all creation, is love. "Humans have free will because of the more complex gift they carry of creative mind. We have no choice but to love. We cannot dissimulate; pretending is impossible for us. If she would like to know how she can continue to live in the sweetness of the love she and I share, it would be to be more conscious of where love lies in her life, not necessarily where she would like to find it, but where it is, and to welcome that love and live with her door always open to receiving its blessings. This will mean undoing some of the beautiful knots she has created that look like adornments but are really armor: gates closed to what might flow in.” Untying the knots we fashion in order to live in the presence of love. Easily said. A beautiful promise. My work. Please visit me through my website. Back to T of C. |
