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Learning to walk in faith

I heard it growing up, from every pulpit.

I heard it all grown up, from every spiritual and motivational speaker…..

We walk by faith if we walk in alignment with our Highest Potential.

I’ve worked it all my life, this one piece, in all it’s various shades and hues.
I’ve worked it but I’ve seldom walked it, without work and conscious effort.

This morning, I got a glimpse of actually walking it instead of working it and it shook my little ego self to it’s very core.

So used to the illusion of control by doing, my ego became almost uncontrollably agitated at the idea that there was really nothing for that part of me to do.

That, in fact, it had done it’s job so well that I finally got the lesson and the personality self could just chill and let Spirit move our lives.

That doesn’t mean I sit still and do nothing, oh no.

In fact, since I “got it” things have been presenting themselves at warp speed….potentials, invitations, Spirit-guided direction. My job in this new paradigm is comforting a little ego self that is quite freaked out by realizing that it controls nothing at all and needs do nothing at all until the very moment something needs doing.

At that divinely inspired moment, “doing” becomes so effortless that it feels to the ego as if we haven’t participated.

It’s a learning curve.

Seeking Personal Experience Stories in being treated with Prometa for drug addiction

A while back I posted an article on the new drug treatment for addiction, Prometa which has been getting a good bit of response.

I am looking for people who may have personally used Prometa for drug addiction and who might want to share their personal experience for the benefit of others.

Rules for posting:

1. Cannot be promoting a Prometa site as this is a conflict of interest.

ps. If you do promote Prometa and you want to talk about the treatment, the results or any other aspect of this subject, I can still accept your articles if original and not already posted online. I see no point in posting content that can already be found with a simple google search.

2. Cannot contain inflammatory, accusatory language or be aggressively angry in tone. I just want a report of the results you personally had with Prometa, and not a rant against doctors, pharmacies, etc.

3. If you do want me to link a website, this content you are posting cannot also be posted there and your website MUST contain original content, and not just advertisements. Also, tone of website must be informative not aggressively angry or accusatory.

It’s not that I don’t share some of the same feelings. It’s that I don’t find airing personal opinion to be conducive to better understanding. Drug addiction is a complex issue and it is good to hear all sides of the issue, to understand more of what is needed for healing.

Medjugorje in America

I recall reading the stories of the children of Fatima and the messages from Medjugorje. A part of me wanted to be there, wanted to be them.

I later had my own personal experiences with spiritual energy that I recognize as the frequency of consciousness of Mother Mary and it was a blessing.

Yet, I have not participated in very much of the Catholic ritual, despite my awareness that I am here to walk a blended-tradition path of spirituality beginning when I walked beyond the confines of rigid, fundamental Christianity and continuing as I stepped into and beyond the rigidity of other faiths.

Maybe I haven’t been drawn to Catholic ceremony because it contains so much structure or maybe it’s a subconsious thing from being raised Christian. I don’t know.

Maybe it’s my resistance to this idea of suffering and pain as a path to God. I’ve certainly traveled that path, beginning with my piously religous Grandmother who knew that life was not where treasure was….that one had to suffer and wait and be rewarded in heaven.

I also saw this structure in the Native American rituals of Sun Dance and Vision Quest and in a lot of the Sweat Lodges too. While I saw a different way being worked by the few, a way of being lifted by the energy where suffering was not necessary and a supernatural force took over, the many still seemed to be suffering.

Then, I saw what seemed to be the opposite in Buddhist ritual….the giving up of desire and thus the end of suffering. Didn’t quite work that way for me but that’s another article.

Anyway, despite what the areas of my resistance are to being much in the Catholic Gridline, this spiritual journey I’m contemplating now holds more.

Most of what I know about it holds no appeal whatsoever. Camping out for 5 days, being asked to say specific prayers at specific times, having to endure heat, mosquitos, standing for long periods of time, being required to wear long sleeves in spite of the heat, and having to walk a mile each way, each time I go to the ceremonial area.

So what draws me to this unpleasant scenario? Do I hope to “get” something? If so, that’s what I recognize as ego-bait, something my personality self has latched onto which distracts and tempts me long enough for me to get something else.

All I know now is that I’ve gotten my tent out of the storage building. It’s been there since I bought it, except for one time that my nieces and nephews used it. That tells you how much I like camping.

Is Mother Mary calling me? Or is this just the lure of the ego….a hope that going to Caritas of Birmingham and being part of Medjugorje in America will change my personal life in some miraculous way?

The only way to know for sure is to go.

Question on being a healer:

I have been experiencing a strange sensation in my hands lately, it feels hot and have a tingling sensation which I cannot explain especially during song worship, if I close my eyes I can feel my eyes moving without having control and I get the impression of a fast moving light in front of my closed eyes.

Do you have and explanation and information with regard to this.

Healing Facilitation Response:

The sensations you mention feeling in your hands are very much indicative of awakening healing energies. Also, the eyes moving without control is a spiritual indicator as well.

The eye movements, particularly if you feel as if your eyes might be rolling back in your head or moving rapidly from one side to the other, it can be an indication that data is being transmitted. The data can be coming to you, for the purpose of informing your work as a healer or your own spiritual path, or you may be developing as a transmitter for spiritual data that is to be of benefit to others.

Another spiritual implication of unexplained and uncontrollable eye movements is the reprogramming of belief systems. When mindset and consciousness are being upgraded to new levels, the eyes will often react.

Of course, uncontrollable eye movements can also have medical implications but you are not asking about tumors or seizures or other physical conditions. You are asking what it means on a spiritual level and these are my experiences.

ps. you may want to read a few of these pages on healing:

Should I be a Healer?
Distant Healing
More on Distance Healing
What is a Healer?

New Help for Genetal Herpes:

An estimated one in four adults suffers from genetal herpes. Now, there is a herpes remedy emerging from the homeopathic medicine community that offers welcome relief for herpes sufferers.

I’ve always felt that homeopathic remedies were particularly safe and often more effective than even some prescription drug solutions. This homeopathic remedy for herpes is soundly based on principals of homeopathy.

The ingredients in this formula have been utilized, separately or in some form of conbination, by homeopaths to treat single symptoms of oral and genetal herpes for many years. However, it is the synergistic blend of these ingredients that makes a potent difference in this homeopathic remedy for herpes.

Here’s a partial list of the homeopathic antiherpetic ingredients:

Rhus tox: Helps to reduce the inflammation and itching of a genetal herpes outbreak
Apis Mellifica: Provides welcome relief from the burning pain, stinging sensations and the swelling of a genetal herpes outbreak
Baptista (Wild Indigo): Particularly useful in oral herpes
Capsicum (Cayenne Pepper): For effective pain relief
Nitricum Acidum (Nitric Acid): Helps reduce the spreading of a genetal herpes outbreak and helps to heal the cracking that can occur as blisters dry.
Pyrogenium: Helps abscesses to heal more rapidly

Learn more about this remarkable new homeopathic remedy for herpes here

A grounding and centering practice

Can you feel both your feet?

I mean, can you feel your Spirit coming into your form, your chosen form on the third dimension, all the way down to the toes in both your feet?

I couldn’t. I realized I was part-way out of my body and, when I looked at why that was, I realized that my mind had taken me into the future. Whenever I am in the future, to the degree that I am in the future, I have left the present.

A good, good spiritual practice for me is simply to notice my feet and see if I feel myself all the way to the ends of my toes. It’s an odd realization to note that I cannot feel my feet. As soon as I know I can’t, I am there by virtue of sending my consciousness down to my feet.

In a way I can’t explain, it helps to center me, bring me back to the present moment and balance me in whatever future potential I face. Maybe that’s why I’ve always loved foot reflexology so much. It is a delightful way to get back into my feet, and into the now.

The habit I had very unconsciously gotten into was to let my mind carry me away from the present moment. It’s a tricky thing, learning to plan for future potential IN THE MOMENT and vastly different than letting the mind go into that imaginary future and start trying to work out how it will be, should be, may end up being, or may not be.

Sometimes I even stamp my feet, to get myself back into them and into the present moment. Whatever it takes, I want to stay conscious as much as I can. Anything else is something different than really living.

I am not my feelings

I was having a real come-apart over something the other day. I don’t even remember what and the reason doesn’t matter.

In talking with a friend, she commented that it was “just a feeling”.

After we hung up, it dawned on me what that meant.

I had momentarily gotten so identified with a feeling that I thought it was me. I felt threatened or confused or addled by something I was giving more power than it had a right to have.

Feelings come and go, flux and flow, ebb and wane.

Feelings are not who I AM.

I AM is having a feeling in a body.

Regardless of what the feeling may be, I still am I AM. I am so much more than the little me that is having some sort of come-apart.

Just remembering that helps me to also remember that “this too shall pass” and not to start building such a story around my emotions that they take over my life.

Money Matters and the Exploration of Alternatives

A few months back, I started exploring the idea of barter as a way of getting what I needed and also began to explore this idea of alternative currency that has been around for a while now. I was dismayed to find our government stopping some cities from producing their own currency and wondered if there was a way to explore new ideas around money and the exchange of energy it represents that was being successfully developed.

I signed up for a barter newsletter and just got their latest email. I wanted to post it here in case anyone else is considering barter or alternative currency.

My interest in this blossomed more when I realized I would be selling my current home, the home I had just purchased a year ago for the purpose of creating a healing center, due to the discovery that three chicken houses were being built less than a half mile from me.

Previous posts on the subject:
My journey with this radical change and
lessons about the spiritual synchronicity of radical change

With regard to that last post, one result was that I’ve stopped eating chicken altogether. I’m not sure that’s a permanent life change but it’s been almost a month and the only chicken I’ve had is a little organic, free range chicken broth. I haven’t missed it and I know I’m making a difference. For every person who refuses to support the mistreatment of animals for human gain, the world shifts a little.

To be clear, I’m not saying it’s wrong to eat meat. I still eat meat and, if I knew of a company that treated their chickens humanely through their entire life and then carried a Spirit of respect and thanksgiving, taking care and using kindness when it came time to sacrifice the chickens for the nutrition of a human being, I’d still eat chicken.

Anyway, I digress……Here’s the info on barter and a link to the barter club at the bottom in case anyone wants to read more about it.

Are you stressing over GAS prices?

copyright, Debbie DeSousa, all rights reserved

Yes, we’re all stressing about the prices of gas. As gas prices continue to climb we’re all looking for ways to save our cash flow. Each time we have to spend any cash we cringe. So I have a question for you. If you need to buy something would you rather take the money out of your B of A bank account or would you like to spend trade credits from your barter account? This is a no brainer for me because I’ve been using trade credits for 10 years to improve my bottom line. I understand that trade credits are money and I like money. I like any money that I can spend. My first year as a trade member I took in $8,000. Now that’s not a lot of money but it came in handy when I needed dental work, eye glasses and a new roof on my house. Trade credits spend just like cash.
With consumer prices rising and our economy slowing trade becomes even more valuable to all business owners. We need to buy stuff but have less cash to work with. We all have something we can trade. Look around what do you have that is collecting dust? Are you paying for storage spaces. If you’re a service business do you have time that is not being used by cash customers? It’s 10 times easier to make a trade sale then a cash sale.
If you want to save your cash and buy with trade credits instead you will need to sell/trade something first. That means you must first get over the idea that only USA dollars are of benefit to you. You will need to look at the big picture. Look past your first reaction. You can avoid all risk by locating what you want to buy with trade credits first. Then trade to raise the credits you need. I call this trading in reverse. There is no risk because you already know what you want to buy and know how much money trading will save you. There is no cash cost to you unless you receive business from Barter Bucks. Barter Bucks only gets paid when you make money.

To learn more about how you can grow your business using trade call Barter Bucks for a no obligation consultation. We will help you find things you’re already buying with cash that you can start buying with trade credits. Improving your cash flow will help you cut down on your stress related to money.

This information provided courtesy of Bucks News by Debbie DeSousa

I’m starting a new section on the main site, giving very brief introductory information for those interested in alternative medicine therapies. I’m very open to receiving guest articles on the following aspects as well as other brief perspective-type information or experience information. If you use alternative medicine therapies, please post a comment and let me know how you might like to contribute. I’ve already added the pages below but am still working on, and seeking additional content for, other topics including aromatherapy, iridology, colonics, naturopathy, ayurveda, homeopathy, crystal healing and any other types of alternative medicine therapies you might know about.

Here’s what I have listed so far:

acupuncture
chiropractic care
reflexology
reiki therapy

This article is the copywritten material of ~ Jeni Humming, Copyright, April 2007, all rights reserved

Czech born scientist, mystic, author and inventor Itzhak Bentov drew a bell curve to illustrate the evolution of human consciousness. On the left side of the curve is the “throwbacks” from where the human animal evolved — the more primitive of our species, but still alive today in diminishing numbers. In the middle of the curve, of course, is the the majority of our planet’s inhabitants who possess an average level of consciousness, setting the standard for what is considered to be “normal”. To the far right of the curve are the few and the rare humans present on the earth at this time who have evolved to a level of consciousness that is beyond the understanding and systems of measurement that exist today. This is where all humanity is headed and it is only a matter of time before the median will reach this point and the evolved humans on the far right of the new curve will be in a form and at a level we cannot even fathom now.

He asked the question: “Where can we find these evolved humans in our world today?” The interviewer ventured that they could be found at Universities and other places where one might expect to find the intellectual elite. Bentov said no. “In mental institutions,” he said. Society today does not know what to do with people who exist simultaneously in unfamiliar realms, which consist of anything the average human cannot see or hear or understand. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Our senses limit us being able to perceive only a fraction of what science has already proved is there. And yet, when someone can perceive these things without a conventional frame-of-reference to interpret the experience, it is bewildering for them, and socially unacceptable in general.

When all of your life, your paradigm has always been radically separate from what we observe as normal, there is often a desperation to be normal and fit in and muffle the gifts of this higher consciousness. This can create a form of suffering that in most cases will result in a way to deal with the world that will be judged as bad and wrong. It is the rare and courageous thing to be in this position and battle your way to a place of self-referral where you know what is normal for you is not normal for anyone else. And then it is ever rarer to have the audacity and naivete to blatantly explore what it means to be the creature that you are without the understanding, approval or support of others.

The conventional psychological community attempts to quantify and standardize lifetimes of bewildering isolation and disenfranchisement with a plethora of diagnosable personality disorders. Are they real, or just insurance codes to justify medicating brilliance? Who’s to say, but best not to judge. Better to try to understand. Author and Teacher Carolyn Myss states that each soul must have an incarnation when “the tribe” fails them, releasing them to be on a solitary journey in that life to be free to evolve at their own rate.

While I don’t consider myself to be at the extreme right of the bell curve, this solitary journey has been my experience. Am I diagnosable? Am I committable? I guess it depends on your paradigm and your agenda and your position of power over my life as to whether I get to stay free. So far I have escaped awarding anyone with that kind of power over me.

It never occurred to me not to be free. And and somehow I have managed, perhaps because I didn’t know any better, to create a life full of miracles and magic seemingly out of thin air without ever hurting anyone.

Do I suffer more than most? Yes, absolutely I do. I go through life with the feeling of someone visiting a nursing home where all of the residents are in a state of blissful dementia. They are all just as happy as can be and don’t know they are oblivious to reality. If I were presented with the option to become like them … one of them … to be happy and free of the constant discomfort of this awareness, I would not choose it. I couldn’t. So not only am I choosing to be as I am, I am embracing it, and I am going to push my limits as far as I can before I get caught!

This article published, courtesy of the author Jeni Humming. About Jeni: Hummingbird is a very unconventional, Aquarian Age, clean-living, alternative health guru, inventor, endurance athlete, GREEN, out to save the world, really serious, incredibly funny, hyper-brilliant 48 year old single (and never dates) les*bian who looks like Sigourney Weaver playing a Republican housewife (only shorter) who has just recently started drinking by herself.

Influences and Archetypes:

Joan of Arc
van Gogh
Nicola Telsa
Albert Einstein
Don Quixote
Saint Frances of Asisi
Anne of Green Gables
Miss Haversham

www.quantumpurpose.com