Beauty Rested on my Hand

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:03:51 -0600

He’s so much more beautiful than the photo of a Black Swallowtail on the internet. What a gift to me today! My gorgeous new friend seemed to be having some trouble lifting off out of the grass in the front yard. I managed to distract my dog and cat away from this lovely treasure long enough to lend it a hand. At first he wouldn’t let go as I offered him a variety of safer and more elevated resting places... until finally, he joyfully latched onto the bark of a pine. I stood back and watched him very slowly, and very purposefully, inch his way up to a perfect little nook in the branches. So for now, here in the woods, Beauty is resting in a tree.

The Magic Island Birdman

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:12:45 -0600

I’m in Hawaii. I just wanted to share this delightful interaction from my morning walk. (Sorry, the photos are of poor quality because it was shot on my cell phone early in the morning.)

I politely asked him if I could take his photo. He said “yes,” and then he politely invited me to join him. Oh what fun to have zillions of beautiful doves and finches climbing all over your arms and hands! It only took a handful of seed and a few seconds of training from the Birdman - “The palms must be flat.” he said in a gentle, bird-like voice.

The Birdman shared a few stories about some of his other bird friends at his home in the mountains. He has quite a special relationship with them. It was a rare treat for me, as I have always adored the birds, and now I equally adore the Birdman.

Naming the Nameless

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:32:29 -0600

My human-spiritual conundrum is how to share something in the form of words that is wordless by nature. Once I name it or try to describe it, I feel I am dishonoring it. When I use the term “Divine Feminine” it is simply an attempt to meet others through the mind - through language or symbology - until we’re all comfortable with “what is” without naming it. I have asked myself many times, “Why should I even have a website?”. I imagine people stumbling upon this website, reading a few words and then based on their conditioning from the past, they will say “Ah, this person is talking about ____. I (hate/like) that.” And then they drop it into a properly labeled manila folder, tuck it into their “All That is Known” file cabinet, and are on with their busy lives. Perhaps you could imagine a series of visitations from the Unknown that by its very nature wipes all of your files or the hard drive of your mind and the bulk of your conditioning away. What might you be left with? How could you be in the world without labels or categories, including the image or persona that you have carefully crafted over time? This has been my life. I don’t have the convenience of hiding from myself anymore. It’s terrifying and blissful - all at once.

Only when the past is wiped clean
Can I be
Informed by something
Greater than
What I once thought was me

Suicide: Dying to Live

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:42:16 -0600

This is an audio file originally posted on an iTunes podcast. It was dated July 16, 2007. With more and more reports of suicide in America and worldwide, as well as my own personal experience of losing two friends in this way last year, I decided to re-post it here.

This is the Angelic, or more Universal view on the topic. The words and energy come through in a channeling or communion state.

Song “Under the Sun” from the Album Songs of Anima.

Angelic Message from Michael

Tue, 7 Apr 2009 00:20:47 -0600

Channeled and Transcribed
5/16/07

There are investigations in your world within the known and there are ongoing investigations of the Unknown, but careful to those who claim to be investigating the Unknown, that they are not operating from the ground of the known; that they are not assigning meaning based on the definitions of known and the terms of known. The Unknown is felt. It is an indefinable sense. Some may feel this larger Unknown as evil. Others may perceive it as God. Which individual is correct?

You quickly find in doing your research that the waters do become quite muddy. This occurs when you are trying to reduce or explain something that is perceived directly, from something that is perceived through thought or reason. There is no judgement here from this perspective. You may refer to me as Michael. I am angelic in nature, but do not begin to identify me from your known definitions and ground rules. There are almost as many definitions of Life; of Love; of God; of Truth on your planet as there are people. So this communion is for the purpose of assisting you to get back on track with the clarity that you know, the waters that you know, the feeling.

Michael is an authority to many. If Michael says it, then it is more likely that the readers will believe and will at least read through the entire message here and pay attention, for they are accustomed to projecting this authority onto someone who they believe is far more wise, far more powerful, far more loving than they are. And some believe far more than they will ever be, for they have bought into this idea of original sin. I am Michael, and I am saying there is no such thing as original sin.

Yet there is such a thing as a monumental misunderstanding - the foundation upon which your known humanity is built; the foundation in which you all sit at this timing; the foundation that will be and is dissolving. It is at this time that you will all be meeting with your own evils, your own sense of separation from That Which Is. It is not something to fear but something to celebrate, for you say that you are tired of the pain and suffering and yet you keep contributing to this reality. So to awaken from this dream, as you refer to it, all that is needed is a sincere desire to awaken. But as is so obvious within the framework and context of your addictions and your addictive personalities in your reality, the most difficult aspect of overcoming addiction is the stepping forward to say, "I am addicted"- and the willingness to recall more into your reality, the more that is Love. It is not enough that you condemn what you do not approve of in the way of behaviors on your planet. The question would be directed to the self. How might I be embodying this separation within myself? How might I be embodying evil? How might I be agreeing to something less than Love? It is this personal, conscious dialog that stimulates and initiates the movement towards healing.

Now, not everyone on the planet will choose this consciously. It is true. And they are not to be condemned for not choosing Love. It is a phrase that has been used quite often on your planet - "It is the time to choose Love". Yes indeed it is! When will you begin? Choosing Love is not comparing yourself to another and saying, well he or she is not, and I am because I am not doing what they are doing! This will not do dear people. This will not do. Stop comparing yourself to others. Stop measuring yourself to what you have been told is spirituality; to what you have been told is sacred. It is time to confront all that is evil within yourself. You have much help in doing this. Understand that you may not even know; you may not even be conscious of how you contribute to the world being the way it is. That is all right. You do not have to analyze or reason this out. This surrender of sorts is all that is needed to begin the flow of Love, the return of Love into your consciousness. This is LIFE! Something that most of you have convinced yourself that you are doing here on Planet Earth. I dare say that most of you are not actually living.

Some of you have convinced yourselves that you are living, for you are quite spiritual in your practices. Some of you have been condemned to live separate from your societies, and yet isn't it interesting that there are some now who sit in institutions of many varieties that are actually closer to understanding of Life, Love, Beauty and Truth, than those who kneel everyday in prayer. How could this be? How could this be? For you have been taught from day one that this, this and this is "good", "pious", "spiritual". On the other hand, this, this and that is bad, very bad, and no good can come of it. That is the mistake. The mistake is in thinking if you are "good", then no bad can come. And conversely, if you are bad then no good can come. This is not true.

Love is not good or bad. Love is the benevolent flow of the Universe, of All That Is, and it is naturally inclined to that which promotes growth; that which promotes joy, abundance, peace, and it is your thoughts and the way that you structure your world that creates all of the road blocks to the natural flow of this Love. Now you do see this in nature, this natural flow. There is joy in birth and there is joy in death. There is no separation of joy for it is all purposeful - Love in form and function working in a balanced and harmonious way. This is not a condemnation of thought or intellect. There has been a building of steady imbalances due to the fact that you are founded upon, most of your cultures now on the planet, most of your beliefs, most of your actions collectively speaking, are founded upon this monumental misunderstanding that you are not all that is natural, harmonious and balanced. You all are! And those who call themselves "good" as well as those who call, or have been called, "bad", have equal opportunity to turn that faucet on, but there must be the conscious recognition that the water has stopped. And in that stopping of the flow of these waters, there is great discomfort - so much discomfort that you must now say, "I am uncomfortable and I want to live fully, comfortably, abundantly, joyfully, and I recognize that I have in the past become addicted to a way of life that is not conducive to my well being, that inhibits me from having the healing that I require to open, to restore, to That Which I Am - which is the bounty of All of Creation!

So all people, whether you consider yourself or have been named "good" or "bad", all of you must evaluate now in these coming times how perhaps have you been inhibiting the flow of Creation, the flow of Truth, the flow of Innocence into your lives? Where have you blocked this? Take responsibility - each individual, take that responsibility - for the entire world. I am not saying it is your fault that the world contains so much suffering and pain; I am saying that there is that suffering and pain within you that is being hidden. It goes unacknowledged, thereby creating these categories of consciousness called "subconscious" and "unconscious". These are man-made or intellectual concepts. There are no such categories. There is what you are willing to see that is hidden, and what you are not willing to see that is hidden. And guess what? There is hidden within you that you judge or condemn as evil outside of yourself. There is also hidden within you that Light that you praise and glorify and project out onto angels and saints - that which you do not own either. The balance of the entire world is in your hands - in each and every one of you. Do not be afraid of these times, for it is simply a call for healing and restoration, and a re-turn - turning again - to your Source; to fill you; to be fulfilled in human form on Earth as it is in what you term "Heaven". Heaven is a feeling.

You all have within you the instruction manuals and the power to begin. There comes a time when your seeking to find the truth outside of yourself in teachers and in books, in your travels, your pilgrimages - there are always new understandings in these activities - and there comes a time when the real work begins. And that is when you give up all your distractions and you sit down with Creator face to face and have a chat. If you don't understand something, if you are confused, than that is what you say in that moment, right where you are. You are loved unconditionally. There is nothing that you can say that would change that. It is what you don't say; it is what you hide that changes your reality for you, not for Creation. So make these feelings honest. If you are angry, get angry. If you are sad, let the grief come. If you are confused, say "I am confused and I do not know how to proceed but I know that you will show me, because I come here with the passion to know; the passion to live; to know Life in its fullness on Earth!"

Waking Up on Earth

Beauty Rested on my Hand

The Magic Island Birdman

Naming the Nameless

Suicide: Dying to Live

Angelic Message from Michael