Ascension Battlefield: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Inner Universe: Truth Seeker's Manual for Personal Peace
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Ascension Battlefield: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Inner Universe: Truth Seeker's Manual for Personal Peace
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| ISBN-13: | 9781504314701 |
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| Publisher: | Balboa Press Au |
| Publication date: | 10/30/2018 |
| Pages: | 162 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.37(d) |
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CHAPTER 1
Light of The soul
A Parable ~ If God Was A Drag on
There is something more ancient than ancient, ready to be recognized. Having no need to be recognized, to be known, to be seen — it simply is. Like an Almighty Dragon, more ancient than ancient, deep in the cave of our Soul. Sleeping. Stirring at times. Mother of all dragons. Father of our Soul. An Almighty Dragon, sleeping by the light of our Soul.
We may feel the stirring like the fire, power of Passion burning radiantly, lighting the way to achieving desires. We may feel the stirring as Love flows freely, powerfully uninhibited, weaving its course across the land. We may feel the stirring as we stand our ground fearlessly, feeling the powerful roar of the lion echoing through the air. More ancient than ancient, the Almighty Dragon lays ready to be recognized, ready to be woken in the cave of the Soul as Spirit whispers, "To thine own self be true."
Holding the wisdom of all wisdom and the possibility of all dreams, the Almighty Dragon laying deep within the cave of the Soul has no need to be known. Has no need to be seen. Has no need to be woken. Yet even though He sleeps, She is aware of Her Children. All are safe and secure. The Almighty Dragon is the Mother of all dragons and the Father of our Soul. All that exists is within His dominion sustained by Her everlasting Love.
The Almighty Dragon lays at the center of Creation, and as He sleeps, He sees all is present within the dreams. Watching in the dreams, Her caring hands moving, molding into form what He sees to be True in the Hearts of His Children. The Almighty Dragon stirs when the energy flows on the wings of the wind into the cave of the Soul. The wind will stir the Almighty Dragon within when She smells the sweetness of Love, when He tastes Passionate Freedom, and when the Heart feels the touch of Compassion. The air will open an eye of the Almighty Dragon when it is still, and the sound of Peace resonates harmoniously in the Light of the Soul.
Peace is the key to waking the Almighty Dragon within, yet it must be an everlasting Peace, or the Almighty Dragon will drift into slumber, ready — but not waiting — to hear Peace resonating harmoniously in the bright burning Light of the Soul. With our Soul calling us home and Spirit guiding us, the memory of home is felt resonating deeply, every particle of our being singing in tune like a Heavenly choir, shining a Light for all to be seen.
Feel the call of the Soul playing a familiar tune like a long-forgotten and ancient-beyond-ancient memory coming into a remembering. Tugging us like a small child looking up at us with eyes as deep as pools. Pristine. Clear. Smiling. Feel the calling of the Soul. It is unmistakable. Recognize it. Learn to trust it. Hear Spirit whispering, "To thine own self be true." Through the portal of the Heart, Spirit guides us home to the Soul where the Almighty sleeping Dragon within awaits to open both eyes. Awaits to spread His wings. Awaits to take to the skies as you nestle between His scales — feeling the beat of Her Heart resonating with your own Heart, singing with your own Soul. Awaits to fly with you safe upon His back, wings beating powerfully. Tasting freedom and pure delight.
When Peace resonates powerfully, continuously, and our wounds are no longer felt as reminders of the path traveled, the journey has ended, yet the timeless adventure has only just begun with Spirit by our side having whispered, "To thine own self be true."
The Spark Of Light Within
In the stillness of meditation I see the light of the Soul burning bright, nestled deep within. Shining through me, around me. At times, my subconscious gives me an image. The center of this light will appear to me like a thousand-petaled lotus, opening each petal like arms opened wide revealing a deeper glowing light. Going deeper and deeper, I immerse myself, not remembering where I begin and where I end. A timeless divine space. Light. Floating. Sinking deeper. Rising higher. Light.
I've always known this light within is present. Although it wasn't always seen when it was covered by the stresses of life. Sometimes it felt as if it was lost to me. Though I lived with a knowing that it was never gone.
My earliest memory of the light within was before I had any thought about it. I remember the feeling. I was not yet three years old. Still in a cot. Wearing a diaper. In a pitch-black room. My mother had closed the door behind her and walked down the hallway. I listened to her footsteps.
Perhaps I had been aware of the light since before birth. I don't remember, but I do remember the feeling of separation from my mother and an immediate connection to the feeling of being in a body and what it felt like to be One with the light. Immersed. An awareness of being safe filled me, there was no separation. An awareness of a blissful peace without a thought about it. Simply knowing I was. Simply knowing I existed.
Before I could deny the existence of this light my body recognized its Truth and translated it into feeling. A child of not yet three years old will not deny, will not dismiss, will not shy away from that which feels good. And so the presence of this light within remained a consistent presence as the overhead lights were switched off and I snuggled under my blankets. It stayed with me throughout my childhood until my early adult years. Then slowly I began losing sight. Slowly, the business of life and the pressures and stresses of being an adult got in the way, and even though I was trying with a deliberate intent to sit in meditation and focus with no thought, immersion just got harder and harder.
I had been able to sit with no thought when my Guru encouraged me (and many around me also shared this divine connection), but gradually, my thoughts felt more and more unwanted, intrusive, distracting. Life got in the way. It was no longer easy to see the light within. The blessing that sustained me was the knowing, the remembering, the feeling. This was enough to keep hope and faith in my heart.
And now it is with appreciation I have returned to it being easy to be without interruption of thought and immerse myself in the bliss, the presence of the light of creation holding me in deep love. The jewel, my Soul within the thousand-petaled lotus, an image my subconscious recently began giving me, singing a harmonious tune of peace and love. Loud and clear.
An unmistakable feeling of ancient memory with no thought in my head. A pure remembering with the support of my subconscious world giving me an occasional image. It is this supportive role of thoughts and imagery which has a very valuable place. A welcoming place. Thoughts and images, when molded, deliberately become tools which pave the path and shine the way. They become the bricks and mortar cleverly and supportively grounding you into an internal experience of deliberate choice. A creative expression building a world around the light within. A world which — for me — now powerfully supports peace and love in my heart and is reflected back to me in my day-to-day reality.
I now choose the thoughts I follow very carefully, and it has become easy to do. It's become exciting and fun — all thoughts leading to peace and love in my heart. It is rare now to find myself wandering down the path of thoughts which lead me away from the peace and the love of the light within, but it is on those rare occasions that I discover a new exciting way to make my way back home to the light. To the feeling of eternal, timeless peace and love.
All Recognize Truth
It's interesting to remember an experience from before I could consciously think about it and remember simply being consciously aware. We are more than what we think, and I am blessed to remember beyond and before thinking determined so much of who I became and the life experiences which evolved. We all hold the memory of our ancestors. Present in every cell of our body. There is a deep knowing embedded within us. A Spiritual knowing. It drives us.
Our DNA holds the information of both our physical lineage and our Spiritual lineage. It is because of this Spiritual lineage that an 'old' Soul can find some people naive. But no matter how new the Soul is, ALL feel the love of the Source of creation. All will recognize the Truth when nothing within oneself is in denial.
It will be a unique and individual Inner Universe that will reveal the inner light spontaneously. A unique and individual Inner Universe influenced by our life experiences. Influenced by conditioning and the meaning assigned to those experiences, from multi-inner perspectives, and influenced by memories coming forth from our DNA.
It is my unique and individual experience which attracted inspiration from which was born the symbol of a dragon to represent the Source of creation in the piece written above. It wasn't anything I had consciously ever put together before. There are infinite ways for the Creative Source to move through us, and so there will always be another way — and another — to describe this inner light. Imagery is the way we can describe an experience of the essence of who we are. An experience beyond words. Imagery is also how we store information.
There is not one way, one visual description. No right way, no wrong way to describe something which is beyond words. The light within has a depth and quality which the word 'light' cannot fully bring to our awareness. Every culture, every religion, every Spiritual practice, all have unique ways to endeavour to express this internal Truth of who we are. It will be when individuals learn to navigate their inner world, begin to map out the paths leading toward the light within — put together the pieces of the puzzle of the Inner Universe — that humanity will transform as a whole. It begins with individuals. It begins with you and me.
Not everyone is ready to sit in meditation, tune out the thoughts, and go easily into an altered state of consciousness — or even want to do so. For many years, I had lost an ability to do so with ease. My subconscious had battles of the past, alive in unvisited pockets of creation. With the threads of connection still having a pull in less obvious ways, but nevertheless, the effects of the distant battles could be felt reverberating through my Inner Universe. Often showing in my outer reality in the most unexpected and always unwanted ways.
It is like that for all of us. This is the nature of our Inner Universe. In our fast-paced modern world, until we have systematically cleared the destructive forces within, they will have an effect, and we are pulled in this way and in that way. Pulled by so much stimulation of all our senses.
Pulled by so many responsibilities. Pulled by the pressure of time restraints. Pulled by unachieved desires and feelings of displeasure. Pulled by financial struggle. Pulled by unhappy relationships. And the list is literally endless. This is the effect of inner distant unchecked battles. But there is always hope. There is always a way.
Some of you may not have to make deliberate peace with much at all, and others may have intense work to do. But all of you can achieve lasting inner peace, all of you can feel love and happiness in abundance. All of us can be the change we wish to see. We all know what peace and love feel like. You may or may not have experienced an inner light shining brightly, but you would have recognized it in the sparkling smile of someone in love. You would have recognized it in the contagious laughter of a baby. You would have recognized it in the delight of a small child. This is the light of the Soul expressing itself and the awareness of higher consciousness shining through and showing us who we were born to be.
If sitting quietly in meditation is not your thing, it doesn't have to be. Although, do not be surprised if you find your journey someday leads you there. Whatever works for you now in order to feel peace within is absolutely right for you.
CHAPTER 2Spiritual Being Having A Physical Experience
Spiritual Being Having A Physical Experience
What is it to be a Spiritual being inhabiting a physical body? Perhaps this is a question you have pondered. The answer to this question was a major driver for me. I knew the light within. I knew the serene and blissful experience of simply being with it. I had experienced its subtle power in extraordinary ways. I remembered — while separated from my body during a traumatic event — that the feeling was blissful. Peaceful. Clear. Weightless. Divine. Loving. Eternal. But my quest for answers to explain the whole experience of separation in this way (If you haven't read the introduction, I recommend you do.) while fully conscious, this experience alone, kept me searching.
It puzzled me that I could experience such a divine experience outside of my body while at the same time my body was trembling and shaking and I was standing, alert, listening, watching. I had only ever known an experience like this as being internal. Inside my physical body. A few months after that event, within myself, I made a decision. I surrendered. A decision is a very powerful thing. It means we are going forward, not going back. Often, going forward takes us on an unexpected path though. That path can even be perceived as unwanted misfortune.
For me, in surrendering, something unexpected happened. My whole body, my whole nervous system, showed me all the pain I had held onto. All the pain I had covered up by getting on with life. With the best possible attitude, of course. I was not one to admit defeat. I was always told I was stubborn. It was like I had been shouting to the Universe, "I am strong! I can handle it!" And the Universe simply delivered more and more. Which I now know was exactly what I was doing — unconsciously.
In surrendering, I hadn't given up — I had let go. My body then showed me very clearly how years of accumulated, and held-onto stress can manifest. My whole nervous system made it very apparent to me. It ALL came flooding through my body in one enormous, forceful gush. Twenty-five years of stress.
I had a nervous breakdown. I couldn't communicate with anyone about anything that involved helping my daughter recover, without me trembling and shaking and crying. I hadn't been like that previously through three years of searching for a way to help her recover. Now I wanted to escape my body, too, just as my daughter wanted to. Not in the same way, but I wanted to escape the feelings which would erupt within me. I had escaped an out-of-control partner a few months earlier, and now the feelings within me were what I wanted to escape from. The feelings within were not in my control, and there was still so much around that reminded me of my past. Still so much to keep it alive within my consciousness.
My daughter had been struggling with the feelings within herself, and I had not understood why it was so difficult for her to be happy. Why the depth of unhappiness meant wanting to escape her own body. I still didn't fully comprehend coming to the point of wanting out of life because I knew how blissful it could be, but I did understand having a strong desire for things to be different and feeling as if control was out of my hands. I wanted so much to help her, and somehow, within me, I realized I had to have answers to this question, 'What does it mean to be a Spiritual being having a physical experience?' Somehow, I knew that in order to know how to help her feel good I had to know how to feel good, no matter what.
While nothing gave me complete satisfaction as a total answer at first, I did begin to gather pieces of the puzzle. These pieces at least did answer other questions about what it is to be a human being. Clarity was dawning. Then one day I needed a rest. I lay down on my bed and closed my eyes. The next thing I remember was floating above my body. I could see the room I was in. I was aware of my sleeping body. I observed how shallow my breathing was.
Again, the feeling was blissful. Peaceful. Clear. Weightless. Divine. Loving. Eternal. Again, I was out of my body. Again, my life contained an emotional trauma. A completely different emotional trauma this time. Life didn't have to be this way. I knew that. Like the pieces of a puzzle coming together, suddenly, it was clear. I took a deep breath, and with that, I was whisked back into my body. I opened my eyes. I knew what I had to do. I saw it so clearly. I understood. I moved forward with a whole new determination and took action from clarity. That was six years ago.
Now, I have even more pieces of the puzzle, and the clarity I sought after for a question which powerfully came into being twelve years ago, for me now, has been satisfactorily answered. I have a whole new and deeper understanding, as well as a whole new relationship with my higher awareness. With the eternally aware Spirit I am. The eternal Spirit I have come into this body to experience life with.
(Continues…)
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Table of Contents
Introduction, ix,
Chapter 1 Light of The Soul, 1,
Chapter 2 Spiritual BEing Having A Physical Experience, 11,
Chapter 3 Our Multidimensional Self Continues, 29,
Chapter 4 More Dimensions To Realize, 43,
Chapter 5 This Is the Time Of New Beginnings, 55,
Chapter 6 The Fifth Dimension, 67,
Chapter 7 Spirit, 83,
Chapter 8 Becoming A Whole Human Being, 101,
Chapter 9 Ascension Battlefield, 117,