by Ginger | Mar 3, 2024 | Blog
Father John LaFarge once remarked, “For those who believe in God no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe in God no explanation is possible.”
I’ve always loved this quote about faith. Faith is not something logical we can explain to anyone nor is it something we can talk ourselves into. It is not something we can pass along to another and it is not about following doctrine. At times, we may be guided to act on faith but we cannot do faith as an action step to make faith happen for us or anyone else.
Divine Faith is a state of being which comes from within. It is a deeply heart-centered understanding of ourselves and all beings as Source. For most of us, it will take time to expand to that level of consciousness and the best approach is to love and allow ourselves with as much patience as we need to grow into our full faith.
So, be at peace and go gently forward as you move into Divine Faith. Give yourself space to more fully remember yourself as Source and support yourself in ways that will help you stay in the resonances of peace, calm, patience, understanding and trust. A soothing bubble bath, a soft chant or a walk in the sunshine may not seem directly related to practicing faith, but they might each be the perfect thing to help you hold the wisdom that you are divine and that all is well and in perfect divine order.
*This blog is re-posted from an earlier post.
Image by Avelino Calvar Martinez from Pixabay
by Lori | Feb 26, 2024 | Blog
Please note: I have visited this topic before but not for 12 years. Because it is tax season, I think it is time to review and update it!
If you are like most Americans, Monday, April 15, 2024 is your Federal Individual Tax Return deadline for Tax Year 2023. For the majority of individuals in America, Tax Day looms large over our heads like the sword of Damocles, bringing abject fear to some or just mild frustration to others. Regardless which camp you are in, you are usually glad to see your taxes filed. Done and Dusted.
But, today, I don’t want to talk about how we should feel about Tax Day 2024 with respect to our 2023 Tax filing, but instead how we should feel about our 2020 Tax filing. And the word that comes to mind is ABSOLUTION.
For the vast majority of us who filed our 2020 Federal Income Tax Return by April 15, 2021, this April will be the end of the statute of limitations for the items in that return. How exciting is that?! Let’s not get so far down the rabbit hole that we discuss the oddities like carry-overs, and fraud, etc. (We will discuss fraud later in the blog entry.) For now, we will stick to the most relevant stuff. The end of the statute of limitations means if we goofed, we don’t have to worry about the IRS coming back to refigure our taxes for 2020 and prior. Collective sigh of relief!
If the Federal Government, the IRS no less, is willing to only look back three years into our financial business, why do we carry around so much of our personal failings, personal grudges and negative-group-think many years, many life times into the future? We should allow ourselves a little grace and a lot of ABSOLUTION on our perceived failings. No need to hold unto these negative energies even the normal three years statute of limitations for taxes, let alone thirty years or lifetimes of grudges.
A caveat for the three-year statute of limitations for taxes is that you must actually file your tax return. If you never filed the return, the three-year time limit doesn’t start, so it never ends.
This really is no different for our personal issues. If we don’t look at the issue and start the process to forgive ourselves, to change our energy or our focus, then the festering never has a chance to heal. Even if your initial attempt to heal / change / forgive yourself isn’t perfect, think of it as your “first offer”. You can always update or “amend” it as new information comes in.
Now let’s tackle the fraud situation. When I told my husband I was going to brush off this blog entry, he said, “but sometimes there is fraud”. From a metaphysical standpoint, he is asking if we can have absolution if what we did was really bad. From the perspective of the spiritual hierarchy, there is no delineation in “how bad” we messed up, how violent we might have been and for which lifetime the egregious action took place. From the perspective of the spiritual hierarchy – all of the things we judge as bad – are just experiences. These experiences may not be in the highest plan, but they are not a reason to be punished, abandoned or kicked out of Source. There is nothing but Source. We are all Source. We have always been Source. There isn’t anything else we could be. There is no need for a “fraud” exception to keep the statute of limitations from expiring because Source does not require any restitution for any action. It is our lower-self egos that are not ready to absolve ourselves of any past or current transgressions. But we can change that. We can heal the belief in our unworthiness or the belief in our darkness which keeps us punishing ourselves.
Let us set our intention to be as forgiving of ourselves as the IRS is. And let’s take it a step further. Don’t even wait three years to raise your frequency to the energy of absolution. Don’t worry if some action was the equivalent of fraud. Take this opportunity to wipe the slate clean. Be willing to forgive and absolve yourself, others and all situations.
Be willing to grant yourself Divine Grace, Forgiveness and Absolution.
Gratitude to John Hain with Pixabay.com for the above image.
by Ginger | Feb 4, 2024 | Blog
Do you see yourself as a rule follower or a rule breaker? My personality self in this lifetime has tended to be a rule-follower. I did not believe I had significant issues with authority, until recently. As I was working to heal my perceptions of abuses of power in the outer world, I realized that understanding and stepping into Divine Power goes hand-in-hand with respecting and surrendering to Divine Authority. We cannot be in true Divine Power if we are not also operating in Divine Authority.
Even as Lightworkers, our lower selves sometimes want to skip steps. We may find ourselves trying to jump from feeling at the effect of 3rd dimensional authority and directly into what we perceive as the freedom of recognizing no authority at all. But both of these perspectives are rooted in separation. Denying authority is not healing our issues with it. Whether we find ourselves fighting against authority, following authority without question or denying any authority altogether, we are dealing with aspects of the same unhealed issue of viewing power and authority as an outside force.
Healing our issues with authority requires expanding our understanding of Divine Authority to include All That Is. In our humility and respect for the collective will of Source, we simultaneously surrender to the authority of Source and act as the authority of Source. In the 3rd dimension, those two energies may appear to be separate but in the higher frequencies of the divine realms, they are one and the same. When we know ourselves as One, there can be no power and authority over or under. When we know ourselves as One, then our inner power and authority are One.
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by Lori | Jan 22, 2024 | Blog
Where will you live in 2025?
I recently had someone tell me that if the 2024 US Presidential election was won by a particular person, they would probably move to Europe. We already know a couple who have moved to Europe because the atmosphere in the United States has become unwelcoming to this couple. The friend looked at me to see if I would move outside of the US if the election did not go the way my Lower Self Ego might want it to. I mentioned that I would check with guidance to see what the highest plan is for me, but I doubted I would be guided to live outside the country.
Knowing my path might be different than for my friend, I did a quick check-in with my soul. For 2025, as well as for the rest of this year and every subsequent year, I am being guided by my soul not so much where I should live physically but where I should live consciously. I am guided to live in peace and without fear regardless at which latitude and longitude I rest every night. I was pretty sure this was the answer I would receive from my soul because my number one priority, as the Christ tells us, is for my spiritual evolution. Trying to find a different place to live in order for me to feel more at ease won’t be fruitful until I simply feel more at ease within myself.
Knowing I haven’t fully mastered this yet, I asked my soul for some wisdom to help me manifest the highest plan for me.
I was guided to open my notes from a Mastery Group class channeled by Kris Duffy in October 2008. “Disconnecting from Mass Consciousness” is the title of this Mastery Group class.
To refresh our memories regarding what was happening in the outer world in October 2008, the United States financial systems, as well as most of the rest of the world’s financial systems, were reeling from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis. Many countries were passing bail out plans for banks, institutions and depositors. The United States was coming to the end of a presidential election year where the two major party tickets were led by Barack Obama/Joe Biden and John McCain/Sarah Palin. (Beyonce’ released Single Ladies that month, just to give you a time cue for the music of the day.)
Spirit would like us to revisit some of the wisdom Kris channeled for us then.
In the mass consciousness, money is source. If we believe money is source, then the mass consciousness doesn’t want the old paradigm to change. Or it is possible that those of us in the mass consciousness believe that the changes are temporary, and we will be able to ride out the storm.
Based on my consciousness level 16 years ago and where we were as a society on the “break down for breakthrough” spectrum, I probably believed I could ride out the storm. Or that the storm would not affect me if I planned well enough. (I was a project manager at the time.) But if, as Kris channeled, the old paradigm was built on the Mass Consciousness of limitation and the belief that we need to get our fill prior to everything running out, then there is no way to ride out the storm. It isn’t about husbanding our resources for a few years of draught; it is about changing our belief in limitation. And that means disconnecting from mass consciousness. If Kris was channeling this information now, she might even have been guided to include a subtitle, “Disconnecting from Mass Consciousness: Disconnecting from Mass Hysteria.”
Most humans in the world are in fear and in separation, which means we are coming from a victim mentality. Kris gave us this explanation. Let’s use the pyramid pointing up like we do in Standing in the Light® representing the third dimension.
We are looking at how the unhealed mass consciousness creates the fear. The top third of the pyramid is the consciousness representing thought. The middle third is the subconscious representing emotions. The lower third is the unconscious representing raw energy. The raw energy comes up through the subconscious layer and we feel fear in the mass consciousness.
For the unhealed mass consciousness, thoughts and energies existing in the subconscious are created and sustained by fear which manifests as a subconscious need for a system of beliefs to protect oneself from perceived harm.
We then create whole belief systems to try to not ever feel the fear again, vs. clearing the fear, or seeing that there was nothing to fear at all in the first place.
If we are allowing ourselves to be controlled by what everyone else believes, then we are going to be coming from fear and see ourselves as victims. We have discussed in SITL classes about the Karpman Drama triangle. This is a psychological model that states that while we are still in the consciousness level of drama, we will be playing one or more of the roles in this triangle. We will be acting from the energy of the victim, the rescuer or the persecutor. It is possible to roll through all three of these energies in rapid fashion. We believe we are the victim, so we start to persecute others for putting us in this position and we may be looking for a rescuer or think our ideas are the only way society can be saved.
We create governments, alliances, tribes, parties, friends and family in order to feel powerful, to overcome feeling powerless, to help us sleep easy at night without fear. Until those groups, divisions and separate identities no longer work. Maybe we are now on the outside of the powerful group. Maybe our alliance partners no longer have the same world view we have. We no longer feel powerful and safe because power coming from the outside is temporary. Only power from within is permanent. Divine power is from within.
The mass consciousness on earth believes we are separate from source. It is time to disconnect from this mass consciousness.
Sixteen years ago, Kris recommended seven steps for disconnecting from mass consciousness. These have been updated for 2024 energies but are very similar. Check with your own guidance to see which of these are part of your path.
First, acknowledge there is a mass consciousness. Then allow yourself to go through the 5 stages of grief to disconnect from it.
- Denial – “I am not at the effect of mass consciousness thought.” “The news doesn’t bother me.” “I don’t watch the news, so the news doesn’t bother me.” “I limit my social media interactions…”
- Anger – “If the XXXX and the XXXX would just talk to each other, the XXXX would be in a better position.” This could be world powers, your siblings or your lower self ego interacting with your soul. If we leave our own experience to the outcome of someone else’s actions, then we are still in victim mode.
- Bargaining – “I just need to make it through the next election/ the next layoff at work / the next winter, etc.” This is trying to bargain to ride out the storm, whatever the storm is to you. Move through this step because it won’t work in the long-term.
- Depression – Clear through the energy that nothing I do matters. “We are all just moving chairs around the deck of the Titanic.”
- Acceptance – This is knowing and feeling divine acceptance of the universal truth that we are not separate from source so we don’t need to be at the same energy level or at the effect of the mass consciousness.
Second, work with your soul to clear the fear and ask for recommended resonances. Clear the false beliefs, discordant emotions and old patterns of behaviors. Ask your soul to help you move from reactions based on fear to proactive actions specifically beneficial to your spiritual growth.
Third, ask your soul to help you be your true self in every moment. We are unique expressions of source, so be unique. Allow your light to shine through. Expressing your uniqueness will help transmute mass consciousness. Be fearless and resolute in your uniqueness. Ask if your soul has a specific message for you regarding your uniqueness.
Fourth, stand in your truth and your power. Ask your soul when to stand in your power by speaking your truth and when to stand in your power simply with your energy vs. with your words.
Fifth, cultivate a community that is trying to disconnect from mass consciousness, also. Attend healing circles and dance groups that are likeminded. Ask your soul if it is time to reconsider your relationship with social media. Is it the highest plan to disconnect electronically for a certain number of hours a day? This is definitely an individual plan. Ask what yours is.
Sixth, love yourself at all times. Clear any doubts or judgment of self. The Christ tells us that judgment is the number one block to knowing ourselves as Source. Work with the energy of divine Non-Judgment of Self. Love yourself unconditionally.
Seventh, remember who you are. You are Source. You are the creator of your experiences. You can choose to give your power away to unhealed mass consciousness. Or you can choose to step further and further into knowing and experiencing yourself as Source.
It is time to redouble our intention to disconnect from mass consciousness, mass hysteria and drama. It is time to actively follow guidance further into the fourth and fifth dimensions. Move further into the consciousness levels of a master instead of the third dimensional mass consciousness. Living in the fourth and fifth dimensions is more determinative of our experiences than whether we live in the United States, Europe or on a remote Pacific Island. Where do you want to live and how soon are you ready to move?
Gratitude to Gerd Altmann with Pixabay.com for the image.
by Ginger | Jan 4, 2024 | Blog
Like many this time of year, I’ve been crafting my vision for the new year and setting intentions for what I’m guided to create for my spiritual evolution and service. I was starting to feel pretty jazzed about the opportunities for expansion and then I heard to ask myself this key question: Am I truly open to receive these creations?
Even when we’re consciously willing to work toward manifesting our vision, we can still block it if we’re not open to receive. It is not more blessed to give than receive. We must be open to both give and receive to be in perfect divine balance. A block on either side of that infinity flow will block the creation or cause us to create from a denser frequency.
Since we create from all aspects of our being (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual), we must be willing to allow those higher frequency states of being in all of our bodies in order to manifest our vision. If you discover you’re not fully open to receive, then be sure to ask follow-up questions to identify what blocks need to be cleared and healed. The block might be in a specific body where there is unwillingness to allow higher frequencies. There might be resistance to a specific resonance that is part of your vision. Your feminine and masculine energies may be out of balance. Or you might be blocking your creations in another way such as false beliefs of unworthiness or fear of being in the power of your creatorship.
If your lower self is still fearful of receiving unconditionally, ask yourself if you would deny these same gifts to someone close to you. Would you tell your loved one they don’t deserve something wonderful in their life? Would you block them from receiving a loving gift? Where are you still holding resistance to allowing yourself that same joy? Marsha Hankins’ December blog post Find Pure Joy in Who You Are may offer some helpful suggestions to guide you in this process.
Our creations are meant to be joyous experiences. Your divine self is the giver and the receiver, so enjoy the beauty of both roles. Connect with your most loving aspect as you gift yourself with the manifestations in your vision. Connect with the energy of your inner child excitedly awaiting and allowing those wonderful gifts.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
by Lori | Dec 17, 2023 | Blog
In downtown Fort Collins the other day, I saw a driving school car with a sign that said, “Patient Driver Please Be Student.” I laughed out loud. Obviously, you normally would see a sign on a driving school car say something like “Student Driver: Please Be Patient.” I don’t think the author of the sign put the words in the wrong order by accident. I think the author of the sign was being funny, saying something different to catch our attention or deliberately asking us to be thoughtful.
I like any of these options. The world needs more laughter, so if the goal was just to be funny, I am happy for the chuckle it gave me.
If it was to catch our attention to be more mindful with a student driver, then mission accomplished.
If, however, the author was hoping that we would dig into our own psyche to figure out what “Patient Driver Please Be Student” meant to us, well I like that too. For me, the saying reminded me that, in life, I am a student, regardless of my age, degrees or careers. There may be some things that I am an expert in but there are plenty of situations where I will learn best by allowing myself to be in student mode. I will learn more by not judging myself when it takes me a few tries or even when I fail at first to accomplish the desired outcome.
Recently, Ginger Withee lead a healing circle for embracing our inner child of the God/Goddess. The energy we focused on was the trust, surrender and innocence of being a child of the God/Goddess. Whether the author of the sign was asking us to embrace the trust, surrender and innocence, I don’t know. But, it feels like this is a message for me to ponder. I need to embrace this innocence, this child energy, this student energy. It will help me heal cynicism and other energies that we take on in our “adult” roles.
Finally, the sign also reminded me that being patient as a driver and as a human, with others and myself, is in the highest good of all. By holding divine patience, I will serve mother earth and humanity positively and more consciously. As suggested by Gandhi, if I hold divine patience, I will be the change that I want to see in the world.
Gratitude to Pixabay.com for the image above.
