I have been asking myself these questions at the same time I have been enjoying the HBO series Heated Rivalry, developed by Jacob Tierney. This series is based on a book series by Rachel Reid entitled Game Changers. Reid creates a hockey universe in which the main characters are hiding their sexuality from the world because they don’t believe they will be accepted in the masculine and, feared, homophobic culture.

If HBO shows had ratings, Heated Rivalry would be rated “R” for language and sexually explicit scenes. I rate it “R” for romance! I have been reading romance novels for 45 years. The first was actually Ice Castles by Lenore Fleischer which was made into a feature film. It follows the love of a male hockey player and a female ice skater. I guess I have come full circle, yet moved fully into the 21^st century.

Heated Rivalry is very poignant and honest about what it takes for the characters to go about their lives with the secret of who they truly are firmly in place. Some might say that the little white lies they tell others don’t really matter because it is their own business and no one is being hurt. But like most secrets, the ones who are being harmed the most are themselves.

One character expresses the exhaustion and loneliness that he feels trying to keep his secret.

As fascinated as I am with the series, I had to ask myself for the mirror for me. I heard to clear on the smaller issues of gender and sexual identity and any judgement I have for those issues from across the millennia that I have been in human form. Believe me, some would not consider that a small issue, even I don’t sometimes because of clearing the victim, rescuer and persecutor energies that I have dealt with across the ages. But even these issues are small to the real mirror that I am facing.

The mirror of not wanting to admit to others and to myself that I am truly Source.

Oh, I play around the edges of the mirror. As an example, I was leading a WE Dance group a month ago. At the end of each session, we gather to share any of our experiences with the other participants. As the facilitator, I set the energy by saying that we can keep our silence, we can share anything in confidence and if we want, we can share our preferred pronouns.

As the facilitator, I was the last to share. I told them my name, that I use She/Her and Source as my pronouns. We all giggled a little at me adding that I identify as Source. But what would happen if I said that every time? That I AM SOURCE. The first time we giggled. Would it become pretentious or tiresome if I did it again? I am not sure. Whenever the facilitator ends the music portion of the dance, we close with some encouraging or poignant words. After that, I always close the way I close every Standing in the Light® session and healing circle. “And may you know yourself as Source, Namaste.” The group is used to me being who I am enough to say that as a closing. So why am I fearful of going FULL SOURCE on them? I guess I have more to clear and higher frequencies to integrate.

Mind you, it is possible that on any given day, it isn’t the highest plan to announce myself as Source to the group. But assuming it is never the highest plan, is also not being in 100% alignment with who I am. Of course, if I am willing to admit it to myself, to experience myself as Source in every moment, then I probably don’t need to announce it to everyone else. Again, the one I am harming the most by hiding who I AM, is me.

Let’s ask the questions again. What are you hiding? Why are you hiding it? May you have the courage of your convictions to find out.

May you know yourself as Source. Namaste.

I AM SOURCE

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As I kept watching in awe at the beauty and grace of his movements, I realized that in order to achieve that height and take advantage of the upper air currents, the hawk still had to put in some effort of flapping his wings to create lift and, having reached the altitude that would allow him to glide from current to current, still had to occasionally flap his wings to course correct and stay aloft. What appeared so effortless still required some effort.

What I remembered in that moment was that it isn’t about getting to a point where we no longer have to put in any effort but rather how we experience the efforts we’re making. To the hawk, flapping his wings to achieve the needed lift so that he can achieve that state of perpetual gliding is completely natural, requiring no thought, no inner debate. It is not hard work. It simply is.

I had lost a sense of ease and flow in my life not because I got off track and now needed to bushwhack my way back. I simply needed to shift my perspective of the track I was already on. Like all divine truth, simple if not always easy.

Image by Veronika Andrews Andrews from Pixabay

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I was reminded recently that this is how we should view the conga line for humanity. The Christ gave us the concept of the conga line to explain how humanity is moving through the experiment in duality. All Beings have volunteered to be in a certain place within the conga line of humanity for the experiences necessary for their own evolution as unique aspects of Source. We need to remember this to help with non-judgment of ourselves and non-judgment of other people’s experience at this time of break down for breakthrough. Whether we are the masters at the front of the line or those holding less light at the back of the line, all will eventually move through the archway from one dance room to another. It simply looks more chaotic the further back in the line we are.

I often wonder about the Being who is anchoring the back end of the conga line. We should each check with guidance regarding any wisdom and understanding about this Being. For myself, I have always felt that this Being is the bravest among us. For us to judge anyone regarding what their experience appears to be, is doing a disservice to their commitment to increasing the wisdom of the multi-verse. My love and gratitude for everyone in the conga line is inestimable. However, there is definitely a special place in my heart for those showing us who we truly are from the back of the line.

Because we are all One, the Being at the back of the line is really the same as the Being at the front of the line and the Beings throughout the line. All are adding to the wisdom of the multi-verse. All Are Source.

May we all remember who we truly are. Namaste.

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Of Love

I have been in love more times than one,
thank the Lord. Sometimes it was lasting
whether active or not. Sometimes
it was all but ephemeral, maybe only
an afternoon, but not less real for that.
They stay in my mind, these beautiful people,
or anyway beautiful people to me, of which
there are so many. You, and you, and you,
whom I had the fortune to meet, or maybe
missed. Love, love, love, it was the
core of my life, from which, of course, comes
the word for the heart. And, oh, have I mentioned
that some of them were men and some were women
and some—now carry my revelation with you—
were trees. Or places. Or music flying above
the names of their makers. Or clouds, or the sun
which was the first, and the best, the most
loyal for certain, who looked so faithfully into
my eyes, every morning. So I imagine
such love of the world—its fervency, its shining, its
innocence and hunger to give of itself—I imagine
this is how it began.

-Mary Oliver, from Red Bird (Beacon Press, 2008).

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My soul recently reminded me of a streaming series I watched several years ago titled “All the Light We Cannot See”[1], which was an adaptation of the award-winning book by Anthony Doerr. Though I only saw the screen version (which included some changes from the original book), I found it quite powerful. Set during World War II, it follows the stories of two young adults, one German and one French, who are unknowingly connected by a mutual love of a radio science program about the electromagnetic spectrum. The professor who narrates the program discusses “all the light we cannot see” and how powerful of a force that unseen light is in our lives and throughout the universe. Those teachings were a beacon of light to each of them during a time when the world seemed a very dark place to many.

These two characters also became themselves beacons of light through their actions by holding hope in a time of great turmoil. Their actions seemed small in the context of the big machines of war, but as the viewer you see what they cannot- the ripple effects their actions have for others. They become, in their own ways, the light that others cannot see but feel the effects of nonetheless.

When we’re struggling to see light in the world, it may be helpful to remember that we don’t need to actually see it to know it. We may be straining to see the light, to see the “good” in a world that seems uncertain, but divine light is always visible with our inner sight. Sometimes, all we need to do is relax and trust and we will know Light in all its unique manifestations.

[1] All the Light We Cannot See. Developed by Steven Knight, based on the book by Anthony Doerr, Netflix, November 2023.

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The poem is definitely a great reminder to not forget how wonderful our life on earth is and how powerful we are. In Standing in the Light® vernacular, the poem urges us to remember who we truly are and to create from that healed and sovereign energy. One stanza goes like this. “What you can plan is too small for you to live.” I believe he is stating that we plan from a more limited viewpoint, but he recommends that we create from the unlimited energy that we can access.

Here is another stanza that has the same energy that we hear from The Christ in Standing in the Light®. “To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.”

Finally, this stanza reminds me that we are creator and we volunteered to be part of this experiment.

You are not

a troubled guest

on this earth,

you are not

an accident

amidst other accidents

you were invited

from another and greater

night

than the one

from which

you have just emerged.

I will let you enjoy this poem in its entirety. It may give you courage to be bold and remember who you are.

Namaste. I AM LORI

Gratitude to Myriams-Fotos with Pixabay.com for the above image.

“What to Remember When Waking”

By David Whyte

In that first

hardly noticed

moment

in which you wake,

coming back

to this life

from the other

more secret,

moveable

and frighteningly

honest

world

where everything

began,

there is a small

opening

into the day

which closes

the moment

you begin

your plans.

 

What you can plan

is too small

for you to live.

 

What you can live

wholeheartedly

will make plans

enough

for the vitality

hidden in your sleep.

 

To be human

is to become visible

while carrying

what is hidden

as a gift to others.

 

To remember

the other world

in this world

is to live in your

true inheritance.

 

You are not

a troubled guest

on this earth,

you are not

an accident

amidst other accidents

you were invited

from another and greater

night

than the one

from which

you have just emerged.

 

Now, looking through

the slanting light

of the morning

window toward

the mountain

presence

of everything

that can be,

what urgency

calls you to your

one love? What shape

waits in the seed

of you to grow

and spread

its branches

against a future sky?

 

Is it waiting

in the fertile sea?

In the trees

beyond the house?

In the life

you can imagine

for yourself?

In the open

and lovely

white page

on the waiting desk?

 

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This blog entry starts with a story from when I was at university in the 1980s. The events here were definitely driven by 3D beliefs and ego centric expectations.

Forty years ago, I went to Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. My sister and her, now, husband went there 6 years before I did. While he was there, Jeff had an internship with the Republican Senator from Kansas, Senator Dole, in Washington DC. I thought that sounded interesting, so I wanted to do what would make my application look acceptable to be an intern too.

This was when Ronald Reagan was President and gold lame’ was at its height for sophistication.

To bolster my application, I registered to vote as a Republican. I signed up for the College Republicans and thought if I could get elected to a leadership role in the Kansas College Republicans organization, that it would look good on my resume. I was elected as Parliamentarian. I also was elected twice as a K-State Student Senator from the Business College.

The strategy paid off. I was an intern for Senator Dole when he was the Majority Leader of the Senate between my sophomore and junior years at K-State.

In the spring of my junior year, I knew my focus for the next year needed to be to pass the CPA exam, so I did not plan to run for Statewide office of the College Republicans at the State Convention, which was held at a hotel in Topeka, one weekend.

At this point, K-State College Republicans had dominated the Statewide offices of College Republicans for probably a decade. This year, the University of Kansas delegates made a concentrated effort to be more represented at the conference. There was, however, some sort of technical difficulty for the KU delegates and the outgoing officers needed to vote to see if the KU delegates were going to be allowed to be seated at the conference. The vote to allow the KU delegates came down to a few votes and mine was one of the votes that swung in KU’s favor. This meant that KU had a few more delegates and would be able to vote a block to have KU delegates more represented in the Statewide Offices of the College Republicans. Needless to say, my fellow K-Staters were not pleased with me.

After all this drama, the tone of the evening turned to farce.

It just so happened that a fraternity from K-State was having their Spring Fling Dance at the same hotel in Topeka. There were plenty of registered College Republican members in this fraternity with many of their dates also being members. As you can guess, one of the K-State delegates rounded up enough of the party goers to come sit with the conference with the narrative that they wanted to be able to attend both events. The incongruity of 1980s party dresses at a political convention was not lost on the KU delegates but the rules had been bent for them earlier in the evening. So, as night follows day, the farce was complete. K-State delegates held the majority of the State Offices of the College Republicans for another year.

Fast forward 40 years. Similar power dynamics, rule massaging and manipulation, are being played out in state legislative bodies and in global politics every day in the outer world.

When I asked my soul for advice on what to clear or what to do given this energy, I heard, “Give unto Ceasar what is Ceasar’s”. Obviously, this is a Biblical reference to when Jesus responds to a question regarding paying taxes to the emperor. Mark 12:17, “Give unto Ceasar what is Ceasar’s, give to God what is God’s”.

For our purposes, “Give unto Ceasar what is Ceasar’s” reminds us that Spirit wants us to NOT be consumed with the details of how the 3D governments operate. They are part of the illusion. Whether the governments are democracies or authoritarian, they are part of the illusion of separation. Yes, some governments help their members to stand in their power more than others. But again, some of this is just the illusion of power. True Power comes from within, not from a document that says we have rights and purports to tell us that we have power.

Some states may be changing who can vote and considering redrawing the lines of their congressional districts. From the perspective of the Spiritual Hierarchy, all these nuances of government and representation are truly just rearranging the deck chairs on the Break-Down-for-Break-Through Titanic.

It may not seem it, but the effect of policies with a few more of one party in congress vs the other party in congress really is the same as 5 K-State College Republicans and only 4 KU College Republicans holding State Office than if it was the other way around. The only reason that we think the stakes are higher nationally or internationally than at that 1980s Topeka hotel conference room is because we are feeling victimized by giving our power away and judging the consequences.

By all means, if you are guided to vote, demonstrate, write a letter, donate or make calls in order to take a stand one way or the other, than do it. Ultimately, however, working to know ourselves as Source, to Trust and Surrender to Ourselves as Source will have a much more powerful outcome than how many blue members vs. red members or vice versa are on the chess board.

Let’s look at the second half of the Bible quote. “Give to God what is God’s.” We want to strive to stand in our power as Source in order to not be at the effect of any aspect of the government or any other conduit that we believe our power comes from. We Are Source because We Are Source.

In the SITL August Newsletter, Ginger lead us through a meditation to feel the power of I AM THAT I AM. That is what we are encouraged to do every day. Know that we are our Source of Power. We do not rely on a government to give us power. When we see machinations in the outer world to change institutions, we can give to the government what is the government’s. We can detach from what the government is doing and remember that I AM THAT I AM. WE ARE THAT WE ARE. WE ARE SOURCE.

When I first heard my guidance regarding this topic, I was guided to focus on the power aspect of the “Give unto Ceasar” quote. Ginger shared with me that when she heard another translation of the quote, “Render unto Ceasar”, she focused on the surrender piece. “Surrender to the 3D Paradigm what is rooted in the 3D Paradigm.”

What other interpretations or mirrors does your guidance tell you about this quote? Let this awareness come to you.

Take a few minutes to embrace Divine Self-Empowerment and Authority. Remember that WE ARE SOURCE.

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For those who don’t know the creation story of the movie, Elsa was originally characterized as an evil snow queen with magical powers who goes up into the icy mountains and comes back with a snow army to wreak havoc on the town. The songwriters working on “Let It Go” were trying to understand the character more deeply by imagining the experiences that led her to that pivotal moment on the snow-covered mountain. The further they delved into a character who had been shut away from the world as a child and told that her unique powers were dangerous, the more the tone of the song shifted. Once they realized that this was going to be a song of acceptance, freedom and empowerment, the song was finished in less than two days. After presenting the song to the story writers, everyone realized that the entire plot needed to be re-worked to reflect this new understanding of Elsa’s character and the meaning of her inner journey. The movie was literally re-written around the song.

I believe that these heart-centered insights into this character directly contributed to the wild popularity of both the song and the movie. It wasn’t just another hero/heroine story involving a battle with a villain; it was a story of becoming and self-realization. The message touched a chord across the globe not just with children but with many adults. It carried a powerful message about letting go of our fears, accepting ourselves for who we are and allowing our inner gifts to express fully in the world, regardless of what others may think, feel or say in response. Letting go and self-acceptance, free of judgment, free of fear, is the path to true inner freedom and surrender to ourselves as Source.

I share the lyrics of the song here for use in your meditations, if you are guided. Some of the verse may speak to you with unique insights:

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight, not a footprint to be seen
A kingdom of isolation, and it looks like I’m the queen
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
Couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I tried
Don’t let them in, don’t let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know
Well, now they know
Let it go, let it go
Can’t hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
I don’t care what they’re going to say
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway
It’s funny how some distance makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me can’t get to me at all
It’s time to see what I can do
To test the limits and break through
No right, no wrong, no rules for me
I’m free
Let it go, let it go
I am one with the wind and sky
Let it go, let it go
You’ll never see me cry
Here I stand and here I’ll stay
Let the storm rage on
My power flurries through the air into the ground
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
I’m never goin’ back, the past is in the past
Let it go, let it go
And I’ll rise like the break of dawn
Let it go, let it go
That perfect girl is gone
Here I stand in the light of day
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway

(1)Idina Menzel, lyrics by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, “Let It Go”, Frozen, release date November 27, 2013.

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Here is AI’s spin on the concept.

Radical Impermanence is the idea that all things are constantly changing. Radical Acceptance is the practice of embracing reality as it is, without judgment or resistance. By combining these ideas, individuals can reduce suffering caused by fighting change and instead find inner peace by accepting the impermanent nature of life. This involves acknowledging difficult emotions and situations as they are, rather than trying to deny or resist them. It fosters growth and resilience.

I encourage us to understand that all situations, all people, and all institutions change. Trying to stop that is like trying to stop the tide. Change is evolution. If some changes seem like they are devolution instead of evolution, we need to consider “why” the change is happening or “why” we think it is devolution? Do the people urging the change feel that the change is the only way to get power, to stay in power or to stand in their power? Do the people who feel like the change is devolution not evolution think the change is taking their power away? Either way, it is about third dimensional power, not fifth dimensional power. Fifth dimensional power is the energy of remembering who we truly are. We are Source. The way we might describe ourselves with our gender, nationality, race, or philosophical leanings are only third dimensional characterizations. Striving for wisdom, love and power to know ourselves as Source IS Radical Acceptance.

Our mission is to figure out our “why” in every situation. If our “why” is not in alignment with the highest plan, we clear on it. Then, we work to be in the energy of Radical Acceptance, Radical Allowing, Radical Detachment, Radical Non-Judgment. And we work to be in Divine Power, Divine Wisdom and Divine Love.

If you need images to help you hold the energy, consider these ideas. For the impermanence aspect of this phrase, look at the leaves on a tree in the Autumn. The tree isn’t lamenting the change. It embraces it just like we humans do when we leaf peep.

For the acceptance aspect, look at the picture accompanying this blog entry: a human lying on the grass with the sun streaming in. The energy of unconditional acceptance without judgment, worry or resistance flows through this image.

May you be in Radical Acceptance of yourself as Love and Light, of yourself as Source.

Gratitude to MariaM31 with Pixabay.com for the Autumn image. Gratitude to Minkisita with Pixabay.com for the image above.

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We can keep ourselves operating in 3D consciousness even when our overall frequency is no longer a match. It’s a bit like continuing to do the work of a high-schooler because it feels familiar and comfortable even though we’ve already graduated our Master’s degree. The key is to identify what’s holding us in old patterns and keeping us from being in alignment with who we are now. Wherever we’re still holding beliefs in our separation, we may still perceive ourselves as dependent on 3D consciousness to function. We haven’t fully remembered who we are beyond the 3D patterns and rules we’ve become dependent upon.

If we’re afraid to allow ourselves to just be Pure Love and Pure Joy and if we focus on the outcomes of actions rather than the vibrations of those actions as being aligned with Pure Love and Joy, then we may still have attachments to 3D consciousness. The attachment could be as simple as doubting that just being Love is enough. The withdrawal symptoms could be as subtle as frequently thinking we should be doing more clearing or more acts of service even when we’re guided there isn’t more to be done right now.

If any of this resonates with you, it may be a good time to ask if you have any addiction to 3D consciousness that’s ready to be healed and whether you need to identify more specific attachments or “withdrawal” symptoms. I also recommend reading Lori Rock’s blog this month for more insights, Redux: Renunciation of the Third Dimensional World. Allowing and Detaching with Compassion

Keep shining and remember you are Creator!

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