The Eternalness of Everything

There is no beginning, there is no end,
There is only change.

There is no teacher, there is no student,
There is only remembering.

There is no good, there is no evil,
There is only expression.

There is no union, there is no sharing,
There is only one.

There is no joy, there is no sadness,
There is only love.

There is no greater, there is no lesser,
There is only balance.

There is no stasis, there is no entropy,
There is only motion.

There is no wakefulness, there is no sleep,
There is only being.

There is no limit, there is no chance,
There is only a plan.

From Robert Monroe's Book "The Ultimate Journey"

From the teachings of Paula Sunray

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Attaining Enlightenment Through Relationship

Attaining Enlightenment through Relationship

by Paula Sunray (1941 - 2007)

Life is about relationship.
It is your main spiritual practice.

Relationships are difficult and challenging spiritual practices. They give us the opportunity to test our skills of communication, intimacy, authenticity, and integrity. They also give us a chance to retrieve our soul and our spirit.

Have you stopped dancing with your soul? Have you stopped letting your soul sing and express from its very heart and being? So many people have lost their song of life and their enchantment with life. When they learn to rekindle their heart song and reconnect with their life tune, they will be able to bring soul to a relationship. Two numb and lifeless souls do not create a very fulfilling relationship.

Everything we do in life is a relationship. We have a relationship with money, we have a relationship with our body, and we even have a relationship with our car. We have a relationship with everything!

As humans, we are all interdependent. True rewarding relationship is a union of two souls who connect from their life center -- their spirit center. Staying in our own center and listening with our deepest inner knowing, is how we relate best.

The beauty of relationship is that it awakens the mystery and magic of our soul. We are like two gods creating amazing and wonderful universes of feelings and experiences together.
Why are these magical relationships so difficult to attain? For one, the element of trust is essential. We must arrive at a place where we trust ourselves and others. We must trust the fact that we know how to handle our life and make important decisions. We must also trust the fact that our mate knows how to do the same thing. Then, we can align our words and actions with our integrity, and expect the best. We must be reasonable in our expectations so that we don't place unreasonable demands on our partner.

Underneath it all, the only thing we all basically want is to be honored and respected exactly as we are. We want to feel safe, nurtured, and protected. We want to be validated, loved, and cherished. We also want to make our own choices and have those choices honored. We do not want to be told what to do or how to live our life.

A relationship is a mystery that is created stroke by stroke like a painting on a canvas. Each word we speak, every action we take, and each choice we make, is like a stroke on the canvas. Each day, we create a new segment of the painting, and each day, we add color, nuance, intensity, and energy. No two canvases are alike, just as no two people are alike.

Relationship is a miracle. It takes us all the way back to God who created us as companions. Every relationship we have is a reflection of the relationship we have with God. If we believe that God can love us, then we will believe that others can love us, and if we believe that we are not good enough for God to love, how will we be able to accept the love of others?

Let's face it. Most people are not growing very much. They have distanced themselves from being challenged and stretched. They are uncomfortable with change and are afraid to take risks. They protect their vulnerability at all costs, and are unwilling to do healing work. They want quick bandages, and they rush back to the world of stress and illusions and try to carve out some basic nutrition from a dead turkey.

The very evolution of our society shows the insecurity and fear of the people at large. Our relationships reflect our insecurities. The old relationships of the past have basically been an exchange of favors -- the wife has exchanged sex for security, and the husband exchanged work and being head of the household for a false sense of fulfillment. This is a marriage of two low selves, and this is the marriage of the average person.

The Relationship of the Future
The relationship of the future will be a blend of both the low self and high self. We will no longer have spouses and marriage certificates to make us feel safe; we will have partners who support our growth and encourage us to do what we love. We will have partners who encourage us to have our own power and express ourselves spontaneously and creatively.

This is the relationship of the future. It is the only one that will work. As soon as we have individuals who have reached that level of maturity, we will have relationships of quality and spirit. We will have true enlightenment. Enlightenment is self-actualization. When you are enlightened, the level of your success in life will depend upon your ability to let go of fear and insecurity and mistaken beliefs.

What is Enlightenment?
Enlightenment is not what you think. It is not about becoming something or gaining something. It is about giving up something. It is about losing or emptying; it is about emptying ourselves of our fears and our personal dragons.

We can achieve enlightenment by becoming personally aware. We can achieve it by peering into our inner core and looking at the shadows and the fears. Those little inner dragons are just unloved parts of ourselves. Once we find them and love them, we can tap into their vitality and energy, and use their power in our lives. When we bring them into our heart, they are no longer dragons; they are "spirit" entities who inspire us and lead us on our heroic journey of life. When we empty our low self of its fears and trepidation, there is room for God at our core. We must be empty to be filled, and when God fills us, we become enlightened.

Excerpt from "Life Skills For The New Millennium" by Paula Sunray
Source: InnerSelf.com

Rev. Dr. Paula Sunray (1941-2007) founded the National Interfaith Seminary and The New Earth Center for Lightmasters in St. Paul, Minnesota, to fully support the process of becoming a Divine Human. She has assisted many others to fully empower their own true Divine Self. Thank you Paula for your inspiring Presence and for all your teachings. Paula authored many books including "Life Skills For The New Millennium" still available from Amazon Books.

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Emotions 'R Us...

EMOTIONS 'R US
by Paula Sunray (1941 - 2007)

Are you a creator or a victim? The answer to that question determines your whole life.

Everything that we have ever experienced, we have created according to our perceptions. We can't be feeling what we are feeling unless we are "thinking" it. First we have to think and then we feel, so whatever we are feeling is a result of our thinking. If we are feeling fear, then we are having a fearful thought.

If we have a certain feeling, it is because we perceive something in a certain way. It is our perceptions, and never the circumstances, that are the problem. We observe something, and then we perceive it according to our beliefs.

If we perceive something from our low self, we will experience fear, anxiety, worry, and concern. All of our "negative'' feelings are a result of our insecurity, and all insecurity comes from the low self. We can never experience anything but insecurity until we raise the frequency of our perception from the lower part of our body (the low self) to a higher part of the body (the high self). The high self dwells in the kingdom of the heart and above.

EXERCISE I: Relocating Your Fears

Think of a fear or insecurity that you have, and notice where it is located in the body. Then just raise it to a higher chakra or location in the body.

EXERCISE II: Changing Your Feelings

Imagine that your aura is like a huge bubble that extends around you fifty feet out from your body. Breathe in and pull the bubble closer to you so that it is now only 30 feet from your body. Exhale, then breathe in another time, this time pulling your auric bubble much closer to you (about 10 feet from you). Exhale, and once again as you breathe in, pull your aura very close to you (about six inches).

Your aura is now like a cocoon around you. You will be able to feel the presence of yourself quite clearly. Now feel the presence of love in your heart area. Let that love energy shine out like the rays of the sun, filling your cocoon until you quite literally experience the feeling of love throughout your whole being. You have now changed fear and insecurity to an entirely new feeling, and you did it all by yourself as a creator choosing how you want to feel.

We are winners when we think and perceive from our high self. This is called "channeling" our high self in our everyday life. Thoughts and feelings are just energies. We can change energies. We can transform them; we can transmute them into any feeling we want.

Everything depends upon our intent. If it is our intent to heal, then we will learn to be consciously aware of the things which need to be healed. If it is our intent to punish ourselves by thinking the same negative thoughts over and over, then that is another choice.

If it is our intent to grow, learn, and evolve, then we will learn to become aware of our experiences and emotions, treat them with compassion, change the frequency by changing our thoughts and perceptions, and as a result, become masters of our experiences.

You Are Not Your Emotions

You must always remember that you are not your emotions. You are a person having an experience. If you are currently experiencing hopelessness, it is not the same as you -- you are not hopelessness; you are a person experiencing hopelessness because of the thoughts you are thinking. Ask yourself, "what would I have to be thinking in order to create a feeling of hopelessness?"

If it is your intent to feel good, then you will want to make it a point to routinely be aware of your thoughts so that you can change them if they are creating a negative feeling.

It is important to note that you will be most miserable when your thoughts are in the past or the future. You will always feel best when you are focused in the present.

What Next?

The first step in working with your emotions is to realize that emotions, including negative ones, are a natural part of being human. You will want to learn to accept and affirm anything that you are thinking and feeling, and not reject it.

If you are feeling sad, then you, a person of worth and beauty, are experiencing sadness. The sadness is separate from you. You couldn't be observing it unless it was separate from you. Just accept your experience by acknowledging and affirming it. This emotion of sadness is a real living child of energy within you. Treat it with love and tenderness as any loving parent would do.

Are You A Creator or A Victim?

We are all either creators or victims. If we believe that we have no choices and that we are powerless in life, we will live life from a victim point of view. If we take responsibility for our lives and are aware of how we create our experiences from our beliefs and perceptions, we will live life from the point of view of a creator. If we create something we don't like, then we can create something else that we like better.

The most important decision we will ever make is whether we are a victim or a creator. According to universal law, it can't be both ways. Either we are all creators or we are all victims. If we are all creators (which we are), then everybody is creating their life perfectly for their growing and evolving needs. They do not need us to judge them, help them, or rescue them. From the higher picture, they are creating every scenario in their life perfectly. If there are only creators, there can be no victims. We must not ever think of another person as a victim.

A Living Example

Some people might think that Christopher Reeve is a victim of a terrible accident which he had nothing to do with. Others of us believe that he planned the whole event before he came into this lifetime so that he could be an inspiration to others on a world level. In this way, he is able to be a living model of how to overcome adversity; he is a perfect example of how the mind can transcend the limitation of the body. By having his accident and capturing the attention of the world, he can be a teacher to the masses and we can all have a living example of how to overcome limitation.

From a higher level, everyone is setting up circumstances in their life in a purposeful way. The mean neighbor next door is creating his experiences perfectly in order to grow or learn in some way. His meek wife is also a creator and has chosen the relationship in order to learn valuable lessons which will serve her well on her soul journey throughout time.

It's Up To You

You must decide whether you are a creator or a victim and understand yourself accordingly. If you are a creator, then you have created everything for a reason and you have created it perfectly without exception, even though your low self doesn't understand that. If you don't like something, you have the ability to change it.

If you believe yourself to be a victim, then you are focused on the external world of the low self, and you are living a life of illusion, limitation, and untruth.

If you know that you are a creator, you will go within to your real place of power and create from an inner world of wisdom and higher intelligence. The only choice we ever have in the moment is where we choose to place our focus of attention -- on the outside world of the low self (the victim) or on the inside world of the high self (the creator).

Excerpt from "Life Skills For The New Millennium" by Paula Sunray
Source: InnerSelf.com

Rev. Dr. Paula Sunray (1941-2007) founded the National Interfaith Seminary and The New Earth Center for Lightmasters in St. Paul, Minnesota, to fully support the process of becoming a Divine Human. She has assisted many others to fully empower their own true Divine Self. Thank you Paula for your inspiring Presence and for all your teachings. Paula authored many books including "Life Skills For The New Millennium" still available from Amazon Books.

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The Miracle Breath - Returning to Godhood...

The Miracle Breath: Returning to Godhood
by Paula Sunray (1941-2007)
Last of a two-part series

What is the Miracle Breath? After many years as a teacher, counselor and healer, I have come into a place that is quiet, peaceful and relaxed. All of my work now is under one simple umbrella. I call it the Miracle Breath. The Miracle Breath is so profound and so simple that it can become an entire way of life. In a nutshell, it is basically learning how to accept everything just as it is so that we can move past the old world and find the new one.

We learn how to drop our reactive nature and even our inquisitive nature so that we can just let everything be as it is right now. This is called Peace. This is called being Present. This is a state of being that takes us into a space called the Void where Mother/Father principle is present -- where we are whole again, where we are real again, and where we are God again.

Creator Mind
I received the Miracle Breath one day several years ago when I was in my healing room in contemplative meditation after reading a passage in The Course in Miracles. I somehow reached a place that connected with Creator Mind. I received a "thought ball" that contained the instructions for the Miracle Breath. It was almost as though I was tuning in with the Creator who was in the act of doing the Miracle Breath.

From this simple, accidental, momentary experience, I learned the importance of imitating our Creator so that we can rediscover who we are. We can experience the true miracle of waking up -- the miracle of letting the sleeping God within us wake up and be present in this physical world. We can let its mind become the creator of the new world that has been birthed rather than continuing to create from our little personality mind that is stuck in separation from the Big Mind. This is an exciting prospect. It is happening right now and we can create miracles as simply as breathing. We can find our Big Mind again.

Source Creator as dreamer
Source Creator seems to be breathing in and out in a total state of peace, loving acceptance and quiet joy. The mind of Source Creator is a simple one. It is a dreaming Creator, and we are made in that image.

We are dreamers also. We have been living our own little dream based on the idea that we are a physical being in a physical world. But our Source Creator is dreaming grand and glorious things on many other levels. When it dreams, it loves what it dreams. It loves what it dreams so much that it becomes part of the dream. It puts parts and fragments of itself out into its images. This causes waves of consciousness. These waves become particalized when they hit our level of density, and these loving waves of images become manifested and materialized in particles that give us the illusion of physicality and material things just like the dots of light on our TV screens. It is a virtual reality, meaning that it appears as though real people, places, and things are on the TV screen, but we know in actual fact that the only real thing that exists is the entity that is putting the images on the screen. We have come to believe that we are the characters on the screen and we have gotten quite carried away in the scenario, but it is time now to wake up and remember our true identity.

We have created a world of pain and suffering. Our separate little self tends to create dream movies that literally terrorize us with fear and conflict, pain and suffering. Our collective little selves have created a nightmare of virtual hell -- of constant conflict and battles, within and without. We have also created a heavenly haven of many beautiful and wonderful things, especially in the world of music and artistic creativity. It is a world of duality.

The New World
The new dream that we are collectively dreaming is much more harmonious now. The new world ideal is to have both sides of the duality filled with harmony. There will be only harmony running through all things in the new world. We will no longer sense things as separate in the many layers of the mind. There will be just One Mind, One Unified Chakra, One God, which is ourself.

We could say that the world you see with your physical eyes is a past world. It is an illusion that seems to still be present. It is as though the light of its existence is just reaching our eyes even though it is a past world. We must learn how to place our focus of attention on the new world in spite of the illusion that the old one is still present.

There is already peace. There is already harmony. There is already joy -- NOW -- in the new dream. The real Great Mind is breaking through into this realm and is already dreaming its dream, but many of us are not present with it. Wherever we place our focus is what we will experience. We have the choice of two worlds now -- the old one or the new one. Where are you placing your attention?

There is not a wrong or a right, but there is a big difference in the experience that you have, depending upon where you place your attention. We are all waking up together now. The slumbering vast mind of the Creator is waking up and only good things are coming -- only good things are already present.

Helping you now
The Miracle Breath releases the focused attention on the old world and allows you to slip into zero point. Then you can move within to a place called bliss, into the real space of creation, into the real manifesting Mind.

The new dream is a dream of unity and oneness because that is all the Creator can ever be -- unless parts of itself choose to fall asleep. In the creative process, the Creator fragments its own body into many waves and particles of experience, and it loves all parts of itself equally.

It sounds nice on paper, but can I really do it?

Waking up
There are many words written about the waking-up process, many books to read, many paths to follow. It sounds very nice on paper and there are many teachers, healers, and counselors, but there are so very few who are awake and reunited with the Source Mind, which is their one true mind. Why is that?

It is because our binary separate mind -- our little ego personality mind -- has created this entire world of illusion, and it requires our attention to keep it alive. It is a living mass of consciousness that will strongly oppose any idea of us removing our attention from its existence. It cannot live without our energy and attention. It must be fed to stay alive. This is what we call the Great Saboteur. It is the great feeding mind that lives on banquets of pain and suffering based on the idea that we are separate from our Creator. How can we be happy and joyful when we are a partial self that is separated from its true LIFE support system? How can we step out of the feeding process and find our true self again?

We must be present NOW in order to wake up to our whole self again.

The old illusion will continue painfully along its way for a very long time, evolving one slow step at a time, continuing to place attention on irrelevant things. This is not bad; it is simply ignorance. We have been removed from the truth, and there are very few systems that can allow the truth here because the whole system would perish if we removed our attention.

We are all ignorant in the illusion, because the real world is on the other side of the veil. The real world is trying to reach us. It is within us. It is present now. But we are not present now. We are distracted by the little mind that needs to be fed by the little world. We are not present now. We are not calm or peaceful enough to slip and fall into the real mind within.

Awakening is simple
The Miracle Breath is a simple, miraculous and profound tool for awakening and remembering our godhood. The old world of illusion is based on complexity and unending red tape. It doesn't trust anything that is so simple and so present right now. It doesn't believe in the miraculous without tremendous effort. A true miracle happens without our effort. When we stop efforting, we will experience more miracles. We will experience the miracle that WE are.

The path of godhood is not an easy one, but it is a very simple one. It is not an easy one, because we must leave everything we have been and just stop and let everything be as it is so that we can come into the Now Moment. We must stop reacting and worrying. We must stop trying to figure things out. We must get off the spiritual path that leads us to a future. Godhood cannot be found in the little mind that is preoccupied with the idea of a past and future. Godhood is present now. The process is very simple. It is as simple as breathing in and out with full conscious awareness; it is being fully present in a state of relaxed presence. But how many can even do that -- be present enough to breathe with conscious awareness?

When you stop and think about it, we are still pretty much asleep. We must be aware of this and admit to it before we can make any real progress. It helps to belong to a group, which practices conscious awareness on a regular basis. It takes discipline, devotion and much focus to wake up and retrieve your whole self. It must be a priority in one's life, otherwise the whole world will eat you alive with its need to be fed. The choice you make determines not only your own life but the fate of the entire universe. You can awaken now or you can choose the long laborious process of linear awakening. Do you want to be God now or later?

Doing the Miracle Breath
Leave all problems of Earth life outside the door right now. Just for now, allow yourself to be in a neutral space where you can relax, replenish and restore. Your body, mind and spirit need frequent breaks in order to rest and relax. This is crucial not only for optimum health but for the quality of your life in general. The Miracle Breath is a crucial tool for the new Divine Human.

Long Version
Step 1. Breathe in a deep full breath (from lower abdomen to upper lungs), and then breathe out making a sound through your mouth. Do this at least three times. This releases tension and stress in your body. Really let go.

Step 2. Find a place in the center of yourself and just begin to breathe into this area. As you breathe, begin to relax all the muscles in your body.

Step 3. When you feel totally relaxed, let your Spirit touch the Spirit of the NOW moment. Let yourself be fully present in this now moment in the room where you are sitting. Feel the quality of the NOW moment around you. Once you are fully present to the NOW moment outside yourself, find the NOW moment within yourself. Stay focused deep within yourself.

Step 4. Breathe in saying, "I breathe in the Now Moment." (Feel and experience the present moment within you as you do it). Breathe out saying, "I relax into Peace." (Relax all of your muscles as you breathe out. Imagine that you have been a beach umbrella that has been open, and now you are closing the beach umbrella. (You may also think of yourself as an octopus that is dropping all tentacles to its side).

Step 5. Say to yourself, "I let the world be as it is." Let everything be as it is, including yourself. Let go of any need to control, change, fix or heal anything. Surrender to the silence of the Now Moment ceasing all thinking. Just experience a state of BEING and keep repeating "I let the world be as it is."

Short Version follows
After you have done the full preparation (Long Version) several times, you will be able to go to the relaxed place within at any time of day, no matter where you are or what you are doing, and you will simply be able to repeat the two sentences of the Miracle Breath:

"I breathe in the Now Moment" (focus deep within yourself).
"I relax into Peace" (surrender into peace, relaxing all muscles and dropping all tentacles).

What it does
The simple practice of the Miracle Breath can bring about profound changes in your life. It centers you within and aligns your body with your spirit. It can significantly reduce stress and therefore can be useful in reducing or preventing illness in your body. Since you are dropping your negative reactions to the outside world, it can significantly improve your relationships, and it can significantly increase your level of self-acceptance and self-worth.

The Miracle Breath has a detoxifying effect on the physical body, as well as the mental body. It reduces negative emotion significantly, therefore you have fewer negative experiences. It helps to integrate the old brain and the new brain and brings you into the NOW moment.

The Miracle Breath affects your material surroundings in a positive way and affects other people in a positive way. Because it follows the laws of the universe, it creates a new space for abundance, inner peace and general well-being. It disconnects cords with other people and disconnects you from past problems and future worries. Most importantly, it connects you with your Higher Mind so that you can hear your own inner guidance.

It can accelerate spiritual growth and healing on all levels. Used correctly, it can slow down time and the aging process. It takes you to zero point, where duality merges into oneness. It not only activates your own divinity, it keeps you centered within your divinity during your daily activities.

If everyone practiced the miracle breath for just a few minutes every day, it would change the world! As one who practices the Miracle Breath, you can have a big impact on transforming our world from a place of fear and limitation to a place of peace and abundant wholeness.

Recommended Materials:
1. Eckhart Tolle's books: A New Earth, Stillness Speaks, The Power of Now and Practicing the Power of Now, and also his videos and tapes, online at www.eckharttolle.com
2. Any book by Leonard Jacobson, online at www.leonardjacobson.com
3. The Tobias channelings of Geoffrey Hoppe, online at www.crimsoncircle.com

Source: http://www.edgelife.net/issues/2002/06/sunray.html (c) 2002

Rev. Dr. Paula Sunray (1941-2007) founded the National Interfaith Seminary and The New Earth Center for Lightmasters in St. Paul, Minnesota, to fully support the process of becoming a Divine Human. She has assisted many others to fully empower their own true Divine Self. Thank you Paula for your inspiring Presence and for all your teachings. Paula authored many books including "Life Skills For The New Millennium" still available from Amazon Books.

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NOW is the best place to be...

NOW is the Best Place to Be

by Paula Sunray (1941-2007)
First of a two-part series

Who is here now? The REAL you. The unreal you lives in the past and future. It believes that there is such a thing as time. But time can only exist if there are two separate points of reference. If there is a belief that there is a God outside of us, then the space between God and us creates the sense of time. It takes time to travel between two points. If there is no space between God and ourselves, then there is no time; there is only NOW.

When we are in our minds thinking, our thoughts are normally engaged with the past or future, which means that we have formed a separation. We are not present with our true self, therefore we are not in the Now.

Why is NOW so important? Because NOW is the only place where we can be whole again, remember who we are and wake up to the fact that All That Is is present now and we are All That ls. Even the tiniest fraction of us is a holographic piece of the whole. We always contain the whole, but we must be present with it and not feel as though we are separate from it. We must be present with what is already present. It is that simple. It is that simple.

Presence of Self
The next step is to practice the presence of Self. We must be that Self and really feel it so that we can remember who we are. Because we are so used to living in a fast-paced world, we must first slow ourselves down -- slow our mind down, relax our muscles and drop into the present moment. Surrender into it, fall into it.

I have developed a tool called the Miracle Breath, which helps me stay present in the now moment. I have been so encouraged with the results that I now train Miracle Breath Practitioners in my classes. The Miracle Breath involves a simple breath as you say to yourself, "I breathe in the now moment." As you breathe out, you say, "I relax into peace." [The instructions for the full Miracle Breath are available to you on my website at www.newearthcenter.com and I'll discuss the Miracle Breath more next month.]

Here is the catch. There is a part of ourselves that almost violently resists being present in the now. That part is the part of ourselves that became altered long ago -- altered in that it felt separated from its Source after originally feeling One with Source. I call this part the altered ego or the negative ego. It could also be called the saboteur, because it is the one who sabotages our life.

Because the saboteur was created out of the belief of separation, it has become a god almost in the amount of power it has. It exists only when we think and engage in the idea of a past or future. If we withdraw our focus of attention from the past or future, it loses its power and feels as though it is dying. It fears losing control. It feels weakened, panicky and afraid when we are fully present with our true self, so it distracts us so that we once again get lost in thoughts of the past or future.

This altered ego
It is my belief that one cannot walk the spiritual route the full way without first understanding the nature of this altered ego. Very few people teach this. Very few people are even aware of it. Since most of our systems were created by the altered ego, there is very little knowledge available.

The best way to overcome the resistance of the saboteur is to go into practicing the presence of your real whole self. Breathe and say, "I breathe in my divinity," and then breathe out wholeness. Breathe in wholeness. Breathe out your divinity until you once again align yourself and feel the presence of your true self sitting here fully present and fully alive.

It takes no time to find your Self. You are that Self. You don't need a spiritual path to find it. You don't need to take classes to find it. You don't need to be wiser or more loving to find it. It is here now. It is what we have been resisting most. When we practice the presence of now, we fall into a state of deep inner peace. When we learn to experience a deep inner peace, we know that we have found our true inner self. We talk about peace a lot but we rarely accomplish the actual state of being in our own lives or in the world in general.

The altered ego does not like peace. It thrives on conflict and drama. Conflict and drama feed it and keep it alive. If it isn't fed, it will have to repeatedly conjure up additional conflict in our lives so that it can be fed and remain alive. One must learn how to feed one's REAL self, breathing the breath of divinity, fanning the fires within of the real self rather than giving attention to the altered ego which is our little personality self. It is almost like a battle taking place within us. It can feel like an Armageddon. It is the enormous fight between the Sabotager and the Real Self.

Not taking sides
Who will win? It is not a matter of taking sides. In fact, the crucial understanding is that we don't take sides at all. We simply stay in a state of peace rather than reacting to either side. This is the secret of godhood. Peace is our most valuable commodity. It changes us, it changes our past, it changes our future, it changes our present. It affects our entire world and our entire universe when we sit in a state of peace.

The exciting research of David Hawkins in his book Power vs. Force shows that we can actually measure the vibrational energy of our feeling states. Courage is measured at 200. Love at 500. Joy is 540. PEACE is 600! David Hawkins says that one person at level 300 has the ability to counterbalance the negativity of 90,000 people. One person at level 500 can counterbalance 750,000 people. One person at level 600 can shift 50 million people. It reminds me of the words of the song, "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me."

The state we choose now affects the whole world. When we choose peace in our personal lives, we choose to do only those things that make us feel peaceful. We respond to all events with the breath of peace. This is what I call the Miracle Breath. This is the miracle that can change the world. We change nothing outside of ourselves. We change only the state of being within ourselves. This is the greatest service work. The saboteur wants you to believe that you are needed to save the world through action-oriented activities so that you will be too busy to be in a state of peace. That is why there are still wars in this world and such a state of unrest. It will never change until we change our self.

When we find our true self again, this is the real beginning of spiritual experience. We now can talk with our true Divine Self, commune with it, and form a deep and meaningful relationship with it. Only one Great Being exists and It is in a profound state of communing with and loving Itself. That is why we say that loving ourselves is the greatest thing we can do. We are then like the Creator. When we act, feel, and love like the Creator, we are the Creator. We are in the constant state of loving ourselves and all that we are.

The spiritual "journey" does not begin until we find our Self. We then wake up and find real LIFE within us. We then begin to create from our real self rather than the small, altered personality self who lives in a world of fear, chaos and suffering.

An exciting moment
Now is an exciting moment. The moment right now is the most exciting time that has ever existed, because it contains All That Is. All That Is is here right now -- and it is YOU. Perhaps you would like to put this paper down and sit and breathe in the present moment and relax into peace, feeling the presence of your true magnificent Divine Self. Eventually one can be in this state of Presence throughout the day. Your true self is your own Higher Self and as it begins to express itself in your life, you will find only peace, harmony, joy, laughter and playfulness. We are restored to our own natural, whole, playful self. The soul by its very nature is a joyful, playful, creative being. If your day is joyful, playful and creative, then you know that you are in tune with your true self.

A new world has been birthed now. The old one that we look out at through our physical eyes is past and gone much like an ancient star that we are now seeing for the first time in the skies. It is no longer there, but we are seeing it for the first time because it took that long for its light to reach us. Likewise, the world that we see through our physical eyes is an illusion. Think about it, because it is true.

When a new world was birthed in the last several years, we changed the software within our being to one of "ascension." Ascension is simply the process of beginning a new life in an old body, and from that point of view we have already ascended. True ascension is really an incension into one's own physical body. Spirit incends into the physical body becoming one with it, filling the physical body with light. The two become a grand team of creators in the new world.

The last thing we want to do now is leave our physical body and leave this world. We must now fully incend into the body and be the new breed of god that has recently been birthed. We become a full Divine Human when the divine within us becomes alive. It comes alive when we practice breathing affirmations. "I breathe in my full divinity I breathe out wholeness." "I breathe in wholeness and I breathe out my divinity." When we breathe in, we fan the flames of the divinity within us, and when we breathe out we express that divinity through our words and actions. We must consciously activate the new divinity within us. Otherwise, it can wilt much like a plant that goes unwatered.

Old software
Many of us who have been spiritually oriented are reluctant humans. We do not want to fully incarnate into the body. We think that spiritual means ascending and leaving the body. That was the old software. It is just the opposite now. The world is different now. We no longer need to feel that we don't belong here. Because of the explosion of higher consciousness, a new world has been created that is specifically a place to be fully human and fully divine. We merge the two in a new venture -- a new experiment. No one is in charge of the experiment. We ourselves are the ones in charge of the whole experience. What will we create in the new void? Time will tell.

Now through a natural process of awakening, the stirrings of a remembered godhood are rising within us and a new Self is beginning to emerge. We are true magicians now. The impossible is no longer impossible. Miracles are here NOW. We are that miracle. Our true Divine Human Self is beginning the process of creating and exploring an entirely new world based on harmony, love and joy. There is no better place to be than here, and there is no greater moment than NOW. So be it and so it is.

Recommended Materials:
1. Eckhart Tolle's books: A New Earth, Stillness Speaks, The Power of Now and Practicing the Power of Now, and also his videos and tapes, online at www.eckharttolle.com
2. Any book by Leonard Jacobson, online at www.leonardjacobson.com
3. The Tobias channelings of Geoffrey Hoppe, online at www.crimsoncircle.com

Source: http://www.edgelife.net/issues/2002/05/sunray.html (c) 2002

Rev. Dr. Paula Sunray (1941-2007) founded the National Interfaith Seminary and The New Earth Center for Lightmasters in St. Paul, Minnesota, to fully support the process of becoming a Divine Human. She has assisted many others to fully empower their own true Divine Self. Thank you Paula for your inspiring Presence and for all your teachings. Paula authored many books including "Life Skills For The New Millennium" still available from Amazon Books.

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The ALOHA Spirit

THE ALOHA SPIRIT

a.k.a. The Little Pink Booklet of Aloha
by Serge Kahili King
copyright by Serge King 2003

http://www.alohainternational.org/

You may copy, share and post this document as often as you wish on condition that it not be sold. For a free copy in booklet form, email your name and postal address to huna@huna.org.

The Aloha Spirit is a well known reference to the attitude of friendly acceptance for which the Hawaiian Islands are so famous. However, it also refers to a powerful way to resolve any problem, accomplish any goal, and to achieve any state of mind or body that you desire.

In the Hawaiian language, aloha stands for much more than just "hello" or "goodbye" or "love." Its deeper meaning is "the joyful (oha) sharing (alo) of life energy (ha) in the present (alo)."

As you share this energy you become attuned to the Universal Power that the Hawaiians call mana. And the loving use of this incredible Power is the secret for attaining true health, happiness, prosperity and success.

The way to tune into this Power and have it work for you is so simple that you might be tempted to pass it off as being too easy to be true. Please don't let yourself be fooled by appearances. Take the time to try it out.

This is the most powerful technique in the world, and although it is extremely simple it may not prove easy, because you must remember to do it and you have to do it a lot. It is a secret which has been given to humanity over and over again, and here it is once more in another form. The secret is this:

Bless everyone and everything that represents what you want!

That's all there is to it. Anything that simple, however, does need some explanation.

To bless something means to give recognition or emphasis to a positive quality, characteristic or condition, with the intent that what is recognized or emphasized will increase, endure or come into being.

Blessing is effective in changing your life or getting what you want for three reasons: First of all, the positive focus of your mind stirs up the positive, creative force of the Power of the Universe. Secondly, it moves your own energy outward, allowing more of the Power to come through you. Thirdly, when you bless for the benefit of others instead of directly for yourself, you tend to bypass any subconscious fears about what you want for yourself, and also the very focus on the blessing acts to increase the same good in your life. What is so beautiful about this process is that the blessing you do for others helps them as well as you.

Blessing may be done with imagery or touch, but the most usual and easy way to do it is with words. The main kinds of verbal blessing are:

• Admiration - This is the giving of compliments or praise to something good that you notice. E.g., "What a beautiful sunset; I like that flower; you're such a wonderful person."

• Affirmation - This is a specific statement of blessing for increase or endurance. E.g., "I bless the beauty of this tree; blessed be the health of your body."

• Appreciation - This is an expression of gratitude that something good exists or has happened. E.g., "Thank you for helping me; I give thanks to the rain for nourishing the land."

• Anticipation - This is blessing for the future. E.g., "We're going to have a great picnic; I bless your increased income; Thank you for my perfect mate; I wish you a happy journey; May the wind be always at your back."

In order to gain the most benefit from blessing, you will have to give up or cut way down on the one thing that negates it: cursing. This doesn't mean swearing or saying "bad" words. It refers to the opposite of blessing, namely criticizing instead of admiring; doubting instead of affirming; blaming instead of appreciating; and worrying instead of anticipating with trust. Whenever any of these are done they tend to cancel out some of the effects of blessing. So the more you curse the harder it will be and the longer it will take to get the good from a blessing. On the other hand, the more you bless the less harm any cursing will do.

Here, then, are some ideas for blessing various needs and desires. Apply them as often as you like, as much as you want.

• Health - Bless healthy people, animals, and even plants; everything which is well made or well constructed; and everything that expresses abundant energy.

• Happiness - Bless all that is good, or the good that is in all people and all things; all the signs of happiness that you see, hear or feel in people or animals; and all potentials for happiness that you notice around you.

• Prosperity - Bless all the signs of prosperity in your environment, including everything that money helped to make or do; all the money that you have in any form; and all the money that circulates in the world.

• Success - Bless all signs of achievement and completion (such as buildings, bridges, and sports events); all arrivals at destinations (of ships, planes, trains, cars and people); all signs of forward movement or persistence; and all signs of enjoyment or fun.

• Confidence - Bless all signs of confidence in people and animals; all signs of strength in people, animals and objects (including steel and concrete); all signs of stability (like mountains and tall trees); and all signs of purposeful power (including big machines, power lines).

• Love and Friendship - Bless all signs of caring and nurturing, compassion and support; all harmonious relationships in nature and architecture; everything that is connected to or gently touching something else; all signs of cooperation, as in games or work; and all signs of laughter and fun.

• Inner Peace - Bless all signs of quietness, calmness, tranquility, and serenity (such as quiet water or still air); all distant views (horizons, stars, the moon); all signs of beauty of sight, sound or touch; clear colors and shapes; the details of natural or made objects.

• Spiritual Growth - Bless all signs of growth, development and change in Nature; the transitions of dawn and twilight; the movement of sun, moon, planets and stars; the flight of birds in the sky; and the movement of wind and sea.

The previous ideas are for guidance if you are not used to blessing, but don't be limited by them. Remember that any quality, characteristic or condition can be blessed (e.g., you can bless slender poles and slim animals to encourage weight loss), whether it has existed, presently exists, or exists so far in your imagination alone.

Personally I have used the power of blessing to heal my body, increase my income, develop many skills, create a deeply loving relationship with my wife and children, and to establish a worldwide network of peacemakers working with the aloha spirit. It's because it has worked so well for me that I want to share it with you. Please share it with as many others as you can.

How to Enhance Your Power to Bless

There is a technique practiced in Hawaii which enhances your power to bless by increasing your personal energy. It is a simple way of breathing that is also used for grounding, centering, meditation and healing. It requires no special place or posture, and may be done while moving or still, busy or resting, with eyes open or closed. In Hawaiian the technique is called pikopiko because piko means both the crown of the head and the navel.

The Technique

• 1. Become aware of your natural breathing (it might change on its own just because of your awareness, but that's okay).

• 2. Locate the crown of your head and your navel by awareness and/or touch.

• 3. Now, as you inhale put your attention on the crown of your head; and as you exhale put your attention on your navel. Keep breathing this way for as long as you like.

• 4. When you feel relaxed, centered, and/or energized, begin imagining that you are surrounded with an invisible cloud of light or an *electro-magnetic field, and that your breathing increases the energy of this cloud or field.

• 5. As you bless, imagine that the object of your blessing is surrounded with some of the same energy that surrounds you.

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A Cultural Warrior Not Forgotten

Jesus "Xuy" Leyba

1939-2002

Jesus "Xuy" Leyba was a visionary, leader, mentor, teacher, guide and Shaman. His kindness, humor, and unconditionality were healing for the many people he helped. Xuy was an exceptional human being who inspired and touched the lives of thousands of people.

Born in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Xuy (pronounced "Chuy") grew up in a poor mining town of Starkville, near Trinidad, with two siblings. His father, who was born in Mexico and who came to Colorado after being exiled for being one of Pancho Villa's bodyguards (known as Los Dorados or "The Golden Ones") during the Mexican Revolution, died at an early age of "black lung disease" from working in the coal mines. His mother was born in Saudi Arabia and moved to Mexico at an early age where she met Xuy's father.

Xuy left home at a young age and landed in the heart of California. He began working for California growers in the fields. He quickly learned about the plight of the farm workers and began to work with Cesar Chavez and others to gain rights for the Mexican Workers. Xuy quickly gained a reputation for his abilities to inspire and organize others.

Xuy was drafted into the Vietnam war and was recruited by the CIA into Army Intelligence. Upon his return he got involved in the anti-war movement and worked with many celebrities and musicians to help end the war.

Xuy began working at UC Davis in the 1960's. He founded the first Chicano Studies in the United States. He taught students about Mexican culture, history and music. His program became the standard for all other universities across the country. As part of his program of promoting Mexican culture, he introduced a new band called Los Lobos and became their manager for many years.

Both of Xuy's parents were well versed in the indigenous Toltec and Mayan culture and traditions and as a result passed on to him many of their sacred ways. Xuy made several pilgrimages to Mexico during his life and studied with indigenous elders. He learned the native indigenous tongue of Nahuatl as well as their ancient teachings and spiritual ceremonies, and he was introduced to Carlos Casteneda and his apprentices.
Xuy founded an organization in the 1970's in California known as "The Machetes." They have worked hard over the years in many arenas to promote awareness and gain rights for Mexican-Americans.

Xuy retired from that scene in the late 1980's and left California to travel around the Southwest. I met Xuy in 1997 on the Winter Solstice. He was living and working in Prescott, Arizona. He was living a quiet life as a gifted carpenter and furniture maker. Xuy continued his spiritual practices through the years, and on the Solstices and Equinoxes performed ceremonies from his native culture, passing on the ancient wisdom and knowledge to others who would be in attendance.

There is so much to say about Xuy. He taught and influenced many, many people over the years. He lived a full and rich life. The thing that stands out most in my mind about him was his appreciation and passion for life. He had a great sense of humor and was a gifted story teller. He loved life deeply and I am grateful for the privilege to have known this great human being!

"Que su sol sea brilliante"

 Xuy (center), in 2001, at his home on Bald Mountain in Paso Robles, California, with his sister, Esther (left) and niece, Priscilla (right).