It's All in Your Mind - Easter and the State of the World

Some things even though they are right before us, we fail to see.  We ask friends, try to rationalize and listen to others that we think hold the truth.  Most often we already see what we are looking for.

This holiday as many celebrate Easter and the risen Christ, may you also celebrate the part of Christ that lives within us all.  The part that connects us.  The part that transcends us.  The part that says if Jesus can forgive those that killed him on the cross, I might certainly be able to forgive my enemies.

If he came here for all people, may all people act as one in their Christ selves if only for a day. May we see each being for the divine being they truly are and not for the selfish acts they do.  May the separations between people, faiths, and countries become less important than living in peace and cooperation with one another.  Sometimes this seems so simple, yet we seem to make living in peace a hard thing to do.  As you might have noticed our only true enemy is ourselves.  Michael used to tell me "What enters the mind, the mind enters"; your thoughts are in direct association with your reality.

I 'd like to share some stories:

If a deer is running through the forest in the United States and crosses the border into Canada, does he need a passport?  Is he a Canadian deer or an American deer?

If I was running down the hall and I skimmed my knee in a fall, would it be my responsibility to fix it or the one that built the floor I fell on?

If I was in a fight with my brother and he took my toy, should I get my friends and some weapons to kill him to get it back or talk to him directly?

If I had a million dollars and my neighbor didn't have shoes, should I take my next million and invest it or give some for shoes?

If I was in a political office or just running the household as a mom and my children wanted to go to the movies or the people wanted healthcare should I force my children to pay for the movie even if they didn't have a job/should I force my people to pay for healthcare they couldn't afford?

Two countries live peacefully next to each other for years.  One decides his ancestors came from the country beside them and now he wants to take it back.  He tells his people it is "rightfully theirs".  Should people die because one person has decided on his own agenda?  Should there be war because he has gotten many to agree with him?  What has changed the peace between the countries - the people or the thoughts of the people and who changed them?

The Fish Who Was Thirsty

One night a baby fish was sleeping under some coral when God appeared to him in a dream. "I want you to go forth with a message to all the fish in the sea," God said.

"What should I tell them?" the little fish asked.

"Just tell them you're thirsty," God replied. "And see what they do." Then without another word, He disappeared.
The next morning the little fish woke up and remembered his dream. "What a strange thing God wants me to do," he thought to himself. But as soon as he saw a large tuna swimming by, the little fish piped up, "Excuse me, but I'm thirsty."

"Then you must be a fool," the tuna said. And with a disdainful flick of his tail, he swam away.

The little fish did feel rather foolish, but he had his orders. The next fish he saw was a grinning shark. Keeping a safe distance, the little fish called out, "Excuse me, sir, but I'm thirsty."

"Then you must be crazy," the shark replied. Noticing a rather hungry look in the shark's eye, the little fish swam away quickly.

All day he met cod and mackerels and swordfish and groupers, but every time he made his short speech, they turned their backs and would have nothing to do with him. Feeling hopelessly confused, the little fish sought out the wisest creature in the sea, who happened to be an old blue whale with three harpoon scars on his side.

"Excuse me, but I'm thirsty!" the little fish shouted, wondering if the old whale could even see him, he was such a tiny speck. But the wise one stopped in his tracks. "You've seen God, haven't you?" he said.

"How did you know?"

"Because I was thirsty once, too." The old whale laughed.

The little fish looked very surprised. "Please tell me what this message from God means," he implored.
"It means that we are looking for Him in the wrong places," the old whale explained. "We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left a long time ago, if He was ever around."

How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere."

"Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?"

from the book
**DANCING THE DREAM by Michael Jackson**
(published 1992)

Re-Focusing on LOVE

There is a common thread among all people:  To be loved.  Most of us know the rich and lovely feeling of being loved.  Warm, intimate, secure and unfaltering.  Yet for most of us as well, love we once had sometimes seems to vanish and we are left feeling broken inside.  Our spouse leaves, our children may leave, our parents may abandon us or sometimes others may do cruel things leaving us feeling "unloved."

Often our view of love has been put there by our upbringing and society.  Based on our relationship with our parents or those who have raised us, we may "fall in love" with someone just like our mom or just like our dad, completely without even realizing it.  We'll pattern our relationships after them as well.  Inside we know that's how mom treated dad or dad treated mom.  It makes a subconscious rule for us to follow.  That's how we learned "love".  That's how we were taught. Even though they themselves may not have had healthy patterns of "love" to begin with.

We have also acquired our learning from mainstream society.  "True love" may equal candy, flowers, romance, or even a great big diamond.  Family dinners, spending time with dad, or going fishing, can all lead us to self defined definitions of love.  We saw it on the TV, the ad says true love is a "Kays Diamond".

When we enter into relationship then, we expect and want those things that we have been told are associated with "love".  Often we are disappointed because the things we have been taught and told rarely have anything to do with real love.  Yet we are left feeling hurt.  The diamond wasn't big enough, dad didn't go fishing with us, and family dinners are not even on the calendar.  Now we equate love to disappointment, not realizing it wasn't love that disappointed us, it was our self defined expectations of love that failed us.  "Love" itself really had nothing to do with it, but our "misqualification", our distorted thoughts about what love should be, does.  In an imperfect world, with imperfect people, we still want and seek perfect love - according to our own self imposed rules.

The misqualification of this very precious energy is distorted by our views of it.  We define it according to how we were raised and what we get from our culture and society, even our religions.  What might be right then for one, may not be right for another, yet would you not agree there really is only ONE pervading energy of love?  Perhaps it cannot be defined by human terms.  Perhaps the answer is in it's mere creation and from the very source of where it came from - god.

There is a difference in human love and divine love.  Often after many hurts, we, as humans, shut our hearts down.  We close ourselves off to love.  Love, we say, has hurt us.  We have been abandon, we have been abused, we have been cut off from the person or persons we once thought "loved" us and that we "loved".  All too often this scenario plays out among the masses of people on the earth, yet it is not love that has hurt us, it is the human misqualification of love that has.

True love, its flowing, everlasting, amazing and lift you off of your feet kind of love comes from a sacred place.  We all seek it because we know it so well.  It was the very love we were created from.  It's source flows through our veins. We long for it again and we often seek it out under human terms.  Looking for something outside of us, not realizing it is already within.

I've heard it said there are two choices that we always make when we take action.  We either act from love or we act from fear.  Human love most often acts from fear.  We fear someone will hurt us again.  We fear not being loved. We fear being alone.

Divine love, the kind that we are made of, always acts from love itself.  Yet if you don't know you are a divine being, then how would you know how much you are really already loved?  Love is within you, it always has been, and always will be.  We just need to remember how to "feel" that love again.

When we shut down love in our hearts, we shut down love in the world.  Let's refocus on love and it's true source.  Let's begin to access divine love.  Accessing love from the father is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.  His love is unconditional, unfaltering and will never leave you high and dry.  His care for the earth, it's creatures, all rhyme and all reason, every bird and every season has meaning and care under his wings.  It doesn't matter if you believe in religion, god, Buddha or Elvis Presley.  What does matter, is that you must know love exists if you seek it. Connect with the love that you seek.  Because we all know we can't seek something out if we didn't already know about it to begin with.  Somewhere inside of you you have "felt the love" you seek already.  Maybe all you need is a little guidance to help you find it again.

Imagine floating in a cloud.  The billowy cloud encompasses every inch of your being.  You are clothed in it, bathed in it's pure white light, frothy essence and divine splendor.  Every cell in your body vibrates with it's nurturing light.  You can feel the warmth of the cradling of the cloud and your entire being becomes relaxed and brilliant.  Soon you feel the light of the cloud enter through the top of your head and travel down to your heart.  There sits a seer and the seer is awakened at the sight of this most brilliant light.  Your heart center begins to warm and you can feel the energy spreading through your chest like heat.  Ask the seer to help you.  Ask him to show you what blocks you from love.  Then ask him to show you how to let those fears about love go.  Allow him to help you in the future and ask him to be there whenever you need strength, whenever you need a companion and whenever you feel you need love.  This seer is you in your higher form.  The form that sits close to god.  The form that knows you are love and that love is you.

Allowing love in our lives isn't just a fluffy analogy.  It is the vibrant force that is the source of all creation.  When we let it flow within us and through us, that source energy infiltrates the planet and all things around us.  Let love in today and tomorrow you will realize that the love we all seek has been with us all along.  Then when we find someone we can share that love with, it's essence will be that much richer, that much fuller because now we know what real love feels like.  When you can feel divine love within yourself, it's that much easier to see and feel the divine love from another.  Now love doesn't hurt anymore.  We recognize it for what it is.  Our attention on love must be refocused to it's source.  When we choose to love then, let it flow from that source through us.  When we feel hurt from love, let us remember it's not that love hurt us.  It is either our misqualification of that love or another's misqualification of this precious energy.

We can't be responsible for the actions, the thoughts, and the misqualifications of energy that others put on love, but we can be responsible for our own definition of it; our own thoughts about love.   When you know love is always divine, whether from a human or our father, then love doesn't hurt anymore.  It's essence remains pure and the hurts of yesterday with love become clear.  They are only hurts from misactions and thoughts associated with love.  Love itself never fails and love itself will never leave you.  The reason is simple - you are love.

Making Love: Twin Flames and The Vehicle

Society has taught us that "making love" means "sex".  Not necessarily so.  When twin souls join in union the sheer contact of energy creates a third energy called "love".  If we were "created" from "love" itself something there would imply that our "creator" is both masculine and feminine.  Maybe that's why there is a woman underneath the arm of god in the painting below done by Michelangelo entitled "Creation":

It's been quite some time since women have been treated in this world as co-creators, equals, even though they are the vehicle for creation itself.  The womb of creation for having children, the nurturer, and the cradle that holds divinity.  Some may refer to women and the coming of their rightessness as the "divine feminine".  For it is the wo - man or womb man that is the womb for love.

If we refer back to the superimposed triangles that represent union, the Seal of Solomon, the Star of David and the representation for the heart chakra in Tibet, the shiva triangle is pointed upwards and the shakti, or feminine triangle, is pointed down.  Its mere shape depicts that of the womb.

Tibetan Heart Chakra

Star of David, Seal of Solomon

Some may even refer to this as a "chalice" as they did in the film "The DaVinci Code":

Mary Magdalene was the twin flame soul mate of Jesus himself and as Jesus said, we, as he did, will do even greater miracles than what he once did.  As we enter into the next few days of celebration for Easter for many of us, may we celebrate Mary Magdalene for her part as well.

Great things are always accomplished whenever two such beings are brought together.  Even in the bible we find the following verse:

“Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.” (Matthew 18:19–20, NKJV)

The "two" make a third energy; "Love" gathered in the fathers name.  He is in the midst of them, because that is exactly how they were created from him.  Now as they gather, the two, and agree on their "creation" it is granted.  The granting is done through the father because the two were brought together from the father in the beginning.  This potent energy; love; is the energy of "creation" itself.

Below is a reminder of how Jesus himself "created" and brought down from the heavens food for his people:

The womb of love is the chalice.  The vehicle which love can be drawn down from the heavens is located at the top of the head.  A sheer desire, passion and love for the father can and will draw "love" closer.  This can be done through the crown chakra.  The figure below illustrates what is known as the "I AM" presence.  At top the "triangular" shape is pointed upwards.  Your reception of this potent force will be within the heart center, where again the two superimposed triangles are joined.  Now your own I AM and that of your original god self are joined in "love" in the heart.  Should you put your attention there, you can even "feel" the love that is generated.

Chart of the I AM Presence

When you draw this love down through you, you also extend it to those in your surroundings just by being present.  The energy field around you changes as you do and in doing so you affect others around you and even the planet itself.  

When twin flame soul mates do this, they both do so individually.  Then when they are joined, the third energy is created and when love making ensues, it literally is "love" making.  They make the energy of love and that energy is transmitted to the rest of the planet.  This is exactly how our next evolution as a human race is transpiring.  Twin flames are uniting all over planet earth at this very moment.

If we refer back to Michael Jackson's Dangerous album, and his wish for us to "dissect" it, as he stated in his Ebony Magazine interview, you might find a few clues.  For instance in the song "Jam" he speaks about the "Talmud Song".  This is the Song of Songs in the bible that was taken out by most Christians, however, in some Jewish communities it is considered the holiest of holy passages.  The Song of Songs belongs to sacred Scripture and is evidence enough that in this period there were some who took it all literally as a dialogue of love between a man and a woman.  The union of two.

As you might recall it is at the end of the "Dangerous" ride that we see the "two", Adam and Eve and the bubble of creation under the Peacock.  A more spiritually evolved world, transporting the children of god.

Blood Moon - The Eclipse with Astrologer Maria Shaw Lawson

Astro News

By Maria Shaw Lawson

The eclipse is here (Tuesday) so you probably have been feeling the energy over the weekend. It is a full moon eclipse at 25 degrees Libra. If you have a planet between 21 - 29 degrees of Libra or Aries, then this eclipse will have a direct impact on you. Cancers and Capricorns will also be affected too. Eclipses shake things up and bring change. Even if you do not like the changes you see coming at the time, you should wait until the dust has settled before you make any decisions or judgments. Some of you may be trying to do too much with too little time or money. Your energy may be low so please do not overbook yourself. Some things will come up around the eclipse that you will have to attend to and need the extra time. So please do not overbook yourself now. Also this month could bring accidents on the roads so please be extra careful when traveling short and long distances. Wear your moonstone, which is a protective stone while traveling.

Here's the link to get a moonstone bracelet if you still need one or for a friend;

Click here 

Pretty much everyone will feel this eclipse on some level. For some folks it may be indirect, meaning other people in your life are having a hard time and you are trying to help them. For others, you could be the one having the challenges. The challenges will be in at least one of one of the following areas of life or perhaps all of them!

Work/Career

Home/Family

Relationships

Self/Health/Energy

You may feel like you are the only sane person in the world this week. While everyone around you does not understand how to deal with the energy of the eclipse (It's like three full moons combined into one!), you can be prepared.

Here are a few suggestions:

-GET REST

-Turn off the negative stuff on television.
During eclipses the news is always full of sad and tragic things happening in the world. Stuff happens on eclipses and while there can be great things occur, the news seldom reports the good stuff so we get a barrage of heavy, negative news coming our way. It's already happening.

-Eat healthy

-Don't buy into other folk's drama

-Mediate

-Spend time in nature

-Play happy music to lift the mood and shift energy

-Exercise to release any pent up energy

-Realize eclipses can be very good...they deliver a message we need to hear or see so we can make our lives better in some way.

-Wear your black tourmaline, moonstone and other healing gems

This eclipse tomorrow will reveal something that has been hidden. It could come out in the national news or perhaps it is a personal issue with you. If you are the one trying to hide something, be careful as it could come out this week too.

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I have some great news to share as well! Later this week, we are coming into some wonderful money cycles.

Venus, which represents money and love, is in her best sign now and sitting next to Chiron, making this week one of the best and strongest financial cycles I've seen in a long time. It's a cycle that's also terrific for love and relationships!

In addition, both in excellent aspect to Jupiter, the planet of abundance. Jupiter is in Cancer the best sign and strong. This is a rare combination for prosperity. Plan to do something this week. Follow my 2014 Moon Calendar to a "T" this week as it lists the law of abundance dates so you know when to write your checks and what days will benefit you. If you didn't get the calendar and want a download sent to your computer, you can order one here....

Do something like apply for a new job, ask for a raise, buy a lotto ticket or go shopping for great bargains from April 17-20.

In addition, these aspects are great for love and romance. Plan to do something special with your lover, mate, friends, etc. this weekend.

We have some pretty intense periods coming but I want to hold off and write more about that a little later as I have mentioned it in previous newsletters but want to leave you on a happy note today!

I am doing phone consultations as well as one-question readings via email this week. Here's the link to order the one question

Ask your question here 

OR please call me at 810-631-6887 to schedule a phoner.

It will be an interesting week ahead to say the least so I'm here if you need me! Love, Maria

The Big Lie - The Fall (Twin Flames)

When I was given the title of today's post I googled it to see what was out there already.  I was surprised to see so many "Big Lies" out there.  Not on this subject matter, but many others as well.  It would stand to reason then, that this "lie" may not come as a surprise as well.  That many people believe many "lies" we have been told, mostly because they have been simply told so many times.  For some reason our rational minds think it's true.  If we've believed it for so long, if so many people have told it, well, it must be true.  Not so.

The big lie that we are talking about here, will most likely come as no surprise to most of us.  The lie is this:  We are not separate.  It's only an illusion.  Illusions can come and go like the wind.  One day you may believe you can conquer the world.  The next you might not be able to make it out of your house on time for work.  That's how life is.  Most often the way we "perceive" ourselves begins and ends with our "thoughts" and "beliefs".

Some of the biggest struggles in coming into union with your higher self and with your twin are based in the ego.  These patterns that we talk about so many times here, the beliefs the we have about ourselves and our world are the exact things that hold us back from physical union with our twin.  It's so very important to remember that these ego traits are not your twin or the real you.  The essence of you, the essence of your twin, resides within and in a higher dimension.  So the struggles on a physical level are the struggles that are comprised of the views and perceptions of each of you, they are not ever based on what you are together, because twin ship, the union of the two as one is in pure divine love.  There is nothing tainted on that but what we put there ourselves out of our humanness.

Why is it that we all desire to be loved?  Why do we all seem to know instinctively that there is someone that is perfect for us?  Some of us "wait" for it.  We yearn for it and some are disheartened when they fail to see it and here is the lie.   Our beginnings from creation, the Adam and Eve story represent the fall of man.  The fall was the fall into illusion and perceived separateness.  Yet even in the story of Adam and Eve it is said that Eve herself was fashioned from the rib of Adam.  The two are one.

Like cells when they split apart, two that are one will seek union instinctively.  You are one of those two.  That's how you know there is someone for you,  That somewhere, somehow, it's possible to be loved completely, because you remember that love before the fall.  Allow me to wake you up again.  You only fell into the earth's illusion.  You never fell from each other.  In realms that we still don't see visually, we as twins and as a race, vibrate still in unison.  The key on the earth plane is to bring that complete love vibration down through our hearts to express that union on earth.  Every one can do this and when you do, you will realize that the love you express with your twin is the same love you express and feel with god himself.  For the two are never separate as we are never separate from him.

From Wikipedia:  The Fall of Man

In Christian theology, the fall of man, or the fall, is a term used to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. Although not named in the Bible, the doctrine of the fall comes from a biblical interpretation of Genesis chapter 3. At first, Adam and Eve live with God in the Garden of Eden, but the serpent tempts them into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which God forbade. After doing so, they became ashamed of their nakedness and God expelled them from the Garden to prevent them from eating of the tree of lifeand becoming immortal.

For many Christian denominations the doctrine of the fall is closely related to that of original sin. They believe that the fall brought sin into the world, corrupting the entire natural world, including human nature, causing all humans to be born into original sin, a state from which they cannot attain eternal life without the grace of God.

** Eternal life is that of the soul.  Our fall is the illusion of our separateness from God in the physical.  

Michael on Love, Compassion and Intellect

“Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

"A human being is part of the whole called by us ‘universe' - a part limited in time and space. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

- Albert Einstein

Michael was greatly bothered recently.  When I asked what was wrong, he said there is too much turmoil in the world.  He can see from where he is "the world".  All of it and all of its people.  He says he hears their cries, hears their prayers  hoping to find people who care to help them. Sometimes there isn't anyone and they have to go it alone.  Sometimes he finds someone he can have help.  More over there is an abundance of hurting hearts all over the world and he says, it doesn't have to be that way if we only learned to love MORE.

"Love is unconditional when you let it fill you regardless of your thoughts.  Our judgments on people, places and things hold us captive to the sheer will of god which is to love.  Our love is held back by our beliefs, our judgments, our religion, our nationality and sometimes just because of our color.  Our world is a perplex myriad of images, shapes, people and sizes.  Everything in the universe is different.  Everything is misshapen, but everything has a reason for existence and all things were created from the same love that you and I were created from.

I see too many people taking life into their own hands for the sake of the "cause".  Some are suffering at the hands of others.  Others run from captures and even more sit in misery because of the pain in their heart.  For this suffering to stop, for order to come into the world we must be willing to change ourselves.  We must be willing to love and let go of the ridicule, the myriad of difficulties in our every day lives and the ruling thoughts of hatred in our heads.

Love is weak when we want it to be.  It's strong and healing when we allow it to flow through us, become it, because that's what we are - love itself.  Being compassionate to your fellow man really is an easy task, yet so few take the time to do it.  Giving someone a hug when they need it. Pretending to care when someone is down isn't the same.  True caring, true compassion would be lending a hand, giving of yourself, your time, your knowledge, whatever you can to make them feel better.


We all have times in our lives when we are going through pain.  All too often for most of us it seems no one cares.  Everyone is in their own little world playing the game of life.  May we begin now to look up from our own lives and realize there are other people, other religions, other life that needs to be embraced.  The compassion we show today can truly be the compassion of the world tomorrow.  Love from the heavens and god bless - Michael Jackson"

Update on PEACE Proposal to the United Nations

Sometime back we posted a proposal for world peace with an address to send it to the United Nations.  I have now heard back from the United Nations.  The proposal must be presented to a Member State so it can be voted on.  If you are interested in following through with support for this proposal for world peace, I've re-posted the original letter and have provided the new address to send it to so that those members can vote:


ONE Voice does count!

Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations
245 East 47th Street, 44th Floor
New York, NY 10017
E-mail:  france@un.int

To win a war is just as disastrous as it is to lose one
 - Agatha Christie

We value and commend the work you and the United Nations have done on behalf of humanity.  As we follow the news reports from across the globe, we feel the urgency and importance of making change.  Our children, our worlds precious resources and humanity as a whole suffer often times at the hands of those who mistreat and misuse their power.  Our governing officials must take remedies to ward off future destruction of the human race and our planet.

We propose a new treaty for implementation by the United Nations.  A World Peace Treaty to be signed by all countries, all nations and all governing officials.  It's subject matter here-into shall be deemed  to keep peace in all areas, all countries and in all nations at all times.  To ensure and protect the rights of all of humanity and life itself.  Peace and humanity must come first and foremost.  Our priority must now be on world issues and not only on who gets control this week of a nation.  The bullying done on the playgrounds at schools has now become the bullying of the worlds nations at large.  This must stop now.  We must be heard.  We must take action.

To ensure the safety of all peoples, all children and our earth we must develop new ways, and new strategies to uphold our god given liberties of the simple freedom to live a life free from destruction, war, and greed.  We humbly implore you to take a stand and help make changes now.  Please revisit the purpose in which the United Nations was formed.  Please meet with all United Nations council members and embrace the larger picture of a humanity coming to its knees at the opposing side of grown up bullies now holding our world captive.

Our cycles of humanity must change.  We are breeding future bullies in the children now exposed to only violence in their countries.  We are breeding closed hearts to humanity and closed minds to the affairs of the world and there remains a growing need for a commitment to peace for and by all.  Our ONE humanity all living in our ONE world.  We must take care of our earth and brothers and sisters as if we are one world instead of different countries, different cultures.   Should any governing official or group start violence or engage in it against this treaty, may ALL other nations hold them responsible in the name of peace keeping for all peoples and the right to life and human dignity as a whole.

Thank you for your sincere consideration of this proposal.

Sincerely,

Your Name Here