Chapter 13

Walking into the New Earth

Eyes Open, Creating

Conjunct

Dialog with an Oak Tree

Old Earth, New Earth

Echoes and Now

Remembering the Gift

Crystal Clear

Walking into the New Earth

Dancing with the Divine

Past Lives, Present Clarity

apple blossoms beginning to bloom, blue sky

Eyes Open, Creating

September 28, 2015

Envisionings evolve from the ethereal and intangible into form as we open our eyes and bring our inner vision into outer.  In a sequential process, we invite that which we have seen and experienced intangibly to take shape in “ordinary” reality.

Depending on the nature and scope of that which we envision, ordinary reality has the potential to become extraordinary.  Here is where the magic is — true magic.  As we discover that the parameters within which “reality” has been contained are illusory, we have no idea the degree to which we’ve opened up a doorway into a new world.

About twenty years ago I began to visit, in meditation, a crystalline dome.  Small and welcoming, there was just enough room in the interior for one, or two, to sit cross-legged and quietly focus.  It was relaxing and peaceful in this place, the floor a carpet of wildflowers.  There was a specific pathway that lead me to this crystalline dome, also evolved from my “imagination”.

In 2001, as I received the inspiration for The Goddess and the Rainbow Bridge, a larger version of the crystalline dome took shape within the narrative.  Now the crystalline dome was associated with “Goddess Crystal”, a being I learned about during the writing of the narrative.

Nearly three years ago, when I began to receive inspiration for a potential book — fiction — a new version of the crystalline dome appeared as a primary setting for the book.  Correspondingly, I was encouraged to explore the possibility of building such a structure.

The crystalline dome that I had perceived as fictional began to emerge into “reality” for I gradually discovered that a variation on the fictional crystalline dome can indeed be built.

About six months ago I realized that the potential book will apparently not be written.  Finding the time to do so seemed unlikely in the foreseeable future.  A curious shift then occurred.

As I began to put my energy into an outer world greenhouse project, very much an “eyes open” focus, the crystalline dome also started to emerge — rather to my surprise.  It is as though it insisted on having my attention.

Now, while considering all the details of this envisioned crystalline space, a variation on the familiar-in-my-imagination dome-like structure, I’m experiencing — through my drawing of it — the feeling within this “crystal cottage”.

From the small crystalline dome which I discovered twenty years ago, on the inner levels, the doorway into a new world — a new personal reality — was opened, step by step.  The ethereal is a more tangible foundation than we recognize, for it is “out of the ethers” that everything arrives with us.  Eyes open, we can create that which we envision.

As the New Earth increasingly arrives within the collective consciousness, our heart-felt desires can become real if we want them to, and if we take action to allow them to happen — eyes open, creating.

Conjunct

October 19, 2015

Visible in the morning twilight, four planets conjunct — Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars.

They are a manifestation of energy, as we are also.

Harmony simply is.

Balance simply is.

Peace simply is.

All are accessed within ourselves — and made more visible when mirrored to us by another.

The planets mirror to us a cosmic dance — Light, Beauty, Timelessness, Radiance.

In our energy dance with one another, we can do the same.

“The energy is Love, the dance is constant — Vibrant, Joyful.”

                        (from the song “Now is the Time”, 2007)

Dialog with an Oak Tree

November 07, 2015

If I had not experienced this dialog with an oak tree, would I have believed it?  I don’t know.

Six years ago, in early November, I was faced with the task of writing Golden Pebbles: Celebrating the New Earth.  Less than enthusiastic, and somewhat daunted, I looked for some reassurance about the writing process as I walked among the oak trees in a nearby park.  As noted in Golden Pebbles:

“As I observed this tree against the clear sky, the lowering sun illumined its top branches.  Unlike most of the oaks in the area this one still retained most of its golden-russet leaves.  Now and then a leaf gracefully spiraled earthward.

Choosing to sit near the base of this distinctive oak tree, I settled in for a bit.  In the still air, where only an occasional gentle breeze ruffled the leaves, acorns suddenly came raining down — one, several, more, a small shower.  As acorns bounced off me and came to rest nearby, I found myself laughing.  This seemingly playful acorn shower was followed by a pause, and then another shower — again and yet again.  On and on.  Now the writing of Golden Pebbles took on a new feeling, a feeling as tangible as the arrival of these acorns.  Golden Pebbles would be written readily, and with relative ease.  Furthermore, my sense of connection with nature — consistently a source of inspiration — would significantly fuel the process.”

The book was indeed written and published with relative ease.  By then (March 2011) I had a year-round acquaintance with the oak.  I also consistently remembered the remarkable showers of acorns.

Eventually, I continued my acquaintance with the oak in a new way.  With a sense of privacy between the oak and the wooded area to its northwest, I sometimes practiced yoga.  Or, shaded by the tall oak’s branches, I sometimes focused on my current writing projects.

Months into this practice, a new surprise!  There were occasional conversations near the oak with a friend — quiet time shared.  This I surely had not anticipated.

Change is a constant, however.  Last November, the wooded area near the oak was thinned and opened.  It was easy to see that the quiet time era — in the presence of the oak — was coming to an end.

With the warming days of Spring this year, there were flowers blooming near the oak — a first.

As Summer arrived, an entirely new level of activity descended upon this formerly quiet  segment of the park — people who brought their noise with them, both vibrational and otherwise.  And, as I had anticipated, the area near the oak was no longer too peripheral to be noticed by people searching for a place to picnic.

During the Summer and into Autumn, I rarely walked in the park.  Instead, I greeted the oak from a distance — driving through the nearby loop.

Once again, November brought a surprise — this time, a pleasant one.  With unseasonably warm temperatures, and few people in the area, I revisited the oak three afternoons in a row this week.

Day one:  Two lovely acorns arrived on my towel as I sat cross-legged — relaxed in the delightful sunshine and warmth — planning an upcoming trip.  When I left after several hours, I took those small acorns with me.

Day two:  I had in mind writing a MiniBlog, following some yoga, and I once again prepared my sitting place.  It was then that the oak tree took charge.  As though the oak knew that I now planned to collect acorns for future planting, I began to hear the occasional soft thud of an acorn.  I followed the direction of these sounds, each in turn, collecting the acorns in every area to which I was directed.  My amusement become laughter.  When my hands were full I remembered my pockets.  The sounds led me around the tree.  A new acorn arrival often pointed me to a cache that was already on the ground, perhaps covered by recently fallen leaves.  It was an efficient clockwise pathway.  About 200 acorns later, I paused for the snack I had brought with me.  And I was still laughing.  It had become clear to me that the MiniBlog I expected to write was going to be preceded by “A Dialog with an Oak Tree”.

Day three:  About one third of the acorns were returned to the base of the tree near a chipmunk hole, for those had not passed the viable-for-growing test.  Once again, the acorn shower began.  And, once again, I was soon laughing.

“Tell me where to go.”  Immediately I heard a “plunk”, the now familiar soft thud against the ground.

“Is this a microcosm for my life,” I wondered, “asking for directions and immediately receiving them?”

Gathering acorns I pondered, “Is the tree enjoying this?  Do trees enjoy?  Probably this oak doesn’t have direct and playful interaction very often.”

I returned to my sitting place near the oak and counted the acorns, curious — 120.  Comfortably cross-legged and barefoot, I began to write.  After the new MiniBlog was well begun, perhaps I would easily find another 80 small acorns.

That is exactly what happened.  As soon as I found the acorns, however, noise encroached.  It was time to leave.  I slipped into my sandals, gathered the contents of my tote bag, thanked the majestic oak tree and walked to my car.

“What does the tree know in this dialog?” I asked, almost aloud.  Trees are sentient beings.  That there is communication is clear.  Our shared language is feeling-based.  Like singing the same notes in different octaves, the language is conveyed through feelings which are electromagnetic vibrations operating at different frequencies.

The Divine whispers through the acorns and the oak, in a language that has no words, have eloquently reminded me of our inherent connection with Mother Nature.  There is a dialog.  And it does have meaning.

Beginning with a playful welcome six years ago, my experience with and near this special oak — beautiful, inspiring and protective — has come full circle: returned to playful, once again.

In a very real sense my outer world experience of Celebrating the New Earth — in a reach out and touch tangible way — began to be rooted in the presence of the oak tree.

I wonder how the dialog will continue as the acorns I’ve gathered begin to sprout — elsewhere —  in celebration of the New Earth and the extraordinary possibilities inherent within the New Garden Earth.  I feel sure that it will.

Old Earth, New Earth

January 09, 2016

As the New Earth rises in consciousness and steadily roots — tangibly — in the outer world, the contrasts between the Old Earth and the New Earth become increasingly obvious.  The Old Earth and the New Earth exist side by side.  We choose where to place our attention — the denser vibrational frequency or the lighter, higher one.  We balance among these worlds.

Old Earth

The Old Earth, quite simply, was (and is) a construct within which we have had the opportunity to experience the lessons and effects of a linear point of view.  Within this predominantly linear/logical framework, hierarchical structures developed which eventually superceded all vestiges of a wider, encompassing view of ‘reality’.

How did this occur?  We learned to be constrained by limited concepts of what is possible.  Our innate knowingness and talents/gifts have been compromised by parameters which have been defined predominantly by ‘shoulds’.

We have also learned about divisiveness, exclusivity, competition, arrogance, fear of lack, weightiness, control, manipulation, dis-ease and disease, alignment with the dark side, conflict and war.  We have had countless opportunities to learn about duality — and to evolve within it, and to evolve beyond it.

We have honed our perspective, and our sense of humor.

We have learned about our Earth, in a world which has been dominated by a love of power and has been taken to the edge of extinction.

As we grew and developed we learned about expectations within certain time frames.  Indeed our lives have become ruled by a sense of time — the clock.  What if we step back and take a look?  What if we begin to remember that which we have forgotten — that there are other possibilities, other more naturally flowing, energized ways of being?

Some of the characteristics of linear are: sharp angles, a start and a finish.  Does linear exist in Nature?  It does not.  So, in our linearity, we are outside the laws of Nature.  We are instead inside a mentally created construct.  It is an artificial world, this construct.  That we as a species are beginning to discover this truth bodes well.

Within the Old Earth construct in which we agreed to participate — for a ‘time’ — all of our institutions have provided powerful glue to hold that construct in place.  Apparently, we as a species are learning what we needed to learn for evolution to take place.  Thus, the glue continues to dissolve.  Refinement and restructuring are ongoing.

Experience had to be had for understanding to be reached.

While we gathered our experience — over countless lifetimes — the Old Earth paradigm has served well to contain and constrain our soaring spirits.  Now, the New Earth beckons us to move beyond the former limitations into a new way of being on Earth.  Here, we reconnect with the Joy, the Delight, the Radiant Well-being and the Power that we are as individualized sparks of Source energy.

New Earth

The New Earth is first rooted as a “place” within ourselves, within our consciousness.

Arrival into the New Earth begins when we make a choice to expand beyond the limiting parameters of what has been known and experienced.

We know that we are being nudged to make that choice when we recognize that something — perhaps indefinable — seems to be missing from our lives, regardless of our accomplishments within the Old Earth paradigm.

The feeling of the New Earth may be likened to that which is invoked in us by a mild breeze on a sunny morning in Spring.  There is a feeling of expansiveness, vitality, well-being, new energy, new possibility, renewed enthusiasm.

In the New Earth this feeling is sustained.  As we apply our awareness of this feeling, the New Earth is rooted into form.

Instead of ‘shoulds’ there are new directions.  The compass which provides these directions is our heart knowingness, our inner clarity — that which is in alignment with a wide view.

In this wide view, we recognize that that which powers the renewal of Spring powers us as well — Source energy, pervading all.  Thus all is interconnected, and the New Earth consciousness is a consciousness of connection — rather than separation.

Aware of interconnection, we remember who we are — connectors between the finite and the infinite, rooted on Earth.  Within that perspective, the power is Love — Love with an upper case L, the Unconditional Love expressed by Source energy.

We see that planet Earth is a jewel, created from Love, and Love is our opportunity on Earth.

Love is where inspired collaboration and cooperation can redefine the experience of life on Earth into one of true sustainability and constant celebration.

If we see ourselves as gardeners within the New Earth, we can ask ourselves, “What do we desire to plant, and to grow?  What will make this garden beautiful, enjoyable, radiantly healthy — for everyone, including Earth?”

In the New Earth, the New Garden Earth, the gateway to a cosmic dance is opened wide.  There is a flow of Ease — harmonious with wider rhythms.  Harmony, Balance and Peace prevail as we allow our minds to serve our hearts in this new way of being — and doing — on beautiful Earth.

Echoes and Now

February 07, 2016

Sometimes there are echoes of things that were written in Journey Through an Open Door which revisit me and surprise me.  Here is the current echo:

“…humans have not developed an ability for direct transmission of awareness.  The potential exists, however, among those who are clear, balanced, heart directed with Loving intent…  The direct transmission of awareness is significant in the ‘future’.  The direct transmission of awareness is significant in your return to the Garden.”

This was inspired in 1999, as the “keys to expansion” were threaded throughout the nearly completed original edition of Journey.  When I noted these words about a week ago, I also was reminded that this “key” is one of fifty-six, and is in the concluding pages of the book.  It is clear that this “key”, expressed seventeen years ago, points directly to “now”.

Looking at this more closely:

Garden, New Garden Earth and New Earth are one and the same.

What is meant by “direct transmission of awareness”?

The direct transmission of awareness is vibration, not language.

Where inherent Harmony exists, the direct transmission of awareness will be experienced at multiple levels such as synchronicity — or knowingness directly transmitted and received, back and forth.  There may be an experience of oneness regardless of the outward appearance of “separation” or “distance”.  Only the experience “describes”.  It is a feeling and experiential perception.

In recent months this inherent Harmony and synchronicity, wherever it exists, has been functioning at new levels of consistency and effectiveness.

We may feel that we are in two places at once — the “stuff” of ordinary reality, while another part of ourselves is in the expanded space of Harmony.  Although the two may seem to be incompatible, the expanded space of Harmony illumines everything else and our perspective shifts.

And why is the direct transmission of awareness significant in our return to the Garden, our arrival into the New Earth?

This direct transmission of awareness takes place in a higher frequency energy field of Harmony.  The energy field of Harmony nourishes, and is nourished by, Unconditional Love.

The New Garden Earth is — inherently —a place of Harmony, Unconditional Love and a higher frequency of understanding and illumined clarity.

Direct transmission of awareness is part of the pathway into the New Earth for it opens a new level of communication and a wider view, as well as unlimited possibility.

Though logic does not explain this direct transmission of awareness, science is beginning to discover that, as beings made of energy, we biophotonically transmit and receive through light and vibration.

Thoughts (light) are electric; feelings (vibration) are magnetic.  So we are transmitting/receiving either thoughts (lightwaves) or feelings (vibrations, aka “good vibes”).

It becomes more fascinating every day, this “Now” and this Harmony.

Harmony is both an arrival and a compass for that which is next.

Remembering the Gift

April 01, 2016

An Albert Einstein quote has been echoing recently:

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.  We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

I find his words ring true to me.

Our rational/logical mind creates parameters with fixed boundaries.  It is our intuition which takes us soaring past these boundaries and makes us available to ourselves.

On any given day the outer world tries to convince us that “the world”, “our world”, is a particular way — appealing, in however hidden a fashion, to both our logical minds and our five senses.

Our sixth sense, intuition, provides us with an added level of discernment as well as inspiration.  Here is where we can free ourselves from distraction/noise and instead hone in on basics, the core — the Source — from which knowingness flows.  With practice, intuition provides both answers to our questions and an inner compass: the answer arrives where the question is asked.  Our logical/rational minds then serve the process of whatever we are intending to create; it is not the other way around.

Our intuitive mind brings the gift of insight or inspiration.  If sequential process is part of what we desire to achieve, our logical mind can then assist that process.

Our logical mind segments and compartmentalizes.  Our intuitive mind dances across these boundaries and gifts us with inspiration and insight.  Sometimes we are inspired to remember knowingness we may have forgotten.  Our intuition connects us with an expanded part of ourselves and our remembering.

Developed intuition is where breakthroughs take place not only in the sciences, as with Einstein, but in every arena of endeavor — and in our personal lives as well.

Intuition, heart-direction and knowingness are all close relatives.

Brilliance shines through the spaces where we remember to allow the sacred gift — our own receptivity to the portions of our brain which we have learned to disregard.  This, coupled with our willingness to follow inspired heart-direction, opens fully our receptivity to unimaginable gifts.  While our rational mind may look on in disbelief — “How is this possible?” — our intuitive mind accepts these gifts with pleasurable delight.

Crystal Clear

May 10, 2016

In early May of 2001 — right after that narrative was written and recorded — I knew that part two would eventually be forthcoming.  Goddess Crystal: Balancing Among the Worlds was well rooted into my awareness as a future project.

What I did not know then was that I myself would be balancing among the worlds — the worlds of the inner landscape and the outer — through many forthcoming opportunities to do so.  One of those opportunities was the “Songs of Intention and Celebration” — writing them, and also drumming and singing at sunrise for eight years.  That culminated in the book Golden Pebbles: Celebrating the New Earth, where I shared the story behind the songs.

Five years ago, after Golden Pebbles was published, Goddess Crystal: Balancing Among the Worlds began to be prominent in my experience.  New terrain, which I surely had not anticipated, was introduced.  How much did I need to learn on behalf of “Goddess Crystal”?  It did not occur to me then that that was exactly what I was doing.

Recently, when drifting into sleep, I also drifted into a dream-like space.  Within moments, I heard: “Crystal, we are calling you  Crystal we are calling you.”  I heard this repeatedly.  After a while I also heard, “It is time to walk upon the Rainbow Bridge again.”

As I was falling deeply into sleep for the night, there was more:  “Heaven on Earth is created in the hearts of those who can perceive it.”

In this dream-like space I had been reminded of The Goddess and the Rainbow Bridge.

With one foot in the inner landscape, where the mystical part of me was (and is) comfortably at home, and one foot in the outer landscape — ordinary reality — I learned to negotiate both worlds, readily back and forth, at a new level of ease.

Now, as the New Earth way-of-being increasingly beckons to many, the inner landscape and the wide view — that which is perceived through the heart-space — is increasingly emerging into the outer.  And form is more readily emerging from that which is first envisioned in the inner landscape.

Amid this ongoing process, the Rainbow Bridge provides a connection from the finite to infinite possibility.   And Crystal, she-who-walks-upon the Rainbow Bridge on Earth, can now return.

As Goddess Crystal arrives into her garden within the New Earth, so too — in the outer world — infinite possibility becomes more real than ever.

So what did I learn from the dream-like space?  A rheostat for positive change has been turned up.

For fifteen years, Goddess Crystal — as archetypal energy — has provided for me a barometer.  How present could she be — herself unlimited — in a world in which limiting concepts have prevailed?

That she has now been called to return shows me that pivotal change has occurred.  Now it is possible to fully embrace who-we-are and what we came here to be, and to do.

New Earth, New Garden Earth, the Garden, Heaven-on-Earth, the Garden of the Goddess — all one and the same — welcome our harmonious and enthusiastic participation.

This is Crystal Clear.

Walking into the New Earth

June 12, 2016

Decades ago, the pathway into the New Earth was largely hidden.  Some spoke of enlightenment, though obscurely.  Now, the collective consciousness is shifting.  With every awakened (or awakening) being, the New Earth way-of-being becomes more solidly rooted — for the benefit of all.

Thus, the opened pathway is now widening.  It well accommodates everyone who chooses to walk upon it.

The New Earth, the New Garden Earth, beckons far and wide — to those who are attuned to it.  This ongoing awakening simply is.

“Let concepts of time become irrelevant

Step outside the boundaries which you call time and space

And feel yourself a part of a transcendent whole

Cast fear aside and face the Sun

Ask that Love direct your course then laugh all of your laughter and weep all of your tears.”

In early June, each year, I revisit the moments when these words arrived with me.  They came at a time when I was considering graduate school — a course of study, and a pathway.

A clarity of expression awakened me in the early hours of an unforgettable June morning when I was in my twenties.  I noted the words, exactly as I heard them, and went back to sleep.

Several hours later, closer to sunrise, I re-read the message.  It seemed to come from a wide view, one which I did not remember.  It seemed to be both a reminder, and a compass for the direction that I was seeking.  It was also well outside the parameters of the concepts of “reality” I had learned from childhood.

At once daunting and powerful, these words commanded my attention.  Very shortly thereafter, an undreamed of pathway opened.  That was the beginning of my learning to live with this new compass.  For me, everything changed in remarkable ways.

Sequence by sequence, since then, I have learned experientially the wisdom of the words.

I now see that, years before “following your heart” became a part of our vernacular, I was beckoned into a heart-directed wide view.  I was shown how to navigate, with discernment, a pathway which has led directly into the New Earth:

(1)  Whenever we can set aside concepts of time and space, we open space within ourselves in which to discover a wider view, a view we have forgotten.

(2)  The transcendent whole includes us, individualized sparks of Source energy, all of which are connected in consciousness.

(3)  In the Old Earth, fear is imprinted into us — on many levels, including subconscious.  We can learn to discern these imprintings and cast our fears aside.

(4)  The Sun represents Source energy in our local universe, and thus all of creative flow — that which is life giving, life enhancing and expansive.

(5)  Having Love direct our course includes Unconditional Love, as well as heart direction.  This expansiveness becomes vast.

(6)  “Laugh all your laughter and weep all your tears” speaks of the cleansing of Old Earth experience — the experience that had to be had for understanding to be reached.  This is where we can leave our baggage behind and fully enter the New Earth way-of-being, unencumbered.

I am smiling as I now recognize more fully the translation of that which was given so succinctly years ago.  What was once daunting has transformed into the knowingness that the compass is accurate.  It works.

Walking into the New Earth is now far easier than it was when the compass was placed in my hand.

Dancing with the Divine

July 10, 2016

One rarely has the opportunity to tangibly experience the energy of a Dance with the Divine.

Two recent face-to-face experiences — profoundly energizing and insightfully brilliant — have left me largely speechless.

For years I’ve been writing about a wide view, that which becomes possible when we move beyond the parameters of what we have been taught is reality on Earth.

The wider view is inherent in the New Earth way-of-being — and doing.  The wider view has many levels, ever expanding.

Embodied in human form on Earth are those who demonstrate and express this wider view at an observably high level of consistency.  As they nudge and nurture us into remembering our own wholeness, they remind us of the Divine spark within ourselves — our connection with Source energy, and the power inherent within it.

They are compassionately active in the outer world, creating positive change through their broadly-scoped humanitarian organizations.

To be in the presence of this level of embodied energy is itself a gift, for it reminds us that more is occurring on  Earth than ordinarily meets the eye — and that “more” is hugely positive.

I have learned that what we bring with us into our experiencing of this Presence is where we will be met.  Everyone is met uniquely.  The current culmination of my years of annual visits into the extraordinary ambiance of Divine brilliance has been surprising (as usual), magical and delightfully humorous.

The magic echoes.  It is a new beginning — a new level of harmonious participation in the Dance with the Divine.

As with any dance, the Dance with the Divine takes a little practice.

We learn to discern with our hearts, as well as our minds.

We discover the clarity and the inspiration that is constantly available, for our limited concepts are no longer standing at the gateway to a wider and more beautiful view.

We completely embrace that which is possible and we see a golden pathway unfolding as we dance upon it.

This is full participation in the New Earth — the New Garden Earth — and the Dance with the Divine which energizes it.

Past Lives, Present Clarity

July 31, 2016

Viewing with detachment, we may notice that Harmony, Balance and Peace on Earth are rather like the tides.  They are either incoming or outgoing.  Until we claim them for ourselves, within ourselves, they are ephemeral and not stabilized.

Detachment also allows us to step beyond the concepts with which we have been imprinted since infancy, and to look through a lens which allows a wider view.

Usually we do not expand beyond our limited — and limiting — concepts until we are face to face with something unexplainable, something which tugs at our heartstrings so insistently that we cannot disregard it.

Here are the seeds of a new beginning.  They have been placed in the fertile soil of our (perhaps heretofore unacknowledged) heart’s longing for insight and clarity.  We are being nudged to awaken from the dream of limitation.

When I first heard of “past lives”, the idea was foreign to me.  To embrace it, even as possibly true, would have required a restructuring of the concepts of reality I had learned since childhood.  I was not yet ready to do that.

Eventually, I met someone who stirred a memory.  He was inexplicably familiar.  We somehow knew one another well.  Face to face with him I realized that I must open a doorway, within myself, into a new way of looking at the world.

Living far away from one another, my new friend and I corresponded (pre-internet) every few months for about 7 years.  We agreed that we had no explanation for the feeling that we were well acquainted.  Although neither of us readily accepted the idea that we had known one another in another time-frame, we each considered the possibility.  Over “time” the past life connection became clear.

As I discovered the reality of that past life, and the energy dynamic within it, the puzzle resolved simply.  I was able to say, within myself, “It’s nice to have met you again.”  Little did I know that that old partnership was only the beginning of many recognitions.

Rarely, a recognition is multifaceted, showing numerous shared lifetimes within various cultural contexts.  This is where my view of history has expanded.  When one can feel a heart/soul connection, experientially, with “historical” times and places, one’s view of history — and experience on Earth — shifts.  One sees — and feels — the tides.

The tides one sees and feels are both societal and individual.  From this perspective, the adage “history repeats itself” is illumined both culturally and personally.

What is the advantage of recognizing past lives?

Non-recognition slows evolution.  It serves to maintain the predominant global slumber.  We forget who we are, in the wider sense.  We are waylaid en route to our own wholeness.  As individualized beings on Earth we come and go, playing out — again and again — the same themes, with the same energies, in different forms and different costumes.

As soon as we recognize that we’ve done this before and we need not do it again, we are free to clearly choose another way of being — and with whom we interact.  Insightfully, we readily recognize old encroachments which have repeated themselves time and time again, and we dismiss them from their manipulative foothold in our lives.

We are free to choose Harmony.  We are free to choose true Enjoyment.  New Enthusiasm pours in.  Our inner sky becomes bright with the promise of a new day.  A new Clarity is present within us.

In this Clarity, we are in Harmony, Balance and Peace — and we naturally open a welcoming pathway for others to join us.