Work of the Soul: It's NOT An Overnight Thing!

All men may be created equal, but when it comes to Souls, not all are at the same stage of evolution!

In this lifetime, some of us are here just to "BE"; others to have fun, and yet others to enjoy the "fruits of our labor." Then there are those who are here to re-connect closer to the Soul within them.

According to author and spiritual teacher, Gary Zukav (see upcoming Book Review, Seat of the Soul, on March 22), we know we are on a Soul connection when we are able to plug into multi-sensory perceptions vs. only those of the five senses. So, if you know you "sense" things beyond what you can hear, see, touch, feel and smell, and you have a magnificent obsession with discovering more about what you "sense," then you're here on your Soul's journey of reconnection.

And when it comes to the work of your Soul, there is NO timetable!

The process is the thing.

That process can take many, many years, and there can be many stops and starts. ONLY YOU know the truth about you and your Soul and your "becoming!"


Don't ever, ever let ANY ONE stand in the way of you and your Go(o)d on your way to that "becoming!"

Many times the road is dark and lonely. You feel all alone. Compounded with that, there are those who would want you to begin to doubt yourself, who would try to ridicule you and shame you, because you're no longer occupied with "things" of the world! They would have you think that they are blessed and you are CURSED, because maybe you're not as outwardly successful as they seem to be. A few, really unconcious and presumptuous ones, may even try to suggest that THEY, not your Soul, not God, have "things" to TEACH you!

Don't get distracted by such nonsense...because that's ALL it is! You are on your way to BECOMING! You'll be much freer than they could ever dream of being!


Don't ever let ANYONE put you on their timetable or schedule for becoming ...ANYTHING!


The work of your Soul is between you and your God, i.e. your Soul!

Matthew 8: 23: "Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead!"

This has oft been misinterpreted, but what Jesus essentially meant here is: "Let the things of the past remain there!"

I know this to be true when I've gone contrary to this wisdom...

Don't drag along someone from your past into your future...if he or she doesn't belong there! People are in your life for a reason and a season! Few should be invited to accompany you in a lifetime.

KNOW this!

Indeed, even if your family stands in the way of you and your Go(o)d, leave them behind, too.

Matthew 12:25:"Every kingdom divided against itself shall not stand!"
Matthew 13:57:"A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and in his own house!"

Jesus also said you cannot find the kingdom of God, unless you're willing to give up father, mother, wife (husband), children, sister and brother. Even your own self...and your OLD values!


Luke 14:26: "If any man come to me and hate not his father, and mother and wife and children and brethen and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."

If your family and others in your life are seeing life from the inactive side of Infinity, they will never fully understand what you're up to. So sometimes, walking away from them is necessary in this walk with the Soul! Send them love from a distance!

Mark 9:47: "And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out. It is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into the hell fire."

Don't let anyone, with his or her own agenda, intolerance or ignorance, stand in the way of your connecting fully to your Soul!

Please enjoy the poem, below, written after a long night with my Soul!

Namaste',

Che'

Oh, my SOUL! by Che'


Oh my soul!

How lost I was to Thee!
Oh my soul...
When I could not see the truth of what you were to me!
Oh my soul!


There were so many barriers
Placed to separate us...
First, there were people
Next, there were places
Then, there were things...
Objects of my desire


If Only I knew then
All that you meant to me!
Oh my soul!
Without you I was lost
Life had little meaning; it was all a farce
Oh! My soul!


How lost I was to thee
When in people, places and in things
I placed my faith
Not knowing
Only claiming
A life as empty as it could be
When the truth
Of you to me
I could not see


Oh my Soul!

The years of your absence have taken a toll
Now I’ve grown old
Yet in my Spirit
I’ve found a life...
Worth so much more than Gold!


Oh my soul!



How treasured you will be
In all the years left in me!
I’ve searched the fields far & wide
Through all the places you had to hide
I’ve found my pearl
I’ve found my wealth
I’ve found the riches I thought I’d spent!


About the years ahead
I feel a Glow
And now the world we must Show
Oh my soul
The power in me that you
Flow
Through me
As me
Oh, my soul!


Che’

NOTE: We'll continue this theme on the Soul in another post in April. Just in time for Valentine's Day, see the invitation to get "LOVESICK:" L(eave) O (thers) feeling V(ery) E(volved) and S(earching) I(nside) for C(larity) and K(indness). To do so, forward this blog to those who may be interested!

Learning to Live Deliberately as an Avatar!

Many, many years ago, someone at Unity Village, where I was taking classes, shared with me information on “Living Deliberately,” as an avatar. I was fascinated and immediately ordered the book and home study course on “Living Deliberately.”

The book and materials cost approximately $25, and I got much more than my money's worth! Through the workbook on “Resurfacing Techniques,” I was able to assess different periods in my life where events had happened, but I was not fully aware of their impact and thus did not appropriately address those situations at the time. I clearly saw then how the residuals effects from those “unconscious events” were manifesting in my life.

So powerful were the “Living Deliberately” book and its companion “Resurfacing” workbook on my overall experience that I sought to find a “master” in my area to continue further study. Alas, however, there was none to be found.

Since then, the landscape of Star’s Edge Avatar program has changed dramatically and significantly from those days, which must have been in the early 90s.


New “Avatar© Masters” are being licensed at a very impressive rate, and I’m sure there is at least one in every major metropolitan area in the United States. The reason, very simply, is that the techniques work!


The basic Avatar© program offers you a look at events in life that you may not have even noticed, much less realized, their impact on your current life situation. What is even more impressive is that the program makes total and absolute sense and does not require you to suspend your sense of reality and experience to “get it.”

The Beginning
Avatar©self development system of courses was introduced by Harry Palmer, born April 3, 1944. He developed the system of courses and founded and owns Star's Edge, Inc., which trains and licenses Avatar© Masters (teachers) to deliver the Avatar© Course worldwide.

In October 1986, Palmer released the first version of The Avatar Course. Today, the course now has five sections, with licensed Avatar© Masters teaching the first three, and the two advanced sections being taught at Star's Edge, Inc.
headquarters in Orlando, Florida.


Star’s Edge Florida Headquarters manages more than 10,000 licensed Avatar© teachers (masters) in 71 countries. Supervising this network are a staff of administrators and a team of experienced trainers from Australia, Germany, Holland, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, USA, and Venezuela.

Star's Edge, Inc. also hosts advanced courses in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Europe, and United States

Founder’s Background & Beginnings
Palmer often is portrayed as an educational psychologist. In actuality, he received a Bachelor of Art in English from Ithaca College in 1969 and a Masters in Education from Elmira College in 1971, and gained certification to teach English in secondary schools.

Harry Palmer and his Star-Edge, Inc., wife and partner, Avra Honey-Smith, both studied Scientology for many years and achieved high levels in the religion. For approximately 10 years, 1974-1984, Palmer officially operated a Scientology mission for the Church of Scientology in Elmira, New York.


Palmer’s relationship with the Church of Scientology ended abruptly in 1ate 1984 and soon after, he produced the first of the Avatar-related materials, including the Thoughtstorm Manual. This and other early Avatar materials made extensive use of Scientology terminology, according to research.


It seems that Palmer has been able to cull the best of Scientology and marry those teachings with the best of East/West teachings on Consciousness and Human Development. Something clearly is working for folks taking the program!


What does "Avatar" Really Mean?


Avatar, in English, basically means "an embodiment, a bodily manifestation of the Divine." However, the Sanskrit word Avatara means "incarnation." The term is used primarily in Hindu texts. For example, Krishna is the eighth avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu the Preserver, whom many Hindus worship as God. The Dasavatara are ten particular "great" incarnations of Vishnu.


Granted, studying Avatar© materials is not for everyone. Neither is the price tag, where master courses run into the thousands of dollars. But even getting the "Living Deliberately" materials and the Resurfacing workbook will provide preliminary insights into the teaching, can only elevate your thinking and help you to begin living deliberately.If applied conscientiously, I truly believe the avatar teachings can have a powerful impact on your life in a very positive and empowering way.




The Program
The nine-day self-empowerment Avatar training is delivered by an Avatar© Master. The exercises, drills and procedures followed are done to understand and increase the techniques for living deliberately. This essentially means to live as a "creative source" with self-determination and personal responsibility for the manifestations in your life.



Once you begin to have direct control over the events and circumstances in your life, you should then know that the tools from the Avatar© course are working.


A technique used is to "discreate." This essentially means to halt the production of a mental event; to turn it off; to cease creating it, to let go of it. It is a halt to an existing flow of energy rather than a new or opposing flow of energy. (From Avatar© Section III) "It's yours and you're creating it, and then you decide you're not going to create it anymore, and it is gone."

Students of the Avatar© program ideally should be able to move through the stages from I through V seamlessly.

Palmer's Goal


“What is the real work to be done on this planet? It’s to make ourselves more aware, to remind ourselves that our essential nature is nonviolent, and to increase the amount of compassion and cooperation on the planet."

– Harry Palmer

"My plan is simple: help the people next to you wake up beyond their Darwinic mind dream. And after they realize who they really are, where they are, and what is happening, show them how to pass the lessons on. Of course, if you want their best, full-time efforts, there are economic and social realities that need to be considered and addressed. People like to help each other, but they also like to live comfortably and feel safe with friends. So the lessons must be valuable enough to the people who receive them that they are happy to pay a fair price.

One of the things that I have learned from life is that service to others, if it is done well and within a viable economic context, is contagious. Help someone; show kindness, and the next thing you know they are figuring out how to pass it on to someone else. That’s my strategy for contributing to an enlightened planetary civilization. I intend to create, within a viable economic context, an epidemic of compassion."

Palmer to a group of graduating Avatar Masters on April 28, 1990:

"Anyone can decide that his or her beliefs are righteous. Any belief can be dressed up to look righteous. Righteous beliefs are inscribed upon parchment and in holy books. Eventually they become slogans on battle flags and are used to justify insensitive acts for which no sane individual would ever assume personal responsibility... people die violently by the thousands with righteous beliefs on all sides.


Because of this, it is better that you denounce Avatar a thousand times than use it even once as a righteous belief to justify your actions. Your job is to help people become source over their beliefs, not to persuade them to accept your beliefs. Champion no cause above personal responsibility.


When enough people are able to see that the only real difference between any of us are the ideas and beliefs that we create, there will be a spontaneous worldwide awakening to the fact that beyond our individual viewpoints, everyone on this planet shares a common destiny. We will learn to live together, or we will continue to kill together.


As Avatar Masters, remember who you are and what you are not. Remember you are not things. Remember you are not any of the ideas of sects, or nationalism, or race that humans have ignorantly fought over. You are not bodies, you are not minds, and you are not identities; you are the source of these things, and you can create better.

Together we can work to feed the hungry, protect the environment, and speak for peace—these are the efforts that buy us the time needed to expand the Avatar Network into an Enlightened Planetary Civilization. Ultimately, the solution to all human problems lies in recovering conscious control of our hearts and minds."

Beautifully spoken by the Master of Avatars.


Namaste’.
Che’

NOTE: For more information on Star Edge’s Avatar© program, go to: http://www.avatarepc.com Seven mini-courses and "Living Deliberately," can be downloaded FREE at the official Website. Next month, we'll take a look at Bahai teachings.

Book Review: "Communion With God" by Neale Donald Walsch

All is illusion.

What you think is real is just an illusion.

You are "Ultimate Reality," so you have no need of anything outside yourself. What you perceive as a need or an attribute about yourself is pure illusion, something you created in time/space so that you may remember WHO you really are to the world and in the world.


Powerful stuff!

Go ahead and practice it now.

Step "outside yourself" and see if YOU still exist.

Yep. You're still "here!" But the YOU that is seeing and that is still here is not the YOU who is experiencing the pain, the grief, the fear, the anger, the lack of love or anguish.

"YOU"..you see...is WHOLE and COMPLETE in and of yourself.


By creating a need or insufficiency of any type, you have created an illusion. Although it seems like a harsh reality, this illusion can be done away with immediately upon your "recovering" yourself.

Step outside yourself again.

See if "YOU" has any need of the anguish or the pain, or the condition (s) you currently find yourself in and manifesting?
YOU need NOTHING!

So, yes, the conditions and circumstances and experiences of your life MUST INDEED BE ILLUSION!

Get that!!!

Will you remember this tomorrow when you wake up worried about your life or some problem you believe you have to solve?

Will you, can you remember, that it is only an illusion?


Can you reclaim YOUR TRUTH ...your true self...and stay outside the illusion to solve the seeming "need" or "lack" or "desire" manifesting in the Illusion as REAL?


CAN YOU DO THAT?

CAN YOU DO THAT EVERY DAY?

Tough, isn't it? This world we've created for ourselves, with all its lack and insufficiency, illness, pain, grief, failure, "not good enough"?


Wouldn't it be great to wake up every day knowing that you really DON'T have to deal with ANY OF IT...because it isn't ...it is NOT...real!?


In "Communion With God," that's exactly what Neale Donald Walsch wants you to do.


He wants you to get so close, indeed inside yourself, inside your GOD self, and realize and remember WHO YOU ARE!

He makes a powerful case for this too!


Chapter, after chapter, he lays out the 10 illusions we've bought into:

1. The Illusion of Need
2. The Illusion of Failure
3. The Illusion of Disunity
4. The Illusion of Insufficiency
5. The Illusion of Requirement.
6. The Illusion of Judgment
7. The Illusion of Condemnation
8, The Illusion of Conditionality
9. The Illusion of Superiority
10. The Illusion of Ignorance

Each illusion, he demonstrates, was created to address the first illusion: NEED!


Without this first illusion, none of the others would exist.

Walsch makes a compelling case for you to want to believe that what's he's saying is true.


Just when you're beginning to doubt him, as you see the PILE OF REALITY sitting beside you needing to be addressed, he takes you step by step again through the process of dismantling each and every illusion.

First, he does this with NEED.

You begin to see the Illusion of NEED as an illusion. You can entertain the thought of "not enough," then see it for what it is, an illusion, and OVERCOME IT!

"By doing this repeatedly, you produce the experience of self-assurance, confident that there will always be enough of whatever you need. This experience will be verified and validated by Ultimate Reality."

"This is what is meant when it is said that one is 'entertaining an idea.' You are in the process of re-creating yourself anew---and this is true recreation!"

Walsch further demonstrates this by combining the Second and Sixth illusions, Failure and Judgment.

By imagining to yourself that you have failed, you then can judge yourself, and accept the judgment of others. "Then you can rise above your failure, raising your fist to the sky with an 'I'll show you' attitude, and triumph in the end!"


With each illusion, Walsch demonstrates "how" it is an illusion, "how" you can embrace it, then discard it, and overcome it.

In these times of seeming need, failure, lack, recriminations, "Communion with God" shines a bright light into the darkness.

Walsch is also author of "Conversations with God" and many other books.

Even if you read "Communion With God" with a healthy level of scepticism, I'm sure that at the end you would have learned something...a little something about YOU...and

... the true power within you to overcome!

Namaste',

Che'
NOTE: Our next book review will be an old favorite: "Seat of the Soul" by Gary Zukav. Hold onto your seat for That One! I had to, and I'm still feeling the impact.