Summarizing Everything My Guides Have Taught So Far
Dear Readers,
Happy New Year! I have been quiet on this blog for awhile, as my day job has taken up a lot of my time and attention. My energy has been somewhat low, and Salvador has been giving me more tough love than usual about my methodology, encouraging me to wean myself away from relying on my guides excessively and shift the bulk of my work to long-form, direct channeling. However, my guides have also been planting the idea in my mind that now is a wonderful time to go over everything we have been learning about together. They are encouraging me to express everything I can remember of their teachings in a set of simple, to-the-point concepts. It is almost as if this is a necessary step for me to take before moving on to the next stage of our work together. So, here I go! I will divide these concepts into a few different categories, according to topic. We will start with the most basic topic of Love vs. Fear.
On Love and Fear 1: On Love and Fear As The Basic Polarities of Human Experience
The basic polarity of motivation within the world of duality that we exist in through the human experience can be summarized as one existing between the emotions of love and fear. These two forces define how our creative energy and life force express themselves at a most fundamental level. All other emotions are permutations of them - often occurring when fear or love is filtered through a mental construct. Permutations of love include trust, joy, gratitude, excitement, non-attachment, non-judgment, forgiveness, compassion, nurturing, inspiration, courage, acceptance, humor, eloquence, faith, persistence and patience. Permutations of fear include hate, disappointment, disgust, jealousy, despair, sadness, worry, addiction, possessiveness, bitterness, numbness, insecurity and judgment.
During the course of our lives, and throughout our various experiences, it is important to be aware of which of these two emotions is motivating our decisions at any given time. This mindfulness makes it easier to exercise our free will in a way that will optimize our happiness and personal growth through steering us into actions and reactions that are rooted in love.
One way to discern the nature of your motivation in a decision you are about to make, and then assess what the best course of action will be, is to engage in the following exercise.
Ask yourself the following questions:
1. Is the decision I am about to make rooted in love or fear?
2. Is the decision I am about to make an action, or a reaction? Which of these two is the most loving manifestation of free will, at this moment?
3. Is the most loving decision I can make at this point to take action, or to refrain from taking action?
4. Is the action, reaction, or inaction I am about to take one of surrender, or of resistance? Of these two possibilities, which one is the most loving manifestation of free will, at this moment?
Asking these questions will make you more aware of how you are attuning yourself to your potential for exercising your free will in a loving way. It doesn’t mean you always have to choose love, of course. But it will help guide you when you so choose.
On Love and Fear 2: On Illusion and Invitation
“Think of fear as an invitation. One you are never obligated to answer.”
- Natalie
One of the great sources of self-inflicted human suffering is that we tend to forget that fear itself is not a thing. It is an idea of a thing. It is not a reality. However, if we allow ourselves to remain in fear, it shapes our thoughts, which in turn shape our actions, as well the reactions our environment has to us, thereby eventually manifesting into a creation.
If we think and act like there is a monster under the bed even when there isn’t, what is the practical difference within our emotional reality, and our resulting actions, between an imaginary monster, and a real one?
Yes, fear is an emotion that exists in order to help us survive and keep us safe, but it is important to practice discernment in figuring out when it has taken on a life of its own, and is causing manifestations we do not want.
Love can also be an invitation. Every experience is an invitation to love more, and in new ways. Contrary to fear, love is a thing. It is the very essence of our inner being, and the fabric of existence.
On Love And Fear 3: On Disentangling The Two Emotions
Love and fear govern our creative power. When seeking to manifest what we want in our lives, it is important to work to disentangle the interference of fear from the loving emotions that motivate us to create the things we do. Things will go much more smoothly that way. Where you feel insecurity, lack or mistrust, there is fear somewhere in the picture. Try to pick apart what you are feeling and why. Then, work to disentangle the fear from the love.
Within every negative experience, we can find ways to illuminate fear-based constructs with the light of love. If the darkness is too dense in one part of the experience to bring in love, there is an opportunity for that love to find its way in through another avenue. For instance, when someone hurts you so deeply that you cannot bring yourself to forgive them, there is part of you that cannot forgive yourself for what occurred, either. So, work, at first, to forgive yourself, and that will be the “chink in the armour” through which love will seep in. It’s like the Leonard Cohen song: “There is a crack in everything/That’s how the light gets in.”
Next up, I will cover some lessons on human identity, discernment in relationships, and how those relate healing, manifestation and interpersonal harmony.
On The Human Personality 1: Cumulative Experience, Memory and Manifestation
Our fundamental nature as souls is that of a divine spark, a drop in an ocean, or a facet on the jewel of Source, or God-consciousness. One may observe the individual facet, but each one is part of an undivided, greater whole. (More on that later.) Our souls have many levels to them, and are interlinked with increasingly broad and fluid permutations of consciousness the further “up” we go in our spiritual expansion.
We are incarnated in human form in order to learn lessons through our experiences that our Divine Selves, who are the observers of our experiences, have set for us, and we may choose to learn either through love or fear. On a divine level, at any given time, we are living one incarnation of a soul that is interlinked with a higher consciousness that experiences many lifetimes. There are also soul groups that may choose to incarnate with one another or meld together on a spiritual level, but this is not something the teachings that have come through have touched upon in detail, yet. The guides have not spoken much, yet, either, about the nature of past lives or reincarnation, but they have explained the following to me about the personalities we assume within a given incarnation:
The personalities we form throughout our lifetimes are a result of the experiences and memories that we accumulate as we go along. These memories also encompass the things we learn from our families, our communities, and the history that is instilled in us through our culture, as well as epigenetics. How we process and react to these experiences and the things that we inherit from our surroundings, shapes who we become. We can choose to integrate, reject, release or cling to any given concept, mental construct, emotion or memory that results from these things. This is why Ves says that “History repeats itself within your vibration for as long as you allow it to.” When we become mindful of the way in which our present Selves have been formed, we become more free to release anything we are carrying from the past that is causing us dis-ease or unhappiness. The fewer burdens we carry with us, the more free we are to heal and manifest new things in our lives. The way to release the past is to bless it, forgive it, and bring love into it any way you can.
The same concept applies to humanity, collectively. Any healing we do as a civilization needs to happen at a level of releasing past dysfunction and any constructs that perpetuate the traumas we have collectively inflicted on one another. This needs to be a collective decision, but it happens at the level of each individual. Every individual that makes the decision to release animosity, rancor, vengefulness or cruelty, is part of the great transformation that can change civilizations. So, remember your power! Every action and decision you make is like a stone thrown into water, which may create waves that ripple out infinitely into the universe.
On The Human Personality 2: Mindfulness of Cumulative Experience in Forming Relationships
Because we are all products of our previous experiences, and all have different “agendas” for the particular incarnation we are living through, at any given time, two or more people will be in different parts of their journeys here on earth, with different wants and needs. When meeting a new person, either in a fleeting encounter or in forming a long-term bond, it is important to be mindful of where one is in one’s journey oneself, and where the other person is. What are you carrying with you from your history? What are they carrying, and why? Try to be mindful of what your own wants and needs are at this point in time, where you want to go moving forward, and what you are hoping to gain out of your interaction with the other person. Also be mindful of what you perceive the other person’s wants and needs to be. Are they able to give you what you want or need out of the interaction without compromising their own wants and needs? Once you have figured out what they highest purpose might be for meeting the other person at this exact point in time, think: “How can we bring out the best in each other, while respecting each other’s wants and needs?” If you can stay true to each individual, you will bless the highest purpose for your encounter, and not be disappointed in attempting to get something out of the interaction or relationship that they are not capable or willing to give.
On The Human Personality 3: The Picnic and Pie Model of Exchanging Energy
Another important concept in forming human relationships is the exchange of time, attention, affection and energy. The metaphor my guides have led me to is that of a giant picnic to which everyone brings their own pie, the pie being their energy, their attention, their affection and their life force.
At this picnic, in the process of interacting with each other and sharing each other’s company, people will exchange pieces of their pie. Everyone has their own preferences. Some people want to sit in a corner of the park an eat all of their pie alone. Some people give away all their pie and don’t ask for anything in return. Some people will eat everyone else’s pie (either of a particular person, or a little of everybody’s), but not give any of their own. Some people will exchange pieces of their pie equally with everyone they spend time with, in return for equal amounts, or give one person the bulk of their pie, and fill themselves up with a lot of little bites from a number of other people’s pie. During this very long picnic, the equilibrium of the economy of exchanging pie will determine whether a person eventually goes hungry, starves to death, is satisfied, or gets overstuffed with pie.
Think of every relationship and interaction you have, day to day, as an exchange of pie. There are people in your life with whom you will exchange small bites of pie. There are people who will eat your pie, and not put any of theirs on your plate. The amount of pie you exchange with a person may vary over the course of your relationship depending on how close you are or how central to your life they are. Overall, are these exchanges adding up to a sense of nourishment and balance? Are you going hungry, or tired of only eating your own pie? Do you like to eat many different kinds of pie, or only a few? If you are going hungry, is there someone who is eating more than their fair share of your pie? How can you change these interactions to be more equal exchanges?
Next up, some concepts having to do with manifestation, and the future.
Manifestation 1: Believe It Before It Happens
One concept my guides keep reiterating over and over is that in order to create an experience you want, you must believe it is possible, and have trust in its manifestation before it happens. This aligns you with it, defines it more clearly, and opens you up to it. Yes, there are many factors that go into the manifestation of the things we want, and not all of them are solely up to us, but when we fuel our creations with clear intention and excitement, we are at our most powerful.
Manifestation 2: From Thought To Word To Creation
“Your thoughts shape our creative energy. Your words further direct and amplify it. Choose your words wisely.”
- Salvador
Manifestation 3: On Creating The Future
At any given time, like an ant crawling slowly in a particular direction, we are on a trajectory leading to a particular future experience. Every decision we make through our free will either keeps us moving in the same direction, or adjusts our course in a way which might not be readily apparent a few steps ahead, but might land us in a completely different place several miles down the road. It is the pattern of these course adjustments that determines which future trajectory ends up manifesting into our experience. This is why it is important to be mindful of the small decisions we make day to day, as well as the larger ones, and to think ahead about where we want to end up. It is also the reason why when the guides predict the future, it is based on an understanding of the general pattern of our progress on a particular trajectory, and why the future may always still change, based on a correction of course. The future is malleable, and mostly subject to free will. What future do you want to create?
And now, a few words on Blessing and Forgiveness.
Blessing and Forgiveness:
Blessing and Forgiveness are two sides of the same coin. Blessing can be an action of proclaiming the divine in any given thing, an act of creation in proclaiming the manifestation of a given thing, and an act of healing in raising the darkness into light. Forgiveness is a blessing that clears the way for the light to enter into the darkness. Both are powerful acts of spiritual transformation. This is why “I bless my past, I bless my present, I bless my future.” is one of the most powerful healing mantras I have been given.
When you bless someone our something, you lift both them, and yourself, into alignment with your divine essence. At any moment, you can choose to affirm or deny the divine within yourself and others.
Now, some words on channeling.
On Connecting with Spirit Guides and Channeling Guidance:
Any form of channeling, mediumship and communion with higher guidance takes place by forging a connection between yourself and your spirit team through raising your personal vibration to a level that resonates with the frequency band your guides inhabit. You raise your vibration, your spirit guides lower theirs, and the connection is made where your two vibrations meet. This is why practicing gratitude, love, laughter, excitement, joy and compassion is the most important thing you can do to open yourself up to higher guidance. You want to raise your vibration as high as possible in order to reach up beyond the density of the physical realm. Gratitude and excitement are especially important here.
After raising your vibration emotionally, it is important to set your intention to connect with your spirit guides, as well as for the nature and integrity of the guidance you will receive. Set the intention to connect only to your highest, most loving and wise guides, or if you are looking to connect to person who has passed on, to that person.
All mediumship and channeling must take place through an open heart and quieted mind in order to be as clear and true as possible. Practice listening with all of your senses, and open your heart through love, self-care, compassion, and joyful activities.
Psychic knowing comes through the heart. The intellectual mind has the potential to interfere in this, and cause misinformation. This is why it is best to set your intentions for a reading, and go through any mental hangups, before going into meditation. That way, when you connect to your guides, you can rest assured they will already know what you might be worried about, and you can focus on receiving the guidance without judgment. In practice, this means that every time I take on a new client, or am about to go into a channeling session, I take a moment to mentally connect to my guides, introduce the subject of the reading and any questions we may have for them, and then wait for awhile before going into the channeling itself. This bypasses the fear, and allows them to respond without having to get through the mental interference of asking questions which may have feelings of worry attached to them, which would otherwise cause a dip in our emotional vibration.
Try to incorporate the lessons your learn through channeling into words and actions both within the channeling process itself, and in everyday life. This shows the guides that you appreciate what they are bringing through, which will in turn free you up to learn new lessons and strengthen your connection through the mutual trust and love that is built up over time. One of the ways I do this is that I allow my opening meditations, prayers and affirmations that I use to lift myself into the channeling state to evolve with every relevant teaching. Such “add-ons” have included inviting my guides to “come close,” verbally expressing my great desire to receive their guidance, and expressing gratitude several times during my prayers.
Finally, here are some teachings that came through for me a long time ago, in a formative lucid dream, in which I encountered a Divine Aspect which - despite my pagan identity at the time - expressed itself as the personality of the Christ. There is some Judeo-Christian language associated with these teachings, but please think of these concepts as more universal than the language implies.
On The Divine Feminine, Shakti, Shechinah, and The Holy Spirit
The first idea introduced to me in this dream is that despite its perceived patriarchal nature, it is an error to think that the concept of the Divine Feminine does not exist in Christianity. However, its true essence is not found in the persona of the Virgin Mary. It is The Holy Spirit. The essence of The Holy Spirit is the same as that of Shakti in Hinduism and Shechinah in Judaism: The dynamic, creative force and Divine Presence without which God would remain pure potential, or static. (I have later come to understand that this static, pure potential is the Divine Masculine, known in Judaism as Adam Kadmon - a concept communicated to me clairaudiently by Melinda Vail in a reading she gave to me.)
On Oneness
The second concept introduced in this dream was the one of each individual as a facet on the Jewel of God. We are all facets on the same jewel. This is why we should “love our neighbor” as ourselves. There is no true separation.
On “Christ Consciousness” in All Beings
Finally, I was told that may choose to see “Christ” (defined as Christ Consciousness - the awareness of our essential oneness with God, the Divine Spark), within myself, or within others. To become aware of this in all beings is the path to freedom. This concept is analogous to “moksha” in Hinduism.
A couple of bonus concepts:
In the metaphysical sense, almost anything can be a form of energy. Love is an energy. Fear is an energy. Respect is an energy. Even information is a form of energy! The nature of energy is that of movement and creation. It can be both focused and generated through attention as well as intention. Think about it!
When we channel and work with spirit guides, it is not only we who are in the process of learning and lifting ourselves into alignment with our Higher Selves. Our guides are also being elevated spiritually, and learning through us. Everything we learn benefits the greater collective
I think that’s it for now. Of course, there are many more specific teachings that you may, dear readers, explore throughout this blog, but in terms of boiling it all down, this is the best I can do. I can’t wait to hear what my guides have in store, next!
Love,
Emily, Salvador, Natalie, Ava, Ves, and the rest of the Team
Happy New Year! I have been quiet on this blog for awhile, as my day job has taken up a lot of my time and attention. My energy has been somewhat low, and Salvador has been giving me more tough love than usual about my methodology, encouraging me to wean myself away from relying on my guides excessively and shift the bulk of my work to long-form, direct channeling. However, my guides have also been planting the idea in my mind that now is a wonderful time to go over everything we have been learning about together. They are encouraging me to express everything I can remember of their teachings in a set of simple, to-the-point concepts. It is almost as if this is a necessary step for me to take before moving on to the next stage of our work together. So, here I go! I will divide these concepts into a few different categories, according to topic. We will start with the most basic topic of Love vs. Fear.
On Love and Fear 1: On Love and Fear As The Basic Polarities of Human Experience
The basic polarity of motivation within the world of duality that we exist in through the human experience can be summarized as one existing between the emotions of love and fear. These two forces define how our creative energy and life force express themselves at a most fundamental level. All other emotions are permutations of them - often occurring when fear or love is filtered through a mental construct. Permutations of love include trust, joy, gratitude, excitement, non-attachment, non-judgment, forgiveness, compassion, nurturing, inspiration, courage, acceptance, humor, eloquence, faith, persistence and patience. Permutations of fear include hate, disappointment, disgust, jealousy, despair, sadness, worry, addiction, possessiveness, bitterness, numbness, insecurity and judgment.
During the course of our lives, and throughout our various experiences, it is important to be aware of which of these two emotions is motivating our decisions at any given time. This mindfulness makes it easier to exercise our free will in a way that will optimize our happiness and personal growth through steering us into actions and reactions that are rooted in love.
One way to discern the nature of your motivation in a decision you are about to make, and then assess what the best course of action will be, is to engage in the following exercise.
Ask yourself the following questions:
1. Is the decision I am about to make rooted in love or fear?
2. Is the decision I am about to make an action, or a reaction? Which of these two is the most loving manifestation of free will, at this moment?
3. Is the most loving decision I can make at this point to take action, or to refrain from taking action?
4. Is the action, reaction, or inaction I am about to take one of surrender, or of resistance? Of these two possibilities, which one is the most loving manifestation of free will, at this moment?
Asking these questions will make you more aware of how you are attuning yourself to your potential for exercising your free will in a loving way. It doesn’t mean you always have to choose love, of course. But it will help guide you when you so choose.
On Love and Fear 2: On Illusion and Invitation
“Think of fear as an invitation. One you are never obligated to answer.”
- Natalie
One of the great sources of self-inflicted human suffering is that we tend to forget that fear itself is not a thing. It is an idea of a thing. It is not a reality. However, if we allow ourselves to remain in fear, it shapes our thoughts, which in turn shape our actions, as well the reactions our environment has to us, thereby eventually manifesting into a creation.
If we think and act like there is a monster under the bed even when there isn’t, what is the practical difference within our emotional reality, and our resulting actions, between an imaginary monster, and a real one?
Yes, fear is an emotion that exists in order to help us survive and keep us safe, but it is important to practice discernment in figuring out when it has taken on a life of its own, and is causing manifestations we do not want.
Love can also be an invitation. Every experience is an invitation to love more, and in new ways. Contrary to fear, love is a thing. It is the very essence of our inner being, and the fabric of existence.
On Love And Fear 3: On Disentangling The Two Emotions
Love and fear govern our creative power. When seeking to manifest what we want in our lives, it is important to work to disentangle the interference of fear from the loving emotions that motivate us to create the things we do. Things will go much more smoothly that way. Where you feel insecurity, lack or mistrust, there is fear somewhere in the picture. Try to pick apart what you are feeling and why. Then, work to disentangle the fear from the love.
Within every negative experience, we can find ways to illuminate fear-based constructs with the light of love. If the darkness is too dense in one part of the experience to bring in love, there is an opportunity for that love to find its way in through another avenue. For instance, when someone hurts you so deeply that you cannot bring yourself to forgive them, there is part of you that cannot forgive yourself for what occurred, either. So, work, at first, to forgive yourself, and that will be the “chink in the armour” through which love will seep in. It’s like the Leonard Cohen song: “There is a crack in everything/That’s how the light gets in.”
Next up, I will cover some lessons on human identity, discernment in relationships, and how those relate healing, manifestation and interpersonal harmony.
On The Human Personality 1: Cumulative Experience, Memory and Manifestation
Our fundamental nature as souls is that of a divine spark, a drop in an ocean, or a facet on the jewel of Source, or God-consciousness. One may observe the individual facet, but each one is part of an undivided, greater whole. (More on that later.) Our souls have many levels to them, and are interlinked with increasingly broad and fluid permutations of consciousness the further “up” we go in our spiritual expansion.
We are incarnated in human form in order to learn lessons through our experiences that our Divine Selves, who are the observers of our experiences, have set for us, and we may choose to learn either through love or fear. On a divine level, at any given time, we are living one incarnation of a soul that is interlinked with a higher consciousness that experiences many lifetimes. There are also soul groups that may choose to incarnate with one another or meld together on a spiritual level, but this is not something the teachings that have come through have touched upon in detail, yet. The guides have not spoken much, yet, either, about the nature of past lives or reincarnation, but they have explained the following to me about the personalities we assume within a given incarnation:
The personalities we form throughout our lifetimes are a result of the experiences and memories that we accumulate as we go along. These memories also encompass the things we learn from our families, our communities, and the history that is instilled in us through our culture, as well as epigenetics. How we process and react to these experiences and the things that we inherit from our surroundings, shapes who we become. We can choose to integrate, reject, release or cling to any given concept, mental construct, emotion or memory that results from these things. This is why Ves says that “History repeats itself within your vibration for as long as you allow it to.” When we become mindful of the way in which our present Selves have been formed, we become more free to release anything we are carrying from the past that is causing us dis-ease or unhappiness. The fewer burdens we carry with us, the more free we are to heal and manifest new things in our lives. The way to release the past is to bless it, forgive it, and bring love into it any way you can.
The same concept applies to humanity, collectively. Any healing we do as a civilization needs to happen at a level of releasing past dysfunction and any constructs that perpetuate the traumas we have collectively inflicted on one another. This needs to be a collective decision, but it happens at the level of each individual. Every individual that makes the decision to release animosity, rancor, vengefulness or cruelty, is part of the great transformation that can change civilizations. So, remember your power! Every action and decision you make is like a stone thrown into water, which may create waves that ripple out infinitely into the universe.
On The Human Personality 2: Mindfulness of Cumulative Experience in Forming Relationships
Because we are all products of our previous experiences, and all have different “agendas” for the particular incarnation we are living through, at any given time, two or more people will be in different parts of their journeys here on earth, with different wants and needs. When meeting a new person, either in a fleeting encounter or in forming a long-term bond, it is important to be mindful of where one is in one’s journey oneself, and where the other person is. What are you carrying with you from your history? What are they carrying, and why? Try to be mindful of what your own wants and needs are at this point in time, where you want to go moving forward, and what you are hoping to gain out of your interaction with the other person. Also be mindful of what you perceive the other person’s wants and needs to be. Are they able to give you what you want or need out of the interaction without compromising their own wants and needs? Once you have figured out what they highest purpose might be for meeting the other person at this exact point in time, think: “How can we bring out the best in each other, while respecting each other’s wants and needs?” If you can stay true to each individual, you will bless the highest purpose for your encounter, and not be disappointed in attempting to get something out of the interaction or relationship that they are not capable or willing to give.
On The Human Personality 3: The Picnic and Pie Model of Exchanging Energy
Another important concept in forming human relationships is the exchange of time, attention, affection and energy. The metaphor my guides have led me to is that of a giant picnic to which everyone brings their own pie, the pie being their energy, their attention, their affection and their life force.
At this picnic, in the process of interacting with each other and sharing each other’s company, people will exchange pieces of their pie. Everyone has their own preferences. Some people want to sit in a corner of the park an eat all of their pie alone. Some people give away all their pie and don’t ask for anything in return. Some people will eat everyone else’s pie (either of a particular person, or a little of everybody’s), but not give any of their own. Some people will exchange pieces of their pie equally with everyone they spend time with, in return for equal amounts, or give one person the bulk of their pie, and fill themselves up with a lot of little bites from a number of other people’s pie. During this very long picnic, the equilibrium of the economy of exchanging pie will determine whether a person eventually goes hungry, starves to death, is satisfied, or gets overstuffed with pie.
Think of every relationship and interaction you have, day to day, as an exchange of pie. There are people in your life with whom you will exchange small bites of pie. There are people who will eat your pie, and not put any of theirs on your plate. The amount of pie you exchange with a person may vary over the course of your relationship depending on how close you are or how central to your life they are. Overall, are these exchanges adding up to a sense of nourishment and balance? Are you going hungry, or tired of only eating your own pie? Do you like to eat many different kinds of pie, or only a few? If you are going hungry, is there someone who is eating more than their fair share of your pie? How can you change these interactions to be more equal exchanges?
Next up, some concepts having to do with manifestation, and the future.
Manifestation 1: Believe It Before It Happens
One concept my guides keep reiterating over and over is that in order to create an experience you want, you must believe it is possible, and have trust in its manifestation before it happens. This aligns you with it, defines it more clearly, and opens you up to it. Yes, there are many factors that go into the manifestation of the things we want, and not all of them are solely up to us, but when we fuel our creations with clear intention and excitement, we are at our most powerful.
Manifestation 2: From Thought To Word To Creation
“Your thoughts shape our creative energy. Your words further direct and amplify it. Choose your words wisely.”
- Salvador
Manifestation 3: On Creating The Future
At any given time, like an ant crawling slowly in a particular direction, we are on a trajectory leading to a particular future experience. Every decision we make through our free will either keeps us moving in the same direction, or adjusts our course in a way which might not be readily apparent a few steps ahead, but might land us in a completely different place several miles down the road. It is the pattern of these course adjustments that determines which future trajectory ends up manifesting into our experience. This is why it is important to be mindful of the small decisions we make day to day, as well as the larger ones, and to think ahead about where we want to end up. It is also the reason why when the guides predict the future, it is based on an understanding of the general pattern of our progress on a particular trajectory, and why the future may always still change, based on a correction of course. The future is malleable, and mostly subject to free will. What future do you want to create?
And now, a few words on Blessing and Forgiveness.
Blessing and Forgiveness:
Blessing and Forgiveness are two sides of the same coin. Blessing can be an action of proclaiming the divine in any given thing, an act of creation in proclaiming the manifestation of a given thing, and an act of healing in raising the darkness into light. Forgiveness is a blessing that clears the way for the light to enter into the darkness. Both are powerful acts of spiritual transformation. This is why “I bless my past, I bless my present, I bless my future.” is one of the most powerful healing mantras I have been given.
When you bless someone our something, you lift both them, and yourself, into alignment with your divine essence. At any moment, you can choose to affirm or deny the divine within yourself and others.
Now, some words on channeling.
On Connecting with Spirit Guides and Channeling Guidance:
Any form of channeling, mediumship and communion with higher guidance takes place by forging a connection between yourself and your spirit team through raising your personal vibration to a level that resonates with the frequency band your guides inhabit. You raise your vibration, your spirit guides lower theirs, and the connection is made where your two vibrations meet. This is why practicing gratitude, love, laughter, excitement, joy and compassion is the most important thing you can do to open yourself up to higher guidance. You want to raise your vibration as high as possible in order to reach up beyond the density of the physical realm. Gratitude and excitement are especially important here.
After raising your vibration emotionally, it is important to set your intention to connect with your spirit guides, as well as for the nature and integrity of the guidance you will receive. Set the intention to connect only to your highest, most loving and wise guides, or if you are looking to connect to person who has passed on, to that person.
All mediumship and channeling must take place through an open heart and quieted mind in order to be as clear and true as possible. Practice listening with all of your senses, and open your heart through love, self-care, compassion, and joyful activities.
Psychic knowing comes through the heart. The intellectual mind has the potential to interfere in this, and cause misinformation. This is why it is best to set your intentions for a reading, and go through any mental hangups, before going into meditation. That way, when you connect to your guides, you can rest assured they will already know what you might be worried about, and you can focus on receiving the guidance without judgment. In practice, this means that every time I take on a new client, or am about to go into a channeling session, I take a moment to mentally connect to my guides, introduce the subject of the reading and any questions we may have for them, and then wait for awhile before going into the channeling itself. This bypasses the fear, and allows them to respond without having to get through the mental interference of asking questions which may have feelings of worry attached to them, which would otherwise cause a dip in our emotional vibration.
Try to incorporate the lessons your learn through channeling into words and actions both within the channeling process itself, and in everyday life. This shows the guides that you appreciate what they are bringing through, which will in turn free you up to learn new lessons and strengthen your connection through the mutual trust and love that is built up over time. One of the ways I do this is that I allow my opening meditations, prayers and affirmations that I use to lift myself into the channeling state to evolve with every relevant teaching. Such “add-ons” have included inviting my guides to “come close,” verbally expressing my great desire to receive their guidance, and expressing gratitude several times during my prayers.
Finally, here are some teachings that came through for me a long time ago, in a formative lucid dream, in which I encountered a Divine Aspect which - despite my pagan identity at the time - expressed itself as the personality of the Christ. There is some Judeo-Christian language associated with these teachings, but please think of these concepts as more universal than the language implies.
On The Divine Feminine, Shakti, Shechinah, and The Holy Spirit
The first idea introduced to me in this dream is that despite its perceived patriarchal nature, it is an error to think that the concept of the Divine Feminine does not exist in Christianity. However, its true essence is not found in the persona of the Virgin Mary. It is The Holy Spirit. The essence of The Holy Spirit is the same as that of Shakti in Hinduism and Shechinah in Judaism: The dynamic, creative force and Divine Presence without which God would remain pure potential, or static. (I have later come to understand that this static, pure potential is the Divine Masculine, known in Judaism as Adam Kadmon - a concept communicated to me clairaudiently by Melinda Vail in a reading she gave to me.)
On Oneness
The second concept introduced in this dream was the one of each individual as a facet on the Jewel of God. We are all facets on the same jewel. This is why we should “love our neighbor” as ourselves. There is no true separation.
On “Christ Consciousness” in All Beings
Finally, I was told that may choose to see “Christ” (defined as Christ Consciousness - the awareness of our essential oneness with God, the Divine Spark), within myself, or within others. To become aware of this in all beings is the path to freedom. This concept is analogous to “moksha” in Hinduism.
A couple of bonus concepts:
In the metaphysical sense, almost anything can be a form of energy. Love is an energy. Fear is an energy. Respect is an energy. Even information is a form of energy! The nature of energy is that of movement and creation. It can be both focused and generated through attention as well as intention. Think about it!
When we channel and work with spirit guides, it is not only we who are in the process of learning and lifting ourselves into alignment with our Higher Selves. Our guides are also being elevated spiritually, and learning through us. Everything we learn benefits the greater collective
I think that’s it for now. Of course, there are many more specific teachings that you may, dear readers, explore throughout this blog, but in terms of boiling it all down, this is the best I can do. I can’t wait to hear what my guides have in store, next!
Love,
Emily, Salvador, Natalie, Ava, Ves, and the rest of the Team
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