Change

"It is very difficult to change---and no change is possible as long as life and imagination are the source of meaning for you." ~Maurice Nicoll

Hello from Kevin

I opened the classroom today and immediately felt like sharing. So often I think I do not have the time, that something else is more important, but I seem to have time for other things, like stopping for coffee at my favorite coffee shop, parking the car, going in, chatting with people, spending my money. Or browsing the web. Or flicking on the TV.

Why don't I make at least as much time for my spiritual work? Good question! My answer today was: Make time now. Forget about the times I don't! That keeps me neither here nor there and prevents me from doing my spiritual work today.

I've been noticing how my mind tells me, when I am in a negative state, that it will never end. I have read this in our school, and I can say, it is true. Every time I am feeling bad, without energy, low, my mind wants to tell me it's no use; why don't I just give up; everyone is better than me; I am a lost cause; I have made too many mistakes; it is too late me. 

Whew! These are the quality of thoughts that are running my life! That have been running my life for years. And I have not been aware of them. It is like digging up the basement under a house that is full of poisonous gas that has been seeping through slowing killing that one who lives in that house -- --which is me.

Now I am becoming aware of those thoughts, but not so aware as I could be. I don't keep the spiritual sentry awake at the door of my mind and so before I know it, negative thoughts seep in like the poison they are and begin to poison my day. I become heavy and despondent. It is hard to get through the day when I am full of this poison. And when I go to sleep with these thoughts, they wake up even fatter--like your poem says, Indira.

Right now I am going through this phase of negativity taking over. I am learning about it. I can see the thoughts, whereas before I didn't even know they were there. I blindly believed them. I am watching the effect they have on my mind, emotions, and body. Especially, I notice what happens in my body, how I do not want to move--I'd rather sit and do something mindless, like play a computer game or sit and feel sorry for myself. I do not want to do the things that are healthy for my body, like go to the gym or take a walk.

Negative thoughts are powerful things with powerful influences, very harmful influences, when I let them take over. I know that becoming more aware of my negative thinking is positive, even when it feels negative. I know that as the light gets brighter, more negativity is revealed. I know I am not so different--I mean, my ego nature is not--I am just becoming more aware of my darkness, and so it seems worse. I know all of this from our school. At least I know it mentally--it has not yet reached that internal knowing. I am still on the edges. It is not the deep inner knowing you talk about, Indira.
So today this is what is going on for me. I am relieved I stopped by today to share this. I feel something lifting already--a little more understanding reaching me.
 p.s. I like the changes you make in our open classroom, Indira. It is true I get used to one look and do get attached to some of them and hate to see them go. So I find it amusing that I open one day and everything is different. It is a great teaching. I dig that everything about our school is used as a teaching.  It really does make the school seem like a living thing, and I think it is. It is alive with the energy of the angels and I can feel that to be true. Very cool.

Conscious Awareness

Dear Students, ...in our last few email messages, we have been offering you a brief review of your first lesson, Conscious Awareness. This lesson gave you the basics. We can all use these basics, whether we are on lesson 1 or lesson 91. The best and most successful way to approach Truth is as if we know nothing. If we are full of our own knowing, how can we have an empty place to receive new words of wisdom? All the great teachers and scriptures have taught us to be humble on our path.

“…unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven…” Matthew 18:3

What does this mean to you? So often we cannot hear scriptures because we come from religions that have done our thinking for us. Try reading with an open mind and an open heart. Then your intuition will kick in and enlighten you.

It really is clear and simple — when we approach Truth heavy with ego, thinking we already know, how can we hear inner guidance? How can our heart be open? How can we receive? The first and foremost important quality on the spiritual path is receptivity. We must be open to receive. Each moment. Now. Are you open and ready to receive now? Otherwise, we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven….
….the kingdom of heaven referred to here is not a place you go when you die, although that is what many religions would have you believe. It is a place here and now. It exists for you here and now. It is Truth. Most of us enter this kingdom gradually, step by step. Each time we receive a spiritual Truth, another candle is lit in the darkness of ignorance. We take another step closer to wholeness.

So ponder all of this. Don’t just read these words and forget them. Read them with an open heart, as if you were a little child. Receive them into your heart. Let them stay with you and enlighten you. See how they apply to your daily life — your daily moments, moment by moment. The kingdom of heaven is available to you. Now. It always is. Each moment of Truth received becomes a moment of enlightenment. It is entering the kingdom of heaven, moment by moment.

all my love,
your fellow classmate & humble teacher

Say NO! to painful thoughts

 

When you stop looking outward and blaming others for your inner pain, you can heal more quickly. You can become consciously aware of the negative thoughts that persuade you that you must continue to suffer for something that happened yesterday or might happen tomorrow. You can say NO! to those thoughts. You do not have to allow them entrance into your psyche, your private place, the most sacred penetralia of your mind that belongs to you and you alone. No thought has the right of entrance unless you permit it.  - Lesson One, Conscious Awareness

From Lesson 1

When you mindlessly believe what you have been taught or conditioned to believe, you are letting others do your thinking for you. This keeps you imprisoned by other people's thoughts. It takes courage to think creatively, to think ‘outside the box’ in ever-evolving circles, curves, swirls, mandalas, and lines that expand into infinity—and finally, to realize there is no box at all.

Be willing to be courageous! Be willing to give up false ideas of lack, loss, fear, and limitation! Be willing to live your True Magnificence!

Be Where Your Body Is!

A Holy Man once said to a woman, “Stop thinking. This body needs you. When you are thinking and thinking, you are away. You are outside your body.”

Do it now!

Research shows: When you procrastinate, you might feel better in the short-term, and you will suffer in the long-term.

Divine Love

Everything is contained within a vast awareness that holds you, even when you disappear in deep sleep. Even in life. Even in death. This awareness is not different from love. This love is not a love you can give to anyone, because it is not yours. You belong to love. Love does not belong to you. Divine love is pure awareness. Human love is a tiny reflection of divine love. Just as stars disappear in the light of the sun, so does human love disappear in the light of Divine Love.

From Lesson One of your first Lesson (with one of my oil paintings)

School 101

Now here is a way to start the day

sleeping while awake

"Most people, about five minutes after they get up in the morning, begin to identify with negative emotions - i.e. they identify with their habitual personal reactions to life. They do not observe what happens to them simply because they have no self-observation. They let themselves go. They do not remember themselves. They do not hold themselves together internally. In other words, they instantly fall asleep on rising. They pass the day in attracting to themselves situations and things that would not come to them if they remembered themselves. Half an hour in the morning can make a great difference all day long. You can all see for yourselves what it means to be under the Law of Accident and the Law of Destiny or Fate." ~ Maurice Nicoll.

A Poem to Myself

When in doubt, be kind
I can be firm and still be kind
I can be honest and still be kind
I can tend the little seeds of kindness within me
I can shine sunshine when the world seems dark
so the tiny seeds of kindness within me
are not afraid
to grow right up to where my smile lives
I can close my eyes
and breathe kindness in
I can let kindness fill me
there is no benevolent reason
for meeting hostility with hostility
no kind reason for perpetuating little wars
God knows there's more than enough war
out there already.

Our Classroom is a Mirror in which to SEE

     Dearest Students, you might wonder why I so often change the look and feel of Your Open Classroom. Everything about our school is under the divine guidance of Angels who are under the divine guidance of God. Everything in our school happens by this divine design. When you consciously enter the realm of Angels, you are entering a very special place, leaving behind the unreal world for the real world.

     I change the design of our classroom partly because I am creative and I love to create -- fortunately, this goes well with the wishes of the angels. Angels are made of light and color and sound. They have no form as we know form, although when we 'see' them we often see a human form of great beauty. Angels can assume any form necessary to carry out their work and to relate to us. For instance, angels have chosen the form of this school. They choose the form of these words. They choose the form of angel readings, talks, and seminars.

     Even you change form. You grow from a baby to child to a teenager to an adult and eventually reach old age. Your face changes form moment to moment. Everything on earth changes constantly.

     Your classroom reflects the changes. The changes here show us that we cannot, must not, get attached to any one form, to anything at all. We can flow with the changes. We can open our classroom to a completely different look and be surprised.

     Yes, the changes here and in our school are like the world we live in. They remind us that nothing of this world is forever. There is a forever though. It is inside you. It is your true and eternal nature. It is why you have incarnated upon the earth in many different forms, in the form you are in today -- to allow your soul to evolve.

     Just as a mother and a father want to provide the best learning possibilities for their children, maybe trips to the museum, piano lessons, a good school, along with teaching them how to be right children, how to help in the home, be polite and kind, get along with others -- so do the angels want to provide the best learning environment for you. So do you want to provide the best learning environment for your precious soul!

     Your soul needs to grow. It wants to grow. It wants to learn and evolve. It wants to be saturated with many learning opportunities. It wants to know what is right and true. Your soul seeks lessons so that it might grow into wholeness. It is up to you to provide the best learning opportunities for your soul. It is up to you. This is your spiritual responsibility.

     And so we provide for you an ever-changing open classroom. Always open. Just as your heart ought to be. Always changing. Just as the world you live in is. Always creative, just as God and angels are. Always here for you. Now. In the present moment.

     What you do here is up to you. As I have said, I am both teacher and student here. As a teacher, I offer you the guidance of the angels. I can offer this because of the life experiences (and near-death experiences!) that have made me a conduit for relaying the energy of the angels.

     As a student, I show up here, just as I ask you to do. I show up for myself. I show up for my own soul. Right now, I am writing these words alone here in our classroom. And yet I am not alone. The thought of each of you is with me. I hold you and see you in my heart as I write. The angels are with me. God is with me. This classroom is never empty. It is always filled with the energy of the angels and God.

     When we keep showing up for Truth, Truth shows up for us. Not as mere words, though at times they may seem like mere words. They are words that mirror the Truth back to us. The angels hold up the mirror of Truth for us and keep on holding it and holding it. We must show up and look. We must learn to SEE, not with the mind, but with the Heart. Then we will be free.

Conscious Awareness °☆★°★●*

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    The concept of angels exists throughout time, religions,
cultures, and peoples. Many people have had experiences
of angels. Once you have an experience of an angel, you
never can forget it.
   
    A vision of an angel is a vision of unforgettable light,
love, and beauty. Angels guide us to God. Angels are
Guardians, Protectors, and Messengers of Light.
   
    Angels have many kinds of jobs, and they love working.
An angel at work is like a child at play. Angels love working
because they love serving God.
   
    Angels never complain because they know that to
complain = pain. Angels accept what they cannot change.
This gives them the energy to change what is theirs to
change.

    All negativity is pain. All untruth is pain.

    It takes many lifetimes finally to begin to see the
pain of a human life lived in separation from God. Those
who refuse to see this are those who want to continue to
hold themselves above and separate from God. This is
the state of the world today — human egos living separate
from God, from each other, in hubris and arrogance.

    You are not here to be part of the world that man has
created in his own image. You are in the world, but you
are not of the world.

    Never forget this. Forgetting draws one into the
darkness, into the fear that comes when one forgets. You
are in the world, where your soul journey has taken you
for now, and you are not of the world. You are of God.

    You must use every moment — every moment —
to find out what you are not. When you find out what you
are not, what remains is the Clear Light of Understanding.

    Do not falter. Do not give up When you falter or give
up, start again, from where you are. Say NO! to all negative
voices, wherever they come from. So NO! to all negative
emotions that arise from negative thoughts.

    Each moment is simply a matter of choice. Choose
well, or choose hell. Hell is not a place you go when you die.
Hell is a state we live in each time we choose to believe
a negative hurtful thought, remark, or situation.

    Angels say — you are not here to be a bline believer. You
are here to find out for yourself what is true by your own
experience. This is the way to freedom. Believe only what
you KNOW to be true from your own experience.

    Truth is a deep inner knowing that arises from a
place higher and deeper than mind can travel. Go there!

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