Stopping by

I haven't posted in awhile, but I come often to read, and search through the archives, which are a treasure. I get more in touch with what you say Indira, that although we can share our spiritual path with others and do the work together, which is an important part of the spiritual path, we are each responsible for our own inner work. This understanding helps me to go more and more inside.

Without the lessons and this classroom, I would not be where I am today. I read so many self-help books in the past, but having the lessons arrive once a month is a game-changer. I can't ignore them, the way I can ignore a book. It's just the kind of support I need. Your insights are so valuable to me. I am grateful for the personal connection I always feel here in the classroom, as well as with your readings and counseling.

I will talk to you soon, Indira, for our usual weekly counseling session. My counseling sessions with you are a huge support, keeping me on track, and opening me to more in depth spiritual understandings. Thanks again for the school. --Kevin P.S. I like the way the schoolroom changes, reminding me that the world is a world of change. And I like seeing this friendly golden Buddha here.

Good Morning Dear Classmates

I have not checked in here in awhile--well, yes, I come everyday to read with my morning coffee, my favorite time of the day--just me and the angels and all of you who may be here silently reading along with me in our schoolroom--but I don't so often take the time to post a message, so here is an update on me and my spiritual life.

I continue to read and benefit greatly from the lessons. I find that when I take the time to do the homework that I experience even more benefits.

I have also started meditating--a practice I once followed, but lost along the way. Sitting in the silence has become one of my best friends--though I can't say my mind is always silent. Fortunately, I have all that I have been learning in our school to help me along the way, teach me how to sit with my mind, watch the thoughts, even be with the pain that comes along with thoughts.

An exercise that I like especially which I learned here is the slow down exercise. Thank you for teaching that Indira. I appreciate that the lessons offer so many different practices to help me on my way.  The School just keeps on giving and giving...what good fortune to have discovered it!

I would always like to hear from other students, but like Indira told me--they are probably too busy writing on Facebook -- ha-ha. Me, I am not on FB, but my sister is, so sometimes I sneak a peak. 

And I just had my 2018 Angel Reading with Indira, which will help guide me. Thank you. I love this School.

Lesson 104

I just love the new lesson (#104) that I received yesterday. Thank you so much Indira for your service! The lesson is filled with tremendous energy, just as you say. And it follows so completely from the last lesson -- from all the lessons. Each lesson opens my heart even more. And now I have a new "tool" -- I can sing this song, Michael row the boat ashore -- when I need help, when I am trapped in negative thoughts and feelings that threaten to overwhelm me. I can ask the angels for help. I can ask the angel Michael. I can sing my way out of the depths of hostile angry emotions, out of jealousy, out of conflict with others. Why not just sing a song, sing my way free!!!
The angels are great singers, so I have always heard. I dig the idea that I can join them in song, that I can ask for the angels to row my boat when my arms are too tired, when the oars are too heavy. Something higher -- as the lesson before said -- something higher can row my boat for me when I cannot row it myself.
For a long time I have been learning in the lessons that I must row my own boat, not try to row someone elses. That has been so meaningful and helpful to me. Otherwise, if there is no one to row my boat, it can crash on the rocks. Now, this is taken to another level. Yes, first I must learn to row my own boat. I must stop my unhealthy codependent relationships with other people where I try to take care of them when I should be taking of myself. That is the first lesson. I have to stay in my boat. And now I am ready for this new and wonderful lesson -- to allow God and the angels to row my boat for me. This seems so easy now. I don't think I could have heard it before. I have had to move gradually through each lesson to get this lesson. I am very happy to share all of this. I am glad for the space of the open classroom that allows me to share. Love, Kevin

Connecting

Dear Classmates, I want to share my email here in case any of you ever want to write and share your experience of the lessons, to talk about Truth, and what you are learning here in our School. I am interested in sharing my spiritual journey, but not idle chitchat. If you are too, you may write to me here: kevsranch@gmail.com Love, Kevin P.S. and I do think it is most beneficial when we can have a discussion and sharing here in our Classroom where everyone can benefit, though I understand some of you are too shy for that.

Gratitude

Just a cheery Good Morning, Classmates! And to let you know I am glad to be sharing this journey with you. I do feel connected to and a part of something greater than myself, knowing there are angels, knowing there are all of you. I don't see angels anymore than I see any of you, but that does not make you any less real, as it does not make angels any less real. I am deeply touched when I visit this classroom, by all that is available to me here, by knowing I share this with others who are also deeply committed to their path. So Thank You. Cheers, Kevin

Good Morning!

Good Saturday Morning Teacher and Classmates, and thank you all for being here, for joining me in my morning cup of coffee, strong black, no cream, no sugar. I feel good knowing some of you might be here with me this morning, sharing these words, discovering Truth, walking the spiritual path with me. I like the newly decorated classroom. Is this your painting, Indira? I am already looking forward to Lesson 100. I can't believe I have so many lessons, and there is always another one waiting for me, just around the bend. Gratitude to all of you, to this moment I am in, to the classroom, to the sky, to the birds singing, to the walk I am about to take. -Kevin

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.

Love the Classroom!

Love the way the classroom changes and grows. Reminds me of the way life changes, the way we can hang onto nothing, the way that nothing in this world is permanent. Yes, even visiting the classroom (I do most everyday) teaches me, reveals to me something more about myself and life. You show up and write. We show up and read. And learn. You are like an angel, doing so much of your work unseen, in the silence. I appreciate the discipline in what you do. I appreciate you. Thank you. Thank the angels. Thank God. Thank myself for showing up. And taking time to write this.

FANTASTIC

Yes--FANTASTIC-is what I have to say about the new angel messages you are leaving us in the school everyday, my Teacher. Just when I think our school cannot get any better, it does. I find I don't want to miss anything, not one day--because if I do, something new happens, and I have to get caught up.

Fear Not!

Thanks for the new lesson, Indira! I am grateful that I am in the 1st class, one of the first students to sign up, and so sometimes I get to receive an "old" lesson made new-when you revise and update it. And you are right, I get so much out of re-reading an older lesson. It is like I never read it before. This lesson is Fear Not! 

This lesson is so deep I am flabbergasted. This paragraph astounded me:

"You must come to understand that there is something running your life that isn't you. Something that does not want you to be free and happy. Something that wants to destroy you, just as that something is destroying this man's health, keeping him in the darkness of unconsciousness, thinking he is winning, when he is losing."

You had been writing about a man who was choosing pain because he was listening to the false voice of fear. I am finally hearing what you are saying, have been saying all along, that there is something running my life that isn't me. The false self. 

This is incredible, Indira. I must begin to see what is false about myself before I can begin to see what is true. 

Thank you for this deep and mind blowing lesson, my teacher. 

New Open Classroom

I like the new Open Classroom look, Indira. You have added a lot more to it. I like how the school just keeps getting better, expanding with creativity and newness. It never stays the same. Just like we are always growing and changing, like life is always changing. The Open Classroom is a perfect example of this.

Bon Voyage!

Stopping by to wish Indira & Penny a safe and peaceful voyage across the ocean. I am getting a lot out of my current lesson. And appreciating the angelic gems! Love, Kevin

Happy New Year Everyone!

It's been a fantastic past year in the School. I am super thankful for all of you, my classmates, for the school, our teacher, and the angels. This is the best classroom I was ever in. It's like layers of false conditioning are being peeled away, and what a relief it is. I was raised by a Jewish mom and an Irish Catholic dad. Now I'm being raised higher by universal angels. Ha ha. Seriously, have a great new year.