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The Dark Side of “New Age Spirituality”

The new age movement rose in popularity in the late 60’s to early 70’s, though the concepts existed since the second century. It became an agent for promoting peace and ‘oneness’ during a time of social and political upheaval.

According to, Gregg Lahood, Relational Spirituality, Part 2 (2010) , who studies transpersonal psychology and new age proposes in his research that the new age movement was sparked by feminist theology as a way to provide women with a way out.

Using concepts such as ‘not in alignment with me or authentic for me’, mainstream concepts of the new age movement, offered the ability to abandon commitments and expectations without having to feel guilty for it, and the argument that one was following the ‘call of a higher power.’

The movement created shifts and rifts within households and within marriages and the roles of motherhood. The extreme of this looked like parents (both father and/or mother) turning their backs to abuse, to ignoring real problems, and not having the emotional capacity to deal with the turbulence of their children.

Spiritual Narcissism?

Alethia from Lonerwolf, a popular website among spiritual communities describe it as, ‘the Mcspirit of spirituality,’ as she believes it encourages spiritual escapism, creates low commitment and low impact, promotes spiritual consumerism, and creates spiritual narcissism.

Alethia also points out that, ‘new age spirituality provides people with hope, evaluates the role and value of nature, challenges religions, and emphasizes a personal connection with the divine.”

Douglas Groothuis in ‘Unmasking the New Age,’ suggests that new age spirituality is the act of narcissistic self-worship, a similar finding to Alethia. In his book, Douglas focuses on how the new age movement chips at the destruction of traditions, feeds the ego of its divinity, and works to destroy the values that have been passed down for generations.

He expresses this opinion through how the agenda of ‘oneness’, pushed forth from the new age spiritual movement, works to dissolve the uniqueness of a person but also to do away with critical thinking. The destruction of family values is also widely discussed within his findings, which impacts the family unit as a whole.

There is also a tendency for followers to experience isolation, as they no longer find they can connect with others who do not share similar viewpoints or lifestyle choices. This often is seen in those practicing new age spirituality abandoning family units, friends, and support systems that might seek to hold them accountable or grounded into the physical realm.

Fraud or Faith?

Andrew Hatala’s (2021), explores how spirituality, religious, and faith-based practices have impacted mental health in a positive way.

In India, spiritual practices were shown to help patients with schizophrenia find balance and recovery according to the researchers Andrew worked with. However, they discovered that often for chronic activity (depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, mood disorders, physical pain from chronic inflammation or illnesses, etc.) there has to be a continuous involvement of chronic self-help and/or spiritual ‘homework’ to keep the manifestation of the original issue from reappearing.

Which begs the question, do the practices create real long-term shifts? Or are they positive coping mechanisms for a problem that doesn’t truly transcend? Andrew’s findings also brings into the light the possible inexperience of psychiatrists and doctor’s ability to factor in the patient’s personal spiritual and religious practices and how that links and impacts their health.

Thousands of self-proclaimed gurus, shamans, mentors, teachers, and the average Joe flooded the markets with offers that involved healing, miracles, and the obtaining of ‘hidden knowledge’ in exchange for capital. ( I have been guilty of this through my own immaturity).

Derek Beres from Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat, points out that spiritualists from the new age movement often ‘monetize vulnerability at the intersection of catastrophe and evangelism.’

He also emphasizes that many new age spiritualists believe, ‘the world is possessed by evil forces and those who see this clearly are called to foster, in themselves and others, a new spiritual paradigm.’ Derek touches on how society will use spiritual concepts to make health promises in exchange for capital gain.

This was seen during Covid, when spiritualists sold baby bands that were proclaimed to be healing agents of protection. There is a danger of unprofessional spiritualists selling spiritual diagnosis and treatment plans. It could also be argued that these unprofessional spiritualist may truly believe they are doing good, showing up with a sense of purpose, and desiring to help.

Wait, Surely there are SOME positives, right?

Spirituality has overall been considered very helpful for mental health to such an extent that according to (Psychology Today, 2022), an entire new branch of psychology has been developed to embrace spirituality in what is being called contemporary psychology. A recent meta-analysis showed 31 studies that supported spirituality and its positive impact on anxiety, depression, eating-disorders, and stress.

Many followers of the new age movement experience a spiritual awakening, changing mental states and reaching people at an inner core level. A spiritual awakening, according to Psychology Today, is believed to be the process of one recognizing beyond the ‘self’, they are ultimately the piercing of layers of deeper consciousness.

It is reported that these spiritual awakenings can happen abruptly and profoundly or in a very gradual ordinary way. Carl Jung proposed that a spiritual awakening was the only solution to overcoming drug addiction. He believed, according to the findings publishing within Psychology Today, that addicts were frustrated spiritual seekers looking for spiritual wholeness.

Some researchers believe there is no difference between a psychotic breakdown and a spiritual awakening, both experience a loss of self and will have to endure a re-stabilizing period. Other researchers however argue that the two are different experiences, with shared similarities, that often overlap one another (Psychology Today).

The American Psychological Association implies that spirituality is known to improve relationships between spouses and children. The fundamentals of the spiritual practice being implemented often creates more positive approaches to adversity and a belief in the ability to transcend these adversities. It is also proposed that the principles within the new age spiritual movement aims to reconnect one with deeper layers of the ‘self’, leading to spiritual and emotional fulfillment. It could be argued that a fulfilled person is often a happier person, which could imply less anger or emotional dysregulation within the family unit.

Emotional regulation according to the meta-analysis by Peña-Sarrionandia, A., Mikolajczak, M., & Gross, J. J. (2015), often involves emotional intelligence which can pave way for deeper interpersonal relationships.

A Look at Case Studies

Cotton et al. (2006), found that spirituality positively impacted the health of adolescents. He found that youth that held strong spiritual beliefs showed less violent behavior, lower risk of substance abuse, and fewer symptoms of depression.

“Spirituality may be related to the coping strategies that children utilize to manage the events that have occurred in their lives; through spirituality, they may be able to explain, understand, and provide a framework of meaning to the maltreatment events they have experienced” (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984; Weber & Pargament, 2014). 

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Why The Feminine is Vital to Medicine

For a long period of time, the feminine has been ridiculed as one who falls short to her masculine counterpart, often discredited through the label of witchery, madness, and being pressured to conform to the ways the masculine deem acceptable.

This is seen still in the field of medicine.

Witch Hunt

Before the twentieth century, it was argued that as a woman’s intellect developed, her ovaries shrivel. A founding that has since been proved inaccurate, of course!

If a woman understood the body’s call for healing better than the local town doctor, she put herself at risk for the accusation of witchery.

In fact, any showcasing of a skill was considered dangerous.

Just take a look at the Witch of Newbury for proof. Soldiers of the Earl of Essex saw a woman weaving ‘to’ and ‘fro’ on a board, what we call modern day surfing, and ambushed her upon reaching shore; slashing her head, beating her, and ultimately shooting her.

Aristotle even argued that women were colder and weaker than men and that women did not have sufficient heat to boil the blood and purify the soul.

Thus, woman were more likely candidates for witchery then men.

The Feminine Approach vs Masculine

From the data we have currently, it would appear that the masculine is geared towards separation while the feminine is geared towards attachment.

The masculine is threatened by intimacy while the feminine is threatened by separation.

Carol Gilligan, an associate professor at the Harvard School of Education, proposes that the masculine tends to see the world in terms of their autonomy, whereas the feminine tend to see the world in terms of connectedness.

Nancy Chodorow, a respected developmental theorist and researcher, believes that the feminine personality emerge with a deeper basis of ’empathy’ built into their primary definition of self in a way that the masculine do not, perhaps demonstrated by motherhood.

Now, What Does This Have To Do With Medicine?

What most of Western society experiences in the current medical field is doctors who do not remember their name, or who have not built a caregiving relationship to the patient.

Due to possibly the lack of connectivity, empathy, in relation to, and nurturing doctors miss up to 70% of symptoms that reveal anxiety and depression.

Often, the physical ailment is treated without addressing the pre-ailment that led to it, nor is the proper attention to the overall lifestyle of the patient being discussed.

Yet, the feminine is more likely to dive into these areas worth exploring because of the feminine nature to connect and be in relation to.

It is thought that if more feminine values were brought into mainstream medicine, doctors could build stronger relationships with patients more geared toward success, if both the masculine and feminine blended together to create a balanced dynamic.

This would mean bringing cooperation and caring to the existing masculine standards of competition and autonomy.

Currently, many westerners are struggling with maintaining faith in the health care systems and taking their health into their own hands, seeking healers found in the more unorthodox corners of the world.

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What Miracles Are You Calling In?

The miracles we are calling into our lives often reflect our relationship with our desires and what we feel we deserve. If you aren’t envisioning miracles for your life and calling them in, you may just be settling for what feels average for you.

Often, if we have undergone trauma or a life-altering event, we feel just making it each day is enough. We are just so thankful to have gotten through another day within our survival mentality, that the idea of more, much less miracles feels like a luxury.

Climbing the Mountain

It is common when we find ourselves climbing the mountains within our life or struggling through the trenches for our souls to groan on our behalf, crying out to the powers that be, that created it- for something to give, for something to change, for something to move.

These are often the defying moments in our life where we either feel tempted to give up on ourselves or we begin to seek for miracles.

Yet, often we may not be taking the time to clarify the vision. We may not be proclaiming the type of miracle we are needing.

We may be opting out on encircling that miracle in our hearts and making it a holy promise to ourselves.

When we find ourselves climbing the mountain, it is important to reflect if we understand the point of climbing the mountain.

Do we understand why the mountain exists?

Do we understand why we rest on top of the mountain, only to eventually come down from it? Or that we may turn around and climb another.

Going through the Trenches

Maybe it’s not the mountain you are currently facing at the moment. Maybe, it’s the trenches.

The trenches are often the murky, muddy, uncomfortable part of the journey where it feels we’re just moving through the abyss, or some war timeline, where everything feels like a struggle or fight.

Yet the trenches are a vital part of the alchemical journey. Why? Because the trenches are all about the BECOMING.

Sometimes, we may have to take a rest stop. We may need to reach out for help. We may need to pray our way through the trenches.

It does happen that we can forget the point of why we’re climbing the mountain, just to discover we laid down in the trenches and get lost there. We distract, we disown, we dissociate, or we drown ourselves as a way to deal with how uncomfortable the trenches can be.

We manipulate the truth, the storyline, the narrative as a way to indulge ourselves so we can feel justified for choosing to stay in the war timelines.

War Timelines?

Yes, war timelines. The perceptions and filters that keep us engaged in combat, defense mechanisms, and our personal inner hell.

The war timeline often consists of self-defeating thoughts and beliefs, treating love as an enemy, fighting our minds, fighting one another, fighting our inner demons yet never transcending them.

We are never truly at war with anyone or anything, the war always exists within before it can ever exist outside of us.

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How the Energy Body Impacts Health

Our energy body either protects the immune system or leaves it vulnerable.

The other day my schedule was full of phone calls. During a particular call I felt my energy say, “Enough!”

It wanted me to take a break as I had jumped on one call to another.

Despite knowing this, I insisted I finish the calls because I felt it would be unprofessional to reschedule the calls.

The Result?

I went from high exciting energy to feeling completely drained.

Later, I went to visit family who was recovering from a bad cold.

Within hours, the onset of a cold manifested in my body.

Frustrated, I understood why I was now catching the cold.

I did not protect my energy field, I allowed it to leak and be depleted, which left me no vitality to protect my immune system form the cold.

You See?

Our energy field determines our vitality and the ability to keeping illnesses, implants, and attachments away from the physical body.

It was not the germs of the cold that were to blame, it was my weakened energy field that allowed the germs a way in.

All because I wasn’t willing to honor the messages from my energy field which uses the body as a vehicle to transmit those messages.

The energy body is intelligent!

Contributing Factors to Weakened Energy Field

  1. Inability to say no or set boundaries
  2. Alcohol
  3. Drugs
  4. Tobacco
  5. Lack of rest
  6. Lack of fresh air
  7. Lack of exercise
  8. Poor diet
  9. Negative habits
  10. Lack of cleaning and clearing energy body
  11. Overuse of psychic abilities

How it Works

Life-Force energy flows through the subtle body to the chakras and human essence which then impacts the nervous system and endocrine system, which then flows to the blood and organ body, and finally the physical body.

WOW!

So, there are many layers that are worked through before the immune system receives a hit.

Not only is it important to take care of the physical body but the energetic body is actually our first base of defense.

Cleansing Energy

We want to be selective in what we expose ourselves to. Everything, everyone, every sound, and every environment has energy, and we experience energetic exchange in every interaction we have.

For all things are in relation to one another and connected.

What we digest and allow into our energetic body, we become responsible for.

It is vital to be selective with that energy and protect it. This means cleansing it often!

We can use a variety of tools for cleansing through the act of clearing or transmuting energy, being in nature and grounding our energy into mother earth to be cleansed, using water and intentions, or even the use of magnets or rattles.

Even more, you can use sound healing as a way to clean energy.

Energetic Health Facts

A healing crisis occurs whenever the body is need of cleansing.

Most imbalances and physical manifestations arise from some expression of nonlove towards ourselves.

No matter how spiritual you are, or how intelligent, if we do not care for our energy bodies and temples, we will experience physical manifestations of illnesses or disease.

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The Principles of Sound Healing

According to Edgar Cayce, sound healing is the new medicine.

Whether we use sound through music, chanting, prayer, or other means we are still invoking a powerful life force.

Let’s Explore the Principles for Sound!

  1. The Principle of Resonance

This principle designates the ability for a vibration to reach through the vibrational body to set off another similar vibration in another person.

Every cell in our body is a sound resonator.

When two bodies have similar or identical vibrational frequencies, they experience more compatability. An innate sympathy is created between the two.

The individual’s willigness and readiness to respond to a particular frequency will directly impact how the experience is received.

Forced frequencies often result in one’s vibrational state of being overpowering the others.

Knowing the difference between the two while forming relationships will help guide us in which relationships to protect and which ones to break free from.

Rhythm

2. The Principle of Rhythm

Rhythm is used a lot in Shamanic practices. Why? It is believed that rhythm is the pulse of life.

The heartbeat of Mother Earth.

Rhythm can dislodge stuck energy and patterns from the body. It can also energize and heal the body.

It can induce higher levels of consciousness and work like a magnet.

Drum Rhythms can trigger resonance within our own biological rhythms.

Melody

3. The Principle of Melody

Melodies help showcase how everything is connected.

Melodies can relieve pain and relieve stress. It naturally activates the principle of rhythm.

Harmony

4. The Principle of Harmony

Harmony affects our spiritual energies and aligns our energy body with spiritual aspects.

Harmony stablizes all systems in the body and brings them into resonance with one another.

Working with harmony is key to the alchemical process.

We can use harmonizing as a way to correct imbalances within the body.

Pitch

5. The Principle of Pitch

Pitch is determined by the speed at which sound waves vibrate.

If a chakra or part of the body is imbalanced, we can use pitch to bring it back to harmony.

We can stablize the energy body through pitch.

The following is a pitch scale for chakras.

Chakra Pitch Scale

B (Crown)

A (Brow)

G (Throat)

F (Heart)

E (Solar Plexus)

D (Spleen)

C (Base)

Harmony- Harps, Organ, Piano, Chimes

Melody- Flutes, Piano, Strings

Rhythm- Percussion, Bass Tone, Piano

6. The Principle of Timbre

Timbre

6. The Principle of Timbre

Timbre is the quality and influence of sound.

It helps distinguish the difference in sound.

It connects to the energetic perceptions of the body either through consonance or dissonance.

When we respond to dissonance, our energies are distinguishing that the sounds or frequencies is not harmonious for us.

When we repond with consonance, we recognize the sounds and frequencies we are interacting are good for us.

Through practice, we can learn how to listen to our energy field as a guide to making decisions and who to allow ourselves access to.

Accumulative and Detectable Effects

7. The Principle of Accumulative and Detectable Effects

The more we expose ourselves to beneficial sounds, the greater and long-lasting the effect they have upon the energy of an individual.

We call the effects of sound accumulative.

The more we expose ourselves to detrimental sounds, the greater and more negative effects it has upon us on all levels.

Our bodies can discriminate between the two.

If we are resonating with a sound or frequency, we may ask, ‘is this resonance coming from the pain body or my higher consciousness?’

The pain body may be addicted to detrimental sounds and thus resonance it, inspiring more pain body emotions and imbalances.

It is important to pay attention to our responses to sound and the frequencies of others.

Sound as Energy

8. The Principle of Sound as Energy

Sound of any form is a source of energy.

It is a powerful tool that alters the electromagnetic fields and impulses of an individual and their environment.

It can be a tool that provides a solution.

We can use sound to restore homeostasis.

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Entity Attachment Removal

The purpose of this healing modality is to release negative forces especially if it has become threatening to the fundamentals of a person or their foundation.

This is not about driving something out, it is about bringing the person into wholeness consciousness through strengthening one’s energetic, auric, emotional, mental, and physical boundaries.

It is creating space for one to decipher the difference between a “negative” attachment and a spiritual gift trying to open and integrate.

Understanding Energy and Entities

Energy can be overwhelming.

It can often magnetize a person’s thought or belief from a conscious, unconscious, and subconscious level.

This is often the example of compulsive thoughts, obsessive thoughts, or attention disorders.

The reason being is the energy is reflecting back the creative power that is in current operation.

Energy of others or a specific location can contribute to the core of an issue and influence the frequency of another if they’re boundaries and actualization of their truth is weak.

An example being the psychological power of implanting or transferring fear or persuasion into another.

Like a video that is played multiple times, energy vortexes can hold stuck energy that needs transmutation and thus create ‘hauntings’ or evidence of ‘a harmful force’ which is often known as place memory, and can also contribute to another’s frequency being compromised.

A person can also create energy that takes on a life force of its own, a reason why sensitive people can feel unease when stepping into a house that once housed a lot of abuse or addiction, even if the person has no conscious knowing of what occurred within the home prior to them entering.

Therefore, we are responsible for the entities or attachments in our field and environment, simply because we create and hold the space that allows them in.

These above examples are actually proof of energetic imbalances and issues and not of an actual entity.

Actual signs of entity attachments typically involve similar signs seen in excorisms. These signs can range from infested nails, infested homes, frequent sleep paralysis, spiritual and psychic attacks, erupt personality changes, religious zealousness, incest, rape, addiction, and abusive behaviors.

What to do

Once a person has deciphered the difference between an actual entity problem or an energetic problem, one then has to recognize what type of entity they are dealing with, a reason shamans train to identify entities by their name.

If you can name them you can be more empowered through understanding the entity, thus providing the needed solution.

One has to come to an understanding of how the entity became attached, for the attachment is evidence of an established contract.

The entity then has to be cleared out of the body and home through the person not only establishing the new boundaries and cord cutting, but also through implementing new actions to protect their body and energy field, which means not stepping back into the same environment and habits that co-created the attachment of the entity.

This means stepping away from the addiction, leaving behind the abusive relationship, taking responsibility for the trauma, doing the healing work to raise the vibration and essentially make the temple, the body, so healthy and wrapped in truth that it no longer can even house the entity.

The entity cannot be met with fear or religious approach. One has to do the inner work to push the entity out of the energetic field and create such a powerful resilience that the entity cannot return.

No fear

It will not be helpful to see the entity as some scary demonic character from the movies or church records. Nor will entertaining the idea that you are a victim to it, disempowered to it, as that will make the creator, you, believe you cannot overcome the entity, which is your creation.

A bloodline can create an entity, but the being is still responsible as the host.

Understand that the entity is operating as an extension of you, you can reclaim your power and authority over it.

One might have to make immediate changes in their life to support the removal.

One may also bless the home and set boundaries through creating an oil. Preferably organic brands or olive oil. Bless the oil with your intentions, boundaries, and prayer.

Smudge the oil on every door frame, cabinet door, closet door, every window pane, and even the bed frame and pillows.

I will walk through a home with the oil and burn frankinsence while repeating, “All demons, entities, and attachments return to where you come from. You are not allowed in my temple, my home, or around my loved ones in this reality or dimension or any other reality and dimension. I surrender you and my relationship to you on the altar of infinite light.” and I repeat this in every room.

This can be especially helpful if living with others who may not be on board at creating solutions.

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Using Shapes and Sounds for Healing

Shapes and sounds can be used for creating profound healing experiences. We have so many tools at our expense as if the universe ensured there is a way for everyone to find connection and meaning.

The following is a recommendation of shapes and their uses for creating healing containers. Filling those spaces then with sound, especially in relation to the chakras and meridians, can amplify the healing process.

The idea here is to identify the shape you desire to use and create it around you as well as within. This can be done through drawing it, energetic drawing, or the use of candles even. Then fill the shape with the sound of your choice and the intention for the process.

Suggested Shapes

Square- For greater stablity and equilibrium, amplifies and strengths the base chakra.

Triangle- Amplifies and intensifies energies, can heat or cool down energy field, and strongly impacts the spleen chakra.

Circle- Creates an energy vortex of totality and wholeness, harmonizes all of the body including the womb, a direct link to the divine on the inner and outer sphere, and associated with the solar plexus.

Cross- Balances the four elements, impacts the heart chakra.

Crescent- Enhances healing of emotions and problems with expression, brings out the feminine energies of creativity, imagination, and intuition. Associated with the throat chakra.

Six-Pointed Star- Links the heart and mind, the lower and higher self, and brings into alignment the subtle energies. Associated with the heart chakra.

Five-Pointed Star- Promotes balancing and grounding, provides concentration, and with sound creates stronger healing strength.

Seven-Pointed Star- The mystical number, balances all chakras with the physiological systems of the body, creating a vortex that invokes the energies of the planets.

Suggested Sounds

One can even use color healing to apply color to the shape.

Base Chakra involves the sound middle C

Spleen Chakra involves the sound D Major

Solar Plexus Chakra involves E-flat Major

Heart Chakra involves F Major

Throat Chakra involves G Major

Brow Chakra involves A Major

Crown Chakra involves B-flat major.

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Are You Resisting Life?

It took years for me to realize that resisting life was a real concept. Looking back, every shred of evidence is clearly there yet I didn’t understand what I was actually doing.

We resist life when we choose to escape into our inner worlds or into the depths of addiction and impulsive behaviors. We resist life when we choose to disassociate and disconnect. We resist life when we choose to stay in the safety of our small confined spaces that give us the illusion we have some type of control.

We resist life when we allow fear to be the inspiration in why we settle and compromise, why we play ourselves down behind the pretense of ‘humbleness.’

Life is calling you. It is by no mistake that you are here. Your essence was fully equipped to handle the circumstances of life and propel you forward on the earthly journey.

Yet so often, we become so attached to our wounds and fears, so attached to our comfort zones, that we lose sight of the power within us. We lose sight of our capabilities as creators.

Ironically, when we have the urgency to deal with our own resistance, we are still resisting. We resist growth, we resist pain, we resist joy, and sometimes we resist love. Why?

Fear.

No matter how you break your reasonings down, you will find that fear is at the root and sometimes fear takes on different emotions like a piggyback emotion, cleverly hiding itself behind a different sensation or feeling.

It is not your soul or essence that resists life. It is your mind.

The mind looks at things as this way or that, yet the soul simply just looks.

The mind is attached to the pain body.

The mind judges.

The mind creates stories and meanings.

The mind is the addict to stimulation.

When we are butting our heads up against a wall and falling into every emotional and mental struggle, we are resisting life. Instead of swimming up stream, we realize we can flow downstream.

When we choose to stay present we choose alignment with our soul. When we choose to observe our thoughts without judging them, we choose alignment with our soul. When we feel fear and move anyways, we align with soul.

Get out of the mind and stop resisting life. Come to a place of deep peace about the experiences in your life and thank them, for every experience plays a role in the soul’s development, no matter how awful.

I could tell you many stories about many awful things that have occurred in my life, very traumatic experiences, yet they are now only stories and reviving them with my breath of life is pointless because they are in the past, once my conclusions have been made, there is nothing more to hold onto. Otherwise I am choosing to relive a hell based reality instead of my heaven based reality. We choose our heaven or our hell.

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Why Truth Sets You Free

You have likely heard this phrase throughout your life, ‘the truth shall set you free.’

When was the last time you explored in depths why that is?

It is not simply about being a ‘good’ person or doing the ‘right’ thing, it is actually much bigger than that.

When we expose the truth, the way the sunlight hits wet leaves with rotting debris on the floor of a forest, the shadow has less to work with.

The shadow’s grasp of power weakens because the fear of exposure has been resolved.

The exposure allows transmutation of the emotions.

At the core of this, we likely feel a sense of shame and want to control other’s perceptions of us.

Why fear and shame?

We live in a society that leaves little room for our humanity.

Between all the judgements and social agreements on how lifestyles should look, how people should behave, we lose the freedom to be unapologetically human.

The days of persecution are not over if we still feel crucified for baring our soul, including every ‘shortcoming.’ If we cannot compassionately hold space for our human evolution, we cannot hold the space for another.

The whole point of having a human experience is to grow and evolve, perfection has not once been asked of us from spiritual and eternal realms or from the source within, it is only a social demand.

If we were meant to be perfect, we would not be here.

So now what?

Our attention needs to be on the gap between what we feel and believe and our ability to express and expose it.

What is in that gap? What contributes to that gap?

If we recoil from exposure, we step into our own shadows.

We choose disempowerment over empowerment. For empowerment will choose to expose what is hidden in order to transmute the very thing into power.

I will tell you, nothing felt more frightening then the first time I shared every confession I had to confess, in fact, some were so intense I could only write them. Even the ones that were not bound to shame.

There were two ends of a spectrum I discovered; some felt like the most important words I could ever say, as if it was the first time I truly meant them, afraid speaking it will somehow break the most beautifully imperfect dream I had ever dreamt.

On the other end of the spectrum was the fear that another’s perception of me would drastically change and that I would have to feel misunderstood and unwanted.

Both were equally frightening.

When we commit ourselves to being truthful, we are in a place of being able to take radical responsibility and accountability.

We free ourselves because every time we choose to express the truth, we build that honest muscle within and it becomes easier, and easier to do.

To express the truth however; we first need to understand what our truth is, for we often gaslight ourselves.

We have to actually understand ourselves in order to know the difference between what is true and what is the imitation of truth.

If we choose commitment to our truth, we choose to value ourselves more than the perceptions others have of us. We are willing to accept that those who will not respect our truth may leave, and those who will may stay. We become okay with this. We are so dedicated to the honoring of our essence that living in truth becomes the only acceptable way for the self.

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The Psychic Power of Dreams

Dreams may be one of the most dismissed phenomenas I have observed yet.

Science claims that everyone dreams, yet only a percentage will remember.

Our shadows can either eat our dreams or help create them. If the dreams are being eaten, then they are hiding in the unconscious.

My experience with dreaming

I suffered from nightmares as a child.

Other times, I had the most beautiful fantasy themed dreams. More than often, I had dreams where I had to train with one of my spirit guides, a voice that taught me in my sleep. I had to turn monsters into flowers before they could eat me, or I had to push myself off the ground and hover mid-air over the dangerous object below.

A voice often gave me clear instructions and I had to repeat the dream until I got the objective completed.

This meant lucid dreaming, astral projecting, and all before I even knew those were even a thing.

I grew up in a christian home where I could only digest christian and biblical information. It was a huge discovery when I found out these experiences had actual names and that others had them as well.

Dreams provide many clues about our shadow, what is needing worked on and transcended, self-fulfilled prophecies, and insight into the timelines we are on.

We, humanity, tend to dismiss dreams as jumbled nonsense. Yet if one took the time to interpret their dreams, no matter how mundane or ordinary, they would be surprised at how much information the dream is offering about what is occurring in one’s psyche and life. They may even be more surprised that clues of the solution is also offered.

How is this relatable?

Let’s look at some common dream themes so I can explain deeper!

Houses represent the temple, the kitchen specifically represents beliefs. How the house feels in the dream, how it looks, is a huge insight into the state of your being. If it is old and dusty, it is saying that you are holding onto too much of the past and it no longer gives you life to hold onto it.

If the house feels sad or deserted, the temple is not being given the proper attention and care.

If faucets are leaking in the house, if water is flooding the rooms, then the temple is being drowned with too many emotions that aren’t being processed and resolved, where one is just creating emotions and then swimming in their fishbowl.

Bodies of water represent the emotional body. The color of the water, the way it feels, is all symbolic of what your emotional state is and your current relationship to it.

Chasing dreams involve a piece of your past or something important demanding to be faced, there is something in your life that you need to overcome and as long as you keep running, it will continue to manifest into your life.

If you can find the capacity to turn and face the object chasing you, you will often find that the object suddenly changes into something less threatening because you faced it.

Dreams and the psyche

Dreams can introduce alchemy, the act of transmuting and transcending, and the tools you need in your waking life to reach higher timelines.

The dreams may also help reflect the actual state of your environment and your relation to the people involved.

Sometimes, they accurately show us real events as a means to help our compass understand the direction we need to take.

Dreams also reveal patterns and we desire to discover our patterns because they are the signposts of the programming we are creating from.

I always encourage people to keep a dream journal and actively write in it every time you remember a dream, no matter how boring or awful it was.

If you cannot remember your dreams, start meditating on what is blocking your dreams, consider asking your mind to recall your dreams before falling asleep.

It is suggested that sleeping on a lighter stomach instead of a full stomach can help induce dreams.

Dissect your dreams and you will learn so much about yourself. They will lead you to freedom.

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