Prior to the previous solar eclipse over North America in 2017, I really had no opinions about such events.  It was my first.  Following many recommendations at that time to take advantage of the "special energy" during the eclipse, I brought all my jewelry outdoors to "charge" it.  As I found out, however, this jewelry (specifically, the metals) then irritated me so much that I haven't been able to wear it ever since!  I began to research and think much about this.  The answer, to me, is very clear:  These energies are simply NOT positive!  In fact, the absence of light very seldom is.

My experience during the 2017 eclipse was that nature held its breath, even fearfully so.  Not a breeze, not a sound, save some crickets who thought it was nighttime.  No movement or wildlife, not even squirrels.  Gloomy atmosphere foretelling of doom!  I learned later that, historically, civilizations tended to regard solar eclipses as "bad omens."  The gloomy MOOD outside and the strange darkness reminded me of yet another event many years prior, when I witnessed the return of periodic cicadas (which some also call locusts).  I had gone outside to tend to my garden, totally unprepared and then stopped abruptly:  The silence was eerie!  It was ALIVE!  I felt nature being entirely still and, almost trembling....afraid!  It also was dark, although there was no rain in the forecast and all felt gloomy as during the solar eclipse.  And then I saw them, the first ones, hanging at the side of trees in order to dry off, with more and more crawling up everywhere.  Several hours later, I guess the process was complete and the sun emerged again.  And then these critters descended on all the trees, including fruit trees, causing significant damage.  Most interestingly--would you believe it?--2024 marks the return of BOTH, 13-year and 17-year cicadas, SIMULTANEOUSLY!  Be prepared for tremendous tree damage and reduced fruit crops!  The damage of trees can usually be absorbed by a healthy forest.  However, at this time, after decades of toxic spraying in our skies, our forests are already dying, unable to breathe, root systems clogged, and infested with fungi.  Will the cicadas this year finish them off?

When I searched my mind for other, similarly gloomy mood in nature, I remembered an old TV series:  "Tales from the Dark Side," about a world similar to ours, "just not so brightly lit"--remember?  How different the appearance and mood was in these episodes from a starry, moonlit night which would feel perfectly uplifting and inspiring!  I conclude that periods of solar eclipses (and the emergence of periodic cicadas) represent dangerous hours during which creatures from the underworld can enter our realm to then pester us, as cicadas pester trees.  BEWARE!  I would caution people to protect themselves (symbolically) with the "PASSOVER blood of the lamb," marking our doors!  This means we make an energy cross of light over every doorway, while calling upon Christ.  I shall clothe myself with the spirit of Christ and stay mostly indoors during these periods.  Even thereafter, going forward, we need protection more than before.  As I said, solar eclipses may be foretelling great political upheaval and other unfavorable changes.  God bless!

"S/He who rejects wisdom and love, is choosing suffering instead.

S/He who confuses love with evil intent, will have to experience evil, until it is recognized as such.

The art of distinction between the two is learned by experiencing the effects each has on one's life."

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"Wer sich der Liebe und der Weisheit verschliesst, der will noch leiden.

Wer Weisheit und Liebe mit Boshaftigkeit verwechselt, der muss Boeses erleben, bis dass er es als solches erkennen lernt.

Man lernt die wahre Natur der Dinge zu erkennen an deren Auswirkungen auf das eigene Leben."

 



Today, I am thinking of one very particular turkey who--through a remarkable visitation--taught me a valuable lesson over twenty years ago.  You know, in the Native American tradition, the turkey is a symbol of "Give-Away," i.e., giving and sharing.

As a busy housewife in a gorgeous house with magnificent gardens and nature, I was in my snow-white kitchen, working away, as always.  Lately, I had become a little tired of the abundant work with house and garden which kept me tied to the property almost non-stop.  That day, occasionally, I was looking out the window above the sink which provided me with a view of a meadow extending to an original farm fence beyond.  A very peculiar turkey sudenly caught my eye.  It wasn't the turkey that was so peculiar but, rather, his behavior.  He was running inside the fence, alongside, back and forth, as if trapped.  He seemed to be getting more and more frantic, although there was plenty of space for him to get out of my garden, either by going underneath or between the wires.  And, what about simply taking flight and go OVER the fence?  I kept watching for some time, but the turkey's behavior didn't change.  "How odd," I thought but had to get ready to leave the house for an appointment in town.

Soon, I was backing out of the garage in order to leave.  Behind me was a turn-around space we had created with a huge do-not-park-sign" painted on it.  I pulled on it to turn around to leave, when I noticed that the same turkey was now on THAT side of the house, again at the fence, running back and fro, as if trapped.  I was shaking my head in disbelief and amazement and started to drive away.  In my rear view mirror, I could then see that the turkey gave up his signalling, stepped right on the "do-not-park-sign" and...flew up high and away.  So he DID know how to fly!  He remembered, or was there something else going on?

On my way into town I kept reminiscing about these strange events and remembered that, when an animal visits you and tries to get your attention, IT IS BRINGING YOU A MESSAGE FROM SPIRIT.  All at once, the message was clear:  The one running back and forth, feeling trapped in my own, self-made glass-palace-prison... was I!  I had forgotten that I once could FLY.  I was reminded of my wings and invited TO FLY AGAIN.  And, like the turkey, I was to go and share myself with the world beyond the confines of this house and property which had become somewhat of a burden to me, tying me down unduely.  Voila.  This was the message and gift from this magnificent bird.

Eventually, I followed the call I received that day which had started a countdown of sorts.  Although I understood that day that I had to do this, leaving that life would still turn out to be the hardest thing I ever had to do.

My own photo:  A new tree growing inside the trunk of an old, fallen tree.

Mass shootings have been plaguing America. While much of the public discussion focuses on guns and gun control, NRA and 2nd Amendment rights, I was having a few different thoughts, in an attempt to address the larger problem, holistically:

The more our nation spends on armament, police force and on the military, the more militant our youth seems to become.  Our current administration has appropriated a huge new budget for our military, and school shootings increased, and bombs were delivered to political opponents.  The more the military focuses on overkill, on ever deadlier technologies and weaponry, the more individuals will associate weapons with power--perhaps other countries feel the same way and follow suit as well.  America owns an arsenal of death, perhaps second only to Russia.  Available numbers are not conclusive about this.  There are conflicting reports on which country has a larger arsenal of nuclear warheads.  In fact, it's impossible to find out the current status and if real efforts at mutual disarmament are taking place as warranted by the 2010 New START Treaty.  Statistics published by Wikipedia, The Ploughshares Fund, The Federation of American Scientists and The Huffington Post vary as widely as 3,800 to 9,800 warheads in the US currently, with 4,350 to 12,000 owned by Russia, and a total global arsenal from 14,575 to ca. 25,440.  Some say that America and Russia possess comparable numbers of nuclear warheads.  But together, they surely possess more than 90% of the world's nukes.  Since the US once, in 1967,  had as many as 32,040 nukes, it seems to be true that we have made "efforts to reduce nuclear weapons for the last 35 years," as CNN reported on 12/10/18.  

Be this as it may, with only 300 of them, "90 million...would die within the first half hour," and "9,600 nuclear warheads...could instantly massacre 2.88 BILLION people and leave most of the rest slowly dying in a nuclear wasteland.  Isn't this a bit excessive?...asks Lawrence Wittner in his HuffPost Blog on 5/25/2011.  Of course, I haven't even mentioned biological, chemical and weather warfare methods, or the over 1,000 nuclear testing detonations on US soil, with untold, long-lasting, toxic effects.

In summary, America is the most weaponized country on earth, spending more on its military than many other countries combined.  We are also the only country who has used nuclear weapons in warfare--TWICE! 

We the people are mostly unaware of our nation's arsenal and types of weapons, of their reach, power and effect, and WE THE PEOPLE have not been involved in approving any of it.  At the same time, few of us have any idea on how many active wars we are involved in at any given time, how much we contribute to people's dying, suffering and/or being displaced, also when we sell weapons to other countries. I encourage you to view some film footage on the effects of nuclear explosions (soldiers could see, through their closed eyes, the bones in their hands, as they were trying to shield their eyes from the flash, among other effects), or of Nepalm, Agent Orange, and many other gruesome weapons we have employed, aimed at maximum human damage.  All the while, we attempt to raise our children to be peaceful, cooperative and forgiving, disregarding the horrific contradiction between what we preach and what we collectively do or support, directly or indirectly, often due only to non-participation in government and politics.

It helps to remember that children will do as their leaders do, regardless of what those leaders say, and children also tend to affiliate and allign themselves with the most powerful figures they know.   If more of us knew what all is done with our tax dollars to actually guide the world into intimidation via deadly force and power, we would scream!  And by doing so, we'd truly be agents of peace and lead our youth back to the values we espouse, yet which can't be achieved with firepower and weapons built to annihilate life on earth.  

Building weapons in the hope they'd never be used is INSANITY.  The only weapon never used is the one which was never created. If a gun wasn't meant to be fired, we wouldn't have equipped it with a trigger.  There wouldn't be a red telephone or nuclear codes.  And if our youth weren't preoccupied with war, power and destruction, there wouldn't be all the computer games and movies featuring nothing but.

Let us rethink not only what values we wish to pass on to the next generation, but also how we want to teach them, with our behaviors matching our speech.  Last but not least, we must be clear on who is teaching the children.  Whom are they following and imitating, really?  No one with undue firepower can be a good role model for peace and respect for life.

It's a downright miracle that not more people are, in fact, aggressive and militant.  Still, domestic terrorism is on the rise, as are right and left extremists and those who would favor the bombing of North Korea.  What still holds us in check, I believe--by a hair, it seems--is our desire and need to think of ourselves and of our nation as "decent people."  And I do believe that people are, in fact, inherently decent, but also very afraid of "power" ourselves, feeling either insignificant or else willfully ignorant and non-participatory in democratic processes.  If we continue along this road, we will continue to reap what we got:  Ever more aggression and violence.  Our involvement and self-education (or re-education?) is inevitable for the development of a new decency and civility.

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The sky above Greenville, SC, during fall of 2017 and nearly every day. My own photo.

If you have read Elana Freeland's books and followed her and Dane Wigington's audio and video reports, like I have, you will probably conclude:

​"IT'S ALL TOO LATE NOW."

Perhaps it is.  But we could still lessen some of our worst suffering--staggering new illnesses and general, mental & physical depletion and dumbing down--if we stood up against such things as 5G technology and smart meters; if we reduced WiFi and cell phone usage; if we got rid of GPS, microwave ovens, surveillance systems and electronic pest control in our houses.  We could be eating organically only, eliminating sugar, fluoridated water and most dairy, and we could eat grass-fed, organically raised meats only, if eating meat at all.  In addition, we can strengthen body, mind and spirit by meditating regularly.  We can choose to stay out of the sun or cover up when outside.  We can omit aerobic, outdoor sports to avoid inhaling more toxins falling from the sky than we absolutely have to.  We can detox regularly, using Chlorella, Zeolite, and Silica.  And we can and should refuse additional vaccines and any pharmaceutical medications, if at all possible.

At this point, no one is offering any real solutions which would stop this world from becoming ever more toxic.  So why do brave advocates continue to talk about the issues of climate engineering, solar radiation management, weather modification programs, morgellons and other biological agents raining on us?  Why do we go on to warn of electromagnetic pollution from technologies, DNA alteration, surveillance programs and efforts of steering all of our bodies and minds externally?  

​Based on my spirit connection and sight, I believe that wide-spread awareness of these happenings will produce understanding and even RELIEF....

WHEN GOD FINALLY INTERVENES.
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When we are eventually facing a celestial object coming at us from the sky, those of us who have been aware and suffering, will be filled with gratitude instead of fright, because we know that God is stopping anti-life developments on earth which we ourselves were unable to stop.  While many who unwittingly or knowingly participate in the world's demise or are entirely oblivious, will experience panic, we will rejoice instead.  A planetary object with earth-bound course has been sighted since, at least, 1988 or 1989.  But since then, man-made cloud cover has consistently been covering up the huge ozone holes and our sight into vast space.  Or have you seen many stars lately, let alone the Milky Way?  Perhaps one or the other of you remembers how we were glued to the TV for 24 hours,  after the last broadcasted sighting (ca. 1998) , until 10 French scientists were found the next day who refuted the collision course but not the planetary object itself.  I heard nothing further thereafter and--as if mass-hypnosis had taken place--most people don't remember this event at all.  But the streets were swept clean, with people indoors and watching TV, for one night of great tension.

What will appear as an utter disaster to many, may actually be our salvation!  It is increasingly clear that man, by and large, is no longer willing or able to make enough changes to render such a confrontation and "intervention from above" unnecessary.  Too many people have been asleep for way too long and fallen into apathy or into the "economic survival" race.  We have long stopped co-governing our country and our living conditions, most of which are imposed and shrowded in great secrecy.  We cannot even discern with certainty who and what is responsible for it all or find  competent authorities to speak to, to even register ideas or complaints.  Government scientists have stopped talking to us, and hired meteorologists on TV have become mere script readers.  The topics of the day are completely unrelated to our ability to continue life on earth, haven't you noticed?  Stupid, stupid, short-sighted people still go for making a quick fortune on the backs of people, our children, the earth and of life itself!

So, you see, that advocacy and spreading awareness still has great spiritual meaning, in that it shapes our response to and comprehension of divine intervention, which is close at hand.  Our hearts and minds will not fight it or suffer shock.  And when we meet our maker, we shall know that we 
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STOOD FOR SOMETHING.
WE HAVE PROFILE AND CHARACTER.
GOD CAN RECOGNIZE US.
​WE STOOD FOR LIFE!

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And God spoke to me:  "So, when you see the celestial body before your face, just like the recent eclypse, know that I am near.  I am undoing harm for you, which you wouldn't do for and by yourselves.  Know that your everlasting spirit will not be affected by the happenings and try not to panic, for I am near, saving the earth and saving you from yourselves and the gruesome oppression by a few who will be no more.  Hold on to me in your hearts, throughout, my children!  I will greet you on the other side and recouperate you at my table, lavishly decked out, just for you!  There, you will gradually discover where and how things went wrong and learn from the experience.  AMEN."

July 31...What a beautiful summer day in South Carolina! Perfect, indeed.  Warm, breezy, trees rustling softly, many birds silent now in the midday heat.  Or, perhaps, that's due to the bird feeder's being empty?

My dog, Lucy, and I harmonize all morning, walking twice, with food in between.  Then, for the first time in a long while, I draft an article, Lucy sleeping quietly as I write, followed by another walk with Lucy, with her mostly just wanting to lie beneath the big oak tree next to my house.  She has a point:  I, too, notice how good the breeze and energy feel there!  I realize that, after so much time on my deck, she misses lying with her belly directly on Mama's cool soil.  And, frankly, I long for walking barefoot on Mama, too, if it weren't for all those wicked fire ants.

I feel strangely sleepy after all this and take a brief nap.  Lucy is avoiding the bedroom now after the episode two days ago, when she encountered her mirror image in a large mirror there.  She was quite spooked. 

Now, back on my deck, I can't shake the feeling and thought:  "We never know when we experience our last happy, perfect day.  At the time, we see it just as another okay day" (Movie:  The Fault in our Stars).  I remember also how happy I was at times during my childhood during a summer day, just like this one, with buzzing insects and exhausted, fully-grown plants holding their breath in the heat.  They long for the coolness of evening to resurrect themselves again.  Back then, it was the fields with fully grown wheat and turnips, radiating a special glow, sprinkled with blue cornflowers and red poppies throughout.  Yes, those were the summers of my youth.

Now, I smile as Lucy watches first falling leaves floating down from everywhere onto my deck.  Her eyes reveal she's never witnessed anything of this kind, and she "watches TV" through the spokes of the railing, as she observes every movement and scent in the garden below, like a fascinating movie.  Yes, I am happy.  No geo-engineering for a second day in a row, which brought a lovely breeze to my location, less humidity and..some natural clouds--Yippeee!  Such a great feel and wonderful, rare sight!  Just as I write this, chemical cloud formations and pieces of left-over chemtrails from elsewhere are drifting into the picture:

"Remember summer," I hear the voice of my spirit.
"Remember this summer," whisper the trees.  "Soon, the skies will be yellow, as on Venus.

I get up to water my garden.  The smell of the sprinklers are mixing with steam of the soil, rising to my deck, during the glow of late afternoon sun.  "Yes, I shall remember this," I promised, as chattering gold finches flutter by.  I pluck some crisp lettuce and kale from my veggie bed for supper, complete with radishes and cucumber, a pepper and some dill.  Lucy is fed and sleeping again.  The bird feeder is full again, too.  Everything watered and standing tall, except for the sunflowers hanging their heads, pregnant with seeds:

PEACE.

All through July, Schiff has aired a TV commercial for "Digestive Advantage."  According to "the nutritionist" in this commercial, two thirds of Americans are suffering from indigestion today...REALLY?!  The ad falls short of asking, "Good God, what a baffling figure!  I wonder why this is so???"  Instead of asking pertinent questions, it simply offers a pill.  And this is often the sum total of today's "sick care."  I call it "sick care" because the treatment is sick, i.e., lacking vital inquiries, and because the patient remains sick, merely making his/her symptoms a bit more bearable by taking pills daily.  

Pertinent questions may include:

• 1.  Is it just possible that chronic, widespread indigestion coincides with the infiltration of our food supply with genetically engineered or modified organisms (GMO'S), which is to say organisms entirely concocted in chemical laboratories, never before known to man, which have nothing to do with FOOD?
• 2.  Could our unnatural, sedentary lifestyle have something to do with the body's inability to digest?
• 3.  To take a holistic view, does the patient have a general inability or unwillingness to "digest" conditions of life which may be (perceived as) simply intolerable?

This last question is particularly important because people often try to "digest" problems with or in the gut that really can only be solved using the head and heart.  The idea that we simply must tolerate intolerable conditions just may be part of such an issue, as is our resigned acceptance of GMO's and the feeling that we are powerless to do anything about them.  Then, of course, the gut simply has to deal with whatever we serve it, literally and figuratively.  And it rebels, as it should.

I pay attention to TV ads, as they reflect how people at large are thinking or being made to think.  Consider also, for example, ads asking people to march and raise funds for Alzheimer's research, because we really do want to find "a cure" (pill) for this terrible disease which has risen significantly in recent years!  A cure...Really!?  Do we honestly think a cure will be found without looking into environmental factors, i.e., poisons deliberately introduced in massive amounts into the air, water and soil, over the past 25 years, via weather modification programs?  Don't we think that the correlation is significant between dumping thousands of tons of bioavailable aluminium in the air via airplanes, on the one hand, and the startling rise of asthma, Autism and Alzheimer's, on the other?

Besides, does it occur to us that we are being asked to raise the funds...

1. ...For ailments caused this way, yet without addressing the causes?  How successful do we think such research will ultimately be, keeping all other things constant?
2. ...For medical "solutions" which are then sold back to us at an outrageous price, driving our sick care system and insurance expenses further into the ground.  If we raise those funds, shouldn't the research results automatically belong to us?
3. However, do we even want so-called solutions which claim they are finally addressing "the causes" (for cancer, via immuno-therapy, for example, which can itself cause death), but fail to effect the reduction and removal of carcinogens from our environment?  Does cancer treatment without addressing carcinogens make any sense at all?  And do we even want the technologies to "treat" cancer which destroy our healthy shield--the human electromagnetic bodies--as radiation does, for example?

I believe we could and should be marching for an entirely different cause, i.e., one that is aimed at eliminating known toxins and radiation from our environment.  There is something wrong with us if we keep producing one life-destroying innovation after another, testing it on the masses and wait for the fallout, and to rather deal with a few law suits here and there, but generally making and keeping us sick.  Why is it that we are carrying the burden of proof to establish a link between inventions which have been unleashed on the world and ill effects on our health and life support systems, when it is well known that plastics and pesticides (and many other things) are carcinogenic, and that fluoride and many metals are neurotoxins, that atomic power plants leak radioactive materials and that our modern, electronic technologies all radiate us to death?  To top it all off, we are the ones paying dearly for our own ill demise, when purchasing commodities and services utilizing such things, or when we participate in producing and spreading them.  We pay to acquire them, we tolerate their use; and then we pay again with our health, and for so-called "cures" and "treatments" which we also helped fund to develop!  Ultimately, we pay with our lives.  Is it any wonder our bodies and minds have problems living thus insanely?  Is it any wonder we suffer from "INDIGESTION," to say the least???

We must make a choice, using our heads, and then take heart:  Do we continue to force our organism to adapt to such sick circumstances-- which it obviously cannot tolerate much longer--or do we make an attempt to CHANGE SOMETHING ABOUT THESE CIRCUMSTANCES?

​You choose.





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My own baby picture--beginning life with all channels open and all senses intact.

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"Is intuition different from instinct," you may ask?  The answer is, "Yes."  Instinct has a biological basis, while intuition is property of Spirit.  Intuition comes from the spirit world, at times directly from God, in communication with our own spirit spark which we carry in our hearts.  Contrarily, instinct stems from our body's language, communication from and with cells, and signals from much smaller particles--chemical substances in the body, hormones, metals and the star dust our bodies are made of.

Both instinct and intuition provide valuable information to our mind/soul.  In turn, the soul or mind mediates between body and spirit.  This communication is multi-directional which makes it difficult at times to separate instinct from intuition.  However, in truth, our intuition  is our most direct telephone line to the heavens and our spirit guides, while instincts provide primarily guidance regarding physical wellbeing, safety and continuation of our species.  Both are our gifts and birthright and aimed at keeping us on our chosen pathh.  Much of our current-day suffering stems from deafened and dumbed-down instincts and intuition.  As a result, we have become mostly outer-directed, whhich means we increasingly have become dependent on what others say...the news, elected leaders, medical doctors, scientists and spokespeople of organizations.  We believe them blindly--or not; yet if we do not, we seem doomed to a life of deep mistrust.

Still, we DO have a built-in mechanism for discerning truth--ALL truth:  Our intuition!  It is time we remember and revive our long lost gifts which we gambled away by submerging ourselves too deeply in matter and material things, just like the porodigal son did in the biblical story.

Instincts become disturbed by many things which are commonplace in modern societies, foremost synthetic fragrances, artificial colors, "food" which is no longer food and also laden with toxic chemicals upon chemicals, synthetic clothing, chemically concocted homes and furnishings, plastics and NOISE.  In addition, wireless technology and radiation disturb the senses--these technologies, too, represent NOISE and have a direct impact on our electromagnetic mind/soul and kill or alter nerve cells.  The body now reacts to "endocrine disruptors" in producing hormones, for example, and to a multitude of environmental, chemical cues which it attempts to decipher.  Every light bulb and electric circuit delivers information to the body, brain and mind, as do ELF's and other "waves" and electro-magnetic frequencies.  As a result, the body is understandably confused in distinguishing actual versus artificialy stimulated needs.  Instead of giving us cravings for spinac, for example, when the body lacks iron, it may now signal fatigue and a lack of sleep, or nothing at all.  So, to return to our natural instincts, we must, first and foremost, detox and then make changes to our nourishment and living environment.  Healthy instincts will return in time, as everyone is sure to discover.

Spirit speaks to us in the quiet of the heart, also away from environmental voices and influences, and the communication begins with a prayer, i.e., a heartfelt desire to communicate with the spirit world.  This also requires that we make time for such endeavors and consider them possible, in the first polace.  The desire and corresponding prayer create not only an open window in one's mind, but also a path on which communication can travel and be received. All answers are constantly surrounding us; yet, without the proper question, we will never notice them! Many say, "If God is all-knowing, then He knows what I need and desire.  Why doesn't He just provide it?"  Thereby, they forget to pave a road for spirit rays to reach us in our hearts.  Alas, we must ask for help and guidance, and then patiently await the response, while continuing a daily spiritual discipline, routine and/or rituals.  Input equals output, and "Ask, and you shall receive."

In my own life, bio-energy work has proven as the most effective tool in helping me re-discover spirit and intuition.  During energy work, we relax sufficiently to learn to switch to different brainwaves while staying awake.  Energy work also ensures our Chakras are open and rotating adequately.  Relaxation, calmness and a functioning subtle energy flow throughout the entire organism are cruical elements for spirit communications, as all occurs on the level of consciousness, in subtle energy realms.

After several months of weekly subtle-energy sessions, my therapist and I had been engaged in discussions about the EGO.  One particular day, I remarked sadly that--if it weren't for the ego--I wouldn't have a reason to get up in the morning.  "What else IS there," I asked?  BOOM!  This question sufficed to open the door for Spirit to provide answers:  In an instant, something in my heart moved, enlarged and welled up into my throat, and it almost choked me.  Simultaneously, tears ran down my face.  I could FEEL AND SEE (!) this golden entity in my chest, just waiting to finally be discovered and allowed to speak.  This moment changed my entire life and outlook.  Since then, I've been living for and by Spirit.  Every time Spirit speaks, it moves, enlarges and brings tears to my eyes (this is the feeling of, "My cup runneth over").  Life has never been dull or hopeless again while engaging in constant dialogue and observing keenly within and without for guidance and answers.  At times, these answers come as clear words, usually in my predominant language, but other languages may also be used, perhaps to instill even more awe than I already experience on a daily basis.  And it is this spirit dialogue, and wisdom gained from it, which I call INTUITION.​

Once the Spirit is discovered, consciously felt, embraced and invited to speak, in its own voice, our intuition develops or returns, gradually, on a trial and error basis.  This means we sometimes go with its guidance and act as nudged by it, and sometimes we do not, and then we compare the results...according to, "WE SHALL RECOGNIZE THEM BY THEIR FRUIT."  Logical or not, we will discover that we are always guided well by this voice.  Spirit will never betray us, although it may sometimes seem that way at first.  But, in the long-run, if I follow its dictates, the good for all involved will be served.  The outcome may not always be what I had dreamed of, as that outcome also depends on cooperation of others and on THEIR degree of spirit-connectedness.  However, we can be sure that it was what Spirit had us do, according to, "THY WILL, NOT MINE, BE DONE."  And, before we know it, a clear path and direction will emerge for our life, along with  true inner-directedness and independence from outside voices, and with ample support from the universe for our endeavors.

(By Rev. Lilo Bauer-Freitag, M.A., CLC, May 2017)

"Thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life. We take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto.  But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of the morning.  For what was great in the morning, will be little at evening.  And what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie."
(Dr. Wayne D. Dyer, "The Shift")