I suddenly started looking up John Lennon quotes on Goodreads the other day – which helped inspire me to write this article. I didn’t know then that it was the anniversary of his tragic death – I only found that out a day later when I started seeing posts on Facebook that made it obvious that a lot of my friends had also been looking him up and replaying his music. I don’t think it was just a co-incidence that I made that connection, I do think that his spirit is still very much with us in our attempts to find better ways of being at peace with ourselves, and living more in harmony with the planet.
As I co-administrate a Facebook open group called ‘Back to The Garden’ some of his quotes were particularly relevant – such as “I’m not really a career person; I’m a gardener, basically.” Also, “The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.” Our group is already named ‘Back to The Garden’ because of the 60s song ‘Woodstock’ which says “We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden”. Our aim is to share information to help us try to live sustainable lives by creating supportive local communities, and to participate in global meditation link-ups to help influence the collective consciousness towards achieving this. We also share creative inspiration to help express our ideas.
So, back to my original article – which basically shows why I think John Lennon is such a great example to us all – of how to truly be ourselves.
John Lennon was such a thoroughly REAL person. His quotes reflect all sides of human nature, from the sad and withdrawn, to the desperately painful, to the angry, to the loving and celebratory, and from the arrogant to the humble, as well as from the serious to the exuberant humour-filled sheer absolutes of expression. We all have many sides to our nature but we tend to try to pretend that we don’t, mostly because we are afraid to show some of it. Does society make us think that if we remain on a bland even-keel we are more agreeable to others? Surely we are more interesting if we share what we truly feel? It’s perfectly possible to be honest without being horrid. Why can’t we just accept all of it and be this real? Okay, we don’t all need to be huge public characters, but we can be quietly firm about who and how we choose to be.
Another quote of John Lennon’s which is staggeringly beautiful in its stark honesty is “When you’re drowning, you don’t think I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I’m drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.”
If you are facing a period of ‘depression’, why not allow that to simply be for a while? I generally have 3 days of it every now and again. I learned from a very early age to manage it. You could say it was artistic temperament, but it isn’t just that – we all have natural cycles energetically and physically, which affect us emotionally, and I believe we are better off listening to these than trying to deny them. (Of course, you should look after yourself with good nutrition, exercise, and the right amount of sleep, because imbalance in these areas can exacerbate or oven trigger such periods.) I give myself permission to let it happen and actually explore it – I write or paint myself through it. I don’t do anything I don’t want to – I just live with it. Okay, so I don’t usually publish what I’ve written at such times – but I do learn from it – and I am well aware that I am processing emotion, dealing with it – not trying to suppress it. I know that after the 3 days it will go again because I have given it the space to play through. Often, I make positive changes in my life after these stages – so they are like transition phases. I seem to gather strength and insight from actually allowing them to really work through, and somehow grow from the experience. Perhaps by allowing the darker side its space, I then get recompense by gaining access to more of the light, because sometimes it is straight after one of these periods that I produce my best work. Maybe if we looked at it as if we are like snakes shedding skins so that we have room to grow some more, we could learn to process these phases naturally, we could all deal with them. Maybe they wouldn’t hang around then – we could trust ourselves to get through them – not let them overwhelm us, or leave us stuck half in half out – we could go into them fully and come out the other side. I think it is healthy to allow one’s self to honestly explore all sides of your nature, as that is probably the only way you can truly get to know and trust yourself. I think that is why I love John Lennon so much – he trusted himself to be real – and he told the truth.
Art of any form – music, writing, painting, are the most obvious ones, but there are many more, (and we don’t have to be ‘artistic’ to express ourselves, you could just write letters you may never post, or notes to yourself) – any of this helps us to truly face the world and explore it and the human psyche. We may begin with ambivalence, but we soon become fearless if we explore thoroughly enough. We become powerful in ourselves because we are learning to understand ourselves. We can’t ever really hope to understand everything around us, but we can learn to understand ourselves in relation to anything else. If we know what we stand for and how we feel about things – then that never changes no matter what else changes around you – you become like a rock, yet at the same time feel floatingly free. (Of course if you do learn from new information and experiences or learn to respond differently to situations, your outlook does evolve, but you are still the floating rock that is you growing as part of the conscious universe).
You know we need variety in life to make it interesting. There has to be variety to even enable us to exist as individuals. So you stop blocking it off – you accept your curiosity and begin to explore, and the more you do this, the more you tend to then celebrate and appreciate the variety. You also accept your vulnerability, yet at the same time feel incredibly strong because you have opened fully to life. Life feels magical – even in its madness and confusion – it is staggeringly intoxicating.
So let’s grasp the bull by the horns and dare to be real – you’ll be amazed how great it will feel…. Not to be sucked in any more, not be afraid any more. You will feel powerful, filled with energy, draw yourselves up, and take control of who you want to be.
Neale Donald Walsch said “You are all in the process of defining yourselves. Every act is an act of self definition.“
Ralph Waldo Emerson said “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
And Shakespeare said “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
John Lennon also said “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
But wait a minute, just as with Lennon (and many others) – those in power don’t want us to be real do they? They want us to go on consuming their goods (with poisons in them), and watching TV (with all the pap they’d like us to believe). They want us to feel powerless so that they can continue to lead us blindly into wars and other money making schemes, and so that we accept their laws and judgements, instead of questioning them or standing up for ourselves and our rights. If we are real then we become a threat to them, and they feel a need to deal with us – exactly, you got it – but now there are too many of us, and things are going to have to change. If we stop listening to them, if we stop using their systems, and simply walk away – that is all that is needed.
Then we will look after each other at community level – ensure we are can access healthy food, work together at projects that sustain us – not them – keep things local – it makes much more sense. Trade our skills, make things that last, that don’t waste raw materials and fuel, things that are truly useful – not junk to make profit out of others. We can take back everything they have been trying to take away from us completely, bit by bit, over centuries, sneakily.
Marianne Williamson said “Do you really not know what to do? Or do you just lack the courage to do it?”
Ghandi said “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Van Morrison said “You can’t stop us on the road to freedom, you can’t keep us ‘cause our eyes can see.”
And John Lennon said “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope some day you’ll join us, and the world will live as one.”
Another thing John Lennon taught us was never to be sucked into trying to fight those trying to exert power over us at their own game. He said “If you want peace, you won’t get it with violence.” And “There’s no separation. We’re all one. Give peace a chance, not shoot people for peace. All you need is love. I believe it. It’s damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.”
So don’t allow yourself to be diverted – firstly it infects you with their level of thinking, secondly it takes your power away. Save your power for doing the good stuff, dismiss the rest as insignificant. As long as you remain complete in who you want to be, you will keep your absolute power. The minute you slip into something else – you lose some of it to them. Don’t give it away, keep you power quietly to yourself, and you will always be free, they cannot defeat you. No matter what they do, your power remains yours – they do not get a jot of it. Look at how we remember the great people like John Lennon – that’s because they never lost anything at all. He has become untouchable, and yet we can all touch him and his dreams, and help make them as real as he believed they could be. He said “A dream you dream alone is only a dream, a dream you dream together is reality.” And “Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something you do, Something you are…..”
More notes regarding depression.
Cognitive Dissonance might arise when you begin to realise there are things wrong in the world but can’t see the whole picture so your bits don’t fit or make sense, or you might be disappointed by the difference between your expectations and what has happened, or of people. As Lennon said “The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.”
So you need to re-adjust. Surely allowing ourselves the time to do this rather than try to fight it is actually healthy? Look closely at how you are feeling and thinking. Express how you feel through safe means – artistically, or by speaking to a friend, therapist, or to an inanimate object or imaginary person, or by writing letters or notes. Even ask rhetorical questions, or ask for what you want to happen – it helps you clarify things and you might even find answers. Recognise your autonomy – you can seek clarification in your understanding, or you can actually just choose to change the way you want to feel or do things. Medication obviously is useful in that it can give you the break to rest and steady yourself, before beginning to explore what is happening. If you view it as a tool to get back up a few steps, not as an excuse to just lie down at the bottom – then it is a positive and empowering act rather than something you are succumbing to. You should ideally always have a plan with your doctor to ensure that you are helped to withdraw carefully and gradually as you take back your power. You do sometimes need to be firm with your doctor about this, take responsibility for your own best interests, but never try to do it completely on your own.
Khalil Gibran wrote that “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
Plug into the umbilical cord of power through meditation and recharge yourself. Connect with the beautiful energy of the planet too. You are a rock between the earth and the reeling stars. Stand there feeling it deeply. Reach out your arms, dance if you want to, swim in the moonlight, sing or shout. Feel the processes in yourself re-adjusting, and renewing – and you will emerge with magic keys – re-enter life in the next stage of growing.
Remember your connection with the harmonics of the universe. You are one aspect of the one life force, manifested as human consciousness – everything else is a distraction. Focus on your relationship with the life force and yourself – who you are being – how you want to be. Other worries often pale into insignificance when you look at the bigger picture. You begin to realise that none of that small stuff can stop you from choosing exactly who you want to be. When you appreciate the astonishing variety of life around you, you tend to just find it easier to allow other things and people to just be as they are. Reasoning doesn’t matter so much anymore, even forgiving doesn’t matter much anymore – because you see that there is no need, you just let go of the small stuff and walk on deep into the wonder of being fully alive.
As John Lennon said: “Limitless undying love – which shines around me like a million suns – it calls me on and on across the universe.”
Lennon Quote Pic 1
He left us a great legacy – an example to follow – and the power of his honest to goodness words, actions, and amazing creativity lives with us still.
A meditation to relax, let go of stuff, gather and renew your energy.
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Stardust Meditation as a Video on YouTube
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Stardust Meditation – THE SCRIPT
Hi, this is Julia Woodman from Radiance Solutions. Thank you so much for joining us today, and I hope you will enjoy this meditation.
To begin with, please take several deep breaths, and relax all parts of your body. Start with your shoulders, let them move up and down with the first few breaths to release tension, then after your breaths settle down to a steady rate, begin to relax from the top of your head, down.
Feel your scalp relax, then your neck. Now relax your face muscles, your jaw, and again your neck, and shoulders, then your arms, and hands.
Feel the centre of your chest relaxing as you breathe gently now, and your abdomen,
then your hips, thighs, knees, lower legs, and feet. Wriggle your toes and fingers slightly if it helps.
Now please imagine yourself in a beautiful and special place where you feel safe and strong.
Take a moment to ensure you are settled in there.
Now, align your head with the sky, the planets, and all the elements of life out there.
Think of that wonderful universe to which we are all connected.
Feel that connection deep within you.
Now feel our mother earth beneath you
Align the core of your body with her generous beautiful energy.
Let go of any negative energies you might have been holding on to.
Let go of any worry, blame, anger, guilt.
Let these energies go from wherever they might be hidden in your body or mind.
Sigh and move a little if it helps to let it let it all go.
Feel yourself filled with gratitude for life instead.
Let go of any lies or false stories you might have been holding on to.
Feel all this coming out of any part of you it might have been weakening.
Allow mother earth and sister sky to transmute them into harmless ash.
They now give you back your energy you have been tying up and wasting on these things.
Feel it in pure form, pouring into you, filling you up, strengthening all parts of you.
Now feel the energy between the heavens and the earth meeting in your body.
They relax you deeply and balance your spine and all your energy centres.
Feel the wonderful warm loving energy caressing the insides of your body.
It is healing anything that might have been getting in your way.
Now we are going to collect any other energy which may have been scattered so that you can totally renew yourself.
Bring back any of your energy that has been left in the past or that may have gone ahead into the future. Bring all your energy back into the NOW. If you simply ask it, you body knows how to pull it back. Ask it right now to gather that energy up, and feel it coming in.
Keep breathing softly while every scrap of that scattered energy returns to you.
Now, let go of attachments to things you don’t need any more
Claim that energy back now too.
Feel your body fill with all the returning energy.
Re-claim any energy unconsciously tied up in fear – or in judgement of your self or others.
Put the returning energy in your creative power pot.
You now have more energy than you ever dreamed possible. You can create your own magic in life.
Reassure your inner child that she doesn’t need to protect you any more.
Give it a hug and explain that you are grown up now, a mature being who can take care of their own thoughts and actions, but that you will always love that child, and will still often have fun playing games with it in your special places in this lovely world.
Ask you deep inner self to always remind you to honour the world and the universe, and every living thing, by being who you truly are and sharing your gifts with joy and love.
Feel your body tingling with golden hearts and stardust — all the elements you need to return you to your true and sacred power.
You are now free and complete. Give thanks, then when you are ready, wriggle your toes and fingers again, then stretch to bring yourself fully out of the meditation.
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Peace comes from within. “Peace is Power!” Even when we know about all the ugly stuff that goes on in the world, Peace is Power is still the best response!
I understand that ’Namaste’ means something like ’the god in me recognises and/or honours the god within you’. The word God can mean whatever you believe it to mean, for me it is the conscious stream of life from which we all come, and to which we can stay connected throughout our lives as a source of peace, wisdom, love, support, knowing, inspiration, vitality, security, balance, and inner strength.
I think that awareness is paramount, because in awareness we gain understanding, which then enables us to regain our feeling of empowerment. We need to feel empowered to make our choices consciously, about how to deal with things in life, rather than reacting in fear (which tends to make us blind and weak).
If we are aware in such a way, we can be realistic yet positive, and we can properly focus our intentions. This will help us deal with pretty much any emotions, events, changes or plans. It will even help us to deal with mental or physical health issues
Awareness can be quite sensual (which can add to your sense of feeling empowered). Think about how your body moves as you live your life, how amazing it is; think about nature, observe the intricate beautiful details of natural things, and of things we create (including tapestries & garments, pottery, art, poetry & stories, music, dinners & other meals, woodwork & metalwork, buildings, inventions, plantations & gardens, etc). Breathe deeply to soak it all in and feel great.
Focus on the taste of food, the feel of textures in cloth, the feel of your partner’s hand in yours; smell the sea breeze, listen to the wind in the trees, witness the colours of the leaves, the children playing; the kind gestures of family & friends, and be thankful for this life we are experiencing – this life we can all help to keep wonderful.
Feel the wonder of being alive flood into you anytime you want, by taking a deep breath and letting the experience of these things fill you up. You can give yourself a great boost by doing this anytime you want, even just by remembering the details.
We all have that same stream of life within us, so you are a part of everything. Each one of us has the power to make a difference to everything. Breathe in that vital connection to the life source and sensual beauty everywhere. Feel loved and strong enough, and you will have the confidence to deal with pretty much anything.
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Consciousness vs Awareness vs Understanding, and where does Intention fit in?
We can be aware of things we like or don’t like, and how we tend to respond to things – then we can make conscious choices of how to edit those responses as we please. We do not necessarily need to understand why we respond in certain ways in order to be aware of the responses and make better choices, but the more we understand then the easier it is to plan effective changes. This all helps us to feel more self-empowered, and so we are willing to learn more, and thus expand our knowledge and our self-awareness.
A simple example is that if we understand how exercise and food affects us, then we can plan to eat things that are good for us and to go for a walk at least once a week – we need to understand a bit about nutrition and our bodies – our own personal bodies, because foods that suit one person may not suit another. So awareness is the first level, and then you can add understanding. You can be conscious of something at any level, but consciousness expands as you give it more attention, and as you understand more, then you are more able to develop tools and effective strategies to help you live ever more consciously.
If your boss tells you not to do something then you are aware and can stop doing it, but if you also understand why then it usually makes it a lot easier. If you understand the reasoning or logic behind something, then it also helps you to figure out for yourself what other things may or may not be helpful. It also makes you feel part of a team instead of just someone who has to do what they are told. Effective managers will be aware of this, and develop their skills to encourage you.
A small child will find it easier to stop balling for sweets in the shop once you explain that you cannot give it a reward for bad behaviour and it is actually more likely to get a reward for being good, or even actively helping out. Yes you can train it like an animal by only rewarding it when it is good, so that it develops an awareness of that pattern, but it makes it a lot easier if it actually understands that if you rewarded it for bad behaviour you would actually be encouraging the bad behaviour, which upsets everyone around you. This also helps the child develop an understanding of human interaction and consideration, although it is best to teach it that love is the ideal result of good human interaction, rather than sweets. Of course love should be there anyway because we love our children unconditionally, no matter what they do, but social skills and self esteem come from understanding ourselves and others, and how we might fit in. Of course I do not advocate just doing whatever you think you need to do to please others, you also need to be yourself – develop your own ideas of who you are and what you stand for, and be prepared to stand out from the crowd sometimes. We need to be prepared to say NO to things sometimes, yet also be prepared to compromise at other times. So a conscious parent will not just train the child to please them, or just tell the child why it does not make sense for them to behave in certain ways, they will also ask the child what they think, and teach them how to present their own ideas. They will also treat those ideas as valid viewpoints and not dismiss them or brush them off, but discuss them properly. Ideally families should encourage their children to input into family matters in the same way that couples should discuss with each other how to make things work well for both parties.
Understanding can be a product of natural curiosity – if you want to know how things work then you will try to find out, say how a flower grows or how animals survive in extreme places, or how an engine works, how a house is built properly, etc. If we understand how our bodies work then we can consciously manage our lives more effectively. Trying to understand how our minds work is an ongoing conundrum – they do so many weird things along with the wonderful. But we can get more to grips with them by consciously managing them and using tools to train them to do more of what we want and less of what we don’t want. Consciousness does not reside in the mind – it seems to me to be more of a heart and soul connection with everything – and being aware of that link can help guide us from a much higher perspective.
You can be aware of what is going on in the world without fully understanding. You can consciously choose to act according to what you think about such things, but if you understand better then you will make more informed choices. Sometimes we rush to act on an issue without understanding perhaps that it is a trick to keep us occupied while some other thing can happen without us noticing. As anyone should know from playing certain games, there are bluffs and double bluffs, and there is a whole lot of media manipulation and pulling of strings going on too. If we can manage to remain unafraid of what we might find out when we dig into things, then the knowledge can empower us.
Being aware of the beautiful colours of leaves helps you to appreciate the wonders and variety we have in our world, even if you don’t understand the cycles of nature. Innocent awareness of beauty helps keep us positive in the face of all sorts of other things.
Consciousness can choose / we can choose – to purposely expand itself / ourselves. We can exercise our consciousness by focusing on consciousness raising activities. This tends to include both learning about new stuff (widened knowledge & understanding) plus increased (heightened) awareness. You have individual consciousness, group consciousness (between people who share ideals or aims), then you have human consciousness and the collective consciousness of the planet (which I believe includes the consciousness of other living things and the earth itself), and then you have cosmic consciousness (which we all ultimately belong to).
Certain experiential-based knowledge and heightened states of awareness expand consciousness – as we become aware of things outside the usual boxes we are generally encouraged to limit our thinking and our living to, and achieve an intuitive sense of gnosis (an inner knowing that feels more sound than learned knowledge) and a sense of being in touch with the wider universe.
Consciousness includes altered states – which extend our abilities beyond both awareness and understanding. The intuition, inspiration, and pure gnosis that comes from tuning into everything is awesome. You can achieve more, experience more, become aware of wider possibilities, and blissfully blend with ‘the all that is’ – revisit your original purity of form blended with consciousness, from which we all emerge and later return to.
Awareness is essential to expansion of consciousness because it provides an experiential basis to expand from. Understanding, in it’s normal sense, is not essential to the expansion of consciousness, as conscious awareness provides a conceptual understanding or knowing without us having to understand all the details. Many great scientists have had visionary experiences which have then helped them find answers to practical questions.
Of course, if we want to alter a situation, then understanding the present situation better enables us to know how to do that. Intuitive understanding can help us to make many decisions, but more detailed understanding does help too, as long as we don’t let it cancel out our intuitive and conceptual abilities – we need a balance, and should never indulge in ‘either/or’ mentality, because we need to pull all our skills together to get a proper view of the big picture.
We can have the intention to do certain things, but if we do not make those intentions very consciously then we may easily be distracted or just forget them. To set your intentions with great clarity, you could write down what you intend to do, and plan how to achieve your goals. I have a list of what my intentions in life are, so that I am sending out a signal to help keep me aligned with that reality. These are not like normal goals, they define who I am as a being. But sometimes I also use my own life-coaching systems to plan how to achieve certain things, for example paying off bills, or getting enough exercise, or running workshops. Copies of all the relevant information and forms to help you are available via our website if you would like to access these tools for yourself – http://www.radiance-solutions.co.uk/essenceguides.htm They assist you to make choices, as well as to plan your steps, put support systems and rewards etc in place, and also keep you focussed. If you have a plan set out, then your mind does not chew things over all the time, and you can just get on with it.
I discuss consciousness to a great extent in my book “No Paradox – Consciously Evolving Consciousness”, and my companion book to that is more about Intention and Awareness, as I do believe these are essential to expanding our consciousness and improving our lives.
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I believe we are in the process of a huge evolution in our communication levels. This involves changes in the physical body energies and emotional / mental maturity, as well as in the tools we use.
Humanity has generally become more heart centred, willing to speak our truth and stand up for rights where needed. We evolve despite communication methods being used to try to fool us, manipulate us, scare us, or dumb us down. No one can scare us off without us allowing it – being too worn down to stand up for ourselves and others, or becoming lost in addictive behaviours – but we are proving ourselves to be wolves, not sheep, after all. We are perpetrating a reLOVEution by taking on board what needs doing in a loving way that benefits us all. Being heart centred gives us courage and strength, as well as balance, which allows us to be peacefully determined in our quests.
Not that long ago only the elite could read. Then we had the limited information on radio, then TV – always chosen by them – feeding us what they thought suitable. But the internet is different – anyone can seek and find their own information, as well as provide it – and we have learnt not to trust ‘them’ because we have found out that we have been deceived about almost everything – so now we are more likely to trust independent sources. (Some sources which try to appear independent are plants though – to try to divert us or make us think someone else is doing the work so we can relax – so watch out for these please – they are pretty obvious once you realise this.)
Once we trusted others to do our work for us – to see that the world was a decent place – but now we can only trust ourselves, and it is our job to engage with the process, which thankfully millions are doing. Take heart and join in – this is our real chance, right now, to evolve beyond their control, and to sort out a lot of problems in the world. Let’s put the heart back into play instead of letting the rich run away with the power. It’s the dawn of a new age where material worship and hierarchies will fall away like a house of cards to reveal a true deep humanity evolved underneath – informed and well able to better choose how our world should be.
Of course we need to practice good communication in our day-to-day lives with our children, partners, friends, and colleagues, and I have written articles about this, such as:
If we are heart cent
red then we won’t let our heads run away with us – we won’t get caught up in ego based competition or fear based reaction. I hope that the theory presented in my book “No Paradox – Consciously Evolving Consciousness” helps readers gain a more objective view – a bigger picture that prevents us being sucked into meaningless conflict. If we can step back from the construct of apparent paradoxes then we can see things more clearly and gain an overall perspective of life and how it should be.
Come join us in our facebook open group “Back to The Garden” where you can post your own information to share, inform, inspire, and give us points of action we can follow up on. The only way is for people to have a say in how their local and global communities function. I wrote an article which is relevant here, called “The World’s my Baby but let’s get Local”
We also structure global meditation link ups to help change the collective consciousness of the planet by adding positive thoughts to it. Together we can and are already having an effect. My article “John Lennon – In the Collective Consciousness – Being Real” shows up just how much of an effect he himself had. I’ve also written an article called “How to use Meditation to send out Peace, Love, Healing, etc” which is very relevant.
There are of course many other groups doing similar things and we aim to link up with as many of them as possible, so do share your links so that we can all learn and grow more. There are some fantastically informative and helpful videos out there too, so please do share these. We already have a You Tube channel linked to our group.
Petitions are an effective way of highlighting and supporting causes, so we continue to share these, but there is much more we can do, and we intend to keep on finding deeper solutions, so please do also include discussions about potential social change – we want to take a good look at positive ways forward. I repeat – the only way is for people to have a say in how their local and global communities function.
I have also written many other relevant articles such as
“Back to T
he Garden” will be the title of one of my books, which is in progress, so what we discover collectively in the group will influence it.
“No Paradox – Consciously Evolving Consciousness” should be published shortly, and other books such as “Intent-Aware” will follow that.
Please keep up to date by following my website book page or my facebook book page.
Blessings – Julia Woodman – Founder of Radiance-Solutions and Back to The Garden
Response to an online discussion about whether ‘God’ might be INFORMATION
Certainly in dowsing (divining), we tap into information, it has nothing to do with the tools you use, it is your nervous system, and the tools can be anything finely balanced enough to enhance the response so that we don’t miss it.
From a distance we can find things, so it has nothing to do with any tool such as hazel reacting to water – plastic works just as well, bent wires, pendulums that are simple weights (not necessarily crystal). You don’t even need a tool if your response is strong enough for you to recognize, you can just feel it in your body. The main thing about dowsing is not to ask ambiguous questions, as the answers can only be yes or no (usually) You must be very clear that you ask for example – is there at least (state a volume of water, or whatever is relevant to what you are seeking) available now (so that you eliminate it having been there only in the past, or coming in the future). You can screen out smaller volumes from your search, and you can also screen out swimming pools for example, by stating what sort of supply you are looking for.
If people phone me up to ask me questions, for example if they have lost something, their question often triggers an immediate answer. If I try to think about it, the information recedes. I have to trust my first response.
I am lucky in that I often am able to work with more than just yes or no answers, as I can get pictures in my head. So I might for example see an item in its location, which I can then describe. I have also seen scenes from the past when other people ask questions about what might have happened at a location or in certain circumstances.
In healing also, I certainly get information – I know what needs to be dealt with and how best to do it. Of course there may also be other ways of doing it than what I do. In fact I use several different main methods, but in all of these i follow the knowing given to me as to what is right for the person.
I receive lots of inspiration generally in my life, including with my creativity, and ideas or feelings about things I should or could do.
I also receive warnings sometimes for my own safety, for example when driving, to slow down when there is something round the corner sticking out in the road.
I discuss states of consciousness in my book “No Paradox – Consciously Evolving Consciousness, but continue to learn more all the time – the journey I think never ends.
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Meditation. Julia Woodman (also known as Jay or Joules) writes and teaches about many thngs to try to help people and communities locally and globally
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