Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 10:53:39 EST
Subject: Re: Infinite
In a message dated 12/22/97 4:36:34 AM, Shepherdh wrote:
<< In Yarbro, the "infinite soul" brings massive
planetary spiritual upheaval and transformation. Mother Meera sounds like she
works more one-on-one. >>
Um, she says she works with the planet bringing in this new energy. that's
her #1 job. Many Europeans feel she has cleaned up Germany, much to their
suprise. And to mine. We were only in the south, but it felt sparkling, fresh,
and luminous energetically. I was prepared to cringe esp. since I usually want
to run from the heavy beams of German restaurants!
Shepherd, I am curious where you would put Sai Baba whom I see as the most
expanded of the transcendentals.
Joya
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 18:03:58 -0600
Subject: Holiday Wishes
To everyone on the MIchael Teachings list, I wish a joyous holiday season
filled with love and light.
Love and Laughter
Jeanne Holley
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 16:56:57 -0800
Subject: Holidays :^) News!
Hi Everyone!
I'll be gone until Saturday for the Christmas holiday that my family and I
will be spending with my husband's family this year in San Diego.
Also, my search for my birth-mother has ended. As many of you know I was
adopted as a 3-wwek old baby, and one of our list members, Ed Hamerstrom, was
telling me a while back how I ought to look for my b-mom when we were discussing
stuff about Michael's "nine needs." So I finally did it, after some more coaxing
from a woman I met at the AMT conference last month! Turns out my b-mom lives
only across town from me, and we met on Sunday! It was a good meeting, and she
gave me some pictures, some that include my birth-father in them, and a
half-bother and half-sister in them. She wants to try to get back in touch with
my b-father before I meet him or any of his children, as they may know nothing
of me--even my existance. My family have all been very supportive of me in this
search, even my mom who's always worried about everyone and very emotional about
everything.... :^) Finding these connections is good, I feel. It's putting
together a lot of missing pieces that I've always wondered about....B-mom
thanked me for this "Christmas present" of contacting her.... Interestingly, she
looks very much like my guide Alena, only older, who I've drawn and painted
pictures of since I was 14, and Sunday she even wore the same color shirt as I
always drew Alena wearing. We're going to meet again after the holidays. I am
very glad!! :^)
Well Ed, what can I say? You were right!
Blessings to all of you this Christmas and on what ever other celebrations
you may have over this winter solstice time....We have much to be thankful for
in our lives, huh?
Love,
Lori
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 08:45:28 -0600
Subject: Searching
I recently had a very nice post from Alicia Weber, but as I responded I kept
receiving information that her e-mail address was not valid--so I am not sure if
she ever received my reply. If Alicia reads this, please note that I did respond
and appreciated your comments. If any know her addess, could you help me!
I do wish each a joyous holiday and new year.
I might add that Pati very graciously loaned me her copy of The Michael
Handbook. I find it quite helpful as I begin reading it. Thanks Pati!
Bill Lanning
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 19:30:20 EST
Subject: Mother Meera and Sai Baba
Dear Joya,
Mother Meera says she works with the planet
bringing in
this new energy. that's her #1 job. Shepherd, I am curious
where you would put Sai Baba whom I see as the most
expanded of the transcendentals.
A client of mine was the assistant to Muktananda in India for several years,
and heard all the guru gossip. Evidently, many gurus disapproved of Sai Baba
because they felt that he did the "show off" phenomenal stuff at the expense of
what it's really about. A friend of hers, a young man, went to see Sai Baba, and
the man told her that Sai Baba had come on to him and masturbated him. Other
gurus felt that Sai Baba was taking energy from young men's semen to "fuel" his
phenomenal accomplishments.
I know that he has beautiful messages, and I sense that he does a lot of
good, but spiritual expertise does not guarantee that someone has done the
necessary mental/emotional work to get it together on those levels. In fact,
many spiritual paths neglect or even discourage doing that work, although new
age spirituality is joining the mental/emotional with the spiritual. It appears
that Sai Baba was taking advantage of his power over those who were seeking to
get some of his needs met in a way that wasn't completely clean and clear.
OTOH (On the other hand), evidently even Gandhi had his ethical lapses--we
are all human, after all--although they likely took place before the
transcendental soul entered. There are people all over the world--especially in
India, which has such a rich spiritual tradition--who are doing extraordinary
things spiritually. I recently read "Autobiography of a Yogi," by Paramhansa
Yoganana, and it is full of remarkable accounts of gurus, etc. who performed
"miracles" similar to what Jesus did, and other things as well. "Life and
Teachings of the Masters of the Far East" also documents these things. Occult
masters, as they are called in Yarbro, by definition, have transcended the
limitations of ordinary human consciousness and can do things like that. That
alone does not signify the entrance of a transcendental or infinite soul; it may
just be that the soul in residence is quite accomplished in those areas. Often
the message, though, is that we are all ultimately capable of such things.
BTW, Bob Zelman, whom you introduced me to, is a healer who also works with
clearing planetary energies, although probably not on the same scale as Mother
Meera. Many, many people, both physical and nonphysical, are working on this
today.
I believe that anyone doing good, necessary work aligned with truth can
receive nonphysical energetic assistance. Some of that energy may be called
transcendental (from a reunited entity) or infinite (from a reunited cadre).
Basically, we're given as much (and the kind of) energy as we can effectively
handle. There are many powerful people, such as Mother Meera, who can channel a
lot of higher energies.
Love,
Shepherd
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 19:43:59 -0500
Subject: Season's Greetings
Dear List Mates,
Here's wishing you all, and your families, a happy, peaceful, and fulfilling
holiday season. I thank you all for the gifts of love and growth that I have
received from you since I joined the Michael-Teachings List.
Peace and Light to You and Yours,
Kenneth Broom, Columbia, MD, USA
aka I.A.M. Research
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Emotional Part of Intellectual Center, Impatience. (INFP)
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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 20:39:11 -0500
Subject: Reading Two Books
Hi Folks,
I just Christmas gifted myself with a copy of Shepherd Hoodwin's "The Journey
of Your Soul" and a copy of Jose' Steven's "Tao To Earth." These are two
extremely data-full and well-written books, but my problem is that I want to
read them both at the same time... you know... like one with each eye. :>)# It's
not working too well tho'. I guess I'm just not the omnipotent OS7 I thought I
was.
So I've started reading, and jumping around in, Shepherd's book first. I'm
beginning to get a handle on this cadence, cadre and casting business.
Interesting stuff, this. Shepherd, you've done a really good job on this book.
And Jose', if you're out there in Michael-Teachings land, I skimmed through
your book and find it a wonderful sequel to your yellow book.
Peace and Light to You and Yours,
Kenneth Broom, Columbia, MD, USA
aka I.A.M. Research
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Emotional Part of Intellectual Center, Impatience. (INFP)
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Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 08:44:07 -0800
Subject: Introduction
I've been lurking on the list for about a week now, and thought I'd introduce
myself this Xmas morning before the kids wake up. I've never had direct contact
with a Michael channel and haven't been told my overleaves, but I have read the
Yarbro books several times over during the course of the last 12 or so years and
feel that the information has been a rich part of my life. Yesterday I bought
Journey by Shepherd and am looking forward to reading that. I'm excited about
being on a list where things are discussed which to this point have pretty much
been a private realm for me. In terms of my personal life, Sophie (my wife) and
Thomas & Jonah (our children, ages 7 & 4), are planning to move from the
Pasadena area to Santa Rosa on January 2. Leaving friends and family and the
area which nurtured me which raises a whole world of fears (now I wonder what
that says about my overleaves!).
Happy Holidays and peace and love to all of you!
David Wayte
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 11:30:25 -0600
Subject: Re: Introduction
Hi David,
I'm Jeanne Holley, and like you, I'm fairly new to the list. I too have been
studying "Messages" and "More Messages" for a long time, but have not in the
past had others to discuss things with. I've never been channeled, but I did
have an automatic writing done for me quite a number of years ago, by someone
I've never met. It was not signed Michael, it was signed Spirit, but told me I
was a 3rd level old priest. I took the Michael Quiz on the Webpage and it said I
was a Sage. So in January I'm going to have a channeling and find out what is
right.
Don't fear the move. Look at it as an adventure, a journey you are destined
to take. These things are not coincidence. They happen for a reason. Perhaps you
will be in an area where there are many Michael People and your learning will
accelerate. I envy you being in California where there are so many of Michael's
People. I am in Southeast Missouri and they are virtually non-existent here.
Good luck on the move. Have a joyful holiday and be open to all of the wonder
of the miracles of your life. Enjoy your children and look through their eyes.
You will really see the miracles then.
Blessings and Laughter
Jeanne Holley
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 15:00:18 -0200
Subject: NEW WORLD , NEW ORDER
I am a new member on this list. I have a long contact with everything
that concerns to esoteric. After a difficult period of my life I developed an
ability to trance many kinds of energies, that have helped and tauched many
interesting things. I think we all on this planet are going over a great
developedment , time/space has changed , its kind if we are going through
dimensions never been before. Its kind a new dimension being present in our
daily lives. The people are confused because they do not understand whats going
on their lives. They are atonished. Their inner being knows , but many few
people can contact their inner being, they can see no answer, no hope, no place
to go, it is because it is necessary a new way, new order, new mentalitty, the
old world has gone, and it's necessary new instruments to this new life. The old
materealist world has changed, and now the intangible world is up here, laser
light computer, virtual instruments, everything e changing and man has to change
very rapid.
This a great moment in our evolution, the fact the world has become little. The
fact that we in our house can conect to somenone in the other part of the world
is fantastic. Let's be thankfull to the great LIFE that is wisely directing this
mutation. I wish peace e love to you all.
Aguiar
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 16:14:29 -0800
Subject: re: a new world
Dear Aguiar,
Very nice post, thank you. And very true.
It reminds me of a quote I picked up somewhere, although I don't remember
where....
< In your concept of the cosmos, be aware of the stability that allows for
individual chaos. >
This always felt reassuring to me as we walk on roads that seem to appear to
us step by step as we create them, changing old to new with each step and each
breath, each moment of our lives as we choose to respond and do differently.
With our very beings as we radiate differently. It used to feel to me like we
were earthworms of light. As earthworms move through the soil, they take it in
enriching and transforming it before they release it again. In the same way,
with things large to small, as the light of our consciousness touches our world,
it is being transformed.
Lots to look forward to and be thankful for. Although I sense that we will
have more than our share of awkward moments along the way as the old ground
shifts out from under our feet and we're not sure what the new ground looks like
because we're in the midst of creating it.... although maybe as the form
changes, knowing the nature of our hearts, we really do know what it we want it
to look like....
Best to all, Brin
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 18:59:52 -0800
Subject: Re: Holidays :^) News! (1997-51/370)
| From: Lori Tostado
|
| Hi Everyone!
|
| I'll be gone until Saturday for the Christmas holiday that my family and
| I will be spending with my husband's family this year in San Diego.
|
| Also, my search for my birth-mother has ended. As many of you know I
| was adopted as a 3-wwek old baby, and one of our list members, Ed
| Hamerstrom, was telling me a while back how I ought to look for my b-mom
| when we were discussing stuff about Michael's "nine needs." So I
| finally did it...
|
| Well Ed, what can I say? You were right!
|
| Blessings to all of you this Christmas and on what ever other
| celebrations you may have over this winter solstice time....We have much
| to be thankful for in our lives, huh?
Indeed we do. Thanks for sharing this.
Regards,
Dick [2.1(3)/5/4.2-144=4.7.3<5.150/M.5=26/4.11>]
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Dick Hein / Mountain View, California.
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 04:41:05 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Re: 'Mother Meera and Sai Baba' in clear text (1997-51/378)
> From: ShepherdH
>
> A client of mine was the assistant to Muktananda in India for several
> years, and heard all the guru gossip. Evidently, many gurus disapproved
> of Sai Baba because they felt that he did the "show off" phenomenal stuff
> at the expense of what it's really about. A friend of hers, a young man,
> went to see Sai Baba, and the man told her that Sai Baba had come on to
> him and masturbated him. Other gurus felt that Sai Baba was taking energy
> from young men's semen to "fuel" his phenomenal accomplishments.
I was making a bad taste remark, but let me just say that that offers is a
lot of fuel for thought. :) I am not a Sai Baba follower, I have been to one of
their centers in Tokyo once and licked their powder. I don't like the idea that
it may have been semenized. :))) What is the essential difference between that
Sai Baba story and drawing energy from young girls sexually or from emotionally
shattered followers turned servants? I don't mean to be an advocate for Sai Baba
or Virgin Mary or any spiritual authority. I just mean to point out that a lot
of stories, whether true or not, become public whenever one follower or a group
of followers decides to break away. I have a copy of a letter of this nature
that many of you may have read, from a group that left Siddha Yoga (Muktananda,
that you mention, then Gurumayi). I can send its full text in private e-mail to
anyone who is interested.
Jose Caldeira
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 04:41:02 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Re: NEW WORLD , NEW ORDER
Hi, Aguiar,
Welcome aboard. I am also Brazilian, living in Japan. Kind of new on this
list. The Michael teachings are cool.
Enjoy the list.
Jose Caldeira (actually, Jose' Augusto Caldeira)
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 12:07:29 -0800
Subject: 'Re: Sai Baba' in clear text (1997-51/385)
José wrote:
> What is the essential difference between that
Sai Baba story and drawing
> energy from young girls sexually or from emotionally shattered followers
> turned servants?
There is no difference. Since the 1960s, humanity's psychological
sophistication has been growing by leaps and bounds. I'm sure we still have a
long way to go, but what was once unquestioned, or seen as being perfectly okay
or the right and proper way is now understood as being a violation. Those
spiritual traditions that do not integrate or even discourage psychological
awareness (as many do) remain stuck in inappropriate behaviors, although in most
cases no harm is meant.
The guru tradition (with the absolute power of an authority figure) stems
from baby soul times when it was probably the fast track to growth, and still
may be when we're in our own spiritual childhood. When I was 16, I became
involved with Emissaries of Divine Light (not to be confused with Divine Light
Mission), a fine but somewhat cultish spiritual organization in which we looked
on the leader as being virtually infallible. EDL had a hierarchal system of
leadership, and members were expected to follow their "focalizer" without much
questioning. That whole system has fallen apart now, but at the time, it was
what I needed. I had little self-discipline and no means of accessing my own
power and inner guidance. It is said that you have to learn how to follow before
you can lead. However, after I learned the lessons of that phase, EDL no longer
enriched me spiritually (I was euphoric at first to have discovered this
"family"). I stayed too long out of loyalty, which often happens in the guru
system.
I was not harmed or scarred from my EDL experience, although many members
feel now that they were. It gave me an excellent grounding in basic spiritual
principles that I still value, but it also kept me stuck in some limited beliefs
that I only sprang free from when I started working with a remarkable
psychotherapist who was also psychic.
Best,
Shepherd
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 20:47:32 EST
Subject: re: Holidays
I gave myself a Christmas Present today!
The gift of TIME. I popped in to begin reading the last three weeks of posts.
I'm very glad I did! It was heavenly feeling the warm, wonderful energies
here once more. I hope to visit more frequently after all settles down a bit.
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanakkuh, Happy New Year to ALL!
((((((( Bill ))))))) Enjoy the book !
LOVE * LIGHT * PEACE * JOY * JOY * JOY * <3 Pati* :)