Posts Tagged ‘beliefs’

I can remember so clearly, like it was yesterday, when my cousin Lori passed away. It has been 14 years to the day. I loved her like a sister. We did everything together. Her mother was my mother’s older sister and my godmother. Lori and I were ten years apart to the month.

Aunt Emma, Lori’s mother was like a mother to me. Lori was an only child. From the day I was born Aunt Emma took care of me as if I were also her own child. Lori and I knew what each other was thinking before we even spoke. We had a special bond.

In our young adult life I depended on Lori for emotional support and almost everything about my life. We spoke on the phone daily sometimes several times a day. We shared our most intimate secrets and feelings. Read the rest of this entry »

When people hear the term ancestor worship, it tends to conjure up thoughts of primitive practices, but it is actually a very powerful spiritual experience. I personally see it as communing with our ancestors and the technique I use is similar to that of the Yoruba people of West Africa.

If one looks at various tribes on the African continent, as well as other continents, ancestor worship is a common practice among indigenous people.

Although I cannot say I have any special reverence for my ancestors, the closest word would be respect for all the trials and tribulations they experienced. Going back through my bloodline I know that there have been prisoner-of-war experiences, material hardship and even suicides, to mention but a few, so my predecessors also had their unique life stories. Read the rest of this entry »

Self Love is accepting and allowing people to Be who they are. It starts with allowing your Self to be who you are. Self Love is surrender to the Higher Self.

It is acknowledging that you are courageous and feeling, charitable, appreciative, gracious, joyful, saying yes to Life, and Trust worthy.

It is surrendering to this god box of beliefs even when you do not believe them to be true. It is surrendering to your deepest feelings that speak of wonderment and adventure.

It is to know that Hope can only Believe if you have Faith and Trust in your-Self. To hold this god box close and know you will never give your power away again, never judge, holding a lower vibration opinion of anyone. It is finally no longer attaching Love to something. Read the rest of this entry »

I read for a lady yesterday, whose little dog had passed to spirit. I could see her dog and described him to her. I also felt I had to emphasize that this little dog was using his back legs, as if spirit was specifically drawing my attention to that detail.

It turned out the little dog had suffered a stroke and no longer had the use of his back legs when he passed to spirit. But in my vision he was jumping around and standing on his back legs, getting loads of love and attention, and basically showing off that he could use his legs once again.

I could feel this lady’s pain and the excitement of the dog to be making contact with his owner from the other side, but I felt so sad that she had no knowledge of what happens when an animal or human crosses over to the other side. Sometimes mediums just give out the details of their clairvoyant visions, without realizing the significance to the recipient. Read the rest of this entry »

My grandmother was my first valuable teacher with regards metaphysical beliefs and all things spiritual. She taught me, for example, to read the Bible literally and not bend the truths in the scripture, like some religious groups tend to do.

My family, including my grandmother, is German and I grew up and lived there until 1995. During the war, my grandmother lived in the Eastern part of Germany, which was later occupied by the Russians. Much later, after the war had ended and just before the wall between the two parts was closed for good, she fled over the border to West Germany.

On the other side of the border she took care of herself as best she could, like the rest of the battered and displaced population, while patiently waiting for the return of her husband and young son. They were both soldiers, as most of the men were in those days. Mother always told me that my granny must have been very brave and patient, because she had had no news from either one of them for years. Yet, she never wavered in her faith that they would indeed return. Read the rest of this entry »

Numerologically speaking the year 2012 has absolutely nothing to do with the world coming to an untimely end. Many of us can recall about ten years ago the ‘end of the world’ was originally calculated to occur in 2112. It was a much more intriguing date due to the palindrome pattern, which can be construed as physically illustrating that “as it was in the beginning, so it shall be in the end.”

A number of factors may have influenced the date change, but the most plausible and easily accepted theory is simple commercialism. Armageddon sometime sells better than sex (remember the Y2K Millennium bug panic?)

It was only recently that a private religious cult once again made international headlines by predicting and preparing for the Rapture that was to take place on May 20, 2010.  They had sold thousands of pieces of merchandise, took in thousands of dollars in donations and savings, and gained hundreds of followers. Whether it be fear, or hope for freedom from the mundane, the followers were willing to sacrifice their lives and their livelihoods for the cause. And we all know how that turned out. Read the rest of this entry »

There are powerful symbols to be found everywhere in our world, as well as in our dreams and in our unconscious minds.

On a very deep level, symbols convey a specific meaning and this is why people – often the young and vulnerable individuals – can be influenced by the media and the subliminal messages contained in the cleverly encoded symbols in political campaigns and in advertising, for example.

Spontaneous artwork done by both adults and children in a psychotherapy session generally includes many archetypal symbols. Symbols are not only present in myths, art, religion, ritualistic practices, but also in chemistry, road signs and even on the product packaging in supermarkets. Their subliminal influence is profound. Read the rest of this entry »