Rev. Ann Robben Dott

                                                                                               

                                                                                               

Talk

 

A:  God is and you are a part of God.  So God is none other than your true nature.

You are the light of the world but as in all things you are a container that may or may not clearly reflect this light.  Your aura is the energy around your body.  It can be filled with concepts and thoughts and symbols.  At times these will act as filters both for incoming energy and information and for the way your energy flows out into the world.  A simple example of that would be the concept that the world is a fearful and unfriendly place.  You would look through this concept at the world and be suspicious or fearful of others and have a hard time receiving from others or seeing their support.  You would be more likely to question their motives and agendas.  Others looking at you through the concept of the world is frightening may see you as standoffish, cold, or unfriendly.  Another example would be if you felt undeserving it would be hard to let in the abundant love from God.  In the same way that we minimize and deny things that are bad as a coping mechanism we may minimize or deny Divine Love as a way to feel safe if our ego structure is held together by images of not being good enough, being bad, or in some way undeserving.  I do believe that the Power of  God is strongest force in the universe, being the creator of all that is, and that there is nothing that I can do that will ultimately obstruct my unfolding.  That said we do have free will and this includes our ability to deny God or say no to the God of our hearts and the numerous ways we as creative spirits get in our own way creating road blocks, expectations and distractions.  Sometimes that TV show and bowl of chocolate ice cream is really where you want your attention as the body asserts its desires and agenda.  You need body breaks, rest cycles are important.  If you have an agenda for spiritual growth and you the spirit in charge treats your body as something to drag around from workshop to teaching to book to ... and you don't listen when it says,  give me a break, let me absorb some of this stuff,  I operate in time and space, listen to me. You may get sick or break a leg or do something to slow down that will be harder than balancing body and spirit as you go along.

So relax a little.  Your spiritual path is an unfolding.  It is a natural process like the growth of a rose.  There is nothing you need to do - you are already spirit.  Be attentive to what draws your attention - be it a class or a new book.  Come and participate in this spiritual community.  Give and receive the support of others and when you feel

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challenged put in a prayer request, ask for help or a healing, meditated more or take a break from practices.  You know yourself better than anyone, if you study yourself, you will know when to apply more effort or discipline and when to create space.  Do you need a little more attention on communicating with God and clearing the way or do you just need to open the channel and create some space to listen?

 

If you answer yes to needing to clear the way here are some techniques and ideas to assist that process.  As always I start with grounding.  It is the energy connection that allows you as spirit to be in harmony with both your body and connected to this reality of planet earth.  This grounding assists you in creating  or bringing in energy that is in agreement with this dimension and reality it also gives you a pathway for releasing energy that no longer serves you.  All things are energy and when you let go of something that energy is available for another use and is recycled.  If you have any of the issues I touched on before of fear or self worth these can also be released down a grounding cord or put into roses and blown up or erased. 

 

We also have earth energy and cosmic energy channels that help us balance body and spirit which is useful in communicating with God.  We are of the earth and the body with its slower vibration needs over time to raise the vibrations so it can more easily bring in the higher vibration of the spiritual aspect of yourself.  You have two ways of coming and going as spirit from the body.   The top of the head and seventh chakra is the  one I emphasize and it is also where the cosmic channel connect at the back of the chakra and go down the back on either side of the spine.  The other coming and goings spot is the third chakra or solar plexus and this is the one accessed for most out of body experiences in dreams and astral travel.  The Earth Channels run from the arches in your feet and up the legs into the pelvis and the first chakra which is just above the base of the spine and then let some of the earth energy go back down your grounding.  If you are experiencing alot of cosmic energy or in flowing from Source increasing the amount of earth energy you are running can greatly help the body feel safe and comfortable.  In your first chakra the earth and cosmic energies mix together and then can flow up channel on the front of the body.  As it reaches the nap of the neck some flows out to the shoulders and down the arms and hands.  The rest, mostly cosmic energy by this point, continues to flow up and out the top of the head, where it can cleans and clear your whole aura and then collect at your feet and be channeled back to the center of the earth through your grounding.  The flow of energy can carry away

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anything that is no longer in harmony with you right now, be it mental, emotional, or physical or any other aspect.  Make the agreement with your body that says:  I am grateful for the lessons that I am learning.  I am ready to release anything that no longer serves my growth.  Say thank you to all who have played a part and release them.  Thank your concept of God for all the help imaginable to support you in this new phase of growth.  This includes inner guidance and helpful beings like angels and healing guides, gold beings that have the neutrality and respect for free will and work only for your good.  Take a moment and affirm to yourself and your body that you are wanting to work with beings that respect your free will.  That any beings around  are in present time with you - they may be from childhood when you felt you needed protection or from a past life when you had a different agreement - so get into present time with any guides or beings that you have around - you donÕt need to be aware of them on a day to day basis, just trust and pretend, imagine and do it. So it is.  Another agreement to make with any helpers on the inner planes is that they are of a vibratory rate that is at least as high as yours or greater.  If it is higher it can help up lift you or continue to match you as you grow. 

 

The reason to talk about spiritual beings without bodies at this point is that often when children see beings they see both the angelic friendly helpers and the not so nice ones that family members or friends have that are frightening or controlling.  You are in charge of any agreements you have with out of body beings about them working with you.  If you don't have certainty about your agreement with God for your body and personal space it can be frightening or you may feel like you don't have power over it.  The reality is that you have much more power and focus, than any out of body being, by being willing to take on a physical body.  Your body is set up to run best on your personal vibration.  It is ok to work with a being as a channel if it is by agreement, there are many people writing books who have taken on an entity and are willing to share their personal space with them to spread that beings message.  There are drawback on a physical health level to having another beings energy trying to run in your channels in the long term.  The more sensitive you become to your body and feeling energy the more easily you can distinguish foreign energy.  You may even notice if it is your child, lover, mother or an out of body being.  Some things we are just so use to that we claim it as our own even when it is not.  Those are subtler and can get cleansed with help or at a later date. 

 

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So lets take the example of a child who sees an out of body being that is frightening and then fears being taken over by energy outside of oneself. This is how individual experiences become a bundle.  You have the concept of God is out there and male.  You have God as ultimate authority figure.  You have father as male, external authority figure.  Parents as God etc.  You have a father who is worried, remember Rev. Sandy's definition of worry is praying for what you don't want.  His picture is fear of being out of control, which could lead to incest.  He opens to needing something to help him feel like he is in control so he brings in a being who is dark and controlling.  The child sees this and it is terrifying.  She sees her father consumed in darkness.  And then since he is out of control his worst fears are realized.  The father as spirit is not in his body and he invades the child's space and she splits to some fantasy land or back to the light.  In pain and invalidation spirit leaves.  This is my spiritual rendering of what is happening in the clinical disassociation talked about in childhood sexual abuse.  For the child this is a survival tactic.  There is not the option of calling in the hosts of heaven and kicking out the demons as the child's physical survival remains being part of the family.  Nor do most little ones have the skills or information to do this. 

 

Given this history it can be hard to open to God.  The fear of being invaded by energy other than you can be a long term project.  Part of it is getting to where you know and trust that God is not really out there somewhere.  There is an aspect of letting it in but it is more of a meeting and dissolving of the inside outside dichotomy.

 

Invoking God  From Baba Is Here, inner voice conversations with Sai Baba by Graciela Busto.

 

"Swami, if God is omnipresent, why is it necessary to invoke Him?"

 

 "God does not need your invocation. But, you need to invoke Him, because You do not realize His omnipresence; He is there, but you are not conscious of this; therefore you invoke Him so that you may be closer to Him, the Lord, who has responded before your call. By invoking God, you are calling upon your own faith. Although your faith may be hidden, you are calling upon the believer in yourself, so that you will attune yourself to the Supreme and recognize His presence."

 

Invocation From the Sufi tradition :

Toward the One, the perfection of Love, Harmony and Beauty,

The Only Being, united with all the illuminated souls

Who form the embodiment of the Master, the Spirit of Guidance.

 

 

Sai Baba There is no better way to invoke the Lord than to open your heart to love.                                                                                                   5

 

God's Love (I)

 

"Swami, when I discover God within me, I love Him as something separate from me. When realizing that God is me, do I love myself?

 

 "That statement is incorrect. It is as if you were to ask me if the sun illumines itself. Let's begin with the second part of your question: God does not love giving love, God loves being. God is love. Each time you contact God, you receive love, which is His essence, just as when you put yourself in the sun, you receive its light. It is not possible for the sun to negate its light, nor is it possible for the water not to wet, nor for the fire not to burn. Would you say that water wets itself? God's love is not given as you give your affection to another person. In duality, there exists the possibility of direction, quality of sentiment, and the temporary nature of your love. You give something and another receives it. God does not give, God is. That is why you are told to put yourself in contact with God, in order for you to enjoy His essence, which is clearly apparent and absolute. If God would give love, there would exist the possibility that God would not give it, choosing not to give something of Himself.

 

"Come near to God and you will receive God's love, not because He gives it to you, but because you have come close to God and you receive His emanation. Thus, God's love does not discriminate. It is received by anyone who approaches God with an open heart. That is the only indispensable condition. If you claim it from afar and doubt that it is true, it will not happen, just as one who is in a cave with closed eyes cannot perceive light. If you desire to find the exit and grope in the dark with your eyes open, at some time you will see a glimmer.  Run toward that glimmer, come out of the cave, and you will be bathed entirely in the light. So it is with the Supreme. Ò  From Baba is Here

 

Being close to God and being illumined by it is very evident in Pir Valyat Khan, the son of Hazrat Khan who wrote the invocation I read earlier.  I took a workshop from him in 1980 and every now and then he would stare off into space and smile.  It was a look of childlike delight and then he would pick up his thought and continue teaching.  I remember thinking. This guy is really plugged in. I went to see him again fifteen years later.  He was clearly staring into the face of God and even more luminous than before with the same bliss.  After he spoke I over heard long time student commenting how on he was that night.  Having the opportunity to do a little meditating during his presentation and being good at matching energy left me very happy, blissful and with the internal giggles.  It made the drive home from Portland very easy.  As I was leaving a person at the registration table asked me if I was coming back for the weekend, which was a Holistic healing program.  I said no and that I was doing a wedding the next day.  She said, oh what a nice energy to take to a wedding. I had to agree.  The wedding was on the beach after a hike in.  I stepped on a bee in bare feet on the sand.  I usually have a pretty good size welt and reaction.  I ran into the ocean and thought ok I have to put my hiking boots back on and hike out of here.  It was not too painful and it did not swell up until 5 or 6 hours later or maybe the next day and it was not very big.  It was the next day that I realized that I was experiencing the power and protection from the energy of being around Pir Valyat and aligning myself with the energy of God. 

 

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Power can come in with the delight and bliss that I experience around someone like Pir

Valyat.  Power can also come in with the strength of a hurricane or flooding rain that can be kind of scary.  One of the reasons for fear is simply judging the level of intensity.  Another is previous misuse of power and fear of repeating that pattern.  Often this fear is unconscious and has karmic roots in past lives.  But it is very common in people who are trying to balance power within themselves to have previously had power and used it to control people and situations outside of themselves.    It is one of the evolutionary steps it seems to me of spiritual growth; another incident of taking the focus off external reality and turning within. 

 

So if you think power is a bad thing than it makes it hard for you to be powerful.  Power actually is neutral.  It is the energy that gives you the ability to fulfill your life purpose.  It can be the stream that carries you along.  Power is not you; it is not one of your possessions.  At the same time if you let yourself have your power you will be that much more you.  You will be a powerful influence in the world.  But as one of my favorite bible quotes goes, do good work and give glory to God.  So the paradox :  God is and You are God but it’s not me in any ego sense doing the work.   The power is not me and what I am bringing is none other than me.   There is no separation.  In the Church of Divine Man we say all healing is self healing , as healers we are catalysts.  When people need help it may only be a word, or a tune up, or a jump start.  As is said, God can only do for me what God can do through me.  Be a power for good in the World. Give glory to God for all that you have to offer this world and beyond.  Thank you God.

 

MEDITATION

Ground, Center, Run energies in all channels Earth Cosmic, Healing & out top of head

 

Enjoy the healing of running your energy, being conscious of creating as spirit.

 

Pick a favorite color and see or feel it on top of your head.  Match that color in the energy your bringing up your feet, through whole system and out your hands.

 

Do again with Gold, 

Know that you can intentionally change you energy whenever you want.  If you are in Pain or apathy try running green or orange for a while and see what happens.  If you are feeling generally ok  you can still step it up a few notches to Good or Enthusiastic.

 

Supreme being crystalline clear light.

Everybody Let go of the vibration you are currently running let it dissolve to the center of the earth. 

 

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