Dreaming is Gazing into the Mirror

The perfect time of the year to dream and make plans. What happens if we dare to dream? Is there a fear of becoming who we want to be, since failure is lurking around the corner? Is it joy and excitement we feel at the thought of having our dreams fulfilled in the future?

Kingfisher And Moon, originally uploaded by billkominsky.

Dreaming can be scary business.
Many don’t dare for fear of never tasting their dreams.
But the best part of dreaming isn’t reaching what we imagine,
it’s the process of getting there.

Dreaming is like gazing into a mirror that looks into the future.
Each time we step into the reflection,
the image changes into a more real possibility.
Every experience we’ve had along our journey has enriched us immeasurably.
What we seek evolves everyday from the presence of those we meet.
We too change with every experience,
and our dream unfolds and reshapes with us.

Quote from Dare to Dream

In our dreams we make contact on another level with the Divine part of us. Through that eternal part of us that is out of reach of the five senses. It is the homeland of our intuition, the inspiration and illumination given to us from the Divine.

There the possibility for our future arises, out of the subconscious. Where we fly in the sky, carefree, dreaming and utterly happy, joyful and, the best part of it: we feel free to be who we are. So we can live as if no one is watching. Begin dreaming, then ground the dreams in reality. Some dreams have happened, some of them did not. Are there more dreams waiting to be voiced out loud? Of course!

I have come to believe that the Divine source will work through us when we allow it. This idea just makes me smile and smile: “Dreaming is like gazing into a mirror that looks into the future. Each time we step into the reflection, the image changes into a more real possibility.”

How about entering the year 2009 full of dreams well grounded and taking baby steps towards the fulfillment of your wishes? Climbing the mountain to reach the summit always begins with one step at the time. And enjoy the walk all the way, that is the best part of it.

Take me I’m yours, originally uploaded by radiant guy.

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What the Heck Happened? Continued

In April I wrote the post What the heck happened? and now the article and the photo of the spiritual entity are published. Copyright of the photo is Robbert van den Broeke, website Dutch only!

The article ‘Consciousness is vulnerable’ is published in the July-August 2007 issue of Frontier Magazine also only in Dutch. Here is the translation of the part about the photo that Robbert van den Broeke took.

Robbert van den Broeke feels another dimensional energy when it is present around him. Sometimes he notices ‘something’ from the corner of his eye. To the question whether he could do that during the interview with the digital camera of the authors, he walks to the hallway and makes 10 pictures in 52 seconds.

On the first two pictures there is an entity perhaps formed out of ectoplasm that resembles a human looking figure. By the way ectoplasm is a term that was used for the first time by a Nobel price winner for physiology and medicine professor Charles Robert Richet (1859-1935). The word stems from the Greek ektos, outside, and plasma, that which is formed or molded. Ectoplasm refers to electromagnetism that can be brought outside of a body by a medium like Van den Broeke. (Dictionary Van Dale: substance into which spirit is supposed to be materialized; through the interference of a medium).

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Hey You There On the Fence

Hey you
There on the fence
You’ve got a choice
One day it will make sense
Hey you first love yourself
or if you can’t
try to love someone else”

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop– Mother Teresa

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Visualization as Method to Fixing Yourself or not?

RED, originally uploaded by placbo.

Here is one way to visualize by Rob of iwishicouldtellyou. I am curious how you deal with visualization.

I have often visualized to create things like more space, work, or easy material things such as another wheelbarrow for the garden, someone to fix the shed in the garden. Sometimes I find that I visualize because I cannot and will not accept reality as it is. Then I complain about the lack of space in our boat, I am unhappy since I like to do things so work would be more than welcome. It is a sort of fix mechanism.

On the other hand the wheelbarrow materialized within two days and the person to fix the shed appeared one year after. When it is fun things with less weight attached I can see it as a game.

I am now at a place where I visualize for indeed the wheelbarrow or projects that I am in. Just the first small step ahead that I would like to make. I visualize that and accept whatever comes. And then again: I am often wondering if everything in my life is happening in a perfect way, who needs to visualize to create and what for? Can I feel what I really need?

Have you ever asked yourself these questions:
1. What do you visualize?
2. Why do you visualize?
3. Did anything happen when you visualized?

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Want to add colour to your life?

white for letting go and possibility red for love orange to make juice yellow when mellow green for hope blue for peace indigo for children violet for spirit

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Embracing the Void

Today I had a conversation with a woman. Late fifties, healthy and she notices how she feels stuck in life. Work, family and volunteering work had all by itself dropped away. And she had entered the void. This empty place that you notice when all other things drop away. She said: “I feel restless with the silence. I want to get up and do something”. Sounds familiar? Yeah, we all have these moments.

originally uploaded by tuna bites.

It made me think about silence and the void. We are all raised as people that hardly sit down. We try to avoid the silence and sitting still. People around us kindly push us into helping, being there for others and otherwise you are called lazy. Until in the end people can get lost when they spend time alone, in silence or when life brings the void in.

For one reason or another life will send you the silence again. To be reconnected and hear the voices in your head rattling along with good advice, critique and anything that will have you get out of your chair and help others. When is it time to help yourself? When is enough really enough? Do we have to wait for disease or burn-out to take a time out?

Give yourself a gift and embrace the void when life gives you one. When you get the time to sit down and be alone. Feel who you have become and what you feel like when with yourself. Of course it is a challenge in the beginning and a blessing in the end when you can be in the silence of the void.

In May 2000 I met the void. In the shape of Odin, the blank rune. I was not amused. I disliked silence, the void was to be avoided at all times. My life needed speed and as many as possible attractions and experiences per day. A friend said about the same blank rune: “I love that rune. It is my favorite.” What did she say there!?! I could not deal with it. I was angry and pissed of by the runes.

Much later I read the meaning of the rune and this particular sentence has stayed with me over the years.

Here the Unknowable informs you that it is in motion in your life. In that blankness is held undiluted potential. At the same time both pregnant and empty, it comprehends the totality of being, all that is to be actualized. And if, indeed, there are “matters hidden by the gods,” you need only remember: What beckons is the creative power of the unknown.

The conversation today made me realize that somewhere I did embrace the void. It happened so softly and swiftly, I did not even notice. I gave thanks to her for making me aware that emptiness is pregnant with possibility. I no longer fear it, I welcome it and live out of my own silence on a daily basis. The circle is closed, the voice is embraced again.

Imagination, originally uploaded by zanettco.

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We Are Souls With a Physical Body

My square-in-a-round-world-phase seems to have passed. The brain worked over time, here is one of the subjects. Today I somewhere read or heard this:

We are souls with a physical body, not physical bodies with a soul.

The thing to question is: What is my soul doing in my physical body?
Would it happen to be a round soul in a square body? Don’t think so.
Would my soul spend a lot of time thinking about:

Organic, vegetarian or French fries with lots of mayonnaise?
Classical, rock or jazz?
Beach, forest, designer store?
Loose weight, grow long hair or paint it?
Less s.p.a.m. and more comments on the weblog?
When will I get to do something exciting?
Did I make a stupid remark to her? Really?

No way, my soul would not spend one second on any of those. That is all in the department of the physical body pretending to be my soul. But who is the I and where is the soul hiding? What would the list of a soul look like?

Attitude of service
Making a difference, small is good too.
Being kind and considerate
Practice forgiveness
Spread love, love and love.

What is your soul doing in your body?

Iris, originally uploaded by Surrealist.

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Taking a Week off

The coming week no posts on the weblog. I am taking a holiday week with the kids and sweetheart. Cycling, walking, sitting in the sun and playing cards. See you in one weeks time.

I leave you with this picture of the ceiling of our boat. The reflection of the water and sun makes for beautiful patterns. Life is ever changing like the light on the ceiling. See you later.

ceiling, originally uploaded by radiant woman.

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What the Heck Happened?

Today at 3.11 pm something happened. I will try and find the words to describe the event. In facts that is.

My sweetheart and I did an interview with a Dutch person, I will not disclose the name at this time. The interview is not ready and I cannot say any more. The Dutch person is a medium that I will call DM for short. DM is a nice gentle person with the heart in the right position so to speak. The mission of DM, in my words, is to take people by the hand and show them that there is more between heaven and earth.

Ways to do this is crop circles for example or taking pictures of orbs, light phenomena and things like that. DM can also feel entities in the room and often is able to photograph them too. With only feeling and not seeing them DM can take pictures and is often surprised of the outcome.

My sweetheart invites DM to make pictures with our digital camera at the end of the interview. Pictures of us and the room are taken. Nothing shows. DM moves into the hall and notices an energy, takes two photos and comes back for us before continuing. Then DM discusses the energy that was felt and takes eight more pictures in quick succession.

My sweetheart clicks slowly backwards eight times (the quick taken pictures) and arrives at a picture with a person on it. It seems a male person. White hair, the eyes are white. It could also be glasses. The face is a bit blurred in brown. Could be discolored as well. The side of the person is blurry as if the picture is not focused right.

So at 3.11 I suddenly see this otherworldly person, and I got a shock. I can tell you that. I bet you would too. There was no one in the hall only DM and later the three of us. What happened? What is on the picture? Why did this person appear two times on two pictures taken within 3 seconds of each other?

In paranormal phenomena I have seen a lot and felt a lot. But I can tell you that now I got the shivers and I suddenly got sceptical. Out of the ordinary for me. I wondered did DM do something to the camera? Was there someone in the hall? What the heck happened? Why did I not accompany DM while taking pictures so I could have seen for myself? Sure there is more between heaven and earth. Why did I feel such a shock upon seeing this photograph appear?

I know that this is pretty vague to you readers without the actual photo. I do not feel ready to put the picture in Flickr. The interview has also not been published yet. I don’t know what to make of it for myself. This post is merely to get the whole thing out of my mind so I can go to bed now. You will have to wait for the picture a little while longer. Sorry about that.

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Sixth Sense Perfectly Normal

So am I normal, abnormal or paranormal? … I consider myself to be completely normal, wanting to be more abnormal than I am showing right now. Paranormal is not my favorite word, it is boxing people and keeping them out of experiencing their own very normal sixth sense.

Paranormal for me is the most perfectly normal or abnormal thing in the world. In Western culture it has become not so normal any more. With Indians or African people, Japanese and Aboriginals the shaman is the one that has its role and is part of the culture. When I graduated I even wrote my thesis on how people in Japan pay tribute to their ancestors. One of the ways to contact the ancestors is through the means of female shamans. I would have to read my thesis again to tell you how they did that.

Working with my intuition is what I prefer to call it, trying not to use the word paranormal. I am beginning to repeat myself here. This is a new thing for me to talk about it, I will get better. Promise.

Using my intuition has always been around. I was not aware of it most of the time. When I met people I would get a headache or know how they were feeling. I felt sad, happy, angry or just nervous. I thought for a long time that I was feeling nervous suddenly, or angry. Never thought that those feelings were not always mine. Lucky for me I was never really sick. It took a long time to distinguish what is mine and what is from others.

My first awareness of seeing colors was in September 1999. I sprained my ankle just two days before I had to fly out to Australia. A friend in Germany offered to give me three Reiki healings. I was surprised since she was a four hours drive away. How would she do that? “Easy”, she said, “I stay home and so will you.” She explained that she could send me healing energy just like that. We needed to set a time so I could lay down and she would do the healing in Germany.

At the appointed time I was waiting and I could not keep my eyes open. I got warm and relaxed and nearly fell asleep. Next thing I know, I see colorful purple balls appearing in my minds eye, or my internal cinema how I have come to call it. For the rest of the healing I am in a light show of fireworks. A non-stop movement of color and shape. Highly intriguing. Afterwards I felt relaxed and healed. This process was repeat three times.

It got me interested in Reiki and I did some courses to learn more. My hands were becoming warm and it was nice to feel the energy floating and getting aware of that too. For years I used it only on myself and I was shy about sharing it. An exchange of energy became a natural thing. Also when my kids were born, I put the hand on their hurtful knee and when it was enough they pushed my hand away.

It does not matter if people are aware of the energy or not. In any case not everybody notices it. Did you ever feel that you were uncomfortable or really comfortable with someone sitting or standing close to you? At a party or in the train? You don’t know them but you have a feeling, it is there in the same instant. The influx of this information does something to you. It might make you so uncomfortable that you will move away most probably. Consider that this is your sixth sense. Without you being aware of it. Are you now paranormal? This is so natural and perfectly normal.

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