personal affirmations

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personal affirmations
open
I am open, receptive, and available to Spirit as my life. I am
always guided to give and receive the best.
let go
I surrender to the grace of life. I let go and allow life to live
abundantly through me and as me.
gratitude
I live my life from the vibration of gratitude. I am grateful for
this breath. I am grateful for all that this day brings me. I am
grateful for all the good in my life.
at peace
I affirm the life of God as my life now. Living as the life of
God, all needs are met. Living as the life of God, I am at
peace.
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contents
features
6
The Spiritual
Significance of 2012
Ancient wisdom and new revelations tell us
that we can usher in a new age of love, peace,
and understanding.
Mead Rose
16
Dr. Judith Orloff on 6
Developing Emotional Freedom
Learn new ways to overcome the challenges
around you by opening your heart to the
spiritual power within.
Diane Dreher
24
Why Subtle Energies
Matter in Today’s World
Dr. Bernard Williams of the energy medicine
professional organization ISSSEEM discusses
why subtle energies matter in today’s world.
Beandrea Davis
76
Total Openness to Good
Are you really open to receive the Good that is 16
God in your life?
Margaret Stortz
82
Opening to Spirit Quiets the
Mind and Opens the Heart
Actress Lindsay Wagner shares her experience
in opening to Spirit and helping others to
experience the blessing of Oneness.
Norman L. Bouchard
88
Successful Living
There is nothing that can limit us when we
open to the magnificence of Spirit.
Ernest Holmes
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contributors
Rev. Norman L. Bouchard is the marketing and communications
director at Mile Hi Church in Denver, Colorado, and author of 29
Questions for the Ordinary Life.
Beandrea Davis is a writer who practices Esalen massage and Reiki in
Washington, DC. To learn more, visit joyfullybea.com.
Dr. Diane Dreher is the author of The Tao of Inner Peace and Your Personal
Renaissance: 12 Steps to Finding Your Life’s True Calling. Visit her website at
dianedreher.com.
Ernest Holmes was an internationally recognized authority on religious
psychology and the founder of the Religious Science movement and
Science of Mind magazine.
Mead Rose is a writer, songwriter/performer, and Internet marketer.
Rev. Dr. Margaret Stortz is a minister and practitioner living in El
Cerrito, California. She can be reached for prayer and counseling at
510-524-7901 or at margaretstortz.com.
departments
4 EDITOR’S NOTE 94 PHILOSOPHY
IN ACTION
14 ON THE PATH OF David Alexander
THE GLOBAL HEART
Kathy Hearn 95 REVEALING HEALTH
James Rouse
15 SPIRITUAL GOOD
SENSE 96 LAW OF CIRCULATION
Barry Ebert Joe Hooper
23 LIGHT FROM THE 102 QUESTIONS &
LANGUAGE OF JESUS ANSWERS
Rocco Errico Jesse Jennings
32 DAILY GUIDES 104 MEDIA REVIEW
64 PRACTICAL 108 YOUR SPACE
PROSPERITY
Kathleen Lenover 110 SUCCESS AND SPIRIT
Terry Cole-Whittaker
65 SCIENCE &
SPIRITUALITY 112 LAST WORD
Waldman and Newberg
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editor’s note
opening to Spirit
We are, of necessity, inlets to the Divine Mind, but since
we are individuals, we become outlets to the degree that
we permit ourselves to become. We are surrounded by
divine wisdom, love, and intelligence, and still lack divine
guidance. Not that we lack the principle of divine guidance,
for that is the gift of God forever delivered, but that we lack
the perception of this guidance and its operation through
us. Ernest Holmes
~
Claudia Abbott
How do you remain open to the principle of divine
guidance? For many, the spiritual journey is a quest
for an answer to that question. We are looking for a
greater awareness of our connection with God. We
can never be separated from God, but when we feel
a sense of separation, we can seek the peace within,
the energy of Oneness.
Did you know that there are those who study this
energy? The International Society of the Study of
Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM) is
dedicated to exploring and applying subtle energies
as they relate to the experience of consciousness,
healing, and human potential. In this issue, we look
at their work and gain a new understanding of what
science is learning—evidence of the impact of our
consciousness. We also explore how opening to
the energy of Oneness can allow one to develop a
greater sense of emotional freedom and fulfillment.
Remember the bionic woman played by Lindsay
Wagner? Wagner shares the true secret to power,
connecting to the Oneness that comes from
opening to Spirit. There has been a great deal of
speculation about the significance of the coming
year. We take a look at those concerns with the re-
alization that we are called to reveal the conscious-
ness of Oneness. This consciousness has the power
to usher in a new age for humanity. We really are
the ones we have been waiting for.
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So why the hubbub around 2012? The answer is that
a number of seemingly significant changes appear to
center around that date.
• In astronomical terms, 12/21/2012 is the winter
solstice occurring simultaneously with crossing over
the galactic midline.
• Astrologically, we are also transitioning from the
Piscean to the Aquarian Age.
• December 2012 has been put forth as the end date
of the Mayan calendar and as the fulfillment date of
several other indigenous prophecies.
• Terence McKenna also turned up a pattern of events
when he superimposed numerical values associated
with the King Wen sequence of the I Ching onto
human history, which he referred to as Timewave
Zero and which appears to converge on that date as
well.
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There is both disagreement come under scrutiny. These as-
about and speculation beyond sumptions include
the basic points shown above. • The fundamental nature
While the astronomical and as- of time and space
trological facts remain indisput- • The faith that our
able, the significance of them elected officials will be
is open to interpretation. In able to act in our best
addition, when one examines interests
the prophecies of the Maya and • The belief that interces
other indigenous peoples, one sion between individu-
discovers that they refer to a als and divinity is
process and are not tied to a par- necessary.
ticular date. For many, this scrutiny is
Regardless of debates about a challenge to their religious
target dates, it seems clear that faith and points to discrepan-
change is upon us simply as cies between religion and Spirit.
a consequence of living on a One of the difficulties in re-
planet with a burgeoning popu- sponding to questions about the
lation and dwindling resources. spiritual significance of 2012
It is becoming clear that we is that what defines Spirit is
need to evolve past obsolete, changing. In the past, the bor-
consumption-heavy economies derlines between Spirit, science,
and competitive social strate- thought, and physical existence
gies and transition into more were quite clear, and now those
resource-friendly, cooperative separations are falling away in
ways of living. the light of new understandings.
One fairly consistent theme in One way to shed light on the
all the talk about 2012 is the idea whole question is to examine
that we are moving into a time the ancient prophecies in the
when all our ancient notions are regard that Spirit is eternal and
challenged. To quote songwrit- human beings are fairly constant
er Emily Kaitz: regardless of external changes.
Uncharted waters, It is noteworthy that prophesies
Empty skies, from diverse tribes show thematic
Everything you’ve learned up congruence, even among tribes
to this point, that are highly isolated and rarely
No longer applies. exchange information with other
tribes. For example, we find that
Long-cherished notions of when we compare Mayan and
“the way it is” are beginning to Hopi prophecies, the underlying
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themes are similar. need for somebody to convey
Scientifically recognized Mayan the experience from spiritual
calendar expert Carl Johan reality. “I believe that this wave
Calleman reveals that according is about developing resonance
to understandings gained via with the cosmos, and it is a large
conversations with Mayan thing. In order to do so, in true
elders, the December 21, 2012 resonance with the cosmos, it
target date is erroneous and also means that you must do
the Mayan calendar end date is that yourself directly, without
actually October 28, 2011. Dr. any intermediaries….It’s all
Calleman elaborates on his in- about becoming a citizen of the
terpretation of Mayan prophe- cosmos, a child of God without
cies explaining that the “descent any having to intervene.”
of the nine gods” refers not to
anthropomorphic deities, but Changing Ideas and
instead to levels of cosmic con- Ancient Prophecies
sciousness impacting humanity This idea of a transformation
at specific times. He has pains- of consciousness is echoed in
takingly documented histori- the Hopi prophecies. Author
cal events correlated to previous Kymberlee Ruff tells of the Hopi
impacts to test the validity of Prophecy Rock and whether
his interpretation. He predicted humanity would choose to
March 9, 2011 as the com- depart from the “Two-Hearted
mencement date of the Ninth Path” leading to nuclear annihi-
Wave, just two days before the lation: “Up until very recently,
Fukushima earthquake—an eerie many of the Hopi elders were
precursor. not certain that we would choose
Dr. Calleman offers com- the ‘Path of the One-Hearted.’
mentary on the coming spiritual Fortunately, I have been told
shifts saying, “We’re going into that in the last few years, we
something where there will be have turned a corner. Many
no middleman or middlewom- holy and noble people have
an between ourselves and God, performed the sacred rituals
the Divine. We will be the only and ceremonies, asking Mother
authorities in regarding our re- Earth to give us another chance.
lationship to God. That’s where An evolution of consciousness
it’s going. No intermediaries has occurred just in time to save
so to speak.” He explains that our planet. I have been told to
it was the “filters” upon con- share with you that, in the last
sciousness that necessitated the few years, we have passed over
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into ‘The Fifth World.’ With In the midst of our search
2012 approaching, there are so for new, cooperative solutions
many Doomsday stories circu- to problems for which we have
lating, describing an impending no previous experience, the
time of catastrophe and destruc- brute-force expedients learned
tion. This is why I was asked to throughout humanity’s history
tell the story of the ‘Two Paths of war and strife contend for
of the Hopi Prophecy Rock,’ dominance. Based in scarcity and
to tell you that the day after fear, old-paradigm you-or-me
December 21, 2012, is actually thinking tends to spread by
going to herald a time of great turning otherwise enlightened
peace….So as chaotic as the minds into sharks or shark bait.
world may appear right now, Deep spiritual conviction is
it is an illusion. Something required to avoid falling prey to
wonderful is happening.” the fear-based thought patterns.
Or is it? One thing that is Furthermore, avoidance is not
becoming increasingly clear an answer. Withdrawing from
is that we as human beings the difficulties of the modern
create our own reality. But this world is to withdraw one’s self as
creation process goes far beyond a needed community resource.
the subjective limits of individ- Past models allowed people
uated consciousness. With in- to entrust others to take care
dividual transformation comes of difficult problems. Recent
the realization that all beings economic problems have shown
are in need of liberation, that to us that this is not a wise strategy.
acquire and appreciate the finer All too often, turning one’s gaze
things in life also means doing away from complex problems
so without subjecting others to amounts to letting the fox guard
undue hardship. the henhouse.
Like it or not, the world in
which we live is the product of an A Call to Courage
ongoing collaborative experiment The approaching changes require
in consciousness. While enlight- a new sort of moral courage.
ened personages such as the Dalai Already we are seeing the start
Lama exemplify living the simple of planetary changes from earth-
spiritual life, they are exiled from quakes to solar flares to floods.
their homeland by governmental People are more sensitive to
decisions of a totalitarian regime corruption and misbehavior
made to accommodate an ever- on the part of elected leaders.
growing population. As spiritual beings, we must be
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