Gaia

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Being My True Self

"Building A Cairn" Me at almost 50 in meditation with rock and sun and trees and water...in a moment of love with Life.

This week an article came out about me in a local paper.  Those of you who know me, know that I have assiduously avoided advertising in any way my channeling work, that for 20 years I have cringed at the idea of it. 

But I am about to turn 50.  As I looked at my life’s continuum, I asked myself what I want to do with the rest of this life, what do I want bring to this life and this sacred earth.  My answer was obvious: what I have always felt in my heart and soul and Being, what fills me with nourishing joy, my communion. 

I am fortunate that my communion has evolved over the years to take several forms:  I offer Our Friends through sessions, a sharing that brings me new friends with almost every new person and blesses me with the felt knowledge that Our Friends offer the deepest nourishment to the people who come.  

I create art, which also reflects my communion with and love for this earth and this life.  I write poetry.  I write memoir and creative vignettes.  I write pondering, musing, ideas, and considerations.  I write what the muse tells me to write, and I am blessed that the muse is clear and strong with me. 

Turning 50, I realized that what I want to do, and what my soul needs me to do, is to share fully and ardently my gifts.  This is my source of nourishment and joy; it opens me to love in the most profound and deepest ways.

So when I was asked to allow this article to be written, I was almost willing to consider it.  It took several tries and some negotiation, but in the end I agreed.  I agreed in part because the man writing the article is my beloved, and I trust him to get me right. 

I agreed because he understood my need to be transperant about who I am and how I come to this work, why it is important to me, and why it is essential to me to offer it with the deepest human honesty…without packaging or branding or the “right” bullet points or currently popular descriptors. 

Of all I have learned over the past 20 years, I have learned that one thing is absolute with a gift such as Our Friends.  My first and only real task is to live my life, and make my choices — to the best of my ability — to keep the path, the felt-sense of my communion, clear and pure in my life and Being. 

Since this article (which I will post here next week for your reading pleasure…) has come out, I have been blessed to meet some wonderful people, new friends: grounded, clear, loving people of sweet heart, whose intentions for growth are deep.

I am feeling very grateful for turning 50, for the clarity it has brought me, for “coming out” more fully in my work and in my life, for my beloved who presented me so honestly and clearly (and with humor!) in his writing, for those who have felt drawn to come for sessions. 

Life has been busy the past week.  Next week I will get back to writing and posting Our Friends material.  Until then…

May you be blessed with peace and clarity, with entering the mystery of the present moment…whatever it holds, knowing that whether beauty or pain, it is of the moment and possesses a gift to bestow.  May you feel safe to open to your own feelings, Being, presence, and moment.  Love, Stephanie

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Healing Work in Eden

This is a note from a friend and client who has worked with Our Friends/Inner Teacher for a few years.  She is very committed to water protection.  It is her work and passion.  She is now on a journey to the Middle East continuing to create a network of concerned scientists and citizens to recover the Mesopetamian watershed.  I thought you might be interested in her work. 

Whatever the news may tell us, there are many more who love this Earth than those who would use and abuse her.  I am incredibly inspired by all those who do their own piece of the work of healing this planet .  Gaia creates our bodies and harbors our souls for a time.  She cradles us.  We must learn to cradle her in return.  Blessings, Stephanie

HI Stephanie,  Things are going very well on this trip.  My blog is www.iraqmarshrestoration.blogspot.com  and my web site is www.hima-mesopotamia.org.  Things went super with the Iraqi scientists, and I see myself with help from others building a network of grassroots efforts on water and peace in the Middle East.
Thanks and Take Care,
Michelle

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Honoring Path

“It is important that you honor your own path and your own way of communion with Creation.”                      The Inner Teacher, Our Friends

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Service

“It is possible to serve only by being everything you are, because service can only truly come out of fulfillment, being full…so full that you are overflowing.”     The Inner Teacher, Our Friends

Copyright, Stephanie K. Nead 2008

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New Creation

All creative expression comes from the same source.  The blessed gift of being creative is the experience of “flow,” when time stops and joy is like a stream burbling through my Being.  One of the places in life where I experience this is in my studio.  Have a look at my latest creation.   You can find it and more at the link here:  http://stephanieknead.wordpress.com/

An image in fiber of lower Antelope Canyon in southwester U.S. These slot canyons are formed when floods pour through sandstone, carving deep and glorious channels through the earth. When the sun is directly overhead, the light bouncing down the slot creates rich, saturated colors and texture that is magnificent from below.

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Who Are Our Friends to Me?

From Stephanie’s Journal 2001 (A journaled note to a friend)

Description of Our Friends as they are to me

I will try to write to you of Our Friends.  I want you to know them as I know them.  I wish you could experience them as I do.  I cannot do justice to them, or my relationship with them, in words.  But I hope I can make you understand what they are to me.

Our Friends are my friend, teacher, guide, mentor, muse, support, source of nourishment and unconditional love.  Not a group, not an individual, not a personality.  I refer to them in plural, because they are definitely not an “I” as you and I experience “I.” 

When I imagine Our Friends, I see something like a cluster of soap bubbles, or –even more exact — a dance of lights…beautiful colors weaving in and through one another, like the air above a fire, yet moving as a whole, one unit with uniqueness within, just like a flame. 

When they speak to me, it is one voice I hear.  Always the same voice.  A beloved’s voice.  It is not my voice.  I hear in my head neither the voice of my own thoughts, nor the voice other’s hear when Our Friends are channeling through me.  Hearing is supposed to be about vibrations hitting the eardrum and being translated by the brain.  Yet we hear in our heads as we hear with our ears, so there is more to hearing than sound vibrations. 

What I recognize when I hear Our Friends in my thoughts is their energy, the feel of them, their love, their presence, just as a tiny child senses the return of its parent to the house, though the child sleeps soundly in its room.  We feel those we love on levels far beyond our physical senses.  Those we trust, we sense most truly.  I trust Our Friends.  I know absolutely that I am loved.  I know this because I have experienced nothing else from them, nor have I felt anything but love from them toward those who come to talk with them. 

While I have judgments, opinions, points of view, — and I have channeled for people I do not like, people I do not trust — when Our Friends come in, the perception is very different.  They see human beauty where I see human faults.  The same realities of character that I may judge as wrong, they see in context of the whole person in their essence and purpose among the Whole of us. 

I put “Whole” in capitals deliberately.  The Whole of us is the Whole of humanity, the Whole of Creation, Whole of G-d.  

The primary thing I’ve learned from Our Friends is that we are each and all inextricably in and with G-d.  There is no separating us out.  We are those dancing webs of light, interweaving as we move endlessly…and fundamentally joyfully (the second biggest thing I’ve learned from Our Friends)…through Creation.  We are the Creation and contain the Creator’s spark within us.  The Created within the Creator constantly creating Her self, His self, Its’ self … there is no adequate word.

There’s the rub.  We are the very stuff and substance of G-d.  The life force that is us, the breath that enlivens us, is G-d itself. 

What an irony to be the very creation of the Creator…to be the sunbeam of the Sun, yet not to be able to encompass, to fathom, to comprehend that Sun within our little beam. 

Thus is the path of devotion needed, created, explained, understood.  I don’t know why, but we seem to come closer to being the essence G-d created us to be when we offer devotion to the Greater Light that created us.  When we acknowledge our smallness we become bigger.  It is a conundrum, yet it is true.

© 2010  Stephanie K. Nead

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Gulf Coast and Response to Catastrophic Predictions (Fear)

Note from Stephanie:  I’ve gotten inquiries about what Our Friends might have to say regarding the situation unfolding in the Gulf.  Most of this information came through during a private session.  The woman kindly gave permission to use it as a post.  I tried to shorten the material, but in trying to revise and edite, the linkages seemed to be getting lost.  Even working with Our Friends on it, ultimately it seemed best to give you all the information together.  Our Friends added some additional information, as they often do.  We chose to separate out the material specific to the Gulf and include the additional, very important, material concerning preditions of catastrophe and fear.   

 On the Gulf Coast

The earth has her own resources; she has her own protections, and she has her own angels.  She also loves her creatures, all of them.  She is not out to hurt anyone. 

We see more sunshine and Light in the future for this planet.  What that means for human beings is a bit unclear, but for Gaia herself there is beautiful Light in the future, and since humans are part of Gaia and inseparable from her, we cannot but see this includes human life in some form of being.  So we would say there is no benefit to fear. 

We would not minimize the irresponsibility of humans in drilling into the earth’s crust in this way; it’s a bad idea…for many reasons.  Not to minimize that, we also share that your oceans are very deep, and you have no idea what’s down there; you have no idea of the resources the earth has. 

This spill for the earth, what would we compare it to?  Just as you might get a spot on your body and toxins in your system, you might feel queasy and not good, but your body has the resources to heal it.  The earth has the resources to heal and to cleanse this.  It will require changes; it will require movement; it will require some stuff to happen.  But she can do it; the resources are there. 

The impact on humans will be meaningful; these are the consequences of irresponsibility and greed.  While these consequences will feel very dramatic to humans, it’s not as dramatic to the rest of the earth.  Yes, there are animals dying, birds dying, fish dying; it is very dramatic to the marine life in that area.  Yet, the sea creatures have healing resources in terms of their energies and their integration with the ocean.  

There are processes within the earth and her energetic structure that humans have no idea of.  Gaia Herself can absorb this.  There are energies moving deep within your oceans that will have a profound impact and cleansing.  It will create some other effects as well.  But we would say that in terms of the Earth, it is heal-able for her.   Our Friends

 On Catastrophic Predictions

 Fear wants a reason to exist; it creates a story to justify its own existence.

To assume a fearful outcome is to assume an unkind and unloving intent on the part of the earth and Creation. 

Fear wants a reason to exist; it creates a story to justify its own existence.  The more fear presented, the bigger the story needs to be in order to justify and feed that fear.  Images of doom and destruction arise out of fear: individual and collective fear that imagination is feeding upon, creating a story that seems very real. 

We do not predict catastrophe, worm holes, global electromagnetic madness for many reasons.  Doing so would do no positive good in the world, and that is the whole point of Being. 

Also, to predict anything right now is not in alignment with the energies as they are occurring in the moment, because the energies are moving very rapidly.  It’s like salmon swimming upstream; try to predict and follow the course of one salmon, and you are going to lose sight of it in no time, because there are thousands of them.  You simply can’t do it.  The energies are so many and moving so fast, in so many directions; so much is happening. 

To predict is to try to control; it is the antithesis of how Creation works.  To assume a fearful outcome is to assume an unkind and unloving intent on the part of the earth and Creation.  This has more to do with a human feeling of helplessness. 

Fear separates you from the very solution you seek.   It leads you to struggle for a level of control that you do not have, and it does so by looking outside your own essence and presence, which is the only “place” where you truly exist at all.  It is only here that you hold your awareness with Creation, with the loving, infinitely creative essence that lies at the core of all creation.  Such is the Being of the Creator; such is the Being of you. 

In surrender and honoring, listening and heeding, in movement out of that, you have control, never through blaming, fear, or anger.  Creation, even your known Universe, does not operate like this; fear, anger, blame, these are nullifying energies, never creating energies. 

Those who are waiting for, and believe they desire, a big event, a dramatic shift toward something “else,” something new that they imagine to be more wonderful than what you have now, are missing the fact that you live in a true Eden now. Those who imagine that all the others will disappear, leaving the “good people” to a better world, are very confused about the Creation, about the art form of Creation that is this world, about who you are as humanity. 

Imagining and waiting for a great “shift” is not really any different than Christians who have been waiting 2000 years for the apocalypse.  And they are sure that it’s coming…all the time.  So far, it hasn’t happened. This concept of reward and punishment is a strong thread, tangled deep in human consciousness across most of the earth.  It emerges over and over again in different guises, new story lines.

But also, every story is, in a sense, true.  Those who are very devout Christians and believe they will meet their Savior when they die, will.  That is a true story to them.  Be very careful what story you attach to, because it is going to be true for you. 

Do you not want the story that says “I don’t know, but I believe in the beauty behind Creation, because that’s what I see at the heart of it all.”  Wish to experience, and hold to, the place of “Show me!” rather than the place of “I know.”  The “I know” comes from fear.

What you believe you know, you will find, because Creation will not scare you as you scare yourself.  Creation is infinitely patient in its unfolding love.  If you adhere to your story, we guarantee it will be a limit, a garden wall that prevents you from seeing everything that’s in Creation.  It may be comforting, but it is confining, that garden wall of certainty. 

You are confused in believing yourselves to be individuals, separate from one another as well as Creation, in independent bodies.  There is nothing independent in all Creation; all is within the One; all is interflowing. 

There is nothing independent about your bodies; this is why you fear death.  You are creatures of this earth; these bodies were created to live here, in Eden, in an absolute beauty and perfection.  This creation was designed to be as utterly interconnected and — to use a human concept that is misunderstood as negative —interdependent as the whole of Creation.  It is a beautiful and loving truth of Creation.   It is wonderful. 

As long as you are trying to escape death or escape the body, you are operating from fear.  You are running away from something, rather than moving toward something.  When you are operating from fear, you cannot be connected to Creation. 

So many people feel their bodies are a trap they need to escape.  This is very sad.  In truth, you are already the real Essence of you, and this can never change.    Your body is an added bonus, a temporary gift to enjoy, as is this Earth.  Move toward this gift.

If you are worried about disaster, then it is up to you to decide how prepared you are willing to become for any sort of natural disaster.  Understand that the physical universe has its own laws; its life unfolds without malicious intent.  Everything on the web of physical being is affected, including you.  You are always loved and cared for.  Remember that who you are is so far beyond this body.  Creation cares about you.  Your body is a temporary experience; it is the cardboard container of a priceless gift. 

The evolution of Creation is rather like a painting or a piece of art.  You don’t just go “splat” and it’s done.  It’s a process; it evolves; it emerges.  There is always that impulse to move further and push farther, to grow.  Growth, from the deepest essence within each Being, each spark of Creation, is the desire and action of love at the heart of all things; it is Creation creating itself always. 

Those who hopefully await a sudden shift are scared, trapped in a new version of an old story.  It is a child’s wish to have all that is difficult removed so the child can be at peace.  You are not children.  You are sovereign beings. 

Regardless how many stories you create of salvation from afar, peace is never going to happen by the action of some power greater than yourselves, because this would deny who your sovereignty in Creation.  As sunbeams of the sun, you are creators of the Creation along with all of Creation.  You must be the incarnation; it cannot be done to or for you.  And you all will do it.  You are not G-d, but you are that spark of the Divine come to emerge into this world fully.  That is your task in any given life; to wait for the miracle is to disavow the reason you’re here. 

Not knowing how to be more than embodied, not knowing how to incarnate, the feeling of vulnerability is enormous.  Incarnation requires choice moment to moment; it requires work.  It asks each human to do his or her own work, the nitty gritty work of inner cleansing through focus and choice.  It asks you to look at your thoughts, your emotions, things in your body that need to be cleared.   Peace resides within you and between you at any moment; it is for you to achieve.  This is being and becoming your Essence, that sunbeam of the sun.

It is very easy to get off into a side track of some kind of fear.  It is an issue and a question for every human being.

There is a balance, a place of awareness; we are asking you to hold your focus on a recognition of the beauty and the love that is at the core of life.  When you look at a sunset or a tree, or love another human being…everything that is truly core is coming from love and beauty.  

Recognize that this must be what Creation and the creative impulse is at the heart of everything.  Everything else is some kind of picture and process within that creation.  Trust the beauty and love impulse that is core.  Hold the thread of your awareness and choosing on that, rather than getting attached to any of the images that out-picture, or seem to out-picture, in the world.  In so doing, you become the peace you seek.  As you are, so you give.  Be peace to bring peace.       Our Friends

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