Stephanie Nead

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“The Pivot” Gaia En-Earthed Part V

   

 

"The Lava Darkness" ... what is revealed in the darkness, what embraced, what gifted...in the blessing of the dark, what do you open to receive?

 

(I am deliberately posting this thread in small pieces, because there is much to absorb.  Each piece offers something essential to ponder.  I hope you are finding it nourishing.)  Stephanie

What you consider “the fall,” as so many of your stories portray, is merely the chronicle — very important — of the critical decision that created this art form and  allows this unique exploration to create movement.  The “decision,” the choice, was to create a will that seems to be, believes itself to be, separate from the Creator, the One.  This free will is The pivot upon which turns the creation called human being.      Our Friends

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Gaia En-earthed Part IV

En-earthed creature blending with his home in gorgeous dignity. Photo by Stephanie K. Nead

 

 

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It is a sad mistake to perceive physicality as a limitation to be overcome or escaped.  It is a mistake to believe that you have less and experience less on earth, with bodies, than is possible in “spirit.”  Precisely the opposite is true. 

With a body you are graced to experience touch, smell, taste, sight, light, hearing, as well as emotion – life force of your Essence, that spark of the Creator which reflects, enhances, uniquely expresses and experiences the whole precisely because it (you) are “limited” by the vehicle of this creation.  Everything that is within Creation as a whole, with the Creator, resides within you.  It cannot be otherwise.  You experience the felt sense of this.  You do not need more. 

What you perceive as limitations of perception are much less a function of the vehicle of your body, than a function of beliefs developed over ages by humanity. 

In truth, you have access to the whole of Creation from within your body; you do not need to leave it to experience anything.  In truth, with your body, you may engage in experiences those “outside” of physical form cannot. 

In truth, each of you are the vessal through which many Beings see, feel and experience.  Your concept of yourselves as one, as individual, as an “I” is vastly mistaken and leaves you feeling alone and isolated in a alien state, which indeed it would be…were it true. 

As you reclaim your true embodiment, you will discover there is no alone in Creation, in God, in the One.  There is the experience of movement; there is the experience of uniqueness as a means of extending the experience and expression of Being that is the One, but there is no alone, no true separation.         Our Friends

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Gaia En-earthed Part III

Crater Lake Photo by Stephanie K. Nead

 

 

This is the third installment of “Gaia En-earthed,” regarding humans’ place in, with, on this Earth, as creatures and creations of Gaia.  I will post a short section each day or two for the next couple of weeks.  To read the piece from the beginning, click https://innerteacher.wordpress.com/humans-gaia-en-earthed-2/

The One, the Creator, is the ultimate artist. 

As an artist, to explore one must first choose a medium.  Without this choice , one cannot create but is stuck in stillness, all possibilities locked within.  Choose a medium, be it clay or oil, metal or fiber, math or music, and suddenly you have a limitless array of expression.  The medium creates parameters within which creation becomes possible.  Such is true of physical life, of this earthen creation, of your earthen bodies. 

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Humans: Gaia En-earthed Part Two

 
 

Gaia's majesty in rock and sky...

 

(This is the second installment of a piece regarding humans’ place in, with, on this Earth, as creatures and creations of Gaia.  I will post a short section each day or two for the next couple of weeks.  To read the piece from the beginning, click https://innerteacher.wordpress.com/humans-gaia-en-earthed-2/

This creation, this earth, these bodies…this is not meant to be a limitation.  It is a gift, an experiment, an expression of Creation. 

The Creator and the Creation are One. 

Whatever name you give to the ultimate impulse, which is the very heartbeat and breath of the One, the impulse is movement…there is nothing but movement.  And in this movement, there is always extension of the Being of the One, and in this there is creativity. 

The One is not static, not finished, not done.  Always complete but never completed, the One is a constantly breathing tide of movement into expression, always exploring the limitless possibilities of experience.  This world, this physical universe…and all that is of it, and in it, including all that is non-physical (which is the greater portion) is part of this exploration of the One. 

The One, the Creator, is the ultimate artist. 

Call now to schedule a personal session with Our Friends in person or by phone. (541-292-9390)  Introductory sessions are half price: $50.  Refer a friend and get another session for the introductory price.  Order a gift certificate for the Holidays and get a session for yourself at half price.  For more information on sessions, click  https://innerteacher.wordpress.com/contact-and-session-information/

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Humans: Gaia En-earthed

Blessings for a day filled with loving laughter in gratitude.  May you recognize fully all the richness of your life.

(This post begins a long piece regarding humans’ place in, with, on this Earth, as creatures and creations of Gaia.  I will post a short section each day for the next couple of weeks.  I will create a new page that I will append to each new post, so those who wish may read through the entire sharing as it unfolds.)

Human beings tend to think of themselves as walking upon the earth but not being of the earth.  There is not the recognition that your bodies are made up of water and dirt, that every element and chemical that builds your bodies is of this earth.  And so, like the bees, the grasses, the ox — and the water that is so much a part of you — you are of this earth.  You are part of a much larger organism and a much larger consciousness than your individual “I-ness.” 

In that loss of awareness, or separation, is a tremendous dislocation and disconnection that creates a fear of death, a fear of complete annihilation, because it loses the recognition that you are part of a much greater Oneness.  And then comes the need to try to change that and control it, which truly is beyond your ability to do.    Our Friends

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Marvel of creation between earth, sky & water...all in the making of Gaia...all held under her dome...

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Through Your Eyes…

Creation experiences seeing through me, a creation, as Creation unfolds before Itself a sunset harmony that nourishes the essence in me, in Creation. There is only Creation...when I breathe, I integrate my embodied place...a point on the web through which all energy can flow... Stephanie K. Nead

“The whole of Creation looks through your eyes and works through your world.  There are worlds upon worlds within your world.”    Our Friends

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Peaceful Being…in Acceptance

 
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"Peaceful Being" Photo by Stephanie K. Nead

Acceptance of  Self & Others

Our Friends

As you relate to others on their path, from your place on your path, whatever may be happening, simply recognize that you may see things differently.  Be in acceptance of the other…and yourself.
 
Accepting yourself with gentleness, with loving kindness, with compassion comes first.

Until you accept yourself, it is impossible to really accept anyone else.   

When self-acceptance exists, there can be a great container of Being that creates “space” for allowance and acceptance of others. 

When acceptance of self is small, very often kindness, lovingness and giving to others are actually offered in order to get: to be accepted, to be thought well of, to be approved of, to be loved.  What is given comes out of a sense of fear, lack and pain, rather than growing from a place of spacious Being — like fresh air across a spring field, a place of acceptance, a place where life is good even when it’s not perfect.

In this breathing space within oneself, there is room for the Being of another to be free, to own herself.  There grows appreciation for the uniqueness of another for all he brings that is a revelation.  There grows excitement in the new and acceptance of the difficult, because the Self lives in a space of Being that is free, inclusive of goodness and flaw without judgment or threat.  It is a quiet place of love out of which grows a smooth energy, like silk, that can be felt by others.  It is rare; it is necessary; it is profound and powerful.  And you each deserve it…from within.

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Circle of Prayer and Blessing

I thought you might be interested in this.  Love & blessings, Stephanie

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"Sand track..." There's something mysteriously wonderful about footprints in sand. It speaks to meandering, pondering, soul-being, peace...a soft sigh of breath, long held, released into presence.

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Musings on trust in Creation

We have just returned from almost 2 weeks on Maui.  This was a mostly gifted trip, the result of problems coming up with a house we are moving into. 

My homes have always waited for me.  I trust that.  I write down what I am looking for.  I imagine it; I see myself living in the space and loving it.  I feel it.  Yet I know what I find will not be exactly what I imagine.  My imagination informs Creation what I want.  Creation also knows what I need…not only in terms of the home but in terms of the process.

My sweetheart and I are moving in together.  While this is good, it has engendered some anxiety, conern, and stress.  Our process of finding our home, and the process the house itself had to go through to be ready for us, has perfectly reflected our needs and our vision for our relationship. 

The whole thing started when my landlady told me she might want to rent my apartment to a friend.  “OK,” I said.  So my sweetie and I started talking.  We decided it felt good, the idea of living together, even though we had anticipated another year before we would do this.  We decided to sit with it, feel it, see how it evolved.  We had some time. 

Three nights later we were at dinner with new friends.  Admiring their house, we were told, “It’s a rental.  We think we found a place to buy.”  We jumped at it.  And we were 98% sure we had it after we met the landlord.  A week later, a call told us his best friend’s marriage was ending and he wanted the house.  Gone. 

Wow!  Regroup.  Keep looking.  Two weeks, three weeks, we found a place my sweetie thought perfect.  It didn’t feel right to me.  The layout and location were great, but the house itself felt bad to me…like bad ju-ju in there.  I just could not accept it.  Everything in me said “No!” even as my brain told me all that was good about it.  We passed on it.  Blessings on my sweetheart that he accepted my “no” with grace, that he trusted my gut feelings without needing to feel the same himself.

A few days later, we learned that the ad we had responded to, leading us to the house with bad ju-ju, was actually for another house…just four doors from the first.  We ran to see.  It was perfect.  It felt good, was even better in several key areas.  It had a funky smell, which the landlord assured us would be gone once the carpets were shampooed.  We signed. 

Carpets cleaned.  Smell worse…much worse.  We aired the house for two weeks.  We had time before move in.  No help.  Landlord, gone home to California by then, agreed without hesitation to have the carpets redone.  Carpet guy brings black light.  OMG!!!  Cat pee everywhere…down the walls, all over the carpets, down the vents.  He tries his best.  Four days after, bad small as bad as ever.  Carpet guy comes back and declares carpets are toast.  Landlord, my Heaven bless him, doesn’t hesitate.  He agrees to replace all of them and have the vents overhauled.

But we couldn’t move in.  Well into our paid tenancy, with notice given at our old places, we had no where to go.  Our landlord says “I have a condo on Maui that’s empty, get yourselves there and it’s yours; we’ll trade straight across for rent days I owe you.” 

Now, I turned 50 on September 7th.  When I turned 40, I did a piano concert for my friends and family.  I wanted to do something equally specially — but with less work  —  in a beautiful place.  The past few months have been so full, I had not been able to create a plan and a place.  So I had let go of that idea. 

Creation, the Universe, G-d, G-ddess, Life…had not let go of my clear vision…

I spent my 50th birthday on Maui with my beloved and one of my best friends (who flew over from the Big Island.)  I swam in Maui’s sacred pools; I swam in the ocean: I snorkled with magnificent fish and coral; I watched local families play, truly play, in the water; I saw traditional hula performed; I watched and envied surfers (next time!)  We rested, read books on the beach, slept to the crash of the waves and the songs of the winds.  It was truly paradise.

I came home, with my beloved, to a beautiful house…and to a wonderful new person awaiting a session with Our Friends.  A blessing to be sharing them again, as they nourish and beautify my life and soul.

So here’s my musing.  I believe in Creation, and while I have never had a lot of money, I have always been provided for and blessed.  I believe in trusting that whatever is happening, there is some kind of blessing in it.  I went through this house and home search with that belief.   (I’ve actually left a lot out…it was a very interesting process!)  In the end, this great good gift dropped in my lap.

I have learned trust does not mean I should be passive or not choose clearly for myself.  I have to vision what I want and then work toward it in action.  I also have to surrender to the process and know that Creation knows better than I what I really need for the growth I have most deeply requested, for the evolution of my soul.   It is still up to me to say “no” and say “yes” and to act.  But by going on faith in the midst of all that, I am often blessed in unexpected and wonderful ways.

We came home to a house that has been made as new as possible for us, a place the old shmutz has been cleansed, just as we are working in our relationship to clean up our old shmutz and make this relationship new, bring our best and growing selves to it to create the relationship we have each dreamed, visioned and felt.  We keep holding the feeling and the vision, and we keep working through what comes up to be cleansed.  In the process, we are creating a  home for ourselves with each other that is like-new, and feels — as this house now does — like a blessing and a gift.  We feel at home here…and we feel more at home with each other living together. 

Such a gift!  Such a blessing!    Aloha & Mahalo,  Stephanie

The ocean from within a lava tube...north shore of Maui...created when trapped gas within molten lava escapes as the lava cools...very cool!

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What is Channeling?

Channeling is a much used, and perhaps misused, word these days. 

I have felt a good deal of discomfort with the term even though I am a channel.  Much of my discomfort arises from the lack of clarity as to what channeling is and isn’t.

Channeling, as I understand it from Our Friends and from my own experience, is an inherent gift that can be developed — just as an artist’s talent must be both inherent and developed, as a mathmetician’s ability must be inherent and developed, as an engineer, as a Doctor, as any gift must be invested in, cared for, nurtured. 

Just as not everyone is an artist or a mathmetician, not everyone is a channel.  We all have some degree of almost any skill if we set ourselves to build it.  But is it our natural, inherent gift? 

Channeling is the gift of being able to surrender to an energy that is not embodied, an energy for positive good, so the energy may speak and work through the channel to help others.  I believe that any energy coming through the channel comes always to work with and help the channel as well, perhaps first and foremost.

Channeling is often confused with mediumship, which is the ability to hear and interpret those who have died.   There are people who have a type of mediumship ability that relates to “hearing” and being able to interpret animals as well.

Channeling is frequently confused with the experience of being deeply present with oneself, another, or a situation to such an extent that you are able to hear and act upon your intuition and instincts easily.  This is an ability we all possess as children but have often had “taught” out of us.  Relearning it feels almost a miracle, like touching some miraculous wisdom, yet it is our birthright.

There is a confused belief that a channeled energy should know “everything.”  There are many reasons why this is not so.  Two reasons that I am very familiar with from sharing Our Friends in sessions are 1) that much in life is not set in stone, all is not planned, and so prophesy is not possible; 2)  to prophesy is to take away another’s power for action and choice, which denies that person’s soveriegnty as a human being.  

As Our Friends often say, our lives are a journey much like a river’s.  We are meant to meander.  To tell someone where they are going is to point them in a straight line.  Head out on that line and life will have to change the goal, because we are meant to take the journey of our lives, not head straight for the finish.  Besides, there is no finish…just a scene change, so to speak.

…that’s all for now…

Love, Stephanie

Glacier's Majesty...the work of millenia of lakes and rivers and glacial flows...water over rock, the most effective transformative agent on Earth. It's amazing!!! And a lesson in quiet, soft, consistent Being as a means to all "acheivement."

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