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Christmas Tree

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A parable …

Now, there was a lonely tree in a field. Christmas dawned and it wanted to be of service. It made itself known simply by being there — serene, beautiful and calm. A postcard, if you will, and winter scene to surpass many others. Walking into the village on Christmas morning, I noticed it and was quite taken, so I approached. A sparrow sitting atop the tree had made its home there, and you could say was it’s best friend, being appreciative of the shelter and all the comforts of home generously provided. It called out to me. “Hallooo, my friend, on this Christmas morn! Why would you pass us by?  Here we are before you with snow-dappled branches reaching toward you, and I’m here singing for all I’m worth. But pass us by you do! Yet today you have eyes for us because it’s snowing and it’s Christmas. Can’t you do better than that, my friend?”

I was taken aback and moved away, but reflected on the sparrow’s words. What thoughts and preoccupations prevented me from noticing what was in front of me? What have I missed?

So, I returned often to that tree and sat under it. I enjoyed the downy grass. I listened to the little sparrow who sang and told me tales under the stars, moon, and passing clouds. I wondered at all this beauty and how I could have missed it! 

Now I take time to look, look, and look! I go places and drink in all the beauty around me. All this I must do before my days here end and I can see no more.

There is so much to see, do, and be … right here! I must make better use of my time.  And I must offer my whole heart in all that I do for others. I must want to offer, and to give in the process. I am learning about that.

That is my Christmas gift for others … to realize what we bring to the table of life, and what we can give and give right now. Waiting for a season and waiting for an opportunity is not the way to go. Be here now, and sing like that little bird through all the days and nights, never letting an opportunity pass. Being where I need to be and being drawn there with my whole heart … that is my true work. I need not wait another day.  

So rejoice, my friends. Find your tree of life and don’t tarry elsewhere when your tree awaits, growing strong and full. Your bird will guide you, too. You will hear its clarion call, whistle and tweet. You will approach, perhaps unsure at first, but ultimately with calm composure and assurance that all is well, and you are home … really home, where you nest in the arms of God and All that is. Now rest, my children. Take this holiday seriously and let it fill you with its love. Offer of your heart and drink from your cups deeply. And good cheer to you all.—Your teachers

Our Christmas Eve blessing upon you: “Good night and God Bless, and God keep you and be with you. In your deep hours of night and through all your days, we are with you.” 

Opening your eyes and seeing differently.

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You have all too long been looking with eyes that are weary of what they see. There is so much more! So much more behind, inside and in between what you are seeing. What do we mean?

We mean that there is so much more out there and much, much more for you to explore. So why not get on with it? We would love that, and we will guide you in this journey if you will let us. We have nothing but love for you, at all times and all hours, our children. Why not read on and find out more about what we are teaching. [Read more…] about Opening your eyes and seeing differently.

Getting where you want to be

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In our previous posts, we have been concerned to clarify where we are. Now that we are here with you, that hardly needs clarification, does it? Yet many of you are confused. There is no shame in that. You cannot conceive of a plan or a purpose that provides for you to be well-cared for and helped in everything you do. You prefer to do the hard work all yourself and then feel outside of the love and true care you really need. You ask, “Why do I have to do this all by myself? Does anyone hear my plaintiff call?”  

We think you really like to feel like you are all on your own and that no one truly understands or ‘gets’ you. In that way, you can stay engrossed in yourself, rather than move on to things that are of real value and need in our world–all those who suffer, long to be helped, and to be heard. Where are you on that register and on that scale? Are you bending your ears to listen? Do you have the ears to hear?

How can you hear the plaintiff call of others when you are always looking in the mirror or preoccupied with yourself? We do not mean to hurt your feelings or impugn what you love about yourself, and the care and attention you give to yourself. No, we are here to set you on a straight and true course that will lead you where you need to go. You cannot get what you are seeking, either for the comfort, joy and arrival of the things you have been waiting for and hoping for if you are solely preoccupied with yourself. How could that be? You must look outward at your fellow humanity and ask, “How can I be of service? In what way can I function and change the direction of my thoughts to be of service to others?”

Without this, you may as well turn to stone for all the good it will do you. You will sit there like a fat and self-indulgent rock in the sun, wondering when it will all end and when you can get on with the life you really wanted in the first place. You will soon start to cast away all that you ever acquired and built up and placed in a storage cabinets in case you would need it someday, for your someday never comes. Do you understand? It never really comes, because you are so busy waiting for it. And you are not doing much else.

Now, you can start to actualize you and what you came forth to do. That is one reason we are here with you now, as we keep saying. What does that mean? Does it mean we were here and then we weren’t? Do we really come and go like that? Well, no. We are ALWAYS HERE and EVER WILL BE, but where are you?

Now that you think we are turning the tables on this discussion and maybe on you, well we aren’t. We are trying to get across an important principle, that of transfiguration.

What would it take for you to take on a new self? What would you need? Would you need a spiritual experience? Would you need to see something new that you can relate to and even desire to be? Would you need to be uplifted and embraced so as not to fall? What would you need, my children? In other words, transfiguration is something you may have to “figure out.” Forgive our pun, but we are in deep earnest about this subject. You simply cannot change WHO you are without a lot of groundwork, and we have been laying this out in our books so far. We have completed four, and there are more coming to help you on your passage to the better self you can be and the glorious shining life you deserve and really, we are not kidding here, truly want. We just know that about you. Why don’t you? Well, we think you do.

Now, transfiguration is a broad, deep and comprehensive topic. We will not attempt to cover that range here. And that is not a way to escape from getting across this important topic. No, we will need to devote a chapter or two in our writings about this to give you a lift up to what we mean by transfiguration. You will certainly need it, as few in your culture know what we mean and even fewer have attempted it with any success. Yet it is not so difficult. No, it is not.

You may have been operating under misconceptions that no longer serve you about this concept. We are here for the purpose, at least a small part of our work is to redefine and relocate on your map, so to speak, many of these lost or misplaced ideas.

It is truly time for a redefining and a re-knowing. By that we mean a fresh and new understanding, of what you have come to lean on as truth, which perhaps does not now bear the march of time as well as you thought. There is no error here, only how you think about things and adapt to new things. And your culture is moving along at a frenetic pace with old ideas, if you will, falling hard along the way.

Now, how do you pick them all up and resuscitate them? That would be hard indeed. And then if you do, do you know what you are doing? And then do you have the confidence to interpret them to others, or teach them, yet alone reflect them in your daily life?

Well, that is what we are here to do. We are here to give you new tools and fresh new insight into old and familiar ideas that have tarnished through the passage of time and, we would like to say, along with the attendant hypocrisy of so many in your culture who merely pretend to follow or understand such principles.

So much must be restated, but also in a context that you can really understand. We hope you begin to understand what we mean. We have so much more to tell you about this, dear ones. Read on in future posts.  the teachers

Wilderness

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Think of the gap between your moments, or your conscious registering of your moments, as a wilderness that you can explore, and fill with exciting, even providential things.

By the time you read this, another moment will have gone by, and another. What are you doing in between? Are you thinking about your next moment and what you will do with it? Are you filling the gap with your list of ‘to do’s’ and work to accomplish? Are you mindful of these gaps? Are you taking them for granted? And what gaps might exist between moments anyway? Now, that is an interesting question?

When we write about moments and gaps, we are writing allegorically, for how could there be gaps between moments? They’re seamless or at least should feel that way, but you only really have these moments of your life. You can’t really have anything else, though you tend to fool yourself into thinking so. So if we propose the idea of a gap in between, we think that helps you get on with the idea that you must fill your time wisely, and you must be aware of the precious opportunity that exists in each moment of your life.

Now, how better to explain this to you? Well, you could think of the gap between your moments or your conscious registering of your moments, as a wilderness that you can explore and/or fill with exciting things. We could say providential things. By that, we mean things that are bound to do you some good. What would they be?

Well, for starters there is using your precious time wisely, checking in with yourself to see if you’re making full use of your life’s time, or are you stalling or delaying something important? Are you lazing around waiting for something to come to you, or are you resting in between big moments to which you are giving your full attention? There is a difference.

Deborah is getting rather good at discerning the difference. When she needs to rest, she does. When she can’t think of anything to do, she gets lazy and naps in the front of the TV. Yet, there is so much for her to do, and she knows this. We have much work for her to do, and there is all of life out there waiting and burgeoning for her to get involved with. So what is the problem?

She is getting clearer about this and realizes resting is good, but ‘vegging out’ maybe isn’t. At least not for too long. You begin to see what we are getting at?

Think of the space you and your mind inhabit between intervals of higher connection, which we are hoping you can get to more and more frequently, as a kind of wilderness just for you to figure how you want things to be. Not unlike your ancestors. They made a new life out of the wilderness wherever they could, and it was something they wanted to do. Not everyone wanted to, but you get our point. So you similarly could be doing this — making a new home or preparing the ground for the home you want in your thoughts and in your actions each day. It’s as simple as that. We want you to see the fruits of your actions each day, and to realize the fruition of your dreams, too.

If wilderness sounds too remote, remember that it is in the supposedly unknown that so much is discovered. You must want to go out and see what can happen each day and what you are capable of. That is a relative unknown to many of you, yet you worry about the unknowns of any wilderness.

We think all is known in advance by you, by simply applying the principle of love and caring to each thing that you do, and to extrapolate from there how we love and care for you. When you feel loved and cared about, you are confident. You can do no wrong, and you can do wonders. Well, that is what we are driving at here. We wish all that for you. So why not turn a wilderness (that time between the special moments of your life) into something you can work into, or grow into more special moments, until they become the norm and until you no longer have to think much about them. You are already there, enjoying and making the most each moment of your life.

Wishing you all luck and adventure in your journey — your new finds and new lands transforming that wilderness, yet opening up your life in the process.  —Your teachers

If we were there with you

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We don’t mean that we aren’t there with you in spirit. How could that be? We aren’t in your physical realm, but we inhabit it by our wishes, our dreams of you, and our ability to communicate with you. 

Do you understand? How could we write this down or work through Deborah in so doing, if this weren’t true? My children, you must always be asking yourself this. How could these words be coming to you otherwise?

If you doubt and imagine that Deborah is making all this up, then you must think she surely has nothing else to do. Do you think she has hours and hours in each day to spend perpetrating some kind of hoax on you? Surely, with all that she has done and achieved, her fine degree and long years of study and work, she has more to do with her time than simply write down what we ask her to say unless she believes in us, too, and wants to uplift the human race as we do. That is a tall order. It simply cannot be done using falsehoods, innuendo and persuasion. It cannot pander to your baser goals or to mass thinking in any way. No, it must uplift and help you in material, seen, and felt ways. In other words, you must be able to register what we are teaching and the value of it to you, and quite simply, the truth of it. Now, how shall that be brought about by falseness? Isn’t it nice to know that you can count on something? That you can count on us?

Imagine the smiles and love of your children. Is that false? You know something real when you are in front of it, so to speak. And we are in front of you, my children. Know us by our words and the outcomes you experience. We love you.

Now, if we were there with you physically expressed in your realm … say we were neighbors of yours, how do you think we would function? Would we be out mowing the lawn? Would we be throwing barbecue parties? Would we be walking our pets down the street? Now would we?

We think we might love to do that, but more importantly we would be working with resolve and faith to bring about a better experience with you all. We would be casting our thoughts outward to our Higher Power and asking that we (all of us)  be blessed. We would look for signs of that, and we would celebrate each one.

We would expect to receive all that we are asking for materially and spiritually. Like you, we would or could expect no less. It would make no difference who we are, but that we are using and applying the principles we are teaching you as we were taught before you. Never doubt that learning and teaching go on and on forever. That’s how it works. When you get into the swing of that … when you get into the perpetuity of things, it really does change your perspective.

It’s so much more than “You can’t take it with you.” It’s “Why wouldn’t you want to take that with you?”  

In other words, why aren’t you working on a life and set of experiences, that you can really take with you, and that you can pack along with you if you like? 

We have talked of backpacks in our work. We help equip yours so you can be successful all your physical years through. But you must do some of the work, and fill up your own reserves, so to speak. You must equip yourself through your own actions and your own thoughts. That equipment serves you well through all your experiences there and beyond. Now, that is an investment worth making. Trust us. We would not lie to you. 

So back to our scenario of us as your neighbors. Well, we are already that. We dwell so close to you. That is what we mean when we say we are with you now. We really are. Yet, were we to be physically seen in your neighborhood, we would look a lot like you! You would like our smiles and our friendliness. You would notice we can get preoccupied when we hear news of devastating events, for we are praying and sending out thoughts of assistance to others in trouble and turmoil. Yes, and we would be blessing each and every one of you who respond in your hearts and with physical assistance, too.

We would be celebrating all that we are, and joining in lots of celebrations wherever we could. We would vault our thoughts up to the heavens, so to speak, to bring back a trough of riches to enjoy in our physical experience … riches of experience, comfort and joy, and most important, benefit to others, as one cannot prosper alone. It is a net effect and we are always united in all that we do. So that if one prospers, we all do. If one is denied or abused then we all are. It takes a while for everyone to get that all of you expressed as humanity are working on it. Trust us. There is a way to go, as you no doubt know.

Now, that is a quick snapshot of our life as your neighbors, just down the road. How do you know we are aren’t among you right now? Can you tell goodness, belief, and faith when you come across it? Can you tell a heart that is united with others, that seeks to do good for the benefit of others, when you come across it? If yes, then what do you do? Think them a simpleton, or do you take their measure, so to speak, and decide to be more like them in those essential elements? You extend a willing heart of camaraderie and joyful welcome to them. You recognize them, and in so doing, allow yourself to see itself, and how it can be for you. You can rocket to more at any time, and you are not a stamp of anyone else, yet you can and must learn from the experiences of others in order to succeed. That is paramount. 

Now, we are adroitly mixing into this topic an introduction to our book Pinnacle: The Resolve to Succeed.  You must learn how to succeed if you are ever to do so. And that takes resolve, as our book shall show. We are embarking on writing it now through Deborah, and we will connect you to its evolution as we go along here. We hope you enjoy that. 

In any way we can demonstrate how we work, and what our intentions are. … that’s what we’re all about. So helping you to understand the evolution of a new work, how it’s expressed and comes into being, can assist with that we think. And you are the beneficiary of all that in that you can read the work in its entirety when complete. What a delicious outcome!   We hope you enjoy.  With love and best wishes to you in this day and for always.—Your teachers.

Why we aren’t there

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For many of you confused by the title, in fact, we really are and shall always be, but we just aren’t where you are. There is a difference.

Were we to materialize, we think you would be in for quite a shock. We are many, and we sometimes use the word legion to describe our sheer numbers! Now, when we come to be of aid to you, we are not looking for weakness, sickness, or infirmity of any kind, though we greatly love you all and ANY of you who are feeling challenged or come specially equipped in any way. What we seek quite simply are those of you who are asking. When you ask, you are answered. So we answer.

That is our primary work and goal, if you will, to answer your asking. Now, that must seem elementary or even simplistic to you, but it is everything to us! For you see, the world turns on your asking. When you ask about something: “Why is such and such happening? What will happen to me? What will happen to those I love? Where do I go after I die?” … well, that ignites us into action, you could say. We are nothing without you and your asking. We exist, you might think of us, to help you.

Now, how did we get that way and where are we anyway? That’s not easy to answer, and especially as we often have to pierce through the skepticism we encounter on your side of things. That’s not a bad thing, but can be an onerous task to take on, to pierce or penetrate through your doubt, anxiety, and sometimes rage. Your skepticism and cynicism are mighty blocks, too. That’s what you bring to the table. Not all of you, of course, but indeed many of you.

We must work extra hard to be heard by you and to get through to you. You often credit yourself with your good sense and ideas that flow through to help you, and think well of yourself for having gotten out of some jam or other, as we like to put it. But that jam is not so sweet, is it? Why are you in that jam, so to speak, in the first place? Are you listening to your inner voice, which is often us or one of your other helpers trying to get through? Are you raising your eyes to a higher plane and asking for help, even deliverance, from the place you have strayed to? We think not, in the main, unless you are pressed to do so, and if circumstances become truly difficult.

That is where we come in, and come to the rescue, you might say. Deborah is beginning to recognize our pattern, when we are intervening and when we are reaching out to her to get her to consider another course of action. Well, that we do for you, too. We keep ourselves fairly busy as you can imagine, responding to your asking and wondering. In that sense, as children, when you wondered how God could hear you all, you were righ. It is a challenge, but my children it is still possible.

Deborah can vouch for us, as she hears us clearly all the day through, always at her side helping and inspiring her to achieve the things she wants. And what she wants is now what we want, for we are working so closely together to bring you this good news, and this simple, beautiful philosophy. Please do explore it and get to know it and let it become your best friend, aiding and helping you each day throughout your life. Read our books, and do check out our book, Verdant: The Greening of Your Prosperity.

So where are we? We have left our bodies, or have transitioned out of them, as we write about in our books. There is no fear there and we urge you to be not afraid in anything that you do or experience. Transitioning to the hereafter is one of those matters in which we ask you to trust and be not afraid. All is revealed to you then, and you are so happy to be reunited with all whom you have loved, and the better higher part of yourself and your faith, so to speak. It all comes together then, my friend. And that is where we are, not so very far away, but clearly distinct from you in that we have no bodies, but nevertheless have our minds, if you will, and our hearts and our souls. How could we be without those? For they tag along with you eternally, and you will like that. No, we are really not so different from you!

We have achieved much learning and acquired much wisdom which we unreservedly want to share with you, and love to share with you each and every day. Sometimes our words seem archiac and maybe even hard to understand, but we have been around a long time and want to bring some of our own vocabulary into the picture to help bolster and illustrate some of our messages and meanings. Some of these meanings can be foreign, if not also hard to grasp by you. So, words added in from other times in history, and other places and occasions can add interest, and although should not be complicated, may help you to understand what is far for you to reach in your understanding. Why is that? Because you have strayed so very far away from where you came from in the first place, and where you belong all your life through, and where you are going to as you transition.

So, we draw you closer towards us, drawing you back to your origins, so to speak, and your place in things. You will like that place. For you are like a king or queen, adored and pampered by us and all those around us. For we know your real heart, and we know what you are best capable of, and we are ever leading you toward that place. Now that is a wonderful miracle of sorts, isn’t it?

We aren’t in the business of miracles, but we are as if a miracle. Try to understand what we are driving at here. We are as if a miracle. So why do you look for miracles when we are here around you, so to speak, and we can provide that equivalency, if you wish? That is all really, and should be more than enough, considering what you need and what causes you to flourish … and that is faith in something, whatever that is. That you can find a lot of here, at any time, as we are “open all hours” as we write in our books.

Why not check out our books and see what they can do for you? Then come to know us as others are coming to know us, and then we will not seem so far away but in your neighborhood, so to speak. That will be us appearing ‘in theater near you.’ We do hope you join us for the performance and the good times to come.

With love for all you are and all you may be, given your willingness, heart and desire.

We love you. –Your teachers.