Introduction

I AM AN ORDINARY MYSTIC. My life has been squarely set in the ebb and flow of human life and at the same time, I have pursued years of meditation and spiritual work with the Divine Realm. Because of this dual existence, I have chosen to stay in this world rather than to withdraw to a convent or a mountaintop. In this book I share how I continue to expand my work with The Divine Oneness in the midst of my daily life.

I first began writing and teaching about spiritual healing in 1995. However I was called to spiritual topics as early as 1956. As my healing experiences grew, I felt a call to share the processes revealed to me in Silence. These processes can help us clear our unhealed energies and address the imbalances they create in our bodies and energy fields. I have worked with a range of imbalances manifesting as chronic pain, failed relationships, addiction, depression, grief, boredom, blocked arteries, apathy, migraines, anger, self-hate, anxiety, mental disabilities, insomnia, feeling unsafe, irritations, tension, infections, dislike of self, cancer, obesity, and others.

All human imbalances can be traced back to blocked emotional, mental, spiritual, and self-protective energies. Further, these blocked energies cause imbalances in our societies, institutions, governments, economies, religions, natural environment as well as our bodies.

For millennia, we have come to earth in bodies and imagined that what we saw was all there was. In fact, what we are seeing, experiencing, and feeling in body is only a small part of who we really are and an even smaller part of All That Is. The vastness of All That Is extends beyond our physical in-body sensing capabilities. We have to become very still and quiet to sense what is beyond our own bodies, feelings, thoughts, and experiences.

We need to listen to our inner selves, our own deep knowing, in order to "hear" beyond our ears, to "see" beyond our eyes, and to "know" beyond our tangible experiences. As we become quiet and peaceful, we learn to experience Divine Presence wherever we are. Before consciously seeking Divine Presence, we may have had experiences with the Divine. The conscious seeking of connection with the Divine Presence means we can connect whenever we want to, not just when the conditions line up perfectly. The longer we consciously seek this relationship and stay on an intentional spiritual path, the more doorways open to Divine Energy.

Our major religions typically teach about God, Divine Presence, The Oneness, or All That Is. However, every person needs personal experiences with the Divine to develop trust and confidence in All That Is. Religions provide general pathways to connection with Divine energy. Every religion endeavors to point in the general direction of Wholeness/God. Individual inner exploration and seeking though provides a lasting, deeply satisfying personal relationship with the Divine.

Some people need just one experience in their life to open the channels with the Divine. Others need regular, consistent experiences with the Divine to really know that Divine energy exists within and all around them.

Mystics spend the core of our lives consciously seeking a relationship with God. We spend months and years pursuing our human relationship with The Great Oneness. At some point, we begin to understand how anyone can do this efficiently and successfully.

My experience has been a journey of increasing awe, amazing revelation, and powerful transformation. I do not recall wishing to be a mystic when I was growing up. Indeed I probably had no idea of what a mystic was. Even now, I do not for the most part fit the stereotypes of a mystic. I am married, have two children and a daughter-in-law, live in an extended family household and have worked all my adult life in the ordinary flow of daily life. In spite of this outward pattern of my life, my inward journey has been that of a mystic. I love all that is revealed about eternal truths, Divine power, infinite love and unbounded knowing. For many years, I could simply never get enough quality time with all things Divine.

I was most fortunate to have spent seven years in intentional Silence, five to eight hours daily, before going about my daily work, greeting my family and sharing our lives together. Though those patterns of intense seeking have altered over the years, the profound Presence of God is the most central characteristic of my life. This relationship continues to inform and transform my life every single day.

This book has been created in partnership with Divine Beings and their shared wisdom. I had been working with Divine Beings as my partners for many years before undertaking this book. We first worked together as I did my personal inner work of clearing away old feeling and thoughts that no longer served me. Then we worked in partnership to help others do their inner work. Now we have continued in partnership to write about how this spiritual healing process brings wholeness in body, mind, and spirit.

This book is about how to intentionally grow an intensely personal relationship with Divine Presence to bring you balance, health, joy, and peace through expanding your own deep well of love.

USING THIS BOOK

There are numerous ways to use this book. You can read straight through the next sections that deal with motivations to meditate, stories about healing, insights about how to expand consciousness, and ways to get ready to consciously connect with the Greater Whole/God/All That Is.

Perhaps though, you have already passed through these topics on your own journey. You might be interested in trying out the healing protocols or casting out negative spirits or learning about how to stop carrying other people's pain or sorrow. Use the Table of Contents as a guide to find where you want to begin.

You can also use this book as a teaching guide for yourself. You can learn to clear your blocked energies and command them out even before reading about the journeys and insights shared here. If that is your calling, go for it. I would suggest you begin with Chapter Seven with the Six-Step Spiritual Healing Protocol. This chapter will get you started. It also has an extensive section of frequently asked questions and answers.

When you have some experience with the Six-Step Protocol and other healing approaches, you might return to read about personal insights other seekers have received through their journeys to inner peace and balance. In other words, this could be a reference book for you. Look at the Table of Contents and go where you feel you are led to start.

You may be someone who is motivated by exploring things you have never heard about. If so, begin at the end of this book in either Chapter Eleven, Advanced Healing Interventions, or Chapter Fourteen, Global Healing. You might then work backwards to pick up needed information if you want to explore specific healing steps for yourself.

Alternatively, you might be seeking support for healing work you are already doing. Chapter Eight, Working with Divine Healing Entities, may be your perfect place to begin this book. In that section, you will be introduced to amazing groups of Divine Beings each with specialties and talents who are committed to supporting human beings during our journeys here.

Eventually though, do consider calling in healing for yourself. Every time you clear blocked energy, your consciousness rises. This is the amazing truth about inner healing and clearing. Every time you clear away old anger, fear or resentment, your consciousness rises. In other words, you get closer to Divine Presence.

I used to calibrate my own consciousness using a hypothetic scale of 1-1000 with 1 being the lowest consciousness possible in human body and 1000 being the highest consciousness possible for humans. David R. Hawkins, MD, further explains this technique in Power vs. Force. I calibrated this for myself in order to come to the absolute knowing that every time I cast out blocked energies, my consciousness rose. That was a huge motivator for me. I was a most skeptical ordinary mystic who lived in the show me realm for years.

If you know how to use kinesiology, you may delight in testing your own level of consciousness as you begin this process. Whether you measure your consciousness level or not, as you clear blocked energies, your consciousness rises. It is impossible to slide back into a lower level of consciousness once a higher level is attained.

Even when faced with persistent, disturbing imbalances, which seem intractable, you can't slide back in overall consciousness. Once you have moved to a specific level of knowing you can't mess up and lose the level of consciousness you have reached.

At times, you may feel you are back to the beginning or that you are deeply stuck. However, a sufficient determination to clear old stuck energies again and again, until they are really gone, is the path forward. Every moment you invest in working on your own issues, brings a greater conscious knowing of your eternal connection with Divine Presence/All That Is. This brings lasting peace to you individually and to us collectively. It is worth every ounce of effort you put into spiritual healing for yourself and for our planet.

Peruse the Table of Contents and dip into parts of the book until you find your interest piqued. Begin there. Then choose something else that appeals to you. You can also read this book straight through as written. Anyway you proceed, you will receive that which is meant for you.

THE LANGUAGE OF THIS BOOK

I have chosen to capitalize all references to Divine Energy. That includes the following references to God, All That Is, Divine Source, Spirit, Divine Grace, Perfected Love, Great Oneness, Yahweh, Unified Field, Allah, Elohim, Great Spirit, Sacred Space, Quantum Space, etc. I also capitalize all references to types of Divine Beings including Angels, Archangels, Divine Light Workers, Ascended Masters, Divine Healing Entities of Highest Light, Cosmic Light Beings of the Universe, Nature Intelligences, Devas, etc. The capitalization indicates that the energy we are speaking about is Divine.

This energy can be called by many names all over the world. Regardless of the specific terms used and by whom, the principles of interaction for healing with all Divine Energies are exactly the same. The different terms used for Divine Energy and Beings are intended to be inclusive for all people. The ways shared here to effectively connect and work with Divine Presence for healing apply to all Divine Beings and all Divine Source energy.

Use whatever terms work for you and substitute your own terms where those you use are not specifically named. The principles of connection and communication, healing and rebalancing specified in this book apply to all human and Divine Energy regardless of what we name it.

All the cases used in this book are derived from personal experiences I have had with individuals or groups. All names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the personal history of these people or groups. Further, there are times when a composite case has been formed from different individuals working with the same issue. In the few cases when a person might even suspect a case could be theirs, their permission has been granted to use the example as written even though their names and circumstances have been changed. All that is shared here has come from personal inner work and from working with others along their journeys unless specifically footnoted.

AUTHENTIC PRAYER AND MEDITATION

This book is about authentic prayer, powerful beyond all limits. The most powerful, authentic prayer has to be based on the universal spiritual principles of Love and Wholeness. Every human being is made in the image of Divine Love. Additionally, our eternal souls are Divine Energy in human form, having a human experience.

You are here to learn, forgive, and heal from past hurts, traumas, and bad choices made in times while being in body. You are here to celebrate the joy of all life. God is within and you are always able to connect with that Divine Knowing, if you persistently seek this connection in your life with all your focus, energy, and determination.

At your very core or spirit, you are made of the same flame as the Great I AM/God/ All That Is. You are made in the image of All That Is. As a Divine Being in human form, you have free will. You can either embrace or totally ignore your Divine roots in every part of your life. Whatever you give your power to grows. You are the only one who can create Peace and Balance in your life.

Everyone arrives in this dimension with accumulated emotional, mental, spiritual, and self-protective baggage that manifests in your body, mind, relationships, affairs, and your soul. You can accumulate as much baggage as you agree to take on or you can command out this baggage that does not serve you well. Unloading this baggage is at the heart of authentic prayer.

When working with authentic prayer, you pray knowing you are already one with God while seeking to set down feelings, thoughts, fears, and anxieties that you carry at the conscious, sub-conscious, unconscious, and supra-conscious level, your soul level. Every time you lighten your load by commanding out blocked energy, your conscious knowing of God expands. You become consciously closer to Divine Light, Love and Wholeness.

Prayers spoken from a place of separation from All That Is/God are inherently weakened, as they are not set in the universal principles of the Great I AM. Much of what you may have learned about prayer may not be serving you well.

For example, supplication at its fundamental level is about asking for something from another. This book is about commanding and calling forth Love, Healing, Peace, Forgiveness, Grace, Creativity, Balance, and Wholeness from the core source of your being. Your being is always connected to the Greater Whole, even when you feel profoundly lost, hopelessly depressed or irreconcilably ill. There are lifetimes of learning within this book for the taking. So, where do you begin?

One place to begin is in Silence. When you quiet your mind, you are able to hear the still small voice within. Most of the time, extroverts spend time in communications and interactions with others. For introverts, much of their time is spent in their minds working through life experiences. Silence though is helpful for all people, regardless of your orientation to others. You may just differ from another in how you seek Silence and in what works for you.

Meditation is the conscious seeking of Peace and Balance. For many, meditation connotes sitting in a room, breathing and thinking of nothing. That is one way to experience meditation. However, there are many types of meditation: walking, moving, dancing, standing, creating, sitting, gardening, swimming, biking, and lying meditation, among others. Some people swim expressly to quiet their minds and experience inner peace. Others bike and can feel their connection to the Great Beyond. Some people ride horses and feel taken beyond this dimension to the expanded world beyond. Those drawn to create and perform music can at times touch to their inner connection with Divine Source.

Each type of meditation has characteristics that can help you touch to inner Peace and Balance and to your knowing of Divine Source. Each experience of intentional Silence can be a doorway into your own spiritual growth. You have to be the one to do the exploring, to want to experience inner Peace and Balance. That is your part of the equation. All else is given. Make a choice to consciously seek the energy of Divine Connection.

It is waiting for you just as close to you as your breath. You are already wired for Divine Peace and Balance. You just have some remaining work to release yourself from thoughts, feelings, and fears that keep you from your own True Self.

Meditation efforts are always challenging in the beginning. Your mind has a life of its own and runs amok a great deal of the time. You have to tame your thoughts and feelings by regular and disciplined effort to spend time in Peace, Centeredness and Balance.

This book touches lightly on meditation and to a great degree, assumes that you have some way to consciously seek Silence. Healing and insight come from inner seeking. If you are looking for real Peace and Balance, you will be open to seeing where you are separate from the states of balance within yourself. This book is devoted to helping you discover what is not serving you well because it separates you from Balance, Peace, Grace, and Ease. Authentic prayer and meditation opens you to a world of infinite possibility.